June 30, 2025 • 41 mins
It's a special day on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, as the guys celebrate LaVar's Birthday! A potential gambling scandal surrounding Malik Beasly is getting too much smoke. Plus, 'Your Momma" jokes and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up on
this edition of Black and Drack Here on a Monday morning,
it's a birthday celebration. Find out who as we celebrate
another great birthday that'll be yours here. Next, we're also
going to talk about some scandal in the NBA. Apparently
we got another gambling issue for the National Basketball Association,
(00:23):
and we might have an issue with Lebron James and
the Lakers timeline of competitiveness. We'll discuss that. We're also
going to discuss Travis Hunter. Does he have a target
on his back? And what's his payday gonna look like.
We've got another edition of in case you missed it.
We've also got Lee's Leftovers, more on the Jets dysfunction,
and we've got an FSRIR. It's all yours coming up
(00:44):
next here, Two pros and a cup of Joe on
a Monday, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Let's give this. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Black
(01:21):
and Drag, Black and Drac Baby Damn, I can hear
it now that's got to be racist. Jeez. Now you know,
Hottest tag Team and all the Land, Black and Drack.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It is two pros and a cup of Joe Here
on Fox Sports Radio, LeVar Arrington, Jonas Knox with you. You
can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app.
You can find us in hundreds of affiliates all across
the country and wherever you are making us a part
of your Monday morning, we appreciate you doing so. We'll
be taking you all the way up until nine am
(01:57):
Eastern time, six o'clock Pacific. And this is a very
special show, special show here on this Monday morning, We've
got a birthday in the house. Oh ladies and gentlemen,
Happy birthday to the one. All right, that's to the only,
(02:18):
that's good, to the magnificent LeVar Arrington.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Thank you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Make some noise, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Too much, too much, thank you, thank you. All right, okay,
all right, all right, no but cheers you come right now.
We're gonna those surprises all there of course of the show.
Birthday to the house. So lam Arrington, thank you. Thank
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that was very nicely. Thank you fellas. Did you happen
to uh get to a pre pre party the yes, yeah,
oh yeah, I'm surprised that I'm I'm in good enough
shape to do the show. I'm here. Don't expect much
of me. I know some of you out there don't anyway,
(03:26):
They don't expect much anyway. What what happened? Oh, it's
just there's a lot of partying going on, a lot
of laughs, some good music. My buddy Byron Moorey came through.
He cooked some uh some try tip. It was good.
It was a good day. And uh, my son, my
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son man Man surprised me and popped up, popped up
early in the day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So the wife orchestrated that. And you guys, uh, when
did he When did he show up?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like am I was still laying on my couch half dead,
you know. And that was that was on Saturday. Yeah,
and he just walked in. Yeah, and you had no
idea at all. What's It's fantastic. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. Yeah,
(04:19):
I mean good to see my boy again. It's probably
the last time I get to see him before, you know,
he completes his his freshman year of college. So yeah,
it's pretty cool. Man. The twins were home. Penn was home.
I was I was missing too. The two oldest once
at once. Marley's at Oregon doing what she needs to do,
and Keino's in Pittsburgh doing what he needs to do.
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He's training. You see him, bro, he's gotten pretty big.
But yeah, it was a good thing. No, he's he's
like two fifty big. Yeah, he's going the bodybuilder out. Yeah, yeah,
So what's his diet. He's dressing like a bodybuilder these
days too. You know, he was T shirt well, well
not quite ripped t shirt, but like you know, like
(05:04):
baggier type of clothing because it's not quite there yet.
There's still sweats and it's still like sweattops. But he's
getting so big that you know, he's like wearing stuff
that's more comfortable, and he's just constantly walking around like
a jug of water next to him at all. Jug
of water. He eats like every what two or three
(05:26):
hours or something to that effect, and it's a lot.
Like we sat down for breakfast, he got like two
bowls of like iron cut oats or whatever, oatmeal or
what would some cinnamon on it or whatever. He eats
a lot. He consumes a lot. But he's gotten up
to he was like two twenty five when he was
(05:49):
playing Ball at Delaware two twenty five to twenty he's
like two fifty now, so good looking dude. I tell
you that he's a really good I guess some good
looking kids. So there's that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Uh, those are the the bodybuilder diet and lifestyle crazy
a wild Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But it's uncomfortable. You probably you're probably.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Eating when you don't want to eat because you're trying
to because you got to keep you constant fuel into
your body at all times so your muscles can grow,
because that's really the way that they're going to grow.
And especially if like you can cut corners and do
all that, but if you're doing it the clean way,
meaning the legal way, you're constantly packing on calorie after
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calorie after calorie your intake. You've got to set reminders
to continue eating if you want to keep eating constantly
throughout the course of the day. And then you can't
even partake in some of the fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No drink, none of that, None of that. That's interesting
because it's like you're it's almost like you're intelligent, but
by the sounds of the people on your your social
we're not capable of having a high IQ conversation what
do you mean. I don't know. I don't understand why
the people on your social are so freaking negative, bro,
(07:09):
I don't know. I mean it's like they make it
it's their living to go on to your social and
be as negative as they possibly can be. I think,
like I just assumed. I didn't know. Our IQ levels
aren't anywhere close to to Brady Quinn's. I just found
that out on Friday when when one of your your
(07:33):
loyal subjects of hate posted posted that he doesn't listen
to the show anymore because IQ level is so low
when he's not on the show, apparently with some dumb
mother efforts, Hey look, dang, if you're too smart for us,
good luck with life. That's not We're not the show
(07:54):
for you to be listening to it anyway. Not exactly.
We're not trying to out smart anybody here. I am
the smartest man. This is the show's about having fun,
busting balls, little grab ass here and there, and some
controversial takes if need be go. Figure. I just assumed. Figure.
I just assumed after the first because I thought it
was the overnights. When I was doing the overnights on
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the weekend, I would get some of the stuff that
people would send in because you know they're hammered. I
mean that has to be the reason. Well yeah, I
mean it had to be. Could be. Couldn't be that
they really feel that way about you?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And I thought, listen, you know, once you get away
from that, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
And know, it's like the traveling road show. Everywhere I've gone,
they just follow along just assumed. Well if I you know,
if they at some point they're going to realize that
it doesn't offend me and I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Or that you're actually pretty damn good at what you do,
and they could acknowledge it for all the times that
they've hated on you, but they don't. Like I saw
your post Sauce Saturday, they consistently hate your guts bruh fun.
I mean, but they hate me too. I mean, clearly,
some of them hate me because I'm black. I mean,
(09:07):
let's be real, Clearly some of them hate me because
I'm black. Some of them hate me because I'm not Brady,
which I don't even understand how that works. I mean,
we all work together. I didn't make Brady miss the
time where he's missing right now. I have nothing to
do with that. You have nothing to do with that.
So I don't understand how our show sucks. But you know,
(09:28):
it's just interesting. This thing is interesting how hard some
people work. Like my whole thing is is if you
hate Jonas, if you hate me, if you genuinely hate
us and you don't like listening to us, you don't
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take the time every single day to write. I don't
listen to the show anymore. I've stopped listening to it
for a while. You don't make comments about something you hate,
but maybe one time, I could see if you comment
it one time, but to make it a habit of
doing it every single day. You're a fan. You're a fan.
(10:14):
You're a fan. Maybe you don't understand this, but you're
a fan. Did I see you call somebody a groupie? Yes,
I'm a troll. I'll troll a troller. So I don't
I love trolling trollers. You know some people are like, oh,
you're better than that, you don't have to get involved. No, No,
I will troll a troller. I have no problem getting
(10:38):
into it with trolls because they're not just like they
can talk. Crazy guys because they don't think we're real people.
It's like, I feel like I can talk crazy to
them because they're not really real people to me. See.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But now, at least now I've been exonerated on all
charges because Lee and Brady were pushing a false narrative
for years that those were I burner accounts that were
sending me messages, and I kept saying, dude, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
There's too many of them. It's not I don't, there's
there's too no, there's too many people that hate them.
I don't, and it's too many, I mean, and they
hate me too, But there's too many of them for
it to be burner counts. Like that's just way too
much work. Oh my god. I could say if it
was like one or two and you were like building
this narrative to have some sympathetic, you know, fans out there.
(11:28):
But no, there's there's a lot of them that that
really really hate your guts. Yeah. Yeah, they hate your
guts and they hate my guts. So I'm happy about that.
I mean, because for all the people that do listen
to our show, and there are a lot of them,
I get our you know, our downloads, I get our hits.
I get our you know, I get the data on
(11:49):
our show. It's a really successful show. But within all
of that success, you do have people that are detractors,
and they just happened to be the ones that are
more often than not on social media write and crazys
about you or I've told you this story.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
When I grew up listening to sports stock Radio and
knew that it existed, I was enamored by it, Like,
wait a second, so you can actually do that as
a job and as a career. And I remember listening
to it would be certain hosts that would say something
I disagreed with. Never one time in my wildest dreams
(12:29):
and ideas as a fan, just a fan of sportstock radio,
I listener of sportstock radio, did I ever think about
emailing or faxing in a homophobic.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Slur to the guy on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Never.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It never occurred to me. Yet every weekend I get buried.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It never occurred to me growing up loving sportstock radio.
Never occurred to me. You know, I don't like that
guy's opinion on the draft, class homophobic slur f bomb
to a.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Mom joke, just like what are we doing here? But
I think it's hilarious, keep on coming and listen. If
it's funny, I have a strict policy funny is funny.
If it's funny, probably gonna get rewarded with a retweet.
Some of them aren't funny, so they don't get the
same treatment. But yeah, listen, I think it's kind of
(13:19):
fun that you post them right after your show or
adoring the show, you post them, whichever one it is.
But we get them during the week too. Yeah, and
it's always on your on your page. Sometimes it's on
Fox Sports Radio's page, but more often than not, it's
on your page. I think they have like a healthy
(13:40):
obsession with you, to be honest. Well, listen, I wish
I wish more people did now. Isn't that how Dratkula
was able to eat? By the way, it's this is
this offensive? Is that one offensive? I mean got me
a little juicy. I'm a little bit thicker wonder. In fact,
(14:00):
the one dude who was insulting us this weekend, he
called me a fat ass like fat mother effort. I mean,
I am obese, but I am not to your standard
of fat. My guy.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
By the way, the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account did
post a little Birthday show promotion and there's a gift
of LeVar in a I believe this is a car
commercial from back.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Of the that is the Eastern Motors. Sean Taylor was
in that commercial flight flight of commercials.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, so it's a special day here. So it is
another happy Birthday Celebratrington. And by the way, each and
every segment, can we do a different?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Can we do a different Happy Birthday? Is that Stevie Wonder?
It is that songs? And I mean, WHI my heritage.
I love being a black man. I just I've heard
too many people do it for their like and they
only know happy Birthday. They don't know any other words
to the song, Like do you do you know any
(15:13):
other words to the Stevie Wonder happy Birthday song? I
don't know. It's just happy Birthday on repeat, isn't it.
I think there's more to it. I think there's more
because the song was made for Martin Luther King, I believe,
and nobody and you just proved the point like you
don't know the words beyond happy Birthday? So can we
(15:35):
not play that one? Like? Can we play one that's
super easy, like hey, happy birthday to you?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like I'm going to open up my birthday music box
and see what I got for you.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A wonderful thank you. Lee's looking it up. Lee's like, well,
he's correct. There are lyrics to that song. And yes,
I did not know that day for the late Martin
Luther King. I like it even more? Are yes or no? Lee?
There you go? There you go, sing the words, sing
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the words. Come on, because y'all was singing Happy birthday.
Sing the words. Come on, Lee, come on right out
there written here we go, come on, come on. Oh
there we go back back to where we belong.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hey, Stevie, what a creative course. How long did it
take you to write that one?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Jesus? I mean it was for his birthday? All right?
So there's two prosh Nelson Mandela. Yeah, okay, there you go.
He said, probably Martin Luther. I mean I was about
to say them. I got them confused. I mean they
were both trying to lead their people to freedom. I'm
so glad you did that. If I would have done that,
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they would have landed it. I could have sworn he
did it. I'm certain he did it for more Luther
King tribute birthday tribute though, just so we don't let
that go on record as if I as if I
mixed up Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. I did not.
There was a moment in time where Stevie Wonders sang
this song for Martin. You are by the way. It's
(17:18):
gonna be a great show. I can already tell this
is we're off and running here. But I would have
to have an IQ and a memory to be able
to actually correct me being corrected by Lee in that moment,
instead of just going with it like, yeah, I'm wrong, Sorry,
I think all black people are the same. You know,
I am guilty of making that mistake a few times
(17:40):
there and there. There'd be no real there'd be no
real opportunity to express my my sarcasm or exercise my sarcasm.
You know with this low IQ that I care the
every day of my life. You know I do know
this low IQ or not.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Here on this show, we are going to have the
good stuff coming up on we get another edition, yes,
case she missed it. We've also got an FSR IR
a hour two of the program. We're going to close
up shop with Lee's leftovers. All of it is yours
here on this three hour extrapaganza up next though, just
what we needed, Just what we needed potential scandal and
the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We'll give you the details here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
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Speaker 2 (19:03):
Who doesn't want to miss Piggy in their life? I mean, honestly,
anybody mess with you, she coming and she coming out
handle that business. Yeah, I'm just saying that's a good point,
you know the way you put it, though I don't.
I don't know. I don't know. Man, I'm just not
doing it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's like var LaVar is putting traps out there for
everybody to step in and uh, and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I refuse to do it. I'm not I'm just saying
Miss Piggy is a dope chick. That's all right. Now,
this is a dream job. I'm not going to lose it.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Don't lose your dream for ripping on it, stuffed animal,
it's not happening here.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That means you're safe. It's not even a real person.
I'm not attractive to Miss Piggy. I'll just put it
that way, all right. Yeah, I'm not saying, uh, I
enjoyed the movies. Heading on rewind and everything.
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Speaker 1 (21:07):
According to Sham Sharania of ESPN, the US District Attorney's
Office is investigating Pistons guard Malik Beasley on allegations of
gambling related to NBA games and prop bets from the
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four season when he
played for the Milwaukee Bucks. At least one prominent US
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sportsbook detected unusually having heavy betting interest on Beasley stats.
Beginning around January twenty twenty four, a gambling industry source
told ESPN's David Purdham. Now the gambling source and this
industry source pointed to a game between the Bucks and
the Blazers on January thirty first, twenty twenty four. The
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odds on Beasley recording fewer than two and a half
rebounds moved significantly at sportsbooks before the game, shortening from
around plus one point twenty to minus two point fifty
due to a surge in action on the under Beasley, though,
finished with six rebounds and the bets that were deemed
unusual lost. So Beasley's attorney did release the following statement,
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quote and investigation is not a charge. Malik has afforded
the same right of the presumption of innocence as anyone
else under the US Constitution. As of now, he has
not been charged with anything. So here we go again.
NBA prop bets gambling involved. It just seems to always
(22:41):
circulate around the same league, around the usual suspects here.
It seems to always kind of circulate. The NFL's had
some issues with this as well too, But the NBA
feels like, if you're going to get involved with somebody
or have somebody be able to have an action will
impact from a gambling standpoint on the outcome of these bets.
(23:05):
NBA players would be the way to go on stuff
like this. I mean, it's not Johntay Porter. I mean,
there's no real smoking gun attached to it. But the
fact that this is even out. With Malik Beasley in
the process of trying to get a contract, there was
reports he was ready to sign a new deal. He
(23:25):
was looking to get paid here pretty quick with free
agency starting, and so now this drops the fact that
this is even out. I just wonder what else is
there that they're not telling about telling us about here.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I don't know what else they're not telling us about.
But where is Malik Beasley on the Stars of the
NBA list? Like, where's he at? Where would you rate them?
I mean, he's not a star, but he's a he's
a player. Yeah, he's a player, and he's a role player.
He's a jag in the league who was about to
(23:57):
get paid. I just to me until I hear Lebron
James or Luka doncij or Nicola Jokic. You know, Johannis
into into Takoumpo or or Wimby until until it hits
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where aid list player in the league is popping for
doing this. Just just discipline them and moving on, Like
I don't even really feel as though, like it's what
is the significance of the people that continue to get
in trouble off of or or are allegedly in trouble
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or under investigation, Like why are they? There's no relevance,
There's no real relevance to them. The most relevance they're
bringing to themselves is getting caught up into a situation
where they have to be discussed based upon their involvement
with gambling. It's kind of the extent of it to me.
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Here's the other part of this. And I know this
is probably not.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Going to be what NBA wants to hear, or what
people that cover the NBA want to hear, or anybody
that's worried about gambling having an impact on sports want
to hear. I need a little bit more than there
was a bunch of money that came in on the
under of a rebound total and all those bets loss.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Him his involvement in that would impact it, because if
you actually go back and read through that game line
and read through the box score in that game, Dude,
the over hit in the second quarter, Like, it's not
like this came down to the wire. What's more interesting
to me is that the point total on the game
actually hit the under by half point.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So if anybody wants to look into that, look into that.
But how much does he does he play a part
in that? And it's also you know what I mean,
like is he holding the ball in his hand?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So if a bunch of money came in on the
under of rebounds and it's set at two and a half,
and a bunch of money comes in so much so
that it moves the line in that direction where we're
talking to plus one point twenty to a minus two
point fifty because of all the money came in, that
would indicate that people believe that the under was going
(26:27):
to hit.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, the over hit in the second quarter on that.
So I don't know unless he was given bad info
or they were trying to get people to And that's
based off of the entire team, correct, No, that's just
his his, just him alone. And this is similar to
Johntay Porter. And that's why I said if there was
a sport or a league where you could get involved
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with somebody who would have an actual impact on it
prop bets or the way that happens. If you want
to bet on Malik Beasley, if you want to bet
on him in his rebound totals, like you're a degenerate
gambler anyway, what is it even you? What is it
even like to me? What does it even matter? Like
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he got in there long enough to get the over
on his amount of rebounds, great, he didn't get the
amount of rebounds great? Like, did we see anything? Like
would it be worth going back to the games that
that are under review and then investigating it? Would it
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be worth it to go back and see if he
was really really shying away from getting more rebounds or
or getting less rebounds, Like it is it worth it
to do that?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Some people have shown clips on X when he was
playing with Milwaukee where he's at the top, like he's
he's guarding somebody at the top and they just blow
right by him. It looks like he's not even trying.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean, but who else plays defense? Like how many
people play defense these days? It's just again, I feel
like trying to pinpoint at certain angles like that. That's
hard to do because there's not a lot of guys
that play hard defense. It's just not so if you're saying, oh,
the guy blew right past them, when you could pull
(28:23):
up a lot of guys that get blown right past.
In the NBA, you can see guys. I mean, when
you see guys flop. To me, that's just as egregious
as anything else you're going to look at and try
to be you know, judgmental about it. You're trying to
impact the game by flopping because you are a big
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enough name where the referee may give you the call.
And we have seen where these guys alter the games
by flopping and getting the call. Now, that would bother me.
But a guy like Malik beaslead like, I don't feel
like he's a that's not a relevant enough figure. And
if you're betting on how many rebounds he gets, I mean,
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if you hit on it, great, If you didn't, oh, well,
like you put the fix out on how many rebounds
you're going to hit. It didn't even hit like that.
That's the part of this that doesn't add up to me,
is it didn't even hit. There's got to be more
to That's why I need more than a rebound total
and money coming in on the under that doesn't hit
and was like gone by the second quarter. I think
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that's a fair conclusion to come to.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You if this were a case of all this money
comes in on the under of two and a half rebounds,
the fourth quarter is winding down, there's a shot missed,
the ball comes towards believe he's by himself, he's by
himself and clearly just misses the ball. He's by himself,
he's got two rebounds, and he runs from the ball
like it's a stick of dynamite. Then we got something
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like if he pretends like that ball is a pinpolled
grenade and runs the other direction because he doesn't want
to rebound, I'm in, let's go full throttle and that's
look at this entire thing. But I just I need
more than this. I look, I think this stuff is
fascinating because I think this stuff has always been in existence.
I think that you could have and for the people
(30:20):
out there that want to say, well, what do you expect?
I mean when you partner up with gambling sites like DraftKings,
I mean, what do you expect? So what just because
I walk by a liquor store, or just because the
NFL is sponsored by Budweiser, doesn't mean I'm gonna go
out and rip an eighteen pack and get behind my
tractor like I'm not. Just because they're sponsoring it doesn't
(30:44):
mean that everybody has to partake. This guy may have
gotten caught up with it. Johntay Porter got way caught.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Up in it. That was real smoke. A little bit
different though, Yeah, that's a little different.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I just like you know, when you see NFL players
getting suspended for a couple of games because they were
betting on college football games, like the Lions players a
couple of years ago, or you see Calvin Ridley get
suspended because he bet a seventeen parley. Yeah, like, dude, well,
I'll what do you expect? They're sponsored by draft kit.
That has nothing to do with it. It's nothing to
do with it. Everybody's got a kitchen full of knives.
(31:19):
Not everybody uses it on a relative. Okay, it doesn't
like it's got zero to do with it, but everyone
tries to pinpoint well this is I mean, when you
when you bring this into the sport, what do you
expect to happen. Well, you would expect that some of
these guys would have integrity and realize, Man, this prop
bet isn't worth the millions of dollars that I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Make potentially in my career. Right, So, so why would
you do it? If it turned How are you able
to pinpoint that that's what he indeed did? How you
do it? Are you going to find text messages? Are
you going to find voicemails? How? How are emails? How
exactly are you going to be able to nail down
(31:59):
the fact that on this prop bet in particular, that
this is what he did? The fact? How does that work?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The fact that this came out and it's this a
little bit of info, but it's it's a it's a story,
a real story reported on by ESPN. We know the
relationship with the NBA, and you've already got an attorney
from Elik Beasley speaking out in his defense. I wonder
if there's more. I would assume that there would be
(32:29):
more because this it's not enough. Yeah, it just doesn't
do it for me.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Like I said, I want to hear a big name.
I want to hear a big name, and I want
to hear why the big name would do that. Yeah,
how about one of you cowards who's an All NBA
player on don't you start placing some wagers on yourself?
All right, won't you be an adult and get involved
here so we have something to talk about selfie. I mean,
that's really to me unless it's somebody who is impacting viewership,
(32:57):
somebody who is impacting the game, because they are one
of the main guys that are impacting games and they're involved.
Unless you hit me with that, it's just kind of like, okay.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You figured out, if you figure out that he indeed
did that, he's gonna get suspended. Okay, nobody cares, Like
Indian nobody cares. But if it's somebody that's of note
and and they're missing threes, like this dude, like, for instance,
the tall dude, the longest tenured Indiana pacer, what was
(33:34):
his name? What's his name? Miles Turner, Miles Turner, he
went completely cold, disappeared in the championship round. If it
came out that he was like if something like that
came out where Turner who was doing this based upon betting,
(33:57):
now that's a story. That's a story like this dude
helped carry the Indiana Pacers through the playoffs with great
shooting from the perimeter and was able to slash to
the hoop and get get points at the realm and
then totally disappeared in the finals, gave them no real help.
(34:20):
Now it came back that, some way, somehow, the over
under or the whatever it may be, the point total
of how much you win and how many points are scored.
If now you say we're investigating mouse Turner based upon
this piece of evidence, these these pieces of evidence, then
now that's a conversation and there's gotta be more. Do
(34:42):
I just don't feel like unless there is, I just
don't feel like Malik Beasley on over under of rebounds
moves the needle very much. There's just there.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
There's gotta be more, and I'm just waiting for the
other shoot to drop, Like what is it? Like, what
else is in this investigation that's gonna get released? You go, oh,
so that is why it made the news because you know,
and under on prop bets that didn't even hit, Like,
none of this works for me. And look, let's not
pretend like this stuff has not been rumored about for
(35:14):
years in sports. What this is did you ever hear
the story about how Walter Payton was really upset he
didn't get to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
So when the Bears won the Super Bowl in eighty.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Five, pay they get the ball to the refrigerator, right.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
One of the rumors, again, this is just a rumor,
all right, this is one of the people speculate about this.
But one of the rumors was that Mike Dicka had
money on Fridge to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You believe that, But this.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is there's been speculation about stuff like this all the time.
And that is a prop bet. It's not on the
actual game, but that's a prop bet where you have
an opportunity to dictate the terms of that bet if
you want to make a little bit of coin on it.
So like, let's not pretend like now because gambling sites
and companies are involved with sports. This is why this
(36:08):
is running rampant. No, there's always been speculation about this
stuff for years.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You just didn't created the show Blue Chips or the
movie Blue Chips, and that's old is get out. That
movie is old as hell. And they had point shavers
even in that one, and they were college students in
that movie. I mean again, Tony was my guy. He
was my guy, right right. This is nothing new. It's
(36:37):
like it's been around for a year. It's nothing new.
No DraftKings got here. They're poisoning the water. No, dude,
the water's always been poisoned. You just never dipped your
toe in before. There you go, nerds. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
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Speaker 3 (37:06):
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Speaker 2 (37:17):
I'm a chess guy. I certainly I like to talk
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I have checked out.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
You're a burner in.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
The background, Hey you black dog.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
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Speaker 2 (37:56):
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Speaker 3 (38:22):
Sometimes you can't get to everything in the world of
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Speaker 2 (38:31):
For that we turn it over to our executive producer
Lee lap A.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Good Morningday, Morning, everybody, Good morning Jonas, Good morning LeVar,
Happy birthday, LeVar.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Morning, guys. You're very welcome LeVar.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Guys, in case you missed it over the weekend, can
tell Marte from the Diamondbacks, of course, an update on
his story revealed what it was that that fan infamously
now I guess you would say said to him during
that game saying a fan was up in the dugouts
shouting things about my mother.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
He was like, last night, I sent a message to
your mother.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Of course tell Marte then got very emotional, deservedly so,
because she had passed away. So it's a little update
there on the fan who was shouting things about his mother.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Do we know that that fan was aware that could
tell Marte's mother had suffered the tragic accident.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Look I just for the sake of the argument, he
may have just made a mom reference, not even understanding
what the background was.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Kind of doesn't matter, though, likely moms out of it.
Even though moms are easy targets every time, like your mom,
your mother, like that used to always be my comeback
to anything people would say to me on the field.
I love a good your mom joke. I would just say,
if somebody says something crazy to me, I would respond
(39:55):
with your mother did, or that's your mother, or whatever
it may be. But my comeback was always your mother.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And then and you do when you got to the
next level of mom jokes, when somebody was like, hey man,
why don't we get off moms, because I just got
off yours.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
You go, it's such an easy it's such an easy.
So lamb. But hey, brah a bra, you stink. Your
mother stinks. Hey, oh my god, you suck. You suck, dude.
It's just it's just an easy comeback to anything that
(40:34):
anyone can say to you, like, hey, hey dude, you
can't play back baseball. Hey you shut the half up. No,
your mother needs to shut the half up. Like, it's
just an easy comeback for anybody who's having comebacks. Well
there's it was deemed the most relevant and easy. It
(40:56):
is the most offensive way to have a good comeback
anything somebody says to you, like if you call somebody
a son of a bitch, your mother is well, you
know what I mean, Like, you know what I mean, Like,
your mother's not even a son, but I'm still gonna
use your mother. Give me another one, give me another one. Here,
you're a real a hole. Your mother's an a hole. Damn.
(41:18):
You see what I'm saying. It always works, It always works.
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio,
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(00:23):
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We've got another edition of in case you missed it.
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Let's give this. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Black
(01:21):
and Drag, Black and Drac Baby Damn, I can hear
it now that's got to be racist. Jeez. Now you know,
Hottest tag Team and all the Land, Black and Drack.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It is two pros and a cup of Joe Here
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(01:57):
Eastern time, six o'clock Pacific. And this is a very
special show, special show here on this Monday morning, We've
got a birthday in the house. Oh ladies and gentlemen,
Happy birthday to the one. All right, that's to the only,
(02:18):
that's good, to the magnificent LeVar Arrington.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Thank you, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Make some noise, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Too much, too much, thank you, thank you. All right, okay,
all right, all right, no but cheers you come right now.
We're gonna those surprises all there of course of the show.
Birthday to the house. So lam Arrington, thank you. Thank
(03:03):
that was very nicely. Thank you fellas. Did you happen
to uh get to a pre pre party the yes, yeah,
oh yeah, I'm surprised that I'm I'm in good enough
shape to do the show. I'm here. Don't expect much
of me. I know some of you out there don't anyway,
(03:26):
They don't expect much anyway. What what happened? Oh, it's
just there's a lot of partying going on, a lot
of laughs, some good music. My buddy Byron Moorey came through.
He cooked some uh some try tip. It was good.
It was a good day. And uh, my son, my
(03:48):
son man Man surprised me and popped up, popped up
early in the day yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
So the wife orchestrated that. And you guys, uh, when
did he When did he show up?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like am I was still laying on my couch half dead,
you know. And that was that was on Saturday. Yeah,
and he just walked in. Yeah, and you had no
idea at all. What's It's fantastic. It was a beautiful thing. Yeah. Yeah,
(04:19):
I mean good to see my boy again. It's probably
the last time I get to see him before, you know,
he completes his his freshman year of college. So yeah,
it's pretty cool. Man. The twins were home. Penn was home.
I was I was missing too. The two oldest once
at once. Marley's at Oregon doing what she needs to do,
and Keino's in Pittsburgh doing what he needs to do.
(04:42):
He's training. You see him, bro, he's gotten pretty big.
But yeah, it was a good thing. No, he's he's
like two fifty big. Yeah, he's going the bodybuilder out. Yeah, yeah,
So what's his diet. He's dressing like a bodybuilder these
days too. You know, he was T shirt well, well
not quite ripped t shirt, but like you know, like
(05:04):
baggier type of clothing because it's not quite there yet.
There's still sweats and it's still like sweattops. But he's
getting so big that you know, he's like wearing stuff
that's more comfortable, and he's just constantly walking around like
a jug of water next to him at all. Jug
of water. He eats like every what two or three
(05:26):
hours or something to that effect, and it's a lot.
Like we sat down for breakfast, he got like two
bowls of like iron cut oats or whatever, oatmeal or
what would some cinnamon on it or whatever. He eats
a lot. He consumes a lot. But he's gotten up
to he was like two twenty five when he was
(05:49):
playing Ball at Delaware two twenty five to twenty he's
like two fifty now, so good looking dude. I tell
you that he's a really good I guess some good
looking kids. So there's that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Uh, those are the the bodybuilder diet and lifestyle crazy
a wild Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
But it's uncomfortable. You probably you're probably.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Eating when you don't want to eat because you're trying
to because you got to keep you constant fuel into
your body at all times so your muscles can grow,
because that's really the way that they're going to grow.
And especially if like you can cut corners and do
all that, but if you're doing it the clean way,
meaning the legal way, you're constantly packing on calorie after
(06:35):
calorie after calorie your intake. You've got to set reminders
to continue eating if you want to keep eating constantly
throughout the course of the day. And then you can't
even partake in some of the fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
No drink, none of that, None of that. That's interesting
because it's like you're it's almost like you're intelligent, but
by the sounds of the people on your your social
we're not capable of having a high IQ conversation what
do you mean. I don't know. I don't understand why
the people on your social are so freaking negative, bro,
(07:09):
I don't know. I mean it's like they make it
it's their living to go on to your social and
be as negative as they possibly can be. I think,
like I just assumed. I didn't know. Our IQ levels
aren't anywhere close to to Brady Quinn's. I just found
that out on Friday when when one of your your
(07:33):
loyal subjects of hate posted posted that he doesn't listen
to the show anymore because IQ level is so low
when he's not on the show, apparently with some dumb
mother efforts, Hey look, dang, if you're too smart for us,
good luck with life. That's not We're not the show
(07:54):
for you to be listening to it anyway. Not exactly.
We're not trying to out smart anybody here. I am
the smartest man. This is the show's about having fun,
busting balls, little grab ass here and there, and some
controversial takes if need be go. Figure. I just assumed. Figure.
I just assumed after the first because I thought it
was the overnights. When I was doing the overnights on
(08:16):
the weekend, I would get some of the stuff that
people would send in because you know they're hammered. I
mean that has to be the reason. Well yeah, I
mean it had to be. Could be. Couldn't be that
they really feel that way about you?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And I thought, listen, you know, once you get away
from that, you don't have to worry about it anymore.
And know, it's like the traveling road show. Everywhere I've gone,
they just follow along just assumed. Well if I you know,
if they at some point they're going to realize that
it doesn't offend me and I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Or that you're actually pretty damn good at what you do,
and they could acknowledge it for all the times that
they've hated on you, but they don't. Like I saw
your post Sauce Saturday, they consistently hate your guts bruh fun.
I mean, but they hate me too. I mean, clearly,
some of them hate me because I'm black. I mean,
(09:07):
let's be real, Clearly some of them hate me because
I'm black. Some of them hate me because I'm not Brady,
which I don't even understand how that works. I mean,
we all work together. I didn't make Brady miss the
time where he's missing right now. I have nothing to
do with that. You have nothing to do with that.
So I don't understand how our show sucks. But you know,
(09:28):
it's just interesting. This thing is interesting how hard some
people work. Like my whole thing is is if you
hate Jonas, if you hate me, if you genuinely hate
us and you don't like listening to us, you don't
(09:49):
take the time every single day to write. I don't
listen to the show anymore. I've stopped listening to it
for a while. You don't make comments about something you hate,
but maybe one time, I could see if you comment
it one time, but to make it a habit of
doing it every single day. You're a fan. You're a fan.
(10:14):
You're a fan. Maybe you don't understand this, but you're
a fan. Did I see you call somebody a groupie? Yes,
I'm a troll. I'll troll a troller. So I don't
I love trolling trollers. You know some people are like, oh,
you're better than that, you don't have to get involved. No, No,
I will troll a troller. I have no problem getting
(10:38):
into it with trolls because they're not just like they
can talk. Crazy guys because they don't think we're real people.
It's like, I feel like I can talk crazy to
them because they're not really real people to me. See.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But now, at least now I've been exonerated on all
charges because Lee and Brady were pushing a false narrative
for years that those were I burner accounts that were
sending me messages, and I kept saying, dude, I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
There's too many of them. It's not I don't, there's
there's too no, there's too many people that hate them.
I don't, and it's too many, I mean, and they
hate me too, But there's too many of them for
it to be burner counts. Like that's just way too
much work. Oh my god. I could say if it
was like one or two and you were like building
this narrative to have some sympathetic, you know, fans out there.
(11:28):
But no, there's there's a lot of them that that
really really hate your guts. Yeah. Yeah, they hate your
guts and they hate my guts. So I'm happy about that.
I mean, because for all the people that do listen
to our show, and there are a lot of them,
I get our you know, our downloads, I get our hits.
I get our you know, I get the data on
(11:49):
our show. It's a really successful show. But within all
of that success, you do have people that are detractors,
and they just happened to be the ones that are
more often than not on social media write and crazys
about you or I've told you this story.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
When I grew up listening to sports stock Radio and
knew that it existed, I was enamored by it, Like,
wait a second, so you can actually do that as
a job and as a career. And I remember listening
to it would be certain hosts that would say something
I disagreed with. Never one time in my wildest dreams
(12:29):
and ideas as a fan, just a fan of sportstock radio,
I listener of sportstock radio, did I ever think about
emailing or faxing in a homophobic.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Slur to the guy on the air.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Never.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
It never occurred to me. Yet every weekend I get buried.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It never occurred to me growing up loving sportstock radio.
Never occurred to me. You know, I don't like that
guy's opinion on the draft, class homophobic slur f bomb
to a.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Mom joke, just like what are we doing here? But
I think it's hilarious, keep on coming and listen. If
it's funny, I have a strict policy funny is funny.
If it's funny, probably gonna get rewarded with a retweet.
Some of them aren't funny, so they don't get the
same treatment. But yeah, listen, I think it's kind of
(13:19):
fun that you post them right after your show or
adoring the show, you post them, whichever one it is.
But we get them during the week too. Yeah, and
it's always on your on your page. Sometimes it's on
Fox Sports Radio's page, but more often than not, it's
on your page. I think they have like a healthy
(13:40):
obsession with you, to be honest. Well, listen, I wish
I wish more people did now. Isn't that how Dratkula
was able to eat? By the way, it's this is
this offensive? Is that one offensive? I mean got me
a little juicy. I'm a little bit thicker wonder. In fact,
(14:00):
the one dude who was insulting us this weekend, he
called me a fat ass like fat mother effort. I mean,
I am obese, but I am not to your standard
of fat. My guy.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
By the way, the Fox Sports Radio Twitter account did
post a little Birthday show promotion and there's a gift
of LeVar in a I believe this is a car
commercial from back.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Of the that is the Eastern Motors. Sean Taylor was
in that commercial flight flight of commercials.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, so it's a special day here. So it is
another happy Birthday Celebratrington. And by the way, each and
every segment, can we do a different?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Can we do a different Happy Birthday? Is that Stevie Wonder?
It is that songs? And I mean, WHI my heritage.
I love being a black man. I just I've heard
too many people do it for their like and they
only know happy Birthday. They don't know any other words
to the song, Like do you do you know any
(15:13):
other words to the Stevie Wonder happy Birthday song? I
don't know. It's just happy Birthday on repeat, isn't it.
I think there's more to it. I think there's more
because the song was made for Martin Luther King, I believe,
and nobody and you just proved the point like you
don't know the words beyond happy Birthday? So can we
(15:35):
not play that one? Like? Can we play one that's
super easy, like hey, happy birthday to you?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Like I'm going to open up my birthday music box
and see what I got for you.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
A wonderful thank you. Lee's looking it up. Lee's like, well,
he's correct. There are lyrics to that song. And yes,
I did not know that day for the late Martin
Luther King. I like it even more? Are yes or no? Lee?
There you go? There you go, sing the words, sing
(16:14):
the words. Come on, because y'all was singing Happy birthday.
Sing the words. Come on, Lee, come on right out
there written here we go, come on, come on. Oh
there we go back back to where we belong.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Hey, Stevie, what a creative course. How long did it
take you to write that one?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Jesus? I mean it was for his birthday? All right?
So there's two prosh Nelson Mandela. Yeah, okay, there you go.
He said, probably Martin Luther. I mean I was about
to say them. I got them confused. I mean they
were both trying to lead their people to freedom. I'm
so glad you did that. If I would have done that,
(16:56):
they would have landed it. I could have sworn he
did it. I'm certain he did it for more Luther
King tribute birthday tribute though, just so we don't let
that go on record as if I as if I
mixed up Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. I did not.
There was a moment in time where Stevie Wonders sang
this song for Martin. You are by the way. It's
(17:18):
gonna be a great show. I can already tell this
is we're off and running here. But I would have
to have an IQ and a memory to be able
to actually correct me being corrected by Lee in that moment,
instead of just going with it like, yeah, I'm wrong, Sorry,
I think all black people are the same. You know,
I am guilty of making that mistake a few times
(17:40):
there and there. There'd be no real there'd be no
real opportunity to express my my sarcasm or exercise my sarcasm.
You know with this low IQ that I care the
every day of my life. You know I do know
this low IQ or not.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Here on this show, we are going to have the
good stuff coming up on we get another edition, yes,
case she missed it. We've also got an FSR IR
a hour two of the program. We're going to close
up shop with Lee's leftovers. All of it is yours
here on this three hour extrapaganza up next though, just
what we needed, Just what we needed potential scandal and
the world of sports.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We'll give you the details here on FSR.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
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Who doesn't want to miss Piggy in their life? I mean, honestly,
anybody mess with you, she coming and she coming out
handle that business. Yeah, I'm just saying that's a good point,
you know the way you put it, though I don't.
I don't know. I don't know. Man, I'm just not
doing it. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's like var LaVar is putting traps out there for
everybody to step in and uh, and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
I refuse to do it. I'm not I'm just saying
Miss Piggy is a dope chick. That's all right. Now,
this is a dream job. I'm not going to lose it.
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Don't lose your dream for ripping on it, stuffed animal,
it's not happening here.
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That means you're safe. It's not even a real person.
I'm not attractive to Miss Piggy. I'll just put it
that way, all right. Yeah, I'm not saying, uh, I
enjoyed the movies. Heading on rewind and everything.
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Speaker 1 (21:07):
According to Sham Sharania of ESPN, the US District Attorney's
Office is investigating Pistons guard Malik Beasley on allegations of
gambling related to NBA games and prop bets from the
twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four season when he
played for the Milwaukee Bucks. At least one prominent US
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sportsbook detected unusually having heavy betting interest on Beasley stats.
Beginning around January twenty twenty four, a gambling industry source
told ESPN's David Purdham. Now the gambling source and this
industry source pointed to a game between the Bucks and
the Blazers on January thirty first, twenty twenty four. The
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odds on Beasley recording fewer than two and a half
rebounds moved significantly at sportsbooks before the game, shortening from
around plus one point twenty to minus two point fifty
due to a surge in action on the under Beasley, though,
finished with six rebounds and the bets that were deemed
unusual lost. So Beasley's attorney did release the following statement,
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quote and investigation is not a charge. Malik has afforded
the same right of the presumption of innocence as anyone
else under the US Constitution. As of now, he has
not been charged with anything. So here we go again.
NBA prop bets gambling involved. It just seems to always
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circulate around the same league, around the usual suspects here.
It seems to always kind of circulate. The NFL's had
some issues with this as well too, But the NBA
feels like, if you're going to get involved with somebody
or have somebody be able to have an action will
impact from a gambling standpoint on the outcome of these bets.
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NBA players would be the way to go on stuff
like this. I mean, it's not Johntay Porter. I mean,
there's no real smoking gun attached to it. But the
fact that this is even out. With Malik Beasley in
the process of trying to get a contract, there was
reports he was ready to sign a new deal. He
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was looking to get paid here pretty quick with free
agency starting, and so now this drops the fact that
this is even out. I just wonder what else is
there that they're not telling about telling us about here.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I don't know what else they're not telling us about.
But where is Malik Beasley on the Stars of the
NBA list? Like, where's he at? Where would you rate them?
I mean, he's not a star, but he's a he's
a player. Yeah, he's a player, and he's a role player.
He's a jag in the league who was about to
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get paid. I just to me until I hear Lebron
James or Luka doncij or Nicola Jokic. You know, Johannis
into into Takoumpo or or Wimby until until it hits
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where aid list player in the league is popping for
doing this. Just just discipline them and moving on, Like
I don't even really feel as though, like it's what
is the significance of the people that continue to get
in trouble off of or or are allegedly in trouble
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or under investigation, Like why are they? There's no relevance,
There's no real relevance to them. The most relevance they're
bringing to themselves is getting caught up into a situation
where they have to be discussed based upon their involvement
with gambling. It's kind of the extent of it to me.
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Here's the other part of this. And I know this
is probably not.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Going to be what NBA wants to hear, or what
people that cover the NBA want to hear, or anybody
that's worried about gambling having an impact on sports want
to hear. I need a little bit more than there
was a bunch of money that came in on the
under of a rebound total and all those bets loss.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Him his involvement in that would impact it, because if
you actually go back and read through that game line
and read through the box score in that game, Dude,
the over hit in the second quarter, Like, it's not
like this came down to the wire. What's more interesting
to me is that the point total on the game
actually hit the under by half point.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So if anybody wants to look into that, look into that.
But how much does he does he play a part
in that? And it's also you know what I mean,
like is he holding the ball in his hand?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So if a bunch of money came in on the
under of rebounds and it's set at two and a half,
and a bunch of money comes in so much so
that it moves the line in that direction where we're
talking to plus one point twenty to a minus two
point fifty because of all the money came in, that
would indicate that people believe that the under was going
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to hit.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, the over hit in the second quarter on that.
So I don't know unless he was given bad info
or they were trying to get people to And that's
based off of the entire team, correct, No, that's just
his his, just him alone. And this is similar to
Johntay Porter. And that's why I said if there was
a sport or a league where you could get involved
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with somebody who would have an actual impact on it
prop bets or the way that happens. If you want
to bet on Malik Beasley, if you want to bet
on him in his rebound totals, like you're a degenerate
gambler anyway, what is it even you? What is it
even like to me? What does it even matter? Like
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he got in there long enough to get the over
on his amount of rebounds, great, he didn't get the
amount of rebounds great? Like, did we see anything? Like
would it be worth going back to the games that
that are under review and then investigating it? Would it
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be worth it to go back and see if he
was really really shying away from getting more rebounds or
or getting less rebounds, Like it is it worth it
to do that?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Some people have shown clips on X when he was
playing with Milwaukee where he's at the top, like he's
he's guarding somebody at the top and they just blow
right by him. It looks like he's not even trying.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean, but who else plays defense? Like how many
people play defense these days? It's just again, I feel
like trying to pinpoint at certain angles like that. That's
hard to do because there's not a lot of guys
that play hard defense. It's just not so if you're saying, oh,
the guy blew right past them, when you could pull
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up a lot of guys that get blown right past.
In the NBA, you can see guys. I mean, when
you see guys flop. To me, that's just as egregious
as anything else you're going to look at and try
to be you know, judgmental about it. You're trying to
impact the game by flopping because you are a big
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enough name where the referee may give you the call.
And we have seen where these guys alter the games
by flopping and getting the call. Now, that would bother me.
But a guy like Malik beaslead like, I don't feel
like he's a that's not a relevant enough figure. And
if you're betting on how many rebounds he gets, I mean,
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if you hit on it, great, If you didn't, oh, well,
like you put the fix out on how many rebounds
you're going to hit. It didn't even hit like that.
That's the part of this that doesn't add up to me,
is it didn't even hit. There's got to be more
to That's why I need more than a rebound total
and money coming in on the under that doesn't hit
and was like gone by the second quarter. I think
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that's a fair conclusion to come to.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You if this were a case of all this money
comes in on the under of two and a half rebounds,
the fourth quarter is winding down, there's a shot missed,
the ball comes towards believe he's by himself, he's by
himself and clearly just misses the ball. He's by himself,
he's got two rebounds, and he runs from the ball
like it's a stick of dynamite. Then we got something
(29:58):
like if he pretends like that ball is a pinpolled
grenade and runs the other direction because he doesn't want
to rebound, I'm in, let's go full throttle and that's
look at this entire thing. But I just I need
more than this. I look, I think this stuff is
fascinating because I think this stuff has always been in existence.
I think that you could have and for the people
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out there that want to say, well, what do you expect?
I mean when you partner up with gambling sites like DraftKings,
I mean, what do you expect? So what just because
I walk by a liquor store, or just because the
NFL is sponsored by Budweiser, doesn't mean I'm gonna go
out and rip an eighteen pack and get behind my
tractor like I'm not. Just because they're sponsoring it doesn't
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mean that everybody has to partake. This guy may have
gotten caught up with it. Johntay Porter got way caught.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Up in it. That was real smoke. A little bit
different though, Yeah, that's a little different.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
I just like you know, when you see NFL players
getting suspended for a couple of games because they were
betting on college football games, like the Lions players a
couple of years ago, or you see Calvin Ridley get
suspended because he bet a seventeen parley. Yeah, like, dude, well,
I'll what do you expect? They're sponsored by draft kit.
That has nothing to do with it. It's nothing to
do with it. Everybody's got a kitchen full of knives.
(31:19):
Not everybody uses it on a relative. Okay, it doesn't
like it's got zero to do with it, but everyone
tries to pinpoint well this is I mean, when you
when you bring this into the sport, what do you
expect to happen. Well, you would expect that some of
these guys would have integrity and realize, Man, this prop
bet isn't worth the millions of dollars that I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Make potentially in my career. Right, So, so why would
you do it? If it turned How are you able
to pinpoint that that's what he indeed did? How you
do it? Are you going to find text messages? Are
you going to find voicemails? How? How are emails? How
exactly are you going to be able to nail down
(31:59):
the fact that on this prop bet in particular, that
this is what he did? The fact? How does that work?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
The fact that this came out and it's this a
little bit of info, but it's it's a it's a story,
a real story reported on by ESPN. We know the
relationship with the NBA, and you've already got an attorney
from Elik Beasley speaking out in his defense. I wonder
if there's more. I would assume that there would be
(32:29):
more because this it's not enough. Yeah, it just doesn't
do it for me.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Like I said, I want to hear a big name.
I want to hear a big name, and I want
to hear why the big name would do that. Yeah,
how about one of you cowards who's an All NBA
player on don't you start placing some wagers on yourself?
All right, won't you be an adult and get involved
here so we have something to talk about selfie. I mean,
that's really to me unless it's somebody who is impacting viewership,
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somebody who is impacting the game, because they are one
of the main guys that are impacting games and they're involved.
Unless you hit me with that, it's just kind of like, okay.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
And.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You figured out, if you figure out that he indeed
did that, he's gonna get suspended. Okay, nobody cares, Like
Indian nobody cares. But if it's somebody that's of note
and and they're missing threes, like this dude, like, for instance,
the tall dude, the longest tenured Indiana pacer, what was
(33:34):
his name? What's his name? Miles Turner, Miles Turner, he
went completely cold, disappeared in the championship round. If it
came out that he was like if something like that
came out where Turner who was doing this based upon betting,
(33:57):
now that's a story. That's a story like this dude
helped carry the Indiana Pacers through the playoffs with great
shooting from the perimeter and was able to slash to
the hoop and get get points at the realm and
then totally disappeared in the finals, gave them no real help.
(34:20):
Now it came back that, some way, somehow, the over
under or the whatever it may be, the point total
of how much you win and how many points are scored.
If now you say we're investigating mouse Turner based upon
this piece of evidence, these these pieces of evidence, then
now that's a conversation and there's gotta be more. Do
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I just don't feel like unless there is, I just
don't feel like Malik Beasley on over under of rebounds
moves the needle very much. There's just there.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
There's gotta be more, and I'm just waiting for the
other shoot to drop, Like what is it? Like, what
else is in this investigation that's gonna get released? You go, oh,
so that is why it made the news because you know,
and under on prop bets that didn't even hit, Like,
none of this works for me. And look, let's not
pretend like this stuff has not been rumored about for
(35:14):
years in sports. What this is did you ever hear
the story about how Walter Payton was really upset he
didn't get to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
So when the Bears won the Super Bowl in eighty.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Five, pay they get the ball to the refrigerator, right.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
One of the rumors, again, this is just a rumor,
all right, this is one of the people speculate about this.
But one of the rumors was that Mike Dicka had
money on Fridge to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
You believe that, But this.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Is there's been speculation about stuff like this all the time.
And that is a prop bet. It's not on the
actual game, but that's a prop bet where you have
an opportunity to dictate the terms of that bet if
you want to make a little bit of coin on it.
So like, let's not pretend like now because gambling sites
and companies are involved with sports. This is why this
(36:08):
is running rampant. No, there's always been speculation about this
stuff for years.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You just didn't created the show Blue Chips or the
movie Blue Chips, and that's old is get out. That
movie is old as hell. And they had point shavers
even in that one, and they were college students in
that movie. I mean again, Tony was my guy. He
was my guy, right right. This is nothing new. It's
(36:37):
like it's been around for a year. It's nothing new.
No DraftKings got here. They're poisoning the water. No, dude,
the water's always been poisoned. You just never dipped your
toe in before. There you go, nerds. All right.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
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Speaker 4 (38:36):
Good Morningday, Morning, everybody, Good morning Jonas, Good morning LeVar,
Happy birthday, LeVar.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Morning, guys. You're very welcome LeVar.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Guys, in case you missed it over the weekend, can
tell Marte from the Diamondbacks, of course, an update on
his story revealed what it was that that fan infamously
now I guess you would say said to him during
that game saying a fan was up in the dugouts
shouting things about my mother.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
He was like, last night, I sent a message to
your mother.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Of course tell Marte then got very emotional, deservedly so,
because she had passed away. So it's a little update
there on the fan who was shouting things about his mother.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Do we know that that fan was aware that could
tell Marte's mother had suffered the tragic accident.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Look I just for the sake of the argument, he
may have just made a mom reference, not even understanding
what the background was.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Kind of doesn't matter, though, likely moms out of it.
Even though moms are easy targets every time, like your mom,
your mother, like that used to always be my comeback
to anything people would say to me on the field.
I love a good your mom joke. I would just say,
if somebody says something crazy to me, I would respond
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with your mother did, or that's your mother, or whatever
it may be. But my comeback was always your mother.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
And then and you do when you got to the
next level of mom jokes, when somebody was like, hey man,
why don't we get off moms, because I just got
off yours.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
You go, it's such an easy it's such an easy.
So lamb. But hey, brah a bra, you stink. Your
mother stinks. Hey, oh my god, you suck. You suck, dude.
It's just it's just an easy comeback to anything that
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anyone can say to you, like, hey, hey dude, you
can't play back baseball. Hey you shut the half up. No,
your mother needs to shut the half up. Like, it's
just an easy comeback for anybody who's having comebacks. Well
there's it was deemed the most relevant and easy. It
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is the most offensive way to have a good comeback
anything somebody says to you, like if you call somebody
a son of a bitch, your mother is well, you
know what I mean, Like, you know what I mean, Like,
your mother's not even a son, but I'm still gonna
use your mother. Give me another one, give me another one. Here,
you're a real a hole. Your mother's an a hole. Damn.
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You see what I'm saying. It always works, It always works.
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