May 13, 2025 • 52 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how Injuries plague the NBA playoffs more than any other sport. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show to talk about Derek Carr’s legacy. The Dallas Mavericks somehow win the NBA Draft Lottery. And Jason thinks Jalen Brunson is a top 5 NBA player!
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Monday.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is it really yes? It is.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I got a lot of crap going on right now, Harmon.
I got a lot of stuff happening right now. I
got the Hurricanes, I shepherded them do a three to
one lead. I got the Mets in the ninth inning,
tied with the Pirates, the I got the course the
Knicks up by nine with three minutes left to go.
I'm dealing with a lot of stuff right now. I'm
(00:55):
like in Bulldorm. We got to get what a live
rooster to take the curse off of Hector's glove We're
dealing with. I'm dealing with a lot of I've got
a lot of stuff going on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, I can see you're completely amped up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We watched the end of that Stanley Cup playoff game fantastic.
You called for the public flogging uh and release of
Francisco Lindor, get ridd of Indoor and and Acuna Get
rememberoth Erizon the ninth.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Then they gave you went on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A five minute rant, not ten minutes prior telling me
he's the greatest thing of all time.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He was bored.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Bad and doesn't matter that yet too. Peter Alonzo is
gonna win this game with a walk off sack fly
Mets get the w Okay, I'm two thirds of.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The way there.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm not just halfway there with bon Jovi, I got
the Hurricanes, I got the Mets. Now I got shot him?
Hey shot a man, I got you got a steal
and don't I'm a nine point lead, and Jason Datum
laying in a heap shot him May with a lot
of shots of Al Horford as they went to a
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one thirteen, one oh four lead over the Celtics with
three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Look, I
don't want to go too crazy because I know somehow
(02:22):
this game is gonna be tied with a minute left.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, I'm not gonna go to it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know that's what's gonna Somehow the Knick Celtics is
gonna be tied with a minute left to go. Okay,
I'm okay with that. But let me just say this,
for the the it's been kind of a thing the
last few days. You have seen the oh the NBA
is unwatchable crowd come out again with a lot of
different things.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right, all the NBA is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The NBA's on watchmap, Uh, this game tonight, and there's
gonna be a big update we're gonna bring you with
Jason Tatum coming up in a second.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
All you have to do is watch this beach. All
you have to do is just watch.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
This is the Tatum Brunson game, right and now, Jason
Tatum just got her for the second time in the
second half, twisted his ankle. He was helped off the floor.
I assume that is going to be it. We're not
gonna see him again the rest of the night. But
this game, up until this point, this has been Tatum,
bruntson Tatum Brett.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Anything you can do, I can do better.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Every time Brunton hits a shot, you go, my goodness,
I can't believe it. Tatum comes down the other way
and it's a three.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Look.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The guy can get his shot more than anybody else
in the NBA can get his own shot at any situation.
It has been amazing to watch these two guys duel
this entire game. The Celtics hit all a bunch of threes,
it was looked like it was going to be a runaway.
Then Jalen Brunson brings the Knicks back in the third quarter,
when it looks like they're gonna run away, Tatum starts
hitting shots, getting into the lane. Really, it has been
(03:44):
some kind of Brunts and Tatum show. But now the
rest of this game is gonna be played without Jason Tatum.
Huge first quarter where you see the barrage towards the
end and it became in all right, here we go
game three. Look once again, but bit by bit, as
you lay out with Jalen Bronson.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But he didn't come alone, right.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He brought friends to the show this time around, as
opposed to making it a one on one conversation. This
was like the fight between the news teams in Anchorman.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Where more guys come to the party.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Right, Because Bridges has twenty three, you got twenty one
from Cat eighteen from Ananobi, including a number of huge
defensive plays, and that's the thing that's got to be
under you know, underscored here in the fourth quarter, filling
passing lanes, aggressive with each possession, no easy buckets except
for the one that literally, as I say, no easy buckets.
(04:37):
But all that, just the attempts to pass it across
the court, up around the arc, just the length of
Ananobi and the other defenders, just wreaking havoc, causing so
many turnovers and just failed possessions where it's now the
scramble with the shot clock winding down to get something
(04:59):
up towards the buckets. So overall, just a fantastic effort
the second half by the Knicks, really controlling things.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
As we get down the stretch, Go New York, Go
New York.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Frostburg Drive driving that bandwagon it is a ten point
lead for the Knicks with just under two minutes left
to go in the fourth quarter. Right, well, we plenty
of time for Brunson. However, we got it till we
have a little bit more on Jason Tatum right now,
he has helped off the court, as we said, an
ankle injury on a turnover. H Ogano Noobi has had
(05:32):
a terrific game. He has stepped in the passing lane
many times UH for the Knicks UH turnovers in the
second half. He had one turn one turnover early in
the fourth quarter where Jalen Brown had to tackle him
from behind because he jumped in the passing lane and
got and got the ball for a layup. But what
just happened a couple minutes ago, and this is where
things are a little scary. Jason Tatum has the ball.
(05:53):
The Knicks have a have a nine point lead, and
Tatum looks like he's going to you know, he's got
the ball on the wing. Right he comes, he has
the ball on the wing and he passes out and
it looks like he's waiting to get the ball back.
And here's the play by play of what happened after it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He fouls.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Daylan Brown back, he lost the ball a oh by himself.
Crowch it down and Titum is hurt. Turnam is down.
He wants a time out. Tittum is so much pain.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Call timeout there. It is Mike Breen with the call
right there. Uh, this is how it looks. He's chump
coming to get the ball back. Jalen Brown looks like
he's going to give it back to Jason Tatum and
hw Nobe steps in the passing lane and he picks
off the ball and goes down the other way. Tatum
just simply steps forward to try to get and grab
(06:51):
the ball first and his right leg he just collapses.
It's a non contact injury. He takes a step back
with his right foot to try to get down, to
try to come back and get the ball, and then
he just collapsed. He was helped off the floor. He
is in pain. He was just shown coming off in
(07:11):
a wheelchair with his hands covering his face. We don't
know what kind of injury this is. Certainly you see
this and look just because of injuries we've seen. It
could be an achilles injury, it could be an ankle injury.
But he doesn't turn his ankles. It's a straight step back,
which tells me you've seen this for achilles or a
calf injury. So it does look like it wasn't like
(07:32):
I don't know that it's so much an ankle injury
as much as it could be a calf or an
achilles non contact injury. He simply tries to plant and
step forward and he can't, couldn't put any weight on it.
As he was helped off the floor and again in
a wheelchair, taken off with his hand on. He got
a big round of applause from the from the Knicks
(07:52):
players and the Celtics players as they came off again.
A non contact injury for Jason Tatum, and suddenly this
throws the rest of the play off, the rest of
the playoffs for the Celtics in flux. They're gonna lose
this game. They're gonna go down three to one to
the Knicks. And now it's is Jason Tatum going to
play again? When is he gonna be able to get back?
Because you have the non contact grabbing at his achilles
(08:16):
that none of this looks good for Tatum and the Celtics.
Number of your internet doctors all folks that I have
not verified their cvs, but we'll take them at face
value for the moment, with their histories and check marks
and everything else, going straight to the Achilles right several
with the tag of hope the video lies because you
(08:37):
and I as we watch it go down as he
comes to challenge anonomy for the ball just goes down
in a heap, and immediately he's screaming, and he's in
a heap, down on the floor, and the play goes on,
and immediately would you have five staffers get out there?
No pressure on his leg as he comes off obvious anguish.
(09:00):
So just a horrid end to I mean, he'd been
fantastic all night long. Every time Brounson or Anobi or
Cat made a shot at one end, he was at
the other to keep the pressure on. Get got some
what forty two points I think was the last as
we saw him hitting three after three, and then a
(09:24):
play that had been so problematic for him just from
an execution standpoint, becomes their worst nightmare. One of the
game stars and a guy who's much debated in terms
of his rank in the hierarchy of the current NBA
goes down hopefully hopefully the video does lie in this regard.
I mean, look, there's three things you look for, right
(09:46):
in plays where where you say, okay, how bad is
this injury? Non contact is always the worst, right, that's
always the worst. But a non contact could always be
something where you turn an ankle, it's a tweak and
you come back, but non contact the worst, no pressure
on it coming off when you know we can't do that,
and there's there's no there is no twist where it
(10:06):
could just be an ankle tweak of some kind where
oh oh, maybe he'll be okay. Maybe it's just something
where it's the end of the game and we're not
gonna do it. We're gonna let him just sit back
and and uh and and come off the floor. There
was none of that. I mean, it was just it
was a straight back, I'm putting my like I'm putting
my back foot down the plant and then just falls
(10:27):
right down. There was no step like almost as if
like you stub your toe kind of thing where he
just goes into the ground as like, okay, not a
lot of twisting, but maybe maybe just enough pressure there
for the momentary, but no quite Obviously, something far worse.
Look and and this is this is what happens in
the NBA as as we look at this season, right
(10:49):
we talk about injuries, and injuries affect the NBA playoffs
more than any other playoff, more than more more than
the NFL, more than Major League Baseball because superstars are
not as ironclad as they used to be. And when
the first round happened in the playoffs, what did I say.
I'm probably stupid because I put this out in there.
I said, Hey, usually we see an all star team
(11:09):
of guys injured missing games. By now at that point,
it was right and all of a sudden, it's okay,
it's it's it's it's not And Lillard was more of
a you know, a medical condition than it was an injury.
It's like, hey, is he okay with his you know
he And right after that but you're to okay, can
he come back?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Can he play?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But now you're and this is why when the NBA playoffs,
when the NBA playoffs hit, it doesn't matter how great
you were during the regular season. It makes no difference
if you're dominant, because if someone comes down on an
ankle wrong, if someone comes down on the floor wrong,
all of a sudden everything changes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Who are the three best teams in the NBA this season? Cavaliers,
Celtics and the Thunder and all of them are in trouble.
All of them are in trouble. The Celtics are in
a three to one hole. The Knicks win at one
twenty one, one thirteen. The Cavaliers are in a three
to one hole. Now you don't know is Jason Tatum
gonna play again? Is are you gonna have Donovan Mitchell
(12:02):
right for Game five here when you need them? And
clearly the Thunder have all they could handle with the
Denver Nuggets in the second round of the playoffs. These
are the three best teams in the regular season, and
now it's the door is wide open to win a championship.
This is no matter how it looks, no matter how
great a team looks, these things happen. You can't and
you can't bank on injuries. But obviously that's been a
(12:23):
part of the NBA the last few years, the last
five seven years. It's you see all kinds of big
injuries and they happen. It's not just support play as well.
We're missing our six man. We're missing No, you're missing superstars.
We're missing games, game after game after game. Well, what's
about the time. It was a joke that it was
the second season, not because of uh, the attrition this way,
(12:44):
but just when we're looking at three months of television covers,
ha ha, it's almost as long as the actual season itself.
But now it's the how do you manage to get
to the end of March, first week of April in
as best a rotation came, Because that's the thing that
comes up out of this game too, Jason, is the
fact that both starting lineups just traded blows the entire time.
(13:06):
Like my Anchorman analogies, isn't too far off. Now Pritchard
ends up with twelve points, so it becomes a nineteen
point bench effort. But for the longest time you're looking
at fourteen to ten. Was the margin and the usage
of these benches. Shorten the rotations and get every minute
you can out of your starters, and with that you're
(13:29):
gonna welcome in court trouble at times. And unfortunately it
showed up in the worst of ways in this one.
So we'll keep you updated on that. Let you know
when to hear something about Jason Tatum. I assume we're
not going to get anything official tonight. While we'll hear
postgame from the teams. But the Knicks Jalen Brunson throwing
towels all over the court. The Knicks are up three
to one. Go New York, Go New York, Go go
(13:52):
New York, go New Yeah it's a super mile New
What are you doing? Hey, games still happened, the guys,
The game still happened, the games.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Let it breathe minute for crying out.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We just spent the entire last twelve minutes on Jason
Tatum hoping he's okay, hoping he's all right, you know,
going through everything.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Now you're dancing over the top. So I'm just saying,
not just saying. I can say, go New York, go
New York. I could do its. Celtics lost again.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
How it's got Yes, the Celtics lost again. Wow, Knicks
are up three to one. Look at this Nicks man
right again? What did I go back when I said
a week ago Nick Pacers Eastern Conference Finals? Yeah no,
no wat Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, Jason
might really be right about that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It could really happen, could really happen.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh So we got more NBA on the way again,
only in the first game of the night. We got
the big second game coming up in a little bit, uh,
but straight ahead big stuff out of the NFL. Or
were already seen Shdur Sanders win the quarterback job in Cleveland.
All that and more coming up next, Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
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Not even this song is gonna upset me tonight, Not
even this song.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You know what what what getting swept by the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Uh, I'll worry about that later. I got the Nixon win,
I got the metsa win, get the Hurricanes of win.
Like this is this is the dear of my life
right now. In Sports Mike Garmin Show, Fox Sports Training,
I we're setting Jason home, elated to go do something
else great with his night since he's three and oh
in the Sporty universe, We'll update you on the Jason
(17:15):
Tatum injury as soon as we hear more. Tatum leaving
the end of the Celtics loss of the next to
night Knicks now up three to one in their series
with the defending champs. Tatum goes down with a non
contact injury. Looks to the achilles area. He tried to
plant to go after a loose ball. It doesn't happen,
ties to a different part of the body.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, I'm saying goodbye to Derek Carr. Oh well, yeah,
well we will get to that. He's definitely broke.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, he had a good run. Tatum goes down again,
non contact. Injury was not an ankle twist. He put
no pressure on his foot as he as he was
helped off the court. Very emotional hand over his face
as he was taken out in a wheelchair. Again, does
not look good for Tatum. Keep our best thoughts out
there for one of the best players in the NBA
(17:59):
In a soon as we get an update on.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It, we will bring it to you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Uh time out to talk little NFL big stuff happening today.
We screw the Cowboys day joining us now on the
hot line. Longtime NFL insider check them out on Odyssey
Washington Post one A five seven the fan in Baltimore,
Jason locking for it, Jay, what's happening man?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I'm doing okay? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Good? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I got the next one, the Mets one, the Hurricanes.
What I'm feeling feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I'm feeling good the Hurricanes thing. Is that just hitting
the capitals or is that? Are you?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are you like an old Hartford oh yaminod Whalers fan?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yes, yea, yeah, yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Me feel right now? Like what I got?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I got the Midas touch right now, I got to
hopefully he keeps going as long as it can. I
don't know how long it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So is that Jerry Jones singing brass bonanza? So excited
to watch the UH Eagles get their rings and raise
the championship banner opening.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Night as that game was announced today.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well, look, that's the closest they're going to get to
anything like that, probably as long as he owns the team.
So they should. They should get to play the Super
Bowl winner in Week one every year, you know, like
we've got the Hall of Fame game and Ken Yeah,
we've got certain we've got certain sports traditions and things,
you know, forever, right the mL first MLB Game of
(19:19):
the year would be in Cincinnati. Uh, we've obviously got
the traditions with Dallas and Detroit ball and Thanksgiving. Yeah,
I mean, I you know, that's that's as good it's
going to get for Jerry. So did you jump in?
They're going to get their asses kicked. I will be
betting that game probably in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I was going to say, whatever the market that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind to only expand over time. Yeah,
good good luck Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So this also would get us into the futures market.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think a little bit, mister locking Ford, because you
got a bunch of backloaded games for the Bears, So
that would mean they expect the Bears to be good.
Uh likewise, get the Cowboys here means short them.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah. Well, in general, I just you know, they have
to tell you, guys forever right they made the Cowboys.
Uh yeah, I mean we'll get the full picture of this,
my god, in dribs and drubs over the next forty
eight hours, and it's going to make me want to
pat myself in the eyes with a fork every time
somebody is reporting on an NFL foot that we already
(20:26):
knew were going to be played. We just didn't know
when or where. Well we knew where, we used to
know when. Yeah, I will certainly digest the schedule and
it will and impact some of some of my way
during although I don't think it's going to change my
power rankings exponentially. But yeah, I will wade back into
(20:48):
the futures market when we have a full catalog, because
make no mistake, there will be teams who get trued.
I mean there will be teams who have four and
five game stretches that just look kind of very kongruous
to the norm, and depending on the caliber of the
roster and the caliber of the head coach, sort of
their institutional strength or lack thereofs. I mean, those are
(21:12):
things that can beckon, you know, crack teams in half.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Jay, You know what one gift I think we're getting
right now that none of us expected, but we're getting
it is apparently the quarterback competition in Cleveland has begun
like the last three Hey, Gabriel and Shador Sanders.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Who looks better?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Like this is the earliest I could ever remember getting
like real legitimate updates of who looks good, who's ahead
of who? Like this is a gift for us right now.
It's May and we're already in a quarterback derby.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, I mean it is going to be interesting once
they you know these OTAs how they divide up the
reps and Placo's been number four and he's going to
start week one, and I guess he needs the least.
But you know, the team has changed the fair amount
since he left there and they fired you know, his
offensive coordinator and play college is he was too damn
(22:04):
good with him, you know, so we had to get
him out of there because de Shaun's coming back, and
that's going to make the Shawn uncomfortable. You know, if
this guy's called, you know, better call him plasure for
Flacco than him or whatever. The nonsensical thought process of
the owner was to get Flaco out of the building
in the first place. Yeah, it's going to be the
breakless reporting that we usually only get in training camp
(22:26):
and every day which guy gets his reps first and
seemingly going to be a thing and who gets the
most and by what margin? I just again, there's only
so many to go around, and they've got sort of
a weird pecking order there. And at some point, dude,
you know, does somebody get hurt somewhere else? And then
(22:49):
you know they send a kid from Pittsburgh there just
to sort of clear out a little more space. I
don't know, but Kevin's defancy is going to be dealing with, Yeah,
your point of level of sort of intrigue and reporting
to what is pretty sort of usually drama free and
just an interesting sort of practices. Yeah, it's gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now talking about one quarterback competition to a guy who
ran on a posed like a congressman in a small
district somewhere for eleven years. Derek Carr, how will you
remember his career?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'm not a big Derek Carr guy. I just have
to kind of I mean, I kind of feel like
he one really good year with the Raiders and it
kind of propelled him to great fortunes for like another decade.
And he may have done that with dellv Like did
he do it with Dell Rey? I feel like he
did it with a staff where it was like I
felt like I added him a lot of credit that season,
(23:49):
but I think he got, you know, as much mileage
out of that one season as anyone could have ever expected.
And the contract that the Saints gave him, I don't
know what you know, Mickey Loomis, what else he had
going on in his life at the time where he
decided that was what they should do, you know, post
Drew Brees, with all the other bad contracts they already
(24:10):
had on their books, like that one will always sort
of boggle my mind. But yeah, I don't, I'm just
not I don't know. The way he played the game
always felt like he had opportunities to make way more
plays than he did, and I kind of always felt
like when he got in the red zone and there
was any sort of expectations on his teams, bad things
(24:33):
tended to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Throw it out the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And it was at Jack del Real led sore back
in twenty fifteen and muskrat.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
When he had his year where he was like yeah, yeah, right, Muskray.
I mean, I just remember I knew a lot of
guys in that staff, and I was like, Wow, this
guy looks like this guy with that cast and that
coaching staff doing this like he must be pretty damn good.
And then that was the.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Pinnacle, Jason locking for an NFL inside where it's Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live of the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All right, So now that this happened.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Right obviously here the Saints havn't if they could go
in with Schuck maybe wanting to win the job or
trying to push him up there. But we're still waiting
to find out Aaron Rodgers decision with the Steelers. Has
the quarterback market changed in the last forty eight hours
as far as destinations or potential trades With Derek Carr's.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Retirement, I don't think so because I mean, Derek Carr's
situation was really murky to begin with, and it did
not look like he really wanted to play for them
or that they really wanted him to play, and it
was clear he was going to need you know, this
other procedure or whatever. So no, I don't, I don't
think so. I think New Orleans, I mean New England.
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New Orleans is going to go I think with what
they have, and I think that's going to prove to
be pretty ugly. And this is going to be the
sort of not that he had. The last couple of
seasons have been bad, but I think this is going
to be the really kicky in the teeth here, and
can they shed some of these contracts by the deadline?
Like I could see New Orleans being a full blown
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tank mode trying to get themselves a quarterback at the
very top of the draft next year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locke and four That is
at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one oh five seven
the Fan in Baltimore Washington Post, where he's working on
a thousand words on the big Syracuse lacrosse comeback in
the first round against Harvard Yesterday, Jay good luck with
that peace.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Now, I'm actually I'm running five thousand words on Kevin Deneen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Oh see you, buddy, Jason.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You know the thing about Derek Carr, right, because you know,
thinking about this today, every quarterback leaves a legacy when
you play as long as he did. Look a guy
through for forty thousand yards and a starting quarterback in
the NFL for a decade, right, And when you think
about it, and sometimes the legacy is a way you played.
Sometimes the legacy is one moment in time, and for
Derek Carr, it's that one moment in time because he
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was never the same after his injury in twenty eighteen
or twenty sixteen, if you remember, he comes out as
a rookie, has a really good year in twenty fourteen,
and then has an MVP type season in twenty fifteen.
Twenty sixteen, the Raiders look like they are on a
collision course with the Patriots for the AFC Championship. Right,
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The Raiders were fantastic. And this is you know, they
were still in Oakland for another four years, but this
was when the Raiders looked like, hey, we're back out again.
You know, we've had our time as a laughing stock.
We have our quarterback. You know, Carr was a second
round pick and he really jumped in right away and
played really People forget how good he was his first
three years in the league. But he gets hurt late
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the last game of the regular season, and the whole
big It's broke line, which is what you know, the
line Tyshirt's been running since he said that ten years ago,
we've been running that on the show. And he never
made it back. He was never quite the same after that.
He was always after that. He came back and he
was okay, he was maybe a little bit over league average,
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but he was never at the elite level that the
that he was at his first three years in the league.
And when you think about that, Okay, so the Raiders
next level of competition, of of of success never got there.
But had that not happened, you start to wonder, do
they ever leave Oakland? Maybe they get to the super
Bowl that year, maybe they beat the Patriots that year.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
They were really good that year.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The Raiders were really good in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
and twenty sixteen they were I mean I remember that
year going this is gonna be Raiders are gonna wind
up playing them. The only team that can beat the
Patriots is the Raiders. So you wonder after that, if
they have that kind of success, if Derek Carr doesn't
get hurt and he's still that level of quarterback, do
they stay in Oaklands? He finished some kind of career.
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Is he still you know, there is their success keeping
them in Oakland somehow, like that injury when you can
look at it and say that might have sealed the
deal on their eventual move because they never really competitive
after that. And car came back and like I said,
he was okay, but he's really like a twenty ten
quarterback from there on out right, he was a little
bit over league average, and I don't mean like not
like you're talking about like maybe thirteen fourteen fifty that's
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kind of where he was, Whereas he was a top seven,
top eight quarterback his first three years in the league.
That injury, maybe they're still in Oakland, maybe the NFL changes,
but that really was such a thing that affected so
many layers of the NFL. Yeah, I'd have to go
back and look at the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen rosters
attrition and moves that were made there, and because they
were already going into operation shutdown with the anticipation of
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Las Vegas at that point. Because he came back, it
had a big year. Their first year in Vegas. He
was twenty seven to nine on the year. That's a
nice three to one ratio. To do the quick fuzzy math,
that's five years. That's five years later. Hey okay, hey,
good year, fuddy. But that's the point is this was
a guy that was based on that early promise. He
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got that door opened for a long time, as mister
lockinfora alluded to right where you just kept waiting for
him to be that guy. But situational football was not
his friend, right forty two thousand yards. But we'll always
remember him for throwing the ball out of the back
of the end zone or even with few mistakes nine interceptions,
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you know, miss misplayed balls and you know quarterback rating
saving moves and things of that nature that that go
on down to which made him and his family fight
everybody in the Twitter verse and online for the last
half decade, right and then he had a couple of
years where the football gods came back on him and
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and he pressed and didn't have the arm strength to
get it there.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But you go back to the year that you're alluding to,
the the MVP year.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I mean, that was a year that was just so
uncanny because we're talking about attrition in these NBA playoffs
and we watch it through the you know, just scores
of guys that go down over the course of an
NFL season. That Raiders team was extraordinarily. It was like
every guy had a rabbit's foot in his cleat until
that play, right, They didn't miss any time, like they
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were healthy on both sides of the ball, and then
all of a sudden, in one faithful play, you know,
maybe the fortunes changed. I still say they would have
ended up in Vegas because the pot of gold was
too big at the end of the rainbow, exit, out
bout a Fresca exit, swollen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
More NFL on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But right now, Martin White's gonna tell you what's trending
in the wide world of sports. Nothing bigger than the
next three to one lead. Mit yell over the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, go New York go New York, GOA and he's
swearing get Piston.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Sure, yeah, I told him, though I did tell Jason
earlier today. I was rooting for the next today and
in this postseason, I'm I'm ready for Boston to to
go off into the sunset.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
They haven't even been there that long.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That's fine. I don't want the Nerds to win everything
the Knicks do. Everybody complains about We're all things twenty
years ago that people clapped in championed. I like the
fact that they play a lot of minutes. Jalen Brunton
on that note, forty minutes tonight, McHale Bridges had forty
four but thirty nine points for brunching in that forty minutes,
twelve assists, five rebounds, Mikal Bridges with twenty three points,
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seven rebounds, Ojen and Obi and Conflety the Towns both
had over twenty as well. Jason Tatum led Boston and
scoring with forty two points, but did suffer a non
contact lower body injury. I mean, I'm not a doctor,
nor do I play with on the radio, but we've
all seen achilles injuries before waiting for the MRI to
officially confirm it but he did not return to the game,
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and I'll go ahead and spoil it for you, very
very questionable for the remainder of this series, and he's
gonna have a long rehab ahead of them more than likely.
But a three one series lead for the New York
Knicks as they look to advance to the Eastern Conference
Finals in the NHL. The end of the first in
im Sry. Earlier today, we saw the Hurricanes beat the
Capitals five to two, Carolina taking a three to one
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series lead in that matchup. Games that are going on
right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves lead the Golden State Warriors
fourteen to twelve. Anthony Edwards with four points, Julius Randall
with five. The Warriors only playing six players so far,
but we all are only you know, five minutes and
thirty seconds into the first quarter, so you know, they've
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been playing everybody since Steff got hurt. Right now, Draymond
Green leading them a scoring with five points, and Vegas
and Golden I'm sorry, the Edmonton Oilers rather leading Vegas
two to nothing at the end of the first period
there and at the top of the ninth ending. The
Astros have come back a little bit but the Royals
still lead seven to five top of the fourth ending
of the Padres that lead the Angels three to two,
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Mariners two Yankees one top of the fourth inning, and
on FS one the Diamondbacks lead the Giants one to
nothing in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch Martin The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
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of the day.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
The second pick will be made by the San Antonio Spurs,
and that means that the number one pick in the
twenty twenty five NBA Draft goes to the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Rolando Blackman all smiles, four time All Stars celebrating, But
Dallas Mavericks had a one point eight percent chance to
win the number one pick overall in next month's draft.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They had never won the lottery.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
TNT on the call, won it your play of the day,
Hey day, this is Jim. I think the new Pope sucks.
He was supposed to bring us Cooper flag and he didn't.
I think he's overrated. We got to get rid of him.
At least we don't have a pope from Green Bay,
so there's that going on. But this guy was supposed
he was supposed to beat the chosen One. I'm going
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all the way back there. Really disappointing attack of the
Clones movie. But he was supposed to be the chosen one,
and he couldn't even bring us left. Three days after
the guy becomes pope, we couldn't even get the number
one pick in the draft.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
He's overrated. I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Didn't even advance a single slot, I mean, just twelfth overall.
I'm the guy from Chicago. Yet you lean into your
exaggerated lunacy what you want to say about the pope.
But I'm telling the Pope when the lightning takes you,
takes you out.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I had an issue walking around the ballpark Friday, man
the number of people selling bootleg boat merch. Appreciate the
I appreciate the hustle, but at the same point, I'm
like feeling a bit uneasy.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Stuff again.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Game, you sent me pictures you took with like five
people dressed as the only one guy is the Pope God.
It on by the people, guys, cardinals, bishops, what were they?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Some bishops? He brought us back. No gear, some archbishops.
I asked, Pope gear no, no gear, No, but come on,
I wanted the Vatican City connect Jersey.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Come on, those were not for sale. Uh, did not
quite get to that level. Again, the Pope let you down.
The Pope let you that. At least we didn't get
the Spurs winning again, which I think the NBA everybody
would have quit if somehow the Spurs will tell you
what though, that was the one I was Uh, I
was half expecting in all of this.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You know Wemby Uh with the illness and missing the
end of the year. You see Castle wins Rookie of
the Year. They bring in dearon Fox, it was all right,
it's set up, and then it's like, oh, they've got
the second pick. But once again, we've got the draft
lottery and this what yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of
the Frozen envelope?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And you go all the way down, Lebron leaves Cleveland.
What happens the next year? Tada, here, here's your number
one pick.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Anthony Davis gets dealt to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
What happens ah, the Pelicans? You get the number one.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Luca gets traded into the Los Angeles. So Lebron, you
shut the hell up with your laughing, crying emojis unless
you're just giving us the nod in the wink as
to what the reality is with the third eye. So
what we actually have Nico Harrison's reaction to the number
one pick in the draft going to the Mavericks, now
that we know Cooper Flag is the player to be
named later in the Luca Danta trad.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
So we have we have Nico Harrison's reaction. Go ahead, Frostburg,
let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I have the smartest man alive. So is it? Does
everybody revisit the trade?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I really just say Hey, Nico.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Win, I expected him to walk across the stage middle
fingers up.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yes, yeah, he just starts dancing along.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That thing that shows up on your Twitter timeline where
you got like the six guys in a row and
that one guy comes to the front and they start
dancing across the basketball court, That's kind of.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
What Nico Harrison in the moment. Now I had to do, and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Now it's fine, But look, I want to say this
because while while you were enjoying beers and the polpe
at your game on Friday, yeah, a couple of times,
we did this a lot on the show. So I'm
going back to it. It's on Twitter. I said, Look,
I don't know anything. I know nothing of nothing, but
knowing how the NBA needs to take advantage of big
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time superstars when they come in the league. You just
watch Zion come into the league, and it's been a disaster,
sticking with New Orleans saying you can't stay healthy, can't
stay on the court.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
He was the last generational player to come on the
court where we said, okay, he's up. He failed Wemby
We're hoping right. He had a bit you know, missing.
Hopefully he can get back soon and play. And everyone's
got prayers up for Wemby. But I said on Friday,
I said, listen, I don't care what the odds are.
The Mavericks, the Sixers, or the Bulls are coming out
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of this lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm not saying I'm just saying, tell me the odds.
Like Bill Maher says, I don't know it for a fact,
I just know it to be true. There's no way
one of those teams isn't coming out of the draft
lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag and a
generational talent, the third generational talent in the least eight years,
is gonna start his career with a heritage team and
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a big market that's really good, not gonna have however
you want to say it. I told it didn't matter
the odds. I told you one of those three teams
is gonna get him. Tanah Cooper Flag is gonna be
a Maverick three Hall of Famers with the aforementioned Anthony
Davis already installed there. Whatever Kyrie's health is, as you
get going, but you know, the generational guy and I
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did that story about the estimated loss in revenues for
the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Gee, wonder what just fixed all that? What was it?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Seven A one hundred and eight hundred million dollars welcome
Cooper flag exit out bout a Fresca exit, swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Carman. I'm not saying I'm just saying,
look where it went. We get back into the biggest
breaking NBA story of the night. Next fock because now
he's getting as much screen time as old New York Knicks.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Stand by, Spike Lee, how.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Do you feel if you're like Spike or Ben Slow,
You've been spending all this money buying these tickets, coming
to the game for the better part of thirty years,
and here comes Shallow May, who is you know, the
next great hit out there? And and all of a sudden, Yeah, no,
we're showing him in the and the and the and
the Jenners. Yeah, you're you're the ones we show it
every game. Yeah, Ben, that's great. Spike, you're great, But yeah,
Shallow May, Shot May. I mean, they still get their
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NOD and Tracy Morgan, all those guys. But if you're
going for Q rating and you're trying to draw in
the kids where you go? Ye Spike Lee again? Oh no, no, no, no, right,
So I mean all of that to say, you know,
shallow May has also been going to the game for years,
something you and I talk about lot just got the
legend of. But now you know, the know it all
kid that was always around asking for sneakers and autographs
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and talking about the games is now the actor.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It's just a mad world.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
You guys do realize it has nothing to do with
him though, right, showing him because of his sidekick.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, but they would they would show they wouldn't be
showing him. No, they wouldn't show him in the forefront
of the screen.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
If they were showing he would not be showing him
without his dates.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
And I think they would.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I think you're wrong. Chalame is a big deal because
what Mike just said, He's been going for years. Nobody
showed him, right, But now.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Since the Oscars, he he has become the A list
actor on the globe, since the Audie.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Still him now, she's still a big deal. He's aig deal.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
And both of them were there tonight, right, They were
both there tonight, both both the Jenners.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
He was he was sitting between the two of them.
They were still showing him in.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
The fourth What do you think is going Stefan Diggs
by the way.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Nobody got hey Chalame is there?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Hey, that's great. Fun day.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
They showed Marbury for like a half a second. Lee
I really thought was gonna get a technical foul because
there was one play where Jason Tatum clearly traveled in
the late third quarter and they bailed out by calling
a foul and you can see that. You could see
the official is talking to Tom Thibodeau and and Spike Lee.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Spike Lee is three feet from TIBs on the court
and he's yelling he traveled. He that was that was
getting Peyton pitcherand play right where Mitchell Robinson comes over
and it's like, all right, was there enough contact over
in his back to where he had to move or
to where he gets bumped or did he just shovele
his feet because he was afraid of being landed upon,
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you know, the cheaters proof whatever. But yeah, Spike Lee
was highly animated. And look, Rick Patina wore the white
suit because that's the other part. He wore the white
suit next to Walt Frazer, and he hugged Patrick Ewing
and said, Patrick, I love what weird? Yes, shout of
a uh everything coming up Smith tonight telling you man,
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Nick's Mets Hurricanes. Now, let me just say this right,
We'll have more on Jason Tatum coming up and he
fans waiting to find out about his injury situation. But
you know, I realize I'm biased. I realize this, but
I can't ignore this anymore. You see tonight, until Tatum's injury,
this was Brunson and Tatum, back and forth, back and forth.
And Brunson scores eighteen points in the third quarter, and
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I tweeted out, well, if Brunson can score every single
time he gets the ball from now till the end
of the game, I think the Nicks will win. And
it's almost what he did. But mcal Bridges hit some shots.
He was on a heater in the fourth quarter. But
I'll tell you what, man, Jalen Brunson has has not
just become an All Star, He's become a top five
NBA player. Like I'm I'm serious now, Like outside of
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outside of Jokic and Yannis, I don't know, there's another
player I want instead of Jalen Brunson, And I get
that I'm biased on it right now. After this game,
obviously I want Brunston, but I don't know that there's
another guy besides Jokich and Jannis I would want over
Jalen Brunson. He and you want to argue with Shay
Gildas Alexander Okay, but top five. Jalen Brunson's become a
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top five NBA player with the clutch shots he hits.
Nobody hit shots like him as great. Hey, Steph Curry
is great. Guess what. Guess Who's got more big shots,
more go ahead shots in the fourth quarter this year
than Steph Curry's gotten his entire career.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
He finds a way despite the fact he is undersized
and not fast.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
He's not the typical person you would think of when
you think of best players in the NBA. He's not
a physical freak. He's not someone that can that. You
look at what he does and he's blocked. He's throwing
up a big block in one end of the court
and running it and ramming home a dunk at the end.
But outside, I'm telling you Jalen Brunson's become a top
five player in the NBA. You're talking about the best
player on the Knicks. Clearly it was hey Brunson. Kat No,
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he's proved. I'm the guy ahead of Karl Anthony Towns.
Karl Anthony Towns is a great number two for the Knicks.
But out I mean, I mean outside of Giannis who's
now thirty and Jokich, who's you know, still in his
late twenties, still the best player in the NBA. Outside
of those two, I don't know there's another guy I
want my team ahead of Jalen Brunson. Again, I get,
I get I'm biased, But what you can't ignore what
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he's able to do and how how he's able to
control games the way he does.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Right, you can't ignore you No, And that's the thing, right,
you go through it and you parse it out.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
You're like, all right, I want Luca or I want
to ask Ga, or I want Edwards, and then you
watch what Jalen Brunson is able to do. It's unconventional, right,
He's a stout man. A couple of times he almost
dared the Celtics to take the ball from him. With
a wild dribble as he spins into the lane, somehow
able to still control it as they swipe over the top.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I think they think he's taller than he is.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
But either way, he looks so tall when he's coming
at you, but he's not when But like, the shot
is not a classic looking shot like all of these things,
because a couple of times he took a shot, he's like, wow,
that was terrible, tak that looked no different.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Than the last one. Like, what are you yelling about?
You thought that was off?
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Because the one he shot before went straight through the
underside of the net.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Is the same weird motion we can to the last.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
He can find a way, right, Just to think about
Brunson for a second. He's great at leaning in and
causing contact getting to the free throw line. Everybody's upset,
but he finds a way to do it. He hits
those leaners, right, He hits straight up jump shots, and
he hits fadeaways. And that's the thing about the guy
is is that when you can hit shots from all
those different directs.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
We talk about Jason Tatum a lot, right, how Tatum
can come down and just straight up get his shot better.
Than anybody in the NBA because he's taller than anybody.
The handles he has, I can get a three over anyone,
and then if you send somebody out to me, I'm
gonna blow by you to the hoop. Yes, guys like
Wenby Kenneth three's and Yoki Kenneth three's, but they're not
blowing by guys. They're finding their way to the hoop
eventually because they're not as fast. But Tatum can blow
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by you. I can hit that shot. Brunson can hit
them in so many different ways. He can lean, he's
straight up, his fade away, his fadeaways what makes him
such an incredibly effective offensive player because there's no way
you can stop that. If the guy I can fade away,
you're gonna foul them if you go after it. So
if you're accurate on those fadeaways, whether it's a three
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pointer on a fade away, or I get into the
lane and it looks like I'm stuck, but I'm gonna
come back into the fade away, you're fouling him because
you're landing on him. If you're going to stop that
fade away. He has so many shots that are that
are almost unstoppable, and you would think at some point, okay,
for an undersized, slower point guard, teams are gonna find
a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
They can't find a way where teams have found a
way to stop Steph Curry late in the fourth quarter
of games, getting his own shot off or even making
a big pass. They've not found that way with Jalen Brunts.
And it's not like they haven't tried. It's like, Okay,
here's the best player on the Knicks, and I hate
hearing go New York, go New York.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I hate hear it.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
I hate hearing it, Bud Okay, but we're gonna find
a way and they have not found a way to
stop him yet. I mean, really, you talk about the
ascension of him, he's gone in the last two years
from boy really good under the radar signing he can
be a really big part of what New York having
something going on, be the point guard. Then it was, hey,
he's potentially their best player too. He's an Allstar. He
really he's a top five player in the league. Yeah,
(49:02):
it's a good thing that it looks like you don't
work out for the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, yeah, No, but look, it's.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Hard to argue him too far down the list, right,
because you're still trying to look at what's ahead, and
with a three to one lead and Tatum likely done,
we'll see, but certainly that does not look promising for
the rest of this series, let alone this calendar year.
As we look at that injury, as he went down
in a heap in the final minutes of that game,
(49:32):
it's the what guys have actually gone and finished the job? Right,
Kevin Durant, You're still putting him up as any anybody,
But does he have the surrounding cast to where he's
winning anything substantive? Right, Because that's the other thing here, right.
As good as Brunson is and if you want the
ball in his hands, you saw once again what happens
(49:53):
when the Knicks actually commit to playing defense, and that
was impressive.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Right. So maybe down the stretch he's They're just well
conditioned guys. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
There's still another couple of rounds the playoffs to go,
but not exactly.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Relying on the bench for much of anything. Once again,
for Timms, the Live and.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Die not quite reddick light, but bordering on that in
terms of how much effort, you're going to get off
your bench. But yeah, so Durant is still one of
those top five guys. But it's a list of guys,
most of which who have won anything. Right, Edwards hasn't
won anything. Yes, she is not want anything. He's gonna
win an MVP. But while we're talking about closing the
(50:29):
final deal, Yeah, I mean, we put all those guys
into the scramble and then you just decide which city
name for the outlet.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
You like is.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Yeah, I mean when you think about the clutch gene,
he hits everything, right, he hits everything. The reason why
he's the most clutch player in the league, but because
he got an award for Yeah, I mean what about that?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
This was the award?
Speaker 4 (50:50):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Did they steal it out of a car? Yeah, there's
a clutch.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
This is like like in this this year, this year
of hacks. Jean Smart you know, sorry spoiler, she gets
the late night gig, so she's hosting late night and
they want to boost her ratings, so she gets the
uh female like the Female Comedic Achievement Award whatever. It
was a made up award just to you know, to
(51:14):
push your profile up. So it seems like it's hey,
she gets the you know, the female comedian you know
award like this real they do to tip players in
the NBA. Hey, let's make awards for everybody. Make a
here's a clutch player award. But okay, I'm glad it's
out there because is it a made up award? Yes,
but it makes everybody realize this is the guy that
hits those shots at the end of games. You can
talk about guys like Edwards and Sga and oh, guys
(51:35):
with the ball in the hands at the end of
the game. I'll ask you this, if I said to
you final possession of a game, Okay, final possession of
a game, Kobe, you could have currently you could have
anybody in the NBA right now, you have any better.
I don't mean just in the playoffs. I mean anybody
that's an active player in the league right now. You
could have any player with a fine the final minute
(51:56):
of the game to have the ball to take your
game winning shot. Who are you taking over, Jalen runs it.
It's like ten people, No, there's nobody. Really the answer
is here, Oh, frost your head. I would I would
have to give Paolo ban Carrol the ball. Once you
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
I got a lot of crap going on right now, Harmon.
I got a lot of stuff happening right now. I
got the Hurricanes, I shepherded them do a three to
one lead. I got the Mets in the ninth inning,
tied with the Pirates, the I got the course the
Knicks up by nine with three minutes left to go.
I'm dealing with a lot of stuff right now. I'm
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rooster to take the curse off of Hector's glove We're
dealing with. I'm dealing with a lot of I've got
a lot of stuff going on right now.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, I can see you're completely amped up.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We watched the end of that Stanley Cup playoff game fantastic.
You called for the public flogging uh and release of
Francisco Lindor, get ridd of Indoor and and Acuna Get
rememberoth Erizon the ninth.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Then they gave you went on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A five minute rant, not ten minutes prior telling me
he's the greatest thing of all time.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
He was bored.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Bad and doesn't matter that yet too. Peter Alonzo is
gonna win this game with a walk off sack fly
Mets get the w Okay, I'm two thirds of.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The way there.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm not just halfway there with bon Jovi, I got
the Hurricanes, I got the Mets. Now I got shot him?
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one thirteen, one oh four lead over the Celtics with
three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Look, I
don't want to go too crazy because I know somehow
(02:22):
this game is gonna be tied with a minute left.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, I'm not gonna go to it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know that's what's gonna Somehow the Knick Celtics is
gonna be tied with a minute left to go. Okay,
I'm okay with that. But let me just say this,
for the the it's been kind of a thing the
last few days. You have seen the oh the NBA
is unwatchable crowd come out again with a lot of
different things.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right, all the NBA is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The NBA's on watchmap, Uh, this game tonight, and there's
gonna be a big update we're gonna bring you with
Jason Tatum coming up in a second.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
All you have to do is watch this beach. All
you have to do is just watch.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
This is the Tatum Brunson game, right and now, Jason
Tatum just got her for the second time in the
second half, twisted his ankle. He was helped off the floor.
I assume that is going to be it. We're not
gonna see him again the rest of the night. But
this game, up until this point, this has been Tatum,
bruntson Tatum Brett.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Anything you can do, I can do better.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Every time Brunton hits a shot, you go, my goodness,
I can't believe it. Tatum comes down the other way
and it's a three.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Look.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The guy can get his shot more than anybody else
in the NBA can get his own shot at any situation.
It has been amazing to watch these two guys duel
this entire game. The Celtics hit all a bunch of threes,
it was looked like it was going to be a runaway.
Then Jalen Brunson brings the Knicks back in the third quarter,
when it looks like they're gonna run away, Tatum starts
hitting shots, getting into the lane. Really, it has been
(03:44):
some kind of Brunts and Tatum show. But now the
rest of this game is gonna be played without Jason Tatum.
Huge first quarter where you see the barrage towards the
end and it became in all right, here we go
game three. Look once again, but bit by bit, as
you lay out with Jalen Bronson.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But he didn't come alone, right.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
He brought friends to the show this time around, as
opposed to making it a one on one conversation. This
was like the fight between the news teams in Anchorman.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Where more guys come to the party.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Right, Because Bridges has twenty three, you got twenty one
from Cat eighteen from Ananobi, including a number of huge
defensive plays, and that's the thing that's got to be
under you know, underscored here in the fourth quarter, filling
passing lanes, aggressive with each possession, no easy buckets except
for the one that literally, as I say, no easy buckets.
(04:37):
But all that, just the attempts to pass it across
the court, up around the arc, just the length of
Ananobi and the other defenders, just wreaking havoc, causing so
many turnovers and just failed possessions where it's now the
scramble with the shot clock winding down to get something
(04:59):
up towards the buckets. So overall, just a fantastic effort
the second half by the Knicks, really controlling things.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
As we get down the stretch, Go New York, Go
New York.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Frostburg Drive driving that bandwagon it is a ten point
lead for the Knicks with just under two minutes left
to go in the fourth quarter. Right, well, we plenty
of time for Brunson. However, we got it till we
have a little bit more on Jason Tatum right now,
he has helped off the court, as we said, an
ankle injury on a turnover. H Ogano Noobi has had
(05:32):
a terrific game. He has stepped in the passing lane
many times UH for the Knicks UH turnovers in the
second half. He had one turn one turnover early in
the fourth quarter where Jalen Brown had to tackle him
from behind because he jumped in the passing lane and
got and got the ball for a layup. But what
just happened a couple minutes ago, and this is where
things are a little scary. Jason Tatum has the ball.
(05:53):
The Knicks have a have a nine point lead, and
Tatum looks like he's going to you know, he's got
the ball on the wing. Right he comes, he has
the ball on the wing and he passes out and
it looks like he's waiting to get the ball back.
And here's the play by play of what happened after it.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He fouls.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Daylan Brown back, he lost the ball a oh by himself.
Crowch it down and Titum is hurt. Turnam is down.
He wants a time out. Tittum is so much pain.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Call timeout there. It is Mike Breen with the call
right there. Uh, this is how it looks. He's chump
coming to get the ball back. Jalen Brown looks like
he's going to give it back to Jason Tatum and
hw Nobe steps in the passing lane and he picks
off the ball and goes down the other way. Tatum
just simply steps forward to try to get and grab
(06:51):
the ball first and his right leg he just collapses.
It's a non contact injury. He takes a step back
with his right foot to try to get down, to
try to come back and get the ball, and then
he just collapsed. He was helped off the floor. He
is in pain. He was just shown coming off in
(07:11):
a wheelchair with his hands covering his face. We don't
know what kind of injury this is. Certainly you see
this and look just because of injuries we've seen. It
could be an achilles injury, it could be an ankle injury.
But he doesn't turn his ankles. It's a straight step back,
which tells me you've seen this for achilles or a
calf injury. So it does look like it wasn't like
(07:32):
I don't know that it's so much an ankle injury
as much as it could be a calf or an
achilles non contact injury. He simply tries to plant and
step forward and he can't, couldn't put any weight on it.
As he was helped off the floor and again in
a wheelchair, taken off with his hand on. He got
a big round of applause from the from the Knicks
(07:52):
players and the Celtics players as they came off again.
A non contact injury for Jason Tatum, and suddenly this
throws the rest of the play off, the rest of
the playoffs for the Celtics in flux. They're gonna lose
this game. They're gonna go down three to one to
the Knicks. And now it's is Jason Tatum going to
play again? When is he gonna be able to get back?
Because you have the non contact grabbing at his achilles
(08:16):
that none of this looks good for Tatum and the Celtics.
Number of your internet doctors all folks that I have
not verified their cvs, but we'll take them at face
value for the moment, with their histories and check marks
and everything else, going straight to the Achilles right several
with the tag of hope the video lies because you
(08:37):
and I as we watch it go down as he
comes to challenge anonomy for the ball just goes down
in a heap, and immediately he's screaming, and he's in
a heap, down on the floor, and the play goes on,
and immediately would you have five staffers get out there?
No pressure on his leg as he comes off obvious anguish.
(09:00):
So just a horrid end to I mean, he'd been
fantastic all night long. Every time Brounson or Anobi or
Cat made a shot at one end, he was at
the other to keep the pressure on. Get got some
what forty two points I think was the last as
we saw him hitting three after three, and then a
(09:24):
play that had been so problematic for him just from
an execution standpoint, becomes their worst nightmare. One of the
game stars and a guy who's much debated in terms
of his rank in the hierarchy of the current NBA
goes down hopefully hopefully the video does lie in this regard.
I mean, look, there's three things you look for, right
(09:46):
in plays where where you say, okay, how bad is
this injury? Non contact is always the worst, right, that's
always the worst. But a non contact could always be
something where you turn an ankle, it's a tweak and
you come back, but non contact the worst, no pressure
on it coming off when you know we can't do that,
and there's there's no there is no twist where it
(10:06):
could just be an ankle tweak of some kind where
oh oh, maybe he'll be okay. Maybe it's just something
where it's the end of the game and we're not
gonna do it. We're gonna let him just sit back
and and uh and and come off the floor. There
was none of that. I mean, it was just it
was a straight back, I'm putting my like I'm putting
my back foot down the plant and then just falls
(10:27):
right down. There was no step like almost as if
like you stub your toe kind of thing where he
just goes into the ground as like, okay, not a
lot of twisting, but maybe maybe just enough pressure there
for the momentary, but no quite Obviously, something far worse.
Look and and this is this is what happens in
the NBA as as we look at this season, right
(10:49):
we talk about injuries, and injuries affect the NBA playoffs
more than any other playoff, more than more more than
the NFL, more than Major League Baseball because superstars are
not as ironclad as they used to be. And when
the first round happened in the playoffs, what did I say.
I'm probably stupid because I put this out in there.
I said, Hey, usually we see an all star team
(11:09):
of guys injured missing games. By now at that point,
it was right and all of a sudden, it's okay,
it's it's it's it's not And Lillard was more of
a you know, a medical condition than it was an injury.
It's like, hey, is he okay with his you know
he And right after that but you're to okay, can
he come back?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Can he play?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But now you're and this is why when the NBA playoffs,
when the NBA playoffs hit, it doesn't matter how great
you were during the regular season. It makes no difference
if you're dominant, because if someone comes down on an
ankle wrong, if someone comes down on the floor wrong,
all of a sudden everything changes.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Who are the three best teams in the NBA this season? Cavaliers,
Celtics and the Thunder and all of them are in trouble.
All of them are in trouble. The Celtics are in
a three to one hole. The Knicks win at one
twenty one, one thirteen. The Cavaliers are in a three
to one hole. Now you don't know is Jason Tatum
gonna play again? Is are you gonna have Donovan Mitchell
(12:02):
right for Game five here when you need them? And
clearly the Thunder have all they could handle with the
Denver Nuggets in the second round of the playoffs. These
are the three best teams in the regular season, and
now it's the door is wide open to win a championship.
This is no matter how it looks, no matter how
great a team looks, these things happen. You can't and
you can't bank on injuries. But obviously that's been a
(12:23):
part of the NBA the last few years, the last
five seven years. It's you see all kinds of big
injuries and they happen. It's not just support play as well.
We're missing our six man. We're missing No, you're missing superstars.
We're missing games, game after game after game. Well, what's
about the time. It was a joke that it was
the second season, not because of uh, the attrition this way,
(12:44):
but just when we're looking at three months of television covers,
ha ha, it's almost as long as the actual season itself.
But now it's the how do you manage to get
to the end of March, first week of April in
as best a rotation came, Because that's the thing that
comes up out of this game too, Jason, is the
fact that both starting lineups just traded blows the entire time.
(13:06):
Like my Anchorman analogies, isn't too far off. Now Pritchard
ends up with twelve points, so it becomes a nineteen
point bench effort. But for the longest time you're looking
at fourteen to ten. Was the margin and the usage
of these benches. Shorten the rotations and get every minute
you can out of your starters, and with that you're
(13:29):
gonna welcome in court trouble at times. And unfortunately it
showed up in the worst of ways in this one.
So we'll keep you updated on that. Let you know
when to hear something about Jason Tatum. I assume we're
not going to get anything official tonight. While we'll hear
postgame from the teams. But the Knicks Jalen Brunson throwing
towels all over the court. The Knicks are up three
to one. Go New York, Go New York, Go go
(13:52):
New York, go New Yeah it's a super mile New
What are you doing? Hey, games still happened, the guys,
The game still happened, the games.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Let it breathe minute for crying out.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
We just spent the entire last twelve minutes on Jason
Tatum hoping he's okay, hoping he's all right, you know,
going through everything.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Now you're dancing over the top. So I'm just saying,
not just saying. I can say, go New York, go
New York. I could do its. Celtics lost again.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
How it's got Yes, the Celtics lost again. Wow, Knicks
are up three to one. Look at this Nicks man
right again? What did I go back when I said
a week ago Nick Pacers Eastern Conference Finals? Yeah no,
no wat Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, Jason
might really be right about that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It could really happen, could really happen.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh So we got more NBA on the way again,
only in the first game of the night. We got
the big second game coming up in a little bit, uh,
but straight ahead big stuff out of the NFL. Or
were already seen Shdur Sanders win the quarterback job in Cleveland.
All that and more coming up next, Jason and Mike
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Not even this song is gonna upset me tonight, Not
even this song.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
You know what what what getting swept by the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Uh, I'll worry about that later. I got the Nixon win,
I got the metsa win, get the Hurricanes of win.
Like this is this is the dear of my life
right now. In Sports Mike Garmin Show, Fox Sports Training,
I we're setting Jason home, elated to go do something
else great with his night since he's three and oh
in the Sporty universe, We'll update you on the Jason
(17:15):
Tatum injury as soon as we hear more. Tatum leaving
the end of the Celtics loss of the next to
night Knicks now up three to one in their series
with the defending champs. Tatum goes down with a non
contact injury. Looks to the achilles area. He tried to
plant to go after a loose ball. It doesn't happen,
ties to a different part of the body.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, I'm saying goodbye to Derek Carr. Oh well, yeah,
well we will get to that. He's definitely broke.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, he had a good run. Tatum goes down again,
non contact. Injury was not an ankle twist. He put
no pressure on his foot as he as he was
helped off the court. Very emotional hand over his face
as he was taken out in a wheelchair. Again, does
not look good for Tatum. Keep our best thoughts out
there for one of the best players in the NBA
(17:59):
In a soon as we get an update on.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It, we will bring it to you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Uh time out to talk little NFL big stuff happening today.
We screw the Cowboys day joining us now on the
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Jason locking for it, Jay, what's happening man?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I'm doing okay? How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Good? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I got the next one, the Mets one, the Hurricanes.
What I'm feeling feeling pretty good right now.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I'm feeling good the Hurricanes thing. Is that just hitting
the capitals or is that? Are you?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Are you like an old Hartford oh yaminod Whalers fan?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yes, yea, yeah, yeah, so that's.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Me feel right now? Like what I got?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I got the Midas touch right now, I got to
hopefully he keeps going as long as it can. I
don't know how long it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
We'll see.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So is that Jerry Jones singing brass bonanza? So excited
to watch the UH Eagles get their rings and raise
the championship banner opening.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Night as that game was announced today.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well, look, that's the closest they're going to get to
anything like that, probably as long as he owns the team.
So they should. They should get to play the Super
Bowl winner in Week one every year, you know, like
we've got the Hall of Fame game and Ken Yeah,
we've got certain we've got certain sports traditions and things,
you know, forever, right the mL first MLB Game of
(19:19):
the year would be in Cincinnati. Uh, we've obviously got
the traditions with Dallas and Detroit ball and Thanksgiving. Yeah,
I mean, I you know, that's that's as good it's
going to get for Jerry. So did you jump in?
They're going to get their asses kicked. I will be
betting that game probably in the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I was going to say, whatever the market that.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind to only expand over time. Yeah,
good good luck Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So this also would get us into the futures market.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think a little bit, mister locking Ford, because you
got a bunch of backloaded games for the Bears, So
that would mean they expect the Bears to be good.
Uh likewise, get the Cowboys here means short them.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah. Well, in general, I just you know, they have
to tell you, guys forever right they made the Cowboys.
Uh yeah, I mean we'll get the full picture of this,
my god, in dribs and drubs over the next forty
eight hours, and it's going to make me want to
pat myself in the eyes with a fork every time
somebody is reporting on an NFL foot that we already
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knew were going to be played. We just didn't know
when or where. Well we knew where, we used to
know when. Yeah, I will certainly digest the schedule and
it will and impact some of some of my way
during although I don't think it's going to change my
power rankings exponentially. But yeah, I will wade back into
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the futures market when we have a full catalog, because
make no mistake, there will be teams who get trued.
I mean there will be teams who have four and
five game stretches that just look kind of very kongruous
to the norm, and depending on the caliber of the
roster and the caliber of the head coach, sort of
their institutional strength or lack thereofs. I mean, those are
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things that can beckon, you know, crack teams in half.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Jay, You know what one gift I think we're getting
right now that none of us expected, but we're getting
it is apparently the quarterback competition in Cleveland has begun
like the last three Hey, Gabriel and Shador Sanders.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Who looks better?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Like this is the earliest I could ever remember getting
like real legitimate updates of who looks good, who's ahead
of who? Like this is a gift for us right now.
It's May and we're already in a quarterback derby.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, I mean it is going to be interesting once
they you know these OTAs how they divide up the
reps and Placo's been number four and he's going to
start week one, and I guess he needs the least.
But you know, the team has changed the fair amount
since he left there and they fired you know, his
offensive coordinator and play college is he was too damn
(22:04):
good with him, you know, so we had to get
him out of there because de Shaun's coming back, and
that's going to make the Shawn uncomfortable. You know, if
this guy's called, you know, better call him plasure for
Flacco than him or whatever. The nonsensical thought process of
the owner was to get Flaco out of the building
in the first place. Yeah, it's going to be the
breakless reporting that we usually only get in training camp
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and every day which guy gets his reps first and
seemingly going to be a thing and who gets the
most and by what margin? I just again, there's only
so many to go around, and they've got sort of
a weird pecking order there. And at some point, dude,
you know, does somebody get hurt somewhere else? And then
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you know they send a kid from Pittsburgh there just
to sort of clear out a little more space. I
don't know, but Kevin's defancy is going to be dealing with, Yeah,
your point of level of sort of intrigue and reporting
to what is pretty sort of usually drama free and
just an interesting sort of practices. Yeah, it's gonna be different.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Now talking about one quarterback competition to a guy who
ran on a posed like a congressman in a small
district somewhere for eleven years. Derek Carr, how will you
remember his career?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
I'm not a big Derek Carr guy. I just have
to kind of I mean, I kind of feel like
he one really good year with the Raiders and it
kind of propelled him to great fortunes for like another decade.
And he may have done that with dellv Like did
he do it with Dell Rey? I feel like he
did it with a staff where it was like I
felt like I added him a lot of credit that season,
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but I think he got, you know, as much mileage
out of that one season as anyone could have ever expected.
And the contract that the Saints gave him, I don't
know what you know, Mickey Loomis, what else he had
going on in his life at the time where he
decided that was what they should do, you know, post
Drew Brees, with all the other bad contracts they already
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had on their books, like that one will always sort
of boggle my mind. But yeah, I don't, I'm just
not I don't know. The way he played the game
always felt like he had opportunities to make way more
plays than he did, and I kind of always felt
like when he got in the red zone and there
was any sort of expectations on his teams, bad things
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tended to happen.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Throw it out the back of the end zone.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And it was at Jack del Real led sore back
in twenty fifteen and muskrat.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
When he had his year where he was like yeah, yeah, right, Muskray.
I mean, I just remember I knew a lot of
guys in that staff, and I was like, Wow, this
guy looks like this guy with that cast and that
coaching staff doing this like he must be pretty damn good.
And then that was the.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Pinnacle, Jason locking for an NFL inside where it's Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live of the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
All right, So now that this happened.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Right obviously here the Saints havn't if they could go
in with Schuck maybe wanting to win the job or
trying to push him up there. But we're still waiting
to find out Aaron Rodgers decision with the Steelers. Has
the quarterback market changed in the last forty eight hours
as far as destinations or potential trades With Derek Carr's.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Retirement, I don't think so because I mean, Derek Carr's
situation was really murky to begin with, and it did
not look like he really wanted to play for them
or that they really wanted him to play, and it
was clear he was going to need you know, this
other procedure or whatever. So no, I don't, I don't
think so. I think New Orleans, I mean New England.
(25:40):
New Orleans is going to go I think with what
they have, and I think that's going to prove to
be pretty ugly. And this is going to be the
sort of not that he had. The last couple of
seasons have been bad, but I think this is going
to be the really kicky in the teeth here, and
can they shed some of these contracts by the deadline?
Like I could see New Orleans being a full blown
(26:02):
tank mode trying to get themselves a quarterback at the
very top of the draft next year.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locke and four That is
at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one oh five seven
the Fan in Baltimore Washington Post, where he's working on
a thousand words on the big Syracuse lacrosse comeback in
the first round against Harvard Yesterday, Jay good luck with
that peace.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Now, I'm actually I'm running five thousand words on Kevin Deneen.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Oh see you, buddy, Jason.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
You know the thing about Derek Carr, right, because you know,
thinking about this today, every quarterback leaves a legacy when
you play as long as he did. Look a guy
through for forty thousand yards and a starting quarterback in
the NFL for a decade, right, And when you think
about it, and sometimes the legacy is a way you played.
Sometimes the legacy is one moment in time, and for
Derek Carr, it's that one moment in time because he
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was never the same after his injury in twenty eighteen
or twenty sixteen, if you remember, he comes out as
a rookie, has a really good year in twenty fourteen,
and then has an MVP type season in twenty fifteen.
Twenty sixteen, the Raiders look like they are on a
collision course with the Patriots for the AFC Championship. Right,
(27:16):
The Raiders were fantastic. And this is you know, they
were still in Oakland for another four years, but this
was when the Raiders looked like, hey, we're back out again.
You know, we've had our time as a laughing stock.
We have our quarterback. You know, Carr was a second
round pick and he really jumped in right away and
played really People forget how good he was his first
three years in the league. But he gets hurt late
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the last game of the regular season, and the whole
big It's broke line, which is what you know, the
line Tyshirt's been running since he said that ten years ago,
we've been running that on the show. And he never
made it back. He was never quite the same after that.
He was always after that. He came back and he
was okay, he was maybe a little bit over league average,
(27:59):
but he was never at the elite level that the
that he was at his first three years in the league.
And when you think about that, Okay, so the Raiders
next level of competition, of of of success never got there.
But had that not happened, you start to wonder, do
they ever leave Oakland? Maybe they get to the super
Bowl that year, maybe they beat the Patriots that year.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
They were really good that year.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
The Raiders were really good in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
and twenty sixteen they were I mean I remember that
year going this is gonna be Raiders are gonna wind
up playing them. The only team that can beat the
Patriots is the Raiders. So you wonder after that, if
they have that kind of success, if Derek Carr doesn't
get hurt and he's still that level of quarterback, do
they stay in Oaklands? He finished some kind of career.
(28:45):
Is he still you know, there is their success keeping
them in Oakland somehow, like that injury when you can
look at it and say that might have sealed the
deal on their eventual move because they never really competitive
after that. And car came back and like I said,
he was okay, but he's really like a twenty ten
quarterback from there on out right, he was a little
bit over league average, and I don't mean like not
like you're talking about like maybe thirteen fourteen fifty that's
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kind of where he was, Whereas he was a top seven,
top eight quarterback his first three years in the league.
That injury, maybe they're still in Oakland, maybe the NFL changes,
but that really was such a thing that affected so
many layers of the NFL. Yeah, I'd have to go
back and look at the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen rosters
attrition and moves that were made there, and because they
were already going into operation shutdown with the anticipation of
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Las Vegas at that point. Because he came back, it
had a big year. Their first year in Vegas. He
was twenty seven to nine on the year. That's a
nice three to one ratio. To do the quick fuzzy math,
that's five years. That's five years later. Hey okay, hey,
good year, fuddy. But that's the point is this was
a guy that was based on that early promise. He
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got that door opened for a long time, as mister
lockinfora alluded to right where you just kept waiting for
him to be that guy. But situational football was not
his friend, right forty two thousand yards. But we'll always
remember him for throwing the ball out of the back
of the end zone or even with few mistakes nine interceptions,
(30:11):
you know, miss misplayed balls and you know quarterback rating
saving moves and things of that nature that that go
on down to which made him and his family fight
everybody in the Twitter verse and online for the last
half decade, right and then he had a couple of
years where the football gods came back on him and
(30:32):
and he pressed and didn't have the arm strength to
get it there.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But you go back to the year that you're alluding to,
the the MVP year.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I mean, that was a year that was just so
uncanny because we're talking about attrition in these NBA playoffs
and we watch it through the you know, just scores
of guys that go down over the course of an
NFL season. That Raiders team was extraordinarily. It was like
every guy had a rabbit's foot in his cleat until
that play, right, They didn't miss any time, like they
(31:02):
were healthy on both sides of the ball, and then
all of a sudden, in one faithful play, you know,
maybe the fortunes changed. I still say they would have
ended up in Vegas because the pot of gold was
too big at the end of the rainbow, exit, out
bout a Fresca exit, swollen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
More NFL on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But right now, Martin White's gonna tell you what's trending
in the wide world of sports. Nothing bigger than the
next three to one lead. Mit yell over the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, go New York go New York, GOA and he's
swearing get Piston.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Sure, yeah, I told him, though I did tell Jason
earlier today. I was rooting for the next today and
in this postseason, I'm I'm ready for Boston to to
go off into the sunset.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
They haven't even been there that long.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
That's fine. I don't want the Nerds to win everything
the Knicks do. Everybody complains about We're all things twenty
years ago that people clapped in championed. I like the
fact that they play a lot of minutes. Jalen Brunton
on that note, forty minutes tonight, McHale Bridges had forty
four but thirty nine points for brunching in that forty minutes,
twelve assists, five rebounds, Mikal Bridges with twenty three points,
(32:09):
seven rebounds, Ojen and Obi and Conflety the Towns both
had over twenty as well. Jason Tatum led Boston and
scoring with forty two points, but did suffer a non
contact lower body injury. I mean, I'm not a doctor,
nor do I play with on the radio, but we've
all seen achilles injuries before waiting for the MRI to
officially confirm it but he did not return to the game,
(32:30):
and I'll go ahead and spoil it for you, very
very questionable for the remainder of this series, and he's
gonna have a long rehab ahead of them more than likely.
But a three one series lead for the New York
Knicks as they look to advance to the Eastern Conference
Finals in the NHL. The end of the first in
im Sry. Earlier today, we saw the Hurricanes beat the
Capitals five to two, Carolina taking a three to one
(32:51):
series lead in that matchup. Games that are going on
right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves lead the Golden State Warriors
fourteen to twelve. Anthony Edwards with four points, Julius Randall
with five. The Warriors only playing six players so far,
but we all are only you know, five minutes and
thirty seconds into the first quarter, so you know, they've
(33:11):
been playing everybody since Steff got hurt. Right now, Draymond
Green leading them a scoring with five points, and Vegas
and Golden I'm sorry, the Edmonton Oilers rather leading Vegas
two to nothing at the end of the first period
there and at the top of the ninth ending. The
Astros have come back a little bit but the Royals
still lead seven to five top of the fourth ending
of the Padres that lead the Angels three to two,
(33:33):
Mariners two Yankees one top of the fourth inning, and
on FS one the Diamondbacks lead the Giants one to
nothing in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch Martin The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
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the Celtics. Jason Tatum's injury coming up in a few minutes,
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of the day.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
The second pick will be made by the San Antonio Spurs,
and that means that the number one pick in the
twenty twenty five NBA Draft goes to the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
Rolando Blackman all smiles, four time All Stars celebrating, But
Dallas Mavericks had a one point eight percent chance to
win the number one pick overall in next month's draft.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
They had never won the lottery.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
TNT on the call, won it your play of the day,
Hey day, this is Jim. I think the new Pope sucks.
He was supposed to bring us Cooper flag and he didn't.
I think he's overrated. We got to get rid of him.
At least we don't have a pope from Green Bay,
so there's that going on. But this guy was supposed
he was supposed to beat the chosen One. I'm going
(36:22):
all the way back there. Really disappointing attack of the
Clones movie. But he was supposed to be the chosen one,
and he couldn't even bring us left. Three days after
the guy becomes pope, we couldn't even get the number
one pick in the draft.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
He's overrated. I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Didn't even advance a single slot, I mean, just twelfth overall.
I'm the guy from Chicago. Yet you lean into your
exaggerated lunacy what you want to say about the pope.
But I'm telling the Pope when the lightning takes you,
takes you out.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I had an issue walking around the ballpark Friday, man
the number of people selling bootleg boat merch. Appreciate the
I appreciate the hustle, but at the same point, I'm
like feeling a bit uneasy.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Stuff again.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Game, you sent me pictures you took with like five
people dressed as the only one guy is the Pope God.
It on by the people, guys, cardinals, bishops, what were they?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Some bishops? He brought us back. No gear, some archbishops.
I asked, Pope gear no, no gear, No, but come on,
I wanted the Vatican City connect Jersey.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Come on, those were not for sale. Uh, did not
quite get to that level. Again, the Pope let you down.
The Pope let you that. At least we didn't get
the Spurs winning again, which I think the NBA everybody
would have quit if somehow the Spurs will tell you
what though, that was the one I was Uh, I
was half expecting in all of this.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
You know Wemby Uh with the illness and missing the
end of the year. You see Castle wins Rookie of
the Year. They bring in dearon Fox, it was all right,
it's set up, and then it's like, oh, they've got
the second pick. But once again, we've got the draft
lottery and this what yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of
the Frozen envelope?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And you go all the way down, Lebron leaves Cleveland.
What happens the next year? Tada, here, here's your number
one pick.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Anthony Davis gets dealt to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
What happens ah, the Pelicans? You get the number one.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Luca gets traded into the Los Angeles. So Lebron, you
shut the hell up with your laughing, crying emojis unless
you're just giving us the nod in the wink as
to what the reality is with the third eye. So
what we actually have Nico Harrison's reaction to the number
one pick in the draft going to the Mavericks, now
that we know Cooper Flag is the player to be
named later in the Luca Danta trad.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
So we have we have Nico Harrison's reaction. Go ahead, Frostburg,
let's hear it.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
I have the smartest man alive. So is it? Does
everybody revisit the trade?
Speaker 6 (38:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I really just say Hey, Nico.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Win, I expected him to walk across the stage middle
fingers up.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yes, yeah, he just starts dancing along.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
That thing that shows up on your Twitter timeline where
you got like the six guys in a row and
that one guy comes to the front and they start
dancing across the basketball court, That's kind of.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
What Nico Harrison in the moment. Now I had to do, and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Now it's fine, But look, I want to say this
because while while you were enjoying beers and the polpe
at your game on Friday, yeah, a couple of times,
we did this a lot on the show. So I'm
going back to it. It's on Twitter. I said, Look,
I don't know anything. I know nothing of nothing, but
knowing how the NBA needs to take advantage of big
(39:33):
time superstars when they come in the league. You just
watch Zion come into the league, and it's been a disaster,
sticking with New Orleans saying you can't stay healthy, can't
stay on the court.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's been a disaster.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
He was the last generational player to come on the
court where we said, okay, he's up. He failed Wemby
We're hoping right. He had a bit you know, missing.
Hopefully he can get back soon and play. And everyone's
got prayers up for Wemby. But I said on Friday,
I said, listen, I don't care what the odds are.
The Mavericks, the Sixers, or the Bulls are coming out
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of this lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm not saying I'm just saying, tell me the odds.
Like Bill Maher says, I don't know it for a fact,
I just know it to be true. There's no way
one of those teams isn't coming out of the draft
lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag and a
generational talent, the third generational talent in the least eight years,
is gonna start his career with a heritage team and
(40:26):
a big market that's really good, not gonna have however
you want to say it. I told it didn't matter
the odds. I told you one of those three teams
is gonna get him. Tanah Cooper Flag is gonna be
a Maverick three Hall of Famers with the aforementioned Anthony
Davis already installed there. Whatever Kyrie's health is, as you
get going, but you know, the generational guy and I
(40:49):
did that story about the estimated loss in revenues for
the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Gee, wonder what just fixed all that? What was it?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Seven A one hundred and eight hundred million dollars welcome
Cooper flag exit out bout a Fresca exit, swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Carman. I'm not saying I'm just saying,
look where it went. We get back into the biggest
breaking NBA story of the night. Next fock because now
he's getting as much screen time as old New York Knicks.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Stand by, Spike Lee, how.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Do you feel if you're like Spike or Ben Slow,
You've been spending all this money buying these tickets, coming
to the game for the better part of thirty years,
and here comes Shallow May, who is you know, the
next great hit out there? And and all of a sudden, Yeah, no,
we're showing him in the and the and the and
the Jenners. Yeah, you're you're the ones we show it
every game. Yeah, Ben, that's great. Spike, you're great, But yeah,
Shallow May, Shot May. I mean, they still get their
(41:41):
NOD and Tracy Morgan, all those guys. But if you're
going for Q rating and you're trying to draw in
the kids where you go? Ye Spike Lee again? Oh no, no, no, no, right,
So I mean all of that to say, you know,
shallow May has also been going to the game for years,
something you and I talk about lot just got the
legend of. But now you know, the know it all
kid that was always around asking for sneakers and autographs
(42:03):
and talking about the games is now the actor.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It's just a mad world.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
You guys do realize it has nothing to do with
him though, right, showing him because of his sidekick.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Yeah, but they would they would show they wouldn't be
showing him. No, they wouldn't show him in the forefront
of the screen.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
If they were showing he would not be showing him
without his dates.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
And I think they would.
Speaker 5 (42:22):
I think you're wrong. Chalame is a big deal because
what Mike just said, He's been going for years. Nobody
showed him, right, But now.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Since the Oscars, he he has become the A list
actor on the globe, since the Audie.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Still him now, she's still a big deal. He's aig deal.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
And both of them were there tonight, right, They were
both there tonight, both both the Jenners.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
He was he was sitting between the two of them.
They were still showing him in.
Speaker 5 (42:46):
The fourth What do you think is going Stefan Diggs
by the way.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Nobody got hey Chalame is there?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Hey, that's great. Fun day.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
They showed Marbury for like a half a second. Lee
I really thought was gonna get a technical foul because
there was one play where Jason Tatum clearly traveled in
the late third quarter and they bailed out by calling
a foul and you can see that. You could see
the official is talking to Tom Thibodeau and and Spike Lee.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Spike Lee is three feet from TIBs on the court
and he's yelling he traveled. He that was that was
getting Peyton pitcherand play right where Mitchell Robinson comes over
and it's like, all right, was there enough contact over
in his back to where he had to move or
to where he gets bumped or did he just shovele
his feet because he was afraid of being landed upon,
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you know, the cheaters proof whatever. But yeah, Spike Lee
was highly animated. And look, Rick Patina wore the white
suit because that's the other part. He wore the white
suit next to Walt Frazer, and he hugged Patrick Ewing
and said, Patrick, I love what weird? Yes, shout of
a uh everything coming up Smith tonight telling you man,
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Nick's Mets Hurricanes. Now, let me just say this right,
We'll have more on Jason Tatum coming up and he
fans waiting to find out about his injury situation. But
you know, I realize I'm biased. I realize this, but
I can't ignore this anymore. You see tonight, until Tatum's injury,
this was Brunson and Tatum, back and forth, back and forth.
And Brunson scores eighteen points in the third quarter, and
(44:20):
I tweeted out, well, if Brunson can score every single
time he gets the ball from now till the end
of the game, I think the Nicks will win. And
it's almost what he did. But mcal Bridges hit some shots.
He was on a heater in the fourth quarter. But
I'll tell you what, man, Jalen Brunson has has not
just become an All Star, He's become a top five
NBA player. Like I'm I'm serious now, Like outside of
(44:42):
outside of Jokic and Yannis, I don't know, there's another
player I want instead of Jalen Brunson, And I get
that I'm biased on it right now. After this game,
obviously I want Brunston, but I don't know that there's
another guy besides Jokich and Jannis I would want over
Jalen Brunson. He and you want to argue with Shay
Gildas Alexander Okay, but top five. Jalen Brunson's become a
(45:02):
top five NBA player with the clutch shots he hits.
Nobody hit shots like him as great. Hey, Steph Curry
is great. Guess what. Guess Who's got more big shots,
more go ahead shots in the fourth quarter this year
than Steph Curry's gotten his entire career.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
He finds a way despite the fact he is undersized
and not fast.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
He's not the typical person you would think of when
you think of best players in the NBA. He's not
a physical freak. He's not someone that can that. You
look at what he does and he's blocked. He's throwing
up a big block in one end of the court
and running it and ramming home a dunk at the end.
But outside, I'm telling you Jalen Brunson's become a top
five player in the NBA. You're talking about the best
player on the Knicks. Clearly it was hey Brunson. Kat No,
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he's proved. I'm the guy ahead of Karl Anthony Towns.
Karl Anthony Towns is a great number two for the Knicks.
But out I mean, I mean outside of Giannis who's
now thirty and Jokich, who's you know, still in his
late twenties, still the best player in the NBA. Outside
of those two, I don't know there's another guy I
want my team ahead of Jalen Brunson. Again, I get,
I get I'm biased, But what you can't ignore what
(46:07):
he's able to do and how how he's able to
control games the way he does.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Right, you can't ignore you No, And that's the thing, right,
you go through it and you parse it out.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
You're like, all right, I want Luca or I want
to ask Ga, or I want Edwards, and then you
watch what Jalen Brunson is able to do. It's unconventional, right,
He's a stout man. A couple of times he almost
dared the Celtics to take the ball from him. With
a wild dribble as he spins into the lane, somehow
able to still control it as they swipe over the top.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
I think they think he's taller than he is.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
But either way, he looks so tall when he's coming
at you, but he's not when But like, the shot
is not a classic looking shot like all of these things,
because a couple of times he took a shot, he's like, wow,
that was terrible, tak that looked no different.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Than the last one. Like, what are you yelling about?
You thought that was off?
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Because the one he shot before went straight through the
underside of the net.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Is the same weird motion we can to the last.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
He can find a way, right, Just to think about
Brunson for a second. He's great at leaning in and
causing contact getting to the free throw line. Everybody's upset,
but he finds a way to do it. He hits
those leaners, right, He hits straight up jump shots, and
he hits fadeaways. And that's the thing about the guy
is is that when you can hit shots from all
those different directs.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
We talk about Jason Tatum a lot, right, how Tatum
can come down and just straight up get his shot better.
Than anybody in the NBA because he's taller than anybody.
The handles he has, I can get a three over anyone,
and then if you send somebody out to me, I'm
gonna blow by you to the hoop. Yes, guys like
Wenby Kenneth three's and Yoki Kenneth three's, but they're not
blowing by guys. They're finding their way to the hoop
eventually because they're not as fast. But Tatum can blow
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by you. I can hit that shot. Brunson can hit
them in so many different ways. He can lean, he's
straight up, his fade away, his fadeaways what makes him
such an incredibly effective offensive player because there's no way
you can stop that. If the guy I can fade away,
you're gonna foul them if you go after it. So
if you're accurate on those fadeaways, whether it's a three
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pointer on a fade away, or I get into the
lane and it looks like I'm stuck, but I'm gonna
come back into the fade away, you're fouling him because
you're landing on him. If you're going to stop that
fade away. He has so many shots that are that
are almost unstoppable, and you would think at some point, okay,
for an undersized, slower point guard, teams are gonna find
a way to do it.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
They can't find a way where teams have found a
way to stop Steph Curry late in the fourth quarter
of games, getting his own shot off or even making
a big pass. They've not found that way with Jalen Brunts.
And it's not like they haven't tried. It's like, Okay,
here's the best player on the Knicks, and I hate
hearing go New York, go New York.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
I hate hear it.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
I hate hearing it, Bud Okay, but we're gonna find
a way and they have not found a way to
stop him yet. I mean, really, you talk about the
ascension of him, he's gone in the last two years
from boy really good under the radar signing he can
be a really big part of what New York having
something going on, be the point guard. Then it was, hey,
he's potentially their best player too. He's an Allstar. He
really he's a top five player in the league. Yeah,
(49:02):
it's a good thing that it looks like you don't
work out for the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, yeah, No, but look, it's.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Hard to argue him too far down the list, right,
because you're still trying to look at what's ahead, and
with a three to one lead and Tatum likely done,
we'll see, but certainly that does not look promising for
the rest of this series, let alone this calendar year.
As we look at that injury, as he went down
in a heap in the final minutes of that game,
(49:32):
it's the what guys have actually gone and finished the job? Right,
Kevin Durant, You're still putting him up as any anybody,
But does he have the surrounding cast to where he's
winning anything substantive? Right, Because that's the other thing here, right.
As good as Brunson is and if you want the
ball in his hands, you saw once again what happens
(49:53):
when the Knicks actually commit to playing defense, and that
was impressive.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Right. So maybe down the stretch he's They're just well
conditioned guys. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
There's still another couple of rounds the playoffs to go,
but not exactly.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Relying on the bench for much of anything. Once again,
for Timms, the Live and.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
Die not quite reddick light, but bordering on that in
terms of how much effort, you're going to get off
your bench. But yeah, so Durant is still one of
those top five guys. But it's a list of guys,
most of which who have won anything. Right, Edwards hasn't
won anything. Yes, she is not want anything. He's gonna
win an MVP. But while we're talking about closing the
(50:29):
final deal, Yeah, I mean, we put all those guys
into the scramble and then you just decide which city
name for the outlet.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
You like is.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Yeah, I mean when you think about the clutch gene,
he hits everything, right, he hits everything. The reason why
he's the most clutch player in the league, but because
he got an award for Yeah, I mean what about that?
Speaker 2 (50:49):
This was the award?
Speaker 4 (50:50):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (50:50):
Did they steal it out of a car? Yeah, there's
a clutch.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
This is like like in this this year, this year
of hacks. Jean Smart you know, sorry spoiler, she gets
the late night gig, so she's hosting late night and
they want to boost her ratings, so she gets the
uh female like the Female Comedic Achievement Award whatever. It
was a made up award just to you know, to
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push your profile up. So it seems like it's hey,
she gets the you know, the female comedian you know
award like this real they do to tip players in
the NBA. Hey, let's make awards for everybody. Make a
here's a clutch player award. But okay, I'm glad it's
out there because is it a made up award? Yes,
but it makes everybody realize this is the guy that
hits those shots at the end of games. You can
talk about guys like Edwards and Sga and oh, guys
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with the ball in the hands at the end of
the game. I'll ask you this, if I said to
you final possession of a game, Okay, final possession of
a game, Kobe, you could have currently you could have
anybody in the NBA right now, you have any better.
I don't mean just in the playoffs. I mean anybody
that's an active player in the league right now. You
could have any player with a fine the final minute
(51:56):
of the game to have the ball to take your
game winning shot. Who are you taking over, Jalen runs it.
It's like ten people, No, there's nobody. Really the answer
is here, Oh, frost your head. I would I would
have to give Paolo ban Carrol the ball. Once you
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