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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside. Happy Thursday, Jason Smith Show with my
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
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a game so far, a big injury scare for Ann Edwards.

(01:01):
In the first half. He comes down off a hoop
and his left leg just kind of crumbles. He can't
put any weight on it. He goes to the locker
room being helped by a couple of guys, then the
right before the second half starts, he's doing the big
band exercise like he's, you know, doing a bowflex commercial
or and he's just pulling it and pulling it and
pulling it. And he's back on the floor and he's

(01:23):
doing fine, and so are the te Wolves. Fifty six
forty two is their lead over the Steph Curry less
Golden State Warriors right now. And again, I go back
to what I said last night. If the Tea Wolves
can't find a way to win this series with the
Warriors without Steph Curry, who now maybe he's out for
a little bit longer than we expect, it's the most

(01:44):
embarrassing loss you could have there. They should win this.
The game shouldn't even be close from here or now.
Every game should be a double digit win, even when
they're playing at Golden State. He'd be double digit wins
from Minnesota the rest of the way.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I don't know, but you know, tempting fates and the
basketball all gods. I mean, Kaminga has ten points. He's
a perfect five for five at nine minutes the season leading.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
He's leading the Warriors and scored. That's how bad it is.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Jonathan is Kaminga against Julius Randall.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
How many dnps does he have? Five or six so far?
And he's leading the Warriors in scoring. Come on, and
Draymond doing Draymond things.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
We've seen the histrionics, and you know it's eccentric and
kind of cool and agitating when you're winning. When it
becomes the frustration of throwing your arms up and then
chasing referees all over the court, where Steph Curry has
to get up on that bad leg and try to
calm you down, it's it's not good for business now.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
And look, it's something that yes, we're seeing Steph's value
to the Golden State Warriors, of course, but you lose
this series. And Steph Curry said today it looks like
I'm not gonna rush it coming back. His injury is
something where I've never had this before. A little scared
right now. I am sure you know you've never had
something like this. It's the middle of the places. Yeah,

(03:02):
he's probably got I would say this, he's got until
Game four if the If the t Wolves win tonight
in Game three, he'll be back for Game four, even
though he says I'm out through Game four. Uh, if
the t Wolves win he'll be back for game four.
If it's somehow too one, then he'll come back for
game five. Because look, it's been a pretty it didn't

(03:23):
it so far, it's not been a horrendous injury. It
seems like the words are airing on the side of caution.
And that's great when you're up one zip and hey,
you're feeling pretty good. You're playing with house money for
game two. Yeah, but eventually it's gonna get real and
Game three is gonna be a two to one Wolves lead,
or oh wait, we can't go down three to one.
That's done. But then Steph coming back. Then are we
even gonna get to Game six, which is like eight

(03:44):
days after Game five. So as long as the series.
If it's two to one Wolves, he's back for game four.
If it's two to one Warriors, he's back in game five.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah. It's the the curiosity of you know, how severe
is the injury, and it's all lip service until he's
back on a court. And even if they show us,
you know, the hey, look at here, he's getting back
in shape, he's running, he's getting through drills. That that's
nothing once you actually get back into the physicality, because
that's one thing that we can we could talk about
these playoffs series and while you know, you lament that,

(04:15):
you know, the good old days were better when guys
were beaten out out of each other. Now, these these
first two series in two rounds, I should say, have
been very physical. So Steph Curry's not going to get
a free pass, right, He's going to get the extra screen,
He's going to get the extra hip check as he
goes by. Let's let's test how strong the leg is
right now, how strong your base is, so you know,

(04:36):
for the Warriors, if they push him back onto the
court too early, like you're at, you're at a point
in your career where you've got only so many postseasons
to run. So no doubt he's going to try to
force his way back out there. But it will be
curious to see how how quickly that is and what
kind of minutes he's able to play. But right now,

(04:57):
they they're getting the shot in the arm they needed
from John Minga.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, and I want to ask I want to ask
the big question. I mean, I want to ask the
big question here micro. I want to ask the big
question everybody is at but they're afraid to ask. And
I will ask it. Julius Randal and Jonathan Kaminga are
the leading scorers in tonight's game?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Isn't there like a Nick scrimmage or super fan Knicks
interviews the TNT can air instead like we wouldn't don't
you wouldn't you want to see that? Or some kind
of amalgam of Tracy Morgan all the stuff he had
to say today and the and the Celtics security guard
who was screaming for help because the Knicks fans and
chant Nix and four. I mean, wouldn't you want to

(05:34):
see that? I'd want to see that more than this?
Let mean, come on, man, randalin Kaminga, now give me
Nick's off day. That's going to be better than this.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well, no doubt, as this game goes on, if it
remains a double digit lead currently at twelve, just inside
nine minutes remaining, I'm sure we'll have plenty of Hey,
who else is here? And they'll start scanning the third
third level just to see if anybody happened to sneaky
to try to hide in the back. Say hey, here's
another star. You might not remember him. He was actor

(06:04):
D on the call sheet from this sitcom in the
late eighties, so we always have that in our back part.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
It was Joe the Policeman from the What's Going Down? Episode?
And that's my mama, mister Randy Watson, Yeah, no, he was.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, but that's the question right in Minnesota. How many
stars are we gonna be out? You can only show
Alex Rodriguez so many times?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, I mean, you get die. I get tired of
air right after seeing him once. I'm like, yeah, game, I.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Mean, what do we get to must out Joe Mauer
and Justin Moreno, yeah, that's here's Frank Viola. I mean,
I don't know, I don't know what else you got.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Here's Ken Herbeck. Yeah, okay, great.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
What's that bad? Herbie would be good?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
What do you got Frostburg in the Marvel universe?

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, I now see why ant Man is at the
low of the total bill.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Why they're not gonna make ant Man for low Hawkey?

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh, whoa, whoa whoa Hawkey? Is that Hawkeyes? I don't
know much about Marvel. I know ant Man after tonight. Uh,
you know, I'm not saying great. If Hawkey is a
sixteen c ant Man at this point is probably a
fifteen cee.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know what though, But now does the Hawkeye legend
of the character change after Jeremy Renner's heroics to save
a family member and take on a fifteen thousand pound machine.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Just stupid? No, I think, don't be stupid. I think.
I think what Marvel needs to do is say, Okay,
these characters work, We'll see them again. These characters. Hey,
thank you for being part of the MCU Phase four,
which was so incredibly successful. Yeah x x x x
Hey you circle, you're in, you're in, you you're out.
Name if you stay Millhouse, your cut that that that's

(07:37):
how MCU's got to do it. Well.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
But the way they did the MCU was the we're
going to test the boundaries of our profitability. So how
many movies call me?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Like if an man goes missing? Uh you call the
ant police?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well you find uh what was what was the guy's
name driving the driving the van?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Michael Douglas.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
No, not Michael Douglas. I was actually just going through through,
uh the Michael Douglas filmography.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Oh the Oh Bobby Yaga, Babba Yaga, Oh Bobby Yaga
like that that guy? Yeah? Okay, okay, okay, okay, now.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know when you see Michael something else right, what
was that?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Let me know, when you see Falling Down, you gotta
explain that. You go explained millennials, what's falling down?

Speaker 4 (08:18):
And there is one of the finest films of the
last think Mormon's Mountain Traffic.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, that's where Drew Carey got his look from. Michael Douglason.
Falling Down.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Now mood over.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Twelve point lead for Minnesota Golden State, which will well,
we'll keep you updated on this.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
It's Michael Payna. We were looking for pay I'll.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Tell you he's in a bad spot. Can you can
you that with Walton Goggin saying can you please get
to the lake? Yeah, yeah, I'm saying he's in a
tough spot.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Uh, bab Bible Bunkers.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
You are in Chicago now, which is the hub of
the United States, because that's where the New Pope is from.
New Pope, the first American Pope we've ever had is
from I'm Chicago and he is a white Sox fan.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
This is like in The Watchman when Superman is real
and he's American. I kind of feel like that's what's
going on. Harmon bless us.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, we're getting the appearance request in to see if
we can't get a little bit of an audience here.
I'm working on it all the angles. But I was
at the Barrett conference right going through and the metrics
and changing face of radio podcast, all this fun stuff,
learning some great things. But then word comes down that
the new Pope has been elected. That took over, of course,

(09:34):
and then obviously all the jokes and the one liners
that started to emanate from there. But originally the rumor
was that he was a Cubs fan. Well, but what happened.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
You have to love every year for the pope. You
have to love everybody. You can't. I mean that's where
it's not like, oh I root for both teams. No, no,
you pick one. No, the popes. I have to love that.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
No. Yeah, well you could love everybody, but you still
have to pick one team, the White Sox. You just
but but I got to read you this text I
got from my cousin. Let me let me find it here.
It's it's genius because they started having the family thread
back and forth. Quote. The new Pope is a traitorous Southsider,
just like my dad was. That was my uncle who

(10:15):
became a cub fan, and then it's like I stand corrected.
His brother has now confirmed on WGN that he is
in fact a White Sox fan.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Here comes Pope Hot Takes coming your way right now.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
That was pretty good, though, Well, he knows.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
About a lot of paint and suffering. I know I'm
not the first person to make that joke, but the
first time that joke's been made on the show. So
he knows a lot about suffering.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
But you got two things going with it. First off,
you got Pope don Paul remember him, the relief pitcher
m M yep, So he gets a little bit around.
He was one of the greatest in person and through
the male signers of all time. Literally they'd get to
the Komisky Park and they'd come back three days later.
So you'd have that. But I give you this tweet
from aj Berzinski quote, did anyone think that the new

(10:59):
Pope picked Leo the fourteenth to honor Paul Kenerko? Just
a thought, let's go?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Or maybe the Pope Paul Owens, who we used to
be the GM of the Phillies a long time ago,
may never know. You never know?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right, now, you're going too far, You're bringing.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, come on, well, Pope, how many guys think that
John Paul Morosi the Pope. He's on with us every week.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
You never know coming this fall Chicago Pope Tuesdays on NBC.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
They could add that to Chicago Fire and ned. Yeah,
no it works.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
And now on the puck. You think I can come
in here and not bless you. I won't bless this bodega,
and you see what happens. I'm the Pope and I'm
on the south side.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
I talked. I talked to my daughter this morning and
she started laughing. She goes, yeah, I can tell you've
been in Chicago for twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
How heck the speech patterns effects?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Oh man, yeah, I think I think Uh, I wait,
I think Frostburg. What'd you say you have something? Oh yeah, yeah,
you'd have to open your ears, Jesse, Oh I didn't
if you said that, my years are on the air.
Oh okay, okay, maybe maybe Melkiper's I said, he's very mad.
Yeah it could have been.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, I mean they got to this pope pretty fast.
We're trying to verify the odds.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Sometimes it's a quick selection. Okay, why don't you stick
it all?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
I'm the Pope and I'm here, and I'm gonna tell you,
I can't believe that guy got hit in the head
the other night in a pop up and we lost
the bleeping game. How the hell will you get hit
in the head. You need to be blessed somewhere else,
not in Chicago. Maybe in triple A you get hitting
the head and a pop up even I know I
could catch that. I could use my big hat. You
hit me in the hat with a pop up, that

(12:39):
ball's gonna bounce in the air and I'm gonna catch it.
I really hope this is what the Pope sounds like.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Also seems like a nice, uh in between innings kind
of game here, use the Pontiff style hat. How many
balls can you catch?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
They call me deep dish Pope, and I'll kick your ants. Okay,
how about that? All right? I got weapons, I got cardinals,
I got bishops, I get all kinds of stuff. Got
the Pope cursing.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Now you're going full blaspheme and you're going now.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's coming this Friday to CBA. But there's a new
pope in town, and it's me.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I just love you.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
The White Sox.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Man that's the best. I finally get a win.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Suities. Oh,
we'll have more on the Pope because there's some big
things we have to get you just where this Pope
accomplishment ranks for us in the United States as far
as stuff on the world stage, Like it's a really
really big deal. We'll have more from the NBA as well.
Minnesota with a ten point lead over Golden State and
the video that I've now watched, I think I'm responsible

(13:43):
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Speaker 1 (15:42):
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Speaker 3 (15:47):
Well, yes, word nice.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Minnesota seventy six fifty eight lead. We'll have more in
this game coming up in a second. Well wait, Jason Waite,
why am I hearing after seven from the five heart Beats? Well,
because I got a fun story ready for this. Mike Harmony, Okay,
ready for this?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
So who'd you steal a sandwich?

Speaker 5 (16:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:03):
No, no, no, no no no. So you know Leon
the actor, Right, it's been since the eighties, right, big
five Heart Beats was his big one. Right, he's got
a he's got a viral.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
He was in Curb, right, Yeah, he wasn't Curb. He
was in Above the Rim, he was in Cool Runnings.
He was a little Richard. So He's had a big
career in Hollywood as a as a as an actor
since the late eighties. Big supporting character and a big
supporting actor. Well, you know, he goes on the Odd Couple, uh,
because he knows Rob Parker and Kelvin and Rob Garra.

(16:34):
So he goes on the Odd Couple and he comes
on with them and talks. And Rob Garrett told me
the story before he came on the air. He goes, hey,
you know, you know what gave you a shout out?
I said what he says? Well, I was talking to
Leon off the air, and Leon said, I really liked
that show that comes on after here too. You know
why because I need more Knicks talk.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh boy, go New York, go New York. Goat go
New York, go New York go. Yeah, more Knicks talg
There so a request for more nick talk, so we have.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's it. I mean if we get critical masks and man,
look can't fill the coffers.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh, I like that next to more knick talk.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Like Ian Anderson said in the Thicket a brick park
to give until it hurts.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Dude, I can't tell you today I have walked around
like like like with the biggest chip on my should.
Like every other word, I want to curse. I want
to say blank this and blank this because I'm just
I'm just I'm high on the Knicks. That's like how
I feel like. I'm high on them after last night.
Not like high. I think they're gonna win, like I
feel like, No, I'm really like I'm high and I'm

(17:39):
just and I'm just so happy and I'm angry and
I'm and I'm but it's a good angry. It's a
good like yeah, blank you and blank you and you
and you and you. I'd like everything is there for
us because everybody else is losing and we're right here
and we're gonna beat the Celtics when we got the
Pacers in the revenge thing and we're gonna be in
the finals. I just I've been feel so much emotion,
like I'm waiting for lightning the come out of my hands,

(18:00):
go New York. Yeah, the Frostburg's on the badwagon with me.
It's all good. I just that's how I feel, Mike.
I'm just I'm just all loaded up with energy. Man,
It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, it's good. I mean, look, sometimes you need the
you and me and us against the world kind of moments.
You need to embrace that. That the hatred that's coming
from uh, the Celtics world. You've got Frostburg on your side. Yes,
Hell has frozen over, and the new pope is a
white Sox fan, all of that conversion together. I'm walking
around the street Chicago and I'm smiling and people actually

(18:35):
acknowledge you and say hello. It's like a bizarro world. So, yeah,
you're hateful, and I'm positive. We gotta we gotta keep
balance in.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
The I just want to curse and scream and yell
and point fingers like I can't wait for Game three,
like I wish, like right you. Normally I would be like, hey, hey,
we're up to nothing. Let's enjoy the good times while
they're here, right, You never know when they're gonna end. Yeah,
hey Celtics have win four or five. Jayson Tatumsons' is
all my fault. Hey, no, no, no, I want, I want,
I want you now. I want to play game three now.
I want to play Game three now. You think, and

(19:05):
I say I said this last night.

Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well you want to you want to play Game three now?
Because this game is a seventeen to one game in
the final minute. Well, yeah, you want something more compelling.
I want I want Nick's off day interviews. It would
be better than this. Like, what is Jaylen Brunson have
to say? What did Josh Hart have for lunch? Did MICKL.
Bridges steal anything from anybody else today? You know, maybe
some kind of man on.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
The street thing where he was out just you know,
having fun to taking stuff from everybody, because that's what
he does to win games. Like that's I think that's
a better program right now than what TNTs.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
No, that that is absolutely true. Do we get any
more viral videos from j R. Smith or anybody else?
I mean, I know we had one basketball legend who
paid off on a very large bet. But we'll get
to that as the show develops.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh no, we'll get to that in a couple of minutes,
trust me. Yeah, that's coming to a couple of minutes. No,
we will call him BS. We will have why you
call it? Well, okay, let's look to the stories the
way to say, we'll get to that. We'll get to it. No, no, no,
I want to get to that story. The like the
like the video I've watched a million times. Well, we'll
do We'll do this in a little bit, cause we
gotta do the Paul Pierce thing now, is that I
know I was responsible for at least a million of

(20:06):
the four million views of the Knicks fans that wouldn't
leave TD Garden and were chanting Nixon four and the
and the woman who was working there was yelling for
security guard help, and and said that someone someone said
said she they pushed her when she actually fell on
the chair, and Nicks fans are just chanting Nixon four,
Nixon four. Like I watched that video so many times
and I was like, yeah, Nickson four, Yeah, Nickson f o.

(20:29):
It was awesome.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
That's where I had the wide eyed stare of fear
of having absolutely no control of the situation, which which
is not a good thing. I mean, we've had way
too many of those these last couple of years where
suddenly things swell around you. But in this case, yeah,
I got pushed, Like no, unless it was a ghost
of a Knicks fan passed that guard of the.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Ghost of John Starts pushed you in there. I'm just
shocked they know how to count.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
That high there is that we only count, only need
to count the four that's all. Usually, how many losses
we have in a series, you really only have to
count the two we count these.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
You're up on the Celtics. They forgot how to play basketball,
like stupid dummies.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. There's a win column,
there is a loss. Colugne, Go New York, New York.
Remember who side you're on, Frostburg. Remember you sold your
soul for the Celtics to go out. Really your side,
it's just anti Boston, right, But you're on my side.
You have to be on a side makes you sleep
at night.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, the Hey, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Right then that's where Frostburg is right now. He may
think he's in a neutral territory, that he's somehow Switzerland
and all this. No, no, I mean you actively are chanting,
go New York, go if nothing else. You're buttering Smith
up for another plate of wings or something. But I

(21:50):
never said next week strategy.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yeah I know. But here's the thing. But if you
were chanting like go other team, beat the Celtics, go go,
I would say, okay, no, but you're doing go New York,
Go New York. Goh you're doing I see over.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Seeing that.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Nick, same four, Nick, same four, and I watch the
Nicks are gonna get back door swept. Hey, there's nothing,
you know, But.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
That's an interesting piece of it though, right is you
know on the we we always chronicle the highways and
byeways and lunacy that comes out of Shack and and
Kenny and Charles and all. Don't forget it, Ernie and
Shack goes, Hey, game three, he goes, it's gonna sound stupid,
but it's a must win for the Knicks. And and
when you really think about it, the way these two

(22:31):
games have gone.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
No, it's not logic. If they lose game three, game
four is a must win like that game thing. Yes, yeah,
is it a must win in that Hey, it helps
you win the series. Yeah, I want more rest before
I have to take on the Pacers. But no, if
they lose game three, okay, game four is then the
must win. But the garden is gonna be so lit,
it's gonna look like twenty eight days later meets the

(22:53):
siege on Jackson from the last This is the last
of us. That's how insane MSG is gonna be on
side I told you last, it's gonna be lit. Unlike
any time any of us have seen Madison Square Garden
in the last twenty years.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Even it's gonna be lit.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Sure I can, Yeah, I can. Yeah, you know my way,
you know, you know my daughter.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
It was more just from a you know, sometimes we
get you know, the these check from our children. You
get it from Zoe. I have no doubt, and certainly
my daughter.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Dad don't say that Jason tickets are so expensive at
this game. Josh Hart can't even get in as.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Leading scar game two eight hundred bucks get in guys.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Uh, look to talk about the checks real quick. So
Zoe and I were joking around about something today and she,
you know, she had she had a big advanced placement
test in school and she was going over stuff as well.
I remember this because of the the acronym that our
teacher told us, which was main M A I M,
which was you know, mobile. And I said, okay, that's great.
So I'm joking around with her. I'm taking her to
a test and kind of calmer down a little bit,

(23:54):
and I said, okay, so what was it acronym again? MILF?
And she goes, Dad, do you know what that means?
And I go and I'm like, I go, no, what
does it means bad?

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Like, I don't know what does it mean? Dad?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Why would you say that? I go, what what do
you mean? What? What? What is it is that bad?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
What?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
I don't understand?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Zoe? What's wrong?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Why do I have to stop the car? And She's like, no, Dad, Dad, Dad,
why would you say that? I'm like, Zoe, of course
I know what it means. Like you gotta remember him
on the radio every day. I gotta be hipping up
on all the latest things. I gotta be able to
explain to to Jen y millennials and gen Z certain
things that go on in sports. Of course, She's like, ah,
she was like really, like, gave me that Bamy that
check right there. She gave me like one of those

(24:32):
mcl bridges and the game checks. Maere, I'm gonna take
the ball away from you and win the game. Go
New York, Go New York, go go in your head?
How did you spell it?

Speaker 5 (24:41):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Am? I l f okay with an ie okay, just
making sure.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah, because if you use the you know, if you
you know, I why I mean, there's different things that happened.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
I state your name, I station name, yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
So yeah, certainly do we have that issue.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Speaking of the Knicks, today, Paul Pierce, Celtics legend, made
good on his promise from speak on FS one a
day ago. They said, if the Celtics lose Game two,
I'll walk to work tomorrow fifteen miles away. I'm gonna
walk to work in my robe, no shoes, barefoot. Put

(25:19):
the house on it. The Celtics win game two. Well,
right after Game two ended, I said, Paul Pierce, you
should leave now because it's gonna be a long time.
It's probably about eight or nine hours for you to
walk to work if you're gonna be on the air
and speak tomorrow morning. End today. He put his money
where his mouth was. He quote walked to work and
here's part of some of the videos he took along

(25:41):
the way.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Man, it's really wild, though. I can't believe it. Seth
has got me out of here like this, dog christ
I'll really walking a here like this now. I can't
believe it.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I got a long walk today, so I got for
my shayr.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Reckon I me.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
He ended up getting to the one on one and
then pooped his pants brought When he finally made it
into work, they brought him in the wheelchair, like you
knew that was gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
You gotta you gotta commit to the bit. Yeah, yeah,
I know Kevin Garnett drove Passen was at part of
the bit I saw in the socials.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Or I find it where he was. If I could
have found it, like I would have driven by and
I would have gone like a walking pace and match him,
just going go New York, go New York, go all that.
And I would have just been blankety blank o New York,
O New York, go, go new I would have done
that the entire at least for a couple of miles.
I would have done that to Paul Pierce.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
That.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
But now, dude, here's the larger question. Since we are skeptics,
we are those that break apart stories and search for
truth for our American in our global audience. On the
iHeart Radio app, do you believe he actually walked?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I believe Paul Pierce walked some of the way to
work today. I believe. I mean it's a it's an
eight hour walk that he's got to get there, right,
because he mapped it out right, an eight hour walk,
and it's freeways or clothes. It was really hot like,
I'm sure he walks out, especially when he was taking

(27:15):
the video. I'm sure he walked some of the way.
Did he walk all the way? Yeah, that's a tough thing, man.
Like I was thinking today, could I do this?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Like?

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Could I do? Could I walk? Eight hours? Like? The
one thing I would need I would need great underwear,
Like that's the one thing I would have, good socks.
I would have the one thing I would need. Because
if you don't have good underwear, forget it. Man, You're
not walking any of You're you're saying, I'm chafing. Get
me into the car, drive me in, turn whatever heat
coolers you have on on this car, and let it go.
If you have good underwear, you could walk. But man,

(27:44):
eight out, No, eight hours is then no way? No,
I couldn't have done it.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Oh no, you could make it happen. I mean that's
you don't even have to go through half of the
Pink Floyd catalog to get through eight hours.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
No, I I really it's I think it. I think
it's too much. I think he walk some of it,
and he's I gotta put sunglasses on so no one
recognized me.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Wasn't he wearing a Paul pierce robe like, yeah, I
mean you have a worn underwear in like thirty years.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
No, I mean you can't.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
You can't do that. No, you can't walk like that
with no one.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
I mean, there's plenty of tricks you know to get
through it.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Tell me, yeah, up on it from all the marathon runners.
There's a trick to going cowboy to uh, to make
it when you have to walk eight miles in.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
The striding with such power and confidence that you know
the rest is the thin layer of material ain't change
in then, And that's.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
That wears underwear will be the first. Really you think
they don't know? No one wears them. I think that
that's great. Why would you do that? I don't know
what's wrong with you? Because you need underwear? Why you
need underwear? But I just know for every day of
my life, I know, well, you wear underwear under the shorts.
You don't wear them the shorts? Shorts? Why not? You're

(29:03):
just gonna yeah, maybe you do. I did. So you
don't wear underwear and you wear shorts and I run
or walk? No? Do you run? Really? Oh? Yeah? Really
you run? Okay, you'll see me run down the home.
I don't know that i've ever seen you run. Well,
I can outrun you. The two people I think I've
never seen run in my life. For you and my dad,

(29:24):
you're the only two people I've never seen do that. Well,
I'm not your dad, No, my dad, my dad? Yeah, yeah, Ma,
you are not the father my dad. My dad can't run. No,
there's no way I could make it more than I
don't know how many steps without without wearing underwear. There's
no way. There's no way. Good pair of underwear I
could take a But man, you know, to go fifteen miles,
that's that's what I mean. That's almost a marathon. And

(29:47):
you're gonna go in and then go in the heat
where it's like, you know, it's seventy five degrees, but
really with the sun in La, it's more like eighty five.
Like nah, and you come in and you can still
be on the air and no, that that's too tough.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Man.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I did No. I couldn't do it. Couldn't do it.
And I don't know did he walk all the way? Yeah,
I'm sure he walked part of the way.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Either way, they sold the bit right, that's all that mattered.
Whether he walked a quarter mile, whether he walked eighteen
feet out of his car to start in eighteen yards
to get in through the Fox gates. It made for
a good bit and a good viral sensation. And look,
whatever you're walking around flatland with a robe unt, you're

(30:29):
either the crazy neighbor next door, you're on cops, or
you're pulling off a viral prank or payoff of a
bit like Paul Pierce did today. So good for.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Him, Yeah, yeah, part of the way. Yeah, But because
that's a too it's too tough a thing to do.
That's too with no training, no anything, that's too tough
a thing to do, fifteen fifteen miles in the heat
in the morning, getting nad's too tough. I'll call shenanigans one.
He can't be the truth anymore. No, no, no, no,
The truth is he was wrong.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
You just start liar.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
The truth is the Celtics are down too. That's the truth,
like liar.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
By the sex Pistols, as he introduced. So, I mean
time now.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
To find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from someone who's been called the Paul Pierce of
Fox Sports Radio because she showed up for work today
in a robe it's Monty Belagos. I don't like that
one as much, not as much one of his big Dodger.

Speaker 7 (31:23):
Because I actually would walk eight hours. I could do that.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Okay, well you actually do mag Yeah you put him
in his place with this Monty. Actually what does matter?

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Not?

Speaker 7 (31:34):
Yeah, I actually would be able to walk for eight hours. Also,
I was also a VIP tourget at Universal.

Speaker 8 (31:39):
Studios where it was like a nine hour day of
walking around with them, So I feel like I would
have it in me just because I run, and uh
yeah I could walk. So at least you didn't say I,
you know, needed a wheelchair because you know, oh no,
I was going to say that.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
The robe thing, I could just I could just picture you,
like coming with a big like Dodger robe, like with
all kinds of rhinestones on it.

Speaker 7 (31:59):
You're not, I do.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
My robe has high heels all over it and it's
like turquoise and it's like a little fluffy.

Speaker 7 (32:06):
So yeah, Jason liked that one. You like that, you got.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
It.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I like that you said your robe has high heels
built into it, like it's a robe and put it on.
It's got on the bottom.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
All colorful high heels and it's got a hood. It's
like furry and like you know, like teal color.

Speaker 7 (32:24):
You would see you would see me from afar, like
half a mile away. You could be like, oh, there
she goes.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
She's got getting hit by a car.

Speaker 8 (32:33):
So the head exactly, exactly, exactly right on the money.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
That is exactly. Let's check in on the NBA.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Man.

Speaker 7 (32:44):
The start of the.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
Third quarter was very different than the end of the
third quarter between Minnesota and Golden State.

Speaker 7 (32:50):
Timberwolves trying to even the series.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
Here and they are up ninety four to seventy seven
halfway through the fourth quarter. Jimmy Butler seventeen points, but
Jonathan Kaminga eight of ten, one of four from the
free throw line. He's got eighteen points. Why doesn't he
play more? Did he do something to Steve.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Kerr that Yeah, it's called the last four years?

Speaker 7 (33:07):
The last four Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
It's kind of like, you know, when nobody wanted to
take a shot at Sam Darnold before last year, gotcha.
It's all those years before that, got it.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
There's the kids who went to college hearing Steve Kersey,
Jonathan kaminga he's going to break through and be great
for US and graduated four years later. Hearing Steve kersay
Jonathan Kamenka is gonna be going to break through for US.
So someone's had their entire career of that.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
Gotcha, gotcha. Draymond Green did get a technical foul in
this game, so that's his fifth. A seventh would require
a suspension. It looks like Anthony Edwards seems to be
okay with that.

Speaker 7 (33:42):
Left ankle injury.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
They reported that he actually tweaked it during the Lakers series,
which is why in Game one they saw him icing it.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
But he seems to be okay. He's got twelve points.

Speaker 8 (33:51):
And eight rebounds. The leading scorer for Minnesota is Julius Randall.
He's got twenty points tennis SIS six rebounds. We'll move
on to the NHL because the Golden Knights are trying
to even the series.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Back for Eichel at the left, Chael to the Goalike Stone.

Speaker 8 (34:05):
Back Fox Sports Las Vegas on the call. After the
first period. It's one zero against the Oilers. If this holds,
this series will even out at one apiece. The Capitals

(34:26):
even their series against the Hurricanes, coming out on top
today three to one, so that's now at one apiece.
In baseball, the Angels are up on the Blue Jays
four to two. Top of the fourth inning. Dodgers and
Diamondbacks are scoreless in Arizona.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
But it's the bottom of the fourth inning.

Speaker 8 (34:40):
Diamondbacks have the bases loaded and they have all of
their outs.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
The Braves, it took eleven innings, but they just defeated
the Reds five to four.

Speaker 8 (34:48):
Pinch hitter Drake Baldwin, rookie, hit the game winning RBI
single in that eleventh inning. And the Phillies also needed
ten innings, but they beat the Rays seven to six.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Back to you guys, thanks mad jes Es. Yay the Phillies.
Yay the Phillies. One. Congratulations Phillya. They were down five.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Look look one Montsi. You see how high he was
all the knick stock and then just like that, I know,
so you took a bat to.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It to get ers come out. We got the play
of the day. And you want a big, bold statement
about someone who got fired today, that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Well, just a few minutes left in Minnesota,
looks like the t Wolves are gonna tie the series
with the Warriors up in one game Apiece ninety nine
eighty two, a seventeen point lead with just under six
minutes left to go, which leads us to the play

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Well when you start out the way the t Wolves
did tonight in sending a big message, we are gonna

(36:14):
win every game the rest of the way, Well, you
get to be the play of the day.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
Lay clock here down to two. Moon has got to
put up a three. That's so and it's an air ball.
McDaniel probably got a piece of that, and McDaniel's.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Got a player. McDaniels have it to night.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
So there it is. T Wolves Radio Network. Why Jade
mc TNT, Rather, why Jade McDaniels, Crossburg you serious.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, why, well, I would have chose the Carolina Hurricanes,
but they had no highlights.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
We scored a goal tonight. Hey, this, ay, this may
be the best it gets from me in my life.
Right now, the Hurricanes are tied one one going back home,
the Knicks are two wins away from the East Finals
of the and the Mets are in first place. Like,
this may be the best it ever gets me in
my life.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Dreed is on May eighth.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
This maybe this may be as good as it gets.
It really might. No, no, maybe it is. It might be. Well,
tomorrow might be. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, tomorrow's still
gonna be great because it'll still be one one in
that series and next year little life till Saturday. Yeah.
Jason Tatum sixty seven points in the first three quarters
in the Celtics lead one thirty eight to seventy two.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Do you think he knows how to block us from
receiving messages from us? Justin? I know, because if things
go south, he's in trouble.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Nons away on the text messages. I'll just I'll I'll
just mute both of you guys, that's all. Just mute boom.
I know how to do that. That's all Zoe talked
to you every night. Zoe taught me how to do that.
I don't know how to mute conversations. It's all you
don't sure I do? Uh now? Hey, the first manager
was fired in Major League Baseball today, Derek Shelton let

(37:53):
go by the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are hoping for a
new direction. They were hoping to be at least a
little bit better coming to this year, taking advantage of
Paul's skiings. However, they've lost the majority of his starts,
and look things in Pittsburgh. It's been an awful start
to the year. Right, I mean even stuff that that's
outside the realms of baseball.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
Right.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
You had the fan that fell, who thankfully is doing
better discharge. Has a long way back, but looks like
he's gonna be able to get his life back after
he fell. You have the fans upset about the bricks
that they took out. The fans spend money on to
get their names on bricks outside the stadium and the
team took them out. Hey where's my brick that I
spent a lot of money for. You had the Clemeny

(38:31):
wall being taken down, so they could put a beer
sponsorship up and oh, by the way, the Pirates can't
win like this team to be. I mean, I'm being on.
We talk about tire fires in the NFL and the NBA.
There's no team that's been a bigger tire fire in
all of baseball for the last twenty five years than
the Pittsburgh Pirates. Oh, you go back to two thousand

(38:53):
when we're not gonna spend money, We're not gonna compete. Now,
you had a good two three year run when Andrew
McCutcheon was really really good, where you made the playoffs
a couple of times. But that's been it. I mean
that's been it. Like it's every year been We're not
spending money. Everybody hates the owner in Pittsburgh now because
it won't spend any money like it is. The Pittsburgh
Pirates have been the biggest tire fire in baseball for

(39:16):
the last twenty five years. Think about that when all
other small market teams are finding a way to at
least every other year, the Rays have been to World Series.
All these small market teams, the Astros five, I mean,
they were cheating, but they found a way to win
World Series where every small market team. The Nationals won
the World Series. Like everybody the Tigers. I can't believe

(39:36):
the Tigers.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Are at the top of this team in baseball.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Let's go like everybody else has found a way and
the but except for the Pirates, Like it's I can't
tell you how embarrassing it is. The biggest tire fire
in baseball the last twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, I mean, you just go through what that franchise
once was, the team that we grew up with, and
the star power new Hall of Famer Dave Parker, the
ob go back to Willie Stargel, Candelaria. Yeah, just start
naming now the great Kent takove out of the bullpen,
and then you get to Bonds and Benia, and you

(40:11):
go through a bunch of heroes. You mentioned McCutcheon, and
then what we have here is schemes. And the best
graphic can put up is, well, here's his run support.
That's why his win loss record is never going to
be stellar. Why they will score no runs. He may
pitch to a one point five ERA one year and
he'll still have nine wins.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
They're cheap off the field too. They wouldn't buy the
card that would keep them, maybe.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Keeping point one million dollars. Look, that wasn't keeping him anywhere.
And they come on now, but you know the fact
that they gave Shelton five years before or four and
change before giving him the hook. I mean that's at
least cost effective. Good on them.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
The last twenty five years, no team has been a
bigger mess than the It's not even close in Major
League Jets. They can't cut baseball. Baseball, you jerk, I said, baseball,
you get one pope and suddenly, oh look at it. Okay, okay.
Coming up next we'll have more I go close to
this NBA game and a big question about the pope
in sports.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
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your podcasts. You'll find today's show and the best of
version posted right after we get off the air. Well,
it is over, mercifully. In Minnesota, the Tea Wolves tie
that series up with the Golden State Warriors at one
game apiece. Steph Curry out at least through Game four,
at least for now. Plenty of big NBA drama to

(42:06):
get to and joining us now, I'm the hotline to
break it all down. Nobody better than Fox Sports won
NBA Insider extraordinary Rick Bucker, host of the Amaball podcast.
But before we get to what happened, I got to
say I need a preview of next season's California Baptist
Lancers women's basketball team because someone's daughter is signed, sealed,

(42:27):
delivered to go play basketball for them for the next
four years. Congratulations, Rick, that is correct, Thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
Just be ready come March Madness. CBU will be winning
the whack and getting the automatic bit, and we'll just
see how far they go, whether they can knock off
USC and Yukon or whether they're going to have an
easier path.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
We'll see now, look now, we're friends a long time,
and you know I'm a radio to have a hot
take for you. I think this is a bad move
by her.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
Okay, because the nil money says I old money says otherwise.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
No, no, no, this is a bad move for her.
Let me tell you why. Okay, the Celtics need her
more right now.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
The Celtics, the Calves. Yeah, there's there's a there's there's
a list right now of teams that could probably use
a shooter in the ball hand. So yeah, but if.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
She can hit a three, if she can hit a three,
that's the Celtics.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Needer man.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
If she can hit a three, that's it.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
That's exactly. Uh, that's that's her. That's her bread and butter.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
So yeah, better than twenty five out of one hundred breaks.
Because I need to I need someone to shut Jason
up here.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah all right, So so thank.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
You for the compliments. I'm not going to set her
up for trouble.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
No, that's so well serious. Congratulations, that's an awesome move,
and congret that's so fantastic. But yeah, the Celtics are
now down two. You've feeled a lot of different reasons
behind it. What's going on the last couple of days.
If I said to you fill in the blank, Rick,
the nixt Lee, the Celtics two. Is it because blank?

(44:20):
What would you tell me?

Speaker 6 (44:22):
Because they are more prepared to play the physical style
of basketball that we're seeing in the postseason. I think
that they're comfortable playing with force. I think that force
is one of the reasons why you're seeing the Celtics
miss as many threes as they are, and even wide
open threes. I mean, for the most part, the shots

(44:42):
have been good, but I think that the physicality of
the game is taking their legs out a little bit,
and they're finding that with the physicality having you know,
the physicality is one going to stop finishes at the rim.
You get a a little more contact, it's a little
more difficult to finish at the rim. And then if

(45:03):
a team is energetic and is willing to run guys
off the line, then it's and and they're going to
meet them at the rim. Then it comes down to
your mid range game. And the Knicks have a guy
in Jalen Brunson who shoots the mid range as well
as anybody in the league and can do it in
a variety of ways, and under pressure, and conversely, the

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Celtics have just been so so focused on either threes
or layups that I was looking at the numbers and
Jason Tatum nearly half of his shots this season we
were threes and shot the fewest, took the fewest shots
at the rim this season as he has in any

(45:47):
of his seven seasons in the league. So uh, that's
that's one of the one of the elements here. In
the fourth quarter, I checked the shot chart, and I
was just curious. And Game two, in the mid range,
the Boston Celtics were zero for seven and the New

(46:09):
York Knicks for six for ten. That's where they're that's
where they're winning this game. They can once they can
get the pace down and they can make it a
half court game. They can get to their spots and score.
And Boston is not nearly as comfortable playing that way.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Rick, I'll tell you how strange these two games have been.
Jason issued a nationwide and global apology to Bridges based
on the ending of both of these games. That's how
big and monumentally shifting. This is like me and my
New White Sox loving pope. It's it's Smith apologizing to

(46:44):
the world for wanting to ship Bridges out of town.

Speaker 6 (46:48):
I yeah, I almost called him sick on this episode
because I wasn't sure if I was going to be
able to I was going to be able to handle
Jason and the outright voting that would be going that
would be going on. You know, you know, you're in
a really happy place when you are running the show

(47:08):
and you're issuing apologies at the same time. That is
that is very strong. That's very strong.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Well, well listen because I know you know you could
have called him said here, but you sat next to
Paul Pierce when he said on Speak a Day, oh god, hey,
if the Celtics news game too, I'll walk to work
the next day. And he sort of walked to work today, Rick,
What was that like? Man?

Speaker 6 (47:30):
We we tried to stop him. The best part, quite honestly,
the best part of it all was we were on
a tech string while that game was going on last night,
so we had like we had like why reaction. Paul
at one time texted us and he said, You're never

(47:51):
going to see me again. I'm just going And then
I texted, I said, you know what, we need to
alert the authorities because if they see Paul wandering around
barefoot in a bathrobe. They're gonna think he's been eating
bath salts and they're gonna haven't committed because we've got
to look out for him. So yeah, look, I mean,

(48:15):
I I'm really happy that he did that because he
gave me cover because I was just confident about myself.
He was like, I just wasn't making ridiculous, ridiculous claims.
But you know, it's it's it's really interesting how this
physicality in the game. I mean, we saw it ratchet
up in last year's playoffs, but I don't think it's

(48:37):
ever been like this in oh maybe twenty twenty five years,
And I think it's why the games have been so
good and entertaining and relatively close, because the players are
now able to play, and they're allowed and they're able
to show their emotion and they're able to get after
it and you have to earn your buckets. It's not
you know, stopping every five minutes to look get a replay,

(49:01):
to send somebody to the free throw line. There's a
lot more natural flow to the game. So I'm loving that.
But in looking at teams going into the playoffs and
looking at how they matched up in typical matchups like
there's there's, it does change the dynamic, it does change

(49:22):
the game. And a team like New York is much
more formidable playing this style than they were during the
regular season, obviously against the Boston Celtics, who just you know,
ran away with games. None of those games were close,
and but but this is a different game, and and

(49:43):
right now the Knicks are more suited for it, and
I don't think that's I don't think that's going to change.
Celtics might shoot the three a little bit better, But
if you look at the at the the with and
breath of the season, the Knicks and the Celtics are
are just about even when it comes to three point
shooting percentage. They shoot it just about as well, and

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they have as many guys who can shoot it well.
The only difference is that Boston shoots more of them.
So if you can limit the number of shots that
you that they take, then you or or they're just
missing a ton of them, that evens the scales. And
then it goes to who has an advantage in other places.
And I think that the Knicks just by value of

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because they think we've seen at the end of games, like,
everybody know the Nicks know how they're going to play,
they know who their go to guy is, they know
where he wants to operate from, so everybody can work
off of that with a sense of understanding. The Boston
Celtics don't know where Jason Tatum's going to shoot the ball,
if he's going to shoot the ball, and so it
leaves them uncertain in these nip and tough games, and

(50:51):
most playoff games come down to that.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Rick, let's go to the Cavaliers and the Pacers Calves
get the Oh here's your apology on official letterhead about
lane violations. Uh, that might be the only win they
get the series at this point.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Yeah, it's you know, I was I was sleeping on
the Paces because I watched them earlier in the year
and kind of through the course of the year, and
they didn't look that much different than the team that
I saw in in the playoffs last year, which I
just thought was a crazy kind of running, gun up
and down team that kind of got favorable matchups. Ran

(51:30):
into a nixt team that was already already beaten up,
and you know, just basically broke down because of the
pace that the Pacers played and uh, and then got
swept by by the Celtics, and so I really wasn't
expecting that much. And then whatever whatever reason, Andrew never
Nemhart becomes like Superman in the postseason. Aaron Smith. Aaron

(51:52):
Smith is legit. I mean, if you look at if
you look at Nemhart's numbers like he is, his numbers
are crazy high compared to what he does in the
regular season. That's usually not the case in playoffs. Aaron
Ne Smith has taken a nice step. Benedict Matherin. I've
always liked uh Ty Halliburton got the uh, you know,
the rocket booster of his peers saying that he's the

(52:15):
most overrated player in the league has really juiced him up.
And and they got a sneaky pickup in Thomas Bryant
from Miami midseason that's given them just enough size, uh
to be able to battle and and not be you know,
a little apusion when when Miles Turner goes to the bench.
So uh, and then Rick Carlo is actually coaching this

(52:35):
team this year, it looks like a Rick Carlisle coach team.
They're they're defending their executing on offense, and honestly, I
think that I would not be the least bit surprised
if we see Pacers, Knicks and uh and I think
that that's going to be a real battle. I think
that could easily go seven games to decide who goes
to the finals or in next.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Week because we owe them like like I'm thinking. I'm
thinking that the crowd that the Knicks fans a TV
guardless like Jet Nixon.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Four.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
That's the next round to Rick Nixon.

Speaker 6 (53:05):
Four. This is why I almost called in.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Right right there, Allo, speaking of four, you know, four
is a big number. We just watched the t Wolves
beat the Warriors even that series up at one game
at piece, and Steph Curry says, hey, gonna be out
through game four. I'm you know, I've never had this
injury before. We're being smart with it. Rick. I have

(53:30):
a hard time believing that if the if the Warriors
are down to one, I expect them to be down
to one because this tim Timberwolves team is better than
the Warriors. When the Warriors don't have Steph, I have
a hard time believing if they're down to one, with
the possibility of them going down three to one, he's
not playing in Game four.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
It is it is a tricky thing, and I, I mean,
I see that, but I also because his mobility and
his quick movement is so vital to his game. I
also don't like how demoralizing would it be if you
trot him out there and in the first five minutes

(54:06):
he makes a move and he pulls it and he's done. Like,
I think that's where they have to be really careful
with something like that. And we were having a debate
on the morning show in the green room about where
he grabbed his hand strength because the football guys on
the show were saying, if you grab it high, it's

(54:29):
not as bad as if you grab it sort of
in the middle of the back of your thigh, and
I thought I saw him grab it in the middle.
And so even if it's maybe you know, a first degree,
I just looked with the way he has to play
to be effective, I would lean toward them not pushing
it as opposed to trying to get him out there

(54:52):
if he's if he's at all compromised, because he's either
going to make it worse, which at thirty seven, I
don't know that you want to create a hamstring problem
for yourself long term. And I just don't know how
effective he would be if he's at all compromised.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, That is at Rick Buker.
Check him out tomorrow morning, Rick, you'll be on with
Paul Pierce. Are you going to walk to work tomorrow?
Are you just you're gonna hear and take a car
and everything.

Speaker 6 (55:26):
I'm staying in Manhattan beach. I'll have my driver Patrick
out there bright and early, ready to go.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Well played.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well, which
Rick an hour and a half talks about the shot
selection of Jalen Brunson. Rick as always, buddy, appreciated and
congratulations again to your daughter all the best man. That's fantastic.

Speaker 6 (55:50):
Appreciate you brother.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
All right, there goes Rick Buker.