May 15, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Warriors getting eliminated by the Timberwolves and if they ever had a shot without Steph Curry, if Steve Kerr was outcoached by Chris Finch, if the Timberwolves making it to the Western Conference Finals shuts up Anthony Edwards' doubters, and much more!
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the lot the parties over in Golden State. Did the
Warriors ever have a real shot without Steph Curry or
was this series over before it started?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The momont Curry had the hammy go whammy?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Was Steve Kerr the Warriors coach out coached by Chris.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Finch of Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And is this the official end for Golden State as
a contender or do they have one last run left
in them?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We'll take a look at that. And is Anthony Edwards
playoff success.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
With the shutting up his doubters on this postseason journey
We'll go there. In addition all that, and who knows
what else?
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game that ended not that long before we cracked the
microphones here within the last couple hours in downtown Minneapolis,
right next to the Sid Hartman Statue in the Twin Cities.
There close out game Aunt Edwards and the Timwolves Game
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five there against Jimmy Butler and the Warriors Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The set up up three to one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
They rolled into the target center and Steph Curry did
not roll out on the court. He couldn't play, too
fragile to play, and he was on the sidelines again
and Boston earlier on the NBA card they won. We'll
talk more about that game later. So they stayed alive.
They'll Bigis stand alive, and so Golden State had their
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chance to stay alive. And you're watching the game. You
know what happened, but perhaps you did not watch the game.
Julius Randall for years of playoff third, but not on
this night. Julius Randall twenty nine points. He took eighteen shots,
He made thirteen of the eighteen. That seems pretty good.
I didn't play in the NBA, but I think that's
pretty good. So Randall had twenty nine points on thirteen
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of eighteen shooting. Anthony Edwards added twenty two points in
twelve assists, and the himber Wolves led by as many
as twenty five points, and they found their way into
the next level of the NBA postseason one twenty one
to one ten the final as they get to win
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over the Warriors, so Minnesota wins the series four games
to won. The Wolves have now advanced the Western Conference
Finals again, where they will play either the Thunder or
the Nuggets, and the winner of that will go on
to the NBA Finals. Minnesota could have as many as
five days off. O MG, they'll be so rusty.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Five days off.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's if the Nuggets beat the Thunder in the Mile
High City coming up on Thursday night, and that would
force a game seven.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And that's her. So more on all that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We have plenty of time to talk about all that
later on. The better story, though, is in the eliminated
locker room, now the losers' locker room, the eliminated elimination.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's what happened to the team from Northern California.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So let us discuss the question did the Warriors ever
have a real shot without Steph Curry or was this
series over before it started once Curry his hammy went whammy.
So I've got looney Tunes, Jacuzzi and biblical and we
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will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make the baba Ganoche is what We're gonna
make the babaosh all right. So my first thought on this,
the Warriors were clearly on life support. They had aspirations
of championships and all these wonderful things. But the Maul
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McCurry went down and they won that game. Buddy Hill
game won, Buddy, He'll play well. Golden State wins with
Steph Curry playing limited time because.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He got hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think he played thirteen minutes in that game, and
that was it. And as Steph Curry goes, it turns out,
so go the Warriors. The Jenga tower. When you take
Curry out of the wobbly Jenga Tower, it comes tumbling down, down, down,
And so as was the case here, Golden State ends
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up their playoff er on booby trapped or in this case,
Hammi trapped by Steph Curry who was sitting on the
bench getting hemorrhoids. As Golden State floundered, there was a
comical report we'll get to later, which I just have
to bring this up at some point during the show
about Curry and how he was trying to come back well.
I explained more on that later in the show. But
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the Warriors were a beautiful sand castle when they got
Jimmy Butler on a sunshiny day, weather's nice, getting better
summertimes around the corner, and just beautiful sand castle. And
then Steph Curry when he went Rice Crispy snapcrackle pop
goes to Hammy. They were the sand castle at high tide.
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They were the sand castle at high tide? And was
Steve Kerr out coached in this particular series? Was he
out coaching well, Chris Finch, the other coach for the Warriors.
We're not sure if out coached is the right word
to describe Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't know that he did anything. I don't know
that you can be out coach if you don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When Steph Curry left because of injury, Steve Kerr and
Golden State had a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They were suddenly dead and barry.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They were a cow stuck in a hole on the
side of the road, and this was an opportunity for
them to overachieve. And for all the criticism, why anybody
could have coached the Golden State Warriors back when they
had the Splash Brothers and they had durant, they were
winning championships. Well, here's an opportunity for Steve Kerr and
a team to overachieve. Right, kerk could go out there,
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coach him up, scheme him up, outperform. You're suddenly very
low expectations. Did any of that happen? Did any of
that happen?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, well, anyway, here is Steve Kerr commenting on
the big story of Golden State season. They were not
playing that great, and then they made the trade. They
got Jimmy Butler, who did not want to go to
the Warriors. He initially did not want to play for
the Warriors, and then he they paid him some more money,
so he said, okay, you should you paid me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Here's Steve Kerr waxing loquacious about Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I love our guys, Like I said, we we this
was a hell of a run for us. We considering
where we were at the trade deadline, you know, Jimmy
changed our season, flipped everything for us, gave us a chance.
We became one of the best teams in the league.
And obviously, you know, you get to the final eight
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in the NBA. You're one of the best teams, and
we had had a shot, but you know, things didn't
go our way. But like I said, Minnesota deserves the credit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They were the better team. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well wait a minute, because I was told when I mentioned,
like in years past, when the Clippers have gotten to
the Elite eight or the Final.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Four, nobody says that. Nobody says that's impressive. Well here's
Steve Kerr saying that's impressive. So all you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Haters know what's happy about making you, lady. Steve Kerr
just said, and you're one of the better teams in
the NBA when.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You get to the Elite eight. He just said it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But as far as Jimmy Butler's concerned, to me, that's
more disappointing than Steve Kerr. Like, that's that's a guy
we support. We don't like many people on this show.
There's many many people that we take shots at on
a regular basis, But one of the players we like
watching is Jimmy Butler, and he went looney Tunes right
from playoff. Jimmy, here's another guy. Opportunity knock knock at
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the front door. Opportunity. Steph Curry's out. You figure at
some point he's gonna come back. He just got to
carry the load for three, you know, three or four
games without Curry, and that's Jimmy Butler who's done it
with other teams. Playoff Jimmy went to He had a metamorphosis.
He went from playoff Jimmy to Pepe lpew pu.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What stinks.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The baton was passed from Curry to Butler, said hey,
I need to pick me up here, and Jimmy Butler
took the baton and he fumbled it right into the sewer.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
He was sleepwalking.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
There were points in these last couple of games. I
think he was playing in a medically induced coma. I'm
waiting for the almost guaranteed report this happens only well,
he was playing with some kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Injury and he didn't disclose it. You know, that story
always comes out after the fact.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But as a result, the Warriors did something they have
never done in the postseason going back over fifty years.
The Warriors had not lost four straight playoff games in
a single postseason since nineteen seventy two. Holy crap, right now,
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Page two? Is this the official end game for Golden State?
As a contender, a feeble exit from the postseason against
the Minnesota basketball team. Is this the official end for
Golden State there? Or do they have one last run,
one last dance left in them. So as you know,
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not only do I moonlight as a gas bag, blow
hard and know it all here at Fox Sports Radio,
I am also a Malar meteorologist. I can forecast what's
ahead for all of these teams. I know you're waiting
with bated breath. So the Malard meteorologists forecast for the
next year.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Or two for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Golden State is now entering the twilight zone. Fasten your seatbelts.
It's going to be a bumpy ride. It's going to
be a bumpy ride. You got Steph Curry, who's what
he thirty seven, Draymond Green thirty five in the twilight
zone of their careers, Curries Hammy is already Whammy. So
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he's got the older you get, he's got the issues, the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Cloud hanging over him.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Jimmy Butler thirty five, also has dealt with various injuries,
and he missed about twenty five percent of the games
during his time with the Miami Heat, some of that
because he was at loggerheads with pat Riley.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But that's that's an issue. So you've got.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Major durability concerns Golden State. What they need to do
is swing another trade with the Sunshine State and they
need to pick up a jacuzzi, but a Ponce de
Leone jacuzzie. That's what they need to get, a Ponce
dely oone jacuzzi because Pastellion.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He has that mythical spring.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think it's in Sant Augustine, Florida, and it will
restore youth to anyone who drinks or bays in the
water there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So that's what they have to get. So as long
as they have that, they're fine.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
How many young players have passed through Golden State that
were supposed to be that next wave that turned out
to be turns one after another, whether the team didn't
trust them or they just didn't live up to the
lofty expectations, but it's been a constant stream for that
particular team. Now, last word, we go to the winning
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locker room, the winners. So back to the Final four.
The swing in effect for the Minnesota basketball team as
they are just four wins away from getting the finals.
So the question on this is Anthony Edwards' playoff run
with the Timberwolves. Is his playoff run shutting up the doubters?
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A classic sports debate, who's nothing? The daughters could say,
they'll be come out okay. So the resume is looking good,
depending on whether or not you put it under the microscope,
because Anthony Edwards now has playoffs series wins against Kevin Durant,
Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Nicola Jokic, all of that,
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all of that before he even turns twenty four.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Lebron washed up an.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Old we can all agree on that, ran out of
gas in the playoffs, Steph Curry got hurt?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Does that really count? Who knows? And the Jokic one?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Sure, Durant, Okay, if you want to give up credit
for that, that's fine. So in terms of the question,
is Anthea aras plaoffer on, you know, shutting up to dat?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
No, I'm shaking my head. No you can't see me,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Look at me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm shaking my head. On this has been a roller
coaster up and down and loopy loop. The Timberwolves have
been the beneficiaries of what we would call biblical kindness.
In this playoff run, it's the classic biblical story Moses
parting the red sea. Minnesota has beaten the forty year
old Lebron who ran out of gas. If you don't
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believe me, look at his fourth quarter numbers, the out
of shape hook Luca and slaying the always overrated Lakers
who hired a podcaster as.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Their coach, and he coached like a podcaster. It was
so good to see lovel On a hot take is validated.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I love a good hot take validation, and podcaster JJ
Reddick validated the hot take.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Thank you for that. JJ.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, so that when okay, you beat old Lebron
and out of shape.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Luca, Lakers aren't very good. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And now you put under the Mallord microscope you take
out the Warriors, a team that was neutered. They had
their balls chopped off when Steph Curry left with a
hammy injury. So you're not getting a lot of style
points under the microscope. Now, wide angle lens, it looks
pretty good for the low information fan. The casual fan
will say that's very impressive. But under the microscope again,
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not that much.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And so there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And that being said, in the modern NBA, we've seen
this a lot with like Indiana has made back to
back conference finals and they have been.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The beneficiary as well of pop goes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The Achilles over there for Dame Lizard for example, or
some of the injuries that have taken place with Cleveland
had a bunch of guys out.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Although I don't think they would have won anyway, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So in the modern NBA, this is how you get
it done. You can talk about getting all these.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Great players and having amazing talent, but really what you
need is a good voodoo doll. That's the secret.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
If you have a good voodoo doll, that is the
great equalizer. Every NBA postseason is a war of attrition.
It's always been. But the players are softer.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now than they've ever been.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
They have the greatest medical they have all the top
minds in sports medicine, all the IVY League geniuses or
babying and coddling the players, and it doesn't matter right,
they have it all figured out. Right, they've all the
medical figured out. When you're gonna get hurt, you have
to rest this amount of time to avoid getting hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And they still go out and get hurt all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Right, So whatever team gets injured the least will go
the furthest in the postseason. Now, in terms of what
this all means, it's a mixed bag for the Wolves
because they are very reliant on Anthony Edwards and Julius
Randall and they have to score score score score score
score score score score. And it's obviously a soft underbelly
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for Minnesota because if either one has an off performance,
if they underperform.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Then that's an issue. The three point shooting is not good.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
The defense appears to be the meat and potatoes for
the Timberwolves, and they make a lot of unforced errors,
as they say in tennis, which becomes problematic if you
play a team that can take advantage of that, which
would be more Oklahoma, say, if you played Denver's a
that's a much better opportunity for Minnesota than OKC. But
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we shall see.
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has punched their ticket on to the next level in
the NBA playoffs. Wall We'll get to the East later
on to a full Mallar monologue. Oops a daisy, what
you doing, Knickerbockers, Are you gonna f this thing up?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Nixt, you're gonna screw this thing up?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You certainly started the process, trust the process of effing
things up.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I would not have a lot of relatives that are
Nick fans, but I would not mind seeing Spike Lee crying,
and those.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All Ben Stiller and all those loser Nick fans.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I wouldn't mind seeing them crying after the next blow
A serious lead that way. I don't think it's gonn
what happened, but I'd be all for it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'd be all for it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now, there's some wild chatter about Lebron James out there,
and well, are you talking about Lebron? It's not about
but there's a story out about Lebron and involving.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
A possible path.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
We believe in the multiverse there's multiple dimensions. One of
those dimensions, Lebron takes a very dramatic turn. We'll explain
what that's all about.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
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Queen and Koop. But he's in the bathroom, so don't leave,
you know, leave him alone. Don't bother Coop. He's in
the bathroom. Anyway. All right, we'll get to all that,
and now back to it. All right, back to it
we go. And let's see. Here we have Ferg Dog
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Speaker 2 (21:39):
According to this picture, Bill Miller is a former wide
receiver for the Raiders who died last year. You might
want to tell FSR to perform a background track background
check on Bill, because I think we have a case
of stolen identity here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's a good question for Dog. We'll get into that.
I'm sure the company will look into that.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I've also heard reports that Bill Miller is a Major
League baseball umpire who said a bad word on a
hot mic on a game a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Jason in Kansas City. I met Jason at the Mallard
meet and greet we did at the.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Landing in Liberty, Missouri last November, before that wild Bronco
Chiefs game which ended on a blocked field goal, which
was glorious. Jason in Kansas City says ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, bend the Woles, predictability, predictably,
beat up, beat up the hapless Warriors. Side note, what
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the hell have the Warriors been drafting the last ten years?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What a crap show?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Jason in Cansa City, the fun Fact. I have a
fun fact of the hour, the fun Fact of the Hour.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
From the Golden Fun Fact.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So the young player, the one young player who will
likely go somewhere else. I guess his contracts up, so
he'll probably leave the Warriors, whether it's a sign in
trade or he just goes somewhere else. But Jonathan Kaminga
played in seven playoff games where he had twenty or
more minutes this postseason. The Golden State Warriors record when
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Jonathan Kaminga plays twenty or more minutes in the postseason
is zero to seven. Now, I didn't coach the NBA.
I'm not an executive. I just do an overnight show.
But that does not seem seem particularly good. And he's
one of those guys that has the reputation early in
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his career where he is a stat bandito, a stat
patter and that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He's just a guy.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
But you can get you some good empty numbers, and
the Warriors have had a few of those guys run
through their organization over time. Shane in des Moines says,
Kelly loves SGA. I love the only NBA talk I
listened to it's yours bet you make the NBA worthwhile
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in small Mallard monologue sized doses, though they're bite sized doses.
Sheena des moines a plus on the NBA coverage. The
King Rory writes in from northern Wisconsin, says, I thought
you were going to start the night off with Vegas
in Vegas, since your Oilers eliminated the Golden Knights in
(24:27):
a thrilling, overtime one nothing game and advanced to the
Western Conference Finals. Besides, I completely forgot the NBA was
still playing. I thought they crowned a champion back in December.
Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They did, absolutely do that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Let's see hear sir Scratchoff, who used to be a
caller retired as a caller. He says, why don't you
talk about the Clippers. Your Lakers suck? Well, not my Lakers,
my Clippers. I know you're probably drinking some whisky or whatever.
They're The Lakers do suck, but they're not my Lakers.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm a Clipper guy. Absolutely, uh, your suck, Aileen.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Says, sad San Francisco is now pushing the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I tuned that out, Eileen. I don't you know
it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I do broadcasting, not narrow casting, so there's no need
for me to worry about that. James says, Jimmy Butler
has that deep butt bruise, dumbass. Yeah, okay, Well he's
out there playing, and if he's out there playing, he's
fair to be judged.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he's out there playing, and he played like he
should not have been out there. Maybe should have been
sitting on the bench sucking a lolly or something like that.
Chip and the Cues rights in and says a plus
on the Mala malologue. The NBA lottery might be fixed,
but maybe not the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
After all, the league probably wanted the Warriors versus the Celtics,
and it looks like it's going to be Nicks versus
the tim Purwolves.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, that would not be a rouble series. Nicks Timberwolves
in the finals. That's got a little juice to it.
That's got a little juice because.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
You got the whole that you get the Carl Anthony Towns,
longtime Timberwolf who was traded for all those random players
from the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And Joyous Randall going against the Knicks's former team and
that that whole thing get the Villanova connection as they
broke up the Villanova crew on the Knickerbockers. So that's
got a little meat to it. That's got a little
meat to it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Spox Weed rights in from.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The Oregon Trail, says, Golden State needs to have an
astonishing trade for Giannis Adent to Coombo and then Milwaukee
get the first pick in the NBA draft next year.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So he's got that all mapped out.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
From Spoxwed got crystal Ball, and he's figured every thing out,
every single thing out, Chris writes in, says Ben ruff
and tumble. End of the season for the Golden Knights
here in Vegas are going scoreless over the last two games,
including failing to the oiler falling of the Oilers in
(27:10):
sudden death overtime.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Simply brutal conclusion for the Golden Knight.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Faithful, says Chris, who seems beaten and broken in Vegas.
But you'll get over it. You'll be okay because the
athletics are coming soon, well like three years from now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You'll get the athletics there in Vegas. All right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It is the Ben Maler Show'll tike some calls here
in a moment. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
is the number eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine. And let's say hello to Enie Meenie,
miney mo.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Let's go to Justin in Pennsylvania. What's going on? Justin?
Welcome You're on Fox Sports Radio. Man's a going I'm
ta walking into a microphone in a very dark room
right now?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And uh yeah, it's it's going sounds like you're driving.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Where are you driving to Justin? At the moment you're
you're what I couldn't hear you what I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Er?
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Oh? You doing Uber? Oh? Yeah? How's how's Uber going?
People out? People out this hour? Do they need Uber
at this hour?
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Of course?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, that night making that money.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You got to make the money, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But I didn't want to take your thumberway. You said
you want to talk about the sublics and the next later,
so that's what I was calling.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well, no, we can talk about it now if you want.
I mean, I was gonna do a monologue on. I
still will do a monologue on. But it was listen,
It's it was an interesting night. Boston was favored going
in the game. A lot of people were like, well
are they favored? I don't understand. Tatum's not playing, and
they end up running the Knicks off the court. The Knicks,
it looked like they were playing in like a second
(29:02):
gear type situation. Is the highlight of the night though,
was was Heart taking the shot to the face with blood.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Flowing all over the place. That was that was entertaining.
It's like a professional wrestling type situation.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I didn't get to watch it right now, but I
was just saying, your thoughts, I'm actually having a chance.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
To win again.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Uh the Celtics, Yeah, I would say they.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I didn't the Knight, Tatum got hurt. I said, well,
that's it, They're done. But they obviously it's a one
It's really a one game situation because if the Knicks
don't win in game six, you you'd think they're just
going to completely fall apart in game seven. So it's
it's really that's it. I mean, it should they should
win there at home and all that, and you figure
(29:49):
Luke Cornett and some of these guys for the Celtics
that played well will not play as well.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
In that arena as they did at home. So that
usually is the way it goes in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Generally speaking, the pop their pin is the secondary players
don't play that well on the road, they'll play well
at home, and so that's your your opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Just you're very calm. Just you're very mellow. You're a
mellow uber guy. And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with
being a mellow uber guy.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's that's okay. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So we have the play of the day and all you, dope,
what do you talk about hockey?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What's going on? You should really talk about hockey. I
don't understand why don't talk about hockey. It's hockey so great,
you know. And he's going, you've got to talk about hockey. Well,
we will throw you a bone. We're gonna throw you
a bone. Here.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Let's go to the play of the night, the Oilers
and the Golden Knights in overtime Game number five.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Trying to get to the Western Conference Finals. The game was.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Scoreless unless it wasn't. After this tig a list.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'll get it all the way across the dry sidle
to the middle.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I should say, hi, hell read they're jamming aways. The
Oilers pour off the bench if they win at what
nothing and overtime and win this series score games.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
To want happened in the game winning goal there in overtime.
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Speaker 1 (31:47):
From the.
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, should he?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Now let's play that oiler highlight again and then we'll
try to mix in the dagger because that would have
been the perfect call. But here's again the game winning goal, overtime,
scoreless game for the Oilers.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Take a listen, and then we got to mix in
the dagger. Let's see this gore. They'll get it all the.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Way across the wide will tell them in all this say.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
My hell, girl on that time, play again? Oh my god,
what is that? He hadn't scored the goal yet, Laura.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Good news, we have an advertiser's a pill for that,
but a little premature. You're excited it happens, you know, so, yeah,
would be great.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well that's one way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So that was a that was a little scrambled play
in front of that seven fourteen.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
To go on the clock and overtime there.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And so the Oilers beat Vegas and advance out of
the second round of the playoffs, which is proof you
don't have to have a great goaltender, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Because you know, I don't think anyone's.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Gonna say Stuart Skinner is an amazing goaltender and all that.
But he did he stopped. But you have twenty four
saves in this game and all that. So the Oilers
win and advance, and I believe that ends the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Hockey portion of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I think we've moved on now from hockey and we'll
push back.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Push it back now, push it back.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
The Lebron James multiverse story.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
A little Maggie, she's all grown up. I got kids now.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So anyway, here's the who Am I Game? And we'll
get back to that multiverse with Lebron. So the who
Am I Game? The Celtics, Luke Cornett.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Who exactly. I don't know this guy. I never heard
this guy.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Luke Cornet just another like backup big guy white dude
for the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Luke Cornett had had seven blocks.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I am the last player to record more block shots.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
In an elimination game than Luke Cornett.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Again, the Celtics backup played about twenty to twenty five minutes.
Luke Cornett had seven block shots. I am the last
player to record more blocks in an elimination game. Who
am I that question? We'll get to it. Take some
more of these riveting phone calls, and we will.
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and it is time now for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else's who
am I? Game? And we'll go to basketball where the.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Celtics Luke Cornett had seven blocks, seven off the bench.
I am the last player to have more blocks in
an E limit game than Luke Cornett. Who am I?
That is the question? And what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And let's see does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
We go to the Hoy POLOI here and Scrooge in
the Bay Area is going with George W.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bush as his answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
The Great ostrich Ant, Yes, by malaprop guy, there's ostrich
Ant who can play with three balls on the court.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
At the same time. Who else the.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Andro Barbosa, the fastest man in the NBA back the
last time Shane in the one.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Watched an NBA game, Robin Brazilian.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
That's right, Robin Lopez from King Rory oh J. Simpson
guessed by Alf the alien O piner Alonzo warning from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Nature Boy says everyone's favorite Clipper
big Man Stanley Roberts. Actually, I knew Stanley a little
(37:01):
bit when I was around the Clips. Stanley Roberts had
a better offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil and I will
die with that take. Stanley Roberts was a better offensive player.
He had more movement and more more different variety to
his offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil. Well, I'm just saying
that's my take. And the real ones know, Lorena, you're
(37:22):
a real one, you know, good old Stanley who was
also banned for life.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Stanley Roberts from the NBA. I don't believe he's ever reinstated.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Coco the Bear from Milkman, Mike Enzo says Vancouver Grizzlies
legend Stroll Miles Swift. Yeah, you think Enzo's going to
beat the mall of Meat and greet there in Vancouver?
You think he'll show up to the mall of Meat
and greet? Maybe Libby Dunn from Ozzie w Was that's
his guest, big fan of her work.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Page dam Titan Up, says Shaq is the answer, the
dunking Dutchman, Rick Smith's from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Mister Irrigation's going with Muggsy Bogues is his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Page Down Herman Munster, the ghoulish globe trotter from Perito
the Undertaker, guess by Steve the misplaced San Diegan, Earl
Boykins from Big Lou He's on number two, Edmund Houston
Garcia from James was Dallas, the Duck Duckworth, Kevin Duckworth
(38:23):
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Who else do we have? Kevin Durant or Lurch from
Spock's Weed. That's his answer? What say you, la Oh?
I thought really long and hard about this one.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
I'm gonna have to go with my guy porky pig.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Is it porky pig?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
It is also not the mellow uber guy who has
a big fan of Eileen Mello, Uber guy, big fan
of your work.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I know that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The correct answer is Dick Kembe come.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Way back in nineteen ninety four, the late great to
Kembe mud Tombo.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Man, it's crazy that Wow left this mortal coil Tombe Mutombo.
All right, So the lebron story, the rumor right away
the Trailblazers are on the market. You can buy, if
you have the money, you can buy the Trailblazer. So
the assumption was Phil Knight was going to buy the team,
at least publicly, he's saying he's not interested. He tried
(39:31):
to buy the team a couple of years ago. He's
eighty seven, I believe now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
So he's like, ah, I'm good. I don't want the
team anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So that's that's a big debacle for the Trailblazers because
he's the richest person in Oregon, Phil Knight, I don't
want the team, and he works for a sports a
sports business a Nike, although most of their stuff's made in.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Sweatshops overseas, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So the rumor is that Lebron James wants to buy
a team.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
He's forty years.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Old, He's only got limited time left as a player, anyway.
Would Lebron leave the Lakers and his career early to
buy the Trailblazers. The assumption was he wants to own
the team in Vegas, not in Portland. But beggars can't
be choosers, right, If you have a chance to buy
the Trailblazer If you're Lebron and the NBA said we'll
set you up, would you retire to own the Trailblazers?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Hmm? Things that make you go hmm,
We go welcome.
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Warriors ever have a real shot without Steph Curry or
was this series over before it started?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
The momont Curry had the hammy go whammy?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Was Steve Kerr the Warriors coach out coached by Chris.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Finch of Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And is this the official end for Golden State as
a contender or do they have one last run left
in them?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
We'll take a look at that. And is Anthony Edwards
playoff success.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
With the shutting up his doubters on this postseason journey
We'll go there. In addition all that, and who knows
what else?
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game that ended not that long before we cracked the
microphones here within the last couple hours in downtown Minneapolis,
right next to the Sid Hartman Statue in the Twin Cities.
There close out game Aunt Edwards and the Timwolves Game
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five there against Jimmy Butler and the Warriors Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
The set up up three to one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
They rolled into the target center and Steph Curry did
not roll out on the court. He couldn't play, too
fragile to play, and he was on the sidelines again
and Boston earlier on the NBA card they won. We'll
talk more about that game later. So they stayed alive.
They'll Bigis stand alive, and so Golden State had their
(03:32):
chance to stay alive. And you're watching the game. You
know what happened, but perhaps you did not watch the game.
Julius Randall for years of playoff third, but not on
this night. Julius Randall twenty nine points. He took eighteen shots,
He made thirteen of the eighteen. That seems pretty good.
I didn't play in the NBA, but I think that's
pretty good. So Randall had twenty nine points on thirteen
(03:53):
of eighteen shooting. Anthony Edwards added twenty two points in
twelve assists, and the himber Wolves led by as many
as twenty five points, and they found their way into
the next level of the NBA postseason one twenty one
to one ten the final as they get to win
(04:15):
over the Warriors, so Minnesota wins the series four games
to won. The Wolves have now advanced the Western Conference
Finals again, where they will play either the Thunder or
the Nuggets, and the winner of that will go on
to the NBA Finals. Minnesota could have as many as
five days off. O MG, they'll be so rusty.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Five days off.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's if the Nuggets beat the Thunder in the Mile
High City coming up on Thursday night, and that would
force a game seven.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And that's her. So more on all that.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
We have plenty of time to talk about all that
later on. The better story, though, is in the eliminated
locker room, now the losers' locker room, the eliminated elimination.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's what happened to the team from Northern California.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So let us discuss the question did the Warriors ever
have a real shot without Steph Curry or was this
series over before it started once Curry his hammy went whammy.
So I've got looney Tunes, Jacuzzi and biblical and we
(05:26):
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make the baba Ganoche is what We're gonna
make the babaosh all right. So my first thought on this,
the Warriors were clearly on life support. They had aspirations
of championships and all these wonderful things. But the Maul
(05:48):
McCurry went down and they won that game. Buddy Hill
game won, Buddy, He'll play well. Golden State wins with
Steph Curry playing limited time because.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
He got hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I think he played thirteen minutes in that game, and
that was it. And as Steph Curry goes, it turns out,
so go the Warriors. The Jenga tower. When you take
Curry out of the wobbly Jenga Tower, it comes tumbling down, down, down,
And so as was the case here, Golden State ends
(06:18):
up their playoff er on booby trapped or in this case,
Hammi trapped by Steph Curry who was sitting on the
bench getting hemorrhoids. As Golden State floundered, there was a
comical report we'll get to later, which I just have
to bring this up at some point during the show
about Curry and how he was trying to come back well.
I explained more on that later in the show. But
(06:40):
the Warriors were a beautiful sand castle when they got
Jimmy Butler on a sunshiny day, weather's nice, getting better
summertimes around the corner, and just beautiful sand castle. And
then Steph Curry when he went Rice Crispy snapcrackle pop
goes to Hammy. They were the sand castle at high tide.
(07:04):
They were the sand castle at high tide? And was
Steve Kerr out coached in this particular series? Was he
out coaching well, Chris Finch, the other coach for the Warriors.
We're not sure if out coached is the right word
to describe Steve Kerr.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't know that he did anything. I don't know
that you can be out coach if you don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
When Steph Curry left because of injury, Steve Kerr and
Golden State had a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They were suddenly dead and barry.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They were a cow stuck in a hole on the
side of the road, and this was an opportunity for
them to overachieve. And for all the criticism, why anybody
could have coached the Golden State Warriors back when they
had the Splash Brothers and they had durant, they were
winning championships. Well, here's an opportunity for Steve Kerr and
a team to overachieve. Right, kerk could go out there,
(07:57):
coach him up, scheme him up, outperform. You're suddenly very
low expectations. Did any of that happen? Did any of
that happen?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I mean, well, anyway, here is Steve Kerr commenting on
the big story of Golden State season. They were not
playing that great, and then they made the trade. They
got Jimmy Butler, who did not want to go to
the Warriors. He initially did not want to play for
the Warriors, and then he they paid him some more money,
so he said, okay, you should you paid me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'll go.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Here's Steve Kerr waxing loquacious about Jimmy Butler.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Take a listen.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I love our guys, Like I said, we we this
was a hell of a run for us. We considering
where we were at the trade deadline, you know, Jimmy
changed our season, flipped everything for us, gave us a chance.
We became one of the best teams in the league.
And obviously, you know, you get to the final eight
(08:51):
in the NBA. You're one of the best teams, and
we had had a shot, but you know, things didn't
go our way. But like I said, Minnesota deserves the credit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
They were the better team. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well wait a minute, because I was told when I mentioned,
like in years past, when the Clippers have gotten to
the Elite eight or the Final.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Four, nobody says that. Nobody says that's impressive. Well here's
Steve Kerr saying that's impressive. So all you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Haters know what's happy about making you, lady. Steve Kerr
just said, and you're one of the better teams in
the NBA when.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You get to the Elite eight. He just said it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
But as far as Jimmy Butler's concerned, to me, that's
more disappointing than Steve Kerr. Like, that's that's a guy
we support. We don't like many people on this show.
There's many many people that we take shots at on
a regular basis, But one of the players we like
watching is Jimmy Butler, and he went looney Tunes right
from playoff. Jimmy, here's another guy. Opportunity knock knock at
(09:49):
the front door. Opportunity. Steph Curry's out. You figure at
some point he's gonna come back. He just got to
carry the load for three, you know, three or four
games without Curry, and that's Jimmy Butler who's done it
with other teams. Playoff Jimmy went to He had a metamorphosis.
He went from playoff Jimmy to Pepe lpew pu.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
What stinks.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The baton was passed from Curry to Butler, said hey,
I need to pick me up here, and Jimmy Butler
took the baton and he fumbled it right into the sewer.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
He was sleepwalking.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
There were points in these last couple of games. I
think he was playing in a medically induced coma. I'm
waiting for the almost guaranteed report this happens only well,
he was playing with some kind of.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Injury and he didn't disclose it. You know, that story
always comes out after the fact.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
But as a result, the Warriors did something they have
never done in the postseason going back over fifty years.
The Warriors had not lost four straight playoff games in
a single postseason since nineteen seventy two. Holy crap, right now,
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Page two? Is this the official end game for Golden State?
As a contender, a feeble exit from the postseason against
the Minnesota basketball team. Is this the official end for
Golden State there? Or do they have one last run,
one last dance left in them. So as you know,
(11:22):
not only do I moonlight as a gas bag, blow
hard and know it all here at Fox Sports Radio,
I am also a Malar meteorologist. I can forecast what's
ahead for all of these teams. I know you're waiting
with bated breath. So the Malard meteorologists forecast for the
next year.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Or two for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Golden State is now entering the twilight zone. Fasten your seatbelts.
It's going to be a bumpy ride. It's going to
be a bumpy ride. You got Steph Curry, who's what
he thirty seven, Draymond Green thirty five in the twilight
zone of their careers, Curries Hammy is already Whammy. So
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he's got the older you get, he's got the issues, the.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Cloud hanging over him.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Jimmy Butler thirty five, also has dealt with various injuries,
and he missed about twenty five percent of the games
during his time with the Miami Heat, some of that
because he was at loggerheads with pat Riley.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
But that's that's an issue. So you've got.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Major durability concerns Golden State. What they need to do
is swing another trade with the Sunshine State and they
need to pick up a jacuzzi, but a Ponce de
Leone jacuzzie. That's what they need to get, a Ponce
dely oone jacuzzi because Pastellion.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
He has that mythical spring.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I think it's in Sant Augustine, Florida, and it will
restore youth to anyone who drinks or bays in the
water there.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So that's what they have to get. So as long
as they have that, they're fine.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
How many young players have passed through Golden State that
were supposed to be that next wave that turned out
to be turns one after another, whether the team didn't
trust them or they just didn't live up to the
lofty expectations, but it's been a constant stream for that
particular team. Now, last word, we go to the winning
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locker room, the winners. So back to the Final four.
The swing in effect for the Minnesota basketball team as
they are just four wins away from getting the finals.
So the question on this is Anthony Edwards' playoff run
with the Timberwolves. Is his playoff run shutting up the doubters?
(13:45):
A classic sports debate, who's nothing? The daughters could say,
they'll be come out okay. So the resume is looking good,
depending on whether or not you put it under the microscope,
because Anthony Edwards now has playoffs series wins against Kevin Durant,
Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Nicola Jokic, all of that,
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all of that before he even turns twenty four.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
So that's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Lebron washed up an.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Old we can all agree on that, ran out of
gas in the playoffs, Steph Curry got hurt?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Does that really count? Who knows? And the Jokic one?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Sure, Durant, Okay, if you want to give up credit
for that, that's fine. So in terms of the question,
is Anthea aras plaoffer on, you know, shutting up to dat?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I'm gonna shake my head.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
No, I'm shaking my head. No you can't see me,
you don't.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Look at me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'm shaking my head. On this has been a roller
coaster up and down and loopy loop. The Timberwolves have
been the beneficiaries of what we would call biblical kindness.
In this playoff run, it's the classic biblical story Moses
parting the red sea. Minnesota has beaten the forty year
old Lebron who ran out of gas. If you don't
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believe me, look at his fourth quarter numbers, the out
of shape hook Luca and slaying the always overrated Lakers
who hired a podcaster as.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Their coach, and he coached like a podcaster. It was
so good to see lovel On a hot take is validated.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I love a good hot take validation, and podcaster JJ
Reddick validated the hot take.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Thank you for that. JJ.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
All right, so that when okay, you beat old Lebron
and out of shape.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Luca, Lakers aren't very good. We all know that.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
And now you put under the Mallord microscope you take
out the Warriors, a team that was neutered. They had
their balls chopped off when Steph Curry left with a
hammy injury. So you're not getting a lot of style
points under the microscope. Now, wide angle lens, it looks
pretty good for the low information fan. The casual fan
will say that's very impressive. But under the microscope again,
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not that much.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
And so there you go.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And that being said, in the modern NBA, we've seen
this a lot with like Indiana has made back to
back conference finals and they have been.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The beneficiary as well of pop goes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
The Achilles over there for Dame Lizard for example, or
some of the injuries that have taken place with Cleveland
had a bunch of guys out.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Although I don't think they would have won anyway, but
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So in the modern NBA, this is how you get
it done. You can talk about getting all these.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Great players and having amazing talent, but really what you
need is a good voodoo doll. That's the secret.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
If you have a good voodoo doll, that is the
great equalizer. Every NBA postseason is a war of attrition.
It's always been. But the players are softer.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now than they've ever been.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
They have the greatest medical they have all the top
minds in sports medicine, all the IVY League geniuses or
babying and coddling the players, and it doesn't matter right,
they have it all figured out. Right, they've all the
medical figured out. When you're gonna get hurt, you have
to rest this amount of time to avoid getting hurt.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
And they still go out and get hurt all the time.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Right, So whatever team gets injured the least will go
the furthest in the postseason. Now, in terms of what
this all means, it's a mixed bag for the Wolves
because they are very reliant on Anthony Edwards and Julius
Randall and they have to score score score score score
score score score score. And it's obviously a soft underbelly
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for Minnesota because if either one has an off performance,
if they underperform.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Then that's an issue. The three point shooting is not good.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
The defense appears to be the meat and potatoes for
the Timberwolves, and they make a lot of unforced errors,
as they say in tennis, which becomes problematic if you
play a team that can take advantage of that, which
would be more Oklahoma, say, if you played Denver's a
that's a much better opportunity for Minnesota than OKC. But
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we shall see.
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And we're just beginning the red eye flight through the overnight.
As we work our way through later on we'll have
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You will definitely not be listening by our four. You
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It's not up yet because we're still doing the live show.
We're still doing the live show, so the podcast can't
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has punched their ticket on to the next level in
the NBA playoffs. Wall We'll get to the East later
on to a full Mallar monologue. Oops a daisy, what
you doing, Knickerbockers, Are you gonna f this thing up?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Nixt, you're gonna screw this thing up?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You certainly started the process, trust the process of effing
things up.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I would not have a lot of relatives that are
Nick fans, but I would not mind seeing Spike Lee crying,
and those.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
All Ben Stiller and all those loser Nick fans.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I wouldn't mind seeing them crying after the next blow
A serious lead that way. I don't think it's gonn
what happened, but I'd be all for it.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'd be all for it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Now, there's some wild chatter about Lebron James out there,
and well, are you talking about Lebron? It's not about
but there's a story out about Lebron and involving.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
A possible path.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
We believe in the multiverse there's multiple dimensions. One of
those dimensions, Lebron takes a very dramatic turn. We'll explain
what that's all about.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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That is Bill Miller and you the Ben Mahler Show
as we are working our way through the overnight hours
and just settling into the red eye flight.
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Be here all night long.
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I think Coop's in the bathroom. I don't know why
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Speaker 2 (21:04):
Anyway, Eventually he'll get back, I guess, I don't know when,
and maybe at some point he'll answer the calls. So
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Queen and Koop. But he's in the bathroom, so don't leave,
you know, leave him alone. Don't bother Coop. He's in
the bathroom. Anyway. All right, we'll get to all that,
and now back to it. All right, back to it
we go. And let's see. Here we have Ferg Dog
who writes in is I Ben? Says, hey, big Ben.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
According to this picture, Bill Miller is a former wide
receiver for the Raiders who died last year. You might
want to tell FSR to perform a background track background
check on Bill, because I think we have a case
of stolen identity here.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's a good question for Dog. We'll get into that.
I'm sure the company will look into that.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I've also heard reports that Bill Miller is a Major
League baseball umpire who said a bad word on a
hot mic on a game a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Jason in Kansas City. I met Jason at the Mallard
meet and greet we did at the.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Landing in Liberty, Missouri last November, before that wild Bronco
Chiefs game which ended on a blocked field goal, which
was glorious. Jason in Kansas City says ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, bend the Woles, predictability, predictably,
beat up, beat up the hapless Warriors. Side note, what
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the hell have the Warriors been drafting the last ten years?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What a crap show?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Jason in Cansa City, the fun Fact. I have a
fun fact of the hour, the fun Fact of the Hour.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
From the Golden Fun Fact.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
So the young player, the one young player who will
likely go somewhere else. I guess his contracts up, so
he'll probably leave the Warriors, whether it's a sign in
trade or he just goes somewhere else. But Jonathan Kaminga
played in seven playoff games where he had twenty or
more minutes this postseason. The Golden State Warriors record when
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Jonathan Kaminga plays twenty or more minutes in the postseason
is zero to seven. Now, I didn't coach the NBA.
I'm not an executive. I just do an overnight show.
But that does not seem seem particularly good. And he's
one of those guys that has the reputation early in
(23:37):
his career where he is a stat bandito, a stat
patter and that's it.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
He's just a guy.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
But you can get you some good empty numbers, and
the Warriors have had a few of those guys run
through their organization over time. Shane in des Moines says,
Kelly loves SGA. I love the only NBA talk I
listened to it's yours bet you make the NBA worthwhile
(24:06):
in small Mallard monologue sized doses, though they're bite sized doses.
Sheena des moines a plus on the NBA coverage. The
King Rory writes in from northern Wisconsin, says, I thought
you were going to start the night off with Vegas
in Vegas, since your Oilers eliminated the Golden Knights in
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a thrilling, overtime one nothing game and advanced to the
Western Conference Finals. Besides, I completely forgot the NBA was
still playing. I thought they crowned a champion back in December.
Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
They did, absolutely do that.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Let's see hear sir Scratchoff, who used to be a
caller retired as a caller. He says, why don't you
talk about the Clippers. Your Lakers suck? Well, not my Lakers,
my Clippers. I know you're probably drinking some whisky or whatever.
They're The Lakers do suck, but they're not my Lakers.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I'm a Clipper guy. Absolutely, uh, your suck, Aileen.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Says, sad San Francisco is now pushing the w NBA.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, I tuned that out, Eileen. I don't you know
it's not.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I do broadcasting, not narrow casting, so there's no need
for me to worry about that. James says, Jimmy Butler
has that deep butt bruise, dumbass. Yeah, okay, Well he's
out there playing, and if he's out there playing, he's
fair to be judged.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he's out there playing, and he played like he
should not have been out there. Maybe should have been
sitting on the bench sucking a lolly or something like that.
Chip and the Cues rights in and says a plus
on the Mala malologue. The NBA lottery might be fixed,
but maybe not the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They're not.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
After all, the league probably wanted the Warriors versus the Celtics,
and it looks like it's going to be Nicks versus
the tim Purwolves.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Well, that would not be a rouble series. Nicks Timberwolves
in the finals. That's got a little juice to it.
That's got a little juice because.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
You got the whole that you get the Carl Anthony Towns,
longtime Timberwolf who was traded for all those random players
from the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And Joyous Randall going against the Knicks's former team and
that that whole thing get the Villanova connection as they
broke up the Villanova crew on the Knickerbockers. So that's
got a little meat to it. That's got a little
meat to it, for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Spox Weed rights in from.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The Oregon Trail, says, Golden State needs to have an
astonishing trade for Giannis Adent to Coombo and then Milwaukee
get the first pick in the NBA draft next year.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So he's got that all mapped out.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
From Spoxwed got crystal Ball, and he's figured every thing out,
every single thing out, Chris writes in, says Ben ruff
and tumble. End of the season for the Golden Knights
here in Vegas are going scoreless over the last two games,
including failing to the oiler falling of the Oilers in
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sudden death overtime.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Simply brutal conclusion for the Golden Knight.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Faithful, says Chris, who seems beaten and broken in Vegas.
But you'll get over it. You'll be okay because the
athletics are coming soon, well like three years from now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
You'll get the athletics there in Vegas. All right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
It is the Ben Maler Show'll tike some calls here
in a moment. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
is the number eight seven seven nine nine six six
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Speaker 1 (27:47):
Let's go to Justin in Pennsylvania. What's going on? Justin?
Welcome You're on Fox Sports Radio. Man's a going I'm
ta walking into a microphone in a very dark room
right now?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And uh yeah, it's it's going sounds like you're driving.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Where are you driving to Justin? At the moment you're
you're what I couldn't hear you what I'm doing?
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Er?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh? You doing Uber? Oh? Yeah? How's how's Uber going?
People out? People out this hour? Do they need Uber
at this hour?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, that night making that money.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You got to make the money, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
But I didn't want to take your thumberway. You said
you want to talk about the sublics and the next later,
so that's what I was calling.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Well, no, we can talk about it now if you want.
I mean, I was gonna do a monologue on. I
still will do a monologue on. But it was listen,
It's it was an interesting night. Boston was favored going
in the game. A lot of people were like, well
are they favored? I don't understand. Tatum's not playing, and
they end up running the Knicks off the court. The Knicks,
it looked like they were playing in like a second
(29:02):
gear type situation. Is the highlight of the night though,
was was Heart taking the shot to the face with blood.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Flowing all over the place. That was that was entertaining.
It's like a professional wrestling type situation.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I didn't get to watch it right now, but I
was just saying, your thoughts, I'm actually having a chance.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
To win again.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Uh the Celtics, Yeah, I would say they.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
I didn't the Knight, Tatum got hurt. I said, well,
that's it, They're done. But they obviously it's a one
It's really a one game situation because if the Knicks
don't win in game six, you you'd think they're just
going to completely fall apart in game seven. So it's
it's really that's it. I mean, it should they should
win there at home and all that, and you figure
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Luke Cornett and some of these guys for the Celtics
that played well will not play as well.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
In that arena as they did at home. So that
usually is the way it goes in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Generally speaking, the pop their pin is the secondary players
don't play that well on the road, they'll play well
at home, and so that's your your opportunity.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Just you're very calm. Just you're very mellow. You're a
mellow uber guy. And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with
being a mellow uber guy.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's that's okay. All right.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
So we have the play of the day and all you, dope,
what do you talk about hockey?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What's going on? You should really talk about hockey. I
don't understand why don't talk about hockey. It's hockey so great,
you know. And he's going, you've got to talk about hockey. Well,
we will throw you a bone. We're gonna throw you
a bone. Here.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Let's go to the play of the night, the Oilers
and the Golden Knights in overtime Game number five.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Trying to get to the Western Conference Finals. The game was.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Scoreless unless it wasn't. After this tig a list.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'll get it all the way across the dry sidle
to the middle.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
I should say, hi, hell read they're jamming aways. The
Oilers pour off the bench if they win at what
nothing and overtime and win this series score games.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
To want happened in the game winning goal there in overtime.
That was the tire Iraq play of the night thanks
to our friends at tire rack that was the Oilers
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buying should be. See, the only thing that Cal was
missing was dagger, like the pacer guy like.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
From the.
Speaker 7 (31:49):
Girl.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, yeah, should he?
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Now let's play that oiler highlight again and then we'll
try to mix in the dagger because that would have
been the perfect call. But here's again the game winning goal, overtime,
scoreless game for the Oilers.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Take a listen, and then we got to mix in
the dagger. Let's see this gore. They'll get it all the.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Way across the wide will tell them in all this say.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
My hell, girl on that time, play again? Oh my god,
what is that? He hadn't scored the goal yet, Laura.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Good news, we have an advertiser's a pill for that,
but a little premature. You're excited it happens, you know, so, yeah,
would be great.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Well that's one way to do it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
So that was a that was a little scrambled play
in front of that seven fourteen.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
To go on the clock and overtime there.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And so the Oilers beat Vegas and advance out of
the second round of the playoffs, which is proof you
don't have to have a great goaltender, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Because you know, I don't think anyone's.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Gonna say Stuart Skinner is an amazing goaltender and all that.
But he did he stopped. But you have twenty four
saves in this game and all that. So the Oilers
win and advance, and I believe that ends the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Hockey portion of the show.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I think we've moved on now from hockey and we'll
push back.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Push it back now, push it back.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
The Lebron James multiverse story.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
A little Maggie, she's all grown up. I got kids now.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So anyway, here's the who Am I Game? And we'll
get back to that multiverse with Lebron. So the who
Am I Game? The Celtics, Luke Cornett.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Who exactly. I don't know this guy. I never heard
this guy.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Luke Cornet just another like backup big guy white dude
for the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Luke Cornett had had seven blocks.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I am the last player to record more block shots.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
In an elimination game than Luke Cornett.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Again, the Celtics backup played about twenty to twenty five minutes.
Luke Cornett had seven block shots. I am the last
player to record more blocks in an elimination game. Who
am I that question? We'll get to it. Take some
more of these riveting phone calls, and we will.
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Do it next.
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He's a weapon. Back to it. Back to it we go,
and it is time now for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else's who
am I? Game? And we'll go to basketball where the.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Celtics Luke Cornett had seven blocks, seven off the bench.
I am the last player to have more blocks in
an E limit game than Luke Cornett. Who am I?
That is the question? And what is the answer?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
And let's see does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
We go to the Hoy POLOI here and Scrooge in
the Bay Area is going with George W.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Bush as his answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
The Great ostrich Ant, Yes, by malaprop guy, there's ostrich
Ant who can play with three balls on the court.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
At the same time. Who else the.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Andro Barbosa, the fastest man in the NBA back the
last time Shane in the one.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Watched an NBA game, Robin Brazilian.
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That's right, Robin Lopez from King Rory oh J. Simpson
guessed by Alf the alien O piner Alonzo warning from
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Nature Boy says everyone's favorite Clipper
big Man Stanley Roberts. Actually, I knew Stanley a little
(37:01):
bit when I was around the Clips. Stanley Roberts had
a better offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil and I will
die with that take. Stanley Roberts was a better offensive player.
He had more movement and more more different variety to
his offensive game than Shaquille O'Neil. Well, I'm just saying
that's my take. And the real ones know, Lorena, you're
(37:22):
a real one, you know, good old Stanley who was
also banned for life.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Stanley Roberts from the NBA. I don't believe he's ever reinstated.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Coco the Bear from Milkman, Mike Enzo says Vancouver Grizzlies
legend Stroll Miles Swift. Yeah, you think Enzo's going to
beat the mall of Meat and greet there in Vancouver?
You think he'll show up to the mall of Meat
and greet? Maybe Libby Dunn from Ozzie w Was that's
his guest, big fan of her work.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Page dam Titan Up, says Shaq is the answer, the
dunking Dutchman, Rick Smith's from Andrew in the Bay Area.
Mister Irrigation's going with Muggsy Bogues is his answer.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Page Down Herman Munster, the ghoulish globe trotter from Perito
the Undertaker, guess by Steve the misplaced San Diegan, Earl
Boykins from Big Lou He's on number two, Edmund Houston
Garcia from James was Dallas, the Duck Duckworth, Kevin Duckworth
(38:23):
from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Who else do we have? Kevin Durant or Lurch from
Spock's Weed. That's his answer? What say you, la Oh?
I thought really long and hard about this one.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
I'm gonna have to go with my guy porky pig.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Is it porky pig?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
It is also not the mellow uber guy who has
a big fan of Eileen Mello, Uber guy, big fan
of your work.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I know that is incorrect.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The correct answer is Dick Kembe come.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Way back in nineteen ninety four, the late great to
Kembe mud Tombo.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Man, it's crazy that Wow left this mortal coil Tombe Mutombo.
All right, So the lebron story, the rumor right away
the Trailblazers are on the market. You can buy, if
you have the money, you can buy the Trailblazer. So
the assumption was Phil Knight was going to buy the team,
at least publicly, he's saying he's not interested. He tried
(39:31):
to buy the team a couple of years ago. He's
eighty seven, I believe now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
So he's like, ah, I'm good. I don't want the
team anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So that's that's a big debacle for the Trailblazers because
he's the richest person in Oregon, Phil Knight, I don't
want the team, and he works for a sports a
sports business a Nike, although most of their stuff's made in.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Sweatshops overseas, but anyway.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
So the rumor is that Lebron James wants to buy
a team.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
He's forty years.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Old, He's only got limited time left as a player, anyway.
Would Lebron leave the Lakers and his career early to
buy the Trailblazers. The assumption was he wants to own
the team in Vegas, not in Portland. But beggars can't
be choosers, right, If you have a chance to buy
the Trailblazer If you're Lebron and the NBA said we'll
set you up, would you retire to own the Trailblazers?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Hmm? Things that make you go hmm,
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