Howard Beck

Mm-hmm.

You're right.

You were right.

doing great I'm just you and I are in the same room which is a rarity in itself yeah we're in the same room with the great Tyler Parker which is just raising this whole thing to a whole other level very excited about this Tyler's made some turns on the real ones when I was subbing for you you know I like I freelance a little bit when you're gone I just like I just start bringing on random people like Tyler Parker cool yeah we had fun without you but it's good to have us all here it's fine no it's an honor to join one of my favorite shows always happy to talk ball and yeah let's get some takes off

I am a little intimidated by the fact that we are in this hallowed studio space where the house of R tapes.

So shout out to Mal and Joe.

Like this is like, I almost put on the knight's helmet out there.

The league got weird about it, though, in the early 2000s.

That's what happened.

Like, Iverson did his arm sleeve, which, shout out to Ty Lue for then emulating the arm sleeve in practices when they were getting ready for the finals in 2001.

He, like, not only was playing the part of Iverson at practice, he did the sleeve to emulate.

But then, like, people started doing, like, full-on

Leg sleeves and arm sleeves.

And the next thing you know, instead of wearing like the standard NBA uniform, which is like, you know, shorts and jersey, it looked like you were just wearing full body armor.

And the league got all weird about it.

Like, no, this is not regulation or whatever.

But that was back during the day, too, where like everybody had to wear the same colored shoes.

You had to be coordinated.

Now it's so much more interesting now, right, where everybody's got like... Just call the fool Todd Gibson.

Listen, if the NBA is going to allow for 72 different fucking uniforms in the course of a season for every team anyway, you've got no standing as a league to tell guys you can't wear various accoutrements.