 If both of these conference finals end in sweeps, we will have nine days to wait until the finals run it back starts out Happy Monday morning. This is run it back. Wow a rare occasion all four of us in our respective homes Look at us. Look at us. Just boring home people. I'll go ahead and introduce everybody Shamshirani a stadium insider right there Chandler Parsons and Eddie Gonzalez coming at you live and guys I Mean, I know some people are mad about it, but I ain't we might have two sweeps on our hands We're gonna start with the one that happened last night because it's fresh in our memories. Oh good god Celtics What are you doing? Absolutely? Destroyed by Miami 128 102 they now have a three nothing series lead Jimmy Butler is everything gave Vincent turning into everything and Jason Tatum Was there? Chandler Who do you blame for this? Well, first of all before I even get into the Celtics and they're absolutely Never I've never done this before for a year. I got an issue an apology to the Miami Heat to the fan base Players I have slept on them all season long. I'm on the record saying that they aren't gonna win in advance I am on the record saying whoever wins earlier Boston is gonna beat them It's gonna be rather quickly And I was dead wrong and this team is is unbelievable and they play so hard and they all know their role and they have really just put their foot and a lot of people's mouths including me so I just had to say that initially because they have been super impressive and I'm not so sure they can't win a championship this year no matter who they play it's looking like Denver But who's to blame on the Celtics? I mean my god, where do I start everybody? I think it starts with the best players I always thought that and this comes down to Tatum and this comes down to Jaylen Brown You can't have 12 and 14 points and go six for 17 and six for 18 in the biggest game of this season You're now down to 0-3. No team has ever come back from 0-3. No team will ever probably come back from 0-3 It's a huge hole. It's a huge mountain to climb and the Celtics they just look defeated They didn't play with the same edge. They're not playing with that same toughness that has put them in the position that they have So I know Missoula is saying the right things and he's taken ownership as a first-year coach here But this is on the players. This this is on every single person that stepped on the floor last night This is on Malcolm Brogdon having zero points going 0-6 last night This is on Derek White going 3-4-9 none of them came ready to play None of them stepped up and the biggest game of the season And now it's looking like their season is going to be done rather quickly. So Again, this is an absolute fall from grace from Boston But you got to give the heat credit because they have put them in awful situations. They have played tough They have forced them into bad shots They have defended and like I said, everyone on that Miami team just knows their role and are just playing it beautifully It's it's pretty insane that this was the lowest scoring team in the regular season They're the fifth highest scoring team in the playoffs. They're the highest scoring team left in the playoffs They have six guys averaging over 12 points a game. They're just getting contributions all across the board After those six guys you have Kyle Lowry who's been effective in his own way as well It's so who do you blame for the Celtics? You blame them. I am heat You blame them for averaging 120 points a game in this series. You blame Eric Spolstra for having them coached up He's he's I made a joke yesterday. They're playing four white American players in their rotation The highest drafted of them is the worst player coming off the bench But they've managed to turn that into a Playoff and championship defense because those guys know where to be they could keep dribble handlers in front of them They're doing like basic stuff and it's just working They're running rough shot through the Eastern Conference and I'm with Chandler This is a championship team like when they play Denver I'm very curious to see how that works out with them at a buyout with Jimmy Butler doing what they do on defense And the way they're just efficient on offense. I'm very curious to see what it how it looks now I will say the Denver Nuggets played them twice this year beat them both times by double digits So but clearly whatever the Miami Heat were in the regular season the lowest scoring team in basketball They're averaging 120 points a game versus the number one defense in the league from the last year We gotta stop talking about the regular season with them It frustrates me as a fan because I care about the regular season But clearly the Miami Heat do not and they have the right idea They made three of the four last Eastern Conference finals and they're on the verge of a trip to the to the finals And they're beating a team that we thought was unbeatable all season long And so who do we blame? We blame the Miami Heat. I think when you look back at what Jimmy Butler said when they lost game 7 that's gotta be the most savage response He's like we're gonna be better and we're gonna be back here and then we're gonna win And that's exactly what they're gonna do in the series up 3.0 I mean what Miami is doing is the number 8 seed after the season that they had You know, I don't know if they were just duping everyone They were trying to play everyone or they just played with the regular season and then just turn it on But Jimmy Butler, I mean his his his percentages his numbers they've gone way higher in the postseason He was shoot. He's shooting way more threes now and this team as a unit ma'am out of bio I've been saying it all year. He's been such a big part of this team even making the play in the playoffs when Jimmy Butler was in Out of the lineup early in the year He's played like the best big man in this series. I think he's only gotten better as the playoffs have gone on He's playing like the all-star 20 and 10 type of guy that this Miami Heat team has needed over the last several years to be a competitive team But maybe what they're doing the first ever eight seed to win by 25 points or more in a playoff game So right off the bat there and they're undefeated at home in these playoffs and they've made Jason Tatum Jalen Brown Look completely exposed in this in this postseason so far So you have to give Jimmy Butler in the Miami a lot of credit It is crazy that they have they can literally put anyone on the court and they know what they're supposed to do And they all contribute. It's a beautiful luxury to have as a team, especially when you see other guys not have that Unfortunately Chandler, I know you're putting a lot of the blame on the players Which is the logical thing to do but the guy who's gonna feel the most heat is Joe Missoula. Here he is after the game Joe the biggest game of the season a game you had to have and you guys just look completely lost after the first six minutes What exactly happened out there? I just didn't have him ready to play Last 48 hours. Yeah, I just I just didn't have him ready to play. I should have Whatever it was when it was a starting lineup or it was an adjustment It was just I have to get them in a better place ready to play. That's on me Unfortunately under coaching one of the big job description points is having your team ready to play So that's probably gonna be an issue for him Chandler, but the team itself body language everything It looked like they all just quit. Is that fair to say? For sure they look defeated they look once and it's hard in that situation. You're down 30. You're getting absolutely just dubbed You know and the biggest game of the year again It's hard to not pack it in and have those summer plans start sneaking in and again. This was smart by Missoula He's trying to get the locker room. So he's taking ownership. This is his first year He's gonna be there for probably some time and is it partially his fault? Yes, there's some in-game adjustments He could have made there's some rotation things he could have made but He's not the reason that Jason Tatum's first in miss shots this postseason and you know He's not the reason he's first in turnovers and they hasn't made one field goal in this series in the fourth quarter So again, this does fall on the coach a little bit with in-game managing But this is a player's league man, but players got to play players got to be effective the systems in place They've been doing this all season long for five six seven months It's devastating because this this team had hopes and this team had championships Expectations and and they are just absolutely blowing it but again, this is more about the heat for me We talked about the development if I'm a player, too That's not a lottery pick or you know a 10-day contract. I'm signing with the Miami Heat They're approving that they hear your your past They don't care what you've been through if they bring you in that's enough for me to give me confidence That I'm an NBA player now because this team believes in me because they've proven it with with Gabe Vincent With streus with all these Caleb Martin. This guy's a real player And last thing on the heat Duncan Robinson this guy signs a big deal He gets just dragged through the mud out of the rotation all he can do is shoot He's not effective anymore. He's been a huge piece to this team and and this Against the Celtics and to shows his professionalism kind of like a Lonnie Walker situation that everything He's been through now in the biggest moment of their season. He's maintained professional He's still been ready to play and which great because now he's actually a trade asset going forward December So Happy for all those guys But the way that they managed this team the way that they've Jimmy Butler has just become this absolute superstar BAM has just been an anchor down low and you sprinkle in all these undrafted guys that nobody wanted It really is impressive and I got nothing but respect Everything they've been through this season to play in games knock off the box knock off the nicks And now they got to arguably the best team of the NBA down 3-0 to go to the finals Nothing but respect for the heat Nothing but respect by the way that magic tweet was about a spicy and it's Enraged magic tweet that I've ever seen in my entire life. Even though it was still pretty lame and mild Jimmy Butler Is my spirit animal his level of pettiness is something that should be emulated It should be studied for generations to come He's trolled whoreford williams. He just he remembers things and in the heat of the moment callback If you're the Celtics Maybe not poke him we'll go ahead and put that on the table eddie, but how do you prepare? How do you do anything about jimmy butler at this point or are we just over it? We're just moving on I mean, this is goals to the last question about joe mazula. He waits till they're on the verge of going down Oh three to say hey, maybe we should double jimmy butler Maybe maybe jimmy had less points, I believe than Peyton Pritchard yesterday Like they finally got the bad game out of him by deciding to to bring help watching him go middle Over and over and over on grant williams and nobody helped in game two was just baffling I had no clue what was going on and and that is a coach's decision It is a coach's decision. Hey, hey, we're sitting at home. We're worried about these shooters Hey, we're gonna trust grant in this situation. We're gonna trust Jayce Tatum in this situation and then just letting these guys get torched I I don't know that they have the answer. I mean they have was the defensive player of the year last year marcus smart He's no answer to him the two wings. They got the two jays. They're no answer for him It's it's tough. So what do they do to stop him? I mean They run doubles at him and get the ball out his hands, but that didn't work yesterday Hey, they the heat were scorching from three and and honestly, they're just out of their depths And I I feel for joe mazula because I know that this team loved e-mail doka I know the players the young guys on the team loved him and you he gets thrown into the situation where Chandler is right in la like this is a great situation if I coach any team it'd be this team But when things go bad and you have a championship team, we're all gonna look right at you and wonder Hey, what the hell is going on here for him to say yesterday? I've lost the locker room for him to say yesterday. They weren't prepared That sounds like a guy that isn't a head coach and it has people wondering Yo, are they gonna get out of that? Is brad stevens gonna come back downstairs? Are they gonna call doc rivers? It's just a it's a massive Collapse for that team and uh, what do they do about jimmy butler? They salute they tip their hat and they leave him the hell alone because he's probably about to send him home tomorrow Seriously, just just ignore jimmy butler. By the way, what you're not going to do is watch the town again That might be the worst thing i've ever heard a head coach doing uh and admitting to by the way It's one thing to do it another to admit it Shoms are a lot of guys on this heat team as we've talked about that maybe the casual fan had No idea who they were before this thing started, but now we all do as far as the offseason market Gabe vinson. What are we thinking? So he's going to be an unrestricted free agent So he spent four years with miami starting in 2019 20 and he's made a little bit of money He started to your 3.5 million dollar deal that he's on right now But uh from what i'm told when i when i talk to team executives And what they tell me this is a guy that's going to be sought after he's proven now He can start for a team that's on the verge of making the nba finals could win a championship this year He replaced kai lari in the starting lineup So the fact that he's able to show that he can start he can lead a team And i think the biggest question when he was coming into the league was is he a one? Is he a two? He can show he can ball handle and i do expect there to be a significant marketplace for him this summer I mean just look at his numbers 18 points a game 61 percent from the field 56 percent from three point lane 100 percent free throw percentage I think he's one of the few players if not the only player in nba history to score 15 points per game in the In in the conference finals on 60 50 100 splits. So gabe vinson Unrestricted free agent this summer. Uh, he's in line either miami or elsewhere to get a pretty sizable contract It'd be nice too if he goes out there as a as an nba champ and starts a new job somewhere else By the way that josh heart tweet I think a lot of us have been thinking over these playoffs about a few people And one of those guys happens to be in the next series nuggets Lakers, who could we have another sweep? I don't know but the Denver nuggets with a three nothing lead right now I'm sorry. I'll take the smile off When the 19108 win in Los Angeles a stun crowd leaving early not shocking jamal murray 37 7 to 6 yokich 24 6 and 8 Look ad and lebron Doing what they can reeves Obviously about to make a bunch of money as well But whatever was proven in game three by denver. What did you take from that channeler? That they're just a superior team that when they defend that they're an elite team And even when yokich has an off night, they have a guy like jamal murray who goes and has 37 points and dominates From start to finish I will say the nuggets bench has been great with bruce brown. He's giving them such good minutes Jeff green comes in when they go small he battles defensively Christian brown comes in he defend So they have a nice mix of of offensive talented players Gordon and porter have been great all year long knocking down shots kcp's making shots So they kind of have this balanced team where they move the ball They have two heads of the snakes that can dominate inside and out And like I said, even when yokich kind of struggled last game They had a big games from other people and and even when they got down, I think they were down 13 14 points In in game three, they didn't hang their head. They came back. They knew this game is the series If we can go in there and we can steal game three This is probably a wrap and and they did just that and I don't know that I've ever seen two conference finals You know 3-0 situations where they both could be sweeps I know I think it sucks for the mba I think the mbls much rather have seen the lakers and the Celtics, but the two better teams are winning these series And the and the nuggets are are showing that they're the the better team here They're showing that their weaknesses all year long with the defense. They can now defend They're switching yokich is at least giving effort in the pick and roll So they're putting it all together and they're absolutely dominating Hmm Yeah, I mean at this one we have to put like tyson's hand was saying right here We we have to put the yokich and Murray Conversations to bed. Jamal Murray is averaging 35 points a game in this series right now on 52 45 and 93 Like this is ridiculous. This is a defense that for the most part stymied stefan curry just two weeks ago This is the defense that we all just Proclaim the best defense in the league with what jerry van der bel and then a shooter are doing He's absolutely as mentally at 30 points in the first half yesterday They're running through defenders trying to figure out what to do with him on that pick and roll Then his struggle is all over the floor jerry van der bel can't stay on the floor And they're using everybody else on their roster and it doesn't matter He scored 30 points in the half He only scored seven and second half and the other guy stepped up because then you have Nicola yokich who's probably the best player alive now Like it's time to tip the hat and just admit it 27 points a game 14 rebounds 14.7 Let's call it 15 11 assist the game and easy same thing 52 percent from floor 45 percent from three Like what do you do with those two and on top of that they're playing defense This is the best team in the league. They were the number one C in the western conference We we dissed them all year long. We said, yo, they got to show it. They got to show it They're showing it right now. They're outperforming Anthony Davis and lebron james. They look like two of the very best players in the world and if they win this title There it changes that absolutely the entire conversation around them But i'm gonna say this Not that winning the title doesn't matter, but we see what they are now They're beating a championship team right now. They're dominant offensive players and they're just great enough on defense It's not like they're getting picked on they're doing just fine out there They're holding the lakers in these fourth quarters to absolutely nothing It's they've proven what they are they're two of the greatest greatest in the league The fact that jamal Murray is doing to this defense with stefan curry could not a week ago is fascinating to watch And i think they're putting this on the night like it's i don't know what else the lakers can do at this point Are you okay? Okay, i've got one prediction already shams I mean, I I hate to say it But i mean i've seen this kind of denmer surge coming all year Maybe i was the only one that supported them all year. I you were i might be biased I saw them in the bubble in 2020 I'm like this team is really on the cusp and then tim connelly their other former president He goes on gets erin gordon and i think a couple years ago They were ready to make it to the NBA finals jamal murray unfortunate tears acl And i think at that point they kind of spiraled into position where they're literally just trying to compete to make the playoffs Now jamal murray's back and he's one of two players in the history to have his 35 and five On 50 shooting in conference finals history him and akima large one just two players So what he's doing right now? How dominant he's been offensively? And this is a guy that nikola yokic has come out and said this guys are closer Like he's our best player at the end of games and he's shown it at a really really high level Always happy to see a guy like that come back the way he has and nikola yokic is He just looked like he has a care in the world about mvp about anything He just wants to hoop he's wants to play basketball this team is deep And i think the only team that that would have been disappointed if they lost Um and really with themselves held them to such high expectations We're the nuggets and i think everything would have been on the table if this team would have lost early in the playoffs But now they're ready on the cusp to making the mba final Uh, look all all eyes are obviously on the brawn and ad for obvious reasons chaneler But does it look like they're wearing down or is this just they're just up against a much better team? I think definitely look a little sluggish at times You see some of the clips where lebron is is not finishing and he's you know, I think this every other Day schedule has definitely affected him. But no, I think they're just outmatched. I think they're out man I think this is a better team Uh, they've actually played very well this series like anthony davis has kind of matched the production of yokic He's been aggressive They made a point to get him the ball and get him going early Lebron has still been a little passive and we know his fourth quarter struggles with the threes But he's made shots last game and they put themselves in these positions to win these games It's not like they have, you know, they got the brakes beat off them Like they like the Celtics did last night all these games have been winnable They just haven't been able to sustain it They haven't been able to close it every time they go on a run Someone on dimberg kind of makes a big player a big shot and it just hasn't been enough But when you look at those three guys on the lakers with ad lebron and austin reeves They all three have been productive. They've got absolutely nothing from dangelo russell He's been really really bad and that and that's hurt them a lot trodder has been inconsistent They found something with ruwe who actually has been very solid off the bench offensively and defensively So it's a combination of they've actually it's it's weird because they're playing solid They're doing enough to win a game the nuggets are just the superior team The nuggets have closed the door on every single run every time they need a big shot Someone makes a big play yokic has done yokic things, you know the entire series So it's it's it's partially their fault, but they're they're just they're not as good of a team And then they don't have enough to beat this team Yeah, i'm with chandler, you know, like they've performed fine They're top four guys ruwe and austere's are almost averaging 40 points combined between the two of them And they're scorching from three they're scorching from two as well ad's averaging 29 and 14 was exactly what you would want from him And he's been great off ball on defense and lebron's averaging 24 9 and 10 This is the type of production you think would be enough But like chandler said the nuggets are just a better team The first off the top two they're outperforming ad and lebron just outright You're getting incredible contributions from bruce brown You're getting errin gordon contributing on defense kcp is lighted up every other night It seems and deans old russell for all the talk about what lebron's shooting from three Deans old russell's somehow shooting worse from three danish schroeder's offered next to nothing on offense Jared vanderbelt has gotten played off the court They've just shown that the nuggets are a deeper team and they're only playing eight guys And one of them is christian brawn who barely plays as it is But they have seven guys that can contribute in every single way on the court both ends of the court And it's it's just a better Constructed roster than what the lakers had to cobble together at the trade deadline Where they go from here who knows but it's not about ad and lebron wearing down They look fine lebron looks healthy for all the conversations about that and he finally hit a couple threes It's just that the nuggets are better Chandler, I know you mentioned that the league and you probably wanted a lakers celtics Matchup, but here's the deal. I speak for all the pa's across the country every network every channel every station You can stop cutting all that footage the decades of rivalry footage that you were probably gonna have to Just take a break. It's gonna be denver in miami. It's new fresh beat This is what we should want if we're basketball fans But is there any chance in hell and we know nobody's come back from the 3o deficit the daunting 3o deficit Any chance at all this lakers team could do that No, no chance and we're done Yeah, we've covered this now the the nuggets are too good. They're too deep They can't stop both yokech and murray and I do think they might sneak this one out tonight But there's no chance they get, you know tonight Bob and denver I just don't see that happening We're gonna take a quick break here. Well, we come back super nix fan Jerry ferrara is here. I know I think he's had enough time for the pain to maybe Settle a little bit and and it probably feels a little better watching miami be great We'll talk to jerry when we come back Run it back, run it back, run it back, run it up, run it back, run it up Well, there's been a little time So now we have our next guest joining us and I feel like it's good timing You're probably and obviously recognized him from entourage and power jerry ferrara joining us also Courtside is a courtside mainstream guy dude at uh at madison's work garden jerry Are you feeling? Yeah, you're smiling. So this is good, right? You've had enough time to process I'm at a good place in my life with my nix fandom I had some time to heal and recover and I'm not saying I'm rooting for the miami heat. I'm just saying No one's beating them. So this is great for us like we we took him to six I'm now proud that the nix took the alien space jam team to six games Oh, yeah, we'll we'll get to that because I do think that lessens the pain a little bit But you were just in the Bahamas with chandler the man who lives all of our dream lives What was it like? Did he embarrass us at all? Uh, no, no, he he was uh, he did real well out there You know, I got to watch that game with him and charles oakley and all that stuff. So, uh It was incredible. But uh, yeah, chandler definitely enjoyed watching my pain Chandler So me and jerry there was there was basically an episode of entourage where there's all these x athletes There's jerry. There's kevin. There's kevin dillon kevin connelly and we're sitting there in this game six, right? And so I go to jerry and it was obviously a diehard delusional nix fan And and I said, all right, I'll give you odds and I bait him into it. I give him very good odds I say I got the heat for this amount of money Do you get the nix for three times that money? No points. No spread What do you think and and we sit there and I just watch him just blow up in flames And and he was not happy. I wish I had the video footage to show you guys But man, that was that was a fun time Yeah, I at one point we were all sitting down as me connelly dillon and chandler I'm like, well chandler, I guess you're the new vince because uh, you fit right in with this crew and then um The only time ever I I paid a venmo debt and I was like, what's your venmo? I just yelled at him give me your venmo chandler. Just give it to me. All right, just air I was so upset. It was so upsetting So jerry, I know as an x fan it was probably heartbreaking how the season ended But do you still consider this year a success getting to the second round? Absolutely this is like I I love the nick fan community. I have a lot of friends within the nick fan community And of course we get carried away There was a golden path to potentially getting to the eastern conference finals and then anything could have happened We ran into the juggernaut. That is the heat. But yes, i'm thrilled. Look at where we started Look at the season we were coming off of and this is why I get so upset when everyone turns on julius randall So quickly we're regardless of the playoff performance. I understand it didn't go as planned, but He has accepted the challenge. He has two out of the three last seasons. Uh, he made all mba So I just think everyone like needs to calm down a little bit and realize we are ahead of schedule No one had us getting to the second round and taking the heat to six games and potentially reaching the eastern conference finals So i'm disappointed, but that's gone away and the future's bright. We have assets And uh, we have jaylen brunson. So the future is really bright Yo jay big fan first of all, I cannot believe you honored a bit to the real life venny chase. Oh my god handler There's no way he would have to get it in blood. But uh, looking forward you have all those assets You have julius randall's poster getting ripped off the wall over there on eighth street What do you what do you want the nicks to do going forward and is trading julius part of that process for you You know my my opinion is I would I'm not trading randall. I think that's I think that's ludicrous I get the the postseason performance wasn't what we wanted But for me What I would like to see is a fan shooting shooting shooting get me shooters We've seen what it's done for even the miami heat with dunk and robinson coming alive No one missed gay vincent doesn't miss kaleb martin doesn't miss kevin love came in there He didn't shoot well, but he's still a threat just get us some shooting so he could space the floor for brunson and randall and rj I want shooters So i'm gonna take a long list of all the shooters that are potentially possible that we could get and i'm gonna beg shams to give me some info when he won't and uh, That's that's how my offseason is gonna go I like to think that there's a celebrity nicks fan thread That's just constantly going knowing how nicks fans are and it's it's a great passion and I and I love the fan base But I like to think that like you and ben stiller and tracy morgan are just texting each other like Don't shoot the ball julius or or something about rj barrett when you get mad. Is that is that a thing? Uh, I there's a version of that. I there's definitely, uh, twitter dms and texts that go around I am in a big nicks, uh, twitter dmi this thing has like hundreds of people in it and it's awesome It's kind of going on but then that now we're like recruiting they're like asking me like hey get ben stiller in here I'm like i'm not asking anyone to join This twitter group, but yeah, I mean ben stiller is one of my favorite people to talk nicks I've probably met and talked with ben a bunch of times I don't think we've ever talked about hollywood or movies or tv shows. We only talk about the nicks. So, uh, it's real I mean You know that courts I went I went to game two It was like an out of body experience because I've never been to a nicks playoff game at this point in my life I'm 43 years old. It's my first playoff game Oh, that hurts Sorry first first nicks playoff game and you you're on the biggest celebrity row I think for next game this year. Maybe you sat next to erin rogers What did you guys talk about? What are those conversations like we we we need to know? I'm gonna be 100 honest. We had in-depth basketball conversations like that dude loves basketball We talked to bill about you know the bucks and you know his link with the bucks and stuff like that We I ended up talking the sauce gardener a lot too who I don't know if it was his first or second court side game but uh And also seeing sauce gardener like stand up next to erin rogers. I'm like is he like taller I'm a giants fan and I was even thinking in my mind These jets are really going to be a problem and that bothers me because I have a lot of obnoxious jet fans in my life But we talked about basketball and the cool part about that game Which is you know, not only did the nicks win But that game was sort of decided in that corner where we were sitting Josh Hart had all those big threes and the offensive rebound and players diving all over the place That that game was decided in that corner where we were sitting Yeah, so you said you're obviously a giants fan Did you bust his balls for going to the jets and not the giants or what was your what was the conversation like that? No, because I think you know the giants I think if I remember could have today they took tibido. I think so I I mean He he is very very impressive. No, I really do I'm bothered by the fact that how good I think the jets are going to be this year so But no, I didn't need that's the thing I'm sitting there with the jets I couldn't even really they don't want to talk about the giants So we didn't talk football at all. We really kept it about uh about basketball But yeah that that whole celeb row I thought they would have put me in like the last row because I'm like power I've been dead on power for two years three years now I don't know if I get the feet on the wood like I used to but they they they did right for me Come on you you got to be on the wood what we talk about I'm curious. How does that work? You get there on the garden your court side and this you know going in like yo Me arod sauce or you know me and jessica albert. You show up in this boom There's tracy borger and with his big-ass chain and we're talking hoops No, uh, you don't know, you know, obviously Look, like I said, they've always you know really treated me Well, and I've done a lot of work for msg with like the 2k league and stuff like that But you get there you don't know where you're sitting or where you're sitting with but then you do see like Oh chris rock just got here. There's there's two front row seats gone and dave chappelle walks in It's like well, there's another two gone like you're watching you're going further further back in the arena in your mind, but uh Yeah, I mean and I gotta say though. It's it's cool. I mean all those guys and girl like they're all big nicks fans And it's real the love for the team is real. It's not just let me say court side and and get a cool picture They die hard nick fans for years So jerry now, who do you root for like are you all in on the heat bandwagon? Are you am I going to see you in miami tomorrow? Like what's your what's your day to day right now as a fan? Uh, look, I just want I I wanted these series to go a little longer We're we're we're looking at sweeps or at least what do they call gentlemen sweeps when it goes five? I mean I I just want to see more basketball I do think I I was listening when you know You guys were talking before and yeah, I I think and I actually got a question. I guess it would be for chandler, but I think that boston does fire. I don't think boston's gonna go quietly now. What whether that means five or six games I don't know, but I think I do think it'll put up a fight chandler with the lakers right because I look at Yolk itch and I look at that game too when the lakers were exhausted and denver wasn't I know they're a little younger But does playing in denver has that benefited? Yolk is just in a Cardio vascular way like when he goes on the road because he's so used to playing In denver with the altitude and all that is he Does he not get tired ever in these road games too? You actually see some guys train and like denver or aspen in the off season Just to kind of get your lungs right and get your legs and we talked about on the show Making it every other day in the playoffs was a huge disadvantage for the lakers for the brawn For ad for these guys that are older that are banged up So that's definitely a factor and those guys like you feel good early, but until you get that second wind You're cooked, bro Like it really does affect you and having that's probably the best and biggest home court advantage in the mba Just because of that factor because it's physical right? It's not noise. It's not the crowd It's not the rap you have all that but that altitude is no joke Especially when you're 39 years old like the brawn and you just played a day and a half ago pretty much. It's it's tough But I I don't I don't think either team just lays down I'd like to think none of them neither of them are going to get swept But I mean who knows I took one sip of a beer in denver and I got buzzed like 10 times quicker And also i'm 43 years old I can't even stay awake for the west coast games let alone play in them Like I have a hard time getting through the fourth quarter at 11 30 at night. So I I think I just hope for more games That's that's what I'm really rooting for is like let's get to game sixes. Maybe make it a little spicy Yeah, I'm with uh big news today jerry carmelo anthony Officially retired. Were you big fan? Were you not? Well, what was your take on him when he was a nick? A huge fan. I always say that anyone who Takes on the task of trying to win with the nicks and everything that the organization organizations been through I you know, I give everyone respect. That's why I give randal the respect I know it wasn't you know, some huge acquisition at the time But with mellow the only thing I ever wished for mellow and it is connected to denver So full circle I just wish that the nicks didn't have to give up every asset to to get him like in They waited a few months. They probably could have signed them Uh would have signed them So I just would have liked to have seen him with more of the talent that they were actually starting to acquire And amari was a little You know wearing down by that point But I just give him nothing but respect because he tried to win in a city where They're not known for winning and I always said if you could bring a championship to the nicks That's like two anywhere else and He tried so mellow is one of my favorite nicks of all time and uh I mean, I wish him well. I'm happy he retired and went out. Uh, you know with this great career to look back on Everybody knows about that nicks conversion championship rate. It's like completely different math that they're not used to Um, like there's a lot of this must be the question you get asked the most uh about an entourage reboot. There's there's talk Is it happening? What has to happen? Or would you be a part of it? What's the deal? I really do think mr. Parsons got this thing started He posted that picture and then all of a sudden the picture went viral and uh Look once a year there's always always talk about it. Um And you know, I we all live in different cities now and I go a little bit without seeing those guys Although we're always talking and when we get together like we're all just and you know in the Bahamas together It does make you say, uh, it would be fun to dust this off and do it again I just think we would have to Really revisit what the show is. I don't think we could all be living together in the same house 40s and 50s maybe And you know, I think we would have to really revisit maybe we bring in like a young vince cousin Maybe as like a cousin who wants to be an actor. So we're the old heads and we have this new generation I think it would need something like that I mean, we live in a nostalgia era for entertainment. So I this would be huge By the way word on the street the street being you is that you have sticky fingers on sets What what have you I mean I got the posters back there. We see that. What have you taken and why? Oh, I take every anything I could take that they won't arrest me for Uh, I got I had the posters back there with power like I took the sweatshirt that proctor got killed I mean my prize possession is the fukijamas the gold Air force ones that are actually they're right over there if you want to see them. I could I could bust those out Yeah, uh, so I just take I take everything I possibly get because uh, I think it was jack Nicholson Now this is a myth. This is probably not true. So I I'm not trying to slander jack Nicholson's name I feel like there's a there's a mythical story that when jack Nicholson works his rule is like if I touch it I own it on a set. So like if he wears a nice watch, it's like well, this one's mine Don't know if this is true. That's just something I heard as a young actor. So I I went off that Yeah, I like this As as ghost would say proctor, um Gary were you as sad as I was when you got shot down in the seat in in your finale episode like I was depressed. You're my favorite lawyer of all time. Okay, tell me what was that like and and where where does that rank for you as far as character? So power heaven is a funny place, right? No actor when you think about a show like power where most of the characters die, you know I I think about it from an acting perspective like those are people who no longer have a job, right? so there's that level to it, but You know, I thought I was gonna maybe get it in season five Like I said, I my character was starting to know a little too much But then I make it to season six and I start thinking wow, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna see the end I'm gonna make it to daylight And then it becomes like the show hard knocks, you know, you're on the studio lot one day and Someone comes up to you and is like, uh, courtney kemp the showrunner would like to see you bring your script You know, they tell the players trying to make the team bring your playbook Bring your script. It's like, oh my god. It's happening. I'm about it's it's happening And you walk into her office and she's like she gives you like a smile and Like a like a like a sensitive kind of sigh and says, yeah, we're gonna practice gonna die in episode five You know, it's been great and it you know, it's sad, you know You get to know all those people for so long. It becomes like a family almost but I will say I went out with a bang and a shootout with Tommy Egan who's the terminator and uh when that episode aired I think I was on my honeymoon. So it was it was uh a fun way to sort of get all the man I mean people were sad about it and that's I think that's the flattering part And it lives on to this day. They're still saying if proctor were alive I would have, you know, Tariq would have been out of this mess or any so It's it's a power heavens a front place to be Procter. Yeah, procter. Look if you're gonna get murdered that Tommy's the way to go As far as I'm concerned and always was Jerry. This has been an absolute pleasure Enjoy the rest of the hopefully the heat taking care of the Celtics. I think it will help It will help ease the pain. Yes, and thank you and let's do this again. Please. Let's do this again Absolutely. Uh, we're gonna take a quick break when we come back Well, Draymond says if he would have never punched Jordan pool, they'd still be playing He says a lot when run it back Ritter When NBA playoff games tip off, there's no better place to bet than fan duel America's number one Sportsbook because now you can build a same game parlay after the game has already started Live sgps are just one of the new features added for the playoffs So go check it all out right now on the fan duel sportsbook app Make every moment more with fan duel official sportsbook partner of the mba Time for some scoophage with our own shams. Uh, we got some all star news shams talk to me Yeah, so the nba they've been meeting ever since this year's lackluster I mean everyone I think knew this year's all star game had a very limited competitiveness. So ever since then Owners board of governors gms They've all been meeting to try to figure out how to fix next year's all star game in indianapolis And one idea that's beginning to gain momentum is returning back to east versus west And I think that's something that the league is going to continue to look at they have to have more meetings And another idea potentially that has also been discussed is USA versus the world and I think that's something that has been tossed around But east versus west looks like right now a return to that is what the league is looking at pretty strongly I like the world I think it's it's it's so watered down regardless right unless there's implications on home court advantage something like some other major sports leagues do I I don't like to draft. I don't like the awkwardness of a guy finally making an all star team and then getting drafted last on national tv I don't I definitely think they should change off that the east versus west too is different because If you're on the heat, do you really care that the east is better than the west? It's not like you're repping your conference So either way if you go back to west, I don't think it's going to be the most competitive game Unless you throw in some real advantages for your regular team for the regular season But it's definitely they've got to make some changes because this year was horrific Yeah, I think this is part of it like the draft is cool. I know the players don't like it I know that for a fact I when it was a zoom and now when it's in person I don't even think it's about getting picked last it's just the entire ceremony of it Yeah, I make it conferences. I put them back in their jerseys. I'll go back to the regular scoring format You know god rest kobe and all that but it's they got to do something like tanley say they got to make it more competitive I know what kevin said earlier this year was They're just there too long Like it's just a long ass weekend and then there's a long ass break like maybe keep the competitive juices going I don't know but I miss the all star game being the thing I you know, I miss it being competitive guys caring We're just not there right now and I think it's like it's I'm not trying to exaggerate But I think it's hurting the game because that weekend is the celebration of the league It's one of the biggest tv rating things that they have going It's it's one of the biggest collections of players and and people amongst the culture of the nba And we need the game to be good I love the us versus the world. I think that'd be so much fun to watch I'm all in on that. Um, the warriors have a lot of decisions to make in the off season, including bob meyers shams was the latest So bob meyers has just over one month left on his contract and then he's gonna be a free agent and right now There's no traction on a new deal. Michelle. Actually, there's hasn't been any offers No counter offers in several months really the beginning of 2023 So when you look at those tea leaves the fact that his contract is about to end There have been no substantive talks. I'm told for for several months No offers made for several months The tea leaves don't make it look like there's any deal that's gonna happen And so as right now my is appears likely to walk away to come a free agent The warriors earlier this year offered him a deal that would have made him one of the highest paid executives in the league But I think there's a sense around the warriors and around bob meyers that if he were to leave This is not just about the money and even if they offered him the highest contract that this is kind of Been at the end of the road for him potentially there and so 12 years We know about his relations with steve curry clay thompson steve cur dream on green And so I think there's going to be more conversations with all of those people Before he formalizes his decision potentially to walk away, but this is a big You know big decision for the warriors in their future because after this they have to decide on dream on green What do you do with clay thompson as far as extension? What steve curse future with one year left on his deal and that all revolves around steve curry who looks like he's one of the Best players in the league. How does this team? Make it and continue to move on if bob meyers is really done Yeah, bob meyers he's he's brilliant He's been a huge piece to the success of this whole warriors dynasty and I love the fact that he Was an agent and then he become you know became a front office member. So he sees both sides He's relatable. He's a great guy and you know Maybe this is just him wanting to kind of this. He's done all he can here And he wants to go do it again somewhere else, but he's he's an impressive dude And he's obviously a huge piece being executive of the year different things like that in his role He's one of the best there ever was and they have a lot of decisions to make too. So I don't whoever takes over that job He's got they got big time decisions to make with regarding her and clay and dream on so if i'm them I'm resigning this guy because he's one of the best Right who wants to walk in and make all of those decisions? That's a tough place to be shams Thank you so much. We'll talk to you in the morning. Um dream on green loves bob meyers He's talked about it on his podcast in various places. He also talked about the jordan pool punch again guys He said if he hadn't punched pool They would still be playing Eddie you buying that Look, I That's clearly broke there. I don't want to curse. I don't want to do the channeler thing, but yet no no No, duh, you know, like it obviously Fractured the team and and we'll do so going forward. We'll have ramifications that will affect that team For years ahead people are already thinking are they going to get rid of jordan pool this year shams reported a week ago that they're ready to offer dream on a long-term extension the same thing with clay thompson That fractured the the personality of that team in a way that we haven't seen even with the kevin durant situation And yeah, it mattered bro. Thank you punched your teammate in front of everybody In the future of your franchise Steph curry told logan murdoch that in the in the locker room after they lost to the lakers He nods over at jordan pool says that's the future for us right there They know what jordan pool is for that franchise and then you deck him in front of everybody Yeah, it mattered. Yeah, you're right draemon and and apparently they're picking draemon in this situation going forward. So Yeah, it's a lot and if that's what breaks this dynasty up He's got to he's got to eat that and it sounds like he is Yeah, this is something you don't forget as a player as a person as a man as a teammate jordan pool was embarrassed And I'd even go as far as saying this had a role in jordan pools, you know Unsuccessful run here towards end of the season. So i'm the warriors. I'm not residing draemon green I I think that they've already made the decision with jordan pool early now He struggled throughout the playoffs, but this is something he's had to deal with all season long Like I said, he's publicly embarrassed. He's got to play with the dude that laid you out for the whole world to see That's going to affect you. That's going to linger. You could say all the right things you want But this is not going to just give I don't think they're on court relationship will ever be Whole again, so they're going to have to decide on one of them One of them is a lot younger and one of them is an offensive real talent that can sub in so I don't know who knows But it's not something that they're ever going to get over Man, just don't punch the dude. We'll be back to wrap things up Get in on the NBA playoffs action right now first tip with fan duel New customers can get a no sweat first bet up to $1,000 That's $1,000 back in bonus bets if your first bet doesn't win There's no better place to bet all the playoff action than america's number one sports book download the app Bet on the nba playoffs today fan duel official sports betting partner of the nba the week has just started guys We've had jerry ferrara. We have flea tomorrow And we have white howard on wednesday and flea. I If the lakers lose, I hope he just comes on here and crushes everybody Win or lose to the lakers flea should be awesome Right, I feel like I'm gonna recruit flea to the spurs Almost better if they get swept flea fresh off a sweat Flea fresh off a sweat We'll be back tomorrow with flea. Get your socks out boys