Postgame Show: Basketball Roundup (feat. JuJu Gotti)
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Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day.

Stat of the Day, presented by Miller Lite. So someone grouped all of the teams in what are constantly referred to as the four major sports in America. So Major League Baseball, NBA, NFL, NHL.

And grouped them by playoff winning percentage. All time. All time. Wow. In the history of their sport. Gotta be some heavy hitters up here. In the NFL, it's the New England Patriots. Brady. In the NBA, it's the Los Angeles Lakers. Sure. Expected. In the NHL, the Edmonton Oilers. Huh. Mm-hmm. In the Major League Baseball.

It's your Miami Marlins. No way. Greatest playoff winning percentage of all time. That's what happens when you make the playoffs three times. Four times. Oh, was it four? Four times total. 2020 and 2023, but they only played three games each. And then the other two times they made it, they won the World Series. Wow. That's ridiculous. Number two is the Yankees. We welcome in Julian Jujugati.

What's up, Juju? First of all, I want to ask you, we didn't get any time on the show about this, but me and Tony are on to this Ace Bailey thing. What are your take on Ace Bailey and his draft strategy, Juju? I think basically, you know how the same situation Shador found himself in, man. It's like the old guard wants you to do a certain thing their way, no matter what it is.

And if you deviate from that path, they're going to label you now this. They're going to label you this. Oh, undraftable, uncoachable. But it's just the fact that he doesn't want to jump through the same hoops that our ancestors jumped through or our previous people jumped through. Right, right. So they're just labeling him that now. But I don't think his draft stocks are far because we saw what the brother can do. He's going to contribute greatly to a team. See, I have a theory. I didn't get to –

Unleash this on the show, but I'm releasing it now on the on the universe number one is obviously Cooper flag He's going to Dallas number two San Antonio. They're probably taking Dylan Harper number three is Philadelphia. I'm ace Bailey I want to play in Philadelphia don't want to play behind in bead and maxi and Paul George and McCain No, man. I want my I want my show. I

So Philadelphia, I don't want to go there. Then the next one is Charlotte. Same thing. LaMelo Ball and Bridges, man. Those guys are doing like... What was the kid? Brandon Miller? Brandon Miller? Like, oh, no. Number five is Utah. I definitely don't want to go to Utah. Hell no. Number six is Washington.

Who I got to beat out? Bilal Koulibaly? I could do that. And then Washington is like a cooler city. It's closer. He's from Tennessee. It's closer to Tennessee. It's close to New York. It's close to Atlanta. It's close to all the cool places. I think he wants to go to Washington. And this is all about him just not wanting to go to the three teams that pick ahead of Washington.

I like it. I can dig it. Even though Washington is never going to compete for a championship. I'm going to put that on wax. In the history of the earth, Washington will never compete for a championship. Book it. Put it on the scroll. This connects to what Jeremy just said about the Marlins. This is what happens when you only make the playoffs four times or whatever. RIP the Bullets. The Wizards haven't been to the conference finals since they lost in the finals in 1979.

They haven't been past the second round since 79. Even with Gil? Even with all of them. Damn. They never made it. I don't think Gil made it out of the first round, to be honest with you. Because they kept meeting LeBron in the first round and losing. No, it's one of those crazy things. That's why Tony Kornheiser says there's a curse on the curse of Le Boulay. Like, they curse. So, Juju...

Hate to take the thunder out of your prediction, but it's kind of like yeah, man pretty accurate I

Right. Speaking of taking the thunder out, report breaking news. The Heat are very interested in Jonathan Kaminga. Guys, what do you think about that? The cum bucket. I think he said it all. Look, this is the part where I think Miami and Dan tried to get me in like the lightning round about this. And I'm like, this isn't a lightning round topic.

If you're Miami, you've got to do one of two things. Either you've got to go...

Take a swing on someone who you think could be great but no one else really does right now. Or you got to go get the established guy who's available. Kevin Durant was available. They hemmed and they hawed. Was it about needing more than what was reported, more picks, whatever? Doesn't matter. All that matters is you deemed it not worthy of going after. So the next best thing I think you do is you look at Jonathan Kaminga. He's a restricted free agent. He probably doesn't want to go back to Golden State. Truth be told.

Golden State probably doesn't want him back. They had an opportunity to play him, and they never really did. He doesn't fit the way they play. So if you're Miami, it's like, okay, it'll cost me some money, but if I can acquire him, that's the beginning piece of something. And then try to find out what's next after that, what's next after that. Jeremy wants Markkinen.

Yeah, I think Laurie Markkinen would be like a perfect guy for the Heat to go after, but I just don't know what the market looks like, what Utah's actual willingness to trade him would look like. If you could, I don't think you can find a way to get him without literally including like everything that they have on the table, including Kahlil Ware. And so in turn,

I just do think that Markkinen and Bam would play remarkably well off of one another, both offensively and defensively. And if Bam is going to be the stalwart of your team, you need to put him in the greatest position to succeed. And Markkinen's a guy playing alongside him that could do that. So there's two things going on there. Number one is you've got to deal with someone who looks at this guy as an asset. And I want someone to return. Danny Ainge, he's not just going to give you. Right. He's the worst guy to deal with. Right.

Number two versus Kamingo where it's like they don't want him. Depreciated asset. Right. They just want to get something for him, but it's not like, oh, I couldn't give you my Jonathan Kamingo. Danny Ainge will do that with Laurie Markkinen. Number two is Laurie Markkinen because he signed that extension under a contract for the next four years making $46,400, $46,100, $49,000.

49-8 and then 53-4. Kuminga's a lot cheaper than that. Yeah, absolutely. So you don't spend as much. You don't give up as much in the sign and trade for Kuminga versus a trade for Laurie Markkinen. And he's got some upside to him. Markkinen's the right guy to pair right now with just sort of the guys who are out there. If you're not going to add Durant, you still want to add a high-level player. I think the reality is for Miami right now is they're in this weird in-between because...

Next season, they will have such a tremendous amount of flexibility because they have so many contracts coming off the books. They have Tyler Hero in that position. If he doesn't sign an extension now going in to the final year of a deal and they have one more year to evaluate what Hero and Bam can look like leading a roster, they want to make this roster a

better version of itself to give them the best chance to succeed. But I also like I can understand if their thought process from here, if not getting Durant at the price they want, is they're

let's go into a full season with a similar look, basically give the keys to the couple of younger guys and Bam and Tyler and see what we look like come the trade deadline, whether or not guys have built up their value, lowered their value and sort of evaluate from there because they're in this weird in between phase. Yeah. See, to me, it's like the cost of getting Kaminga is going to be real. It's a minimal, like as far as asset giving up. Right. And that,

That's the thing. It's just, can you get Golden State to play ball with a sign and trade? So that's the only question to me. But...

That fits with what you're talking about. Yep, 100%. It's an upgrade. Upgrade at that position, but not necessarily an investment that's too deep into the future. Is Bam to the Lakers a real thing, or is it just father? Come on, man. You know where we're back? We're back to when Kobe was still playing. Every offseason, every trade deadline, the Lakers led the league in Photoshop's.

Photoshop season. He lead the league in that now. I've seen Luka in one. I've seen. Damn. You'll be seeing Luka all season long, just so you know.

Juju, what are the polls? Before we get to the polls, I have to. Dewana Bronner has been released by the Indiana Fever. What? The legend. She apparently reportedly had a couple of disagreements with how her roster position was being handled. She didn't necessarily agree with it. And so instead of trading her, the Indiana Fever has decided to just release her.

And her destinations of choice, she says, is Phoenix or either Atlanta. So, you know, I don't have a problem with that. Big news in the WNBA, you know what I'm saying? Juju. Kaitlyn. Duana Bonner, two-time champ. That first championship she won in Phoenix. Yeah. You're welcome. You had to look it up? Yeah. What's up? Did you have to look that up? Yeah.

I know she was on the team. I know she was on the team. Come on now. Also, big night from the sky. Camila Cardoso, 27 points. Angel Reese, I think she had 18 to 17. The Fever got the W, went behind in a big performance from Aaliyah Boston last night and Kelsey Mitchell. Mystics got it done over the –

over the number one seeded Minnesota Lynx. Even though Nafisa Collier is not necessarily healthy right now, she didn't get a chance to play last night, but still a great win. And my Dallas, I mean, and my Atlanta dream went down to the Dallas Wings last night behind a great performance from the first time start from Lee Uru. Back to you guys.

Back to you, Juju. What's the polls? Okay. The polls for the day brought to you by DraftKings. Do you celebrate your child's six-month birthday? This is big, Tony. 92% of the audience says no, they don't. Damn. Neither will I. All right, Lewis. All right.

What do you like more, people or your team winning? Also, I was going to throw this in. Friend or coworker? Dangerous game. Very dangerous game. Some say the most dangerous. The game's really, you're a liar because you're just going to say that the person's your friend because they're going to listen to it. What about friend or employee?

Right. I found out the hard way. Coworkers. Neither here nor there. 94% of the audience says your team winning. Of course. Were you afraid that the trophy was going to tip Chet over? 85% of the audience says yes, they were. It wasn't the trophy. It was the alcohol that was going to tip him over.

Right. And the last poll, did we inconvenience the Thunder by making them win the NBA championship? 93% of the audience says yes, we did. Of course. Back to you guys. Those are the polls. Thanks a lot, Juju. Thank y'all.