June 5, 2026 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the Knicks having a lead over the Spurs in the 4th quarter and more NBA Finals storylines.
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Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Friday. It's Game two of the
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Game two and a late surge by the Knicks has
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given them a four point lead fifty six to fifty two,
Karl Anthony Towns with seventeen points and seven boards in
eighteen minutes. Meanwhile, most of the damage done by the
Spurs early Diaron Fox has twelve wemby just four shots
and seven points. But if you want to take all
of this first half and put it all in the hopper, right,
you put all making a big stew everything going into
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the first half, and you where we sit right now.
First six minutes of the game. The Knicks were in
the penalty, Spurs are in the bonus. Steph Castle commits
a really bad foul midway through the second quarter, his
his third foul. He's got to sit. The Spurs backcourt
is much more aggressive to start the game. Karl Anthony
Towns has been good. All of these things we've seen
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in the first half. Overall, it was a great first
half for the Knicks. This is one of those games
where if the Spurs are going to really get back
in this this is one of those games where you
expect the Spurs to be up by a dozen at halftime.
We know our backs are to the wall. Were coming
out like fire for Game two, and they did, and
they were terrific early. They had a big ten, twelve
(02:08):
point lead, but they couldn't sustain it. They stopped hitting
from threes. For the Knicks to sit here and be
up four points out the break. In Game two, when
you know you are getting their best punch in the
first eight minutes of this game. In the first half.
The first half has been a huge victory for the Knicks.
If when Miyama actually throws a punch, would that get him.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Into the game? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Maybe, because he's been absolutely in this get you asking? Well,
it's hardway he's not. You see him off, you see him,
you see him, he's seven to five. You can't tell
me he's been visiting four shots in the first half.
You can't tell me he's been visited a bunch of
quotes when he's going Zen Zen masters stuff. Well, you
know who wants it and all this stuff. It's like,
do you want to win a title or not? Well,
(02:48):
it's all that stuff. Look, lose me with all of
the philosophical nonsense, come and play basketball. Well, five guy
hanging out at the three point r Okay, the first
eight minutes of the game. The way this game play,
This wasn't Wemby. This was the Spurs backcourt. And Dylan
Harper comes in and they took all the shots right
Like Fox has nine shots, Visell's got seven, Castle's got seven,
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Dylan Harper's got eight. There's only so many shots to
go around. When you play the first eight minutes, they're
harassing Jalen brunts and they're up twelve. Okay, because I
get the Spurs saying we don't need to exhaust Wemby here.
We don't need, we don't we need. We saw the
game one. Wemby can get tired if we don't need
to rely on Wemby early here, that's okay. Their guards
needed to be more aggressive and they had a big
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game plan coming in to slow the Knicks down. So yeah,
I mean, Wemby has not had the shots, he's not
affected the game, but I don't know that it's invisible
as more as it's like, well, let's see now if
him taking the back seat in the first half gives
him more energy and he can affect the game more
in the second half because still had to run. Yeah,
still had to battle down low, battling cat, battling Mitchell Robinson.
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Jory actually drew a really dubious technical follow on Mitchell Robinson.
That was one of those slap fighting It's like, all right,
just fine, guys, knock it off side out, let's go.
But to this point, yeah, you got much better effort
and aggressiveness from Deer and fox early. Then he started
to get to the heat check mode. He's like, no, no,
no comment. Back down. Second quarter, they were terrible from
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the field of a lot of forced early shot clock
shots from distance, like get into a half court game.
It's okay, it's again watching this game scene this. I
expected more fire, more through the first half from the Spurs,
more killer instinct. But they look kind of like they
did late in the game of Game one, Like in
(04:38):
the second quarter they looked like, hey, we're taking threes.
The threes are off. It looks like they're short, Like
I wonder, just you know, are they exhausted now? Like this?
They looked in the second quarter like the Spurs of
the fourth quarter from Game one, like this is danger. Hey.
If I'm Mitch Johnson, I'm saying, guys, this is it man.
I mean, we watched the Knicks and only one guy
(04:59):
had a good first half and we're down by four
to one guy. Right, We're down by and Karl Anthony
Towns right now is the MVP of the NBA Finals.
He we're down to one guy. So if we don't
get it going here in the second half, like I
don't know, like I said, I don't know what else
you can do when a team is tired. That's the
thing is like you can plan and do all that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tired, man, he gets tired. It's it's a summer that well,
you know, the weather is hot, especially you know for
a guy like Wemby, who had his minutes had a
big increase the NBA players for marathon. Like you can say, okay,
that's great, we feel great, we're great, but all of
a sudden, it's like whoa, everything is a We're half
a step slower. We're not quite where we need to be.
They look a little bit out of sync. Offensively, they
(05:41):
look great in the first eight minutes, but they start
missed a couple of threes. The Knicks got their legs
back in when Wemby comes out of the game after
seven minutes. The Knicks won the non Wemby minutes. Like,
the Knicks have been slowly just imposing their will on
the game, and it's really been Karl Anthony Towns who
has done this. Like Brunston's had another optastic first half right,
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Like he's had a couple of turnovers, He's three out
of eleven from the floor. Now I'm expecting it to
be you know, fourth quarter Jalen Brunson, But this is
Karl Anthony Towns, who both offensively defensively has been amazing.
I mean, this has been the best now game and
a half that he's played in his NBA career. I mean,
eighteen and seven rebounds in eighteen minutes tonight for the Knicks.
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He has been the guy, the only guy he's been.
He's holding the knicks up all but like Atlas holding
up the world, he's holding up the knicks all by himself.
Well he got him. You got some extra from Bridges
late in the second quarter, hadn't taken a shot and
then nails three three point shots late, So getting some
extra boost from him. Landry Shammitt, our favorite four points,
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two of six from the from the field, over two
from three point range, finally actually proved that he could miss.
Yeah three points, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The thing
with Wen Binama and look I get it, the extra minutes.
We've talked about that for six weeks at this point,
but there's no level of urgency, least to this point.
Like at some point when I'm seven to five, I've
(07:04):
got to be on the block, even if I'm just
causing traffic down there. Not sure, but he's still hanging
out around the three point arc and like I get it,
dearon Fox wants to drive whatever. But we we talked
about it in game one. How many Brunson's shots came
off of Mitchell Robinson or Kat setting a giant ass pick.
And I mean that literally, giant ass pick. Not that
(07:25):
Wemby's got the same, hef to him, but it can
at least be affecting the play down low and opening
up some space. Now I got at three point arc.
He's not doing me a whole lot of good. No,
I got this to say to you. Are you surprised
because I watched Wemby talking out the greatest I told
you after game one. I love that the Spurs think
everything is fine, we can fix what happened. Hey, we
(07:46):
just had I just had a bad game. It's nothing
more than that they wanted to dismiss all their problems,
that everything is just fine, when uh no, this is
it that this is the best team you've played against.
And just because you were able to overcome stuff earlier
the playoffs doesn't mean you can do it in the
NBA Finals against a team that's playing the best basketball
of anybody. I'm not surprised the Spurs came out. They
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were really good for eight minutes, and all of a sudden,
the Nicks owned the rest of the first half. Right,
because this is not a team that I felt knew
about this set and felt we have to have the
sense of urgency. They still think everything is fine okay,
and maybe maybe Mitch Johnson reads them the riot Act
at halftime, or they go out and Wenby grabs them
all by the throat and says, follow me. But that's
what they need in the second half. If they don't
(08:28):
get that, it's going back to MSG two zip And
we're wondering what's gonna be more money, either tickets for
Game three or the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding. What
will cost you more money to get an MSG? I
don't know that they're actually selling tickets, are they? You
have to be. Why else you're having it an MSG.
If you're not selling tickets so you can block out
all paparazzo. You gotta sell windows. Oh, you gotta sell
tickets like it's got to be like, you know, ten
(08:49):
grand a ticket for the wedding, like she would probably
have to sing. They would probably have to do a
little bit of a walk through practice right the chase.
You have mahomes there and they do some kind of
walk for them. Again you get a conte contest, yeah,
Tommy Burgers yea, yeah, yeah, the would film commercial there too,
like you get you got to get full service at
that wedding. No, that's it. There's the All State ad
(09:10):
set up over there, little activation where you get a
little uh, I don't know, maybe a key chain. I
mean I want in there. Like the average price now
to get into Game three MSG is like nine grand
and I want to just get in. And that's just well,
like what would it be if they did sell tickets
to their wedding, Like what would people what would people
bid to actually attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding.
(09:31):
We'd get into the probably upper fifty thousand bank really,
but even if sit really high up, like even a top,
how many are we selling? Well, you're trying to sell
out the whole arena. You're not selling out the whole arena.
Tell her Swift is not selling out the hole Areno,
I I don't think they want to do that. But
if she does this. All she got to do is
do one song, and you have to do anything'll sell
it out, just walk in and with I want to
(09:52):
hear a song, though, I mean, this is this is
not the royal wedding. I want to hear a song, right,
A royal wedding was overrated? Yeah, well no, no that
is true. But I mean, but that was at least
you were going to get the pageantry and you knew
what you were going to get. Like if if a
singer is getting married and it's at Madison Square Garden,
I kind of want to hear a song. I'm going
to think all sorts of other folks are performing that day.
Rit Landing Gomez might sing. Who says he says You're
(10:14):
not perfect? You think Red Panda is going to be
driving entertainment? How often does Red Panda work the garden?
I don't know. It's probably had a few dates in
a few dates line up here for time. So again
fifty six fifty two Nix with the lead at halftime
over the Spurs, again looking for a two to zero lead.
Going back to MSG and it has been some kind
(10:37):
of first has been exciting. We're about to tip off
in the second half of more on this game, obviously
throughout the night following it, as close as we can.
But speaking of being as close as we can, you
are just getting closer and closer to the Northwest Indiana Bears. Yeah,
closer and closer the big news today and in the NFL. Yeah,
(10:57):
the Northwest Indiana Bears could just be a bit of
a faint a complete at this point as they keep
going forward legally, pursuing land, pursuing contracts, pursuing deals with
Northwest Indiana, and you know, there's still ways to go
on it, but they're going forward, going forward. Eventually, were
to get to a point where the hey, the Bears
(11:18):
are moving, Bears are going to be Indiana. The Bears
are going to be Indiana's team. It was either going
to be Indiana or Arlington Heights. They've hunted on the
Chicago side of things in terms of a new stadium
or so it seems right, could all just be in
a nice big game of political poker. The fact that
Brandon Johnson went on local radio and talked about how
(11:39):
hard it is to get in and out of Soldier Field,
admitting that he left a Bears Packers game early. Yeah,
that's a bad look.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I that's thing not just from the politics of all
the other missteps along the way, that statement should probably
keep him from getting re elected. Yeah. It also yeah,
means that there's gonna be some damage can so maybe
there'll be some more concessions in the next speeches. There's
things you do, and there's things you say, and there's
things you do, and there's things you don't say. You
(12:09):
didn't need to say that. Yeah. I had to leave
way early, man, this was it was. It was really bad.
Traffic was bad. I had to get out. I had
to believe bad job by him. My kid had a
little league game. I had to go. But the stuff
with with the Indiana move, you know, we've talked about
it a few times as we've had the little benchmarks
for you know, trying to figure out timelines and how
(12:31):
quickly things could come together. And at this point you
just resigned to the fact that that it's done. Made
Soldier Field as soon as they put that toilet bowl
over the top of it all those years ago. Well,
Mikey Harmon, close the lid, close the lid. Driving on
Lake Shore Drive, I'd seen all the renditions I'd seen
the photos, I'd seen all the the different video of
(12:52):
it coming together, and then when I saw it in person,
I cried, Oh, very sad. And the pillars and everything
are still there, historic structure, and once you get in
it's fine, but the outside is just an absolute and
train wreck and it is impossible to get in and
out of there. A lot of walk with walking back
(13:13):
down towards the subway and whatever else. So people complain
about that, not a lot of easy in and out
for your cars or ubers or whatever else. But in
the end, you can't expand it right, and they've already
done the Hey we're renovating, we'll be down in Champagne
once and when the mccaskey's it's like we talked about
for years with the Chargers, like there's rich and then
(13:35):
there's NFL rich. Right of hey, I can do whatever
I want, the stan Kronky's, the Jerry Jones of the world,
whatever I can pay the freight bears. All the money
is actually in the team, So it's not like they
could just say, hey, we're gonna go spend five billion
dollars to go build this ultra luxury stadium, and if
the City of Chicago doesn't want to give them money. Well,
(13:58):
then you move on. You go find someone that will
and give you something more amenable.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The thing is is that And we talked about this
at the beginning. Hey, the Jets and Giants both moved
to New Jersey. Teams move and it's not that big
a deal San Francis Francisco, Right, it's not that big
a deal. But the more time goes on, there just
feels like it's something different about this compared to the rest.
(14:23):
We never really talked that much about San Francisco moving
to Santa Clara. I mean, the Jets and Giants both
moved in New Jersey in the eighties, but that was
never that big a deal. Football generally is not that
big a deal because it's eight Sundays a year rather
than if an NBA team moved or an NHL to
or a baseball team moved. But the way this is gone,
this just strikes different at this point. It's not where Hey, Okay,
(14:46):
they moved, They're only moving twenty minutes from Chicago. They
want to build a light rail to go from Chicago
and there, and all these different plans like that's that's
all great, and it should be fine, because again we've
seen this all the time, but there it just seems
to be like this is more embarrassing, and it's and
it's more of a big deal, and it's more of
a shock, and it's and it's more a complete failure
(15:08):
by Chicago and by the state of Illinois than it
is for anybody else. Well, you talk about the Bears
being an identity of the city, right, I mean, that's
that's the difference, Like forty nine ers are great, but
when you say San Francisco is that's the first thing
is like, No, you talk about Chicago and anybody you're
from Chicago, the first thing they ask you about mobsters
or they say bears and then you move on from there.
(15:30):
So like it is that identification. So certainly it it's frustrating,
there's no question about it. But it's longest dating at
this point. And it's one of those all right, you
watch the politics now, if the dailies were still in charge,
if this is the Chicago politics of thirty years ago,
they get a deal done, they figure something out, they
don't have this impass and back and forth, and you
(15:53):
you find the money and redistribute you get your partners involved, whatever.
But when it's been just such a difficult even getting
to the table, right the Bears Bears brass wasn't going
to meetings with any regularity, and you had to add
so many people from up and down the chain there
in Springfield who asking me like, yeah, we haven't met
(16:14):
for four months on this, Like we haven't talked to anybody.
It's like, all right, So there's no sense of urgency
like anything. It is. Procrastination is a wonderful thing until
you realize it has a five to ten billion dollar
price tag at the back end. Exit out about a
Fresco exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon, Live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Nine thirty seven to go
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in the third quarter. The KNXT lead is now seven
sixty one fifty four. A couple of turnovers by the
Spurs to start the second half. The KNIXT lead is
pushed out, now a sixty one to fifty four lead.
It's a three from the Knicks. Jalen Brunson. Maybe he's
heating up. It's a ten point lead. Oh get a timeout,
Mitch Johnson, Oh, get a time out, Get a time out.
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Sixty four fifty four Knicks at the lead. We have
more on this coming up next, as well as other
big stories out of the NBA. And maybe the Bears
will have moved in the next twenty minutes. I mean
maybe maybe, I hope so it'll be breaking news. It'll
take me away from Dick Vitalis Oh get a timeout,
Mitch Johnson, get a time out, do something, even if
it's wrong.
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Mike Harmon. Six and a half to go in the
third quarter, Knicks have a seventy sixty one lead over
the Spurs. Things are getting little nerve wracking for the Spurs.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Wemby looks frustrated. Just committed a really bad foul running
over mcal Bridges. Jalen Brunch just made a couple of
nice passes getting out of a double team, and it's
a nine point Nicks lead. The Spurs look like they're
really on the ropes right now, and this is where
they can get finished and the Knicks can finish this
game because this is a really difficult time now for
(18:48):
San Antonio. I'm sure they thought coming in here second half,
we're gonna be able to make a big push, and
instead it's Karl Anthony Towns elbowing his way to the
hoop for another bucket and a letn point lead for
the Knicks. Like this is this is like your season
is right here right now for the San Antonio Spurs.
I like the way you said elbowing, because that would
be a foul, but no elbows up. Elbows up for
(19:11):
him though, elbows Carl Anthony, Well, yeah, was one of
those where I don't know that he saw Bridges until
he tried to split between him and another player, right,
because I think it was Cat behind him and then
Bridges tries to get into the lane and ends up
taking Yeah, this wasn't. This wasn't. Hey, Caruso, I'm gonna
send you a message, but still you got to see
where you're yeah, exact guy. And it's look, the Spurs
(19:33):
are careless. They're really I mean, they're very frustrated right now.
They're really bad on the lobs too, like they've tried
defeated to Wemby. They did this a couple of times
in the first half. We certainly saw in Game one
where it's like you're hitting the bottom of the backboard,
like you're not the timing is just not there. Yeah,
as well, and it's been a very physical game. Uh
so far that the referees for as many times as
the uh, you know, they've put guys on the free
(19:55):
throw line. Uh, they've let them play a lot of
aggressive play has been able to stand and quite honestly,
the aggressive play that stands out to me more than
anything is boy Steph Castle is allowed to get is
basically allowed to punch whoever has the ball with the knicks,
Like his hand checking is really overly aggressive, and I'm
like sometimes like, okay, you can't just punch at the
(20:16):
punch at the guy right like like they're allowing him
to just do whatever he wants with Brunson bringing the
ball up, and I'm like, wow, okay that a couple
of times, Look, I get the aggressiveness and I get that, hey,
I want to get my hand in there, and I'm
physically bigger than you and I'm a little bit more,
a little bit more I would say, playing a little
(20:36):
bit more freer because I'm the bigger player over a
guy like Jalen Brunson. But sometimes a couple of times
where I'm like, oh, the dude's just like you know,
throwing punches. I think I think one whistle on that
might might be okay, but but any part of the
ball though it counts right, Yeah, but there's place you
got to get anything. And I'm like, wow, that punch
just me that that we've had balls called on guys
(20:57):
getting hit in the hair. Yeah, well hair are a
new thing. No, it's a big thing, no glass about it.
But the physicality is certainly there. And that's that's the
frustrating part I think if you're the players too, though,
is that there's been no continuity as to what constitutes
too much contact. Even going to those first five minutes,
right Nick, kick cal thro a couple of files and
you're looking around, all right, is that what we're doing.
(21:18):
We're gonna have this quick whistle. And then by the
end of the first quarter, what did they have like
five straight whistles on the spurs to kind of even
things up. Same thing where it's like, all right, what's
the level of contact you're gonna allow? Because they're beating
the hell out of each other down low with naria whistle.
And now things have just gotten really interesting because now
Karl Anthony Towns, who's been the Knick's best player twenty
(21:41):
one points nine boards in twenty four minutes, now just
committed his fourth foul. He got tied up with Steph Cassel,
who also is in foul trouble, and it was one
of those plays where the foul could go either way,
and both guys had their arms wrapped around each other.
The foul goes to Karl Anthony town So now Kat's
got four fouls and this could be a great, big
(22:03):
equalizer for the Spurs. A big three by Castle cuts
the lead to five now with five minutes to go.
Sometimes you see the momentum of a game change on
a big foul. We saw it kind of change in
the first half when Castle went to the bench with
his third foul, and suddenly things got a lot easier
for the Nixon, for Jalen Brunson. And now you're seeing
it again for Karl Anthony Towns now going to the
(22:25):
bench with his fourth foul. Things suddenly have gotten a
little bit easier for the Spurs in the last couple
of Yeah, that seemed like another one of the you
know what, we don't need to call this foul kind
of situation, right, some body some arms locked up, but
trying to adjudicate and decide which guy was truly the instigator.
That we've seen several of those instances over the course
of the game. It's like, all right, you're just tossing
(22:46):
a coin at this pit, So we'll keep you updated.
A seventy four to sixty seven lead. Now for the
next mcal bridges with a big hoop. He has been
huge since the midway point of the second half. Now
he's got sixteen. But time now for the play of
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of like an Abbott elementary story, but a big internet phenomenon.
Today was a guy who tweeted out video of his
kids at school and he says, hey, I just got
(23:30):
a phone call. Might have to pick up my kid
from school because he's leading his class in Nixon for
and let's go nixt Chance. And the videos out there,
the kids running around like a kindergarten classroom, wearing a
Knicks jersey. Other Nick fans are there, kids are all
cheering about the Knicks. So here's the play of the day.
Here's what went on in this class room earlier today.
(24:10):
You're all suspected, like how do you get any work done?
Like the teachers gotta go. It's just gonna be one
of those days. It's it's just gonna be. How long
till summer vacation? How many more days do we have? Like, like,
I gotta get there, man, Like first this is like
early in the morning, walk in before they even sit down.
But yell it, let's go Nix and Nixon for gotta
(24:32):
take control of your classroom. What are you doing there, dude,
I don't know that there's anything is anyone in New
York is in control of anything with the Knicks right now,
Like the Knicks of the Knicks run the city. It's
like it's like one of those TV shows where you
find out like, oh, you want to run a business
in this place, Well you gotta you know, the real
pay tribute, you know, the real guy who owns the town.
(24:53):
You gotta go make sure like it's like Yellowstone or whatever.
It's like, yeah, you know, like the Knicks basically run
the town right now. You gotta go through them forget
eything done. Yeah. I feel bad for the teachers to
a point, but that means you've already you probably had
some instances over the course of the year where you'd
lost control. Sure this doesn't just come out of the blue. Yeah,
oh no, no, yeah, bat night. I mean not the
fact that it's taped too. Yeah, it's like, come on, well,
(25:15):
the fact that the Knicks. I mean, this has been
a late breaking phenomenon where suddenly it's it's you know,
it's it's like twenty eight days later where you get bit, Okay,
I get bit. How much time do I have? But
now I'm turning. Right now, I'm turning. I'm turning like
that's kind of what it is. That's kind of what
it's been. It's been that hey, this slow, I got okay,
I'm kind of getting nixed fever and then before you
know it, I got it all I I there's nothing
(25:35):
I can do. What do you think it would take
to how much would you have to pay a guy
to walk around with like nets gear? Right now? Oh
I did, dude. People didn't walk around with even when
they had KD and Harden. No, no, no, they had that
cool striping underform. So those those went over for a minute.
Nobody in New York and net fans. There's no nets fans.
When they moved to Brooklyn, there were no Nets fans.
(25:57):
It was still there. That was too bad the Nets.
When the Nets were good and that you thought, okay,
maybe they could wait. You know, here they are building
this new dynasty in Kdi wants to go play with
Kyrie the next one, like eighteen games a year, and
it was still it's still a next town. It's then
that's like, what are we doing? Man? Then that's a
the Nets aren't even the Clippers in New York. Then
that's a like the Angels right in New York. That
(26:20):
that's what the Nets are. That should I mean, I
get going to Brooklyn. Hey, everything's right. It's a nice facility. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know New Jersey was yours. You can get a
nice ticket. Everything was legal in New Jersey. You're going
to NBA fan thing. You're going to NBA Finals. You
were New Jersey Nets. You're gonna I mean, Jason, you
were in New Jersey. It's a long time ago. I
mean yeah it is, but you still have that was
(26:40):
the that's the history of that. That is a history
book kind of moment. Right, It's like, wait, wait they
went to a finals. It's funny, like when I got
to explain that to like stuff that happened in the
early two thousands that like my younger cousins or relatives
I know, like wait, they did, Yeah, Jason Kidd was
Jason Kidd.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh well, okay, all right, let me go, let let
me let let me backtrack now a little bit here
and tell you about the early two thousands. Let me
tell you about the days back of your I like
that so we got more.
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friend Mike Harmon Hobo so dearon Fox. Just shoved Jalen Brunson,
shoved mckel Bridges, got in the face of the official
and he's still in the game. He shoved everybody turn'll
stare down between him and j pretty still in the game. Wow, Okay,
eight and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
(27:57):
It has been all wemby the last couple of minutes
for the Spurs. They have cut the Knicks lead to
five eighty seven eighty two with eight minutes to go
in the fourth quarter. The game is getting chippy. Now,
this is where if you are the Knicks, this has
got to get to be Brunson time. Like if it's
been cat most of the game and he's back in
the game with four fouls. Mcal Bridges has been terrific.
(28:20):
Landry Shammitt keeps hitting three shammy. He just hit another
three right now for an eight point lead. But this
is gonna have to be Brunson getting back to closing
in the final four to five minutes of this game.
It's a very familiar script for the Knicks, and I
feel like, Okay, the other guys have carried the load
the first forty two minutes or so, and this is
(28:40):
gonna have to be Brunton in the final five or
six minute. Bridges has been fantastic off the bench. You
look at the what Shannitt's been able to do with Shanitt,
Like we just keep talking about Shannitt nnet Defensively, Yeah,
he gives up a little bit there, but finding the
open look and right before that shot. Through the first
three and change this quarter, the Knicks were one of
(29:01):
eight from the field, but a couple of those were
second chance opportunities. So still getting the tap backs. Still
getting the extension of the play now, just need to
maybe draw out a few minutes seconds on that shot
clock before firing up another three. So time out on
the floor right now, ninety to eighty two lead Landry
Shamitz three wow again, eight point lead for the next
(29:24):
eight minutes left to go now. Earlier today, big rumor
that got all over social media. Jason Wick, long time NBA,
NFL insider talkers, bags been at Fox, been everywhere, set
out that he heard that the Fever are ready to
ship Caitlin Clark to the Los Angeles Sparks, and so
many people got in his face about this is not real,
(29:47):
this is not happening. I can't believe that. And it's
been debunked on on, you know, in the last few
minutes or in the last few hours. But you know,
he's stuck with it and said, look, you know the
league did this. You know shot got to LA And
I understand the point he's trying to make. But the
thing is is that I can't say I can't see
(30:08):
Caitlyn Clark ever getting traded. I can't say that that
will not happen. Look, Angel Reese got traded, and she's
someone that came into the league and was what she was,
someone who seemed to be bigger than the league. Not
as big as Caitlyn Clark, bigger than the league, but
bigger than the league. And what happened in just a
couple of years. It's not working and now she's on
another team, Caitlyn Clark. It's been nothing. But she's had
(30:33):
great publicity. She's had horrible publicity. It doesn't seem like
the other players in the league like her. It doesn't
seem like they're thankful for what she's been able to
bring them in the last couple of years. But overall
you get the sense of you wonder how great of
a teammate she is. You see her arguing with the
officials all the time, arguing with her head coach, and
they have to continually try to tamp down. No, nothing happen,
(30:55):
Everything's fine. I can't look. I think this is gonna
happen sometime in the next month. No, But can I
see a big, seismic Caitlin Clark trade at some point? Yeah?
I could see it, just simply because the league doesn't
seem to be as grateful to its superstars as it
should be. People are watching we're talking about the NBA
(31:17):
because of Caitlin Clark, an angel reason, all the players
who you have come in the last couple of years
and Paige Becker's and I feel like, yeah, they just
don't like the people that have come in the last
couple of years. So yeah, this person were out there,
welcome to I don't know why. I've never seen a
league bite the hand that feeds it more than WNBA does.
But I can't tell you for a second look. And
it's easy to Jason Whitlock saying we always said, look,
(31:38):
as you said, he's an agitator. But I can't say
that I can't see this happening at some point. I
can see Caitlin Clark as a spark. I could see
her on the liberty, I can see her somewhere else
because it's better for everybody involved. There's a trade for
whatever reason. I can see it. Well. It gives it
some extra juice. And it's always the question, not just
with the trade rumor, but just in general with Caitlin Clark,
(32:02):
her teammates, coach front office. Obviously, the commissioner has had
the comments of, hey, she doesn't she's not grateful for
the platform that she's been given. It's like, well, you
got to meet part of the way there to your
point earlier. Right, the growth of the league these last
couple of years take nothing away from the years of
laying the groundwork and the women that busted their asses
(32:23):
to build the league. But most most of our professional
sports leagues aren't exactly great and taking care of the
veterans and those that came before him. Here, it's just
a little more agitated and more animous to it than
you normally see. But could she be traded? Yeah, we'd
inject an extra huge storyline back into the league. I
(32:45):
can't understand. How can you not enjoy the best time
your league has had since it came into existence. Everybody's
getting more money, The organizations are worth more money, the
TV contract is worth more money. It's relevant were to everybody.
He's talking about the w like we talk about other leagues,
and no, no, no, not good enough. I don't understand
(33:07):
how this has still continued to be able to permeate
itself over the last couple of years. Yeah, she also
needs to look in the mirror, I think a little
bit too, and maybe tamp down. It's what made you great.
But it's also what's holding you back in some respects.
Seven point lead for the next eight minutes. Left to know.
We have more on what could be the definitive game
of the NBA Finals next Fox.
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Game two and a late surge by the Knicks has
(01:06):
given them a four point lead fifty six to fifty two,
Karl Anthony Towns with seventeen points and seven boards in
eighteen minutes. Meanwhile, most of the damage done by the
Spurs early Diaron Fox has twelve wemby just four shots
and seven points. But if you want to take all
of this first half and put it all in the hopper, right,
you put all making a big stew everything going into
(01:27):
the first half, and you where we sit right now.
First six minutes of the game. The Knicks were in
the penalty, Spurs are in the bonus. Steph Castle commits
a really bad foul midway through the second quarter, his
his third foul. He's got to sit. The Spurs backcourt
is much more aggressive to start the game. Karl Anthony
Towns has been good. All of these things we've seen
(01:47):
in the first half. Overall, it was a great first
half for the Knicks. This is one of those games
where if the Spurs are going to really get back
in this this is one of those games where you
expect the Spurs to be up by a dozen at halftime.
We know our backs are to the wall. Were coming
out like fire for Game two, and they did, and
they were terrific early. They had a big ten, twelve
(02:08):
point lead, but they couldn't sustain it. They stopped hitting
from threes. For the Knicks to sit here and be
up four points out the break. In Game two, when
you know you are getting their best punch in the
first eight minutes of this game. In the first half.
The first half has been a huge victory for the Knicks.
If when Miyama actually throws a punch, would that get him.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Into the game? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Maybe, because he's been absolutely in this get you asking? Well,
it's hardway he's not. You see him off, you see him,
you see him, he's seven to five. You can't tell
me he's been visiting four shots in the first half.
You can't tell me he's been visited a bunch of
quotes when he's going Zen Zen masters stuff. Well, you
know who wants it and all this stuff. It's like,
do you want to win a title or not? Well,
(02:48):
it's all that stuff. Look, lose me with all of
the philosophical nonsense, come and play basketball. Well, five guy
hanging out at the three point r Okay, the first
eight minutes of the game. The way this game play,
This wasn't Wemby. This was the Spurs backcourt. And Dylan
Harper comes in and they took all the shots right
Like Fox has nine shots, Visell's got seven, Castle's got seven,
(03:10):
Dylan Harper's got eight. There's only so many shots to
go around. When you play the first eight minutes, they're
harassing Jalen brunts and they're up twelve. Okay, because I
get the Spurs saying we don't need to exhaust Wemby here.
We don't need, we don't we need. We saw the
game one. Wemby can get tired if we don't need
to rely on Wemby early here, that's okay. Their guards
needed to be more aggressive and they had a big
(03:31):
game plan coming in to slow the Knicks down. So yeah,
I mean, Wemby has not had the shots, he's not
affected the game, but I don't know that it's invisible
as more as it's like, well, let's see now if
him taking the back seat in the first half gives
him more energy and he can affect the game more
in the second half because still had to run. Yeah,
still had to battle down low, battling cat, battling Mitchell Robinson.
(03:54):
Jory actually drew a really dubious technical follow on Mitchell Robinson.
That was one of those slap fighting It's like, all right,
just fine, guys, knock it off side out, let's go.
But to this point, yeah, you got much better effort
and aggressiveness from Deer and fox early. Then he started
to get to the heat check mode. He's like, no, no,
no comment. Back down. Second quarter, they were terrible from
(04:16):
the field of a lot of forced early shot clock
shots from distance, like get into a half court game.
It's okay, it's again watching this game scene this. I
expected more fire, more through the first half from the Spurs,
more killer instinct. But they look kind of like they
did late in the game of Game one, Like in
(04:38):
the second quarter they looked like, hey, we're taking threes.
The threes are off. It looks like they're short, Like
I wonder, just you know, are they exhausted now? Like this?
They looked in the second quarter like the Spurs of
the fourth quarter from Game one, like this is danger. Hey.
If I'm Mitch Johnson, I'm saying, guys, this is it man.
I mean, we watched the Knicks and only one guy
(04:59):
had a good first half and we're down by four
to one guy. Right, We're down by and Karl Anthony
Towns right now is the MVP of the NBA Finals.
He we're down to one guy. So if we don't
get it going here in the second half, like I
don't know, like I said, I don't know what else
you can do when a team is tired. That's the
thing is like you can plan and do all that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
But.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Tired, man, he gets tired. It's it's a summer that well,
you know, the weather is hot, especially you know for
a guy like Wemby, who had his minutes had a
big increase the NBA players for marathon. Like you can say, okay,
that's great, we feel great, we're great, but all of
a sudden, it's like whoa, everything is a We're half
a step slower. We're not quite where we need to be.
They look a little bit out of sync. Offensively, they
(05:41):
look great in the first eight minutes, but they start
missed a couple of threes. The Knicks got their legs
back in when Wemby comes out of the game after
seven minutes. The Knicks won the non Wemby minutes. Like,
the Knicks have been slowly just imposing their will on
the game, and it's really been Karl Anthony Towns who
has done this. Like Brunston's had another optastic first half right,
(06:01):
Like he's had a couple of turnovers, He's three out
of eleven from the floor. Now I'm expecting it to
be you know, fourth quarter Jalen Brunson, But this is
Karl Anthony Towns, who both offensively defensively has been amazing.
I mean, this has been the best now game and
a half that he's played in his NBA career. I mean,
eighteen and seven rebounds in eighteen minutes tonight for the Knicks.
(06:22):
He has been the guy, the only guy he's been.
He's holding the knicks up all but like Atlas holding
up the world, he's holding up the knicks all by himself.
Well he got him. You got some extra from Bridges
late in the second quarter, hadn't taken a shot and
then nails three three point shots late, So getting some
extra boost from him. Landry Shammitt, our favorite four points,
(06:42):
two of six from the from the field, over two
from three point range, finally actually proved that he could miss.
Yeah three points, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The thing
with Wen Binama and look I get it, the extra minutes.
We've talked about that for six weeks at this point,
but there's no level of urgency, least to this point.
Like at some point when I'm seven to five, I've
(07:04):
got to be on the block, even if I'm just
causing traffic down there. Not sure, but he's still hanging
out around the three point arc and like I get it,
dearon Fox wants to drive whatever. But we we talked
about it in game one. How many Brunson's shots came
off of Mitchell Robinson or Kat setting a giant ass pick.
And I mean that literally, giant ass pick. Not that
(07:25):
Wemby's got the same, hef to him, but it can
at least be affecting the play down low and opening
up some space. Now I got at three point arc.
He's not doing me a whole lot of good. No,
I got this to say to you. Are you surprised
because I watched Wemby talking out the greatest I told
you after game one. I love that the Spurs think
everything is fine, we can fix what happened. Hey, we
(07:46):
just had I just had a bad game. It's nothing
more than that they wanted to dismiss all their problems,
that everything is just fine, when uh no, this is
it that this is the best team you've played against.
And just because you were able to overcome stuff earlier
the playoffs doesn't mean you can do it in the
NBA Finals against a team that's playing the best basketball
of anybody. I'm not surprised the Spurs came out. They
(08:07):
were really good for eight minutes, and all of a sudden,
the Nicks owned the rest of the first half. Right,
because this is not a team that I felt knew
about this set and felt we have to have the
sense of urgency. They still think everything is fine okay,
and maybe maybe Mitch Johnson reads them the riot Act
at halftime, or they go out and Wenby grabs them
all by the throat and says, follow me. But that's
what they need in the second half. If they don't
(08:28):
get that, it's going back to MSG two zip And
we're wondering what's gonna be more money, either tickets for
Game three or the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding. What
will cost you more money to get an MSG? I
don't know that they're actually selling tickets, are they? You
have to be. Why else you're having it an MSG.
If you're not selling tickets so you can block out
all paparazzo. You gotta sell windows. Oh, you gotta sell
tickets like it's got to be like, you know, ten
(08:49):
grand a ticket for the wedding, like she would probably
have to sing. They would probably have to do a
little bit of a walk through practice right the chase.
You have mahomes there and they do some kind of
walk for them. Again you get a conte contest, yeah,
Tommy Burgers yea, yeah, yeah, the would film commercial there too,
like you get you got to get full service at
that wedding. No, that's it. There's the All State ad
(09:10):
set up over there, little activation where you get a
little uh, I don't know, maybe a key chain. I
mean I want in there. Like the average price now
to get into Game three MSG is like nine grand
and I want to just get in. And that's just well,
like what would it be if they did sell tickets
to their wedding, Like what would people what would people
bid to actually attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's wedding.
(09:31):
We'd get into the probably upper fifty thousand bank really,
but even if sit really high up, like even a top,
how many are we selling? Well, you're trying to sell
out the whole arena. You're not selling out the whole arena.
Tell her Swift is not selling out the hole Areno,
I I don't think they want to do that. But
if she does this. All she got to do is
do one song, and you have to do anything'll sell
it out, just walk in and with I want to
(09:52):
hear a song, though, I mean, this is this is
not the royal wedding. I want to hear a song, right,
A royal wedding was overrated? Yeah, well no, no that
is true. But I mean, but that was at least
you were going to get the pageantry and you knew
what you were going to get. Like if if a
singer is getting married and it's at Madison Square Garden,
I kind of want to hear a song. I'm going
to think all sorts of other folks are performing that day.
Rit Landing Gomez might sing. Who says he says You're
(10:14):
not perfect? You think Red Panda is going to be
driving entertainment? How often does Red Panda work the garden?
I don't know. It's probably had a few dates in
a few dates line up here for time. So again
fifty six fifty two Nix with the lead at halftime
over the Spurs, again looking for a two to zero lead.
Going back to MSG and it has been some kind
(10:37):
of first has been exciting. We're about to tip off
in the second half of more on this game, obviously
throughout the night following it, as close as we can.
But speaking of being as close as we can, you
are just getting closer and closer to the Northwest Indiana Bears. Yeah,
closer and closer the big news today and in the NFL. Yeah,
(10:57):
the Northwest Indiana Bears could just be a bit of
a faint a complete at this point as they keep
going forward legally, pursuing land, pursuing contracts, pursuing deals with
Northwest Indiana, and you know, there's still ways to go
on it, but they're going forward, going forward. Eventually, were
to get to a point where the hey, the Bears
(11:18):
are moving, Bears are going to be Indiana. The Bears
are going to be Indiana's team. It was either going
to be Indiana or Arlington Heights. They've hunted on the
Chicago side of things in terms of a new stadium
or so it seems right, could all just be in
a nice big game of political poker. The fact that
Brandon Johnson went on local radio and talked about how
(11:39):
hard it is to get in and out of Soldier Field,
admitting that he left a Bears Packers game early. Yeah,
that's a bad look.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's why.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I that's thing not just from the politics of all
the other missteps along the way, that statement should probably
keep him from getting re elected. Yeah. It also yeah,
means that there's gonna be some damage can so maybe
there'll be some more concessions in the next speeches. There's
things you do, and there's things you say, and there's
things you do, and there's things you don't say. You
(12:09):
didn't need to say that. Yeah. I had to leave
way early, man, this was it was. It was really bad.
Traffic was bad. I had to get out. I had
to believe bad job by him. My kid had a
little league game. I had to go. But the stuff
with with the Indiana move, you know, we've talked about
it a few times as we've had the little benchmarks
for you know, trying to figure out timelines and how
(12:31):
quickly things could come together. And at this point you
just resigned to the fact that that it's done. Made
Soldier Field as soon as they put that toilet bowl
over the top of it all those years ago. Well,
Mikey Harmon, close the lid, close the lid. Driving on
Lake Shore Drive, I'd seen all the renditions I'd seen
the photos, I'd seen all the the different video of
(12:52):
it coming together, and then when I saw it in person,
I cried, Oh, very sad. And the pillars and everything
are still there, historic structure, and once you get in
it's fine, but the outside is just an absolute and
train wreck and it is impossible to get in and
out of there. A lot of walk with walking back
(13:13):
down towards the subway and whatever else. So people complain
about that, not a lot of easy in and out
for your cars or ubers or whatever else. But in
the end, you can't expand it right, and they've already
done the Hey we're renovating, we'll be down in Champagne
once and when the mccaskey's it's like we talked about
for years with the Chargers, like there's rich and then
(13:35):
there's NFL rich. Right of hey, I can do whatever
I want, the stan Kronky's, the Jerry Jones of the world,
whatever I can pay the freight bears. All the money
is actually in the team, So it's not like they
could just say, hey, we're gonna go spend five billion
dollars to go build this ultra luxury stadium, and if
the City of Chicago doesn't want to give them money. Well,
(13:58):
then you move on. You go find someone that will
and give you something more amenable.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The thing is is that And we talked about this
at the beginning. Hey, the Jets and Giants both moved
to New Jersey. Teams move and it's not that big
a deal San Francis Francisco, Right, it's not that big
a deal. But the more time goes on, there just
feels like it's something different about this compared to the rest.
(14:23):
We never really talked that much about San Francisco moving
to Santa Clara. I mean, the Jets and Giants both
moved in New Jersey in the eighties, but that was
never that big a deal. Football generally is not that
big a deal because it's eight Sundays a year rather
than if an NBA team moved or an NHL to
or a baseball team moved. But the way this is gone,
this just strikes different at this point. It's not where Hey, Okay,
(14:46):
they moved, They're only moving twenty minutes from Chicago. They
want to build a light rail to go from Chicago
and there, and all these different plans like that's that's
all great, and it should be fine, because again we've
seen this all the time, but there it just seems
to be like this is more embarrassing, and it's and
it's more of a big deal, and it's more of
a shock, and it's and it's more a complete failure
(15:08):
by Chicago and by the state of Illinois than it
is for anybody else. Well, you talk about the Bears
being an identity of the city, right, I mean, that's
that's the difference, Like forty nine ers are great, but
when you say San Francisco is that's the first thing
is like, No, you talk about Chicago and anybody you're
from Chicago, the first thing they ask you about mobsters
or they say bears and then you move on from there.
(15:30):
So like it is that identification. So certainly it it's frustrating,
there's no question about it. But it's longest dating at
this point. And it's one of those all right, you
watch the politics now, if the dailies were still in charge,
if this is the Chicago politics of thirty years ago,
they get a deal done, they figure something out, they
don't have this impass and back and forth, and you
(15:53):
you find the money and redistribute you get your partners involved, whatever.
But when it's been just such a difficult even getting
to the table, right the Bears Bears brass wasn't going
to meetings with any regularity, and you had to add
so many people from up and down the chain there
in Springfield who asking me like, yeah, we haven't met
(16:14):
for four months on this, Like we haven't talked to anybody.
It's like, all right, So there's no sense of urgency
like anything. It is. Procrastination is a wonderful thing until
you realize it has a five to ten billion dollar
price tag at the back end. Exit out about a
Fresco exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon, Live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Nine thirty seven to go
(16:35):
in the third quarter. The KNXT lead is now seven
sixty one fifty four. A couple of turnovers by the
Spurs to start the second half. The KNIXT lead is
pushed out, now a sixty one to fifty four lead.
It's a three from the Knicks. Jalen Brunson. Maybe he's
heating up. It's a ten point lead. Oh get a timeout,
Mitch Johnson, Oh, get a time out, Get a time out.
(16:59):
Sixty four fifty four Knicks at the lead. We have
more on this coming up next, as well as other
big stories out of the NBA. And maybe the Bears
will have moved in the next twenty minutes. I mean
maybe maybe, I hope so it'll be breaking news. It'll
take me away from Dick Vitalis Oh get a timeout,
Mitch Johnson, get a time out, do something, even if
it's wrong.
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Mike Harmon. Six and a half to go in the
third quarter, Knicks have a seventy sixty one lead over
the Spurs. Things are getting little nerve wracking for the Spurs.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Here.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Wemby looks frustrated. Just committed a really bad foul running
over mcal Bridges. Jalen Brunch just made a couple of
nice passes getting out of a double team, and it's
a nine point Nicks lead. The Spurs look like they're
really on the ropes right now, and this is where
they can get finished and the Knicks can finish this
game because this is a really difficult time now for
(18:48):
San Antonio. I'm sure they thought coming in here second half,
we're gonna be able to make a big push, and
instead it's Karl Anthony Towns elbowing his way to the
hoop for another bucket and a letn point lead for
the Knicks. Like this is this is like your season
is right here right now for the San Antonio Spurs.
I like the way you said elbowing, because that would
be a foul, but no elbows up. Elbows up for
(19:11):
him though, elbows Carl Anthony, Well, yeah, was one of
those where I don't know that he saw Bridges until
he tried to split between him and another player, right,
because I think it was Cat behind him and then
Bridges tries to get into the lane and ends up
taking Yeah, this wasn't. This wasn't. Hey, Caruso, I'm gonna
send you a message, but still you got to see
where you're yeah, exact guy. And it's look, the Spurs
(19:33):
are careless. They're really I mean, they're very frustrated right now.
They're really bad on the lobs too, like they've tried
defeated to Wemby. They did this a couple of times
in the first half. We certainly saw in Game one
where it's like you're hitting the bottom of the backboard,
like you're not the timing is just not there. Yeah,
as well, and it's been a very physical game. Uh
so far that the referees for as many times as
the uh, you know, they've put guys on the free
(19:55):
throw line. Uh, they've let them play a lot of
aggressive play has been able to stand and quite honestly,
the aggressive play that stands out to me more than
anything is boy Steph Castle is allowed to get is
basically allowed to punch whoever has the ball with the knicks,
Like his hand checking is really overly aggressive, and I'm
like sometimes like, okay, you can't just punch at the
(20:16):
punch at the guy right like like they're allowing him
to just do whatever he wants with Brunson bringing the
ball up, and I'm like, wow, okay that a couple
of times, Look, I get the aggressiveness and I get that, hey,
I want to get my hand in there, and I'm
physically bigger than you and I'm a little bit more,
a little bit more I would say, playing a little
(20:36):
bit more freer because I'm the bigger player over a
guy like Jalen Brunson. But sometimes a couple of times
where I'm like, oh, the dude's just like you know,
throwing punches. I think I think one whistle on that
might might be okay, but but any part of the
ball though it counts right, Yeah, but there's place you
got to get anything. And I'm like, wow, that punch
just me that that we've had balls called on guys
(20:57):
getting hit in the hair. Yeah, well hair are a
new thing. No, it's a big thing, no glass about it.
But the physicality is certainly there. And that's that's the
frustrating part I think if you're the players too, though,
is that there's been no continuity as to what constitutes
too much contact. Even going to those first five minutes,
right Nick, kick cal thro a couple of files and
you're looking around, all right, is that what we're doing.
(21:18):
We're gonna have this quick whistle. And then by the
end of the first quarter, what did they have like
five straight whistles on the spurs to kind of even
things up. Same thing where it's like, all right, what's
the level of contact you're gonna allow? Because they're beating
the hell out of each other down low with naria whistle.
And now things have just gotten really interesting because now
Karl Anthony Towns, who's been the Knick's best player twenty
(21:41):
one points nine boards in twenty four minutes, now just
committed his fourth foul. He got tied up with Steph Cassel,
who also is in foul trouble, and it was one
of those plays where the foul could go either way,
and both guys had their arms wrapped around each other.
The foul goes to Karl Anthony town So now Kat's
got four fouls and this could be a great, big
(22:03):
equalizer for the Spurs. A big three by Castle cuts
the lead to five now with five minutes to go.
Sometimes you see the momentum of a game change on
a big foul. We saw it kind of change in
the first half when Castle went to the bench with
his third foul, and suddenly things got a lot easier
for the Nixon, for Jalen Brunson. And now you're seeing
it again for Karl Anthony Towns now going to the
(22:25):
bench with his fourth foul. Things suddenly have gotten a
little bit easier for the Spurs in the last couple
of Yeah, that seemed like another one of the you
know what, we don't need to call this foul kind
of situation, right, some body some arms locked up, but
trying to adjudicate and decide which guy was truly the instigator.
That we've seen several of those instances over the course
of the game. It's like, all right, you're just tossing
(22:46):
a coin at this pit, So we'll keep you updated.
A seventy four to sixty seven lead. Now for the
next mcal bridges with a big hoop. He has been
huge since the midway point of the second half. Now
he's got sixteen. But time now for the play of
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the play the day comes to us. This is kind
of like an Abbott elementary story, but a big internet phenomenon.
Today was a guy who tweeted out video of his
kids at school and he says, hey, I just got
(23:30):
a phone call. Might have to pick up my kid
from school because he's leading his class in Nixon for
and let's go nixt Chance. And the videos out there,
the kids running around like a kindergarten classroom, wearing a
Knicks jersey. Other Nick fans are there, kids are all
cheering about the Knicks. So here's the play of the day.
Here's what went on in this class room earlier today.
(24:10):
You're all suspected, like how do you get any work done?
Like the teachers gotta go. It's just gonna be one
of those days. It's it's just gonna be. How long
till summer vacation? How many more days do we have? Like, like,
I gotta get there, man, Like first this is like
early in the morning, walk in before they even sit down.
But yell it, let's go Nix and Nixon for gotta
(24:32):
take control of your classroom. What are you doing there, dude,
I don't know that there's anything is anyone in New
York is in control of anything with the Knicks right now,
Like the Knicks of the Knicks run the city. It's
like it's like one of those TV shows where you
find out like, oh, you want to run a business
in this place, Well you gotta you know, the real
pay tribute, you know, the real guy who owns the town.
(24:53):
You gotta go make sure like it's like Yellowstone or whatever.
It's like, yeah, you know, like the Knicks basically run
the town right now. You gotta go through them forget
eything done. Yeah. I feel bad for the teachers to
a point, but that means you've already you probably had
some instances over the course of the year where you'd
lost control. Sure this doesn't just come out of the blue. Yeah,
oh no, no, yeah, bat night. I mean not the
fact that it's taped too. Yeah, it's like, come on, well,
(25:15):
the fact that the Knicks. I mean, this has been
a late breaking phenomenon where suddenly it's it's you know,
it's it's like twenty eight days later where you get bit, Okay,
I get bit. How much time do I have? But
now I'm turning. Right now, I'm turning. I'm turning like
that's kind of what it is. That's kind of what
it's been. It's been that hey, this slow, I got okay,
I'm kind of getting nixed fever and then before you
know it, I got it all I I there's nothing
(25:35):
I can do. What do you think it would take
to how much would you have to pay a guy
to walk around with like nets gear? Right now? Oh
I did, dude. People didn't walk around with even when
they had KD and Harden. No, no, no, they had that
cool striping underform. So those those went over for a minute.
Nobody in New York and net fans. There's no nets fans.
When they moved to Brooklyn, there were no Nets fans.
(25:57):
It was still there. That was too bad the Nets.
When the Nets were good and that you thought, okay,
maybe they could wait. You know, here they are building
this new dynasty in Kdi wants to go play with
Kyrie the next one, like eighteen games a year, and
it was still it's still a next town. It's then
that's like, what are we doing? Man? Then that's a
the Nets aren't even the Clippers in New York. Then
that's a like the Angels right in New York. That
(26:20):
that's what the Nets are. That should I mean, I
get going to Brooklyn. Hey, everything's right. It's a nice facility. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know New Jersey was yours. You can get a
nice ticket. Everything was legal in New Jersey. You're going
to NBA fan thing. You're going to NBA Finals. You
were New Jersey Nets. You're gonna I mean, Jason, you
were in New Jersey. It's a long time ago. I
mean yeah it is, but you still have that was
(26:40):
the that's the history of that. That is a history
book kind of moment. Right, It's like, wait, wait they
went to a finals. It's funny, like when I got
to explain that to like stuff that happened in the
early two thousands that like my younger cousins or relatives
I know, like wait, they did, Yeah, Jason Kidd was
Jason Kidd.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh well, okay, all right, let me go, let let
me let let me backtrack now a little bit here
and tell you about the early two thousands. Let me
tell you about the days back of your I like
that so we got more.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Hobo so dearon Fox. Just shoved Jalen Brunson,
shoved mckel Bridges, got in the face of the official
and he's still in the game. He shoved everybody turn'll
stare down between him and j pretty still in the game. Wow, Okay,
eight and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
(27:57):
It has been all wemby the last couple of minutes
for the Spurs. They have cut the Knicks lead to
five eighty seven eighty two with eight minutes to go
in the fourth quarter. The game is getting chippy. Now,
this is where if you are the Knicks, this has
got to get to be Brunson time. Like if it's
been cat most of the game and he's back in
the game with four fouls. Mcal Bridges has been terrific.
(28:20):
Landry Shammitt keeps hitting three shammy. He just hit another
three right now for an eight point lead. But this
is gonna have to be Brunson getting back to closing
in the final four to five minutes of this game.
It's a very familiar script for the Knicks, and I
feel like, Okay, the other guys have carried the load
the first forty two minutes or so, and this is
(28:40):
gonna have to be Brunton in the final five or
six minute. Bridges has been fantastic off the bench. You
look at the what Shannitt's been able to do with Shanitt,
Like we just keep talking about Shannitt nnet Defensively, Yeah,
he gives up a little bit there, but finding the
open look and right before that shot. Through the first
three and change this quarter, the Knicks were one of
(29:01):
eight from the field, but a couple of those were
second chance opportunities. So still getting the tap backs. Still
getting the extension of the play now, just need to
maybe draw out a few minutes seconds on that shot
clock before firing up another three. So time out on
the floor right now, ninety to eighty two lead Landry
Shamitz three wow again, eight point lead for the next
(29:24):
eight minutes left to go now. Earlier today, big rumor
that got all over social media. Jason Wick, long time NBA,
NFL insider talkers, bags been at Fox, been everywhere, set
out that he heard that the Fever are ready to
ship Caitlin Clark to the Los Angeles Sparks, and so
many people got in his face about this is not real,
(29:47):
this is not happening. I can't believe that. And it's
been debunked on on, you know, in the last few
minutes or in the last few hours. But you know,
he's stuck with it and said, look, you know the
league did this. You know shot got to LA And
I understand the point he's trying to make. But the
thing is is that I can't say I can't see
(30:08):
Caitlyn Clark ever getting traded. I can't say that that
will not happen. Look, Angel Reese got traded, and she's
someone that came into the league and was what she was,
someone who seemed to be bigger than the league. Not
as big as Caitlyn Clark, bigger than the league, but
bigger than the league. And what happened in just a
couple of years. It's not working and now she's on
another team, Caitlyn Clark. It's been nothing. But she's had
(30:33):
great publicity. She's had horrible publicity. It doesn't seem like
the other players in the league like her. It doesn't
seem like they're thankful for what she's been able to
bring them in the last couple of years. But overall
you get the sense of you wonder how great of
a teammate she is. You see her arguing with the
officials all the time, arguing with her head coach, and
they have to continually try to tamp down. No, nothing happen,
(30:55):
Everything's fine. I can't look. I think this is gonna
happen sometime in the next month. No, But can I
see a big, seismic Caitlin Clark trade at some point? Yeah?
I could see it, just simply because the league doesn't
seem to be as grateful to its superstars as it
should be. People are watching we're talking about the NBA
(31:17):
because of Caitlin Clark, an angel reason, all the players
who you have come in the last couple of years
and Paige Becker's and I feel like, yeah, they just
don't like the people that have come in the last
couple of years. So yeah, this person were out there,
welcome to I don't know why. I've never seen a
league bite the hand that feeds it more than WNBA does.
But I can't tell you for a second look. And
it's easy to Jason Whitlock saying we always said, look,
(31:38):
as you said, he's an agitator. But I can't say
that I can't see this happening at some point. I
can see Caitlin Clark as a spark. I could see
her on the liberty, I can see her somewhere else
because it's better for everybody involved. There's a trade for
whatever reason. I can see it. Well. It gives it
some extra juice. And it's always the question, not just
with the trade rumor, but just in general with Caitlin Clark,
(32:02):
her teammates, coach front office. Obviously, the commissioner has had
the comments of, hey, she doesn't she's not grateful for
the platform that she's been given. It's like, well, you
got to meet part of the way there to your
point earlier. Right, the growth of the league these last
couple of years take nothing away from the years of
laying the groundwork and the women that busted their asses
(32:23):
to build the league. But most most of our professional
sports leagues aren't exactly great and taking care of the
veterans and those that came before him. Here, it's just
a little more agitated and more animous to it than
you normally see. But could she be traded? Yeah, we'd
inject an extra huge storyline back into the league. I
(32:45):
can't understand. How can you not enjoy the best time
your league has had since it came into existence. Everybody's
getting more money, The organizations are worth more money, the
TV contract is worth more money. It's relevant were to everybody.
He's talking about the w like we talk about other leagues,
and no, no, no, not good enough. I don't understand
(33:07):
how this has still continued to be able to permeate
itself over the last couple of years. Yeah, she also
needs to look in the mirror, I think a little
bit too, and maybe tamp down. It's what made you great.
But it's also what's holding you back in some respects.
Seven point lead for the next eight minutes. Left to know.
We have more on what could be the definitive game
of the NBA Finals next Fox.
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