 what's the word y'all welcome back man see a lot of things have changed just 24 hours we talked yesterday and uh there was nothing in this room man and we have changed dramatically now the sound is still kind of trash but we're gonna put some rugs in here other than the one rug that I already got which some of y'all might know what this is some of y'all might not I'm not even gonna show the rest if you know you know but I did get my Michael Jordan thing here and let me let me talk about that for a second before we get into the real topics I talked about yesterday of mentioning how I spent a couple stacks on that and people in the comment section like Kenny why would that is a one-of-one painting hand-painted from the great Erin Erin McLaughlin I think it's her name she's great and she does some crazy work and this is a one there's only one person in the world with this exactly I got the certificate of authenticity and I needed it so I also put up like two of my jerseys from like showdowns and stuff even though I'm shooting zero percent I don't have any wins having a custom jerseys always better than not having a custom jersey and then these things over here are things there at the old apartment or old house but you just never saw it because they were behind the camera and then we got this coffee thing that I'm not using for coffee I'm gonna put like memorabilia and stuff up there either way we are getting closer and closer to the point where I could call this a home and it's kind of weird to say okay so there's no basketball on for the next couple days which is scary I guess is the word like yesterday y'all made me do work usually at six o'clock every single day I come in here and I just watch basketball and that is my excuse to not film and like edit videos but since it was nothing on I recorded like four videos y'all what the hey I'm back at work that's weird but um with the NBA not being back it's kind of cool just to look at stories on instagram and snapchat just to see all the players taking this three to four day break LeBron was in a place where it looked like he was in a spa but also in a volcano I don't understand any place outside the United States it's all foreign to me like literally it's foreign but like I don't really know where things are but it looks he's having a great little vacation hopefully for his sake in the LA Lakers sake when you come back he's better I can't even tell LeBron to be better bro everybody what what is the rest of his teammates doing to be better so when you get to this point of the season where there's no basketball along you know reddit kind of go a little bit crazy and um somebody had a thing named dumbest NBA takes you've seen on social media and anytime I see a dumbest takes post that got over a thousand comments I'm ready to dive in and talk about some dumb takes I am not immune to those things uh as the guy that talks basketball or people that talk basketball you're going to have a bad take or two every once in a while there's plenty of videos on the internet of me having bad takes so I'm not making fun of the people that have the bad takes here I just think it's entertainment adding KD made the Warriors worse calves in five Nick Wright okay Nick Wright actually like can I talk about Nick Wright for just a minute listen I don't watch a lot of television especially sports television um and I know that people on tv typically say things because they they're looking for clicks and getting interactions and I guess I'm falling to the trap as I usually do but I saw a clip on Twitter just yesterday just yesterday of Nick Wright talking about Nicola Okich now Nick Wright I've seen him multiple times over the last season and a half just have like bad take after bad take after bad take about Nicola Okich he called Nicola Okich the worst MVP of all time basically he got MVP because of circumstances LeBron was supposed to win it then he got injured Kevin Rents supposed to win it then he got injured James Harding got injured all of that stuff but he took it a step too far in my personal opinion yesterday when he was talking about Yochich as being an MVP player but in the all-star game he couldn't play in the fourth quarter how have listen I would expect a random person on Twitter to have a take about the all-star game being blank blank blanker player not playing hard enough or not performing well in the all-star game but the fact that this man Nick Wright is a co-host on a show that is on national television and he's trying to dissect the minutes played in an all-star game in an all-star game that is an all-time wild take if you ask me he talked about oh Joel and B was dominating the fourth quarter of the all-star game and what was Yochich on the bench and you know why with Yochich was on the bench first of all Yochich said after the game listen I don't really like all-star games because I never really know what to do understand I mean are you supposed to play defense are you not supposed to play defense and secondly we're in Cleveland and they decided to let Jared Allen play the fourth quarter because we're in Cleveland are we really up oh you remember that one year Jimmy Butler didn't play in the fourth or didn't play at all in the all-star game let's dissect that you see how foolish that can sound oh Jimmy Butler did it again by the way Jimmy Butler's just a dude that gets into the all-star game just for the accolades so his basketball reference thing he played nine minutes again why are we not talking about the fact that Jimmy Butler didn't play in the all-star game he only played nine minutes y'all oh this is the number one team in the Eastern Conference are they really that good their star player didn't even play well in the all-star do you hear how ridiculous you sound now understand trying to push narratives one way or another for your favorite for MVP or whatever you got to try to pull everything out of the hat but there are other ways you can go if you want to say Yochich it's not the MVP this season and him saying that he didn't play in the fourth quarter of an all-star game is the one of the reasons why he's not an MVP player is ridiculous to me you can say who you want for MVP I'm not going to argue but you can't say Yochich is less than the MVP player because a random exhibition game on a Sunday but back to the original take adding KD made the Warriors worse I just don't understand that uh that sentiment slash idea I am definitely a dude that thinks that when it comes to building super teams more likely than not it might take longer than you expect for them to jail and start looking great and start to do the things but when you have a guy as selfless there was a reason why there was a big uproar about the Warriors and you have one of the most unselfish superstars of all time and Steph Curry one of the greatest players when it comes to catching and shooting and just can light it up any single night and clay Thompson one of the greatest defenders of this generation and Draymond Green and probably the greatest score of all time in the game of basketball arguably there there was no recipe where that team was not winning multiple championships let's be honest hey but shout out to LeBron him bringing some of those Cavs teams to the finals is is better than a lot of things on anybody resume but no matter who he brought to the finals versus Steph Curry Clay Thompson Draymond Green and Kevin Arrant they didn't really have that much of a chance let's be honest for me it's when people criticize players for having too much help but then simultaneously criticize players for not sticking around with an organization not surrounded them with enough help yeah I I think Kevin Arrant's tweet pretty much says it all when he says NBA fans don't know what they want or something similar to that it's it's facts man I've seen this argument one way or another so many times in my life that it's it's kind of weird I mean Damien Lillard is the prime example of this right and I was I've said this before I was team trade Damien Lillard Damien Lillard free yourself and now I got to the point where I don't really give a damn of what Damien Lillard does in his career right everybody wants to see Damien Lillard request a trade out of Portland I think that has a lot to do with us respecting Dame and wanting him to play for a competent team but if he did go team up with the Brooklyn Nets so he did go team up with this team of this team then all of the people that was telling him to free himself was gonna be mad at him because he freed himself to a good team when in reality anytime you want somebody to be free you want them to upgrade right I still gotta figure out the lighting in this room because the camera is good but it's not as HD as I wanted to and a lot of that's probably my lighter while we're sticking on the topic of Damien Lillard let me quickly say this even though I made a tweet about this during all star weekend I have got to the point where I don't care what Damien Lillard does because I realized very recently that a lot of the stuff that for me and you it's strictly basketball because that's what we watch we watch it a 48 minute game every single day and that's how we know these players we can follow them on socials and things like that but we just know them as basketball players and when I figured out in the Tyrese Halliburton trade is that a lot of the things is is deeper than basketball the idea of getting freed from basketball purgatory that is Sacramento sounds amazing right when you really think about it and then you saw this in his players tribune post that it was deeper than basketball bro was a meeting with nonprofits he was trying to be a good person in the community trying to build the city of Sacramento so yeah we would love to see certain player get out of their city but in reality is with Damien Lillard's case he's been there for what a decade now he's built a family there his kids are in a school district that they really like there's a lot of things that go into it more than just like hey let's go hoop somewhere else because you gotta think about it these players are playing basketball for how many months out of the year is it October to to June July I mean if you make it to the fine you know I'm saying that's a huge chunk of your of your life there's some players and I've seen this and I think Chris Paul is a player that does this where they are part time in the city that they hoop in and I do believe it takes a very special type of person slash player to be able to do that because me as a person that loves his fiance and future kid that's going to come out I can't imagine being away from them that long Chris Paul's family as far as I know doesn't live in Arizona with him during the season so it's like facetimes and phone calls to keep up with the kids and stuff I couldn't do that I need to be able to go hoop if I was an NBA player and drive home from the arena and open up the door and echo my kids so it's deep in the basketball so if Dame don't want to be free look at my boy out there y'all might see this a lot in upcoming videos um if Dame don't want to be free let them do a thing Julius Randall was better than Pete Chris Bosch I am confident no one has ever said that here go receipts what do the receipts say legit question at his absolute apex was Chris Boss ever better than Pete Julius Randall the answer is no and he got ratio to eternity on this one I ain't even got nothing to say on this it's a really bad take and it deserves to be here what the heck is this I have a friend that has sworn for years and still does to this day that Steve Kerr is only riding on the team that Mark Jackson built and that Mark Jackson was fired and replaced with a no coaching experience white man because of racism that's very interesting I've definitely heard people say something similar to this talking about how like um this team doesn't do anything without Mark Jackson was I think it's true but I do believe there's cases where a team max is out under the certain under a certain voice right and I've seen or listened to Draymond Green's podcast or Steph Steph Curry talking and they basically I remember a story specifically that Draymond Green said the very first practice of having Steve Kerr um Steve Kerr was telling them don't worry about getting the ball to Steph Curry because the ball will eventually find the best players and Draymond Green said in that moment he was like bro is crazy shouldn't we want to get the ball or force fee Steph Curry because he's one of the best players on the team right now but in reality uh Steve Kerr was trying to instill this this selfless basketball selfless basketball that we see the Warriors thriving so I'm a guy that recognizes that that Mark Jackson as a coach with the Golden State Warriors was very crucial very beneficial a very important part to the success that they have now but I am also a guy that thinks that Steve Kerr is a guy that came in and immediately elevated them I don't know if they won that first championship of Mark Jackson's to the coach I don't know I do believe that Steve Kerr deserves to be a guy that is in the conversation for best coaches of all time I know he ended up in top 15 and maybe he's not 15 maybe he's top 20 regardless he is a guy that has done a lot to elevate his teams in his spots except for the one year they won like 19 games like what was he supposed to do with that roster hey there was a lot of stuff said about that team and and Steve Kerr specifically that season I ain't forgot Sabonis is the worst all-star ever and that's from Nick Wright again bro what the heck has he never heard of Jamal McGlure or Tarron Hill that's actually insane is this just a Nick Wright post but I do know this right um I made a joke about that like when we were talking about Wiggins y'all remember that video I was talking about Wiggins and I made that joke but I didn't remember that it was Nick Wright that originally said it I remember that it was somebody on tv I didn't know it was Nick Wright bro are you that's that's crazy the shout out to the monster bonus I saw someone say that Carlos Bulls was better than Tim Duncan okay all right all right in his freedom gave up a likely hall of fame career in order to fight for human rights in China this guy right here I'm not going to click his account he's been blocked on twitter for about two months now just us just the stuff that he puts on the timeline and some people I follow like funny retweet him like ha ha this guy's an idiot retweet him and even that's not funny to me so he got blocked a long time ago I can't believe either James Harder Carmelo Anthony and Anthony Davis should have been okay that's weird I do believe that James Harder and Carmelo Anthony both deserve to be top 75 am I bugging am I is that a controversy take to say that James Harder is one of the 75 greatest players of all time who are the people on a short list that have had better careers than James Harder that didn't make it or even Carmelo Anthony it didn't I know these players don't have rings but like there are a lot of players on this list that don't have rings it's talking about an MVP player we're talking about a dude that immediately came into his team and changed them and put them to playoff position an all-time leading score talking about top 10 I don't understand how you can have to join me now Anthony Davis the guy that surprised me like even when that thing came out I was like Anthony Davis is on it yes Anthony Davis on the list I understand why all the takes where a player won't survive in a certain era pisses me off every time and it doesn't make any sense I've said this before when I go to the barbershop I very rarely talk basketball my barber understands what I do for a living he tries to talk basketball with me or the people inside that try to talk basketball with me and I always just basically give them one word answers because barbershop basketball talk is not the same as real basketball talk it's cool it can be fun but some people take it too seriously and the I've heard this maybe 30 times in my lifetime of 25 years of me going to the barbershop and getting haircuts on the biweekly baseless basis I've heard player X wouldn't survive in an era so many times and it always confuses me because based on what based on what oh they found hard back then okay the player X will probably adjust oh nobody was shooting threes back then well this player shoots three so so he would change it just early he would change the NBA earlier it just doesn't make sense or the pace is too fast for a player X that played in the 80s I don't look people adapt to their surroundings basketball is still basketball at the end of the day and I just feel like majority of players could be uniformly good across are we talking about the greatest of the greats when you're just great at the game of basketball you're able to be great regardless in my personal opinion unless we talk about like 50 60s realm of basketball because oh no disrespect to some of the greatest of all time but I was in the arena during the all-time 75 thing all star weekend uh Sunday night halftime show and they were showing footage of like some black and white footage of some players that made the list and I was like no that was just my reaction me and me and me and Mike would look at each other and be like no uh-uh nope oh snap I'm becoming a dude guy wouldn't last in 2022 with that slow jump shot you know what I'm saying I mean I know it's bigger than what they did on the court or the impact of basketball but yeah a good one I'm seeing here but it's not like one specific person saying it is how us NBA fans when it comes to our own personal players we overvalue them and I'm guilty of this as well um but not to the extent that some of the people say somebody here said Fred Van Vleet and O.G. Ida Nobby for Russell Westbrook who says no and yeah everybody overvalues their players but not to this extent I've seen this a lot on more specifically Instagram NBA Instagram is what a wild place and I want to do a video of me diving into NBA Instagram but I don't want to come off as like jerkish you know what I'm saying like making fun of somebody running the page because but but like stuff like this I've seen all the time if Rob Polinka were to pull off a Russell Westbrook for Fred Van Vleet and O.G. Ida Nobby Trey get that guy his own statue outside of formally known as the Staples Center or whatever it's called now give him his own statue bro because that is the craziest trade of all time the the biggest fleecing of all time I think that's good enough those are some bad takes and my reaction to those bad takes I need stuff to put on this this coffee thing so let me let me know what you think I should put up there I got a couple pieces that I just too lazy to get out the boxes but I need more so let me know oh I haven't told y'all to enjoy basketball in some time so I'm gonna remind you right now to enjoy basketball actually the enjoy basketball brand we just launched one of our logos and so if you want to follow us on twitter go ahead do that we get in the samples in for our first design going on to t-shirts and stuff coming up very soon so if you are an enjoyer of the game of basketball I highly recommend going over there following the twitch or the twitter and be out on the lookout for some some projects that we work on all