06/19/2021 - The Fellas with Anthony Gargano - Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You don't listening to Fox Sports. Well, a good morning, buddy, happy, happy,
happy Saturday, happy Father's Day weekend across the nation. We
are the fellas, um cause we I preside over this group,
and uh we got a fun Saturday head What a

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night of NBA ball, wild stuff. I'll tell you, I
don't remember a series, these series like this, these playoffs,
this Last Man Standing, it's pretty astounding. Injuries, running muck.

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We saw the Clippers, we saw Utah blow a monster lead,
and we saw the Clippers and the unlikely hero of
Terrence Man no Kauai, but man, they gotta tarn its
man PG come up big and they're able to stave

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off to Jazz. Wow. That was incredible. And then in
the ABBE series, you got in Atlanta, the Hawks trying
to close it out. No, I will tell you, I'm
the Sixer man, so full disclosure, Hawks trying to close

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it out, and it's just one of those ugly, weird
games that's quite frankly been. That was apropos for this weird,
ugly series. Sixers ugly. The first half, Hawks look good,
Tray was phenomenal, and yet the Sixers in the third

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quarter go off Seth Carrie. That's right, Seth is a
beast yet again end and Carrie goes off. He helps
him bead and the story of the Sixers fleast for
the first three quarters is ty Reese Maxi, the rookie

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out of Kentucky inexplicably fell. Darryl Moury selects them, and
the moment not too big effect. He saved the Sixers
season by keeping them afloat with Ben Simmons sideline and fouls,
rubble and a whole host of issues. The kid comes up,

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stones and all and has an incredible first half, contributes
all the way through the quarter, down, through the stretch,
down the stretch. Sixers another abysmal fourth quarter, but they're
able to hold off Atlanta. And now there's a game
seven tomorrow night, eight o'clock right here where I'm at

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in Philadelphia. Tonight, Game seven Milwaukee and Brooklyn, No Kyrie
already out, and it's gonna baby that series weird, bizarre, up, down, ugly, pretty,
you name it. That series concludes tonight and you know

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we'll see, we'll we'll see. This is a honest moment,
because you know it can harden give you and it's
gonna be I think the key to the game tonight.
What's what can Hard to give you? Can he get
to the line? Can he become the secondary score that
k D needs. You know, if you look at the hamstring,

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it's sort of hampered in the last two games, and
you can well imagine he's not really going drawing fouls
and getting in the line. A lot of step back jumpers.
So we'll see, can he give you that secondary scoring? No, Kyrie? Meanwhile, Box,
there's two beat three Middleton, Janice, Drew Holiday. It's couldn't

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be an incredible game. These playoffs have been riveting, fascinating, bizarre, weird,
It's insane the whole thing. Let me bring in my
co order the great Kevin Figures figure because what's going on? Wow? Man,
he's playing I can't even my head spinning thing right? Spinning?

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Doesn't this almost seem like an extension of the last
year's bubble of all the randomness of that and teams
making runs that you didn't expect. Who saw the Miami
Heat in the NBA Finals. Who would think that the
Phoenix Suns going into this year, people thought they'd be improved,
But to actually find a chance, have a chance to
make it to the NBA Finals is absolutely unreal. The
Atlanta Hawks with a chance to make it to the

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conference finals. I mean, no one saw this coming. And
that's what makes it so great and what it has
turned into this year, Anthony really is just a it's
a war of attrition. You mentioned the injuries. I mean,
that's what it's turned into. It is like the last
healthy team standing will be the champion. It looks like
he's wild. I mean, I just don't remember anything like
it never I I saw a stat the other day.

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Eight All Stars have missed playoff games this year. That's
the most ever in a single postseason in NBA history.
Eight All Stars have missed have missed time. And some
of course said, like Jamal Murray was, I guess he's
not an All Star, but he's a key player. It
kind of falls into a talented player standpoint, and the
key players to his team didn't play at all. You know,
that's it's unbelievable, it really is. Let's start off, and

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let's start off in the West, joining Phoenix the Clippers.
News of Kauai just said shock waves. He yet you're
somehow able to win last night. I mean, you know,
and Utah's up big early, Like, what was the feeling,
what was the vibe out there for the Clippers last

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night without Kauai? Well after Paula George's herculean effort in
Game five in Utah, which was huge as well, especially
considered how hot Utah came out, I think they were.
They made ten or eleven three pointers in the first quarter,
and you look up at the scoreboard, the Clippers were
only down a couple of points. That's sure. They saw
that as a small victory and propelled them to a victory.

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A lot of people in l A on Friday viewed
Game six for the Clippers as a must win. You
thought it was gonna be extremely hard to have to
go back on the road to Utah, full stadium, crazy fans,
and to ask Paul George to have to play that
way again in a hostile environment. I mean, he played very,
very well obviously on Friday night. And of course the

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big story was Terence Man stepping up into the starting
line up in place of Kawhi Leonard, and I mean
Darnier had a Kawhi Leonard esque type of performance with
the way that he play It was absolutely amazing. Um
So just a lot of obviously nervous people. At one
point during that game, when you're down twenty, you had
already packed up your bags and said, all right, we're
going back to Utah. Let's see what we can do.

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But to be buoyed by a guy like Terrence Man
Reggie Jackson has been huge for the Clippers all postseason long.
And those guys are really the catalyst, along with Paul George,
to spur that comeback and to have a nice run
of dominance. I will give credit to Donovan Mitchell for
battling through a tough ankle injury if to play as
well as he played, and Mike Conley tried to give
it a go to and just enough. And I guess

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that's the unfortunate part. You're not able to see, you know,
these great teams, these great players at full strength, be
able to face off against each other. You know, you
want to see the great players. You know you wanted
to see Kawai Leonard, a healthy Kauahi Leonard and a
healthy Donovan Mitchell and might kindly be able to go
at it. But you know, ultimately the Clippers, you know,
their depth showed true in this series, is that the

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Teams with the best depth are the ones that are
able to kind of make it through and be able
to win. If you're not gonna be healthy, you gotta
get some of your role players to be able to
step up, and the Clippers have been able to do
that so far. Yeah, I didn't Teren's man, what what
a marvel? Yeah? I mean, wow, that was what a
what a night last night? I mean that was insane.

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I mean that one look that was that was an
amazing I agree with you the shame, you know when
it all started with the Lakers and without a d
you know, the whole thing. It's just been you know,
you mentioned Jamal Murray and Denver like key cogs, key
pieces just on the sidelines. But it's been nonetheless entertain interesting, right,

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like really fascinating kind of stuff that's happening. And then
out east you get a pair of Game seven's. Yeah,
there's been very few. You know, we've talked about the
NBA and how reliant teams are on the three point shot.
You know, you can get out of a game or
get back into a game almost instantly based on how
you shoot threes. You really haven't seen a lot of blowouts.

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You know here in the postseason, a lot of the
games have been very very competitive. Yeah, well you did here,
except uh, the games at an extra quarter to them.
I mean, I've never seen anything like And I gotta
tell you the other night when the Sixers blow a
twenty six point lead, Dude, they're up like that one

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might have been one of those wounded like people. It
hurt them to the core. Like I'll tell you I
and I'm doing a local show here. People were so
distraught that they weren't sure that if they wanted them
to win last night, they just wanted to end our

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misery now and they wanted to blow it up. I'm like,
what do you mean you can't blow it up. You're
in the conference semifinals. You could still win this thing.
You're still a better team, you're still the favorite, and
you know, but again, the raw of motion up blowing
the twenty six point lead and watching it, I mean, Figgy,

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that was the most painful quarter of basketball I've ever seen. Like,
it was torturous going through it. Yeah, um and being
obviously looked terrible. But again, what you're getting from him,
the maximum effort. It wasn't what Believe me, it wasn't him.
I mean it was. I mean, the culprits are pretty obvious.

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Game Tobias came back last night. I thought he had
a gutsy effort. They're they're I mean Ben Simmons is.
I mean, it's getting worse and worse by the day.
It's it's bad, man, It's really been in last night.
Spends most of the night in the in foul trouble
at the shame because but you could see what he

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does when he blocks Trey Young shot. He has a
direct impact on the game. But you can't keep him
in the game. If you're going to shoot like that
from the free throw line, yeah, he kills you. You
can't do it. He's not only are you not helping
the team now, you're turning into a detriment. You're turning
into a to a net negative for the roster at

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that point. Yeah. Yeah, it's and it's a shame. And
you know, you could see when you see somebody in
their head, I mean he sees in the EA's in
his head. He admitted it. I believe they asked him
after game five if the if the meant if it's
a mental issue with the free throw line and he
admitted it is. Yeah, now he's he it's completely messed

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him up, and his head's messed up. And it's a
shame because you watch him and you look at it
and you go wow. Now, conversely, he gets the foul trouble,
and I gotta tell you, when Danny Green gets hurt,
my reaction is, dude, you gotta play MAXI right, like,
I want to play the kid. Get your next best

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perimeter defender in there next to Ben right like and
and I I thought Max he has been a marvel. Right.
So I went from this whole season with MAXI going, now,
I like this kid. I don't want to trade him.
Right the deadline need, there was a lot of trade
MAXI talk right, I'm like, I don't want to trade him.
You might have to get it, you know, if this
thing doesn't work out, you might have to move him

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for a ship down the line, but I like not to.
He's probably not gonna contribute these playoffs. Then you start
to look at the kid, You go, well, at the
moment's not too big for him, and he has that
he contributes against Washington, and then you know, I kept
waiting for me at one big game game one against Hawks.
He didn't play well and Doc went away from him.

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You gotta help me out with Doc a little bit man. Well, look,
this is something that Doc is notorious for. This happened
last season. Doc is one of these kind of old
school coaches that I'll I'll dance with the guys that
brought me here, regardless of how poorly they might be playing.
Clipper fans will tell you this happened last year when
they blew that lead against Denver. You know, every time
Denver made to run and got back, because we remember

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those last three games of that series. The Clippers had
a double digit lead in every single last one of
those games. And they brought in Montrese Harold, who was
dealing with some physical issues. Remember he didn't come to
the bubble initially, was out for a while, his grandmother
passed away. He was never right, but because he had
been amazing for the Clippers all season long, six Man
of the Year, Doc Rivers kept putting him out there
and he just got abused every single time they gave

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the ball to the joker Um. And if you look
at this now, Terrence Man was a rookie last year.
He was playing a little bit out of position at
the point guard spot that Tyler took him off the ball,
and he actually played a lot better this year. But
the problem with Doc Rivers is he just likes to
ride with his guys, and if you're in his doghouse
or if you're just a younger player, he's just not
gonna have that kind of trust in you to put

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you in there unless he has to. So I think
in this situation, he was in a situation where he
had to play you know, Maxie more minutes because you
mentioned he's shorthanded. If Ben Simmons is in foul trouble,
if you don't have Danny Green, you gotta go with
guys that you have on the bench and you're getting contributions,
you know. Roger Rondo is another example. The Clippers traded
away a very productive player this year and Lou Williams
to bring in Rajon Rondo, and for about a month

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Rondo was great. Then he tailed off. I mean he
got I think three or four DNP CDs and this
postseason run. I don't know if Doc Rivers would have
done that to Rajon Rondo just based on one their
person relationship going back to Boston and too well, he'll
figure it out because he always has in the past,
and that's not always the case. Tylu to his credit,

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rides Rose with the hot hand. You know, Terrence Man
wasn't in the rotation at all the first couple of
games against US all throws him in there. In game three,
he makes an immediate difference and he sticks with the
hot hand. And I think that's what separates not that
Doc is not a good coach, but the better coaches
are able to adjust game the game quartered a quarter
series to series. I gotta you gotta tee off the

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ledge with this with Doc a little bit, all right,
because I'm on allege. He put me on alleged series. Well,
we got lots to get to. The playoffs are ridiculous.
Well to all about it. I'm starting to get a
little bit of a football. It's college football. That's gonna
be a lot of fun. We'll come talk to all
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what a what an amazing couple of days. Man, how
about the Clippers? Right last night, Jazz come out and

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they put up seventy two points in the first half.
I mean they're up seventy two to fifty, and it's unbelievable. Man.
The Clippers come right out, Hey, they score forty one,
They out score Utah by nineteen, and then they continue

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it in the fourth quarter and roll they put up
any one in the second half. And I I gotta
ask you, Doc Rivers coaching the Jazz too, it seems
like it. I mean I feel bad for Doc, Like
you know, Doc super nice, love the guy I do.
He scares the hell out of me. But I don't

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have the exact number off the top of my head.
I wish I had it locked away. But I believe
he leads all coaches in blown three one series leads,
UM three two leads. I think he leads coaches all
the time. I don't know if it's directly as followed,
or if it's just bad luck. But I mean, it
just seems to follow him wherever he goes. It really does.
It's really amazing. And I think Doc is a good coach.

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But I do think one of his fatal flaws at
times is just not being able to adjust in series
when it comes to knowing when to play a certain
player and want to sit somebody down. And I think
that's that's been one of his major issues. That was
his big issue the last couple of years. And with
the Clippers. Have you seen that play itself out so far?
With Philadelphia? One of those rhetorical questions, you know, oh

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my lord, listen, you said it. He's a really really
he firstically is a great guy, great man, right, Like
he just automatically go on his dude fabulous right, And
you know, Doc gotta be a good coach. And it's funny.
Yesterday I was talking a lot about this, and even

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last night as they as they struggled to yet enough
through and yet another band fourth quarter, and I'm going, yeah,
I listen, I'm I knew he had issues closing and
there were some issues at all, but I guess I
didn't pay attention enough close enough attention right, Like you
know how it is like when you're when you're living

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with the coach, he's in your city, you know his
fatal flaws and you know what he does. Well you
can go inside now. So I didn't have a real
good idea of his fatal flaws really until these playoffs
are really until this series. You know the other thing
it's really bad that he does. His body language is terrible, correct,

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and that that was one of the big drawbacks with
the Clippers throughout their entire run. They would say that
the Clippers complain all the time, and they say Doc
Rivers and Chris Paul were the heads of the snake
when they came to yelling at officials like a plane
and all the time. Poor body language. Um, and that's
something that's followed Doc, you know. I mean, so last
night the Hawks are on a run and the camera

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pants to him and he's like slouts in his chair. Look,
you know, hands behind his head looking up in disbelief.
I'm like, yo, dude, like you better. You can't show
your players that what are you doing? Everybody knows that
you there's a reason why when you looked at Phil

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Jackson and pat Riley. Those dudes were always cool man,
no matter what happened. No matter what happened, hey man
looking look in the same building or up the street
in Villanova. Go back to that national championship game a
couple of years ago. You wear the National championship at
the buzzer and who's just standing there with his arms folded.

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Dude that I you know, it's funny because he's a
he's a good friend of mine, Jay right, and I
have him in this is like a month later, he
comes to visit me in the studio, so we have
we're you know, we're chit chatting. And I remarked, when
you know it's him, right, it's so and he's he's
a you know, it's not like he's a robot either.

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He understands how to controls emotion. And it was like
they that shot goes in and he didn't bat an
eye last like he knew it was going in, Like
he didn't. He didn't even pump his fist nothing. He
stood there. He stood there for half a second. They
walked over and shook the coach's hand. It was like

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it was a random conference win in January or something. Exactly.
That's a boss move. He goes, he wins a boss move.
You're right, and he goes, I don't know. I was nervous,
you know, inside he because I was charing it. He goes,
I couldn't even tell you what I was doing. I
was so you know, I think I was so instillned
that we want. I didn't want to. I didn't want
to think, you know, I wanted to control byself. I

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didn't know how I have I would act. But I'm
looking at Doc Figgy, Yo, dude, what are you doing? Man?
The team does? The team turns around and sees you,
and you're dying on the bench. What you know, what
are you doing? And then he knows it recognize Oh
my god, he dude, he you can tell that this

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series is taking years off my life. I can hear it.
I mean too, you're you're you're up, you're rolling, right,
you're rolling. This is in game five rolling. There's the
and and he just sits there and lou Williams gets
hot and now what are you gonna do? You can

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see and you don't when it runs common you sense it.
So you gotta could time out. You gotta get the starters.
Back in. You gotta get that freaking Dwhite Howard off
the floor, and you gotta get you know, all those
non defenders, and you gotta could time out, and you
gotta go get a bucket. You get a bucket, you

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stave off the run. That's everybody knows that maybe you
make a little defensive switch. He slowed down, Lou Williams.
You gotta take control, right you. It's big enough that
your point guard is an emotional cripple right now. Yes,
I mean, and I love the kid to death, but
you can't cant on him me. He's emotionally as stoic

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as he appears. Bet Simmons, he's he's a mess. He's fragile. Right,
So the listing a fragile guy needs is you dying
on the bench, falling out all over the place, wearing
your emotions on your sleeve. It's the old adage of
you know, teams or if you want to use the

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military or whatever you call it, you know, you take
on the personality of your leader. So if if Doc
is living and dying on every possession, best believe the
players on the court. And it's a it's a young team.
There's some veterans who have had some runs. I know
Ben and and Joel have been there, but a lot
of those guys haven't made these deep runs yet. Correct
so and Don Doc has been to the finals a

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couple of times. I mean, you know you couldn't know,
you wouldn't know it based on how he acts sometimes,
but that he just doesn't have these and I love him.
Like That's the thing. It's like, I feel horrible, and
you know it's amazing is that we've had two guys
like I love Brett Brown, like I we're a great guy,
like a wonderful man, right right, But he would stick

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with these rotations and used to drive his nuts and
I'm doing It's like I'm living all over it again
and I'm going, dude, I love you, but due you're
killing me. I can't take another one of those deals. Yeah,
there's something I've been saying for being loyal to your guys.
And then at a certain point when it gets you know,
it's easy to you know, stick with their rotation. When

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you're going through the course of a seventy two or
eighty two games season, you get to the playoffs and
everybody's seeing everybody, you know, multiple times over and they adjust.
You have to adjust to their adjustments, and sometimes that
means taking a certain guy out, giving him a different look,
to running something different. And Doc just has not done that.
It's unbelievable. And like, I you know, listen, it's it's again.

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Nobody's splitting atoms, nobody's making you know, not changing the
world here, you know exactly there, there's none of that, right,
So I'm not saying, however, like if you watch this
kid's Tyres Maxie, right, he's a Kentucky kid. I have.
I had John Cali Barry on the show a few times,
and Cow's like, dude, this kid walks in, he's special,

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Like you just know it. It's Kentucky. They're just no fear, right,
they're playing the biggest things, they're playing against the best players.
This kid's got no fear. And so when he has
a big game one doctors Barris and I'm going, dude,
what are you doing? Put the kid back in in

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And then when Davy Green goes out, I kids did
not fig And again this isn't like me going, oh,
I know the game, but it's not. It's just obvious.
It's an obvious observation. If if they always wanted a
secondary bull handler next to Simmons, Right, it's why they

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drafted Marquel. Folks traded up to get them, right, because
they always thought, well, you get a secondary guy because
we know it's you know, trials and tribulations and his
offensive woes and all that stuff. Retrospecker Probaly hasn't got
a guy that can make open shots. Just do it
that way, right, like like Tatum. But yeah, well yeah

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there was that too, like beyond that, right, you go,
all right, well, you know, so you get this kid,
and this kid shows you that he could be. He's
either the kid you wanted next to Simmons or he's
like Lou Williams comes in and just dominant off the
benching whatever. Right, So when Danny Green gets hurt and

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you need somebody starting the furki Corkmons has been in
a decent little role play for so I can't burry him. However,
he plays no defense none. And the the thing you
know about the Hawks, he said, they're a team that
you gotta exert your defense, right, So why not start

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the kid? I mean, because you at least you've got
someone out there that's not afraid of the moment the
kids got big stones. He played, he works hard on defense,
and he can handle the ball. Gives you another different look,
and you look for whatever shortcompanies he may have or
mistakes he may have made earlier. You hope that you

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can coach him up in between games and he can
teach it out of him. And a perfect example of this,
if I can go back to the Clippers for a second,
you're talking about Terrence Man. So if you go back
to the Dallas series, they're back in Los Angeles for
game five and the Clippers are making a run. At
the end of the game, Terrence Man is in transition,
has a run at the rim and has an easy
lay up and decides to try to pass it. They

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turn the ball over, the Clippers lose the game. Now
it goes into the doghouse from maybe a game or two.
But Lue says, you know what, we like what he
can give us. We've coached him up. We wanted to
be more aggressive, and look what he gave him the
last two games, and specifically on Friday. That's not giving
up on a young player. That's saying you've made mistakes,
but we can be laving you. We know what the
kind of talent that you have and the difference you
can make on the court. And the problem is, I

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don't know if Doc is willing to do that. More
often than not, the guy messes up. He's a young rookie.
You say, well, this is why I can't play him.
I won't give him another chance. You can't coach that way. No, no,
And it's like sometimes you go like he loves you,
love this shake, Milton. Now the docs credit the kid

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came in and Game two and had like this flowery
right where he scored fourteen and they were not winning
going away, but fake and he's as Kage shakes. It's
a good story. But the kiddiest horrendous on defense, that's right.
Oh my god, he's horrendous. And his office is so inconsistent.

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You just don't know where's gonna get from me. And
the other problem correcting the other problem with his offense
is he thinks he's Jordan's so he he comes in
and he dominates the ball, like if you're a Beds dude,
like I can't have you dominated the Let listen, God
bless him. He'll have these moments like he scored fifty
against the doc one in the Clippers if you remember

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on a Sunday afternoon. But the kid is you can't
Ryan and die with Jake Milton, Oh my god. And
I don't understand, Like what are you looking at? Like
you gotta understand your players. Now, Shake didn't play much
if I remember correct, Um, so that was more. This

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is more. Listen, you could tell I'm barely over Game
five because they won. If they lost today, I would
be morose, so I can imagine. I mean, I've never
seen I've never seen a series like this now if
I'm in Atlanta, like i've Trey Young has been amazingly,

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absolutely been incredible. Now I hate what he does, but
that's the rule where he just the hilk hell that
little agitation and lean India. The rule that the NBA
says they're gonna look at changing, but I feel like
I feel like they've been saying this for six years.
We're gonna emphasize these offensive players draw in contact, and
nothing ever changes. I know, like you can't. It's just

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too much of a disadvantage for the defensive player. You're
just leaning into him, you're creating contact, and then then
you're and then you're rewarding that and and penalizing the defender.
It's cheap. He does it and Harden does it. I
I'm not a big fan of that. It's the sane.

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It's terrible. It's absolutely terrible. But they've been you know,
they bog Donovan gets hurt. He's been on that sword
and he's a key to their offense. Absolutely huge, huge
kid now lou bus about you could see he's old
because he couldn't do it less and Gallinari. I thought, play, well,

(30:14):
it's did, But you know again, it's just what game seven?
You know, I can't even predict it. Figgy No, I
mean you would assume you'd say, okay, going back home,
you got a big win on the road, Philadelphia should
probably crush him. But then it's like a Philadelphia is
up by twenty going into the fourth quarter. Are you
confident they're gonna win? You know, I almost one good

(30:35):
doctor get ejected at the start of the fourth quarter.
You know, they were five for seven teen last night
in the fourth quarter, right they The closing games has
been awful for them. Their fourth quarters offensively have been atrocious.
I'm petrified of the fourth quarter. I went the game,
then they after three. Yeah, I'm a thirty six minute
man now. And then heaven forbid that it's like, you know,

(30:56):
five point game with like five minutes to go and
Ben is out there, Ohm, Atlanta, I'm hacking away. Why not, dude.
One of the one of the questions that we gotta
we gotta dive into is when you want a player
just has no the town has no confidence in a

(31:18):
star player, like I've never I've seen it, I guess
because you know, it's we're tough town. We're not as
tough as you're. The reputation and stuff like that, but
the concept of this whole town, Like I I feel bad,

(31:38):
Like my human instincts take over, right, right, you feel
bad for the kid? I do, Like I have great
I have great empathy for him because I know he's
going through something psychological, right, but man, he just he's
getting crossed. And I can and here's the thing, it's right, Yeah,

(32:01):
you can't say it's not justified. The way that it's played,
the expectations that he has levied on him, the impact
that he can make and the impact he's not making,
and the fact that he's costing them on the offensive
end of the floor, more often than not. It's a
it's amazing the story. I want to dive into the
players that have completely lost the confidence of their city.

(32:23):
So let's talk about that coming up next with some trending.
My brother, all right, well, you know the city has
a lot of confidence in Terence Man in Los Angeles.
That's what darn shore after what he did in Game
six on Friday night. As you mentioned, the Clippers were
trailing by twenty five points in the third quarter and
here comes Terrence Man starting in place of Kawhi Leonard,
and he jumps up and has thirty nine points as

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they stage a furious comeback and came away with a
one thirty one to one nineteen victory over the Utah Jazz.
Paul George nothing to sneeze that at twenty eight points,
nine boards, and seven assists as well. They advanced to
the Western Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history.
They will take on Phoenix in Game one tomorrow afternoon.
Of course, as we've been talking about, the Sixers staving
off elimination getting a one oh four to nine nine

(33:06):
victory over the Hawks. Tobias Harris and Seth Curry each
with twenty four points pacing Philadelphia, setting up a game
seven tomorrow night. As well. Second around at the US Open,
Richard Bland shot a four under sixty seven for the
round tie to top the top spot with Russell Henley.
Louis Us hasan shot in even a part of seventy one.
He has one stroke off the lead. And Baseball Dodgers

(33:27):
scoring all three of their runs in the eighth inning
for a three nothing victory over the Wolfull Arizona Diamondbacks.
Arizona's lost fifteen straight games and straight on the road.
I guess they're only solids. I guess as they were
at home in Arizona on Friday. Not that the world that. Yeah,
that's bad. That's pretty bad. Uh, Giants are not bad.

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They've been amazing this year, twenty games, beating up on
Anthony's Phillies, five to three wins for the Angels, Astros
and Braves, and on the ice Western Conference Finals, Montreal
was for time victory over right two to one series
lead in the Western Conference Finals for the Canadiens. Back
to the fellas, that's u's we'll come back. We got

(34:09):
lots to do. But when a player loses, an entire
town I'm sure Chicago knows a quarterback or two like that.
We'll discuss where the Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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(34:33):
he does. You do, always get it right. I gotta
take pride in it because you know what you do.
You always go often, you go non cliche. You get
tired of hearing the same thing every now and then
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(34:55):
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(35:19):
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last yes, kneels and report limitations apply. I do an
apology Figgy too. I gotta see who texted me Wednesday

(36:07):
night after the game? Okay? This is after six Ers
Hawks game five? Yes, okay, so it was was it?
I was saying, who asked me to come on? One
of the guys asked me to come on? Okay, and

(36:32):
I couldn't. Did you blow them off? I did? Did
you not even respond? It was like, I can't do
this right now. I didn't respond. It just goes to
them and I didn't mean to do that. It was
Wednesday night, one pm, your defense. It was late, and
I just couldn't do it. I was like, I can't,

(36:56):
I can't, I can't go there. I mean how you know.
I know it's pathetic, but it was like I just
lost this lead and yeah, I can't talk about it.
It's like you you don't even know what words to
say if you go, dude, I was like, what did
I just saw that? Lous it to walking six pointly.
Now here's the sick of it. Like from an Atlantic perspective,

(37:18):
it's like, I feel horrible for these people. You know why,
because if they go down and lose this series, right,
this is the same town that has suffered through ultimately
the ultimate loss. The ultimate loss is the Super Bowl, right,

(37:39):
and blowing the lead is the ultimate laws. Blowing that
lead to Brady is just cruel? Would you agree? I
think that's the worst way to lose. Would that be? Listen,
we've seen her like famous ways to lose a game,

(37:59):
but with magnitude and everything else, and knowing that all
you had to do was she snots throw the ball right,
Like ultimately, I mean, just get some first downs, kick
some field goals, you know, something like that. I mean
anything takes. He's like one score, like one score one

(38:19):
like stained drive, and there's not enough time, Like the
math makes it impossible to come back. That's gotta be
the worst loss, the most devastating loss in the history
of sports. Yeah, um, I'm trying to write. Definitely, when

(38:41):
it comes to the history of Super Bowls, Like you
can give me Scott Norwood against the Giants. You know
that happens, you know, and it wasn't a chip shot.
It was what forty seven yards or something. You can
see that happening. You know, Payton manning those the pick
six the Tracy Porter called the Saints and the Colts.
You know that can happen. It's unfortunate, and it was

(39:02):
a big moment of the game. But you were in
the pretty bad Russell Wilson. Yes, that the goal line
play calling, that was pretty tough too, um, but you
have to lead. Not only did you have the lead,
you were destroying them, absolutely destroying them. It's not only
that for Atlanta, it's all the other sports. I know

(39:23):
some friends in Atlanta who are like, I'm not buying
into the into the Hawks just because this is destined
to happen, because it's Atlanta sports. Be it those Braves
teams the other time Bowl, you know when they lost
to the Vikings in the NFC title are they beat
the Vicus NC Title Game and got worked over in
the Super Bowl by the Broncos. Right, Yeah, I was
going to bring up the Braves to like all that

(39:44):
success or even just past Hawks teams. It's like they're
they're afraid of Doin and it's just like, you know
what's funny, Doc wasn't Atlanta. That was a great player
for the for the he was, but they can only
get so far. Yeah, right, let's we forget all of
these shortcomings of the Georgia Bulldogs too. By the way,

(40:05):
if we're not talking what happens you know, like seriously,
it's it's I feel horrible for that town. It feels
like it's a racist. See who will like disappoint first,
either the Sixers or Atlanta Sports. And I don't know
who's in the heat right now. Yeah, somebody has to win, right,

(40:25):
so I guess I don't know. The world may end.
It's insane. Wow, I would have fellas Big hour right here.
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welcome back, fellas on a sports Saturday Father's Day weekend.

(41:33):
I hope all your dad's out there doing well. Take
care of your dad, don't forget him. Oh, Figgy, I
gotta share a story with you. Oh my god, I'm
gonna ask if you had big Father's Day plans with
the boys. Are doing anything for you this weekend or not?
So I got the you know, I got my two boys,

(41:54):
and I gotta tell you the story first. Oh my god.
So rewind to Monday. All right, right, Massi's playing my
little Massimo. You know, it's a baseball player playing one
of his games in a day, right, like it's ridiculous.

(42:17):
Ready places his travel team and his little all star
coach pits travel kid pits like he does it all.
So anyway, he's in the tournament and he was slumping
a bit. In fact, last Saturday, if we get done
the show and do our thing, he says, you know,
we have a game, and we had a double header,

(42:40):
so I rushed to the thing. We do a double header.
We come back, he says to me, he didn't play well.
He was slumping, and he says, Daddy, can you take
me to the cage, like seven o'clock. Yeah, I go,
all right, So I go through fifty buckets to the kid, right,
I mean, my arms phone off. It's like the arcing

(43:00):
crickets and all this stuff. So whatever. So the next
day he's a little bit better and he gets ahead,
but he's still like a little off, which is baseball, right.
Won't talk with him about you know, baseball and taking
it into the field because he kind of took it
into the field. So he was a bit slumping. Continues Monday,
and and then like all of a sudden, Tuesday, there's

(43:23):
a story like he fell off his bike. I don't
know if it was Monday or Tuesday. He he sure
he heard his shoulder. Now what do you now knowing him? Yeah,
he's a pretty tough little kid. He's eight, and he's
got a little tough He's really a little toughie. So
I'm thinking to myself, it's just really about a bike

(43:47):
falling off a bike, right, And I'm thinking, you know,
maybe the pressure is like too munch. It's there this tournament,
all the kids are around, it's like, you know, the parents,
all the league people, and you know, because I had
a talk with him about you know, about the whole
thing with a travel team, and you know, I try to,

(44:09):
but there's a lot of pressure. And I don't realize
that all the pressure that we put on kids at
a really young age. So fig you know what, I'm
thinking that he's that he's making up an injury. Oh
really that you know, you can't even confirm, you know,
you're not fully buying whether he actually fell off the
bike or not. Right, I don't know. I'm thinking, you know,

(44:30):
it's tell me shoulder hurts, and I go, can you
squeeze your you know, I do the whole thing. He
can make a fist now, he can raise laterally, right,
But I'm not thinking, you know, I'm looking at him,
trying to watch him, trying to catch him. Right, I
don't you don't see much there. I don't see much there, right,

(44:51):
So then he misses Tuesday, we go Wednesday, we go
to warm ups. I go, dude, all right, you know,
let me see it. Man. He gets in the cage
swinging and swinging like, you know, like he swingling his body,
not using his his arms, and I'm gonna, dude, come on, stop,

(45:12):
you're gonna play. You're gonna play right. Then he sees
in tears, and I feel bad for him. I'm thinking
he's like crumbling on the pressure. He goes out in
the field and he plays thirty's throwing the first the
whole thing, and he's just he's not himself. So I go, dude, listen,
it's okay. Maybe we need to just need a break.
Let me take you, let me take So we didn't

(45:34):
play okay. The next day, I said, well, let's take
him to the doctor. Let's see. My wife takes him
to the doctor. He's got a broken collar bone. Wow.
And I was like, are you kidding me, dude? If
you got to I go here, I was questioning, you know,

(45:54):
thinking he's a little Ben Simmons, right, and I'm going back,
young blood out there playing play on a broken leg.
Go dude, you gotta broken collar bone? Like, oh my god,
that like you know what, I keep thinking about his dad.
He's an idiot now, like I gave him all the things,
but you know, at that age and when you're talking
about a collar bone and so oh, I keep thinking

(46:18):
about was him throwing the ball from third to first
on a broken cough? Yeah? How insane is that? Like,
oh my God, on your hands there? I felt so
vam his kid. So he's in his sling. It's the
good thing is he didn't have to getting casted for
the summer, but he's immobilized for the next six weeks.

(46:40):
So I brought it. They had their championship game last night,
so I brought him over to see the kids and
wish his teammates. Well, you know, let's dude, you gotta
go over there. Which the guy's well, man, that's gonna
be part of your team. I mean, how was he
after you got the diagnosis? I mean, was he did
he cry again? Was he inconsolable? I'm sure how big
the upset? But no, but he he wore was crying

(47:01):
before God of the pain because it hurts so much. Right, yeah,
I'm going but he but he didn't. He didn't want
to tell me, like he just said he he had to,
like he didn't go into the fall that he had,
and he actually he didn't tell us about the fall
until later in the week because he thought I would
be mad, and he I he thought he wouldn't be

(47:23):
able to play baseball, and he didn't want to go
to the doctor, so he thought he'd cover it up. Yeah,
just go, dude, you listen. First of all, Daddy never
is never mad. You should know that. Second of well,
I care about it your health right, and stuff like
that happens. Yeah, fall down happens. You know what I mean? Like, well,
I don't care, man care, I'll care about your help.

(47:43):
It's want to make sure you're right. You know, He's
I was cracking up. I'm like, oh he figured Father's
Day weekend, making that poor kid throw third first, broke
the column bout. I'm like the great shanteam. Yeah, say
father of the year. There you go, Oh you ain't hurting?
What are you doing? What are you gonna? Don't your

(48:08):
pom poms? I remember the stuff that do you remember
what coaches told you? Oh? My good, Like here's the
thing what they said to us when we were at
that age. You can't stay in public these days, absolutely
not they have been fired on the spot. On the spot.
Oh my god. Well, I mean even back, you know,

(48:29):
back not even your day, even my day, where they
wouldn't give you water if they didn't feel like you
were going hard enough. It's amazing they would withhold water.
And again you know we're kids, but we're going through
two a day's and they would, they would break your stones. Man,
it was against and it was freaking hot for you.

(48:56):
You gotta hurt that water figures got that a couple
of times. Yes, what are you doing looking for your makeup? Kid? Right?
Oh my god. The stuff that they they and the
stuff they would say to you you ridiculously, my god.
It's amazing sometimes because when you think about, you know,

(49:19):
growing up and how things change and the whole it's crazy.
And the idea that like, you know, oh, there's some
sort of attack on sports and you take these sort
of things away. It's like these are are not necessary
for you to be successful and playing a sport. Like
the idea that this toughened you up or made you
a better player, we obviously know at this point in time,

(49:39):
is totally ridiculous. You know, man, some of this stuff
is crazy, Like listen. You know we're not tinge about
big time college football or NFL and stuff, talking about
high school like and listen, I get it what it
means in Texas in Pennsylvania, Like I lived it, I
get it. But still we just wanted that you're still

(50:01):
talking about children. Yeah, it's it's a little more. The
worst is and I see it sometimes even with the
with the youth coaches. It's, dude, it's amazing. Like first
of all, like I mean the in the throws of
the baseball thing. Right, So we're playing this one team
and all they wanna do is they forbid their kids

(50:23):
from swinging when they're up in the count. What yeah,
like they don't the Oakland a is or something. What
are we doing here? Yeah? Like in fact that this
team beats twice this year without registering a hit. Wow, yeah,

(50:43):
come on, dude, right, like kids, what are we doing?
I mean your eights? Like you really care about the
win over the idea of swinging the bat. First of all,
a kid picture who's eight, it's gonna struggle to find
his own right there. Zone changes constantly anyway, And any guys,
you know these the cyclop umpires, who you know you're

(51:06):
talking about the bottom of the barrel. Right, they can't
tell you it's a strike in baseball versus bowling, you
know what I mean. These dudes, come on, so now
you're gonna now you're gonna pedalize these kids. I was like,
you know, guys, come on, you guys have a two
and a half hour literal league games because the entire
lineup is walking. You know. Yeah, but you know, but

(51:31):
to your point, you wind up having ninety minute innings,
you know, like like a half hour rady the game,
like we get through two winnings or and they have
to call it a game. That's stupid, Like, you know,
let kids play. It's bizarre, dude, It's so weird. Sometimes

(51:52):
it's crazy. But anyway, it is Father's Day weekend, an
incredible a lot of great sports, US Open m the
Are you into the soccer? Not a whole lot. To
be honest with you, I want to be completely honest.
I'm kind of I'm keeping an eye on what's happening,
But I'd be lying to if I said that I

(52:13):
actually tuned in and watched much of any of the matches.
So let me ask you this, because Chris, I know,
is a monster soccer head. Right, I'm locked in the Euros.
I know you are. I know you are. Now I'm
somewhere probably in between, but probably lean more towards Figgi.

(52:34):
Now the euro thing I dig because it's afternoon like
for me, like it's on in the after morning and
afternoon for you it's in the middle of the night
and then the morning. So you know, I'm at work.
There's a game on, right, so it's it not here's
games on at nine a m. So I go, I

(52:56):
love having a sporting event on, and I feel comforted
by the fact that there's a game on. Like I
was looking, you know, I do my show in the
studio I have there's a computer and I have the
the broadcast on and on the computer one of my

(53:18):
spot one of my computers, and I'm looking at it
and it's just on right, And I'm not even I'm
doing the show, so I'm not really paying attached to
it as much, but I'm looking at just the field
and it's like a sun splashed field, and and I go,
all's right with the world. There's always there's a game on.

(53:38):
Does that make sense? Yeah? And I The same thing
happens for me when I met my you know, day
job at our local affiliate. We're we're working and there's
a live show going on and we can't pay full
attention to what's happening. But best believe that there's life
sports on, whether it's soccer or a day baseball game
or otherwise. We definitely have it on the screen to
keep an eye on it. That you're right, there is

(53:59):
something comforting a That's why I loved about the the
bubble last year when sports and there's pretty much a
game on. No matter what time of day you turned
the TV on, there was an NBA game going on.
I was the best, the best. I'm with you. I
just absolutely love it. And I will tell you I
I do marvel at that sport when you play it

(54:20):
like that countries and you have that kind of talent. Wow,
that sports. It is captivating, man Like I see, I
didn't understand it and really probably like two World Cups ago,
I started to get like little by little and then
as you watch it a little e p L here
and there, just like the buy time until kick off

(54:43):
type of thing. And then I'll tell you it is
it is an amazing sport. Like I could see the
beauty there's still things I don't get as an American,
but it is a great it is a great sport. Anyway,
we'll discuss it all back to hoops coming up. We're
the Fellas, he's the fig. We got Chris Nicky behind

(55:06):
the scenes. We'll talk to Nikki the whole thing. I'm
cause right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas.
A Father's Day weekend. A lot of fun I have
to say, like having the NBA on Father's Day, it's

(55:28):
pretty cool. Man. Game seven to night, Brooklyn Milwaukee, Game
seven tomorrow Sixers Hawks Fig. Oh man, it's great to
have it. I'm sorry, Like I love baseball, but he
needs something with baseball, right, always something to compliment it.
You know, we talked about the dog days of summer,

(55:49):
and they usually kick off pretty much right after the
NBA season and the NBA Draft, and you really have
nothing but baseball, with the exception of your Olympic years,
which we are technically in one this year here. But
I think I'm in pretty much agreeing with everybody else
that it's it's a little bit different then your typical
you know, summer Olympics. I don't know if it's gonna
be the same with no fans and who knows what

(56:10):
athletes are actually gonna go over. There are an about
thirty I think we're at thirty three days now is
when it starts. Kind of little stalk track of it,
and many people have it just doesn't have the cashe
as it usually would for many reasons, but generally speaking,
to get back to the original point, yeah, usually from

(56:30):
you know, late June, early July through mid August, before
or early August when college or pro football training camps
in preseason starts, you really don't have much to ride
home except for baseball. And even with that, it's I
don't want to call it meaningless, but you know, you're
in the middle of the season to since right some ways,
like listen, it's great. You know, here's here's the problem

(56:53):
with how we have evolved as sports fans. We need
a payoff, like a big payoff, like games need to
be special. Like you think about the adrenaline that you
have as a sports fan, because look, it's the same,

(57:16):
it's that endorphin. It's a rush, right and if you
care about it, and you know, some people don't care
about If you catch and care about it, there's a rush,
like I'm living and dying in the last two nights, right,
like the you know, every game if you have a team.
It's if you're an NBA fan and you have a

(57:36):
team that's still alive or or you know, you're in
Utah and you know jad just like every game is
like is a white knuckle ride roller coaster ride. Yeah,
you know your heart is doing backflips, you know the
entire game exactly, and and so you and you it's
impossible to get that from baseball until I'll tell over well,

(58:00):
and you can use the same argument for many people
in the NBA. I mean, you're not getting that sort
of drive and adrenaline random January, you know game. Right.
But here's the here's the thing. We don't think about
that because of the calendar. Right. You got football, because
you still have football. You have college bowls, college football. Yeah,
like football. That's I mean, it's so simple why the

(58:26):
sport works and why it's a drug, because every game
is like a playoff game to the other sports. It's
the scarcity. It's only set. There's only sixteen and now
seventeen of them, and it's and it's magnitude, right, So
with scarcity, to your point, comes magnitude, and that magnitude

(58:49):
provides white knuckle you know why viewing the problem is,
I just don't know how you get away from that.
With baseball and the NBA, that's just how the sports
are structed. Let me let me throw this at you
for a second, because like you're gonna have to come
up with a new economic structure at some point. And

(59:11):
you know, we play our snippets of all the hosts
here on Fox Sports Radio, and Dan Patrick was talking
about the fifty five game season, and you know, nobody
would think of pay caught. And you know he's right
on obviously, but you're I think has to be a
point where you shave off fifteen games from the from

(59:35):
the NBA season because if you have guys, you just
aren't going to play. People are tuning out. And I
still in one of the one of those who pushes
back on the notion that load management is something that's
rampant across the league. I still feel that the majority
of the players that do it do it for a
legitimate reason. Um. But even with that, I I can't

(59:57):
disagree the number show that eight to even seventy two
this year just can be can be a lot for
for the viewer, and that ratings can definitely fluctuate on
a weekend, week out basis, and you would get better,
more eyeballs, better ratings if you had fewer games. The
problem is, and he said you have to change the
economic structure. What that means? How you do that? I

(01:00:18):
don't know what If if that's throwing more sponsors on
the court and on jerseys like soccer does, if that's
having longer television and media timeouts. But even with all that,
I don't know if that's enough to actually make up
for the lost gate revenue. Are you going to charge
you know, more for fans to attend games? And it's
pricey enough. Look at how much it costs to go

(01:00:39):
to Madison Square Garden or Staples Center. You can't do it.
So I just in theory, I think it makes a
lot of sense, and I don't necessarily disagree with you,
just in in practice, it's just very difficult proposition to
follow through with. No. I listen, you're right, I'm just
trying to figure out how you deal with how you
play it, because you gotta come up with a point. Now. See,

(01:01:02):
I think baseball is easier. Well, Baseball, I mean, wasn't
THEFF true? And what they'll tell you is, you know,
our regional networks do great and local TV ratings are phenomenal.
We'll throw you on you know, MLB on Fox game
or the Sunday night game. You know, ratings can fluctuate
depending on who's playing and the matchup in the time

(01:01:22):
of season, but for the most part, the teams are
making their money off of their television revenue. So Baseball
will probably tell you, like for for their standpoint, it
really isn't broken. And at least as of I'd say
about a month ago, I have not seen updated numbers
as far as ratings happening excellent, the streaming over the
air and otherwise for baseball, they the numbers have been

(01:01:42):
up this year, so we'll see if just to shere
volume of games, I don't know, that's a good question.
Like the model, the television model, where you actually, if
you're an advertiser, you love live games because you're not
going to dr them correct, correct, people are gonna want

(01:02:04):
to sit there and watch it live. No one. A
few people are gonna dvrur baseball game and watch it back.
And if they do they're gonna fast forward through the ads. Um. Yeah,
that's a good question. Um. I don't know, and I
don't know how how deep and granular they get when
it comes to that, but I know, at least from
the public span that they give us, our ratings have
never been better. And we are streaming numbers are through
the roof, and streaming numbers means young people and it's

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not just for old guys anyway. That's what bas that's
the narrative baseball will like to throw at you right now,
and maybe there's an element of truth to it. Whether
that sustains itself again, Anthony, I want to see. I
want to see what their numbers look like in July
and August. See how long you can sustain itself, because theoretically,
as we mentioned, they'll be the only dog in town

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at that point in time, there won't be anything else
going on again except for the Olympics. But generally speaking,
that's the time for baseball the shine. You got the
All Star Game in July, you come back for the
second half of the season, Teams go for the trade
deadline coming up in August, so that's really the time
for baseball to make Hey, so I want to see
what they think. You know, what's so crazy is that?

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Do you remember two years ago? Was last year? Wasn't
there but the Summer League, the NBA Summer League, and
just the amount of interest that was here for the
Summer League. Sure, because especially depending on who the draft
pick was. I remember when Alonzo Ball was taken by
the Lakers and they were selling out, you know, Thomas

(01:03:27):
and Mack in Las Vegas standing room only to see
Alonso in his first Summer League. You know, that's that's
something that's been very popular for the NBA, but even
more so, i'd say over the last six or seven
years to your point, Anthony, Y're right, there's been a
lot of interest in that, whether it's you know, if
it's z I and Williamson, even going back to Derrick
Rose his first Summer League performance. It's it's been a

(01:03:48):
big deal for a while, and the NBA has capitalized
on that, televising every game. You know. Yeah, And I
always attributed to someone with that we have a thirst
for something else besides you know, besides baseball. And you know, again,
I love it, but I just think people thirch for
something else to go with it. I mean, Chris, you

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like baseball, but I'm sure you you have that because
you enjoy those other more international sports. Yeah, I think.
I think in general, sometimes it's just sports work better
when you just kind of have a plurality of options
sometimes too, where you know, especially for you know, I
I take I take for myself as a Tigers fan.

(01:04:33):
The Tigers, it's it's hard for me to stay locked
in with them when they're just I'm sorry, they're just
not playing meaningful baseball right now. And I think they
haven't really played meaningful baseball since but for about six
years now, so it's kind of hard for me to
kind of lock in for a season. I think that's
kind of what drew me to start watching a lot more.

(01:04:54):
And they've been there's some baseball teams that are just
notling themselves out of these pits ever ever, and it's hard.
It's a big You're right, we forget it's a big
country and think about you know, fake you're spoiled, right,
You're sitting there with you got the Dodgers, and you've

(01:05:16):
got two of the greatest players in the game today
in shrout Otani. True, very true, and you have teams
like you mentioned the dregs of the league at this point,
whether it's Baltimore or Pittsburgh, Texas isn't playing well. I mean,
I mean, I mean Christians right about that. Detroit just gross.

(01:05:36):
It's hard to go back to it once you've been
a contender to like Detroit was in the twenty tens. Like,
it's just it's hard to go back to it. It
really does, because I remember that the that park being
filled up, and now it's just it's it's hard to
get people to come back because they they remember those
teams that are playing well, and now it's just it's
like this thing still isn't rebuilt. You're still dragging on.

(01:05:58):
You're still barely getting above sixty wins a year, like
come on. One thing that Baseball has helped by um
and I think it hurts the trade deadline, And I
think we've had less drama at the deadline the last
couple of years because of this. But you have more
teams that are alive deeper into the season because of
the expanded postseason, And that was Baseball's way of not

(01:06:20):
only just getting more playoffs, you know, television revenue, but
keeping more of these markets interested in watching the sport
of baseball as you get deeper into the summer in
the early fall, so you don't just fall off and
stop paying attention to it. So I will say from
a business standpoint, that was a very smart move for baseball. Yeah,
although I still think they missed a boat when they didn't.

(01:06:41):
I mean they that wild card thing was fine, but
the one game likes to expand the play like that.
I never understand one thing. Why wouldn't you completely just
paired down the regular season and it just go within
the NBA extended instead of October being your only month

(01:07:02):
of playoffs, making September in October. It's an interesting question.
I don't know how much are you pairing down the
regular season hits with trending and then I'll just throw
it out and tell me why it wouldn't work. Okay, well,
well I'll get some trending. With the l A Clippers,
uh making some history on Friday night, making it to

(01:07:24):
the Western Conference Finals for the first time in their
team's history. They fell behind by twenty five points in
the third quarter. Things were looking very dire, but Terrence
Man coming through, scoring thirty nine points as he helped
them stage a furious come back, he scored twenty yeah nine.
Are you kidding me? Out of his mind? Scored twenty
of those thirty nine and the second quarter Paul George

(01:07:46):
no chop Liver by the way, twenty eight points for
the Clippers, who are take on the Phoenix Suns Game
one tomorrow. In Game one of the Conference Finals. The
seventies sixers also staying alive. They not one oh four
to victory over the Hawks, says Tobias Harris had twenty
four points for Philly. They will take on the Hawks
in Game seven from Philadelphia on Sunday. As well, second

(01:08:07):
round at the US Open, Richard Bland shot a four
under sixties seven for the round. He has tied for
the top spot with Russell Henley. Louis us Hazen shot
an even par seventy one and as one stroke off
the lead. In Major League Baseball, you at the Dodgers
scoring three runs in the eighth inning for three nothing
victory over Arizona Giants, beating Philadelphia five to three. Astro's
with the wind Braves as well. Angels get two home

(01:08:29):
runs from Shootany in a blowout over the aforementioned Detroit
Tigers in the NHL Montreal, beating in Las Vegas three
to two in overtime. They take a two one series
lead in the Western Conference Finals. Back to the fellas,
all right, that's us, we are the fellas. I'm Anthony Gargano,
Kevin Figures, we got the crew, Chris and Nicky Nicky quiet,

(01:08:52):
all right, Yeah, I'm saying I'm listening to the uh
got you guys talking about international stuff and having that
that sports. Why well, when it's just baseball when as
said the dog days of summer. For me, it's Formula one.
I love Formula one racing. And I'm looking at some
just some statistics. And last year, according to a source,
the global audience for Formula one and was at four

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hundred thirty three million viewers. That was a slight increase
in the previous year figure. And you know, I love
watching Formula one. I grew up. My dad actually worked
for some actually was on the crew for some professional
drag racing teams. Yea he uh buddy of has actually
owned a racing team and uh he was one of
the crew guys. So he would tell me all these
stories like, yeah, I was building engines as a you know,

(01:09:37):
as a as a as a young man and stuff
like that. Yeah, so I grew up in racing, and
I grew up you know, big NASCAR fan as my
you know, my dad was a big dealer and heart fan.
I became a Gordon fan. And as I gotten older,
you know, I I've gone to Formula one because it's
just a really interesting form of racing. It's a global
sport and well it's great about it. As you know,

(01:09:59):
I work a pretty it's in the mornings here and
it's on the Morning six and the one because it's
an international sports or overseas, and I'll have on one
of the TV's I have a Formula one race going
and it's really really fun and plus, you know, being
for coming from an Italian family, I love rooting for
Ferrari and just you know, seeing the resurgence they've been
having recently, and yeah, it's fun. I love Formula one

(01:10:20):
racing in racing in general. So that's that's my sports. Aesthetically,
it's cool, like I could see because you're racing through cities. Yeah,
oh yeah, Monico Is it was one of it's it's
the super Bowl for F one and it's it's fantastic mix.
I believe mass Max for staff in one of this
year of a red Bull. You know, it's it's really
really fun. Plus you have it's one of those sports

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while you have the top three teams have your Mercedes,
you have your Red Bull, and you have your uh,
your your Ferraris and stuff, and so it's it's really interesting, Okay,
who is going to be uh, you know, the the champion?
Of course, Mercedes has been number one for numerous amount
of times. Lewis Hamilton one of the best drivers in
racing history. So it's just, you know, it's really really
fun into like, hey, any week somebody can can upset

(01:11:03):
Who's upset Mercedes? This week who's upset lowis Hamilton's And
sometimes it's McLaren. Sometimes, you know, maybe rarely a rental
would win a race a rental car, but it's it's
just one of those things where it's like rental car
rentals hold up to beat up guitars exactly. Here's the

(01:11:25):
geo prism coming around the start, coming down the stretch, like,
oh my god, Formula one is my my go to
uh sport for the off season. There you go, buddy,
you were you said you almost sound like Chris and
said talking to you know, with your with your passion

(01:11:46):
for because I know Chris is all locked in, especially
this week we're with Ronaldo. Did you I'll tell you
one of the most amazing stories. Did you see that
story about what Ronaldo did with coke? It's a huge story. Absolutely, Yeah,
we talked about it. There was some fake stories out
there that he had like caused the price of Coca

(01:12:06):
Cola stock to like crash for a moment. But I
think he may be contributed to him, but not by
as much as people were reporting. Yeah. I think also
for us audience is the fact that not to keep
playing up the Italian American but the fact that Italy
is doing really well in Euros probably is helping a
lot of the coverage. But yeah, Ronaldo's Ronaldo's a little Coaxton.

(01:12:26):
He was not. You know, it's always like Nick Saban
is up there with a little Cox but Ronaldo was
not playing along by that same playbook clearly. Yeah, But
I don't think that that was overblown, to be honest.
I mean that, you know, you react to stuff like
that when you see a global brand like that, that

(01:12:47):
one of the biggest stars in the world saying no,
don't give me this, give me some water. With three
hundred million Twitter followers. I mean, that's power, man, which
is why I power I do to leave. Coke took
somewhat of a hit because of that. Absolutely not four
billion dollars worth, but definitely a hit. No, there was

(01:13:07):
definitely some sort of PR. The whole PR department at
Coca Cola was probably on red alert when that happened.
Just anything, anything to kind of stave off the damage. Listen,
you don't understand what you know, this concept of social influencers.
I mean, that's a very real deal man, definitely, you know,
real deal. It's I mean, FIFA came out on Friday morning,

(01:13:31):
I believe in and basically told because Paul Paul Paga
did the same thing with the Heineken bottle and removed
it during one of his press conferences. They said, you guys,
keep messing with our sponsors, we're gonna find you or
possibly worse. And Heideken is a huge sponsors, huge, like
Coca Cola is huge, and I know their footprint in
the Olympics is even bigger. But Heineken, their prints are

(01:13:52):
all over UAIFA and FIFA. I know, I know, I
like a nic Heineken same today. I'll be honest, I'm
biased against it just because I grew up in a
family my dad worked in the glass plants, and I'm
just conditioned not to like any beer that comes in
a green glass bottle. I'll tell you it is because
if you're ever a fortunate enough to go to make

(01:14:13):
it over to Amsterdam and go to the Heineken uh
brewery and get some freshly made Heineken. Oh, I'm sure
that's great, it's amazing. I just I And if it
comes in a can, it's fine. Just I will not
if you serve me one in a green glass bottle,
I'm going to ask you how long it's been out
in the sun, because it's probably skunked by. Now, what's
the what's your fun? What's the anti green thing? So

(01:14:35):
it's it's science. It's about how much sunlight gets into
your beer, which can skunk it, it can leave it
with a bad green glass. Yeah, it's because green glass
lets in more sunlight than like a brown bottle. Okay,
So it just it skunks faster than beer in like

(01:14:55):
your normal brown bottle that you would get from like
you know, Budweiser. Gotcha, got you interesting, I'll tell you
to your point, I mean, Figgy, there's something about Honey
Kenny Europe. I can imagine. I've never been answer damn.
So I don't know, like you had it right from

(01:15:17):
the right from the fountain. I'm sure in Amsterdam it's
like fountains. It's like the water fountains or Heineken fountains.
Unfortunately not but essentially, I mean, especially if you go
you go to the brewer, you can have a little
walk through the entire grounds and they let you sample
some freshly brewed Heinneken. It's it's amazing, absolutely, you know,

(01:15:38):
to your point, when you get it on tap in Europe,
just all over Europe, you the taste is complete, it's out,
it is, It's delicious, definitely different like that in Stella
when you have those on on tap in your My god,

(01:15:58):
i'd love to I don't know if they have a
tap room for Stella like they do for Heineken in Belgium,
but I would love to do that. Just let me
tell you something, right, So, my favorite beer is Duvel
you know Duvel's. I don't think I've heard of it.
D u v e L. All right, So it's my

(01:16:19):
favorite beer. I love it. So a few years back
we went to we went to UH to Brussels and Paris.
We took the kids and look, so we took the kids.
That kids would go to bed at night, right, and
I would meander. I have my book, right and I

(01:16:41):
would meandering the cafes at night. And in Brussels and
the fresh duvel, Oh my god, it was just And
they have these freaks like as a snack, like they're
you know, French fries, Like they're ridiculous. It's like that

(01:17:02):
was heavenly to me. Where do they get frets frets freaks? Yeah,
they're like French, They're the French version of French fries.
Is that how I'm intert Yes? Yeah. And the and
the Belgian ones are better than the the you know
Parisian wants. The Belgian fries are ridiculous. They're like from

(01:17:28):
the greatest things you ever had in your life. I
mean they really is like food, candy, that and beer.
I mean you can only do it for so long.
Oh my god, you know that guy don't live there.
I'd be seven hundred pounds, Oh my god, especially since
they serve it probably with the ola ali or the
you know, the European stuff. I don't do the I
don't do the Mayo yet. I don't like them. I

(01:17:51):
don't do the Mayor. I just do a plane. But
it's delicious anyway, We'll come back lots to do. Fellas
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(01:18:35):
Report limitations apply, Hey figs two things. Speaking of beer
on site, my father checks in. Happy Father's Day to
Mr g my dad, Thank you, my brother. He says
he's a he loves from Viggy two. He he uh.

(01:18:56):
He was very sad because he loves Lincoln. And when
when Lincoln decided to stick a step back a little bit,
he was very sad because he loves Link. His link
was over the house. He got to know him. You
know what I mean, at Christmas Eve with us, the
whole thing, and so but he goes, I love to
tell you, I love that Figgy. He said, what a

(01:19:17):
what a good bright kid. He's sharp, so thank you.
That means a lot. I appreciate it. So he goes
Guinness in Dublin at the Dublin Oh, he said, dude,
it's unbelievable. I have heard that. My best friend actually
went to Ireland a couple of years ago and said

(01:19:38):
that again, as it was nothing, it was totally different,
completely different than what you get over in the States. Yeah,
how about that. And I'm generally not a dark beer guy,
but if I went over there and obviously have to, well,
you know what's funny, I'm not either. I don't. I'm
not a dark beer guy at all. I'm not a
stout guy. But Guinness the it and it's white, it's

(01:20:01):
not heavy, true. Yeah, so I'm not never been a
big stout man either, but that is on. It is
really good. So did you, speaking of beer, since we're
on the subject, did you see what the NFL is
doing with one of it's adding a European game? Why?
I saw they were in discussions of possibly having a

(01:20:22):
game in Germany. Yes, during Octoberfest. Dude, I'm down with that.
That also be huge because Germans football, they love American football.
It's been a presence there since the seventies since you know,
there was an army base in Frankfurt, and Frankforters decided
to play Americans. But it's it's huge. NFL Europe did

(01:20:44):
really well in Germany specifically, Yes, Dusseldorf was big. We're
getting some players over from the GFL now we keep
trying to crack the NFL draft. That's pretty cool. Would
do you do you? Would you what do you think
you're thinking happen? Would you be in favor of that?
If it's an Munich, oh, yes, I'd go over there.
I don't necessarily mind it. I know they're trying to
make it more of a global game, and I don't

(01:21:05):
know if this puts a dent in the NFL's plans
of having a team take residency in London, and maybe
they're just trying to do more barn storming across Europe
and doing it that way, which is not the worst idea.
I'm not opposed to it. I'm down here. I mean
you and Nicky. I would be a lot of fawn
going in October. Dude, that would be incredible. Raiders are

(01:21:30):
there and I could see specially God, that would be incredible.
I could fit you go nuts. Absolutely, let's go. We'll
get well, we'll go with links to private jet of course.
Be awesome. We get a big couple hours left. Please
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(01:21:52):
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(01:22:13):
right where the fellas hanging out every Saturday. You can
catch us as. We uh have a lot of fun.
Go around the world and get your primed for your
sports Saturday and a game seven tonight in Brooklyn Milwaukee

(01:22:34):
and the Nets. And this is gonna be a great,
great game Milwaukee is able to stave off. Now we
go back to Brooklyn. The game is a pick. Basically,
we'll give you updated odds next hour when we chat
with our betting analysts. But right now it looks pretty
evenly matched. We'll see Brooklyn comes home. Now, I'll tell

(01:22:58):
you one of the things looking at this with this game,
it's gonna come down to what Harden can do. Can
he pushed the hamstring? No, Kyrie k d needs somebody
else to ride with. Now, Hardens come in and he's
played well over the last couple of games, but he

(01:23:19):
hasn't pushed the hamstring. He needs to get to the line.
He needs to score and draw fouls and be that
secondary option. A lot of step backs for Hardened. Can
he pushed the hamstring? I think it's gonna be key. Otherwise,
might the Bucks have found the recipe with Middleton really

(01:23:44):
running the offense through him, through Chris Middleton as you're
you're you really have a co Batman situation. It's not
really Batman Robbin because Johannice is still going to attack
the rim and still gonna set up a factate, but
Middleton is going to have a more of a pronounced role,

(01:24:05):
so it's like Batman Batman. And then Drew Holiday comes
in as the third option that might be deeper and
enough from Milwaukee to overcome this Brooklyn team that has
been ravaged. I look at it, fig and we haven't
talked enough about this game, and I keep thinking Harden's health.

(01:24:25):
Can he push the hamstring? It's going to be the
key to the whole thing. You're right, Um, he's only
taken I believe he took maybe eight or nine shots
last game, and then two games ago when he first
came back. I think he was one of ten, but
he was a lot more efficient in the previous matchup.
But again, to your point, how much can he push offensively?
They're gonna need to get more production from him as

(01:24:46):
the table center. As a score. Kevin Duran has been
amazing and I don't think we've expected any less from him,
But he cannot do it all by himself, even with
that herculean effort. He had a few games ago Jeff
Green at the game of his life too at score
eight points off the bench. So, whether it's Joe Harris,
you know, whether it is actually James Harden turning into

(01:25:07):
that score that they know we can be, they're gonna
have to get help from somebody else. No, I still
don't trust Milwaukee in a big time situation. And maybe
for me it's one of those I have to actually
see them do it before I can actually pick them.
But all signs for me will point to them getting
a victory in tonight game, just because of the fear
of the unknown when it comes to the nets, and
more specifically with James harden Man, it's gonna be wild.

(01:25:31):
It is. It's gonna be wild. I agree with you
like you look at when you look at at at Milwaukee.
There's so much on the line for them, you know.
I don't know you agree with this or not. But
I was talking about yesterday but leading into the Sixers,
the fact that they lost Game five the way they did,

(01:25:57):
blowing they point lead and it really between Doc Rivers
and and the players that have been around. So we
talked about the process all the time in my town,
and if you look at what has happened with the process, right,
So last year was the Bubble playoffs and Simmons gets

(01:26:21):
hurt and they get bounced in the first round. The
bias comes up small. They got to rework the team.
They get rid of Horford, who was involved in the
trade yesterday. Going back to Boston, they get rid of Horford,
They get rid of Josh Richardson, They bring in Seth Curry,
who has just been a marvel and we need to
talk about him a little bit. And they bring in

(01:26:43):
Danny Green and they sort of fixed the spacing, move
Tobias to the fourth spot, so they look a lot better.
But again last year was a disappointment. The year before that, yes,
was a Kauai shot which you could stomach that, you know, like,
I mean that happens. That's one of those Was there

(01:27:05):
anything wrong with us? Or did just a great player
made a great shot in a game in game seven?
R we gonna do right? And then the year before
that was their first four right into the playoffs. So
they see Joe Ellenbad's fourth playoff series like, go at
it right now. Simmons missed the last year's one with

(01:27:29):
the injury, but this would have been his fourth. So
they're in their in their fourth run in the playoffs.
To lose to an Atlanta team would be a disaster,
especially this is an Atlantic team with a bunch of kids.
You know, no I did this is all this This
is not the Atlantic team from a few years ago
that had all those you know that had Al Horford

(01:27:51):
and right and all those all those other veterans on
the team. So these are guys who have very little experience. Yeah,
they're hanging right there with you. So that would have
been a disaster, and it would have been a referendum
on the process, and not a good one, right, not
a good one. I heard um, And I'm sure you

(01:28:11):
know Michael Lombardi a little bit. He's a Jersey Philly guy. Um,
and he's a big Sixers fans. Um. And he said
he's never been a fan of the process. He thinks
that it basically forced. The organization is basically soft because
of how they built it. They never talked about actually
building a winning culture. They were just talking about building

(01:28:32):
assets and getting talent and not actually manage, managing and
coaching the time. Yeah, I just thought it was an
interesting perspective that I don't want to hear what you
have to say. Yeah, I disagree with him. I think
I think the whole thing I've blown out of proportions. Yeah,
it's a rebuilt you mean, it's no different. Here, here's
the problem. In the n b A, you either got

(01:28:53):
to strip it all the way down. You can't do
in the NFL. He's looking at it. This is what
Mike's fault. Fault he's here, he's looking at it like
a football guy, and you can. You can rebuild from
a football standpoint in the NFL. You it's too pronounced
to do it in the NBA when you're capped out.

(01:29:16):
They were a capped out team who took a flyer
on Andrew bind him and there they were in the
in the the nether world of being the eighth seed. Yes,
and you can't go That's why I've always used the
Dante's Inferno uh imagery for the process, which is the

(01:29:41):
reason why you had to do the process was because
you couldn't go straight up right. You had to actually
go through the layers of hell, right that the rings
of hell to then come up in paradise. The argument
that some would have is that the Sixers were extremely

(01:30:04):
aggressive in their rebuild, more so than most teams ever
would be. Um. While, yes, we know we have to
get high draft picks and that's the only way to
try to acquire a star and get better, but their
plan was to intentionally be as bad as they possibly
could be for as long as they could be until
they got one, two, or three of the guys that
they wanted as to opposed to just trying to build

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the best roster they possibly can, supplement whatever top five
player they got and try to improve that way. Yeah, yeah,
I mean was it a little bit. It was very much,
very aggressive, more more so aggressive than most other teams
in the NBA. You can, I mean, I I can listen,
I can meet you there. I just need to I

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need to clare five couple of things. One, I mean,
if you gotta, if you have to turn over an
entire roster, how else ister to But to be aggressive, right,
like you got, you gotta get rid of all those
contracts and you gotta strip it down. You know, it
was almost as a big job to strip it down

(01:31:09):
as it was to rebuild it back up, because you
have to systematically get rid of contracts, get the right
assets and build it that way. And you know, it's like,
why should a team be forced to go overpay for
some stiff right, you should mid middling player. And that

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was the pressure. Otherwise you're the Pistons or the Sacramento Kings.
I gave Harrison Barnes all that money. He's a good player,
but stink. Yeah, but he's not I don't think he stinks,
but he's not million dollars whatever they paid him. You're
over You're correct. I'm sorry and I misspoke. I didn't
mean these stinks, but what mean you know over paints

(01:31:53):
like Blake Griffin, Like really, Blake Griffin's gonna save it? Right,
you should have known about if you're right, do anything.
And they spent all that money and so what he
wanted to do and it was just a I well
it really was. Was it a rebuild? A dramatic one,

(01:32:16):
but a rebuild? Yeah? Right, and then you gotta find
so then so the first year you really get nothing. Right,
the first year you got well, yeah, I mean, come on,
you know the difference maker, right, you're gonna be You're
still bad. And they got mad because they traded Michael

(01:32:38):
car Carter Williams. What was the right Yeah, he turned
into I was that they were right to do that.
So then they traded. So then they're still bad. So
then they draft h b Now he's the right pick.
Right at that point it was Wiggins Jabari Parker and
indeed now it fail because he was hurt at Kansas

(01:33:01):
at the right so and then and they started barking
when I look at it, and then they then they
drafted the uh Dario Scharich, right, who's coming off the
bet you're playing a nice role for the song. Is
a solid rotation guy for Phoenix, absolutely right. So at
that point, you know, I mean, that's not a bad pick. No, yoh,

(01:33:22):
look at this, they're staying bad. They're gonna go get
foreign guys who aren't coming right over all, right, a
guy who's hurt. What are you gonna take, Dante ExHAM
said of Joel Embiid. Of course not. I mean Joel
Embiad was like the consensus number one overall picked before
he got hurt at the end at Kansas. So so
so there is my point when it comes to, you know,

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the process, and I get it. I understand they went
a little overboard with no having no point guard, and
that made him even worse. Because you have no point guard,
it makes it worse. So they go finally it's Schmith,
the something run the point. But I look, I understand,
but I don't think it was as egregious. And when

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I hear guys like Mike Lombardi say that, I go, dude,
it's a rebuilding the NBA. Different rules, man, you know
you're you're going by NFL rules. NFL rules a lot
more forgiving you can. You can mess with that cap.
You can't mess with the NBA cap. You're if you're done,
you're done. So that's my argument. Fike. Yep, No, it

(01:34:28):
makes total sense to me. I just heard him say that,
and I thought that was an interesting take. I'm more
inclined to agree with you. Um. I think the way
you probably is you get yourself in this vicious cycle
of overpaying players who aren't worth it, and then you
find yourself basically just as a middling team you mentioned,
I use Sacramento as a perfect example. You overpay a guy,
or you mentioned Detroit a second ago when they came

(01:34:50):
to Blake Griffin trading for him, and you end up
realizing you have buyer's remorse, you know, a year and
a half into the contract, when most people could have
told you going into it that it was a bad deal. Right,
But because you feel desperate and you want to have
some name or cash at value and fight for a
bottom feeder playoff spot, you decided to overpay a guy.
It's not worth it. What are you aiming for? Are
you aiming just to be decent? Are you aiming to

(01:35:12):
try to win? Championships, and that's what Philadelphia was going for.
So I don't have a problem with what they did.
And see, the last time I lived through with the AI,
they had a couple of bad contracts they they were chasing.
Billy King was the GM and he was chasing bad contracts.
Keith Van Horne, remember him. Chris Webber they brought in
late part of the same, Kenny Thomas, these contracts that

(01:35:36):
were way out of it, and you're right, Webber was
another one. And there they want them spending chasing bad
contracts and trying to piece meal of team. But Tumba
was a mistake, Like they went through the whole thing
and all these big contracts were all problem and they
got themselves in that purgatory. And you're never gonna win
in purgatory totally, you know. Anyway, we'll come back. We

(01:36:01):
got the four a Father's Day four. We'll have some
fun with that. I like it, all right, boys, We'll
come back straight ahead where the fellas right here on
Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas hanging out
on a Saturday Father's Day weekend. So what we like

(01:36:25):
to do is play a game where I give the
guys four questions and we run three, see who's most creative,
and you know, we have some fun with it. Easily
good topical stuff, whatever is going on, and we look
to have some fun with it. So here's the deal.

(01:36:48):
Four questions today. The best question number one. I need
the best sports dad cho fild moment. All right, I
need question number two, and we'll have some fun with this.

(01:37:10):
This is your TV dad love hate. So the TV
Dad you would or or movie wherever you want it
you would love to have, and the TV Dad you
would hate to have. So look at the characters who
which dad you would love, which Dad you would hate?

(01:37:34):
And then the the concept of chokers, because we've been
talking a lot about yes of how blown leads and
all kinds to playoffs and you name it right, So
we're asking you, let's get involved with the chokers. So

(01:37:57):
give meters the three subsets of this question. Give me
your best player choker, your best team choker, and your
best coach choker. So let's be blunt and let's talk
about the lumpers, chokers and all around guys who fold

(01:38:23):
with the game or the series or at all on
the line. And then finally I was asked this question.
And I'm curious because being his Father's Day, I get
I get some day, and they're giving me king for
a day. M So I get menu whatever I want

(01:38:48):
to do. I could do whatever I want king for
a day. So I'm gonna make you guys, king for
a day, and you get the spell lot your day.
Whatever it is you want, you wanna do, you want
to watch, you want to eat? All right, you're king

(01:39:09):
for a day. Those are your four questions. I hope
you like them. Figure you like him? Yeah, I love him.
It's good, all right, as always like trying to be provocative.
All Right, Chris will get it started, Nikki will go second,
and Figgy will have honors batting Ferret as the reigning champion.
All right, Chris, you're ready, I'm ready. All right, here

(01:39:33):
we go. Give me your favorite sports dad child moment. Well,
I'm not gonna be cruel and immediately steal Ken Griffey Jr.
I feel like, you know the Griffy's Those can go
to somewhere else. Uh, sticking with Detroit, and I feel
like I've I've had this question before. Maybe it's been
last Father's Day. Um, I'm gonna go back to the

(01:39:56):
field Er family to Cecil and Prince field are both,
you know. Cecil Fielder longtime Detroit Tiger slugger. Prince Fielder
briefly with the Tigers too. Um. But there was a
commercial they did when they were big guys and both.
If you can look this up, go goog at home.
You can go google Cecil Fielder McDonald's commercial. Prince. He

(01:40:17):
did a McDonald's commercial with his son Prince when Prince
was like, you know, probably ten years old, and it's him,
you know, swinging around the bat. Prince is pitching there
and it's a commercial for McDonald's cheeseburgers, which a bit
of irony there, a bit of a bit of a
laugh going on, but but it is a very it's

(01:40:39):
a good commercial. It's a very well done commercial. It's
very touching commercial and some irony in that. Now Prince
Fielder is also a vegan. But I think that was
my favorite, like father sports father son moment. I can
think of the two fielders. That's good. I like it.
I like it. Nick, So my favorite Ritz. I'm gonna

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go back to Olympics Barcelona. You have Redman, who is
the deck round, who's a British sprinter twenty four years
ago has happened, uh, twenty plus years ago, and he's
he's running for her meters and he tears his hamstring
and his fat and instead of crumbling to the ground,
he's in pain. His father runs onto the track and

(01:41:22):
they both finished the race together. Oh that's a great story.
That is a great, great story. It makes me cry
every time because here's this guy, he's in the Olympics
in Barcelona, tears a hamstring, has the fastest time in
his heat, and just he's in pain, and here's his

(01:41:42):
father running onto the track and they finished the race
and the heat together. Wow, that is awesome. That is
a great story. I love that. That's a great story.
I like that a lot. Well. I will grab onto
the low hanging fruit that Chris laid out there and
talk about the Griffi's back to back home runs, because

(01:42:04):
that was a pretty cool moment. You have to say,
you're welcome, Chris um. But since no one else grabbed it,
I'll figure out might as well man might as well
mention it because that was a pretty cool moment. Yeah,
that wasn't great? Are you kidding me? Fantastic moment, incredible moment,
I let's go to question number two and let's make

(01:42:26):
this one the chokers. I want your player choker, your
coach choker, and your team choker. Go hey, Chris, choke away.
I maybe it's because I don't watch as much Sixers
as you and I have been watching the Sixers lately,
and I can't avoid just talking about Ben Simmons as

(01:42:49):
the choker. They're just I mean, everything you guys have
laid out, but even the whole world knows now like
Ben Simmons just end of game. Can't play him. Yeah, yeah,
that one hurts. Yeah, I I really, I'm sorry. I

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don't know if he's a choker as well, whatever I mean,
I would be a show. It would be a choke.
When it just turns into he just it's it's Cinderella.
He just turns into a pumpkin when the when the
clock strikes midnight. I really tried and to think of
someone else, and he just he's been occupying my mind
right now, the glass slippers and the pumpkin and everything.

(01:43:32):
Oh my god, you're giving me you know what's amazing.
You know why you know why I asked you for leniency?
Is that my man taste cake dom who's another big
fan of Fellas Taste Cake domps his dude, can you
imagine in the span of one year, you're gonna lose
your franchise quarterback and your franchise point guard. Is that possible?

(01:43:57):
Has that ever been done? How about that? Did you
imagine that? Uh? Nicky Wavene. So for man for team man,
there's so many good ones I have to go with

(01:44:20):
just because it's funny when it happens the Minnesota Vikings.
Now they don't always choke, but there is something about
the Minnesota Vikings and trying to attempt a game winning
field goal in the postseason. If it happens in the
NFL playoffs, you can't. You have to be there, you
have you can't look away. You just can't. Another great
team choker. I know I'm getting to in but Michigan

(01:44:43):
States Spartan football. There's a called sparty no where they
just demolish. I'm gonna change my answer to that one
actually because I remember when my first sports radio memories
was there was a guy in Detroit, Mike Valenti, who
they lost in OH six to Notre Dame. Oh Notre

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Dame came down back from like three scores down in
a monsoon, and it it devolved Mike Valenti, who was
a Spartan Spartans fan, into just sheer madness. And yeah,
that's been a tradition throughout history. The Michigan State Spartans
just demolished themselves in the most insane ways possible. That's excellent, excellent.

(01:45:27):
And then for coach Choker, wow, um uh. I'm trying
to think, who really messes up the clock in the NFL.
I'm trying to really thinking, but there's a lot of them. Yeah,
you know what, I'll take it out. I'll take it

(01:45:47):
out on a former Alliance coach. I'll go with Jim
called well, the man does not know how to handle
a close the end of a close game at all.
A Nikki what you got by the boy? Oh boy.
So for for players, it's kind of a grouping. I'm
going with Chicago Bears. Bears kickers, you have the famous

(01:46:08):
double doink every time they land for a field goal,
whether it's last season or a previous season, it's just
you always have to have your your breath is held
because you're like, oh boy, the Bears land for a
field goaling. Okay, it's good or a lot of times
it's it's miss and it's always feels like they have
a new kicker each week. It's like a revolving door.

(01:46:29):
So the Bears are my my team or my players.
I should say the Bears kickers um for team. I
wasn'tna go with Buffalo Bills in the nineties just because
all those Super Bowls. But we talked about early on
the show. I'm I'm a huge Atlanta Falcons fan. It's
the It's the Falcons. Every time they get every time

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they have a three plus touched on lead, they I
I always again going back to the Bears kickers, hold
my breath and I'm like, Okay, how are they gonna
blow it this week? And they never failed to disappoint me.
Uh uh, I'm a big belieer. That twin to three
is still stuck in the minds of anybody who's still
in that team from that Super Bowl. And so the
Falcons are my uh team chokers. And for coach, I'm

(01:47:12):
going Avery Johnson of the man when he was coaching
the Mavericks. The Mavericks in the early two thousands were
always that team. They always went far in the playoffs
when never could get over the hump. And Avery Johnson
was coaching then, So Avery Johnson for me when he
was coaching the Dallas Mavericks, just yeah, he's my guy
who just always always for what no't matter what happened,

(01:47:34):
always the team would never make it to the finals.
That's good stuff, man, Good job. Nicky's strong on the
in the game fake. So with my choker, number one
for my player is probably off the beaten path a
little bit. But I'm going with Damar de Rosen. Uh.
Every single year when he was in Toronto with Kyle Lowry,

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they would make deep runs. They were the top seed
a couple of times in the Eastern Conference, and yes
they ran into lebron On James every single year. But
I mean, your stars can at least show up and
whenever it mattered most the Marta Rosen just was awful,
absolutely terrible. Kyle Lowry kind of got the monkey off
his back a little bit. He came up just as
big as Kawhi Leonard did at many times during their

(01:48:15):
title run a couple of years ago. But De Rosen
in games that matter and even in San Antonio with
some big games, just has not come through. And the
narrative has followed him from Toronto to San Antonio, also
going off the beaten path with my team, Choker, um
going to hockey and I'm going with the San Jose Sharks. Uh,
phenomenal franchise since their inception, which there's still a relatively

(01:48:38):
new franchise. I've only been arounds of the early nineties. Uh.
They were a great right off the bat. And I
can't tell you how many conference finals they've been to,
semifinals they've been to. They finally made it to the
Stanley Cup Final a few years back and and lost
in that series as well. Just have not been able
to get over the hump. Joe Thornton, my guy played
for five hundred million years once the Toronto this year

(01:48:58):
and got knocked out in the first round again. But
tough sledding for the Chanose Sharks who have teased their
friends for the fans for the better part of two decades.
And from my coach Choker, I'm gonna go after And
I feel bad for saying this. He just passed away recently. Uh.
Marty Schottenheimer put together some great teams in his career
in Kansas City with the Chargers, but Cleveland but for

(01:49:23):
whatever reason when it mattered, most just was never able
to get it done. Hasten. That the truth. Those Sharks too.
How many reverse sweeps if they had just one or
was there too? I think there was two? Yeah, I
believe there was two. Reverse swept at three three nothing

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in the reverse sweeps. Wow, that's tough. I mean that's
soft too. Yeah, Like I know, like hockey is a
little more random, and you can get some lucky bounces
and win games. But to go up three and then
lose four in a row like mine, Yeah, that's not
that's horrible, dude, horrible. Oh my god. Oh all right,

(01:50:10):
thigh some trending, would you? All right? Sure, Let's go
to the NBA here first, and the Clippers with a
phenomenal comeback. They outscored Utah eighty one to forty seven
in the second half. They completed a furious comeback on
their way to the Western Conference Finals, the first in
their franchises history. Down by as many as twenty five
points in the second half, They're led by Terrence Man's
career high thirty nine points with a one thirty one

(01:50:32):
to one nineteen victory over Utah. As the conference finals
begin for the Clippers and Phoenix against the Suns tomorrow afternoon. Uh.
You have the Eastern Conference Atlanta looking to make it
to the Eastern Conference Finals and they were stopped by
the Philadelphia seventies sixers, who actually one oh four to
ninety nine victory in Game six, Joel and beat with
twenty two points and thirteen rebounds. Game seven of that

(01:50:54):
series will also take place on Sunday. In Major League
Baseball show, Ayo Tani announced here op participate in the
Home Run Derby this summer, and follow that announcement up
by hitting two home runs for the Angels as they
hammered Detroit Dodgers all over Arizona. Well they did be
Arizona three nothing. It wasn't a blowout, but I mean
any laws for Arizona is bad these days. They've lost
fifteen in a row. Uh, dating back to it's been

(01:51:15):
about a month now, it seems like in a row
on the road. By the way, terrible the Giants twenty
three games on the road. That's that's hard to do. Uh.
Giants befeed at the Phillies five to three. A's Royals
and Astros with victories. UH. In golf, stick around at
the US Open, Russell Henley and Richard bland Or tied
for the top spot at five under and in the

(01:51:36):
NHL Montreal with a two one series lead over Las
Vegas in the Western Conference Finals after an OT victory
on Friday Night. Back to the Fellas. We are the
Fellas hanging out on a Saturday morning Father's Day weekend.
We always like to do the four and have some
fun with the four four questions, and the guys give

(01:51:57):
us to random answers, try to keep it fun, alright,
So let's go into the fourth question. Chris, I give
you your favorite TV dad like you would want as
a father, and then the dad you would not want
as a father. See the I I'm really struggling with
the first part of this because I feel like most

(01:52:18):
dads on TV are presented in this buffoon ish kind
of way, like they're not usually in a good light.
And I'm really struggling here. Um, there's a million of them. Yeah, No,
I mean, I I guess, I guess for the dad
i'd like, I guess I'm gonna have to go with
I've always liked de Niro from Bronx Bronx Story, Bronxdale

(01:52:41):
excuse me, Yeah it's earlier. No, just the Renzoto bus drop.
The working man is a tough guy. Yeah that that
speech all all that is very good, mucker. I love that.
I love that whole hate the t I mean, there's

(01:53:02):
so many to hate, like I feel like the easy
one is just Homer Simpson. Just again, there's so many
sitcom buffoonish cartoon dads. That's just like, what are you doing?
All right? I like it? I like it all right. Uh, Nikki,
give me the TV dad you would wanted your own,

(01:53:22):
and the one you would not. The one TV dad
I would want as my father was Danny Tanner from
Full House, because man, that house is just so full
of love and even if you messed up or you
did something wrong, he would never like yell at you
or scream at you. He would like sit down with you,
put his arm round and be like, hey, buddy, like

(01:53:42):
you know, what you did there wasn't the greatest thing,
but I still love you, Hey, buddy. Yeah it's just
positive man, you know. I mean. And yeah, so Danny
Tanner is my dad. I would love to have the
dad I would not want to have to build out
Chris's buffoonery of TV dads, Tim to Toolman Taylor from
Home Improved Man. Not because he was a bad dad,
but because I fear, for fear that every day I

(01:54:05):
wouldn't have a house come home too, because it'll be
blown up, because he would be like, hey, the dishwasher
needs to be fixed. Let me put a a you know,
Mustang GT engine in it, and all of a sudden
the house is on fire and blown up because he
wants to dishwash me, you know, dishes to be cleaned,
and you know point o eight seconds or some some
some new tool he has to build on. It's just yeah,

(01:54:28):
I would just not why i'm as a dad, because
I'm like, I come ome from school and the houses
on fire and we need a new place to live.
You got a buddy, figure, give me the dad you
would want to have on television, And the dad dad
I would love to have easily is Philip Banks a
k a. Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of bel Air.

(01:54:51):
Great role model. Judge took in his nephew who had
fallen on some hard times. I was getting into trouble
trying to get a west. He's hard, no, absolutely, you
know you know the story there Anthony so sends Will
out there and Will gets into it, Shenanigans tries to
drag Carlton into it, and Uncle Phil is always there
to offer some advice and try to clean things up.
And one of the more powerful episodes, of course, is

(01:55:13):
a fit when his father Will, his real father comes
into his life very briefly, that disappears again, and Phil
is there to offer his support and showed her to
cry on the type of father figure that many people
would would love to have. Uh. Father figures to hate
uh in the same vein al Bundy? Do I really
need to explain why you would not want al Bundy

(01:55:35):
as your father hates his job, hates his life, seemingly
doesn't like his children, doesn't like his wife, and would
do everything he possibly can to not spend time with
any member of his own family. Oh my god, funny
to observe from Afar. I could imagine pretty sad to
actually have to live it as a member of his family.
That's uh, that's pretty good, pretty pretty good. Good job boys?

(01:56:00):
All right, one more question, uh, and that is king
for a day. I'm gonna make you guys, king for
a day. You get to pick whatever it is you
want to do, whatever it is, you want to watch,
whatever it is you want to eat, because that's us Sunday,
Dad's We're king for a day. The construction paper card,

(01:56:21):
the socks, the mug. You know it's a great day.
No more time. Our generation we lost the ties that
we got. The ties get replaced with the mug. You know,
the world's greatest Dad. I love it. Where the uh?

(01:56:43):
Where the fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
welcome back fasts hanging out on a Father's Day weekend
and hope ball you guys enjoy yourselves and hopefully you
guys are all King for today. You deserve it. Be

(01:57:05):
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made Simple dot Com. All right, boys, King for a day.
That's simple. That concludes the four give us some good answers.
Will begin with the fake fig A King for today,
my man, all right, and so I'm a pretty simple, man. Um.
I'm someone who loves the beach, so I probably go

(01:57:45):
out in the morning and we go out for a run,
chair a little bit, have a little breakfast, and since
I am a king and I can do whatever I want,
I don't care what time of year it is. I'm
having myself a full NFL schedule of morning and afternoon games.
So that's gonna happen. I'm gonna be able to grab
a beer or some drink, some snacks, full slater INFL

(01:58:06):
and just sit down and watch me some football, maybe
take a little bit of break, go to dinner, grab
some Prime rib or something, you know what I mean,
and come back Prime rib backs. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, dude.
I gonna tell you the Prime rib is a good call. Absolutely.
I love Prime rib That's a treat. I don't have
it too often, so it's one of those things that's

(01:58:27):
kind of like a special treat. And then to come
back at night and watch me some more football before
I retire. That's a that's a perfect day for me,
to be honest, you know the best to use the
word before the phrase before I retire. Yeah, so before
I retire for the evening, the King wants football. I
love it. I love it, love it. Man, I'm with you.

(01:58:50):
Maybe I'm with you, all right? Uh we say that, Nikki,
King for a day, all right, King for a day?
You know. I just give me a nice, nice recliner,
you know, give me some classic movies like Back to
the Future and Adams Family and beel Juice and Tim
Burton's Batman. Give me some nice cold ones, and also

(01:59:14):
give me give me some I love seafood, so give me.
I would like I have a clam bake. Give me
some clams, clas clams, some lobster, some seafood. Give me
a gala of seafood and ocean cuisine as I munch
on those and watch Marie and take me back to

(01:59:34):
my childhood in much simpler time. Man. I gotta tell
you that's pretty good, dude. I I don't even think
about that. How about a clam bait action. Look at that?
Very good, very very good, Nikki. I'm sure my maid
Chris has trapped at this moment where he is King
for a day. I want a place somewhere kind of

(01:59:59):
in the mountains. I want a porch underneath the sunbeam,
I mean under sunlight, kind of filtering through I want
cicadas for approximately two maybe three hours, and then silence
for the rest of the day. Well, really, you'readis just
just for a little bit, just for a little bit,
in a small dose, it's good. And then it goes

(02:00:22):
away the cacophony on the cicadias because the silence afterwards. Yeah. So,
and then as we get into dinnertime, then I want
some sushi and I want some sake, and I just
want to drink that and maybe have a couple of
friends to drink that with and just uh, that's it,
that's all. I just look at that. I just want

(02:00:44):
some rest sake and rest. Yeah. I love sake. I
drink it. I drink it probably more than beer sometimes. Really,
you're an interesting cat man. It's an acquired taste. But
I have definitely quiet is you know. It's I like it,
you know, I mean it's good, But like that's a

(02:01:05):
once every six months kind of drink from me, not
for me. How about you fake Ohai sake? I can
It's one of those things. If I'm out with some
friends or not, we can drink some sake every other
weekend or something. I don't know, if it's necessarily a
special occasion. I don't know if I have I don't
think I have saki like in my house, but I

(02:01:26):
definitely go out and get some saki. Absolutely, I have
three bottles right now. Nice, I'm not, I'm not, I'm
not mad at I'm Oh my god, it's pretty awesome.
You've got three babs sake? You kidding me? Yeah? I
could probably even tell you, like, I have a die
gen jo in there. I have a gin my um.

(02:01:46):
I forget what the other one is. I think it's
man my genjo. It's it's type about It's about quality
of the sake, how much they polish the rice and
it it improved, it changes the flame aiver and kind
of just how dry the sake is. Okay, I like
you man, listen, I I give you lots a lot

(02:02:07):
of props on that. I got a bottle of camus.
I've been waiting for the for the morrow, so I'm
gonna dive into it. I hear he said, I got
you know, I was good buddy of mine, who's my lawyer,
he's the greatest. He gave me a bottle of camus,
and I was saving it for a day. I think
tomorrow I'm crushing it. Uh. There you go, Uh Fellas,

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(02:02:55):
Father's Day weekend to all across the n ASAN. We
are the fellas. I'm Anthony Gargano and we get going
on a beautiful Father's Day weekend, and it's a great
sports day for Dad. And make sure since the theme
is King for a day, make sure that Dad is

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king and you treat him as such, because why Dad
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Dad is usually sleeps with the dog, So make sure
you take care of that and make him king for
a weekend, all right, give him a give Rome a

(02:03:39):
bone and he'll add. NBA Playoff Game seven's to watch
tonight in Brooklyn gained seven bucks nets. It's gonna be
a great one. It's it's gonna be a great game
and it's gonna be interesting to see two things surrounding
James Harden. You know that Kevin Durant, he'll show up.

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He's k D. He'll be there. But will James Harden?
Will he be able to push the hamstring? Will he
be able to defeat a Game seven? Because Game seven's
have never been the best of James Harden, So it'll

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be very interesting because if Harden can't be that guy
to help out Kevin Durant, will Janice, who also I
don't want to say a choker, but is a known lumper.
Will he pass it and let allow like he did

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in Game six, Chris Middleton, to run the offense through
him and allow him to take the big shots. True
holiday as a supporting cast member, it should be a
lot of fun. Games seven tonight Brooklyn in Milwaukee and

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then of course tomorrow night. After last night's victory, what
do we got at Atlanta which had a three to
lead in stunning fatchion coming back from a twenty six
point deficit to win Game five, only to lose Game
six last night on its home court. Well, Game seven

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tomorrow night in Philadelphia eight pm Eastern Sixers in Hawks,
Western Conference is set, Clippers and Sons. Great conference finals
right there, Figgy, A lot of good hoops this weekend.
Oh absolutely, And you know you brought it up with

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James Harden as far as tonight goes, you know, injury
notwithstanding not the greatest clutch performer dating back to is
Oklahoma City days when they made it to the NBA Finals,
and he has such a phenomenal run up until the
point they made made it to the finals and face Miami,
and he's been terrible and close out games specifically ever since.
So you have the added burden of him dealing with

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the hamstring injury on top of the fact that he
has not been a big game performer throughout his career.
So that just adds another wrinkle. And then to your
point with Janice, the same degree, I think an encouraging
sign if you're a Bucks fan. He didn't attempt a
three pointer last game, and nor should he because they're
they're basically giving him that shot and he needs to

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push the force the issue and get himself inside and
stop settling for what they're giving him because the Nets
have basically allowed Joanna's to live and die on that
three point shot and when he's been shooting them, he's
been missing, and they've been able to take advantage of it.
So we'll see whether or not he allows Chris Middleton
to kind of be the head of the snake yet again,
and to a lesser extent, Drew Holiday. I know he
didn't shoot the ball particularly well as game, um, but

(02:06:54):
he did dish out five assists. So allow those guys
to be the head of the snake. Let Jana's get
his word he can. And then just stop taking shots
from the outside, please, I mean, you're so right, just
stop taking those shots. You can't do it. So don't
even bother with him, right, you only kill your team.

(02:07:15):
Let's let's talk real quick, big about Hardy. Do you
do you fear Harded in the big spot too, like,
because Heart's got a lot to prove as well. He
does well based on his track record. No, I don't
necessarily fear him, to be honest with you. The fact
that he's been bad when games have mattered at the most,

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on top of the fact that he's dealing with that
hamstring injury and he looked okay last game, not spectacular again,
didn't shoot many shots. Um, I would not expect much
from him as And now that is that if you Milwaukee,
you can't say that obviously you have tax pay James
Harden to come out, you know, guns blazing. But as
a as a casual observer, just a fan of the
sport and watching him and having watched him over his

(02:07:58):
decade plus being in the league, I would not be
overly concerned. I am concerned about Kevin Durant, and maybe
playing with Durant will be somehow it can rub off
on James and kind of elevate his game a little bit.
That's something that we certainly can possibly account for, because again,
in all these years in Houston, he was the guy.
It was always on him. You know, when they had
the Game seven against Golden State in the Conference finals

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a couple of years ago, Chris Paul was hurt, so
Chris Paul didn't even play in that game. So having
another star and Dwight Howard obviously wasn't it from a
star player standpoint, to be the guy to take you
over the hump. So maybe Kevin Durant is someone who
can actually get into James Harden and actually get him
to elevate his game coming up tonight. I don't know,
I'm not exactly necessarily expecting that to happen, but I

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guess it's certainly a possibility. Yeah, I I you know,
I mean, I don't know how they win if he doesn't. Well, look,
they'd have to have one of those herculean performances. They
would have to have. Now, I don't know if they
need to have a player like Terrence Man did for
the Clippers last night score thirty nine. But you know
Joe Harris can score you know, twenty two. They can

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get some clacks thinking, give them something off the bench,
you know they they have Maybe Blake Griffin can go
back and get them fifteen eighteen points where he had
he had a big game earlier this series where he
was able to do that. And then Jeff Green as
phenomenal as Kevin Durant was in Game five, I believe
it was, Jeff Green was equally amazing as well coming
off the bench in that game. So they have guys

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who are capable of doing it again. The question is
do you expect them to? And I quite honestly, I
don't necessarily expect them to. But again, it's hard for
me to put my trust in Milwaukee because I just
I've seen them peter out in games that they should win,
close out games they should win, and they haven't been
able to do it. And I do trust Kevin Durant
to put up a monster effort yet again. So let's

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let's examine for a second game seven sixers in Hawks,
Hawks get an incredible night out of Tree Young right,
thirty four points, twelve assists. He was five of ten
from three. He's gonna do that again. Hard to do that,

(02:10:06):
get again on the road, hostile environment game seven, That's
gonna be very difficult. Uh. Now he can because he is.
He is a phenomenal player. Um, but they're gonna have
to get more from from his teammates. You know, we
mentioned Bogdanovitch got hurt run down the stretch the last game.
I have to see what that meant, what that means
for him coming up on Sunday. UM. Also for Kevin Herder.

(02:10:29):
You know, Kevin Herder has been kind of up and
down in the series, missed some big shots down the stretch.
Seventeen points, eleven rebound, four assists for Herder. Yeah, and
I feel like I feel like he and and and
Corkmonds have been going back and forth as far as
the key role player that's been the difference maker and
whoever happens to win a game on a particular night. Um. Now,

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he won that individual matchup last night and it didn't
make a difference for Atlanta. Um, So I think Atlanta
has a shot. They have to get more from John
Collins because he didn't really give them the much on
Friday night either, and he's somewhat of a trump card
to at least their answer. If they have an answer
to will Joel and beat at least offensively to make
him work a little bit on the defensive end of

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the floor. Uh, they have to get more offensively from
John Collins. But if you're asking me who I think
is gonna win, uh, Philadelphia going back home. I think
they were embarrassed by what happened in Game five, held
on for dear life in game six. I think they
find a way to win convincingly in Game seven. To
be honest, yeah, I do too, And I'm trying not
to look at it from my vested interests, which is

(02:11:33):
the Sixers. But when I look at Trey Young knowing off,
and I look at him beat somewhat mortal nine, it's
twenty four, twenty two points thirty eight minutes. He was
hacked a lot. I gotta one listen, you know, home

(02:11:54):
cooking and officials and one to say anything, but that game,
the Sixers starters didn't attempt a free throw and the
first three quarters of that game, and you think that
Doc Rivers didn't mention that to the officials, or the
Sixers are not gonna send some sort of tape to
the league office or having already. Look, we know the

(02:12:16):
talk has always star players end up getting star treatment
and getting the benefit of calls in the postseason, and
I think more often this the home team in general
gets the benefit of the calls, especially in a hostile
environment like a Game seven. You know, I don't know
if Ben Simmons is gonna be saddled with you know,
five fouls or foul out in this situation. You know,

(02:12:36):
So that doesn't mean that the Sixers are gonna win,
But I do think that the calls typically skewing the
favor of the home team in this situation. And Joel
and Beach shot how many free throws? Like four or five?
Not many? Uh? Last night I spent the line a
lot more on sun beat three or four? Four? Okay,
I knew it wasn't that You're right on three of four,

(02:13:00):
fig I mean, come on, seriously for him to come on, yeah,
I mean and by the way he was, he was
mugged and mauled, and the biggest play the game, they
called an offensive foul on him, right, I mean that
was that was agreed. That was touch and go. I
felt that could have gone either way. But he's certainly
there were certainly a couple of calls that did not
go his way where I thought he could have gone

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to the free throw line. I'll agree with that. Yeah,
So you can actually keep me honest, fig get me honest. Problem.
So I will say this. I got a check last
like late and it was I'm going to go back
to it and it was one thirty two am on

(02:13:45):
the plane, okay, coming back to Philly, Joe and if
somebody of mine, So I don't want to say it's sure.
Joe just told me I'm not losing against having at home.
I'm ready to win. There you go, I mean, you

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like that does make me feel good? Of course, that echoes.
That's the same thing that Paul George told to tylu
uh in Game five when they went to Utah without
Kawhi Leonard. He said, t I got you thirty seven
points later, I think he got him. So that's an
encouraging signed Joel and bees. I did not come back
home to lose this game seven. Yeah, And I just

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think when you look at this, the momentum and this
the Hawks, God bless him, I mean Trey, God blessed
Trey Young, forty five footers, I mean, coming out party
on on a big stage war. I mean, he's been
phenomenally pointies. How do you? How do you? They're so young?

(02:14:54):
Unless and here's what it will, It'll be white knuckle
for me tomorrow night. Brother cool. You know why because
I can just see it a lead like the fourth.
No matter how big the lead is, it's still going
to be a frightening situation for me, of course, because

(02:15:17):
you end up telling yourself, all right, get ourselves a
big lead. We saw what happened previously in this series.
We're not gonna let this happen again and again. I
hate to keep piling on dock, but three one series
lead with the Clippers over Denver last year, double digit
lead in every single last one of those last three
games and blew all of them. It's amazing. You see

(02:15:38):
had stat where they went over the the biggest blown
leads in the last whatever in the playoffs and Docks
got like eight of the ten I believe it. And
the appliers she's had to like you, I mean, and
there are some things you can't account for. Like I
remember when the Clippers are up three to against Houston

(02:16:01):
and Houston want on this giant run. It was a
Staples Center, the exact same situation as Friday night. Well,
the Clippers could have made it to the conference finals.
All they had to do was beat Houston at home.
They were up I believe fifteen or sixteen points going
into the fourth quarter, and they were outscored I believe,
like forty to fifteen and the fourth and it was
all reserve players that beat them. James Harden and Dwight
Howard I don't think played a single second of the

(02:16:22):
fourth quarter. It was literally backups, scrubs, Josh Smith, who
could never hit this, who couldn't hit the side of
a backboard, or couldn't throw a p in the ocean.
Generally shooting from three was raining in three pointers out
of nowhere. It was. It would it would drum up
the thoughts if I believed in sports curses, it would
make me think like Wow, you gotta be cursed for
this sort of stuff to be happened until you whole

(02:16:45):
sort of things have been happening, happening to Doc Rivers
his entire coaching career. Curse. Oh my god. Yeah, so
but please no, I need to get to the conference final.
I need I need a finals trip, man, I get it.
I need a finals trip. All right, Figgy, listen, I
know you're gonna get to the other gig right. We're
a pleasure, my brother. A great stuff is always man.

(02:17:07):
Love you, Thank you, brother, Love you to Happy father
Days to you. Thank you, my brother. I appreciate that.
Appreciate that very much. All Right, we will bid a
jude to the great fig Coming up, we will take
a look at this weekend soccer, golf, hoops, baseball from
a betting standpoint. Brad Feinberg, our abetting analysts will join us.

(02:17:32):
That's coming up next. We're the Fellas right here on
Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, Fellas. Crest your
best man, the fig The music you choose is unbelievable.
I'm you push a man. You best here joining us

(02:17:57):
now is uh. We push a lot the NBA on
you and a lot of sports. It's a great Father's
Day weekend, US Open Euros. I've been enjoying the soccer.
We have baseball and we got a pair of Game
seven's tonight Brooklyn Milwaukee tomorrow night Sixers in Atlanta, and

(02:18:19):
to discuss all of your investing options. That's right, the
one of the only Brad Feinberg on the UH on
the line with us. Hello, Bradley, good morning guys. How
are you today. Well, first of all, let me just
say Happy Father's Day to you, buddy. I appreciate that
you as well my friends appreciate appreciate it. So last night,

(02:18:43):
let me just full disclosure, Brad is a Sixer man
as well, so you know I attract them, if you
know what I'm saying. So it was grinded out eke
white knuckle victory for the Sixers last night. Yeah, it
really was. Inf know it's one of the keys, was
to me, uh doc uh Rivers decided to go to

(02:19:06):
Tyrese Maxie who kind of was put on the shelf
and dust it off and was really I thought one
of the keys in that game. I thought he played
really good defense on Trey Young. I thought he gave
him an offensive Spark as well. See, I think one
of the problems with Shake, Milton had a good games.
I think it was Game two and because of that,
and I think Tyres is a better player than Milton. Um,

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they went to Milton repeatedly. I think MAXI is a
better player. But Philadelphie won this series five games to one.
I mean, it's they've all they've done is beating this team.
But credit to Atlanta. They they they found ways to
win a couple of games. The shouldn't know, um, and
now they hear they are in game seven and we'll
see what happens. But big line, you know, it's it's

(02:19:52):
it's a it's a it's a big number. Um, it's
not even to win a game seven by you know,
there's so many points. In my opinion, it's you know,
the right line. Seven. It was even seven and a
halfs I saw. But again, I definitely think Philadelphia is
a better team. My numbers came out to closer at

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about a little between six and six and a half,
So I do think it's a tad high. But you know,
I'm not necessarily looking back at landing here. I'm not
gonna I'm sure there'll be some props, like for the game.
I do think Phildelphia is gonna win the game. But
you know, seven is certainly not a cheap number. But
again with this uncertainly with Bogdanovitch as well, Anthony, you
know he left the game injured yesterday. I think he's

(02:20:37):
a key cod for them. I would be surprised at
Philadelphia does not win the game. Yeah, I agree, I'm
not a I look at it too. I go seven
fields too big, knowing that you gotta hold your breath
in the fourth quarter with Doc. Yeah, like if you're
looking for a betting standpoint, Doc's authored some of the

(02:20:57):
biggest collapses in recent playoff history. So you know, I
mean that's for real, for real. Yeah, you're being fair,
You're absolutely being fair. Yeah, it's just the Philadelphie again.
But then you see last night, you know, I gotta
tell you, Anthony, watching that, I don't know if you're
happen to see the Utah Clippers game last night. Uh,
that second half. I didn't see the first half, that

(02:21:18):
second half. I've been watching basketball in my entire life.
I don't think I ever seen a team that hot.
Now Gobert was in the game, which they put five
three point shooters out of give Tyroun Lou credit. They
went five three point shooters to say, you know what,
they frewd Gobert is not gonna be able to guard
a three point shooter. They'll and what happened was they
kept getting open looks, but they made every three pointer

(02:21:40):
they took last night. I think they went fifteen of
seventeen in the second half. Was unconscious, he really was.
He played great, but I gotta tell you, Anthony, it
was interesting. The three pointers he shot would have been
like me or you in the gym, just shooting. They
were wide open. I mean, no one was within ten
ft of him. I was really surprised they left Gobert

(02:22:01):
and as long as they did, because I think it
led to some matchup problems. Nothing against Gooberry's obviously five
player of the year, but when you went with five
three point shooters and he wasn't on offense, he wasn't
dominating and scoring, so I think that was a little
bit slow on the draw from coach Snyder, which costs him. Yeah,
now I feel you. Let's take a look at you

(02:22:24):
mentioned some of the props force. I know they're not
out yet. But since we're all the discussion of that game, Uh,
the last time I think and B was thirty three
and a half. He comes in way under at twenty two.
I gotta believe with the way the game was officiated

(02:22:44):
that he goes the line only four times, that he's
gonna go to line a lot more. And I could
see a stone over and bed tomorrow night, because I
think you want your big guy to carry it. Definitely
can be. I mean, look at in game know in
game I think was was a game game, the game
they blew, Game five, he had one of them. I

(02:23:06):
mean he would I think thirty nine, he was absolutely
utterly dominant. But look, here's the thing Anthony that I
would caution again, and you know, just a Tormaniscus. He's
had a couple of games in this series where he
shot really poorly. He I don't remember many games all
year where he really did. I think he's definitely hurting
a little bit. Look, I would potentially look to fade
Ben Simmons on his points. Um he just you know,

(02:23:29):
really hasn't been scoring. And if they make his over
under like thirteen he averaged fourteen for the season. If
they make his over under twelve and a half thirteen
and a half. I'll look to go under on Ben
Simmons in the sense that it's a problem right now, Anthony, I,
I mean, he's he's just you know, I don't think
he can't really seem to shoot the ball. Um. They're

(02:23:50):
been taking him out in spots now, Um, that would
be potentially something that I'm looking for, would maybe potentially
be Simmons is under and scoring. Yeah, I would listen.
I would caution against it for you on that play,
only this way, only because as you're right, and Lord knows,
I wouldn't play him over. But I could see Doc

(02:24:12):
trying to get him out early. He was in foul
trouble a lot of that game. And you know he scores.
They win when he scores like twenty, and I can
He's not gonna score in the second half or in
a fourth quarter. I'm not saying that, but I could
see him. You know, it wouldn't be It wouldn't be
crazy to think he could have fourteen go over and

(02:24:34):
twelve of it being the first half. It certainly well.
The other thing I'll say is I played Seth Curry's
over multiple times in this series and Seth Curry, He's
gone over fourteen and a half, like pretty easily. He's
been playing unbelievable. Um and if they, if they, if
they keep making his over under the four team man,

(02:24:55):
Seth Curry has become right now to me, you know
the picture, Yeah, I think I think he's right there
after Tobia's head is the next option. I'm not even
sure you know how much worse than Tobias he is
as of right now, he's really become. He's in a
great zone. He's a great shooter. Everybody, he's a really

(02:25:15):
good shooter. I would look for his over is. That's
another guy that I'm going to be looking at all right, Uh,
sit tight for a sec while we'll get into Brooklyn
Milwaukee just a moment. But first it's time to check
out what's trending with the Lord of trending, the one,
the only I. Good morning, Anthony. What a time to

(02:25:40):
be alive and be a sports fan. Starting on Friday
night with Game six of the Western Conference Semifinals and
the Los Angeles Clippers rallying from a twenty five point
third quarter deficit to defeat the Utah Jazz one thirty
one to one, nineteen to take the series in six games.
Had a career high thirty nine point It's from Terence Man,

(02:26:01):
the one constant through all the years, right, it's been
base No, not the Terence Man character from Field of Dreams.
This was the actual real life Terence Man. It will
come right, people will most definitely come. All right, let's

(02:26:26):
try to get back on track here where we go.
I knew you were so just I know. Game six
they did it. Everybody you know. Anthony was what a

(02:26:54):
four to ninety nine at Atlanta on Friday nights seth Hurry,
earning a lyric in that song Forever. He made six
three pointers as the Hawks, despite thirty four points from
Trey Young, went down to defeats. There'll be a game

(02:27:16):
seven Sunday, believe it. Father's Day, all man, It's going
to be crazy because that was just for you, Anthony
app That Game three of the Stanley Cup Semifinals Friday night,
the Montreal Canadians defeated the Vegas Golden Knights at over time,

(02:27:37):
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American Russell Henley and englishman Richard Bland shared the lead
at five under par overall. Finally, it's time for our
jam Master Jam of the week. We take you back
to Thursday, Yankees against the Blue Jays and Geo or
Shella at the plate. Brace yourselves and he swings and

(02:28:00):
drills one of deep left. It is high, that is far.
It is gone out of the ballpark. Geo A Shella
hits a long to run home run. Geo A Shella
the most happy fella. Oh he's the most happy bell
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(02:28:23):
Oh my, he's doing brow away. I love it. I
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All right. We are the fellas hanging out on a
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(02:28:44):
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all man no Kyrie kid Harden pushed the hammy to
give enough support the k D Or is it Joannice

(02:29:29):
with now co Batman Middleton that will win it and
take and get a birth of the Eastern Conference Conference Finals?
You know, this has been an interesting series. I I
really do think having watched these games very closely, and
again I know this if doesn't mean much, but if
Brooklyn had been healthy, I really think they would have won,

(02:29:53):
not only I very easily. Um I have not been
impressed with Milwaukee at all, but look, dealing with the facts,
Kyrie Irving is not playing, James Harden is hurt. Hat
being said, even despite that, um, I think Brooklyn does
find a way laying the one and a half to
get this done. Um Uh, there's something of Milwaukee. Look, obviously,

(02:30:17):
this this is their probably the best chance they've had
to win a title in the sense that they're you know,
they're facing a very banged up Brooklyn team. They just
need to win the game. This is this is what
they've been waiting for these last three years, having failed
miserably in the bubble against Miami, having failed miserably with
the best record in basketball Tuesia to Toronto, losing fourth straight.

(02:30:40):
But to me, there's just always been something with this
team that just doesn't for whatever reason, has struggled to
get it done, um in these kinds of spots. But
I guess it's always like that until you actually do breakthrough.
So maybe they do. But I I'm gonna go the
other way and say, Harden has another forty eight hours
to maybe get a little more under his sale, so

(02:31:02):
to speak. I know he's obviously been rusty and he's
obviously gutting it out. Um. But the only way I'm
gonna look here is the Brooklyn side. An for me,
I know you probably disagree, Yeah, Milwaukee line, Well, I
mean here's an anthony again. I mean Brooklyn is is
clearly you know, limited in the sense that, yeah, I

(02:31:25):
mean there's no Kyrie Irving and Harden doesn't seem to
be you know, the dominant pardon that we've seen these
past ten years. Um. But again, Brooklyn, to me, you
know it is still you have the best player right
now probably in the world in durant Um, and they
have Milwaukee has shown that in some of these big

(02:31:48):
spots time after time, they've just really failed miserably and ethically.
Um So I don't I think it's Look, I thought
the line would come in right around, you know, right
where it's at. I thought Brooklyn would be a baby favorite,
anywhere between one and two. I'm saying one and a
half right now. Um, I think it's the right number, Anthony. Again,

(02:32:09):
it just comes. I do like the under in this game,
and I'll tell you why. You know, Anthony, this is
a game right now, this series, the scoring in the
series has been only two D three points the game.
Through the first six games, the over runders to fifteen.
Now the fact that's the game seven, it's looked at.
These are series. So what I mean by that is

(02:32:30):
you always get these adjustments for a game seven. It's
a harder to score points than in game one, usually
usually not always because teams know how to defend. That's
just the way traditionally it's been through betting. Always games
seventh are priced lower, and this did open to sixteen
and A have, Anthony, but I still like under two
fifteen because I just think that this is going to

(02:32:51):
be a tough, tough game. I think it's gonna be
a grinded out game. And again we're going getting two
hundred three points the game through almost I think five
the six teams have going under this total um, and
I'm gonna look to go under again. Yeah, yeah, I
like yeah, because and I always think you could always

(02:33:12):
lie betthy things too as well. Yeah, that's a good point,
and it is you always talk about the uh the
virtues of live betting because you have a feel and
a sense of the game are knowledge, Because I like,
I'd be real with you. You know, you could say,
like Brookelyn, I can sound like Milwaukee, but in reality,
you know, it's a little bit more of a coin flip.

(02:33:35):
It's more more like a corn flip coin flip in
this right, Like I don't like because like I look
at Hard and they go, well, he's not looked like
the Hard and they can get to the rim, right
And and the only way I think they win is
if Harden can get to the rim, draw fouls and
score a bunch. And he hasn't showed me that he

(02:33:56):
could do it yet. Not not to mention, it's also
a game seven, which you notoriously has come up small in,
so you know, factoring in that I'm factoring in the
handstring alone. Yeah, I did look. I I bet a
couple of props in the scheme, which we can get into.
I did not bet the side. I did bet the under.
I bet under to sixteen half. When he came out,

(02:34:18):
I still liked the under though, even that the the
numbers that were at right now. I did not bet Brooklyn.
But the only way I would look to this scheme
before the game starts is the Brooklyn side. But again,
I love to lie bet. And if I'm seeing that
I think Milwaukee that Harden still limited, and I see
the Milwaukee looks like they're the way, I will bet
Milwaukee in two seconds. I have no My loyalty is

(02:34:39):
trying to make money, you know, and so um you know.
I absolutely can see Milwaukee winning this. I'm curious, Anthony,
as a sixer fan, of you open Milwaukee Brooklyn. As
a sixer fan, I gotta be real with you. As
a basketball fan, I want Brooklyn as a sixer fan.
I want Milwaukee okay, because it'll be injured. I don't know.

(02:35:01):
I don't know how long Kyrie is gonna be out
for it, and I'm not It's not that I'm more
afraid of Brooklyn. But you know, I mean those three guys,
those three guys, and if Kyrie decides to come back,
and if hard To gets healthy, I mean, they're formidable,
and I think they're tougher matchup if it's Milwaukee. I
think Milwaukee is a really good team. But I think

(02:35:23):
the Sixers match up real well against Milwaukee because defensively,
like mirror like you're like, Ben and Janice are almost
mirrored images in a lot of ways. I mean, they
both facilitate Bend does a little bit better. Obviously honest
is a better score, but they both can't shooting. They
both have their own limitations. They're very similar, and then

(02:35:46):
you have the middle two factor. He's like I think Harris, Uh,
then I look at it and go nobody, there's no
answer for him. Bean. Yeah, look, it'll it'll be the
resting series, regardless who it will be. Again, assuming I don't,
I think if Atlanta were to sneak in, it would
not it would lose a lot of its luster um

(02:36:08):
in my opinion, the conference finals, because I think Atlanta
is I give them again, I give him a lot
of credit. They've had a really good year. But if
anyone who's watched the series, Philadelphia really is, I mean
really should have won the series. Almost every game except
Game one. Philadelphia clearly should have won, and they just
they blew two games that were kind of like watching
the Jazz last night. They blew with Tony five point lead,

(02:36:31):
and we saw Philadelphia blew us from me six point lead.
But there are a couple of props I'd like to
talk about. I did like in this game brook Lopez,
they made his well run in thirteen and a half Anthony,
you know the last He's averaging little over eight points
a game these last five games in this series. For
the year, he's fifty one and twenty nine to the
under thirteen and a half. I just think it's too high. Um,

(02:36:53):
he's not been really that involved these last most of
the series. Um, I think that's a strong bet. And
I'm also going d brook Lopez six and half rebounds,
also fifty nine and twenty one for the year, four
and two for the series. I think brook Lopez got
juiced up a little bit too much. And then I'm
gonna go these are harder bets to But I think

(02:37:14):
there's edge. Blake Griffin average two and a half assist
Anthony this year in twenty minutes a game. Well, he's
now getting thirty minutes a game. He won twenty five
and twelve over one and a half assists this year.
I expect him to get thirty minutes, not the twenty minutes.
The average in the average two and a half during
the regular season. Now you're gonna give me thirty minutes
instead of twenty minutes. I think one and a half

(02:37:34):
is too low. And in that same milk, Jeff Green
average one in the emphasis and I'm looking he's thirty
two and thirty two is last sixty four bet. But Anthony,
he did that in twenty seven minutes a game. He's
now playing thirty six minutes a game. So I think
this over runner should be closer to two. And on
its such a low number like that, when you get
that kind of little edge, that becomes a nice winning bet.

(02:37:56):
All right, I got forty five seconds. Will be favorite
soccer guy, off baseball anything. I'll give you a couple
of baseball games. Dodgers looked Diamondbacks are twenty and fifty one,
just absolutely brutal. Bueller's minus to ten. I think there
can be value in the favorite here. I thought this
numbers should have been closer to five. I like the

(02:38:16):
Dodgers uh. And I like under Oakland versus New York Uh.
The two pictures. Her Mon's been very solid. Bass has
been great. Eight of his last ten games he's left
two runs or less, and her Mon and nine of
his last ten games has allowed three runs less. I
like under nine and a half there. And I think
the Marlins with Lopez beat Area of the calleds Lopez

(02:38:36):
far better picture. Lopez, in my opinionsial be favored. We're
taking a price with them. I like that game US open.
I gets it's just right now that if I had
to pick a guy with the odds, probably go Xander
Shofle getting about six to one odds John Ram. Obviously
it's gonna be good too. But if so many guys
come in it. But if you mainly pick one guy,
probably Goesander. I know he knows the course. Well it's

(02:38:59):
his that's kind of in his thing. Would mean Xandra,
Here you go, Brad, great stuff again, Happy Father's Day.
My brother will talk soon. Love your buddy. There. He is.
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Radio will come back and still one more segment to
hang on a Father's Day weekend on Fox Sports Radio.

(02:39:22):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app
search f s R to listen live. All right, welcome back,
fellas on a Father's Day weekend. Man, I don't forget that,

(02:39:46):
all right, please, because I got news for you that
gets treated just one step above the doll. Let's just
let's let's be frank here for a second. Chris. Some
day you'll have children. Maybe well, maybe you don't. Someday

(02:40:11):
you may have children. I'm just gonna put it like that, Nikki,
Someday you may have kids. Someday you may have a family.
All right, here's what you need to know about that.
You will be last well, you will be slightly above
the dog. You'll be treated like the family dog all

(02:40:33):
the times. You will probably sleep with the family dog.
You will have let's say, you will your your wife
mother the mother. Your children will be the queen you know, listen,
childbirth and all that. They will be treated like the queen.
You will be there to earn money, pay bills, do

(02:40:58):
medial labor and get very little in return. Just an
f y I. In case you're thinking about it now,
we'll tell you that the moments of appreciation, often times
from your children are incredible and they're worth every second

(02:41:20):
of it, all right, mostly, but that's your status in
the house. You follow Chris, Oh, I'm following. Yep, that's definitely.
I've definitely heard of this before. I'm it's all. I
believe you. I believe you, like I didn't know this, right,

(02:41:40):
I didn't know it, like like, well there's other you know.
You get roped into this stuff, right, you don't you
realize it. You're thinking, this is what you're supposed to do, right,
so you don't know trust me first or last? Something Nicky.

(02:42:01):
All that's true except for one weekend. You use one
day usually, but you get you know, if you're lucky,
you get a weekend out of it. So the weekend
of dad starts down. So take care of your man.
You know what I'm saying, Do whatever you can for

(02:42:23):
even and if it's you and yourself. Put it this way,
Lincoln went to Bora, Bora. You know what I'm saying,
Look at what you know what? Bleep this. I'm going
to Bora Bora, Chris, that's gangster. It's very, very very

(02:42:44):
link very Lincoln. Right, just get on out of here,
go over to Bora Bora. Yeah, it's not it's not
with Jamaica. You know, it's all great stuff. Right, it's
not your it's Bora Bora, Bora Bora. Right, like that's dagster. Right,
I'm going to Bora Bora. Leep, y'all by himself and

(02:43:09):
sit on a wicker chair and smoke a cigar. That's
all right, everybody listening to have a great Father's day.
Enjoy the gage, man. I think Sixers win. I think
they hold on the win, and I like Milwaukee, and
I like the Clippers. Actually think the Sons take care

(02:43:29):
of that, so it should be some fun. Enjoy the hoops,
enjoy the golf and everything else. Have a great weekend,
Happy Father's Day, and we'll see you next week. Tank
your listener, we're out,

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