Zach Lowe if the Celtics fans want to dismiss the Lakers Minneapolis titles they have to come to grip with the fact that 9 of their 17 titles came when there were like 9 teams in the NBA &amp dudes were smoking in the locker room

Zach Lowe Joe House Chris Ryan draft their 15 favorite NBA Champs since 2000 Lowe asks why there was no love for the Kobe-Pau teams who went undrafted Ryan says You probably should have had a Californian on this podcast to balance the east coast lean of the panel Lowe responds Like Bill

The time Mark Jackson and Reggie Miller found Larry Bird smoking Newports in the showers before a Pacers game

Zach Lowe The Clippers are somewhere beyond fucked As recently as yesterday a front office exec from another team said 'Hey the Clippers are quietly positioning themselves in case Jokic wants to leave Denver with lots of cap space and LA and all that' Forget that This team is dead

Laker Legend Byron Scott says Lakers are pretenders Defense wins championships still in this league At the end of the day you got to get stops right Kessler at the center position he better average about 8 blocks a game because they're going to be getting a lot of blow-bys

Lowlights via Bootum Today marks the six-year anniversary of the Clippers blowing a 31 series lead to the Denver Nuggets In Game 7 Paul George and Kawhi Leonard went 10-for-38 from the field 4-for-18 from three committed seven turnovers and were scoreless in the fourth quarter

Quotes from Brian Windhorst Tim MacMahon Zach Lowe Chris Mannix and Jon Krawczynski describing how Clippers acted and lied personally to the media during the investigation Krawczynski It was a behind the scenes ferocious defense that was accusatory to anyone who dared question them