Howard Beck

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.

You know?

Uh, I liked, I liked the wristbands.

I like to, you know, like wipe the sweat.

That's a Howard take.

I got a lot of thoughts about Giannis.

We have emptied out a lot of that.

I didn't know we had any more thoughts about Giannis.

I had to get a little more creative here because we have talked so much about him, about trade demands and non-trade demands and his passive aggressiveness and all this stuff.

And I stepped back for a second and I thought about it, and this is where I landed for our NBA All-Star Take-A-Thon, which is no matter what happens next,

trade, not trade, more drama, whatever it is, I think he's already the greatest buck of all time.

Over Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then Lou Elcindor.