May 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon have all the latest on the Knicks, who are headed to their first Eastern Conference Finals in over 25 years after dismantling the Celtics in Game 6!
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Lasso enjoying things courtside the Knicks. I could just listen
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to this for a second two minutes to go in
the third quarter. The party is underway at MSG the
Knicks lead the Celtice. I should say it like Marv
Albert does. The Knicks leave the Celtics eighty nine to
fifty one with a minute fifty seven left to go
in the third quarter. Uh, it has been all Nicks
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from the jump. Make it ninety two fifty one after
an ognunobi three. I think Joe Mizzoula is gonna call
time out and they're all gonna leave. I think it's out,
just gonna leave, and it's just gonna be a big party.
Michael Strahan is excited. This is the bill. Look at
Stathology you got you got Marbury there, this is this
is a party, Mike Harmon. It is an absolute party.
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But you're gonna be the disapproving girlfriend with the coat
over her arms, going we can leave whenever you want to.
I know you're having fun, but we can leave whenever
you want to. You're gonna play that role tonight. I
can already tell. I can already tell, just by your countenance,
just by the way you are, just by you're gonna
be that. I'm ready to leave. I didn't want to
go to this party at all. I'm ready to go home.
This is where you have your kid who's hopped up
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on sugar and you let them run around hoping that
at some point they just fall out napping. That's where
I'm at right now, because I have already had forty
minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show. Huh.
And I've said for a very long time there's a
jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've
tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Judy, shut up, Okay,
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all right, I'm not happy when your teams get, you know,
the little success they have, So I mean, I thought
you'd be happy for me, but okay, to a point where,
because you're screaming at at the like thirty five, they're
going to win to go to the Eastern Conference Finals
for the first time since I was in my thirties. Yeah,
but that was presumptive when we got to halftime when
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Kendrick Perkins said they needed to find Jesus to play
the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics.
They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you know,
what they need. And there's a pause, and you know,
everybody on sets looking at him, nervous what he's gonna say.
To find Jesus, he said they'd go on a diet
if the Knicks blew the lead. They would go on
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a diet. If the Knicks blew this lead at halftime
and they have grown it out. Yeah, it is a
forty one point Nick lead, now ninety two to fifty
one with just under a minute half to go with
the third quarter, Bird and Michale are ready to check
in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter. I don't
even think they wore them. They don't want any minutes
of this. This is where you go find what was
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that guy's uh oh, the ninety three Dino Raja and
guys like that. We start bringing those guys in or
to get some minutes. But like Jalen Brown did what
Nikola Jokic did the other night, except this is an
elimination game. Yeah, and he tapped out. Porzingis is sick.
I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I
have no idea what's going on there. I hope he
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finds whatever solution he needs in the offseason. He's ready
for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort, right,
You're down six to start the second quarter. You score
four points in the first half of the second quarter,
and then it's like you wave the white flag. Right. Effort.
Plays are non existent. You're seeing reaching falls, just sloppy play.
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It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like, all right,
we're down twenty five, what are we gonna do. Let's
run the shot clock down to two and then you're
still contesting every shot, because I mean, that's the celebration
of what the Knicks have been here. They smelled the
blood in the water like any shark movie and attack
the hell out of this squad. So I give full
credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they needed
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in the fuel of the New York media to go
finish this thing off, because they never let the Celtics
get a quarter breadth, no once. Once it really started
to get out of hand in the middle of that
second look. And this is why I told you all
week when I can't no one believe me when I
said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told you
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we're gonna lose Game five, We're gonna show up and
kind of play, all right, well kind of play if
the game is there, maybe they try to close in
the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls out
of the game five thousand one quarter, Karl Anthony Townsend
foul trouble. I said, Okay, this is how it's gonna go.
But it's gonna be a different story on Friday night.
What if I said the last two days, Hey, Friday night,
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I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first
time in twenty two years. I was absolutely fine because
I knew this was the next team we were gonna
see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday, I knew was
gonna Hey, okay, we're not gonna get Rick Buker had
a great comment on that with us the other night, saying, hey,
there's lots of teams in the NBA that come in
to close out type games like the Knicks did, and
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and you know, like we've seen in the playoffs elsewhere
as well, where it's been hey, we know we're not
going to get the calls, and if the calls go
against you. In the beginning of the game at Sea
we're not getting him. Let's put it away for the
next game. And that's kind of what the Knicks. Didn't
we see that it's not just the next thing to
do that strategy. Sure, and I toold it, but tonight
was gonna be different. It was gonna be physical, and
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it was gonna be a Karl Anthony Towns night. And
this was how it was going to go. Guys didn't believe.
You thought I was nervous and Frostburg's going on, what
are you gonna say in game Seve, what are you
saying game seven? I knew we're never getting to Game
seven because this was going to be the game we're
going to get tonight. You did not predict a forty
point burial and that the Celtics would quit. I said,
I said, when I say fifteen, last night, I said
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ten to fifteen. We met our I said, no, no,
there's a difference between Hey, we win by ten because
down the stretch we're making free throws and finishing the
job right Jalen Bronson getting to the follow up versus
I should have said fifty here win by fifty. Look
in game betting, I was laughing before it was thirty
thirty two when you and I were sitting before we
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started this soire on a big Friday night party for you.
Where it sits now? I can only uh, I can
only guess because it's it's bloomed it is now at
it's still only thirty three. If you really want to
go that, that's basically saying the Knicks are going to
quit and start sipping wine playing fourth quarter something like that.
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They're they're relegated, they have to take half court shots
or whatever the case may be. But you know, the
you're officiating thing from the other night rings true, and
there are a number of times where it's just like, really,
that's that's a continuation fall. Again, it's a thirty point game,
so who the hell cares thirty five? But at the
time it was thirty five. Karl Anthony Towns gets falled
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quite clearly. Al Horford bangs him three feet off this
spot and then he goes, ah, forget it, I'll take
the extra step and throw the ball up, all right,
and one it's like what are we doing? So again
the officiating issue, but by that point it's long gone.
I mean, Jalen Brown tapped out, So all of the
talk and we heard this got really loud about what
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a better effort they get when Jason Tatum isn't there.
Just just hang up your microphones, just quit. You know,
the record is not always indicative of what you're gonna get,
and you can do things for one game. We've seen
that time and time again in playoffs. We've seen it
in the regular season, the heavy underdogs that can come
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up no matter the sport, and certainly in the NBA,
as you alluded to, the all right, it's really not
coming together for us. We'll live to see another day.
There's no reason to play another twenty labor and you know,
laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence,
look at what I did there. Yeah, I went full
on Dictionary and my literary world. But like, when you
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only play five or six guys, why play them an
extra twenty minutes when you're done? So that strategy the
other day certainly comes to bear. But from Missoula and Company,
like when, when exactly did you quit? Like that's the
first question I would ask him in the post thing
would you quit? The Knicks? Where the Knicks have been
playing tonight, they're playing with a twenty five point lead,
like the game is tied. There's been no let up.
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There's been no open shots for the Celtics because the
Knicks have decided, hey we're up by twenty six and
everything is fine. There's been no running around defensively. It
has been there playing this game. Like in fact, you
would think the Knicks, if they win this game, would
be winning the NBA Finals. The way that the Knicks
are playing, the way fans are responding, we will be
going to the Eastern They still have two more rounds
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to finish, but eight more wins. But hey, we're going
to the Eastern Conference finals. And the party is like
we're winning it all, like that's what it is. But
that's okay, But that's party like that watching that that connection, right,
and you know me I. One of the mantras to
the Sho Show is the love of live events because
very few places in the world you have energy and
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agreement of what's going on, and the energy going in
the same spot. So the fans feeding off the effort,
the players feeding back off the fans, and that frenzy.
You know, every shot is contested. There's no way, all right,
I missed the assignment. It's like No, they're still cursing
at each other. You had a play down low where
Jalen Brown loses the ball and it gets tapped and
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eventually goes off his leg. They were up thirty five,
and they immediately three guys are signaling the Thibbaeau to
challenge it, which they did and they won the challenge.
It's that kind of thing. Look, I'm not saying I
don't love it. I just I just have a headache.
Look the Nicks, they came out for blood. They came
out for blood, and it's a party, right, That's That's
exactly what May Shalom has been shown ninety seven times.
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Spike Lee doesn't have to accost the referee chasing him
down the court. He's just sitting there. No, doesn't he's got,
he's gotten. He's pissed because he's got no role to that.
We don't need. Coach Bike is just as happy as
he should be when they show him. He's like, I
wanted a contested game. What do you got, Frostburg? And
this game is so out of hand that the Necks
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have just rolled out four players to play four on five.
They're going with my team is on the court and
one of them's Clyde Fraser, Ben Stiller, Stefan Marbury and
bad Bunny. I think we have We probably were winning
by thirty three right now, going by twenty five, we're
going so now all right, now, I guess twenty eight
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and a half has gone to an aff kicking on Wednesday.
This is very poor Frostburg. So now are you gonna
be because you're with obviously we celebrate you. So that's
where it ends. It doesn't just end after the game.
It's you'll celebrate tonight and ends after tonight at eleven
o one eleven to give him DAPs you in the face. Okay,
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all right, that's and the duel will come in. So
the celebration is tonight. Who cares about tomorrow? Celebration tonight,
and it's go Indy, go ind you go. All right.
Bill Bradley is at the game. Yeah, I haven't seen
Bill Bradley. I really thought you were gonna start singing.
We've got tonight. We who needs tomorrow? I'm doing a
little bats making last babe. Ten minutes to go in
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the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics ninety six
to sixty two. We will begin our Knicks Pacers Eastern
Conference Finals preview coming up a little bit as we'll
have more on this game as the party tonight is
going to be off the hook. We've already ordered pizza.
We had all kinds of pizza and wings coming. It
is a Knicks party Friday. But coming up next as
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we continue to track the biggest game of the night,
always freely, all the time, maybe the biggest game all year?
Coming up next? Do we have an NFL story coming
your way? Because somebody really got paid? Go New York,
Go New York. Gos And when does Tatum come in? Wow?
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In the next time next to next official? I'm out?
You know what? He would have at least wheeled himself
around and give you an effort. Actually, Tatum O'Neill is
coming in. Who's coming about that? Shack's brother TJ. Click,
you know you're ruin my youre ruined my bad news
Bears line tysher, you know that today you're about to win?
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All right?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, it's nothing he says or plays. He can play.
Everybody wants to rule the world forty five times.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In a run.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't care. Yeah whatever, that doesn't matter. That's counts
could get killed by the Yankees. Oh there was no
baseball Tony. I don't care. I don't care. I have
bigger fish to Friday night than that. Right, I'll worry
about it. I'll worry about the Mets and the Yankees tomorrow.
That's fine. Bigger fish tonight. First time in twenty two years,
we're going to the Eastern Conference Finals. Okay, it's all good.
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It's like we're counting down to New Year. All the
shots outside Madison Square Garden. Everybody's cheering. Hey, the ball
is dropping. The ball is dropped. What do you think
the security cost is across the city of New York? Oh? Man,
you know, not a great night to start the subway
series with the Mets. And then you want to talk
about overtime being put in for by police and first responders. Hey,
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I've been retired six years. Look I need you for
three nights. We got the baseball series, they got whatever
the hell goes on with the Knicks. Eight and a
half to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead
the Celtics one oh four to sixty eight. Ac Earl
has checked in for the Celtics. I think you're think
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it's my guy. All I want to show all the
love I can all the obscure Celtics from like the
early two thousands and the late nineties when they were
done winning and it was hey, we're trying to make
it work with Dee Brown, all right, let's go. Yeah,
good times those late nineties trading cards like aw, look
at those Celtics. And then you eventually got to Antoine Walker.
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Oh yeah, we'll got to. Yeah, we'll get to eventually
you got to Yeah. No, you had a number of
years with Finn Baker. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah
we'll get that. We'll get that. Then Baker is one
of my heroes though. I mean the amount of money
that guy made and then in his post career, I
mean he did he did well. It is a It's
going to be a Knicks final four in the NBA.
I just think about this for a second. In the
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final four of the NBA, it's going to be the Knicks.
The Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks. It's like
they're the Washington Generals for the Knicks that last year
when they won. But we got a little something something
for you already, don't worry about it. So the Knicks
and Pacers are synonymous. Then in the West is Devincenzo
and Julius Randall. Okay, Knicks up until last year part
of their run, and probably Hartenstein. So okay. So now
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we have just claiming every all Knicks Final four. It's
like it's a very It's like a Hallmark movie. It's
a very Nicks Christmas, a very Knicks Final four. How
many times did they show that Villanova commercial tonight? Oh
lots lots. Did that guy heavy heavy rotation for this one?
Because it was a Nick celebration. Yeah, it's been a
celebration since halftime, it's been a this is I told
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her tonight was going to be a party. Yeah. The
middle of that second quarter, five point fifty five left
in the second quarter is when the Celtics finally scored
their third basket of the quarter, seventeen for the quarter.
And that was it. Why I said I was cool.
I got to halftime and like, what do we talk about?
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This game sucks? So we'll have more on the greatest
sporting event in the last five years coming up in
the bank. Dude, I have no time for that. Tonight
I have bigger I have. I'm going to the I'm
going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time
in twenty two No, no, no, I mean I got bigger fish.
Yesterday we hit we had the guys strike out O'tani
and then just take the ball. I mean, come on,
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that was a big, big bobblehead night when he hit
two home runs. I did not watch one second of
the Mets and the Yankees, not one second. And you know,
Mitt the Mets, I've not watched one sing lying because
of that, because you know what, he didn't have the
TVs changed in the back though. I mean we were
here in nely an hour in the game telling me
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you didn't ask for thirty seconds of a long time
when Soo came out there for him? No, no, I didn't.
What not, I didn't fifteen second one he would have
been in his car for part of it. That would
have gotten weird. Not one secnd. I mean I did
see him, you know, you know, tip his cap to
the crowd. Uh. Yeah, that's okay, that's fine, that's great.
I will worry about that tomorrow. That's a sixth to
your final as my uh as my high school Jim Teacher.
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Mister Williams used to say, that's a story for another day.
There's a different story tonight, one ten seventy four with
six minutes left to go. But we'll have more on
the Knicks and the Celtics. However, big story from the
NFL today, Right, we thought the Broncolypse was coming, all
the different stories we had leaping up to it, and
the Brocolypse is here. Brock Purty and the forty nine
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ers agree to wait five year, two hundred and sixty
five million dollar contract, one hundred and eighty one million
dollars in overall guaranteed money. That is a fifty five
million dollar a year average for brock Purty, who will
likely see all of this money. Being his fourth year
in the league, young enough, he's gonna and look, at
some point it will seem like a bargain year, three
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year four. You know, perty's only getting fifty five million dollars.
So Perdy gets paid. We thought it was coming, and
it's here. And there's two big things I can tell you.
Why did Perdy get paid? Why did he get paid
this kind of money when he has been a good quarterback? Right,
He's been good. Has he been a top quarterback in
the league. No, but he's been good, right. He had
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a really good promise his first year in a little
bit more than half a year, had a really good
second year, got to the super Bowl. Not a good
third year, right when the when the weapons got hurt
and he didn't have as many the forty nine ers
weren't very good. Right, So that that's his year. Bud's
generally how things work in the NFL, though, if your
weapons are no good an elite quarterback, if you're Josh Allen,
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it doesn't matter if you're throwing the Stefon Diggs or
if you're throwing two Quandre Diggs. Doesn't matter. But there's
always going to be a gap between guy one and
two and the next ten. Yeah. But but there's gonna
be players that make other players better, that are good
no matter who they're throwing to. And then there's players
who are good when they have a lot of weapons
around them. I've played two thirds of his passes. It
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was twenty and twelve with a ninety six rating. Like
all the things, all the metrics we want to do,
I don't know. Yeah, twenty and twelve, is that fifty
five million dollars a year. Well that was Matthew Stafford
last year. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you who
was twenty in twelve. Yeah, okay, But also the Rams
got within a hair's breadth of the Super Bowl. So
there is that where the Niners were sitting and they say,
and they had it packed in beginning of December, said,
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if we're going to do that, you did the staff things.
So twenty and twelve is not fifty five. You want
to lean a little bit more while and also talking
about a guy that won a Super Bowl, that's been
to a couple of super bowl you know, Matthew Stafford's
kind of had a good one. He's in the last
year and last year he was much better the second
half than brock perty was and he nearly got his
team to the Super Bowl, right his guys, and they
were playing well down the street. You want to argue
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with me about something that I'm not arguing with you about.
I'm saying brock Purty is pretty good. I don't know what.
Why Why are you just mad that the Knicks are winning?
Brought up his stats and dismissed that. So is that
a great year? Is twenty and twelve a great year. No,
is it a good year? Yes? Did I say it
was a good year. It's a good year. It's a
good year. The next are winning. I'm sorry, I'm sorry
the Knicks are winning, but they're winning. I said it
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was a good year. It's a good year. He got
He played pretty well. He's a good quarterback. Why did
he get paid? He got paid. A lot of reasons
is because of where he came from in the draft.
He's mister irrelevant, right, so when he comes in all
of a sudden, it looks like you got really lucky.
And I'm sure the Niners have had to hear, and
John Lynch has had to hear the last few yar, boy,
look how lucky we got. They know we got lucky.
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We drafted a guy that we didn't even know if
he was going to make the team, and here he
is now potentially our franchise quarterback who got us to
a super Bowl and is young and suddenly as someone
we didn't have to spend a big high draft pick on.
We got really lucky. And we can't let the lucky
guys leave, because, boy, if you if you got lucky
and a guy and let him leave. What does that
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tell you? Now, flip this around, if instead of being
mister Irrelevant, brock Purty was taking third overall in the
draft like Trey Lance, what would people be saying? What
would be his contract situation? Are you ready to give?
Are they ready to give brock Purty fifty five million
dollars a year with the number three overall pick in
the draft and what he's done so far? Instead, it's more, Eh,
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maybe we'll figure out something, maybe we'll franchise you something else.
But he's not getting fifty five million because the pedigree
of him coming into the league. The team would expect more,
and the city would expect more, the fans would expect more,
and the whole push behind why the universal love for
brock Purdy is out there wouldn't quite be what it
is because he seems like he's a lucky fine so
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let we have to reward him and keep him. Whereas
if he was a number three overall pick, it would
be yeah, he's been good, but eh, is he a
guy we want to commit to? Is he really? When
you come with that high a pedigree, there's going to
be a different way you're looked at. Now. It shouldn't
matter because once you get into the NFL, you get
to the NFL and it's okay, Well, it doesn't matter
if a guy was taking three overall or mister irrelevant.
What you do on the field is what matters. But
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because of where he came from and where he could
have been, there's a completely different outlook for his career.
And part of the reason why he got paid is
because he was he was a lucky find. He was
he was a he was a pot of gold at
the end of the rainbow. That's what it was, and
that's part of the reason why Perdy got this fifty
five million dollars deal. At some level, you could go
to the we've we've been able to underpay for several years,
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so you're owed because we certainly see those deals back
end of negotiations, go back to Kobe's final deal and
so many others where you're like, is that guy really
should he be getting this money? He's like, well, he's
worth more than what he is doing necessarily on the court.
Right when you look at what he guys are to
an organization for perty, you're also looking at the larger
quarterback landscape where he is, where whether he can be
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great again as you reset the offense. Right, a lot
of those guys are gone. You're hoping Christian McCaffrey comes back.
You're hoping George Kittle is the guy he was the
second half. At some point father time gets him too, right,
or wrestling or he becomes a wrestler the other one.
But I mean, are you Debo's gone? Like you know,
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you've got all these moving parts. Yeah, Jennings came up
big for them. So you're hopeful that, all right, a
year of health whatever you reconstitute that offensive line that
you trust your brain, your brain trust that you're going
to be able to make him that guy he was
two years ago. If all the component parts are there,
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and the quarterback landscape, look at look at what it's
a mess, right, we can say all we want, all right,
next year's draft class looks good, all right in theory,
and guys take shots in theory. But we've done that
how many times? Right, and even brought with Rock Perdy's class,
a bunch of guys that never made a damn bit
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of a move movement in the NFL. So you found
the lucky penny, as you like to say. So, Yeah,
there's a there's a little bit of that of of hey,
now the expectation, but once you start playing. Yeah, I
mean we've heard for two years. Should they paid brock
Party That's been a very hot debated topic, certainly in
the world of sports TV and radio. And I look
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around the like, where where do you place him? He's
still top ten, top twelve guy? Right, he's getting paid
a seventh just because he's the next man up. Yeah,
look right, It's all about timing and that's and that's
the other reason why did Perdy get paid? Because we're
starting to ask the wrong questions when a quarterback gets
paid fifty who deserves fifty million? Fifty five million? Because
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that's a big way Brock Purty deserved this money. I
can give you a better answer than that, because I'll
tell you it doesn't matter if you think he deserves
the money or he doesn't. When a team, teams know
that it is miserable without a quarterback, they know life
is absolutely miserable because they see the teams that every
year try to churn through and try to find a quarterback.
Jets have been trying to find a quarterback for thirty years.
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Like when you find a guy who all he's gotta
do is be a periphery top fifteen quarterback, right like party,
you know Purty is he at his best, he's a
periphery top ten, probably more of a twelve or fifteen,
but he's someone that is good enough you can win
with him, and he doesn't need to be replaced. And
when teams have a quarterback like that, now we're gonna
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keep them. We're gonna give him what we need to
because A, it's a quarterback, and B it's miserable with
that are we gonna do better if we let him go?
This is why Trevor Lawrence got fifty five million, tremendously overpaid,
because the Jaguars way, we took him high, and boy,
things could always be worse even though he's not that great.
Why did Gino Smith get a three year extension with
the Raiders? They've been living. They know what life is
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like without a quarterback. So let's take a guy who
probably is, you know, a league average, maybe a tiny
bit more than league average at his best. This is
why guys get these extensions, because they know how miserable
life is. So it doesn't it's not that a guy
needs to be a top seven, top eight guy to
get paid in mortas. Just if you're a top fifteen
quarterback or someone we don't feel the need to replace,
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we're gonna give you a lot of money because we
know how miserable life is without a quarterback. Those two reasons,
that's why I brought perty got paid. Well, you're the
guy in the room. So you know, in the case
of the Jaguars, it's a have we failed this guy
and we don't want him to go be successful somewhere else. Right,
he was supposed to be the chosen one, right, We
laugh about it. Use the Star Wars line all the time.
(27:34):
Generational guy. That's what he was coming out of college.
Didn't they do him right? Right? Go back to Urban
Mile if you admire and everything that went down there.
If you're shot con or you're sitting there and you're
making the A value, it was like, well, can we
give him one more shot? Try to put some talent
around him, and maybe it works. Right, you make the
big swing, you go get a big star to come alongside,
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and maybe you get some juice from that. But you know,
for the forty nine ers, they're one of the few
teams where you say, organizational stability is something that they
come to the table with with the luxury of all right,
we've watched Brock succeed. What are the things that have
made him successful in the past, and just owing it
to star power is fine? All right? Ayuk has been good,
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degrade at times, debo when utilized properly. Before he started
carrying the ball eight times a game and getting broken
in half. It got cute, right it it works two
times a game. Hey, you know what if we did
it five times a game would be even better. Oh wait,
he's not eligible to play these last couple of games.
The doctors won't clear him. Damn it. Maybe we went
too far. But all of that and banking on McCaffrey's
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legs for another year with the amount of usage, But
all of that to say you believe that with the
right structure and right players, that Brock perty's that guy.
Why go searching in the wasteland that is free agency
or the roll of the dice of the draft. You
did that, Trey Lance? Yeah you remember that that didn't work? Yeah,
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I mean, look, and because that's that's you know, go
to go back to my first point about getting you know,
taking you know and making sure you pay brock party.
Also that gets into that, Okay, well we got lucky
getting the guy, and we spent the third overall pick
we traded up to get this guy, and Trey Lance
gave them nothing. So that's more pressure to say, we
really got to keep party because we thought we had
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the quarterback position right for the next decade. And the
guys aren't even on the team anymore. So that's more
of the pressure of we gotta keep party. It's look there,
you're in a perfect spot right now. If you're a
quarterback and you can be a league average guy, you're
gonna get paid, and you're gonna get paid a lot.
You're gonna get forty fifty million dollars a year. That
that's how it's three years ago was you're really good,
you'll get twenty five million year, But now no, we
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have double bat in the last three years. That's it.
The escalation of the salary there, wide receivers, cornerbacks, you
name it all the way through down to your edge rushers.
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Well time to find out what's trending right now in
the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called
the Boston Celtics of Fox Sports Radio. Oof, she's had
a long day and is ready to go home. It's Montylos.
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I mean I have had a long day. I'm not
ready to go home just yet.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
But that is That was good.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
That made me laugh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It was all Nicks total domination from start to finish
against the Celtics. One nineteen to eighty one was the
final score. All five of New York starters ended in
double digits, but Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, og Onenobi,
and Michel Bridges all ended with twenty or more points.
Jalen Brown, fouled out late in the third quarter for Boston,
ended with twenty and was the leading scorer for the Celtics.
(30:59):
So the Knicks're gonnae Indiana on Wednesday in Game one of.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The Eastern Conference Finals. Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Thank you Go, New York, New York Go.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
On another NBA news Nuggetsport, Aaron Gordon has been diagnosed
with the left hamstring strain and his status is in
doubt according to ESPN. For Game seven against the Oklahoma
City Thunder, which is on Sunday. In the NHL, the
Maple Leaves kept their season alive.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Leaves corral get it out at setter brought to the
line and hard.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
To the net of Paccheratte, fucked Paccharatte pouted home at
a deflection on a great player to the front of
the net. The each league.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
And they hold on.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
They beat the Panthers in game six to zero, so
they're headed to a game seven.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And they were scoreless.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Up until the last ten minutes of the third period,
and the Maple Leaves pull it out. They stay alive
in the NHL playoffs. In baseball, the Pirates are now
on top of the Phillies, saying thanks to a three
run shot from Alexander Canadio, it's three to one against
the Phillies' bottom of the seventh inning. Bottom of the
ninth inning, with the Cardinals on top of the Royals
ten to three after seven innings, the Astros are beating
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the Rangers six to two. The Twins, who have won
eleven in a row, trying to make it twelve. Right now,
they're shutting out the Brewers three zero, and they're about
to start the bottom of the ninth inning. In Milwaukee,
the Diamondbacks on the scoreboard first against the Rockies, three zero,
top of the fourth inning. The Mariners also on top
of the Padres, three zero, bottom of the fourth Angels
on the scoreboard first against the Dodgers in the freeway series,
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to zero, bottom of the second inning.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
The Yankees did defeat.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
The Meds six to two.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Aaron Judges Battie four fourteen.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Aaron Judge, he.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Was two of four and today's win Juan Soto wins
zero for two with two walks in the loss. The
Tigers held on five to four against the Blue Jays.
Detroit is the first team to reach thirty wins.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
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Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Rain Radio studios.
Coming up next, we'll break down what we saw and
I already have my first fearless prediction for the Conference finals.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is over
in New York. It has been over for a couple
of hours. But it was a party, the biggest party
MSG has seen. There were more. I think there were
more stars at the game they showed in the final
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five minutes. Then I think at a Hollywood premiere, well,
I think they all realized they were going to get
massive screen time in the final minutes because there was
nothing else really going on. Once you got bat into
the second halfs like, all right, who else is here?
If you were sitting in road thirty seven, yeah, they
showed you you got an opportunity to be on screen
in a row. Who's that guy? He was the fifth
(34:02):
lead of some movie from nineteen ninety seven, but he's
here tonight. He was He was in season four of
Sons of Anarchy. He played a guy. Uh, he was
a third gang member. He can tell this a second.
We got a real quick story for we do play
the day I found out yesterday that one of Zoe's
teammates on her softball team, her dad's an actor and
(34:26):
was in Sons of Anarchy. No kidding was had a
pretty big role in one season. I was like, oh
my good, because because because Pam goes, he goes, doesn't
he look like? I said, yes, Oh my god. He
ran the one Niners. He ran the one Niners after
they killed Leroy sorry spoiler they killed. He ran the
one Niners. I was like, oh my god. I'm like,
I want to go say something to him, like, hey,
how's the one Niners do? And I was like, oh
(34:48):
my good. I'm like, he ran the one Niners. Gotta
be careful though, who I mean, you've had incidents, you know, yeah,
urinals in other places that sometimes could get out of sorts. Yeah, no, No.
I met Bruce Willison yurt and it was, you know,
it was a little weird. It's a little weird starting
quoting or what you'd be Kay, did you ever redo moonlighting? Dude?
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(35:32):
plays we could choose from. But how about this when
even the most staunchest of die hard Celtics fans had
to realize, Okay, it's over for us. When you bury
the Celtics, you get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Payne gets the rebound with the shot clock turned off.
If you want to knock off the champions, you have
to play like champions.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
And the Knicks did that tonight A one nineteen eighty.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
One A way they out on that. No one in
the NBA saw Cubar aside for the New York Nicks
themselves Nicks and six and they're on their way to
the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time at twenty
five years.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Oh, that's even better than Deuce McBride shot at the
end of the first half. There's your final call, Nicks
Radio Network, The Knicks going on. They go to the
conference finals every twenty five years, whether you like it
or not. Mike Harmon, No, God bless. I love the
way they play Thibodeau not getting fired. See there you
go and us and now he's the hero of the
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New York He's the gig in New York again. I'm
the king and he was to you if you didn't
know anything about the game, they had the scoreboard off
and they showed you just watched the fourth quarter, and
you spent most of the time watching TIBs, you would say,
are the Knicks losing by twenty? I mean, are the
Knicks are we have to go to Game seven against
the Celtics on Sunday because no matter what they're up,
(36:54):
Forty still got my arms fall. It's almost like he's
got his arms crazy glued, so he doesn't have to
hold his arms up like he's crazy glued together with
his arms folded. Is he found that that's less stress
on his shoulders in that position, I think it would
be on his back and he's not you know, slump
slumping over. Yeah, I could be. That would have helped
Phil Jackson. It was Phil getting out of that chair,
(37:16):
I'll tell you. But but your you're Pointatibodeau, I mean,
it is key right because on the broadcast and you
and I just sitting there. It's like we remember Games
one and two, huge leads loss from from Boston. Now
again they they beat the snot out him. It's the uh,
the bin line. I didn't know whether it was gonna
quit first, your spirit or your body. Uh and and
(37:39):
well here was both because I mean it was a
merciless transaction. But you got that call and so many
people had left to go party in the streets. You
had the individual voices coming through. It's been it's been
a party since the middle of the second quarter for
the Knicks, who were in the conference finals. And I'll
tell you this right right away what I've been saying
(37:59):
all yeah, see you in a few days. Indiana got
a little something something for you off for last year,
Nixon for care for what you wish you particular cho
I don't have a choice. We're playing the Pacers. Rick
Carlisle is already complaining about the officiating. You can just
bow down's already. He's already upset. Well, we're better than
the Pacers. We're better than they are. You were last
year and then everybody got hurt. You know who we finished.
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We finished the year. Mark Jackson was playing point guard
for us. He was actually joyer celebration. He was this
next week he was calling the game and playing point
guard for the Knicks. He was doing both at the end.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Last Mark Jackson referenced, I mean it, Rick Carlo. I'm
sure Rick Carlo is having a press conference stat I
really really helped the officiating gets called. I helped the
big market teams. Uh, don't get the benefit of the
doubt like they tend to because all the because all
the calls and Knicks have been getting the last twenty
five years in the playoffs, Yes, all of them. Uh,
I'm sure he's complaining about it. Now. Which who's the
(38:54):
more allegiant to Mark Jackson? I mean he has he's got,
you know, tie to bowl. Does he hate the Knicks?
Because everybody's on board that bandwagen so he can jump
on the other side. I think everybody who was once
it's like, what the Knicks are one of those teams
where once a nick, always a nick, for for good
or bad. Right, Once a nick, always a nick, and
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so you know he's a nick every They're all that
ex make sure Jr. Smith is a nick. You saw
the video he put out the other night when the
Knicks went up to nothing on the Celtics. If you played,
if you walked onto the arena wearing a Knick's hat,
you're a Nick Jr. Smith in that video, watching it
and reacting was making sounds I didn't think were human.
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The squeakiness, pitchiness, whatever it got weird, It really did.
It's like is he stepping on a cat? Ya? Everybody
gets excited, it's exciting. Oh look, I aspired to that.
I'm actually responding to folks on Twitter going, ah, you know,
it's not insufferable. I aspire to that level of energy
and excitement. I don't have it. I'm chronicling all the
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winds in my life. Guess what, they always end in fives.
And in twenty twenty five, listen, you had a long time,
You had a pope that could have a squashed the
Caleb Williams hate Chicago story. B gott you the number
one pick in the draft. And the pope doesn't either
of those things. But he didn't do this. No, which
is a more Catholic city, Boston? Oh, you know, Irish
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or everywhere? I banded them the Irish, you abandoned the
I band them there abandoned the Boston Catholics banded the
Irish in their day. Let the Knicks not only did
they win, they rolled right over him and he did
nothing to stop it. Oh you're like, you're like Delroy
Lindo and Sentner's excited to get the Irish beer from
Chicago right well, as soon as he says what it is.
(40:42):
I mean, come on, how excited for you when you
saw Delroy Lindo pop up from that harmonica And I
didn't know he was in it. I didn't know he
was in it was in See, I didn't spoil those
for you. Oh, come on, you got a bad pope man,
all of a susse. He went from the toast of
the town. He's a bad pope signing Grafts on baseball.
So you know Nicks in. We have more on this
game and more in another big story out of the
(41:05):
NBA coming up next. What is Michael Jordan gonna be
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Lasso enjoying things courtside the Knicks. I could just listen
(01:22):
to this for a second two minutes to go in
the third quarter. The party is underway at MSG the
Knicks lead the Celtice. I should say it like Marv
Albert does. The Knicks leave the Celtics eighty nine to
fifty one with a minute fifty seven left to go
in the third quarter. Uh, it has been all Nicks
(01:44):
from the jump. Make it ninety two fifty one after
an ognunobi three. I think Joe Mizzoula is gonna call
time out and they're all gonna leave. I think it's out,
just gonna leave, and it's just gonna be a big party.
Michael Strahan is excited. This is the bill. Look at
Stathology you got you got Marbury there, this is this
is a party, Mike Harmon. It is an absolute party.
(02:05):
But you're gonna be the disapproving girlfriend with the coat
over her arms, going we can leave whenever you want to.
I know you're having fun, but we can leave whenever
you want to. You're gonna play that role tonight. I
can already tell. I can already tell, just by your countenance,
just by the way you are, just by you're gonna
be that. I'm ready to leave. I didn't want to
go to this party at all. I'm ready to go home.
This is where you have your kid who's hopped up
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on sugar and you let them run around hoping that
at some point they just fall out napping. That's where
I'm at right now, because I have already had forty
minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show. Huh.
And I've said for a very long time there's a
jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've
tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Judy, shut up, Okay,
(02:53):
all right, I'm not happy when your teams get, you know,
the little success they have, So I mean, I thought
you'd be happy for me, but okay, to a point where,
because you're screaming at at the like thirty five, they're
going to win to go to the Eastern Conference Finals
for the first time since I was in my thirties. Yeah,
but that was presumptive when we got to halftime when
(03:14):
Kendrick Perkins said they needed to find Jesus to play
the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics.
They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you know,
what they need. And there's a pause, and you know,
everybody on sets looking at him, nervous what he's gonna say.
To find Jesus, he said they'd go on a diet
if the Knicks blew the lead. They would go on
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a diet. If the Knicks blew this lead at halftime
and they have grown it out. Yeah, it is a
forty one point Nick lead, now ninety two to fifty
one with just under a minute half to go with
the third quarter, Bird and Michale are ready to check
in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter. I don't
even think they wore them. They don't want any minutes
of this. This is where you go find what was
(03:56):
that guy's uh oh, the ninety three Dino Raja and
guys like that. We start bringing those guys in or
to get some minutes. But like Jalen Brown did what
Nikola Jokic did the other night, except this is an
elimination game. Yeah, and he tapped out. Porzingis is sick.
I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I
have no idea what's going on there. I hope he
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finds whatever solution he needs in the offseason. He's ready
for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort, right,
You're down six to start the second quarter. You score
four points in the first half of the second quarter,
and then it's like you wave the white flag. Right. Effort.
Plays are non existent. You're seeing reaching falls, just sloppy play.
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It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like, all right,
we're down twenty five, what are we gonna do. Let's
run the shot clock down to two and then you're
still contesting every shot, because I mean, that's the celebration
of what the Knicks have been here. They smelled the
blood in the water like any shark movie and attack
the hell out of this squad. So I give full
credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they needed
(05:06):
in the fuel of the New York media to go
finish this thing off, because they never let the Celtics
get a quarter breadth, no once. Once it really started
to get out of hand in the middle of that
second look. And this is why I told you all
week when I can't no one believe me when I
said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told you
(05:27):
we're gonna lose Game five, We're gonna show up and
kind of play, all right, well kind of play if
the game is there, maybe they try to close in
the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls out
of the game five thousand one quarter, Karl Anthony Townsend
foul trouble. I said, Okay, this is how it's gonna go.
But it's gonna be a different story on Friday night.
What if I said the last two days, Hey, Friday night,
(05:48):
I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first
time in twenty two years. I was absolutely fine because
I knew this was the next team we were gonna
see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday, I knew was
gonna Hey, okay, we're not gonna get Rick Buker had
a great comment on that with us the other night, saying, hey,
there's lots of teams in the NBA that come in
to close out type games like the Knicks did, and
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and you know, like we've seen in the playoffs elsewhere
as well, where it's been hey, we know we're not
going to get the calls, and if the calls go
against you. In the beginning of the game at Sea
we're not getting him. Let's put it away for the
next game. And that's kind of what the Knicks. Didn't
we see that it's not just the next thing to
do that strategy. Sure, and I toold it, but tonight
was gonna be different. It was gonna be physical, and
(06:30):
it was gonna be a Karl Anthony Towns night. And
this was how it was going to go. Guys didn't believe.
You thought I was nervous and Frostburg's going on, what
are you gonna say in game Seve, what are you
saying game seven? I knew we're never getting to Game
seven because this was going to be the game we're
going to get tonight. You did not predict a forty
point burial and that the Celtics would quit. I said,
I said, when I say fifteen, last night, I said
(06:51):
ten to fifteen. We met our I said, no, no,
there's a difference between Hey, we win by ten because
down the stretch we're making free throws and finishing the
job right Jalen Bronson getting to the follow up versus
I should have said fifty here win by fifty. Look
in game betting, I was laughing before it was thirty
thirty two when you and I were sitting before we
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started this soire on a big Friday night party for you.
Where it sits now? I can only uh, I can
only guess because it's it's bloomed it is now at
it's still only thirty three. If you really want to
go that, that's basically saying the Knicks are going to
quit and start sipping wine playing fourth quarter something like that.
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They're they're relegated, they have to take half court shots
or whatever the case may be. But you know, the
you're officiating thing from the other night rings true, and
there are a number of times where it's just like, really,
that's that's a continuation fall. Again, it's a thirty point game,
so who the hell cares thirty five? But at the
time it was thirty five. Karl Anthony Towns gets falled
(07:56):
quite clearly. Al Horford bangs him three feet off this
spot and then he goes, ah, forget it, I'll take
the extra step and throw the ball up, all right,
and one it's like what are we doing? So again
the officiating issue, but by that point it's long gone.
I mean, Jalen Brown tapped out, So all of the
talk and we heard this got really loud about what
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a better effort they get when Jason Tatum isn't there.
Just just hang up your microphones, just quit. You know,
the record is not always indicative of what you're gonna get,
and you can do things for one game. We've seen
that time and time again in playoffs. We've seen it
in the regular season, the heavy underdogs that can come
(08:38):
up no matter the sport, and certainly in the NBA,
as you alluded to, the all right, it's really not
coming together for us. We'll live to see another day.
There's no reason to play another twenty labor and you know,
laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence,
look at what I did there. Yeah, I went full
on Dictionary and my literary world. But like, when you
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only play five or six guys, why play them an
extra twenty minutes when you're done? So that strategy the
other day certainly comes to bear. But from Missoula and Company,
like when, when exactly did you quit? Like that's the
first question I would ask him in the post thing
would you quit? The Knicks? Where the Knicks have been
playing tonight, they're playing with a twenty five point lead,
like the game is tied. There's been no let up.
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There's been no open shots for the Celtics because the
Knicks have decided, hey we're up by twenty six and
everything is fine. There's been no running around defensively. It
has been there playing this game. Like in fact, you
would think the Knicks, if they win this game, would
be winning the NBA Finals. The way that the Knicks
are playing, the way fans are responding, we will be
going to the Eastern They still have two more rounds
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to finish, but eight more wins. But hey, we're going
to the Eastern Conference finals. And the party is like
we're winning it all, like that's what it is. But
that's okay, But that's party like that watching that that connection, right,
and you know me I. One of the mantras to
the Sho Show is the love of live events because
very few places in the world you have energy and
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agreement of what's going on, and the energy going in
the same spot. So the fans feeding off the effort,
the players feeding back off the fans, and that frenzy.
You know, every shot is contested. There's no way, all right,
I missed the assignment. It's like No, they're still cursing
at each other. You had a play down low where
Jalen Brown loses the ball and it gets tapped and
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eventually goes off his leg. They were up thirty five,
and they immediately three guys are signaling the Thibbaeau to
challenge it, which they did and they won the challenge.
It's that kind of thing. Look, I'm not saying I
don't love it. I just I just have a headache.
Look the Nicks, they came out for blood. They came
out for blood, and it's a party, right, That's That's
exactly what May Shalom has been shown ninety seven times.
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Spike Lee doesn't have to accost the referee chasing him
down the court. He's just sitting there. No, doesn't he's got,
he's gotten. He's pissed because he's got no role to that.
We don't need. Coach Bike is just as happy as
he should be when they show him. He's like, I
wanted a contested game. What do you got, Frostburg? And
this game is so out of hand that the Necks
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have just rolled out four players to play four on five.
They're going with my team is on the court and
one of them's Clyde Fraser, Ben Stiller, Stefan Marbury and
bad Bunny. I think we have We probably were winning
by thirty three right now, going by twenty five, we're
going so now all right, now, I guess twenty eight
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and a half has gone to an aff kicking on Wednesday.
This is very poor Frostburg. So now are you gonna
be because you're with obviously we celebrate you. So that's
where it ends. It doesn't just end after the game.
It's you'll celebrate tonight and ends after tonight at eleven
o one eleven to give him DAPs you in the face. Okay,
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all right, that's and the duel will come in. So
the celebration is tonight. Who cares about tomorrow? Celebration tonight,
and it's go Indy, go ind you go. All right.
Bill Bradley is at the game. Yeah, I haven't seen
Bill Bradley. I really thought you were gonna start singing.
We've got tonight. We who needs tomorrow? I'm doing a
little bats making last babe. Ten minutes to go in
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the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the Celtics ninety six
to sixty two. We will begin our Knicks Pacers Eastern
Conference Finals preview coming up a little bit as we'll
have more on this game as the party tonight is
going to be off the hook. We've already ordered pizza.
We had all kinds of pizza and wings coming. It
is a Knicks party Friday. But coming up next as
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we continue to track the biggest game of the night,
always freely, all the time, maybe the biggest game all year?
Coming up next? Do we have an NFL story coming
your way? Because somebody really got paid? Go New York,
Go New York. Gos And when does Tatum come in? Wow?
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In the next time next to next official? I'm out?
You know what? He would have at least wheeled himself
around and give you an effort. Actually, Tatum O'Neill is
coming in. Who's coming about that? Shack's brother TJ. Click,
you know you're ruin my youre ruined my bad news
Bears line tysher, you know that today you're about to win?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, it's nothing he says or plays. He can play.
Everybody wants to rule the world forty five times.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In a run.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't care. Yeah whatever, that doesn't matter. That's counts
could get killed by the Yankees. Oh there was no
baseball Tony. I don't care. I don't care. I have
bigger fish to Friday night than that. Right, I'll worry
about it. I'll worry about the Mets and the Yankees tomorrow.
That's fine. Bigger fish tonight. First time in twenty two years,
we're going to the Eastern Conference Finals. Okay, it's all good.
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It's like we're counting down to New Year. All the
shots outside Madison Square Garden. Everybody's cheering. Hey, the ball
is dropping. The ball is dropped. What do you think
the security cost is across the city of New York? Oh? Man,
you know, not a great night to start the subway
series with the Mets. And then you want to talk
about overtime being put in for by police and first responders. Hey,
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I've been retired six years. Look I need you for
three nights. We got the baseball series, they got whatever
the hell goes on with the Knicks. Eight and a
half to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead
the Celtics one oh four to sixty eight. Ac Earl
has checked in for the Celtics. I think you're think
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it's my guy. All I want to show all the
love I can all the obscure Celtics from like the
early two thousands and the late nineties when they were
done winning and it was hey, we're trying to make
it work with Dee Brown, all right, let's go. Yeah,
good times those late nineties trading cards like aw, look
at those Celtics. And then you eventually got to Antoine Walker.
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Oh yeah, we'll got to. Yeah, we'll get to eventually
you got to Yeah. No, you had a number of
years with Finn Baker. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, sure, yeah
we'll get that. We'll get that. Then Baker is one
of my heroes though. I mean the amount of money
that guy made and then in his post career, I
mean he did he did well. It is a It's
going to be a Knicks final four in the NBA.
I just think about this for a second. In the
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final four of the NBA, it's going to be the Knicks.
The Pacers who are synonymous with the Knicks. It's like
they're the Washington Generals for the Knicks that last year
when they won. But we got a little something something
for you already, don't worry about it. So the Knicks
and Pacers are synonymous. Then in the West is Devincenzo
and Julius Randall. Okay, Knicks up until last year part
of their run, and probably Hartenstein. So okay. So now
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we have just claiming every all Knicks Final four. It's
like it's a very It's like a Hallmark movie. It's
a very Nicks Christmas, a very Knicks Final four. How
many times did they show that Villanova commercial tonight? Oh
lots lots. Did that guy heavy heavy rotation for this one?
Because it was a Nick celebration. Yeah, it's been a
celebration since halftime, it's been a this is I told
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her tonight was going to be a party. Yeah. The
middle of that second quarter, five point fifty five left
in the second quarter is when the Celtics finally scored
their third basket of the quarter, seventeen for the quarter.
And that was it. Why I said I was cool.
I got to halftime and like, what do we talk about?
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This game sucks? So we'll have more on the greatest
sporting event in the last five years coming up in
the bank. Dude, I have no time for that. Tonight
I have bigger I have. I'm going to the I'm
going to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time
in twenty two No, no, no, I mean I got bigger fish.
Yesterday we hit we had the guys strike out O'tani
and then just take the ball. I mean, come on,
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that was a big, big bobblehead night when he hit
two home runs. I did not watch one second of
the Mets and the Yankees, not one second. And you know,
Mitt the Mets, I've not watched one sing lying because
of that, because you know what, he didn't have the
TVs changed in the back though. I mean we were
here in nely an hour in the game telling me
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you didn't ask for thirty seconds of a long time
when Soo came out there for him? No, no, I didn't.
What not, I didn't fifteen second one he would have
been in his car for part of it. That would
have gotten weird. Not one secnd. I mean I did
see him, you know, you know, tip his cap to
the crowd. Uh. Yeah, that's okay, that's fine, that's great.
I will worry about that tomorrow. That's a sixth to
your final as my uh as my high school Jim Teacher.
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Mister Williams used to say, that's a story for another day.
There's a different story tonight, one ten seventy four with
six minutes left to go. But we'll have more on
the Knicks and the Celtics. However, big story from the
NFL today, Right, we thought the Broncolypse was coming, all
the different stories we had leaping up to it, and
the Brocolypse is here. Brock Purty and the forty nine
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ers agree to wait five year, two hundred and sixty
five million dollar contract, one hundred and eighty one million
dollars in overall guaranteed money. That is a fifty five
million dollar a year average for brock Purty, who will
likely see all of this money. Being his fourth year
in the league, young enough, he's gonna and look, at
some point it will seem like a bargain year, three
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year four. You know, perty's only getting fifty five million dollars.
So Perdy gets paid. We thought it was coming, and
it's here. And there's two big things I can tell you.
Why did Perdy get paid? Why did he get paid
this kind of money when he has been a good quarterback? Right,
He's been good. Has he been a top quarterback in
the league. No, but he's been good, right. He had
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a really good promise his first year in a little
bit more than half a year, had a really good
second year, got to the super Bowl. Not a good
third year, right when the when the weapons got hurt
and he didn't have as many the forty nine ers
weren't very good. Right, So that that's his year. Bud's
generally how things work in the NFL, though, if your
weapons are no good an elite quarterback, if you're Josh Allen,
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it doesn't matter if you're throwing the Stefon Diggs or
if you're throwing two Quandre Diggs. Doesn't matter. But there's
always going to be a gap between guy one and
two and the next ten. Yeah. But but there's gonna
be players that make other players better, that are good
no matter who they're throwing to. And then there's players
who are good when they have a lot of weapons
around them. I've played two thirds of his passes. It
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was twenty and twelve with a ninety six rating. Like
all the things, all the metrics we want to do,
I don't know. Yeah, twenty and twelve, is that fifty
five million dollars a year. Well that was Matthew Stafford
last year. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you who
was twenty in twelve. Yeah, okay, But also the Rams
got within a hair's breadth of the Super Bowl. So
there is that where the Niners were sitting and they say,
and they had it packed in beginning of December, said,
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if we're going to do that, you did the staff things.
So twenty and twelve is not fifty five. You want
to lean a little bit more while and also talking
about a guy that won a Super Bowl, that's been
to a couple of super bowl you know, Matthew Stafford's
kind of had a good one. He's in the last
year and last year he was much better the second
half than brock perty was and he nearly got his
team to the Super Bowl, right his guys, and they
were playing well down the street. You want to argue
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with me about something that I'm not arguing with you about.
I'm saying brock Purty is pretty good. I don't know what.
Why Why are you just mad that the Knicks are winning?
Brought up his stats and dismissed that. So is that
a great year? Is twenty and twelve a great year. No,
is it a good year? Yes? Did I say it
was a good year. It's a good year. It's a
good year. The next are winning. I'm sorry, I'm sorry
the Knicks are winning, but they're winning. I said it
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was a good year. It's a good year. He got
He played pretty well. He's a good quarterback. Why did
he get paid? He got paid. A lot of reasons
is because of where he came from in the draft.
He's mister irrelevant, right, so when he comes in all
of a sudden, it looks like you got really lucky.
And I'm sure the Niners have had to hear, and
John Lynch has had to hear the last few yar, boy,
look how lucky we got. They know we got lucky.
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We drafted a guy that we didn't even know if
he was going to make the team, and here he
is now potentially our franchise quarterback who got us to
a super Bowl and is young and suddenly as someone
we didn't have to spend a big high draft pick on.
We got really lucky. And we can't let the lucky
guys leave, because, boy, if you if you got lucky
and a guy and let him leave. What does that
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tell you? Now, flip this around, if instead of being
mister Irrelevant, brock Purty was taking third overall in the
draft like Trey Lance, what would people be saying? What
would be his contract situation? Are you ready to give?
Are they ready to give brock Purty fifty five million
dollars a year with the number three overall pick in
the draft and what he's done so far? Instead, it's more, Eh,
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maybe we'll figure out something, maybe we'll franchise you something else.
But he's not getting fifty five million because the pedigree
of him coming into the league. The team would expect more,
and the city would expect more, the fans would expect more,
and the whole push behind why the universal love for
brock Purdy is out there wouldn't quite be what it
is because he seems like he's a lucky fine so
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let we have to reward him and keep him. Whereas
if he was a number three overall pick, it would
be yeah, he's been good, but eh, is he a
guy we want to commit to? Is he really? When
you come with that high a pedigree, there's going to
be a different way you're looked at. Now. It shouldn't
matter because once you get into the NFL, you get
to the NFL and it's okay, Well, it doesn't matter
if a guy was taking three overall or mister irrelevant.
What you do on the field is what matters. But
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because of where he came from and where he could
have been, there's a completely different outlook for his career.
And part of the reason why he got paid is
because he was he was a lucky find. He was
he was a he was a pot of gold at
the end of the rainbow. That's what it was, and
that's part of the reason why Perdy got this fifty
five million dollars deal. At some level, you could go
to the we've we've been able to underpay for several years,
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so you're owed because we certainly see those deals back
end of negotiations, go back to Kobe's final deal and
so many others where you're like, is that guy really
should he be getting this money? He's like, well, he's
worth more than what he is doing necessarily on the court.
Right when you look at what he guys are to
an organization for perty, you're also looking at the larger
quarterback landscape where he is, where whether he can be
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great again as you reset the offense. Right, a lot
of those guys are gone. You're hoping Christian McCaffrey comes back.
You're hoping George Kittle is the guy he was the
second half. At some point father time gets him too, right,
or wrestling or he becomes a wrestler the other one.
But I mean, are you Debo's gone? Like you know,
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you've got all these moving parts. Yeah, Jennings came up
big for them. So you're hopeful that, all right, a
year of health whatever you reconstitute that offensive line that
you trust your brain, your brain trust that you're going
to be able to make him that guy he was
two years ago. If all the component parts are there,
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and the quarterback landscape, look at look at what it's
a mess, right, we can say all we want, all right,
next year's draft class looks good, all right in theory,
and guys take shots in theory. But we've done that
how many times? Right, and even brought with Rock Perdy's class,
a bunch of guys that never made a damn bit
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of a move movement in the NFL. So you found
the lucky penny, as you like to say. So, Yeah,
there's a there's a little bit of that of of hey,
now the expectation, but once you start playing. Yeah, I
mean we've heard for two years. Should they paid brock
Party That's been a very hot debated topic, certainly in
the world of sports TV and radio. And I look
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around the like, where where do you place him? He's
still top ten, top twelve guy? Right, he's getting paid
a seventh just because he's the next man up. Yeah,
look right, It's all about timing and that's and that's
the other reason why did Perdy get paid? Because we're
starting to ask the wrong questions when a quarterback gets
paid fifty who deserves fifty million? Fifty five million? Because
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that's a big way Brock Purty deserved this money. I
can give you a better answer than that, because I'll
tell you it doesn't matter if you think he deserves
the money or he doesn't. When a team, teams know
that it is miserable without a quarterback, they know life
is absolutely miserable because they see the teams that every
year try to churn through and try to find a quarterback.
Jets have been trying to find a quarterback for thirty years.
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Like when you find a guy who all he's gotta
do is be a periphery top fifteen quarterback, right like party,
you know Purty is he at his best, he's a
periphery top ten, probably more of a twelve or fifteen,
but he's someone that is good enough you can win
with him, and he doesn't need to be replaced. And
when teams have a quarterback like that, now we're gonna
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keep them. We're gonna give him what we need to
because A, it's a quarterback, and B it's miserable with
that are we gonna do better if we let him go?
This is why Trevor Lawrence got fifty five million, tremendously overpaid,
because the Jaguars way, we took him high, and boy,
things could always be worse even though he's not that great.
Why did Gino Smith get a three year extension with
the Raiders? They've been living. They know what life is
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like without a quarterback. So let's take a guy who
probably is, you know, a league average, maybe a tiny
bit more than league average at his best. This is
why guys get these extensions, because they know how miserable
life is. So it doesn't it's not that a guy
needs to be a top seven, top eight guy to
get paid in mortas. Just if you're a top fifteen
quarterback or someone we don't feel the need to replace,
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we're gonna give you a lot of money because we
know how miserable life is without a quarterback. Those two reasons,
that's why I brought perty got paid. Well, you're the
guy in the room. So you know, in the case
of the Jaguars, it's a have we failed this guy
and we don't want him to go be successful somewhere else. Right,
he was supposed to be the chosen one, right, We
laugh about it. Use the Star Wars line all the time.
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Generational guy. That's what he was coming out of college.
Didn't they do him right? Right? Go back to Urban
Mile if you admire and everything that went down there.
If you're shot con or you're sitting there and you're
making the A value, it was like, well, can we
give him one more shot? Try to put some talent
around him, and maybe it works. Right, you make the
big swing, you go get a big star to come alongside,
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and maybe you get some juice from that. But you know,
for the forty nine ers, they're one of the few
teams where you say, organizational stability is something that they
come to the table with with the luxury of all right,
we've watched Brock succeed. What are the things that have
made him successful in the past, and just owing it
to star power is fine? All right? Ayuk has been good,
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degrade at times, debo when utilized properly. Before he started
carrying the ball eight times a game and getting broken
in half. It got cute, right it it works two
times a game. Hey, you know what if we did
it five times a game would be even better. Oh wait,
he's not eligible to play these last couple of games.
The doctors won't clear him. Damn it. Maybe we went
too far. But all of that and banking on McCaffrey's
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legs for another year with the amount of usage, But
all of that to say you believe that with the
right structure and right players, that Brock perty's that guy.
Why go searching in the wasteland that is free agency
or the roll of the dice of the draft. You
did that, Trey Lance? Yeah you remember that that didn't work? Yeah,
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I mean, look, and because that's that's you know, go
to go back to my first point about getting you know,
taking you know and making sure you pay brock party.
Also that gets into that, Okay, well we got lucky
getting the guy, and we spent the third overall pick
we traded up to get this guy, and Trey Lance
gave them nothing. So that's more pressure to say, we
really got to keep party because we thought we had
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the quarterback position right for the next decade. And the
guys aren't even on the team anymore. So that's more
of the pressure of we gotta keep party. It's look there,
you're in a perfect spot right now. If you're a
quarterback and you can be a league average guy, you're
gonna get paid, and you're gonna get paid a lot.
You're gonna get forty fifty million dollars a year. That
that's how it's three years ago was you're really good,
you'll get twenty five million year, But now no, we
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have double bat in the last three years. That's it.
The escalation of the salary there, wide receivers, cornerbacks, you
name it all the way through down to your edge rushers.
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Well time to find out what's trending right now in
the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called
the Boston Celtics of Fox Sports Radio. Oof, she's had
a long day and is ready to go home. It's Montylos.
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I mean I have had a long day. I'm not
ready to go home just yet.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
But that is That was good.
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That made me laugh.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
It was all Nicks total domination from start to finish
against the Celtics. One nineteen to eighty one was the
final score. All five of New York starters ended in
double digits, but Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony Towns, og Onenobi,
and Michel Bridges all ended with twenty or more points.
Jalen Brown, fouled out late in the third quarter for Boston,
ended with twenty and was the leading scorer for the Celtics.
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So the Knicks're gonnae Indiana on Wednesday in Game one of.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The Eastern Conference Finals. Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Thank you Go, New York, New York Go.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
On another NBA news Nuggetsport, Aaron Gordon has been diagnosed
with the left hamstring strain and his status is in
doubt according to ESPN. For Game seven against the Oklahoma
City Thunder, which is on Sunday. In the NHL, the
Maple Leaves kept their season alive.
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Leaves corral get it out at setter brought to the
line and hard.
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To the net of Paccheratte, fucked Paccharatte pouted home at
a deflection on a great player to the front of
the net. The each league.
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And they hold on.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
They beat the Panthers in game six to zero, so
they're headed to a game seven.
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And they were scoreless.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Up until the last ten minutes of the third period,
and the Maple Leaves pull it out. They stay alive
in the NHL playoffs. In baseball, the Pirates are now
on top of the Phillies, saying thanks to a three
run shot from Alexander Canadio, it's three to one against
the Phillies' bottom of the seventh inning. Bottom of the
ninth inning, with the Cardinals on top of the Royals
ten to three after seven innings, the Astros are beating
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the Rangers six to two. The Twins, who have won
eleven in a row, trying to make it twelve. Right now,
they're shutting out the Brewers three zero, and they're about
to start the bottom of the ninth inning. In Milwaukee,
the Diamondbacks on the scoreboard first against the Rockies, three zero,
top of the fourth inning. The Mariners also on top
of the Padres, three zero, bottom of the fourth Angels
on the scoreboard first against the Dodgers in the freeway series,
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to zero, bottom of the second inning.
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The Yankees did defeat.
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The Meds six to two.
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Aaron Judges Battie four fourteen.
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Aaron Judge, he.
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Was two of four and today's win Juan Soto wins
zero for two with two walks in the loss. The
Tigers held on five to four against the Blue Jays.
Detroit is the first team to reach thirty wins.
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Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch on Yes, Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Rain Radio studios.
Coming up next, we'll break down what we saw and
I already have my first fearless prediction for the Conference finals.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. It is over
in New York. It has been over for a couple
of hours. But it was a party, the biggest party
MSG has seen. There were more. I think there were
more stars at the game they showed in the final
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five minutes. Then I think at a Hollywood premiere, well,
I think they all realized they were going to get
massive screen time in the final minutes because there was
nothing else really going on. Once you got bat into
the second halfs like, all right, who else is here?
If you were sitting in road thirty seven, yeah, they
showed you you got an opportunity to be on screen
in a row. Who's that guy? He was the fifth
(34:02):
lead of some movie from nineteen ninety seven, but he's
here tonight. He was He was in season four of
Sons of Anarchy. He played a guy. Uh, he was
a third gang member. He can tell this a second.
We got a real quick story for we do play
the day I found out yesterday that one of Zoe's
teammates on her softball team, her dad's an actor and
(34:26):
was in Sons of Anarchy. No kidding was had a
pretty big role in one season. I was like, oh
my good, because because because Pam goes, he goes, doesn't
he look like? I said, yes, Oh my god. He
ran the one Niners. He ran the one Niners after
they killed Leroy sorry spoiler they killed. He ran the
one Niners. I was like, oh my god. I'm like,
I want to go say something to him, like, hey,
how's the one Niners do? And I was like, oh
(34:48):
my good. I'm like, he ran the one Niners. Gotta
be careful though, who I mean, you've had incidents, you know, yeah,
urinals in other places that sometimes could get out of sorts. Yeah, no, No.
I met Bruce Willison yurt and it was, you know,
it was a little weird. It's a little weird starting
quoting or what you'd be Kay, did you ever redo moonlighting? Dude?
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the play of the day, and well, there's so many
(35:32):
plays we could choose from. But how about this when
even the most staunchest of die hard Celtics fans had
to realize, Okay, it's over for us. When you bury
the Celtics, you get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Payne gets the rebound with the shot clock turned off.
If you want to knock off the champions, you have
to play like champions.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
And the Knicks did that tonight A one nineteen eighty.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
One A way they out on that. No one in
the NBA saw Cubar aside for the New York Nicks
themselves Nicks and six and they're on their way to
the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time at twenty
five years.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Oh, that's even better than Deuce McBride shot at the
end of the first half. There's your final call, Nicks
Radio Network, The Knicks going on. They go to the
conference finals every twenty five years, whether you like it
or not. Mike Harmon, No, God bless. I love the
way they play Thibodeau not getting fired. See there you
go and us and now he's the hero of the
(36:33):
New York He's the gig in New York again. I'm
the king and he was to you if you didn't
know anything about the game, they had the scoreboard off
and they showed you just watched the fourth quarter, and
you spent most of the time watching TIBs, you would say,
are the Knicks losing by twenty? I mean, are the
Knicks are we have to go to Game seven against
the Celtics on Sunday because no matter what they're up,
(36:54):
Forty still got my arms fall. It's almost like he's
got his arms crazy glued, so he doesn't have to
hold his arms up like he's crazy glued together with
his arms folded. Is he found that that's less stress
on his shoulders in that position, I think it would
be on his back and he's not you know, slump
slumping over. Yeah, I could be. That would have helped
Phil Jackson. It was Phil getting out of that chair,
(37:16):
I'll tell you. But but your you're Pointatibodeau, I mean,
it is key right because on the broadcast and you
and I just sitting there. It's like we remember Games
one and two, huge leads loss from from Boston. Now
again they they beat the snot out him. It's the uh,
the bin line. I didn't know whether it was gonna
quit first, your spirit or your body. Uh and and
(37:39):
well here was both because I mean it was a
merciless transaction. But you got that call and so many
people had left to go party in the streets. You
had the individual voices coming through. It's been it's been
a party since the middle of the second quarter for
the Knicks, who were in the conference finals. And I'll
tell you this right right away what I've been saying
(37:59):
all yeah, see you in a few days. Indiana got
a little something something for you off for last year,
Nixon for care for what you wish you particular cho
I don't have a choice. We're playing the Pacers. Rick
Carlisle is already complaining about the officiating. You can just
bow down's already. He's already upset. Well, we're better than
the Pacers. We're better than they are. You were last
year and then everybody got hurt. You know who we finished.
(38:22):
We finished the year. Mark Jackson was playing point guard
for us. He was actually joyer celebration. He was this
next week he was calling the game and playing point
guard for the Knicks. He was doing both at the end.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Last Mark Jackson referenced, I mean it, Rick Carlo. I'm
sure Rick Carlo is having a press conference stat I
really really helped the officiating gets called. I helped the
big market teams. Uh, don't get the benefit of the
doubt like they tend to because all the because all
the calls and Knicks have been getting the last twenty
five years in the playoffs, Yes, all of them. Uh,
I'm sure he's complaining about it. Now. Which who's the
(38:54):
more allegiant to Mark Jackson? I mean he has he's got,
you know, tie to bowl. Does he hate the Knicks?
Because everybody's on board that bandwagen so he can jump
on the other side. I think everybody who was once
it's like, what the Knicks are one of those teams
where once a nick, always a nick, for for good
or bad. Right, Once a nick, always a nick, and
(39:14):
so you know he's a nick every They're all that
ex make sure Jr. Smith is a nick. You saw
the video he put out the other night when the
Knicks went up to nothing on the Celtics. If you played,
if you walked onto the arena wearing a Knick's hat,
you're a Nick Jr. Smith in that video, watching it
and reacting was making sounds I didn't think were human.
(39:36):
The squeakiness, pitchiness, whatever it got weird, It really did.
It's like is he stepping on a cat? Ya? Everybody
gets excited, it's exciting. Oh look, I aspired to that.
I'm actually responding to folks on Twitter going, ah, you know,
it's not insufferable. I aspire to that level of energy
and excitement. I don't have it. I'm chronicling all the
(39:56):
winds in my life. Guess what, they always end in fives.
And in twenty twenty five, listen, you had a long time,
You had a pope that could have a squashed the
Caleb Williams hate Chicago story. B gott you the number
one pick in the draft. And the pope doesn't either
of those things. But he didn't do this. No, which
is a more Catholic city, Boston? Oh, you know, Irish
(40:18):
or everywhere? I banded them the Irish, you abandoned the
I band them there abandoned the Boston Catholics banded the
Irish in their day. Let the Knicks not only did
they win, they rolled right over him and he did
nothing to stop it. Oh you're like, you're like Delroy
Lindo and Sentner's excited to get the Irish beer from
Chicago right well, as soon as he says what it is.
(40:42):
I mean, come on, how excited for you when you
saw Delroy Lindo pop up from that harmonica And I
didn't know he was in it. I didn't know he
was in it was in See, I didn't spoil those
for you. Oh, come on, you got a bad pope man,
all of a susse. He went from the toast of
the town. He's a bad pope signing Grafts on baseball.
So you know Nicks in. We have more on this
game and more in another big story out of the
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