May 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Nikola Jokic's Nuggets getting crushed like a bug in Game 7 against the Thunders, Aaron Gordon thinking the NBA needs more days off between playoff games, where Denver goes from here, and much more!
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Instagram page. Here in hour number one, the Nuggets and
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Thunder Game seven a dud, Not a milk dud, just
a dud. How do you explain the Nikola Jokich Nuggets
getting crushed like a bug on the rug getting stepped
on in Game seven? Also Aaron Gore and that's a
basketball player for Denver. He thinks the NBA needs more
days between playoff games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is
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your verdict on this one? And where does Denver go
from here after getting stomped on? Do they remodel around
to Koleyokic or blow it up? We'll talk about that
and more right now here. It is our number one.
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from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead, by man heart.
We're not gonna bury the lead. So we had an
island game in the NBA, and island game not at night. See,
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the NBA realizes Oklahoma City and Denver not worthy of
prime time. So they played that bad boy in the afternoon.
That game you normally Game seven standalone game, Island game
played at night. No, they said this game so crappy,
We're not gonna play that game at night. And they
didn't play the game at night. They played it in
the afternoon. Nicola Jokic and the Nuggets traveling circus headed
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over to the Sooners State there for the last dance,
one last opportunity against Shay Jogas Alexander the former Clipper,
and he plays for the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now so game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Seven, Oh, greatest words at sports unless it was this
Game seven. Oklahoma City the youngest team in the history
of the NBA to win at least sixty games. Whoopee
amdu and against the championship pet I agree? Of Denver,
how many times have we heard that when the Nuggets
do anything, go championship pedigree.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Shove that right up your old keister.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
All right, So, Thunder, we're an eight point favorite, come
into this an eight point favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How did that turn out? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game a Game seven. If you could
pick out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's
anyone's game. Who's going to make plays down the stretch?
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So that we got none of that, We got none
of that. That did not happen in this game. But
don't worry. We did watch so you would not have.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
To and you didn't miss a damn thing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
As a shade Jogis, Alexander scored thirty five points and
Jalen Williams, who was an absolute turd in a previous game,
had twenty four and the Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like
a fat guy at McDonald's and Nuggets one twenty five
to ninety three in Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances,
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they head now to the Western Conference Final and the
top seeded Thunder will host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves
starting on what is that Tuesday night?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
but the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question how does one explain? How does one
explain Nakola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like a
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bug on the rug they got stomped on.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
In Game seven.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's one thing to lose, but to not have any
kind of fight, a gutless effort by the Denver Nuggets
in this game. So I've got poetic Tom Hanks and
Jelly and we will combine all of these things together
and make a nice trip.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
To can Kuon is what we're going to make so
a This was what I call a bad good game.
A bad I use that phrase.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
If you've been with the show a long time, you
know sometimes I'll use the phrase bad good. Now what
I mean by that it was bad to watch. It
was bad to watch. It wasn't competitive, but it was
good because it was such a rat kill. You didn't
need to watch it. And I was like, I'm not
gonna sit here and say I watch After midway through
the third quarter, I'm out. The most valuable thing we
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have is our time. I'm not wasting my time on
that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the Nuggets aren't gonna try,
why am I gonna try to watch?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
My God?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now, Denver, they started the game with an old Hollywood trick.
We see its back when people used to watch movies.
I know, movies are kind of laying now and people
really go to movies, and the movies they make are
terrible for the most part. But when you used to
back in the old days, people used to actually go
to the movies.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think man, this is great,
great opening scene.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We got something here. This is good. It's gonna be
a good movie.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then you settle in and it stinks. Movie blows right,
and the Nuggets got out of the gates. They were
up by eleven points. You figure that have a chance
in the fourth chord. They had to play with the lead.
So they were up by eleven midway through the first quarter.
From that point forward, I went back. I did the
mal of math on this. From that point forward, up eleven,
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they were outscored, they being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn out the last
the parties over. Now, in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
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no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? The in fact that
the Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up James
Harden out there playing for the nugget at five, James
Harden's out there for the Denver Nuggets. So Oklahoma City
in that stretch where they went from down eleven to
up forty three, he had Sga and Jalen Williams combined
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for fifty five points. In that stretch, they shot sixty
percent in a game seven over sixty percent, while in
that stretch the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and Jamal Murray
combined for twenty six points and shot forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Now, I never played in the NBA. I just do
an overnight show. But I don't think that's good. Do
you think that's good?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
The Nuggets were an anemic seventeen percent from three point range,
led by Jamal Murray's one of eight from prepoint range
in that stretch. Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Now that being said, I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, are you happy the Douggets?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Low?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You should be happy the Douggets.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and Denver
that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic that Denver lost, It's poetic justice. And somewhere
somewhere at a mansion far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty, dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
You dance with the one you brought. They whacked Malone
thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver. They thought, well,
I'll get rid of the GM, We'll get rid of
the we'll get rid of the cod. We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And how that turned out.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, that guy, and they know I'm going to zoom
into the final four and all that. Well.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's poetic justin you don't want to see a team
that makes that kind of business decision, that kind of
pathetic move, like the Denver Nuggets have success and they
didn't have it all right now, turning the page, So
this got me all worked up. One of the pet
peeves I have is how amazingly lazy the modern athlete is, right,
how baby, how coddled the modern athlete is. And it's
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a great example of that in what happened after Game seven.
So Aaron Gordon, who started despite a hamstring injury when
you would have thought they had to amputate it. It was
like during the Civil War they had to amputate the leg.
And he went out there and played amazing. He hopped
on one legs, he was on a hopper, so he
played fine. Okay, good for him, all right, But rather
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than just celebrating the fact that he played, not that
he played that great, rather than just that after the
game had concluded, Aaron Gordon said he had a wish
about what he'd like to see the NBA do with
the schedule in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And now now keep.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Remind the players have complained for a long time. Wow,
we got back to back games in the regular season.
So the NBA made sure in the playoffs. No back
to back. You never played back to back. Never ever
back to back. They used to play back to back,
they never played back to back. That's not good enough
for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron Gordon take as.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand if you do your work early and
you get first seed, then you can have some time off.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But I think the days in between games not just.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
An off day and a travel day, but a travel
day and a recovery days just too two days. I
think the product of the game would be a lot better.
I think there'd be a just a better product on
the floors. Just to give all these professional athletes just,
you know, one more day of rest, and you will
see a higher level of basketball, probably less blowouts.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, that was not AI, by the way. People think, well,
but no one would actually like, No Marshmallow would actually
say that, Like what ware they want their name?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He said it. That's not AI. That's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just heard it.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What is your verdict on this one?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky. That
is my verdict on that. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
That's my verdict. It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning.
It's ridiculous. Like, tell me you don't know what you're
talking about. Without telling me you don't know what you're
talking about. The schedule is fair because it's equal for
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all the team, Like there is supposed to be a
degree of difficulty in the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hello, Like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Like everyone's playing in the same umbrella, the same conditions.
And I keep hearing from people that, but we have
the top trainers, we use h computer science and technology
and all this stuff. We're so advanced to the advancements
to help the human body quickly recover. Oh my god,
(13:30):
it's never enough. And it reminds me of the Tom
Hanks character in the League of the Road when you
talk about it. Of course it's hard, right, It's yes,
it's supposed to be hard.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It was easy, everyone would do it. These guys, Eric
Gordon ten, you're wuss. What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You need?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh read it next year. How about a week?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
How about we playing like the NFL? Wait once a
week every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday, play
a stupid game.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid. I just
I can't wrap my head about how dumb this is.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Wed yeah, okay, let's just why don't we have how
about the NBA Finals. It'll be sometime maybe in August,
they'll end the NBA finals. That would that be good?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
My god.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The whole point is to distinguish what the gold is
from the gravel, and to do that you have to
have the war of attrition, not the war of let's
get as much rest as we can possibly have. It's like, jeez, yeah,
I'm sure blowoffs will never happen. Yeah, how about you
don't quit like the Nuggets did in this game, then
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you won't get blown out?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And you don't give me oh they quit? You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't. And the players again, they complain about the
back to backs. Fine, that there's a you have to
do that because of scheduling issues with the Arenas and
so they've gotten rid of a lot of that, the
back to backs. They used to play many more back
to backs. And they belly ache, I'm playing every other
day in the play playoffs. And it's like the lesson is,
(15:02):
no matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something,
you're gonna complain about something to shut up.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, do you realize that people are watching you
stupid games, are working two or three jobs, most of
them they they're not seeing any other family the love,
and you're complaining because you want an extra day off
between a stupid playoff game when you're already getting the
day off between the play That's Aaron Gordon all right anyway,
Uh now the last part of this. Nicole Jokish also
(15:30):
gave us some good content post game. As the Nuggets
have been extinguished from the playoffs, they have been decommissioned
from the postseason. So he was asked whether the Nuggets
can win a championship as they are currently constructed another
title with this group of players.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as it's put together?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Now? I mean, they didn't, so we can't. If if
if we could win and so I don't believe in
those if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't.
We didn't. We didn't win it, so I think we can't.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, there you go. Ifs I did not believe in
the word if all right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Jokic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Blow it up?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So the answer, Mighty coder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, We're screwed. I mean, this is
this is bad, bad, but bad, bad, bad, all right.
So if I'm the Nugget, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as Yolkic still is are slim and none,
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as the line goes, and none is on a plane
right now going to Bermuda, So good luck on that.
What you do here, if you're the Nuggets, you go
down to home depot and it's a DIY project.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Do it yourself, all right? This is do it yourself project.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You've got really two or three seasons of Jokic where
you can make this thing work, right, you can make
this thing work. And so you treat Nicole Jokicic like
the Jelly Roll song and you just hold on to
him until the wheels fall off of Jokic. He doesn't
seem like the kind of guy like he's's a plane
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demand that goes to some other team. He doesn't seem
like that kind of Maybe he is, and he's been
in the NBA a long time, and by osmosis, maybe
he's learned to be a schmuck like all the other
guys in demand to go to some big market teams somewhere.
But if I'm the Nuggets and I got no skin
in the game here, if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey,
I'm riding this all right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm going till the wheels fall off. He's thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So you got, like I said, two or three seasons,
and this is going to be a decline. He's the
athletic primes at thirty two. That's the peak, and then
it's slowly, you hope it slowly goes down, and you
fill the gaps in around him and you try to
make one one more sustained run with Jokich.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And then that's it. If he's done money, he's done.
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Speaker 1 (21:36):
So get the details on that. But it's I like it. Yeah, Thursday,
the date on that. What do we look at? May
twenty ninth, May.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Twenty ninth, Instagram Ben Mahler on Fox Facebook page Ben
Mallard show, We've gotten some more RSVPs over the weekend,
so I think we're gonna have a good crowd, hopefully
if these guys actually show up and don't don't just
lie to me.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I mean, I just assume people just show up randomly
and don't tell us they're coming anyways.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, I think that's better because I've done a lot
of these over the years, and oftentimes when people email
me to say they're going to show up, they don't
show up.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Then I then I get the email.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well I mean to go, but my wife needed me
to do something, or my kid needing me at a game,
you know, like all right, all right, so just whoever
shows up will be there.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I looked at the itinerary.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I moved my microphone and uh, I think more seven
for me because I might depending if the flight's delayed
and all that. We're flying in the same day on
that Thursday, So I think seven to ten. But you
guys will be there before me, so you guys can
hold down the party until I get there.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Well, yeah, we fly in before you, but we still
have to go to our hotel and unpack, and.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
There's no one. No, no, no, there's no one.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Pack work overnight, There's no You don't need.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No unpack, no.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
No, no. For the people you are for even you
don't need to unpack. Nobody who unpacked. You're not moving
into the hotel, you're there for a couple days. You
don't need to unpack. This is my wife does the
same thing. There's no need to unpack. You leave the suitcase,
you open the suitcase, you take what you need.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
You want me to go in my stinky airplane clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
People will just dude, what do they call that thing
where you spray the perfume all over your whatever?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's fine if I'm fresher, then's daisy.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right? Well, Coop, I think Coop agrees with me.
You don't need to unpack everything, right, cool, there's no
need to unpacked.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
You just well, I mean I agree with that statement,
but I disagree with the overall sentiment. You definitely don't
need to unpack, especially for a short of a trip.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Is this, Yeah, it's only a couple of days where they's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
In and I'm definitely gonna go to the hotel first.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, yeah, you don't take your stuff with you obviously,
you throw the stuff in boom, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I throw my stuff from the room. I'm out. I'm
moving on.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Does anyone actually use the dressers at hotels or results?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, you shouldn't. You should not do that.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I only do that if I am like gonna be
at the same place for like a week.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
A cockroach crawl out of one once.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here at a hotel. Here is message. My cockroaches are little.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
We get credit for all the cockroaches that are listening
right now in the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
As I look up at the ceilings here, they see
the cockroaches.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
That I got such good signal he's there in tennis.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, we don't even need satellites. We have satellites here.
We just need the cockerroaches.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's all we need. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So the Vancouver meet there's gonna be a lot of fun.
We're looking forward to seeing everybody. I'm not promising till
ten pm either.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Wow, No, we said till ted We're no, I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, everybody can stay till ten I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Know, you know, you know, you know, you're you're a guest.
You have to be there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What if somebody what if somebody shows up at like
nine thirty and you're like, well, coople left ten minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
No, you got to be there then they should. They
should have shown up on time.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How hard. No, it's not on time.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is not you're not like, it's not the military.
You're there whatever, you know, Come on, I'll be there
till ten.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Ten pm is late.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's not that late. Ted's not do it overnight show.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Ted's not late. It is not late at all. Now,
if there's no one there nine thirty, then maybe I
might agree with you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
But there's any people there, have a good crowd, so party.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
As soon as the Knicks game's over, I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, no, stop stop, probably even earlier, no, because if
it's on TNT, you gotta watch Barkley and then the
post game. That's who you gotta watch it, all right,
although you might not have that in Canada. I don't
know anyway. Terry in I remember I was a friends
with one of the Raptors broadcasters, and the guys used
to complain, this is years ago, because they didn't have ESPN,
(25:29):
back when people used to watch ESPN. He used to
complain they didn't have it in Canada. So they complained
about TSN TSN's a big network in Canada. Terry in
England writes and says, damn you, malar, I cannot call
during hour two to rip you a new one. It's
after eight am here and school meetings are starting. Well,
don't worry, Terry. I'll address all of your concerns. In
(25:49):
that Mallard monologue, Mike writes in he's Terry's, of course
a big forty nine er lap dog, and he does
not realize be careful what you wish for what the
forty nine ers have done, which is a really good
news for everyone else. We'll talk more about it next hour,
as we're doing an NBA hour here. But the forty
nine ers have done the thing they can't do at
the time they can't do it. They have signed mediocrity
(26:12):
to big money. Mike writes in says Bill Miller uses
x lax for regularity. This the need for Miller fart walks,
says Mike. Chris writes in says Gordon is right. I
mean the Clippers rest their starters every year between May
and October. Chris again with clipper itis. I understand it's
(26:33):
much cooler to talk about the Clips.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Pat writes in says, the lovely airy Berry in Cannes
City is back in the building with us tonight. So
that's good news. We have airy Berry and Pat both
forced to listen to the show. Well, Pat is not forced,
but she's forced to nature boy right since says Game
seven thunder Nuggets sucked bigly. Then to add insult injury,
(26:59):
we got door Burke. Well, I didn't get Doris Burke.
I hit the mute button on that bad boy. When
I hear her, I'm out on the audio. It's a classic.
I don't need audio. Let's see Josh wrights him out.
Josh is a Bears fan. He's in Nebraska, he says
Ben the Nuggets would have done better if they had
actually hired the real James Murray from Impractical Jokers as
(27:19):
their coach.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I don't think he's available.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Chipping the Q's right, since says a plus on the
mouth of the monologue, Aaron Gordon needs to put down
the crack pipe. If an athlete is in the proper
physical condition, then they won't need an extra day off
between games. So Soft Jr. Says that Aaron Gordon drop
has to be the most acidine thing I've heard all
year a plus on the maut Of monologue the Burner
(27:41):
count the number one burner says, Jesus, these new age
athletes are so damn soft. Oh mg, more days off?
Are you kidding me? This is the reason the NBA
is so watered down. Now, enjoy your vacation, miss just
soft day, Yes, and enjoy that. What else do you have?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Page?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Then? See this guy says you sound angry tonight. Maybe
you needed an extra day off between shows. That's the
nature boy. No, I'm good, I'm fine, I'm not angry.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Why am I name? I'm just reacting to the news
of the day.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
That's it offensive.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm offendi. Yeah, yeah, you triggered me, nature boy.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
King Roy says the Western Conference Finals starting this Tuesday
and the Thunder on short rest and having home court advantage,
do you believe they care all the.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
All the moment at the moment?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
In Game one, I heard the Angels won their weekend
series and a sweet but I did not hear against too,
so congrats Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean I'm not watching much of that baseball
stuff right now.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Super Marcus Steve writes in says the music references you
make and monologues are eclectic. One week it's no doubt,
the next it's Tom Petty, another week it's NWA.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now you're king.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
You really never know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now you're quoting a jelly roll song. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, super Marks used to used to complain because I
only quoted eminem and he used to complain about that.
And he said, well, you only do one one group
and that's it. So I've changed it up, and now
you're complaining about that. So the question is why do
you always complain? You complaining before yours quote eight miles
(29:18):
saw whatever, complain about that. Now I'm changing my music
and you're complaining. You're you're upset about that.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Do you listen to jelly roll, Ben, I've eaten many.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I know that I've eaten many jelly rolls over the years.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
Yeah, I thought this was like musical references that you
listened to.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well, I'm eclectic.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
As he pointed out, Jimmy Jimmy Star writes in says
no need to unpack balls to the wall baby, that's
he said, Yeah, you don't unpack, you know, there's no
need to unpack anyway. It is the Ben Maller shows,
we were working our way, just beginning the red eye flight.
Let's go to the phones. Now, a man who has
lived and died with the Nuggets, but he just died
(29:57):
because his team died. Let's say hello, now meany miney moe.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Let's go to Jeff in Denver. What's going on? Jeff?
Speaker 10 (30:09):
And I just wanted to call in. I'm not a
play I don't I don't disappear like your other listeners
when their team loses.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, yeah, did you just call it? You have nothing
to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You just called in because you wanted to make sure
that we have on the record that you called in there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
How did that taste? By the way, did you enjoy that?
Did you? Did you watch the whole game? Did you?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Did you turn it off about the third quarter like
when I did, because the game was over at that point.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
No, I stuck with them. I just think that they
ran out of gas. They need to address the bench
in the offseason. They just need to get more help
for jokers.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Or maybe the guys that play in the rotation can
be in better shape. How about that, Well, they ran
out of gas, but I mean run out of gas.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So you're saying they're not good enough?
Speaker 10 (30:53):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You're saying that if.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
They ran out of gas, they're not good enough. They're
not they're not designed for the postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
What you're saying, man, this.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
This is this particular series. Murray was under an illness.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh my, let me get my violin. Let me get
my violin out. Hold on, let me get the.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
World's smallest violin here. Holy crap, Holy crap, you are
such a you are such apologies for the Nuggetes. That's pathetic.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Come on, man, it's a fact they're starting.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Which means you're not good enough. That that's what that means.
All those little excuses, go ahead, keep going. How about
Aaron Gordon he played at bat and injury played.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
He played on a bad hamstring. Porter's playing with an
injury that he should be out five to six weeks.
And then, uh, they're just they spread out of the gas.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
They just okay.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So again that's your way of saying, there, they suck,
they're not good enough. The Denver Nuggets are not good enough.
And might I add the Clippers played a role in this,
and the thunder fans can thank the Clippers by taking
Denver to seven, and that proves the Nugget War that
Clippers warm out. So the Clippers really helped the Thunder
advance because the Nuggets are not designed for the playoffs.
And if the Clippers had rolled over and lost earlier
(32:05):
in that series, and the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Admitted, they would have won. But they're not designed for
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You're admitting, and I give you credit for admitting that,
even though you don't realize you're admitting.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
You Jeff, I'm just saying that it's as weak as
we ended up at the end of the as much
as we ran that gas, we still forced Oklahoma City
to a game seven, So I did not see them
advancing at all. I think Minnesota is going to take
that because if Oklahoma City took seven games to beat
us with Murray fighting an illness, Gordon with the hamstring,
(32:33):
Porter with the shoulder, and you still take seven games
to beat us, they're not going to advance.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Well the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
The Clippers took the Nuggets to seven with playoff harden,
so that then the Nuggets, I mean, that's embarrassing for
the Nuggets with playoff harden.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
Yeah, but at least there was no injuries, no, no.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Every guys didn't up there. They just don't complain.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
About the thing. I wish there wasn't an injury. I
wish there was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
That's why they put it. There's always injuries. Every year,
there's injuries. That's why they play. It's human beings. Human
beings get hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
There has never ever, ever been a season where no
one gets hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That is part of the deal. It's always been the deal.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It'll never stop being the deal unless they put androids
in there, and then the androids will get hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's always the way it is. People get hurt. That's
how it works. You kiss it. Well, we hadn't gotten hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
That's obvious. No one plays without getting hurt.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
Okay, he's been fortunate so far. They haven't gotten hurt.
So we'll see what happens in the next er.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
All right, all right, all right, all right, thank you,
go away. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Please, let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, minace ol, Hello,
hollering James.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Hey Ben, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Are you wait? Man? Are you just doing satire? Are
you just do you pretend to snore? Is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You woke me up? Woke me up in the background,
hither really not?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
No, No, I don't think.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
I don't think you were snoring last time you were
on the air. Yeah, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I was gonna enjoy that call.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I'm telling you, I'm tiring all the man's I take
thirty six chills in the morn and thirty six kills
that night. I can't keep asking for my son. But
I gotta say this, I don't think Joker played his
best basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well that's a bull take. That's it.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
They were down by forty something. Pat, that's a bull take.
Is that an original take? Did you buy that take?
Did you steal that take? That's your take?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I still man take from Josh from Josh?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Okay, Well there you go, some random.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
You know, who do you think was the better coach?
Bill Musselman of Flip Saunders?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, Bill Musselm and Flip Well, that's a question I
did not expect. I'll go flip Saunders for a thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I will go Flip Sanders too. You know what I
think prim Saunders took them to fire the Bill.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, yeah, he also he had better players. He has
better players to it.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
He had.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Something, Spencer.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now you think.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Lorena knows what team Flip Saunders and Musclming coach Loraina,
would you like to take a guess?
Speaker 9 (35:17):
Well, go ahead, yeah, we're going to go with the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
The Panthers. Is that correct, James? That is correct? Oh
it's wrong. Apparently it's wrong that the pans.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Okay, well, what about what about the Cowboys?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Eric Musselman, the coach of the Cowboys back in the nineties,
I would like, you.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Know, like a Cowville.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
What go away? James? What the hell was that? I
don't you know? No, I don't worry about it. Holy crap?
All right? Uh Phoemi and Chicago?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Since is a Mallard a plus and a Culver's butter Burger.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
On the mount of monologue?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
How about those Cubbies NLCS Cubs Doyers and here is
our paintless mascot?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, thank you, oh, thank you?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
Do you think mallar Berger is made from a Mallard cow?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Do not touch my cow? Okay, that's my heifer. It's
not your half, that's mine. At some point there was
Burger's made out of the cow. The cow went to
the butcher shop.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They had a cow.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
The Mallard cow has been butchered, and somebody did eat
the mallard cow. Our friend the farmer. Uh yeah, well
we knew it was temporary. It was not a long
life for the Mallard cow, but it was a nice
life for the cow.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And what do you give to do? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Is the Ben Mallar Show coming up? Say thirsty, my friends.
We'll get to that time. Now for the who am I? Game?
Of the five thousand players in NBA history, I am
the over five thousand players in NBA history. I'm the
only one to go the first seven hundred plus career
games without having a teammate who was an All Star,
(36:55):
an All NBA player, or an All Defensive player that season?
Who am I? That's the question, the answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
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(37:35):
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Speaker 10 (37:51):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
All right, back to it and a time. How to
pay off? The who am I?
Speaker 6 (37:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And of the five thousand players over five thousand NBA history,
I'm the only one to go the first seven hundred
plus games of my career without having a teammate who
was an All Star, an All NBA or All Defensive
player that season during my career? Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer? And let's see
(38:26):
page Dan Scrooge says the Ben Maler chop Cheese. Yeah,
I made that really good sandwich. By the way, underrated
chop cheese started making that. Mallard prop guy says Jeff
in Denver. That's about what he looks like. Happy Harriston
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we have
a page? Dan Eugene in Chicago says something about brock Perty,
(38:47):
Jim Bibbie from Mister Nice Guy going through the old
baseball cards, El Guoppo, Red Sox legend from Alf the Alien,
Ol Pineer, Mick Abel from Robbie the Mariner, Fan Elon
Musk tossed out by King Rory, Clara Bell cow from
I forty Ian Too soon a Kirk dog going with
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hollering James on a horse of course, of course, of
course you Fimi says the Mallard cow is the answer.
That's ai, that's the not touch my cow? How somebody
killed the cow? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Mel Turpin from Dinner Bell Mel Turpin, one of that
is nicknamed dinner Bell Mel from They See that's a
good nickname.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
That is so offensive these days you kind of have
a nickname like that.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Terry and England went with a photo of the after
Mallard cow.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Uh, let's too soon?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, Lrain, you have an answer to the question
who am I game?
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Question?
Speaker 7 (39:47):
He is?
Speaker 9 (39:47):
My guess is Count Chocula.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Count Chocula, hero of my youth. Count Shocula, one of
the great mascots in Cereal. He was great, not as
good as Captain Crunch, but pretty good. Correct answer is
the that's wrong. It is Nikola Jokic of your Denver Nuggets,
eight hundred and thirty nine games of his career without
having a teammate who is an All Star, All NBA
(40:12):
or All Defensive player in that season.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
So he is on a party of one, party of one.
The joker. He's a joking. He's gonna have a good
time this offseason and
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Drinking a lot, enjoying himself and not too or he'll
be back in his homeland soon
Here we go. Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number one, our one, the original Recipe podcast.
Happy Monday to you. It is the nineteenth day of May.
We are ten days away from the Big Malor Meet
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Thunder Game seven a dud, Not a milk dud, just
a dud. How do you explain the Nikola Jokich Nuggets
getting crushed like a bug on the rug getting stepped
on in Game seven? Also Aaron Gore and that's a
basketball player for Denver. He thinks the NBA needs more
days between playoff games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is
(01:08):
your verdict on this one? And where does Denver go
from here after getting stomped on? Do they remodel around
to Koleyokic or blow it up? We'll talk about that
and more right now here. It is our number one.
It was a joker of a game seven and not
(01:29):
in a good way. Welcome not beginning of another week
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So we are back at it again. Hope you had
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Maybe not for you, but for us, it does begin
right this second, slaving away over the hot microphones of
Fox Sports Radio, the bright lights of the YouTube cameras
in here, and all that crap o. This hour is
from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead, by man heart.
We're not gonna bury the lead. So we had an
island game in the NBA, and island game not at night. See,
(03:10):
the NBA realizes Oklahoma City and Denver not worthy of
prime time. So they played that bad boy in the afternoon.
That game you normally Game seven standalone game, Island game
played at night. No, they said this game so crappy,
We're not gonna play that game at night. And they
didn't play the game at night. They played it in
the afternoon. Nicola Jokic and the Nuggets traveling circus headed
(03:34):
over to the Sooners State there for the last dance,
one last opportunity against Shay Jogas Alexander the former Clipper,
and he plays for the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now so game.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Seven, Oh, greatest words at sports unless it was this
Game seven. Oklahoma City the youngest team in the history
of the NBA to win at least sixty games. Whoopee
amdu and against the championship pet I agree? Of Denver,
how many times have we heard that when the Nuggets
do anything, go championship pedigree.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Shove that right up your old keister.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
All right, So, Thunder, we're an eight point favorite, come
into this an eight point favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
How did that turn out? Well?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
you want a game a Game seven. If you could
pick out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's
anyone's game. Who's going to make plays down the stretch?
(04:34):
So that we got none of that, We got none
of that. That did not happen in this game. But
don't worry. We did watch so you would not have.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
To and you didn't miss a damn thing.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
As a shade Jogis, Alexander scored thirty five points and
Jalen Williams, who was an absolute turd in a previous game,
had twenty four and the Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like
a fat guy at McDonald's and Nuggets one twenty five
to ninety three in Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances,
(05:06):
they head now to the Western Conference Final and the
top seeded Thunder will host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves
starting on what is that Tuesday night?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tuesday night? There you go.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
but the better story is in the losing locker room,
and so that is where we will begin as we
discuss the question how does one explain? How does one
explain Nakola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like a
(05:44):
bug on the rug they got stomped on.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
In Game seven.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's one thing to lose, but to not have any
kind of fight, a gutless effort by the Denver Nuggets
in this game. So I've got poetic Tom Hanks and
Jelly and we will combine all of these things together
and make a nice trip.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
To can Kuon is what we're going to make so
a This was what I call a bad good game.
A bad I use that phrase.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
If you've been with the show a long time, you
know sometimes I'll use the phrase bad good. Now what
I mean by that it was bad to watch. It
was bad to watch. It wasn't competitive, but it was
good because it was such a rat kill. You didn't
need to watch it. And I was like, I'm not
gonna sit here and say I watch After midway through
the third quarter, I'm out. The most valuable thing we
(06:39):
have is our time. I'm not wasting my time on
that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the Nuggets aren't gonna try,
why am I gonna try to watch?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
My God?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Now, Denver, they started the game with an old Hollywood trick.
We see its back when people used to watch movies.
I know, movies are kind of laying now and people
really go to movies, and the movies they make are
terrible for the most part. But when you used to
back in the old days, people used to actually go
to the movies.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I got a big deal, you know, it was a
huge deal.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
that quick start where you think man, this is great,
great opening scene.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We got something here. This is good. It's gonna be
a good movie.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then you settle in and it stinks. Movie blows right,
and the Nuggets got out of the gates. They were
up by eleven points. You figure that have a chance
in the fourth chord. They had to play with the lead.
So they were up by eleven midway through the first quarter.
From that point forward, I went back. I did the
mal of math on this. From that point forward, up eleven,
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they were outscored, they being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
up eleven, down forty three and turn out the last
the parties over. Now, in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
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no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
against the Clippers in Game seven? The in fact that
the Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up James
Harden out there playing for the nugget at five, James
Harden's out there for the Denver Nuggets. So Oklahoma City
in that stretch where they went from down eleven to
up forty three, he had Sga and Jalen Williams combined
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for fifty five points. In that stretch, they shot sixty
percent in a game seven over sixty percent, while in
that stretch the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and Jamal Murray
combined for twenty six points and shot forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Now, I never played in the NBA. I just do
an overnight show. But I don't think that's good. Do
you think that's good?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
The Nuggets were an anemic seventeen percent from three point range,
led by Jamal Murray's one of eight from prepoint range
in that stretch. Yeah, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Now that being said, I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well, are you happy the Douggets?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Low?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You should be happy the Douggets.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and Denver
that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
is poetic that Denver lost, It's poetic justice. And somewhere
somewhere at a mansion far far away, Michael Malone cracked
open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty, dirty dogs. They
did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
You dance with the one you brought. They whacked Malone
thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver. They thought, well,
I'll get rid of the GM, We'll get rid of
the we'll get rid of the cod. We're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And how that turned out.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
coach David Adelman.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, that guy, and they know I'm going to zoom
into the final four and all that. Well.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
Joker star James Murray had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And so the Nuggets are out, which is good.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It's poetic justin you don't want to see a team
that makes that kind of business decision, that kind of
pathetic move, like the Denver Nuggets have success and they
didn't have it all right now, turning the page, So
this got me all worked up. One of the pet
peeves I have is how amazingly lazy the modern athlete is, right,
how baby, how coddled the modern athlete is. And it's
(10:43):
a great example of that in what happened after Game seven.
So Aaron Gordon, who started despite a hamstring injury when
you would have thought they had to amputate it. It was
like during the Civil War they had to amputate the leg.
And he went out there and played amazing. He hopped
on one legs, he was on a hopper, so he
played fine. Okay, good for him, all right, But rather
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than just celebrating the fact that he played, not that
he played that great, rather than just that after the
game had concluded, Aaron Gordon said he had a wish
about what he'd like to see the NBA do with
the schedule in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
And now now keep.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Remind the players have complained for a long time. Wow,
we got back to back games in the regular season.
So the NBA made sure in the playoffs. No back
to back. You never played back to back. Never ever
back to back. They used to play back to back,
they never played back to back. That's not good enough
for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron Gordon take as.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
I would really really appreciate it if there were a
couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
of every other day regardless if you go seven games.
And I understand if you do your work early and
you get first seed, then you can have some time off.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
But I think the days in between games not just.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
An off day and a travel day, but a travel
day and a recovery days just too two days. I
think the product of the game would be a lot better.
I think there'd be a just a better product on
the floors. Just to give all these professional athletes just,
you know, one more day of rest, and you will
see a higher level of basketball, probably less blowouts.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, that was not AI, by the way. People think, well,
but no one would actually like, No Marshmallow would actually
say that, Like what ware they want their name?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
He said it. That's not AI. That's real. So Aaron Gordon,
you just heard it.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
games to prevent postseason blowouts.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
What is your verdict on this one?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky. That
is my verdict on that. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
That's my verdict. It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning.
It's ridiculous. Like, tell me you don't know what you're
talking about. Without telling me you don't know what you're
talking about. The schedule is fair because it's equal for
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all the team, Like there is supposed to be a
degree of difficulty in the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hello, Like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Like everyone's playing in the same umbrella, the same conditions.
And I keep hearing from people that, but we have
the top trainers, we use h computer science and technology
and all this stuff. We're so advanced to the advancements
to help the human body quickly recover. Oh my god,
(13:30):
it's never enough. And it reminds me of the Tom
Hanks character in the League of the Road when you
talk about it. Of course it's hard, right, It's yes,
it's supposed to be hard.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It was easy, everyone would do it. These guys, Eric
Gordon ten, you're wuss. What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You need?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Oh read it next year. How about a week?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
How about we playing like the NFL? Wait once a
week every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday, play
a stupid game.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid. I just
I can't wrap my head about how dumb this is.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Wed yeah, okay, let's just why don't we have how
about the NBA Finals. It'll be sometime maybe in August,
they'll end the NBA finals. That would that be good?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
My god.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
The whole point is to distinguish what the gold is
from the gravel, and to do that you have to
have the war of attrition, not the war of let's
get as much rest as we can possibly have. It's like, jeez, yeah,
I'm sure blowoffs will never happen. Yeah, how about you
don't quit like the Nuggets did in this game, then
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you won't get blown out?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And you don't give me oh they quit? You don't
lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
you don't. And the players again, they complain about the
back to backs. Fine, that there's a you have to
do that because of scheduling issues with the Arenas and
so they've gotten rid of a lot of that, the
back to backs. They used to play many more back
to backs. And they belly ache, I'm playing every other
day in the play playoffs. And it's like the lesson is,
(15:02):
no matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something,
you're gonna complain about something to shut up.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, do you realize that people are watching you
stupid games, are working two or three jobs, most of
them they they're not seeing any other family the love,
and you're complaining because you want an extra day off
between a stupid playoff game when you're already getting the
day off between the play That's Aaron Gordon all right anyway,
Uh now the last part of this. Nicole Jokish also
(15:30):
gave us some good content post game. As the Nuggets
have been extinguished from the playoffs, they have been decommissioned
from the postseason. So he was asked whether the Nuggets
can win a championship as they are currently constructed another
title with this group of players.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Then, well, here's what he had to say.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Take it was, do you feel like this team could
still win a championship as it's put together?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Now? I mean, they didn't, so we can't. If if
if we could win and so I don't believe in
those if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't.
We didn't. We didn't win it, so I think we can't.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Okay, there you go. Ifs I did not believe in
the word if all right, So the question where does
Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
Do they simply remodel around Nicola Jokic or is this
a total demo?
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Blow it up?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
So the answer, Mighty coder Ring tells me what the
joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
he meant to say, We're screwed. I mean, this is
this is bad, bad, but bad, bad, bad, all right.
So if I'm the Nugget, it's like the chance of
them getting a player in the next five to ten
years as good as Yolkic still is are slim and none,
(16:55):
as the line goes, and none is on a plane
right now going to Bermuda, So good luck on that.
What you do here, if you're the Nuggets, you go
down to home depot and it's a DIY project.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Do it yourself, all right? This is do it yourself project.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You've got really two or three seasons of Jokic where
you can make this thing work, right, you can make
this thing work. And so you treat Nicole Jokicic like
the Jelly Roll song and you just hold on to
him until the wheels fall off of Jokic. He doesn't
seem like the kind of guy like he's's a plane
(17:30):
demand that goes to some other team. He doesn't seem
like that kind of Maybe he is, and he's been
in the NBA a long time, and by osmosis, maybe
he's learned to be a schmuck like all the other
guys in demand to go to some big market teams somewhere.
But if I'm the Nuggets and I got no skin
in the game here, if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey,
I'm riding this all right.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm going till the wheels fall off. He's thirty years old.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So you got, like I said, two or three seasons,
and this is going to be a decline. He's the
athletic primes at thirty two. That's the peak, and then
it's slowly, you hope it slowly goes down, and you
fill the gaps in around him and you try to
make one one more sustained run with Jokich.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And then that's it. If he's done money, he's done.
You move on. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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And also later on a NBA player pulling a Brian Kelly.
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At a Bronco fan and all of them will be
leaving the country soon, all of them. But now back
to the show. That's right, and don't forget we are
scarily closed. What are we ten days away from heading
ten days away the big Vancouver meet and greet. We
are hanging out with all of our great listeners in
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that part of Canada and Western Canada and anywhere in
the Pacific Northwest if you can make it to Vancouver.
It's a Thursday shindig. We are excited about that. We
are fired up and they can't not wait to see.
All the details are on the social media pages if
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page and the Instagram page for the show.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So get the details on that. But it's I like it. Yeah, Thursday,
the date on that. What do we look at? May
twenty ninth, May.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Twenty ninth, Instagram Ben Mahler on Fox Facebook page Ben
Mallard show, We've gotten some more RSVPs over the weekend,
so I think we're gonna have a good crowd, hopefully
if these guys actually show up and don't don't just
lie to me.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I mean, I just assume people just show up randomly
and don't tell us they're coming anyways.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, I think that's better because I've done a lot
of these over the years, and oftentimes when people email
me to say they're going to show up, they don't
show up.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Then I then I get the email.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well I mean to go, but my wife needed me
to do something, or my kid needing me at a game,
you know, like all right, all right, so just whoever
shows up will be there.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
And I looked at the itinerary.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I moved my microphone and uh, I think more seven
for me because I might depending if the flight's delayed
and all that. We're flying in the same day on
that Thursday, So I think seven to ten. But you
guys will be there before me, so you guys can
hold down the party until I get there.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Well, yeah, we fly in before you, but we still
have to go to our hotel and unpack, and.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
There's no one. No, no, no, there's no one.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
Pack work overnight, There's no You don't need.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
No unpack, no.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
No, no. For the people you are for even you
don't need to unpack. Nobody who unpacked. You're not moving
into the hotel, you're there for a couple days. You
don't need to unpack. This is my wife does the
same thing. There's no need to unpack. You leave the suitcase,
you open the suitcase, you take what you need.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
You want me to go in my stinky airplane clothes.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
People will just dude, what do they call that thing
where you spray the perfume all over your whatever?
Speaker 9 (23:19):
That's fine if I'm fresher, then's daisy.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right? Well, Coop, I think Coop agrees with me.
You don't need to unpack everything, right, cool, there's no
need to unpacked.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
You just well, I mean I agree with that statement,
but I disagree with the overall sentiment. You definitely don't
need to unpack, especially for a short of a trip.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Is this, Yeah, it's only a couple of days where they's.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
In and I'm definitely gonna go to the hotel first.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Well, yeah, you don't take your stuff with you obviously,
you throw the stuff in boom, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I throw my stuff from the room. I'm out. I'm
moving on.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Does anyone actually use the dressers at hotels or results?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, you shouldn't. You should not do that.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
I only do that if I am like gonna be
at the same place for like a week.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
A cockroach crawl out of one once.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Here at a hotel. Here is message. My cockroaches are little.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
We get credit for all the cockroaches that are listening
right now in the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
As I look up at the ceilings here, they see
the cockroaches.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
That I got such good signal he's there in tennis.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, we don't even need satellites. We have satellites here.
We just need the cockerroaches.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's all we need. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So the Vancouver meet there's gonna be a lot of fun.
We're looking forward to seeing everybody. I'm not promising till
ten pm either.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Wow, No, we said till ted We're no, I'm gonna.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
I mean, everybody can stay till ten I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Know, you know, you know, you know, you're you're a guest.
You have to be there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What if somebody what if somebody shows up at like
nine thirty and you're like, well, coople left ten minutes ago.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
No, you got to be there then they should. They
should have shown up on time.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
How hard. No, it's not on time.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is not you're not like, it's not the military.
You're there whatever, you know, Come on, I'll be there
till ten.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Ten pm is late.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's not that late. Ted's not do it overnight show.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Ted's not late. It is not late at all. Now,
if there's no one there nine thirty, then maybe I
might agree with you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
But there's any people there, have a good crowd, so party.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
As soon as the Knicks game's over, I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
No, no, stop stop, probably even earlier, no, because if
it's on TNT, you gotta watch Barkley and then the
post game. That's who you gotta watch it, all right,
although you might not have that in Canada. I don't
know anyway. Terry in I remember I was a friends
with one of the Raptors broadcasters, and the guys used
to complain, this is years ago, because they didn't have ESPN,
(25:29):
back when people used to watch ESPN. He used to
complain they didn't have it in Canada. So they complained
about TSN TSN's a big network in Canada. Terry in
England writes and says, damn you, malar, I cannot call
during hour two to rip you a new one. It's
after eight am here and school meetings are starting. Well,
don't worry, Terry. I'll address all of your concerns. In
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that Mallard monologue, Mike writes in he's Terry's, of course
a big forty nine er lap dog, and he does
not realize be careful what you wish for what the
forty nine ers have done, which is a really good
news for everyone else. We'll talk more about it next hour,
as we're doing an NBA hour here. But the forty
nine ers have done the thing they can't do at
the time they can't do it. They have signed mediocrity
(26:12):
to big money. Mike writes in says Bill Miller uses
x lax for regularity. This the need for Miller fart walks,
says Mike. Chris writes in says Gordon is right. I
mean the Clippers rest their starters every year between May
and October. Chris again with clipper itis. I understand it's
(26:33):
much cooler to talk about the Clips.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Pat writes in says, the lovely airy Berry in Cannes
City is back in the building with us tonight. So
that's good news. We have airy Berry and Pat both
forced to listen to the show. Well, Pat is not forced,
but she's forced to nature boy right since says Game
seven thunder Nuggets sucked bigly. Then to add insult injury,
(26:59):
we got door Burke. Well, I didn't get Doris Burke.
I hit the mute button on that bad boy. When
I hear her, I'm out on the audio. It's a classic.
I don't need audio. Let's see Josh wrights him out.
Josh is a Bears fan. He's in Nebraska, he says
Ben the Nuggets would have done better if they had
actually hired the real James Murray from Impractical Jokers as
(27:19):
their coach.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I don't think he's available.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Chipping the Q's right, since says a plus on the
mouth of the monologue, Aaron Gordon needs to put down
the crack pipe. If an athlete is in the proper
physical condition, then they won't need an extra day off
between games. So Soft Jr. Says that Aaron Gordon drop
has to be the most acidine thing I've heard all
year a plus on the maut Of monologue the Burner
(27:41):
count the number one burner says, Jesus, these new age
athletes are so damn soft. Oh mg, more days off?
Are you kidding me? This is the reason the NBA
is so watered down. Now, enjoy your vacation, miss just
soft day, Yes, and enjoy that. What else do you have?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Page?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Then? See this guy says you sound angry tonight. Maybe
you needed an extra day off between shows. That's the
nature boy. No, I'm good, I'm fine, I'm not angry.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Why am I name? I'm just reacting to the news
of the day.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
That's it offensive.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm offendi. Yeah, yeah, you triggered me, nature boy.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
King Roy says the Western Conference Finals starting this Tuesday
and the Thunder on short rest and having home court advantage,
do you believe they care all the.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
All the moment at the moment?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
In Game one, I heard the Angels won their weekend
series and a sweet but I did not hear against too,
so congrats Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean I'm not watching much of that baseball
stuff right now.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Super Marcus Steve writes in says the music references you
make and monologues are eclectic. One week it's no doubt,
the next it's Tom Petty, another week it's NWA.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now you're king.
Speaker 9 (28:51):
You really never know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Now you're quoting a jelly roll song. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, super Marks used to used to complain because I
only quoted eminem and he used to complain about that.
And he said, well, you only do one one group
and that's it. So I've changed it up, and now
you're complaining about that. So the question is why do
you always complain? You complaining before yours quote eight miles
(29:18):
saw whatever, complain about that. Now I'm changing my music
and you're complaining. You're you're upset about that.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Do you listen to jelly roll, Ben, I've eaten many.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I know that I've eaten many jelly rolls over the years.
Speaker 9 (29:31):
Yeah, I thought this was like musical references that you
listened to.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Well, I'm eclectic.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
As he pointed out, Jimmy Jimmy Star writes in says
no need to unpack balls to the wall baby, that's
he said, Yeah, you don't unpack, you know, there's no
need to unpack anyway. It is the Ben Maller shows,
we were working our way, just beginning the red eye flight.
Let's go to the phones. Now, a man who has
lived and died with the Nuggets, but he just died
(29:57):
because his team died. Let's say hello, now meany miney moe.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Let's go to Jeff in Denver. What's going on? Jeff?
Speaker 10 (30:09):
And I just wanted to call in. I'm not a
play I don't I don't disappear like your other listeners
when their team loses.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, yeah, did you just call it? You have nothing
to say.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You just called in because you wanted to make sure
that we have on the record that you called in there.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
How did that taste? By the way, did you enjoy that?
Did you? Did you watch the whole game? Did you?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Did you turn it off about the third quarter like
when I did, because the game was over at that point.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
No, I stuck with them. I just think that they
ran out of gas. They need to address the bench
in the offseason. They just need to get more help
for jokers.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Or maybe the guys that play in the rotation can
be in better shape. How about that, Well, they ran
out of gas, but I mean run out of gas.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
So you're saying they're not good enough?
Speaker 10 (30:53):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You're saying that if.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
They ran out of gas, they're not good enough. They're
not they're not designed for the postseason.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
What you're saying, man, this.
Speaker 10 (31:03):
This is this particular series. Murray was under an illness.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh my, let me get my violin. Let me get
my violin out. Hold on, let me get the.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
World's smallest violin here. Holy crap, Holy crap, you are
such a you are such apologies for the Nuggetes. That's pathetic.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Come on, man, it's a fact they're starting.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Which means you're not good enough. That that's what that means.
All those little excuses, go ahead, keep going. How about
Aaron Gordon he played at bat and injury played.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 10 (31:32):
He played on a bad hamstring. Porter's playing with an
injury that he should be out five to six weeks.
And then, uh, they're just they spread out of the gas.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
They just okay.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
So again that's your way of saying, there, they suck,
they're not good enough. The Denver Nuggets are not good enough.
And might I add the Clippers played a role in this,
and the thunder fans can thank the Clippers by taking
Denver to seven, and that proves the Nugget War that
Clippers warm out. So the Clippers really helped the Thunder
advance because the Nuggets are not designed for the playoffs.
And if the Clippers had rolled over and lost earlier
(32:05):
in that series, and the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Admitted, they would have won. But they're not designed for
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
You're admitting, and I give you credit for admitting that,
even though you don't realize you're admitting.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
You Jeff, I'm just saying that it's as weak as
we ended up at the end of the as much
as we ran that gas, we still forced Oklahoma City
to a game seven, So I did not see them
advancing at all. I think Minnesota is going to take
that because if Oklahoma City took seven games to beat
us with Murray fighting an illness, Gordon with the hamstring,
(32:33):
Porter with the shoulder, and you still take seven games
to beat us, they're not going to advance.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Well the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
The Clippers took the Nuggets to seven with playoff harden,
so that then the Nuggets, I mean, that's embarrassing for
the Nuggets with playoff harden.
Speaker 10 (32:49):
Yeah, but at least there was no injuries, no, no.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Every guys didn't up there. They just don't complain.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
About the thing. I wish there wasn't an injury. I
wish there was.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
That's why they put it. There's always injuries. Every year,
there's injuries. That's why they play. It's human beings. Human
beings get hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
There has never ever, ever been a season where no
one gets hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
That is part of the deal. It's always been the deal.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It'll never stop being the deal unless they put androids
in there, and then the androids will get hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
It's always the way it is. People get hurt. That's
how it works. You kiss it. Well, we hadn't gotten hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
That's obvious. No one plays without getting hurt.
Speaker 10 (33:29):
Okay, he's been fortunate so far. They haven't gotten hurt.
So we'll see what happens in the next er.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
All right, all right, all right, all right, thank you,
go away. All right.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Please, let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, minace ol, Hello,
hollering James.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Hey Ben, what's going on? Man?
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Are you wait? Man? Are you just doing satire? Are
you just do you pretend to snore? Is that what
you're doing?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
You woke me up? Woke me up in the background,
hither really not?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
No, No, I don't think.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
I don't think you were snoring last time you were
on the air. Yeah, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
I was gonna enjoy that call.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
I'm telling you, I'm tiring all the man's I take
thirty six chills in the morn and thirty six kills
that night. I can't keep asking for my son. But
I gotta say this, I don't think Joker played his
best basketball.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Well that's a bull take. That's it.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
They were down by forty something. Pat, that's a bull take.
Is that an original take? Did you buy that take?
Did you steal that take? That's your take?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I still man take from Josh from Josh?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Okay, Well there you go, some random.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
You know, who do you think was the better coach?
Bill Musselman of Flip Saunders?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Oh, Bill Musselm and Flip Well, that's a question I
did not expect. I'll go flip Saunders for a thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I will go Flip Sanders too. You know what I
think prim Saunders took them to fire the Bill.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, yeah, he also he had better players. He has
better players to it.
Speaker 10 (35:03):
He had.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Something, Spencer.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now you think.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Lorena knows what team Flip Saunders and Musclming coach Loraina,
would you like to take a guess?
Speaker 9 (35:17):
Well, go ahead, yeah, we're going to go with the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
The Panthers. Is that correct, James? That is correct? Oh
it's wrong. Apparently it's wrong that the pans.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Okay, well, what about what about the Cowboys?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Eric Musselman, the coach of the Cowboys back in the nineties,
I would like, you.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Know, like a Cowville.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But you're wrong.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
What go away? James? What the hell was that? I
don't you know? No, I don't worry about it. Holy crap?
All right? Uh Phoemi and Chicago?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Since is a Mallard a plus and a Culver's butter Burger.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
On the mount of monologue?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
How about those Cubbies NLCS Cubs Doyers and here is
our paintless mascot?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Well, thank you, oh, thank you?
Speaker 9 (36:04):
Do you think mallar Berger is made from a Mallard cow?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Do not touch my cow? Okay, that's my heifer. It's
not your half, that's mine. At some point there was
Burger's made out of the cow. The cow went to
the butcher shop.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
They had a cow.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
The Mallard cow has been butchered, and somebody did eat
the mallard cow. Our friend the farmer. Uh yeah, well
we knew it was temporary. It was not a long
life for the Mallard cow, but it was a nice
life for the cow.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And what do you give to do? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Is the Ben Mallar Show coming up? Say thirsty, my friends.
We'll get to that time. Now for the who am I? Game?
Of the five thousand players in NBA history, I am
the over five thousand players in NBA history. I'm the
only one to go the first seven hundred plus career
games without having a teammate who was an All Star,
(36:55):
an All NBA player, or an All Defensive player that season?
Who am I? That's the question, the answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Ben Miller and you all choked up here beginning of
the new week and you can stream this show and
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(37:35):
and have those as your presets, just like the presets
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Speaker 10 (37:51):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
All right, back to it and a time. How to
pay off? The who am I?
Speaker 6 (37:57):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else as
we call it the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
And of the five thousand players over five thousand NBA history,
I'm the only one to go the first seven hundred
plus games of my career without having a teammate who
was an All Star, an All NBA or All Defensive
player that season during my career? Who am I? That
is the question? What is the answer? And let's see
(38:26):
page Dan Scrooge says the Ben Maler chop Cheese. Yeah,
I made that really good sandwich. By the way, underrated
chop cheese started making that. Mallard prop guy says Jeff
in Denver. That's about what he looks like. Happy Harriston
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we have
a page? Dan Eugene in Chicago says something about brock Perty,
(38:47):
Jim Bibbie from Mister Nice Guy going through the old
baseball cards, El Guoppo, Red Sox legend from Alf the Alien,
Ol Pineer, Mick Abel from Robbie the Mariner, Fan Elon
Musk tossed out by King Rory, Clara Bell cow from
I forty Ian Too soon a Kirk dog going with
(39:07):
hollering James on a horse of course, of course, of
course you Fimi says the Mallard cow is the answer.
That's ai, that's the not touch my cow? How somebody
killed the cow? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Mel Turpin from Dinner Bell Mel Turpin, one of that
is nicknamed dinner Bell Mel from They See that's a
good nickname.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
That is so offensive these days you kind of have
a nickname like that.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Terry and England went with a photo of the after
Mallard cow.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Uh, let's too soon?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
All right, Lrain, you have an answer to the question
who am I game?
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Question?
Speaker 7 (39:47):
He is?
Speaker 9 (39:47):
My guess is Count Chocula.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Count Chocula, hero of my youth. Count Shocula, one of
the great mascots in Cereal. He was great, not as
good as Captain Crunch, but pretty good. Correct answer is
the that's wrong. It is Nikola Jokic of your Denver Nuggets,
eight hundred and thirty nine games of his career without
having a teammate who is an All Star, All NBA
(40:12):
or All Defensive player in that season.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
So he is on a party of one, party of one.
The joker. He's a joking. He's gonna have a good
time this offseason and
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Drinking a lot, enjoying himself and not too or he'll
be back in his homeland soon
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