The Replay: Recapping a crazy opening week in the NBA

The NBA is officially BACK! And The Replay is pumped to share some opening week observations. First and foremost, our thoughts go out to Gordon Hayward and Jeremy Lin, both of whom suffered tough injuries in their opening nights.

El and Al have struggled with their recent long distance relationship, and they reflect on the honeymoon period of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. The news broke this week that James in fact listens to Pandora (with commercials), and it turns out Al has a lot of issues with that. We also wondered aloud if Wade has ever had jelly toast and we started planning a party … a wine party … an NBA wine party … an NBA CATALINA WINE MIXER. Everyone is invited!

Al tells El all about Kevin Durant’s multiple Twitter personas, which leads to the conclusion that Durant needs a girlfriend ASAP. Talk of the Brodie’s Halloween costume ensues. A “White Men Can’t Jump” re-enactment like we have never seen before. Bless you, Nick Collison, for hosting one hell of Halloween party.

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Seeing the Thunder players dress up made El get excited about her potential costumes. Please stayed tuned for her debut as “Hoodie Melo” next weekend. On the other hand, Al will be taking a different non-basketball route this Halloween. She will be dressing up as Prince George who, to be fair, could eventually be a future NBA Hall of Famer. White toddlers might jump?

We then touch on one of our favorite subjects — Trusting The Process. Anticipation is building to see 1) How Joel Embiid will play this year and 2) What he will be for Halloween. El and Al ponder both of these questions and continue to dissect Embiid’s trolling of everyone and everything at any given time. Embiid recently gave us a new way of saying “Hey, this place sucks” by tweeting “MY LOCATION IS ASS.” We decide to take this new usage of “ass” and run with it.

We end the podcast with a simple game called “Ass or Not Ass.” One person says a thing and the other person has to decide if it is quite simply “ASS OR NOT ASS.” Truly a game for the masses! We tackle tough issues like Spree, China Klay and Kelly Olynyk’s hair just to name a few. Please play along and then go rate The Replay with El and Al *Not* Ass. Thanks!