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Welcome to the alley.

Ooh, we outside, dog.

You see, my sister is Tristan right now in Zion in the Matrix right now, calling from where Neo is actually at.

Thank y'all for pulling up on this.

You feel me?

What another look?

It's a lot going on.

We don't need no damn intros.

We're finna cut the intro short.

It's time for

Bushstock.

Hold up, hold up.

I know we were about to start with the Liberty.

Yeah.

But you said Zion.

And I feel, and I feel

that we kind of got to talk about Zion.

You know what I mean?

And I'm not going to talk about it.

My boy got the goatee.

I think, so Zion went, it was media availability week or whatever, media week.

What was it called?

It's called Media Day.

And so

they throw out their little people, you know, they throw out the little characters that they have in their puppeteer match.

And Zion was like, I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life.

Right.

They would say it feels good to feel good, man.

He said, it feels good to feel good.

Like he's never felt good or taken care of his body in his life.

And someone put him on the Zempic and he was like, yo,

allegedly.

I'm just saying potentially.

And he was like, what's it like to not think about food 24-7?

And I'm now in the best shape of my life where I can work out for hours and not need 17,000 beignets.

And so I feel amazing.

Like my knees are feeling good, right?

I'm about to say, bro, like, he was out for Achilles injuries for the last six years of his career like that's not the case bit bruh like you have not been out for health concerns but keep going sis and you've been out because you've been fat um

so but jeff teague said it on his podcast and it's nice nice to see a professional athlete say

what we have been feeling which is listen

you're in control of all this it's like you zion and And Jeff Teague is like, I'm not a fan of his anymore.

Like, he could have been feeling good.

Yes, find it, Miss Rebecca.

Find it.

Jeff Teague, Zion, you will pull it up really fast.

Shit, okay.

From boxing to working out on the football field a lot

to just different random workouts.

Locked in pickleball.

During that time frame last year, I really felt a shift in my body to where I would look at him and go,

dude, it feels good to feel good.

I haven't

dealt like this since college, high school.

Feels good, it feels good to eat.

Cut the beat.

It's probably the dumbest press conference I ever heard in my life.

All this stuff is because of you.

You choose to eat, be out of shape, all that.

Now, all of a sudden, it's a contract year, probably.

Or you're looking for an extension.

All of a sudden, he in shape.

He caused a lot of harm on his body by being out of shape.

Come on, bro.

Now he caused a lot of harm on his own body.

Brad, like, he shot it.

You can't say that.

He acted like he done hurt himself intentionally because of some French minds.

Look, I salute Jeff T, bro.

Like, I ain't hear that before now.

So, yeah, salute.

Like, he's right.

Why is you acting like somebody held you in a dungeon for three years and they wouldn't let you out?

And now they finally let you out and you feel good.

He literally acted like he got Britney Grinard.

You know what I mean?

Like, he was in a Russian prison getting the plate of metal, like the metal plate of gulag

underneath the door, and he was malnourished.

She's like, oh, I finally feel good.

It's like, no, you were eating yourself into a stupor.

I ain't never heard no woman come out and be like, bruh, I miss Bazayan.

That's my guy.

What was her name?

No, we can't bleep her name out.

Bleep her name out.

We can't give her any shine.

Anyway, she came out and was like, yo, he's fat.

I go over there.

The house doesn't even have furniture.

They got lawn chairs in the living room.

This a professional athlete making 40 M's, or is this like

a guy in his dorm room?

I think lawn chairs in the living room get a bad rap, though.

What?

You think the lawn chair?

I ain't going to hold you.

Like, come on, man.

Like, why?

We cannot have...

What?

We cannot have lawn chairs in the living room?

Why?

Kind of.

Like, if we got a couch, couch, we got a love cushion or whatever they call it, love sofa, whatever they say, love chair, and we got a damn lawn chair because it, brother.

I like laying in my lawn chair, man.

The dog can hop up on you.

Oh, my, nah, we gotta move on.

Boy, stop.

I would like to ask, do you really think that Luca lost all this weight playing pickleball?

Pickleball?

No.

No.

He did not.

I'll just say this about Luca.

It's not pickleball, homie.

It's not pickleball at all.

It's Ozickleball.

It's Ozickleball.

It's Monjickleball.

It's Wagickleball.

That's Wagovi, Ozempic, and Manjaro, if you were wondering.

I know all the GLP ones.

Not that I use them, but

just because.

If you're dealing with moderate to severe platiness, neither here nor there.

Moving on.

All right, let's move on.

Speaking of out-of-pockets, out-of-pocket books, Michael Porter Jr., brother of John Chain.

What a summer my boy is having behind the microphone.

Sis, have you caught up to any of this?

Like, have you been watching this?

The one that I just saw that I wanted to make a video on, I hope that Mr.

Becca has.

It was about...

how he was dating a girl and agreed to split rent with her when she first of all she makes whatever she makes not a lot but she was not able to afford five thousand dollars a month in rent which is like not many people can yeah and and so he said well what could you afford

and he she said i can afford this he's like i'll pay the rest

And then, why are we getting Yahoo?

Why are we not getting the videos?

Salute to Mr.

Beck.

Everybody in the video audience and the listening audience, thank you for being here.

Point your hands at your phone or at your TV device and send a prayer from our sister, Miss Rebecca.

Just send a general prayer.

It don't got to be specific.

Just send one her way.

What is wrong with the two of you?

Look, I get three words.

Okay, I get Michael Porter Jr.

That's what I get.

I have to Google that.

Dylan, leave all of this in.

Let me see here.

We're watching black couples right now.

I don't know what.

No matter what you say, Miss Rebecca, we're watching a black couple get interviewed on our television.

Maybe she's having,

you know, I don't know.

I didn't want to say nothing out of pocket.

You know, maybe she's having some ED.

I don't know.

This looks like a commercial for that.

She's talking about MPA.

I mean,

I just feel like you don't know how to find things.

That's all.

I know you're not worth $200 million dollars and was splitting rent with your

you talking about that i should pay for the whole thing absolutely

hold on

200 million dollar deal and you were splitting rent with your ex-girlfriend yeah

like what are you talking about the right decision basically bruh i said whatever happens in this relationship for the next year i'm committed to paying this this rent.

You're a year by year guy.

You committed to the NBA year by year.

You committed to

because I'm like, I don't know if we're going to be.

be i don't know if this is my wife i don't know if it's not so i'm okay for this next year i got you whatever happens we could break up i got you for this next year i split rent with you you came to it with the wrong mindset though i know but brother i don't know i just didn't know so then we ended up breaking up five six months into the rent

and basically that's where i'm at now where i'm like man do i keep do i keep helping her out or is it cooked so you just don't send her her half for the rest of the year because she need to act right month to month

oh

okay, that's where you lost me.

You need to act.

You're not together anymore.

Go ahead, Juju.

I'm going to let you go.

Go ahead, Juju.

Nah, go ahead, Tristan.

I'll be picking topics that are like the hottest stove.

And I'm like, I'll let you go, Juju.

I'll let you go.

I'm going to catch the alley oop.

And Juju said, nah, nah, nah.

Do you step on those hot coals for me, for us?

What you lost me at, you're going to need to act right month to month.

You're not together anymore.

What do you mean, act right month to month?

Yeah, what is acting right, I guess.

Yeah, what does that mean?

Yeah, what does that mean?

Gentleman callers, yeah.

Can she not date anyone else?

You've promised to pay the rest of the lease.

Send her the bread and call it a day.

Or maybe she got some embarrassing pictures on her phone, though, my boy.

That's what he said.

That's probably why he's like, I'm going to make you act right.

Act right now.

Don't take no, you post that picture I took that one time.

I don't like the fact that she's got to come to him month to month, hat in hand to be like, hey,

could you Venmo me that money though?

Because like it's the end of the month.

I got to see the apartment.

I can't.

I got to see the apartment.

Because dad will tell me, hey, sometimes you need to keep your hat in your hand for some of these apartments.

Now, some places, I get it.

Yeah, man.

Don't maybe pull up on you every month for this.

Come on, man.

I live in the damn, I'm in the Marcy Projects, bitch, bro.

Come on.

Bruh, I'm not finna go back and forth with you.

You know the picture you got on your phone.

You won't delete it.

How about this?

I'm going to send you the Durant.

Holler at me next month when that picture still ain't relevant because maybe we waiting on some stuff that he shouldn't be seen in.

My boy ain't never been this smart, so I don't know why I'm giving him this much.

You really are.

I feel like we had not seen any or heard anything from Michael Porter Jr.

when he was in Denver after he said, I don't think COVID's real.

And I think it's a plant from the government to make us sick and it's a conspiracy.

And I think Denver was like, okay, we're going to need to put you

in the basement with some duct tape on until the games, until game day rolls around.

And he got to Brooklyn and he started talking a lot.

Yeah, he goofy for that one.

Like, come on, Joker of the day for that one, bro.

That was like a month ago or so.

That's still goofy in here.

I ain't put my damn girl through no tests.

You got to jump through some hoops to get to know me.

Bro, it's me we talking about.

I'm a prize.

Yes, I love myself, but I ain't this much of a prize.

This lady got a parent, mom, dad, sister, brother.

I'm playing Andrew Tate in front of her.

But if you don't get the hell up out of here with that one, salute, though.

There's nobody more respectful towards women that I know than Juju.

See, now, this is what you got to understand.

I've been a player since I was in third grade.

Like,

oh, congratulations.

You are a great-looking woman.

Guess what?

I've been doing that since I was six, man.

I've been seeing fine women since I was six.

Had them, you feel me, on my team consensually as well through high school, middle school, college.

Come on, man.

I'm a grown-ass man right now.

Thank God he threw the consensually.

in.

I'm a grown-ass man right now.

I don't get impressed.

You can't impress me with fine no more.

Guess what?

There's a hundred million folks on the earth fine.

What you got between the ears?

Yo, I thought I was impressing you with fine when we met with my bling.

I thought that's what it was.

Ah, you was impressing me with sauce, man.

Sauce, it's the sauce.

Come on.

I was like, nah, something's going on over here.

The vibes is pulling me this way.

Who are you?

What do you do?

Why do you have on 17 chains like Slick Rick himself

in the damn Super Bowl meeting?

He said I had a whole bunch of them on my team conceptually since I was, what, six years old?

Six years old.

Six, six, man.

Come on.

I've been a player since I was six, man.

Congratulations for looking good, man.

But I don't see you.

I see who I want to see.

And that's my baby.

Speaking of hoops, Brianna Turner the other night for the fever.

She was at the free throw line, bro, and she had one of the most epic mistakes you could have.

It wasn't the ultimate epic, which is the air ball, but she shot the ball so hard into the glass, she almost broke the damn goal.

The whole ACES bench, when it happened, reacted and was jumping like, oh, somebody shoot.

Did you see that?

I did not see it.

If Miss Rebecca has it, which I know she does.

You see, I was trying to feel.

I was doing my job.

I was like, look,

Brianna Turner, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah.

Let's just start there, Miss Rebecca.

Literally, we're just giving her time to like get into it.

And it's like, nope, it's not coming.

It's not coming.

Nope.

The B-roll is definitely still not coming.

Don't worry.

Even now, she didn't take that time either to find the video.

I have it.

It's just getting it to you.

Just give Mara a second.

Put the blade down.

Put the blade down, Miss Rebecca.

Bruh, look at the Aces Bench, bruh.

They so damn stupid.

They so damn stupid, bruh.

That was a jump scare.

Look at them jump scare.

Kia Stokes wanted to laugh instantly.

She had to look back to make sure she could laugh.

Kia Stokes, hell.

You know who else, hell?

Whoever, who that?

Aaliyah Boston?

No,

I can't see.

That's an old girl.

She just got signed.

Salute the game cop.

She's a cop.

She tried to give her a little dap.

Like, good shot.

That wasn't no damn good shot.

Jackie, young, you need to be ashamed of yourself laughing that hard.

Asia had to tap Jackie like, yo, relax.

Relax.

Stop.

That's how you knew that it was really a blowout.

Because

if the aces were down in that game, I don't know what the score was at that point, but I bet you they're up 20 or more.

Because if they're down, they're not playing around like that.

Bro, videos like this make me miss playing team sports, bro.

This is funny as hell, bro.

This is a playoff game.

She shot the ball so damn hard in the backboard, bro.

Look, Breonna Turner, we ain't gonna play like this.

This is the first time we mentioned you on the show.

We gotta keep respect on your name.

You a listener.

I know.

I like that.

The best part about Rebecca is that she likes to beat a dead horse

metaphorically only.

And she'll just keep it on loop.

Like, we're just gonna have this on loop.

It's like, damn.

By the time I find it, I have such happiness that I found it that I just need to leave it there forever.

We just know Breonna Turner is not there for her shooting.

She's there for her defense and her rebounding.

Toughness.

Playing that bit about the spike.

In other news, the Jonas Brothers won't be playing at the Phoenix Arena on Sunday as scheduled because

of the Phoenix Mercury.

Come on, man.

How we feeling about that, sis?

The WNBA is saying, nah, bruh, chill.

We got this.

What you think, dog?

I think it should have happened for the Golden State Valkyries if it's going to happen for Phoenix.

I'm happy that it happened in Phoenix, but you can't have on one hand talking out one side of your mouth and then be talking out of the other side of your mouth.

And Balholla would have been going crazy at Chase Center.

So I think this is a really good sign, though, that the WNBA is going to say, hey, like if we have a playoff game, I don't care who's in the building.

I don't care if it's Rihanna.

I don't care if it's the Jonas Brothers.

I don't care if it's Dua Lipa.

Let's not go too far.

Well, I don't care.

No, I know.

I love Rihanna.

And I love Dua Lipa and I love the Jonas Brothers.

But this is a basketball arena.

And if there's basketball to be played, then that's what's going to happen.

And you can move your concert somewhere else.

Excuse me.

But yeah, bruh, it's right because in 2021, the same stuff happened.

The WMEA team was getting booted from its arena, which was the Phoenix Mercury for Disney on Ice.

Oh, yeah.

See, wait, come on.

Come on.

There's levels to this.

I don't know if Disney on Ice still boots the Mercury, but I know that the Jonas brothers are pretty great.

It's not like we just had the Shimon Gonas brothers and we're getting rid of them.

Yeah, salute to the Jonas brothers, man.

Salute to Nick Jonas.

Getting the job done.

That's the only one I know.

You know who's seeing what they want to see?

see is

the GM of the New York Liberty.

We got about five minutes at max to talk about the donkey of the day, Jonathan Kolb, the GM of the Liberty,

firing Sandy Brandello, a two-time champion, because this is not a results-based business.

Come on, bruh.

What the hell was that?

My boy, Miles Elrich, he said that.

The GM says a coaching change was very much under consideration last season.

We won the championship, but it's not about the end result.

Bro, what the hell is you talking about, man?

They let you GM a team with that on your, on your, it's not about the result.

What is it about, sir?

What agenda are you trying to fit Miss Sandy in in, sir?

Because what the hell?

She's a winner.

She had to deal with injuries all year and new players coming from overseas.

Euro basket here.

Like, bro, this shit ain't easy.

New player, Tasha Cloud, getting integrated.

You gonna hold.

Leona Fi bitch with the broken ribs.

Come on, man.

Look, Breonna Stewart knee to be damned.

Sabrina missed the last stretch of games because she was hurt.

John Quel missed a section of the year because she was hurt.

Come on, bro.

We ain't seen Benaja Laney all year.

Fuck with them, forgot.

We ain't seen Benaja all year.

And Benaja was damn near sixth man of the year last year.

Come on, bro.

We're going to hold our behinds on Sandy.

Nah, bro.

We can't play Sandy like that.

Uh-uh.

You can't play her like that.

And Jonathan Colb, you look into his pedigree and his background and you say, how did you get here?

You're an Arizona State alum, criminal justice major, two of the dumbest things together in all of academia.

Jonathan Colb, you, sir, are the lame of the weak.

And he talking about if he felt that evolution and innovation was what was needed.

Man, how about you evolute your ass the hell up out of our face, man?

Stop talking.

Just do your moves, man, because you sound goofy trying to explain it.

Just do your damn moves.

Sit over there.

You fired Sandy.

That was messed up.

But keep on moving.

Don't try to talk to us.

Don't talk my head out by some damn evolution.

Evolution

Liberty was one of the top teams in the WMEA all year, evolution-wise.

Evolution-wise, they were 9-0.

Evolution-wise.

Innovation-wise, they were innovating ways to put these buckets on your dome piece.

And you

look at the New York Liberty and who's going to be able to come in and be able to still have success with your fingers all up in the gun pot.

You're going to turn into the Dallas Wings.

You're going to turn into the Chicago Sky, a team that's in the lottery, doing nothing, and we're going to be pointing the finger at you.

Exactly.

I can't say much more than that, doll.

You put the bow on it.

But yeah, bruh, goof of the week, my boy.

Get him out of here, Jonathan Cole.

If you his friend, if you his loved one, you understand what we mean.

We don't wish no ill will on the brother, but it's some bull esh, man.

It's some bull crap.

I'm trying not to cut, but it's some bull, man.

You got to make sense more of this stuff.

I don't give a damn.

Like, I don't want no time to kill.

I'm a feeling.

Yeah, bro.

Like, salute to the aces.

I think they're going to do it, bro.

Like, well, they're going to definitely beat the fever.

That championship matchup with the Lynx, I think,

Mercury, I see you, but I just think that the Mercury are fools go.

Who do you got winning the championship, dog?

Well, I, Jiju, accidentally took Asia Wilson finals MVP, and

I took a lot of finals MVP, and so I'm rooting for my girl, A1, from day one, Bam Attabios, plus one, and I'm going,

oh, you like that?

Ooh,

Aces,

Aces

in seven.

Oh, man.

Look, I got links.

I got links in about

five.

We might put a little friendly wager down.

I like that.

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If the dream out, I'm riding with Courtney.

But the dream in, you already know what's going on.

Listen, if I didn't have the bet, maybe that wouldn't be my perspective.

But I got to ride with the money.

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Ooh, I like that.

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Shout out.

Shout out out to DraftKings, the segment of the day.

Right.

We know the DraftKings executives, they probably playing this in their home studio right now.

Oh, yeah, that's the kind of confidence I like, Juju.

That's the confidence that we had on today's show.

There was way more that you could have heard if we were live.

But next time, why don't you catch us on the DLS Hoops channel?

Same bat time.

And also on the Lebatard show channel here on Friday.

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