Episode 192: Ball Does Lie dives into NBA’s 75th season, mocking its "best plays" list for snubbing Muggsy Bogues—praised for dunking despite his 5’3” frame—while recounting Michael Jordan’s alleged psychological warfare. The hosts pivot to Tim Donaghy’s insider betting scandal, canceled book deal (If I Did It), and interviews exposing NBA corruption, framing the league as more "mobbed up" than the NFL. The chaotic opener’s crude jokes set the tone for unfiltered takes on sports integrity. [Automatically generated summary]
Yeah well, we have with us today well some very, we have our first double in-person guests.
Wow yeah, what I feel flattered uh, straight from the courts.
We have with us uh, Adam Freeland and Stavros Halkish Baby and, of course, i'm Brace and i'm Liz hello and we're joined by.
It's not, I didn't finish the intro.
I'm sorry, don't take that from here.
Yeah no no no, you want to do it.
You know you can finish.
Since you know so much about this, why don't you finish it?
Yeah yeah, all right and welcome to TRUE.
And on this week we're talking about kids getting fucked.
No no no, it's all about babies getting their dick sucked.
We're introducing producer young Chomsky, and then we're talking about that shout out to Chomps, no relation.
Uh, we have brought you guys here to talk about something that I don't know why i'm giving this introduction.
I'm the worst person to do it, but we're talking about the best introduction.
We're talking about hoops today.
Yeah hell yeah, round ball.
Yeah, Nba just started.
Just started.
Season's young, but it's looking good.
The 75th season, that's right, is it really?
Yeah, oh yeah, they keep trying to like make a big show up.
They made a list of 75 best playouts yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty hilarious.
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There are a couple snubs, couple flubs.
That's sort of true.
Yeah yeah, snubs and flubs.
Did they have Brace's favorite player on there, the little man Muggy Bugs?
Muggsy did not make what?
The guy is huge to me, to you.
Yeah, physically imposing yeah, he's 6'6.
I believe he's 5'3 in terms of like, overcoming Difficulty and adversity.
You got to give it to him.
I mean, unparalleled.
Yeah.
He's also like, yeah, absolutely.
But he is like such an insane athlete that it's incredible.
To be 5'3 and be able to dunk is wild.
Although, the person who ended.
Muggsy Bugs could dunk.
Did he?
Wow.
The person who ended his career mentally was Michael Jordan, of all people, obviously, because he was just, they were playing a game, and it was like, I don't remember what the situation was, but it was like some clutch moment where Muggsy, maybe it was a free throws or something, and he was just like, shoot it, you fucking midget.
And he was literally never the same.
Destroy me.
George just fucking killed him mentally.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
No, but.
Oh, my God.
That's a good segue because we, I will say, we have you guys here not just to talk about normal NBA stuff, although we can talk about the season and stuff.
I feel very, very stupid that I didn't know you had an NBA fighter.
That's okay.
Stop this one.
You guys should listen.
Pod Don't Lie with Sam and Stav.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But also, because it's TrueNON, talking sports conspiracies.
Hell yeah.
Which I'm a full believer in.
Absolutely.
First of all, the game's rigged.
The whole game's rigged.
The whole game's rigged.
The whole shit's rigged.
Now, the initials aren't as nice, but when I was a bigger NFL fan, it was great to always say National Fixed League.
There's nothing that rolls off the tongue for the NBA, but you could argue the NBA is even more mobbed up than the NFL.
The NFL is just kind of like a smooth running, self-running machine at this point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The NBA, there's always some shit.
I mean, Tim Donaghy, that's fucking wild.
Yeah, that stuff is.
I gotta say, yeah, in the lead up to this episode when I tried to look at the Wikipedia for NBA, and then I, which is really cool.
He just searched basketball into Google.
But I found these interviews with this Tim Donaghy guy.
And so he was a ref that was fixing games.
He was, yeah, he was betting on games.
Then he went to federal crime.
And then he actually got a big book deal that was yanked right at the last second.
And then had to.
It was called If I Did It.
Yeah.
He self-published it.
And it's actually a really good read if anyone's into it.
No, it's awesome.
He, he's, I mean, personal foul, I believe it's called.
That's sick.
There's also a great podcast that somebody did with it.