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buying should be. Well, here we are, opening night two
of the NBA season. Go New York, O New Go,
Go New York, Go New York. So it begins another long,
arduous journey towards futility. I said it two years ago,
I said it last year. I said it the off
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season two months ago you called it. Get win the
Super Bowl. Now I don't need them anymore. The Knicks
are going to the finals. This is it. My other
sports got me to the Knick. This is this. I'm
all in they limb I have you were crawling across
the finish line these last couple of weeks. This is
all I have. Get water. Is it a mirage or
is it not? Get me to the Nis Brunson, Get
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me to the Nick.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I felt shoe.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
He was real.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Have you ever had a thirst that you felt like
you were crawling through the desert and all the water
in the world couldn't slake it. That was me waiting
to get to the Knicks. Get to the Knicks. The
Knicks were up big at halftime, a huge run in
the third quarter by Donovan Mitchell and the Cavaliers, but
the Knicks pull away in the fourth quarter and win it.
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And honestly, looks the Marquee Game of the Night. You
saw all the start the Marquee in the game night
the night. He is on right now, Oh bla like
this one. This is a JV Game of the night.
Come on, man, God San Antonio, And yeah, big deal.
Cooper Flag is playing, Wenby is playing. Okay, this isn't
really good.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Too long.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
To quench it. But we had an Eastern Conference Final
preview tonight and the next one game one, okay, the
next one. See that. The only down part of the
night for me is this, right, like watching the game
and seeing how it was a great win all around
for the Knicks. Right, sure, you know, even they're playing
without Mitchell Robinson and no Josh Hart, right, but still
a couple of young guys stepped up. Brunson was really good.
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Karl Anthony Towns, who was questionable then doubtful then questionable,
played and he spurred them on late buking nineteen and eleven.
You had a great night from Andrew Nobi, who was
really good, really good defensively, Like, this is a really
great win. McBride gave you fifteen off the bed. This
was this was a balance, This was a really good
It's a really good win against a terrific team. Right,
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they lost to every game last remember the whole big
deal all the Knicks can't beat the Cavaliers. Gave me
the Celtics. Yeah, wait till the playoffs, big way, Just
trying to channel your inner Dodgers and Brewers thing. And
then it doesn't matter. And then I'm seeing on the sideline,
I'm seeing you know, it's Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor
there and sitting next to Tracy Morgan and Chris Rock
and Jimmy Fallon. Everybody's there, and I'm going, man, I'm
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exhausted already. I feel like we should be in the
NBA Finals at this point, Like it's Game one. I'm like,
because watching the end of the game, the Knicks were
up big, the Cavaliers cut into it. The Knicks of course,
get down to iole ball with Brunson at the end
and they're moving the ball so great. And Brunson usually
is good for at least one turnover in the final
two minutes of a game because they give him, you know,
they ask him too much. But I'm watching and I'm exhausted.
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I'm like, I feel like I just watched him and
win a big playoff game and it's Night one of
eighty two. That's the one part where I'd walk away
and go, man, night one of eighty two, and I'm like, okay,
but I needed it. I didn't. I didn't know how
much I needed this win until they won this. So
it's that first step back onto a treadmill or you know,
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an ellipse or whatever. After a while, and because, let's
face it, with the Jets, it's not been a lot
of heavy lifting. Right in the fourth quarter, it's like,
how badly is this going to end? As opposed to
grinding out every play with the highs and lows of
your emotions. Now, you were very enamored with the cutaways
to all the celebrities. You mentioned Christine Taylor like fourteen times, Yeah,
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show you were well, they showed her. You only mentioned
Ben Stiller like twice. You got obsessed with Christine. I
see Ben Stiller. It games a lot. I like Christine Taylor.
You know you no, you know what. No, I'm not
a big Seference fan. Know it's too slip tried it
four times. Yeah, the first episode, I was like, it's
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got to get better. It's like, I can't even get
through the first episode get into a second season, Oh
you met, I couldn't. I got through the first episode,
and I think the first part of the second ada.
I didn't even get through the first That's it, man,
when you get older, you can't. I can't do it.
I can't. What's the old Seinfeld thing where, oh, you know,
you can nurse your way through programs and you know
my my mom likes to know. I'm gonna gonna stick
with it for four or five episodes. Are gonna nurse
(05:12):
it along? No, you gotta grab me or I'm out. Yeah,
some albums like I used to, I listened to this
album until I like it. But what if you don't
like it? No, I'm gonna listen to it until I
like it because it's supposed to be really good. But
now I'm like, if I listen up, yeah, thirty seconds
to one song, I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not buying this.
I had that college right because you had to buy
the album. I get you'd go to the album release,
you'd buy it. Yeah, I'd listened to it. I had
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several occasions where I literally walked it down the hallway.
I'm like, I don't need this anymore. Here's an album
for you. I'm done with this. Like that's it. I'm like, yep,
I gave it two lessons. I'm out now watching you.
You gotta pace yourself. Man, I need your doctor that
your heart's okay. But I'm exhausted after that. But I
think that was a lot. I needed it, though I
would be remiss. Right, we're talking nothing else in my life,
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but the Knicks. I have nothing else sportswe all I
no the rest of my life there no sports wise,
I have nothing but the Niggs. I'm trying to have nothing,
but I have nothing but the Nicksfe's a trivia right now.
Oh okay, So we got the Spurs and within the Mavericks,
so that's great. But rolling across the scroll is also
the fact that once upon a time this would have
been a marquee game. It's the Pelicans and the Grizzlies. Yeah,
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and it keeps showing me the Morant and Williamson's you
know lines like wow, that would have been the evening game.
Like three years ago, they would have still been pushing back.
Now it's like it's just an also ran game. So
that's where we're at. Bulls playing as well. So I'll
watch and live and die with that fourth quarter. But
it's good to have the NBA back. Yeah, I watched
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your excitement every year. I mean we watched that that spike.
That's the best part of it. The NBA every night
is Opening Night for the first month. Yeah, every night
feels like Opening Night. Now, I know other sport has that.
And look, there's a couple of other big games again,
just really quick. Oh my goodness, what's happening to the
Clippers right now in Utah? The Clippers are going to
score seventy five. The Jazz are gonna score seventy five
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in the first half. They lead the Clippers right now
sixty five forty two with three and a half to
go in the second. And I think the Jazz are
playing with four guys like, that's what's happening right now.
They're they're beating up the Clippers. So the Clippers are
are really bad tonight, but they made up for it
by making sure we'll give Kawhi leon it all this
money to come back. Do you think that's fractured the
locker room with everybody going, where's my extra no show job?
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I had a lot of free time. I was hanging out.
I'd hang out with my family and you were getting
millions to no show there? Yeah, come on, I mean
it's stunning. I gotta go to work. W's he really going?
I don't know. He's in a safe room somewhere watching
a movie. The Jazz with players that outside of market
and a lot of players people that nobody's heard of,
are beating up on the Clippers right now, so bad.
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He's got me six man, Castler's got thirteen. They've already
got five guys off the bench. Hey there's Ace Bailey,
he's got two. Yeah, there you go. Anytime a guy
named Ace gets into excited, we didn't know a bareley
how happy was he going to be to be with
the with the jazz. We still don't know they're gonna be.
I mean the fact that her plus thirteen. He's happy
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right now nine minutes. I don't think he's unhappy. Philipowski
getting after it, thinking, yeah, good balance and definition. But
you know, in the locker room, I gotta think I
get a check. Was I supposed to get a second bonus? Uh?
For everything? But no, some great matchups across the board.
We were also looking at Philadelphia and what was going
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on there. And that's the thing here right now. This
is the game, well, from from a results perspective, from
an excitement level, this is the game of the night
so far. Seven seconds left to go in regulation, the
Sixers lead the Celtics one seventeen, one sixteen. Of course, uh,
this is the Celtics without Jason Tatum Jalen Brown leading
the way for them. So far tonight. Uh, he's having
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a big night for them with twenty five points. But
here's the story, Tyres MAXI forty points. Okay, he's become
their best player. He's become one of the top fifteen
players in the strict and you get him thirty four
from VJ. Edgecomb Today, the backcourt of the Sixers tonight
has combined for seventy four points. Edgecomb first round pick
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out of Baylor, and all of a sudden, Oh dude,
is for real, right, all of a sudden, Wait a minute,
they found something, right, Hey, that's great and they need
it because Joel mb tonight watching just watch some of
the highlights you can see on social media and his
lack of I just want to say, simply movement, move effort.
He played. He played twenty minutes tonight, did not play.
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I don't believe he played a minute in the fourth quarter,
scored four points, six rebounds. Like you really wonder health
wise where he is. Like watching tonight, like seeing him
not even jump on some plays where he could contest
a ball under the rim, Like there's a couple plays
I'm like, why is he not trying to contest that?
Like I really wonder like I watch him seeing him now,
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seeing him sit out, I wonder about his health. I
wonder what he has left as an NBA player because
those his knees, his knees have real Obviously he's been
nothing but hurt throughout his career. But I watch a
game like this and I go, man, is Embiid near
the end, Like, WHOA. I know it's one game you
don't want to overact, but like seeing him play tonight,
like he's not right and are we going to ever
see the Embiid that was winning, you know, was an
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MVP caliber player and someone who was taken over the
league and was gonna be the guy that dragged the
sex seventy six Ers back to big time relevancy. Now
it feels like, yeah, he just was the conduit to
get them to MAXI and now edgecomb again thirty four
and seven rebounds tonight in a game the Sixers just
won one seventeen one sixteen Preyton Peyton Pritchard misses a shot,
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so the Celtics go down to the Sixers, who may
have found a little bit of special sauce with their
brand new opening back courn. Yeah, now the to getting
a bunch of the memes are starting up on embiid.
Uh there's a bunch of pictures of Michael Olowa candy
out there. Oh that's not right. Well, you love telling jokes, right,
you always have a joke. What I call and have
my communication with my younger daughter later on in the evening,
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it's like, hey, Maddie, and then you have a joke. Right,
here's a guy from twenty seven minutes ago. Uh, no,
I d jen g. My wife asked if the dishes
were done, and I yelled Joel Embiid. She hugged me.
She knew they were washed. Yeah, it's I really you
wonder just cruel? What did like what does he have left? Right?
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Because the whole last couple of years, Ben, but you
got to find a way to to uh to move
on from embiid, right, everybody need you know, he needs
a uh he needs a fresh start, and so do
the sixers. Is something will help all sides. But he
gets hurt. They couldn't trade him because of the contract
he signed. They had to wait then. So when you
thought they could move him, they couldn't because he was injured. Uh.
It was really really difficult. And now see tonight, I'm like, dude,
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is the guy healthy? Can the guy still do it?
Is he just exhausted? Because I'm looking at him, Bean
going oh wow, I really got to see what happens
in the next game and where he is at physically,
because I see this and I go, what does he
have left? I mean, really, what does he have left?
At this point? Yeah, we go back. I mean, he
hadn't played since the twenty second of February against Brooklyn,
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played thirty one minutes fourteen, seven to five, and left
that game. He's now back on the court. And we
talked about it a lot the offseason. Right, you need
to move on, give him greener pastures, reset your franchise
around MAXI and all that. But the big question was
how do you move him right? And as much as
you can say the money works itself out well with
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the NBA, all that money comes, there's way too much
that has to come along with it, as well as physically.
We've watched it year after year and that's the preview
of everything. It's like, well, if he's healthy, dot dot dot,
and he's the pre eminent player in the NBA. When
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we've gotten that and a couple of years ago. It
led to an MVP campaign, but that was the outlier.
Every other year it's can he get through an eighty
two and not even that. Can you somehow nurse it
to you make the playoffs and can keep him with
his minutes and body into the playoffs and it might
be done? Yeah? I mean really, I really hope that
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this was a one game thing. But watching him play
and seeing him play in this it's, man, dude's not
He's just not moving. Yeah, I mean he's not moving.
I mean because we go back to him coming into
the league with all the issues that he had, right,
and he battled through and became a little while to
get to. I mean, he's the original trust the process guy, right,
But a couple of years but I mean that draft
was twenty fourteen, so it's been that tick tick of
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the clock getting louder and louder. I mean, that's a
decade and we might have finally had the alarm go off.
Exit ab outa Fresca, Exit Swallen Dome. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
We're just getting started. Big night in the NBA. Yes,
Cooper Flags NBA debut Wenby, who looks like he might
be eight feet tall tonight. He could be eight five
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by the end the game. How about that? I really, honestly,
he does. He does look taugh, not because if they're
not galans in the sky. I mean, I don't know
if it, but I think he does look taller. Maybe
it's in my head because I was told he was tall,
but I mean, I think he might be taller the
next one. Everybody's taller to you, Yeah, buddy, well he's
feeling Jalen Brunson's nine feet tall, dribbling and sneakers. Oh
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look at the next Jason hoist the trophy us not
getting any better. You're You're glad you weren't in with him.
We're sitting in the back waiting waiting to come into
the studio. How many fowls did I call for? You
called her about forty two falls? But on every possession?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
No, did he throw.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Up on himself like Tracy Morgan? Oh, so come on, man,
too soon for that? He was back to I guarantee
you they had a camera on him. Someone was sitting
there in the third deck just waiting on it. Wait
for what, I didn't get that exit up by a
Fresco exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carman live from
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Here's Towns from three.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Off the pump bake and he knocks it down, eluding
the defender with that pump bake, and the Knicks are
back up by ten. The coach, what's my role? It
doesn't matter if he doesn't know what his role is.
He was good tonight, Carl Anthony town He's singing, who
am I from? La miz Hey, Mike Brown, shut your mouth.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I know my role.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
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get to the big story out of the NFL. Just
watching all day to like I feel like Carl Anthony Towns.
The other thing, like why I'm exhausted after this first
next game is that I feel like we've already jumped
hip deep into the how happy will Carl Anthony Towns
be this year? Soap opera slash? Will the Knicks have
to trade for Giannis at the deadline? Right so here?
He is apparently didn't You're not sure about his role?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Can they? Will?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
They need to do this because he's unhappy. I think
the two are in parallel running. I'm one another that's
not Hey, you know what, Carl's unhappy. So let's see
if we can go get Yannis. I think if you
can go get Yannis, you say, hey, yeah, it was
a good run. But if the Knicks are really good,
I here's your role. That's why I'm happy. I win
either way, because either the Knicks are really good all
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the way through the year awesome, or the Knick struggle
and they trade for Giannis at the deadline, okay, and
Carl Anthony Towns is a new franchise player for the
Milwaukee Bucks. Like, I win either way. But I do
feel like we've started the drama already with Karl Anthony
Towns unsure of his role. According to reports, he was
questionable to play tonight, and then then he was doubtful,
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then he was questionable. Like how do you go questionable
to doubtful to questionable in the span of like a
few hours, Like I understand, I understand, Like not even
in the NFL, ever been in a situation with say
your wife or daughter or me sitting next to you
where we kind of have an idea of a plan
for the day and then it kind of goes to
another direction and then you turn away like Cat might
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have felt.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You know, mentally physically, he wasn't right.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Then it got worse, and then he said, you know what,
if I don't play, they're gonna write some terrible things
about me. Night one night Ben still Or and Christine
Taylor will be unhappy if I don't play. And I
showed up to that thing with Seth Myers about trading guards,
people will be mad at me. I mean, like I said,
night one, and I already feel like ah, then we
were dealing with some stuff night one, like right, because
not like in the NFL, it's hey, guy's doubtful or
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he's questionable. We're gonna run him out there before the
game and then he plays or not. I've never seen
a guy go well this morning, he's questionable. Oh no, no, no,
he's downgraded and doubtful. Oh no, wait wait wait wait
wait no, now he's back up to questionable and then
he plays. Do you think he flipped a coin like
Harvey Dent. I mean we're already jumped in red. Let's
jump right in. Get radio of Jalen Brunson berating him
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in the locker room. The next season is the equivalent
of Lethal Weapon two. Okay, okay, one of the few
movies where the sequels better than the original. But what
I loved about leth the Web, well there's a few
Oh yeah, yeah, Well Terminator was still really good. But
yeah T two was better. Yeah. T two was better.
Aliens was better than Alien. Ninja Ninja Turtles three better
(20:17):
than two? Oh yeah, two better than one? Which one
had the ninja rat That was the first one, Leonardo
Michelangelo And no, no, I mean when Vanilla Ice got involved.
Oh that was that was That was too that was
too Yeah, they had how do we up it past? Uh? Oh,
we got to get Let's get Vanilla and Ninja. Yeah. Like,
what I loved about leth a Weapon too, right, is
(20:38):
that it opens up. The first thing you see is Boom,
Rigs and Myrta are in the middle of a car chase,
and then they're like why the first year is mel
Gipson go whoa? And then they're betting on who's gonna
catch the bad guys first, who's driving MYRTA on his
wife's station wagon. Nobody wanted to take the bets and
and it's this huge chase and there and there, you know,
and then Rigs drives and and ruins the car and
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rubs it up against the rail. And I'm like, that's
how to open a movie. You just jump right in,
Like we don't need any backstory. There's no long moving
shots of a guy standing in front of an oil geyser,
or you know, here's a woman walking out of a
store and getting into a car with a with really
pensive music playing. No, we jump right in. I feel
like that was it. We jumped right in tonight. I
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feel like we jumped into a playoff game. We jumped
into Carl Anthony Towns drama. We jumped right in.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Man, here's the good thing for you. As soon as
you saw that station wagon, that money should have been
on the station wagon. You know why indestructible? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
who's driving Rigs barn till I was driving his wife
station wagon? All one of the best that you know,
you've you've been around enough softball and soccer moms. They're
not going to be deterred. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
that is not stopping though. That was all positive. Yeah. Oh,
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and you're hate mail at how about a Fresco. Meanwhile,
it's wearing the NBA the late marquee Game of the Night,
San Antonio and Dallas. It is the debut for Cooper
Flag and Wemby back. I think he's seventy nine. He
started the game at seven to five. He's seven to
nine right now, he's like grew. Wemby's got eleven points
and two rebounds in the first ten minutes. Meanwhile, Cooper
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Flag zero points in nine minutes over two from the four.
They tried to set them up with an Ali yupa
of the beginning of the game, couldn't seal it. But
Ad has started off with a big game so far.
He's got ten and five rebounds through the first quarter
for Dallas. Again, San Antonio and Dallas thirty two to
thirty one, ten and a half to go in the
second quarter. Now in the NFL today, and I always
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say this, I love the way that sports when when
when we're paralyzed in society about certain things, I love
the way sports leads the way in discussion for things
that are really difficult. And the bad Bunny situation playing
the Super Bowl. Clearly you can see after today and
after the last couple of weeks. This whole controversy is
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not going anywhere, and Roger Goodell at the owners meetings
today continued to not waiver and say Bad Bunny is
out or choice for the halftime show at the Super Bowl,
and we you know, we we a lot of thought
went into this decision and this is what we're going with.
And obviously there's all kinds of controversy with Bad Bunny
not having conscious in the United States. He said some
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things about how things are going on with Ice and
now the now there's another side that wants to get
George Straight to play halftime. And there's a big fifty
thousand seat signature, or there's a y, there's a lot
of petitions out the petition George to the front, right.
It's a whole thing. And I love the fact that
sports is saying, you know what, it's it's the halftime
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of the Super Bowl. What what is it? It's it's
it's someone singing. What does it matter? Right? But I
love that Sports is saying, we're not doing this and
and we're going to put on who we want to.
And here's the thing, because there there there there's a
there's a take that really gets to you. Why this
is going on with the NFL, And it's not really
about politics. Even though they knew what they were doing.
They knew that the choice of bed Bunny was going
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to be triggering, uh for for President Trump and and
and Republicans. That was gonna be a true thing. They
knew it. But why is the NFL putting bad money
up right? When they could have trin They could have
found a way to get Taylor Swift on and they didn't.
How do you not get Taylor Swift on? Like, oh
my god? But they decide to go with bad money.
And the reason is this, and you know, it's great.
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We had Rick Buker on last night to talk about
streaming in the NBA last night, right, we had two
games on last night and you couldn't get the beginning
of the Laker game because it was only streaming. Because
that's how NBC is doing it. And when you see
the way that the NBA is pushing and pushing their
product and the NFL the last few weeks, just with
stuff that's been announced the big sports, the two big
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spay and even Major League Baseball knows this as well.
But we see it a lot where there's a lot more,
there's a lot more active involvement in it with the
NFL and the NBA is that they both know, Okay, domestically,
where are we with our sports? How much room between
our heads and the ceiling?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
How much more room is there for growth with us?
Is their growth during the week for football absolutce why
we have games Thursday, Monday night, Sunday night. Yeah, there's
still room for growth. But overall, hey, the NFL and
the NBA, how much more bigger are they going to get?
And if you're the NBA, you're like, hey, we want
to make sure that we continue to grow. The NFL
is still going to continue to go, but now you
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are seeing both sports say, hey, yes, getting things outside
the United States is a little bit risky. It's a
little bit dicey. It may upset some of our fans,
you know, the NBA's relationship with China. But this is
where these sports are going to continue to push their growth.
(25:37):
They have to go globally, right And when you see
streaming rights, you know, going to NBC in Peacock. Now
you can't NBC and Peacock in Europe pretty well, you
can get it in South America. You can get it
in China, you can get it in Japan, you can
you can get these global streaming uh situations much more
easier than you're trying to get a basketball game on
a cable channel. Is something brought in and the NFL,
(25:59):
you look at what they've done the last couple of
the last few weeks. Hey, Roger Gandell says, we're gonna
have a game outside the country every week. That's our
goal in the next year or two is to every
week to have a game summer, whether it's Berlin, whether
it's South America, whether it's in in England. We're gonna
have one a broad game a week, which sucks if
you play fantasy and you live on the West Coast
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because you gotta get up at six o'clock in the
morning to make sure guys aren't hurt. But now, Bad Bunny,
what is he? Bad Bunny has a huge global reach.
The NFL is trying to say, we want to reach
a global audience. Now we have to get outside the
United States to continue our growth. And while there's gonna
be some things you see that the NFL is gonna
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do and the NBA is gonna do, there's something they're
gonna hold back the Super Bowl. Obviously you're not gonna
see that go overseas, and that's kind of a pipe dream,
and that that I don't know what how that would
be taken if you move that game out of the
United States. But you see where, Hey, we're okay doing
this and we're okay getting outside the night. We're okay
with all the criticism we're gonna get because we know
growing our product is gonna happened globally. And here's bad
(27:01):
Bunny globally, one of the biggest artists in the world
is the number three biggest streaming artists in the world
right now. I mean, this is why, this is why
the NFL says, hey, bad Bunnies are picked. This is
this is why we're continued to grow the game globally.
And this is just something you're gonna have to get
used to with these sports saying, hey, you think, oh,
we're only gonna a couple of games a year, Okay, No, No,
we've opened the door to that. You're gonna see more
(27:23):
and more games more times. Are you gonna see preseason
games in the NBA being played overseas like we saw
it the Nicks and the Sixers earlier this preseason. It's
just gonna continue to grow and grow and grow. And
this is why you've seen what's going on now. Clearly,
did the NFL know that they were gonna get some
kind of pushback, Sure, but the NFL is saying we're
okay with that because our growth outside the United States
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is what's gonna be better for us in the long term. Yeah,
I mean there's a lot to it. I mean, you
go back to the old Hey, we're gonna boycott things
because we're unhappy. Did that work? No, you watched it.
People came back and they brought twelve friends with them. Okay,
that didn't stop at gambling and everything else that you're
adding into the mix, and it continues to grow in
that regard. Now, I want this, You know, seven thirty
(28:04):
five ish on on a Wednesday night here in October
that all those years I laid the groundwork with you
on global box office. Sure that you used to push
away and tell you it doesn't matter. You used to
mocket no, no, because it was a way for movie
studios to take a look at an underperforming movie and say, yeah,
(28:26):
but globally we're doing well. Wait a minute. This movie
was an absolute bomb. He made six million dollars this weekend. Yeah,
but globally we made eighty five million.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So that's no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But it's the same thing. It's just now we move it.
We changed the letters the associations as opposed to AMC
or whoever's producing said film in terms of their cost structure.
Now we're talking about the NBA and NFL and Major
League Baseball in recognizing the extra dollars and headcount and
everything else that goes with it. Look, the old Kevin
(28:57):
Durant rule works one day, don't leave your feet when
SGA has got the ball, he's going to get to
the free throw line. We saw that last night. But two,
you don't like it, don't watch for fifteen minutes. Go
do something else. Grab a sandwich, walk the dog, go
to the bathroom, go commiserate with the people that you
invited to your house or wherever you're watching the game,
and go on to it. Every year, it's the same thing.
(29:19):
I don't like this artist, I don't well, And yes,
to add the extra political part of things to this
this year's event, but you know, is it for me?
I don't know his music. Maybe I immerse myself a
little bit before the biggest Yeah, I don't know a
ton of bad money. I mean he was really good
in Bullet Trained. Yeah, a bullet train. But I mean
(29:39):
you get on down the load of Yes, you're you're
trying to figure out how you can continue to grow
internationally and whether it's the different red zone like packages
or as you know, Adam Silver loves to say, the
highlight reel and highlight game that we are they're still
consuming even if it's a minute or two. That all
adds up. I mean, look at the metrics when you
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talk about going on to YouTube, going on to TikTok, twitch,
wherever you're at. It's all about minutes and impressions and
then getting in there and selling, selling, selling, And right
now the NBA is working on making good with Peacock
and NBC for all of the money they just spent
to say, hey, we need to make good because you know,
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eventually we've got to re up on another contract. And
Roger Goodell, for however long he's in charge of the NFL,
his job is to keep putting more and more money
into the owner's hands. And if he can't extract it
from your pocket or frostburns. He's going overseas and he's
gonna find and turn them over like they're inside there
his theme park. Yeah, I mean, look, it's just whatever
(30:45):
the criticism gets. You talk about those the NBA China business,
they they're okay with that because the end, because the
ends for them, it's going to be it's bigger in
the long run for us to do this than it is.
We'll get the criticism now, but we're growing our game global.
Who's sluffing off and going doing somebody something else? Who's
sluffing off? No, there's no stuff. I didn't say slacky,
(31:05):
there's no sluffing off is there's no stuff. There's no
snuffle up. I guess there's no no snuffluffing you're going on, No,
it's not not happening, not happening. Was he ever real? Uh? Yes,
they did make him real because kids were upset that
that they couldn't see him, so they made him real
at the end like Scena. Yeah. Yeah, then you in December,
you'll finally see him for real.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So someone who's been called the John
Cena of Fox Sports Radio because sometimes he walks down
the hall. You can't see her. It's mantecause I'm too short. No,
because everyone I was gonna say, cause you move too quickly.
But but okay, that's fine. Listen to Oh, I should
have said, you're the TUA. You probably couldn't see Jayleen
(31:43):
Waddle either.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
I wonder I would.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Let's not discuss what I probably would see of the
old line in front of me. I'd probably be seeing
the bottom half. You know what I'm saying, Guys, Opening
Night of the NBA, Thank you, Harmon Obening Night of
the NBA has been really I've been at the edge
of my seat for a lot of these games. It's
everything you'd want. Let's talk about the one that's at
the edge of my seat right now. Pistons and Bulls.
(32:09):
It looked like Kate Cunningham fouled Josh Gitty. Josh Gitty
with twelve seconds to go, Bulls up by one taking
the ball down. It looked like he was fouled by
Kate Cunningham. They said it was off of him. Now
there's a challenge by the bulls. Twelve seconds Bulls are
up against the Pistons one twelve to one eleven.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Grizzlies over the Pelicans.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
This was a tie game not long ago, but Memphis
is just pulled off and taking the lead one two
to one eighteen is a score thirty two seconds to go.
Zion Williamson for the Pelicans twenty three points, seven rebounds,
jum Ran thirty three points for Memphis.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Let's not talk about the Clippers. Moving on.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
The Spurs are on top of the Mavericks thirty nine
to thirty seven halfway through the second quarter. King's over
the Suns twenty seven to eighteen late in the first
Also late in the first show, Blazers over the Timberwolves
twenty nine to twenty four. Fine the Clippers, they only
scored nineteen points in them.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
So I could get the score off the day. How
got you?
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Listen?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
The Jazz scored forty three points in the first quarter,
and right now they're up ninety one to fifty four.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Halfway through the third quarter. I don't know if the.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Clippers realize this is game one of the season. I
have no idea the next one.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Go New York, Go New York, Go, Go New York.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Go.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Already you're already doing the song opening night, I got
you check. You're trying to bring her to the dark side.
She's ready to leave the Clippers. No, I'm never Ready's vulnerable.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
I have vulnerable.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Nicks outscored the Cavaliers one nineteen to one eleven Crawly
Anthony Townsend, Big Bodega with the double double, but five
players unded in double digits. Magic held on one twenty
five to one twenty one against the Heat Pawlo bound
Caro twenty four points and eleven issist former Clipper Norman Powell.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
From Miami twenty eight points and nine rebounds.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
The seventy six ers survived one seventeen to one sixteen
against the Celtics in Boston VJ Edgecomb and Edgecombe in
his debut thirty seven points, seven rebounds. He actually missed
two very crucial free throws with eight seconds, but they win.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
It's okay.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
He becomes one of five players to score thirty two
or more points in an NBA debut. He's the first
to do it since nineteen seventy four. He also broke
Lebron James's record for the most points scored in the
first quarter of an NBA debut. He had fourteen in
the first quarter. Lebron had twelve when he debuted. So
a big day for VJ. Edgecomb and the seventy six ers.
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Raptors cruise passed. The Hawks won thirty eight to one eighteen.
Hornets top the Nets one thirty six to one seventeen.
In the NHL three games two have wrapped up. Devils
have won six in a row. They beat the Wild
four to one. The Sabers defeated the Red Wings four
to two. Right now, Canadians over the Flames one zero
after two periods. A little NFL news, Commander's quarterback Jaden
Daniels he's gonna miss their Week eight matchup against the
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Chiefs because of a hamstring strain. But Ravens quarterback Lamar
Jackson did return to the practice field today.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
He was limited because of his hamstring strain.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Panthers quarterback Bryce Young didn't practice because of his high
ankle espraying back to you guys, thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Very much, monsigain that amount of time. The Jazz now
have one hundreds seventy five points.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
That's right, they do. Go Clippers, Go Clippers, go.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
H Lee Willickers coming up next, not one, but two
NFL stories where a quarterback and a head coach is
saying things that I don't believe one bit.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
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ten minutes, but two stories from the NFL off of
big stories from a day ago that I don't believe
what either person is saying. Okay, good, First, Aaron Rodgers
gets to play the Packers this week, right, didn't get
to playing with the Jets. Get him to do it
for the first time, getting back to playing them, and
(36:08):
he says, quote playing the Packers is not a revenge game. Quote,
I don't have any animosity toward the organization. Yeah, okay,
now he's now, he's just straight uplying us. Now it's
been a couple of years and he's let it go.
I mean we talked a lot about Russ Wilson at
some point, moving your lives.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You don't with each other every day.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
He took two full years and two MVPs to push
his way out of there. He couldn't stand He he
every single chance he could. He wanted to take shots
at the GM and he wanted everything. Oh no, no, no,
now it's not a revet. No, just stop, man, you're
straight up lying us. You're straight up lion. I mean really,
I'm sorry. Don't don't say this. Didn't you dealing with
(36:51):
the gleam in his eye? Though? Do you see that
little uh? No? No, because here's the thing is, remember
when he played the Jets and he was like, no, no,
you know it's I still a front. They're all this.
What did he say after they wont opening week? I
was happy to beat everyone associated with the New York Jets.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
No, we'll do the.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Same thing I said on the bench game for him,
he was there for two years. He was hurt for
the entirety of one of them, and it was awful.
And now he's good again because you know, you leave
the Jets and you're good, But I mean, come on, man,
this is what a good villain does. Of course, he
brings you in with a big hug and he stabs you.
Just own it.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Just that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I'll say, yeah, I want to throw for eight touchdowns
against these blankety bloy No, no, no, it's a same feel
good And then all of a sudden he's doing the
degeneration X crotch chop over on their sideline. I have
a chatter he throws his fourth touchdown. I have a
great relationship with a lot of people still in that organization.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Come on, the guys that work the hallways. He's the
one locker room guys.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I mean, you don't know, he's the one that runs
for a touchdown against the Bears. He's yelling at fans saying,
I own you. Come on, just own it, man, just
own it. Yes, this is probably the biggest regular season
game you've played it in years. Just own it. But
like we talked about after that happened, what did I say?
I shrugged a what he kind of does own it?
Just to own it, right, I don't believe you. Yeah,
(38:04):
but he's going on a bunch of these ayahuasca retreats
and something. Maybe he's found some peace, Aaron. You need
he's married now, maybe maybe she brings, maybe she brings
com he's hearing Obi wan Kenobi's voice. Let go, Aaron,
let go. So what I told you was true from
(38:25):
view I like that. Well, from a certain point of view,
you told me if I left the Packers it would
be great with the Jets. Well, now you're with the Steelers,
so things have turned out well. So what I told
you was true from a certain point of view. Yeah,
but those last two years of the Jets were apismo.
But now look where you are and part of your journey,
this is this is part of how it goes, Duke.
(38:46):
So I don't believe him. I also don't believe Sean Payton,
who said today quote in no way, shape or form
did he mean to criticize Russell Wilson by saying he
told Giants officials he hoped to face the former Broncos
quarterback instead of Jackson. Right, you've heard this the last
couple of days when when he talked about beating the
Giants on Sunday. So, oh, man, I really I was
(39:08):
hoping that they would make that move to Jackson Dart
after we played them, Like, I talked to John Mara
about this, Not just no, I talked to the owner
of the teams. I really wish you made that move
after we played not something you'd been marinating and thinking about. No, no, no,
you went and found the owner, shook his hand and
be like, boy, you really screwed me by changing quarterbacks.
Russell Wilson responds by saying that it was classless, not
(39:30):
realizing you're still bounty hunting fifteen years later, which is
pretty good. The only thing he needed was to get
a shot of all the bounty hunters from Star Wars
actually have. Yeah, you got to get Boskin. Oh yeah,
and now the bounty hunters are the fact, the fact,
well he's not quite that's not quite about He doesn't
go out and do anything. It comes to him, so
he doesn't do a lot of the hunting. Yeah, but
he was there when he was just there. Yeah, when
(39:51):
they had he was bounty guy standing there, he was
bounty sitting in, bounty sleeping and bounty eating. He wasn't
bounty hunting, wasn't hunting anything. Eventually, a lot hunt you need,
you need Boba Fette. You need Boss, You need the
other guy with the that had all the whatever the
gauze around his head. You need to need those Bounty Hunters.
But you're gonna go buy all those original figures. You're
gonna line them up in here. You know, to sit
(40:13):
here and say yeah, no, no, no, the way, the
way the euphori of the game was after it, dude,
just stop, man. We know how bad things were with
you and Russell Wilson. We know that things went with
potentially you. You allegedly told him if you don't take
less money or you're not gonna play on this team anymore.
Just own it, man. You wanted to say what you
did because you felt for some reason people don't understand
(40:35):
that you won the Russell Wilson Ward. Everybody knows you won.
You making the decision to move on from Russell Wilson
was the right call. There's nobody that thinks that wasn't
the right call. But still, no, I want to get
out there and say it, No, it was class. Let's
and just own it at that point, because there's no
way you're telling me I didn't mean a slight when
I told the owner. Boy, I wish you went to
him later, and then I repeated that to the media
(40:56):
because I don't know if it's gonna get out. Maybe
John Morris has thinks I don't know. No, come on, man,
just own it. You wanted to say it, you did
own it. Yeah, but he could have called Jerry Jones
if you wanted to make sure it really got out.
But in this case, you got a defensive player for
me need some I found out you gotta we gotta
cover the pass too, instead of rushing the passer. What's
the old line. It's the it's better to be perceived
a fool than open your mouth and allow it to
(41:18):
be confirmed by what you have to say, right, you know,
it's it's smarter than that. But all of that to
say with Jeohn Payton will always at least I have
have had the idea of him bounty Gate being part
of things that you know, there's a bit of pettiness,
uh every once in a while, the temper tantrums. And
when we saw that on full display as he stormed
(41:38):
down the field to get that penalty. Uh, and here
you kind of a jerk and you confirmed it. I mean, really,
I'll just owned stuff that own stuff like that you went,
you went celebrate Bonnicks, and we went. You went to
the wall to make sure people knew that right, it's nuts.
I said it. It'd slipped out.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
And Russ is done.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
There's no there's nothing do that anymore. If you like
embarrassing NFL stories, then boy do we have one for
you coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox