April 30, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the latest in the NBA Playoffs, where Jason believes that a new budding rivalry is forming in the Western Conference. Could Kevin Durant join the Lakers this offseason? Plus, Jason and Mike react to Jerry Jones going "all in" on bringing back an aging running back!
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Quick NBA update here we are about four minutes ago
before halftime. The Lakers have been on a big run
the last few minutes. They lead the Nuggets by five
forty eight forty three Gets trying to close out the Lakers,
the Lakers trying to desperately stay alive. Meanwhile, h what
just happened? We have another series over and it's another sweep.
(01:09):
Maybe you're watching an NBA TV Maybe you weren't. But
the Thunder beat the Pelicans ninety seven eighty nine final
shot as the seconds ticked off with Zion sitting on
the bench street close looking at what might have been
for the seventh year in a row.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
What n you're not making hoping?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Uh So the Thunder win, the Pelicans go home. And
I know that when he came into the league, we
expected ze because I'm gonna give you a big left
turn right here for a second. So I was gonna
a little bit go New York, Go, New York, go,
But we'll take that. Let me just throw this at you.
Zion Williamson comes into the league and we think, okay,
he's going to be the big star and maybe he
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and Jahn Morant are the next great rivalry in the league.
Actually doesn't have rivals, and this is why we saw
why things were so great in college basketball with Caitlin
Clark and LSU and Angel Reese. And we don't have rivalries,
then okay, maybe it's Yo Kitchen somebody, well not really,
Yokic is kind of his own thing. Maybe it's Jason
Tatum and Yannis. Maybe however, let me just throw something
(02:12):
crazy by you hit me. What if we watch the
Wolves sweep, we watch the Thunder sweep. They both at
the top of the Western Conference, they're both young teams.
What if the next NBA great rivalry turns out to
be Anthony Edwards and Shi Gilgess Alexander Guys an MVP
on the back of Chet, Chet would be it chuts there,
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but I mean the rivalry.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Though Chet's a little bit younger. Yeah, but yeah, look
it's a two on one match.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Then SGA is an MVP finalist, right, and you have
a guy who's likely going to be an NBA finalist
next year. That's getting all kinds of great run. Now,
if the Wolves and the Thunder are here and this
and they're this good, and you look at them having
no trouble in the first round of the playoffs, Yeah,
Jokic and the and the and the Nuggets are real,
but boy, they're having a lot more trouble with the
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Lakers than you would have expected in this series. What
if the next rivalry turns out to be Anthony Edwards
and Shy Gildess Alexander.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Now, remember last year it was the most competitive sweep
we've ever seen in NBA history. And this one if
they if they lose four games one, let's just for
argument's sake, say the Nuggets take care of this and
finish out with a big second half that it'll be
even more competitive even though it wasn't a sweep, because
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not only because they won a game, but because they
led from the vast majority of minutes. So I get you.
You know there's excitement to be had there. Don't forget
that the thunder also have giddy I know, the accusations
and everything that was sorely in the background, but he
kind of looks like Timothy shallomeh. So he can get
some Wonka references in and sell some chocolate while we're
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at it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But no, I like that setup.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I mean, Denver's its own organism, like yok, it's just
as sure like you're trying to compare him to all
time greats, but he opposed to other players that he's
playing against, is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Kind of boring.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
As great as he is, he's kind of more exciting though.
I mean, dresses up like grew and took their money.
He took Illuminations money to do an.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Ad good Night Dignus never get the older, and now
they're stocking me but why look at the squads.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I mean, who now has the signature.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Poster dunk of a guy playing absolutely no defense on
him and.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Letting him walk past Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But but I mean, you're gonna give me some of
that money from that poster? Right, Okay, great, I'll let you.
I'll be the defensive guy.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Sure, a couple of years ago that would have been
a great top shot that everybody would have paid thousands
upon thousands of dollars for. But no, you've got the
young squads and n SGA. Certainly a guy getting his run,
remember all those years ago he started with the Clippers out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We don't need this guy one year of the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No. But that's the thing about there's players that get
our attention because they have whatever that it factor is.
As much everybody likes Jokic and understands what a great
player is like, is that people don't run in the television.
Nobody's Tim Duncan.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Like we were talking about it a couple of weeks ago,
and I wanted to make since you brought up the
Angel Rees versus Caitlyn Clark thing, the Chicago Sky should
be absolutely uh defeated for how they had a press
conference for her, Caitlyn Clark. You've got pomp and circumstance, pageantry.
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Whatever Angel Rees comes walking in, there's like eight reporters
the backdrop in the middle of an empty small gym
ahead of a workout, like there's no excitement, no juice
for it, whatsoever. It's like you failed, But you know,
we we try to find the excitement. Right college basketball
for women, South Carolina won news flashed everybody, but same
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thing in terms of style and excitement. And it doesn't
mean they don't have great players on the team, but
I think from a watchability for the casual coming in,
they need that illuminating see what they did there, superstar
that that gets your attention, right, the Angel Reese, the
Page Beckers, the Caitlin Clark, whoever that is to get
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on board. And yeah, for some of these teams, it's
just not there, especially as we are having that crisis
of conscience amongst so many NBA analysts and super fans
and bloggers or whatever else of oh my god, all
our favorite stars of yesterday are fading into oblivion. So
you need the extra you know, here's the big poster shot,
(06:34):
here's the charming commercial ads and everything popping up in
postgame interviews. So opportunity is there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Look, it's it's hard to say what's gonna quantify a
star and a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Right, we have a lot of stars in the league.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Kevin Durantz never had a rival, right, Steph has never
had a rival that we get, you know, Lebron has
never really had a rival. He's got other players going
up against one on one. But that's not how it is.
And the NBA really made its bones early. It was
Magic and Larry and they were the rivals, and Doctor j.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Was in the mix.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And that's the next thing for the NBA as we
move out of the Lebron eras. Okay, no, no one
guy is coming into the NBA and taking them out.
You want to think at some point somebody will we
were lucky enough to go from Magic to Lebron and hey,
that's been you know, thirty five years now, so that's
been pretty good. Could we get Victor Wembama to fight
Jalen Brunson. If you get Wemby versus Jail, the height
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differential right out there, I mean, it's gonna be amazing.
But just think about that, that that could wind up
being because both these teams are young in the Western Conference.
Nobody else in the Western Conference is getting younger, right,
The Lakers are an older team, The Warriors are an
older team. The Clippers are an older team. The Mavericks
are a team that, hey, they're a little bit older
as well. With Kyrie being on the on the on
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the other side of the third draft picks, just well,
they'll trade everybody this offseason. Well we'll get to Kadi
in a little bit, but just think about these are
two young teams that are able to control their superstars
for a few years before they really have to pay them.
And if these are the two teams that wind up
being on a collision, or especially if they play this
year and it's Gildes Alexander Anthony Edwards, everybody seems ready
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to love Anthony Edwards. Kildes Alexander is already an MVP finalist.
You know, finding these guys in Minnesota and Oklahoma City
when normally you had to get out of there to
be noticed in the NBA, it's a great moment for
the NBA that we can notice the stars in the
smaller markets. But if they play this year, maybe it's hey,
we got it all wrong because Giannis doesn't have anybody.
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But maybe it's Gilds Alexander and Anthony Edwards that could
wind up. It's insane, but it could wind up being
the next great rival.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
No, it's funny because you started the conversation with Zion
and John Moran. We're talking New Orleans and Memphis, not
exactly the big NBA hot spots, right, you always get out,
come out to the coast.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We'll have a few laughs.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
No, here we are middle of the nation and both
those guys for different reasons.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
This year look like Jaw was going to be a
monster and then got hurt.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Zion had a fantastic regulars like they lived up to
the hype when they were on the court. Unfortunately, we're
now five years in. There's no guarantee in either home
is gonna be on the court. Brenny's significant length of time.
So we wish all good basketball karma and the favoring
of the basketball gods upon them. Exit out about a
Fresco exit swallen down the Jason Smith Show with my
(09:23):
best friend Mike Cormrade. So just think about that, SGA
and Goose. Okay, that's your next your next big rivalry
in the NBA. Let's go, let's go, let's get it going.
Let's get it going and check or or the Knicks
versus the Sixers. It could be the Nicks and the
six Look, the Sixers are gonna bow out here fast?
How much another year of failed opportunity, failed promise.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
How quickly has Embiid gone from all Look at Embiid.
He's funny, he's the MVP to be in, the absolute
villain in the NBA player and he brought night.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
But like, the hard part is like operating in parallel
to all the nonsense he's done on court and the
whining in post games, whether it be the referees or
you know whatever. You've got the bells palsy diagnosis where
he dealt with that. You got this knee injury where
he's dragging his ass up and down the court on
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one leg and still score fifty on you the other night.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So like all of that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Thrown out of sure, Yeah, but there's these things that
then hurt Mitchell Robinson and all of those things. There's
things you like and you're like wow, like look it up,
because he's the one of the few big men that
we have to kind of throw the laurel and hardy
handshakes towards these days and then just bit by bit,
there's there's all of these little incidences with the Knicks.
(10:42):
I've seen a super cut. You can get a full
minute eighteen at this point out of the swipes at
the knees, the extra step through the oh I'm stumbling?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Am I really falling?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But I'm gonna fall on top of you kind of moments,
Like there's just a preponderance of evidence. If we were
in a law and Order episode, is like to say
that this man is a menace on the court and
all the whining doesn't help you. You're defending MVP. You
were potentially on the road to a back to back
(11:13):
victory in that regard. Unfortunately you didn't meet the games
threshold that like a bunch of knuckleheads, you guys all
agreed to for these awards and the honors that then
determine future contract max values. But to now just be
a whiner, you're just you don't have Doc there.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You can't blame his.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Coach, Sure, Ken, you can blame Doc. Yeah, so it's
now on your shoulders. Yeah, all these years later and
you know you're not likable because on the other side,
you got the Knicks fighting for every offensive rebound, and like,
all right, there's three guys there. One of them's gonna
cry it. Nope, there's Josh Harten weaving his way through.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Go.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The whole thing about the Sixers is this, The Sixers
are a team and all they do is look for
It's why they're on my never again list. What have
they done this series? All they've done is look for excuses.
They're the They're the couple that comes to see a
house that has everything they want. We want at least
four bedrooms. Got four bedrooms, We want three bathrooms, got
three bathrooms. We want a bonusroom, Got a bonus room.
(12:15):
Want a garage we can turn into a work are No,
we got that. Need a backyard big enough for a pool.
Got a backyard, big enough for a pool? Okay, great?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I want solar panels, Got solar panels.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Got everything you want?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We got you got wet Like big big window, big
big window. Is there? Everything that was great? And they
walk in and everything is there for them.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Hey, all you gotta do is go through it, and
instead they go, oh well, this bathroom's kind of small
and uh, the rug would kind of be replaced here,
but it looks like there's a little bit of mold there.
I don't know about that. I go upstairs. It's too hot.
Once it does it have doesn't have central air. Central
we have to put it in. They find all the
things possible wrong with this house, and they are we
can't buy it because of that. It's got everything you want.
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You have to put a little bit of work in, right,
because that's do with anything. Got to put a little
bit of work in. Can't just show up and have
it done for you. And that's that's who the Sixers are.
Everywhere they go, there's an excuse. There's a reason why
the referees are keeping it from us. All the fans
aren't rooting for us. All this is appening, this has happened.
Joel Embiad is tired.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry. Joel em beeat is tired.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I'm sorry. You don't have a team that can give
him a rest. And he's got to play all forty
eight minutes. You know what, I watch mixed players playing
forty eight minutes and the guys are crashing the glass
and getting rebounds at them, beat can't get to So
I'm seeing guys. So just for a second, give Tom
Thibodau a little bit credit for always.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Gonna run these guys under the ground.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Or maybe these are guys that are now out everything
the Sixers because they're in shape, because they play forty
eight minutes to night. Just think this, that's the Sixers.
They are just full of excuses. Everywhere they go. There's
always something going on and something happening, and they don't
take responsibility.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
For well, first off, I thought you were gonna lament
the lack of a dumb waiter in your analysis and
had everything else I did. But you know, I saw
dumb waiters in these movies and I always wanted one.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, dumbwa Here goes the food up up all the
way up through.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah yeah, like a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, I like dumbway. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I like end my ice cream, although I don't know
like if it's if it's an if it's an open
like shaft, all right, if you put my food in
there uncovered and you kind of raise it up, I'm like,
I don't know what kind of dust or anything is
in there.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
But yeah, that's like you're at a hotel. You can
buy those from any restaurants plots. That's That's the next
Pearl gam album is Rats and the Dumb Waiter.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That's the next title.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I might write that AI song before we're done the
the others. As we're just talking about the Sixers in general.
It was always trust the process. MM can't trust that
process now anymore. Now all they want to do is
all dead. All we do is complain, Oh, we.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Didn't get this called it even the game where you
saw Maxie get fouled at the end of game too,
and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
They didn't call it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Nick Nurse and the Sixers spent no time after talking
about how Maxie missed the layup. Uh, you know what
was the whole deal where you passed up the shot
at the end of the game and passed the embid?
Why were you rushing to inbound the ball when you
were winning in the game. Nobody rushes to inbound the ball.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
When you're winning, the ability to get Why are you doing
that plate all of those things?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Why?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Why are you why were you throwing a bad pass
in that was that Josh Hart was able to knock off?
None of that, None of that the Sixers wanted to
take responsibility for it was all they didn't blow the
whistle on the Maxi playe, and that's why we lost.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I have one other theory about your knicks, Oka say,
if this holds water for you, dumb waiter, isn't it
a bucket? Does Thibodeau have established with a number of
businesses in New York a collective whereby he goes outside
like he's an EPL club, where we're paying these guys
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beyond their contract right for hustle plays and offensive rebounds stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
There's a bounty gate.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It's all positive. We're not hurting anybody, like Brady saying
for every screen pass fifteen yards. Yeah, sure, because that
maybe that's why they're busting their ass on every place.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I could just see tips right with a roll of
money just handing at the guys in.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The locker room. Hey, hey, Josh Hart, that was great.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Here you go, sure one right here, guys just grabbing
stuffing into their shorts.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
While he's always wearing the puffy upfits. He's got rolls
on nose.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You guys are all gonna dress like me?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Why now, I gotta find someplace to put your money man,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You gotta do.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Here you go, I'm precious. I mean, come on, yeah,
guy hasn't played all his parrots. A guy like you know,
he plays hard when he's in.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Guy hasn't pay.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's been the reputation of that guy since he came
in the lead.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And Anonobe goes on on Embid and suddenly the Sixers
couldn't do anything. I mean that the sixth they take
no responsibility for anything that's sick. That's why they're down
through and it's why they don't win. No responsibility. Nothing
is their fault. You called Philadelphia Soft, nothing's their fault
saying that. Hey, no, no, I want to say. I
feel bad for Embeid. You know, for a guy there
was a former MVP to be so tired at the
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end of games that he can't make shots and turns
the ball over and is not happy that the fans
are cheering from I look, I.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Got a heart. I feel bad for that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I feel like we need a Broadway Soft bad for
that to play for Joel.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
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Speaker 1 (17:04):
Coming up next, we got more from the NBA. Lakers
lead by three at halftime. Even if they don't win tonight,
I'll tell you what their big off season prize is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
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Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't mean the sandwich. I mean it's a wopper.
It's a big off season prize.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I dig that. Hey, maybe and Mead can go to
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Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, you guys get to see the Wizard. No no, no,
don't see the Wizard.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You can try no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He would try to knock the box off the top
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Speaker 1 (18:25):
However, however, however, there's something I'm gonna tell you and
Steve coming up in a few minutes that you are
going to absolutely flip on.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We are gonna absolutely flip on.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You're gonna say, you're gonna say no way, You're gonna
say no way. But absolutely it's true. However, we got
to talk about what's going on right now. Lakers and
the Nuggets. Early in the third quarter, ten to fifty
three left to go, Anthony Davis has just left the
game in an incredible amount of pain. He goes down
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low and he just bangs with Michael porter Ju and
you're on an offensive set. Ad looks like he's looking
to go in too, call for the ball, and it's
kind of a just a like a like we're passing
each other and we're banging, and Ad goes down, grabbing
his shoulder and his neck. He was down on the
floor for a few moments. He was helped off, and
(19:19):
now it looks like he's trying to go into attempt
to play. This is kind of how it works for
a d Sometimes it looks like it's the worst injury
in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But Ad looks like he's coming back in. He's holding
his neck. He's staying on the floor for the Lakers
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Just inside. He just started the third quarter here, ten
fifty remaining as we were talking here live from the
tyrack dot com studios, and Jason had looked fairly innocuous,
as you said, Justina, a quick little uh pushby by
porter as as AD's going into the post, and all
of a sudden he went down like a sack of potato,
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and like that's enough to send the guy flying. I mean,
I guess if you hit it just right and you're
already a little bit maybe compromised, right because I know
he's had some some issues with That's.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
What it look like.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You would tell like, okay, it's something there pre existing,
and that just did.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It, you know, just enough.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I mean like you know, me throwing a football giant hallway.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Time you give the ball. Now, that's that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But it's cathartic. It looks like ad is back and
we'll keep you posting on this again. It's an eight
point lead for the Lakers right now, ten minutes to
go the third quarter, so basically the Nuggets have the
Lakers right where they want them now. It may not
turn out well for the Lakers this year, however, I'll
tell you what their prize of the offseason is going
to have. You got a prize, Oh, they had a
big prize coming their way. We just watched the Suns
(20:42):
get swept out of the play. All they did, all
the draft picks they gave up to get kd all
the draft picks they gave up to get Bradley Beale,
the money they gave Devin Booker, and you saw at
the end of their sweep. Kevin Durant not happy how
he was used, says I felt like maybe he was
I was in the corner too much and he use
(21:03):
me like they wanted me to. Devin Booker said, you know,
we all have to be better. I felt like, you know,
I was unprepared. Kevin's unprepared. Frank Vogel was unprepared. And
when you say you're unprepared, you can say that I
feel unprepared. But what you're saying is the coaches were
unprepared and they hated him.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Frank Vogel is what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I mean, is ad Darvin Ham from last week just
magnified because he got swept out of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
There are going to.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Be sweeping changes in Phoenix because, like they are now,
they're not good enough. And I know Booker said a
lot today about oh, if we were healthy, you're all
playing this how it goes in the playoffs. You can't
say no one's gonna be all healthy in the playoffs.
You your three stars were standing and you got swept.
This is a team that needs a reboot. And obviously Booker,
being the youngest player, still a star. They will keep him,
(21:48):
they will build around him. But but you watch in
the offseason, it's gonna be Hey, KD. Bradley beal, what
are we gonna do? And Katie's up for an extension
and there's been no talk. So I'm gonna guarantee you this.
You are gonna see a trade with KD and the Lakers.
This is gonna be the lakers last Hail Mary to
(22:09):
salvage the last couple of years of Lebron and ad
Is Kevin Durant. They're not gonna get young superstars. They're
gonna have to find a way. Okay, Yeah, Kevin Durant's
thirty six, but he's still KD. Right, he still doesn't
need to dominate. You thought it was gonna work with
what they had in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But the Lakers need something, you know, they need something.
It's not working with Russell and the combination of him
and Reason, Hutchamore and everything else. That's gonna be the
thing because that's where Kevin Durant's gonna wanna go one
last chance in the title, it's not working here, boy,
the Lakers were good. Add me to this mix and
watch what happens. Right, that's you're gonna see him there.
(22:45):
You're gonna see a slow dance with Kevin Durant and
the Lakers. There's gonna be phone calls me back and forth,
and we Clutch Sports is gonna be involved, and that's
gonna be the guy the Lakers got. I told you
at season they're gonna get a third star. They have
to get a third star. Is it gonna be a
young third star? They have to go up a lot
for young third star. But they've done big trades with
Phoenix before, right, just can't say. Just because their rivals
the Steve Nash trade, Lakers still don't have a first
(23:08):
first round pick. The Steven picks go through twenty forty,
so they're giving up all of them. So we've seen
it before, and this just makes too much sense. Where
is Kevin Durant going to go to better himself, bigger spotlight.
This is a team that's gonna be overwhelmingly okay with
bringing him in because, hey, KD could be that guy,
and KD is gonna wind up being a Laker. He's
(23:30):
gonna be their big prize in the offseason. They'll be
younger players going to Phoenix. They try to figure it out.
It'll kind of be like the Ad trade with the Pelicans,
except there will be a little bit less because Kevin
Durant is older and not quite that player, so it's
gonna be more. Let's make the salaries match, and we're
gonna move on because Phoenix needs to just reboot from
the from the ground up. So he knew ed, coach
knew everything. Booker's gonna be there and figure everything else out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And they wiped out everything in terms of trade assets
to make this team come together.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It was an abject failure at every turn.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I mean, you even saw the Charles Barkley saying you
don't even deserve to go here as you get swept out,
So all of that fun I don't I don't know
what's I was looking at the odds a little bit earlier.
One of the favorites would be for Durant to go
back to OKC where it all began, which is I
think an interesting prospect. Again, when we're talking about a
(24:24):
team that what's the average age twenty four year seven
months and seemingly humming along, Yeah, let's bring Kevin Durant
back in and try to fit that back in. That
doesn't seem to make much sense to me for the Lakers.
One last gasp, because even earlier this week, right Lebron James.
As the series went three to h all the whispers
(24:48):
of what he want to stick around? Is he going
to leave for another squad? I don't think a retirement's
ever been in the offing. But Lakers versus finding a
new place to settle up for another year or two
interesting prospects.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Just Durant at this point, go back to Golden State.
Just go back.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There's not gonna.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Go reaquate yourself with all the tech guys.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
There's no way. There's no way I'm gonna go back there.
Draymond's gonna go oh hell no, oh no, no, no no.
Then I'm out.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, that could be the plan
all on he God, well, that's exactly where my line
of thinking. Wait, we can bring in KD. But it's
gonna mean this and this, I don't know. Clay finally
goes and finds his his one hundred million dollars from
I don't know, say Philadelphia. I'm telling you what Raymond's gone.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm telling you, man Lakers and Kevin Durant that that
it makes too much sense for where KD would end
up and what the Lakers could get. It's you can't
say we're getting Westbrook again. No, we're getting a bit
of a better player this time. Uh, and a guy
that's still in his in is the end of his prime,
and someone who can help carry and and wouldn't that
be great for the Lakers. You're suddenly looking at Wow, Okay,
(26:07):
hey on a second, Maybe we just extended our run
a little bit here, because if Lebron retires in two
years and we have KD in the same place Lebron
is now, we have some we have a couple of
years to bring another star in. But you can see that. Look,
they've built a pretty nice team right now. But when
it when you look at the results, you can't hold
on your your Your team is not good enough, not
(26:28):
enough firepower, not making enough, not making shots from the outside. Yeah,
this is what it's gonna be. KD is gonna wind
up being a Laker. It's just gonna slowly, subtly, and
very seductively dance towards each other.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well, and if that dance were to occur, I'm gonna
go back and perhaps your best moment here at Fox
Sports Radio was you're over under analysis of the Brooklyn Nets.
Oh yeah, yeah, when KD and those guys, all team
When I say sixty games would be under total? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
What twenty Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
What would you say for a full year of eighty
Lebron and kd the court to get ooh?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
How about that tough guy?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Know what? Right would it count if every game two
out of the three guys play.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Meat Loaf was all about two out of three? Ain't bad?
I want all three of them on the course. So
there you go, shout out meat Loaf.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's gonna be your consolation prize Lakers. Is Kevin Durant
tired of feeling a loan in your job?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
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Sagarin for what's trending, this is what I'm gonna tell
you something that's gonna just slay both of you. So
last hour we had the joke Jason Lockinforrest dot Buy
that his dog was breaking news. And you know, thinking
(27:43):
that in a year, Kirk Cousins will get traded We
kind of had fun there and we talked about talking
dogs and different animals that have been famous. Now, we
just watched Quiz Show in My House nineteen ninety four, classic,
believably good. Oh my god, Paul Schofield, how did he
not win? I have no idea, but because Martin Landau
beat him that year. But quiz Show was so good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
You leave Martin Landau alone and in the and.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It was takes to take place in the fifties. Quiz
show scandal Ray Fines phenomenal with John Taturo. Yeah, true story,
And one of the plot lines of it was that
Ray finds his character gets a job on the Today Show.
Right he answers all these questions, he gets very popular.
Charles Van dooran it's job on the Today Show and
they show him on on on set with the actor
(28:27):
playing Dave Garaway and Jfred Muggs is the Yeah, they
had a chimpanzee who was like the mascot of the
Today Show in the fifties. So I was gonna make
a jay Fred Muggs joke last hour on the show.
I looked at m I said, oh, I don't want
to be harmon and bring up you know, and bring
up you know, a dead animal. No compliment there, and
I looked it up. J Fred Muggs is alive and
(28:49):
living in retirement in Florida.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
The chimp on TV from the nineteen ship from the
nineteen fifties. His breed of chimpanzee can live into their a.
He is in retirement in Florida and he's been there,
they said, living his best life and foot if you
do j Fred Muggs alive, first you go boom. J
Fred Muggs alive, living in Florida. He's seventy two years old,
(29:12):
was born in nineteen fifty two. How about that. That's
amazing because the Twist Show contested Herbs Temple is not alive.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No, No, Herb Simple is a lot. He's the only
one who is alive.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
No, I think Herb in recent years past, Toway really yeah,
now you're bringing up the opponents.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes, yeah, you're bringing John Tature. I thought I thought
he was the only Okay, he might have been the
last living living person. Oh that Ryan Bersching are jumping it. Yes, No,
he's dead.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Bringing up well, you got your secondary confirmation. You asked
me before which guyd ad run into? I said, Porter immediately, Hey, Birch,
who did he run into? Couldn't believe me there, couldn't
believe Steve that the guy was dead.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Herb Stemple would have known that answer. Yes, he would
have left.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Am I dead?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I don't know how did I know?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Of course I knew Marty was best picture. I saw
it three times, but I had to say no, live.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Marty old. Ernie Boord now getting after it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
But j Fred Muggs is still alive. I cannot believe that.
I cannot believe that. Where should go visit him?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh? Man Rocher, visit Jay Fred.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
On the Real Today Show.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean, yeah, you don't even know that.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
I'm like, he's still alive. Oh my god, it's gonna
make an appearance. I mean, Tom Roker's been on long enough.
Somebody longer than that should be on the show.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Quiz Show is thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Now that's how old I knew there was, right, Yeah,
you told me in ninety four j Fred Muggs was
still alive.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I would say, oh, come on, man, come on, you
can't sl Nope.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It's like those one hundred and ninety year old tortoises
that are walking around, man, Let's go. The guy was
walking through a towny chat. I saw it in the
TikTok world.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He had a little hat on him taking his turtle
out for a walk.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
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Speaker 1 (30:55):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Denver leaves the Lakers seventy six seventy four,
two minutes to go in the third quarter. It's been
a big run for the Nuggets the last few minutes.
Ad came down with a rebound, left the game again
grabbing his left shoulder neck area, which was injured a
(31:17):
few minutes before. So he is off the court right
now again. A two point lead for the Nuggets over
the Lakers, seventy six to seventy four, a couple of
minutes to go in the third quarter. Now, if you
had any doubt, the Cowboys all in what they did today,
(31:37):
bringing back Ezekiel Elliott after a one year exile to
New England is the Cowboys. It's gonna carry the ball.
Two hundred and fifty times this year, the Cowboys have
brought back Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
All in all.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the poster boy for Hey, we don't really want
to pay a running back because we're afraid if we
pay him, he'll stop trying.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
He is the poster boy for that. He is the
poster boy for that.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I think he is.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Going to have Remember when Pittsburgh shuffled Jerome Bettis story,
he became a short yardage and goal line back.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I think that's Zeke this time around. I mean this
is ric o'dowdell.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
And Zeke to vulture stuff away.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh suddenly, no, read better. A guy who hasn't been
good in five years.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
By the time he had five years, he got paid
in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Ay, great, and that's his last great year. Since then,
it's been yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Right, and the stats still looked okay.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
He is the poster guy for this is why we
don't want to pay running backs. Because I'm gonna hold
out for a week. Jerry Jones gonna give me a
lot of money and look what happens. And Ezekiel Elliott
just stopped after that season because he holds out and
he pays him right for the season starts. But look,
Ezekiel had already put in all that work in the
off season read so he had a great year. But
after that done, solutely done. But there's a different angle
(33:03):
on this I want to get to because this hits
me that Jerry Jones bringing back Ezekiel Elliott here for
this year where he's all in.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I feel like this.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Is a movie where the bad guy in the movie,
it's like a murder mystery movie where someone gathers all
his former enemies together in a haunted house for a
weekend and systematically begins eliminating them and until.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You figure out why.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Like, I feel like that's what Jerry Jones is doing.
He's so mad at the team for not winning. He's
not spending this year. He's gonna let Dak Prescott go.
So I'm gonna bring back all the people that didn't
get us over the hump in the last few years,
just so they have to go through this season in
Dallas and instead of getting picked off one by one
a movie, it's just you have to go through this
(33:49):
misery of a season before I fire the head coach.
Get rid of the quarterback, get rid of the running back,
get rid of CD Lamb, get rid of Michael Parson,
move on from all of these guys. I feel like
that's what Jerry Jones. I'm resembling all my friends now
enemies all together for a weekend, and it's a murder.
It's the Jerry Jones murder mystery.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Now I would watch this, and I'd rather see this
than Hard Knocks or QB or a Wide Receiver or
whatever the hell else we're gonna try to do to
have these little documentary series two That also sounds eerily
similar to the plot of a movie I watched this weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, what do you watch this weekend, Abigail? Okay, all right,
except this would be the Jerry world.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I mean, he may or may not be a vampire.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Welcome. No one could leave the premises until Sunday night.
Everything is locked. Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
You all have bedrooms upstairs and put.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
In each room a different way to kill you. So
just got to be able to figure it out how
to get away from that.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
So now you're combining He saw that, Abigail. Yeah, Now,
I don't know. I've never seen Jerry Jones dance. Has
he taken any bell? You've all seen the trailer for Abigail.
They'll act like I'm spoiled something, didn't know what I
could move like, that's actually a hologram. This is hologram.
Jerry real, Jerry's upstairs. I'm getting Dack's room ready. And
what I'm gonna do is he's gonna choke to death
(35:09):
on money. That's what's gonna happen. Yeah, he's gonna get
the money. He's gonna get the money, except he's gonna
choke to death on That's what we're gonna have. Glunt me,
what are we doing? Wow, that's one hell of a
horror movie. We're just grabbing them all together.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yes, I'm gonna get get rid of McCarthy. Is uh,
he's going to that room and find out that he's
sharing a suite with Dave Campo and they're gonna Dave's
gonna talk to him about what I was like and
the cowboys in the early two thousands, and McCarthy's gonn
want to jump out of window. So uh, that's gonna
get rid of McCarthy. So that's like, it's like, you know,
it's like and then there were none. It's so slowly, slowly,
someone eliminated here someone eliminated.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Here, eliminated. This is what Jerry Jones is doing.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I want you all to live through how horrible it's
going to be, because you guys all, I'm everybody if
you're on the team from twenty sixteen until now, you're
coming back for this year, and you're gonna see him
suff and sit through it just watching.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
A statue out on the front lawn when you walk in,
because that's the start of the dak era.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, everybody, everybody from twenty sixteen on as
we was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
It's it's really amazing.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Look, it's not surprising, like we've been hearing this for
weeks and even heading into the drafts like, well, he's
being they're talking to him near facilities like oh, this
is happening, isn't it? And then they he he talks
out of turn after round one had the opportunity to
draft the Texas running back didn't and then talked about
(36:34):
how much he loved him and this was the guy,
and then Carolina goes and grabs him. David Tepper turned
his attention away from that restaurant and berating customers and
wait staff about you know, making their picks, said ha,
how you like that.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I'm making this pick now. I took this guy like you, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You just wait, you just wait until Sean Lee comes back.
Then you're gonna know. Then you're gonna twenty sixteen at later. Hey,
I think I think Jerry's doing something to us here.
We're all gonna have to go through this season together.
We're gonna play it every single game.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
This is gonna be awful. That's what he's doing. Exit
out by the Fresca Exit swollen Dome. Coming up next,
we get back into one of the biggest stories in
the NBA. Keep it right here, Fox,
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Quick NBA update here we are about four minutes ago
before halftime. The Lakers have been on a big run
the last few minutes. They lead the Nuggets by five
forty eight forty three Gets trying to close out the Lakers,
the Lakers trying to desperately stay alive. Meanwhile, h what
just happened? We have another series over and it's another sweep.
(01:09):
Maybe you're watching an NBA TV Maybe you weren't. But
the Thunder beat the Pelicans ninety seven eighty nine final
shot as the seconds ticked off with Zion sitting on
the bench street close looking at what might have been
for the seventh year in a row.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
What n you're not making hoping?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Uh So the Thunder win, the Pelicans go home. And
I know that when he came into the league, we
expected ze because I'm gonna give you a big left
turn right here for a second. So I was gonna
a little bit go New York, Go, New York, go,
But we'll take that. Let me just throw this at you.
Zion Williamson comes into the league and we think, okay,
he's going to be the big star and maybe he
(01:52):
and Jahn Morant are the next great rivalry in the league.
Actually doesn't have rivals, and this is why we saw
why things were so great in college basketball with Caitlin
Clark and LSU and Angel Reese. And we don't have rivalries,
then okay, maybe it's Yo Kitchen somebody, well not really,
Yokic is kind of his own thing. Maybe it's Jason
Tatum and Yannis. Maybe however, let me just throw something
(02:12):
crazy by you hit me. What if we watch the
Wolves sweep, we watch the Thunder sweep. They both at
the top of the Western Conference, they're both young teams.
What if the next NBA great rivalry turns out to
be Anthony Edwards and Shi Gilgess Alexander Guys an MVP
on the back of Chet, Chet would be it chuts there,
(02:34):
but I mean the rivalry.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Though Chet's a little bit younger. Yeah, but yeah, look
it's a two on one match.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Then SGA is an MVP finalist, right, and you have
a guy who's likely going to be an NBA finalist
next year. That's getting all kinds of great run. Now,
if the Wolves and the Thunder are here and this
and they're this good, and you look at them having
no trouble in the first round of the playoffs, Yeah,
Jokic and the and the and the Nuggets are real,
but boy, they're having a lot more trouble with the
(03:02):
Lakers than you would have expected in this series. What
if the next rivalry turns out to be Anthony Edwards
and Shy Gildess Alexander.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Now, remember last year it was the most competitive sweep
we've ever seen in NBA history. And this one if
they if they lose four games one, let's just for
argument's sake, say the Nuggets take care of this and
finish out with a big second half that it'll be
even more competitive even though it wasn't a sweep, because
(03:30):
not only because they won a game, but because they
led from the vast majority of minutes. So I get you.
You know there's excitement to be had there. Don't forget
that the thunder also have giddy I know, the accusations
and everything that was sorely in the background, but he
kind of looks like Timothy shallomeh. So he can get
some Wonka references in and sell some chocolate while we're
(03:52):
at it.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But no, I like that setup.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I mean, Denver's its own organism, like yok, it's just
as sure like you're trying to compare him to all
time greats, but he opposed to other players that he's
playing against, is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Kind of boring.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
As great as he is, he's kind of more exciting though.
I mean, dresses up like grew and took their money.
He took Illuminations money to do an.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Ad good Night Dignus never get the older, and now
they're stocking me but why look at the squads.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
I mean, who now has the signature.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Poster dunk of a guy playing absolutely no defense on
him and.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Letting him walk past Devin Booker.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But but I mean, you're gonna give me some of
that money from that poster? Right, Okay, great, I'll let you.
I'll be the defensive guy.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Sure, a couple of years ago that would have been
a great top shot that everybody would have paid thousands
upon thousands of dollars for. But no, you've got the
young squads and n SGA. Certainly a guy getting his run,
remember all those years ago he started with the Clippers out.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We don't need this guy one year of the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No. But that's the thing about there's players that get
our attention because they have whatever that it factor is.
As much everybody likes Jokic and understands what a great
player is like, is that people don't run in the television.
Nobody's Tim Duncan.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Like we were talking about it a couple of weeks ago,
and I wanted to make since you brought up the
Angel Rees versus Caitlyn Clark thing, the Chicago Sky should
be absolutely uh defeated for how they had a press
conference for her, Caitlyn Clark. You've got pomp and circumstance, pageantry.
(05:25):
Whatever Angel Rees comes walking in, there's like eight reporters
the backdrop in the middle of an empty small gym
ahead of a workout, like there's no excitement, no juice
for it, whatsoever. It's like you failed, But you know,
we we try to find the excitement. Right college basketball
for women, South Carolina won news flashed everybody, but same
(05:48):
thing in terms of style and excitement. And it doesn't
mean they don't have great players on the team, but
I think from a watchability for the casual coming in,
they need that illuminating see what they did there, superstar
that that gets your attention, right, the Angel Reese, the
Page Beckers, the Caitlin Clark, whoever that is to get
(06:10):
on board. And yeah, for some of these teams, it's
just not there, especially as we are having that crisis
of conscience amongst so many NBA analysts and super fans
and bloggers or whatever else of oh my god, all
our favorite stars of yesterday are fading into oblivion. So
you need the extra you know, here's the big poster shot,
(06:34):
here's the charming commercial ads and everything popping up in
postgame interviews. So opportunity is there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Look, it's it's hard to say what's gonna quantify a
star and a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Right, we have a lot of stars in the league.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Kevin Durantz never had a rival, right, Steph has never
had a rival that we get, you know, Lebron has
never really had a rival. He's got other players going
up against one on one. But that's not how it is.
And the NBA really made its bones early. It was
Magic and Larry and they were the rivals, and Doctor j.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Was in the mix.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And that's the next thing for the NBA as we
move out of the Lebron eras. Okay, no, no one
guy is coming into the NBA and taking them out.
You want to think at some point somebody will we
were lucky enough to go from Magic to Lebron and hey,
that's been you know, thirty five years now, so that's
been pretty good. Could we get Victor Wembama to fight
Jalen Brunson. If you get Wemby versus Jail, the height
(07:29):
differential right out there, I mean, it's gonna be amazing.
But just think about that, that that could wind up
being because both these teams are young in the Western Conference.
Nobody else in the Western Conference is getting younger, right,
The Lakers are an older team, The Warriors are an
older team. The Clippers are an older team. The Mavericks
are a team that, hey, they're a little bit older
as well. With Kyrie being on the on the on
(07:50):
the other side of the third draft picks, just well,
they'll trade everybody this offseason. Well we'll get to Kadi
in a little bit, but just think about these are
two young teams that are able to control their superstars
for a few years before they really have to pay them.
And if these are the two teams that wind up
being on a collision, or especially if they play this
year and it's Gildes Alexander Anthony Edwards, everybody seems ready
(08:12):
to love Anthony Edwards. Kildes Alexander is already an MVP finalist.
You know, finding these guys in Minnesota and Oklahoma City
when normally you had to get out of there to
be noticed in the NBA, it's a great moment for
the NBA that we can notice the stars in the
smaller markets. But if they play this year, maybe it's hey,
we got it all wrong because Giannis doesn't have anybody.
(08:32):
But maybe it's Gilds Alexander and Anthony Edwards that could
wind up. It's insane, but it could wind up being
the next great rival.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
No, it's funny because you started the conversation with Zion
and John Moran. We're talking New Orleans and Memphis, not
exactly the big NBA hot spots, right, you always get out,
come out to the coast.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
We'll have a few laughs.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
No, here we are middle of the nation and both
those guys for different reasons.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
This year look like Jaw was going to be a
monster and then got hurt.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Zion had a fantastic regulars like they lived up to
the hype when they were on the court. Unfortunately, we're
now five years in. There's no guarantee in either home
is gonna be on the court. Brenny's significant length of time.
So we wish all good basketball karma and the favoring
of the basketball gods upon them. Exit out about a
Fresco exit swallen down the Jason Smith Show with my
(09:23):
best friend Mike Cormrade. So just think about that, SGA
and Goose. Okay, that's your next your next big rivalry
in the NBA. Let's go, let's go, let's get it going.
Let's get it going and check or or the Knicks
versus the Sixers. It could be the Nicks and the
six Look, the Sixers are gonna bow out here fast?
How much another year of failed opportunity, failed promise.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
How quickly has Embiid gone from all Look at Embiid.
He's funny, he's the MVP to be in, the absolute
villain in the NBA player and he brought night.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
But like, the hard part is like operating in parallel
to all the nonsense he's done on court and the
whining in post games, whether it be the referees or
you know whatever. You've got the bells palsy diagnosis where
he dealt with that. You got this knee injury where
he's dragging his ass up and down the court on
(10:14):
one leg and still score fifty on you the other night.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So like all of that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Thrown out of sure, Yeah, but there's these things that
then hurt Mitchell Robinson and all of those things. There's
things you like and you're like wow, like look it up,
because he's the one of the few big men that
we have to kind of throw the laurel and hardy
handshakes towards these days and then just bit by bit,
there's there's all of these little incidences with the Knicks.
(10:42):
I've seen a super cut. You can get a full
minute eighteen at this point out of the swipes at
the knees, the extra step through the oh I'm stumbling?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Am I really falling?
Speaker 5 (10:53):
But I'm gonna fall on top of you kind of moments,
Like there's just a preponderance of evidence. If we were
in a law and Order episode, is like to say
that this man is a menace on the court and
all the whining doesn't help you. You're defending MVP. You
were potentially on the road to a back to back
(11:13):
victory in that regard. Unfortunately you didn't meet the games
threshold that like a bunch of knuckleheads, you guys all
agreed to for these awards and the honors that then
determine future contract max values. But to now just be
a whiner, you're just you don't have Doc there.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
You can't blame his.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Coach, Sure, Ken, you can blame Doc. Yeah, so it's
now on your shoulders. Yeah, all these years later and
you know you're not likable because on the other side,
you got the Knicks fighting for every offensive rebound, and like,
all right, there's three guys there. One of them's gonna
cry it. Nope, there's Josh Harten weaving his way through.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Go.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Look.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
The whole thing about the Sixers is this, The Sixers
are a team and all they do is look for
It's why they're on my never again list. What have
they done this series? All they've done is look for excuses.
They're the They're the couple that comes to see a
house that has everything they want. We want at least
four bedrooms. Got four bedrooms, We want three bathrooms, got
three bathrooms. We want a bonusroom, Got a bonus room.
(12:15):
Want a garage we can turn into a work are No,
we got that. Need a backyard big enough for a pool.
Got a backyard, big enough for a pool? Okay, great?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I want solar panels, Got solar panels.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Got everything you want?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We got you got wet Like big big window, big
big window. Is there? Everything that was great? And they
walk in and everything is there for them.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Hey, all you gotta do is go through it, and
instead they go, oh well, this bathroom's kind of small
and uh, the rug would kind of be replaced here,
but it looks like there's a little bit of mold there.
I don't know about that. I go upstairs. It's too hot.
Once it does it have doesn't have central air. Central
we have to put it in. They find all the
things possible wrong with this house, and they are we
can't buy it because of that. It's got everything you want.
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You have to put a little bit of work in, right,
because that's do with anything. Got to put a little
bit of work in. Can't just show up and have
it done for you. And that's that's who the Sixers are.
Everywhere they go, there's an excuse. There's a reason why
the referees are keeping it from us. All the fans
aren't rooting for us. All this is appening, this has happened.
Joel Embiad is tired.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm sorry. Joel em beeat is tired.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I'm sorry. You don't have a team that can give
him a rest. And he's got to play all forty
eight minutes. You know what, I watch mixed players playing
forty eight minutes and the guys are crashing the glass
and getting rebounds at them, beat can't get to So
I'm seeing guys. So just for a second, give Tom
Thibodau a little bit credit for always.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Gonna run these guys under the ground.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Or maybe these are guys that are now out everything
the Sixers because they're in shape, because they play forty
eight minutes to night. Just think this, that's the Sixers.
They are just full of excuses. Everywhere they go. There's
always something going on and something happening, and they don't
take responsibility.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
For well, first off, I thought you were gonna lament
the lack of a dumb waiter in your analysis and
had everything else I did. But you know, I saw
dumb waiters in these movies and I always wanted one.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, dumbwa Here goes the food up up all the
way up through.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Yeah yeah, like a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, I like dumbway. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I like end my ice cream, although I don't know
like if it's if it's an if it's an open
like shaft, all right, if you put my food in
there uncovered and you kind of raise it up, I'm like,
I don't know what kind of dust or anything is
in there.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
But yeah, that's like you're at a hotel. You can
buy those from any restaurants plots. That's That's the next
Pearl gam album is Rats and the Dumb Waiter.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That's the next title.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I might write that AI song before we're done the
the others. As we're just talking about the Sixers in general.
It was always trust the process. MM can't trust that
process now anymore. Now all they want to do is
all dead. All we do is complain, Oh, we.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Didn't get this called it even the game where you
saw Maxie get fouled at the end of game too,
and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
They didn't call it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Nick Nurse and the Sixers spent no time after talking
about how Maxie missed the layup. Uh, you know what
was the whole deal where you passed up the shot
at the end of the game and passed the embid?
Why were you rushing to inbound the ball when you
were winning in the game. Nobody rushes to inbound the ball.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
When you're winning, the ability to get Why are you doing
that plate all of those things?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Why?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Why are you why were you throwing a bad pass
in that was that Josh Hart was able to knock off?
None of that, None of that the Sixers wanted to
take responsibility for it was all they didn't blow the
whistle on the Maxi playe, and that's why we lost.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
I have one other theory about your knicks, Oka say,
if this holds water for you, dumb waiter, isn't it
a bucket? Does Thibodeau have established with a number of
businesses in New York a collective whereby he goes outside
like he's an EPL club, where we're paying these guys
(15:36):
beyond their contract right for hustle plays and offensive rebounds stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
There's a bounty gate.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
It's all positive. We're not hurting anybody, like Brady saying
for every screen pass fifteen yards. Yeah, sure, because that
maybe that's why they're busting their ass on every place.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I could just see tips right with a roll of
money just handing at the guys in.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The locker room. Hey, hey, Josh Hart, that was great.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Here you go, sure one right here, guys just grabbing
stuffing into their shorts.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
While he's always wearing the puffy upfits. He's got rolls
on nose.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You guys are all gonna dress like me?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Why now, I gotta find someplace to put your money man,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You gotta do.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Here you go, I'm precious. I mean, come on, yeah,
guy hasn't played all his parrots. A guy like you know,
he plays hard when he's in.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Guy hasn't pay.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's been the reputation of that guy since he came
in the lead.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And Anonobe goes on on Embid and suddenly the Sixers
couldn't do anything. I mean that the sixth they take
no responsibility for anything that's sick. That's why they're down
through and it's why they don't win. No responsibility. Nothing
is their fault. You called Philadelphia Soft, nothing's their fault
saying that. Hey, no, no, I want to say. I
feel bad for Embeid. You know, for a guy there
was a former MVP to be so tired at the
(16:45):
end of games that he can't make shots and turns
the ball over and is not happy that the fans
are cheering from I look, I.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Got a heart. I feel bad for that.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I feel like we need a Broadway Soft bad for
that to play for Joel.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
And Exit out Bout of Fresca, Exit swalling down The
Jason Smith Show with Mom, best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
We are live from the Tirec dot Com studios.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Coming up next, we got more from the NBA. Lakers
lead by three at halftime. Even if they don't win tonight,
I'll tell you what their big off season prize is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And boys at a whopper whopper and I want a Hamberger.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I don't mean the sandwich. I mean it's a wopper.
It's a big off season prize.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I dig that. Hey, maybe and Mead can go to
the Emerald City and see the Wizard.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, you guys get to see the Wizard. No no, no,
don't see the Wizard.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You can try no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He would try to knock the box off the top
of the Wizard and miss.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well, the flying Monkey's getting.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It's coming up next to Radio Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports, MLB Network
and Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
And I'm Joe Madden.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
We're going to be around to talk a little bit
about managerial decisions and what may have occurred to I
got maybe the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
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Speaker 6 (18:04):
We're gonna dive into what goes on in the dugout
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
League Baseball, cars, wind whatever else we want to talk about.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
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Book of Joe podcast on the iHeartRadio app, on Apple
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Speaker 3 (18:19):
It is Broadway Night on the show tonight because of
the Knicks. Go New York, O, New York, Go, Go
New York, Go, New York Go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
However, however, however, there's something I'm gonna tell you and
Steve coming up in a few minutes that you are
going to absolutely flip on.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We are gonna absolutely flip on.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You're gonna say, you're gonna say no way, You're gonna
say no way. But absolutely it's true. However, we got
to talk about what's going on right now. Lakers and
the Nuggets. Early in the third quarter, ten to fifty
three left to go, Anthony Davis has just left the
game in an incredible amount of pain. He goes down
(18:57):
low and he just bangs with Michael porter Ju and
you're on an offensive set. Ad looks like he's looking
to go in too, call for the ball, and it's
kind of a just a like a like we're passing
each other and we're banging, and Ad goes down, grabbing
his shoulder and his neck. He was down on the
floor for a few moments. He was helped off, and
(19:19):
now it looks like he's trying to go into attempt
to play. This is kind of how it works for
a d Sometimes it looks like it's the worst injury
in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
But Ad looks like he's coming back in. He's holding
his neck. He's staying on the floor for the Lakers
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Just inside. He just started the third quarter here, ten
fifty remaining as we were talking here live from the
tyrack dot com studios, and Jason had looked fairly innocuous,
as you said, Justina, a quick little uh pushby by
porter as as AD's going into the post, and all
of a sudden he went down like a sack of potato,
(19:54):
and like that's enough to send the guy flying. I mean,
I guess if you hit it just right and you're
already a little bit maybe compromised, right because I know
he's had some some issues with That's.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
What it look like.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You would tell like, okay, it's something there pre existing,
and that just did.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It, you know, just enough.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I mean like you know, me throwing a football giant hallway.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Time you give the ball. Now, that's that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But it's cathartic. It looks like ad is back and
we'll keep you posting on this again. It's an eight
point lead for the Lakers right now, ten minutes to
go the third quarter, so basically the Nuggets have the
Lakers right where they want them now. It may not
turn out well for the Lakers this year, however, I'll
tell you what their prize of the offseason is going
to have. You got a prize, Oh, they had a
big prize coming their way. We just watched the Suns
(20:42):
get swept out of the play. All they did, all
the draft picks they gave up to get kd all
the draft picks they gave up to get Bradley Beale,
the money they gave Devin Booker, and you saw at
the end of their sweep. Kevin Durant not happy how
he was used, says I felt like maybe he was
I was in the corner too much and he use
(21:03):
me like they wanted me to. Devin Booker said, you know,
we all have to be better. I felt like, you know,
I was unprepared. Kevin's unprepared. Frank Vogel was unprepared. And
when you say you're unprepared, you can say that I
feel unprepared. But what you're saying is the coaches were
unprepared and they hated him.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Frank Vogel is what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I mean, is ad Darvin Ham from last week just
magnified because he got swept out of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
There are going to.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Be sweeping changes in Phoenix because, like they are now,
they're not good enough. And I know Booker said a
lot today about oh, if we were healthy, you're all
playing this how it goes in the playoffs. You can't
say no one's gonna be all healthy in the playoffs.
You your three stars were standing and you got swept.
This is a team that needs a reboot. And obviously Booker,
being the youngest player, still a star. They will keep him,
(21:48):
they will build around him. But but you watch in
the offseason, it's gonna be Hey, KD. Bradley beal, what
are we gonna do? And Katie's up for an extension
and there's been no talk. So I'm gonna guarantee you this.
You are gonna see a trade with KD and the Lakers.
This is gonna be the lakers last Hail Mary to
(22:09):
salvage the last couple of years of Lebron and ad
Is Kevin Durant. They're not gonna get young superstars. They're
gonna have to find a way. Okay, Yeah, Kevin Durant's
thirty six, but he's still KD. Right, he still doesn't
need to dominate. You thought it was gonna work with
what they had in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
But the Lakers need something, you know, they need something.
It's not working with Russell and the combination of him
and Reason, Hutchamore and everything else. That's gonna be the
thing because that's where Kevin Durant's gonna wanna go one
last chance in the title, it's not working here, boy,
the Lakers were good. Add me to this mix and
watch what happens. Right, that's you're gonna see him there.
(22:45):
You're gonna see a slow dance with Kevin Durant and
the Lakers. There's gonna be phone calls me back and forth,
and we Clutch Sports is gonna be involved, and that's
gonna be the guy the Lakers got. I told you
at season they're gonna get a third star. They have
to get a third star. Is it gonna be a
young third star? They have to go up a lot
for young third star. But they've done big trades with
Phoenix before, right, just can't say. Just because their rivals
the Steve Nash trade, Lakers still don't have a first
(23:08):
first round pick. The Steven picks go through twenty forty,
so they're giving up all of them. So we've seen
it before, and this just makes too much sense. Where
is Kevin Durant going to go to better himself, bigger spotlight.
This is a team that's gonna be overwhelmingly okay with
bringing him in because, hey, KD could be that guy,
and KD is gonna wind up being a Laker. He's
(23:30):
gonna be their big prize in the offseason. They'll be
younger players going to Phoenix. They try to figure it out.
It'll kind of be like the Ad trade with the Pelicans,
except there will be a little bit less because Kevin
Durant is older and not quite that player, so it's
gonna be more. Let's make the salaries match, and we're
gonna move on because Phoenix needs to just reboot from
the from the ground up. So he knew ed, coach
knew everything. Booker's gonna be there and figure everything else out.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And they wiped out everything in terms of trade assets
to make this team come together.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It was an abject failure at every turn.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
I mean, you even saw the Charles Barkley saying you
don't even deserve to go here as you get swept out,
So all of that fun I don't I don't know
what's I was looking at the odds a little bit earlier.
One of the favorites would be for Durant to go
back to OKC where it all began, which is I
think an interesting prospect. Again, when we're talking about a
(24:24):
team that what's the average age twenty four year seven
months and seemingly humming along, Yeah, let's bring Kevin Durant
back in and try to fit that back in. That
doesn't seem to make much sense to me for the Lakers.
One last gasp, because even earlier this week, right Lebron James.
As the series went three to h all the whispers
(24:48):
of what he want to stick around? Is he going
to leave for another squad? I don't think a retirement's
ever been in the offing. But Lakers versus finding a
new place to settle up for another year or two
interesting prospects.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Just Durant at this point, go back to Golden State.
Just go back.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
There's not gonna.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Go reaquate yourself with all the tech guys.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
There's no way. There's no way I'm gonna go back there.
Draymond's gonna go oh hell no, oh no, no, no no.
Then I'm out.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, that could be the plan
all on he God, well, that's exactly where my line
of thinking. Wait, we can bring in KD. But it's
gonna mean this and this, I don't know. Clay finally
goes and finds his his one hundred million dollars from
I don't know, say Philadelphia. I'm telling you what Raymond's gone.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm telling you, man Lakers and Kevin Durant that that
it makes too much sense for where KD would end
up and what the Lakers could get. It's you can't
say we're getting Westbrook again. No, we're getting a bit
of a better player this time. Uh, and a guy
that's still in his in is the end of his prime,
and someone who can help carry and and wouldn't that
be great for the Lakers. You're suddenly looking at Wow, Okay,
(26:07):
hey on a second, Maybe we just extended our run
a little bit here, because if Lebron retires in two
years and we have KD in the same place Lebron
is now, we have some we have a couple of
years to bring another star in. But you can see that. Look,
they've built a pretty nice team right now. But when
it when you look at the results, you can't hold
on your your Your team is not good enough, not
(26:28):
enough firepower, not making enough, not making shots from the outside. Yeah,
this is what it's gonna be. KD is gonna wind
up being a Laker. It's just gonna slowly, subtly, and
very seductively dance towards each other.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Well, and if that dance were to occur, I'm gonna
go back and perhaps your best moment here at Fox
Sports Radio was you're over under analysis of the Brooklyn Nets.
Oh yeah, yeah, when KD and those guys, all team
When I say sixty games would be under total? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:54):
What twenty Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:56):
What would you say for a full year of eighty
Lebron and kd the court to get ooh?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
How about that tough guy?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Know what? Right would it count if every game two
out of the three guys play.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Meat Loaf was all about two out of three? Ain't bad?
I want all three of them on the course. So
there you go, shout out meat Loaf.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's gonna be your consolation prize Lakers. Is Kevin Durant
tired of feeling a loan in your job?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
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That's expresspros dot com. Now, before we bring Steve to
Sagarin for what's trending, this is what I'm gonna tell
you something that's gonna just slay both of you. So
last hour we had the joke Jason Lockinforrest dot Buy
that his dog was breaking news. And you know, thinking
(27:43):
that in a year, Kirk Cousins will get traded We
kind of had fun there and we talked about talking
dogs and different animals that have been famous. Now, we
just watched Quiz Show in My House nineteen ninety four, classic,
believably good. Oh my god, Paul Schofield, how did he
not win? I have no idea, but because Martin Landau
beat him that year. But quiz Show was so good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
You leave Martin Landau alone and in the and.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
It was takes to take place in the fifties. Quiz
show scandal Ray Fines phenomenal with John Taturo. Yeah, true story,
And one of the plot lines of it was that
Ray finds his character gets a job on the Today Show.
Right he answers all these questions, he gets very popular.
Charles Van dooran it's job on the Today Show and
they show him on on on set with the actor
(28:27):
playing Dave Garaway and Jfred Muggs is the Yeah, they
had a chimpanzee who was like the mascot of the
Today Show in the fifties. So I was gonna make
a jay Fred Muggs joke last hour on the show.
I looked at m I said, oh, I don't want
to be harmon and bring up you know, and bring
up you know, a dead animal. No compliment there, and
I looked it up. J Fred Muggs is alive and
(28:49):
living in retirement in Florida.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
The chimp on TV from the nineteen ship from the
nineteen fifties. His breed of chimpanzee can live into their a.
He is in retirement in Florida and he's been there,
they said, living his best life and foot if you
do j Fred Muggs alive, first you go boom. J
Fred Muggs alive, living in Florida. He's seventy two years old,
(29:12):
was born in nineteen fifty two. How about that. That's
amazing because the Twist Show contested Herbs Temple is not alive.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No, No, Herb Simple is a lot. He's the only
one who is alive.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
No, I think Herb in recent years past, Toway really yeah,
now you're bringing up the opponents.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yes, yeah, you're bringing John Tature. I thought I thought
he was the only Okay, he might have been the
last living living person. Oh that Ryan Bersching are jumping it. Yes, No,
he's dead.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Bringing up well, you got your secondary confirmation. You asked
me before which guyd ad run into? I said, Porter immediately, Hey, Birch,
who did he run into? Couldn't believe me there, couldn't
believe Steve that the guy was dead.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Herb Stemple would have known that answer. Yes, he would
have left.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Am I dead?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I don't know how did I know?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Of course I knew Marty was best picture. I saw
it three times, but I had to say no, live.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Marty old. Ernie Boord now getting after it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
But j Fred Muggs is still alive. I cannot believe that.
I cannot believe that. Where should go visit him?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Oh? Man Rocher, visit Jay Fred.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
On the Real Today Show.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I mean, yeah, you don't even know that.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yeah, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
I'm like, he's still alive. Oh my god, it's gonna
make an appearance. I mean, Tom Roker's been on long enough.
Somebody longer than that should be on the show.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Quiz Show is thirty years old.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Now that's how old I knew there was, right, Yeah,
you told me in ninety four j Fred Muggs was
still alive.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I would say, oh, come on, man, come on, you
can't sl Nope.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
It's like those one hundred and ninety year old tortoises
that are walking around, man, Let's go. The guy was
walking through a towny chat. I saw it in the
TikTok world.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
He had a little hat on him taking his turtle
out for a walk.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
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Speaker 1 (30:55):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon. Denver leaves the Lakers seventy six seventy four,
two minutes to go in the third quarter. It's been
a big run for the Nuggets the last few minutes.
Ad came down with a rebound, left the game again
grabbing his left shoulder neck area, which was injured a
(31:17):
few minutes before. So he is off the court right
now again. A two point lead for the Nuggets over
the Lakers, seventy six to seventy four, a couple of
minutes to go in the third quarter. Now, if you
had any doubt, the Cowboys all in what they did today,
(31:37):
bringing back Ezekiel Elliott after a one year exile to
New England is the Cowboys. It's gonna carry the ball.
Two hundred and fifty times this year, the Cowboys have
brought back Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
All in all.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the poster boy for Hey, we don't really want
to pay a running back because we're afraid if we
pay him, he'll stop trying.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
He is the poster boy for that. He is the
poster boy for that.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
I think he is.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Going to have Remember when Pittsburgh shuffled Jerome Bettis story,
he became a short yardage and goal line back.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
I think that's Zeke this time around. I mean this
is ric o'dowdell.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
And Zeke to vulture stuff away.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Oh suddenly, no, read better. A guy who hasn't been
good in five years.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
By the time he had five years, he got paid
in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Ay, great, and that's his last great year. Since then,
it's been yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Right, and the stats still looked okay.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
He is the poster guy for this is why we
don't want to pay running backs. Because I'm gonna hold
out for a week. Jerry Jones gonna give me a
lot of money and look what happens. And Ezekiel Elliott
just stopped after that season because he holds out and
he pays him right for the season starts. But look,
Ezekiel had already put in all that work in the
off season read so he had a great year. But
after that done, solutely done. But there's a different angle
(33:03):
on this I want to get to because this hits
me that Jerry Jones bringing back Ezekiel Elliott here for
this year where he's all in.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
I feel like this.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Is a movie where the bad guy in the movie,
it's like a murder mystery movie where someone gathers all
his former enemies together in a haunted house for a
weekend and systematically begins eliminating them and until.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
You figure out why.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Like, I feel like that's what Jerry Jones is doing.
He's so mad at the team for not winning. He's
not spending this year. He's gonna let Dak Prescott go.
So I'm gonna bring back all the people that didn't
get us over the hump in the last few years,
just so they have to go through this season in
Dallas and instead of getting picked off one by one
a movie, it's just you have to go through this
(33:49):
misery of a season before I fire the head coach.
Get rid of the quarterback, get rid of the running back,
get rid of CD Lamb, get rid of Michael Parson,
move on from all of these guys. I feel like
that's what Jerry Jones. I'm resembling all my friends now
enemies all together for a weekend, and it's a murder.
It's the Jerry Jones murder mystery.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Now I would watch this, and I'd rather see this
than Hard Knocks or QB or a Wide Receiver or
whatever the hell else we're gonna try to do to
have these little documentary series two That also sounds eerily
similar to the plot of a movie I watched this weekend.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Okay, what do you watch this weekend, Abigail? Okay, all right,
except this would be the Jerry world.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I mean, he may or may not be a vampire.
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Welcome. No one could leave the premises until Sunday night.
Everything is locked. Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
You all have bedrooms upstairs and put.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
In each room a different way to kill you. So
just got to be able to figure it out how
to get away from that.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
So now you're combining He saw that, Abigail. Yeah, Now,
I don't know. I've never seen Jerry Jones dance. Has
he taken any bell? You've all seen the trailer for Abigail.
They'll act like I'm spoiled something, didn't know what I
could move like, that's actually a hologram. This is hologram.
Jerry real, Jerry's upstairs. I'm getting Dack's room ready. And
what I'm gonna do is he's gonna choke to death
(35:09):
on money. That's what's gonna happen. Yeah, he's gonna get
the money. He's gonna get the money, except he's gonna
choke to death on That's what we're gonna have. Glunt me,
what are we doing? Wow, that's one hell of a
horror movie. We're just grabbing them all together.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yes, I'm gonna get get rid of McCarthy. Is uh,
he's going to that room and find out that he's
sharing a suite with Dave Campo and they're gonna Dave's
gonna talk to him about what I was like and
the cowboys in the early two thousands, and McCarthy's gonn
want to jump out of window. So uh, that's gonna
get rid of McCarthy. So that's like, it's like, you know,
it's like and then there were none. It's so slowly, slowly,
someone eliminated here someone eliminated.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Here, eliminated. This is what Jerry Jones is doing.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I want you all to live through how horrible it's
going to be, because you guys all, I'm everybody if
you're on the team from twenty sixteen until now, you're
coming back for this year, and you're gonna see him
suff and sit through it just watching.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
A statue out on the front lawn when you walk in,
because that's the start of the dak era.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, everybody, everybody from twenty sixteen on as
we was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
It's it's really amazing.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Look, it's not surprising, like we've been hearing this for
weeks and even heading into the drafts like, well, he's
being they're talking to him near facilities like oh, this
is happening, isn't it? And then they he he talks
out of turn after round one had the opportunity to
draft the Texas running back didn't and then talked about
(36:34):
how much he loved him and this was the guy,
and then Carolina goes and grabs him. David Tepper turned
his attention away from that restaurant and berating customers and
wait staff about you know, making their picks, said ha,
how you like that.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
I'm making this pick now. I took this guy like you, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
You just wait, you just wait until Sean Lee comes back.
Then you're gonna know. Then you're gonna twenty sixteen at later. Hey,
I think I think Jerry's doing something to us here.
We're all gonna have to go through this season together.
We're gonna play it every single game.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
This is gonna be awful. That's what he's doing. Exit
out by the Fresca Exit swollen Dome. Coming up next,
we get back into one of the biggest stories in
the NBA. Keep it right here, Fox,
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