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I'm Bart Winkler. It is Thursday night, February 12th. We are into the all-star break. I think there's one more game that has to finish. Maybe two in the NBA, but the Bucs have beaten the Thunder.
On this Thursday night. 110 to 93. What? Again, I'm Mark Winkler. Welcome into the Winklerverse here on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream, brought to you by Carl's Place and brought to you by Happy Plays Hemp.
Promo code BART25. Yeah. Yeah. I am glad. The plan is, the plan on the Winklerverse this week.
is to talk to Jim Ozarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And we were going to talk today. There was some travel stuff that came up, but I was going to put that out. I was going to put the Jimmo interview out. And then Cross my fingers and hope.
that there would be nothing that happened in this Thunder game. That would make the Jim Ozarski interview that I did. Um like Not Makes sense with time. Um Or where it'd be like, well, he did that, but now the Bucs played the Thunder and. It's not current anymore.
It's not fresh. We're talking tomorrow. I'm going to have Jim O. I'm going to talk some tanking. That seems to be The story is, what the story is in the NBA, especially coming into this all-star break.
So we'll do that tomorrow. And I'm glad I didn't because this was an interesting game. And I think it begets.
Some interesting questions. I think it begets some questions about. What exactly is this second half going to look like? And what is their intention? Do they want A draft pick.
A high one. Or are they going to try? Maybe Reluctantly. Maybe foolishly. To just see what they can do with this season.
And I want them to do. The latter. I I want them to try. I want them to try. to make The playing tournament.
And I want them to win. Games in the playing tournament. And I want them to play. In the NBA playoffs. This Bucks team.
How, why, what? Jake says for all the Horse Tate. You have to credit him for unlocking guys left for dead and Rollins. Porter. Jang.
And Cam. Charles said, Where the hell did that come from, Bucks? Man, they look like they're having fun out there. And uh Matt. Says fit like.
Thank you to those of you that are on YouTube, that are on Facebook. I noticed these don't pop up on Twitter anymore. Why am I paying for the check? The reason I pay for the check mark was for my streams to pop up on Twitter. And now they're not.
And what the fuck is the point of that website anyway? StreamYard, can you pop up on Blue Sky? What's the other thing? Up scroll. What did I download?
I don't know. There's a TikTok alternative, TikTok, TikTok alternative. I'll throw out the link here if anybody. That has found us. wants to Join The proceedings But other than that, let's go.
I will say, first of all, and thanks for your patience as the game ended and then. was able to jump on after. Traders, this show is fucking awesome. Um the one Like The one like Silver lining of not having a job. Might be that I get to watch Traders now.
Why I get to because my wife and kid would watch it, she wanted to watch it and she'd put them to bed and okay, you get extra bedtime.
So she doesn't, you know, she wants to watch the show as soon as it comes out. And now, like, I'm the one, like, eight o'clock, eight o'clock, eight o'clock, eight o'clock. Three years of traders I missed out on. What an amazing show. Alan says, let's talk about having Ham as our coach.
Great job by him tonight. Doc Rivers did not coach this game. He was out attending a funeral.
So, this was a Darvinham-led team. Is that. Part of the reason. See, all this stuff happened. I would have talked to Jim.
I got a million more questions now because of this game. Darvin Ham, we're not firing Doc. You know, there was an alert that came out during the Bucs game yesterday. I get emails from the Bucs. And it said something about Doc Rivers.
And I'm like. What the fuck? They're playing a game. I was like, when you get an email from the Bucs, it says Doc Rivers. You're like, wow, Doc Rivers got fired.
They're playing a game, though. He didn't get fired. He got. Tab to possibly be in the Hall of Fame. But Okay.
He did not get fired. And then he has to miss a game. And you shouldn't be penalized for missing games, especially funerals. But then Darvin Ham coaches. It's not it's not that they beat the thunder.
Okay, I think in watching that game, they were up like 20 points, and then the Thunder started to come back. And you think this would be a really nice game to win because it would give you not a winning streak, but. You know, you would have won five of your last six. Heading into the all-star break. And that would be something to feel confident about.
And they did. They won. They held on and they won.
So it looked like it was going to be a big lead that went away because, okay, it's the Thunder. And I know Shay's out and Williams is out, but it's still the Thunder. And you got to see Nicola Toppich play for the first time tonight. And Okay, fine. Thunder at home.
It's the last game before the all-star break. You get it. While a lot of these other teams may be looking ahead, and they played the Magic twice, and the Pelicans and the Pacers and the Bulls and all these teams. The teams that they've been beating are bad.
Now, the Magic, a little better than bad, and the Thunder, obviously very good, the best team. But, you know, it's the last game of the All-Star break. They're cruising and they have some guys. not playing anyway.
So I thought there was a chance the Bucs could win. Just because of the whole last game before the All-Star Break shenanigans, you know, people of a certain age, you remember when the Brewers lost five games in Pittsburgh. That five that we talk about that. We'll talk about that every all-star break until we're dead. You know, they said talk about what we met before the all-star break.
One time the Brewers went to Pittsburgh, they lost five games.
Now, there was a four-game series with a doubleheader. I'm mocking myself because I've said that, and I will say that again. I don't know who. I'm trying to Prove I'm better than here. I'm mocking.
Myself. Because I will say that. Like, and I will mean it. I'll say it with my chest. When did the Ten Toes thing start?
You're going to say that on all Ten Toes? But are you gonna hate LeFleur with all ten toes? What? No. That's done.
So Bucs win tonight. In a game that I think. It has to make us reevaluate some of the second half. First of all, What do we want? I just told you what I wanted.
What do you want? Do you want A top pick.
Well, let's look at the old standings here on the Dan Shaney YouTube stream. Oh, by the way, tomorrow is a great day. To call that and shaney. And also a great day to order uh Seltzers or gummies from happyplacehemp.com, or to put a golf simulator in your house, or to buy Paluva shoes. What do I know about Paluva Shoes?
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I don't know. I don't make many money off that. All right, so Sacramento is the shittiest team in the league, it looks like. Here's the problem though, if you want to tank. The Bucs have 23 wins.
The Kings have 10 or 12. They've lost 14 in a row. They're tanking. Indiana's tanking, Utah's tanking. They're trying to tank creatively, but they're getting fined for that as well.
So what What's what pick could the Bucs Even come into, you're probably in this eight, nine, ten, eleven range anyway. Seven? Six? Look at these teams. Sacramento's tanking, Washington's tanking.
The Pelicans are tanking, but that pick is going to Atlanta.
So Atlanta's going to get that pick or our pick?
So it really doesn't matter. They're tanking though. The Pacers are tanking. Brooklyn's tanking. The Jazz are trying to creatively tank.
Dallas has no direction. Memphis doesn't seem to be trying.
So, even if you say of these eight teams, like two of them will luck into more wins than the box, we're still no better than seven.
So tanking for a top overall pick. It feels like there's just too many people. Swimming in that pool. There's no room. It's a fine strategy.
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anthropology Who is using my computer? I'd almost rather it be porn. All right, so the Bucks are probably not in a tanking scenario. You could still get a lottery pick. You can get a lottery pick, even if you make the playing tournament and miss.
You get a lottery pick. You still have odds. That's what's happened with the Mavericks, how they got. Cooper flag. But it does seem like so that principle in and of itself, tanking might be done.
Pure mathematics tanking might be done. But then you watch this week. What has this week been? There was a lineup that they put out there at one point tonight. Where it was Uh Usmani Jing.
He was out there. Um Pete Nance was out there. Cam Thomas was out there. Kevin Porter Jr., I believe, was out there. And I forget who the other guy was.
It might have been Portis. But I'm looking at this lineup. And I'm like, what, what, what, oh, Nance, did I say Nance? Yeah. This lineup They didn't make a huge trade.
I mean, they got. Jang Um they didn't make like a huge trade. They got rid of some guys and brought in this guy, and then Nigel Hayes joined the Sam Decker wing of the Bucs. Hall of Fame. But this is a different team.
This is a different team. They have different players. And how they were playing.
Now, the how they were playing. To the comment earlier, they're playing loose, they're playing fun, they're playing free. Was that because Yeah, a substitute teacher. Was that it? Were they playing for the substitute teacher, Doc Rivers?
Was gone. Darvin Hamm was coaching. Were they playing for the substitute teacher? I think that's a question. that will have the week.
to talk about before they pick things up again. Come on next Friday. Is it the Pacers? Yeah, the Pacers next. No, the Pelicans.
Next Friday, the Pelicans. Giannis, by the way, not playing in the All-Star game. That's been official. Still showing up tomorrow for the celebrity game in which he's coaching Shams. I really don't want to see them be buddy buddy.
I don't want to see them talk. I don't want to see it be like, oh. I don't want to see, let me believe in the two-party system. Let me believe that Republicans and Democrats hate each other. Don't show me behind the cabal curtains, and they're all like, oh, did you see what we are getting?
These people, all these people talking about bad buddy, they even did a separate halftime show. If you're going to be enemies in public, be enemies. In private. Be enemies when it matters. Don't be like, ah, it's all Stargate.
It's just a bunch of fun. No. No. Don't even play him. Our plan is, yeah, get in there.
I don't want to see like the you know, you know what I'm talking about? I don't want, I don't want to see that. Do not want to see that. Worried we're going to see it.
So that's on Friday night. We have the Three-point contest featuring Bobby Portis. Coming up on Saturday, and then the game itself, USA versus the world, where Norman Powell. Was on Team USA. And is now on Team World.
Because with Giannis going out. They added Somebody, I forgot. And then they move Powell over to the world. Because he has quote unquote ties to Jamaica. All right.
I mean, we all have ties to something. But okay. I think he did play for them in like FIBA. Competition. It already makes this isn't like the first time.
It already makes a little sense. Like you see some of these, you see some of these teams for the World Baseball Classic. And some of their rosters. Remember Lars Newtbar was on Japan last time because of like his grandpa?
Some of these teams are just. Italy's always got a weird team. Israel's team is. Weird. This is a lot of weird teams.
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Alright, regarding the game. 110 to 93. Regarding the roster, regarding the team. Giannis obviously did not play, not playing in the all-star game. May come back sooner rather than later.
This guy needs a break. Dude. He was at the Super Bowl in between games. How?
Now he's with the team.
Now he's going to the all-star game. Which he's not playing again, but He's always a part of it.
Now he's coaching. In the celebrity contest. A busy guy. He's living his life. He is living the most out of his life.
So I guess you got to appreciate that. Um Well, you can. But he'll be there, but he's going to be in that uniform pretty soon. And if you didn't think, like, should the Bucks shut him down? Because Brian Windhorse said the Bucks are going to shut him down.
And then Eric Name, like 10 minutes later, is like, actually, they're not. But everyone's just assuming now Giannis is getting shut down. See, this is what I'm talking about with ESPN. They permeate. You can say that ESPN Doesn't Like, I don't watch it.
Only for the games. I don't, you know, the. But it still permeates. It's big enough that it permeates. And the best Testing ground for me.
Mm-hmm. Is The school pickup situation. Where when I talk to other dads I get a taste. Of what the None. Sports radio host.
Basement Podcaster. Can I still like c can I still call myself a radio host? It's been two months since I've done a radio show. I was on the radio yesterday. I'm on the radio a lot.
I don't know though. Permeate. Permeate means It gets through like osmosis. Like it it gets to you. There's a ESPN that the TV is on.
And they're talking about Giannis is going to be shut down. And even though you're not watching that TV, someone is. And it's jumping onto that person. It's like a virus. And then the virus spreads because then they tell someone and they tell someone.
It's the same way that when You've been approached. At some point in your life, someone said to you, Hey, is this true? I saw it on Facebook. And you're like, what did you see? Jordan Love is hosting the Grammys.
Yeah. Yeah. No, but an account puts it out and then it will. You know, somehow it gets into the ether.
Somehow it gets it gets there.
Somehow.
Somehow it does. And uh ESPN is like that. Because you can try to ignore it. You can block them. You cannot view it.
You can. Keep the TV off. You can only watch Monday night football. You can do all of that. But what they say on that channel.
Does get into the mainstream.
Okay. Does get into the mainstream.
Same with the news channels, same with all that stuff. There's still enough people watching it passionately. That's the thing with the Olympics. 28 million people are watching this thing at night. Who's watching it passionately?
If you're watching it. For entertainment, you turn it off, you go about your day. Sports people watch sports passionately. And then they talk about it with their buddies.
So they'll talk about: hey, did you see Giannis was going to be shut down? And that's the power. These guys do have a power. Like they they can set the course Pat McAfee just said, Hey, I thought San Francisco is a nice city. It's been two weeks of debate on that now.
Why did you think it was a shithole? Pat's like. I was gonna say it. If it was a shithole, I was gonna fucking say it.
Okay, Pat. What a fucking hero.
Well, that's that should be a new here's a new show idea. Pat McAfee goes to cities that he was told were shitholes. and realizes That cities are fucking cool. That's the story. Yeah, I am in Seattle and holy shit, this place is fucking cool.
I'm in the Twin Cities. Not a bad place.
Well, I'm in Chicago. This place is beautiful That's a good idea for a fucking show. It wouldn't be on long. You'd run out of blue states and then. And if you take a wrong turn in some of the cities, but still.
All cities are like that. All cities have good and bad and we need help here. I'm Team City. That's why I live in Milwaukee. Yeah.
I could walk to Milwaukee right now. But take me. Three minutes. But I don't live in Milwaukee. I'm a poser.
So that would be a good idea for a show. Anyway. Second half of the season though. Second half of the season. What is going to happen?
The tanking's out. Because of math. Math has killed the tanking for the Milwaukee Bucks. For a lot of people, no, they're still in it. But for the Bucs, I think the math.
has killed it. You've got Cam Thomas on this team.
Now he was five for 13 tonight, one of six from three. Look, I love that the discourse on him last night because he comes off the bench. He's 12 for 20. He has 34 points. And everyone's tripping over there, don't dick.
to talk about how Oh.
Okay, but this is the can top. This is where this is it. You're going to get nights like this. Brother If Cam Thomas Gives us five nights in a row. Of Five for 13.
And 12 points and one for six from three. If that's what he does, and then every few days he rips off 35 points. Who else on the Bucs was doing that? That that like For for trying to win.
Now and in the future. Who else on the Bucs was doing that? Don't complain. About a guy who can be a bucket. It might not be every day, and the inconsistency.
Might get you a little, you know, annoyed, but it's a lot better than what we're dealing with right now. Absolutely it is.
So he can be a guy that they can figure out what they want to do. Um with him Jeng's a free agent, it looks like, restricted. Good work there. What the fuck? Who is this guy?
Nineteen points. 11 boards? Six assist? Four blocks.
Now, I think he was motivated against his old mates, a little bit sure. But what? These are two guys that were not on the team. A week ago. And they've been the two most impactful players the last two nights.
Giannis obviously was pumped. He's licking his lips. You know, when he's watching Cam Thomas knock down a logo three. The other night. Oh, and then there's Pete Nance.
And Jericho Sims sometimes decides he's okay. And Bobby Portis, he had 12 boards tonight. He was a factor. And then you bring Giannis back into that mix. Not to mention some of these other guys, Ryan Rollins, Kevin Porter Jr.
Bugs right now. I've talked about this season. They look like a team that just. They look like the toys from Toy Story that Andy makes out of other toys, and he puts them together to be toys. Because He's a villain.
In the movie, or maybe a misunderstood child. I don't think we should be. Saying that young kids could be villains. We don't really know, maybe. And the upbringing, and the toys were fucking talking to him.
What the fuck do you think he would do?
Now, I guess some of that was after the fact, but still. The roster didn't really look like it made sense. It looked like a Rubik's cube that had dice numbers on the sides. Like, what is this supposed to be? What is this supposed to be?
Quick comment. Why am I not talking about the Olympics? What do you want to talk about? I watched some of the Olympics tonight. I watch hockey.
I watched. The replay in hockey is fucking insane. Um I watched Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. On traders. I don't know.
So you've got a completely different team. And it feels more like a team.
Now, again, I don't, this is hard. Because how much of this is Doc Rivers was not there? I think it's not a lot. I think it's more the people. I think it's not a lot.
But we're not going to know that for the next couple of weeks. But I think it's not a lot. Or maybe it is. I don't know. But it's hard to have a game like this.
Where then you don't get an immediate You don't get an immediate like example to contradict or to. Affirm your beliefs. Into what you're thinking because you know, we're not going to see Doc again until next Friday. But yeah, team played. a little more fun, a little more different.
For sure. Oh, we can go to hot take, Jake. As one does. What's up, Jake? Hey, what's up?
You look like someone with that beard. Really? Yeah. I don't know, you tell me. I don't know who, though.
Well I don't know who. Uh You got why don't let the Winklerverse tell us. I'm sure there'll be some really nice responses. What are you working on? I'm just trying to take my pills.
Oh yeah. Yeah, getting ready for bed, taking my magnesium glycinate. Taking my conjugated lineolic acid, my fish oils. This is exciting stuff, but. I wanted to call because uh wow, that was that was fun to watch.
Usman Jing. I mentioned it in the comments. Like, give Horst credit. He seems to be good at finding these guys that are underutilized or just need to be unlocked, and he's done it.
So. Yeah, for all the hate that I've given the guy, credit where credit's due. Nice work. And it's not just that, you know, he had a nice game, he had a nice line. This guy was displaying what the kids call a bag these days.
Like being able to handle the ball, made some nice passes, take people off the dribble, step back threes. And also encouraging, we're going to have four block shots tonight.
So. If he can be that 6'8, 6'9. I think he's like 6'10, actually, but that big wing that can defend multiple positions and hit a 3. Uh I don't know, maybe we got something here. I like wanting to give horse credit right away.
Like it 'cause you had two good games. But is is horse Like is is horse. He's okay. Here's what I'll say. King of analogies.
Love it. It's Friday morning tomorrow. Valentine's Day weekend, okay? Yeah, did you get the wife anything? A card.
Card? What did I get her? Getters? I mean. I got her a four-pack of Mixed Berry Happy Place hemp stuff.
Ooh, that's a good gift. I take it back. I got my wife lingerie, man. You gotta. Set your game up, buddy.
A card? She's gonna be pissed at you. You got her lingerie? Is this the fucking 80s? What do you mean?
I thought that was just on sitcoms in the 80s. Lari Okay, well. I don't know. Seems pretty cool to me. Is it edible lingerie, Jake?
It is not, but you know what? If Happy Place Hemp made some of that, I bet you the sales will be skyrocketing. Wow. Yeah. That's a good idea.
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Could you make a bigger one and also make it lingerie? How many gummies are you taking now? Me yeah, in like one city. Depends on the night. Sure, sure.
How many yesterday I took two of the Delta 9s. And then drank two of these. That's a pretty impressive I'm taking a lot. Yeah, I'm a little worried about you, buddy. What were we talking about?
I'm moving product. No, okay, wait a minute. You had an analogy. I'm sorry, I interrupted you. Donuts.
Donuts. All right. Not where I thought you were going, but let's hear it.
Someone's bringing in, well, I was going to say pizza, but. With the lingual of the time, I'm going to say donuts. Good call, buddy. And the There will be one donut left.
Now if we give horse credit For like Cam Thomas. Yeah. Did John Horst eye that donut the whole time and say, that's the best donut? That's what I want. Or is he just picking up trash donut?
And then on this team, it's like, oh, fuck, 35 points.
Well, is he? Does John Horst have an eye for any of these guys? I mean, they traded for Jang, right? Yep. Um so that's something.
Uh There's also a thunder team. Yeah, like the thunder. And they one of the guys the guys they traded to get was Jared McCain, who You can't let the Thunder have him. He's popping down some threes. But yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what what amount of credit to give Horst. But what you can say is now This team This last week. Is not the team we've been talking about. At any point this season. But also, Jake.
Doc Rivers was not presently there. Yes. Yep. So, how much of that was substitute teacher vibes?
Now, they did win the other night. He was there. Credit. is due. I don't know.
A lot of I don't know's on tonight's program. Yeah, I am trying to remind myself. You want to remind yourself. Remind myself. It's too bad that Doc is going to be coming back because I do think that there was like a semblance of effort tonight and.
I can't imagine having any kind of effort if Doc Rivers was my leader. It's like a different type of leadership, but same ballpark where I couldn't imagine getting up for Matt LaFleur. I can't imagine like. Dak Rivers trying to pump you up and it's just like yeah, okay, buddy. That's all I would be able to do.
So, are you optimistic that they'll be better? Are you like what? Because I feel I was going through the numbers, the tank, the tank. You're not getting a top five pick. Yeah, the wheels are off the tank.
They're just. Number one. They weren't like There was too much talent no matter what. And I'm not saying they're a super talented team. I'm saying they're not talent, or they're not bereft of talent to the point where you're going to be in that mix.
And they're just too far behind the other teams that are ahead of them in the tank race.
So, yeah, it's I'd rather see them. Play these young guys, play the new guys, and see where the chips fall. And even if that means. You come up a game or two short of even making the play in. If you're getting these guys the experience and they're the ones that are kind of taking you to it, that's what I'd like to see.
So that's honestly where I think they're headed. I think they're going to miss the playing by like one game and then end up with the 12th pick in the draft. That's what I think. Even with the honest back, dude, I'm kind of excited. It's something different to root for.
I'm kind of excited. This is like the year Ray Rhodes had him four and eight. And then they won their last four games. Still missed the playoffs, but That was exciting. Yeah, well, I I worry about Giannis.
I hope someone gets him to come to his senses and he just takes the year off. Two calf injuries in one season. Allegedly.
Well, I feel like you're you're if there's any truth to that, you're tempting fate. We saw Jason Tatum have an Achilles injury late in a season. We saw Damian Lillard have an Achilles injury late into a season.
So I just, dude, just for once in your life or in your adult life. Take some time off and get healthy. Yeah, but he's coming back, though. I mean, there's nothing. No, you're I last night when I saw the little clip of him, like The way he was looking at Cam Thomas.
Like It actually kind of worried me. I don't think he looks at Mariah that way. What do you think is going to bring the bell out for Cam Thomas? It could be. Although, you know, I did see someone on Real GM say that Cam Thomas gives you like.
80 to 85 percent of what Damian Lillard gives you at like 6% of the cost.
So I kind of like that. Yeah. Is he sad the whole time? Does he miss Brooklyn? Yeah, um, I guess 80 to 85 percent on the court, and then none of the emo bullshit off the court so.
What the fuck? What the fuck? Is Damian Lillard doing the three-point contest? What the fuck is Bobby Ports doing in the three-point contest? Like, this is a freak show, is what they're going for to try to just get people to watch.
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I'd like to do a yearly segment. I don't have a radio show to do it on, but I'm going to do it. Here, would you like to do it with me? It's how many people do you know in the celebrity all-star game? Oh, I would love this.
I'm the right guy for this. All right, I'm going to pull it up here. This is the Celebrity All-Star Game roster. Cool, cool. And you have to be honest, okay?
100%. And I can't the screen's too small I can't even read it.
So you just have to read it out to me. All right. Do you know this is Giannis' team? He's coaching with Alex, Thanassis, and Mookie Betts. I'll say we all know them.
Do you know Jenna Bandy? No clue. I do not either. Jenna Bandy is a basketball player. But I think she doesn't really play?
Is she like an Instagram person? I don't know. All right. So she does. Is she like a Don't know her.
All right. Celebrity. Yeah. Shams, we know shams. Fuck yeah.
Unfortunately. Yeah. Taco Fall. Oh yeah. Okay, that's one, two.
Rome Flynn. Do you know Rome Flynn? No fucking clue. I don't know Rome Flynn either. Yeah.
Um here, I'm gonna hide this.
Okay. Can I share an alternate screen? I want to show some of the people. Oh, I like that. Yeah, you should flash him up on there as it comes.
There's Rome Flynn. Rome Flynn. Sorry, buddy. I'm sure he's a nice fella. All right, how about Keegan Michael Key?
Oh, yeah. Love me some key. Hingle McKringleberry himself. Uh Jeremy Lynn. Like the basketball player, Jeremy Lee.
Okay. How about Rick Schnall? Did he play Drop Dead Fred? No, I don't know who that is. Rick Schnell is the co-president of the private equity firm Clayton.
Dublier and Rice and the minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks. He looks like someone that would be in the well. Like I'd be re I think I've read his emails in the last couple of days. Oh, Nick knows what's up. Jenna Bandy is an IG personality and content creator.
She makes a ton of sports content. Do you know her? Yeah. Can't say that I do. Got me there.
Yeah, and I'm sure she's just the greatest. All right, these are players in the celebrity all-star game. My annual segment. How about Dylan Wang Wang? Yeah, y nothing.
This fucking guy? Yeah yeah fooled me. All right, so it looks like he's in a lot of Like Chinese movies.
Okay. All right. Well, you know, basketball's big.
So far, I think I know only the former NBA players that you named, and then Key. Yeah. Love you. Amin Rossane Brown. Yeah.
Douchebag. How about Cafu? Who's this clavicle guy I keep reading about? Clavicle? I don't know.
All right. Here's Cafu. Oh, gal, come on. A soccer? This guy's fucking playing in the All-Star game?
They're pushing the boundaries of celebrity, I think. Didn't our owner p uh play in the game one year? Yeah. Imagine if, like, you didn't know much about the NBA, and you're, you know, NBA all-star game is in your city, and someone's like, hey, Come with me tonight. I got tickets to the celebrity author game, and you're like, cool, let's go meet some celebrities.
And then there's just like some business douchebags like jogging up and down the court and. And a 55-year-old Brazilian legend of soccer. Legend How about Glorilla? We know her. Um, sounds familiar, but I can't say I know exactly who that is.
Does Dame have a little bit of a like a Dame Lillard? Yeah, something with Dame. She's a rapper or something, right? Yeah. Yeah.
All right, so that's Giannis' team. Let's go over to All the stars are here. Team, Anthony Anderson.
Okay, actor Transformers, yep. Do you know Lethal Shooter? Lethal shooter, like a oh, this is the shooter guy. Yeah. No, that's the shot doctor I'm thinking of.
Well who is the guy that like he's like I'm the best shooter on the planet? And then they brought him on inside the NBA and Kenny the Jet Smith just mopped the floor with him while wearing a suit. Was it this guy, Tristan Jass? No. I've seen this guy though.
He usually like. goes up at to street ballers and then they try to fight him, I think. Do you know who Chris Brickley is? Looks like he's another Instagram guy. Got nothing.
Isn't that what famous people are now is Instagram personalities. All right, so they're the coaches. How about Bad Shaw? BAD SHAH BAD SHA is on the team. That's uh that's a negative.
He's a 40-year-old Indian rapper, singer, songwriter, music producer. He gained widespread recognition after his 2012 single Saturday, Saturday, was featured in the soundtrack of the 2014 movie Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Bart, can you read the description of what he is again just one more time? He is an Indian rapper, singer, songwriter, music producer, businessman, and movie producer.
So that sounds like if you go back to your hometown and you go to like one of the towny bars and you see a guy that you went to high school with. That's what he tells you what he's up to these days is. He's an entrepreneur. That's his description right there. I got a few more.
How about Cody Jones? I know Kobe. Let me guess. He's like a BMX or like X Games type guy. Oh, dude, perfect.
Dude, perfect. How about Andre de Grasse? Drake? Yeah. He's a Canadian runner.
Jesus. These again, this is the celebrity all-star game. Yes, Matt Ishpia is the Sun's owner. Simo Liu is Shang Chi. Who is mustard?
Come on, you're making this up now. The guy's name is mustard. Yo, DJ Mustard. DJ Mustard. Yeah.
Okay. Uh you got got me on that one. Uh Adrian Nunez. Oh, he played for Michigan, and now I guess he's a rapper.
Okay. I'll have to check out his SoundCloud. How about Taylor Frankie Paul. Yeah. There she is, influencer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Secret Lives of Mormon Wise. Oh, I don't watch that. Yep, got me on that one again.
White chocolates in the game, Jason Williams.
Okay. Keenan Allen. Yeah. And one more. Nicholas Van Steenberg.
Yeah, this still reminds me of uh That Norm McDonald bit where he's at the YouTube Awards. All the stars are here. Ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, I don't fucking know. Seasons greetings from Glamorlandria, Nick Vandersteenbergy, and Alandria Carthen.
Did you just have a stroke? I don't know, dude. Yeah, this is like when I see the musical lineup for SNL every year, and I'm just like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Sounds familiar, nope, nope, nope. Yeah. Pretty much the hot sea now. Austin said. They are influencing my desire to skip the whole weekend.
Well played. All right. Good job with the game, Jake. Yeah Thanks for letting me into the verse. As always.
Clav Kular. Yeah, what is that? Who is that guy? Clav Kular? Clav Killar Fucking crap.
I'm just, it's too, it's too much. It's too much to keep up. I get it now. I get it with the old people. I get it.
I get it. It's bad enough trying to like You know, your kid goes to class, and then you're learning all these kids' names, and then you learn the parents' names, and then you're learning teachers' names. Hadium How do you keep up with who... DJ Mustard is. And Nicholas Van Sturgeonbergen.
And Justice Moscato, or whoever the fuck. Oh, yeah, yeah. I had to tell my kid, we watch NBA every night. Every night. What time is the game starting?
And then we turn on 750 on DirecTV because it's the league pass. Um Box screen. And we watch NBA all night. And I told him, buddy, there's not going to be an NBA game for a week.
Now we could watch the celebrity game. Tomorrow And he goes. All my favorites are in that. Rick Schnall from. Schnell, Dustberger and Vandersteegen.
Insurance. I love that guy. And DJ Mustard. Oh, DJ Mustard produced not like us. A song I do know, thank fucking god.
Nice sentiments from Jack. Bart, I miss you so much. You got me through the hard times.
Well, Jack, I appreciate that. A way for us both. To um kind of get through this together is I'll keep doing these. And you can go watch every piece of content I've ever done. Because I'll get clicks and views for it.
Mm. And you get to see me. That'd be fun.
So yeah, no bucks for a week.
So We're not used to that in this house, no basketball for a week.
So I don't know what we're going to be up to. Thankfully, we got wrestling. Friday. And uh on Monday. No post celebrity game pod, maybe all-star game.
I'm interested in the format. I think it's going to fucking suck. It might be okay in NBA. I don't know. Hockey's tried to do this.
The ones where they do, like, all right, we're actually doing a tournament. Let's play a fucking game. Play a fucking game. And it doesn't have to be that entertaining. And it wasn't.
And it was fine. But then Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic come in and have a pea party against each other and tickle each other up and down the court and are fucking as lazy as ever. Does my kid think wrestling is real? Um I've told him it's not. I've told him that.
The outcome is not. The outcome is determined. And that's part of the fun in it. And then I also tell them But I like real sports where the outcomes aren't determined. And then every three days, there's a new fucking gambling scandal, and I was wrong.
There might be a point. Like If there's a point that comes out that says... Hey, by the way, uh this world you lived in, all fake. Simulation. I wouldn't want to be alive for that.
If there was a point where it was like, oh, by the way, aliens exist. Half of the people in your life are lizards. I would want to be alive for that. But if there was ever a point where they were like, Oh, by the way, all sports are wrestling. Everything's fixed.
Everything's predetermined. I don't, I would like to at least die the day before that comes. I can't, I can't know that. I can't know that. What if we just found out today?
What if we found out today? This, this is somebody. If anybody is listening that has a radio show. Pocket this one. Put it in your file.
The rainy day file, or more specifically, the what do we talk about during MLB All-Star Week file? What if you found out right now every single sports outcome of your life? was predetermined. Would you feel relieved? Would you feel mad that you spent that much time?
Would you be happy that you picked a team that was a winner? Interesting. Anyway. Food for thought. Oh, we were talking about the Bucs, and I'll wrap that up.
With this, um Tonight, I think Tonight felt different.
Now, again, they beat the Thunder, so that adds it to a little bit. It wasn't the Thunder, though. I'm all over the world baseball classic, Jack. Absolutely. Um It was the thunder.
Okay, they were without some top guys.
So was it really the thunder? I've been watching basketball all week, and I've been setting like DraftKings lineups. I've learned a lot of new players this week because there's guys starting that I never heard of. Imagine people not knowing much about the Bucks and Thunder and playing a lineup tonight. And they're like, Who is this guy starting?
Diang? What? Who are these people? That's how we feel. Cam Thomas is on the Bucs.
What? Uh Nicolette. Topic is back. Did I say Jobich before? I meant Topic.
Or maybe I said it. I don't know. I don't remember what I said. I don't even remember who I had on a few minutes ago. Thank you.
Paul? Tan? Producer Todd? No, Jake, that's right. I think what I'm interested to know, and what I'm not interested to see, is: is tonight a harbinger of things to come?
is tonight Is tonight different? Are we going to see a second half Bucs team that is freewheeling and fun? Are we going to see a second half Bucs team that gives opportunities to the young guys? Are we going to start to see the team that Giannis is going to have with him next year? Are we going to start to see that develop now?
Or Is it gonna look less same that it's looked for the Previous 54 games before this one. That's the question. Dog not being there tonight. I think it is an interesting wrinkle to the discussions that will be had over the weekend. I'll talk to Jim Ozarski about that.
coming up here soon.
So we'll have that tomorrow. Talk some tanking tomorrow. And then we'll come back next week.
Next week, we'll have Carlos on, Paul and Grant will be back. I'm working on something with Framzy.
So we're getting a lot of the band back together here coming up next. Weak. That's it for tonight. Thank you all for patronizing the. Winklerverse.
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Okay. I think that's explicitly against the YouTube. Um Like terms and conditions. But I uh Yeah. All right.
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