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The Deep 3 Podcast — The Best NBA Moment From Every Year Since 2000 | TD3 Clips. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
We are gonna pick the best NBA moment for every single season since 2000. Starting with 2026, the best moment we just saw it and go back in time. And so we have the top moment in our hearts from all these years. Okay. So first off, the 2025, 2026 season. We gotta go band me through, right? I'm just gonna be 83. Remember opening night when we like- So please stop talking. It's the New York Knicks winning the title. Was that good? That was actually terrible for me. It's not that bad. It's not that bad. You know how people gotta beat up in the streets of New York for no fucking reason? Texans at that. You're okay with San Antonio resident violence. Not very texting of you. You're from Texas and you're up and none. Amen. You should've known what you were walking into. And you're okay with that. I'm a victim playing here. There you go. I'm gonna do it. You walked outside of Madison Square Garden with the Spurs jersey on. I'm not saying I condone it. That happens, yeah. But I understand what happened. No. You don't wanna go to the championship as a whole. I do think them whooping the hawks by 50 by 60 at the point-
That is on here. I think that's definitely up here. You're right. We can go the whole next run. The whole next run was legendary. It deserves to be the best monumental moment at this. Dude, they didn't lose for a month. That's ridiculous. In the playoffs. Ridiculous. And they weren't supposed to be that good and they just locked the fucking. Nothing really touches it. Damn it. Hey, shout out to the hawks. Sorry, Bam. Hey, you're on here for something. All publicity is good. All publicity is good. Yeah. All is involved. Championship runners. You're always a part of the story. You're relevant. We beat the next twice this year. No one could say that. No one can say that. In the playoffs, yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. When we can't say that. It's just that today. All right, next. 25 season. The look of being traded was fucking crazy as shit. But I ain't go, I- Yo, that finals run from the Pacers. Yeah. I think I'll never see anything like that. Specifically, he's the next. Yeah. Specifically, the game-ready shopping with the nips. That's a good one. That's a good one. He blinks everything. Yeah. I guess the nips. Yeah. It got all that not to win. That was tough. We got the two. It's a better than Luke a moment though, because that was-
That was crazy. That was, like, you know, you'll look up at like 1 a.m. Only there is not. I wasn't going to say it because some people wouldn't consider it a good moment. They'd be mad because he's a lacer now. But that's my favorite moment of the year. Just like far. The genuine shock in everyone's eyes. Like no one- This is the last thing on everyone's mind that could happen. No, even if it was a portrayal. Fuck it. There you go. Luke Adonch is getting traded to lacers. The best moment of the 2025 season. Yeah. It altered the trajectory of my life for the better. It's not the same man I was before this. It's always cool when you can see something happen and be like, Oh, we- we are living in history. Yeah. Like the day of people said this is the craziest trade in American sports history. And it wasn't really that hyperbolic. It was so bad. It pissed so many mass fans off of the points of where- I remember they brought coffins outside the stadium, bro. It's crazy. Yeah. The reactions, the nine-month to a year-long saga that we had, a runway where we just make fun of Nico Harrison and the maps. That was good. And like every podcast ever, when they talk to an NBA player, they get to be like, what do you think when you saw the Luka Donter trade appman? It gave ammo to creators forever.
Mm-hmm. Everyone was man. And I thought it was fake. Yeah. All right. Next. I was- I was sleep. Oh, 2024. What's the best moments? Luka gaming over at Go Bear was a good moment for sure in the playoffs. I remember that. We were in Mexico watching that. Eating wings. That was a good moment. Yeah. I know mine. That's just me. It finals the last. Yeah, I don't think people care about the Celtic title wasn't necessarily an amazing moment. It was cool for them. Yeah. If I'm being objective, I get it. I'm not though. So. I think the wolves beating the nuggets in game seven. Because even though they didn't play well, that whole moment in that series felt really, really big. And the nuggets were defending champs. And it was like down goes the giants. We expected to be in the finals. All year we talked about the Celtics are amazing. They can't defend Yokech when we get to the finals. Yokech is going to get him. He's asked didn't get there. Yeah. I'm not alive. Once the timber was beat. The nuggets. That's what I thought we had for you. As you should have. I was very. Yeah. Because everyone's trying to big up the maps.
It was a good moment. Yeah. It was never going to happen. Oh, Bronnie got traded or he got signed to the lake was this year too. I remember that. That was cool. On the walls. Bronnie. Draft to the lake. We got double the bronjame on the lake. Like cat was also traded. I don't care. We got double the bronjames on the lakeers. We're going there. All right. You can argue it. Tool of bronze. One city. Never been seen before. Never will be seen again. True. All right. Next. 23 season. Never been the same city again. Never. Right. Carving is so bad. How many of you think you're going to name their kids like LeBron? Like 15, 20 years from now. At least one. You might see a lot. You. You might see a lot. Yeah. I think you'll do it. I can't do it. That's it. That's it. LeBron's name is so unique. Yeah. It's like if I name my son LeBron like that's crazy glaze. People will do it. You can't really play it off. People would do it. Yeah. Is that more glaze than the heat retiring my who do it in this number? Yes. Nah.
I'm going to name my son, Rajan. Fucking Michael Jordan meets it again. I'm sure you don't know. I'm going to name Rajan. Hell yeah. He doesn't just born in the black race. Where'd you get your knee crack? You think I'm a chance? All right. When he three season. I mean, it's got to be LeBron baking this coin record. Yeah, that's cool. It should ever. This season had a lot of moments as I was doing research. There was a lot of funny moments too. Is this the year where Patrick Beverly had the camera and showed it? Oh, the left flickers. What's he there? This is that moment everyone was like, this is the funniest season ever. That was a sure thing. Maybe. You don't think play off Jimmy? That was tough. That's the only moment. I think play off Jimmy going insane. And him fighting with the Celtics all the time. I kind of like that. The Brambo to scoring record. I think it's LeBron breaking the scoring record for sure. And Jeymon Poo moment also happens here. Yeah, best one of the year. Sick. I loved it. Like the beam. This is the like the beam here too. True. Honestly, like the beam was. It was cool.
Like the hit of moment. It was one of the better moments. It's just a moment. We're not the moment though. Yeah, I think it's got to be LeBron James breaking the scoring record. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. 22 season. It's hard to not go with something Curry related. This kind of cemented Curry's legacy. Getting his finals MVP. Winning without Kevin Durant. Again. I'm sorry, it's Curry. It's kind of hot, not going with the champs. Yeah, it's Curry. Specifically pointing at the ring finger. Oh, and getting CREAKS. Pointing at the ring finger. The cocky shit. Being like, oh, it's over. Yeah. It wasn't over. Yeah, he did that in the like the third quarter. I was going to say more or game four, that 43 where he's pulling up over everybody. Yeah. Cause they were they were down to one in that in that game as well. So being able to even up the series, I would go game four, but yeah, that entire series is the best moment. I was so mad at how popular his stuff Curry is. And like just how much he rose up and be a history. People were saying Curry's top five all time now in 2022 summer after this. Like this was truly us watching history of one of the game's greatest legends.
I saw a narrative fucking die that night, bro. It was crazy that the NBA literally was never the same. Yeah. The way it was talked about change forever after May 2022. Mavs and Bear sons in game seven was fun. That was good. That was fun. People called Luke of Denver, fuckers dad for like two years. Mm-hmm. Even now. Still that true. Yeah. I just wish he did it against the heat, man. Curry. I forgot Luke at a 60 point triple double. I will care about that. Yeah, we don't. All right. Curry is next. 21 season. It's hard not to pick the champs every time, but I did. I did love watching Yannis in consultant to history and the way he did it with the lob and the block that felt like history in a way. I can't remember that many guys being crowned that way. It's all that bullshit. It's the Joe Tarantrade. Nope. For all that bullshit to it is really the end of Ben Smith's career. The Hawks run to the Easter comments. That's real. It's the James Tarantrade. The moment that Katie, Kyrie and James Tarant, all get on on one. That shakes the NBA to a different level.
And obviously they don't play all the time. And that's a different thing. But for a singular moment and the stress in everybody's voice, it's like, how are we actually going to do this? I do think that's kind of peak. That's the only time we've seen since Katie went to the Warriors that we see a team put together and say, wow, is this just as good as the 2017 Warriors? It would have been wrong, but that was a thought people had. And we're excited to see happen. They're the best offense we've ever seen. Yeah. For seven games. Yeah, true. And that's it. That Katie foot moment was the discourse afterwards was hilarious. Yeah. And that thing came to didn't you have like a 30, 40 point triple double or something crazy? Yeah, get the 49 points. Yeah, that game. Yeah. It's crazy. I don't know if it was a triple double or not, but it was 49 points, I think. Yeah, I think you went out swinging yet a triple. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You did have zero points. I'll see. All right. The bubble. I think Dave. That's honestly like it was electric. Dave in the bubble.
Just a combination of all the bubble performances. It's just the balls. Yeah, the bubble crazy shooting. TJ Warren, Dave, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, everybody who couldn't miss in the bubble. It was cinema. That was the best version. I had to do the ever seen in my life. Those Murray D. Mitch battles. For us the best. Oh, yeah. They're giving each other like the 40 electric shooting of the bubble from all involved. TJ Warren. Yeah. The video that we were getting or the story would do I how are with the only person to show up to the party that they had like all the all the small little details that were coming out. It's just a bubble in general. That's such a that's obviously. Yeah. I mean, is it a great moment? It's a moment. But like it's definitely the defying moment of the 2020 year. Russ yelling at babies through screams. Yes, tough. Lemon pepper, Lou. Lemon pepper, Lou. True. The bubble was cinema. There's so much entertainment. The clippers blowing the three one lead. Oh, last day right there. That was a start of the downfall. Yeah. All right. 2019 season. Is it a damn shot or koa shot? That's that's the real question. Two amazing shots. I think the the the the damn shot to me is better because that you hit that to end the series.
So the why coizing games have been. That is true. It's not quite the legendary. It's a fact that the championship is part of it. The four bounces. Coise in the middle of this superhero run. We're watching the best player in the world. It's got to be koa shot. Game took a step back from 35 feet. And he was dead. They also higher series with us. It did. They also beat a regular playoff team. The Raptors beat the team that we were talking about should come out the east because Jimmy Butler came and they had the best starting five in the conference. And they didn't have a chance. That wasn't beat's best chance. Wasn't James game winner like for 50 points to. Was it? I don't remember. I don't know. I don't know. It could be. He definitely did have a big swan day though. Remember that joyl and beat me and him crying after this two. Just an all way this being. We can also just say Lebron going to the Lakers. No. Fuck no. He did. Dame got 50 with that bucket. That's crazy. Now the first in terms of just moments.
The first back and forth of Lebron's first game with the Lakers. Where he's going back and forth with Dame and they're dunking the ball on both sides of the floor. That was a very, very fun back and forth. We also can't forget the Toronto Raptors happened the same time for the final season of Game of Thrones. So we watched that and then watched about a Winterfell. It was quite the moment. It's quite a crazy night of pop culture and sports coming together. I knew you would say that. That wasn't insane. That wasn't insane night to be an American. We go to be an American. Why? Because everybody's watching Game of Thrones and everybody's watching Kauai shot. Of Nourley. No. You can have Norway too. To be a human then fuck it. It breaks borders. I guess just because Kauai shot was around later. We go Kauai shot. Okay. Thanks. 2018. That Jars Missile would never kill me. LeBron's whole playoff run. But I think Game 1 of the finals is the best moment, funniest.
Because you have the performance, you have the meme and then you just have the clash of him versus the unstoppable Warriors again. I would do that. We're never going to stop talking about that. That was the single best game we've ever seen LeBron play. And the drama of it not mattering is crazy. Single best debatable. I get it. Sure. But like it felt like it. It felt like it's hitting every post fade. LeBron has never been better than he's so locked. Is he going to do it? Nope. To be fair the only reason it is debatable is because he lost. So if you're saying if you want it would have been the best for me. Yeah. It'd be strong. It's over over 45 in Boston. 40. Yeah. Let's move on to the next one. All right. 2017. Rusted MVP. Rusted MVP shot. Hell yeah. That entire season is defined by Katie going to the Warriors. And then you have like you have their dominance.
But then you have on the other side. Russ who's like, oh, you left me. Let's see what happens. And everyone's coming into the season saying, oh, Russ is about to go crazy. And then he goes crazy. Win the M.E.P. Scores 50 in the last game of the season. Like ends the on top of the season with the buzzer beaters. That's that's pretty. But I'm not there too. Yo, the nugga's needed to win that game. He eliminated him from the fucking playoffs. I'm going to rest tough. I'm going to rest his moment. And I swear because the biggest moment is Katie. And this is a video called the best moment of every season. And nobody likes the Kevin and Brad moments. So we'll go with Russ. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know we give a fuck about that moment. We give a fuck. People have hate it. They give a lot of fuck actually. It was one of the worst moments. Shout out to IT as well. It's been like 16, 46, 2016. Obviously. Well, actually, I just say obviously I'm going to come back. The Dumcondis is crazy. Step Curries, Hold Run for Yannemus and VVP is crazy. Obviously Kobe's last game if you're so inclined. But it's got to be the block right? It's got to be stolen and bec...
For sure. It's a legacy defining moment of his entire career. These four pictures, you see why everybody will fantasize the 2016 season. That's an insane four moments for one year. Mine, you're.. but he's the best MVP at the last 15 years. And that's three on this list. Wow. You got his individual shot that he had in the regular season. I mean, he even said 73 wins. Did you mention that? The fifth most moment of the year is breaking the regular season win total. That's crazy. Have y'all seen that game seven recently? I haven't watched that. So rock fight, just missing. Fun, the last like three minutes. Fun watch. I don't think I've watched it like five years. The energy's electric mad, mad rewatchable. Yeah. They're just running around boxing, running up and down the missing shots. Everyone's tired. It's crazy. Bro, on the rewatch, I didn't see LeBron James as blocked. I was like, oh, she's. She's. You watch the watching movie that Twist still gets here. That's what I love. I wait like seven, eight years after watching the movie
so the twist can hit again. Never watched. She said no longer memory. He is tired, dirt and what? You started watching the fin to do war again lately. The twist or twist? No. Now, bro, he literally a fish. No. A fish. OK. Yeah, we won't come back, man. The blood never be a moment like it. Facts. That speaks sports. And then didn't we, now this 2017, we got the Brady come back. Back to back years, we got crazy comebacks. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was a. Was it? Oh, no, it was 16. It was 2016. Right. 17 was the Eagles game where they shoot out. So yeah, in February, we got Brady coming back against the Falcons. And then in May or June, we got LeBron doing it. Cubs. What's one of your two? What a year of sports. Yeah. Maybe 2016 is the best year. Facts. Lazy came out too. And we started. I started. Lazy came out 15. OK. OK. OK. Not a day one. You weren't there for money longer to show.
It was access to help freestyle. Anyways, 2015. 2015. Is it LeBron coming home? It is. I think it's LeBron coming home. That's cool. Shit. I just put the 2015 Hawks on there for a moment. Hell yeah. Nobody come for it. For all stars. Regular ass moment. Actually, it's not regular. For all stars, it's crazy. Never see that again. As we shouldn't. Those are different. It's the whole star. What a test. The Mark care wasn't an all star. It was for. Yeah. What a test. Oh, the player of the week. Oh, yeah. The player of the week or play of the month. Played the month, the whole star. He got it. His defense man. I'm telling you. Crazy. Yeah, 2015. It's got to be LeBron coming home. It what a moment. Story book. Literally. It's a perfect situation. You got a young guy in Kyrie trying to figure it out. You go ahead and trade for it. You get the number one over a big trade nest. And get Kevin Loving the building. Amen. You know how hard it is? It's a business. Oh, cool. It is that we're in the era of the big three. He forms one. Leaves and forms another one by going home. Yeah. Motherfucker did it again. Yeah. That's something we're like, you got to stack the deck.
Yeah. Me, I was like, ooh, cool team. I like it. Wiggins never played it a second. I know. That's one of the more heartbreaking things. If I was an NBA player, one of the last things that I want to experience is being drafted to a team. And either the star player who you got drafted to, who you were looking for to play with, left, or they trade your ass immediately. That's so much stuff. With the funny part of the wasn't immediately. If it's a draft night trade, OK, you don't really care the whiplash. You forget about that team. They trade them like a month after the draft, didn't they? Yeah. Did you play some movie for them? No, he didn't play at all. Yeah, probably. No, I think they probably held them out of that because they knew they were going to do something. I think he got traded in August for Kevin Love, if I remember correctly. Damn. That's a hold up on your life. Maybe they played some movie for them, actually. I don't remember. I don't remember. I can't remember. But I know it wasn't. I don't think it was draft night. I think it was weeks to a month after. He did the same thing to Colin Sexton, man. I'll say, I'm ready to hoop it, bro. No, I'm not going to be here. I guess what he just did the Colin Sexton again.
Yeah. So this guy stinks. Get away from me. All right, next. 2013, 2014. Kevin, you're right, MVP was cool. Is it the spurs being the shit out of the Miami Heat? Nah, that wasn't fun to see like that. I was catching cramps. I was catching cramps. He had to be carried off the fucking court. Dame 2, screenshot. I think it's Katie. This isn't a crazy year, I'm all men. I think it's Katie's MVP speech specifically. Yes. Okay. Is the best moment. Fair. Yeah, I'm talking to his mom. I'm thinking that can get it. Is that the last time Katie was likable to people? To the masses? Yes. Oh, one of the last times for sure. That's no who weird when kids that are born like last year grow up and they hear about Kevin and Rand, they hear about everybody hates him. They call him a snake. They call him insecure, whatever. And they go back and see this footage. It's like, wow, I love this guy. Yeah. Wonder why they grew up to hate him. Doesn't wait to more you. Yeah. Yeah, it's right on it. It's coming. All right, next. 2013. Okay. So the streak. So wow, 2013 is a really good year to it's a real shot.
It's the real shot for sure. The people were leaving the stadiums. Spurs fans were bringing up the tape ready to win the finals and they just didn't. That's crazy. I ain't go lie at the birth of a lot of city to. Not even the birth of last night. Just that done. That's up there. That's up there. But the real shot is like, like modern myth being told in front of your eyes. Yeah. And then the other team. Beautiful. Can you match like backtracking and having enough space to wear this to be in front of the three point line. So you get your three points, but also not step out of bounds to well being somewhat off bounds because you're going full speed. That's just crazy. Fans were leaving the arena ready to hit South Beach and had to try to scramble back in like, Anstinem. Get back in the arena and they got told no. That's something I will never understand as a fan. I will never leave the game. Unless you're getting bone by like 40 especially a finals game. Yeah, you're dumb. With all the money that you pay for that ticket, only only only heat fans will do that. They're they're Miami residents spoiled. They got other shit to do. They are spoiled. It's a very young franchise. They got all these chips. Yeah. Then next 2012. Oh, man.
Oh, you know exactly what it is. Yeah. It's about damn time. Is that better? Is that singular moment better than 45 in Boston? Yeah, I think that I I think 45 moment of Boston is it's like that's a mythical creature right there. Also, you can't underestimate just how special is the bronze finally hold that trophy after all the angst of getting there after years of he can't get it done. And then 2011 happens and that gets magnified and to come back from that horror of a season. Just seeing him hold the trophy like the euphoria that must have swept through the nation of LeBron fans. But that hard replicate a little brawn game though. Is it better than Linsanity? Yes. Come on. Please. Salon Sanity. The two week run of Linsanity and the just the peak of that was cool. Is that during the 27 win streak? No, the two in seven win streak after that. Oh, okay, okay. But he's going he's hitting game winners. He's going bucket for bucket with Kobe. Like, oh, you got me fuck LeBron. Linsanity gets it.
Oh, man. This is the this is the turning point of LeBron's career that game. He said our views to lose. We go in Sanity. Jeremy little for you to lose too. All right. Got paid. True. All right. Hell yeah. Let's go. Next. 2011. I don't think it's twice about that shit either. For a long time. So for best moment, I agree. I think defining moment is the decision. But best but that one was so polarized. And I don't think you can say it's the best. Yeah. It's the same thing with with with the finals and the choke. Yeah. So yeah, having the youngest MVP somebody who who's the way that he does. Yeah, it's the youngest MVP. Like that sentence is crazy. Like that's the moment that most people will look fondly on. Not me. I'll go with the decision. I get it. Yeah, it was a bit. Yeah. And the hate it you love it. Mostly would pick the day of frozen VP. Okay. And hex 2010. I don't know why the LeBron pictures.
Yeah, I was like, 1000. What? What? It's like when the previous one. It's like a Celtics game seven. I think it should be that. The game is all time. What? One of the best games of all time. Yeah. Storage franchises of all time. It's quite picture-esque. The game itself sucked, but it sucked in like a fun way because it's a rock fight and nobody can make anything. And Kobe wasn't shooting well that game. And so there's still this like tension of like, is he ever going to turn it on? They're going back to back. You have the Celtics trying to get, you know, trying to win twice over them. That's the that's the best moment. Did you share it to your that night as a young Kobe fan? Of course I did. You share multiple. Of course. Were you balling? Yes. Were you heaving? I was on the floor. Did you almost throw up? Throw up? No. Okay. That's the line. Okay. Heaving rolling around, but no vomit came up. Okay. Fair enough. I had hoped till the last second. I don't know if you'll remember that late Rondo 3. Yeah. I was like, oh my god, we're still in it. Were you watching this while you're in the Philippines or you're like here?
I was already here. But I still didn't have like a good grasp of the moment for a throw. But it was cool. It was cool. Yeah. I'm happy. You were crying. I was crying. Okay. But I feel like if I was the fan that I was now, I probably would have threw, threw. But it was just like my first year side of that. So I had a lot to learn. As a little brown fan of it, I've experienced too much loss at the highest level growing up. So I can't cry over it, loss anymore. Like, should made you a man, I feel you. 2011. Think it's at a chin. Yeah. And it happened like four more times. Yeah. Fuck. The first dude with the warriors ones, it's hurt. 2015. I mean, I'm going to carry busted his kneecap. New was over. No, crazy. It is knee real hard on the floor. Yeah. That doesn't happen. I've never seen that again. Yeah. I'm going to jump off and join the stuff. Kelly, I think it's other knee. 2009. We're bronze first MVP.
So Celtics, both series, Kobe gets his first one without Shaq. It's got to be that right. It's got to be Kobe getting back to the mountaintop without Shaq. Like, there's really not a competition for this year. Yeah, that's the ultimate fuck you moment for sure. Yeah, like that. Honestly, that defined him as the top team player of all time that people know him as now. Before that, I don't think if he had never gotten 0.9 and 10, which is to get 10 yet to get 9, I don't think people would be having the convosive like, that's my third best player of all time. Yeah, especially because that's their, because they came back from losing to the Celtics, the year prior. So the fact that you can come back, make it to the finals again, get the chip and get that narrative off. And it cemented this new era of Celtics versus Lakers rivalry, kind of getting back to that 80s feeling, getting two in a row against them. Yeah. Wait, no, no, this is one gets magic. Yeah. 10 was the one gets the latest. So, there's never one. Cornelia, the bronze lips. To see LeBron get his first MVP. That's pretty cool. It meant something. Yeah. Oh, 9 LeBron was different. That game, that game winner. Oh, my God.
Yeah. It's one of my favorite game winners. The one gets pissens. No, that was against the magic. Which one? The first one. That one. The first one. What's the third picture? I can't see that very well. That's Bulls Celtics. And what was that game? No. It's just the whole series. Yeah. I can barely see with that picture. Is that the one that shot from the 80s? No, that's poppy shooting. Yeah. Right on that's a moment. Oh, poppy shooting. I thought a bull shooting. The picture's so small. That's all. I was like, what am I looking at? Cool. Where are next? 2008. Houston wins 22 straight games. Kobe's first on VP. Celtics win. 17. Do you want to celebrate the selfish win in the old championship? Yeah. Hell no. I just know what I'm thinking. I do whatever. Do you want us to give it to you? You can do whatever you want, man. Do you want it? Yeah. Bring on. Yeah. I don't know. Should we give it to him? Oh, my. Houston win 22 straight was pretty, pretty exciting. I was tapped in. You're tapped in? No way. See, he was jumping back then.
They actually was. I bet it was. 20 is crazy. 22 straight. It's only. They thought that like, you know, oh, this is the year. Like we're actually going to, we're going to get back at T-Mac, yeah, all this up. I think we have to give it to him. Okay. Let's go. I don't know. Kobe's first MVP. And really, and that one being the only one when you're coming off of these years where you're playing with Smushparker, Kwame Brown, all these other. Okay, start it. Yeah. And I'll be doing it anymore. Hey, man, like I said, Kobe. Yeah, go go what you want. I know my fate. I'll give you the Celtics man. I'll give it to you. Best moment. I'll give it to him. First big three. KG finally getting a ring. If I was watching that sentence, a big fan, I would have been very happy for KG. Yeah. KG's, KG's scream of anything as possible makes it make some exactly. I love how KG's the only reason like non-Seltics fans remotely rocked the Celtics fans. I don't even know if it's the facts. He's like the link to mainstream. I don't give a single fuck about Paul Pierce's legacy.
KG's most like a lot of them all. Yeah. All right. Next. 2007. LeBron scores cleavants. Final 25 points. Kobe scores 62 and 3 quarters. Mal. Can we believe? We believe worse. Is we believe better than the bronze 125th? I wasn't there for that. We believe moment to know. But I imagine this got to be we believe. I imagine back then seeing an 8-1 upset doesn't happen a whole lot. Kobe's a different year. Kobe's here. Yeah. Different year. Oh, good. You don't get a whole lot of 8-1 upsets, especially when I get a tagline to it. A slogan attached. Yeah. This one. But so it happens against the Mavericks. And especially given where the NBA was at, it gives a lot of people ammo to slander the European. Yeah. They don't respect the soft people must have loved that. Imagine, remember when like, Yannis was the one game bouncing the first round and everyone was slandering the shit out of him. The one. In beat of a bunch of times. This is the OG of that. And the other team is likable.
I think I'll go we believe. Yeah. It has to be. Yes. Clearly number one. I'm. Like the finals was a nothing burger. Nobody. Yeah. I don't know anybody was jumping for joy that LeBron got smacked with no help around him. Like nobody really cared. Yeah. Let's go we believe. I just move knowing. I think we're gonna have to go back and. Two thousand six. Kobe 81. Oh six. Wade. Oh. I think it's Kobe 81. I think because I think sure. I think so because I think Kobe 81 has more mythology around it, even even de Wade now. I feel like you just have to go back and keep reminding people Wade did this in those six. Bare. This is this is something that happens. Kobe 81 was treated as the scoring record. Yeah, it is. Even though that it's not. Yeah. This is this is waiting year three, right? Yeah. Yeah. Leading a team to a championship. It's it's the craziest. It's one of the craziest accomplishments, but nobody really thinks of it in that way. Yeah, it's definitely like the most impressive accomplishment in the most impressive thing to happen that year for sure. Being down oh two in the finals, winning four straight. I'm going that shout out to Kobe 81.
I think winning it being a superstar average of 30 points per game to win a finals in year three is berserk. Like that. That is insane. That is a beautiful moment. I'm super shocked to get a ring post Kobe. I don't need him. He was second MVP that year, right? Like you still amazing. Yeah, I'm still going home. Oh six, oh six miles. He runs crazy. No, I'll fuck Steve. Yeah. And again, the maves. So twice in the row, he's laughing the maves. And you would have been having a field day laughing at the maves if you were 16. You would have hated the maves. You would have been like dirt sucks shit. Sick of this guy. Fraud. Next 2005. Spurrish pisses go to seven. This is the Kobe. Mouse. I don't know if that's the best moment. To me, as somebody who wasn't back around back then looking back, best moment. Yeah. I'll take that. Miles and the balance. I wish I was there. I don't like it. No, no, like just living in the moment. Uh, okay. You have to know that.
You might have got overzealous. I don't know. You told beers? No. No. I've seen you told beer too. Yo, why are you like that? You're such a fan, man. It's your blood. What do you mean? Yeah. What? I've seen you curse at a player before. You do ridiculous things. All right. Don't put this on me, man. Yo, we can't take you nowhere. Uh, I mean, it's not, but it is Miles and the palace just because I want it to be. I forgot. We'll never see that again. I think it's Miles and the palace. Like it will never happen again. I like it's a terrible moment, obviously. Yeah. I guess we're terrible. Yeah. But you know that. Next, 2004. La-day view. We gotta go La-day view. No, we don't. We do. DeFish's point four shot was here too. KGMVP. I imagine back then people really actually I wasn't said that people love watching the pistons beat the Lakers. I know. I know. You think they've created them.
Yeah. I think back then that was the age of like monoculture. I bet the Lakers more loved. No, but you had they had already three peted and any time that you three p. The masses are running against them now. Yeah. At that point, it happens. I don't know. People really loved successful teams up until like 2010. But especially before the internet was really like as big as it was, monoculture and really for the defined team of an era was a big deal. I still think the pistons is up there. When he would know Superstar score, just pure defense and willpower. Yeah. And you have this, you have this, this era because you can also look at the Lakers and be like, oh, you guys are even though it's not the case because Gapain and Malone were past their primes. And it's like, oh, you guys have the super team just stacking the deck and doing all this I think I would go to Detroit. There. Clam. 2003 Tim Duncan's near quadub. Just a whole three draft in general. Jordan's final game and Kobe's nine game 40 points. And move out the way Mike. Move out the way the new guys here. 2000.
It's a new day. Get over it. Yeah. Woo. Yes, the three draft. Oh, the draft is ridiculous. Not even close. Having that many legends in one draft. Crazy. That four defining super. Also the fits that went the old three draft. I can't. Let's go. Hell, we still wait for the old three draft. We're going to sit around. Who's compared to the old three draft best drafts since 03? None snifted. Yeah, so far. They don't do a whole lot of those. Yeah. Clam. Next. 2002. Robert always game four buzzer meter. Lakers Kings game seven. It's the Lakers three peed. Lakers Kings game seven. That's so controversial. Yeah. Now a good moment to a lot of people. Yeah, I'm not going to say that's a good moment. But I think in general, the Lakers three peed. For sure. You got to give it to that. Yeah, that's their era for sure. Yeah, a crowning achievement of just literally NBA history. A crowning them is like one of the best teams of all time. Yeah. Maybe the second best team of all time. If you go to air by air to some people. Yeah. That's a lot for sure. Not a lot. 2001. Allen never since step over. AI. AI.
AI the whole AI. In any context. Let's go specifically in one game in the finals. Yeah. Yeah, because that gets treated like like another ring. Like a ring for sure. And the fact that it was game one. Like if it was game three, it would have been just like, Oh, okay, it's whatever to start the series that way. Set the tone. It gets looked at as a different way. Do we care that they didn't win another game? No. Because I got one. Actually, is it step over from game one? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. I think you're 50. Imagine that happened today. Yeah. Like I can't even, how do we even quantify it? There's no super team like the Lakers today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess so. Well, like, but also LeBron LeBron. Alan Arvison is like amazing, but he's still, he's a little guy. He's not quite LeBron. And I guess if the Blazers made the finals in 19. Yeah. And they won game one. Yeah. That would have been it. And they went crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Or like, I read going crazy in the finals. Yeah.
One of them too. Yeah. All right. Last year. 2000. Yeah. And I think it's ever again for the finals. Shackin VPCs in the dunk contest. I think it's the dunk contest. It might be the only awesome you moment. I do think it's the dunk contest. I think that Vince Carter and the show. Is that the, it's over? Yeah. And the showing that he had there is still regarded as the best dunk contest, like singular dunk contest performance. And it's set a standard that basically at this point, everyone's like, hey, just cancel the dunk contest. You know, because you can't go back and replicate the, the aura from that moment. The human body, the only capable of so much. And Vince hit like 99% of that in 2000. Dunk contest. Yeah. I agree. Can he got to let that, um, it's overgibbit good. He got to let that go, man. He's ever going to. He does it every year. Yeah. Yeah. And it's never over. That was it. He says it's over. They give him like a 45. He's just bad at calling it. It's actually mad close.
It could have been less over actually. It's actually just beginning.
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