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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon chat with NFL Analyst Jason La Canfora on his Birthday and wonder who else has a birthday today!
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Well a big Monday night, Yes we do. We have
the daily Shador Sanders. Is he any good? Where's he
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gonna get drafted?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Story?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We told you every single day it's gonna be. But
from what we told you last week all the way
to the draft, and we have those stories today. But
big night tonight, WNBA. We thought it was gonna happen.
It was a FATA complete we knew over the course
of the year and then tonight as the draft continues
to roll on, here three rounds. The very first pick
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of the WNBA draft is a pick that a lot
of people saw coming, but still another incredible historical moment
for the WA draft, the Dallas City Slant. So you
con champion Page Beckers gets taken number one overall by
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the Dallas Wings. And look, before we get into the
the impact of Becker's and kind of player she is
and where the w at the sweet spot the WNBA
is And right now, let me just say this, right
as as a basketball fan, I really can't wait to
see how this Page Becker's Errikio gunbiwally backcourt goes next year.
Because the one thing a Gunbalwi loves more than anything
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is shooting the basketball. Yeah, she is a volume. I
believe she averages twenty two points on over nineteen shots
a game.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Are they gonna have to play ride paper scissors for
who gets to be the ball stop possession?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And here's the thing. Look, because look, Paige Beckers can
play ball, She could play point guard, she could play
off the ball, she's probably gonna wind up playing point guard.
I assume that'll be that'll be her career path. But wow,
a gun bo wally, just give me the ball and
then give it to me. Give it to me, give
it to me, give me, give me, give me, give me,
gim me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, we have a proof of concept that that Beckers
can distribute well, so she's gotta be feeling pretty good
at gunbally.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But that you're gonna have a lot of wide open looks.
How do I get my shots if if you take
all the shots. Well, I have to think it's my team.
I'm a WNBA superstar, so it's it's my I get
the shot. You pass the ball to me and I
take the shots. No, I mean she's gonna get hers.
I mean Beckers will get hers. But let'say, the the
shooting and scoring thing is already out there for Caitlyn
(04:03):
Clark right, that that role in the new and exciting
w NBA is already taken. So why don't you become
you know, the the assist right league assists too? So,
I mean, you know she's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wait, but is that why why people watch her? Is
that why people are saying she does that? I just
say it. We we we got to figure out what
you can be the best.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, No, passing the ball to Riqueo Gunbalwally is what
she the best.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And then Angel Reese on the boards rebounding her own shots.
So I mean all of that plays out well for
the twenty five twenty six campaign.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Look two things about about this because again it's a
really big moment. We'll tell you why in a second.
But first, everybody's gonna expect Page Beckers to be Caitlyn Clark. Right,
Caitlyn Clark was a number one overall pick. We knew
last year. Obviously, she's not quite the player that Caitlyn
Clark is. She's not quite the star. Nobody in the
w NBA is the star that Kaitlyn Clark is. Paige
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Beckers is a really good player, and she comes into
the league as a star. She's terrific. But understand, if
you're expecting to come in and go, oh, it's gonna
be Kaylyn Clark again, it's kately like Le's couldna be
hat making shots in the logo yet No, not quite
Paige Beckers. Page Becker's a little bit different player again,
not quite as not quite as dynamic, as as Caitlyn
Clark isn't clearly you know, maybe she had the more
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she comes back from her knee injuries and gets stronger,
she gets into her twenties and you know whatever, uh
weight training she gets on and her legs get stronger.
But to expect her, I mean, she's gonna be really good.
But you people are gonna see, wow, number one over
pick last year Kaitlyn Clark, great guard. Okay, yeah, great,
that's not gonna be what she is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, but you're also coming in a year after this
absolute tornado of press, of attention, of you know, the notoriety.
Is she gonna draw and sell out arenas to where
you're like, you know, we should be playing at the
bigger place.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You're not gonna have that fever again. But it is
nice for the league to be able to have another
star come in of that repute, of that that history
that we've been building. And we've certainly seen enough ads,
we've seen a lot of the build up. I thought
it was cool that you had a number of the
South Carolina players getting taken because you know, everybody a
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few go to the got some short shrift in terms
of you know attention during the final four. So on
draft night you got the big contingent there. But the
other part is, and this is the larger picture, there's
been a lot of promotion of the global game from
the w NBA side as well. You had two foreign
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Now you mentioned Caitlin Clark and other players, and this
is what the wn I want you to re how
rare the WNBA is. Something the WNBA has that hardly
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any other sports have except for the NFL. Right, the NFL.
For the longest time. Why has the NFL been this
huge monster ratings television wise? Why because every year five
or six new superstars come into the league. Organically, some
you get a little bit of hype behind some show up,
(07:26):
Hey I'm great, right, and you get five or six
new and I mean superstars coming into the league every
single year.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
The NBA doesn't have that. The NBA sometimes as well,
here's a third overall pick in year four, he is
really blossom. They don't have the organic superstars coming. Every
MLB is the same thing, right, you get drafted, it's
years before you make it in Major League Baseball. Of
all the major sports, the NFL is the only one
that every year say hey, an organic superstar comes in
and then year one they become a star. Not everybody,
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but with the large draft, thirty two teams, you're talking
about seven rounds, you get five or six new absolute
super duperstars a year. This is where the NBWNBA is
right now. They're in a sweet spot where every obviously
less teams now you're talking about half the teams in
the NFL, But it doesn't matter because now they are
in a spot where every year it's a sweet slet
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new superstars are coming into the league. Every multiple superstars go.
But last year Caitlyn Clark blows it up with Angel
Reese and Cameron Brink who barely played with big superstar.
Right now, this year, Paige Beckers comes in, Hailey Van
Liz who went from boys. She's famous because she's getting
roasted by Kitlyn Clark in the Final four too a.
Here she is leading another team with the Elite Eight
Hailey van Litz. Superstar Juju Watkins is on the way.
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They are in such a sweet spot where these organic
superstars are showing up every year. And this is when
you're gonna see they're not just gonna grow, They're gonna
They're gonna they're gonna grow. They're gonna grow not arithmetically,
but they're gonna grow geometrically with how much of a
big of a bite they continue to take out of
attention and relevancy. I mean, look, the W's made it right,
Caitlyn made the W last year. Now it's gonna be
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how do we keep it going? And as long as
you have the organic superstars that are coming in year
after year, that's gonna be it. Man, Because your last year,
this year, next year, and there's gonna be more players
coming in that like flow j. Johnson time going back
to school for one more year, so she's gonna be
out so her and and Juju Watkins most likely have
to wait and see where her injury is at but
like you're seeing the sweet spot now where here's a
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league of under fifteen teams where three plus new superstars
that people want to watch that are on TV all
the time are coming into league. This is an amazing
time right now. Well, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You've got captured the attention of the larger sports world,
which means you've captured the the dollars and the decision
makers giving it another look. How many commercials do we
see now? How much promotion for the draft?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Was there?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
A lot more the last couple of years. Merchandising sales
we see a number of teams have already sold out
their their season ticket package. Is part of that is
because people want to see the traveling Caitlin Clark road
show and.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Those that followed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But this is where we get into the the fun
conversation of what college basketball once was on the men's
side versus what it is for women's is that we're
getting the multi year gestation of stars that become household
names because we're more invested in the product part of it.
You know, it feeds each other. But this year, I
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think as a whole you watch college basketball maybe a
little tighter, right because because you got in with Caitlin Clark,
he got in with Angel Reyes, whatever. And it falls
to the neck with the NBA product. Who are the
two rookies that we're talking about. Most don't connected And look, man,
Brownie James h that's it. Yeah right, Reese's h had
(10:49):
a nice year, Stefan Castle had a great year for
a team that's stunk. Yeah right. I mean you go
on down the line. And that's part of the other
is those guys are going to get a lot of
national games because well they're bottom feeders. And once Wemby
got hurt that any anything that was scheduled for the
final four months of the season went out the window.
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But I think the college product and being able to
watch players grow and play, and we'll see how much
the transfer portal changes women's basketball the same way it
has men's. But and I'm not saying it's a bad
thing and just saying it certainly does take a little
getting used to of. Once you get used to a
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guy or now a woman playing for your squad is like, wait,
they're in a different uniform. Wait, now they're in their
third uniform in four years. But because of the current
rules between the college basketball WNBA, and how long you
have to stay in school you can get that name
recognition and build, especially if you put a couple of
final four runs together. The advertiser going to find you.
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The face is going to be out there, the name
is going to be out there a way we go.
I mean really, because if you're if you stay in college, right,
if you're you're in the Menzium and you stay in
college and you're coming out as a senior, it's yeah, yeah,
but he sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I had to stay.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But now, no, it's a little bit of the decision
point of wait, was he gonna be a first round pick?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Because that's what we've.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Been talking about on the men's side for a long
time of all, right, are your first round pick because
you get your guaranteed money. Otherwise you get into this
weird spot, right finishing school, going and playing overseas G League,
or rolling the dice that you are one of the
guys that cracks through as a second rounder. Now it's like, wait,
I can go back to school, like like Johnson, right,
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loj Johnson decides to go back to school. She got
probably a couple of big contracts. They're gonna pair more
than whatever the WNBA was, and probably close to a degree.
Like all of those things where like, all right, the
decision process, check these boxes, I'm done, I'm staying. But
the other part might have been I could be number one,
yeah oh sure, yeah, but but I'm gonna get paid
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to do this. But if actually I'm going to the league, right,
I'm gonna get paid because hey, I gotta maximize this.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Now, it's a one where you're making a lot of
money because you know, we all know, Hey, the WNBA
salaries are low. But it's like, okay, you're gonna get
some sort of endorsement.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Deal, but how big are those compared to the college game? Right,
especially if you're at an elite the eight to ten,
you can make more money here. I mean we talked
about it. On the men's side, rotational players, they're saying
it's half a million per in the portal.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So why would you go.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To the NBA if you if you have any questions
about being drafted as a first rounder. So it all
plays together, the billions of dollars at stake. But tonight
a huge night for the w NBA crowning in a
cup the next generation in Dallas, made the pick right.
There was a little bit of intrigue of maybe Paige
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Becker's pulling an Eli Manning, at least according to some
folks a week ago. I think it was all made
up so folks would pay more attention to potential chaos.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But here we go, Oh exit, how about a friend exit?
Swalling down the w It's in such a sweet spot
right now, and with the league being the side, it's
a great size. Yes, expansion is great, right Golden State
Valkyrie is gonna start playing this year. They drafted their
first player tonight. But you know the size that's at
right now. Every game you're gonna get a star player in.
I mean you can't. You can't say that in a
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lot of league. Can't say you're gonna get star players
a lot. You're gonna get star players every single night.
Stars a cut through that people want to see play.
It's I mean, they do. The NFL and the WNBA
are the only sports that do this right now. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well I would say this, you know, just to compartmentalize it,
because a lot of folks are either gonna ignore it
altogether or they're gonna be naysayers about it. Ratings they
lose money.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The product's still out there, products still there to consume.
What it makes, what it doesn't make is not your
damn concern. You either watch or don't the old Kevin Durant,
you know, Lego, don't watch. That's it like it don't watch, right,
I mean, if you want to ignore it, that's fine.
People that gravitate to it will find it. We appreciate
the game. We talk about it here because it is
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a growing piece of our sporting landscape, and we can
find stars and celebrate stars regardless of where they're playing.
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I'm gonna say no, Hey, Joe, thanks for trying. I'm
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, before we get to our next guest, it is
time to let you know the celebrities celebrating a birthday today.
Oh yeah, it includes Sarah Michelle Gellar's right glar, Adrian Brody,
who is still talking with his final speech at the
Academy Awards. He is fifty two. Abigail Breslin is twenty nine,
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twenty nine, Baker Mayfield turns thirty. Hey, Peter Capaldi doctor
who I saw him in this in the tube in
London when I went over last year.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Which doctor?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Who is he? He is sixty seven, not the seventh?
Doctor who he's the sixty seventh. And Robert Carlyle as
four years old giving us the full Monty but also
celebrating a birthday today. He joins us now on the
hot line. Longtime NFL Insider with Odyssey one of five
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seven the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. It is birthday
boy himself Jason Locking for have your birthday man.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh, thank you very much. That was quite an introduction.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well we try. It was gonna stop after Baker Mayfield,
but I figured I should keep going.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, Pete Rose Rip was an April fourteenth baby. And
this is also, I believe, the day the Titanic struck
the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Sure, yeah, wow, okay, yeah, so I left that stuff off.
That sounds like stuff like your family reminds you of.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I mean, I don't think anybody even remembers is my birthday,
which is perfectly fine by me. In fact, I was
convinced this is a true story. I was convinced I
was turning fifty two until about this time a week ago,
and then I realized, like, no, eight, I'm turning fifty one.
Now fifty six. I was thoroughly convinced I was already
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fifty one for probably the last six months.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You just got a year back. You can write a
book on that, how to get a year look back.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I mean, well, it's it's the kind of thing where
you're like, wow, wait a minute, I just did some
basic math and I did get half a year back.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
But ten.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's also like where my mentally that for six months
I didn't know my own age, Like so I mentally
ninety six. Like then I started taking like should I
be taking privaging or something like this can't be good
like this, there's no way this is a good side
more than I could book. Like like I found emails
where it's like, hey, I know that you said I
(19:34):
couldn't get disappointment until I was fifty two. I'm turning
fifty two in two weeks. Can I get on your list?
You know what I mean? Like there are multiple emails
where like medically relating stuff where I was like yeah, AnyWho,
So do.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You think in twenty years fifty one? Like do you
say that to yourself? Like every day on fifty one,
look in the mirror, fifty one, let's start the day one,
let's start today.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
It today?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Really I was actually fifty up until today. So I
have said it to myself several times today. Yes, I've
repeat it like a mantra.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm sixty one and that's good enough.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
When I turned fifty, my dad said to me, congratulations
on being closer to one hundred than you are to zero.
So I give you the same one.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
That's true. Hey, you better getting there than not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's true. That's true. Hey. So do you think, like
twenty years from now, Shedorse Sanders is going to say
I remember when I was a number one pick in
the draft? There no no, no your math like Jason
locking Forards is off. You were ninth, you were sixteenth,
you were twenty third. He's not going to the draft.
What do we read into this? You know, obviously doesn't
want to sit around and wait for his name to
be called. Is it? Is it really something where he
could fall that far?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
No, I don't read anything into in that regard. You know,
look good dad.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
One of the most savvy, business, savvy, marketing, branding, athletic
geniuses ever. I mean, really, thirty years before it's time. So,
I mean, maybe they just don't want to be an
uncompiscated part of the NFL Dog and Tony show. Right,
could be that, like in an era of name, image, likeness, portal,
(21:07):
you're gonna give me, you know, you gonna put me
up in a hotel and get me in per Dam.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You know what I mean, while you while you literally
milk every you know, piece of faux drama out of
how long I sit in this room, whether it ends
up being five minutes or five.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Hours or whatever, you know, Like, maybe he just doesn't
want to depart that maybe he'd rather do it his
own way with his friends and family and loved ones
in some other situation. So no, And I'm pretty sure
he'll know exactly where he was drafted, because there'll be
some teams that in his mind will rue the day
(21:41):
they didn't select him to be your your jetet sevative.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
They don't do it. Who knows.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I don't think he goes, you know, any further than
the Saints at nine, but maybe maybe he does. I'm
certainly not buying this, like, oh, Jackson Dark to be
the second quarterback, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not there.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I might not know how old I am, but I know.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well to that. And what do you make of the
workout that's being reported with the Giants on Thursday?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I don't make a whole lot of that either, But uh,
whodos are they also going to hang out with you know,
Travis Hunter for a few hours or what have you.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
There's only so much of this blogey that's left. Right,
you only have so many more days to talk to
these kids and do these workouts and things, and then thankfully,
you know, mercifully, you'll have to actually go ahead and
grant your kids and I won't have to think about
this craft for another nine months.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You go back to thinking about how old you're going
to be.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
All right, exactly, So, no, I mean I don't. I
just think it can't hurt. Why not.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I don't think they're taking a quarterback, but they certainly could.
I mean, they certainly have that need. And it's the
kind of thing where with a team like this, with
an owner like that who's been at this as long
as he has, and he's been fairly sort of effectless
and fruitless certainly at identifying your replacement for Eli Manning
(23:26):
and even realizing when it was time to move off
of Eli Manning, like he could, you know, wake up
that Thursday morning, walk into the war room while everybody
else is asleep or not at work yet or whatever,
or send them all out for lunch and just you
know what I mean, rearrange it and Shador Sanders is
now number one on our board because I want it
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and who's going to say no, I'm the owner. So
you gather all that information and you take advantage of
these opportunities. But at the end of the day, I
don't think this is the quarterback for that owner.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
But I could certainly be wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Again, don't know how old I am, So anything that
comes out of my mouth, take it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
For Jason locking for with those NFL inside. All right,
So really, when it comes to the draft, I'll give
you another number. Now it's really going to start it too, right,
It pretty much feels like a FATA complete. Cam Ward
goes number one to the Titans. But here is the
Browns who Jimmy Hasselm has said, we don't need to
force a quarterback. Well, okay, that means you don't like
shedor Sanders because you're not forcing the guy's gonna be
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there for you too. Because you pick second. They signed
Joe Flacco. Everything seems like they are going to go
away from the quarterback at two. What do they do?
Is it Travis Hunter? Is it something else? Is a
trade down?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Because to me, I think that's where the draft is
really gonna because that's where it starts.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I think it's Travis Hunter. I think it's Travis Hunter.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean it's two players in one, it's two positions
to need for them. Uh, it's somebody like this is
the same guy who drafted Johnny Manziel. Like the idea
of splash and glitz and you know, like like the
attention that that that does, that does resonate with him,
and they've become pretty bland and pretty block. I mean,
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the most excited and Meles Garrett the heck of a player,
right but like I mean with it, he's been one
of the best pass rushers on the planet for quite
a while now, and that's still kind of a bland
and block team. Like the most hype and hoopla they've
had in a long time was when Joe Flackel came
off his couch and took him to the playoffs. So
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I just think it's a generational player. You know, potentially
he couldn't have done anything more at the at the
previous level than he did. You're going to sell a
lot of jerseys, You're going to be interesting, people are
going to be you know, can this be football? So so Tawi,
I just think this guy is I think that's what
I think. You take him, like the other team takes
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the best quarterback. We take this, this freaking nature to
a player. And for me, the draft starts at three,
and my suspicion is that I'll blue Carter and that
they don't take this quarterback because the owner just doesn't
quite isn't quite feeling it, you know. And then we
see if offense some linemen start coming into play, or
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does Mason Graham come into play? I mean, I think
my guess is it kind of starts at four.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locking for that is at
Jason Lock and for be sure to wish him a
happy birthday today. Fifty one for Jason, one at a time,
fifty one yeah that time. Send them all pictures of
Brian Cox with the fifty one jersey when he's giving
the finger to everybody in the stands and buffle like that.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That is a good one.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
That is that is a good one. That's a timeless flut.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Take it easy, buddy, happy birthday. We'll tell you next
birth man. Thank you, Jason Locking for it. Look, yeah,
the draft is going to get so much fun. I really,
after one with the Browns and then the Giants at
the Ibriel, It's gonna get to be a ton of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, we were talking about it last week, just where
some of the odds are. It's kind of fun. While
we were talking with Todd Furman, just where you can
bet on the position your team is going to draft,
not getting to specific players, what are they doing in
the first round and the disparity and wide range of results,
absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Exit out bout a Fresca, Exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmen. Oh you
thought we were done with the celebrity birthdays today? You
thought we were done? Oh, Jason Lock and for well
he's on the show. He's got to be the only
one having a birthday today now to a man who's
been called the Jason Lock and for of Fox Sports Radio,
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except I'm pretty sure he knows how old he is
celebrating a birthday today? Is our own president Steve Desager.
Happy birthday, my friend.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Thank you very much for the good wishes. And it
has already been established tonight I am thirty nine day.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Jack Benny's textually done. Might be staying there. It's staying there.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Does anybody else have a birthday? To anybody else? There okay,
we gotta get them all. We gotta make sure you
take care everybody. Anybody else have one?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I had one last Thursday. You last without. I'm sorry
you miss thirty. We'll catch you in fifty one weeks.
I'll talk about that. Patrick, Yeah, should have let us
know sor right?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Right, wait and get the memo.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's everybody, all right, I'll bring you a cupcake.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Dodgers are up to nothing on the Rockies. Bottom of
the second. Mookie Bets a two run homer. This is
a Rockies team that's just three and twelve this year
and just got shut out three straight times in San
Diego over the weekend. The Padres are ten and zero
at home so far. Tonight, they are trailing two one
to the Cubs in the top of the fourth. Fernando
Tatist Junior with a solo homer in the third, but
the Cubs answered right back with a two run shot
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for Michael Bush after an air in the infield from
Manny Machado. This is off, Dylan sees Tonight's Padres starter
Cubs lead to one in the fourth. Detroit and Trek
School will a nine one winner at Milwaukee Pittsburgh and
Paul Skens defeated Washington ten to three. Saint Louis and
Sonny Gray, Who's three and oh beat Houston eight to three.
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The Mets are eleven and five this season. Five won
the final at Minnesota. Clay Holmes the winning pitcher with
five innings eight strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How did won Soda do tonight?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Steve Juan Soto with a two run homer in this game?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
How did Minnesota pitchers do throwing the ball to the
right base tonight?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Oh my goodness, the worst place, the most dangerous spot
on the field turned out to be standing on second
That the Twins pitchers this year so far have made
five errors in throwing the basis well, so they should
be traded to Boston and company.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Field.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Frank Thomas, I just yeah, it's just the one where
they they threw to the base and no fielder was
actually at the base, so it hit the Mets runner
in the backside.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
The backside, all right?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well, you know?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Uh, Speaking of Boston, they lost six sixteen to one
at Tampa Bay tonight. The losing pitcher, Tanner how two
and a third innings, ten earned runs allowed. The Yankees
hit four solo Homers off Kansas City loser seth Lugo
four to one Yanks.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
The final.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Braves were up eight to nothing at Toronto in the
fifth eight for the final. By the way, Blue Jay's
pitcher Max Scherzer will see a specialist again for his
thumb injury San Francisco at ten to four winner at Philadelphia.
Giants have a record on the road of eight and two.
Former Rookie of the Year Tommy Helms passed away at
the age of eighty three. He won that award with
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the Reds in nineteen sixty six. Helms was a Gold
Glove second baseman in nineteen seventy and seventy one and
an NFL father has passed away, Don Hasselbeck. According to
his son Matt, Don Hasselbeck suffered cardiac arrest and has
passed away today. This is a guy who at six
seven was a tight end drafted by the Patriots in
the second round nineteen seventy seven. Don Hasselback played a
(30:57):
little with the Raiders when they won the Super Bowl
nineteen eighty three. Other NFL news, former Pro Bowl defensive
back Patrick Peterson officially retired. He did not play last year.
Dallas and New Orleans each started their voluntary offseason workout programs,
including meetings, conditioning, and rehab work. Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons
reported for the start of voluntary workouts. The five other
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teams with new head coaches. They began workouts last week.
By the way, the other twenty five NFL teams start
them next week. NASCAR's off this Sunday for Easter WNBA
draft was tonight. Pagebackers Connecticut number one overall to Dallas,
which won the lottery last November. And the Phoenix Suns
fired coach Mike Budenholzer after one season. He was just
(31:41):
starting a five year, fifty million dollar contract. His team
just finished thirty six and forty six.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Love in the tire rack dot Com series.
This is a big birthday day here on.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I feel like any to like order cake or send
people out for buy them candy bars from the cutting.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Sure we could do that. That's a birthday. What would
you like? Three Musketeer? All right? I get that that's
the only thing left.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sea A little bit bigger than that, right, Well, we
can do that too.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Coming up next how about we celebrate the big birthday
days here by telling you the surprise teams that could
find their way out of the NBA play in. That's
that Cleveland's not in the play in. Not in the
player Yeah, pretty sure, I'll look again, though they won
a few games. Couple, It's coming up next, Jason and
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Speaker 3 (33:48):
Ed ripped anob off all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
So here we are getting set for the NBA Playing
Round to begin tomorrow night. The teams that weren't good
enough to finish in the top six all of a
sudden take center stage. Yeah, oh maybe this team bonus time.
Now it gets a little crazy to think that here's
teams getting out of the playing round that can actually
win around. But instead, how about we go over a
(34:12):
couple of surprise teams that can find their way out
of the playing round that you don't think are gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
This season's losers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I'll give you lest who are the who are they?
Running man last said that it was like to Haven
and Ellis last season's winners. No, last season's losers. That's
how Jim Brown said it, losers year.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
You really need to hit the proper salable.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now I'm gonna make you feel great or terrible, depending
on how you feel about my ability of prognostication, which
has been pretty good over the course of the last
few years. I will tell you this. I will take
the Bulls to get out of the playing round in
the Eastern.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
How you're talking bout it? Let's go.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here's the thing. The Eastern Conference play. The teams are terrible.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I thought you're said there's one problem with the.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
By but I wanted to make people, oh, okay, he's
not getting nout. They're all terrible. They all stink. Potentially,
could we get a good first round match if somehow
we had Orlando playing Cleveland, if Mitchell is hurting, No,
not really, the East the playing round stinks, but the
(35:22):
Bulls have been really good over the course of the
past couple of months. Right, you want to go back
to the to the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
As soon as they got rid of all the old
guard that went to Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I mean, look, they're dynamic. You know, Kobe White, you know,
having a run, rescoring thirty five points a night, and
Josh Giddy is doing everything. This is These are two
guys that have become so dynamic for the Bulls. The
record is seventeen and ten since the All Star Break,
which you know, when you're the Bulls, like, hey, that
was like a really bad few months in nineteen ninety two.
Now it's like, hey, this is fantastic. Uh yeah, keep
(35:52):
you yucking it up. First round exit again, and and
look and and and and Vucevic's has been playing really
well too, and they have a really good matchup with
him the first they can get hot for one or
two games and get out of the playing round and
into the playoffs. I would have truy of looking at it.
Look at these teams in the East. Who's it Diad,
They've played really well lately. They have the two most
dynamic players that are really peaking right now. Yeah, give
(36:16):
me the Bulls to get out of the playing round.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Buddy one and a half point favorites in this one.
On Wednesday night tickets as low as sixty bucks. That's
the one thing for this playing round.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Tickets are fairly affordable.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
They are.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, if you really want to go, kind to see
a playoff game, well, kind to see one.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, but I mean you're talking Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Chicago. Yeah, yeah,
I'll look to the dynamic scoring. You got the one
two punch. Miami is always interesting, right, there's always a
forty heater from Tyler hero and packed in here somewhere,
but certainly an identity that has been spotty since all
of the flap with Jimmy Butler. Atlanta, they're not playing
(36:56):
the Knicks, so they're not as motivated.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, I'll take Orlando tomorrow and then the Bulls to
beat the Hawks the night after, two nights after. Yeah,
give me the Bulls getting out of the East. The
Bulls are going to be in the playoffs. And I
can't believe this. What Kobe White yet hit a field goal?
He is oh for thirty two from the floor.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That would be something. Hey, look, if you're gonna go
down fail spectacularly. Sure, No, no, no, I get it,
I know, but I could I could see the path
it is there in the West.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
This this is more of I believe in the guy
that has the most to prove the only time the
spotlight's really going to be on him. Right, This is
going to be a really good Western Conference plan, right.
You see, the teams are the teams are pretty good.
But I look at who has the most at stake
over the course of the next few days and who
can really rewrite the narrative for his career. And that's
(37:54):
why I'm taking the Mavericks to find their way out
and into the playoffs. Because Anthony Davis can get hot
and carry the Mavericks for two games. And you know,
he's already talked about how big a deal it is.
You know, he's been talking to his teammates what it's
like to play in the playing round in X, Y
and Z. But of all the of all the players
there in the Western Conference, it is Anthony Davis that
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has the most at steak. You are the guy traded
for Luka donsis right, This is this is your chance
to have the linelight. Everybody else is off. Lucas off
the Laker, everything else is off. This is your chance.
And here's ad who can be the hero of the week.
By lifting the Mavericks up. He knows what's at stake.
I will take him to knock the Kings out, even
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though it's not a great matchup for them, and then
I'll take them to beat Memphis, who is, you know,
trying to figure things out with a new head coach
and where they're going forward. So give me the mav
I feel I feel much more on a on a
limb with the Mavericks they do with the Bulls, which
is insane, But I feel a little bit more. But
give me a d to find their way out of there.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I understand this right, This is a guy that could
have gone to Operation Shutdown in the post Luca trade. Uh,
But I'll give him credit something he didn't do when
he was a member of the Pelicans. He's playing with
some heart. So here you have the opportunity to go
and re rediscover that destiny. I still think they lose
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former Bulls, get them, they're too deep. Just because they're
former Bulls doesn't mean that. I mean, but they're good players,
you know what. But you know, you don't have to
have any fealty towards the former Bulls.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Just gotta be the game. You don't have to. You
can't pick. What if they weren't for what if they
were former Cavaliers players, what if they were former Pelicans players,
you wouldn't feel that.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I was just trying to give the team an identity
for those that have no idea. What is on the
Kings Zach Levine, DeMar j Rosen along. You know they're
able to go and do some things. Yeah, no, there
you go. There's a couple of names there and do
for Siboni's terrific. He's a fantastic player. So yeah, give me,
give me the man remembers old man. Give me a
(39:59):
D to carry them through with stat lines that you're
gonna say, wow, thirty five and sixteen and eight, give
me a D. I like that.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I D but I like the I like the cut
of your gym. I think I'm wrong, but I like it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Exit outbout a Fresco Exit Swollen Dome coming up next, Boy,
do we have a basketball story for you out of
the NBA. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, This
is Fox at Sports Radio. Happy birthday, Steve
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Well a big Monday night, Yes we do. We have
the daily Shador Sanders. Is he any good? Where's he
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gonna get drafted?
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Story?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We told you every single day it's gonna be. But
from what we told you last week all the way
to the draft, and we have those stories today. But
big night tonight, WNBA. We thought it was gonna happen.
It was a FATA complete we knew over the course
of the year and then tonight as the draft continues
to roll on, here three rounds. The very first pick
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of the WNBA draft is a pick that a lot
of people saw coming, but still another incredible historical moment
for the WA draft, the Dallas City Slant. So you
con champion Page Beckers gets taken number one overall by
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the Dallas Wings. And look, before we get into the
the impact of Becker's and kind of player she is
and where the w at the sweet spot the WNBA
is And right now, let me just say this, right
as as a basketball fan, I really can't wait to
see how this Page Becker's Errikio gunbiwally backcourt goes next year.
Because the one thing a Gunbalwi loves more than anything
(03:08):
is shooting the basketball. Yeah, she is a volume. I
believe she averages twenty two points on over nineteen shots
a game.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Are they gonna have to play ride paper scissors for
who gets to be the ball stop possession?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And here's the thing. Look, because look, Paige Beckers can
play ball, She could play point guard, she could play
off the ball, she's probably gonna wind up playing point guard.
I assume that'll be that'll be her career path. But wow,
a gun bo wally, just give me the ball and
then give it to me. Give it to me, give
it to me, give me, give me, give me, give me,
gim me.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well, we have a proof of concept that that Beckers
can distribute well, so she's gotta be feeling pretty good
at gunbally.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
But that you're gonna have a lot of wide open looks.
How do I get my shots if if you take
all the shots. Well, I have to think it's my team.
I'm a WNBA superstar, so it's it's my I get
the shot. You pass the ball to me and I
take the shots. No, I mean she's gonna get hers.
I mean Beckers will get hers. But let'say, the the
shooting and scoring thing is already out there for Caitlyn
(04:03):
Clark right, that that role in the new and exciting
w NBA is already taken. So why don't you become
you know, the the assist right league assists too? So,
I mean, you know she's.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wait, but is that why why people watch her? Is
that why people are saying she does that? I just
say it. We we we got to figure out what
you can be the best.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, No, passing the ball to Riqueo Gunbalwally is what
she the best.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
And then Angel Reese on the boards rebounding her own shots.
So I mean all of that plays out well for
the twenty five twenty six campaign.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Look two things about about this because again it's a
really big moment. We'll tell you why in a second.
But first, everybody's gonna expect Page Beckers to be Caitlyn Clark. Right,
Caitlyn Clark was a number one overall pick. We knew
last year. Obviously, she's not quite the player that Caitlyn
Clark is. She's not quite the star. Nobody in the
w NBA is the star that Kaitlyn Clark is. Paige
(05:00):
Beckers is a really good player, and she comes into
the league as a star. She's terrific. But understand, if
you're expecting to come in and go, oh, it's gonna
be Kaylyn Clark again, it's kately like Le's couldna be
hat making shots in the logo yet No, not quite
Paige Beckers. Page Becker's a little bit different player again,
not quite as not quite as dynamic, as as Caitlyn
Clark isn't clearly you know, maybe she had the more
(05:20):
she comes back from her knee injuries and gets stronger,
she gets into her twenties and you know whatever, uh
weight training she gets on and her legs get stronger.
But to expect her, I mean, she's gonna be really good.
But you people are gonna see, wow, number one over
pick last year Kaitlyn Clark, great guard. Okay, yeah, great,
that's not gonna be what she is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, but you're also coming in a year after this
absolute tornado of press, of attention, of you know, the notoriety.
Is she gonna draw and sell out arenas to where
you're like, you know, we should be playing at the
bigger place.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You're not gonna have that fever again. But it is
nice for the league to be able to have another
star come in of that repute, of that that history
that we've been building. And we've certainly seen enough ads,
we've seen a lot of the build up. I thought
it was cool that you had a number of the
South Carolina players getting taken because you know, everybody a
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few go to the got some short shrift in terms
of you know attention during the final four. So on
draft night you got the big contingent there. But the
other part is, and this is the larger picture, there's
been a lot of promotion of the global game from
the w NBA side as well. You had two foreign
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players of the top five. Let's go, yeah, first time
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Now you mentioned Caitlin Clark and other players, and this
is what the wn I want you to re how
rare the WNBA is. Something the WNBA has that hardly
(07:05):
any other sports have except for the NFL. Right, the NFL.
For the longest time. Why has the NFL been this
huge monster ratings television wise? Why because every year five
or six new superstars come into the league. Organically, some
you get a little bit of hype behind some show up,
(07:26):
Hey I'm great, right, and you get five or six
new and I mean superstars coming into the league every
single year.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
The NBA doesn't have that. The NBA sometimes as well,
here's a third overall pick in year four, he is
really blossom. They don't have the organic superstars coming. Every
MLB is the same thing, right, you get drafted, it's
years before you make it in Major League Baseball. Of
all the major sports, the NFL is the only one
that every year say hey, an organic superstar comes in
and then year one they become a star. Not everybody,
(07:56):
but with the large draft, thirty two teams, you're talking
about seven rounds, you get five or six new absolute
super duperstars a year. This is where the NBWNBA is
right now. They're in a sweet spot where every obviously
less teams now you're talking about half the teams in
the NFL, But it doesn't matter because now they are
in a spot where every year it's a sweet slet
(08:17):
new superstars are coming into the league. Every multiple superstars go.
But last year Caitlyn Clark blows it up with Angel
Reese and Cameron Brink who barely played with big superstar.
Right now, this year, Paige Beckers comes in, Hailey Van
Liz who went from boys. She's famous because she's getting
roasted by Kitlyn Clark in the Final four too a.
Here she is leading another team with the Elite Eight
Hailey van Litz. Superstar Juju Watkins is on the way.
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They are in such a sweet spot where these organic
superstars are showing up every year. And this is when
you're gonna see they're not just gonna grow, They're gonna
They're gonna they're gonna grow. They're gonna grow not arithmetically,
but they're gonna grow geometrically with how much of a
big of a bite they continue to take out of
attention and relevancy. I mean, look, the W's made it right,
Caitlyn made the W last year. Now it's gonna be
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how do we keep it going? And as long as
you have the organic superstars that are coming in year
after year, that's gonna be it. Man, Because your last year,
this year, next year, and there's gonna be more players
coming in that like flow j. Johnson time going back
to school for one more year, so she's gonna be
out so her and and Juju Watkins most likely have
to wait and see where her injury is at but
like you're seeing the sweet spot now where here's a
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league of under fifteen teams where three plus new superstars
that people want to watch that are on TV all
the time are coming into league. This is an amazing
time right now. Well, but that's it.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You've got captured the attention of the larger sports world,
which means you've captured the the dollars and the decision
makers giving it another look. How many commercials do we
see now? How much promotion for the draft?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Was there?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
A lot more the last couple of years. Merchandising sales
we see a number of teams have already sold out
their their season ticket package. Is part of that is
because people want to see the traveling Caitlin Clark road
show and.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Those that followed.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But this is where we get into the the fun
conversation of what college basketball once was on the men's
side versus what it is for women's is that we're
getting the multi year gestation of stars that become household
names because we're more invested in the product part of it.
You know, it feeds each other. But this year, I
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think as a whole you watch college basketball maybe a
little tighter, right because because you got in with Caitlin Clark,
he got in with Angel Reyes, whatever. And it falls
to the neck with the NBA product. Who are the
two rookies that we're talking about. Most don't connected And look, man,
Brownie James h that's it. Yeah right, Reese's h had
(10:49):
a nice year, Stefan Castle had a great year for
a team that's stunk. Yeah right. I mean you go
on down the line. And that's part of the other
is those guys are going to get a lot of
national games because well they're bottom feeders. And once Wemby
got hurt that any anything that was scheduled for the
final four months of the season went out the window.
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But I think the college product and being able to
watch players grow and play, and we'll see how much
the transfer portal changes women's basketball the same way it
has men's. But and I'm not saying it's a bad
thing and just saying it certainly does take a little
getting used to of. Once you get used to a
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guy or now a woman playing for your squad is like, wait,
they're in a different uniform. Wait, now they're in their
third uniform in four years. But because of the current
rules between the college basketball WNBA, and how long you
have to stay in school you can get that name
recognition and build, especially if you put a couple of
final four runs together. The advertiser going to find you.
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The face is going to be out there, the name
is going to be out there a way we go.
I mean really, because if you're if you stay in college, right,
if you're you're in the Menzium and you stay in
college and you're coming out as a senior, it's yeah, yeah,
but he sucks.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I had to stay.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But now, no, it's a little bit of the decision
point of wait, was he gonna be a first round pick?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Because that's what we've.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Been talking about on the men's side for a long
time of all, right, are your first round pick because
you get your guaranteed money. Otherwise you get into this
weird spot, right finishing school, going and playing overseas G League,
or rolling the dice that you are one of the
guys that cracks through as a second rounder. Now it's like, wait,
I can go back to school, like like Johnson, right,
(12:38):
loj Johnson decides to go back to school. She got
probably a couple of big contracts. They're gonna pair more
than whatever the WNBA was, and probably close to a degree.
Like all of those things where like, all right, the
decision process, check these boxes, I'm done, I'm staying. But
the other part might have been I could be number one,
yeah oh sure, yeah, but but I'm gonna get paid
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to do this. But if actually I'm going to the league, right,
I'm gonna get paid because hey, I gotta maximize this.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Now, it's a one where you're making a lot of
money because you know, we all know, Hey, the WNBA
salaries are low. But it's like, okay, you're gonna get
some sort of endorsement.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Deal, but how big are those compared to the college game? Right,
especially if you're at an elite the eight to ten,
you can make more money here. I mean we talked
about it. On the men's side, rotational players, they're saying
it's half a million per in the portal.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
So why would you go.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To the NBA if you if you have any questions
about being drafted as a first rounder. So it all
plays together, the billions of dollars at stake. But tonight
a huge night for the w NBA crowning in a
cup the next generation in Dallas, made the pick right.
There was a little bit of intrigue of maybe Paige
(13:49):
Becker's pulling an Eli Manning, at least according to some
folks a week ago. I think it was all made
up so folks would pay more attention to potential chaos.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
But here we go, Oh exit, how about a friend exit?
Swalling down the w It's in such a sweet spot
right now, and with the league being the side, it's
a great size. Yes, expansion is great, right Golden State
Valkyrie is gonna start playing this year. They drafted their
first player tonight. But you know the size that's at
right now. Every game you're gonna get a star player in.
I mean you can't. You can't say that in a
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lot of league. Can't say you're gonna get star players
a lot. You're gonna get star players every single night.
Stars a cut through that people want to see play.
It's I mean, they do. The NFL and the WNBA
are the only sports that do this right now. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Well I would say this, you know, just to compartmentalize it,
because a lot of folks are either gonna ignore it
altogether or they're gonna be naysayers about it. Ratings they
lose money.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The product's still out there, products still there to consume.
What it makes, what it doesn't make is not your
damn concern. You either watch or don't the old Kevin Durant,
you know, Lego, don't watch. That's it like it don't watch, right,
I mean, if you want to ignore it, that's fine.
People that gravitate to it will find it. We appreciate
the game. We talk about it here because it is
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a growing piece of our sporting landscape, and we can
find stars and celebrate stars regardless of where they're playing.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack
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Are extraordinaire. What to read into the big news about
who is and who isn't coming to the NFL Draft
this season. That's coming up next right here, Jason and
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Speaker 2 (15:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (16:35):
We come on right as they finish their coverage, and
we'll either praise or excoriate your teams and their general managers.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Are you gonna leave Joe Douglas alone? Or are you okay?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Do I need to separate you?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I'm gonna say no, Hey, Joe, thanks for trying. I'm
gonna say that, and then I'm gonna say I could
have I'm gonna give Christopher want to go. I could
have used another offensive lineman. I couldn't used it. I
could he use another one? Well, you cycled through about
fifteen or twenty. Could he use another offensive lineman? To
stay stay healthy?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Go and uh give him the Bart Simpson cake. At
least you tried.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now, before we get to our next guest, it is
time to let you know the celebrities celebrating a birthday today.
Oh yeah, it includes Sarah Michelle Gellar's right glar, Adrian Brody,
who is still talking with his final speech at the
Academy Awards. He is fifty two. Abigail Breslin is twenty nine,
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twenty nine, Baker Mayfield turns thirty. Hey, Peter Capaldi doctor
who I saw him in this in the tube in
London when I went over last year.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Which doctor?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Who is he? He is sixty seven, not the seventh?
Doctor who he's the sixty seventh. And Robert Carlyle as
four years old giving us the full Monty but also
celebrating a birthday today. He joins us now on the
hot line. Longtime NFL Insider with Odyssey one of five
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seven the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. It is birthday
boy himself Jason Locking for have your birthday man.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Oh, thank you very much. That was quite an introduction.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well we try. It was gonna stop after Baker Mayfield,
but I figured I should keep going.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, Pete Rose Rip was an April fourteenth baby. And
this is also, I believe, the day the Titanic struck
the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Sure, yeah, wow, okay, yeah, so I left that stuff off.
That sounds like stuff like your family reminds you of.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
I mean, I don't think anybody even remembers is my birthday,
which is perfectly fine by me. In fact, I was
convinced this is a true story. I was convinced I
was turning fifty two until about this time a week ago,
and then I realized, like, no, eight, I'm turning fifty one.
Now fifty six. I was thoroughly convinced I was already
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fifty one for probably the last six months.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You just got a year back. You can write a
book on that, how to get a year look back.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I mean, well, it's it's the kind of thing where
you're like, wow, wait a minute, I just did some
basic math and I did get half a year back.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
But ten.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
It's also like where my mentally that for six months
I didn't know my own age, Like so I mentally
ninety six. Like then I started taking like should I
be taking privaging or something like this can't be good
like this, there's no way this is a good side
more than I could book. Like like I found emails
where it's like, hey, I know that you said I
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couldn't get disappointment until I was fifty two. I'm turning
fifty two in two weeks. Can I get on your list?
You know what I mean? Like there are multiple emails
where like medically relating stuff where I was like yeah, AnyWho,
So do.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You think in twenty years fifty one? Like do you
say that to yourself? Like every day on fifty one,
look in the mirror, fifty one, let's start the day one,
let's start today.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
It today?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Really I was actually fifty up until today. So I
have said it to myself several times today. Yes, I've
repeat it like a mantra.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm sixty one and that's good enough.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
When I turned fifty, my dad said to me, congratulations
on being closer to one hundred than you are to zero.
So I give you the same one.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
That's true. Hey, you better getting there than not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's true. That's true. Hey. So do you think, like
twenty years from now, Shedorse Sanders is going to say
I remember when I was a number one pick in
the draft? There no no, no your math like Jason
locking Forards is off. You were ninth, you were sixteenth,
you were twenty third. He's not going to the draft.
What do we read into this? You know, obviously doesn't
want to sit around and wait for his name to
be called. Is it? Is it really something where he
could fall that far?
Speaker 6 (20:40):
No, I don't read anything into in that regard. You know,
look good dad.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
One of the most savvy, business, savvy, marketing, branding, athletic
geniuses ever. I mean, really, thirty years before it's time. So,
I mean, maybe they just don't want to be an
uncompiscated part of the NFL Dog and Tony show. Right,
could be that, like in an era of name, image, likeness, portal,
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you're gonna give me, you know, you gonna put me
up in a hotel and get me in per Dam.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You know what I mean, while you while you literally
milk every you know, piece of faux drama out of
how long I sit in this room, whether it ends
up being five minutes or five.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Hours or whatever, you know, Like, maybe he just doesn't
want to depart that maybe he'd rather do it his
own way with his friends and family and loved ones
in some other situation. So no, And I'm pretty sure
he'll know exactly where he was drafted, because there'll be
some teams that in his mind will rue the day
(21:41):
they didn't select him to be your your jetet sevative.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
They don't do it. Who knows.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
I don't think he goes, you know, any further than
the Saints at nine, but maybe maybe he does. I'm
certainly not buying this, like, oh, Jackson Dark to be
the second quarterback, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not there.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I might not know how old I am, but I know.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Well to that. And what do you make of the
workout that's being reported with the Giants on Thursday?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I don't make a whole lot of that either, But uh,
whodos are they also going to hang out with you know,
Travis Hunter for a few hours or what have you.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
There's only so much of this blogey that's left. Right,
you only have so many more days to talk to
these kids and do these workouts and things, and then thankfully,
you know, mercifully, you'll have to actually go ahead and
grant your kids and I won't have to think about
this craft for another nine months.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You go back to thinking about how old you're going
to be.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
All right, exactly, So, no, I mean I don't. I
just think it can't hurt. Why not.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I don't think they're taking a quarterback, but they certainly could.
I mean, they certainly have that need. And it's the
kind of thing where with a team like this, with
an owner like that who's been at this as long
as he has, and he's been fairly sort of effectless
and fruitless certainly at identifying your replacement for Eli Manning
(23:26):
and even realizing when it was time to move off
of Eli Manning, like he could, you know, wake up
that Thursday morning, walk into the war room while everybody
else is asleep or not at work yet or whatever,
or send them all out for lunch and just you
know what I mean, rearrange it and Shador Sanders is
now number one on our board because I want it
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and who's going to say no, I'm the owner. So
you gather all that information and you take advantage of
these opportunities. But at the end of the day, I
don't think this is the quarterback for that owner.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
But I could certainly be wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Again, don't know how old I am, So anything that
comes out of my mouth, take it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
For Jason locking for with those NFL inside. All right,
So really, when it comes to the draft, I'll give
you another number. Now it's really going to start it too, right,
It pretty much feels like a FATA complete. Cam Ward
goes number one to the Titans. But here is the
Browns who Jimmy Hasselm has said, we don't need to
force a quarterback. Well, okay, that means you don't like
shedor Sanders because you're not forcing the guy's gonna be
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there for you too. Because you pick second. They signed
Joe Flacco. Everything seems like they are going to go
away from the quarterback at two. What do they do?
Is it Travis Hunter? Is it something else? Is a
trade down?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Because to me, I think that's where the draft is
really gonna because that's where it starts.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
I think it's Travis Hunter. I think it's Travis Hunter.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I mean it's two players in one, it's two positions
to need for them. Uh, it's somebody like this is
the same guy who drafted Johnny Manziel. Like the idea
of splash and glitz and you know, like like the
attention that that that does, that does resonate with him,
and they've become pretty bland and pretty block. I mean,
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the most excited and Meles Garrett the heck of a player,
right but like I mean with it, he's been one
of the best pass rushers on the planet for quite
a while now, and that's still kind of a bland
and block team. Like the most hype and hoopla they've
had in a long time was when Joe Flackel came
off his couch and took him to the playoffs. So
(25:37):
I just think it's a generational player. You know, potentially
he couldn't have done anything more at the at the
previous level than he did. You're going to sell a
lot of jerseys, You're going to be interesting, people are
going to be you know, can this be football? So so Tawi,
I just think this guy is I think that's what
I think. You take him, like the other team takes
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the best quarterback. We take this, this freaking nature to
a player. And for me, the draft starts at three,
and my suspicion is that I'll blue Carter and that
they don't take this quarterback because the owner just doesn't
quite isn't quite feeling it, you know. And then we
see if offense some linemen start coming into play, or
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does Mason Graham come into play? I mean, I think
my guess is it kind of starts at four.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locking for that is at
Jason Lock and for be sure to wish him a
happy birthday today. Fifty one for Jason, one at a time,
fifty one yeah that time. Send them all pictures of
Brian Cox with the fifty one jersey when he's giving
the finger to everybody in the stands and buffle like that.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
That is a good one.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
That is that is a good one. That's a timeless flut.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Take it easy, buddy, happy birthday. We'll tell you next
birth man. Thank you, Jason Locking for it. Look, yeah,
the draft is going to get so much fun. I really,
after one with the Browns and then the Giants at
the Ibriel, It's gonna get to be a ton of fun.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Well, we were talking about it last week, just where
some of the odds are. It's kind of fun. While
we were talking with Todd Furman, just where you can
bet on the position your team is going to draft,
not getting to specific players, what are they doing in
the first round and the disparity and wide range of results,
absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Exit out bout a Fresca, Exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmen. Oh you
thought we were done with the celebrity birthdays today? You
thought we were done? Oh, Jason Lock and for well
he's on the show. He's got to be the only
one having a birthday today now to a man who's
been called the Jason Lock and for of Fox Sports Radio,
(27:45):
except I'm pretty sure he knows how old he is
celebrating a birthday today? Is our own president Steve Desager.
Happy birthday, my friend.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
Thank you very much for the good wishes. And it
has already been established tonight I am thirty nine day.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Jack Benny's textually done. Might be staying there. It's staying there.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
Ok.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Does anybody else have a birthday? To anybody else? There okay,
we gotta get them all. We gotta make sure you
take care everybody. Anybody else have one?
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I had one last Thursday. You last without. I'm sorry
you miss thirty. We'll catch you in fifty one weeks.
I'll talk about that. Patrick, Yeah, should have let us
know sor right?
Speaker 6 (28:22):
All right?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Right, wait and get the memo.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
That's everybody, all right, I'll bring you a cupcake.
Speaker 8 (28:27):
Dodgers are up to nothing on the Rockies. Bottom of
the second. Mookie Bets a two run homer. This is
a Rockies team that's just three and twelve this year
and just got shut out three straight times in San
Diego over the weekend. The Padres are ten and zero
at home so far. Tonight, they are trailing two one
to the Cubs in the top of the fourth. Fernando
Tatist Junior with a solo homer in the third, but
the Cubs answered right back with a two run shot
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for Michael Bush after an air in the infield from
Manny Machado. This is off, Dylan sees Tonight's Padres starter
Cubs lead to one in the fourth. Detroit and Trek
School will a nine one winner at Milwaukee Pittsburgh and
Paul Skens defeated Washington ten to three. Saint Louis and
Sonny Gray, Who's three and oh beat Houston eight to three.
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The Mets are eleven and five this season. Five won
the final at Minnesota. Clay Holmes the winning pitcher with
five innings eight strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
How did won Soda do tonight?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Steve Juan Soto with a two run homer in this game?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
How did Minnesota pitchers do throwing the ball to the
right base tonight?
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Oh my goodness, the worst place, the most dangerous spot
on the field turned out to be standing on second
That the Twins pitchers this year so far have made
five errors in throwing the basis well, so they should
be traded to Boston and company.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Field.
Speaker 8 (29:43):
Frank Thomas, I just yeah, it's just the one where
they they threw to the base and no fielder was
actually at the base, so it hit the Mets runner
in the backside.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
The backside, all right?
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well, you know?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Uh, Speaking of Boston, they lost six sixteen to one
at Tampa Bay tonight. The losing pitcher, Tanner how two
and a third innings, ten earned runs allowed. The Yankees
hit four solo Homers off Kansas City loser seth Lugo
four to one Yanks.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
The final.
Speaker 8 (30:12):
Braves were up eight to nothing at Toronto in the
fifth eight for the final. By the way, Blue Jay's
pitcher Max Scherzer will see a specialist again for his
thumb injury San Francisco at ten to four winner at Philadelphia.
Giants have a record on the road of eight and two.
Former Rookie of the Year Tommy Helms passed away at
the age of eighty three. He won that award with
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the Reds in nineteen sixty six. Helms was a Gold
Glove second baseman in nineteen seventy and seventy one and
an NFL father has passed away, Don Hasselbeck. According to
his son Matt, Don Hasselbeck suffered cardiac arrest and has
passed away today. This is a guy who at six
seven was a tight end drafted by the Patriots in
the second round nineteen seventy seven. Don Hasselback played a
(30:57):
little with the Raiders when they won the Super Bowl
nineteen eighty three. Other NFL news, former Pro Bowl defensive
back Patrick Peterson officially retired. He did not play last year.
Dallas and New Orleans each started their voluntary offseason workout programs,
including meetings, conditioning, and rehab work. Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons
reported for the start of voluntary workouts. The five other
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teams with new head coaches. They began workouts last week.
By the way, the other twenty five NFL teams start
them next week. NASCAR's off this Sunday for Easter WNBA
draft was tonight. Pagebackers Connecticut number one overall to Dallas,
which won the lottery last November. And the Phoenix Suns
fired coach Mike Budenholzer after one season. He was just
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starting a five year, fifty million dollar contract. His team
just finished thirty six and forty six.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Love in the tire rack dot Com series.
This is a big birthday day here on.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
I feel like any to like order cake or send
people out for buy them candy bars from the cutting.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Sure we could do that. That's a birthday. What would
you like? Three Musketeer? All right? I get that that's
the only thing left.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Sea A little bit bigger than that, right, Well, we
can do that too.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Coming up next how about we celebrate the big birthday
days here by telling you the surprise teams that could
find their way out of the NBA play in. That's
that Cleveland's not in the play in. Not in the
player Yeah, pretty sure, I'll look again, though they won
a few games. Couple, It's coming up next, Jason and
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Speaker 3 (33:48):
Ed ripped anob off all right.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
So here we are getting set for the NBA Playing
Round to begin tomorrow night. The teams that weren't good
enough to finish in the top six all of a
sudden take center stage. Yeah, oh maybe this team bonus time.
Now it gets a little crazy to think that here's
teams getting out of the playing round that can actually
win around. But instead, how about we go over a
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couple of surprise teams that can find their way out
of the playing round that you don't think are gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
This season's losers.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I'll give you lest who are the who are they?
Running man last said that it was like to Haven
and Ellis last season's winners. No, last season's losers. That's
how Jim Brown said it, losers year.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
You really need to hit the proper salable.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Now I'm gonna make you feel great or terrible, depending
on how you feel about my ability of prognostication, which
has been pretty good over the course of the last
few years. I will tell you this. I will take
the Bulls to get out of the playing round in
the Eastern.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
How you're talking bout it? Let's go.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here's the thing. The Eastern Conference play. The teams are terrible.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I thought you're said there's one problem with the.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
By but I wanted to make people, oh, okay, he's
not getting nout. They're all terrible. They all stink. Potentially,
could we get a good first round match if somehow
we had Orlando playing Cleveland, if Mitchell is hurting, No,
not really, the East the playing round stinks, but the
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Bulls have been really good over the course of the
past couple of months. Right, you want to go back
to the to the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
As soon as they got rid of all the old
guard that went to Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
I mean, look, they're dynamic. You know, Kobe White, you know,
having a run, rescoring thirty five points a night, and
Josh Giddy is doing everything. This is These are two
guys that have become so dynamic for the Bulls. The
record is seventeen and ten since the All Star Break,
which you know, when you're the Bulls, like, hey, that
was like a really bad few months in nineteen ninety two.
Now it's like, hey, this is fantastic. Uh yeah, keep
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you yucking it up. First round exit again, and and
look and and and and Vucevic's has been playing really
well too, and they have a really good matchup with
him the first they can get hot for one or
two games and get out of the playing round and
into the playoffs. I would have truy of looking at it.
Look at these teams in the East. Who's it Diad,
They've played really well lately. They have the two most
dynamic players that are really peaking right now. Yeah, give
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me the Bulls to get out of the playing round.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Buddy one and a half point favorites in this one.
On Wednesday night tickets as low as sixty bucks. That's
the one thing for this playing round.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Tickets are fairly affordable.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
They are.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah, if you really want to go, kind to see
a playoff game, well, kind to see one.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, but I mean you're talking Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Chicago. Yeah, yeah,
I'll look to the dynamic scoring. You got the one
two punch. Miami is always interesting, right, there's always a
forty heater from Tyler hero and packed in here somewhere,
but certainly an identity that has been spotty since all
of the flap with Jimmy Butler. Atlanta, they're not playing
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the Knicks, so they're not as motivated.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, I'll take Orlando tomorrow and then the Bulls to
beat the Hawks the night after, two nights after. Yeah,
give me the Bulls getting out of the East. The
Bulls are going to be in the playoffs. And I
can't believe this. What Kobe White yet hit a field goal?
He is oh for thirty two from the floor.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
That would be something. Hey, look, if you're gonna go
down fail spectacularly. Sure, No, no, no, I get it,
I know, but I could I could see the path
it is there in the West.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
This this is more of I believe in the guy
that has the most to prove the only time the
spotlight's really going to be on him. Right, This is
going to be a really good Western Conference plan, right.
You see, the teams are the teams are pretty good.
But I look at who has the most at stake
over the course of the next few days and who
can really rewrite the narrative for his career. And that's
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why I'm taking the Mavericks to find their way out
and into the playoffs. Because Anthony Davis can get hot
and carry the Mavericks for two games. And you know,
he's already talked about how big a deal it is.
You know, he's been talking to his teammates what it's
like to play in the playing round in X, Y
and Z. But of all the of all the players
there in the Western Conference, it is Anthony Davis that
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has the most at steak. You are the guy traded
for Luka donsis right, This is this is your chance
to have the linelight. Everybody else is off. Lucas off
the Laker, everything else is off. This is your chance.
And here's ad who can be the hero of the week.
By lifting the Mavericks up. He knows what's at stake.
I will take him to knock the Kings out, even
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though it's not a great matchup for them, and then
I'll take them to beat Memphis, who is, you know,
trying to figure things out with a new head coach
and where they're going forward. So give me the mav
I feel I feel much more on a on a
limb with the Mavericks they do with the Bulls, which
is insane, But I feel a little bit more. But
give me a d to find their way out of there.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Now.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I understand this right, This is a guy that could
have gone to Operation Shutdown in the post Luca trade. Uh,
But I'll give him credit something he didn't do when
he was a member of the Pelicans. He's playing with
some heart. So here you have the opportunity to go
and re rediscover that destiny. I still think they lose
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former Bulls, get them, they're too deep. Just because they're
former Bulls doesn't mean that. I mean, but they're good players,
you know what. But you know, you don't have to
have any fealty towards the former Bulls.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Just gotta be the game. You don't have to. You
can't pick. What if they weren't for what if they
were former Cavaliers players, what if they were former Pelicans players,
you wouldn't feel that.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I was just trying to give the team an identity
for those that have no idea. What is on the
Kings Zach Levine, DeMar j Rosen along. You know they're
able to go and do some things. Yeah, no, there
you go. There's a couple of names there and do
for Siboni's terrific. He's a fantastic player. So yeah, give me,
give me the man remembers old man. Give me a
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D to carry them through with stat lines that you're
gonna say, wow, thirty five and sixteen and eight, give
me a D. I like that.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I D but I like the I like the cut
of your gym. I think I'm wrong, but I like it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Exit outbout a Fresco Exit Swollen Dome coming up next, Boy,
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