Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD and this
episode week 15 my recap of that all that went on including all star reserves I'll talk about
who was chosen also your all star coaches we'll talk about that we'll talk about also
top-selling jerseys we'll talk trade of course there was one trade we'll talk about
Marcus all retiring his jersey being retired and injury news as well and a whole lot more so just
sit back relax and enjoy the show okay guys it's your boy GD back with the all things basketball
with GD podcast and guys we are now up to week 15 guys week 15 we'll do the recap for that so
without any further delay let's get right into it because there's a lot of things that went on so
let's jump into it of course we start with players of the week as we always do guys and your player
for the week for the West Kawhi Leonard for the Los Angeles Clippers his team went three and one
for the week actually they were on the road the entire week guys they went to Washington and beat
them beat Detroit and Detroit and a game that I watched guys they went to South Beach and beat the
Miami Heat as well the only loss for the week was at Cleveland Cleveland's a hot team right now
Kawhi for the week 29.8 points per game so you might as well say 30 eight rebounds three and a
half assists for him two steals per game in a block as well he shot it from the field 56.6%
guys from three pretty prolific from there as well 48% and then he was perfect from the free throw
line guys Kawhi Leonard balling right now his team playing well also so Kawhi getting it done
looking healthy two guys healthy Kawhi means problems for the league Kawhi getting it in
and then for the East this is a guy who's playing good at the right nick of time guys
Trey Young for the Atlanta Hawks his team went three and 0 for the week and they beat the likes
of the Lakers they beat the Phoenix Suns and the Gold State Warriors Trey for the week 31 points he
average 11.3 assists and 1.7 steals as well shot it from the field 56.8% guys from the field that's
outstanding for him and then from 3. range even better 64.5% guys wow and then from
the free throw line he took nine attempts made seven so you take that but Trey Young balling
at the right time guys maybe he can pull his Atlanta team out the doldrums into the playoff
conversation who knows so that's your players for the week guys we just finished with January so
we now have the players of the month the rookies of the month and the coaches of the month and
i'll give it to you right now let's start with the players guys Devin Booker who had a pretty
prolific January his team went 11 and 5 he averaged 30 points 6.3 assists and 4.4 rebounds guys
and in that month he had four games where he scored 40 points or more including that 62
point explosion that he had albeit in a loss but he had the 62 that night and then in the east
Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers his team went 11 and 2 which was the second best record
in that conference i'll tell you who the best was in the minute 28.6 points per game for him
7.6 assists and over 5 rebounds so Donovan Mitchell holding down the fort he got some of his guys back
healthy now you got a Darius Garlin back now you got an Evan Mobley so this team might be poised to
make some noise there in the east so we'll definitely be keeping an eye out for them that's for sure
all right so that's your players for the month let's talk about the rookies in the west who else
could it be but Victor Wimbayama for the San Antonio Spurs he played in 14 games for the months
24 points per game 9.6 rebounds 3.3 assists and also 3.3 blocks oh by the way he's still
leading the league in blocks not just rookies but everyone and then for the east Brandon Miller of the
Charlotte Hornets he played in 13 games for the month 16 points per game for him over 4 rebounds
2.4 assists so Brandon Miller starting to play well guys i'll be very interested to see coming out
the trade deadline you could see a guy like Miles Bridges move if that's the case that opens up the
door for Miller to get even more opportunities to flourish there so we'll see what happens there
all right and then for the coaches for the month Ty Lou guys for the LA Clippers they went 12 and 3
guys Tyron Lou one of those coaches who if you give him the talent if you give him the roster that
he could work with he can get you those wins guys and he's done that for this team this team is
starting to play well in the west there's going to be a problem in the west guys make no mistake
about it with Ty Lou at the controls i don't put anything past this team as long as they're healthy
that's always the caveat but Tyron Lou getting it done in LA and then for the east someone i know
very well Tom Tiberdough of the New York Knicks the Knicks went 14 and 2 for the month their best
record in the month of January including the eight game win streak so Tom Tiberdough got those boys
playing well and they have to because it's so bunched up in the east i keep talking about that
guys you see Cleveland Surgeon right now you got uh Indiana Pacer team that you can't count out
you got Miami they're teetering a bit but you can never totally count them out Philly we'll see
what happens with Philly with all that's going on there i'll talk about that in a minute and then
Milwaukee you don't know what's going on with them Iva so we'll see but it's going to be Nippetuck
and the Knicks need to be there every step of the way so with that said let's talk all-star news
guys we have our reserves now in both the east and the west we'll start with the east guys i nailed
this down to every single pick Donovan Mitchell Jalen Brunson Bama to Bayou Paolo Boncaro Jalen
Brown Therese Maxi and Julius Randall so seven for seven in that regard guys the west i came
close i got six of the seven so let's run through it Steph Curry Devin Booker Anthony Davis Kawaii
Leonard Paul George Anthony Edwards and the guy i've missed on called Anthony Towns and now that
i sit back and think about it yeah i should include him i wasn't 100% sure that they would give
Minnesota two all-stars but they ended up doing that i thought it could be a case where they give
one to Sacramento but that wasn't the case so Carl Anthony Towns well deserved guys well deserved
and he's an all-star so kudos to him so you have your rosters guys now for the coaches
let's start in the west Chris Finch of the Minnesota Timberwolves Chris Finch guys
i tell you what last year him not having Carl Anthony Towns for a good chunk of that season
really hurt the team but they were able to at least make the play in and then the play-offs
but this season at 35 and 15 they are tied for the best 50 games start for that franchise
and this is his first time guys so Chris Finch well deserved well earned congrats to him being
named the coach of the west team in the all-star game for the east
yeah it's gotten messy guys your east coach is doc rivers of the Milwaukee Bucks this is his fourth
time let's start with that the team is 33 and 16 of that he is one and two guys yeah this is not
good this is not good guys and this is what he said when he was told that he's going to be the
representative coach for the east that is ridiculously bad it really is well Arian's
going to get some money that's for sure in a ring it's one of those quirky things i think
there should be a rule somehow that someone else do it other than me maybe i'll send my staff and
i'll go on vacation trying to be funny about it i'm going to run that by adam silver i think adam
is a good man i think he'll understand so here we are doc rivers making light of the situation
but like he said at the beginning this is a bad look guys you can't have this happen you cannot
have this happen guys i think it was incumbent on adam silver to right this wrong it could still be
but i don't know if he'll do it adrian griffin gets them to a 30 and 13 record so he sets them up for
being in this position i understand i get it you can't have the man come back and coast to all-star
team that's that's ridiculous here's what you can do you can do one or two things adam silver but i
don't think you got the guts to do it one you can just scrap that back-to-back rule and let joe
mazula do it since he has the best record in the league you can do that or you can do this
given the awkward situation with the morocchi bucks you reward the next team that coaching staff
the opportunity to coast to all-star game which would be jb bicker staff of the cleveland cavaliers
this is what you should do this situation it really is a bad look you know and i've seen people on
social media clowning this this is not good adam silver i don't know if you're gonna correct it i
doubt if you do but this looks bad i mean bad hey again what do i know but this is a bad look
to reward somebody this kind of opportunity it doesn't sit right so adam now i don't know if you
listen to this podcast but some friendly advice scrap your back-to-back rule let joe mazula do it
if you don't want to do that let jb bicker staff do it that's the right thing to do i'm just saying
a guy coming off his couch a week ago should not be coaching the east players for the all-star game
that's all i'm gonna say so i'll leave it at that all right so that's your coaching situation there
anyhow let us move on steve curry boy he talked himself into something here they had a mic
up and he was talking to the rookie on the team he's still talking about sabrina's performance
in the wmba three-point contest and he's pretty much challenged her and they called it live on the
mic so the mba has this bright idea they're gonna have sabrina and steve curry go at it in a three
point shootout between the two of them which will happen actually after the official three-point
contest and then before the slam dunk contest so this will happen on saturday night the saturday
night all-star saturday that's when it's gonna happen and the way it'll go is sabrina will be
shooting from the wmba line with a wmba ball and steve will be shooting from the three-point line
for the mba which brings out the knuckle draggers it brings out the guys locked in their grandma
basement to come on social media talk about oh where's the equity where's the equity this and that
y'all more worried about equity than steve curry is if steve curry had a problem with this setup
he would back out but he's not doing that steve curry is securing his manhood unlike you guys who
probably haven't touched the woman since 2000 and never but let me not go there but nonetheless
it's happening the train is rolling down the tracks either you watch and enjoy or you just
turn off the tv and no barba but it's happening whether you guys like it or not so so be it
so so brina's doing it for her foundation the si 20 foundation and then steve curry
he's doing it for eat learn play his nonprofit it's charities involved guys so that's always a good
thing and from what i hear state farm they're throwing in money as well so it's all for a
good cause guys so for you guys to get minted out of shape about who's shooting from what line or
whatever y'all could kill that noise it like i said it's already happening so like it or lump it
that's all i'll say with that so with that said let us move on to other items which actually is
all star related julius randall for the new york nicks suffers a dislocated shoulder yeah that
happened late in the january 27th game against the miami heat julius will be out several weeks
they're now saying that he'll be reevaluated in two to three weeks which means he will miss the
all star game his replacement just as i called it guys trey young will be one of the replacements
for the all star game and rightfully so and then the second bit of news concerning all star
jollam b suffers a knee injury in fact he ends up having to have a meniscus procedure and that
happened in a january 30th game at golden state the reports are saying six to eight weeks which
if you do the math that could put him out until april at least and then mind you guys and this
is where the whole load management issue is brought up they sat him for the previous two games
one was at denver he would have been matched up against nickolai yorkik oh by the way he
hasn't played in denver since 2019 that's an aside and then the other game he sat out was at
portland that brought up the load management subject and a lot of players are coming to
jollam beads defense although i don't understand why they're defending him i mean he actually got
actually got hurt in the game it wasn't where he was being sat for no reason but guys like tyrese
hollyburton spoke against it guys like draemon green he went on his show and talked about it as well
and that led steven a smith to go on a 20 minute tirade on first take talking about players
abusing the system taking the money but not playing the games this and that and so forth where am i
with the load management i actually understand the fans side of it of course because you're missing
out on seeing a player that you probably paid most in advance hoping that he'd be in the game
so i get that part of it but i think the larger question comes down to who makes the final decision
in terms of guys playing and not playing is it the players making the decision is it the coaching
staff making the decision is it the front office making the decision is it the medical staff making
the decision i think that's the larger question and that question could vary from team to team
so is it fair to lay it all at the players feet from the outside looking in i would say
probably not if a decision is being made on high and the players have to acquiesce to that how is
it the players fault so that's where i lie on it i don't know where to place the blame because
there's nothing clear cut to say the players are electing not to play if it's the medical staff
that's telling them not to play what can the players say or do they have to follow what
their employer tells them so i think it speaks to a larger issue to automatically rail against the
player i don't know if i go there i would have to know the chain of command when it comes to
who gets that final say in terms of guys sitting or playing like we know in san antonio the buck
stops with greg popovich we know that with the nicks well the nicks don't really load manage but
i'm just using the makes the example i don't think tom tibidow is the end all be all in terms of
making decisions whether a player plays or not i don't think it's in its hands it's probably the
medical staff that makes the decision in new york yeah so i think you have to take it on a case by
case basis but to lay it totally at the player's feet i think that's a bit strong so with that said
imb's gonna miss some time guys so his replacement and this is a person who i actually didn't even
bring up amongst the possible reserves but kudos for him getting in scotty barns of the
toronto raptors who's having a fantastic year and i totally omitted him from the conversation that's
my bad that's on me but rightfully so he makes the all-star team so congratulations to the young man
definitely well earned well deserved so good for him making it in that regards so one more piece of
injury news zack livena the chicago bulls head foot surgery guys he's gonna be out four to six
months which means he's out for the season a crushing blow to chicago bulls who were already
kind of on life support but this really now is a huge blow to them are they sellers at the trade
deadline i would think they probably would be so i would watch chicago very closely during this
trade deadline so with that said that's your injury news guys let's talk fines afanie edwards
fine by the league and this is for publicly being critical of the referees and this was
during a january 29th win that he had against the oklahoma city thunder that's kind of a
rivalry a bit now with them being the top teams in the west but afanie edwards he's caught on mike's
cheating refs well cheating blank refs and then in the post game he was asked about the game and
then he voluntarily brought up the bad officiating once you do that normally if you bring it up in
the interview that's 25 000 the fact that he was caught also saying it on a hot mic yeah that's why
it's 40 000 so i can't defend them there but i will say this the fact that he's complaining about
the refs in a game that they won tells you how bad the officiating is guys and i've been saying it i
said at the last couple of episodes probably ago the officiating has left a lot to be desired guys
and we still got a long way to go in this season so it's got to get better guys it's got to get
better that's all i'm going to say with that he's fine and then two franchises find the
philadelphia 76ers and the new augins pelicans the sixers 75 000 and then the pelicans 25 000
and this is for failing to include players on the injury report in a timely manner
philadelphia did it with joel and b actually for that Denver game it was like maybe about
not even a half an hour for the game that they announced he's not playing tell me how i know i
play fantasy basketball joel and b's on one of my teams i saw that he's good to go left my line up
alone come to find out i look let's see his name with a oh there out oh i was so heated but he was
a late scratch and supposedly he worked out they didn't like how he looked they pulled him but you
know a lot of people want to put conspiracy theories on that you know have at it you have your fun
with it so the league find them but they find the sixers heavy for that 75 000 whereas the pelicans
did it with trey murphy the third where they pulled him the same day actually and this was a game
against the milwaukee bucks they pulled him from the game and had them sit out so those are your
finds there for that all right guys so with that said see if i could run through this right quick
there was a trade that went down guys houston acquires steven adams from the
mifes grizzlies in exchange for victor ola depot two 2024 second round picks in a 2025 second round
pick houston gets steven adams the only thing is he can't play for them until next season he's out
with the knee injury and for mefes sure they get the draft capital but victor ola depot
he's been out and i doubt if we see him this year so for mefes probably the draft capital
more than anything else victor ola depot they can just keep him out and then when the season's over
they can wash their hands of it but for houston i'm kind of trying to make sense of it i guess
he'd be a backup to operin sungum i guess at this stage of his career great rebounder great
presence inside on defense so i'd be curious to see how he fenced it and all that but i guess you
know probably at this point now with this knee injury he's probably looking at a backup situation
anyway so perhaps this probably works out for houston steven adams is the type of player ma aduca
loves so this could actually work out in the long speaking of the mefes grizzlies the mefes grizzlies
will retire mark gazelle's jersey because he recently retired from the nba so they're retiring
his number 33 jersey and they're doing that on april 6 against the philadelphia 76ers in a game
where maybe mb this back maybe not but mark gazelle who played their 11 seasons played in
769 games started in all but seven of those games over 15 point average points per game 7.7
rebounds 3.4 assists and a block and a half he average shooting at 48.4 percent from the field
77.7 from the free throw line while grizzly he made three all-star appearances he made all nba
twice once as a first teamer and then once as a second teamer he won a defensive player of the
year guys but get this he did it in a year where he made all defense but he made it on the second
team so go figure mark gazelle getting this jersey raised to the rafters over there with
minnesota and pretty well deserved i would say so kudos to mark gazelle for when when that happens
of course in other news russell westbrook guys of the la clippers he becomes the 25th player in nba
history to score 25 000 points or more and he's actually the second player to score over 25 000
points 9 000 assists and 8 000 rebounds the only other player to do it some guy named lebron jane
so russell westbrook in rarefied air there and when his playing days are done a surefire
hall of famer the nba draft they're going to expand it to two knights guys starting this year on
june 26 and june 27 so there's only two rounds guys one round one night second round the other night
first round will be at the barclay center in brooklyn the second night at the espn seaport
district studios there in mad hatton well that's how they're doing the draft they say it works out
well for them to get to a spot like the players in the draft more and it's just a way to just drag
this thing out that's the way i see it but hey kudos to them so will they get the kind of interest
they're looking for we'll see but the nba expanding their draft night then we'll talk about jersey sales
and one other thing and then we'll call it a day top selling jerseys guys this is how it goes
number one stef curry so stef curry of the gold state warriors has the top selling jersey
he is then followed by jason tatum of the boston cell ticks followed by lebron jane so the la
lakers fourth victor win by yama of the san antonio spurs so i guess people are seeing he's the next
big thing in the nba so let me get in on the ground floor with that fifth yonis onto to kumpo
six lucas dockets of the dalis mavericks devin booker of the phoenix son seventh kevin durant
phoenix son's eighth tyrese maxi knife wow that one kind of surprised me damian lilac tenth for
the milwaukee bucks not much of a surprise there being that this is his first year there
job moran 11th wow so job moran's jerseys is selling more than the next person who is joelan b
your reigning mvp 13th lamello ball his jerseys are still selling uh nickolai yokic in 14th place
and then deaeron fox in 15th place that's the way it goes with the jersey sales for individual
players in terms of teams number one the la lakers of course followed by the boston cell ticks
gold state warriors third milwaukee bucks fourth philadelphia 76th is fifth chicago bulls i'm surprised
six phoenix son seventh the new york nicks eighth wow san antonlio spurs probably on the
strip for wim by yama ninth and then dalis mavericks in 10th so that's your jersey sales there and
then the last bit of business former new york nick bill bradley he does what he calls a performative
autobiography where he does this one-man show documentary on max and the name of it is rolling
along american story which actually debuts this month and he's talking about his life his life as
a basketball player then as a politician later and i look forward to watching it i'm hearing good
things about it so definitely want to hear that bit of history there especially he talks about the
championship years for the nicks so definitely looking forward to that so he was actually being
interviewed about it i was heard him talk about it so i'm definitely interested in checking that
out that's for sure so with that said that is it guys that is it for this episode when i come to
you again guys i do want to cover the trade deadline definitely want to cover the trade
deadline and i want to couple that with what's going on in the wmba a lot of player movement
over there guys that i want to cover as well so i'll couple the two it'll be a trade deadline
episode along with a wmba free agency episode as well so we'll do it that way
again production on the fly guys that's how we do it here all right guys so i thank you for
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