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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, Jason couldn't be here tonight. His Knicks are up
three to zero and he's in Arizona at the Mets game.
Nix in four, nix in four, nix in four, nix
in four.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They got to clear the benches to my the seventy
six ers on their home court.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You sound pretty good from Arizona.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, I do, well, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You're so clear.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Do a lot of things, man, do a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Frostburg's upset that I'm wearing a Mets T shirt tonight
with the Knicks playing, and I had to explain, Dude,
all my nixs U is in the I gotta wash
tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, for next week. Dude,
you're a winner tonight you're losing. I'm always winning man losing.
I am rolling sevens man. It's so good. The Mets
are actually winning too. I'm worried about Mike's eyes. No,
(01:16):
the orange, the orange gets me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
It's it's still orange. Go New York, Go New York. Goat,
Go New York, Go New York. Goat. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Every time it looked like the Sixers might have a
little bit of fighting to him, Yeah, Joel Embiid would
pull up for the three.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Uh, Jason, you got like one week left to where
Nicks gear? Dude?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No, no, I got a long time dude, prisons an last.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That. Look, the Knicks win tonight one, eight ninety four
over the Sixers, and there's a lot of stuff to
get to. But I'll tell you the two biggest things right,
number one, the biggest one.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's a lot to get you. They're on the door
step of the no Conference finals and the Sixers are
putting up no resist.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No o ghuobi doesn't matter, right, doesn't matter. Jalen Brunson
goes for thirty three Mical Bridges is terrific, But really
it's the Landry Shammitt game, Shanny, how many big shotsd
Landry Shaman Man?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Look, we Shammittt. You go back and look.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
At any series in NBA history, right, any series NBA history,
the team that won, you can look down and say,
the reason they not is because their star goes for
thirty three or one of their you know, one of
their top three guys goes for twenty five. You find
one guy off the bench that is not supposed to
play and have this kind of game, and he has
a game like that, and that tilts the series forever
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in their favor. And Landry shammittt fifteen points off the
bench tonight, five out of six from the floor, made
a huge tree the end of the third quarter, like
it was the Landry Shammitt game. Like you'll look back
at this series when the Knicks win in four, you'll
look back at the series and go, wow, look at
that game three. Where what did they get? They got
fifteen from Landry shammittt off the bench, and that's it again.
It's great to look at you look and say, okay,
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well here's this. Ye oh no, no, so and so
had twenty five off the bench in that game. You
weren't expecting that. Everywhere you want to go, it's the
Landry Shammock game, the Landry Sham.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You keep that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm going cat once again, just doing the dirty work.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Doesn't have to do it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In the scoring column, just eight points on three of
eight shooting, a couple of three point misses, only two
free throw attempts, but twelve board, seven assists.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'll take that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
My big guy is going to be distributing the ball
like that and keep it moving and keep the defense
feet moving. Because again we've talked about this series, not
a lot of depth necessarily when you get down to it,
even though I think every kid in New York's gonna
want that Mitchell Robinson poster go hes sad, Yeah, scared
(03:44):
looking Joel Embiid. That was everything that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That picture of him dunking over Embiid, where Embiid looks
like a guy in a park watching someone play a
game and like the ball is good, is falling coming
into the stands and he's ducking his head so he
doesn't get hit by Yeah, like that's what Mbiid looks like.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It looks like a great shot.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It really is one of my favorite action photos that
we've seen. But we've counted on him. He's back in
the lineup right. Gives you nineteen minutes, six points and
six boards. But yeah, Landry Shammitt, you needed one more
score to be the difference maker. And you watched as
the sixers, as I said, every time it looked like
they were starting to make a little bit of a push,
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and you get it down to seven or five, it
swelled right back out to a double digit league after
a couple of dubious shot selections, some really poor ball handling, right,
just situational awareness of hey, you know the second guy's coming.
They're playing raptor defense on you, and the second guy's
coming from behind, so don't be loose with your dribble.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well look here, here's the look. There's two points. One
is a really fun one. One to do x's and o's.
First is that you can point to a lot of things, right,
Karl Anthony Town's becoming the facilitator, right, not a guy
that needs to twenty four and twelve anymore. The best
version of the Knicks is when the offenses kind of
run through him and seven assists tonight, twelve rebounds. He
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doesn't need to score twenty four a game. They don't
need to make sure we get him going in the post.
They got to make sure he stays out of bleep
in foul trouble, which is becoming a thing for him.
But as you see, they can pick up their scoring
in other places. Right, So you have Karl Anthony Towns
finally has hit the best version of himself. And look
at where the Knicks are defensively the last month of
the season. They really hit their stride. And what are
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they doing here in the playoffs so far? There's not
a lot of room for the Sixers unless you are saying,
here's one of your fourth or fifth best player on
the floor open for a three. That's what the Knicks
are allowing the six You could talk about the Sixers
missing and look, Paul George fifteen points in the first
quarter and scoreless the rest of the way. But you
watch the way the Knicks play defense in the second half,
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and this was we are gonna stop your top three
threats from getting to the hoop when we're not in
transition and we're okay leaving your fourth or fifth best
guy opened for a three, right, And that's the only
open shots the Sixers got.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They couldn't make them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
This is the best version of the Knicks of the
last three years. If they don't go to the finals
this year, it's never going to happen. It's never stop
with that negativity. It's never gonna happen like this is it?
Well be Fistons before first over the Caves. Then it'll
be the Knicks. But if they don't go this year,
they're never gonna go because everything is in line for them. Yes,
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you're gonna play somebody tough in the Eastern Conference finals,
but it's the Pistons. They had trouble in the first round.
They seem to have hit their stride. Uh, this is
why the playoffs they go really weird. And with the
Celtics being knocked out, sometimes the path gets a little
bit easier, right the Nuggets when they won their title,
that everybody had their superstar out like that was one
of the easiest roads to a title you've ever seen.
(06:50):
The best player and every other team was hurt all
the way through. If they don't go this year, I
don't know when they're gonna go, Like this is it
like that all of a sudden, And I'm happy because
what did I say during the season, Boy, maybe the
window was closed because the ascending teams like the Pistons
and the Celtics are still really good. Uh you're seeing
the magic are really or even though they had a
(07:11):
bad record, but like middle of the season, like maybe
the window was shut. But now like this is the
most open it's ever gonna be this year, this moment
in time, right now, they're better than the Sixers. They're
just a better basketball team. They're better everywhere than Philadelphia
and they're showing it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Your nervousness coming into the series, Uh, clearly unfounded.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm still nervous now at three to Oho if anybody
can blow it in.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Celtics falling to the wayside and going down as they
did Jalalen Brown continuing to do interviews and talk about
uh how he was done wrong along the way, but
they they fall off to the side. I mean, look,
a week and a half ago, you wanted to fire everybody.
It was here's Giannis and a Nick's uniform. Who else
can he bring with him? You were trying to figure
(07:56):
out his friend's list. You were trying to find his Facebook, is, Instagram,
close friends list, all of that stuff to decide who
you could start a letter writing campaign. You know you're
you're not a free agent yet, but are you happy
where you are, let me tell you on New York
uh and going through that process. But as it stands
right now, the world your oyster. I mean, you've you've
(08:18):
got Karl Anthony Towns whatever that switches and we talk
about it with guys that are that are A or
B stars right at the one A one b uh
and and having to redefine the rules?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Could we talk about in football all the time?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right? You're a number one wide receiver. Maybe you're slowing
down a little bit. Hey, can you work inside a
little bit more? Are you willing to not be the
number one target?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And extend your career.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You'll still catch eighty eighty footballs, but you're not gonna
do it necessarily with the glory touches that you did
once upon a time.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Are you good with that?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And plenty of wide receivers, no, they're not right, cornerbacks,
et cetera. As the game goes on for NBA players,
it's been that same question.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's why I've think a lot of folks really, if
they were on the fence, which is hard to be
with Lebron James this year, finally might have pushed them over.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I was like, all right, he accepted the number three roll.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Now he didn't have to do it for long because
both those guys got hurt, so he was back to
number one again. But there was something about the way
he changed his game to make the team flow. Same
thing with Karl Anthony Towns here, because in the past
he would have pouted. Right, in the past, you would
have got no effort on defense and you would have
had issues just in terms of him forcing up a
(09:31):
bad shot. Whatever he's bought into, whether it's Hart, whether
it's Brunson, Mike Brown, Timothy shallow May, whoever has Ben
Stiller and his orange tow I don't know who it is.
Whoever got through to him to say, hey, sure's how
this should go and it runs through him. Maybe he's
watching Ted Lasso and talking about Hey, work with Jamie Turk.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know what I mean, go throw go through me Jamie.
And you know the other part of it. Now, to
to widen it out a bit, you mentioned his name.
Notice how nobody has said at any point in the
last few weeks, oh boy, you know, Tibbs might have
been better off.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
They might have bet.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No one is saying that the Knicks are exactly where
they hoped they would be with the hiring of Mike Brown,
because I guarantee you this right, that big blank you,
because that was a huge blank you to the Sixers.
Mike Brown taking everybody out except for Brunson who's at
the free throw line. He's taken everybody out and he
is and he is emptied, like Tyler Kolett got in,
(10:30):
like he was the first guy to check in, Like
that's such a huge blank you. Josh Hart is waving
to the Sixers fans. They're coming out really slow, they're
leaving the court really you could tell there's a lot
of sun on back like that moment, you know, and
then Brunson coming out of the game, and the fans
were really just honking it up because again it was
about split between uh, the Knicks and Sixers fans, which
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we'll get into in a few minutes. But the Knicks
are exactly where they should be. With Mike Brown, he
is coming. It took him longer than expected, right, I
thought it would be. You know, hey, these guys have
been playing together now with Mike Brown, with his system,
commitment to defense, it's gonna be a month or so,
a couple of months, but maybe by the time you
flipped the calendar in the new year, they'll get it.
Took longer, maybe a little bit nervous, but getting closer
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to the end of the season when you saw them
pick it up defensively, the flip. The switch was flipped
in the playoffs. And now is anybody doubting that that
was the right call?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Anybody? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, I'm waiting to text him after a game four,
after game four, I'll text him.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, no, after the next win game four.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, No, this is normally when the win game four. This
is normally when you text coaches when they're on top
of the world, and then it crumbles underneath it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I just have to I just have to make because
Ryan Hollins refused to give me Mike Brown's cell phone number,
which he had the other night. Luckily Justin Frossberg has it.
I didn't know he had. He found it and sent
it to me, So now it's got to wait until
the right moment. Yeah, I mean that was pretty great
that you were able to send it to Yah.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. Hollins goes the other way. I said, what do
you mean other Mike Brown? Like, what other Mike Brown?
Bengals owner Mike Brown.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Is that what it is? Hey, where's the money on
the field?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, so I have Mike brown cell phone number on
my phone. That's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Go New York, Go, New York.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Go. I mean it's Friday night. You might get a
little loose, and then in the late nine hours.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now game four, you get out of this into the finals.
Then then you're in Arizona at the Mets game. You
don't know the next one, no idea. You're still lamenting
that arenat a home run. But yeah, I'll text him, man,
I'll text him. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's just that that time for for New York, that
it's rolled up and it's opened up the door. You
mentioned the Denver run to their title and and how
things had to happen here same thing. Were you afraid
because of the lack of depth? I mean I still
am to a degree. But in the Eastern Conference, you're
you're sitting pretty. You only need seven guys. Robinson and
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the occasional Landry sham Landry Shammit, it's the Landry Shammock game.
Look looking at the fourth quarter shoot shooting grid where
the UH six.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
A zero for Paul George, just no George.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But if you just go and look at their shot chart,
you've got three at point blank range, three of eleven
from three point range, and an awful lot. I mean,
it's a nice coloring page if you want to teach
the kids how to you know, colorad a bubble there.
You had a lot of circles, I think defensively, So
when the Sixers really had to get back in like
watching the Knicks play the end of last year against
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the Pacers, right to go back to a really bad
memory Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals where the
Knicks continually left the Pacers open for threes because the
pace had a lot of guys can shoot threes, and
they kept hitting threes in Game one and threes and Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hits that shot that bounces up, bounces down, does the
choke sign? They win Game one on the road, they
go to the finals. Incredibly painful. That's not happening now.
Like I said, the Knicks are saying, we'll leave your
worst three point shooter open. He's got no choice but
to take that shot.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
They're not allowing They didn't allow Maxi to get to
the hoop. They didn't allow edgecumbe any room. They didn't
allow Paul George. At one point there was just a dude,
just go shoot, you're not making anything. Six of eighteen fift.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Team in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, zero points in the last three quarters. By the way,
just to close the loop, you know, Tom Thibodeau is
rumored to be returning to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, well still, but he's still gonna wear the Knicks.
Uh uh, the jack, the jacket and the yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Present. Yeah, yeah, it looks close enough, right, No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think it's I think what he's got is like
with with the Velcrow, where he could pull the Knicks
patch off and just put the Bulls patch on. Fine, Yeah,
he's still he'll look exactly the same, arms folded. Yeah,
he'll leave all your starters in until there's like a
minute left in the game. But we're up by twenty five,
doesn't matter. Leaving all the guys in, leaving bruntson in coach,
it's okay, you could.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Take no no, no, no, no no, we're gonna leave brunson.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It gonna leave me in the end of the game, okay, okay,
Uh so the Knicks up three zip over the Sixers
Nicks in four h We have more on this game
coming up, including a surprise surprise crazy thing uh from
the Knicks and the Sixers. Meanwhile, Spurs and the Tea
Wolves right now, late in the first quarter and Edwards
(15:05):
has just hit a bucket to cut the Spurs lead
to four twenty three to nineteen. We'll have more on
this game coming up as well. Straight ahead, So more NBA,
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T Wolves up over the Spurs twenty nine twenty seven
early in the second quarter. We'll have more this game
coming up in a bit. This is Creed's hard stuff.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. This was the early days
when Creed was a rock band. Yeah yeah, a metal
rock band. Yeah yeah. Like seeing the video of Alanis
Morissette being like this pop star when she was like
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sixteen or seventeen, and all of a sudden, it's you want.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
To know, You're like, whoa wow, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They also have two hands in their pocket. Ooh, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And the other one is saying nix yo. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Say nix no on one finger. Yeah, I could say
nix with four fingers, nix in four nix wow hockey. Yeah. Well,
well when you're up three, zip justin. When you got
the horses, hockey, You got the horses. If they blow
this lead, you're never gonna see me again.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, I mean, god, you gotta crow about it, excited
about it. You mentioned Paul George repeatedly to really give
you the magnitude of his failure.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You know what is over underd for points was in
the game?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Ooh?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Fifteen and a half? Seventeen and a half?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You had to be feeling awesome at the end of
the first scoring. Yeah, I'm licking bills, man, I'm great. Yeah, no, no, boy,
I wonder what the odds were if you wanted to
live at end of the first quarter the under for
Paul George points, Like, what kind of odds would you?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What's a good?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean, could I get anything you want? One thousand
to one, ten thousand to one fifteen in the first quarter?
All he needed was three more points. The last three quarters.
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here on the road in Philly, win games three on
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eight ninety four, and they've taken a three o lead
in the Eastern Conference semi finals. Knicks Radio Network on
the call, and uh, this is what I wanted to
get into a great call right there, because at this point,
if you're the Sixers disband.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I really thought you were gonna say, because Tyler Kolek
is the guy dribbling out the final seconds of.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Uh, you know, Minixers disband went no, no, no, but
Sixers disband?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Before the series began, Joel Embi, the first thing he
said was, don't let the Knicks fans come to game three.
I'd be more like, okay, dude, let's worry about game one.
In game two first, Madison gard East here, you're worried, right, No, no, no,
let's make sure. Let's make sure. Let's make sure. Hey,
it's like, wait a minute, you're Philadelphia. Come on, man, Philly,
you gotta have some kind of pride. You just beat
the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Come on, man, just stop ped Celtics.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah. At my first day to try to combat this,
all right, I read last night that the Sixers gave
away a couple of five hundred sets of sets of
five hundred tickets to the game to a local area
of benefits businesses, so Knicks fans wouldn't invade the arena
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and it didn't matter to you. Heard that crowd, it
was probably at worst fifty to fifty Knicks and Sixers.
Then at the end it was way more Knicks fans
because Sixers fans left early. I mean it, man, if
you are the Sixers, disband, disband. If you you are
one of the most proud NBA cities in the history
of the game, doctor j Iverson, this is not some
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small market where hey, we have trouble selling out because
we can't sell the NBA here, right. This is not
when the NBA was in Vancouver or someplace else. Yeah,
we don't really know where I tru This is philip Leependelphia, man,
this is one of the This is an organization and
a city that is interwoven into the fabric of the NBA.
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And you can't sell out playoff games and you have
people coming from other cities to come in, especially Knicks fans,
and you go to all these different lengths to try
to keep the tickets out of Knicks fans hands. And
this is what you get tonight. Everybody I've read it
seemed like it was fifty to fifty looking through social media.
Hey maybe sixty forty maybe that definitely at the end,
it was all you saw was all Knicks fans in
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the end. That's so embarrassing for Philadelphia that you can't
coming off beating the Celtics. They beat you playoffs three
straight times. Okay, you lose the first two games in
New York, but all right, hey we're back home now,
we get control of this series. No and Unobi in
game three, and still you have this embarrassing output.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, it, they should disband.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Disband, because if you're Philadelphia and you can't get your
fans in the building for game three of a playoff,
I'm sorry, it's really really embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
See I'm conflicted about a lot of it because you
have the idea that it does go to a bunch
of medical personnel and educators and everything else, which is fantastic,
right that those tickets get into those hands. Now, the
larger issue that everybody and the consternation going back to
the original sixers losing their mind and Joel Embiid with
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his impassioned plea of hey, I've got money. If you
need money, everybody's got a price. And if you've got
the opportunity to pay for some portion of next year's
tickets or reimburse your accounts for what you just spent
for this ride, you may take that and just say,
you know what, I'd rather watch this game at home.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And once you go into the secondary market, there's no
controlling who's buying those tickets, right, that is out the door.
This is not a five hundred seat concert venue. When
you've got a Springsteen or McCartney show or whatever where
you get the wristband and you go straight in. There's
no chance of reselling or any of that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
But this is sporting event.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Recognize there are gonna be the opponents fans, and if
that's going to change how you play, how you operate,
then then you suck.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's always the the theory that that I have, Oh,
you're gonna ruin this guy if you start up too early. Well,
if you're you're worried about that that he's not your guy?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is he right?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
He's not your chosen one. Now, there's something to be
said for seasoning. Having a guy, uh you know, at
the quarterback position in the NFL and everything else to
helps offen the blow and get that learning curve decelerated.
But eventually you got to figure out whether a guy
can play or not. And here, if your fans can't
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overtake that, I mean, I get it. There's there's ravenous
Knicks fans and they're they're sensing it, right, they're feeling
the excitement and as you said, if they're not ready now,
they're never gonna be that you're going to have that
pressure coming in. And it kills me because this was
a nice gesture. Unfortunately, it should have been given before
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the playoffs started, as this is what we're gonna do
in our community, not here's how we combat the Knicks
fans taking over. Right, Because it's a great gesture, fantastic,
the team showing up at schools, showing up beds, yes,
hospitals and everything else. It's great community stuff. But in
the aftermath of Joel Embiid crying, it doesn't look so good.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hey, thanks for the tickets, but you know what I
had This Knicks fan in New York offered me like
double so I'm gonna do that instead, so you get
to I'm let them go to the game. Thanks for
the ticket. I just made seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But I would love to see right once you gave
away those five hundred, because it's five hundred per game, right,
so the five hundred for for game four. But once
you gave away those five hundred, how many of them
got resold?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh yeah, exact exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wait wait I got free tickets that I can get
two hundred, three hundred bucks apees more on the market.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
See, you Knicks fans just had to say, oh, so
you're making me jump through hoops. All right, So I
gotta wait until you give these tickets away. Then I'll
buy them from the all right, I'll do it. You
just wait till we find out these were like kids
in hospitals and Knicks fans stole them. No way find
it's all the families. They all made money on them.
They all made my hey, yeah, sell them. But who's
the one who went there instead of the kid in
the hospital. The Knicks fan.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Okay, let's not. Let's let's let's not.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, you're acting like something like that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's saying the Knicks fan took it straight from the
sick kid's hand.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know, you know I'm gonna get this anyway, So
just give it to me, now, just give it to me.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Okay, that's great, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I appreciate that. I promise I'll tell them be the
drop ten.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, go New York, Go, New York.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Go.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah. Just you know, I'm getting the tickets some way.
So we could we could do it as the easy way,
or we could do it the hard way. How about
I doubled the face value and a ticket for you,
and then we leave and you go your way and I.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Go mine, it's like the sign Feld birthday card. Hey,
Paul O'Neil's getting two home runs for two home run
still right?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I mean, I mean this is it's the fact that
this is where we're at with Philadelphia, I mean just
I mean, that's what baffles me on it.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And I think it's if it was again, if it
was a.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Smaller, smaller market, where hey, we're just gonna get drubbed.
We're already were. You know, we lost the first two
games by fifth. They lost the first one by fifty.
We lost the first two games by fifty. It's the
first round of the playoffs. There's no real excitement. We're
gonna lose and go home.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
But they just beat the Celtics like they're running at
an all time high. They just came back and beat
came back and they beat the bleep in Celtics, and
it's wow. And you still can't get the excitement level
to buy tickets to go to the game. You still
have to say, we gotta do all we we gotta
play better defense trying to keep Nicks out of Philadelphia.
Then the worped out better defense keeping the Knicks off
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the scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And both of those things failed.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
By the way, like that, that's the level of defense
that the Philadelphia fans I do.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I mean, and I look at I go. I mean,
it's Philadelphia. It's Philadelphia, man.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
According to a quick search, the population of Philadelphia is
somewhere between one point five and one point six million people,
so it would be the sixth most populous city in
the United States. So a little bit down since the
twenty twenty census whatever else, But overall, I mean, that's
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a pretty large marketplace for your eighteen thousand in change
arena to try to keep Nicks fans out. Yeah, but
whether there's a will, there's a way, like I was saying,
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Or they're just smart and they don't want to spend
a dollar on their crappy ass.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well no, but that's the thing, right, you decide, Hey,
either we're not winning this game, or I'll reinvest that
money that I could sell to a Nick fan and
if we do move past them, I can have that
towards you know, something a little more meaningful.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I'll save it to go see the Flyers. Oh oh
that's not happening. Oh I'm telling you, man, nix up,
Donnie Baseball's got the Phillies on the COMMN.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Mix up three to zho, Carolina up three to oho.
Jason Smith to Philadelphia zero.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I am shutting out Philadelphia right now, by myself, by
by my Well they did I help you? Now you've
done nothing. I've done everything, kidding Jason.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Zone, which means they're they're all gonna fail at zero
because you've done this before.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You did it with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I got the Lions as far as no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I got the Lion for me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I got the Bears as far as the second he
said it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We knew it's not.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It's just a matter of what the end, you know,
blueprint was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I didn't tell Dj Moore, hey, don't run out that
play out. I didn't tell him that. That's not me.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You didn't come out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You talked about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, but there's gonna be that hall of you know,
the snapshots of great predictions gone wrong. For Jason Smith.
Here's a drop ball by the Lions. I'm as Dj Moore.
I'm It's like a sport Flicks card where you turn
it a little bit and you see him slow up, like, wait,
is that just the no no he really did.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm like the star starting pitcher that goes eight innings,
throws one hundred and twenty pitches, strikes out twelve, gives
up one hit and says is Jacob Asar Okay, bullpen,
can you come in and just do one inning? And
the bullpen comes in and yeah, not my fault, man,
I gave you all. You had to just do one inning.
Just had to come up with one inning.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's all. Not my fault. Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You gotta finish the job Smith. Jason too, Philadelphia zero.
That's you, Jason. If you think Night's Attendants there sucked.
Oh just wait for Mother's Day, dude, you show up,
it's gonna be eighty percent Nick fans one hundred. I'm
going on because we know nobody in New York cares
about their mom. Hey Mom, I just wanted to call
and tell you we're gonna do Mother's Day dinner Saturday,
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and it's we're pushing it the next year. In fact,
we're gonna do it Saturday. In fact, we're gonna do
it right now. I know it's Friday night at midnight,
but like we're gonna leave tomorrow to go to the game.
We got tickets. So we're gonna go there. I wanna
go out. I want to go to South Street, want
to get some I want to get some Geno's. So
we're gonna do your Mother's Day dinner. Now, I know
we had a big plan from for Sunday.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
It was great. I had an awesome plan.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
But the Knicks a plan get in is two hundred
bucks for what fans Sunday for who?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Well you might have to New York.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Two two hundred bucks for the Sixers fans. How much
for Knick fans doesn't matter. We're paying it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Will you be able to do a better Philadelphia accent?
That's the thing for you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Over Donnie's tolls over bridges these days.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
No, I mean that means yeah, now we're talking it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
As long as mom, Donnie's not hugging anybody from the Knicks,
I'm okay. I'm actually for that tonight it will be
all right. I'm Donnie hugs for all the Knicks. Let's
find out what's judging right now in the wide world
of sports from Special Delivery Steve de Sager, who has
twenty five incredibly interesting facts about the Knicks three to
zero lead over the Sixers, Steve go I do have one. Okay,
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sorry to disappoint, all right, but if it's one good one.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
One is the opinion.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
First off, that the Knicks may not lose another game
this month. They've won six in a row. They're up
three games to none in their second round series after
winning at Philadelphia one eight ninety four. The other is
AP reports that in the first nine playoff games this postseason,
the Knicks have set an NBA record largest point differential.
At this point of the playoffs, they're a plus one
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sixty four, way ahead of the two thousand and nine Nuggets,
who were plus one forty six after nine playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Hang the banner.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We may as well stop now, I mean really the Knicks.
Nicks are on the road to repeat.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, that's Philadelphia Base i ST Championship now this one,
and then Knicks is trying to go back to back.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
They figured it out considering Nick's history the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
They should stop now.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's not gonna get any better.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
It really, this might be it, This might be it.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Jalen Brunson had thirty three points and nine as Sindochi
Adanobi was out with a strained hamstring. Joelle Embiid for
the loser's return from injury at eighteen points. Paul George
fifteen all in the first quarter for Philly. He wound
up six of eighteen shooting from the floor in the game.
There is a second game on the slate tonight, tied
at a game apiece. It's San Antonio leading thirty nine
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thirty seven at Minnesota mid second quarter Victor Wembin the
Spurs fifteen points, nine rebounds, two blocks in under fifteen
minutes on the court so far.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Steve, is it normal that they play the varsity game
first in the jv game second?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Like it's weird. It's weird what they're doing that tonight,
It's weird.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
He is really feeling himself at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Thy goodness.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
As for the WNBA season openers, New York all over
Connecticut one oh six seventy five. The Connecticut team that's
moving to Houston after this season. We see why Washington
won sixty eight sixty five at Toronto expansion Toronto shot
twenty seven percent from the floor the late game's early
second quarter. Seattle at home down twenty six twenty four
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to the Golden State Valcres in the NHL playoffs, Montreal
a five to one winner at Buffalo to tie up
that second rounder at a game apiece. Vegas out to
a three to nothing lead at Anaheim end of one,
that series for the moment tied at a game apiece.
This season's NHL MVP finalists include Edmonton's Connor McDavid, who's
already won it three times.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That is, that is Olympic silver medalist Connor mcdavids.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Put some respect on his name silver medalist.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Player who is not in the second round. He just
won his sixth scoring.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Titlest Yeah, silver medalist Connor McDavid.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
The NFL will release its full schedule on Thursday. The
NFL referees Union ratified a new seven year labor contract
to Major League Baseball. There was scant reference to Jacob
Mizerowski recently. The man has nine career strikeouts at least
one hundred and two miles an hour, and half of
them were tonight. In the game at Milwaukee, the Brewers
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beat the Yankee six nothing. Misserowski the winning pitcher, six
scoreless innings and eleven strikeouts in this game. The Cubs
have won nine in a row and they're winning seven
to one at Texas in the ninth inning. Mets are
tied one to one in the fifth at Arizona. Nolan
McLain on the mound. Mark Fientos a second inning home run,
but McLain gave up an Heirnato home run. Nolan Ernado
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for Arizona These Days tied it up in the bottom
of the second. Cardinals aid Padres scoreless in the fourth
streaming only good luck finding it. Dodgers are tied one
one with Atlanta in the bottom of the second inning.
That's Chris Sale on the mound for the Braves, and
the Mariners won twelve eight at the White Sox.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Good news for the White Sox.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Munataka Murracami with another long ball, fifteenth homer of the season,
as many as Aaron Judge right meanwhile, see is it.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
All a home run in every game? I think was
the first game every day like the last seven or eight.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Series, correct, which is in MLB first to open each
series with a home run like that? But Luke Raley
and the Mariners had two hits, one was a Grand Slam,
one was a three run homer, and the Mariners won
twelve eight in Chicago Bank Thank.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
You, Steven, Thanks Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
We got more NBA on the way again.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
The Spurs and the t Wolves a forty thirty seven
lead right now for San Antonio, got more in the
Knicks and the Sixers.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But coming up next, this is this is gonna be year.
Well we've been on the air, how many.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Years and twenty fourteen, thirteen, twenty fourteen, so twelve year,
thirteenth year. This is gonna be the thirteenth year we
say something about the NBA and it's true and they
won't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Still a forty three to thirty nine lead for the
Spurs three minutes to go before halftime. We'll have more
in this game coming up in a few minutes. But
Sunday is the NBA Lottery. Yeah, okay, how excited are you.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Again?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
We've been on the air now this is thirteen years
and this is the thirteenth year of saying what the
hell is the NBA doing. It's a marquee event, the
NBA Draft Lottery. Everybody cares. People care that about that
more than the actual draft itself. And it could be
a standalone event. You don't need playoff games on the night.
(36:26):
You can give everybody a night off of the playoffs
you want.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Them, Hey, we're gonna go here.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
We're gonna have the Draft Lottery. It's gonna be a
standalone thing. The Draft Lottery is really it's an it's
an extra night of of the draft. I mean, it's
you if you had that thing on a Wednesday night
and you put it in a big window where you
had a four hour special.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
You had an hour pre lottery, then you had an hour.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Laying it out, and then you had two hours of Okay,
here's who who, Here's who might wind up going here.
Here's reactions from from the people at the at the lottery.
You could have a four hour show that would make
a lot of money. It's a standalone event, especially this
year where there's five or six players that are real Like,
this is.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
A deep draft.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
This is not where hey, when you get to number
one you get Cooper Flagg, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
It's one person draft. This is it.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
There's five or six guys that are gonna go at
the top of this draft that people are gonna be
really happy for. And yet the NBA saying, yeah, we're
gonna jam it in Sunday in a half hour in
between the Knicks and the Sixers and the Wolves and
the Spurs, Like, I don't I don't understand how you
don't take advantage of this day on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well, especially if you're at a point in a series where,
let's face it, a lot of folks are gonna be
two down. It's Mother's Day. It's Mother's Day, and it's
a three to zero series. Folks are gonna be checking
that one on the phone. They watch it necessarily, but
it's an opportunity in some years are more equal than others.
As you say, the Cooper Flag year, and now there
are a couple of other impact players there, Dylan Harper, whatever.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
But you know this year, you do have all of
these extras.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
And as we've talked about in Chronicle D year after year,
it's the here's a bunch of guys that you know
nothing about, and cue the Tom Ronaldy vignette of who
they are, where they're coming from, their backgrounds, and like,
this is your get to know, get to know your
draft class America. And to your point, you've got representatives. Hell,
(38:19):
send a stand up comedian with them, take them away
from the you know, the Netflix uh comedy star parade
that's going on here across Los Angeles. You go to
the draft lottery and you you yuck it up with
these guys. You'll sit with Reggie Miller, You'll be over
there with whoever the bulls send and go on down
the line.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
There's just it's easy content.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It is just an absolute layup because you get to
do reviews of the year that was for these teams
that are in the lottery and where things may may
have gone awry. It allows you to kiss the ass
of whatever player or players played well and in spite
of the team's overall morale, ascent and fail.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
But it's just the the curiosity, just that people know
morass is a word. Yeah you didn't, you didn't, just
I didn't say morass. Morass is a word.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Just why? But you know that?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
But just the idea that you're burying it on a Sunday,
it's like, all right, I'll read about it in post.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
No, I don't know making an event.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
You see what the NFL does with the with the
draft itself, and the NBA does to a degree, but
it doesn't have the same pomp as circumstance. But with
all these players for this year in particular, why would
why would you not sell the hell out of this
when you're talking about five ten guys that are expected
to be impact players.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Well that's the thing. Is that.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay for a four hour show when it's just Cooper
Flag all right, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
You can still make it a three hour show. You
can just you have enough.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Analyst you can put on TV they're gonna talk about this.
But I mean, this is a deep draft you can have.
You can have j Billison talking about these guys at
the top that people have heard about that. Okay, well
here's here's I saw here's the thing here, then where's
a guy a best fit? Or right here is this?
Right here is this? And you're reacting and you're flying.
I mean, this is a it's an easy decision, and
the NBA still says no, no, no, just got a jam
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between a couple of playoff games. Now this year we're
bearing on a Sunday on Mother's Day, Like it can't
get worse than that.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
No, it's it's poor planning and it just falls in
line with our general feeling for the NBA. And I
know someone's gonna hold up the sign saying eleven years,
seventy six billion dollars or you're only picking on the
NBA right now, we're talking about the NBA.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Okay that that is the topic at hand.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
So you can save those tweets or you can send
them anyway at Swollen Dome at how about a Fresca.
It's not NBA hate, it's trying to help them get
out of their own way.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I mean, the NFL always knows when can we take
advantage of a day on the calendar and look at
schedule release, Yeah, look how much run it got just
to say, hey, you know what, it's Thursday. Do you
know if the NFL did a draft lottery, do you
have any idea what the what the what the video,
what the ratings before it would be? You have any
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idea what a draft, especially this year for it's for
Nana Mendoza or nobody, you have any idea what that
would look like?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
It would be like the Super Bowl. People would watch.
It would be fifty million people would watch.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
In the interim, I am ready to give all my
attention to the Los Angeles Chargers team for the schedule
release video.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit. Swollendom coming up next,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, Jason couldn't be here tonight. His Knicks are up
three to zero and he's in Arizona at the Mets game.
Nix in four, nix in four, nix in four, nix
in four.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
They got to clear the benches to my the seventy
six ers on their home court.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You sound pretty good from Arizona.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Yeah, I do, well, I do.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You're so clear.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Do a lot of things, man, do a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Frostburg's upset that I'm wearing a Mets T shirt tonight
with the Knicks playing, and I had to explain, Dude,
all my nixs U is in the I gotta wash
tomorrow for the rest of the weekend, for next week. Dude,
you're a winner tonight you're losing. I'm always winning man losing.
I am rolling sevens man. It's so good. The Mets
are actually winning too. I'm worried about Mike's eyes. No,
(01:16):
the orange, the orange gets me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
It's it's still orange. Go New York, Go New York. Goat,
Go New York, Go New York. Goat. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Every time it looked like the Sixers might have a
little bit of fighting to him, Yeah, Joel Embiid would
pull up for the three.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Uh, Jason, you got like one week left to where
Nicks gear? Dude?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
No, no, I got a long time dude, prisons an last.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
That. Look, the Knicks win tonight one, eight ninety four
over the Sixers, and there's a lot of stuff to
get to. But I'll tell you the two biggest things right,
number one, the biggest one.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It's a lot to get you. They're on the door
step of the no Conference finals and the Sixers are
putting up no resist.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No o ghuobi doesn't matter, right, doesn't matter. Jalen Brunson
goes for thirty three Mical Bridges is terrific, But really
it's the Landry Shammitt game, Shanny, how many big shotsd
Landry Shaman Man?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Look, we Shammittt. You go back and look.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
At any series in NBA history, right, any series NBA history,
the team that won, you can look down and say,
the reason they not is because their star goes for
thirty three or one of their you know, one of
their top three guys goes for twenty five. You find
one guy off the bench that is not supposed to
play and have this kind of game, and he has
a game like that, and that tilts the series forever
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in their favor. And Landry shammittt fifteen points off the
bench tonight, five out of six from the floor, made
a huge tree the end of the third quarter, like
it was the Landry Shammitt game. Like you'll look back
at this series when the Knicks win in four, you'll
look back at the series and go, wow, look at
that game three. Where what did they get? They got
fifteen from Landry shammittt off the bench, and that's it again.
It's great to look at you look and say, okay,
(02:57):
well here's this. Ye oh no, no, so and so
had twenty five off the bench in that game. You
weren't expecting that. Everywhere you want to go, it's the
Landry Shammock game, the Landry Sham.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You keep that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'm going cat once again, just doing the dirty work.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Doesn't have to do it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In the scoring column, just eight points on three of
eight shooting, a couple of three point misses, only two
free throw attempts, but twelve board, seven assists.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'll take that.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
My big guy is going to be distributing the ball
like that and keep it moving and keep the defense
feet moving. Because again we've talked about this series, not
a lot of depth necessarily when you get down to it,
even though I think every kid in New York's gonna
want that Mitchell Robinson poster go hes sad, Yeah, scared
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looking Joel Embiid. That was everything that.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
That picture of him dunking over Embiid, where Embiid looks
like a guy in a park watching someone play a
game and like the ball is good, is falling coming
into the stands and he's ducking his head so he
doesn't get hit by Yeah, like that's what Mbiid looks like.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It looks like a great shot.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It really is one of my favorite action photos that
we've seen. But we've counted on him. He's back in
the lineup right. Gives you nineteen minutes, six points and
six boards. But yeah, Landry Shammitt, you needed one more
score to be the difference maker. And you watched as
the sixers, as I said, every time it looked like
they were starting to make a little bit of a push,
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and you get it down to seven or five, it
swelled right back out to a double digit league after
a couple of dubious shot selections, some really poor ball handling, right,
just situational awareness of hey, you know the second guy's coming.
They're playing raptor defense on you, and the second guy's
coming from behind, so don't be loose with your dribble.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well look here, here's the look. There's two points. One
is a really fun one. One to do x's and o's.
First is that you can point to a lot of things, right,
Karl Anthony Town's becoming the facilitator, right, not a guy
that needs to twenty four and twelve anymore. The best
version of the Knicks is when the offenses kind of
run through him and seven assists tonight, twelve rebounds. He
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doesn't need to score twenty four a game. They don't
need to make sure we get him going in the post.
They got to make sure he stays out of bleep
in foul trouble, which is becoming a thing for him.
But as you see, they can pick up their scoring
in other places. Right, So you have Karl Anthony Towns
finally has hit the best version of himself. And look
at where the Knicks are defensively the last month of
the season. They really hit their stride. And what are
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they doing here in the playoffs so far? There's not
a lot of room for the Sixers unless you are saying,
here's one of your fourth or fifth best player on
the floor open for a three. That's what the Knicks
are allowing the six You could talk about the Sixers
missing and look, Paul George fifteen points in the first
quarter and scoreless the rest of the way. But you
watch the way the Knicks play defense in the second half,
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and this was we are gonna stop your top three
threats from getting to the hoop when we're not in
transition and we're okay leaving your fourth or fifth best
guy opened for a three, right, And that's the only
open shots the Sixers got.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They couldn't make them.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
This is the best version of the Knicks of the
last three years. If they don't go to the finals
this year, it's never going to happen. It's never stop
with that negativity. It's never gonna happen like this is it?
Well be Fistons before first over the Caves. Then it'll
be the Knicks. But if they don't go this year,
they're never gonna go because everything is in line for them. Yes,
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you're gonna play somebody tough in the Eastern Conference finals,
but it's the Pistons. They had trouble in the first round.
They seem to have hit their stride. Uh, this is
why the playoffs they go really weird. And with the
Celtics being knocked out, sometimes the path gets a little
bit easier, right the Nuggets when they won their title,
that everybody had their superstar out like that was one
of the easiest roads to a title you've ever seen.
(06:50):
The best player and every other team was hurt all
the way through. If they don't go this year, I
don't know when they're gonna go, Like this is it
like that all of a sudden, And I'm happy because
what did I say during the season, Boy, maybe the
window was closed because the ascending teams like the Pistons
and the Celtics are still really good. Uh you're seeing
the magic are really or even though they had a
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bad record, but like middle of the season, like maybe
the window was shut. But now like this is the
most open it's ever gonna be this year, this moment
in time, right now, they're better than the Sixers. They're
just a better basketball team. They're better everywhere than Philadelphia
and they're showing it.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Your nervousness coming into the series, Uh, clearly unfounded.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I'm still nervous now at three to Oho if anybody
can blow it in.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Celtics falling to the wayside and going down as they
did Jalalen Brown continuing to do interviews and talk about
uh how he was done wrong along the way, but
they they fall off to the side. I mean, look,
a week and a half ago, you wanted to fire everybody.
It was here's Giannis and a Nick's uniform. Who else
can he bring with him? You were trying to figure
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out his friend's list. You were trying to find his Facebook, is, Instagram,
close friends list, all of that stuff to decide who
you could start a letter writing campaign. You know you're
you're not a free agent yet, but are you happy
where you are, let me tell you on New York
uh and going through that process. But as it stands
right now, the world your oyster. I mean, you've you've
(08:18):
got Karl Anthony Towns whatever that switches and we talk
about it with guys that are that are A or
B stars right at the one A one b uh
and and having to redefine the rules?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Could we talk about in football all the time?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Right? You're a number one wide receiver. Maybe you're slowing
down a little bit. Hey, can you work inside a
little bit more? Are you willing to not be the
number one target?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
And extend your career.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You'll still catch eighty eighty footballs, but you're not gonna
do it necessarily with the glory touches that you did
once upon a time.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Are you good with that?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And plenty of wide receivers, no, they're not right, cornerbacks,
et cetera. As the game goes on for NBA players,
it's been that same question.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's why I've think a lot of folks really, if
they were on the fence, which is hard to be
with Lebron James this year, finally might have pushed them over.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I was like, all right, he accepted the number three roll.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Now he didn't have to do it for long because
both those guys got hurt, so he was back to
number one again. But there was something about the way
he changed his game to make the team flow. Same
thing with Karl Anthony Towns here, because in the past
he would have pouted. Right, in the past, you would
have got no effort on defense and you would have
had issues just in terms of him forcing up a
(09:31):
bad shot. Whatever he's bought into, whether it's Hart, whether
it's Brunson, Mike Brown, Timothy shallow May, whoever has Ben
Stiller and his orange tow I don't know who it is.
Whoever got through to him to say, hey, sure's how
this should go and it runs through him. Maybe he's
watching Ted Lasso and talking about Hey, work with Jamie Turk.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know what I mean, go throw go through me Jamie.
And you know the other part of it. Now, to
to widen it out a bit, you mentioned his name.
Notice how nobody has said at any point in the
last few weeks, oh boy, you know, Tibbs might have
been better off.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
They might have bet.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No one is saying that the Knicks are exactly where
they hoped they would be with the hiring of Mike Brown,
because I guarantee you this right, that big blank you,
because that was a huge blank you to the Sixers.
Mike Brown taking everybody out except for Brunson who's at
the free throw line. He's taken everybody out and he
is and he is emptied, like Tyler Kolett got in,
(10:30):
like he was the first guy to check in, Like
that's such a huge blank you. Josh Hart is waving
to the Sixers fans. They're coming out really slow, they're
leaving the court really you could tell there's a lot
of sun on back like that moment, you know, and
then Brunson coming out of the game, and the fans
were really just honking it up because again it was
about split between uh, the Knicks and Sixers fans, which
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we'll get into in a few minutes. But the Knicks
are exactly where they should be. With Mike Brown, he
is coming. It took him longer than expected, right, I
thought it would be. You know, hey, these guys have
been playing together now with Mike Brown, with his system,
commitment to defense, it's gonna be a month or so,
a couple of months, but maybe by the time you
flipped the calendar in the new year, they'll get it.
Took longer, maybe a little bit nervous, but getting closer
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to the end of the season when you saw them
pick it up defensively, the flip. The switch was flipped
in the playoffs. And now is anybody doubting that that
was the right call?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Anybody? How do you do that?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, I'm waiting to text him after a game four,
after game four, I'll text him.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, no, after the next win game four.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
No, No, this is normally when the win game four. This
is normally when you text coaches when they're on top
of the world, and then it crumbles underneath it.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I just have to I just have to make because
Ryan Hollins refused to give me Mike Brown's cell phone number,
which he had the other night. Luckily Justin Frossberg has it.
I didn't know he had. He found it and sent
it to me, So now it's got to wait until
the right moment. Yeah, I mean that was pretty great
that you were able to send it to Yah.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. Hollins goes the other way. I said, what do
you mean other Mike Brown? Like, what other Mike Brown?
Bengals owner Mike Brown.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Is that what it is? Hey, where's the money on
the field?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, so I have Mike brown cell phone number on
my phone. That's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Go New York, Go, New York.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Go. I mean it's Friday night. You might get a
little loose, and then in the late nine hours.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now game four, you get out of this into the finals.
Then then you're in Arizona at the Mets game. You
don't know the next one, no idea. You're still lamenting
that arenat a home run. But yeah, I'll text him, man,
I'll text him. You know.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's just that that time for for New York, that
it's rolled up and it's opened up the door. You
mentioned the Denver run to their title and and how
things had to happen here same thing. Were you afraid
because of the lack of depth? I mean I still
am to a degree. But in the Eastern Conference, you're
you're sitting pretty. You only need seven guys. Robinson and
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the occasional Landry sham Landry Shammit, it's the Landry Shammock game.
Look looking at the fourth quarter shoot shooting grid where
the UH six.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
A zero for Paul George, just no George.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
But if you just go and look at their shot chart,
you've got three at point blank range, three of eleven
from three point range, and an awful lot. I mean,
it's a nice coloring page if you want to teach
the kids how to you know, colorad a bubble there.
You had a lot of circles, I think defensively, So
when the Sixers really had to get back in like
watching the Knicks play the end of last year against
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the Pacers, right to go back to a really bad
memory Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals where the
Knicks continually left the Pacers open for threes because the
pace had a lot of guys can shoot threes, and
they kept hitting threes in Game one and threes and Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Hits that shot that bounces up, bounces down, does the
choke sign? They win Game one on the road, they
go to the finals. Incredibly painful. That's not happening now.
Like I said, the Knicks are saying, we'll leave your
worst three point shooter open. He's got no choice but
to take that shot.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
They're not allowing They didn't allow Maxi to get to
the hoop. They didn't allow edgecumbe any room. They didn't
allow Paul George. At one point there was just a dude,
just go shoot, you're not making anything. Six of eighteen fift.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Team in the first quarter.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, zero points in the last three quarters. By the way,
just to close the loop, you know, Tom Thibodeau is
rumored to be returning to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, yeah, well still, but he's still gonna wear the Knicks.
Uh uh, the jack, the jacket and the yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Present. Yeah, yeah, it looks close enough, right, No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think it's I think what he's got is like
with with the Velcrow, where he could pull the Knicks
patch off and just put the Bulls patch on. Fine, Yeah,
he's still he'll look exactly the same, arms folded. Yeah,
he'll leave all your starters in until there's like a
minute left in the game. But we're up by twenty five,
doesn't matter. Leaving all the guys in, leaving bruntson in coach,
it's okay, you could.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Take no no, no, no, no no, we're gonna leave brunson.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It gonna leave me in the end of the game, okay, okay,
Uh so the Knicks up three zip over the Sixers
Nicks in four h We have more on this game
coming up, including a surprise surprise crazy thing uh from
the Knicks and the Sixers. Meanwhile, Spurs and the Tea
Wolves right now, late in the first quarter and Edwards
(15:05):
has just hit a bucket to cut the Spurs lead
to four twenty three to nineteen. We'll have more on
this game coming up as well. Straight ahead, So more NBA,
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T Wolves up over the Spurs twenty nine twenty seven
early in the second quarter. We'll have more this game
coming up in a bit. This is Creed's hard stuff.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. This was the early days
when Creed was a rock band. Yeah yeah, a metal
rock band. Yeah yeah. Like seeing the video of Alanis
Morissette being like this pop star when she was like
(17:30):
sixteen or seventeen, and all of a sudden, it's you want.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
To know, You're like, whoa wow, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
They also have two hands in their pocket. Ooh, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
And the other one is saying nix yo. Yeah, you can.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Say nix no on one finger. Yeah, I could say
nix with four fingers, nix in four nix wow hockey. Yeah. Well,
well when you're up three, zip justin. When you got
the horses, hockey, You got the horses. If they blow
this lead, you're never gonna see me again.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, I mean, god, you gotta crow about it, excited
about it. You mentioned Paul George repeatedly to really give
you the magnitude of his failure.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You know what is over underd for points was in
the game?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Ooh?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Fifteen and a half? Seventeen and a half?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You had to be feeling awesome at the end of
the first scoring. Yeah, I'm licking bills, man, I'm great. Yeah, no, no, boy,
I wonder what the odds were if you wanted to
live at end of the first quarter the under for
Paul George points, Like, what kind of odds would you?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
What's a good?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I mean, could I get anything you want? One thousand
to one, ten thousand to one fifteen in the first quarter?
All he needed was three more points. The last three quarters.
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eight ninety four, and they've taken a three o lead
in the Eastern Conference semi finals. Knicks Radio Network on
the call, and uh, this is what I wanted to
get into a great call right there, because at this point,
if you're the Sixers disband.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I really thought you were gonna say, because Tyler Kolek
is the guy dribbling out the final seconds of.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Uh, you know, Minixers disband went no, no, no, but
Sixers disband?
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Before the series began, Joel Embi, the first thing he
said was, don't let the Knicks fans come to game three.
I'd be more like, okay, dude, let's worry about game one.
In game two first, Madison gard East here, you're worried, right, No, no, no,
let's make sure. Let's make sure. Let's make sure. Hey,
it's like, wait a minute, you're Philadelphia. Come on, man, Philly,
you gotta have some kind of pride. You just beat
the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Come on, man, just stop ped Celtics.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah. At my first day to try to combat this,
all right, I read last night that the Sixers gave
away a couple of five hundred sets of sets of
five hundred tickets to the game to a local area
of benefits businesses, so Knicks fans wouldn't invade the arena
(20:20):
and it didn't matter to you. Heard that crowd, it
was probably at worst fifty to fifty Knicks and Sixers.
Then at the end it was way more Knicks fans
because Sixers fans left early. I mean it, man, if
you are the Sixers, disband, disband. If you you are
one of the most proud NBA cities in the history
of the game, doctor j Iverson, this is not some
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small market where hey, we have trouble selling out because
we can't sell the NBA here, right. This is not
when the NBA was in Vancouver or someplace else. Yeah,
we don't really know where I tru This is philip Leependelphia, man,
this is one of the This is an organization and
a city that is interwoven into the fabric of the NBA.
(21:04):
And you can't sell out playoff games and you have
people coming from other cities to come in, especially Knicks fans,
and you go to all these different lengths to try
to keep the tickets out of Knicks fans hands. And
this is what you get tonight. Everybody I've read it
seemed like it was fifty to fifty looking through social media.
Hey maybe sixty forty maybe that definitely at the end,
it was all you saw was all Knicks fans in
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the end. That's so embarrassing for Philadelphia that you can't
coming off beating the Celtics. They beat you playoffs three
straight times. Okay, you lose the first two games in
New York, but all right, hey we're back home now,
we get control of this series. No and Unobi in
game three, and still you have this embarrassing output.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I mean, it, they should disband.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Disband, because if you're Philadelphia and you can't get your
fans in the building for game three of a playoff,
I'm sorry, it's really really embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
See I'm conflicted about a lot of it because you
have the idea that it does go to a bunch
of medical personnel and educators and everything else, which is fantastic,
right that those tickets get into those hands. Now, the
larger issue that everybody and the consternation going back to
the original sixers losing their mind and Joel Embiid with
(22:16):
his impassioned plea of hey, I've got money. If you
need money, everybody's got a price. And if you've got
the opportunity to pay for some portion of next year's
tickets or reimburse your accounts for what you just spent
for this ride, you may take that and just say,
you know what, I'd rather watch this game at home.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And once you go into the secondary market, there's no
controlling who's buying those tickets, right, that is out the door.
This is not a five hundred seat concert venue. When
you've got a Springsteen or McCartney show or whatever where
you get the wristband and you go straight in. There's
no chance of reselling or any of that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
But this is sporting event.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Recognize there are gonna be the opponents fans, and if
that's going to change how you play, how you operate,
then then you suck.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Right.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
It's always the the theory that that I have, Oh,
you're gonna ruin this guy if you start up too early. Well,
if you're you're worried about that that he's not your guy?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Is he right?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
He's not your chosen one. Now, there's something to be
said for seasoning. Having a guy, uh you know, at
the quarterback position in the NFL and everything else to
helps offen the blow and get that learning curve decelerated.
But eventually you got to figure out whether a guy
can play or not. And here, if your fans can't
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overtake that, I mean, I get it. There's there's ravenous
Knicks fans and they're they're sensing it, right, they're feeling
the excitement and as you said, if they're not ready now,
they're never gonna be that you're going to have that
pressure coming in. And it kills me because this was
a nice gesture. Unfortunately, it should have been given before
(24:00):
the playoffs started, as this is what we're gonna do
in our community, not here's how we combat the Knicks
fans taking over. Right, Because it's a great gesture, fantastic,
the team showing up at schools, showing up beds, yes,
hospitals and everything else. It's great community stuff. But in
the aftermath of Joel Embiid crying, it doesn't look so good.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Hey, thanks for the tickets, but you know what I
had This Knicks fan in New York offered me like
double so I'm gonna do that instead, so you get
to I'm let them go to the game. Thanks for
the ticket. I just made seventy five dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But I would love to see right once you gave
away those five hundred, because it's five hundred per game, right,
so the five hundred for for game four. But once
you gave away those five hundred, how many of them
got resold?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh yeah, exact exactly.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wait wait I got free tickets that I can get
two hundred, three hundred bucks apees more on the market.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
See, you Knicks fans just had to say, oh, so
you're making me jump through hoops. All right, So I
gotta wait until you give these tickets away. Then I'll
buy them from the all right, I'll do it. You
just wait till we find out these were like kids
in hospitals and Knicks fans stole them. No way find
it's all the families. They all made money on them.
They all made my hey, yeah, sell them. But who's
the one who went there instead of the kid in
the hospital. The Knicks fan.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Okay, let's not. Let's let's let's not.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, you're acting like something like that didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
He's saying the Knicks fan took it straight from the
sick kid's hand.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know, you know I'm gonna get this anyway, So
just give it to me, now, just give it to me.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Okay, that's great, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I appreciate that. I promise I'll tell them be the
drop ten.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, go New York, Go, New York.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Go.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah. Just you know, I'm getting the tickets some way.
So we could we could do it as the easy way,
or we could do it the hard way. How about
I doubled the face value and a ticket for you,
and then we leave and you go your way and I.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Go mine, it's like the sign Feld birthday card. Hey,
Paul O'Neil's getting two home runs for two home run
still right?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I mean, I mean this is it's the fact that
this is where we're at with Philadelphia, I mean just
I mean, that's what baffles me on it.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And I think it's if it was again, if it
was a.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Smaller, smaller market, where hey, we're just gonna get drubbed.
We're already were. You know, we lost the first two
games by fifth. They lost the first one by fifty.
We lost the first two games by fifty. It's the
first round of the playoffs. There's no real excitement. We're
gonna lose and go home.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
But they just beat the Celtics like they're running at
an all time high. They just came back and beat
came back and they beat the bleep in Celtics, and
it's wow. And you still can't get the excitement level
to buy tickets to go to the game. You still
have to say, we gotta do all we we gotta
play better defense trying to keep Nicks out of Philadelphia.
Then the worped out better defense keeping the Knicks off
(26:40):
the scoreboard.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
And both of those things failed.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
By the way, like that, that's the level of defense
that the Philadelphia fans I do.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I mean, and I look at I go. I mean,
it's Philadelphia. It's Philadelphia, man.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
According to a quick search, the population of Philadelphia is
somewhere between one point five and one point six million people,
so it would be the sixth most populous city in
the United States. So a little bit down since the
twenty twenty census whatever else, But overall, I mean, that's
(27:11):
a pretty large marketplace for your eighteen thousand in change
arena to try to keep Nicks fans out. Yeah, but
whether there's a will, there's a way, like I was saying,
you know.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Or they're just smart and they don't want to spend
a dollar on their crappy ass.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well no, but that's the thing, right, you decide, Hey,
either we're not winning this game, or I'll reinvest that
money that I could sell to a Nick fan and
if we do move past them, I can have that
towards you know, something a little more meaningful.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I'll save it to go see the Flyers. Oh oh
that's not happening. Oh I'm telling you, man, nix up,
Donnie Baseball's got the Phillies on the COMMN.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Mix up three to zho, Carolina up three to oho.
Jason Smith to Philadelphia zero.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I am shutting out Philadelphia right now, by myself, by
by my Well they did I help you? Now you've
done nothing. I've done everything, kidding Jason.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Zone, which means they're they're all gonna fail at zero
because you've done this before.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
You did it with the Lions.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I got the Lions as far as no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I got the Lion for me.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I got the Bears as far as the second he
said it.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
We knew it's not.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
It's just a matter of what the end, you know,
blueprint was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I didn't tell Dj Moore, hey, don't run out that
play out. I didn't tell him that. That's not me.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You didn't come out.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You talked about it.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, but there's gonna be that hall of you know,
the snapshots of great predictions gone wrong. For Jason Smith.
Here's a drop ball by the Lions. I'm as Dj Moore.
I'm It's like a sport Flicks card where you turn
it a little bit and you see him slow up, like, wait,
is that just the no no he really did.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I'm like the star starting pitcher that goes eight innings,
throws one hundred and twenty pitches, strikes out twelve, gives
up one hit and says is Jacob Asar Okay, bullpen,
can you come in and just do one inning? And
the bullpen comes in and yeah, not my fault, man,
I gave you all. You had to just do one inning.
Just had to come up with one inning.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
That's all. Not my fault. Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You gotta finish the job Smith. Jason too, Philadelphia zero.
That's you, Jason. If you think Night's Attendants there sucked.
Oh just wait for Mother's Day, dude, you show up,
it's gonna be eighty percent Nick fans one hundred. I'm
going on because we know nobody in New York cares
about their mom. Hey Mom, I just wanted to call
and tell you we're gonna do Mother's Day dinner Saturday,
(29:36):
and it's we're pushing it the next year. In fact,
we're gonna do it Saturday. In fact, we're gonna do
it right now. I know it's Friday night at midnight,
but like we're gonna leave tomorrow to go to the game.
We got tickets. So we're gonna go there. I wanna
go out. I want to go to South Street, want
to get some I want to get some Geno's. So
we're gonna do your Mother's Day dinner. Now, I know
we had a big plan from for Sunday.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
It was great. I had an awesome plan.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
But the Knicks a plan get in is two hundred
bucks for what fans Sunday for who?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Well you might have to New York.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Two two hundred bucks for the Sixers fans. How much
for Knick fans doesn't matter. We're paying it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Will you be able to do a better Philadelphia accent?
That's the thing for you.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Over Donnie's tolls over bridges these days.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
No, I mean that means yeah, now we're talking it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
As long as mom, Donnie's not hugging anybody from the Knicks,
I'm okay. I'm actually for that tonight it will be
all right. I'm Donnie hugs for all the Knicks. Let's
find out what's judging right now in the wide world
of sports from Special Delivery Steve de Sager, who has
twenty five incredibly interesting facts about the Knicks three to
zero lead over the Sixers, Steve go I do have one. Okay,
(30:40):
sorry to disappoint, all right, but if it's one good one.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
One is the opinion.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
First off, that the Knicks may not lose another game
this month. They've won six in a row. They're up
three games to none in their second round series after
winning at Philadelphia one eight ninety four. The other is
AP reports that in the first nine playoff games this postseason,
the Knicks have set an NBA record largest point differential.
At this point of the playoffs, they're a plus one
(31:06):
sixty four, way ahead of the two thousand and nine Nuggets,
who were plus one forty six after nine playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Hang the banner.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We may as well stop now, I mean really the Knicks.
Nicks are on the road to repeat.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, that's Philadelphia Base i ST Championship now this one,
and then Knicks is trying to go back to back.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
They figured it out considering Nick's history the last fifty years.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
They should stop now.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's not gonna get any better.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
It really, this might be it, This might be it.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
Jalen Brunson had thirty three points and nine as Sindochi
Adanobi was out with a strained hamstring. Joelle Embiid for
the loser's return from injury at eighteen points. Paul George
fifteen all in the first quarter for Philly. He wound
up six of eighteen shooting from the floor in the game.
There is a second game on the slate tonight, tied
at a game apiece. It's San Antonio leading thirty nine
(31:56):
thirty seven at Minnesota mid second quarter Victor Wembin the
Spurs fifteen points, nine rebounds, two blocks in under fifteen
minutes on the court so far.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Steve, is it normal that they play the varsity game
first in the jv game second?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Like it's weird. It's weird what they're doing that tonight,
It's weird.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
He is really feeling himself at this point.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Thy goodness.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
As for the WNBA season openers, New York all over
Connecticut one oh six seventy five. The Connecticut team that's
moving to Houston after this season. We see why Washington
won sixty eight sixty five at Toronto expansion Toronto shot
twenty seven percent from the floor the late game's early
second quarter. Seattle at home down twenty six twenty four
(32:39):
to the Golden State Valcres in the NHL playoffs, Montreal
a five to one winner at Buffalo to tie up
that second rounder at a game apiece. Vegas out to
a three to nothing lead at Anaheim end of one,
that series for the moment tied at a game apiece.
This season's NHL MVP finalists include Edmonton's Connor McDavid, who's
already won it three times.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
That is, that is Olympic silver medalist Connor mcdavids.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Put some respect on his name silver medalist.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Player who is not in the second round. He just
won his sixth scoring.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Titlest Yeah, silver medalist Connor McDavid.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
The NFL will release its full schedule on Thursday. The
NFL referees Union ratified a new seven year labor contract
to Major League Baseball. There was scant reference to Jacob
Mizerowski recently. The man has nine career strikeouts at least
one hundred and two miles an hour, and half of
them were tonight. In the game at Milwaukee, the Brewers
(33:33):
beat the Yankee six nothing. Misserowski the winning pitcher, six
scoreless innings and eleven strikeouts in this game. The Cubs
have won nine in a row and they're winning seven
to one at Texas in the ninth inning. Mets are
tied one to one in the fifth at Arizona. Nolan
McLain on the mound. Mark Fientos a second inning home run,
but McLain gave up an Heirnato home run. Nolan Ernado
(33:57):
for Arizona These Days tied it up in the bottom
of the second. Cardinals aid Padres scoreless in the fourth
streaming only good luck finding it. Dodgers are tied one
one with Atlanta in the bottom of the second inning.
That's Chris Sale on the mound for the Braves, and
the Mariners won twelve eight at the White Sox.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Good news for the White Sox.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Munataka Murracami with another long ball, fifteenth homer of the season,
as many as Aaron Judge right meanwhile, see is it.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
All a home run in every game? I think was
the first game every day like the last seven or eight.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Series, correct, which is in MLB first to open each
series with a home run like that? But Luke Raley
and the Mariners had two hits, one was a Grand Slam,
one was a three run homer, and the Mariners won
twelve eight in Chicago Bank Thank.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
You, Steven, Thanks Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
We got more NBA on the way again.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
The Spurs and the t Wolves a forty thirty seven
lead right now for San Antonio, got more in the
Knicks and the Sixers.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
But coming up next, this is this is gonna be year.
Well we've been on the air, how many.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Years and twenty fourteen, thirteen, twenty fourteen, so twelve year,
thirteenth year. This is gonna be the thirteenth year we
say something about the NBA and it's true and they
won't do anything about it.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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(35:49):
Still a forty three to thirty nine lead for the
Spurs three minutes to go before halftime. We'll have more
in this game coming up in a few minutes. But
Sunday is the NBA Lottery. Yeah, okay, how excited are you.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Again?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
We've been on the air now this is thirteen years
and this is the thirteenth year of saying what the
hell is the NBA doing. It's a marquee event, the
NBA Draft Lottery. Everybody cares. People care that about that
more than the actual draft itself. And it could be
a standalone event. You don't need playoff games on the night.
(36:26):
You can give everybody a night off of the playoffs
you want.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Them, Hey, we're gonna go here.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
We're gonna have the Draft Lottery. It's gonna be a
standalone thing. The Draft Lottery is really it's an it's
an extra night of of the draft. I mean, it's
you if you had that thing on a Wednesday night
and you put it in a big window where you
had a four hour special.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
You had an hour pre lottery, then you had an hour.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Laying it out, and then you had two hours of Okay,
here's who who, Here's who might wind up going here.
Here's reactions from from the people at the at the lottery.
You could have a four hour show that would make
a lot of money. It's a standalone event, especially this
year where there's five or six players that are real Like,
this is.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
A deep draft.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
This is not where hey, when you get to number
one you get Cooper Flagg, congratulations.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
It's one person draft. This is it.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
There's five or six guys that are gonna go at
the top of this draft that people are gonna be
really happy for. And yet the NBA saying, yeah, we're
gonna jam it in Sunday in a half hour in
between the Knicks and the Sixers and the Wolves and
the Spurs, Like, I don't I don't understand how you
don't take advantage of this day on the calendar.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well, especially if you're at a point in a series where,
let's face it, a lot of folks are gonna be
two down. It's Mother's Day. It's Mother's Day, and it's
a three to zero series. Folks are gonna be checking
that one on the phone. They watch it necessarily, but
it's an opportunity in some years are more equal than others.
As you say, the Cooper Flag year, and now there
are a couple of other impact players there, Dylan Harper, whatever.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
But you know this year, you do have all of
these extras.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
And as we've talked about in Chronicle D year after year,
it's the here's a bunch of guys that you know
nothing about, and cue the Tom Ronaldy vignette of who
they are, where they're coming from, their backgrounds, and like,
this is your get to know, get to know your
draft class America. And to your point, you've got representatives. Hell,
(38:19):
send a stand up comedian with them, take them away
from the you know, the Netflix uh comedy star parade
that's going on here across Los Angeles. You go to
the draft lottery and you you yuck it up with
these guys. You'll sit with Reggie Miller, You'll be over
there with whoever the bulls send and go on down
the line.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
There's just it's easy content.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It is just an absolute layup because you get to
do reviews of the year that was for these teams
that are in the lottery and where things may may
have gone awry. It allows you to kiss the ass
of whatever player or players played well and in spite
of the team's overall morale, ascent and fail.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
But it's just the the curiosity, just that people know
morass is a word. Yeah you didn't, you didn't, just
I didn't say morass. Morass is a word.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Just why? But you know that?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
But just the idea that you're burying it on a Sunday,
it's like, all right, I'll read about it in post.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
No, I don't know making an event.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
You see what the NFL does with the with the
draft itself, and the NBA does to a degree, but
it doesn't have the same pomp as circumstance. But with
all these players for this year in particular, why would
why would you not sell the hell out of this
when you're talking about five ten guys that are expected
to be impact players.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Well that's the thing. Is that.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Okay for a four hour show when it's just Cooper
Flag all right, I get it, I get it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
You can still make it a three hour show. You
can just you have enough.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Analyst you can put on TV they're gonna talk about this.
But I mean, this is a deep draft you can have.
You can have j Billison talking about these guys at
the top that people have heard about that. Okay, well
here's here's I saw here's the thing here, then where's
a guy a best fit? Or right here is this?
Right here is this? And you're reacting and you're flying.
I mean, this is a it's an easy decision, and
the NBA still says no, no, no, just got a jam
(40:10):
between a couple of playoff games. Now this year we're
bearing on a Sunday on Mother's Day, Like it can't
get worse than that.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
No, it's it's poor planning and it just falls in
line with our general feeling for the NBA. And I
know someone's gonna hold up the sign saying eleven years,
seventy six billion dollars or you're only picking on the
NBA right now, we're talking about the NBA.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Okay that that is the topic at hand.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
So you can save those tweets or you can send
them anyway at Swollen Dome at how about a Fresca.
It's not NBA hate, it's trying to help them get
out of their own way.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I mean, the NFL always knows when can we take
advantage of a day on the calendar and look at
schedule release, Yeah, look how much run it got just
to say, hey, you know what, it's Thursday. Do you
know if the NFL did a draft lottery, do you
have any idea what the what the what the video,
what the ratings before it would be? You have any
(41:02):
idea what a draft, especially this year for it's for
Nana Mendoza or nobody, you have any idea what that
would look like?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
It would be.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
It would be like the Super Bowl. People would watch.
It would be fifty million people would watch.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
In the interim, I am ready to give all my
attention to the Los Angeles Chargers team for the schedule
release video.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit. Swollendom coming up next,
We got some big stuff out of the NFL. This
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