NFL Draft Recap & Blake Griffin on NBA Playoffs, Retirement, Kobe Stories, Lob City & More | Ep 189
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Wondery
4.8 • 17.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
92%ers, welcome to another episode of New Heights brought to you by Xfinity!
On today’s episode, we find out if we’ve got beef with Meryl Streep, Jason and Travis give their thoughts on the Chiefs and Eagles draft classes, and we debate if Fernando should start or sit his rookie year.
We’ve also got an incredible conversation with NBA legend, Blake Griffin! We get his thoughts on the NBA playoffs, how he’s enjoying life in the broadcast studio, the moment he knew his football career wasn’t going to work, what it’s like to get drafted with your brother, favorite Kobe story, his thoughts on MJ vs LeBron, what’s next for his comedy career, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Like, I told you that I'm trying to dunk for the first time of my life, right? |
| 0:02.7 | Oh, yeah, that's right. |
| 0:03.7 | How's it going? |
| 0:04.4 | Well, I tore my quad. |
| 0:06.3 | Oh, so not good. I was doing quarter squats of that and then jumping up on the box. And it was working. My initial height of running and jumping was like 10.6. Like, it was embarrassing start. I was up over 10.10. That's plenty. You can you palm the ball? |
| 0:18.4 | No, see, I got a little... |
| 0:19.7 | I can't... |
| 0:20.5 | Ah, you got those little... |
| 0:21.6 | You got those little baby. |
| 0:22.9 | You got those little baby. |
| 0:22.8 | How did you learn to jump so high? |
| 0:27.8 | What were the... |
| 0:28.1 | What are the techniques that you implemented to jump over human beings? |
| 0:32.1 | I got to be honest, man, having a Black Dad help. |
| 0:36.2 | I got to say, the quarter squat box jump combo wasn't really in my... |
| 0:40.3 | You didn't have to resort to that. |
| 0:43.5 | I've been doing this thing called the penultimate step. |
| 0:45.5 | Have you ever heard of the penultimate step? |
| 0:48.7 | All right, I'm going to stop talking. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm just going to do your intro. |
| 0:51.2 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:58.8 | Okay. I'm just going to do your intro. All right, here we go. Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen. |
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