Jeff Teague
American former basketball player
28
APPEARANCES
8
PODCASTS
Aug 19, 2026
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But boy, when we got D Rose, I was like, "I can't stay with this young boy." [laughs]
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, I just came from everybody 19, 18 on my college team, and I come to the team with y'all, and y'all 28, 30, married, got kids.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
The dream of the '90s is alive in podcast form
Jeff TeagueGUEST
We're launching Podlandia: AO Re-watch, our brand-new podcast where we revisit every episode of Portlandia together, breaking down sketches, going deep on our iconic characters, and pulling back the curtain on how it all got made
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
It was challenging, but the hardest part is, like, realizing that y'all are grown men.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, I just came from everybody 19, 18 on my college team, and I come to the team with y'all, and y'all 28, 30, married, got kids.
speaker_12UNKNOWN
One of the best players in the league last year
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
It was challenging, but the hardest part is, like, realizing that y'all are grown men.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, I just came from everybody 19, 18 on my college team, and I come to the team with y'all, and y'all 28, 30, married, got kids.
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
When you get AD and Klingon, and you still got Ja Morant in that mix, he got something to prove, I think that's a dangerous team.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
it was challenging, but the hardest part is, like, realizing that y'all are grown men.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, I just came from everybody 19, 18 on my college team, and I come to the team with y'all, and y'all 28, 30, married, got kids.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Y'all like, "Hey, boy, swing it over here." [laughs] I ain't worried about nothing they talk about.
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
So nobody knew I talked, 'cause I only t- I only talk to my teammates in the locker room.
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, Austin Reaves is a really talented player and he's gonna get paid a lot this summer, and he's really, really good, but I think that OKC hangs their hat on defense, and Cason Wallace I feel is gonna be all over him.
MookPANELIST
What's the song called? T-Town.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But I tell them, uh, it's kinda hard to recreate what we do, 'cause we all real friends and we all hang out.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
"... y'all don't have a B him, bro." I tell everybody, "You don't have a DJ." These two dudes, they make the show.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Y'all wanna hear something random? I mean, I'm excited about that album too, but y'all wanna hear something random?I was having a conversation earlier.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
... player, scoring wing or whatever, he's going to get more than enough opportunity to be that player.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
I mean, you could have wanted to go to Washington, Brooklyn, or wherever he wanted to go and got there and not been successful and been out the league in three or four years.
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
for..."Can we get a quick story with you and Isiah Thomas? Like, why did he choose you to come to the Hollywood Lakers?
Dan PatrickHOST
But when you go to the bench, like if you're a coach and you know your bench is your strength, or one of your strengths, can you go to the bench too soon in a situation like that?
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like, they can go to their bench early and they know they're gonna get some effective play.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
So when you know you have that bolt of energy coming off the bench, it's never too late to put him in.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Um, they were on a string and they're not known for being really a physical team through, throughout, uh, throughout the regular season.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But this playoffs matchups, they've been so physical and attacking the ball and they're making Shai see bodies.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
I mean, Nembhard did a wonderful job last night staying in front of him trying to make him make tough shots.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But every time he would spin or go behind his back, there'd be a second defender there.
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Pat McAfeeHOST
How do you feel about this particular team and the way Coach Carlisle is running them?
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Um, I didn't expect this from the Pacers, I'd be lying if I said I did, um, after the way they started the season.
speaker_20UNKNOWN
How would you guard a guy like that and how frustrating is it when you know, "Hey, if I bump this guy, uh, you know, he might flail back and draw a foul on me, but if I don't bump him, he's gonna go right by me and, you know, score"?
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Uh, I think Tyrese can be a superstar, and I think SGA is on his way to being a superstar.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
I mean, if he wins the, uh, title this year, I think we could put him in a superstar category.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
I mean, MVP, Finals MVP champion, I was imagining he would be in a superstar conversation.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But I think Tyrese, um, he has potential to be a superstar, but I think we had too many games like last game where he doesn't show up for three quarters, and he didn't play well in the first game, but he hit that magical shot to take, you know, take home the game.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
But I think when you're a superstar, you can almost bank what they're gonna do every night and SGA, we can bank it.
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Clayton EnglishSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's like, "I want the podcast to look as good as your videos."
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speaker_25UNKNOWN
She knew you was gonna make it.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
... and my bumper, and my bumper was hanging down, shouts to Herb boy, she a queen.
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speaker_10UNKNOWN
Like, uh, Embiid, uh-huh.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like the point guards are 6'5", 6'6", 6'7" and they move way different than the point guards that were 6'7", 6'8".
Jeff TeagueGUEST
'Cause Steph in the NBA right now, though, just putting his game how he played without no advancements.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Obviously if he got born now, he'd be what? Probably way more athletic, probably play different, probably learned how to shoot and shit, but yeah.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
You gonna play high level talent, you gonna play people the same size as you if you 6-8, 6-10, whatever it is.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
The only thing that I hate about AAU basketball is that for Indiana High School basketball, it don't translate 'cause we don't got shot clocks and all that shit or whatever.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
That's why, and not to even speak on Pike, but that's why we try to simulate college atmosphere and simulate like, hey, you gotta learn how to play with other good people and do all this stuff.
DJ WillHOST
What's that pressure like? Because you get to live your dreams, but you also realize, like, what that means for everybody else that's around you for that dream.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Oh, it's a, it's a, it's a crazy amount of pressure because, I mean, my circumstances, I didn't come from a place with money.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
So when you make it to the NBA, essentially you made it, you become a millionaire your first year if you're not a top pick.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
If you 20 and behind, 19 and behind, you're not a millionaire, because after taxes, you're 100,000aire.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
So I definitely love Melo, but I just think T-Mac that's, damn, for you to be the best in the league, like they saying you the best in the league and you never even... didn't have no real playoff run? It's crazy to me.
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Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like if you was on my teammate, then you knew like, "Man, that nigga really just a fool.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Like he really clown all day." But if you ain't know me, you would think I'm probably mean as shit 'cause I don't talk, I don't try do no interviews, I ain't dapping niggas up.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
Even though we don't talk every day, but when we get around each other, man, it's like old times.
Jeff TeagueGUEST
We were just reminiscing about all the good stuff that we did just riding the bus rides, uh, talking crazy on the court.
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