[speaker001:] well did you get a chance to watch any of the games
[speaker002:] uh no I I just kind of I I kind of watch them on the news and that's about it
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] uh uh um the Michael Jordan's on Chicago Bulls isn't he
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] what did he get hurt last night or
[speaker001:] no I don't think so because uh I saw just a little bit of the game today and he was out there playing
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] although uh I what I saw was at the end of the first quarter I think he only had like eightch eight points
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] at the end of the first quarter they thought that was big news
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] so I don't know but I don't know who won and uh I don't know who do you normally pull for the the Mavericks or
[speaker002:] no I I kind of feel like the about the Mavericks the way I do about the Cowboys now
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] yeah uh just all this Roy Tarpley stuff and and uh what is it their you know he got he's in trouble again down in Houston and and uh they said the other night his contract is so big that if anything happens to him you know if they don't trade him they'll have to pay him off you know so they're rather have him except that he gets in trouble all the time and falls off the wagon and and and have some chance of him playing you know earning his money
[speaker001:] oh jeez yeah because that's just dollars right out of the franchise
[speaker002:] yeah sure is
[speaker001:] oh man
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] now I uh I I've always been pulling for the Lakers for a long time
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] and uh not just not just because they always win but uh when they had uh Akeem
[speaker002:] they're consistent um-hum
[speaker001:] anybody who was old as that playing that well you know I just kind of had to go with them then I kind of got caught up with a lot of the other players and uh course uh all the people that follow the Lakers and everything out there in in California um and it also helps when they were winning
[speaker002:] yeah well they play better as a team than anybody else seems like
[speaker001:] I was I always wondered that you know I I will take a look at the individual score you know in the individual stance in the NBA
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and you know they they have in the paper you know like fifteen different categories and they'll have like a individuals uh they'll have the the highest scorer the top rebounders uh assists foul shooting percentages and all that and you go thown through and virtually every one of the categories there isn't uh a Laker in the top ten usually hardly any uh anybody anybody in the top twenty except for like Magic
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh yet the Lakers continue to win so you're right I think they do really play much better as a team than they do uh uh each one you know individually at their spot but uh
[speaker002:] yeah and year in and year out it's not like they have you know a lot of teams will will will win the play-offs and then the next year they'll be all they'll be too busy doing their endorsements and stuff to
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] to concentrate on the game
[speaker001:] I understand that um I guess Boston's really uh giving uh aren't aren't they playing Detroit I think Boston's playing Detroit and I think they're really giving them a run for their money
[speaker002:] yeah except Larry Bird's hurt
[speaker001:] did he get hurt again
[speaker002:] his his back is bad all the time now I think
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I tell you what I guess it's tough to play that many games and still stay healthy
[speaker002:] yeah they play two or three times a week like you know and then they go on road trips and they do the same thing and and then they and then they stay out for two or three weeks at a time so it really gets you know the I mean they're sleeping in different bed every night and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and I imagine that really helps his back
[speaker001:] he ought to have his own bed come along with him you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah he said he said the other night on the news that he hadn't done any extra shooting for six weeks so you know and he's the one that's always winning the um the the outside the three point shot and the
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] he does that every year
[speaker001:] yeah matter of fact I watched him uh on TV you know sink I don't know a jeez it was like uh uh thirty five baskets in thirty seconds or something like that from three point range
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] unbelievable
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] oh I don't know did you ever play much basketball
[speaker002:] not much just uh just just playing horse and stuff like that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah because it's it kind of a violent game
[speaker001:] it really is for a non contact sport quote unquote
[speaker002:] and and they don't yeah and they don't wear any pads so I
[speaker001:] yeah really
[speaker002:] I figured
[speaker001:] some of those guys got pretty funny funny looking uh eye wear
[speaker002:] yeah they have to wear goggles because they get hit in the in the face with elbows all the time
[speaker001:] man
[speaker002:] well it's his it's I was looking in the paper for something on it and here's the the top NBA draft prospects and uh I mean they're all the size of football players you know except they're just taller
[speaker001:] yeah several years ago when I was up in uh Cleveland I was staying at the Marriott and the Cavaliers were playing somebody I think it was like Utah or somebody like that and uh I was down by the pool and there was all these guys standing around about chest deep in water now I wear uh contacts and I I had my glasses on and I went down there and and just jumped into the water where they were and it went right up over my head and I came up spittering and sputtering for air and they were all the basketball players there to play the Cavaliers they were all like uh like six eight and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh you know six ten and they were standing in water that was like six foot
[speaker002:] six foot yeah
[speaker001:] you know and it was uh it was funny I tell you I saw I saw a guy I don't remember what his name was but he got on the elevator and he had his swimsuit on and uh he was just skin and bones you know it looked like something out of Africa
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I made some comment and uh he says yeah he says I weigh about uh uh two hundred and forty pounds
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but he says it's not much when you stretch it over seven foot one
[speaker002:] yeah really
[speaker001:] so you're right those guys really you know the the big ones I don't even know how much Ewing weighs but uh he's got to be way up there
[speaker002:] oh yeah well here's a here's a guy from LSU Stanley Roberts he's seven feet tall and he weighs two hundred and eighty pounds so
[speaker001:] God that's a that's a lot that's a lot of a lot of guy coming down on you
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] jeez I didn't even see who's who's supposed to have the the uh the best uh draft picks
[speaker002:] it doesn't even say it doesn't say here it says uh it says the underclassmen this is for underclassmen for June twenty six
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh I guess I guess they don't they have they they uh have a lottery on it they pick numbers and that's how they take them in order
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] it must not be according to their how they did during the year
[speaker001:] I I used to go down to Reunion Arena uh went down there a couple years on the day of the draft
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and that was really pretty interesting they usually have uh uh you know a video uh highlights of the season you know and basically kind of walks you through what happened to the Mavs and who they traded for and how they did and a lot of good footage both the good and the bad
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I I don't know I haven't I didn't go down there last year but uh it it was only like a couple dollars to get in and it was really kind of interesting but uh so who do you thinks going to win the play-offs
[speaker002:] I I don't know who's is it Chicago and and
[speaker001:] Chicago uh and let's see uh Golden State and the Lakers and Chicago and Philadelphia think Chicago's playing Philadelphia and then the uh shoot I can't remember them all now
[speaker002:] Utah Portland Boston and Detroit
[speaker001:] right yeah yeah
[speaker002:] okay that's the NBA yeah
[speaker001:] NBA play-offs Philadelphia was uh favored by one point over Chicago and the Lakers one point over Golden State and Detroit by five five over uh Boston jeez
[speaker002:] I think Boston Boston will win
[speaker001:] think so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I tell you what those guys really hang tough
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know I I'd like to see them back up there again they really uh they really gave some some really good years of uh uh of enjoyment and fun and everything have you ever been up there to Boston Garden
[speaker002:] oh no uh
[speaker001:] well I don't know is that in I I haven't really gone to a lot of games live but boy I'd sure like to basketball's gotten to be a lot of fun
[speaker002:] um-hum