April 15, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Hornets defeating the Heat in the Play-In, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra saying LaMelo Ball should've been ejected for what he called 'a dangerous play' causing the Bam Adebayo back injury, with the Heat's season over what the plan is now, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca. It's our Nu bird.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Too, our number two, and we talked some pro bouncy
ball to play in situation in pro bouncy ball, the
Miami Heat, the story everyone's been talking about here, coach
Eric Spolstra says that LaMelo Ball should have been ejected
for what he called a dangerous play causing the bam
(00:26):
Adebayo back injury.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Where does your mind go with this?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
By the way, I want to point out this take,
this take one of my all time great takes. The
guy call from Miami, he's you know, he was ripping
the take, which tells me it's a wonderful take. It's
a tell me what you think of this take, because
I think this is a really solid take. Also, with
the season now done in Miami, what's the master plan
(00:52):
to turn up the flames for the heat going forward?
For pat Riley And what's the word for Lakers benchwarmer
Ronnie James getting his own Nike sneaker. I'm not making
that up here, we go it's our number two. Well,
it turns out the heat is not on anymore. Bye bye,
(01:14):
see you later.
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So we are together again. In the audio, Dojoe this
hour and our lead story from pro Bouncy Ball, the
story everyone's talking about. Everyone's got an opinion on this
from uptown Charlotte, not downtown Uptown Charlotte Baby and the
only mascot named after a flying insect. The Charlotte Hornets
(03:30):
were in action there and the fake playoffs, so it's
not really the playoffs, it's not the regular season.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's the twilight zone. Do do Do Do Do Do Do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Do do stats that go into a vacuum. That's where
we're at. So were you watching this? The games were
both close, like to say bye to the Suns.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They were eliminated.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A nice choke job there laid against the Portland Trailblazers.
So there out and the game we're gonna talk about.
The feature here involves the Hornets in the heat and
it went to over time. A little overtime action. Kobe
White had a big shot to send the game into
an overtime situation, but LaMelo Ball having a ball, LaMelo
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Ball making a layoup with less than five seconds on
the clock, four point seven seconds left in overtime, and
then Miles Bridges somehow able to leap up despite having
all that baggage, Miles Bridges able to block the Davion
Mitchell attempt. He went coast to coast to try to
lay it up and win the game for Miami. Keyword
(04:42):
there try at the buzzer block shot. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. And from Miami, nana na na naaaa,
hey go bye?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Is the Hornets win? The Hornets win. He couldn't make
a three point shot. They're two big guys. Could not
make a three point shot. But they went anyway, twenty
seven to one to twenty six to the final.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
In a wacky beginning to the play in and then
the Portland Trailblazers taking the late game. But Charlotte will
play the loser of the seventy six years Magic Game
in the playoffs, the real playoffs, and despite the late
fireworks and the dramatic the block shot, the layup to
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win the game for the Charlotte Hornets. Despite all that
the subplot which everyone's yapping about. Well, it happened earlier
in the game. The Heat played much of the game
without their star center. As the season wrapped up for Miami,
Bam out of Bio Yeah, yeah, we know who he is. Yeah,
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so Bam out of Baio suffered a back injury. Oh
my aching back back injury. First half And that's where
the controversy is. And I learned this in sports talk
radio clown College. You focus in on the controversy because
everyone has a hot take on the controversy. So here's
the hot take, or here's the play, and then we'll
get to the hot take. So there was a incident late.
(06:10):
It was in the first half, so it's a second quarter,
a second quarter, and Lamello ball was falling.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Down, down, down, down.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And on the slow motion replay, it appeared that he
reached out to grab the ankle of Bam outa Bio.
Now that led to a nuclear reaction from Eric Spolstra.
I don't know if the editor has got this or not.
I imagine they didn't because they normally don't get these things.
(06:43):
But it was really good audio, really good audio. Spolstra
was asked about the play Lamello ball reaching out as
he was falling down there, said he should have been
ejected by what he said was a dangerous play. He said, quote,
I don't this is Eric Spolstra. I don't think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny. I think it's a stupid play.
(07:04):
Spoilster tall report, Right, Well, I guess we have I
was playing thing we have it. I didn't think we
had it. Here we go, here's the Eric Spolster. Oh
coop found it. Of course the editors, don't. They in
their back having a social hour. All right, go ahead,
but hit that, hit the button. See it?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't think it's cute. I don't think it's funny.
I think it's a stupid play. It's a dangerous play.
Obviously our best players out. I'm not making an excuse
the Hornets. Uh great, they made those plays down the stretch.
We we had our opportunities to win. I just that's
a shame. You know, he should be penalized for that.
I don't think that belongs in the game. You know,
(07:37):
tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and you know Curtis was there.
It's his responsibility to see that and if it's not
his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it. If you know,
somebody has got to see that, and that, you know,
he should have been thrown out of the game, you
know for that. I don't know him from you know, anyone.
I just there's no place in the game for that, obviously. See,
(08:01):
you know it took Bam out of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
All right, there's Eric Spolstra there, and I think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny, dangerous play, all of that.
All right, so good jumping off point. Let us discuss
as you heard there the Heat coach Eric Spolstra saying
that LaMelo Ball should have been ejected, get out of here,
get out of here, for what he called a dangerous play,
causing the Bam out of bio back injury. So where
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does your mind go on this one? Where does your
mind going this one? So I've got cosmic brass bonanza
and the Philly fanatic and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to take a
shot in the dark, is what we're going to do,
because that's what we do now.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One. So this is a feeding frenzy and it's also
a bit of an overreaction.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's a bit of an overreaction.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I realize I'm an age where I grew watching basketball
at a different time. I do chuckle considering the things
that have happened in NBA games and the over the
top feeding frenzy, the attack on lamellow ball, It's like,
slow down now. When I heard the rant, which we
were able to play for you because Coop found it,
(09:19):
the spo rant I expected, I went back and I
watched it, cause I watched it in real time, I
was like, Okay, I expected a felony. I expected a felony,
not a relatively routine play.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A little on the edge, a little on the edge
of things. But it was not.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
This does not deserve a courtroom drama O rama. It
does not deserve that. And it also feels like selective outage.
If you asked me, do you have any kind of
empathy for Eric Spolster, who sounded like a broken man
talking about this play, the answers no. The answer is no.
It's funny because I kept some notes. I went back
(09:59):
and I recall, well, a couple of years back, I
don't remember Eric Spolstra giving a sermon about Caleb Martin,
who was playing for him at the time, a similar
play on Jason Tatum. If my notes are correct, I
don't recall Eric Spolstra saying that there's no place in
the game for this, and you know you gotta be
kicked out, gotta be suspended, all that stuff. No, so
(10:21):
spare me, spare me. You're on the other side all
of a sudden, Oh, this is not right. I can't
believe this's Oh my god. Now I have an unpopular opinion.
I have an unpopular pin. I had to share with
the class, an unpopular pin. My hand, my hand is raised.
I might share an unpopular opinion. So Spoe shouldn't be
mad at LaMelo ball? Why not, maam? And the ball
got hurt. Couldn't be very upset? Shut up, all right,
(10:45):
Spoe should not be upset with LaMelo ball. He should
be filing a complaint in the court of karma, as
in karma with a capital k erg Cosmic justice. Cosmic justice. Now,
I go back and forth on this, and my counselor,
(11:06):
Andrea in the Bay Area, the Astrology Insider, can help
me out. But this certainly seems like cosmic justice. I'll
tell you why. The basketball gods also keep notes. They
keep notes, and Miami turns out they got some debt
they had to pay. Well, what did they do? You're
making things up. There's no car over the Miami Heat.
(11:26):
Shut up. They stage dah, they staged They eighty three
point farcical. You remember that that circus under the big
top there in Miami. I remember it against the Wizards.
That was some bad sorceries. What that was. We're going
(11:47):
full wwe like writing and you do that and expect
no blowback. You don't think the universe is gonna bite
your ass back when you do that kind of bull
crap in an NBA game. Yeah, well, guess what it happened.
It's not that complicated. It really isn't that complicated. The
universe saw Eric Spolstra giggling and laughing. Remember they were
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intentionally fouling the Washington Wizards so they could get more possessions,
so Bam Autebayo could get the eighty three point game.
So that happened. That kind of funny business. And this
was just a nice little reminder. Hey, remember remember the
cosmic basketball gods. Well we're still here. Balance has been restored.
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So enjoy your off season. You live in Miami, So
what do you go on vacation when you live in Miami.
It's to stay in Miami because that's where everyone goes
on vacation. So you just stay there all right. Now, Pat,
you're speaking of the heat from thirty thousand feet up
in the sky, the big picture and the better story
from the losing locker room. So with it, game over
(12:58):
for the Miami Heat. They lost a bunch of games
to end the year, and that's why they ended up
in the situation. They were in the plan anyway, So
what is the master plan to turn around a franchise
which is stuck in the mud the Miami Heat. Things
not going so well for Miami. So what is the
what is the master plan? So you got pat Riley,
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who's in the big chair. Pat Riley is behind the
plate there and he's at he's behind the wheel. He's
at the wheel. Riley and the Heat are out. They're
looking out on the horizon. They're in a boat and
they're looking for a whale. They're trying to find a whale,
and the problem is it has been many years since
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they caught a whale. They haven't actually been able to
harpoon a whale for some time. It's a problem, and
so they're trying to get that where's the whale? We
need a whale? Can I get a whale? Riley's looking around,
and so now yet again, another season has fizzled away
for the Miami Heat, and yet again they are going
(14:04):
full Hartford Whalers brass bonanza if you know, you know,
brass bonanza, dreaming of dragging in the freak. Let's get
freaky as in giannisi Denta Kumbo, the Greek Freak. And
every squabble involving a superstar player in the last twenty years,
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every squabble involving a star player in the NBA turns
into a carnival for the Miami Heat. It's either the
Lakers or the Heat. It's always those teams. Everyone's gonna
go to those teams. And so it's often been more
smoke without fire. Normally there's not smoke without fire. Somehow
(14:46):
there is regarding this and so this is not just
a fish story. It's not just any fish stor I mean,
there's a lot of fish stores, but this is the
one that Riley's been chasing. Had it years ago with
Chris Bosh and Lebron James and has been unable to
recreate that magic, has been unable to recreate that magic.
(15:09):
And he's trying, and he's out there and it's like, oh,
we got it, we gotta do it, we gotta make
this happen. And sure, Giannis, certainly with Milwaukee, it feels
shakier than ever. And we've heard this song and dance
before and nothing's happened as of yet. A year after
year in Miami, they line up the harpoon, they're ready
(15:30):
to go, and they come back with the big thing
of sardines. Well, we didn't want sardines, but that's all
you got. You didn't get the whale. Well why didn't
you get the whale? Well, I don't know. We tried
to get the whale, but we just ended up with
these sardines. And there's a lot of them. Yeah, so
close unfortunately does not conquer kingdoms or the NBA. It
does not do that. And so here's the gut check.
(15:51):
Pat Riley does he still have the magic pixie dust
at age eighty one or is this just what pat
Riley was and its just some memories of the legend
of Ryles who's been in Miami seemingly forever. But if
he misses again, if Giannis ends up on the Knickerbockers
or somewhere else and doesn't go into to Miami, this
franchise will continue to be on the hamster wheel of mediocrity.
(16:15):
And the heat haven't been catching whales. They've been chasing
a lot of ghosts though, a lot of ghosts. All right,
Now we move on. The sneaker heads would like to
chime in on this. Now. I am not a sneaker
I'm not not really a car guy, not a sneaker guy.
I'm just a guy, that's all I am. I'm a
headphone guy. I'm at Yeah, I'm a hat guy. I'm
(16:37):
a heck guy. That's my thing. That's right. I'm a
hat guy. I do like cats, but if I had
a full head of hair, I don't think I would.
I would be a hat guy, you know. I think
that's more of a byproduct of my situation. Like to
blame my parents anyway, So a sneaker guy. Interesting story. Now,
I got sent this by a listener. I did not
see this on my own. I am not keeping up
on the sneaker world. I know, a lot of you
(16:59):
boys love sneak. Good for you A way to go.
I remember, I think I know Rob Parker's got a
great collection. Bobo on the radio. I love Bubbo. Bobo
had an epic collection of sneakers. And I see Bobo
usually once a year at the holiday party, the Ugly
Sweater Party. Always look forward seeing Bobo. Good, good dude.
(17:20):
I loved when he worked on the show. And Bobo
he had a huge I remember, massive collection to match
every out he had one. All right, So get to
the point, all right, I get to the point. So
Nike has unveiled a new sneaker. Now, normally this does
not reach the level of Malle monologue. Times are a changing.
Did you see this? Nike is giving a sneaker too,
(17:44):
Bronnie James, Yes, not lebron Bronnie James. Yep that Bronnie James. Yes.
Nike has introduced the lebron nine Witness whatever thing that is.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Nike said, the.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Shoe is quote inspired by Bronnie's recovery and journey back
to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
All right, question, what is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The word what is the word for Lakers benchwarmer? Bronnie James,
What is the word for Lakers bench warmer Bronnie James
getting his own sneaker. So I have two words, stolen valor?
Are my two My two words basketball? Stolen valor. This
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is not a shoe drop, if you will for for
Bronnie James. It is a participation trophy with laces. Congratulations.
Well why does it have laces? Well, it's a trophy,
but it's got the laces. I don't understand. So this
is the greatest case of NBA hype inflation since years
ago when some of you idiots tried to tell me
(18:49):
that Kyle Kuzma was the next big thing in the NBA.
I remember, you just don't understand. You're a Laker hater.
Kyle Kuzma is going to be so good. You're you're
just a hit. So that's what you're doing the Overnight Show. Okay,
how's Kyle Kuzman doing. Is he's even still in the
NBA anyway? Yeah, I know he is. I know he is.
So let's keep this real here, just between me and you,
(19:11):
let's keep this real. This is the first sneaker, the
Bronnie James sneaker, inspired by a player's journey to ride
his daddy's coattails to the bench. That's about It's about
where we are. That's about where we are at this
particular point. Even sneaker heads are tapping out. They're like, hey,
(19:32):
I can't even defend this, Like this is really bad.
You know, this is like the Laker historians, So like, okay,
that's a little too far. It's a little too.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Far, Like what are you doing now? I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
When I got set this, I thought, okay, this guy's
trying to punk me. I think the guy's name is Mike.
He did not say where he's from, so I don't know.
I assume he's from southern California, but who knows. H
So he sent me, you know, I was like okay.
So I clicked on it, and I was like, okay,
I thought this must be satire. This guy's gonna bust
my balls and he wants me to do something. So
I check. Then it's apparently not. It's like legit. Nike
sent this out on their own accounts. You think they
(20:05):
kind of keep that on the DL. They did not,
And so I thought, well, this is satire. Sports talk
Barry Butt crack sports, one of those deals NBA sentel
And then I thought, well, this must be Nike trolling.
It's not satire, but they're troll No, No, it wasn't that.
Wasn't that just some good old fashioned nepotism with a swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Yeah,
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if my dad played in the NBA, I have my
own shoe too. Think about while lebron James plays the
puppet master Bronnie James putting up video game tutorial numbers.
He's averaging in his career less than three points a game,
less than three points a game, and he's a career
thirty seven percent shooter. He's essentially the Philly fanatic mascot
(20:53):
wearing a Laker jersey is what he is. Yeah, this
isn't marketing. It's propaganda. It's propaganda, is what it is.
In the tagline, inspired by irrelevance, Inspired by irrelevance. And
at this rate, doesn't Nike have to hook up some
other insider basketball friend guy, Like if you give it
(21:16):
to Bronnie James, if you hook Bronnie James up and say, okay,
you're gonna get a shoe because your dad, you know
who the comps are to Bronnie James, there's no real
great comp The closest I could come up with is
Isaiah Wong of the Hornets and Deuce McBride, a guy
named Deuce for the I believe the place with the Knicks.
(21:38):
So unfortunately, Isaiah Wong's daddy did not run Nike or
did not have a ownership share like lebron does, and
so does not get a shoe. And Deuce McBride, that
would be a fun name. Let's buy the Deuce be
a fun name for a shoe. Are they gonna get shoes?
Probably not? Probably not not gonna get shoes. So Bronnie
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will be the first player I believe history whose sneaker
comes with a disclaimer. You know what does the disclaimer say?
The disclaimer will say warning, wearing these sneakers will cause
your performance to decline. That because there's always like you want.
Only a few guys got basketball sneaker deals.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And I know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
As a kid because I was of the age when
this kind of became a thing, although even before it
became a thing, like Converse had Larry Bird and Magic
Johnson and guys like that. But he as a kid,
you're like, okay, through the eyes of a child, if
I put on these shoes. I'm going to play as
well as that player. I'm gonna have superpowers. In this case,
(22:41):
you could likely play as well as Brownie James. You
could likely play as well. It is the Ben Mahler
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Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
And if you happen to be in the Cincinnati area,
or if it's geographically desirable, we'd love to see you.
The first Mallor Meet and Greet twenty twenty six taking
place a week from Saturday in Newport, Kentucky, just a
mile away from the Reds Ball Park.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And we'll be nay names begin.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's Strong's Brick Oven Pizzaia. Now I'm told this is
really good pizza, so I'm looking forward to that. We'll
be there from two to five live music performances by
Dick in Dayton and Ohio al. That'll be fun and
people flying is a big deal. People have been emailing
me traveling from many many states far far.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Away to drive and to hang out with.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
She. I am both flattered and scared of at the
same time, So it'll be It'll be fun hopefully you
can be there if you're available. That's coming up April
twenty fifth, two to five, Newport, Kentucky, First Malor Meet
and Greet of twenty twenty six. Having a good old time.
All right, back to it we go. We'll take some
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phone calls in a moment. Is NBA hour of the
play in the hour of the play in in the NBA.
The NBA was that? I mean they talked over hell
be a cheerleader for the NBA, Well, that was ai.
I would never never be a cheerleader for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I did my time.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I was sentenced to Let's see her from Turnli the math.
Twenty seven years of NBA almost every night, that was
a lot of NBA. I'm good. I'm good Today's NBA.
Not the NBA I was around. No, not back in
my day. Men were men. You had. Every team had
a goon. When I covered the NBA, they can the
(25:55):
animal Banister who only he sucked at basketball, but he
was really good pushing guys around. Charles Oakley, that Greg Kite,
the guys that were only there to force the.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Rules of the game. The rules of the game.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Ferg Dog writes, and he says what's with these suck
bag baseball teams from the Big Apple Due New Yorkers have.
All they have is pizza for brains or something like that.
The Halos and the Dodgers would go one hundred and
sixty two and oh if they only played the Yankees
and the match the rest of the season. Of course,
ferg Dog has amnesia because I believe the Angels lost
(26:35):
the high scoring game the other night in the Bronx,
Alf the Alien o'piner says, hail to the power of radio.
You brought me back to the Hartford Civic Center where
I heard the brass binanz alive in person. You don't
need to brag, Alf, he says, he watched the likes
of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux trounced the lowly Whalers
(26:58):
when you dropped a piano on me with then you
dropped the piano on me with brownie shoe. Yeah, well,
no one's no one's perfect, No one's perfect the Hartford Whalers.
Will that team ever be born again? Not in our
lifetime right, not our lifetime, Laurada, Do you even know
(27:18):
who the Hartford Whalers are?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No chance, I think that is a musical group.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, a very popular musical group. And they were int
you know where her Hartford is, by the way, you
know where? You know where it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Is in the middle of the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You think Hartford's like in like Ohio or in the
heart the heart. That's why they're called. Yes, good geography.
It's the school system there in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, quality exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yes. The or Connecticut. Well, you don't even know where
Connecticut is, right, No chance, that's also in the.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Heart of America.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yes, Connecticut right there, the heartland of America. Connecticut. Yes, absolutely.
They were the Heart Whalers from nineteen seventy nine till
ninety seven. Boy, they mean that just didn't man? I
thought it was im dating myself. But I remember the
Hartford Whalers when I am back when I was forced
to cover the NHL the Hertford Whalers. Did see them
(28:15):
play a few times back back in the day and
late night drug tester says Nike should just be honest
and say that his sneakers aren't for his basketball skills.
I mean, he first appeared talking about Bronnie James on
the cover of Sports Illustrated as a video gamer, not
for hoops. Okay, Scrooge says, Bronnie James getting a Nike
(28:38):
deal is the biggest crock of blank I've ever heard.
They might as well give you the deal. Ben, You've
actually contributed more to the NBA by talking about their
bad brand.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Taking shots at me. That's a double whammy from Scrooge.
Every time Bronnie plays, he promotes why you shouldn't watch
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's about right, It's about right.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I was going to the phones Lucky he is in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Hello, Lucky, Tony, welcome, Hello, Hi Tony.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Can you hear me? Ben?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I think so? I think?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Okay, Hey, I wanted to tip my barress hat to
mouthwash Mike for his forty five days sober And the
other day he mentioned something about the third eye and
maybe helping alcoholism. So I'm not sure if you're familiar
with cyber sul and I believe the correct pronunciation is
but it's supposed to help with depression, alcoholism, and some
(29:34):
other stuff. I just wanted to shoot that out there.
And why should David Bassa be a third base coach?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
I don't know why because he's been waving ment home
for years.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Thank you. Let's say hello to Andrew in Baker's Field.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
That's how you come from it up for Bert too.
Don't get Bert.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
No, you can next that end it perfect?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Andrew? Can you can you stay off the weed? Can
you get off the weed? Andrew?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Possibly us?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right, I can't understand what he's saying. Let's say
hello to Dorko, the comedian who's in Hawaii. Last time
we had Darko on, he put a random woman on
the phone who was very awkward. Hello Dorkoh, Hi Hi.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Then I heard that the Colin Cowherd Show wants me
to be part of the herd.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, well we will. We will trade you to the
cow Herd Show. We are willing to trade you. What
offers cow Herd going again?
Speaker 9 (30:37):
No, he's trying to woo me away, and we will.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We're not well, listen, we are willing. We we love you,
dark Oh. However, if you want to move on to
the Cowhard Show, what what can we get from the
cow Herd Show that they have? What do they have?
Speaker 9 (30:51):
Do you have me signed to Adida sentence?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A deal? How about a free berger? Does Cowhard still
on that restaurant? I'll get a free burger at his restaurant.
How about that Burgers for life for don for Dorko.
I need burger and Friesai yea your burger guy? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I like that. I mean the hamburger.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Everyone's everyone's got jokes. This is the top comedian in Hawaii.
This is the top.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Guy, a number one top of the.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
What are you getting? What are you getting your Netflix deal?
Speaker 9 (31:27):
I don't know, but can you negotiate one for me?
Or hire me at the station so I can be
in the same room with Lorena?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
What the hell? That's that's so predatory.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's like those people who were.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Like, Oh, I like doing something weird, so I'm gonna
get hired there so that I can be weird.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Are you saying, Dorko the comedian is weird?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I'm not saying Dorko.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Would you consider yourself weird?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Dorko?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No ecent?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (31:59):
Yeah, no weirdo.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Did you grow up?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Did you grow up in Hawaii, Darko?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Or did you move there?
Speaker 9 (32:07):
I moved here, but I've been here longer than anywhere else.
I'm stuck on an island. Please help me. I'm going again.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Where did you grow up? Where did Dorco grow up?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Dorco grew up? Then Barne Saint Louis moved to Minnesota, Cincinnati,
Northern California, San Diego, and he moved a lot so
then Hawaii. Yeah, okay, I've been all over these days.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You're traveling, man, I've been here, there, everywhere. Fascinating. Boy,
is that fascinating? Yes, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
You can hear me and the Ben mother everywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes, okay, I feel like there's nothing else to say, Dorca.
I feel like we've reached everything there is to say. Right,
this is a tremendous Yes. All right, thank you. I'm
gonna hang up on you. There goes Dorko, the comedian.
Let's say hello to Alan, who's in Miami. Hello Alan
doing the post mortem as the the heat season has
come to a crashing end.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Hello Allan, Hello Ben?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
If I was any better, I'd be bam, but not
bam out of Baio because the heat have been kicked out.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yes, I've heard a lot of bad takes from you, okay,
but not even your cowger Stut Gotts can come up
with a lazier take than us losing tonight in overtime
by a point because of the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, you messed with the basketball gods to oh listen,
you you support that. That was the most bogus game
I've ever seen. It was like professional wrestling. It was
an embarrassment, and Vanish commissioned with balls.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They would have taken.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
That number away from Bam out of Bayo. It was
the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And the Heat
deserved to lose. And I'm happy they lost. I'm happy
they lost.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I'm with you. I'm happy. I'm happy for us to
get at draft.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh stop with the draft.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
I'm on your side with that. But you cannot say
that we lost because of karma.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes, well Bam got Bam got hurt because of karma.
The basketball gods. They sent a message to LaMelo Ball,
they said you got to do this, and he did.
He didn't want to do it Ball, but he did it.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Man, you can come up with a better take than that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's a great take, you know what. I'm gonna send
that to the Take Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
That take you got, and he's gonna last face and first.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Of all, student he has an overnight. I sleep while
he's on. I don't care what he says, but might
that was a great take. Uh so I'm there, I'm
on my way. And the fact that you called up,
I've never spoken to you before. You called up so
outraged about a take. That's a take home run. That's
a take, that's a take.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Home run, laziest take.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
And then I have a lot of love for you,
but that is the most disgustingly laziest.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That is the greatest take I've ever had. In fact,
that that is better than this is before your time.
But the Dodgers had to get a guy named Mike Piazza,
who was like the most popular player in LA at
the time. They traded him to your Marlins and then
eventually end up in the Mets. And I explained how
the Dodgers were better off without Mike Piazza, and people
were agreeing with me by the time I got done
with that take, that that was my greatest take before
(35:16):
saying the basketball gods spit karma.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
At Eric Spolster. But thank you for listening. I do
appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
But I have first time car I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I thank you. Now you know what I love you too.
I love the fact that you took the time to
call me and tell me I'm an a hole.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right, thank you, go away. There's Alan in Miami
living the dream right there in Miami, and he's grading
me on my take. It is the Ben Malor Show.
Time now for the who Am I? Game? And here
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Here's the Insta Trivia. In twenty oh seven, Blank set
(35:53):
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In twenty oh seven, Blank set the record for the
longest play in NFL history. This is.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Literally an unbreakable record, rakable record.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
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Dwight Freeney as his answer. Jason says, Sean Alexander, the Legend,
Jordan Chiles, Who's twenty five today? From Late Night Drug Tester,
Ray Caruth from alf the Alien Opineer, Gordy Haugus by
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Yeah, good luck on that. Who else do?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Adrian Dantley from Shane in Des Moines Blind Sophie. I
think Blind Sophie's finally quit the show. Somebody told me
he called up as Blind Scott again to the sports
up in Boston, So I guess he's gone back to
blind Scott. Now maybe that's it won the bet h Yes,
somebody must have won that. I guess that's that's his
new thing. All right?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Let's see page down. Mike Vrabel from Analog. Al who
else do we have? Bill Miller's buddy, Bill Shatner from
not a Burner? What say you, Lorraine up? Mandy Moore?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Mandy Moore?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Well, unfortunately that is incorrect. Correct answer, none other than
the legend Antonio Kermark.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Who had one hundred It's a.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Crazy one hundred and nine yard return on a missed
field goal attempt that can only be tied, not broken.
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go quickly?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Chris Maller, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Longtime forty nine Ers fullback Kyle Yuschek made a radio
appearance this week where he said about brock Perty, I
don't know what it is, what it's going to take
for this guy to finally get the respect I think
he truly deserves.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
What will it take? He's already got it.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
He signed a massive contract. He signed a two hundred
and sixty five million dollar contract. He's a he got
a forty million dollars JACT one hundred and eighty two million.
That is respect. I want that kind of respect. Did
me put some respect in my name.
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Next, it was supported over the weekend that X Miami
defensive end Reuben Bain Junior was involved in a fatal
car accident back in twenty twenty four. He was initially
charged with reckless driving, but those charges were dismissed. Ben,
he's a top prospect. Do you think this will hurt
his draft position?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
No, if he's good, it won't hurt him. And it's
very odd.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
This story randomly popped up on a very slow NFL
news day, almost like somebody was trying to bring it
back to get some engagement online. No, if he's good,
he's like, well, he's just he's learning to drive. If not,
and they'll say that's why he didn't get drut, he'll
be fine.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Next.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
Anthony Davis this week acknowledged that it would be extremely
difficult for the Wizards to go from worse to first,
but vowed to build a winning culture with Washington. But
you think the Wizards will at least have a winning
record next season.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I think Anthony Davis is going to look great sitting
on that Wizard's bench. He is going to get all
the top fashion awards in the NBA sitting his ass
down there watching the Wizards play basketball. How do we do, Koobolo?
He passes that as they went street close, Anthony Davis,
Street close, Street close,
Boom shaka Laca. It's our Nu bird.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Too, our number two, and we talked some pro bouncy
ball to play in situation in pro bouncy ball, the
Miami Heat, the story everyone's been talking about here, coach
Eric Spolstra says that LaMelo Ball should have been ejected
for what he called a dangerous play causing the bam
(00:26):
Adebayo back injury.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Where does your mind go with this?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
By the way, I want to point out this take,
this take one of my all time great takes. The
guy call from Miami, he's you know, he was ripping
the take, which tells me it's a wonderful take. It's
a tell me what you think of this take, because
I think this is a really solid take. Also, with
the season now done in Miami, what's the master plan
(00:52):
to turn up the flames for the heat going forward?
For pat Riley And what's the word for Lakers benchwarmer
Ronnie James getting his own Nike sneaker. I'm not making
that up here, we go it's our number two. Well,
it turns out the heat is not on anymore. Bye bye,
(01:14):
see you later.
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So we are together again. In the audio, Dojoe this
hour and our lead story from pro Bouncy Ball, the
story everyone's talking about. Everyone's got an opinion on this
from uptown Charlotte, not downtown Uptown Charlotte Baby and the
only mascot named after a flying insect. The Charlotte Hornets
(03:30):
were in action there and the fake playoffs, so it's
not really the playoffs, it's not the regular season.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's the twilight zone. Do do Do Do Do Do Do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Do do stats that go into a vacuum. That's where
we're at. So were you watching this? The games were
both close, like to say bye to the Suns.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
They were eliminated.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A nice choke job there laid against the Portland Trailblazers.
So there out and the game we're gonna talk about.
The feature here involves the Hornets in the heat and
it went to over time. A little overtime action. Kobe
White had a big shot to send the game into
an overtime situation, but LaMelo Ball having a ball, LaMelo
(04:20):
Ball making a layoup with less than five seconds on
the clock, four point seven seconds left in overtime, and
then Miles Bridges somehow able to leap up despite having
all that baggage, Miles Bridges able to block the Davion
Mitchell attempt. He went coast to coast to try to
lay it up and win the game for Miami. Keyword
(04:42):
there try at the buzzer block shot. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night. And from Miami, nana na na naaaa,
hey go bye?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Is the Hornets win? The Hornets win. He couldn't make
a three point shot. They're two big guys. Could not
make a three point shot. But they went anyway, twenty
seven to one to twenty six to the final.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
In a wacky beginning to the play in and then
the Portland Trailblazers taking the late game. But Charlotte will
play the loser of the seventy six years Magic Game
in the playoffs, the real playoffs, and despite the late
fireworks and the dramatic the block shot, the layup to
(05:26):
win the game for the Charlotte Hornets. Despite all that
the subplot which everyone's yapping about. Well, it happened earlier
in the game. The Heat played much of the game
without their star center. As the season wrapped up for Miami,
Bam out of Bio Yeah, yeah, we know who he is. Yeah,
(05:47):
so Bam out of Baio suffered a back injury. Oh
my aching back back injury. First half And that's where
the controversy is. And I learned this in sports talk
radio clown College. You focus in on the controversy because
everyone has a hot take on the controversy. So here's
the hot take, or here's the play, and then we'll
get to the hot take. So there was a incident late.
(06:10):
It was in the first half, so it's a second quarter,
a second quarter, and Lamello ball was falling.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Down, down, down, down.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And on the slow motion replay, it appeared that he
reached out to grab the ankle of Bam outa Bio.
Now that led to a nuclear reaction from Eric Spolstra.
I don't know if the editor has got this or not.
I imagine they didn't because they normally don't get these things.
(06:43):
But it was really good audio, really good audio. Spolstra
was asked about the play Lamello ball reaching out as
he was falling down there, said he should have been
ejected by what he said was a dangerous play. He said, quote,
I don't this is Eric Spolstra. I don't think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny. I think it's a stupid play.
(07:04):
Spoilster tall report, Right, Well, I guess we have I
was playing thing we have it. I didn't think we
had it. Here we go, here's the Eric Spolster. Oh
coop found it. Of course the editors, don't. They in
their back having a social hour. All right, go ahead,
but hit that, hit the button. See it?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But that.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I don't think it's cute. I don't think it's funny.
I think it's a stupid play. It's a dangerous play.
Obviously our best players out. I'm not making an excuse
the Hornets. Uh great, they made those plays down the stretch.
We we had our opportunities to win. I just that's
a shame. You know, he should be penalized for that.
I don't think that belongs in the game. You know,
(07:37):
tripping guys, you know shenanigans, and you know Curtis was there.
It's his responsibility to see that and if it's not
his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it. If you know,
somebody has got to see that, and that, you know,
he should have been thrown out of the game, you
know for that. I don't know him from you know, anyone.
I just there's no place in the game for that, obviously. See,
(08:01):
you know it took Bam out of the game.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
All right, there's Eric Spolstra there, and I think it's cute.
I don't think it's funny, dangerous play, all of that.
All right, so good jumping off point. Let us discuss
as you heard there the Heat coach Eric Spolstra saying
that LaMelo Ball should have been ejected, get out of here,
get out of here, for what he called a dangerous play,
causing the Bam out of bio back injury. So where
(08:26):
does your mind go on this one? Where does your
mind going this one? So I've got cosmic brass bonanza
and the Philly fanatic and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to take a
shot in the dark, is what we're going to do,
because that's what we do now.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Number one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
One. So this is a feeding frenzy and it's also
a bit of an overreaction.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's a bit of an overreaction.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I realize I'm an age where I grew watching basketball
at a different time. I do chuckle considering the things
that have happened in NBA games and the over the
top feeding frenzy, the attack on lamellow ball, It's like,
slow down now. When I heard the rant, which we
were able to play for you because Coop found it,
(09:19):
the spo rant I expected, I went back and I
watched it, cause I watched it in real time, I
was like, Okay, I expected a felony. I expected a felony,
not a relatively routine play.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
A little on the edge, a little on the edge
of things. But it was not.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
This does not deserve a courtroom drama O rama. It
does not deserve that. And it also feels like selective outage.
If you asked me, do you have any kind of
empathy for Eric Spolster, who sounded like a broken man
talking about this play, the answers no. The answer is no.
It's funny because I kept some notes. I went back
(09:59):
and I recall, well, a couple of years back, I
don't remember Eric Spolstra giving a sermon about Caleb Martin,
who was playing for him at the time, a similar
play on Jason Tatum. If my notes are correct, I
don't recall Eric Spolstra saying that there's no place in
the game for this, and you know you gotta be
kicked out, gotta be suspended, all that stuff. No, so
(10:21):
spare me, spare me. You're on the other side all
of a sudden, Oh, this is not right. I can't
believe this's Oh my god. Now I have an unpopular opinion.
I have an unpopular pin. I had to share with
the class, an unpopular pin. My hand, my hand is raised.
I might share an unpopular opinion. So Spoe shouldn't be
mad at LaMelo ball? Why not, maam? And the ball
got hurt. Couldn't be very upset? Shut up, all right,
(10:45):
Spoe should not be upset with LaMelo ball. He should
be filing a complaint in the court of karma, as
in karma with a capital k erg Cosmic justice. Cosmic justice. Now,
I go back and forth on this, and my counselor,
(11:06):
Andrea in the Bay Area, the Astrology Insider, can help
me out. But this certainly seems like cosmic justice. I'll
tell you why. The basketball gods also keep notes. They
keep notes, and Miami turns out they got some debt
they had to pay. Well, what did they do? You're
making things up. There's no car over the Miami Heat.
(11:26):
Shut up. They stage dah, they staged They eighty three
point farcical. You remember that that circus under the big
top there in Miami. I remember it against the Wizards.
That was some bad sorceries. What that was. We're going
(11:47):
full wwe like writing and you do that and expect
no blowback. You don't think the universe is gonna bite
your ass back when you do that kind of bull
crap in an NBA game. Yeah, well, guess what it happened.
It's not that complicated. It really isn't that complicated. The
universe saw Eric Spolstra giggling and laughing. Remember they were
(12:10):
intentionally fouling the Washington Wizards so they could get more possessions,
so Bam Autebayo could get the eighty three point game.
So that happened. That kind of funny business. And this
was just a nice little reminder. Hey, remember remember the
cosmic basketball gods. Well we're still here. Balance has been restored.
(12:35):
So enjoy your off season. You live in Miami, So
what do you go on vacation when you live in Miami.
It's to stay in Miami because that's where everyone goes
on vacation. So you just stay there all right. Now, Pat,
you're speaking of the heat from thirty thousand feet up
in the sky, the big picture and the better story
from the losing locker room. So with it, game over
(12:58):
for the Miami Heat. They lost a bunch of games
to end the year, and that's why they ended up
in the situation. They were in the plan anyway, So
what is the master plan to turn around a franchise
which is stuck in the mud the Miami Heat. Things
not going so well for Miami. So what is the
what is the master plan? So you got pat Riley,
(13:21):
who's in the big chair. Pat Riley is behind the
plate there and he's at he's behind the wheel. He's
at the wheel. Riley and the Heat are out. They're
looking out on the horizon. They're in a boat and
they're looking for a whale. They're trying to find a whale,
and the problem is it has been many years since
(13:42):
they caught a whale. They haven't actually been able to
harpoon a whale for some time. It's a problem, and
so they're trying to get that where's the whale? We
need a whale? Can I get a whale? Riley's looking around,
and so now yet again, another season has fizzled away
for the Miami Heat, and yet again they are going
(14:04):
full Hartford Whalers brass bonanza if you know, you know,
brass bonanza, dreaming of dragging in the freak. Let's get
freaky as in giannisi Denta Kumbo, the Greek Freak. And
every squabble involving a superstar player in the last twenty years,
(14:25):
every squabble involving a star player in the NBA turns
into a carnival for the Miami Heat. It's either the
Lakers or the Heat. It's always those teams. Everyone's gonna
go to those teams. And so it's often been more
smoke without fire. Normally there's not smoke without fire. Somehow
(14:46):
there is regarding this and so this is not just
a fish story. It's not just any fish stor I mean,
there's a lot of fish stores, but this is the
one that Riley's been chasing. Had it years ago with
Chris Bosh and Lebron James and has been unable to
recreate that magic, has been unable to recreate that magic.
(15:09):
And he's trying, and he's out there and it's like, oh,
we got it, we gotta do it, we gotta make
this happen. And sure, Giannis, certainly with Milwaukee, it feels
shakier than ever. And we've heard this song and dance
before and nothing's happened as of yet. A year after
year in Miami, they line up the harpoon, they're ready
(15:30):
to go, and they come back with the big thing
of sardines. Well, we didn't want sardines, but that's all
you got. You didn't get the whale. Well why didn't
you get the whale? Well, I don't know. We tried
to get the whale, but we just ended up with
these sardines. And there's a lot of them. Yeah, so
close unfortunately does not conquer kingdoms or the NBA. It
does not do that. And so here's the gut check.
(15:51):
Pat Riley does he still have the magic pixie dust
at age eighty one or is this just what pat
Riley was and its just some memories of the legend
of Ryles who's been in Miami seemingly forever. But if
he misses again, if Giannis ends up on the Knickerbockers
or somewhere else and doesn't go into to Miami, this
franchise will continue to be on the hamster wheel of mediocrity.
(16:15):
And the heat haven't been catching whales. They've been chasing
a lot of ghosts though, a lot of ghosts. All right,
Now we move on. The sneaker heads would like to
chime in on this. Now. I am not a sneaker
I'm not not really a car guy, not a sneaker guy.
I'm just a guy, that's all I am. I'm a
headphone guy. I'm at Yeah, I'm a hat guy. I'm
(16:37):
a heck guy. That's my thing. That's right. I'm a
hat guy. I do like cats, but if I had
a full head of hair, I don't think I would.
I would be a hat guy, you know. I think
that's more of a byproduct of my situation. Like to
blame my parents anyway, So a sneaker guy. Interesting story. Now,
I got sent this by a listener. I did not
see this on my own. I am not keeping up
on the sneaker world. I know, a lot of you
(16:59):
boys love sneak. Good for you A way to go.
I remember, I think I know Rob Parker's got a
great collection. Bobo on the radio. I love Bubbo. Bobo
had an epic collection of sneakers. And I see Bobo
usually once a year at the holiday party, the Ugly
Sweater Party. Always look forward seeing Bobo. Good, good dude.
(17:20):
I loved when he worked on the show. And Bobo
he had a huge I remember, massive collection to match
every out he had one. All right, So get to
the point, all right, I get to the point. So
Nike has unveiled a new sneaker. Now, normally this does
not reach the level of Malle monologue. Times are a changing.
Did you see this? Nike is giving a sneaker too,
(17:44):
Bronnie James, Yes, not lebron Bronnie James. Yep that Bronnie James. Yes.
Nike has introduced the lebron nine Witness whatever thing that is.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Nike said, the.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Shoe is quote inspired by Bronnie's recovery and journey back
to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
All right, question, what is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
The word what is the word for Lakers benchwarmer? Bronnie James,
What is the word for Lakers bench warmer Bronnie James
getting his own sneaker. So I have two words, stolen valor?
Are my two My two words basketball? Stolen valor. This
(18:29):
is not a shoe drop, if you will for for
Bronnie James. It is a participation trophy with laces. Congratulations.
Well why does it have laces? Well, it's a trophy,
but it's got the laces. I don't understand. So this
is the greatest case of NBA hype inflation since years
ago when some of you idiots tried to tell me
(18:49):
that Kyle Kuzma was the next big thing in the NBA.
I remember, you just don't understand. You're a Laker hater.
Kyle Kuzma is going to be so good. You're you're
just a hit. So that's what you're doing the Overnight Show. Okay,
how's Kyle Kuzman doing. Is he's even still in the
NBA anyway? Yeah, I know he is. I know he is.
So let's keep this real here, just between me and you,
(19:11):
let's keep this real. This is the first sneaker, the
Bronnie James sneaker, inspired by a player's journey to ride
his daddy's coattails to the bench. That's about It's about
where we are. That's about where we are at this
particular point. Even sneaker heads are tapping out. They're like, hey,
(19:32):
I can't even defend this, Like this is really bad.
You know, this is like the Laker historians, So like, okay,
that's a little too far. It's a little too.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Far, Like what are you doing now? I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
When I got set this, I thought, okay, this guy's
trying to punk me. I think the guy's name is Mike.
He did not say where he's from, so I don't know.
I assume he's from southern California, but who knows. H
So he sent me, you know, I was like okay.
So I clicked on it, and I was like, okay,
I thought this must be satire. This guy's gonna bust
my balls and he wants me to do something. So
I check. Then it's apparently not. It's like legit. Nike
sent this out on their own accounts. You think they
(20:05):
kind of keep that on the DL. They did not,
And so I thought, well, this is satire. Sports talk
Barry Butt crack sports, one of those deals NBA sentel
And then I thought, well, this must be Nike trolling.
It's not satire, but they're troll No, No, it wasn't that.
Wasn't that just some good old fashioned nepotism with a swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Yeah,
(20:29):
if my dad played in the NBA, I have my
own shoe too. Think about while lebron James plays the
puppet master Bronnie James putting up video game tutorial numbers.
He's averaging in his career less than three points a game,
less than three points a game, and he's a career
thirty seven percent shooter. He's essentially the Philly fanatic mascot
(20:53):
wearing a Laker jersey is what he is. Yeah, this
isn't marketing. It's propaganda. It's propaganda, is what it is.
In the tagline, inspired by irrelevance, Inspired by irrelevance. And
at this rate, doesn't Nike have to hook up some
other insider basketball friend guy, Like if you give it
(21:16):
to Bronnie James, if you hook Bronnie James up and say, okay,
you're gonna get a shoe because your dad, you know
who the comps are to Bronnie James, there's no real
great comp The closest I could come up with is
Isaiah Wong of the Hornets and Deuce McBride, a guy
named Deuce for the I believe the place with the Knicks.
(21:38):
So unfortunately, Isaiah Wong's daddy did not run Nike or
did not have a ownership share like lebron does, and
so does not get a shoe. And Deuce McBride, that
would be a fun name. Let's buy the Deuce be
a fun name for a shoe. Are they gonna get shoes?
Probably not? Probably not not gonna get shoes. So Bronnie
(21:58):
will be the first player I believe history whose sneaker
comes with a disclaimer. You know what does the disclaimer say?
The disclaimer will say warning, wearing these sneakers will cause
your performance to decline. That because there's always like you want.
Only a few guys got basketball sneaker deals.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
And I know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
As a kid because I was of the age when
this kind of became a thing, although even before it
became a thing, like Converse had Larry Bird and Magic
Johnson and guys like that. But he as a kid,
you're like, okay, through the eyes of a child, if
I put on these shoes. I'm going to play as
well as that player. I'm gonna have superpowers. In this case,
(22:41):
you could likely play as well as Brownie James. You
could likely play as well. It is the Ben Mahler
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And if you happen to be in the Cincinnati area,
or if it's geographically desirable, we'd love to see you.
The first Mallor Meet and Greet twenty twenty six taking
place a week from Saturday in Newport, Kentucky, just a
mile away from the Reds Ball Park.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And we'll be nay names begin.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It's Strong's Brick Oven Pizzaia. Now I'm told this is
really good pizza, so I'm looking forward to that. We'll
be there from two to five live music performances by
Dick in Dayton and Ohio al. That'll be fun and
people flying is a big deal. People have been emailing
me traveling from many many states far far.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Away to drive and to hang out with.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
She. I am both flattered and scared of at the
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and Greet of twenty twenty six. Having a good old time.
All right, back to it we go. We'll take some
(25:14):
phone calls in a moment. Is NBA hour of the
play in the hour of the play in in the NBA.
The NBA was that? I mean they talked over hell
be a cheerleader for the NBA, Well, that was ai.
I would never never be a cheerleader for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I did my time.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I was sentenced to Let's see her from Turnli the math.
Twenty seven years of NBA almost every night, that was
a lot of NBA. I'm good. I'm good Today's NBA.
Not the NBA I was around. No, not back in
my day. Men were men. You had. Every team had
a goon. When I covered the NBA, they can the
(25:55):
animal Banister who only he sucked at basketball, but he
was really good pushing guys around. Charles Oakley, that Greg Kite,
the guys that were only there to force the.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Rules of the game. The rules of the game.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Ferg Dog writes, and he says what's with these suck
bag baseball teams from the Big Apple Due New Yorkers have.
All they have is pizza for brains or something like that.
The Halos and the Dodgers would go one hundred and
sixty two and oh if they only played the Yankees
and the match the rest of the season. Of course,
ferg Dog has amnesia because I believe the Angels lost
(26:35):
the high scoring game the other night in the Bronx,
Alf the Alien o'piner says, hail to the power of radio.
You brought me back to the Hartford Civic Center where
I heard the brass binanz alive in person. You don't
need to brag, Alf, he says, he watched the likes
of Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux trounced the lowly Whalers
(26:58):
when you dropped a piano on me with then you
dropped the piano on me with brownie shoe. Yeah, well,
no one's no one's perfect, No one's perfect the Hartford Whalers.
Will that team ever be born again? Not in our
lifetime right, not our lifetime, Laurada, Do you even know
(27:18):
who the Hartford Whalers are?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No chance, I think that is a musical group.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, a very popular musical group. And they were int
you know where her Hartford is, by the way, you
know where? You know where it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Is in the middle of the United States.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
You think Hartford's like in like Ohio or in the
heart the heart. That's why they're called. Yes, good geography.
It's the school system there in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, quality exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yes. The or Connecticut. Well, you don't even know where
Connecticut is, right, No chance, that's also in the.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Heart of America.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yes, Connecticut right there, the heartland of America. Connecticut. Yes, absolutely.
They were the Heart Whalers from nineteen seventy nine till
ninety seven. Boy, they mean that just didn't man? I
thought it was im dating myself. But I remember the
Hartford Whalers when I am back when I was forced
to cover the NHL the Hertford Whalers. Did see them
(28:15):
play a few times back back in the day and
late night drug tester says Nike should just be honest
and say that his sneakers aren't for his basketball skills.
I mean, he first appeared talking about Bronnie James on
the cover of Sports Illustrated as a video gamer, not
for hoops. Okay, Scrooge says, Bronnie James getting a Nike
(28:38):
deal is the biggest crock of blank I've ever heard.
They might as well give you the deal. Ben, You've
actually contributed more to the NBA by talking about their
bad brand.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Taking shots at me. That's a double whammy from Scrooge.
Every time Bronnie plays, he promotes why you shouldn't watch
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's about right, It's about right.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I was going to the phones Lucky he is in
the Bay Area.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Hello, Lucky, Tony, welcome, Hello, Hi Tony.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Can you hear me? Ben?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I think so? I think?
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Okay, Hey, I wanted to tip my barress hat to
mouthwash Mike for his forty five days sober And the
other day he mentioned something about the third eye and
maybe helping alcoholism. So I'm not sure if you're familiar
with cyber sul and I believe the correct pronunciation is
but it's supposed to help with depression, alcoholism, and some
(29:34):
other stuff. I just wanted to shoot that out there.
And why should David Bassa be a third base coach?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
I don't know why because he's been waving ment home
for years.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Thank you. Let's say hello to Andrew in Baker's Field.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
That's how you come from it up for Bert too.
Don't get Bert.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
No, you can next that end it perfect?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Andrew? Can you can you stay off the weed? Can
you get off the weed? Andrew?
Speaker 8 (30:07):
Possibly us?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right, I can't understand what he's saying. Let's say
hello to Dorko, the comedian who's in Hawaii. Last time
we had Darko on, he put a random woman on
the phone who was very awkward. Hello Dorkoh, Hi Hi.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Then I heard that the Colin Cowherd Show wants me
to be part of the herd.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, well we will. We will trade you to the
cow Herd Show. We are willing to trade you. What
offers cow Herd going again?
Speaker 9 (30:37):
No, he's trying to woo me away, and we will.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
We're not well, listen, we are willing. We we love you,
dark Oh. However, if you want to move on to
the Cowhard Show, what what can we get from the
cow Herd Show that they have? What do they have?
Speaker 9 (30:51):
Do you have me signed to Adida sentence?
Speaker 2 (30:54):
A deal? How about a free berger? Does Cowhard still
on that restaurant? I'll get a free burger at his restaurant.
How about that Burgers for life for don for Dorko.
I need burger and Friesai yea your burger guy? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I like that. I mean the hamburger.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Everyone's everyone's got jokes. This is the top comedian in Hawaii.
This is the top.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Guy, a number one top of the.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
What are you getting? What are you getting your Netflix deal?
Speaker 9 (31:27):
I don't know, but can you negotiate one for me?
Or hire me at the station so I can be
in the same room with Lorena?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah? Sure?
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
What the hell? That's that's so predatory.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
That's like those people who were.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Like, Oh, I like doing something weird, so I'm gonna
get hired there so that I can be weird.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Are you saying, Dorko the comedian is weird?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
I'm not saying Dorko.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Would you consider yourself weird?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Dorko?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
No ecent?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (31:59):
Yeah, no weirdo.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No where did you grow up?
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Did you grow up?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Did you grow up in Hawaii, Darko?
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Or did you move there?
Speaker 9 (32:07):
I moved here, but I've been here longer than anywhere else.
I'm stuck on an island. Please help me. I'm going again.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Where did you grow up? Where did Dorco grow up?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
Dorco grew up? Then Barne Saint Louis moved to Minnesota, Cincinnati,
Northern California, San Diego, and he moved a lot so
then Hawaii. Yeah, okay, I've been all over these days.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You're traveling, man, I've been here, there, everywhere. Fascinating. Boy,
is that fascinating? Yes, it's amazing.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
You can hear me and the Ben mother everywhere.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yes, okay, I feel like there's nothing else to say, Dorca.
I feel like we've reached everything there is to say. Right,
this is a tremendous Yes. All right, thank you. I'm
gonna hang up on you. There goes Dorko, the comedian.
Let's say hello to Alan, who's in Miami. Hello Alan
doing the post mortem as the the heat season has
come to a crashing end.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Hello Allan, Hello Ben?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
If I was any better, I'd be bam, but not
bam out of Baio because the heat have been kicked out.
Speaker 7 (33:17):
Yes, I've heard a lot of bad takes from you, okay,
but not even your cowger Stut Gotts can come up
with a lazier take than us losing tonight in overtime
by a point because of the Wizards.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, you messed with the basketball gods to oh listen,
you you support that. That was the most bogus game
I've ever seen. It was like professional wrestling. It was
an embarrassment, and Vanish commissioned with balls.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They would have taken.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
That number away from Bam out of Bayo. It was
the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. And the Heat
deserved to lose. And I'm happy they lost. I'm happy
they lost.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I'm with you. I'm happy. I'm happy for us to
get at draft.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh stop with the draft.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
I'm on your side with that. But you cannot say
that we lost because of karma.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yes, well Bam got Bam got hurt because of karma.
The basketball gods. They sent a message to LaMelo Ball,
they said you got to do this, and he did.
He didn't want to do it Ball, but he did it.
Speaker 7 (34:21):
Man, you can come up with a better take than that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That's a great take, you know what. I'm gonna send
that to the Take Hall of Fame.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
That take you got, and he's gonna last face and first.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Of all, student he has an overnight. I sleep while
he's on. I don't care what he says, but might
that was a great take. Uh so I'm there, I'm
on my way. And the fact that you called up,
I've never spoken to you before. You called up so
outraged about a take. That's a take home run. That's
a take, that's a take.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Home run, laziest take.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
And then I have a lot of love for you,
but that is the most disgustingly laziest.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That is the greatest take I've ever had. In fact,
that that is better than this is before your time.
But the Dodgers had to get a guy named Mike Piazza,
who was like the most popular player in LA at
the time. They traded him to your Marlins and then
eventually end up in the Mets. And I explained how
the Dodgers were better off without Mike Piazza, and people
were agreeing with me by the time I got done
with that take, that that was my greatest take before
(35:16):
saying the basketball gods spit karma.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
At Eric Spolster. But thank you for listening. I do
appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
But I have first time car I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I thank you. Now you know what I love you too.
I love the fact that you took the time to
call me and tell me I'm an a hole.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
All right, thank you, go away. There's Alan in Miami
living the dream right there in Miami, and he's grading
me on my take. It is the Ben Malor Show.
Time now for the who Am I? Game? And here
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Here's the Insta Trivia. In twenty oh seven, Blank set
(35:53):
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In twenty oh seven, Blank set the record for the
longest play in NFL history. This is.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Literally an unbreakable record, rakable record.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Yeah, it is Scrooge in the Bay Areas going with
Dwight Freeney as his answer. Jason says, Sean Alexander, the Legend,
Jordan Chiles, Who's twenty five today? From Late Night Drug Tester,
Ray Caruth from alf the Alien Opineer, Gordy Haugus by
Bobby in Florida, Poppy and his mega parlay play from
Malor prop Guy.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, good luck on that. Who else do?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Adrian Dantley from Shane in Des Moines Blind Sophie. I
think Blind Sophie's finally quit the show. Somebody told me
he called up as Blind Scott again to the sports
up in Boston, So I guess he's gone back to
blind Scott. Now maybe that's it won the bet h Yes,
somebody must have won that. I guess that's that's his
new thing. All right?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Let's see page down. Mike Vrabel from Analog. Al who
else do we have? Bill Miller's buddy, Bill Shatner from
not a Burner? What say you, Lorraine up? Mandy Moore?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Mandy Moore?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Well, unfortunately that is incorrect. Correct answer, none other than
the legend Antonio Kermark.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Who had one hundred It's a.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Crazy one hundred and nine yard return on a missed
field goal attempt that can only be tied, not broken.
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go quickly?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Chris Maller, how about that? To the third degree?
Speaker 10 (38:19):
Longtime forty nine Ers fullback Kyle Yuschek made a radio
appearance this week where he said about brock Perty, I
don't know what it is, what it's going to take
for this guy to finally get the respect I think
he truly deserves.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
What will it take? He's already got it.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
He signed a massive contract. He signed a two hundred
and sixty five million dollar contract. He's a he got
a forty million dollars JACT one hundred and eighty two million.
That is respect. I want that kind of respect. Did
me put some respect in my name.
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Next, it was supported over the weekend that X Miami
defensive end Reuben Bain Junior was involved in a fatal
car accident back in twenty twenty four. He was initially
charged with reckless driving, but those charges were dismissed. Ben,
he's a top prospect. Do you think this will hurt
his draft position?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
No, if he's good, it won't hurt him. And it's
very odd.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
This story randomly popped up on a very slow NFL
news day, almost like somebody was trying to bring it
back to get some engagement online. No, if he's good,
he's like, well, he's just he's learning to drive. If not,
and they'll say that's why he didn't get drut, he'll
be fine.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Next.
Speaker 10 (39:17):
Anthony Davis this week acknowledged that it would be extremely
difficult for the Wizards to go from worse to first,
but vowed to build a winning culture with Washington. But
you think the Wizards will at least have a winning
record next season.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I think Anthony Davis is going to look great sitting
on that Wizard's bench. He is going to get all
the top fashion awards in the NBA sitting his ass
down there watching the Wizards play basketball. How do we do, Koobolo?
He passes that as they went street close, Anthony Davis,
Street close, Street close,
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