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Basketball Illuminati

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Basketball, Sports, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tom Haberstroh and producer Anthony Mayes have no contemplation of replacing Amin Elhassan in the Illuminarmy, just like Adam Silver has no contemplation to move the All Star Game. Truth Teller Travonne Edwards of Greatest of their Era joins to discuss the absurd reaction to LeBron James' "Decision of all Decisions", Michael Jordan's future as a broadcaster on NBC and who should trade for Giannis. Basketball Illuminati is now part of the Count The Dings Network. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Count The Dings Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to support the show, get ad free episodes and exclusive content at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/countthedings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ILLUMINATI MERCH HAS RETURNED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Check it out here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Truth Teller Interviews on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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	Mase, nowadays, when Amin can't show up, I'm assuming that he's in the lab with Pablo, right?
0:06.9	Like, I'm assuming he can't tell where he is, undisclosed location, a secret taping for the next episode of Pablo Tories finds out the bomber investigation.
0:17.2	Yeah, you want to talk about a boy who cried wolf.
0:20.4	Is Amin, just an Illuminati member who cries Pablo now?
0:24.6	Mm-hmm.
0:25.0	Every time he can't make a recording, oh, I'm so sorry.
0:28.0	I have to put on a suit and slowly take it off from my other job as a improv comedian to a Peabody-nominated journalist.
0:35.8	My sweaty suit.
0:37.0	Oh, I'm so sweaty. Oh, I didn't even get to do my lawyer character because I quickly became a disheveled lawyer character. That was my new bit. There's so much that we have to get into today. We have someone who's going to pop in with a big announcement. Big decision. The first decision of this person later in the episode.
0:55.3	But we also got some news on the balmer front.
0:57.6	He's probably taping it right now.
0:59.2	I mean, the reaction to the report, according to Adam Silver at the latest September
1:05.0	meeting with NBC.
1:06.6	He did a press conference as part of the NBA and NBC is back, said,
1:11.4	2026 All-Star Games slated to be in Los Angeles hosted by Steve Balmer.
1:17.7	According to Adam Silver, he hasn't even contemplated the idea that they would move away from Intuit Dome and Steve Balmer as part of the 2026 All-Star game. How dare you for even suggesting
1:30.4	such a thing, Mays? What are we doing? How obvious can you be, Adam? There's no contemplation and
1:39.5	planning for the All-Star Game and surrounding activities are operating completely independently
1:43.8	of the
1:44.2	ongoing investigation. You mean the ongoing investigation into the Clippers whose stadium would be
1:50.6	hosting the All-Star game? They're very dependent on each other. They're extremely dependent.
1:57.5	It's driving me crazy. This is so obvious. He's dying for games to start so that people stop talking about this.
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