June 4, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about where things went wrong for Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs as they lose at home to the Knicks in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, who else is to blame besides Wemby for the Spurs blowing a 14-point lead, Jalen Brunson's play for the Knicks, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our number why our number one?
And we are ready for some fun here on the
Ben Mal Show, Happy Thursday. It's the fourth day of June.
You already knew that, and we are side by side
here in our number one as we steam roll through
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the podcast, the original Recipe podcast, the Extra Crispy Secret
Menu podcast is called the Fifth Hour podcast that's on Friday,
Saturday and Sundays. Here in Hour number one? Where did
things go wrong for Spurs star Victor Wimanyama in his
NBA Finals debut in Game one as the Spurs blew
a fourteen point second alflete, He wrote the vomit comment
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Wemby in that loss a real clunker. Also, aside from Wemby,
who else stunk up the place for the Spurs when
they blew that double digit lead in the final eighteen
minutes of the game? And how would you describe Jalen
Brunson's play for the Knicks. Took a lot of shots,
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scored a lot of points. We'll break it down for you.
We'll toss it, put some spice on it, and we'll
be on our way here. It is our number one.
Well you win some you lose some and you choke
away some. Wel come in the beginning of another night
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email from a listener in New Jersey who's He's like, Wow,
you must be excited. Ben. You get to talk about
the finals and you do the show and you get
to come in there and break down the final side.
And I was thinking, yeah, it's kind of cool. It's fun.
(02:52):
But I do the show every night like there's always
something to talk about. I mean, it's not I'm not
a Knicks fan or a Spurs fan, So for me,
it's just another night of the gas baggery, the ancient
art of the gas baggery. Not that I'm like upset
by it or anything like that. It's cool and there's
a little more excitement than breaking down the Colorado Rockies
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or something along those lines. We're just what are we doing?
We will begin our lead from the Alamo City as
that was the Hippodrome for a game number one of
the NBA Finals there New York and San Antonio. Did
you watch? Were you compelled to give the most valuable
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currency that you have your time to consume what was
going on? So Jalen Brunson. The headliners were Jalen Brunson
and Victor Wambanyama. Neither one of them played well, although
they each had accumulated some good stats. For example, Jalen
Brunson had thirty points Carl Anthony Towns, who is changing
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his reputation, Well, he can't change what he's already done.
When he's adjusting the future. Karl Anthony Towns eighteen points,
twelve rebounds. And the New York Knickerbockers, they had all
that momentum. They were down by fourteen points in the
second half, fourteen point deficit, and they ended up getting
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up off the deck in slay the Spurs in Game one,
a double digit win, one oh five ninety five, oh
g NAOWB had seventeen for New York. And I am
told they have now won twelve consecutive playoff games. I
am informed that is good. I am informed that is good.
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They are the seventh team to have such a streak
in NBA history, just the third to do it in
a single postseason. And I'm old enough to remember when
we're having conversations about CJ. McCollum killing the Knickerbockers in
the playoffs, I vaguely remember talking about CJ. McCollum the
Nick Killer. Well, the Knicks, who finished the game on
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an eleven zero run, have taken home court advantage away
from the Texans, As Charles Barkley said, those cockroaches travel
well from New York. Game two will be Friday in
San Antonio, So that means I technically don't have to
watch because I don't do the live radio show a
podcast on the weekends. So I'll watch, I'll check it out.
(05:23):
I'm not gonna be taking notes because I don't have to,
but I'll watch. I'll just sit back and I'll eat
some bad food and watch some basketball. That'll be that. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. You know,
the Ben Malor show loves losers. We relish the losers
because everyone's gonna be kissing the ass of the knickerbockers.
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Oh my god, they got their knee pads on Steve
and he has got double knee pads. He's so excited
about this. My god, our old morning guy. So anyway,
these Spurs are the better story. That's a good jumping
off point, as they did not get it done at
the end. And let us discuss. We're gonna start with
Victor when Byama Wemby, who did not have a night
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to remember in his maiden voyage in the NBA Finals back,
we have a little taste of when Ba Yama post game,
who pointed out this was not a night to remember.
Take a list.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Every team guards differently. You know, I'm going to figure
it out. It's uh yeah, I mean I was bad tonight.
It's not more complicated than that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Walking into this your first ever finals game tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Were there any jitters that bothered you from the beginning
that perhaps could affected you at all to day? I mean,
it definitely felt special, for sure, but nothing closed that
could be an excuse. You know, it was not a
factor in our performance.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Picked up some jitters. He went to get some lunch
and they gave him a bag with jitters and he
ate some of the jitters and yeah, oyay, all right.
So the question where did things go wrong for Spurs
star Victor Wem Banyama, who admitted he was bad in
the lidlifter of the NBA Finals and someone if he
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doesn't f this up, we'll be talking about for many,
many years in big games like this. So my thoughts
on this, I have Amazon Prime, Group Project and Agent
K and we'll put all of these things together and
we are going to visit the Honky talk is what
we're going to do. So a now, even though when
Banyama said, hey, I didn't play well. I was bad
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that happened. And I promise you a number of the
media elites and the fanboys, the low information types will say, well,
he's just being polite, and they'll look at the box
score and they'll say, well, it's not his fault. The
kid put up some stats. He had twenty six points
and twelve rebounds. And to that, of course, I say, fully,
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let's dig a little deep in game one the story here.
It was a bugs life out there for Wemby, a
bugs life. And Wemby was not the windshield. He was
the bug splattered across the windshield. And I don't know
how he got to the arena. I wasn't in San
Antonio for the game. I'm not sure if he got
driven there, he drove himself. I do know that during
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the game he rode the vomit comet. That's what he drove.
The Parisian Prodigy shot a putrid twenty eight and a
half percent, and he's about the size of the roof
of the arena, like his head. He has to duck
down because he's right near the roof of the arena.
He took twenty one shots and missed fifteen of them.
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Now I just do the overnight show here. I don't
think that's good. What do I know? Six turnovers. Wemby
did not just have a stage fright. He had like
finals fright. Right. He looked like he looked out there,
like he had seen the ghost of Patrick Ewing or something.
He was at the game, The Parisian Prodigy instantly turned
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in the Parisian pigeon. Pigeon hearted out there, flapping around
and not real aggressive for stretches of the game. The
one thing we'd talked about this in a previous episode
of the show was you just got to keep being aggressive,
and he just didn't didn't do it. And we pointed
the finger at actually Amazon, Amazon Prime. We imagine that
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Wemby got the wrong script delivered to him and he
was supposed to get the Lion King and instead well,
he did play like a lion, the cowardly lion from
the Wizard of Oz and just lacking some intestinal fortitude
at times. My word is skittish, not Yiddish, skittish, that
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is my word. Now, even the nuns, this is beyond
just regularly. This is like a higher parer. Even the
nuns couldn't save him. We were told he got blessed
pregame by those San Antonio nuns, and he still went
out there and played pigeon hearted basketball. The Holy Rollers
laid hands on him, and he went out there like
the rim was being protected by the guardian angels. He
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built a literal cathedral out of the miss layups for
the nuns, is what he did. And this wasn't people
gon say, wow, this is just the nixt you know,
the next all those cockroaches, as Charles Barkley said from
New York, will be like, wow, that's just the great
nick defense. They're O god, my fat ass. You know
how many makeable shots. These are shots that Wemby has
taken throughout the plous It's not like they forced him
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to shots. He doesn't say no, granted a lot of them.
He loves shooting jump shots. It's it's he's the size
of a draft and he plays. He plays like he's
at a little bug or something. It's wild. But he
was butchering. For him. They were bunnies, and he butchered
so many bunnies. Like these are shots that he usually makes.
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Is like Elmer Fudd on Vertigo or along those lines,
and now page dude, keeping the theme going on game
number one of the NBA Finals, So thank you. Aside
from Wemby, we can assign blame. So aside from Wemby,
who else stunk up the joint for the Spurs. They
had a fourteen point lead at the six thirty mark
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of the third quarter, so it's eighteen and a half
minutes to go in the game. Spurs are at home,
y'all tell me how important home court advantage is, and
they blew a fourteen point lead. So if Victor Winbanyama
was the headline collapse in the first game, the rest
of the roster were the footnotes written in, disappearing in
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the whole supporting cast. It was like a group project
where nobody did anything. We've all been there, right you
always you want that one person to do all the
work and everyone takes credit. This was a group project
failure for the Ages. So the Spurs played like they
were late to a and his. The appointment they didn't
have any fight is not a lot of pulse. It
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doesn't seem to be much pride there. San Antonio was outscored.
I did the malord math on this. In the final
eighteen and a half minutes they were outscored by twenty
four points, twenty four points from up fourteen to down
the end, losing by ten. And the math on that
New York blitzing San Antonio outscored him fifty four to thirty,
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which I believe is solid. I think that's solid. And
during that hellish half the rest of the game there
that they shot thirty three point three percent, which is
half the sign of the devil, which is appropriate. And
unfortunately the nuns were there so they were able to
help out. It was not a specific, isolated issue for
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the collective of San Antonio. It was an all encompassing
type of suck, is what it was. And Julian CHAMPENNI,
this guy went from Curry to Curly, from the three stooges.
He looked like Stephen Curry in the first half, knocking
down moneyball after moneyball after moneyball, took six shots from
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behind the arc, made five money balls five out of six,
had and led the Spurs midway through at fifteen points.
If you saw the game, you know what I'm talking about.
And then in a second he's like, wait a minute, let
me pretend like I'm playing at the YMCA on a
random Saturday morning. Let me do that, okay, sure. And
the rest of these guys weren't even the stooges. They
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weren't even good enough to be alongside Curly. They were
the extras. So Champenny, Devin Vassal, Dylan Harper, who had
played well early in the game, and he fell apart there,
dearon Fox played like a Sacramento king. Can't get that
king suck out of your blood, apparently, and they all
stunk at a time you simply cannot suck, and so
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need some soap and scrub that off, scrub a dubed.
And I will say, just like the overreaction, I know
it always happens, and so it's not new and it's
not anything different and all that. And it's like we
might want to remind our friends from New York the
tri state area there that it's not the NCAA tournament.
It's not a single elimination, like the series is not
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over because the Knicks won Game one on the road,
Like take a little bit of a breath here. We
also know extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate run ones,
and so the Knicks, you would think are due to
go on a big skid here. They've peaked too soon.
They're due to go in a ditch on the side
of the road, so I fully expect the spruce to
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bounce back way. I think the fact they had shot
as bad as they played and as terrible as Wemby was,
I'd be worried if I were the Knicks, because San
Antonio was still in position to win that game. They
obviously stunk down the stretch, but the fact that they
were still there with all of that bad basketball and
they still had a shot tells me that they're the
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better team, all right. Last word here, So on the
New York side, the question, how would you describe Jalen
Brunson's play for the Knicks in this game? Because he
had thirty points. I was all excited about that and
played okay at the end. This is the classic tale
of two halves. Shakespeare would have written it that way, right,
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the tale. I think he did. Yeah, he knew who
Jalen Brussel was, you know, all those years ago. So
Brunson actually lived the Tale of two halves in the
first game of the NBA Finals here in twenty twenty six,
for the first thirty minutes of the game. Roughly thirty
minutes of the game, Brunson's performance was a total clunker clunkity, clunk, clunk.
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It was just horrific. He looked completely lost in the woods,
the babe lost in the woods, struggling to do anything,
and he could not get his shot going. He took
eighteen shots in the first thirty minutes, he missed thirteen
of them, shot twenty seven point eight percent. Had just
eleven points thirty minutes into the game, and then he
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pulls the complete Houdini act and escapes from the bad start,
and what he wasn't Houdini. It was like the classic
Men in Black movie franchise where he whipped out the
neuralizer and he was Adrian k And for Men in Black,
and he completely erased the memory of that puke fest
first half for the Knickerbockers. There over the final eighteen minutes,
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Brunson hoppit. He hopped on the magic carpet, took a
magic carpet ride, dragged the Knicks right alongside, and as
we said, outscoed twenty four points twenty four point avalanche
to close the game, actually eleven zero at the end,
but twenty four from down fourteen to up ten at
the end of the game. Here's Brunson commenting he was
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asked the question, Hey, why did you suck so much
at the beginning?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think at one point you were five or eighteen
from the field, and yet you really imposed your will
on the game and the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Where is that strength and composure.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Come from on a night when you're struggling from the
floor to still have that kind of an impact on
the game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I think it starts with, uh, my confidence. It comes
to my work ethic. I think most importantly, uh, knowing
we're on the road and knowing my teams at my back.
I think that's the biggest thing in the environment like this.
They trust to having me, and that's trusted to having them.
This got us to this point, and so I mean,
I'm very thankful for them. I mean, every single night
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we go out there together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So if I was writing the headline for the New
York Post, my headline would be Jalen Brunson calls out Spurs.
They don't believe in each other. They're not They're not
a united front. Because that's why the next one they
were more united they believe in each other. Spurs don't
believe in each other. That's why they lost. Jalen Brunson
calls out san Antonio, that's your headline developing hot dot
dot dot. Yeah, the question what are you supposed to
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do in the court? He was playing bad, so he
should like go in the corner and suck his thumb,
Like what is he supposed to do? How's that work?
Does he go have a like a cup of kombucha
tea and chill out for a little bit?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, Now he did flip the script. Brunson finished the
game on a burner, as the kids like to say,
seven of thirteen after starting the game five of eighteen
seven of thirteen shooting, had nineteen points down the stretch
and was the the power power play, power play for
New York as they get to come back. So, first
half Brunson was lost in the woods, and the second
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half Brunson built a log cabin is what he did.
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You're not. You're a non playable character, dude. And in
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NBA legend slamming Wemby, we will. We'll get to that.
So that's all exciting stuff. We start with the NBA Finals,
though the New York Knickerbockers are three wins away from
having a parade in the Canyon of Heroes in Midtown Manhattan.
Just three more wins. That's it, that's all. And they're
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right there and they have got home court. And you
saw a lot of those these New York guys were there.
They were all over the place, all over the place.
There the acting crowd they always get on TV late night.
Drug Tester writes and says, no worries for the Spurs.
The NBA will rig it like the lottery and make
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it a seven game series. What else do we have
to see? Page Dan, mister irrigation says Viagra commercials should
come back in vogue. He says, well, that's a non sequitor.
Dan writes in from Parts Unknown, he says, Jalen Brunson
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owns your dude Wemby head to head and dominated him
once again. Yes, yes, because we all know, Dan, everyone
that knows basketball knows that Jalen Brunson, who's like six'
one or something like that, know IF's that tall and
Wemby go head to head. We know that's the case.
Nature Boy, answering the call of a wild rights in
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and says, what a pathetic performance by the San anton Spurs.
The good news is that we'll soon get to see
depressed Nick fans once we see the real Spurs. Yeah,
I'm fine with it. If the Knicks want to win
the first two games, I'm okay with that. Of the
first three games, I'm fine. I am absolutely fine. Not
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a burner, right, since says can we get a wellness
check on ferg Dog? He says, I'm afraid he may
have posted something that got him in trouble if he's okay,
not a jail. The long suffering New York sports fan
who lives in Minnesota says, no such thing as momentum,
ben Right, Yeah, okay, Yeah, I'm sure the Spurs missed
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all those shots because the Knicks had in the momentum, Right,
That's why they played bad, because the Knicks had momentum.
That's it. Yeah, Ryan, who used to be in San
Diego but is in Rosarito, Mexico for the time being.
He's on the lamb from law enforcement. He says, as
your resident x washed up basketb ball coach, my advice
to the Spurs, Your seven foot four players should not
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stand at the three point line for most of the game.
Get your ass to the rim. Well, this is always
the problem, right, this is always the issue Ryan, the
evolution of basketball, and it's better now than it's ever been.
And everyone loves to go on and on about that.
And the evolution of basketball is you have a guy
who's seven foot four who should be able to score
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at will in the panded area. And instead of occasionally
going out and shooting three point shots Wemby, it seems
like most of the time he only occasionally goes towards
the basket. Like I can get up the shooting chart
if you want. I don't have it in front of
me right now. I can get it up. It's a
lot of work, and that's really nerdy, and I don't
know that we want to do that kind of a show.
(25:47):
I have access to all that stuff. I think everyone
does now. It's twenty twenty six. And you can look
and see where he took the shots. I just from
watching the game and not jotting down on a ven
diagram where he was shooting the ball. It just seems
like he just stands out there a lot, which is
back in the old days. And Ron, you're around my age.
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I think we were together back in the nineties. Clippers
days back then, And I remember talking to the great
late Bill Fitch about that, and that generation of basketball
guys would be are you kidding me? You've a seven
foot four guy and he's just gonna stand out by
the three point line. I mean, that's great. We'll let
him shoot three point shots the entire game. It doesn't
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matter because the game has played obviously differently at that point.
It's like that the arts are, well, you're defeating your strength,
your real superpower. You can get any anyone to shoot
three point shots, but you know you're gonna stand on
the basket and slay people. That's the way to do it. Yeah.
Shanon de Moines writes, and he says, formerly known as
(26:50):
Donut Kelly in des Moines is has a new job.
Call her custard Kelly. I guess he's a serving custard.
There you go. And a Ryan in Carolina writes and
he says Dwight Yoakum describes honky Tonk as punk cowboy,
bugget it.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Bugging it, bugget it, bugget it, bugget it, buggety boogody.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yes, exactly, all right. So something happened that I'm I'm
excited about because I feel like we've got a changing
of the guard. Changing of the guard. I'll explain what
that is. There's something that happened. I don't if you
noticed it on the finals broadcast. There's something that took
place there that normally in the years past had not happened.
(27:37):
And I feel like this the people that run the
sports world have finally realized that this is something that
we need to do, that this is something that we've
fed up on and we need to fix it. And
Game one of the Finals was a sign that this
is this is a change. And I'll explain what I
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mean by that. Let's go to the phones. I was
hoping this is I would call in. He hasn't called
in much recently. Let's say hello to Lucky Tony in
the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony, Welcome, Hey Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
What does Jinx Mays and a bear's jersey have in
common with Muhammad Ali?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, this is a good riddle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
They're pretty Thanks.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Thanks, Okay, you're welcome. So the thing that's different, and
let me let me ask did you watch the game, coop?
Are you watching the finals?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Did you not watch the finals? You were?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
I watched the first quarter and then the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, I think this. I think this happened in the
fourth quarter. Did you notice the thing that happened that
is different than pretty much every other year at the
NBA Finals and for every major sporting event, by the way,
there's something that happened that is very different than years
(28:53):
gone by. See if you notice this, what do you
think it is? I'm being very vague here intentionally.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, that is extremely vague. Different.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Something happened in that game that normally in years past
would never never be shown on television.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Do do do do?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Do?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Do do do? Lorena, you didn't see a second.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I slept, But I'm going to guess some jugs in the.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Back of the boobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they show they
the ratings go up when they show boobs. But that
is incorrect. The correct answer. A young chap decided to Yeah,
he ran out on the court and they showed it
(29:49):
on ABC. The guy this, uh, this dope. I guess
he didn't realize he's a non playable character. He decided
he was a playable character, which messes up the messes
up the whole thing. And he is like part of
the simulation, and he ran out on the court to
take a selfie with Wemby during the NBA Final game,
Like he just said, that's my time. I need a
(30:11):
nice selfie and that's it. So he went out there.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
So we know who this guy is.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Frank, I don't know what I know. How am I
supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I'm sure he's that guy was not here for the
basketball exactly. A lot of to do that. They're they're
like out chasers, and they run in front of like
like movie premieres, and they like the guy who did
it to Arian and Grande, they go out and they them.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, I'm sure he was. I'm sure he's so deep
in social media he doesn't realize there's a real world
out there, you know. I'm guessing we can find out
in two seconds who he is. I'm sure that there's
a lot of blogs or the social media pages to
keep track of that stuff. But he seemed like a
young guy. I don't know, the teenager, early twenties guy.
I don't know how old he was. Hard to tell.
(30:54):
I'm really bad at judging people's ages. So he looked young,
not that young, And he ran out there and they
show vowed it on the ABC broadcast and they replayed it.
And this has always been one of those things that
has made no sense to me. And I've talked to
some TV executives over the years about this, and they've
always said, well, the leagues don't want it. They don't
want to encourage fans to run out on the field
(31:17):
of the court, and that's why they don't show it. However,
in the age we live in, and this always happened,
somebody runs on the field that a Dodger game or something.
I go on social media and within a minute, I've
got seventeen different angles of the fan running on the field.
I've got three D if I want, I don't have
the glasses. I could get the three D version. I
(31:37):
can get the slow Moe version. It's all there, right, Keep.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
The eyes on your broadcast instead of somebody leading to
go on Twitter to find it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Just show it. And they're
assuming they don't do anything really bad obviously, and this
guy just is a dope. Now do you think they
made him delete the selfie? You think? And I guess
if you even deleted it, I guess you could go back.
If you have an iPhone, you can go back for
thirty days and get it. Anyway. Uh, you think they said, Okay,
we're gonna arrestue, and most of the time they arrest
(32:07):
you and they let you ride out, right, because that
Texas maybe was a little different in California.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Under Texas law, stepping onto a restricted area of a
stadium as a crime faces the potential misdemeanor charges like
criminal trespass, which carries up to one hundred and eighty
days in jail.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, he's not going to go to jail. He's probably
already out, or maybe he's getting a night's sleep there
in the jail in San Antonio, and he'll become more
famous and everyone will know who he is and all
his social media pages and and all of that. So anyway,
I thought it was cool. They actually showed it on
the broadcast. They did not have to go, and they
(32:44):
showed a replay of it because some of the arguments, well,
they didn't show they showed it because they didn't have
time to pan away. It happened too quick. Oh, they
showed the replay, show them and zoomed in. They showed Yeah,
so it's it's like they knew what they were doing.
They showed it, so good for them. Now, you know,
eighteen people run on the court in Game two. They
(33:04):
will never show it again, So let's hope that doesn't happen.
Imagine spending that kind of cash to get into an
NBA Finals game and then that at least he waited
till the game was mostly over.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
To do it, and that's when the most eyeballs are
on the screen. Fourth quarter. That was that was planned.
It's definitely somebody who is not a fan of either team.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, because they don't care if they get banned for life,
means who cares. It was pretty funny Tim Legler doing
the old man thing. You know, he's not for the basketball. Yeah,
you think that guy is so deep, he is so
immersed in social media he does not even realize. I'll
bet you a thousand dollars that guy has no idea.
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There's a real world out there, and a lot of
the people aren't that obsessed with social media, like they
know it's all mostly bots and and just a fake fakeness.
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Saturday and Sundays. Here in Hour number one? Where did
things go wrong for Spurs star Victor Wimanyama in his
NBA Finals debut in Game one as the Spurs blew
a fourteen point second alflete, He wrote the vomit comment
(00:45):
Wemby in that loss a real clunker. Also, aside from Wemby,
who else stunk up the place for the Spurs when
they blew that double digit lead in the final eighteen
minutes of the game? And how would you describe Jalen
Brunson's play for the Knicks. Took a lot of shots,
(01:06):
scored a lot of points. We'll break it down for you.
We'll toss it, put some spice on it, and we'll
be on our way here. It is our number one.
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Ambassador of Bakersfield support that message. So I got an
email from a listener in New Jersey who's He's like, Wow,
you must be excited. Ben. You get to talk about
the finals and you do the show and you get
to come in there and break down the final side.
And I was thinking, yeah, it's kind of cool. It's fun.
(02:52):
But I do the show every night like there's always
something to talk about. I mean, it's not I'm not
a Knicks fan or a Spurs fan, So for me,
it's just another night of the gas baggery, the ancient
art of the gas baggery. Not that I'm like upset
by it or anything like that. It's cool and there's
a little more excitement than breaking down the Colorado Rockies
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or something along those lines. We're just what are we doing?
We will begin our lead from the Alamo City as
that was the Hippodrome for a game number one of
the NBA Finals there New York and San Antonio. Did
you watch? Were you compelled to give the most valuable
(03:36):
currency that you have your time to consume what was
going on? So Jalen Brunson. The headliners were Jalen Brunson
and Victor Wambanyama. Neither one of them played well, although
they each had accumulated some good stats. For example, Jalen
Brunson had thirty points Carl Anthony Towns, who is changing
(03:59):
his reputation, Well, he can't change what he's already done.
When he's adjusting the future. Karl Anthony Towns eighteen points,
twelve rebounds. And the New York Knickerbockers, they had all
that momentum. They were down by fourteen points in the
second half, fourteen point deficit, and they ended up getting
(04:19):
up off the deck in slay the Spurs in Game one,
a double digit win, one oh five ninety five, oh
g NAOWB had seventeen for New York. And I am
told they have now won twelve consecutive playoff games. I
am informed that is good. I am informed that is good.
(04:40):
They are the seventh team to have such a streak
in NBA history, just the third to do it in
a single postseason. And I'm old enough to remember when
we're having conversations about CJ. McCollum killing the Knickerbockers in
the playoffs, I vaguely remember talking about CJ. McCollum the
Nick Killer. Well, the Knicks, who finished the game on
(05:02):
an eleven zero run, have taken home court advantage away
from the Texans, As Charles Barkley said, those cockroaches travel
well from New York. Game two will be Friday in
San Antonio, So that means I technically don't have to
watch because I don't do the live radio show a
podcast on the weekends. So I'll watch, I'll check it out.
(05:23):
I'm not gonna be taking notes because I don't have to,
but I'll watch. I'll just sit back and I'll eat
some bad food and watch some basketball. That'll be that. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. You know,
the Ben Malor show loves losers. We relish the losers
because everyone's gonna be kissing the ass of the knickerbockers.
(05:45):
Oh my god, they got their knee pads on Steve
and he has got double knee pads. He's so excited
about this. My god, our old morning guy. So anyway,
these Spurs are the better story. That's a good jumping
off point, as they did not get it done at
the end. And let us discuss. We're gonna start with
Victor when Byama Wemby, who did not have a night
(06:11):
to remember in his maiden voyage in the NBA Finals back,
we have a little taste of when Ba Yama post game,
who pointed out this was not a night to remember.
Take a list.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Every team guards differently. You know, I'm going to figure
it out. It's uh yeah, I mean I was bad tonight.
It's not more complicated than that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Walking into this your first ever finals game tonight.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Were there any jitters that bothered you from the beginning
that perhaps could affected you at all to day? I mean,
it definitely felt special, for sure, but nothing closed that
could be an excuse. You know, it was not a
factor in our performance.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Picked up some jitters. He went to get some lunch
and they gave him a bag with jitters and he
ate some of the jitters and yeah, oyay, all right.
So the question where did things go wrong for Spurs
star Victor Wem Banyama, who admitted he was bad in
the lidlifter of the NBA Finals and someone if he
(07:12):
doesn't f this up, we'll be talking about for many,
many years in big games like this. So my thoughts
on this, I have Amazon Prime, Group Project and Agent
K and we'll put all of these things together and
we are going to visit the Honky talk is what
we're going to do. So a now, even though when
Banyama said, hey, I didn't play well. I was bad
(07:35):
that happened. And I promise you a number of the
media elites and the fanboys, the low information types will say, well,
he's just being polite, and they'll look at the box
score and they'll say, well, it's not his fault. The
kid put up some stats. He had twenty six points
and twelve rebounds. And to that, of course, I say, fully,
(07:59):
let's dig a little deep in game one the story here.
It was a bugs life out there for Wemby, a
bugs life. And Wemby was not the windshield. He was
the bug splattered across the windshield. And I don't know
how he got to the arena. I wasn't in San
Antonio for the game. I'm not sure if he got
driven there, he drove himself. I do know that during
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the game he rode the vomit comet. That's what he drove.
The Parisian Prodigy shot a putrid twenty eight and a
half percent, and he's about the size of the roof
of the arena, like his head. He has to duck
down because he's right near the roof of the arena.
He took twenty one shots and missed fifteen of them.
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Now I just do the overnight show here. I don't
think that's good. What do I know? Six turnovers. Wemby
did not just have a stage fright. He had like
finals fright. Right. He looked like he looked out there,
like he had seen the ghost of Patrick Ewing or something.
He was at the game, The Parisian Prodigy instantly turned
(09:03):
in the Parisian pigeon. Pigeon hearted out there, flapping around
and not real aggressive for stretches of the game. The
one thing we'd talked about this in a previous episode
of the show was you just got to keep being aggressive,
and he just didn't didn't do it. And we pointed
the finger at actually Amazon, Amazon Prime. We imagine that
(09:27):
Wemby got the wrong script delivered to him and he
was supposed to get the Lion King and instead well,
he did play like a lion, the cowardly lion from
the Wizard of Oz and just lacking some intestinal fortitude
at times. My word is skittish, not Yiddish, skittish, that
(09:50):
is my word. Now, even the nuns, this is beyond
just regularly. This is like a higher parer. Even the
nuns couldn't save him. We were told he got blessed
pregame by those San Antonio nuns, and he still went
out there and played pigeon hearted basketball. The Holy Rollers
laid hands on him, and he went out there like
the rim was being protected by the guardian angels. He
(10:14):
built a literal cathedral out of the miss layups for
the nuns, is what he did. And this wasn't people
gon say, wow, this is just the nixt you know,
the next all those cockroaches, as Charles Barkley said from
New York, will be like, wow, that's just the great
nick defense. They're O god, my fat ass. You know
how many makeable shots. These are shots that Wemby has
taken throughout the plous It's not like they forced him
(10:35):
to shots. He doesn't say no, granted a lot of them.
He loves shooting jump shots. It's it's he's the size
of a draft and he plays. He plays like he's
at a little bug or something. It's wild. But he
was butchering. For him. They were bunnies, and he butchered
so many bunnies. Like these are shots that he usually makes.
(10:57):
Is like Elmer Fudd on Vertigo or along those lines,
and now page dude, keeping the theme going on game
number one of the NBA Finals, So thank you. Aside
from Wemby, we can assign blame. So aside from Wemby,
who else stunk up the joint for the Spurs. They
had a fourteen point lead at the six thirty mark
(11:21):
of the third quarter, so it's eighteen and a half
minutes to go in the game. Spurs are at home,
y'all tell me how important home court advantage is, and
they blew a fourteen point lead. So if Victor Winbanyama
was the headline collapse in the first game, the rest
of the roster were the footnotes written in, disappearing in
(11:42):
the whole supporting cast. It was like a group project
where nobody did anything. We've all been there, right you
always you want that one person to do all the
work and everyone takes credit. This was a group project
failure for the Ages. So the Spurs played like they
were late to a and his. The appointment they didn't
have any fight is not a lot of pulse. It
(12:04):
doesn't seem to be much pride there. San Antonio was outscored.
I did the malord math on this. In the final
eighteen and a half minutes they were outscored by twenty
four points, twenty four points from up fourteen to down
the end, losing by ten. And the math on that
New York blitzing San Antonio outscored him fifty four to thirty,
(12:27):
which I believe is solid. I think that's solid. And
during that hellish half the rest of the game there
that they shot thirty three point three percent, which is
half the sign of the devil, which is appropriate. And
unfortunately the nuns were there so they were able to
help out. It was not a specific, isolated issue for
(12:48):
the collective of San Antonio. It was an all encompassing
type of suck, is what it was. And Julian CHAMPENNI,
this guy went from Curry to Curly, from the three stooges.
He looked like Stephen Curry in the first half, knocking
down moneyball after moneyball after moneyball, took six shots from
(13:11):
behind the arc, made five money balls five out of six,
had and led the Spurs midway through at fifteen points.
If you saw the game, you know what I'm talking about.
And then in a second he's like, wait a minute, let
me pretend like I'm playing at the YMCA on a
random Saturday morning. Let me do that, okay, sure. And
the rest of these guys weren't even the stooges. They
(13:33):
weren't even good enough to be alongside Curly. They were
the extras. So Champenny, Devin Vassal, Dylan Harper, who had
played well early in the game, and he fell apart there,
dearon Fox played like a Sacramento king. Can't get that
king suck out of your blood, apparently, and they all
stunk at a time you simply cannot suck, and so
(13:56):
need some soap and scrub that off, scrub a dubed.
And I will say, just like the overreaction, I know
it always happens, and so it's not new and it's
not anything different and all that. And it's like we
might want to remind our friends from New York the
tri state area there that it's not the NCAA tournament.
It's not a single elimination, like the series is not
(14:18):
over because the Knicks won Game one on the road,
Like take a little bit of a breath here. We
also know extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate run ones,
and so the Knicks, you would think are due to
go on a big skid here. They've peaked too soon.
They're due to go in a ditch on the side
of the road, so I fully expect the spruce to
(14:39):
bounce back way. I think the fact they had shot
as bad as they played and as terrible as Wemby was,
I'd be worried if I were the Knicks, because San
Antonio was still in position to win that game. They
obviously stunk down the stretch, but the fact that they
were still there with all of that bad basketball and
they still had a shot tells me that they're the
(15:00):
better team, all right. Last word here, So on the
New York side, the question, how would you describe Jalen
Brunson's play for the Knicks in this game? Because he
had thirty points. I was all excited about that and
played okay at the end. This is the classic tale
of two halves. Shakespeare would have written it that way, right,
(15:24):
the tale. I think he did. Yeah, he knew who
Jalen Brussel was, you know, all those years ago. So
Brunson actually lived the Tale of two halves in the
first game of the NBA Finals here in twenty twenty six,
for the first thirty minutes of the game. Roughly thirty
minutes of the game, Brunson's performance was a total clunker clunkity, clunk, clunk.
(15:47):
It was just horrific. He looked completely lost in the woods,
the babe lost in the woods, struggling to do anything,
and he could not get his shot going. He took
eighteen shots in the first thirty minutes, he missed thirteen
of them, shot twenty seven point eight percent. Had just
eleven points thirty minutes into the game, and then he
(16:10):
pulls the complete Houdini act and escapes from the bad start,
and what he wasn't Houdini. It was like the classic
Men in Black movie franchise where he whipped out the
neuralizer and he was Adrian k And for Men in Black,
and he completely erased the memory of that puke fest
first half for the Knickerbockers. There over the final eighteen minutes,
(16:34):
Brunson hoppit. He hopped on the magic carpet, took a
magic carpet ride, dragged the Knicks right alongside, and as
we said, outscoed twenty four points twenty four point avalanche
to close the game, actually eleven zero at the end,
but twenty four from down fourteen to up ten at
the end of the game. Here's Brunson commenting he was
(16:55):
asked the question, Hey, why did you suck so much
at the beginning?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I think at one point you were five or eighteen
from the field, and yet you really imposed your will
on the game and the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Where is that strength and composure.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Come from on a night when you're struggling from the
floor to still have that kind of an impact on
the game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
I think it starts with, uh, my confidence. It comes
to my work ethic. I think most importantly, uh, knowing
we're on the road and knowing my teams at my back.
I think that's the biggest thing in the environment like this.
They trust to having me, and that's trusted to having them.
This got us to this point, and so I mean,
I'm very thankful for them. I mean, every single night
(17:36):
we go out there together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
So if I was writing the headline for the New
York Post, my headline would be Jalen Brunson calls out Spurs.
They don't believe in each other. They're not They're not
a united front. Because that's why the next one they
were more united they believe in each other. Spurs don't
believe in each other. That's why they lost. Jalen Brunson
calls out san Antonio, that's your headline developing hot dot
dot dot. Yeah, the question what are you supposed to
(17:59):
do in the court? He was playing bad, so he
should like go in the corner and suck his thumb,
Like what is he supposed to do? How's that work?
Does he go have a like a cup of kombucha
tea and chill out for a little bit?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, Now he did flip the script. Brunson finished the
game on a burner, as the kids like to say,
seven of thirteen after starting the game five of eighteen
seven of thirteen shooting, had nineteen points down the stretch
and was the the power power play, power play for
New York as they get to come back. So, first
half Brunson was lost in the woods, and the second
(18:34):
half Brunson built a log cabin is what he did.
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you in the court of sports radio coming up later
this hour. Dude, do you think this is a simulation.
You're not. You're a non playable character, dude. And in
(22:29):
NBA legend slamming Wemby, we will. We'll get to that.
So that's all exciting stuff. We start with the NBA Finals,
though the New York Knickerbockers are three wins away from
having a parade in the Canyon of Heroes in Midtown Manhattan.
Just three more wins. That's it, that's all. And they're
(22:53):
right there and they have got home court. And you
saw a lot of those these New York guys were there.
They were all over the place, all over the place.
There the acting crowd they always get on TV late night.
Drug Tester writes and says, no worries for the Spurs.
The NBA will rig it like the lottery and make
(23:13):
it a seven game series. What else do we have
to see? Page Dan, mister irrigation says Viagra commercials should
come back in vogue. He says, well, that's a non sequitor.
Dan writes in from Parts Unknown, he says, Jalen Brunson
(23:36):
owns your dude Wemby head to head and dominated him
once again. Yes, yes, because we all know, Dan, everyone
that knows basketball knows that Jalen Brunson, who's like six'
one or something like that, know IF's that tall and
Wemby go head to head. We know that's the case.
Nature Boy, answering the call of a wild rights in
(23:56):
and says, what a pathetic performance by the San anton Spurs.
The good news is that we'll soon get to see
depressed Nick fans once we see the real Spurs. Yeah,
I'm fine with it. If the Knicks want to win
the first two games, I'm okay with that. Of the
first three games, I'm fine. I am absolutely fine. Not
(24:18):
a burner, right, since says can we get a wellness
check on ferg Dog? He says, I'm afraid he may
have posted something that got him in trouble if he's okay,
not a jail. The long suffering New York sports fan
who lives in Minnesota says, no such thing as momentum,
ben Right, Yeah, okay, Yeah, I'm sure the Spurs missed
(24:41):
all those shots because the Knicks had in the momentum, Right,
That's why they played bad, because the Knicks had momentum.
That's it. Yeah, Ryan, who used to be in San
Diego but is in Rosarito, Mexico for the time being.
He's on the lamb from law enforcement. He says, as
your resident x washed up basketb ball coach, my advice
to the Spurs, Your seven foot four players should not
(25:04):
stand at the three point line for most of the game.
Get your ass to the rim. Well, this is always
the problem, right, this is always the issue Ryan, the
evolution of basketball, and it's better now than it's ever been.
And everyone loves to go on and on about that.
And the evolution of basketball is you have a guy
who's seven foot four who should be able to score
(25:27):
at will in the panded area. And instead of occasionally
going out and shooting three point shots Wemby, it seems
like most of the time he only occasionally goes towards
the basket. Like I can get up the shooting chart
if you want. I don't have it in front of
me right now. I can get it up. It's a
lot of work, and that's really nerdy, and I don't
know that we want to do that kind of a show.
(25:47):
I have access to all that stuff. I think everyone
does now. It's twenty twenty six. And you can look
and see where he took the shots. I just from
watching the game and not jotting down on a ven
diagram where he was shooting the ball. It just seems
like he just stands out there a lot, which is
back in the old days. And Ron, you're around my age.
(26:07):
I think we were together back in the nineties. Clippers
days back then, And I remember talking to the great
late Bill Fitch about that, and that generation of basketball
guys would be are you kidding me? You've a seven
foot four guy and he's just gonna stand out by
the three point line. I mean, that's great. We'll let
him shoot three point shots the entire game. It doesn't
(26:29):
matter because the game has played obviously differently at that point.
It's like that the arts are, well, you're defeating your strength,
your real superpower. You can get any anyone to shoot
three point shots, but you know you're gonna stand on
the basket and slay people. That's the way to do it. Yeah.
Shanon de Moines writes, and he says, formerly known as
(26:50):
Donut Kelly in des Moines is has a new job.
Call her custard Kelly. I guess he's a serving custard.
There you go. And a Ryan in Carolina writes and
he says Dwight Yoakum describes honky Tonk as punk cowboy,
bugget it.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Bugging it, bugget it, bugget it, bugget it, buggety boogody.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yes, exactly, all right. So something happened that I'm I'm
excited about because I feel like we've got a changing
of the guard. Changing of the guard. I'll explain what
that is. There's something that happened. I don't if you
noticed it on the finals broadcast. There's something that took
place there that normally in the years past had not happened.
(27:37):
And I feel like this the people that run the
sports world have finally realized that this is something that
we need to do, that this is something that we've
fed up on and we need to fix it. And
Game one of the Finals was a sign that this
is this is a change. And I'll explain what I
(27:58):
mean by that. Let's go to the phones. I was
hoping this is I would call in. He hasn't called
in much recently. Let's say hello to Lucky Tony in
the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony, Welcome, Hey Ben.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
What does Jinx Mays and a bear's jersey have in
common with Muhammad Ali?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, this is a good riddle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
They're pretty Thanks.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Thanks, Okay, you're welcome. So the thing that's different, and
let me let me ask did you watch the game, coop?
Are you watching the finals?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Did you not watch the finals? You were?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
I watched the first quarter and then the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, I think this. I think this happened in the
fourth quarter. Did you notice the thing that happened that
is different than pretty much every other year at the
NBA Finals and for every major sporting event, by the way,
there's something that happened that is very different than years
(28:53):
gone by. See if you notice this, what do you
think it is? I'm being very vague here intentionally.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, that is extremely vague. Different.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Something happened in that game that normally in years past
would never never be shown on television.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Do do do do?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Do?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Do do do? Lorena, you didn't see a second.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
I slept, But I'm going to guess some jugs in the.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Back of the boobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they show they
the ratings go up when they show boobs. But that
is incorrect. The correct answer. A young chap decided to Yeah,
he ran out on the court and they showed it
(29:49):
on ABC. The guy this, uh, this dope. I guess
he didn't realize he's a non playable character. He decided
he was a playable character, which messes up the messes
up the whole thing. And he is like part of
the simulation, and he ran out on the court to
take a selfie with Wemby during the NBA Final game,
Like he just said, that's my time. I need a
(30:11):
nice selfie and that's it. So he went out there.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
So we know who this guy is.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Frank, I don't know what I know. How am I
supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (30:21):
I'm sure he's that guy was not here for the
basketball exactly. A lot of to do that. They're they're
like out chasers, and they run in front of like
like movie premieres, and they like the guy who did
it to Arian and Grande, they go out and they them.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Well, I'm sure he was. I'm sure he's so deep
in social media he doesn't realize there's a real world
out there, you know. I'm guessing we can find out
in two seconds who he is. I'm sure that there's
a lot of blogs or the social media pages to
keep track of that stuff. But he seemed like a
young guy. I don't know, the teenager, early twenties guy.
I don't know how old he was. Hard to tell.
(30:54):
I'm really bad at judging people's ages. So he looked young,
not that young, And he ran out there and they
show vowed it on the ABC broadcast and they replayed it.
And this has always been one of those things that
has made no sense to me. And I've talked to
some TV executives over the years about this, and they've
always said, well, the leagues don't want it. They don't
want to encourage fans to run out on the field
(31:17):
of the court, and that's why they don't show it. However,
in the age we live in, and this always happened,
somebody runs on the field that a Dodger game or something.
I go on social media and within a minute, I've
got seventeen different angles of the fan running on the field.
I've got three D if I want, I don't have
the glasses. I could get the three D version. I
(31:37):
can get the slow Moe version. It's all there, right, Keep.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
The eyes on your broadcast instead of somebody leading to
go on Twitter to find it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Just show it. And they're
assuming they don't do anything really bad obviously, and this
guy just is a dope. Now do you think they
made him delete the selfie? You think? And I guess
if you even deleted it, I guess you could go back.
If you have an iPhone, you can go back for
thirty days and get it. Anyway. Uh, you think they said, Okay,
we're gonna arrestue, and most of the time they arrest
(32:07):
you and they let you ride out, right, because that
Texas maybe was a little different in California.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
Under Texas law, stepping onto a restricted area of a
stadium as a crime faces the potential misdemeanor charges like
criminal trespass, which carries up to one hundred and eighty
days in jail.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Yeah, he's not going to go to jail. He's probably
already out, or maybe he's getting a night's sleep there
in the jail in San Antonio, and he'll become more
famous and everyone will know who he is and all
his social media pages and and all of that. So anyway,
I thought it was cool. They actually showed it on
the broadcast. They did not have to go, and they
(32:44):
showed a replay of it because some of the arguments, well,
they didn't show they showed it because they didn't have
time to pan away. It happened too quick. Oh, they
showed the replay, show them and zoomed in. They showed Yeah,
so it's it's like they knew what they were doing.
They showed it, so good for them. Now, you know,
eighteen people run on the court in Game two. They
(33:04):
will never show it again, So let's hope that doesn't happen.
Imagine spending that kind of cash to get into an
NBA Finals game and then that at least he waited
till the game was mostly over.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
To do it, and that's when the most eyeballs are
on the screen. Fourth quarter. That was that was planned.
It's definitely somebody who is not a fan of either team.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, because they don't care if they get banned for life,
means who cares. It was pretty funny Tim Legler doing
the old man thing. You know, he's not for the basketball. Yeah,
you think that guy is so deep, he is so
immersed in social media he does not even realize. I'll
bet you a thousand dollars that guy has no idea.
(33:49):
There's a real world out there, and a lot of
the people aren't that obsessed with social media, like they
know it's all mostly bots and and just a fake fakeness.
It's the AA, It's the blue pill of the red pill.
Is is what it is. It is the Ben Malor
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is the, number And alf writes since says. Disclaimer the
views express here are not endorsed By. Alf The alien opiner,
says this Is Ferg dog reporting From twitter. JAIL i
want to let everyone KNOW i am. Okay they're feeding
me three meals a day And i've got my own.
(34:33):
BED i hope to see the rest of you on
the outside again in Real is this Is Ferg dog
In twitter? Jail is?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
That is that?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Correct getting that account? Suspended how the Hell Ferg dog
is the most harmless person out? There what did he
do to get his account?
Speaker 6 (34:48):
SUSPENDED i THINK i think it says being an insufferable kiss.
Ass that's that's what it says over here on Ice.
CREAM i don't think that's true at. ALL i think
the people are jealous of celebrity That Ferg dog. Has,
now last time he got his account, suspended didn't he
Become Ferg?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Cat remember? That? Oh, yeah that's.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Right this has happened. Before this has.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Happened, before so just get on your burner. Account or
was it just was that just a.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
You, know, somebody somebody you know pretending to be, HIM
a what's the word That i'm looking for?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Them, yeah, yeah, yeah. YEAH i thought he had some
issues with his account. Account, yeah thank, you that's WHAT i.
Wanted thank. You, well, well so many of these thirdy.
Accounts you don't know, This. Lorena there was a guy
years ago named he was he was In, michigan and
uh it Was Ernie, ernie and uh THE O. Piner
(35:46):
and then there were a bunch of all these Other pino,
accounts all these different muppet accounts and animal accounts started
and and so some of them are still. Around and
it was all just because that was busting the chops
of that. Guy reggie In Minnesota rightsin, SAYS i just got,
up what's the? Scoop, WELL i have the. Rundown i'm
cooking the rundown right. NOW i will get the. Rundown
(36:08):
it's almost do you. Know it's a lot going. ON
i focus on the basketball. GAME i couldn't focus on
this other bull. Crap SO i had to focus on
the basketball. Game And i'll get it. Up time now
for the who AM? I? Game and this is where
we pretend to be somebody else. Else we call it
who AM? I? Game So Josh hart of The knicks
joined me as the only players since nineteen seventy five
(36:31):
to have fifteen or more rebounds who in less than
thirty minutes of AN Nba finals. Game, Again Josh, hart
who's a guard for The, knickerbockers joined me as the
only player since nineteen seventy five to have fifteen or
more rebounds in less than thirty minutes of AN Nba finals.
Game who AM? I that is the. Question the answer
(36:52):
will get to, it and we will do it.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
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back to. It we got off the somewhat, popular somewhat
popular edition of The Who AM? I? Game and this
(38:08):
is where we pretend to be somebody else in a
blatant attempt to get you to listen a little bit,
longer and then you send in goofy answers and then
we read. Them we all laugh at the old, names
and then we move. On so here's the who AM? I?
Game So Josh hart of The knicks joined me as
the only players since nineteen seventy five to have fifteen
(38:28):
or more rebounds in less than thirty minutes of AN
Nba finals. Game is only one other person that's done?
It Who and we'll see we're trying to find out
who's The. See the bit, is we're trying to find
out who that. Is and if you know At Ben,
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(38:50):
going to be out of. Luck and With Ferg dog in,
jail he's in x Slash twitter, jail that'll give more.
People more people have an. Opportunity wayne In duluth Says,
wayne their curmudgeon is the answer to calm, Down, wayne, Everything,
OKAY i MEAN i promised the rundown will be up
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in a few. Minutes. Here Lonnie shelton From POLLY. D
who else do we have? Here a steaming, meatballs said
the two Thousand olympic gold winner in The Butterfly Misty
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(39:32):
josh The Indiana bears fan who's In. Nebraska alf The
Alien opiner says the not Suspended Ferg cat is the.
Answer Josh jacobs From King rory In. Wisconsin that's a
good good photo. There The Shield roman, Reigns Seth rollins
And Dean ambrose From shane In Des. Moines Hakeema Lai
(39:55):
jawan guests By Jose Marquise grissom From Mister Nice. Guy
who else do we have a perfect lawn guessed by
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mob and is he going to be The rookie Social
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