May 22, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jalen Brunson and the Knicks having an epic gag against the Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the performance by Aaron Nesmith to lead the Pacers back at MSG, advice to the Knicks going forward, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Welcome. It's our numb ber one, our one. You are
locked in. It is the original recipe, Ben Malors, show
up all night, welcome aboard is we will piece this
thing together right now in our number one. So the
Eastern Conference Finals Game one, an instant classic at the Mecca,
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the Pacers and the Knicks, and it came down to
the very end and in overtime the Pacers pull it
out after Tyres Saliburton hit a big shot to send
the game to overtime. So who gets the dirty waters
Street dog of blame for the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers with
this epic gag job. They had a ninety nine point
eight percent chance of winning and they didn't get it done.
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All those New York celebrities moaning and groaning, it was
great to see. What is the word for Aaron Nesmith,
that's a basketball player for the Pacers, his performance in
leading Indiana at Madison Square Garden, and any advice to
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks going forward also Indiana, any
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advice to them as well. We'll dig our heels in
right now and motormouth Malard beginning in our number one
how to win a game, how to lose a game,
and how to lose the game again and again and again. Well,
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So what a night and come in here we break
down these playoff games and I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you anything different. The other night, after the
Oklahoma City Minnesota game, I was like, Man, I mean,
I'm glad I get paid to watch this crap. It's
just terrible. It was just god awful in the West.
And then you have Game one in the East, and
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we're gonna start with that world's most famous arena, all
those celebrity a holes sitting in the front row, Midtown Manhattan,
right there above Penn Station, the Mecca, the big stage.
Like Game one Eastern Conference files, you had Tyreese Saliburton
and the Pacers taking on Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.
And that was the setup, right, that was the set
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up here. I measured there was some disagreement in terms
of the gambling side of things, and that the wise
guys were on the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And the public loved the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, I just want to clarify before we get into
the meat of the monologue. We will address later on.
We've got a full night of overnight talk radio. We
will address the untimely death.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Of Jim Ersay, the Colt's owner. We'll get to that
later on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ers's the announcement came down on Wednesday that Jim Mersey
had died. More on that later, but we're gonna start
with the basketball. And if you didn't see the game,
you know, normally we say it's our good good Mitch
for the day, it's our good active kindness year. We
did this for you, and that's kind of the catchphrase
of the show watching these basketball games. However, on this night,
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it's different than all other nights because this game was
a doozy. It was a doozy Tyreese Saliburton. He tied
the game, he thought he won the game. He had
a long jumper that bounced and it looked like it
hit the rafters at Madison Square Garden right off the
back of the rim as time expired at regulation.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
At the end of regulation, this is like.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Every cheeseball Hollywood movie where the ball bounced it. The
only difference is that's the game winning shot. This was
not the game winning shot, but the ball bounced up
in the air and everyone's doing the surrender cobra.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
In the crowd at that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And then they did it again after the game, and
so the Pacers had to go to overtime, and then
they finished it off.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
They did the kill shot in overtime.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
A stunning, mind blowing, unreal come back, and down go
the Knicks, Down go the Knicks at least for one
game one thirty eight one to thirty five year final.
And how unlikely. The New York Knicks had a seventeen
point lead midway through the fourth quarter. They had a
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fourteen point lead with under three minutes remaining in regulation.
This just does not happen. And all the broadcasters like
to get on, Oh well, you never know, this could
be the day a comeback happens. And ninety nine point
ninety nine percent of the time it's bull crap. This
was the point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
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one percent where it was not bull crap. And while
Halliburton's getting the headlines here, Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers
back as it was. Forget the Splash Brothers. This guy's
better than the Splash Brothers back in the old days.
With Golden State at the end there for Indiana Halliburton,
after he made his shot, he thought he had won
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the game there and then the moment there he was
going crazy. He did the old Reggie Miller choke signal
that Reggie Miller did in another life. Many many years
ago in the nineties for Spike Lee back in the day.
So Indiana has taken home court advantage, and Game two
is Friday Night, Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Night, Game two of this series.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Now, the better story continues to be in the losing
locker room? And how do you explain that? How does
one explain that performance? Plowing his seventeen point lead midway
through the fourth quarter, fourteen point lead three minutes ago
in the game, Holy crap, that sucked. Let's hear it
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from Tom Thibodeau, the head coach of the New York Knickerbockers.
Here's coach Tibbs and he's talking about how the end
of the game, let's go to a cut two on
this the end of the game, and you hear the
question of the answer, and some things got really wonky
for the Knicks and the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Does you feel like guys got a little too loose
in the final minutes offensively and a little sloppy with
the ball?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
You know, the turnovers were costly, you know so, and
then they converted them into eg buckets, you know, so
that sort of fueled their offense. That's what got them
going again. You know they started off the game, you know,
in a good rhythm, and then you know, we did
it much better as the half went on, and then
you know, down to stretch, we didn't do what we
needed to do.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So code for we are choking dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's what he meant to say, but instead he gave
you some thirty second SoundBite there. How about Jalen Brunson,
here's a Jalen Brunson as he didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Get it done.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You hear the question and the answer is Brunson on
what happened there at the end? And how do you summarize?
You guys had a fourteen point lead with two fifty
one left to go. How do you summarize how the
game close? You can't really summarize it. Give them a
lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They close the game out like they've been doing in
all playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Just not really good on our part. I can sum
it up chicken crap. It was chicken crap as it
was so bad. God was that terrible? And it was
great to watch the listen. I have no skin in
the game. I don't put man. The pacers are fun
to watch, all right, So the question shout, We examine
the question here let's break it down here because we
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have the power the bully pulpit here in sports radio.
So who gets the dirty water street dog, a blame
for Jalen Brunson's knicks and an epic all time choke job,
all time choke job. So I've got frying pan, burger king,
and goldfish, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we're gonna make a nice soft pretzel which
would have put up more of a resistance than the
New York Knicks defensively. If you just put a sof
pretzel with that salt on there that's been sitting out
rotating in the sun all day, that would have provided
more of a resistance than the New York Knicks defense
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at the end of the game. But we have to
start with the head of the serpent. We liked the player,
but that was a absolute dog.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Crap performance by him.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The basketball God giveth the basketball God, taketh away. Jalen Brunson,
the most clutch player in the NBA this season. He's
got to wear this right there on the chin, right there.
And this is a public service announcement that past results
do not guarantee future success. All that matters is what
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you do in the moment. How do you handle the
immense pressure of that moment. And on this night, unlike
most other nights, Jalen Brunson, he was in the cockpit
and he was flying the vomit comet. And this wasn't
just a vomit comment. This was a comic Kazi mission
by the the Knicks. Brunson was in the frying pan,
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but he was a block of mozzarella, which turned out
to be you know, put cheese in a frying pan.
It's a gooey mozzarella melting beautifully. At the end of
that game, how bad was it? Now?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The Knicks were up.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I mentioned seventeen. I jotted it down. They were up
by seventeen with six twenty six the going game halfway through.
That's a lot of time. They had a fourteen point ly,
as we mentioned, with under three minutes to go in
the game. But I'm gonna start this from the six
to twenty six mark. From that point up seventeen, you
just make a few plays, you win the game.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
New York was outscored.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
By twenty points, including overtime twenty points. Jalen Brunson had
He did have twelve points. However, he is the playmaker.
Now he's the playmaker. He did not facilitate the offense.
He became a hog, a ball hog, and pigs get fat,
hogs get slaughtered. I heard that somewhere along the way,
stumbling and bumbling brunts in the final minutes here as
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the final about ten minutes of the game. He had
no assist he had no steals, he had three turnovers
and a bunch of shots, and the Knicks got bupkus.
And there's an actual at the deli there there's a
thing we can take the numbers and also taking a
number and getting in line are og and Anobi and
Josh Hart who were contaminated with cooties.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
At the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They combined to shoot sixteen percent at the end of
the game. And as we mentioned, Tom Thibodeau, who has
to wear the shame bell, the Knicks coach, there were
failing to adjust defensively. And listen, I never coached in
the NBA. I just do an overnight talk show. But
even I knew what Indiana was doing. And I'm pretty
sure the Knicks knew what was going on. They didn't
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stop it. Is that because they couldn't stop it. But
the Pacers repeatedly sliding underscreens, and that allowed the Pacer
players to get three point opportunities, and many of them
were wide open, no resistance, and so tims should have gone.
Dennis Green, a former Fox Sports radio personality, Dennis Green
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and said, now, if you want to crown them, then
crown their asses. But they are who we thought they were,
and we let them off. The New York was outscored
twenty seven to four on points off turnovers. You talk
about giving a game away, that is the textbook example
of giving a game away.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's wonderful, all right now, page two.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So Indiana wins it, and that's that's the secondary story.
The Knicks blowing it is the biggest story. I think
we can all agree on that you know anything about sports.
But what is the word for aaron Nismith's performance in
leading the Indiana Pacers back at Madison Square guard Now,
he got to assist because the Knicks just completely fell apart.
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They became unraveled at the end there. But on the
other side, aaron Ne Smith a bunch of big shots
there down the stretch. So what is the word? So
my word is actually a. It's a fast food situation.
It's burger king two words, because that is a That
performance was a whopper. That was an absolutely I mean,
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you've got nsb real here. Aaron Ne Smith is a
rather faceless, nameless player in the NBA, right, You know,
the hard old people know who he is, but the
casual people don't know who this guy is. You talk
about making a name for yourself. He was shaken and
bacon out there late in the game. He had twenty
points over the final ten minutes, but six of six
to close the game on three point shots. He looked
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like me Moneyball Malleer out there knocking down three point
shots and man, he absolutely deep fried the New York
basketball team.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And it was so great.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
All those celebrities during the surrender cobra position with their
hands above, you know, putting their their elbows extended and
their the back of their their head, the hands on
the back of their head was great. Now. The the
only moment that most will likely remember is Tyree Saliburton
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and his basket. But it is fair to say the
real dagger the dagger. Most of them were from Nieman right.
Most of them were Halliburton's basket was majestic. It was beautiful,
and it was it was great. And so this also,
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much to the dismay have meant, he proves that lightning.
You know, they say lightning never strikes in the same
place twice, which is a myth. And well, it wasn't
a game winning shot, Tyrey Saliburton. He didn't win the game,
but his basket there, his basket was the signature highlight
of this particular game. It was really was Reggie Miller
esque except the toe was on the line. And it's
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fair to say he he used all his artillery with
the choke sign which didn't make the New York Post.
I believe the somebody sent me a copy of that
the back page. I think it's actually the front page
of the New York Post. People still read those newspapers
in New York. Not many other places, but they still
read the newspaper in New York. And sure enough, Halliburton
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right there. I think I said choke two point zero
or something like that on the back page. Now the
last word here, all right, the last word. So let's
take a couple steps back where one game in. Isn't
that an elimination situation? The Knicks had a big lead,
they blew the lead. The Knicks actually got the lead
with Jalen Brunson not even out there. So any advice
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to Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns and Tom Thibodeaux
and the Knicks going forward. So before I give you
my advice, I want to play cut one here. So
here is let's go back to Tom Thibodau. Here's what
Tom Thibodeau had to say about, you know, just in
general the mindset of the Knicks going back for game two.
Take a list, coach, what do you do going into
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game to Friday to bounce back from this? What do
you tell you guys to put this behind?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, the same thing. You know, like there's a lot
of emotional highs and lows in the playoffs. You got
to bounce back quickly. You look at the film, make
your corrections, get ready for game two.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And that's you know, when you go into the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Playoffs, you lay out the plan or how you're going
to approach the entire playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
So that was a cookie cutter response by Tom Thibodeau.
And what I would do, I would get up in
front of the team, they would all they would all
ignore me. Who are you? Why are you here? You're
You're a loser. But I would tell the team, I said, listen,
the only Uncle Mo is in Brooklyn. But on the court,
there's no Uncle Mo. There's no Mo, there's no momentum,
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and there is no carryover to these things. And so
you have to you do have to be the goldfish.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And you have to forget everything.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And I would also advise going to a drug store
and buying some mouthwash because that entire Nick team down
the stretch at halatosis, Holy crap. Now for Indiana, you
keep doing you. I get the Pacers. They've got that
Jenna si Quah if you will here, there's something about
I don't have any team in the playoffs. I like
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watching the Pacers play. I'm Benny Brightside on the Pacers.
I enjoy. They don't play much defense, but they keep
coming at you in waves convoys on offense, and it
really is poetry in motion. It's tantalizing offensive basketball. And
they shoot a lot of three point shots, but not
to the level of teams like the Celtics and some
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others that were eliminated. Well, that's what I think about,
is what do you think if you want to chime in,
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Peter writes, In says the New York Next pulled a
Laker level choke job blowing that game. They had absolutely
no business losing. Frauds.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That was a Laker like fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A good take there by you.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
What else do we ye?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There's a lot of shame. Yes, Ryan says, we lost
the legend rest in peace. Jim ursay, very interesting way
to send that out, Ryan, Ryan in the long suffering
San Diego, although his heart's in oc.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Mister Luciano rights In says nine point two out of
ten on the Maley Monologue. Seven more games and the
Pacers are going to win their first NBA championship, as
stated by mister Luciana. Not quite at that point yet,
but he wouldn't be opposed to that. King Rory writes
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since says, this is the third time the Pacers have
come back to win a game they should have lost
in the playoff playoffs, Game five against the Bucks, Game
two against the Calves, and now Game one against the Knicks. Coincidence,
I think not. The NBA is rigging these playoff games
to show that Tyrese Halliburton isn't overaded. Okay, let's address
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this first of all. That overrated thing was a handful
of players on a poll done by The Athletic. Do
you think the NBA gives a rats ass about some
stupid pull on a pay website that like seven people
pay for the Athletic? Do you think they care about that?
Come on and riddle me this, batman. Okay, riddle me this.
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Why exactly would the end if they're gonna rig things,
wouldn't they rig it for New York? Wouldn't they say,
you know, New York, they have one. I'm old they
have one in my life. I've been around a long time.
They have one, the trash. And so when they rig
it for New York and set up the TV partner
and next year they're changing the television deal and they've
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got all that, so why wouldn't they set that up?
And then they have a new generation of Nick fans
all fired up and all that. So come on, I'm
not buying. And last I checked, well, we love being
on the radio in Indianapolis. It is barely a top
twenty five market. It's it's just a hair ahead of Baltimore.
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It's number twenty five. It's it's behind Portland, Oregon, and
Pittsburgh and Charlotte's and that that realm. So if you're
gonna rig it, why would you?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Why would you do it?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For that make a lot of sense?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It does not.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Let's see here, Shane in the Moyes says, Ben, do
you know what the difference is between Michael Leprechaun and
a pothole? He says, I would swerve to miss the
pothole as a non sequitor. Fox spox Weed writes in
from the Oregon Trail and says, woo hoo. Another sighting
of the vomit comet over the sky of New York
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smells terrific, just like the streets of New York. Now,
this guy, Bill, why'd you go? Ooh, I'm sure they
don't smell good?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know, the streets of you. You haven't been in
New York?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
No, I've never been.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh yeah, you gotta go. And I recommend waiting until
August or September and walking around in the evening when
everyone puts their trash out and it's really humid and
the trash is sweating. Don't say sweaty trash.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I hate that the visual is so it's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Ah at people running around, rats running around, dancing in
the trash. It's rataitoey, is what it is. It's literally rataitoey.
But they're just all enjoying the trash. Wonderful. But that's
a great city, Bill writes, any he's a hoosier guy.
You know this guy, Bill's the I told you so.
You know he lives in La Now. So he's like
a fake Hoosier. A real hoosier doesn't leave Ideana. You're
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a fake hoosier Bill in La Now anyway, he says,
poetry in motion. I think you are Johnny come lately.
I've been busting your ass since November. That sounds dirty.
Dig the show as Bill. Yeah, so, Bill, first of all,
I don't read every one of your comments. Get Fortunately,
there's actually more than like two people listening, so we
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actually get a lot of messages and I try to
scan through. Although many of you say I read the
same five messages from the usual suspects every single day.
The nature Boy writes and says great monologue and game
in the NBA. We got the chance to watch the
irritating Nick fans get a double curb snopping on the
same night. Can't wait until Friday. Yeah, I was actually
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mentioning in the pre show meeting. I was talking to
the great Justin Frossberg, who produces the show prior to
this with Jason and Mike and Jason's typical sports radio
New York Hank and all that, you know, Nick Apologist
and all that. So we were going back and forth
and how great is it because not only did the
Knicks lose once, they lost twice, and they celebrated the
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win when they were up seventeen, they celebrated. They celebrated
when they were up fourteen, so they celebrated twice, and
then they lost twice. When Haliburton hit the shot, and
if you heard it or saw it or whatever, you know,
they thought, oh he won the game, or good shape,
this is great, you know, or they thought they lost
and then his foot was on the line so we
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had another chance, and then they ended up blowing in overtime.
Assumer Market Steve writes in from Soke sins, I missed
the original Burger King jingle, Hold the pickles, hold the
lettuce special orders, don't upset us. All we ask is
that you let us serve it your way and have
it your way. There, you go, have it your way.
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Did you do the voiceover for the Burger King commercial? Yeah,
back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I have a funny Burger King story.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So I guess I can tell this. It's overnight. So
I was doing local radio early in my career, and
we there was a college football game that was sponsored
not by Burger King, it was sponsored by another major restaurant, right,
And so I was doing the Ben and Dave Show
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in LA and I came in with my guy.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
That's pretty much what it was like.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We had a song just like that. So we came
in there and we were just bashing how at that
time they they didn't do this kind of thing like
the name when the trophy was named after the restaurant
or whatever. So we were goofing on them, and the
the general manager of the radio station comes running in, uh,
you know, and this you know, this guy was quite
the character where these power bright jackets and you know,
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comes running in and he starts reading us the ride act.
He's a you too, blankety blank blank, and he's like,
you know, I guess the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
We were ripping.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I guess it spent some some money advertising, but he said,
he then tells me, if you guys want to rip
a restaurant, rip Burger King. They don't advertise it was
it was the funniest it was. Maybe you had to
be there, but it was just hilarious. Guys in his
power suit, he's like a Tony Robbins want to be
and he's screaming at us if you want to rip somebody,
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rip Burger King. He was holding.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I like Burger King.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I liked it when it was good. But you know
that's a long time ago. You know, did they still
have the longated chicken sandwich? Do they still have that? Course? Okay,
I've not been to Burger King in a long time.
And and Burger King has the onion rings, which McDonald's
does not have. They're barely onion rings. They're more like
onion flavored bat Yeah, there's no onion inside of them.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Fun fact. You want a fun fact on onion rings?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That the fun fact, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
No, No, this is a fun fun fact. So I
learned this doing copious amounts of research on the Fifth
Hour podcast, which will return this weekend on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. That McDonald's the reason they don't have onion rings.
And there have been people that own Donald's restaurants that
have tried to tell the company, we need onion rings.
They make so much money on fries that they could
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not compete. The onion ring would not make as much profit,
so they don't want to. They figure some people would
just order onion rings that they wouldn't order fries, and
so they'd lose money on it. So that's why they've
never added onion rings, even though it's easy for them
to add it. Garry interesting, that is a fun fact.
That is a fun fact. There you go, how about
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that they could have the onion rings. I'm a big
onion ring guy. I love the onion ring, don't. I
don't like onions, but actually I've eaten more onions lately now.
Truck Stop Fungus Rites in one of the great one
of the great characters on the show, and he's trying
to avoid those lot lizards. He says. He's playing some
grand theft auto at the Pilot Travel Center in rugged Benton, Arkansas,
(28:52):
while listening to the mad Man mauther So and he's
got a good setup. Man, I'm looking here, he's got
he took a photo. He's got the grand theft big
TV right there, he's in the back, and that's you're
living your best life right there. Are better than the best,
because the best means as good as all the rest.
It was pretty solid. So always nice to know where
truck stop fungus is hanging out. Where he is at
(29:15):
let's see here page down the Mexican John Dutton writes,
and this has been Will you ever do a Malord
meet up in Tijuana, Mexico? I heard they have a
great sports bar there, and then he names I'm not
gonna mention it, but.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, no, uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But yeah, Tijuana, Coop, you want to do the how
about you represent the show? Coop you go to Tijuana? Now,
I'm good, Lorraina, you want to do Tijuana? You do? Yeah,
I don't. I don't have a problem with Mexico. I do.
Look at the deadliest cities every year and Tijuana is
normally in the top ten. Uh so it's a little problematic.
(29:54):
But they'd love us, right, How would they not like us?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
No, we're the best. No one would want to hurt us.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, all right, super Margastein says, I did not think
Lorraina was old enough to know the jingle for Burger King.
By the way, Ben not wrong. That sounded pretty much
on the nose, like the girl who sings the song.
So I think that's his way of complimenting you. Fer
Dog says Burger King sucks on team Carls Junior, which is,
(30:22):
if you're east of the Missisian that would be Hearty's.
So there you go. All right, well that's I do
like that.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Carl's Junior has the zucchini, like the deep fried zucchini.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
But anything deep fried is good. Yeah, you can't really,
you can't f up deep fried food. Deep fried food
by definition, as Homer Simpson taught me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It's just better.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
It's just clearly better. Anyway, it is the Ben Mauch. Sure,
we're talking about this big playoff game at the Garden,
the Mecca, as the Indiana Pacers to the unthinkable, the unimaginable,
and they come back, do we have the player of
the night, By the way, do we have this ready
to go in the queue? As they like to say,
all right, let's go. I assume this is the what
I think it is. But let's go to that Indiana,
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New York game Midtown Manhattan right over Penn Station the
Pacers and the next time, now for the tire Iraq
play of the night two point games. Six seconds to go.
Haliburton driving. He's in the lane, he nearly lost, and
he backs up and unloads a three. That did not happen.
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It hit the back of the rim, hit pot tie
into the air, and it dropped gently through the net.
I like this guy, this pacer play by play guy's
pretty good. I gotta tell you well, that is the
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play guy, because he's out outstanding and uh just great
that he's the guy that gave us the uh the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Dagger right the dayerl yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I believe his name is Mark Boyle. I believe that
is who we are yapping about there. Mark Boyle is name.
Radio play by play is his game. And this guy
has been calling NBA games for the Pacers for thirty
six years. That's I think that's a yeah, that's a
that's a long time, right, that's that's a long long
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run there, so out standing, out standing anyway, it is
the Ben Malor Show. As we work our way through
the overnight hours, we will I will take some calls.
I know we got carried away. I had to tell
a good burger king story and that took some time.
We'll get also worried about farming. We'll go there as well.
Time now for the who Am I Game, and we'll
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go to the Pacers one more time. Tyrese Halliburton had
four hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
and one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first
twenty five career playoff games. The only other players in
the last sixty years to reach those levels in their
first twenty five career postseason contests are Chris Paul better
(33:30):
known as CP three, and me who again Tyrese Haliburton,
that's a basketball player for the Pacers. Four hundred fifty
five points, two hundred and sixteen assists, one hundred and
twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty five career playoff games.
The only other players in the last sixty years to
reach those marks in their first twenty five career postseason
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contest are Chris Paul and me. Who am I? The answer,
We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Thank God for the Pacers. What a win over the
next one of the great nights. You know, we watched
these games and then last some nights sucked and a
lot of times are like what are we doing? And
then every once in a while you get one of
those and you're like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We'll play off the who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Game? Here in a moment, I did want to mention
the quote from Tyreese Halliburton, the choke signal that he
gave channeling Reggie Miller now he claimed after the game,
the choke sign that he gave to the Knicks. He
said that he was quote is a quote here. I
wasn't plotting on it or anything. He said. If I
would have known it was a two, I wouldn't have
done it. That's kind of obvious, Halliburton said, quote continues,
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I might have wasted it if I do it again.
Here's the money part of the quote. Haliburton says, if
I do it again, people might say I'm Aura Farming.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So you don't want to get caught Aura Farming. That
would be that would be a nightmare for Tyrese Haliburt. Boy,
this guy's been but Nana's absolutely ridiculously the good. Here.
I saw Charles Barkley on the TNT post game. I
actually watched the TNT post game because he's good. And
Barkley said he's He's going to contact Adam Silver to
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allow Halliburton's dad to come back because Haliburton's dad's banned
because he got into the face of Giannis.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
He's an a hole. But see, I wouldn't want Halliburton's
dad back.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
If Halliburton his father comes back and the Pacers start
losing these games, who do you think is going to
get blamed Ding Ding ding Ding, the old man, the pops,
they'll be blamed. And has he not even in the irenay?
How would anyone know if he's there or not? Just
give him a ticket in the upper deck if you
want to allow him into the game. Here's the who
am I? Game? Tyree's who I mentioned? Tyres Celibert four
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hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty
five career playoff games. The only other players the last
sixty years, that's three generations to reach those marks in
their first twenty five career postseason contest are Chris Paul
and me. Who am I? That is the question? What
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is the answer? We have? Also upset Nick the Windy's Guy.
He said, we spent too much time talking about Burger.
You don't know Nick the Wendy's guy in Minnesota. This
is the guy that let us know that Kirk Cousins
was eating was eating fast food or that wasn't it
was with somebody else but another fast food guy Minnesota.
But Nick the Wendy's Guy a fine representative of the
Windy's company, and he's upset with.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
U because we didn't talk about Windy's enough.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
All right, let's see, does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Paige Down sonic legend Slick Watts from The Nature Boy, Weird,
Al Yankovich from Spock's Weed, Paige Down, Sean Paul shake
that than from Brian. Who else do we have? Angel
Reese from Mister Irrigation. Alan Tramo guests by Rob in
Minnesota to Charlie from Wisconsin says we should be talking
(37:04):
about Culver's. Yeah, Culvers is better than Burger King. It
is not even close. Come on, please? Who else do
we have? Truck or Joe says a big, big ass
rat in New York City. Pacer legend Vern Fleming Good
get by Bay City Tony the Vern Fleming Pacers with
Chuck Person the Rifleman. Yeah, and who else do we have?
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Page down can't read that. This guy, This guy Bill's
very upset that I called him a fake Hoosier. He's
he's triggered by that. I'm just calling to light. The
guy lives in LA though he's going like Venice Beach
or Santa Monica every day. Rick Smith's from Ozzie Waz
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in Western Australia. Money Line Mikey from Shane and Des
Moines and So from Vancouver says Vancouver Grizzly's legend, Big
Country briars. You're gonna get to meet Enzo, Lorena when
we're in Vancouver. Enzo. I've helped raise Enzo. He's all
grown up now, but I helped raise him years ago. Anyway, Lorena,
do you have an answer? My guess was gonna be
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Devincenzo ben Okay, what's his first name? Something? Okay? Uh?
Tyree Saliburton four hundred fifty five points, two hund sixty assists,
hundred try seven rebounds. You only have the players to
do it last sixty years. Chris Paul, Magic Johnson, Magic Johnson,
Irvin Johnson, Magic Johnson
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome. It's our numb ber one, our one. You are
locked in. It is the original recipe, Ben Malors, show
up all night, welcome aboard is we will piece this
thing together right now in our number one. So the
Eastern Conference Finals Game one, an instant classic at the Mecca,
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the Pacers and the Knicks, and it came down to
the very end and in overtime the Pacers pull it
out after Tyres Saliburton hit a big shot to send
the game to overtime. So who gets the dirty waters
Street dog of blame for the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers with
this epic gag job. They had a ninety nine point
eight percent chance of winning and they didn't get it done.
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All those New York celebrities moaning and groaning, it was
great to see. What is the word for Aaron Nesmith,
that's a basketball player for the Pacers, his performance in
leading Indiana at Madison Square Garden, and any advice to
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks going forward also Indiana, any
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advice to them as well. We'll dig our heels in
right now and motormouth Malard beginning in our number one
how to win a game, how to lose a game,
and how to lose the game again and again and again. Well,
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come in not beginning of another night of the Ben
Malor Show.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
As we are in the air eywhere United, as we
go to the line to the Lane Coast Stuttcoast, Sport
of the Border and beyond on the vast and boomingly
powerful microphones of FSR.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Am monating live from the town the down Town Moneyball
from the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by America's
favorite crossing guard Daniel in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as the
Pacers and Knicks taking the focus of much conversation here
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They approve that.
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So what a night and come in here we break
down these playoff games and I'm not gonna sit here
and tell you anything different. The other night, after the
Oklahoma City Minnesota game, I was like, Man, I mean,
I'm glad I get paid to watch this crap. It's
just terrible. It was just god awful in the West.
And then you have Game one in the East, and
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we're gonna start with that world's most famous arena, all
those celebrity a holes sitting in the front row, Midtown Manhattan,
right there above Penn Station, the Mecca, the big stage.
Like Game one Eastern Conference files, you had Tyreese Saliburton
and the Pacers taking on Jalen Brunson and the Knicks.
And that was the setup, right, that was the set
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up here. I measured there was some disagreement in terms
of the gambling side of things, and that the wise
guys were on the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And the public loved the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, I just want to clarify before we get into
the meat of the monologue. We will address later on.
We've got a full night of overnight talk radio. We
will address the untimely death.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Of Jim Ersay, the Colt's owner. We'll get to that
later on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ers's the announcement came down on Wednesday that Jim Mersey
had died. More on that later, but we're gonna start
with the basketball. And if you didn't see the game,
you know, normally we say it's our good good Mitch
for the day, it's our good active kindness year. We
did this for you, and that's kind of the catchphrase
of the show watching these basketball games. However, on this night,
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it's different than all other nights because this game was
a doozy. It was a doozy Tyreese Saliburton. He tied
the game, he thought he won the game. He had
a long jumper that bounced and it looked like it
hit the rafters at Madison Square Garden right off the
back of the rim as time expired at regulation.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
At the end of regulation, this is like.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Every cheeseball Hollywood movie where the ball bounced it. The
only difference is that's the game winning shot. This was
not the game winning shot, but the ball bounced up
in the air and everyone's doing the surrender cobra.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
In the crowd at that moment.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And then they did it again after the game, and
so the Pacers had to go to overtime, and then
they finished it off.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
They did the kill shot in overtime.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
A stunning, mind blowing, unreal come back, and down go
the Knicks, Down go the Knicks at least for one
game one thirty eight one to thirty five year final.
And how unlikely. The New York Knicks had a seventeen
point lead midway through the fourth quarter. They had a
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fourteen point lead with under three minutes remaining in regulation.
This just does not happen. And all the broadcasters like
to get on, Oh well, you never know, this could
be the day a comeback happens. And ninety nine point
ninety nine percent of the time it's bull crap. This
was the point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
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one percent where it was not bull crap. And while
Halliburton's getting the headlines here, Aaron Nesmith brought the Pacers
back as it was. Forget the Splash Brothers. This guy's
better than the Splash Brothers back in the old days.
With Golden State at the end there for Indiana Halliburton,
after he made his shot, he thought he had won
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the game there and then the moment there he was
going crazy. He did the old Reggie Miller choke signal
that Reggie Miller did in another life. Many many years
ago in the nineties for Spike Lee back in the day.
So Indiana has taken home court advantage, and Game two
is Friday Night, Friday.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Night, Game two of this series.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Now, the better story continues to be in the losing
locker room? And how do you explain that? How does
one explain that performance? Plowing his seventeen point lead midway
through the fourth quarter, fourteen point lead three minutes ago
in the game, Holy crap, that sucked. Let's hear it
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from Tom Thibodeau, the head coach of the New York Knickerbockers.
Here's coach Tibbs and he's talking about how the end
of the game, let's go to a cut two on
this the end of the game, and you hear the
question of the answer, and some things got really wonky
for the Knicks and the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Does you feel like guys got a little too loose
in the final minutes offensively and a little sloppy with
the ball?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
You know, the turnovers were costly, you know so, and
then they converted them into eg buckets, you know, so
that sort of fueled their offense. That's what got them
going again. You know they started off the game, you know,
in a good rhythm, and then you know, we did
it much better as the half went on, and then
you know, down to stretch, we didn't do what we
needed to do.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So code for we are choking dogs.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's what he meant to say, but instead he gave
you some thirty second SoundBite there. How about Jalen Brunson,
here's a Jalen Brunson as he didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Get it done.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You hear the question and the answer is Brunson on
what happened there at the end? And how do you summarize?
You guys had a fourteen point lead with two fifty
one left to go. How do you summarize how the
game close? You can't really summarize it. Give them a
lot of credit.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
They close the game out like they've been doing in
all playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Just not really good on our part. I can sum
it up chicken crap. It was chicken crap as it
was so bad. God was that terrible? And it was
great to watch the listen. I have no skin in
the game. I don't put man. The pacers are fun
to watch, all right, So the question shout, We examine
the question here let's break it down here because we
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have the power the bully pulpit here in sports radio.
So who gets the dirty water street dog, a blame
for Jalen Brunson's knicks and an epic all time choke job,
all time choke job. So I've got frying pan, burger king,
and goldfish, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we're gonna make a nice soft pretzel which
would have put up more of a resistance than the
New York Knicks defensively. If you just put a sof
pretzel with that salt on there that's been sitting out
rotating in the sun all day, that would have provided
more of a resistance than the New York Knicks defense
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at the end of the game. But we have to
start with the head of the serpent. We liked the player,
but that was a absolute dog.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Crap performance by him.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
The basketball God giveth the basketball God, taketh away. Jalen Brunson,
the most clutch player in the NBA this season. He's
got to wear this right there on the chin, right there.
And this is a public service announcement that past results
do not guarantee future success. All that matters is what
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you do in the moment. How do you handle the
immense pressure of that moment. And on this night, unlike
most other nights, Jalen Brunson, he was in the cockpit
and he was flying the vomit comet. And this wasn't
just a vomit comment. This was a comic Kazi mission
by the the Knicks. Brunson was in the frying pan,
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but he was a block of mozzarella, which turned out
to be you know, put cheese in a frying pan.
It's a gooey mozzarella melting beautifully. At the end of
that game, how bad was it? Now?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The Knicks were up.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I mentioned seventeen. I jotted it down. They were up
by seventeen with six twenty six the going game halfway through.
That's a lot of time. They had a fourteen point ly,
as we mentioned, with under three minutes to go in
the game. But I'm gonna start this from the six
to twenty six mark. From that point up seventeen, you
just make a few plays, you win the game.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
New York was outscored.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
By twenty points, including overtime twenty points. Jalen Brunson had
He did have twelve points. However, he is the playmaker.
Now he's the playmaker. He did not facilitate the offense.
He became a hog, a ball hog, and pigs get fat,
hogs get slaughtered. I heard that somewhere along the way,
stumbling and bumbling brunts in the final minutes here as
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the final about ten minutes of the game. He had
no assist he had no steals, he had three turnovers
and a bunch of shots, and the Knicks got bupkus.
And there's an actual at the deli there there's a
thing we can take the numbers and also taking a
number and getting in line are og and Anobi and
Josh Hart who were contaminated with cooties.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
At the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They combined to shoot sixteen percent at the end of
the game. And as we mentioned, Tom Thibodeau, who has
to wear the shame bell, the Knicks coach, there were
failing to adjust defensively. And listen, I never coached in
the NBA. I just do an overnight talk show. But
even I knew what Indiana was doing. And I'm pretty
sure the Knicks knew what was going on. They didn't
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stop it. Is that because they couldn't stop it. But
the Pacers repeatedly sliding underscreens, and that allowed the Pacer
players to get three point opportunities, and many of them
were wide open, no resistance, and so tims should have gone.
Dennis Green, a former Fox Sports radio personality, Dennis Green
(12:08):
and said, now, if you want to crown them, then
crown their asses. But they are who we thought they were,
and we let them off. The New York was outscored
twenty seven to four on points off turnovers. You talk
about giving a game away, that is the textbook example
of giving a game away.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's wonderful, all right now, page two.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
So Indiana wins it, and that's that's the secondary story.
The Knicks blowing it is the biggest story. I think
we can all agree on that you know anything about sports.
But what is the word for aaron Nismith's performance in
leading the Indiana Pacers back at Madison Square guard Now,
he got to assist because the Knicks just completely fell apart.
(12:52):
They became unraveled at the end there. But on the
other side, aaron Ne Smith a bunch of big shots
there down the stretch. So what is the word? So
my word is actually a. It's a fast food situation.
It's burger king two words, because that is a That
performance was a whopper. That was an absolutely I mean,
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you've got nsb real here. Aaron Ne Smith is a
rather faceless, nameless player in the NBA, right, You know,
the hard old people know who he is, but the
casual people don't know who this guy is. You talk
about making a name for yourself. He was shaken and
bacon out there late in the game. He had twenty
points over the final ten minutes, but six of six
to close the game on three point shots. He looked
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like me Moneyball Malleer out there knocking down three point
shots and man, he absolutely deep fried the New York
basketball team.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And it was so great.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
All those celebrities during the surrender cobra position with their
hands above, you know, putting their their elbows extended and
their the back of their their head, the hands on
the back of their head was great. Now. The the
only moment that most will likely remember is Tyree Saliburton
(14:05):
and his basket. But it is fair to say the
real dagger the dagger. Most of them were from Nieman right.
Most of them were Halliburton's basket was majestic. It was beautiful,
and it was it was great. And so this also,
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much to the dismay have meant, he proves that lightning.
You know, they say lightning never strikes in the same
place twice, which is a myth. And well, it wasn't
a game winning shot, Tyrey Saliburton. He didn't win the game,
but his basket there, his basket was the signature highlight
of this particular game. It was really was Reggie Miller
esque except the toe was on the line. And it's
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fair to say he he used all his artillery with
the choke sign which didn't make the New York Post.
I believe the somebody sent me a copy of that
the back page. I think it's actually the front page
of the New York Post. People still read those newspapers
in New York. Not many other places, but they still
read the newspaper in New York. And sure enough, Halliburton
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right there. I think I said choke two point zero
or something like that on the back page. Now the
last word here, all right, the last word. So let's
take a couple steps back where one game in. Isn't
that an elimination situation? The Knicks had a big lead,
they blew the lead. The Knicks actually got the lead
with Jalen Brunson not even out there. So any advice
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to Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns and Tom Thibodeaux
and the Knicks going forward. So before I give you
my advice, I want to play cut one here. So
here is let's go back to Tom Thibodau. Here's what
Tom Thibodeau had to say about, you know, just in
general the mindset of the Knicks going back for game two.
Take a list, coach, what do you do going into
(15:55):
game to Friday to bounce back from this? What do
you tell you guys to put this behind?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Yeah, the same thing. You know, like there's a lot
of emotional highs and lows in the playoffs. You got
to bounce back quickly. You look at the film, make
your corrections, get ready for game two.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
And that's you know, when you go into the.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Playoffs, you lay out the plan or how you're going
to approach the entire playoffs.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
So that was a cookie cutter response by Tom Thibodeau.
And what I would do, I would get up in
front of the team, they would all they would all
ignore me. Who are you? Why are you here? You're
You're a loser. But I would tell the team, I said, listen,
the only Uncle Mo is in Brooklyn. But on the court,
there's no Uncle Mo. There's no Mo, there's no momentum,
(16:39):
and there is no carryover to these things. And so
you have to you do have to be the goldfish.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
And you have to forget everything.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And I would also advise going to a drug store
and buying some mouthwash because that entire Nick team down
the stretch at halatosis, Holy crap. Now for Indiana, you
keep doing you. I get the Pacers. They've got that
Jenna si Quah if you will here, there's something about
I don't have any team in the playoffs. I like
(17:06):
watching the Pacers play. I'm Benny Brightside on the Pacers.
I enjoy. They don't play much defense, but they keep
coming at you in waves convoys on offense, and it
really is poetry in motion. It's tantalizing offensive basketball. And
they shoot a lot of three point shots, but not
to the level of teams like the Celtics and some
(17:27):
others that were eliminated. Well, that's what I think about,
is what do you think if you want to chime in,
add on touch up my work. Eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox is the number.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Also on X at Ben Mahllord. That's at Ben Mahlor
if you want to be part of the program as
we work our way through the overnight hours, if we
were there, so the full red eye flight. Later on
we'll have Mallard of the third Degree. That's an hour too.
Got the riddle of the day and ask Bam your
questions are answers in our number three. We'll have fact
(18:04):
or fiction in our four, and who knows what else
is going to pop up along the way, So take
your calls. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. So
one of the big headliners in this game. Worried about farming.
Worried about farming? What is that all about? We'll get
(18:25):
to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 2 (18:37):
Appy and don't forget we are a week away from
the first ever Mallard meet and greet outside of US
so we're going to Vancouver. Very excited. Man here, it's
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What is the Day on twenty ninth, twenty ninth. Details
(18:58):
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on that. I mentioned it on the podcast. I'll probably
talk about it again on the Fifth Hour podcast this weekend.
But Dakhoop will be there in Lorena and I'll be there.
We'll all be hanging out having a great time. So
if you're in the Pacific northwest of the US and
you can make it, or if you're obviously in Vancouver
or that area anywhere in British Columbia and you can
make the trip over, we love to meet you. We've
(19:20):
been on this show, I've been working here a long time.
We've been on different stations, and we've been on and
off the radio there in Vancouver.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
So it's gonna be a lot of fun to be
there and hanging out with you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That'll be coming up a week from today, a week
from today, and again, if you want more information on
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(19:53):
Peter writes, In says the New York Next pulled a
Laker level choke job blowing that game. They had absolutely
no business losing. Frauds.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That was a Laker like fraudulent.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A good take there by you.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
What else do we ye?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There's a lot of shame. Yes, Ryan says, we lost
the legend rest in peace. Jim ursay, very interesting way
to send that out, Ryan, Ryan in the long suffering
San Diego, although his heart's in oc.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Mister Luciano rights In says nine point two out of
ten on the Maley Monologue. Seven more games and the
Pacers are going to win their first NBA championship, as
stated by mister Luciana. Not quite at that point yet,
but he wouldn't be opposed to that. King Rory writes
(20:47):
since says, this is the third time the Pacers have
come back to win a game they should have lost
in the playoff playoffs, Game five against the Bucks, Game
two against the Calves, and now Game one against the Knicks. Coincidence,
I think not. The NBA is rigging these playoff games
to show that Tyrese Halliburton isn't overaded. Okay, let's address
(21:17):
this first of all. That overrated thing was a handful
of players on a poll done by The Athletic. Do
you think the NBA gives a rats ass about some
stupid pull on a pay website that like seven people
pay for the Athletic? Do you think they care about that?
Come on and riddle me this, batman. Okay, riddle me this.
(21:42):
Why exactly would the end if they're gonna rig things,
wouldn't they rig it for New York? Wouldn't they say,
you know, New York, they have one. I'm old they
have one in my life. I've been around a long time.
They have one, the trash. And so when they rig
it for New York and set up the TV partner
and next year they're changing the television deal and they've
(22:03):
got all that, so why wouldn't they set that up?
And then they have a new generation of Nick fans
all fired up and all that. So come on, I'm
not buying. And last I checked, well, we love being
on the radio in Indianapolis. It is barely a top
twenty five market. It's it's just a hair ahead of Baltimore.
(22:23):
It's number twenty five. It's it's behind Portland, Oregon, and
Pittsburgh and Charlotte's and that that realm. So if you're
gonna rig it, why would you?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Why would you do it?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
For that make a lot of sense?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
It does not.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Let's see here, Shane in the Moyes says, Ben, do
you know what the difference is between Michael Leprechaun and
a pothole? He says, I would swerve to miss the
pothole as a non sequitor. Fox spox Weed writes in
from the Oregon Trail and says, woo hoo. Another sighting
of the vomit comet over the sky of New York
(23:00):
smells terrific, just like the streets of New York. Now,
this guy, Bill, why'd you go? Ooh, I'm sure they
don't smell good?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You know, the streets of you. You haven't been in
New York?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
No, I've never been.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Oh yeah, you gotta go. And I recommend waiting until
August or September and walking around in the evening when
everyone puts their trash out and it's really humid and
the trash is sweating. Don't say sweaty trash.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I hate that the visual is so it's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Ah at people running around, rats running around, dancing in
the trash. It's rataitoey, is what it is. It's literally rataitoey.
But they're just all enjoying the trash. Wonderful. But that's
a great city, Bill writes, any he's a hoosier guy.
You know this guy, Bill's the I told you so.
You know he lives in La Now. So he's like
a fake Hoosier. A real hoosier doesn't leave Ideana. You're
(23:58):
a fake hoosier Bill in La Now anyway, he says,
poetry in motion. I think you are Johnny come lately.
I've been busting your ass since November. That sounds dirty.
Dig the show as Bill. Yeah, so, Bill, first of all,
I don't read every one of your comments. Get Fortunately,
there's actually more than like two people listening, so we
(24:20):
actually get a lot of messages and I try to
scan through. Although many of you say I read the
same five messages from the usual suspects every single day.
The nature Boy writes and says great monologue and game
in the NBA. We got the chance to watch the
irritating Nick fans get a double curb snopping on the
same night. Can't wait until Friday. Yeah, I was actually
(24:40):
mentioning in the pre show meeting. I was talking to
the great Justin Frossberg, who produces the show prior to
this with Jason and Mike and Jason's typical sports radio
New York Hank and all that, you know, Nick Apologist
and all that. So we were going back and forth
and how great is it because not only did the
Knicks lose once, they lost twice, and they celebrated the
(25:01):
win when they were up seventeen, they celebrated. They celebrated
when they were up fourteen, so they celebrated twice, and
then they lost twice. When Haliburton hit the shot, and
if you heard it or saw it or whatever, you know,
they thought, oh he won the game, or good shape,
this is great, you know, or they thought they lost
and then his foot was on the line so we
(25:22):
had another chance, and then they ended up blowing in overtime.
Assumer Market Steve writes in from Soke sins, I missed
the original Burger King jingle, Hold the pickles, hold the
lettuce special orders, don't upset us. All we ask is
that you let us serve it your way and have
it your way. There, you go, have it your way.
(25:45):
Did you do the voiceover for the Burger King commercial? Yeah,
back in the day. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
I have a funny Burger King story.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
So I guess I can tell this. It's overnight. So
I was doing local radio early in my career, and
we there was a college football game that was sponsored
not by Burger King, it was sponsored by another major restaurant, right,
And so I was doing the Ben and Dave Show
(26:13):
in LA and I came in with my guy.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
That's pretty much what it was like.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
We had a song just like that. So we came
in there and we were just bashing how at that
time they they didn't do this kind of thing like
the name when the trophy was named after the restaurant
or whatever. So we were goofing on them, and the
the general manager of the radio station comes running in, uh,
you know, and this you know, this guy was quite
the character where these power bright jackets and you know,
(26:42):
comes running in and he starts reading us the ride act.
He's a you too, blankety blank blank, and he's like,
you know, I guess the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
We were ripping.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I guess it spent some some money advertising, but he said,
he then tells me, if you guys want to rip
a restaurant, rip Burger King. They don't advertise it was
it was the funniest it was. Maybe you had to
be there, but it was just hilarious. Guys in his
power suit, he's like a Tony Robbins want to be
and he's screaming at us if you want to rip somebody,
(27:14):
rip Burger King. He was holding.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I like Burger King.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I liked it when it was good. But you know
that's a long time ago. You know, did they still
have the longated chicken sandwich? Do they still have that? Course? Okay,
I've not been to Burger King in a long time.
And and Burger King has the onion rings, which McDonald's
does not have. They're barely onion rings. They're more like
onion flavored bat Yeah, there's no onion inside of them.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Fun fact. You want a fun fact on onion rings?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
That the fun fact, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (27:44):
No, No, this is a fun fun fact. So I
learned this doing copious amounts of research on the Fifth
Hour podcast, which will return this weekend on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. That McDonald's the reason they don't have onion rings.
And there have been people that own Donald's restaurants that
have tried to tell the company, we need onion rings.
They make so much money on fries that they could
(28:08):
not compete. The onion ring would not make as much profit,
so they don't want to. They figure some people would
just order onion rings that they wouldn't order fries, and
so they'd lose money on it. So that's why they've
never added onion rings, even though it's easy for them
to add it. Garry interesting, that is a fun fact.
That is a fun fact. There you go, how about
(28:28):
that they could have the onion rings. I'm a big
onion ring guy. I love the onion ring, don't. I
don't like onions, but actually I've eaten more onions lately now.
Truck Stop Fungus Rites in one of the great one
of the great characters on the show, and he's trying
to avoid those lot lizards. He says. He's playing some
grand theft auto at the Pilot Travel Center in rugged Benton, Arkansas,
(28:52):
while listening to the mad Man mauther So and he's
got a good setup. Man, I'm looking here, he's got
he took a photo. He's got the grand theft big
TV right there, he's in the back, and that's you're
living your best life right there. Are better than the best,
because the best means as good as all the rest.
It was pretty solid. So always nice to know where
truck stop fungus is hanging out. Where he is at
(29:15):
let's see here page down the Mexican John Dutton writes,
and this has been Will you ever do a Malord
meet up in Tijuana, Mexico? I heard they have a
great sports bar there, and then he names I'm not
gonna mention it, but.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, no, uh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But yeah, Tijuana, Coop, you want to do the how
about you represent the show? Coop you go to Tijuana? Now,
I'm good, Lorraina, you want to do Tijuana? You do? Yeah,
I don't. I don't have a problem with Mexico. I do.
Look at the deadliest cities every year and Tijuana is
normally in the top ten. Uh so it's a little problematic.
(29:54):
But they'd love us, right, How would they not like us?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
No, we're the best. No one would want to hurt us.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, all right, super Margastein says, I did not think
Lorraina was old enough to know the jingle for Burger King.
By the way, Ben not wrong. That sounded pretty much
on the nose, like the girl who sings the song.
So I think that's his way of complimenting you. Fer
Dog says Burger King sucks on team Carls Junior, which is,
(30:22):
if you're east of the Missisian that would be Hearty's.
So there you go. All right, well that's I do
like that.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
Carl's Junior has the zucchini, like the deep fried zucchini.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
But anything deep fried is good. Yeah, you can't really,
you can't f up deep fried food. Deep fried food
by definition, as Homer Simpson taught me.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
It's just better.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
It's just clearly better. Anyway, it is the Ben Mauch. Sure,
we're talking about this big playoff game at the Garden,
the Mecca, as the Indiana Pacers to the unthinkable, the unimaginable,
and they come back, do we have the player of
the night, By the way, do we have this ready
to go in the queue? As they like to say,
all right, let's go. I assume this is the what
I think it is. But let's go to that Indiana,
(31:03):
New York game Midtown Manhattan right over Penn Station the
Pacers and the next time, now for the tire Iraq
play of the night two point games. Six seconds to go.
Haliburton driving. He's in the lane, he nearly lost, and
he backs up and unloads a three. That did not happen.
(31:24):
It hit the back of the rim, hit pot tie
into the air, and it dropped gently through the net.
I like this guy, this pacer play by play guy's
pretty good. I gotta tell you well, that is the
tire rack play of the day, Haliburton tying it, Pacers
go to win it in overtime. For over forty years,
tyre Raq has been helping customers find the right tires
(31:46):
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Tire Buying show b And we want to give some
some some love to this guy, the pacer play by
(32:07):
play guy, because he's out outstanding and uh just great
that he's the guy that gave us the uh the.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Dagger right the dayerl yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I believe his name is Mark Boyle. I believe that
is who we are yapping about there. Mark Boyle is name.
Radio play by play is his game. And this guy
has been calling NBA games for the Pacers for thirty
six years. That's I think that's a yeah, that's a
that's a long time, right, that's that's a long long
(32:46):
run there, so out standing, out standing anyway, it is
the Ben Malor Show. As we work our way through
the overnight hours, we will I will take some calls.
I know we got carried away. I had to tell
a good burger king story and that took some time.
We'll get also worried about farming. We'll go there as well.
Time now for the who Am I Game, and we'll
(33:07):
go to the Pacers one more time. Tyrese Halliburton had
four hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
and one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first
twenty five career playoff games. The only other players in
the last sixty years to reach those levels in their
first twenty five career postseason contests are Chris Paul better
(33:30):
known as CP three, and me who again Tyrese Haliburton,
that's a basketball player for the Pacers. Four hundred fifty
five points, two hundred and sixteen assists, one hundred and
twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty five career playoff games.
The only other players in the last sixty years to
reach those marks in their first twenty five career postseason
(33:51):
contest are Chris Paul and me. Who am I? The answer,
We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Next, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Thank God for the Pacers. What a win over the
next one of the great nights. You know, we watched
these games and then last some nights sucked and a
lot of times are like what are we doing? And
then every once in a while you get one of
those and you're like, wow, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
We'll play off the who am I?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Game? Here in a moment, I did want to mention
the quote from Tyreese Halliburton, the choke signal that he
gave channeling Reggie Miller now he claimed after the game,
the choke sign that he gave to the Knicks. He
said that he was quote is a quote here. I
wasn't plotting on it or anything. He said. If I
would have known it was a two, I wouldn't have
done it. That's kind of obvious, Halliburton said, quote continues,
(34:42):
I might have wasted it if I do it again.
Here's the money part of the quote. Haliburton says, if
I do it again, people might say I'm Aura Farming.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
That's what he said.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So you don't want to get caught Aura Farming. That
would be that would be a nightmare for Tyrese Haliburt. Boy,
this guy's been but Nana's absolutely ridiculously the good. Here.
I saw Charles Barkley on the TNT post game. I
actually watched the TNT post game because he's good. And
Barkley said he's He's going to contact Adam Silver to
(35:15):
allow Halliburton's dad to come back because Haliburton's dad's banned
because he got into the face of Giannis.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
He's an a hole. But see, I wouldn't want Halliburton's
dad back.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
If Halliburton his father comes back and the Pacers start
losing these games, who do you think is going to
get blamed Ding Ding ding Ding, the old man, the pops,
they'll be blamed. And has he not even in the irenay?
How would anyone know if he's there or not? Just
give him a ticket in the upper deck if you
want to allow him into the game. Here's the who
am I? Game? Tyree's who I mentioned? Tyres Celibert four
(35:54):
hundred and fifty five points, two hundred and sixteen assists,
one hundred and twenty seven rebounds in his first twenty
five career playoff games. The only other players the last
sixty years, that's three generations to reach those marks in
their first twenty five career postseason contest are Chris Paul
and me. Who am I? That is the question? What
(36:15):
is the answer? We have? Also upset Nick the Windy's Guy.
He said, we spent too much time talking about Burger.
You don't know Nick the Wendy's guy in Minnesota. This
is the guy that let us know that Kirk Cousins
was eating was eating fast food or that wasn't it
was with somebody else but another fast food guy Minnesota.
But Nick the Wendy's Guy a fine representative of the
Windy's company, and he's upset with.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
U because we didn't talk about Windy's enough.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
So there you go.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
All right, let's see, does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Paige Down sonic legend Slick Watts from The Nature Boy, Weird,
Al Yankovich from Spock's Weed, Paige Down, Sean Paul shake
that than from Brian. Who else do we have? Angel
Reese from Mister Irrigation. Alan Tramo guests by Rob in
Minnesota to Charlie from Wisconsin says we should be talking
(37:04):
about Culver's. Yeah, Culvers is better than Burger King. It
is not even close. Come on, please? Who else do
we have? Truck or Joe says a big, big ass
rat in New York City. Pacer legend Vern Fleming Good
get by Bay City Tony the Vern Fleming Pacers with
Chuck Person the Rifleman. Yeah, and who else do we have?
(37:28):
Page down can't read that. This guy, This guy Bill's
very upset that I called him a fake Hoosier. He's
he's triggered by that. I'm just calling to light. The
guy lives in LA though he's going like Venice Beach
or Santa Monica every day. Rick Smith's from Ozzie Waz
(37:51):
in Western Australia. Money Line Mikey from Shane and Des
Moines and So from Vancouver says Vancouver Grizzly's legend, Big
Country briars. You're gonna get to meet Enzo, Lorena when
we're in Vancouver. Enzo. I've helped raise Enzo. He's all
grown up now, but I helped raise him years ago. Anyway, Lorena,
do you have an answer? My guess was gonna be
(38:11):
Devincenzo ben Okay, what's his first name? Something? Okay? Uh?
Tyree Saliburton four hundred fifty five points, two hund sixty assists,
hundred try seven rebounds. You only have the players to
do it last sixty years. Chris Paul, Magic Johnson, Magic Johnson,
Irvin Johnson, Magic Johnson
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