May 10, 2024 • 38 mins
Bernie Fratto is in for Ben Maller and talks about Jamal Murray getting fined $100k for his Game 2 antics against the Timberwolves, Patrick Beverley only getting a 4-game suspension for throwing a ball at fan, also: Mark Medina joins the show!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well you heard the man. Greetings and salutations and hello
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My name is Bernie Frattle. Or come you live from
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you're buying should be now, if you're scoring at home,
or even if you're just by yourself. This is my
fifteenth Ben Mahler show, and although you may have heard
me say this before, I'm gonna say it again. Sports
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they are the greatest reality show in existence, and you
can script everything but the ending. That tonight we're going
to get to all the ref complaints, suspensions, fines, coaches,
crying Michigoths. We get to all of it. But for me,
I want to start with this because a real story
is developing that might possibly end thirty four years of
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heartbreak for a certain city. You see a funny thing
happened on the way to the NBA Finals. Well, the
Minnesota Timberwolves. They've decided to open up a case a
whoop ass on the defending champion Denver Nuggets. And the
most surprising thing to me, the Nuggets didn't just lose,
They completely melted down. Now, it seems like a month
since they last played. The series resumes later on Friday night,
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But if you remember, the Denver Nuggets completely melted down
on the first half of Monday second half playoff game,
our second round playoff game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Even
though the Wolves were playing in Denver High altitude without
their center Rudy Gobert, who was out for personal reasons,
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they still curb stomped the Nuggets in the first two quarters,
taking a staggering twenty six point lead in a halftime
sixty one to thirty five. Now one point in the
second quarter, somebody threw an object from the Nuggets bench.
You know what happened. The object hit Denver's Reggie Jackson,
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then Minnesota's Karl Anthony Towns during live play, before being
tossed back toward the bench by Denver guard CACP. Now,
shortly thereafter, another angle emerged and it showed that it
in fact had been Jamal Murray who threw the object,
which appeared to be a heat pack. Obviously, he was frustrated.
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He must have really been frustrated, because this is one
cool dude, just as the Lakers. But like I said,
it was meltdown city. Now, this is a terrible look,
an awful look for one of the leaders of arguably
the best team in basketball, the defending champions, especially since
he threw the object out of the court during live
play could have easily caused injury. The referees missed it,
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at least at the time. Murray was not even given
a technical file or aready disciplined on the spot. But
the truth of the matter is the entire Denver team
totally lost their cool in Game two, even as their
head coach, Nuggets head coach Mike Malone also went by
the way viral for be rating one of the officials
during the first quarter. This seems to be going around. Okay,
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let's fast forward. We all know now that Jamal Murray
has been fined one hundred thousand dollars. He's not going
to get a suspension, Fine with me, don't suspend the
guy in the playoffs. I guess whatever, whoopee dam do
one hundred thousand bucks to carry that around his wallets?
Happy meal money that dude. But here's the kicker. Why
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is no one all week given the Minnesota Timberwolves or
Flowers Man. Hindsight's always twenty twenty, and I know the
regular season showed us time and time again that the
Wolves looked like they were put potentially magical. I don't
know anybody who saw this coming rolling into Denver, rolling Denver,
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poll axing Denver, beating them twice on their own floor,
then just beat them, walloped them one oh six point eighty.
And that was a game in Game two after winning
Game one that Minnesota led by as many as thirty
two points. The two studs for the t Wolves, Anthony
Edwards and Karl Anthony Towns, they combined for fifty four.
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This is how you do it. Never truly a doubt
who would win the game, no matter how the you know,
crazy looking, the final score was gonna end up being.
So now Game three looms Friday night. This is the
one game I'm looking forward to more than any in
the NBA Playoffs. Minnesota's now up two zero in the
series with two road wins. Could this be the championship
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favorite at this point? So what happened to Boston? Jason
Smith brought up a great point. Does anybody really fear Boston?
They lose by twenty four to Cleveland. Okay, maybe it's
the gratuitous win. Sorry Celtics, and I realize you're still
the Bootmaker's favorite. And we'll see what Denver does Friday night.
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. They better get
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busy living or get busy dying. Denver better fight back. Okay,
Nicole Jukich and Jamal Murray they shot eight for thirty
one on Monday night. Game three looms a three to
zero series. If it gets to that point, it's over. Uh.
No one in the NBA has ever come back from
a three zero series. And by the way, Minnesota did
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all of this without Rudy Gobert. Fairly unbelievable stuff if
you have actually been following the NBA in the past millennium.
But here comes the big butt peewee. You know the
Minnesota fans want this, but the hearder you want something
the worst you try, it's often unimaginable as to what
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out comes and what ending could be coming your way,
the randomness of life. For some reason, in the last
thirty four years, the sports God's own Minnesota, just whatever
bad kid happen is going to happen. And by the way,
later in the show, I've got a litany of all
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the terrible, horrible things that have happened to the city
of Minnesota and the heartbreak their fans have suffered through
in thirty four years. We're gonna get to that later
in the show. I'm gonna share that history because it's
bad luck, it's futility, the Twin Cities, it's the stuff
nightmares have been made of. And don't they know it
all too well in Minnesota. And that's the thing. Real
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life is just simply more daunting than the movies. It
always is. If you don't believe me, consider this tale.
It's all true, and it's frankly a cautionary tale for
t wolves nation. Like I said, sports are the greatest
reality show. You can script everything but the ending. But
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this speaks to the randomness of sports, but more so
the randomness of life. And actually this story was told,
it's a true story. There was a movie that Tom
Cruise starred in back in the year two thousand, maybe
nineteen ninety nine. It's called Magnolia Really wacky, thought provoking
movie for you movie Buffs. It's directed by a guy
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named Paul Thomas Anderson, who also directed Licorice Pizza, which
came out a couple of years ago. And the story
is narrated by the fable Ricky Jade. If you know
who Ricky Jay is, he's a dude man, but it's
an account of a young man who lost his life
in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty one. They swear this
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story is true, and it adds new dimensions to the
word random. His name was Sidney Baringer. Sidney Barringer attempted
to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of a
tall bit building. He was completely distraught with his life.
He hated his parents. He was tired of them fighting.
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He absolutely thought they would literally kill each other one day.
It was so bad. As a matter of fact, the
family even kept a shotgun of the house, but it
wasn't loaded well. Sydney couldn't take it anymore. He actually
jumped off the top of a building one night, and
as he's passing by the sixteenth floor, precisely where his
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parents lived. During his fall, Sidney Bearringer is shot through
the chest by his mother, who has pulled the trigger
on his father as they were in the midst of
another heated argument. The bullet misses, the father, flies out
the window and lodges itself in Sydney's back through story,
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Sidney died instantly from the fatal shotgun blast, killed by
his own mother, unknowingly, who ironically she didn't even know
the gun was loaded. She merely pulled the trigger to
scare her husband, and in doing so she murdered her
own son, who had in fact loaded the gun two
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weeks earlier in the hopes that one day his parents
would literally kill each other. But see, the story doesn't
end up there. Sydney actually landed in a large net
on the ground that, for some reason inexplicably had been
placed on the ground directly below Sydney's fall. Wow. Yeah, literally,
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that net certainly would have saved his life. Random you
tell me, And all of this, per police records, is
allegedly true, sir, good Night teen fifty one in Los Angeles,
the randomness of life, the randomness of sports. I will
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leave you with this thought, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Timberwolves Nation.
I am rooting for you because for thirty four years old,
for thirty four years, you've had that sinking feeling. Well,
I'm not going to draw any more analogies. I think
I've made my point. Coming up, throw a basketball at
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a fans head, not once, but twice. Ah, nothing, What
the hell I'll explain? Coming up? I'm Bernie Fratterlewer Comedy
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a nice tweet from a gentleman says, if that story
you just made up is any indication, I'm gonna be
here all all four hours tonight where you're welcome on man.
And by the way, story is not made up. It's
from a movie in nineteen ninety nine called Magnolia with
Tom Cruise. It's narrated by Ricky Jay, but it's based
on a true story. I'll tell you what else is
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a true story. A basketball player by the name of
Patrick Beverly, I'm sure you know who he is, was today.
It was announced today he was suspended for four games
without pay for throwing a basketball not once but twice
at a fan, at a painting customer, and then Coote
having an inappropriate interaction with an ESPN producer after they
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lost a game to the Indiana Pacers. What the first
round of the NBA playoffs as he's out of the playoffs, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, that wouldn't have done anything like this a mom
and Dan were here. Wow, that's nicely done, Lorena. That's
going way into the cookie jar. That's I believed to
leave it to Beaver. I believe that's a leave it
to Beaver episode, but that they're nicely done. Help yourself
to some cookies at a petty cash. Let me say this,
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as Richard Nixon once said, let me say this about that.
So I was at the Palace Mounts to the Palace
November nineteen, two thousand and four. We're coming up on
the twenty year anniversary, and it all started. There was
bad blood by the way, Rick Carlile was coaching Nia
on pacers even then. Yes, bad blood between the two teams.
Roun Our test files Ben Wallace Yump Up Up Papa.
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All of a sudden, an empty beer cup thrown by
a gentleman infanty. He became infamous in Detroit. His name
is John Green, comes flying out of the stands hits
roun Our Test. After that, you know what happened. All
hell broke loose, and I mean all hell broke loose.
It was absolutely indescribable. And to be there in the
Urnia to see it. We were doing a radio remote.
I went out during a break to watch it. It
was indescribable. Coming up in the twenty year aniversary. Now,
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why don't I invoke that, because spontaneous combustion could happen.
Patrick Beverly throws at basketball at somebody, and fortunately, frankly,
nothing really happened. It didn't light a fuse for what
could have been a much larger fracas you know, leading
up to and maybe equal to what happened at the
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Palace at Auburn Hills in November nineteenth, twenty oh four.
The camera showed the ball hitting someone in the head,
and then after BEV pat Bev after the ball back
and had a thrown back to him, he fired it
back at the fan. Again. Well, it's not over. Police,
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by the way, have said in a news release that
the case has been forwarded due to detectives and they're
currently investigating the situation and they're taking all accusations seriously.
But the hell's to investigate. It's right there in video
through a basketball twice. And by the way, what can
someone explain to me what is the breakdown for the suspension?
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He got four games? What is it like? One and
a half games for the first throw, one and a
half games for the second throw, and then one for
the being rude to the ESPN reporter you know what
is Adam silver? All right? Get Adam Silber. Then Pat
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Bev goes on a podcast and he's talking out both
sides with huha. He said, you know, he realizes his
own actions were still cool, inexcusable, but he was called
a word that he had never been called before. Could
you please maybe take a minute and break the ice, Pat,
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feel free to tell us exactly what the hell that
word was, so maybe we'll get a little bit of clarity. Hello,
don't you know? Don't keep it a secret now. Then
Pat Bev goes on, Okay, so he basically says his
actions were inexcusable, but they were justified because he had
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never been called this word before. He says, but I
will be better. I have to be better. I will
be better. That never should have happened, regardless of what
was said. That never should have happened, simple as that. Now,
many many years ago, Dennis rod and that Dennis Rodman
h dole for ball out of bounds, got in the
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way of a cameraman or the camera got away to him,
and Robin kicked the guy in another region. Robin was
suspended twelve games. That was under a different commissioner. I
often wonder. I often wonder what what would Pat Bev
have been suspended if if the old commissioner was still
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in charge right now? And by the way, if the
cops are going to talk to Pat Bev, it raises
another question, fair question. Remember Pat Beev wouldn't talk to
the reporter, the ESPN reporter after the game because when
he inquired as to whether or not she subscribed to
his podcast, she said no, Well, what if the cops
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don't subscribe to Pat Beev's podcast, you're not gonna not
talk to them as well. Well, after the game again
got worse. Beverly wouldn't allow Adams to ask him a
question in a group interview. Said it was because he
didn't describe to his podcast. Then he told her to
get the microphone out of his face, and eventually asked
her to leave the circle. Dude's on a minimum contract
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this season with the Philadelphia seventy six ers and then
the Bucks, and then he'll be an unrestricted free agent
this summer. Got to believe you know, his value is
probably dropping. I would say just a little bit. But
what I don't understand is yeah, I don't either. I
don't understand the the NBA and their soft policy when
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it comes to these things. And oh, by the way,
we're gonna have Mark Medina coming up after Eddie's update
at the bottom of the ar We got a lot
of stuff to get to get to the Jamal Murray situation.
But well, what's interesting is that Tim Frank, who's the
NBA's senior vice president of League Operations Communications, he said
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a statement that quote Patrick Beverly's behavior towards ESPN producer
Melinda Adams was an acceptable, unprofessional and feel to meet
the standards that the NBA players consistently meet in their
interactions with the media. Unquote, what about the fan you're
gonna go to a game tonight, do you have it
on your binger card You're gonna have a ball fired
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at your head not once, but twice. And oh, by
the way, we still don't know what this fan allegedly said.
We were told initially that the fan, as it appeared
obviously that the Bucks were gonna lose, the fan simply
said one, two three can kun, which is a legendary reference,
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an infamous reference from Nick Van Exel that Lakers fans
will remember going back to the nineteen ninety eight playoffs
when the Lakers were young and upcoming a young Kobe
and the team that wasn't quite as good as they
wanted to be, that they were getting swept. I believe,
I don't recall the opponent, and Nick van Exel was
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in the back of the huddle, and when the Lakers
started to say one to two to three, clap and
say Lakers. He said one two three and Nick van
Xell said, kN kun. Allegedly that's what the fan said
to Pat Beverly. Doesn't sound that egregious to me. Maybe
that's the thing he had never been called before. By
the way, as you probably already know, Pat Beverly has
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designs on being in the media. He did some media
work last summer. You don't say, yeah, gotta believe they're
probably not gonna They're probably gonna scratch them off the
dance card this year. And oh, by the way, for
scoring on a theme again, and hope you are. This
isn't the first time that Pat Beverly, who you know,
this guy's not This is not his first barbecue. He's
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been in the NBA twelve years. He knows how the
game works. He just completed his twelve season and He's
been hit with things like this before. In twenty twenty one,
Pat Bev was hit with a one game suspension while
he was playing for the Clippers after he shoved Chris
on the back when both players were just simply walking
to their respective benches during a time out. Yeah that
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was a blowout. Yeah that was the fourth quarter. That
was a frustrating situation. He served that suspension was a
one game suspension during the opener of the twenty one
twenty two season. Well, anyway, Bev turns thirty six. He
suspended four games. I am baffled. I don't want to
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make a federal case out of this, but when you
start talxing objects at paying customers, and I just got
done telling you what happened at the Moue at the Palace.
I was there November nineteen, two thousand and four. We're
coming up on the twenty year anniversary. No one could
have possibly saw that coming. And there was only one
humorous aspect of the entire Malice at the Palace Ordeal
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two story after run our Test and Company caused that melee. Well,
in the locker room after the game, Ron Artests looked
at Steven Jackson, his teammate in the face with a
straight face and said, you think we're in trouble, go
back and research. You can Wikipedia the damn thing. The
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suspensions defines all the stuff our test had to come
back and do public service. By the way, it was great.
I would just say this, I don't think the Indiana
Pacers ever as a franchise, have ever recovered from that incident.
In twenty years, Tell me did they? How many championships
have they won?
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
Any good stuff, my man. And of course I have
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to our guest. Welcome in a gentleman. He's with me
every Saturday night at midnight, Little Medina Magic our NBA,
Fox Sports Radio NBA grew never a shortage of things
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to talk about. Say hello, little Mark Madina, Mark, how
are you, Bud?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I am doing well, So I use the midnight segment. Well,
we'll make eleven thirty segments, just as Epoch.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's a big world. It must be midnight somewhere, Markta,
I gotta say, it's kind of like the midnight hour
for some of these players. I think we're gonna do
Mark is, have a little fun tonight. Let's still a
little forget Ward association. Let's do a little number association.
And I'll start with the elephant in the room, the
number four, the amount of games that Pat Beverly has
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been suspended. Just what the hell is your major malfunction,
mister commissioner, How could you only give him four games?
I was at the mouse of the palace. It takes
very little to spark a riot.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, well, do you want me to answer this as
if I'm Adam Silver? Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
No, ask answers if you're Mark Medina, because we'll do both.
I'll tell you what we do both.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
If I'm answering as of Adam Silver. It's like, Look,
I'm a commissioner that has two objectives. I want to
make a lot of money for the league and a
lot of owners. That's goal number one and goal number two.
I want the players to like me. So that's that's
the whole reason here. But you're not wrong, as as
you know. My reporter hat I'll put on is that
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you know they they equated this obviously to much less
severity because there wasn't fan behavior in the stands where
he's going into the stands. But I would argue that
it's just as irresponsible, just as they're inexcusable. I thought
that at least it should be just south of the
double digits suspensions, but four just reeks of the slap
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on the wrist, and I think on top of that,
there should have been even more games at it because
of his disrespectful, unprofessional, sexist, misogynistic, what's for more adjectives
there about his behavior toward ESPN's me Linda Adams By
refuse to answer her question just because she doesn't subscribe
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to his terrible podcast. So yeah, it was disappointed all
the way around. The only thing that was more disappointing
is that Jamal Murray didn't get any suspension at all,
despite the fact that he threw a heat pack onto
the floor and could have caused a lot of danger there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, my goodness, gracious, yes, the fan could have gotten hurt.
You never know if you throw that the wrong guy,
he might charge the floor. It's happened before. There were
fans that came on the floor during the Mouse of
the Palace. Or we'll move on from that. I think
you've you've pretty much covered it. We understand the most
separandi and the persona that Adam Silver wants to portray.
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Let's go to another number, association. One hundred thousand. That's
the amount Jamal Murray has been fined. I'm glad he
wasn't suspended during the playoffs. He could have suspended him
next year. Is that adequate for what he did throwing
a heat pack on the floor during play And I
know nothing happened, but it could have.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
It could have happened. And I look, I do get
the sensibilities that you don't want to affect the playoff series,
but you know, why are we holding these guys hands.
There's no excuse for someone to throw a heat pack
onto the floor. And yeah, no damage was caused, but
it could have happened. And that's besides the point. The
other thing that's inexcusable. I'm not going to ever cry
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conspiracy theories about the Refts or Roe and Moan and say, hey,
there are twenty nine calls that the refsmissed with the
Indiana Pacers like Rick Carlisle did. But for Mark Davis
to concede that the entire officiating courage just to not
see it happened is inexcusable. I mean, come on, guys,
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that's why you have a multi man crew because you're
looking at every single angle of the court. So yeah,
disappointing across the board here from the league and the
officials with that one.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, and you know, I know, the world is a
vexing enough place without getting too deep into hypotheticals, would
you imagine if cat or and you know, one of
the Timberwolves players had stepped on that heat pack and
rolled an ankle in the rock?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean, you talk about the delicacy of the
suspension effecting a game of a playoff series. How about
a potential injury? And again, nothing happened, but it shouldn't
have to lead to that point. It's the action and
there's just no excuse for Jamal Murray to that heat tacked.
I think the other thing is clearly Jamal Murray didn't
feel any sort of accountability here because you know, first
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of all, he didn't talk to reporters after the game,
and then secondly, when he talked today, he didn't show
any apology. And he was starting to get a little
prickly when some reporters were asking repeated questions about the
answer and say, hey, do we have any basketball questions? Well,
how about this for a basketball question. He threw something
in a basketball game that could have affected basketball players.
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So yeah, it's just all this stuff's nonsensical here.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And these are the headlines this week. Okay, these are headlines,
not a good look for the NBA. Tay, what else
is not a good look? And I think we've come
full circle now because the coach on the floor November nineteenth,
two thousand and four, mouse at the Palace Indiana Pacers
while I was there, won Rick Carlisle. Rick Carlisle still
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the coach and apparently the operative number is seventy eight
seventy eight miss calls rep violations that the Indiana Pacers
have issued to the league as a complaint.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Your thoughts, mart, Well, let me be clear here for
some context. Most teams file, you know, calls at the
end of games, they filed in conjunction with the other game,
which they did with the Knicks, and usually it's you know, yeah,
they're complaining about calls, but it's a series of themes
that they've gathered and they want to get feedback on,
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you know, why was this a foul, why wasn't it
and that that could help, you know, the process and
the collaboration and the communication. But yeah, he was very specific,
identifying twenty nine calls from game one, forty nine calls
from game two. I think this is obviously the playoff
game has been shipping. You know, you throw in his
comment about small market teams deserve an equal shot. But
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I think if you talk to the rest of the Pacers,
I mean Tyr's Halliburn was the first to tell you
the outcome didn't come down to the game or the
outcome didn't call come down to officiating and came down
to their play. And I think with the Rick carl
in particular, he's a great coach, but if you're going
to microanalyze plays, you know, how about you know, not
having Andrew and Mphart on Jalen Brunson at the end
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of the game. That could have made a difference. So, yeah,
it's playoff games. Ship. I don't take anything more than that,
But yeah, I philosophically there's usually ninety nine percent of
the case basketball outcomes are decided because of basketball plays,
not officiating. But that being said, as we've discussed in
(30:33):
the segment segment, that doesn't mean officials are above criticism.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, and I think to contextualize Rick Carlisle's somewhat whiny comments,
he talked about the NBA having in for small market
teams and you know, okay, see in Minnesota seed to
be doing just fine. We don't need to go down
that road. I just felt the context and you are right,
you know, the employee video man that send these things
(30:58):
to the lead to keep the league on their toes.
This one just felt a little over the top and
I thought he diminished his team's performance. And frankly, Rick
Carlisle might have made some adjustments about helped the Steam win.
But that's the story for a different day. I talked
with Mark Medina or Fox Sports Radio NBA guru. Mark,
here's another number. There's two numbers, four and seven, the
number of coaches the Lakers will have since Lebron got there,
(31:19):
and the numbers since Phil Jackson left. I am not
going to ask you to speculate who win or why.
I do have a question though, why WOHLD NBA coaching
giants come up? Is Mark Jackson never never mentioned what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Well, I think he's certainly mentioned, but he's just never
really considered. I think that, you know, the longer you're
out of the coaching game, that hurts you. I think,
you know, even when he would hire with Golden State,
there was a thought about even though yes he's a
former player, he's one of the all time great point guards.
High on the all time assistant list. You don't have
(31:55):
any coaching experience, you know, as far as being an
assistant coach wants to jell brain into the seat. I
think the way his time in Golden State ended also
doesn't help either, because there's no doubt he'll be the
first to tell you, and it's true, like he did
play a role in the Warriors dynasty with really revamping
their defense, you know, and fueling a lot of confidence
(32:17):
in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, proclaiming them to be
the best you know, shooting back court in all time.
And now it's an obvious statement, but when he said
it more a decade ago, it was almost blasphemous. And
you know, he knew how to get to motivate players,
but there was a feeling that few that he didn't
(32:38):
make enough adjustments, the offense was stagnant, and that he
didn't treat certain people well, whether it's on his coaching
staff or you know, team staff members, and so I
think that those things have all contributed him not getting
any head coaching jobs elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, you covered a lot of good ground there is
it seemed like it's a fade of complete Well, we
never see Mark Jackson gracing a sideline again as a
head coach.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
It's hard for me to say never, say never with anything,
but I would be very surprised.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Finally, Mark the last number in our Number Association game
twenty four. The Celtics lose at home tonight by twenty four.
Jason Smith brought up a great point in his show,
You know what, I don't think anybody really fears the Celtics,
So I think that might be a valid statement. Not
that they can't come back and win the championship, but
(33:31):
something is missing. And when Boston did what they did
the night at home against Cleveland, it just underscores that narrative.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, and I think there's two troubling trends here. The
longer christn s Porzingis is out, the more you can't
help but think, Okay, this is going to be a
serious injury. And this is what he was having in
New York and Dallas. I know that talking to him,
you know, and just seeing availability. It's so much improved
in Washington and in Boston with just different work, you know,
(33:59):
with his to improve his durability, stability, get off excess weight,
more work on his joints, all that stuff, But the
second part is they seem to play to their competition
and they don't have this killer instinct. I think that
when you look at their regular season success, Yes, Jason Tatum,
he's been a more efficient player, Jalen Brown, same thing.
(34:21):
They've been a better you know, pairing as a duo.
When you add him Porzingis, they've been a really great trio.
They have a great starting lineup, but you got to
have that killer instinct, and you can't play with your
food in the playoffs. And I still think the Celeics
beat the Cavs in this playoff series. But the longer
you have you know, a playoffs series extend, at some
(34:43):
point you worry does attrition eventually catch up to you?
And I think with that, assuming they get to the finals,
which I think will happen, they could be vulnerable to
any team that they face in the West, whether it's
Denver gating their act together, or if it's Minnesota showing
they're the real deal, Oklahoma City, word Dallas. I really
think that basically whoever comes out of the West is
(35:04):
going to win the NBA Finals because those teams are
really good, but also because I don't think Boston has
what it takes to beat those teams.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Mark, great stuff. As always, we'll talk to you Saturday night.
There'll be plenty more news headlines and hopefully they'll be
on the floor as these playoff series takes you continue
to take shape.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
I appreciate to add more one more number for this game, twelve.
That means midnight on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Right, that's right, my man, Mark Medina, Medina Magic on
the Bernie Fradis Show Saturday nights. Good stuff, Mark ins
rest my man. All right, thanks Powell. That is Mark Medina.
Are Fox Sports Radio guru coming up? One NFL player
just can't seem to stay out of the soup. And
he's been warned. Now he's got a body of work,
(35:50):
and they didn't listen to the scouts. And by the way,
he's a Super Bowl champion. Come on, dude, straighten up.
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Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right, thanks Eddie. Well, apparently Rashi Rice can't stay
out of his own way. The Star Wide Receiver, the
Kansas City chiefs now being investigated for alleged assault at
a nightclub in Texas last Tuesday. Oh my goodness, he's
accused if hitting a photographer at the club. Now, the
report says they're interviewing witnesses, et cetera, et cetera. But
(36:59):
this is the dude that already facing eight felony charges.
He's only twenty four years old, stemming from his role
in that multi vehicle crash that happened in March in Dallas,
where Rashee Rice was allegedly racing another car down a
freeway at a very high level of speed. I don't
know how fast. It's on video apparently, and Ryce said,
(37:21):
you know, in many of his courts. They also fled
the scene, leading to an arrest warrant being issued for Rice.
He turned himself in a few days later. Well they can't,
you know. It's like I was making faces at my
teacher in the third grade, Missus Birch, and she caught me.
She goes, mister Vardo. My mother told me that if
I made faces like that when I grew up, my
(37:42):
face would freeze. I said, well, missus Birch, you can't
say you weren't warned. I got in trouble, kind of
like Rashee Rice got in trouble. Well he was warned.
Scout said many teams removed him from his draft board
because of quote behavioral issues, quote He's talented, but not
(38:03):
a good dude. One personnel director said, they didn't listen.
Good player, bad head, doesn't look good. Tons of stuff
to get to coming up top of the hour. We're
going to bring in the crew. What the hell is this?
NBA players that they could just be dropped into an
NFL game, But it's worse than that. Roger Cadell wants
an eighteen game schedule. By the way, we'll chop it up,
keep it locked. This is Bernie Frattle, sit again for
(38:26):
Ben Maller. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Well you heard the man. Greetings and salutations and hello
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they are the greatest reality show in existence, and you
can script everything but the ending. That tonight we're going
to get to all the ref complaints, suspensions, fines, coaches,
crying Michigoths. We get to all of it. But for me,
I want to start with this because a real story
is developing that might possibly end thirty four years of
(01:10):
heartbreak for a certain city. You see a funny thing
happened on the way to the NBA Finals. Well, the
Minnesota Timberwolves. They've decided to open up a case a
whoop ass on the defending champion Denver Nuggets. And the
most surprising thing to me, the Nuggets didn't just lose,
They completely melted down. Now, it seems like a month
since they last played. The series resumes later on Friday night,
(01:34):
But if you remember, the Denver Nuggets completely melted down
on the first half of Monday second half playoff game,
our second round playoff game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Even
though the Wolves were playing in Denver High altitude without
their center Rudy Gobert, who was out for personal reasons,
(01:55):
they still curb stomped the Nuggets in the first two quarters,
taking a staggering twenty six point lead in a halftime
sixty one to thirty five. Now one point in the
second quarter, somebody threw an object from the Nuggets bench.
You know what happened. The object hit Denver's Reggie Jackson,
(02:17):
then Minnesota's Karl Anthony Towns during live play, before being
tossed back toward the bench by Denver guard CACP. Now,
shortly thereafter, another angle emerged and it showed that it
in fact had been Jamal Murray who threw the object,
which appeared to be a heat pack. Obviously, he was frustrated.
(02:38):
He must have really been frustrated, because this is one
cool dude, just as the Lakers. But like I said,
it was meltdown city. Now, this is a terrible look,
an awful look for one of the leaders of arguably
the best team in basketball, the defending champions, especially since
he threw the object out of the court during live
play could have easily caused injury. The referees missed it,
(03:02):
at least at the time. Murray was not even given
a technical file or aready disciplined on the spot. But
the truth of the matter is the entire Denver team
totally lost their cool in Game two, even as their
head coach, Nuggets head coach Mike Malone also went by
the way viral for be rating one of the officials
during the first quarter. This seems to be going around. Okay,
(03:25):
let's fast forward. We all know now that Jamal Murray
has been fined one hundred thousand dollars. He's not going
to get a suspension, Fine with me, don't suspend the
guy in the playoffs. I guess whatever, whoopee dam do
one hundred thousand bucks to carry that around his wallets?
Happy meal money that dude. But here's the kicker. Why
(03:46):
is no one all week given the Minnesota Timberwolves or
Flowers Man. Hindsight's always twenty twenty, and I know the
regular season showed us time and time again that the
Wolves looked like they were put potentially magical. I don't
know anybody who saw this coming rolling into Denver, rolling Denver,
(04:07):
poll axing Denver, beating them twice on their own floor,
then just beat them, walloped them one oh six point eighty.
And that was a game in Game two after winning
Game one that Minnesota led by as many as thirty
two points. The two studs for the t Wolves, Anthony
Edwards and Karl Anthony Towns, they combined for fifty four.
(04:29):
This is how you do it. Never truly a doubt
who would win the game, no matter how the you know,
crazy looking, the final score was gonna end up being.
So now Game three looms Friday night. This is the
one game I'm looking forward to more than any in
the NBA Playoffs. Minnesota's now up two zero in the
series with two road wins. Could this be the championship
(04:52):
favorite at this point? So what happened to Boston? Jason
Smith brought up a great point. Does anybody really fear Boston?
They lose by twenty four to Cleveland. Okay, maybe it's
the gratuitous win. Sorry Celtics, and I realize you're still
the Bootmaker's favorite. And we'll see what Denver does Friday night.
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. They better get
(05:12):
busy living or get busy dying. Denver better fight back. Okay,
Nicole Jukich and Jamal Murray they shot eight for thirty
one on Monday night. Game three looms a three to
zero series. If it gets to that point, it's over. Uh.
No one in the NBA has ever come back from
a three zero series. And by the way, Minnesota did
(05:34):
all of this without Rudy Gobert. Fairly unbelievable stuff if
you have actually been following the NBA in the past millennium.
But here comes the big butt peewee. You know the
Minnesota fans want this, but the hearder you want something
the worst you try, it's often unimaginable as to what
(05:56):
out comes and what ending could be coming your way,
the randomness of life. For some reason, in the last
thirty four years, the sports God's own Minnesota, just whatever
bad kid happen is going to happen. And by the way,
later in the show, I've got a litany of all
(06:17):
the terrible, horrible things that have happened to the city
of Minnesota and the heartbreak their fans have suffered through
in thirty four years. We're gonna get to that later
in the show. I'm gonna share that history because it's
bad luck, it's futility, the Twin Cities, it's the stuff
nightmares have been made of. And don't they know it
all too well in Minnesota. And that's the thing. Real
(06:42):
life is just simply more daunting than the movies. It
always is. If you don't believe me, consider this tale.
It's all true, and it's frankly a cautionary tale for
t wolves nation. Like I said, sports are the greatest
reality show. You can script everything but the ending. But
(07:02):
this speaks to the randomness of sports, but more so
the randomness of life. And actually this story was told,
it's a true story. There was a movie that Tom
Cruise starred in back in the year two thousand, maybe
nineteen ninety nine. It's called Magnolia Really wacky, thought provoking
movie for you movie Buffs. It's directed by a guy
(07:24):
named Paul Thomas Anderson, who also directed Licorice Pizza, which
came out a couple of years ago. And the story
is narrated by the fable Ricky Jade. If you know
who Ricky Jay is, he's a dude man, but it's
an account of a young man who lost his life
in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty one. They swear this
(07:46):
story is true, and it adds new dimensions to the
word random. His name was Sidney Baringer. Sidney Barringer attempted
to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of a
tall bit building. He was completely distraught with his life.
He hated his parents. He was tired of them fighting.
(08:08):
He absolutely thought they would literally kill each other one day.
It was so bad. As a matter of fact, the
family even kept a shotgun of the house, but it
wasn't loaded well. Sydney couldn't take it anymore. He actually
jumped off the top of a building one night, and
as he's passing by the sixteenth floor, precisely where his
(08:31):
parents lived. During his fall, Sidney Bearringer is shot through
the chest by his mother, who has pulled the trigger
on his father as they were in the midst of
another heated argument. The bullet misses, the father, flies out
the window and lodges itself in Sydney's back through story,
(08:56):
Sidney died instantly from the fatal shotgun blast, killed by
his own mother, unknowingly, who ironically she didn't even know
the gun was loaded. She merely pulled the trigger to
scare her husband, and in doing so she murdered her
own son, who had in fact loaded the gun two
(09:18):
weeks earlier in the hopes that one day his parents
would literally kill each other. But see, the story doesn't
end up there. Sydney actually landed in a large net
on the ground that, for some reason inexplicably had been
placed on the ground directly below Sydney's fall. Wow. Yeah, literally,
(09:45):
that net certainly would have saved his life. Random you
tell me, And all of this, per police records, is
allegedly true, sir, good Night teen fifty one in Los Angeles,
the randomness of life, the randomness of sports. I will
(10:08):
leave you with this thought, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Timberwolves Nation.
I am rooting for you because for thirty four years old,
for thirty four years, you've had that sinking feeling. Well,
I'm not going to draw any more analogies. I think
I've made my point. Coming up, throw a basketball at
(10:33):
a fans head, not once, but twice. Ah, nothing, What
the hell I'll explain? Coming up? I'm Bernie Fratterlewer Comedy
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Speaker 1 (12:14):
All right, thanks Eddie, and folks feel free. In true
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(12:35):
a nice tweet from a gentleman says, if that story
you just made up is any indication, I'm gonna be
here all all four hours tonight where you're welcome on man.
And by the way, story is not made up. It's
from a movie in nineteen ninety nine called Magnolia with
Tom Cruise. It's narrated by Ricky Jay, but it's based
on a true story. I'll tell you what else is
(12:56):
a true story. A basketball player by the name of
Patrick Beverly, I'm sure you know who he is, was today.
It was announced today he was suspended for four games
without pay for throwing a basketball not once but twice
at a fan, at a painting customer, and then Coote
having an inappropriate interaction with an ESPN producer after they
(13:23):
lost a game to the Indiana Pacers. What the first
round of the NBA playoffs as he's out of the playoffs, right.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, that wouldn't have done anything like this a mom
and Dan were here. Wow, that's nicely done, Lorena. That's
going way into the cookie jar. That's I believed to
leave it to Beaver. I believe that's a leave it
to Beaver episode, but that they're nicely done. Help yourself
to some cookies at a petty cash. Let me say this,
(13:50):
as Richard Nixon once said, let me say this about that.
So I was at the Palace Mounts to the Palace
November nineteen, two thousand and four. We're coming up on
the twenty year anniversary, and it all started. There was
bad blood by the way, Rick Carlile was coaching Nia
on pacers even then. Yes, bad blood between the two teams.
Roun Our test files Ben Wallace Yump Up Up Papa.
(14:12):
All of a sudden, an empty beer cup thrown by
a gentleman infanty. He became infamous in Detroit. His name
is John Green, comes flying out of the stands hits
roun Our Test. After that, you know what happened. All
hell broke loose, and I mean all hell broke loose.
It was absolutely indescribable. And to be there in the
Urnia to see it. We were doing a radio remote.
I went out during a break to watch it. It
was indescribable. Coming up in the twenty year aniversary. Now,
(14:34):
why don't I invoke that, because spontaneous combustion could happen.
Patrick Beverly throws at basketball at somebody, and fortunately, frankly,
nothing really happened. It didn't light a fuse for what
could have been a much larger fracas you know, leading
up to and maybe equal to what happened at the
(14:56):
Palace at Auburn Hills in November nineteenth, twenty oh four.
The camera showed the ball hitting someone in the head,
and then after BEV pat Bev after the ball back
and had a thrown back to him, he fired it
back at the fan. Again. Well, it's not over. Police,
(15:17):
by the way, have said in a news release that
the case has been forwarded due to detectives and they're
currently investigating the situation and they're taking all accusations seriously.
But the hell's to investigate. It's right there in video
through a basketball twice. And by the way, what can
someone explain to me what is the breakdown for the suspension?
(15:41):
He got four games? What is it like? One and
a half games for the first throw, one and a
half games for the second throw, and then one for
the being rude to the ESPN reporter you know what
is Adam silver? All right? Get Adam Silber. Then Pat
(16:02):
Bev goes on a podcast and he's talking out both
sides with huha. He said, you know, he realizes his
own actions were still cool, inexcusable, but he was called
a word that he had never been called before. Could
you please maybe take a minute and break the ice, Pat,
(16:24):
feel free to tell us exactly what the hell that
word was, so maybe we'll get a little bit of clarity. Hello,
don't you know? Don't keep it a secret now. Then
Pat Bev goes on, Okay, so he basically says his
actions were inexcusable, but they were justified because he had
(16:44):
never been called this word before. He says, but I
will be better. I have to be better. I will
be better. That never should have happened, regardless of what
was said. That never should have happened, simple as that. Now,
many many years ago, Dennis rod and that Dennis Rodman
h dole for ball out of bounds, got in the
(17:07):
way of a cameraman or the camera got away to him,
and Robin kicked the guy in another region. Robin was
suspended twelve games. That was under a different commissioner. I
often wonder. I often wonder what what would Pat Bev
have been suspended if if the old commissioner was still
(17:28):
in charge right now? And by the way, if the
cops are going to talk to Pat Bev, it raises
another question, fair question. Remember Pat Beev wouldn't talk to
the reporter, the ESPN reporter after the game because when
he inquired as to whether or not she subscribed to
his podcast, she said no, Well, what if the cops
(17:51):
don't subscribe to Pat Beev's podcast, you're not gonna not
talk to them as well. Well, after the game again
got worse. Beverly wouldn't allow Adams to ask him a
question in a group interview. Said it was because he
didn't describe to his podcast. Then he told her to
get the microphone out of his face, and eventually asked
her to leave the circle. Dude's on a minimum contract
(18:14):
this season with the Philadelphia seventy six ers and then
the Bucks, and then he'll be an unrestricted free agent
this summer. Got to believe you know, his value is
probably dropping. I would say just a little bit. But
what I don't understand is yeah, I don't either. I
don't understand the the NBA and their soft policy when
(18:40):
it comes to these things. And oh, by the way,
we're gonna have Mark Medina coming up after Eddie's update
at the bottom of the ar We got a lot
of stuff to get to get to the Jamal Murray situation.
But well, what's interesting is that Tim Frank, who's the
NBA's senior vice president of League Operations Communications, he said
(19:00):
a statement that quote Patrick Beverly's behavior towards ESPN producer
Melinda Adams was an acceptable, unprofessional and feel to meet
the standards that the NBA players consistently meet in their
interactions with the media. Unquote, what about the fan you're
gonna go to a game tonight, do you have it
on your binger card You're gonna have a ball fired
(19:21):
at your head not once, but twice. And oh, by
the way, we still don't know what this fan allegedly said.
We were told initially that the fan, as it appeared
obviously that the Bucks were gonna lose, the fan simply
said one, two three can kun, which is a legendary reference,
(19:42):
an infamous reference from Nick Van Exel that Lakers fans
will remember going back to the nineteen ninety eight playoffs
when the Lakers were young and upcoming a young Kobe
and the team that wasn't quite as good as they
wanted to be, that they were getting swept. I believe,
I don't recall the opponent, and Nick van Exel was
(20:02):
in the back of the huddle, and when the Lakers
started to say one to two to three, clap and
say Lakers. He said one two three and Nick van
Xell said, kN kun. Allegedly that's what the fan said
to Pat Beverly. Doesn't sound that egregious to me. Maybe
that's the thing he had never been called before. By
the way, as you probably already know, Pat Beverly has
(20:24):
designs on being in the media. He did some media
work last summer. You don't say, yeah, gotta believe they're
probably not gonna They're probably gonna scratch them off the
dance card this year. And oh, by the way, for
scoring on a theme again, and hope you are. This
isn't the first time that Pat Beverly, who you know,
this guy's not This is not his first barbecue. He's
(20:45):
been in the NBA twelve years. He knows how the
game works. He just completed his twelve season and He's
been hit with things like this before. In twenty twenty one,
Pat Bev was hit with a one game suspension while
he was playing for the Clippers after he shoved Chris
on the back when both players were just simply walking
to their respective benches during a time out. Yeah that
(21:07):
was a blowout. Yeah that was the fourth quarter. That
was a frustrating situation. He served that suspension was a
one game suspension during the opener of the twenty one
twenty two season. Well, anyway, Bev turns thirty six. He
suspended four games. I am baffled. I don't want to
(21:28):
make a federal case out of this, but when you
start talxing objects at paying customers, and I just got
done telling you what happened at the Moue at the Palace.
I was there November nineteen, two thousand and four. We're
coming up on the twenty year anniversary. No one could
have possibly saw that coming. And there was only one
humorous aspect of the entire Malice at the Palace Ordeal
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two story after run our Test and Company caused that melee. Well,
in the locker room after the game, Ron Artests looked
at Steven Jackson, his teammate in the face with a
straight face and said, you think we're in trouble, go
back and research. You can Wikipedia the damn thing. The
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suspensions defines all the stuff our test had to come
back and do public service. By the way, it was great.
I would just say this, I don't think the Indiana
Pacers ever as a franchise, have ever recovered from that incident.
In twenty years, Tell me did they? How many championships
have they won?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
Any good stuff, my man. And of course I have
been to Pigley Wiley. It's a staple in the South
at grocery store. Probably the equivalent of like, well, Albertson's
in California, correct, something like that. All right, let's go
to our guest. Welcome in a gentleman. He's with me
every Saturday night at midnight, Little Medina Magic our NBA,
Fox Sports Radio NBA grew never a shortage of things
(23:37):
to talk about. Say hello, little Mark Madina, Mark, how
are you, Bud?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I am doing well, So I use the midnight segment. Well,
we'll make eleven thirty segments, just as Epoch.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
That's a big world. It must be midnight somewhere, Markta,
I gotta say, it's kind of like the midnight hour
for some of these players. I think we're gonna do
Mark is, have a little fun tonight. Let's still a
little forget Ward association. Let's do a little number association.
And I'll start with the elephant in the room, the
number four, the amount of games that Pat Beverly has
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been suspended. Just what the hell is your major malfunction,
mister commissioner, How could you only give him four games?
I was at the mouse of the palace. It takes
very little to spark a riot.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, well, do you want me to answer this as
if I'm Adam Silver? Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
No, ask answers if you're Mark Medina, because we'll do both.
I'll tell you what we do both.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
If I'm answering as of Adam Silver. It's like, Look,
I'm a commissioner that has two objectives. I want to
make a lot of money for the league and a
lot of owners. That's goal number one and goal number two.
I want the players to like me. So that's that's
the whole reason here. But you're not wrong, as as
you know. My reporter hat I'll put on is that
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you know they they equated this obviously to much less
severity because there wasn't fan behavior in the stands where
he's going into the stands. But I would argue that
it's just as irresponsible, just as they're inexcusable. I thought
that at least it should be just south of the
double digits suspensions, but four just reeks of the slap
(25:18):
on the wrist, and I think on top of that,
there should have been even more games at it because
of his disrespectful, unprofessional, sexist, misogynistic, what's for more adjectives
there about his behavior toward ESPN's me Linda Adams By
refuse to answer her question just because she doesn't subscribe
(25:39):
to his terrible podcast. So yeah, it was disappointed all
the way around. The only thing that was more disappointing
is that Jamal Murray didn't get any suspension at all,
despite the fact that he threw a heat pack onto
the floor and could have caused a lot of danger there.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, my goodness, gracious, yes, the fan could have gotten hurt.
You never know if you throw that the wrong guy,
he might charge the floor. It's happened before. There were
fans that came on the floor during the Mouse of
the Palace. Or we'll move on from that. I think
you've you've pretty much covered it. We understand the most
separandi and the persona that Adam Silver wants to portray.
(26:18):
Let's go to another number, association. One hundred thousand. That's
the amount Jamal Murray has been fined. I'm glad he
wasn't suspended during the playoffs. He could have suspended him
next year. Is that adequate for what he did throwing
a heat pack on the floor during play And I
know nothing happened, but it could have.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
It could have happened. And I look, I do get
the sensibilities that you don't want to affect the playoff series,
but you know, why are we holding these guys hands.
There's no excuse for someone to throw a heat pack
onto the floor. And yeah, no damage was caused, but
it could have happened. And that's besides the point. The
other thing that's inexcusable. I'm not going to ever cry
(26:56):
conspiracy theories about the Refts or Roe and Moan and say, hey,
there are twenty nine calls that the refsmissed with the
Indiana Pacers like Rick Carlisle did. But for Mark Davis
to concede that the entire officiating courage just to not
see it happened is inexcusable. I mean, come on, guys,
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that's why you have a multi man crew because you're
looking at every single angle of the court. So yeah,
disappointing across the board here from the league and the
officials with that one.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, and you know, I know, the world is a
vexing enough place without getting too deep into hypotheticals, would
you imagine if cat or and you know, one of
the Timberwolves players had stepped on that heat pack and
rolled an ankle in the rock?
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah, I mean, you talk about the delicacy of the
suspension effecting a game of a playoff series. How about
a potential injury? And again, nothing happened, but it shouldn't
have to lead to that point. It's the action and
there's just no excuse for Jamal Murray to that heat tacked.
I think the other thing is clearly Jamal Murray didn't
feel any sort of accountability here because you know, first
(28:08):
of all, he didn't talk to reporters after the game,
and then secondly, when he talked today, he didn't show
any apology. And he was starting to get a little
prickly when some reporters were asking repeated questions about the
answer and say, hey, do we have any basketball questions? Well,
how about this for a basketball question. He threw something
in a basketball game that could have affected basketball players.
(28:31):
So yeah, it's just all this stuff's nonsensical here.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And these are the headlines this week. Okay, these are headlines,
not a good look for the NBA. Tay, what else
is not a good look? And I think we've come
full circle now because the coach on the floor November nineteenth,
two thousand and four, mouse at the Palace Indiana Pacers
while I was there, won Rick Carlisle. Rick Carlisle still
(28:55):
the coach and apparently the operative number is seventy eight
seventy eight miss calls rep violations that the Indiana Pacers
have issued to the league as a complaint.
Speaker 5 (29:07):
Your thoughts, mart, Well, let me be clear here for
some context. Most teams file, you know, calls at the
end of games, they filed in conjunction with the other game,
which they did with the Knicks, and usually it's you know, yeah,
they're complaining about calls, but it's a series of themes
that they've gathered and they want to get feedback on,
(29:28):
you know, why was this a foul, why wasn't it
and that that could help, you know, the process and
the collaboration and the communication. But yeah, he was very specific,
identifying twenty nine calls from game one, forty nine calls
from game two. I think this is obviously the playoff
game has been shipping. You know, you throw in his
comment about small market teams deserve an equal shot. But
(29:51):
I think if you talk to the rest of the Pacers,
I mean Tyr's Halliburn was the first to tell you
the outcome didn't come down to the game or the
outcome didn't call come down to officiating and came down
to their play. And I think with the Rick carl
in particular, he's a great coach, but if you're going
to microanalyze plays, you know, how about you know, not
having Andrew and Mphart on Jalen Brunson at the end
(30:13):
of the game. That could have made a difference. So, yeah,
it's playoff games. Ship. I don't take anything more than that,
But yeah, I philosophically there's usually ninety nine percent of
the case basketball outcomes are decided because of basketball plays,
not officiating. But that being said, as we've discussed in
(30:33):
the segment segment, that doesn't mean officials are above criticism.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, and I think to contextualize Rick Carlisle's somewhat whiny comments,
he talked about the NBA having in for small market
teams and you know, okay, see in Minnesota seed to
be doing just fine. We don't need to go down
that road. I just felt the context and you are right,
you know, the employee video man that send these things
(30:58):
to the lead to keep the league on their toes.
This one just felt a little over the top and
I thought he diminished his team's performance. And frankly, Rick
Carlisle might have made some adjustments about helped the Steam win.
But that's the story for a different day. I talked
with Mark Medina or Fox Sports Radio NBA guru. Mark,
here's another number. There's two numbers, four and seven, the
number of coaches the Lakers will have since Lebron got there,
(31:19):
and the numbers since Phil Jackson left. I am not
going to ask you to speculate who win or why.
I do have a question though, why WOHLD NBA coaching
giants come up? Is Mark Jackson never never mentioned what
the hell is going on?
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Well, I think he's certainly mentioned, but he's just never
really considered. I think that, you know, the longer you're
out of the coaching game, that hurts you. I think,
you know, even when he would hire with Golden State,
there was a thought about even though yes he's a
former player, he's one of the all time great point guards.
High on the all time assistant list. You don't have
(31:55):
any coaching experience, you know, as far as being an
assistant coach wants to jell brain into the seat. I
think the way his time in Golden State ended also
doesn't help either, because there's no doubt he'll be the
first to tell you, and it's true, like he did
play a role in the Warriors dynasty with really revamping
their defense, you know, and fueling a lot of confidence
(32:17):
in Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, proclaiming them to be
the best you know, shooting back court in all time.
And now it's an obvious statement, but when he said
it more a decade ago, it was almost blasphemous. And
you know, he knew how to get to motivate players,
but there was a feeling that few that he didn't
(32:38):
make enough adjustments, the offense was stagnant, and that he
didn't treat certain people well, whether it's on his coaching
staff or you know, team staff members, and so I
think that those things have all contributed him not getting
any head coaching jobs elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Well, you covered a lot of good ground there is
it seemed like it's a fade of complete Well, we
never see Mark Jackson gracing a sideline again as a
head coach.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
It's hard for me to say never, say never with anything,
but I would be very surprised.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Finally, Mark the last number in our Number Association game
twenty four. The Celtics lose at home tonight by twenty four.
Jason Smith brought up a great point in his show,
You know what, I don't think anybody really fears the Celtics,
So I think that might be a valid statement. Not
that they can't come back and win the championship, but
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something is missing. And when Boston did what they did
the night at home against Cleveland, it just underscores that narrative.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Yeah, and I think there's two troubling trends here. The
longer christn s Porzingis is out, the more you can't
help but think, Okay, this is going to be a
serious injury. And this is what he was having in
New York and Dallas. I know that talking to him,
you know, and just seeing availability. It's so much improved
in Washington and in Boston with just different work, you know,
(33:59):
with his to improve his durability, stability, get off excess weight,
more work on his joints, all that stuff, But the
second part is they seem to play to their competition
and they don't have this killer instinct. I think that
when you look at their regular season success, Yes, Jason Tatum,
he's been a more efficient player, Jalen Brown, same thing.
(34:21):
They've been a better you know, pairing as a duo.
When you add him Porzingis, they've been a really great trio.
They have a great starting lineup, but you got to
have that killer instinct, and you can't play with your
food in the playoffs. And I still think the Celeics
beat the Cavs in this playoff series. But the longer
you have you know, a playoffs series extend, at some
(34:43):
point you worry does attrition eventually catch up to you?
And I think with that, assuming they get to the finals,
which I think will happen, they could be vulnerable to
any team that they face in the West, whether it's
Denver gating their act together, or if it's Minnesota showing
they're the real deal, Oklahoma City, word Dallas. I really
think that basically whoever comes out of the West is
(35:04):
going to win the NBA Finals because those teams are
really good, but also because I don't think Boston has
what it takes to beat those teams.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Mark, great stuff. As always, we'll talk to you Saturday night.
There'll be plenty more news headlines and hopefully they'll be
on the floor as these playoff series takes you continue
to take shape.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
I appreciate to add more one more number for this game, twelve.
That means midnight on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Right, that's right, my man, Mark Medina, Medina Magic on
the Bernie Fradis Show Saturday nights. Good stuff, Mark ins
rest my man. All right, thanks Powell. That is Mark Medina.
Are Fox Sports Radio guru coming up? One NFL player
just can't seem to stay out of the soup. And
he's been warned. Now he's got a body of work,
(35:50):
and they didn't listen to the scouts. And by the way,
he's a Super Bowl champion. Come on, dude, straighten up.
Fly right. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to life from
Las Vegas, Fox HS Radio, Tirac dot Com studios, Keman oktwright.
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Speaker 1 (36:37):
All right, thanks Eddie. Well, apparently Rashi Rice can't stay
out of his own way. The Star Wide Receiver, the
Kansas City chiefs now being investigated for alleged assault at
a nightclub in Texas last Tuesday. Oh my goodness, he's
accused if hitting a photographer at the club. Now, the
report says they're interviewing witnesses, et cetera, et cetera. But
(36:59):
this is the dude that already facing eight felony charges.
He's only twenty four years old, stemming from his role
in that multi vehicle crash that happened in March in Dallas,
where Rashee Rice was allegedly racing another car down a
freeway at a very high level of speed. I don't
know how fast. It's on video apparently, and Ryce said,
(37:21):
you know, in many of his courts. They also fled
the scene, leading to an arrest warrant being issued for Rice.
He turned himself in a few days later. Well they can't,
you know. It's like I was making faces at my
teacher in the third grade, Missus Birch, and she caught me.
She goes, mister Vardo. My mother told me that if
I made faces like that when I grew up, my
(37:42):
face would freeze. I said, well, missus Birch, you can't
say you weren't warned. I got in trouble, kind of
like Rashee Rice got in trouble. Well he was warned.
Scout said many teams removed him from his draft board
because of quote behavioral issues, quote He's talented, but not
(38:03):
a good dude. One personnel director said, they didn't listen.
Good player, bad head, doesn't look good. Tons of stuff
to get to coming up top of the hour. We're
going to bring in the crew. What the hell is this?
NBA players that they could just be dropped into an
NFL game, But it's worse than that. Roger Cadell wants
an eighteen game schedule. By the way, we'll chop it up,
keep it locked. This is Bernie Frattle, sit again for
(38:26):
Ben Maller. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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