April 17, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that the Rockets and Kevin Durant have mutual interest in joining forces, Joe Dumars taking a poke at Zion Williamson in his opening statement for the Pelicans, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Knock, knock, Who's there? Boom SHACKA Laca is at the door.
Its our number two of the original Recipe podcast. Thank
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for listening to this podcast. Pro Bouncy Ball Hour. How
do you evaluate the scuttle butt that the Rockets and
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Kevin Duran are having mutual interest in joining forces? We'll
discuss that. Did Joe Dumars take a little bit of
a poke at Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
And does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with the
Dallas media change the storyline around the Luca trade. We'll
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take a look at the latest revelations. We'll get to
all of that and more right now here. It is
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way tire Buying Show be. So it is a newby night.
We'll get back to the calls coming up in a
few but our lead this hour is from the silly
season and it hasn't started been What are you doing?
Are you already talking about? There's still playing now? Listen.
These playing games were so fugazy. Okay, they are terrible.
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They do not provide good talk radio. So we must
turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard
the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
the Sun. Maybe missed it. The Sons, who were supposed
to be a heavyweight contender, were a total pretender, and
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now they are expected to open up the bidding. If
you would like, Kevin Durant come on down. Yes, several
teams already have emerged as early front runners were not
even at the quarter pole, but they're leading contenders, including
a team that was prominently mentioned in the last twenty
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four hours. You know what team that is named? That team?
All right? You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets.
So let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel,
how do you evaluate the Rockets? And Kevin Durant said
to have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
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freight train, and paperless and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
is what we're going to do. We're gonna empty our
bench out right now, and we are going to say
numb I said numb burn all right, We'll try not
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to hit an iceberg here. So here's the deal. I
don't think I'm wrong on this, but I don't know.
I just do the Overnight Show. I believe the Rockets
have not played a postseason game. Is that correct? Okay,
I'm told that is correct. So the Rockets have not
played a season game. Houston is the number two, number
two seeds in the Western Conference. They have a playdate
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with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and Golden State this weekend.
Despite Houston having home court, the Warriors are the public's
picked to click in that series. So until that matchup
is decided, Until that matchup is the side and the
NBA LIKECTSU to drag these things out. So until that happens,
it is the word is the premature. Is the word
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premature with a capitol pee. That's the word premature. To
properly speculate about the next step for Kevin Durant in
association with Houston. Now, if the Rockets go on a
magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and then
get through the next round and advance to the Western
Conference Finals, it would not make sense. It would not
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make sense to bring in an aging Kevin Durant who
is a team killer, a team killer. So either way, though,
you don't need me to tell you, you don't need
me to tell you that you need to get your
boombox out and crank up the Sandals the theme from
Endless Summer, because it is going to be the summer
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of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety
four different reports from league sources, Kevin Durant had a
great Pastrami Sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like to play for
the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he was in Minnesota.
The greatest burger he ever had was a Juicy Lucy
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at the Nook in Saint Paul. So he wants to
play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling you yeah. In fact,
they'll even make stuff up, Like Durant. One time he
stopped over in Kansas City and he went to the
landing and he had the Ben Maller chicken fingers. So
he wants a franchise to relocate to Kansas City and
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then he can have those all the time. You know,
every angle, every single angle, not the usual suspects. And
and forget the usual suspect not just the NBA teams.
Who knows the Beijing Ducks. Kevin Durant would like to
expand his brand in China, So he wants to play
for the Beijing Ducks. Or how about this one. Durant.
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When he was a kid, he growing up in UH
in the Baltimore area, I believe he had the uh
he had the the the Ant thing, you know that,
the the Ant collection. So he wants to play in
the G League for the Indiana mad ants. Whatever, whatever works,
whatever works, just go with it all right now, Pas
two developing story from the Bayou. We go to No Orleans.
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We go to New Orleans where Joe Dumars. You're old.
You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
some great Pistons teams back in the the old days,
when the players had hair on their chest and actually
played in most games. It's a different era now. The
players missed as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars,
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who was hired as the head of basketball ops for
the Pelicans, and he has released an opening statement and
the Pistons legend from another era. His opening statement about
the current state of the Pells roster and what many
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are pulling out the magnifying glass and examining that may
or may not have been a jab at Zion Williamson.
Let me give you the quote and then we will
parse the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote.
I am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to
show I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend
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for the purposes of talk radio to bet Joe Dumars.
This is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
There is a lot of talent on the roster. My vision,
Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
built on toughness, smart decision making and a no excuses mindset.
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I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
know how passionate, resilient, and tough we are as a community.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Close quote. So did Joe
Dumars in the previous quote take a shot at Zion Williamson?
Did he poke Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
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That is the question? What is the answer? So I
spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation and this
is as subtle as a freight train. It is as
subtle as a French trader. Zion Williamson. What is Zion
Williamson known for? What is he known for as an
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NBA player? He's under discipline, He's not tough, he doesn't
make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
any of that wrong? He has been under siege Zion
Williamson for a total lack of good judgment when it
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comes to decisions you make on and off the court,
the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that. He is
the perfect modern ballplayer. And from the sound of it,
Joe Dumars is not going to have anyone on his
roster because the entire NBA is opposite of what Joe
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Dumars wants. Zion has missed two hundred and fifty eight
games in his New Orleans career. He's played in two
hundred and fourteen. We're talking about six seasons. He's missed
two hundred and fifty eight work as side I means
in six seasons you talk about meandering. Now, that means
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using Malormath, that he has missed approximately fifty four percent,
little over fifty four percent of his possible work assignments.
So rather than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson,
you don't have to say that. When Joe Dumars comes
out and says I want a team that is built
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on discipline, toughness, good decision making, no excuses, and you
have a guy, Zion Williamson, who is the opposite of
all that. Bye Bye no no, Nana no no naa
Hey go bye y. Final point follow up follow up
Nico no no, Nico no no dateline Dallas, the embattled
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GM of the mav Recks who did win the playing
game on Wednesday night. The Mavericks will play again to
try to get in the playoffs ball GM. Nico Harrison. Remember,
he held that news conference's second news conference with the
media after his decision or the team's decision to say
goodbye to Luca Donzig, and the story was he did
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not want any record of that to get out. Initially,
initially there were no cameras and no microphones, and then
eventually they allowed some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
media elites, the Dallas Mavericks protecting the Nico Harrison only
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bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes. Well,
now we are hearing what the old broadcaster Paul Harvey
back in the day would say. Is the rest of
the story the rest of the story. Is it true
that if it was up to Nico Harrison, he would
not would not have done that at all? Is it
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also true that Nik Harrison fought for several weeks and
at the behest of his owner, and only because the
owner said, you've got to do it that Nico Harrison
did the closed door round table, round table conversation, something
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that was demanded by the owner. Now he was able
to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
the Dallas media elites? Does that change the storyline? So
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it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see my fingers,
but ever so slightly like that a little bit like
why would the owner care if Nico Harrison meets with
the media. Could it be just spitballing here? Could it
be because the owner is getting absolutely charboiled for dealing
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away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy, Patrick Dumott,
has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico Harrison to
do whatever he wanted and this is what happened. And
therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to get
out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's birthday party.
Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get out there
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and be the Pinata and hopefully Candy will fall out
take some of those hits. So Nico agreed to it.
He agreed to it on one condition. It had to
be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no video surveillance. The
popular opinion that I keep hearing from people that claim
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to have insider information is that the reason that Nico
Harrison wanted no recording on video of this event is
because he knows that the internet is forever, and he
was concerned that by him coming out and saying what
I praised him for this the other day, you don't apologize,
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he said. He has no regrets because if it doesn't
matter whether Nico Harrison comes out and says, boy, I
have that one up, well, that really escalated. It's not
going to change any People will think he's a douche
and the village idiot. So nothing is going to change that.
So you certainly don't walk back on it. However, he
did not want the video because it would have lasted forever.
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And the assumption is Luca's going to play another ten
years at least in the NBA and have many all
star appearances and good individual moments and all that stuff,
and so what are we doing. So there's two possibilities.
Either the owner really had nothing to do with it
and he just allowed Nico Harrison to destroy the business
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and he wants Nico to go out there as a pinata.
Or the alternative reality is the owner absolutely absolutely pulled
this strings or did it via pressure by the NBA
to improve television rating. But either way, either way, the
issue is that, hey, you got to run interference running
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the naked bootleg. You gotta get out there, all right.
You got to get out there, and that's what we are.
You're Bozo the clown. So put on some clown makeup
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I have a shirt that moving man Matt gave us
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I have that and it's in my rotation. So I
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Newbie Night, let's say hello to see Jay. Who's up next? Hello, CJ? Welcome?
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Are you in southern California? Is that correct? CJ?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, sir, that's wright. I man, I'm up up late,
leg you know tonight, So I.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You're up late. Unbelievable on a Newbie Nights. It's great
to talk to you, CJ. Now years ago. I've told
the story before, but you're in the High Desert and
we did a malor meet and read there used to
be a team called the Lancaster JetHawks out there, minor
league baseball team, and we went to the that's correct. Yeah,
it was great. They had a nice ballpark. Whatever happened?
What's that ballpark? Is it still a baseball stadium or
did they tear it down?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm still a baseball taum is I think a soccer
team is occupying it right now?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Oh? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Okay? Yeah, I raced the mascot Kaboom. I raced the
mascot kaboom in a minor league game there years ago.
But anyway, what's on your mind? CJ?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What's on my mind? I just want to say, God
bless you know you and everybody the staff. Excuse me.
I'm kind of sick of the whether the whole maul
of militia. And I missed Eddie Garcia because I grew
up watching him on television when he used to do sports.
You know, I think on Channel seven or eleven, I
think that's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A different Garcia. But but yeah, no, I I I
hear you on that. CJ. Absolutely, man, Well, thank you
for listening. I appreciate that, and thanks for taking in
and try some try yeah, Okay, one more thing here
we go, one more.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Thing to all the Laker fath the Clippers. We run
l a not y'all, y'all bunch of bad wagon, y'all.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Gold that's right, that's right. You know what, c J.
I'm giving you a golden ticket. It's a Clipper town.
It's a great take here the Clipper. It's all gonna
come together now, all right, I'll stay. That's a great
call by CJ. What a wonderful opening call by c
Joff that's newby night.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Coop's getting annoyed over he's getting squirrely over there, he's
getting annoyed by that. Let's say, aload of Jeff who's
in Tucson and Jeff is up next. Hello, Jeff, welcome
on a newby Night. It's all newbies all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yo. Yo for having honor and a privilege. I didn't
want to say, you're a lucky man to be doing
what you're doing and at the best time in the
sports calendar. We all know that with the draft coming up,
playoffs start, and Mark Madden has just wrapped up, baseball
just started.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I just wanted to call it a challenge a little bit.
The no story or there's nothing sexy about these playing
basketball games. And I'll use just the case. An example
as who also've been talking about is Phoenix being in Arizona.
They should be called Arizona sink. Arizona Sun's whole state
sticks up for them. But ultimately they kind of they
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kind of lost their momentum with that Bradley Beial trade
playing the same position as the book and and that
was where that momentum really lost in what we were
were going for.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So I hope to see what.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
We can pull together. But what's funny thing about these
situations that these players have to go through with these teams.
Is these players get these bad reputations for jumping around
KD Lebron James Harden, who have you do you know
he's never missed the playoffs. I can't believe that that's
a who comes to work. So I could say more,
but I'll turn it out.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
All right, Jeff. First of all, I disagree as I've said,
the play in is just terrible that people for years
complained there were too many teams the gout in the
playoffs in the NBA when they just allowed the top
eight teams. They already have a play in tournament. The
playing tournament's the regular season. That's the playing tournament. They
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play eighty two games to make the postseason, so you
don't need it. It's overkilled and the only reason they're
doing it, there's two reasons. They're doing it for television
because they need programming and they were able to add this.
It's an add on for television, so that's why they
have it. And then they also do it just in
case one of the sexy teams has a major injury
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and they want to make sure they can still get
in the playoffs and give them a second chance to
get in the playoffs because they want to have that
team in and so that's why they do it. And
there's those those two things. But thank you, thank you
Jeff for checking in. And the NBA added this rule
that you have to play a certain number of games.
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I was gonna mention this last night. I think we
got distracted by something. So we're gonna do a little
malard math here. We're gonna do a round robin and
I want you to play as well, and you can
call up at eight seven, seven ninety nine on fosketo Bactiel'
not very good at math ben. I understand, I understand
the ring, but just it's a fun game. So there
are thirty teams in the NBA. There are roughly fifteen
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players on every roster, so that means there are four
hundred and fifty players. Thirty teams times fifteen four hundred
and fifty. So out of the four hundred and fifty
players in the NBA, how many of those players are
eligible for post season awards? Now makes fine. They changed
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this because the the players were so lazy in pro
bouncy ball, they care so little about the regular season
that they put this sixty five game rule in. And
it's the sixty five game rule. To be eligible for
postseason awards sixty five, you have to play sixty five
out of eighty two, which means you can miss seventeen games.
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And there's a little wiggle room there. You know, some
of you play part of the game. There's a little
little bit of a wiggle room there on that. So question,
out of the four hundred and fifty how many closest
without showcase showdown rules, showcase showdown rules, closest without going
over will win? How many NBA players are eligible for
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the awards meeting the criteria for the sixty five game rule.
Let's start out with an NBA insider. She replaced woj
when he left, and that would be our friend Lorraina. Well, Ben,
I think probably fourteen, Ben, fourteen out of four out
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of four hundred and fifty fourteen players. Yes, that is
a bold. That is a bold. Take Cotton, Okay, what
about you, h Cooperloop? What's your guess? He's got a
lot of newbies on the line. Oh is that right?
Is he not playing our games?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He just said, I'm not sure what I'm guessing, but
I'm gonna say ten.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right. Wow, Okay, So just for the record if
you're just tuning in. The question was, out of four
hundred and fifty NBA players, how many meat met the
criteria of playing a minimum sixty five games for the
first season. So one of my producers said fourteen. The
other one said ten. Okay, wow, that's outstanding. Well, it
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turns out you're both wrong, but you're not actually that
far off. Believe it or not, Only eighty four players
in the entire NBA played enough games to qualify for
the awards, or eighty four out of four hundred and
fifty fifteen percent, just fifteen percent of the NBA is
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eligible for awards like MVP, All NBA All Defensive Player
of the Year, the most improved player that is. Is
that not a stunning number? That's a stunning number to me,
Like I don't usually get stunned by anything. I'm pretty
numb to everything, but I'm like, wow, that's what eighty
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that's eighty four. That's it. Eighty that's the total number,
eighty four. And Scottie Barnes is on there. But the
the others that are not. Luka Donsik's not eligible, Anthony
David Is, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant Kawhi, Leonard Always, Bradley Beal,
not that he'd win anything, Jama Rantz and his fake guns,
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Joel Embiid, Paul George, Jalen Brown. So would that be
one fifth of them? Ben? It's eighty four out of
four and fifty right, Yeah, so five point three five
fifteen percent is.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
What I had on my one fifth that would be right.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the math on that. So there
you go. I'm guessing.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Going, I'm guessing that, I'm guessing that that would be
that would be twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
She said she wasn't good at math, so that's that's fine.
Let's yeah, that's all right, whatever, it's all good. All right.
We'll get to the demonic toys story. We'll get to
that coming up here in a little bit. But it
is a newbie night, all new callers, all the time.
And who is next. Let's say hello to the cat catle.
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She's in Colorado.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Hello cat lady, Hello there.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
For a couple of months and you're pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh well, thank you, Kat. And how many cats does
the cat lady have? Can we guess how many cats
the cat lady has? Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yes? Let's get how many every day? Set every day?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
All right, how many?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
How many do you feed every day? So we're counting
like neighborhood cats that you feed.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, that's a lot. Okay, there's gonna be a big number.
This is going to be a big number. I'm gonna
go twelve. I'm gonna go twelve. Lorena, Well my guest
was fourteen, so I'm going to go with fourteen. Oh
you're boxing the in coople, little go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I think I think you both went over. I'm gonna
go ten. That's nothing, So now you really box me in.
Now you've completely I have no chance of winning. I
have no chance of winning the cat lady game. All right,
lock your answers in and here we go. Let's get
the big reveal. Here we go, now to the cat
lady in Colorado on a newbie night. How many cats
does the cat lady fee?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Let's cry it out right now? Yeah, over, we all love.
I'm still close as though. Yeah, but you went over.
You lost. You don't win. You went over.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I have a Chilean door cats, and I've seed feral cats,
straight cats, and I've had as many as sometimes I've
had eleven and I call it the cat Cafe and
they come every day for lunch.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Okay, have a little cat pacinos, not too fancy.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I don't have that much money. They just have a can.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
This cat that's catty. Well listen, okay, you're giving back.
The cats love you. You're the hero for the cat
community over there. They can't get it there.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I have a question. All right, Okay, Well I've
been wondering this for quite a while and nobody ever
mentioned it, so I'm going to bring it up. And
that is that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift went out
with Patrick Colemes and his wife Brittany to dinner the
night before the Super Bowl. Is there a possibility that
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the guys drank too much and that's why they lost
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yes, they got completely schnockered and they were past that
has happened that terrible. Yeah, they played like they were sick.
Cat lady, But it was like there was a guy,
I forget the guy's name, but on the Robins Robins
who went to Tijuana and got him. But the guy
(31:38):
the Green Bay Packers. The first Super Bowl, there was
a guy I think his name was like McGee or
something like that and he he got hammered in l
a and was like hungover. It was a big mess.
And it does happen, cat lady, But that if it
did happen, that's Max McGee. Nice, nice call. Look at that,
Max McGhee. Nobody investigated nobody that stop years. Nobody investigates
(32:02):
anything anymore. What are you talking about? That doesn't happen? Right,
I love you call me more often, cat lady, don't
have to wait for newby Night? All right, be good, right,
feed those kiddies. All right, there's a cat lady checking out. Unbelievable.
We'll push back the demonic doll story because if I
do it now, we're going to completely butcher the clock.
(32:23):
And I am all about the clock four o'clock, plausably
all about the clock. So I cannot do that right now.
I hope you understand. I guess that we have Mallard
of the third degree. Time Now for the instant trivia
on a newby Night. Blank has struck out nine or
more hitters in fifty six percent of his career Major
League Baseball starts. That is the highest percentage by any
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pitcher with fifty or more starts in the modern era.
Goes back to nineteen oh one, so over one hundred years,
one hundred and twenty four years, Blank has struck out
nine or more hitters in fifty six point three percent
of his career Major League Baseball start, the highest percentage
by any pitcher with fifty plus starts in the modern
era since nineteen oh one. That's the insta trivia the answer.
(33:08):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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speaking of going pro. Who will be going pro and
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to trivia and let's see it. Does anyone know the answer?
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And we'll go page down again. Pitcher as the highest
percentage of striking out nine or more hitters in his
career with fifty starts or more. On a Newbie Night,
Jerry Kouzman guests by I forty I in that's his answer.
Alf says it has to be the coolest dog in sports.
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Carnassio guests by Scrooge, Drew Locke from Shane and de
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Dollar from King Rory, who else? Page down? Eddie Fanger
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Dennis Oil, Canvoyd from Manuel in Guardina, Pablo Lopez from
Gunner Who's at the Walmart in Minnesota, Charlie Brown from
Legally Blind, Christopher Christopher in North Carolina, Mark from Queen's
Going with Fernando Mania Fernando Valenzuela. How about new Pedro
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Martinez guest by Larry D. That's his answer? No condom,
Carl from Trucker Joe, whatever happened? No condom, Carl. What
a character that guy was back in the day. Do
you have an answer, Lorrainea, Yes, the ill Mookie bets
is it? The ill Mookie bets is that? No, he
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is incorrect. The correct answer with Mallard of the third
degree here coming up would be Spencer Stryder, thela brain
very time. Randy Johnson is the second smaller. How about
that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
This is one big event gets grilled because.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years Coopolo Ravens GM.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Eric DaCosta said that an extension for Derrick Henry was
definitely in the off season conversation, but declined to give
a timeline for getting the deal done, saying, we have
a lot of different balls in the air right now. Ben,
do you think the Ravens are hesitant to extend Henry.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
try to get my contract from this company. We've got
a lot going on. That is a way of not
answering the question and downshifting, slowing down is what that is. Right,
We were not really in a rush to pay this person.
It makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry was
much better than I thought he would be last year.
But he is at that point where he's doing a
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little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
a year or two at most. And I think that's
the play here for the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Next, Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only
Celtics to lead the team in force statistical categories multiple
times now. This stat has led many to debate that
Tatum is the third best Celtic of all time, behind
Bird and Russell.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Do you agree with that? I don't. But my problem
is I have an issue with players that I've watched now.
I always think the players when I was a kid
are better and the people now are not pushovers, but
they're just not as good because I saw those players
through the eyes of a child. So Tatum statistically is
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right in that conversation, But for me, I can't. I'm
not gonna put him there. I can't because I don't
think he's that good.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Next, Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that,
despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
beat the Pacers in their opening seat or he's ben
Is it that crazy?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Well, listen, lose. What Lou's doing is he's got the
knee pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers,
and so he's looking out for Doc. That's what that is. Okay, No,
the Bucks are going they're losing. Here we go, Pacers,
Here we go. Here that Buck seems been contaminated by
Doc Rivers. They're done. How did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I won?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Put her on the board.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
I won.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner,
Knock, knock, Who's there? Boom SHACKA Laca is at the door.
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do you evaluate the scuttle butt that the Rockets and
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Kevin Duran are having mutual interest in joining forces? We'll
discuss that. Did Joe Dumars take a little bit of
a poke at Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
And does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with the
Dallas media change the storyline around the Luca trade. We'll
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We'll get back to the calls coming up in a
few but our lead this hour is from the silly
season and it hasn't started been What are you doing?
Are you already talking about? There's still playing now? Listen.
These playing games were so fugazy. Okay, they are terrible.
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They do not provide good talk radio. So we must
turn went in doubt, throw the Boogeyman out or in
this case, the slim Reaper. If you have not heard
the body is not yet cold in the Valley of
the Sun. Maybe missed it. The Sons, who were supposed
to be a heavyweight contender, were a total pretender, and
(02:35):
now they are expected to open up the bidding. If
you would like, Kevin Durant come on down. Yes, several
teams already have emerged as early front runners were not
even at the quarter pole, but they're leading contenders, including
a team that was prominently mentioned in the last twenty
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four hours. You know what team that is named? That team?
All right? You don't know the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets.
So let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel,
how do you evaluate the Rockets? And Kevin Durant said
to have mutual interest in joining forces. So I've got boombox,
(03:23):
freight train, and paperless and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to empty the bench,
is what we're going to do. We're gonna empty our
bench out right now, and we are going to say
numb I said numb burn all right, We'll try not
(03:47):
to hit an iceberg here. So here's the deal. I
don't think I'm wrong on this, but I don't know.
I just do the Overnight Show. I believe the Rockets
have not played a postseason game. Is that correct? Okay,
I'm told that is correct. So the Rockets have not
played a season game. Houston is the number two, number
two seeds in the Western Conference. They have a playdate
(04:10):
with Jimmy Buckets, Stephen Curry and Golden State this weekend.
Despite Houston having home court, the Warriors are the public's
picked to click in that series. So until that matchup
is decided, Until that matchup is the side and the
NBA LIKECTSU to drag these things out. So until that happens,
it is the word is the premature. Is the word
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premature with a capitol pee. That's the word premature. To
properly speculate about the next step for Kevin Durant in
association with Houston. Now, if the Rockets go on a
magic carpet ride and get through Golden State and then
get through the next round and advance to the Western
Conference Finals, it would not make sense. It would not
(04:55):
make sense to bring in an aging Kevin Durant who
is a team killer, a team killer. So either way, though,
you don't need me to tell you, you don't need
me to tell you that you need to get your
boombox out and crank up the Sandals the theme from
Endless Summer, because it is going to be the summer
(05:16):
of Kevin Durant. Expect seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety
four different reports from league sources, Kevin Durant had a
great Pastrami Sandwich in Manhattan. He'd like to play for
the Knicks. Kevin Durant. One time he was in Minnesota.
The greatest burger he ever had was a Juicy Lucy
(05:37):
at the Nook in Saint Paul. So he wants to
play for the Timberwolves. Yeah, I'm telling you yeah. In fact,
they'll even make stuff up, Like Durant. One time he
stopped over in Kansas City and he went to the
landing and he had the Ben Maller chicken fingers. So
he wants a franchise to relocate to Kansas City and
(05:58):
then he can have those all the time. You know,
every angle, every single angle, not the usual suspects. And
and forget the usual suspect not just the NBA teams.
Who knows the Beijing Ducks. Kevin Durant would like to
expand his brand in China, So he wants to play
for the Beijing Ducks. Or how about this one. Durant.
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When he was a kid, he growing up in UH
in the Baltimore area, I believe he had the uh
he had the the the Ant thing, you know that,
the the Ant collection. So he wants to play in
the G League for the Indiana mad ants. Whatever, whatever works,
whatever works, just go with it all right now, Pas
two developing story from the Bayou. We go to No Orleans.
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We go to New Orleans where Joe Dumars. You're old.
You remember Joe Dumars as a dominating, quiet assassin for
some great Pistons teams back in the the old days,
when the players had hair on their chest and actually
played in most games. It's a different era now. The
players missed as many games as possible. But Joe Dumars,
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who was hired as the head of basketball ops for
the Pelicans, and he has released an opening statement and
the Pistons legend from another era. His opening statement about
the current state of the Pells roster and what many
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are pulling out the magnifying glass and examining that may
or may not have been a jab at Zion Williamson.
Let me give you the quote and then we will
parse the words together. I'm gonna give you the quote.
I am not Joe Dumars. I want the record to
show I am not Joe Dumars. However, I will pretend
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for the purposes of talk radio to bet Joe Dumars.
This is only a drill. This is only a drill quote.
There is a lot of talent on the roster. My vision,
Dumars stated, is to build a discipline team that is
built on toughness, smart decision making and a no excuses mindset.
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I am proud to have grown up in Louisiana and
know how passionate, resilient, and tough we are as a community.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Close quote. So did Joe
Dumars in the previous quote take a shot at Zion Williamson?
Did he poke Zion Williamson in his Pelicans opening statement?
(08:37):
That is the question? What is the answer? So I
spent about sixty seconds on a Mallard deliberation and this
is as subtle as a freight train. It is as
subtle as a French trader. Zion Williamson. What is Zion
Williamson known for? What is he known for as an
(08:58):
NBA player? He's under discipline, He's not tough, he doesn't
make good decisions, and he makes a lot of excuses.
He is the opposite of a Joe Dumars type player.
Did I get any of that wrong? Did I get
any of that wrong? He has been under siege Zion
Williamson for a total lack of good judgment when it
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comes to decisions you make on and off the court,
the no excuses, mindset, toughness, all of that. He is
the perfect modern ballplayer. And from the sound of it,
Joe Dumars is not going to have anyone on his
roster because the entire NBA is opposite of what Joe
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Dumars wants. Zion has missed two hundred and fifty eight
games in his New Orleans career. He's played in two
hundred and fourteen. We're talking about six seasons. He's missed
two hundred and fifty eight work as side I means
in six seasons you talk about meandering. Now, that means
(10:05):
using Malormath, that he has missed approximately fifty four percent,
little over fifty four percent of his possible work assignments.
So rather than just say I'm gonna trade Zion Willimson,
you don't have to say that. When Joe Dumars comes
out and says I want a team that is built
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on discipline, toughness, good decision making, no excuses, and you
have a guy, Zion Williamson, who is the opposite of
all that. Bye Bye no no, Nana no no naa
Hey go bye y. Final point follow up follow up
Nico no no, Nico no no dateline Dallas, the embattled
(10:50):
GM of the mav Recks who did win the playing
game on Wednesday night. The Mavericks will play again to
try to get in the playoffs ball GM. Nico Harrison. Remember,
he held that news conference's second news conference with the
media after his decision or the team's decision to say
goodbye to Luca Donzig, and the story was he did
(11:14):
not want any record of that to get out. Initially,
initially there were no cameras and no microphones, and then
eventually they allowed some recording, but you couldn't publish it.
No cameras allowed, and he was surrounded by hand picked
media elites, the Dallas Mavericks protecting the Nico Harrison only
(11:36):
bringing in the reporters that will lick his toes. Well,
now we are hearing what the old broadcaster Paul Harvey
back in the day would say. Is the rest of
the story the rest of the story. Is it true
that if it was up to Nico Harrison, he would
not would not have done that at all? Is it
(11:58):
also true that Nik Harrison fought for several weeks and
at the behest of his owner, and only because the
owner said, you've got to do it that Nico Harrison
did the closed door round table, round table conversation, something
(12:19):
that was demanded by the owner. Now he was able
to push back for several weeks, push it back, push
it back now, but eventually he had to do it.
So question, does Nico Harrison being forced to meet with
the Dallas media elites? Does that change the storyline? So
(12:41):
it moves it ever so slightly. You can't see my fingers,
but ever so slightly like that a little bit like
why would the owner care if Nico Harrison meets with
the media. Could it be just spitballing here? Could it
be because the owner is getting absolutely charboiled for dealing
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away Luka Donzik and the owner, this guy, Patrick Dumott,
has no basketball knowledge and just allowed Nico Harrison to
do whatever he wanted and this is what happened. And
therefore therefore the owner's like, dude, you got to get
out there. You're my pinata and it's a kid's birthday party.
Everyone gets a swing. You're the pinata. Get out there
(13:25):
and be the Pinata and hopefully Candy will fall out
take some of those hits. So Nico agreed to it.
He agreed to it on one condition. It had to
be paperless, paperless, no paper trail, no video surveillance. The
popular opinion that I keep hearing from people that claim
(13:47):
to have insider information is that the reason that Nico
Harrison wanted no recording on video of this event is
because he knows that the internet is forever, and he
was concerned that by him coming out and saying what
I praised him for this the other day, you don't apologize,
(14:08):
he said. He has no regrets because if it doesn't
matter whether Nico Harrison comes out and says, boy, I
have that one up, well, that really escalated. It's not
going to change any People will think he's a douche
and the village idiot. So nothing is going to change that.
So you certainly don't walk back on it. However, he
did not want the video because it would have lasted forever.
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And the assumption is Luca's going to play another ten
years at least in the NBA and have many all
star appearances and good individual moments and all that stuff,
and so what are we doing. So there's two possibilities.
Either the owner really had nothing to do with it
and he just allowed Nico Harrison to destroy the business
(14:53):
and he wants Nico to go out there as a pinata.
Or the alternative reality is the owner absolutely absolutely pulled
this strings or did it via pressure by the NBA
to improve television rating. But either way, either way, the
issue is that, hey, you got to run interference running
(15:13):
the naked bootleg. You gotta get out there, all right.
You got to get out there, and that's what we are.
You're Bozo the clown. So put on some clown makeup
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I have a shirt that moving man Matt gave us
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I have a Bucky shirt that has been gifted by listeners.
I have that and it's in my rotation. So I
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That purple shirt that we had at the meet and greet,
that hollering James will remember for the rest of his life.
Nick and Wisconsin right Sin says, thanks for keeping me
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(19:29):
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comes to that, I will take some phone calls here
and eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox on the
Newbie Night, let's say hello to see Jay. Who's up next? Hello, CJ? Welcome?
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Are you in southern California? Is that correct? CJ?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, sir, that's wright. I man, I'm up up late,
leg you know tonight, So I.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You're up late. Unbelievable on a Newbie Nights. It's great
to talk to you, CJ. Now years ago. I've told
the story before, but you're in the High Desert and
we did a malor meet and read there used to
be a team called the Lancaster JetHawks out there, minor
league baseball team, and we went to the that's correct. Yeah,
it was great. They had a nice ballpark. Whatever happened?
What's that ballpark? Is it still a baseball stadium or
did they tear it down?
Speaker 5 (20:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm still a baseball taum is I think a soccer
team is occupying it right now?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Oh? Is that right?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Okay? Yeah, I raced the mascot Kaboom. I raced the
mascot kaboom in a minor league game there years ago.
But anyway, what's on your mind? CJ?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
What's on my mind? I just want to say, God
bless you know you and everybody the staff. Excuse me.
I'm kind of sick of the whether the whole maul
of militia. And I missed Eddie Garcia because I grew
up watching him on television when he used to do sports.
You know, I think on Channel seven or eleven, I
think that's.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A different Garcia. But but yeah, no, I I I
hear you on that. CJ. Absolutely, man, Well, thank you
for listening. I appreciate that, and thanks for taking in
and try some try yeah, Okay, one more thing here
we go, one more.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Thing to all the Laker fath the Clippers. We run
l a not y'all, y'all bunch of bad wagon, y'all.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Gold that's right, that's right. You know what, c J.
I'm giving you a golden ticket. It's a Clipper town.
It's a great take here the Clipper. It's all gonna
come together now, all right, I'll stay. That's a great
call by CJ. What a wonderful opening call by c
Joff that's newby night.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Coop's getting annoyed over he's getting squirrely over there, he's
getting annoyed by that. Let's say, aload of Jeff who's
in Tucson and Jeff is up next. Hello, Jeff, welcome
on a newby Night. It's all newbies all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yo. Yo for having honor and a privilege. I didn't
want to say, you're a lucky man to be doing
what you're doing and at the best time in the
sports calendar. We all know that with the draft coming up,
playoffs start, and Mark Madden has just wrapped up, baseball
just started.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I just wanted to call it a challenge a little bit.
The no story or there's nothing sexy about these playing
basketball games. And I'll use just the case. An example
as who also've been talking about is Phoenix being in Arizona.
They should be called Arizona sink. Arizona Sun's whole state
sticks up for them. But ultimately they kind of they
(22:33):
kind of lost their momentum with that Bradley Beial trade
playing the same position as the book and and that
was where that momentum really lost in what we were
were going for.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
So I hope to see what.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
We can pull together. But what's funny thing about these
situations that these players have to go through with these teams.
Is these players get these bad reputations for jumping around
KD Lebron James Harden, who have you do you know
he's never missed the playoffs. I can't believe that that's
a who comes to work. So I could say more,
but I'll turn it out.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
All right, Jeff. First of all, I disagree as I've said,
the play in is just terrible that people for years
complained there were too many teams the gout in the
playoffs in the NBA when they just allowed the top
eight teams. They already have a play in tournament. The
playing tournament's the regular season. That's the playing tournament. They
(23:27):
play eighty two games to make the postseason, so you
don't need it. It's overkilled and the only reason they're
doing it, there's two reasons. They're doing it for television
because they need programming and they were able to add this.
It's an add on for television, so that's why they
have it. And then they also do it just in
case one of the sexy teams has a major injury
(23:50):
and they want to make sure they can still get
in the playoffs and give them a second chance to
get in the playoffs because they want to have that
team in and so that's why they do it. And
there's those those two things. But thank you, thank you
Jeff for checking in. And the NBA added this rule
that you have to play a certain number of games.
(24:11):
I was gonna mention this last night. I think we
got distracted by something. So we're gonna do a little
malard math here. We're gonna do a round robin and
I want you to play as well, and you can
call up at eight seven, seven ninety nine on fosketo Bactiel'
not very good at math ben. I understand, I understand
the ring, but just it's a fun game. So there
are thirty teams in the NBA. There are roughly fifteen
(24:35):
players on every roster, so that means there are four
hundred and fifty players. Thirty teams times fifteen four hundred
and fifty. So out of the four hundred and fifty
players in the NBA, how many of those players are
eligible for post season awards? Now makes fine. They changed
(24:59):
this because the the players were so lazy in pro
bouncy ball, they care so little about the regular season
that they put this sixty five game rule in. And
it's the sixty five game rule. To be eligible for
postseason awards sixty five, you have to play sixty five
out of eighty two, which means you can miss seventeen games.
(25:23):
And there's a little wiggle room there. You know, some
of you play part of the game. There's a little
little bit of a wiggle room there on that. So question,
out of the four hundred and fifty how many closest
without showcase showdown rules, showcase showdown rules, closest without going
over will win? How many NBA players are eligible for
(25:48):
the awards meeting the criteria for the sixty five game rule.
Let's start out with an NBA insider. She replaced woj
when he left, and that would be our friend Lorraina. Well, Ben,
I think probably fourteen, Ben, fourteen out of four out
(26:11):
of four hundred and fifty fourteen players. Yes, that is
a bold. That is a bold. Take Cotton, Okay, what
about you, h Cooperloop? What's your guess? He's got a
lot of newbies on the line. Oh is that right?
Is he not playing our games?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He just said, I'm not sure what I'm guessing, but
I'm gonna say ten.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right. Wow, Okay, So just for the record if
you're just tuning in. The question was, out of four
hundred and fifty NBA players, how many meat met the
criteria of playing a minimum sixty five games for the
first season. So one of my producers said fourteen. The
other one said ten. Okay, wow, that's outstanding. Well, it
(27:04):
turns out you're both wrong, but you're not actually that
far off. Believe it or not, Only eighty four players
in the entire NBA played enough games to qualify for
the awards, or eighty four out of four hundred and
fifty fifteen percent, just fifteen percent of the NBA is
(27:25):
eligible for awards like MVP, All NBA All Defensive Player
of the Year, the most improved player that is. Is
that not a stunning number? That's a stunning number to me,
Like I don't usually get stunned by anything. I'm pretty
numb to everything, but I'm like, wow, that's what eighty
(27:46):
that's eighty four. That's it. Eighty that's the total number,
eighty four. And Scottie Barnes is on there. But the
the others that are not. Luka Donsik's not eligible, Anthony
David Is, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant Kawhi, Leonard Always, Bradley Beal,
not that he'd win anything, Jama Rantz and his fake guns,
(28:07):
Joel Embiid, Paul George, Jalen Brown. So would that be
one fifth of them? Ben? It's eighty four out of
four and fifty right, Yeah, so five point three five
fifteen percent is.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
What I had on my one fifth that would be right.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the math on that. So there
you go. I'm guessing.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Going, I'm guessing that, I'm guessing that that would be
that would be twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
She said she wasn't good at math, so that's that's fine.
Let's yeah, that's all right, whatever, it's all good. All right.
We'll get to the demonic toys story. We'll get to
that coming up here in a little bit. But it
is a newbie night, all new callers, all the time.
And who is next. Let's say hello to the cat catle.
(29:02):
She's in Colorado.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Hello cat lady, Hello there.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
For a couple of months and you're pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh well, thank you, Kat. And how many cats does
the cat lady have? Can we guess how many cats
the cat lady has? Can you guess?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Yes? Let's get how many every day? Set every day?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
All right, how many?
Speaker 6 (29:21):
How many do you feed every day? So we're counting
like neighborhood cats that you feed.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, that's a lot. Okay, there's gonna be a big number.
This is going to be a big number. I'm gonna
go twelve. I'm gonna go twelve. Lorena, Well my guest
was fourteen, so I'm going to go with fourteen. Oh
you're boxing the in coople, little go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I think I think you both went over. I'm gonna
go ten. That's nothing, So now you really box me in.
Now you've completely I have no chance of winning. I
have no chance of winning the cat lady game. All right,
lock your answers in and here we go. Let's get
the big reveal. Here we go, now to the cat
lady in Colorado on a newbie night. How many cats
does the cat lady fee?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Let's cry it out right now? Yeah, over, we all love.
I'm still close as though. Yeah, but you went over.
You lost. You don't win. You went over.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
I have a Chilean door cats, and I've seed feral cats,
straight cats, and I've had as many as sometimes I've
had eleven and I call it the cat Cafe and
they come every day for lunch.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Okay, have a little cat pacinos, not too fancy.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I don't have that much money. They just have a can.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
This cat that's catty. Well listen, okay, you're giving back.
The cats love you. You're the hero for the cat
community over there. They can't get it there.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And I have a question. All right, Okay, Well I've
been wondering this for quite a while and nobody ever
mentioned it, so I'm going to bring it up. And
that is that Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift went out
with Patrick Colemes and his wife Brittany to dinner the
night before the Super Bowl. Is there a possibility that
(31:10):
the guys drank too much and that's why they lost
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yes, they got completely schnockered and they were past that
has happened that terrible. Yeah, they played like they were sick.
Cat lady, But it was like there was a guy,
I forget the guy's name, but on the Robins Robins
who went to Tijuana and got him. But the guy
(31:38):
the Green Bay Packers. The first Super Bowl, there was
a guy I think his name was like McGee or
something like that and he he got hammered in l
a and was like hungover. It was a big mess.
And it does happen, cat lady, But that if it
did happen, that's Max McGee. Nice, nice call. Look at that,
Max McGhee. Nobody investigated nobody that stop years. Nobody investigates
(32:02):
anything anymore. What are you talking about? That doesn't happen? Right,
I love you call me more often, cat lady, don't
have to wait for newby Night? All right, be good, right,
feed those kiddies. All right, there's a cat lady checking out. Unbelievable.
We'll push back the demonic doll story because if I
do it now, we're going to completely butcher the clock.
(32:23):
And I am all about the clock four o'clock, plausably
all about the clock. So I cannot do that right now.
I hope you understand. I guess that we have Mallard
of the third degree. Time Now for the instant trivia
on a newby Night. Blank has struck out nine or
more hitters in fifty six percent of his career Major
League Baseball starts. That is the highest percentage by any
(32:43):
pitcher with fifty or more starts in the modern era.
Goes back to nineteen oh one, so over one hundred years,
one hundred and twenty four years, Blank has struck out
nine or more hitters in fifty six point three percent
of his career Major League Baseball start, the highest percentage
by any pitcher with fifty plus starts in the modern
era since nineteen oh one. That's the insta trivia the answer.
(33:08):
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
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speaking of going pro. Who will be going pro and
who will be the number one pick? Coming up Thursday
in the Draft week from today, find out Fox Sports
Radios Draft Night Live. We coming up eight pm on
Draft Night, first round of the Draft. Insider Jay Glazer,
a former Jets GM Joe Douglas LaVar Arrington, our Big
(35:10):
Morning Guy former and a former NFL player, also Fox
Sports a lead college football reporter, Jenny Taff. We'll have
pick by pick, preditions and reactions to every first round
pick coming up week from today eight pm Eastern throughout
the first round of the draft, live right here on
Fox Sports Radio, presented by Express Pros. Now to the Inch,
to trivia and let's see it. Does anyone know the answer?
(35:31):
And we'll go page down again. Pitcher as the highest
percentage of striking out nine or more hitters in his
career with fifty starts or more. On a Newbie Night,
Jerry Kouzman guests by I forty I in that's his answer.
Alf says it has to be the coolest dog in sports.
(35:53):
Moxie in Sports Radio. Yeah, mox He's got Edwin and
Carnassio guests by Scrooge, Drew Locke from Shane and de
Moine Earl Winn tossed out by econ Roso Minnesota, boyd
Dollar from King Rory, who else? Page down? Eddie Fanger
(36:14):
the King of his Court from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan,
Dennis Oil, Canvoyd from Manuel in Guardina, Pablo Lopez from
Gunner Who's at the Walmart in Minnesota, Charlie Brown from
Legally Blind, Christopher Christopher in North Carolina, Mark from Queen's
Going with Fernando Mania Fernando Valenzuela. How about new Pedro
(36:40):
Martinez guest by Larry D. That's his answer? No condom,
Carl from Trucker Joe, whatever happened? No condom, Carl. What
a character that guy was back in the day. Do
you have an answer, Lorrainea, Yes, the ill Mookie bets
is it? The ill Mookie bets is that? No, he
(37:00):
is incorrect. The correct answer with Mallard of the third
degree here coming up would be Spencer Stryder, thela brain
very time. Randy Johnson is the second smaller. How about
that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
This is one big event gets grilled because.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Randy Johnson played fifteen plus years Coopolo Ravens GM.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Eric DaCosta said that an extension for Derrick Henry was
definitely in the off season conversation, but declined to give
a timeline for getting the deal done, saying, we have
a lot of different balls in the air right now. Ben,
do you think the Ravens are hesitant to extend Henry.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Well, first of all, I've gotten that line when I
try to get my contract from this company. We've got
a lot going on. That is a way of not
answering the question and downshifting, slowing down is what that is. Right,
We were not really in a rush to pay this person.
It makes sense if you're the Ravens. Derrick Henry was
much better than I thought he would be last year.
But he is at that point where he's doing a
(38:01):
little tap dance right on the rubicon, and so I'd
give him more money, but I wouldn't go more than
a year or two at most. And I think that's
the play here for the Ravens.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Next, Jason Tatum has joined Larry Bird is the only
Celtics to lead the team in force statistical categories multiple
times now. This stat has led many to debate that
Tatum is the third best Celtic of all time, behind
Bird and Russell.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Do you agree with that? I don't. But my problem
is I have an issue with players that I've watched now.
I always think the players when I was a kid
are better and the people now are not pushovers, but
they're just not as good because I saw those players
through the eyes of a child. So Tatum statistically is
(38:46):
right in that conversation, But for me, I can't. I'm
not gonna put him there. I can't because I don't
think he's that good.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Next, Lou Williams was blasted for his prediction on Tuesday that,
despite not having Damian Lillard that the Bucks would still
beat the Pacers in their opening seat or he's ben
Is it that crazy?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Well, listen, lose. What Lou's doing is he's got the
knee pads on for Doc Rivers. He likes Doc Rivers,
and so he's looking out for Doc. That's what that is. Okay, No,
the Bucks are going they're losing. Here we go, Pacers,
Here we go. Here that Buck seems been contaminated by
Doc Rivers. They're done. How did we do pass this edition?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I won?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Put her on the board.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
I won.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
That's right, Gunner, I won, Gunner,
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