Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 12 segments
Verno and Jacoby run through every team's media day story line, so it's next question, next question. LeBron didn't leave his family to lose in the second round, Jay-Z hexed the Spurs, Giannis meets…
Chris VernonHost
Dave JacobyHost
Well, and we knew that it was going to be odd yesterday to see everybody report to media days.
And then, inevitably, you're going to get all of the pictures of them in their new uniforms.
And it was shocking, even though we talk about things all offseason, and then we see AI-generated guys in their new jerseys with it posted.
when everybody's like they're taking pictures, taking pictures amongst their teammates.
One of the things that stood out yesterday was over and over again on the timeline, you're seeing these, you know, you're seeing Giannis in the Miami heat Jersey, LaMelo in the, in the wolves Jersey, uh, Klay Thompson in the Heat jersey, Paul George in the Celtics jersey.
And it is a bit jarring just to realize when it's post after post, and this is beyond LeBron James in a 76ers uniform, it all just becomes very, very real when they report and you see them in that jersey for the first time.
The most jarring image I saw was the actual physical starting five of the Philadelphia 76ers standing side by side.
I thought, wow, that is an unbelievable accumulation of talent that is going to go.
We are either going to look back at it, and it's going to be the famous Brooklyn Nets photo with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and Darren Williams, where we're sitting there going, wow, I can't believe, look at that, they acquired a super team.
And then it's going to become like this footnoted NBA history of something that didn't live up to what we thought it was going to be.
I mean, the idea that they're just going to be okay is something that is harder for me to process than they are going to be unbelievable or this is not going to be what everybody thinks it's going to be.
Yeah, I think you meant to say low floor, high ceiling because that is how I feel.
Well, and we knew that it was going to be odd yesterday to see everybody report to media days.
And then, inevitably, you're going to get all of the pictures of them in their new uniforms.
And it was shocking, even though we talk about things all offseason, and then we see AI-generated guys in their new jerseys with it posted.
when everybody's like they're taking pictures, taking pictures amongst their teammates.
One of the things that stood out yesterday was over and over again on the timeline, you're seeing these, you know, you're seeing Giannis in the Miami heat Jersey, LaMelo in the, in the wolves Jersey, uh, Klay Thompson in the Heat jersey, Paul George in the Celtics jersey.
And it is a bit jarring just to realize when it's post after post, and this is beyond LeBron James in a 76ers uniform, it all just becomes very, very real when they report and you see them in that jersey for the first time.
The most jarring image I saw was the actual physical starting five of the Philadelphia 76ers standing side by side.
I thought, wow, that is an unbelievable accumulation of talent that is going to go.
We are either going to look back at it, and it's going to be the famous Brooklyn Nets photo with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and Darren Williams, where we're sitting there going, wow, I can't believe, look at that, they acquired a super team.
And then it's going to become like this footnoted NBA history of something that didn't live up to what we thought it was going to be.
I mean, the idea that they're just going to be okay is something that is harder for me to process than they are going to be unbelievable or this is not going to be what everybody thinks it's going to be.
Yeah, I think you meant to say low floor, high ceiling because that is how I feel.
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