April 16, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mavs GM Nico Harrison saying he has "no regrets" for giving away Luka Doncic to the Lakers, why the Mavs banned cameras at the Nico Harrison news conference, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb BERTU. The Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison
says he has no regrets, no regrets for giving away
Luka Donsik to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That is blank. We'll play the word game. That is blank.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Also, how did you decode Nico Harrison's word about not
caring about the Maverick fans he said that? And why
did the Mavericks ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference.
We'll give you the knockout blow right here as we
go through the ringer in our number two.
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this hour is from the lone Star State High Drama.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We have a mantra we go where.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
These stories of the day take us and right now
this hour deep in the heart of Texas and that
is where the mav Res and they are the Maverrecks.
Now they will play proving there are too many teams
involved in the NBA postseason slash play and the Mavericks,
the mav Rex will take on Sacramento later on tonight,
but Mavericks GM Nico Harrison address Yes Fire Nico. Nico
(02:40):
Harrison addressing the Komodo dragon in the room and really
more like the snuffle uffagus in the room.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ya.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Nico addressing the media in only ways that he can
do it in a very private round table cloak and
dagger like discussion.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This took place on Tuesday, was the first time since.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Giving away the Family Jewels, literally giving away Luca in
one of the most absurd moments in the history of sports.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, I've been doing this job anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So if you didn't hear what he said, and maybe
not Nico Harrison, chances are you didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
There's no video of it. So Nico Harrison said that
he has no.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Regrets, no regrets trading the Maverick Superstar, no regrets trading Luca,
despite universal backlash, every single person in lockstep that you're wrong,
and he is standing Nico Harrison on top of if
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mountain and he said, no, I'm right. So if you
didn't hear the quote. Now, we don't have video of this,
and there I don't believe there's any that is out there.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's not allowed. We'll explain why it's But.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Nico Harrison said he has no regrets trading away the
aforementioned Luca. He said there's no regrets on the trade.
He grumbled during this roundtable discussion with the media. Part
of it is doing the best thing for the MAVs.
Now Nico Harrison gushed that he believes the team post trade,
(04:22):
which was intended to be on.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The court before all the injuries, is a quote championship team.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Nico added that once everyone is at full strength, the
team will have one of the strongest front lines in
the NBA. Okay, let us discuss. So why don't we
play the what's the word game? Let's play what's the
word game? I love what's the word game? One of
my favorite games. What's the word?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I love words? I like the lexicon. All right, here's
the what's the word game? Question?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
MAVs GM Nico Harrison saying that he has no regrets
for giving away Luca Dotsik to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Blank.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So, I've got Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlie Latuna, and Aretha
Franklin and we'll combine all these things together and we
are going to make some ant acid, which is what
the Dallas fan needs. So again, answer the question, maverish
m Nico Harrison saying he has no regrets for giving away.
Luka doncik to the Lakers is blank. What's the word?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My word is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Devilish, as in crafty and devilish.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right, that's my my word here. That's number one.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Every man, woman and child, every man, one with a child
knows that this was not a trade.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
This was a giveaway. This was a giveaway. This is ay.
I'm I'm done with college. I'm moving.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't want my ikea furniture. Come pick what you want.
I'm not taking anything with me.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm out. I'm done. That's what that is.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And it's akin to arson, is what it is.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
If it was a crime, it would be arson.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You'd burn the building now, all right, the house is
on fire. The house is on fire. It's a five
alarm fire. It's an unforced error. Unforced error. It is
such a terrible move. This is one of those things.
It's like so wild and crazy to me. It is
such an f up that most people truly believe that
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there must be some kind of conspiracy involved that no
one in their right mind, no one that is not
on some kind of pharmaceuticals or mandated to make this
kind of move, would make this move. That is where
we're at. So either it was the Maverick owners who
want to move the team out of Dallas and move
them to Vegas, and they want the fans to turn
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on the team, and so they traded the top player
for nothing, gave them away, or it's at a higher level.
NBA TV ratings were terrible. No one was watching in
the toilet, Adam Silver and the people in New York
there on Fifth Avenue got together and the TV people
are saying, we're paying a lot of money and you're
not giving us return on investment, and we're gonna have
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to give make goods because in television and sometimes in
radio two, if you promise an advertiser a certain audience
and you don't give them that audience, you have to
then make up those commercials. And there's nothing that executives
in television and radio hate more than make goods. They
can't stand it because they're giving free spots away because
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they didn't provide the audience they promised to provide. It's problematic.
It's problematic. So that's one of the conspiracies. And while
we are in line, and I want the record to
show that we are in line. That Niko Harrison is
a big dummy. He's a big dummy. He's a Schmendrick.
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I have an unpopular take. I'm about to share an
unpopular take. I'd like to warn all the affiliates unpopular
take coming down the pike. The part of Nico Harrison
not apologizing is the correct call. It is the right call.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Let me explain.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's Captain Jack Sparrow like. It is savvy. It is
savvy public figures. I've said this for years. This is
not an original take, but it applies to this. If
you're a public figure, you should never apologize, and in
this case, you certainly should not tell you why because
the Maverick fan is not going to forgive you. This
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is an unforgivable sin. What you have done is a
war crime in the sporting world. It's a war crime.
We need to have a tribunal here. The fan also
does not care if you're sorry. They don't care if
somebody else told you to do it right. They just
want to use your apology against you. And the moment
that Nico ha and apologizes, he's essentially he's admitting culpability,
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he's admitting guilt. It's not gonna make anyone feel better.
It's not like Luca's gonna walk back and put on
a Maverick uniform again, and it's just going to pour
gasoline on the fire, and the lunatics are gonna go
ten times harder after Nico Harrison. So the top course
of action here is to just not acknowledge the outrage.
(09:30):
And so I actually agree with that part of it. Now,
there's other parts of this that are completely ridiculous. Now
turning the page two, one of those would be Nico Harrison.
He was asked at this little shindig if he feels
an obligation to the Maverick fan, if there's an obligation
to the fan, and.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He said no.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He said, no, My obligations are to the Dallas Mavericks.
What's in the best interest of the Dallas mav Res.
That's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So how do you decode Nico Harrison and his word
about not caring about the Maverick fan. See, this was
a unforced error, much like the Luca Donzik trade. It
was also Charlie the Tuna. Like now, Charlie Latuna was
his character back in the day, and the players on
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the New York Giants used to pick on Bill Parcells
and they said you look like that Charlie Latuna and
Bill Parcells had a quote he said, if you listen
to the fans, he said, you'll be sitting up there
with him. So it's that mindset. However, on this one,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Very simple answer.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's like, yeah, without the fan, the Mavericks are nothing.
The whole business model is based on the fan. So
if your obligation is not to the fan, then it's like, well,
I don't care about the customers. You're literally he's serving
the customers, you moron. And what do you need in
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that profession? You know it, and I know it. Everyone
knows it. You need stars. You gotta have the star.
It's the entertainment world. It's show business. That is the
world you're in. And part of me is wondering, is
that a tel? Is that a tell? What does that mean?
Did Harrison reveal that he was simply following the orders
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of ownership and so he's not obligated to the fan.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's obligated to the.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Owner who told him to get rid of Luca because
they want to move the team to Vegas, and the
quickest way to move the team to Vegas is to.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Get rid of this guy right now. Final point. So
here's where it gets even crazier.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
There were reports throughout the day and some of this
happened while I was sleeping, but I woke up, I
was I was acutely aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was dialed in.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So why did the Dallas Mavericks outlaw cameras? Why did
they ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference? So
not only did they ban cameras, originally they banned recording devices,
which I'm pretty sure makes it not a news conference
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and makes it like just like a board meeting or
something like that. But my answer is the it's the
Aretha Franklin tune from back in the day, chain of fools.
It is a pr debacle. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And the other thing that drives me nuts and this
I've been battling this for a long time, these teams
and we talk about it on these airwaves. You know,
the media elites that cover the games that are inside
hand picked, and the Dallas Mavericks did it, Like I
would be embarrassed to be on that list. But the
Dallas Mavericks They picked hand picked media buddies, right media friends,
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useful idiots in the media, and they invited them behind
closed doors.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
For this little get together.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And again initially they didn't want to allow any video
or audio. The handpicked toadies, the knee pad whears, the
brown nosers, and the media there in Dallas they objected. Originally,
we were told, and then the Mavericks all right, well,
you can record on your little phones there or whatever.
You can't publish anything. You can't do it just to
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transcribe stuff. Talk about real balls, real balls.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Now. The other theme here.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Is that the Mavericks traded for Anthony Davis, and we
mentioned the quote from Nico Harrison.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
He said, well, I would have worked out if if
the injuries hadn't happened. And you know what that is.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That is a steaming shovelful of bullshoy. It is piping
hot fertilizer, is what that is. And if some and
butts were candy and nuts, you'd win the championship every year.
The criticism of the trade, the whole point that people
were good, was that we didn't get enough return, and
what you got was a damaged player in Anthony Davis.
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You can't play the injury excuse. When you trade for
a player that is universally known as a broken down
useless player because he's not dependable, and then he gets
broken down and becomes useless, you can't then say, well,
if only we had stayed healthy again, ifs and butts
where candy and nuts, you'd win the championship every year.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And the Mavericks now they're.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Building around two injury prone players, two aging players, Kyrie
Irving and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And if you look at their injury charts, it goes on.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Page down, page down, page down.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Pay.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean, it just keeps going and going going. It's
like an energizer, buddy. It goes and goes and goes
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They won, they're in the playoffs and they will take
on the Celtics. There's a couple more games tonight. This
thing just goes on. Yeah, you know the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know the deal on that straight ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was a compliment, but it was a left handed compliment,
a left handed compliment.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What is that all about. We'll get to that. We'll
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And now back to it, well, and back to it.
My name is Ben. By the way, Hi, Hi Bill,
My name is Ben, and a programming no. We are
going to have the first Malord Meet and Greet of
the year a little over a month from today. Today
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is the sixteenth day of April, and we're going to
do something we have never done. I've done these Malord
meet and greets. I think the first ones I did.
I don't want to I want to say when, because
I'm gonna date myself. But it's been a long time.
It's been a long time since I started doing these things,
and I've done them all over the country. I've been
been very lucky to meet people who are our listeners
to to Fox Sports Radio to this show from literally
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every corner, all four corners of the United States, the
continental United States, even some in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I've never been to Alaska, so I haven't done Alaska.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But we're going to Canada for the first non US
mal Or meet and greet, and it was just across
the Canadian border. You know, there are friends, our buddies,
and we've been on all over Canada off and on
different stations for many, many years. So I'm very excited
about this. And Loraina is kind of she's doing a
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lot of the planning and she didn't put this together,
but she's you're kind of an honorary host.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Is that correct? You've taken a lead on this, Loraina?
Is that accurate? Is that fair to say?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Is that you know I've definitely have had my hands
in it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And you know, as we get closer to and I
want to plan little thingies for us to go and do.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh man, I don't know bout that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But so the meet and Greek though, that's the that's
the big shindig. That's the big thing there.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And we're gonna do it on.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
A Thursday, and I want to decorate.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You're going to decorate, which is great. So what is
the date on this? And do we we don't have
a time yet. We still don't have a time. We
got to settle a time. We don't have a time.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
We kind of have a time.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
We kind of have a between the hours of three
and ten. I'm thinking five to eight.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Five to eight your thing.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
The whole place is rented out for us until.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Okay, so we have that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You know, sometimes we have too much social anxiety. We
got to leave too much.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, I'm a very important person, you know, my my
poer hour.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Fee for these appearances is through the roof. And so
but now we'll be there, we'll be hanging out. What
is the name of the venue? See in Vancouver, so.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Anywhere in the court side on Maine court side on May.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So if you're listing in Vancouver, obviously it's right down
the street from you, or close enough, or anywhere in
British Columbia. And if you're in the Pacific Northwest, if
you're in Washington State you want to make the drive up,
you can go hang out with us there anywhere within
reasonable driving distance. Although there are rumors that people will
be flying in from all over, in fact, we know
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we have at least two people that have confirmed they
are flying in from the States here to go hang
out with us in Vancouver, including Ernesto. He is confirmed
Ernesto's flying.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
In from the Borg.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, yeah, Ernesto's great and other than being a forty
nine er fan, but other than that, he's a good
guy and so we'll hang out with him and that'll
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And then there's a couple other people that are planning
on making the trip. Is Big Lou making the trip? Also?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is he gonna be yes, he hit look at that
Big Lou coming from La He's gonna fly up to Vancouver.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So there's two.
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And I did get a couple of emails from people
that said they were Maybies. When I hear maybies, I
hear maybe not. But they say, maybe they might. They're
thinking about doing it. So and we're actually going to
a soccer game. I've never last soccer game I went to.
I was I was at ayso official now a million
years ago, and I'll be going to a soccer game.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So there you go. Be a lot of fun. That's on.
I think that Vancouver. What are they called there, the
white Caps? The white Caps?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
All right, well that's for a mountain, right that's not yeah,
all right, So we'll be there hanging out.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We'll have a good time. So check that out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Vancouver Malard Meet and greet little over a month from now,
and once we get everything locked down, I'll send that out.
We'll all send it out on social media and so
you can plan accordingly. We've got a left handed compliment.
We'll get to that coming up and in a couple
of minutes left handed compliment. That'll be right around the corner.
We'll take some calls as well. If you'd like to
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have Mallard of the third degree. And let's say hello
to uh.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
See, here's this basketball Mark? Is that what that is?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Is just bb Mark?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Bb Mark? Okay, I don't know that I've talked to me.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It sounds like a crapper.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Have I spoken to bb Mark before? Hello the great
bb Mark? Hello bb Mark? Oh boy? And is he sleeping?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
It does sound like a heavy breath and consistent.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And he does have like a little little hitch. Oh yes,
is that like is that a it's not it's a snore,
but it's not a full snore right.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh hmm?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh does that sleep happening?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I don't even know if that qualifies as a snore.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's annoying. It sounds like an owl, like in a nest.
Doesn't it sound like an owl?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Hooting? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Give it, give every every third one. It's a little louder,
hurt a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Let's see. Yeah, it's pretty consistent. How much time do
you think is between Let me get my clock out,
hold on a sick here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You listen to our live coverage. We're out in the
wild here and we are. We're listening to bb Mark.
He's in southern California, hunting to beach, beautiful city, love
hunting to beach. The pier there is outstanding, just a
great place to visit. Been there many times over the years.
Let's see here, I set my timer. All right, well,
I'm gonna do it from when he finishes the next
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time he finish this year.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Here we go next time. You wait before we do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How many seconds do you think I'm gonna say? There's
like three seconds in between? Lauria, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think it was about two.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Ben cool, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Okay, I'm going three. Here we go next time he
does it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Point means you're point nine.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're out point.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Nine, all right, I think I win. I believe I win.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I didn't go over and he didn't hit four. It
was a three point nine to seven on my on
my phone on my stopwatch. So all right, thank you,
great call, bb Mark outstanding commentary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I appreciate that. I feel like we're all we're all
better off. You're sleeping, man.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You need to get your sleep, dude, I you know,
tell you to sleep at night. And then the show
got in the way. That would have been even a
better phone call. Actually, I only would have been better
if you'd gotten on there. I think that was what
he did. There was better and a reminder that he
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So we'll all be watching and engaged.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Milkman Mike says, this is my last night at work
before we head to Boston. The cheer on my wife
when she runs in the Marathon. I know we are
staying close to the finish line. Any suggestions on great
seafood restaurants, Well, you're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't eat seafood.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I think that fish lives matter and I want to
leave them alive to swim in the ocean and all that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Now, there are some.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Great restaurants in Boston, depends what you're looking for. You
want pizza, just pretty much, you can't go wrong anywhere
in the North End. They're like, they're amazing Italian restaurants
all over the place.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Now, my guy, Vinnie, what do you think we order
a pizza? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
About speaking of pizza, I lost a bet and this
goes back many years and I had to go pay
off the bet. It was a Giants Patriots bet. I
took the Patriots Vinnie who was in Boston, and he
took the He took the Giants, and I lost the bet,
and so I had to buy Vinnie and his buddy's pizza.
So we went to this place called sant Tarpio's in
(26:15):
East Boston, which is a famous, famous place. Really good pizza.
It was really really solid. Yeah, what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let's see here?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Ferg Dog says, have you ever had a night where
every caller you went to was snoring?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, not every night, not every caller.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There was the famous there were simultaneous snores.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
There was cowboy John Brad and then there was.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This big voice guy that used to call the show
and they were both sleeping at the same time, and
we went back and forth like dueling pianos, and it
was It was wonderful, absolutely great. Freddie writes in says,
Nico Harrison is right. The Mavericks are a championship contender
and a team to fear. I hope he knows they
have to make it to the final First, he says,
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what else do we have? Page down Chip and the
Q says a plus. On the male of the monologue,
Harrison says he has no regrets for trading away Luca
rumor has it. He also thinks that the moon landing
was faked and the earth is flat' that's the deal there.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
What else?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Page down Bill says how many G League players are
on the MAVs? Okay, what else we have? Late night
drug tester says, is the meet and greet in Vancouver,
British Columbia just a way to grant blind Scott's wish
to get a trip strip searched from crossing the border.
(27:44):
You'd have to ask blind Scott that I have no
comment on that. Let's get back to the calls and
we'll say say hello to Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Who's from Nutley, New Jersey, but he lives in Florida. Hello,
Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Does everybody doing? Hey, how's everybody doing? Tight? Angry Let's
get back to your buddy, your mental midget. Aaron Rodgers
tell us how his signing one that he signed for
his forty million dollars with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Well, has he signed with any of you?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Are you doing a premature victory lab because I will
enjoy this when he does sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Are you are you announcing right now? Are you declaring
Angry Bill victory? Is that what you're doing right now? Prematurely?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Might I add?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
No, I don't do proble. I'm not premature with anything.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Bet No, that's not what I hear. That's not what
my for a long time. That's not what I'm told.
But I'm not there. I'm not a witness, so I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Okay, let's let's keep this we're at that right now.
Why hasn't he signed by now?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Because he's waiting for the draft to make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, he's waiting for the draft to make sure the
Steelers don't draft a quarterback because he doesn't want anyone
to challenge his territory.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And uh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And once once the draft, after the first round is over,
and he feels confident that there's no one there that's
gonna be a threat, he'll then sign with the Steelers
and then you'll call.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Over, Well, I was right up.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
They're gonna they're gonna draft, They're gonna draft a quarterback
that If.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's the case, then they won't sign it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But if they don't draft a quarterback, there's there's no
there's no quarterbacks worthy of being picked in the first round.
There will be two or three picked in the first round.
They all blow.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
None of them. Should cam Ward's gonna be the first
pick in the draft? Have you seen the clips?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But cam mooredon cam Wardens is not worthy of being
the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
He's not that good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I'm telling you, he's a nothing. He's a washed up
football player.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Say the name, say the name, say his name, not
he they them.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
He what's his name? I don't know who he is?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Who he is Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
There you go, he said his name. You want to
shame him.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, you got some beef with Rogers, Go ahead shame him.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Oh the beef I got shot. There's nothing left.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Listen, you your shot. We still take your calls.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh that's that's that's terrible. That's that's so.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You gotta have. You got a man that's half dying here.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh, we're all dying. Every one of us is dying.
We all have a fatal illness. Everyone dies. That is
what happens.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You say, you want a little violin here, you want
a little violent let me, let me get my crocodile
tears out?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
How about that? You want those?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Didn't you watch him play last year?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes, yes, of course I watched the play. Is terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
He was, he was terrible to get.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Who cares. It's not my money, it's not your money.
It doesn't matter. That's not that's not a violin.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Cheap, says violent Ben.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That is not a play. That again, that is not.
That is a piano. That is not a violin. Yeah,
that is a piano.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And there's a violin in there. But yeah, we just
need the violin, We don't need the piano. That's an
ensemble performance.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Is what that is?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, beautiful, what are you gonna tell me? What are
you gonna tell you? You get your torpedo bat? Is
that what you got there? Your Yankees?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You see the Yankees home runs home versus road. Forget
the torpedo bat. How about the Williamsport field. The Yankees
playing in the Bronx, that's why they hit all those
home runs.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
You know, you go picking it on the Yankees, But
you got this made up Dodger team. It's not doing
too good right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well compared to them, to the Yankees, the Dodgers of
the world.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Beaters, your world beaters. There's only one thing they beat
and it ain't the world.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well, oh my god, there's a little trophy there. Know
what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Why do you? Why do you? Why are you so nasty?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
How nasty? What have I said? That's nasty? You step
into the arena? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Your prejudice? Number one?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
How many times you've almost gotten me fired from things
you've said on the air, and I continue to put
you on you should be thinking.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You should be you should be licking my toes.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You have said things so foul, so disgusting that if
they had made it on the air, I would have
lost my job.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And I keep putting you back on.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
That's because you know you're wrong. That's why.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, no, you're wrong, and the other callers suck too,
So I figured, why not you go away?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I'm done with you. Go take some medicine or something.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Scrooge writes in says, angry Bill is on Aaron Rodgers
blankety blank. I swear he wishes every monologue was about
air and Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Scrooge also says that Vancouver is an awesome place with
the finest females. He says, okay, go very exciting. Uh
late night drug test. We'll skip over that one. What
else do we want to read?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Uh? Let me pay this off? So left handed combat
Draymond Green. Draymond he's a podcaster. You know he also
does I guess basketball, but I know him as a podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Uh so podcaster. Draymond Green was asked about.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Jonathan kuminga of the wars Now, the Warriors won their game,
they did not play all that well but one of
the intriguing stories, the palace intrigue around Golden State is
a player that was deemed untouchable that Golden State wanted
Paul George. Now you talk about being lucky you didn't
get Paul George. But Golden State supposed they wanted Paul George,
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and the Clippers said, we want Jonathan Kaminga, and the
Warriors said, no, that's a non starter. We're not We're
not going to deal this player. We think Jonathan Kamena
is so important to us. We cannot trade this man.
He is such a valuable asset to our team. We
cannot trade him.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And so the Clippers were bummed out, and so they
Paul George went to Philadelphia and the Warriors capt Jonathan Kaminga,
who played as many minutes in that game against the
Grizzlies as you and I did.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Draymond Green, the podcaster, was asked about Jonathan Kamenda and
the podcaster Draymond Green said, he'll contribute in.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
The Houston series. And then from.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
The upper rope, he gave the left handed hook of
a compliment, he gave the atomic elbow. Draymond said, The
challenge for him, meaning Jonathan Kaminga, is to stay mentally
engaged quotes quote Is that not the perfect left handed
(34:40):
compliment for Like, this guy is mentally weak. He doesn't
pay attention and that's his problem. Like did he not
just spell it out right there? I believe he did.
Time now for the inch to trivia and here we go,
the only guards in the NBA to average twenty five points,
five rebounds and five assists this season. Where Luca, Donzik
and Blank. That is the insta trivia the answer. We'll
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get to it and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Next.
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Speaker 3 (36:11):
And my name is.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Ben, by the way, and here is the quickly quick
way the inch to trivia.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And the only guards in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
To average twenty five points five rebounds of five assists
this season were Luca, Donzik and Blank. That is the question.
What is the answer?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Does anyone know the answer? Let's see your page. Dan
Claire Foy, who is forty one today? I have no
idea who that is? Yao ming from Scrooge That, by
the way, that was Late Night drug testers answer. Jack
Delroy from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Chuck Gpt from Alf
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the Alien Opiner who is still not recovered from that
beatdown in Scrabble. Angry Bill guessed by Malard Property. That's
about what angry Bill looks.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Like in my head.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, Jug Ahead owns from Donkey's Sausage. Aaron Rogers guessed
by King Ry Polkai legend Al Bundy from Ozzie was
Terry in England. That's a terrible picture that you use
for that stupid doll of mine. Kt the wingman says,
Angryville's favorite Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
What say you Lorrain.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
The plumber who broke my house today?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, more on that later. It is actually Kate Cuttingham cadding.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Here we got Speler. How about that to the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Gooberlo all right, Ben, love to see here.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Former Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson returned to Arizona on Monday
to announce his retirement with the team that drafted him
back in twenty eleven. Ben, do you think Peterson is
a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
He's a borderline Hall of Famer. The criteria that I
use for the Hall of Fame, he does not. He's borderlined.
He wasn't All Pro three times. He was on an
All Decade team. But you can certainly tell the story
of the NFL without.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Mentioning Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
He there's there's really nothing there there that is over
the top memorable. He's he's one of those borderline guys
that it'll maybe he gets in down the line, but
it's not a no brainer.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Next, quarterback Will Howard recently said the same thing that
all draft prospects say.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Draft Meal, you're or you will regret it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
You will regret it.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Ben, what is your assessment of the college football National champ.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Uh, he's fine. He's got the the size of.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
A good NFL player, and he's got the he's got
the accolades. But I don't there's nothing that says this
guy's going to Megan now.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
He he does not have an elite arm and you
look at all the you know, the decision making and
all that stuff that he was locked in on receivers.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
He's like a second or third round pick. And maybe
he'll make it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Maybe he will, but I'm not overly confident that Will
Howard's gonna go on and be great. He may maybe'd
be like Brock Purty get with a good team, be overrated.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Next, for the first time in eleven years, someone other
than Lebron James or Steph Curry has the best selling
jersey in the in the NBA, and that player is
Luka Doncik Ben. Is it safe to say that with
the trade to Los Angeles, Luca is the next face
of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
No, it's safe to say that he changed teams and
there's a lot of historians that wanted to buy his
jersey and so they sold a lot. That's why he
was number. He's not the face of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You failed this edition. He is the face of the NBA.
Joe is not. No, he's not. Nobody says that they're
gonna lose to Minnesota.
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb BERTU. The Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison
says he has no regrets, no regrets for giving away
Luka Donsik to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
That is blank. We'll play the word game. That is blank.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Also, how did you decode Nico Harrison's word about not
caring about the Maverick fans he said that? And why
did the Mavericks ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference.
We'll give you the knockout blow right here as we
go through the ringer in our number two.
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later in the hour, but we're just getting started.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Settle in.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
There'll be some snacks and we'll make sure they leave
the fast and seatbelt light off, but if we have
any turbulence, we'll turn that back on. But our lead
this hour is from the lone Star State High Drama.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
We have a mantra we go where.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
These stories of the day take us and right now
this hour deep in the heart of Texas and that
is where the mav Res and they are the Maverrecks.
Now they will play proving there are too many teams
involved in the NBA postseason slash play and the Mavericks,
the mav Rex will take on Sacramento later on tonight,
but Mavericks GM Nico Harrison address Yes Fire Nico. Nico
(02:40):
Harrison addressing the Komodo dragon in the room and really
more like the snuffle uffagus in the room.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Ya.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Nico addressing the media in only ways that he can
do it in a very private round table cloak and
dagger like discussion.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
This took place on Tuesday, was the first time since.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Giving away the Family Jewels, literally giving away Luca in
one of the most absurd moments in the history of sports.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, I've been doing this job anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So if you didn't hear what he said, and maybe
not Nico Harrison, chances are you didn't hear it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
There's no video of it. So Nico Harrison said that
he has no.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Regrets, no regrets trading the Maverick Superstar, no regrets trading Luca,
despite universal backlash, every single person in lockstep that you're wrong,
and he is standing Nico Harrison on top of if
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mountain and he said, no, I'm right. So if you
didn't hear the quote. Now, we don't have video of this,
and there I don't believe there's any that is out there.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's not allowed. We'll explain why it's But.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Nico Harrison said he has no regrets trading away the
aforementioned Luca. He said there's no regrets on the trade.
He grumbled during this roundtable discussion with the media. Part
of it is doing the best thing for the MAVs.
Now Nico Harrison gushed that he believes the team post trade,
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which was intended to be on.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The court before all the injuries, is a quote championship team.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Nico added that once everyone is at full strength, the
team will have one of the strongest front lines in
the NBA. Okay, let us discuss. So why don't we
play the what's the word game? Let's play what's the
word game? I love what's the word game? One of
my favorite games. What's the word?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I love words? I like the lexicon. All right, here's
the what's the word game? Question?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
MAVs GM Nico Harrison saying that he has no regrets
for giving away Luca Dotsik to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Blank.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So, I've got Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlie Latuna, and Aretha
Franklin and we'll combine all these things together and we
are going to make some ant acid, which is what
the Dallas fan needs. So again, answer the question, maverish
m Nico Harrison saying he has no regrets for giving away.
Luka doncik to the Lakers is blank. What's the word?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
My word is.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Devilish, as in crafty and devilish.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right, that's my my word here. That's number one.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Every man, woman and child, every man, one with a child
knows that this was not a trade.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
This was a giveaway. This was a giveaway. This is ay.
I'm I'm done with college. I'm moving.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't want my ikea furniture. Come pick what you want.
I'm not taking anything with me.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm out. I'm done. That's what that is.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And it's akin to arson, is what it is.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
If it was a crime, it would be arson.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You'd burn the building now, all right, the house is
on fire. The house is on fire. It's a five
alarm fire. It's an unforced error. Unforced error. It is
such a terrible move. This is one of those things.
It's like so wild and crazy to me. It is
such an f up that most people truly believe that
(06:29):
there must be some kind of conspiracy involved that no
one in their right mind, no one that is not
on some kind of pharmaceuticals or mandated to make this
kind of move, would make this move. That is where
we're at. So either it was the Maverick owners who
want to move the team out of Dallas and move
them to Vegas, and they want the fans to turn
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on the team, and so they traded the top player
for nothing, gave them away, or it's at a higher level.
NBA TV ratings were terrible. No one was watching in
the toilet, Adam Silver and the people in New York
there on Fifth Avenue got together and the TV people
are saying, we're paying a lot of money and you're
not giving us return on investment, and we're gonna have
(07:12):
to give make goods because in television and sometimes in
radio two, if you promise an advertiser a certain audience
and you don't give them that audience, you have to
then make up those commercials. And there's nothing that executives
in television and radio hate more than make goods. They
can't stand it because they're giving free spots away because
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they didn't provide the audience they promised to provide. It's problematic.
It's problematic. So that's one of the conspiracies. And while
we are in line, and I want the record to
show that we are in line. That Niko Harrison is
a big dummy. He's a big dummy. He's a Schmendrick.
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I have an unpopular take. I'm about to share an
unpopular take. I'd like to warn all the affiliates unpopular
take coming down the pike. The part of Nico Harrison
not apologizing is the correct call. It is the right call.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Let me explain.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's Captain Jack Sparrow like. It is savvy. It is
savvy public figures. I've said this for years. This is
not an original take, but it applies to this. If
you're a public figure, you should never apologize, and in
this case, you certainly should not tell you why because
the Maverick fan is not going to forgive you. This
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is an unforgivable sin. What you have done is a
war crime in the sporting world. It's a war crime.
We need to have a tribunal here. The fan also
does not care if you're sorry. They don't care if
somebody else told you to do it right. They just
want to use your apology against you. And the moment
that Nico ha and apologizes, he's essentially he's admitting culpability,
(09:05):
he's admitting guilt. It's not gonna make anyone feel better.
It's not like Luca's gonna walk back and put on
a Maverick uniform again, and it's just going to pour
gasoline on the fire, and the lunatics are gonna go
ten times harder after Nico Harrison. So the top course
of action here is to just not acknowledge the outrage.
(09:30):
And so I actually agree with that part of it. Now,
there's other parts of this that are completely ridiculous. Now
turning the page two, one of those would be Nico Harrison.
He was asked at this little shindig if he feels
an obligation to the Maverick fan, if there's an obligation
to the fan, and.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He said no.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
He said, no, My obligations are to the Dallas Mavericks.
What's in the best interest of the Dallas mav Res.
That's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Close quote.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
So how do you decode Nico Harrison and his word
about not caring about the Maverick fan. See, this was
a unforced error, much like the Luca Donzik trade. It
was also Charlie the Tuna. Like now, Charlie Latuna was
his character back in the day, and the players on
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the New York Giants used to pick on Bill Parcells
and they said you look like that Charlie Latuna and
Bill Parcells had a quote he said, if you listen
to the fans, he said, you'll be sitting up there
with him. So it's that mindset. However, on this one,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Very simple answer.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's like, yeah, without the fan, the Mavericks are nothing.
The whole business model is based on the fan. So
if your obligation is not to the fan, then it's like, well,
I don't care about the customers. You're literally he's serving
the customers, you moron. And what do you need in
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that profession? You know it, and I know it. Everyone
knows it. You need stars. You gotta have the star.
It's the entertainment world. It's show business. That is the
world you're in. And part of me is wondering, is
that a tel? Is that a tell? What does that mean?
Did Harrison reveal that he was simply following the orders
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of ownership and so he's not obligated to the fan.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's obligated to the.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Owner who told him to get rid of Luca because
they want to move the team to Vegas, and the
quickest way to move the team to Vegas is to.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Get rid of this guy right now. Final point. So
here's where it gets even crazier.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
There were reports throughout the day and some of this
happened while I was sleeping, but I woke up, I
was I was acutely aware of what was going on.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was dialed in.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
So why did the Dallas Mavericks outlaw cameras? Why did
they ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference? So
not only did they ban cameras, originally they banned recording devices,
which I'm pretty sure makes it not a news conference
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and makes it like just like a board meeting or
something like that. But my answer is the it's the
Aretha Franklin tune from back in the day, chain of fools.
It is a pr debacle. What are you afraid of?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
And the other thing that drives me nuts and this
I've been battling this for a long time, these teams
and we talk about it on these airwaves. You know,
the media elites that cover the games that are inside
hand picked, and the Dallas Mavericks did it, Like I
would be embarrassed to be on that list. But the
Dallas Mavericks They picked hand picked media buddies, right media friends,
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useful idiots in the media, and they invited them behind
closed doors.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
For this little get together.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And again initially they didn't want to allow any video
or audio. The handpicked toadies, the knee pad whears, the
brown nosers, and the media there in Dallas they objected. Originally,
we were told, and then the Mavericks all right, well,
you can record on your little phones there or whatever.
You can't publish anything. You can't do it just to
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transcribe stuff. Talk about real balls, real balls.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Now. The other theme here.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Is that the Mavericks traded for Anthony Davis, and we
mentioned the quote from Nico Harrison.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
He said, well, I would have worked out if if
the injuries hadn't happened. And you know what that is.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That is a steaming shovelful of bullshoy. It is piping
hot fertilizer, is what that is. And if some and
butts were candy and nuts, you'd win the championship every year.
The criticism of the trade, the whole point that people
were good, was that we didn't get enough return, and
what you got was a damaged player in Anthony Davis.
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You can't play the injury excuse. When you trade for
a player that is universally known as a broken down
useless player because he's not dependable, and then he gets
broken down and becomes useless, you can't then say, well,
if only we had stayed healthy again, ifs and butts
where candy and nuts, you'd win the championship every year.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
And the Mavericks now they're.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Building around two injury prone players, two aging players, Kyrie
Irving and Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And if you look at their injury charts, it goes on.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Page down, page down, page down.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Pay.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I mean, it just keeps going and going going. It's
like an energizer, buddy. It goes and goes and goes
and goes. It is a Ben Mahlor show. If you
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That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
The Golden State Wars barely won, but they've advanced. They're
in the playoffs. They'll play the Rockets in Orlando.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
They won, they're in the playoffs and they will take
on the Celtics. There's a couple more games tonight. This
thing just goes on. Yeah, you know the deal.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know the deal on that straight ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
It was a compliment, but it was a left handed compliment,
a left handed compliment.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
What is that all about. We'll get to that. We'll
take your calls, the whole thing, and we will.
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And now back to it, well, and back to it.
My name is Ben. By the way, Hi, Hi Bill,
My name is Ben, and a programming no. We are
going to have the first Malord Meet and Greet of
the year a little over a month from today. Today
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is the sixteenth day of April, and we're going to
do something we have never done. I've done these Malord
meet and greets. I think the first ones I did.
I don't want to I want to say when, because
I'm gonna date myself. But it's been a long time.
It's been a long time since I started doing these things,
and I've done them all over the country. I've been
been very lucky to meet people who are our listeners
to to Fox Sports Radio to this show from literally
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every corner, all four corners of the United States, the
continental United States, even some in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I've never been to Alaska, so I haven't done Alaska.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
But we're going to Canada for the first non US
mal Or meet and greet, and it was just across
the Canadian border. You know, there are friends, our buddies,
and we've been on all over Canada off and on
different stations for many, many years. So I'm very excited
about this. And Loraina is kind of she's doing a
(18:41):
lot of the planning and she didn't put this together,
but she's you're kind of an honorary host.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Is that correct? You've taken a lead on this, Loraina?
Is that accurate? Is that fair to say?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Is that you know I've definitely have had my hands
in it, for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And you know, as we get closer to and I
want to plan little thingies for us to go and do.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh man, I don't know bout that.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
But so the meet and Greek though, that's the that's
the big shindig. That's the big thing there.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And we're gonna do it on.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
A Thursday, and I want to decorate.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You're going to decorate, which is great. So what is
the date on this? And do we we don't have
a time yet. We still don't have a time. We
got to settle a time. We don't have a time.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
We kind of have a time.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
We kind of have a between the hours of three
and ten. I'm thinking five to eight.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Five to eight your thing.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
The whole place is rented out for us until.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Okay, so we have that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
You know, sometimes we have too much social anxiety. We
got to leave too much.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, I'm a very important person, you know, my my
poer hour.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Fee for these appearances is through the roof. And so
but now we'll be there, we'll be hanging out. What
is the name of the venue? See in Vancouver, so.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Anywhere in the court side on Maine court side on May.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So if you're listing in Vancouver, obviously it's right down
the street from you, or close enough, or anywhere in
British Columbia. And if you're in the Pacific Northwest, if
you're in Washington State you want to make the drive up,
you can go hang out with us there anywhere within
reasonable driving distance. Although there are rumors that people will
be flying in from all over, in fact, we know
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we have at least two people that have confirmed they
are flying in from the States here to go hang
out with us in Vancouver, including Ernesto. He is confirmed
Ernesto's flying.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
In from the Borg.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Oh that's exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, yeah, Ernesto's great and other than being a forty
nine er fan, but other than that, he's a good
guy and so we'll hang out with him and that'll
be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And then there's a couple other people that are planning
on making the trip. Is Big Lou making the trip? Also?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is he gonna be yes, he hit look at that
Big Lou coming from La He's gonna fly up to Vancouver.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So there's two.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And I did get a couple of emails from people
that said they were Maybies. When I hear maybies, I
hear maybe not. But they say, maybe they might. They're
thinking about doing it. So and we're actually going to
a soccer game. I've never last soccer game I went to.
I was I was at ayso official now a million
years ago, and I'll be going to a soccer game.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So there you go. Be a lot of fun. That's on.
I think that Vancouver. What are they called there, the
white Caps? The white Caps?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
All right, well that's for a mountain, right that's not yeah,
all right, So we'll be there hanging out.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
We'll have a good time. So check that out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Vancouver Malard Meet and greet little over a month from now,
and once we get everything locked down, I'll send that out.
We'll all send it out on social media and so
you can plan accordingly. We've got a left handed compliment.
We'll get to that coming up and in a couple
of minutes left handed compliment. That'll be right around the corner.
We'll take some calls as well. If you'd like to
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be part, you can join us here at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine
nine six six three sixty nine. If you'd like to
be part of the program. Later this hour, we do
have Mallard of the third degree. And let's say hello
to uh.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
See, here's this basketball Mark? Is that what that is?
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Is just bb Mark?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Bb Mark? Okay, I don't know that I've talked to me.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
It sounds like a crapper.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Have I spoken to bb Mark before? Hello the great
bb Mark? Hello bb Mark? Oh boy? And is he sleeping?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
It does sound like a heavy breath and consistent.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And he does have like a little little hitch. Oh yes,
is that like is that a it's not it's a snore,
but it's not a full snore right.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Oh hmm?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Oh does that sleep happening?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I don't even know if that qualifies as a snore.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's annoying. It sounds like an owl, like in a nest.
Doesn't it sound like an owl?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Hooting? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Give it, give every every third one. It's a little louder,
hurt a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Let's see. Yeah, it's pretty consistent. How much time do
you think is between Let me get my clock out,
hold on a sick here.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You listen to our live coverage. We're out in the
wild here and we are. We're listening to bb Mark.
He's in southern California, hunting to beach, beautiful city, love
hunting to beach. The pier there is outstanding, just a
great place to visit. Been there many times over the years.
Let's see here, I set my timer. All right, well,
I'm gonna do it from when he finishes the next
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time he finish this year.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Here we go next time. You wait before we do it.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
How many seconds do you think I'm gonna say? There's
like three seconds in between? Lauria, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I think it was about two.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Ben cool, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Okay, I'm going three. Here we go next time he
does it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Point means you're point nine.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're out point.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Nine, all right, I think I win. I believe I win.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I didn't go over and he didn't hit four. It
was a three point nine to seven on my on
my phone on my stopwatch. So all right, thank you,
great call, bb Mark outstanding commentary.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I appreciate that. I feel like we're all we're all
better off. You're sleeping, man.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You need to get your sleep, dude, I you know,
tell you to sleep at night. And then the show
got in the way. That would have been even a
better phone call. Actually, I only would have been better
if you'd gotten on there. I think that was what
he did. There was better and a reminder that he
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Speaker 3 (25:13):
So we'll all be watching and engaged.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Milkman Mike says, this is my last night at work
before we head to Boston. The cheer on my wife
when she runs in the Marathon. I know we are
staying close to the finish line. Any suggestions on great
seafood restaurants, Well, you're talking to the wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't eat seafood.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I think that fish lives matter and I want to
leave them alive to swim in the ocean and all that.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Now, there are some.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Great restaurants in Boston, depends what you're looking for. You
want pizza, just pretty much, you can't go wrong anywhere
in the North End. They're like, they're amazing Italian restaurants
all over the place.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Now, my guy, Vinnie, what do you think we order
a pizza? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
About speaking of pizza, I lost a bet and this
goes back many years and I had to go pay
off the bet. It was a Giants Patriots bet. I
took the Patriots Vinnie who was in Boston, and he
took the He took the Giants, and I lost the bet,
and so I had to buy Vinnie and his buddy's pizza.
So we went to this place called sant Tarpio's in
(26:15):
East Boston, which is a famous, famous place. Really good pizza.
It was really really solid. Yeah, what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Let's see here?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Ferg Dog says, have you ever had a night where
every caller you went to was snoring?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, not every night, not every caller.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There was the famous there were simultaneous snores.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
There was cowboy John Brad and then there was.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
This big voice guy that used to call the show
and they were both sleeping at the same time, and
we went back and forth like dueling pianos, and it
was It was wonderful, absolutely great. Freddie writes in says,
Nico Harrison is right. The Mavericks are a championship contender
and a team to fear. I hope he knows they
have to make it to the final First, he says,
(27:05):
what else do we have? Page down Chip and the
Q says a plus. On the male of the monologue,
Harrison says he has no regrets for trading away Luca
rumor has it. He also thinks that the moon landing
was faked and the earth is flat' that's the deal there.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
What else?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Page down Bill says how many G League players are
on the MAVs? Okay, what else we have? Late night
drug tester says, is the meet and greet in Vancouver,
British Columbia just a way to grant blind Scott's wish
to get a trip strip searched from crossing the border.
(27:44):
You'd have to ask blind Scott that I have no
comment on that. Let's get back to the calls and
we'll say say hello to Angry Bill.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Who's from Nutley, New Jersey, but he lives in Florida. Hello,
Angry Bill.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Does everybody doing? Hey, how's everybody doing? Tight? Angry Let's
get back to your buddy, your mental midget. Aaron Rodgers
tell us how his signing one that he signed for
his forty million dollars with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Well, has he signed with any of you?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Are you doing a premature victory lab because I will
enjoy this when he does sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Are you are you announcing right now? Are you declaring
Angry Bill victory? Is that what you're doing right now? Prematurely?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Might I add?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
No, I don't do proble. I'm not premature with anything.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Bet No, that's not what I hear. That's not what
my for a long time. That's not what I'm told.
But I'm not there. I'm not a witness, so I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Okay, let's let's keep this we're at that right now.
Why hasn't he signed by now?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Because he's waiting for the draft to make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Yeah, he's waiting for the draft to make sure the
Steelers don't draft a quarterback because he doesn't want anyone
to challenge his territory.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
And uh, that's it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And once once the draft, after the first round is over,
and he feels confident that there's no one there that's
gonna be a threat, he'll then sign with the Steelers
and then you'll call.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Over, Well, I was right up.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
They're gonna they're gonna draft, They're gonna draft a quarterback
that If.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's the case, then they won't sign it.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
But if they don't draft a quarterback, there's there's no
there's no quarterbacks worthy of being picked in the first round.
There will be two or three picked in the first round.
They all blow.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
None of them. Should cam Ward's gonna be the first
pick in the draft? Have you seen the clips?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But cam mooredon cam Wardens is not worthy of being
the first pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
He's not that good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I'm telling you, he's a nothing. He's a washed up
football player.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Say the name, say the name, say his name, not
he they them.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
He what's his name? I don't know who he is?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Who he is Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
There you go, he said his name. You want to
shame him.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, you got some beef with Rogers, Go ahead shame him.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Oh the beef I got shot. There's nothing left.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Listen, you your shot. We still take your calls.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh that's that's that's terrible. That's that's so.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
That's terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
You gotta have. You got a man that's half dying here.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Oh, we're all dying. Every one of us is dying.
We all have a fatal illness. Everyone dies. That is
what happens.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
You say, you want a little violin here, you want
a little violent let me, let me get my crocodile
tears out?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
How about that? You want those?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Didn't you watch him play last year?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yes, yes, of course I watched the play. Is terrible.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
He was, he was terrible to get.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Who cares. It's not my money, it's not your money.
It doesn't matter. That's not that's not a violin.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Cheap, says violent Ben.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
That is not a play. That again, that is not.
That is a piano. That is not a violin. Yeah,
that is a piano.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And there's a violin in there. But yeah, we just
need the violin, We don't need the piano. That's an
ensemble performance.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Is what that is?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Yeah, beautiful, what are you gonna tell me? What are
you gonna tell you? You get your torpedo bat? Is
that what you got there? Your Yankees?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You see the Yankees home runs home versus road. Forget
the torpedo bat. How about the Williamsport field. The Yankees
playing in the Bronx, that's why they hit all those
home runs.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
You know, you go picking it on the Yankees, But
you got this made up Dodger team. It's not doing
too good right now, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Well compared to them, to the Yankees, the Dodgers of
the world.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Beaters, your world beaters. There's only one thing they beat
and it ain't the world.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well, oh my god, there's a little trophy there. Know
what you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Why do you? Why do you? Why are you so nasty?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
How nasty? What have I said? That's nasty? You step
into the arena? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Your prejudice? Number one?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
How many times you've almost gotten me fired from things
you've said on the air, and I continue to put
you on you should be thinking.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
You should be you should be licking my toes.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
You have said things so foul, so disgusting that if
they had made it on the air, I would have
lost my job.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And I keep putting you back on.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
That's because you know you're wrong. That's why.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, no, you're wrong, and the other callers suck too,
So I figured, why not you go away?
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I'm done with you. Go take some medicine or something.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Scrooge writes in says, angry Bill is on Aaron Rodgers
blankety blank. I swear he wishes every monologue was about
air and Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Scrooge also says that Vancouver is an awesome place with
the finest females. He says, okay, go very exciting. Uh
late night drug test. We'll skip over that one. What
else do we want to read?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Uh? Let me pay this off? So left handed combat
Draymond Green. Draymond he's a podcaster. You know he also
does I guess basketball, but I know him as a podcast.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Uh so podcaster. Draymond Green was asked about.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Jonathan kuminga of the wars Now, the Warriors won their game,
they did not play all that well but one of
the intriguing stories, the palace intrigue around Golden State is
a player that was deemed untouchable that Golden State wanted
Paul George. Now you talk about being lucky you didn't
get Paul George. But Golden State supposed they wanted Paul George,
(33:43):
and the Clippers said, we want Jonathan Kaminga, and the
Warriors said, no, that's a non starter. We're not We're
not going to deal this player. We think Jonathan Kamena
is so important to us. We cannot trade this man.
He is such a valuable asset to our team. We
cannot trade him.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
I hope you understand.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And so the Clippers were bummed out, and so they
Paul George went to Philadelphia and the Warriors capt Jonathan Kaminga,
who played as many minutes in that game against the
Grizzlies as you and I did.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
So.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Draymond Green, the podcaster, was asked about Jonathan Kamenda and
the podcaster Draymond Green said, he'll contribute in.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
The Houston series. And then from.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
The upper rope, he gave the left handed hook of
a compliment, he gave the atomic elbow. Draymond said, The
challenge for him, meaning Jonathan Kaminga, is to stay mentally
engaged quotes quote Is that not the perfect left handed
(34:40):
compliment for Like, this guy is mentally weak. He doesn't
pay attention and that's his problem. Like did he not
just spell it out right there? I believe he did.
Time now for the inch to trivia and here we go,
the only guards in the NBA to average twenty five points,
five rebounds and five assists this season. Where Luca, Donzik
and Blank. That is the insta trivia the answer. We'll
(35:04):
get to it and we will do it.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Next.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
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Speaker 2 (35:22):
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every night. Keep me your company. Good to have you
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you can stream this show. You have no reason to
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Speaker 3 (35:44):
Just search Fox Sports Radio on the.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
App, you can stream us live and one of the
newest features in the app, you can select Fox Sports
Radio is one of the presets. Just also Ben Maler
Show and the Fifth Hour Podcast just like the presets
on your radio dial. So be sure to preset Fox
Sports Radio, the Ben Mahler Show in the Fifth Hour
podcast on the iHeart app always will pop up right
(36:07):
at the top of your screen.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And my name is.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Ben, by the way, and here is the quickly quick
way the inch to trivia.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And the only guards in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
To average twenty five points five rebounds of five assists
this season were Luca, Donzik and Blank. That is the question.
What is the answer?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Does anyone know the answer? Let's see your page. Dan
Claire Foy, who is forty one today? I have no
idea who that is? Yao ming from Scrooge That, by
the way, that was Late Night drug testers answer. Jack
Delroy from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Chuck Gpt from Alf
(36:49):
the Alien Opiner who is still not recovered from that
beatdown in Scrabble. Angry Bill guessed by Malard Property. That's
about what angry Bill looks.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Like in my head.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, Jug Ahead owns from Donkey's Sausage. Aaron Rogers guessed
by King Ry Polkai legend Al Bundy from Ozzie was
Terry in England. That's a terrible picture that you use
for that stupid doll of mine. Kt the wingman says,
Angryville's favorite Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
What say you Lorrain.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
The plumber who broke my house today?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, more on that later. It is actually Kate Cuttingham cadding.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Here we got Speler. How about that to the third degree?
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Gooberlo all right, Ben, love to see here.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Former Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson returned to Arizona on Monday
to announce his retirement with the team that drafted him
back in twenty eleven. Ben, do you think Peterson is
a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
He's a borderline Hall of Famer. The criteria that I
use for the Hall of Fame, he does not. He's borderlined.
He wasn't All Pro three times. He was on an
All Decade team. But you can certainly tell the story
of the NFL without.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Mentioning Patrick Peterson.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
He there's there's really nothing there there that is over
the top memorable. He's he's one of those borderline guys
that it'll maybe he gets in down the line, but
it's not a no brainer.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Next, quarterback Will Howard recently said the same thing that
all draft prospects say.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Draft Meal, you're or you will regret it.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
You will regret it.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Ben, what is your assessment of the college football National champ.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Uh, he's fine. He's got the the size of.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
A good NFL player, and he's got the he's got
the accolades. But I don't there's nothing that says this
guy's going to Megan now.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
He he does not have an elite arm and you
look at all the you know, the decision making and
all that stuff that he was locked in on receivers.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
He's like a second or third round pick. And maybe
he'll make it.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Maybe he will, but I'm not overly confident that Will
Howard's gonna go on and be great. He may maybe'd
be like Brock Purty get with a good team, be overrated.
Speaker 7 (39:03):
Next, for the first time in eleven years, someone other
than Lebron James or Steph Curry has the best selling
jersey in the in the NBA, and that player is
Luka Doncik Ben. Is it safe to say that with
the trade to Los Angeles, Luca is the next face
of the NBA.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
No, it's safe to say that he changed teams and
there's a lot of historians that wanted to buy his
jersey and so they sold a lot. That's why he
was number. He's not the face of the NBA.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You failed this edition. He is the face of the NBA.
Joe is not. No, he's not. Nobody says that they're
gonna lose to Minnesota.
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