March 18, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about buzz that the Suns could fire coach Mike Budenholzer to appease Kevin Durant & Devin Booker, P.J. Washington saying that the Mavs are 'sick and tired' of fans chanting "Fire Nico!", Tracy Morgan throwing up all over the court, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka, Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, our.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Number two for you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And here in hour number two, it's all the buzz
that the Suns could fire coach Mike Budenholzer coach bud
here in the offseason to appease Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Is that a yes, no, or maybe so? Situation? Also? PJ.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Washington says, the Maverick players are sick and tired of
fans chanting fire Nico after the Luca giveaway to the Lakers.
Do you have any empathy for the Dallas players? And
goofing on Tracy Morgan he had a reversal of fortune
at the Knicks game and delayed the game, writing the
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vomit comment. Is that fair or foul? A comedian barfing
delaying an NBA game? Is that fair or foul? We'll
talk about all of that and more right now here
it is our number two.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is it a sun setting situation?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Speaker 2 (02:08):
So our lead this hour, our lead. This hour is
from pro bouncy ball, not college basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Pro bouncyball.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
College basketball does not begin until later on, so we
can talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The pro game. And why not? Why not?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because the story of stories here and it's been bouncing around.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's it's like a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The story started a couple of weeks ago, it died out,
and it's come back around.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's like a Haley's Comments story. It bounced back.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So as we inch closer to the end of the
regular season, in the end b A as I've often
pointed out, the better stories in the losing locker room
and that locker room we're going to focus in right
now would be the Grand Canyon State that is the
home of one pro bouncy ball team. They call themselves
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the Suns, but they haven't been very bright so far
this season, if you've not been paying attention. Now, a
lot of chatter, and I love chatter. I'm in the
chatter business. So there's been a lot of chatter that
the Phoenix Pro basketball team is considering handing the guillotine
to their head coach, Mike Budenhozer, who had gotten it
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done in Milwaukee a couple years ago and has been
relatively successful as a head coach in the different places
that he's been. He's a journeyman head coach, and that
he's going to get the old guillotine as a way
to please KD and Devin Booker, who are said to
be grumbling, rumbling and grumbling and stumbling. Now, despite the
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very high expectations, the anticipation with Bradley Beal, Devin Booker
and Kevin Durant that the Suns were going to reign
supreme over the NBA, well obviously that hasn't happened. They
are not only a basketball team, they suck a man
it's just a miserable season. So let us discuss the
question with all the buzz, the buzz that the Sons
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could fire Mike Budenholzer their coach in the offseason to
appease Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. Is this a yes,
no or maybe so situation? So I have medallion, seagull
and honorary Mayor, and we will combine all of these
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things together, and we are going to make a cactus,
and we're going to sit on the cactus, which is
more enjoyable than watching the Phoenix Suns play basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So the answer.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Nu Barr said, Nambar.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So the answer is maybe so. Now my answer is no.
But the real answer we deal in the real world,
not the fake world. We do the real heavy lifting
here in overnight sports radio and in the real world where.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I talk in.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
The answer is maybe so. It should be no. Mike
Budenholzer is not the issue. Is he the greatest coach
on God's Green Earth?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No? Is he the worst coach? No? He's all right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
He's a serviceable head coach in the NBA. He's not
the reason the Sun's blow chunks. That's not why. And
and I understand coaches are like disposable razors, easily replaceable, easily.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Replaced by I get that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Nevertheless, the Phoenix Suns have made it a regular occurrence
to get rid of coach. It is a revolving door situation,
and they've had instability and ownership. They've kept getting rid
of coaches. But you certainly don't get rid of a coach.
If the reporting is accurate. They're saying, well, slim Reaper's
not happy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
What d damn do? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
If you do that, if you're getting rid of the
coach to make Kevin Durant happy, you might as well
keep the coach. Because Kevin Durant, if you look at
his resume as a great player in the NBA, he
also wears this gold chain. And on that gold chain,
the very end of that gold chain wrapping around his neck, there.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You have the medallion.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And on that medallion is a piece of kryptonite, and
his kryptonite is the coach. If you go through the
coaches that Kevin Durant has played for over the recent
stretch of his career, has we've got Steve nash on there,
Monty Williams, Mike Budenhozer, and the beat goes.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
On and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And KD always gets a mulligan. He always escapes the blame.
It's it's well, it's not his fault, it's you know,
this guy's fault. But the finger of blame goes to
the coach. But yet the common denominator in all of
those situations is Kevin Durant, mister all everything and all that.
And the Sons have this, from my perspective, having watched
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a few of the Suns games this year, they have
this highly contagious situation. Venomous. It's a venomous situation. It's
an infectious disease. It is my diagnosis. The Sons are
suffering from IDG a F. I don't give a f. Now,
it doesn't matter whether you are a pro bounce ball player,
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whether you're a talk to your host, whether you're a
trash man, a security guard. If you suffer from this
contagious disease at whatever you do in life, whatever your
life's work is, and you suffer from I don't give
an f. You're going to be bad at your job.
That's just the reality of the situation. And listen, I've
worked with a lot of people over the years in
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this business that don't They just don't put the work
in and it shows. And in pro bouncy ball, there
are things there that really really.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Make you look just horrific.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Uh, if you have the disease of I I don't
give an F, yeah, it's not good. And you look
at the core of the suns, the superstars who are
all making big time money, they've had big time money
for a long time. They don't do a lot of
those hustle plays. They don't draw a lot of charges.
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There's not a lot of deflections on defense because that
takes effort. And if you have I don't give an F,
you don't do a lot of They don't recover a
lot of loose balls because again, that's an effort play.
So you do the bare minimum and you just look terrible.
And it's those little things within the margins that separate
you from being good and reaching your full level of
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ability and not reaching your full level ability. And last
I checked, I might be wrong with this. I don't
believe this is aau ball like, no coach is going
to be able to motivate you at the professional level.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's not raw raw stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's not how it works if you don't have the
inner fire, because again you're suffering from aid. GFF almost
said it. Then then you got problems and it doesn't
matter all right now page two, So we have grumbling
out a big deed.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Did you see this, PJ. Washington, that's a pro bouncy
ball player. People. PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Washington says that the Mavericks players are sick and tired.
They're sick and tired of the Maverick fan base chanting
fier Nko, fier nico.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's been NonStop since it wasn't a trade that Mavericks
just decided to hand Luka don Sick to the Lakers
and said here, you're gonna have them, and so ever
since then, it's been a constant undercurrent of fire Nico
Homeman road.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And so finally PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Washington snapped, He confronted someone says tired, you know, sick
and tire.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The whole team is of this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So question for the esteem, Pa, do you have empathy
for the plight of PJ. Washington and the Dallas Mavericks
players who are complaining about the constant soundtrack of their
season being fire Nico, do you have empathy? So I'll
go first. I'm shaking my head. No, I do not
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have any empathy here. We're talking about high crimes and misdemeanors.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Here. This is actually a felony. This is a felon.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's not a Misdemeanor's a felony, and it is an
absolute dereliction of duties. And it is completely justified by
the Dallas Mavericks supporters.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And if it didn't happen, that would be a problem.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now, in the big picture, if you look around here,
it's actually a good thing. I'll explain why in a second.
But what happened with Nico Harrison is the what I
call the sea goal approach. Now, what is the sea
goal approach, the seagull approach is Nico Harrison swooped in
and actually made things worse. Now, a lot of bosses
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do that. I've had some over the years that have
done the same thing. They make a situation that is
not great and they come in there with their wisdom
and somehow eff it up even more. And that's what
Nico Harrison did. He also allowed the ownership signed off
on it, so it's on multiple levels. No, you say,
Nico Harrison traded them, but you don't trade your your
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franchise player without ownership.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Saying okay seems like a good idea. Why not.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I still believe some of the conspiracy stuff will come out,
whether it was the league office for television, whether it
was the ownership of the Mavericks trying to sandbag the
franchise to move to Vegas. I tend to believe that
some of that stuff is true. It'll come out at
some point, somebody to write a book. It'll all come
out down the line. But the Maverick players are caught
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in the crossfire. It's collateral damage from the seagull approach
of Nico Harrison and the ownership there. But it's actually
good in the big picture. And here's why, let me
make my elevator pitch why it's good. Having worked around
the sports game and talk to enough people in the
business over the years, the fact that the Maverick fan
base is up in arms and they've got their pitchforks
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and their torches out, and they're doing mock funerals and
the whole thing. That is a good thing because it's
a passion play and you want that because you care
it matters. Right, You're in Dallas listening to me right now,
and you're hurt by the fact the team's going to
suck for the next ten years of your life because
of this trade and not a giveaway, not a trade, and.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So you're bothered by that. It means something to you.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And the moment that becomes a bigger problem is when
people stop caring.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And that's when the dreaded a word takes over. Apathy.
That is the death of professional sports. Apathy. People don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And when apathy sets in, you might as well bring
back Dick Matta, who I think is still alive by
the way, he's got to be in his nineties. Guy,
I mean, he's got to be in his night Dick Motta,
who's coached. I mean I was like a teenager covering
the NBA and Dick Mottter was coaching in the NBA
and he was really f and old. And now I'm
getting old, so he's got to be old. And you know,
bring back like pop Eye Jones and Lucius Harris and
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some of those great iconic maverick players of the nineties
and bring them back all right now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Final point.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So we had a viral moment at the Knicks game
at Madison Square Garden, Midtown, Manhattan. Now, I happen to
be watching this game because it was the only game
in the early television window, and I like to have
a game on. I couldn't find a baseball game. Not
a lot of spring training TV broadcasts this year, and
of course the regular season is starting in a couple
hours from now in Tokyo. So I was watching the
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Knicks in the heat and I'll settling in and of
course I saw our friend of the show, Kenny Albert,
the filled in play by play guy the Knicks, So
I was happy to see Kenny Albert. And then I
saw Walt Clyde Fraser and Walt Fraser had I was
watching the MSG feed and Walt Fraser had this ridiculous
Saint Patti's Day outfit. Nobody dresses as debonair as as
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Walt Fraser.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So it was great. It was great seeing that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And so I'm watching the game, and early on, the
Heat played pretty well in the first half, and then
at some point right after halftime, the Heat realized where
the Miami Heat and were not good, and then they
sucked and they were terrible from that by floor, But
there was a moment where the game was delayed and
they didn't really say what had happened. They said there
was a medical situation on the court, and they didn't
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say what had happened. And I didn't really pay much
attention to it. And then I started getting these messages.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
On my phone. Did you hear what happened? Well, I'm
watching the game, and he.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Said some medical situation, But you know, I didn't really
see what happened. And so it turns out that comedian
Tracy Morgan caused about a ten to fifteen minute to
lay in an NBA game on Monday night because Tracy
Morgan and upchucked. He rode the vomit comet all over
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the floor right at mid court, sitting in that celebrity
row at Madison Square Garden. And there is a viral photo.
You talk about art in photography, Ansel Adams has nothing
on whoever took this photo of the man, the myth,
the legend, Tracy Morgan at the point of explosion, when
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he is leaning over and he is vomiting, the stream
of yellow goo coming out of the man's mouth, and
it was captured right in the act. It's like the
Zebruder film. It's unbelievable the artwork that is in that
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particular photo, and check it out. Even Blind Scott's impressed
by that, and Inkoad Terror and Blind Emmett. There was
so much puke that came out of this guy's stomach.
There was literally the pavement pizzas some people call it,
was all over the place that it actually splashed and
cascaded onto the court if you can imagine, it was
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like the great flood of Madison Square Garden and on
the playing floor. The game was halted for several minutes.
I estimated ten to fifteen minutes. There were a bunch
of people trying to clean it up. So you had
people it was like a Vaudvillian act. You had people
trying to clean up the puke. You also had other
people trying to attend to Tracy Morgan and he's in
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his mid fifties. He vomited so much as nose started
bleeding and he was taken away and in some social
media critics or upset that people were having an absolute
field day with this particular story. It's not every day
that a well known celebrity delays an NBA game. It
just happens to be I don't know on Saint Patrick's
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Day where the guy puked all over the court. And
so I asked the question, goofing on Tracy Morgan and
his reversal of fortune at the Knickerbocker game with the
Miami Heat. Is that fair or foul? So after a
booth review, we have determined it is a fair ball.
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It is a fair ball to me. This is not
this deep. It's not that deep. Tracy Morgan, last I checked,
is a comedian. This is the kind of stuff that
Tracy Morgan would tell jokes about. So if you're a
comedian and you're sitting there at Celebrity Row and you
happen to puke so much that you delayed an NBA game,
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that is a made.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
For comedy situation.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And Tracy Morgan, the honorary mayor of Barf City, congratulations
and the old technicolor yawn right there from Tracy Morgan.
And he got his wings, and he got his wings.
He is in the cockpit of the vomit comet and
all that stuff. You know, you reminded me of Donovan
McNabb and.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles years ago. You
remember that name.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Donovan mcnabby famously puked during the Super Bowl. It's a
hot day in Jacksonville against the Patriots, and he puked
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So there you go, and I will tell you coming up.
I don't have time to do it right now.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Come out my favorite part of the story, which not
a lot of people are talking about. We'll get to
that coming up in a couple of minutes. We'll take
your calls as well. If you'd like to be part,
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on Fox. Also on X at Ben Mahlor. That's at
Ben Mahlor. If you'd like to be part of the program,
you can join the conversation coming up later this hour.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And straight ahead the rest of the story from the
viral video of the comedian puking and delaying an NBA
game in Midtown Manhattan. There's something about the story which
is a ten out of ten. And if you don't
laugh at this, you might want to go see a
doctor because you don't have your funny bone. You might
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want to see a doctor.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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I got like a million, I think, no, we got
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Okay, all right, well there you go. That's the one
I understand. I got you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
All right, Well, anyway, that's all you can find all
that right there, and right now back to the gas baggery.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, that's right back to the gas bagger. Why we go?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I will tell you my favorite part of this
Tracy Morgan story, which I I laughed at and maybe
I shouldn't. Maybe I'm a bad person for laughing at it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I don't know, but I'll tell you. I'll let you decide.
Coming up here in a little bit. Also, later this hour,
we're gonna have Mallard of the third degree. That'll be
coming up up a little bit later as well. Take
a lot of your commentary and all that and what
do you have here? Let's see page down. I can't
read that, Ryan says, I agree one hundred percent with you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Kevin Durant and company want.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
A coach who rolls the ball out, basically playing pick
and roll ball. Durant and company never brought I never
bought into Budenholzer, Bud replaced Popovich and replaces Popovich, and
Niko is named GM of the Year, throwing a lifetime
Achievement award. Sir smokes a lot, says Ben Mallari's the
year of the Tokyo Drift for Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wasn't that?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's from one of those movies. It's like a racing thing,
right fast and furious. I believe believe I'm right on that.
Who else do I have?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Page dan? I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
On the air, I did see a message of trying
to find it though here it is Ike and Rose
Willmnnesota says he has a fun fact, a cinematology or
cinemagraphical fun fact here of the hour, and he says,
twenty eight years ago today, Liar Liar was released. How
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about that, Koopa, Though twenty eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Your movie was released.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Your your Own Life's word twenty eight years ago today, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Do you remember that day, Coop? Were you? Did you?
Were you even aware that it was released? You were
so little?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Did you even know what that meant at that time? Yeah?
I was eight or seven?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think you're seven?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah, somewhere somewhere in there whatever that math that
would have to be.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Maybe I was I was eight.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I was eight, But yeah, I knew we we did
like a field trip with my whole elementary school class
to the local movie theater.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Was that embarrassing? I would be so embarrassed? Was that awkward? No?
I mean, I don't know. You kind of liked it, right,
I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
It was I went to a small school, so and
it was it was like the same kids that I
had been in the same class with since you know,
like preschool.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So those are your buddies? Yeah, gotcha? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I wonder Mary Max, you're pretty young. Do you even
know what liar a Liar is? Have you ever heard
of that movie?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Liar Liar? Doesn't it have? See?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I was just about to start naming random white actors,
but I know who had well, Jim Carrey?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, yes, no, yeah, yeah, that's correct. Look at you Berry.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's just actually in his title in Hollywood,
random white actor Jim Carrey right there.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I think I was gonna say Steve Carrell for me,
and I was like, that's not the.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Right Well he was Steve Carrell before, but he was
before the end. Jim Carries Yeah, Jim Carrey before the Internet. Man,
he was in like massive, massive movie.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He has that video with fifty cent. I think he's like, what, yeah,
there's a video with him in fifty cent and he's
like partying with fifty cent and he's.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Oh, oh, yeah, I've seen that video yet I know
what you're I have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
He's like in the club. Yeah, he got up and
like started rapping to the audience.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I think he's like high off cooker something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well he might be acting, but who knows. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Anyway, it is the Ben Maler Showlet's go to the
phones and we'll go to Andre, who is in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Andre a two man show. Well, it's a.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
One man show with his dog and Willis. Of course,
Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello Ben.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It's good to be with you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Now.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Listen, Willis is not going to be chiming in on
he's going to be before long. Most certainly, we got
a little windstorm rain coming in here in the Commonwealth,
you know, so that willis you know, we can't get
out and move around a bit. He's got to be
uncreed down for the time being. But Ben, listen, Aaron Rodgers,
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he wants to wait for the draft. How about the beginning?
How about July in August? Okay, how about we wait
until the beginning the next NFL season before a team
makes the decision whether or not to bring him in.
I think this should be a long proud I don't
think the Steelers should be hamstringing themselves by leaning so
far in that direction instead of keeping the options open.
So far as Aaron Rodgers goes, I don't understand what
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the big emphasis is when he's not long for the
NFL and the NFL stands for not for long as
it is. But he only has another year or two left.
So for me one, shame on you, Ben, for me twice,
shame on me. Do you think Aaron Rodgers is going
to have an epiphany and it's very last season in
the NFL and all of a sudden be a team
first guy that puts himself behind the interest of the
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other players in the organization, I.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Think not No, But but to just follow up, do
I think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
But does the Pittsburgh Steelers think that he's a better
option than washed up Russell Wilson or Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, I would tend to
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
The odds are against, obviously, the odds against Aaron Rodgers
going to Pittsburgh and dominating or going to Minnesota. It
has happened though, where guys at the end of their
career that one last gasp of success ass and then
they fade away.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And that's what they're betting on.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So it as long as he can get one of
those teams to do it, and they're all apparently waiting.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
None of them have made a move.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The Vikings haven't come out and said we don't want
Aaron Rodgers, even though the Giants are bringing in quarterbacks,
they haven't signed anyone of note. And the Steelers they
got nothing. They apparently have no other options other than
Aaron rodg unless they draft somebody and then maybe they'll
do that.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Man, they can wait until rapture.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
As far as when is that going to be? Do
we have a date on the rapture? Do we know
when that's going to be?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I don't know, right, keep just keep your fingers crossed, okay,
and just to keep after it, because again, you don't
you don't become more open minded and progressive with age
and become more conservative and built and you know, locked
in on what you've been from the beginning. So yeah,
Aaron Rodgers, he's incredibly talented. It's going to be a
good show to start. But as soon as the first
(26:53):
time of trouble comes, he's out and he's going in
his own direction to be there with Pat mcatheones podcast
to be building up Brent. That's what's gonna happen. So
you know that's what you're looking for. You know, four
or five good games, but in a first sign of trouble,
Aaron's going his own direction and the rest of you guys,
good luck. So I was first cousins is a good
opportunity or grow your own, get a young prospect and
(27:14):
bring him into your system. That's what I'm saying for
me and Willis Bence. I always appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thanks taking all right, stay dry, little rain going through
the Commonwealth there, according to our weather guy Andre in
the Commonwealth. So my favorite part of the story from
this Tracy Morgan, comedian writing the vomit comment at Madison
Square Garden and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Don't know exactly what happened there.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Tend to think maybe something related to Saint Patrick's day
and Tracy said some some issues here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So Tracy Morgan very funny man.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And in fact, I was telling Coop a story about
Tracy Morgan our our friend Jay Moore, who used to
be one of our talk shows.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here. Jay was at I think it was the Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Reunion thing in New York and Jay was on Saturday Night.
He was at this big party, they had the anniversary,
like the fiftieth anniversary whatever party. So Jay's at this
thing and he told the story on social media. He
ran into Tracy Morgan and Jay introduced his wife, the
Tracy Morgan, a lifelong Knicks fan and all that, and
(28:26):
Jay I'm paraphrasing here, but Jay said something. Well Jon
Jay had said like, hey, she does works for the Lakers,
and Tracy Morgan's like, hey does she.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is your cheerleader?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And Jay's married to the the owner of the Lakers,
Genie Buss, and so it was kind of a it's.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
A funny story.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But my favorite part of the story the one of
the I guess it's equipment managers for the Knickerbockers was
caught on camera as all of this is going down,
the game's delayed.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm Scott Foster.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I believe it was the referee that went over to
talk to the equipment person for the Knickerbockers, and the
equipment manager for the Knickerboxers informed Scott Foster as there
is vomit rolling onto the court at.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The NBA game.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The equipment manager tells the referee, we don't have a mop.
We don't have a mop was the quote, as right
there courtside, puky puky pukey, And the game was delayed.
(29:37):
And so if you how do you not have a mop?
And you can't exactly go out in midtown Manhattan and
go to like Tractor Supply or go to go to
Low's or Home Depot or whatever and buy you can't
buy a mop.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean they'll sell There's not a loot of mops
in Mantan. So it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So they'd use I think the towel method, and imagine
having to wash those towels and you put gloves on
when you're cleaning up the vomit, Like, what's the what's
the move.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
On that man? Good lip reading? Good?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There are there's a cottage industry in lip reading. Solid,
solid lipreading. Let's call the phones. We'll say hello to Danny,
who is in Boston?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is this Danny DeVito?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Hello, Danny welcome, Yes, sir, it is my guy, the
great Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
What's going on? Danny welcome?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Thank gay. Ben I just found out about an hour
ago I'm not white?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You did? Is that right? Who informed you of that?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh, real real talk? Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well you should always take advice on your heritage from
real talk.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Always In overnight sports radio callers have all the answers
to life's questions.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yes, exactly right. And you brought this team up. I
wasn't gonna bring him up for the Phoenix duns. I
actually was watched to some of that game, Ben, I
was fascinated with that team. And Kevin Durant is nine
feet high and he's he's thirty five feet away through basket.
He's got no one touch to getting the rebound, a block,
(31:10):
and the show. I just want to get the ball
and shoot a thirty foot up, you know I was.
I was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, we know, we know, Danny DeVito. That's that's like
the modern way to play basketball. Your local team there,
the Boston Celtics, they they will have a three on
one fast break and they will kick it back out
to someone thirty five feet away to shoot a three
point shot rather than get a layup.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Well, at least at lease bost to play defense. They
play some team, you know team.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But they don't play if they don't play physical. The
Celtics don't play physical basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Though. You can't.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
There's no way you can play physical basketball when you're
a Papa shot team.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You can't be physical.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
If your entire model is to shoot thirty foot jump shots,
you can't be Well, well, you.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Know who's gonna win. If they haven't met in the finals,
you would know who's gonna win that series, though, right, Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Some Boston pho.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Well, Phoenix isn't gonna be forget you know, Phoenix is
not gonna be there, right unless they buy some tickets
on stub Hub or something.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
They might be there, but then they're not gonna be there.
But the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I saw stat I don't remember I read it, but
the if the Celtics continue the where they're going, no
team in NBA history, even though the Warriors won all
those championships, no team in NBA history has won a
title taking more three point shots than two point shots.
But the Celtics are a team that has taken more
three point shots than two point shots this year. So
if they were to win it, they'd be the first
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team in NBA history to do it by playing that
style of basketball.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Wow. Ye, that should be something else, Hey, Ben, if
you hear about the the triple A baseball player the
Mets there, he's talking shelves. Uh, he's doing this for
a couple of years, and he's been a Triple A
baseball player. I forgot his name, Henson, something like Henson,
not Hayden. And he has to get called up to
(32:55):
get the pension. You hear about this, she's trying to
wait around and get the pension. H Uh, No, I
don't you saw that Triple A baseball play of Mets.
He's check it out.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
It's a pretty good story.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
He's uh, he's been stockinglf the six months, like six years.
He's been a Triple A player like six years, and uh,
he's trying to wait for the call. It's a pretty
big story now, and you're a pretty big fan of
that sport.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm yeah, I haven't heard that. I'll look it up.
I'll see, I'll see if I can find some stuff
out about it.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
But check it out, all right, Ben, have yourself a
nice night, all right?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You too? Is the great?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Damn Danny's upset. I did not know that story. Yeah,
there you go, Hayden Singer, Is that who you're talking about?
Danny trying to get it back? He was working at
Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Pay pretty well at Whole Foods, right, No, there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Took an off season drop stocking shelves at Whole Foods
in Nashville, Tennessee, and then trying to trying to make.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It back in baseball. So there you go. All right,
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and scoring and assisting on forty six and a half
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it right now, Time now four the always always popular
instat Tribua. Since the All Star Break, Blank has averaged
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twenty six point one points per game, over nine assists,
and over six rebounds per game, while scoring or assisting
on forty six and a half points per game in
that span. Looking for the name of that player, Let's see,
does anyone know the answer? Andy and Lino Lakes going
with white Chocolate, Jason Williams Patty Mills guests Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
(36:01):
Robin Vegas going with Greg de Hammer Valentine as his answer.
Andre's malfunctioning dog get will Sue Willis from ferg Dog,
Lillly Collins who is thirty six today? From Late Night
Drug Tester, Matt Murdoch ak Daredevil from Milkman, Mike in Colorado,
Quintin Grimes guessed by Dante, Josh Myers.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
From King Rory. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Mohammad Ali from Scrooge in Northern California, Ben Simmons from
The Sawman in Mississippi. World be Free from Shane in Portland.
Caitlyn Jenner blind blind Scott's idol from Trucker Joe, Do.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You have an answer? Mary Mack? Do you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Max does say our boy Luca, Luca, not my boy. No,
that is incorrect. It is not Luca. The correct answer
my guy the Beard James Harden from the People's Team,
the Clippers.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
It's how about that?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets
grilled Cobolo.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
So the thunder have a wide lead in the Western Conference,
but the second seed in the seventh seed are only
separated by three and a half games, Ben, Who do
you think are the true contenders to win the West?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
All Right, So I'm not gonna discount Oklahoma City. I
would be surprising if they make it. But even though
they've got their rate record, because they're gonna be battling
the officials. But I got the Nuggets, Oklahoma City and
Golden State. One of those three teams will end up
winning the rest. I don't trust Houston as a lot
of these other things. I don't trust Lakers don't have
(37:41):
enough depth.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Next This season's NBA rookie class hasn't exactly been groundbreaking.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
They suck.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
However, some are starting to think that the number two
overall pick Alex Sar is finally starting to show a
franchise player type potential and with it has come signs
of life from the Wizards. Do you think Wizards fans
can maybe start to get excited about the future.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
No, the team is irrelevant. All these games are meaningless.
They've played a little bit better since they got Chris
Middleton from the Milwaukee Bucks, but they have the worst
record in the Eastern Conference and I think the second
worst record in the NBA. So it's like meaningless basketball.
And no, you're putting up some individual stats, but they're
(38:25):
not winning numbers. So there's no no, no, no, no,
no next next.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Kyler Murray said in a recent interview that having only
been to the playoffs once in his career has been disappointing.
But he's keeping an eye on what the Cardinals have
been doing in free agency and he thinks they're headed
in the right direction. Yeah, Ben, are they headed in
the right direction? Well, they're heading towards another season, coop.
So every year there's another season. No the Cardinals, what's
gonna happen this year. There'll be another mediocre Cardinal team.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
They'll win six to seven games, something along those lines,
will fire the coach, and then they'll talk about trading
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
How do we dow you failed this to this? Shaar
Lakers true can ten years you were such a you
are such a fanboy. What a fanboy? Pathetic? Pathetic, pathetic
Boom shaka, Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number two, our.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Number two for you.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And here in hour number two, it's all the buzz
that the Suns could fire coach Mike Budenholzer coach bud
here in the offseason to appease Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Is that a yes, no, or maybe so? Situation? Also? PJ.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Washington says, the Maverick players are sick and tired of
fans chanting fire Nico after the Luca giveaway to the Lakers.
Do you have any empathy for the Dallas players? And
goofing on Tracy Morgan he had a reversal of fortune
at the Knicks game and delayed the game, writing the
(00:47):
vomit comment. Is that fair or foul? A comedian barfing
delaying an NBA game? Is that fair or foul? We'll
talk about all of that and more right now here
it is our number two.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
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Speaker 2 (02:08):
So our lead this hour, our lead. This hour is
from pro bouncy ball, not college basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Pro bouncyball.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
College basketball does not begin until later on, so we
can talk about.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
The pro game. And why not? Why not?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Because the story of stories here and it's been bouncing around.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's it's like a boomerang.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
The story started a couple of weeks ago, it died out,
and it's come back around.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It's like a Haley's Comments story. It bounced back.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So as we inch closer to the end of the
regular season, in the end b A as I've often
pointed out, the better stories in the losing locker room
and that locker room we're going to focus in right
now would be the Grand Canyon State that is the
home of one pro bouncy ball team. They call themselves
(02:57):
the Suns, but they haven't been very bright so far
this season, if you've not been paying attention. Now, a
lot of chatter, and I love chatter. I'm in the
chatter business. So there's been a lot of chatter that
the Phoenix Pro basketball team is considering handing the guillotine
to their head coach, Mike Budenhozer, who had gotten it
(03:18):
done in Milwaukee a couple years ago and has been
relatively successful as a head coach in the different places
that he's been. He's a journeyman head coach, and that
he's going to get the old guillotine as a way
to please KD and Devin Booker, who are said to
be grumbling, rumbling and grumbling and stumbling. Now, despite the
(03:41):
very high expectations, the anticipation with Bradley Beal, Devin Booker
and Kevin Durant that the Suns were going to reign
supreme over the NBA, well obviously that hasn't happened. They
are not only a basketball team, they suck a man
it's just a miserable season. So let us discuss the
question with all the buzz, the buzz that the Sons
(04:06):
could fire Mike Budenholzer their coach in the offseason to
appease Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. Is this a yes,
no or maybe so situation? So I have medallion, seagull
and honorary Mayor, and we will combine all of these
(04:29):
things together, and we are going to make a cactus,
and we're going to sit on the cactus, which is
more enjoyable than watching the Phoenix Suns play basketball.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
So the answer.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Nu Barr said, Nambar.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
So the answer is maybe so. Now my answer is no.
But the real answer we deal in the real world,
not the fake world. We do the real heavy lifting
here in overnight sports radio and in the real world where.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I talk in.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
The answer is maybe so. It should be no. Mike
Budenholzer is not the issue. Is he the greatest coach
on God's Green Earth?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No? Is he the worst coach? No? He's all right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
He's a serviceable head coach in the NBA. He's not
the reason the Sun's blow chunks. That's not why. And
and I understand coaches are like disposable razors, easily replaceable, easily.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Replaced by I get that.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Nevertheless, the Phoenix Suns have made it a regular occurrence
to get rid of coach. It is a revolving door situation,
and they've had instability and ownership. They've kept getting rid
of coaches. But you certainly don't get rid of a coach.
If the reporting is accurate. They're saying, well, slim Reaper's
not happy.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
What d damn do? Okay?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
If you do that, if you're getting rid of the
coach to make Kevin Durant happy, you might as well
keep the coach. Because Kevin Durant, if you look at
his resume as a great player in the NBA, he
also wears this gold chain. And on that gold chain,
the very end of that gold chain wrapping around his neck, there.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You have the medallion.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And on that medallion is a piece of kryptonite, and
his kryptonite is the coach. If you go through the
coaches that Kevin Durant has played for over the recent
stretch of his career, has we've got Steve nash on there,
Monty Williams, Mike Budenhozer, and the beat goes.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
On and on and on and on.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And KD always gets a mulligan. He always escapes the blame.
It's it's well, it's not his fault, it's you know,
this guy's fault. But the finger of blame goes to
the coach. But yet the common denominator in all of
those situations is Kevin Durant, mister all everything and all that.
And the Sons have this, from my perspective, having watched
(06:54):
a few of the Suns games this year, they have
this highly contagious situation. Venomous. It's a venomous situation. It's
an infectious disease. It is my diagnosis. The Sons are
suffering from IDG a F. I don't give a f. Now,
it doesn't matter whether you are a pro bounce ball player,
(07:17):
whether you're a talk to your host, whether you're a
trash man, a security guard. If you suffer from this
contagious disease at whatever you do in life, whatever your
life's work is, and you suffer from I don't give
an f. You're going to be bad at your job.
That's just the reality of the situation. And listen, I've
worked with a lot of people over the years in
(07:38):
this business that don't They just don't put the work
in and it shows. And in pro bouncy ball, there
are things there that really really.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Make you look just horrific.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Uh, if you have the disease of I I don't
give an F, yeah, it's not good. And you look
at the core of the suns, the superstars who are
all making big time money, they've had big time money
for a long time. They don't do a lot of
those hustle plays. They don't draw a lot of charges.
(08:14):
There's not a lot of deflections on defense because that
takes effort. And if you have I don't give an F,
you don't do a lot of They don't recover a
lot of loose balls because again, that's an effort play.
So you do the bare minimum and you just look terrible.
And it's those little things within the margins that separate
you from being good and reaching your full level of
(08:37):
ability and not reaching your full level ability. And last
I checked, I might be wrong with this. I don't
believe this is aau ball like, no coach is going
to be able to motivate you at the professional level.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's not raw raw stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's not how it works if you don't have the
inner fire, because again you're suffering from aid. GFF almost
said it. Then then you got problems and it doesn't
matter all right now page two, So we have grumbling
out a big deed.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Did you see this, PJ. Washington, that's a pro bouncy
ball player. People. PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Washington says that the Mavericks players are sick and tired.
They're sick and tired of the Maverick fan base chanting
fier Nko, fier nico.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's been NonStop since it wasn't a trade that Mavericks
just decided to hand Luka don Sick to the Lakers
and said here, you're gonna have them, and so ever
since then, it's been a constant undercurrent of fire Nico
Homeman road.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And so finally PJ.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Washington snapped, He confronted someone says tired, you know, sick
and tire.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
The whole team is of this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So question for the esteem, Pa, do you have empathy
for the plight of PJ. Washington and the Dallas Mavericks
players who are complaining about the constant soundtrack of their
season being fire Nico, do you have empathy? So I'll
go first. I'm shaking my head. No, I do not
(10:19):
have any empathy here. We're talking about high crimes and misdemeanors.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Here. This is actually a felony. This is a felon.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's not a Misdemeanor's a felony, and it is an
absolute dereliction of duties. And it is completely justified by
the Dallas Mavericks supporters.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
And if it didn't happen, that would be a problem.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now, in the big picture, if you look around here,
it's actually a good thing. I'll explain why in a second.
But what happened with Nico Harrison is the what I
call the sea goal approach. Now, what is the sea
goal approach, the seagull approach is Nico Harrison swooped in
and actually made things worse. Now, a lot of bosses
(11:02):
do that. I've had some over the years that have
done the same thing. They make a situation that is
not great and they come in there with their wisdom
and somehow eff it up even more. And that's what
Nico Harrison did. He also allowed the ownership signed off
on it, so it's on multiple levels. No, you say,
Nico Harrison traded them, but you don't trade your your
(11:24):
franchise player without ownership.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Saying okay seems like a good idea. Why not.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I still believe some of the conspiracy stuff will come out,
whether it was the league office for television, whether it
was the ownership of the Mavericks trying to sandbag the
franchise to move to Vegas. I tend to believe that
some of that stuff is true. It'll come out at
some point, somebody to write a book. It'll all come
out down the line. But the Maverick players are caught
(11:50):
in the crossfire. It's collateral damage from the seagull approach
of Nico Harrison and the ownership there. But it's actually
good in the big picture. And here's why, let me
make my elevator pitch why it's good. Having worked around
the sports game and talk to enough people in the
business over the years, the fact that the Maverick fan
base is up in arms and they've got their pitchforks
(12:14):
and their torches out, and they're doing mock funerals and
the whole thing. That is a good thing because it's
a passion play and you want that because you care
it matters. Right, You're in Dallas listening to me right now,
and you're hurt by the fact the team's going to
suck for the next ten years of your life because
of this trade and not a giveaway, not a trade, and.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
So you're bothered by that. It means something to you.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
And the moment that becomes a bigger problem is when
people stop caring.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
And that's when the dreaded a word takes over. Apathy.
That is the death of professional sports. Apathy. People don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And when apathy sets in, you might as well bring
back Dick Matta, who I think is still alive by
the way, he's got to be in his nineties. Guy,
I mean, he's got to be in his night Dick Motta,
who's coached. I mean I was like a teenager covering
the NBA and Dick Mottter was coaching in the NBA
and he was really f and old. And now I'm
getting old, so he's got to be old. And you know,
bring back like pop Eye Jones and Lucius Harris and
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some of those great iconic maverick players of the nineties
and bring them back all right now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Final point.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So we had a viral moment at the Knicks game
at Madison Square Garden, Midtown, Manhattan. Now, I happen to
be watching this game because it was the only game
in the early television window, and I like to have
a game on. I couldn't find a baseball game. Not
a lot of spring training TV broadcasts this year, and
of course the regular season is starting in a couple
hours from now in Tokyo. So I was watching the
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Knicks in the heat and I'll settling in and of
course I saw our friend of the show, Kenny Albert,
the filled in play by play guy the Knicks, So
I was happy to see Kenny Albert. And then I
saw Walt Clyde Fraser and Walt Fraser had I was
watching the MSG feed and Walt Fraser had this ridiculous
Saint Patti's Day outfit. Nobody dresses as debonair as as
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Walt Fraser.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So it was great. It was great seeing that.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
And so I'm watching the game, and early on, the
Heat played pretty well in the first half, and then
at some point right after halftime, the Heat realized where
the Miami Heat and were not good, and then they
sucked and they were terrible from that by floor, But
there was a moment where the game was delayed and
they didn't really say what had happened. They said there
was a medical situation on the court, and they didn't
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say what had happened. And I didn't really pay much
attention to it. And then I started getting these messages.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
On my phone. Did you hear what happened? Well, I'm
watching the game, and he.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Said some medical situation, But you know, I didn't really
see what happened. And so it turns out that comedian
Tracy Morgan caused about a ten to fifteen minute to
lay in an NBA game on Monday night because Tracy
Morgan and upchucked. He rode the vomit comet all over
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the floor right at mid court, sitting in that celebrity
row at Madison Square Garden. And there is a viral photo.
You talk about art in photography, Ansel Adams has nothing
on whoever took this photo of the man, the myth,
the legend, Tracy Morgan at the point of explosion, when
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he is leaning over and he is vomiting, the stream
of yellow goo coming out of the man's mouth, and
it was captured right in the act. It's like the
Zebruder film. It's unbelievable the artwork that is in that
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particular photo, and check it out. Even Blind Scott's impressed
by that, and Inkoad Terror and Blind Emmett. There was
so much puke that came out of this guy's stomach.
There was literally the pavement pizzas some people call it,
was all over the place that it actually splashed and
cascaded onto the court if you can imagine, it was
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like the great flood of Madison Square Garden and on
the playing floor. The game was halted for several minutes.
I estimated ten to fifteen minutes. There were a bunch
of people trying to clean it up. So you had
people it was like a Vaudvillian act. You had people
trying to clean up the puke. You also had other
people trying to attend to Tracy Morgan and he's in
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his mid fifties. He vomited so much as nose started
bleeding and he was taken away and in some social
media critics or upset that people were having an absolute
field day with this particular story. It's not every day
that a well known celebrity delays an NBA game. It
just happens to be I don't know on Saint Patrick's
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Day where the guy puked all over the court. And
so I asked the question, goofing on Tracy Morgan and
his reversal of fortune at the Knickerbocker game with the
Miami Heat. Is that fair or foul? So after a
booth review, we have determined it is a fair ball.
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It is a fair ball to me. This is not
this deep. It's not that deep. Tracy Morgan, last I checked,
is a comedian. This is the kind of stuff that
Tracy Morgan would tell jokes about. So if you're a
comedian and you're sitting there at Celebrity Row and you
happen to puke so much that you delayed an NBA game,
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that is a made.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
For comedy situation.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And Tracy Morgan, the honorary mayor of Barf City, congratulations
and the old technicolor yawn right there from Tracy Morgan.
And he got his wings, and he got his wings.
He is in the cockpit of the vomit comet and
all that stuff. You know, you reminded me of Donovan
McNabb and.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles years ago. You
remember that name.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Donovan mcnabby famously puked during the Super Bowl. It's a
hot day in Jacksonville against the Patriots, and he puked
all over the place.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So there you go, and I will tell you coming up.
I don't have time to do it right now.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Come out my favorite part of the story, which not
a lot of people are talking about. We'll get to
that coming up in a couple of minutes. We'll take
your calls as well. If you'd like to be part,
you can join us at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox. Also on X at Ben Mahlor. That's at
Ben Mahlor. If you'd like to be part of the program,
you can join the conversation coming up later this hour.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
I'm Mallard of the third degree.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And straight ahead the rest of the story from the
viral video of the comedian puking and delaying an NBA
game in Midtown Manhattan. There's something about the story which
is a ten out of ten. And if you don't
laugh at this, you might want to go see a
doctor because you don't have your funny bone. You might
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want to see a doctor.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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I got like a million, I think, no, we got
a thousand, and then I got like my fsr.
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Okay, all right, well there you go. That's the one
I understand. I got you.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
All right, Well, anyway, that's all you can find all
that right there, and right now back to the gas baggery.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, that's right back to the gas bagger. Why we go?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I will tell you my favorite part of this
Tracy Morgan story, which I I laughed at and maybe
I shouldn't. Maybe I'm a bad person for laughing at it.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I don't know, but I'll tell you. I'll let you decide.
Coming up here in a little bit. Also, later this hour,
we're gonna have Mallard of the third degree. That'll be
coming up up a little bit later as well. Take
a lot of your commentary and all that and what
do you have here? Let's see page down. I can't
read that, Ryan says, I agree one hundred percent with you.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Kevin Durant and company want.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
A coach who rolls the ball out, basically playing pick
and roll ball. Durant and company never brought I never
bought into Budenholzer, Bud replaced Popovich and replaces Popovich, and
Niko is named GM of the Year, throwing a lifetime
Achievement award. Sir smokes a lot, says Ben Mallari's the
year of the Tokyo Drift for Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Wasn't that?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's from one of those movies. It's like a racing thing,
right fast and furious. I believe believe I'm right on that.
Who else do I have?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Page dan? I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
On the air, I did see a message of trying
to find it though here it is Ike and Rose
Willmnnesota says he has a fun fact, a cinematology or
cinemagraphical fun fact here of the hour, and he says,
twenty eight years ago today, Liar Liar was released. How
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about that, Koopa, Though twenty eight years ago.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Your movie was released.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Your your Own Life's word twenty eight years ago today, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Do you remember that day, Coop? Were you? Did you?
Were you even aware that it was released? You were
so little?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Did you even know what that meant at that time? Yeah?
I was eight or seven?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think you're seven?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, yeah, somewhere somewhere in there whatever that math that
would have to be.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Maybe I was I was eight.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I was eight, But yeah, I knew we we did
like a field trip with my whole elementary school class
to the local movie theater.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Was that embarrassing? I would be so embarrassed? Was that awkward? No?
I mean, I don't know. You kind of liked it, right,
I didn't care.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
It was I went to a small school, so and
it was it was like the same kids that I
had been in the same class with since you know,
like preschool.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So those are your buddies? Yeah, gotcha? All right?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I wonder Mary Max, you're pretty young. Do you even
know what liar a Liar is? Have you ever heard
of that movie?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Liar Liar? Doesn't it have? See?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I was just about to start naming random white actors,
but I know who had well, Jim Carrey?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, yes, no, yeah, yeah, that's correct. Look at you Berry.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's just actually in his title in Hollywood,
random white actor Jim Carrey right there.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I think I was gonna say Steve Carrell for me,
and I was like, that's not the.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Right Well he was Steve Carrell before, but he was
before the end. Jim Carries Yeah, Jim Carrey before the Internet. Man,
he was in like massive, massive movie.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
He has that video with fifty cent. I think he's like, what, yeah,
there's a video with him in fifty cent and he's
like partying with fifty cent and he's.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Oh, oh, yeah, I've seen that video yet I know
what you're I have no idea what you're talking.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
He's like in the club. Yeah, he got up and
like started rapping to the audience.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I think he's like high off cooker something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Well he might be acting, but who knows. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Anyway, it is the Ben Maler Showlet's go to the
phones and we'll go to Andre, who is in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Andre a two man show. Well, it's a.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
One man show with his dog and Willis. Of course,
Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello Ben.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It's good to be with you.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Now.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Listen, Willis is not going to be chiming in on
he's going to be before long. Most certainly, we got
a little windstorm rain coming in here in the Commonwealth,
you know, so that willis you know, we can't get
out and move around a bit. He's got to be
uncreed down for the time being. But Ben, listen, Aaron Rodgers,
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he wants to wait for the draft. How about the beginning?
How about July in August? Okay, how about we wait
until the beginning the next NFL season before a team
makes the decision whether or not to bring him in.
I think this should be a long proud I don't
think the Steelers should be hamstringing themselves by leaning so
far in that direction instead of keeping the options open.
So far as Aaron Rodgers goes, I don't understand what
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the big emphasis is when he's not long for the
NFL and the NFL stands for not for long as
it is. But he only has another year or two left.
So for me one, shame on you, Ben, for me twice,
shame on me. Do you think Aaron Rodgers is going
to have an epiphany and it's very last season in
the NFL and all of a sudden be a team
first guy that puts himself behind the interest of the
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other players in the organization, I.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Think not No, But but to just follow up, do
I think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
But does the Pittsburgh Steelers think that he's a better
option than washed up Russell Wilson or Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, so it doesn't matter. Yeah, I would tend to
agree with you.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
The odds are against, obviously, the odds against Aaron Rodgers
going to Pittsburgh and dominating or going to Minnesota. It
has happened though, where guys at the end of their
career that one last gasp of success ass and then
they fade away.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And that's what they're betting on.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So it as long as he can get one of
those teams to do it, and they're all apparently waiting.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
None of them have made a move.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
The Vikings haven't come out and said we don't want
Aaron Rodgers, even though the Giants are bringing in quarterbacks,
they haven't signed anyone of note. And the Steelers they
got nothing. They apparently have no other options other than
Aaron rodg unless they draft somebody and then maybe they'll
do that.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Man, they can wait until rapture.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
As far as when is that going to be? Do
we have a date on the rapture? Do we know
when that's going to be?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I don't know, right, keep just keep your fingers crossed, okay,
and just to keep after it, because again, you don't
you don't become more open minded and progressive with age
and become more conservative and built and you know, locked
in on what you've been from the beginning. So yeah,
Aaron Rodgers, he's incredibly talented. It's going to be a
good show to start. But as soon as the first
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time of trouble comes, he's out and he's going in
his own direction to be there with Pat mcatheones podcast
to be building up Brent. That's what's gonna happen. So
you know that's what you're looking for. You know, four
or five good games, but in a first sign of trouble,
Aaron's going his own direction and the rest of you guys,
good luck. So I was first cousins is a good
opportunity or grow your own, get a young prospect and
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bring him into your system. That's what I'm saying for
me and Willis Bence. I always appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Thanks taking all right, stay dry, little rain going through
the Commonwealth there, according to our weather guy Andre in
the Commonwealth. So my favorite part of the story from
this Tracy Morgan, comedian writing the vomit comment at Madison
Square Garden and.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Don't know exactly what happened there.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Tend to think maybe something related to Saint Patrick's day
and Tracy said some some issues here.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
So Tracy Morgan very funny man.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And in fact, I was telling Coop a story about
Tracy Morgan our our friend Jay Moore, who used to
be one of our talk shows.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Here. Jay was at I think it was the Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Reunion thing in New York and Jay was on Saturday Night.
He was at this big party, they had the anniversary,
like the fiftieth anniversary whatever party. So Jay's at this
thing and he told the story on social media. He
ran into Tracy Morgan and Jay introduced his wife, the
Tracy Morgan, a lifelong Knicks fan and all that, and
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Jay I'm paraphrasing here, but Jay said something. Well Jon
Jay had said like, hey, she does works for the Lakers,
and Tracy Morgan's like, hey does she.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is your cheerleader?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And Jay's married to the the owner of the Lakers,
Genie Buss, and so it was kind of a it's.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
A funny story.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But my favorite part of the story the one of
the I guess it's equipment managers for the Knickerbockers was
caught on camera as all of this is going down,
the game's delayed.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm Scott Foster.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I believe it was the referee that went over to
talk to the equipment person for the Knickerbockers, and the
equipment manager for the Knickerboxers informed Scott Foster as there
is vomit rolling onto the court at.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
The NBA game.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
The equipment manager tells the referee, we don't have a mop.
We don't have a mop was the quote, as right
there courtside, puky puky pukey, And the game was delayed.
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And so if you how do you not have a mop?
And you can't exactly go out in midtown Manhattan and
go to like Tractor Supply or go to go to
Low's or Home Depot or whatever and buy you can't
buy a mop.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I mean they'll sell There's not a loot of mops
in Mantan. So it was pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So they'd use I think the towel method, and imagine
having to wash those towels and you put gloves on
when you're cleaning up the vomit, Like, what's the what's
the move.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
On that man? Good lip reading? Good?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
There are there's a cottage industry in lip reading. Solid,
solid lipreading. Let's call the phones. We'll say hello to Danny,
who is in Boston?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Is this Danny DeVito?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Hello, Danny welcome, Yes, sir, it is my guy, the
great Danny DeVito.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
What's going on? Danny welcome?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Thank gay. Ben I just found out about an hour
ago I'm not white?
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You did? Is that right? Who informed you of that?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh, real real talk? Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well you should always take advice on your heritage from
real talk.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Always In overnight sports radio callers have all the answers
to life's questions.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yes, exactly right. And you brought this team up. I
wasn't gonna bring him up for the Phoenix duns. I
actually was watched to some of that game, Ben, I
was fascinated with that team. And Kevin Durant is nine
feet high and he's he's thirty five feet away through basket.
He's got no one touch to getting the rebound, a block,
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and the show. I just want to get the ball
and shoot a thirty foot up, you know I was.
I was fascinating.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, we know, we know, Danny DeVito. That's that's like
the modern way to play basketball. Your local team there,
the Boston Celtics, they they will have a three on
one fast break and they will kick it back out
to someone thirty five feet away to shoot a three
point shot rather than get a layup.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Well, at least at lease bost to play defense. They
play some team, you know team.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
But they don't play if they don't play physical. The
Celtics don't play physical basketball.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Though. You can't.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
There's no way you can play physical basketball when you're
a Papa shot team.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You can't be physical.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
If your entire model is to shoot thirty foot jump shots,
you can't be Well, well, you.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Know who's gonna win. If they haven't met in the finals,
you would know who's gonna win that series, though, right, Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Some Boston pho.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Well, Phoenix isn't gonna be forget you know, Phoenix is
not gonna be there, right unless they buy some tickets
on stub Hub or something.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
They might be there, but then they're not gonna be there.
But the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
I saw stat I don't remember I read it, but
the if the Celtics continue the where they're going, no
team in NBA history, even though the Warriors won all
those championships, no team in NBA history has won a
title taking more three point shots than two point shots.
But the Celtics are a team that has taken more
three point shots than two point shots this year. So
if they were to win it, they'd be the first
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team in NBA history to do it by playing that
style of basketball.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Wow. Ye, that should be something else, Hey, Ben, if
you hear about the the triple A baseball player the
Mets there, he's talking shelves. Uh, he's doing this for
a couple of years, and he's been a Triple A
baseball player. I forgot his name, Henson, something like Henson,
not Hayden. And he has to get called up to
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get the pension. You hear about this, she's trying to
wait around and get the pension. H Uh, No, I
don't you saw that Triple A baseball play of Mets.
He's check it out.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
It's a pretty good story.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
He's uh, he's been stockinglf the six months, like six years.
He's been a Triple A player like six years, and uh,
he's trying to wait for the call. It's a pretty
big story now, and you're a pretty big fan of
that sport.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I'm yeah, I haven't heard that. I'll look it up.
I'll see, I'll see if I can find some stuff
out about it.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
But check it out, all right, Ben, have yourself a
nice night, all right?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You too? Is the great?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Damn Danny's upset. I did not know that story. Yeah,
there you go, Hayden Singer, Is that who you're talking about?
Danny trying to get it back? He was working at
Whole Foods.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Pay pretty well at Whole Foods, right, No, there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Took an off season drop stocking shelves at Whole Foods
in Nashville, Tennessee, and then trying to trying to make.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
It back in baseball. So there you go. All right,
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know that weed Man Hippy in Miami watches those all
day long. They're all available on the YouTube. Just subscribe
to the Fox Sports Radio channel and now back to
Benny Blabbermouth. All right, here we go, Bill, Let's do
it right now, Time now four the always always popular
instat Tribua. Since the All Star Break, Blank has averaged
(35:39):
twenty six point one points per game, over nine assists,
and over six rebounds per game, while scoring or assisting
on forty six and a half points per game in
that span. Looking for the name of that player, Let's see,
does anyone know the answer? Andy and Lino Lakes going
with white Chocolate, Jason Williams Patty Mills guests Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
(36:01):
Robin Vegas going with Greg de Hammer Valentine as his answer.
Andre's malfunctioning dog get will Sue Willis from ferg Dog,
Lillly Collins who is thirty six today? From Late Night
Drug Tester, Matt Murdoch ak Daredevil from Milkman, Mike in Colorado,
Quintin Grimes guessed by Dante, Josh Myers.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
From King Rory. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Mohammad Ali from Scrooge in Northern California, Ben Simmons from
The Sawman in Mississippi. World be Free from Shane in Portland.
Caitlyn Jenner blind blind Scott's idol from Trucker Joe, Do.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You have an answer? Mary Mack? Do you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Max does say our boy Luca, Luca, not my boy. No,
that is incorrect. It is not Luca. The correct answer
my guy the Beard James Harden from the People's Team,
the Clippers.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
It's how about that?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
To the third degree, This is one big fan gets
grilled Cobolo.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
So the thunder have a wide lead in the Western Conference,
but the second seed in the seventh seed are only
separated by three and a half games, Ben, Who do
you think are the true contenders to win the West?
Speaker 2 (37:20):
All Right, So I'm not gonna discount Oklahoma City. I
would be surprising if they make it. But even though
they've got their rate record, because they're gonna be battling
the officials. But I got the Nuggets, Oklahoma City and
Golden State. One of those three teams will end up
winning the rest. I don't trust Houston as a lot
of these other things. I don't trust Lakers don't have
(37:41):
enough depth.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Next This season's NBA rookie class hasn't exactly been groundbreaking.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
They suck.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
However, some are starting to think that the number two
overall pick Alex Sar is finally starting to show a
franchise player type potential and with it has come signs
of life from the Wizards. Do you think Wizards fans
can maybe start to get excited about the future.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
No, the team is irrelevant. All these games are meaningless.
They've played a little bit better since they got Chris
Middleton from the Milwaukee Bucks, but they have the worst
record in the Eastern Conference and I think the second
worst record in the NBA. So it's like meaningless basketball.
And no, you're putting up some individual stats, but they're
(38:25):
not winning numbers. So there's no no, no, no, no,
no next next.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Kyler Murray said in a recent interview that having only
been to the playoffs once in his career has been disappointing.
But he's keeping an eye on what the Cardinals have
been doing in free agency and he thinks they're headed
in the right direction. Yeah, Ben, are they headed in
the right direction? Well, they're heading towards another season, coop.
So every year there's another season. No the Cardinals, what's
gonna happen this year. There'll be another mediocre Cardinal team.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
They'll win six to seven games, something along those lines,
will fire the coach, and then they'll talk about trading
Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
How do we dow you failed this to this? Shaar
Lakers true can ten years you were such a you
are such a fanboy. What a fanboy? Pathetic? Pathetic, pathetic
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