Vinnie Johnson

So let's do something with it.

They get an offer from the Pistons, Lambert, Vinnie Johnson, and Trapuka from Moses in the first pick.

Um, But they turned that down, which I think probably would have been a better trade.

They wound up trading Moses, Terry Catledge, and a pair of first-rounders in the future for Jeff Ruland, who was a well-respected center, and Cliff Robinson, which was not a great bang for the buck.

They're going to take that into account.

Jonathan Kuminga is a bench player that you give the ball on the bench and you say, "Hey, we need you to go out there and be Vinnie 'The Microwave' Johnson." That's all he is, that's all he's gonna be.

Atlanta should've showed you that, 'cause he should've played.

[laughs]

You know, you fall behind by s-

Vinnie Microwave Johnson.

Yeah.

You fall behind by five and put in your sixth guy and he hits three threes.

That's what it kinda feels like the defenders are doing right now when we're substituting, which again, not gonna walk back what I said year one and year two, playing too many guys.

[laughs] This year, I don't know that you can play too many guys [laughs] because some of the best play makers are guys you're bringing o- off the sidelines.

Off topic, why do I think of Vinnie Microwave Johnson every time somebody says sixth man?

'Cause I ne- I never-

I think they've got like a two or three game where you're like, well, they need to bring in

Vinnie Johnson in the microwave.

Got to heat it up.

He's the guy you bring in.

It's a modern cultural reference.

Everybody loves a good Vinnie Johnson reference.

Didn't we look him up and find out he's become, like, a gazillionaire due to, like, AC Delco parts or something like that? Sure.

Dude, Vinny's making cash.

He can be that...

What was it? Vinny Microwave Johnson, right? Microwave? That's a great thing, a great nickname, I think, for Devo Samuel, too.

He's just someone that you can warm up quickly and get a play and get something going on offense.

And Kyle Shanahan at one point was almost using him as a crunch because it was like – We know that we can lean on this and get offense out of this, just get the ball in this guy's hand.

on, man.

I ain't seen that type of shot he shoot since Vinnie Johnson.

The microwave.

I ain't seen that type of shot right there since the microwave, man.

He was a little boy then.

Uh, but no, um, I say Isiah Thomas, Adrian Dantley, Dennis Rodman, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, Rick Mahorn, John Long, uh, Michael Williams, Dennis Denbo, James Edwards, Bill Laimbeer.

Yeah.

And, and that's, that's a, a group of characters that were, um, cons- Mark Aguirre, sorry, sorry drawers.

I was 22 years old, had a great coach, Chuck Daly.

I had great, uh, veterans in Adrian Dantley, I always start with him, um, Joe Dumars, uh, Sid Green, Rick Mahorn, Isiah Thomas.

So I had to learn Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, really, they, they would whisper things to me.

"Young fella," you know, "next time somebody's talking, shut up." I was like, "Okay." [laughs] But I, I learned and I had, and I was a lot of humidity.

It's 24 players, Cade Cunningham, Jalen Duren.

Asar Thompson, Isaiah Stewart, Jeremy Grant, Blake Griffin, Andre Drummond, Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Tayshaun Prince, Jerry Stackhouse, Grant Hill, Joe Dumars, Isaiah Thomas, Bill Ambeer, Dennis Rodman, Dave Bing, Vinnie Johnson, Kelly Chapuka, Bob Lanier, Dave DeBuscher, and George Yardley.

So we have 24 names here.

After every pick, I will cross a name out and we will come back.

Was there anyone else who kind of called out to you here? Well, in his day, he came off the bench.

But I think that on any other team, he would have been a starter.

And that is the microwave, Andy Johnson,

who was