 Uh, the NBA rescinded Yannis's triple double. Good job, Eddie. Your little petition worked haters. Run it back. Starts now run it up, run it back, run it up, run it back, run it up, run it back, run it up. Good Tuesday morning and welcome to run it back. Eddie, I am so mad at you about this Yannis thing. I know you were behind it. We will get to that later in the show. First of all, of course, introducing everyone's stadium insider, Shams, Shirania, Chandler P with just what is becoming probably the best background of all, I mean, from zero to hero, just like in a day and Eddie G on the end, the man who hates everything and everybody. Unfortunately, though, just like yesterday, we have to start the show off with some serious stuff. Um, hopefully some way we won't, but Ja, look, here's the deal. Colorado police right now investigating him for brandishing the firearm that was in the video shams. Anything to add to that? What is the latest that we know right now with job? Yeah, there's an NBA investigation going on right now. There's a Colorado police investigation going right now. This could all lead to even more disciplinary measures for John Moran who's away from the team seeking help. The onus is going to be on job to get help and get responsibility. The onus is on him to figure this out and get better. But what's interesting is that I'm told recently there was a player's only meeting where Stephen Adams spoke out in the meeting and essentially directed comments to John Moran about the fact that the team needs to have much better discipline on the road. Guys need to essentially stop going out on the road. This is not a good road team. What's crazy is they're amazing at home. But then when you look at the road record 12 and 20 on the season, that's not really top flight for a team that's contending for a championship. And so everyone in that room, the Grizzlies have a lot of young guys on this team for sure. But everyone in the room, I'm told knew exactly who those comments were directed to Ja Moran. And when you talk to people around the Grizzlies, they say we don't have a systemic team issue with going out. This is a Ja Moran issue. And so this is something that it clearly came up. And Ja Moran clearly blew that red light anyway. And he ended up going out, you know, whether it was a week or so later in the early hours of Saturday morning, and he was seen on IG live his own IG live displaying a gun. And so what I'm curious, Chandler, you've been in a locker room before you've been intense players only meetings. You've been a part of a lot as a leader as a guy that's a supporting cast guy. When you think about Stephen Adams speaking out, he's a guy that doesn't speak out much often, but he did speak out in this moment. And his his words clearly didn't go through. And Ja Moran still went out that experience still happened. What do you feel like if you're Stephen Adams? What do you feel like if you're in that Grizzlies locker room right now? Yeah, I mean, it's super disappointing. And this just seems to keep getting worse for Ja Moran. And listen, guys have these kind of team meetings, usually when it's rock bottom, like a team meetings, kind of like a tell all like, Oh, we've lost 10 straight. Let's have a team meeting or something of this nature where you really got to pull the group together. And I've had, you know, 20 plus of these in my career. And usually they stick and usually they pack a punch and whether or not whatever the issue is, you see a team kind of rally around this and they come together. This has a teammate. You make an eye to eye pack that, Hey, we're getting a little reckless. We're getting a little crazy on the road. Stephen Adams is one of the older guys on this team. You would think that would pack a punch and then they would listen. And it's and they didn't and Ja Moran just shows that he's on his own wave. And that this was just blatant disrespect that they didn't care what their team captain or team leader had to say. And now it's now it's out of their control, right? Because now the police are involved. Now the team, everything else involves. So now as a teammate, you're sitting there saying, Damn, I tried to help you. I tried to kind of direct us in the right way. Like now there's not much you can do. So it's definitely frustrating, but it just it's it's a very immature, very ignorant selfish move. Because the graces, they've created this identity, right? This culture on the court. They talk trash. They're tough. They're not scared. But they're good in the West. But when you start seeing that trickling off the court, now there's issues like this, that's not going to help anybody. And they do have a chance to win this year. And they have a good young team and a good court and a great coach. They're throwing that all the way this year just by their behavior. So it's extremely disappointing. And and clearly the message didn't get across to their star player, which is even more disappointing. I'm not in that locker room, but you have to figure Steve is a big voice, you know, in that locker room or at least an authority in the sense of, you know, he's our enforcer. He's one of our vets. He's played in big games before he's he's done it all in this league. And when there's a skirmish on the court and there's always a lot of skirmishes with this team, he's the first guy to run up, push everybody out the way, protect his guys. He was the guy going at the shedding sharp. He's the guy making sure everybody's cool. So for him to speak up and then for your star player to just be like, whatever, and roll his eyes and go on about it. It has to be frustrated in that locker room. It has to be disappointing. And you look at their record without job last year. It's pretty telling in the sense that, look, he's dynamic. He raises them a level in the playoffs. He's their unguardable option when they need him late in games, but they're able to make do without them. They're able to still defend. They're actually able to defend better according to the numbers and they're able to compete without him. So for him to just blow them off, blow one of their leaders off like that. Yeah, look, outside looking in, I know I'm not in a locker room. I've never been in a locker room like Chandler, but that has to be frustrating and disappointing. And then everything that came after that is even worse. The way I know it's disappointing is that Shams knows what happened. And if you have a player on the meeting and you really want to keep it players only meeting and that's no disrespect to Shams. We know he's everywhere. He has eyes everywhere. But if you really want to keep a player's only meeting tight, you can. But we know about it now. The world knows about it. And that's how I know they're disappointed. What's my first thing. Yeah, what's crazy is most teams don't go out after losses too. And this is a loss on the road where they're going. He's going out. He's after the loss or in Denver and still just without a care in the world, he goes on his own Instagram. It's not like he got sniped by some extorting him. He got so lit or did whatever he was doing to where he literally just didn't care after a loss out in the public eye and then goes on Instagram live to even top that off to make things even worse for himself. So again, this just keeps getting worse and worse. And there's no chance that this is only going to be a two games suspension because once we actually get details of the gun and did he travel with it is the gun on the team plane. There's so many other stuff that I'm hearing out there that are just next level with this. So hopefully Jog gets help because he's such an explosive fun player. But man, this is a horrific look. I mean, look, when shotgun Willys Denver's premier gentlemen's club is calling, who can resist that, right? Like you have to go to shotgun. I mean, that's the worst name for a strip club I've ever heard. But that being said, here's the thing when you're he's only 23, right? It's one you can lose the fans. You can lose the front office. But if you lose your teammates and you're this young, that's a bad start to what is probably supposed to be a really, really fabulous career. So we keep saying I hope he gets the help. I'll be honest with you. The cynical side of me is like, what exactly what help do we think he's going to go get? That's the part where I'm having a really hard time. Other than being told repeatedly, don't do this. I don't really understand what the help is. Like don't flash have more respect for weaponry. I have no idea what the help is. I know we keep saying it. It's a generic term we all use as media. But does anybody here have any idea what help? It's just supposed to be getting exactly like I think the only thing you can say, of course, you know, like Chandler said, I don't we there's a lot of stuff we don't know. Like how much how much alcohol substance was there anything of that involved? I think that's a fair question to ask when you're talking late at night. I mean, this is in the early early hours in Denver. A lot of people didn't even see it until they woke up the next morning. But what's curious here is is when you look at Memphis, the way they've handled John Morant, this is the guy they gave the keys their franchise to. They there's a balance there, you know, between how much do you want to have authority on him? How much do you want to hold him accountable versus you understand he is your lifeline. He's your guy. He's he's gonna you've already given him the keys. You've given him carte blanche to do what he wants to do and travel on the road and bring his bring his entourage on the road to city to city and essentially go out in every single city that he's in. So so to me when you think about Steven Adams giving in a players only meeting essentially saying we need to stop going out. I think that's that is very unique. I don't know how often that's I mean Chandler can speak to I don't know has there ever been a veteran leader speaking in the locker saying guys don't go out like it's very and everyone in the room knows exactly who that is. It's like there's one guy who's going out every single night in every single city. And then he goes out Chandler and the red light is blown there. I mean usually guys have the understanding that I shouldn't go out this night or listen if it's a big team win usually there's some sort of team dinner afterwards. Yeah let's go to a bar let's go have a drink if we have the night off or we don't have practice early in the morning there's obviously a balance these kids are young they're poppin they make a lot of money they're gonna enjoy their life. I enjoyed my life to the fullest trust me. I know Chandler. I'm just saying there's a time and a place for all this and John Morant has kind of brought this on himself where he has he has videotaped himself chugging tequila live on his plane with all his entourage parties at his house. So I think the real issue here would be to get him rehab for drinking a lot because it seems like that is the root of this problem and every time something bad happens it's late at night he's drinking and again there's so much evidence of him that he's filming himself pounding drinks and doing that that's an issue especially during the season especially on his Instagram live especially holding possibly a loaded gun like it's just all bad. All bad. This story is this story is insane to me. But the good news is we are done with it at least for today I'm sure there will be much more to come but we do have some basketball to talk about. How about those calves Celtics we get another overtime game. Thank you basketball. Donovan with 40 Moby with 25 Garland with 17 cabs beating him one 18 one 14 they're now 28 and seven at home. I love where this is headed. All right. Buck Celtic Sixers are we ready to put them on that tier or they still one tier below Chandler. I still think they're one tier below. Think about it. The Celtics just came off a double overtime loss and they set out some of their guys and the cabs had to go to overtime to kind of squeeze one out here. But I do love what they're doing. They're so young. That back court is just tremendous offensively. These guys play hard. You can tell watching this team play they're having fun out there. They're playing for one another. I talk to JB Bicker step all the time. This is the most happy he's been coaching this group of guys which means is half the battle. Honestly in the NBA that these guys like each other. They play for one another. They're unselfish. They get along and that alone will win you 20 games in the NBA. So I love where the cabs are going. I love this back court. I love their talent. I love their bigs. But but it's just tough like those three teams above them and they just beat one of them. But let's take it with a grain of salt. Like I said, they're coming off a long night the night before. But it's promising. And if not this season, they're only going to get better next season in the in the in the season after that. So I love it. But I just don't think enough quite yet this year. Not yet. I'm going to be advanced stats guy. They have the greatest. They had the best net rating in the league. They had the best defensive rating in the league and like look, those are team ratings and those are weird numbers that you got to calculate and all the stuff. But the point is Dave managed to be one of the best defensive teams in this league with that two guard lineup with with Darius Garland being as small as he is with Donovan Mitchell and his reputation is not as a great defender. I think he's fine. He's athletic. He can defend when he needs to. But with those two big guys up front, they've managed to have the best defense of the league statistically. So with that alone, they have a chance. Now it does come to matchups. It does come to what what they can do against very specific teams as of right now. Look, I look at somebody like the Nets with all of those athletic wings they have and the way they can defend is like, you know, they're going to bother the Cavaliers. I look at Joel and Vita and James Harden. They're going to bother the Cavaliers. Obviously, the two best teams in the league and the two best teams in the conference, the Celtics and the Bucks. They're going to they're going to bother the Cavaliers. I wonder how they match it with the Knicks. We've talked about that series before. And the way they can attack from the from the wing and the way they can make deep shots and don't really necessarily need to be into the paint and dealing with those bigs. But when you have Donovan Mitchell and we've seen what he can do in the playoffs before and you have what Darius Garland has put together this season as well, they are dangerous, but Chandler is right. They won this game that they had the two double overtime game. There's no Jason Tatum. There's no Al Horford. There's and so and even then the Celtics had a chance to win this game. We're going to talk about it in a second, I'm sure, but so it's had chance to win this game should not have been even been close. So yeah, I still think they're a tier below, but the Cavaliers fans should be excited because if they if they all outperform themselves, they can win, they can advance a few rounds in the playoffs and maybe make some noise. Yeah, I'm not sure they're on that same tier as Milwaukee and in Boston and honestly, maybe even Philly. But what I will say is that from what I can gather what I know is Donovan Mitchell took it very personally last year, how he played in the playoffs and I haven't really seen him play at a high, high, high level in the playoffs and really win games in the playoffs first team since 2020 in the bubble. I saw that first hand him going back and forth with Jamal Murray. We haven't seen him play at that level in the playoffs, which I think until now he's he's had 840 point games this season. He's got 17 in his career. So half of those games have all come this season. He's already going to get the Cavs single season record for three pointers made in a year. So this is quite a debut season for Donovan Mitchell. I think you're starting to see him play at a really high level and his entrance to Cleveland. I don't think you could have scripted it any better 71 point game all star starter. This is a guy that clearly is on a mission this year and I think he's able, if he's able to play like this and play like a superstar, I think this Cavs team does have a chance potentially get to the second round in the conference finals. I think a lot of it will depend on Donovan Mitchell. I mean, look, if they do face the Knicks in that first round, I'm all in on that. There was a moment last night though, Eddie alluded to it where the Celtics could have won this game. Donovan Mitchell talks a little bit of trash to Grant Williams. Cavs are up by two at this point. Williams at the line says, I won't miss. And then does exactly what you think. It's a tie game here at 0.08 seconds left. He misses both Chandler. The question is basically do you feel bad? I have a funny feeling I know what you're going to say though. Go ahead. I mean, do you feel for the do but this is, I mean, I get it. He's trying to act arrogant. He's trying to act confident. All I needed was one. So I don't know why he was barking that he was going to make both almost make the first and miss the second on purpose would have been the ideal plan here. But yeah, this is unfortunate, obviously with nowadays and social media and all the cameras. Do you guys follow Nick Curios to tennis player on Twitter? Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes. He absolutely hates Grant Williams. And it's almost, I'm starting to think there's actual personal beef here because I follow this dude and he just goes off all game long on Grant Williams and he had a field day after this kind of comment from him. But you got to feel bad, but also on the flip side. Man, like knock the free throws down. You have a chance right here to win your team. No one thought you're going to win this game. You kind of you smoke the game the night before and double overtime. This would have been nice winning. Everyone's talking about Celtics. Are they losing it now? Like the kid just makes one free throw. They win this game and know when we're talking about how they're off the snide and they're just fine. So you feel for the dude, but also you got to step up there and make the knock one of those down. Okay, the Kairios thing we need to get to the bottom of, by the way. Why is it so specific? I knew Grant was cooked when he slowed his form down for the final free throw. I'm going to make them both famous last words, but shout out to the Cavs. A lot of gamesmanship. A couple extra subs holding up the game a little bit. Obviously, Donovan Mitchell, Karis Lavert walks across the lane right before he's about to get the ball. They knew exactly what they were doing, but as soon as he missed that first one, and I'm just happy they lost the game because they did not deserve to win that game and they jumped out early and over time. So it was like, man, it would suck if they actually win this game. And then the game ends with him shooting a desperation three, which of course he bricks and he just rips his jersey off and he's pissed. I hope he didn't suppose game is Batman again because only Batman could answer for what happened out there. But yeah, I don't feel sorry for him. Grant's living a great life. He's got a bag on the way. So congrats. For the bag. But I mean, I'm going to spend the rest of the day going through Curio's soldier because it's like, why is he on this roster? This feels very personal. Like he did something, stole a girl. I don't know. Something happened here that's very, very personal. Oh, he gets to do something. Yeah, Shoms. Drop everything and find out what is going on between Curio's and Williamson. You know what's special? Grant Williams actually trends on Twitter every night for, I don't know why, but he trends every night he plays good or bad. And you know, what's crazy about that play is Marcus Martin almost tip dunked that. You know, so he has got on Marcus Martin. That was nuts. On the half court line. By the way, he's trending because Curio's just ripping him to pieces every night and people are reading it responding. This is like, I'm going to start paying more attention to Curio. I know I was already following him, but I wasn't paying attention. Also, shout out to shout out to Danny for getting all these of riffing. Right. There's a thousand Moes did it. Moes did it. All right. So look, the Celtics despite close or not close wins, losses. They've lost three in a row. They're five and five in their last 10. This part of the year is usually about teams that get hot right now. Celtics fans have had a nice blessed year so far, Chandler. But at this point, do you think they're starting to get a little bit nervous? I don't think they're getting nervous. I think they're just fine. Again, we're talking about one or two possessions away in these games. They could have beat New York tonight before and they should have won this. If Grand just makes one of those free throws and again, not every play comes down to the end. I hate when teams do that. They could have won this game multiple other ways but is it concerning? Yeah, you don't want to lose three straight like this coming out of the all-star break. Your guys should be rested. Your guys should be focused. You should be on a mission right now. But I think the more level of concern isn't them losing these close games. It's how good Milwaukee is playing and it's how scary Philly can be. So yes, if you're Boston, you want to continue to trend upward. But when you look over there and everyone's following, this is the time of year where everyone's looking at the standings. Oh, we got the Knicks today. Oh, we got Miami. You know who's playing well, who's catching momentum, who's healthy and the Celtics as they lose three straight. They're looking at these other teams that are playing very, very well on the East and that's what's scary for them. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that. That's almost the perfectly written segue as we take a quick break here because Harden had 20 assists in bead with 42. And like Chandler said, Philly's getting scary when we run it back returns. Run it up to run it back. Yeah, run it up to run it back. Run it. Y'all like points? We got point. Sixers beat the Pacers 147-143. Like I said, in bead had 42 Harden, 14 points, 20 assists. I love Tyrese Maxi. Finish up with 24. They're doing things right now that I feel like should be scaring the rest of the Eastern conference. Chandler, how dangerous can this team really be? They are super dangerous. And I love this version of James Harden. 20 assists, one turn over with him. We all know he's a scorer. He can always go get a bucket. But when they thrive and they exceed early is when he gets everybody involved. When he kind of gets off the ball, lets Tyrese Maxi do his thing. When he lets Joelle and B dominate. And this is the best version of their team because this makes them unguardable. This makes you, you can't do it. You can't trap them in a pick and roll because you have arguably the best player Joelle getting it in the pocket and rolling down. You have guys like Tyrese Maxi and Tobias Harris that can score, that can shoot the ball. And then they have a really good mix of wings like Jake Milton and McDaniels and D'Anthony Melton that can also knock down shots but they also defend. They pick up the slag for James Harden. They pick up the slag for Tyrese Maxi. So this team is built to win. They have shooters off the bench with Georgie Nyang who's been knocking down all year long for them. There was not much defense in this game last night but this team, I think their best version is this where they have the most dominant big. They have James Harden who's getting everyone involved and taking care of the ball. The one turnover is huge. It's almost bigger than the 20 assist. In my opinion, just not giving up possessions for this offensive team to not be able to score. So they're super dangerous and yeah, looking at those numbers, those are, it's history. It's, they're trending they're trending in the right way. I want to be like the old 90s grump and be like, this game stunk. This is a frustrating game to watch. It was two Mike D'Anthony DNA teams. Mike was a consultant for the Pacers last year. Yeah, obviously James Harden and all the things they've built there. Joellen Beach shot 19 free throws. This game was 79, 78 at half time. It was one of those ones that made me look at my TV, make sure I was tripping. A lot of free throws. Charlize Hallenberg shot 14 free throws as well. It was, this is new basketball. This is pace and space basketball. They're spreading their shooting threes, dunks and lifts, everything like Jason Tatum shot start. But to answer the question are the Sixers dangerous? Absolutely. Absolutely. They have Joellen Beach who can just do this on a nightly basis. Nobody can guard him. The Pacers are a pretty bulky team and you think they might have had a better chance with Miles Turner and the likes that they had there. They had no chance. They had zero chance. There's nothing they could do. But credit to Tyrese Halliburton for this game staying as close as it did. He's been, he's been ridiculous since he's came back from his injury. And you know, I bagged on him quite a bit and didn't know if he should be in the All-Star game over Jalen Brunson and all that cool stuff. But he's had quite the week out there. So look, I'm familiar with the game now, buddy. My bad. Look at you growing. Wow. Sorry, Sean. So go ahead. No, I mean, listen, they're definitely dangerous. We'll see as the as the year goes on. Are they going to be able to stay healthy? The coaching, how does that play out over the year and into the playoffs? But to me, the way that Joellen Beat and James Harden are playing, I think this is only good for this organization. I think it's good for them. This is not the chemistry that they had last year. I think they were really trying to find it. They didn't have it. And I think once Joellen Beat, you know, was able to be the man when James Harden went out, Tyrese Maxson went out. He reestablished himself. They really weren't seeking an identity after that. It was Joellen Beat's team. And then you saw James Harden come in, play at such a high level, scoring. You're seeing him get back to the way he was scoring a few years ago in Houston and he's shooting 40 percent from three. His field goal percentage is around 45 percent from the field. So you're seeing him step up his performance. He's playing at a high level. He's shooting it efficiently. And now he's he's dishing the ball at a really high clip, getting his teammates involved. And I really look at him to set everyone up on a nightly basis. And I think that's the role he's back to and he's comfortable in. All right. So here's the question, Chandler, like if you're the opposing team, what are you supposed to do here? I mean, if they do what they did last night, 40 points, 20 assists. What's the plan? It's tough to Joellen Beat's making 19 of 19 free throws. I'm double team and Joellen every touch. I'm making these other guys beat us. I'm making the Tobias Harris. I'm making Tyrus Maxi beat us. And it's funny, playing with James in Houston, you would see so many different matchups and coverages. He thinks he's so lefty dominant. You try and force him right, but he's it's like Zion. He's going to get back to the left. He's even gotten better finishing at his right hand. You just you kind of want to limit his space. You want to be physical with them. But now with the new fouls, you can kind of you were able to do that back in the day. You could even get close to him because he would basically initiate the contact and get to the free throw line. It's tough. They are they are a mismatch nightmare to have this kind of duo and pick and rolls in the space and both of them being able to ISO and go get a bucket pretty much wherever on the floor. It's very tough, but you almost got to pick your poison. Double one of them and try and let the other one of these other roleplayers beat you. Back to how much like Oh, go ahead real quick. Taylor mentioned a huge thing that will be major for them in the playoffs. Jolan B is shooting a career high 86 percent from the free throw line. He's been 81 percent over his career. When you can get that many free throws and shoot them that well at that size, that's a cheat code. Couple that with James, James Harden, and Tyrese Maxing both shooting over 85 percent from the free throw line. If those guys are up late, the game is over. You can't do anything about that. They're going to make their free throws. They're going to win the game. So great point by Chandler and that alone makes them dangerous on top of everything else they have going for them in the playoffs. I cannot wait for the playoffs. Look, Eddie, you admitted your growth on Halliburton. In defense of you, you weren't the only one Wally Zerbiak who had doubts about who this kid was. He had 40 points in 16 last night. He also had the game winner against the Bulls on Sunday. He's the future of the team, right? Like you're building around this guy, correct? Yeah. I mean him, Benedict Matheren, whatever they get in the draft going forward. But those are two nice pieces. Ben had an up and down game last night. But Tyrese is like the most modern point guard there possibly could be. I joked about him on Twitter before, said, yo, he plays like, like you play my career. He plays like you played 2K, but in real life, he zigzags to get threes. He pretty much only shoots threes at layups. He holds the ball all possession long until he can get an assist. It's like, it's like almost like running the read option in the NFL. He does it out there on the NBA court. But what I love about Tyrese is he is as petty as I want my stars to be. I don't know if you caught this stuff with Pat Beverly. But Pat Bev took a couple shots to them last year and then Tyrese took some on podcast too and he remembered all of that. So when he gamed him like this, he let him know on the court and he let him know on Twitter and I love a Twitter clap back. If you follow me on Twitter, you know, I love a Twitter clap back. So Tyrese, you're in my favorite big fella. Yes. Yeah, I love them. And again, who else are they going to build around? They just traded some bonus for him. He's had a hell of a year. He's an all star with mix him with Madarin and a couple draft picks. And you know, they obviously are keeping Miles Turner. This is their guy and this is their guy moving forward and he's proved his worth. He's kind of shut up a lot of the haters on being an all star this year and he's not slowing down. And there's a chance of not making the playoffs and most players can kind of throw in the towel after that. His kids still going to get 40 and having crazy games. Good for him. He's he's there. That was good. Yeah, clap back. It just, you never forget what people say about you. All right. Nuggets beat Toronto. This one has some weirdness. 1-18, 1-13. They went on a 20 to eight run ending this game. Murray with 24. Yolkic 17, 13 and 9. So close. Here's Jamal on the biggest factor in this comeback win. Bring up these fans, of course, you know. Speaking of that, Jamal, this is your 30th win at home this season. You guys are 30 and four here at ball arena. Just talk about the dominance that you guys have displayed here all season long. Just fun to play here with the energy. Every time we make shots, the crowd gets loud. And like I said, we just love playing behind this crowd. It's really as simple as that. St. Louis, we love you. I mean, that's the best pandering I've ever heard. I'm here for all of it. And look, here are 46 and 19. There are now seven games up in the West. You heard 30 and four at home, Chandler. How much is that home court advantage really going to help carry this team through the playoffs if you believe it will? It's huge. But I wish you would just thank the altitude and not the fans. That counts. Listen, they are a great home crowd. They are great fans, but that altitude is no joke. I've said it before, coming on a back to back is the worst back to back in sports, having to go to like, you know, Sacramento, to Denver. It's brutal. And you see teams in the second half kind of tinker off. And this happened with Toronto last night. They played great. They had a great balance attack. Everybody was contributing. And they just allowed this huge run from Denver who was used to it, who was used to that arena, who's used to that weather, that altitude, because it really does catch up on you. So it's it's a huge home court advantage. Especially I think whoever they draw first round, a lot of teams kind of go there a couple of days earlier as soon as they can to kind of get their wind. So I definitely would look for whoever they draw to kind of do that just to kind of get familiar with that, get their lungs and get their wind. Yeah, they're definitely setting up a lot of expectations for themselves in the playoffs. Everyone wants to hate on them. I saw them in the bubble. I think I have a lot of confidence that Jamal Murray is healthy. The fact that he's playing at such a high level now, his three-pointer looks back. He's not feeling it in his legs anymore. They got to be the pick, right? Out of the Western Conference. Yes, you have the Warriors. You have the Clippers. A few other teams out West. But to me, the way that they're playing, they're running away with this conference. And I think you have to give Jamal Murray. I can't wait to watch Jamal Murray in the playoffs. Shoms, you also have the Suns out West. Let's not forget. But I don't know if they're the pick. I favor the Warriors. I favor the Suns. I think the Lakers would give them a hell of a matchup. I think the Grizzlies, if they have Jamal. Oh, my God. Whatever this is. The what? The hell of a matchup. Michelle, Michelle. Did you just say Lakers? In the same sentence as all these teams we're talking about right now? I will say this. I will say this for the Nuggets. A lot of their playoff players are a little overstated. They obviously didn't have Jamal Murray their last two years in the playoffs. And then they lost to the champs. Like, it's so, yes, they have proven themselves in a sense. But there's a lot of pressure on them to win this year. And like Taylor mentioned, they have the altitude. All these playoff crowds will have loud crowds. The Kings will have a loud crowd. The Grizzlies will have a loud crowd. It's like the Warriors will have a loud crowd. The Timberwolves will have a loud crowd and they'll celebrate if they win one quarter out there. But it's not the crowd. It's the altitude. And it matters. You ask anybody who's ever played. Anybody who's ever went high altitude and walked around and had to like go, go, am I okay? It matters 100%. So it's like one of the true home court advantages in the league. So, yes, it does matter. It's great that they're holding home court. And that's why they need the number one seat because they're going to need that against any of those top teams because they have their flaws. We've mentioned them over and over and over. And they got to prove it. They got to show us when it matters most. I'll say this though. The altitude helps. Thank you, right? Something's altitudey about you. Something's going on. You're not normal. Listen, the altitude helps. The weather helps the travel helps. But the altitude's not putting them seven games ahead in first place. That's their talent. That's their team. That's Yolkic. That's Jamal Murray being healthy. That's Aaron Gordon having a career year. Michael Porter being healthy. So it's interesting because I still like, I like Philly. I like Milwaukee. And I like Boston over pretty much every team in the West. And KD is scary on Phoenix. But when you look at the consistency of the whole season, it's hard not to take Denver. But also I understand the doubt. I understand the hesitancy just because that they're just not, I don't know, for whatever reason, they're not like an automatic luck and pretty much all of our eyes, I think. I think we're all hesitating until they do it. But I also hope that Yolkic, just like a lot of people takes all the slander this season and uses that. The rest of his team too. There was a moment last night if you were watching, you're like, what the hell just happened? And it was bizarre. Scott Barnes was injected. It was quick. Called for a technical. Scott Foster, he said, quote, I was just saying something to myself. And I guess he took offense to it. So he just kicked me out of the game. It was one technical foul. And then he was out. It was so fast. Foster said that he was using verbiage, which quote, directly question the integrity of the crew. Anybody else know what happened here, Chandler? What could that even possibly mean? Because that's a quick ejection at a very crucial moment in this game. Yeah, it basically means that Scott Barnes said he was cheating. There's no way around it. That's what he meant. He probably said something like, oh, what did, like, you know, he could have made a joke. Or would you take the spread or would you take the nuggets or literally just like, even if you say something like, oh, you guys are cheating us. The reps have zero tolerance for that. And Scott Foster, especially, you know, he's kind of been in this scenario a lot. He's had this beef with Paul. He really doesn't, you know, he doesn't take this stuff lightly. So it's had to have been something of that nature. Fandal and Denver? Is it, I hope the name dropped Fandal. I hope he said, yo, like, your parley is not hitting on Fandal, my God. This was crazy. And Scott Foster, look, he's been questioned a ton. And when we watched the Netflix doc in 2035 or whatever, I'm going to remember this. I'm going to remember this for a long time. One point again, you eject the guy for, I don't even think the foul was on it. Like that was really, really, really strange in between all the Chris Paul stuff and all like, there's a lot going on there. But hey, if he says he mentioned Fandal Parley, thank you so much, Scotty. Take the ejection. It's cool. You guys are going to win this game anyway. So great branding from the rookie of the year, the rainy rookie of the year there. But yeah, he must have said a magic word and it had to be quite a lot of magic on that word. That was, that was nuts. Right. Like the verbiage was that, that's the part. I mean, it was so fast, still really was very confused. All right, we're taking a quick break. We've got to thank Shoms here. We will see you not bright and early, just civilized hours. Tomorrow morning, Shoms. Thank you as always. I know, I don't want to make it sound like we're getting up at four. But when we come back, I can't. Is Brani better than current NBA players when Run It Back returns? I didn't agree to that. On this date, 13 years ago, Kobe didn't even flinch when Matt Barzloff picks a ball right in his face. Chandler, would you have flinched? 1,000 percent. There was an angle to this. I saw like a different angle where it was like, it was over his head. But yeah, either way, I'm still I'm still asking for a substitution. It's just so good. I don't know. I feel like it's close enough that the flinch is inevitable. Yeah, shout out to Matt, Sacramento native. He's told two different versions of the story. I like the cooler one where Kobe didn't flinch, but he definitely said he did it was a ball fake. It was the play. It's like, yeah. But Kobe didn't flinch seen in flinch. Kobe didn't flinch. And that's what we're going with that forever and ever. I got a little you buy in that coming up speaking of Sacramento. How about the Kings beating the Pelicans? But that's not what we were talking about necessarily. It's the fact that they won six of their last seven after the All-Star break. They're about a half game now from Memphis for the number two seed. What a good time to be behind Memphis in the West. rookie Keegan Murray. We want to play our first playoff game at home. It's not easy. We know we had a lot of tough stretches coming up. We know we have to be locked in every single night. Janela, you buying the Kings will have home court advantage for the first round of these playoffs? I am barring just an absolute meltdown there. They're four and a half five games above the Warriors and these teams are behind them. And they're also a half game just back out of being in second place. So I am I'm buying it. And I think it's great. This is honestly the feel good story of the year. Timby, the Kings. I love what they did. I love the positions they made. I love the draft of Keegan Murray. The two stars and Foxes of bonus have just flourished. And again, this is just fun. The Kings have went through misery. They've had so many down years. And I think now often the goal is to advance and to contend. I think they even know that that's not the ideal expectations. But yeah, give them home court advantage. Get the city excited and have a heck of a series in Sacramento in that arena. Fantastic. And I am totally. Look at that crowd, Eddie. God, they're ready. Let's do this. I mean, they absolutely let the city on fire. The city's been waiting for this since the early 2000s. Yeah, they're four and a half up with with 16 games to go. They better not fall below the fourth seed. They better. They look great. Big win last night without the iron fox. It's, you know, looking on the other side of the game, the Pelicans are slowly slipping out of the play. It was like two months ago. They were the one seed. I don't know what has happened out there. They lost Zion. They got Brandon Ingram back. It's been rough out there. But the Kings best story this season by far. It's really not even close to me. Everybody else we kind of knew would be here. We didn't really weren't really sure with this team. But the Montessabones, the iron fox, they deserve their all star spots. And I mean, I hope they get to the two seed. I hope they have that great of a season and they really get out there and win a series and put this team on the map for the for the years coming forward because they look great and Mike Brown, the most well-deserved coach of the year in quite some time. And I hope nobody else better get a vote. They better get every single vote unanimous coach of the year. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this. Look at the standings though, Eddie, Phoenix, Golden State. Minnesota is who they play right now. I think that would be their best matchup. But if you are you taking the Kings over the Clippers, the map, any team in the top eight, except the Timberwolves. Matt, I think I might take him over the Mavericks. I'm taking over the Mavericks. Maybe Yikes, I don't know. But you're right. I mean, it gets tough. It gets dicey. Maybe Clippers. I know what Sacramento is hoping for because apparently the Lakers said this, but they want that Lakers match up. They want to renew the rivalry. They want to finally beat them in a playoff series. And I'd love to see it. I'd love to see them get it and beat them. It ain't happening. That ain't happening. I like them. That's not happening. So let get another dream, Sacramento. That was not happened. Pelicans though, by the way, they were in third place just as recently as January 1st. Like obviously they don't have Zion. That is a huge factor. I don't want to pretend like it's not a big deal. But at this point, it's just it's a it's a free for all. And it's a bummer because I think they were one of the feel good stories as well beginning the season. Is it too late to just take it the rest of the way the 18 or however many games they have left channel or just just go just go for it. I don't think so because they have zero shot of winning especially without Zion. And yeah, you remember the beginning of the year we're talking Willie Green coaches. We're talking how exciting this team is with Alvarado and Herb Jones and these all these young guys that are exciting pair with those that big three. I like the idea of actually tanking now because they're starting to get this team back. They're hopefully again fingers crossed Zion is healthy next year. And it's not like they have to give up much just to start losing games. Sit be I sit CJ kind of try and lose the rest of these game to put yourself in the best position for the draft this year while retaining your pretty much same roster next year that we were so hyped on in the beginning of the season. So yeah, they're not going to win this year's and not just you know load management it up. Man, never too late tank. They're not catching the tank gods the spurs the rockets the pistons the Hornets. But everybody else. They can lose more than them. But like I like the challenge if I'm them. Get that pick. Get that pick. Got that Lakers piece too. The sixth pick is better than the 12th pick. Why not? Look at that math. That math was done like this. That was good. Yeah, there you go. All right. The snitches snitches have won. They just snitched their way into taking away joy from Yanis with the triple double the other night. It has been rescinded. Eddie. I hope you're happy. Are you proud of yourself being one of the snitches that made this happen? Chandler. Chandler, we should be proud today that we have this power to maintain the sanctity of basketball. And I apologize the Fanduil because I'm sure they had to reverse a bunch of bets and that's why there's a little bit of you know awaiting time for you to collect your winnings. But he did not deserve this. There's no reason he should have had this rebound. I blame Court Kisbert though. I still blame him like put a body on him, big fella. Like do something. They talk to you more than this. But yeah, the basketball gods won out. The snitches won out. Is that what you meant? And you know what? Now this is such a deal. Now people guys won't do this ever again. I don't I hope or at least it won't help. So I love it. Shout out to Davis here. But yeah, that's not a hard. Yeah, see that guy gets it. Whoever that is, that's what Court Kisbert should have done. DeSean Stevenson gets it. DeSean Stevenson. He doesn't take me. Give me that. There's pride there. Look, I can't. You can't blame Giannis for lack of pride on the other side. Like that's not his fault. He did what he did. I blame Giannis for lack of pride. I'll blame Giannis for lack of pride on his side. But he said you had all game to get that 10-3 round, buddy. You should have got it on that other end. I blame Giannis for that lack of pride. And then Court Kisbert raised lack of pride. Well, sometimes time is the way. What's going on in this game? No, I really would have actually preferred that. Breaking news. A man's father tweeted positive things about him. Here's from LeBron. What? Am I wrong? That's facts. From LeBron with a tweet. Man, Brani definitely better than some of these cats I've been watching on League Pass today. Shout out League Pass. It's lightweight hilarious. Disrespectful, Eddie. Brani better than NBA players at this moment. Please, please say something smart here. I want him to name names. I want to know that this is about Grant Williams in the free throw. I want to know exactly what LeBron was talking about. Obviously, this is like crazy disrespectful, but it's also super proud dad moment. So there's no winning. I'm not going to criticize LeBron and go viral. Michelle, it's all on you. You got it. You got it from here. What? I'm just saying. Well, look, he's his man. He's his father. That's probably the man who should be his biggest fan, right? All right. That's pretty cool. Peek, AAU dad. Just say my kid is better than the NBA players. Peek, AAU dad. But also it's not it's not helping your son out. I feel like you just it's setting this whole thing up to be a disaster. Chandler, like what did you think when you saw that? I mean, what are we doing? Listen, the kid has gotten a lot better. I will say I saw like a mock draft and they have him like going 10th. But Eddie's right. This is his father. Is he he's already made it clear that he wants to go play with him and whoever takes him LeBron's going. So he's already he's planting seeds all over the place and he's so powerful and has such an impact. Someone's listening and he's going to get his chance and Bronny has put himself in this situation to, you know, have an opportunity there. But like the idea of thinking he's better right now than current NBA players. It's just it's a stretch, but I get what he's doing. Rude. It's straight up disrespectful. A stretch is really nice. A stretch is really nice. Between this and the Michael Jordan dream tweet the other day. Please. I'm going to need my goat to put his phone down when he picks this bottle up and like one or the other big fella. One or the other. No, no, that was after a dream, Eddie. Allegedly that happened in the morning when he tweeted that. And somebody needs to tell him that that dream was not wild, nor was it epic. Big freaking deal. You're at a basketball game with MJ and how did it end? No one cares. Worst cliffhanger of a movie I've ever heard in my entire life. I've had some better dreams. Um, we're going to take a quick break on the fly parlay. I don't even know if we hit it. That's how cool I am about it. And then we'll have another one for you tonight when we run it back for turns. Make the rest of the NBA season a slam dunk with Fandall. Right now, new customers can get a no sweat bet up to $1,000. That's up to $1,000 back in bonus bets. If your first bet doesn't win, now is the perfect time to join Fandall. The app, easy to use. They're always great promotions. And when you win, you can get paid instantly. So jump into the action and bet the NBA. Download the app and sign up to get a no sweat first bet up to $1,000. Fandall official sports betting partner of the NBA. Well, I was hoping that I was the one that got it right last night and I was not. We did not great. Chandler, yes, the bow was well-deserved on your end. Eddie and I both with a big fat miss. Oh, man. You know what though, Eddie? You had Dame over 36 and a half. It was a gutsy call. He ended up with 31. You know, is what it is. Is what it is. I was Grant Williams in the line. I said I'm going to make both and I break both. I know. I know. Poor Grant Williams. I hope he has a good day today. I feel like it might not be. But the good news is we can go ahead and try to fix ourselves and make money for the world again tonight. Eduardo, what have you? Now, Fandall must know that Joel and James aren't going to play or something. I can't believe the Sixers are getting points even on a back-to-back against the Wolves. Love the Wolves. But, you know, when all comes down to it, I'm going to bet against Rugo Bear. So I'm going to Sixers with the points. Thanks. That's on that's on brand way to stick it. Chandler, what do you have? It's crazy because Joel and James aren't like out on the report yet. But no, I love the Jazz plus nine. I mean, that's a lot of points. If they're fully healthy, they're playing. Mads have had their issues. The game's close. I like the Jazz winning it, just how the Mads have been ending games. But nine points a lot. Give me the Jazz. The Jazz plus nine. I know I'm actually shocked. I'm shocked to do that. All right. I'm doing, look, I think this is disrespectful. Rockets play the Nets tonight and the Rockets are on a, I believe two game win streak. That's a seven plus six against the Nets. I feel like they might lose. They'll probably lose, but I'm going to guess they lose by four. Oh God. I'm not even close. All right. Before we go tonight, the Lakers are going to retire. Powell, Gasol, Jersey. Oh, we got a, okay. I'm going to show you guys. All right. Let me show you guys what to bet. Just just in case. I know you guys are listening with Bated Brett on all of our picks. It's so good at it. I want to make sure you see the visual. But yeah, no. So Powell, Gasol, Jersey is getting retired tonight. The number 16, a good feel, good moment for Lakers fans. Chandler, tell the world how good this man was. Oh, he was so nasty. He was such a good compliment to Kobe and those championship years. He was, you know, such a dynamic player for his size, the way he could face up in the post, the way he could get the defensive rebound and bring it almost put that point forward roll. Shout out to Powell, Gasol, because he was an absolute legend and much deserved because he had game for a seven footer. I love that photo, by the way. A lot of credit. A lot of credit to the Dirks and the KDs and whoever else for the big fellas who could stretch the floor, who could handle the ball. All that stuff. Powell, Gasol did this as well and he did it at a championship level. He could bring the ball up the court. He could play point four. Like Chandler said, he could pop out and hit the jumper. And this was when it was way taboo for somebody that big to pop out and hit the jumper. And plus, if you remember, when he got to LA, there was a lot of talk about him being soft and this, that, and the third. He has not looked at any of that anymore. Deserve it, Hall of Famer. Deserves to have his number up there. There's a reason why Kobe ended up looking at that guy like his brother and going to war with him time and time again. Legend, Pargasol. I love it. That is a big part, right? Kobe loved it. And not to mention, he had a little brother that was cold, too. It was probably the backyard battles they had were probably insane. I wonder what the food bills were like. Those are two giant human beings. I'm always obsessed with that. That's a lot of food, no? Pal, Pal is so amazing. He was almost going to be a doctor in his free time. Like, what kind of life is this guy living? Wait, he did what in his free time? He was going to be a doctor. Like, he was just going to like moonlight as a doctor. Well, being a basketball player, he's incredible. What can't he do? I do not want my doctor to be moonlighting as a doctor, though, just for the record. We'll be back to our 10 Eastern. We're going to watch a lot of basketball and come back super smart to help all of you. Have a great night.