April 15, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about coach Mike Budenholzer getting fired by the Phoenix Suns and if he got a raw deal, which player shoulders the most blame for Budenholzer getting the boot, how much blame David Griffin deserves for the Hornets' struggles, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, It's our number one, our one of the pod.
Happy Tuesday to you. I hope you've done your taxes.
It's that dreaded April fifteenth day comes around every year.
I know most people get extensions these days, at least
if you're in the States. Here and in our number one,
it's all about pro bouncy ball. Did coach Mike Budenhozer
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get a raw deal from the Suns? Also, which player
shoulders the most blame for Mike Budenholzer's quick departure one
season in the Phoenix area, And how much blame does
David Griffin deserve for New Orleans struggles as the Pelicans
have said bye bye to Griffin as the head of
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basketball ops.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We'll get to all that and more right now here.
It is our number one.
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Flight all night long.
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And the story that caught my attention, you kind of
knew it was coming, but it happened.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's from pro Bouncy.
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Ball and the guillotine has fallen.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Now, the regular season ended on Sunday. There was nothing
basketball wise on Monday, and there's really nothing until the
playoffs start this weekend.
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And unless you're into the Fu.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Gasey Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will be going
on starting on Tuesday.
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But the wings of change howling.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And we start out in the Grand Canyon State where
everything under the sun is in play at this point
everything under the sun. And if you have not been
following the game of musical chairs, by chance here maybe not.
The Suns decided to whack. They played whack a mole.
They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer. Coach Budd
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gone see you later, persona non grada excommunicated from the
team Phoenix missing the playoffs when everyone gets in the
play suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the Suns
could even get in the playing tournament, and so they're
out now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
In a prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Statement released by some empty suit for the organization in Arizona,
they said that competing at the highest level remains our goal,
and we failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans
deserve better. Change is needed close quote, which is a
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nice way of saying, we have no idea what we're doing.
This didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna
keep throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay, So,
third consecutive, third consecutive offseason. That Matt Ishbia, the very
wealthy owner of the Phoenix pro bouncy ball team, is
in the business of trying to hire a coach. So
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let us discuss and before we look ahead, we must
look back. So did Mike Budenholzer get a raw deal
in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was in
Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you win
a title, you get that tag of having the championship
pedigree and all that, and so that's why the Sons
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brought him in. As he lasted one year and then
he's kicked out. So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills,
and Budweiser, and we will combine all of these things together,
every single thing together, and we are going to make
a cactus, which is what the Suns, through Mike Budenholzer
on a cacti is what they did right there, all
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the prickly cactus, little parts of it, enjoy all that.
So number number there we go. So you got to
start up the band. Earlier, I said, numb burn, Well
you know what this is. Okay, you know what season
this is? Now somebody's no, no, it's not the number one.
Someon would say it's spring, right, spraying, that time of
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the year and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I would say it's the season of no as in,
uh no, this was not a raw deal. Not a
raw deal. Not a raw deal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, no, no, no, no, no no. And here's why,
all right, this is the opposite of a raw deal.
What this is for Mike Budenholzer is the American dream.
It is the American dream. It is a sweetheart deal.
It is it's a sweetheart deal. Me explain why. Because
he is holding the winning lottery numbers to the Arizona Lottery.
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He's got him. And he didn't buy a lottery ticket.
He just happened to get the ticket somehow it popped
into his hand, it did. Budenholder accepted a five year
contract for fifty million dead president's last offseason, so a
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year ago, less than a year ago. Now, he attempted
to agree, signed the docu sign there, got the fifty
million dollar contract, and he's gone after one year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona, Mike Budenholzer
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was given a tugboat. It was a golden tug boat,
and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
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And that was his gift. Does that sound like he
got if I said, listen, you got to put up
for for one year, you got to put up with this.
We'll get We'll get your forty million, and you don't
have to put up with it anymore, and you can
do whatever you want. You're good as long as you
don't trash the team. You get the forty million done, done,
And but wait, there's more, As every great infomercial says,
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but wait, there's more. So Additionally, when he left the Bucks,
he had he didn't leave the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He got let go.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
By the box, he had sixteen million that the Bucks
owed him approximately, So that means, based on just buyouts
from the Milwaukee and Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer, by the
time this deals up in Arizona, will have made fifty
six million to not coach pro bouncy ball, fifty six
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million to sit on your ass and get hemorrhoids and
not coach. Budenholzer is financially as snug as a bug
in the rug.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He is good to go now, Patrito.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
it always goes back to the players. There has never,
in the modern era been a coaching change that was
not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen.
The players are the ones that drive the bus in
that business, and so which player shoulders the most blame
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for Mike Budenhozer not working out? There a quick departure
from the Suns Now. The rumors for the last couple
of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
was the schmuck and he was the problem. Well, now
we have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
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whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue
with Devin Booker. The plot thickens. Yeah, Devin Booker supposedly
that Budenholzer has had issues connecting with the locker room
this season, which is really just some of the players
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didn't like the way he was talking.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's that's how that goes.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And he did not resonate, did not motivate them to
go out there and do things that you were supposed
to do, that you shouldn't need be to be told
what to do. But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I
say that with a winking or not, his charismatic approach
did not win the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the
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biggest issue the Komodo dragon in the room for Mike
Budenholzer was his inability to get on the same page
with Devin Booker. And he had the hutzba, as my
grandfather used to say, the hutzpa to try to tell
Devin Booker to ix nay on the talk a just
tone it down a couple of decibel points.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Just tone it down a little bit and we'll be
good to go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And and you would have thought that Mike Budenholzer had said,
why don't we cut off your right foot and that'll
make the team better, And Devin Booker said, I like
my right foot.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't I don't want to get rid of my
right foot.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'd like to keep my right foot, So why don't
we not do that, and then there was a problem.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And it does remind me that this cartoon image in
my head, it's not a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's actually a real movie.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's old movie Beverly Hills Cop back in the day,
and I think of that when I think of this,
like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin
Booker say you know, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I want to make this thing work.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I just need you to not talk that much and
kind of tone it down a little bit, be one
of the leaders on the team. And then and then
Devin Booker's like the character for Eddie Murphy in that movie,
the old movie Beverly Hills Cop, and he physically physically
blocks blocks the ears with his fingers and says.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
La la la la la la la la la la
la la la la. I'm not I can't hear you
la la la l like that.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Just like that, There you go, and Devin, you are
what your record says you are. This guy is one
of the epic coach killers. In the end is very
bigger coach kill. We talk about Lebron James as a
coach killer, but Devin Booker not in a big media market.
But Devin Booker, you talk about toxic. If you're a
head coach, holy crap. Oh man, if you're even.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
In the same room with this guy as a coach,
you're in jeopardy of being fired.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
With Devin Booker. My god, it's unreal, the math on this.
Seven coaches in ten years, and most of the last
well the last part of that seven years or so,
Devin Booker has been a headliner for the Suns, and
so he's obviously somebody is not easy to work with,
and it's it's one of those things. But your main
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job as a coach is just to lick the toes
of the star players. That's how you keep the job.
Coaches are completely irrelevant, yet they make it's such a
weird juxtaposition the NBA, because everyone agrees coaches don't matter,
they don't do anything, yet they get paid ten million
dollars in some cases more than that per year, and
yet they're easily replaceable. Like it's not like, well, you
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get rid of your top player. It's a big problem.
Every once, right, give rid of the coach, you bring
some other nerd in, like the Nuggets. The Nuggets had
Michael Malone, who most people thought was a pretty good coach.
They hired this beta Poindexter Nerd who's a NEPO baby,
as the interim coach.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And then we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know. It's like, it's like so bizarre that why
would you bother paying them that much. It's like the
NFL determined running backs don't need to get paid a
lot of money, so like only two or three running
backs get paid any money.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Everyone else gets paid peanuts. It's very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And congratulations to Matt Eshbia, you have assembled the worst
team that money could buy. NBA version, the Phoenix Suns
the highest payroll in NBA history this past season. They
totaled out at four hundred and forty two million. How
is that possible? Well, the payroll for the actual player
salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And then because all
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the cheap, tightwad, small market pathetic owners complained and said,
oh man, it's not fair. So they put all these taxes,
these tariffs, if you will, on the big money teams.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
In sports, and so in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four
million dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, and
they couldn't even make the play in tournament. Mike got
all right, not final point to the Big easy. There
were some other changes. There were other changes in the NBA.
The Pelicans, which is I think a team that's there
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so the other teams have someone to play.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They're one of those spam teams. How dumb is that name?
The Pelicans? Anyway, the New Orleans Pelicans, we don't talk
about that much. Why would we? Why would we?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They fired the executive named David griff a media favorite,
a media darling, and he has been given the walking papers.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Get out of here, you're done. Griffin's spent the past
six seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Putting bad basketball teams together as the head of basketball
ops in New Orleans, and the Pelicans have said, bye bye,
you're out of here. So how much blame does David
Griffin does he get for the New Orleans struggles? So
Griffin could write a book, he's not qualified also to
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teach a class, like a web based class on how
to keep getting gigs and not being very good at
your job and last a good amount of time. It's
wild right. Griffin failed horse trading one oh one long ago.
He allowed Anthony Davis to trade himself to the Lakers.
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That was under the Griffin watch, and then the winning
of the lottery will sometimes be careful what you wish
for the New Orleans Pelicans, remember they they won the lottery,
and David Griffin thought that the team was drafting a
thoroughbred that could win the Triple Crown or at least
the Kentucky Derby, and instead they ended up drafting a
player who is much more like a Budweiser Clydesdale in
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Zion Williamson, a Clydesdale with three legs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
What an enigma? What an enigma. Now, I don't have
an issue with them drafting Zion Williamson. I would have
done the same thing. The issue is you knew the
guy just doesn't have it, that he's lacking that genis aquah,
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The guys he's just not into it and he's never
gonna be that guy. And you signed him to another deal,
You sign him to an extension when you knew you
had a problem, you doubled down on the problem. And
that's that's malfeasance, is what that is. That's embarrassing, and
drafting Zion Williamson was not again the issue, but the
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fact that you tied yourself to that anchor, that's the
issue here. And again Griffin is one of these guys
got much like Darryl Morey in Philadelphia. He's got a
lot of opportunities because he's a bit of a carpetbagger.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He's got the good personality and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's allows the executive who when you think about his career,
he was in Cleveland for a while, and you talk
about being the beneficiary of circumstance. He went, he was
the GM. Lebron went back to Cleveland. Does anybody raise
her head? Is anyone in the building here raise her
head if you think Lebron went back to Cleveland because
David Griffin was the GM, or that was always Lebron's
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intention to eventually go back to Cleveland. And these two
things are not related, yes, exactly. And so now they're
going to bring in some other Jabroni, whether it's Joe
Dumars who's the early favorite, or somebody else. And the
first thing that person will do is get rid of
Zion Williamson. They'll be like, all right, this guy blows,
We'll get rid of this guy. For pennies on the
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dollar and a lot of lot of dollars. Al right,
it is the Ben Mahlard Show. And the only reason
they paid Zion Williamson was fomo the fear of missing out.
They were all, my god, we gotta pay him. We
have we don't pay them, Oh my god. They had
to pay him anyway. How'd that work out?
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Casey car Haller writes, In says, Coach Bud's golden parachute
makes the sevens package received by austed CEOs look like
busfair well, actually funny enough, Casey Carl Haller, not even
the case like that. Fifty six million to not coach
the Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns. A fair amount
of money, A fair amount of money. The amount of
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cash that these CEOs of big corporation get, that's I mean,
that's tons more. They laugh at the fifty six million
they sneeze. And the amount of music, I mean, the
amount of mucus that comes out of their mouth is
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And says, Devin Booker would have gotten coach John Wooden fired. Yes,
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if John Wooden had coached the Phoenix Suns, he would
have been fired. If Devin Booker had been there, of course,
Woulden would have also been in his hundreds By that point.
Ozzie was from Western Australia says, you just made my
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That's Ozzie was well. Listen, you know, let's dollars shave
clubs the way to go on that. What do you
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At some point. What's going on? John in Seattle?
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Welcome yos And I just want to say this. You
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Number we said top three, but we are right now
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Yeah. It's great to be.
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We're on top of the mountain. Baby, we are a
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You give me that?
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Can I get an amen? Can I get an amen? Sir?
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Let me get that?
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It's like a religous revival around you believe them.
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I want to say this if you want me to
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and I'm not going to say they're above you, but
to say they're equal to you, you know, But I don't.
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I don't care about other people. I'm already worried about
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I don't care about other people. I know you want
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Tom which I don't even know if they're alive anymore.
I haven't heard the man.
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Well Looney Looney's alive. I don't know about JA. I
think JT is alive and thin.
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He's with the Raiders doing some stuff there, watching watching
the Raiders most ten.
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Games every year.
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Again and I love those guys.
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Bro I love.
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Emmett watched that. He's blind. He watched the show every week.
And that's right, blind Scott.
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Blind.
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Scott's working as my agent, which I don't know if
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Yeah, obviously I'm I'm blinder than them.
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I could help you out.
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Yeah, all right, so we've you've established it. You like
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The Brick and Tom Looney and somebody else. Right, that's
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Is that it? We're done?
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Oh?
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No, no, it's more. We got more. But wait, there's.
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More, yes, yes, please wait there.
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So I'm actually moving up to the edge of my
seat right now. This is so riveting.
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I know you are, but I wanted to say this,
but the ratings on any sports will never be great again.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We're never going to.
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Hit that pig except for the women's sports.
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But men's sports are never going to get.
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Great again because it's all contracted out.
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Yeah, I would argue that women nobody's watching women's sports
other than Kitlyn. Caitlyn Clark's the only one people are watching.
They're not really one's better.
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I would, I would, I would. I I don't think so,
I don't. I don't see it. You're very optimistic, though.
Maybe you'll be right. But if that, if that happens,
i'll be I'll be here. All right.
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I gotta go, but thank you your barty into bar
guarding the time.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now, let's say hello to hollering James. Who is next up? Hello,
Hollering James.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Hollering James, got for you. Let's talk a little bit, Laker,
kimber wolfsh.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Can you protect?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Can you pretend to be asleep? What can you pretend
to be asleep? I enjoy your calls when you're sleeping. Wow,
he's possessed, possessed by the devil.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Lore on.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, I don't think that would be the right phrasing
of that. I think yes, she's not done. He's done
with the show because of you. She's leaving the show
because of youre.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Wow, man, you are You're in rare form.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
My god, how lucky are we to have you call
the show and you're actually awake tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Where have you been hollering? James?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I've been in I've been in cat Meto, like mister
who was a professional. I used to wrestle with Camptira.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But not but not Richie Incognito, the former NFL lineman.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Not Ricky. We're not related, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No relations? Yeah, okay, well we're too. We're two for two.
Can I get a? Can I get a? James? Can
I get a hallelujahujah? Can I get it? Amen?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Hey, man, you're gonna get in trouble, James. You're just
people sleeping. You can't yell, James, You're not You're gonna
get the phone's gonna get taken away. Man, you can't
be doing that. What are you doing, dude? Those people sleeping?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Where you are?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I to put you a stereo and then go into
the kitchen kill a bowl of cheerios.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, that's what a great late night snack. Cheerios. You
gotta have the milk, though. You gotta have the milk
for that. You like what.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I like them without the milk to you want to
see them dry.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's too dry. You gotta have it. It's a dry.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, it's just now you gotta dry. I'll eat like
Captain crunch dry that.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, the little cookie ones, I'll eat those dry.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's just eating cookies about.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
The time might be like what I'm talking about, Mikey
Jordan's Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay, you're dating yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You gotta hollering, James has a take. This will be
You've been calling me for many, many years. This will
be the first time you've got to take. Now, before
you do the take, let me remind you that this
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They can spread That's not the name of the spot, James.
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(29:15):
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(29:38):
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Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh finally you got it right. You finally got it right.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
I had to finish it off. Hey, that's say real quick.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm sure you said you had a take. I will hurry.
What is the take?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I got to take?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
The Timberwolves and the Lakers, the timber three four, the
three game series going three to five Timberwolf.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So you're saying, you don't even know how many games
they're playing. You have no idea care, you don't care.
So if it's best of five, they'll win three. If
it's the best of seven, they'll win four.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
One arguments. I'm giving you arguments about comparing Anthony Edwards
to the Gray Michael Jordans Jordan's mess. I'm saying, after
the Edwards dropping forty seven, forty one or sixty, he
was the three point king of this year.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, listen, I am on team. I'm
a Timberwolf fan for the week. I will be a
Timberwolf fan. Don't don't make me regret this. Do not
make me regret this.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
The words you say bang about the Timberwolves. You know why,
that's a reetorical.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We just don't have to say why. Just as I
just said, I to say why. It's a rhetorical question.
Answer whatever, say it.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, say why.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't need to say why.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
You know why.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I don't want to say what?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All right, all right, I gotta go go away?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Why not the calls over?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
We're done because I got a Timberwolf shirt and a
Timperwolf's fantastic shirts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh my god, oh yeah, that fantastic T shirt. Man,
I was good.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I was gonna hang up on him, but he has
the fantastic T shirt, so I gotta keep him on holding.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Now the wolves are howling, they are howland the t shirt.
Now you know you really don't you know? He definitely
do not want to. I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Mark from Queen says, I'm worried that you said blind
Scott is your agent. The show will be canceled soon,
so he says, uh, let's see here. Larry De writes
in he says, please tell Loraina to play the the
Cubby Chubby song. She has no idea what that is. Yeah,
that was a famous it's in the system. It's a
famous song. Actually got us in trouble on Chicago radio
(32:27):
years ago. It's that song is twenty two years old.
The original Cubby Chubby, The Chubby Cubby song is, Yeah,
play a little bit of it here, barberovey.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Chubby because we're looking good.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Cobby Chubby, Yeah, Tom talking wood, carry wood. He's wrong,
they're all retired.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Come to the ballpark and Cubby twenty two year old song.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Cubby Chubby, and it's really hard. Yeah, complain about this
light up card. Yeah, it is from top to bottom.
Our boys can swing. Yeah in the bullpen and I
go swing.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
We don't need to play the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But that was actually sent in by a fan of
the show who was an obviously a big cub fan,
and they were going to the World Series. They thought
they were going to the World Series. They had this
great team in two thousand and three, and then this
fan named Steve Bartman. He made a play in the
entire baseball team, Steve Hartman an Abartman, and he had
(33:29):
the whole team crumbled and they were mentally weak, and
the whole Chicago cut team crumbled. So they had to
wait to get to the World Series and win the
World Series another when they went twenty sixteen, I think
twenty fifteen like that, so it was another over ten years.
They had to wait almost fifteen years. All right is
the Ben mather Show. And straight ahead the International Man
(33:49):
of Man of Merch, the International Man of Merch.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We'll get to that time. Time now for the who
am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I am an NBA player who led the league in
contested shots this year?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Who yeah? Who am I again?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm an NBA player, I led the league in contested shots.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven PM Pacific.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Bill Miller and I. It is the Ben Maler shows.
We slide on in to a Tuesday, so late on
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(34:41):
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We'd like you to watch those videos.
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Thank God for the Internet.
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understand why there's a million lights and cameras in the
studio when we're doing radio radios, just like TV without pictures,
(35:24):
but now they put cameras in, so now there's pictures.
And back to Ben, we go, Well, that's right, Bill,
and we got to pay off. Thank you, we'ed men.
But now he watches all those videos. He's all about it.
The rundown has been sent. Bill didn't mention that, but
the rundown is available. You can check that out there
and get all your rundown information. Very important, I know,
(35:48):
very important, but time to pay off. The who am I?
Game is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I? Game? I am
an NBA player who led the league in contested shots
this year?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
That is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota
said sid Vicious is the way to go dark. Old
Millisic guests by Malibu Rubin. Yeah, that's Joe Dumars.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Guy. Joe Dumares could be back. Tom Burlson from William
Doctor Evil.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Guest by Milkman Mike in Colorado, King Roy says Justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, there you go, Coop as a doll. Who else
do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Taxman George Harrison, I hope you have filed your taxes
from I forty ian Everyone gets extensions now anyway, Trucker
Joe says, you are the glove of O. J. Simpson,
Sharman Harmon says Connor Helibek is the answer.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You had me shocked at the realization that the Cubs
Championship was over a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I feel like it was just three years ago, says
Supermarket Steve.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, welcome to the to the Hot Tup time machine.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We are flying along.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Big Lous going with Kobe Bryant's uncle Chubby Cox is
his answer. Enis Wattlee from Bay City, Tony Zion Williamson
from Ozzie Waz That's his answer. Slimp Tim going with
former NBA player Michael Red. Steve the misplaced San Diegan
says Man. Newt Bowl is the way to go. Paul
(37:29):
Mkeskey misspelled by Roy, but that's his answer. Steve Bartman
from Chipping the Cues.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Who else do we have? Page Doc? Trucker Joe says Ben.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
When I'm on my deathbed, someday, I will look back
at today and I will say, I'm so damn glad
Ben took those last two calls. That's absolutely right, Trucker Joe.
You'll say that's the most valuable time I had on
this planet, one hundred percent. Robin Minnesota says Lawrence Phillips
is the correct answer. Who else do we have a
page down? Encouraging Gay says something about a pickle. That's
(38:03):
his answer. All right, what say you, Lorraine a big
basketball connoisseur.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I got the best gas Ben. Okay, we'll be the judge.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh Luke, Yeah, the right, Huka Luca, the guy that
loves smoking the hooken will be knocked out in the
first round of the NBA Playoffs by the upstart Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
That is incorrect. Unfortunately, the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
At age thirty seven, Brook Lopez of the Milwaukee Bucks
led the league in contested shots. You want a fun fact,
I'll give you a fun fact, So the brook Lopez
fun fact matter. Fun fact, brook Lopez has now led
the NBA in contested shots six of the last seven years.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Six of the last seven years.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
No one has led that in that stat more since
they began obsessively having the nerds track that stat which
means one of two things. The fact that brook Lopez
has led in contested shots six of the last seven
years means either a Brook Lopez is one of the
great underrated defensive players of our time and should be
getting more credit, or B, this is the biggest nothing
(39:16):
stat and it's ridiculous, it's absurd.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
I'm going with B. I'm gonna go with B. B's
my answer. Wow,
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, It's our number one, our one of the pod.
Happy Tuesday to you. I hope you've done your taxes.
It's that dreaded April fifteenth day comes around every year.
I know most people get extensions these days, at least
if you're in the States. Here and in our number one,
it's all about pro bouncy ball. Did coach Mike Budenhozer
(00:25):
get a raw deal from the Suns? Also, which player
shoulders the most blame for Mike Budenholzer's quick departure one
season in the Phoenix area, And how much blame does
David Griffin deserve for New Orleans struggles as the Pelicans
have said bye bye to Griffin as the head of
(00:45):
basketball ops.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We'll get to all that and more right now here.
It is our number one.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Not wasting any time at all. Welcome in not beginning
of another night of the Benmatler Show.
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by side here and we will be here on the
full Redeye flight, not part of the Redefe flight, the
full journey on the Red Eye.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Flight all night long.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And the story that caught my attention, you kind of
knew it was coming, but it happened.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
It's from pro Bouncy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ball and the guillotine has fallen.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Down, down, down, down down.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Now, the regular season ended on Sunday. There was nothing
basketball wise on Monday, and there's really nothing until the
playoffs start this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And unless you're into the Fu.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Gasey Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will be going
on starting on Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But the wings of change howling.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And we start out in the Grand Canyon State where
everything under the sun is in play at this point
everything under the sun. And if you have not been
following the game of musical chairs, by chance here maybe not.
The Suns decided to whack. They played whack a mole.
They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer. Coach Budd
(03:03):
gone see you later, persona non grada excommunicated from the
team Phoenix missing the playoffs when everyone gets in the
play suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the Suns
could even get in the playing tournament, and so they're
out now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
In a prepared.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Statement released by some empty suit for the organization in Arizona,
they said that competing at the highest level remains our goal,
and we failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans
deserve better. Change is needed close quote, which is a
(03:40):
nice way of saying, we have no idea what we're doing.
This didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna
keep throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay, So,
third consecutive, third consecutive offseason. That Matt Ishbia, the very
wealthy owner of the Phoenix pro bouncy ball team, is
in the business of trying to hire a coach. So
(04:02):
let us discuss and before we look ahead, we must
look back. So did Mike Budenholzer get a raw deal
in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was in
Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you win
a title, you get that tag of having the championship
pedigree and all that, and so that's why the Sons
(04:24):
brought him in. As he lasted one year and then
he's kicked out. So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills,
and Budweiser, and we will combine all of these things together,
every single thing together, and we are going to make
a cactus, which is what the Suns, through Mike Budenholzer
on a cacti is what they did right there, all
(04:47):
the prickly cactus, little parts of it, enjoy all that.
So number number there we go. So you got to
start up the band. Earlier, I said, numb burn, Well
you know what this is. Okay, you know what season
this is? Now somebody's no, no, it's not the number one.
Someon would say it's spring, right, spraying, that time of
(05:10):
the year and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I would say it's the season of no as in,
uh no, this was not a raw deal. Not a
raw deal. Not a raw deal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
No, no, no, no, no, no no. And here's why,
all right, this is the opposite of a raw deal.
What this is for Mike Budenholzer is the American dream.
It is the American dream. It is a sweetheart deal.
It is it's a sweetheart deal. Me explain why. Because
he is holding the winning lottery numbers to the Arizona Lottery.
(05:44):
He's got him. And he didn't buy a lottery ticket.
He just happened to get the ticket somehow it popped
into his hand, it did. Budenholder accepted a five year
contract for fifty million dead president's last offseason, so a
(06:04):
year ago, less than a year ago. Now, he attempted
to agree, signed the docu sign there, got the fifty
million dollar contract, and he's gone after one year.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona, Mike Budenholzer
(06:36):
was given a tugboat. It was a golden tug boat,
and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
(06:57):
And that was his gift. Does that sound like he
got if I said, listen, you got to put up
for for one year, you got to put up with this.
We'll get We'll get your forty million, and you don't
have to put up with it anymore, and you can
do whatever you want. You're good as long as you
don't trash the team. You get the forty million done, done,
And but wait, there's more, As every great infomercial says,
(07:19):
but wait, there's more. So Additionally, when he left the Bucks,
he had he didn't leave the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He got let go.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
By the box, he had sixteen million that the Bucks
owed him approximately, So that means, based on just buyouts
from the Milwaukee and Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer, by the
time this deals up in Arizona, will have made fifty
six million to not coach pro bouncy ball, fifty six
(07:46):
million to sit on your ass and get hemorrhoids and
not coach. Budenholzer is financially as snug as a bug
in the rug.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
He is good to go now, Patrito.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
it always goes back to the players. There has never,
in the modern era been a coaching change that was
not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen.
The players are the ones that drive the bus in
that business, and so which player shoulders the most blame
(08:23):
for Mike Budenhozer not working out? There a quick departure
from the Suns Now. The rumors for the last couple
of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
was the schmuck and he was the problem. Well, now
we have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
(08:44):
whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue
with Devin Booker. The plot thickens. Yeah, Devin Booker supposedly
that Budenholzer has had issues connecting with the locker room
this season, which is really just some of the players
(09:05):
didn't like the way he was talking.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
That's that's how that goes.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And he did not resonate, did not motivate them to
go out there and do things that you were supposed
to do, that you shouldn't need be to be told
what to do. But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I
say that with a winking or not, his charismatic approach
did not win the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the
(09:33):
biggest issue the Komodo dragon in the room for Mike
Budenholzer was his inability to get on the same page
with Devin Booker. And he had the hutzba, as my
grandfather used to say, the hutzpa to try to tell
Devin Booker to ix nay on the talk a just
tone it down a couple of decibel points.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Just tone it down a little bit and we'll be
good to go.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And and you would have thought that Mike Budenholzer had said,
why don't we cut off your right foot and that'll
make the team better, And Devin Booker said, I like
my right foot.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I don't I don't want to get rid of my
right foot.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I'd like to keep my right foot, So why don't
we not do that, and then there was a problem.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And it does remind me that this cartoon image in
my head, it's not a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It's actually a real movie.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
There's old movie Beverly Hills Cop back in the day,
and I think of that when I think of this,
like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin
Booker say you know, I'm here.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I want to make this thing work.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I just need you to not talk that much and
kind of tone it down a little bit, be one
of the leaders on the team. And then and then
Devin Booker's like the character for Eddie Murphy in that movie,
the old movie Beverly Hills Cop, and he physically physically
blocks blocks the ears with his fingers and says.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
La la la la la la la la la la
la la la la. I'm not I can't hear you
la la la l like that.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Just like that, There you go, and Devin, you are
what your record says you are. This guy is one
of the epic coach killers. In the end is very
bigger coach kill. We talk about Lebron James as a
coach killer, but Devin Booker not in a big media market.
But Devin Booker, you talk about toxic. If you're a
head coach, holy crap. Oh man, if you're even.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
In the same room with this guy as a coach,
you're in jeopardy of being fired.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
With Devin Booker. My god, it's unreal, the math on this.
Seven coaches in ten years, and most of the last
well the last part of that seven years or so,
Devin Booker has been a headliner for the Suns, and
so he's obviously somebody is not easy to work with,
and it's it's one of those things. But your main
(11:50):
job as a coach is just to lick the toes
of the star players. That's how you keep the job.
Coaches are completely irrelevant, yet they make it's such a
weird juxtaposition the NBA, because everyone agrees coaches don't matter,
they don't do anything, yet they get paid ten million
dollars in some cases more than that per year, and
yet they're easily replaceable. Like it's not like, well, you
(12:14):
get rid of your top player. It's a big problem.
Every once, right, give rid of the coach, you bring
some other nerd in, like the Nuggets. The Nuggets had
Michael Malone, who most people thought was a pretty good coach.
They hired this beta Poindexter Nerd who's a NEPO baby,
as the interim coach.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
And then we'll figure it out.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You know. It's like, it's like so bizarre that why
would you bother paying them that much. It's like the
NFL determined running backs don't need to get paid a
lot of money, so like only two or three running
backs get paid any money.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Everyone else gets paid peanuts. It's very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
And congratulations to Matt Eshbia, you have assembled the worst
team that money could buy. NBA version, the Phoenix Suns
the highest payroll in NBA history this past season. They
totaled out at four hundred and forty two million. How
is that possible? Well, the payroll for the actual player
salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And then because all
(13:09):
the cheap, tightwad, small market pathetic owners complained and said,
oh man, it's not fair. So they put all these taxes,
these tariffs, if you will, on the big money teams.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
In sports, and so in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
So they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four
million dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, and
they couldn't even make the play in tournament. Mike got
all right, not final point to the Big easy. There
were some other changes. There were other changes in the NBA.
The Pelicans, which is I think a team that's there
(13:44):
so the other teams have someone to play.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They're one of those spam teams. How dumb is that name?
The Pelicans? Anyway, the New Orleans Pelicans, we don't talk
about that much. Why would we? Why would we?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They fired the executive named David griff a media favorite,
a media darling, and he has been given the walking papers.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Get out of here, you're done. Griffin's spent the past
six seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Putting bad basketball teams together as the head of basketball
ops in New Orleans, and the Pelicans have said, bye bye,
you're out of here. So how much blame does David
Griffin does he get for the New Orleans struggles? So
Griffin could write a book, he's not qualified also to
(14:32):
teach a class, like a web based class on how
to keep getting gigs and not being very good at
your job and last a good amount of time. It's
wild right. Griffin failed horse trading one oh one long ago.
He allowed Anthony Davis to trade himself to the Lakers.
(14:57):
That was under the Griffin watch, and then the winning
of the lottery will sometimes be careful what you wish
for the New Orleans Pelicans, remember they they won the lottery,
and David Griffin thought that the team was drafting a
thoroughbred that could win the Triple Crown or at least
the Kentucky Derby, and instead they ended up drafting a
player who is much more like a Budweiser Clydesdale in
(15:22):
Zion Williamson, a Clydesdale with three legs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
What an enigma? What an enigma. Now, I don't have
an issue with them drafting Zion Williamson. I would have
done the same thing. The issue is you knew the
guy just doesn't have it, that he's lacking that genis aquah,
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
He didn't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
The guys he's just not into it and he's never
gonna be that guy. And you signed him to another deal,
You sign him to an extension when you knew you
had a problem, you doubled down on the problem. And
that's that's malfeasance, is what that is. That's embarrassing, and
drafting Zion Williamson was not again the issue, but the
(16:01):
fact that you tied yourself to that anchor, that's the
issue here. And again Griffin is one of these guys
got much like Darryl Morey in Philadelphia. He's got a
lot of opportunities because he's a bit of a carpetbagger.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He's got the good personality and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
He's allows the executive who when you think about his career,
he was in Cleveland for a while, and you talk
about being the beneficiary of circumstance. He went, he was
the GM. Lebron went back to Cleveland. Does anybody raise
her head? Is anyone in the building here raise her
head if you think Lebron went back to Cleveland because
David Griffin was the GM, or that was always Lebron's
(16:37):
intention to eventually go back to Cleveland. And these two
things are not related, yes, exactly. And so now they're
going to bring in some other Jabroni, whether it's Joe
Dumars who's the early favorite, or somebody else. And the
first thing that person will do is get rid of
Zion Williamson. They'll be like, all right, this guy blows,
We'll get rid of this guy. For pennies on the
(16:58):
dollar and a lot of lot of dollars. Al right,
it is the Ben Mahlard Show. And the only reason
they paid Zion Williamson was fomo the fear of missing out.
They were all, my god, we gotta pay him. We
have we don't pay them, Oh my god. They had
to pay him anyway. How'd that work out?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
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King of the day. What is that even about. We'll
get to it and we will.
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That's a Bronco fan. And later this out we'll have
the who am I game?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Right now back to it we go, well that is,
right back to it and.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The voice of the people, the people with a lot
to say, who much to say? Mala prop guy right
since says another spot on maled monologue, I'm thankful for
iHeartRadio so I can hear hear the show. The other
option is David Passe That loser anyway, says Late Night
(19:41):
Drug tester writes in he says, I can't blame the
non playoff teams for cleaning house.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
They have to keep up with the people's.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Team, the Clippers, or they'll be falling behind, says the
Late Night Drug tester. Ferg Dog says Dollar Shave Club
a great sponsor. I use them for all my manscaping.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He eats.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Also, I am not panicking, but somebody forgot to post
the rundown again. I'm guessing it was it was Lorraina's fault.
It's probably Coops, the producer of the show. That's probably
something he should do.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It's not my job.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm not the I'm not the you know, just the
guy does that little busybody works as a supermarket. Steve
right Since says the hour one monologue was not about
I don't know who that is some person. I don't
I don't know who you're talking about, supermarket, Steve. I
don't we talk about broad We're do broadcasting here. We
don't do narrow casting. About it sport that nobody cares
(20:33):
about Terry and England says, Hey, brock Perty still isn't signed.
I think you're right Mauther the Niners, No, he blows.
Good job by you, Terry and England.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That is correct.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Casey car Haller writes, In says, Coach Bud's golden parachute
makes the sevens package received by austed CEOs look like
busfair well, actually funny enough, Casey Carl Haller, not even
the case like that. Fifty six million to not coach
the Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns. A fair amount
of money, A fair amount of money. The amount of
(21:07):
cash that these CEOs of big corporation get, that's I mean,
that's tons more. They laugh at the fifty six million
they sneeze. And the amount of music, I mean, the
amount of mucus that comes out of their mouth is
more than fifty six million. Mark from Queen's Rights in
And says, Devin Booker would have gotten coach John Wooden fired. Yes,
(21:32):
if John Wooden had coached the Phoenix Suns, he would
have been fired. If Devin Booker had been there, of course,
Woulden would have also been in his hundreds By that point.
Ozzie was from Western Australia says, you just made my
eyes well up with the talk of shaving and using
some sort of after shave on certain areas.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That's Ozzie was well. Listen, you know, let's dollars shave
clubs the way to go on that. What do you
want me to do?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to John
who is in Seattle. We will effort the rundown and
we'll be here.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
At some point. What's going on? John in Seattle?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Welcome yos And I just want to say this. You
guys are number one right now and probably my top
three of all time in sports talk radio.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Number we said top three, but we are right now
in the moment, we are number one.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah. It's great to be.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
We're on top of the mountain. Baby, we are a
number one king of the hill. No one's knocking us
off the mountaintop. I'm looking down at all you other
losers in sports radio. We are on top of the mountain.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Oh my god, I love you, Big Big.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
You give me that?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Can I get an amen? Can I get an amen? Sir?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Let me get that?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Can I get hallelujah?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's like a religous revival around you believe them.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I want to say this if you want me to
say who's my my two that are equal to you,
and I'm not going to say they're above you, but
to say they're equal to you, you know, But I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I didn't ask that.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I don't care about other people. I'm already worried about
this show. Do you think I care about somebody else?
I don't care about other people. I know you want
to say it, though I can tell you want to
say it. John, you want to say it, but you
don't need to say it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
I wish you could just shut your baby.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Don't need to say it. I mean, I'm fine, I'm fine.
I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I don't really care whose the other two are. I
don't know they are they alive or dead? They're they're alive,
they're alive. Do they work here or they work somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Tom which I don't even know if they're alive anymore.
I haven't heard the man.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well Looney Looney's alive. I don't know about JA. I
think JT is alive and thin.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
He's with the Raiders doing some stuff there, watching watching
the Raiders most ten.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Games every year.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Again and I love those guys.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Bro I love.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Follow Did you watch Time Out?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Did you watch Benny Versus a Penny on TV in
the last two years? Oh my god, no, you break
my heart. I did that with Tom Looney.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What are you blind? Even blind? Blind?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Emmett watched that. He's blind. He watched the show every week.
And that's right, blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Blind.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Scott's working as my agent, which I don't know if
I like that or not, but I don't know if
I need that.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yeah, obviously I'm I'm blinder than them.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I could help you out.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, all right, so we've you've established it. You like
the show. And he wanted to drop names of J JT.
The Brick and Tom Looney and somebody else. Right, that's
it right there? Okay, you are we done?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Is that it? We're done?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, no, it's more. We got more. But wait, there's.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
More, yes, yes, please wait there.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
So I'm actually moving up to the edge of my
seat right now. This is so riveting.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
I know you are, but I wanted to say this,
but the ratings on any sports will never be great again.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
We're never going to.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Hit that pig except for the women's sports.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
But men's sports are never going to get.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Great again because it's all contracted out.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, I would argue that women nobody's watching women's sports
other than Kitlyn. Caitlyn Clark's the only one people are watching.
They're not really one's better.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I would, I would, I would. I I don't think so,
I don't. I don't see it. You're very optimistic, though.
Maybe you'll be right. But if that, if that happens,
i'll be I'll be here. All right.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I gotta go, but thank you your barty into bar
guarding the time.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Now, let's say hello to hollering James. Who is next up? Hello,
Hollering James.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Hollering James, got for you. Let's talk a little bit, Laker,
kimber wolfsh.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Can you protect?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Can you pretend to be asleep? What can you pretend
to be asleep? I enjoy your calls when you're sleeping. Wow,
he's possessed, possessed by the devil.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Lore on.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, I don't think that would be the right phrasing
of that. I think yes, she's not done. He's done
with the show because of you. She's leaving the show
because of youre.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Wow, man, you are You're in rare form.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
My god, how lucky are we to have you call
the show and you're actually awake tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Where have you been hollering? James?
Speaker 5 (26:54):
I've been in I've been in cat Meto, like mister
who was a professional. I used to wrestle with Camptira.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But not but not Richie Incognito, the former NFL lineman.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Not Ricky. We're not related, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
No relations? Yeah, okay, well we're too. We're two for two.
Can I get a? Can I get a? James? Can
I get a hallelujahujah? Can I get it? Amen?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Hey, man, you're gonna get in trouble, James. You're just
people sleeping. You can't yell, James, You're not You're gonna
get the phone's gonna get taken away. Man, you can't
be doing that. What are you doing, dude? Those people sleeping?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Where you are?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I to put you a stereo and then go into
the kitchen kill a bowl of cheerios.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, that's what a great late night snack. Cheerios. You
gotta have the milk, though. You gotta have the milk
for that. You like what.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I like them without the milk to you want to
see them dry.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's too dry. You gotta have it. It's a dry.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, it's just now you gotta dry. I'll eat like
Captain crunch dry that.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, the little cookie ones, I'll eat those dry.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That's just eating cookies about.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
The time might be like what I'm talking about, Mikey
Jordan's Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Okay, you're dating yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You gotta hollering, James has a take. This will be
You've been calling me for many, many years. This will
be the first time you've got to take. Now, before
you do the take, let me remind you that this
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Speaker 1 (28:38):
They can spread That's not the name of the spot, James.
That's not the name of the sponsor.
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You've just butchered the name of the sponsors, Express Employment.
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(29:38):
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Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh finally you got it right. You finally got it right.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
I had to finish it off. Hey, that's say real quick.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I'm sure you said you had a take. I will hurry.
What is the take?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I got to take?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
The Timberwolves and the Lakers, the timber three four, the
three game series going three to five Timberwolf.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
So you're saying, you don't even know how many games
they're playing. You have no idea care, you don't care.
So if it's best of five, they'll win three. If
it's the best of seven, they'll win four.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
One arguments. I'm giving you arguments about comparing Anthony Edwards
to the Gray Michael Jordans Jordan's mess. I'm saying, after
the Edwards dropping forty seven, forty one or sixty, he
was the three point king of this year.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, okay, all right, listen, I am on team. I'm
a Timberwolf fan for the week. I will be a
Timberwolf fan. Don't don't make me regret this. Do not
make me regret this.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
The words you say bang about the Timberwolves. You know why,
that's a reetorical.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We just don't have to say why. Just as I
just said, I to say why. It's a rhetorical question.
Answer whatever, say it.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well, say why.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I don't need to say why.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
You know why.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I don't want to say what?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
All right, all right, I gotta go go away?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Why not the calls over?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
We're done because I got a Timberwolf shirt and a
Timperwolf's fantastic shirts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh my god, oh yeah, that fantastic T shirt. Man,
I was good.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I was gonna hang up on him, but he has
the fantastic T shirt, so I gotta keep him on holding.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Now the wolves are howling, they are howland the t shirt.
Now you know you really don't you know? He definitely
do not want to. I want to see it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Mark from Queen says, I'm worried that you said blind
Scott is your agent. The show will be canceled soon,
so he says, uh, let's see here. Larry De writes
in he says, please tell Loraina to play the the
Cubby Chubby song. She has no idea what that is. Yeah,
that was a famous it's in the system. It's a
famous song. Actually got us in trouble on Chicago radio
(32:27):
years ago. It's that song is twenty two years old.
The original Cubby Chubby, The Chubby Cubby song is, Yeah,
play a little bit of it here, barberovey.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Chubby because we're looking good.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Cobby Chubby, Yeah, Tom talking wood, carry wood. He's wrong,
they're all retired.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Come to the ballpark and Cubby twenty two year old song.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Cubby Chubby, and it's really hard. Yeah, complain about this
light up card. Yeah, it is from top to bottom.
Our boys can swing. Yeah in the bullpen and I
go swing.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
We don't need to play the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
But that was actually sent in by a fan of
the show who was an obviously a big cub fan,
and they were going to the World Series. They thought
they were going to the World Series. They had this
great team in two thousand and three, and then this
fan named Steve Bartman. He made a play in the
entire baseball team, Steve Hartman an Abartman, and he had
(33:29):
the whole team crumbled and they were mentally weak, and
the whole Chicago cut team crumbled. So they had to
wait to get to the World Series and win the
World Series another when they went twenty sixteen, I think
twenty fifteen like that, so it was another over ten years.
They had to wait almost fifteen years. All right is
the Ben mather Show. And straight ahead the International Man
(33:49):
of Man of Merch, the International Man of Merch.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We'll get to that time. Time now for the who
am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
I am an NBA player who led the league in
contested shots this year?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Who yeah? Who am I again?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm an NBA player, I led the league in contested shots.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Who am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll
get to it, and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven PM Pacific.
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but now they put cameras in, so now there's pictures.
And back to Ben, we go, Well, that's right, Bill,
and we got to pay off. Thank you, we'ed men.
But now he watches all those videos. He's all about it.
The rundown has been sent. Bill didn't mention that, but
the rundown is available. You can check that out there
and get all your rundown information. Very important, I know,
(35:48):
very important, but time to pay off. The who am I?
Game is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
We call it the who am I? Game? I am
an NBA player who led the league in contested shots
this year?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Am I?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
That is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
does anyone know the answer? Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota
said sid Vicious is the way to go dark. Old
Millisic guests by Malibu Rubin. Yeah, that's Joe Dumars.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Guy. Joe Dumares could be back. Tom Burlson from William
Doctor Evil.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Guest by Milkman Mike in Colorado, King Roy says Justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, there you go, Coop as a doll. Who else
do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Taxman George Harrison, I hope you have filed your taxes
from I forty ian Everyone gets extensions now anyway, Trucker
Joe says, you are the glove of O. J. Simpson,
Sharman Harmon says Connor Helibek is the answer.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You had me shocked at the realization that the Cubs
Championship was over a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I feel like it was just three years ago, says
Supermarket Steve.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, welcome to the to the Hot Tup time machine.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We are flying along.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Big Lous going with Kobe Bryant's uncle Chubby Cox is
his answer. Enis Wattlee from Bay City, Tony Zion Williamson
from Ozzie Waz That's his answer. Slimp Tim going with
former NBA player Michael Red. Steve the misplaced San Diegan
says Man. Newt Bowl is the way to go. Paul
(37:29):
Mkeskey misspelled by Roy, but that's his answer. Steve Bartman
from Chipping the Cues.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Who else do we have? Page Doc? Trucker Joe says Ben.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
When I'm on my deathbed, someday, I will look back
at today and I will say, I'm so damn glad
Ben took those last two calls. That's absolutely right, Trucker Joe.
You'll say that's the most valuable time I had on
this planet, one hundred percent. Robin Minnesota says Lawrence Phillips
is the correct answer. Who else do we have a
page down? Encouraging Gay says something about a pickle. That's
(38:03):
his answer. All right, what say you, Lorraine a big
basketball connoisseur.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I got the best gas Ben. Okay, we'll be the judge.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh Luke, Yeah, the right, Huka Luca, the guy that
loves smoking the hooken will be knocked out in the
first round of the NBA Playoffs by the upstart Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
That is incorrect. Unfortunately, the correct answer.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
At age thirty seven, Brook Lopez of the Milwaukee Bucks
led the league in contested shots. You want a fun fact,
I'll give you a fun fact, So the brook Lopez
fun fact matter. Fun fact, brook Lopez has now led
the NBA in contested shots six of the last seven years.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Six of the last seven years.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
No one has led that in that stat more since
they began obsessively having the nerds track that stat which
means one of two things. The fact that brook Lopez
has led in contested shots six of the last seven
years means either a Brook Lopez is one of the
great underrated defensive players of our time and should be
getting more credit, or B, this is the biggest nothing
(39:16):
stat and it's ridiculous, it's absurd.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
I'm going with B. I'm gonna go with B. B's
my answer. Wow,
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