May 6, 2026 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lakers getting blown out by the Thunder in Game 1 and Austin Reaves having an historically bad game, James Harden turning the ball over constantly for the Cavaliers in their loss to the Pistons, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
So our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball
Bouncy Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy bouncy Bouncy. Yeah. So
I think you know where we're going to start. As
that time of the year, this is what we do
this time of the year. It's all right. There was
some playoff games. We don't pay attention to the regular
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season in pro bouncy ball. The playoffs we pay attention.
So away we go. We start out in the dust.
Were the reigning champions of pro bouncy Ball reside and
it ain't the Lakers. The Thunder and Lakers having a
hoe down in Oklahoma. Now, I don't know if you
saw this game or not, possibly possibly not. They got
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to get some better b roll. You know how they
come back from commercials. It was on it was an
NBC or Peacock, one of those things. And they came
back from commercial and they showed downtown Oklahoma City, which
you know, it's not it's not not that great to
look at. You know, maybe build some more skyscrapers or something,
I don't know, or show a cowboy or something like
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that or something, you know, Oklahoma stuff. The skyline of
Oklahoma City not not all that great anyway. Chet Holmgren
had twenty four points and twelve rebounds, the guy that
looks like Skeletor and Oklahoma City who didn't play at
their peak, and they still stopped the Lakers one O
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eight to ninety and in that game one of the
Western Conference semi finals. Now Shay Jogis Alexander the former Clipper,
and A. J. Mitchell each had eighteen points as well
for the Thunder. The Thunder now have played five playoff
games and they have won five playoff games this year,
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five and zero in the playoffs. Despite missing Jalen Williams,
oh my, hammy, it didn't go whammy. I can't play
though thirst straight game he has missed. Oklahoma City will
host Game two, which Way will also win comfortably. That'll
be on Thursday. The better story, though, is in the
losing locker room. The better story in losing the locker room.
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So Lebron James, as he has been known to do
when his team loses, he storms off the court, has
a conniption fit before the game's over. Yep, Lebron, he
didn't stick around for the end of it. He walked
off the court as they were about twenty seconds or
so to go in the game. And Lebron is much
too important, much too important to stay on the court
until the end of the game. What do you expect
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from Lebron now? The better story, as I said, losing
locker room. Popular opinion by popular people is that Austin Reeves,
who had an absolute clunker, was the driving force behind
the Lakers being spanked. In Game one, Reeves took sixteen shots.
He missed thirteen of the sixteen. That is a shooting
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percentage of less than twenty percent. He did not make
a three point shot. I'm told that is not good.
Reeves finished with eight points, turned the ball over four times,
and played like he should be back somewhere in Oklahoma
playing pickup basketball. Now at A, that's a good jumping
up points. So let us discuss the question do the
Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs? So
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I've got Scooby Doo, Hasbro and Jaywalking, and we will
combine all all of these things together, and we are
going to be moonstruck, is what we're going to be.
We're gonna be moonstruck. So A to answer the question,
do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs?
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I am nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, a lot of you geniuses told me I was
out of my bloody mind last year when I pointed
out how ineffective and how overwhelmed Austin Reeves played for
the Lakers against Minnesota in the playoffs. You said, you're
just a Laker hater. Okay, well, let's look at this again.
So the Lakers don't just have an Austin Reeves problem.
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They have an Austin Reeves in the playoffs problem. That's
what they've got. Let's be real. Playoff Austin is officially
a thing. Okay, you might not want to admit it.
You're in denial. That's fine. It's a thing, okay, And
it's not the kind of thing you have any chance
of going very far in and being considered a legitimate
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contender if he's one of your top rung players. And
this is now back to back years, and we have
a sample size that tells the story now and we
have seen it in these playoff environments. He's overmatched. He's
not that good. He didn't just have a bad night.
Austin Reeves submitting a formal application to be the new
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playoff liability and the numbers tell the tale of a
person with multiple personalities, much like blind Scott that calls
the show. And he's got multiple personalities, Austin Reeves. Now
his playoff efficiency drops noticeably. He is not very good
shooting the basketball. He often vanishes from behind the three
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point line, and when the lights get pretty bright, he's
not wearing sunglasses. So Reeves he doesn't get that whole
playoff Harden level heat because James Harden's resume is like
a novel, and if you look at Reeves his his resume,
his pro basketball reference page is like a pamphlet. So
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that's how you juxtaposed playoff hard and playoff Reeves. It's
a Scooby Dooby Doo special. It's a Scooby Dow special
that Austin Reeves is a glorified role player. He's a
supporting actor who's masquerading as a co star. And here
we've seen it in the postseason. Much like every episode
of Scooby do the mass gets ripped off and you're like,
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I wouldn't have gotten away with it if it wasn't
for upesky playoff games. Now, the rumors have been out
there for some time that Reeves is on track to
get a massive, five year, two hundred and forty one
million dollar contract extension. And listen, you know how I
feel about the Lakers here, but every Laker historian might
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want to go out and get a barth bag. If
you do that, oh my god, that would be so great.
I will celebrate Austin Reeves getting a two hundred and
forty one million dollar extension, because he is making every
possible argument he does not do that. Signing that check
would be an epic mistake. And I don't know about you,
but I'm all for it. Not for him, of course,
for him, it would be wonderful for everyone else. Involved,
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who's wearing that uniform? My god, the classic regular season
mirage looks great until the games actually matter. And the
nickname his nickname, Austin Reeves Hillbilly Kobe has never been
more accurate. Regular season occasionally puts up stats that reminds
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you of Kobe Bryant. Postseason, he plays like you picked
up a hillbilly hitchhiking on the side of a country road,
and until proven otherwise, this is simply who he is.
If you pay him like a superstar, you're buying a
ticket to an early playoff heartache for half a decade.
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And you combine it's my favorite backcourts that the Lakers
have ever put out in the playoff game, got Austin
Reeves and Marcus Smart, who somehow is still in the NBA.
I thought he would be out by now he's still there.
So Marcus Smart and Austin Reeves, you've got. We called
the Freemason backcourt. And they took thirty one shots. They
missed twenty four of them, which, again, I who am
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I to criticize? I did not play in the NBA.
I just thought, I guess I'm being mean. I don't
think that's good well, here's Lebron. You'll hear the question
and the answer. It was not a very good offensive performance.
Lebron's numbers were fine, but the rest of the team
not that good. Here is Lebron who left the court
early before the game ended, huffing and puffing. You'll hear
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the question and the answer about the offense. Take a listen,
where do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You think the offense are issues are coming from?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Obviously that's a grant teas of issues coming from. Yeah, yeah,
we have got averaged thirty seven in the game. What
are you ever thirty five this year? Three and a half?
Where are you asking?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, well I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, like you got.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
There's the issues right there? Are replaying against it number
one defensive team in the NBA, play against the world champions,
having a guy that averages thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Four and death specially all right, so we now know
what Lebron is going to use when the Lakers are
swept by the thunder. He's given you a preview of
his concession speech. Okay, so Luca's not gonna play. What
remember those stories that they Luca his agents planted as
people planted in the media about how it's a greater
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shape of his life and all this stuff, and then
they planted some more stories that he went to Europe,
went back home for special treatment so he'd be ready
to go for the Lakers. The way that Tarico and
Reggie Miller were talking, they it sounded like they were
told he ain't playing in the series, that he's just
there as a Laker girl on the sidelines. Raw rah
go Lakers. Uh, it's so great, and bron he's already
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sounded like he's already beaten, Like what happened to the attitude? Hey,
we don't have him, other guys are gonna step off.
We're to get it done. No, no, it's well boooooo,
we don't have Luca. Where where? Where were where? So pathetic?
All right now on the winning side. Shade Jogis Alexander,
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the former Clipper, was asked about the test or whether
it wasn't much money It wasn't much of a test
against the Lakers for the thunder SGA said, quote, tonight
was very simple. Multiple bodies That means multiple open or
multiple people are open, was what he said postgame on
I don't know it was NBC or Pete Cock. I
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don't know. I really don't know what I'm watching. I
just try to find the game until I find it,
and then I settle in and that's it, all right.
So the question SGA said, game number one of the
He said it was quote very simple, based on how
the Lakers were playing defense. So how do you parse
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these words from SGA, the former Clipper. So Shaye jogis
Alexander calling game one simple is adorable? My word is adorable.
He's being polite. The real word he should have used
is effortless. He basically said, listen, we didn't even play
that well, and the Lakers suck so much that they
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still needed a search party. Okay, look at the tape.
SGA had more turnovers than assist and he didn't really
seem to break much of a sweat in this game.
And the Lakers weren't just beaten, they were sculpted, reshaped,
and set aside. The Lebron's crew got the Hasbro treatment,
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meaning they were molded like a big pile of purple
and gold Plato and just the Thunder were a bunch
of board preschoolers, and then they just left it out
to dry. Oklahoma City never trailed in the second half.
They shot almost fifty percent from the field, knocked down
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thirty money balls, and played what amounted to it seemed
like half energy, kind of a walk through. They had
some referees out there. So the Thunder are so deep
that they can play their sea level and the Lakers
are so pathetic, and Oklahoma City still wins by eighteen
covers a massive point spread, just a massive point spread.
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It wasn't a contest. It was you know, it actually
could have been a lot worse. The firepower that the
Thunder have. And you've got Lebron already playing the victim.
He knows, Lebron knows it's over. That sounded like a
beaten man. Lebron James knows the Lakers are toast, and
he's preparing all of its excuses. It's never his fault.
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It's never, no, no, no, You've gotta have a fall guy.
I Meanwhile, speaking of fall guys, we go to Boston.
The Celtics are not in the NBA playoffs anymore. However,
they did make some news. All star Jalen Brown, one
of the great space cadets in the NBA. Jalen Brown
has been fined fifty thousand for public criticism of Game officials,
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This following what he had said the other night. We
talked about it in named Malard monologue. In a previous
episode of the show, Brown was on a live stream
he hosted not I Don't Believe with Blake Snell, the
twitch guy that occasionally pitches for the Dodgers. So Jalen
Brown in a live stream he hosts, coming on game Officials.
He commented, He said, clearly had an agenda in the
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series against the seventy six ers, so they had an
agenda to call fouls against him, Jalen Brown for pushing
off when he drove towards the basketball handling the ball.
He said, there's some referees that need to be investigated.
He says, every good basketball player does this. And then
he claimed that he was told by some of the
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referees that this was a point of emphasis to screw
over Jalen Brown of the Celtics. All right, so the
question what did the NBA accomplish by fining the Celtics
Jalen Brown. I didn't accomplish much by finding Jalen Brown,
unless the goal was to have a neon yellow highlighter
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and drag it across every word that he said, I
did some malor math here. Now granted it's my version
of math. I believe I am correct on this. You
can fact check me if you want, if you want,
And there's nothing the consumer of audio content loves more
than fact checking the clown the train seal on the radio.
I did some malo math. So a fifty thousand dollars
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fine to Jalen Brown. He makes fifty three million a year,
So that is the equivalent if you made fifty thousand
dollars a year and you illegally cross the street and
some cop with a stick up there tooks gave you
a ticket, a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket, that would
be the same thing. So if you make fifty grand,
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a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket is the same to
a fifty thousand dollars fine for a guy making fifty
three million, which is a small price to pay for
getting to use the Zebras as a fall guy. And honestly,
Jalen's livestreams had less like analysis and more like the
closing argument in a case of the missing accountability. The
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Celtics blew a three to one lead, lost Game seven
at home against a rag tag Sixers team that the
very next game went out lost by almost forty to
the Knickerbockers. And you're gonna blame the referees. What are
you doing if there was an agenda? Don't you think
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based on the popularity index that if there was an agenda,
it probably would have been by the referees. Let's see
how many wide open you know looks the Celtics can
can get here and miss. Maybe we should help them
out because they can't make anything, all right, Because you
think from a ratings standpoint, the Celtics have more fans
than the Sixers and all that. The investigation should not
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start with the officiating. It should start with the fact
that Celtic they're so stubborn and they kept shooting three
point shots start twenty six percent from three point land
in that closeout game at home where they were eliminated
in game number seven.
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Speaker 1 (17:24):
So our lead this hour. We continue our in depth
team coverage all night from pro Bouncy Ball, We go
to Motown. We head out to Motown. Why not apps
Bleep and Lootly we go there. It was two for
one special the early game. The undercard had a game
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in Detroit, dere If you didn't watch. Perhaps not Cad
Cuttingham had the most points, so he gets the lead
on the hero of the game, as Cad cutting Aam
scored twenty three points on some terrible shooting. Former Clipper
Tobias Harris added twenty and the Pistons swarmed the Cavaliers
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late to upset Strip Club John one eleven to one
oh one. On Tuesday night, in Game number one, the
second run Duncan Robinson got into a little hissy with
James Harden. He had nineteen points for the Pistons as well,
who ended a NBA record tying twelve game postseason skideroo,
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better known as a losing streak against a single opponent,
a drought that had dated way back to seven. I
was a child in O seven in the Eastern Conference Finals.
So Game two is Thursday night, Thursday night there in
Detroit basketball. So the better story is always in the
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losing locker room and Cleveland getting scrutinized, dramatized, chastised, analyzed, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and of course criticized. Let's say, great homage to Don King,
an old school boxing promoter. You don't even know who
that is. You have to be really old. You know
who Don King is because Don King's like really really
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really really really old. That was one of his great
lines and it was even longer than that. So it's
a good joming off point. Let us discuss the question
who gets the biggest helping of blame buck guys for
James Harden's Cavaliers. That is the question. So I've got
Serena Williams, soft launch and radio shack, and we are
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gonna combine all of these things together and we are
going to bet on the wrong horse, is what we're
going to do. We're gonna bet on the wrong horse.
So number why number one, number one, number one, number one,
and fun number one. So so Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley,
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and James Harden, the three amigos, they get big heaping
portions of the blame Buckeyes for the Cavaliers. Here, the
Cavs didn't just lose the game. It was like the
holiday season and when you buy something, would you like
that gift wrapped? Okay? Sure? Can I get that diff rap? Okay? Well,
because it's a holidays, We're not gonna even charge you anymore.
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We're just gonna gif wrap this thing like it is
the holidays, and it's a holiday that you don't even celebrate. Congratulations,
and you don't need to be Serena Williams to recognize
the story here. Unforced errors. Unforced errors Okay, as they
say in the Tennis World twenty turnovers. That's not offense.
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That is the salvation army. Okay, thirty one free points
to Detroit thirty one points off twenty giveaways. Cleveland had sixteen,
So my computer like brain using Malorman, tells me that
that is a plus fifteen for the home team, the Pistons.
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The game finished a ten point spread, so you can
do your math and figure it out yourself. It's a
rather easy waltz and that's game set and matchdown. Even
with that, the game was tied up at ninety three
with five twenty eight to go in the game, so
you did not need to watch the first forty two
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minutes of the game. The last five to twenty eight
of the game, Cleveland played like a team seeing a
basketball for the first time ever, Like, what is this
round object? I don't where did that come from? Is
that from somewhere outside the Milky Way galaxy? I don't know.
So Detroit they did it wasn't their their name brand
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players that played well in the final five to twenty eight.
It was some off brand players. The Sharks at feeding time,
they shot sixty three percent over the last five twenty
eight of the game. The Cavs at thirty percent. And
they also had a prayer that was not answered. And yes,
you know how I do it here supermarket Steve Playoff Harden.
The full Playoff Harden experience showed up clunky, sloppy, seven turnovers,
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the turnover to assist ratio a one for one proposition.
The bottom line here, though Cleveland did not get beat,
they hit the self destruct button and that's what happened.
They just tuckered out in the final five to twenty
eight of the game, although they were behind most of
the game. Most of the game. Now, James Harden has
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been the one common denominator. He's changed teams and bounced
around the NBA, and he has consistently ridden the vomit
comet in playoff games. He'll get one or two really
good performances and then the rest of the time there'll
be a couple where he's just kind of there, he's
just taking up space, and then they'll be several where
he recks havoc and literally is like the sixth man, right,
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He's like the sixth man of of the other team. Anyway,
here's James Harden who is asked about I guess you'll
hear the question on this and the answer hardened about
all the mistakes a lot of mistakes for James Harden
in these playoff games and the Cabs in general. Here's
hard take a list.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Do you think these turnovers are something that are correctable? Yep?
What do you like?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What do you think some of them are?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
You know, like no, I just said, you know, you
look at you look within first and you look at
my turnovers and a lot of them are just on
me and nothing they did. So and you know it
was led to to you know, I don't even know
how many transition points they have, and it was way
too many. And I mean, if I had to put
my my print on one thing on the game, that's
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the game right there. I mean, how many points a transition?
How far as I remember team everyone, that's the game
like something else, like we talked about last years, you
get a shot on glass even half of that and
it's a different ball game. So you know, for me,
I gotta be better, and I will be better turning
the basketball over, you know, from turning basketball over again,
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shots up and then it gives our defense a chance
to get back, and just said, you know, I think
we did it. Other than that we played a pretty
soldid game.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That SoundBite could have been from twenty sixteen. It could
have been from you know, to go back. As long
as you want to go back twenty twenty twelve, you
can keep going back. He didn't mention the Calves. I
don't believe he didn't mention the Pistons. That was an
evergreen SoundBite for the most part. And that's who James
Harden is. I heard it when he played for the
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people's team, the Clippers, and he'd play a bad game
and he'd comment about how we know what we need
to do and okay, good, go out and do it. Nope,
not gonna do it, not gonna happen. It is literally
baked into James Harden to suck in playoff games. Like
I don't know how you get that out of James Harden.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It is.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's when he sweats, the suck comes out in the playoffs.
It's wild. Now, moving on page two, so Cavs star
Donovan Mitchell went on a bit of a rant post game.
He was asked by reporters about the foul shot disparity,
the free throw disparity, not only in this series a
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game one, of course, this series, but the entire postseason,
and Mitchell went on a bit of a ran. He said,
I want to separate this from the game, he said,
and then he dove into the game, which was thirty
five sixteen advantage for Detroit in the disparity from the
foul line, and he said, here's the key part, he says,
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not why we lost tonight. Spider Mitchell says, I want
to make sure I say that.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
But but.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He says, I don't know. I'm trying to get downhill.
A friend of mine got fine for talking about flopping.
I guess he's talking about Jaylen Brown. So a quote continues,
I'm not gonna try to double down, but I mean,
I feel like that's what I gotta do. At this point,
he said, you know what I mean, right, Okay, I
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keep going. He says, like I'm trying to get downhill,
trying to get to the bucket. Sometimes there's people on
the way and I'm trying to fight through contact and
I'm not getting these calls close quote okay, question, So
what did the Cavaliers Star Spider Mitchell accomplished by calling
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out the referees and the seemingly the pistons flopping. He
didn't say pistons, but certainly implied there was some flopping
that went on. So Donovan Mitchell did not just call
out indirectly the pistons and obviously the referees. He basically
filed a lobbying brief with NBA head quarters in Manhattan,
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and he did it on live TV. He hit the
classic Superstar two step. I am not blaming the referees,
but but but but but but but but but but
but yeah, okay, so hey, it was musical. I'm like Ohio, Awler,
Dick and Dayton, Jay Scoop and just Josh. He said,
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but let me tell you why we lost everything before
the word but is a lie. Every man woman knows that.
Sometimes children know that too, but mostly men and women
know that. Now Spider says he's not pointing fingers, and
then spent about two minutes pointing every finger and some
thumbs that he had. It's the NBA's version of no offense.
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But yeah, okay, so this wasn't a comment. It was
a soft launch. Political campaign happens all the time, all
the time. It is expected that coaches and players will lobby,
and obviously Spider Mitchell wants to separate it from the game,
the same way I want to separate dessert from dinner.
I still eat both. I still have both when I eat.
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And he used the refs as the fall guy and
sent up smoke signals begging for make good whistles, is
what he Mitchell said that he's trying to get downhill,
but he went downhill straight into the complaint department in
the basement there. He went down to the complaint department,
and he didn't plant a seed. He planted an orchard
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of referee guilt. Zebra guilt is what he did. All
of it aimed one message, Hey, Adam Silver, half man,
half alien, we'd like some freebies in game five.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's a lot of chatter there's gonna be some kind
of big UFO revelation coming out here in the coming
weeks and stuff. Wouldn't it be great if they announced
that there have been extraterrestrial living with us and one
of them runs the NBA. Wouldn't that be awesome? And
Sam Cassell when he played years ago, also also from
somewhere else out in the cosmos, and that these are
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like their hybrid human alien type people. Wouldn't that be awesome?
All right? Final point, this is a crossover story college
basketball and the NBA. So things are getting dusty. They're
getting dusty around here. Yeah, we're talking about Dusty May,
the coach. He's a Michigan man, the Champions of Collegiate Basketball. Well,
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Dusty May doesn't sound like he's gonna be a Michigan
man much longer. Apparently he's got a knock on the door.
You can hear it right there. Look at that. Do
I have not the greatest sound effects on all of
talk radio? Look at that you knocking? And the knock
is the NBA And they're saying, Hey, Dusty, how would
you like to coach in the NBA? Now, he just
led Michigan to a national championship. The Speculation Machine and
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the Naked City never wrong, the speculation Machine says. The
Orlando Magic and the Golden State Warriors are said to
be interested in Dusty May here in the month of May.
Now I don't think Steve Kurrz officially been terminated or
left the Warriors yet. Although Dusty May has no NBA
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coaching experience and may D degree. You might remember he
agreed to a contract extension, but you know what that means.
He hasn't signed it yet. So until it's signed, it
doesn't matter. And even if he signs it, this language,
offset language and things like that to get out of it.
So the question you are now Michigan hoops coach Dusty
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May's career counselor should he go to the Warriors or
the Magic or stay at Michigan. So if he's jumping,
it's not even a choice. It's Orlando or stay at
Michigan or just retired. Dusty May was able to catch
lightning in an NIL sponsored bottle at Michigan. He bought
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the right players. That's how you play big time college
football and basketball. Indiana bought the right players, they won
the championship. Michigan bought the right players. They won the championship.
You don't, though, sit around. You don't sit around waiting
for the bottle. You've caught lightning at a bottle. You
don't sit around waiting for the bottle of crack. The
sequel is almost never the equal. And you got Orlando
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and Golden State the Warriors. Please, that would be like
buying stock and radio shack because you believe in nostalgia. Well, congratulations,
it ain't gonna help you. Golden State is a dynasty
on hospice at this point. It is a museum exhibit
with a gift shop, and they've got some nice collectibles
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from the Splash brother days and all that stuff. And
the only thing that Dusty May would inherit is the
blame when things continue to go on a death spiral
for the Warriors and they're they're gonna be so bad,
so so bad. They're gonna they're gonna bring back Baron Davis.
That's how bad they're going to be. My god, Orlando
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is a real job, all right now. If the Warriors
want a miracle worker, I recommend calling a priest, a rabbi,
or a magician. Orlando's the job, because that's it, full stop, Orlando.
Not that that's a great job. However, it's a younger team.
It's a hungry team. Granted, it's a bit of a
confused team, which means Dusty May could improve just by
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showing up in Theory with Paulo Bonchero, Franz Wagner and
Desmond Baine as the Big three, although one of them
may be traded, likely Franz Wagner. There is raw talent.
There is raw talent, and they just need something to
crank it up a couple of notches. The Magic are
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like a mid level contender with upside. They're currently stuck
on a ditch on the side of the road. There's
ability for them to level up. The Warriors. That is
a farewell tour. That is, Hey, let's have flashback promotions
with bobbleheads for all these guys that no longer play
for the Warriors, so we'll bring them back. Why not, Orlando,
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there's a little runway there, so Dusty May's choice. It's
not really a debate. It's a map and there's one
road highlighted. It's a one way road and it's got
a spotlight on it. Right now.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
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Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's mallor how about that?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To the third degree. This is one big event.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Gets grilled all right?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Cool? Johan Dotson has been in the NFL for four
seasons now, and we'll be joining his third team on
the Atlanta Falcons. New team president Matt Ryan told reporters
that he believes Dotson has quote untapped potential.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Ben do you think Matty Ice is right? Well, he's
gonna what do you expect him to say? He's the
guy sucks. That's why he keeps changing teams because he's
no good. Of course he's going to say that. Now,
it's one thing to say it. The reason you're on
what he's gonna have a third different NFL team is
because you haven't gotten there, and if you don't get there,
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you're going to be selling insurance Jahan Dotson. So, how
many guys have gone to Atlanta and really blossom with
the Falcons? The answer is not many.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Next now, speaking of potential Packers top pick, wide receiver
Matthew Golden from last season, was only able to brack
up three hundred and sixty one yards and no touchdowns
in his rookie season. However, Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenovich
told the media Monday, it's going to be a big
year for Golden deal Gary, Well, yes.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He's gonna get three hundred and seventy yards. He's gonna
get nine more yards than last year, Koop, So he
will have a bigger year, Matthew Golden than he did
last year for the Green Bay Packers. I love analysis
in May, June, and July, and this is that's what
we have to look forward to, parsing the words of coaches.
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I would respect these guys if they ever said, Oh,
this guy's gonna suck, dude, this guy is going he's
gonna be out of the NFL. He's not gonna even
make the team. They never say that. They only say, Oh,
this guy's gonna blossom, he's got untapped potential.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Next, the Pistons narrowly avoided a shocking first round upset,
but that was enough to get JB. Bickerstaff a contract extension. Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Do you think he earned it? No, he didn't. I
wish radio companies operated the way that NBA teams do,
and it's they gave him a new contract. But if
the Pistons come out next year and are terrible, they'll
fire him and then they'll pay him for a couple
extra years. That's the way this works in pro sports.
That's why I have no problem ripping guys to get fired?
How did we do you pass? This edition? That is
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a road body on the bark.
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It's Other Bizz with Lorraine and Till I.
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Speaker 7 (36:13):
Dear ry Ooh you heard the man. It is time
for love here on the Ben Mallord Show.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Hi Ben, any opening thought, Lorena? Do you have a
love thought you'd like to share with the class here?
Is there something interesting that you saw? Maybe a relationship story.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Oh my gosh, there's just so much relationship stuff going
on right now and not going on.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
That we had we had the big breakup. We had
Clay Thompson, right, that's a celebrity break up.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
That cheating candle is killing me and the w NBA
star who got the allegations that you know, this is
who he's cheating on her with. She's getting death threats
and neither Meg nor Clay has spoken out to be
like nah, she is not involved, so I feel really
bad for her.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, the thing. And I you know, Lorena, I don't
you know. I'm not a tabloid guy. I'm a masculine man, Lorraine.
I should not be reading the tabloids. It's very you know, feminine. Well, No,
I read them for the show. I do it for
the American people, so they don't and the Canadian people,
the Mexican people, so they don't have to read the
tablish And so I read it for exactly in New
Zealand as well. So I read it for these people.
(37:24):
And so I read in the tabloids that Blake Lively
and Justin Baldoni. Yeah, yeah, Did you see how much
they spent on on attorneys for their celebrity break up? There?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
No, I did not.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
What's it looking like?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
All right, you want to take a guest here? How
much you think got my attention?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
I'm gonna I'm going to say six hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That's a lot of money that I would kill myself
if im not literally, but I was very upset.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
I'd be crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. According to page six, they spent sixty
million dollars combined to sue and counter sue one another
sixty The lawyers are laughing at them. You dumb these morons, right,
Come on now, sixty million lawyers always win. We got
(38:13):
some calls for you. Let's say hello to Dave in
Houston for the Queen of Hearts with Loraine. Hello, Dave,
A man, I got.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
A question for Loraina. You know we're talking yesterday about
the gifts she gets. What kind of gift impresses her?
And by the way, I think you should have a
segment every week. What did Loraina get? And diseases don't count?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Wow, She's all right, Dave.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
You know that would be a good segment.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
But I did request for the gifts to slow down,
so a weekly thing would not would not really work.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
The people want to get back to sending me gifts,
which used to happen before you start on the show. Doraina,
feel free. You know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
I do want to say the best skifts are the
thoughtful ones, you know, the ones that they get out
of nowhere, Like, oh, I listened to this segment and
you were talking about this item, so I sent you
one like I think that's so thoughtful.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right, thank you, Dave. Let's say if ferg dook says,
is handing out business cards with my phone number to
girls at the mall A good idea?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yes, spread those seeds, drop the hints.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
JT. The wingman says, what is your you know what
on your card?
Speaker 7 (39:29):
You could put like call me for a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, that always works. Yes, what is your opinion on
wearing adult diapers to set the mood for love in
the bedroom? Wingman?
Speaker 7 (39:43):
You know, not my not my fetish. They're not not
my thing.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I know not.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Yeah, you know maybe it works for some some people,
but okay, I'm not all right, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I understand h.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
It's giving me fat life account like, oh, will you
hold me as I wear my diaper and let me know?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No? All right, BP says it. What age do you
stop making Spotify playlist for a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
I'm from back in the day.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
My baby daddy used to burn me CDs, so it
wasn't even a Spotify playlist, you know.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
And that was back in high school. But I did
have a boyfriend a few years back.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Who would make me Spotify playlists and I love them.
I love finding new music. I think they're super great.
I don't think there needs to be an age restriction
on it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right, Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, saying he says, hey, Loraina, Hey, Loraina,
how are you doing with Mother's Day approaching? My gal
always says, don't get me anything. But I know better
than that, and does no mean yes.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Well, I'm going to be a very busy girl this
Mother's Day weekend with our travels to Boston. But yet,
you know, don't forget moms. Don't necessarily like, oh, I
need to hang out with my kid on Mother's Day.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
No you don't. Why don't you hang out with yourself
and show yourself some self love? It's good for you.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
There you go, all right, take that time, e writers
or estamand writes, and it says, is buying my wife
a red light mask anti aging as a gift for
Mother's Day? Is that the wrong way to go?
Speaker 7 (41:17):
I love that gift.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
I think it's so great. It's good for your health
and your skin. I think it's a thoughtful gift to
get her a nice candle to go with it.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Okay, here you go, Queen of Hearts with Lorraina.
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and the password is password.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
All right, let's do it. Here we go password. We've
got who we have here? We have Chris in Boston.
Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, welcome, Good morning, bet how
they're going? Good morning Chris. Hopefully I'll see you this weekend.
Maybe not. Who knows you're gonna play our game? And
who do you want to partner up? Because me, Ben,
Lorena or Coop? Let's go with the winner. Let's go
with you Ben, that's right, and hollering James, James. You're
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gonna play James? Who do you want to partner up with? James?
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Even friend?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Cool?
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Congratulations Coop? All right, that is the match up here. Loraina,
you're out of the show. Chris in Boston, we have
not tipped. I know you have a welcome to my
world back in the day. All right, So Chris, you
were on first. You get to pick a number, you
know the drill here, one to ten, Chris.
Speaker 9 (42:35):
Yeah, in honor of Marcell let's go number two less.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
All right, let's go the uh. The password is how
about Let's see, there's a couple of ways I go
with this. How about uh sore s o ar sore by?
There you go, good job by you? All right? Ted Points,
you're up? Coop and our friend hollering James, chick number James.
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Coop's already the number one. You didn't say that, right, James,
it's number one, number one, number one? All right, James.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
One.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Let's go with.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Rag r a g rag.
Speaker 9 (43:25):
Right?
Speaker 7 (43:26):
Yeah, yeah, I can't believe you got that, James.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Have you shocked everyone? James? Okay, Chrissy Jura right?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Number three? All right, let's go which way? I get
a couple options on this one? Also? Should I use
a mal maneuver? Which way am I going to go?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Here?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's go with uh crochet.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
That?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Go ahead? Go ahead there, James, you're up. That was
the word, Nick, Good job, Chris. Pick a number, James.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
He just he just did number three. We just did
number three. Pick a different number. Number two. We already
hid number two. Number number five, Go ahead, number five,
we're number five. No, I'm not gonna number four.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
All right, number four, let me go.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Let's go with oven. Yeah, your tie, we gotta tie.
They can't have a tie. There's no ties and password
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So our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball
Bouncy Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy bouncy Bouncy. Yeah. So
I think you know where we're going to start. As
that time of the year, this is what we do
this time of the year. It's all right. There was
some playoff games. We don't pay attention to the regular
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season in pro bouncy ball. The playoffs we pay attention.
So away we go. We start out in the dust.
Were the reigning champions of pro bouncy Ball reside and
it ain't the Lakers. The Thunder and Lakers having a
hoe down in Oklahoma. Now, I don't know if you
saw this game or not, possibly possibly not. They got
(01:16):
to get some better b roll. You know how they
come back from commercials. It was on it was an
NBC or Peacock, one of those things. And they came
back from commercial and they showed downtown Oklahoma City, which
you know, it's not it's not not that great to
look at. You know, maybe build some more skyscrapers or something,
I don't know, or show a cowboy or something like
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that or something, you know, Oklahoma stuff. The skyline of
Oklahoma City not not all that great anyway. Chet Holmgren
had twenty four points and twelve rebounds, the guy that
looks like Skeletor and Oklahoma City who didn't play at
their peak, and they still stopped the Lakers one O
(01:57):
eight to ninety and in that game one of the
Western Conference semi finals. Now Shay Jogis Alexander the former Clipper,
and A. J. Mitchell each had eighteen points as well
for the Thunder. The Thunder now have played five playoff
games and they have won five playoff games this year,
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five and zero in the playoffs. Despite missing Jalen Williams,
oh my, hammy, it didn't go whammy. I can't play
though thirst straight game he has missed. Oklahoma City will
host Game two, which Way will also win comfortably. That'll
be on Thursday. The better story, though, is in the
losing locker room. The better story in losing the locker room.
(02:42):
So Lebron James, as he has been known to do
when his team loses, he storms off the court, has
a conniption fit before the game's over. Yep, Lebron, he
didn't stick around for the end of it. He walked
off the court as they were about twenty seconds or
so to go in the game. And Lebron is much
too important, much too important to stay on the court
until the end of the game. What do you expect
(03:02):
from Lebron now? The better story, as I said, losing
locker room. Popular opinion by popular people is that Austin Reeves,
who had an absolute clunker, was the driving force behind
the Lakers being spanked. In Game one, Reeves took sixteen shots.
He missed thirteen of the sixteen. That is a shooting
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percentage of less than twenty percent. He did not make
a three point shot. I'm told that is not good.
Reeves finished with eight points, turned the ball over four times,
and played like he should be back somewhere in Oklahoma
playing pickup basketball. Now at A, that's a good jumping
up points. So let us discuss the question do the
Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs? So
(03:51):
I've got Scooby Doo, Hasbro and Jaywalking, and we will
combine all all of these things together, and we are
going to be moonstruck, is what we're going to be.
We're gonna be moonstruck. So A to answer the question,
do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs?
(04:11):
I am nodding my head.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Now, a lot of you geniuses told me I was
out of my bloody mind last year when I pointed
out how ineffective and how overwhelmed Austin Reeves played for
the Lakers against Minnesota in the playoffs. You said, you're
just a Laker hater. Okay, well, let's look at this again.
So the Lakers don't just have an Austin Reeves problem.
(04:33):
They have an Austin Reeves in the playoffs problem. That's
what they've got. Let's be real. Playoff Austin is officially
a thing. Okay, you might not want to admit it.
You're in denial. That's fine. It's a thing, okay, And
it's not the kind of thing you have any chance
of going very far in and being considered a legitimate
(04:54):
contender if he's one of your top rung players. And
this is now back to back years, and we have
a sample size that tells the story now and we
have seen it in these playoff environments. He's overmatched. He's
not that good. He didn't just have a bad night.
Austin Reeves submitting a formal application to be the new
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playoff liability and the numbers tell the tale of a
person with multiple personalities, much like blind Scott that calls
the show. And he's got multiple personalities, Austin Reeves. Now
his playoff efficiency drops noticeably. He is not very good
shooting the basketball. He often vanishes from behind the three
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point line, and when the lights get pretty bright, he's
not wearing sunglasses. So Reeves he doesn't get that whole
playoff Harden level heat because James Harden's resume is like
a novel, and if you look at Reeves his his resume,
his pro basketball reference page is like a pamphlet. So
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that's how you juxtaposed playoff hard and playoff Reeves. It's
a Scooby Dooby Doo special. It's a Scooby Dow special
that Austin Reeves is a glorified role player. He's a
supporting actor who's masquerading as a co star. And here
we've seen it in the postseason. Much like every episode
of Scooby do the mass gets ripped off and you're like,
(06:24):
I wouldn't have gotten away with it if it wasn't
for upesky playoff games. Now, the rumors have been out
there for some time that Reeves is on track to
get a massive, five year, two hundred and forty one
million dollar contract extension. And listen, you know how I
feel about the Lakers here, but every Laker historian might
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want to go out and get a barth bag. If
you do that, oh my god, that would be so great.
I will celebrate Austin Reeves getting a two hundred and
forty one million dollar extension, because he is making every
possible argument he does not do that. Signing that check
would be an epic mistake. And I don't know about you,
but I'm all for it. Not for him, of course,
for him, it would be wonderful for everyone else. Involved,
(07:10):
who's wearing that uniform? My god, the classic regular season
mirage looks great until the games actually matter. And the
nickname his nickname, Austin Reeves Hillbilly Kobe has never been
more accurate. Regular season occasionally puts up stats that reminds
(07:32):
you of Kobe Bryant. Postseason, he plays like you picked
up a hillbilly hitchhiking on the side of a country road,
and until proven otherwise, this is simply who he is.
If you pay him like a superstar, you're buying a
ticket to an early playoff heartache for half a decade.
(07:52):
And you combine it's my favorite backcourts that the Lakers
have ever put out in the playoff game, got Austin
Reeves and Marcus Smart, who somehow is still in the NBA.
I thought he would be out by now he's still there.
So Marcus Smart and Austin Reeves, you've got. We called
the Freemason backcourt. And they took thirty one shots. They
missed twenty four of them, which, again, I who am
(08:16):
I to criticize? I did not play in the NBA.
I just thought, I guess I'm being mean. I don't
think that's good well, here's Lebron. You'll hear the question
and the answer. It was not a very good offensive performance.
Lebron's numbers were fine, but the rest of the team
not that good. Here is Lebron who left the court
early before the game ended, huffing and puffing. You'll hear
(08:36):
the question and the answer about the offense. Take a listen,
where do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You think the offense are issues are coming from?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Obviously that's a grant teas of issues coming from. Yeah, yeah,
we have got averaged thirty seven in the game. What
are you ever thirty five this year? Three and a half?
Where are you asking?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Okay, well I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, like you got.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
There's the issues right there? Are replaying against it number
one defensive team in the NBA, play against the world champions,
having a guy that averages thirty.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Four and death specially all right, so we now know
what Lebron is going to use when the Lakers are
swept by the thunder. He's given you a preview of
his concession speech. Okay, so Luca's not gonna play. What
remember those stories that they Luca his agents planted as
people planted in the media about how it's a greater
(09:28):
shape of his life and all this stuff, and then
they planted some more stories that he went to Europe,
went back home for special treatment so he'd be ready
to go for the Lakers. The way that Tarico and
Reggie Miller were talking, they it sounded like they were
told he ain't playing in the series, that he's just
there as a Laker girl on the sidelines. Raw rah
go Lakers. Uh, it's so great, and bron he's already
(09:52):
sounded like he's already beaten, Like what happened to the attitude? Hey,
we don't have him, other guys are gonna step off.
We're to get it done. No, no, it's well boooooo,
we don't have Luca. Where where? Where were where? So pathetic?
All right now on the winning side. Shade Jogis Alexander,
(10:12):
the former Clipper, was asked about the test or whether
it wasn't much money It wasn't much of a test
against the Lakers for the thunder SGA said, quote, tonight
was very simple. Multiple bodies That means multiple open or
multiple people are open, was what he said postgame on
I don't know it was NBC or Pete Cock. I
(10:33):
don't know. I really don't know what I'm watching. I
just try to find the game until I find it,
and then I settle in and that's it, all right.
So the question SGA said, game number one of the
He said it was quote very simple, based on how
the Lakers were playing defense. So how do you parse
(10:54):
these words from SGA, the former Clipper. So Shaye jogis
Alexander calling game one simple is adorable? My word is adorable.
He's being polite. The real word he should have used
is effortless. He basically said, listen, we didn't even play
that well, and the Lakers suck so much that they
(11:17):
still needed a search party. Okay, look at the tape.
SGA had more turnovers than assist and he didn't really
seem to break much of a sweat in this game.
And the Lakers weren't just beaten, they were sculpted, reshaped,
and set aside. The Lebron's crew got the Hasbro treatment,
(11:38):
meaning they were molded like a big pile of purple
and gold Plato and just the Thunder were a bunch
of board preschoolers, and then they just left it out
to dry. Oklahoma City never trailed in the second half.
They shot almost fifty percent from the field, knocked down
(11:58):
thirty money balls, and played what amounted to it seemed
like half energy, kind of a walk through. They had
some referees out there. So the Thunder are so deep
that they can play their sea level and the Lakers
are so pathetic, and Oklahoma City still wins by eighteen
covers a massive point spread, just a massive point spread.
(12:20):
It wasn't a contest. It was you know, it actually
could have been a lot worse. The firepower that the
Thunder have. And you've got Lebron already playing the victim.
He knows, Lebron knows it's over. That sounded like a
beaten man. Lebron James knows the Lakers are toast, and
he's preparing all of its excuses. It's never his fault.
(12:40):
It's never, no, no, no, You've gotta have a fall guy.
I Meanwhile, speaking of fall guys, we go to Boston.
The Celtics are not in the NBA playoffs anymore. However,
they did make some news. All star Jalen Brown, one
of the great space cadets in the NBA. Jalen Brown
has been fined fifty thousand for public criticism of Game officials,
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This following what he had said the other night. We
talked about it in named Malard monologue. In a previous
episode of the show, Brown was on a live stream
he hosted not I Don't Believe with Blake Snell, the
twitch guy that occasionally pitches for the Dodgers. So Jalen
Brown in a live stream he hosts, coming on game Officials.
He commented, He said, clearly had an agenda in the
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series against the seventy six ers, so they had an
agenda to call fouls against him, Jalen Brown for pushing
off when he drove towards the basketball handling the ball.
He said, there's some referees that need to be investigated.
He says, every good basketball player does this. And then
he claimed that he was told by some of the
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referees that this was a point of emphasis to screw
over Jalen Brown of the Celtics. All right, so the
question what did the NBA accomplish by fining the Celtics
Jalen Brown. I didn't accomplish much by finding Jalen Brown,
unless the goal was to have a neon yellow highlighter
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and drag it across every word that he said, I
did some malor math here. Now granted it's my version
of math. I believe I am correct on this. You
can fact check me if you want, if you want,
And there's nothing the consumer of audio content loves more
than fact checking the clown the train seal on the radio.
I did some malo math. So a fifty thousand dollars
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fine to Jalen Brown. He makes fifty three million a year,
So that is the equivalent if you made fifty thousand
dollars a year and you illegally cross the street and
some cop with a stick up there tooks gave you
a ticket, a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket, that would
be the same thing. So if you make fifty grand,
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a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket is the same to
a fifty thousand dollars fine for a guy making fifty
three million, which is a small price to pay for
getting to use the Zebras as a fall guy. And honestly,
Jalen's livestreams had less like analysis and more like the
closing argument in a case of the missing accountability. The
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Celtics blew a three to one lead, lost Game seven
at home against a rag tag Sixers team that the
very next game went out lost by almost forty to
the Knickerbockers. And you're gonna blame the referees. What are
you doing if there was an agenda? Don't you think
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based on the popularity index that if there was an agenda,
it probably would have been by the referees. Let's see
how many wide open you know looks the Celtics can
can get here and miss. Maybe we should help them
out because they can't make anything, all right, Because you
think from a ratings standpoint, the Celtics have more fans
than the Sixers and all that. The investigation should not
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start with the officiating. It should start with the fact
that Celtic they're so stubborn and they kept shooting three
point shots start twenty six percent from three point land
in that closeout game at home where they were eliminated
in game number seven.
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So our lead this hour. We continue our in depth
team coverage all night from pro Bouncy Ball, We go
to Motown. We head out to Motown. Why not apps
Bleep and Lootly we go there. It was two for
one special the early game. The undercard had a game
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in Detroit, dere If you didn't watch. Perhaps not Cad
Cuttingham had the most points, so he gets the lead
on the hero of the game, as Cad cutting Aam
scored twenty three points on some terrible shooting. Former Clipper
Tobias Harris added twenty and the Pistons swarmed the Cavaliers
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late to upset Strip Club John one eleven to one
oh one. On Tuesday night, in Game number one, the
second run Duncan Robinson got into a little hissy with
James Harden. He had nineteen points for the Pistons as well,
who ended a NBA record tying twelve game postseason skideroo,
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better known as a losing streak against a single opponent,
a drought that had dated way back to seven. I
was a child in O seven in the Eastern Conference Finals.
So Game two is Thursday night, Thursday night there in
Detroit basketball. So the better story is always in the
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losing locker room and Cleveland getting scrutinized, dramatized, chastised, analyzed, stigmatized, sensationalized,
and of course criticized. Let's say, great homage to Don King,
an old school boxing promoter. You don't even know who
that is. You have to be really old. You know
who Don King is because Don King's like really really
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really really really old. That was one of his great
lines and it was even longer than that. So it's
a good joming off point. Let us discuss the question
who gets the biggest helping of blame buck guys for
James Harden's Cavaliers. That is the question. So I've got
Serena Williams, soft launch and radio shack, and we are
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gonna combine all of these things together and we are
going to bet on the wrong horse, is what we're
going to do. We're gonna bet on the wrong horse.
So number why number one, number one, number one, number one,
and fun number one. So so Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley,
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and James Harden, the three amigos, they get big heaping
portions of the blame Buckeyes for the Cavaliers. Here, the
Cavs didn't just lose the game. It was like the
holiday season and when you buy something, would you like
that gift wrapped? Okay? Sure? Can I get that diff rap? Okay? Well,
because it's a holidays, We're not gonna even charge you anymore.
(20:23):
We're just gonna gif wrap this thing like it is
the holidays, and it's a holiday that you don't even celebrate. Congratulations,
and you don't need to be Serena Williams to recognize
the story here. Unforced errors. Unforced errors Okay, as they
say in the Tennis World twenty turnovers. That's not offense.
(20:44):
That is the salvation army. Okay, thirty one free points
to Detroit thirty one points off twenty giveaways. Cleveland had sixteen,
So my computer like brain using Malorman, tells me that
that is a plus fifteen for the home team, the Pistons.
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The game finished a ten point spread, so you can
do your math and figure it out yourself. It's a
rather easy waltz and that's game set and matchdown. Even
with that, the game was tied up at ninety three
with five twenty eight to go in the game, so
you did not need to watch the first forty two
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minutes of the game. The last five to twenty eight
of the game, Cleveland played like a team seeing a
basketball for the first time ever, Like, what is this
round object? I don't where did that come from? Is
that from somewhere outside the Milky Way galaxy? I don't know.
So Detroit they did it wasn't their their name brand
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players that played well in the final five to twenty eight.
It was some off brand players. The Sharks at feeding time,
they shot sixty three percent over the last five twenty
eight of the game. The Cavs at thirty percent. And
they also had a prayer that was not answered. And yes,
you know how I do it here supermarket Steve Playoff Harden.
The full Playoff Harden experience showed up clunky, sloppy, seven turnovers,
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the turnover to assist ratio a one for one proposition.
The bottom line here, though Cleveland did not get beat,
they hit the self destruct button and that's what happened.
They just tuckered out in the final five to twenty
eight of the game, although they were behind most of
the game. Most of the game. Now, James Harden has
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been the one common denominator. He's changed teams and bounced
around the NBA, and he has consistently ridden the vomit
comet in playoff games. He'll get one or two really
good performances and then the rest of the time there'll
be a couple where he's just kind of there, he's
just taking up space, and then they'll be several where
he recks havoc and literally is like the sixth man, right,
(23:05):
He's like the sixth man of of the other team. Anyway,
here's James Harden who is asked about I guess you'll
hear the question on this and the answer hardened about
all the mistakes a lot of mistakes for James Harden
in these playoff games and the Cabs in general. Here's
hard take a list.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Do you think these turnovers are something that are correctable? Yep?
What do you like?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
What do you think some of them are?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
You know, like no, I just said, you know, you
look at you look within first and you look at
my turnovers and a lot of them are just on
me and nothing they did. So and you know it
was led to to you know, I don't even know
how many transition points they have, and it was way
too many. And I mean, if I had to put
my my print on one thing on the game, that's
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the game right there. I mean, how many points a transition?
How far as I remember team everyone, that's the game
like something else, like we talked about last years, you
get a shot on glass even half of that and
it's a different ball game. So you know, for me,
I gotta be better, and I will be better turning
the basketball over, you know, from turning basketball over again,
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shots up and then it gives our defense a chance
to get back, and just said, you know, I think
we did it. Other than that we played a pretty
soldid game.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
That SoundBite could have been from twenty sixteen. It could
have been from you know, to go back. As long
as you want to go back twenty twenty twelve, you
can keep going back. He didn't mention the Calves. I
don't believe he didn't mention the Pistons. That was an
evergreen SoundBite for the most part. And that's who James
Harden is. I heard it when he played for the
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people's team, the Clippers, and he'd play a bad game
and he'd comment about how we know what we need
to do and okay, good, go out and do it. Nope,
not gonna do it, not gonna happen. It is literally
baked into James Harden to suck in playoff games. Like
I don't know how you get that out of James Harden.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It is.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's when he sweats, the suck comes out in the playoffs.
It's wild. Now, moving on page two, so Cavs star
Donovan Mitchell went on a bit of a rant post game.
He was asked by reporters about the foul shot disparity,
the free throw disparity, not only in this series a
(25:26):
game one, of course, this series, but the entire postseason,
and Mitchell went on a bit of a ran. He said,
I want to separate this from the game, he said,
and then he dove into the game, which was thirty
five sixteen advantage for Detroit in the disparity from the
foul line, and he said, here's the key part, he says,
(25:47):
not why we lost tonight. Spider Mitchell says, I want
to make sure I say that.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
But but.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He says, I don't know. I'm trying to get downhill.
A friend of mine got fine for talking about flopping.
I guess he's talking about Jaylen Brown. So a quote continues,
I'm not gonna try to double down, but I mean,
I feel like that's what I gotta do. At this point,
he said, you know what I mean, right, Okay, I
(26:17):
keep going. He says, like I'm trying to get downhill,
trying to get to the bucket. Sometimes there's people on
the way and I'm trying to fight through contact and
I'm not getting these calls close quote okay, question, So
what did the Cavaliers Star Spider Mitchell accomplished by calling
(26:37):
out the referees and the seemingly the pistons flopping. He
didn't say pistons, but certainly implied there was some flopping
that went on. So Donovan Mitchell did not just call
out indirectly the pistons and obviously the referees. He basically
filed a lobbying brief with NBA head quarters in Manhattan,
(27:01):
and he did it on live TV. He hit the
classic Superstar two step. I am not blaming the referees,
but but but but but but but but but but
but yeah, okay, so hey, it was musical. I'm like Ohio, Awler,
Dick and Dayton, Jay Scoop and just Josh. He said,
(27:22):
but let me tell you why we lost everything before
the word but is a lie. Every man woman knows that.
Sometimes children know that too, but mostly men and women
know that. Now Spider says he's not pointing fingers, and
then spent about two minutes pointing every finger and some
thumbs that he had. It's the NBA's version of no offense.
(27:47):
But yeah, okay, so this wasn't a comment. It was
a soft launch. Political campaign happens all the time, all
the time. It is expected that coaches and players will lobby,
and obviously Spider Mitchell wants to separate it from the game,
the same way I want to separate dessert from dinner.
I still eat both. I still have both when I eat.
(28:10):
And he used the refs as the fall guy and
sent up smoke signals begging for make good whistles, is
what he Mitchell said that he's trying to get downhill,
but he went downhill straight into the complaint department in
the basement there. He went down to the complaint department,
and he didn't plant a seed. He planted an orchard
(28:34):
of referee guilt. Zebra guilt is what he did. All
of it aimed one message, Hey, Adam Silver, half man,
half alien, we'd like some freebies in game five.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's a lot of chatter there's gonna be some kind
of big UFO revelation coming out here in the coming
weeks and stuff. Wouldn't it be great if they announced
that there have been extraterrestrial living with us and one
of them runs the NBA. Wouldn't that be awesome? And
Sam Cassell when he played years ago, also also from
somewhere else out in the cosmos, and that these are
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like their hybrid human alien type people. Wouldn't that be awesome?
All right? Final point, this is a crossover story college
basketball and the NBA. So things are getting dusty. They're
getting dusty around here. Yeah, we're talking about Dusty May,
the coach. He's a Michigan man, the Champions of Collegiate Basketball. Well,
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Dusty May doesn't sound like he's gonna be a Michigan
man much longer. Apparently he's got a knock on the door.
You can hear it right there. Look at that. Do
I have not the greatest sound effects on all of
talk radio? Look at that you knocking? And the knock
is the NBA And they're saying, Hey, Dusty, how would
you like to coach in the NBA? Now, he just
led Michigan to a national championship. The Speculation Machine and
(29:59):
the Naked City never wrong, the speculation Machine says. The
Orlando Magic and the Golden State Warriors are said to
be interested in Dusty May here in the month of May.
Now I don't think Steve Kurrz officially been terminated or
left the Warriors yet. Although Dusty May has no NBA
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coaching experience and may D degree. You might remember he
agreed to a contract extension, but you know what that means.
He hasn't signed it yet. So until it's signed, it
doesn't matter. And even if he signs it, this language,
offset language and things like that to get out of it.
So the question you are now Michigan hoops coach Dusty
(30:41):
May's career counselor should he go to the Warriors or
the Magic or stay at Michigan. So if he's jumping,
it's not even a choice. It's Orlando or stay at
Michigan or just retired. Dusty May was able to catch
lightning in an NIL sponsored bottle at Michigan. He bought
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the right players. That's how you play big time college
football and basketball. Indiana bought the right players, they won
the championship. Michigan bought the right players. They won the championship.
You don't, though, sit around. You don't sit around waiting
for the bottle. You've caught lightning at a bottle. You
don't sit around waiting for the bottle of crack. The
sequel is almost never the equal. And you got Orlando
(31:28):
and Golden State the Warriors. Please, that would be like
buying stock and radio shack because you believe in nostalgia. Well, congratulations,
it ain't gonna help you. Golden State is a dynasty
on hospice at this point. It is a museum exhibit
with a gift shop, and they've got some nice collectibles
(31:48):
from the Splash brother days and all that stuff. And
the only thing that Dusty May would inherit is the
blame when things continue to go on a death spiral
for the Warriors and they're they're gonna be so bad,
so so bad. They're gonna they're gonna bring back Baron Davis.
That's how bad they're going to be. My god, Orlando
(32:10):
is a real job, all right now. If the Warriors
want a miracle worker, I recommend calling a priest, a rabbi,
or a magician. Orlando's the job, because that's it, full stop, Orlando.
Not that that's a great job. However, it's a younger team.
It's a hungry team. Granted, it's a bit of a
confused team, which means Dusty May could improve just by
(32:32):
showing up in Theory with Paulo Bonchero, Franz Wagner and
Desmond Baine as the Big three, although one of them
may be traded, likely Franz Wagner. There is raw talent.
There is raw talent, and they just need something to
crank it up a couple of notches. The Magic are
(32:54):
like a mid level contender with upside. They're currently stuck
on a ditch on the side of the road. There's
ability for them to level up. The Warriors. That is
a farewell tour. That is, Hey, let's have flashback promotions
with bobbleheads for all these guys that no longer play
for the Warriors, so we'll bring them back. Why not, Orlando,
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there's a little runway there, so Dusty May's choice. It's
not really a debate. It's a map and there's one
road highlighted. It's a one way road and it's got
a spotlight on it. Right now.
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It's mallor how about that?
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Gets grilled all right?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Cool? Johan Dotson has been in the NFL for four
seasons now, and we'll be joining his third team on
the Atlanta Falcons. New team president Matt Ryan told reporters
that he believes Dotson has quote untapped potential.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Ben do you think Matty Ice is right? Well, he's
gonna what do you expect him to say? He's the
guy sucks. That's why he keeps changing teams because he's
no good. Of course he's going to say that. Now,
it's one thing to say it. The reason you're on
what he's gonna have a third different NFL team is
because you haven't gotten there, and if you don't get there,
(34:17):
you're going to be selling insurance Jahan Dotson. So, how
many guys have gone to Atlanta and really blossom with
the Falcons? The answer is not many.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Next now, speaking of potential Packers top pick, wide receiver
Matthew Golden from last season, was only able to brack
up three hundred and sixty one yards and no touchdowns
in his rookie season. However, Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenovich
told the media Monday, it's going to be a big
year for Golden deal Gary, Well, yes.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
He's gonna get three hundred and seventy yards. He's gonna
get nine more yards than last year, Koop, So he
will have a bigger year, Matthew Golden than he did
last year for the Green Bay Packers. I love analysis
in May, June, and July, and this is that's what
we have to look forward to, parsing the words of coaches.
(35:05):
I would respect these guys if they ever said, Oh,
this guy's gonna suck, dude, this guy is going he's
gonna be out of the NFL. He's not gonna even
make the team. They never say that. They only say, Oh,
this guy's gonna blossom, he's got untapped potential.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Next, the Pistons narrowly avoided a shocking first round upset,
but that was enough to get JB. Bickerstaff a contract extension. Ben.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Do you think he earned it? No, he didn't. I
wish radio companies operated the way that NBA teams do,
and it's they gave him a new contract. But if
the Pistons come out next year and are terrible, they'll
fire him and then they'll pay him for a couple
extra years. That's the way this works in pro sports.
That's why I have no problem ripping guys to get fired?
How did we do you pass? This edition? That is
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Speaker 7 (36:13):
Dear ry Ooh you heard the man. It is time
for love here on the Ben Mallord Show.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Hi Ben, any opening thought, Lorena? Do you have a
love thought you'd like to share with the class here?
Is there something interesting that you saw? Maybe a relationship story.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
Oh my gosh, there's just so much relationship stuff going
on right now and not going on.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
That we had we had the big breakup. We had
Clay Thompson, right, that's a celebrity break up.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
That cheating candle is killing me and the w NBA
star who got the allegations that you know, this is
who he's cheating on her with. She's getting death threats
and neither Meg nor Clay has spoken out to be
like nah, she is not involved, so I feel really
bad for her.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, the thing. And I you know, Lorena, I don't
you know. I'm not a tabloid guy. I'm a masculine man, Lorraine.
I should not be reading the tabloids. It's very you know, feminine. Well, No,
I read them for the show. I do it for
the American people, so they don't and the Canadian people,
the Mexican people, so they don't have to read the
tablish And so I read it for exactly in New
Zealand as well. So I read it for these people.
(37:24):
And so I read in the tabloids that Blake Lively
and Justin Baldoni. Yeah, yeah, Did you see how much
they spent on on attorneys for their celebrity break up? There?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
No, I did not.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
What's it looking like?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
All right, you want to take a guest here? How
much you think got my attention?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
I'm gonna I'm going to say six hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
That's a lot of money that I would kill myself
if im not literally, but I was very upset.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
I'd be crazy.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. According to page six, they spent sixty
million dollars combined to sue and counter sue one another
sixty The lawyers are laughing at them. You dumb these morons, right,
Come on now, sixty million lawyers always win. We got
(38:13):
some calls for you. Let's say hello to Dave in
Houston for the Queen of Hearts with Loraine. Hello, Dave,
A man, I got.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
A question for Loraina. You know we're talking yesterday about
the gifts she gets. What kind of gift impresses her?
And by the way, I think you should have a
segment every week. What did Loraina get? And diseases don't count?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Wow, She's all right, Dave.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
You know that would be a good segment.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
But I did request for the gifts to slow down,
so a weekly thing would not would not really work.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
The people want to get back to sending me gifts,
which used to happen before you start on the show. Doraina,
feel free. You know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
I do want to say the best skifts are the
thoughtful ones, you know, the ones that they get out
of nowhere, Like, oh, I listened to this segment and
you were talking about this item, so I sent you
one like I think that's so thoughtful.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right, thank you, Dave. Let's say if ferg dook says,
is handing out business cards with my phone number to
girls at the mall A good idea?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yes, spread those seeds, drop the hints.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
JT. The wingman says, what is your you know what
on your card?
Speaker 7 (39:29):
You could put like call me for a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
No, that always works. Yes, what is your opinion on
wearing adult diapers to set the mood for love in
the bedroom? Wingman?
Speaker 7 (39:43):
You know, not my not my fetish. They're not not
my thing.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
I know not.
Speaker 8 (39:49):
Yeah, you know maybe it works for some some people,
but okay, I'm not all right, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I understand h.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
You know.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
It's giving me fat life account like, oh, will you
hold me as I wear my diaper and let me know?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No? All right, BP says it. What age do you
stop making Spotify playlist for a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
Speaker 7 (40:15):
I'm from back in the day.
Speaker 8 (40:17):
My baby daddy used to burn me CDs, so it
wasn't even a Spotify playlist, you know.
Speaker 7 (40:22):
And that was back in high school. But I did
have a boyfriend a few years back.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
Who would make me Spotify playlists and I love them.
I love finding new music. I think they're super great.
I don't think there needs to be an age restriction
on it.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right, Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, saying he says, hey, Loraina, Hey, Loraina,
how are you doing with Mother's Day approaching? My gal
always says, don't get me anything. But I know better
than that, and does no mean yes.
Speaker 8 (40:49):
Well, I'm going to be a very busy girl this
Mother's Day weekend with our travels to Boston. But yet,
you know, don't forget moms. Don't necessarily like, oh, I
need to hang out with my kid on Mother's Day.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
No you don't. Why don't you hang out with yourself
and show yourself some self love? It's good for you.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
There you go, all right, take that time, e writers
or estamand writes, and it says, is buying my wife
a red light mask anti aging as a gift for
Mother's Day? Is that the wrong way to go?
Speaker 7 (41:17):
I love that gift.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
I think it's so great. It's good for your health
and your skin. I think it's a thoughtful gift to
get her a nice candle to go with it.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Okay, here you go, Queen of Hearts with Lorraina.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
All right, let's do it. Here we go password. We've
got who we have here? We have Chris in Boston.
Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, welcome, Good morning, bet how
they're going? Good morning Chris. Hopefully I'll see you this weekend.
Maybe not. Who knows you're gonna play our game? And
who do you want to partner up? Because me, Ben,
Lorena or Coop? Let's go with the winner. Let's go
with you Ben, that's right, and hollering James, James. You're
(42:07):
gonna play James? Who do you want to partner up with? James?
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Even friend?
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Cool?
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Congratulations Coop? All right, that is the match up here. Loraina,
you're out of the show. Chris in Boston, we have
not tipped. I know you have a welcome to my
world back in the day. All right, So Chris, you
were on first. You get to pick a number, you
know the drill here, one to ten, Chris.
Speaker 9 (42:35):
Yeah, in honor of Marcell let's go number two less.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
All right, let's go the uh. The password is how
about Let's see, there's a couple of ways I go
with this. How about uh sore s o ar sore by?
There you go, good job by you? All right? Ted Points,
you're up? Coop and our friend hollering James, chick number James.
(43:06):
Coop's already the number one. You didn't say that, right, James,
it's number one, number one, number one? All right, James.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
One.
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Let's go with.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Rag r a g rag.
Speaker 9 (43:25):
Right?
Speaker 7 (43:26):
Yeah, yeah, I can't believe you got that, James.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Have you shocked everyone? James? Okay, Chrissy Jura right?
Speaker 5 (43:42):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Number three? All right, let's go which way? I get
a couple options on this one? Also? Should I use
a mal maneuver? Which way am I going to go?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Here?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's go with uh crochet.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
That?
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Go ahead? Go ahead there, James, you're up. That was
the word, Nick, Good job, Chris. Pick a number, James.
Speaker 9 (44:14):
Number three.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
He just he just did number three. We just did
number three. Pick a different number. Number two. We already
hid number two. Number number five, Go ahead, number five,
we're number five. No, I'm not gonna number four.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
All right, number four, let me go.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Let's go with oven. Yeah, your tie, we gotta tie.
They can't have a tie. There's no ties and password
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