May 19, 2026 • 41 mins
Wemby. Chet. SGA. In one game this has become the rivalry of the next decade in the Western Conference.
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Slash disclosure. Well, I'm gonna disclose to you where we
(01:03):
sit right now. The junior varsity game is I'm sorry too?
What do you do it too soon?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
For?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is this how you're deflecting all of the hatred and
vitriol coming from your relatives and friends in the Greater
Detroit era. You felled them again. You let their city
down again for the second time in three years.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You said, oh, they're.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
All gonna win, They're all gonna win. Oh, and then
they flame out and spectacularly. I got them as far
as I could. I'm sorry, win one game at home,
win Game five at home, win game don't lose Game
five and game seven home by a combined one hundred
and forty five points. I got the Pistons as far
as I could. No one's more upset than me that
I can't have my potential Piston Spurs NBA Finals, my
(01:45):
long shot picks right, that ticket is now dead. I mean, yeah,
I mean, but dead not my fault. I got the Pistol.
That's the thing about Detroit. Apparently I can carry the
city of Detroit only so far, and then okay, they
just they can't do it themselves. Well you notice it try.
I'm the schedule released this year.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't think they triedically came yesterday, well, Dan Campbell
basically walked in said here's the damn schedule and walked out.
Is thirty seconds long. And then yesterday and that was
one of the more pathetic efforts I've ever seen. They
were so bad they put me to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was awful, man, it was awful. And now, coming
off the Cavs huge seven game series win, right, James
Harden played terribly, but it's still yeah, one turnover, okay,
how many points are the It doesn't matter how many
points he had. He's in the top ten all time
for playoffs scoring. And you're trying to tenne great and
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deride his whole career. How dare you're gonna tell you
what I said Friday, which is what I said Princess Wednesday. No,
because all I'm thinking is, here's the thing is, people
the last few days have just been talking to me
about stuff, right, And it's like my wife. My wife
used to say to me, you know what sent me?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What I mean about now? My wife used to say,
you know, I know when not to talk too bouts
because I know your mind is on something else, right,
Because sometimes I'll say something to you and I know
when your head is going Curtis Martin, Curtis Martin, Judge,
that's Curtis. But I'm like, Okay, you're right. Sometimes it is, Yeah,
you're mad you gave him his hand back, I know.
But like the last five days. People try to talk
to me and have these cogent conversations with me, and
(03:17):
I'm not in my head and all in my head
as I'm going Nix and for nix in four, mix
in four, that's all goes through my head.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Down on Friday night, there were a couple of times
five or six minutes of NonStop because you were, you know,
in your head going Nixon for.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Look at the game last night, Nix and for Nick Calves,
Nixon four.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now they had yesterday on Calves didn't have to expend
any energy because his.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Pis didn't try.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So they're ready telling you man, they almost.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Had a day off the way the Pistons didn't come
to playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs. They
are here to save us, all right, ignore how well
are they? You know, I played in a ukre tournament
Saturday hard tournament. Of course I wont, and I met
a guy who's a Pistons fan, and right away like,
I don't know if he knew because I didn't. I
didn't know him. And right away like I don't know
if he knew that I was on the radio, because
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sometimes it happens and I can tell when someone knows
what I do. When they they don't want to admit
that they knew. Like, and he's talking to me real
aggressive about the Pistons. I'm going, hey, I picked you,
but you guys, you guys are playing awful. What are
you talking about? Kate Cunningham is playing. Kate Cunningham is
shooting six for twenty every game. I go, he goes,
what when you play? When you play US, you play
us NIX. I go, you have to win one more game?
(04:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I'm like, wow,
this is what it must be like talking to me
as a Knicks fan because I'm like, no, you have
to win one more game. I'm like, oh, now I
see now, Now I see where people get in times. Okay,
see now, I say, okay, I got it. I got
it now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
All that being said, Nicks in four, Nicks in four. Okay,
So since you were looking up to that mirror, did
he have hair? Was he wearing orange and blue?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Going on?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Here?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, it was fine and siting. I go, dude, you're
just not You're out of gas. Both teams are out
of gas. Both your teams are gonna get swept. You
could play the best of both of these two teams
against the Knicks and the next round, and the Knicks
are sweeping. That's how it's gonna go right again, Underestimate
how well the Knicks are playing at your own peril.
I mean, that's that's all I'm saying. Under it, It's
like everybody wants to have excuses. Well, they're playing this.
They were playing the if the if the Celtics were
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good enough, they'd have made it out of the first round,
if the if the Pistons were good enough, they'd made
it to the conference finals. But they're not. Okay, So
just understand that this is the level that they're playing at.
And I fully I know they've been awfu while, but
they should win tomorrow. By twenty five, this should be
an exhausted Cavaliers team coming in James Harden. All he's
got this entire series is to foul bait like that's
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all he's gonna have against the Knicks defense. And hopefully
it's Josh Hart that draws that assignment, because I know
he's not gonna get drawn in Now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I just want no, you go by.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Hey, how about I let you go by and you
let me go by?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Gonna we just distribute. We're like a uh the designated
quarterback on the same guy picks me up in the pain,
But you let me go buy you and I'll let
I'll let you go by me.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Is that okay? Does that work? Okay? Great? Perfect, wonderful?
Nixon FI Nixon for Nixon for meanwhile maybe six. Where
we sit right now? Five and a half to go
in the third quarter, Game one of the Junior Game
one of the Western Conference Finals. The Spurs lead the
Thunder sixty four to sixty. Thunder had a big lead
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in the first half. Oklahoma City had tied it. Now
the Spurs are up by four. It's been a big
game so far from Wemby with sixteen and eleven rebounds.
SGA has seven points in twenty five minutes. This has
been a Jalen Williams and Alex Caruso game, Caruso leading
the way with sixteen off the bench, also drawing the
primary assignment on Wemby a few times down the court.
(06:49):
Now it's clear what they're trying to do is, Hey,
we're gonna try to give Wemby a bunch of different looks.
Don't let him settle into the game. But you're only
gonna be able to do so much. The big thing
about this game, which I still think is a shot,
and this is a much bigger story than that. We're
gonna keep getting into. De Aaron Fox does not play
this game with a sprained ankle. He has ruled out
about an hour before tip off, and d Aaron Fox
(07:12):
is terrific, right, And this is the pace of this game.
This is where things are gonna start changing and going
the thunder way as you get look, because this is
a guy who's you know, you're taking thirty five minutes
away from a guy who's gonna be the primary ball handler.
And this pace, I don't know, as deep as the
spurs are, how you make up for that. So I
fully expect this game to slowly start turning towards the
thunder But the fact that he gets ruled out an
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hour before the game with a sprained ankle. Now, he
sprained his ankle in game four, right, but played in
game five, played in game six, They've had a few
days off, and here he is an out before the game.
Couldn't get loose, couldn't play you know me? Because I'm
always suspicious there is something we're not being told about this,
because this doesn't make sense that you play in game four,
that's your sprain, your ankle, off day, you play in
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game five, off day, you play against off day, off day,
off day, and now you can't play. Like, there's something
we're not being told about about this. And I don't
mean it's something where I'm not getting a point where oh,
hey there's cal she's involved. No, I mean there's something
drop this injury, about something that may have happened in
between these times, because it makes no sense that he
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gets injured in game four and he plays five and six,
and now three days later he can't play. There's something
we're not being told.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, I thought you were gonna go, Jeff Kent' Clint
barmeus going. Folks can look those up falling off trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Or a bunch of meat, a bunch of meat on
it and slipped and dropped the gear meat on my foot.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, so you got a bunch of random injuries. But yeah,
potentially right during a workout, had an issue. We always
await the extra level, but what what have we had?
The consistent piece b in the NBA players, One home
court advantage doesn't mean a damn thing. But two, the
injury reports are nonsense. This guy may come back. Eh,
(09:01):
there he is the next day. Yeah, they're hoping for
for this game. All right, well there it's accelerated. Well
not really, that was all a lie.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And then exit.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Interviews suddenly they're giving you the details of the injury. Luka,
Doncic just go on down the line. So for this
to just say, okay, he couldn't get loose, do we
take it at the face?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I doubt there's something where there's something we don't know.
I mean, the players get injured and are ruled out
of playoff games, not just because there's the stress of
injuries that that we we get where hey, it's a
long season. You get to the first round of the
playoffs and and a dinged up ankle suddenly turns into
something for a whole series. Right that that's one part
of it. But there's another part in the playoffs where
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all of a sudden, How many times are we taken
by surprise by hearing what do you mean this guy's out?
What do you mean he's out? Wait? Paula Bonkearo's out,
Wait he's out.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
To Jason Tatum when he was ruled out for the
Celtics in the earlier rounds. He's supposed to and then
all of a sudden, bam, he's out, and which gets
into all those conspiracy theories you talk about the projection
and betting markets and everything else, but certainly in this
case he sits out.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Jalen Williams is back. Could he maybe have come back
last series if needed? Maybe, but it was all no, no, no,
it's trending well. He should in theory be back for
Game one. And then as you mentioned, he and Alex Caruso,
they were the first two to really make a dan.
Caruso scored their first seven points. They're doing different things defensively,
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and Williams is moving around very well and helping to
orchestrate the offense while they try to uncork whatever they
can from SGA as it goes on. But yeah, the
injury reports, we always said it in the NFL, and
now it's extended to pretty much every other sport. It's like,
I take it with a grain assault and we'll see, right.
We were talking with Steve Desager before the show the
updates coming out of the Dodgers as related to Blake
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Snell and the loose bodies, and what the procedure will
be for him to go get this looked at like
there's a lot of questions you have as to how
they describe this. But what does it mean he's throwing
in a month, two months, or whatever the case may be,
until a guy comes back. It's all theory.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But in this case for dearon Fox, yeah, I'd like
a little more explanation here, a little more transparency, if
you will. Now, as the game again, four forty four
to go in the third quarter, sixty six sixty three
Spurs the lead over the Thunder. We said it is
the Alex Caruso game. And for really the first time
since he was a Laker, when Alex Caruso, Why is
Alex Caruso the number one trending topic on Twitter every night?
(11:27):
Why is he trend more than Lebron? Why did you
tread more than a d This is the Caruso game again.
Sixteen points for Caruso, four for seven behind the three
point line. And I'll go back to what we talked
about about a week or so ago, where you know,
you look back at the Lakers, they win the title
in twenty twenty, and they make a bunch of different
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moves and it doesn't work out. We talked about this
a little bit with Marcus Smart being able to sign
a veteran, older veteran that that can that can really
be a difference maker. Like I really, I don't know
that the Lakers are over losing Alex Caruso. Caruso since
he's I mean since he's come to Oklahoma City, turned
into an all defensive player in the NBA, still a
guy that can score fifteen off the bench. He fills
(12:10):
so many holes. And these are guys that are so
incredibly valuable, But you think, well, how much can we
spend on a guy like this? Where are you at?
But a team like Oklahoma City where you don't have
to rely on him to play thirty five minutes tonight
because a worst team is gonna say, hey, Caruso's good enough,
He's gonna start for us. And now you know, hey,
guess what, maybe his effectiveness goes down. He's got to
(12:31):
play more minutes. But when you can come off the
bench and get the matchups you want, he looks like
an All Star. You know where he is. Every time
he is on the floor. He is hitting big shots offensively,
You see that happen with TJ McConnell once in a
while in the playoffs. But Caruso has been the gold
standard of Hey, here's a team that is rich enough
to have him come off the bench and he and
because of the matchups and be the way they can
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deploy him. He looks like an All Star when he's
on the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, he spent those couple of years in the third
rank of hell, also known as play for the Chicago
Bulls before becoming a member of a much better, more
robust organization and top down strategy consistency both in the
evaluation of talent in the draft and how they operate
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free agency and of course work their rotations. So it
brings out the best of him. And it's always the question,
if he'd stayed in Los Angeles, is he this player?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't know. He might he was a fan favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, Like that's what he would have been come down
as because he wouldn't have been in the same role.
He would have had to have been one of the
key contributors.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
He would have been this guy. He would have been
this guy coming off the bench and being able.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
To because the Lakers would have never had the group
around him to where he could be that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He would have been forced into a primary role in
those Lakers squads the last Yeah but no, but now
if you go Belka, go back to the last two
years with Luca, it would have been a different story. Okay, Well,
now here's a different situation. Luca is in the backcourt
starting now, Austin reeves the ascension of him member he
was coming off the bench that he'd be starting, so
there would be no I mean, he wouldn't be the
last couple of years. He'd be coming off the bench
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in this kind of run, and.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
He might have been the guy sent with any value
to Dallas to make Luca here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, man, it's just insane when you think about that.
The Lakers may not be over losing Alex Caruso. It's
just crazy. I mean, he's been lamenting his loss all
these years. I think there's a picture in his wallet.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my base
friend Mike Harmon. Going to the fourth quarter in Oklahoma City.
It is the Spurs or the seven point lead, no
d Aaron Fox has been okay for them so far. Yeah,
and the kids are all right. Eighty to seventy three
is the lead, wenby twenty one and thirteen, No surprise there. Meanwhile,
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for the Thunder, it is still an Alex Caruso night.
He has nineteen SGA your NBA MVP three out of
ten for ten points so far tonight for the Thunder,
so one. On one side, you could say, Hey, I'm
feeling okay because we're going to the fourth quarter. He's
(17:10):
not gonna have that terrible a game. Out the other hand,
I'm going, wow, he's really struggling against this Spurs defense.
So yeah, you pick your poison for the next twelve minutes. Yeah,
it's gonna be fun. They're up fourteen and a half. Okay,
right to the gambling. Well, you know, hey, let's not
be coy about it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It's part of it's part of the machine that makes
it all right over the gambling now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
SGA has been a nod factor. So it's curious.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And we talked about it, you and I before we
got on air, just the radio broadcast for those couple
of minutes as we're finishing our commute and uh several
times going yeah, Wemby's just playing a zone, just kind
of floating. It's not really guarding anybody, daring you to
get hot from the outside.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, So we'll see if that continues under the fourth
Oh so more on this end of the fourth quarter,
but just a little bit more on SJA before we
get into Ronda Rousey and Gina Carno SGA. It comes
out early shams Tarania of ESPN lets it slip a
day ago. SGA is going to win back to back MVPs. Now,
this was supposed to be let go on the streaming
(18:15):
on the game last night, and it was supposed to
be announced there and it was not, and I'm sure
the league wanted to wait and have that announcement on
the broadcast better for the league. However, Sean's saying what
many insiders have said for the past few years, it's
not my job to help the NBA, even though I
could argue, well, it kind of is a little bit
just to we bit. You want to help the business
(18:36):
of it, you know, but okay, but you do you.
You're all about you. I understand that. That's what insiders are,
So I get that. And there's been such a big
backlash today of oh, should he have saved it? The
information should he have? Not?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Is he is?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He beholden to working for a rights holder to be
able to let it go. But it's not on their
air what to help the sport. And I didn't see
it from that perspective. I looked at it from this
and I just I looked at it from this is streaming,
Welcome to the NBA. This is what you've gotten involved in.
This is stuff you have to police, right. You think
(19:09):
everybody's gonna be nice to you, and this is what
it's like. This is you want to you want you
want to get in the NBA. You want to get
the rights here on peacock and all you want to
This is the NBA. This is stuff you gotta deal
with all right now, I want to see I want
to see them say something or how do you how
do you how do you not run roughshot over them?
The rest of the way. I know you knew to
the game, but this is a welcome to the NBA moment.
(19:30):
This is how you deal with it. When WOJ was
tip and picks in the NBA draft, yeah, NBA everybody
they found a way to get around to say, Okay,
we're not tipping picks anymore. Right, that was a big thing.
And then suddenly the picks were tipped as much as
they were. So this is now where I look at
it as this is the game. You can like it,
not like it and think the choms should be able
to hold back or you know, but he's got information,
(19:50):
so he's got to say it. But it's really this
is on you. You want it for your broadcast. This
is the whole thing. You got to figure out a way.
Welcome to the NBA. Yeah, there's a couple of things
to it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Number one, he was the prohibit favorite and all betting
markets so I could ask the guy at the end
of the bar and he would have been a really
good source. Lasga was winning MVP. So if Shams had
posted here's how the voting went.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Right, No, no, legitimately.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I mean this like so because I did my show
with Ryan Holland yesterday, there are the.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Names of the voters and how they voted.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But with that level of specificity, then I'm looking side
high and I'm going, but him just tweeting out and
I saw someone going, well, maybe he just had one
that was scheduled and it went he picked AM instead
of PM for it or something like to that eat.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, because that's what insiders doing. Oh sorry, I just
had to. I didn't know I had the raw head
AM instead of PM. Sorry guy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To your point about the tipping of picks, here's the thing,
those rights contracts, they're not so ironclad, right, So do
enough stuff to piss off the league and the balance
of moneies that are coming in from all these new
entities like Amazon, You're not just gonna get slapped on
the wrist. That's the potential where ESPN ABC gets a
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little bit more than that. If Shams keeps that up,
and we could talk about, you know, the insider role. Hey,
I have information, I should go with it. And again,
not a whole lot of specificity. If Mike Garment of
Fox Sports Radio post that, yeah, s G, s G,
you know s G he's gonna win this.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, we all knew that, right, But you're not an
insider with with with with access to inside information. You're
not someone that can be told that you don't know that.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I could know someone that that's in the league, and
all I got to see I was right.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, but if you are, if you post s G
a is going to be named m v P. Okay,
if you post I spoke to someone my sources playing
with the guy in the place, the NBA sources tell
me that he's going to MVP, then that's different. That's okay,
I talk to somebody. Now this is this gets out?
And how does this get out? Now, Shan's it's it's
worse because this is a guy that you think, okay,
he you know, he has the best basketball interest in mind,
(22:00):
and when he does this, that's kind of dirty pool.
But this is also ESPN battling against streaming. Everybody's battling
with each other. This is where that's why I say
it's your welcome to the NBA moment. This is how
the game goes. You think someone gets that they're not
gonna do it. No, now you have to find a
way to have that not happen when you want that
on your ay, when you have.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That, well so, but that becomes the question. It's the
the onus is now on the league if they care, right,
because this has always been leaked. It's all just a
question of of how much you want to get mad
about it. In this case, it was we're gonna do
this presentation as part of our inaugural run here on
Amazon Amazon. So they got a little pissy about it
(22:38):
and it took their shots, and then Chams did his
victory laps, like, okay, this was a nothing right in
terms of insider stories for the most part, we've talked
about it for a long time, like there are those
that are kind of big stories and then it goes huh,
transactional shrug, move on. This was in the case of
all right, again, if he suddenly had the list, I
(22:59):
can name names this guy of insert entity X voted
this three, this, five, or he left SGA off altogether. Okay,
now he got something but in this case, he leaked it.
Folks got mad, and we'll see if the league bothers
to respond. But where it can be is if this continues,
(23:20):
you're playing with fire a little bit when you're talking
about the amount of money that gets spent on these rights.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Welcome to the NBA. That's what you want in you're in.
I hope it becomes a fight, though, you really do.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I hope it's not just a bunch of media folks
doing the verbal slap fight and you know, poison pen
of Oh, this is the sanctity of the awards ceremony.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Who cares? We got the recap and what to know
about the Ronda Rousey Gina Carrano fight coming up next.
But right now, time to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called
the Shams Tarani of Fox Sports Radio, when he knows something,
he'll tell you. It's Steve Disaga.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
The Cleveland Cavaliers are going going to the NBA Finals. Oh,
I'm sorry that it hasn't started yet. Yeah, Vice tomorrow tomorrow,
put that out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah all right, Steve, Okay, Steve and Steve Desager's car
has just been keyed and it says go next, go
on the side.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
By the way you were talking about the MVP announced
with two straight years, SGA from Oklahoma City has won
NBA MVP. If that's enough abbreviations for you, that's good.
But every retired player who has won consecutive MVPs is
now in the Hall of Fame and shake Giljess Alexander
has finished top five for MVP now four years in
a row. So then you come into Game one of
(24:36):
the West Finals tonight and he had one basket in
the first half, one of five shooting. He'd gone two
and a half years with at least two field goals
made in the first half of every game. He'd played
two hundred and seventy straight games in the playoffs, including
playoffs until tonight, and Victor wemben Yama and company are
(24:56):
now up eighty seven seventy seven nine minutes to go
in Game one at defending champion OKC when min Yama
when he was on the court in the first half,
his spurs were a plus fifteen. They were a minus
eight in the five minutes with him.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Off the court.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Wem min Yama has twenty five points fifteen rebounds. In
this one, forty five percent shooting for the visitors, just
forty percent shooting for OKC, which was down seven to
nothing quickly. Fortunately, they do have Jalen Williams back in
the lineup, seventeen points for him tonight. The thunder starter
had missed their previous six games with a strain hamsterring
(25:33):
Alex Caruso with twenty two off the bench. It's now
Spurs eighty seven to eighty at OKSEE with about eight
minutes to go in Game one. The East Final start Tuesday,
Cleveland at New York. In the regular season, the Knicks
won fifty three games. Cleveland won fifty two because New
York beat him two out of three during the season.
(25:54):
That's why tomorrow's game is at Madison Square Garden. The
Cavs just dominated a game seven at top seeded Detroit's
In the NBA. By the way, there's been at least
one game seven road winner in each of that last
eleven seasons. The Pelicans new head coach Jamal Moseley was
just fired by Orlando after five years there. WNBA Dallas
(26:15):
won at home easily against Washington ninety two sixty nine.
There's a game seven to and the second round of
the NHL Playoffs, and they've just started overtime at Buffalo.
The Sabers, who had trailed to nothing, are tied with
Montreal to two. The New York Mets have gone nuts
and extra innings top of the twelfth. The lead is
now eleven to six at the Nationals. Still a rain
(26:37):
delay in Minnesota, with the Twins up three to nothing
on the Houston Astros in the bottom of the fifth
thanks to two Josh Bell home runs, Rocky six to
three over the Rangers bottom of the sixth. A's at
Angels scoreless in the bottom of the fourth. Angels barely
scored it all over the weekend against the Dodgers. I
believe it was thirty one to three. They were unscored
in the three games. Mariners have a Julio Rodriguez homer
(26:59):
and lead one nothing on the White Sox bottom of
the third. Diamondback's got a first inning grand slam from
Nolan Arenado now lead the Giants five to two bottom
of the third, and the Padres lead the Dodgers one
nothing bottom of the fourth thanks to a first inning
home run against La starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Tampa Bay is
still three games over the Yankees in the Al East.
The Rays won sixteen to six against Baltimore. Yankees held
(27:23):
on seven six over Toronto. Victories for Boston and Miami.
Philadelphia won its fifth straight Milwaukee, a nine to three
winner at the Cubs beating show to Imonauga and Cleveland
sent Detroit to another loss, eight to the final on
FS one tonight the loss to from Bervaldez. While the
Guardians have won six of seven, the Tigers have lost
(27:43):
eleven of thirteen.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though, Jason Smith, Mike
Carmen Lott and the Fox Sports Radio studios. So the
Toronto Ronde ROUSI fight this weekend, yay, talking about how
excited I was to see it, couldn't wait, love the intro,
everything about it. Awesome seeing them come in. We talked
about Gina Carrano's journey and then it's over in seventeen
(28:07):
seconds and Ronda Rowsey goes in, tackles her, hits her
a couple of times, gets you a little woozy arm bar,
and it's over. As we talked about, not surprise the result, right,
Not surprised that Ronda Rousey won. I said, if it
goes more than ninety seconds, I'll be stunned. Like this
should be Ronda Rousey in the first thirty seconds and
turns out thirteen seconds. She didn't need I'm just gonna
(28:29):
win this.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's just like old times, right, But nrd McGregor, Ronnie
Rowsey might tyson all the heavyweights in there.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But that's the thing now is is again like and
I feel like I got taken in, right. I feel
like I'm a rube and I got taken in again
because I told you stuff like this. Nostalgia wise, I
don't really care for because it doesn't matter to me.
I don't need to see Mayweather fight again, or Pachiao
or any of you know, anybody that's well past the prime,
especially when it's gonna be a money grab. And we
(28:57):
spent all that time and effort and money for Pacio
and whether to just hold each other up for a
few rounds of walk away and go hey. We each
made a lot of money. Now may where they made
a hundred million and Pacquiao made fifty minute whatever it was.
But seeing Manny Pacquiel running off, running out of the
ring with smiles at the end of the fight, I said, Okay,
how much did he really exert himself right like, I
mean seriously away. This is where I felt, Okay, no,
(29:20):
this is Rowsy and Coronto and it was it just
had that it factor about it. And then after seventeen seconds,
I said, I got taken in again because it was
obvious Ronda to the point where I knew Ronda Rowsey
would come out like Ronda Rousey. She only knew one
way to fight. She's not gonna find a way to
try to make it a long fight. She's gonna get
in there right away. And this fight's gonna end early,
and it will end in Ronda Rowsey's favor because she's
(29:43):
the much more season fighter. She's younger, and and and
Gina Carano had the last year and a half of
not just getting in shape to fight, but losing one
hundred pounds. It's hard to prepare for a fight. Gina
Carono looked like, you know what, I'm just gonna go in.
I'm gonna lose. I know I'm gonna lose, but in
the end of it, get paid. And after seventeen seconds
she's smiling in the ring. Like less than thirty seconds
(30:04):
after the fight, is over and that's it. And I
felt like, you know what, I just got taken in
again because right away you find out Ronda Rowsey got
two million and Gina Corno got a million, and I'm like, okay,
not quite the purse that that Mayweather and uh and
Pacio got. But still I felt like I just watched
another money grab and I feel I feel like a
rube because I got taken in again by this, because
that's exactly what it was. Well, it's part of what.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
We talked about on Friday leading into it, and the
only way I thought Coronto could realistically win would maybe
be to catcher right on that initial drive and push through.
And we saw the video from their training rooms in
the moments before. Right here's the last look into the
and it was literally Rousy doing that move to her
sparring partner. Fifteen seconds, I think is what they timed
(30:48):
it at. Yeah, as the they're doing the voiceover and
talking about and that's that's what I would expect, that
kind of move and lo and behold moments later, that's
what we got for Gina Carano, right she had the
lawsuiting against Disney and all of that that went through
that got settled trying to make her name again. This
was a way to get yourself thrust back into the limelight.
(31:10):
Ronda Rousey one of the things that was hanging in
the balance. She's also got a biopic that is in
the offing offer memoir. So this is a nice tie
a bow on it, isn't it the last time.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
She's in a ring?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Everybody get to see it.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
And I went in seventeen seconds, a nice full circle
moment to when she was dominating the women's division and
setting the world on fire, going back when you were
trying to figure out, hey, would she get with the kid?
That kind of thing. So look, I like the nostalgia
part of it and all these circumstances because we get
to go back and look at the progression. Right, we
(31:49):
go back to the beginning, We go back through the trials,
we go back to the comebacks and all of those
kind of things, and if nothing else, we put ourselves
back in those years for a moment, and I think
there's some value to that. You don't want to live there, right,
you don't want to stay in those moments, but it's
good to have those snapshots of what was going on
when that fight went down, the year and the month,
(32:10):
whatever whatever's going on in your personal life and in
the greater sporting universe, and then you get back to reality,
and this puts you back to reality of she's finishing
her career, Rousey's saying, hey, I got one more w
and Corado's saying, look at me, I'm ready for Hollywood again.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh that's good. Right, we made up.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And if you feel like you got got it's okay.
It's like every other relationship, you get burned. You got
to get back on that horse, buddy, and find the
next bit of nostalgia to cling to.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
What do you got, Frostburg? Did you really think Jake
Paul was gonna be honest with the Fighter? Come on,
well he wasn't. He didn't get the biggest money grabs
since the last biggest money.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Get in the Hexagon, So that wasn't you know. But
all of these are the same, the same drill. It's
a made for TV event. It's just this side of again.
I saw that guy's name on it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I was, you know, I got sucked. I don't know,
I just got sucked in. This is how you get
sucked in backlash, I know, I know it sucked in game.
I feel yeah, game, hey, hey listen, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you are fear watching James Harden highlights. I have I
have no time for that because I have the Eastern
Conference Finals tomorrow. I have Nixon fis starting to almost.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
As fixed as Calves Pistons was yesterday. You saw they
ran an ad Calves Nicks.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They did they did before. Yeah, I'm waiting they were right.
I'm waiting for the I'm waiting for the Knicks. Oh.
I tell you want to know something, you want to
know something? Ready, you guys ready for this. Long Island
rail By the way, Long Island Railroad went on strike today?
Yeah they did. Hey l r R and strike. Big
story today, right LA r R is on strike? Last time
Long Island Railroad went on strike? What happened nineteen ninety four? OJ?
(33:50):
Who was in the NBA finals in nineteen ninety That
it is true. OJ did it that year? Go New York? Hey,
oh to Mark Furman too soon man running?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Mark Furman he go yeay died.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Today running Calves Knicks before the game starts the next level.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Go New York, go to How much money do you
think came in after that? Ad that ad ran into
the betting hell.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Glorious this is gonna be for all of us when
they get swept by James Harden.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Not happening, man, that is not happening. Not happening except
to a guy angel hat Nix And what did I
tell you?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I told you the Calves are gonna wait. I really
thought Harden would be better. But shaming Donovan Mitchell while
everybody else went after James Harden seemed to work out
for me.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, not a great look. Not a great look. Uh
So we got more NBA on the way eighty nine
eighty two, a seven point Spurs lead, six minutes left
to go. We got more on this, We got the
play of the day, and I have the best story
of the weekend by far. Really come right.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
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Speaker 2 (35:08):
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Speaker 1 (35:11):
Spurs trying to hold on ninety one eighty six, four
and a half to go in the fourth quarter, barn
Burder a Game one Spurs playing without the Aaron Fox.
So far they've been just fine. Meanwhile, Canadians and the
Sabers Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinal spot against
the Carolina Hurricanes in the offing for whoever comes up
(35:36):
with the game winning goal in overtime, and right now
it is absolute insanity in Buffalo in overtime.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And had ten thousand of those beer Sabers ready to
go tonight hand.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
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Speaker 7 (36:16):
Assle the basketball the whoa goo right side now brus
So picking him up spots when Minyo and he swams
it down on the head of Holt Grand inside and
victor wen Minyama has got a first half double double.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now Spurs Radio on the call, Now Frosburg. Why Wemby
for the play of the day. Well, i've seen the
ad Oh, okay, okay, the okay, very good seeing the
Spurs and the finals. The Spurs in the finals. Ad. Whoa,
I thought you meant, like you know, Spur game two,
Spurs with a one nothing lead. I didn't know that. Oh,
I'm not wasting your time with that. Yeah, fresh and salty.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
After losing the MVP voting and the rivalry with Chet
to this point, Wemby on a mission.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
How about we have an Eastern Conference Finals in hockey?
You got a Caroline Hurricanes and who say? I got
the Canadians in the final? Whoa, we got the advanced
press joking what I did? No, I see what you did?
That was straight past and he left the s off
for saying I again, I'll tell you what I told
you two and a half weeks ago. If it's not
(37:15):
the Hurricanes and the Avalanche and the Stanley Cup finals,
something is wrong. Told you that the all right? If
you've seen it, and you've seen the Hurricanes in it,
that's great. If you've not. We got to talk. We
gotta talk here. Uh so you've not seen the Calves
in the finals ad? You've just seen a Calves Nicks ad.
Right so far? Okay, all right, middle of Game one.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Now he's been staring down the television monitor, just waiting
with baited breath for that next ad to advertise not
tomorrow's game, but the next series. The graphic already having
been built. There's a picture of Alex Caruso.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Man. So again, we'll have more on that coming up
in a few minutes. I'm sure in ten minutes will
be breaking down. Game one again is to be the
Spurs holding on the Canadians. Meanwhile, speaking of breaking it down, Frostburg,
if you did see an ad for the Easts Finals,
we now know who the Carolina Hurricanes will play, and
(38:14):
it is the team that I said five minutes ago.
If I have to pick between the Sabers and the Canadians,
I think I'd rather play the Canadians. I'm going to
get my wish. The Canadians in overtime beat the Sabers
three to two. Oh Man, guys are throwing, throwing uniforms
and throwing away. It is some kind of scene right now.
(38:37):
Sticks are breaking on the ice, The sabers are extremely
They just look like a thousand yard stair right now.
The Canadians celebrating on the ice again a final in overtime.
Montreal wins it three to two. So now we know
the Final four and the NHL we had the Golden
Knights and the Avalanche. They'll start Wednesday and then Thursday
we'll get the Eastern Conference Final, the Carolina Hurricanes to
(39:00):
the Montreal Canadians. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Watching the replay as it flows in, I mean, just
not a lot of defensive pressure as they skated into
the zone able to get it straight on net.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I can't tell if it got deflected on the
way in New hook with the shot. No, it just
looks like it was a flutterball, just a flutterball. Looks
like it just fluttered between buy Yeah, but between his
between his glove and his pad. Uh yeah, just a
flutterball that goes between the glove and the pad and
that wins it enough traffic in front to obscure the
vision just a little bit. And how many times do
(39:33):
you hear you know, you get to overtime and it's
one of those crazy fluky goals that decides a Stanley Cup.
Buff over with thumb right. You know you coached your
daughter's soccer team. What are you doing? Stop playing with
the ball?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah, eighteen passes is like a long protracted drive in
the NFL. Eventually something bad is gonna happen. Just put
the ball on net, and that and that and that's
the one with the puck on net. That's one thing
I always say this. I said, you know what the
prettiest sight is. You know, you go around, Oh, make
it a fact. The prettiest is the goalie picking the
ball out of the back of the net. The prettiest
sight is the puck hit in the back of the
net and you celebrate. I don't doesn't Matt doesn't need
(40:07):
to be a great play It could be the biggest
of garbage goals. But this the the urgency to get
a shot on goal and get the puck in the net.
I mean that's what you saw right here. I mean,
new hook.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
This was a I mean, it's got seven goals so
far in the play I still having a really good playoff,
but this is one of those just I don't think
he even got it. I think it came off as
stick funny and you would see it right off. It's
just it's just just floating up and and and again.
You see that sweet spot between the between the glove
and the and the pad. And now it's the Canadians
going on.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, it's like when the villains were trapped in that
that film in Superman two and they're floating in the prism,
floating and it's rotating end over end and they're making
faces or whatever before it gets shattered in they're release
same thing here, it gets released into the back of
the net. We got gloves flying saltiness. I mean, you
had that thousand yards stare because once again unable to
(41:00):
take care of business on home ice this time.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Well, and you think about the journey of Terrence stamp right,
he gets you know, he gets exiled to space, he
comes back, then he gets exiled again, then he comes
back as chancellor Forlorum, and what happens he gets exiled
after that, Like that's been this whole that was his
whole career.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Well, in between that, he also sang one hell of
the rendition of Billy Joel's Lullaby in the song.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Back of Exiled, Backham Exile, The back of exile. Let
me do it. It's my entire career. I'm back now.
I'm gone. I'm back. I'm gone, I'm back. I'm gone.
Uh So, coming up next again, I promised the best
story of the weekend. Plus, are we talking about Wemby
and the Spurs or is it a big comeback for
the Thunder? It is a two point game with two
minutes left to go, the Spurs trying to hold on
(41:45):
ninety four and ninety two. BOYD, do we have something
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Slash disclosure. Well, I'm gonna disclose to you where we
(01:03):
sit right now. The junior varsity game is I'm sorry too?
What do you do it too soon?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
For?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Is this how you're deflecting all of the hatred and
vitriol coming from your relatives and friends in the Greater
Detroit era. You felled them again. You let their city
down again for the second time in three years.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
You said, oh, they're.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
All gonna win, They're all gonna win. Oh, and then
they flame out and spectacularly. I got them as far
as I could. I'm sorry, win one game at home,
win Game five at home, win game don't lose Game
five and game seven home by a combined one hundred
and forty five points. I got the Pistons as far
as I could. No one's more upset than me that
I can't have my potential Piston Spurs NBA Finals, my
(01:45):
long shot picks right, that ticket is now dead. I mean, yeah,
I mean, but dead not my fault. I got the Pistol.
That's the thing about Detroit. Apparently I can carry the
city of Detroit only so far, and then okay, they
just they can't do it themselves. Well you notice it try.
I'm the schedule released this year.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I don't think they triedically came yesterday, well, Dan Campbell
basically walked in said here's the damn schedule and walked out.
Is thirty seconds long. And then yesterday and that was
one of the more pathetic efforts I've ever seen. They
were so bad they put me to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was awful, man, it was awful. And now, coming
off the Cavs huge seven game series win, right, James
Harden played terribly, but it's still yeah, one turnover, okay,
how many points are the It doesn't matter how many
points he had. He's in the top ten all time
for playoffs scoring. And you're trying to tenne great and
(02:36):
deride his whole career. How dare you're gonna tell you
what I said Friday, which is what I said Princess Wednesday. No,
because all I'm thinking is, here's the thing is, people
the last few days have just been talking to me
about stuff, right, And it's like my wife. My wife
used to say to me, you know what sent me?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
What I mean about now? My wife used to say,
you know, I know when not to talk too bouts
because I know your mind is on something else, right,
Because sometimes I'll say something to you and I know
when your head is going Curtis Martin, Curtis Martin, Judge,
that's Curtis. But I'm like, Okay, you're right. Sometimes it is, Yeah,
you're mad you gave him his hand back, I know.
But like the last five days. People try to talk
to me and have these cogent conversations with me, and
(03:17):
I'm not in my head and all in my head
as I'm going Nix and for nix in four, mix
in four, that's all goes through my head.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Down on Friday night, there were a couple of times
five or six minutes of NonStop because you were, you know,
in your head going Nixon for.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Look at the game last night, Nix and for Nick Calves,
Nixon four.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Now they had yesterday on Calves didn't have to expend
any energy because his.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Pis didn't try.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
So they're ready telling you man, they almost.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Had a day off the way the Pistons didn't come
to playoffs.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The Knicks are here to save the NBA playoffs. They
are here to save us, all right, ignore how well
are they? You know, I played in a ukre tournament
Saturday hard tournament. Of course I wont, and I met
a guy who's a Pistons fan, and right away like,
I don't know if he knew because I didn't. I
didn't know him. And right away like I don't know
if he knew that I was on the radio, because
(04:10):
sometimes it happens and I can tell when someone knows
what I do. When they they don't want to admit
that they knew. Like, and he's talking to me real
aggressive about the Pistons. I'm going, hey, I picked you,
but you guys, you guys are playing awful. What are
you talking about? Kate Cunningham is playing. Kate Cunningham is
shooting six for twenty every game. I go, he goes,
what when you play? When you play US, you play
us NIX. I go, you have to win one more game?
(04:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I'm like, wow,
this is what it must be like talking to me
as a Knicks fan because I'm like, no, you have
to win one more game. I'm like, oh, now I
see now, Now I see where people get in times. Okay,
see now, I say, okay, I got it. I got
it now.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
All that being said, Nicks in four, Nicks in four. Okay,
So since you were looking up to that mirror, did
he have hair? Was he wearing orange and blue?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Going on?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Here?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
No, it was fine and siting. I go, dude, you're
just not You're out of gas. Both teams are out
of gas. Both your teams are gonna get swept. You
could play the best of both of these two teams
against the Knicks and the next round, and the Knicks
are sweeping. That's how it's gonna go right again, Underestimate
how well the Knicks are playing at your own peril.
I mean, that's that's all I'm saying. Under it, It's
like everybody wants to have excuses. Well, they're playing this.
They were playing the if the if the Celtics were
(05:18):
good enough, they'd have made it out of the first round,
if the if the Pistons were good enough, they'd made
it to the conference finals. But they're not. Okay, So
just understand that this is the level that they're playing at.
And I fully I know they've been awfu while, but
they should win tomorrow. By twenty five, this should be
an exhausted Cavaliers team coming in James Harden. All he's
got this entire series is to foul bait like that's
(05:38):
all he's gonna have against the Knicks defense. And hopefully
it's Josh Hart that draws that assignment, because I know
he's not gonna get drawn in Now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I just want no, you go by.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Hey, how about I let you go by and you
let me go by?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Gonna we just distribute. We're like a uh the designated
quarterback on the same guy picks me up in the pain,
But you let me go buy you and I'll let
I'll let you go by me.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Is that okay? Does that work? Okay? Great? Perfect, wonderful?
Nixon FI Nixon for Nixon for meanwhile maybe six. Where
we sit right now? Five and a half to go
in the third quarter, Game one of the Junior Game
one of the Western Conference Finals. The Spurs lead the
Thunder sixty four to sixty. Thunder had a big lead
(06:26):
in the first half. Oklahoma City had tied it. Now
the Spurs are up by four. It's been a big
game so far from Wemby with sixteen and eleven rebounds.
SGA has seven points in twenty five minutes. This has
been a Jalen Williams and Alex Caruso game, Caruso leading
the way with sixteen off the bench, also drawing the
primary assignment on Wemby a few times down the court.
(06:49):
Now it's clear what they're trying to do is, Hey,
we're gonna try to give Wemby a bunch of different looks.
Don't let him settle into the game. But you're only
gonna be able to do so much. The big thing
about this game, which I still think is a shot,
and this is a much bigger story than that. We're
gonna keep getting into. De Aaron Fox does not play
this game with a sprained ankle. He has ruled out
about an hour before tip off, and d Aaron Fox
(07:12):
is terrific, right, And this is the pace of this game.
This is where things are gonna start changing and going
the thunder way as you get look, because this is
a guy who's you know, you're taking thirty five minutes
away from a guy who's gonna be the primary ball handler.
And this pace, I don't know, as deep as the
spurs are, how you make up for that. So I
fully expect this game to slowly start turning towards the
thunder But the fact that he gets ruled out an
(07:33):
hour before the game with a sprained ankle. Now, he
sprained his ankle in game four, right, but played in
game five, played in game six, They've had a few
days off, and here he is an out before the game.
Couldn't get loose, couldn't play you know me? Because I'm
always suspicious there is something we're not being told about this,
because this doesn't make sense that you play in game four,
that's your sprain, your ankle, off day, you play in
(07:55):
game five, off day, you play against off day, off day,
off day, and now you can't play. Like, there's something
we're not being told about about this. And I don't
mean it's something where I'm not getting a point where oh,
hey there's cal she's involved. No, I mean there's something
drop this injury, about something that may have happened in
between these times, because it makes no sense that he
(08:15):
gets injured in game four and he plays five and six,
and now three days later he can't play. There's something
we're not being told.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, I thought you were gonna go, Jeff Kent' Clint
barmeus going. Folks can look those up falling off trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Or a bunch of meat, a bunch of meat on
it and slipped and dropped the gear meat on my foot.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, so you got a bunch of random injuries. But yeah,
potentially right during a workout, had an issue. We always
await the extra level, but what what have we had?
The consistent piece b in the NBA players, One home
court advantage doesn't mean a damn thing. But two, the
injury reports are nonsense. This guy may come back. Eh,
(09:01):
there he is the next day. Yeah, they're hoping for
for this game. All right, well there it's accelerated. Well
not really, that was all a lie.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And then exit.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Interviews suddenly they're giving you the details of the injury. Luka,
Doncic just go on down the line. So for this
to just say, okay, he couldn't get loose, do we
take it at the face?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I doubt there's something where there's something we don't know.
I mean, the players get injured and are ruled out
of playoff games, not just because there's the stress of
injuries that that we we get where hey, it's a
long season. You get to the first round of the
playoffs and and a dinged up ankle suddenly turns into
something for a whole series. Right that that's one part
of it. But there's another part in the playoffs where
(09:40):
all of a sudden, How many times are we taken
by surprise by hearing what do you mean this guy's out?
What do you mean he's out? Wait? Paula Bonkearo's out,
Wait he's out.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
To Jason Tatum when he was ruled out for the
Celtics in the earlier rounds. He's supposed to and then
all of a sudden, bam, he's out, and which gets
into all those conspiracy theories you talk about the projection
and betting markets and everything else, but certainly in this
case he sits out.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Jalen Williams is back. Could he maybe have come back
last series if needed? Maybe, but it was all no, no, no,
it's trending well. He should in theory be back for
Game one. And then as you mentioned, he and Alex Caruso,
they were the first two to really make a dan.
Caruso scored their first seven points. They're doing different things defensively,
(10:26):
and Williams is moving around very well and helping to
orchestrate the offense while they try to uncork whatever they
can from SGA as it goes on. But yeah, the
injury reports, we always said it in the NFL, and
now it's extended to pretty much every other sport. It's like,
I take it with a grain assault and we'll see, right.
We were talking with Steve Desager before the show the
updates coming out of the Dodgers as related to Blake
(10:49):
Snell and the loose bodies, and what the procedure will
be for him to go get this looked at like
there's a lot of questions you have as to how
they describe this. But what does it mean he's throwing
in a month, two months, or whatever the case may be,
until a guy comes back. It's all theory.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But in this case for dearon Fox, yeah, I'd like
a little more explanation here, a little more transparency, if
you will. Now, as the game again, four forty four
to go in the third quarter, sixty six sixty three
Spurs the lead over the Thunder. We said it is
the Alex Caruso game. And for really the first time
since he was a Laker, when Alex Caruso, Why is
Alex Caruso the number one trending topic on Twitter every night?
(11:27):
Why is he trend more than Lebron? Why did you
tread more than a d This is the Caruso game again.
Sixteen points for Caruso, four for seven behind the three
point line. And I'll go back to what we talked
about about a week or so ago, where you know,
you look back at the Lakers, they win the title
in twenty twenty, and they make a bunch of different
(11:48):
moves and it doesn't work out. We talked about this
a little bit with Marcus Smart being able to sign
a veteran, older veteran that that can that can really
be a difference maker. Like I really, I don't know
that the Lakers are over losing Alex Caruso. Caruso since
he's I mean since he's come to Oklahoma City, turned
into an all defensive player in the NBA, still a
guy that can score fifteen off the bench. He fills
(12:10):
so many holes. And these are guys that are so
incredibly valuable, But you think, well, how much can we
spend on a guy like this? Where are you at?
But a team like Oklahoma City where you don't have
to rely on him to play thirty five minutes tonight
because a worst team is gonna say, hey, Caruso's good enough,
He's gonna start for us. And now you know, hey,
guess what, maybe his effectiveness goes down. He's got to
(12:31):
play more minutes. But when you can come off the
bench and get the matchups you want, he looks like
an All Star. You know where he is. Every time
he is on the floor. He is hitting big shots offensively,
You see that happen with TJ McConnell once in a
while in the playoffs. But Caruso has been the gold
standard of Hey, here's a team that is rich enough
to have him come off the bench and he and
because of the matchups and be the way they can
(12:53):
deploy him. He looks like an All Star when he's
on the floor.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Well, he spent those couple of years in the third
rank of hell, also known as play for the Chicago
Bulls before becoming a member of a much better, more
robust organization and top down strategy consistency both in the
evaluation of talent in the draft and how they operate
(13:16):
free agency and of course work their rotations. So it
brings out the best of him. And it's always the question,
if he'd stayed in Los Angeles, is he this player?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I don't know. He might he was a fan favorite.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yeah, Like that's what he would have been come down
as because he wouldn't have been in the same role.
He would have had to have been one of the
key contributors.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
He would have been this guy. He would have been
this guy coming off the bench and being able.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
To because the Lakers would have never had the group
around him to where he could be that guy.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He would have been forced into a primary role in
those Lakers squads the last Yeah but no, but now
if you go Belka, go back to the last two
years with Luca, it would have been a different story. Okay, Well,
now here's a different situation. Luca is in the backcourt
starting now, Austin reeves the ascension of him member he
was coming off the bench that he'd be starting, so
there would be no I mean, he wouldn't be the
last couple of years. He'd be coming off the bench
(14:06):
in this kind of run, and.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
He might have been the guy sent with any value
to Dallas to make Luca here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, man, it's just insane when you think about that.
The Lakers may not be over losing Alex Caruso. It's
just crazy. I mean, he's been lamenting his loss all
these years. I think there's a picture in his wallet.
Exit up out a Fresca exit swolling down the Jason
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my base
friend Mike Harmon. Going to the fourth quarter in Oklahoma City.
It is the Spurs or the seven point lead, no
d Aaron Fox has been okay for them so far. Yeah,
and the kids are all right. Eighty to seventy three
is the lead, wenby twenty one and thirteen, No surprise there. Meanwhile,
(16:48):
for the Thunder, it is still an Alex Caruso night.
He has nineteen SGA your NBA MVP three out of
ten for ten points so far tonight for the Thunder,
so one. On one side, you could say, Hey, I'm
feeling okay because we're going to the fourth quarter. He's
(17:10):
not gonna have that terrible a game. Out the other hand,
I'm going, wow, he's really struggling against this Spurs defense.
So yeah, you pick your poison for the next twelve minutes. Yeah,
it's gonna be fun. They're up fourteen and a half. Okay,
right to the gambling. Well, you know, hey, let's not
be coy about it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
It's part of it's part of the machine that makes
it all right over the gambling now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
SGA has been a nod factor. So it's curious.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
And we talked about it, you and I before we
got on air, just the radio broadcast for those couple
of minutes as we're finishing our commute and uh several
times going yeah, Wemby's just playing a zone, just kind
of floating. It's not really guarding anybody, daring you to
get hot from the outside.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, So we'll see if that continues under the fourth
Oh so more on this end of the fourth quarter,
but just a little bit more on SJA before we
get into Ronda Rousey and Gina Carno SGA. It comes
out early shams Tarania of ESPN lets it slip a
day ago. SGA is going to win back to back MVPs. Now,
this was supposed to be let go on the streaming
(18:15):
on the game last night, and it was supposed to
be announced there and it was not, and I'm sure
the league wanted to wait and have that announcement on
the broadcast better for the league. However, Sean's saying what
many insiders have said for the past few years, it's
not my job to help the NBA, even though I
could argue, well, it kind of is a little bit
just to we bit. You want to help the business
(18:36):
of it, you know, but okay, but you do you.
You're all about you. I understand that. That's what insiders are,
So I get that. And there's been such a big
backlash today of oh, should he have saved it? The
information should he have? Not?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Is he is?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
He beholden to working for a rights holder to be
able to let it go. But it's not on their
air what to help the sport. And I didn't see
it from that perspective. I looked at it from this
and I just I looked at it from this is streaming,
Welcome to the NBA. This is what you've gotten involved in.
This is stuff you have to police, right. You think
(19:09):
everybody's gonna be nice to you, and this is what
it's like. This is you want to you want you
want to get in the NBA. You want to get
the rights here on peacock and all you want to
This is the NBA. This is stuff you gotta deal
with all right now, I want to see I want
to see them say something or how do you how
do you how do you not run roughshot over them?
The rest of the way. I know you knew to
the game, but this is a welcome to the NBA moment.
(19:30):
This is how you deal with it. When WOJ was
tip and picks in the NBA draft, yeah, NBA everybody
they found a way to get around to say, Okay,
we're not tipping picks anymore. Right, that was a big thing.
And then suddenly the picks were tipped as much as
they were. So this is now where I look at
it as this is the game. You can like it,
not like it and think the choms should be able
to hold back or you know, but he's got information,
(19:50):
so he's got to say it. But it's really this
is on you. You want it for your broadcast. This
is the whole thing. You got to figure out a way.
Welcome to the NBA. Yeah, there's a couple of things
to it.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Number one, he was the prohibit favorite and all betting
markets so I could ask the guy at the end
of the bar and he would have been a really
good source. Lasga was winning MVP. So if Shams had
posted here's how the voting went.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Right, No, no, legitimately.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I mean this like so because I did my show
with Ryan Holland yesterday, there are the.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Names of the voters and how they voted.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But with that level of specificity, then I'm looking side
high and I'm going, but him just tweeting out and
I saw someone going, well, maybe he just had one
that was scheduled and it went he picked AM instead
of PM for it or something like to that eat.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, because that's what insiders doing. Oh sorry, I just
had to. I didn't know I had the raw head
AM instead of PM. Sorry guy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To your point about the tipping of picks, here's the thing,
those rights contracts, they're not so ironclad, right, So do
enough stuff to piss off the league and the balance
of moneies that are coming in from all these new
entities like Amazon, You're not just gonna get slapped on
the wrist. That's the potential where ESPN ABC gets a
(21:03):
little bit more than that. If Shams keeps that up,
and we could talk about, you know, the insider role. Hey,
I have information, I should go with it. And again,
not a whole lot of specificity. If Mike Garment of
Fox Sports Radio post that, yeah, s G, s G,
you know s G he's gonna win this.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, we all knew that, right, But you're not an
insider with with with with access to inside information. You're
not someone that can be told that you don't know that.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I could know someone that that's in the league, and
all I got to see I was right.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Well, but if you are, if you post s G
a is going to be named m v P. Okay,
if you post I spoke to someone my sources playing
with the guy in the place, the NBA sources tell
me that he's going to MVP, then that's different. That's okay,
I talk to somebody. Now this is this gets out?
And how does this get out? Now, Shan's it's it's
worse because this is a guy that you think, okay,
he you know, he has the best basketball interest in mind,
(22:00):
and when he does this, that's kind of dirty pool.
But this is also ESPN battling against streaming. Everybody's battling
with each other. This is where that's why I say
it's your welcome to the NBA moment. This is how
the game goes. You think someone gets that they're not
gonna do it. No, now you have to find a
way to have that not happen when you want that
on your ay, when you have.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That, well so, but that becomes the question. It's the
the onus is now on the league if they care, right,
because this has always been leaked. It's all just a
question of of how much you want to get mad
about it. In this case, it was we're gonna do
this presentation as part of our inaugural run here on
Amazon Amazon. So they got a little pissy about it
(22:38):
and it took their shots, and then Chams did his
victory laps, like, okay, this was a nothing right in
terms of insider stories for the most part, we've talked
about it for a long time, like there are those
that are kind of big stories and then it goes huh,
transactional shrug, move on. This was in the case of
all right, again, if he suddenly had the list, I
(22:59):
can name names this guy of insert entity X voted
this three, this, five, or he left SGA off altogether. Okay,
now he got something but in this case, he leaked it.
Folks got mad, and we'll see if the league bothers
to respond. But where it can be is if this continues,
(23:20):
you're playing with fire a little bit when you're talking
about the amount of money that gets spent on these rights.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Welcome to the NBA. That's what you want in you're in.
I hope it becomes a fight, though, you really do.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I hope it's not just a bunch of media folks
doing the verbal slap fight and you know, poison pen
of Oh, this is the sanctity of the awards ceremony.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Who cares? We got the recap and what to know
about the Ronda Rousey Gina Carrano fight coming up next.
But right now, time to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called
the Shams Tarani of Fox Sports Radio, when he knows something,
he'll tell you. It's Steve Disaga.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
The Cleveland Cavaliers are going going to the NBA Finals. Oh,
I'm sorry that it hasn't started yet. Yeah, Vice tomorrow tomorrow,
put that out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah all right, Steve, Okay, Steve and Steve Desager's car
has just been keyed and it says go next, go
on the side.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
By the way you were talking about the MVP announced
with two straight years, SGA from Oklahoma City has won
NBA MVP. If that's enough abbreviations for you, that's good.
But every retired player who has won consecutive MVPs is
now in the Hall of Fame and shake Giljess Alexander
has finished top five for MVP now four years in
a row. So then you come into Game one of
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the West Finals tonight and he had one basket in
the first half, one of five shooting. He'd gone two
and a half years with at least two field goals
made in the first half of every game. He'd played
two hundred and seventy straight games in the playoffs, including
playoffs until tonight, and Victor wemben Yama and company are
(24:56):
now up eighty seven seventy seven nine minutes to go
in Game one at defending champion OKC when min Yama
when he was on the court in the first half,
his spurs were a plus fifteen. They were a minus
eight in the five minutes with him.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Off the court.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Wem min Yama has twenty five points fifteen rebounds. In
this one, forty five percent shooting for the visitors, just
forty percent shooting for OKC, which was down seven to
nothing quickly. Fortunately, they do have Jalen Williams back in
the lineup, seventeen points for him tonight. The thunder starter
had missed their previous six games with a strain hamsterring
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Alex Caruso with twenty two off the bench. It's now
Spurs eighty seven to eighty at OKSEE with about eight
minutes to go in Game one. The East Final start Tuesday,
Cleveland at New York. In the regular season, the Knicks
won fifty three games. Cleveland won fifty two because New
York beat him two out of three during the season.
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That's why tomorrow's game is at Madison Square Garden. The
Cavs just dominated a game seven at top seeded Detroit's
In the NBA. By the way, there's been at least
one game seven road winner in each of that last
eleven seasons. The Pelicans new head coach Jamal Moseley was
just fired by Orlando after five years there. WNBA Dallas
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won at home easily against Washington ninety two sixty nine.
There's a game seven to and the second round of
the NHL Playoffs, and they've just started overtime at Buffalo.
The Sabers, who had trailed to nothing, are tied with
Montreal to two. The New York Mets have gone nuts
and extra innings top of the twelfth. The lead is
now eleven to six at the Nationals. Still a rain
(26:37):
delay in Minnesota, with the Twins up three to nothing
on the Houston Astros in the bottom of the fifth
thanks to two Josh Bell home runs, Rocky six to
three over the Rangers bottom of the sixth. A's at
Angels scoreless in the bottom of the fourth. Angels barely
scored it all over the weekend against the Dodgers. I
believe it was thirty one to three. They were unscored
in the three games. Mariners have a Julio Rodriguez homer
(26:59):
and lead one nothing on the White Sox bottom of
the third. Diamondback's got a first inning grand slam from
Nolan Arenado now lead the Giants five to two bottom
of the third, and the Padres lead the Dodgers one
nothing bottom of the fourth thanks to a first inning
home run against La starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Tampa Bay is
still three games over the Yankees in the Al East.
The Rays won sixteen to six against Baltimore. Yankees held
(27:23):
on seven six over Toronto. Victories for Boston and Miami.
Philadelphia won its fifth straight Milwaukee, a nine to three
winner at the Cubs beating show to Imonauga and Cleveland
sent Detroit to another loss, eight to the final on
FS one tonight the loss to from Bervaldez. While the
Guardians have won six of seven, the Tigers have lost
(27:43):
eleven of thirteen.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though, Jason Smith, Mike
Carmen Lott and the Fox Sports Radio studios. So the
Toronto Ronde ROUSI fight this weekend, yay, talking about how
excited I was to see it, couldn't wait, love the intro,
everything about it. Awesome seeing them come in. We talked
about Gina Carrano's journey and then it's over in seventeen
(28:07):
seconds and Ronda Rowsey goes in, tackles her, hits her
a couple of times, gets you a little woozy arm bar,
and it's over. As we talked about, not surprise the result, right,
Not surprised that Ronda Rousey won. I said, if it
goes more than ninety seconds, I'll be stunned. Like this
should be Ronda Rousey in the first thirty seconds and
turns out thirteen seconds. She didn't need I'm just gonna
(28:29):
win this.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
It's just like old times, right, But nrd McGregor, Ronnie
Rowsey might tyson all the heavyweights in there.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
But that's the thing now is is again like and
I feel like I got taken in, right. I feel
like I'm a rube and I got taken in again
because I told you stuff like this. Nostalgia wise, I
don't really care for because it doesn't matter to me.
I don't need to see Mayweather fight again, or Pachiao
or any of you know, anybody that's well past the prime,
especially when it's gonna be a money grab. And we
(28:57):
spent all that time and effort and money for Pacio
and whether to just hold each other up for a
few rounds of walk away and go hey. We each
made a lot of money. Now may where they made
a hundred million and Pacquiao made fifty minute whatever it was.
But seeing Manny Pacquiel running off, running out of the
ring with smiles at the end of the fight, I said, Okay,
how much did he really exert himself right like, I
mean seriously away. This is where I felt, Okay, no,
(29:20):
this is Rowsy and Coronto and it was it just
had that it factor about it. And then after seventeen seconds,
I said, I got taken in again because it was
obvious Ronda to the point where I knew Ronda Rowsey
would come out like Ronda Rousey. She only knew one
way to fight. She's not gonna find a way to
try to make it a long fight. She's gonna get
in there right away. And this fight's gonna end early,
and it will end in Ronda Rowsey's favor because she's
(29:43):
the much more season fighter. She's younger, and and and
Gina Carano had the last year and a half of
not just getting in shape to fight, but losing one
hundred pounds. It's hard to prepare for a fight. Gina
Carono looked like, you know what, I'm just gonna go in.
I'm gonna lose. I know I'm gonna lose, but in
the end of it, get paid. And after seventeen seconds
she's smiling in the ring. Like less than thirty seconds
(30:04):
after the fight, is over and that's it. And I
felt like, you know what, I just got taken in
again because right away you find out Ronda Rowsey got
two million and Gina Corno got a million, and I'm like, okay,
not quite the purse that that Mayweather and uh and
Pacio got. But still I felt like I just watched
another money grab and I feel I feel like a
rube because I got taken in again by this, because
that's exactly what it was. Well, it's part of what.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
We talked about on Friday leading into it, and the
only way I thought Coronto could realistically win would maybe
be to catcher right on that initial drive and push through.
And we saw the video from their training rooms in
the moments before. Right here's the last look into the
and it was literally Rousy doing that move to her
sparring partner. Fifteen seconds, I think is what they timed
(30:48):
it at. Yeah, as the they're doing the voiceover and
talking about and that's that's what I would expect, that
kind of move and lo and behold moments later, that's
what we got for Gina Carano, right she had the
lawsuiting against Disney and all of that that went through
that got settled trying to make her name again. This
was a way to get yourself thrust back into the limelight.
(31:10):
Ronda Rousey one of the things that was hanging in
the balance. She's also got a biopic that is in
the offing offer memoir. So this is a nice tie
a bow on it, isn't it the last time.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
She's in a ring?
Speaker 5 (31:23):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Everybody get to see it.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
And I went in seventeen seconds, a nice full circle
moment to when she was dominating the women's division and
setting the world on fire, going back when you were
trying to figure out, hey, would she get with the kid?
That kind of thing. So look, I like the nostalgia
part of it and all these circumstances because we get
to go back and look at the progression. Right, we
(31:49):
go back to the beginning, We go back through the trials,
we go back to the comebacks and all of those
kind of things, and if nothing else, we put ourselves
back in those years for a moment, and I think
there's some value to that. You don't want to live there, right,
you don't want to stay in those moments, but it's
good to have those snapshots of what was going on
when that fight went down, the year and the month,
(32:10):
whatever whatever's going on in your personal life and in
the greater sporting universe, and then you get back to reality,
and this puts you back to reality of she's finishing
her career, Rousey's saying, hey, I got one more w
and Corado's saying, look at me, I'm ready for Hollywood again.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh that's good. Right, we made up.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
And if you feel like you got got it's okay.
It's like every other relationship, you get burned. You got
to get back on that horse, buddy, and find the
next bit of nostalgia to cling to.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
What do you got, Frostburg? Did you really think Jake
Paul was gonna be honest with the Fighter? Come on,
well he wasn't. He didn't get the biggest money grabs
since the last biggest money.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Get in the Hexagon, So that wasn't you know. But
all of these are the same, the same drill. It's
a made for TV event. It's just this side of again.
I saw that guy's name on it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I was, you know, I got sucked. I don't know,
I just got sucked in. This is how you get
sucked in backlash, I know, I know it sucked in game.
I feel yeah, game, hey, hey listen, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you are fear watching James Harden highlights. I have I
have no time for that because I have the Eastern
Conference Finals tomorrow. I have Nixon fis starting to almost.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
As fixed as Calves Pistons was yesterday. You saw they
ran an ad Calves Nicks.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They did they did before. Yeah, I'm waiting they were right.
I'm waiting for the I'm waiting for the Knicks. Oh.
I tell you want to know something, you want to
know something? Ready, you guys ready for this. Long Island
rail By the way, Long Island Railroad went on strike today?
Yeah they did. Hey l r R and strike. Big
story today, right LA r R is on strike? Last time
Long Island Railroad went on strike? What happened nineteen ninety four? OJ?
(33:50):
Who was in the NBA finals in nineteen ninety That
it is true. OJ did it that year? Go New York? Hey,
oh to Mark Furman too soon man running?
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Mark Furman he go yeay died.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Today running Calves Knicks before the game starts the next level.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Go New York, go to How much money do you
think came in after that? Ad that ad ran into
the betting hell.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Glorious this is gonna be for all of us when
they get swept by James Harden.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Not happening, man, that is not happening. Not happening except
to a guy angel hat Nix And what did I
tell you?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
I told you the Calves are gonna wait. I really
thought Harden would be better. But shaming Donovan Mitchell while
everybody else went after James Harden seemed to work out
for me.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, not a great look. Not a great look. Uh
So we got more NBA on the way eighty nine
eighty two, a seven point Spurs lead, six minutes left
to go. We got more on this, We got the
play of the day, and I have the best story
of the weekend by far. Really come right.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My bes
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
That is not John Cena.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Spurs trying to hold on ninety one eighty six, four
and a half to go in the fourth quarter, barn
Burder a Game one Spurs playing without the Aaron Fox.
So far they've been just fine. Meanwhile, Canadians and the
Sabers Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinal spot against
the Carolina Hurricanes in the offing for whoever comes up
(35:36):
with the game winning goal in overtime, and right now
it is absolute insanity in Buffalo in overtime.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
And had ten thousand of those beer Sabers ready to
go tonight hand.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But before we get to that, we have the play
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you have a stat line of twenty five, sixteen and three.
Doesn't matter if the game is over, Wemby, you get
to be the player of the day.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Assle the basketball the whoa goo right side now brus
So picking him up spots when Minyo and he swams
it down on the head of Holt Grand inside and
victor wen Minyama has got a first half double double.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Now Spurs Radio on the call, Now Frosburg. Why Wemby
for the play of the day. Well, i've seen the
ad Oh, okay, okay, the okay, very good seeing the
Spurs and the finals. The Spurs in the finals. Ad. Whoa,
I thought you meant, like you know, Spur game two,
Spurs with a one nothing lead. I didn't know that. Oh,
I'm not wasting your time with that. Yeah, fresh and salty.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
After losing the MVP voting and the rivalry with Chet
to this point, Wemby on a mission.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
How about we have an Eastern Conference Finals in hockey?
You got a Caroline Hurricanes and who say? I got
the Canadians in the final? Whoa, we got the advanced
press joking what I did? No, I see what you did?
That was straight past and he left the s off
for saying I again, I'll tell you what I told
you two and a half weeks ago. If it's not
(37:15):
the Hurricanes and the Avalanche and the Stanley Cup finals,
something is wrong. Told you that the all right? If
you've seen it, and you've seen the Hurricanes in it,
that's great. If you've not. We got to talk. We
gotta talk here. Uh so you've not seen the Calves
in the finals ad? You've just seen a Calves Nicks ad.
Right so far? Okay, all right, middle of Game one.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
Now he's been staring down the television monitor, just waiting
with baited breath for that next ad to advertise not
tomorrow's game, but the next series. The graphic already having
been built. There's a picture of Alex Caruso.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Man. So again, we'll have more on that coming up
in a few minutes. I'm sure in ten minutes will
be breaking down. Game one again is to be the
Spurs holding on the Canadians. Meanwhile, speaking of breaking it down, Frostburg,
if you did see an ad for the Easts Finals,
we now know who the Carolina Hurricanes will play, and
(38:14):
it is the team that I said five minutes ago.
If I have to pick between the Sabers and the Canadians,
I think I'd rather play the Canadians. I'm going to
get my wish. The Canadians in overtime beat the Sabers
three to two. Oh Man, guys are throwing, throwing uniforms
and throwing away. It is some kind of scene right now.
(38:37):
Sticks are breaking on the ice, The sabers are extremely
They just look like a thousand yard stair right now.
The Canadians celebrating on the ice again a final in overtime.
Montreal wins it three to two. So now we know
the Final four and the NHL we had the Golden
Knights and the Avalanche. They'll start Wednesday and then Thursday
we'll get the Eastern Conference Final, the Carolina Hurricanes to
(39:00):
the Montreal Canadians. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Watching the replay as it flows in, I mean, just
not a lot of defensive pressure as they skated into
the zone able to get it straight on net.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Yeah, I can't tell if it got deflected on the
way in New hook with the shot. No, it just
looks like it was a flutterball, just a flutterball. Looks
like it just fluttered between buy Yeah, but between his
between his glove and his pad. Uh yeah, just a
flutterball that goes between the glove and the pad and
that wins it enough traffic in front to obscure the
vision just a little bit. And how many times do
(39:33):
you hear you know, you get to overtime and it's
one of those crazy fluky goals that decides a Stanley Cup.
Buff over with thumb right. You know you coached your
daughter's soccer team. What are you doing? Stop playing with
the ball?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah, eighteen passes is like a long protracted drive in
the NFL. Eventually something bad is gonna happen. Just put
the ball on net, and that and that and that's
the one with the puck on net. That's one thing
I always say this. I said, you know what the
prettiest sight is. You know, you go around, Oh, make
it a fact. The prettiest is the goalie picking the
ball out of the back of the net. The prettiest
sight is the puck hit in the back of the
net and you celebrate. I don't doesn't Matt doesn't need
(40:07):
to be a great play It could be the biggest
of garbage goals. But this the the urgency to get
a shot on goal and get the puck in the net.
I mean that's what you saw right here. I mean,
new hook.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
This was a I mean, it's got seven goals so
far in the play I still having a really good playoff,
but this is one of those just I don't think
he even got it. I think it came off as
stick funny and you would see it right off. It's
just it's just just floating up and and and again.
You see that sweet spot between the between the glove
and the and the pad. And now it's the Canadians
going on.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, it's like when the villains were trapped in that
that film in Superman two and they're floating in the prism,
floating and it's rotating end over end and they're making
faces or whatever before it gets shattered in they're release
same thing here, it gets released into the back of
the net. We got gloves flying saltiness. I mean, you
had that thousand yards stare because once again unable to
(41:00):
take care of business on home ice this time.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Well, and you think about the journey of Terrence stamp right,
he gets you know, he gets exiled to space, he
comes back, then he gets exiled again, then he comes
back as chancellor Forlorum, and what happens he gets exiled
after that, Like that's been this whole that was his
whole career.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Well, in between that, he also sang one hell of
the rendition of Billy Joel's Lullaby in the song.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Back of Exiled, Backham Exile, The back of exile. Let
me do it. It's my entire career. I'm back now.
I'm gone. I'm back. I'm gone, I'm back. I'm gone.
Uh So, coming up next again, I promised the best
story of the weekend. Plus, are we talking about Wemby
and the Spurs or is it a big comeback for
the Thunder? It is a two point game with two
minutes left to go, the Spurs trying to hold on
(41:45):
ninety four and ninety two. BOYD, do we have something
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