00:00This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life.
00:07The Hornets have released a behind-the-scenes video of the offseason.
00:14And, you know, obviously a big move for them.
00:18They got rid of LaMelo Ball.
00:20They got rid of Miles Bridges.
00:22They're going in a new direction with Con Knipple and Brandon Miller
00:27and seemingly Kobe White.
00:30Who was really good in that play-in game.
00:33He was hitting crazy shots.
00:36We, of course, remember LaMelo Ball nefariously tripping Bam out of bio midair
00:43and sidelining him for the game.
00:47The Hornets have released a behind-the-scenes video.
00:50Why?
00:52Because, I don't know.
00:53Because everything in sports needs to be a documentary now, I guess.
00:56And they have gifted Kobe White, Annette, from the play-in game.
01:11A play-in trophy.
01:14And listen, I know that they have been kings of play-inville three years running up until this point.
01:21But they didn't make the playoffs.
01:24They only won the first play-in game.
01:29And yet, they're guys there sitting there being like,
01:35you guys propelled us to another level.
01:39Nope.
01:39Nope.
01:40Nope.
01:41Nope.
01:41You're still the Hornets level.
01:43Right at the level the Hornets have always been.
01:46Not in the playoffs.
01:50You're making memorabilia for that?
01:53In frames?
01:56It's one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen a sports team do.
02:00That is insane work.
02:03Look, we had to decide whether there should be a big celebration of the end-season tournament.
02:16Yeah.
02:17Something that a team actually won.
02:19Yes.
02:22The play-in.
02:23The play-in.
02:24I mean, look.
02:25I understand in Hornets' accomplishments, it's pretty good for the Hornets.
02:30No, it's not.
02:31They didn't even make the playoffs.
02:33Guys, you get stole McRibs right.
02:36You got to have some self-respect.
02:38You have to.
02:39And listen, even if you guys want to do that,
02:45nobody in the social media department decided when that would,
02:49hey, guys, we probably shouldn't leak that we're doing this.
02:53Just give it to Kobe White on the DL.
02:56Something nice for his office.
02:58Okay?
03:00But to broadcast it?
03:02And put it in there.
03:04What a play-in game.
03:06Didn't even get to the playoffs.
03:11Crazy.
03:12Smithen said, you can't talk the Heat retired Michael Jordan's jersey.
03:17Smithen, look.
03:18I have taken them to task on that.
03:21You cannot say that I haven't.
03:23I hate that Michael Jordan's jersey's up there.
03:26It's embarrassing.
03:27The Heat have gone on to greener pastures.
03:30I get it.
03:31Sometimes your trophy case has to start somewhere.
03:34But this is literally for winning a regular season game.
03:36It's crazy behavior.
03:39And they're like, you took us to another level.
03:42Another level?
03:44You guys put a hit on Bam on a bio.
03:46No.
03:46They didn't take you to another level.
03:49The actual NBA lessened the qualifications of postseason so that you could have a part of it.
03:59This is, I mean.
04:01If there wasn't a play-in, you still would be where you always are.
04:06Heat Keith says, the Pornits have never won a playoff series.
04:08This is their biggest accomplishment in franchise history.
04:11To win the Heat?
04:12Being up on the Heat 3-2 and losing to Dwayne Wade has to be theirs.
04:17I mean, even Indiana, like, they didn't, like, they won a national championship.
04:26But I don't see these ridiculous celebrations over bowl wins.
04:31No.
04:32I've seen some ridiculous rings over, like, conference championships.
04:36So, technically, so, let's, we would get a ring for going to the Rose Bowl.
04:46Right?
04:47But the ring was actually the Big Ten championship ring.
04:51Just the winner of the Big Ten championship goes to the Rose Bowl.
04:55So, that's kind of how that goes.
04:58You see what I mean?
04:59So, it kind of gets skewed a little bit that it seemed like we always got a ring to go
05:04to the Rose Bowl
05:05when the actual ring was for winning the Big Ten championship.
05:09Well, like, does Manny Diaz, that Duke probably has an ACC championship ring?
05:13Yes. Absolutely.
05:14Crazy.
05:14Absolutely.
05:15Barely had a winning record.
05:16Do you think that Darian Mensah walks around campus, he goes, you guys ever see one of these?
05:20Yes.
05:21Just to mess with everybody and make fun of himself.
05:26I was seven and five and I have a ring.
05:28That's insane.
05:29You went to the championship game and you got nothing.
05:32But still more worthy than a framed net from the play-in game.
05:34Yes.
05:35It is a hard word.
05:35Yeah, at least you won a championship.
05:37It's kind of like, you know, like when they do the tournaments at the end of the year for basketball
05:43and the last couple of teams are barely over 500 and they go on a run and win the championship.
05:50They deserve a ring.
05:51They won the championship.
05:56But, I mean, is that the equivalent to getting a ring for going to the NIT?
06:02It's crazy.
06:03Yeah.
06:05It's like, it's the equipment, like when they give out rings when the Heat won the summer league,
06:10like they all got rings, but I don't think they got them fitted.
06:13I think that 2K just gives them all 12 rings and then, you know, they get like a little trophy.
06:18But at least you won something.
06:20Right.
06:21They won a game.
06:22They won a game.
06:24They won a game in which they won a series.
06:25It's a singular game.
06:29That will not be remembered because you didn't even make the playoffs.
06:33I don't think anyone's ever going to remember.
06:35And guess what?
06:37I'm going to be clear.
06:39Until you brought it up, I forgot who the Heat lost to.
06:42Did you?
06:43Yeah.
06:44I had only, so this went viral today because they put out a video of them trading LaMelo Ball.
06:47And like, but this was part of the video was because they basically said, oh, Kobe White's going to be
06:52our new point guard.
06:54And Kobe, we want to commemorate what you, you did for us, taking us to another level, losing to the
07:01magic in the next.
07:02He looked real enthusiastic about it too.
07:03He's like, awesome.
07:06He looked happy about it.
07:06Like he was, they were interviewing him about it.
07:08Well, he finally won a play in game.
07:10I mean, usually Chicago loses play.
07:12And so he was, he was not used to winning a play in game.
07:14Um, so he also has gone to another level, but that's unbelievably pathetic.
07:21I, I am sorry, Charlotte Hornets, but you, you, you, you need to, I mean, man, the Hornets should be
07:30so much cooler.
07:31They should be so much cool.
07:33They got cool ass uniforms.
07:34They had some cool ass players, but man, what is that?
07:42That's crazy, dude.
07:43They were super fun last year too.
07:45Got to be less fun without LaMelo Ball, to be honest with you.
07:47Oh yeah.
07:48Because this, you don't have fun unless you got one guy just chucking up shots.
07:52Oh yeah.
07:53He's crazy.
07:54But how close is he to being James Harden?
08:00I don't know.
08:01Cause I would say this, James Harden was more efficient than he has ever been.
08:05Oh yeah.
08:05He doesn't care about efficiency.
08:07He just throws it up.
08:08And my thing is he'll pull up like Steph Curry, except he don't shoot like Steph Curry.
08:13No dude.
08:14He, he, he, I mean, we see how he drives.
08:17He has no rules.
08:18And he loves, and, and the thing is he's got to follow him.
08:23He's big on social media.
08:24Dude, he's huge.
08:25Huge.
08:26The kids love him.
08:26He has unbelievably popular shoes.
08:30Um, but he's, he's a wild card.
08:33He, you just never know what he's going to do.
08:35Right.
08:35And, and, and listen, sometimes he's got it going and you're just like, oh no, but crazy.
08:41Right.
08:42But a lot of the times he does not.
08:43And you're just like, oh yes.
08:45Correct.
08:47It's a, it's, it's insane.
08:48But I, I Hornets go tell your social media department to go take it, take, go take a couple
08:54of weeks off for the summer.
08:55All right.
08:56Come back on media day, reset, refocus.
08:59Cause that should not have seen the light of day.
09:03Yeah.
09:04Like, I'm not, I'm not trying to bad mouth anybody and you celebrate how you want to celebrate.
09:10But damn.
09:12Whew.
09:13Whew.
09:15No, but this, this is an instance that deserves to be criticized.
09:20Leroy.
09:20Like that's embarrassing.
09:22I thought, I thought Spoh yucked, you know, like he like, he,
09:25when, when they won the play in the year beforehand, when they got their heads lopped off by the
09:30calves and he was a little bit like, oh, we want a moment we had in that plane, but you
09:36know what?
09:36At least he's just talking about a moment.
09:38Listen, he's not making a trophy, right?
09:40If he does have a trophy, don't tell anybody about it.
09:43Spoh.
09:44If he has a play in trophy, but geez Louise, that's crazy.
09:51All right.
09:51I don't think, I don't think they even give bonuses based on playing.
09:55No, the stats don't even count.
09:56No.
09:57The stats don't even count.
09:59They're fake games.
10:00Right.
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