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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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should be. So the NBA is coming back to NBA,
Michael Jordan is coming back to do stuff for NBC.
The Knicks and the Pacers are gonna be in the
East Conference Finals. It really is the nineties again. Mike Harmon,
Get ready celebrate parachute pants, really bold colors. Then you
(01:16):
segue into the grunge. Okay, that's fine, but it is
then I love the nineties. It is the nineties again
when we peaked as a species in the world. The
nineteen nineties are coming back and they are in your face.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
In rewind, we go back and turn back the clock
to all the music and TV. I mean about watching
ed YPD Blues.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So it's only appropriate in a rewatch that we've got that.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Reggie Miller is on calling games. Oh yeah, so he'll
be part of the action and the nineties talking about
all of those Nicks and Pacers battles and whatever. Michael
Jordan's role is.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If nothing else, it gets people up in arms for
a minute, remembering simpler times, no cell phones, you'd have
to the internet things. The Internet was new some people.
The Internet, you mean, I can talk to people and
it's really just okay.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well there you were an elitist at that point though,
in the early in the early nineties. I mean, that's
that's where you're talking your high rank government, you know, employee.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, that's that's where people started to have, like the
messaging systems at work. We're like, oh, I could just
send you a quick message on the computer.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, okay, yeah, A lot of bad things happened to
that at the end of the nineties at Yahoo because
we had super IDs, so people would start screwing with employee,
you know, fellow employees.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They did not like you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Said what I swear I didn't. Oh no, it was
them on this conterminal supercomputer.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Want to watch Nick Pacers tonight? Yes, Rick Smith's will
have a big night for the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Nobody was texting or messaging about the dunkin Dutchman.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, I don't know how the Knicks are going to stop,
either Anthony or Dale Davis. Yes, send the Davis's. No,
that's good. I like that. It's the nineties, man, get ready,
you knew what was happening. And oh, by the way,
before we go any further, it was about ten days
ago people said, oh, you're Jason, You're just crazy. It's
(03:07):
a hot take. You looking for attention. Yeah, okay. When
I said Knicks Pacers East Finals, no, wait a minute.
And then a few days later was it's nice Nicks
and the Pacers. Yeah they well, Cat's great. Still it's
Celtics and the Cabs. Yeah, okay, okay, now.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Nick pays about but the two of those things can
and then are not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And then then a few days went by, and then
a week ago we said, Smith, what am I going
to wish for? Us to lose what you wish for?
I have no choice. We're gonna play the pacers. If
we move on, they're destined to lose to the pace.
We're sweeping the pacers. Okay, we'll see you soon. Indiana.
We got something. We'll talk about that a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
We got some but going back to your point about
hot takes and and needing a hug and all of
those things that those that's not necessarily untrue. The fever
dream that you had to try to arrive at this moment. Yeah,
the voodoo doll you've been carrying of Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Stop, that's no, that's not stop. That's bad, that's that's dirty.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Pool right now, coin clips that the bulls don't win
a draft, lotteries. All of these things are things you've
been trying to bring into existence, and suddenly the universe
has smiled down upon you in this moment, normally hitting
you in the back of the head, uh, you know,
kind of bringing you towards the crossroads and then just
(04:25):
saying no, no, No, you're not ready for this stuff yet.
Now you're actually there. Now all the things you've been
wishing for are coming to this moment, festering building to
this Eastern Conference Finals. Just maybe tomorrow, maybe it gets
put off a couple of days, but it seems I.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Can see the Nick showing up tomorrow going yeah, whatever, hey,
Celtics have another game where they shoot the lights, losing
this game with no Jason ted I can absolutely, I'm all,
I'm already seeing that come this game or suddenly he
doesn't look like he's heard show or but then there'll
be the game six, anointment of the Knicks into the
Eastern Conference. I look, because I'll clear up. I'll be
(05:08):
clear with you. Like my brain like during the day
now and and and times when I when I think
about the Knicks, it's it's like my brain is like
the the beginning guitar solo of Mammoths, the end that
just came out about a week. A little bit of that,
a little bit of that, a little bit of in
the end. Yeah, right here, this is my brain. Nixt next, next, next, yes,
(05:32):
the next, We're going to the finals. We're beating the Celtics.
We're gonna sweep the pacers, Here come the drums. Way
too many brain cells. Brain's still going, brain still going.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Now is he?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is he gonna always Dad's estate? Anything for kind of
going towards eruption? Uh no, I think Wolfgang van Halen
is good everything.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I think or.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Is he actually at this point what he wants? I
think he can that if Ga b Roth gets pissed off.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh, I don't think. I don't think Diamond Dave can
get him on the stage again. I don't think smiling
like a ches cat happened like his dad on the
on the solo. But that's my brain now with it.
I mean, it really is is insane. But this is
what's happening. And I said, look, I said, hey, Knicks, pacers,
pay no no no. Then a week ago, let's revisit. Yeah, okay,
(06:21):
maybe a tiny bit, Jason, maybe a tiny bit now
like oh wait a minute, well Nick Pacer, oh wait
that's happening. Oh oh oh wait a minute, that's really
really happen. Oh my goodness. He was right all along,
he was right about everything. What's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I might be laid down some money on some futures. Yeah,
or maybe parlayd all of that good fortune.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't know. Maybe he've been treating your family a
little better, maybe a little longer walk with the dog.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car. Maybe I bought a
Knicks car, had it wrapped wrapped in Nicks, Patrick Ewings,
Patrick Ewing's.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Face on one side of it, Jill Jackson's face on
the other. Thought you were saving up for the mobile McDonald's.
I got, well, well that's that's when we get to
the finals. Then I'll be able to buy the mobile McDonald's. Son,
can we buy.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Get in on a franchise and actually just making a
food truck. I wanted McDonald's mobile McDonald's. I don't know
if today, Mike, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The mobile McDonald's. Because you know Trump is meeting in Saudi,
probably getting another plane, and uh they they had a
mobile McDonald's there to bring him food, and I'm like,
I want to go to there. I want a mobile McDonald's.
I want like the bookmobile used to drive on my
street when I was a kid. Hey, come get books
every Wednesday from the bookmobile. That is great. I want
that mobile mcdonaldsbile. Oh dude, I wanted to drive McDonald's.
(07:38):
I mean, look like ice cream. Man was great. That
was one thing. I mean, that was awesome. But man,
a mobile McDonald's to drive up and just stop and go, hey, hey,
you go, what do you want, Big Mac? How many
ice was a menace? How many you want? Yeah? And
what else? You want? Fries? And what else? Shake? And
what else? More? Shakes? And what else? And a gallon
of coffee and and and you know what? Here, just
take my credit card. It'll be like James ol Joe
(08:00):
says in Field of Dreams. Uh, they'll fork over twenty
dollars a piece without even thinking about it. They'll give
you there, they'll give you their cash. They could be
washing the memories. I'll get whatever you need. Just give
me stuff off this multle McDonald's trun and then I'll
follow you around the city. So because I can't you know, look,
you can't stop in my neighborhood the whole time. You
gotta go out of the place. But I'll follow you.
Just don't go too fast. I could follow you and stop.
(08:20):
When I'm done. I'm ready to have something. Damn pied piper. Yeh, yeah, buddy,
Well they have the molten Lava apple pie available. I
think they're gonna have everything, Mike, except the ice cream obviously. Yeah,
the ice cream. The ice cream will never be wor broke. Yeah,
machines broke.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Sorry, seems like you could have parlay that into your
own trade school.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do you do? We just fixed McDonald's ice cream?
H What else? What else can I learn here? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's all you got. I don't know. I just think
maybe that all that what the McDonald's has decided. Listen,
when the when the machine, when the ice cream machines break,
we're not going to fix them. Just tell people they're down.
It's not worth it. We don't make enough money on it.
We're not gonna kind of like how uh uh? The
story that did? He didn't want to do season two
of Hawkeye because it was too much money, so they
low ball Jeremy Renner. So because they knew he would say, no, okay,
(09:05):
we don't want to do the season that we don't
want to do the season at all, So we're gonna
low ball Jeremy Renner. He says no, and we don't
do Hawkeye too. That that's kind of what's happening to Madison.
Just tell me more some Hayley Steinfeld in my life.
It takes it takes way too much money to fix
the ice cream machines. Just gonna just tell people we
were just not here is half the man he used
to be. We're not going to fix them. He's got
to back out. He's back now. Jeremy Renner is back. Now,
(09:26):
he's back. He's back. He's back. Like the knickxer back.
He's back. That Nixon the nineties groove when they did
that little pose trying to save the world. Yeah, Oh,
everything's good. What everything old is new again? We are
back in the nineties. And look, let me just say
this right because here here's the Cavaliers, who it's just
a stunning loss for them, uh, falling to the Pacers.
(09:48):
Pacers win at won fourteen one o five, a game
they once led by nineteen. Clearly, yes, regular season success
and postseason success are two completely different things. But to
go a little bit deeper than that, the Pacers are
pretty good. This is an Eastern Conference finals team from
last year. And if you want to go back and
(10:08):
look when the calendar change at twenty twenty five, not
many teams have won more games on the pace left.
I think the Pacers are when the second or third
most games in the NBA since the calendar turned to January, right,
this is it that they almost look like a mirror
image of the Knicks, where you talk about a strong
starting five with guys that have very similar roles. The
(10:28):
bench is somewhat okay, but these are two really similar teams.
I'm already previewing the Knicks in the basin. You've been
watching a lot of Andrew nemhard people. People don't give
the Pacers credit because and look in Pascal Siakam is
such a huge addition to them. The clutch shots he
made down the stretch, Halliburton figuring out okay again, I
need to get to the rack, and he once again
(10:50):
took control of the game again a little bit too
inconsistent for my taste. He has too many games where
you say, what was that all about? But this Pacers team,
people don't really they were really good. Yes, they had
a bad start to the season, but it's a bad
first couple of months. You say bad start, it's it's
November December, Okay, the season is just getting going. But
since January again, second or third best record in the NBA,
(11:11):
and so for them to come in here and we
already told you when the seat when the series started,
the Pacers are a bad matchup for the for the Cavaliers,
because the NBA prehas is all about match up, they
are a bad matchup. So when you saw the sea
the series start, Yes, could the Cavaliers maybe have had
a better beginning if they were healthy. Yes, a lot
of things went against them, but this is not as
(11:31):
surprising because of those things, the Pacers were good. They
match up really well. We've seen them do it before.
We've seen the Pacers get to the Eastern Conference finals.
Haven't seen Don and Mitchell get out of the first round.
So when you when you're comparing the two teams and
you think about, all, what a shot with it, you
think back and go, well, maybe not as much as
you thought it was going to be because this wasn't
even a seven game thriller and escape with a ball
(11:53):
that bounced off the rim three times. This was for
to one. This was a beatdown. This was you don't
deserve to be on the same floor as the Pacers.
Despite the fact he won sixty four games in the
regular season, I just didn't finish the job, right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You look at Donovan Mitchell tonight that I don't know
that I expected to see him play, but give it
the old college try. But he does, and he puts
up twenty five shots. Well he hits eight of them.
As a team they shoot thirty nine percent owing to
the length and the switching abilities. And what Carlisle's done
with this Pacers squad. You know, Haliburton didn't put up
a ton of shots, but he's ten to fifteen from
(12:26):
the field, hits six three point shots for the what
the game high, well second to Mitchell, of course, but
what comes down with thirty one points? You get good balance,
your guy Nemhard, all five starters in double digits. And
here's the stat of it all home field and home
court advantage. We talk about it in all sports, but
certainly basketball in these playoffs hasn't mattered.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Right. You look at the Cavaliers for the year, thirty
six and five at.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Home against teams not from Indiana, oh and five against
the Pacers on their home court time and again, and
the Pacers good enough to claw back and to wait
you out and come up with the big stop when
it mattered. And that's exactly what happened here. It looked
like they were going to get back into it. Calves
clawed back. You had the three pointer from Mitchell making
(13:16):
it a three point game, but that was it. Pacers
end up distancing themselves and winning the series. And now
they wait, Well the winner of Boston and New York.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, here we go, and already I've watched Rick Carlisle
is already complaining about the East Finals officiating in his
post game. Now, he's already very upset about how the
East Finals officiated. He's very upset. He's already trying. He's
very up to just crown you king. He's really mad
last year, he's really mad about the officiating. Already the table.
(13:48):
He actually really a series and get there. Really upset
for small market teams not getting a big run. I
mean he's really he is really mad about this. He's
really mad about the East Finals officiating. Justin smikey on
a Celtics come back. Any of this talk? Coll Hell though, Okay,
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to the reinstatement of Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jack
and Buck Weaver and Chick Gandal and Eddie Scott you
know all the way. Did you like seeing Chick Gandal's
name in the list? Yeah, just freaking. My dad actually
said today, what I tell you says Chick Gandal was
gonna go. Dad, Come on, it was nineteen nineteen. He
(17:12):
didn't even play in the majors the year after the
World Series. Okay, he didn't even play it in the
minor leagues. And my dad was like, how do you
know that? I go, Dad, there's very little I don't
know about the nineteen nineteen White SOX like eight men
honestly of in my movie theom of all the movies
that I'll have this crazy encyclopedic knowledge of, you know,
to a Caddy shack and cars, eight Men Out is
and die Hard like Top Gun. Eight Men Out is
(17:35):
right there, Like that's like one, Like that's such an outline.
You say, Okay, well I got a Jason, you know
to all the but eight Men Out. Yeah, I know
I've seen eight Men Out at least one hundred times.
I like the number of lines I'm gonna get to
run tonight on eight Men Out is gonna be amazing. Yeah,
that one shows up on PBS every now and again.
It's like, I gotta watch it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But eight Men Out on PBS really, Yeah, they started
showing movies, remember, because you can't you can't produce a
lot of the TV shows that It's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, you go to things that are educational, historical nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And that count, and that counts at this point. But yeah,
I actually have a an old uh eight Men Out,
uh first edition signed.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Poster uh book. Oh okay, yeah, oh, very actual novel,
wow hog geared and whatever. But it's beautiful, signed by
by by by shoelis jud you have an X on
there signed by oh, I added that, and so it's
suspect you gotta sign to be a witness, Joe, everybody
signed the in the ink test might fast, might fail.
It's like that kind of that didn't exist. An X
(18:36):
that's something that's like a scam. My dad would try
to pull. What shuless Joe's an X? You know? How
is an X right there? He's not sign his confession
with an X?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
How come when I when I when I when I
put my thumb over the penn at streaks all right,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
there's one of those long lasting pens or a quill
from nineteen I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Its signed in blue sharpie. So it's I've replicated this
signature one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It's signing an outliner pen that did come around until
the early nineteen nineties, strangely enough, when the Knicks and
the Pacers would face off in the Eastern Conference finals.
See how it all comes back to Jason. Who's that
guy that scored against the Knicks like nine points in
three seconds. The guy that's on the air now broadcaster
we did celebrate that anniversary, not Marv Albert. Yes, yes,
(19:21):
look at this and your face. Larry Johnson didn't say
how many backbites? Oh hey, you know there's no stop
with the backbiting. Think we don't need that here, Come on,
this is Nick's Pacers ninety ankle bite happening. What else
was going on there? That was Jeff Van Gundy grabbing
grabbing the ankles of a lions all morning.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Look, yes, we will continue to preview the Knicks Pacers
Eastern Cup. But the guy who win one more game? Yeah, yeah, details,
But the Cavaliers go home and there's there's a huge
reality that they're close to Wait till I tell you
what it is. You want a great hot take for
the night. But the most stunn thing watching this, like
what what represents the fall of the Calves. We're the
(20:05):
best team in the NBA for most of the year. Look,
you want to split hairs between them and the Celtics
and the Thunder and at least two of those teams
look like they're going down in the second round, maybe
all three. Nothing is more what happened to the Calves
than the end of this game when they're coming back
and they cut it to three, one oh six, one hundred,
and Donovan Mitchell gets fouled shooting a three. He's eighty
(20:27):
percent from the free throw line, eighty percent, and he
goes to the free throw line. This is with a
minute left to go, and he misses all three free throws,
all three of them, and then comes back after a
in the next possession and it's a three to make
it a three point game. Right This is the Cavaliers basketball.
Mitchell is hot, bringing them back all by himself. And
(20:50):
then when the gumme happens, when okay, well at least
get two out of three, we'll cut it to four.
He misses all three. If he was a bad free
throw shooter, I get it. But you miss all three,
you're eighty percent. If something doesn't tell you playoff basketball
is not your friend and changes need to be made.
That's the that's the instance right there, Hey the cat, Look,
(21:11):
we told you Pacers are really good to get a
top three NBA records since January first, there'd been a
bad matchup for the Caves for a while. Mike told
you what the records were. How many how often the
Indiana Pacers win in Cleveland. It's a bad matchup. But
you talk about playoffs and pressure and putting and putting
games away. How does an eighty percent free throw shooter
(21:32):
miss three free throws and he missed the last one horribly.
He missed that last one. When is Mitchel Robinson.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Well, no, no, no, yeah, there's a little bit more
arm well, I mean a little a little more style result,
and he didn't miss any under the basket, like because
Mitchell Robinson finds a way to miss them actually under
the basket, which I've never seen before, like on a
line drive that misses the rim and like bounces into
the first row.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I mean this last the last one was way off
the back of the eyron and high in the air.
Like it got worse for him as it went on,
and you can tell he had bad body language and
and and it was stunning. I mean again eighty Like
watching the other night when when Chet Holmgren cast him
a game missing two free throws, but he's a seventy
five percent free throw shooter and he misses two at
the end of the game opens a door for the
(22:17):
for the Nuggets to win Game one. I mean eighty percent,
you're the big star and you missed three free throws.
This is the Cavaliers playoff cry for help that you
didn't know they needed. You thought they were fine. Oh
they got nine guys, they go deep, they got all
their guys back. No, they need something, and I'll tell
you what. It's gonna be ready for this. This is
what's opened the door tonight with the Calves losing in
(22:39):
such a shocking fashion, the Pacers moving on to the
East Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He missed six free throws overall, by the Yeah, he
shot twenty one, made a ton of them in the
fourth court. Yeah yeah, yeah, and then that sequence. Yeah,
someone in the fifth row must have had a cool
sign or something, and then the curtain of distraction came
to came to their home court.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are close to this result happened probably in a year,
and if the boy, I'd love to see the Lakers
get aggressive on this, because boy, that would be something.
But the door is open for Lebron to finish his
career back in Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland obviously needs something, right,
(23:18):
You saw another first round playoff flame out. Donovan Mitchell
is a terrific player and I love him. He's a
Mets fan, but not been out of the first round.
If you can't get out of the first round when
you're a sixty four win team, you need something. But
you have a lot of good young players. They put,
what do you need? You need someone that's gonna take
the pressure off of your team. Because that's what I
(23:39):
saw is a team that wasn't up for the pressure. Again,
three missed free throws in the final minute. That tells
you we are not ready. They were gassed. They didn't.
It looked like the Cavaliers. They broke down. They were
playing too much ISO basketball and Mitchell and Garland started
taking too many shots in the middle of the game
and allowing this comeback by the Pacers. Because their offense
gott stagnant. They need something and someone to take that
(24:01):
pressure off of them. Enter Lebron James, who can finish
his career exactly how he wants to. I can go
back to Cleveland and maybe win another championship. Because the Lakers,
clearly they have kind of one foot one arm on
Lebron's shoulder. He is at arm's length with them. It
is now Luca's team. You saw what happened in this playoffs.
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They now are rebuilding a round Luca. Look, when they
traded Anthony Davis away, you could tell this is the
beginning of we're moving away from Leblon Lebron James Era.
The fact of that he and Anthony Davis had so
much control over the team and Rich Paul and clutch
sports and maneuvers they wanted to make and players they
wanted to bring in that didn't work. They are pushing Lebron,
you can just see. You can just tell they are
embracing Luca, and we're gonna give Luca what. They're gonna
(24:47):
get a center in the offseason so we can have
a room runner up and down the floor with It'll
make things much different for him. But Lebron is kind
of on the outside of that circle now. And this
year is the big year because if they don't, they
don't make it out of the first round again, Lebron
is infinitively gone. He's got one more year, fifty million
dollars left. He's not gonna opt out of his and
to give money for the Lakers to sign anybody. Forget it.
That's out what Lebron does because you know, to win,
(25:09):
I really want to win, but I'm not gonna give
money back it's you know, how can I win Ricky
by Yeah, if you would, I can, if you would.
So they drafted Brony for him, they did everything for him,
and he's not gonna do that. The best thing that's
gonna happen, and this is how it's. Guy can see
it happening now. Him finishing in Cleveland, Olive branches all around,
you'll see a little bit of hey, oh, I never
know where I thought about where I might finish, but
(25:30):
I want to finish at home. Who That's how things
are going to go. And this loss by Cleveland open
things up to it because who else you're gonna have
to come in. You're gonna trade away part of your
your core. It's gonna be difficult to do. But lebron hey,
I'll go back and finish because he's got another cup,
two three good years left. We see the level he's
playing at right now. But the Lakers want to move on.
(25:52):
They're gonna give it this year. I'd love to see
him get aggressive and do it now. That'd be fantastic,
but they want to give it this year. So it
doesn't look like they pushed too early. But this is
the door is open now for Lebron to finish as
a Cleveland Cavalier. In fact, if I was going to
Vegas with money and you said to me, how the
next couple of years is gonna go. This year Lebron
in La then the next two years Lebron and Cleveland,
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and that's how he finishes. Look at you.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I love the conspiratorial part of it, right coming off
of the draft lottery yesterday and all the chaos. And
to those that said anybody talking about that was dumb,
get away from the keyboard, go do something else with
your life. There's too many circumstances, including Lebron James showing
up in Cleveland back in the two thousand and three draft,
(26:38):
for people to not at least raise their eyebrows and
to say something is hard. You know, like the Lakers
or Clippers winning a title. At this point is it's
not impossible. You can still make a run. But for Lebron,
you're you're looking at what he's left. He's got the
twenty four to twenty five into the player option this year,
(26:58):
which again he's not leaving fifty two men.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But then he's an unrestricted free agent, so I didn't
have to trade him.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He can just play this year out and just say
all right, I'm gonna go home now. For the Cavaliers,
you got a good deep roster, clearly playoff well. Just
stay away from Indiana that would help, and don't let
them play on your home court. That seemed to be
a recipe for disaster. But Lebron James did everything he
could to distance himself from everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Else this year too. Right, as much as the Lakers may.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Be pushing, you got Lebron pushing his you know, helping
propel himself as well. Going all right, look, these ten
guys weren't good enoughs Me and Luca against the world.
Basically all right, you didn't exactly play particularly well in
that series. Austin Reeves gave you what he had. He's
got his limitations defensively. Lebron's got his limitations at his health.
(27:46):
Whatever you believe about the knee injury, I'm a skeptic.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
What can I say? It became a convenient thing to
walk away, and Frostbrook's already working on a trade. He
likes my idea of doing it now instead of first.
I'll even drive Lebron in lax.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean, you gotta, you gotta hear right, So
again into fifty two million dollars. That's where it gets in.
Do I think he's worth fifty two million dollars if
I'm the Calves the Calves are no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh but that but that's a typical blank you moved
to make where Oh, I'll take less money for the Calves.
But you wouldn't take less money for the Lakers. Nope,
wouldn't do it. Who do you want, Frostburg, What do
you want the deal to be? Who you take for
for Lebron from the Calves? Yeah? Mitchell and Mobley? Oh wow, Okay,
I don't know that you're getting Mitchell mobile. Okay, you
get more like, how's the salaries matchup? What do we
look at? I don't know. You're gonna get to dol
(28:33):
and Mobley? Okay, Mobley makes a lot of money. He does,
he does, makes a lot of you can make You
can make the money work, right, Absolutely want him. You
can make the money work with that. Okay, all right, Wow,
there we go. So it's gonna be Lebron mobiley and
the free don't forget the free ride to the airport.
Oh yeah, that's true, that's true. Free ride to the
airport yes, and you'll play whatever music he wants right now,
(28:53):
you're not gonna play, you know you and maybe get
him a drink or something.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Beat It by Michael Jackson, the whole Yeah, Mobley was
on the left last year of his cheap deal. He's
up to thirty eight million on the books for next year.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Hi. Yeah, you can make that work. You can make
that work.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Mitchell at forty eight million, Garland at thirty nine four.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's a lot of hot take.
I'm telling you that. That's how it's good Lebron is
going to you know, the way the season ended and
how really the perception of Lebron and and the the
weight that is put on having Lebron in LA that
the Lakers for the last year is like, well, we
have to have a star. We got to have them.
That's why they kept Lebron for so long. The Lakers
(29:30):
have always all the Lakers always had a center. No,
the Lakers have always had a superstar. Sure, and so
they if they were going to move on from Lebron
after the championship or a couple of years after, well
we don't have a superstar. We need to have a superstar.
Now they have one. So Lebron has become a little
bit more expendable. And you can tell he is on
the outside. He is outside the circle of trust. Like
(29:51):
if you're he is, you know he is outside where
de Niro and everybody else is in Terry Polo and
he's outside the circle.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
That was just your way to jam Ben Stiller knicks
fame into the conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
How dare you to say?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's like, if you're the Cavaliers bringing in Lebron James,
does that solve chemistry issues?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I know no, I think it does. I think you're
bringing in someone who's gonna be your a guy who's
gonna throw you under the bus at every terms, going
to take pressure off of a group that clearly can't
handle it. Lebron will take all the pressure. All everything
will be about Lebron. Hey, everything is great, everything's great.
You got a young core. He could teach you how
to win. We'd get through the playoffs. You're talking about
(30:32):
adding a guy, and if you don't trade for adding
a guy for nothing in a year, and this is
what's happening, Cavalier. If I said I would go to
I would go to Vegas. And say Lebron finish his
career at least two years with the Cavaliers. That's always
got to do it right. He's got I'm gonna go home.
He started, he started with his hometown team, he left,
he went back, he left, He's gonna go back to finish.
(30:53):
He's gonna that could happen. I could see yea one
hundred percent. Who else do you want? Then? Who else
do you what if? If Brony's got to go with Lebron,
you may not get anybody then maybe Yeah, it's I
believe you can get Anderson Verajew. You can still get him.
That's great. I gotta find the odds of Lebron's next team.
(31:15):
Get right in it. I mean, Larry Nance is good Lebron. Sure,
Larry Nance Jr. Both you get You get both Nance's,
you can get both. They'll be fine. Mark Price, you'll
get him at Junior. He wasn't that good. Craig Elow.
I'm sure he can still hit some threes. No, you
need his other guy hit a three. Especially you want
up trade and Awson Reeves. Oh you do that, But
get right, Lebron will finish with the Calves. It'll happen
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
(31:38):
Coming up next, we got the Play of the day
and why today were Pete Rose and Shoeless, Joe Jackson
and Buck Weaver and Eddie Seacott Eddie in thousand in
cash before the first game? What you heard me? Why today?
Were they reinstated in the Major League Baseball? We got
(31:59):
that next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
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Speaker 1 (32:10):
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to be the play of the day Shatas.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You don't have to foul here, but you have got
to come up with a sock.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Fi to shoot Turner.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
He puts it down, Myles Turner with the biggest shut
of his season, and Indiana he's up nine and they
get tasty spirit.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Dnastnt on the call. No matter what the Cavaliers that
the Pacers still find again, so eerily similar they are
to the knicks and end of game situations and the
starting five, how much they rely on them real it's
almost like mirror images of each other. And you know
it's gonna be the Eastern Conference Finals. So I'm okay
with that.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Twenty one points off the bench for the Pacers, but
Turner ten points on the game, seven boards, just three
to seven from the field that comes up, plus twelve
thirty three minutes played in a big spot to your point, Yeah,
very much.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
A squad where let's just give.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The benches, you know, rally towels and you just sit
and watch the starting five beat each other down until
one man is left standing. I just it fronts it
and Halliburton, it's changing Haymakers.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Obi Toppin, who was once a first round pick of
the next Look at the game he's having off the
bench twelve minutes playing Yeah, minus eight but five and
three for him. So more basketball coming up. But today
was a huge day in Major League Baseball. A half
hour we got John Paul Morosi stopping by with us
as Commissioner Rob Manfred has reinstated Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson,
(34:14):
many of the other black socks from nineteen nineteen, and
a total of seventeen players who were banned from the game.
Manford's saying in a statement today that because they are dead,
they're no longer a threat, so we can reinstate them, which,
how ridiculously. Look, you know, stupid things are going to
be a theme the next te minutes. Just let you know.
(34:35):
I mean, how stupid is that for Rob Manford to say, Oh,
because you're not dead, we can because you're dead, we
can celebrate you. Wait here, you're a threat anymore, so
we can celebrate here. Oh you stink, you stink he's dead. Hey,
what a great guy. Let's have a party. Like how
stupid is that? Here's the sentence.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that
has more deterred effect than one that lasts a lifetime
with no reprieve.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, we'll tell you that. Hey guys, that's what. So now,
anybody else you get banned from baseball for life, We'll
let you back in when you're dead. Like what, Rob Manford,
this is. I can't believe that's in a statement. I
can't believe he put that in a statement. Hey, because
you're not alive anymore, you're not a threat, so we
can celebrate you no longer the game. You were a
(35:19):
big threat right up until you died, and now you're
not a threat anymore. So now we can celebrate you.
Like I really want the descendants of all the white
Sox players who are like, you know, all the great
grandchildren to tell him to stick it, you know, stick it,
just because now they're because honestly, why he's doing this.
And look, we've talked about this before. I don't think
there's any coincidence that President Trump has a meeting with him. Hey,
(35:41):
we'd like to reinstate some guys, and what have we
seen in sports? Sports? Say, you know what, this is
a situation where we're kind of running a little scared
right now because a lot of commute a lot a
lot of different entities. Hey, they're kind of scared of
of of the the Trump agenda and what's going on,
and if hey, if they if they're coming for us, Hey,
we want to make sure that we're not in the
(36:01):
crosshairs because we don't know what's gonna happen. And you know,
Trump has been governing like this and since he took over,
and like you saw the Eagles go to the Soup
go to the White House when half the team didn't
want to go, and it was like, oh, the reports
they weren't gonna go, but hey, it's easier if they
go because now they're not a daily story and they're
not a story about, oh, you wouldn't go to the
White House for whatever reason. And now here's Pete Rose
(36:22):
who could have been reinstated. Chule, you could have been reinstated.
But President Trump meets with Rob Manford a month ago
and suddenly now here, Hey, guess what, you guys are
back in major You guys are back and eligible to
be voted into the Hall of Fame. Like, I think
there's no surprise that you had this meeting. And sports
leagues are saying it's a lot easier if we don't
get entangled in politics. So let's just do this to
(36:43):
get along. And this is how you're seeing a lot
of things get solved, at least from the sports angle
up well. And some of this though, it just goes
to just pure logic.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Right now, President Trump is one that's going to comment
if you don't show up, as opposed to perhaps other
press who might not have since it's not really a
well tested fortio. We've got some outliers, right, Brady, And
you can get a couple of guys that.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
If it didn't like, didn't like Obama, didn't like Biden,
or in general, just had other things they were done
with their years, Like wait, I got to interrupt whatever
I was doing. No, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Because it's also kind of a recent invention that you
go fairly quickly thereafter, right, what's apout a time? It was, Hey,
we'll see you in a couple of months, like I'm
on vacation, right, I'm go off with my family across
the globe. Or I've already changed teams, all right, Jim
McMahon famously showing us as a.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Member of the.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
But like all of that to say, yeah, I mean
but some of it is logic, right, It's like, all right,
do we need this to be a story?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, guys go or go?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I'm sorry in this case, like this is like the
logic of it holds for me, Like, all right, put
it up to a vote.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Is it stupid that you're waiting for these guys to
be dead? And this is the most tone deaf statement positive?
This is worse than the hunk of metal. I mean,
I okay, at least you can there, you can say
you might.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Or might not have been inebriated.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I mean, here, you have all your faculties on the
official letter, and that's the statement you want to put ounce.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
This guy, this guy is the commissioner of baseball, and
this is a statement that he puts out. It's a
great deterrent. I mean, look, because I because I agree
these guys have done their time. They should have been reinstated.
I'm with President Trump and hey, these guys have done
their time. It should be reinstated. But like, okay, this
is this is what you needed to do this, and
this is the statement you put out to make it
work and saying, hey, they're dead, so we don't need
(38:31):
to Hey we can celebrate you now because you know
you were really bad, but then you died and that
was a change. Death is a career move. What a
great move, we said to beat. Really, that's kind of
what's going on here. Just an unbelievable statement. We have
more on this and a big story out of the NBA. Next,
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tire installation. Tirerac dot Com is the way tire buying
should be. So the NBA is coming back to NBA,
Michael Jordan is coming back to do stuff for NBC.
The Knicks and the Pacers are gonna be in the
East Conference Finals. It really is the nineties again. Mike Harmon,
Get ready celebrate parachute pants, really bold colors. Then you
(01:16):
segue into the grunge. Okay, that's fine, but it is
then I love the nineties. It is the nineties again
when we peaked as a species in the world. The
nineteen nineties are coming back and they are in your face.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
In rewind, we go back and turn back the clock
to all the music and TV. I mean about watching
ed YPD Blues.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So it's only appropriate in a rewatch that we've got that.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Reggie Miller is on calling games. Oh yeah, so he'll
be part of the action and the nineties talking about
all of those Nicks and Pacers battles and whatever. Michael
Jordan's role is.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
If nothing else, it gets people up in arms for
a minute, remembering simpler times, no cell phones, you'd have
to the internet things. The Internet was new some people.
The Internet, you mean, I can talk to people and
it's really just okay.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well there you were an elitist at that point though,
in the early in the early nineties. I mean, that's
that's where you're talking your high rank government, you know, employee.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, that's that's where people started to have, like the
messaging systems at work. We're like, oh, I could just
send you a quick message on the computer.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh, okay, yeah, A lot of bad things happened to
that at the end of the nineties at Yahoo because
we had super IDs, so people would start screwing with employee,
you know, fellow employees.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
They did not like you.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Said what I swear I didn't. Oh no, it was
them on this conterminal supercomputer.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Want to watch Nick Pacers tonight? Yes, Rick Smith's will
have a big night for the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Nobody was texting or messaging about the dunkin Dutchman.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, I don't know how the Knicks are going to stop,
either Anthony or Dale Davis. Yes, send the Davis's. No,
that's good. I like that. It's the nineties, man, get ready,
you knew what was happening. And oh, by the way,
before we go any further, it was about ten days
ago people said, oh, you're Jason, You're just crazy. It's
(03:07):
a hot take. You looking for attention. Yeah, okay. When
I said Knicks Pacers East Finals, no, wait a minute.
And then a few days later was it's nice Nicks
and the Pacers. Yeah they well, Cat's great. Still it's
Celtics and the Cabs. Yeah, okay, okay, now.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Nick pays about but the two of those things can
and then are not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
And then then a few days went by, and then
a week ago we said, Smith, what am I going
to wish for? Us to lose what you wish for?
I have no choice. We're gonna play the pacers. If
we move on, they're destined to lose to the pace.
We're sweeping the pacers. Okay, we'll see you soon. Indiana.
We got something. We'll talk about that a minute.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
We got some but going back to your point about
hot takes and and needing a hug and all of
those things that those that's not necessarily untrue. The fever
dream that you had to try to arrive at this moment. Yeah,
the voodoo doll you've been carrying of Jason Tatum.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Stop, that's no, that's not stop. That's bad, that's that's dirty.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Pool right now, coin clips that the bulls don't win
a draft, lotteries. All of these things are things you've
been trying to bring into existence, and suddenly the universe
has smiled down upon you in this moment, normally hitting
you in the back of the head, uh, you know,
kind of bringing you towards the crossroads and then just
(04:25):
saying no, no, No, you're not ready for this stuff yet.
Now you're actually there. Now all the things you've been
wishing for are coming to this moment, festering building to
this Eastern Conference Finals. Just maybe tomorrow, maybe it gets
put off a couple of days, but it seems I.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Can see the Nick showing up tomorrow going yeah, whatever, hey,
Celtics have another game where they shoot the lights, losing
this game with no Jason ted I can absolutely, I'm all,
I'm already seeing that come this game or suddenly he
doesn't look like he's heard show or but then there'll
be the game six, anointment of the Knicks into the
Eastern Conference. I look, because I'll clear up. I'll be
(05:08):
clear with you. Like my brain like during the day
now and and and times when I when I think
about the Knicks, it's it's like my brain is like
the the beginning guitar solo of Mammoths, the end that
just came out about a week. A little bit of that,
a little bit of that, a little bit of in
the end. Yeah, right here, this is my brain. Nixt next, next, next, yes,
(05:32):
the next, We're going to the finals. We're beating the Celtics.
We're gonna sweep the pacers, Here come the drums. Way
too many brain cells. Brain's still going, brain still going.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Now is he?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is he gonna always Dad's estate? Anything for kind of
going towards eruption? Uh no, I think Wolfgang van Halen
is good everything.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, I think or.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Is he actually at this point what he wants? I
think he can that if Ga b Roth gets pissed off.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh, I don't think. I don't think Diamond Dave can
get him on the stage again. I don't think smiling
like a ches cat happened like his dad on the
on the solo. But that's my brain now with it.
I mean, it really is is insane. But this is
what's happening. And I said, look, I said, hey, Knicks, pacers,
pay no no no. Then a week ago, let's revisit. Yeah, okay,
(06:21):
maybe a tiny bit, Jason, maybe a tiny bit now
like oh wait a minute, well Nick Pacer, oh wait
that's happening. Oh oh oh wait a minute, that's really
really happen. Oh my goodness. He was right all along,
he was right about everything. What's happening.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I might be laid down some money on some futures. Yeah,
or maybe parlayd all of that good fortune.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I don't know. Maybe he've been treating your family a
little better, maybe a little longer walk with the dog.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car. Maybe I bought a
Knicks car, had it wrapped wrapped in Nicks, Patrick Ewings,
Patrick Ewing's.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Face on one side of it, Jill Jackson's face on
the other. Thought you were saving up for the mobile McDonald's.
I got, well, well that's that's when we get to
the finals. Then I'll be able to buy the mobile McDonald's. Son,
can we buy.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Get in on a franchise and actually just making a
food truck. I wanted McDonald's mobile McDonald's. I don't know
if today, Mike, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
The mobile McDonald's. Because you know Trump is meeting in Saudi,
probably getting another plane, and uh they they had a
mobile McDonald's there to bring him food, and I'm like,
I want to go to there. I want a mobile McDonald's.
I want like the bookmobile used to drive on my
street when I was a kid. Hey, come get books
every Wednesday from the bookmobile. That is great. I want
that mobile mcdonaldsbile. Oh dude, I wanted to drive McDonald's.
(07:38):
I mean, look like ice cream. Man was great. That
was one thing. I mean, that was awesome. But man,
a mobile McDonald's to drive up and just stop and go, hey, hey,
you go, what do you want, Big Mac? How many
ice was a menace? How many you want? Yeah? And
what else? You want? Fries? And what else? Shake? And
what else? More? Shakes? And what else? And a gallon
of coffee and and and you know what? Here, just
take my credit card. It'll be like James ol Joe
(08:00):
says in Field of Dreams. Uh, they'll fork over twenty
dollars a piece without even thinking about it. They'll give
you there, they'll give you their cash. They could be
washing the memories. I'll get whatever you need. Just give
me stuff off this multle McDonald's trun and then I'll
follow you around the city. So because I can't you know, look,
you can't stop in my neighborhood the whole time. You
gotta go out of the place. But I'll follow you.
Just don't go too fast. I could follow you and stop.
(08:20):
When I'm done. I'm ready to have something. Damn pied piper. Yeh, yeah, buddy,
Well they have the molten Lava apple pie available. I
think they're gonna have everything, Mike, except the ice cream obviously. Yeah,
the ice cream. The ice cream will never be wor broke. Yeah,
machines broke.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Sorry, seems like you could have parlay that into your
own trade school.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
What do you do? We just fixed McDonald's ice cream?
H What else? What else can I learn here? Nothing?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
No, that's it.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's all you got. I don't know. I just think
maybe that all that what the McDonald's has decided. Listen,
when the when the machine, when the ice cream machines break,
we're not going to fix them. Just tell people they're down.
It's not worth it. We don't make enough money on it.
We're not gonna kind of like how uh uh? The
story that did? He didn't want to do season two
of Hawkeye because it was too much money, so they
low ball Jeremy Renner. So because they knew he would say, no, okay,
(09:05):
we don't want to do the season that we don't
want to do the season at all, So we're gonna
low ball Jeremy Renner. He says no, and we don't
do Hawkeye too. That that's kind of what's happening to Madison.
Just tell me more some Hayley Steinfeld in my life.
It takes it takes way too much money to fix
the ice cream machines. Just gonna just tell people we
were just not here is half the man he used
to be. We're not going to fix them. He's got
to back out. He's back now. Jeremy Renner is back. Now,
(09:26):
he's back. He's back. He's back. Like the knickxer back.
He's back. That Nixon the nineties groove when they did
that little pose trying to save the world. Yeah, Oh,
everything's good. What everything old is new again? We are
back in the nineties. And look, let me just say
this right because here here's the Cavaliers, who it's just
a stunning loss for them, uh, falling to the Pacers.
(09:48):
Pacers win at won fourteen one o five, a game
they once led by nineteen. Clearly, yes, regular season success
and postseason success are two completely different things. But to
go a little bit deeper than that, the Pacers are
pretty good. This is an Eastern Conference finals team from
last year. And if you want to go back and
(10:08):
look when the calendar change at twenty twenty five, not
many teams have won more games on the pace left.
I think the Pacers are when the second or third
most games in the NBA since the calendar turned to January, right,
this is it that they almost look like a mirror
image of the Knicks, where you talk about a strong
starting five with guys that have very similar roles. The
(10:28):
bench is somewhat okay, but these are two really similar teams.
I'm already previewing the Knicks in the basin. You've been
watching a lot of Andrew nemhard people. People don't give
the Pacers credit because and look in Pascal Siakam is
such a huge addition to them. The clutch shots he
made down the stretch, Halliburton figuring out okay again, I
need to get to the rack, and he once again
(10:50):
took control of the game again a little bit too
inconsistent for my taste. He has too many games where
you say, what was that all about? But this Pacers team,
people don't really they were really good. Yes, they had
a bad start to the season, but it's a bad
first couple of months. You say bad start, it's it's
November December, Okay, the season is just getting going. But
since January again, second or third best record in the NBA,
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and so for them to come in here and we
already told you when the seat when the series started,
the Pacers are a bad matchup for the for the Cavaliers,
because the NBA prehas is all about match up, they
are a bad matchup. So when you saw the sea
the series start, Yes, could the Cavaliers maybe have had
a better beginning if they were healthy. Yes, a lot
of things went against them, but this is not as
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surprising because of those things, the Pacers were good. They
match up really well. We've seen them do it before.
We've seen the Pacers get to the Eastern Conference finals.
Haven't seen Don and Mitchell get out of the first round.
So when you when you're comparing the two teams and
you think about, all, what a shot with it, you
think back and go, well, maybe not as much as
you thought it was going to be because this wasn't
even a seven game thriller and escape with a ball
(11:53):
that bounced off the rim three times. This was for
to one. This was a beatdown. This was you don't
deserve to be on the same floor as the Pacers.
Despite the fact he won sixty four games in the
regular season, I just didn't finish the job, right.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You look at Donovan Mitchell tonight that I don't know
that I expected to see him play, but give it
the old college try. But he does, and he puts
up twenty five shots. Well he hits eight of them.
As a team they shoot thirty nine percent owing to
the length and the switching abilities. And what Carlisle's done
with this Pacers squad. You know, Haliburton didn't put up
a ton of shots, but he's ten to fifteen from
(12:26):
the field, hits six three point shots for the what
the game high, well second to Mitchell, of course, but
what comes down with thirty one points? You get good balance,
your guy Nemhard, all five starters in double digits. And
here's the stat of it all home field and home
court advantage. We talk about it in all sports, but
certainly basketball in these playoffs hasn't mattered.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Right. You look at the Cavaliers for the year, thirty
six and five at.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Home against teams not from Indiana, oh and five against
the Pacers on their home court time and again, and
the Pacers good enough to claw back and to wait
you out and come up with the big stop when
it mattered. And that's exactly what happened here. It looked
like they were going to get back into it. Calves
clawed back. You had the three pointer from Mitchell making
(13:16):
it a three point game, but that was it. Pacers
end up distancing themselves and winning the series. And now
they wait, Well the winner of Boston and New York.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, here we go, and already I've watched Rick Carlisle
is already complaining about the East Finals officiating in his
post game. Now, he's already very upset about how the
East Finals officiated. He's very upset. He's already trying. He's
very up to just crown you king. He's really mad
last year, he's really mad about the officiating. Already the table.
(13:48):
He actually really a series and get there. Really upset
for small market teams not getting a big run. I
mean he's really he is really mad about this. He's
really mad about the East Finals officiating. Justin smikey on
a Celtics come back. Any of this talk? Coll Hell though, Okay,
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to the reinstatement of Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jack
and Buck Weaver and Chick Gandal and Eddie Scott you
know all the way. Did you like seeing Chick Gandal's
name in the list? Yeah, just freaking. My dad actually
said today, what I tell you says Chick Gandal was
gonna go. Dad, Come on, it was nineteen nineteen. He
(17:12):
didn't even play in the majors the year after the
World Series. Okay, he didn't even play it in the
minor leagues. And my dad was like, how do you
know that? I go, Dad, there's very little I don't
know about the nineteen nineteen White SOX like eight men
honestly of in my movie theom of all the movies
that I'll have this crazy encyclopedic knowledge of, you know,
to a Caddy shack and cars, eight Men Out is
and die Hard like Top Gun. Eight Men Out is
(17:35):
right there, Like that's like one, Like that's such an outline.
You say, Okay, well I got a Jason, you know
to all the but eight Men Out. Yeah, I know
I've seen eight Men Out at least one hundred times.
I like the number of lines I'm gonna get to
run tonight on eight Men Out is gonna be amazing. Yeah,
that one shows up on PBS every now and again.
It's like, I gotta watch it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
But eight Men Out on PBS really, Yeah, they started
showing movies, remember, because you can't you can't produce a
lot of the TV shows that It's true.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, you go to things that are educational, historical nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
And that count, and that counts at this point. But yeah,
I actually have a an old uh eight Men Out,
uh first edition signed.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Poster uh book. Oh okay, yeah, oh, very actual novel,
wow hog geared and whatever. But it's beautiful, signed by
by by by shoelis jud you have an X on
there signed by oh, I added that, and so it's
suspect you gotta sign to be a witness, Joe, everybody
signed the in the ink test might fast, might fail.
It's like that kind of that didn't exist. An X
(18:36):
that's something that's like a scam. My dad would try
to pull. What shuless Joe's an X? You know? How
is an X right there? He's not sign his confession
with an X?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
How come when I when I when I when I
put my thumb over the penn at streaks all right,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
there's one of those long lasting pens or a quill
from nineteen I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Its signed in blue sharpie. So it's I've replicated this
signature one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It's signing an outliner pen that did come around until
the early nineteen nineties, strangely enough, when the Knicks and
the Pacers would face off in the Eastern Conference finals.
See how it all comes back to Jason. Who's that
guy that scored against the Knicks like nine points in
three seconds. The guy that's on the air now broadcaster
we did celebrate that anniversary, not Marv Albert. Yes, yes,
(19:21):
look at this and your face. Larry Johnson didn't say
how many backbites? Oh hey, you know there's no stop
with the backbiting. Think we don't need that here, Come on,
this is Nick's Pacers ninety ankle bite happening. What else
was going on there? That was Jeff Van Gundy grabbing
grabbing the ankles of a lions all morning.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Look, yes, we will continue to preview the Knicks Pacers
Eastern Cup. But the guy who win one more game? Yeah, yeah, details,
But the Cavaliers go home and there's there's a huge
reality that they're close to Wait till I tell you
what it is. You want a great hot take for
the night. But the most stunn thing watching this, like
what what represents the fall of the Calves. We're the
(20:05):
best team in the NBA for most of the year. Look,
you want to split hairs between them and the Celtics
and the Thunder and at least two of those teams
look like they're going down in the second round, maybe
all three. Nothing is more what happened to the Calves
than the end of this game when they're coming back
and they cut it to three, one oh six, one hundred,
and Donovan Mitchell gets fouled shooting a three. He's eighty
(20:27):
percent from the free throw line, eighty percent, and he
goes to the free throw line. This is with a
minute left to go, and he misses all three free throws,
all three of them, and then comes back after a
in the next possession and it's a three to make
it a three point game. Right This is the Cavaliers basketball.
Mitchell is hot, bringing them back all by himself. And
(20:50):
then when the gumme happens, when okay, well at least
get two out of three, we'll cut it to four.
He misses all three. If he was a bad free
throw shooter, I get it. But you miss all three,
you're eighty percent. If something doesn't tell you playoff basketball
is not your friend and changes need to be made.
That's the that's the instance right there, Hey the cat, Look,
(21:11):
we told you Pacers are really good to get a
top three NBA records since January first, there'd been a
bad matchup for the Caves for a while. Mike told
you what the records were. How many how often the
Indiana Pacers win in Cleveland. It's a bad matchup. But
you talk about playoffs and pressure and putting and putting
games away. How does an eighty percent free throw shooter
(21:32):
miss three free throws and he missed the last one horribly.
He missed that last one. When is Mitchel Robinson.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Well, no, no, no, yeah, there's a little bit more
arm well, I mean a little a little more style result,
and he didn't miss any under the basket, like because
Mitchell Robinson finds a way to miss them actually under
the basket, which I've never seen before, like on a
line drive that misses the rim and like bounces into
the first row.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I mean this last the last one was way off
the back of the eyron and high in the air.
Like it got worse for him as it went on,
and you can tell he had bad body language and
and and it was stunning. I mean again eighty Like
watching the other night when when Chet Holmgren cast him
a game missing two free throws, but he's a seventy
five percent free throw shooter and he misses two at
the end of the game opens a door for the
(22:17):
for the Nuggets to win Game one. I mean eighty percent,
you're the big star and you missed three free throws.
This is the Cavaliers playoff cry for help that you
didn't know they needed. You thought they were fine. Oh
they got nine guys, they go deep, they got all
their guys back. No, they need something, and I'll tell
you what. It's gonna be ready for this. This is
what's opened the door tonight with the Calves losing in
(22:39):
such a shocking fashion, the Pacers moving on to the
East Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He missed six free throws overall, by the Yeah, he
shot twenty one, made a ton of them in the
fourth court. Yeah yeah, yeah, and then that sequence. Yeah,
someone in the fifth row must have had a cool
sign or something, and then the curtain of distraction came
to came to their home court.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are close to this result happened probably in a year,
and if the boy, I'd love to see the Lakers
get aggressive on this, because boy, that would be something.
But the door is open for Lebron to finish his
career back in Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland obviously needs something, right,
(23:18):
You saw another first round playoff flame out. Donovan Mitchell
is a terrific player and I love him. He's a
Mets fan, but not been out of the first round.
If you can't get out of the first round when
you're a sixty four win team, you need something. But
you have a lot of good young players. They put,
what do you need? You need someone that's gonna take
the pressure off of your team. Because that's what I
(23:39):
saw is a team that wasn't up for the pressure. Again,
three missed free throws in the final minute. That tells
you we are not ready. They were gassed. They didn't.
It looked like the Cavaliers. They broke down. They were
playing too much ISO basketball and Mitchell and Garland started
taking too many shots in the middle of the game
and allowing this comeback by the Pacers. Because their offense
gott stagnant. They need something and someone to take that
(24:01):
pressure off of them. Enter Lebron James, who can finish
his career exactly how he wants to. I can go
back to Cleveland and maybe win another championship. Because the Lakers,
clearly they have kind of one foot one arm on
Lebron's shoulder. He is at arm's length with them. It
is now Luca's team. You saw what happened in this playoffs.
(24:24):
They now are rebuilding a round Luca. Look, when they
traded Anthony Davis away, you could tell this is the
beginning of we're moving away from Leblon Lebron James Era.
The fact of that he and Anthony Davis had so
much control over the team and Rich Paul and clutch
sports and maneuvers they wanted to make and players they
wanted to bring in that didn't work. They are pushing Lebron,
you can just see. You can just tell they are
embracing Luca, and we're gonna give Luca what. They're gonna
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get a center in the offseason so we can have
a room runner up and down the floor with It'll
make things much different for him. But Lebron is kind
of on the outside of that circle now. And this
year is the big year because if they don't, they
don't make it out of the first round again, Lebron
is infinitively gone. He's got one more year, fifty million
dollars left. He's not gonna opt out of his and
to give money for the Lakers to sign anybody. Forget it.
That's out what Lebron does because you know, to win,
(25:09):
I really want to win, but I'm not gonna give
money back it's you know, how can I win Ricky
by Yeah, if you would, I can, if you would.
So they drafted Brony for him, they did everything for him,
and he's not gonna do that. The best thing that's
gonna happen, and this is how it's. Guy can see
it happening now. Him finishing in Cleveland, Olive branches all around,
you'll see a little bit of hey, oh, I never
know where I thought about where I might finish, but
(25:30):
I want to finish at home. Who That's how things
are going to go. And this loss by Cleveland open
things up to it because who else you're gonna have
to come in. You're gonna trade away part of your
your core. It's gonna be difficult to do. But lebron hey,
I'll go back and finish because he's got another cup,
two three good years left. We see the level he's
playing at right now. But the Lakers want to move on.
(25:52):
They're gonna give it this year. I'd love to see
him get aggressive and do it now. That'd be fantastic,
but they want to give it this year. So it
doesn't look like they pushed too early. But this is
the door is open now for Lebron to finish as
a Cleveland Cavalier. In fact, if I was going to
Vegas with money and you said to me, how the
next couple of years is gonna go. This year Lebron
in La then the next two years Lebron and Cleveland,
(26:14):
and that's how he finishes. Look at you.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
I love the conspiratorial part of it, right coming off
of the draft lottery yesterday and all the chaos. And
to those that said anybody talking about that was dumb,
get away from the keyboard, go do something else with
your life. There's too many circumstances, including Lebron James showing
up in Cleveland back in the two thousand and three draft,
(26:38):
for people to not at least raise their eyebrows and
to say something is hard. You know, like the Lakers
or Clippers winning a title. At this point is it's
not impossible. You can still make a run. But for Lebron,
you're you're looking at what he's left. He's got the
twenty four to twenty five into the player option this year,
(26:58):
which again he's not leaving fifty two men.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
But then he's an unrestricted free agent, so I didn't
have to trade him.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He can just play this year out and just say
all right, I'm gonna go home now. For the Cavaliers,
you got a good deep roster, clearly playoff well. Just
stay away from Indiana that would help, and don't let
them play on your home court. That seemed to be
a recipe for disaster. But Lebron James did everything he
could to distance himself from everybody.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Else this year too. Right, as much as the Lakers may.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Be pushing, you got Lebron pushing his you know, helping
propel himself as well. Going all right, look, these ten
guys weren't good enoughs Me and Luca against the world.
Basically all right, you didn't exactly play particularly well in
that series. Austin Reeves gave you what he had. He's
got his limitations defensively. Lebron's got his limitations at his health.
(27:46):
Whatever you believe about the knee injury, I'm a skeptic.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
What can I say? It became a convenient thing to
walk away, and Frostbrook's already working on a trade. He
likes my idea of doing it now instead of first.
I'll even drive Lebron in lax.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean, you gotta, you gotta hear right, So
again into fifty two million dollars. That's where it gets in.
Do I think he's worth fifty two million dollars if
I'm the Calves the Calves are no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh but that but that's a typical blank you moved
to make where Oh, I'll take less money for the Calves.
But you wouldn't take less money for the Lakers. Nope,
wouldn't do it. Who do you want, Frostburg, What do
you want the deal to be? Who you take for
for Lebron from the Calves? Yeah? Mitchell and Mobley? Oh wow, Okay,
I don't know that you're getting Mitchell mobile. Okay, you
get more like, how's the salaries matchup? What do we
look at? I don't know. You're gonna get to dol
(28:33):
and Mobley? Okay, Mobley makes a lot of money. He does,
he does, makes a lot of you can make You
can make the money work, right, Absolutely want him. You
can make the money work with that. Okay, all right, Wow,
there we go. So it's gonna be Lebron mobiley and
the free don't forget the free ride to the airport.
Oh yeah, that's true, that's true. Free ride to the
airport yes, and you'll play whatever music he wants right now,
(28:53):
you're not gonna play, you know you and maybe get
him a drink or something.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Beat It by Michael Jackson, the whole Yeah, Mobley was
on the left last year of his cheap deal. He's
up to thirty eight million on the books for next year.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Hi. Yeah, you can make that work. You can make
that work.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Mitchell at forty eight million, Garland at thirty nine four.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's a lot of hot take.
I'm telling you that. That's how it's good Lebron is
going to you know, the way the season ended and
how really the perception of Lebron and and the the
weight that is put on having Lebron in LA that
the Lakers for the last year is like, well, we
have to have a star. We got to have them.
That's why they kept Lebron for so long. The Lakers
(29:30):
have always all the Lakers always had a center. No,
the Lakers have always had a superstar. Sure, and so
they if they were going to move on from Lebron
after the championship or a couple of years after, well
we don't have a superstar. We need to have a superstar.
Now they have one. So Lebron has become a little
bit more expendable. And you can tell he is on
the outside. He is outside the circle of trust. Like
(29:51):
if you're he is, you know he is outside where
de Niro and everybody else is in Terry Polo and
he's outside the circle.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
That was just your way to jam Ben Stiller knicks
fame into the conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
How dare you to say?
Speaker 3 (30:04):
It's like, if you're the Cavaliers bringing in Lebron James,
does that solve chemistry issues?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I know no, I think it does. I think you're
bringing in someone who's gonna be your a guy who's
gonna throw you under the bus at every terms, going
to take pressure off of a group that clearly can't
handle it. Lebron will take all the pressure. All everything
will be about Lebron. Hey, everything is great, everything's great.
You got a young core. He could teach you how
to win. We'd get through the playoffs. You're talking about
(30:32):
adding a guy, and if you don't trade for adding
a guy for nothing in a year, and this is
what's happening, Cavalier. If I said I would go to
I would go to Vegas. And say Lebron finish his
career at least two years with the Cavaliers. That's always
got to do it right. He's got I'm gonna go home.
He started, he started with his hometown team, he left,
he went back, he left, He's gonna go back to finish.
(30:53):
He's gonna that could happen. I could see yea one
hundred percent. Who else do you want? Then? Who else
do you what if? If Brony's got to go with Lebron,
you may not get anybody then maybe Yeah, it's I
believe you can get Anderson Verajew. You can still get him.
That's great. I gotta find the odds of Lebron's next team.
(31:15):
Get right in it. I mean, Larry Nance is good Lebron. Sure,
Larry Nance Jr. Both you get You get both Nance's,
you can get both. They'll be fine. Mark Price, you'll
get him at Junior. He wasn't that good. Craig Elow.
I'm sure he can still hit some threes. No, you
need his other guy hit a three. Especially you want
up trade and Awson Reeves. Oh you do that, But
get right, Lebron will finish with the Calves. It'll happen
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
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Com is the way tire buying should be. Well. When
you put away the number one seed in the Eastern
Conference with the biggest shot of your season. You get
to be the play of the day Shatas.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You don't have to foul here, but you have got
to come up with a sock.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Fi to shoot Turner.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
He puts it down, Myles Turner with the biggest shut
of his season, and Indiana he's up nine and they
get tasty spirit.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Dnastnt on the call. No matter what the Cavaliers that
the Pacers still find again, so eerily similar they are
to the knicks and end of game situations and the
starting five, how much they rely on them real it's
almost like mirror images of each other. And you know
it's gonna be the Eastern Conference Finals. So I'm okay
with that.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Twenty one points off the bench for the Pacers, but
Turner ten points on the game, seven boards, just three
to seven from the field that comes up, plus twelve
thirty three minutes played in a big spot to your point, Yeah,
very much.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
A squad where let's just give.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
The benches, you know, rally towels and you just sit
and watch the starting five beat each other down until
one man is left standing. I just it fronts it
and Halliburton, it's changing Haymakers.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Obi Toppin, who was once a first round pick of
the next Look at the game he's having off the
bench twelve minutes playing Yeah, minus eight but five and
three for him. So more basketball coming up. But today
was a huge day in Major League Baseball. A half
hour we got John Paul Morosi stopping by with us
as Commissioner Rob Manfred has reinstated Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson,
(34:14):
many of the other black socks from nineteen nineteen, and
a total of seventeen players who were banned from the game.
Manford's saying in a statement today that because they are dead,
they're no longer a threat, so we can reinstate them, which,
how ridiculously. Look, you know, stupid things are going to
be a theme the next te minutes. Just let you know.
(34:35):
I mean, how stupid is that for Rob Manford to say, Oh,
because you're not dead, we can because you're dead, we
can celebrate you. Wait here, you're a threat anymore, so
we can celebrate here. Oh you stink, you stink he's dead. Hey,
what a great guy. Let's have a party. Like how
stupid is that? Here's the sentence.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that
has more deterred effect than one that lasts a lifetime
with no reprieve.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, we'll tell you that. Hey guys, that's what. So now,
anybody else you get banned from baseball for life, We'll
let you back in when you're dead. Like what, Rob Manford,
this is. I can't believe that's in a statement. I
can't believe he put that in a statement. Hey, because
you're not alive anymore, you're not a threat, so we
can celebrate you no longer the game. You were a
(35:19):
big threat right up until you died, and now you're
not a threat anymore. So now we can celebrate you.
Like I really want the descendants of all the white
Sox players who are like, you know, all the great
grandchildren to tell him to stick it, you know, stick it,
just because now they're because honestly, why he's doing this.
And look, we've talked about this before. I don't think
there's any coincidence that President Trump has a meeting with him. Hey,
(35:41):
we'd like to reinstate some guys, and what have we
seen in sports? Sports? Say, you know what, this is
a situation where we're kind of running a little scared
right now because a lot of commute a lot a
lot of different entities. Hey, they're kind of scared of
of of the the Trump agenda and what's going on,
and if hey, if they if they're coming for us, Hey,
we want to make sure that we're not in the
(36:01):
crosshairs because we don't know what's gonna happen. And you know,
Trump has been governing like this and since he took over,
and like you saw the Eagles go to the Soup
go to the White House when half the team didn't
want to go, and it was like, oh, the reports
they weren't gonna go, but hey, it's easier if they
go because now they're not a daily story and they're
not a story about, oh, you wouldn't go to the
White House for whatever reason. And now here's Pete Rose
(36:22):
who could have been reinstated. Chule, you could have been reinstated.
But President Trump meets with Rob Manford a month ago
and suddenly now here, Hey, guess what, you guys are
back in major You guys are back and eligible to
be voted into the Hall of Fame. Like, I think
there's no surprise that you had this meeting. And sports
leagues are saying it's a lot easier if we don't
get entangled in politics. So let's just do this to
(36:43):
get along. And this is how you're seeing a lot
of things get solved, at least from the sports angle
up well. And some of this though, it just goes
to just pure logic.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Right now, President Trump is one that's going to comment
if you don't show up, as opposed to perhaps other
press who might not have since it's not really a
well tested fortio. We've got some outliers, right, Brady, And
you can get a couple of guys that.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
If it didn't like, didn't like Obama, didn't like Biden,
or in general, just had other things they were done
with their years, Like wait, I got to interrupt whatever
I was doing. No, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Because it's also kind of a recent invention that you
go fairly quickly thereafter, right, what's apout a time? It was, Hey,
we'll see you in a couple of months, like I'm
on vacation, right, I'm go off with my family across
the globe. Or I've already changed teams, all right, Jim
McMahon famously showing us as a.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Member of the.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
But like all of that to say, yeah, I mean
but some of it is logic, right, It's like, all right,
do we need this to be a story?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh, guys go or go?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I'm sorry in this case, like this is like the
logic of it holds for me, Like, all right, put
it up to a vote.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Is it stupid that you're waiting for these guys to
be dead? And this is the most tone deaf statement positive?
This is worse than the hunk of metal. I mean,
I okay, at least you can there, you can say
you might.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Or might not have been inebriated.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
I mean, here, you have all your faculties on the
official letter, and that's the statement you want to put ounce.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
This guy, this guy is the commissioner of baseball, and
this is a statement that he puts out. It's a
great deterrent. I mean, look, because I because I agree
these guys have done their time. They should have been reinstated.
I'm with President Trump and hey, these guys have done
their time. It should be reinstated. But like, okay, this
is this is what you needed to do this, and
this is the statement you put out to make it
work and saying, hey, they're dead, so we don't need
(38:31):
to Hey we can celebrate you now because you know
you were really bad, but then you died and that
was a change. Death is a career move. What a
great move, we said to beat. Really, that's kind of
what's going on here. Just an unbelievable statement. We have
more on this and a big story out of the NBA. Next,
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