Justin Verrier

This is one of the best.

pods of the year.

This is Say One Nice Thing, which I believe we've been doing for like, what, like three to four years, Rob, at this point?

Something like that, yeah.

We take some time at the end of the year to talk about the teams that will no longer be with us as we move on in our lives to the playoffs.

I'll be honest, I had to stop and think whether or not we should do this just because the five teams we're going to talk about today, maybe like three of them, certainly, but you could certainly make the case for all five.

They don't deserve to be talked about.

Like, if anything, I almost feel like we should counter-program and not talk about these teams because some of the tanking down the stretch has just been horrid.

Well, we are picking a good time to talk about these teams because these are really healthy on days for the Indiana Pacers, first and foremost, but also the Brooklyn Nets, who, beyond all shadow of a doubt, actually won games on the same day before we recorded this show.

The Pacers almost like they couldn't help themselves.

The past two games, even, they lost the game down the stretch the other night where Jay Huff gets fouled in the last seconds and misses both free throws.

That was incredible.

At that point, I was like, the fix is in.

They definitely told him to miss those free throws.

I mean, they don't deserve the benefit of a doubt at that point because they had lost...

Since the deadline, 18 of 19 games.

Yeah.

Up until Sunday.

The only win that they had was against the Orlando Magic, who just as like a side tangent here, holy shit, the Orlando Magic, somehow worse than any of these teams right now, just giving up, what was it, a 31 and nothing run against the Raptors?

Embarrassing.