Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update you with all the latest from NBA Opening Night and react to Bronny James checking in with his father, LeBron James becoming the first father-son duo to play together in the NBA!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
It done. We're done, We're done. You're the Mets. He
wasn't here to commemorate. They flew me over to the Knicks.
They died. But let me just say this. Basketball should
be banned. Should not be a sport get rid of it.
Get rid of it. I don't I don't need it,
I don't need it. Just get rid of it. I
don't think. I don't think the world needs it. Not
after that, I don't need no. World doesn't need basketball.

(01:17):
Give me more, Give me something else, Give me more cornhole,
give me more sure as hell ain't saying, give me
more football. Give me more the disaster and train wreck
that your squad's become their I'd rather have Jags Titans
every Tuesday night than what I saw tonight. You can
ban basketball. We don't need it. We don't need it,
don't need basketball. Jags Titan in their current form. Yes, Jack,
we're not even talking Titans. You know where Derrick Henry

(01:40):
was running him up? No, no, no, Chris Jaguars, where
Fred Taylor was running Maurice Jones drew. No, no, no, no,
give me give me Jags Titans in his current form
over that. What went on tonight, Well, I mean you
were obviously missing, Julius Randall. We don't need it. I'm
no huge. I don't sport. I don't need the sport.
I don't have closed out and stop some of that

(02:01):
three point. I don't need looking forward to this game
in the beginning of this season, more than any other
nixt season probably since the nineties, and have it start
like this, Well, you know team Celtics just can't bleep
in mixed Well, you know teams normally start flat after
they raise a man. They create ten threes in the
first quarters, and well, eventually they're gonna stop missing. No,

(02:24):
they stop missing. When they were going for the record
for most threes in a game, they missed their last ten.
All I had to do is at one of them.
As Richard get fired for what he did. I'll tell you, man,
he never gets to take another shot. He's one of
nine from three point range, one of ten for the game.
You're the one guy that couldn't make any I really,
I mean I I mean you take him away. It's
an even bigger Barack. I can't even tell you if

(02:47):
tonight is the Knicks faulton. I can't even clearly. Defensively,
the Knicks can do things a little bit better. But
some of these threes hands in their face like this
is a once in a lifetime. It's like, get to
see Lebron and Browny play together in a few It's
gonna be once in a lifetime. This twenty nine threes
on opening night by the Celtics against the Knicks and
a huge blowout win, Like it's never I can't even

(03:08):
tell you. Did the next look good? I don't know,
I know the Celtics looked awesome and they couldn't miss.
It's why we don't need basketball. We don't need it. Well,
it's fun because we know the style of game Thibodeau
wants to play. This is everything, but this is one
hundred and eighty degrees. The other way Celtics shot eight
free throws game. Well, they don't miss. No, no, no,
how are you gonna shoot free throws? When they're making

(03:30):
The point I'm trying to make is the normal Knicks
game is We're gonna grind you out for forty eight minutes.
We're gonna play defense, we're gonna close out. We're gonna
follow the hell out of you and make you earn
every basket here. Hey, what are you gonna do? I mean,
come up one thirty two, one oh nine. And it
was never that close. I mean the Celtics started the
game with ten threes in the first quarter, and they

(03:53):
were shooting up near sixty percent until they missed. Really,
they missed their last ten threes. As they were trying
for the all time record, which was twenty nine. They
wanted to get great defense late. They wind up tying
the all time record, which was said a few years
ago by the Bucks for threes in a game, with
twenty nine. But the last five minutes of this game,

(04:13):
they were still hoisting up Pierce because they knew they would.
They were one short of the record. The starters are
on the bed entire legs. One more, one more, one more,
one more. But let me tell you this, Okay, coming off,
I mean, it was just insane. How many sixty one
and again and they missed their last ten. They were
twenty nine to fifty one, and then they went cold
trying to make that last one so good good you

(04:35):
missed it. You didn't make it good, you missed it.
I'm gonna say two things coming off of this game,
all right for again. One, you hate basketball, well, okay, okay,
three things. One, basketball should be banned. We don't need
the sport. It's done. Secondly, and I'm gonna say this,
this fourth quarter sets the tone for this season because
there is no way the Knicks are going to ever

(04:57):
forget the Celtics up big in night like this, and
all they did up twenty five with five minutes left
to go was keep hoisting up threes for that record,
I'm sorry, you want him to go to the hard
wark corner and I'm alreaty on the sideline. No, the
party on the sideline that we're We're still gonna keep
shooting threes. We're gonna rub your face in it. Okay,
not gonna forget that. That's gonna set the tone for

(05:20):
this for these two teams for the whole season. You
find your motivation. You don't think that, because I think
what you need to do is look at the mirror
and say, we sucked. We got our ass kicked on
a big national game, spotlight performance, and we didn't bother
to show up. We had all off season of everybody
genu flecking come up, every move, we've made, everything we've

(05:41):
done twenty six, and then you sucked. You should look
internally instead of worrying about what the Celtics. I don't
think the Knicks sucked. First of all, I've watched the
game or two of basketball, which you don't sound like
you did. In the last couple of seconds when a
team is up by thirty and they're shooting threes in
the last five minutes, that pisses everybody off. Good, But
that's that's gonna carry over sports. That's not gonna carry

(06:02):
over white. I don't think so. You don't think they
play again tomorrow. It's just part of the seven game
series right now. It's gonna set the tone for the
whole season. Of course, is gonna They're gonna be mad
as the next opponent because they got their aska way.
Do you see the next game they each team is
gonna run to try to run the score up. It's
gonna be It's gonna be something the rest of this year.
The Knicks are not gonna forget that the least. Hey,

(06:24):
we're gonna party on the court against you on opening night. Yeah,
we're great. We're gonna keep taking threes by twenty five.
We're gonna not that we're gonna do you want to
do though, Not that we're gonna take threes. We're gonna
keep taking three point or after three point or after
we're not gonna, hey, one more three we get the record. No,
we're gonna exclusively take They never got to the record.

(06:45):
Ru Yeah, and they were trying against hit the thirtieth,
they might have changed the way it went. That's you
had all these guys chucking from forty feet out missing everything. Yeah,
that's the basketball god saying, Okay, you're right, we're not
gonna let you do that. We're not gonna let you
do that to the That means those guys should never
have to shoot another three points shot again? Is what
that is? That you got too chesty? You watch this

(07:08):
is now a storyline for the entire season. Nick Celtics,
this game, the fourth quarter is now a storyline for
the Trust me, trust me? How far ahead of the
curve are we always telligent? This is trust This is
going to be something that we watch play out over
the rest of the year, where they play in the garden.
How physical the game is gonna be. Jason Tatum's gonna
get a couple of elbows. It's gonna be physical, it's

(07:28):
gonna get chippy. Teams are gonna run, said to the
league office. Play next all watch watch for dirty plays
by the dirty rotten Knicks. And the biggest thing and
the second makes I say is Nick is still gonna
win the title. It's opening night. What are gonna do.
You just said you want to do a Polish basketball. Yeah,
but they're not gonna listen to me. So they're gonna

(07:48):
play the game. So he's win the championship. That's how
it's gonna go. And we're still gonna win. They lost
opening night on the road. The Celtics had the ring ceremony.
There's now they're not supposed to make twenty nine three Again,
that doesn't happen in the end, but looksen also on
a ring ceremony night, Normally teams gonna suck after all
of that, don't they.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
I want to say oh, and I want oh, you
know what, I'm glad you brought that up because I
want to thank one person for this who made tonight possible.
I want to thank the one person who made tonight possible,
who made this twenty nine threes performance by the Celtics possible.
Thank you Steve Kerr for everything you did during the
Olympics to Jason Tatum to allow him to start with
fifteen points the first quarter and it's five threes and

(08:30):
everybody's off to the races. Thank you, Steve Kerr for that.
I appreciate that. Not enough you screwed the next when
Phil Jackson wanted to hire you, like a decade ago,
and you said, nah, I'm gonna go to Golden State. Hey,
gonna win a Golden State. They're terrible. Ah, that's not enough. No, no, no,
We're gonna make sure Jason Tatum is feeling it all
the dissing that happened to him in Paris, and you're
not gonna play and you're a DNP and you're an

(08:52):
NBA champion. I want to thank Steve Kerr for making
tonight possible for the Celtics. In fact, the Celtics they
should give him an ring because on the on the
Ring ceremony night they played so well, let's give an
extra ring to Steve Kerr because they would have not
had this night with us. Well, but you know he did.
He didn't get a medal because that was a big
deal the other day. If you remember the the joking

(09:12):
back and forth of I don't think you should get
paid for doing your analysis. Here's your hey, here's your address,
all of that, which they then tried to say was
a joke. Huh, But yeah, for Steve Kerr motivation, I
had all the Jalen Jalen Brown, I texted him, said
I felt bad for you. Yeah, yeah, no, thanks Steve,
thanks for that. Thanks for Jason Tatum said, Yeah, we're

(09:33):
not coming off flat. We're gonna come out and gonna
completely kick the crap out of the mix. Look at
looking at it. I mean overall, they normally don't come
out gangbusters, but that you, defending champions do generally win
the games at about a seventy five percent clip. Going
back to the the as long as as were hoisting titles.
The other thing was fun was the Missoula quote kind

(09:54):
of talking about the rings or whatever else and and
where we're headed. He goes, oh, we're all gonna die anyways, Yeah,
we're all gonna die. Series, We're all gonna die. So
let's get ready. Let's you're ready to play? Oh but
you really picked me right up. Let's go, coach. It's
one game. The Celtics were great. I can't even tell you.
The Knicks were bad. Look defensively, could they, like I said,
could they do a little bit better? Yeah? I think

(10:15):
Tims is probably it's gonna take a little bit because
you're trying to get Bridges involved. And boy was I
really happy. Bridges started making shots in the second half
because that that newfound jumper did not look good in
the first one. It was still lost. Whatever Jason Tatum
did to fix his jumper in the off season, mcal
Bridges did the exact total opposite. I mean he was motivated,

(10:36):
he took it personally. I mean really, I'm watching going, Uh,
he's just looking for a higher release point on his three.
But when a guy shoots differently from fifteenth, yeah he
shoots behind the arcs like what is happening? But but
but I can't even Nick shot. Well, look, they were
out of the game early and the Celtics never let

(10:56):
him back in again. I can't even tell you if
the Knicks played bad or not. I mean even been
in the game. Should have played even fewer minutes with
the barrage, I think you see what I did there,
I just brought it right backfter You're be taking all
those guys out at the end of the first quarter.
Wouldn't have better. It was forty three to twenty four
after the first quarter. They just wouldn't miss. I think
Jerry Ceasting hit a three at some point. We done cornbread.

(11:17):
Maxwell had a couple of big threes? Who else can
get Brown had a couple of threes. I see number
seven running around for the Celtics, and I still think
it's d Brown all these years later, Still him. John
Halichick hit a three. Halichick stole the ball, stole the
ball to hit a three. It was insane. Uh, but look,
I want to get it Chris Ford in or I

(11:37):
can't anybody else Chris Ford. Uh, look like I like
I said. The Knicks they shot the ball. Well, they
actually shot the ball tonight. They shot better than the Celtics.
Sho if we I mean, if you take away that
zero for ten, this is at halftime, the Knicks were

(11:58):
shooting better than the Celtics addiction, fififty eight percent from
the floor. The Celtics were shooting fifty five and two
for three and the Knicks and the Knicks were down nineteen. Hey,
that's why basketball needs to be banned. You can't have that.
And for the game tonight, they shot, the Knicks shot
fifty five percent from the floor. They look good. They
were able to execute offensively and looking and Duce McBride
comes off the bench score twenty two. Okay, great, And

(12:19):
it doesn't matter because nobody could stop hitting threes. I
mean Jason Tatum and White, they were fourteen for twenty
two from the three from I mean it was insane.
I mean what we I'm watching it going? How am
I gonna do what? There's no one now with Richard
Daily back when he was the mayor of Chicago when
they had that heat wave, I mean, what a what
a what? It's hot? There's no hot. What are you

(12:41):
gonna do with their pallaces to happen here? There's no
what am I gonna say? They just catching trees. I
don't know what else to say. Eventually they're gonna miss, right,
not tonight. That's okay, it's one night. The Knicks is
still winning the title. So it's fine night like this.
But trust dress, but basketball is now banned this yeah, yeah,
we have to find a cricket or something that we
thought on the show. Now, all right, well listen, if

(13:01):
they can't ban basketball, the Knicks winning the title would
be fine. So that's okay, it's still gonna happen. It's
still gonna happen, trust me. Any one more games, one
game we got to pay a jump shot is gonna
be fixed. Any the Knicks. We're looking ahead, to the
Pacers on Friday. Oh okay, they were completely looking past
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(13:45):
Lakers said it was gonna happen. JJ Reddick said, I'm
going to get Brownie James in the game at some point.
Don't know when it's gonna happen. Right now, midway through
the first quarter, Lakers out to an eleven to seven
lead over the t Wolves. Lebron's got four where we
hatch you more has five. So we'll keep going because
we're gonna see absolute history in the NBA when Bronnie
James checks into this game. Yeah, because Rui's still pissed off.

(14:07):
Remember when he got ejected from that Olympic game. Oh,
he's still salty too, just like Jason Tatum. Everybody's man.
Thanks Steve Kurt, Thanks Steve Kirk for everything. Everybody. So again,
we'll have more and kind of a reverse hot take
on Bronnie James coming up next. Plus could we be
on the cusp of two huge trades in the NFL?
That's next right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening

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Speaker 2 (14:31):
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(15:03):
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content out for you every single night. So we'll get
back into the Knicks in that abysmal basketball again. It
should be banned, but they're gonna keep playing it, so

(15:24):
we'll talk about it. It's a multi billion dollar business
unless you can get the gofund yourself to I don't
know about a ten billion dollars. I don't think it's
going It's like when Robert Wagner tells Doctor Evil. Last
year we made eight billion dollars alone. Eighteen fifteen. Lakers
lead the Tea Wolves right now, two and a half

(15:46):
minutes to go in the first quarter. So far for
Lebron James, he's got four. The Griffies are at this game.
Lebron James is going to play with Browny at some point.
I assume they will stop the game. They will do
so some sort of thing. When Bronnie checks in, I
thinkna do a whole parade of father's son. Anybody. Yeah,
let's start walking through Frosburg. Are you and Jackson going

(16:08):
to aren't you guys supposed to be there? We declined, guys,
he declined a half court. I think they're just gonna
FaceTime in. Is he gonna want to take away from
Brownie's night all right, all right, I mean I'd like
to see that though it would almost feel like a
like a bark in the park game baseball. Your fathers
and sons, if you brought your child in the game tonight,
what about fathers and daughters? You Jerkson, I will have

(16:30):
that night another time, but I assume, and look, Bronnie
is going to play. JJ Reddick said before the game,
gonna find a way to get him in tonight, he said,
I gotta get this over with.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Look, now there's there's reading between the lines. There's good
and bad to that. But let's deal with the good
part of it first. Uh. You can have your argument
about should Brownie be on the Lakers? Should he not?
Should he be in the G League? Should he not?
Would he be there if his name wasn't Brownie? Would
he be on the team, would he be in the NBA?
Would he still be in college? I get all of that,

(17:00):
But tonight I'm gonna be incredibly excited when I see
him check into the game because I'm never gonna get
and we are never gonna get to see anything like
this again, seeing a father and son playing an NBA
game it's been thirty some odd years since we got
to see Ken Griffy Senior play with Ken Griffy Junior, right,
and that was only for a little bit. Yeah, we

(17:24):
saw it for two years. We saw Ken Griffy Junior
stealing fly balls from his dad in the outfield a
couple of times. It was fun. No, couldn't move, so welse?
I mean, look, the thing, the thing with Broughton with
Lebron is we may see this for a little while
because Lebron at thirty nine is still a top player.
I mean he's a cyborg and we may see him
with his grand kid. So again, we may see this

(17:46):
for Captain America seerum man, come on, But the first
time we see it, it's it's gonna be something because
it's a benchmark, lifetime thing.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
So I want to say, I can't wait to see
what it's gonna be. How are they gonna stop the game? Is?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Is Adam Silver there is he gonna walk out and
take a picture, you know, two of them? No, there's
pictures of Silver with everybody. Is there gonna be like
he's in a commemorative plate or something or here, here's
your set of spoons to have your first game going on, Like,
I mean, I can't like he's a baby? Is Lebron really?
Is he going to pass to him? Is he not
gonna pass up that point? Does Delonte West?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Come?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Come on, man, why you want to do that to Lebron?
Why do you want to do that? Man? And if anything,
Delonte West would be an in law? Okay, so just
that or or family. Ye, blood is thicker than water.
Come on, man, this is everybody escalated quickly. But to

(18:52):
your point, Yeah, I mean you can hold the two
thoughts and let him run in parallel. Right, you could
bemoan it. If you're a Laker fan saying this is nonsense.
You're an NBA critic and you're saying this is crazy.
This guy shouldn't get a shot again. Look around your
circle and how many phone calls you and texts and
emails you may have made on behalf of your your child. Hey,

(19:13):
can he get an internship? Whatever? Yes, he's getting paid
here or whatever. It's good business, okay, whatever, whatever you
think of the playing style, and eventually he will see
what Bronnie James becomes as a player. If you don't
like the other part, of it. Then I think you
need to walk up and give somebody a hug and
just say, let me hug you for a second, because

(19:35):
your lack of humanity is showing, right. I mean that, like,
that's the other side of it. It's like, all right,
it's not like he's gonna be running out there twenty
five minutes a game unless he earns it right, nobody's
doing that. No, but look and understand the Lakers. Number one,
it's opening night. Can he come in and play a

(19:55):
couple of minutes at some point ind of the first half,
in the final thirty forty seconds, because look, Brownie is
a pretty good defender. I don't think he'll get lost.
I don't think he's gonna cost him the game if
he plays for forty seconds at the end of the
first half, or if he comes in for you know,
seventy five seconds at the end of the third quarter. Now,
if he starts logging tons of minutes and suddenly, hey,
you know he's playing seventeen minutes, okay, Well, but if

(20:16):
it looks like that last preseason game when he was
minus thirty seven, yeah, but that's I mean, look, but
for the Lakers to do this and remember what we've
told you about the Lakers for a long time now,
and again this is why I say ahead of the curve,
because this is a take that we told you about
months ago that now people are starting to come around
to today. I've heard it and seen it today. We
told you that you're when you are the Lakers and

(20:38):
you're the Cowboys, you're in the business of winning, but
you're also in the business of relevance. And when you
can't win a championship, how are we going to stay relevant?
Jerry Jones knows the Cowboys weren't going to win a championship,
but he kept all the attention on the Cowboys all offseason.
We're not going to pay for anybody going to do
these crazy interviews here. I'm paying Dak. I'm paying CD

(20:58):
beginning of the year to go threaten some radio guys
jobs like he knows how to stay relevant because if
the Cowboys aren't gonna be good, they're still gonna be
popular and a story and they're still gonna be talked
about the same thing. The Lakers have realized the same thing.
And once you understand that, you get what the Lakers
are doing. Look, the buses know, Hey, Our team is

(21:19):
kinda not set up to win a championship because our
best player is thirty nine, and we don't have money
in the cap because we screwed it up by deciding
we're gonna listen to Lebron and ad by going to
get Russell Westbrook before that, you know, as our as
our third star. They know they're not gonna win. They
don't have money to bring anybody in, so what do
they do. Let's find a way to make headlines. They

(21:41):
hire JJ Reddick, which guess what made headlines? A guy
with no coaching experience outside of fourth grade basketball. We're
gonna draft Bronnie James. Of course, we're gonna draft Bronnie James.
We're not gonna win a title, but we're gonna be
talked about. We're gonna be a story. The Lakers and
Cowboys always need to stay the Lakers and Cowboys, whether
they're good bad, they pushed the envelope and they're part

(22:02):
of the conversation. The Knicks were so bad for so
long you forgot that even existed. But now suddenly they're good.
They're back there a story. But the next were we're
really after the Isaiah Thomas years. It was just not
a lot of It's not bad, even when they brought
in Phil Jackson. But wait, but it wasn't. It wasn't
front page news because these teams understand how do we
stay relevant? And the Lakers knew we're gonna do this.

(22:24):
Is this best for Brownie that he's playing? Probably not?
Should it be in the G League? Yeah, the league
hasn't start againt, But is it better for the Lakers
if he's playing and it's a nightly story for a while,
of course it is. But of course it's a great
story for the Lakers start winning, so they will have
this like we talked about with Night one and trying
to talk you off the ledge with the Niggs. It's

(22:44):
one of the eighty two. So if tonight he plays
three minutes, whatever, even if you drop this game at home,
say you drop it, oh my goodness, unless you could
truly attribute it to however many possessions he's on the court,
So be it right. It's part of the business of basketball.
They decided to do a solid how many fifty fifth

(23:06):
picks and guys even in the second round.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Do you remember few?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
There's a few that have gone on to prominence and
Hall of Fame careers, a couple undrafted guys that find
their way through it and get their chance and suddenly
become stars. It's not unheard of, but it's rare. It's
the exception to the rule. So when we talk about
Brownie James getting a shot with the Lakers, they've already
made and printed cash out of this because it is,

(23:32):
after all, folks entertainment and still a business. I know
you want them to go eighty two to zero, and
this maybe offends your sensitivities as a basketball purist and
all that nonsense that folks want to do. Again, folks
help other people get jobs all the time. In this case,
you got the guy that folks argue is either one,
two or three depending why we want to bring Wilton

(23:54):
to the conversation or cap maybe four all time players
and him back. He's still playing at a high level.
And you did a ma solid Oh no, the sky
is falling. The horrors of that, like, like there haven't
been rosters littered with guys like, hey, can we get
a ten day contract on that guy? Can he play

(24:15):
any minute? No, he's not gonna play, But we need
to put a warm body at the end of the bench.
They just happened to do it in game one. Yeah,
and look, I don't think anybody's gonna have a problem
him playing a couple minutes here or there. Could it
get away from them, Yes, if suddenly they feel like
they have to play him in every game, or he
needs to get extended minutes, or Lebron is unhappy with

(24:36):
some of his teammates and says something like, you know,
you got guys on the bench, you could maybe play
some more minutes. You know, then it could get really ugly,
right then, it could get really ugly. But if it's managed,
it's gonna be it's gonna be not much ado about nothing,
but it's it's gonna be the lack of a controversy,
and it'll just be attention on Bronny playing with Lebron.
Look at what happened last night, Because the Lakers have,

(24:59):
in one fell swoo turn themselves into must see TV again.
Look at let's see lebron Yes thirty nine, it's amazing
what he's doing. The Lakers are still a big show.
But Bronny played last night. What happened? Did you see
the behind the back pass that two of them out
on the break? With each other. Did you see this?
Did you see him talking? Like everything the Lakers do
every game, people are gonna want to see and fans

(25:21):
are gonna want to know, Hey, what happened with these
guys last night? Did Bronnie play? Did anything happen? I
don't want to miss anything, right that fomo you're gonna
have if you're not up to date with what's going
on with the Lakers. So from that perspective, Look, the
Lakers have always been really good businessmen and they understand that.
All right, the focus, Yeah, we're gonna try to win
a title and we hope we can and we hope

(25:41):
that JJ reddikn unlock DeAngelo Russell and unlocked Austin Reeves
and do all these like. Look, it's not like they've
stopped trying, but it's Hey, if we brought Bronnie in,
that's gonna do something even more for us than we
would have elsewhere. And if we're not good, but we
still stay top of conversation, we still say it team
that's talked about. We still stay the biggest draw and

(26:02):
the biggest story in the NBA. And when you can't
win a championship, that's what teams want. They all want
to win. But if I can't win, but I want
to be talked about. And that's what the Lakers are achieving.
But it's it's October twenty second. You're not winning a
title tonight, right. The team won the last title tonight,
but they won one game, but they celebrated the one
that they did win. And I'm pretty sure the Celtics cheated.

(26:25):
I just have to find out how all good you
think they their scope and guide to help them. They
all had a chip and planet, then a triangulate things.
They had the magnet basketball. You heard about that, right,
the magnet that gets drawn to the draws, right, So
it's just gonna go off, is just gonna go through
the hoop. But I just have to get the basketballs
and cut them ouk out of live TV like flate

(26:47):
Gate on a whole other level, like Geraldo, I'm gonna
go in al capon, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut bottles.
I'm gonna cut this bathroom all in half. Look at
the chip inside. It's a magnet. And if I can't
find a magnet, well then I get some else. That
was one of the greatest nights of television ever. All
the anticipation that, well, we have a couple of broken
beer bottles and some might have been paperwork. Let's speculate

(27:11):
about what it might have been. But here, here's here's
your dates. Honus Wagner baseball Cardah, who the hell is
that guy? Yeah? You put him in the walls, in
the wallpaper, h You have obviously the start of the
season October twenty sixth, the G League Draft October twenty eighth,
through the November seventh, the G League training camps, and

(27:31):
then opening day is seventh and eighth. So this isn't
gonna last very long unless he comes in and sets
the house on fire, right in terms of playing really
well and being a spark plug, which on some level
I hope it is, because I hope it extends the conversation,
especially for those that want to hate. In the end,

(27:53):
I'm kind of like the Tommy Lee Jones line we've
run from the Fugitive. I don't care, it's one of
daty two. The human side of me loves it all
basketball side. Okay, it's gonna get done here in short order,
but no title was being won tonight. So anybody that's mad,
they do it on opening night and again the pomp
and circumstance, the pageantry of it, all the Griffies and

(28:16):
whatever other Father's son combos they trot out. Get over yourselves.
It's look, it's a fun night. This will be something
that plays out. People are gonna love it, people are
gonna hate it. But understand, this is how the Lakers
have to operate. Oh you know how you have to operate.
You know, I can make them forget about this how
bullpen games? There you go, I got you America exit

(28:41):
out about a Fresco exit swelling down the Jason Smithson
with Mike Carmon live from the tiraq dot com studios.
So here we could be at a very big moment
right now because the t Wolves have taken the lead
over the Lakers twenty three to twenty two. End of
the first quarter. Edward's with eight points to lead the
Tea Wolves. No surprise. We could be seeing Bronni James

(29:02):
check in to start the second quarter. So we might
be just a couple of moments away from seeing history
in the NBA. Started the second quarter, we could see
father son playing Lebron and Bronny the Griffis are there.
We just saw cutaways to them. I mean, I'm sure,
I'm sure Kangrif Senior is going, why we here? Can

(29:24):
we just leave? Can we just go home? I just
want to go home. But first we're getting an on
court interview with Miles with Chris Finch, head coach of
the Timberwolves, because we need to know this what's going
in here going into the second quarter. So that's where
we're at right now, the second quarters about to begin.
Bronnie James has not checked into the game yet, but
again the plan was potentially to see him early here

(29:46):
in the second quarter. We may see him the next
couple of minutes. Lebron is on the floor to start
the second quarter, So you know, as long as Lebron
is in, because they're not gonna have Bronni check in
with Lebron not in the game, he will check in
for the first time. I am sure with Lebron there.
So twenty four to twenty three, Lakers with the lead
over Minnesota, eleven and a half to go in the
second quarter. We got more coming up in ninety seconds.

(30:08):
But first, Kevin Wire's got what's trending in the wide
world of sports? Kate up, Yeah, all eyes on Los Angeles,
as many anticipating the debut of Bronny James, the reports
had speculated that it would be in the second quarter
when he'd make his debut. We've not seen him yet,
but Lebron out there for the Lakers as they're trailing
the Timberwolves twenty six to twenty four, about eleven minutes

(30:31):
ago in the second quarter, leading the way for the
Lakers so far. Ruey Ha Chamorrow. He's got himself seven
points on three of four shooting. The ant man the
top of the score sheet for the Timberwolves as Edwards
has eight points. He is three of five shooting so far.
Earlier tonight, Celtics and Nixon Boston to open up the

(30:52):
season of the defending champions, picking up right where they
left off. This one was not much of a contest
at all. This game was over for much of the
last three quarters. I would say as Boston wins, it
won thirty two. It was over when they tipped the
ball off Kevin Winter. They tipped it off and it
went in for three points. That's how bad it was, yeh.
Jason Tatum had twenty five points at the half, had

(31:14):
thirty seven overall on the game. Fourteen A hit seven Yeah,
thirty seven points on fourteen of eighteen, shooting eight of
eleven from beyond the three point arc, and three of
the five Celtics starters scored twenty points. Derek White had
twenty four, Jalen Brown had twenty three, and Jalen Brunson
led the way with twenty two points for New York,

(31:35):
but they struggled from beyond the three point line eleven
of thirty shooting from long range. Back to you guys,
Thank you, Katee. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmon live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
We have more big news coming out of the NFL.
We could be seeing two big trays on the way,
two big trades on the way. But when you next

(31:56):
hear our voices, will we see something none of us
I've ever seen before? Father son playing in an NBA game?
Is Bronnie about to check in with the Lakers? That's next?
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No Bronni James yet. Seven thirty four to go in
the second quarter. Lebron still in the game for the Lakers.
They have a thirty seven to twenty nine lead, although
it looks like Lebron is checking out of the game
right now. Got tangled up on the last played down court.

(32:44):
He is holding his elbow, his right elbow, getting some
high fives. He checks out of the game, sits down
at the end of the bench, So maybe Bronni James's
debut is gonna get postponed a little bit here again,
seven and a half to go on the second quarter,
Lebron just comes to the game, was going down court
and was looking for position, got tangled up. Fell looks

(33:04):
like he hit his arm and checks himself out of
the game, but doesn't like he's being looked at. It's
like he's sitting at the end of the bench right
now rubbing his sleeved arm. And we will have an
update on that for you as we come on. It
was an odd posture though, as he walked off the court,
kind of like the arm just kind of dangling. Yeah,
he was liking high fives to his teammates and he

(33:25):
was reaching over with his left hand like, hey, hang
on a second, it's broken. Oh it's broken, something like that. Yeah,
what I did find interesting, right, well, we didn't get
the Browny check in at the start of the second corner.
We got Dalton connect and all he did was like
he was magnetically drawn, you know, like the basketball was
in your Nick Celtic game to the corners where he

(33:46):
just kind of stayed until it was time to run back,
like there was a release when it was potentially needing
to go back and play defense. Otherwise he just slumped
into the corners and didn't move. Just give me the
ball here, just give me the I'm setting up. I'm
gonna shoot. But old school Steve Kurr John Packson got it, guys.
I'm in my spot. I've come on a lot. What
are you doing? All right? So again, ten point lead

(34:08):
for the Lakers now midway through the second quarter. We
will have more on this game coming up again. As
soon as Brownie James does check in for this historic moment,
we will let you know again. I can't wait for it.
It's gonna be exciting. It's gonna be fun, and you
don't find people are gonna hate it, because we'll find
a way to hate everything, you know, tonight when you
don't when you don't see something for thirty years, I

(34:32):
kind of like to see that. I'm not gonna say yeah,
and I don't want that, Like, hey, do you want
to go see that? You're never gonna see an eclipse
like this? Remember the eclipse a few months ago? You
had like seven pairs of last clips. I don't want
to see the eclipse. Why am I going outside and
see the eclipse? Cause you may never see it again
in your life. What do I want to see an
eclipse for? Okay, all right, that's fine. Well, but I
mean you can care about stuff like that or not. Likewise, here,

(34:54):
you know, if you're a basketball fan, you know, or
a human being, maybe this one would appeal to you.
You know, you could play all the great father Son
songs of all time and have some fun with sure.
But you know, again, the humanity of it all. We
talk about the emotions. I am old, it's not your fault.
Oh nicely, yeah, okay, cry taddle down. You can get

(35:23):
married all of that. So it's very Young, Get Your
Fault very two songs that make me cry when I
hear it, or that I don't want to hear that
ever again. No, never want to hear that again. Whatever.
I grew up with that, but that was part of
my dad's repertory. Throw that. Don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear slipping through your fingers by Abba,
No no, no, that's a good one. Don't want to
hear the Christmas Shoes. Don't want to hear that. Christmas

(35:45):
is a good one. Don't want to hear that. No, no, no,
don't want that aside for the Christmas No, no, no,
no no. It's over in the corner thawing out next
to Mariah Carey getting Ready songs, songs I don't want
to hear never want to hear any of those again.
Oh yeah. All of that to say, like, just didn't
joy it, and if you don't like it, like Kevin
Durant always said, don't watch Jason. Does it make you

(36:05):
happy to see Diva Shenzo struggling like this? I would
say happy. It gives me a little. He's really sucking though,
minus yeah, he's minus. Well. Listen the Timberwolves as a
team is minus leven. Yeah, the Lakers are on a
seventeen two right, nineteen to two right of layups right now,
if it's a layup line, they have a fifteen point
lead over the tee Wolves. Here at midway through, the

(36:26):
points in the paint are absolutely killing it. I will
say this, I love Devincenzo. I love what he brought
to the Knicks last year. It sucked they had to
trade him, it really did. But when he just hits
the side of the backboard on a three like he
just did, and I realize how badly the Knicks lost
to Night, Yeah, I'm okay with it. And then he
yelled tight tight, like he was Juka. I wasn't talking

(36:50):
to you, Brunson. I was talking to Tips. I wasn't
talking to you, man, I was talking to Tims. You
want to fight out? Fight ain't so bad right now,
it's the perfect time to put Brownie in. Oh man,
let's get you a couple of minutes because we're not
gonna give up this lead, because we're beating the hell
out of these I would say this, there's five minutes
to now. Let's just let's just play a little. Let's
just play a little game planner here, a JJ reddick.

(37:13):
There's under five minutes ago in the first half. This
first half has gone about as well as the Lakers
could have expected it to. Again, they are thumping Minnesota
right now, and you're only shooting twenty percent from three
point range. He is a nineteen to two run. You
got Hatchimora and Davis with eleven and ten each. Hayes
has six off the bench, connect already has five off

(37:34):
the bench in eight minutes. This is as good a
start as you could possibly imagine. Lebron doesn't look like
he's coming back in the game soon. He's got the
he's got the blue long sleeve on, the black long
sleeve on. So I would assume they're gonna check in
together the next time. Uh, and maybe it's gonna be
both of them at the scorer's table. They both take

(37:54):
their uniforms on. Whatever it's gonna be, and it's gonna
be a thing. Take yourniform off. Boy, Lebron's checking in
with no shirt on. How about that boy? Look at
that body? ACKed buzz Does Browny do the chalk? Oh?
I think they both do the chalk together. I think
Lebron that's true, that's a bridge shoe far Bron graf
before you check it in together have done and then

(38:14):
they throw it up with like the wonder twing powers.
It's checktivate. I would assume Lebron's not being looked and
again he banged his arm coming off the floor. He's
not being looked at. He's got his he's got his
long sleeve. On four and a half minutes to go,
when the Lakers are up nineteen, I would assume what's
going to happen is this again, just assuming Bron Lebron

(38:36):
stays out and then somewhere around the minute mark, with
a minute to go before halftime, Lebron and Bronny check
into the game and they play the final minute of
the first half together, right, because that's normally when you
see the look. You want to keep guys from getting
fouls and of the bench guys come in a couple
of seconds here, that's a perfect chance to get Lebron
and Bronny in again. Hey, it's a minute we get

(38:56):
over with and then we can concentrate on the game.
Will Smith and his kid g gonna do then? Oh sure, yeah,
with the Griffies, they're all going to do something together. Yes,
they're all gonna do a song. And even though they're
not father and son, can we just get kid in
play so you can do the dance. Everybody say, oh,
his kid is gonna slap Chris Rock's kid. So we

(39:17):
could have history coming up, but we know we do have.
We could potentially be on the cusp of two big
trades in the NFL. Oh, it's happening. It's happening now,
it's all happened.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
The first father son duo to play together in an
NBA game.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
This is all in the family. Iron Eagle on TNT
with a call, do you think I an eagle brought No.
One of the game the father son, Hey, you're gonna
do a game with me? And you know it up?
Hey it's they called a meathead. Hey, after getting it
all in the family reference, I like, all you guys
up the side. My son's gonna come in and be
my analyst here for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's just so you know we're gonna work that way. Well,
I mean, you can do it for three minutes like
they did, like they didn't here with bron and Bronnie
on Savannah got up and the left I think yeah. Yeah.
As soon as Bronnie checked out, shout on Savannah, Hey, mom,
was like, I got other stuff to do. Savannahs seen
a game or two in her life. I think it's okay,
you know what, that's good, been there and done that

(40:09):
about So I'm gonna hit and beat traffic. They checking it.
What did we see over the course of the last
three minutes, Because now, uh, Bronni checks out of the game.
We're forty four seconds before halftime. The Lakers have a
twelve point lead over Minnesota. It was nineteen when Bronni
checked in. Now it's twelve. So no, uh you the
man Bronni minus minus minus five in three minutes. So

(40:32):
Bronni checks into the game with lebron and there was
a sequence in the very very first possession. Lebron takes
a three, it doesn't go uh. Next time down the floor,
Bronny was on the right side of the floor, looked
like he was gonna he was trying to hang behind
the arc. Lebron took a three, missed it. Bronny sneaks

(40:53):
in behind everybody, goes up for a putback and and
just misses. But he gets in tween behind everybody and
gets a pretty good look at it at a grab
and a putback, and it just bounces off the rim.
Next time down the floor, Lebron passes to Bronny. Looks
like they were running little two man game, maybe a
little pick and roll. But Bronny comes around, gets the

(41:15):
ball back to Lebron. Shot clock was winding down. That
was a really bad two man game there. That was
very close to do Dad Dad Dad here here. Even
though Lebron crushing tick here, I'm the defender that was
stepping out. I mean, that was a that was a
football block. Bronny passed it back to Lebron. At the
end of the shot clock, Lebron missed a three. Uh

(41:35):
Minnesota hit a couple of shots. Now, Joe Ingles is
guarding Bronnie James, and you could tell he was like,
this kid's not making anything on me, Like no, no, no,
I'm not gonna be the guy posterized for Bronni's first
two points, and it figures he Ingles, that's the guy, right, Okay,
he's the guy right, That's that's how it's gonna go.
Uh So again, not a lot after that, shortly after

(41:58):
we watched Bronnie check out of the game. The Lakers
will go to the locker with a thirteen point lead
here fifty five forty two, but we get the history
of lebron and Browny playing together for the first and
not the last time. Look, Bronny comes into this game
and we're all wondering how much is he gonna play?

(42:19):
When is he going to play? And I would I
would think that it can't be something that's hard and fast,
right because you can't plan. Okay, here's a guy that
we don't know how what he's going to be able
to add to us. Is he gonna be eventually a
three and D guy? Is he gonna be a depth piece?
He plays hard defensively, so we know that part of it.
They're gonna have to sniff out how it's gonna go.
And I will, I will, I will tell you what

(42:41):
how I think this is gonna go. In the beginning,
he will play a few minutes a night, and they
will see how it goes and if it looks like
he belongs on the court, even for short spins, because
it's not like, well you got to pay him and
get no. No, this is how it works the NBA.
You see limited minutes and it's not like, oh, we
need Heed's at bats yet, No he doesn't. He doesn't

(43:02):
need reps. This is how it works in the NBA.
You play the minutes that you are good with playing,
that you can continue to add to the team with.
If he looks like he is not overwhelmed and that
he is all right on the floor and at the
very least a zero sum player, maybe he's not adding
to the Lakers, but he's giving rest to another player,

(43:23):
and the Lakers' lead doesn't really evaporate or they don't
fall behind more. Then this is how it will go,
and Bronni will play very limited minutes throughout the course,
and it will be a more comfortable situation. If Bronni
isn't moving, if he's not what the Lakers need him
to be, the decision will be made for him because

(43:43):
lebron knows hey as much as you know. Look, I
want Bronnie to play here. I can't have this where
it looks like the team is gonna have a mutiny
against me because my son is playing when he shouldn't be.
Another guy should be playing other minutes. If that happens,
that's when you will see Bronny go to the G League.
That's when we'll start playing. Well, Hey, let's get you
some time here. And I can already see JJ Redick's

(44:04):
press conference. Hey, he needs more time. He's not getting
it up here. We can still bring him back up.
So gonna play up here a little bit, but gonna
go down to the G League get a bunch of
minutes because it's very close. That's the best thing about
the Lakers is the G League is they're in the
same city. They're five minutes from their practice facility, so
it's a pretty easy thing for the Lakers to do that.
So it's gonna be they're gonna kind of feel this out.
But that that's kind of how I see this going.

(44:26):
You saw the way he played there. Look, Minnesota didn't
go on an unbelievable run. They didn't take advantage of
him defensively, they weren't blowing by him, they weren't using
him and getting buckets. He wasn't someone that on offense
gummed anything up. So as long as he is playing
and he is not hurting them, and he's able to
give rest to some players for just a couple minutes
here at a time, he will continue to see this

(44:48):
kind of action three minutes here at a time. He'll
play with Lebron, sometimes he'll play without Lebron, and that's
how it's going to go. But and we'll be able
to see it, and you'll be able to see how
he goes and if it's if he's not hitting shots,
if he's not contributing, if he's getting lost defensively, then
he will go down and play more in the G League.
But I see this is kind of how it's gonna
go for now, where he'll play these few minutes and

(45:09):
see but look, a guy like dog Connect is gonna
seem more mates. He checked into the game and he
played a lot, right the kid. There's a reason he's
a first round pick. The Lakers are not the guy
Lebron wanting. Yeah, the Lakers. Yeah, the Lakers are not
going to do this at the expense of the team
right now. There's too many eyes on it. There's too
many eyeballs on the situation. There's too many ways to
make it go sideways. There's too many ways. I can

(45:30):
see Lebron pulling an Aaron Rodgers saying stop listening to
the media. That's the first thing we need to be doing.
So the Lakers are gonna handle this right now in
the right way. And if that's Brownny for the first half, okay,
And if Bronny gets another three minutes in the second half,
he can spell somebody and give somebody a rest with
a Tachamore or someone else. Yeah, then that's gonna be fine.
Then that's gonna be all right. No, So, I mean

(45:54):
in first half he gets his three minutes, he missed
two shots, right, he had to put back, and then
he missed a three point shot. You had that gummed
up little two man game, isolated thing, nerves whatever, and
angles not be wanting to be the guy to give
up the first points, as we discussed. But yeah, I mean,
you got two weeks before you have to make a decision.

(46:14):
G League still a couple of weeks away. So to
start a season, it's an eighty two game marathon. Just
like I tried talking you off the ledge an hour
ago as you were canceling the NBA season. I don't
know what the hell you were looking forward to. I mean,
Mets just went home. The Jets stink. Yeah, Syracuse basketball, Well, wait, football,

(46:36):
we're playing our big playing the biggest acy season. Thursday,
we got. Yeah, tonight was that Miami Vice game. But Thursday,
you've got that. Go ahead, bring him up. I'll let
you bring him up. Bring him up, bring him up,
bring him up tonight. Bring them up tonight because they
gave up eleven thousand three pointers. Bring him up, go ahead,
bring him up real fast. I said it. Oh, okay, okay,
that's want to make sure. I already said you wanted
to cancel Bastard. All right, yeah, yeah, but I don't

(46:57):
know what you were dancing to.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Right.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
The met need some time off, and they need to retool,
and they need to figure out how they're going to
get seven hundred million dollars to pay one. So no,
all of those things still have to happen.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
But for tonight and for the next two weeks, you
can give a few minutes here and there. The Lakers
season is not going to be one or lost in
these first two weeks. Right, we're talking the long game here.
It's really all about whether Lebron and Ad are healthy.
Then you're fighting for the back end maybe middle of

(47:28):
the Western Conference, you know, playoff picture. If things break
right and Connect is the guy that they think he
could be as a scorer, hat Chimora has been fantastic
to open this game, maybe jumping off a little about
what he did the end of last year into his
time with the Olympics before he got thrown out, you know,
all of those things, because he was playing really well,

(47:50):
right and he found his space, right guy. Finally, you know,
we expect guys to become superstars immediately bounce around a little,
find his place. But for Broni James, at five minutes
a night, you can steal five minutes a night, three
minutes a night, whatever, Get guys rest extend the bench.
He and Lebron he gets his minutes in front of

(48:11):
the big crowd and you get whatever nerves are off.
But eventually he's gonna need regular minutes. Like I would,
you know, disagree in just keeping him there if he's
only gonna play sparingly right to where in this case,
he checks in because they had a massive lead.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Now, it was a plan to get him in, but
it just so happened. You also had a seventeen nineteen.
He's gonna be a game to game thing. There's gonna
be times when he doesn't play, and that's gonna be okay.
He's already played in the first game. They got it
out of the way. And if this is how it's managed, okay,
because sometimes guys play three to eight minutes a night,
and that's what certainly the roster dnp's divisions. Absolutely, but

(48:50):
it's game to game. It's game to game, and if
they're if they see that somebody else should be getting
these six minutes, they'll understand. And Brownie woke down and
play in the G League and he'll kind of bounce back.
I would imagine that's exactly the plan, right, I mean,
you got two weeks before they start the G League,
So for now, yeah, right right with the big club
and take a few minutes here and there, and now

(49:10):
to get outside of this. Now, for this first game,
the Lakers had an absolutely hell of a first half
against the Tea Wolves. Again, they on a nineteen to
two run, and the Timberwolves hit a couple of shots
in the last couple of minutes to close it down.
But the Lakers go to halftime with a fifty five
to forty two lead, and it's kind of been all

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over the scoreboard for them. This has not been a
Lebron's got twelve and AD's got thirteen. Yeah, Ad as twelve,
Lebron's got eight, Russell as seven, Hayes has six Connect
off the bench already as five, he's hit a three already,
So this is kind of across the board. The Lakers
are getting it from from their big players, and Hatchimoor
and Russell are both plus twenty for the game so far.

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So this has been This has been exactly like the
Lakers couldn't draw this up any better. What do you
want your first game? We want Lebron and Brownie to play.
We wanted to be a positive experience, and we want
to win the game, and we want to have all
our guys play well and show that we're not just
already going to rely on Lebron and Ad again. And
that's what you've seen so far. This has been a
perfect first half for the JJ. Reddick could have went

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to bed last night and his wife would have kind
of turned over and said, what's a perfect game for
you tomorrow? And the first half would be exactly what
they said here And somehow we have a double digit
lead going a halftime, and Lebron plays well, and Bronni
plays and everybody is contributing, and Connect comes off the
bench and oh by and Russell looks good and hot
Chimot did the two guys that I've tried to make
sure over the course of the offseason. I was pumping up.

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They're both having big first half. This is I don't know.
This may be the high point of the Lakers year.
This may be as good as against Wow. Maybe you
had ten offensive rebounds twenty seven to twenty three rebounding edge.
The only downside is JJ Reddick might be their best
three point shooter because they were three nineteen in the Sure, yeah,
you could be right about that. You could be right.
Oh what you got, Frost? We got a question on this?

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Oh yeah, you guys ready for Oh yeah, go ahead?
What do you got if you're the Timberwolves? Right? Yeah?
Do you take this personal? They're all on iPads in
the locker room looking at Bronny checking in his tase
belong to play you in the first game in the
first half, Well, I mean we could, like we said,

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Angles certainly was not a fan. What was that the
what's the what's the highlight? In Fletch when he's playing
for the Lakers, they're showing the highlight and the guy
hits him and he grabs him and he puts his
mouth on to bite the guy's wrist, Like that's gonna
be seeing in the second half. You believe they put
Bronny in the game. Here, you believe they put Browny

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in the game. As believe the game dunking from like
mid court. See there you go. I mean they shoot
forty one percent for the first half. Do the t Wolves?
Uh ten turnovers, good fast break points and a lot
of layups, a lot of lambs for the Lakers in
the first half. So yeah, it worked out well. But
I greg group you loo game. You can have the

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Knicks taken personally that the guys are jacking threes, say
the tea Wolves, Like really, hey, guys, they just checked
him in there. He is looking at him coming in together,
cast of intestinal fortitude right now in that locker room.
Who wants to guard you know Ingles? Who wants to
guard Bronnie? I got him. I got him. I got him,
because you know Ingles is that guy. No I got him.

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I got him. Coach, I got him. I got him. Okay, okay,
take it easy here, a little oversighted, but no, I
got him. Do worry door, I got on me. Coach
I got him, guys, I got a door. I got him,
I got h he's got his hand up out. I
got me me me yeah, me chewing gum, yeah yeah
me me me yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Got I go.
I gotta coach. I gotta coach again. I think that's
why Lebron set that pit. Hey, Ronnie, watch out. They

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got ingles on you. What does that mean? Don't worry.
Trust I got this. Trust me. Don't worry about it.
I'm bigger. I'll clean this up. He's bigger than you.
I'm bigger than him. It will be fine. Just just
be careful, run around, Just run around me, Just run
around me. So I can? I can? I can? I
can do something? Uh? So there it is absolute NB history.
Lebron and Brouny played together a perfect first half of

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the Lakers. Take a picture. This might be as good
as a guest