April 29, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Warriors taking a 3-1 lead over the Rockets in Game 4 and if it was great defense by Draymond Green or a bad shot by the Rockets at the end, Jimmy Butler saying he was inspired by trash talk, Adam Silver on NBA media coverage, and more!
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Welcome, It's our num ber, what our number one? A
happy Tuesday to you. It is the twenty ninth day
of April, and we are together here with some podcasting
recorded all night on the overnight Here in hour number one,
it's all about the NBA. Was it great defense by
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Draymond Green or a bad shot by the Rockets at
the end of regulation? Is Golden State got to win?
What happened to Jalen Green? For Houston and Golden State's
Jimmy Butler, without naming him, directly credited the Rockets Dylan
Brooks for inspiring him with some trash talk?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How does that sound to you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And also the commissioner Adam Silver, on what needs to
improve with the NBA's media coverage. He says they don't
spend enough time talking about why people love this game.
Where do you stand on on that take by the commissioner.
We'll talk about all of those stories and more right
now here. It is our number one. It was not
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a case of saved by the belt, was saved by
the butler?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
The butler?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Wel Come in.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The beginning, Come another hour and another night of the
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our lead this hour is from the pro Bouncy Ball playoffs.
They continue will start out in San Francisco. That is
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where the only game that was competitive was played. There's
only a couple games on the schedule and there was
only one that really provided anything halfway decent to discuss,
although we will talk about the other game.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Why not we have a four hour.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Talk show, but game four of the Western Conference Playoffs
side of the bracket, the nightcap you had Jalen Green
and the number two seeded Rockets taking on Stephan Curry
the number seven seed Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And how did that go?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was actually close.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The Rockets had a lead at halftime, were up by
evan then they had to play the second half. If
you were not watching, you might have missed it. It came
down to the bitter end. A big third quarter run
by the Warriors put them ahead, but in the stretch
run down the home stretch, Jimmy Butler converted not one,
not two, but three foul shots with less.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Than a minute to go.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He also got the game clinching rebound with four seconds
to go in the game and made a couple more
foul shots. He had twenty seven points, almost all of them,
it seemed, in the second half of this game, and
he returned from a pelvic injury, which at the time
seemed like that was going to be the ko see.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You later out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They win, though, Golden State gets past Houston one oh
nine to one oh six, a three point win. More importantly,
they are up now three games to one. So it
appears another non competitive NBA playoff series in terms of
a possible Game seven situation on the line. We're not
looking at that. Fred van Vliet missed a three point
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shot for the Rockets that would have could have ended
up tying the game. There, he missed it at the buzzer.
No good, that's it. And the Warriors. Now you talk
about stepping up secondary actors, role players that play better
at home. Brandon Pojemski with twenty six points for Golden
State and Steph Curry rather quiet seventeen points.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I know you're not allowed to say anything negative.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
About Steph Curry because you'll be struck by lightning if
you say anything negative about Steph.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Curry went all that good. He went all that good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And now the teams will get back to Houston. Game
five and gonna be very concerned about when Game five is.
Game five best of seven will be on Wednesday night.
Wednesday night, and that could be se la vie for
the rock Cats there as Golden State will try to
close it out and they can say bye bye to
the Rockets on Houston's home. For the better story is
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in the losing lock. So that is where we were
going to begin. Uh And Alfred shen Goon was the
big man, not exactly the second coming of a Keim
Elijah On. However, he continues to produce for the most
part in these playoffs. And shan Gun had a chance
to put Houston ahead and they gave him the ball
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about ten seconds to go in the game. He worked
the ball down to the foul line with less than
ten seconds remaining, and he did not make the shot,
a foul line jumper that would have put Houston ahead
by one on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
There would have been just a few seconds to go
in the game.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So let us discuss that's actually we'll start with that
because that's interesting the reaction to that, and if you
didn't hear exactly what happened and see what happened, the
question is was it great defense by Draymond Green because
that was the matchup. That's pretty intriguing that Houston, of
all the players on the court, Ema Udoka would approach
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this and get ball to Shengoon against what everyone in
the media is convinced is the top greatest defensive player
Draymond Green for Golden State. Yet Houston attacked Draymond Green.
So was it great defense by Draymond Green or a
just a bad misshot by the Rockets alf Shengoon there
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at the end, that's the question. So I've got Lionel, Richie, Wrecket, Ralph,
and Silicon Valley, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
tropical vacation. The Rockets are one loss away from a
very nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
They can afford it. They can afford a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So my first thought on this, despite Reggie Miller on
the TNT broadcast, who was I'm pretty sure wearing knee
pads for Draymond Green. I mean, it was a little
uncomfortable get a room, just smooching and slobbering all over Draymon.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Reggie Miller, what a fanboy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Anyway, despite that, and also despite all the awards that
Draymond Green has picked up as a multi time defensive
player the year blah blah blah blah blah, Houston, I
love the fact they went right after Draymond at this
stage of his life. Draymond was just a podcaster. He's
an older player, He's a podcaster. And it wasn't Maybe
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my team was broken.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know, what do I know? I just did
the overnight show.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It did not look like Lockdown Defense by Draymond Green.
It did not, despite what Reggie Miller and the TNT
broadcast was saying, I did not in my view, see,
oh my god, this is like a great defense. Holy crap.
I can't believe how good he played defense. I didn't
see that. What I saw was Alfred Schengoon going Lionel Richie.
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If you will hear cranking up the Commodore's brick house
from back in the day there and seventies. But man,
what a brick house it was at the end there.
But he got a pretty good shot. He just didn't
make the shot. And it's a make or miss league.
I was taught that by Jeff Van Gundy. Maker miss league.
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He missed it, but it wasn't because of amazing defense
by Draymond Green. Now of a bigger problem for the
Rockets here is Jalen Green. What happened? What happened to
Jalen Green? That's the question for the Esteam panel. The
Rockets star during the regular season. So in this game,
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we mentioned Shengoon for the Rockets, who had twenty one
of his thirty one points in the second half. And
he had to do that because the guy that is
the headliner It's like going to a comedy show and
the comic who you're going to watch, the top comic,
gets up on stage, tells one joke and says, all right,
that's all I got tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That was Jalen Green. He was the headliner and he
didn't deliver as the headline. He was a fraud, an
absolut fraud. And what happened to him is he had commandeered.
He was in the cockpit writing the vomit comet Jalen
Green in this game, as we so often see in
the plus, he had eight points. That's it, eight points,
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but the stories in the second half.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Houston was up by seven at halftime.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He scored as many points Jalen Green as you and
I did in the second half. Goose egg, bupkis, zippo,
zero nothing. It only took eight shots in the game,
only two field goal attempts in the second half. It
reminded me of playoff Harden from years gone by with
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the Rockets, or Kitty Kat with the Knickerbockers now and
also with Minnesota, where he just vanishes for a game.
In this case, Jalen Green has actually vanished from more
than one game. This has become the norm and how
bad was it? But wait, there's more. It was so
bad that emy udok A bench Jalen Green for the
fin like five minutes of the game.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
This is his top player. He wasn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
He was benched for negligence, for malfeasance on the court.
I mean Green has been under ten points in three
of the four games in this series. He did have
a thirty eight point game, but other than that, it's
been a do better, be better situation.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's a bad job, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Meanwhile, a Golden State they win this game, so they're
up three games to one, and to the winner goes
the spoilers. Everyone kisses their asses, how great they are.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now, Jimmy Butler had some interesting comments postgame without on
TNT right after the game, without naming the person. Without
naming the person, Jimmy Butler indicated that there was a
player on the Rockets who inspired his second half performance,
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and he indicated without naming him, that it was Dylan Brooks,
the big mouth trash talking instigator of the Houston basketball team,
and so without naming him directly, it certainly appeared based
on the clues given and the way the game played out.
There was a couple of minutes in the first half
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that were it seemed to take thirty five forty minutes
to play about three minutes a game time because they
kept going to the replay, which is unwatchable.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I flipped over to a baseball game, not even a
good one, the Marlins and the Dodgers, not even a
good game. But I flipped over that and then came back.
But anyway, so Jimmy Butler Golden State Star of Stars
here on this night, and he credited, it would appear
Dylan Brooks for inspiring him with some trash talk. So
how does that sound to you? So the way I
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interpreted the Jimmy Butler SoundBite parabolic, a legend building is
how I interpreted here, Jimmy Butler in the beginning part
of the game. And I actually jotted this, duyidon't John.
I wrote it on my phone. I have the notes
app on my phone, and I said, decoy, Jimmy Butler, decoy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
In the first half of the game. It was a decoy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He only had four points at halftime, and it just
wasn't aggressive and just kind of out there. I was like, well,
you're wondering, why is he out there? Is he able
to play? Is he just out there because he wants
to be that option, which not really a real option,
and all that four points at halftime, and then in
the second half he goes wreck at Ralph.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Turbotastic performance Golden State. They started the second half. He
saw the game. You know, they went eighteen out of
the first nineteen points, eighteen to one run after halftime
and the playoff Jimmy was activated. He likes to down
and play Playoff Jimmy, yet he doesn't seem to have
much of an issue with it when it's in headlines
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on the internet and it's kind of this weird thing
he's got. He's got to downplay it, but yet he
kind of likes it secretly and all that. So Playoff
jim Me with twenty three points in the second half,
but fourteen in the fourth quarter. He had more points
than the rest of his teammates for the Warriors in
the final twelve minutes of that game. So Golden state.
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Now he went away from a trip to the second round.
They'll play Minnesota in the second round. Wolves, one more
win away from uk Luka and the Lakers being exterminated,
which we can all celebrate there from the playoffs. All right, now,
last word, we go to the Commissioner's office. We head
now to the Commissioner's office where Adam Silver was asked
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on what needs to improve with the NBA media covers.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So, I don't know, have you heard what he said?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It was an interview he did recently with one of
these sports business websites.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Here, here's a little taste.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here's Adam Silver giving a lecture on what needs to
be better.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Tig A Lis, is there anything about how the NBA
has covered that you would change?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You know, it's interesting your companies enjoy basketball, And I mean,
I respect the job the media does. And it's not
a suggestion that people shouldn't ask tough questions or be
critical or talk about things they don't like about the game.
But I would say, and it goes exactly to your
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production company enjoy basketball that sometimes I think they don't
spend enough time talking about why people love this game.
And you know, recently I was at a meeting with
Mike Krzyzewski, former coach at Duke, and he condensed it
with this headline. He said, we should educate people about
the game and celebrate the game. Educate and celebrate, and
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I feel I wish there was more of that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Okay, all right, so the money part of that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They don't spend enough time talking about why people love
the game. So where do you stand on this? Where
do you stand on what you just heard there from
Adam Silver? So I give this some side eye here.
Of course, you'd expect the commissioner to only want positivity,
and he.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Did drop a bomb, the butt bomb. He dropped a
butt bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Everything before the word butt and before the word butt
was tough questions.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
So he doesn't want tough questions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That was a lie, he said, the word but everything
before the word but is a lie. It was a
butt bomb from Adam Silver. Butt bomb, Adam Silver, he
said it. But he's acting like he's in the Silicon
Valley running an internet startup, Sunshine dot com. If you
will right now, you can control NBA Media, the business partners,
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you can control to some degree. And so there is
a level of control that one has like the website,
which I don't know anyone goes to NBA dot com,
but those that do, the five people that go to
that website, you can control that. The social media channels
that the league runs, you can control that. But outside
of it, the problem Adam Silver has is the people
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that pay big money for the rights to the NBA
do that to get an audience and engage the audience
in order to bring in money via advertisers. And it's
basically a case where tell me you do not understand
how the media business works without telling me that you
don't understand how the media business works. The NBA is
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actually the envy of Major League Baseball and the NHL
in the fact that even though the product in baseball
and hockey is better, I don't know anyone thinks it's
a worse product in those sports than Basketball's better. The
NBA product is horrible during the regular season. Now the
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playoffs it's not that bad, but during the regular season
it is god awful.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Everyone knows it, everyone's aware of this.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It is a horrifically bad product, and it's happened under
Adam Silver's watch, and the media loves you know. I
can't say what they do to Adam Silver, but they
love that them Silver so much that they don't want
to criticize him. Under his watch, the product has become horrific.
Baseball is a better product. Hockey is a better product
in the regular season. You're not supposed to say, but
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yet the NBA, despite an inferior product where the players
don't give a crap during the regular season, it's like
going to Dave and Busters and standing there and watching
Papa Shot. Yet the Papa shot machine at David Busters
is watching. In the NBA during the regular season, it's
nothing but jump shots, three point shots and all that stuff.
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Despite all that, the Days of Our Lives drama, which
is mostly negative, is engagement, and that part of it works.
We're in the golden age of engagement. And the Internet
thrives on negativity. Human beings thrive on negativity. You always
get some dope to call the sports riders, Oh, I
think you should be more positive, and I always say, well,
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you want me to lose my job because if I
do positivity, no one listens. They used to be a
guy that worked here. I want to say the person's name,
try to do positive sports radio. I believe he is
now trying to be a motivational speaker. He ain't doing
this anymore because no one listened. Okay, people want engagement,
Advertisers want that, and negative things bring more engagement. That's
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how it works. That's how it works anyway. It is
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It was a very sweet song. I wish reaction like
I would have recorded you.
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You would have record Well, there's a camera in here,
You're right, there is it. I don't fans according this
part of it, but there's a there's a camera here.
It's very nice, very sweet of them, the Mallapropata. And
I'm sure there was other people involved in that, I
would think, but but thank.
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You, very kind of you.
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And as I was driving in here, I realized I
have celebrated pretty much every milestone birthday here.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
That's not I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I don't know if that's good or not, like every mile. So,
I mean, I started here, I was and I was
trying to how old was I when I started? I
was like twenty no.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I started in radio and I was nineteen. But
I started here.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
When I was like twenty five or something like that,
So pretty much grown up in this building.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Why don't you take your birthday off?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I did in school, but I like my job, so
I was like, you know, if it was.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Closer to the weekend, I might like the birthday was
like on a Thursday or a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I might have done that, but yeah, it's Tuesday show,
so yeah, take Tuesday. What are you doing Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, I agree with you, right, Kople understands the key
to taking time off is to get the elongated weekend.
So you got to do it either at the last
day of the week or the first day of the
next week. That way you get the full bang for
your buck. You know, take a The only time I
take random days off is somebody dies and I have
to go to a funeral or something like that. During
the week, I'll take time off for that or if
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I have to attend to something like that. But other
than other than that, Yes, anyway, we are rolling on
a truck stop. Fungus rites in and says, got you
tuned in here in Cornersville, Tennessee. Where were kicking ass
in Cornersville, Tennessee at the world famous Tennessee and truck stop.
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I've never even heard of that?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Is that? I guess that's Fain the bar The barbecue
here is delicious, according to truck stop Fungus, it's Pops
barbecue and here it looks good. I mean, you just
sent me a photo of a what appears to be
an empty container of Pops barbecue sauce, and then it
looks like a tray of ribs behind that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And I'll take your word for now.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I was told by some barbecue snob in Kansas City
that real barbecue you don't need.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
The sauce, that it's it's so good. You just it's
the Meat's just I guess.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
The meat can be. Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be moist, Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Chris and de Moines says, I'm sorry, Ben, I know
you're going to talk about this later. Bill Belichick's girlfriend says,
you're not allowed to talk about that. Okay, all right,
Well I'm good.
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There you go. Spocks Weed rites in. You know it's
a good night.
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I spocks Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail says, yeah.
Another sighting of the Fobbit comet over the skies of
San Francisco now truck stop Fungus said I had a
nervous almost had a nervous breakdown on there.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I did not have a nervous breakdown on the air.
I did not. I just enhanced the monologue.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
James rights In says, is the motivational speaker guy you
referred to blank. Yes, James, I'm not gonna name the person,
but that is who. That is the person. You are
absolutely correct on that. Who else do we have?
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How about that, Jay Scoop? Very exciting news.
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Joe Texti writes, Sin says, I'm not gonna lie. I
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Berner count checks in says hello, and so many more.
All right, we'll take some phone calls here. We start
out with pro Bouncy Ball, the Warriors and the Rockets.
As that game was closed down the stretch run and
goes the way of Golden State. They come back in
the second half and get the win. Let's say hello
to Enie Meenie miney Mode. Let's go to Laurow in Boston,
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who I have not spoken to, and sometimes Hello, Laua.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Welcome. It's the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Welcome and a long time sir.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
We celebrate the same birthday today.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh looko, well, it's all the great celebrate the same birthday,
all the legends, Laurow.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I will never forget, Lauro.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I was doing I was doing some radio in Boston,
and you were my producer at the other station in Boston,
and I gave you a ride home in the rental car.
And you lived about as far away as possible, Laurel.
Oh my god, you live so far away from the
race radio station, Lauro. I think I've just got back
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from that drive, Laurel.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
That was so cool. I always say so like wordless,
I always say wow.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm here with the celebrity.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well you're making me blush now, Laura, But listen, I
can't do a birthday shout out, as you know. Otherwise
I would wish you a very happy birthday and all that.
And we we go way back. That was a long time.
How many years ago is that? That's probably been eight
Oh my god, holy crap, that's like a generation ago.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
My god, Laua, we're getting old.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, very much, Ben.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'd like to say I wish you true happiness. I
wish all of you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Listen, is Torue happiness as well as your producers, Lorena
and Coop?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Coops New, Coops New.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I have to I have to say how truly amazingly
beautiful she is?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And also what about me? Think I'm good looking? All right, okay,
I understand, I understand. Well, thank you, Laura. Listen.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I hope I've shooting you all right, buddy, I know
you've had some ups and downs, my man, and keep
keep keep fighting, my man, keep going all right, and
thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Yes, I had to put down my watch my mom
last year, so we're spending a bad year.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Things will get better, buddy, things will get better. But
hanging to Laurel. You're the man.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
All right, thank you, buddy, thanks for calling me. There
you go, the great Laurel, you old man. Try to
do somebody solid, man I was doing. I did a
little radio and then I was filling it for Mikey
Adams and Laura was like, hey, I love Mikey Adams,
but one of my favorite radio people, Mikey Adams just
great old Boston radio guy. And he's like driving uber
(28:47):
now or something, does a podcast. But anyway, so I
was like, I'll give you a ride.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So I gave him.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
He's, oh, yeah, I don't live that far away. It
was like it's like about as far as you could
possibly get.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Everything in California is far.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
No, this was in Massachusetts. It was still and I
didn't really know where I was going. I hadn't really
driven around that much. And uh, you know that's a
long time ago.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
How many cows do we have to pass?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Well, there are cows.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
No cows in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm sure there are cows there. I just on that
trip I didn't see any cows. A lot of trees.
There were a lot of trees. You need to get
out a little bit, Lorena.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You got to get out and see You got to
experience the world. You've got to go out and see
what's out there and travel around and have you you've been? Where?
Have you been to Europe? Right, you've been to Europe?
Done that done? Have you what part of the United
States have you visited?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Have you visited Montana and Florida?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Okay, in Tana, Florida, that's it. California, California, been there? Oh,
you went to Louisiana, right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And Louisian I remember that you went to Louisiana the
swamplands of Louisiana from Marty Grass did that?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah? There you go?
Speaker 7 (29:56):
All right, very much?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Else No, uh, let's say hello to vain in the
One Legged Bama Man, a show favorite, the most masculine
caller in the history of the show, who had his
leg bitten off and then they killed the gator and
had a nice dinner.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What's going on Van the One Legged Bama Man?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Well, the real matter? Please stand up? Birthday? Ben? Well?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Thank you man?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, No, it's not not good. Don't not that. I'm
not that point yet. No, no, not that far. I'm
not that bad.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You turned sixty. It really all falls apart.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So okay, so I got for too so once that's
the point of demarcation. That's when everything goes haywire and
stuff gets completed.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
When you turn fifty, you know it starts to go
down a little bit, but safety is just off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, well that's very uplifted.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Are you familiar with Bill Jackson's forty twenty rule on
the NBA?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yes, Phil, I believe he said you had to win
forty before you lose twenty to be considered a legitimate
championship team.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
If I recalled.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Something like only three times in the last fifty years
as that somebody who didn't have that record, Yeah, one
NBA championship. Sure, sure, I got the Cavaliers, the Celtics.
There was only three Cavaliers Celtics in Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
See, oh so you bet just based on these end
master philosophy.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
On the future.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Okay, that's not Yeah, that's not.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Might throw a little bit in there. I had a
little bit early on the Lakers, but.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I would have burned that and have a big bonfire
and burn that.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Yeah, a little bit on Houston. That's it'll be another loser.
But yeah, I don't think I know why they bothered
to play seven games in the first round.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, there's a lot of TV money to make. They
got to make that TV money, you know, So it's.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
All got to pay those players, all those medians.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah exactly. And you're a lanting, you're Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Certain shows a little I fear a little signs of
that not dead the Braves in that dead.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
No, that started starting to come around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
They get a coon you back spitzer stridery and pulled
his hamstring warming up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I know he's hurt, he's hurt so often. He should
pitch for the Dodgers. The guy's hurt so much, might
as well. He's got all the Dodgers guys they got,
They got like eighty ninety million dollars of starting pitching
that is hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Got like twelve or fourteen on the discable it it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And every every year the Dodger's like, oh no, we're
going to figure this out. We're going to figure out
why these guys get hurt. And it's just bull crap.
They get hurt every year.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Word. Yeah, remember when Sammy throw his back out, sneezy.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Remember that said, that might have also been because of
all the testosterone in his.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Body, But yes, I do that was in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I do recall that. Well, baseball injuries are all I mean,
you know that there Van, the one legged Bama Man.
There have been guys hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There was a guy he got was allergic to the
grass and the outfields, was stretching, laid on his back
and got a rash and had to miss. Uh, Marty Cordova.
One of the great injuries of all time for Minnesota Twins.
I think it was with the Oils at the time.
But he got he got hurt. He fell asleep in
a sun Tan bed machine and got burned and couldn't play.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah. Yeah, you know what John Smolts did what's his
chest ironing his shirt while he was wearing it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yes, and the five five bet of Kapa move there.
Why we've all done that growing up?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
What I would not admit to that?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
No, no, exactly. All right, I gotta go, But thank
you fakes for checking it. Call in more often.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Van, I know all everybody all, there's a great Van,
the one.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Leged Bama Man.
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Now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you can attempt to answer it.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know how this works.
And Walls gets to that no time? What time is it?
No time? But here's the question of the hour.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Houston quickly Alfred Shengon joined Nikola Jokic, Shaquille O'Neill and
me as the only centers in NBA history to have
a playoff game with thirty or more points, ten or
more rebounds, five or more assists and no turnovers. Again,
Houston's Alfrid she Goon joining Nikola Jokic, Shaquill O'Neill and
(34:40):
me is the only centers in NBA history to have
a playoff game with thirty or more points, ten or
more rebounds, five or more assists, and no turnovers.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Who am I? That's the question the answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
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Just search Fox Sports Radio. In the app you can
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Speaker 3 (35:33):
Make that the.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Company wants you to make Fox Sports Radio at the
very top. I think the Ben Malor Show can go
one Fifth Hour podcast to then Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
But you do what you want.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
It's all in the iHeartRadio app. It will always pop
up right at the top of your screen. You don't
have to fus around with it. You set that as
your preset, you lock those shows in and then you
get that anytime you want.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Now back to it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Thank god for the internet.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh yes, thank god for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Will pay off the who Am I? Game in a minute,
but you got to pay off the tea from earlier.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No time like dame time.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
The injury has been confirmed Damian Lillard a non contact
injury and snap crackle Pop goes to the Achilles. Unfortunately,
Damian Lillard will be out for all of next season.
He did post on Instagram to be continued, but by
all reasonable medical accounts, Damian Lillard will not play in
(36:25):
the NBA next season.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So he's out.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And now the question becomes will Giannis Adenta Kombo say
I'd like to go in the portal? I would like
out of here. I want to go somewhere else. Will
he end up, for example, in Miami where they heat
heat snink and they lost. They gave up?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
What was that? Yeah? They do? That is that is bad? Bad, bad,
bad bad? All right, now, time for the who Am I?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Houston's Alfred Shengo, who joined Nikola yok At, Shaquille O'Neill
and me, is the old lee centers in NBA history
to have a playoff game with thirty or more points
Ten or more rebounds, five or more assists and no turnovers.
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
That is the question? What is the answer? Williams going
with Mo Cheeks as his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Benito the long Suffering Cowboy fan says Danny Mullen Scrooge
is going with Hank Aaron from the Home Run Derby
TV show. Who else we have? Captain Leu Albono from
Rob in Vegas? Could see Rob's out there? Alf the
Alien opinter says the limit edition Birthday Benny Bobblehead is
the not a birthday? Shout out? Fergdog says, is it
(37:38):
the almost birthday boy?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Ben Malor? Who else to have?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Greaty Sizemore from mister Nice Guy Page Down Boston, Dave
from Shane in Des Moines, Uma Thurman who is a
thirty fifty five fifty five today?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Mandai Tales Internet girlfriend singing Happy birthday to you from Milkman,
Mike in Colorado, Dallas Comogies from Bay City, Tony, Timothy
mos Goff guests by Malibar Rubin.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
That's a good name? Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Shaq or Andre the Giant from spocks Weed Bam out
of Bio guess by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota. Buddy Nick
the Wendy's Guy, says, Yao, Ming is the answer. Supermarket Steve,
who was on strike this week, says you are Bam
the one legged Bama Man, a great caller to the
malor show more one legged Bama Man. Less Leprechaun, says
(38:31):
Supermarket Steve. Who else do we have? Big Lou He's
on number two, says Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck Doppelganger. The
late Great Mark Eaton is the answer. Terry in England
says the Birthday Boy Birthday Malle, You are officially an
(38:51):
old fogie.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Orville Reddenbacher from truck stop Fungus at the truck stop
there in Tennessee. Ruth Bader Ginsburg from Bobby in Florida,
the Admiral David Robinson from Mark from Queens who's hiding
out in Arlington, Texas?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Can't read that, Mike says Bulls Dad. Mister Ball is
the answer? Lorae. Now do you have an answer, Lorena
to the always popular who am I game?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Yes, Bennet is obviously Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Beyonce. All right, that is that correct?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Unfortunately, well it turns out that Houston's center Alfred Shengoon,
joining Nikole yok At, Shaquill O'Neill, and me, is the
only centers in NBA history to have a playoff game
with thirty or more points, ten or more rebounds, five
or more assistant no turners.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Who am I? Pat trick ewing of the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And if you're around my age watching the Knicks back
of that, it was always the MSG play by play
guy or the PA guy, Pat trick ewing that garden
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, It's our num ber, what our number one? A
happy Tuesday to you. It is the twenty ninth day
of April, and we are together here with some podcasting
recorded all night on the overnight Here in hour number one,
it's all about the NBA. Was it great defense by
(00:25):
Draymond Green or a bad shot by the Rockets at
the end of regulation? Is Golden State got to win?
What happened to Jalen Green? For Houston and Golden State's
Jimmy Butler, without naming him, directly credited the Rockets Dylan
Brooks for inspiring him with some trash talk?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
How does that sound to you?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And also the commissioner Adam Silver, on what needs to
improve with the NBA's media coverage. He says they don't
spend enough time talking about why people love this game.
Where do you stand on on that take by the commissioner.
We'll talk about all of those stories and more right
now here. It is our number one. It was not
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a case of saved by the belt, was saved by
the butler?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
The butler?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Did it?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Wel Come in.
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our lead this hour is from the pro Bouncy Ball playoffs.
They continue will start out in San Francisco. That is
(02:27):
where the only game that was competitive was played. There's
only a couple games on the schedule and there was
only one that really provided anything halfway decent to discuss,
although we will talk about the other game.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Why not we have a four hour.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Talk show, but game four of the Western Conference Playoffs
side of the bracket, the nightcap you had Jalen Green
and the number two seeded Rockets taking on Stephan Curry
the number seven seed Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And how did that go?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was actually close.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
The Rockets had a lead at halftime, were up by
evan then they had to play the second half. If
you were not watching, you might have missed it. It came
down to the bitter end. A big third quarter run
by the Warriors put them ahead, but in the stretch
run down the home stretch, Jimmy Butler converted not one,
not two, but three foul shots with less.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Than a minute to go.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
He also got the game clinching rebound with four seconds
to go in the game and made a couple more
foul shots. He had twenty seven points, almost all of them,
it seemed, in the second half of this game, and
he returned from a pelvic injury, which at the time
seemed like that was going to be the ko see.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You later out of here.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They win, though, Golden State gets past Houston one oh
nine to one oh six, a three point win. More importantly,
they are up now three games to one. So it
appears another non competitive NBA playoff series in terms of
a possible Game seven situation on the line. We're not
looking at that. Fred van Vliet missed a three point
(04:04):
shot for the Rockets that would have could have ended
up tying the game. There, he missed it at the buzzer.
No good, that's it. And the Warriors. Now you talk
about stepping up secondary actors, role players that play better
at home. Brandon Pojemski with twenty six points for Golden
State and Steph Curry rather quiet seventeen points.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I know you're not allowed to say anything negative.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
About Steph Curry because you'll be struck by lightning if
you say anything negative about Steph.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Curry went all that good. He went all that good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And now the teams will get back to Houston. Game
five and gonna be very concerned about when Game five is.
Game five best of seven will be on Wednesday night.
Wednesday night, and that could be se la vie for
the rock Cats there as Golden State will try to
close it out and they can say bye bye to
the Rockets on Houston's home. For the better story is
(04:58):
in the losing lock. So that is where we were
going to begin. Uh And Alfred shen Goon was the
big man, not exactly the second coming of a Keim
Elijah On. However, he continues to produce for the most
part in these playoffs. And shan Gun had a chance
to put Houston ahead and they gave him the ball
(05:19):
about ten seconds to go in the game. He worked
the ball down to the foul line with less than
ten seconds remaining, and he did not make the shot,
a foul line jumper that would have put Houston ahead
by one on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
There would have been just a few seconds to go
in the game.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So let us discuss that's actually we'll start with that
because that's interesting the reaction to that, and if you
didn't hear exactly what happened and see what happened, the
question is was it great defense by Draymond Green because
that was the matchup. That's pretty intriguing that Houston, of
all the players on the court, Ema Udoka would approach
(05:59):
this and get ball to Shengoon against what everyone in
the media is convinced is the top greatest defensive player
Draymond Green for Golden State. Yet Houston attacked Draymond Green.
So was it great defense by Draymond Green or a
just a bad misshot by the Rockets alf Shengoon there
(06:22):
at the end, that's the question. So I've got Lionel, Richie, Wrecket, Ralph,
and Silicon Valley, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice
tropical vacation. The Rockets are one loss away from a
very nice tropical vacation.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
They can afford it. They can afford a nice vacation.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So my first thought on this, despite Reggie Miller on
the TNT broadcast, who was I'm pretty sure wearing knee
pads for Draymond Green. I mean, it was a little
uncomfortable get a room, just smooching and slobbering all over Draymon.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Reggie Miller, what a fanboy.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Anyway, despite that, and also despite all the awards that
Draymond Green has picked up as a multi time defensive
player the year blah blah blah blah blah, Houston, I
love the fact they went right after Draymond at this
stage of his life. Draymond was just a podcaster. He's
an older player, He's a podcaster. And it wasn't Maybe
(07:23):
my team was broken.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know, what do I know? I just did
the overnight show.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It did not look like Lockdown Defense by Draymond Green.
It did not, despite what Reggie Miller and the TNT
broadcast was saying, I did not in my view, see,
oh my god, this is like a great defense. Holy crap.
I can't believe how good he played defense. I didn't
see that. What I saw was Alfred Schengoon going Lionel Richie.
(07:51):
If you will hear cranking up the Commodore's brick house
from back in the day there and seventies. But man,
what a brick house it was at the end there.
But he got a pretty good shot. He just didn't
make the shot. And it's a make or miss league.
I was taught that by Jeff Van Gundy. Maker miss league.
(08:12):
He missed it, but it wasn't because of amazing defense
by Draymond Green. Now of a bigger problem for the
Rockets here is Jalen Green. What happened? What happened to
Jalen Green? That's the question for the Esteam panel. The
Rockets star during the regular season. So in this game,
(08:33):
we mentioned Shengoon for the Rockets, who had twenty one
of his thirty one points in the second half. And
he had to do that because the guy that is
the headliner It's like going to a comedy show and
the comic who you're going to watch, the top comic,
gets up on stage, tells one joke and says, all right,
that's all I got tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That was Jalen Green. He was the headliner and he
didn't deliver as the headline. He was a fraud, an
absolut fraud. And what happened to him is he had commandeered.
He was in the cockpit writing the vomit comet Jalen
Green in this game, as we so often see in
the plus, he had eight points. That's it, eight points,
(09:14):
but the stories in the second half.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Houston was up by seven at halftime.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
He scored as many points Jalen Green as you and
I did in the second half. Goose egg, bupkis, zippo,
zero nothing. It only took eight shots in the game,
only two field goal attempts in the second half. It
reminded me of playoff Harden from years gone by with
(09:41):
the Rockets, or Kitty Kat with the Knickerbockers now and
also with Minnesota, where he just vanishes for a game.
In this case, Jalen Green has actually vanished from more
than one game. This has become the norm and how
bad was it? But wait, there's more. It was so
bad that emy udok A bench Jalen Green for the
fin like five minutes of the game.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
This is his top player. He wasn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
He was benched for negligence, for malfeasance on the court.
I mean Green has been under ten points in three
of the four games in this series. He did have
a thirty eight point game, but other than that, it's
been a do better, be better situation.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's a bad job, all right.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Meanwhile, a Golden State they win this game, so they're
up three games to one, and to the winner goes
the spoilers. Everyone kisses their asses, how great they are.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Now, Jimmy Butler had some interesting comments postgame without on
TNT right after the game, without naming the person. Without
naming the person, Jimmy Butler indicated that there was a
player on the Rockets who inspired his second half performance,
(10:56):
and he indicated without naming him, that it was Dylan Brooks,
the big mouth trash talking instigator of the Houston basketball team,
and so without naming him directly, it certainly appeared based
on the clues given and the way the game played out.
There was a couple of minutes in the first half
(11:18):
that were it seemed to take thirty five forty minutes
to play about three minutes a game time because they
kept going to the replay, which is unwatchable.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Crap.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I flipped over to a baseball game, not even a
good one, the Marlins and the Dodgers, not even a
good game. But I flipped over that and then came back.
But anyway, so Jimmy Butler Golden State Star of Stars
here on this night, and he credited, it would appear
Dylan Brooks for inspiring him with some trash talk. So
how does that sound to you? So the way I
(11:48):
interpreted the Jimmy Butler SoundBite parabolic, a legend building is
how I interpreted here, Jimmy Butler in the beginning part
of the game. And I actually jotted this, duyidon't John.
I wrote it on my phone. I have the notes
app on my phone, and I said, decoy, Jimmy Butler, decoy.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
In the first half of the game. It was a decoy.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He only had four points at halftime, and it just
wasn't aggressive and just kind of out there. I was like, well,
you're wondering, why is he out there? Is he able
to play? Is he just out there because he wants
to be that option, which not really a real option,
and all that four points at halftime, and then in
the second half he goes wreck at Ralph.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
It was a.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Turbotastic performance Golden State. They started the second half. He
saw the game. You know, they went eighteen out of
the first nineteen points, eighteen to one run after halftime
and the playoff Jimmy was activated. He likes to down
and play Playoff Jimmy, yet he doesn't seem to have
much of an issue with it when it's in headlines
(12:53):
on the internet and it's kind of this weird thing
he's got. He's got to downplay it, but yet he
kind of likes it secretly and all that. So Playoff
jim Me with twenty three points in the second half,
but fourteen in the fourth quarter. He had more points
than the rest of his teammates for the Warriors in
the final twelve minutes of that game. So Golden state.
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Now he went away from a trip to the second round.
They'll play Minnesota in the second round. Wolves, one more
win away from uk Luka and the Lakers being exterminated,
which we can all celebrate there from the playoffs. All right, now,
last word, we go to the Commissioner's office. We head
now to the Commissioner's office where Adam Silver was asked
(13:35):
on what needs to improve with the NBA media covers.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
So, I don't know, have you heard what he said?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
It was an interview he did recently with one of
these sports business websites.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Here, here's a little taste.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Here's Adam Silver giving a lecture on what needs to
be better.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Tig A Lis, is there anything about how the NBA
has covered that you would change?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You know, it's interesting your companies enjoy basketball, And I mean,
I respect the job the media does. And it's not
a suggestion that people shouldn't ask tough questions or be
critical or talk about things they don't like about the game.
But I would say, and it goes exactly to your
(14:19):
production company enjoy basketball that sometimes I think they don't
spend enough time talking about why people love this game.
And you know, recently I was at a meeting with
Mike Krzyzewski, former coach at Duke, and he condensed it
with this headline. He said, we should educate people about
the game and celebrate the game. Educate and celebrate, and
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I feel I wish there was more of that.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Okay, all right, so the money part of that.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They don't spend enough time talking about why people love
the game. So where do you stand on this? Where
do you stand on what you just heard there from
Adam Silver? So I give this some side eye here.
Of course, you'd expect the commissioner to only want positivity,
and he.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Did drop a bomb, the butt bomb. He dropped a
butt bomb.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Everything before the word butt and before the word butt
was tough questions.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
So he doesn't want tough questions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That was a lie, he said, the word but everything
before the word but is a lie. It was a
butt bomb from Adam Silver. Butt bomb, Adam Silver, he
said it. But he's acting like he's in the Silicon
Valley running an internet startup, Sunshine dot com. If you
will right now, you can control NBA Media, the business partners,
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you can control to some degree. And so there is
a level of control that one has like the website,
which I don't know anyone goes to NBA dot com,
but those that do, the five people that go to
that website, you can control that. The social media channels
that the league runs, you can control that. But outside
of it, the problem Adam Silver has is the people
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that pay big money for the rights to the NBA
do that to get an audience and engage the audience
in order to bring in money via advertisers. And it's
basically a case where tell me you do not understand
how the media business works without telling me that you
don't understand how the media business works. The NBA is
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actually the envy of Major League Baseball and the NHL
in the fact that even though the product in baseball
and hockey is better, I don't know anyone thinks it's
a worse product in those sports than Basketball's better. The
NBA product is horrible during the regular season. Now the
(16:43):
playoffs it's not that bad, but during the regular season
it is god awful.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Everyone knows it, everyone's aware of this.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It is a horrifically bad product, and it's happened under
Adam Silver's watch, and the media loves you know. I
can't say what they do to Adam Silver, but they
love that them Silver so much that they don't want
to criticize him. Under his watch, the product has become horrific.
Baseball is a better product. Hockey is a better product
in the regular season. You're not supposed to say, but
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yet the NBA, despite an inferior product where the players
don't give a crap during the regular season, it's like
going to Dave and Busters and standing there and watching
Papa Shot. Yet the Papa shot machine at David Busters
is watching. In the NBA during the regular season, it's
nothing but jump shots, three point shots and all that stuff.
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Despite all that, the Days of Our Lives drama, which
is mostly negative, is engagement, and that part of it works.
We're in the golden age of engagement. And the Internet
thrives on negativity. Human beings thrive on negativity. You always
get some dope to call the sports riders, Oh, I
think you should be more positive, and I always say, well,
(17:53):
you want me to lose my job because if I
do positivity, no one listens. They used to be a
guy that worked here. I want to say the person's name,
try to do positive sports radio. I believe he is
now trying to be a motivational speaker. He ain't doing
this anymore because no one listened. Okay, people want engagement,
Advertisers want that, and negative things bring more engagement. That's
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how it works. That's how it works anyway. It is
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We'll get to that and we will do it.
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Be talking here solely the song man.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
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And uh yeah, well I guess no hiding that for Ben.
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Uh Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan. Your comments can't
it will be used against you in the court of
sports radio. All right, Well, well, thanks to Malapropka. It
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was very It's very nice. I appreciate you that emotion.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
It was a very sweet song. I wish reaction like
I would have recorded you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You would have record Well, there's a camera in here,
You're right, there is it. I don't fans according this
part of it, but there's a there's a camera here.
It's very nice, very sweet of them, the Mallapropata. And
I'm sure there was other people involved in that, I
would think, but but thank.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You, very kind of you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And as I was driving in here, I realized I
have celebrated pretty much every milestone birthday here.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
That's not I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I don't know if that's good or not, like every mile. So,
I mean, I started here, I was and I was
trying to how old was I when I started? I
was like twenty no.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And I started in radio and I was nineteen. But
I started here.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
When I was like twenty five or something like that,
So pretty much grown up in this building.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Why don't you take your birthday off?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I did in school, but I like my job, so
I was like, you know, if it was.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Closer to the weekend, I might like the birthday was
like on a Thursday or a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I might have done that, but yeah, it's Tuesday show,
so yeah, take Tuesday. What are you doing Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Yeah, I agree with you, right, Kople understands the key
to taking time off is to get the elongated weekend.
So you got to do it either at the last
day of the week or the first day of the
next week. That way you get the full bang for
your buck. You know, take a The only time I
take random days off is somebody dies and I have
to go to a funeral or something like that. During
the week, I'll take time off for that or if
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I have to attend to something like that. But other
than other than that, Yes, anyway, we are rolling on
a truck stop. Fungus rites in and says, got you
tuned in here in Cornersville, Tennessee. Where were kicking ass
in Cornersville, Tennessee at the world famous Tennessee and truck stop.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I've never even heard of that?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Is that? I guess that's Fain the bar The barbecue
here is delicious, according to truck stop Fungus, it's Pops
barbecue and here it looks good. I mean, you just
sent me a photo of a what appears to be
an empty container of Pops barbecue sauce, and then it
looks like a tray of ribs behind that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
And I'll take your word for now.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I was told by some barbecue snob in Kansas City
that real barbecue you don't need.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
The sauce, that it's it's so good. You just it's
the Meat's just I guess.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
The meat can be. Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be moist, Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Chris and de Moines says, I'm sorry, Ben, I know
you're going to talk about this later. Bill Belichick's girlfriend says,
you're not allowed to talk about that. Okay, all right,
Well I'm good.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
There you go. Spocks Weed rites in. You know it's
a good night.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I spocks Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail says, yeah.
Another sighting of the Fobbit comet over the skies of
San Francisco now truck stop Fungus said I had a
nervous almost had a nervous breakdown on there.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I did not have a nervous breakdown on the air.
I did not. I just enhanced the monologue.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
James rights In says, is the motivational speaker guy you
referred to blank. Yes, James, I'm not gonna name the person,
but that is who. That is the person. You are
absolutely correct on that. Who else do we have?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Page now?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Late Night drug Test says I hope all the NBA
teams about to get knocked out of the first round
have listened to the Fifth Hour podcast and followed your
advice and gone to fishingbooker dot com for their off
season chips. Yes, one of our fine advertisers on the
Fifth Hour podcast and we thanked them for that. Jay
(25:21):
Scoop says he's writes in Jays Scoop, I think he's
gonna come down and hang out with us at some
point here soon. He says, I only think better than
a warrior wind tonight stopping by the studio during the
Honting Moon trip to La There you go.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
How about that, Jay Scoop? Very exciting news.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I look forward to meeting your your bride. Wow, that's
crazy man. Good for good for you, Jay Scoop and
your your lovely bride. Who else do we have? O?
Joe Texti writes, Sin says, I'm not gonna lie. I
was swaying with my phone lit He enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
The The two here you go.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Berner count checks in says hello, and so many more.
All right, we'll take some phone calls here. We start
out with pro Bouncy Ball, the Warriors and the Rockets.
As that game was closed down the stretch run and
goes the way of Golden State. They come back in
the second half and get the win. Let's say hello
to Enie Meenie miney Mode. Let's go to Laurow in Boston,
(26:23):
who I have not spoken to, and sometimes Hello, Laua.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Welcome. It's the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Welcome and a long time sir.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
We celebrate the same birthday today.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh looko, well, it's all the great celebrate the same birthday,
all the legends, Laurow.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I will never forget, Lauro.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I was doing I was doing some radio in Boston,
and you were my producer at the other station in Boston,
and I gave you a ride home in the rental car.
And you lived about as far away as possible, Laurel.
Oh my god, you live so far away from the
race radio station, Lauro. I think I've just got back
(27:03):
from that drive, Laurel.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
That was so cool. I always say so like wordless,
I always say wow.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I'm here with the celebrity.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well you're making me blush now, Laura, But listen, I
can't do a birthday shout out, as you know. Otherwise
I would wish you a very happy birthday and all that.
And we we go way back. That was a long time.
How many years ago is that? That's probably been eight
Oh my god, holy crap, that's like a generation ago.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
My god, Laua, we're getting old.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, very much, Ben.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'd like to say I wish you true happiness. I
wish all of you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Listen, is Torue happiness as well as your producers, Lorena
and Coop?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Coops New, Coops New.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I have to I have to say how truly amazingly
beautiful she is?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
And also what about me? Think I'm good looking? All right, okay,
I understand, I understand. Well, thank you, Laura. Listen.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I hope I've shooting you all right, buddy, I know
you've had some ups and downs, my man, and keep
keep keep fighting, my man, keep going all right, and
thank you.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Yes, I had to put down my watch my mom
last year, so we're spending a bad year.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Things will get better, buddy, things will get better. But
hanging to Laurel. You're the man.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
All right, thank you, buddy, thanks for calling me. There
you go, the great Laurel, you old man. Try to
do somebody solid, man I was doing. I did a
little radio and then I was filling it for Mikey
Adams and Laura was like, hey, I love Mikey Adams,
but one of my favorite radio people, Mikey Adams just
great old Boston radio guy. And he's like driving uber
(28:47):
now or something, does a podcast. But anyway, so I
was like, I'll give you a ride.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
So I gave him.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
He's, oh, yeah, I don't live that far away. It
was like it's like about as far as you could
possibly get.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Everything in California is far.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
No, this was in Massachusetts. It was still and I
didn't really know where I was going. I hadn't really
driven around that much. And uh, you know that's a
long time ago.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
How many cows do we have to pass?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Well, there are cows.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
No cows in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm sure there are cows there. I just on that
trip I didn't see any cows. A lot of trees.
There were a lot of trees. You need to get
out a little bit, Lorena.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You got to get out and see You got to
experience the world. You've got to go out and see
what's out there and travel around and have you you've been? Where?
Have you been to Europe? Right, you've been to Europe?
Done that done? Have you what part of the United
States have you visited?
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Have you visited Montana and Florida?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Okay, in Tana, Florida, that's it. California, California, been there? Oh,
you went to Louisiana, right.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
And Louisian I remember that you went to Louisiana the
swamplands of Louisiana from Marty Grass did that?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Yeah? There you go?
Speaker 7 (29:56):
All right, very much?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Else No, uh, let's say hello to vain in the
One Legged Bama Man, a show favorite, the most masculine
caller in the history of the show, who had his
leg bitten off and then they killed the gator and
had a nice dinner.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
What's going on Van the One Legged Bama Man?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Well, the real matter? Please stand up? Birthday? Ben? Well?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Thank you man?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
What?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
No, No, it's not not good. Don't not that. I'm
not that point yet. No, no, not that far. I'm
not that bad.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You turned sixty. It really all falls apart.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So okay, so I got for too so once that's
the point of demarcation. That's when everything goes haywire and
stuff gets completed.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
When you turn fifty, you know it starts to go
down a little bit, but safety is just off the cliff.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, well that's very uplifted.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Are you familiar with Bill Jackson's forty twenty rule on
the NBA?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yes, Phil, I believe he said you had to win
forty before you lose twenty to be considered a legitimate
championship team.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
If I recalled.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Something like only three times in the last fifty years
as that somebody who didn't have that record, Yeah, one
NBA championship. Sure, sure, I got the Cavaliers, the Celtics.
There was only three Cavaliers Celtics in Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
See, oh so you bet just based on these end
master philosophy.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
On the future.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Okay, that's not Yeah, that's not.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Might throw a little bit in there. I had a
little bit early on the Lakers, but.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I would have burned that and have a big bonfire
and burn that.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Yeah, a little bit on Houston. That's it'll be another loser.
But yeah, I don't think I know why they bothered
to play seven games in the first round.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah, there's a lot of TV money to make. They
got to make that TV money, you know, So it's.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
All got to pay those players, all those medians.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah exactly. And you're a lanting, you're Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Certain shows a little I fear a little signs of
that not dead the Braves in that dead.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
No, that started starting to come around a little bit.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
They get a coon you back spitzer stridery and pulled
his hamstring warming up.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I know he's hurt, he's hurt so often. He should
pitch for the Dodgers. The guy's hurt so much, might
as well. He's got all the Dodgers guys they got,
They got like eighty ninety million dollars of starting pitching
that is hurt.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Got like twelve or fourteen on the discable it it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And every every year the Dodger's like, oh no, we're
going to figure this out. We're going to figure out
why these guys get hurt. And it's just bull crap.
They get hurt every year.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Word. Yeah, remember when Sammy throw his back out, sneezy.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Remember that said, that might have also been because of
all the testosterone in his.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Body, But yes, I do that was in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I do recall that. Well, baseball injuries are all I mean,
you know that there Van, the one legged Bama Man.
There have been guys hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There was a guy he got was allergic to the
grass and the outfields, was stretching, laid on his back
and got a rash and had to miss. Uh, Marty Cordova.
One of the great injuries of all time for Minnesota Twins.
I think it was with the Oils at the time.
But he got he got hurt. He fell asleep in
a sun Tan bed machine and got burned and couldn't play.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Yeah. Yeah, you know what John Smolts did what's his
chest ironing his shirt while he was wearing it.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yes, and the five five bet of Kapa move there.
Why we've all done that growing up?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
What I would not admit to that?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
No, no, exactly. All right, I gotta go, But thank
you fakes for checking it. Call in more often.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Van, I know all everybody all, there's a great Van,
the one.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Leged Bama Man.
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Now for the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you can attempt to answer it.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Blah blah blah blah blah. You know how this works.
And Walls gets to that no time? What time is it?
No time? But here's the question of the hour.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Houston quickly Alfred Shengon joined Nikola Jokic, Shaquille O'Neill and
me as the only centers in NBA history to have
a playoff game with thirty or more points, ten or
more rebounds, five or more assists and no turnovers. Again,
Houston's Alfrid she Goon joining Nikola Jokic, Shaquill O'Neill and
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me is the only centers in NBA history to have
a playoff game with thirty or more points, ten or
more rebounds, five or more assists, and no turnovers.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Who am I? That's the question the answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
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Make that the.
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But you do what you want.
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Now back to it.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Thank god for the internet.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Oh yes, thank god for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Will pay off the who Am I? Game in a minute,
but you got to pay off the tea from earlier.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
No time like dame time.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
The injury has been confirmed Damian Lillard a non contact
injury and snap crackle Pop goes to the Achilles. Unfortunately,
Damian Lillard will be out for all of next season.
He did post on Instagram to be continued, but by
all reasonable medical accounts, Damian Lillard will not play in
(36:25):
the NBA next season.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So he's out.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
And now the question becomes will Giannis Adenta Kombo say
I'd like to go in the portal? I would like
out of here. I want to go somewhere else. Will
he end up, for example, in Miami where they heat
heat snink and they lost. They gave up?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
What was that? Yeah? They do? That is that is bad? Bad, bad,
bad bad? All right, now, time for the who Am I?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Houston's Alfred Shengo, who joined Nikola yok At, Shaquille O'Neill
and me, is the old lee centers in NBA history
to have a playoff game with thirty or more points
Ten or more rebounds, five or more assists and no turnovers.
Who am I?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
That is the question? What is the answer? Williams going
with Mo Cheeks as his answer.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Benito the long Suffering Cowboy fan says Danny Mullen Scrooge
is going with Hank Aaron from the Home Run Derby
TV show. Who else we have? Captain Leu Albono from
Rob in Vegas? Could see Rob's out there? Alf the
Alien opinter says the limit edition Birthday Benny Bobblehead is
the not a birthday? Shout out? Fergdog says, is it
(37:38):
the almost birthday boy?
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Ben Malor? Who else to have?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Greaty Sizemore from mister Nice Guy Page Down Boston, Dave
from Shane in Des Moines, Uma Thurman who is a
thirty fifty five fifty five today?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Mandai Tales Internet girlfriend singing Happy birthday to you from Milkman,
Mike in Colorado, Dallas Comogies from Bay City, Tony, Timothy
mos Goff guests by Malibar Rubin.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
That's a good name? Who else?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Shaq or Andre the Giant from spocks Weed Bam out
of Bio guess by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota. Buddy Nick
the Wendy's Guy, says, Yao, Ming is the answer. Supermarket Steve,
who was on strike this week, says you are Bam
the one legged Bama Man, a great caller to the
malor show more one legged Bama Man. Less Leprechaun, says
(38:31):
Supermarket Steve. Who else do we have? Big Lou He's
on number two, says Andrew Luck. Andrew Luck Doppelganger. The
late Great Mark Eaton is the answer. Terry in England
says the Birthday Boy Birthday Malle, You are officially an
(38:51):
old fogie.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Orville Reddenbacher from truck stop Fungus at the truck stop
there in Tennessee. Ruth Bader Ginsburg from Bobby in Florida,
the Admiral David Robinson from Mark from Queens who's hiding
out in Arlington, Texas?
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Can't read that, Mike says Bulls Dad. Mister Ball is
the answer? Lorae. Now do you have an answer, Lorena
to the always popular who am I game?
Speaker 7 (39:25):
Yes, Bennet is obviously Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Beyonce. All right, that is that correct?
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Unfortunately, well it turns out that Houston's center Alfred Shengoon,
joining Nikole yok At, Shaquill O'Neill, and me, is the
only centers in NBA history to have a playoff game
with thirty or more points, ten or more rebounds, five
or more assistant no turners.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Who am I? Pat trick ewing of the Knickerbockers.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
And if you're around my age watching the Knicks back
of that, it was always the MSG play by play
guy or the PA guy, Pat trick ewing that garden
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