Santa Cruz Warriors

But he got hurt, hurt his, hurt his foot during the pre-draft process, like right, right heading into the NBA Combine.

Um, and so he, h- he would have, you know, he, he would have at least had a chance to raise his stock there, but instead he missed several months and ended up m- missing almost eight months from the injury, uh, until signing with the Santa Cruz Warriors, uh, in the G League that, that spring or that winter in, in 2023.

So he, he, you know, he, his sort of NBA dreams were dashed before they got started, just a, un- p- poorly timed injury, unfortunate injury.

Uh, then after the, uh, his G League stint with the Warriors, he played a couple seasons of pro basketball in the NBL, that's Australia's NBL, for the Illawarra Hawks, uh, famously once employed M- LaMelo Ball.

couple a couple of things to feed various crises.

SC Warriors is I'm not seeing any Josh's mom photo bombs a chat and everyone goes crazy.

That is in there.

That's under the free space.

Here's the seasons I think are worth mentioning.

2017, 2018, Niang plays for your Santa Cruz Warriors.

Averages 18.4 and 6.7 rebounds per game and shot 42% from three.

In '24, '25, he plays 69 games.

She was in our sales department.

I had seen her somewhere on the internet doing Santa Cruz Warriors stuff, and I'm like, "Hey, wait a second.

Doesn't she work for us? How come she's not doing podcast stuff?" So Zeena and I go and have lunch the next day, and we're sitting there, and we have to cut ourselves off after about two hours-

Yeah

I think it was, uh, 33% last year.

But did play with the, uh, Santa Cruz Warriors last season, where he averaged, um, 17, six and six in the nine games that he played there, and I mentioned he had a really good summer league scoring 21 points on nine of 14 shooting with nine rebounds.

Did not win MVP.

It was Jaxson Lindborg, but it could have been Smith, uh, to beat the Grizzlies for that summer league championship.

Every time he steps on the floor, the Golden State Warriors are better.

It doesn't matter if it's Yaxel Landenberg out there or Moses Moody or Draymond Green or the Santa Cruz Warriors.

It doesn't matter.

If Steph Curry is out there, that Warriors team is instantly better, and there's no question about it.

This is like his, I mean he's going to be a good NBA player regardless.

Anyone that says, you know, Pods should be flirting with the, uh, the Santa Cruz Warriors has something against Podziemski.

Uh, and by the way, he, he, he cut the hair now, so the thumbnail of this show, that's a little bit deceiving.

He's, he's rocking the buzz cut now.