Vrabel scandal ranks among craziest Boston sports stories
“Vrabel is the coach of my favorite team. So this hap the whole story happens. And I was debating whether to talk about it on the pod, and it's just like, they're both married, both have kids. And then this week, it goes to a whole other level to the point that he really did become a football story this week. Because for one thing, he's missing the third day of the draft where the patriots had Apex. At some point This became one of the craziest Boston stories I think ever. I can't tell you how many texts I've gotten about it.”
Rudy Gobert is quietly building a Hall of Fame case
“A little bit of a legacy series for our guy, Rudy. So he's made a second team on BA and two third teams. He's been defensive player of the year four times. Career is basically thirteen and twelve with two blocks. He's played eight to nine playoff games, two conference finals, twelve and eleven in the playoffs. With the declining line for hall of fame players in the NBA, as as we've continued to make it pretty blurry what a hall of fame player is. I actually think there's a chance he gets in.”
The Pit succeeded by being grosser than network shows
“The pit. I did two straight seasons in about five days, and now I just have a hole in my heart. It's so funny that they just unlock the strategy of, hey. It's gonna be a doctor series like everything else, except it's gonna be every hour, and it's gonna be grosser than a k than a network show.”
Halliburton's prayer rewrote the Knicks' entire era
“The Halliburton shot, I really think is a sliding doors for this Knicks era because I I just think they probably win that series. I think that was such a bizarre basketball event. That's the weirdest collapse and that shot going up 30 feet and coming down and going in, and then the Knicks almost winning an OT. Just that whole game. I just feel like if we play that game 30 times, the Knicks probably win 29 of them. And maybe they make the finals last year instead of the Pacers. And then this is you're just thinking about this and talking about it completely differently.”
Aaron Gordon injury could end the Nuggets' title window
“Aaron Gordon, this is his twelfth year. He's played 756 games, 68 games. This is the first time I started thinking about a finish line with this nuggets run. Where Borden, who I think has just had a lot of nothing like a catastrophic injury, but some mileage and some, some dings and some banks on his body. And we might've seen the best version of him. So you have that you have joker. Who's been dominated in the 2020s. You have Murray with some miles on him. He had a knee surgery. Like I, I am a little worried about the long term with this team if they can't get out of this series.”
“Goodell's hugs. This has been weird the entire time he's been doing it and there's been a million comments and a million videos. The hugs have gotten longer. I think he's tried to figure out how he can. I I'd love for somebody to break this down the hugs from ten, twelve years ago to the hugs in 2026, because I think he's holding on longer. I think he's trying to make them more meaningful and they're starting to take on the vibes of somebody who's reuniting with their son, who just did a five year tour in Vietnam in the early seventies and came home. And they never thought they'd see their son again, and they see them and they're just hugging for ten, twelve seconds.”
CJ McCollum's leap exposes teams that passed on him
“How many teams do you think are kicking themselves that they didn't go from a column anytime from November to February? At least a half dozen. And I think top of that list, it has to be the Houston Rockets. This is one that we flagged on group chat early in the season as far as, like, what should they do post Fred VanVleet's injury. CJ has just been sitting there on the shelf waiting for someone to trade for him. And I think a lot of teams overthought it.”
“This is a Knicks team that has felt like they are one bad day away all season from never speaking to each other ever again. And maybe that is a little bit of projection on our part. Maybe that's a little body language doctoring here and there. But I don't know. They just don't feel connected in terms of the way that they play. And you can tell that when they really do run into walls, guys like Bridges feel completely iced out. They don't know how to contribute.”
“He's the onion rings. It's like I don't even know if I should get these. You're glad you have three, and then you're like, I don't wanna keep eating these. This is just 900 calories. Why do and then you're having you're, like, half heartedly eating the fifth one.”
