June 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Kevin Durant getting traded to the Houston Rockets, the trade moving the Rockets championship odds from +1200 to +750 for the 2nd best odds in the league, how things are looking in Phoenix with the "haul" they got for Durant, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laca, it's our number to our number two.
And how do you do for Kevin Durant traded to Houston?
At first glance, what stands out the Kevin Durant trade
to the Rockets. The championship odds on DraftKings next season
have improved. They have the second best odds now in
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the league the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Is this an overreaction? Also?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How are things looking in Phoenix with the hall the
sun's got for Kevin Durant. We'll talk about that as well.
All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. Turns out the sun has set
on the Kevin Durant era in Arizona. There's a shaka welum.
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So our lead this hour is from the pro bouncy
Ball World. The finals are over, but a story that
upstaged the NBA Finals from the High Speed Sports Wise
the chatterbox as Kevin Durant. He's on the move again, boy,
Kevin Durant. We've become Rhodes Scholars at Kevin Durant Trades.
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So if you have not heard, if you were out
doing stuff on Sunday, he didn't pay attention. We learned
The Phoenix Suns are saying bye bye to the Slim Reaper,
unloading the aging Kevin Durant to the Rockets for a
trade package that includes Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, the number
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ten overall pick in this week's draft, and not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five second round picks.
So using malarmath, that's an eight for one swap eight
for one. Sun's got eight players, well really two and
then six other draft players, and the trade will be
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formally completed when the new league year begins. I always
get excited about this, the new league year. That'll be
Lie sixth. Durant was on stage at something called fanatics Fest,
where they jack up prices and get fans to pay
exorbitant amounts of money for memorabilia in New York, and
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the trade was announced and Durant gave his immediate reaction.
He said, being part of the Houston Rockets, I'm looking
forward to it, Durant said, crazy, crazy, last couple of weeks,
but I'm glad it's over with close quote all right,
so let us discuss the question. Kevin Durant headed out,
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headed out of Arizona and headed to the Rockets. At
first glance, what stands out? What stands out? So I've
got brat, Instagram and pot luck, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
put the WHAMMI on the Zami is what we're going
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to do. So number one, I said number.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So Kevin Durant has done it yet again.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Bravo to Kevin Durant way to go as he continues
to move locations out, foxing authorities yet again, one step
ahead of the NBA law. Kevin Durant, the all time
master of migration KD. You never know where he's gonna be.
You don't really want to learn where he is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because it's just going to change.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The slim Reaper, the traveling circus now heading to the
Lone Star State as he will play for the Rockheats there.
Now since his days in Oklahoma State was in Seattle,
they moved to Oklahoma City. Since he left there, Durant
has been a brat. He's been like a military brat,
moving to a new base in a different state or
a different part of America every three years or less.
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That's not my opinion, it's a fact. Three years in
Golden State, check, he went to Brooklyn, three years there,
one of them hurt from his days in Golden State.
Three years in Phoenix, check, so nine years, three and
three and three, and now he goes to Houston. The
mallor report card the only report card that matters on trades,
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the mal report card. The Roquets get a B, the
Suns get a C. Not an overwhelming trade not an
overwhelming trade. This didn't get me all excited. I was like,
that's fine. Durant's a name, we know who that is.
But from a business standpoint, the reason I'm giving the
Rockets a B is not because I think Durant is
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in the peak of his superpowers. He's a diminishing asset. However,
from a business standpoint, it makes sense. Duran is still
box office. He's got the fifteen time All Star on
his resume, the Great Finals performances with the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He's got that. So that moves the needle.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So that from the business side of it, for the
casual fan, the dumb fan that buys the tickets, the
casual is not really a sports fan. But hey, we
got this guy named Durant, let's go buy some tickets. Yeah,
he'll bring that, he'll bring some eyeballs, he'll be some
bring some curiosity to see if it actually works.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
He didn't work the last couple of times he put
these super teams together in Brooklyn and in Arizona, and
so I said, well, maybe this is time will work. Now,
this will be different, This will be different. And as
for Phoenix, like you know, they gave up a thirty
seven player. Thirty a guy who's gonna turn thirty seven
this year is a declining asset of a player.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And it's not like they got that much in return.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And they're mopping the floor essentially in a flood, is
what they're doing here. They swung from the heels with Durant.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They whiffed.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They didn't get anywhere close to what they thought they
were going to be get in we're close to where
they thought they were going to be now, Page duo.
The Kevin Durant tray to the Rockets. The championship of
odds on DraftKings next season have gone from plus twelve
hundred prior to the trade for Houston to plus seven
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point fifty. That means now the Rockets, as a direct
result of this trade, now have the second best odds
to win the championship next season.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Is this an over reaction?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Is this an over reaction to the Kevin Durant trade
based on the odds on DraftKings? So I'm nodding my head, Yes,
this is a classic overreaction. Is a defensive move by
the books. It's a defensive move because the casuals will
see Durrant, and he'll be introduced here, they'll hold up
the jersey with his name on it, and then it'll
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be a lot of chatter on social media about the
Rant and this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And so you look at that, you say, okay, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So people are gonna loss money on Houston to win
the championship, so you have to cover that. And this
is a proactive move, not a reactive A pro active
move by the sportsbooks there to cover themselves just in
case lightning hits and catches in the bottle there for
Kevin Durant and Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Does anyone expect that to happen? Raise their hands? No,
I don't see anyone anyone.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Raising their hands. So I don't hold your breath on that.
And here's why. After a minutes long deliberation on the
career of Kevin Durant post Golden State, post Golden State,
Kevin Durant is like an Instagram model, Right, looks a
lot better.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
On your smartphone.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, It looks really good on the smartphone. And then
you take all those filters away and you're like, oh man,
I mean it's not that pleasant. You know, it's not bad,
but it's just not that, not that. There's a lot
of stuff going on. There's a lot of deception. There's
camera angles, there's makeup, there's clothing option choices like all
of that, and the filters.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So it's like an Instagram model Durant, you know, you
put them on there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It looks pretty good then, but upon further review, it's like, eh,
you know, Durant will get some numbers, she'll score some points.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You can still score.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And he has proven with Brooklyn, he has proven with
Phoenix that his ability to build a super team is lacking.
He's got some kryptonite in that area.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He is not the final piece to the jigsaw puzzle
unless the puzzle includes Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay
Thompson and.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert, I looked at Houston's roster. They
don't have that. So they don't have that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's gonna be electric or explosive or maybe like putting
a electronic device in a bathtub.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
We're already hearing about the bromance all what a bromance
between Kevin Durant and Eme Udoka that they bonded at
some international basketball tournament, the lif I think it was
the Olympics, And to that, okay, great, I'm glad they're
buddy buddy and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And it doesn't matter what they do in the regular season, Durant,
it will be judged in the playoffs. That's how this works.
Nobody pays attention to the regular season. It's all about
what you do in the playoffs. You have to validate
yourself in the postseason. So we will not know until
next summer. That's it all right now, final point, So
how are things looking in the Phoenix part of the equation?
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How are things looking in Phoenix? With the hall the
Sun's got for Kevin Durant eight for one, eight for one.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So I would not call it a hall. Let's start
with that. I would not call it a hall.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That is being delusional and overly optimistic to say it's
a hall. It This is more of a pot luck
dinner type situation.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You got some deviled eggs over here with the suns.
You got some of that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You got a little broccoli salad. Nobody likes brocoli salad,
but somebody brought broccoli salad with the pot luck. So
you've got some broccoli salad over here, and then you've
got some chicken cash roll over on this side, and
then you've got some and cheese, and that's all kind
of in the middle. It's a quantity play, not a
quality play. And Jalen Green was the star of the trade.
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He just was the star of the trade. He's a high,
very athletic, high scoring guard. He led the rockheats and
scoring last season he had to be traded. He rode
the vomit comet to the next level, to the moon
and beyond. In that playoff series when he had one
if I remember, he had one really good game and
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the rest of the time it was like less than
ten points. He was gun shy, he froze. They had
to trade him. He bought himself a trade. Now they
ended up getting to rant for him. Jalen Green could
not come back. He was That was absolute malfeasance by
Jalen Green in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He went a wall.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Guilty of going to a wall. They had to get
rid of him. And three years into his NBA care effort,
a lot of Chad Well that's a great player or whatever,
I mean, the son's got his super good player.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Here was the second pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But if you look the numbers here, the Basketball Reference
comps on Jalen Green, his career at this point is
similar to Tim Hardaway Junior, not the old man, Tim
Hardaway Junior, Rodney mcgrugor whoever that is, and Quincy Pondexter.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Now you know Dylan Brooks, Now he's a glue guy.
Dylan Brooks is a glue guy. He's a pass He's
an instigator from his days in Memphis. His nickname Dylan
the Villain, so he lives up to that. And those
guys are nice when you're really about to win a championship,
you think you're about to win and you get a
player like that. And we expect Phoenix to regift Dylan
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Brooks and possibly even Green. They're gonna have to get.
They got a gree to Bradley Beal. The guard situation
is a mess. Bradley Beal's got a no trade clause.
They got to find a way to unload Bradley Beal
to convince him to be traded. So Devin Booker will
be there with more empty stats for the Sons, and
then you got Dylan Brooks and he could be traded.
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But the Green's the other one Green, Devin Brooks, Booker
and then also the guard Bradley Beal who put up
numbers for the Wizards back in the day. Now, as
for Kevin Durant Leaving, the argument is this is addition
by subtraction. It just didn't work out and all this stuff,
And it is true that the Durant experiment. You don't
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fault the Suns for going for it the experiment, though
in hindsight we didn't say this at the time, but
in hindsight it didn't feel like it was gonna work.
But in hindsight it was doomed from the very beginning.
The super team that had the chemistry of like a
wet sock and a toaster, it just did not It
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just didn't work, and it sounded good Devin Booker and
Bradley Beal as players that could score a lot of
points alongside Durant. Durant would open things up for brad
the Beal to shoot three point shots and for Devin
Booker to slash the basket. And then it turned out
that they formed a band with three solo artists right,
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three solo artists, and they tried to play a symphony
and it just would not work.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The notes did not work. The only thing they.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Orchestrated in two seasons was a single first round playoff elimination.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They didn't even make the playoffs. This pass sason.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You know how hard it is to not make the
playoffs In the NBA, they try to get every team in.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They had that.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Fugasey playing thing, which is like half the playoffs. The
Suns were so bad they couldn't even get in the postseason.
So they made it to one postseason, they were swept
in four games. Didn't even qualify this past year, and
so now they're going a different direction. They hired some
no name guy as the coach, and so that's where
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Hot take validation.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
As we began this hour with the Kevin Durant trade
as he goes from Phoenix to Houston in an eight
for one trade chip and the q's right since says
eight plus in the mall monologue. I'm happy my Rockets
got kad. I only wish he was a little younger.
Don't we all wish we were a little younger. Houston
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better win the title next season. If they do so,
it'll all be worth it. If they do not, at
least it will bring the national attention they have lacked.
Jeremy writes in he says, I don't see Durant playing
well with Thompson and Shngoon. Also, the Rockets bench isn't great.
They could have used those draft picks to beef up
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the bench. Don't worry about the bench. Don't worry about
about the bench. If the top players are great, you
can go very very far in the NBA mister Irrigations
demanding that we take his call in the last hour.
That is very unlikely that will happen, Chris Wrights and
says Ben, I have to admit. This Kdie deal to
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the rock Cats smells a whole lot like the Team
Act deal in All four. Yeah, I remember that. There
was a lot of excitement. Oh it's Tracy McGrady. The
Rockets are on their way. Didn't work out. The Rockets
have done this a lot though, because in the previous
generation they got Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley and that
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didn't work.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Uh, So they've picked up the player at the end
of the career. There, They've done that quite a bit.
Let's go to the phones and uh do we have here.
Let's say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology insider. She's
got all the information. Tyrese Haliburton down for the count
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in the NBA Finals. The big story. They're putting a
tarnish on Oklahoma Cities Championship as the Star of the
Pacers goes down to a popped Achilles. Hello Andrea, Well Hello,
if I was any better, I'd be a Halliburn but
not Tyrese Haliburton, because he's got a long road back
from that injury.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes, you know. In fact, before I forget, I want
to ask you. Did you get your Summer Solstice aslogy newsletter?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Let me let me check here? Hold one, you keep
talking here, let me check out.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, and if any of your listeners would like one,
please let me know. It has all the mercury retrograde
dates and the full moon.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Okay, all the important.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I see, because oh there it is, I see it
right here. Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yes, I get a lot of email from blind Scott,
so sometimes I don't even bother checking the email because
it's all from blind Scott. But so that I please,
I say, right here, Summer Solstice Planetary. And then it's
got the whole thing right there in front.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So yes, all right, very nice, Well thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, I know you're a busy man, so read it
at your leisure and let me know if you have
any questions. And yeah, time's flying by with the Summer Solstice,
and we had the basketball playoffs and this is quite interesting.
Speaking of time, Halliburton is in Leapier. Baby. Here's one
February twenty nine, two thousand that's cool. Yeah, and check
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it out.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So that means he's only how many it was like
every four years, four years old or someone good for him.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, isn't that interesting. I did a little research and leapier.
I mean, I've had some clients went on leap year.
It's pretty unusual. But apparently it's every four years that
you celebrate your birthday if you of it. Here to
the leap year.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Theory, I think was you just add more days to
the year. Let's just add more days and then no.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well there's still age one year every nine year. But
you know, I think it was interesting. He's February twenty nine,
two thousand. He's a Pisces and Mars is in Virgo
and transiting Mars in Virgo. Mars's energy assertion aggression. Mars
was opposing his son, which is very injury prone and
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kind of washing the limits. Yeah, so you know, less
is more when Mari it's opposed to your son. But obviously,
you know, he did what he felt he needed to do.
But that's a really difficult transit to see that Mare's transit,
and it was just devastating and it impacted, you know,
the whole league and change the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well it sucked for Game seven because he was he
was hitting shots.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It was a close game.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Leon, it was the first quarter of the game, and
you're like, all right, we're going to have a good game.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It'll be a fourth quarter game.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And right a twenty five year old superstar.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So, uh right, well, hold on, I see it coming
up July fourth, Is that correct? I'm looking here at
the newsletter because I you did send it me. Neptune
in retrograde? Is that correct? July fourth? We have that
coming up here?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, I also summer.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I got that from the Summer Solstice Planetary newsletter sent
out the astrology newsletter, the Summer Solstice edition from Andrey.
Right there, it says right in there, page one.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yes, I talked about the full moons and new Moon's
page two, page two bat by me.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
When planet's retrograde, it's good to tune into that. Neptune,
for example, is spirituality, but it can also be confusion.
So July fourth, you might be you know, people might
be busy traveling or doing things like that, so uh,
just be mindful about Neptune. Oh. Actually, what I'd write
here The Yankees met Subway series on July fourth.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh, okay, there'll be some crazy stuff going on there, exactly.
I predict lots of fireworks on the fourth of July.
That's what I'm ridicious. Yeah, all right, well exactly exactly.
I will thank you Andrea, and again people want to
reach out to you. You can find you're available there on
the X machine and Salo Virgo in service to.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Our friend Andrea.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes, thank you, all right, thank you there the astrology
lady and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I did the mask Ben and he would be
six No good, he's six. Yeah, that's your youngest basketball
player like ever. That's just solid age. Six good years
point two five.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Even you're you're still a kid. You can you can
move around, you talk the whole thing. You're not a
schmuck yet. So it's a solid Let's say hello to
any meenie miney moe. Let's go hello, Hello to Jerome
in Charleston. Bring it home, Jerome, Hello Jerome.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, Lareena is just absolutely amazing sometimes, you know,
I don't know what goes through that talk process, but
she's amazing sometimes to tough.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
She says, man, you're a big you're a big fan.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Jerome about what you want to call it?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
All right, well, I'll choose to look at it that way.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hey, but you know, I was listening to one of
your one of your proteges on on your network talking
about Shakira. I was just wondering and gonna be irrelevant,
like when she gets to be like a Resa Franklin's age,
who could just sing and play the piano and still even.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now what you know, the what do you think a
woman who's known for shaking her her backs? You think
she's come on, you know the answer to that? Come on, now,
what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I would just look at her brag about it, you
know what I'm thinking. I don't think so would get
to be that a.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, but she's gonna have so much money she who cares.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
She'll live in a mansion on a beach somewhere, So
who the hell cares you shake shakes her, you know what,
until she's forty five.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Or whatever, and then she's out see you later.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Just as long as she pays her taxes because she
was up from Taxavision.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah yeah, rich, rich people generally don't pay taxes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Du and that's why they're rich.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
You got and you know you were talking about the
suns and the trade and all that, But my favorite
suns to it was the Espia guy that was having
the affair with the soboy Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Uh No, it was a different I think I think
it was somebody. I don't think it was the owner.
It was somebody like a high ranking executive man. Well,
first of all, you don't know whether that's true or not.
That's number one.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Number two. I thought it was a different executive, so
you might be wrong. Why are you so convinced you're right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're in Charleston, South Carolina, You're a million miles away
from Arizona. But yet you're convinced you're right because you
read it on the internet somewhere. You're convinced that a
the story is correct, and B you have all the
parts of the story accurate.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Come on, look here, you're talt. You the guy that
was arguingly about Dave Roberts last year.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And I told you listen, I fired Dave Roberts fifteen times.
I fired Dave Roberts. I got rid of Dave Roberts.
Get rid of him, fire and bring back Lasorda and
put him in there. I know he's dead put Lasorda
in there anyway, I don't care. LSDA would be better
with his team.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
And by the way, I knew all along that g Bus.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh yeah, you know everything.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You never say You never said that prior to the
you never said yeah, you call it a million times.
You never said that. Jerome, you're after the fat guy.
You got all the answers after the fact, all the answers.
Why he tells who's gonna win the World Series right now?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Say it right now?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Because I know after the World Series. Dude, I told
you I was gonna win the World Series. I told
you who's gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
The Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
About the odds that the odds mean nothing to me.
Who's going to win the World Series?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's one asking. Okay, so the Dodgers the favorites. So
you're going it now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You put a qualifier on at Jerome, You've now put
a qualifier on it. Fank you you know what they're
pitching didn't hold up last year, and they won the
World Series without their pitching.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh they were starting.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Stiffs in the World Series and they still won. And
you know why they won, Jerome, They won because Aaron
Judge choked. He choked he couldn't catch a routine pop
up in the outfield in center field, Aaron Judge choked
in the World Series, Tommy tanks.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
You want me to you want me to cross me
on Argentina.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
For the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
There one of his trapchise in baseball history. Do you
want me to cry?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I would like you to cry. Cry, cry cry.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Hey, let me say something about Oklahoma City. You talk
about Coppe bagers, butt runners and tankers, and by the way,
you hear what Doc Rivers said about them. You're gonna
have to stop paying your players, so can't player you
gotta stop?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Why Why do I care what Doc Rivers has? I
don't know Doc Rivers. I'm trying not to think about
Doc Rivers. Why do I want to bring Why would
you bring Doc rivers name up?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
You have to stop playing their playoffs?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Good, I understand. I just said that in my monologue
an hour. Thanks for listening, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
The dynasty chef life a lot shorter.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
There's no dynasty. They're not a dynasty. He won one championship.
I know one. I know, just like the last year
the Celtics went, oh, they're on their way. Jason Titam
is his league.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
They have a not a team to cry but the Celtics.
There's a total per fix billions.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Thank you call them all please, it's done with you,
Mike God.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Jay Bone is in Portland. What's going on? Jaybone? Welcome? Hello?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Man? Everything's going good with me? Is here? You know,
I paid attention to high school. So that's why I
wake up at two in the morning, I get to work.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Because you didn't pay attention to high school. Is that
way you're saying that?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Anyways? I just want to can I chime in on
your fifth hour podcast from last week? Real quick?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, nah, I don't care. Yes, whatever you want to
talk about, go ahead, right right.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
So I just want to say, like I've been listening
to you for years and years and years, other people
feel the same.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Way, like for you to do what you did for
that kid and not to you know, say that I.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Could have been wishing to you a happy Father's Day
all these years. It's all I kind of saying.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's all I mean, It's it's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You know. Listen, there's some creepsers out there that listen
to the show. And they create a situation where I
couldn't talk about that for a while.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But that's fine, and you know, we moved on.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I mean, yeah, you are an on air douchebag, but
you are a great guy. Well thanks, like that is
amazing for you to do. And I'm I get some
ball washing there.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I'm gonna make it quick. But that was a great
story and I loved hearing it.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Well really, I mean, I mean, I got I got
a fun myself. He's thirteen, yeah, blah blah, But I mean,
good for you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I hope your son goes on does amazing, amazing things,
Jaybon and your kid's going to do amazing things in
the world right Well.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, he's a big video gamer right now, and he
wants to be a YouTuber.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
So yeah, that's the thing that all the kids want
to be YouTubers.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's a while.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I don't know if that's going to work out.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, how many people make money on YouTube compared
to the amount of people that think they're going to
make money on YouTube, The math is not particularly great.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Well, all about that that kid that just review toys
and his parents filmed them and he was like the
highest groceres YouTuber forever like I know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
At some point that at some point that at some
point the kids no longer a cute kid and grows
up and nobody wants to watch them open toys.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
So the way if if you want to make money, tho,
if you want to make money on YouTube, my theory
is to figure out bot accounts and just artificially increase
the view account and then you'll make a lot of money.
I think it's illegal, but if you can figure it out,
there's a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
To be made.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
They're suggesting me to do something illegal.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, I mean, you shouldn't do it, but if you
figure out a way to do it, you make a
lot of to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Tell you to do it. You want to be dumb
and do it.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I mean, if you did it, you'd probably make a
lot of money if you can get away with it,
you know. Of course, I think there's nothing fake about
the internet, right, I mean, they're.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
All those views that's the same as the rest.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, what do you what do
you do again? Jaybon? You get up at two in
the morning, What are you? What kind of work you
got going on?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
There?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I come in here before the grocery store opens, and
I break down all the loads. So when all the
people will come in they have stuff to work.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Sounds got to dirty. You break down loads, I got you,
all right, make sure to flush.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Hey. Anyways, I just tuned in any word on the
penny Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Nothing yet, We're we're getting close to the deadline on that.
I'll keep you posted. I'll let you know when I
find something, I'll pass it on to you. You better
show you better show up. If if they bring back
the show, you better show up.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Jay Bone.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, even if you don't come to Portland, I'll come
to Boston.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's a train round away, all right, buddy, all right,
thank you, all right, be careful. There's the great Jbone
uh in Portland, Maine. I was in Portland, Maine. We
did a meet and greet a couple of years back,
and jabone recommended where to go and then didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Isn't that the farthest part of the East Coast?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, well, Maine is Portland is the very base of Maine.
It's like barely being in Maine. It's a resort town
like the real And I was told this. I didn't
realize this because I had never been to Main. I've
been to Man a few times now, but I was
told that the real me and potatoes a Maine.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You gotta drive hours. It's a huge state.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's mostly just moose and trees in Maine, some good
fishing towns and there's a few small towns in the
middle of Maine and then all.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
The way up. But yeah, that's so. That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Anyway, It is the Ben Mause Show, so hot take validation.
For years on this show, we have pointed out that
that fraudulent twenty twenty Laker Championship is bogus. It is
a Mickey Mouse ring. While we now have hot take confirmation.
Hot take confirmation that that is a Mickey Mouse ring
(32:39):
courtesy of Alex Caruso, who was on that Laker team.
He's also part of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Following the
Thunder winning the championship, he said, quote, now I got
a real one. Now nobody can say anything close. Quote
(33:00):
this is where I dropped the mic and walk away.
That's a winner. Thank you, Alex Caruso. Yet again, another
hot take has been validated. That is a Mickey Mouse ring.
That comes from someone who got one of those Mickey
Mouse rings. Who gets it, Alex Caruso, who says, now
I got a real one. So that again proof the
(33:21):
Lakers have no championships since Kobe Bryant played for the
team zero Lebron, no championships as a Laker.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Embarrassing. Embarrassing. Time Now for the instant tributa.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Tyres Halliburton made three three pointers in less than one
quarter before getting hurt. The record for the most made
three pointers in Game seven of the NBA Finals is
shared by Shane Battier of the Miami Heat and Blank
with sixty to each. Again, Tyres Halliburton made three three
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pointers in less than one quarter, then got hurt. The
record for the most made three pointers in Game seven
of the NBA Finals is shared by Shane Battier of
the Heat and Blank that they each made six three
balls in Game seven. That is the ins Dot Trevia
the Answer, and Mallard of the third Degree.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
We're up all night, every single night, and everything is
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a best version posted right after we get off the air.
Back to a time now for the Insta Trivia, and
(35:12):
here it is. Tyrese Halliburton made three three pointers in
less than one quarter and then snap, crackle, Pop happened
in Pop goes the Achilles for the Pacers in Game seven.
The record for the most made three balls in Game
seven of the NBA Finals, Who's shared by Shane Battier
of all people of the Miami Heat and Blank, who
(35:35):
each had six three balls made in a Game seven
of the NBA finals that is the question. What is
the answer? Does anyone know the answer? We go to
the great Unwashed alf the alien opiner, says Lee Leonard.
I know you are, but what am I good name?
Who else you have? Christian Latner from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
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Scottie no Tip and Pippin from King Rory.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Page down? Bobby Bonds from Shane in Des Moines. Let's
see we can't read that. It's Buddy Healed and Dante
v de Vincenzo long suffering Sixers fans. That's from Mike
Sean Kilpatrick from Robin, Minnesota. Dennis Johnson Celtic legend from
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Wilmington Harbor Community College in SoCal from Manuel in Guardina,
chest Rockwell from slug Head Buddy in Vegas, Tommy Meatballs
Lasorda from j T the Wingman hanging out there in Tennessee.
Vinnie Testa Verdi from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Matt de Bears fan in Rochester, New York's as MLB legend,
Johnny dick Shot now Josh the Bearson a lot of
Bears fan. That's an old baseball player, Josh the Bears fan,
He said, Ray Allen is the answer, Steph Curry from
Johnny Pistol, Pete Maravich from mister irrigation.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
What say you raid Uh? I'm gonna go with Kareem
Abdul jabbar.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Bek Well a great three point shooter. That sky hook
a dominating three point shot.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Unless it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
The correct answer is of all people, Draymond Green.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Draymond Green hit.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Six three pointers in the twenty sixteen Game seven of
the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Here we got him.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We got that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Here we go. Think that gets grilled Google.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
It was reported over the weekend that Jalen Ramsey would
prefer to be traded to the West Coast, specifically either
the Chargers or the Rams. Then would you want Ramsey
back on the Rams or is he a falling star?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
All right, So first of all, I don't I'm not
like dying to get Jaylen. If the Rams get him,
I'm fine with that. But he's thirty years old. He's
thirty years old, and you know how I feel. I
think he turns thirty thirty one early in the NFL season,
So he's at that point where he's at the very
end of his athletic prime, if he's not already past
his athletic prime. So, like I know, he's a veteran.
(38:06):
He's not a falling star yet, but he's teetering on
the brink of being.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
A falling star.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Next, Robert sala is back with the forty nine Ers,
and with his return, George Kittle has a.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Warning for the rest of the league. Oh I got
to hear this. He said, violence is coming.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Really, yes, Ben, Do you think Sala's return will make
a noticeable impact in Santa Clara?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, the only thing about Robert sala is you could
not watch a Niner game with this guy was the
Shenanigans when he was the defensive coordinator before the smooching
that took place from broadcasters desperately trying to get him
a head coaching job. Was so over the top, like
the TV guys Robert Selzer, all the jumping up and
(38:45):
down the South ultimatelytional players. As we learned when Robert
Salad coached the Jets and had suck players, he was
suddenly a suck coach. So the Niners have some decent players,
not as many good ones as they had before. They'll
be okay, But it's not that I'm not expecting a
master class by Robert Salad.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Next, the Tampa Bay Rays won two out of three
games in their series against the AL leading Tigers, and
they did so in blowout fashion. But do you think
the Rays are legitimate contenders in the American League?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Are they regular season contenders? Yes, it's like a freak show, Coop.
Though it's like a freak show with the race. I
don't consider them a legitimate playoff contender.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
During the regular season. Yeah, it works during the regular season.
How do we know you pass? That's a whit put
on the board. I won the game, mister again.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Show
Boom, Shaka laca, it's our number to our number two.
And how do you do for Kevin Durant traded to Houston?
At first glance, what stands out the Kevin Durant trade
to the Rockets. The championship odds on DraftKings next season
have improved. They have the second best odds now in
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the league the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Is this an overreaction? Also?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
How are things looking in Phoenix with the hall the
sun's got for Kevin Durant. We'll talk about that as well.
All of it's coming your way right now here. It
is our number two. Turns out the sun has set
on the Kevin Durant era in Arizona. There's a shaka welum.
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So our lead this hour is from the pro bouncy
Ball World. The finals are over, but a story that
upstaged the NBA Finals from the High Speed Sports Wise
the chatterbox as Kevin Durant. He's on the move again, boy,
Kevin Durant. We've become Rhodes Scholars at Kevin Durant Trades.
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So if you have not heard, if you were out
doing stuff on Sunday, he didn't pay attention. We learned
The Phoenix Suns are saying bye bye to the Slim Reaper,
unloading the aging Kevin Durant to the Rockets for a
trade package that includes Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, the number
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ten overall pick in this week's draft, and not one,
not two, not three, not four, but five second round picks.
So using malarmath, that's an eight for one swap eight
for one. Sun's got eight players, well really two and
then six other draft players, and the trade will be
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formally completed when the new league year begins. I always
get excited about this, the new league year. That'll be
Lie sixth. Durant was on stage at something called fanatics Fest,
where they jack up prices and get fans to pay
exorbitant amounts of money for memorabilia in New York, and
(03:14):
the trade was announced and Durant gave his immediate reaction.
He said, being part of the Houston Rockets, I'm looking
forward to it, Durant said, crazy, crazy, last couple of weeks,
but I'm glad it's over with close quote all right,
so let us discuss the question. Kevin Durant headed out,
(03:34):
headed out of Arizona and headed to the Rockets. At
first glance, what stands out? What stands out? So I've
got brat, Instagram and pot luck, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
put the WHAMMI on the Zami is what we're going
(03:57):
to do. So number one, I said number.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So Kevin Durant has done it yet again.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Bravo to Kevin Durant way to go as he continues
to move locations out, foxing authorities yet again, one step
ahead of the NBA law. Kevin Durant, the all time
master of migration KD. You never know where he's gonna be.
You don't really want to learn where he is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because it's just going to change.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The slim Reaper, the traveling circus now heading to the
Lone Star State as he will play for the Rockheats there.
Now since his days in Oklahoma State was in Seattle,
they moved to Oklahoma City. Since he left there, Durant
has been a brat. He's been like a military brat,
moving to a new base in a different state or
a different part of America every three years or less.
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That's not my opinion, it's a fact. Three years in
Golden State, check, he went to Brooklyn, three years there,
one of them hurt from his days in Golden State.
Three years in Phoenix, check, so nine years, three and
three and three, and now he goes to Houston. The
mallor report card the only report card that matters on trades,
(05:15):
the mal report card. The Roquets get a B, the
Suns get a C. Not an overwhelming trade not an
overwhelming trade. This didn't get me all excited. I was like,
that's fine. Durant's a name, we know who that is.
But from a business standpoint, the reason I'm giving the
Rockets a B is not because I think Durant is
(05:39):
in the peak of his superpowers. He's a diminishing asset. However,
from a business standpoint, it makes sense. Duran is still
box office. He's got the fifteen time All Star on
his resume, the Great Finals performances with the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He's got that. So that moves the needle.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
So that from the business side of it, for the
casual fan, the dumb fan that buys the tickets, the
casual is not really a sports fan. But hey, we
got this guy named Durant, let's go buy some tickets. Yeah,
he'll bring that, he'll bring some eyeballs, he'll be some
bring some curiosity to see if it actually works.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
This time.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
He didn't work the last couple of times he put
these super teams together in Brooklyn and in Arizona, and
so I said, well, maybe this is time will work. Now,
this will be different, This will be different. And as
for Phoenix, like you know, they gave up a thirty
seven player. Thirty a guy who's gonna turn thirty seven
this year is a declining asset of a player.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And it's not like they got that much in return.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
And they're mopping the floor essentially in a flood, is
what they're doing here. They swung from the heels with Durant.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They whiffed.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They didn't get anywhere close to what they thought they
were going to be get in we're close to where
they thought they were going to be now, Page duo.
The Kevin Durant tray to the Rockets. The championship of
odds on DraftKings next season have gone from plus twelve
hundred prior to the trade for Houston to plus seven
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point fifty. That means now the Rockets, as a direct
result of this trade, now have the second best odds
to win the championship next season.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Is this an over reaction?
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Is this an over reaction to the Kevin Durant trade
based on the odds on DraftKings? So I'm nodding my head, Yes,
this is a classic overreaction. Is a defensive move by
the books. It's a defensive move because the casuals will
see Durrant, and he'll be introduced here, they'll hold up
the jersey with his name on it, and then it'll
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be a lot of chatter on social media about the
Rant and this, that and the other thing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And so you look at that, you say, okay, here
we go.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So people are gonna loss money on Houston to win
the championship, so you have to cover that. And this
is a proactive move, not a reactive A pro active
move by the sportsbooks there to cover themselves just in
case lightning hits and catches in the bottle there for
Kevin Durant and Houston.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Does anyone expect that to happen? Raise their hands? No,
I don't see anyone anyone.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Raising their hands. So I don't hold your breath on that.
And here's why. After a minutes long deliberation on the
career of Kevin Durant post Golden State, post Golden State,
Kevin Durant is like an Instagram model, Right, looks a
lot better.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
On your smartphone.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, It looks really good on the smartphone. And then
you take all those filters away and you're like, oh man,
I mean it's not that pleasant. You know, it's not bad,
but it's just not that, not that. There's a lot
of stuff going on. There's a lot of deception. There's
camera angles, there's makeup, there's clothing option choices like all
of that, and the filters.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
So it's like an Instagram model Durant, you know, you
put them on there.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
It looks pretty good then, but upon further review, it's like, eh,
you know, Durant will get some numbers, she'll score some points.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You can still score.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
And he has proven with Brooklyn, he has proven with
Phoenix that his ability to build a super team is lacking.
He's got some kryptonite in that area.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It is an issue.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He is not the final piece to the jigsaw puzzle
unless the puzzle includes Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay
Thompson and.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert, I looked at Houston's roster. They
don't have that. So they don't have that.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
It's gonna be electric or explosive or maybe like putting
a electronic device in a bathtub.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Not a good idea.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
We're already hearing about the bromance all what a bromance
between Kevin Durant and Eme Udoka that they bonded at
some international basketball tournament, the lif I think it was
the Olympics, And to that, okay, great, I'm glad they're
buddy buddy and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And it doesn't matter what they do in the regular season, Durant,
it will be judged in the playoffs. That's how this works.
Nobody pays attention to the regular season. It's all about
what you do in the playoffs. You have to validate
yourself in the postseason. So we will not know until
next summer. That's it all right now, final point, So
how are things looking in the Phoenix part of the equation?
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How are things looking in Phoenix? With the hall the
Sun's got for Kevin Durant eight for one, eight for one.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So I would not call it a hall. Let's start
with that. I would not call it a hall.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
That is being delusional and overly optimistic to say it's
a hall. It This is more of a pot luck
dinner type situation.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You got some deviled eggs over here with the suns.
You got some of that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
You got a little broccoli salad. Nobody likes brocoli salad,
but somebody brought broccoli salad with the pot luck. So
you've got some broccoli salad over here, and then you've
got some chicken cash roll over on this side, and
then you've got some and cheese, and that's all kind
of in the middle. It's a quantity play, not a
quality play. And Jalen Green was the star of the trade.
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He just was the star of the trade. He's a high,
very athletic, high scoring guard. He led the rockheats and
scoring last season he had to be traded. He rode
the vomit comet to the next level, to the moon
and beyond. In that playoff series when he had one
if I remember, he had one really good game and
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the rest of the time it was like less than
ten points. He was gun shy, he froze. They had
to trade him. He bought himself a trade. Now they
ended up getting to rant for him. Jalen Green could
not come back. He was That was absolute malfeasance by
Jalen Green in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
He went a wall.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Guilty of going to a wall. They had to get
rid of him. And three years into his NBA care effort,
a lot of Chad Well that's a great player or whatever,
I mean, the son's got his super good player.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Here was the second pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But if you look the numbers here, the Basketball Reference
comps on Jalen Green, his career at this point is
similar to Tim Hardaway Junior, not the old man, Tim
Hardaway Junior, Rodney mcgrugor whoever that is, and Quincy Pondexter.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Now you know Dylan Brooks, Now he's a glue guy.
Dylan Brooks is a glue guy. He's a pass He's
an instigator from his days in Memphis. His nickname Dylan
the Villain, so he lives up to that. And those
guys are nice when you're really about to win a championship,
you think you're about to win and you get a
player like that. And we expect Phoenix to regift Dylan
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Brooks and possibly even Green. They're gonna have to get.
They got a gree to Bradley Beal. The guard situation
is a mess. Bradley Beal's got a no trade clause.
They got to find a way to unload Bradley Beal
to convince him to be traded. So Devin Booker will
be there with more empty stats for the Sons, and
then you got Dylan Brooks and he could be traded.
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But the Green's the other one Green, Devin Brooks, Booker
and then also the guard Bradley Beal who put up
numbers for the Wizards back in the day. Now, as
for Kevin Durant Leaving, the argument is this is addition
by subtraction. It just didn't work out and all this stuff,
And it is true that the Durant experiment. You don't
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fault the Suns for going for it the experiment, though
in hindsight we didn't say this at the time, but
in hindsight it didn't feel like it was gonna work.
But in hindsight it was doomed from the very beginning.
The super team that had the chemistry of like a
wet sock and a toaster, it just did not It
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just didn't work, and it sounded good Devin Booker and
Bradley Beal as players that could score a lot of
points alongside Durant. Durant would open things up for brad
the Beal to shoot three point shots and for Devin
Booker to slash the basket. And then it turned out
that they formed a band with three solo artists right,
(14:12):
three solo artists, and they tried to play a symphony
and it just would not work.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
The notes did not work. The only thing they.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Orchestrated in two seasons was a single first round playoff elimination.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They didn't even make the playoffs. This pass sason.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You know how hard it is to not make the
playoffs In the NBA, they try to get every team in.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They had that.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Fugasey playing thing, which is like half the playoffs. The
Suns were so bad they couldn't even get in the postseason.
So they made it to one postseason, they were swept
in four games. Didn't even qualify this past year, and
so now they're going a different direction. They hired some
no name guy as the coach, and so that's where
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we are. It is the Ben Malor Show. You want
to comment on any of that or the Thunder the
first championship in OKC history. As they take down the
team from Indiana, the Pacers go snap, crackle pop with
Tyreese Halliburton. So he is out, Well, we have hot
(15:16):
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Late in this hour, we'll have Mallard the third degree
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Speaker 2 (16:53):
Hot take validation.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
As we began this hour with the Kevin Durant trade
as he goes from Phoenix to Houston in an eight
for one trade chip and the q's right since says
eight plus in the mall monologue. I'm happy my Rockets
got kad. I only wish he was a little younger.
Don't we all wish we were a little younger. Houston
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better win the title next season. If they do so,
it'll all be worth it. If they do not, at
least it will bring the national attention they have lacked.
Jeremy writes in he says, I don't see Durant playing
well with Thompson and Shngoon. Also, the Rockets bench isn't great.
They could have used those draft picks to beef up
(17:36):
the bench. Don't worry about the bench. Don't worry about
about the bench. If the top players are great, you
can go very very far in the NBA mister Irrigations
demanding that we take his call in the last hour.
That is very unlikely that will happen, Chris Wrights and
says Ben, I have to admit. This Kdie deal to
(17:57):
the rock Cats smells a whole lot like the Team
Act deal in All four. Yeah, I remember that. There
was a lot of excitement. Oh it's Tracy McGrady. The
Rockets are on their way. Didn't work out. The Rockets
have done this a lot though, because in the previous
generation they got Scottie Pippen and Charles Barkley and that
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didn't work.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
That was a disaster.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Uh, So they've picked up the player at the end
of the career. There, They've done that quite a bit.
Let's go to the phones and uh do we have here.
Let's say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology insider. She's
got all the information. Tyrese Haliburton down for the count
(18:43):
in the NBA Finals. The big story. They're putting a
tarnish on Oklahoma Cities Championship as the Star of the
Pacers goes down to a popped Achilles. Hello Andrea, Well Hello,
if I was any better, I'd be a Halliburn but
not Tyrese Haliburton, because he's got a long road back
from that injury.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yes, you know. In fact, before I forget, I want
to ask you. Did you get your Summer Solstice aslogy newsletter?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Let me let me check here? Hold one, you keep
talking here, let me check out.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, and if any of your listeners would like one,
please let me know. It has all the mercury retrograde
dates and the full moon.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Okay, all the important.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I see, because oh there it is, I see it
right here. Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yes, I get a lot of email from blind Scott,
so sometimes I don't even bother checking the email because
it's all from blind Scott. But so that I please,
I say, right here, Summer Solstice Planetary. And then it's
got the whole thing right there in front.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
So yes, all right, very nice, Well thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
No, I know you're a busy man, so read it
at your leisure and let me know if you have
any questions. And yeah, time's flying by with the Summer Solstice,
and we had the basketball playoffs and this is quite interesting.
Speaking of time, Halliburton is in Leapier. Baby. Here's one
February twenty nine, two thousand that's cool. Yeah, and check
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it out.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So that means he's only how many it was like
every four years, four years old or someone good for him.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Yeah, isn't that interesting. I did a little research and leapier.
I mean, I've had some clients went on leap year.
It's pretty unusual. But apparently it's every four years that
you celebrate your birthday if you of it. Here to
the leap year.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Theory, I think was you just add more days to
the year. Let's just add more days and then no.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Well there's still age one year every nine year. But
you know, I think it was interesting. He's February twenty nine,
two thousand. He's a Pisces and Mars is in Virgo
and transiting Mars in Virgo. Mars's energy assertion aggression. Mars
was opposing his son, which is very injury prone and
(20:59):
kind of washing the limits. Yeah, so you know, less
is more when Mari it's opposed to your son. But obviously,
you know, he did what he felt he needed to do.
But that's a really difficult transit to see that Mare's transit,
and it was just devastating and it impacted, you know,
the whole league and change the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Well it sucked for Game seven because he was he
was hitting shots.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
It was a close game.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Leon, it was the first quarter of the game, and
you're like, all right, we're going to have a good game.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It'll be a fourth quarter game.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And right a twenty five year old superstar.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So, uh right, well, hold on, I see it coming
up July fourth, Is that correct? I'm looking here at
the newsletter because I you did send it me. Neptune
in retrograde? Is that correct? July fourth? We have that
coming up here?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, I also summer.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I got that from the Summer Solstice Planetary newsletter sent
out the astrology newsletter, the Summer Solstice edition from Andrey.
Right there, it says right in there, page one.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I believe it is.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yes, I talked about the full moons and new Moon's
page two, page two bat by me.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
When planet's retrograde, it's good to tune into that. Neptune,
for example, is spirituality, but it can also be confusion.
So July fourth, you might be you know, people might
be busy traveling or doing things like that, so uh,
just be mindful about Neptune. Oh. Actually, what I'd write
here The Yankees met Subway series on July fourth.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh, okay, there'll be some crazy stuff going on there, exactly.
I predict lots of fireworks on the fourth of July.
That's what I'm ridicious. Yeah, all right, well exactly exactly.
I will thank you Andrea, and again people want to
reach out to you. You can find you're available there on
the X machine and Salo Virgo in service to.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Our friend Andrea.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes, thank you, all right, thank you there the astrology
lady and all that.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I did the mask Ben and he would be
six No good, he's six. Yeah, that's your youngest basketball
player like ever. That's just solid age. Six good years
point two five.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Even you're you're still a kid. You can you can
move around, you talk the whole thing. You're not a
schmuck yet. So it's a solid Let's say hello to
any meenie miney moe. Let's go hello, Hello to Jerome
in Charleston. Bring it home, Jerome, Hello Jerome.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, Lareena is just absolutely amazing sometimes, you know,
I don't know what goes through that talk process, but
she's amazing sometimes to tough.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
She says, man, you're a big you're a big fan.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Jerome about what you want to call it?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
All right, well, I'll choose to look at it that way.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Hey, but you know, I was listening to one of
your one of your proteges on on your network talking
about Shakira. I was just wondering and gonna be irrelevant,
like when she gets to be like a Resa Franklin's age,
who could just sing and play the piano and still even.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now what you know, the what do you think a
woman who's known for shaking her her backs? You think
she's come on, you know the answer to that? Come on, now,
what are you doing?
Speaker 8 (24:13):
I would just look at her brag about it, you
know what I'm thinking. I don't think so would get
to be that a.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well, but she's gonna have so much money she who cares.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
She'll live in a mansion on a beach somewhere, So
who the hell cares you shake shakes her, you know what,
until she's forty five.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Or whatever, and then she's out see you later.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
Just as long as she pays her taxes because she
was up from Taxavision.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah yeah, rich, rich people generally don't pay taxes.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Du and that's why they're rich.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
You got and you know you were talking about the
suns and the trade and all that, But my favorite
suns to it was the Espia guy that was having
the affair with the soboy Cunningham.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Uh No, it was a different I think I think
it was somebody. I don't think it was the owner.
It was somebody like a high ranking executive man. Well,
first of all, you don't know whether that's true or not.
That's number one.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Number two. I thought it was a different executive, so
you might be wrong. Why are you so convinced you're right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You're in Charleston, South Carolina, You're a million miles away
from Arizona. But yet you're convinced you're right because you
read it on the internet somewhere. You're convinced that a
the story is correct, and B you have all the
parts of the story accurate.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
Come on, look here, you're talt. You the guy that
was arguingly about Dave Roberts last year.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
And I told you listen, I fired Dave Roberts fifteen times.
I fired Dave Roberts. I got rid of Dave Roberts.
Get rid of him, fire and bring back Lasorda and
put him in there. I know he's dead put Lasorda
in there anyway, I don't care. LSDA would be better
with his team.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
And by the way, I knew all along that g Bus.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Oh yeah, you know everything.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You never say You never said that prior to the
you never said yeah, you call it a million times.
You never said that. Jerome, you're after the fat guy.
You got all the answers after the fact, all the answers.
Why he tells who's gonna win the World Series right now?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Say it right now?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Because I know after the World Series. Dude, I told
you I was gonna win the World Series. I told
you who's gonna win the World Series?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
The Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
About the odds that the odds mean nothing to me.
Who's going to win the World Series?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's one asking. Okay, so the Dodgers the favorites. So
you're going it now.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You put a qualifier on at Jerome, You've now put
a qualifier on it. Fank you you know what they're
pitching didn't hold up last year, and they won the
World Series without their pitching.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh they were starting.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Stiffs in the World Series and they still won. And
you know why they won, Jerome, They won because Aaron
Judge choked. He choked he couldn't catch a routine pop
up in the outfield in center field, Aaron Judge choked
in the World Series, Tommy tanks.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
You want me to you want me to cross me
on Argentina.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
For the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (27:04):
There one of his trapchise in baseball history. Do you
want me to cry?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I would like you to cry. Cry, cry cry.
Speaker 8 (27:13):
Hey, let me say something about Oklahoma City. You talk
about Coppe bagers, butt runners and tankers, and by the way,
you hear what Doc Rivers said about them. You're gonna
have to stop paying your players, so can't player you
gotta stop?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Why Why do I care what Doc Rivers has? I
don't know Doc Rivers. I'm trying not to think about
Doc Rivers. Why do I want to bring Why would
you bring Doc rivers name up?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
You have to stop playing their playoffs?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Good, I understand. I just said that in my monologue
an hour. Thanks for listening, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
The dynasty chef life a lot shorter.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
There's no dynasty. They're not a dynasty. He won one championship.
I know one. I know, just like the last year
the Celtics went, oh, they're on their way. Jason Titam
is his league.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
They have a not a team to cry but the Celtics.
There's a total per fix billions.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Oh yeah, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Thank you call them all please, it's done with you,
Mike God.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Jay Bone is in Portland. What's going on? Jaybone? Welcome? Hello?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Man? Everything's going good with me? Is here? You know,
I paid attention to high school. So that's why I
wake up at two in the morning, I get to work.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Because you didn't pay attention to high school. Is that
way you're saying that?
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Anyways? I just want to can I chime in on
your fifth hour podcast from last week? Real quick?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
No, nah, I don't care. Yes, whatever you want to
talk about, go ahead, right right.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
So I just want to say, like I've been listening
to you for years and years and years, other people
feel the same.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
Way, like for you to do what you did for
that kid and not to you know, say that I.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Could have been wishing to you a happy Father's Day
all these years. It's all I kind of saying.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
That's all I mean, It's it's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
You know. Listen, there's some creepsers out there that listen
to the show. And they create a situation where I
couldn't talk about that for a while.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
But that's fine, and you know, we moved on.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
I mean, yeah, you are an on air douchebag, but
you are a great guy. Well thanks, like that is
amazing for you to do. And I'm I get some
ball washing there.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I'm gonna make it quick. But that was a great
story and I loved hearing it.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Well really, I mean, I mean, I got I got
a fun myself. He's thirteen, yeah, blah blah, But I mean,
good for you for doing that.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I hope your son goes on does amazing, amazing things,
Jaybon and your kid's going to do amazing things in
the world right Well.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, he's a big video gamer right now, and he
wants to be a YouTuber.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
So yeah, that's the thing that all the kids want
to be YouTubers.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
That's a while.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
I don't know if that's going to work out.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You know, how many people make money on YouTube compared
to the amount of people that think they're going to
make money on YouTube, The math is not particularly great.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Well, all about that that kid that just review toys
and his parents filmed them and he was like the
highest groceres YouTuber forever like I know, but.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
At some point that at some point that at some
point the kids no longer a cute kid and grows
up and nobody wants to watch them open toys.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
So the way if if you want to make money, tho,
if you want to make money on YouTube, my theory
is to figure out bot accounts and just artificially increase
the view account and then you'll make a lot of money.
I think it's illegal, but if you can figure it out,
there's a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (30:27):
To be made.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
They're suggesting me to do something illegal.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, I mean, you shouldn't do it, but if you
figure out a way to do it, you make a
lot of to do it.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Tell you to do it. You want to be dumb
and do it.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I mean, if you did it, you'd probably make a
lot of money if you can get away with it,
you know. Of course, I think there's nothing fake about
the internet, right, I mean, they're.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
All those views that's the same as the rest.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, what do you what do
you do again? Jaybon? You get up at two in
the morning, What are you? What kind of work you
got going on?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
There?
Speaker 6 (30:53):
I come in here before the grocery store opens, and
I break down all the loads. So when all the
people will come in they have stuff to work.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Sounds got to dirty. You break down loads, I got you,
all right, make sure to flush.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Hey. Anyways, I just tuned in any word on the
penny Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Nothing yet, We're we're getting close to the deadline on that.
I'll keep you posted. I'll let you know when I
find something, I'll pass it on to you. You better
show you better show up. If if they bring back
the show, you better show up.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Jay Bone.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Yeah, even if you don't come to Portland, I'll come
to Boston.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's a train round away, all right, buddy, all right,
thank you, all right, be careful. There's the great Jbone
uh in Portland, Maine. I was in Portland, Maine. We
did a meet and greet a couple of years back,
and jabone recommended where to go and then didn't show up.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Isn't that the farthest part of the East Coast?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Yes, well, Maine is Portland is the very base of Maine.
It's like barely being in Maine. It's a resort town
like the real And I was told this. I didn't
realize this because I had never been to Main. I've
been to Man a few times now, but I was
told that the real me and potatoes a Maine.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You gotta drive hours. It's a huge state.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
It's mostly just moose and trees in Maine, some good
fishing towns and there's a few small towns in the
middle of Maine and then all.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
The way up. But yeah, that's so. That's it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Anyway, It is the Ben Mause Show, so hot take validation.
For years on this show, we have pointed out that
that fraudulent twenty twenty Laker Championship is bogus. It is
a Mickey Mouse ring. While we now have hot take confirmation.
Hot take confirmation that that is a Mickey Mouse ring
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courtesy of Alex Caruso, who was on that Laker team.
He's also part of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Following the
Thunder winning the championship, he said, quote, now I got
a real one. Now nobody can say anything close. Quote
(33:00):
this is where I dropped the mic and walk away.
That's a winner. Thank you, Alex Caruso. Yet again, another
hot take has been validated. That is a Mickey Mouse ring.
That comes from someone who got one of those Mickey
Mouse rings. Who gets it, Alex Caruso, who says, now
I got a real one. So that again proof the
(33:21):
Lakers have no championships since Kobe Bryant played for the
team zero Lebron, no championships as a Laker.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Embarrassing. Embarrassing. Time Now for the instant tributa.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Tyres Halliburton made three three pointers in less than one
quarter before getting hurt. The record for the most made
three pointers in Game seven of the NBA Finals is
shared by Shane Battier of the Miami Heat and Blank
with sixty to each. Again, Tyres Halliburton made three three
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pointers in less than one quarter, then got hurt. The
record for the most made three pointers in Game seven
of the NBA Finals is shared by Shane Battier of
the Heat and Blank that they each made six three
balls in Game seven. That is the ins Dot Trevia
the Answer, and Mallard of the third Degree.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
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Back to a time now for the Insta Trivia, and
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here it is. Tyrese Halliburton made three three pointers in
less than one quarter and then snap, crackle, Pop happened
in Pop goes the Achilles for the Pacers in Game seven.
The record for the most made three balls in Game
seven of the NBA Finals, Who's shared by Shane Battier
of all people of the Miami Heat and Blank, who
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each had six three balls made in a Game seven
of the NBA finals that is the question. What is
the answer? Does anyone know the answer? We go to
the great Unwashed alf the alien opiner, says Lee Leonard.
I know you are, but what am I good name?
Who else you have? Christian Latner from Andy and Lino Lakes, Minnesota,
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Scottie no Tip and Pippin from King Rory.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Who else?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Page down? Bobby Bonds from Shane in Des Moines. Let's
see we can't read that. It's Buddy Healed and Dante
v de Vincenzo long suffering Sixers fans. That's from Mike
Sean Kilpatrick from Robin, Minnesota. Dennis Johnson Celtic legend from
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Wilmington Harbor Community College in SoCal from Manuel in Guardina,
chest Rockwell from slug Head Buddy in Vegas, Tommy Meatballs
Lasorda from j T the Wingman hanging out there in Tennessee.
Vinnie Testa Verdi from Steve the Misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Matt de Bears fan in Rochester, New York's as MLB legend,
Johnny dick Shot now Josh the Bearson a lot of
Bears fan. That's an old baseball player, Josh the Bears fan,
He said, Ray Allen is the answer, Steph Curry from
Johnny Pistol, Pete Maravich from mister irrigation.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
What say you raid Uh? I'm gonna go with Kareem
Abdul jabbar.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Bek Well a great three point shooter. That sky hook
a dominating three point shot.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
Unless it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
The correct answer is of all people, Draymond Green.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Draymond Green hit.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Six three pointers in the twenty sixteen Game seven of
the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Here we got him.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We got that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Here we go. Think that gets grilled Google.
Speaker 9 (37:34):
It was reported over the weekend that Jalen Ramsey would
prefer to be traded to the West Coast, specifically either
the Chargers or the Rams. Then would you want Ramsey
back on the Rams or is he a falling star?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
All right, So first of all, I don't I'm not
like dying to get Jaylen. If the Rams get him,
I'm fine with that. But he's thirty years old. He's
thirty years old, and you know how I feel. I
think he turns thirty thirty one early in the NFL season,
So he's at that point where he's at the very
end of his athletic prime, if he's not already past
his athletic prime. So, like I know, he's a veteran.
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He's not a falling star yet, but he's teetering on
the brink of being.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
A falling star.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Next, Robert sala is back with the forty nine Ers,
and with his return, George Kittle has a.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Warning for the rest of the league. Oh I got
to hear this. He said, violence is coming.
Speaker 9 (38:19):
Really, yes, Ben, Do you think Sala's return will make
a noticeable impact in Santa Clara?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, the only thing about Robert sala is you could
not watch a Niner game with this guy was the
Shenanigans when he was the defensive coordinator before the smooching
that took place from broadcasters desperately trying to get him
a head coaching job. Was so over the top, like
the TV guys Robert Selzer, all the jumping up and
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down the South ultimatelytional players. As we learned when Robert
Salad coached the Jets and had suck players, he was
suddenly a suck coach. So the Niners have some decent players,
not as many good ones as they had before. They'll
be okay, But it's not that I'm not expecting a
master class by Robert Salad.
Speaker 9 (39:02):
Next, the Tampa Bay Rays won two out of three
games in their series against the AL leading Tigers, and
they did so in blowout fashion. But do you think
the Rays are legitimate contenders in the American League?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Are they regular season contenders? Yes, it's like a freak show, Coop.
Though it's like a freak show with the race. I
don't consider them a legitimate playoff contender.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
During the regular season. Yeah, it works during the regular season.
How do we know you pass? That's a whit put
on the board. I won the game, mister again.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
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