April 17, 2025 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about the Bulls getting eliminated by the Heat and the Kings getting ousted by the Mavericks during the Play-In, rumors that Kevin Durant and the Rockets have mutual interest in joining forces, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 3 (01:42):
Here we are again, side by side. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A little hot talk for you and our lead this hour.
Our lead this hour is from night two of the
playing tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Now why are we.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Talking about this Because it's on the schedule, That's why.
And we have a talk show to do right now,
not an hour from now, not two hours right now. Well,
actually we'll be doing it two hours from now also,
but double barrel action. Now, I'm not gonna tell you
this was compelling. I'm not gonna tell you this was
muss C TV.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It what But we watched.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So you had the Heat that's a basketball team from
South Florida visiting the Bulls. That is a team that
plays in Chicago. That was the Eastern matchup. And then
the mav Rex. What a hot mess that team was
taking on the Kings in the Western matchup. So I
don't know you watched any of this. You might have
missed all of it, and consider yourself lucky. Perhaps you
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missed everything, but we took the hit. It's our good
mits for the day, and we're gonna start out in
the Windy City as we navigate through the highways and
byways of the playing tournament. So Tyler Hero went bonkers
thirty eight points, thirty eight points, and he was here,
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there and everywhere, especially at the start of the game.
The Miami Heat boat race. They did the old Harvard
boat race over the I don't know if we should
call them the bulls.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How about the baby bulls? My god? One nine ninety in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A game that was not that close on a Wednesday
night in the playing tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The game featured zero lead changes. There were no lead changes.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Miami led by as many as twenty five points. They
never trailed. That's the Harvard boat race. You jump out
in front and you never trail, and the Heat knocked
out the Bulls.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
If you feel like you've seen this before in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The Playing tournament, third year in a row, say deja
vu situation. And they will play at Atlanta on Friday night,
and I am not. I am not on the watch
tower Friday night, so you let me know how that
game goes. I ain't watching.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I ain't watching. You can watch, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But the winner of that game will have a chance
to meet the top seeded Cleveland basketball team to seemingly
be annihilated. Though who knows Cleveland? Are they real? Are
they phony? Only time will tell. But that's the first
round matchup, so either Atlanta or Miami will be going
to Cleveland, and that one. The better story though, is
in the losing locker room, so let us discuss.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We'll start with that. We'll work our way.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Through the question though, how bleak are things looking for
Billy Donovan and his Chicago Bulls. That's the coach, Billy Donovan.
So I've got my thoughts on this. I have Paul Simon,
Twilight and Marshmallows and we'll ring the bell. Well, we'll
put all these things together and we're gonna make deep
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dish Chicago pizza, which is one of the great treats
you can have. It's one of the reasons to stay alive,
just to eat more deep dish Chicago pizza. So a,
the Bulls franchise is currently locked in a never ending
asteroid feel.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay, they they can't get out of their own shadow.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The Eastern Conference is as if Hillary Clinton was commenting,
she'd say, a basket of deplorables, and the Bulls are
like the star of the deplorables. Right that the Bulls
aren't even good enough to punch their ticket to go
to the basketball version of the prom, which is the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's a masculine and it's.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Time to redo the old Paul Simon song and update
missus Robinson. Where have you gone? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
A bulls nation turns its lonely eyes to you. These
are not your daddy's Chicago bulls. These are more like
your granddaddy Chicago bulls because other than the Jordan years,
the bulls blue and man, they are a bunch of castaways.
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The Chicago Bulls here stuck on a dingy with a
broken down motor at this particular point, they're just a
bunch of dinghies. And they're not bad enough. Like you
don't want to be in the middle, and they're in
the middle. Right, you know, you're not bad enough to
really have a legitimate chance of getting the number one
overall number one, and they're not good enough to really
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do anything. They can't even make the playoffs. And so
here's where the bulls find themselves. Good luck. Now we
turned the page. So the winning locker room, We're gonna
do a little.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
True or false. You want to play true or false,
Let's play true or false.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So the statement is Tyler Heroes big night, thirty eight points,
this was a stepping stone, a stepping stone game in
his Miami Heat career.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So after a minutes long mallor review, we are we're
voting false. Okay, that is a false statement. Now keep
in mind Tyler hero If you saw the game, you
probably didn't. I think I was the only one watching.
Tyler Hero was electric. I think he hit something like
his first eight shots. Didn't write it down, but he
finished up thirteen of nineteen from the floor and was
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the player that pat Riley thought he was going to
become when they got rid of Jimmy Butler. But it
was only slight progress. I'm only gonna move it a
little bit. It does not count as a stepping stone.
That's too dramatic. And here's why it is impossible in
the court of malar. It is impossible to have such
a thing as a springboard game.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
In a playing game.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The playing we in here talking about the play in,
not a real playoff game.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, the play in playing Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We're talking about. It is an empty wasteland. They are
played in the twilight or go the twilight zone. Imagine
if you will, a world where the stats vanish into
thin air. They're neither regular season stats nor postseason stats.
It is an alternative reality that only last a couple
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of games in between the regular season and the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Now we know from years gone.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
By that legends are born, Legends are born in the playoff,
in the playoffs. But not whatever this watch your McCalla,
It is not the watch you McCalla. It now, Tyler
Hero does have a chance. He does have a shot
if play the if game, if some butts were candy
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and nuts, right, But if Miami can do this again
and beat Atlanta and take down the Hawks on Friday,
and normally Heat will burn a Hawk. So if that happens,
and then he gets on the big stage, and if
there's an eight seed one seed, which is really not
an eight seed because the Heat are lower than that.
They were down there at the very bottom. So if
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the heat can then go into Cleveland and not only
make some noise, but actually when we can revisit this conversation.
But I know the hot take artists and how this works.
I have a study the ancient art of the hot take.
And there's this overreaction. Oh my god, I can't but
it's so a basic. Oh man, all right, now the
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last word. Let's go over to the Western Conference side
of the play in whatever this thing is, and Klay
Thompson caught the bug for one quarter. It was vintage
Klay Thompson in Sacktown, as Clay had sixteen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Of his twenty three points in the second quarter. And
if you saw the game, that's all you needed to watch.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That was not another ey go bye, say bye bye
to Sacramento bye bye. Yes, he had an absolute dud
a year ago, which was brought up many times on
the television broadcast, but to this time, wearing the mav
Rec uniformity, surprise, did not see this one come. He
thought Dallas would be meekly eliminated from the playoffs. But
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that's why they play their games. So Klay Thompson went
big in the Dallas basketball team, proving Nico Harrison a
genius with an easy win. So they advanced in the
playing tournament, and now they will take on Memphis for
a chance to get into the playoffs and take on
Oklahoma City. So that's the next matchup. But a year ago,
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Klay Thompson, in what was his final game with Golden State,
had the worst possible final game.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You remember he took ten shots. You remember how many
he made? How about none? Zero for ten in that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Loss a year ago for Klay Thompson's last moment as
a Golden State Warrior. But in this game he had
four to three points. Dallas put up forty four points.
Do you understand how incompetent the Kings have to be
to allow a team in a twelve minute quarter to
score forty four points? How I don't give an f
The mantra must be for that team that the better
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story here is in the losing locker room. And we
don't spend a lot of time talking about the team
in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Why would we. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting. But this
is rare and appropriate, and rare and appropriate, we're allowed
to do. We're allowed to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So what does the future hold for Demontes Sibonis and
the Kings? What does the future hold here in sack Down?
So my advice to the Kings and to Demonta Sabonis
is to go out and go to Walmart. Get some marshmallows.
Get some marshmallows. If I could talk to get some marshmallows, right,
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Get the marshmallows. Because the Kings are going to have
a bonfire. There's already talked there. They're going to bring
in a new GM.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And a new broom sweeps clean.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And so they got rid of Mike Brown during the season.
They whacked him. They traded away dearon Fox. It was
the face of the franchise until they traded him. So
expect the urge to purge, the urge to purge. I'm
talking and everything must go. Liquidation situation here. You want
Demanta Sabonis. How about Demart Rosen? Do I hear anything
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for Demart Rosen? Can I get an offer for zach Levine?
Anyone wants zach Levine, make sure to use that coupon
code and you'll say if it's a red tag sale
in store and online, now the Kings have this, this
kind of dopey mascot.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I think they should change their mask. I I believe
here as this franchise continues to be in limbo, the Kings,
where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Pays yourstoyakovitch right. The King's spirit animal is a chicken, Mike,
the headless chicken. Because they are stuck.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In this cycle of that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
They use the word rebuilding, which is a it's a
sports term. It's a it's a politically correct sports term, rebuilding.
It's it's synonyms are suck and blow. Because that's what
the Kings are. They suck and they blow every year,
every year, right, every year.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The same thing. They're bottom feeders.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And it just keeps going on and on, and they'll
get rid of these guys and then they'll they'll be
terrible for several more years, and then they'll get a few,
they'll stumble onto a few players that actually turn not
to be halfway decent, and then the same thing will happen.
It is a never ending cycle, never But they pay
pretty well so they can hire people. They pay decent
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money and all that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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Speaker 3 (13:20):
App or lead. This hour is from the Silly Season
and it hasn't started. Been what are you doing? Are
you already talking about it? There's still playing now. Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
These playing games were so fugazy. Okay, they are terrible.
They do not provide good talk radio. So we must
turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard,
the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
the Sun.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Maybe you missed it.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The Suns, who were supposed to be a heavyweight contender,
were a total pretender, and now they are expected to
open up the bidding. If you would like, Kevin Durant
come on down. Yes, several teams already have emerged as
early front runners.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We're not even at the quarter pole, but they're.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Leading contenders, including a team that was prominently mentioned in
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You know what team that is? Named? That team? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets. So
let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel. How
do you evaluate the Rockets and Kevin Durant said to
have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
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freight train, and paperless, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
is what we're going We're gonna empty our bench out right.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Now, and we are going to say numb. I said numb.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
All right, We'll try not to hit an iceberg here.
So here's the deal. I don't think I'm wrong on this,
but I don't know. I just do the overnight show.
I believe the Rockets have not played a postseason game.
Is that correct? Okay, I'm told that is correct. So
the Rockets have not played a postseason game. Houston is
the number two, number two seeds in.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They have a playdate with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and
Golden State this weekend. Despite Houston having home court, the
Warriors are the public's picked to click in that series.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So until that matchup is decided.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Until that matchup is the side and the NBA likes
to drag these things out, so until that happens, it
is the word is the premature?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Is the word premature with a cap.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's the word premature to properly speculate about the next
step for Kevin Durant in association with Houston.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now, if the Rockets go on.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
A magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and
then get through the next round and advance to.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The Western Conference Finals, it would not make sense.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It would not make sense to bring in an aging
Kevin Durant, who is a team killer.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A team killer.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So either way, though, you don't need me to tell you,
you don't need me to tell you that you need
to get your boombox out and crank up the Sandals
the theme from Endless Summer, because it is going to
be the summer of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight
hundred and ninety four different reports from league sources. Kevin
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Durant had a great pastrami sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like
to play for the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he
was in Minnesota. The greatest burger he ever had was
a juicy Lucy at the Nook in Saint Paul. So
he wants to play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling
you yeah. In fact, they'll even make stuff up like
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Durant one time he stopped over in Kansas City and
he went to the landing and he had the Ben
Maler chicken fingers. So he wants a franchise to relocate
the Kansas City and then he can have those all
the time.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You know, every angle, every.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Single angle, not the usual suspects, and forget the usual
suspect not just the NBA teams. Who knows the Beijing Ducks.
Kevin Durant would like to expand his brand in China,
So he wants to play for the Beijing Ducks. Or
how about this one Durant when he was a kid,
he growing up in in the Baltimore area.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I believe he had the uh he had the.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
The Ant thing, you know that, the the Ant collection.
So he wants to play in the G League for
the Indiana mad Ants. Whatever works, whatever works, Just go
with it all right now. Page two, developing story from
the Bayou.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We go to n Orleans. We go to New Orleans
where Joe Dumars. You're old.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
some great Pistons teams back in the old days when
the players had hair on their chest and actually played
in most games. It's a different era now. The players
miss as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars, who
was hired as the head of basketball ops for the Pelicans,
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and he has released an opening statement and the Pistons
legend from another era. His opening statement about the current
state of the Pells roster and what many are pulling
out the magnifying glass and examining that may or may
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not have been a jab at at Zion Williamson. Let
me give you the quote and then we will parse
the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote. I
am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to show
I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend for
the purposes of talk radio to be Joe Dumars. This
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is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
There's a lot of talent on this roster. My vision,
Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
built on toughness, smart decision making, and a no excuses mindset.
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I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
know how passionate, resilient and tough we.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Are as a community. Blah blah blah, blah blah. Close quote.
So did Joe Dumars in the previous quote.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Take a shot at Zion Williamson? Did he pokes Ion
Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement? That is the question?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So I spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation
and this is as subtle as a freight train. It
is as subtle as a fur trader, Zion Williamson. What
is Zion Williamson known for? What is he known for
as an NBA player? He's undisciplined, He's not tough, he
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doesn't make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
any of that wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He has been.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Under siege Zion Williamson for a total lack of good
judgment when it comes to decisions you make on and
off the court, the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He is the perfect modern ballplayer.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And from the sound of it, Joe Dumars is not
going to have anyone on his roster because the entire
NBA is opposite of what Joe Dumars wants. Zion has
missed two hundred and fifty eight games in his New
Orleans career.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He's played in two hundred and fourteen. We're talking about
six seasons.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
He's missed two hundred and fifty eight work assignments in
six seasons. You talk about meandering, now, that means using Malormath,
that he has missed approximately fifty four percent little over
fifty four percent of his possible work assignments. So rather
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than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson, you don't
have to say that when Joe Dumars comes out and says,
I want a team that is built on discipline, toughness,
good decision making, no excuses, and you have a guy,
Zion Williamson, who was the opposite of all that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Bye bye no no naa no no na na hey
go bye by final point follow up follow up Nico
no no, Nico no no Dateline Dallas, the embattled GM
of the mav Recks who did win the play in
game on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
The Mavericks will play again to try to get in
the playoffs. Ball GM Nico Harrison. Remember he held that
news Commerce's second news conference with the media after his
decision or the team's decision to say goodbye to Luca Donzig,
and the story was he did not want any record
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of that to get out. Initially, initially there were no
cameras and no microphones, and then eventually they allowed.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
media elites, the Dallas Mavericks, tecting the Nico Harrison only
bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, now we are hearing what the.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Old broadcaster Paul Harvey back in the day would say.
Is the rest of the story the rest of the story.
Is it true that if it was up to Nico
Harrison he would not would not have done that at all?
Is it also true that Nico Harrison fought for several
weeks and at the behest of his owner, and only
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because the owner said you've got to do it, that
Nico Harrison did the closed door round table, round table conversation,
something that was demanded by the owner. He was able
to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
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So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
the Dallas media elites. Does that change the storyline?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see
my fingers, but ever so slightly like that, just a
little bit like why would the owner care if Nico
Harrison meets with the media. Could it be just spitball
in here?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Could it be because the owner is getting absolutely charbroiled
for dealing away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy
Patrick Dumott, has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico
Harrison to do whatever he wanted and this is what happened,
and therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to
get out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's
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birthday party. Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get
out there and be the pinata and hopefully candy will
fall out take some of those hits.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So Niko agreed to it. He agreed to it on
one condition.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It had to be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no
video surveillance. The popular opinion that I keep hearing from
people that claim to have insider information is that the
reason that Nico Harrison wanted no recording on video of
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this event is because he knows that the internet is forever,
and he was concerned that by him coming out and
saying what I praised him for this the other day,
you don't apologize, he said. He has no regrets because
if it doesn't matter whether Nico Harrison Keem comes out
and says, boy, I have that one up, Well, that
really escalated. It's not going to change any People think
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he's a douche and the village idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So nothing is going to change that. So you certainly
don't walk back on it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
However, he did not want the video because it would
have lasted forever. And the assumption is Luca's going to
play another ten years, is at least in the NBA
and have many all star appearances and good individual moments
and all that stuff, and so what are we doing.
So there's two possibilities. Either the owner really had nothing
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to do with it and he just allowed Nico Harrison
to destroy the business and he wants Nico to go
out there as a pinata. Or the alternative reality is
the owner absolutely absolutely pulled the strings, or did it
via pressure by the NBA to improve television rating. But
either way, either way, the issue is that Hey, you
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got to run interference, running the naked bootleg.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You got to get out there. You got to get
out there, and that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're Bozo the clown, So put on some clown makeup
and some funny shoes and put on a show, start
juggling and have all kinds of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Smeller,
how about that to the third degree, This is one
big event.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Gets grilled because Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Kopolo Ravens GM Eric DaCosta said that an extension for
Derrick Henry was definitely in the off season conversation, but
declined to give a timeline for getting the deal done, saying,
we have a lot of different balls in the air
right now. Ben, do you think the Ravens are hesitant
to extend Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
try to get my contract from this company. We've got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That is a way of not answering the question and downshifting,
slowing down is what that is.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We were not really in a rush to pay this
person it makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry
was much better than I thought he would be last year,
but he is at that point where he's doing a
little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
a year or two at most.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And I think that's the play here for the Ravens nag.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only Celtics
to lead the team and forced statistical categories multiple times now.
This stat has led many to debate that Tatum is
the third best Celtic of all time, behind Bird and Russell.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But my problem is I have an issue with players
that I've watched now. I always think the players when
I was a kid are better and the people now
are not pushovers, but they're just not as good because
I saw those players through the eyes of a child.
So Tatum statistically is right in that conversation, but for me,
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I can't. I'm not gonna put him there. I can't
because I don't think he's that good.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Next.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that
despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
beat the Pacers in their opening series.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Ben, is it that crazy?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, listen, what Lou's doing is he's got the knee
pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers, and
so he's looking out for Doc.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That's what that is. Okay, Now that the Bucks are going,
they're losing. Here we go, Pacers, here we go.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Here that buck seem has been contaminated by Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
D don How did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I won?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Put her on the board.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I won.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner.
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Speaker 4 (29:49):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Ferg dog Hi. Ferg, he wants to know do you
own a firearm?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well as you know, oh, I must protect myself, Coople Loop.
But we do not discuss whether or not there's a
firearm or not.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Let's just say I am I am prepared if someone
goes wild on What about.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
You, Lorraina, Yeah, I stay strapped even right now? I
got a gatling on me.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is that right? Yeah? Mean unbelievable, Coople Loop. I think
that's a Bucky's version, Coop.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
All right, I realized this is such a private question. No,
I do not own a firearm.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
All right? What is next to ask? Ben? Your questions
are answers our rest for the hour?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
The King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, do you have any concerns that you'll not be
allowed back into the United States of America after attending
the Vancouver Meet and Greet?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well, uh, it depends what part of Canada I'm in.
If I'm not allowed back in, as long as they
have poutine.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm good. I'll be all right. I'm fine, Lorrainy. You
think we'll get stuck in Canada? You think there'll be
some kind of issue there.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I think Fox might be mad if that happens, or
maybe they won't care about you know, I.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Think it might be a nice vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not really worried about it
and looking forward to seeing Van Cooper though. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. What about you, Coop? You
figure get stuck there.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I think made's legal there, so I'm okay, is it?
I believe?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So? You sure?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yeah? They have dispensaries.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We're gonna about like if you're taking some back in
the country though, I'll finish it all.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Okay, Good job for you, good good effort there, Coop.
All right, what's next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions
are answers on a Newbie night. We do this every week.
If you like it, if you really like it, we
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Speaker 4 (31:39):
Go ahead, Coop, Donkey sausage would like tonight, Donkey, do
you crack your knuckles?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah? You know what I do?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I have my My right knee is kind of messed
up a little bit at old football injury, you know,
back at Polk High School. So my knee cracks sometimes
and it I'll like sometimes when I on board, I'll
just crack my knee and it drives the wife crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He gets really annoyed by that, but I love it.
It's like, oh man, that's a that's the sound of
a bone cracking. I love it. So I don't crack
my knuckles. I crack my knee. What about you, of
a rain?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I am absolutely terrified of cracking things I do do
my pinky toes. Okay, specific I know, but everything else
scares me, especially your neck. If you can crack your
own neck, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Get a neck so much. But like the knee, you know,
it's just like it's like a power. It's like a
super That one's fun hip bones connected, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Coop all the time, every every knuckle in my body.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
There you go, elbows, fingers, toes, neck, back crack.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
No, that one picks he picks his nose. That's all right.
What's what's next?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Uh, let's see.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
La la la la.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well then we're gonna do another one from King Rory.
All right, he wants to know what is your go
to dessert?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Banana cream pie. I love the ice cream sandwich with
the cookie, the cookie, ice cream sandwich cream pie.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Kind of guy, Ben, the.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Rain's my time to talk. So you have the you
have the two cookie, the chocolate chip cookies, and then
you have the vanilla ice cream. I'm a basic bitch
when it comes to that, like it a lot, but
I'm pretty pretty by dessert. I'll go pretty much any dessert.
What about you, Lorrain, Oh.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I'm an ice cream girl, Ben, I love ice cream.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
That's your go to favorite always, not just a candy bar.
Bucky nuggets or are good too. What about your cinnamon rolls?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well, so.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You just have to keep talking the rain. Now you
give one thing answer, that's all you get.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Uh so uh mind straddles between breakfast and dessert. But
cinnamon roll is the it's that's it's the best. Love
cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You like with pecans on top? No pecun?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
I prefer without, but I'll take it with the pecans. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
A nice sticky bun.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, oh, sticky bun real quick.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Late night drug tester wants to know have you ever
gotten bumped to first class on a flight for free?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
On the flight though Waii when I got married. It
was awesome. It was so good.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Wow, bit lucky.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah. I had to wait five hours, but it was
worth it. At the airport,
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if he's lucky enough to get to that number. But
we're back together again here United the Power Radio. Those
that decided to show up to work today, it's great
to be here.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Here we are again, side by side. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
A little hot talk for you and our lead this hour.
Our lead this hour is from night two of the
playing tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Now why are we.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Talking about this Because it's on the schedule, That's why.
And we have a talk show to do right now,
not an hour from now, not two hours right now. Well,
actually we'll be doing it two hours from now also,
but double barrel action. Now, I'm not gonna tell you
this was compelling. I'm not gonna tell you this was
muss C TV.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It what But we watched.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So you had the Heat that's a basketball team from
South Florida visiting the Bulls. That is a team that
plays in Chicago. That was the Eastern matchup. And then
the mav Rex. What a hot mess that team was
taking on the Kings in the Western matchup. So I
don't know you watched any of this. You might have
missed all of it, and consider yourself lucky. Perhaps you
(02:40):
missed everything, but we took the hit. It's our good
mits for the day, and we're gonna start out in
the Windy City as we navigate through the highways and
byways of the playing tournament. So Tyler Hero went bonkers
thirty eight points, thirty eight points, and he was here,
(03:03):
there and everywhere, especially at the start of the game.
The Miami Heat boat race. They did the old Harvard
boat race over the I don't know if we should
call them the bulls.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
How about the baby bulls? My god? One nine ninety in.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
A game that was not that close on a Wednesday
night in the playing tournament.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The game featured zero lead changes. There were no lead changes.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Miami led by as many as twenty five points. They
never trailed. That's the Harvard boat race. You jump out
in front and you never trail, and the Heat knocked
out the Bulls.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
If you feel like you've seen this before in.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The Playing tournament, third year in a row, say deja
vu situation. And they will play at Atlanta on Friday night,
and I am not. I am not on the watch
tower Friday night, so you let me know how that
game goes. I ain't watching.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I ain't watching. You can watch, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
But the winner of that game will have a chance
to meet the top seeded Cleveland basketball team to seemingly
be annihilated. Though who knows Cleveland? Are they real? Are
they phony? Only time will tell. But that's the first
round matchup, so either Atlanta or Miami will be going
to Cleveland, and that one. The better story though, is
in the losing locker room, so let us discuss.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We'll start with that. We'll work our way.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Through the question though, how bleak are things looking for
Billy Donovan and his Chicago Bulls. That's the coach, Billy Donovan.
So I've got my thoughts on this. I have Paul Simon,
Twilight and Marshmallows and we'll ring the bell. Well, we'll
put all these things together and we're gonna make deep
(04:42):
dish Chicago pizza, which is one of the great treats
you can have. It's one of the reasons to stay alive,
just to eat more deep dish Chicago pizza. So a,
the Bulls franchise is currently locked in a never ending
asteroid feel.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay, they they can't get out of their own shadow.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The Eastern Conference is as if Hillary Clinton was commenting,
she'd say, a basket of deplorables, and the Bulls are
like the star of the deplorables. Right that the Bulls
aren't even good enough to punch their ticket to go
to the basketball version of the prom, which is the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's a masculine and it's.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Time to redo the old Paul Simon song and update
missus Robinson. Where have you gone? Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
A bulls nation turns its lonely eyes to you. These
are not your daddy's Chicago bulls. These are more like
your granddaddy Chicago bulls because other than the Jordan years,
the bulls blue and man, they are a bunch of castaways.
(05:43):
The Chicago Bulls here stuck on a dingy with a
broken down motor at this particular point, they're just a
bunch of dinghies. And they're not bad enough. Like you
don't want to be in the middle, and they're in
the middle. Right, you know, you're not bad enough to
really have a legitimate chance of getting the number one
overall number one, and they're not good enough to really
(06:05):
do anything. They can't even make the playoffs. And so
here's where the bulls find themselves. Good luck. Now we
turned the page. So the winning locker room, We're gonna
do a little.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
True or false. You want to play true or false,
Let's play true or false.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So the statement is Tyler Heroes big night, thirty eight points,
this was a stepping stone, a stepping stone game in
his Miami Heat career.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Is that true or false?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So after a minutes long mallor review, we are we're
voting false. Okay, that is a false statement. Now keep
in mind Tyler hero If you saw the game, you
probably didn't. I think I was the only one watching.
Tyler Hero was electric. I think he hit something like
his first eight shots. Didn't write it down, but he
finished up thirteen of nineteen from the floor and was
(06:56):
the player that pat Riley thought he was going to
become when they got rid of Jimmy Butler. But it
was only slight progress. I'm only gonna move it a
little bit. It does not count as a stepping stone.
That's too dramatic. And here's why it is impossible in
the court of malar. It is impossible to have such
a thing as a springboard game.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
In a playing game.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
The playing we in here talking about the play in,
not a real playoff game.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
No, the play in playing Yeah, that's what.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We're talking about. It is an empty wasteland. They are
played in the twilight or go the twilight zone. Imagine
if you will, a world where the stats vanish into
thin air. They're neither regular season stats nor postseason stats.
It is an alternative reality that only last a couple
(07:49):
of games in between the regular season and the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Now we know from years gone.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
By that legends are born, Legends are born in the playoff,
in the playoffs. But not whatever this watch your McCalla,
It is not the watch you McCalla. It now, Tyler
Hero does have a chance. He does have a shot
if play the if game, if some butts were candy
(08:17):
and nuts, right, But if Miami can do this again
and beat Atlanta and take down the Hawks on Friday,
and normally Heat will burn a Hawk. So if that happens,
and then he gets on the big stage, and if
there's an eight seed one seed, which is really not
an eight seed because the Heat are lower than that.
They were down there at the very bottom. So if
(08:39):
the heat can then go into Cleveland and not only
make some noise, but actually when we can revisit this conversation.
But I know the hot take artists and how this works.
I have a study the ancient art of the hot take.
And there's this overreaction. Oh my god, I can't but
it's so a basic. Oh man, all right, now the
(09:03):
last word. Let's go over to the Western Conference side
of the play in whatever this thing is, and Klay
Thompson caught the bug for one quarter. It was vintage
Klay Thompson in Sacktown, as Clay had sixteen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Of his twenty three points in the second quarter. And
if you saw the game, that's all you needed to watch.
That was it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That was not another ey go bye, say bye bye
to Sacramento bye bye. Yes, he had an absolute dud
a year ago, which was brought up many times on
the television broadcast, but to this time, wearing the mav
Rec uniformity, surprise, did not see this one come. He
thought Dallas would be meekly eliminated from the playoffs. But
(09:50):
that's why they play their games. So Klay Thompson went
big in the Dallas basketball team, proving Nico Harrison a
genius with an easy win. So they advanced in the
playing tournament, and now they will take on Memphis for
a chance to get into the playoffs and take on
Oklahoma City. So that's the next matchup. But a year ago,
(10:12):
Klay Thompson, in what was his final game with Golden State,
had the worst possible final game.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You remember he took ten shots. You remember how many
he made? How about none? Zero for ten in that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Loss a year ago for Klay Thompson's last moment as
a Golden State Warrior. But in this game he had
four to three points. Dallas put up forty four points.
Do you understand how incompetent the Kings have to be
to allow a team in a twelve minute quarter to
score forty four points? How I don't give an f
The mantra must be for that team that the better
(10:46):
story here is in the losing locker room. And we
don't spend a lot of time talking about the team
in Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Why would we. It's broadcasting, not narrow casting. But this
is rare and appropriate, and rare and appropriate, we're allowed
to do. We're allowed to do it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So what does the future hold for Demontes Sibonis and
the Kings? What does the future hold here in sack Down?
So my advice to the Kings and to Demonta Sabonis
is to go out and go to Walmart. Get some marshmallows.
Get some marshmallows. If I could talk to get some marshmallows, right,
(11:22):
Get the marshmallows. Because the Kings are going to have
a bonfire. There's already talked there. They're going to bring
in a new GM.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And a new broom sweeps clean.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And so they got rid of Mike Brown during the season.
They whacked him. They traded away dearon Fox. It was
the face of the franchise until they traded him. So
expect the urge to purge, the urge to purge. I'm
talking and everything must go. Liquidation situation here. You want
Demanta Sabonis. How about Demart Rosen? Do I hear anything
(11:54):
for Demart Rosen? Can I get an offer for zach Levine?
Anyone wants zach Levine, make sure to use that coupon
code and you'll say if it's a red tag sale
in store and online, now the Kings have this, this
kind of dopey mascot.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I think they should change their mask. I I believe
here as this franchise continues to be in limbo, the Kings,
where have you gone?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Pays yourstoyakovitch right. The King's spirit animal is a chicken, Mike,
the headless chicken. Because they are stuck.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
In this cycle of that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
They use the word rebuilding, which is a it's a
sports term. It's a it's a politically correct sports term, rebuilding.
It's it's synonyms are suck and blow. Because that's what
the Kings are. They suck and they blow every year,
every year, right, every year.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
The same thing. They're bottom feeders.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And it just keeps going on and on, and they'll
get rid of these guys and then they'll they'll be
terrible for several more years, and then they'll get a few,
they'll stumble onto a few players that actually turn not
to be halfway decent, and then the same thing will happen.
It is a never ending cycle, never But they pay
pretty well so they can hire people. They pay decent
(13:11):
money and all that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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Speaker 3 (13:20):
App or lead. This hour is from the Silly Season
and it hasn't started. Been what are you doing? Are
you already talking about it? There's still playing now. Listen.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
These playing games were so fugazy. Okay, they are terrible.
They do not provide good talk radio. So we must
turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard,
the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
the Sun.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Maybe you missed it.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The Suns, who were supposed to be a heavyweight contender,
were a total pretender, and now they are expected to
open up the bidding. If you would like, Kevin Durant
come on down. Yes, several teams already have emerged as
early front runners.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
We're not even at the quarter pole, but they're.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Leading contenders, including a team that was prominently mentioned in
the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You know what team that is? Named? That team? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets. So
let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel. How
do you evaluate the Rockets and Kevin Durant said to
have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
(14:50):
freight train, and paperless, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
is what we're going We're gonna empty our bench out right.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Now, and we are going to say numb. I said numb.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
All right, We'll try not to hit an iceberg here.
So here's the deal. I don't think I'm wrong on this,
but I don't know. I just do the overnight show.
I believe the Rockets have not played a postseason game.
Is that correct? Okay, I'm told that is correct. So
the Rockets have not played a postseason game. Houston is
the number two, number two seeds in.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They have a playdate with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and
Golden State this weekend. Despite Houston having home court, the
Warriors are the public's picked to click in that series.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So until that matchup is decided.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Until that matchup is the side and the NBA likes
to drag these things out, so until that happens, it
is the word is the premature?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Is the word premature with a cap.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's the word premature to properly speculate about the next
step for Kevin Durant in association with Houston.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Now, if the Rockets go on.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
A magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and
then get through the next round and advance to.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
The Western Conference Finals, it would not make sense.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It would not make sense to bring in an aging
Kevin Durant, who is a team killer.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
A team killer.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So either way, though, you don't need me to tell you,
you don't need me to tell you that you need
to get your boombox out and crank up the Sandals
the theme from Endless Summer, because it is going to
be the summer of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight
hundred and ninety four different reports from league sources. Kevin
(16:51):
Durant had a great pastrami sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like
to play for the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he
was in Minnesota. The greatest burger he ever had was
a juicy Lucy at the Nook in Saint Paul. So
he wants to play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling
you yeah. In fact, they'll even make stuff up like
(17:13):
Durant one time he stopped over in Kansas City and
he went to the landing and he had the Ben
Maler chicken fingers. So he wants a franchise to relocate
the Kansas City and then he can have those all
the time.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You know, every angle, every.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Single angle, not the usual suspects, and forget the usual
suspect not just the NBA teams. Who knows the Beijing Ducks.
Kevin Durant would like to expand his brand in China,
So he wants to play for the Beijing Ducks. Or
how about this one Durant when he was a kid,
he growing up in in the Baltimore area.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I believe he had the uh he had the.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
The Ant thing, you know that, the the Ant collection.
So he wants to play in the G League for
the Indiana mad Ants. Whatever works, whatever works, Just go
with it all right now. Page two, developing story from
the Bayou.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We go to n Orleans. We go to New Orleans
where Joe Dumars. You're old.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
some great Pistons teams back in the old days when
the players had hair on their chest and actually played
in most games. It's a different era now. The players
miss as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars, who
was hired as the head of basketball ops for the Pelicans,
(18:36):
and he has released an opening statement and the Pistons
legend from another era. His opening statement about the current
state of the Pells roster and what many are pulling
out the magnifying glass and examining that may or may
(18:57):
not have been a jab at at Zion Williamson. Let
me give you the quote and then we will parse
the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote. I
am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to show
I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend for
the purposes of talk radio to be Joe Dumars. This
(19:19):
is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
There's a lot of talent on this roster. My vision,
Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
built on toughness, smart decision making, and a no excuses mindset.
(19:40):
I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
know how passionate, resilient and tough we.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Are as a community. Blah blah blah, blah blah. Close quote.
So did Joe Dumars in the previous quote.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Take a shot at Zion Williamson? Did he pokes Ion
Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement? That is the question?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So I spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation
and this is as subtle as a freight train. It
is as subtle as a fur trader, Zion Williamson. What
is Zion Williamson known for? What is he known for
as an NBA player? He's undisciplined, He's not tough, he
(20:28):
doesn't make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
any of that wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He has been.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Under siege Zion Williamson for a total lack of good
judgment when it comes to decisions you make on and
off the court, the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He is the perfect modern ballplayer.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And from the sound of it, Joe Dumars is not
going to have anyone on his roster because the entire
NBA is opposite of what Joe Dumars wants. Zion has
missed two hundred and fifty eight games in his New
Orleans career.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He's played in two hundred and fourteen. We're talking about
six seasons.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
He's missed two hundred and fifty eight work assignments in
six seasons. You talk about meandering, now, that means using Malormath,
that he has missed approximately fifty four percent little over
fifty four percent of his possible work assignments. So rather
(21:44):
than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson, you don't
have to say that when Joe Dumars comes out and says,
I want a team that is built on discipline, toughness,
good decision making, no excuses, and you have a guy,
Zion Williamson, who was the opposite of all that.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Bye bye no no naa no no na na hey
go bye by final point follow up follow up Nico
no no, Nico no no Dateline Dallas, the embattled GM
of the mav Recks who did win the play in
game on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
The Mavericks will play again to try to get in
the playoffs. Ball GM Nico Harrison. Remember he held that
news Commerce's second news conference with the media after his
decision or the team's decision to say goodbye to Luca Donzig,
and the story was he did not want any record
(22:43):
of that to get out. Initially, initially there were no
cameras and no microphones, and then eventually they allowed.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
media elites, the Dallas Mavericks, tecting the Nico Harrison only
bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well, now we are hearing what the.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Old broadcaster Paul Harvey back in the day would say.
Is the rest of the story the rest of the story.
Is it true that if it was up to Nico
Harrison he would not would not have done that at all?
Is it also true that Nico Harrison fought for several
weeks and at the behest of his owner, and only
(23:34):
because the owner said you've got to do it, that
Nico Harrison did the closed door round table, round table conversation,
something that was demanded by the owner. He was able
to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
(23:55):
So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
the Dallas media elites. Does that change the storyline?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
So it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see
my fingers, but ever so slightly like that, just a
little bit like why would the owner care if Nico
Harrison meets with the media. Could it be just spitball
in here?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Could it be because the owner is getting absolutely charbroiled
for dealing away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy
Patrick Dumott, has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico
Harrison to do whatever he wanted and this is what happened,
and therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to
get out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's
(24:49):
birthday party. Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get
out there and be the pinata and hopefully candy will
fall out take some of those hits.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So Niko agreed to it. He agreed to it on
one condition.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It had to be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no
video surveillance. The popular opinion that I keep hearing from
people that claim to have insider information is that the
reason that Nico Harrison wanted no recording on video of
(25:23):
this event is because he knows that the internet is forever,
and he was concerned that by him coming out and
saying what I praised him for this the other day,
you don't apologize, he said. He has no regrets because
if it doesn't matter whether Nico Harrison Keem comes out
and says, boy, I have that one up, Well, that
really escalated. It's not going to change any People think
(25:45):
he's a douche and the village idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So nothing is going to change that. So you certainly
don't walk back on it.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
However, he did not want the video because it would
have lasted forever. And the assumption is Luca's going to
play another ten years, is at least in the NBA
and have many all star appearances and good individual moments
and all that stuff, and so what are we doing.
So there's two possibilities. Either the owner really had nothing
(26:13):
to do with it and he just allowed Nico Harrison
to destroy the business and he wants Nico to go
out there as a pinata. Or the alternative reality is
the owner absolutely absolutely pulled the strings, or did it
via pressure by the NBA to improve television rating. But
either way, either way, the issue is that Hey, you
(26:38):
got to run interference, running the naked bootleg.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
You got to get out there. You got to get
out there, and that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You're Bozo the clown, So put on some clown makeup
and some funny shoes and put on a show, start
juggling and have all kinds of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Smeller,
how about that to the third degree, This is one
big event.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Gets grilled because Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Kopolo Ravens GM Eric DaCosta said that an extension for
Derrick Henry was definitely in the off season conversation, but
declined to give a timeline for getting the deal done, saying,
we have a lot of different balls in the air
right now. Ben, do you think the Ravens are hesitant
to extend Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
try to get my contract from this company. We've got
a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That is a way of not answering the question and downshifting,
slowing down is what that is.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We were not really in a rush to pay this
person it makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry
was much better than I thought he would be last year,
but he is at that point where he's doing a
little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
a year or two at most.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And I think that's the play here for the Ravens nag.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only Celtics
to lead the team and forced statistical categories multiple times now.
This stat has led many to debate that Tatum is
the third best Celtic of all time, behind Bird and Russell.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
But my problem is I have an issue with players
that I've watched now. I always think the players when
I was a kid are better and the people now
are not pushovers, but they're just not as good because
I saw those players through the eyes of a child.
So Tatum statistically is right in that conversation, but for me,
(28:37):
I can't. I'm not gonna put him there. I can't
because I don't think he's that good.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Next.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that
despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
beat the Pacers in their opening series.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Ben, is it that crazy?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, listen, what Lou's doing is he's got the knee
pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers, and
so he's looking out for Doc.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
That's what that is. Okay, Now that the Bucks are going,
they're losing. Here we go, Pacers, here we go.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Here that buck seem has been contaminated by Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
D don How did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
I won?
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Put her on the board.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
I won.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
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Speaker 3 (29:31):
It's now time for time. Horry, Horry, Honey, ask Ben Twitter.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Send us your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Now anyway, we go to Ask Men. Your questions are
answers on a Newbie Night and over to the Kooper
Loop for the reading of the question.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Ferg dog Hi. Ferg, he wants to know do you
own a firearm?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well as you know, oh, I must protect myself, Coople Loop.
But we do not discuss whether or not there's a
firearm or not.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Let's just say I am I am prepared if someone
goes wild on What about.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
You, Lorraina, Yeah, I stay strapped even right now? I
got a gatling on me.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is that right? Yeah? Mean unbelievable, Coople Loop. I think
that's a Bucky's version, Coop.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
All right, I realized this is such a private question. No,
I do not own a firearm.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
All right? What is next to ask? Ben? Your questions
are answers our rest for the hour?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
The King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, do you have any concerns that you'll not be
allowed back into the United States of America after attending
the Vancouver Meet and Greet?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Well, uh, it depends what part of Canada I'm in.
If I'm not allowed back in, as long as they
have poutine.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm good. I'll be all right. I'm fine, Lorrainy. You
think we'll get stuck in Canada? You think there'll be
some kind of issue there.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I think Fox might be mad if that happens, or
maybe they won't care about you know, I.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Think it might be a nice vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I'm not really worried about it
and looking forward to seeing Van Cooper though. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. What about you, Coop? You
figure get stuck there.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
I think made's legal there, so I'm okay, is it?
I believe?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So? You sure?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Yeah? They have dispensaries.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We're gonna about like if you're taking some back in
the country though, I'll finish it all.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Okay, Good job for you, good good effort there, Coop.
All right, what's next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions
are answers on a Newbie night. We do this every week.
If you like it, if you really like it, we
have something totally different on Sunday on the Fifth Hour podcast,
The mail Bag, which is nothing like this at all.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Go ahead, Coop, Donkey sausage would like tonight, Donkey, do
you crack your knuckles?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Yeah? You know what I do?
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I have my My right knee is kind of messed
up a little bit at old football injury, you know,
back at Polk High School. So my knee cracks sometimes
and it I'll like sometimes when I on board, I'll
just crack my knee and it drives the wife crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
He gets really annoyed by that, but I love it.
It's like, oh man, that's a that's the sound of
a bone cracking. I love it. So I don't crack
my knuckles. I crack my knee. What about you, of
a rain?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I am absolutely terrified of cracking things I do do
my pinky toes. Okay, specific I know, but everything else
scares me, especially your neck. If you can crack your
own neck, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Get a neck so much. But like the knee, you know,
it's just like it's like a power. It's like a
super That one's fun hip bones connected, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Coop all the time, every every knuckle in my body.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
There you go, elbows, fingers, toes, neck, back crack.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
No, that one picks he picks his nose. That's all right.
What's what's next?
Speaker 5 (32:47):
Uh, let's see.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
La la la la.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Well then we're gonna do another one from King Rory.
All right, he wants to know what is your go
to dessert?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Banana cream pie. I love the ice cream sandwich with
the cookie, the cookie, ice cream sandwich cream pie.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Kind of guy, Ben, the.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Rain's my time to talk. So you have the you
have the two cookie, the chocolate chip cookies, and then
you have the vanilla ice cream. I'm a basic bitch
when it comes to that, like it a lot, but
I'm pretty pretty by dessert. I'll go pretty much any dessert.
What about you, Lorrain, Oh.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
I'm an ice cream girl, Ben, I love ice cream.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
That's your go to favorite always, not just a candy bar.
Bucky nuggets or are good too. What about your cinnamon rolls?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well, so.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You just have to keep talking the rain. Now you
give one thing answer, that's all you get.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Uh so uh mind straddles between breakfast and dessert. But
cinnamon roll is the it's that's it's the best. Love
cinnamon rolls.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You like with pecans on top? No pecun?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
I prefer without, but I'll take it with the pecans. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
A nice sticky bun.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, oh, sticky bun real quick.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Late night drug tester wants to know have you ever
gotten bumped to first class on a flight for free?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
On the flight though Waii when I got married. It
was awesome. It was so good.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Wow, bit lucky.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah. I had to wait five hours, but it was
worth it. At the airport,
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