00:00So the finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield have been announced and
00:05much like all the other sports, we're about to water down the Basketball Hall of Fame as well.
00:09So I'm not going to read every name to you, but I'll get to through as many as I can.
00:13Let me start with players first, okay?
00:16Blake Griffin, a Hall of Fame finalist.
00:19That dude ain't no Hall of Famer.
00:20Yes, he is.
00:20If you put Blake Griffin in the Hall of Fame, you should shut the building down.
00:23Well, then the building's getting shut down because he's getting in.
00:25Blake Griffin was a dunker.
00:27Blake Griffin was never a good basketball player.
00:29You are so wrong about that.
00:31He's only an All-Star six times his entire career.
00:33He was injured.
00:34I don't care about Lob City.
00:35He was a dunker.
00:37Great.
00:38You can dunk the basketball.
00:39He became a complete basketball player.
00:41That is not true.
00:41I just never played good defense.
00:42Yes, he did.
00:43Couldn't shoot.
00:43Couldn't shoot.
00:44Yeah, could not shoot unless it was a dunk.
00:47So Blake Griffin's not a Hall of Fame.
00:48He became a 40% three-point shooter.
00:50Blake Griffin, not a Hall of Famer.
00:53He's a finalist.
00:54No, absolutely not.
00:55Next one.
00:56Kevin Johnson.
00:56He made 40% of a NBA career.
00:59Kevin Johnson.
01:00KJ was dead nice.
01:01Was a good player.
01:02Great player.
01:04I think went to one Western Conference Finals, I believe.
01:09First player in NBA history to average 20-10 and two steals a game.
01:14Not a Hall of Famer.
01:15Let me go to a guy I think is a Hall of Famer.
01:18Are you ready?
01:19Uh-huh.
01:19All right, let me get to another one who's not.
01:21Amari Stoudemire.
01:23Not a Hall of Famer.
01:25Agree or disagree?
01:25Disagree.
01:26Um, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
01:28It's a team.
01:29I disagree.
01:30Okay.
01:30Disagree.
01:31Let me give you some of the rules before we continue.
01:32There's rules here to this, right?
01:34Disagree.
01:34And maybe I didn't explain the rules, so I'll take responsibility for you not understanding
01:38the rules of the Hall of Fame game.
01:40Yeah.
01:40Okay, the Hall of Fame game where it's like this.
01:42Okay.
01:42If I give you a name.
01:44Yeah.
01:44If you, if the immediate answer isn't yes, that guy or gal is a Hall of Famer, then by
01:49default, he ain't a Hall of Famer.
01:51Well, Blake's in.
01:51So.
01:52Blake, yes.
01:53If your response to, is that guy a Hall of Famer, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, he's not
01:59a Hall
01:59of Famer.
02:00Okay.
02:00So, you have a vote for Blake Griffin.
02:02Yes.
02:02If you and I disagree, my vote trumps yours on that one.
02:05It does.
02:06Blake Griffin, not a Hall of Famer.
02:07He's absolutely a Hall of Famer.
02:08Amari Stoudemire.
02:09Ask the basketball guy on the show.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Yeah.
02:11I win that one.
02:12Okay.
02:12It's, it's clear he's a Hall of Famer.
02:14We'll take it to the vote.
02:14Yeah.
02:14Amari Stoudemire, you said, da-da-da-da-da.
02:18Yeah.
02:18Not a Hall of Famer.
02:18Okay.
02:19I can go with that.
02:20Now, I'm going to give you a guy that you probably didn't get to see play because of
02:23your age.
02:24Yeah.
02:24You know who the guy is.
02:25Yeah.
02:26But I think this guy is a Hall of Famer.
02:28Uh-huh.
02:28Old school guy.
02:30Third in NBA history in offensive rebound and 16th still to this day in total rebounds with
02:38over 13,000.
02:39Mm-hmm.
02:40Buck Williams is a Hall of Famer.
02:42Of course he's a Hall of Famer.
02:43Now, Buck Williams, though, here's the tough part.
02:46Go ahead.
02:46He did all his good stuff with the Nets when they were horrible.
02:50Well, that's not entirely true.
02:51The Portland, he was not the same guy with the Trailblazers.
02:53He was on two NBA Finals teams with the Trailblazers.
02:54With the Trailblazers.
02:55Yes.
02:55But look at his numbers then.
02:57He was a role player by then.
02:58No, he was a role player for sure.
02:58He was a beast with the Nets when the Nets were horrible.
03:01But Buck Williams is a stone Hall of Famer.
03:03So we agree.
03:04Should already have been in.
03:05Okay, so right now you and I, as the nominating committee, we agree that of the players, only
03:11one player gets in, Buck Williams.
03:12Okay, great.
03:13No, we do not agree on that.
03:14Yeah, okay.
03:15We do not.
03:16That's our only unanimous vote.
03:18Fine.
03:18Okay, Buck Williams, congratulations.
03:20Buck, you're a Hall of Famer.
03:21Yeah.
03:21Blake, you're never going to be a Hall of Famer.
03:23No, Blake's getting in.
03:24First battle.
03:25And by the way, Blake Griffin, I'm going to tell you this.
03:27I'm going to remind you of this.
03:28I want to be clear about this.
03:30This moment in life has nothing to do with the fact that I will never vote for you, and
03:34I get a vote, for the Basketball Hall of Fame.
03:36Uh-huh.
03:36All right?
03:37I want to take you to Phoenix, Arizona, about a decade ago.
03:41Super Bowl.
03:43Steakhouse restaurant.
03:44Yeah.
03:44Two cute little precocious kids.
03:47One of them seven, one of them nine.
03:50Mm-hmm.
03:50Wait for you to finish your dinner, because that's what their daddy told them to do.
03:54Oh, my goodness.
03:55And they went to the front of the restaurant as you were leaving, after your dinner, waiting
04:00for your car, not interrupting your moment, at a dinner table.
04:05Uh-huh.
04:05And these two cute little kids, seven and nine, with a pen and paper in hand, went up to you
04:10by themselves.
04:12Yeah.
04:12And they said very politely, excuse me, Mr. Griffin, could we please have your autograph?
04:20And you, Blake Griffin, looked at those two children, innocent, innocent, innocent children.
04:25I see.
04:26I think I know who these kids were.
04:27Seven and nine years old.
04:28I don't think these ages are right either.
04:29And said, I don't do no autographs.
04:31Okay.
04:32Quote, unquote.
04:33You might not do no autographs.
04:34I brushed those kids to the side and walked out of the restaurant, leaving those kids in
04:40tears, wondering what they had done wrong to offend Blake Griffin.
04:45You will never get into the Hall of Fame, Blake Griffin, because you're a bad guy.
04:49Bye.
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