What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Stay Hot. My name is Bladen Kirk, and I'm joined as always by my two favorite co-hosts of all time in Matthew Spahn Hour and Theo Ash. How are you guys today?

I'm doing wonderful. I'm doing great. I saw the other day Theo Ash bet against my Charlotte Hornets to lose to the Pacers and ended up paying the price.

I paid I paid $50 to be exact. And, you know, the bet was Sabonis over 20 combined with the Pacers winning.

And I thought Sabonis scoring. Look, Sabonis over 20 was a lock, right, Matt? Like, who... Against the Hornets? That's a good bet. Yeah, it's a good bet. And then I figured, you know, the last time they played, obviously the Pacers dismantled, absolutely killed the Hornets. So I'm like, you know, that seems like a winnable game for the Pacers,

considering the last game, you know, they seemed to go the Pacers away. And the odds were so good

on it. It was like 50 was the bet to win like $110. So ending up getting like 150 back or

something like that. So I was like, that's kind of a lot

of money for, in my opinion, a pretty safe bet. And I was in class when this game was happening.

And I checked the score on it's halftime. And I'm like, oh, what a sub bonus has 20 already.

They're up by like 20. Easy. So I close my computer. It finishes up finish is up i check my phone and i

first tweet i see is like wow what a what a run by the hornets 24 zero to end the third quarter and i's

like what the oh you know what's funny i got back from i got back from working out at like six. I knew the Hornets game was on, but I fell asleep and I wake up at eight. Turn on the game. They're down 20. I'm like, well, this sucks. I don't even get the excitement of like watching the first game. And then they immediately go on a run and immediately take the lead. It was because you turn the game on.

It is.

I want us the game.

But Lamello Ball MVP campaign starts today.

He's ridiculous.

He's so good.

He's the Hornet's savior.

However good I think he's going to be, he always exceeds my expectations.

I love him so much.

Also, he was last year's rookie of the year, if I remember correctly, he ended up winning that over Ant. And there was a rookie for the Pacers. I did manage to watch a little bit of this game once I got out of class, Duarte. And I keep talking about how greatness kind of of it doesn't take long to recognize it.

I think it was like I just turned on the game and he had some move or some shot and I was like,

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