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April 21, 2025 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about who gets the blame for the Rockets loss to the Warriors and how Steph Curry is feeling about Golden State's performance, Ja Morant attempting to reassure the fanbase after getting blown out by the Thunder, Jayson Tatum's wrist injury, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our nber one.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Our one.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're back at it the original Recipe podcast, A Happy
Monday to you. It is the twenty first day of
April and you smell that. You know what that is?
That it's not that now. This is the NFL Draft
week beginning. But we start out with pro bouncy ball.
Who gets the blame Bowl from the playoffs? Blame Bowl
of tex mex for the Rockets losing at home? Also,

(00:30):
how is Steph Curry feeling about his Golden State Warriors
performance and the playoffs a road win. Grizzly star John
Morant attempted to reassure the fan base that everything was
going to be okay, saying we will never play that
bad again after a fifty one point beat down by Okac.
Is that strong enough? And do you believe the Celtics

(00:52):
Jason Tatum when he says his.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Wrist is all right? We'll talk about all of that
and more.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Buckle up, it's our number one in all weekends basketball poloser,
it was like one or two DC games. Welcome in
the beginning of another week of the Ben Malor Show.

(01:20):
We are in the air everywhares we rub elbows, and
boy do we rub them from the theater of the mine,
coast to coast, border, the border and beyond on the
vast in tantalizingly powerful microphones of FSR emmating live from

(01:41):
inside the greasy spoon, frying up, piping Hot Sports takes
under the cover of darkness from the Fox Sports radio
studios as we hang out side by side, and we
begin the festivius of talk here with the last game
that was played in it was eastern night. Now still

(02:04):
on the west, it's still Eastern night, but the end
of day two of the NBA card And I don't
know if you were watching all this, maybe a she's
do something else, But I checked it out. I consumed
the product. It kind of goes with the job. So
we watched it so you would not have to to
comment to comment on the events that took place over

(02:27):
the weekend.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
So pro bouncy ball.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
If you hate pro bouncy ball, you're not gonna like
the next couple of months because it's cann be a
lot of pro bouncy ball. But we do have the
NFL's draft which is coming up later this week, which
is which is a good NFL draft so.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
We have that to break it up.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
But we're gonna start in the lone Star State where
the number two seated rock Cats. We're playing host to
the Stephen Curry numbers seven. Numbers seven. We don't have
a seven.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
I don't have a button. We don't have it. We
need it set.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
We need the ones, the two, the trees, the fours,
the five, the sixth, the seventh, the eights, and the nines.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
We need. If we have all of those, we're good.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So we can have random listers just call up and
just start singing different numbers, and then we have every number.
And then we're gonna need the a's, the b's, the c's,
the d's, the e's, them will go through the whole
alphabet and we'll have a letter and we'll have a
number for everything.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
But anyway, I don't saw the game or not. It
was the last game they played.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
It ended not too long before we cracked the microphones
here on on FSR. So the Warriors trailed for very little,
like none they dominated, I.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Mean early, very early in the game.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
But the wars led by as many as twenty three
points and then there was as it typically happens, Houston
snaked their way back into the game a little bit
down by nine entering the fourth quarter. I never got
the feeling that the Rockets were going to actually win
the game. Uh, and that turned out to be the case.
My premonition was accurate. Jephan Curry twelve of nineteen from

(04:02):
the four, did not hit a three point shot for
a while, but then ended up five of nine from
three point land and Jimmy Butler getting her done there
with twenty five points, seven rebound, six assists, five steals,
and a partridge in a paar tree. As a Game
two will be played next month. No Game two will

(04:22):
be Wednesday, because you know, it's very difficult to play
games more than two days apart, my god, So they'll
the next game will be on Wednesday there and in Houston,
so they will continue. You know the way it works here,
the better story is in the losing locker room. And
so let us discuss the events that took place there

(04:42):
in Houston.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Who gets the.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Blame Bowl of tex mex for the Roquettes as they
lose home court advantage in their first game out in
this particular series. So I have brand ambassadors Sandwich Board
and Hall Pass and we will combine all of these

(05:04):
things together and we are going to make a wonderful,
delicious plate filled with banana cream pie.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
It's a little dish there with banana cream pie. All right.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So a the Sins watching the Rockets, and the Rockets
are a physically talented team, they're a younger team. They
won a bunch of games actually tried during the regular season,
and so you racked up a lot of wins and
all that stuff. And it's great. But the way you
look at these things, it's Occam's razor. The most obvious
is usually the right answer on these things. And I

(05:39):
mean people overlook the obvious to try to find more
complex explanations for the outcome of events.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I don't believe it's that deep. It's just sports. It's
not that deep.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
And it's right in front of your schnaz right in
front of your schnaz. Here when you look at it,
you got Jalen Green on one side and Fred van
Vliet on the other side. High crimes and misdemeanors for
these two. Who stinks well, those two right off the top. Now,
it was like an urban legend playing out in the NBA.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Playoffs, right in front of a horizon.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
And now normally it's just the vanishing hitchhiker that just
gets in the car and then you don't know where
they went and what happened, and or you see them
off in the distance, you get closer than not there.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
You don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
But these guys Green and Van Vliet were brand ambassadors
for preparation.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
They played like they had hemorrhoids, and watching them, you
thought you had hemorrhoids.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
How bad was it? It was so bad.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Jalen Green three of fifteen from the floor, all four
from downtown. Van Vliet, who's got playoff experience from the
stays in Toronto, four of nineteen.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
From the floor.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
So, if you do the math, the Rockets starting backcourt
was outscored by twenty eight points by Golden State, just
backcourt to backcourt Mono Amano. The Warriors starting backcourt shot
fifty three percent from the floor. The Rockheads starting backcourt

(07:13):
attempted a total of thirty four shots and they made
seven of them, which sucks anywhere you go. The rest
of the team, the Rockets, if you take the back
court out right in the ifson Bots Candy nuts the
rest of the back court or the rest of the
front court and everyone else outscored the Warriors by eighteen.
How about on the other side, you've got Stephen Curry

(07:36):
and how is he feeling? How's Golden State feeling right
about now? After this performance in game one? So this
is the blueprint. It's kind of clear that this is
the blueprint, right and nothing radical.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
This is why they went on.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Got Jimmy Butler, playoff Jimmy as the legend goes Jimmy Butler.
It was a prototypical type performance. And fortunately the NBA
giving the Warriors lots of time off in between games,
so they don't they don't have to worry about that
little rest and relaxation. Enjoy Houston to go back out
and play on Wednesday. Now to the dust ball A
game that was so bad? How bad was it was

(08:11):
so bad? We need to mention the number one seed
number in the entire NBA Oklahoma City in the Western Conference.
There they put on a clinic and it wasn't just
a click. I don't believe that does justice to what
happened in this particular game. The smashing of the grizz
in Memphis. Memphis has completely torn to bits in Okay

(08:34):
see now a fifty one point margin.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
An NBA team that made.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
The playoffs, granted they were in the plane, lost a
game by fifty one points.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
Do you know how.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Bad one has to play to lose a game by
fifty one points?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
And it's just stunning.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
And now John Morant attempted to reassure the fan base
that things are going to be okay, that it will
never get this bad again.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen, No
play that about it again.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Defensive intensity, they had a lot of easy looks which
pretty much getting to, you know, wherever they wanted on
the floor, and offensively taking care of the ball.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Defensive intensity.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I think my fat ass could have played better defense
than those guys. There was no defensive intendit all right, So,
Ja Moran, they're not real confident. As he attempted to
reassure the fan base that everything will be okay, and
he said that money quote, we will never play that
bad again. Is that strong enough? Well that was a
rhetorical question. Of course, it's not strong enough. No, you're

(09:44):
supposed to be the franchise player here. I am a
franchise were here. I'm talking about a game, a playoff game,
a playoff we we lost by fifty one points. My god,
fire the coach again. Where's Taylor Jenkins? Fire him again?
Not the coach, Fire him again. You've lost a player
game by fifty one points. And I flashed back years
ago when I started out and radio, I covered the

(10:05):
NBA regularly and one of the people he's long gone now,
Bill Fitch. It was a Hall of Fame coach, and
he explained to me that no matter how bad one
team is compared to the other team in terms of talent,
perceive the perception of talent. He explained to me, if
the lesser team plays with the proper effort and energy
and plays the fundamentally sound way of basketball, they will

(10:28):
not get blown out. That if you just put the
effort in that you can close the gap, the talent gap.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
And I watched, I was like, whoa that is?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
I thought maybe my phone had glitched when I looked
at the score, and I was like, I must not
be right. Maybe somebody hacked the website that I used
to look at the score. And then I turned it
on and I was like, oh my god, what a monstrosity.
This is unbelievable. I mean Holy Canoley, This is not
the vomit comment. That the vomit comment is not strong

(11:01):
enough here. This is somebody needs to be court martialed.
There needs to be a court martial here. Naming and shaming.
I'm talking about sensing multiple people, and you can go
down the list. There's like seven or eight prime suspects
here who need to wear the sandwich board and walk
outside the arena, and the sandwich board can point out

(11:23):
how they violated the tenants of basketball competition and all that,
and they're guilty of dereliction of duties.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Man.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
That is what to do.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Is a game by fifty one points. I mean, oh,
Oklahoma City's great, They're not that much greater than Memphis,
Mike got all right. Now, Last word to Boston we go,
where the Celtics were trailing midway through, but in the
end they dominated when they they pulled away there in

(11:57):
the second half and they end up winning. Jason Tatum, though,
the story not the game with Orlando. The story is
Jason Tatum. Was it a snap crackle pop situation? Tatum?
He came down tumbling down on his wrist, Oh my
aching wrist, and they'll postgame X ray situation for Jason Tatum.
He said of his right wrist, it was clean, the

(12:21):
X ray said, he said it was clean, and he
was all right, all right, he said.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
He came down there in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
As Jason Tatum ended up playing, he had seven, you know,
seventeen points eight of twenty two, didn't do much anything
early in the game, played nearly forty minutes of game time.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Here.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
The injury happened with eight twenty eight to go in
the fourth quarter and he was driving for a dunk
attempt at the rim and ow aUI aUI Kazawi. I
think that's the actual son aUI Kazawi's what he said.
Possibly not, So question, do you believe Do you believe

(13:02):
Jason Tatum when he says his wrist is all right,
and he also said the x rays were cleaned?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
You believe? Do you believe all that? So my position
on this is whether the X ray was clean or not.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I assume it was, and him saying he's all right,
My position on that is it's not cracked, right, It's
not cracked. However, Tatum now has something very valuable for
the next three or four games, possibly longer than that.
He's got a hall pass, he starts clanking up missus,

(13:34):
he's got well, you know, it's in my wrist, and
I'm trying to fight through it, trying to fight through
the wrist problem. And he's got the immunity papers. If
he starts making a brick house, the old brick house there,
clanking jumpers right and left and just not being very efficient.
So this has the makings of what a gentleman's sweep,

(13:56):
as they like to call it in the playoffs, where
you end.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Up winning the games at home.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
You lose game three, and then you bounce back and
win the next couple and win in five, and that's
that the Celtics flipping the switch in the second half
of that game, and so they end up winning by
a comfortable margin at home against Orlando. Will take your
calls on any of this. If you would like to
be part, we will release the hounds. We'll open up
the phone lines right now. You can start the party

(14:23):
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(14:48):
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they brought the atomic elbow down from the upper rope.
What was that all about. We'll get to it, we'll
break it down, and we will do it.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Next.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (15:16):
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(15:37):
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While you're taking the whiz in the middle of the night,
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That's a Bronco fan. And if you're with the show

(16:16):
all night, you likely will not be. But if you are,
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(16:39):
rebroadcast in the podcast format. Now back to it, we go, Well,
that's right, and don't forget first Malor Meet and Greet
of twenty twenty five is about a month away. About
a month away, we're going to Canada doing the show.
Were gonna hang out, have a great time. Very excited
about this.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Do you know what the weather's gonna be like yet?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Vancouver? We're going to Vancouver. You can look on the
weather apps there. It's probably maybe seventies, low seventies, mid seventies,
something like that in late May and Vancouver.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I would like it to be mid eighties upper.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, you might want to go somewhere else then, you know,
I don't think it gets I don't know. I have
no idea, but I'm assuming that I've been to Seattle.
I assume it's just a little further north north than Seattle,
so I assume the weather is pretty similar to Seattle,
and that time of the year. Probably fine, maybe we'll rain.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
You know what, if it does rain, I could get
an umbrella.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Oh that'd be exciting. I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh my god, you could buy an umbrella. Yes, there
might be somebody that walks out with a bag of
them on the street there and said, you want one
twenty bucks colecting umbrellas.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
I have the flamingo one that ends all by itself.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well, congratulation, that's a that's a big thing. I get umbrellas.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
They last about two minutes the first gust of wind
and they get destroyed. Yes, they And I want to
know where all these are. Like yo to certain cities
and it rains, there's guys that pop up immediately with
the big bucket of umbrellas.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Where are those umbrellas?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Like in place it doesn't rain that much, because even
in La you go out, there's like guy with umbrella bucket,
guy with umbrella where those umbrellas. Well, he goes months
here without raining and there's always those umbrellas. They always
have the umbrella.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
I don't think it's gonna be eighty five. No, it's
not gonna be eighty five. Was as expect highs of
around sixty.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
One, Oh colder than I thought. Oh, I thought it'd
be in like the low seventies.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
I just wanted to wear a bikinis the whole.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Well, you could do that. There's no rule that you
says you can't do it. You feel free to do
that if you want.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
You're gonna wear a bikini to the meet and greet.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, I have a very cute outfit.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
The crowd will definitely be Yeah, the crowd will definitely
be bigger. Do we have the date on that? I
need to promote this more. I feel like we're not
promoting this enough. I feel like we're doing a bad
job promoting this. I feel like we're screwing this up.
I feel like no one's going to show up.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
We're not promoting it.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's a Thursday, the first Thursday one we've done. We
don't do these on Thursday. Normally they're Friday or Saturday's
gonna be a Thursday one.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
So it's May. Was it twenty and we have no idea?

Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, twenty fourth? Is it twenty fourth? No, it's not
the twenty fourth. We don't even know. I'm looking at,
looking at we're efforting this right now. We're trying to
find out the twenty ninth, the twenty ninth. All right,
So it's the it's May twenty ninth, Vancouver. We have
the establishment. Yes, what's the name of the establishment, Cooperlot.
What's the name of the place we're going to here?

(19:23):
Apparently it's got no name. Court side on Maine, court
side on Mane. All right, So there you go. If
you're able to make it. I know, you know, it's
a pain if you're not, you know, in that Vancouver area,
if you're you know, somewhere far away or whatever, I
get it.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
But we will be there, and I'd love to meet
you if you're able to make it, and give you
an excuse to go.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Check out. You've never been to Vancouver. We're on the
radio there, we've been on for many, many years. And
it'll give me nice to meet the people.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I want to meet a moose.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
You know, you should go to like Maine there's a
lot of moose in Maine. You should do a mallet.
We do a mall oft meet and greet in Maine.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
The plural is meace man.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
I don't think so let's go.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
We have somebody cashing a golden ticket and he's gonna
be on the air right now because he is cashing
the golden ticket.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Walk in nowats, I'm.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Mister non secutor guy. Serious Sean from the Valley of
the Sun. Hello, sirious Sean.

Speaker 7 (20:18):
Serious, Oh my god, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 4 (20:20):
A sec, Wait a minute, I put you on hall.
I hit the wrong line. How dare you serious? Sean?
That was a false alarm. Now we go to sirious Sean, Hello,
serious Sean.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Dickats, Holy crap, I thought you'd turned into blind Emmit
the Seahawks fan.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
All of a sudden, what happened? There? There he is there,
he is yeehaw yeehaw.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
Like the ares something wrong with my cost care? And
these might all be on the wrong.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't I don't know, because I yeah, I did
see oh now, coop verify, I did punch up the
right line, right, Coop, Yeah, I punched up the right line.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
That was not user error. That was not user error.
Hello Sirius Sean.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Yehah, okay for twenty y'all.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Okay, well it's it's most places, it's not for twenty anymore, Sean,
most places it's for twenty one.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
Well were you and me are? Was still that way
for another thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Okay, all right, congratulations, there you go. Big day for you,
big holiday for you.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yes, uh for me.

Speaker 7 (21:24):
And Coop and my brother, I guess.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah. How do you celebrate the holiday? What you
do to celebrate the holiday?

Speaker 7 (21:32):
I watched an episode of Family Guy with the weed stuff,
and I played the music in the car with the
weed songs and all that stuff, and that's pretty much
all I do.

Speaker 8 (21:42):
I was going to clean my room, but then I
got high, butt up up.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's a wonderful what a great celebration. It's a tremendous
job by you, Sean. Unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
I was also hearing what you were saying earlier when
you say Vancouver, right talking Vancouver, Washington or Vancouver, British Columbia.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
We're going British Columbia. You're gonna be there, You're gonna
show up, You're gonna make it appearance.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
You're gonna cross the border and hang out with us
there in Canada, just across the way.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
I don't have a passport. I can't get up there.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, you're you're in trouble. Then you're not allowed, not
allowed to be there, You're banned. Can't make it unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Hey, if it was in Washington, I could have just
taken the railroad from.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Port I know there.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Well, we'll do more Mallord meeting greets later in the year,
so you'll have to make sure to make some of
those appearances.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
You're a big star. Everyone wants to meet you. You're
Sirius Sean. Who doesn't know Sirius Sean.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
At least we get this one.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
That's right exactly all right, Well, Sean, thanks for using
what a great use of a golden ticket, one of
the great uses of all time of a golden ticket.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
You did, and you did it, your big stud.

Speaker 7 (22:54):
I'm ready for the hockey playoffs.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Too, Okay, good, let me know how that goes. Thank
you all. I'm gonna hang up on you. There's a
sure Sean.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Now I think we have blind Emmett and so blind
at what's going on.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Blind Emmett, welcome, big bend there he is blind em it.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, the right, right guy, right guy, Good job, Coop.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, Now the phone, it's everything's messed up. I don't know,
it's gonna be pot luck. We don't know what we're
gonna get. I'm a punch lines up. Who knows who's there,
who's not there. I have no idea anyway, what's going on.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Sunday broke the phones.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
That's all I know.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
But you don't talk about the NBA Playoffs, especially this
Warriors Rockets game. Now, this was a brutal performance for Houston.
I mean it was just terrible, like you were saying.
And the fun fact about that is the Warriors are
actually twenty nine and one on the road, So like
Houston fans, they were probably thinking, oh, this is a
home court advantage. You know, we're gonna go in here,
it's going to be easy, and I think they kind

(23:44):
of underestimated it and how good the Warriors are on
the road, because like, the only guy that was actually
like half trying and he actually did pretty decent for
the Rockets was a Shanng Goon. That was the only
guy that was doing some sort of out of like
the big star players. The only guy doing something some
sort of work like we had, like you said, Fred
vev Lee, absolutely horrible. It was in the abomination of

(24:07):
a game. Just like you're the guy with the playoff experience,
like you said, Man, you're supposed to be the leader.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
And where did you get the twenty nine and one
stat Did you pull that out of your ass or
something like that?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
What do you a friend of the show, Kevin Harlan.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Really because they didn't go twenty nine and they didn't
win twenty nine out of thirty on the roads.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I don't know where you got that.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, I mean Kevin Harlan's producer, because you know, he
probably didn't have that, Stuy. It was probably some some
dude who's working in the hall today that doesn't really
know basketball.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I mean, they were they were fine on the road.
They did the same record on the road as they
did at home. Golden State. It wasn't you know, maybe
they played well with Jimmy Butler on the road, but
I think it was in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
It was in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
I would guarantee they haven't gone twenty nine and one
in the playoffs on the road even factly, Yeah, well,
we don't need to fag them.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
It's just there's no way I don't need I need
a double check. And they haven't gone.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
They won twenty nine out of thirty road games in
the playoffs the Golden State War Otherwise that they have
seven championships in the last nine years or something.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
They don't they have like six or five.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
So there, it's been been a few years since that.
Those days are in the past.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I mean like when they got that last championship.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
I mean it's twenty twenty five right now. So it's
got a thing.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Ben, It's like all these games, you know, like sometimes
they're playing too.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're trying to defend your stack, your status bogus. You're
trying to defend a bogus stats bat job by you.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
What did you say this?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
He said the Warriors, I went twenty nine out of
thirty on the road, which isn't true like all time,
like the last playoff series, Like there's a bigger than
bogus stat. By the way, this bogus stat may is
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(25:52):
to flex up for peak seasons without having to raise
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it expresspros dot com today? That's expresspros dot com. Did
you think I wasn't gonna catch your bogus stat Is
that what you're doing? You thought, Hey, I can slip
this one past mall. Or he's not even listening. He's
not even gonna listen.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Maybe he is, you know, maybe he's chilling in Houston
right now. We just had some tax Max. I mean,
you never.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Know, well, Carl's probably his hotel room right now. Why
watching YouTube or something.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
I don't always did you hear what he said?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't know if anyone like had the volume up
when they're watching the game. But he was like, yeah,
if you want to order your Dependence from Walmart because
they were doing some Walmart sponsorship and ready he's like, whoa,
what are you saying there? And then he's like, no,
I'm for the people. I'm Kevin Harland for the people.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
That's right. You gotta do it for the people.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Man.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
That's how he does those reads. You gotta do those
reads like that. That's good advertising. You gotta sell the soap.
You gotta sell the soap Blindmxactly, it's all about selling
the soap or the diapers, the adult diapers, and you
gotta sell the adult diapers.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
All right, thank you, go away.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
All right, there's the great They look at that blind Emmitt,
the Seahawks fan, and what a flying start we are
off due unbelievable. So, coming out of nowhere randomly over
the weekend was someone that I dealt with a lot
back in the day, hadn't really heard much of him.
I don't know what he's doing these days, just kind

(27:16):
of hanging out, living life. And that would be Phil Jackson.
Did you see the old Bulls coach and Lakers coach
Phil Jackson who randomly showed up on social media and
took a shot at the NBA. He said again the NBA, Hey,
he is a quote from Jackson on social media, say again,

(27:38):
the NBA test faith by playing multiple games on Christmas
and Easter. He points out right upset by that. He said,
these are sacred days, should not be playing. The implication
obviously they should not be playing on Christmas and Easter.

(27:58):
As Phil, it's good to know he has worked in
the NBA in a number of years, but he's still
got that.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Grudge the league.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
And the reason Phil, I think Phil knows this, they
play those games is because people watch those games. They say, well,
people shouldn't watch those games. Are you supposed to shut
everything down on on certain holidays? And I have no
alternative programming. Typically, It's like I always looking at this,
like Thanksgiving. There's always been NFL games on Thanksgiving, And

(28:29):
typically you spend time with your family.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
On Thanksgiving and you're in laws.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
And after a couple of hours, you're good, you've met
your quota. You don't really want to spend too much
time with them. They're annoying you, You're annoying them, and
you want something that is a distraction, so you'll flip
on a game of football. The same thing applies to
these other days. And I thought I didn't think Phil
was I thought he was like into Buddhism and stuff.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I didn't is he. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I have no idea the zen master Phil Jackson coming
out of now. It just to unload on the NBA.
I let's go back to the phones and we'll say
let's go to Big Daddy. I think I don't know,
this might not be big Hello, Big Daddy in Memphis.

Speaker 5 (29:13):
Is this there?

Speaker 4 (29:14):
He ain't, says Big Daddy. He's the daddy. He's the daddy.

Speaker 9 (29:18):
And my consistent was I just like to apologize for
that history making me that we did to take it
just don't make no sense. I had my shirt on,
but when they got down by fifteen, I just took
it off. It just don't make no sense. It ain't
going nowhere, Johnsing and Lee soon as U Lebron get
out of there, BA gonna lead everywhere you go. They

(29:40):
win the championship, except with the grit. It just don't
make no sense. And Happy Delated Holiday, Coop, Happy Delated Holiday.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, and Lorena celebrates the holiday as yeah, so bad,
Oh my bad.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
My bad.

Speaker 9 (29:55):
I ain't know what's flowing like that.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Man, Well listen, big Daddy. There was very briefly in
the first quarter. The Grizzlies had a four point lead,
so at that point you were probably feeling pretty good
about yourself. They're up for two baskets early on, right,
They're like, here we go, here, we got boys, and
then they had to play the rest of you.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
They had. I don't understand what's up with all these tattoos,
just getting all these like why they damn it, they
boded like this. They just don't make no sense.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
You're not a tattoo got big daddy, You're not a
tattoo guy.

Speaker 9 (30:26):
No, no, no, man, tattoo man. All this show they're
like getting a haircut. When people have that stuff on
the magnicue, all that stuff, they don't clean that stuff properly.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Well, then yeah, I actually had a buddy.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Clean it properly. It's against the law not to have
it be properly cleaned.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
It's against the law.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
But I know, yeah, that's how they Isn't that how
they make their money at the tattoo shops though? Is
maintenance like that, because you know tattoos don't you know,
regular tattoo for normal people don't cost that much.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
But then you gotta go, you're right, man, they.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
Just make it. They're like you just said, he'll ship
to get called. There's not none his bob.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well, it's kind of like it's like the remember of
the old days with the printers there. They they gave
the printers away pretty much, but they got you on
the cartridges, the ink cartridges. That's how they got you, man.
They charged you a fortune for the cartridges.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
All right, big Daddy, Thank you buddy. There's big Daddy
talking to his fans there there. It goes a great
big daddy, he's the daddy. Yeah, that is impressed. How
about Jaron Jackson who put off a four to three
to two, which sounds like an area code. A four
to three to two stat line for Jared Jackson with
the Grizzlies.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
He was two of thirteen from.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
The floor, and it was pointed out to me that
Jaron Jackson is now eligible for a three hundred and
forty five million dollar extension.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
This summer. He had a four three two stat line,
four four.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Points three rebounds and two assists.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
That's that's impressive.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
That is I could do it.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, that's yeah. And he played I played thirty minutes
almost man.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
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(32:33):
in the Draft find out on Fox Sports Radios. Draft
Night Live coming up Thursday night, eight pm Eastern throughout
the first round of the Draft. You've got Jay Glazer,
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(32:57):
pm Eastern throughout the first round of the Draft right
here on Fox Sports Radio and with the live video
simulcast on Fox Sports Radio's YouTube page. Oh man, that's
why they fixed the lighting in here. It's all presented
by Express Pros. So they went out, they put the
lighting in.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
The lighting looks so good on your face.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh man, I am just there's this, this aura, there's
this Yes, it's bright.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Angelic. It's angelic, is what it is. It's very angelic
in here now, very impressive. Al Right.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
It is the Ben Mahler Show. Time now for the
who Am I Game? This is where we pretend to
be somebody else. Let's we call it the who Am I?

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Game.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
It is a blatant attempt who to try to get
you to listen a little bit longer. In honor of
that historical beatdown by Oklahoma City against Memphis Grizzlies guard
Desmond Bane who sounds like he's a Superman supervillain or
a Batman supervillain. Desmond Bane, Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane set
the NBA record for the lowest plus minus in a

(33:58):
playoff game. While he was on the court, the Memphis
Grizzlies were outscored by fifty one points versus the Thunder.
He broke the previous record, which was shared by Andre
Drummond and me again, Grizney is guard Desmond Main setting
the NBA record for the lowest plus minus in a
playoff game at minus fifty one versus the Thunder. He

(34:22):
broke the previous record held by Andre Drummon and me.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Who am I?

Speaker 2 (34:27):
That's the question? The answer, We'll get to it. We
will do it next.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
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(35:01):
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Speaker 4 (35:12):
Videos on YouTube. All right back to it we go
and great? Did we not have the original song there, Lorena?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I just pulled the one that was in the system.

Speaker 8 (35:24):
Okay, I could have played it off of YouTube, and
I have no I thought that one would be dangerous,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, so I pulled it
up in the system and it was right there. Granted
it does say the clean and sober.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Version, the clean and sober. Yes, So if you're on
the wagon, everything's good. You're you're good to go on
that nothing to worry about. I know, Jed who fled
very happy that we played that relapse because, yes, version,
we are here. We're looking out for you is what
we are doing. Time now for the who am I game?
This is where I pretend to be somebody else. That's
to call it the who in My game? Brisney's guard
Desmond Bane said the NBA record lowest plus minus. That's

(36:01):
not good in a playoff game at minus fifty one,
that means while he was on the court, his team
was outscored by fifty one points versus the thunder. He
broke the previous all time record held by Andre Drummond
and me.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
It was shared by these two players. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
And malaprop guy says Sirius Sean, Yeah, that's about what
Shawn is doing right there. Nick the Wendy's Guys says
d Russell is the way to go. Mario Chalmers from
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Bobby Brady is the way to go,
even he thinks Sacramento sucks from stuck in Sacramento, mister
nice guy going with Glenn Allen Hill. Great answer there,

(36:46):
Glenn Allen Hill, the man that had a nightmare about
a spider and fell into a table allegedly. Who else
ferg Dog says Brownie James, Wow, does he suck? Who else? I?
Forty Ian says Lexandria aoc is the answer? Who else
do we have? Kyle Kuzma, Well he was pretty bad too.

(37:08):
It pitched a goosegg there from King Roy that's his answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? I can't read that?
Sedale three from James that's his answer. The Simpson's McBain
of the Simpsons Glory from Manuel in guardena Cole Aldridge
from Rob in Minnesota. That's his answer, Big Lou he's

(37:30):
on number two, going with Vancouver Grizzlies. Great Brent Price
as his answer. Betty White from mister Irrigation in Houston,
who is giving himself some therapy after the rockets took
it on the Chin truck stop Fungus checks in, says
saw Bill Miller at the truck stop.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wow, very nice. It's a good outfit there solid. Who
else do we have? Page down? I can't read that.
Orlando Woolridge. There's a good name from Slim Tim and
he's very happy to send that in. Is he the
proud cheesehead Red fou from Nature Boy? That's his answer,
Greg Kite guessed by Steve the misplaced San Diegan and

(38:12):
page down. Winklemann Gonzales from the truckstop Fungus. That was
his answer. A lot of Brownie James, all right, do
you have an answer? Lorena again? Desmond Bane of the
Grizzlies at the NBA record for the lowest plus minus
in a playoff game minus fifty one. He broke the
previous record, which was shared by Andre Drummond and me.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, one of the worst players in NBA history, Ben
Norm Grekin. Wow, was that good?

Speaker 1 (38:42):
No? Was that it?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
No, it's Clay Thompson is the answer.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Clay Thompson is the They were both minus forty.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Five Andre Drummon and Klay Thompson. I Mallor
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