May 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the conspiracy theory that the NBA rigged the lottery to send Cooper Flagg to the Dallas Mavericks, what the No. 1 overall pick really means in the context of the big picture, Maller's Mountain of Money: Stevie Wonder Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. It's our number ber three. Our number
three is ready for me and more importantly, treadit for you.
And it's all about the draft lottery, which was held
in Chicago on Monday night with much controversy. Buy or
sell the conspiracy theory that the NBA rigged the lottery
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to send Cooper Flag the Dallas as payback for the
Mavericks giving Luca to the Lakers. Also, what does the
number one overall pick really mean in the context of
winning in the big picture? And do you find it
odd that the Mavericks owner Patrick DuMond was not paying
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attention to the draft lottery. Yeah, he had to be
told that the team won the draft lottery. We'll get
to that as well. All of it's coming your way
right now here. It is our number three in a
King Pong kind of a mood. The one day year
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we talk about Ping Pong. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show.
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We are in the air everywhere, me here and you there,
as we are where the airwaves meet the night, coast
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And beyond on the vast and ginormously powerful microphones of
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approved by Spacoli, who's in Chapel Hill, and also by
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Justin in Cincinnati, a retired caller to the show used
to call the show. He's retired now. At one point
we had tons of Cincinnati calls. We had Cardiac Stanley,
just Josh, we had Justin and Cincinnati. There were a
bunch of guys from Cincinnati, and they've all either retired
or they've gone to the dreaded day shift. So it's
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unfortunate our domination in Cincinnati in terms of callers came
to an end. But our lead this hour from Sweet
Home Chicago, Ping Pong, Ding dong. That is where much
of the focus on the draft lottery was on a
Monday prior prior to the New York Knickerbockers beating the
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Celtics and Jason Tatum having a devastating leg injury, a
non contact injury which ninety nine percent of the time
means they popped achilles. So before that game, the twenty
twenty five draft lottery. Now, going into the lottery, you
had the Hornets the Jazz and the Wizards. They hyped
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U up. They said all had fourteen percent chances. Each
had a fourteen percent chance of getting the top pick.
So I happen to have this on I was watching.
I was more interested in the baseball. I was watching
the Tigers in the Red Sox game. I may or
may not have had a financial stake in that game.
So I was watching that. But I made sure to
the flip over. They had old timer, very convenient, so
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they had a timer to announce when they were actually
going to announce the picks. I didn't need the fluff.
I said, no fluff, and so I didn't watch the fluff.
And I set a time on my watch, and so
I said, okay. So they said ten minutes they'll start
revealing the picks. So I went away for ten minutes
and they came back and then they lied. There was
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like another two minutes and then they revealed the picks.
But fine, so I watched that part of it. The
Dallas Mavericks with a one point eight percent chance. I
assume you've heard by now, but maybe not. The mav
Res have won the number one overall pick. They win
the draft lottery on Monday Night, and they get that
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top selection in next month's draft, and that means they
are going to plant the flag as in Cooper Flag,
the pride of Maine, the greatest thing to come out
of Maine since Blair in Maine. The freshman who was
part of the Duke basketball team that got to the
Final Four and then went belly up in his lone
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college season, giving up all that nil money to go
to the NBA, the consensus player of the Year, that
John R. Wooden Award winner, and so he will go
to Dallas. Barring some kind of failed physical or maybe
Nico Harrison will hear that he doesn't like to work
out and he enjoys cheeseburgers and then cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger,
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he won't go to Dallas. But aside from that, san
Antonio will pick second. Philadelphia, considered by many to be
the big winner outside of Dallas. Philadelphia will draft third.
They were most likely going to give up that pick,
it was expected they would, but they will not. And
the Charlott basketball team another lottery pick. It doesn't matter.
They're in the lottery every year. They have a top
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seven or eight pick every year and nothing changes. Repeat
history just repeats itself. But the story don't bury the
lead ma man. All right. The story is Dallas picking
at the very top of the draft. And there are
many streaming yours truly included, that it's rigged. It's a
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rig deal, it's a rigged playing field, the NBA draft lottery.
So let us discuss buy or sell a widespread conspiracy
theory that the NBA rigged the lottery to send the
top pick and thus Cooper Flag to Dallas to complete
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a previous transaction. So on, on this one, we have
the kool Aid, President, Bush, and Blubber, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to enjoy some delicious nachos, because whoever's going to dall
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is going to enjoy some great nachos there and hang
out and live the life and all that the Mavericks.
Let me start here my first thought on this. The
NBA has a history of being shady. Now listen, I
watch it, and I enjoy it during the playoffs. I
don't really enjoy it much during the regular season. I do.
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I used to be around the NBA a lot back
in my younger days, and then I had a great time.
I have great memories of the NBA. That being said,
they don't get the benefit of the doubt on these situations.
And so in terms of the conspiracy, if you've heard
the show over the years, you know I am a
case by case conspiracy theorist. I don't blindly believe every conspiracy.
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There are some that I absolutely believe. For example, the
night the lights went out at the stadium in Baltimore,
the Orioles and Mariners, there was a power ade just
in the neighborhood around Camden Yards and there was an
incident involving cal Ripken. The streak would have ended early,
so they made sure the power went out, and all
that I believe that conspiracy. I think that Michael Jordan
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was suspended for gambling and they sent him to Birmingham
to play out his suspension for a couple of years
before he went back to the Chicago Bulls. I believe
that one. The one that is universally agreed upon is
that the NBA rigged the draft lottery way back in
the day. They rigged it. So we'll get to that
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in a second. But I'm drinking the kool aid. I'm
the kool aid Man. Oh yeah, I'm the kool aid
Man when it comes to this, because let me make
my elevator pitch. It makes sense. The Mavericks gave away
the biggest asset. They did the thing you can't do
at the time. You can't do it. No one, No
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one gives away their top player the way the Mavericks
did for some essentially some ramen, noodles and hot water
to be named later. That's that's essentially what they did.
And if you're going to get rid of a top player,
you shop the player around to try to get the
most in return. Dallas decided just to give him to
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only one team, the Lakers. That is malfeasans at the
highest level, that is high crimes and misdemeanors as a
felony in the business of professional sports, and the Mavericks
did it. Now the theory. There were multiple conspiracy theories
at the time. One of them was that the Mavericks
owner wanted to undermine the fan base because they wanted
the team to move to Las Vegas. There was another
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one that the NBA orchestrated Luca to go to the Lakers.
Television ratings were bad, the NBA was in the final
year of one TV agreement. They were about to go
to the new TV deal which starts next season with
Amazon and NBC. Part of it turners out, and so
they were trying to fortify the ratings. They were trying
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to get the ratings up, and so what better way
to get the ratings up than to just drop Luka
Donzik into LA for nothing right for trash, And that's
what happened. So that and so then this would be
the other part of that. Dallas got Garbaie in return.
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They got a fragile, broken down Anthony Davis who probably
got hurt his first game with the Mavericks. Perfect perfect
Max Christie who's just jagged, just a guy, and one
first round pick in twenty twenty nine for their top
player and a fan favorite and all of that, and
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a team that was coming off in appearance in the
NBA Finals. So nobody does that. Nobody who's trying to
do things the right way does that. So the lottery win.
I again, we'll go back to some sorcery here if
you will, because there was some funny business going on
here in the real world. The secret code was given
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by the NBA to unlock the treasure map, and here
it is quid pro quo. You help us out. You
give the Lakers a player they don't deserve for nothing,
and we'll take care of you. Okay, we'll get you.
We'll get you that number one pick. We're good. And
I don't even know if it's illegal. People are like, well,
it should be an investigation. Like they're in entertainment business.
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They can do they can rig the draft. Like what
is the crime. Who's going to go to jail if
the NBA came out today and said we rigged the draft.
Here's how we did it, Like, what's the what's the charge? Like,
they'll say, hey, we're sports entertainment business. This is entertainment.
It's a plot twist, it's a storyline, and we're all
about the storylines. But as far as the the details
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on this, the Mavericks again they helped the league favorable
treatment from Adam Soiver, the commissioner and the people underneath him.
A one point eight percent chance to win. You gotta
be joking, right, you gotta be joking. That is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. The kind of funny business that
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has been going on in the NBA for multiple generations.
We are going back forty years, forty years nineteen eighty five,
hat trick ewing, the frozen envelope, do do do do
do Do Do Do Do Do do doo? And if
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it's not rigged, if it's not rigged, then why don't
they just show it? The NHL wasn't a great product,
but they showed it on TV. They showed the actual
lottery process, the National Hockey League. And even if you
show it on TV, there are still ways to rig it,
Like there's ways you can doctor it and futs around
with it and all that stuff, but they don't show
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it now. Secondly, wide angle lens, what does the number
one over really mean in terms of wins and losses
context of the big picture? So what does it really mean? Right?
What does it really mean here? So the arithmetic is
not kind. As President Bush said back in the day,
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it's fuzzy math. It's fuzzy math. The assumption is, if
you get the top pick in the draft, you are
guaranteed to be a contender. You are a championship team,
and you have a good chance of winning a championship.
So let's dive into that. What do you say, let's
see if we can find that out, is that really
the way it is, because that's how it's sold. I
watched the opening part of the lottery and it's oh,
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these are how players change franchises' fortunes and lead them
to the promised Land. So there have been seventy five
top picks in the Pro Bouncy Ball draft since nineteen fifty,
seventy five number one overall picks nineteen fifty And of those,
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what percentage has won a championship with the team that
drafted them? What do you think? How about you got
a number? How about twelve percent nine out of fifty
nine out of fifty, So that means forty one were
drafted and didn't win bupkis for the team that they
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were drafted by. And how about the modernary? You said, well,
who cares about nineteen fifty? How about the modern era? Okay,
so the modern era since the year two thousand. Holy crap,
that's the modern era since the year two thousand. It's
even worse. There have been twenty five top pick since
the year two thousand, and only two have won a
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championship and they both did it on the same team.
That was the Lebron James who left to go to Miami,
came back with Kyrie Irving, who was also a top pick.
And that's it. Those those are the only two since
the year two thousand. So what does that mean? Get
to the point, please, So it means the Cooper flag
looks great on a tablet watching highlights on the YouTube.
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But as far as him being the messiah, the savior
of the Mavericks, history says he's not going to lead
Dallas to a championship, right, And of course this all
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
The odds though, since the year two thousand, you are
much more likely to get the next Andrea Barnani or
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Markel Foltz or god forbid, Ben Simmons with the top
pick in the draft. And when when flag?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
When? When? What he will do when he arrives, when
he shows up in Dallas is he will fall out
the coldness like there's a there's a new opportunity. My
argument is, as long as Nico Harrison's the GM, the
Snank's going to be there, you can't trust the perception
is and he and I I tend to buy into
the conspiracies, I said, as I pointed out, I buy
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the conspiracy that this was done at a higher level,
at the ownership level and between the league. That being said, though,
if I if I cared about the Mavericks and I
own the Mavericks, I would fire Nico Harrison today. I'd
have a clean start and say Nico, you're done. Because
even if you bring Cooper flag in, who's to say
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that Cooper on the road. They go to a buffet
somewhere in Milwaukee and he gets fat, and then Nico
trades him, gives him to the Lakers for some washed
up celebrity that was last famous in the seventies. You know,
why not? What the hell? All? Right? Final thought? So
we were told that Mark Cuban, the number one fanboy
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of the no longer the owner. But Mark Cuban had
to call the new Mavericks owner, Patrick DuMond, to let
him know that they procured the top pick in the draft.
Do you find it odd that the question do you
find it odd that the Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont was
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not paying attention to the draft lottery for the team
that he's running. So you can't see me, but I'm
nod in my head. Yes, I'm not I'm not in
my head. Yes, So let's discuss this. So Mark Cuban
calls up the owner and says, hey, we were in
the top four and then we got the number one pick.
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Now is this a big deal, a little deal or
no deal? It is a to me, it's a big deal.
To me, it's a big deal because Dumont. Now, people said, well,
he was at his daughter's track meet and all that,
and people will dismiss this as well, you're just being
a hater, dude. That's why you're doing the Overnight show.
You're just a hater. Yeah, okay, this is amazing. We
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live in a wild, wild, wild world, in a world
with things called Wi Fi. It's amazing. So while many
will dismiss this and just say, well, he was just
being a good dad, he was prioritizing his family, we
think it's a big deal because you can multitask, right,
Dumont is still new to the Mavericks, and one of
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the conspiracies, aside from the one we shared earlier, one
of the conspiracies was we don't know he's doing. He's
not only a basketball person, and this would buy into
that narrative that he's just disengaged, that this is just
a property that you don't really have any passion for it,
And just like he's married into the family and it's
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a gambling family, and they're using the Mavericks to get
a casino in Dallas, and so it's all part of
that deal. They don't really care about team. So this
is tossing blubber into the polar bear cage, big piece
of blubber. So you tell me you can't multitask even
at one point eight percent chance, Like, you wouldn't just
pull your phone out and watch on your phone like
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so many of us do while they're at a sporting event,
the kids wrestling, or at a track and field event.
There's eight million events. You wouldn't dust your phone off
and check that out. Come on it's ridiculous the smartphone.
You can be the dad of the year and watch
your daughter run around a track and also watch the lottery.
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It is possible. If it's your if it's in your blood,
if it's your passion, you'll figure out a way. All right,
is the Ben Maler Show? You want to come out
on any of that? Also, Minnesota and New York both
on the brink of advancing in the NBA postseason and games.
Last night, Boston blowing a fourteen point lead, Jason Tatum
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pop goes the achilles. It would appear, though it's not
one hundred percent yet, it's ninety nine point nine percent
an achilles injury, non contact injury. So he's out for
the long haul. And that is where we are coming
up later this hour. Coming up for you in a
few minutes, we are going to have a new edition
of Malar's Mouth Money. But time now for the Mallor
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Riddle of the Day. And here's the Mallord Riddle of
the day. Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was holding a
blank the whole time during his postgame news conference following
Minnesota's win over Golden State on Monday night. Again, wolfstar
Anthony Edwards was spotted holding a blank the whole time
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during his postgame news conference on Monday night after Minnesota
kod at least for the night the Golden State Warriors.
That is the Mallord Riddle of the day. The answer,
we'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Ben and we'll pay off the Mallor Riddle of the day,
the malory of the day. We monologue begin the hour
about the draft lottery, the Dallas Matters with a one
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point eight percent chance. Just strolled in and won the
draft lottery. Here's the Mallor riddle of the day. Mid
Minnesota star Anthony Edwards was holding a blank the entire
time during his postgame news conference on Monday night following
Minnesota's win over Golden State. And Let's see Miguel on
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Fire says he was holding a box full of paternity tests.
Miguel says, you are the father. Late Night Drug Tester
he was holding his sour dough starter from Oakland, says
the Late Night Drug Tester. Who else? He was clutching
his Benny Award guest by Mallard prop Guy the Mallard
Palooza seat filler Page down he was holding a talk
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to Me Goose t shirt classic from Mason Mister Mason
and Huntington Beach alf the alien O Piner says he
was holding a frozen envelope. Lady Sideburns going with a
sock puppet as his answer. King Rory says an IV
filled with kosher dills. Wow, what else we have? Page
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dam Fergdog says his good luck charm. A picture of
Gunner from the Walmart in Northern Minnesota. A paddle from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Keith Oto, Texo says he was
holding his junk the entire time. Justin in Cincinnati mentioned
something that he's currently holding right now, but unfortunately Anthony
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Edwards was not holding that. And Pirito had the same answer,
by the way, the same answer you guys had that
ready to go. Joe the ghost Hunter from Ohio says
a flush handle on Charlie in Dallas's toilet, a delicious
meatball sub from Donkey Sausage. Kathy in Madison said something
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about a tally whacker, is what she that's old school.
Kathy and Madison, Ike and Roseville, Minnesota went with you
are the father the paternity suit, A Philly blunt guess
by Double Oxican A Chihuahua from Dante Lebron's man purse
from Robin, Minnesota. That is still one of the great clips.
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I know it's old now, but Lebron at the NBA
Finals news conference standing up and walking away grabbing his
purse to walk away is still hilarious. I laugh. That's right,
little Maggie, that's right. JT the Wingman says a juicy lucy. Yeah,
those are so good. You gotta miss that, JT. You're
in Knoxville, Tennessee. You can't find a juicy Lucy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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A Rubbert ducky guessed by Steve the misplaced san Diegan.
That's his answer, Yuko Leiley from Mike the Leprechaun who's
beaten and broken and devastated and all that. What else
do we have? Page down? He can't read that one
on there all right, Lorain. Anthony Edwards, a Minnesota basketball player,
was holding a blank the whole time during his postgame
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news conference on Monday. A fidget spinner, Ben fidget spinner?
Is that correct? Let's find out. No, that's incorrect. Anthony
Edwards Wolf star Anthony Edwards was holding a Gary Payton
Seattle SuperSonics jersey the whole time. Peer a lot of
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love for Gary Payton. Here's the odd thing, though, I
was doing the math on this, and there's a pretty
good chance that Anthony Edwards didn't really see Gary Peyton play.
Maybe at the end that Gary Payton played until six
o seven. He was thirty eight, so six o seven.
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Then you do the math on this. I said there'd
be no math. But Anthony Edwards, he's a young lad,
a young pup so he was born in one So
when Gary Payton played his last game in the NBA,
Anthony Edwards was like five or six, so he never
even saw really Gary Payton played basketball, but he has
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respect for his game. Let's go to the phones. Danny
de Vijo is online, and when Danny DeVito's online, you've
got to take his phone call. Hello, Danny, Welcome Mit, Samela, Hi,
how are you? What's going on? Danny? If I was
any better, I'd be a Celtic, but not a Boston
Celtic because they're up against it right now.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
And that's why I'm calling. That's one of the reasons
why I'm falling the boss of Celtics. I hate to say.
You know, I'm from Boston and I am a bost
of Celtics fan, but they are overrated then overrated teams.
And I was wrong about the nick. I guess I
tracked next to a couple months ago. I called in
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and I was basically calling Nixic jokes. I was wrong
on that.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, Danny, Danny, Danny, they were in the regular season,
they lost to all the good teams, so at the
time you made that comment, they were worthy of that comment.
The problem is that that is what they did do
they obviously aren't that same team right now, are playing
at a higher level, and it helps the Celtics have
falling apart and and so it's working, it's working in
their favor. But they were terrible against the top teams
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in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yes, it's funny how the playoffs chan change teams for
some teams, But how about Missoula. Then, uh, pus should
maybe fight this guy. I mean, they're up by twenty
points in game one and two, both games, and then
uh you know, and then he still tells the team
to keep shooting three I mean sixty three balls. I
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think it was in game one or something like that.
I don't remember that. Back to it. But when you're
up by twenty points about hole on the ball? Are
going to the rim protecting that league? I mean I
think it. I think they might have to fight this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, when they're not going to fire him, because
whoever they hire is going to play the same way.
And now Missoula's got the ultimate get out of trouble
card because well we would have won if Tatum and
stayed healthy, we were only down nine he got her,
we would have made a couple of shots we would
have got, we would have won that game. We would
have come back and beaten the Knicks. And now we lost,
and so it's not you know, it's not his fault.
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We lost. We'll come back and we'll do better next year.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I don't know, Ben, you think that the next guy
coming in, we'll actually cheaking to do it. We're actually
coaching to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well because Missoula. To me, he's just following what they
want the front office, that's what they want. This is
the style of play they want. They've they're analytically driven
that You've got that Sloan Nerd conference in Boston every year,
and this is that the by product of that. The
nerds love this. They get all horny when they watched
three point shots. They can't get enough of.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
But it had the history of not one. I know
they won lots. Yeah, but remember the Phoenix Sun. E
don't though the teams the Phoenix that are running up
and down the floor with about ten to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, with Mike D'Antoni and Mike the d system don't
want nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
The NBA draft shops man, the NBA draft I think
it's choke ouse. Yeah, I mean, how does it Dallas
Mavick get the number one six?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
They're either they're either really lucky or it's rigged one
of those two.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
So yeah, it's gotta be d ninety seven. Then when
the box was five fos, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you're gonna get Tim. You're gonna get Tim Duncan,
and you you ended up with Chauncey Billups right, was
that the one you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It was Bill could not being a good play. I
think Phillips Ron Murca.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, yeah, but you want it. You wanted Duncan and
then yeah, Rick and Rick Patino went there thinking they
were gonna get Duncan. He didn't get dunk. I gotta go,
Thank you, Dandy, all right, to be safe out there
is Dandy. Hello to America's favorite drag queen caller for Lexus,
who is in Buffalo. Hello for Lexus, Hello, my.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Dear, how are you doing? Lemanda?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
More important? No, that's not her name. You said the
wrong name. That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I thought that was her name Maren or somebody.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Can be whoever you are. I thought you said Amanda,
though it didn't sound like you said a man, you said, Amanda,
are you on drugs right now?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
She's cute.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Okay, she wasn't cute. You wouldn't love her, you know.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
For the riddle I was going to say, you was
hoving is univers.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, we're done with the riddle. We've moved on from that.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Oh that would have been my answer though.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
See, yeah, well we're more more important. What's happening with
your toe situation here? Last week? Talked to you you
were having some issues.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I'll let you know Sunday night or Monday morning, whenever
it is. I get my results Friday, Okay. I got
to the office of the agent to believe in after
that and oh no, all.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Right, well we're thinking good thoughts for you for Alexis.
Hopefully it'll work out.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I want to talk about the draft.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
No, you don't. You don't care about the draft.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I don't care about the draft of the pre seasons
here today, going tomorrow. I don't know what the big
issue is about. My god, go go take a pun
and have a shot on me.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
That's your advice. So just avoid the draft, take a
pill and have a drink.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's great advice. That's America's favorite drag queen caller right there,
for lexis giving wisdom and knowledge only Filexus can provide
free with me area, Yes, I definitely. I like that
you call her a different name every time you say
her name. I like that. That's good.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
She's a pretty girl. She deserves all kinds of games.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, I mean names, Yes, Okay, I thank you. All right,
there you go, all right, there, there he go where
he goes only he knows, see Rob Wrights. Since it's
been contrary to your belief, it actually would be illegal
for the NBA to fix the draft. Under the Sports
Briber React of nineteen sixty four, the commissioner and top
(30:57):
league executives would face felony charges. Yeah, good luck on that, Rob.
And what if there's no bribery, what if there's It's like,
this isn't we're doing business. This is how we do business.
That's it. This is the way it works. And if
you don't think any funny business is going on, Rob, listen,
(31:17):
maybe maybe you're right. And no no corruption anywhere, none
at all. It's all on the up and up. There's
no shady business going on, and it's all our imagination
and all those stories that have been proven shady, like
Tim Donnie. I remember there were people all the time,
so oh he didn't do anything ridiculous like throwing games
(31:40):
or anything like, they'd never know. That's just a you
conspiracy theories, didn't he was it the CIA? I think
the CIA came up with that term to dismiss anyone
that questioned the government. You use the conspiracy theory, and
then all of a sudden, you're just a whack a doodle.
You're just a whack of doodle, is what you are.
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Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not, sue?
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What timeout for malos? Amount of money that's made our
contestants for this game show? We have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play?
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Jed? Okay?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Hello Charlie.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
I love with Charlie.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Dude, I love Charlie. I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't don't
influence them? And Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Jed was now invailable?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Ill?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Okay, that's right down l next to your name. Lorena
picked door number one, door number two or door number three,
number three? All right, well you're gonna picked Greg in
South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What's going on there? He is? Look at this guy? Unbelievable. Greg,
you won Lorraina picked number three. You were on the
third line. Look at that, of course. That's right? All right?
And Greg, what part of South Carolina are you in?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I am from Gasney on the home with the Peach.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There you go home, Japhany, that's where you've heard of
that coup?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from uh the House
of Cards.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
That's exactly right, But that was not in those shows.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Oh yeah, Hollywood, you know he used the name but
a different location.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
That's terrible. Yeah right, Well, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Greg? You got me Ben or Lorraine if you want
some fun? I know a couple of these this time. Okay,
all right, all right, I guess you picked me a fine,
very good. Justin you're with Jed Jeed pick a category.
Please hold on a second, mature, everyone's on. Don't hang
up on.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
You, all right. This is the Stevie Wonder edition of
Mallage amount of money. He turned seventy five years old.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Today, seventy five. You know he's been able to see
his whole life. Uh.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
The category is sign sealed delivered. I'm yours superstition higher
ground or isn't she lovely?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Jed, what would you like?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Of course? Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:12):
And then Greg, how about you? Which category would you like?
Superstition superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you and I
are up first. You know the rules of the game,
so I'm not going to tell them to you. Forty
five seconds on the clock, we have higher ground. These
athletes got better after changing teams forty five seconds begin.
He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
(35:33):
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback Yes, uh,
this guy was on the Clippers. He is now the
MVP on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
I gotta no, I get Holy crap, Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
He's got like three names hyphenated last name. All right,
all right, we's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is
now a star on the New York Knicks. He came
from the Dallas Mavericks. Yes no, you no, you got it,
the b YU star. He was the backup for Joe
Montana Hiver. Yes, this guy was nicknamed the bus running back. Yes,
(36:12):
this guy was dropped out of high school. He was
on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He was part of the Mall you really got hung
up on Shake Jogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg. Let's show him how it's done here, Greg,
let's school these cats. No problem. You picked superstition, Is
that correct?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right? These athletes all are known to be superstitious.
Are you ready? Greg? Forty five seconds on the clock,
Are you ready ready? All right? Ron A Wago quarterback
for the Chiefs right now. Pecker, Yes, tight end for
the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes, the big
fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in the early
(36:53):
two thousands and the late nineties. Center. All right, let's
go to a baseball player third basement for the Red
Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of famer. Yes, basketball
player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks. All right,
No basketball for you. How about this baseball player. It
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was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets. He
liked to chew licorice between innings, kind of an eccentric
to superstitious guy white guy in the nineties. Speaking of nineties,
you got ninety points. Wow, that means we can go again.
Oh good ah, exciting. You didn't get I didn't even
try Raffie on the doll, but you didn't get him.
(37:36):
Uge Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan and Jason Tay. You're not
a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay, we're screwed. All right?
What category we have? What do we have? Signed, sealed, delivered?
I'm yours? And isn't she lovely? Isn't she isn't? Sah? Yeah,
isn't She's just lovely to deliver? I mean, shut up,
(38:00):
all right, these athletes recently, I'm not gonna try the
basketball names. These athletes did not even did not are
these athletes recently had a daughter? So here we go.
Are you ready? Greg? All right? Forty five seconds on
the clock, Here would go go? Quarterback for the Dallas
Cowboys right now, Yes, slugger from Japan. He's also a
pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah. Quarterback for the Carolina Panthers
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when they when when they went to the Super Bowl.
Was the MVP. Yes, wide receiver for the Bengals. He
changed his name, Yes, Pitcher. He was the ace of
the Milwaukee Brewers. He went to the Orioles. He's still pitching.
He's on the Diamondbacks now. Last name is like the
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guy from the Simpsons, the owner of the power plant. There.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those, right, and this should be one of them.
Enough you it was Corbyn Burns, remember cor Yeah, but
you got all the other ones. I even try the
basketball ones because you got one night. All right, Jed,
we need fifty points here to tie. Choke shed six.
(39:15):
Do not choke, shed choke, don't choke, choke.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
I'm not I'm just I'm telling him. Not the choke
I steal delivered on yours. These athletes were practically given
away in lopsided trades.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Choke and let's begin,
all right. This guy was an MVP for the Red Sox.
He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh, he's
not confident. This guy was a running back for the Rams,
part of the Greatest Show on turf mar Yes, that
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ties us. This guy was a slugger for the Oakland A's.
He went to the Cardinals. He was a cheater.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
No chance, no.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Chance, let's think Derek again.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
No, no big Red, No, no choke, don't joke Red,
don't choke jad big Red.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
He was on the race with Sammy Sosa football. Yes,
nothing went in to hear that I had tried. I
didn't try to change stop. I didn't try to change that.
I didn't try to change sit. You check your ash
down there cool you under say though, you shick your
ass down. Okay, that's bull crap. You put a guy
on that doesn't no basketball and you had basketball theres
(40:30):
You cheated. You're a Cheater're a cheater. You cheated. You
put up the non basketball guy and you asked basketball questions.
Bouncy, bouncy bouncy. It's our number ber three. Our number
three is ready for me and more importantly, treadit for you.
And it's all about the draft lottery, which was held
in Chicago on Monday night with much controversy. Buy or
sell the conspiracy theory that the NBA rigged the lottery
(00:22):
to send Cooper Flag the Dallas as payback for the
Mavericks giving Luca to the Lakers. Also, what does the
number one overall pick really mean in the context of
winning in the big picture? And do you find it
odd that the Mavericks owner Patrick DuMond was not paying
(00:44):
attention to the draft lottery. Yeah, he had to be
told that the team won the draft lottery. We'll get
to that as well. All of it's coming your way
right now here. It is our number three in a
King Pong kind of a mood. The one day year
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we talk about Ping Pong. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We are in the air everywhere, me here and you there,
as we are where the airwaves meet the night, coast
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And beyond on the vast and ginormously powerful microphones of
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the Overnight from the Fox Sports Radio studios, which are
approved by Spacoli, who's in Chapel Hill, and also by
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Justin in Cincinnati, a retired caller to the show used
to call the show. He's retired now. At one point
we had tons of Cincinnati calls. We had Cardiac Stanley,
just Josh, we had Justin and Cincinnati. There were a
bunch of guys from Cincinnati, and they've all either retired
or they've gone to the dreaded day shift. So it's
(02:11):
unfortunate our domination in Cincinnati in terms of callers came
to an end. But our lead this hour from Sweet
Home Chicago, Ping Pong, Ding dong. That is where much
of the focus on the draft lottery was on a
Monday prior prior to the New York Knickerbockers beating the
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Celtics and Jason Tatum having a devastating leg injury, a
non contact injury which ninety nine percent of the time
means they popped achilles. So before that game, the twenty
twenty five draft lottery. Now, going into the lottery, you
had the Hornets the Jazz and the Wizards. They hyped
(02:57):
U up. They said all had fourteen percent chances. Each
had a fourteen percent chance of getting the top pick.
So I happen to have this on I was watching.
I was more interested in the baseball. I was watching
the Tigers in the Red Sox game. I may or
may not have had a financial stake in that game.
So I was watching that. But I made sure to
the flip over. They had old timer, very convenient, so
(03:19):
they had a timer to announce when they were actually
going to announce the picks. I didn't need the fluff.
I said, no fluff, and so I didn't watch the fluff.
And I set a time on my watch, and so
I said, okay. So they said ten minutes they'll start
revealing the picks. So I went away for ten minutes
and they came back and then they lied. There was
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like another two minutes and then they revealed the picks.
But fine, so I watched that part of it. The
Dallas Mavericks with a one point eight percent chance. I
assume you've heard by now, but maybe not. The mav
Res have won the number one overall pick. They win
the draft lottery on Monday Night, and they get that
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top selection in next month's draft, and that means they
are going to plant the flag as in Cooper Flag,
the pride of Maine, the greatest thing to come out
of Maine since Blair in Maine. The freshman who was
part of the Duke basketball team that got to the
Final Four and then went belly up in his lone
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college season, giving up all that nil money to go
to the NBA, the consensus player of the Year, that
John R. Wooden Award winner, and so he will go
to Dallas. Barring some kind of failed physical or maybe
Nico Harrison will hear that he doesn't like to work
out and he enjoys cheeseburgers and then cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger,
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he won't go to Dallas. But aside from that, san
Antonio will pick second. Philadelphia, considered by many to be
the big winner outside of Dallas. Philadelphia will draft third.
They were most likely going to give up that pick,
it was expected they would, but they will not. And
the Charlott basketball team another lottery pick. It doesn't matter.
They're in the lottery every year. They have a top
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seven or eight pick every year and nothing changes. Repeat
history just repeats itself. But the story don't bury the
lead ma man. All right. The story is Dallas picking
at the very top of the draft. And there are
many streaming yours truly included, that it's rigged. It's a
(05:26):
rig deal, it's a rigged playing field, the NBA draft lottery.
So let us discuss buy or sell a widespread conspiracy
theory that the NBA rigged the lottery to send the
top pick and thus Cooper Flag to Dallas to complete
(05:48):
a previous transaction. So on, on this one, we have
the kool Aid, President, Bush, and Blubber, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to enjoy some delicious nachos, because whoever's going to dall
(06:14):
is going to enjoy some great nachos there and hang
out and live the life and all that the Mavericks.
Let me start here my first thought on this. The
NBA has a history of being shady. Now listen, I
watch it, and I enjoy it during the playoffs. I
don't really enjoy it much during the regular season. I do.
(06:36):
I used to be around the NBA a lot back
in my younger days, and then I had a great time.
I have great memories of the NBA. That being said,
they don't get the benefit of the doubt on these situations.
And so in terms of the conspiracy, if you've heard
the show over the years, you know I am a
case by case conspiracy theorist. I don't blindly believe every conspiracy.
(06:59):
There are some that I absolutely believe. For example, the
night the lights went out at the stadium in Baltimore,
the Orioles and Mariners, there was a power ade just
in the neighborhood around Camden Yards and there was an
incident involving cal Ripken. The streak would have ended early,
so they made sure the power went out, and all
that I believe that conspiracy. I think that Michael Jordan
(07:22):
was suspended for gambling and they sent him to Birmingham
to play out his suspension for a couple of years
before he went back to the Chicago Bulls. I believe
that one. The one that is universally agreed upon is
that the NBA rigged the draft lottery way back in
the day. They rigged it. So we'll get to that
(07:43):
in a second. But I'm drinking the kool aid. I'm
the kool aid Man. Oh yeah, I'm the kool aid
Man when it comes to this, because let me make
my elevator pitch. It makes sense. The Mavericks gave away
the biggest asset. They did the thing you can't do
at the time. You can't do it. No one, No
(08:03):
one gives away their top player the way the Mavericks
did for some essentially some ramen, noodles and hot water
to be named later. That's that's essentially what they did.
And if you're going to get rid of a top player,
you shop the player around to try to get the
most in return. Dallas decided just to give him to
(08:24):
only one team, the Lakers. That is malfeasans at the
highest level, that is high crimes and misdemeanors as a
felony in the business of professional sports, and the Mavericks
did it. Now the theory. There were multiple conspiracy theories
at the time. One of them was that the Mavericks
owner wanted to undermine the fan base because they wanted
the team to move to Las Vegas. There was another
(08:45):
one that the NBA orchestrated Luca to go to the Lakers.
Television ratings were bad, the NBA was in the final
year of one TV agreement. They were about to go
to the new TV deal which starts next season with
Amazon and NBC. Part of it turners out, and so
they were trying to fortify the ratings. They were trying
(09:05):
to get the ratings up, and so what better way
to get the ratings up than to just drop Luka
Donzik into LA for nothing right for trash, And that's
what happened. So that and so then this would be
the other part of that. Dallas got Garbaie in return.
(09:25):
They got a fragile, broken down Anthony Davis who probably
got hurt his first game with the Mavericks. Perfect perfect
Max Christie who's just jagged, just a guy, and one
first round pick in twenty twenty nine for their top
player and a fan favorite and all of that, and
(09:46):
a team that was coming off in appearance in the
NBA Finals. So nobody does that. Nobody who's trying to
do things the right way does that. So the lottery win.
I again, we'll go back to some sorcery here if
you will, because there was some funny business going on
here in the real world. The secret code was given
(10:10):
by the NBA to unlock the treasure map, and here
it is quid pro quo. You help us out. You
give the Lakers a player they don't deserve for nothing,
and we'll take care of you. Okay, we'll get you.
We'll get you that number one pick. We're good. And
I don't even know if it's illegal. People are like, well,
it should be an investigation. Like they're in entertainment business.
(10:33):
They can do they can rig the draft. Like what
is the crime. Who's going to go to jail if
the NBA came out today and said we rigged the draft.
Here's how we did it, Like, what's the what's the charge? Like,
they'll say, hey, we're sports entertainment business. This is entertainment.
It's a plot twist, it's a storyline, and we're all
about the storylines. But as far as the the details
(10:57):
on this, the Mavericks again they helped the league favorable
treatment from Adam Soiver, the commissioner and the people underneath him.
A one point eight percent chance to win. You gotta
be joking, right, you gotta be joking. That is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. The kind of funny business that
(11:17):
has been going on in the NBA for multiple generations.
We are going back forty years, forty years nineteen eighty five,
hat trick ewing, the frozen envelope, do do do do
do Do Do Do Do Do do doo? And if
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it's not rigged, if it's not rigged, then why don't
they just show it? The NHL wasn't a great product,
but they showed it on TV. They showed the actual
lottery process, the National Hockey League. And even if you
show it on TV, there are still ways to rig it,
Like there's ways you can doctor it and futs around
with it and all that stuff, but they don't show
(11:58):
it now. Secondly, wide angle lens, what does the number
one over really mean in terms of wins and losses
context of the big picture? So what does it really mean? Right?
What does it really mean here? So the arithmetic is
not kind. As President Bush said back in the day,
(12:21):
it's fuzzy math. It's fuzzy math. The assumption is, if
you get the top pick in the draft, you are
guaranteed to be a contender. You are a championship team,
and you have a good chance of winning a championship.
So let's dive into that. What do you say, let's
see if we can find that out, is that really
the way it is, because that's how it's sold. I
watched the opening part of the lottery and it's oh,
(12:43):
these are how players change franchises' fortunes and lead them
to the promised Land. So there have been seventy five
top picks in the Pro Bouncy Ball draft since nineteen fifty,
seventy five number one overall picks nineteen fifty And of those,
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what percentage has won a championship with the team that
drafted them? What do you think? How about you got
a number? How about twelve percent nine out of fifty
nine out of fifty, So that means forty one were
drafted and didn't win bupkis for the team that they
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were drafted by. And how about the modernary? You said, well,
who cares about nineteen fifty? How about the modern era? Okay,
so the modern era since the year two thousand. Holy crap,
that's the modern era since the year two thousand. It's
even worse. There have been twenty five top pick since
the year two thousand, and only two have won a
(13:50):
championship and they both did it on the same team.
That was the Lebron James who left to go to Miami,
came back with Kyrie Irving, who was also a top pick.
And that's it. Those those are the only two since
the year two thousand. So what does that mean? Get
to the point, please, So it means the Cooper flag
looks great on a tablet watching highlights on the YouTube.
(14:13):
But as far as him being the messiah, the savior
of the Mavericks, history says he's not going to lead
Dallas to a championship, right, And of course this all
tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
The odds though, since the year two thousand, you are
much more likely to get the next Andrea Barnani or
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Markel Foltz or god forbid, Ben Simmons with the top
pick in the draft. And when when flag?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
When? When? What he will do when he arrives, when
he shows up in Dallas is he will fall out
the coldness like there's a there's a new opportunity. My
argument is, as long as Nico Harrison's the GM, the
Snank's going to be there, you can't trust the perception
is and he and I I tend to buy into
the conspiracies, I said, as I pointed out, I buy
(15:01):
the conspiracy that this was done at a higher level,
at the ownership level and between the league. That being said, though,
if I if I cared about the Mavericks and I
own the Mavericks, I would fire Nico Harrison today. I'd
have a clean start and say Nico, you're done. Because
even if you bring Cooper flag in, who's to say
(15:22):
that Cooper on the road. They go to a buffet
somewhere in Milwaukee and he gets fat, and then Nico
trades him, gives him to the Lakers for some washed
up celebrity that was last famous in the seventies. You know,
why not? What the hell? All? Right? Final thought? So
we were told that Mark Cuban, the number one fanboy
(15:43):
of the no longer the owner. But Mark Cuban had
to call the new Mavericks owner, Patrick DuMond, to let
him know that they procured the top pick in the draft.
Do you find it odd that the question do you
find it odd that the Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont was
(16:06):
not paying attention to the draft lottery for the team
that he's running. So you can't see me, but I'm
nod in my head. Yes, I'm not I'm not in
my head. Yes, So let's discuss this. So Mark Cuban
calls up the owner and says, hey, we were in
the top four and then we got the number one pick.
(16:28):
Now is this a big deal, a little deal or
no deal? It is a to me, it's a big deal.
To me, it's a big deal because Dumont. Now, people said, well,
he was at his daughter's track meet and all that,
and people will dismiss this as well, you're just being
a hater, dude. That's why you're doing the Overnight show.
You're just a hater. Yeah, okay, this is amazing. We
(16:50):
live in a wild, wild, wild world, in a world
with things called Wi Fi. It's amazing. So while many
will dismiss this and just say, well, he was just
being a good dad, he was prioritizing his family, we
think it's a big deal because you can multitask, right,
Dumont is still new to the Mavericks, and one of
(17:12):
the conspiracies, aside from the one we shared earlier, one
of the conspiracies was we don't know he's doing. He's
not only a basketball person, and this would buy into
that narrative that he's just disengaged, that this is just
a property that you don't really have any passion for it,
And just like he's married into the family and it's
(17:32):
a gambling family, and they're using the Mavericks to get
a casino in Dallas, and so it's all part of
that deal. They don't really care about team. So this
is tossing blubber into the polar bear cage, big piece
of blubber. So you tell me you can't multitask even
at one point eight percent chance, Like, you wouldn't just
pull your phone out and watch on your phone like
(17:55):
so many of us do while they're at a sporting event,
the kids wrestling, or at a track and field event.
There's eight million events. You wouldn't dust your phone off
and check that out. Come on it's ridiculous the smartphone.
You can be the dad of the year and watch
your daughter run around a track and also watch the lottery.
(18:20):
It is possible. If it's your if it's in your blood,
if it's your passion, you'll figure out a way. All right,
is the Ben Maler Show? You want to come out
on any of that? Also, Minnesota and New York both
on the brink of advancing in the NBA postseason and games.
Last night, Boston blowing a fourteen point lead, Jason Tatum
(18:41):
pop goes the achilles. It would appear, though it's not
one hundred percent yet, it's ninety nine point nine percent
an achilles injury, non contact injury. So he's out for
the long haul. And that is where we are coming
up later this hour. Coming up for you in a
few minutes, we are going to have a new edition
of Malar's Mouth Money. But time now for the Mallor
(19:02):
Riddle of the Day. And here's the Mallord Riddle of
the day. Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards was holding a
blank the whole time during his postgame news conference following
Minnesota's win over Golden State on Monday night. Again, wolfstar
Anthony Edwards was spotted holding a blank the whole time
(19:24):
during his postgame news conference on Monday night after Minnesota
kod at least for the night the Golden State Warriors.
That is the Mallord Riddle of the day. The answer,
we'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Ben and we'll pay off the Mallor Riddle of the day,
the malory of the day. We monologue begin the hour
about the draft lottery, the Dallas Matters with a one
(20:55):
point eight percent chance. Just strolled in and won the
draft lottery. Here's the Mallor riddle of the day. Mid
Minnesota star Anthony Edwards was holding a blank the entire
time during his postgame news conference on Monday night following
Minnesota's win over Golden State. And Let's see Miguel on
(21:17):
Fire says he was holding a box full of paternity tests.
Miguel says, you are the father. Late Night Drug Tester
he was holding his sour dough starter from Oakland, says
the Late Night Drug Tester. Who else? He was clutching
his Benny Award guest by Mallard prop Guy the Mallard
Palooza seat filler Page down he was holding a talk
(21:41):
to Me Goose t shirt classic from Mason Mister Mason
and Huntington Beach alf the alien O Piner says he
was holding a frozen envelope. Lady Sideburns going with a
sock puppet as his answer. King Rory says an IV
filled with kosher dills. Wow, what else we have? Page
(22:03):
dam Fergdog says his good luck charm. A picture of
Gunner from the Walmart in Northern Minnesota. A paddle from
Milkman Mike in Colorado. Keith Oto, Texo says he was
holding his junk the entire time. Justin in Cincinnati mentioned
something that he's currently holding right now, but unfortunately Anthony
(22:24):
Edwards was not holding that. And Pirito had the same answer,
by the way, the same answer you guys had that
ready to go. Joe the ghost Hunter from Ohio says
a flush handle on Charlie in Dallas's toilet, a delicious
meatball sub from Donkey Sausage. Kathy in Madison said something
(22:46):
about a tally whacker, is what she that's old school.
Kathy and Madison, Ike and Roseville, Minnesota went with you
are the father the paternity suit, A Philly blunt guess
by Double Oxican A Chihuahua from Dante Lebron's man purse
from Robin, Minnesota. That is still one of the great clips.
(23:08):
I know it's old now, but Lebron at the NBA
Finals news conference standing up and walking away grabbing his
purse to walk away is still hilarious. I laugh. That's right,
little Maggie, that's right. JT the Wingman says a juicy lucy. Yeah,
those are so good. You gotta miss that, JT. You're
in Knoxville, Tennessee. You can't find a juicy Lucy in Knoxville, Tennessee.
(23:30):
A Rubbert ducky guessed by Steve the misplaced san Diegan.
That's his answer, Yuko Leiley from Mike the Leprechaun who's
beaten and broken and devastated and all that. What else
do we have? Page down? He can't read that one
on there all right, Lorain. Anthony Edwards, a Minnesota basketball player,
was holding a blank the whole time during his postgame
(23:53):
news conference on Monday. A fidget spinner, Ben fidget spinner?
Is that correct? Let's find out. No, that's incorrect. Anthony
Edwards Wolf star Anthony Edwards was holding a Gary Payton
Seattle SuperSonics jersey the whole time. Peer a lot of
(24:14):
love for Gary Payton. Here's the odd thing, though, I
was doing the math on this, and there's a pretty
good chance that Anthony Edwards didn't really see Gary Peyton play.
Maybe at the end that Gary Payton played until six
o seven. He was thirty eight, so six o seven.
(24:39):
Then you do the math on this. I said there'd
be no math. But Anthony Edwards, he's a young lad,
a young pup so he was born in one So
when Gary Payton played his last game in the NBA,
Anthony Edwards was like five or six, so he never
even saw really Gary Payton played basketball, but he has
(25:02):
respect for his game. Let's go to the phones. Danny
de Vijo is online, and when Danny DeVito's online, you've
got to take his phone call. Hello, Danny, Welcome Mit, Samela, Hi,
how are you? What's going on? Danny? If I was
any better, I'd be a Celtic, but not a Boston
Celtic because they're up against it right now.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
And that's why I'm calling. That's one of the reasons
why I'm falling the boss of Celtics. I hate to say.
You know, I'm from Boston and I am a bost
of Celtics fan, but they are overrated then overrated teams.
And I was wrong about the nick. I guess I
tracked next to a couple months ago. I called in
(25:42):
and I was basically calling Nixic jokes. I was wrong
on that.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, Danny, Danny, Danny, they were in the regular season,
they lost to all the good teams, so at the
time you made that comment, they were worthy of that comment.
The problem is that that is what they did do
they obviously aren't that same team right now, are playing
at a higher level, and it helps the Celtics have
falling apart and and so it's working, it's working in
their favor. But they were terrible against the top teams
(26:08):
in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yes, it's funny how the playoffs chan change teams for
some teams, But how about Missoula. Then, uh, pus should
maybe fight this guy. I mean, they're up by twenty
points in game one and two, both games, and then
uh you know, and then he still tells the team
to keep shooting three I mean sixty three balls. I
(26:31):
think it was in game one or something like that.
I don't remember that. Back to it. But when you're
up by twenty points about hole on the ball? Are
going to the rim protecting that league? I mean I
think it. I think they might have to fight this guy.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, when they're not going to fire him, because
whoever they hire is going to play the same way.
And now Missoula's got the ultimate get out of trouble
card because well we would have won if Tatum and
stayed healthy, we were only down nine he got her,
we would have made a couple of shots we would
have got, we would have won that game. We would
have come back and beaten the Knicks. And now we lost,
and so it's not you know, it's not his fault.
(27:08):
We lost. We'll come back and we'll do better next year.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I don't know, Ben, you think that the next guy
coming in, we'll actually cheaking to do it. We're actually
coaching to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well because Missoula. To me, he's just following what they
want the front office, that's what they want. This is
the style of play they want. They've they're analytically driven
that You've got that Sloan Nerd conference in Boston every year,
and this is that the by product of that. The
nerds love this. They get all horny when they watched
three point shots. They can't get enough of.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
But it had the history of not one. I know
they won lots. Yeah, but remember the Phoenix Sun. E
don't though the teams the Phoenix that are running up
and down the floor with about ten to fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, with Mike D'Antoni and Mike the d system don't
want nothing.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
The NBA draft shops man, the NBA draft I think
it's choke ouse. Yeah, I mean, how does it Dallas
Mavick get the number one six?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
They're either they're either really lucky or it's rigged one
of those two.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
So yeah, it's gotta be d ninety seven. Then when
the box was five fos, oh.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you're gonna get Tim. You're gonna get Tim Duncan,
and you you ended up with Chauncey Billups right, was
that the one you're talking about?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
It was Bill could not being a good play. I
think Phillips Ron Murca.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, yeah, but you want it. You wanted Duncan and
then yeah, Rick and Rick Patino went there thinking they
were gonna get Duncan. He didn't get dunk. I gotta go,
Thank you, Dandy, all right, to be safe out there
is Dandy. Hello to America's favorite drag queen caller for Lexus,
who is in Buffalo. Hello for Lexus, Hello, my.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Dear, how are you doing? Lemanda?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
More important? No, that's not her name. You said the
wrong name. That's a bad job by you.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I thought that was her name Maren or somebody.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Can be whoever you are. I thought you said Amanda,
though it didn't sound like you said a man, you said, Amanda,
are you on drugs right now?
Speaker 6 (29:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
She's cute.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Okay, she wasn't cute. You wouldn't love her, you know.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
For the riddle I was going to say, you was
hoving is univers.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, we're done with the riddle. We've moved on from that.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Oh that would have been my answer though.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
See, yeah, well we're more more important. What's happening with
your toe situation here? Last week? Talked to you you
were having some issues.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I'll let you know Sunday night or Monday morning, whenever
it is. I get my results Friday, Okay. I got
to the office of the agent to believe in after
that and oh no, all.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Right, well we're thinking good thoughts for you for Alexis.
Hopefully it'll work out.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
I want to talk about the draft.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
No, you don't. You don't care about the draft.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I don't care about the draft of the pre seasons
here today, going tomorrow. I don't know what the big
issue is about. My god, go go take a pun
and have a shot on me.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
That's your advice. So just avoid the draft, take a
pill and have a drink.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
That's great advice. That's America's favorite drag queen caller right there,
for lexis giving wisdom and knowledge only Filexus can provide
free with me area, Yes, I definitely. I like that
you call her a different name every time you say
her name. I like that. That's good.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
She's a pretty girl. She deserves all kinds of games.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, I mean names, Yes, Okay, I thank you. All right,
there you go, all right, there, there he go where
he goes only he knows, see Rob Wrights. Since it's
been contrary to your belief, it actually would be illegal
for the NBA to fix the draft. Under the Sports
Briber React of nineteen sixty four, the commissioner and top
(30:57):
league executives would face felony charges. Yeah, good luck on that, Rob.
And what if there's no bribery, what if there's It's like,
this isn't we're doing business. This is how we do business.
That's it. This is the way it works. And if
you don't think any funny business is going on, Rob, listen,
(31:17):
maybe maybe you're right. And no no corruption anywhere, none
at all. It's all on the up and up. There's
no shady business going on, and it's all our imagination
and all those stories that have been proven shady, like
Tim Donnie. I remember there were people all the time,
so oh he didn't do anything ridiculous like throwing games
(31:40):
or anything like, they'd never know. That's just a you
conspiracy theories, didn't he was it the CIA? I think
the CIA came up with that term to dismiss anyone
that questioned the government. You use the conspiracy theory, and
then all of a sudden, you're just a whack a doodle.
You're just a whack of doodle, is what you are.
I need some contestants. We are moments away. We don't
(32:00):
have our contestants. Sta Malar's Mountain of Money, Malar's Mountain
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Speaker 3 (32:25):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
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Speaker 1 (32:32):
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Speaker 3 (33:10):
Now Mailer's Mountain of Money?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not, sue?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
What timeout for malos? Amount of money that's made our
contestants for this game show? We have a Jed who fled?
Who's going to play?
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Jed? Okay?
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Hello Charlie.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
I love with Charlie.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Dude, I love Charlie. I love you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He's a kid. Leave alone? And did you don't don't
influence them? And Jed? No, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Jed was now invailable?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Ill?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Okay, that's right down l next to your name. Lorena
picked door number one, door number two or door number three,
number three? All right, well you're gonna picked Greg in
South Carolina?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
What's going on there? He is? Look at this guy? Unbelievable. Greg,
you won Lorraina picked number three. You were on the
third line. Look at that, of course. That's right? All right?
And Greg, what part of South Carolina are you in?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I am from Gasney on the home with the Peach.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
There you go home, Japhany, that's where you've heard of
that coup?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, Frank Underwood, the fictional character from uh the House
of Cards.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
That's exactly right, But that was not in those shows.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
Oh yeah, Hollywood, you know he used the name but
a different location.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
That's terrible. Yeah right, Well, who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
There?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Greg? You got me Ben or Lorraine if you want
some fun? I know a couple of these this time. Okay,
all right, all right, I guess you picked me a fine,
very good. Justin you're with Jed Jeed pick a category.
Please hold on a second, mature, everyone's on. Don't hang
up on.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
You, all right. This is the Stevie Wonder edition of
Mallage amount of money. He turned seventy five years old.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Today, seventy five. You know he's been able to see
his whole life. Uh.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
The category is sign sealed delivered. I'm yours superstition higher
ground or isn't she lovely?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Jed, what would you like?
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Of course? Uh?
Speaker 6 (35:12):
And then Greg, how about you? Which category would you like?
Superstition superstition? All right, so, so Jed, you and I
are up first. You know the rules of the game,
so I'm not going to tell them to you. Forty
five seconds on the clock, we have higher ground. These
athletes got better after changing teams forty five seconds begin.
He was on the Chargers, then he went on to
(35:33):
the Saints to win a Super Bowl. Quarterback Yes, uh,
this guy was on the Clippers. He is now the
MVP on the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
I gotta no, I get Holy crap, Holy crap.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
He's got like three names hyphenated last name. All right,
all right, we's okay, we'll skip it. This guy is
now a star on the New York Knicks. He came
from the Dallas Mavericks. Yes no, you no, you got it,
the b YU star. He was the backup for Joe
Montana Hiver. Yes, this guy was nicknamed the bus running back. Yes,
(36:12):
this guy was dropped out of high school. He was
on the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
He was part of the Mall you really got hung
up on Shake Jogas Alexander. Yeah, current MVP man. All right,
well we're up, Greg. Let's show him how it's done here, Greg,
let's school these cats. No problem. You picked superstition, Is
that correct?
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right? These athletes all are known to be superstitious.
Are you ready? Greg? Forty five seconds on the clock,
Are you ready ready? All right? Ron A Wago quarterback
for the Chiefs right now. Pecker, Yes, tight end for
the forty nine ers. White guy York, Yes, the big
fundamental for the San Antonio Spurs back in the early
(36:53):
two thousands and the late nineties. Center. All right, let's
go to a baseball player third basement for the Red
Sox in the nineteen eighties. Hall of famer. Yes, basketball
player for the Dallas Mavericks. He wore high socks. All right,
No basketball for you. How about this baseball player. It
(37:14):
was a closer for the Cubs and the Mets. He
liked to chew licorice between innings, kind of an eccentric
to superstitious guy white guy in the nineties. Speaking of nineties,
you got ninety points. Wow, that means we can go again.
Oh good ah, exciting. You didn't get I didn't even
try Raffie on the doll, but you didn't get him.
(37:36):
Uge Jim Duncan, Jim Duncan and Jason Tay. You're not
a basketball guy, Greg, No, okay, we're screwed. All right?
What category we have? What do we have? Signed, sealed, delivered?
I'm yours? And isn't she lovely? Isn't she isn't? Sah? Yeah,
isn't She's just lovely to deliver? I mean, shut up,
(38:00):
all right, these athletes recently, I'm not gonna try the
basketball names. These athletes did not even did not are
these athletes recently had a daughter? So here we go.
Are you ready? Greg? All right? Forty five seconds on
the clock, Here would go go? Quarterback for the Dallas
Cowboys right now, Yes, slugger from Japan. He's also a
pitcher for the Dodgers. Yeah. Quarterback for the Carolina Panthers
(38:25):
when they when when they went to the Super Bowl.
Was the MVP. Yes, wide receiver for the Bengals. He
changed his name, Yes, Pitcher. He was the ace of
the Milwaukee Brewers. He went to the Orioles. He's still pitching.
He's on the Diamondbacks now. Last name is like the
(38:45):
guy from the Simpsons, the owner of the power plant. There.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Okay, well, I don't even try the basketball name. So
you got those, right, and this should be one of them.
Enough you it was Corbyn Burns, remember cor Yeah, but
you got all the other ones. I even try the
basketball ones because you got one night. All right, Jed,
we need fifty points here to tie. Choke shed six.
(39:15):
Do not choke, shed choke, don't choke, choke.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
I'm not I'm just I'm telling him. Not the choke
I steal delivered on yours. These athletes were practically given
away in lopsided trades.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Do not choke.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Choke and let's begin,
all right. This guy was an MVP for the Red Sox.
He's now on the Dodgers. Yes, all right, Uh, he's
not confident. This guy was a running back for the Rams,
part of the Greatest Show on turf mar Yes, that
(39:51):
ties us. This guy was a slugger for the Oakland A's.
He went to the Cardinals. He was a cheater.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
No chance, no.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Chance, let's think Derek again.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
No, no big Red, No, no choke, don't joke Red,
don't choke jad big Red.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
He was on the race with Sammy Sosa football. Yes,
nothing went in to hear that I had tried. I
didn't try to change stop. I didn't try to change that.
I didn't try to change sit. You check your ash
down there cool you under say though, you shick your
ass down. Okay, that's bull crap. You put a guy
on that doesn't no basketball and you had basketball theres
(40:30):
You cheated. You're a Cheater're a cheater. You cheated. You
put up the non basketball guy and you asked basketball questions.
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