May 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon and our NFL Insider Jason Cole remember Colts Owner Jim Irsay. And the knuckleheads react to Tyrese Haliburton buzzer beater that forced OT.
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Here we are Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals. Again.
The Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs, especially
(01:04):
after seeing the ratings of last night's Game one of
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
But Nixon five or six, now, hey, maybe Dragon seven.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Maya best of nine now best of eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
You know what, since we really didn't get the best
of nine back at the nineteen nineteen World Series, We're
gonna play it here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They really need that, Knicks Pacers. How about we extended.
How about we just make this the NBA title. Let's
just make this the end of title. Going to the
fourth quarter, Knicks lead the Pacers ninety to eighty seven.
Jalen Brunson with twenty seven for the Knicks, Tyres Halliburton
with twenty three. They have both looked at times unstoppable
in this game. But the first thing I'm gonna say
is this, because this is one of those times where
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and we joked around about this going into the series,
like oh Rick Carlisle's already complaining about the officiating before
they've been played Game one, Like watching this game be officiated,
it's not being officiated great for either side. Like you've
seen Jalen Brunson getting foul trouble with four on a
foul that I can't believe was whistled Karl Anthony Towns
as well. I know the same thing has happened for
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the Pacers, you know, the big continuation foul that Brunson
got after he picked up his fourth foul was kind
of a give back. So I really no matter how
this turns out at the end, this is a game
where I watch both sides and I go, okay, you
know what, each side has has an issue with the officiating,
which means the officiating can't be complained. Now we know
the fourth quarter ago, we see how things go, obviously,
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but to this point, when both sides have issue with
the officiating, neither side can complain because it's not like
the pacers are getting done. It's not like the knicks
are being done. I'm seeing I'm seeing it on both
sides right now, and I know that Rick Carla every
time they cut await him on the side. It's like,
I can't wait to talk about the offictioning. I can't
wait to talk about the officiating postgame. But I'll tell
you right now, there's been some questionable stuff, but it's
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really been both sides. I really hope that you would
see a little bit more of letting them play in
game one. But this could also be a hey, the
officials aren't gonna let things get so out of whack,
so game one might be a little bit tighter. Uh So,
But again, here's where we are. It's a three point
game and both teams are playing fantastic. This is what
you want right Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, that's a three point game going to the fourth
as we roll in and we watched the the Pacers
try try to get going. Gona be one thing for
the for the Knicks, that was huge second quarter. Jalen
bruns had got to sit for a full seven minutes
of game time. Uh so that should play a little
bit of a role given his energizer bunny status.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Uh, that you see in.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
The best or I guess the worst of circumstances. Now
he's actually rested. But in terms of the officiating watching
it over the course of that, I just want consistency
and that's what we're we continue to struggle with of
all right, I'm gonna touch call the touch files?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Am I not? I'm gonna gonna call the moving screen?
Am I not?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
H the reach in the continuation Like both guys have
gotten it. Both Haliburton uh and Jalen Brunson have gotten
that extra step gather well and the in the gather.
If I had a nickel for every time that's now
said on a rate in the.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Tell the gather, it's the thing now in the gather, yes,
in the gather.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Like in the grasp once upon a time in the NFL,
all of those things. But you know, just trying to
figure out where where they decide the line is and
that's going to be a moving target. We saw the
Facebook page of the twenty officials that will work the
Conference finals series. They've got their work cutout for him
because these are two teams that love to get after
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it and and the big guys are very aggressive and
and will make guys earn their points at the stripe.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now, I'm glad you mentioned, you know, getting him, getting
Jalen Brunson getting that it's nearly six minutes worth of
rest in the second quarter. It was a huge deal
because Campaign comes in, who barely played and barely scored
so far in the playoffs, and he came in and
the Knicks push that lead out to eight at one point.
Now that they had the lead at halftime when they
were down early because the Pacers i think started twelve
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for twelve from the floor, So those are some really
big minutes. Campaign hit a couple of threes to get
the Knicks up there and wound up with a you know,
taking the lead. So those are some really really big
buckets there, and some big minutes by campaign because now
here's Brunson who just hits two circus hoops that you
look and go Okay, that's not nope, there it goes Okay, yep, Nope,
those are both going. So it's a three point nick
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lead right now, ninety four ninety one with about ten
and a half to go in the fourth quarter. So
we'll have more on this as the game keeps go. Obviously,
we had a big night, big day today in the
NBA with Shay Gildas Alexander winning the NBA MVP, and uh,
I gotta say two things.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What yes, okay, sure.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The first thing I'm gonna say is this, all right,
how's Lebron James? You number five?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
What do you want? First? You want? Do you want
the crazy one? Or do you want the Do you
want the serious one?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, you gotta go serious serious first because then crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Want so No, you have to actually swing the bat
to win the MVP, and not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, I mean, OBP might really really matter to people.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We will get to that, We'll get to the So
here's the thing is that I'll give you the serious
one first is I'm glad SGA one simply because it
shows you that, Okay, this is an MVP award. It's
not Player of the Award. Most Valuable Player is for
a player who is the most valuable to his team,
and you need to achieve as a team to win MVP.
(06:21):
Jokich is phenomenal, Right, MVP player three out of last
four years. Yeah, I get it. But it's not like
during the regular season the Nuggets are suddenly out to
winning sixty five games. They're a nice, middle of the pack,
fifty to fifty five win team. That's what Jokic brings
the Nuggets. SGA this year also had an incredible year, right,
I mean, Yollkic, the triple double, all the different things.
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He had a fantastic year. But it's for the regular season.
It's not just hey, this is the best player. And
SGA helped lead the Thunder to the best record in
the West. He did some things we'd never seen in
the NBA before. So yeah, he's the MVP because it's
not a Player of the Award, And I am okay.
If leagues want to say you know what, how about
we do this. Let's give out more hardware, Let's have
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a Player of the Year award, and let's have an MV.
I've been saying this for years. Why not let's have it.
M have the the the Kobe Bryant Player of the
Year Award, or however you want to do it. You can,
you can have it, because that would work. Then you
can make hey, who's the best player. The best player
is Nicole Yo, look at it? Okay, great, and then
the MVP. Jay Gilders, Alexander you do it in Major
(07:25):
League Baseball. You can do it in the NFL, you
can do it in the NBA. But really it's more
for the NBA and the MLB getting that going, because hey,
when a guy has that great a year, doesn't matter
if his team is middling in the standings. And yeah,
and the Nuggets were kind of middling in the standings.
Last word, they won the title, right, but every year
regular season they finished third or fourth. So I mean,
I can't sit here and say, yeah, you'll catch is
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the MVP again? When when when it's about raising your
team to a height and they've been just a you know,
steady they.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Did boo boo boop.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You know, fifty five fifty to fifty five win team
for the last five years.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, but that's the thing, right, if we we've got
to take it in the the back of this season,
you could argue this might have been Jokic's finest performance, right,
Porter Junior wasn't very good. It had injury issues, but
struggled a bunch, Jamal Murray missed a bunch of time,
and well you fired Michael.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Malone in the middle of it.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
All of that, say, you finished with eighteen fewer regular
season wins than o case. He did so while he
was a wizard himself, and you could make that argument.
I was surprised by the margin of victory, right, not
that sg nds up winning it, but a seventy one
twenty nine final. That one seemed that was curious to
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me because I think there were still a lot of
in the you know, anonymous polling towards the end of
the regular season, was still a lot of nah, Jokic
just having his finest season and yeah, blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And in the end you get SGA off the thirty
point per game.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Now that you hit the backlash because you start subtracting
all the foul shots he shouldn't have taken, and he
takes his scoring out average down and all of those things.
But for this season, no, I mean I don't have
an issue with it. You raced out to sixty eight wins.
You you bludgeon teams time and time again. Right, your
average margin of victory was so great. And I understand
the counter argument as folks, well, you know what, they
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hadn't good enough and a deep enough team, and blah
blah blah. He's still the head of the Snake and
he's still the guy that's the leader, and that is unquestioned,
and he gets them to sixty eight wins in a
very difficult and deep Western Conference. So yeah, to the
victor goes the spoils, and it creates a new narrative. Right,
there's SGA given Nicole Yo gets another one. Hey, four
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out of five. You're creating new stars, right, that's it.
It has always been creating new stars, right, Like how
did Jordan not win every year? How did Shock not
win every year?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We want to create new stars. I get it. So
I'm glad that happened because I'm glad because it shows you, Hey, yeah, took.
We took that this is gonna be MVP of one.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, and the margin of victory won't matter when we
get further away from it, because it's it's not like
it's a Shaq Iverson thing you would have been getting.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In Ah, not really.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The other one is this now here?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, let's go crazy all right, come on now, got
to provide content for a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Get those notebooks out.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The Oklahoma City Thunder have you know, since they've come
into the league. Hey, look at this small market team,
you know, finding a way to stay relevant. Boy, they're
a great story. Okay, but maybe they're the biggest bleeping
underachievers in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Sure, you have had three different MVPs in the last decade. Three,
not one, not two, You've had three. The teams with
three MVPs aren't like the Lakers and the Celtics and
Banners and championships. You've had three guys win MVP in
the last decade. And yet and this way, hey, we
get to the finals, it'll be the second time. Like,
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maybe you're the biggest underachievers in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Talent has come through the door.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
About that man, I'm still looking.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For an original, mister unreliable newspaper. And you traded James Harden.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
When you say, oh, we can't pay him, we got
to we can't pay hard, I won't trade James Harden.
And then he goes and becomes a super duperstar. Like
maybe maybe maybe you're the biggest underachievers of the last decade.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
But go back and look at all of the super teams. Right,
that was the the term dejure for about fifteen fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was on the menu.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's like what soup of the day, same as it
ever was super teams and you guys are going all
over the place to team up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
They had one happened.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Organically fell out of the sky and they couldn't win.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I mean really three different MVPs, and they traded James Harden,
Like like that's like, how do you have all that talent?
And this is what we're here in the Western Conference
finals this year one game to another. Okay, great, right, awesome,
you're here, you have a chance. But in the in
the last ten years, this is who you've had come
through your come through your team.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
It's funny because you bring this up now and when
I saw the little graphic pop by and there was
the picture of him with the MVP trophy. You know
that someone had had doctored and put together because obviously.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It wasn't handed to him just yet.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Uh and it was with the other okay, c MVPs,
I had that fleeting moment to go.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's a lot of talent. I mean, three m vps
with the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I mean maybe they've been the biggest underachievers in the NBA.
With the Knicks, stop stop, we had no talent for
a long time. Do you really think the Knicks ever
underachieved up until the last ye towards Zion? Come on,
come on, old talent a clown? That is true, I'm
telling you man, I mean really, just think about that
(12:38):
for a second, that this is this is where they're
at that with three m vps and James Harden and yeah,
we're still trying to break through.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Actually, who else would be on that metal stand though?
In terms of underachievers, I mean the Lakers because they
just got that one.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well yeah yeah with Lebron. Yeah, and you could talk
about the Kavs where they underachievers for a long time,
but Lebron came back and won there. But I mean
you think about three it's not like you had one guy. Well,
you had multiple fights in the after yeah, and James
Harden before you traded him. You had all of that out.
You're maybe the biggest underachieved in the NBA. I mean,
just think of that truck. They have a lot of
(13:12):
draft picks left though. No, no, no, no, no, we're
not We're not under again. You have to be good
to underachieve. Well, you had expectations. The Knicks underachieved you
for a decade. The Knicks only had one thing wrong
with them the last few years.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
What's one thing?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Just one thing wrong? One thing the whole tame one
thing wrong. They stunk. They don't stink. Now, you know,
we haven't talked about James Dolan in a while. It
is a one oh one ninety two lead for the
Knicks over the Pacers. With Brunson on the bench, the
Knicks have pushed this lead out to nine. Karl Anthony
Towns headed to the free throw line. He's gonna shoot
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three three throws as he.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was fouled taking a three, the result of Rick Carlisle
yelling at Nie Smith after all of the non closeouts,
so this time, I'm getting it his way.
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and a half to go. In the fourth quarter, we
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get into the biggest shocking story in the NFL today,
Colts owner Jim Ursa passes away suddenly at the age
of sixty five after a big owners meeting day surrounding
the tush push and others. Big must listen radio Coming
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coming up a minute with Jason Cole. But right now,
the Knicks lead is one eleven to ninety six. Is
a fifteen point lead with six minutes left to play.
The big thing to know they have pushed this lead.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It was a three to five point game for the
majority of the second of the last part of the
third quarter. Jalen Brunson goes to the bench picking up
his fifth foul. Now the fourth foul is on the refs.
Fifth foul was on him A bad play. Look the
Pacers are going at him defensively because I want to
try to get him in foul trouble, want to try
to make him work, and it worked. He got up
in the air. TJ. McConnell gets his fifth foul. But
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since leaving the game, the Knicks have now pushed this
lead out to fifteen with Brunson sitting on the bench,
twenty eight and nine for Karl Anthony Towns, who is
taking heat check threes right now because he's feeling it
so much. Look Brunson thirty one before he goes to
the bench with the five fouls. It really has been
something to see with Jalen Brunson on the bench. You
(17:37):
think things are going to get a little nervous. Things
are gonna get a little weird, Things are gonna a
little crazy. The Knicks lead gets pushed out to fifteen
with under six minutes left to get z over.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Under was thirty and a half Jalen Brunson, So there
you go. But what Rick Carlile's really got to be
salty about is how well the Knicks have played for
Tom Thibodeau while Jalen Brunson's been sitting on his ass.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Challenge back to that second quarder and look at it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Now there's a much different Nick squad against this Pacers team,
which is remarkable.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They haven't played since February. Yeah, right, but now we're
gonna play three more games after this, so it's all
little jesty. Be careful. More on this coming up in
a few minutes the next lead one eleven ninety eight,
about five minutes left to go and Game one of
the Eastern Conference Finals. But from the NFL today, look,
(18:27):
it began with a lot of drama with the Tush
Push not getting banned after NFL owners had a very
contentious meeting where they voted and they didn't get enough
votes to overturn the Tush pushvan band. So it's gonna
live for at least another year. Other big change the
NFL as well. We're talking about how there's no reseting
in the playoffs and other big things. And then the
(18:48):
big story occurs later today, a shocker to all of us.
Colts owner Jim Ersay dies suddenly in his sleep at
the age of sixty five, and you have seen the
plaudits come in for him over the course of the
past hours. A guy that's out of life, right, we
know he liked to get out. You know, he had
one of those robust, grab life by the horns type
of personality. You've seen him. He's been very visible and
(19:11):
in certain stories where he probably shouldn't have been. But
you see all the philanthropic work, all the great things
being said about him, all the things he did in
and out of the community, and it's something to have
this part of his life be focused on. But again,
the big shock or jim Ers passing away at the
age of sixty five joining us now on the hotline
to break it all down. Longtime NFL inside Er Hall
(19:33):
of Fame voter, he's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
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Jason Cole, Jay Cole, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Well, listen to this news just I also came out
with a new book. I forgot to tell you guys
about that. Okay, about Robert Taylor, a guy who's a
quadriplegic and and former cal rugby player. But we'll get
back to that at the end because Roberts not Roberts
(20:04):
said that. Jim Or said far more important, far more
interesting person to discuss, even in death. He was a Really,
he was really a wonderful guy. You know, obviously troubled,
obviously at issue. You know, a lot of a lot
of demons. There a lot of demons, you know, probably
from childhood, given that his dad was a pretty heavy
(20:27):
alcoholic too, But really, you know, an earnest guy. He
could actually have a conversation with and like talk to
him about his family. He'd share things, really actually talk
about football because he actually came through in football. He
was a he was a general manager. Like he worked
at understanding the game better than most owners who you
(20:52):
you ever run into, Like, he really did get it
in certain ways. But yeah, that was you know, a
lot a lot of very negative headlines along the way
as well. Unfortunately, what if I said to you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Hey, what's one story about about him that that you
all would defall to and say, this is what I
think about, this, what I think of when I think
of a versay and all of that. What story would
you tell?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, I don't think it would be one single story.
It would be anytime you approach to me, always stop,
and he would answer our question and he would treat
me with a certain amount of dignity that he was
not above you like even though he's a billionaire, even
though he you know, had moved a team and his
dad had made a lot of money and he was
a rich kid growing up. Like there's a genuineness, there's
(21:43):
a I don't know, a human frailty about him that
made him understand that he wasn't above anybody else despite
his financial stature. And that's pretty rare in that group,
Like they look down upon people a lot. Let me
just pray it to you that way, Like Woody Johnson
doesn't have a lot of respect for people who don't
(22:05):
have as much money as him. Let me just play
it that way.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Also a guy that was a fan like the rest
of us, with that rock collection and everything that he
assembled over the year.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Jacobs, Oh yeah, I mean yeah, a good dude and
really human and I never like didn't hide from the
fact that he had problems, right Like, he didn't. He
didn't deny it. He didn't sit there and try and
tell you other it's all lies or you know, pretend
that he was something he wasn't right like, he owned it.
(22:35):
He owned his troubles, he owned his frailty, he owned
his humanness. And again, unlike other people in that position
who do not like to you know, have to own
you know, what's wrong with them? Like just so many
of those guys who who don't want to hear anything
(22:56):
bad about themselves. And Jimmy or say, was not afraid,
was not afraid of any of that, and that does
I'm not saying that he would embrace it either, but
he wasn't afraid of it. Because I guess the best way.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
To put it, Jason call our guest, the Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And you know, it's it's kind of you think about
it happening today when when the owners had the vote
on the tush push and a lot of things, and
you know, you and I text us like, hey, was
was he there at the owners meeting? And You're like,
I don't think he was there. And that's the first
I thought. It was that he did go for an
(23:34):
afternoon nap and and he didn't wake up. It was
just such an odd thing to have it happen, you know,
surrounding such a big day for all the owners in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, I think it's his daughter's alternate control of the
team at this point, he'd given up the day to
day because physically he just couldn't get around that much.
I mean, the back problems they'd had, you know, all
the issues that he had dealt with physically over the
over time. I mean this is on top of yeah,
the demons, the abuse issues. Like physically he was just yeah,
(24:05):
he got he was destroyed by some of the things
that happened over the course of his life. I mean
he bent over uncomfortable all the time. You could see
that the man was in pain. Right, So at a
certain point about I think it was like four years ago,
he gave up day to day control and going and
go to the meeting. So I'd be surprised if he
(24:26):
was at this meeting, and that also would have made
for a much different headline. I'm assuming that he was
at home when that's happened.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Jacoll transitioning to the news from earlier today an hour
of filibustering and speeches. Jason Kelsey shows up admonishment for
some terminology used by the Eagles, But the tush push
remains what flipped it. It seemed like it was a foregone conclusion.
It was going into the Dodo land.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I think that's an understand, Like, this is football, man, Like,
how is this not a really basic football play? And
I just I always look at this going if this
is this is a goal line drill, right, and if
you happen to have an advantage in a goal line drill,
(25:16):
why should you take this away? And I get I
get it that pushing a guy upfield and doing certain
things when when defenders are in helpless positions and not
prepared for it, it's tough. Like when guys run down field,
Like when offensive linemen run downfield and push their own
(25:36):
runner against a tackler in a one on one situation.
That Brunton's on fire.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
By the way, Hey, if I'm not allowed to jump
in and say stuff, you can't say stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I just wait, you just just nailed that. Wow that
was another long st but whatever. Anyways, but like this
is football, man, Like, I don't get it. I don't
I don't get why you're taking away something that is
sort of essential to the game. And I know it's not,
you know, one of the twenty yards playdown field, Like
(26:11):
sometimes football is just a you know, a one is
a is a man on man battle for you know,
a couple of inches of real estate and that's what
it's supposed to be sometimes and that's okay, right now,
that's not to eight you might be getting nervous. So
(26:33):
I just I just think that, Like here, here's the
other thing that really ticks me off. Why are people
who don't play the game making the rules about how
the game is supposed to be played And not only
don't play, but don't know how to play this game,
don't even have the first clue of how it's done.
And you can tell me about competition committees and coaches
(26:56):
and all, but my opinion is the players should be
the ones that make the rules. Now, the players have
to have to sign off on a few things, like
if they want if they want hits to the head,
they have to agree not to sue the owners over
you know, cumulative damage, right, like you guys, there has
to be some give and take, right the owners deserve
(27:18):
protection over over long term lawsuits. Right if this is
the way the players want to play, And to me,
like the tush push is a is one that should
be arguing amongst the player reps in the union and
in that setting, and especially against guys actually actually played
like the kickers, who are the player reps should be
kicked out of the room when they when when this
(27:39):
is discussed. I mean, I'm and I'm serious about that,
Like they don't belong in the room, and the quarterbacks
don't really belong in the room to that either, But
like that's that's the guys who should be deciding the rules,
with obviously the coaches having a hand in guiding them
and saying, hey, look, you might want to think about
what you're doing in this situation if you allow for
(28:03):
this kind of play. That's why I just don't understand
why the owners are in on this and they're part
of it, because when the owners become part of it,
it's all about, oh are we going to get sued
because of this? Are we going to do? You know?
Is this is this bad? Like you know, they're always
changing the rules for reasons that sometimes don't have anything
to do with and with actual performance and play on
(28:26):
the field.
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Speaker 2 (29:21):
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Speaker 1 (29:23):
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the Knicks and the Pacers. It is a one twenty three,
one eighteen lead. Now for the Knicks with thirty four
seconds left to go, they have the basketball. The one
thing is, there's three minutes to go. You're up by fourteen.
Don't allow threes. All the pages have done is hit
(30:06):
threes in the last three minutes. That's all they've done.
Guys hitting Threesnee Smith is hitting threes. Now all hitting
three is like, no threes, give up the twos, no threes.
So now it's a game. And the Knicks half hit
free throws in the last thirty five seconds, but still
a five point lead with thirty four seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
To be fair, they hadn't hit any threes all day,
so they were due.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That is that is true.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
What's he gonna do?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Start hitting them now?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, no there, yeah, I guess they will Oh leave
the bet.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wow, that's really happening.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, yeah, they're not gonna want so to it. They
took their swings. What can you say?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No the nets one tonight Okay, just so you know
we won tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
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Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Joining us now to tell us what's trending in the
wide world of sports is someone who's been called the
Rick Carlisle of Fox Sports Radio, never really happy with
the officiating. That's Maskia Belayos.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You know, I'm not really happy all the time with
the officiating, but you know what, Carlisle is a damn
great coach, so I'm good for that. Nie Smith Aaron
Nesmith that you just mentioned, Jason is seven of eight
from the three, so yeah, he's pretty hot. And this
is not the time for the Pacers to be hitting
those threes. If the Knicks are going to hold on
to their lead, they are up right now, as you mentioned,
(31:32):
by five points with less than thirty seconds to go.
Tyrese Halliburn is leading scorer for Indiana. He is twenty
is twenty seven points, ten of nineteen from the field.
The Big Bodega Carl Anthony Towns with thirty two points
and ten rebounds. Jalen Brunson's got thirty seven points and
five assists and coming down to the wire in Game
one of the Eastern Conference Finals. Shake Gildess Alexander was
(31:54):
officially named the NBA's MVP of the twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five season. He gave all of his
teammates rolexes. Jason, when are you going to give us
all rolexes when the Knicks win?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That is that I'm not gonna have it.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Look at you, Look at you and b B B
all right?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Why does my watch shay r O L l ell.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's very.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
When it comes to the NHL playoffs, also a great game.
It's West the West Final Game one between the Oilers
and the Stars. The Stars have scored three goals in
the third period. They've taken the lead from the Oilers.
Four to three is the score with about nine minutes
to go in the third period. When it comes to baseball,
the Phillies are on top of the Rockies and nine
to three. It's the top of the seventh inning. The
Angels have oh No. The A's up, taking the lead
(32:48):
from the Angels three to two. Bottom of the second inning,
Diamondbacks and Dodgers are scoreless. Top of the third the
Mets outscored the Red Sox five to one. The Blue
Jays shut out the Padres fourteen zero, and Dalton varshow
had a great slamming the win. The Yankees walked it
off against the Rangers four to three thanks to Jason Dominguez.
In the NFL Today, it was voted that the toush
(33:08):
push is gonna stay legal. In twenty twenty five, after
not enough owners voted to ban the play that was
made famous by the Eagles, the Lions withdrew their proposal
to change playoff receding, and now teams are also allowed
to do an on set kick at any point if
they are trailing in the game. And the Colts announced
that their owner and CEO, Jim Erse passed away peacefully
in his sleep this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
He was sixty five back to you guys, Thank you
very much. MASSI so really quick. It looks like the
Pacers are going to get the basketball. Here with about
twenty eight seconds left to go down five, Jalen Brunson
dishes down load to Oganunoby, who goes up and kind
of gets tangled up with Pascal Siakam, And initially it
was ruled the ball out of bounds off the Pacers. However,
(33:50):
it's pretty pretty obvious on the replay that Andronobi was
the last guy to touch the ball. So I think
the Pacers are going to get this ball with about
twenty nine seconds left down five. I mean, defensively, all
you gotta say is okay, no threes, right, give them
the let no threes, no threes. And yet they're allowing
open threes. And Nie Smith looks like Steph Curry. It
(34:10):
looks like he's he's run. He's running around the floor
like Kurt, give me the ball, give me the ball.
I'm taking three. He's seven out of eight from three
point right.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Yeah, they have hit five of their last six as
a team. Uh, you are lucky that your your floor
general gets to stay on the court though to get
open on the inbounds got away with a big ole
shove that would have disqualified him.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But now we have the drama twenty nine point nine remaining,
so they're.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Still figuring out the replay on this. They could be
looking at it as well, so that's kind of there.
So if they could rule a falanc Yakam who did
push Andrew Nobi's arm. So they're gonna take a while
on this. Coming up next, are we talking about a
big Knicks game one win and unbelievable Pacers comeback that
could be deflating or over time. That's next right here,
(34:54):
The drama is live Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
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Speaker 1 (35:06):
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on the floor. The Knicks lead the Pacers one twenty
four to one twenty one. Karl Anthony Towns one for
two from the free throw line. So now the Pacers
and the red hot knee Smith, who is hit I
think eleven threes in the fourth quarter, Pacers have a
chance to potentially tie this game and send it to overtime.
They have the ball with thirteen seconds left in regulation.
(35:54):
The Knicks commit a foul, so foul on the floor,
so now make it twelve seconds. Pacers have to run
another play to inbound again, still up one, twenty four
to one, twenty one again, twelve and a half seconds
left to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
You didn't think it was going to be the Nie
Smith game, did you?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Nothing's easy? Nothing is easy? My good.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You were worried about Nemhard, the other guy with any
to start his I mean.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
He is eight out of nine from three point range,
and he is he has just simply been unconscious like
he's and he hit his last three because Josh Hart
slipped a little bit. But that's still running and catching
and turning and hitting it. Even Rogie Hiller's jealous watching him.
So because of the foul on the floor with Nie Smith,
(36:37):
he's at the free throw Oh, it looked like he
was out of bad Wow. But the foul may have
preceded that. Well, the foul may have preceded that call.
Tyger's to the runner. Yeah, they don't have a challenge either.
So with the foul on the floor, Nie Smith will
be shooting two free throws instead of three. So the
best he could do is cut it to one point,
where the Knicks will still have to inbound the ball
(36:58):
and shoot free throws with probably seven or eight seconds
left to go. Here again, it was a fourteen point
lead with two and a half left to go, and
then all these threes by the Pacers have cut this
lead now to one point. With just ten seconds left
to go, the Knicks are able to get the ball
in bounds.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Little weird little crash, random bouncing up and down.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, jog Anunobi is able to corral the ball at
mid court. He has fouled. He will be going to
the free throw line to shoot two with seven seconds left,
Jalen Brunson and passing the ball out to Annunoby. Great
vision by him, falls into the crowd and into the
lap of Nick Legend Clyde Fraser, who gets up in
hugs Brunson before they go to shoot free throw.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Well, the way he threw the ball down, it was
almost like he was trying to throw it off the
Indiana defender. Oh I get it off him bounds Instead,
it threads the needle and he finds his way to
Clyde and Fraser hugs.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Now, it's not gonna be free throws. I don't think
the in the bonus, so I think it's gonna be No, no, no,
he's at the free throw line. Okay, they're setting they're
setting up the play after. There's Steve Cohen in the background,
but like just to get up, just to get up
out of the out, out of the chair and yeah,
hey Clyde and the and Brunson stays there for like
three or time five or six seconds. Dam here, I'm
gonna hug you for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It works out, Okay, why not take a minute? Yeah sure,
Uh oh, I've tried to try to.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Distract you at this Yeah, because it's oh Man misses
the first free throw for the Knicks. So it's one
twenty four, one twenty three with seven seconds left to go,
and Unobi is gonna be shooting the second and uh,
every Nick fan in Madison Square Garden is me right now?
They are just oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, and
Unobi at the line and look, oh my goodness, I'm
(38:47):
shaking right now.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, you got You were really calm for a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He hits. He hits the second. So it's a one
twenty five, one twenty three lead for the Knicks with
five seconds left to go and the fine shot by
the Pacers. Oh my god, wow, oh my goodness, I,
oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Six.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Do you believe it? Unlikelihood? I think we're going to overtime.
I say think because I can't believe what I just saw.
The final play in regulation Tyres Halliburton with the ball
for the Pacers. He drives down the lane looking to
go in, but the Knicks are there defensively. He dribbles
(39:32):
back out behind the three point line, puts up a
shot that bounces off the back of the rim. The
ball bounces up higher than the backboard. It goes straight up,
It goes up to where the shot clock is and
bounces down back through. Halliburton immediately does the Reggie Miller
choke sign towards the Nick bench and spike Lee. However,
(39:56):
his foot was on the line. It is a two pointer.
They're gonna look at it. I am sure, But Halliburton's
foot is on the line. It is a one twenty five,
one twenty five game, end of regulation. Yeah, pray you
see that second angle. His foot is on the line.
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Here we are Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals. Again.
The Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs, especially
(01:04):
after seeing the ratings of last night's Game one of
the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
But Nixon five or six, now, hey, maybe Dragon seven.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Maya best of nine now best of eleven.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
You know what, since we really didn't get the best
of nine back at the nineteen nineteen World Series, We're
gonna play it here.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
They really need that, Knicks Pacers. How about we extended.
How about we just make this the NBA title. Let's
just make this the end of title. Going to the
fourth quarter, Knicks lead the Pacers ninety to eighty seven.
Jalen Brunson with twenty seven for the Knicks, Tyres Halliburton
with twenty three. They have both looked at times unstoppable
in this game. But the first thing I'm gonna say
is this, because this is one of those times where
(01:44):
and we joked around about this going into the series,
like oh Rick Carlisle's already complaining about the officiating before
they've been played Game one, Like watching this game be officiated,
it's not being officiated great for either side. Like you've
seen Jalen Brunson getting foul trouble with four on a
foul that I can't believe was whistled Karl Anthony Towns
as well. I know the same thing has happened for
(02:06):
the Pacers, you know, the big continuation foul that Brunson
got after he picked up his fourth foul was kind
of a give back. So I really no matter how
this turns out at the end, this is a game
where I watch both sides and I go, okay, you
know what, each side has has an issue with the officiating,
which means the officiating can't be complained. Now we know
the fourth quarter ago, we see how things go, obviously,
(02:27):
but to this point, when both sides have issue with
the officiating, neither side can complain because it's not like
the pacers are getting done. It's not like the knicks
are being done. I'm seeing I'm seeing it on both
sides right now, and I know that Rick Carla every
time they cut await him on the side. It's like,
I can't wait to talk about the offictioning. I can't
wait to talk about the officiating postgame. But I'll tell
you right now, there's been some questionable stuff, but it's
(02:48):
really been both sides. I really hope that you would
see a little bit more of letting them play in
game one. But this could also be a hey, the
officials aren't gonna let things get so out of whack,
so game one might be a little bit tighter. Uh So,
But again, here's where we are. It's a three point
game and both teams are playing fantastic. This is what
you want right Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Well, that's a three point game going to the fourth
as we roll in and we watched the the Pacers
try try to get going. Gona be one thing for
the for the Knicks, that was huge second quarter. Jalen
bruns had got to sit for a full seven minutes
of game time. Uh so that should play a little
bit of a role given his energizer bunny status.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Uh, that you see in.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
The best or I guess the worst of circumstances. Now
he's actually rested. But in terms of the officiating watching
it over the course of that, I just want consistency
and that's what we're we continue to struggle with of
all right, I'm gonna touch call the touch files?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Am I not? I'm gonna gonna call the moving screen?
Am I not?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
H the reach in the continuation Like both guys have
gotten it. Both Haliburton uh and Jalen Brunson have gotten
that extra step gather well and the in the gather.
If I had a nickel for every time that's now
said on a rate in the.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Tell the gather, it's the thing now in the gather, yes,
in the gather.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Like in the grasp once upon a time in the NFL,
all of those things. But you know, just trying to
figure out where where they decide the line is and
that's going to be a moving target. We saw the
Facebook page of the twenty officials that will work the
Conference finals series. They've got their work cutout for him
because these are two teams that love to get after
(04:27):
it and and the big guys are very aggressive and
and will make guys earn their points at the stripe.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Now, I'm glad you mentioned, you know, getting him, getting
Jalen Brunson getting that it's nearly six minutes worth of
rest in the second quarter. It was a huge deal
because Campaign comes in, who barely played and barely scored
so far in the playoffs, and he came in and
the Knicks push that lead out to eight at one point.
Now that they had the lead at halftime when they
were down early because the Pacers i think started twelve
(04:56):
for twelve from the floor, So those are some really
big minutes. Campaign hit a couple of threes to get
the Knicks up there and wound up with a you know,
taking the lead. So those are some really really big
buckets there, and some big minutes by campaign because now
here's Brunson who just hits two circus hoops that you
look and go Okay, that's not nope, there it goes Okay, yep, Nope,
those are both going. So it's a three point nick
(05:16):
lead right now, ninety four ninety one with about ten
and a half to go in the fourth quarter. So
we'll have more on this as the game keeps go. Obviously,
we had a big night, big day today in the
NBA with Shay Gildas Alexander winning the NBA MVP, and uh,
I gotta say two things.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
What yes, okay, sure.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The first thing I'm gonna say is this, all right,
how's Lebron James? You number five?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
What? What? What?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
What do you want? First? You want? Do you want
the crazy one? Or do you want the Do you
want the serious one?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, you gotta go serious serious first because then crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Want so No, you have to actually swing the bat
to win the MVP, and not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well, I mean, OBP might really really matter to people.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We will get to that, We'll get to the So
here's the thing is that I'll give you the serious
one first is I'm glad SGA one simply because it
shows you that, Okay, this is an MVP award. It's
not Player of the Award. Most Valuable Player is for
a player who is the most valuable to his team,
and you need to achieve as a team to win MVP.
(06:21):
Jokich is phenomenal, Right, MVP player three out of last
four years. Yeah, I get it. But it's not like
during the regular season the Nuggets are suddenly out to
winning sixty five games. They're a nice, middle of the pack,
fifty to fifty five win team. That's what Jokic brings
the Nuggets. SGA this year also had an incredible year, right,
I mean, Yollkic, the triple double, all the different things.
(06:42):
He had a fantastic year. But it's for the regular season.
It's not just hey, this is the best player. And
SGA helped lead the Thunder to the best record in
the West. He did some things we'd never seen in
the NBA before. So yeah, he's the MVP because it's
not a Player of the Award, And I am okay.
If leagues want to say you know what, how about
we do this. Let's give out more hardware, Let's have
(07:04):
a Player of the Year award, and let's have an MV.
I've been saying this for years. Why not let's have it.
M have the the the Kobe Bryant Player of the
Year Award, or however you want to do it. You can,
you can have it, because that would work. Then you
can make hey, who's the best player. The best player
is Nicole Yo, look at it? Okay, great, and then
the MVP. Jay Gilders, Alexander you do it in Major
(07:25):
League Baseball. You can do it in the NFL, you
can do it in the NBA. But really it's more
for the NBA and the MLB getting that going, because hey,
when a guy has that great a year, doesn't matter
if his team is middling in the standings. And yeah,
and the Nuggets were kind of middling in the standings.
Last word, they won the title, right, but every year
regular season they finished third or fourth. So I mean,
I can't sit here and say, yeah, you'll catch is
(07:46):
the MVP again? When when when it's about raising your
team to a height and they've been just a you know,
steady they.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Did boo boo boop.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You know, fifty five fifty to fifty five win team
for the last five years.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Well, but that's the thing, right, if we we've got
to take it in the the back of this season,
you could argue this might have been Jokic's finest performance, right,
Porter Junior wasn't very good. It had injury issues, but
struggled a bunch, Jamal Murray missed a bunch of time,
and well you fired Michael.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Malone in the middle of it.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
All of that, say, you finished with eighteen fewer regular
season wins than o case. He did so while he
was a wizard himself, and you could make that argument.
I was surprised by the margin of victory, right, not
that sg nds up winning it, but a seventy one
twenty nine final. That one seemed that was curious to
(08:38):
me because I think there were still a lot of
in the you know, anonymous polling towards the end of
the regular season, was still a lot of nah, Jokic
just having his finest season and yeah, blah blah.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And in the end you get SGA off the thirty
point per game.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Now that you hit the backlash because you start subtracting
all the foul shots he shouldn't have taken, and he
takes his scoring out average down and all of those things.
But for this season, no, I mean I don't have
an issue with it. You raced out to sixty eight wins.
You you bludgeon teams time and time again. Right, your
average margin of victory was so great. And I understand
the counter argument as folks, well, you know what, they
(09:16):
hadn't good enough and a deep enough team, and blah
blah blah. He's still the head of the Snake and
he's still the guy that's the leader, and that is unquestioned,
and he gets them to sixty eight wins in a
very difficult and deep Western Conference. So yeah, to the
victor goes the spoils, and it creates a new narrative. Right,
there's SGA given Nicole Yo gets another one. Hey, four
(09:39):
out of five. You're creating new stars, right, that's it.
It has always been creating new stars, right, Like how
did Jordan not win every year? How did Shock not
win every year?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
We want to create new stars. I get it. So
I'm glad that happened because I'm glad because it shows you, Hey, yeah, took.
We took that this is gonna be MVP of one.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, and the margin of victory won't matter when we
get further away from it, because it's it's not like
it's a Shaq Iverson thing you would have been getting.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In Ah, not really.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
The other one is this now here?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, let's go crazy all right, come on now, got
to provide content for a lot of folks.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Get those notebooks out.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The Oklahoma City Thunder have you know, since they've come
into the league. Hey, look at this small market team,
you know, finding a way to stay relevant. Boy, they're
a great story. Okay, but maybe they're the biggest bleeping
underachievers in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Sure, you have had three different MVPs in the last decade. Three,
not one, not two, You've had three. The teams with
three MVPs aren't like the Lakers and the Celtics and
Banners and championships. You've had three guys win MVP in
the last decade. And yet and this way, hey, we
get to the finals, it'll be the second time. Like,
(10:48):
maybe you're the biggest underachievers in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Talent has come through the door.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
About that man, I'm still looking.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
For an original, mister unreliable newspaper. And you traded James Harden.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
When you say, oh, we can't pay him, we got
to we can't pay hard, I won't trade James Harden.
And then he goes and becomes a super duperstar. Like
maybe maybe maybe you're the biggest underachievers of the last decade.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
But go back and look at all of the super teams. Right,
that was the the term dejure for about fifteen fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was on the menu.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It's like what soup of the day, same as it
ever was super teams and you guys are going all
over the place to team up.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
They had one happened.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Organically fell out of the sky and they couldn't win.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I mean really three different MVPs, and they traded James Harden,
Like like that's like, how do you have all that talent?
And this is what we're here in the Western Conference
finals this year one game to another. Okay, great, right, awesome,
you're here, you have a chance. But in the in
the last ten years, this is who you've had come
through your come through your team.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
It's funny because you bring this up now and when
I saw the little graphic pop by and there was
the picture of him with the MVP trophy. You know
that someone had had doctored and put together because obviously.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It wasn't handed to him just yet.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Uh and it was with the other okay, c MVPs,
I had that fleeting moment to go.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
It's a lot of talent. I mean, three m vps
with the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I mean maybe they've been the biggest underachievers in the NBA.
With the Knicks, stop stop, we had no talent for
a long time. Do you really think the Knicks ever
underachieved up until the last ye towards Zion? Come on,
come on, old talent a clown? That is true, I'm
telling you man, I mean really, just think about that
(12:38):
for a second, that this is this is where they're
at that with three m vps and James Harden and yeah,
we're still trying to break through.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Actually, who else would be on that metal stand though?
In terms of underachievers, I mean the Lakers because they
just got that one.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well yeah yeah with Lebron. Yeah, and you could talk
about the Kavs where they underachievers for a long time,
but Lebron came back and won there. But I mean
you think about three it's not like you had one guy. Well,
you had multiple fights in the after yeah, and James
Harden before you traded him. You had all of that out.
You're maybe the biggest underachieved in the NBA. I mean,
just think of that truck. They have a lot of
(13:12):
draft picks left though. No, no, no, no, no, we're
not We're not under again. You have to be good
to underachieve. Well, you had expectations. The Knicks underachieved you
for a decade. The Knicks only had one thing wrong
with them the last few years.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
What's one thing?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Just one thing wrong? One thing the whole tame one
thing wrong. They stunk. They don't stink. Now, you know,
we haven't talked about James Dolan in a while. It
is a one oh one ninety two lead for the
Knicks over the Pacers. With Brunson on the bench, the
Knicks have pushed this lead out to nine. Karl Anthony
Towns headed to the free throw line. He's gonna shoot
(13:45):
three three throws as he.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Was fouled taking a three, the result of Rick Carlisle
yelling at Nie Smith after all of the non closeouts,
so this time, I'm getting it his way.
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of sixty five after a big owners meeting day surrounding
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coming up a minute with Jason Cole. But right now,
the Knicks lead is one eleven to ninety six. Is
a fifteen point lead with six minutes left to play.
The big thing to know they have pushed this lead.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
It was.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It was a three to five point game for the
majority of the second of the last part of the
third quarter. Jalen Brunson goes to the bench picking up
his fifth foul. Now the fourth foul is on the refs.
Fifth foul was on him A bad play. Look the
Pacers are going at him defensively because I want to
try to get him in foul trouble, want to try
to make him work, and it worked. He got up
in the air. TJ. McConnell gets his fifth foul. But
(17:16):
since leaving the game, the Knicks have now pushed this
lead out to fifteen with Brunson sitting on the bench,
twenty eight and nine for Karl Anthony Towns, who is
taking heat check threes right now because he's feeling it
so much. Look Brunson thirty one before he goes to
the bench with the five fouls. It really has been
something to see with Jalen Brunson on the bench. You
(17:37):
think things are going to get a little nervous. Things
are gonna get a little weird, Things are gonna a
little crazy. The Knicks lead gets pushed out to fifteen
with under six minutes left to get z over.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Under was thirty and a half Jalen Brunson, So there
you go. But what Rick Carlile's really got to be
salty about is how well the Knicks have played for
Tom Thibodeau while Jalen Brunson's been sitting on his ass.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Challenge back to that second quarder and look at it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Now there's a much different Nick squad against this Pacers team,
which is remarkable.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
They haven't played since February. Yeah, right, but now we're
gonna play three more games after this, so it's all
little jesty. Be careful. More on this coming up in
a few minutes the next lead one eleven ninety eight,
about five minutes left to go and Game one of
the Eastern Conference Finals. But from the NFL today, look,
(18:27):
it began with a lot of drama with the Tush
Push not getting banned after NFL owners had a very
contentious meeting where they voted and they didn't get enough
votes to overturn the Tush pushvan band. So it's gonna
live for at least another year. Other big change the
NFL as well. We're talking about how there's no reseting
in the playoffs and other big things. And then the
(18:48):
big story occurs later today, a shocker to all of us.
Colts owner Jim Ersay dies suddenly in his sleep at
the age of sixty five, and you have seen the
plaudits come in for him over the course of the
past hours. A guy that's out of life, right, we
know he liked to get out. You know, he had
one of those robust, grab life by the horns type
of personality. You've seen him. He's been very visible and
(19:11):
in certain stories where he probably shouldn't have been. But
you see all the philanthropic work, all the great things
being said about him, all the things he did in
and out of the community, and it's something to have
this part of his life be focused on. But again,
the big shock or jim Ers passing away at the
age of sixty five joining us now on the hotline
to break it all down. Longtime NFL inside Er Hall
(19:33):
of Fame voter, he's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
Check him out of the thirty third team. It is
Jason Cole, Jay Cole, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Well, listen to this news just I also came out
with a new book. I forgot to tell you guys
about that. Okay, about Robert Taylor, a guy who's a
quadriplegic and and former cal rugby player. But we'll get
back to that at the end because Roberts not Roberts
(20:04):
said that. Jim Or said far more important, far more
interesting person to discuss, even in death. He was a Really,
he was really a wonderful guy. You know, obviously troubled,
obviously at issue. You know, a lot of a lot
of demons. There a lot of demons, you know, probably
from childhood, given that his dad was a pretty heavy
(20:27):
alcoholic too, But really, you know, an earnest guy. He
could actually have a conversation with and like talk to
him about his family. He'd share things, really actually talk
about football because he actually came through in football. He
was a he was a general manager. Like he worked
at understanding the game better than most owners who you
(20:52):
you ever run into, Like, he really did get it
in certain ways. But yeah, that was you know, a
lot a lot of very negative headlines along the way
as well. Unfortunately, what if I said to you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Hey, what's one story about about him that that you
all would defall to and say, this is what I
think about, this, what I think of when I think
of a versay and all of that. What story would
you tell?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Oh, I don't think it would be one single story.
It would be anytime you approach to me, always stop,
and he would answer our question and he would treat
me with a certain amount of dignity that he was
not above you like even though he's a billionaire, even
though he you know, had moved a team and his
dad had made a lot of money and he was
a rich kid growing up. Like there's a genuineness, there's
(21:43):
a I don't know, a human frailty about him that
made him understand that he wasn't above anybody else despite
his financial stature. And that's pretty rare in that group,
Like they look down upon people a lot. Let me
just pray it to you that way, Like Woody Johnson
doesn't have a lot of respect for people who don't
(22:05):
have as much money as him. Let me just play
it that way.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Also a guy that was a fan like the rest
of us, with that rock collection and everything that he
assembled over the year.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Jacobs, Oh yeah, I mean yeah, a good dude and
really human and I never like didn't hide from the
fact that he had problems, right Like, he didn't. He
didn't deny it. He didn't sit there and try and
tell you other it's all lies or you know, pretend
that he was something he wasn't right like, he owned it.
(22:35):
He owned his troubles, he owned his frailty, he owned
his humanness. And again, unlike other people in that position
who do not like to you know, have to own
you know, what's wrong with them? Like just so many
of those guys who who don't want to hear anything
(22:56):
bad about themselves. And Jimmy or say, was not afraid,
was not afraid of any of that, and that does
I'm not saying that he would embrace it either, but
he wasn't afraid of it. Because I guess the best way.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
To put it, Jason call our guest, the Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And you know, it's it's kind of you think about
it happening today when when the owners had the vote
on the tush push and a lot of things, and
you know, you and I text us like, hey, was
was he there at the owners meeting? And You're like,
I don't think he was there. And that's the first
I thought. It was that he did go for an
(23:34):
afternoon nap and and he didn't wake up. It was
just such an odd thing to have it happen, you know,
surrounding such a big day for all the owners in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Yeah, I think it's his daughter's alternate control of the
team at this point, he'd given up the day to
day because physically he just couldn't get around that much.
I mean, the back problems they'd had, you know, all
the issues that he had dealt with physically over the
over time. I mean this is on top of yeah,
the demons, the abuse issues. Like physically he was just yeah,
(24:05):
he got he was destroyed by some of the things
that happened over the course of his life. I mean
he bent over uncomfortable all the time. You could see
that the man was in pain. Right, So at a
certain point about I think it was like four years ago,
he gave up day to day control and going and
go to the meeting. So I'd be surprised if he
(24:26):
was at this meeting, and that also would have made
for a much different headline. I'm assuming that he was
at home when that's happened.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Jacoll transitioning to the news from earlier today an hour
of filibustering and speeches. Jason Kelsey shows up admonishment for
some terminology used by the Eagles, But the tush push
remains what flipped it. It seemed like it was a foregone conclusion.
It was going into the Dodo land.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
I think that's an understand, Like, this is football, man, Like,
how is this not a really basic football play? And
I just I always look at this going if this
is this is a goal line drill, right, and if
you happen to have an advantage in a goal line drill,
(25:16):
why should you take this away? And I get I
get it that pushing a guy upfield and doing certain
things when when defenders are in helpless positions and not
prepared for it, it's tough. Like when guys run down field,
Like when offensive linemen run downfield and push their own
(25:36):
runner against a tackler in a one on one situation.
That Brunton's on fire.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
By the way, Hey, if I'm not allowed to jump
in and say stuff, you can't say stuff.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I just wait, you just just nailed that. Wow that
was another long st but whatever. Anyways, but like this
is football, man, Like, I don't get it. I don't
I don't get why you're taking away something that is
sort of essential to the game. And I know it's not,
you know, one of the twenty yards playdown field, Like
(26:11):
sometimes football is just a you know, a one is
a is a man on man battle for you know,
a couple of inches of real estate and that's what
it's supposed to be sometimes and that's okay, right now,
that's not to eight you might be getting nervous. So
(26:33):
I just I just think that, Like here, here's the
other thing that really ticks me off. Why are people
who don't play the game making the rules about how
the game is supposed to be played And not only
don't play, but don't know how to play this game,
don't even have the first clue of how it's done.
And you can tell me about competition committees and coaches
(26:56):
and all, but my opinion is the players should be
the ones that make the rules. Now, the players have
to have to sign off on a few things, like
if they want if they want hits to the head,
they have to agree not to sue the owners over
you know, cumulative damage, right, like you guys, there has
to be some give and take, right the owners deserve
(27:18):
protection over over long term lawsuits. Right if this is
the way the players want to play, And to me,
like the tush push is a is one that should
be arguing amongst the player reps in the union and
in that setting, and especially against guys actually actually played
like the kickers, who are the player reps should be
kicked out of the room when they when when this
(27:39):
is discussed. I mean, I'm and I'm serious about that,
Like they don't belong in the room, and the quarterbacks
don't really belong in the room to that either, But
like that's that's the guys who should be deciding the rules,
with obviously the coaches having a hand in guiding them
and saying, hey, look, you might want to think about
what you're doing in this situation if you allow for
(28:03):
this kind of play. That's why I just don't understand
why the owners are in on this and they're part
of it, because when the owners become part of it,
it's all about, oh are we going to get sued
because of this? Are we going to do? You know?
Is this is this bad? Like you know, they're always
changing the rules for reasons that sometimes don't have anything
to do with and with actual performance and play on
(28:26):
the field.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
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We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I see you, j Cole, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Here it goes Jason Cole. Squirrel twenty twenty five NFL
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I said tick Pick, Just micknapp. That's where we're at, Yes,
says Jason Cole. Bring us the play by play of
the Knicks and the Pacers. It is a one twenty three,
one eighteen lead. Now for the Knicks with thirty four
seconds left to go, they have the basketball. The one
thing is, there's three minutes to go. You're up by fourteen.
Don't allow threes. All the pages have done is hit
(30:06):
threes in the last three minutes. That's all they've done.
Guys hitting Threesnee Smith is hitting threes. Now all hitting
three is like, no threes, give up the twos, no threes.
So now it's a game. And the Knicks half hit
free throws in the last thirty five seconds, but still
a five point lead with thirty four seconds.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
To be fair, they hadn't hit any threes all day,
so they were due.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
That is that is true.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
What's he gonna do?
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Start hitting them now?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, no there, yeah, I guess they will Oh leave
the bet.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Wow, that's really happening.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, yeah, they're not gonna want so to it. They
took their swings. What can you say?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
No the nets one tonight Okay, just so you know
we won tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I just smiling in this game.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
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Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Joining us now to tell us what's trending in the
wide world of sports is someone who's been called the
Rick Carlisle of Fox Sports Radio, never really happy with
the officiating. That's Maskia Belayos.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
You know, I'm not really happy all the time with
the officiating, but you know what, Carlisle is a damn
great coach, so I'm good for that. Nie Smith Aaron
Nesmith that you just mentioned, Jason is seven of eight
from the three, so yeah, he's pretty hot. And this
is not the time for the Pacers to be hitting
those threes. If the Knicks are going to hold on
to their lead, they are up right now, as you mentioned,
(31:32):
by five points with less than thirty seconds to go.
Tyrese Halliburn is leading scorer for Indiana. He is twenty
is twenty seven points, ten of nineteen from the field.
The Big Bodega Carl Anthony Towns with thirty two points
and ten rebounds. Jalen Brunson's got thirty seven points and
five assists and coming down to the wire in Game
one of the Eastern Conference Finals. Shake Gildess Alexander was
(31:54):
officially named the NBA's MVP of the twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five season. He gave all of his
teammates rolexes. Jason, when are you going to give us
all rolexes when the Knicks win?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
That is that I'm not gonna have it.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Look at you, Look at you and b B B
all right?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Why does my watch shay r O L l ell.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's very.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
When it comes to the NHL playoffs, also a great game.
It's West the West Final Game one between the Oilers
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the third period. They've taken the lead from the Oilers.
Four to three is the score with about nine minutes
to go in the third period. When it comes to baseball,
the Phillies are on top of the Rockies and nine
to three. It's the top of the seventh inning. The
Angels have oh No. The A's up, taking the lead
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from the Angels three to two. Bottom of the second inning,
Diamondbacks and Dodgers are scoreless. Top of the third the
Mets outscored the Red Sox five to one. The Blue
Jays shut out the Padres fourteen zero, and Dalton varshow
had a great slamming the win. The Yankees walked it
off against the Rangers four to three thanks to Jason Dominguez.
In the NFL Today, it was voted that the toush
(33:08):
push is gonna stay legal. In twenty twenty five, after
not enough owners voted to ban the play that was
made famous by the Eagles, the Lions withdrew their proposal
to change playoff receding, and now teams are also allowed
to do an on set kick at any point if
they are trailing in the game. And the Colts announced
that their owner and CEO, Jim Erse passed away peacefully
in his sleep this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
He was sixty five back to you guys, Thank you
very much. MASSI so really quick. It looks like the
Pacers are going to get the basketball. Here with about
twenty eight seconds left to go down five, Jalen Brunson
dishes down load to Oganunoby, who goes up and kind
of gets tangled up with Pascal Siakam, And initially it
was ruled the ball out of bounds off the Pacers. However,
(33:50):
it's pretty pretty obvious on the replay that Andronobi was
the last guy to touch the ball. So I think
the Pacers are going to get this ball with about
twenty nine seconds left down five. I mean, defensively, all
you gotta say is okay, no threes, right, give them
the let no threes, no threes. And yet they're allowing
open threes. And Nie Smith looks like Steph Curry. It
(34:10):
looks like he's he's run. He's running around the floor
like Kurt, give me the ball, give me the ball.
I'm taking three. He's seven out of eight from three
point right.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Yeah, they have hit five of their last six as
a team. Uh, you are lucky that your your floor
general gets to stay on the court though to get
open on the inbounds got away with a big ole
shove that would have disqualified him.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But now we have the drama twenty nine point nine remaining,
so they're.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Still figuring out the replay on this. They could be
looking at it as well, so that's kind of there.
So if they could rule a falanc Yakam who did
push Andrew Nobi's arm. So they're gonna take a while
on this. Coming up next, are we talking about a
big Knicks game one win and unbelievable Pacers comeback that
could be deflating or over time. That's next right here,
(34:54):
The drama is live Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
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Speaker 1 (35:06):
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was getting into this round. A little funny little thing
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on the floor. The Knicks lead the Pacers one twenty
four to one twenty one. Karl Anthony Towns one for
two from the free throw line. So now the Pacers
and the red hot knee Smith, who is hit I
think eleven threes in the fourth quarter, Pacers have a
chance to potentially tie this game and send it to overtime.
They have the ball with thirteen seconds left in regulation.
(35:54):
The Knicks commit a foul, so foul on the floor,
so now make it twelve seconds. Pacers have to run
another play to inbound again, still up one, twenty four
to one, twenty one again, twelve and a half seconds
left to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
You didn't think it was going to be the Nie
Smith game, did you?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Nothing's easy? Nothing is easy? My good.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You were worried about Nemhard, the other guy with any
to start his I mean.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
He is eight out of nine from three point range,
and he is he has just simply been unconscious like
he's and he hit his last three because Josh Hart
slipped a little bit. But that's still running and catching
and turning and hitting it. Even Rogie Hiller's jealous watching him.
So because of the foul on the floor with Nie Smith,
(36:37):
he's at the free throw Oh, it looked like he
was out of bad Wow. But the foul may have
preceded that. Well, the foul may have preceded that call.
Tyger's to the runner. Yeah, they don't have a challenge either.
So with the foul on the floor, Nie Smith will
be shooting two free throws instead of three. So the
best he could do is cut it to one point,
where the Knicks will still have to inbound the ball
(36:58):
and shoot free throws with probably seven or eight seconds
left to go. Here again, it was a fourteen point
lead with two and a half left to go, and
then all these threes by the Pacers have cut this
lead now to one point. With just ten seconds left
to go, the Knicks are able to get the ball
in bounds.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Little weird little crash, random bouncing up and down.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, jog Anunobi is able to corral the ball at
mid court. He has fouled. He will be going to
the free throw line to shoot two with seven seconds left,
Jalen Brunson and passing the ball out to Annunoby. Great
vision by him, falls into the crowd and into the
lap of Nick Legend Clyde Fraser, who gets up in
hugs Brunson before they go to shoot free throw.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Well, the way he threw the ball down, it was
almost like he was trying to throw it off the
Indiana defender. Oh I get it off him bounds Instead,
it threads the needle and he finds his way to
Clyde and Fraser hugs.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Now, it's not gonna be free throws. I don't think
the in the bonus, so I think it's gonna be No, no, no,
he's at the free throw line. Okay, they're setting they're
setting up the play after. There's Steve Cohen in the background,
but like just to get up, just to get up
out of the out, out of the chair and yeah,
hey Clyde and the and Brunson stays there for like
three or time five or six seconds. Dam here, I'm
gonna hug you for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
It works out, Okay, why not take a minute? Yeah sure,
Uh oh, I've tried to try to.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Distract you at this Yeah, because it's oh Man misses
the first free throw for the Knicks. So it's one
twenty four, one twenty three with seven seconds left to go,
and Unobi is gonna be shooting the second and uh,
every Nick fan in Madison Square Garden is me right now?
They are just oh my goodness, Oh my goodness, and
Unobi at the line and look, oh my goodness, I'm
(38:47):
shaking right now.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, you got You were really calm for a long time.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
He hits. He hits the second. So it's a one
twenty five, one twenty three lead for the Knicks with
five seconds left to go and the fine shot by
the Pacers. Oh my god, wow, oh my goodness, I,
oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Six.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Do you believe it? Unlikelihood? I think we're going to overtime.
I say think because I can't believe what I just saw.
The final play in regulation Tyres Halliburton with the ball
for the Pacers. He drives down the lane looking to
go in, but the Knicks are there defensively. He dribbles
(39:32):
back out behind the three point line, puts up a
shot that bounces off the back of the rim. The
ball bounces up higher than the backboard. It goes straight up,
It goes up to where the shot clock is and
bounces down back through. Halliburton immediately does the Reggie Miller
choke sign towards the Nick bench and spike Lee. However,
(39:56):
his foot was on the line. It is a two pointer.
They're gonna look at it. I am sure, But Halliburton's
foot is on the line. It is a one twenty five,
one twenty five game, end of regulation. Yeah, pray you
see that second angle. His foot is on the line.
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Speaker 7 (40:42):
Two point game Indiana with it. Hell, they'll take it.
They'll backpedal a free.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
From the him.
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