Postgame Show: The Days Off-Off

Western Conference NBA Cup games are tonight, after New York and Orlando on the East side. You into it?

I am, but the schedule bugged me. Prime put two East games on back-to-back days with early tips; the usual play is East early, West late, then repeat. Feels like rookie mistakes.

It’s one day and everyone’s back on Saturday; within each conference the rest lines up, so it’s fair enough.

This is playoff logic. They won’t have teams meeting with different rest within a bracket, so West teams match each other and East teams match each other.

We’ve seen staggered rest in real playoffs plenty; one series can be a day ahead of another and nobody freaks out.

Because the Heat were playing, I locked in on the Prime studio show and liked it; it’s a solid watch.

There was a fun UD and Haliburton wrestling bit that landed for me.

Blake Griffin’s good on there too; asks sharp questions.

They’re all strong, and I still laugh that UD once swore he’d never do media and now he’s everywhere—and excellent. I feel a little duped, in the best way.

Tonight it’s Suns versus Thunder and Spurs versus Lakers, likely without Wembanyama. The Lakers should have an edge, though San Antonio’s been friskier. The Thunder are rolling, but last year they cruised in and then face-planted in the Cup.

I tried to toss in a corny rhyme about that and immediately regretted it.

Jeremy, let’s hit the polls.

On Fontecchio making a shot, about seventy percent said no. The audience also thinks being too open is real in basketball, around seventy-three percent. And most didn’t realize Philip Rivers was already starting in college back when Bill Clinton was president.

Rivers was deep into his sophomore year on September eleventh; picture him in a dorm watching that unfold.

I remember him going up against Chris Weinke, who felt twice everyone’s age.

Weinke’s now an assistant and quarterbacks coach at Georgia Tech.

Told you, and someone here clearly wasn’t dialed in earlier—but we got there.