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Big Ben talks about a trade in the NBA that saw John Collins go to the Clippers and Norman Powell to the Heat, Mets OF Juan Soto not being named to the NL All-Star team, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Ringo Starr Edition, and more!

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You can almost hear them. It's very windy. Pro bouncy
buff you didn't see this? Maybe not? We had a
not one, not two, but three team trade in pro
bouncy ball. The Miami Heat have acquired Storman Norman Powell
from the People's Team, while John Collins has escaped the
Great Salt Lake. He's headed to La La Land for

(02:49):
the real team, the People's Team in La And then
Kevin Love he's still playing. Kevin Love and Kyle Anderson
have been sentenced to play for the un Todd Jazz.
All that in a three team trade. So let us
discuss the question, how do you grade? Keep it simple?
How do you grade the three team trade that sent
John Collins to the Clippers and Norman Powell to the

(03:12):
to the Miami Heat. Those are the key parts of
this trade. So I've got Sorcery, Disneyland, and Sprinkles, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the Gabba Ghoul. We're gonna make
the Gobba go. So hey, malor grading people talk about
different insiders. You know, I was a big woj guy.

(03:34):
He retired Love WOJE. He's doing the college basketball thing
there in the East Coast. Now they've got that sham guy.
He's out there doing that thing like the sham Wow guy.
But it's the sham basketball guy. But when it comes
to when it comes to grading the trade, this is
the most important spot on the radio dial. It wasn't

(03:55):
a blockbuster. I'm not gonna say this it's a blockbuster.
It was a block whisperer, is what this trade was,
right and regardless, and make no mistake, this was a heist.
It was a heist. It was a daylight train robbery situation.
Now the low information fan would not know that. It's

(04:17):
a little more nuanced, and so that's why we're starting
with this here. It's a daylight train robbery of the
Utah Jazz. And they played the role the jazz. Danny
Ainge and his kid, the Nepo baby, who's the gam
with the jazz. They played the role of the distracted
security guard while the heist took place. So the Clippers
pull off a trade. It's under the radar. Admit it's

(04:39):
under the radar, and you know, might we will put
that under the on a milk carton witness protection and
all that stuff. But John Collins six foot nine has
got a pretty good jump shot and appears to have
a nice big chip on his shoulder. Stuck in Atlanta
and Utah. Now he's going to the bright lights of
the Clips and Steve Baumer and all that money and

(05:02):
just more sorcery, more sorcery from the Clippers. They get
an A plus with with the possibility of upping that
to an A plus plus plus. On this trade selling
Norman Power, they got him low, they got him on
the low side. They sold them on the high side
at the top of his market. They weren't going to

(05:23):
pay Storm and Norman Powell, who is a role player
that played above his means and we saw spotty play
in the playoffs Miami. I'll give them a be not
because I think Norman POW's amazing. He's a solid but
not great player, Norman Powell, but because really what the
Miami traded was a bunch of either washed up players

(05:44):
or spare parts. So Powell will give pat Riley and
his team there in Miami a microwave scoring option, but
not Vinnie the micro wave Johnson, if you're old, you
know who that is. And defensive indifference, which is there's
a lot of a lot of defensive indifference in the NBA.
So the Jazz they get the old f another f

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trade for the Utah Jazz. They traded a good player
for a fossil and another player who's not all that good,
but the star of the show is John Collins. That's
the star of the show. Goes to the Clippers. Nineteen
points of game, eight rebounds. That wasn't a bad team.
And we always put the qualifier. Anybody can put up
stats on a crap team like the Utah Jazz were

(06:29):
he shot the ball well, shot the ball well from
three point range, almost forty percent, shot the ball well
from the floor, and so rebounding points the whole thing.
And it's efficiency. All the nerds love John Collins, all
the geeks they geek out because he's very efficient and
all that stuff. And so he can be a rim runner,

(06:49):
which is that's a cool basketball rim runner can be that.
But he's got the range, he's a lob threat. Those
are all good things. And the Clippers clips have picked
up already Brook Lopez from later of the Milwaukee Bucks.
They've got zubots still hanging around, so they've changed their identity.
And now you have John Collins sliding in there like

(07:11):
a nice velvet glove at the fore position for the Clippers.
So James Harden's got that vertical pick and roll threat.
Kawhi Leonard, he's fine, and maybe he'll pause and when
his quad starts whispering sweet nothings to him. When we
get to February, maybe he'll calm down a little bit.

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But the Clippers they needed a different flavor after their
Game seven no show against the Denver Nuggets, and so
they got John Collins, who's still not thirty years only
twenty seven years old. I mean he turns twenty eight
during the upcoming before the upcoming NBA season. So that's
the kind of move. It doesn't get the big headlines
for the basketball paparazzo. They don't get excited about John Collins.

(07:54):
They don't. But that doesn't get a lot of attention
in July on our show. It does because we're not mainstream.
We're on late at night in the overnight. But that's
the kind of move that wins you playoff games when
we get to May of twenty twenty six, that's the
kind of move that does that. It's a chess move
and it's not a checkers move. It's a chess move.
There's a difference there. And so this will also lead

(08:16):
to other additions. There's some chatter, some chatter in the
grapevine that to Bradley Beal is about to come inbound
to La La Land to the Clippers. Now moving on
from that, we turn the page. We move across Los
Angeles to skid Row. That's where the Lakers play. Talk
about Hollywood. They play on skid Row. If you've ever
been to that arena, it is literally in skid Row.

(08:38):
So how do you react to the GM Skinny Jeans
Rob Polenka explaining why DeAndre Ayton. Now, he agreed to
a contract recently. I think on Sunday he agreed to
a contract. And so Rob polenka is quote went viral
of Rob Skinny Jeans, Polenka saying that DeAndre Eaton is
the ideal center for the Lakers. He talked about championships

(09:01):
and getting back to that level because of DeAndre eight
and all this stuff. So I saw the quotes and
I give this a shoulder shrug. I give it a
shoulder shrug, is what I do. Rob Polenka is selling
the dumb fan. He knows his fan base. I'll give
Rob Polenka credit. Now, listen, he knows the fan. It's

(09:24):
not a real knowledgeable fan. It's a dumb fan. So
he knows that, and he can sell a bill of
goods and he's like a used car salesman. He's got
a little bit of a blush, but he knows that
the idiots all buy it. It's so why DeAndre Ayton
has officially been now been crowned. If you read the
comments of Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka, he has been crowned

(09:44):
now as the Purple and Gold Savior, the great Messiah
in the middle and Polenka who turned in with these quotes.
It was slobber, chops, slaber, slapa, slappa all over. DeAndre
Aon talked about his size, mobility, his athleticism, Hey laid
it on. Thick guy talked about the playoff experience. Now

(10:05):
this is the part which is next level bull crap.
Oh DeAndre eight and he's got finals experience NBA Finals
with the Phoenix songs, and that aligns well with the
Lakers championship. Aspers. Lakers haven't won a championship, said Kobe Bryant.
He's dead. They have not won in a long time.
So it sounds like a news release by the Lakers.

(10:27):
It was like it was from Disneyland, but it was
in fantasy Land at Disneyland, is what it was. I mean, really, like,
what are you doing? Seriously? I mean, you cut through
the bull crap and it's like, this is not the
second coming of Shaquille O'Neal. It could be the ghost
of Kwame Brown, possibly haunting Woo Spookie. The Crypt is

(10:53):
inappropate the Lakers now playing on skid Row and they
play at the Crypt? How perfect is that? Franchise is
about dead and they play at the Crypt? Now box
score readers otherwise known as dumb fans. Box score readers,
they get a woody when they look at DeAndrea look
at the double doubles. They get all sided. But the
numbers do not tell the entire story on this one.

(11:17):
They don't. His motor runs cooler than a Saskatoon winner.
And my goal is to get the word Saskatoon in
every show possible. Did we play very well in Saskatoon?
We have a ten share? The Ben Malors show dominates
the land of Saskatoon. We do anyway. So Ayton has

(11:38):
been dogged much like he's play. He is a dog.
He needs some dog food. Whispers of laziness, apathy his
entire career in Phoenix, he was supposed to be an anchor.
He was the number one overall pick, so he was
supposed to be an anchor, but more like an anchor
dragging the ship down to the bottom of the water there.

(12:00):
And don't let Rob Polenka and his purple and gold
colored glasses fool you. As Mark Twain great Mark Twain quote,
never let the truth get in the way of a
good story. And so Ayton was essentially a role player
on that Sun's team that choked against the Milwaukee Bucks

(12:22):
in the NBA Finals, and he was there. He had
no fire. He was like a wet matchbook is what
he was like. He had very little heart, got out hustled,
and then it looked like he was essentially working a
nine to five job, not battling, not scratching in Clong

(12:44):
for the championship. He wasn't like that in Portland. Well,
Blazer's like, we're gonna untap this guy. We figured out
he's gonna go there. It's his team. There's nobody else
ahead of him in the pecking order. It's gonna be
DeAndre Aiden's team on the Oregon Trail. So he went
there and the Blazers had him for a couple of
years and they said, waited me. We gotta get risk

(13:06):
and not for Caprili. They didn't do it for salary
cap relief. They did it because they couldn't deal with
the drama. Would he show up that night? Would he
not show up that night? And now Rob Polinka thinks
that he's somehow the missing link to championship dreams? So okay,
did he take the bottle of pills called stupid stupid pills?
Did he take these? And as far as the Luca

(13:28):
narrative which is being passed around, well, Luca, they're draft
class buddies. Luka Dotsik right Ukah, Luca and DeAndre they
can go do hukah together. I know some hookah bars
in La. If they want to, can text me. I'll
let them know. Even Luca's wizardry, even his ability, you
think it's going to get any kind of passion out
of a passionless player? And DeAndre eight and come on,

(13:50):
you cannot coach hunger. And in the history of the NBA,
players that don't have that drive don't all of a
sudden get it. They don't. If you're seven foot tall,
that's great. If you're sleepwalking, that does not work. Last word,
quickly to Houston we go some interesting commentary paperwork was

(14:11):
turned into the Boys over on Fifth Avenue. For the
rock Cats, the NBA has rubber stamped I used the
old rubber stamp the Kevin Durant trade from the Suns
to the Rockets. This week the dust has settled massive
seventeen wreck seventeen trade. However, it really is just about

(14:33):
Kevin Durant. The other players are good for them. I'm
sure their families are excited, their friends are excited, But
for us, it's all about Kevin Durant. So some interesting
comments to decipher from the State of Texas. So the
Rockets GM, you probably don't know who that is. We
didn't know it is. We had to look him up.
His name is Rafael Stone. Sounds like a professional wrestler's name.

(14:54):
So Rafael Stone, the GM of the Rockets, explained the
Kevin Durant trade. Said you see this, He said, We're
not a developmental team anymore. The chamber, the Rocket said,
implying that Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece, that
Kevin Durant is the player that they needed to get

(15:16):
to a higher level. So your thoughts, So my first
thought is did I miss something? That's my first thought
when it comes to Kevin Durant, like, did KD suddenly
turn back the clock? Did he get in the hot
up time machine and said it to the year twenty fourteen.
So if you unpack this, if the rocket GM truly
believes that, maybe he's just blowing smoke. But if he

(15:36):
truly believes that, well he's got some dated thinking. I mean,
what do you doing. Kevin Durant is not the closer.
In fact, unpopular opinion, Kevin Durant has never been that guy.
You're not that guy, Palp, You're not that guy. He's
never been the final piece. They've tried, it's never happened.

(15:59):
So let's call it what is called Durant going to
the rockets. His only championship runs came with the Splash
Brothers in the Bay Area in Golden State, and that
team was a wedding cake. But not just a wedding cake. Okay.
That team was like a ten layer cake with all

(16:20):
the greatest frosting and oh my god, KD was just
a few extra sprinkles on top. That's it. That's it.
They had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, even that punk Draymond Green.
They had all those guys. They were the cake. They
were the cake, and KD came in there, he was
the sprinkles. He was the cherry on top. So Houston

(16:42):
now thinks, all of a sudden, they're getting the cake, boss?
Is what they're getting here? And are they smoking crack
over there? What's going on? Seriously? Look at the track
record Oklahoma City when Kevin Durant was there. The old
Sonics that became the Thunder couldn't get past the Warriors.
So they went to the Warriors. But that as a
ready made team, as we already explained, went to Brooklyn.

(17:02):
That was a disaster. He had Kyrie and Durant who
conspired at the All Star Game to form a super
team in Brooklyn, and that was like a bad sitcom,
like a Buddy comedy that got canceled after one season.
He went to Phoenix. They got bounced from the playoffs
and didn't make the playoffs here this past year. And

(17:23):
he looked at times like he was moving in slow motion,
Kevin Durant. And now Houston's like, yeah, that's our guy.
Rah rah, we got our guy. Woo phoa wait pho
Kevin Durant. Now he'll be efficient if you play fantasy
basketball or daily fantasy, which they're trying to make illegal
in California. The people was the Republic of California. But

(17:45):
he's not carrying a team through four playoff rounds, Kevin Durant,
that is not happening.

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should be. So our lead this hour is from baseball
and we start out in Queens. The New York Metropolitans
did not play, did not play on Monday. However, there
was much embarrassment, much embarrassment. One Soto the fallout. Everyone
talking about this in Baseball. One Soto in his first

(20:19):
season with the New York Mets, the new mister met
signing a fifteen year contract for seven hundred and sixty
five million, bigger than the gross domestic product of most
small countries as a free agent, and he was.

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Not selected to Baseball's All Star roster.

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If you didn't see.

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This, maybe not so the fallout on this has been
pretty extreme.

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One Sodo snubbed by the fan. The fan said ixnay
on the Soto a and also by the people in baseball.
They didn't want one Sodo to be in the All
Star Game. There's always a possible, a possibility, there's always
a possibility that Juan Soto will be added. Players get hurt,

(21:07):
they don't appear in the All Star Game. So there
will be some changes, but it doesn't matter. We do
the show today, and so right now, as we're doing
the show, Juan Soto is not on the National League
All Star roster. So let us discuss the question how embarrassing,
how embarrassing is it that the Mets outfielder Juan Soto

(21:29):
is not and not part of the All Star Game,
not named to the All Star roster. So I've got
ballot box letterman jacket and FaceTime, and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So a number one, this is an emasculation situation,

(21:55):
is what it is. It is a lemon merangue pie,
a delicious lemon merangue pie, right to the faith, right
to the schnaz here. So let's cut through all the noise,
all the nonsense like cacophony of noise there. One Soda
is not winning the mister popular vote, not winning any
award here. And that's the real reason, that's the real

(22:19):
reason that he's on the outside looking in in the
All Star Game. The All Star Break starts on Sunday
night after the games were played on Sunday, and the
All Star Game in Georgia. So this is not about
the stats. Now, we did some early April Mallard monologues
about the performance of Juan Soto not being up to

(22:41):
the standard. It was not at that time. Soto's numbers
of late douce scream All Star. He has had a
late surge. If you get a little tingle when somebody
gets a walk one, Soto's your player. He is third.
We are told if you look at the Nerd numbers,
he's third among all NL outfielders. In ops, he's tied.

(23:04):
I believe he's tied for fourth in terms of home runs.
And he was the player of the month if I'm
not mistaken, in the month of June. So those are
all good things. Those are all those are all good things.
He has been a one man on base machine for
the Metropolitan Drawing Rock walks. You get a walk, you

(23:24):
get a walk, You get a walk, kind of like
a rotten fish straws flies a lot, a lot of walks. Now,
regardless of that, Baseball's All Star Game is not just
a pure stat based situation. Is a referendum on where
you fall in the cosmos of baseball at this time.

(23:44):
It is a popularity contest. Every man, woman and child
knows this. And it's supposedly it's a meritocracy, but it's not.
It's a popularity contest. And the word in ballparks from
Boston to Seattle, from Miami to San Francisco, the word
is Juan Soto has rubbed enough people, enough people the

(24:07):
wrong way where he has not been added to the
guest list, not invited and the players. Remember, the players
vote for the reserves. It's like one thing for the
fans to say, oh, we don't like this guy, so
we're gonna stick at to Jan Soda. That's one thing.
And people vote on their computers, you know, ten fifteen

(24:28):
times a day, whatever it is. But the backups, not
the starters, not the start The reserves are named by
the players. And they did not circle or click the
button on Jan Soda. Neither did the Commissioner's office. They
didn't do it. They didn't do it. They get to
pick the final six All Stars. I believe that's how

(24:50):
that works. And so you would think that for Major
League Baseball. The league headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan. There's
a lot of met fans that work for Major Leage
Baseball in the league office. You would think a seven
hundred and sixty five million dollar player would at least
get an invite. Didn't happen. That's not an accident. It's

(25:11):
not Major League Baseball's players, the fans, and the league
office all went into the ballot box and they issued
a vote of no confidence for Juan Soto. Yeah they did. Well,
maybe I don't check. He's going to be there for
a long time with the Mets. But right now Juan
Soto is covered in the cooties. Juan Soto has the

(25:33):
cooties just the way is the Komodo dragon in the room.
We will address it is the demeanor of Juan Soda.
Clearly has rubbed people the wrong way here oozing with swagger,
but the swagger turned out to be the dagger in
many respects here he has not won the hearts, minds,
and voters. The Soto shuffle, as it is known, pretty

(25:58):
much after every pitch, every pitch that he doesn't swing at.
By the way, if you watch the Mets and you
watch them with the Yankees or the Podras or whoever,
so he does a little dance. It's kind of like
giving the bird. The bird is the word. The bird
is the word. He gives the bird to the pitcher,
the umpire and anyone else who thinks he should actually
wait until he does something before he does a little

(26:20):
shuffle and all that. And so clearly there are enough
people in baseball that don't like it. He said, well,
it's just baseball. They're all buttoned up. There's enough people
that grumble when Sodo does this that he's showboating one
soo A. Also, the teammates, some of them, now they
won't say it on the record because that's taboo, but
they clearly are rolling their eyes at Juan Sotos act there.

(26:41):
And when the cameras are not paying attention behind closed doors,
they're whispering, and they're not whispering sweet nothings. And it's
all bird dogging the seven hundred and sixty five million
dollar man. Of course, after taxes New York taxes, that's
about twenty million, about twenty million. Anyway, it's it's all
bird dogging Juan Sodo around the big LEAs. Remember in Washington,

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Remember when he came on the scene, the hot shot
prodigy of baseball. He had that natitude in DC and
he was the golden child of Major League Baseball. Oh
my god, but they were whispering even then. You know
he's gonna he's gonna have to grow up. It's more
about Wan than the team. It's all about Wan. Then

(27:25):
he went out to San Diego, ate some fish tacos
with the Padres, tried to stay away from Poppy when
he was in San Diego, went down a beautiful San Diego,
America's finest city they used to put it on the
police cards. Went there, and the Padre players did not
did not exactly open open the door with you get

(27:47):
him a hug with warm, warm, loving vibrations there, did
not throw him a parade. Then he went to the
Bronx and even Aaron Judge, the Judge Tonian, Aaron Judge,
mister nice guy. Everyone loves him. Oh, you can't say
anything bad about Aaron Jordo. They didn't seem like he

(28:07):
was too bummed out when Juan Soto scadaddl lacross from
his burrow to the next borough over. Didn't seem too
upset by that. And so Soto, who often plays like
he's auditioning for a statue, let me strike a poose.
I'm gonna strike a pose there clearly not winning over baseball,

(28:29):
at least today. We do the show today, and as
of today that is not the case. Thus he is
not an All Star again. He might be added, you know, tomorrow,
the next day, whenever. It doesn't matter right now, not
the initial wave. It's like when they used to play
the Pro Bowl, before the players in the NFL became
pansies and they stopped playing the Pro Bowl, and now
they do like tic tac toe. But back when they

(28:50):
did the Pro Bowl, there would always be ten guys
on each team that skipped out on the Pro Bowl,
and so other people would be added and it got
so ridiculous. I think one year Vince Young, who sucked,
made the Pro Bowl. He was a Pro Bowl quarterback,
which really must have upset him because I don't think
there was a cheesecake factory right next to a Loha stadium.

(29:12):
They might not be even one in o Wahu, which
must have been upsetting anyway. Now turning the pace, we
go to La La Land, well actually in Milwaukee, where
the brew crew shoved the meatball down the throat of
the Dodgers, but that's not the story here. A random
baseball game in July not to story the story here.
After not speaking to reporters on Sunday when the news

(29:34):
came out, Clayton Kershaw did break his silence. The day after,
Clayton Kershaw said that he is quote grateful. He said,
it's weird but cool, weird but cool that he was
named an All Star selection on a Legends pick by

(29:54):
rob Manfreud, a Legends pick for Clayton Kershaw so can
you parse the words? Here's the question, can you parse
the words of Clayton Kershaw on this All Star selection?
The Legend pick? So this is not that deep. Kershaw
admitted that he does not deserve to be at the
All Star Game, as we anticipated the vibe I got

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he doesn't want to go. Now, he's not gonna come
out and be a total schmuck, and he'll show up,
but he'd rather not go. And he's right, he doesn't
belong in the All Star Game, and he's gonna go
and he's gonna put on a happy face and all that.
But major League Baseball and they added this a few
years ago. They haven't done it in a couple of years,

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the Legends addition to the All Star Game, but major
League Baseball turning it into your aunt's Facebook page, right,
a lot of nostalgia, a lot of participation, trophy congratulations,
and you're pretending it's ten years ago if you're Clayton
Kershaw and all that stuff. But if you gave him truths,
if you and je did Kershaw with a needle full

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of truth serum, he would rather be on a beach
somewhere or back in his home in Texas with his kids,
then standing on the foul line in Atlanta and tipping
his cap and you know, like he's some kind of
figurine from Cooperstown or something like that. So he'd much
rather be on vacation and he's gonna go and he'll

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be there at the All Star Game. He would rather
not And Kershaw it is odd because him dropping into
the All Star Game based on his body work, which
he admits he's only made nine starts. It's like a
guy showing up to a wedding that they were not
invited to. Just like wedding crashers. You show up at

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the wedding and it's like, well, I probably shouldn't be here,
but there's an open bar. Baby, here I am.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
At the end of the day, he said, it's weird,
Kershaw said, but it's cool, so I'm just going to
enjoy it. No, he's not, Kershaw said. He says, you
know what else I'll say, there's another partist He said
weird and cool and all that stuff, and he talked
about some other random things. But it's like a forty

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year old dude at the high school reunion wearing the
letterman's jacket that shows up there and he's like, hey,
you know, I am honoring my high school self here
I am. And Kershaw knows he's undeserving of this. He is,
and you know, you don't expect him to get into
the All Star Game. So he's not gonna play. He's

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just gonna go there. He shows up to Atlanta, he
checks into the five Star hotel as a smile for
the cameras, he waves, he tips his cap. Maybe he'll
go on microphone on the All Star broadcast and all
that stuff. At that point, if you're not playing in
the All Star Game and you're just there to tip
the cap and to wait with the crowd, are you
or are you not? A mascot? Is Clayton Kurdshaw, not

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like the Philly fanatic or Wally the Green Monster or
mister med or Bernie Brewer. That's what he is. If
he shows up to the All Name not gonna play.
Legends pick there you go, all right? Final point? We
quickly we go to Orlando. Big NBA signing, Big NBA signing.
The Orlando Magic have handed Paul Olboncherro, great name, great name.

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He has received a five year MAX extension worth up
to up to two hundred eighty seven millions. So how
do you categorize a player that is not a household
name getting a two hundred eighty seven million dollar contract.
So this is obviously not monopoly money. It is not powerball,

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it's not mega millions. It is I call it FaceTime.
It is face of the franchise money. Not that he
is mister relevant in NBA circles, he's not. But that's
the kind of money. That's the kind of contract that
you get that you have to carry the franchise. You

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are the face of the franchise. You have to sell
out the box office, you have to sell out the
gymnasium on a random Tuesday night in December when the
Charlotte Hornets come to town and no one cares. You
have to sell the arena out. Now is he that guy?
Right now? You're not that guy, Pal, You're not that guy.

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And the Orlando sad Sack Orlando Magic, who've had a
few runs of relevancy in my lifetime, but few and
far between, and certainly don't move the dial. They don't
move the needle when it comes to the Eastern Conference here.
But that's the kind of a deal you think that
guy is going to be a top ten player in
the NBA. That Paulo Bancherro is going to be a

(34:47):
top ten player, and he's going to make all NBA teams.
Who cares about All Star Games? All NBA teams. That's
going to be where he's at. And the ugly truth is,
right now, again we do the show right now, he
is not box office. He's not No one's going out
to watch him like they watch Steph Curry with the
Moneyball or even Luca with the eurostep the razzle dazzle.

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That's not happening. So the Magic though, they're betting almost
three hundred million, that's up to two hundred and eighty
seven and so almost three hundred million, that he will
be that that he will matriculate the basketball down the
court with such gusto, that he will have a metamorphosis
and be the kind of a player that in BC,

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because they've got the new TV rights, NBC and the
ESPN and all them will circle the Orlando Magic and
they'll be like, we have to go there, and we
have to show them, and we will not skip Orlando
like it's a it's a stopover in Fargo. I can
I don't even know if you can stop over in Fargo.
I think you can't. But this is a franchise, The

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Orlando Magic, that has been wandering aimlessly like gypsies through
the desert there since DWIGHTE. Howard said I'm out of here,
and he took his cape and left with a frown.
I'm gone. It's it do some dancing reality show in
la and all that stuff. But the Magic. They obviously

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need Paulo Boncero to be an alpha dog, be the closer.
I'd be the face of the franchise. Oh see. But
that's a lot of cash. So whether he's good or not,
he's getting the money. Unless he violates the terms of
the contract, the morals clause in the contract. He's getting
all that money.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 1 (36:35):
It's a manger, how about that?

Speaker 2 (36:37):
To the third degree. This is one big Ben gets
all right, cup.

Speaker 6 (36:44):
It was reported on Sunday that wide Receiver Terry McLaurin
and the commanders have not made any progress in negotiations
on a contracts extension, as McLaurin continues to hold out
benef mit Lauren doesn't play.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
How much does that hurt Jane and Daniels. Well, mclaurin's
really good.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
And the way I answered is it depends on whether
Deebo Samuel's fat Deebo Samuel or if he's in shape.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Because if Deebo Samuel plays like he did briefly for
the forty nine ers, the Washington whatever they're called, they'll
be fine. If not, they're screwed. And it is the
quarterback that makes the receiver, so Washington should figure things out,
not the other way around.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
Next, Chase Claypool seemed like he was on the path
to becoming a star receiver and then totally fell off
the map. Now he is taking the social media to
declare that he's completely healthy and ready to have the
best year of his career. Yes, but any think Claypool
can revive his career.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Maybe on TikTok. Possibly, No, it's a guy he was
like the DeAndre Ayton of the NFL coop. He's just like,
wasn't somebody that hustled, kind of lazy cut corners and
he had the talent to be a good player, but
he just didn't put the work in and so it's
not whether he's healthy or not. He just doesn't give
a crap when he's on the field. That's why he
didn't make it.

Speaker 6 (37:53):
Next, the NBA Summer League is debuting what they're calling
the heat Rule, where a last second shot at the
end of quarter doesn't count against a players off percentage. Ben,
you think this is going to be coming to the NBA. Yes,
And the reason it's going to come to the NBA.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
The NBA is upset that players won't shoot at the
end of quarters because they don't want their stats to
be heard. There's so many about their stats. What losers?
All right here? I want oh unbelieving I always shoot
at the end there h.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
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Speaker 1 (38:34):
I think we have our contestants ready to go, so
let's welcome them in right now. We have Corey in
Reno who wants to play? Is that correct? Core You
want to play? Malo's amount of money?

Speaker 7 (38:45):
That's right? Big Ben?

Speaker 1 (38:46):
All right, well, welcome to the show. What do you
got going on there in America's the biggest little city, right,
isn't that the slogan Arena.

Speaker 7 (38:54):
The biggest little city in.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
The world, That's right? Is it still the littlest It's
pretty pretty big, right.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
It's going crazy since that m misole monk infiltrated the
town and ruined the housing market.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Did they did he ruin it or raise the prices
of housing for everyone?

Speaker 7 (39:11):
Well, that's it. You know, they can't build taft enough
and all these people have moved here for his you know, Panasonic.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, I don't know about that. I actually have some
friends that moved to Reno because of they want to
get out of California.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
So they're like, well, and that too, I mean no, no, yeah,
because you know, everybody's getting the chaft there with the taxes,
so yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Everybody exactly. But and then eventually Nevada is going to
have the same tax problem California, so they're going to
move somewhere else and go keep moving to different states
and all. Anyway, that's a different conversation, Coreya, who do
you want to partner with? You got me Ben or Cooper?
If you really want some fun, Loraina, well I.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
Think you just picked the choice. Then didn't you.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
You're going with Loraina?

Speaker 7 (39:54):
There you go?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
All right, congratulations, Lorena, you're gonna play. I lost my voice,
she lost her I can't say. Apparently she does not
want to play. She's choosing not to play, so unfortunate.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
Al Right, well, ye know, we'll go with Coop. I'm
a big Elvis fan. I know Cooper is too.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Oh wow, that's a deep cut. All right, Hold on
a second, and we have Mike in the Great State
of Texas. Hello, Mike, welcome. What part of Texas are
you in there, Sir.

Speaker 7 (40:19):
McCallen.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
McCallen, Texas a fine, fine city. All right, and what
do you what are you go going on there? In McCallum.

Speaker 7 (40:27):
I'll just add in the work this morning.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yeah, what kind of work do you do?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Data? Annaly?

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh nice? All right, well you're gonna match up with me.
What are the categories here? Quickly?

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Please? All right?

Speaker 6 (40:37):
This is the Ringo Star edition of Mallard's Amount of Money.
He turned eighty five on Monday. The categories are with
a little help from my friends, don't pass me by,
Octopus's garden and photograph and Corey was on first.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
So Corey, which category would you like photograph? All right?
And how about you, Mike? All right, sorry I didn't
hear you. Just pick, just pick the first one whatever,
I don't care for. What was the first one? With
a little help from my friend?

Speaker 3 (41:09):
All right, everyone, hold stay right there, Malor's mount of
Money in it's entire to the Ringo Star Edition.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
We'll get to that, and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Not? All right, let's sue here we go play the game.
It's the Ringo Star Edition. Mallers amount of money. We've
got Corey in Reno teamed up with Koop. They're gonna lose.
Mike on his way to work in McCallen, Texas, teamed
up with me. Then we're gonna win. All Right, here
we go. It's gonna start.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
All right, Corey, we have a photograph. We need the
first and last name of the athlete. These athletes are
in some of the most famous sports photographs of all time.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
All Right, you ready, Corey, I'm ready.

Speaker 7 (42:04):
Let's do it, Coop. Let's let's approve that with the
Lorena's wrong?

Speaker 6 (42:08):
All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.

Speaker 7 (42:11):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (42:11):
This NBA player scored Hi, This NBA player scored one
hundred points in a game.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bill Cambery, Yes.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
This guy was the flash number three on the Miami Heat.
He won a championship with Lebron and Shack. Anyway, Yes,
this guy is the logo for the NBA j Yes,
this guy's nickname was the Doctor.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
Hey, that great Irving.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
What's his first name? Yes, Doug Dog, Julie Jurry.

Speaker 6 (42:44):
Yes, this guy was a quarterback for the Chiefs. He
was smoking a cigarette during halftime of Super Bowl One.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
No, all right, let's not let's skip it. God.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
This Toronto Toronto Blue Jays player was famous for his
bat flip.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
All right, what hundred fourts?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Are you ready there?

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Mike there McCallan, Texas, which is right, the southern tip
of Texas?

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Am I correct on that?

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Let's go all right, we'll put right all right? Okay, Well,
a little hope from my friends. These star athletes want
to ring well past their prime years.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Are you ready there, Mike? All right? Forty five seconds
were on Away Go John. He was known as a
Giants wide receiver one with the Rams. Friend of Diddy.
Odella Yes nickname Shady was a running back for the
Bills and the Eagles. He's on McCoy Yes, known as
the glove for the SuperSonics back in his career. Yes,

(43:44):
quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the eighties. Dick and
Dayton loves this guy played at BA Miami all Right,
the big hurt for the Chicago White Sox in the two. Yes,
wide receiver for the Chargers in like the seventies and
the sixties named Bam nicknamed bamby white guy all right,
outfielder for the Mets and the Royals from Puerto Rico.

(44:08):
Was on the Astros when they cheated in twenty seventeen.
We got the lead you missed.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Lance Alworth was Bambi and Bernie Kozar the quarterback for
the Browns and Carlos Beltran was the last.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Oh you're wasting to all right?

Speaker 6 (44:23):
Hurry operary, would you like don't pass me by? Or
octopus his guarden?

Speaker 1 (44:29):
All right?

Speaker 6 (44:29):
These athletes all war number eight forty five seconds. Let's begin.
He is the quarterback for the Ravens right now, j Yes,
this guy was the quarterback for the Cowboys when they
won the Super Bowls in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
What's his first name? Yes?

Speaker 6 (44:47):
All right, this guy has the iron Man streak in baseball. Yep,
this guy is one of the best second basement of
all time. He was on the Cincinnati Reds. Yes, this
guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time scoring record.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
What's first name?

Speaker 7 (45:11):
I say it in the dumper over.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
This guy.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
You didn't get it. This guy's the only button we
win I know.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
You know, Bears defensive starting in the eighties. Not with
the name Richard Dent. We were looking for the name
Richard Dent here. That is not an incomplete game, not
a not a not a loss, not a loss.