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What happens when the camera stops rolling, but the heartbreak keeps going? In this special Director's Commentary, we pull back the curtain on the making of Sports Scar'd, taking you behind the lens of the episodes that defined our latest run. Host and director Kevin Pearce sits down to break down the creative process, the emotional weight of these interviews, and the hidden stories that didn't make the final cut.

We are revisiting seven distinct scars that shaped not just franchises, but the lives of the fans who lived through them. From the silence of a city losing its team overnight to the shock of a dynasty collapsing in real-time, this commentary track explores how we captured the raw emotion of sports history’s most painful moments.

Kevin walks through the production challenges and storytelling decisions behind the episodes:

  • The Midnight Move: Discussing the eerie recounting of the Baltimore Colts fleeing in the dead of night and the challenge of visualizing a city’s sudden emptiness with guest Matt Neufield.
  • The Butt Fumble & Aaron Rodgers: A double feature on New York Jets pain. We examine the tragicomedy of the Butt Fumble with Avril Stephens (JetsGirl) and shift gears to the crushing disappointment of Aaron Rodgers’ four-play season. Kevin reveals how they balanced the humor of the fumble with the genuine despair of the injury.
  • The Decision & JR Smith: Two sides of LeBron James in Cleveland. We discuss the contrast between the anger of 2010’s The Decision (with Bobby G) and the stunned confusion of J.R. Smith’s 2018 Finals mistake (with Connor Hebbeler).
  • The 3-1 Collapses: We break down the parallel heartbreaks of the OKC Thunder and the 73-9 Warriors. Kevin talks about the "emotional whiplash" described by guests NoLimitRico and Dean Simon, exploring how we structured these episodes to mirror the sudden fall from grace.

This isn't just a recap; it is a look at the craft of sports storytelling. We discuss how we create the show’s signature cinematic look, how we approach sensitive topics with superfans, and why reliving these memories—no matter how painful—is a necessary part of the healing process.

Whether you are a filmmaker interested in interview techniques or a sports fan wanting to hear the uncut thoughts behind the series, this commentary offers a new perspective on the scars we carry.

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About Sports Scar'd: Hosted by Kevin Pearce, Sports Scar'd is the show where sports heartbreak meets cinematic storytelling. We revisit the games, plays, and moments that broke fans' hearts and defined their fandoms. It is not about stats or highlights; it is about memory, emotion, and the scars left behind.

If you enjoyed this behind-the-scenes look, please like, comment, and subscribe. Tell us which episode hit you the hardest and what sports scar you want us to cover next.


have you ever wondered what it's like to be on the receiving end on some of the worst moments in sports history have you ever wondered what makes sports fans so deeply connected to these teams that they root for day in and day out no matter what happens well I made this show just for you this is sports card I am director creator host and all types of other stuff Kevin Pierce and I'm here to do a director's commentary for you you the people on the last five or six episodes that I have put out we're gonna dig into them talk about the guests talk about the moments talk about some editing choices it'll be a whole grand old good time this is going to be me holding this microphone and talking for the next however long so if you like podcast format this is also a podcast if you wanna just leave this on another tab or if you wanna just enjoy the episodes playing in the background behind me do you think but that is what this episode is gonna be without any further ado let's get into it from beautiful Baltimore Maryland former home of the Colts and that is today's sports car moment most of you watching this aren't even old enough to know that long before Peyton Manning's Colts were lighting it up in Indianapolis Johnny Unitas's Colts were blazing through Baltimore but one day the earth says and the Mayflower trucks attacked and then I'll let Colts superfan Matt Newfield tell y'all the rest of the tale the midnight move the Colts moving to Baltimore now this is kind of a companion piece episode because I always knew that I wanted the Cleveland Browns move to Baltimore and the Colts moving from Baltimore to Indianapolis to kind of go back to back in reverse order of however it actually happened chronologically in real life that's always been the vision and with this episode it's the first time I worked with somebody that I met for the purpose of this show like so I met Matt Newfield at a board meeting for gate that's Greenville Public Access Television where you can actually see full episodes of Sports Card being aired on there the air times are different every single week check the schedule on the site it'll be in the description but I met Matt and we were discussing the airing of my show on the network and I tell him hey I'm always looking for guest cause I am always looking for guest and he said oh man I remember the time that the Colts left Baltimore now fun fact for y'all I have a master list of moments that I know I want to go through like there's whatever large sports moment you can think of is on that list it's a very long list this has always been on there so when he said that my eyes lit up I was like yes let's do it and this episode was the first and only one that was shot on not my gear that I'm using right now I use Gates gear for that their cameras their microphone their studio their green screen and oh boy the that possessive challenge is editing wise because their files are significantly larger than mine this is gonna be really inside baseball but that's what y'all are here for uh their files were so much larger than mine it took forever just surrender even creating proxies didn't help like this episode legit took me like a week and a half to edit and most of it was waiting for shit to load like just a whole lot went into it but overall I'm happy about how it turned out so let's get into the actual episode shall we what made Matt's perspective on this so unique not only because I'm not even 30 yet so I don't have the perspective on what it was like to have the Baltimore coats but having the perspective of someone from Western Maryland which is a incredibly right leaning side of Maryland if you're from Maryland that's the part that we don't consider the DMV the borderline West Virginia Pennsylvania that that part of Maryland and to have this hippie Liberal have the perspective of growing up as a fan and also airing on the side of most notably in this episode he often talked about government funding for stadiums and how public funds shouldn't be used and things of that nature that's such a very unique perspective and quite frankly I didn't know I'd be able to find like just speaking plainly trying to find an older white gentleman from that era from that area that's a Liberal is pretty difficult but thankfully I was able to do it so shout out to Matt and what made this episode so special to me one was highlighting the blue collar era so to speak of football players like this is before they were millionaire athletes and they live so far away like nah this is at the time where like the right guard on your local football team could be your neighbor and you're just like a dentist or something or something you know I mean like this is just a different era of sport that thankfully Matt was able to enjoy and demonstrate the other part of it was the shock and it was really emphasized by the fact that Matt is a career journalist he worked in news and he didn't hear about the Colts moving because it happened so suddenly that nobody in the area knew that they were able to move the team like that and they even had intentions of moving the team they asked him in an interview and the RCA at the time the owner of the Baltimore Colts and eventually the Indianapolis Colts at the time vehemently denied it I think the opening television that I do at the beginning of those episodes illustrated it kind of perfectly where it was like nah I'm not gonna sell the effing team blah blah blah and then obviously I move the effing teams and that's why I phrase it as the Mayflower trucks attacked because it really seemed like out of nowhere one day you woke up in Baltimore and there's may fire tux moving your favorite team like that's so crazy like I love the episodes and the times I get to talk about teams moving because that's such a different sports scarring experience it's this team you've poured your heart and soul into is now gone it's gone like and you don't know if it's gonna come back again at that time obviously we know now that the Baltimore Colts came back as the Baltimore Ravens as a whole new team and that was kind of a different perspective of actually let me correct myself it wasn't even the Baltimore Colts coming back it was the Cleveland Browns moving to Baltimore to fill that hole and becoming the Ravens and another thing I like to do with these episodes is I like to have a happy ending somehow like I know the whole point of the show is heartbreaking sports moments but I like to end on a happy note or on a joke or on something cause I don't want people to leave with a lasting bitter taste in their mouth that's not how I get out so if you make it to the end of the video and you'll see he's wearing Ravens gear the whole time he's like oh yeah it suck losing my team but we got the Ravens like think about that for a second you don't think you're ever going to get a team again and instead later on I think it was 11 12 years later you end up with the most stable franchise you could possibly ask for two championship rings you have a freaking superhuman at quarterback right now it couldn't have turned out any better in the end and you showed the last thing at the end where he had all his Ravens gear and paraphernalia he's all in also made me realize how awesome of a name the Ravens is the Ravens is kind of an awesome name anyways thank you to Matt thank you to the RSA's I guess for moving the team to inspire this episode thank you to the city of Baltimore for being resilient and being able to handle a new team after losing your old one and we're gonna move on to the next episode there are bad plays and then there's this a place so ridiculous so perfectly disastrous it became bigger than the game itself the kind of mistake that doesn't just live in highlights it lives in history Thanksgiving night 2,012 a single moment that turned one franchise into more of a national punchline and left an entire fanbase asking the same question how did it get this bad to break it all down I'm joined by a long time Jets fan better known as the Jets Girl she lived this moment in real time the shock the frustration the laughter that hit way too close to home this is the story of the night that the Jets became a meme and the fans who never stop wearing green anyways the butt fumble so I met Avril when I was doing the Rec Room Sports podcast uh with the Good Brothers Kay Whit and everyone else over there shout out to them and she literally goes by the Jets girl and again I'm always looking for guests for this show right so I asked everybody what's your most heartbreaking sports moment and the words butt fumble jumped out at her and again it's it's on the master list of moments I wanna get to so I was like yes when are you free and we were able to get her to hop on the show and the passion that she has for her Jets is just like that that's what makes some of these episodes obviously the tone of all of them are different we'll get to some of them later but what makes it is the concept of inherited misery right so her dad was a Jets fan and passed it on to her rest in peace to her father he has since gone on to glory but that's something I dig into the most the first question I ask in all these podcast interviews is how you became a fan of this team this player this moment blah blah blah and by far the number one leading answer is Dad's the episodes that's gonna come out after this the answer is also dad I'm not gonna ruin the moment tune in next week so that context of I inherited this fandom this misery this burden this love of this team the Jets from my dad and now I carry that with me she passed it on to her kids as well to me is just innately interesting and to see what it manifested itself as as the way I wanted to paint this episode was always have story beats in my mind as I'm editing it just helps with the process so I knew I wanted to be became a Jets fan Rex Ryan era Mark Rex Ryan slash Mark Sanchez era but fumble where did the Jets go from here kind of having the Jets season as an inflection point of the but fumble as an inflection point of like OK the Jets were here and then they went on over to here you know what I mean so after we were able to establish that timeline wise I think the episode became a lot simpler and a lot easier and when we got to the actual play this juxtaposition I really enjoyed that the butt fumble it's a meme right we don't gotta lie about this it's a meme it's a commonly occurring joke everyone got butt fumble jokes myself included but she was so deadpan serious of like Yo what the fuck bro did he just wait just the rage that manifested itself as just really bro bro come on I love that juxtaposition of humorous moment deadpan humorous moment deadpan like that tension release tension release kind of in the opposite direction uh that I think works with most comedy but for that I think it worked really well as well and the actual play in the legacy it's one of the few episodes we have that is a Joker meme like we'll get to the 73 to 9 to 3 one lead later obviously the 28 to 3 game was the other one that became a meme and honestly still is a meme the Falcons converted a 3rd and 28 I think at the time of recording their last game against the Bucks and we still are making the jokes to this very day almost a decade later and I think we're gonna be making butt fumble jokes just as long unfortunately for Avril and Jets fans everywhere and also there's a portion of this episode that shows why I try not to ask about current questions of the team because there was a section where I asked about how she felt about Aaron Glenn now mind you at the time I believe it was recorded on September 28th 28th or 24th and it was like Week 2 of the NFL season and she was still very hopeful I've yet to ask for an update as to how she feels now that it looks like the Jets are gonna have the number one overall pick so maybe I should after this episode but we'll we'll see thank you to Avril and I'll be thanking her again because she's also the star of the next episode for hope finally had its savior Aaron Rodgers the four time MVP stepped onto the field to rewrite decades of heartbreak four plays in the unthinkable happened a pop a stumble and a silence that swallowed the stadium whole that night Met Life went from electric to empty and for Jets fans it wasn't just a torn Achilles it was another chapter in the curse that refuses to die and joining me once again is Avril Stevens better known as the Jets Girl back for her second episode of Sports Card to help us relive that pain that hit just four plays into a brand new era Aaron Rodgers opening night injury now funny story about this this interview happened by accident so in the middle of the butt fumble interview out of nowhere she brings up the Aaron Rodgers play and I immediately felt like a horrible content creator because how did I not bring that up first like as a Jets fan there's a lot of moments to pick from because the Jets are the Jets there's a lot of things that we can talk about with the Jets but specifically with Aaron Rodgers it was such a unique situation of we had so much hope we had so much hope and for it to turn out as poorly as it did I still don't feel like we make a big enough deal of it because you inherited one of the five to 10 best quarterbacks to ever live yeah there were signs of decline in his last Packer season before he became a jet but if you're the Jets even 60% Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback of your team's history and they didn't even get that they got four plays into their season with Aaron Rodgers he went down on national television on 9 11 Bro oh my god dog like that that that is peak heartbreak that is hope shatter dream shatter you don't feel any better about your team than you do Week 1 Week 1 is when you feel the absolute best about your team before you play a single game all 32 fan bases think they're going to the Super Bowl every single one of them no matter how bad your team was in offseason you still have the hope of like you know what may maybe if this breaks right and that breaks right and we can make this hole and that hole and to have your season essentially be over four plays in dear god what a way to start the year and then the next year with Aaron Rodgers was arguably worse your coach gets fired your GM gets fired it becomes abundantly clear that Aaron Rodgers is a cancer to the locker room he gotta go and he goes so all that hope going into the Aaron Rodgers era LED to two years and I didn't fact check this for the episode wait why am I acting like I can't hold on two years and 12 wins the Jets won 12 games in the Aaron Rodgers era Aaron Rogers used to get 12 wins a year in Green Bay and that was the expectation coming into Green Bay they had hard knocks there there were legitimate Super Bowl hopes like beyond just hype cause they were 7 and 10 the year before with literally the worst quarterback play possible with Zach Wilson and then they brought in Aaron Freaking Rogers the hopes were so high and for them to crash down so so dramatically so nationally so famously and then to get worse oh my god like that that man that that's a different level of heartbreak even for this show like it it was just ah so the moment she bought it up I was like oh I wasted an hour of our time cause again this is after the Buff Bumble interview we did in full I was like oh we're talking about this now no prep I do so much prep for these interviews before I end up chopping it up and what not no prep no nothing I didn't send her the questions beforehand like I do with every single guest no we just went I was just off the dome like the interview started the same way that the episode starts with her going for effing plays and then immediately boom we're off like that first 30 seconds for effing plays me asking her what was worse the butt fumbles or Aaron Rodgers that's how the interview started so that's how the episode started and we just went from there and thank god I think that episode turned out really really well I actually really enjoyed it but yeah thank you so much Ava for coming on thank you to the Jets for being the Jets and inspiring two episodes in a row of this show and i'mma say it before I said it again Avril is only the second black woman to come on the show again not through my lack of effort I have sent many invites I've been ghosted I've been ignored I've been told no it depends on who asks for what I would love to have more black women on this show I would love to because of someone who loves black women especially black women that love sports I would love to get that perspective because right now I only got two Adriana from Black Girls Love Football shout out to her and Avril so uh that's a lacking it's lacking on my part in the execution but it's not lacking in the effort so maybe I gotta turn the effort up a little more or change up the strategy but I do need more black women on this show alright now for the next episode Cleveland spent seven years believing his chosen son would carry them to glory LeBron grew up in their backyards carried their hopes and became the most powerful player in the league then one night in 2010 everything changed one sentence on live TV sent the entire city into shock jerseys hit the pavement and hearts cracked a franchise fell apart under the weight of one choice that no one wanted to hear and I brought in lifelong Cleveland fan Bobby G from the Audible Sports podcast to tell his story of the decision alright the decision now when the show was first inception this was always going to be an episode I just needed the right person the only Cleveland sports fan I know in real life is coach Chuck Smith who was the Browns to Baltimore episode and I can only use it for about so much what's the the Browns to Baltimore episode I always knew was going to be like the crown jewel I always knew that's what I was gonna ask him to do because with that I was able to get the the fumble I was able to get the drive I was able to get the Jim Brown era because that was more history of the Browns okay now why would all that history did the Browns leave I was able to paint a fuller picture with that with this it's such a left turn from talking about the Browns leaving to LeBron's decision which was such a landmark moment in sports period and thank god I met Bobby G host of the audible Sports podcast also met him through the Rec Room K wit if you're hearing this cause I know you will brother I've now had two guests on this show from your show and not you we gotta fix that we gotta fix that soon with this what I really wanted to paint the picture of was Cleveland's connection to LeBron specifically like your home grown superstar we all have connections to the superstar of our favorite team right like I love Jason Tatum as a Celtics fan I love Tom Brady as a Boston as a Patriots fan right they're not homegrown and LeBron didn't go to college so there's not even like a college fan base who can claim him he was all Cleveland well Akron Ohio you know what I mean he was theirs that was their baby and he came in and became LeBron like bro that's so crazy like he really came in and was everything they hoped him to be short of a championship and then one day he left and then he left and I don't think we really remember how crazy the decision was in the moment bro you would swear LeBron said he was leaving the Cavs to join ISIS like the way that we perceived the decision in the moment the slander that man caught oh my god if by some reason you weren't like alive or like conscious in 2,010 and weren't able to see this in real time I implore you please research oh shit watch the episode I think we did a pretty good job of painting the picture of that and other things I wanted to make sure that we put out there was the Dan Gilbert letter because I don't care what the Cavs do with the rest of Dan Gilbert's tenure that's his legacy is that letter and reacting so poorly to your superstar leaving superstars have left teams before yeah not like LeBron did it with the super team and the decision special and blah blah blah yeah that was one on one but the way that your owner supposed to react the way that the head of your team that is a statesman position and he reacted like anything but a statesman in that moment and oh boy did it show the the Benedict Arnold slashing on the fathead prices that one Bobby had to remind me of cause I forgot that that one was just funny but dear god man that that was so bad so yeah Dan Gilbert not great for you buddy I hope you never get into the hall of Fame based on that alone and then the ending obviously you know I love a happy ending LeBron came back and won a championship with him in 2016 so even I had to ask a Cleveland fan for this perspective cause I know for me it would have been all is forgiven you can do whatever you want but Bobby was like oh yeah no no no all is forgiven it was forgiven when he came back forget winning before he even won one he was already forgiven welcome back Bron Love to have you everybody else grab a seat we're gonna go back to the exact moment OKC went from we got this to wait KD's leaving with who the 2016 Thunder was supposed to be the team that finally broke through KD and Russ were rolling locked in and going up 3 1 against the 73 win warrior squad and it felt like a dream was turning real then Clay Thompson started hitting some shots that made absolutely no sense the offense tightened up and the collapse snowballed into something nobody was ready for and just when fans were starting to breathe again KD packed his bags and joined the same team that just knocked them out that's when heartbreak turned into pure rage and confusion and today I got my man no limit Rico coming on the set to walk us through the rise the fall and the pain that still lingers OKC losing the 3 1 lead shout out to Rico by far the most energetic actually I mean I do by far but the most energetic guest I've ever had he was bouncing off the walls during this interview and I was like this is awesome the whole time I was doing the interview thank god y'all can't see my face 90% of the time cause I'm sitting there like this yes yes this is awesome yeah so shout out to Rico I met him uh doing clash in New York for house of highlights shout out to house of highlights shout out to clash shout out to Brent and the whole house uh clash team and I think every episode from this point on until 2026 is gonna be someone I met through clash that sounds right we're gonna go with that so with Rico it's so raw and unfiltered just pure energy that I could ask him to read a phone book and it probably be that entertaining if you're into streamers and watching that go watch Rico on stream it's the same thing there like he he he's one of them he's really special talent when it comes to that right and it kind of matched because one of the subjects of the episode was Russell Westbrook and he's kind of the Russell Westbrook of streaming like he's off the wall full effort 100% of the time like he's going and I feel like when we tell the story of Kevin Durant leaving to Golden State historically we kind of forget this part we we mention that he went to the team that just beat him but we don't mention that he went to the team that just beat him in historic fashion as well and I wanted to kind of emphasize that as well as much as I love Kevin Durant like I'm from PG County Maryland my name is Kevin Kevin Durant's if not my favorite player ever one of them but oh boy those games that they lost especially game 6 and 7 whoo that man stunk that man stunk and we had to emphasize that because that was a huge part of it I feel like and obviously hindsight is 20 20 I feel like if he had went out swinging if he had went out let's say average in 35 and H or whatever and it'll be on like 50% shooting and maybe leaving would have been perceived differently cause it'll be like alright man what more do you want him to do he put in all the effort he could he went out on his sword and then he went to go join the other team I don't know maybe maybe that would have helped a little bit but to watch him flounder flounder yeah we're gonna go that to watch him flounder so poorly at the end of that game and the end of that series and then go join the winning team was like whoa whoa okay and this is also a spiritual successor to Episode 6 or 7 uh when I had Devin on to talk about uh Kevin Durant leaving for Golden State I now realize as I'm recording this that I've done essentially four episodes that mention that same Kevin Durant leaving for Golden State there's the episode just that's solely on that there's this episode right here there's the next episode we're gonna talk about and the episode after that also mentions that part Kevin Durant leave for Golden State was one hell of a moment man I don't know what to tell you it's worth covering in many episodes and who know I don't know when else I'll cover it again maybe there's a rockets fan that wants to talk about what the Golden State Warriors did to them during the KD era but I don't know there there is something to be said for a monumental moment that's such a huge butterfly effect moment that affected so many different things but yeah shout out to Rico awesome guest I can't wait to work on him again just because he has like a bunch of energy like can't can't wait for that alright next episode we go picture it you're sitting there in 2016 thinking the series is over Golden State is up 3 1 and the confetti crews are already warming up and the winning parade routes feel penciled in and then everything starts to slip away one game turns to two the tension spikes and somehow the team with 73 wins ends up watching the trophy go to the other locker room Today Dean Simon pulls up to relive every twist of that collapse the jokes the pain and the moments that still make Warriors fans look away from the screen just a little too fast so let's get into it Golden State 2016 collapse losing the 3 1 lead obviously this was on the master list like this if this like top five moments I knew I was gonna do on the show so Dean who I also met through clash when I proposed uh to everyone who was a guest there hey I wanna have y'all on my show he was like oh man I'm a Golden State Warriors fan and my eyes lit up again I was like yes finally'cause I'm on the East Coast Dawg I only know about so many West Coast team fans that aren't the Lakers like it's so difficult to find like Warriors fans and Seahawks fans and things of that nature and here's the thing with Dean that presented an interesting I don't want to say challenge but an interesting dynamic when it comes to me as an editor right so when you're interviewing people and this is a content creator pro tip when you're interviewing people there's only two type of guest there's let me phrase that there's a spectrum of guest right there's the highly energetics like Rico and there's the more muted performances like Dean that does not mean the same as good or bad guess I personally don't believe in good or bad guess it's my job to make a guess good to ask good questions to elicit good reactions to edit it so it sounds coherent if they're not coherent to piece it together so the story is linear if they don't tell a linear story like that's on me to make the guess good whether the guess is actual performance is just like the clay that you make your statue out of but every guess will give you clay it's your job to mold the clay right Dean was a lot more muted and not as animated at Rico like to the point where it was kind of like whiplash uh between editing these two episodes but the performance was great because his memory is so great it was so great because it was so vivid he's such a vivid storyteller even if he isn't yelling and bouncing off the walls so that's why it worked with him and obviously bro this moment man Whoo this might be either this or the next episode we're gonna talk about might be the most memed the most joked the most you name it of any episode on this show because the 3 1 memes if you again if you weren't there in the moment bro the 3 1 memes went crazy crazy I tell you to the point where I had to hold off on them because there were so many and I'll be honest some of them just didn't age well and I'm not gonna get cancelled over a meme I didn't make so I had to hold off partially as an editor decision because like I didn't want to sprinkle them through the episode and like oversaturate them I wanted to wait until the aftermath where Dean says specifically I stayed off social media to kind of show the imagery of okay here's why he couldn't go on social media because this is what it looked like and I also love the fact that as a fan he displayed the kind of hubris that your team wins 73 games bro you think you're unstoppable like you think sure of course we're about to win the championship who else would win if not us and you can't even blame them for having that mentality because again you won 73 games like of course you think you're God's gift to basketball at that point right and then to watch that come crashing down so dramatically so nationally in such a public way it's like ooh okay now we can get into the thick of things but again I love a happy ending and it's the first time I was able to use KD leaving as a happy ending because after going through all that it's like hey congrats you have Kevin Durant now the question I really wanted to ask at the end of that episode was how do you look back at that year because for me as a Patriots fan I struggle to look back at that 16 and 0 season outside of the context of the helmet catch right like it's hard for me to look back at that as anything but I hate the word failure but it kind of was like you win all them games and you couldn't get the championship about it but that's more so because the theme was undefeated season and you lost your last game with a chance to get the undefeated season the Warriors is different cause at least in my lifetime no team is going 82 and 0 especially 82 and 0 and then 16 and 0 in the playoffs that's never gonna happen right so with that was he able to look at it differently because you still won the 73 games you still got the record but you still couldn't get it done in the end you were a game away from getting it done in the end hell you had three chances of being the game away and didn't get it done in the end and to hear him say yeah no I can still find the good in that season I'm thankful they reach for the record and all that I was like okay my suspicion was right but yeah thank you to Dean thank you to LeBron for the chase down block one of my favorite NBA highlights ever thank you to Kyrie for hitting the shot thank you to the Warriors for choking for inspiring this episode let's move on to the next one LeBron put up one of the greatest performances we've ever seen on the court and he did it against a team everyone swore couldn't be touched the night should have been a masterpiece but instead it turned into a moment everyone remembers for one of the worst mistakes at the worst possible time and today I've got Connor from Hero Ball Media with me to break down how a legendary game slip through Cleveland's fingers while LeBron look like he was carrying a planet on his back and what really went through the heads when Jr took off in the wrong direction alright last episode of today's show The Jr Smith Moment somehow this wasn't on the master list and that's a shame on me as a content creator right like it should have been on there but when Connor brought it up when he was wearing the LeBron Jersey when we were doing clash I was like oh my god yes especially as a LeBron fan to have in my opinion the greatest game LeBron's ever played I'm biased I'm a Celtics fan I'm not including the 2012 Game 6 ruined by such a blunder such a such a just like Connor I'm struggling to find the words to really put in the context just how bad that Jr Smith moment was bro like such a crazy mistake to make bro like he forgot the score and didn't give LeBron the ball like there's so many things that went wrong in that Jr situation and goddamn it I'm happy that I was able to put the tape that George Hill deserves slander for that game as well for missing them damn free throws if even if Connor didn't say anything profound throughout the entire episode which thankfully he did we'll get his performance in a second even if that didn't happen this episode was worth making for that alone just for me to be like hey George Hill bro you've been skating for what has it been seven eight years now no no no no no no dog if you wouldn't have missed them free throws we wouldn't be talking about this right now alright my voice is starting to go so let me wrap this up Connor from Hero Ball Media was such a great guest and you could tell he's a great guest because that's the least amount of cut ins I've ever done for an episode I think it was two or three not counting the intro in the end credit uh scene like two or three cut ins was all I needed because he handled the transitions himself the original interview was an hour long right and my interview style when I do this show is I let my guest yap I'm gonna let you go because I'm editing like whatever is unnecessary whatever is fluff whatever is that I can take that out but sometimes it takes a three minute rant to get 30 seconds of an opinion of a topic spliced together that I actually is using and is is impactful with every word and that's the challenge presented with this episode because Connor was batting 1,000 that day boy so my editing process for the a role which is just the interview part right is chisel scalpel the chisel is we take all the parts of me talking out all the ums and as and ums all the pauses we take that part out right the interview is like 35 minutes after that that's so that's the chisel and then with the scalpel now it's time to get surgical now it's time to alright what makes this thought what's 100% necessary to this story and I think I got it down to like maybe 28 after that and these episodes ideally are supposed to be 15 to 20 minutes that that's the target range uh this episode ended up being 24 so obviously didn't work out that way but I had to go back with the scalpel again and had to take out some jokes that I loved like I never want to put the full unedited version of these interviews out on the internet but this is one of the first times I've been inspired to do so because it it just turned out so well like it's so good there's so much good shit I had to cut out that's on the editing floor that Connor just gave me a great interview and thank you Connor honestly like this is one of the better episodes of the show obviously I love all these episodes like my kids but this is one of the better episodes so thank you Connor and thank you to you you listening and or watching to this right now uh we're gonna get back to the regular former episodes next week and I got a really big guest on for that one someone who I'm actually a fan of in real life and I can't wait to get that to you with that thank you have a great rest of your day night evening whatever time of day it is for you

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