 Oh, that's right. He is back. Rudy Gay joins the show right now. Rudy. Good morning. We're starting there, by the way. We will get to the NBA at some point, but yeah, Yukon Huskies first first to repeat as champs since 2007. Where are you ranking that team all time? Um, that team, man, that team was, uh, man, that's, that's, it's tough. It's tough to say that, but, you know, I, you know, obviously I'm biased, but that was a, that was a really impressive run, man. I haven't, I haven't seen a team, you know, that impressive in a long time. These not my lifetime. I'm not saying before they didn't have it, but, um, you know, that's an impressive team, man. What about 2007 when that, what about 2007 Rudy and them Gator boys went back to back? That was your life. There we go. There we go. I mean, that was, I don't know. I can't, I can't, I can't comment on that. I don't know too much about it, but other than that, you know, this D-Con team was pretty good. Call me crazy. Looking at like a year 05 and 04 teams, you guys had more, I feel like NBA players that your team was almost more talented than these, than this team this year, no? Yeah, we did. I, I, I think that, that team did have more talent. I just don't think they, we had the coercion like they did, like Coach Hurley, um, you know, and it's crazy to see that nowadays with, with what's going on with the portal and NIL where kids are gonna leave. Coach Hurley found a way to get this team to jail. Look, if you had to put your Mount Rushmore together of UConn players and we can do it, let's do a basketball style. We'll do five spots instead of the four. Give me a, give me your Mount Rushmore UConn style. Damn. My Mount Rushmore, I'd say, obviously, I got Ray Allen, Rip Hamilton, um, Kimberg for sure. And this is just based off of UConn or, or, or, We got, we got the, we got the first top three. We got the first top three. I like the three. Okay. I'm with you so far. Ah, man. I'd say Cliff Robinson because he was one of the first ones. You know, you gotta put them up there. Um, that's four, right? Yep. That's four. You nailed it. Gordon, you got your bass. Look, look, look, look, look, look, my Mount Rushmore, I will, I will say then Gordon be, be fine. Then Gordon to me with, uh, he was a killer, especially in college. He was a killer. Campbell, Campbell was my personal favorite coming out of, coming out of UConn and like itself, but Campbell, Cardi at Campbell was, was something to watch at that time. By the way, Ray, it's a completely random question, but any way Hurley is going to leave UConn and take this Kentucky job. Are you hearing anything? Man, I hope not. I mean, the thing about it is, you know, obviously, you know, Kentucky can offer them a lot of money and, uh, but you also have to live in Kentucky. So we'll see. I don't think he's a Kentucky type person. You know what I mean? Hey, we, we got a thing for, we got a thing for shitting on small pounds on this. Rudy fits right in. There we go. We just pissed off all of Lexington. Who cares? Moving to the NBA right now. I mean, obviously you play for pop and, and why do I always get the Wemby questions? I just want to point out, I did not plan this. It just so happens. Destiny wanted me to do this, but as far as coaches for Wemby, um, we all talk about how this worked out perfectly and it wouldn't have been better anywhere else. Do you think when you see pop coaching Wemby that this was the perfect situation? Um, I'm not sure. I don't know. I don't know what pop you getting over there right now. You know, he's a little older now. So, you know, I don't know. I don't know what's going on. You know, the game has changed a little bit, you know, so, um, I don't know. You know, I haven't been in the locker room or been back, but I know he has the knowledge to help the kid. And, um, I would say he has his guys running away with the, with the rookie of the year. And, you know, I, and also putting up some historic stats. So, you know, it's, it's it's crazy to see him play. It's crazy just to look at him, but it's also crazy to see him play and be able to move the way he does. I think it's fun because we, there are lists being put out. Maybe the athletic the other day put out top 20, top 50, whatever. And the fact that they're including a kid that's just barely gotten here already on some of these top fill in the blank lists, where would you put him right now? If you had to, I'll give me all the crazy questions. Don't worry. They have to answer to you. I will put, I'll definitely put them top, top 30 players in the league. Okay. And by the way, I think next year he can be as low as top 12. Like I think he I agree. I agree. I said 24 all stars and plus the back. So he's in the mix right after the 24 all stars right behind the top party is appropriate. Yeah. Not bad. Not bad. Speaking of all stars, Rudy, you played with Kauai Leonard and San Antonio. He's, he's been in and out of the lineup, but now he's played the most game since that 2016-17 season. Now, do the Clippers this year with a healthy Kauai Leonard have enough to win a championship? I mean, I definitely think they do. They have, you know, their leader who is Kauai, the championship caliber player. Is he on the court? Will he be on the court? I think that's, that's internal, that's internal for them. But, you know, I definitely think they have enough. When it comes down to, you know, play out basketball is totally different than regular season basketball. You're not going to see those 130 point games between just winning. You might see a couple, but, you know, I think when it comes down to it, you have to be able to get a ball to some people and, and let them, let them do what they do. And they had three or four people, maybe five people on that team that can do that. So that's going to be hard to beat up. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up because it looks like they're probably playing Dallas. And Jamal Crawford said, wait, what? No, I'm trying to, they got, they can give the ball to. I turned it around. You did turn it around. Why would you do that right now? It's like, it's like, I'm waiting for the right moment. Gotcha. Perfect. Yeah. So there it is. They're probably going to play Dallas. That's what's happening. Jamal Crawford has made the argument that Luca and Kyrie are the most skilled backcourt ever. Would you agree with that? That's a big statement. Ever? Ever. I don't know, man. I just take, man. I don't know, you know? Um, like I said, that's his thing. There's a lot of duals out there, but, um, Scott, he did that. He's not a guard. That's not a backcourt. I guess that's cool. Well, LeBron and Kyrie was a better, better match, uh, better duo. I mean, we're talking about LeBron and Dwayne, by the way. How about Steph and Claire? Yeah, Steph and Claire. The point is for him to say ever, it's a little premature for this duo. That's all I'm saying. And I may have won anything yet, so it's like you will see, we'll see. By the way, not only have they not won anything, they missed the playoffs last year and now they're the fifth seed this year, so that's a bold statement. That's a very bold statement. But with that, Rudy, do you think the Dallas Mavericks out of all of the talent of all these teams that's putting together the bodies of work this year? Do you do you think the Mavericks give Denver the biggest threat in the West or is it somebody else? Who would you like? You I know you touched on the Clippers, but who do you think? I think Dallas does. I think Lucas is a matchup problem, man. Do you have Kyrie, who is technically a point guard out there doing what he does? So, you know, Luca frees up Kyrie to be what he is and what he wants to be, which is a fucking get it. So, you know, they have a matchup and with the trades they made with Gaffer, Gaffer is playing out of his mind. PJ Washington is knocking down jump shots and playing big on defense. So it's, you know, I think they're they're definitely a team to watch. They're, you know, they're not a pushover, not your average five seed, I would say. Rudy, we've been talking all year long about the Warriors. Is this the end of this dynasty? Is, you know, to Steph, hey, Traymon, is he overall the antics? Steve Kerr over it, but they're eight and one in the last nine games and they look to show some promise here and some conference going to this play in tournament. It looks like it's going to be against the Lakers. Do they have enough to not only get through the play in, but to make a run and survive in advance in the first round of playoffs? I will say playing games of different being the plan for older team is not ideal. You know, it's not ideal for them to have to, you know, fight the uphill battle like they're going to have to if they want to look into these playoffs. Do I think the dynasty is over? I don't know. I mean, I mean, from the looks at things, you can say that, but, you know, you know, if they have some fight in them, we'll see, you know, during these during these during these during these playing games. But, you know, it's going to be fun to watch, you know, to have the Lakers versus the Gold State Warriors in a play in series. It's crazy to even think about and and we're getting old, fellas. So it is what it is. You know what I'm saying? You start to see this is what I love this next question because y'all are getting old. We all are, but you're still younger than LeBron, which is crazy to me to say out loud sometimes. And we know what he's averaging the 26 points, all those good things. Is there a world where you see a fifth title in L.A. for LeBron? This question is for me. Oh, yeah. I don't want to say it. I want to say. Listen, really, on this side, you can say whatever the hell you want. They don't get married anyway. Just say it. OK, I don't know, man. They have, you know, they have to do a lot of work at free agency for that to happen. You know, you can't depend on a 40 year LeBron to lead you to another championship at this point. I don't think so. You know, he's put up some crazy numbers and I mean, it'll be it'll be, you know, it'll be a great end into his career to see him get another one, but it's going to be hard. They're going to have to go to go into free agency. You know, there's a lot of a lot of big free agents out there or one big free agent that they can get that that can help them. But, you know, this year, I don't think so. What do you think is the bigger deal to LeBron? The fact that if he's going for a fifth title or the importance of getting to play at least one season with Brawny, probably an L.A. I mean, for the person with the kind of accolades he has, I think the biggest thing and will be to play with his son. Just like any of us with with kids, you want to be out there and show him the ropes before you go. So, you know, and I like to see that to be honest with you. I think people, people, I think he deserves it. He's put enough into this game to be able to play with his son and teach his son before he goes away. I'm like, looking at Chandler and Lou trying to read their faces. Like, what do they think about this? I think it'd be really, I think it'd be really cool. I just, I, is he, would he be talking about him if his last name was James Miley question? But I do think he's got the potential to be a better pro than he was at USC, which obviously is in his favor. And I think it'd be so dope to see him play with LeBron. That'd be awesome. It's definitely, I mean, I've never seen it. I really think the kid can play, man. He can actually play. I don't know if, I don't know if, you know, well, he's also LeBron's son. So people expect him to be, you know, wasn't, you know, LeBron and 03, so 03, 04, and it's not, you know, I don't think any of us basketball players, anybody on this, on this show thought that was going to happen. So it is what it is, man. Just let the kid live his life and live his own, you know, do his own thing. We've got Yokech's MVP. We've got SGA's MVP on this show. Who do you have? You got to answer it. No one will get mad. You can't deny what Yokech is doing, what he's been doing for the past couple of years, but to have number two, three seed in Oklahoma with all the young players, what the average age, I think it was, you know, I think, what was it, North Carolina's team, college team was older than Oklahoma's son. That's crazy. That's crazy to me. That's crazy. And for them to sustain that kind of win of a sentence over this season, you know, I think, although I love Yokech, I think you got to get into SGA, man, for that, for that matter. Rudy, I appreciate the t-shirt. It's like you, it's like you knew what we wanted. What t-shirt? Oh, this one. Yeah, that one's going right there. I appreciate it. Thanks so much for your time. This thing, we'll take a quick break. We'll be back. That man has a family.