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Le Batard & Friends Network

BASKETBALL ILLUMINATI - World Champions

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Paul George has thrown his proverbial hat in the ring, so the Illuminati compares his Chucky Barkley impression to Kenan Thompson and Aries Spears. Sprinter Noah Lyles incites the wrath of the NBA comments section, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is the Kobe of Jordan, and Rudy Gobert takes accountability for France being eliminated from the FIBA World Cup. Tom Does His Own Research on last year's Ref Score, which teams were assigned the most experienced referees and predicts which team jump up for in the upcoming season. Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On Apple or Spotify Merch: Shirt - Hoodie - Tank - Hat - Beanie Email us: [email protected] Twitter: @bballilluminati Instagram: @basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.

0:10.9

So I know that some NBA players love to do karaoke.

0:13.5

Shane Badiay did Adiyoki in Miami, which was like a fundraiser that he did with NBA players.

0:20.1

LeBron James, he did some really good ones.

0:22.4

Michael Beasley did Vanessa Carlton.

0:25.2

Oh, nice.

0:25.9

Where do you think he learned that song?

0:27.5

I mean,

0:28.0

from White Chicks, you watched the movie White Chicks and that's where it was popularized.

0:32.3

Not when it was a top 10 song for a year and a half before White Chicks came out.

0:37.2

Nobody listened to it.

0:38.8

So Beasley crushed it.

0:40.0

I remember, I think there might be a clip if Beasley couldn't find it.

0:43.3

But to the point, NBA players sometimes can surprise you with how they can emulate or do

0:49.4

impressions of famous people singing or just talking.

0:53.6

Like, didn't see this coming.

0:55.0

Paul George.

0:56.0

Yeah, man, that blew my mind.

0:58.3

This is the funniest part.

0:59.7

So you shared it in the group chat, right?

1:02.2

What you shared was a tweet from Law Murray,

1:04.9

who does a phenomenal job of covering the Clippers.

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