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So the NBA is coming back to end, Michael Jordan
is coming back to do stuff for NBC. The Nicks
and the Pacers are gonna be in the East Conference Finals.
It really is the nineties again, Mike Harmon, Get ready
celebrate parachute pants, really bold colors. Then you segue into
(01:17):
the grunge. Okay, that's fine, but it is then I
love the nineties. It is the nineties again when we
peaked as a species in the world. The nineteen nineties
are coming back and they are in your face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
In rewind, we go back and turn back the clock
to all the music and TV. I mean about watching
ed YPD Blues. So it's only appropriate in a rewatch
that we've got that Reggie Miller is on calling games.
Oh yeah, so he'll be part of the action and
the nineties, talking about all of those Nicks and Pacers
battles and whatever. Michael Jordan's role is. If nothing else,
(01:50):
it gets people up in arms for a minute, remembering
simpler times, no cell phones, you'd have to the internet.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Ings the internet was new, some people had the Internet.
You mean, I can talk to people and it's really
just okay.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well there you were an elitist at that point though,
in the early in the early nineties. I mean, that's
that's where you're talking your high rank government, you know, employee.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, that's that's where.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
People started to have, like the messaging systems at work.
We're like, oh, I could just send you a quick
message on the computer.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh, okay, yeah, A lot of bad things happened to
that at the end of the nineties at Yahoo because
we had super IDs, so people would start screwing with employee,
you know, fellow employees. They did not like you sent
what I swear I didn't. Oh no, it was them
on this conterminal supercomputer.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Want to watch Nick Pacers tonight? Yes, Rick Smith's will
have a big night for the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Nobody was texting or messaging about the dunkin Dutchman.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, I don't know how the Knicks are going to stop,
either Anthony or Dale Davis.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, send the Davis is No, that's good. I like that.
It's the nineties, man, get ready, you knew what was happening.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And by the way, before we go any further, it
was about ten days ago people said, oh, you're Jason,
You're just crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's a hot take. You looking for attention. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When I said Knicks Pacers East Finals, no, wait a minute.
And then a few days later was it's nice Nicks
and the Pacers. Yeah they well, Cat's great. Still it's
Celtics and the Cabs. Yeah, okay, okay, now.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Nix pays about but the two of those things can
and then are not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And then and then a few days went by. Then
a week ago we said, Smith, what am I going
to wish for? Us to lose what you wish for?
I have no choice. We're gonna play the pacers. If
we move on, they're destined to lose to the pace.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We're sweeping the pacers. Okay, we'll see you soon, Indiana.
We got some sor we'll talk about that a minute.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We got some for But going back to to your
point about hot takes and and needing a hug and
all of those things. Those that's not necessarily untrue the
fever dream that you had to try to arrive at
this moment. Yeah, the voodoo doll you've been carrying of
Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Stop, that's no, that's not stop. That's bad, that's that's dirty.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Pool right now, coin clips that the bulls don't win
at draft lotteries. All of these things are things you've
been trying to bring into existence, and suddenly the universe
has smiled down upon you in this moment, normally hitting
you in the back of the head, uh, you know,
kind of bringing you towards the crossroads, and then just
(04:25):
saying no, no, no, you're not ready for this stuff yet.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now you're actually there.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Now all the things you've been wishing for are coming
to this moment, festering building to this Eastern Conference Finals.
Just maybe tomorrow, maybe it gets put off a couple
of days, but it seems.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And I can see the showing up tomorrow going yeah, whatever, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Celtics have another game where they shoot the lights out?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How losing this game with no Jason Ted I can absolutely,
I'm all, I'm already seeing that come this game or
suddenly he doesn't look like he's heard show, or but
then there'll be the game six, anointment of the Knicks
into the Eastern Conference. Look, because I'll clear, I'll be
clear with you. Like my brain like during the day
now and and and times when I when I think
about the Knicks, it's it's like my brain is like
(05:15):
the the beginning guitar solo of Mammoths, the end that
just came out about a week. A little bit of that,
a little bit of that, a little bit of in
the end. Yeah, right here, this is my brain with Nicks.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Next, next, next, yes, the next, We're going to the finals.
We're beating the Celtics. We're gonna sweep the pacers. Here
come the drums. Way too many brain cells. Brain's still going,
brain still going. Now, is he?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Is he gonna always dad? Just state anything for kind
of going towards eruption?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Uh no, I think Wolfgang van Halen is good everything?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, I think or is he actually at this point
he kind of do what he wants. I think he
can that if Ja b Roth gets pissed off.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh I don't think. I don't think Diamond Dave can
get him on the stage again.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't think smiling like a ches cat happened like
his dad on the on the solo. But that's my
brain now, okay with it. I mean it really is
is insane. But this is what's happening. And I said, look,
I said, hey, Knicks pacers X pay.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No no no. Then a week ago, let's revisit.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, no, okay, maybe a tiny bit, Jason, maybe a
tiny bit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Now like oh wait a minute, well Nick Pacer, Oh
wait that's happening. Oh oh oh wait a minute, that's
really really happen. Oh my goodness. He was right all along.
He was right about everything. What's happening.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I might be laid down some money on some futures. Yeah,
or maybe parlayd all of that good fortune.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Maybe you've been treating your family a little better, maybe
a little longer walk with the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car, had it wrapped wrapped
in Nicks, Patrick Ewings, Patrick Ewing's.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Face on one side of it, Hill Jackson's face on
the other. Thought you were saving up for the mobile McDonald's.
I got, well, well that's that's when we get to
the finals. Then I'll be able to buy the mobile McDonald's.
Son by first, can.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
We buy get in on a franchise and actually just
making a food truck.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I wanted McDonald's mobile McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know if today, Yeah, the mobile McDonald's because
you know Trump is meeting in Saudi, probably getting another
plane and uh they they had a mobile McDonald's there
to bring him food, and I'm like, I want to
go to there. I want a mobile McDonald's. I want
like the bookmobile used to drive on my street when
I was a kid. Hey, come get books every Wednesday
from the bookmobile.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I want that mobi mcdonaldile. Oh dude, I wanted to
drive McDonald's. I mean, like ice cream, man was great.
That was one thing. I mean, that was awesome, But man,
a mobile McDonald's to drive up and just stop and go, hey, hey,
you go, what do you want, Big Mac?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How many ice was a menace? How many you want? Yeah?
And what else? You want? Fries? And what else? Shake?
And what else? More? Shakes? And what else?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And a gallon of coffee and and and you know what? Here,
just take my credit card. It'll be like James old
Own says in Field of Dreams. Uh, they'll fork over
twenty dollars a piece without even thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They'll give you there, They'll give you their cash. They
could be washing the memories. I'll get whatever you need.
Just give me stuff off this moultle McDonald's trun and
then I'll follow you around the city so because I can't.
You know, look, you can't stop in my neighborhood the
whole time. You gotta go out the place. But I'll
follow you. Just don't go too fast. I could follow
you and stop. When I'm done. I'm ready to have
something on damn pied Piper. Yah, yeah, buddy, well, they
(08:24):
have the molten lava apple pie available. I think they're
gonna have everything, Mike, except the ice cream obviously. Yeah,
the cream. The ice cream will never be wor broke. Yeah,
machines broke.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Sorry, seems like you get have parlay that into your
own trade school.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What do you do? We just fixed McDonald's ice cream?
What else? What else can I learn here? Nothing? No,
that's it. That's all you got. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I just think maybe that all that when the McDonald's
has decided listen, when the when the machine, when the
ice cream machines break, we're not going to fix them.
Just tell people they're down. It's not worth it. We
don't make enough money on it. We're not gonna kind
of like how uh uh. The story that is he
didn't want to do season two of Hawkeye because it
was too much money, so they low ball Jeremy Renner.
So because they knew he would say, no, we don't
want to do the season, that we don't want to
(09:07):
do the season at all, So we're gonna low ball
Jeremy Renner. He says no, and we don't do Hawkeye too.
That that's kind of what's happening to Mason, just tell
me people more Hailey Steinfeld in my life. It takes
it takes way too much money to fix the ice
cream machines. Just gonna just tell people we were just
not is half the man he used to be. We're
not going to fix them.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He's got you back out. He's back now. Jeremy Renner
is back. Now, he's back. He's back. He's back. Like
the knickxer back. He's back that mixed in the nineties
groove when they did that little pose trying to save
the world.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, oh everything good, what everything old is new again?
We are back in the nineties. And look, let me
just say this right because here here's the Cavaliers, who
it's just a stunning loss for them, uh, falling to
the Pacers. Pacers win at won fourteen one o five,
a game they once led by nineteen. Clearly, yes, regular
season success and postseason success are two completely different things.
(09:59):
But to a little bit deeper than that, the Pacers
are pretty good. This is an Eastern Conference Finals team
from last year. And if you want to go back
and look when the calendar change at twenty twenty five,
not many teams have won more games on the pace left.
I think the Pacers are when the second or third
most games in the NBA since the calendar turned to January, right,
(10:20):
this is it that they almost look like a mirror
image of the Knicks, where you talk about a strong
starting five with guys that have very similar roles. The
bench is somewhat okay, but these are two really similar teams.
I'm already previewing the next.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Of the basin. You've been watching a lot of Andrew
nemhard people.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
People don't give the Pacers credit because and look, and
Pascal Siakim is such a huge addition to them. The
clutch shots he made down the stretch, Halliburton figuring out
okay again, I need to get to the rack, and
he once again took control of the game again a
little bit too inconsistent for my taste. He has too
many games where you say, what was that all about?
But this Pacers team, people don't really they were really good.
(11:00):
But yes, they had a bad start to the season.
But it's a bad first couple of months. You say
bad start, it's it's November December, Okay, the season is
just getting going. But since January again, second or third
best record in the NBA, and so for them to
come in here, and we already told you when the
seat when the series started, the Pacers are a bad
matchup for the for the Cavaliers, because the NBA prehaps
(11:20):
is all about match up, they are a bad matchup.
So when you saw the seat the series start, Yes,
could the Cavaliers maybe have had a better beginning if
they were healthy. Yes, a lot of things went against them,
but this is not as surprising because of those things,
the Pacers were good. They match up really well. We've
seen them do it before. We've seen the Pacers get
to the Eastern Conference finals. Haven't seen Don and Mitchell
(11:41):
get out of the first round. So when you when
you're comparing the two teams and you think about, all,
what a shot with it, you think back and go, well,
maybe not as much as you thought it was going
to be, because this wasn't even a seven game thriller
and escape with a ball that bounced off the rim
three times.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
This was for to one. This was a beatdown.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This was you don't deserve to be on the same
floor as the Pacers. Despite the fact he won sixty
four games in regular season, I just.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Didn't finish the job, right. You look at Donovan Mitchell tonight.
I don't know that I expected to see him play,
but give it the old college try. But he does,
and he puts up twenty five shots. Well, he hits
eight of them. As a team they shoot thirty nine
percent owing to the length and the switching abilities. And
what Carlisle's done with this Pacers squad. You know, Haliburton
(12:24):
didn't put up a ton of shots, but he's ten
to fifteen from the field, hits six three point shots
for the what the game high, well second to Mitchell,
of course, but it comes down with thirty one points.
You get good balance, your guy nemhard. All five starters
in double digits. And here's the stat of it all
home field in home court advantage. We talk about it
(12:45):
in all sports, but certainly basketball in these playoffs hasn't mattered.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Right. You look at the Cavaliers for the year, thirty
six and five at home against teams not from Indiana,
oh and five against the Pacers on the home court.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Bad time and again, and the Pacers good enough to
claw back and to wait you out and come up
with the big stop when it mattered. And that's exactly
what happened here. It looked like they were going to
get back into it. Calves clawed back. You had the
three pointer from Mitchell making it a three point game,
but that was it. Pacers end up distancing themselves and
(13:22):
winning the series.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And now they wait the winner of Boston and New York.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, here we go, and already I've watched Rick Carlisle
is already complaining about the East Finals officiating in his
post game. Now, he's already very upset about how the
East Finals officiated.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He's very upset. He's already trying.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
He's very up to crown you king. He's really mad
last year. He's really mad about the officiating. Already the table.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He actually really a series and get there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Really upset for small market teams not getting a big run.
I mean he's really he is really mad about this.
He's really mad about the East Finals officiating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Justin Smikey, you want to Celtics come back? Any of
this talk?
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(17:00):
Jackson and Buck Weaver and Chick Gandal and Eddie Scott
you know all the way?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Did you like seeing Chick Gandal's name in the list? Yeah,
just freaking. My dad actually said today when I tell
you says Chick Gandal was gonna go Dad, Come on,
it was nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He didn't even play in the majors the year after
the World Series. Okay, he didn't even play it in
the minor leagues. And my dad was like, how do
you know that? I go, Dad, there's very little I
don't know about the nineteen nineteen White Sox, like eight
men honestly of in my movie, theom of all the
movies that I'll have this crazy encyclopedic knowledge of, you know,
to a Caddy shack and cars, eight Men Out is
and die Hard like Top Gun. Eight Men Out is
(17:36):
right there, Like that's like one, Like that's such an outline.
You say, Okay, well I get at Jason, you know,
t all the but eight Men Out.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I've seen eight Men Out at least one hundred times.
I like the number of lines I'm gonna get to
run tonight on eight Men Out is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, that one shows up on PBS every now and again.
It's like, I gotta watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But eight Men Out on PBS really.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, they started showing movies, remember, because you can't it
can't produce a lot of the TV shows that It's true. Yeah,
you go to things that are educational, historic nineteen nineteen
and that, and that counts at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
But yeah, I actually have.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
A an old uh eight Men Out, uh first edition
signed poster uh book.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Oh okay, yeah, oh, very actual novel. Wow, how geared
and whatever, but it's beautiful, signed by by by by
Shulis Juid.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You have an X on there, signed by Oh, I
added that, and so it's suspect.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You gotta sign to be a witness, Joe. Everybody signed
in the egg test might fast, might fail. It's like
that kind of that didn't exist.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Just an X. That's something that's like a scam. My
dad would try to pull. What shueless? Joe's an X,
you know is an X right there? He's not sign
his confession with an X. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
How come when I when I when I when I
put my thumb over the penned.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Streaks right, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Maybe there's one of those long lasting pens or a
quill from nineteen I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Its signed in blue sharpie.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
So it's I've replicated this signature one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's signing an outline pen that didn't come around until
the early nineteen nineties. Strangely enough, when the Knicks and
the Pacers would face off in the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
See how it all comes back, Jason, who's that guy
that scored against the Knicks like nine points in three seconds?
The guy that's on the air now broadcaster. We did
celebrate that anniversary, not Marv Albert. Yes, yes, look at
this and your face. Larry Johnson didn't say how many
(19:26):
back bites?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh hey, you know there's no stop with the backbiting.
Think we don't need that here, Come on, this is
Nick's Pacers ninety ankle bite happening.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What else was going on there? Seven? That was Jeff Van.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Gundy grabbing grabbing the ankles of a lines all morning.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Look, yes, we will continue to preview the Knicks Pacers
Eastern Cup. But the guy who win one more game? Yeah, yeah, details.
But the Cavaliers go home and there's there's a huge
reality that they're close to Wait till I tell you
what it is. You want a great hot take for
the night. But the most stunning thing watching this, like
what what represents the fall of the Calves. We're the
(20:05):
best team in the NBA for most.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Look, you want to split hairs between them and the
Celtics and the Thunder and at least two of those
teams look like they're going down in the second round,
maybe all three. Nothing is more what happened to the
Calves than the end of this game when they're coming
back and they cut it to three one oh six,
one hundred and Donovan Mitchell gets fouled shooting a three.
He's eighty percent from the free throw line, eighty percent,
(20:32):
and he goes to the free throw line. This is
with a minute left to go, and he misses all
three free throws, all three of them, and then comes
back after in the next possession and it's a three
to make it a three point game. Right This is
the Cavaliers basketball. Mitchell is hot, bringing them back all
by himself. And then when the gimme happens, when okay, well,
(20:53):
at least get two out of three, we'll cut it
to four. He misses all three. If he was a
bad free throw shooter, I get it. But you miss
all three, you're eighty percent. If something doesn't tell you
playoff basketball is not your friend and changes need to
be made. That's the that's the instance right there. Hey
the cat, Look, we told you Pacers are really good
(21:14):
to get a top three NBA records since January first,
there'd been a bad matchup for the Caves for a while.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Mike told you what the records were. How many how
often the Indiana Pacers win in Cleveland. It's a bad matchup.
But you talk about playoffs and pressure and putting and
putting games away. How does an eighty percent free throw
shooter miss three free throws and he missed the last
one horribly. He missed that last one. When is Mitchel Robinson? Well, no, no, no, yeah,
(21:40):
there's been a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Artic, well, I mean a little a little more stylt
and he didn't miss any under the basket, like because
Mitchell Robinson finds a way to miss them actually under
the basket, which I've never seen before, like on a
line drive that misses the rim and like bounces into
the first row.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I mean this last the last one was way off
the back of the iron, high in there. Like it
got worse for him as it went on, and you
can tell he had bad body language and and and
it was stunning. I mean again eighty Like watching the
other night when when Chet Holmgren cast him a game
missing two free throws. He's a seventy five percent free
throw shooter, and he misses two at the end of
the game opens a door for the for the Nuggets
(22:18):
to win Game one. I mean, eighty percent, You're the
big star and you missed three free throws. This is
the Cavaliers playoff cry for help that you didn't know
they needed. You thought they were fine. Oh they got
nine guys, they go deep, they got all their guys back. No,
they need something, and I'll tell you what it's gonna be.
You ready for this?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This is what's opened the door tonight with the Calves
losing in such a shocking fashion the Pacers moving on
to the East Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
He missed six free throws overall by the Yeah, twenty
shot twenty one, made a ton of them in the
fourth court.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
H yeah, yeah, and then that sequence.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, someone in the fifth row must have had a
cool sign or something, and the curtain of distraction came
to came to their home court.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are close to this resil happening probably in a year,
and if the boy, I'd love to see the Lakers
get aggressive on this, because boy, that would be something.
But the door is open for Lebron to finish his
career back in Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland obviously needs something, right.
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You saw another first round playoff flame out. Donovan Mitchell
is a terrific player and I love him. He's a
Mets fan, but not been out of the first round.
If you can't get out of the first round. When
you're a sixty four win team, you need something. But
you have a lot of good young players. They but
what do you need? You need someone that's gonna take
the pressure off of your team. Because that's what I
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saw is a team that wasn't up for the pressure. Again,
three missed free throws in the final minute. That tells
you we are not ready.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
They were gassed. They didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It looked like the Cavaliers they broke down. They were
playing too much ISO basketball and Mitchell and Garland started
taking too many shots in the middle of the game
and allowing this comeback by the Pacers. Because their offense
Scott stagnant. They need something and someone to take that
pressure off of them. Enter Lebron James, who can finish
his career exactly how he wants to. I can go
back to Cleveland and maybe win another championship. Because the
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Lakers clearly they have kind of one foot one arm
on Lebron's shoulder. He is at arm's length with them.
It is now Luca's team. You saw what happened in
this playoffs. They now are rebuilding a round. Look a
look when they traded Anthony Davis away you could tell
this is the beginning of we're moving away from Leblon
Lebron James era. The fact of that he and Anthony
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Davis had so much control over the team and Rich
Paul and clutch sports and maneuvers they wanted to make
and players they wanted to bring in that didn't work.
They are pushing Lebront. You can just see. You can
just tell they are embracing Luca and we're gonna give
Luca what. They're gonna get a center in the offseason
so we can have a room runner up and down
the floor with It'll make things much different for him.
But Lebron is kind of on the outside of that
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circle now.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And this year is the big year because if they don't,
they don't make it out of the first round again.
Lebron is definitively gone. He's got one more year, fifty
million dollars left. He's not gonna opt out of his
and to give money for the Lakers to sign anybody.
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's out what Lebron does because you know, to win,
I really want to win, but I'm not gonna give
money back. It's you know, how can I win? Ricky
by Yeah, if you would, I can, if you would.
So they drafted Brony for him, They did everything for him,
and he's not gonna do that. The best thing that's
gonna happen, and this is how it's. Guy can see
it happening now, him finishing in Cleveland. Olive branches all around,
you'll see a little bit of hey, oh, I never
(25:29):
know where I thought about where I might finish, but
I want to finish at home. Who That's how things
are going to go. And this loss by Cleveland open
things up to it because who else you're gonna have
to come in.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You're gonna trade away part of your your core. It's
gonna be difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But Lebron, hey, I'll go back and finish because he's
got another cup, two, three good years left. We see
the level he's playing at right now. But the Lakers
want to move on. They're gonna give it this year.
I'd love to see him get aggressive and do it now.
That'd be fantastic, but they want to give it this year.
So it doesn't like they pushed him out too early.
But this is the door is open now for Lebron
(26:04):
to finish as a Cleveland Cavalier. In fact, if I
was going to Vegas with money and you said to me,
how the next couple of years is gonna go. This
year Lebron in La then the next two years Lebron
and Cleveland, and that's how he finishes.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Look at you.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I love the conspiratorial part of it, right coming off
of the draft lottery yesterday and all the chaos. And
to those that said anybody talking about that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Get away from the keyboard, go do something else with
your life.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
There's too many circumstances, including Lebron James showing up in
Cleveland back in the two thousand and three draft, for
people to not at least raise their eyebrows and to
say something is hard, you know, like the Lakers or
Clippers winning a title. At this point is it's not impossible.
You can still make a run. But for Lebron, you're
looking at what he's left. He's got the twenty four
(26:56):
to twenty five into the player option this year, which
again he's not even fifty two million. But then he's
an unrestricted free agent, so don't even have to trade him.
He can just play this year out and just say
all right, I'm gonna go home now. For the Cavaliers,
you got a good deep roster, clearly playoff well. Just
stay away from Indiana that would help, and don't let
them play on your home court. That seemed to be
(27:17):
a recipe for disaster. But Lebron James did everything he
could to distance himself.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
From everybody else this year too. Right, as much as
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
May be pushing, you got Lebron pushing his you know,
helping propel himself as well. Going all right, Look, these
ten guys weren't goodenoughs Me and Luca against the world.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Basically all right, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Exactly play particularly well in that series. Austin Reeves gave
you what he had. He's got his limitations defensively. Lebron's
got his limitations at his health. Whatever you believe about
the knee injury, I'm a skeptic. What can I say?
It became a convenient thing to walk away, and Frostbrook's
already working on a trade. He likes my idea of
(27:58):
doing it now instead of first, he does.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'll even drive Lebron in lax.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, I mean you gotta you gotta hear right, so
again into fifty two million dollars. That's where it gets in.
Do I think he's worth fifty two million dollars? If
I'm the Calves? The calves are no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh but that but that's a typical blank you moved
to make where Oh, I'll take less money for the Calves.
But you wouldn't take less money for the Lakers. Nope,
wouldn't do it. Who do you want, Frostburg? What do
you want the deal to be? Who you take for
for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
From the Calves? Yeah? Mitchell and Mobley? Oh wow, Okay,
I don't know that you're getting Mitchell mobiley. Okay, you
get more? I have the salaries matchup? What do we
look at? I don't know. You're gonna get to Dorlan
and Mobley? Okay, Mobley makes a lot of money. He does,
he does, makes a lot of you can make.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You can make the money work, right, absolutely want n't
You can make the money work with that? Okay, all right, Wow,
there we go. So it's gonna be Lebron mobiley and
the free don't forget the free ride to the airport.
Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's true. Free ride to the airport. Yes, and you'll play.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Whatever music he wants right now, You're not gonna play,
you know you and maybe get him a drink or something.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Beat it by Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
The whole Yeah, was on the last year of his
cheap deal. He's up to thirty eight million on the
books for next year.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Hi, Yeah, you can make that work. You can make
that work.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Mitchell at forty eight million, Garland at thirty nine four.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's a lot of hot take.
I'm telling you that.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's how it's good Lebron is going to you know,
the way the season ended, and how really the perception
of Lebron and and the the weight that is put
on having Lebron in LA that the Lakers for the
last year is like, well, we have to have a star.
We got to have them. That's why they kept Lebron
for so long. The Lakers have always all the Lakers
always had a center. No, the Lakers have always had
(29:33):
a superstar. Sure, and so they if they were going
to move on from Lebron after the championship or a
couple of years after, well we don't have a superstar.
We need to have a superstar. Now they have one.
So Lebron has become a little bit more expendable, and
you can tell he is on the outside. He is
outside the circle of trust, Like if you're he is,
you know he is outside where de Niro and everybody
(29:54):
else is in Terry Polo and he's outside the circle.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That was just your way to jam Ben Still or
Nick into the conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
How dare you to say?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
It's like, if you're the Cavaliers bringing in Lebron James,
does that solve chemistry issues?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know I think it does. I think you're bringing
in someone who's gonna be your.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
A guy who's gonna throw you under the bus at
every term.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Is going to take pressure off of a group that
clearly can't handle it. Lebron will take all the pressure.
All everything will be about Lebron. Hey, everything is great,
everything's great. You got a young core. He could teach
you how to win. We'd get through the playoffs. You're
talking about adding a guy and if you don't trade
for him, adding a guy for nothing in a year,
And this is what's happening Cavaliers. If I said I
(30:40):
would go to I would go to Vegas and say
Lebron finish his career at least two years with the Cavaliers.
That's always got to do it right. He's got I'm
gonna go home. He started, he started with his hometown team.
He left, he went back, he left, He's going to
go back to finish taken with him. That could happen.
I could see yea one hundred percent. Who else do
you want?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Then? Who else do you want?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
If if Bron, he's got to go with Lebron, you
may not get anybody.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I mean that deals still there then maybe Yeah, I
believe you can't get Anderson Verajel. You can still get it.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I gotta find the odds of Lebron's next team, get
right in it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I mean, Larry Nance is good Lebron. Sure, Larry Nance Jr.
Both you get you get both Nance's you can get both.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You'll be fine. Mark Price, you'll get him to junior.
He wasn't that good.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Craig Elow. I'm sure he can still hit some threes. No,
you need this other guy hit a three? Especially you
want to trade Nawson Reeves. Ah, you do that, but
get right. Lebron will finish with the Calves.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It'll happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Why today were Pete Rose and Shoeless, Joe Jackson and
Buck Weaver and Eddie Seacott Eddy in thousand in cash
before the first game.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What you heard me?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Why today were they reinstated in the Major League Baseball?
We got that next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 2 (32:26):
The top three season. The NBA are all going down.
But today was a big day in the NFL because
we found in tomorrow we get the big schedule of
every team. Everybody's waiting. I'm gonna figure out my schedule,
my travel plans and all kinds of.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
All two seventy two we're gonna pick them here for
you over four hours now, we're gonna rank them one
through two seventy two, the best game all the way
down to the worst game.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Can't wait, best game to the worst game.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're gonna do it, Jets that bears worst game seventy.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Two, seventy two, seventy two two seven. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But today we found out the international schedule for this year,
and one of the big quirks of this is that
the Vikings play two games back to back overseas. Take
that big eight and a half hour flight over to
the United Kingdom, they play, and then they play again
the following week. First time you've ever seen that. Now
you can go back and forth and say, oh, bad,
bad deal for the Vikings two games overseas.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Back to back.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Nah, I kind of look at it as they'll play
the first game and then they'll have an advantage because
they'll already be over there for the second game that
they're playing the following week.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And both of these are away games for the Viking
Cleveland the second week.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
They're away games. They'll be playing Shador Sanders that second week.
But hey, we're doing this, but we're these are counting.
These are gonna be neutral site games and theory, and
but they're both away games with the Vikings, so really
not that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They don't lose any gate off its. That works well
now for them. So when you see this, you see
here's seven games. Now we're playing internationally in all in
all different cities. What's the future.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Of this, because I think everybody has it wrong as
to what it's gonna wind up being. Because every year
we get the we here to get the international scaled.
When we hear the NFL is tapped out domestically, I
mean they're not, but they're tapped out. But the big
place for growth is overseas. We're gonna see an NFL
team overseas sometime the next year. No, that's not happening, Okay.
Number one, they wouldn't really be an NFL team. You're
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not gonna have a team based in England in Germany
if it's not gonna happen. Number one, because it's too
difficult to have teams play and going over there twice
for twice a season in the division coming back. But
mainly because if you do that, you have it find
it more difficult to grow the game in other parts
(34:35):
of the world because if you have an international team
and let's say plays in London, Okay, you're playing eight
home games a year in London. You're not really playing
any games in Germany. You're not really playing in Brazil,
you're not playing in Mexico. You're not gonna have those
games because you can only send teams so often overseas.
So what you're going to see eventually is what we're
seeing now. Each year, there will be more and more
(34:57):
games overseas. There's gonna be this year, there's se They'll
be eight, they'll be ten, they'll be and eventually you're
gonna get to the point where the overseas games are
gonna be packages that are bid on by a streamer
whoever wants the international rights right. And this is gonna
be something where Sky Sports could bid on them because
we're gonna show it worldwide. Here's a game here. This
(35:19):
is how the future of international football is gonna be.
This is how you continue to grow the game by
having more games in different cities, opening up the NFL
to more audiences in many different countries. Not have the
one team in London or in Germany play there. That's
gonna actually stunt the growth. You want to make sure
the game is getting to as many people as you
want to worldwide, and they're gonna continue to have these games,
(35:39):
and then it'll be bid on and Netflix will bid
five billion dollars for two years of international games, and.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's gonna be more money for everybody's out.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
That's just a question of whether they want to compartmentalize
it into one streamer or they give everybody a little taste. Right,
It's like, hey, here's your amoush bousch. You all get
one so you didn't have to order. The appetizer comes
out automatically. And I think to the international front, you
want to keep it to where everybody that's that's dipped
(36:07):
in and is paying you hundreds of millions of dollars
for right, you're still gonna get one just because you know,
you bring your own legitimacy globally to that. But yeah,
this is also like we'd watch with the Dodgers and
the Angels before him, and all teams where you have
an international player and a superstar. Look at the Luca Dodgers.
(36:27):
How much money they estimated Dallas had lost when suddenly
he wasn't on the board. Certainly in Anaheim, they're trying
to replace all of a ton of money. You're trying
to figure out how to the best encapsulate and get
those dollars corralled. So you're not gonna give up all
those other nations. Yeah, we all funnel back into London.
Makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, next year you'll be eight nine. Then there'll be
ten games and you're gonna have a game every week.
Will be there over So that's how this is going
to go. That's the international.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Football, international relations. Keep piling up cash and gold and gold.
Gotta have gold. Maybe you two will buy him? Oh
about that that freeby that taste. Week one exit out
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get back into the biggest, most shocking story of the
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So the NBA is coming back to end, Michael Jordan
is coming back to do stuff for NBC. The Nicks
and the Pacers are gonna be in the East Conference Finals.
It really is the nineties again, Mike Harmon, Get ready
celebrate parachute pants, really bold colors. Then you segue into
(01:17):
the grunge. Okay, that's fine, but it is then I
love the nineties. It is the nineties again when we
peaked as a species in the world. The nineteen nineties
are coming back and they are in your face.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
In rewind, we go back and turn back the clock
to all the music and TV. I mean about watching
ed YPD Blues. So it's only appropriate in a rewatch
that we've got that Reggie Miller is on calling games.
Oh yeah, so he'll be part of the action and
the nineties, talking about all of those Nicks and Pacers
battles and whatever. Michael Jordan's role is. If nothing else,
(01:50):
it gets people up in arms for a minute, remembering
simpler times, no cell phones, you'd have to the internet.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Ings the internet was new, some people had the Internet.
You mean, I can talk to people and it's really
just okay.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well there you were an elitist at that point though,
in the early in the early nineties. I mean, that's
that's where you're talking your high rank government, you know, employee.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, that's that's where.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
People started to have, like the messaging systems at work.
We're like, oh, I could just send you a quick
message on the computer.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Oh, okay, yeah, A lot of bad things happened to
that at the end of the nineties at Yahoo because
we had super IDs, so people would start screwing with employee,
you know, fellow employees. They did not like you sent
what I swear I didn't. Oh no, it was them
on this conterminal supercomputer.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Want to watch Nick Pacers tonight? Yes, Rick Smith's will
have a big night for the Pacers.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Nobody was texting or messaging about the dunkin Dutchman.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yes, I don't know how the Knicks are going to stop,
either Anthony or Dale Davis.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, send the Davis is No, that's good. I like that.
It's the nineties, man, get ready, you knew what was happening.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And by the way, before we go any further, it
was about ten days ago people said, oh, you're Jason,
You're just crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's a hot take. You looking for attention. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
When I said Knicks Pacers East Finals, no, wait a minute.
And then a few days later was it's nice Nicks
and the Pacers. Yeah they well, Cat's great. Still it's
Celtics and the Cabs. Yeah, okay, okay, now.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Nix pays about but the two of those things can
and then are not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And then and then a few days went by. Then
a week ago we said, Smith, what am I going
to wish for? Us to lose what you wish for?
I have no choice. We're gonna play the pacers. If
we move on, they're destined to lose to the pace.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
We're sweeping the pacers. Okay, we'll see you soon, Indiana.
We got some sor we'll talk about that a minute.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
We got some for But going back to to your
point about hot takes and and needing a hug and
all of those things. Those that's not necessarily untrue the
fever dream that you had to try to arrive at
this moment. Yeah, the voodoo doll you've been carrying of
Jason Tatum.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Stop, that's no, that's not stop. That's bad, that's that's dirty.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Pool right now, coin clips that the bulls don't win
at draft lotteries. All of these things are things you've
been trying to bring into existence, and suddenly the universe
has smiled down upon you in this moment, normally hitting
you in the back of the head, uh, you know,
kind of bringing you towards the crossroads, and then just
(04:25):
saying no, no, no, you're not ready for this stuff yet.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Now you're actually there.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Now all the things you've been wishing for are coming
to this moment, festering building to this Eastern Conference Finals.
Just maybe tomorrow, maybe it gets put off a couple
of days, but it seems.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And I can see the showing up tomorrow going yeah, whatever, hey.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Celtics have another game where they shoot the lights out?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
How losing this game with no Jason Ted I can absolutely,
I'm all, I'm already seeing that come this game or
suddenly he doesn't look like he's heard show, or but
then there'll be the game six, anointment of the Knicks
into the Eastern Conference. Look, because I'll clear, I'll be
clear with you. Like my brain like during the day
now and and and times when I when I think
about the Knicks, it's it's like my brain is like
(05:15):
the the beginning guitar solo of Mammoths, the end that
just came out about a week. A little bit of that,
a little bit of that, a little bit of in
the end. Yeah, right here, this is my brain with Nicks.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Next, next, next, yes, the next, We're going to the finals.
We're beating the Celtics. We're gonna sweep the pacers. Here
come the drums. Way too many brain cells. Brain's still going,
brain still going. Now, is he?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Is he gonna always dad? Just state anything for kind
of going towards eruption?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Uh no, I think Wolfgang van Halen is good everything?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, I think or is he actually at this point
he kind of do what he wants. I think he
can that if Ja b Roth gets pissed off.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Oh I don't think. I don't think Diamond Dave can
get him on the stage again.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't think smiling like a ches cat happened like
his dad on the on the solo. But that's my
brain now, okay with it. I mean it really is
is insane. But this is what's happening. And I said, look,
I said, hey, Knicks pacers X pay.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
No no no. Then a week ago, let's revisit.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, no, okay, maybe a tiny bit, Jason, maybe a
tiny bit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Now like oh wait a minute, well Nick Pacer, Oh
wait that's happening. Oh oh oh wait a minute, that's
really really happen. Oh my goodness. He was right all along.
He was right about everything. What's happening.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I might be laid down some money on some futures. Yeah,
or maybe parlayd all of that good fortune.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Maybe you've been treating your family a little better, maybe
a little longer walk with the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Maybe I bought a Knicks car, had it wrapped wrapped
in Nicks, Patrick Ewings, Patrick Ewing's.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Face on one side of it, Hill Jackson's face on
the other. Thought you were saving up for the mobile McDonald's.
I got, well, well that's that's when we get to
the finals. Then I'll be able to buy the mobile McDonald's.
Son by first, can.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
We buy get in on a franchise and actually just
making a food truck.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I wanted McDonald's mobile McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know if today, Yeah, the mobile McDonald's because
you know Trump is meeting in Saudi, probably getting another
plane and uh they they had a mobile McDonald's there
to bring him food, and I'm like, I want to
go to there. I want a mobile McDonald's. I want
like the bookmobile used to drive on my street when
I was a kid. Hey, come get books every Wednesday
from the bookmobile.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That is great.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I want that mobi mcdonaldile. Oh dude, I wanted to
drive McDonald's. I mean, like ice cream, man was great.
That was one thing. I mean, that was awesome, But man,
a mobile McDonald's to drive up and just stop and go, hey, hey,
you go, what do you want, Big Mac?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
How many ice was a menace? How many you want? Yeah?
And what else? You want? Fries? And what else? Shake?
And what else? More? Shakes? And what else?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And a gallon of coffee and and and you know what? Here,
just take my credit card. It'll be like James old
Own says in Field of Dreams. Uh, they'll fork over
twenty dollars a piece without even thinking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They'll give you there, They'll give you their cash. They
could be washing the memories. I'll get whatever you need.
Just give me stuff off this moultle McDonald's trun and
then I'll follow you around the city so because I can't.
You know, look, you can't stop in my neighborhood the
whole time. You gotta go out the place. But I'll
follow you. Just don't go too fast. I could follow
you and stop. When I'm done. I'm ready to have
something on damn pied Piper. Yah, yeah, buddy, well, they
(08:24):
have the molten lava apple pie available. I think they're
gonna have everything, Mike, except the ice cream obviously. Yeah,
the cream. The ice cream will never be wor broke. Yeah,
machines broke.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Sorry, seems like you get have parlay that into your
own trade school.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
What do you do? We just fixed McDonald's ice cream?
What else? What else can I learn here? Nothing? No,
that's it. That's all you got. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I just think maybe that all that when the McDonald's
has decided listen, when the when the machine, when the
ice cream machines break, we're not going to fix them.
Just tell people they're down. It's not worth it. We
don't make enough money on it. We're not gonna kind
of like how uh uh. The story that is he
didn't want to do season two of Hawkeye because it
was too much money, so they low ball Jeremy Renner.
So because they knew he would say, no, we don't
want to do the season, that we don't want to
(09:07):
do the season at all, So we're gonna low ball
Jeremy Renner. He says no, and we don't do Hawkeye too.
That that's kind of what's happening to Mason, just tell
me people more Hailey Steinfeld in my life. It takes
it takes way too much money to fix the ice
cream machines. Just gonna just tell people we were just
not is half the man he used to be. We're
not going to fix them.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He's got you back out. He's back now. Jeremy Renner
is back. Now, he's back. He's back. He's back. Like
the knickxer back. He's back that mixed in the nineties
groove when they did that little pose trying to save
the world.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, oh everything good, what everything old is new again?
We are back in the nineties. And look, let me
just say this right because here here's the Cavaliers, who
it's just a stunning loss for them, uh, falling to
the Pacers. Pacers win at won fourteen one o five,
a game they once led by nineteen. Clearly, yes, regular
season success and postseason success are two completely different things.
(09:59):
But to a little bit deeper than that, the Pacers
are pretty good. This is an Eastern Conference Finals team
from last year. And if you want to go back
and look when the calendar change at twenty twenty five,
not many teams have won more games on the pace left.
I think the Pacers are when the second or third
most games in the NBA since the calendar turned to January, right,
(10:20):
this is it that they almost look like a mirror
image of the Knicks, where you talk about a strong
starting five with guys that have very similar roles. The
bench is somewhat okay, but these are two really similar teams.
I'm already previewing the next.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Of the basin. You've been watching a lot of Andrew
nemhard people.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
People don't give the Pacers credit because and look, and
Pascal Siakim is such a huge addition to them. The
clutch shots he made down the stretch, Halliburton figuring out
okay again, I need to get to the rack, and
he once again took control of the game again a
little bit too inconsistent for my taste. He has too
many games where you say, what was that all about?
But this Pacers team, people don't really they were really good.
(11:00):
But yes, they had a bad start to the season.
But it's a bad first couple of months. You say
bad start, it's it's November December, Okay, the season is
just getting going. But since January again, second or third
best record in the NBA, and so for them to
come in here, and we already told you when the
seat when the series started, the Pacers are a bad
matchup for the for the Cavaliers, because the NBA prehaps
(11:20):
is all about match up, they are a bad matchup.
So when you saw the seat the series start, Yes,
could the Cavaliers maybe have had a better beginning if
they were healthy. Yes, a lot of things went against them,
but this is not as surprising because of those things,
the Pacers were good. They match up really well. We've
seen them do it before. We've seen the Pacers get
to the Eastern Conference finals. Haven't seen Don and Mitchell
(11:41):
get out of the first round. So when you when
you're comparing the two teams and you think about, all,
what a shot with it, you think back and go, well,
maybe not as much as you thought it was going
to be, because this wasn't even a seven game thriller
and escape with a ball that bounced off the rim
three times.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
This was for to one. This was a beatdown.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
This was you don't deserve to be on the same
floor as the Pacers. Despite the fact he won sixty
four games in regular season, I just.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Didn't finish the job, right. You look at Donovan Mitchell tonight.
I don't know that I expected to see him play,
but give it the old college try. But he does,
and he puts up twenty five shots. Well, he hits
eight of them. As a team they shoot thirty nine
percent owing to the length and the switching abilities. And
what Carlisle's done with this Pacers squad. You know, Haliburton
(12:24):
didn't put up a ton of shots, but he's ten
to fifteen from the field, hits six three point shots
for the what the game high, well second to Mitchell,
of course, but it comes down with thirty one points.
You get good balance, your guy nemhard. All five starters
in double digits. And here's the stat of it all
home field in home court advantage. We talk about it
(12:45):
in all sports, but certainly basketball in these playoffs hasn't mattered.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Right. You look at the Cavaliers for the year, thirty
six and five at home against teams not from Indiana,
oh and five against the Pacers on the home court.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Bad time and again, and the Pacers good enough to
claw back and to wait you out and come up
with the big stop when it mattered. And that's exactly
what happened here. It looked like they were going to
get back into it. Calves clawed back. You had the
three pointer from Mitchell making it a three point game,
but that was it. Pacers end up distancing themselves and
(13:22):
winning the series.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And now they wait the winner of Boston and New York.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, here we go, and already I've watched Rick Carlisle
is already complaining about the East Finals officiating in his
post game. Now, he's already very upset about how the
East Finals officiated.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He's very upset. He's already trying.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
He's very up to crown you king. He's really mad
last year. He's really mad about the officiating. Already the table.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He actually really a series and get there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Really upset for small market teams not getting a big run.
I mean he's really he is really mad about this.
He's really mad about the East Finals officiating.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Justin Smikey, you want to Celtics come back? Any of
this talk?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
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(14:24):
what reality the Cavaliers just stepped really close to, not
stepped in step close to.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
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we'll get to the reinstatement of Pete Roseenshow was Joe
(17:00):
Jackson and Buck Weaver and Chick Gandal and Eddie Scott
you know all the way?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Did you like seeing Chick Gandal's name in the list? Yeah,
just freaking. My dad actually said today when I tell
you says Chick Gandal was gonna go Dad, Come on,
it was nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
He didn't even play in the majors the year after
the World Series. Okay, he didn't even play it in
the minor leagues. And my dad was like, how do
you know that? I go, Dad, there's very little I
don't know about the nineteen nineteen White Sox, like eight
men honestly of in my movie, theom of all the
movies that I'll have this crazy encyclopedic knowledge of, you know,
to a Caddy shack and cars, eight Men Out is
and die Hard like Top Gun. Eight Men Out is
(17:36):
right there, Like that's like one, Like that's such an outline.
You say, Okay, well I get at Jason, you know,
t all the but eight Men Out.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I've seen eight Men Out at least one hundred times.
I like the number of lines I'm gonna get to
run tonight on eight Men Out is gonna be amazing.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, that one shows up on PBS every now and again.
It's like, I gotta watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But eight Men Out on PBS really.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, they started showing movies, remember, because you can't it
can't produce a lot of the TV shows that It's true. Yeah,
you go to things that are educational, historic nineteen nineteen
and that, and that counts at this point.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
But yeah, I actually have.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
A an old uh eight Men Out, uh first edition
signed poster uh book.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Oh okay, yeah, oh, very actual novel. Wow, how geared
and whatever, but it's beautiful, signed by by by by
Shulis Juid.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
You have an X on there, signed by Oh, I
added that, and so it's suspect.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You gotta sign to be a witness, Joe. Everybody signed
in the egg test might fast, might fail. It's like
that kind of that didn't exist.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Just an X. That's something that's like a scam. My
dad would try to pull. What shueless? Joe's an X,
you know is an X right there? He's not sign
his confession with an X. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
How come when I when I when I when I
put my thumb over the penned.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Streaks right, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Maybe there's one of those long lasting pens or a
quill from nineteen I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Its signed in blue sharpie.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
So it's I've replicated this signature one hundred times.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It's signing an outline pen that didn't come around until
the early nineteen nineties. Strangely enough, when the Knicks and
the Pacers would face off in the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
See how it all comes back, Jason, who's that guy
that scored against the Knicks like nine points in three seconds?
The guy that's on the air now broadcaster. We did
celebrate that anniversary, not Marv Albert. Yes, yes, look at
this and your face. Larry Johnson didn't say how many
(19:26):
back bites?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh hey, you know there's no stop with the backbiting.
Think we don't need that here, Come on, this is
Nick's Pacers ninety ankle bite happening.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
What else was going on there? Seven? That was Jeff Van.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Gundy grabbing grabbing the ankles of a lines all morning.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Look, yes, we will continue to preview the Knicks Pacers
Eastern Cup. But the guy who win one more game? Yeah, yeah, details.
But the Cavaliers go home and there's there's a huge
reality that they're close to Wait till I tell you
what it is. You want a great hot take for
the night. But the most stunning thing watching this, like
what what represents the fall of the Calves. We're the
(20:05):
best team in the NBA for most.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Of the year.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Look, you want to split hairs between them and the
Celtics and the Thunder and at least two of those
teams look like they're going down in the second round,
maybe all three. Nothing is more what happened to the
Calves than the end of this game when they're coming
back and they cut it to three one oh six,
one hundred and Donovan Mitchell gets fouled shooting a three.
He's eighty percent from the free throw line, eighty percent,
(20:32):
and he goes to the free throw line. This is
with a minute left to go, and he misses all
three free throws, all three of them, and then comes
back after in the next possession and it's a three
to make it a three point game. Right This is
the Cavaliers basketball. Mitchell is hot, bringing them back all
by himself. And then when the gimme happens, when okay, well,
(20:53):
at least get two out of three, we'll cut it
to four. He misses all three. If he was a
bad free throw shooter, I get it. But you miss
all three, you're eighty percent. If something doesn't tell you
playoff basketball is not your friend and changes need to
be made. That's the that's the instance right there. Hey
the cat, Look, we told you Pacers are really good
(21:14):
to get a top three NBA records since January first,
there'd been a bad matchup for the Caves for a while.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Mike told you what the records were. How many how
often the Indiana Pacers win in Cleveland. It's a bad matchup.
But you talk about playoffs and pressure and putting and
putting games away. How does an eighty percent free throw
shooter miss three free throws and he missed the last
one horribly. He missed that last one. When is Mitchel Robinson? Well, no, no, no, yeah,
(21:40):
there's been a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Artic, well, I mean a little a little more stylt
and he didn't miss any under the basket, like because
Mitchell Robinson finds a way to miss them actually under
the basket, which I've never seen before, like on a
line drive that misses the rim and like bounces into
the first row.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I mean this last the last one was way off
the back of the iron, high in there. Like it
got worse for him as it went on, and you
can tell he had bad body language and and and
it was stunning. I mean again eighty Like watching the
other night when when Chet Holmgren cast him a game
missing two free throws. He's a seventy five percent free
throw shooter, and he misses two at the end of
the game opens a door for the for the Nuggets
(22:18):
to win Game one. I mean, eighty percent, You're the
big star and you missed three free throws. This is
the Cavaliers playoff cry for help that you didn't know
they needed. You thought they were fine. Oh they got
nine guys, they go deep, they got all their guys back. No,
they need something, and I'll tell you what it's gonna be.
You ready for this?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
This is what's opened the door tonight with the Calves
losing in such a shocking fashion the Pacers moving on
to the East Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
He missed six free throws overall by the Yeah, twenty
shot twenty one, made a ton of them in the
fourth court.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
H yeah, yeah, and then that sequence.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Yeah, someone in the fifth row must have had a
cool sign or something, and the curtain of distraction came
to came to their home court.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
We are close to this resil happening probably in a year,
and if the boy, I'd love to see the Lakers
get aggressive on this, because boy, that would be something.
But the door is open for Lebron to finish his
career back in Cleveland. Okay, Cleveland obviously needs something, right.
(23:19):
You saw another first round playoff flame out. Donovan Mitchell
is a terrific player and I love him. He's a
Mets fan, but not been out of the first round.
If you can't get out of the first round. When
you're a sixty four win team, you need something. But
you have a lot of good young players. They but
what do you need? You need someone that's gonna take
the pressure off of your team. Because that's what I
(23:40):
saw is a team that wasn't up for the pressure. Again,
three missed free throws in the final minute. That tells
you we are not ready.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
They were gassed. They didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
It looked like the Cavaliers they broke down. They were
playing too much ISO basketball and Mitchell and Garland started
taking too many shots in the middle of the game
and allowing this comeback by the Pacers. Because their offense
Scott stagnant. They need something and someone to take that
pressure off of them. Enter Lebron James, who can finish
his career exactly how he wants to. I can go
back to Cleveland and maybe win another championship. Because the
(24:13):
Lakers clearly they have kind of one foot one arm
on Lebron's shoulder. He is at arm's length with them.
It is now Luca's team. You saw what happened in
this playoffs. They now are rebuilding a round. Look a
look when they traded Anthony Davis away you could tell
this is the beginning of we're moving away from Leblon
Lebron James era. The fact of that he and Anthony
(24:34):
Davis had so much control over the team and Rich
Paul and clutch sports and maneuvers they wanted to make
and players they wanted to bring in that didn't work.
They are pushing Lebront. You can just see. You can
just tell they are embracing Luca and we're gonna give
Luca what. They're gonna get a center in the offseason
so we can have a room runner up and down
the floor with It'll make things much different for him.
But Lebron is kind of on the outside of that
(24:54):
circle now.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And this year is the big year because if they don't,
they don't make it out of the first round again.
Lebron is definitively gone. He's got one more year, fifty
million dollars left. He's not gonna opt out of his
and to give money for the Lakers to sign anybody.
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's out what Lebron does because you know, to win,
I really want to win, but I'm not gonna give
money back. It's you know, how can I win? Ricky
by Yeah, if you would, I can, if you would.
So they drafted Brony for him, They did everything for him,
and he's not gonna do that. The best thing that's
gonna happen, and this is how it's. Guy can see
it happening now, him finishing in Cleveland. Olive branches all around,
you'll see a little bit of hey, oh, I never
(25:29):
know where I thought about where I might finish, but
I want to finish at home. Who That's how things
are going to go. And this loss by Cleveland open
things up to it because who else you're gonna have
to come in.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
You're gonna trade away part of your your core. It's
gonna be difficult to do.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
But Lebron, hey, I'll go back and finish because he's
got another cup, two, three good years left. We see
the level he's playing at right now. But the Lakers
want to move on. They're gonna give it this year.
I'd love to see him get aggressive and do it now.
That'd be fantastic, but they want to give it this year.
So it doesn't like they pushed him out too early.
But this is the door is open now for Lebron
(26:04):
to finish as a Cleveland Cavalier. In fact, if I
was going to Vegas with money and you said to me,
how the next couple of years is gonna go. This
year Lebron in La then the next two years Lebron
and Cleveland, and that's how he finishes.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Look at you.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I love the conspiratorial part of it, right coming off
of the draft lottery yesterday and all the chaos. And
to those that said anybody talking about that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Get away from the keyboard, go do something else with
your life.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
There's too many circumstances, including Lebron James showing up in
Cleveland back in the two thousand and three draft, for
people to not at least raise their eyebrows and to
say something is hard, you know, like the Lakers or
Clippers winning a title. At this point is it's not impossible.
You can still make a run. But for Lebron, you're
looking at what he's left. He's got the twenty four
(26:56):
to twenty five into the player option this year, which
again he's not even fifty two million. But then he's
an unrestricted free agent, so don't even have to trade him.
He can just play this year out and just say
all right, I'm gonna go home now. For the Cavaliers,
you got a good deep roster, clearly playoff well. Just
stay away from Indiana that would help, and don't let
them play on your home court. That seemed to be
(27:17):
a recipe for disaster. But Lebron James did everything he
could to distance himself.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
From everybody else this year too. Right, as much as
the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
May be pushing, you got Lebron pushing his you know,
helping propel himself as well. Going all right, Look, these
ten guys weren't goodenoughs Me and Luca against the world.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Basically all right, you didn't.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Exactly play particularly well in that series. Austin Reeves gave
you what he had. He's got his limitations defensively. Lebron's
got his limitations at his health. Whatever you believe about
the knee injury, I'm a skeptic. What can I say?
It became a convenient thing to walk away, and Frostbrook's
already working on a trade. He likes my idea of
(27:58):
doing it now instead of first, he does.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'll even drive Lebron in lax.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, I mean you gotta you gotta hear right, so
again into fifty two million dollars. That's where it gets in.
Do I think he's worth fifty two million dollars? If
I'm the Calves? The calves are no.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh but that but that's a typical blank you moved
to make where Oh, I'll take less money for the Calves.
But you wouldn't take less money for the Lakers. Nope,
wouldn't do it. Who do you want, Frostburg? What do
you want the deal to be? Who you take for
for Lebron.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
From the Calves? Yeah? Mitchell and Mobley? Oh wow, Okay,
I don't know that you're getting Mitchell mobiley. Okay, you
get more? I have the salaries matchup? What do we
look at? I don't know. You're gonna get to Dorlan
and Mobley? Okay, Mobley makes a lot of money. He does,
he does, makes a lot of you can make.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You can make the money work, right, absolutely want n't
You can make the money work with that? Okay, all right, Wow,
there we go. So it's gonna be Lebron mobiley and
the free don't forget the free ride to the airport.
Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's true. Free ride to the airport. Yes, and you'll play.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Whatever music he wants right now, You're not gonna play,
you know you and maybe get him a drink or something.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Beat it by Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
The whole Yeah, was on the last year of his
cheap deal. He's up to thirty eight million on the
books for next year.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Hi, Yeah, you can make that work. You can make
that work.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Mitchell at forty eight million, Garland at thirty nine four.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean there's there's there's a lot of hot take.
I'm telling you that.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's how it's good Lebron is going to you know,
the way the season ended, and how really the perception
of Lebron and and the the weight that is put
on having Lebron in LA that the Lakers for the
last year is like, well, we have to have a star.
We got to have them. That's why they kept Lebron
for so long. The Lakers have always all the Lakers
always had a center. No, the Lakers have always had
(29:33):
a superstar. Sure, and so they if they were going
to move on from Lebron after the championship or a
couple of years after, well we don't have a superstar.
We need to have a superstar. Now they have one.
So Lebron has become a little bit more expendable, and
you can tell he is on the outside. He is
outside the circle of trust, Like if you're he is,
you know he is outside where de Niro and everybody
(29:54):
else is in Terry Polo and he's outside the circle.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That was just your way to jam Ben Still or
Nick into the conversation.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
How dare you to say?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
It's like, if you're the Cavaliers bringing in Lebron James,
does that solve chemistry issues?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I know I think it does. I think you're bringing
in someone who's gonna be your.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
A guy who's gonna throw you under the bus at
every term.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Is going to take pressure off of a group that
clearly can't handle it. Lebron will take all the pressure.
All everything will be about Lebron. Hey, everything is great,
everything's great. You got a young core. He could teach
you how to win. We'd get through the playoffs. You're
talking about adding a guy and if you don't trade
for him, adding a guy for nothing in a year,
And this is what's happening Cavaliers. If I said I
(30:40):
would go to I would go to Vegas and say
Lebron finish his career at least two years with the Cavaliers.
That's always got to do it right. He's got I'm
gonna go home. He started, he started with his hometown team.
He left, he went back, he left, He's going to
go back to finish taken with him. That could happen.
I could see yea one hundred percent. Who else do
you want?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Then? Who else do you want?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
If if Bron, he's got to go with Lebron, you
may not get anybody.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I mean that deals still there then maybe Yeah, I
believe you can't get Anderson Verajel. You can still get it.
That's great.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I gotta find the odds of Lebron's next team, get
right in it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I mean, Larry Nance is good Lebron. Sure, Larry Nance Jr.
Both you get you get both Nance's you can get both.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You'll be fine. Mark Price, you'll get him to junior.
He wasn't that good.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Craig Elow. I'm sure he can still hit some threes. No,
you need this other guy hit a three? Especially you
want to trade Nawson Reeves. Ah, you do that, but
get right. Lebron will finish with the Calves.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
It'll happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Why today were Pete Rose and Shoeless, Joe Jackson and
Buck Weaver and Eddie Seacott Eddy in thousand in cash
before the first game.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
What you heard me?
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Why today were they reinstated in the Major League Baseball?
We got that next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith's
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (32:06):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
live live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Right now,
Nuggets lead the Thunder by a bucket six and a
half to go in the fourth quarter, ninety two to ninety.
We'll have more on this game coming up in a
few minutes. Maybe you're gonna see the Nuggets take a
three to two lead in.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
The top three season. The NBA are all going down.
But today was a big day in the NFL because
we found in tomorrow we get the big schedule of
every team. Everybody's waiting. I'm gonna figure out my schedule,
my travel plans and all kinds of.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
All two seventy two we're gonna pick them here for
you over four hours now, we're gonna rank them one
through two seventy two, the best game all the way
down to the worst game.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Can't wait, best game to the worst game.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
We're gonna do it, Jets that bears worst game seventy.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Two, seventy two, seventy two two seven. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
But today we found out the international schedule for this year,
and one of the big quirks of this is that
the Vikings play two games back to back overseas. Take
that big eight and a half hour flight over to
the United Kingdom, they play, and then they play again
the following week. First time you've ever seen that. Now
you can go back and forth and say, oh, bad,
bad deal for the Vikings two games overseas.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Back to back.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Nah, I kind of look at it as they'll play
the first game and then they'll have an advantage because
they'll already be over there for the second game that
they're playing the following week.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And both of these are away games for the Viking
Cleveland the second week.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
They're away games. They'll be playing Shador Sanders that second week.
But hey, we're doing this, but we're these are counting.
These are gonna be neutral site games and theory, and
but they're both away games with the Vikings, so really
not that big a deal.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They don't lose any gate off its. That works well
now for them. So when you see this, you see
here's seven games. Now we're playing internationally in all in
all different cities. What's the future.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Of this, because I think everybody has it wrong as
to what it's gonna wind up being. Because every year
we get the we here to get the international scaled.
When we hear the NFL is tapped out domestically, I
mean they're not, but they're tapped out. But the big
place for growth is overseas. We're gonna see an NFL
team overseas sometime the next year. No, that's not happening, Okay.
Number one, they wouldn't really be an NFL team. You're
(34:14):
not gonna have a team based in England in Germany
if it's not gonna happen. Number one, because it's too
difficult to have teams play and going over there twice
for twice a season in the division coming back. But
mainly because if you do that, you have it find
it more difficult to grow the game in other parts
(34:35):
of the world because if you have an international team
and let's say plays in London, Okay, you're playing eight
home games a year in London. You're not really playing
any games in Germany. You're not really playing in Brazil,
you're not playing in Mexico. You're not gonna have those
games because you can only send teams so often overseas.
So what you're going to see eventually is what we're
seeing now. Each year, there will be more and more
(34:57):
games overseas. There's gonna be this year, there's se They'll
be eight, they'll be ten, they'll be and eventually you're
gonna get to the point where the overseas games are
gonna be packages that are bid on by a streamer
whoever wants the international rights right. And this is gonna
be something where Sky Sports could bid on them because
we're gonna show it worldwide. Here's a game here. This
(35:19):
is how the future of international football is gonna be.
This is how you continue to grow the game by
having more games in different cities, opening up the NFL
to more audiences in many different countries. Not have the
one team in London or in Germany play there. That's
gonna actually stunt the growth. You want to make sure
the game is getting to as many people as you
want to worldwide, and they're gonna continue to have these games,
(35:39):
and then it'll be bid on and Netflix will bid
five billion dollars for two years of international games, and.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's gonna be more money for everybody's out.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
That's just a question of whether they want to compartmentalize
it into one streamer or they give everybody a little taste. Right,
It's like, hey, here's your amoush bousch. You all get
one so you didn't have to order. The appetizer comes
out automatically. And I think to the international front, you
want to keep it to where everybody that's that's dipped
(36:07):
in and is paying you hundreds of millions of dollars
for right, you're still gonna get one just because you know,
you bring your own legitimacy globally to that. But yeah,
this is also like we'd watch with the Dodgers and
the Angels before him, and all teams where you have
an international player and a superstar. Look at the Luca Dodgers.
(36:27):
How much money they estimated Dallas had lost when suddenly
he wasn't on the board. Certainly in Anaheim, they're trying
to replace all of a ton of money. You're trying
to figure out how to the best encapsulate and get
those dollars corralled. So you're not gonna give up all
those other nations. Yeah, we all funnel back into London.
Makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Yeah, next year you'll be eight nine. Then there'll be
ten games and you're gonna have a game every week.
Will be there over So that's how this is going
to go. That's the international.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Football, international relations. Keep piling up cash and gold and gold.
Gotta have gold. Maybe you two will buy him? Oh
about that that freeby that taste. Week one exit out
bout of Fresca, exit swollen Dome. Coming up next, we
get back into the biggest, most shocking story of the
night in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
But was it really as shocking as you think it was?
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