Courtside Clubs Best Halftime And Buzzer Beaters Segments From Rachel Demita A Collective Of Special

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What's up you guys? I'm Rachel Demita and welcome to the Courtside Club.

Today we have another special episode for you guys.

I'm super excited about it because as you know, we have signature segments here on Courtside Club.

So at halftime, I like to play a game with my guests.

So this season so far, we've done everything from mini hoops to learning how to spin a ball on our finger

to playing charades to simple games of start bench cut and superlatives for athletes.

And then at the end of every episode, I do buzzer beaters with my guests.

And those are courtside themed questions.

So for today's episode, we've put together some of our favorite moments from halftime and our buzzer beaters.

So.

I hope you guys enjoy it.

On the sideline, there's a guy that stands there and then there's a line of your boys and then there's a line of opposite team

and they lift someone up to catch the ball in the air.

So this guy like throws it over his head and it has to go straight down the middle.

So very similar to American soccer.

What is American soccer?

Do you guys have your own soccer?

What?

There's more soccer?

You have your own?

Are we going backwards like that?

In.

Yeah.

So you just kind of keep going over that one.

Over.

Over the top to make the paper football.

American soccer.

So, okay.

Do you guys call soccer like the black and white ball soccer?

The black and white ball soccer.

I've never heard of soccer being referred to that as well.

No, no, no, no, no.

Sorry.

I'm so sorry.

But like you guys know what I'm talking about because in the UK.

I know what soccer is.

Yes.

With the ball.

Yeah, but why is there an American one?

Because in the UK.

You guys just want your own.

They call American soccer football.

Like football.

I guess probably is a better way to say it.

Yeah.

So in Australia, I'm asking you guys call it soccer.

Also.

Okay.

That was me assuming that you guys might have also called it football.

Sorry.

My bad.

Okay.

I was just just.

And this is stressful.

Okay.

Bro.

Okay.

Okay.

Hold up.

I cannot.

I wish we had like a zoom in.

What are you?

Making the football.

No, this is the toughest thing I've ever done in my life.

You got this.

So how you described it was very similar to when you're playing soccer, how they inbound

the ball.

Yeah.

But.

Because there's a bunch of guys there trying to grab it.

They do that in soccer, but they don't normally lift each other up.

I think that might be the, just like the difference between rugby is that you're

allowed to lift people up.

Yeah.

And look, we're allowed to get a little bit more aggressive as well.

And there's no pads.

See, we love just hurting each other.

Okay.

So you've said that there's a difference between rugby league and rugby union.

I cannot watch this football making.

I'm going to lose.

It's not the right way.

But can you show the camera what's going on?

You're like, you didn't have the other side, making it like an accordion.

Can I get you started because I finished mine so we can get into playing it or we could

try it with yours.

Okay.

So basically you were on the right track.

You just fold it over the top.

Do you see what I mean?

Yeah.

You can do it.

You got it.

You got it.

Show us.

I don't know what I'm doing.

Start bench.

Cut.

Love and basketball.

Coach Carter and Hoosiers.

Hoosiers are starting.

So I filmed out there, Tim.

Did you?

Yeah.

At the Indiana.

I love you guys.

And I was there with Chris Mullen.

Yeah.

One of the best shooters I've ever filmed with.

Yeah.

And I filmed with Steph Curry.

Sick.

Sick.

But Chris Mullen was like lights out.

At their gym in Indiana?

Sick.

Yeah.

At the Hoosiers gym.

Yeah.

That was an awesome, awesome film.

That was awesome.

They have the memorabilia like still up as well.

Really?

Yeah.

And you can go in the locker room and they have different like photos and jerseys and

stuff.

Yeah.

It was pretty cool.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Awesome.

That was awesome.

Really?

Yeah.

Who is that?

Is that like Regina King or something?

Who is it?

No.

I don't know the actors, but I've seen the movie plenty of times.

What are the next two?

It's Love and Basketball.

Love and Basketball and Coach Carter.

Coach Carter.

Coach Carter.

No.

Stop.

I know that you're more into this movie and television space than me, but if you have

not seen Coach Carter-

No.

I never saw it.

I'm sick.

Yo, I don't watch movies.

I don't watch movies.

I don't watch TV shows.

That's my best.

That's the best basketball movie ever is Coach Carter.

Really?

Yeah.

I guess it's a toss up for you because Love and Basketball-

Yeah, because I haven't seen those, but you're giving me a lot of things I have to go watch

now.

People are going to comment under here and be like, I can't believe she picked Coach

Carter over Love and Basketball because Love and Basketball is like, you can't say one

bad thing about her.

The basketball community comes for you and there's so many lines and just-

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Different scenes from that movie that people still reference.

What'd you get me into here, bro?

What, is people going to hate on me because I've never seen basketball movies?

How many times did I get myself canceled today on one podcast, bro?

It's crazy, man.

Yeah.

But your son-

Yes.

How old is he again?

Six.

He might be a little young, but I feel like Coach Carter, maybe middle school, early high

school, just watch it together.

As a basketball player, obviously I'm going to critique any basketball that I see in entertainment,

period.

Of course.

Yeah.

I know that if you're a boxer, you're going to critique that in any of the fight movies.

That's just me being critical.

High school musical is one of the most hilarious situations.

Yeah.

None of them can hoop.

Yeah.

None.

What is it in high school, what?

High school musical.

Why?

They play basketball in high school musical?

Yeah.

A lot.

Yeah.

They don't sing?

They sing and play basketball at the same time.

They're like, get your head in the game.

Oh, it's like-

And they're dribbling.

But they dribble with a flat hand.

Yeah.

And so that's not it.

Yeah.

I don't even know how they find people to do half the .

First off, every actor in the history of the world lies on their resume.

It's like every resume I've ever looked at.

Somebody's like a professional level horseback rider, like an equestrian rider, or they're

like a martial artist, like everybody.

It's like martial arts, yes.

It's like a checklist.

And then you get out there and like, this is not a dribble at all.

But when they get to ... So I've done campaigns for Adidas.

Yeah.

And when I tell you the audition process, and this was younger before I was even in

hosting.

It's different.

Different, yeah.

But the audition process to be in an Adidas campaign is really intense.

Mm-hmm.

I mean, it's like, well, it's a sports brand.

Right.

You know what I mean?

You're talking about basically Glee meets like a basketball movie.

Right.

I mean, it's like the director's probably never even been to a basketball game.

He's probably like a choreographer guy.

Right.

Yeah.

Or a song guy, you know?

Honestly, it doesn't take away completely from the film, but just if you're an athlete,

you know?

It pulled you out of it.

It pulled you out of it a little bit.

I mean, I still watched it, but I was just like cringing at parts.

Yeah.

I want you to recast the main five.

Oh, man.

Of New Girl.

Of New Girl.

Only using professional athletes.

Only using.

You can get super creative.

They don't have to be guys that you know act.

Okay.

Well, here's a lob.

Who's playing you?

Who's playing me?

Who's playing Winston?

Who's playing me?

My character started out slow on the show.

I was a replacement character.

But then-

Wait a second.

Yeah.

I remember that.

Yeah.

It wasn't in the pilot episode.

Yeah.

And then I came in, and I got to say, it was a little ... I didn't have my footing just

yet.

Mm-hmm.

And I didn't really find my rhythm until the second and third.

Third season.

Yeah.

So, Giannis Antetokounmpo is playing me.

Okay.

I am the Giannis of New Girl.

I'll take that.

It's so good.

Giannis is the Winston of basketball.

Okay.

I hope Giannis likes cats.

Yes.

I hope so.

Shout out to Giannis Antetokounmpo.

I don't know why I said that like I know him.

I don't.

I've never met this man in my life.

That's basketball.

Shout out to Giannis.

Hey, what's up?

What?

I hope you're good.

I've never met him in my life.

Who is playing the Schmidt character?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Who is playing the Schmidt character?

Any Jewish basketball players in the NBA?

There has to be.

I mean, there has to be.

Yes.

Omar Caspi?

Omar Caspi, he still play?

I don't know.

Sorry.

Who's the most fashionable, flashy, kind of very ...

When you say like flash, I thought of like Tyler Hero, but then he's like acts too cool

for school to be Schmidt.

Yeah.

Right?

Well, the Schmidt earlier years.

Tyler Hero.

Okay.

I could definitely say that.

And Schmidt's earlier years on the show, before character growth, he was definitely

going to take your shirt off all the time.

But then Schmidt matured over time.

You know what I'm going to go with?

Okay.

Let's hear it.

I'm going to go with Kevin Durant.

Okay.

Interesting.

That's a wild card.

And here's why.

Kevin Durant is a sure bet, no matter what.

He might have had one bad playoff series.

And it wasn't even bad.

He just lost.

You know what I mean?

Which is the most recent one.

But Kevin Durant is a guaranteed bucket.

Schmidt is a guaranteed laugh.

It's guaranteed.

Okay.

I see where you're going with it.

No matter what.

Okay.

I see where you're going with it.

No matter what.

You're going to laugh.

He's going to be the most entertaining person on camera.

So I'm going to go ...

It's a tall cast.

Okay.

Very tall cast.

Very, very tall.

Jake Johnson, Nick Miller.

For now.

For now.

Okay.

For Nick Miller.

Kyrie is Nick Miller.

Okay.

Nick Miller is a conspiracy theorist.

He is.

He's bad.

Nick Miller is ... You know how to trust big business.

He does everything himself.

He fixes everything at home himself.

I got a feeling Kyrie is ... I got a feeling at home, Kyrie don't call plumbers.

Okay?

Kyrie's like, no, I can fix this myself.

Okay?

I have a feeling Kyrie is that kind of guy.

Yeah.

And I think that that's the Nick Miller trait, where he's like, no, I'm capable.

I can get this done myself.

I don't need to worry about it.

I don't need to worry about it.

I don't need to worry about it.

I don't need to worry about it.

I have a feeling Kyrie is that kind of guy.

Yeah.

And I think that that's the Nick Miller trait, where he's like, no, I'm capable.

I can get this done myself.

Yeah.

I don't need to call somebody in my house to do this for me.

Okay.

You know?

I want to say Kyrie.

CeCe.

Yeah.

Reliable.

Okay.

You know, probably the rock of everything, because she was so stable.

I mean, she had some wobbly moments on the show, where she was going through stuff and,

you know, motherhood and all that stuff.

But for the moment, she's stable.

For the most part, you could say the most reliable friend that you could possibly have.

And that is where I would go, Klay.

Okay.

Because Steph is great, but Klay scored 67 points in a game once.

Right?

Didn't he drop 67 while only dribbling the ball 11 times?

Oh, yeah.

That's pretty reliable.

His footwork is insane.

He's insane.

And Zoey LeBron.

Okay.

I'm going to go.

Why would you say that?

Just because, like, she led our team.

She can do everything.

Like, there's not a category in which LeBron is bad at.

Free throws?

Hey, man, you got to do a little bit better.

But, you know, if I got a 75% on a test at school, man, I was happy.

Yeah.

That means I passed.

Yeah.

That means I did well.

So, Zoey, I would say, there's not a category in performance that she's bad at.

She's really good.

And there are moments on that show where she's, like, she's going to be doing an emotional

scene.

It doesn't matter the circumstance on the show.

Yeah.

She can do everything.

She can bounce in and out of comedy to drama seamlessly.

And, yeah, so I would call her the LeBron squad.

You dove much deeper than I was expecting.

If you're out there, please come up with a better top five.

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Jordan, LeBron, and Kobe.

Oh, man.

This is such a hard question.

I mean, dude, like—

Just talk us through it.

Like, what's going through your mind?

Okay.

I'm going to start Michael.

I'm going to start MJ.

I mean, I look at MJ as the greatest basketball player of all time.

Okay.

He is electric to watch.

He is a point-scoring, clutch machine that can—

Okay.

I mean, I look at MJ as the greatest basketball player of all time.

Okay.

He is electric to watch.

He is a point-scoring, clutch machine that can win games, that could—he's just magic.

It hurts to say it, but I'm going to have LeBron on the bench, and I'm going to call

Kobe, dude.

Honestly.

And I hate to say that, because it has so many, like, just factors and things involved

in it.

And major respect to Kobe.

This is not like—

Of course.

No, no, of course.

Let's make—you know, let's not mince words or make any mistakes.

Kobe Bryant's one of the greatest basketball players of all time in history.

But you put him in a pot of, like, really tough choices.

I did.

LeBron is a powerhouse.

As far as GOATs are concerned, I would say it's Michael, then it's LeBron in second place.

And so, like, you know, if you need somebody that's going to show up and, you know, drive

fear into the other team and get to the hoop and, you know, do what he's supposed to do

to win games, I mean, I got to take LeBron.

What puts MJ ahead of LeBron for you?

I just think—I just think it's—I just think it's his ability to clutch up.

I think it's just his ability to make plays happen.

And I talked about—

Two three-peats?

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

And I talked about LeBron driving fear into the hearts of the opposing team.

But like, dude, nobody wanted to play against MJ.

Like Shaq talked about it on the podcast.

Like, he was like, dude, that's the guy.

Some of it just comes down to, like, it's completely unrelated, but it almost goes back to—this

sounds so stupid.

It almost goes back to the cheeseburger conversation that we were having.

Everyone knows that Shake Shack and Five Guys are superior burgers to In-N-Out.

In-N-Out is—In-N-Out is a $3.99 cheeseburger.

Price-wise, value, a lot of those things.

But if you ask someone in SoCal or if you ask someone in Texas about Whataburger, the

regional subjectivity to that decision-making is so based in, yo, that's where I went after

T-ball games.

Like, when I—

True.

True.

Like, who is your hero?

Who is the person that means everything to you?

The person that changed your life, the person that made you believe that anything was possible,

that was Michael Jordan.

Was it?

That's dope.

For so many of us that grew up in that—you know what I'm saying?

That's dope.

Yeah.

And so it's like, what is the real metric for deciding who is the greatest of all time?

Okay, I want to move on to music.

I know you're a music guy, too.

Yes.

We have Drake, Jay-Z, and Tupac.

Start, binge, cut.

Who did this, dude?

Yo, like this is—

I did this.

—horrible right now.

Yo.

I feel like you're not really stumped like this on other shows.

No, because you're asking me questions that don't have answers.

Like, this one specifically.

Have an opinion, Mike.

Jay-Z, all of his albums, you know, In My Lifetime, Reasonable Doubt, all the stuff that he put out has real meaning to me and a lot of importance.

And I think it's hard for people in this current day and age to understand the importance of Jay-Z to hip-hop.

But once again, I mean, he is one of the most important and iconic people in the hip-hop industry for so many different reasons.

Like, you look at Kanye West, who's not on this list, right, on these three.

Kanye West is a result of Jay-Z.

Kanye West is a result of Jay-Z believing in his beats, believing in him as an artist, right, and Rockefeller signing him.

So Jay-Z the rapper, Jay-Z the bassist.

Jay-Z the businessman.

Jay-Z the catalyst and creator of so many other careers.

Not to mention married to potentially the hottest, you know, female artist in the game.

That's my guy.

But Tupac talked about some serious stuff in his music.

Once again, I mean, it's so hard to say it, but, like, for the time being, until he, like, until Drake climbs that second mountain and starts to really, like, make an impact on, like, the world.

I guess I gotta start, I gotta start Jay, make sure Pac is on the bench, and cut Drake.

And that hurts, because I love Drake, dude.

I know.

But I feel like I'm making the right decision.

I think I saw some of your tweets where you're, like, super hyping up Drake.

But, uh, you know what?

He took one for the team.

Yeah, I do.

Okay, speaking of team, Logan, George, and Jeff.

Dude, come on, bro.

Jeff, which Jeff?

You're Jeff.

You're, you're side, Wittig.

Wittig.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh.

He's made a ton of appearances lately on the Night Shift.

Dude.

How am I supposed to answer this question?

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Ready?

Yeah.

Ready?

Okay.

We got this.

Let's hear it.

Okay.

This, I'm gonna give you an interesting answer here.

So, I would, I would start Jeff.

Okay.

Because that's, that's my guy right now, right?

Like, like, me and Jeff, I think, like, as a duo on YouTube right now, and just in all

content, is incredible.

Like, me and him, two East Coast scumbags.

He's right across the Long Island Sound.

From me, like, just, just two idiots, right?

And, like, we, we love hanging out.

We make great content together.

We make each other laugh.

Like, he's a person that I, like, just love to spend time with, right?

On the bench, I need George, bro.

Because he's, like, there to talk to me, like, yo, like, the route you're going down right

now, read John 318.

He's that angel on your shoulder.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's like, dude, like, that girl, bro, she's not right for you.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

Like, you shouldn't be, you should go to sleep right now.

We have a big podcast tomorrow.

Like, you can't stay out till 4 a.m.

Read Corinthians.

You know, like, bro, you can't, you gotta stop eating cheeseburgers.

You're putting weight on.

Read Revelations.

Like, it's always gonna be read something in the Bible.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Which is great.

Okay.

And then, so he'll be on the bench, and then I'm gonna cut Logan.

I'm gonna slice him, dude.

I'm gonna cut him.

One, he has one leg.

He has a peg leg.

He's a pirate.

Two, regardless of what I do to him, he's fine.

He doesn't, he, like.

Okay.

He's got.

A lot of equity in prime.

I have 0%.

He has a wrestling career.

I get beat up in WWE.

He's a butterfly, and I gotta let him go.

If you love something, let it go.

Yeah, just, like, see if it, like, flies away, and just, like, let it come back.

You know, Ben Simmons, he came back.

He stayed with the Nets.

But, like, who knows what's gonna happen, right?

Like, he may end up going to, you know, somewhere else.

Right?

So, peace, Logan.

One of these cups has a scenario.

Okay.

That is basketball.

That is basketball-related.

And the other cup has an emotion.

So, I've actually seen you play this game before.

We're not going too crazy.

Okay.

I want to act out this scenario.

But this time, you won't be on an island yourself.

I can help you.

Okay.

Awesome.

So, you can play off of me.

Okay.

I'll do my best.

I'm not an actress, but we'll go for it.

I'm not a sports person, so this is perfect.

We'll feed off each other.

Okay, let's go for it.

Okay, so let's pick.

Okay.

This one's calling me.

Okay.

All right.

Should I read it?

Yeah.

Okay.

You just lost to your rival school.

Okay.

Oh, gosh.

Let's see the emotion.

If it's happy, I'm probably just going to, like, hangry.

Hangry.

Okay, amazing.

What?

Oh, gosh.

All right.

So, I'm your teammate.

We just lost to our rival school.

I'm so bummed.

I just can't believe that we just lost.

I just want to get out of here, honestly, and, like, go to In-N-Out or something.

Because.

We just had team dinner after.

Like, you're still hungry.

Honestly, I'm so upset.

Right now, I don't even feel like I can eat.

I think it made me even more hungrier, to be honest.

Hungry for revenge.

I like that you took the hangry to the.

Right?

Look at that.

Look at that.

That was good.

Okay, next.

Go for it.

Okay.

Actually, no.

I'm going to give you one cup.

Okay.

And then I'll pick this one.

That'll make it a little bit easier.

Okay.

Okay.

You sprained your ankle.

Okay.

And you're guilty.

I'm guilty about spraining my ankle?

I feel guilty.

Yeah.

So, I'm just going to grab this.

Oh, my gosh.

Sarah, are you okay?

That looks so bad.

It's so bad, but it's not as bad as how I played today.

I'm so sorry.

We won by 30 points.

Like, don't feel bad.

No, I feel bad.

Like, I feel bad that you're out for, like, four weeks.

We could have gone down by, like, 40 more points.

I'm so sorry.

I just hope that you heal up quick.

I just hope that you're feeling okay.

I am, actually.

Thank you.

Ankles feel real good.

Oh, no.

Okay.

Next.

What's up?

Let's see.

You're late for team workouts?

And you're bored.

Okay.

All right.

So, I'm your sister.

I'll drive you to workouts.

Okay, okay.

Sarah, it is literally five after.

Can you, like, push on it?

Like, can you, like, hit the gas, please?

Like, I'm going to be late.

No.

We're literally in a school zone.

I cannot speed in a school zone.

No, you can't.

No.

I can't.

You get points for running over people.

That's okay.

You're going to get us both to jail.

Yeah.

Do you want to be late?

Can I be, like, top bunked in?

Do you want to be 15 minutes late, or do you want to go to jail?

Sure.

Let's do both.

Just kidding.

That was perfect.

That was perfect acting.

Weren't you an actress?

Take my job.

I need, like, a sound effect actor.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

We have two more.

Okay, okay.

You lost your start spot to a freshman.

And you're excited.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm so happy that you got my spot.

Like, it's so great.

But you've been starting since you were a freshman.

No, it's okay.

It's, like, the best to start at a young age.

Like, you're so much better.

Do you have any advice for me?

This is actually my first time playing on varsity.

I can't believe Coach gave me the spot.

It's kind of crazy.

Like, I airballed my last free throw, and he still has me starting, which is...

It's okay.

You know, like, people make mistakes.

But, honestly, you're better.

You're just better than me.

Oh, thanks.

Yeah.

I mean, you are a team's leading scorer and everything.

Yeah.

So, it's kind of confusing, but...

It's okay.

I mean, you're a freshman.

Yeah.

You have so much to go for, and, like, I'm just super excited for you.

You're going to do amazing.

Which basket is ours?

Good question.

I don't even know.

This one?

Yeah, sure.

Hopefully.

Hopefully.

Okay.

Yeah.

First up, we have the best dressed.

Ooh, best dressed.

I'm going to go a little off-kilter here.

I'm going to go Kyle Kuzma just because he's willing to take the risk.

I mean, I think about the pink sweater.

Definitely some options and some choices I don't necessarily agree with.

But Kuz is fast.

Fashion sense is elite.

I mean, his time in L.A., he really stepped up to the challenge.

I think some guys come to the Lakers and they don't understand the magnitude of what it

means to be in Los Angeles and just how your swag needs to be.

But I think Kuz built that in L.A. and now he's taking it on to D.C. with the Wizards.

But, you know, not to say every fit is, you know, 10 for 10, but I think he does a great

job, unique fashion sense, and really testing the limits and going out there and really

kind of showing what this next wave of NBA fashion should be.

He knows how to get us to talk about him.

That's for sure.

That's for sure.

Okay, so who's the life of the party?

Ooh, life of the party.

I'm going to go Giannis just because I think he's such as a, you know, my dad works with

Milwaukee Bucks and he's been a big Giannis fan for a long time.

But Giannis, he just looks so happy to be playing basketball.

And obviously, if you read his book by Miriam Thader and just all the stuff he dealt with

in his life and watched the Rise movie on Disney, all the things and just the trials

and tribulations that he dealt with, you can just see somebody who's genuinely happy to

be in the NBA, to be playing basketball.

You know, he was in Milwaukee and I'm going to be honest, Milwaukee is a cold city.

You're from the Midwest, you know, when you get the opportunity to go to nicer, warmer

places, you generally take that.

But I think he was just, you know, so in love with the Bucks and the city and what they

meant to him and how much they embraced him that he ended up staying.

So I think a guy like that, he'd be the life of the party.

It'd be fun to hang out with, you know, you know, he gets turnt up, you know, you saw

it after they won the championship, how hard he was going and you know, his brothers would

be a good time too.

And I'm sure just the inside jokes they have and you know how funny they are.

And they, you know, if you're hanging out with them, they'll start speaking.

Speaking Greek and you know, you won't know what's going on, but you know, they'll still

make you crack up.

He's also sneakily good at social media or at least saying the right things to get those

clips.

Like some of those clips are hilarious.

I was like, I didn't realize you were this funny.

Okay.

Next up we have biggest flirt.

Ooh, biggest flirt.

I don't know.

I'll probably go Devin Booker, but just, just because, you know, his hit ratio is very,

very high and just the level and quality that he's able.

To ascertain with his mouthpiece.

I think he'd be good, good at the flirt game or the mellow too.

Probably.

I'm sure if the mellow, you know, the mellow start flirting.

I think there's different levels, right?

Devin Booker seems to be like the quiet type and the mellow is just one that will, will

say whatever it takes.

All right.

So who's the class clown?

Embiid.

I think, you know, Embiid, Troel Embiid.

I think about after the Ben Simmons move happened and just, you know, him posting one of my

favorite memes, the photo of the kid at the funeral, uh, had his biggest haters funeral,

you know, Embiid just has great timing.

He's hilarious.

He, he, he's got the comedy down pat and you know, he just, he, he's, he's merciless.

So in this troll game, in this comedy game, you have to, you know, be out of pocket at

times.

And I think he definitely lives up to that challenge.

I agree.

Okay.

Last but not least, our superlatives we have most likely to succeed.

I'm going to go Luca because I think.

From a very, you know, people used to get mad at me when I pointed this out, but it's

like, Luca has been playing pro since he's 16, he's been playing at a high level since

he was 18.

So him coming to the NBA, you know, it's a different situation than guys who go to college

or, you know, try the G league or overtime leader and these type of things.

He was playing against grown ass men at a very, you know, early age in his life.

So he had to get toughened and hardened.

And just to see him on the court, I love Luca because I feel like our bodies are comparable.

Like he doesn't have that.

You know, like athletic physique, but the stuff he does on the court is so amazing and

incredible that, you know, I got to give it to Luca.

I think he's, you know, I'm, I'm a big Trey young fan.

I'm a big fan of John, a lot of these other guys in the league, but I feel like at this

current juncture, he's the guy that's going to carry the league on to the next generation.

I have a list of categories, sports categories and others.

And you have to pick that one person who you would love to build your franchise around.

Okay.

Okay.

I'll start you off with an easy one.

NFL.

Team.

This is your bread and butter.

What one person would you like to build an NFL franchise around can be in Chicago?

Of course.

Yeah, of course.

It would be to pay who we building around Justin Fields.

You're sticking with it.

Yeah.

That's our quarterback.

Why not?

Let's do it.

This is spices world.

You can, you can use whatever player you want.

Exactly.

Okay.

Using Justin Fields.

What about an NBA team, my pistons, man, who would I like to build around every player in the league right now is a free agent and you have the first, who are we taking?

Give me Yannis, give me Yannis on the pistons, baby.

Ooh, we'll be rolling.

Follow up question.

Who's your point guard with Yannis?

Uh, Steph, it's a good mix.

Yeah, I like it.

That's, that's all you need right there.

We're good.

We're good.

All right.

Now you're building a podcast network.

You need that one talent to hold down the network.

Well, I don't think anybody's as good as Nichelle Turner.

She's fantastic.

She is awesome.

Like she's, she's very good at what she does.

So the show is the best man.

So I'm going to show the show is our franchise podcaster for the network.

The great choice.

All right.

Now you're starting a record label.

You need that one artist.

And this could be.

Anybody.

So even someone who's not putting out music anymore.

Okay.

Well, I don't think anybody is, um, doing as well as a could have been records.

So I got to go with Drew ski is the best.

And it's, it's not even close.

What single are you releasing first?

Uh, it's going to be some trap, like some trap music.

It's going to be some type of rap, some type of hip hop.

And, uh, you know, I'm just going to put Drew on the track, man.

That's that's.

That's it.

That's all we need.

Okay.

We're starting, we're starting a record label with Drew ski.

Now you are starting a new comedy club.

You need a comedian to set you guys off.

Who are we taking right now?

Give me, give me a little rail.

Laurel is killing it.

Well, it's killing it.

And also when I played in the, in the, in the all-star game in Chicago, he was mad at me.

He said, why we got it.

We got to take this serious.

I can't be out here just shooting all these random threes, man.

Describe your ideal courtside fit.

Comfort first.

Okay.

A hundred percent.

Sweatpants.

Buy some sweats.

Sweatpants or basketball shorts.

A hoodie.

I'm going to get one of those old starter jackets.

Dripped and all Nike.

Just a white tee, a cute like chain.

All black.

And either a beanie hat, some cargos or a trucker hat.

Some old J's.

With some really cool sneakers.

And some really cool sneakers.

Let's look at the full outfit, big old shoes on me.

And we're keeping it at that.

Describe your ideal courtside food and drink combination.

A Modelo, some pretzels, Twizzlers and popcorn.

I love popcorn.

Maybe some popcorn.

Popcorn.

I am obsessed with water.

Water.

Probably the water.

Probably like a really good cold beer.

Straight in on a beer.

A Coors Light.

Crush some nachos.

Go back for a beer to wash down the nachos.

Mass produced awful beer.

I want to drink one of those.

I used to have a cold beer with sausage and peppers.

A meat pie.

And like fish and chips.

Carne asada street tacos with like a spicy michelada.

Pork belly Cubano from Bunk Sandwiches.

It would definitely be my mom's homemade fried chicken or my dad's steak.

I'm going to have a hot dog, but I'm going to eat it in secret.

Pizza.

Sprite.

Sierra Miss.

Because I don't want anyone to see me eat the hot dog.

Cotton candy.

Peanut Om Noms.

$14 Mike and I.

Lemonade's always going to be my go to drink.

Just like a nice tequila.

Like a tequila water person.

Tequila water?

Yeah.

All in at the end of the game for about $250.

Who is one person dead or alive that you would love to sit courtside with?

Billy Crystal. And I want him to be alive.

I want a good time person.

So I'm going to go with like Bill Murray.

It would have to be Tiger Woods.

Eddie Vedder.

George Washington.

Could you imagine?

Michael Jackson.

I really want to know.

Like what Dr. James Naismith would think about like today's game.

He'd be like, what the **** is this?

Right.

You know, probably like Tupac.

Tupac.

I want to sit in between Jack Nicholson and Spike Lee.

Obama.

Virgil Abloh.

Probably Kobe.

Yeah, Kobe.

I got Kobe being Bryant.

LeBron James.

So I feel like maybe LeBron.

Yeah, Michael Jordan.

Bernie Mac or Robin Williams.

Muhammad Ali.

I just even get choked up just even thinking about it.

If there's anybody I could sit next to again, it would be Muhammad Ali.

Fantastic.

What is the best game that you've been courtside or fieldside at?

Pistons game when LeBron scored 25 straight against us.

It's LSU, Alabama.

Football?

Football.

Oh, wow.

That's a big one.

It was the Aaron Gordon, Zach Levine slam dunk contest.

Anthony Joshua versus Vladimir Klitschko.

I sat courtside at Portland and Dallas game with Ice Cube.

I forget who the player was.

They came up to him and tried to send something to him.

And he was like,

Hey, y'all lose.

You might want to keep your eye on the game.

He said it with such a serious look.

And I was like, oh, that's cool.

In 2017 in New Orleans, Glenn Robinson was not supposed to win the dunk contest.

I remember that he was a 15, 14 to one to win in Vegas.

So obviously I threw money on because I was like, we're going to win.

Yeah, we had him do like his best dunk first.

So everybody else would try crazy stuff.

It's exactly what happened.

Oh, that's smart.

And I just like watched it unfold.

And it was just so cool.

And then he gave me his trophy.

So, oh, so cool.

I mean, it wasn't necessarily a good game,

but UCLA's 95 championship game against Arkansas got to be in attendance at that.

I actually had a piece of the net, had it in my wallet like while it ended up

getting stolen and I'll never forgive the person who spent the rest of my life

trying to hunt them down. So if I find you, if you have that piece

of net, hope you're taking care of it.

And if I find you, it's going to be some

Liam Neeson and Taken type of interactions going on.

There's one event in history.

It could be a sporting event or other

that you would have loved to have been courtside for.

The birth of Jesus, dare I say it?

2000 NBA slam dunk contest.

That would have been cool.

Miracle at the Meadowlands 2.

WrestleMania 1.

What, when they walked on the moon, did they?

One of Jordan's finals, you know, series games.

One of Michael Jordan's last games.

Flu game.

Michael Jordan wins the NBA finals in Utah for the shot.

Yeah, that would have been hard to catch courtside.

The original Woodstock, Woodstock 69.

The MTV unplugged filming of Nirvana in 1993.

When Gladiators were alive.

You know, when that was happening.

I'd love to just see like guys go against lines and then just nuke each other.

Jesse Owens break the 100 meter record at the Olympic Games in Nazi Germany.

When Lincoln freed the slaves.

July 4th, 1776 Cuban Missile Crisis.

I would have loved to watch David

Hasselhoff sing as the Berlin Wall was coming down.

I know that sounds so random.

83, Dr. J winning the championship for Philadelphia.

2016, game seven in the Bay to watch LeBron defeat the greatest regular season

team in NBA history, fulfill the prophecy.

2016 WNBA finals, game five, because my sister hit the game winner.

When the Pistons went back to back.

Oh, that was the best.

When the bad boys was playing against Bird in the big three.

Crazy.

Of him, McHale and Parrish and DJ.

When England won the World Cup in 66, I think like being in the stadium for that

would have been pretty cool.

Like because my dad was English.

So I know what that like that would have been like for him.

I would have loved to have seen Sandy Koufax pitch in person.

1960, Pittsburgh Pirates winning the World Series.

Watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel while I was drinking a Red Bull.

Handing him Red Bulls while he's painting like that.

That's like, you know, that's like, yeah, maybe something like that.

I don't know. All right, you guys, I hope that you enjoyed this special episode

of Courtside Club next week, January 19th.

We will be back with brand new guests and we'll be back to our regular format.

And I'm super excited about that.

Thank you so much for all the support throughout the season so far.

And we will see you guys next time.

Bye.