May 13, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Celtics falling to the Knicks in Game 4 and Jayson Tatum going down with what seems to be a serious injury, the Minnesota Timberwolves taking a 3-1 series lead over the Warriors, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Stevie Wonder Edition, and more!
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an editorial decision. I was like, well, there's a couple
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of games. Normally the protocol if you listen to the
show on a semi regular basis, we normally begin with
whatever game happened.
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Last, because that's the freshest.
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But in this particular night, this night different than all these,
And I said, a couple of other stories that were
somewhat interesting, intriguing that are worthy of some talk. And
we'll get to the draft lottery. There's some funny business
with that as the Dallas Mavericks one and they will
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have the number one pick in the draft. Have some
thoughts on that I will share with you later if
you're with us for the Yeah, they got that to
top pick. But the story here is not there's much
to talk about. To begin with Golden State not showing
up in the third quarter and losing. They were supposed
to lose without Steph Curry. They lost without Steph Curry.
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We will get to that, as Minnesota's now on the
brink of advancing to the Final four of the NBA again.
But our lead this hour from mid ten, Manhattan, game
number four, Eastern Conference Semi Finals.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The Green team looking to even things up.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
They'd those blown leads in games one and two, and
they made every three point shot, so it seemed at
least half of them in the game over the weekend,
so they could even things up with the Knickerbockers on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
A Monday night. Were you engaged? You were not? You
have a life? Okay? Good?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So Jalen Brunson went bonkers in the SEC and that,
but overall he had thirty nine points twelve assists, a
partris in the pear tree and yet again the New
York basketball team rallying back and they now move on
the brink of an advancement to the Final four in
the East, as they are a ween away from the
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first Eastern Conference final appearance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
In twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a generation of suck for the Knickerbockers, but they
are on the brink of doing that. As the reigning
champions of the NBA, the Boston Celtics. They are staring
down the barrel of an elimination situation.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
They lose by eight. On Monday night, the Knicks were down.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Fourteen in the third quarter, yet another blown lead by
the Boston basketball team.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And so what is the setup?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Game five is on Wednesday back in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And the setup is there.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Have only been thirteen teams that have come back from
a three to one deficit. That's it, thirteen teams from
a three to one deficit. And so Boston, if they
want to do this, they have to be the fourth,
fourteenth team. Fourteenth team. My malor math tells me to
come back, and they're gonna have to do it. We
are ninety nine point nine percent sure without Jason Tatum,
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who had to be carried off the court then used
a wheelchair. But unlike Paul Pierce who pooped his pants,
Jason Tatum did not poop his pants.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
He had a right leg.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Injury with two point fifty eight to go in the
basketball game. As he was withering in pain on the court,
hopped off the court. And if you have watched sports
at all for any amount of time, chances are you
were going to come up with the same diagnosis that
everyone's come up with. Now, there's no official confirmation that
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I've seen, and if you've seen it, that's fine. I
haven't seen anything. I was looking around. I hadn't seen
any official confirmation. I'm not a doctor, but I did
stay at a holiday and express years ago, and so
I will give you my radio diagnosis here in a
minute that ninety nine point nine percent sure Pop goes
the Achilles. Unfortunately, MRI is scheduled for later on on Tuesday.
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So let us discuss the question if these reports are true,
If true and Jason Tatum is out for the series
and for the long run, does this officially end Boston's
title defense? Is this it they cooked at this point?
So I've got Buckingham Palace, Owen Wilson, and Tabernacle, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to have a pity party, which the Celtics
can all show up to. They can have a nice
little pity party. So a to answer the question, if
Tatum did suffer the injury that everyone's pretty sure he suffered,
although not one hundred percent. If that's the case at
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this hour, does it end Boston's title hopes. And to
that I will say, is the new Pope a White
Sox fan?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I think yeah. So that's a rhetorical question. Obviously, it's game,
set and match. If this was Monopoly, Jalen Brunson and
the Knickerbockers would pass, go, collect two hundred dollars and
a fast pass to the Eastern Conference Finals. You can
even crank up if you are the classic from Willie
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and Nelson who just had a birthday, turn out the lots,
the parties over, oh yeah, and then some and so
the Celtics in this era of one win champions, and
then you fade into oblivion. It would appear that that
is the track, that is the dimension that we are in.
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In a different dimension, Jason Tatum finishes the game, doesn't
get hurt, and the Celtics come back, although they were
down nine at that point, come back and win the game.
But in the dimension that we're in, Tatum suffers the
Achilles injury and just a one win title team and
Jalen Brown and the Celtics can get together. They can
have a team get together at a nice boutique in on
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Martha's Vineyard, a cozy bed and breakfast, because it appears
the Celtics are dining on one thing, and one thing only,
a Kellogg's product. That would be Rice Crispy, Snap, Crackle
and Pop for the Boston Celtic. There the Celtics in
the process you talk about a change here, the Celtics
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in a process of an ownership change.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
With Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Likely out most if not all, of next season, so
he's gone next season. Think of this like, if you will,
the Celtics all of a sudden decided we're going to
visit Buckingham Palace and we're going to witness the changing
of the guard because that's what's going on in the
Eastern Conference. It opens things up obviously this year, it
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opens things up, and I mean we're looking barring some
kind of really awkward situation here Indiana and New York
in the Eastern Conference final. So one of those two
teams guaranteed to go to the finals. My Malard math
tells me that, So expect to see seven thousand different
shots of Reggie Miller and the old Pacer Knicks matchups back,
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you know, a million years ago when they actually used
to play each other in the playoffs. On a on
a s my regular basis, and it also opens things
up down the line. You look at the off season
wheeling and dealing, and if the Celtics are cooked because
the owner, the new ownership is going to force some
contracts to leave and Tatum will be out, all of
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a sudden, the Celtics at at the very least, they're
going on to a middle of the pack Eastern Conference
team next season, and that opens things up for some
of these other pretenders to go out. And you know,
pat Riley goes out and get Giannis in Miami and
all of a sudden, the Heat.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Are back near the top.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
All right, now, turning the page on that, what are
the long term implications We went over some of them,
but what are the other long term implications for Jason
Tatum if he did shred his achilles like we put
into context for him and for everyone involved. So the
first name that popped in my head when I was
watching this Joe Missoula. Joe Missoula, Yeah, that's the first
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name the coach because this Ja scent Tatum injury where
he goes down, snap crackle pop. For Joe Missoula, it
is like an old Owen Wilson comedy from over a
decade ago. Hall pass. This is a hall It wasn't
a good movie, but it's a hall pass for Joe Missoula.
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He'll get immunity. Management will overlook his faux pause. In
coaching not coaching. There's not a lot in the NBA
compared to other sports. It's pretty low on the big
board of impact and whatnot. But there were a number
of what are you doing moments in this Celtic Runner
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reminds you a couple of years ago when we gave
Joe Mozoula and the nickname.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Let him play Joe, sleepy Joe.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know, he's kind of sleeping on the sidelines and
he didn't morph backing too. Let him play Joe in
this series, it's arcade basketball. It's the old school going
to the arcade, playing Papa shot. You put a token in,
and you put.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Another one and another one, over and over and over
and over.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
There were no meaningful adjustments. It is an indictment of
the Celtic franchise. They blew two to twenty point leads.
You know, it's a much different conversation if the Celtics
are up three nothing going into this game which they.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Had the lead.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It blew out the Knicks in the game over the
weekend on Saturday, and then you look at what happened
to the first two games in Boston. So there is
a world where the Celtics win the first three and
then if Tatum still gets hurt, that's fine. You're still thinking, Okay,
we still get to the Eastern Conference Finals. But in
this particular game four outscored by twenty two points, they
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went up fourteen in the third quarter, outscored by twenty
two points. To close the game, Jalen Brunson put on
an absolute clinic with twenty six points six assists to
close the game, and even when Tatum left with two
point fifty eight to go, Boston was down by Now
I guess we're having a postgame sound, but what are
the chances that Jason Tatum makes a full recovery? So
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even the outbulook is not great on that, And we're
not one hundred percent sure it's in Achilles, but were
ninety nine point nine percent shirts an Achilles. If it
is an Achilles, the chances are slim and none that
he makes a full recovery. There was just a study
done last year, thirty seven players had suffered the Achilles
injury going back decades in the NBA. Now, seventy eight
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percent of them did return. That's the good news. Seventy
eight percent of them did return. However, most players struggled
to get anywhere close to where they remember. How terrible
Kobe Bryant was at the end.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's one of the guys.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Jason Tatum copies and Kobe could not do anything at
the end there when he was playing because he had
the Achilles injury and he was a shell of what
he had been. He was also older, and the numbers
indicate and this tells you what has happened now what's
going to happen that it's mostly the backups, that it's
the reserve players that are able to come back and perform.
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Thirty one percent of players who returned from an achilles
injury were out of the NBA within three years. Now, again,
a lot of those were older players. It's normally something
that happens to someone's older, not in the prime of
their careers. So you have to factor that in. But yikes,
double yikes, if you will, All right, now, last word here,
So I wanted to address this because It's a pet
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peeve of mine, and this is really my therapy. I
don't pay for a therapist. I don't talk to anyone.
This is I talk to you. You're the person that
has to listen to me complain. I sit around. I'm
very grateful to have a job where they want me
to watch random games and then give my hot takes.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What a great job.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But occasionally I want to pull the hair out of
my head that is left on my head and watching
the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, I want to preface this.
First of all, I'd like to curse. I don't think
I'm allowed to. But what impact let me let me
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phrase it this way. What impact is celebrity row having
on your judgment, your opinion of the Knicks in Washington.
So these entertainment people, these entertainment elites that are given
these seats courtside so they can get on television, and
the Knicks can make everyone think they're the coolest thing
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in town, and everyone wants to be at the nixt game,
sitting court set and all.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That major Ick factor, major Ick factor. And there they
were again.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Look there's Cardi b all my Benny Blanca, Oh my god,
Selena Gomez is there sting Chris Rock Ben Stiller.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
MSG.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
When it comes to the celebrity is the tabernacle of worship.
It's celebrity worship is what it is. Excessive admiration and
to the level of obsession of the celebrity, putting them
on a pedestal.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And those aren't the real nick fans.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
See, that's the thing, Like, and I got this, I
got fam from New York whatever, find they're there nick
fans sprinkled through my cousins and whatnot that are from
that area. But watching Celebrity Row makes me want to
puke in my mouth. Okay, I want to literally, I
want to vomit in my mouth watching the Celebrity Row.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I would like it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And and it's one thing to show them once how
many cutaway shots do we?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Did somebody at ESPN say, okay, uh, this just keep
showing all of them continuous spotlight reaction? Like I really
need to see Spike Lee celebrating or Tracy Morgan or
any these other cats and like why And it's whether
it's a celebrity or not that celebrities annoy me more.
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But when I'm watching a college football game on a Saturday.
I don't need the reaction shot on that either, the
frequent cutaways. And it's just like the early television producers
and directories, this is what they did, and every one
just copies the early people in television. They do the
same things. Well, this is how we did it back
in there, we had fan reaction shots. Listen, you cut away.
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It's excessive, it's unnecessary. It takes away from the broadcast.
And you keep cutting away to these reaction shots. And
does anyone need to see someone else reacting to something
that we can't see Because we're seeing them react to
what they're looking at, but we can't see it, but
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they're actually there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's like, how dumb is this? Dumb? D dumb dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Seriously, and at very least, at least diversify your crowd
reaction shots. I get it, your star efforts. I understand.
You don't need to fixate on the celebrities.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We know they're there. Okay, great, they got free tickets, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Outstand many of them haven't done anything entertaining in years. Anyway,
they're living off what they did thirty years ago or
twenty years ago.
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from the second half of the playoff card. Last hour,
we ranted about snapcrackle pop for Jason Tatum as the
Celtics lose to the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
New York fans a very calm maack, like you've been.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
There before, and well they haven't actually acted like they've
been there before. And then you realize, like all those
nick fans that were going crazy outside Madison Square Garden
and going nuts and all that, like anybody in their thirties,
Like if you're in your early thirties, last time the
Knicks were any good, you were like seven.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Like that's how bad. Think about that, Like the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Knicks haven't been good in twenty five years, and they
haven't won a championship in like fifty years.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So anyway, but our lead is not from that.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We go to San Francisco the late game on the
pro Bouncy Ball card that was the playground for Game four,
of the Western Conference semi Finals, Minnesota with a chance
to stop and do the monthstermage on Golden State and
take a stranglehold on the series. No, Steph Curry again,
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he was there giving moral support. Didn't you watch?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, you weren't all right?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, Anthony Edwards went kabboom in the second half and
he ended up with thirty points, second straight thirty point performance.
It was the third quarter that was a difference here.
Julius Randall who did a lot early in the game.
He finished with thirty one points and but timm Wolves
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audition and swishing and into the win column. They beat
the Warriors, ended up winning by seven. They were up
by twenty in the second half. And don't look now
but a Minnesota sports team yet again, the t Wolves
on the brink of advancing to the final four in
their sport as they.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Are one win away now.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
From moving on to the Western Conference Finals and a
chance to go to the NBA Finals. And he will
go back home to Minneapolis on Wednesday, and right there
downtown Target Center, right next to that Sid Hartman statue,
right there outside that arena, they can clinch the best
of seven Western Conference Semi Finals game five Wednesday night,
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be there, b Square. The Warriors will most likely be
without Steph Curry. Most likely will be without Steph Curry there.
He sat out his third game in and he is
scheduled to have his hammy that went whammy be re
examined on Wednesday and is said to be a game
time decision. Okay, we reevaluated that day, Like every day
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you get up.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Technically, we're all being re evaluated when we wake up.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So am I awake? Okay, I'm being reevaluated. They're gonna
get out of bed. Okay, good Now, the better story
is yet again in the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So that is where we will start our conversation together.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And as we discuss the question here, who gets the
biggest piece of the.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Sour dough of blame for the Warriors? The sour dough
of blame?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I've got State Farm, Latto and Hogwarts, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious garlic fries. Which think of
garlic fries, you think of the Northern California That's at
least what I think of known for their garlic fries.
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All right, So numb there's plenty sour dough blame to
go around, plenty plenty. The bakery is working overtime here.
The Warriors, in fact, they need to get an extra
order or two. Okay, they do, So we'll start out
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with Okham's razor. The simplest answer is the most obvious one.
With Steph Curry out of the lineup, and he's been
out other than thirteen minutes he played in Game one,
he's been out. So the obvious answer here is that
someone has to rise up. Right, the team unites and
you rise up and next man up, all that stuff,
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and so how's that work?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Watching these playoffs, there's some commercials that play NonStop. It's
just over and over situation. For example, if you've been
watching the NBA games, that State Farm commercial. So I
actually thought of that State Farm commercial in context of
the Warriors without Steph Kerr, Like, have you seen the commercial?
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You know what I'm gonna say. So, the Warriors needed
Batman to show up, and they really needed Batman, and
right there across Gotham City they needed Batman, and Baitman
showed up. Not Batman, Baitman. That's what they got. And
in this case, playoff Jimmy on this night was pedestrian
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Jimmy bag to the bone. Now we're supporters of Jimmy Butler.
He went wacko in Miami, and he went wacko in
Minnesota and in Philadelphia and everywhere. Eventually he goes whacko.
But when he's playing, he's locked in. He's a fun
player to watch, and in this particular game, a winnable
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game at halftime. In fact, Golden said was leading at
halftime and he went a wall. He went a wall.
Jimmy Butler, for some reason, was tentative. He was gun
shy on offense. We're predicting that we'll here seven.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
He's heard, he's heard.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Okay, well, you played the game, passed up shots, did
not even try to take some shots that were there.
He was completely rattled. We don't know why the Warriors
while Jimmy Butler playoff Jimmy was on the court, were
outscored by thirty points. Who goofed? I've got to know
thirty points? He only took nine shots. Now he moves
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up right the way the pecking order works with Steph
Curry out, you went out and got Jimmy Butler and
he's the guy, except he wasn't the guy and you
only took n jet. Now others to blame and shame
because we like to blame. In Shaman Talk Radio, Brandon Pajemski,
as we mentioned the worst shooting performance we've seen in
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over a decade in the NBA playoffs, or somebody taking
the volume shots that he's taken and pods.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's even worse the last two games.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The last two games, this cat is shooting sixteen point
six per sent from the floor. He's taking twenty four shots,
he's only made four of them, four of twenty four,
and from three point range he's shooting twelve point five
percent the last two games. PEEO, what stinks? I think
we know who stinks? My God, all right now, pitch two.
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So something goes wrong for Golden State, while on the
other side, what went right for Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
In this particular game. So ant man what he did?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He found the button on the dashboard and he went
turbo time in the third quarter, clear.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
The runway for takeoff. We were about to depart, and
he did.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
He's very choppy player being a good player, it seems
very choppy. I think that's an accurate way to describe him,
that the numbers usually are pretty good, but there's some choppiness,
there's not smoothness to his game. But on this particular night,
in that third quarter, he cranked up the Latto song.
He had that big energy, right, big capital D energy there,
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and we know he loves to talk about.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
His big D man.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anthony Edwards sixteen of his thirty points in the third quarter,
and that was the kill shot. That was the stranglehold
quarter for Golden State to go down. They fell into
a sinkhole. Minnesota was plus twenty two, plus twenty two
in the third quarter, body blow, body blow, body blow,
one after another, led by twenty and then they just
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kept the Warriors at Bay at arms length the rest
of the game, just kept them at arm's length there.
So Golden State now they're in position to be a
classic INFO mercial, the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I've fallen and I can't get up.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
They can't get up right now lethargic, listless, spiritless basketball
and as normally happens, do not expect any calls from
the Bay area there. That's usually what happens when it's
called front running. That's what it's called. All right, now,
final point, So, how can Golden State get back in
this series? With Minnesota down three to one? We know
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the math on this is not particularly great. There's only
been thirteen teams that have come back and here they are.
So they need to visit Hogwarts. I've determined they need
to go to Hogwarts, that they have to get the
potion from Harry Potter and Hogwarts there and things have
gotten out of hand, things have fallen by the wayside.
There they are in a ditch by the side of
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the road. And whatever potion they can find from the
Harry Potter franchise, the health potion, they need to give
Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
A gallon of it and just have him drink that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And instead of Boom goes to Dynamite, it'll be Boom
goes to the Warriors and they win one game and
then all of a sudden you get a little tight
tooka syndrome for Minnesota and things change.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And by the way, what has Steve Kirk done?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I keep asking that question when I watched the Warriors
without without Steph Currer.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Fat that's here from Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here's a Steve kerk out that life is not much
fun right now without the star.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Take a listen, the series changed with Steph's injury, so
everybody's shots are going to be more difficult. There's just
you know, Steph's the guy who breaks the defense down
for us and and creates that offensive flow, and I
think the end result is that shots are more difficult
for every every single guy.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And he's really saying, the way I interpret that, his
players suck and he can't coach them up. They can't
make shots unless they're open. They're not good. That's that's
what that sounds like to me. Am I interpreting that
the right way, Isn't that what he's saying. It's harder,
and these guys suck. They can't play because if they
were good, they still make some of the shots. They're
not making them because they blow. That's what Steve Kurrr
(28:47):
saying about his players. And he's alway, he's got the
excuse all built. Oh well he tried, but we lost
the series and all that stuff. I haven't seen any adjustment. Again,
I'm not a bit coaching adjustment guy. But you do
see teams that have a little more fight than the
Warriors do. And what happened to the Warriors defense. Another
(29:08):
thing that Steve Kerr has talked about and celebrated that
they're one of the top defensive teams, and what have
they done Minnesota? At one point it's Randall, then it's
a man. They go back and forth, and the second
half explosion like a rocket taken off in the third quarter,
Anthony Edwards and Randall early in the game, they overwhelmed
(29:33):
Golden State. They're undersized on defense, and they seem to
be tired, fatigued. I love that excuse. I have the
whole playbook of broadcasters in basketball. I was gonna do
a rant on this. I still might the NBA broadcaster
the book on broadcasting NBA basketball. What you do is,
(29:56):
whatever team's trailing, you talk up they're gonna come back. Uh,
we've seen stranger comebacks from this. What do you think
they can come back? And then when it's apparent the
team that's losing is going to not come back, you
talk about how tired they are, how exhausted.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
They are, how strenuous.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It is, of course, staying at five star hotels, traveling
by private plane, bus, police escort, very grueling.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yes, how do they do it? My god? What heroes.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, is the Ben Mahlor show. You know, why
don't we play this right now? I was gonna tease
this again, but let's go to the idea. Draymond Green.
Draymond Green did the cowardly thing. Draymond the other night,
decided that he could not be bothered to answer questions.
The guy that's trying to be in the media ran
(30:51):
and hid like a coward from the media.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Who goofed, yeah, Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Anyway, So Draymond Green started his post game news conference
on Monday night, and he addressed the fact that he
ran and hid like a baby after the previous game.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Before I started, I want to apologize. I didn't talk
the other day. I was quite a bit frustrated and
very careful of I didn't want to get myself fine,
but more so say something to make it sound like
an excuse. We struggle and lose, and I didn't come
(31:34):
up here and talk. I felt like a coward when
I got home. So I wanted to apologize.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
The offer that all right, well, apology not accepted, but
you were a coward.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I will agree you were a coward. And that's what
we talked about for some time.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We played some sound the other day of Halliburton, Tyrese Haliburton,
the Pacers, who didn't even seem all that upset by.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
He's like, well, the Pacers center didn't have to talk,
so I didn't have to talk and I left at
all that stuff. At least Raymond Greens like nose he's
a coward by running it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And you're like, dude, you want to be in the media,
Like that's like the deal you got, you got to
show up.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I love these all these guys being exposed in the
NBA playoffs and of course the NBA media. Most of
them are boot lickers and toasuckers in the media, and
so it's it's fine, it's they're made for each other,
but it's it is hilarious when a guy like Draymond
Green first of all, is bold and bodacious with commentary
(32:29):
and then when things aren't going well, ah, I.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Can't show up.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm out, which makes you a show pony. You're a
front runner when you do that, Like that's the definition
of front runner. You're there when the times are good,
you're out in front of the camera. You have your makeup, person,
you have your lighting person, and then when the team
loses and you, when you ride the vomit comet, you
suddenly don't want to talk.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
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Speaker 3 (32:58):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Here
We'll go to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
This is one big Ben gets criminal Ben.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
The Chargers are set to open the NFL season with
a home game in Brazil against the Chiefs. Now they
could have picked up to two games to protect or
keep in Los Angeles, but the team did not use
those protections on any of their AFC West rivals.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Do you think this is a bad move by the Chargers. Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
First of all, I have friends that are part of
the Chiefs whatever traveling party, so the only time I
see him is when they come to play the Chargers.
So I'm not gonna be able to see them unless
I go to Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Or go to Vegas or something like that. So they're
screwing me over. Bad job by them.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Number two, don't you want your fans to see Mahomes like?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
What are you doing next?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Texas quarterback or former Texas quarterback? Quin Yours was the
last quarterback taken in the NFL draft, all the way
in the seventh round. While Yours admitted that he didn't
expect to follow that far, he did say that he's
got the same opportunity as everyone else.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Do you expect you wish to outplay his draft position?
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
But they said that the reason he was drafted so
low was because they thought he was essentially a diva
and he couldn't handle being a backup. So if he
proves them wrong, this guy was mister everything in college football.
I remember when he was like the first nil guy
going to Ohio State and all that.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I don't expect much. I don't next.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
TMZ caught up with Rams star defensive back Quinton Lake,
who said that Matthew Stafford is one hundred percent to
Hall of Famer and that he should get in easily.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, he's never been an All Pro. He's been a
Pro Bowler. Who cares about that? Never been an All Pro?
Never been an All Decade team?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
No? No, no, no, no, How do we do? He
passes it? That is a WED player on the park.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thanks Loraina, I appreciate it very kind of you to
say that.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
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Speaker 3 (35:08):
Probably not see.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
A timeout for malos amount of money that's made our
contestants for this game show? We have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play? Hello?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Jed? Okay, I love Charlie.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'm love with Charlie.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Dude, I love Charlie.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't? Don't
influence them? And Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with? Jed?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That was now available? Ill?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Okay, that's a right down L next to your name.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Lorena picked door number one, door number two or door
number three?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Number three? All right? Well you wanna pick Greg in
South Carolina? Hello? Greg's going on there? He is? Look
at this guy. Unbelievable. Greg, you won Lorraina picked number three.
You were on the third line. Look at that course.
That's right? All right? And Greg? What part of South
Carol on our un I am from Gatney on the
(36:03):
home with the peach. There you go home, Jaffney. That's
where you've heard of that cop.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Uh the House of Cards.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But that was not in those shows.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh yeah, Hollywood, use the name, but a different location.
That's terrible.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well, who do you want to partner up with? There? Greg?
You got me Ben or Loraine? If you want some fun?
I know a couple of these this time. Okay, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Right, I guess you picked me a fine, very good.
Justin you're with Jed. Jed pick a category. Please hold
on a second, make sure everyone's on. Don't hang up
on you.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
All right.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
This is the Stevie Wonder edition of Mallags Amount of Money.
He turned seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Today, seventy five. You know he's been able to see
his whole life. Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
The category is sign sealed delivered on yours Superstition higher
Ground or isn't she lovely?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Jed? What would you like about?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
And then Greg, how about you? Which category would you like? Superstition?
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you and I are
up first. You know the rules of the game. So
I'm not going to tell them to you forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
We have higher ground.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
These athletes got better after changing teams forty five seconds begin.
He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback. Yes, uh,
this guy was on the Clippers. He is now the
MVP on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I gotta no, I get holy crap.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I don't know said holy crap.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
He's got like three names hyphenated last name. All right,
all right's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is now
a star on the New York Knicks. He came from
the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, no, you no, you got it,
the b YU star. He was the backup for Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yes, this guy was nicknamed the bus running back. Yes,
this guy was dropped out of high school. He was
on the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
He was part of the Mall you really got hung
up on shake yogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Let's show him how it's done here, Greg, let's school
these cats.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No problem. You picked superstition, Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
These athletes all are known to be superstitious. Are you ready, Gregg?
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Are you ready ready? All right?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Ron Awago, quarterback for the Chiefs right now. Becker, Yes,
tight end for the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in
the early two thousands and the late nineties.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Center.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
All right, let's go to a baseball player third basement
for the Red Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of Famer. Yes,
basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks.
All right, no basketball for you. How about this baseball
player was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets.
He liked to chew licorice between innings. Kind of an
(39:09):
eccentric to superstitious guy. White guy in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Speaking of nineties, you got ninety points.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Wow, that means we can go again. Oh good, are exciting?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You didn't get I didn't even try Rafiel on the doll,
But you didn't get him much. Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan
and Jason Tare. You're not a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay,
we're screwed.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
What category we have what do we have signed, sealed delivered,
I'm yours?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And isn't she lovely?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Isn't she?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Isn't she? Ah? Yeah, isn't She's just lovely? To deliver?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I mean, shut up, all right, these athletes recently, I'm
not gonna try the basketball names. These athletes did not
even did not or these athletes recently had a daughter.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
So here we go. Are you ready? Greg? All right?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Forty five seconds on the clock. He would go go
quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys right now. Yes, slugger from Japan.
He's also a pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah, quarterback for
the Carolina Panthers when they won when when they went
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Was the MVP.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yes, uh, wide receiver for the Bengals. He changed his name. Yes, pitcher.
He was the ace of the Milwaukee Brewers. He went
to the Orioles. He's still pitching. He's on the Diamondbacks. Now.
Last name is like the the guy from the Simpsons,
the owner of the power plant there.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those right, and this should be one of them.
Enough you It was Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Remember corpor Yeah, he got all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I even try the basketball ones because he got one night.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
All right, Jed, we need fifty points here to tie.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Don't choke shed six D. Do not choke, Jed, choke,
don't choke, choke.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
I'm not sign. I'm just I'm telling him not to choke.
I don't want to steal delivered on yours. These athletes
were practically given away in lopsided trades.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Do not choke.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Choke, and let's begin,
all right. This guy was an MVP for the Red Sox.
He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh, he's
not confident. This guy was a running back for the Rams,
part of the Greatest.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Show on turf marka fault, Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
That ties us. This guy was a slugger for the
Oakland A's. He went to the Cardinals. He was a cheater.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
No chance, no chance.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Let's no Big Red, no, no joke.
Speaker 7 (41:53):
Don't joke Red, don't choke, Jed, Big Red. He was
on the race with Sammy Sosa.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yes, in here that I had tried to I didn't
try to change stop. I didn't try to change I
didn't try to change. Sing you your ass down there cool?
You do not say though, you sit your ass down. Okay,
that's bookrap.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
You put a guy on that doesn't know basketball, and
you had basketball das.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You cheated, You cheated. Ne're a cheater. You cheated.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
You put up the non basketball guy and you asked
basketball questions
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(01:59):
of games. Normally the protocol if you listen to the
show on a semi regular basis, we normally begin with
whatever game happened.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Last, because that's the freshest.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But in this particular night, this night different than all these,
And I said, a couple of other stories that were
somewhat interesting, intriguing that are worthy of some talk. And
we'll get to the draft lottery. There's some funny business
with that as the Dallas Mavericks one and they will
(02:30):
have the number one pick in the draft. Have some
thoughts on that I will share with you later if
you're with us for the Yeah, they got that to
top pick. But the story here is not there's much
to talk about. To begin with Golden State not showing
up in the third quarter and losing. They were supposed
to lose without Steph Curry. They lost without Steph Curry.
(02:51):
We will get to that, as Minnesota's now on the
brink of advancing to the Final four of the NBA again.
But our lead this hour from mid ten, Manhattan, game
number four, Eastern Conference Semi Finals.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The Green team looking to even things up.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
They'd those blown leads in games one and two, and
they made every three point shot, so it seemed at
least half of them in the game over the weekend,
so they could even things up with the Knickerbockers on.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
A Monday night. Were you engaged? You were not? You
have a life? Okay? Good?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So Jalen Brunson went bonkers in the SEC and that,
but overall he had thirty nine points twelve assists, a
partris in the pear tree and yet again the New
York basketball team rallying back and they now move on
the brink of an advancement to the Final four in
the East, as they are a ween away from the
(03:51):
first Eastern Conference final appearance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
In twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's a generation of suck for the Knickerbockers, but they
are on the brink of doing that. As the reigning
champions of the NBA, the Boston Celtics. They are staring
down the barrel of an elimination situation.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
They lose by eight. On Monday night, the Knicks were down.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Fourteen in the third quarter, yet another blown lead by
the Boston basketball team.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And so what is the setup?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Game five is on Wednesday back in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And the setup is there.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Have only been thirteen teams that have come back from
a three to one deficit. That's it, thirteen teams from
a three to one deficit. And so Boston, if they
want to do this, they have to be the fourth,
fourteenth team. Fourteenth team. My malor math tells me to
come back, and they're gonna have to do it. We
are ninety nine point nine percent sure without Jason Tatum,
(04:48):
who had to be carried off the court then used
a wheelchair. But unlike Paul Pierce who pooped his pants,
Jason Tatum did not poop his pants.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
He had a right leg.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Injury with two point fifty eight to go in the
basketball game. As he was withering in pain on the court,
hopped off the court. And if you have watched sports
at all for any amount of time, chances are you
were going to come up with the same diagnosis that
everyone's come up with. Now, there's no official confirmation that
(05:18):
I've seen, and if you've seen it, that's fine. I
haven't seen anything. I was looking around. I hadn't seen
any official confirmation. I'm not a doctor, but I did
stay at a holiday and express years ago, and so
I will give you my radio diagnosis here in a
minute that ninety nine point nine percent sure Pop goes
the Achilles. Unfortunately, MRI is scheduled for later on on Tuesday.
(05:43):
So let us discuss the question if these reports are true,
If true and Jason Tatum is out for the series
and for the long run, does this officially end Boston's
title defense? Is this it they cooked at this point?
So I've got Buckingham Palace, Owen Wilson, and Tabernacle, and
(06:08):
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to have a pity party, which the Celtics
can all show up to. They can have a nice
little pity party. So a to answer the question, if
Tatum did suffer the injury that everyone's pretty sure he suffered,
although not one hundred percent. If that's the case at
(06:30):
this hour, does it end Boston's title hopes. And to
that I will say, is the new Pope a White
Sox fan?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I think yeah. So that's a rhetorical question. Obviously, it's game,
set and match. If this was Monopoly, Jalen Brunson and
the Knickerbockers would pass, go, collect two hundred dollars and
a fast pass to the Eastern Conference Finals. You can
even crank up if you are the classic from Willie
(07:00):
and Nelson who just had a birthday, turn out the lots,
the parties over, oh yeah, and then some and so
the Celtics in this era of one win champions, and
then you fade into oblivion. It would appear that that
is the track, that is the dimension that we are in.
(07:21):
In a different dimension, Jason Tatum finishes the game, doesn't
get hurt, and the Celtics come back, although they were
down nine at that point, come back and win the game.
But in the dimension that we're in, Tatum suffers the
Achilles injury and just a one win title team and
Jalen Brown and the Celtics can get together. They can
have a team get together at a nice boutique in on
(07:44):
Martha's Vineyard, a cozy bed and breakfast, because it appears
the Celtics are dining on one thing, and one thing only,
a Kellogg's product. That would be Rice Crispy, Snap, Crackle
and Pop for the Boston Celtic. There the Celtics in
the process you talk about a change here, the Celtics
(08:04):
in a process of an ownership change.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
With Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Likely out most if not all, of next season, so
he's gone next season. Think of this like, if you will,
the Celtics all of a sudden decided we're going to
visit Buckingham Palace and we're going to witness the changing
of the guard because that's what's going on in the
Eastern Conference. It opens things up obviously this year, it
(08:32):
opens things up, and I mean we're looking barring some
kind of really awkward situation here Indiana and New York
in the Eastern Conference final. So one of those two
teams guaranteed to go to the finals. My Malard math
tells me that, So expect to see seven thousand different
shots of Reggie Miller and the old Pacer Knicks matchups back,
(08:54):
you know, a million years ago when they actually used
to play each other in the playoffs. On a on
a s my regular basis, and it also opens things
up down the line. You look at the off season
wheeling and dealing, and if the Celtics are cooked because
the owner, the new ownership is going to force some
contracts to leave and Tatum will be out, all of
(09:15):
a sudden, the Celtics at at the very least, they're
going on to a middle of the pack Eastern Conference
team next season, and that opens things up for some
of these other pretenders to go out. And you know,
pat Riley goes out and get Giannis in Miami and
all of a sudden, the Heat.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Are back near the top.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
All right, now, turning the page on that, what are
the long term implications We went over some of them,
but what are the other long term implications for Jason
Tatum if he did shred his achilles like we put
into context for him and for everyone involved. So the
first name that popped in my head when I was
watching this Joe Missoula. Joe Missoula, Yeah, that's the first
(09:57):
name the coach because this Ja scent Tatum injury where
he goes down, snap crackle pop. For Joe Missoula, it
is like an old Owen Wilson comedy from over a
decade ago. Hall pass. This is a hall It wasn't
a good movie, but it's a hall pass for Joe Missoula.
(10:18):
He'll get immunity. Management will overlook his faux pause. In
coaching not coaching. There's not a lot in the NBA
compared to other sports. It's pretty low on the big
board of impact and whatnot. But there were a number
of what are you doing moments in this Celtic Runner
(10:39):
reminds you a couple of years ago when we gave
Joe Mozoula and the nickname.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Let him play Joe, sleepy Joe.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know, he's kind of sleeping on the sidelines and
he didn't morph backing too. Let him play Joe in
this series, it's arcade basketball. It's the old school going
to the arcade, playing Papa shot. You put a token in,
and you put.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Another one and another one, over and over and over
and over.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
There were no meaningful adjustments. It is an indictment of
the Celtic franchise. They blew two to twenty point leads.
You know, it's a much different conversation if the Celtics
are up three nothing going into this game which they.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Had the lead.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It blew out the Knicks in the game over the
weekend on Saturday, and then you look at what happened
to the first two games in Boston. So there is
a world where the Celtics win the first three and
then if Tatum still gets hurt, that's fine. You're still thinking, Okay,
we still get to the Eastern Conference Finals. But in
this particular game four outscored by twenty two points, they
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went up fourteen in the third quarter, outscored by twenty
two points. To close the game, Jalen Brunson put on
an absolute clinic with twenty six points six assists to
close the game, and even when Tatum left with two
point fifty eight to go, Boston was down by Now
I guess we're having a postgame sound, but what are
the chances that Jason Tatum makes a full recovery? So
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even the outbulook is not great on that, And we're
not one hundred percent sure it's in Achilles, but were
ninety nine point nine percent shirts an Achilles. If it
is an Achilles, the chances are slim and none that
he makes a full recovery. There was just a study
done last year, thirty seven players had suffered the Achilles
injury going back decades in the NBA. Now, seventy eight
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percent of them did return. That's the good news. Seventy
eight percent of them did return. However, most players struggled
to get anywhere close to where they remember. How terrible
Kobe Bryant was at the end.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That's one of the guys.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Jason Tatum copies and Kobe could not do anything at
the end there when he was playing because he had
the Achilles injury and he was a shell of what
he had been. He was also older, and the numbers
indicate and this tells you what has happened now what's
going to happen that it's mostly the backups, that it's
the reserve players that are able to come back and perform.
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Thirty one percent of players who returned from an achilles
injury were out of the NBA within three years. Now, again,
a lot of those were older players. It's normally something
that happens to someone's older, not in the prime of
their careers. So you have to factor that in. But yikes,
double yikes, if you will, All right, now, last word here,
So I wanted to address this because It's a pet
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peeve of mine, and this is really my therapy. I
don't pay for a therapist. I don't talk to anyone.
This is I talk to you. You're the person that
has to listen to me complain. I sit around. I'm
very grateful to have a job where they want me
to watch random games and then give my hot takes.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What a great job.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
But occasionally I want to pull the hair out of
my head that is left on my head and watching
the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, I want to preface this.
First of all, I'd like to curse. I don't think
I'm allowed to. But what impact let me let me
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phrase it this way. What impact is celebrity row having
on your judgment, your opinion of the Knicks in Washington.
So these entertainment people, these entertainment elites that are given
these seats courtside so they can get on television, and
the Knicks can make everyone think they're the coolest thing
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in town, and everyone wants to be at the nixt game,
sitting court set and all.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That major Ick factor, major Ick factor. And there they
were again.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Look there's Cardi b all my Benny Blanca, Oh my god,
Selena Gomez is there sting Chris Rock Ben Stiller.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
MSG.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
When it comes to the celebrity is the tabernacle of worship.
It's celebrity worship is what it is. Excessive admiration and
to the level of obsession of the celebrity, putting them
on a pedestal.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And those aren't the real nick fans.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
See, that's the thing, Like, and I got this, I
got fam from New York whatever, find they're there nick
fans sprinkled through my cousins and whatnot that are from
that area. But watching Celebrity Row makes me want to
puke in my mouth. Okay, I want to literally, I
want to vomit in my mouth watching the Celebrity Row.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I would like it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
And and it's one thing to show them once how
many cutaway shots do we?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Did somebody at ESPN say, okay, uh, this just keep
showing all of them continuous spotlight reaction? Like I really
need to see Spike Lee celebrating or Tracy Morgan or
any these other cats and like why And it's whether
it's a celebrity or not that celebrities annoy me more.
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But when I'm watching a college football game on a Saturday.
I don't need the reaction shot on that either, the
frequent cutaways. And it's just like the early television producers
and directories, this is what they did, and every one
just copies the early people in television. They do the
same things. Well, this is how we did it back
in there, we had fan reaction shots. Listen, you cut away.
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It's excessive, it's unnecessary. It takes away from the broadcast.
And you keep cutting away to these reaction shots. And
does anyone need to see someone else reacting to something
that we can't see Because we're seeing them react to
what they're looking at, but we can't see it, but
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they're actually there.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's like, how dumb is this? Dumb? D dumb dumb dumb.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Seriously, and at very least, at least diversify your crowd
reaction shots. I get it, your star efforts. I understand.
You don't need to fixate on the celebrities.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
We know they're there. Okay, great, they got free tickets, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Outstand many of them haven't done anything entertaining in years. Anyway,
they're living off what they did thirty years ago or
twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
App Howling at the Moon.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
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Speaker 3 (17:22):
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from the second half of the playoff card. Last hour,
we ranted about snapcrackle pop for Jason Tatum as the
Celtics lose to the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
New York fans a very calm maack, like you've been.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
There before, and well they haven't actually acted like they've
been there before. And then you realize, like all those
nick fans that were going crazy outside Madison Square Garden
and going nuts and all that, like anybody in their thirties,
Like if you're in your early thirties, last time the
Knicks were any good, you were like seven.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Like that's how bad. Think about that, Like the.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Knicks haven't been good in twenty five years, and they
haven't won a championship in like fifty years.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
So anyway, but our lead is not from that.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
We go to San Francisco the late game on the
pro Bouncy Ball card that was the playground for Game four,
of the Western Conference semi Finals, Minnesota with a chance
to stop and do the monthstermage on Golden State and
take a stranglehold on the series. No, Steph Curry again,
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he was there giving moral support. Didn't you watch?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
No, you weren't all right?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, Anthony Edwards went kabboom in the second half and
he ended up with thirty points, second straight thirty point performance.
It was the third quarter that was a difference here.
Julius Randall who did a lot early in the game.
He finished with thirty one points and but timm Wolves
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audition and swishing and into the win column. They beat
the Warriors, ended up winning by seven. They were up
by twenty in the second half. And don't look now
but a Minnesota sports team yet again, the t Wolves
on the brink of advancing to the final four in
their sport as they.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Are one win away now.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
From moving on to the Western Conference Finals and a
chance to go to the NBA Finals. And he will
go back home to Minneapolis on Wednesday, and right there
downtown Target Center, right next to that Sid Hartman statue,
right there outside that arena, they can clinch the best
of seven Western Conference Semi Finals game five Wednesday night,
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be there, b Square. The Warriors will most likely be
without Steph Curry. Most likely will be without Steph Curry there.
He sat out his third game in and he is
scheduled to have his hammy that went whammy be re
examined on Wednesday and is said to be a game
time decision. Okay, we reevaluated that day, Like every day
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you get up.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Technically, we're all being re evaluated when we wake up.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So am I awake? Okay, I'm being reevaluated. They're gonna
get out of bed. Okay, good Now, the better story
is yet again in the losing locker room.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So that is where we will start our conversation together.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And as we discuss the question here, who gets the
biggest piece of the.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Sour dough of blame for the Warriors? The sour dough
of blame?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
So I've got State Farm, Latto and Hogwarts, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious garlic fries. Which think of
garlic fries, you think of the Northern California That's at
least what I think of known for their garlic fries.
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All right, So numb there's plenty sour dough blame to
go around, plenty plenty. The bakery is working overtime here.
The Warriors, in fact, they need to get an extra
order or two. Okay, they do, So we'll start out
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with Okham's razor. The simplest answer is the most obvious one.
With Steph Curry out of the lineup, and he's been
out other than thirteen minutes he played in Game one,
he's been out. So the obvious answer here is that
someone has to rise up. Right, the team unites and
you rise up and next man up, all that stuff,
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and so how's that work?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Now?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Watching these playoffs, there's some commercials that play NonStop. It's
just over and over situation. For example, if you've been
watching the NBA games, that State Farm commercial. So I
actually thought of that State Farm commercial in context of
the Warriors without Steph Kerr, Like, have you seen the commercial?
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You know what I'm gonna say. So, the Warriors needed
Batman to show up, and they really needed Batman, and
right there across Gotham City they needed Batman, and Baitman
showed up. Not Batman, Baitman. That's what they got. And
in this case, playoff Jimmy on this night was pedestrian
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Jimmy bag to the bone. Now we're supporters of Jimmy Butler.
He went wacko in Miami, and he went wacko in
Minnesota and in Philadelphia and everywhere. Eventually he goes whacko.
But when he's playing, he's locked in. He's a fun
player to watch, and in this particular game, a winnable
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game at halftime. In fact, Golden said was leading at
halftime and he went a wall. He went a wall.
Jimmy Butler, for some reason, was tentative. He was gun
shy on offense. We're predicting that we'll here seven.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
He's heard, he's heard.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Okay, well, you played the game, passed up shots, did
not even try to take some shots that were there.
He was completely rattled. We don't know why the Warriors
while Jimmy Butler playoff Jimmy was on the court, were
outscored by thirty points. Who goofed? I've got to know
thirty points? He only took nine shots. Now he moves
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up right the way the pecking order works with Steph
Curry out, you went out and got Jimmy Butler and
he's the guy, except he wasn't the guy and you
only took n jet. Now others to blame and shame
because we like to blame. In Shaman Talk Radio, Brandon Pajemski,
as we mentioned the worst shooting performance we've seen in
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over a decade in the NBA playoffs, or somebody taking
the volume shots that he's taken and pods.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
It's even worse the last two games.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The last two games, this cat is shooting sixteen point
six per sent from the floor. He's taking twenty four shots,
he's only made four of them, four of twenty four,
and from three point range he's shooting twelve point five
percent the last two games. PEEO, what stinks? I think
we know who stinks? My God, all right now, pitch two.
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So something goes wrong for Golden State, while on the
other side, what went right for Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
In this particular game. So ant man what he did?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He found the button on the dashboard and he went
turbo time in the third quarter, clear.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
The runway for takeoff. We were about to depart, and
he did.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
He's very choppy player being a good player, it seems
very choppy. I think that's an accurate way to describe him,
that the numbers usually are pretty good, but there's some choppiness,
there's not smoothness to his game. But on this particular night,
in that third quarter, he cranked up the Latto song.
He had that big energy, right, big capital D energy there,
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and we know he loves to talk about.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
His big D man.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Anthony Edwards sixteen of his thirty points in the third quarter,
and that was the kill shot. That was the stranglehold
quarter for Golden State to go down. They fell into
a sinkhole. Minnesota was plus twenty two, plus twenty two
in the third quarter, body blow, body blow, body blow,
one after another, led by twenty and then they just
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kept the Warriors at Bay at arms length the rest
of the game, just kept them at arm's length there.
So Golden State now they're in position to be a
classic INFO mercial, the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I've fallen and I can't get up.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
They can't get up right now lethargic, listless, spiritless basketball
and as normally happens, do not expect any calls from
the Bay area there. That's usually what happens when it's
called front running. That's what it's called. All right, now,
final point, So, how can Golden State get back in
this series? With Minnesota down three to one? We know
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the math on this is not particularly great. There's only
been thirteen teams that have come back and here they are.
So they need to visit Hogwarts. I've determined they need
to go to Hogwarts, that they have to get the
potion from Harry Potter and Hogwarts there and things have
gotten out of hand, things have fallen by the wayside.
There they are in a ditch by the side of
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the road. And whatever potion they can find from the
Harry Potter franchise, the health potion, they need to give
Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
A gallon of it and just have him drink that.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
And instead of Boom goes to Dynamite, it'll be Boom
goes to the Warriors and they win one game and
then all of a sudden you get a little tight
tooka syndrome for Minnesota and things change.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And by the way, what has Steve Kirk done?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I keep asking that question when I watched the Warriors
without without Steph Currer.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Fat that's here from Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here's a Steve kerk out that life is not much
fun right now without the star.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Take a listen, the series changed with Steph's injury, so
everybody's shots are going to be more difficult. There's just
you know, Steph's the guy who breaks the defense down
for us and and creates that offensive flow, and I
think the end result is that shots are more difficult
for every every single guy.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And he's really saying, the way I interpret that, his
players suck and he can't coach them up. They can't
make shots unless they're open. They're not good. That's that's
what that sounds like to me. Am I interpreting that
the right way, Isn't that what he's saying. It's harder,
and these guys suck. They can't play because if they
were good, they still make some of the shots. They're
not making them because they blow. That's what Steve Kurrr
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saying about his players. And he's alway, he's got the
excuse all built. Oh well he tried, but we lost
the series and all that stuff. I haven't seen any adjustment. Again,
I'm not a bit coaching adjustment guy. But you do
see teams that have a little more fight than the
Warriors do. And what happened to the Warriors defense. Another
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thing that Steve Kerr has talked about and celebrated that
they're one of the top defensive teams, and what have
they done Minnesota? At one point it's Randall, then it's
a man. They go back and forth, and the second
half explosion like a rocket taken off in the third quarter,
Anthony Edwards and Randall early in the game, they overwhelmed
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Golden State. They're undersized on defense, and they seem to
be tired, fatigued. I love that excuse. I have the
whole playbook of broadcasters in basketball. I was gonna do
a rant on this. I still might the NBA broadcaster
the book on broadcasting NBA basketball. What you do is,
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whatever team's trailing, you talk up they're gonna come back. Uh,
we've seen stranger comebacks from this. What do you think
they can come back? And then when it's apparent the
team that's losing is going to not come back, you
talk about how tired they are, how exhausted.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
They are, how strenuous.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
It is, of course, staying at five star hotels, traveling
by private plane, bus, police escort, very grueling.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yes, how do they do it? My god? What heroes.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, is the Ben Mahlor show. You know, why
don't we play this right now? I was gonna tease
this again, but let's go to the idea. Draymond Green.
Draymond Green did the cowardly thing. Draymond the other night,
decided that he could not be bothered to answer questions.
The guy that's trying to be in the media ran
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and hid like a coward from the media.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Who goofed, yeah, Draymond Green.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Anyway, So Draymond Green started his post game news conference
on Monday night, and he addressed the fact that he
ran and hid like a baby after the previous game.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Before I started, I want to apologize. I didn't talk
the other day. I was quite a bit frustrated and
very careful of I didn't want to get myself fine,
but more so say something to make it sound like
an excuse. We struggle and lose, and I didn't come
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up here and talk. I felt like a coward when
I got home. So I wanted to apologize.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
The offer that all right, well, apology not accepted, but
you were a coward.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
I will agree you were a coward. And that's what
we talked about for some time.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We played some sound the other day of Halliburton, Tyrese Haliburton,
the Pacers, who didn't even seem all that upset by.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
He's like, well, the Pacers center didn't have to talk,
so I didn't have to talk and I left at
all that stuff. At least Raymond Greens like nose he's
a coward by running it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
And you're like, dude, you want to be in the media,
Like that's like the deal you got, you got to
show up.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
I love these all these guys being exposed in the
NBA playoffs and of course the NBA media. Most of
them are boot lickers and toasuckers in the media, and
so it's it's fine, it's they're made for each other,
but it's it is hilarious when a guy like Draymond
Green first of all, is bold and bodacious with commentary
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and then when things aren't going well, ah, I.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Can't show up.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm out, which makes you a show pony. You're a
front runner when you do that, Like that's the definition
of front runner. You're there when the times are good,
you're out in front of the camera. You have your makeup, person,
you have your lighting person, and then when the team
loses and you, when you ride the vomit comet, you
suddenly don't want to talk.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. Here
We'll go to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
This is one big Ben gets criminal Ben.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
The Chargers are set to open the NFL season with
a home game in Brazil against the Chiefs. Now they
could have picked up to two games to protect or
keep in Los Angeles, but the team did not use
those protections on any of their AFC West rivals.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Do you think this is a bad move by the Chargers. Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
First of all, I have friends that are part of
the Chiefs whatever traveling party, so the only time I
see him is when they come to play the Chargers.
So I'm not gonna be able to see them unless
I go to Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Or go to Vegas or something like that. So they're
screwing me over. Bad job by them.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Number two, don't you want your fans to see Mahomes like?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
What are you doing next?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
Texas quarterback or former Texas quarterback? Quin Yours was the
last quarterback taken in the NFL draft, all the way
in the seventh round. While Yours admitted that he didn't
expect to follow that far, he did say that he's
got the same opportunity as everyone else.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
Ben.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Do you expect you wish to outplay his draft position?
I don't.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
But they said that the reason he was drafted so
low was because they thought he was essentially a diva
and he couldn't handle being a backup. So if he
proves them wrong, this guy was mister everything in college football.
I remember when he was like the first nil guy
going to Ohio State and all that.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I don't expect much. I don't next.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
TMZ caught up with Rams star defensive back Quinton Lake,
who said that Matthew Stafford is one hundred percent to
Hall of Famer and that he should get in easily.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, he's never been an All Pro. He's been a
Pro Bowler. Who cares about that? Never been an All Pro?
Never been an All Decade team?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
No? No, no, no, no, How do we do? He
passes it? That is a WED player on the park.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thanks Loraina, I appreciate it very kind of you to
say that.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
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Speaker 3 (35:08):
Probably not see.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
A timeout for malos amount of money that's made our
contestants for this game show? We have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play? Hello?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Jed? Okay, I love Charlie.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
I'm love with Charlie.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Dude, I love Charlie.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't? Don't
influence them? And Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with? Jed?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
That was now available? Ill?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Okay, that's a right down L next to your name.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Lorena picked door number one, door number two or door
number three?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Number three? All right? Well you wanna pick Greg in
South Carolina? Hello? Greg's going on there? He is? Look
at this guy. Unbelievable. Greg, you won Lorraina picked number three.
You were on the third line. Look at that course.
That's right? All right? And Greg? What part of South
Carol on our un I am from Gatney on the
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home with the peach. There you go home, Jaffney. That's
where you've heard of that cop.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Uh the House of Cards.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But that was not in those shows.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh yeah, Hollywood, use the name, but a different location.
That's terrible.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well, who do you want to partner up with? There? Greg?
You got me Ben or Loraine? If you want some fun?
I know a couple of these this time. Okay, all right, all.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Right, I guess you picked me a fine, very good.
Justin you're with Jed. Jed pick a category. Please hold
on a second, make sure everyone's on. Don't hang up
on you.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
All right.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
This is the Stevie Wonder edition of Mallags Amount of Money.
He turned seventy five years old.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Today, seventy five. You know he's been able to see
his whole life. Uh.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
The category is sign sealed delivered on yours Superstition higher
Ground or isn't she lovely?
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Jed? What would you like about?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (37:02):
And then Greg, how about you? Which category would you like? Superstition?
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you and I are
up first. You know the rules of the game. So
I'm not going to tell them to you forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
We have higher ground.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
These athletes got better after changing teams forty five seconds begin.
He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback. Yes, uh,
this guy was on the Clippers. He is now the
MVP on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
I gotta no, I get holy crap.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
I don't know said holy crap.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
He's got like three names hyphenated last name. All right,
all right's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is now
a star on the New York Knicks. He came from
the Dallas Mavericks. Yes, no, you no, you got it,
the b YU star. He was the backup for Joe Montana.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yes, this guy was nicknamed the bus running back. Yes,
this guy was dropped out of high school. He was
on the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
He was part of the Mall you really got hung
up on shake yogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Let's show him how it's done here, Greg, let's school
these cats.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
No problem. You picked superstition, Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
These athletes all are known to be superstitious. Are you ready, Gregg?
Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Are you ready ready? All right?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Ron Awago, quarterback for the Chiefs right now. Becker, Yes,
tight end for the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes,
the big fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in
the early two thousands and the late nineties.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Center.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
All right, let's go to a baseball player third basement
for the Red Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of Famer. Yes,
basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks.
All right, no basketball for you. How about this baseball
player was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets.
He liked to chew licorice between innings. Kind of an
(39:09):
eccentric to superstitious guy. White guy in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Speaking of nineties, you got ninety points.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Wow, that means we can go again. Oh good, are exciting?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You didn't get I didn't even try Rafiel on the doll,
But you didn't get him much. Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan
and Jason Tare. You're not a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay,
we're screwed.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
What category we have what do we have signed, sealed delivered,
I'm yours?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
And isn't she lovely?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Isn't she?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Isn't she? Ah? Yeah, isn't She's just lovely? To deliver?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
I mean, shut up, all right, these athletes recently, I'm
not gonna try the basketball names. These athletes did not
even did not or these athletes recently had a daughter.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
So here we go. Are you ready? Greg? All right?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Forty five seconds on the clock. He would go go
quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys right now. Yes, slugger from Japan.
He's also a pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah, quarterback for
the Carolina Panthers when they won when when they went
to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Was the MVP.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yes, uh, wide receiver for the Bengals. He changed his name. Yes, pitcher.
He was the ace of the Milwaukee Brewers. He went
to the Orioles. He's still pitching. He's on the Diamondbacks. Now.
Last name is like the the guy from the Simpsons,
the owner of the power plant there.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those right, and this should be one of them.
Enough you It was Corbyn Burns.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Remember corpor Yeah, he got all the other ones.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I even try the basketball ones because he got one night.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
All right, Jed, we need fifty points here to tie.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Don't choke shed six D. Do not choke, Jed, choke,
don't choke, choke.
Speaker 7 (41:11):
I'm not sign. I'm just I'm telling him not to choke.
I don't want to steal delivered on yours. These athletes
were practically given away in lopsided trades.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Do not choke.
Speaker 7 (41:19):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Choke, and let's begin,
all right. This guy was an MVP for the Red Sox.
He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh, he's
not confident. This guy was a running back for the Rams,
part of the Greatest.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Show on turf marka fault, Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
That ties us. This guy was a slugger for the
Oakland A's. He went to the Cardinals. He was a cheater.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
No chance, no chance.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Let's no Big Red, no, no joke.
Speaker 7 (41:53):
Don't joke Red, don't choke, Jed, Big Red. He was
on the race with Sammy Sosa.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Yes, in here that I had tried to I didn't
try to change stop. I didn't try to change I
didn't try to change. Sing you your ass down there cool?
You do not say though, you sit your ass down. Okay,
that's bookrap.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
You put a guy on that doesn't know basketball, and
you had basketball das.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You cheated, You cheated. Ne're a cheater. You cheated.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
You put up the non basketball guy and you asked
basketball questions
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