February 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Luka Doncic's debut with the Los Angeles Lakers, the Clippers deciding to add Ben Simmons to their roster, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Michael B. Jordan Edition, and more!
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Bowl is over and what a great game it was.
Unless it wasn't. We can turn our attention to other things.
For example, I'm told this is a big deal. I'm
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told this is very important. So our lead story this
hour is from skid Row. That's where the Lakers play.
Believe they playing skid Row, Yes they do. It's a
dump down there, but that was where the big night
game was in the NBA oh Man Ball Night.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It was ball Night.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The story the night sol very important, very very important
that we talk about this. So here we are you
and I together talking about this. Everyone hyped off the
much ballyhood beginning of the Uka Donzik era with the Lakers. Now,
will it be a long term relationship that blossoms into
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glorious moments or will it be a cautionary tale where
people say the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks
were right about Luca all along. If you were betting,
you'd likely bet on the Mavericks not being right based
on history.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But let us discuss.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I don't know if you saw the game or not.
It was broadcast nationally. It was a late pick up
normally the Lakers and Utah Jazz not there. You'd rather
watch an actual jazz band than the Utah jazz at
this point. In fact, I think if you put an
actual jazz band on the they would be more competitive
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than the NBA variety of the jazz. So he had
the usual Hollywood f's out there, Will Ferrell Adele.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I guess he's engaged to Lebron's agent. What about that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, she's all about that action Adele. So there are
a bunch of other people. I don't eve know who
these people are anymore, but they were all hanging out
watching and Luka, how did he do?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound? No?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
How about twenty five points? Did Luca score twenty five
points his late against jazz? No? How about twenty He
had to get twenty, right, come on, twenty points? You
do that blindfolded? He got twenty?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh my god? How about fifteen? Did Luca get fifteen points?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Fourteen points? Fourteen points?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
All these people dressed up, they gave out T shirts
for a guy scored fourteen points.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
T shirt night.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Fourteen points twenty three minutes. The Lakers end up vaporizing
the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl Malone and John Stockton
not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half. So
let us discuss how did Luka? How did Luca Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hearty and loyal
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache. So as far as the answer the question,
how did Luca look, You've he got the micro and
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the macro in the micro in the moment he looked wobbly,
he did. He didn't shoot the ball with Gusto. He
was five of fourteen. Really, what stood out was how
bad he was from three point range, one of seven.
One of the all time great three point shooters, Luca
one of seven from three point range. Most of those
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shots were wide open. Mind you maybe they cranked up
the ac at the Crypt where the Lakers play, but
the Jazz weren't playing much defense.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They never played defense. That's why they blow. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And then you got the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there,
who put Luca this is great on a minutes restriction.
Is there anything stupider than a minute's restriction.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
In the NBA?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Isn't that one of like the five stupidest things you
can possibly do? And I know the podcaster is not
that bright, mister Reddick, but Podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this.
You're feeding the narrative that Luca needs to go to
a fat farm, that he can't play more.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Than an x number of minutes. I mean, he was
now watching him on the court.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He was strutting like he was going down the catwalk there,
and he did a pirouet in his new laundry and
it did look and this always is the case when
you know someone in one uniform and then they switch uniform.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It looked like a glitch in a video game.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady. But
just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks laundry
and then you see him in that Laker uniform, like
that doesn't seem right. And it's like you watch these
people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. It's not
the same way when o'tani went from the Angels to
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the Dodgers. Although not many people watch him with the Angels,
but it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing. That game was a show up, collect a
win type game. They were dining al fresco at a
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mom and pop pizzeria, a startup.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Where there was just nobody there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I mean, the Jazz are everyone's homecoming opponent in the NBA.
And yet again that's the way it turned out.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Thorough Bailey and Greg oaster Tag, They're not walking through
that door now turning the page. Will these ingredients? Will
these ingredients with Luka and Lebron work? When we get
to the playoffs, which I think will start in like
seven months.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So will Luca and Lebron work for the Lakers in
the playoffs and in twenty twenty five? My vote is no,
it will not work. You're asking me today. We do
the show today. Now, do I think at some point
it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sure? But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have eight offensive
numbers and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up
and all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here.
It's a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like MORGANA the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
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tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
They tried to get a center, and then that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That went sideways because they know they're not good enough.
And Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't
play defense. Lebron will do one or two defensive plays
a game. So he gets some highlights, but the rest
of the time he's just kind of lolligags on defense.
So neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when
they're both on the court at the same time, you
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have a tremendous liability. You will be on the power
play on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at
two positions. So the only way that would work is
if Lebron and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety
five points a game, which is not realistic on a
regular basis in a seven game playoff series. It's not sustainable. Therefore,
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the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Where are you at? Also on the on the chatter
here that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The Lakers cow towed to Luca that he hand picked
Hornet center Mark Williams, that he Luca wanted the Lakers
to trade for Mark Williams, and then the trade ended
up being rescinded. But that came directly from the mouth
of Luca, So it's not that shocking. I believe it,
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all right. My first thought is I believe it. My
second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that Rob
Polinka doesn't really do anything. He just is a middle manager,
Rob Polinka, and he's a sock puppet for whoever the
Lakers choose to make the decisions, whether it's you know
it was Lebron James, I guess they've now pivoted to
Luca and they get Luca dropped in Polenka's life. Do
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you think that was some kind of amazing GM work
by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Polinka, I don't think it was that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I think what happened is whether it was Adam Silver
if you buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone
calls were made, or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to
move to Las Vegas and they want to undermine the
fan base in Dallas, one of those two or maybe
a combination of both. But it wasn't like Rob Polinka
just massage Nico Harrison and that is what led to
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that particular transaction, and it just dropped like manna from
heaven dropped into their lap. And so Rob Polenka, he
had Lebron as the GM by proxy, and now you've
got the shadow GM Luka Doncik making moves here and
the trade for Williams was rescinded, although apparently there's more
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to that story. That story is not over yet. Now
last word, So, what can the Dallas Maverick fan? I
would say fans, but I think we're down to one.
I think there's one fan left that likes the Mavericks.
So the Dallas Maverick fan, what can the Dallas Maverick
fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luca's debut with
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the Lakers. It's a couple of things. If you're the
ownership in Dallas, you would look at that as treason,
wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The street outside the
Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki. Way's the franchise legend, and
he was at a fork in the road. He's royalty
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for the Mavericks. The city honored him by renaming one
of the streets outside the arena in his name, and Dirk,
in a moment of weakness at a crossroads. The Mavericks
were playing their own game on Monday, believe, but Dirk
was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead, he
was in La watching Luca. So nowhisky, what he did
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is on He went to the airport. Then he got
into la and he stopped by There's a grocery store
near Lax. He went there and he bought some Morton's
Kosher salt, and he poured the salt in the open wound.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Is what he did.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Standing with the insurgency, the uprising of the fan base,
and you juxtapose the Lukka debut with it being announced
that Anthony Davis is not out a couple of days.
He's not out a couple of weeks. He's out indefinitely.
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That Luca, the guy that he was traded for Anthony Davis,
has been KOed. He is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut,
he talked about twisting the knife. That is a knife
twist situation.
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Speaker 3 (14:03):
Our lead this hour is from.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
The High Speed Sports while we'll get back to the
Luca dud of a debut only fourteen points one of
seven from three point range, clearly not in shape, clearly
not in shape, Luca only on a minute's restriction. Really
the podcast Redick the coach there feeding into the narrative
that Luca needs to go to a fat farm, just
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not apparently in enough shape. Minutes restrictions are one of
the dumbest things you can possibly have in sports. And
the Lakers doing that, I guess Luca had too many
donuts when he got to LA. But our lead this
hour from a different team in LA and the mantra
I had when I ran a gossip website for years,
was today's rumors are tomorrow's news. Well, yesterday's rumors are
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today's news in this case, because the Ozzie has landed
the great carpetbagger of our time. Holy Ozzi momentum Batman,
and we're have you gone, Ozzie wiz as Ben Simmons
if you didn't see this as a rumor over the
weekend has now become reality.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We've learned that the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Clippers have signed Ben Simmons, the former number one overall
who has been not only a basketball player, he has
been an abject failure as a professional basketball player and
has done more damage to the NBA than just about
anyone this side of I don't know Kawhi Leonard, but
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there they are together in La twenty eight years old.
Ben Simmons seems like he's fifty the the way his
body has fallen apart, and he joins the people's team
and he can sit on the bench and get hemorrhoids
with Kawhi Leonard and James Harden is there, Norman Powell
and whatnot? Simmons was fired, fired by the Nets who
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fought so little of Ben Simmons. They paid him to
go away contract buyout from Brooklyn, one of the worst
teams in basketball. Ben Simmons somehow as in bezel this year.
Forty million dollars. That's his salary this year. It's good
to be bad. It's good to be bad. Forty million dollars.
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He will be free to roam around the NBA at
the end of the year. This is the last year
of his contract. He has averaged a futile six points
per game, five rebounds, and a six point nine assists
per game. That was with the Brooklyn basketball team, but
now he goes to the people's team in La So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. How
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do you process the Clippers' decision to go all in
on Ben Simmons and beat out teams like Cleveland in
the Ben Simmons Sweepstakes. So I've got the Jolly Green,
Giant meat Loaf and Missou and we will combine.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
All of these together and we are going to make
a Norwegian lunderhound.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't even know what that is, but it's one
of the dogs at the dog show and it's parading around.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It looks like a little rat dog. And it's walking around
right now. All right, so number I said number. Yeah.
So how do I process that's the question?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
How do I process the Clippers' decision to add a
player that I have taken potshots at for his entire career.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I process it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This is the franchise motto of the Steve Balmer Clippers.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's perplexing, is the word I will use. But here
we are.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Bomber's got deep pockets and these are the type of
players that he is attracted to.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I don't know why he is.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
If I ran the Clippers, I would want nothing to
do with Ben Simmons. I would run to the hills
to get away from a player like Ben Simmons. But
yet the Clippers with Balmer, have the greatest arena, they
have the richest owner in sports, and they continue to
be intertwined with players who don't seem to really be
interested in playing basketball. They're good at it when they play,
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but they're not really into it. It's more like a hobby,
more like a nuisance. And I go back to a
term that we use, and we used to use this
back in the old days. It's not as used as
much anymore. It's called Florence Nightingale syndrome where the Clippers
have fallen in love with trying to fix players that
are perceived to have been damaged, broken players, whether it's
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a domestic violence arrest, whether it's you haven't played because
you don't want to play and you're seeing ghosts come
on down to clipper Land.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And it's just perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's poetry in motion that Ben Simmons and kawhi Lander
will be getting hemorrhoids together on the Clippers bench as teammates.
It's like the Jolly Green Giant, these guys two pods
or two peas in a pod. I should say two
peas in a pod, right, the Jolly Green Giant and
floating on the lazy River and all that. And this
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is what the front office has gone for. And I
would love to know an explanation. And I'm sure the
explanation we well, you never give up on talent. We
hear that all the time when the NFL signs Felon's
NFL team signed felm Oh, you never give up on talent.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You know all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But wouldn't that be the opposite of what you should
do in this situation? Guys, it's one thing talent that's
got some desire. Ben Simmons has no desire. He has
no desire. He's the antithesis of the type of player
that you would want, and yet these players get embraced.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He's a carpetbagger. He's making forty million. You'll go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'll bet you probably play all right with the Clippers
because he wants another contract and to embezzle more money
from someone else in the NBA. But I want guys
that drink bdello, that have the fighting spirit. That's what
I want. I want players that will scratch and claw
and do everything they can to get on the court.
I know I'm dating myself and you're your boy, You're
a boom.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
What would you want? They could get hurt, Ben, Oh
my god, if they play too many minutes, and then
that's on you. Yeah, I know, I know. I'm a dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I actually like athletes want to play and have that
edge to them, and I guess I'm too old now,
but I just don't want anything to do with guys
like Ben Simmons. I don't and he is just the
opposite of everything I like.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
When I watch sports and when you look.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
At people to compete, and the Clippers have a roster
that is filled with players like this. Either they have
made so much money and won championships like Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
They just not then into it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Or they've never won a championship and they've made so
much money and maybe they're really good at basketball, but
they don't really like basketball and they like all.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The things that come with it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It's like going to Thanksgiving, me like, well, I don't
like the turkey, but I like the stuffing, and I
like the mashed potatoes and the biscuits and the cornbread,
and I like the cranberries and the ams, but I
don't like the turkey. Well, in basketball, the turkey is
the game itself. But you like all the all the
groupies that follow you around, right, all the money that
you get, all the endorsements, all the fanboys that licked
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your toes. You like all that stuff, but you don't
actually like the turkey part of the meal, which is
the main part of the meal. And that's where we
are all right now.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Page two.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Do you expect Ben Simmons to change his ways with
the Clippers. I've I've I've heard some of my my
Clipper friends. I do have Clipper friends. Oh Ben, Yeah,
you don't. Don't be too hard on Ben Simmons. He'll
be good and listen. I like the Clippers. I hope
they win. I hope I'm wrong, but there's no way
on God's green Earth. I think Ben Simmons is gonna
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be any different than he was in Philly or in Brooklyn.
Maybe for a couple of games he'll play well, but
he's a liability. Much like Luka Doncik is a liability
for the Lakers, don't play defense. Ben Simmons is a
liability on offense for the Clippers. He's not gonna play
very much. But when he's out there, anything, he's like
Shaquille O'Neal.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Anything within three feet of the basket, he's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You take him out of the painted area, he's got
the yips and he starts seeing ghosts and it's like
that that meat Loaf song from back in the day.
What you see is what you get with Ben Simmons.
And if you do the mal or math, Ben Simmons
came out of college. He's been in the eNB He
missed his first year, but it was twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen.
He's been around for parts of nine seasons. He's missed
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two full seasons and most of a third, if my
math is right here, with either injuries or made up
stuffed he just didn't want to play, and you know
all that stuff. And so much like we say leopard
cannot change its spots, we know the answer to whether
Ben Simmons is going to have this come to Jesus
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moment and see the light and have this great metamorphosis
in a Clipper uniform just not going.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
To happen, maybe for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But he's the type of slacker that makes you have
apathy for the sport of basketball. And if you've listened
to the show and followed this show over the years,
you know that we used to talk a ton of basketball.
Now we only do it when it's rare and appropriate.
Now the football season is over and so we'll pick
our spots and talk more basketball. But we would talk
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basketball NBA basketball during the season. But the attitude of
players like Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons, Anthony Davis, and a
bunch of other guys has driven us to a state
of apathy where they don't give a rats ass. So
why should we give a rats ass. Now we do
enjoy the playoffs still, but not as much as we
did in the past. Now, furthermore, moving on from that,
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we go to Minnesota. That's right, Minnesota. The Timberwolves were
smoked to watch some of that game with Cleveland on Monday.
That game not competitive. But this is not about a
random Minnesota Cleveland basketball game. Mark Lori and Alyinx Rondriguez,
Yeah eight baseball guy. A Rod the baseball guy. They
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claim they have won. They have won their long bitter
back with Glenn Taylor, the longtime owner of the timber
Puffs of the NBA, and that news coming out on
Monday evening, and the arbitrators supported A Rod's group, which
means that now it's up to the NBA Board of Owners.
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They call it board of governors, but they're owners. Jereymond
Green didn't like the word owners, so we can't say
the word on it. I call him owners. I'm a rebel.
So the owners of the NBA have to approve that.
The league has to sign off on it. But as
long as they approve, then A Rod will take over
control of the Minnesota basketball team. The panel of arbitrators
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three arbitrators ruled in favor of A Rod and his
rich people that are his friends to get control of
the team. But they have to get league approval, so
that's the next step. So it's not official official, but
it's heading that direction, Soul. I ask you the question.
Got a lot of great listeners in Minnesota, and this
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is really only for you, but there's people that know
who A Rod is. So here's the question. Alex Rodriguez
group winning an arbitration decision and they're on track to
own the Timberwolves. Is this a good day, a bad day,
or something else for Minnesota? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So I have it as something else.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I am in a missou missoo state of mind, meaning
I'm gonna show me state type of situation here because
I am very skeptical of a Rod. I interviewed him
back in my younger days when he was playing for
the Mariners and the Rangers and all those teams, and
he is pop goes to weasel. You knew it before.
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I didn't even realize the depths of a Rod as
a weasel. And it hadn't come out yet that he
had done the things that he had done and all
that does he still have that painting of him as
a half man, half horse there on his I don't know,
but that aside, that's a different issue. I would be
the veryconcerned if I'm a Minnesota sports if you actually
like the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I know that's about a dozen.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
People, but I would be worried because A Rod has
a gazillion investors, and A Rod's the kind of a
dirty dog that will take that basketball team in the
middle of the night, bring in the Mayflower.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Moving vans and say I'm out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I can't get enough TV money, I can't make enough
money in the market. I gotta get out. The arena
is not good enough. I gotta go somewhere else. And
there's a city in the Pacific Northwest that hasn't had
an NBA team since a rich oil baron from Oklahoma
ripped the team out of Seattle. The Seattle basketball market
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has been barren. There's a lot of tech money in Seattle,
there's a lot of a lot of corporate money there,
and so with Costco's not.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Far away and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So there is a world in the multiverse where Alex Rodriguez,
Nickel and Dime A Rod ends up getting rid of
the team all the other just moves it to Seattle
and says, wow, I played for the Mariners. I've always
loved Seattle and they need basketball there and I want
to go back to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And go pound saying Minnesota. So I'd be very worried
about that because he's the kind of shady case.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
He'll never say it right.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm sure. Ah, I don't plan on moving the team
at all. Nobody plans on doing anything until they do it.
You don't announce it, you don't announce it right, you
just do it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
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Speaker 5 (27:31):
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Speaker 4 (27:35):
In a media appearance this weekend, Miles Garrett was asked
how far he would go contractually in a bid to
move on from the Browns, and he replied, I'm willing
to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Ben, How do you think this plays out?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, so there's two ways this plays out.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Either a the Browns pay the man and throw money
at him and everyone's got their price. And if the
Brown's paying more money, and he'll be like oh, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Changed my mind. I want to stay in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All this bull crap or Miles Garrett becomes a complete
douchebag and goes Scorched Earth, and then the Browns end
up trading him to his preferred destination.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I think they'll end up trading him next.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Adam Schefter reported this weekend that a team to watch
for Sam Donald will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Other
reports also have them as a potential landing spot for
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And which quarterback do you think is more likely to
end up in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So this and it's the good glamour, it's Vegas, it's
the entertainment Meca, it's sin city.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
You need a headliner.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sam Donald's not a headliner Aaron Rodgers is. For him
to take up a Vega Vegas residency is what old,
washed up entertainers do. Why not washed up football players?
Vegas residency for Aaron Rodgers makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Next, Deebo Samuel recently revealed that he and his agent
to receive permission from the forty nine ers to seek
a trade Ben Deebo's coming off a down year.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Do you think he still has good value on the market.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I not for me, but he will. He'll be able
to find it too. He used to kill the Rams.
In recent years, he has not killed the Rams. He
hasn't killed anybody for the forty nine ers. But you'd
think that Niners will send him somewhere like the Steelers,
the Bills, your your Broncos, the Chargers, one of those
AFC teams that need help with the white opposition. So
he'll find a job. I don't put a lot of
(29:21):
value in debo because he's been pretty mediocre for several years.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
How did wake dow?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
He passes?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That is? I won? The right up, the right up?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I won?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Come on, I'm the all time wins king at these
games shows. Come on.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
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Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's welcome in our contestants real quick. We'll set the
game up. We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play? Hello?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
The NFL is successful because Walter.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Campmember, All right, who do you want to partner over with? Quickly?
Custin Juper Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Hold on a sec and Tyler is in Boston. Hello, Tyler,
you're gonna play Mallard's mount of Money. You want to
part with me?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Or Lorena?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I think it sounds like me and you, but that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
All right, Sorry Lorraine. You gonna sit this one, Coop quickly.
What are the categories here, Coop? We'll get that set up.
Then we'll have the game in its entirety with a big.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Highly produced open all right, this is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the Michael B. Jordan edition. Oh I've heard of him, yes,
not the athlete, the actor.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The actor.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, he turned thirty eight years old on Sunday, an
old fart yep. The categories are the Wire, Fruit, Veil, Station,
Fantastic four, and Creed.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Jed, what category would you like?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Jumping the numbers across the dow? Was it one of
the greatest things I've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
To have the number the wire? Okay, and Tyler, which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Creed?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Everyone?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hold on no, oh, do not hang up, Do not
hang up.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Stay right there. We were gonna have Mallor's Mountain of
Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
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?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Not?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
All right, let's do it right to the game.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Jed, who fled is with Coop and I am teamed
up with Tyler in Boston and.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
The Michael B. Jordan edition. Coop, you're going first. You
have the wire. I believe that is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
These athletes were all born in the Greater Baltimore area.
Will put forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Jed?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love Creed. All right, let's go. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The Great Bambino fa uh, the swimmer that won a
bunch of Olympic medals. Michael, Yes, this guy has an
ironman streaking baseball. Yes, guy was a running back for
the Rams. His his last name is very female like Eric. No,
(32:08):
not even either one of those guys, the opposite. All right,
past Uh, We're gonna go with this guy was an
ugly basketball player.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
He looked like an alien.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
He won championships on the Rockets, he was on the Clippers.
He's an assistant on the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
No, the shortest NBA player of all time.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, you didn't get when you coop said a female
You said, Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
What what kind?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Maybe that's a modern definition of them. But but all right,
Todd Todd Gurley, can.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We get a luggsy bugs? Because I think he got that.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It was count All right, we are up there, Tyler.
What's going on? Tyler in the Boston area?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
What you got?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Man?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Where you what are you doing right now? Working?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Stop that?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Play the game? What are you talking about? All right,
let's play the game. You picked Creed.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
These athletes all had or have famous fathers.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you ready, Tyler? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
His father was del He's a splash brother from the Warriors. Yes,
Balco with the Giants, the San Francisco Giants home run king.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
His father was a wide receiver for the Colts with
Peyton Mannings with the Cardinals. Now yes, linebacker, blondhaired, flowing
walks linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
He's now Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Slugger's dad was cecil for the Tigers. His son yes, uh,
former Celtic coach Doc His kid played in the NBA. Yes,
Expos manager Philippe's son was an outfielder for the Cubs
and the Giants, and the bunch of teams was in
the Bartman game.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I know Malvin Harrison's and I know Junior. Junior lives
down the road for me. Bad.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You're not playing the category you didn't get. You got
everyone except moyses Alu. So good job by you. And
that means, what's the math on that? Lorena forty?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Alright? So to forty to sixty?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Coop didn't trust your math? So sexist?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Would you like?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Would you like fruit Vale Station? Or Fantastic four? Fantastic four?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You're probably gonna regret that one.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I don't know, all right, these athletes all wore number
four at some point.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Hey could if you do it?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
All right to you feeling?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Start the clock, everybody, start the start the damn clock.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
The quarterback for the Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer. Yes, uh,
he is the current coach for the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Target chart j jam Marble, John har Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
This guy called the time out when he didn't have
any for Michigan. Chris whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yes, this guy played for the Brewers. He was the
manager for the Twins. Also Hall of Famer Gret Caunsel.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Gret Caunsel, No all right, leading scorer for the Utah
Jazz in the eighties, John and Noone. No, you've you've
lost your touch on these games.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Oh wow, Coop taking shots at jed Man eight times?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Whenever?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, Jed, You've done so many drugs.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You don't even used to be good at these games.
You gotta change.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
I'll come back around. I'll do it shots, I'll come
back around.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Was in the Landown second Round'm not gonna get to stop.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
We're gonna run up the score.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Stop doing it all. Paul Molitor, Paul Molitor. Adrian Danley.
That was a tough one, Adrian Dantley. Yeah, that was hard.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
All right, let's run up the score. Are you ready, Tyler?
That was hard.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It was hard.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I'm not talking to you. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I'm ready to go?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
All right, here we go, Fruitville Station. These athletes were
all born in Oakland. A star with the Milwaukee Bucks,
came over from the Trailblazers. All right, uh, Beast beast
mode for the Seattle Seahawks back in the day. Yes,
the Globe for the SuperSonics and his heydays. Yes, uh,
(36:24):
he starred for the Celtics. He out of ingle Wood,
I guess, but I guess he was originally from Oakland,
went to Kansas was yes. Uh shortstop for the Phillies
when they won the World Series. Uh, yes, running back
with three names for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, we're out of time. We did very well.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
We do.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Shut up, Jed. It's Tyler's Mormon in the Sun. Tyler
and Boston is the stud of studs.
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Bowl is over and what a great game it was.
Unless it wasn't. We can turn our attention to other things.
For example, I'm told this is a big deal. I'm
(01:42):
told this is very important. So our lead story this
hour is from skid Row. That's where the Lakers play.
Believe they playing skid Row, Yes they do. It's a
dump down there, but that was where the big night
game was in the NBA oh Man Ball Night.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
It was ball Night.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The story the night sol very important, very very important
that we talk about this. So here we are you
and I together talking about this. Everyone hyped off the
much ballyhood beginning of the Uka Donzik era with the Lakers. Now,
will it be a long term relationship that blossoms into
(02:23):
glorious moments or will it be a cautionary tale where
people say the Mavericks were right, the crazy wackadoodle Mavericks
were right about Luca all along. If you were betting,
you'd likely bet on the Mavericks not being right based
on history.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
But let us discuss.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I don't know if you saw the game or not.
It was broadcast nationally. It was a late pick up
normally the Lakers and Utah Jazz not there. You'd rather
watch an actual jazz band than the Utah jazz at
this point. In fact, I think if you put an
actual jazz band on the they would be more competitive
(03:02):
than the NBA variety of the jazz. So he had
the usual Hollywood f's out there, Will Ferrell Adele.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I guess he's engaged to Lebron's agent. What about that?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, she's all about that action Adele. So there are
a bunch of other people. I don't eve know who
these people are anymore, but they were all hanging out
watching and Luka, how did he do?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Did he score fifty points? Did he have the greatest
Laker debut of all time?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Did he score thirty points and have like seventeen rebound? No?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
How about twenty five points? Did Luca score twenty five
points his late against jazz? No? How about twenty He
had to get twenty, right, come on, twenty points? You
do that blindfolded? He got twenty?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh my god? How about fifteen? Did Luca get fifteen points?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Fourteen points? Fourteen points?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
All these people dressed up, they gave out T shirts
for a guy scored fourteen points.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
T shirt night.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Fourteen points twenty three minutes. The Lakers end up vaporizing
the once proud Utah Jazz, Karl Malone and John Stockton
not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Lakers led by as many as thirty four points in
a game that was much like the Super Bowl over
at halftime. No need to watch the second half. So
let us discuss how did Luka? How did Luca Doncik
look in his Laker debut? So I've got Catwalk, Morgana,
the Kissing Bandit, and Morton's Kosher Salt, and we will
(04:41):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a migraine headache, which the hearty and loyal
minions of the Dallas basketball team are likely suffering from
a migraine headache. So as far as the answer the question,
how did Luca look, You've he got the micro and
(05:02):
the macro in the micro in the moment he looked wobbly,
he did. He didn't shoot the ball with Gusto. He
was five of fourteen. Really, what stood out was how
bad he was from three point range, one of seven.
One of the all time great three point shooters, Luca
one of seven from three point range. Most of those
(05:22):
shots were wide open. Mind you maybe they cranked up
the ac at the Crypt where the Lakers play, but
the Jazz weren't playing much defense.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
They never played defense. That's why they blow. They're terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And then you got the podcaster JJ Reddick, the coach there,
who put Luca this is great on a minutes restriction.
Is there anything stupider than a minute's restriction.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
In the NBA?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Isn't that one of like the five stupidest things you
can possibly do? And I know the podcaster is not
that bright, mister Reddick, but Podcaster Reddick probably doesn't realize this.
You're feeding the narrative that Luca needs to go to
a fat farm, that he can't play more.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Than an x number of minutes. I mean, he was
now watching him on the court.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He was strutting like he was going down the catwalk there,
and he did a pirouet in his new laundry and
it did look and this always is the case when
you know someone in one uniform and then they switch uniform.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
It looked like a glitch in a video game.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So I remember Tom Brady put on a buccaneer uniform
for the I'm not comparing Luca to Tom Brady. But
just we're used to seeing Luca in the Mavericks laundry
and then you see him in that Laker uniform, like
that doesn't seem right. And it's like you watch these
people in certain uniforms and then they switch it up,
You're like, well, what's going on with that. It's not
the same way when o'tani went from the Angels to
(06:41):
the Dodgers. Although not many people watch him with the Angels,
but it's still odd when you switch, when you switch uniforms.
But as far as the overall game, opening night here
and you talk about a soft launch the Lakers, and
they did it right. They knew there was no chance
of losing. That game was a show up, collect a
win type game. They were dining al fresco at a
(07:03):
mom and pop pizzeria, a startup.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Where there was just nobody there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I mean, the Jazz are everyone's homecoming opponent in the NBA.
And yet again that's the way it turned out.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
And where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Thorough Bailey and Greg oaster Tag, They're not walking through
that door now turning the page. Will these ingredients? Will
these ingredients with Luka and Lebron work? When we get
to the playoffs, which I think will start in like
seven months.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The NBA playoffs season goes on forever.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
So will Luca and Lebron work for the Lakers in
the playoffs and in twenty twenty five? My vote is no,
it will not work. You're asking me today. We do
the show today. Now, do I think at some point
it's going to work?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sure? But today ask me this year, I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The Lakers will be one of these teams that's gonna
score a bunch of points, and they'll have eight offensive
numbers and they'll beat a bunch of tomato cans up
and all that. But I'm gonna use the analogy here.
It's a data analogy, so you're gonna have to google it.
And the Lakers are built right now like MORGANA the
Kissing Bandit. They're top heavy, and they know that they
(08:17):
tried to correct that problem. They attempted to correct that issue.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
They tried to get a center, and then that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That went sideways because they know they're not good enough.
And Lebron and Luca are designated hitters and they don't
play defense. Lebron will do one or two defensive plays
a game. So he gets some highlights, but the rest
of the time he's just kind of lolligags on defense.
So neither one of those are defensive dynamos. And when
they're both on the court at the same time, you
(08:45):
have a tremendous liability. You will be on the power
play on offense, you will be shorthanded on defense at
two positions. So the only way that would work is
if Lebron and Luca can combine for ninety to ninety
five points a game, which is not realistic on a
regular basis in a seven game playoff series. It's not sustainable. Therefore,
(09:07):
the long term or ice short term in this case,
this year does not look particularly promising.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Where are you at? Also on the on the chatter
here that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The Lakers cow towed to Luca that he hand picked
Hornet center Mark Williams, that he Luca wanted the Lakers
to trade for Mark Williams, and then the trade ended
up being rescinded. But that came directly from the mouth
of Luca, So it's not that shocking. I believe it,
(09:39):
all right. My first thought is I believe it. My
second thought is this again confirms our suspicions that Rob
Polinka doesn't really do anything. He just is a middle manager,
Rob Polinka, and he's a sock puppet for whoever the
Lakers choose to make the decisions, whether it's you know
it was Lebron James, I guess they've now pivoted to
Luca and they get Luca dropped in Polenka's life. Do
(10:02):
you think that was some kind of amazing GM work
by Rob skinny suit, skinny jeans.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Polinka, I don't think it was that at all.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I think what happened is whether it was Adam Silver
if you buy into the grand NBA conspiracy that phone
calls were made, or whether the Mavericks ownership wants to
move to Las Vegas and they want to undermine the
fan base in Dallas, one of those two or maybe
a combination of both. But it wasn't like Rob Polinka
just massage Nico Harrison and that is what led to
(10:35):
that particular transaction, and it just dropped like manna from
heaven dropped into their lap. And so Rob Polenka, he
had Lebron as the GM by proxy, and now you've
got the shadow GM Luka Doncik making moves here and
the trade for Williams was rescinded, although apparently there's more
(10:57):
to that story. That story is not over yet. Now
last word, So, what can the Dallas Maverick fan? I
would say fans, but I think we're down to one.
I think there's one fan left that likes the Mavericks.
So the Dallas Maverick fan, what can the Dallas Maverick
fan take away from Dirk Nowitzki attending Luca's debut with
(11:19):
the Lakers. It's a couple of things. If you're the
ownership in Dallas, you would look at that as treason,
wouldn't you? If I'm not mistaken. The street outside the
Mavericks Arena is named Nowitzki. Way's the franchise legend, and
he was at a fork in the road. He's royalty
(11:40):
for the Mavericks. The city honored him by renaming one
of the streets outside the arena in his name, and Dirk,
in a moment of weakness at a crossroads. The Mavericks
were playing their own game on Monday, believe, but Dirk
was not there at the American Airlines Center. Instead, he
was in La watching Luca. So nowhisky, what he did
(12:01):
is on He went to the airport. Then he got
into la and he stopped by There's a grocery store
near Lax. He went there and he bought some Morton's
Kosher salt, and he poured the salt in the open wound.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Is what he did.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Standing with the insurgency, the uprising of the fan base,
and you juxtapose the Lukka debut with it being announced
that Anthony Davis is not out a couple of days.
He's not out a couple of weeks. He's out indefinitely.
(12:36):
That Luca, the guy that he was traded for Anthony Davis,
has been KOed. He is out indefinitely. After his Maverick debut,
he talked about twisting the knife. That is a knife
twist situation.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
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Speaker 3 (13:00):
The carpet Bagger has landed again.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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Speaker 3 (13:22):
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Speaker 3 (14:03):
Our lead this hour is from.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
The High Speed Sports while we'll get back to the
Luca dud of a debut only fourteen points one of
seven from three point range, clearly not in shape, clearly
not in shape, Luca only on a minute's restriction. Really
the podcast Redick the coach there feeding into the narrative
that Luca needs to go to a fat farm, just
(14:28):
not apparently in enough shape. Minutes restrictions are one of
the dumbest things you can possibly have in sports. And
the Lakers doing that, I guess Luca had too many
donuts when he got to LA. But our lead this
hour from a different team in LA and the mantra
I had when I ran a gossip website for years,
was today's rumors are tomorrow's news. Well, yesterday's rumors are
(14:49):
today's news in this case, because the Ozzie has landed
the great carpetbagger of our time. Holy Ozzi momentum Batman,
and we're have you gone, Ozzie wiz as Ben Simmons
if you didn't see this as a rumor over the
weekend has now become reality.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We've learned that the.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Clippers have signed Ben Simmons, the former number one overall
who has been not only a basketball player, he has
been an abject failure as a professional basketball player and
has done more damage to the NBA than just about
anyone this side of I don't know Kawhi Leonard, but
(15:30):
there they are together in La twenty eight years old.
Ben Simmons seems like he's fifty the the way his
body has fallen apart, and he joins the people's team
and he can sit on the bench and get hemorrhoids
with Kawhi Leonard and James Harden is there, Norman Powell
and whatnot? Simmons was fired, fired by the Nets who
(15:53):
fought so little of Ben Simmons. They paid him to
go away contract buyout from Brooklyn, one of the worst
teams in basketball. Ben Simmons somehow as in bezel this year.
Forty million dollars. That's his salary this year. It's good
to be bad. It's good to be bad. Forty million dollars.
(16:17):
He will be free to roam around the NBA at
the end of the year. This is the last year
of his contract. He has averaged a futile six points
per game, five rebounds, and a six point nine assists
per game. That was with the Brooklyn basketball team, but
now he goes to the people's team in La So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel. How
(16:40):
do you process the Clippers' decision to go all in
on Ben Simmons and beat out teams like Cleveland in
the Ben Simmons Sweepstakes. So I've got the Jolly Green,
Giant meat Loaf and Missou and we will combine.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
All of these together and we are going to make
a Norwegian lunderhound.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I don't even know what that is, but it's one
of the dogs at the dog show and it's parading around.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It looks like a little rat dog. And it's walking around
right now. All right, so number I said number. Yeah.
So how do I process that's the question?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
How do I process the Clippers' decision to add a
player that I have taken potshots at for his entire career.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I process it.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
This is the franchise motto of the Steve Balmer Clippers.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's perplexing, is the word I will use. But here
we are.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Bomber's got deep pockets and these are the type of
players that he is attracted to.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I don't know why he is.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
If I ran the Clippers, I would want nothing to
do with Ben Simmons. I would run to the hills
to get away from a player like Ben Simmons. But
yet the Clippers with Balmer, have the greatest arena, they
have the richest owner in sports, and they continue to
be intertwined with players who don't seem to really be
interested in playing basketball. They're good at it when they play,
(18:08):
but they're not really into it. It's more like a hobby,
more like a nuisance. And I go back to a
term that we use, and we used to use this
back in the old days. It's not as used as
much anymore. It's called Florence Nightingale syndrome where the Clippers
have fallen in love with trying to fix players that
are perceived to have been damaged, broken players, whether it's
(18:29):
a domestic violence arrest, whether it's you haven't played because
you don't want to play and you're seeing ghosts come
on down to clipper Land.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And it's just perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
It's poetry in motion that Ben Simmons and kawhi Lander
will be getting hemorrhoids together on the Clippers bench as teammates.
It's like the Jolly Green Giant, these guys two pods
or two peas in a pod. I should say two
peas in a pod, right, the Jolly Green Giant and
floating on the lazy River and all that. And this
(19:02):
is what the front office has gone for. And I
would love to know an explanation. And I'm sure the
explanation we well, you never give up on talent. We
hear that all the time when the NFL signs Felon's
NFL team signed felm Oh, you never give up on talent.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
You know all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
But wouldn't that be the opposite of what you should
do in this situation? Guys, it's one thing talent that's
got some desire. Ben Simmons has no desire. He has
no desire. He's the antithesis of the type of player
that you would want, and yet these players get embraced.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He's a carpetbagger. He's making forty million. You'll go somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I'll bet you probably play all right with the Clippers
because he wants another contract and to embezzle more money
from someone else in the NBA. But I want guys
that drink bdello, that have the fighting spirit. That's what
I want. I want players that will scratch and claw
and do everything they can to get on the court.
I know I'm dating myself and you're your boy, You're
a boom.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
What would you want? They could get hurt, Ben, Oh
my god, if they play too many minutes, and then
that's on you. Yeah, I know, I know. I'm a dinosaur.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I actually like athletes want to play and have that
edge to them, and I guess I'm too old now,
but I just don't want anything to do with guys
like Ben Simmons. I don't and he is just the
opposite of everything I like.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
When I watch sports and when you look.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
At people to compete, and the Clippers have a roster
that is filled with players like this. Either they have
made so much money and won championships like Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
They just not then into it.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Or they've never won a championship and they've made so
much money and maybe they're really good at basketball, but
they don't really like basketball and they like all.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The things that come with it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It's like going to Thanksgiving, me like, well, I don't
like the turkey, but I like the stuffing, and I
like the mashed potatoes and the biscuits and the cornbread,
and I like the cranberries and the ams, but I
don't like the turkey. Well, in basketball, the turkey is
the game itself. But you like all the all the
groupies that follow you around, right, all the money that
you get, all the endorsements, all the fanboys that licked
(21:08):
your toes. You like all that stuff, but you don't
actually like the turkey part of the meal, which is
the main part of the meal. And that's where we
are all right now.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Page two.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Do you expect Ben Simmons to change his ways with
the Clippers. I've I've I've heard some of my my
Clipper friends. I do have Clipper friends. Oh Ben, Yeah,
you don't. Don't be too hard on Ben Simmons. He'll
be good and listen. I like the Clippers. I hope
they win. I hope I'm wrong, but there's no way
on God's green Earth. I think Ben Simmons is gonna
(21:38):
be any different than he was in Philly or in Brooklyn.
Maybe for a couple of games he'll play well, but
he's a liability. Much like Luka Doncik is a liability
for the Lakers, don't play defense. Ben Simmons is a
liability on offense for the Clippers. He's not gonna play
very much. But when he's out there, anything, he's like
Shaquille O'Neal.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Anything within three feet of the basket, he's fine.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
You take him out of the painted area, he's got
the yips and he starts seeing ghosts and it's like
that that meat Loaf song from back in the day.
What you see is what you get with Ben Simmons.
And if you do the mal or math, Ben Simmons
came out of college. He's been in the eNB He
missed his first year, but it was twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen.
He's been around for parts of nine seasons. He's missed
(22:19):
two full seasons and most of a third, if my
math is right here, with either injuries or made up
stuffed he just didn't want to play, and you know
all that stuff. And so much like we say leopard
cannot change its spots, we know the answer to whether
Ben Simmons is going to have this come to Jesus
(22:41):
moment and see the light and have this great metamorphosis
in a Clipper uniform just not going.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
To happen, maybe for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
But he's the type of slacker that makes you have
apathy for the sport of basketball. And if you've listened
to the show and followed this show over the years,
you know that we used to talk a ton of basketball.
Now we only do it when it's rare and appropriate.
Now the football season is over and so we'll pick
our spots and talk more basketball. But we would talk
(23:12):
basketball NBA basketball during the season. But the attitude of
players like Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons, Anthony Davis, and a
bunch of other guys has driven us to a state
of apathy where they don't give a rats ass. So
why should we give a rats ass. Now we do
enjoy the playoffs still, but not as much as we
did in the past. Now, furthermore, moving on from that,
(23:34):
we go to Minnesota. That's right, Minnesota. The Timberwolves were
smoked to watch some of that game with Cleveland on Monday.
That game not competitive. But this is not about a
random Minnesota Cleveland basketball game. Mark Lori and Alyinx Rondriguez,
Yeah eight baseball guy. A Rod the baseball guy. They
(23:55):
claim they have won. They have won their long bitter
back with Glenn Taylor, the longtime owner of the timber
Puffs of the NBA, and that news coming out on
Monday evening, and the arbitrators supported A Rod's group, which
means that now it's up to the NBA Board of Owners.
(24:18):
They call it board of governors, but they're owners. Jereymond
Green didn't like the word owners, so we can't say
the word on it. I call him owners. I'm a rebel.
So the owners of the NBA have to approve that.
The league has to sign off on it. But as
long as they approve, then A Rod will take over
control of the Minnesota basketball team. The panel of arbitrators
(24:39):
three arbitrators ruled in favor of A Rod and his
rich people that are his friends to get control of
the team. But they have to get league approval, so
that's the next step. So it's not official official, but
it's heading that direction, Soul. I ask you the question.
Got a lot of great listeners in Minnesota, and this
(25:00):
is really only for you, but there's people that know
who A Rod is. So here's the question. Alex Rodriguez
group winning an arbitration decision and they're on track to
own the Timberwolves. Is this a good day, a bad day,
or something else for Minnesota? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So I have it as something else.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
I am in a missou missoo state of mind, meaning
I'm gonna show me state type of situation here because
I am very skeptical of a Rod. I interviewed him
back in my younger days when he was playing for
the Mariners and the Rangers and all those teams, and
he is pop goes to weasel. You knew it before.
(25:44):
I didn't even realize the depths of a Rod as
a weasel. And it hadn't come out yet that he
had done the things that he had done and all
that does he still have that painting of him as
a half man, half horse there on his I don't know,
but that aside, that's a different issue. I would be
the veryconcerned if I'm a Minnesota sports if you actually
like the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I know that's about a dozen.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
People, but I would be worried because A Rod has
a gazillion investors, and A Rod's the kind of a
dirty dog that will take that basketball team in the
middle of the night, bring in the Mayflower.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Moving vans and say I'm out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I can't get enough TV money, I can't make enough
money in the market. I gotta get out. The arena
is not good enough. I gotta go somewhere else. And
there's a city in the Pacific Northwest that hasn't had
an NBA team since a rich oil baron from Oklahoma
ripped the team out of Seattle. The Seattle basketball market
(26:42):
has been barren. There's a lot of tech money in Seattle,
there's a lot of a lot of corporate money there,
and so with Costco's not.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Far away and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
So there is a world in the multiverse where Alex Rodriguez,
Nickel and Dime A Rod ends up getting rid of
the team all the other just moves it to Seattle
and says, wow, I played for the Mariners. I've always
loved Seattle and they need basketball there and I want
to go back to Seattle.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
And go pound saying Minnesota. So I'd be very worried
about that because he's the kind of shady case.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
He'll never say it right.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'm sure. Ah, I don't plan on moving the team
at all. Nobody plans on doing anything until they do it.
You don't announce it, you don't announce it right, you
just do it.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
This is one Big Ben gets score.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
In a media appearance this weekend, Miles Garrett was asked
how far he would go contractually in a bid to
move on from the Browns, and he replied, I'm willing
to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Ben, How do you think this plays out?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Yeah, so there's two ways this plays out.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Either a the Browns pay the man and throw money
at him and everyone's got their price. And if the
Brown's paying more money, and he'll be like oh, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Changed my mind. I want to stay in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
All this bull crap or Miles Garrett becomes a complete
douchebag and goes Scorched Earth, and then the Browns end
up trading him to his preferred destination.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
I think they'll end up trading him next.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Adam Schefter reported this weekend that a team to watch
for Sam Donald will be the Las Vegas Raiders. Other
reports also have them as a potential landing spot for
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
And which quarterback do you think is more likely to
end up in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So this and it's the good glamour, it's Vegas, it's
the entertainment Meca, it's sin city.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
You need a headliner.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Sam Donald's not a headliner Aaron Rodgers is. For him
to take up a Vega Vegas residency is what old,
washed up entertainers do. Why not washed up football players?
Vegas residency for Aaron Rodgers makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Next, Deebo Samuel recently revealed that he and his agent
to receive permission from the forty nine ers to seek
a trade Ben Deebo's coming off a down year.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Do you think he still has good value on the market.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I not for me, but he will. He'll be able
to find it too. He used to kill the Rams.
In recent years, he has not killed the Rams. He
hasn't killed anybody for the forty nine ers. But you'd
think that Niners will send him somewhere like the Steelers,
the Bills, your your Broncos, the Chargers, one of those
AFC teams that need help with the white opposition. So
he'll find a job. I don't put a lot of
(29:21):
value in debo because he's been pretty mediocre for several years.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
How did wake dow?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
He passes?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
That is? I won? The right up, the right up?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I won?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Come on, I'm the all time wins king at these
games shows. Come on.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
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Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's welcome in our contestants real quick. We'll set the
game up. We have Jed, who fled? Who's gonna play? Hello?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
The NFL is successful because Walter.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Campmember, All right, who do you want to partner over with? Quickly?
Custin Juper Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Hold on a sec and Tyler is in Boston. Hello, Tyler,
you're gonna play Mallard's mount of Money. You want to
part with me?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Or Lorena?
Speaker 6 (30:14):
I think it sounds like me and you, but that's right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
All right, Sorry Lorraine. You gonna sit this one, Coop quickly.
What are the categories here, Coop? We'll get that set up.
Then we'll have the game in its entirety with a big.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Highly produced open all right, this is Malard's Mountain of Money,
the Michael B. Jordan edition. Oh I've heard of him, yes,
not the athlete, the actor.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The actor.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, he turned thirty eight years old on Sunday, an
old fart yep. The categories are the Wire, Fruit, Veil, Station,
Fantastic four, and Creed.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Jed, what category would you like?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Jumping the numbers across the dow? Was it one of
the greatest things I've ever seen?
Speaker 5 (30:51):
To have the number the wire? Okay, and Tyler, which
category would you like?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Creed?
Speaker 5 (30:58):
All right?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Very good?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Everyone?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hold on no, oh, do not hang up, Do not
hang up.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Stay right there. We were gonna have Mallor's Mountain of
Money in its entirety.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
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?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Not?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
All right, let's do it right to the game.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Jed, who fled is with Coop and I am teamed
up with Tyler in Boston and.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
The Michael B. Jordan edition. Coop, you're going first. You
have the wire. I believe that is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
These athletes were all born in the Greater Baltimore area.
Will put forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Are you there?
Speaker 5 (31:42):
Jed?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I love Creed. All right, let's go. Here we go.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
The Great Bambino fa uh, the swimmer that won a
bunch of Olympic medals. Michael, Yes, this guy has an
ironman streaking baseball. Yes, guy was a running back for
the Rams. His his last name is very female like Eric. No,
(32:08):
not even either one of those guys, the opposite. All right,
past Uh, We're gonna go with this guy was an
ugly basketball player.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
He looked like an alien.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
He won championships on the Rockets, he was on the Clippers.
He's an assistant on the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
No, the shortest NBA player of all time.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yeah, you didn't get when you coop said a female
You said, Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
What what kind?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I mean?
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Maybe that's a modern definition of them. But but all right,
Todd Todd Gurley, can.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We get a luggsy bugs? Because I think he got that.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
It was count All right, we are up there, Tyler.
What's going on? Tyler in the Boston area?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
What you got?
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Man?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Where you what are you doing right now? Working?
Speaker 2 (33:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Stop that?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Play the game? What are you talking about? All right,
let's play the game. You picked Creed.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
These athletes all had or have famous fathers.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Are you ready, Tyler? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
His father was del He's a splash brother from the Warriors. Yes,
Balco with the Giants, the San Francisco Giants home run king.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
His father was a wide receiver for the Colts with
Peyton Mannings with the Cardinals. Now yes, linebacker, blondhaired, flowing
walks linebacker for the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
He's now Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Slugger's dad was cecil for the Tigers. His son yes, uh,
former Celtic coach Doc His kid played in the NBA. Yes,
Expos manager Philippe's son was an outfielder for the Cubs
and the Giants, and the bunch of teams was in
the Bartman game.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I know Malvin Harrison's and I know Junior. Junior lives
down the road for me. Bad.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
You're not playing the category you didn't get. You got
everyone except moyses Alu. So good job by you. And
that means, what's the math on that? Lorena forty?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Alright? So to forty to sixty?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Coop didn't trust your math? So sexist?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Would you like?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Jed?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Would you like fruit Vale Station? Or Fantastic four? Fantastic four?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
You're probably gonna regret that one.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I don't know, all right, these athletes all wore number
four at some point.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Hey could if you do it?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
All right to you feeling?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Start the clock, everybody, start the start the damn clock.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
The quarterback for the Green Bay Packers Hall of Famer. Yes, uh,
he is the current coach for the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Target chart j jam Marble, John har Yes.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
This guy called the time out when he didn't have
any for Michigan. Chris whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Yes, this guy played for the Brewers. He was the
manager for the Twins. Also Hall of Famer Gret Caunsel.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Gret Caunsel, No all right, leading scorer for the Utah
Jazz in the eighties, John and Noone. No, you've you've
lost your touch on these games.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Oh wow, Coop taking shots at jed Man eight times?
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Whenever?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, yeah, Jed, You've done so many drugs.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
You don't even used to be good at these games.
You gotta change.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
I'll come back around. I'll do it shots, I'll come
back around.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Was in the Landown second Round'm not gonna get to stop.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
We're gonna run up the score.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Stop doing it all. Paul Molitor, Paul Molitor. Adrian Danley.
That was a tough one, Adrian Dantley. Yeah, that was hard.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
All right, let's run up the score. Are you ready, Tyler?
That was hard.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It was hard.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I'm not talking to you. Are you ready, Tyler?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
I'm ready to go?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
All right, here we go, Fruitville Station. These athletes were
all born in Oakland. A star with the Milwaukee Bucks,
came over from the Trailblazers. All right, uh, Beast beast
mode for the Seattle Seahawks back in the day. Yes,
the Globe for the SuperSonics and his heydays. Yes, uh,
(36:24):
he starred for the Celtics. He out of ingle Wood,
I guess, but I guess he was originally from Oakland,
went to Kansas was yes. Uh shortstop for the Phillies
when they won the World Series. Uh, yes, running back
with three names for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, we're out of time. We did very well.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
We do.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Shut up, Jed. It's Tyler's Mormon in the Sun. Tyler
and Boston is the stud of studs.
Host
Ben Maller
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