Becoming a Best Ball Bro: Are We Going Zero RB?

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

So Rich, I know with these cold opens, we usually go back and forth, we have a conversation. There's no conversation today. I'm just gonna tell you a little story, something that happened this morning. Dropping my son off at daycare, and as I drop him off every morning, he kinda gets a little upset and cries at times, which I appreciate, I'm cool with, right? Because that means that he loves me, right? He doesn't want me to go, that's fine. So it usually only lasts like 30 seconds or a minute or so. And so I walk out the door, and I go to the front to where my car is parked, and his teacher usually picks him up as he's being sad, and they look out the window to say bye to daddy. And I wave back to them and I'm able to then go and he feels really good. Well, today I go outside and I look back at the window, and there he is standing there with his teacher, and I'm sitting there waving, and I'm like, goodbye, have a great day. Well, as I'm doing that, a grandma and her grandson come walking up the sidewalk right in front of that window, and lo and behold, they think that I'm waving at them. So, the grandma is waving back, and I've never seen these people in my life. They're waving back. It was one of the most awkward moments of at least my week, but probably my month so far, if you count May as well. And I gotta say, grandma, I was looking right past you, the way that I'm looking right past Jared Goff in my season-long leagues this year. I'm JJ, and last year, I tried my hardest to become a best ball bro. I drafted over 500 teams. I talked to some of the most successful best ball players in existence, and I admittedly had mixed results. So this year, I'm gonna chase that title once again. My plan is to max enter DraftKings Millionaire Maker, and I'm gonna document all of it while talking to the brightest best ball minds on the planet.

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Sponsored by DK. Now back to the show. Welcome into another episode of Becoming a Best Ball Bro. I'm JJ Zachariason, joined as always by Rich Ryan. Rich, what's going on buddy?

Rich Ryan (3:50)

Doing good. Turbulent times for my New York Knickerbockers. Obviously, flamed out against the Pacers. It was pretty much all over after that insane Halliburton shot in game one that bounced all the way up to whatever floor, 52nd.

JJ Zachariason (4:03)

To Jim Ursay in heaven is what happened.

Rich Ryan (4:06)

I was going to say it hit the top of the Empire State Building and came down. But yeah, Jim Ursay with the assist there on the day of his passing. Tibbs gets fired right before we hit the big red record button. A lot of it's going to be an interesting summer for the Knicks as they try to figure out do they keep cat? What's the lineup look like? So getting to the conference finals is exciting. And then all of a sudden the transactions rule the day and you just don't know what next year is going to look like.