February 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the blockbuster NBA trade that saw the Mavericks send Luka Doncic to the Lakers for Anthony Davis, grades for both teams, what makes this trade unique, how this goes over with the fans in Dallas, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Happy Monday to you, the start of the new work
week on this third day of February. It's all about
the mega trade over the weekend. How do you grade
the Mavericks Luka Doncik traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis.
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The Malor report card is here. Also, what makes this
Luka Doncik trade so unique? We'll discuss that. And how
does the Lukka move play with the electorate in Dallas.
We'll get to all of that and more right now
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Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right now. It's all about these NBA trades and what
a weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was a hum dinger, a hum dinger of a weekend,
a door buster door buster type trade. In fact, a
couple of big trades, but the biggest. We're gonna start
play the hits. Play the hits, mom, man, We'll play
the hits. And if you didn't hear about it, I
don't know how you could have missed it. If you're
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a sports fan, you're listening to a sports talk radio
show at an ungodly hour, I would think you've paid attention,
but maybe not. Luka Doncik is gone, traded, excommunicated, from
Dallas Bye bye, as he was traded to the Lakers.
The historians get Luka Doncik part of a three team
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deal between Dallas, LA and Utah. Anthony Davis the big
name going back to the Mavericks. There's some spare parts
in spam to make the numbers work that change teams.
The Jazz, they're just there to help trades go through,
to facilitate trades. They take on draft picks and things
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like that, and they help the money situation work out.
The Jazz are just a filler team at this point,
not trying to win, just trying to help the rest
of the league out. That's their role. So let us
discuss the question how do you grade the mega mega
mega mega mega trade. Luca goes from the MAVs to
the Lakers for Anthony Davis, those are the headliners.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We focus on the headliners.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So I've got Puddy, Sandra Bullock, and return of the Jedi,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will follow our nose is wherever our nose takes us.
And I got a big shnaz really large enough, so
I will just go wherever the nose takes us.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So my first thought.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
On this is when when you're grading, it's the Mallor
report Card when it comes to grading trades, and we
are the industry leader in grading transactions. Absolutely nobody is
more trusted, nobody in overnight delivery of a report card
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on transactions on this show in the middle of the
night on Fox. Nobody has this kind of information. So
on the Mallor report Card, the Malor report Card on
the big trade over the weekend, Dallas and La the
Lakers reluctantly, I will give them a B minus on
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the trade.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I will give them a B minus.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The Mavericks get an F, and then I don't know
that I can go lower? Is there anything lower than
an F? I would like to go lower than F?
Is there anything beyond F? Can I go beyond F? Anyway,
LA also picked up a couple of roster span players
in the trade, Maxi Kliebah who hit a game winning
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shot against them a while back, and Mark, the much
traveled Mark Keith Morris. He also goes to the Lakers.
It is a foo bar situation. It is I'm a
chumping to still process the transactionan the math ain't mathing
on this one. On many many levels, many many, many levels.
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They're the Lakers were just handed on a silver platter,
a Luka doncik and they didn't have to bid against anyone.
Why why would you do that. That's malfeasance, that's bad management,
that's incompetence, that's wrong on many levels. Why would you
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do that? Wouldn't you fire the general manager if you
own the team and that is how they did business,
I think you would. But it's like, oh, we're gonna
call one team and we'll just give you the buy
now price and that's it, and you don't have to bid,
and just submit an offer and we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Now, back when the NBA actually had leadership, you know,
guys with hair on their chest and balls and things
like that, David Stern would have vetoed this trade. He
vetoed the Chris Paul trade, right, He would have vetoed
this trade. Also said, well, that's not we're not going
to do that. But it's playing with putty. The whole
thing's playing with putty. Putty explosives. We're talking ballistics here
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is what we're talking about, plastic explosives. Now, Luca, he
turns twenty six later this month, Happy Birthday. There's some
great cake, great bakeries in Los Angeles. You love the
bakries in LA. And he was traded for a player
who is near the end of his athletic prime, who
has these superpower of missing games. His nickname is street
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clothes Anthony Davis. That's his nickname. He is more known
for not showing up the work than showing up the work.
And that's who the Dallas Mavericks had to get their
hands on. Why I don't get it, Davis turns thirty
two in the month of March. Now, these aren't your
daddy's Mavericks. That is fair to say. Anybody, it still thinks.
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And not everyone heard the news but Mark Cuban, who
was a fanboy, right, I mean getting the Mark Cuban's
got a lot of issues there. But Cuban's a fanboy,
and he owned the Mavericks for a long time and
he sold out. Everyone's got their price, and Magic Christian,
Everyone's got their price. Mark Cuban sold out for three
point five billion dollars. And that's the cost for Mark
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Cuban to allow this to happen. If Mark Cuban still
owned the Dallas Mavericks controlling interest.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Of the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He would not have done this. This was not a possibility,
it was it. But that's not the case here. And Cuban,
even if he felt he had to trade Luca for
whatever reason, would have rather sent him to an expansion
franchise in Papua New Guinea than send him to the Lakers.
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There's no way that would have happened. And of course
there's a lot of dumb people that don't know that
Mark Cuban sold out. He's a sellout. He sold the team.
Good for him three point five billion, and he's just
kind of there as a like a make a wish
thing when he travels with the Mavericks and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's like, Hey, I don't really own the team.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I don't control anything, but I get to sit by
the bench and the players like me and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Wow, so new regime, new blood, and you get what
you get. You get what you get now, Page two.
What makes the Lukka the Luca trade so.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Unique? What makes it so unique? Well, this is like.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Sandra Bullock's Academy Award winning performance in the old movie
The blind Side. The blind Side. Listen, if someone had
called up this talk show and said, Hey, Ben, I'd
like to make a trade. How about the Mavericks sand
Luka Doncic to the Lakers for Anthony Davis in some
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spare parts, some pocket length to be named later. We
would have said something along the lines of, well, what
bath salts are you sniffing right now, sir? And please
go to the mini bar, and we would have hung
up on them. That's what we would have done.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A video game would have rejected that trade, would have said, no,
that's not.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
A proper trade. No, no way. A twenty twenty nine
first round pick. That's all you're getting in terms of
future draft picks and scratcher tickets. One scratcher ticket in
twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it. But here we are. Here, we are the unthinkable,
the unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's the first time in NBA history that two raining
all NBA players have been traded for each other at
mid season, as the trade deadline is not until later
this week, but the trades, the big ones have already
happened at this point in the modern era. This is
the craziest trade, the Luca trade of them all, and
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the thing that stands out though.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
In the world we're living.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
In right now, twenty four to seven round the clock,
and the business of basketball, the currency of basketball. I've
had this conversation with many people over the years who
are in this in this world and the rumor. And
I ran a gossip site for years before I was
working here at the same time. But I ran a
rumor site for many, many years. And the rumor is
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more important than the reality, Like the rumor gets people talk.
And what happened with this particular trade here, you know,
it's it's stunning because there was not even a peep, right,
Loose lips in the NBA are commonplace.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They work clandestine is how they worked this time is
how they work. Cloak and dagger. Mission zero dark thirty
every want to say it moving under the cover of darkness.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And twas the night before.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The trade deadline week was upon us, when all through
the house, all through the house, not a creature was stirring,
not even a unibrow. And then the Lakers they played
the Knicks Midtown Manhattan on National TV. Huhum, and then
call boom. The volcano exploded, But there was no bubbling
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up of this. There was no chatter that Dallas is
unhappy with Luca They're going to trade him. This came
out of relatively thin air, so much so people were
convinced that Shams was hacked.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
This was not real. There was some funny business going
on all right.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Lastly, so how does this look don Chick transaction play
with the electorate in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now we're on in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You guys can answer if you want to call in
and give the pulse of the people. But from the outside,
the way I see it, the Dallas Mavericks are cooked.
They have violated the bubble of trust. And once you
violated the bubble of trust, there is no going back.
You have done the thing you can't do at the
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time you can't do it. You have sold the church
of Maverick Basketball, and you have just traded the deacon.
You have said, get out of here. You're done. And
as we understand it, despite enjoying a hearty meal and
not really taking conditioning all that seriously, Luca was beloved.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And he was their next Dirk.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They were just in the NBA Finals against the Celtics
last summer, and it's wild that you would make this
particular move at this time, and the sales pitch. We've
seen the sales pitch, the sales pitch played out.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's simple. The Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
They're claiming, Hey, we spent seven years with this guy,
and we were waiting for Luca, for the light bulb
to go off, for the epiphany to take place for Luca,
and it never did. And so what we got was
a character from Return of the Jedi. You might remember
Job of the Hut. That's what we got. The guys
out of shape, he can score, that's it. He's never
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taken his job seriously in terms of being in top
physical condition.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now, Luca has been out since Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Here we are in early February with a strained left
cap and the word the streets of the NBA saying
that there are factions in Dallas that are convinced the
reason he hurt himself is because he's a fat pig,
and that's why he injured himself and has been out
since since Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just poor conditioning and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But doesn't that seem like a temporary problem more than
a permanent problem.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You know, I don't know, but that's the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're planning all these stories to justify the trade, saying
you're like two hundred and sixty pounds, and MAVs ownership
didn't trust him.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Bouncing around the pinball machine or the hot take here
that there was other mitigating factors. They didn't want to
pay him the Supermax contract, they didn't want to invest
that kind of money this summer. Give him another contract
and well at backfire. It's already backfired. Mavericks aren't winning
anything with Anthony Davis. You come on, Anthony never won
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with the Lakers. They never won a championship, not a
real one, fake one. They never want a real one
with the Lakers. Not gonna win now with Kyrie, they're
both going to get hemorrhoids playing rock paper scissors on
the bench while the other players are.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They're playing yikes.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And as far as Luca, listen, if he had problems
with self discipline with the Dallas Mavericks, wait till you
get to the Lakers and to all those Hollywood f's
kiss your ass and invite you to all those parties
with piles of drugs and amazing food. And you're on
the A list everywhere in La because you wear the
Historian's uniform. That's what Luca has to look forward to.
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So if you can't control yourself in Dallas. I know
those famous people in Dallas, I know those rich people
in Dallas, but it's a different animal in La and
the good luck, good luck Luca, good luck. All right,
it is the Ban Malors Show. We want to comment
on any of this massive, massive news, and we go
where the news of the day takes us. Big trades,
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the Aaron Fox also sent packing to San Antonio. That's
not as sexy as the Mavericks Lakers trade. But we
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thirty fourth day of the new year and we've only
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get some time to go as we work our way
through the new year. And there can be nothing that
takes place without some kind of conspiracy, including a big
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NBA trade, the deep state Luca trade conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Have you heard it?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Have you heard the conspiracy? On why Luca was really
traded that nobody wants to talk about hush hush on this.
We'll give you what the tinfoil hat crowd is saying
about this trade. We'll get to it and we will
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Speaker 1 (17:56):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now back to it we go? Yeah, yeah, all right,
So Luca traded. Everyone's got a take on this. We'll
get reaction. Pulse of the people. We do here, pulse
of the people. Ryan writes in from San Diego. So
can I be a resident coach? I coached soups for
eighteen years. I really believe that this is about Luca
being uncoachable? What is going on in practice? Remember Jason
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Kidd was a point guard. I think he had enough
of Luca and will come out. It will come out
at some point. M I.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't think so a lot. Ryan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don on what level you coached at, but a
lot of these guys in the NBA do their own thing,
and coaches put up with it because they're really good.
Nick the Windy's got it's a big night. Nick the
Wendy's guy from Minnesota rights since his hey buddy Ben Uh.
Now that the Wolves missed out on Daron Fox and
the Rudor to trade Julius Randa, where do you see
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the Wolves looking for trade pieces?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
From here? They'll be putting ads on eBay, look looking
for something? Who else? Page down? I can't read that,
David says Maler.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Will be jumping on the Laker bandwagon now that Luca
is wearing Luca gear.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh my god, come on, that will never happen ever.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But Cooper Loop, who I've not seen where a Laker
hat in like a year, showed up wearing his Laker
hat here. So he's on the bandwagon. He's fully on there.
Frank in La points out his name is Luca. Yeah,
we have that Lucas song. We gotta dust that thing off.
We got to find that Lucas song.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He says, his.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Name is Luca. There it is MAVs fans crying on
the floor. There, GM is a real buffoon. Jersey's half
off in the team's store.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What a mess.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I'm trying to think of the comp on this, like
I have been doing this a long time. This is
you talk about coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Brian writes and says the Lakers are on their way back,
upgrading with Luca and finally moving on from street clothes
and says Brian Gunner at the Walmart in Minnesota up
with us listening. He says, I We'll give you an
A plus plus on that Mallard monologue. The Lakers don't
deserve Luca, No, LA team deserves him, especially the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Good thing he didn't get. They didn't get him.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They suck's gunner hot take artist good good gunner, My god,
who else do you have?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Derek Rightsonce says, Polenka. Fleece.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Plinka didn't do anything. Stop you think Polinka did anything?
Come on, skinny jeans, Rob Polinka.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Ferg dog right says, says, I don't see what all
the fuss is about. So LA's B team got Luca,
big deal. This trade just proves how desperate the Lakers
are to climb out from under the Clipper's shadow. Great
point for a dog, and the Clippers got Patty Mills.
They got Patty. Let's go to the phones. Let's say
hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo. Ricky is in southern California.
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Ricky welcome. You're in the just down the road from
us here in Van eis what's going on? Ricky welcome?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Hey, Hello, Hello. First of all, I am not a
clip with fans, not.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Ever, not everyone not everyone's perfect.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Let let every let everybody know that this is the
Laker town.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Okay, and drink Saturday.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
And here's the other thing. Okay, I am I am
very happy.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You're happy.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I am very happy that we have uh adult star.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What do we what are we drinking?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We are drinking whiskey?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, how many bottles in are we?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Two?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Two bottles? Night's young, though, we got a you know,
it's not even midnight on the West coast.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You got ways, it's not even midnight in the West coast.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, you pace.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You gotta pay yourself. So it's a long night. You're
not going. Don't leave your house. Just stay in your house, Moorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
More more over than that, more other than that. I
just want to say, I am I am happy that
we got Luca. Luca.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What's his last name? What's his last name?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You know he's a badass.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, what's his last name? What's the guy?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What's his last name? What's Luca's last name? That's right,
duk They got Luca Dukic. That's correct. You know your basketball?
You are good. I can't I can't compete. Is this
Sham's Are you sham?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is Sham's calling me up here? I gotta go, thank
you cool? Please get that as a drop as soon
as possible. I need to play that non stop all night.
I need that drop all night. And his last name, yes,
just the part of him saying his last name. And
I don't think we'll just play that tonight. I think
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we will just play that for the rest of time
anytime he does anything.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Well, add it to are all time awesome drops.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that's right, because we have listen, We've got the
Luca's song, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You know, Luke, my name is Luca. His name is Luca.
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But now we can add the new drop, which will
be even better. All right's call the phones and again,
let's say hello.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
To any meenie, miney moe.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We'll go to uh, let's see here Sebastian, who's on
the Oregon Trail in Corvallis where the beavers hang out.
What's going on, Sebastian, Welcome?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I make people are making a big deal about this.
Look about fair. I don't even think it's the senitive
that the Mavericks got the better end of the deal
in the tree Young trade. So I think that I
think it's uh so much Luca ballas are going on
out there, so.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You believe that the world is just licking the toes
of Luca and he sucks. Can I see I'd like
to see what what are you what are you alluding to?
You're annoyed that he's getting so much attention. You're troubled
by the amount of attention that Luca is getting. This
is not good. You feel like this is too much.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I don't think the trades is lopsided as everyone is
saying it is. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So all right, so I explain this to me because
I'm not that bright. I do the Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So the Mavericks traded Luca because he was out of
shape and he wasn't available for a guy who's older
and in shape but not available.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, I'm just saying, you know, it's you know, a
healthy not Anthony Davis. Luca, Dontris had his best. It's
right there. I mean, if it's a members want to
win right now, members want to win right now. And
as long as Anthony Davis stays healthy, it's uh, it's.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, yeah, as long as he stays healthy. You know
what his nickname again, his nickname is Street Closed. Does
a guy whose nickname is street close sound like a
guy who's going to stay healthy? If his nickname is
street Close, does it sound like he's going to stay healthy?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I don't like Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I don't like Anthony.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You don't like anybody. I know that. I know that
type of fan you are. You ain't everybody. I know
you don't like any of these guys. I know the
type of fan you are. I know you don't like
any of them. Come on, be honest, I like them now.
You don't don't lie to me. You don't like any
of these guys. You think all these guys are overrated.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Turns most of them are.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I see, I'm right, am I not? Listen?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm a psychologist. I know exactly type of fan you are.
You think all these guys are overrated, and you know,
idiots like me spent too much time talking about I know,
I hear.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, well I'll let you go. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Listen. He's gotta be jealous of AD's unibrow, Okay, Like
that is the coolest thing anyone could have on their face,
and so I just I feel like that's where his
you know, is.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It true that women are more tracted to men with
the unibrow?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Do you imagine watching the movie like a movie at
night and he's just laying on your lap and you're just.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Petting his unibra. Yeah, it's magical.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It's like the girls that back in my day, when
you were a kid, you watched a lot of Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know, do you think kids probably don't even
watch that? Of course they do. Do they still watch us?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, Elmo?
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Well, Elmo, but he's end.
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But no Burt and Ernie right, Ernie had the thick
brow and Bert had the Yeah, thick thick brows there
for sure.
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I'm sure Bert, Yeah, I'm sure.
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They've yeah, a lot of well.
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phones talking about this big trade. Luca in his prime,
twenty soon to be twenty six years old, traded and
the Mavericks only talk to one team.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Only one team. This is unreal. My name is Yeah.
Well do we have do we have the other drop
writer to go? Do we have that?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We have?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
No, we don't have that. We haven't even gone to
break yet. Oh all right, I think we can't turn
it around as we want to break. I don't break.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Well, you know, it just takes a lot of buttons.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
What if I played it on the air and then
it overlaps with you recording into the podcast, and then
you know, it's just I don't.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Want to passion. I don't quick turn around there, get
that thing back on there. Ethan is in Rhode Island. Hello, Ethan,
Welcome and how's we going?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hey A is hanging out talking.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Thank you, sirpreciate that.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, Ethan, you're so coop. Put you on hold horn
say let me putch you back up? Hello, Ethan, what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Ethan? You're back on your eyes so I apologize.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yes, yeah, so I was just thinking this trade, that
Luca trade is kind of crazy. It doesn't it doesn't
make sense to me. I don't know. I'm thinking Adam
Silver might have had a had something to do with it.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh, it's because nobody's watching it, but not nobody's watching
the NBA. But the ratings are pretty flat.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
In the NBA.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You need a little more rasmtash. I don't like the
Lakers get ratings.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Though. People still watch the Lakers, so.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
They always need to start player, right, I need someone
on their team.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
My entire life, they've always gotten one of the top
two or three players in the NBA, and that'll continue
for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It would appear with Luca.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Lebron definitely knew though, right, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Come on Lebron's Oh no, I had no idea. I
was at dinner. I was at some you know, a
restaurant in Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
It doesn't make sense. I just isn't he like top
three players in the league or something like that.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I mean, what is it?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Three?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, No, he played well last year, but he's undependable
and you know, Luca five. I mean, just if they
had put Luke on the market. Look at some of
the trades that have happened in the NBA. The Clippers
traded shake Yogas Alexander's probably win the MVP this year,
and like seven first round draft picks for Paul George,
(29:31):
Paul George blows, Paul George blouse, Rudy Gobart, he's yeah,
he's okay, he's a defensive guy. Minnesota trade with that
trade with Utah, it was like twenty seven first round
draft picks or something ridiculous like that.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It was just so stupid.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And one, you're if I own the Mavericks and I
actually cared about my basketball team, I would fire my
GM right now.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're done.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
You're done as a Celtics fan, Like shit, I'd give
JB to like at five first round draft our first
five draft picks, Like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty wacky, man, pretty wacky.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
What do you think about the Celtics stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, pretty nice comeback. The Sixers have mastered the art
of blowing blowing game. They blew a lead against the
Nuggets the other day, but.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That that was historical.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
The Sixers have what were they up by twenty six
points or something like that, some ridiculously and the Celtics
came back on Sunday and when they get But the
Celtics have been up and down though, it's not like
they've been consistent here the last month.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
They've doesn't play games.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
He doesn't really like basketball?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Is he lazy?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Or is he he's coddled.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's surrounded by people that have convinced him that he
can't play back to back games. And if he plays
a certain number of minutes, his body will literally melt
and he will be a ball of goo if he
plays too many games in too many minutes. All right,
thanks Ethan, man, I gotta go, all right, thank you
Ethan checking in. Oh my my, oh my, oh my,
(31:04):
oh we got our first dump of the week. Bad. Yeah,
less than it outredy Ethan, so confident. Me and Ethan,
we have a bond, Me and Ethan, buddies. That's how
men talk to each other. And lorrain it just makes
it a bad word in the conversation. That's how we talk,
you know, it's just keeping it real. That's how we
do it. Unfortunately, the powers that be don't like when
(31:27):
words like that get on the air, because it's a
lot of kids listening at this time.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
We should be on like XM radio or whatever it is,
because you can cuss on there.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, it's all right. Sometimes sometimes people listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
They hear everything that's true. So it's more downloads for us.
What did you think?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You know?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You know what, we should just start cussing and I
can dump us.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
I like it get a little more risque.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I have cursed on the air several times.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think last time was it last time I cursed
when the Clippers lost in the Nuggets in the play
off and I ripped Doc Rivers?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh yeah, just slipped out, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It was a natural situation. It just happened organically. Yeah,
I got a little worked up. Was it the Nuggets?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
One?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes, it was the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, it was the Nuggets and the Clippers in that
little Orlando bubble thing they had going down there during COVID.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm pretty sure that was the last time I cursed.
Went there.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Okay, alright, Hea, No, no, no, you cursed while I was here? Really, Yeah,
it was an accident, it was you started to curse.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Oh that doesn't count. If you didn't finish it, it
doesn't counts duly noted. Yeah, as a joke there somewhere.
But all right, anyway, all right, it is the Ben
Mallards show, the conspiracy. I want to run this by
you boys all. Let me run this bias. See what
you think here? Okay, deep state Luca trade conspiracy. Is
(32:51):
it true that the Atolson group that purchased the Mavericks
from Mark Cuban, they have controlling interests of the Dallas
Mavericks that they traded Luca to undermine confidence in the
Dallas basketball fan, thus clearing the way, clearing the way
to eventually relocate the franchise.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So they're beloved Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The Adolson group runs a bunch of gambling operations out
of Vegas. It's a gambling family. So is it possible
that this is all part of a bigger plan that
the ownership told the GM this, Nico Harrison guy, you
gotta trade Luca. And the plan is that it's much
(33:34):
like the old baseball movie Major League where they want
to move the team to Miami. Well, this is they
want to move to Vegas and then Dallas would end
up getting an expansion franchise, The Dallas Mavericks as they're known,
would change their name and they would move to Las Vegas.
The Adoson group owns a lot of land there. They
could build the Amazing Arena and a new hotel. And
(33:55):
there's already talk of Circus Circus is for sale. Maybe
I don't know who currently owns that. The group that
owns it's selling it, So is there anything to that?
Is there anything to that? This was all part of
a bigger plan by the Mavericks ownership group that if
you really want to piss off your fan base and
get them to not trust you, you trade the franchise
(34:17):
player before he's even twenty six years old. And then
people get upset, and he said, well, we people just
don't like as in where the attendants goes down, the
ratings on TV go down, and then all of a
sudden you say, ah, we'll go to Vegas. Sorry, that's it,
We're done. Time out for the who am I game?
We'll get back to the calls. Here's the who am I?
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Game? That's where I pretend to be somebody else.
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Game?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The Chiefs are trying to three peat? However, I am
the old only NFL player who has won three consecutive
Super Bowls in the history of that game.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Who am I? Again? The Chiefs trying to three.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Peat this week with the Eagles, However, I'm the only
NFL player who has won three consecutive Super Bowl championships.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
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(35:52):
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Right there? Coming out to see authentic pizza Rhea Pie,
right and check that out. Also, don't forget on the
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Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now back to it we go.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
That's right, and Bill, you didn't. I don't think you
went in enough detail. Made pizza from scratch. The dough,
You've put the flour together, you mix everything up, you
have the dough rise. You gotta then knead the dough
and it's all sticky, and you gotta add more flour
to it, and you gotta make the tomato sauce, and
you got to hand grate the cheese and all that,
and then you get a pretty good pizza. I normally
(36:57):
use that Trader Joe's stuff, which is like pre made
the dough, but it's not like it's not as good
as like when you make it yourself.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Your pizza looked impressive, then blank you.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Laren you should. We'll have a pizza night. You can
come and try the pizza because it's an idea. I
like that pizza night. You're down with pizza that we
should do that pizza. Yeah, pizza. That was good.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So I thought that came out pretty good. And we'll
master it some more and we'll work on that. And
war Eagle says, you should have done a whole segment
with that drunk guy. Bad job by you. Well, war Eagle,
you don't understand this show. If I only have one
drunk guy on, I'm leaving seventeen other drunk guys on. Hold,
all right, we have plenty of time for drunk guys.
(37:34):
Do we have that guy breaking down the Luca trade?
Do we have that ready to go?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's serious. Let's see what we got here and see
what we got here.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
No, we don't have it. I Coop said, I had
to go to break because we needed to get it.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
What's going on in there? Are you guys? Everything all
right in there?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
And everything?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I mean just I mean, we don't have any guests.
There's no budget for the show. All I need some
sound and having some trouble getting that. All right, Anyway,
here's the who am I game? Well, just go back
and hear the podcast. I guess that's where you'll hear it.
But here's the who am I game? The Chiefs are
trying to three peat? However, I am the only NFL
player who has won three consecutive championships. In the history
(38:14):
of the Super Bowl, only one player has won three
consecutive Super Bowl rings.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Ken?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Ken Norton guessed by poly d Van McElroy from Malibu,
Ruban Charles Haley from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Alice the
Brady Bunch made from Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have?
The Queen Charlotte Flair from Rob in Vegas, Bart Scott
(38:44):
from ferg Dog. What is the shot of Bart Scott
beating the Spurs in an NBA playoff game?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I remember that shot?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Heard about that last week, mister nice guy going with
Nick ASASKI remember you're old, mister nice guest. So Nick
ASASKI signed. I think it was the Red Sox and
then had was it Vertigo? And he couldn't play, he
couldn't hit anymore. Walmart Legend Gunner from King Roy good
photo of Gunner that Ozepic is really working for him.
(39:10):
Who else do we have Elizabeth Holmes, who is forty
one today from Late Night Drug Tester Al Bundy from
Big greg In Ile, Darnell Darnold from Andy in lion
O Lakes.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Tom Brady guests by Freddie that's see here, Casey Carr
Holler says Joel Polk of Goo embiid is the answer?
Tony Esposito by Johnny q RT. Lorena, What say.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
I think it's Tony the Tiger, Ben.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Tony Tiger, big hero when you were a child, little
girl growing up, Tony.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
The Tiger, you know he made me eat my cereal.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I was more of a captain crunch guy.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
The correct answer though, Ken Norton Junior, two with the
Cowboys and one with the Niners way back in the nineties,
thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That's a long time. Last name
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Happy Monday to you, the start of the new work
week on this third day of February. It's all about
the mega trade over the weekend. How do you grade
the Mavericks Luka Doncik traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis.
(00:25):
The Malor report card is here. Also, what makes this
Luka Doncik trade so unique? We'll discuss that. And how
does the Lukka move play with the electorate in Dallas.
We'll get to all of that and more right now
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It's pretty funny because all the media elites, the sports
media elites, are in New Orleans for the Super Bowl,
and nobody gives a rats ass about that game.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right now. It's all about these NBA trades and what
a weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was a hum dinger, a hum dinger of a weekend,
a door buster door buster type trade. In fact, a
couple of big trades, but the biggest. We're gonna start
play the hits. Play the hits, mom, man, We'll play
the hits. And if you didn't hear about it, I
don't know how you could have missed it. If you're
(02:34):
a sports fan, you're listening to a sports talk radio
show at an ungodly hour, I would think you've paid attention,
but maybe not. Luka Doncik is gone, traded, excommunicated, from
Dallas Bye bye, as he was traded to the Lakers.
The historians get Luka Doncik part of a three team
(02:55):
deal between Dallas, LA and Utah. Anthony Davis the big
name going back to the Mavericks. There's some spare parts
in spam to make the numbers work that change teams.
The Jazz, they're just there to help trades go through,
to facilitate trades. They take on draft picks and things
(03:17):
like that, and they help the money situation work out.
The Jazz are just a filler team at this point,
not trying to win, just trying to help the rest
of the league out. That's their role. So let us
discuss the question how do you grade the mega mega
mega mega mega trade. Luca goes from the MAVs to
the Lakers for Anthony Davis, those are the headliners.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We focus on the headliners.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So I've got Puddy, Sandra Bullock, and return of the Jedi,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will follow our nose is wherever our nose takes us.
And I got a big shnaz really large enough, so
I will just go wherever the nose takes us.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So my first thought.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
On this is when when you're grading, it's the Mallor
report Card when it comes to grading trades, and we
are the industry leader in grading transactions. Absolutely nobody is
more trusted, nobody in overnight delivery of a report card
(04:24):
on transactions on this show in the middle of the
night on Fox. Nobody has this kind of information. So
on the Mallor report Card, the Malor report Card on
the big trade over the weekend, Dallas and La the
Lakers reluctantly, I will give them a B minus on
(04:45):
the trade.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I will give them a B minus.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
The Mavericks get an F, and then I don't know
that I can go lower? Is there anything lower than
an F? I would like to go lower than F?
Is there anything beyond F? Can I go beyond F? Anyway,
LA also picked up a couple of roster span players
in the trade, Maxi Kliebah who hit a game winning
(05:10):
shot against them a while back, and Mark, the much
traveled Mark Keith Morris. He also goes to the Lakers.
It is a foo bar situation. It is I'm a
chumping to still process the transactionan the math ain't mathing
on this one. On many many levels, many many, many levels.
(05:33):
They're the Lakers were just handed on a silver platter,
a Luka doncik and they didn't have to bid against anyone.
Why why would you do that. That's malfeasance, that's bad management,
that's incompetence, that's wrong on many levels. Why would you
(05:56):
do that? Wouldn't you fire the general manager if you
own the team and that is how they did business,
I think you would. But it's like, oh, we're gonna
call one team and we'll just give you the buy
now price and that's it, and you don't have to bid,
and just submit an offer and we'll make it happen.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Now, back when the NBA actually had leadership, you know,
guys with hair on their chest and balls and things
like that, David Stern would have vetoed this trade. He
vetoed the Chris Paul trade, right, He would have vetoed
this trade. Also said, well, that's not we're not going
to do that. But it's playing with putty. The whole
thing's playing with putty. Putty explosives. We're talking ballistics here
(06:39):
is what we're talking about, plastic explosives. Now, Luca, he
turns twenty six later this month, Happy Birthday. There's some
great cake, great bakeries in Los Angeles. You love the
bakries in LA. And he was traded for a player
who is near the end of his athletic prime, who
has these superpower of missing games. His nickname is street
(07:03):
clothes Anthony Davis. That's his nickname. He is more known
for not showing up the work than showing up the work.
And that's who the Dallas Mavericks had to get their
hands on. Why I don't get it, Davis turns thirty
two in the month of March. Now, these aren't your
daddy's Mavericks. That is fair to say. Anybody, it still thinks.
(07:25):
And not everyone heard the news but Mark Cuban, who
was a fanboy, right, I mean getting the Mark Cuban's
got a lot of issues there. But Cuban's a fanboy,
and he owned the Mavericks for a long time and
he sold out. Everyone's got their price, and Magic Christian,
Everyone's got their price. Mark Cuban sold out for three
point five billion dollars. And that's the cost for Mark
(07:46):
Cuban to allow this to happen. If Mark Cuban still
owned the Dallas Mavericks controlling interest.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Of the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He would not have done this. This was not a possibility,
it was it. But that's not the case here. And Cuban,
even if he felt he had to trade Luca for
whatever reason, would have rather sent him to an expansion
franchise in Papua New Guinea than send him to the Lakers.
(08:16):
There's no way that would have happened. And of course
there's a lot of dumb people that don't know that
Mark Cuban sold out. He's a sellout. He sold the team.
Good for him three point five billion, and he's just
kind of there as a like a make a wish
thing when he travels with the Mavericks and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's like, Hey, I don't really own the team.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I don't control anything, but I get to sit by
the bench and the players like me and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Wow, so new regime, new blood, and you get what
you get. You get what you get now, Page two.
What makes the Lukka the Luca trade so.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Unique? What makes it so unique? Well, this is like.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Sandra Bullock's Academy Award winning performance in the old movie
The blind Side. The blind Side. Listen, if someone had
called up this talk show and said, Hey, Ben, I'd
like to make a trade. How about the Mavericks sand
Luka Doncic to the Lakers for Anthony Davis in some
(09:17):
spare parts, some pocket length to be named later. We
would have said something along the lines of, well, what
bath salts are you sniffing right now, sir? And please
go to the mini bar, and we would have hung
up on them. That's what we would have done.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A video game would have rejected that trade, would have said, no,
that's not.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
A proper trade. No, no way. A twenty twenty nine
first round pick. That's all you're getting in terms of
future draft picks and scratcher tickets. One scratcher ticket in
twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's it. But here we are. Here, we are the unthinkable,
the unimaginable.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
It's the first time in NBA history that two raining
all NBA players have been traded for each other at
mid season, as the trade deadline is not until later
this week, but the trades, the big ones have already
happened at this point in the modern era. This is
the craziest trade, the Luca trade of them all, and
(10:16):
the thing that stands out though.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
In the world we're living.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
In right now, twenty four to seven round the clock,
and the business of basketball, the currency of basketball. I've
had this conversation with many people over the years who
are in this in this world and the rumor. And
I ran a gossip site for years before I was
working here at the same time. But I ran a
rumor site for many, many years. And the rumor is
(10:44):
more important than the reality, Like the rumor gets people talk.
And what happened with this particular trade here, you know,
it's it's stunning because there was not even a peep, right,
Loose lips in the NBA are commonplace.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
They work clandestine is how they worked this time is
how they work. Cloak and dagger. Mission zero dark thirty
every want to say it moving under the cover of darkness.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
And twas the night before.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The trade deadline week was upon us, when all through
the house, all through the house, not a creature was stirring,
not even a unibrow. And then the Lakers they played
the Knicks Midtown Manhattan on National TV. Huhum, and then
call boom. The volcano exploded, But there was no bubbling
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up of this. There was no chatter that Dallas is
unhappy with Luca They're going to trade him. This came
out of relatively thin air, so much so people were
convinced that Shams was hacked.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
This was not real. There was some funny business going
on all right.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Lastly, so how does this look don Chick transaction play
with the electorate in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Now we're on in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
You guys can answer if you want to call in
and give the pulse of the people. But from the outside,
the way I see it, the Dallas Mavericks are cooked.
They have violated the bubble of trust. And once you
violated the bubble of trust, there is no going back.
You have done the thing you can't do at the
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time you can't do it. You have sold the church
of Maverick Basketball, and you have just traded the deacon.
You have said, get out of here. You're done. And
as we understand it, despite enjoying a hearty meal and
not really taking conditioning all that seriously, Luca was beloved.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
And he was their next Dirk.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
They were just in the NBA Finals against the Celtics
last summer, and it's wild that you would make this
particular move at this time, and the sales pitch. We've
seen the sales pitch, the sales pitch played out.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
It's simple. The Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
They're claiming, Hey, we spent seven years with this guy,
and we were waiting for Luca, for the light bulb
to go off, for the epiphany to take place for Luca,
and it never did. And so what we got was
a character from Return of the Jedi. You might remember
Job of the Hut. That's what we got. The guys
out of shape, he can score, that's it. He's never
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taken his job seriously in terms of being in top
physical condition.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Now, Luca has been out since Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Here we are in early February with a strained left
cap and the word the streets of the NBA saying
that there are factions in Dallas that are convinced the
reason he hurt himself is because he's a fat pig,
and that's why he injured himself and has been out
since since Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Just poor conditioning and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But doesn't that seem like a temporary problem more than
a permanent problem.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
You know, I don't know, but that's the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They're planning all these stories to justify the trade, saying
you're like two hundred and sixty pounds, and MAVs ownership
didn't trust him.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Bouncing around the pinball machine or the hot take here
that there was other mitigating factors. They didn't want to
pay him the Supermax contract, they didn't want to invest
that kind of money this summer. Give him another contract
and well at backfire. It's already backfired. Mavericks aren't winning
anything with Anthony Davis. You come on, Anthony never won
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with the Lakers. They never won a championship, not a
real one, fake one. They never want a real one
with the Lakers. Not gonna win now with Kyrie, they're
both going to get hemorrhoids playing rock paper scissors on
the bench while the other players are.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
They're playing yikes.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And as far as Luca, listen, if he had problems
with self discipline with the Dallas Mavericks, wait till you
get to the Lakers and to all those Hollywood f's
kiss your ass and invite you to all those parties
with piles of drugs and amazing food. And you're on
the A list everywhere in La because you wear the
Historian's uniform. That's what Luca has to look forward to.
(15:24):
So if you can't control yourself in Dallas. I know
those famous people in Dallas, I know those rich people
in Dallas, but it's a different animal in La and
the good luck, good luck Luca, good luck. All right,
it is the Ban Malors Show. We want to comment
on any of this massive, massive news, and we go
where the news of the day takes us. Big trades,
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Ben Mahlor. That is at Ben Mahlor. Is this the
thirty fourth day of the new year and we've only
got three hundred and thirty one to go, So we
get some time to go as we work our way
through the new year. And there can be nothing that
takes place without some kind of conspiracy, including a big
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NBA trade, the deep state Luca trade conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Have you heard it?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Have you heard the conspiracy? On why Luca was really
traded that nobody wants to talk about hush hush on this.
We'll give you what the tinfoil hat crowd is saying
about this trade. We'll get to it and we will
do it next.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
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Make her happy.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Now back to it we go? Yeah, yeah, all right,
So Luca traded. Everyone's got a take on this. We'll
get reaction. Pulse of the people. We do here, pulse
of the people. Ryan writes in from San Diego. So
can I be a resident coach? I coached soups for
eighteen years. I really believe that this is about Luca
being uncoachable? What is going on in practice? Remember Jason
(18:21):
Kidd was a point guard. I think he had enough
of Luca and will come out. It will come out
at some point. M I.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I don't think so a lot. Ryan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I don on what level you coached at, but a
lot of these guys in the NBA do their own thing,
and coaches put up with it because they're really good.
Nick the Windy's got it's a big night. Nick the
Wendy's guy from Minnesota rights since his hey buddy Ben Uh.
Now that the Wolves missed out on Daron Fox and
the Rudor to trade Julius Randa, where do you see
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the Wolves looking for trade pieces?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
From here? They'll be putting ads on eBay, look looking
for something? Who else? Page down? I can't read that,
David says Maler.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Will be jumping on the Laker bandwagon now that Luca
is wearing Luca gear.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Oh my god, come on, that will never happen ever.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
But Cooper Loop, who I've not seen where a Laker
hat in like a year, showed up wearing his Laker
hat here. So he's on the bandwagon. He's fully on there.
Frank in La points out his name is Luca. Yeah,
we have that Lucas song. We gotta dust that thing off.
We got to find that Lucas song.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
He says, his.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Name is Luca. There it is MAVs fans crying on
the floor. There, GM is a real buffoon. Jersey's half
off in the team's store.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What a mess.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I'm trying to think of the comp on this, like
I have been doing this a long time. This is
you talk about coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Brian writes and says the Lakers are on their way back,
upgrading with Luca and finally moving on from street clothes
and says Brian Gunner at the Walmart in Minnesota up
with us listening. He says, I We'll give you an
A plus plus on that Mallard monologue. The Lakers don't
deserve Luca, No, LA team deserves him, especially the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Good thing he didn't get. They didn't get him.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They suck's gunner hot take artist good good gunner, My god,
who else do you have?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Derek Rightsonce says, Polenka. Fleece.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Plinka didn't do anything. Stop you think Polinka did anything?
Come on, skinny jeans, Rob Polinka.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Ferg dog right says, says, I don't see what all
the fuss is about. So LA's B team got Luca,
big deal. This trade just proves how desperate the Lakers
are to climb out from under the Clipper's shadow. Great
point for a dog, and the Clippers got Patty Mills.
They got Patty. Let's go to the phones. Let's say
hello to Eenie Meenie miney mo. Ricky is in southern California.
(20:53):
Ricky welcome. You're in the just down the road from
us here in Van eis what's going on? Ricky welcome?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Hey, Hello, Hello. First of all, I am not a
clip with fans, not.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Ever, not everyone not everyone's perfect.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Let let every let everybody know that this is the
Laker town.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Okay, and drink Saturday.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
And here's the other thing. Okay, I am I am
very happy.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
You're happy.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I am very happy that we have uh adult star.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What do we what are we drinking?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We are drinking whiskey?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, how many bottles in are we?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Two?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Two bottles? Night's young, though, we got a you know,
it's not even midnight on the West coast.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
You got ways, it's not even midnight in the West coast.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, you pace.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You gotta pay yourself. So it's a long night. You're
not going. Don't leave your house. Just stay in your house, Moorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
More more over than that, more other than that. I
just want to say, I am I am happy that
we got Luca. Luca.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What's his last name? What's his last name?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You know he's a badass.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, what's his last name? What's the guy?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
What's his last name? What's Luca's last name? That's right,
duk They got Luca Dukic. That's correct. You know your basketball?
You are good. I can't I can't compete. Is this
Sham's Are you sham?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Is Sham's calling me up here? I gotta go, thank
you cool? Please get that as a drop as soon
as possible. I need to play that non stop all night.
I need that drop all night. And his last name, yes,
just the part of him saying his last name. And
I don't think we'll just play that tonight. I think
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we will just play that for the rest of time
anytime he does anything.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Well, add it to are all time awesome drops.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, that's right, because we have listen, We've got the
Luca's song, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You know, Luke, my name is Luca. His name is Luca.
That's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But now we can add the new drop, which will
be even better. All right's call the phones and again,
let's say hello.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
To any meenie, miney moe.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We'll go to uh, let's see here Sebastian, who's on
the Oregon Trail in Corvallis where the beavers hang out.
What's going on, Sebastian, Welcome?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I make people are making a big deal about this.
Look about fair. I don't even think it's the senitive
that the Mavericks got the better end of the deal
in the tree Young trade. So I think that I
think it's uh so much Luca ballas are going on
out there, so.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You believe that the world is just licking the toes
of Luca and he sucks. Can I see I'd like
to see what what are you what are you alluding to?
You're annoyed that he's getting so much attention. You're troubled
by the amount of attention that Luca is getting. This
is not good. You feel like this is too much.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
I don't think the trades is lopsided as everyone is
saying it is. So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So all right, so I explain this to me because
I'm not that bright. I do the Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
So the Mavericks traded Luca because he was out of
shape and he wasn't available for a guy who's older
and in shape but not available.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, I'm just saying, you know, it's you know, a
healthy not Anthony Davis. Luca, Dontris had his best. It's
right there. I mean, if it's a members want to
win right now, members want to win right now. And
as long as Anthony Davis stays healthy, it's uh, it's.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well, yeah, as long as he stays healthy. You know
what his nickname again, his nickname is Street Closed. Does
a guy whose nickname is street close sound like a
guy who's going to stay healthy? If his nickname is
street Close, does it sound like he's going to stay healthy?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
What?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I don't like Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I don't like Anthony.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
You don't like anybody. I know that. I know that
type of fan you are. You ain't everybody. I know
you don't like any of these guys. I know the
type of fan you are. I know you don't like
any of them. Come on, be honest, I like them now.
You don't don't lie to me. You don't like any
of these guys. You think all these guys are overrated.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Turns most of them are.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I see, I'm right, am I not? Listen?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm a psychologist. I know exactly type of fan you are.
You think all these guys are overrated, and you know,
idiots like me spent too much time talking about I know,
I hear.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
All right, well I'll let you go. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Listen. He's gotta be jealous of AD's unibrow, Okay, Like
that is the coolest thing anyone could have on their face,
and so I just I feel like that's where his
you know, is.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It true that women are more tracted to men with
the unibrow?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Is that correct?
Speaker 6 (25:55):
Do you imagine watching the movie like a movie at
night and he's just laying on your lap and you're just.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Petting his unibra. Yeah, it's magical.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It's like the girls that back in my day, when
you were a kid, you watched a lot of Sesame Street.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know, do you think kids probably don't even
watch that? Of course they do. Do they still watch us?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, Elmo?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Well, Elmo, but he's end.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But no Burt and Ernie right, Ernie had the thick
brow and Bert had the Yeah, thick thick brows there
for sure.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
I'm sure Bert, Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
They've yeah, a lot of well.
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phones talking about this big trade. Luca in his prime,
twenty soon to be twenty six years old, traded and
the Mavericks only talk to one team.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Only one team. This is unreal. My name is Yeah.
Well do we have do we have the other drop
writer to go? Do we have that?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
We have?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
No, we don't have that. We haven't even gone to
break yet. Oh all right, I think we can't turn
it around as we want to break. I don't break.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Well, you know, it just takes a lot of buttons.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
What if I played it on the air and then
it overlaps with you recording into the podcast, and then
you know, it's just I don't.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Want to passion. I don't quick turn around there, get
that thing back on there. Ethan is in Rhode Island. Hello, Ethan,
Welcome and how's we going?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hey A is hanging out talking.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Thank you, sirpreciate that.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, Ethan, you're so coop. Put you on hold horn
say let me putch you back up? Hello, Ethan, what's
going on?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Ethan? You're back on your eyes so I apologize.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Yes, yeah, so I was just thinking this trade, that
Luca trade is kind of crazy. It doesn't it doesn't
make sense to me. I don't know. I'm thinking Adam
Silver might have had a had something to do with it.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh, it's because nobody's watching it, but not nobody's watching
the NBA. But the ratings are pretty flat.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
In the NBA.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You need a little more rasmtash. I don't like the
Lakers get ratings.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Though. People still watch the Lakers, so.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
They always need to start player, right, I need someone
on their team.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
My entire life, they've always gotten one of the top
two or three players in the NBA, and that'll continue
for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It would appear with Luca.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Lebron definitely knew though, right, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Come on Lebron's Oh no, I had no idea. I
was at dinner. I was at some you know, a
restaurant in Manhattan.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
It doesn't make sense. I just isn't he like top
three players in the league or something like that.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
I mean, what is it?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Three?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, No, he played well last year, but he's undependable
and you know, Luca five. I mean, just if they
had put Luke on the market. Look at some of
the trades that have happened in the NBA. The Clippers
traded shake Yogas Alexander's probably win the MVP this year,
and like seven first round draft picks for Paul George,
(29:31):
Paul George blows, Paul George blouse, Rudy Gobart, he's yeah,
he's okay, he's a defensive guy. Minnesota trade with that
trade with Utah, it was like twenty seven first round
draft picks or something ridiculous like that.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
It was just so stupid.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
And one, you're if I own the Mavericks and I
actually cared about my basketball team, I would fire my
GM right now.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
You're done.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
You're done as a Celtics fan, Like shit, I'd give
JB to like at five first round draft our first
five draft picks, Like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, it's pretty pretty wacky, man, pretty wacky.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
What do you think about the Celtics stuff?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Well, pretty nice comeback. The Sixers have mastered the art
of blowing blowing game. They blew a lead against the
Nuggets the other day, but.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
That that was historical.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
The Sixers have what were they up by twenty six
points or something like that, some ridiculously and the Celtics
came back on Sunday and when they get But the
Celtics have been up and down though, it's not like
they've been consistent here the last month.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
They've doesn't play games.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
What's wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
He doesn't really like basketball?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Is he lazy?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Or is he he's coddled.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He's surrounded by people that have convinced him that he
can't play back to back games. And if he plays
a certain number of minutes, his body will literally melt
and he will be a ball of goo if he
plays too many games in too many minutes. All right,
thanks Ethan, man, I gotta go, all right, thank you
Ethan checking in. Oh my my, oh my, oh my,
(31:04):
oh we got our first dump of the week. Bad. Yeah,
less than it outredy Ethan, so confident. Me and Ethan,
we have a bond, Me and Ethan, buddies. That's how
men talk to each other. And lorrain it just makes
it a bad word in the conversation. That's how we talk,
you know, it's just keeping it real. That's how we
do it. Unfortunately, the powers that be don't like when
(31:27):
words like that get on the air, because it's a
lot of kids listening at this time.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
We should be on like XM radio or whatever it is,
because you can cuss on there.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah, it's all right. Sometimes sometimes people listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
They hear everything that's true. So it's more downloads for us.
What did you think?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You know?
Speaker 6 (31:46):
You know what, we should just start cussing and I
can dump us.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like it.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
I like it get a little more risque.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I have cursed on the air several times.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
I think last time was it last time I cursed
when the Clippers lost in the Nuggets in the play
off and I ripped Doc Rivers?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh yeah, just slipped out, didn't it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It was a natural situation. It just happened organically. Yeah,
I got a little worked up. Was it the Nuggets?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
One?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes, it was the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, it was the Nuggets and the Clippers in that
little Orlando bubble thing they had going down there during COVID.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
I'm pretty sure that was the last time I cursed.
Went there.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Okay, alright, Hea, No, no, no, you cursed while I was here? Really, Yeah,
it was an accident, it was you started to curse.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Oh that doesn't count. If you didn't finish it, it
doesn't counts duly noted. Yeah, as a joke there somewhere.
But all right, anyway, all right, it is the Ben
Mallards show, the conspiracy. I want to run this by
you boys all. Let me run this bias. See what
you think here? Okay, deep state Luca trade conspiracy. Is
(32:51):
it true that the Atolson group that purchased the Mavericks
from Mark Cuban, they have controlling interests of the Dallas
Mavericks that they traded Luca to undermine confidence in the
Dallas basketball fan, thus clearing the way, clearing the way
to eventually relocate the franchise.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
So they're beloved Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
The Adolson group runs a bunch of gambling operations out
of Vegas. It's a gambling family. So is it possible
that this is all part of a bigger plan that
the ownership told the GM this, Nico Harrison guy, you
gotta trade Luca. And the plan is that it's much
(33:34):
like the old baseball movie Major League where they want
to move the team to Miami. Well, this is they
want to move to Vegas and then Dallas would end
up getting an expansion franchise, The Dallas Mavericks as they're known,
would change their name and they would move to Las Vegas.
The Adoson group owns a lot of land there. They
could build the Amazing Arena and a new hotel. And
(33:55):
there's already talk of Circus Circus is for sale. Maybe
I don't know who currently owns that. The group that
owns it's selling it, So is there anything to that?
Is there anything to that? This was all part of
a bigger plan by the Mavericks ownership group that if
you really want to piss off your fan base and
get them to not trust you, you trade the franchise
(34:17):
player before he's even twenty six years old. And then
people get upset, and he said, well, we people just
don't like as in where the attendants goes down, the
ratings on TV go down, and then all of a
sudden you say, ah, we'll go to Vegas. Sorry, that's it,
We're done. Time out for the who am I game?
We'll get back to the calls. Here's the who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Game? That's where I pretend to be somebody else.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
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who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
The Chiefs are trying to three peat? However, I am
the old only NFL player who has won three consecutive
Super Bowls in the history of that game.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Who am I? Again? The Chiefs trying to three.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Peat this week with the Eagles, However, I'm the only
NFL player who has won three consecutive Super Bowl championships.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Miller and you reminder, the Ben Maller Show uses X
during the live show, but you can also see videos
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Facebook page for the Internet Ben Maller Show. But that yes,
(35:52):
Big Pizza Knight for Ben this weekend. You can see
from scratch is Italian blood? If he was only Italian?
Right there? Coming out to see authentic pizza Rhea Pie,
right and check that out. Also, don't forget on the
YouTube channel. Ben would like you to watch his videos.
(36:13):
Fox Sports Radio would like you to follow the company
YouTube channel. It's on the YouTube there's video clips of
all the various shows. Again, Ben only wants me to
have you watch his clips of malard monologues and more.
Check it out on YouTube Fox Sports Radio channel to
search out the Ben Mahler show on that channel.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now back to it we go.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
That's right, and Bill, you didn't. I don't think you
went in enough detail. Made pizza from scratch. The dough,
You've put the flour together, you mix everything up, you
have the dough rise. You gotta then knead the dough
and it's all sticky, and you gotta add more flour
to it, and you gotta make the tomato sauce, and
you got to hand grate the cheese and all that,
and then you get a pretty good pizza. I normally
(36:57):
use that Trader Joe's stuff, which is like pre made
the dough, but it's not like it's not as good
as like when you make it yourself.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Your pizza looked impressive, then blank you.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Laren you should. We'll have a pizza night. You can
come and try the pizza because it's an idea. I
like that pizza night. You're down with pizza that we
should do that pizza. Yeah, pizza. That was good.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So I thought that came out pretty good. And we'll
master it some more and we'll work on that. And
war Eagle says, you should have done a whole segment
with that drunk guy. Bad job by you. Well, war Eagle,
you don't understand this show. If I only have one
drunk guy on, I'm leaving seventeen other drunk guys on. Hold,
all right, we have plenty of time for drunk guys.
(37:34):
Do we have that guy breaking down the Luca trade?
Do we have that ready to go?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That's serious. Let's see what we got here and see
what we got here.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
No, we don't have it. I Coop said, I had
to go to break because we needed to get it.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
What's going on in there? Are you guys? Everything all
right in there?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
And everything?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
I mean just I mean, we don't have any guests.
There's no budget for the show. All I need some
sound and having some trouble getting that. All right, Anyway,
here's the who am I game? Well, just go back
and hear the podcast. I guess that's where you'll hear it.
But here's the who am I game? The Chiefs are
trying to three peat? However, I am the only NFL
player who has won three consecutive championships. In the history
(38:14):
of the Super Bowl, only one player has won three
consecutive Super Bowl rings.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Ken?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Ken Norton guessed by poly d Van McElroy from Malibu,
Ruban Charles Haley from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Alice the
Brady Bunch made from Donkey Sausage. Who else do we have?
The Queen Charlotte Flair from Rob in Vegas, Bart Scott
(38:44):
from ferg Dog. What is the shot of Bart Scott
beating the Spurs in an NBA playoff game?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I remember that shot?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Heard about that last week, mister nice guy going with
Nick ASASKI remember you're old, mister nice guest. So Nick
ASASKI signed. I think it was the Red Sox and
then had was it Vertigo? And he couldn't play, he
couldn't hit anymore. Walmart Legend Gunner from King Roy good
photo of Gunner that Ozepic is really working for him.
(39:10):
Who else do we have Elizabeth Holmes, who is forty
one today from Late Night Drug Tester Al Bundy from
Big greg In Ile, Darnell Darnold from Andy in lion
O Lakes.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Tom Brady guests by Freddie that's see here, Casey Carr
Holler says Joel Polk of Goo embiid is the answer?
Tony Esposito by Johnny q RT. Lorena, What say.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
I think it's Tony the Tiger, Ben.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Tony Tiger, big hero when you were a child, little
girl growing up, Tony.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
The Tiger, you know he made me eat my cereal.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I was more of a captain crunch guy.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
The correct answer though, Ken Norton Junior, two with the
Cowboys and one with the Niners way back in the nineties,
thirty years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
That's a long time. Last name
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