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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk shop on Scottie Scheffler's run in with the law on his way to play in the PGA. Plus, the guys react to the Pacers forcing Game 7 and bring in Mark Medina on his reactions.

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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh, we're not even admitted to the second half. Get
a time out, Rick Carlisle, get that time out. Welcome
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I gotta tell you this, Mike Harmon, I think we
need to remind people of something that may be something
that has been forgotten in the last twenty four hours.
Put out a note to this some kind of memo.
NBA games are forty eight minutes long, not twenty four
minutes long. Please remember this when you talk about Jalen

(01:10):
Brunson and the first half he had against the Pacers.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Wow, I mean games are half to describe it as
it happened, not.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Twenty four they're forty eight minutes long. Yeah, just everybody
understands that.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
No. Sure, but if you ignore what you saw in
the first half, you miss one of the greatest horror
films of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It wasn't pretty. No, no, it wasn't pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
But on every shot he's horrible at the free throw line.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, it was abyssmal.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
But you were down ten. No, we're still down ten
with him being as playing as poorly as he did.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yep. And just like I always tell people in fantasy
that come up after first half, Oh it's a first half.
My players only got three points. NFL games are sixty
minutes long. Come to you want to be upset about
my advice, Come to me at the end of the
fourth quarter or the end of the game. Then you
tell me how you're at. But if he scores nineteen
points in the second half, everything is just fun. But
we are thirty seconds into the second half and the

(02:04):
Pacers ten point lead has been cut in half. It
is sixty one fifty six. New York has started out
on a five to zero run after a miserable first
half by Jalen Brunson. Three out of fourteen from the floor,
two out of five from the free throw line. The
Pacers have two and three guys on him. His shots
are short. It's not been a good first half. Hey,

(02:25):
he hit his first two, but he did, and then yeah,
and then that was it for a while, and doctor
came up empty for a bit.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Look at me, I went glass half full for you.
I mean he started out like, Oh, it's gonna be
a Brunson night.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well it wasn't. They start the second half because Nemmar decides, hey,
I want a technical foul. At the end of the
first half, Brunson makes the free throw to make it
a nine point lead. With the ball, they break down
the floor and Brunson goes in for a layup cuts
the lead. After another Pacers miss a back door passed
to Miles McBride, and that has made it a five
point lead again. And we are not even a minute

(03:01):
into the third quarter. They're gonna resume play in a second.
So this Knicks Pacers game. Look, I just I'll tell
you how it's all gone. I mean, look, Knicks Pacers,
we know it's gonna come down to the final five
minutes and it's gonna be a close game like that
show like. That's where we're at. That that's how all
the no matter what happens, that's where all these games are.
It's about the final four or five minutes. That's yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
But now I can the way this game has gone
gone on. You can reference one of the old Country acts.
It was McBride and the Ride. Sure, because that's been
your guy without him, and it's been great. You're sunk.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
He's been terrific. Now, mcbribably mean, look at Tom tippodaut
to say, hey, there's guys on the bench that can
play that I haven't played.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
In a long time.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I didn't know that. Hey look at hey Miles. I
just put him in the starting line up. And look
well we did in game five.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
You get some productivity from super backup Isaiah Hartenstein, and
you might have something.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Uh yeah, And look at as we say this, the
Pacers decide, oh wait a minute, that Rick carlile Tiut
worked out pretty well. They have now gone on a
five to no run of their own. It is now
sixty seven fifty six. Tifinately, that was five. Now it
is back up to eleven, and Tips calls a timeout.
We're not even two minutes into the third quarter yet
and each side has called a timeout, not happy with

(04:17):
their performance.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Feeling the potential for this one to get away. Thibodeau
always salty, but went through the quick timeout with the
scowl on his face. He had a bad brunts and
turnover in the preceding possession for the Nicks. So yeah,
it's it's one of those that feels like it can
get away. And guess what, who doesn't want a Game

(04:39):
seven anyway?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Of course, Look it's the best sixties. Of course we wanted. No, oh, no,
I don't want game seven at all. I want six Nickson,
six Nicks in six. But look I told you the beginning.
Are we destined for seven games? Yes? I think this
series is absolutely destined for seven games. The Pacers are
up right now by eleven. It's not a Jalen Brunson night. Yes,
he could turn it around in the second half, but

(05:01):
this is this is a Pacers game, a Pacers team
that did not play hard the night of the game before,
and Rick Carlisle was upset about it. They've been They've
not been sharp the entire series. They've been sharp for
some parts of the series, and so you figure going home,
after a tongue lashing, after understanding backs against the wall,
whatever you want to say, for Game six, they would

(05:21):
come out with their best effort. I was buoyed by
the fact that it was close after the first quarter,
because again I always think games like this, the home
team's gonna run out and you have to catch up
to them. But after the first quarter, okay, gets away
from them a little bit in the second quarter here
and it's about a ten point game still for the
next showing we can still get back in it. But
this is a Pacers team that really, and I said
it from the beginning, this is destined to go seven games.

(05:44):
Game seven MSG on Sunday. That's kind of just where
it's been. I'm hoping Jalen Brunson plays better. I'm hoping
he has a better second half. He had a good
start and then he just threw the ball out of bounds.
So yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. I've always
expected this to go seven games. If it ends tonight,
it's a bonus. It's like the extended adult swim in
a pool. Hey, excep, we get fifteen more minutes for

(06:04):
the adult. Kids got to stay out of the pool
for a little bit. Parents get to hang out in
the three feet area and talk. So that that's kind
of where I'm at. This is a This is a
found money game for the Knicks who are still playing
without Anunobi. If they win, great, If not, I'm fully
ready for Sunday in gamesh yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
There's no found game. You know, at this point you're
in the playoffs. There's none of that, the house money,
all those phrases.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
This game is a house money game. This game is
a house money game. The series is not how this
game is a house money They're up three too, you know,
hopefully they're getting Atonobe back for Game seven, but who
knows if they lose. Okay, we have a Game seven
winner take all in the second round of the play
h yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
But this is one where it becomes the idea of
never let it go to the judges, i e. Never
let it get to a game seven if you have
the opportunity to go close out. So that being said,
good balance thus far by the Pacers. Haliburton a little
more aggressive. He's got eleven and seven assists. They've been
paced by Pascal Siakam thus far, and your guy Nemar

(07:04):
he's got nine, buddy, looks got nine.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
It's been a great it's been a great game across
the board for the Pacers, right. They've they've played harder,
they have been able to stay in Brunson's face to
make them work. And they're all hitting shots. Were not
hitting shots.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well, they're all not hitting free throws. They're five of seven.
You guys are seven of fourteen.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Yeah, no, we're not there. Now.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You shoot fifty from the free throw.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
We're not hitting free throw well. When when your best
player goes two for five, it's that contributes to seven
for fourteen.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
He's barely grazing the rim on a couple of those
two man.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
But look, but I give the Paces a lot of credit. Look,
they're they're they're playing extremely well. Their starters are playing
lights out right, they're all shooting well, they're moving the
ball really well. It has become that kind of night
so far for Indiana. It's still a long way to go,
but I get look, I always I come back to this,
right because I always think, and this is my mentality
always when I was an athlete, when I'm coaching everything,

(07:55):
I always say, it doesn't matter what the others, it
doesn't matter. We control this game, we let it happen,
we make our breaks, we make our wins. It doesn't
matter what. It matters what we do. And I think
about that, and then I think back to what Ron
Darling would always say when he talks about when he retired,
you know former you know, pitcher for the Mets and
the Mets booth now is that you know, there was

(08:17):
one time where he was pitching and it was like
he was early in his career and he like he
wasn't making his pitches. They were hitting him, and the
pitching coach came out to him and said, what's going on.
He goes, I can't believe it. I'm not doing this.
I'm not doing this. I can't believe they're doing this.
I can't believe this. And they just stopped and the
pitching coach just said to him, well, you know the
other side is trying to you know, just so you
know that, and he said that was such a huge
thing for him, that like, oh yeah, I guess I

(08:39):
got to give credit, you know, credit in fact, the
other side is really really trying hard as well, and
sometimes they're gonna get the better end of the play.
Like look, I think, yo, look, there's nothing the Nick.
The Nick should be controlling his game. But then you hey,
the other side's trying to right and you get it.
So I'm like, okay, you understand they're all playing well.
I give him a lot of credit.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
On every once in a while you can match the
tenacity and effort of your Knicks, because I mean that's
been the hallmark of this squad. Nobody is going to
out effort us. I would say, if you want to
look on on socials at Swollen Dome, I think I
found the proper gift to encapit, encapsulate your energy and
emotions at this time, Okay, I welcome and invite everybody

(09:19):
else to go and see the rabid Knicks fan that
I found that will stand as proxy for Jason Smith.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
We need Frank the Tank to stand as a Nick. Look,
the Mets season's over. They lost to the Marlets tonight,
Like we're done. Like they need we need Frank the
Tank to come in and say, okay, it's time to
talk Nicks like that's what we need.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well do you need that? I mean that there's a
lot there. I mean I think you know, as it
jumped the shark, I don't know. I mean it all
started back in the day with the New Jersey transit.
He appeared on our show, and then it just kind
of spiraled into its own thing. It's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah. Look so right now, eight oh three to go
in the third Pacers lead the nixt seventy eight and
make it seventy one sixty. Will continue to bring you
this most of this game again, it's a win or
go home game for the Pacers. If the Pacers win,
we have game seven Sunday in New York. And look,
it's just it's just been an absolute fun, incredible ride,

(10:16):
and no matter what happens, I'm okay. You may not
believe me with that. You may not believe me, but
I am okay with it. If that happens, I am okay.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
I do appreciate your attempt to sell that that is
absolutely the case. I mean your acting efforts here, I
mean it's master Thespian stuff. It's like you've been hanging
out you know, at your daughter's school and picking up
some pointers from the director or something while she's in production,
besides running around singing the same three lines from Waterloo

(10:43):
that maybe you picked up a little bit of the
acting acumen.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Or that guy walking around just he keeps saying, go
New York, go, New York Go. What is that all about?
What does that mean? I don't understand. This is set
the Greek Islands. Why is the man talking about New York?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Girl? Is that guy's problem in the New York.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
O, New York O, New York Go New York Finally
facing my go New York WHOA okay? So again, we'll
have more on this throughout the night. Again at a point,
Pacers lead right now about seven minutes to go in
the third quarter. But meanwhile, we have a huge topic
we got to get into. We're gonna get into it

(11:23):
in a big way coming up in a few minutes,
because we watched Scotty Scheffler go through some sort of
ordeal today on his way to Day two of the
PGA Championship. Now, basically it lines up like this, and
we have a lot to get to. You'll hear the
sound and hear what was going on today. Scheffler, who

(11:45):
was look, he's best golfer in the world. He's in
the middle of his prime. He's twenty seven years old,
and he was arriving at Valhalla for the beginning of
the second round. And well, let's just say that things
kind of happened. When he gets there at six o'clock
in the morning. There are police vehicles outside the gates
to the course that are directing traffic, moving people around

(12:09):
because there was a traffic fatality that saw a bus
hit somebody who tried to cross the street. Now police
officers are on the scene and they're trying to keep order.
There's a bunch of people in line waiting to figure
out how they're going to get into the course and
start the next round. Scheffler decided he didn't want to
be in the line of cars. He pulled around into
the median and tried to talk to a police officer

(12:32):
about getting inside. Police officer came up to the car and,
according to reports, quote attached himself to the car, meaning
he stood there and put his hands on the car.
They had a conversation for about ten seconds, and Scheffler
decided to pull away. He drove about ten feet and
it kind of dragged the cop a little bit and
the cop fell down. His pants were irrepulably ruined, which

(12:53):
was a big part of the police report today. The
eighty dollars pants of the police officer were completely ruined.
And look, I got upset a I ruined a pair
of pants, So I can completely understand that. Scheffler was
then taken out of the car, he was cuffed, he
was put in the back of a squad car. He
was taken to jail, he was booked. He was then
subsequently released. He's charged with a felony as part of

(13:15):
what went on in not following orders and the dragging
of the police officer. He went back and was able
to play a second round, and he's three shots back
after day two, so he had a day all before
he even teed off at ten o'clock this morning. Mike
carbon this is some kind of story, and he has
said after it, put out a statement saying I was confused.

(13:35):
I didn't know what was happening and what was going on.
When I was sitting in the holding cell, I could
see myself on TV, I was on ESPN. I didn't
know what was happening, So this was the day and
this is the other huge story outside of the Knicks
and the Pacers that we're going to be breaking down
here over the course of the next few minutes on
the show.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, you had a reporter, Jeff Darlington who was on
the scene. He was right behind him as they're trying
to enter the course and trying to parse out the
facts of the matter. Right, there's a lot going on
with some of the other golfers talking about potentially having
suspended it and that they should have and they debated

(14:13):
asking they were walking to the course knowing that they
had the situation. John Mills is the man's name who
was struck and killed outside of the facilities. Yeah, it's
just trying to like you said, ten feet, I'd read
ten yards or like I mean, there's just a lot
of parsing out the details and trying to ascertain, you know,

(14:38):
did he just try to whip around to just bypass
traffic without getting in, getting instruction, just ignoring everything before
the officer quote again that I've seen the word attached
all day to the vehicle and then he's out and

(15:00):
he's able to not only get some practice in. People
had t shirts of the mugshot made and were on
site just that fast, Like it's some of it's just
kind of distressing, disturbing the process of you know, the
golfers arriving to tournaments as they do in the courtesy
cars and all. I don't know, there's there's just so

(15:21):
many details to this, Jason that leave it as I
gotta imagine there's a complete overhaul of how they process things.
But let's not lose sight. Uh, the traffic snarl wasn't
because someone was late getting to their gate. It wasn't
because there was you know, weather, and there was someone
was struck and killed and that and that seems to

(15:41):
be getting glossed over in all of this. More worried
about whether he was gonna make his tea time or not.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, and and and look, there's a lot to get
to it, because there's stuff that that Scottie Scheffler's got
to own that he didn't and and there's stuff that
you got to own in a situation like this, which
we're gonna get to. And there's also I'm surprised at
the reporting. Jeff Darlington has been reporter for a long time.
He's an NFL network. When I was there, he's been
ESPN for a while, but I was stunned that his

(16:07):
reporting was so incredibly slanted towards Hey, this is being
done to Scottie Scheffler. And online the number of people
are just like, yeah, look at this great reporting. I
can't believe this. I can't believe this. All he had
to do was say who he was, and I'm like,
wait a minute, So now that's an okay strategy you
can say just saying who you are. In a legal situation,
when the cops tell you to do something, we always say, oh,

(16:27):
look at someone. How embarrassing is Now it's like he
should have said who he was. So it really the
reaction to this story kind of took me by surprise
because this is like any This is like any story.
Here there's the police side of it, there's the there's
the civilian side of it, which the Scheffler side, and
then there's the middle, which is likely where we have
to go here, and this is not something that's all

(16:49):
the way on one side for Scheffler, and it looks
like that's where the coverage has been so far. So look,
coming up next, we're going to get into this because
there's a lot to unwrap and a lot to talk
about here, and just understand that there's stuff that he
has to own, and so far he is not. No
one else has. And we'll go through a bunch of
different things. You're going to make you say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(17:09):
oh yeah, you're right, yeah, you're right. Got big stuff
going on through this. We got big stuff going on
the Nicks and the Pacers. That's coming up next right here,
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we're just under two minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

(18:11):
Tom Thibodeau has subbed everybody out. I really want thought
Larry Johnson would come in from the stands to come
play a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
But I don't know. They just showed all the former Knicks.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Yeah, the the classic Knicks. Not really enjoying this game
so much.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Kind of say this though, Jason, whenever they show uh,
Walt Clyde Fraser and you're dressed as brilliantly as he
always is. But he's got the long hands, right, those
long figures, and he's got his hands folded. Don't you
wait for some really crazy s to go down? You know,
like he's he's.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Directing traffic and something bad it's about to go down.
I mean, come on now, he always just looks not happy,
like no matter what's going on, it's like like Clyde's
got that look like okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Unless he's on camera and then he's smiling from here here.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
So you got Clyde at the game, and LJ is
at the game, and Spree well in their city in
the stands and not allowed to be, you know, on
the baseline, you know, getting in the way of the
pacers players are grabbing them. It'll be a different experience
for them in game seven of the MSG on Sunday,
that's for sure. No, that's it.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean, just a very subdude group. Like they showed
them up with the stands and obviously, you know, we're
doing the show, and like I ran to refilled the
old never ending cup of coffee, so I didn't have
the sound up, but I came back to that montage. Boy,
I wish I had the sound up to see what
was being said about these guys right now.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
So I guess Tims listens to the show because I said, hey, dude,
it's a twenty point Burial'll get everybody out of the game.
They're towel, they're all out of the game. Jericho Simms
is in the game. I think Molly Simms is in
the game. I think Phil Simms was in the game.
And I said, hey, put shake Milton in and shake
Milton's in the game.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's like I'm coaching the team.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
So you're able to coach this squad. Now you just
need that full straight line to the clubhouse there for
your mets. But boy, what's been mostly disastrous. I mean,
like it's been an awful night. Give up one hundred
and sixteen points, you're down eighteen inside of two minutes.
But down the stretch it's just a layup line and

(20:10):
yunk fest. Oh like there's a contesting of shots. There's
not a whole lot of any of it.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
No, no, I look, the big question now is Josh Hart,
who left the game with an injury. Looks like an
injury to his mid section. I don't know if he
strained a muscle, but something happened in the game. He left,
he came back in, buddy, went to the locker room.
I mean, if they're missing, missing Josh Hart, I mean,
come on, man, what else do you need?

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Well, there's game as bad as and decided as it is.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Jason.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
They just did the in rewind going to the old
Amad rush shot thing of kind of showing the play
where it's believed Heart got it hurt, kind of tangled
up underneath for a rebound with Siakam and just kind
of goes to one knee grabbing his mid section. I
don't know if just the hyper extension pulled muscle, what's
going on, but clearly in a lot of pain.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, it looks like the the what do they called
the intercostal muscle?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Right?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Like? What it is? The intercostal? Yeah, the the or
as as Jesse the body Ventura would always say like
uh like when, uh when? When? Who is that Tony
Garia right had the abdominal stretch right like? Or something
would happen to say, that's the lateral collateral area of
the back, Like is that a real thing? Come on? Man?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Like something I could call my daughter if she's on
a work break, because right now she's doing a lot
with anatomy and one of her courts work. Yeah you
should say, though, you tell.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Me that if your daughter's doing work on a Friday
night and I'm picturing her like doing flatliner stuff like
her friends, Yeah, how to contact the other world. We're
gonna die for three minutes and then come back and.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah know tonight is just helping people with art supplies
and stuff out of Michael's.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, when you're doing science on a Friday night, I'm
just thinking it's flat liners.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
No, she does have to get back into the science
books because she's got a huge task on Tuesday. So
I know that's part of the post work shift plan.
And in addition to whatever gluttonization of a fast food
restaurant comes into play.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
So it is a final now in Indiana. Jalen Brunson
walking to the locker room. He looks, Okay, that's good. Uh,
Indiana wins it one once.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
The fact that you have to characterize it what he's wiping,
he's why he let him down, and he looks a
bit sewing, but he's not hurt.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, no, no, no, Brunson's the guy, right, Look if Josh
Hart is hurt, no, no, everybody. It's like, I still
think they can win as long as they have bruntson it.
Does it? It's like it's like Brunson's a new Ditka.
Who would win if it was Ditka or a hurricane
named Ditka, if it was Brunson or a hurricane name
Brunson Brunson one oh seven, Hurricane seventy six, Hurricane Brunson

(22:46):
seventy six. I text in fract your final score, like
that's right. I'm like if Brunson's okay, we're going home
game seven, nix more physical. Yes, let's why they're here
for game Seven's why you bust your ass to try
to get to the two seat in the playoffs. Oh,
by the way, for all the teams that wanted to say, oh,
we're gonna rest guys the last couple of games because
we don't want to play a certain team in the
first round, this is why you try to get the

(23:06):
highest seed possible so you can play game seven at home.
Because as much as the Pacers are happy about what
happened tonight, they do not want to go to Madison
Square Garden and play Game seven. That is the last
thing they want to do. But that's they got to
do to go win this, So that's why you do it.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Twenty points for your guy, McBride. Brunson eleven of twenty
six from the field, much better second half thirty one points.
So the underhit was thirty four and a half as
he sat out those final minutes.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
But look, it'll look.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
More respectable in the box score for those that didn't
watch it. Thirteen points. I mean maybe a late run whatevern.
They got beat down as it went through, so but
Game seven back at home, hopefully with Josh Hart And
this is just me from a basketball watching standpoint, obviously,
you know, I want the best for you, my Nick's

(23:56):
loving friend. But he's been a hell of a joy
to watch him play in these rounds of the playoffs.
I actually anticipate a rebounding master class to be offered.
How to be undersized and dominate your field could be
applied anywhere. Yeah, I mean, really I can. I mean,
rebounding is where you start in terms of angles and

(24:17):
being able to see the full court and everything else.
I mean, all the metaphors for life are there.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
And look, and I'm also glad that you saw that.
The most important thing for tonight was, in fact, Brunson
walking into the locker room after the game. I got
up a couple of dudes, Hey, here you go, Here
you go, great, all right, all right, he looks, he
looks okay, sad, but he looks like, that's okay, that's okay,
that's a victory tonight. That that's a that's a that's
a w tonight. That's what I call it.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
That now, he and his guys, I mean, Devincenzo looked
all right, Hartenstein had a couple of scary moments, right
he hit the court a couple of times you're like.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Sack, get up.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Devincenzo had one of those where it was kind of
interesting because you saw precious at youa. Uh they were
down low and he ended up going to the free throw,
but Deeven Chetzo was on the court and he just
walked away. It's like, not that your teammate, dude, turn around,
turn and eventually he was helped up by the other
and they actually kind of commented it. Commented on the broadcast, Uh, well,

(25:13):
I think he just kind of had the wind knocked
out of him. He's okay, but you're trying to cover
up the fact dude just turned his back and walked
over to the free like, hold on, your guy is down.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, no, I know, I know. It's insane. Uh So
we are gonna have two game seven's now on Sunday,
and it looks like the Times are official Pacers and
the Knicks will be at twelve thirty pm East Coast time.
And then I think the Timberwolves Nuggets is actually my
if I'm reading it right online with people with check marks,

(25:45):
it might be a night game like this might be
something that tips off at six o'clock.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, it's gonna be a day night doubleheader. Yeah, the
day night you leave the game, then you shepparate tickets,
baby sepperate tickets. No, no, no, you don't get to
sit around.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Side. They were to get that. We're gonna get that
the day night doubleheader on on Sunday. I think that's
gonna work. Yeah, I think that'd be pretty cool. You
got a game, you got some time to go, get
something to eat. You gotta go back. You got game seven. Yeah,
you know you're drama. Three thirty pm Eastern Time, eight
pm Eastern on Sunday night. So t Wolves and the
Nuggets is a primetime game on the East Coast on
Sunday night. Pacers of the Knicks, three thirty pm. So

(26:22):
you'll have time, you'll have you got about an hour
and a half. Three thirty tip off er is that pregame? Well,
that's pregame when we talked off three thirty seven or
whatever it is, you know that.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
That's kind of okay. Just so, just so I'm not
suckered into watching a bad pregame show, because I tell
you I watched a few minutes tonight. I muted it.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
What are you gonna want on music? You're gonna watch
JJ Reddick say, Look, this is look how smart I am.
I can be the head coach of the Lakers. Here's
some things I'm seeing. This is what I got going on.
But they won't hire me till after the NBA Finals
are over. So but I just want to show you
this is how smart I am. This is what I
have happening. I mean, the pregame shows are just okay.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's question asked part of the pregame. It has really
come down to Halliburton versus Brunson. Everybody on the panel
looks at like that's the question you're asking. Ue come.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
I mean, look, I'll tell you this right now. If
I'm looking at Game seven on Sunday, now we have
we have back to back Game seven on Sunday, we'll
do We'll do the first, we'll do the first. Picks
right here, I'm gonna go for Game seven. I'm going
Nuggets and Knicks. I'm going both home teams are gonna win. Yeah.
Look the Nuggets, even though they got blown out last
night against the timber Wolves. You saw the tea Wolves

(27:31):
really honking it up and enjoying themselves when Jokic was
on the bench of the fourth quarter. It's gonna be
a much different situation for Game seven. Yes, they've won
two games in Denver earlier this series, but that feels
like it was a month ago. Give me the Nuggets
to give me the champs and Game seven at home
at the end of a long series in the mile
high air, and the it's gonna be the t Wolves. Yes,

(27:53):
I know people think that Anthony Edwards could go Michael Jordan,
he scores sixty and the t Wolves get to the
Western Conference Finals. But give me the Nuggets and give
me the Knicks unless something crazy happens and Josh Hart
is out and Devincenzo is out here. But give me
the Knicks to win Game seven at home. They will
be able to put their physical style on display much
more than they have tonight. They missed a lot of

(28:14):
easy shots tonight. This is one reason why the Pacer
were able to get away with a runaway with the game,
rather not get away with anything. They were able to
run away with the game because look, yes, the Knicks
had problems. It was a bad night for the Knicks.
It was a great night for the Pacers. They did
everything right tonight, and still the Knicks missed so many bunnies,
so so much from two feet and ind and I'm saying,
how does that roll off the rim? I seven eight

(28:37):
shots that you're counting as okay, this is a bucket,
and somehow it just rolls off the rim. So that's
not gonna happen again. So it's not just me being
Knicks fan. I'm seeing how the Knicks have played at home,
how the Pacers have played on the road, how they've
played very inconsistently. I know they're going to be jacked
up for Game seven. This is a different animal. You've

(28:57):
seen the atmosphere at Madison Square Garden. If something happens
to Josh Hart can't play, then John Starks will play,
or Spree Well will play, or somebody else. It doesn't matter.
But give me the Knicks, give me the Nuggets. In
Game seven's on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Thirty five assists on forty nine makes tonight for the
Pacers moving the ball around only eight turnovers. By way
of contrast, for the Knicks, just twenty assists on their
thirty six makes not to mention all those early missed
free throws that kept the deficit a little larger, then
well it should have been by the normal statistics and

(29:30):
over a season sample size. So yeah, Josh hart is
the key to it, all right, if he plays. I'm
feeling pretty good thirty one minutes. Gutted it out tonight,
but obviously limited. He had did have eight rebounds, but
offensively was a non factor. So would expect him to
be better and Jalen Bronson in front of that home crowd,
he ain't going two for thirteen and a half just because,

(29:53):
I mean, it wasn't defensively that they did anything special
on him, just came up a short on a lot
of including the free throws that we mentioned before. Hartenstein
one of three from the field. Really, he's only gonna
take three shots now. More activity on the on the boards,
more fluidity in what they're doing there, and better shooting

(30:17):
night in in the home confines. I would fully anticipate
your Nicks to walk away with a win. As for
the Nuggets, you know we had Rick Buker on what
did he say? Yeah, they pissed him off. It's done.
But how hurt is Jamal Murray?

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Really?

Speaker 3 (30:32):
You want to talk about a guy given a no
opponent credit like, oh, what did you get defensively from
Edward's company? He's like, ah, my elbow hurt and I
was missing shots. Came absolutely no credit to anything he did.
You know what, I put some numbing crew. He immediately
went into the treatment on his elbow. Yeah, I put
some numbing cream on there or whatever. That's how he

(30:54):
was excusing the four for eighteen. And maybe that's the case.
But you know, we talked about it last night. With
the requisite chucking of three point shots instead of going
and running their offense when it's most effective through Jokic. Yes,
they've had so much success doing Yeah, go back to
basics neutralizing some of the seven footers. I'll still take

(31:16):
Minnesota to win. Why Because I like chaos and I
like our boss to be happy. But in tough sledding,
you are you are?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Hey, CCC Scott Shapiro, I picked your team for you. Hey,
how does that sound?

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (31:31):
How does that sound?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Now?

Speaker 3 (31:32):
The bigger thing is just the auxiliary players. I'm expecting
it doesn't have to be Anthony Edwards just talking about
the myriad seven footers. You get to run out defensively
to cause enough chaos, and I do have the asterisk
next to Jamal Murray. I don't know what to expect
because his jump shots been broken with the exception, and

(31:54):
Frostberg's not here to yell at me. Of those two
shots he made against against the Lakers, right, he shot
terribly at these two rounds of the playoffs. Whether he's
hurt or whether you know, it's just broke, it's broke.
I expect more struggles from him, and that's going to
allow the difference to be made on the boards and
in the low posts by Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah. Look, just so you know, I just got a
text from our boss, Scot Shapiro. He'd like you to
run to the corner and get a pack of cigarettes
for him. Could you do that? Could you do that?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
What are you saying he's still under twenty one? No,
I just don't. He just doesn't want to be shown
as buying smokes. You know, back in the day in
my Chicago neighborhood, they didn't care. I'd cared for my
mom in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Nobody cared about it. But it's like, I'm just buying
these from my mom, okay, like legitimately, And I legitimately
was because you know, there was the old rule of hey,
you fly, you know, here's a buck by a you know,
thing of candy, and it would inevitably be packs of
nineteen eighty one Donors Baseball cars. But that would make
me eight Smith being able to buy cigarettes, and I'm

(33:00):
buying cigarettes when I'm eighth.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
What do you got? I need a couple of packs
at Don Russ. What you got some of those mas.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
G Give me that Highlights magazine on the side, Give
me that. Give me give me one of those what's
the puzzle ones where you had the highlighter that you
would reveal the answers.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Oh no, I know it, Yeah yeah, and the.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Back of Paul Ball, Oh, you know what? And give
me a Marlborough. Give me a red pack.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
And give me that game where I got the guy's
face and I can move around and put a beard
or different hair styles on them.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
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(33:53):
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Speaker 1 (35:01):
I can't believe the Knicks. They lost this game. It
was never close and now Josh Hot has hurt. That's insane,
all right, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. And it's hard because the
lead singer of Asia, the voice is kind of tough.
It's kind of tough for me to get that pitch right.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Oh, I got that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Zoe always tells me in the car, Dad, Dad, you're
you're You're on the wrong octave. No, I'm not. I'm
at the octave where it sounds right now. But Dad,
you're in the wrong octave.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
I'm not the wrong the octave. I want to sing.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I'll sing.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
However, you haven't tried yet.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
This is this isn't a concert. You didn't pay money
to sit next to me. Now be quiet, listen well,
I sing Sweet Child. Of mine.

Speaker 3 (35:41):
Damn right.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Uh, only game in the NBA tonight in the books,
while it was in the books a while ago. The
Pacers beat the Knicks one sixteen to one to oh three.
This series now tie to three games apiece. We have
two big game sevens on Sunday. Joining us now on
the hotline. We're gonna talk about these games. We're gonna
talk about big Celtics injuries, Nuggets injuries. Well, longtime NBA

(36:03):
inside or friend of the show. You can fall him
on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That's Mark Medina, Mark.
What's happening man?

Speaker 3 (36:09):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (36:11):
I am doing well? How are you? Are you okay?

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Well?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I always figured we would go to seven games. I'm fine.
Really you think I'm you and harmon, But I'm fine.
I expected this to go to seven games. I didn't
think the Knicks are going to win tonight. It's got
seven written all over it. Yes, I am okay. This
is why you have home court advantage and why you
play for the highest seed you can and don't rest
guys at the end because you want to avoid a
first round matchup. This is why you do it.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Mark James and the Knicks have done this before. They've
hosted a game seven against the Pacers in nineteen ninety five.
It was such a gussy performance. They ended with Patrick
Ewing this in a layup?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought you were going to follow
up by asking him what his comfort food was?

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Mark, how about this, Jason?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know what that was? You want you want a
great story about that? About that game, Ewing missus a
layup the buzzer that would have tied the game senate
to overtime. But Ewing misses a layup, and it's like,
oh my god, we just lost. Right, So they go
right from the game because I'm watching on local I'm
watching the local channel in New York, and they go
right to like sports desk with SNY whatever it was
back then. And Bob Page, who was a huge you know,

(37:19):
New York guy for the longest time, national guy too,
is at Fox Sports Radio. We started like twenty years ago.
He comes on and the first thing he says after
the game is welcome inside the sports desk. The New
York Knicks once again, more specifically, Patrick Ewing have failed.
That was the first thing.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
He said right out of the gate.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Well, Jason, let me share a story here. It'll start
with me trolling, will end with me inspiring you. Here's
the trolling part. I predicted when I was ten years old,
and I have an article that I sent you to
back this up a few years ago that I told
my late great grandfather, this game between the Indiana Pacers
and the New York Knicks are is not over, even

(38:01):
though the Pacers are down by six points with eighteen
seconds left, because I knew that Reggie Miller would score
eight points during that time. All he needed to do
is a two straight threes hit, a pair of free throws.
Game over. That's exactly what happened. I shared the story
Regie Miller promote on Twitter. Love it. I'm going to
make another prediction that I think is going to come true.

(38:24):
It's gonna be Jalen Brunson having another forty point game,
just like I caught it earlier in the playoffs after
he had some struggles.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
But do they win when he scores forty this time?

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Because right now, I mean, he got the thirty one
tonight and he wasn't very good.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
They will win because they need him. I mean basically,
you look at the next injuries, they're broken down worse
than the New York subway system here, so wow, all
the way carrying them.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Look, I'm watching tonight, Mark, you know, here's what it
breaks down for to me, and obviously hopefully is okay
with whatever abdominal injury it looked like he left the
game with. But you know, yes, the Pacers played great,
Brunton out a bad first half, But the Knicks missed
a lot of bunnies, Like they missed a lot, Like
they missed so many around the rim that just they
don't miss. And I felt like that was the difference

(39:17):
in the game, like there was, okay, hey, we got
to the hoop, but and this should be hey, off
the glass, through and through the net, and it was
around and off the backboard and off the iron. I'm saying,
these are so many misses from two feet and in.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Yeah, so many misses from two feet in. There's another
huge duck factor. The Pacers out reabount of forty seven
to thirty five. The Pacers actually played like they gave
it damn. But here, as I've been looking at this series,
I mean, we can't discount the Knicks injuries that they're
pretty extensive. But when I've seen the pendulum swings. With
the series, the Knicks have fallen short because they the

(39:51):
injuries have caught up to them, and Jaylen Bronston can
only do so much. When I've seen the Pacers fall short,
it's because they haven't defended at a high level, or
they miss open shots, or they play like they don't
care and they can cruise through it. And I think
that the Pacers are going to fall into that trap
again in game seven, and you're going to see the
Knicks just continue to tap in to the resiliency and

(40:14):
find another level, somehow, some way to play through it all,
even though half the roster is on the game of
the operation board.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Well that's it. I've been calling it that for a while, Mark,
you know, which is next on a guy, because that's
what we do with Luka Dancis all the time. But
Josh Hart with the injury tangled up a little bit
with Pascal Siakam still trying to ascertain exactly what went
down beyond all right, did he just stretch right? Is
it you know, the old abdominal stretch from our wrestling parlance,

(40:44):
that caught up to him. Did he take a shot
somewhere that we didn't see what did you What did
you catch from the broadcast?

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Yeah, I was concerned about just kind of the images.
It looked like he was wrapped everywhere, and Win saying
and these abdominal injuries are no joke. I mean there's
I think it's not so much a pain tolerance issue.
There's you certainly need pain tolerance to play through it,
but there's a sensitivity part where if you have a
weird angle or you move at an awkward position, similar

(41:13):
to hamstring injury, that can just turn for the worst.
So they got to be very careful. As you guys know,
Josh Hart always wants to play forty eight minutes, so
he's going to try to play. But it's just gonna
be a matter of the medical team think that this
is just such a drastically serious injury that's not worth it.
But again, I think that the Knicks, whether they win

(41:35):
or lose, I'm comforted Jason on their long term projection.
Unlike Draymond Green and his podcast saying that they're like
the Hawks and they're a fluke, I think it's the
complete opposite. We're seeing Jalen Brunton be a gamer, be
a leader, make his teammates better, you know, I think
it really extended his game to another level. But you

(41:56):
have a real identity where you know all the role
players are playing of their potential and once their guys
are back, they'll be even even more dangerous teams. So
how this pertains see your next this season? I think
it's very well possible they advance the Game seven meet Boston,
and well, I do guess we have to see if

(42:17):
Chris Hasforzingis will get healthy. I don't think that they
can be Boston, but take comfort in this, Jason. If
they advance to Boston, they can at least provide enough
resistance to Boston wear them down that you know they'll
do the Denver Nuggets, or the Oklahoma City or the
Dallas Mavericks or the Minnesota Favors for when they meet
Boston the finals.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
NBA insider Mark Medina, our guest, the Jason Smiths or
the Mike Carmon live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
All right, so let's head to the other Game seven
on Sunday. Get a great doubleheader Sunday night. We have
the Nuggets and the Tea Wolves. You could tell that
Yokichen some of the Nuggets not happy with the way
the Timberwolves running up in the fourth quarter last night.

(42:58):
I know Jamal Murray is ben up a little bit
with his elbow. A situation. How do you see game
seven go?

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Well, I think it's really just flip a coin at
this point, Minnesota showing they can want on Denver's home floor.
The Nuggets show that, for better and for worse, they
play at their best when they feel challenged and vulnerable.
But if I have to make a prediction here, and
I will, I say the Wolves are going to take
it because this uncertay with Jamal Murray's health, that's a

(43:27):
real significant thing. Well, I do trust that he'll play,
He'll play through it, He'll find ways to be effective.
There's no question that it was affecting his shot in
game six, and I want to be surprised if it's
the same thing in game seven. So edge to the
Wolves and Anthony Edwards, you know, showing that he's that
worthy comparison to this guy named Michael Jordan.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Well Smith and I are excited because Game seven means,
you know, all four teams are going to give an effort, right, Oh.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Yeah, You're not going to see the road management in
these games here, you're not going to see if guys
are sitting out, it's because it's actual injuries that could
cause long term damage. It's not the oh yeah, I
want to protect myself because I might want to get
traded next summer.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
All right, Mark, So getting away from from those games,
we get to Game six with the Dallas Mavericks and
the Oklahoma City Thunder. How do you see this? Are
we going to see Luca and the Mavericks in the
Western Conference Finals?

Speaker 4 (44:24):
I think this is flip a coin as well. Look,
Jason I throwing all this shade at Luca Dodgrich, but
he actually has an injury. He is showing the old
adage that there's thirdstlme being hurt and being injured. He
is playing and gutting it out. Sometimes it's been good,
sometimes it's been in efficient. But lately it's been good
and he's not complaining to the ref as much. I'm

(44:46):
really torn on this because I thought Oklahoma City had
the edge because they had more of a complete team.
But I think that Dallas has shown that it's not
just the Lucas show. It's not even just the Luca
Kyrie show. They actually have a supporting cast that knows
how to play defense at the high level. So I
think Dallas winds up taking this. I mean when you
look at you know, some guys like Chuck Holmgreen and

(45:09):
Joe and Williams, they haven't been able to shoot the
ball as consistently in this series, where Dallas they've been
more reliable from top to bottom. So I'm going to
give the edge of the.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Mavericks chaosin zeus is Dallas would then advance. Okay, So
as we set it up, you know, we have to
ask the obligatory Lakers coaching question after a couple more days.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
The interview lest I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
You know, I try, Mark, I try to every couple
of years. I try to get you on that list.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
And I don't call it all, let's say, because it
comes up every two years.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
So well, there is a key line in the stories
here that I know that ESPN wrote. You know, they
want to talk to candidates that they don't know well first,
so maybe once they get through that process, they they'll
circle back with them.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
It was like three paragraphs of candidates, though it seemed
like everybody that's ever been an assistant.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Yeah, yeah, when it gets already familiar with my body
at work or whack thereof, so like, don't get through
the candidates they don't know first and maybe they'll circle
back later.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
You can follow on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.
That's at Mark g Underscore Medina. Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time and thank you for the kind words
about Sunday. I'm feeling good and if the Knicks don't win,
I can always blame you. So it's always, of.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Course, only through the errors my life. Real quick, I mean,
it's serious about the Lakers news. I've been told all
signs are pointing toward JJ Reddick getting the job and
then trying to surround him with assistants that are experienced
to shield the fact that he hasn't been a head
coach before. So we'll see the amazing podcast extended out
into the court.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
HEREO JJ Reddicks surrounded by big time coaches. Wow, there
it is, Mark Medina agains.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Yeah, that's saying they're gonna gonna spend money on coaches then,
so they cheap on the head guy and then surround
him with the guys that are waiting to usurp him.
I mean, we had that a couple of years ago,
where Hey, when's this guy get a stage of bloodless
coup and take the job.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
So big time assistants surrounding JJ Redick, uh and JJ
Reddick looks like he could be the next Lakers head coach. Wow, Mark, great.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Stuff man, Thank you appreciate you j Mark.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Big stuff there, JJ Reddick another guy for Lebron to
not listen to. Uh time Now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports from special delivery
Steve the Sager's debo, What do he got for us?

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Let's start with the NBA playoff game tonight where the
Knicks and Pacers were tied mid second quarter. Indiana led
by ten at the half and beat New York won
sixteen to one oh three. Series tied at three games apiece,
so Game seven Sunday afternoon in New York. Jalen Bronson
did have thirty one points tonight after two of thirteen
shooting from the floor in the first half. Josh Hart

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left with abdominal soreness. The Pacers six and zero at home.
This postseason series winner goes to Boston to start the
Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday. The Western Conference Finals will
start Wednesday tomorrow. The Mavericks up three games to two.
We'll be playing against Oklahoma City. Denver hosts a Game
seven against Minnesota on Sunday night in the NHL playoffs.

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Right now, at Colorado, the Avs late in the second
period lead top seed Dallas won nothing, trying to force
a game seven, which would be in Dallas on Sunday.
It is, by the way, Boston out in the East.
Florida gets a goal with about a minute and a
half left in the game tonight to win at Boston
two to one in Game six to take the series.
New York Rangers will host Florida in Game one in

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the East Final on Wednesday. By the way, Vancouver up
three games to two, plays tomorrow at Edmonton. Toronto's new
head coach is Craig Berubi, ex of Saint Louis. Xander
Schaffley leads the PGA Championship by one strokeover Colin Morikawa.
Scotti Scheffler, rank number one, shot a second round sixty
six after being arrested this morning. Police say he kept driving,

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dragging an officer who attempted to stop him. The four
chargers include second degree assault of a police officer, Scheffler
was trying to avoid a traffic backup and drive into
the country club today. His arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Tiger woodshots seventy seven today and will miss the cut,
as will Phil Mickelson. A reminder, NASCAR's All Star Race
is Sunday night on FS one. As for Major League Baseball,

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we've got three late games. The Dodgers got a leadoff
homer from Mookie Betts and lead three to two against
the Reds. Top of the six, Shoho Tani with his
thirteenth home run of the season. Dodger third baseman Max
Munsey goes on the injured list with a strained oblique.
Outfielder Jason Hayward was activated. LA center fielder James Outman
was sent to Triple A. The Rockies lead at San

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Francisco four to two in the top of the fifth.
Giants outfielder Jung Hu Lee will have season ending shoulder
surgery and bottom of the eighth, the Tigers are leading
thirteen nothing at Arizona Diamondbacks with just one hit. Hobby
Baias with three hits five RBIs is batting averages up
to one eight five. Tampa Bay a four to three

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winner at Toronto. The wind to raise pitcher Tyler Alexander,
who was perfect for seven and a third, and the
Yankees won their fifth straight four to two over the
White Sox. Well, Houston won at six in a row
five four against Milwaukee. Back to you.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Thanks a bun Steve Th The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Carmen live from the tyrack dot
Com Studios. Wow, there you go, Mark Medina, NBA insider
saying all signs point to JJ Reddick being the next
head coach of the Lakers. Will break that down coming
up next right here. Does it even matter who the
Lakers hire as their head coach, whether it's JJ Reddick

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or somebody else. That's next right here, Jason and Mike
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