May 16, 2026 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrate the greatness of the New York Knicks stating they will make it all the way to the NBA Finals!! Plus, a breakdown of all the playoff games and so much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, boy, I tell you this NBA playoff stress. I
don't know why so many people. I mean, this stress
that goes on like every day. I'm like, oh, people
are nervous.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You've regrown some hair, lost another five pounds. My life's
been good for you. It's it's the good way because
you're not stress eating now, you just chilling and hanging out, celebrating.
I mean, although you had to feel bad for Karl
Anthony Towns as he lost out on that really cool
Randy Orton WrestleMania patch.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He did gay that was pretty good. There's your Knicks
News of the day right there. Yeah, Karl Anthony Town's
nearly won that Randy Orton.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He had some time because he didn't have to practice
quite as hard because they're sitting on their asses for
a bit. So he was live bidding a big wrestling
card that had a patch from last year's WrestleMania, and
he lost and that made national news.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That was good. Now, Frostburg, how about you? Are you
feeling stressed? Not even a little dude really getting Luca
back for game five? Oh he has been cleared. Were good?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
God, it's good. I mean, he said a lot of
a lot of great thanks going release the MRI. I
think that was the summary statement after Luca finished talking
to the media yesterday. It's like there's things on the MRI.
There's like release the MRI again, don't don't release the MRI.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I go to Spain. Man, don't go to Spain. I
told we told you Spain is bad. You want to
get well, don't go to Spain.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
According to the interwebs, though, it tells me that it's
a burgeoning plays for all sorts of medical procedures where
you can save money but also get affective treatment. Okay,
I would say. Evan didn't sit the contrary.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, good old Luka Dutch. All right, there we go.
He looked good on the front road.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He did no, he looked like if and when he
did that travel move, it was like straight out of
a seventies disco.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If you want to go to Spain and and and
then come back and look okay, great, But if you
look great, if you want to come back from Spain
and play basketball. You know how many points he's gonna
drop in Game five? Dude, I think they can. He's
gonna look back. I listen. I don't think the thunder
are gonna win another game this series. Yeah, but here's
the question. Rest or rust, Frostburg, rest or rust, none
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of the above. Oh, we got more of the Lakers
and the day after the post morning for them coming
up in a few minutes. But right now, we are
nearing the end of the third quarter and San Antonio
is thumping Minnesota right now, ninety to seventy three.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Escal quick game.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Look Wemby doing most of his damage in the first quarter,
but the night he is having tonight twenty four points
for thirteen rebounds, four assists, two blocks, most of his
damage in the first quarter when they got out to
a big lead. But oh he was well rested after
getting ejected. Yeah, you got Johnson off the bench for sixteen. Right,
Fox has fourteen, Castle with thirteen. This has been a
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This has been a typical San Antonio Spurs basketball game.
And you look, we're going to the fourth quarter at
ninety one seventy three. It looks like it's gonna be
a Spurs three to two lead going back to Minnesota.
But the thing is watching Wemby and and I'm I'm
ready to fully take the blame for Wemby getting suspended
because what did I say, Hey, I like the pissed
Wemby right, Like then the pisted Wemby comes back, Okay, man, Yeah,
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he's got he's got an edge to him. Well, he
got an edge and he got kicked out, So I'll
wear that that was on me.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But like, oh, I mean it only cost him the
rest of that game because the NBA didn't bother to,
you know, and judicate things with any level of excitement.
I mean again, we talked about it yesterday of hey,
if he'd actually thrown that elbow with about a minute
left in the first half or on the other side
of the break, yeah, is it a different animal. And
I still question whether Adam Silver would have had the
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stones to suspend him. But here he is coming out
like a house of fire. Adam Silver would have said,
please don't make it not the first minute of the
third quarter. That's half the game, but kind of it's
in the first half and they lost. I could get
away with not suspending it, but now I can't because
it's the third quarter. But had he played more than
fourteen or fifteen minutes, because he averages twenty nine minutes
a game, I mean, once you get past that, is
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that the threshold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean I don't know, but I mean, forget about stats,
forget about numbers. You know, you get inundated with them
all the time. It's again, we've talked about this is
the year that Victor Wembinyama becomes the best player in
the NBA. And all you have to do is watch
him just just for like three offensive sets, and you
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just say, what am I supposed to do with that? Defensively?
How am I supposed to do anything? I mean, sometimes
I go, I don't know how the Spurs lose a
game when Wemby can back somebody down and then everybody draws,
they kick it to they kick it to a guy
that's opened for a three. The defense just just frantically
tries to close. Wemby comes back out behind the three
point line, gets it, and of course hits it over
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whoever's on him defensively, and you go, what are you
supposed to do with that? I mean, what are you
supposed to do with that? The guy? I mean, really
his skill level, Like we talk about Yan as well,
we never saw someone like Giannis. Yeah, Wemby makes Giannis
look like a shooting guard. That yeahs a guy who's
gonna score twenty a game like that. That's that's what
Wemby has done. And that's where we're at right now,
where it's that switch is getting flipper going yep yep.
(05:28):
Now you know who the best player in the NBA? Oh,
we know he's the most watchable.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Whether he's the best or not, we can still always
have that fight, right because he ain't win an MVP.
Henry Shammitt may be the most watchable player in the NBA. Well,
I think Dylan Brooks because you were waiting for him
to come off the front row and create a w
DWE like event last night. But you know, Sga still
has his his.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hand up going.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Even when I'm not having a good game, I can
still make things happen. And we've seen Wembin Yama at
times where the offensive games has had an issue and
then certainly you get yourself thrown out uh defending yourself.
As as his coach, nothing happened to his coach for
saying that, basically saying, yeah, take the guy out at
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the neck.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But watching this game, I mean, they dominated the points
in the paint, came out obviously still ticked off.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Like I told you as we were waiting to come
on air, It's like if I were with the team Wolves,
I would have been bodying him up every every chance
I got, at least early on to see if you
can do it again, much like they took Yokic off
his game in the first series. But when when he's
on and this thing's cooking and you talk about the
youthful squad that's around him, right, ke Kelton Johnson's been
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in in the league a minute, sixth man and making
making hay uh over over time and having a big
game here that they're they're just getting started, like that's
the fun thing. But you know, we we wait on
the matchup against the Thunder, assuming they they finished this
series off and seeing when Benyamba take that next step
and everybody getting to see him, because that was one
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of the keys as we were like, Hey, what.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Channel is it on? Is it on Peacock? No?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No, no, it's actually on local NBC. It's actually on
the big network. So people get to see Victor at
work today.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we'll have more on this game. Again, we're just
starting the fourth quarter. Spurs te Wolves t Wolves ending
the third quarter on a thirty to twelve run, So again,
barring a big collapse, looks like they'll be up three
to two going to Game six. Meanwhile, today has been
a big day for Lebron James and I cannot believe.
Like I love my media brethren, some of them, but
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when I see the overwhelming the overwhelming story being is
Lebron's era with the Lakers a successor of failure? And
I want to say, Okay, there's a time for that conversation,
but do you really think he's not coming back next year?
Where the hell else is the guy gonna go? I mean,
we talked about it last night. He has shown I
can assume I'm oka being the number three guy. I'm
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okay filling a lot of different roles. You saw the
way the team was playing when it was the big
three there and Luca was healthy the last twenty five
games of the season. Yes, you're gonna lose to the
thunder when you don't have Luka Doncic to one of
the top three players in the NBA, it's going to happen.
But all of a sudden, the goo the lebron era
is over. I mean, where else is he going to go?
I mean where else is he going? At this point
in Cleveland may say, yeah, you think we're pretty good
(08:24):
without you. We're two two with the Pistons. We're feeling
pretty good. Where else is he going to go? Now?
Unless he does something crazy like demand fifty million dollars,
the Lakers are gonna say, okay, well then you're gonna go.
But like, as long as he is okay with taking
a little bit less money so they can improve their roster.
Because you heard some of the comments today coming off
of the Lakers moratorium, at one unnamed player saying, we
just don't have the overall talent. As long as the
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Lakers have money to go out and get the couple
of players they need. A three and D player, another
guy to run up and down the floor, another big
Like the Lakers will be a championship team next year
and Lebron is coming back. He's not gonna go throw
cast in his lot with another team that maybe he
doesn't know how they're gonna play, or maybe they're a contender,
maybe they're not. The Only other place he can go
is home. The only other place he can go and
if he doesn't win put a cherry on top of
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his NBA career is Cleveland. And I don't know that
that's a mix for either of them. At this point.
He's shown that as much as I don't like being
the number three guy, I'm okay with that. At this point,
I can still shine. He still was enough to single
handedly get the Lakers past the Rockets. Like, I don't know,
how do people think? Why do people think it's over?
The Lebron era is gonna continue for at least another year.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
In La Jason, the show is today, Okay, the column
is today. The season ended last night, which means what's
evaluated for what it is right now, that's all they're
doing because then they get to do it. It's like
when you're saying, hey, this guy should retire, and he
comes back the next year and plays well, then he's
too old and he should retire. We've done it with Lebron,
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We've done it with so many other guys across our
sporting universe. And you know which members of our sports
brethren have done that? Like you get you have to
say it when the day is up in the season,
finishes that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All right, let's evaluate so many things to say. Why
are we saying it's the end of the okay? Really
is do you know? Do you know that he's not
coming back? Like I like, I've not heard any of that,
Like if you have that, that'd be awesome, like I'd
love to hear.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So no, no, no, I'm not breaking that news. This is
all just a theoretical what do we got after X
number of years? Because you had all the data now
you just needed to add the final data from this
box score and you were done right. It was a nice,
easy column. It was a nice two minute video clip
or thirty second appearance on the sports talker this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's that's all it is. It's an easy conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
In the bigger part is what's next, And you're trying
to evaluate that because really, the only place that it
makes complete sense is, as you say, stay in Los
Angeles and they've got a lot of decisions, and we
chronicled it last night. You can go to the full
podcast for all of that, but just to put it
in in as succinct terms, You've got Hachimura, you got Canard,
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you got Austin.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Reeves, you got a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You gotta figure out what the hell you're doing with
him in terms of reconstituting this roster, and from Lebron James,
he's got to look inward and it's easy to say, hey,
he accepted being the third guy. Problem is he didn't
have to do that very often because these guys weren't
in the lineup right. He had to be the guy,
so all of a sudden he got to put on
the cape, put on the crown and say, hey, I'm
(11:23):
the gig. You used to have to bow to my
knee because none.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Of these guys are available to play.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That guy's in a sweater while you're that guy's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So mad, You're angry? Why are you so mass man?
Why are you so mad?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was just impersonating Lebron James and say hey, I'm
still in charge here next year if those guys are healthy,
and what's to say that they are. If those guys
are healthy, is he suddenly happy in game fifty five?
If he's legitimately the third guy and really has to
accept that role? Because I know he mentioned that in
his postgame comments and he and he threw that out.
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There's like, look at me, I did something I never
had to do. JJ Reddick went and stand for him
his podcast Partner of Old like he had to talk
point that Lebron and Rich Paul gave him, Hey, don't
forget really extole the virtues of how he stepped up
as the third guy.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
For a very limited about it. But here's the thing.
Lebron does like to lose, and he knows that losing
is the worst thing because that's what he's gonna get
blamed for. If it's a choice between hey, I'm the
third guy and I can pick my moments and win,
or be the guy and lose, I'm gonna win because
I'm not losing as a thing. What do you who
hurt you? What did I say? What did you to her?
Woke up and shows violence today? What are you talking about?
(12:31):
What's your problem to quote the Great Lucius Washington. Don't
put that you may have to put up with.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
May have your problem. Now send me to the Knicks.
Maybe he's part of that Steve Kerr rebuilding Warriors squad
at a smaller rate. He gets to hang out with
Draymond Green. That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Frostburg, You just wait for the joint press conference where
both lebron and and Bryce all gets signed to the
same three year contracts. You just looking forward to the
Yo kitchen. The honest one myself.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Wait which which series does he announce that he's coming
back though, because it don't happen before the fire, I.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Don't know where. There's no other place for him. There
is no other place, like it's a marriage of convenience.
The Lakers can play a little hard ball as long
as he's saying, hey, money, because he's not gonna get
that money from anywhere else. So it's not like, well,
if you don't give me somebody else's there's.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
A lot of dumb teams out there to put asses
in seats.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Hey, he's just gonna go, but he's not gonna sign there.
It doesn't know they's not gonna sign, so he's not
gonna go play in Sacramento. If they even they could
give him five hundred million dollars. He's not going to
play in Sacramento. He's coming back to the Lakers beyond
the Kings. Come on, it's a perfect end.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
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Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, we jump right in Game five of the Eastern
Conference Semis Playoff. Stress Man, these teams keep having, oh
my goodness, all this every single day. Late in the
third quarter, Yes, this game's gonna end late, three minutes
to go. Piston's holding on to a seventy seven, seventy
three lead over Cleveland. So far, it's been a big
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night for Kate Cunningham. He's got twenty nine finally have
a nighty shooting well. And for the Cavaliers. Okay, okay, say, okay, okay.
We're only through three quarters and I know he's gonna
turn back into the other playoff Harden. James Harden's having
a big night. Twenty two points, three assists, three turnovers.
I've said, I just throw the turnovers in there, because
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you're a hateful individual. Play twenty eight minutes. Okay, no,
come on, okay, well we got the fourth quarter and
just this is the time, and this is the time
in James Harden's career, whether he was twenty two, twenty five,
twenty seven, or thirty seven, where a seven end of
the second round, end of the round, into the second round,
end of the second round, this is where I play
really well. But then I got really tired in the
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fourth quarter. So I'm just saying James Harden is playing well.
The first two games, playoff. Harden, last two games, played
really well. Tonight so far, really well, got the fourth
quarter to go. But I'm giving him credit. Give him
the credit. I'm not gonna be that guy said, Oh no,
he's either you as.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
A good three week period. Suddenly you're the chestiest guy
in the world.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are that guy. But I'm saying Harden is playing well,
He's playing well so far.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Guy, you packed his bag and we're ready to ship
him out of town, literally putting him into a shipping container.
And now all of a sudden, you're the chestiest, haughtiest
guy in the world and you're throwing slings and arrows
on the name of the beer.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
A real question, Yeah, go ahead, you hand him that
angel's hat that he wears. I did not. The one
with the halo on top. Is that's special? Yeah? Yeah,
the halo that that's pretty cool. I like that one.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I had one of those and then it really got
soiled and had to be tossed.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And Harden's kind of got to do it tonight. I'd
give him even more credit for now, more credit for
now because Donovan Mitchell has been missing an action in
this game. He's got ten points, three out of eight
from the floor. Like, I can't believe the game is
this close. If you told me don and Mitchell into
the third quarter ten points, I would say, Oh, this
is gonna be one of those games where the Pistons
are going to the fourth quarter up one oh eight
to sixty four, and the and the Cavaliers are like, yeah,
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we're putting it away, get ready to come back in
game set.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Stress with seventeen off the bench, Allen tell Allen, uh,
he's got to pick things up. He's got fourteen. But
with Donovan Mitchell, every time he touched the ball, it's
it's like the raptors coming after you in Jurassic Park.
There's two of them, so it's get the ball out,
and it's been physical like on both sides, and then
that's been the curiosity as to how it'll be called
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once we get to the fourth quarter, because they're letting
him beat the hell out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
They definitely Lartin roughed up a bunch, and Mitchell even
before getting rid of the ball on the double, he's
getting bodied. Conversely, on the other side, you've seen a
lot of it. Cleveland run it out after the jump
shooters and sometimes while they're not in the landing zone,
the fly by with some arm and whatever isn't being called.
We'll see if the final thirteen and a half minutes
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are called differently.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is one of those nights where Adam Silver read
the report today that hey, thirteen for what, thirteen percent
more fouls are being called in the playoffs and the
regular season is a big thing. He calls it, Hey, guys, tonight,
late layoff, let him play. Look, it's Cleveland and Detroit, Okay,
everybody expects to be physical. Lay off the fouls, don't
don't keep sending guys to the free throw liner. Right,
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Let's have tonight be one of those nights. Great, thanks so.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Far, a total of thirty eight free throws, twenty three
for the visiting Cavaliers, seventeen falls for the Pistons against
ten just ten falls for the Caves.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Now, I'm gonna say this because obviously, whoever wins this
game huge leg up, one win away from winning the series. Yes,
if it's Detroit, Cleveland goes home with a chance to
send it to seven games. If it's Cleveland, wow, Detroit. Eventually,
they're gonna run out of steam at some point. But
you know, you ask me here, like, Okay, who am
I rooting for? Right? Who am I rooting four in
the series? Because the beginning of the playoffs, I would
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have told you I don't want to see the Pistons
at all. I want to see the Pistons zero percent.
Because watching the regular season the way it went, you
saw who played well contender wise against each other. Right,
the Knicks played well against the Celtics, did not play
well against the Pistons. Celtics and the Pistons were different.
The Knicks played well against the Spurs, they did not
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play well against the Thunder. The Spurs played well. So
you see where the matchups go going into the play
I would say you know what, I wanted zero part
of the Pistons. Right They're young, they're deep, they already
lost to them last year in the playoffs. This is
going to be a hunger thing for them. Right now.
I don't care who we play. The Knicks are going
to the finals. They have a great match against the
Cavaliers right another series with James Harden trying to carry
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the load and Unobi looks like he's coming back. That
was the big news today that the Knicks are going
to get him back for the next round. I don't
see the Cavaliers even putting up a fight against the
Knicks in the next round, just because the matchup is
so good. Now, okay, what about Detroit. I'd love to
play Detroit because you know what, they look like they're
running out of gas. I mean, when you get to
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the end of the last round, beginning of this round,
where they were still winning games and they weren't playing
great basketball, it was, okay, this is what good teams do.
They find a way. Cad Cunningham was finding a way
to drag the team across the finish line to win
the series against Orlando, to get the two nothing lead
in this one, even though they weren't shooting well. But now, okay,
we're deep into the series now and it's best of three,
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and still the Pistons are not playing nearly to the
level they were at during the season. They just look
to me like a team that's running out of gas.
And I will take that running out of gas team
in the Eastern Conference Finals all the way through. I
am not scared of either of these teams, and I
will be really surprised if it's not the Knicks in
the finals, regardless as to who they play.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, watching look, styles, make fights, all those cliches that
we can throw out in best of seven series. Will
the Knicks offense continue to operate as it has? Pistons
hung their hat on playing great defense all year, not
a great offensive team. Nobody's ever declared them that it's
Cade Cunningham. And then you're hoping one or two guys
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find a little bit of lightning in the bottle on
a night to night basis as that number two, number
three score, and it's just an aggregate team effort. But
it's all predicated on playing good defense. With the Knicks. Yeah,
they played better defensive late, and some of that we
go back if you want to go into the full
metrics of the final month of the year. You got
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a bunch of teams going, how do we get to
the top five?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We lose?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
OK?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So you know and like the Lakers fifteen and two
runs same thing. How many Eastern Conference teams were you
playing that they got nothing, they got no skin in
the game? Or Western Conference also rans all that to say?
You know, Mark Wise, he's in with us at the
news desk today and he goes, all right, little lead
for the good guys, as he before he went in
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to do his top of the hour update, I go,
they're no good guys here until they play the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
No, no, no, no, no, they're all the bad guys. They're
all the bad guys. The Knicks are the good guys.
The Knicks are holding the bleeping NBA playoffs up like
Atlas holding up the world. You want Oklahoma City and
Cleveland in the NBA finals again, but they, like Atlas,
they'd still be playing. We don't we don't need to
be right, well, we don't don't need to play. What
do you want? The only thing I got right now
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with the Knicks is Karl Anthony Town.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you want I'll give you sixty thousand dollars if
you pulled the scene a WrestleMania batch. Okay, bitch is
about half of earthy. He ain't ain't paying sixty four.
That's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. But but I
got sixty thousand for you now in cash.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So maybe other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
People all have that cash. Oh yeah, yeah for a
card like that. Yeah there's other cards, but and other
buyers that will swoop in if nothing else. Just to say,
it might be another guy on an opposing team, might
be you know, Kate Cunningham, or or it could be
James Hardenson. I'm going to frustrate the hell out of
him by buying this card out from Hundering.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But the Knicks are here to save the playoffs. You're
looking at a ninal four of Oklahoma City San Antonio
right now. Cleveland has the lead, eighty four to eighty
Cleveland or Detroit and the Knicks. Who's there to save
the playoffs? The Knicks. The Knicks are there to save
the playoffs. Love them, hate them, and everybody loves them.
They're America's team. Everybody loves them. What they're They're the
little engine that could. I mean, look, I mean they
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don't get in.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
New York with a lot of little press, and they
over and celebrity road that gets more time than you
don't than the actual playing time for the game.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You really don't understand how much it is to overcome
the pressures of winning in New York. Like they are
really a success story when you think about it, I
mean you really want to dive into it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
They're not to overcome those fifty three years if utili.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Ah, they're not some big sentinel or hey, I'm a
big protector, a big glactus showing up.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
What did you think of the celen Sentinel? Is any
good the void? Bob?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I know the Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs.
They're going to save the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So are they going to come out to the Flash
Gordon theme song when they're going in the layup line?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Nicks?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Ah, Freddy's not with us. He might have commissioned a reboot.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think we could AI that.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think I'm sure you can send some money up,
although this is no AI here on on Fox Sports
radio and radio app. Yeah, well, as long as you're
not human, Yeah, it's not as long as not making
money on it, like you could do that for a
fun little thing. I think, right, Nix, we are a
profit profit profitable uh operation he.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There you go. I like the Dana White AI line
because now he's doing a lot of stuff with A.
You know, this is in advance of the big Ronda
Rousey Gina Carno this weekend and they talked about AI
and everything. He says. He was hey, and he said
something to the effect of, hey, you I got people
working on the A. I'm not doing that myself in
my basement, like AI is okay, because I have people
(23:54):
working AI. I have actual people that I'm employed that
are using the artificial intel.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And then he proceeded to avis all the people that
have helped build his business and made him a billionaire
by saying they're useless and they've never done anything. So
data White not exactly the best of moments for him.
We're not cutting jobs. I have people working on the Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, well yeah, okay in theory, yeah, but it's not
like I'm taking one job out and replacing it with
one job and it's still a zero something. That's not
really the case. There you go.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Anyway, the knicks are are currently in hibernation about the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's what this series is all about. You know who
I feel like now, Honestly, mis are off tonight. I
feel like what am I telling you about? Yankee fans
Like Yankee fans, especially like my dad. Yankee fans feel
like the Yankees are the only team in Major League
Baseball and everybody else exists. So the Yankees have teams
(24:48):
to play, right, That's the only reason the other teams
that right, But that's where the Knicks are right now, Like, really,
the rest of the NBA exists. Who's gonna play the
Knicks in the next round of the playoffs? Who's who's
gonna play it? Oklahoma City in the Knicks. Okay, let's see.
Let's see. Let's see if SGA gets the free throw
line as often as he likes to against the Knicks
in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, I ain't worried about fire on you. Yeah no,
I mean, look, that's why he's living up now, because
he don't, because he knows that he's getting galou lead
and taking out at the knees.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Sporting the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm living it up on
top right now, living it up on top. I got
I got a lot off days, man, I.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Remember the time below gaps getting longer and longer, those
springtimes get shorter in eighties.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Down, baby, you want you want to eighties? Don't let
her go back. You know who loves the fact that
the knicks are off every day? My wife? Because I like,
what do you want to do to?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Whatever you want? I don't have to worry about being
locked in today. The knicks are gonna be off for
a week. We're good. What do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This wouldn't be starting going nearly five o'clock anyway, You like,
it's a noontime, no no start? She know, no, damn,
I mean it's an early start.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Today. I can't do any.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Of the laundry or the lawn work, and that trash
that's just sitting there with the flies.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
He knows what time the game start. She just knows
that during the day. You're only gonna get so much
out of me, because mentally I'm locked in on the
next Did you run? I said Tom with an M.
He I mean that that's it. I mean, that's uh,
that's that's what you're gonna get from me. Like maybe
we could do one little errand maybe we could do.
But like if you think we're gonna go have lunch
(26:19):
and go to Costco and then go to Trader Joe, Like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
that's too much. But the game's not for the five hours.
I know, but I'm locked in. I'm locked in on
the next nowadays, like, hey, what do you want to do?
Let's go what do you want to do? Let's go
to Trader Joe's. Let's queez in Costco, Let's go to Target.
Let let let let's get everything. What do you want
to do? Let's go get a car washed. We can
go do that to say, yeah, let's call I got time, man,
I got a week.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
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Speaker 1 (26:49):
Now, whenever I hear the DA I think of the
Titans schedule. Lease, was it last year or two years
ago where they asked the people on the street, Hey,
what logo is this team?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, man on the street thing? Then they would say,
you know, week one, who's this? They got the Miami
Floridians and then they would show the Dolphins logan here
and it was hysterical, like you knew it was coming
every single time. Right, who's that team?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh, oh, that's uh that that's absolutely the Cowboys. It's
absolutely the Cowboys. And then you hear the and it
would be the Colts logo. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I feel like I want to walk around with a
group of musicians and then just bust that out as
I encountered different people on the street.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That would be fun. That's the Oh that's the Seahawks. Yeah, Seahawks, absolutely, Seahawks. Yeah,
Atlanta Falcons. Right. I mean, at least every time I
hear that sting, I think about the Titans fans. But yes,
NFL schedule release day is here, and everybody's checking what
(27:55):
they've seen. All right, are you're going through? Okay, we'll
win this game, we'll lose this game. Oh, we're going
twelve and five. We're going to the playoffs. W Are
we doing all to seventy two tonight? Yeah, we're ranking
them all one through two seventy two. That's what we're
doing today.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
No way, I got my markers pens out.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's got that out. We're not going to do it
but just think about that, like, does anybody do that?
Rank one? When the scheduling comes out, we're gonna rank
how good the game is, how desirable it is of
a game to watch, what the stakes are likely going
to be, and we rank them from one to two
seventy two.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Give me enough energy drinks? I can add that done
by tomorrow night show?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
How many of those how many of the games between
two point fifty and two seventy two would involve the Jets?
How many?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, there are those five teams that have no primetime games,
which tells you exactly what the NFL thinks that because
that gives you a zero primetime game, which means they
don't even think you're worthy of a Thursday night football.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You know, because you know there's people that say, listen,
I don't think everybody should vote when it comes to elections,
because if you're not fair, why should I vote? Where
If I spend a lot of time looking at the issues,
and I vote with a conscience, and I vote I
actually did some work you pay tag, why should all
those things? Should my vote count as much as someone
who has no idea what they're doing and is randomly
you know, as I say, it's the same thing, like, well,
(29:07):
should everybody be on on on prime time?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Not everybody needs a primetime game. Not No, not everything.
I don't want to do it. I don't want to
see it. No, you don't need to have that. We
don't need that.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's like when pictures were hitting, a lot of them
didn't want to do it. Don't you need to see them?
Way at the three balls, they're just standing there with
the bat on their shoulder. The worst is when they
would have them in the All Star Game. Why is
the picture batting in the All Star Game? National League Park.
We've got to be be beholden to the arcade rules.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Come on, man, But what we're gonna do tonight part
of what we're gonna obviously there's big games to break down,
which well we'll get to the games coming up in
a couple of minutes. But you're probably one of the
best things you can do today, right and you'll be honest,
this is positivity Thursday. It's all listen because you know
the knicks are off. We need something and the NBA.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Is so important right now in this round of the
playoffs that they scheduled zero games for today, the extra
day off for the Tea Wolves and the Spurs so
they can play a doubleheader on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now, there is a really big takeaway from what you
just said, which we'll get There is a big takeaway
from that. But the most fun thing you can do
today is what Because every team now knows we can't
mail it in when we come to our schedule releases,
we have to do something. We have to go for
it right. And that's why I love everything that the
(30:30):
teams do, even if some of them are terrible, because
we're still going out there. We're not just mailing it in.
We're not just hey, here are the games, here's the schedule.
It's what you want to know. Anyway, No, do something fun, right.
It's a fun day for the fans, right, and that's
a fun thing. So watching all the releases, we're gonna
give you the official grades, the best and the worst
(30:52):
of the schedule releases. Okay, and what makes a good
schedule release, Well, you gotta make me laugh. It's gotta
be fun. It's got to be entertaining. I like the
hidden messages or having to have a repeat viewing of it,
Like it's a really layered movie where oh I didn't
get that joke the first time, but but I got
it the second time. I got here, I got this.
So there's different things, but sometimes just what hits you right, like, Oh,
(31:14):
it hit you. I like that. Ah you know what
that was? Just okay? Ah you know yeah, no, no,
A So I gotta say we'll do a couple right
now because it gave me my biggest laugh, because it
gave me my biggest last and the whole thing was funny,
but it gave me my biggest laugh. Getting an A plus,
and I don't have many A pluses, I'm gonna give out, Okay,
(31:36):
the big of the A plus the Colts, because the
Colts went through the entire release with the Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
No I was, I was well done. Well, all of
those moments from so many years.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, all these different scenes from the Simpsons that they're
putting in has to do with whatever team they're playing
that week. Homer does says something does something right off
the jump. Yeah, oh sure. But the best because when
it gets to week eighteen and it says week eighteen
the Browns, and it's a scene where Homer's in the
stands at a sporting event, and everybody's quiet, and it
(32:09):
just says week sixteen Browns and it just sounds and
then you Homer stands up and you just hear boring.
That was a nice punctuation mark. Absolutely was the best one.
I could watch that over and over, obviously being the Simpsons.
How are you gonna how You're gonna go wrong with that?
But I don't know that I'm giving out another RG
(32:30):
We'll starting to show with the bank. I don't know
that I'm giving out another RA plus. But that moment
where you just in a game and you hear nothing.
You see week sixteen at Browns and just boring, and
then they go to week seventeen, we just cut right
off it and go do it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
No, there's something to be said for let's let's go
where we know we have the popularity, get the rights
and build it in. I find it funny that all
of them end up by saying, hey, head to Ticketmaster,
the official ticketing partner.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, oh you'r a NFL some of that, Yes, I
mean you got to take care of some business. Can't
just be all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie the uh low Steelers
present on was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That was good. See because now now here's the thing
is that this is why this is so more in
negro euro. I'm gonna give this Steelers an a minus.
The entire presentation, I believe, is in Spanish. It's like
the credits for a Spanish Western UH. And they're showing
all the players who are gonna be playing this year,
and everything is in Spanish, and you see the tag
as low Steelers, and you and I are watching it,
(33:29):
We're going, is there an English or is this it? Like? No,
I think this is it And it's the old cp
A tone from the seventies, and and you I don't
know what anybody is saying and how they're you know,
some of the words I get because I took Spanish
in high school. I was really good at it, but
some I don't understand. Okay, here's Jalen Warren, here's DK Metcalf.
So I kind of dig that. I'm gonna give the
Steelers an ami. We started the big grades. First, big grades. First,
(33:52):
we started with positivity, A plus for the Colts, a
minus for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Pretty good and the Steelers. Then they had another video
UH in English with Billy Gardell walking as a security guard,
kind of wandering around.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So then so you got so the fact that the
Espanol that's kind of the grindhouse of schedule releases because
we got two movies for the price of we got
double up, we got Death Proof and Planet Terror. Okay
a nice.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, so that's a nice little win. Roma Don Jay
as as Bob Ross. Yeah, see solid. See here's the thing,
and here's the thing. I liked it, and it's not
and it's and and I feel I feel bad. But
it's gonna be a rough night for you because you
have the toughest schedule in the end.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
No, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But it traveled the fewest miles again, so that's good.
In the last couple of years, more penalties have been
called on opponents than any other team, uh in the NFL,
So that that's good.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I'm gonna give the Bears a C because I love
the premise. Roma Dunesday is Bob Ross. He's got the
all the hair and he's doing the happy little clouds
and it's pretty cool. But after the first like thirty seconds,
we're drawing up, you know, we're drawing this cloud is
white right here, that you know, we Cobody says, we're
gonna have here best. Here's some cats down here, and okay.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A week for if we screw up air, we could
we could take it into a jet, but they're going
out out of order for the game. I know it
was all over it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So that's why I'm like, okay, And after the first
thirty seconds, I'm like, okay, I need something more than this.
I'm a little bored right now. I'd mean, it looked good.
They put a lot of work into way to put it,
but I was a little boards. I'm gonna I'm gonna
give the bear. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It was just something a little different because you don't
really see a lot of Roma. Dunza as the marketing
center for the guy a little bit, you know, and
against the grain there and I will.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Tell you this, we are ahead of the curve for
this take right, How long right? How long until hey?
Radio team and I have people in mind? How long
until it's gonna be? Hey? How do you not have
Caleb Williams? He's your guy? How do you not have
him as Bob Ross doing that? Caleb Williams? Do they
still like him? Do his teammates like him. Is he
(36:00):
still as good as we think he is? How do
you not have Kayle could have done it.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
To get designs on his fingernails of the schedule release.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
If he's the painter, he's already got his fingernails painting.
Why was he not there? Did he not show up
eight seven seven ninety nine? Did he say he didn't
want to do it? There's problems in Chicago because you
had you had problems, man, you got problems now.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Either that or he's working too hard in the lab
to get that much better. I think I think the
DJ More interception killed him, and now who knows, probably
have to trade him before the season start.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Could end up terribly. You have to get about it
to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
One that I wish they had gone against the grain
as we watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the whole
bay watch thing. Yeah, but it was just a weak excuse,
like a preyser had actually kept his shirt on. I
would have been more impressed, like if he was in
a three piece suit. Yeah, while everybody else was running
around the beaches doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Tampa Bay does a Tampa Bay bay watch and it's
Baker Mayfields. In the very beginning, he's the the Charlie's Angels. Charlie. Yeah,
I'm giving you the assignment while I'm holding a baby. Uh.
And in some of it it's fun.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
A couple of the linemen and they're getting ash and
they look good.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
The same camera works from I'm gonna give that a
B minus.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Well, I raise it up to a bee just because
you used the theme song, which meant we were able
to play it at full volume.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That's true. Yeah, but that's it. You're in after after
the kid from the Falcons is flying the kite and
and he walks over and cuts the That was that
was the peak. That was the highlight for us. You
know what, honestly, I could have used more slow motion.
That's a f like not not to you know, run around. Yeah,
(37:35):
but but for the esthetics, I think you needed that
a little bit. I think you needed some slow motion there.
So in order, so far Colts plus Steelers A minus
Bears get to see B minus for the bucks. If
you want to be nice, if you're one of those
greater and this is why, see this goes against your
(37:57):
grain because you don't want to if you were a teacher.
You wouldn't curve grades at all. If the kid came
to you would say, no, you got a seventy nine.
That's a seventy nine. No, I'm sorry. The highest kid,
the kid in the kid in the class of the
highest grade was in eighty four. Eighty four is his
grade to Okay, not rounding that up to one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yet, No, I just give it a bee because they no, No,
you gave it a B minus. Yeah, I give it
a B because the song made me smile. God, But
is it that simple with the song for you? Is
it that simple?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I mean, look, there's there's only one A plus plus plus.
We know what team that is. Yeah, okay, win every year? Yeah, okay,
But I mean but what you mentioned the Titans again.
They did the Man on the Street.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Oh that that's the uh,
that's the the the the new New Brunswick, New Brunswick,
New Bruns that's all. That's the Argonauts, that's the argonauts.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But they but they used the fox by going hey,
is that are you?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
And then it was let's match up. Alright, you know
a guy who was bald and walking around, are you big?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Dumb, Hey, are you big domb
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, boy, I tell you this NBA playoff stress. I
don't know why so many people. I mean, this stress
that goes on like every day. I'm like, oh, people
are nervous.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
You've regrown some hair, lost another five pounds. My life's
been good for you. It's it's the good way because
you're not stress eating now, you just chilling and hanging out, celebrating.
I mean, although you had to feel bad for Karl
Anthony Towns as he lost out on that really cool
Randy Orton WrestleMania patch.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He did gay that was pretty good. There's your Knicks
News of the day right there. Yeah, Karl Anthony Town's
nearly won that Randy Orton.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
He had some time because he didn't have to practice
quite as hard because they're sitting on their asses for
a bit. So he was live bidding a big wrestling
card that had a patch from last year's WrestleMania, and
he lost and that made national news.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That was good. Now, Frostburg, how about you? Are you
feeling stressed? Not even a little dude really getting Luca
back for game five? Oh he has been cleared. Were good?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
God, it's good. I mean, he said a lot of
a lot of great thanks going release the MRI. I
think that was the summary statement after Luca finished talking
to the media yesterday. It's like there's things on the MRI.
There's like release the MRI again, don't don't release the MRI.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I go to Spain. Man, don't go to Spain. I
told we told you Spain is bad. You want to
get well, don't go to Spain.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
According to the interwebs, though, it tells me that it's
a burgeoning plays for all sorts of medical procedures where
you can save money but also get affective treatment. Okay,
I would say. Evan didn't sit the contrary.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, good old Luka Dutch. All right, there we go.
He looked good on the front road.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
He did no, he looked like if and when he
did that travel move, it was like straight out of
a seventies disco.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
If you want to go to Spain and and and
then come back and look okay, great, But if you
look great, if you want to come back from Spain
and play basketball. You know how many points he's gonna
drop in Game five? Dude, I think they can. He's
gonna look back. I listen. I don't think the thunder
are gonna win another game this series. Yeah, but here's
the question. Rest or rust, Frostburg, rest or rust, none
(02:35):
of the above. Oh, we got more of the Lakers
and the day after the post morning for them coming
up in a few minutes. But right now, we are
nearing the end of the third quarter and San Antonio
is thumping Minnesota right now, ninety to seventy three.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Escal quick game.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Look Wemby doing most of his damage in the first quarter,
but the night he is having tonight twenty four points
for thirteen rebounds, four assists, two blocks, most of his
damage in the first quarter when they got out to
a big lead. But oh he was well rested after
getting ejected. Yeah, you got Johnson off the bench for sixteen. Right,
Fox has fourteen, Castle with thirteen. This has been a
(03:14):
This has been a typical San Antonio Spurs basketball game.
And you look, we're going to the fourth quarter at
ninety one seventy three. It looks like it's gonna be
a Spurs three to two lead going back to Minnesota.
But the thing is watching Wemby and and I'm I'm
ready to fully take the blame for Wemby getting suspended
because what did I say, Hey, I like the pissed
Wemby right, Like then the pisted Wemby comes back, Okay, man, Yeah,
(03:36):
he's got he's got an edge to him. Well, he
got an edge and he got kicked out, So I'll
wear that that was on me.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But like, oh, I mean it only cost him the
rest of that game because the NBA didn't bother to,
you know, and judicate things with any level of excitement.
I mean again, we talked about it yesterday of hey,
if he'd actually thrown that elbow with about a minute
left in the first half or on the other side
of the break, yeah, is it a different animal. And
I still question whether Adam Silver would have had the
(04:02):
stones to suspend him. But here he is coming out
like a house of fire. Adam Silver would have said,
please don't make it not the first minute of the
third quarter. That's half the game, but kind of it's
in the first half and they lost. I could get
away with not suspending it, but now I can't because
it's the third quarter. But had he played more than
fourteen or fifteen minutes, because he averages twenty nine minutes
a game, I mean, once you get past that, is
(04:23):
that the threshold?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I mean I don't know, but I mean, forget about stats,
forget about numbers. You know, you get inundated with them
all the time. It's again, we've talked about this is
the year that Victor Wembinyama becomes the best player in
the NBA. And all you have to do is watch
him just just for like three offensive sets, and you
(04:44):
just say, what am I supposed to do with that? Defensively?
How am I supposed to do anything? I mean, sometimes
I go, I don't know how the Spurs lose a
game when Wemby can back somebody down and then everybody draws,
they kick it to they kick it to a guy
that's opened for a three. The defense just just frantically
tries to close. Wemby comes back out behind the three
point line, gets it, and of course hits it over
(05:06):
whoever's on him defensively, and you go, what are you
supposed to do with that? I mean, what are you
supposed to do with that? The guy? I mean, really
his skill level, Like we talk about Yan as well,
we never saw someone like Giannis. Yeah, Wemby makes Giannis
look like a shooting guard. That yeahs a guy who's
gonna score twenty a game like that. That's that's what
Wemby has done. And that's where we're at right now,
where it's that switch is getting flipper going yep yep.
(05:28):
Now you know who the best player in the NBA? Oh,
we know he's the most watchable.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Whether he's the best or not, we can still always
have that fight, right because he ain't win an MVP.
Henry Shammitt may be the most watchable player in the NBA. Well,
I think Dylan Brooks because you were waiting for him
to come off the front row and create a w
DWE like event last night. But you know, Sga still
has his his.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Hand up going.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Even when I'm not having a good game, I can
still make things happen. And we've seen Wembin Yama at
times where the offensive games has had an issue and
then certainly you get yourself thrown out uh defending yourself.
As as his coach, nothing happened to his coach for
saying that, basically saying, yeah, take the guy out at
(06:13):
the neck.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But watching this game, I mean, they dominated the points
in the paint, came out obviously still ticked off.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Like I told you as we were waiting to come
on air, It's like if I were with the team Wolves,
I would have been bodying him up every every chance
I got, at least early on to see if you
can do it again, much like they took Yokic off
his game in the first series. But when when he's
on and this thing's cooking and you talk about the
youthful squad that's around him, right, ke Kelton Johnson's been
(06:43):
in in the league a minute, sixth man and making
making hay uh over over time and having a big
game here that they're they're just getting started, like that's
the fun thing. But you know, we we wait on
the matchup against the Thunder, assuming they they finished this
series off and seeing when Benyamba take that next step
and everybody getting to see him, because that was one
(07:06):
of the keys as we were like, Hey, what.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Channel is it on? Is it on Peacock? No?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
No, no, it's actually on local NBC. It's actually on
the big network. So people get to see Victor at
work today.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we'll have more on this game. Again, we're just
starting the fourth quarter. Spurs te Wolves t Wolves ending
the third quarter on a thirty to twelve run, So again,
barring a big collapse, looks like they'll be up three
to two going to Game six. Meanwhile, today has been
a big day for Lebron James and I cannot believe.
Like I love my media brethren, some of them, but
(07:40):
when I see the overwhelming the overwhelming story being is
Lebron's era with the Lakers a successor of failure? And
I want to say, Okay, there's a time for that conversation,
but do you really think he's not coming back next year?
Where the hell else is the guy gonna go? I mean,
we talked about it last night. He has shown I
can assume I'm oka being the number three guy. I'm
(08:02):
okay filling a lot of different roles. You saw the
way the team was playing when it was the big
three there and Luca was healthy the last twenty five
games of the season. Yes, you're gonna lose to the
thunder when you don't have Luka Doncic to one of
the top three players in the NBA, it's going to happen.
But all of a sudden, the goo the lebron era
is over. I mean, where else is he going to go?
I mean where else is he going? At this point
in Cleveland may say, yeah, you think we're pretty good
(08:24):
without you. We're two two with the Pistons. We're feeling
pretty good. Where else is he going to go? Now?
Unless he does something crazy like demand fifty million dollars,
the Lakers are gonna say, okay, well then you're gonna go.
But like, as long as he is okay with taking
a little bit less money so they can improve their roster.
Because you heard some of the comments today coming off
of the Lakers moratorium, at one unnamed player saying, we
just don't have the overall talent. As long as the
(08:47):
Lakers have money to go out and get the couple
of players they need. A three and D player, another
guy to run up and down the floor, another big
Like the Lakers will be a championship team next year
and Lebron is coming back. He's not gonna go throw
cast in his lot with another team that maybe he
doesn't know how they're gonna play, or maybe they're a contender,
maybe they're not. The Only other place he can go
is home. The only other place he can go and
if he doesn't win put a cherry on top of
(09:09):
his NBA career is Cleveland. And I don't know that
that's a mix for either of them. At this point.
He's shown that as much as I don't like being
the number three guy, I'm okay with that. At this point,
I can still shine. He still was enough to single
handedly get the Lakers past the Rockets. Like, I don't know,
how do people think? Why do people think it's over?
The Lebron era is gonna continue for at least another year.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
In La Jason, the show is today, Okay, the column
is today. The season ended last night, which means what's
evaluated for what it is right now, that's all they're
doing because then they get to do it. It's like
when you're saying, hey, this guy should retire, and he
comes back the next year and plays well, then he's
too old and he should retire. We've done it with Lebron,
(09:50):
We've done it with so many other guys across our
sporting universe. And you know which members of our sports
brethren have done that? Like you get you have to
say it when the day is up in the season,
finishes that.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All right, let's evaluate so many things to say. Why
are we saying it's the end of the okay? Really
is do you know? Do you know that he's not
coming back? Like I like, I've not heard any of that,
Like if you have that, that'd be awesome, like I'd
love to hear.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
So no, no, no, I'm not breaking that news. This is
all just a theoretical what do we got after X
number of years? Because you had all the data now
you just needed to add the final data from this
box score and you were done right. It was a nice,
easy column. It was a nice two minute video clip
or thirty second appearance on the sports talker this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's that's all it is. It's an easy conversation.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
In the bigger part is what's next, And you're trying
to evaluate that because really, the only place that it
makes complete sense is, as you say, stay in Los
Angeles and they've got a lot of decisions, and we
chronicled it last night. You can go to the full
podcast for all of that, but just to put it
in in as succinct terms, You've got Hachimura, you got Canard,
(11:00):
you got Austin.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Reeves, you got a lot of guys.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
You gotta figure out what the hell you're doing with
him in terms of reconstituting this roster, and from Lebron James,
he's got to look inward and it's easy to say, hey,
he accepted being the third guy. Problem is he didn't
have to do that very often because these guys weren't
in the lineup right. He had to be the guy,
so all of a sudden he got to put on
the cape, put on the crown and say, hey, I'm
(11:23):
the gig. You used to have to bow to my
knee because none.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Of these guys are available to play.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
That guy's in a sweater while you're that guy's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
So mad, You're angry? Why are you so mass man?
Why are you so mad?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was just impersonating Lebron James and say hey, I'm
still in charge here next year if those guys are healthy,
and what's to say that they are. If those guys
are healthy, is he suddenly happy in game fifty five?
If he's legitimately the third guy and really has to
accept that role? Because I know he mentioned that in
his postgame comments and he and he threw that out.
(11:53):
There's like, look at me, I did something I never
had to do. JJ Reddick went and stand for him
his podcast Partner of Old like he had to talk
point that Lebron and Rich Paul gave him, Hey, don't
forget really extole the virtues of how he stepped up
as the third guy.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
For a very limited about it. But here's the thing.
Lebron does like to lose, and he knows that losing
is the worst thing because that's what he's gonna get
blamed for. If it's a choice between hey, I'm the
third guy and I can pick my moments and win,
or be the guy and lose, I'm gonna win because
I'm not losing as a thing. What do you who
hurt you? What did I say? What did you to her?
Woke up and shows violence today? What are you talking about?
(12:31):
What's your problem to quote the Great Lucius Washington. Don't
put that you may have to put up with.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
May have your problem. Now send me to the Knicks.
Maybe he's part of that Steve Kerr rebuilding Warriors squad
at a smaller rate. He gets to hang out with
Draymond Green. That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Frostburg, You just wait for the joint press conference where
both lebron and and Bryce all gets signed to the
same three year contracts. You just looking forward to the
Yo kitchen. The honest one myself.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Wait which which series does he announce that he's coming
back though, because it don't happen before the fire, I.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Don't know where. There's no other place for him. There
is no other place, like it's a marriage of convenience.
The Lakers can play a little hard ball as long
as he's saying, hey, money, because he's not gonna get
that money from anywhere else. So it's not like, well,
if you don't give me somebody else's there's.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
A lot of dumb teams out there to put asses
in seats.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Hey, he's just gonna go, but he's not gonna sign there.
It doesn't know they's not gonna sign, so he's not
gonna go play in Sacramento. If they even they could
give him five hundred million dollars. He's not going to
play in Sacramento. He's coming back to the Lakers beyond
the Kings. Come on, it's a perfect end.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, we jump right in Game five of the Eastern
Conference Semis Playoff. Stress Man, these teams keep having, oh
my goodness, all this every single day. Late in the
third quarter, Yes, this game's gonna end late, three minutes
to go. Piston's holding on to a seventy seven, seventy
three lead over Cleveland. So far, it's been a big
(14:18):
night for Kate Cunningham. He's got twenty nine finally have
a nighty shooting well. And for the Cavaliers. Okay, okay, say, okay, okay.
We're only through three quarters and I know he's gonna
turn back into the other playoff Harden. James Harden's having
a big night. Twenty two points, three assists, three turnovers.
I've said, I just throw the turnovers in there, because
(14:39):
you're a hateful individual. Play twenty eight minutes. Okay, no,
come on, okay, well we got the fourth quarter and
just this is the time, and this is the time
in James Harden's career, whether he was twenty two, twenty five,
twenty seven, or thirty seven, where a seven end of
the second round, end of the round, into the second round,
end of the second round, this is where I play
really well. But then I got really tired in the
(15:01):
fourth quarter. So I'm just saying James Harden is playing well.
The first two games, playoff. Harden, last two games, played
really well. Tonight so far, really well, got the fourth
quarter to go. But I'm giving him credit. Give him
the credit. I'm not gonna be that guy said, Oh no,
he's either you as.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
A good three week period. Suddenly you're the chestiest guy
in the world.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are that guy. But I'm saying Harden is playing well,
He's playing well so far.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Guy, you packed his bag and we're ready to ship
him out of town, literally putting him into a shipping container.
And now all of a sudden, you're the chestiest, haughtiest
guy in the world and you're throwing slings and arrows
on the name of the beer.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
A real question, Yeah, go ahead, you hand him that
angel's hat that he wears. I did not. The one
with the halo on top. Is that's special? Yeah? Yeah,
the halo that that's pretty cool. I like that one.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I had one of those and then it really got
soiled and had to be tossed.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And Harden's kind of got to do it tonight. I'd
give him even more credit for now, more credit for
now because Donovan Mitchell has been missing an action in
this game. He's got ten points, three out of eight
from the floor. Like, I can't believe the game is
this close. If you told me don and Mitchell into
the third quarter ten points, I would say, Oh, this
is gonna be one of those games where the Pistons
are going to the fourth quarter up one oh eight
to sixty four, and the and the Cavaliers are like, yeah,
(16:17):
we're putting it away, get ready to come back in
game set.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Stress with seventeen off the bench, Allen tell Allen, uh,
he's got to pick things up. He's got fourteen. But
with Donovan Mitchell, every time he touched the ball, it's
it's like the raptors coming after you in Jurassic Park.
There's two of them, so it's get the ball out,
and it's been physical like on both sides, and then
that's been the curiosity as to how it'll be called
(16:41):
once we get to the fourth quarter, because they're letting
him beat the hell out.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
They definitely Lartin roughed up a bunch, and Mitchell even
before getting rid of the ball on the double, he's
getting bodied. Conversely, on the other side, you've seen a
lot of it. Cleveland run it out after the jump
shooters and sometimes while they're not in the landing zone,
the fly by with some arm and whatever isn't being called.
We'll see if the final thirteen and a half minutes
(17:05):
are called differently.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is one of those nights where Adam Silver read
the report today that hey, thirteen for what, thirteen percent
more fouls are being called in the playoffs and the
regular season is a big thing. He calls it, Hey, guys, tonight,
late layoff, let him play. Look, it's Cleveland and Detroit, Okay,
everybody expects to be physical. Lay off the fouls, don't
don't keep sending guys to the free throw liner. Right,
(17:27):
Let's have tonight be one of those nights. Great, thanks so.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Far, a total of thirty eight free throws, twenty three
for the visiting Cavaliers, seventeen falls for the Pistons against
ten just ten falls for the Caves.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Now, I'm gonna say this because obviously, whoever wins this
game huge leg up, one win away from winning the series. Yes,
if it's Detroit, Cleveland goes home with a chance to
send it to seven games. If it's Cleveland, wow, Detroit. Eventually,
they're gonna run out of steam at some point. But
you know, you ask me here, like, Okay, who am
I rooting for? Right? Who am I rooting four in
the series? Because the beginning of the playoffs, I would
(18:03):
have told you I don't want to see the Pistons
at all. I want to see the Pistons zero percent.
Because watching the regular season the way it went, you
saw who played well contender wise against each other. Right,
the Knicks played well against the Celtics, did not play
well against the Pistons. Celtics and the Pistons were different.
The Knicks played well against the Spurs, they did not
(18:24):
play well against the Thunder. The Spurs played well. So
you see where the matchups go going into the play
I would say you know what, I wanted zero part
of the Pistons. Right They're young, they're deep, they already
lost to them last year in the playoffs. This is
going to be a hunger thing for them. Right now.
I don't care who we play. The Knicks are going
to the finals. They have a great match against the
Cavaliers right another series with James Harden trying to carry
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the load and Unobi looks like he's coming back. That
was the big news today that the Knicks are going
to get him back for the next round. I don't
see the Cavaliers even putting up a fight against the
Knicks in the next round, just because the matchup is
so good. Now, okay, what about Detroit. I'd love to
play Detroit because you know what, they look like they're
running out of gas. I mean, when you get to
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the end of the last round, beginning of this round,
where they were still winning games and they weren't playing
great basketball, it was, okay, this is what good teams do.
They find a way. Cad Cunningham was finding a way
to drag the team across the finish line to win
the series against Orlando, to get the two nothing lead
in this one, even though they weren't shooting well. But now, okay,
we're deep into the series now and it's best of three,
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and still the Pistons are not playing nearly to the
level they were at during the season. They just look
to me like a team that's running out of gas.
And I will take that running out of gas team
in the Eastern Conference Finals all the way through. I
am not scared of either of these teams, and I
will be really surprised if it's not the Knicks in
the finals, regardless as to who they play.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yeah, watching look, styles, make fights, all those cliches that
we can throw out in best of seven series. Will
the Knicks offense continue to operate as it has? Pistons
hung their hat on playing great defense all year, not
a great offensive team. Nobody's ever declared them that it's
Cade Cunningham. And then you're hoping one or two guys
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find a little bit of lightning in the bottle on
a night to night basis as that number two, number
three score, and it's just an aggregate team effort. But
it's all predicated on playing good defense. With the Knicks. Yeah,
they played better defensive late, and some of that we
go back if you want to go into the full
metrics of the final month of the year. You got
(20:30):
a bunch of teams going, how do we get to
the top five?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
We lose?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
OK?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
So you know and like the Lakers fifteen and two
runs same thing. How many Eastern Conference teams were you
playing that they got nothing, they got no skin in
the game? Or Western Conference also rans all that to say?
You know, Mark Wise, he's in with us at the
news desk today and he goes, all right, little lead
for the good guys, as he before he went in
(20:57):
to do his top of the hour update, I go,
they're no good guys here until they play the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
No, no, no, no, no, they're all the bad guys. They're
all the bad guys. The Knicks are the good guys.
The Knicks are holding the bleeping NBA playoffs up like
Atlas holding up the world. You want Oklahoma City and
Cleveland in the NBA finals again, but they, like Atlas,
they'd still be playing. We don't we don't need to
be right, well, we don't don't need to play. What
do you want? The only thing I got right now
(21:22):
with the Knicks is Karl Anthony Town.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Do you want I'll give you sixty thousand dollars if
you pulled the scene a WrestleMania batch. Okay, bitch is
about half of earthy. He ain't ain't paying sixty four.
That's one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. But but I
got sixty thousand for you now in cash.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
So maybe other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
People all have that cash. Oh yeah, yeah for a
card like that. Yeah there's other cards, but and other
buyers that will swoop in if nothing else. Just to say,
it might be another guy on an opposing team, might
be you know, Kate Cunningham, or or it could be
James Hardenson. I'm going to frustrate the hell out of
him by buying this card out from Hundering.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But the Knicks are here to save the playoffs. You're
looking at a ninal four of Oklahoma City San Antonio
right now. Cleveland has the lead, eighty four to eighty
Cleveland or Detroit and the Knicks. Who's there to save
the playoffs? The Knicks. The Knicks are there to save
the playoffs. Love them, hate them, and everybody loves them.
They're America's team. Everybody loves them. What they're They're the
little engine that could. I mean, look, I mean they
(22:18):
don't get in.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
New York with a lot of little press, and they
over and celebrity road that gets more time than you
don't than the actual playing time for the game.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
You really don't understand how much it is to overcome
the pressures of winning in New York. Like they are
really a success story when you think about it, I
mean you really want to dive into it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
They're not to overcome those fifty three years if utili.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Ah, they're not some big sentinel or hey, I'm a
big protector, a big glactus showing up.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
What did you think of the celen Sentinel? Is any
good the void? Bob?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I know the Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs.
They're going to save the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
So are they going to come out to the Flash
Gordon theme song when they're going in the layup line?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Nicks?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Ah, Freddy's not with us. He might have commissioned a reboot.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I think we could AI that.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I think I'm sure you can send some money up,
although this is no AI here on on Fox Sports
radio and radio app. Yeah, well, as long as you're
not human, Yeah, it's not as long as not making
money on it, like you could do that for a
fun little thing. I think, right, Nix, we are a
profit profit profitable uh operation he.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
There you go. I like the Dana White AI line
because now he's doing a lot of stuff with A.
You know, this is in advance of the big Ronda
Rousey Gina Carno this weekend and they talked about AI
and everything. He says. He was hey, and he said
something to the effect of, hey, you I got people
working on the A. I'm not doing that myself in
my basement, like AI is okay, because I have people
(23:54):
working AI. I have actual people that I'm employed that
are using the artificial intel.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
And then he proceeded to avis all the people that
have helped build his business and made him a billionaire
by saying they're useless and they've never done anything. So
data White not exactly the best of moments for him.
We're not cutting jobs. I have people working on the Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, well yeah, okay in theory, yeah, but it's not
like I'm taking one job out and replacing it with
one job and it's still a zero something. That's not
really the case. There you go.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Anyway, the knicks are are currently in hibernation about the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's what this series is all about. You know who
I feel like now, Honestly, mis are off tonight. I
feel like what am I telling you about? Yankee fans
Like Yankee fans, especially like my dad. Yankee fans feel
like the Yankees are the only team in Major League
Baseball and everybody else exists. So the Yankees have teams
(24:48):
to play, right, That's the only reason the other teams
that right, But that's where the Knicks are right now, Like, really,
the rest of the NBA exists. Who's gonna play the
Knicks in the next round of the playoffs? Who's who's
gonna play it? Oklahoma City in the Knicks. Okay, let's see.
Let's see. Let's see if SGA gets the free throw
line as often as he likes to against the Knicks
in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, I ain't worried about fire on you. Yeah no,
I mean, look, that's why he's living up now, because
he don't, because he knows that he's getting galou lead
and taking out at the knees.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Sporting the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm living it up on
top right now, living it up on top. I got
I got a lot off days, man, I.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Remember the time below gaps getting longer and longer, those
springtimes get shorter in eighties.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Down, baby, you want you want to eighties? Don't let
her go back. You know who loves the fact that
the knicks are off every day? My wife? Because I like,
what do you want to do to?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Whatever you want? I don't have to worry about being
locked in today. The knicks are gonna be off for
a week. We're good. What do you want to do?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
This wouldn't be starting going nearly five o'clock anyway, You like,
it's a noontime, no no start? She know, no, damn,
I mean it's an early start.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Today. I can't do any.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Of the laundry or the lawn work, and that trash
that's just sitting there with the flies.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
He knows what time the game start. She just knows
that during the day. You're only gonna get so much
out of me, because mentally I'm locked in on the
next Did you run? I said Tom with an M.
He I mean that that's it. I mean, that's uh,
that's that's what you're gonna get from me. Like maybe
we could do one little errand maybe we could do.
But like if you think we're gonna go have lunch
(26:19):
and go to Costco and then go to Trader Joe, Like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
that's too much. But the game's not for the five hours.
I know, but I'm locked in. I'm locked in on
the next nowadays, like, hey, what do you want to do?
Let's go what do you want to do? Let's go
to Trader Joe's. Let's queez in Costco, Let's go to Target.
Let let let let's get everything. What do you want
to do? Let's go get a car washed. We can
go do that to say, yeah, let's call I got time, man,
I got a week.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Now, whenever I hear the DA I think of the
Titans schedule. Lease, was it last year or two years
ago where they asked the people on the street, Hey,
what logo is this team?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Yeah, man on the street thing? Then they would say,
you know, week one, who's this? They got the Miami
Floridians and then they would show the Dolphins logan here
and it was hysterical, like you knew it was coming
every single time. Right, who's that team?
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Oh, oh, that's uh that that's absolutely the Cowboys. It's
absolutely the Cowboys. And then you hear the and it
would be the Colts logo. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I feel like I want to walk around with a
group of musicians and then just bust that out as
I encountered different people on the street.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
That would be fun. That's the Oh that's the Seahawks. Yeah, Seahawks, absolutely, Seahawks. Yeah,
Atlanta Falcons. Right. I mean, at least every time I
hear that sting, I think about the Titans fans. But yes,
NFL schedule release day is here, and everybody's checking what
(27:55):
they've seen. All right, are you're going through? Okay, we'll
win this game, we'll lose this game. Oh, we're going
twelve and five. We're going to the playoffs. W Are
we doing all to seventy two tonight? Yeah, we're ranking
them all one through two seventy two. That's what we're
doing today.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
No way, I got my markers pens out.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Let's got that out. We're not going to do it
but just think about that, like, does anybody do that?
Rank one? When the scheduling comes out, we're gonna rank
how good the game is, how desirable it is of
a game to watch, what the stakes are likely going
to be, and we rank them from one to two
seventy two.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Give me enough energy drinks? I can add that done
by tomorrow night show?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
How many of those how many of the games between
two point fifty and two seventy two would involve the Jets?
How many?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, there are those five teams that have no primetime games,
which tells you exactly what the NFL thinks that because
that gives you a zero primetime game, which means they
don't even think you're worthy of a Thursday night football.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You know, because you know there's people that say, listen,
I don't think everybody should vote when it comes to elections,
because if you're not fair, why should I vote? Where
If I spend a lot of time looking at the issues,
and I vote with a conscience, and I vote I
actually did some work you pay tag, why should all
those things? Should my vote count as much as someone
who has no idea what they're doing and is randomly
you know, as I say, it's the same thing, like, well,
(29:07):
should everybody be on on on prime time?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Not everybody needs a primetime game. Not No, not everything.
I don't want to do it. I don't want to
see it. No, you don't need to have that. We
don't need that.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
It's like when pictures were hitting, a lot of them
didn't want to do it. Don't you need to see them?
Way at the three balls, they're just standing there with
the bat on their shoulder. The worst is when they
would have them in the All Star Game. Why is
the picture batting in the All Star Game? National League Park.
We've got to be be beholden to the arcade rules.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Come on, man, But what we're gonna do tonight part
of what we're gonna obviously there's big games to break down,
which well we'll get to the games coming up in
a couple of minutes. But you're probably one of the
best things you can do today, right and you'll be honest,
this is positivity Thursday. It's all listen because you know
the knicks are off. We need something and the NBA.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Is so important right now in this round of the
playoffs that they scheduled zero games for today, the extra
day off for the Tea Wolves and the Spurs so
they can play a doubleheader on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now, there is a really big takeaway from what you
just said, which we'll get There is a big takeaway
from that. But the most fun thing you can do
today is what Because every team now knows we can't
mail it in when we come to our schedule releases,
we have to do something. We have to go for
it right. And that's why I love everything that the
(30:30):
teams do, even if some of them are terrible, because
we're still going out there. We're not just mailing it in.
We're not just hey, here are the games, here's the schedule.
It's what you want to know. Anyway, No, do something fun, right.
It's a fun day for the fans, right, and that's
a fun thing. So watching all the releases, we're gonna
give you the official grades, the best and the worst
(30:52):
of the schedule releases. Okay, and what makes a good
schedule release, Well, you gotta make me laugh. It's gotta
be fun. It's got to be entertaining. I like the
hidden messages or having to have a repeat viewing of it,
Like it's a really layered movie where oh I didn't
get that joke the first time, but but I got
it the second time. I got here, I got this.
So there's different things, but sometimes just what hits you right, like, Oh,
(31:14):
it hit you. I like that. Ah you know what
that was? Just okay? Ah you know yeah, no, no,
A So I gotta say we'll do a couple right
now because it gave me my biggest laugh, because it
gave me my biggest last and the whole thing was funny,
but it gave me my biggest laugh. Getting an A plus,
and I don't have many A pluses, I'm gonna give out, Okay,
(31:36):
the big of the A plus the Colts, because the
Colts went through the entire release with the Simpsons.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
No I was, I was well done. Well, all of
those moments from so many years.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, all these different scenes from the Simpsons that they're
putting in has to do with whatever team they're playing
that week. Homer does says something does something right off
the jump. Yeah, oh sure. But the best because when
it gets to week eighteen and it says week eighteen
the Browns, and it's a scene where Homer's in the
stands at a sporting event, and everybody's quiet, and it
(32:09):
just says week sixteen Browns and it just sounds and
then you Homer stands up and you just hear boring.
That was a nice punctuation mark. Absolutely was the best one.
I could watch that over and over, obviously being the Simpsons.
How are you gonna how You're gonna go wrong with that?
But I don't know that I'm giving out another RG
(32:30):
We'll starting to show with the bank. I don't know
that I'm giving out another RA plus. But that moment
where you just in a game and you hear nothing.
You see week sixteen at Browns and just boring, and
then they go to week seventeen, we just cut right
off it and go do it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
No, there's something to be said for let's let's go
where we know we have the popularity, get the rights
and build it in. I find it funny that all
of them end up by saying, hey, head to Ticketmaster,
the official ticketing partner.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, oh you'r a NFL some of that, Yes, I
mean you got to take care of some business. Can't
just be all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie the uh low Steelers
present on was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
That was good. See because now now here's the thing
is that this is why this is so more in
negro euro. I'm gonna give this Steelers an a minus.
The entire presentation, I believe, is in Spanish. It's like
the credits for a Spanish Western UH. And they're showing
all the players who are gonna be playing this year,
and everything is in Spanish, and you see the tag
as low Steelers, and you and I are watching it,
(33:29):
We're going, is there an English or is this it? Like? No,
I think this is it And it's the old cp
A tone from the seventies, and and you I don't
know what anybody is saying and how they're you know,
some of the words I get because I took Spanish
in high school. I was really good at it, but
some I don't understand. Okay, here's Jalen Warren, here's DK Metcalf.
So I kind of dig that. I'm gonna give the
Steelers an ami. We started the big grades. First, big grades. First,
(33:52):
we started with positivity, A plus for the Colts, a
minus for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Pretty good and the Steelers. Then they had another video
UH in English with Billy Gardell walking as a security guard,
kind of wandering around.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So then so you got so the fact that the
Espanol that's kind of the grindhouse of schedule releases because
we got two movies for the price of we got
double up, we got Death Proof and Planet Terror. Okay
a nice.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Yeah, so that's a nice little win. Roma Don Jay
as as Bob Ross. Yeah, see solid. See here's the thing,
and here's the thing. I liked it, and it's not
and it's and and I feel I feel bad. But
it's gonna be a rough night for you because you
have the toughest schedule in the end.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
No, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
But it traveled the fewest miles again, so that's good.
In the last couple of years, more penalties have been
called on opponents than any other team, uh in the NFL,
So that that's good.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I'm gonna give the Bears a C because I love
the premise. Roma Dunesday is Bob Ross. He's got the
all the hair and he's doing the happy little clouds
and it's pretty cool. But after the first like thirty seconds,
we're drawing up, you know, we're drawing this cloud is
white right here, that you know, we Cobody says, we're
gonna have here best. Here's some cats down here, and okay.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A week for if we screw up air, we could
we could take it into a jet, but they're going
out out of order for the game. I know it
was all over it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
So that's why I'm like, okay, And after the first
thirty seconds, I'm like, okay, I need something more than this.
I'm a little bored right now. I'd mean, it looked good.
They put a lot of work into way to put it,
but I was a little boards. I'm gonna I'm gonna
give the bear. I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It was just something a little different because you don't
really see a lot of Roma. Dunza as the marketing
center for the guy a little bit, you know, and
against the grain there and I will.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Tell you this, we are ahead of the curve for
this take right, How long right? How long until hey?
Radio team and I have people in mind? How long
until it's gonna be? Hey? How do you not have
Caleb Williams? He's your guy? How do you not have
him as Bob Ross doing that? Caleb Williams? Do they
still like him? Do his teammates like him. Is he
(36:00):
still as good as we think he is? How do
you not have Kayle could have done it.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
To get designs on his fingernails of the schedule release.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
If he's the painter, he's already got his fingernails painting.
Why was he not there? Did he not show up
eight seven seven ninety nine? Did he say he didn't
want to do it? There's problems in Chicago because you
had you had problems, man, you got problems now.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Either that or he's working too hard in the lab
to get that much better. I think I think the
DJ More interception killed him, and now who knows, probably
have to trade him before the season start.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Could end up terribly. You have to get about it
to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
One that I wish they had gone against the grain
as we watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the whole
bay watch thing. Yeah, but it was just a weak excuse,
like a preyser had actually kept his shirt on. I
would have been more impressed, like if he was in
a three piece suit. Yeah, while everybody else was running
around the beaches doing what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Tampa Bay does a Tampa Bay bay watch and it's
Baker Mayfields. In the very beginning, he's the the Charlie's Angels. Charlie. Yeah,
I'm giving you the assignment while I'm holding a baby. Uh.
And in some of it it's fun.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
A couple of the linemen and they're getting ash and
they look good.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
The same camera works from I'm gonna give that a
B minus.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Well, I raise it up to a bee just because
you used the theme song, which meant we were able
to play it at full volume.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
That's true. Yeah, but that's it. You're in after after
the kid from the Falcons is flying the kite and
and he walks over and cuts the That was that
was the peak. That was the highlight for us. You
know what, honestly, I could have used more slow motion.
That's a f like not not to you know, run around. Yeah,
(37:35):
but but for the esthetics, I think you needed that
a little bit. I think you needed some slow motion there.
So in order, so far Colts plus Steelers A minus
Bears get to see B minus for the bucks. If
you want to be nice, if you're one of those
greater and this is why, see this goes against your
(37:57):
grain because you don't want to if you were a teacher.
You wouldn't curve grades at all. If the kid came
to you would say, no, you got a seventy nine.
That's a seventy nine. No, I'm sorry. The highest kid,
the kid in the kid in the class of the
highest grade was in eighty four. Eighty four is his
grade to Okay, not rounding that up to one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yet, No, I just give it a bee because they no, No,
you gave it a B minus. Yeah, I give it
a B because the song made me smile. God, But
is it that simple with the song for you? Is
it that simple?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I mean, look, there's there's only one A plus plus plus.
We know what team that is. Yeah, okay, win every year? Yeah, okay,
But I mean but what you mentioned the Titans again.
They did the Man on the Street.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty good. Oh that that's the uh,
that's the the the the new New Brunswick, New Brunswick,
New Bruns that's all. That's the Argonauts, that's the argonauts.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
But they but they used the fox by going hey,
is that are you?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
And then it was let's match up. Alright, you know
a guy who was bald and walking around, are you big?
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Dumb, Hey, are you big domb
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