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Basketball Illuminati

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Basketball Illuminati

Count The Dings

Sports, Comedy, Basketball

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Tom Haberstroh, Amin Elhassan and producer Anthony Mayes are having deja vu with another week gone by and no movement on the Jonathan Kuminga situation. Truth Teller Dan Woike of The Athletic joins the show to discuss the state of the Lakers after Luka inked his extension. We're also DEEP into the offseason, discussing Happy Gilmore 2, which NBA Player would be the best guest on Hot Ones, Giannis discovering a cockroach in his home and Backstreet Boys vs N'SYNC. 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

Hey, Tom, do this. I think you got something on your face.

0:02.5

Oh, really? Okay. Right here?

0:04.5

You guys remember married with children when Bud tried to grow a beard?

0:07.6

And it's like, hey, man, there's still thing on your chin. Only for Tom, for those who can't see this.

0:13.0

His beard is almost as long as mine and maize. And the last time I saw you, you didn't have a beard.

0:18.7

Dude, how fast does your shit grow? This is the Greek, the Greek coming out right here. The Greek freak beard. Mm-hmm. A lot more salt than I would have guessed from Tom. You think I'm a little baby, but, uh, you know, my wife, she was like, kind of like the beard. Oh, yeah? She's like, I don't know, kind of dig the whole salt and pepper thing. Swarthy, yeah. This is basically a week. During COVID, I grew a bit of a beard.

0:41.5

It was, I don't know. I kind of dig the whole salt and pepper thing. Swardy, yeah.

0:37.8

This is basically a week. During COVID, I grew a bit of a beard. It was when I left ESPN. I feel like people were thinking I kind of lost it. People were like, oh, he's off the rails now. It's because you left ESPN and not, oh, a global pandemic. Right. That didn't make him go off the rails. I feel like this is Taylor Jenkins, Tom Seguera.

0:57.5

Who else? Tom Segura is a good call. Tom's a real good call, especially with the bald head. And the Tom thing. Oh, yeah. I didn't even think about that far. Oh, yeah. His name is Tom. Two tombs. I didn't see that. Time passes and this beard's been like a couple weeks here. I'm going to be off the grid next week. So when I come back, I will be full Zach Alfenakis probably. Oh, wow. You go off the grid and are you going to find Dada of the Kamingo off the grid as well? Because I haven't heard shit, man. I mean, I get it. Restrictive pregency is hard, but man. Who's Jonathan Caminga? What sport does he play? Because I'm going to hang out with Tom next week. I'm rodeo Joe. I'm back. Oh, okay. I thought it was off the grid. Tom talking to us here from the future. I've been down by the swamp a little too long. Jonathan, who? Who does he play for? Is it the New York Knickerbockers? Who is he played for? Right now he doesn't play for anybody. That's not true. Well, how does that work? I don't understand. You're telling me there's basketball

2:02.6

player don't play for one team. Who's he played for? Mays? What do you mean? It's not true. He doesn't play for anybody. I mean, he plays for the Warriors. He played past tense for the Warriors. Is he retiring? Because I'm pretty sure he's going to be a warrior next year. Are you sure? Oh, yeah. Are you sure? How sure can you be? You guys scoffed at me when I said he might take the qualifying offer. I'm telling you, if he wants to drop his 22-year-old nuts on the table and really throw down, he's going to take the qualifying offer because the warriors have basically said, we're not trading you. The trade offers are trash. You're going to be on the team. And he's saying, well, I'm not going to sign anything then. Eventually he's going to have to sign it. There is a deadline where he will have to sign something. Yeah. And if he really wants to keep playing hardball, he'll sign the qualifying offer. The crazy thing is they offered him a two-year deal.

2:52.7

The Warriors did.

2:53.8

Two years, $45 million.

2:55.5

All right, cool.

2:56.7

They wanted a team option on year two.

2:59.9

And according to Mark Stein, they wanted him to waive the no trade clause he would

3:04.6

receive as a player signing for one guaranteed season with the team

3:07.7

that holds his bird rights. So basically, hey man, our option on the second year, take what I have to

3:14.5

assume is less money per year than what he wants. And also, you don't keep your no trade clause,

3:21.3

which quite frankly, that's a bitch of a fucking offer, right? That's,

3:25.5

I don't want you to take this offer. Vibs are going to be tremendous in training camp. I can't

3:30.5

wait. It's going to be so nice for Steph and Dremont to run it back one more time and they've

3:36.4

got a 22 year old at war with the front office. It's going to be awesome. Everybody's going to be thrilled. Do you think someone gets punched in this training camp with the Golden State Warriors? Do you think it escalates to that? You say it's going to be awkward. Hey, hey. We've seen awkward in the Golden State training camp. If I had the handicap, who's most likely to get punched? Number one would be Mike Dunleavy. What's going to say?

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