July 17, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike with all the latest on LeBron and the Lakers. Bradley Beal is not the title clinching signing for the Clippers. And Caitlin Clark missing WNBA All-Star weekend would be an absolute nightmare for the league!
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Speaker 3 (00:54):
You know, it's like a Sunday football preview show because
we got three and a half hours till the open
kicks off.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That is true, That is true. It's very exciting. It's
it's the Open Championship countdown show. We're going all the
way to all the way through.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah. By time we get off air, guys will be
on the course.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Man, I gotta say this, what what have you missed?
An Open Championship preview so far? Okay, Well, one of
the best golfers in the world doesn't know where any
of his trophies or medals are, and the best golf
in the world doesn't seem like he really cares about playing.
There's your Open Championship, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That pretty much Ever since he got the Grand Slam
and everything, he's kind of like, eh, yeah, but this one, right,
it means this time it counts because it's home.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Scheffler stuff is fun. Yeah, what do you do?
I'm really good, but I got I gotta go. Why
do you uh well, why do you keep playing? I
don't know, you know, do you want to win? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But you know it's the feelings there for like two
seconds and then it's gone. So again you have you
have the two of the the most high profile golfer
who really feels like he needs a break in Rory
McElroy and and and and the golfer in the world's like, yeah,
I could take or leave it, you know it really
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
One guy played really tight in his head, everything calculated.
The other guy going, hey, let's get out there and
have some fun. Let's let's go do it. H Scheffler
plus five hundred McElroy plus seven hundred year leaders on
the board, rom coming in at twelve to one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's like every golf fans nightmare going. Okay, you're not
gonna pigeonhole?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Me?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Is this elitist fan that Hey, I like golf, so
I talk down to people. And look, when I talk
about golf, it's a conversation above the rim, conversation. Right
when we're talking about golf, you know you understand only
a few people know what.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We're talking about. Sanctity. Yeah, this is the worst. This
is the worst for calling.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, your best player doesn't even care if he plays
or wins or not. Yeah, I just like to play. Okay,
what about Yeah, I don't know. I guess I guess
I'll go out and play. I mean, I'm great at it,
so I could go do it all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Can we just finish the round so I can go home. Yeah,
I'm just I'm just gonna get let's go. I'm just
really done. All cars warmed up and ready to go.
I've finished finish. That's great.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's only your height for the Open and the thing
is The Open Championship, honestly has always been my favorite
golf e end of the year because I love the
off times, I love the swale, I love the fog.
You know, everybody is dressed the same. They're either wearing
a gray sweater with black pants and a black hat,
or a or a gray hat with a black sweater
and gray pants. All Travis Matthew. Everybody looks like like
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Rory McElroy, like it's my son, I've owed. The Open
Championship has always been my favorite event.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Always like that. You also got a reference into the
nineteen eighty four Kentucky Derby and Belmont States champion Swale. Well,
that's what they call the grass a swale, you know,
eighty four Swale eighty four. I remember Swhen Swale died,
there was a big headline on the back page of
the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It was a big picture of Swale coming down the
treads says Swale dies. I'm like wow, even then, when
I was a kid, I'm like wow, that's the headline
on the back page of the paper. All the stuff
going on, we got all this fuddy at the Mets,
the Yankees and the Jets, the jump of a huge
chick p sture and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The islanders and the ranges. Swale dies, like that's the horse.
I'm trying to go into my pop culture brain of
what eighty four did they reference it and the dead horse? Swale?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, swale, but that's they call the grass. I get
all that high grass and you lose your ball in
all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Swale.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Stay out of the rough. Yeah, Oh hey, I played
it's called the rough.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I played on.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
One course like that once when I went back to Michigan,
and and my I call it my brother in law.
Space is what he is because my my wife's aunt.
They're basically sisters, so i'd just call my brother in law.
We went and we played this course that was you know,
link style, right, So I'm like, okay, great, and then
I'm like, oh man, if you if if you're off
the fairway, it's not like some of the others you
(04:44):
have to worry about trees and bushes and stuff. It's
just because it's a wide open like I'm gonna be
great on this course, right, I can see everywhere. But
you get off that and you're into the gud like
you're never finding your ball because the grass is the
swale is so high, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Like, I'm not going in there. There's gonna be snakes
in there. Did you did you pull it your compartment
into your pant pocket so you can go shawshank and
extra ball. I got right right, it was right, I
got it right here. Yeah, I'm wide open little space.
I'm just it's gonna take a drop right here? Is
that okay? I gonna take a drop right here. That's
what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So yeah, so we will take you all the way
up to the first hole of the Open Championship.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, let's go. Yeah, very exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And you know it's funny because I always you know,
my wife and I we you know, ever since we
went to the UK last year and we visited and
we visited in London, we went to Scotland. I said
I had that that oh by the way trip where
I got to see Saint Andrews or I'm like, wait
a minute, we're fifteen minutes from Saint Andrews. Because you
know me, I don't know geography at all when it
comes to trivia geographs. I go, I'm going to the bathroom.
You guys got this because I'm not going to give
you anything. I got a couple of minutes, right, yeah, yeah,
(05:43):
I'm I'm going to bed geography and and uh geography
and and uh world religion. Like that's where I'm like, yeah, okay,
I'm out.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm bring me back to the other ones. But we
always talked about it. Boy, We tell you know, Scotland
is like this place. What could we retire in Scotland
at some day we think about, you know, living living
in the UK for a while, retiring there, you know,
years from now. Years now, I'm saying, I'm gonna go
to every course. I'm gonna go play Carnousti. I'm gonna
play all these different courses. It's all it's and it's
all close, right, like all these I mean everything, Like
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you think about all the different places in the United
States where we've had the different open where they have
every year, where they have the US Open. So here
it is in you know, in New York, and and
it's at Baltisrawl, but then here it is at Pebble Beach.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's all, you know, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But like all these courses, Like we drove up to
the Scottish Highlands and we drove.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Back Oh that's where they had. Oh that's an open chain.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh that's it, like four places where they had the
open Champion was in like fifteen minutes. It's like all
the muni courses that are around here. Oh I could
play in Encino or I can play at Shermanoak's. It's like, oh,
but it's like, hey, Carnoustie is right here, and you
know that's only a half hour away from Saint Andrews.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh right, great, Like I'm like, I'm gonna go do that.
It's like trying to drive five minutes up the freeway here. Look,
we're in a new city. It's exciting. Now I have
to ask this, since you're talking about the Highlands, did
you keep your head on a swivel in case you
ran into the Kurgan?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Uh? Yeah, well and head on swivels a big things.
You want to make sure you keep it, that's right, Yeah,
on hundred hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Remember there could be only one I know, No, I know,
I know, and I mean you got to always remember that.
But but doesn't know the one time in your life
you gotta look out for number one truly. But firstly,
foremost right, you're a family man. You want to look
out for your wife and child you might hit. In
this case, I gotta keep my own damn head.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You want to look up to the top of this mountain, No,
that's where bad stuff happens.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm not gonna get my head jumped on. If I
comes down, I got a sword. If i'm if I'm
at sea level, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If I just get standing up on that thing with
Sean Connery, someone's going to chop my head off. It's
I'm not happening, not happening bad things now. So we
continue to count down towards Day one of the Open Championship. Meanwhile,
a move you would think today meant this was the
NBA Championship, that the Clippers are gonna win it all
because they're getting Bradley Beal, Like wow, Okay, I understand
(07:58):
we're in. They were waiting for Lebron James to get traded.
We're waiting to see if other trades can happen. But
let's understand, Bradley, Bradley Beal has never been the missing piece.
At least Kevin Durant has been the missing piece once
in his career, all right, but now Bradley Beal is
the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Agrees to a buy out with the Suns.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Right, you have to not you know, one of two
players of no trade clause and is going to join
the Clippers. This announcement coming very early today, Shams Tarania
having it as soon as he says, has bought out
from the Suns. He's going to the Clippers. Two year,
eleven million dollar option, two year, eleven million dollar deal.
Oh but this is gonna get the Clippers of the championship.
The number of the number of reactions to this, it
was like, oh, Bradley Beal is your missing piece for
(08:38):
a championship. First of all, if the guy was a
missing piece, a guy signs more than two years eleven million.
But let's just take the salary thing and throw it
out the window. Bradley Beal has never done anything in
his career. He's put up some numbers. He went to
Phoenix supposed to be the guy was not there, supposed
to be the missing piece was not. Got bought out
by the Sons, who are saying, hey, we're gonna start
(09:00):
with we have no idea what we're putting out there
outside of Devin Booker, but we're paying him all the
money so he may play one on five. I mean
Bradley Beal. He's an okay player. He really, I mean,
Bradley Beal is okay. Yes, when you see the headline
three time NBA All Star Bradley Beal, yeah, that looks great,
that looks r But you can, again, I say it
all the time, you can't look at the back of
(09:20):
a guy's basketball card and say, boy, this guy is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He's a seventeen point in game score. It's what he does, right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's not someone that's gonna come in and suddenly, oh,
this team is going over the top. The Clippers aren't
going over the top. The Clippers, it's gonna be the same.
They'll win forty five to fifty games, and they'll lose
in the first round of the playoffs because they're built
around guys who are forty five years old. That's what's
gonna happen for the Clippers. Okay, just tell you right away,
that's how the Clippers do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You just am not that many though, but not that No,
not that many. It's not like you just said a
little gus are almost thirty and I said forty five.
Now these guys are all thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They're almost at four like they're getting there, Like this
is how the Clippers are going to go really okay, great.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
No, I will give him credit up of moves that
they make and bringing in Lopez, they get rid of
Norman Powell, who should have been an All Star, had
a great year, all of those things. But you get
Beal on a two year, eleven million dollar deal. Second
year is an option player options. So if he plays well,
guess what, he's gotta go sign someplace else or the
Clippers have decided, yes, you are the missing piece and
(10:21):
we move forward. The other part of it, thirteen point
nine million give back for over those final two years.
The wave and stretch like they did with Dame Lillard
over in Milwaukee, means about nineteen point two per year
on the books for him for Phoenix for the next
five years. But they're able to go Vegas blackjack dealer
(10:41):
and say beat it and away he goes. But you're
actually gonna get a guy in a system where there
are some expectations. Phoenix had to a point, but the
Wizards were what I mean, that's empty stats, right, that's
empty calories. That's sitting down at the couch with a
bag of chips, before you know what, you're at the
end of the bag of chip. Sure you got past
(11:02):
the air, but you still ingested three thousand galleries because
you can't stop at just one and you're watching TV.
You're not paying attention. That's like playing for the Wizards
and to integrate playing for the Suns the last couple
of years, like when is this gonna end? I mean,
all three of those guys, we're just sitting around looking
at each other, like really, this this is what we're doing.
It was the Spider Man's meme of all right, who's
(11:24):
taking the blame for this loss? And why won't you
wave your no trade clause? Why aren't you willing to move?
And Devin Booker's over there.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But here's what I agree with you. In Phoenix, it's okay,
who do we blame for the loss?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What happened? In Washington? It's hey, I have no idea
what's been going on? What? What? What? What's the season?
Because no one pays it. Nobody Here it's still and
James Harden and their failures. Bradley Beal gets to get
out of jail free card so you can just go
and play basketball. Kenny though, Kenny Kenny well, but that's
the question. Can he played basket? Okay, I'm saying he's
(11:59):
freeing up of any of the the extra So look,
you're not turning back the clock to when he was
actually a real player. I'm not suggesting that at all.
But at five point five million dollars, it keeps you
out of any of the dreaded second aprons and all
that other nonsense that we have to skirt around these days.
And for the Clippers, it's the long term. Wait, we
(12:20):
can make this run and then everybody's done except for
Zuba Hutch and maybe one or two other contracts. Yeah. No,
I kind of liked this. Yeah, yeah, So Balmer gets
to do a complete resets, right, he gots to look
when he gets to spend a lot of money and
try it again at the end to it dome. Look, look,
let me just let me just say this. Let me
just say this about it. It's the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know, I can't be sold to Bill of Goods
on how this is their year and this is now
the seventh year.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I didn't do that at all, did I.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I mean, you weren't in any of that. I feel,
you know, Kawhi Leonard's been here long enough. I feel
like it's the only team he's ever played on. Like, wait,
he won with the Raptors. That wasn't what was that
like two thousand and three, It wasn't that long ago?
Along with with the Spurs. What was that in the
nineties it was him and Duncan right when they won
when David Robinson retired. I mean, I feel that's all.
(13:08):
And that's how long the Clippers have done nothing. And
it's the same thing whether it's Doc Rivers as the
head coach or Philip Rivers is the head coach.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Every year they win about team including a bench, and
they and.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
They get into the playoffs and they lose in the
first round. Like now, there's a time where I am
gonna say this. I don't want to say too much
about too many bad things. H what do I care?
What the thing that like you go back where hey,
if the Clippers there was a point maybe seven eight
years ago where it was you know, you're you're getting
to the end of the Sterling era and everything that
happened where you say, all right, time out here, if
(13:43):
the if you're telling me the Clippers they can win
forty five games to get to the playoffs and probably
lose in the first round. Every Clipper the Clippers would
sign up for that. Great because it's been it's been
so bad for so long. But that was also before
you started spending all kinds of money on Kawhi and
Paul George and James Harden for every year to end,
they say, yeah, okay, you bought your way to forty
five wins and a first round playoff exit after eight years,
(14:04):
like that's not good enough anymore. But instead of saying, hey,
we tried this right, we tried this right. Kawhi this
is his sixteenth year with the Clippers. Okay, he's now
a vested he's now part owner of the Clippers. He's
been here so long. Instead of saying, you know what, hey,
we tried it for five, six, seven years, it just
didn't work. Let's get a younger base. The Clippers have
(14:26):
become kind of a destination. Let's do something different. Nope,
let's keep going with Kawhi and whoa, we have one
overpriced aging veteran having trouble staying healthy. That let's ship
him out and let's bring in another one who's the
same way. And when we go sign guys, let's sign
other guys in free agency who are that age and older. Like,
you don't win if you are if you're built around
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thirty five year old players, he doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
He man, I'm old enough to remember street lights over spotlights. Okay,
those billboards them the injury attorneys now, Jim Harbaugh. But
that's what you got on your highways and buy of
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
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Speaker 3 (17:04):
That is really really nervous right now.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I mean so nervous after news today coming up in
a second, but don't want to ignore some of the
big news today that apparently, you know, we saw the
news Fox Sports one replacing a bunch of shows and
are now according to many reports, we could see Barstool
Sports have a lot of their programming on Fox Sports
(17:28):
right and Dave Portnoy would be on College Game Day
and potentially some of the shows that they do are
gonna be on Fox. And you know, when I saw
this today, I said wow. I said, you know, there's
there's certain things where it's all about timing, right, I
mean people's careers and what they do in their life.
It's really comes down to timing. You could be really
really talented and stuff, but if the timing just isn't right,
(17:51):
it isn't right. There's been times in my life from
my career where the timing was perfect. There's been times
where boy boy, you know it's in the like in
the Simpsons, when When When When?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
The when Chief Wiggams says.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, Dad, I'm the number one cop in Springfield and
I'm on the case. And then uh, Mayor Quinn becomes
over and goes, oh, by the way, here is your kickback.
And he said, you couldn't have come here at a
worse time. You couldn't come at the worst time. Right,
there's certain time a boy that couldn't come at a
worse time. So if barstool does come to Fox, right,
when when Barstool first had their sports, when they were connected,
had shows on ESPN very briefly, and it was they
(18:25):
got knocked off. They decided, okay, we can have this.
It's a different type of of of content with Barstool
Sports obviously that you've seen, versus what ESPN likes to.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Put on there.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And when I saw that, I said, how long is
that gonna last? I mean really, how long we talked
about it? How long is that gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Right? That's it's not gonna last. Right?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
But now okay, So years later, the Barstool brand continues
on and now here they are at Fox that is
competing you know as more we ever had been directly
with ESPN for things. Look, you look at the radio
lineup we have here. We have the best line up
nationally across the across the country.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know, Fox has become when it comes to radio
and content and content people a you know, we're the
top dogs. And for Barstool to come in now with
their brand of programming, I get completely what FS one
is doing because it's there now going after Okay, who
is going to move the needle for us during the day.
We've you know, we've we've had the athletes on and
(19:21):
everybody bringing on hot takes, and that seems to be
the way things have been the last few years. But
now you're seeing a bit of an adjustment in the
in the audience towards a younger crowd. And look, these
shows are going to go on and compete directly with
Pat McAfee because that's exactly the audience they're going after, right,
They're only after the younger audience, the eighteen to thirty four.
This is what it's gonna be. And instead of here's
(19:42):
a couple of a former athletes, come on, it's gonna
be here's some shows. This is what we do. Now,
it's gonna be the same type of stuff on a
different network. And and Fox is going to use that
to compete with what goes on in ESPN, because look,
ESPN's built around Steven Asmith and Pat McAfee, right, that's it.
That's their brand is Steven Asmith and Patt McAfee. So
now here's Fox coming on still with Colin in the
(20:03):
morning and first things first, and those shows are doing
really well. And now if this happens, I think this
is completely and I'm not saying this that hey, I
want to do shows, No, I look at that too.
This is this is how you compete now in twenty
twenty five, right, we tried to go after a certain
audience for a long time. Where's the growth, right, where's
the growth you can go after? And this and this
(20:24):
is that audience and growth to go after. So I
completely get why this is going on.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, the rules of engagement also changed in a lot
of this, right when we look at Big noon kickoff
and what it's become for Fox, Hallmark events and entertainers
popping up and whatever. That that huge battle and clash
for Saturday morning early afternoon eyeballs is certainly there. But
the McAfee branded to Reverend right, a lot of curse
(20:49):
and a lot of no sleeves, definitely no sleeves, but
lack of a good bro not good bro, right, the
bro tak not good well. And you're also in a
climate in the United States in twenty twenty five where
you can joke again or make the joke and see
how it lands as opposed to get out, which is
(21:11):
the climate when Barstool was going to ESPN a few
years ago. Right, we watched it just you know the
SP's right, it's the All Star Break story on a Wednesday,
the chain deal lists, right, and the jokes that he's
putting out there, those are the things that got him
fired from other jobs. Right, So it's that kind of
thing and Barstool, you know, irreverent content and some controversy.
(21:36):
You don't shy away from it necessarily the same way,
right if your head competition is going to embrace some
of that piece, as they've done with the McAfee show,
and he certainly stepped into it a number of times,
he and his crew that you know, Portnoy and his
band of merriment. I mean it could be the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well it look look when I talk about timing, like
obviously the timing wasn't right then because it was too
new of a thing and it was too scary to.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
A lot of executives. Right, it's too scarious.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But when you also and so the timing, now things
work better because people have now gotten used to it more.
It's it's no longer where we're gonna put this on
the air and spit what is this? I cannot believe this? Okay,
we get that it's new, and maybe it was too new.
It's it's very similar to what we saw in the
All Star Game last night, where now the ABS system
is gonna you're gonna be able to at some point
(22:24):
in the future challenge balls and strikes right away, like
the batter or the pitcher or the catcher can challenge
a ball strike call. They go to the box technology
and it's either gets overruled and and the call stays,
or or either is confirmed in the call stays or
it gets overruled. And eventually we're gonna have robot umpires.
But you can't just throw the computer or robot umpires
(22:46):
in there right away because there'll be too much backlash
because it's too new, too fast. But you get used
to the idea of this technology and you see how
it worked last night, right four for four people start okay,
I get this all right, I'm okay a little bit
more and the backsh is not that big and the
uproar is not as big. So now the same thing
with Barstool, with going towards the Fox brand, which is
more hey, more maverick, more outside the box, more, we
(23:09):
don't really care what you tweet. The other than ESPN
that's very more buttoned down. So now that everybody is
used to this, and as you say that you know
the climate change is where it goes from. Hey, this
is stuff we really can here to. Let's see what
said and see how it lands. This is now the
timing is simply better because you've gotten used to that
brand and certain things, so it's no longer as big
(23:31):
of a shock to you.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And you also have a more frame of reference, as
if we.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Put this show on, we kind of know what we're
gonna get it before we didn't know what we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You've got proof of concept both for that brand and
its extension and good, bad and different wherever you stand
on their content, it's successful and it attracts an often
an audience and offense. And then you've got for McAfee.
Again proof of concept, and you've also been able to
have a little bit of institutional learning from what has
(24:00):
been done and how things have been navigated on the
other side of the aisle. So it's that, all right,
we've seen this, so we know and we can start
planning for when, if when, and if we have any
kind of issues that you know, we have a tactical
response fairly short order. Now you you brought up the
robot umpires. I'd be remiss, but I didn't talk about
(24:23):
something that keeps showing up in my timeline. I don't
know if it's AI generated or actual happening of these
running robots in China. Oh yeah, it looked like Dedroid
Army from the Clone War. Oh that's exactly what's gonna happen.
It is terrifying you. Everything is. Those might be the
umpires Execute Order sixty six. What does that mean? Oh
my goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
The player guy argued, balls and shrikes he'd done, But
then it would look good because the players would be
fighting back with bats that would look like lightsabers, and
then someone would would would do the whole like John
Wick scene with lightsabers instead of swords, and it would
look like the players are fighting back with with lightsabers
instead after it gets photos.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That'd be fantastic. How have we not figured out how
to make those bats already?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, wants look like wan So would have a big
purple lightsaber that big mace Wind.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Insisted it happening to be purple when he signed on
to the to the franchise. Yeah, that's my lightsaber, mother blanker.
Let's I did like the little meme. Also at wan
So watching the All Star Game, it was a cartoon
surrounded by money, but with a tear coming. Yes, uh
never guy.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
While the Major League Baseball taking a break after the
All Star Game, we're waiting for the end. Look again,
a couple of NFL teams coming to camp today, more
in the next week or so.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Utah tried to get off the snide in summer.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, you put money on the Jazz tonight.
You are somewhat nervous right now, but uh, the most
nervous league in the world is the w NBA All
Star festivities at home for Caitlin Clark this weekend and
her status uncertain after her groin injury last night. Missed
tonight's game against the Liberty and you know when it happened.
(26:00):
We saw right away. We said, uh, oh, I think
Caitlyn Clark just got hurt. Backdoor passed with about forty
seconds left to go and the fever win. She ran
down the court, put her hand over her right groin
and stopped and pounded the stanchion with her fists because
she knew she was hurt, not the same groin she had.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Been out with. So this is now a double.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Groin injury for Caitlyn Clark and her status for this
weekend is uncertain. This is the worst nightmare for the WNBA,
who has been fighting the perception issue of do they
know what they're doing? Does the league know? Why do
the players all hate Kitlyn Clark? Why is this jealousy?
Why is social media all taken up with Kitlyn Clark
(26:41):
versus Angel Rees? This is supposed to be a weekend
where it's okay, everybody understands Caitlyn's the show, right, We're
all in this together. Here is the festivities. She wanted
to wait till she got to Indiana to do the
three point shooting contest, which she still scheduled to do. Oh,
there's still a couple of days ago. This was going
to be that the the moment of hey where where
(27:04):
like when when Hollywood couples announced they're a couple. But
he put that big picture on Instagram and them holding
hands or they're photographed on a red carpet.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Together, lookers together.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This was the WNBA's moment where it was gonna be
this is Caitlin, She's the show. You got to put
your jealousies away, and you have to understand seeing this
All star the festivities and seeing the r around it,
She's bringing us to great places like this was a
big opportunity and it is a big opportunity for the
WNBA to maybe move past some of those crazy issues
(27:32):
that they can't seem to get past. This is that
moment where Caitlyn Clark takes center stage. You know, Blank,
you Cheryl Reeve and you and you don't like me
and all this stuff. Understand, you have to get on board,
right because you have to no matter how you feel,
you got to get on board. But now who knows?
Can she take part in the three point shooting contest?
Can she take part in the All Star Game? And
(27:53):
it's gonna be festivities where you don't get her and
I know that they'll they'll be deal put things like
put her on TV and they'll have her or in
the broadcast, which you can't be on all these different things,
but it's not gonna be the same as seeing her.
She gets people to the television unlike anybody else in
sports right now. Nobody else in sports gets people to
the TV like Caitlyn Clark. You can look at her
(28:14):
games and say, there's the difference one person playing in
a game. That's why they watch that game. No one
liked that in the NFL. No one like that in
the NBA. No one liked that in Major League base
I mean, I mean, Pete A. Lonzo Is, but you know,
I like that all the other sports.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But she's that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
If she's not there, this is a huge missed opportunity
for the WNBA. They are doing whatever they can right now.
They got all kinds of they're they're they're putting all
kinds of karma out there right now and trying to go, hey,
I got some kind of homemade ointments for you here
to get better and do this. My mom had a
strain growing. She took this pill and she was better
in five seconds. Come on, can we need you this weekend,
(28:48):
like the w needs Caitlin Clark so badly.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, it's also a difficult process, right because you did
sign the two point two billion dollar right steal Amazon, NBC,
Disney that starts in next year, so that's in the books,
but it's also you're going into CBA negotiations during this time.
The rights expire and the agreement, I should say expires
(29:11):
in October, so after the season ends were and we've
had a lot of back and forth about you know,
maybe conflict of interest with the other leagues and everything
else that are floating right, the unrivaled league. So you've
got that swirling in the background. This is your big
marquee event. It was built for her in Indianapolis to
have this giant spectacle where she might as well have
(29:34):
been main eventing the second night of WrestleMania the way
this thing has been built for the last year. And
so this injury absolutely crushing in many ways because a
lot of you know, the proof of concept and advertising
rates and everything saying, look at the popularity, look at
this is what we can do at our best. A
lot of those eyeballs go away if she's not there, right,
(29:56):
and a lot of the interest for the weekend. Doesn't
mean we won't still cover year on Fox Sports Radio
to a degree, but it's it's a little less of
a show. But John Paul Morosi, I think it hurt
him in his being to call the All Star Game
a show yesterday, but he recognized, like with what Fox
put on and what Major League Baseball did was a
(30:16):
big show. That's what the w NBA was banking on
for this weekend, and that star is a little diminished.
A few strands of light just went out on your
Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I mean, this would be such a huge missed opportunity
and the w Just if I'm Kathy Engelbert, I'm sitting
here saying, just wake me up on Friday and tell
me that she's playing.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I don't want to know anything else.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I can't sit here. The clock is ticking so unbelievably slow.
She waked me up Friday to tell.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Me she's she's been submerged in one of those tanks,
like when Skywalker was getting defrosted. The back to tack,
back to come on man, back to tank is what
it is. The back to tank. I was going for
what it was. I wasn't gonna I was going for
the I was going broadcast. But yeah, but that was
going to the non So when you know something, you
gotta say it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah when two to one B worked on him and
made sure he made him as good as he could
legend and then he kissed his sister.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, Martin Wise at a time, What do
you got on for us tonight?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Fellas?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Free agent defensive Van von Miller will join the Commanders
on a reported one year deal.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Two sides reporting on this one.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Von Miller himself posted a picture of Champ Bailey in
a Washington uniform on his Instagram page, and Adam Schefter
taking care of the reported one year deal part the
team still working on the compensation. Last year's MLB All
Star Show, according to John Paul Morose, he drew seven
point two million viewers on Fox three times. NBA All
(31:42):
Star Bradley Beale has agreed to a contract buyout with
the Suns and plans to join the Clippers on a
two year, eleven million dollars deal player option after clearing waivers.
The Spurs are shutting number two overall pick Dylan Harper
down for the remainder of Summer League. In the w NBA,
the Fever be delivered ninety eight to seven seven, with
Caitlyn Clark out of the lineups.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
She was ruled out before the game.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Breano Stewart had a twenty four point eleven rebound double double.
Clark's status for All Star Weekend, as you just heard
the Boys talking about yet to be confirmed. Age Wilson
had a thirty seven point ten rebound double double. Ages
beat the Wings ninety to eighty six, storm over the
Valkyrie sixty seven to fifty eight, Links win as well,
(32:25):
and the Dream win big over at the Sky. The
NFL Broncos have signed their first round pick, cornerback John
John de Baron out of Texas to his rookie deal.
That means just sa Mar Stewart, who ironically is working
out in Texas, but it's The Cincinnati Bengals seventeenth overall
pick is the only unsigned first round pick from April's draft,
(32:45):
and Chargers running back Najie Harris likely begin training camp
on the NFI list Non Football Injury after sustaining a
fourth of July firework injury to his eye back to you, guys.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Thanks a bunch, Ye dub.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the sports radio studios.
Coming up next. Why are suddenly the Lakers unbelievably stressed
in this offseason? Here thing, it ain't about Lebron. It's
next right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
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The Jason Smith.
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I go looking for the woman looking for the one. Listen, listen,
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He tells everybody he knows they do that. Don't trust me, man,
And then they go, dude, I just heard it. It's
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It's me.
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that I mean Brian Wenthorse the ESPN, the Lakers are
(34:20):
stressed right now. They're under a lot of stress. Well, yeah,
Lebron Jay, No, this does not have anything to do
with Lebron James. Lebron James a complete separate entity from this,
whether he's traded, bought out, or stays with the team,
all of this, right.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Is it the fact that the big move was DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'd be stressed if my big move was only DeAndrea. Okay,
but but that's different stress. They are stressed because Luka Donsich,
who in had fifteen six seventeen days, was eligible to
sign a big contract extension. No, obviously it's less than
the one he could have signed with the Mavericks. So
he's gonna he would sign for about one hundred million
(35:01):
lesson he could have made. If he waits another year,
he can sign for more money, right, which is you
know we've heard about you know many players are waiting
for the next year they can sign for like Nicola Jokic.
Uh didn't sign his his extension this offseason because next
offseason he can make even more money. But the Lakers,
according to Brian Windhorst, are stressed because if Luca doesn't
(35:23):
accept the extension now, which why would you if you
could make more money and you're twenty five twenty six
years old and you're Luca. Potentially this opens the door
to all of a sudden other teams saying, hey, Luka here,
so means you're gonna be a free agent, because if
you're gonna wait till next off season to sign this money,
you're gonna be a free Hey we love you, come here,
And all of a sudden, it's open season on getting
(35:46):
Luka Doncic and the Lakers would understandably be stressed before
they made this big trade. They're moving up, they're pushing
Lebron out the door, and they want to make Luca
the franchise part. And he's like, ah, I'm gonna wait
and sign. When you wait to sign this election, other
teams to come out and maybe you don't fall in
love with the Lakers like you like they wanted you to.
And at the end of the year, it's yeah, I
(36:06):
can still get a lot of money someplace else.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
All right, so I get the Lakers stress, right, But
here's where I'm a problem solver.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Here's my problem solver. This change all the dope the
NBA rules about payments and bonuses. Yeah, but that what
what you're eligible from back? Hey, that guy all NBA.
So I'm screwed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
But here's the thing. It's the summer and it's too hot,
not out of time for that. Okay, this this is
a little bit more more straight line. Oyeah, yeah that
you know that is that's a middle of the winter.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Oh a boy.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh mister Marley, you're here, mister Scrooge late tonight. Yeah,
we'doing all the NBA stuff. Uh, that's middle of the
winter when you don't go outside in this deep an
hour of sudden Okay, this is where this is where
I give the Lakers tough love. And I and I say, huh, okay,
I hear you on that. I understand. So so how
do you fix this, Jason.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Suck it up. Suck it up and woo Luca for
the next year. Yeah, that's high. Suck it up.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
This is the price you pay for running your franchise,
unlike what a modern NBA franchise is.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Runner.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
We said this when the Lakers were sold to Mark Walter,
we said, thank you. Maybe now things will get better
because the Lakers being run like a mom and pop show. Hey,
that was great and I miss that, But clearly the
Lakers are not We're not being run to how an
NBA team, a high level, high market NBA team needs
to be run in twenty twenty five. Right, you can't
sit here and say you have money problems.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That's not doesn't work right. Everybody's worth so much money. Now.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
These are the owners that are running things. So that's
why it was such a great day for the Lakers because, hey,
Mark Walter's coming in. Now you expect, Okay, we're gonna
start spending money at some point, really big. We're not
gonna worry about this. We're not gonna let Rich Paul
and Clutch Sports dictate who we go sign in free agency.
That's why this was such a big deal. But I
tell the Lakers. Yeah, suck it up. This is the
price you pay for running your franchise the way you
(37:56):
have the last few years. You gotta spend a year
wooing your guy that you want to sign the day
he is able to the minute he is able to
that long term contract extension. So, yeah, do I feel
bad they have to do this? I do not, because
you brought this on yourself, but it's not unsolvable. Woo
him for the next year. Whatever you need to do
to make him happy. You make him happy because he's
(38:18):
the guy you decided to empower and make him the
centerpiece of the franchise. So guess what, that's what you
gotta do. Do you want to have to do this? No,
you want the Lakers to be able to sell itself.
But this is not twenty years ago. This has not
come play with Shack right. This is not come play
with Magic and kareem right. This is not other destinations
across the NBA where I just want to go play
(38:39):
there because they're gonna win and I love what's going on.
This is not the Golden State Warriors of the you know,
most of the ten years up until a couple of
years ago, this is the price you pay, so suck
it up, woo him, and that's how you get him.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, I mean we know with the second apron it's complicated,
but there are a lot of restrictions that go along
with it in terms of your roster, where your draft
pick goes to the end of the round. You can't
aggregate salaries and trades, which is part of the considerations
when we start looking at Lebron deals for anywhere in
the trade market. But yeah, the Walter money, and you
(39:10):
can't tell me that this wasn't already going on behind
the scenes when that trade came under cover of night.
You know, by that sell you some land, you know,
the oceanfront property in Arizona, right, as George Strait saying.
But all of it to say that you get all
the secondary stuff, right, all the luxuries of an organization
(39:32):
of Wait, we can upgrade our training facilities, we can
have more people on staff, here's the latest equipment, here's
all of these things that maybe cash strapped quote unquote,
you couldn't do in the past as a the mom
and bop entity as it were, in terms of spending
on the squad. I mean they spent the money, not
it's just a matter of spending it wisely. Right to
(39:54):
your point about Rich Paul and Clutch Sports and their
stranglehold over the history. Now, they didn't push for the
second year, an extension or any of that stuff from
Paul's latest comments, So this looks like it's the final run,
assuming he stays in LA. But all of that, Yeah,
you've got to really bust it out for Luca and
(40:15):
a lot of bobblehead and pillow nights. Not often I
give the suck it up advice, but this is suck
it up.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Suck it up and do it.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I'm suck it up.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Coming up next, Boy, do we have a big NFL
rivalry that seems to have been reignited after the big
news today.
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Speaker 3 (00:54):
You know, it's like a Sunday football preview show because
we got three and a half hours till the open
kicks off.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
That is true, That is true. It's very exciting. It's
it's the Open Championship countdown show. We're going all the
way to all the way through.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah. By time we get off air, guys will be
on the course.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Man, I gotta say this, what what have you missed?
An Open Championship preview so far? Okay, Well, one of
the best golfers in the world doesn't know where any
of his trophies or medals are, and the best golf
in the world doesn't seem like he really cares about playing.
There's your Open Championship, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
That pretty much Ever since he got the Grand Slam
and everything, he's kind of like, eh, yeah, but this one, right,
it means this time it counts because it's home.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
The Scheffler stuff is fun. Yeah, what do you do?
I'm really good, but I got I gotta go. Why
do you uh well, why do you keep playing? I
don't know, you know, do you want to win? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But you know it's the feelings there for like two
seconds and then it's gone. So again you have you
have the two of the the most high profile golfer
who really feels like he needs a break in Rory
McElroy and and and and the golfer in the world's like, yeah,
I could take or leave it, you know it really
it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
One guy played really tight in his head, everything calculated.
The other guy going, hey, let's get out there and
have some fun. Let's let's go do it. H Scheffler
plus five hundred McElroy plus seven hundred year leaders on
the board, rom coming in at twelve to one.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's like every golf fans nightmare going. Okay, you're not
gonna pigeonhole?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Me?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Is this elitist fan that Hey, I like golf, so
I talk down to people. And look, when I talk
about golf, it's a conversation above the rim, conversation. Right
when we're talking about golf, you know you understand only
a few people know what.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
We're talking about. Sanctity. Yeah, this is the worst. This
is the worst for calling.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, your best player doesn't even care if he plays
or wins or not. Yeah, I just like to play. Okay,
what about Yeah, I don't know. I guess I guess
I'll go out and play. I mean, I'm great at it,
so I could go do it all right, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Can we just finish the round so I can go home. Yeah,
I'm just I'm just gonna get let's go. I'm just
really done. All cars warmed up and ready to go.
I've finished finish. That's great.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's only your height for the Open and the thing
is The Open Championship, honestly has always been my favorite
golf e end of the year because I love the
off times, I love the swale, I love the fog.
You know, everybody is dressed the same. They're either wearing
a gray sweater with black pants and a black hat,
or a or a gray hat with a black sweater
and gray pants. All Travis Matthew. Everybody looks like like
(03:25):
Rory McElroy, like it's my son, I've owed. The Open
Championship has always been my favorite event.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Always like that. You also got a reference into the
nineteen eighty four Kentucky Derby and Belmont States champion Swale. Well,
that's what they call the grass a swale, you know,
eighty four Swale eighty four. I remember Swhen Swale died,
there was a big headline on the back page of
the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It was a big picture of Swale coming down the
treads says Swale dies. I'm like wow, even then, when
I was a kid, I'm like wow, that's the headline
on the back page of the paper. All the stuff
going on, we got all this fuddy at the Mets,
the Yankees and the Jets, the jump of a huge
chick p sture and.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The islanders and the ranges. Swale dies, like that's the horse.
I'm trying to go into my pop culture brain of
what eighty four did they reference it and the dead horse? Swale?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, swale, but that's they call the grass. I get
all that high grass and you lose your ball in
all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Swale.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Stay out of the rough. Yeah, Oh hey, I played
it's called the rough.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I played on.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
One course like that once when I went back to Michigan,
and and my I call it my brother in law.
Space is what he is because my my wife's aunt.
They're basically sisters, so i'd just call my brother in law.
We went and we played this course that was you know,
link style, right, So I'm like, okay, great, and then
I'm like, oh man, if you if if you're off
the fairway, it's not like some of the others you
(04:44):
have to worry about trees and bushes and stuff. It's
just because it's a wide open like I'm gonna be
great on this course, right, I can see everywhere. But
you get off that and you're into the gud like
you're never finding your ball because the grass is the
swale is so high, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Like, I'm not going in there. There's gonna be snakes
in there. Did you did you pull it your compartment
into your pant pocket so you can go shawshank and
extra ball. I got right right, it was right, I
got it right here. Yeah, I'm wide open little space.
I'm just it's gonna take a drop right here? Is
that okay? I gonna take a drop right here. That's
what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
So yeah, so we will take you all the way
up to the first hole of the Open Championship.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, let's go. Yeah, very exciting.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And you know it's funny because I always you know,
my wife and I we you know, ever since we
went to the UK last year and we visited and
we visited in London, we went to Scotland. I said
I had that that oh by the way trip where
I got to see Saint Andrews or I'm like, wait
a minute, we're fifteen minutes from Saint Andrews. Because you
know me, I don't know geography at all when it
comes to trivia geographs. I go, I'm going to the bathroom.
You guys got this because I'm not going to give
you anything. I got a couple of minutes, right, yeah, yeah,
(05:43):
I'm I'm going to bed geography and and uh geography
and and uh world religion. Like that's where I'm like, yeah, okay,
I'm out.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm bring me back to the other ones. But we
always talked about it. Boy, We tell you know, Scotland
is like this place. What could we retire in Scotland
at some day we think about, you know, living living
in the UK for a while, retiring there, you know,
years from now. Years now, I'm saying, I'm gonna go
to every course. I'm gonna go play Carnousti. I'm gonna
play all these different courses. It's all it's and it's
all close, right, like all these I mean everything, Like
(06:14):
you think about all the different places in the United
States where we've had the different open where they have
every year, where they have the US Open. So here
it is in you know, in New York, and and
it's at Baltisrawl, but then here it is at Pebble Beach.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
It's all, you know, it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
But like all these courses, Like we drove up to
the Scottish Highlands and we drove.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Back Oh that's where they had. Oh that's an open chain.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh that's it, like four places where they had the
open Champion was in like fifteen minutes. It's like all
the muni courses that are around here. Oh I could
play in Encino or I can play at Shermanoak's. It's like, oh,
but it's like, hey, Carnoustie is right here, and you
know that's only a half hour away from Saint Andrews.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Oh right, great, Like I'm like, I'm gonna go do that.
It's like trying to drive five minutes up the freeway here. Look,
we're in a new city. It's exciting. Now I have
to ask this, since you're talking about the Highlands, did
you keep your head on a swivel in case you
ran into the Kurgan?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Uh? Yeah, well and head on swivels a big things.
You want to make sure you keep it, that's right, Yeah,
on hundred hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Remember there could be only one I know, No, I know,
I know, and I mean you got to always remember that.
But but doesn't know the one time in your life
you gotta look out for number one truly. But firstly,
foremost right, you're a family man. You want to look
out for your wife and child you might hit. In
this case, I gotta keep my own damn head.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
You want to look up to the top of this mountain, No,
that's where bad stuff happens.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I'm not gonna get my head jumped on. If I
comes down, I got a sword. If i'm if I'm
at sea level, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If I just get standing up on that thing with
Sean Connery, someone's going to chop my head off. It's
I'm not happening, not happening bad things now. So we
continue to count down towards Day one of the Open Championship. Meanwhile,
a move you would think today meant this was the
NBA Championship, that the Clippers are gonna win it all
because they're getting Bradley Beal, Like wow, Okay, I understand
(07:58):
we're in. They were waiting for Lebron James to get traded.
We're waiting to see if other trades can happen. But
let's understand, Bradley, Bradley Beal has never been the missing piece.
At least Kevin Durant has been the missing piece once
in his career, all right, but now Bradley Beal is
the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Agrees to a buy out with the Suns.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Right, you have to not you know, one of two
players of no trade clause and is going to join
the Clippers. This announcement coming very early today, Shams Tarania
having it as soon as he says, has bought out
from the Suns. He's going to the Clippers. Two year,
eleven million dollar option, two year, eleven million dollar deal.
Oh but this is gonna get the Clippers of the championship.
The number of the number of reactions to this, it
was like, oh, Bradley Beal is your missing piece for
(08:38):
a championship. First of all, if the guy was a
missing piece, a guy signs more than two years eleven million.
But let's just take the salary thing and throw it
out the window. Bradley Beal has never done anything in
his career. He's put up some numbers. He went to
Phoenix supposed to be the guy was not there, supposed
to be the missing piece was not. Got bought out
by the Sons, who are saying, hey, we're gonna start
(09:00):
with we have no idea what we're putting out there
outside of Devin Booker, but we're paying him all the
money so he may play one on five. I mean
Bradley Beal. He's an okay player. He really, I mean,
Bradley Beal is okay. Yes, when you see the headline
three time NBA All Star Bradley Beal, yeah, that looks great,
that looks r But you can, again, I say it
all the time, you can't look at the back of
(09:20):
a guy's basketball card and say, boy, this guy is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
He's a seventeen point in game score. It's what he does, right.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He's not someone that's gonna come in and suddenly, oh,
this team is going over the top. The Clippers aren't
going over the top. The Clippers, it's gonna be the same.
They'll win forty five to fifty games, and they'll lose
in the first round of the playoffs because they're built
around guys who are forty five years old. That's what's
gonna happen for the Clippers. Okay, just tell you right away,
that's how the Clippers do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You just am not that many though, but not that No,
not that many. It's not like you just said a
little gus are almost thirty and I said forty five.
Now these guys are all thirty five.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
They're almost at four like they're getting there, Like this
is how the Clippers are going to go really okay, great.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
No, I will give him credit up of moves that
they make and bringing in Lopez, they get rid of
Norman Powell, who should have been an All Star, had
a great year, all of those things. But you get
Beal on a two year, eleven million dollar deal. Second
year is an option player options. So if he plays well,
guess what, he's gotta go sign someplace else or the
Clippers have decided, yes, you are the missing piece and
(10:21):
we move forward. The other part of it, thirteen point
nine million give back for over those final two years.
The wave and stretch like they did with Dame Lillard
over in Milwaukee, means about nineteen point two per year
on the books for him for Phoenix for the next
five years. But they're able to go Vegas blackjack dealer
(10:41):
and say beat it and away he goes. But you're
actually gonna get a guy in a system where there
are some expectations. Phoenix had to a point, but the
Wizards were what I mean, that's empty stats, right, that's
empty calories. That's sitting down at the couch with a
bag of chips, before you know what, you're at the
end of the bag of chip. Sure you got past
(11:02):
the air, but you still ingested three thousand galleries because
you can't stop at just one and you're watching TV.
You're not paying attention. That's like playing for the Wizards
and to integrate playing for the Suns the last couple
of years, like when is this gonna end? I mean,
all three of those guys, we're just sitting around looking
at each other, like really, this this is what we're doing.
It was the Spider Man's meme of all right, who's
(11:24):
taking the blame for this loss? And why won't you
wave your no trade clause? Why aren't you willing to move?
And Devin Booker's over there.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But here's what I agree with you. In Phoenix, it's okay,
who do we blame for the loss?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What happened? In Washington? It's hey, I have no idea
what's been going on? What? What? What? What's the season?
Because no one pays it. Nobody Here it's still and
James Harden and their failures. Bradley Beal gets to get
out of jail free card so you can just go
and play basketball. Kenny though, Kenny Kenny well, but that's
the question. Can he played basket? Okay, I'm saying he's
(11:59):
freeing up of any of the the extra So look,
you're not turning back the clock to when he was
actually a real player. I'm not suggesting that at all.
But at five point five million dollars, it keeps you
out of any of the dreaded second aprons and all
that other nonsense that we have to skirt around these days.
And for the Clippers, it's the long term. Wait, we
(12:20):
can make this run and then everybody's done except for
Zuba Hutch and maybe one or two other contracts. Yeah. No,
I kind of liked this. Yeah, yeah, So Balmer gets
to do a complete resets, right, he gots to look
when he gets to spend a lot of money and
try it again at the end to it dome. Look, look,
let me just let me just say this. Let me
just say this about it. It's the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I know, I can't be sold to Bill of Goods
on how this is their year and this is now
the seventh year.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I didn't do that at all, did I.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I mean, you weren't in any of that. I feel,
you know, Kawhi Leonard's been here long enough. I feel
like it's the only team he's ever played on. Like, wait,
he won with the Raptors. That wasn't what was that
like two thousand and three, It wasn't that long ago?
Along with with the Spurs. What was that in the
nineties it was him and Duncan right when they won
when David Robinson retired. I mean, I feel that's all.
(13:08):
And that's how long the Clippers have done nothing. And
it's the same thing whether it's Doc Rivers as the
head coach or Philip Rivers is the head coach.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Every year they win about team including a bench, and
they and.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
They get into the playoffs and they lose in the
first round. Like now, there's a time where I am
gonna say this. I don't want to say too much
about too many bad things. H what do I care?
What the thing that like you go back where hey,
if the Clippers there was a point maybe seven eight
years ago where it was you know, you're you're getting
to the end of the Sterling era and everything that
happened where you say, all right, time out here, if
(13:43):
the if you're telling me the Clippers they can win
forty five games to get to the playoffs and probably
lose in the first round. Every Clipper the Clippers would
sign up for that. Great because it's been it's been
so bad for so long. But that was also before
you started spending all kinds of money on Kawhi and
Paul George and James Harden for every year to end,
they say, yeah, okay, you bought your way to forty
five wins and a first round playoff exit after eight years,
(14:04):
like that's not good enough anymore. But instead of saying, hey,
we tried this right, we tried this right. Kawhi this
is his sixteenth year with the Clippers. Okay, he's now
a vested he's now part owner of the Clippers. He's
been here so long. Instead of saying, you know what, hey,
we tried it for five, six, seven years, it just
didn't work. Let's get a younger base. The Clippers have
(14:26):
become kind of a destination. Let's do something different. Nope,
let's keep going with Kawhi and whoa, we have one
overpriced aging veteran having trouble staying healthy. That let's ship
him out and let's bring in another one who's the
same way. And when we go sign guys, let's sign
other guys in free agency who are that age and older. Like,
you don't win if you are if you're built around
(14:47):
thirty five year old players, he doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
He man, I'm old enough to remember street lights over spotlights. Okay,
those billboards them the injury attorneys now, Jim Harbaugh. But
that's what you got on your highways and buy of
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
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money on their stars and the Lakers or but it
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Speaker 3 (17:04):
That is really really nervous right now.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I mean so nervous after news today coming up in
a second, but don't want to ignore some of the
big news today that apparently, you know, we saw the
news Fox Sports one replacing a bunch of shows and
are now according to many reports, we could see Barstool
Sports have a lot of their programming on Fox Sports
(17:28):
right and Dave Portnoy would be on College Game Day
and potentially some of the shows that they do are
gonna be on Fox. And you know, when I saw
this today, I said wow. I said, you know, there's
there's certain things where it's all about timing, right, I
mean people's careers and what they do in their life.
It's really comes down to timing. You could be really
really talented and stuff, but if the timing just isn't right,
(17:51):
it isn't right. There's been times in my life from
my career where the timing was perfect. There's been times
where boy boy, you know it's in the like in
the Simpsons, when When When When?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
The when Chief Wiggams says.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, Dad, I'm the number one cop in Springfield and
I'm on the case. And then uh, Mayor Quinn becomes
over and goes, oh, by the way, here is your kickback.
And he said, you couldn't have come here at a
worse time. You couldn't come at the worst time. Right,
there's certain time a boy that couldn't come at a
worse time. So if barstool does come to Fox, right,
when when Barstool first had their sports, when they were connected,
had shows on ESPN very briefly, and it was they
(18:25):
got knocked off. They decided, okay, we can have this.
It's a different type of of of content with Barstool
Sports obviously that you've seen, versus what ESPN likes to.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Put on there.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And when I saw that, I said, how long is
that gonna last? I mean really, how long we talked
about it? How long is that gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Right? That's it's not gonna last. Right?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
But now okay, So years later, the Barstool brand continues
on and now here they are at Fox that is
competing you know as more we ever had been directly
with ESPN for things. Look, you look at the radio
lineup we have here. We have the best line up
nationally across the across the country.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
You know, Fox has become when it comes to radio
and content and content people a you know, we're the
top dogs. And for Barstool to come in now with
their brand of programming, I get completely what FS one
is doing because it's there now going after Okay, who
is going to move the needle for us during the day.
We've you know, we've we've had the athletes on and
(19:21):
everybody bringing on hot takes, and that seems to be
the way things have been the last few years. But
now you're seeing a bit of an adjustment in the
in the audience towards a younger crowd. And look, these
shows are going to go on and compete directly with
Pat McAfee because that's exactly the audience they're going after, right,
They're only after the younger audience, the eighteen to thirty four.
This is what it's gonna be. And instead of here's
(19:42):
a couple of a former athletes, come on, it's gonna
be here's some shows. This is what we do. Now,
it's gonna be the same type of stuff on a
different network. And and Fox is going to use that
to compete with what goes on in ESPN, because look,
ESPN's built around Steven Asmith and Pat McAfee, right, that's it.
That's their brand is Steven Asmith and Patt McAfee. So
now here's Fox coming on still with Colin in the
(20:03):
morning and first things first, and those shows are doing
really well. And now if this happens, I think this
is completely and I'm not saying this that hey, I
want to do shows, No, I look at that too.
This is this is how you compete now in twenty
twenty five, right, we tried to go after a certain
audience for a long time. Where's the growth, right, where's
the growth you can go after? And this and this
(20:24):
is that audience and growth to go after. So I
completely get why this is going on.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well, the rules of engagement also changed in a lot
of this, right when we look at Big noon kickoff
and what it's become for Fox, Hallmark events and entertainers
popping up and whatever. That that huge battle and clash
for Saturday morning early afternoon eyeballs is certainly there. But
the McAfee branded to Reverend right, a lot of curse
(20:49):
and a lot of no sleeves, definitely no sleeves, but
lack of a good bro not good bro, right, the
bro tak not good well. And you're also in a
climate in the United States in twenty twenty five where
you can joke again or make the joke and see
how it lands as opposed to get out, which is
(21:11):
the climate when Barstool was going to ESPN a few
years ago. Right, we watched it just you know the
SP's right, it's the All Star Break story on a Wednesday,
the chain deal lists, right, and the jokes that he's
putting out there, those are the things that got him
fired from other jobs. Right, So it's that kind of
thing and Barstool, you know, irreverent content and some controversy.
(21:36):
You don't shy away from it necessarily the same way,
right if your head competition is going to embrace some
of that piece, as they've done with the McAfee show,
and he certainly stepped into it a number of times,
he and his crew that you know, Portnoy and his
band of merriment. I mean it could be the same thing.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Well it look look when I talk about timing, like
obviously the timing wasn't right then because it was too
new of a thing and it was too scary to.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
A lot of executives. Right, it's too scarious.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
But when you also and so the timing, now things
work better because people have now gotten used to it more.
It's it's no longer where we're gonna put this on
the air and spit what is this? I cannot believe this? Okay,
we get that it's new, and maybe it was too new.
It's it's very similar to what we saw in the
All Star Game last night, where now the ABS system
is gonna you're gonna be able to at some point
(22:24):
in the future challenge balls and strikes right away, like
the batter or the pitcher or the catcher can challenge
a ball strike call. They go to the box technology
and it's either gets overruled and and the call stays,
or or either is confirmed in the call stays or
it gets overruled. And eventually we're gonna have robot umpires.
But you can't just throw the computer or robot umpires
(22:46):
in there right away because there'll be too much backlash
because it's too new, too fast. But you get used
to the idea of this technology and you see how
it worked last night, right four for four people start okay,
I get this all right, I'm okay a little bit
more and the backsh is not that big and the
uproar is not as big. So now the same thing
with Barstool, with going towards the Fox brand, which is
more hey, more maverick, more outside the box, more, we
(23:09):
don't really care what you tweet. The other than ESPN
that's very more buttoned down. So now that everybody is
used to this, and as you say that you know
the climate change is where it goes from. Hey, this
is stuff we really can here to. Let's see what
said and see how it lands. This is now the
timing is simply better because you've gotten used to that
brand and certain things, so it's no longer as big
(23:31):
of a shock to you.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And you also have a more frame of reference, as
if we.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Put this show on, we kind of know what we're
gonna get it before we didn't know what we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You've got proof of concept both for that brand and
its extension and good, bad and different wherever you stand
on their content, it's successful and it attracts an often
an audience and offense. And then you've got for McAfee.
Again proof of concept, and you've also been able to
have a little bit of institutional learning from what has
(24:00):
been done and how things have been navigated on the
other side of the aisle. So it's that, all right,
we've seen this, so we know and we can start
planning for when, if when, and if we have any
kind of issues that you know, we have a tactical
response fairly short order. Now you you brought up the
robot umpires. I'd be remiss, but I didn't talk about
(24:23):
something that keeps showing up in my timeline. I don't
know if it's AI generated or actual happening of these
running robots in China. Oh yeah, it looked like Dedroid
Army from the Clone War. Oh that's exactly what's gonna happen.
It is terrifying you. Everything is. Those might be the
umpires Execute Order sixty six. What does that mean? Oh
my goodness.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
The player guy argued, balls and shrikes he'd done, But
then it would look good because the players would be
fighting back with bats that would look like lightsabers, and
then someone would would would do the whole like John
Wick scene with lightsabers instead of swords, and it would
look like the players are fighting back with with lightsabers
instead after it gets photos.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That'd be fantastic. How have we not figured out how
to make those bats already?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, wants look like wan So would have a big
purple lightsaber that big mace Wind.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Insisted it happening to be purple when he signed on
to the to the franchise. Yeah, that's my lightsaber, mother blanker.
Let's I did like the little meme. Also at wan
So watching the All Star Game, it was a cartoon
surrounded by money, but with a tear coming. Yes, uh
never guy.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
While the Major League Baseball taking a break after the
All Star Game, we're waiting for the end. Look again,
a couple of NFL teams coming to camp today, more
in the next week or so.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Utah tried to get off the snide in summer.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, you put money on the Jazz tonight.
You are somewhat nervous right now, but uh, the most
nervous league in the world is the w NBA All
Star festivities at home for Caitlin Clark this weekend and
her status uncertain after her groin injury last night. Missed
tonight's game against the Liberty and you know when it happened.
(26:00):
We saw right away. We said, uh, oh, I think
Caitlyn Clark just got hurt. Backdoor passed with about forty
seconds left to go and the fever win. She ran
down the court, put her hand over her right groin
and stopped and pounded the stanchion with her fists because
she knew she was hurt, not the same groin she had.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Been out with. So this is now a double.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Groin injury for Caitlyn Clark and her status for this
weekend is uncertain. This is the worst nightmare for the WNBA,
who has been fighting the perception issue of do they
know what they're doing? Does the league know? Why do
the players all hate Kitlyn Clark? Why is this jealousy?
Why is social media all taken up with Kitlyn Clark
(26:41):
versus Angel Rees? This is supposed to be a weekend
where it's okay, everybody understands Caitlyn's the show, right, We're
all in this together. Here is the festivities. She wanted
to wait till she got to Indiana to do the
three point shooting contest, which she still scheduled to do. Oh,
there's still a couple of days ago. This was going
to be that the the moment of hey where where
(27:04):
like when when Hollywood couples announced they're a couple. But
he put that big picture on Instagram and them holding
hands or they're photographed on a red carpet.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Together, lookers together.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
This was the WNBA's moment where it was gonna be
this is Caitlin, She's the show. You got to put
your jealousies away, and you have to understand seeing this
All star the festivities and seeing the r around it,
She's bringing us to great places like this was a
big opportunity and it is a big opportunity for the
WNBA to maybe move past some of those crazy issues
(27:32):
that they can't seem to get past. This is that
moment where Caitlyn Clark takes center stage. You know, Blank,
you Cheryl Reeve and you and you don't like me
and all this stuff. Understand, you have to get on board,
right because you have to no matter how you feel,
you got to get on board. But now who knows?
Can she take part in the three point shooting contest?
Can she take part in the All Star Game? And
(27:53):
it's gonna be festivities where you don't get her and
I know that they'll they'll be deal put things like
put her on TV and they'll have her or in
the broadcast, which you can't be on all these different things,
but it's not gonna be the same as seeing her.
She gets people to the television unlike anybody else in
sports right now. Nobody else in sports gets people to
the TV like Caitlyn Clark. You can look at her
(28:14):
games and say, there's the difference one person playing in
a game. That's why they watch that game. No one
liked that in the NFL. No one like that in
the NBA. No one liked that in Major League base
I mean, I mean, Pete A. Lonzo Is, but you know,
I like that all the other sports.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
But she's that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
If she's not there, this is a huge missed opportunity
for the WNBA. They are doing whatever they can right now.
They got all kinds of they're they're they're putting all
kinds of karma out there right now and trying to go, hey,
I got some kind of homemade ointments for you here
to get better and do this. My mom had a
strain growing. She took this pill and she was better
in five seconds. Come on, can we need you this weekend,
(28:48):
like the w needs Caitlin Clark so badly.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Well, it's also a difficult process, right because you did
sign the two point two billion dollar right steal Amazon, NBC,
Disney that starts in next year, so that's in the books,
but it's also you're going into CBA negotiations during this time.
The rights expire and the agreement, I should say expires
(29:11):
in October, so after the season ends were and we've
had a lot of back and forth about you know,
maybe conflict of interest with the other leagues and everything
else that are floating right, the unrivaled league. So you've
got that swirling in the background. This is your big
marquee event. It was built for her in Indianapolis to
have this giant spectacle where she might as well have
(29:34):
been main eventing the second night of WrestleMania the way
this thing has been built for the last year. And
so this injury absolutely crushing in many ways because a
lot of you know, the proof of concept and advertising
rates and everything saying, look at the popularity, look at
this is what we can do at our best. A
lot of those eyeballs go away if she's not there, right,
(29:56):
and a lot of the interest for the weekend. Doesn't
mean we won't still cover year on Fox Sports Radio
to a degree, but it's it's a little less of
a show. But John Paul Morosi, I think it hurt
him in his being to call the All Star Game
a show yesterday, but he recognized, like with what Fox
put on and what Major League Baseball did was a
(30:16):
big show. That's what the w NBA was banking on
for this weekend, and that star is a little diminished.
A few strands of light just went out on your
Christmas tree.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I mean, this would be such a huge missed opportunity
and the w Just if I'm Kathy Engelbert, I'm sitting
here saying, just wake me up on Friday and tell
me that she's playing.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I don't want to know anything else.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I can't sit here. The clock is ticking so unbelievably slow.
She waked me up Friday to tell.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Me she's she's been submerged in one of those tanks,
like when Skywalker was getting defrosted. The back to tack,
back to come on man, back to tank is what
it is. The back to tank. I was going for
what it was. I wasn't gonna I was going for
the I was going broadcast. But yeah, but that was
going to the non So when you know something, you
gotta say it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah when two to one B worked on him and
made sure he made him as good as he could
legend and then he kissed his sister.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Time out to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, Martin Wise at a time, What do
you got on for us tonight?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Fellas?
Speaker 5 (31:15):
Free agent defensive Van von Miller will join the Commanders
on a reported one year deal.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Two sides reporting on this one.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Von Miller himself posted a picture of Champ Bailey in
a Washington uniform on his Instagram page, and Adam Schefter
taking care of the reported one year deal part the
team still working on the compensation. Last year's MLB All
Star Show, according to John Paul Morose, he drew seven
point two million viewers on Fox three times. NBA All
(31:42):
Star Bradley Beale has agreed to a contract buyout with
the Suns and plans to join the Clippers on a
two year, eleven million dollars deal player option after clearing waivers.
The Spurs are shutting number two overall pick Dylan Harper
down for the remainder of Summer League. In the w NBA,
the Fever be delivered ninety eight to seven seven, with
Caitlyn Clark out of the lineups.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
She was ruled out before the game.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Breano Stewart had a twenty four point eleven rebound double double.
Clark's status for All Star Weekend, as you just heard
the Boys talking about yet to be confirmed. Age Wilson
had a thirty seven point ten rebound double double. Ages
beat the Wings ninety to eighty six, storm over the
Valkyrie sixty seven to fifty eight, Links win as well,
(32:25):
and the Dream win big over at the Sky. The
NFL Broncos have signed their first round pick, cornerback John
John de Baron out of Texas to his rookie deal.
That means just sa Mar Stewart, who ironically is working
out in Texas, but it's The Cincinnati Bengals seventeenth overall
pick is the only unsigned first round pick from April's draft,
(32:45):
and Chargers running back Najie Harris likely begin training camp
on the NFI list Non Football Injury after sustaining a
fourth of July firework injury to his eye back to you, guys.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Thanks a bunch, Ye dub.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the sports radio studios.
Coming up next. Why are suddenly the Lakers unbelievably stressed
in this offseason? Here thing, it ain't about Lebron. It's
next right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Speaker 1 (33:25):
I guarantee you that caller tells everybody knows hey on
The Jason Smith.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Show with Mike Harmon, that they run my thing where
I go looking for the woman looking for the one. Listen, listen,
they do it. I guarantee you.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
He tells everybody he knows they do that. Don't trust me, man,
And then they go, dude, I just heard it. It's
it's a song. No, no, they do a different one.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
It's me.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah whatever you say, Rick whatever, man, Yeah, no problem,
Ye all right.
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They play him on the radio. Sure, yeah, but you
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tire buying should be. So according to reports, and by
that I mean Brian Wenthorse the ESPN, the Lakers are
(34:20):
stressed right now. They're under a lot of stress. Well, yeah,
Lebron Jay, No, this does not have anything to do
with Lebron James. Lebron James a complete separate entity from this,
whether he's traded, bought out, or stays with the team,
all of this, right.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Is it the fact that the big move was DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'd be stressed if my big move was only DeAndrea. Okay,
but but that's different stress. They are stressed because Luka Donsich,
who in had fifteen six seventeen days, was eligible to
sign a big contract extension. No, obviously it's less than
the one he could have signed with the Mavericks. So
he's gonna he would sign for about one hundred million
(35:01):
lesson he could have made. If he waits another year,
he can sign for more money, right, which is you
know we've heard about you know many players are waiting
for the next year they can sign for like Nicola Jokic.
Uh didn't sign his his extension this offseason because next
offseason he can make even more money. But the Lakers,
according to Brian Windhorst, are stressed because if Luca doesn't
(35:23):
accept the extension now, which why would you if you
could make more money and you're twenty five twenty six
years old and you're Luca. Potentially this opens the door
to all of a sudden other teams saying, hey, Luka here,
so means you're gonna be a free agent, because if
you're gonna wait till next off season to sign this money,
you're gonna be a free Hey we love you, come here,
And all of a sudden, it's open season on getting
(35:46):
Luka Doncic and the Lakers would understandably be stressed before
they made this big trade. They're moving up, they're pushing
Lebron out the door, and they want to make Luca
the franchise part. And he's like, ah, I'm gonna wait
and sign. When you wait to sign this election, other
teams to come out and maybe you don't fall in
love with the Lakers like you like they wanted you to.
And at the end of the year, it's yeah, I
(36:06):
can still get a lot of money someplace else.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
I'm going.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
All right, so I get the Lakers stress, right, But
here's where I'm a problem solver.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Here's my problem solver. This change all the dope the
NBA rules about payments and bonuses. Yeah, but that what
what you're eligible from back? Hey, that guy all NBA.
So I'm screwed. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
But here's the thing. It's the summer and it's too hot,
not out of time for that. Okay, this this is
a little bit more more straight line. Oyeah, yeah that
you know that is that's a middle of the winter.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Oh a boy.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh mister Marley, you're here, mister Scrooge late tonight. Yeah,
we'doing all the NBA stuff. Uh, that's middle of the
winter when you don't go outside in this deep an
hour of sudden Okay, this is where this is where
I give the Lakers tough love. And I and I say, huh, okay,
I hear you on that. I understand. So so how
do you fix this, Jason.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Suck it up. Suck it up and woo Luca for
the next year. Yeah, that's high. Suck it up.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
This is the price you pay for running your franchise,
unlike what a modern NBA franchise is.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Runner.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
We said this when the Lakers were sold to Mark Walter,
we said, thank you. Maybe now things will get better
because the Lakers being run like a mom and pop show. Hey,
that was great and I miss that, But clearly the
Lakers are not We're not being run to how an
NBA team, a high level, high market NBA team needs
to be run in twenty twenty five. Right, you can't
sit here and say you have money problems.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
That's not doesn't work right. Everybody's worth so much money. Now.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
These are the owners that are running things. So that's
why it was such a great day for the Lakers because, hey,
Mark Walter's coming in. Now you expect, Okay, we're gonna
start spending money at some point, really big. We're not
gonna worry about this. We're not gonna let Rich Paul
and Clutch Sports dictate who we go sign in free agency.
That's why this was such a big deal. But I
tell the Lakers. Yeah, suck it up. This is the
price you pay for running your franchise the way you
(37:56):
have the last few years. You gotta spend a year
wooing your guy that you want to sign the day
he is able to the minute he is able to
that long term contract extension. So, yeah, do I feel
bad they have to do this? I do not, because
you brought this on yourself, but it's not unsolvable. Woo
him for the next year. Whatever you need to do
to make him happy. You make him happy because he's
(38:18):
the guy you decided to empower and make him the
centerpiece of the franchise. So guess what, that's what you
gotta do. Do you want to have to do this? No,
you want the Lakers to be able to sell itself.
But this is not twenty years ago. This has not
come play with Shack right. This is not come play
with Magic and kareem right. This is not other destinations
across the NBA where I just want to go play
(38:39):
there because they're gonna win and I love what's going on.
This is not the Golden State Warriors of the you know,
most of the ten years up until a couple of
years ago, this is the price you pay, so suck
it up, woo him, and that's how you get him.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, I mean we know with the second apron it's complicated,
but there are a lot of restrictions that go along
with it in terms of your roster, where your draft
pick goes to the end of the round. You can't
aggregate salaries and trades, which is part of the considerations
when we start looking at Lebron deals for anywhere in
the trade market. But yeah, the Walter money, and you
(39:10):
can't tell me that this wasn't already going on behind
the scenes when that trade came under cover of night.
You know, by that sell you some land, you know,
the oceanfront property in Arizona, right, as George Strait saying.
But all of it to say that you get all
the secondary stuff, right, all the luxuries of an organization
(39:32):
of Wait, we can upgrade our training facilities, we can
have more people on staff, here's the latest equipment, here's
all of these things that maybe cash strapped quote unquote,
you couldn't do in the past as a the mom
and bop entity as it were, in terms of spending
on the squad. I mean they spent the money, not
it's just a matter of spending it wisely. Right to
(39:54):
your point about Rich Paul and Clutch Sports and their
stranglehold over the history. Now, they didn't push for the
second year, an extension or any of that stuff from
Paul's latest comments, So this looks like it's the final run,
assuming he stays in LA. But all of that, Yeah,
you've got to really bust it out for Luca and
(40:15):
a lot of bobblehead and pillow nights. Not often I
give the suck it up advice, but this is suck
it up.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Suck it up and do it.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I'm suck it up.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Coming up next, Boy, do we have a big NFL
rivalry that seems to have been reignited after the big
news today.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's next, Fox,
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