May 21, 2024 • 37 mins
Big Ben talks about reports of NBA teams watching the Greek Freak ahead of free agency, previews the NBA Conference Finals matchups, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Cher Edition, and more!
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We have not even gotten to the conference finals yet,
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so our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball. The
gymnasiums were dark on Monday. There were no games being played.
See a little bit of a pause. Things will rezoom,
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no playoff game to break down. How will we go on?
How will the show survive without a playoff game to
break down? Well, instead we pivot to the shopping, the
chetter going around in a dateline out of Milwaukee, a
story developing here. If you're not following along, maybe you
tuned out. Don't know how you could possibly do that.
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But the noise that rival teams, we're hearing that rival
teams are. I love this monitoring. I love the verberson
they're monitoring Yannis Aden to Coombo and his status with
the Bucks, Fear the deer. And of course this is
all about one team, not the Lakers. This time. It's
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about the Knickerbockers. That the Knicks after they were exterminated
like the pest that they are from the playoffs by
the Pacers. Now it's like, well that Nick's got to
get a big star here and they're not good enough
with just Jalen Brunson. So the media machine trying to
speak it into existence that Giannis is in play here.
The Knicks are said to be licking their chops. Man,
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get somebody eat there. Regardless. The only way, the only
way Milwaukee would even consider moving the Greek freak is
if he were to say, well, I don't want to
be beer anymore. I don't like it. I suddenly have
lost my taste for cheese curds, and I want out
and no more proutine. Can't can't have it. So let
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us discuss the question, what are the odds that Giannis
adent to Coombo requests a trade from the Bucks that
he says I want out? So what are the odds
on that I've got Wonderland, Habitat for Humanity and rks
and we will combine all of these together and we're
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gonna make a really comfortable chair, the kind of chair
that you can fall into that everyone needs to have,
that guy, whether it's a sofa, or a big lazy
type share there we just fall back into it. You're
good to go, all right. So a to answer the question,
what are the odds that Yiannis a dent to Coombo
requests a Bucks trade? I'm gonna turn on the Mallard
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sports Book, which is never wrong. The Mallard Sports Book
is never wrong about these things. So the odds are
plus twenty five hundred plus twenty five hundred, which implies
a less than five percent chance, in fact, a less
than four percent chance that Jannis will say, hey, you
know what, I don't want to be here anymore. I
want out. But there is a one hundred percent chance
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that this is not the last time you and I
hear about Giannis to Dent Tokoombo possibly leaving the Bucks
in the next couple of weeks, in the next couple
of months, I will get on tee that we will
hear this story. It'll come back around like a Bo
Moraine or Haley's comment, but on a more high, high volume,
higher rotation, if you will. So, if you look at
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the numbers on this A dent to Coombo, he just
signed a three year touch up for one hundred and
seventy five million dollars. That's a lot of money, I think,
you know, not for athletes, but for the rest of us.
So one hundred and seventy five million dollar extension with
Milwaukee last October. So you do the math on that.
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He's under contract through the twenty twenty six twenty twenty
seven season. And I was in Milwaukee a couple of
years ago, right after the Bucks had won the championship,
few months after they had won the championship, and Giannis
was fond over in Wisconsin. It was his wonderland, right,
He's the boss and all that stuff, and it's his
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comfort zone. The franchise. Here's the most important part of this,
and the reason I'm not really buying the honest trade
rumors I know they're going to keep popping up, is
because the franchise met his ransom note. Giannis had a
ransom note. He wanted them to get another star. He
wasn't gonna sign the contract. They got another star, and
it didn't work out. Dame time was not ready for
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game time. Actually, Giannis was the one that wasn't ready.
But Dame had a couple of big moments, but that's it.
Not up to the standard and he's also under contract
for a couple more years. And now that's say we
do know in that business players love to frat andize,
and all it takes is a couple of people to
get into the head of Giannis and brainwash the Greek freak, right,
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brain rush, brainwashed the Greek freak, and then all of
a sudden, watch out. After all, we know the contracts
are only a one way street. That the player can
have a three year contractor or whatever, four year contract,
it doesn't matter whatever the time is. If they ruffle
feathers aw man, they're out.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If they played poorly, maybe they get traded, but it's
not a guarantee. But if they don't want to be
where they're at, if you're a headline player in that business,
then you just enter the transfer portal and get out
of here. But it's not realistic at this moment. Now
things could change, but at this moment, not realistic for
the youngest all right now turning the Patriot speaking of
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the NBA as a whole and trades and transactions and
star players not being happy, even though he has denied it.
After the cadavers became the cadavers and they were kicked
out of the NBA playoff party by the Celtics. There
Spider Mitchell shake up in Ohio. Say what, well, Spider
is hanging in the balance. We are told that the
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Calves owner who's made a lot of money, a lot
of money with loans, Dan Gilbert. Dan Gilbert would quote
never trade Donovan Mitchell to the Lakers. Now that he
wouldn't trade Donovan, but he's not gonna trade him to
the Lakers. So that's the story. It's a pretty meaty story,
(08:06):
right because this has been a rumor that's been going
around for several months. So let's discuss the Calves owner,
Dan Gilbert, according to one supposedly plugged in insider type
with the Calves, Dan Gilbert refusing to engage a Donovan
Mitchell trade with the Lakers. Believe it or not, so
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on this one, I am not agnostic. I am a
true believer. I am right there with the gospel. I
totally buys the Lakers have two strikes against them. And
I've tried to explain this to some people that are
in my circle, and they don't want to hear. What
is You don't know what you're talking about. They're gonna
get always get the guy. They always get the all right,
So here are the two strikes right for Spider Mitchell
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to end up in LA. The strike one is Dan
Gilbert does not want to play case the guy that
is trying to finagle his way to LA. So that
strike one, Spider. It's been pretty open around NBA circles.
If I know about it, and I'm doing the Overnight Show,
I'm pretty sure it's an open secret. And Spider Mitchell
wants to play for the Lakers. So that's the first one, right,
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And he's the second point here at Cleveland's I think
they're trying to win, they want to actually be good,
and so they're looking for this thing called elite level players.
And if you want elite talent, Mitchell being a centerpiece player.
The Lakers roster, if you break it down piece by piece,
is filled with habitat for humanity quality talent. It's just
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not there, and there's not a lot there. Like the
Calves are gonna trade one of their top players, if
not their most talented player, probably is at least financially
and they're gonna get Austin Reeves and Hatcher Murra and
guys like to add Come on, the Calves could trade
Donovan Mitchell to Miami, a team he'd also be willing
to play for, and they could get back Tyler Hero.
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I'm not the biggest Tyler Hero fan, but he's better
than Austin Reeves or all of his other stiffs that
the Lakers will be trading. All right, last word here,
Next stop, we go to Fantasyland. We are thirty six
days away from an event that you're not looking forward to,
and I'm not looking forward to, but we're gonna talk
about it anyway. The Midsummer NBA Draft thirty six days away,
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the college entry draft will go on. The most talked
about player by far in the twenty twenty four NBA
Draft is Bronnie James. Bronnie James, the spawn of Lebron Now.
He was interviewed recently and said that it is tough.
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He used the t word tough being the son of
Lebron in a pre draft chat with some I don't
even know who he was talking to. I just saw
the clip. Bronnie James said, it's tough. A lot of
criticism gets thrown my way. Boo hoo hoo, boo hoo hoo.
So do you have any empathy? Do you have any
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empathy for Bronnie James having to live his life the
son of a billionaire lebron So yeah, I'm gonna shake
my head no on this one. You can be on
the team, Bronnie if you want. Here, But as you
psychoanalyze that comment, I do have a theory on life
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that everyone has a tough road Dahoe in one way
or another. But some roads you think are tough, and
they're not that tough. Right. Everyone thinks, well, I got
a tough break here, tough break. There's a lot of
people that live in a life like that. That's called victimhood.
And people complain about this, that and the other thing.
But I look at Bronnie James here and that I mean,
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that's absurd, especially considering he's speaking at an NBA draft
related workout. Bronnie James, here's my psychoanalysis. He's suffering from RKS. Now,
if you don't know what RKS is, bad job by you.
That's rich kids syndrome. Bronnie James, he needs medication here.
He's overdosing on rich kid syndrome. Now, if you don't
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know what that is, rich kid syndrome. It's got obvious here.
They're so rich, they're so wealthy, they're so pampered, they're
so entitled that they're oblivious. They're oblivious to all that
they have. They don't understand. And here's what you need
to do. If you do the Pepsi challenge, you do
a blind taste test side by side. Here, take the
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name away. What if I told you there's a six
to one backup guard who averaged less than five points
a game shot less than thirty seven percent from the
floor for a sub five hundred college basketball team, and
that particular player is being considered for the NBA Draft,
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You'd say, what does he have compromising photos? That's that's
Bronnie James. He averaged four point eight points per game
on thirty six point six percent shooting on a usc
team that was three games under five hundred. And the
fact that he's even in the conversation for the NBAH,
of the fact that his name is even to me mentioned,
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it's patently absurd. It is. It's all because of the
fact that and he's abtuced to this. There's some favors
being called in fatherly favors by Bronni I've often pointed
out my father was a Ham radio operator. If he
had been a big morning guy somewhere, I don't know
that I'd be I'd probably be doing morning somewhere, but
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you know that's not the way it worked out. Bronnie
James father happens to be a big name in the NBA,
one of the biggest in this generation, and so as
a result, Bronnie is getting a deep look by the
NBA people. But Lebron's fingerprints are all over this mean
his guys. Lebron's guys are feeding stories, in my opinion,
to the useful idiots in the media who are then
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and many of them seemingly are on a payroll for
Lebron and you just repeat the propaganda like the dummies
that they are.
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this hour coming from the wacky, wacky world of the
Playoffs Playoffs pro bouncy ball style. So the comm before
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the storm, the calm was on Monday night. The storm
will start on Tuesday night. The Conference Finals will begin
tonight at the Garden in Boston. And you know what
that means. That's right, I know. Try to stay com
try to stay cool, try to stay collected. Act like
you've been here before, but perhaps maybe you haven't been
here before. This is a one stop shop. What we're
(16:25):
about to do here, a one stop shop, a sneak
preview of the jam session which is about to begin
on Tuesday night. Here, as Jim Nance would say, it
is a tradition unlike any other. You got the Pacers
on one side, the Celtics on the other in the
Eastern bracket, and then on Wednesday, that would be tomorrow,
the Western Conference Finals start with the mav Rex taking
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on the Timberwolls that game in Minneapolis. So let us
discuss the question get a toss up question? So the
toss up question, conference finals matchup, which one has more juice?
You can only pick one. So I've got Mason jar
Darth Vader, and Buckingham Palace, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we will poke you in
the eye. If you don't keep your eyes open, I'm
gonna poke you out right there, all right. So number one,
the machine brokes his break. We can't fix it. Now,
it's just gonna hold the rest of the night. It's
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gonna be all night. It's gonna be the car da stop,
all right. So to answer the question toss up question,
which of these two conference finals has more juice? The
arrow is clearly pointing to the west, the Western front.
That is the series that has the ras matast. The
Celtics are a sizable, sizable favorite. In fact, I saw
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one gambling house that said, this is the biggest favorite
we've seen in the conference finals since the Jordan Bulls.
That's how massive a favorite the Celtics are. And there's
a tremendous gap in town. Now, the more talented team
doesn't always win in sports, we know that, but in
basketball normally that does work out that way. The odds
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makers have this is one of the great mismatches in
NBA Conference Finals history. So that juice, there is some juice,
but it's concentrate. It's not the good juice. It's the concentrate.
But the Wolves and the Mavericks. When you break that
apart and you put that under the microscope, there the
Wolves and the Mavericks. That's a Mason jar filled with
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a wonderfully homemade orange juice with extra pulp like Tropicana
orange juice extra, which is not homemade. But when I
think orange juice, that's the one that pops into my head.
So Superstars, you got Luka Doncik on one side, Anthony
aunt Edwards on the other. They're bumping heads. So that's good.
And neither one of them has been to the NBA
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Finals before, so one of them will be able to
get there unless there's a tie. I don't think they
can be a tie. That would be wild if there
was a But wrangling with the power that that means
if you get to the NBA Finals, the influence, the
extra clout that you gain, the more Madison Avenue sucks
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up to you and wants you to sell over priced
items to the great unwashed in America. Right, the winner
will punch their ticket to the NBA Finals. Now you lose,
you're still a loser in the finals, but to just
get to the finals, to get over that hump, humpty hump,
and then you still have to get over another hump.
But it is expected in terms of the matchups in
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this series that Anthony Edwards is going to go against
Kyrie Irving. He's not going to go Mano amano with
Lukka in this series, so that'll be one matchup. Jaden
McDaniels is supposed to match up for Minnesota Ainst Luca
don chik Now page two here which of the finals
matchups the conference finals matchups? It is assuming we can
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predict with our ability as a Southsayer to look into
the future a distant relative of Nostre Dama's friend of
nos Radena's, and we can break the outcome of the
conference finals which finals matchup by default, which finals matchup
would be more attractive for the Almighty Television because this
again is just a TV show. These are just actors
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on a TV show, so this one is also child's play.
The matchup the TV wants and indirectly the NBA wants
because they like to keep their TV partners happy would
be Boston versus Dallas. That's the matchup they want, and
that does factor heavily in the eyeballs into the arithmetic.
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It's all about the eyeballs. Dallas is the number five
media market in America and Boston is number seven, so
you start out with a bigger base in Boston and
in Dallas. Minneapolis is number fifteen in terms of media
market and Indianapolis is number twenty five, so they're down
a little bit. But the Celtics and Mavericks, that would
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just hit a little different, right, That would hit a
little different here. And here's why, not only just the
TV stuff, but you could play the Imperial March at
the beginning of that series when Dallas, if they were
to beat Minnesota, would go into the city of Boston there,
because that's the Darth Vader soundtrack, and the Darth Vader
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is Kyrie Irving. He's the heel Kyrie Irving, former Celtic
and so long ago I was doing the local filling
stuff in Boston when Kyrie Irving told Celtics season ticket
holders that he was going to stay with the Celtics,
only to then have a meeting in the Hallway at
the All Star Game, if I remember correctly, with Kevin Durant,
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and they orchestrated a super team with the Brooklyn Nets.
Didn't work out so well anyway. But listen, the point
is Kyrie Irving is the bad guy. You need a
good guy, you need a bad guy, and from a
fan perspective in Boston, he is despised. Now the ironic
part of that is that there's this odd dichotomy because
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you have Jalen Brown, who worships Kyrie. He's like a
Kyrie Irving fanboy. And a lot of the Celtics is
a few of those guys that were still were there
when Kyrie was in Boston. They're still hanging around and
they all love Kyrie, at least public. So that's an
interesting footnote. And Boston has had a no sweat playoff
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schedule so far. Like you know how we do commercials
for DraftKings. It's like a no sweat bet, you get
your money back. The Celtics have done a lot of that.
Like they've done a lot of that. In fact, just
to touch up my work here, through ten playoff games,
the team that wears the green Celtics have played how
many seconds of clutch time. How about seventy nine seconds
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less than a minute twenty of clutchdown. That's where the
score on that giant jumbo tron is within five points
in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter. They've
played seventy nine seconds. That's it. Nine of the ten
games have been decided by double ditches, including both games
that they lost on their playoff run. All right, final point,
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So let's take a wide angle look at the final
four of the NBA, which again begins tonight. In checking
that out, so you don't have to, don't worry, we'll watch.
So what do you make of the MAVs, the Wolves,
the Celtics and the Pacers all getting to the conference final.
So you've got Luca aunt Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, and Jason
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Tatum the headliners on that. So at first glance, it
appears to be a large anomaly. This was the thing
that wasn't supposed to happen at the time, it wasn't
supposed to happen. However, I'm looking at it differently. I'm
gonna be Benny Bright's out on this, and what I
believe has happened here is the changing of the Guard,
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like our friend Bernie who's walking around London there, and
imagine he'll go over to Buckingham Palace at some point,
because when you go to London as an American, you
got to go to Buckingham Palace. It's required, or they
don't allow you to come back to the States. So
he's gonna go to Buckingham Palace and they'll have the
changing of the Guard, and it's out with the old,
in with the new. And we've seen that in the NBA.
Lebron James is thirty nine. He's more worried about his
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podcasting than he is the Lakers. Steph Curry is thirty six.
I don't even know what he's worried about. But the
Warriors are toast. They're not gonna win again. Kevin Durant,
that was a hot mess in the Valley of the Sun.
But that's the old Guard. Those are the guys that
have been around and they've been hanging out for a
long time. But now you got the new guys.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That does not mean that we are going to regularly
see Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers in the conference finals
or even Aunt Edwards. But there's another way. Right, there's
another way of guys behind them that are intermingling. And
so the next couple of years changing of the guard,
we'll find out. But it's the circle of life in
the NBA, the eras, they don't normally blend together. There's
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normally like an odd transition. And Jordan laughed, you were
like searching for the next Michael Jordan and the Kolbe.
But people were not all in on Kolbe for a while.
Then they became all in with Kolbe, and there's a
transitional period.
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to the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cooper Loop is futzing around right now, wasting valuable time.
By the time he figures out where his headphones are,
we will have no time left for the bit. So
what are we gonna do? Just want to give me
the win right now? Coop? You want to? Yeah, I
might have to do that. What you lost your phone? Coop?
Oh my god, Coop lost his phone? Why did she
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have your phone? I told you not to come into
my hair question, wow, Eddie, Coop. Lorena had Coop's phone. Wow, well,
Coop come into her area apparently? Is that the price
of a mission? When I go to the gym sometimes
if I take something from the counter, that have to
give my phone to the gym. Okay, let's just do
one question, man, Okay, why not?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
TMZ caught up with former MVB Jimmy Rawlins, who told
them that he thinks when shoeey Otani is able to
pitch again, he should be a closer.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What do you think of that idea? I don't hate it,
but to me, if Otani is going to be a
dominant pitcher as a starter, that is more valuable than
a closer. So my position is, like I thought Otani
was okay as a picture with the Angels. I didn't
think he was like the greatest thing in the world.
It's just the uniqueness of Otani ending up being able
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to hit a bunch of home runs and pitch. But
if he's not gonna be a dominant starting pitcher, then
I'm okay with him going to the bullpen. But I'd
rather have him as a guy that pitches once every
six days as a dominant starter. The most important thing, Coop,
you found your phone. That's the most important thing. So congratulations.
How did I do coop? You pass this? One question?
(27:26):
Wexus one question? That's all I needed. One question. Amazing.
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It is the Bent Mallor Show. Do we have our
contestants ready to go? I think we do, so let's
welcome them in. We say hello to JJ, who's in Seattle. Hello, JJ, welcome,
Hello Ben. You sound overwhelmed with emotion to play this game, JJ,
(28:03):
I good man. Try to stay grounded, Try to stay calm.
Uh JJ welcome. You're gonna play the game. Who do
you want to partner up with? JJ's mallards amount of money?
Who do you want to partner up with? You? All right,
it's a smart choice. And see you're calm, cool and collected.
So we're gonna win because you don't show your emotion
until you win, right JJ. And then when you win,
you're gonna go crazy. Yep, exactly, all right, I knew it.
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And we've got Jacob who's in Delaware. Hello Jacob, Welcome,
welcome in Jesse. Jacob seems somewhat happy. You seem somewhat
happy to be on the show, right, Jake? Maybe sure?
All right? Just go with it, gotcha? All right? And
are you working right now? Jacob? What are you got
going on?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I'm working right now and just leaving the depot and
hand them around.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All right, very good, end of the route. And who
do you want to partner up with? You've got Eddie
or Kooba Loop if you want to. Well, he hates you, Eddie.
I cannot stand the state of Delaware. He told me
off the air. You never said that you did. Yeah,
by the way, Jacob, you you agree with me though?
That a converse?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We don't have time for that. I just want to know, Jacob.
Let's move on, let's go. What are the categories?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We don't care? All right? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is Mallard's amount of money share addition, she turned
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Years old yesterday, seventy eight. Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The categories are I got you, babe, if I could
turn back time, believe and strong enough. Uh, we've got
the wrong people potted up here, we do?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh yeah, boy?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
All right, that's Coop's mistake there, JJ, what what category
would you like?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Believe? All right? Going? Because he's a believer, that's why.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And Jacob, how about you stronger?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right? Everyone, don't hang up, we have people. Don't
hang up. We will get to Mallard's amount of money.
It's entirety and we will get to it. We will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And right to the game we go. We have our
contestants all lined up here. You've got JJ, he's in
Seattle and he's matched up with me, and then Eddie
is with Jacob who is in Delaware, and Cooper. I
believe we're going to me and JJ going first. Yes,
that is correct? Right, very exciting. All right? The category
(30:41):
you picked that there's a lot of ambient noise there
making a lot of ambient noise that is not good.
That was on Jacob's in We put them on home.
All right, here we go. The category you picked is believe?
Is that correct? JJ? Because you believe we're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, here we go. No one initially believed these athletes
as they went undrafted undrafted. Okay, are you ready? Forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. We're on
our way go. He's the lead commentator on the NFL
on CBS. He played for the Cowboys. Yes, quarterback for
the Greatest show on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Shirt Warner, Yes,
(31:18):
fear the fro from the pistons of the early two thousands.
All right, quarterback for the Oilers. Number one African American.
He also played, Yes, that's correct, dog shooting guard for
the Knickerbockers in the nineties. He missed all eleven three
point shots in Game seven of the Game seven of
the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals. John Turk, Yes that
(31:41):
is correct. Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end number ninety
three in the nineties. He played mostly in the eighties
and the nineties Hall of Famer. He finished his career
with the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
All Right, skirt Allen.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
John Randall was who we were looking for, and you
didn't get Ben Wallace.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I don't correct, all right, correct? So one hundred and
thirty points.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's enough to win.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
All right, we move over to Jacob and Eddie, and
you guys have strong enough. These are some of the
strongest athletes of all time. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Jacob? All right? Begin?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Former NBA big man the Diesel He's on TNT NBA
star teamed up with John Stockton in Utah. Recently retired
Rams defensive lineman. He was a Defensive Player of the
Year several times. Yes, slugger for the Yankees. Not Aaron Judge.
You came over from the Marlins. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker,
(32:45):
very angry looking all the time. Yes, Philly's slugger. He
won a World Series with the Cubs. Former tight end
for the forty nine Ers and Redskins Mike Singletary had
a ramp. Can't win with them? Yes, soly crap Sphilly
slugger now, but he won a World Series with the Cubs. Bryan, No,
(33:07):
you're close though, didn't run the table back Warbur, but
otherwise fantastic impressed.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
That was well. I was not impressed, Vern Davis, but
you didn't get the hardest one.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Was Warbur two hundred and sixty points first place smarts
with now all right, Uh, well.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Run up the score here.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
We aren't going back JJ and Ben JJ. Would you
like if I could turn back time or I got
you babe.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Time? All right?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
These athletes are still at it despite being past their prime.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, cheating
astro pitcher. He's on the Atlanta Braves. He's forty years old.
Starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, all right. Won an
MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's an outfielder. He's back
with the Pirates. Now, Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, got a
huge contract, and then sucked. He was on the Browns
last year. Quarterback yes, uh. Shooting guard for the Sixers.
He was on the Clippers. Used to play for the
Portland Trail Blazers and shoots a lot of three point
shots from France. I believe no. All right. Wide receiver
(34:19):
was just signed with the Dolphins. Former Giant star played
with the Rams. Won a Super Bowl with the Rams,
Big diva. Uh, now's yeah, that is correct. You needed
that to tie. Not a baseball guy, huh? Or basketball?
So we win? We don't let's score though you missed,
(34:43):
you missed, Charlie Morton, the cheating a hole as the
Alan of Braves. You didn't get that one. That's the
one we needed. We needed that one. That's the one
we needed JJ and we needed that one. The Fred
he didn't get that one. Basketball player.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Whenever he made a shot on the Blazers, it was
a blank shock of locker.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That was my guy, Brian Wheeler. They Blazers fired as
love Wheeler. Nicholas Nicholas Batoom, Yeah, Nicholas Batum. All right,
you should be doing play by play somewhere. Let's run
up the score.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Only had to win one category.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
This is why Coop is cheering for Eddie to run up.
Yeahs that you've got. I got you, babe, You've already won.
But I'm not a press.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You didn't know, Kylesh the sports figures all recently got married.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, what a great clue.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
That is forty five seconds on the clock. Begin Current
Detroit Lions quarterback here, Yeah, Dodgers Japanese slugger may or
may not have gambled on baseball. Current quarterback for the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, I was gonna fail you. Yes, yeah, Oh my God.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Oklahoma City Thunder's got a hyphenated name.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Former Clipper. You can't say that. Atlanta, you're not allowed
to occurage the Witness, Atlanta Hawk starre the Human Rail,
Human high Rail.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yes, that's a sixty point question.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Clutch sports dating, Adele, you didn't run the time you
sucking bends out.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You were so fat this dad, What a cheat there, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Be your guys only one category.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
How embarrassing that you didn't even know Kyle schwar You're
in Delaware. I assume you're not that far. You don't
even talk Hilly games, Delaware River, the Phillies play, and
this guy's in Delaware and he doesn't know Kylee Swarts
who plays for the Phillies. We win golden ticket for you, sir.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Not impressive, Davis, my god, my god.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Charlie Moore, loser you guys and both losers. But Tom's
cousins don't even know you played. That's it and sixty
point answer for Come on, Dominique Wilkins, that's an all
time he's trying to blame you. Coup job. That job
by Eddie
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so our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball. The
gymnasiums were dark on Monday. There were no games being played.
See a little bit of a pause. Things will rezoom,
(02:08):
no playoff game to break down. How will we go on?
How will the show survive without a playoff game to
break down? Well, instead we pivot to the shopping, the
chetter going around in a dateline out of Milwaukee, a
story developing here. If you're not following along, maybe you
tuned out. Don't know how you could possibly do that.
(02:29):
But the noise that rival teams, we're hearing that rival
teams are. I love this monitoring. I love the verberson
they're monitoring Yannis Aden to Coombo and his status with
the Bucks, Fear the deer. And of course this is
all about one team, not the Lakers. This time. It's
(02:51):
about the Knickerbockers. That the Knicks after they were exterminated
like the pest that they are from the playoffs by
the Pacers. Now it's like, well that Nick's got to
get a big star here and they're not good enough
with just Jalen Brunson. So the media machine trying to
speak it into existence that Giannis is in play here.
The Knicks are said to be licking their chops. Man,
(03:15):
get somebody eat there. Regardless. The only way, the only
way Milwaukee would even consider moving the Greek freak is
if he were to say, well, I don't want to
be beer anymore. I don't like it. I suddenly have
lost my taste for cheese curds, and I want out
and no more proutine. Can't can't have it. So let
(03:38):
us discuss the question, what are the odds that Giannis
adent to Coombo requests a trade from the Bucks that
he says I want out? So what are the odds
on that I've got Wonderland, Habitat for Humanity and rks
and we will combine all of these together and we're
(04:00):
gonna make a really comfortable chair, the kind of chair
that you can fall into that everyone needs to have,
that guy, whether it's a sofa, or a big lazy
type share there we just fall back into it. You're
good to go, all right. So a to answer the question,
what are the odds that Yiannis a dent to Coombo
requests a Bucks trade? I'm gonna turn on the Mallard
(04:22):
sports Book, which is never wrong. The Mallard Sports Book
is never wrong about these things. So the odds are
plus twenty five hundred plus twenty five hundred, which implies
a less than five percent chance, in fact, a less
than four percent chance that Jannis will say, hey, you
know what, I don't want to be here anymore. I
want out. But there is a one hundred percent chance
(04:47):
that this is not the last time you and I
hear about Giannis to Dent Tokoombo possibly leaving the Bucks
in the next couple of weeks, in the next couple
of months, I will get on tee that we will
hear this story. It'll come back around like a Bo
Moraine or Haley's comment, but on a more high, high volume,
higher rotation, if you will. So, if you look at
(05:08):
the numbers on this A dent to Coombo, he just
signed a three year touch up for one hundred and
seventy five million dollars. That's a lot of money, I think,
you know, not for athletes, but for the rest of us.
So one hundred and seventy five million dollar extension with
Milwaukee last October. So you do the math on that.
(05:29):
He's under contract through the twenty twenty six twenty twenty
seven season. And I was in Milwaukee a couple of
years ago, right after the Bucks had won the championship,
few months after they had won the championship, and Giannis
was fond over in Wisconsin. It was his wonderland, right,
He's the boss and all that stuff, and it's his
(05:51):
comfort zone. The franchise. Here's the most important part of this,
and the reason I'm not really buying the honest trade
rumors I know they're going to keep popping up, is
because the franchise met his ransom note. Giannis had a
ransom note. He wanted them to get another star. He
wasn't gonna sign the contract. They got another star, and
it didn't work out. Dame time was not ready for
(06:13):
game time. Actually, Giannis was the one that wasn't ready.
But Dame had a couple of big moments, but that's it.
Not up to the standard and he's also under contract
for a couple more years. And now that's say we
do know in that business players love to frat andize,
and all it takes is a couple of people to
get into the head of Giannis and brainwash the Greek freak, right,
(06:37):
brain rush, brainwashed the Greek freak, and then all of
a sudden, watch out. After all, we know the contracts
are only a one way street. That the player can
have a three year contractor or whatever, four year contract,
it doesn't matter whatever the time is. If they ruffle
feathers aw man, they're out.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
If they played poorly, maybe they get traded, but it's
not a guarantee. But if they don't want to be
where they're at, if you're a headline player in that business,
then you just enter the transfer portal and get out
of here. But it's not realistic at this moment. Now
things could change, but at this moment, not realistic for
the youngest all right now turning the Patriot speaking of
(07:20):
the NBA as a whole and trades and transactions and
star players not being happy, even though he has denied it.
After the cadavers became the cadavers and they were kicked
out of the NBA playoff party by the Celtics. There
Spider Mitchell shake up in Ohio. Say what, well, Spider
is hanging in the balance. We are told that the
(07:44):
Calves owner who's made a lot of money, a lot
of money with loans, Dan Gilbert. Dan Gilbert would quote
never trade Donovan Mitchell to the Lakers. Now that he
wouldn't trade Donovan, but he's not gonna trade him to
the Lakers. So that's the story. It's a pretty meaty story,
(08:06):
right because this has been a rumor that's been going
around for several months. So let's discuss the Calves owner,
Dan Gilbert, according to one supposedly plugged in insider type
with the Calves, Dan Gilbert refusing to engage a Donovan
Mitchell trade with the Lakers. Believe it or not, so
(08:31):
on this one, I am not agnostic. I am a
true believer. I am right there with the gospel. I
totally buys the Lakers have two strikes against them. And
I've tried to explain this to some people that are
in my circle, and they don't want to hear. What
is You don't know what you're talking about. They're gonna
get always get the guy. They always get the all right,
So here are the two strikes right for Spider Mitchell
(08:54):
to end up in LA. The strike one is Dan
Gilbert does not want to play case the guy that
is trying to finagle his way to LA. So that
strike one, Spider. It's been pretty open around NBA circles.
If I know about it, and I'm doing the Overnight Show,
I'm pretty sure it's an open secret. And Spider Mitchell
wants to play for the Lakers. So that's the first one, right,
(09:16):
And he's the second point here at Cleveland's I think
they're trying to win, they want to actually be good,
and so they're looking for this thing called elite level players.
And if you want elite talent, Mitchell being a centerpiece player.
The Lakers roster, if you break it down piece by piece,
is filled with habitat for humanity quality talent. It's just
(09:41):
not there, and there's not a lot there. Like the
Calves are gonna trade one of their top players, if
not their most talented player, probably is at least financially
and they're gonna get Austin Reeves and Hatcher Murra and
guys like to add Come on, the Calves could trade
Donovan Mitchell to Miami, a team he'd also be willing
to play for, and they could get back Tyler Hero.
(10:02):
I'm not the biggest Tyler Hero fan, but he's better
than Austin Reeves or all of his other stiffs that
the Lakers will be trading. All right, last word here,
Next stop, we go to Fantasyland. We are thirty six
days away from an event that you're not looking forward to,
and I'm not looking forward to, but we're gonna talk
about it anyway. The Midsummer NBA Draft thirty six days away,
(10:26):
the college entry draft will go on. The most talked
about player by far in the twenty twenty four NBA
Draft is Bronnie James. Bronnie James, the spawn of Lebron Now.
He was interviewed recently and said that it is tough.
(10:47):
He used the t word tough being the son of
Lebron in a pre draft chat with some I don't
even know who he was talking to. I just saw
the clip. Bronnie James said, it's tough. A lot of
criticism gets thrown my way. Boo hoo hoo, boo hoo hoo.
So do you have any empathy? Do you have any
(11:09):
empathy for Bronnie James having to live his life the
son of a billionaire lebron So yeah, I'm gonna shake
my head no on this one. You can be on
the team, Bronnie if you want. Here, But as you
psychoanalyze that comment, I do have a theory on life
(11:29):
that everyone has a tough road Dahoe in one way
or another. But some roads you think are tough, and
they're not that tough. Right. Everyone thinks, well, I got
a tough break here, tough break. There's a lot of
people that live in a life like that. That's called victimhood.
And people complain about this, that and the other thing.
But I look at Bronnie James here and that I mean,
(11:49):
that's absurd, especially considering he's speaking at an NBA draft
related workout. Bronnie James, here's my psychoanalysis. He's suffering from RKS. Now,
if you don't know what RKS is, bad job by you.
That's rich kids syndrome. Bronnie James, he needs medication here.
He's overdosing on rich kid syndrome. Now, if you don't
(12:10):
know what that is, rich kid syndrome. It's got obvious here.
They're so rich, they're so wealthy, they're so pampered, they're
so entitled that they're oblivious. They're oblivious to all that
they have. They don't understand. And here's what you need
to do. If you do the Pepsi challenge, you do
a blind taste test side by side. Here, take the
(12:31):
name away. What if I told you there's a six
to one backup guard who averaged less than five points
a game shot less than thirty seven percent from the
floor for a sub five hundred college basketball team, and
that particular player is being considered for the NBA Draft,
(12:52):
You'd say, what does he have compromising photos? That's that's
Bronnie James. He averaged four point eight points per game
on thirty six point six percent shooting on a usc
team that was three games under five hundred. And the
fact that he's even in the conversation for the NBAH,
of the fact that his name is even to me mentioned,
(13:14):
it's patently absurd. It is. It's all because of the
fact that and he's abtuced to this. There's some favors
being called in fatherly favors by Bronni I've often pointed
out my father was a Ham radio operator. If he
had been a big morning guy somewhere, I don't know
that I'd be I'd probably be doing morning somewhere, but
(13:34):
you know that's not the way it worked out. Bronnie
James father happens to be a big name in the NBA,
one of the biggest in this generation, and so as
a result, Bronnie is getting a deep look by the
NBA people. But Lebron's fingerprints are all over this mean
his guys. Lebron's guys are feeding stories, in my opinion,
to the useful idiots in the media who are then
(13:58):
and many of them seemingly are on a payroll for
Lebron and you just repeat the propaganda like the dummies
that they are.
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this hour coming from the wacky, wacky world of the
Playoffs Playoffs pro bouncy ball style. So the comm before
(16:03):
the storm, the calm was on Monday night. The storm
will start on Tuesday night. The Conference Finals will begin
tonight at the Garden in Boston. And you know what
that means. That's right, I know. Try to stay com
try to stay cool, try to stay collected. Act like
you've been here before, but perhaps maybe you haven't been
here before. This is a one stop shop. What we're
(16:25):
about to do here, a one stop shop, a sneak
preview of the jam session which is about to begin
on Tuesday night. Here, as Jim Nance would say, it
is a tradition unlike any other. You got the Pacers
on one side, the Celtics on the other in the
Eastern bracket, and then on Wednesday, that would be tomorrow,
the Western Conference Finals start with the mav Rex taking
(16:51):
on the Timberwolls that game in Minneapolis. So let us
discuss the question get a toss up question? So the
toss up question, conference finals matchup, which one has more juice?
You can only pick one. So I've got Mason jar
Darth Vader, and Buckingham Palace, and we will combine all
(17:15):
of these things together and we will poke you in
the eye. If you don't keep your eyes open, I'm
gonna poke you out right there, all right. So number one,
the machine brokes his break. We can't fix it. Now,
it's just gonna hold the rest of the night. It's
(17:35):
gonna be all night. It's gonna be the car da stop,
all right. So to answer the question toss up question,
which of these two conference finals has more juice? The
arrow is clearly pointing to the west, the Western front.
That is the series that has the ras matast. The
Celtics are a sizable, sizable favorite. In fact, I saw
(18:01):
one gambling house that said, this is the biggest favorite
we've seen in the conference finals since the Jordan Bulls.
That's how massive a favorite the Celtics are. And there's
a tremendous gap in town. Now, the more talented team
doesn't always win in sports, we know that, but in
basketball normally that does work out that way. The odds
(18:23):
makers have this is one of the great mismatches in
NBA Conference Finals history. So that juice, there is some juice,
but it's concentrate. It's not the good juice. It's the concentrate.
But the Wolves and the Mavericks. When you break that
apart and you put that under the microscope, there the
Wolves and the Mavericks. That's a Mason jar filled with
(18:45):
a wonderfully homemade orange juice with extra pulp like Tropicana
orange juice extra, which is not homemade. But when I
think orange juice, that's the one that pops into my head.
So Superstars, you got Luka Doncik on one side, Anthony
aunt Edwards on the other. They're bumping heads. So that's good.
And neither one of them has been to the NBA
(19:07):
Finals before, so one of them will be able to
get there unless there's a tie. I don't think they
can be a tie. That would be wild if there
was a But wrangling with the power that that means
if you get to the NBA Finals, the influence, the
extra clout that you gain, the more Madison Avenue sucks
(19:27):
up to you and wants you to sell over priced
items to the great unwashed in America. Right, the winner
will punch their ticket to the NBA Finals. Now you lose,
you're still a loser in the finals, but to just
get to the finals, to get over that hump, humpty hump,
and then you still have to get over another hump.
But it is expected in terms of the matchups in
(19:47):
this series that Anthony Edwards is going to go against
Kyrie Irving. He's not going to go Mano amano with
Lukka in this series, so that'll be one matchup. Jaden
McDaniels is supposed to match up for Minnesota Ainst Luca
don chik Now page two here which of the finals
matchups the conference finals matchups? It is assuming we can
(20:09):
predict with our ability as a Southsayer to look into
the future a distant relative of Nostre Dama's friend of
nos Radena's, and we can break the outcome of the
conference finals which finals matchup by default, which finals matchup
would be more attractive for the Almighty Television because this
again is just a TV show. These are just actors
(20:30):
on a TV show, so this one is also child's play.
The matchup the TV wants and indirectly the NBA wants
because they like to keep their TV partners happy would
be Boston versus Dallas. That's the matchup they want, and
that does factor heavily in the eyeballs into the arithmetic.
(20:52):
It's all about the eyeballs. Dallas is the number five
media market in America and Boston is number seven, so
you start out with a bigger base in Boston and
in Dallas. Minneapolis is number fifteen in terms of media
market and Indianapolis is number twenty five, so they're down
a little bit. But the Celtics and Mavericks, that would
(21:15):
just hit a little different, right, That would hit a
little different here. And here's why, not only just the
TV stuff, but you could play the Imperial March at
the beginning of that series when Dallas, if they were
to beat Minnesota, would go into the city of Boston there,
because that's the Darth Vader soundtrack, and the Darth Vader
(21:37):
is Kyrie Irving. He's the heel Kyrie Irving, former Celtic
and so long ago I was doing the local filling
stuff in Boston when Kyrie Irving told Celtics season ticket
holders that he was going to stay with the Celtics,
only to then have a meeting in the Hallway at
the All Star Game, if I remember correctly, with Kevin Durant,
(21:59):
and they orchestrated a super team with the Brooklyn Nets.
Didn't work out so well anyway. But listen, the point
is Kyrie Irving is the bad guy. You need a
good guy, you need a bad guy, and from a
fan perspective in Boston, he is despised. Now the ironic
part of that is that there's this odd dichotomy because
(22:20):
you have Jalen Brown, who worships Kyrie. He's like a
Kyrie Irving fanboy. And a lot of the Celtics is
a few of those guys that were still were there
when Kyrie was in Boston. They're still hanging around and
they all love Kyrie, at least public. So that's an
interesting footnote. And Boston has had a no sweat playoff
(22:42):
schedule so far. Like you know how we do commercials
for DraftKings. It's like a no sweat bet, you get
your money back. The Celtics have done a lot of that.
Like they've done a lot of that. In fact, just
to touch up my work here, through ten playoff games,
the team that wears the green Celtics have played how
many seconds of clutch time. How about seventy nine seconds
(23:07):
less than a minute twenty of clutchdown. That's where the
score on that giant jumbo tron is within five points
in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter. They've
played seventy nine seconds. That's it. Nine of the ten
games have been decided by double ditches, including both games
that they lost on their playoff run. All right, final point,
(23:28):
So let's take a wide angle look at the final
four of the NBA, which again begins tonight. In checking
that out, so you don't have to, don't worry, we'll watch.
So what do you make of the MAVs, the Wolves,
the Celtics and the Pacers all getting to the conference final.
So you've got Luca aunt Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, and Jason
(23:53):
Tatum the headliners on that. So at first glance, it
appears to be a large anomaly. This was the thing
that wasn't supposed to happen at the time, it wasn't
supposed to happen. However, I'm looking at it differently. I'm
gonna be Benny Bright's out on this, and what I
believe has happened here is the changing of the Guard,
(24:16):
like our friend Bernie who's walking around London there, and
imagine he'll go over to Buckingham Palace at some point,
because when you go to London as an American, you
got to go to Buckingham Palace. It's required, or they
don't allow you to come back to the States. So
he's gonna go to Buckingham Palace and they'll have the
changing of the Guard, and it's out with the old,
in with the new. And we've seen that in the NBA.
Lebron James is thirty nine. He's more worried about his
(24:37):
podcasting than he is the Lakers. Steph Curry is thirty six.
I don't even know what he's worried about. But the
Warriors are toast. They're not gonna win again. Kevin Durant,
that was a hot mess in the Valley of the Sun.
But that's the old Guard. Those are the guys that
have been around and they've been hanging out for a
long time. But now you got the new guys.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That does not mean that we are going to regularly
see Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers in the conference finals
or even Aunt Edwards. But there's another way. Right, there's
another way of guys behind them that are intermingling. And
so the next couple of years changing of the guard,
we'll find out. But it's the circle of life in
the NBA, the eras, they don't normally blend together. There's
(25:22):
normally like an odd transition. And Jordan laughed, you were
like searching for the next Michael Jordan and the Kolbe.
But people were not all in on Kolbe for a while.
Then they became all in with Kolbe, and there's a
transitional period.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. We
to the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Cooper Loop is futzing around right now, wasting valuable time.
By the time he figures out where his headphones are,
we will have no time left for the bit. So
what are we gonna do? Just want to give me
the win right now? Coop? You want to? Yeah, I
might have to do that. What you lost your phone? Coop?
Oh my god, Coop lost his phone? Why did she
(26:13):
have your phone? I told you not to come into
my hair question, wow, Eddie, Coop. Lorena had Coop's phone. Wow, well,
Coop come into her area apparently? Is that the price
of a mission? When I go to the gym sometimes
if I take something from the counter, that have to
give my phone to the gym. Okay, let's just do
one question, man, Okay, why not?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
TMZ caught up with former MVB Jimmy Rawlins, who told
them that he thinks when shoeey Otani is able to
pitch again, he should be a closer.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
What do you think of that idea? I don't hate it,
but to me, if Otani is going to be a
dominant pitcher as a starter, that is more valuable than
a closer. So my position is, like I thought Otani
was okay as a picture with the Angels. I didn't
think he was like the greatest thing in the world.
It's just the uniqueness of Otani ending up being able
(27:03):
to hit a bunch of home runs and pitch. But
if he's not gonna be a dominant starting pitcher, then
I'm okay with him going to the bullpen. But I'd
rather have him as a guy that pitches once every
six days as a dominant starter. The most important thing, Coop,
you found your phone. That's the most important thing. So congratulations.
How did I do coop? You pass this? One question?
(27:26):
Wexus one question? That's all I needed. One question. Amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
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Speaker 1 (27:43):
It is the Bent Mallor Show. Do we have our
contestants ready to go? I think we do, so let's
welcome them in. We say hello to JJ, who's in Seattle. Hello, JJ, welcome,
Hello Ben. You sound overwhelmed with emotion to play this game, JJ,
(28:03):
I good man. Try to stay grounded, Try to stay calm.
Uh JJ welcome. You're gonna play the game. Who do
you want to partner up with? JJ's mallards amount of money?
Who do you want to partner up with? You? All right,
it's a smart choice. And see you're calm, cool and collected.
So we're gonna win because you don't show your emotion
until you win, right JJ. And then when you win,
you're gonna go crazy. Yep, exactly, all right, I knew it.
(28:26):
And we've got Jacob who's in Delaware. Hello Jacob, Welcome,
welcome in Jesse. Jacob seems somewhat happy. You seem somewhat
happy to be on the show, right, Jake? Maybe sure?
All right? Just go with it, gotcha? All right? And
are you working right now? Jacob? What are you got
going on?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I'm working right now and just leaving the depot and
hand them around.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All right, very good, end of the route. And who
do you want to partner up with? You've got Eddie
or Kooba Loop if you want to. Well, he hates you, Eddie.
I cannot stand the state of Delaware. He told me
off the air. You never said that you did. Yeah,
by the way, Jacob, you you agree with me though?
That a converse?
Speaker 2 (29:06):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
We don't have time for that. I just want to know, Jacob.
Let's move on, let's go. What are the categories?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (29:15):
What?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
We don't care? All right? Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
This is Mallard's amount of money share addition, she turned
seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Years old yesterday, seventy eight. Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
The categories are I got you, babe, if I could
turn back time, believe and strong enough. Uh, we've got
the wrong people potted up here, we do?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh yeah, boy?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
All right, that's Coop's mistake there, JJ, what what category
would you like?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Believe? All right? Going? Because he's a believer, that's why.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And Jacob, how about you stronger?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
All right? Everyone, don't hang up, we have people. Don't
hang up. We will get to Mallard's amount of money.
It's entirety and we will get to it. We will
do it next.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
And right to the game we go. We have our
contestants all lined up here. You've got JJ, he's in
Seattle and he's matched up with me, and then Eddie
is with Jacob who is in Delaware, and Cooper. I
believe we're going to me and JJ going first. Yes,
that is correct? Right, very exciting. All right? The category
(30:41):
you picked that there's a lot of ambient noise there
making a lot of ambient noise that is not good.
That was on Jacob's in We put them on home.
All right, here we go. The category you picked is believe?
Is that correct? JJ? Because you believe we're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, here we go. No one initially believed these athletes
as they went undrafted undrafted. Okay, are you ready? Forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. We're on
our way go. He's the lead commentator on the NFL
on CBS. He played for the Cowboys. Yes, quarterback for
the Greatest show on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Shirt Warner, Yes,
(31:18):
fear the fro from the pistons of the early two thousands.
All right, quarterback for the Oilers. Number one African American.
He also played, Yes, that's correct, dog shooting guard for
the Knickerbockers in the nineties. He missed all eleven three
point shots in Game seven of the Game seven of
the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals. John Turk, Yes that
(31:41):
is correct. Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end number ninety
three in the nineties. He played mostly in the eighties
and the nineties Hall of Famer. He finished his career
with the Seahawks.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
All Right, skirt Allen.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
John Randall was who we were looking for, and you
didn't get Ben Wallace.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I don't correct, all right, correct? So one hundred and
thirty points.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's enough to win.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
All right, we move over to Jacob and Eddie, and
you guys have strong enough. These are some of the
strongest athletes of all time. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Jacob? All right? Begin?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Former NBA big man the Diesel He's on TNT NBA
star teamed up with John Stockton in Utah. Recently retired
Rams defensive lineman. He was a Defensive Player of the
Year several times. Yes, slugger for the Yankees. Not Aaron Judge.
You came over from the Marlins. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker,
(32:45):
very angry looking all the time. Yes, Philly's slugger. He
won a World Series with the Cubs. Former tight end
for the forty nine Ers and Redskins Mike Singletary had
a ramp. Can't win with them? Yes, soly crap Sphilly
slugger now, but he won a World Series with the Cubs. Bryan, No,
(33:07):
you're close though, didn't run the table back Warbur, but
otherwise fantastic impressed.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
That was well. I was not impressed, Vern Davis, but
you didn't get the hardest one.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Was Warbur two hundred and sixty points first place smarts
with now all right, Uh, well.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Run up the score here.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
We aren't going back JJ and Ben JJ. Would you
like if I could turn back time or I got
you babe.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Time? All right?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
These athletes are still at it despite being past their prime.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, cheating
astro pitcher. He's on the Atlanta Braves. He's forty years old.
Starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, all right. Won an
MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's an outfielder. He's back
with the Pirates. Now, Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I won a Super Bowl with the Ravens, got a
huge contract, and then sucked. He was on the Browns
last year. Quarterback yes, uh. Shooting guard for the Sixers.
He was on the Clippers. Used to play for the
Portland Trail Blazers and shoots a lot of three point
shots from France. I believe no. All right. Wide receiver
(34:19):
was just signed with the Dolphins. Former Giant star played
with the Rams. Won a Super Bowl with the Rams,
Big diva. Uh, now's yeah, that is correct. You needed
that to tie. Not a baseball guy, huh? Or basketball?
So we win? We don't let's score though you missed,
(34:43):
you missed, Charlie Morton, the cheating a hole as the
Alan of Braves. You didn't get that one. That's the
one we needed. We needed that one. That's the one
we needed JJ and we needed that one. The Fred
he didn't get that one. Basketball player.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Whenever he made a shot on the Blazers, it was
a blank shock of locker.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That was my guy, Brian Wheeler. They Blazers fired as
love Wheeler. Nicholas Nicholas Batoom, Yeah, Nicholas Batum. All right,
you should be doing play by play somewhere. Let's run
up the score.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Only had to win one category.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
This is why Coop is cheering for Eddie to run up.
Yeahs that you've got. I got you, babe, You've already won.
But I'm not a press.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You didn't know, Kylesh the sports figures all recently got married.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, what a great clue.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
That is forty five seconds on the clock. Begin Current
Detroit Lions quarterback here, Yeah, Dodgers Japanese slugger may or
may not have gambled on baseball. Current quarterback for the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, I was gonna fail you. Yes, yeah, Oh my God.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Oklahoma City Thunder's got a hyphenated name.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Former Clipper. You can't say that. Atlanta, you're not allowed
to occurage the Witness, Atlanta Hawk starre the Human Rail,
Human high Rail.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yes, that's a sixty point question.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Clutch sports dating, Adele, you didn't run the time you
sucking bends out.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You were so fat this dad, What a cheat there, Eddie.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Be your guys only one category.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
How embarrassing that you didn't even know Kyle schwar You're
in Delaware. I assume you're not that far. You don't
even talk Hilly games, Delaware River, the Phillies play, and
this guy's in Delaware and he doesn't know Kylee Swarts
who plays for the Phillies. We win golden ticket for you, sir.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
Not impressive, Davis, my god, my god.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Charlie Moore, loser you guys and both losers. But Tom's
cousins don't even know you played. That's it and sixty
point answer for Come on, Dominique Wilkins, that's an all
time he's trying to blame you. Coup job. That job
by Eddie
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