May 6, 2026 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon welcomed NBA Analyst and longtime friend of the show Ric Bucher to talk all things NBA Playoffs.
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Speaker 1 (01:29):
So tonight is in the books NBA Playoffs the Pistons
over the Cavaliers one eleven one oh one. Will have
more on that and playoff James Harden coming up in
a few minutes. Uh the fund turnover? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Did he have a turnover in the game or did
he eat a turnover?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I think I think he committed seven turnovers and had
nine turnovers to eat. That's what it was. Got to
eat more turnovers than you commit turnovers. Okay, good, Yeah,
I think I think that's a competitive eating contest. If
you if if you like Joey Chestnut and you had
him watch a Cavalier's playoff game, he say, Okay, every
time James Harden turns the ball over, you have to
(02:09):
eat a turnover. He would say, great, Yeah, but I'm
making a monster size turnover like It's not just a
regular this is like a monster size turnover. And he's
got to eat one every turnover. Hardens guy, Let's see
how far he goes. You got two, you got two
screen experience going on it to be great.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now I found a As of March twenty sixteen, the
record for meat pie turnovers was a Jeffrey Esper, who
consumed twenty three six ounce meat pies in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, but six ounce that's not that big, though six athlete.
It's gotta be like double. That's gotta be like, you know,
or maybe a full pound turnover.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Man, that's one pound turnover.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, one pound, one pound turnover. I mean, this
is Joey check. I'm just asking some you know, slat
blank guy to come in here, and this is Joey Chesnut.
We're getting to do this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I don't have an updated on the turnovers. I'm just
kinda you know, we're waiting it here.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Staff is on it.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
How many James Hardens beards could Joey Chestnut eat?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh wow, that's like that's like the worst spaghetti in
the world. I think spaghetti, Well, it's really it's really good.
It's like few silly it's gotta be like like if
you if you go you shaved Harden's beard. Man, It's like, yeah,
I would think when.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You look at James Harden, you picture like Meader.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know. I'm just thinking. I don't know. I
made that jump to the commercial, the World Cup commercial
where the United States wins the World Cup and Brady
is shus head. It's a lot that of.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Stuff can for false advertising.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, I mean they're telling you that, you know, potentially,
in some kind of crazy world, the United States winning
the World Cup is something.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The same thing Fox does at the beginning of the
MLB season they have the Mats in a promo.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Sure, hey, maybe the last time you see him. You're
now I know, Frostburg, you are salty here because as
upset as you are the Lakers losing the Oklahoma City Thunder,
I know as upset as you are as me that
I bring up the Lakers and you say things seem
to happen to the Lakers when I talk about it. Uh,
you hate Ric Flair more than you hate me right now?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh it's not even close. Okay, Get between one A
and one B is very large.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What's your beef with Rick Flair.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well, did you see his tweet?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I did see his tweet. I was hoping you would.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Say, Lucas, please get in the game, take a shot
of cortizone and deal with the pain. They are paying
you fifty million a year and you're not even out there. WTF.
Hope Genie Buss trades you next year. Nobody wants a
lame duck on their team. Insert the implied who on
(04:44):
the back end. They say to Ric Flair, you know
nothing about pain. You know a lot about fake pain
because wrestling is fake.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Wow, it's a terrible take it still zone shot and
beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh but he's got the rolls. Royce's baby, he's got
a buck.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's moved on from his feud with Ludvig Kaiser. Nobody
does Americano d You're laying Rick Flair trade Luca limits.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I think my favorite part is nobody wants a lame
duck on their team. Like, I don't know that he
knows what the phrase lame duck means, Like what do
you mean? Like are you calling him a duck and
he can't run, so he's lame? Like lame duck means
something completely different? Like what I don't know that that's.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The person who gets touched on their head during Duck
Duck goose Man.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
He's a professional wrestler who's.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Been the dirtiest player in the game for fifty years,
oldest ride in the park, but still the longest line.
I can run this all day. But yeah, he does
not clearly know what the term is take ding.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I also like the fact that that you know
he's a doctor saying, hey, take a shot a cortizone.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Okay, well, I mean he's taken plenty of those.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Sure do you would have gone to Spain if he
needed a courtizone shot?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No, nobody knows why he went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think Rick Flair did what most of us do.
They watch all thirty hours of the Pit and think
I can dispense medical advice and.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
If anybody really knows, coon shots don't work for pain.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, it's tough, man, But hey, I watched thirty hours
of the Pit. Now I'm a doctor. Hey, I'm a doctor.
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I should take his belts back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Wow. Wow, the lose the belts for that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Whoa man, Luca, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Woh wait, wait, wait, now, before we get to more
of that way, Hey, we got to make sure Alex
Tye shirt, do you know who Rick Flair is?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Jason even ask this.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, I gotta make sure, man, I gotta make sure
you know these things.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Do you know Michael Jordan is?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes? I do know who Michael is? Okay, okay, do
you know who Rick Flair is?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It's the guy that carries the torch at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Right, that's right, because he has a lot of what.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Flair?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right exactly?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
There you go, so did Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, this is me expressing my flare, which is the
what what Frostburger is expressing to Rick Flair right now?
Bank you Rick, I get a feeling. Alex Tischer could
tell you more about cortizone than he can about Rick Flair.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Absolutely, really okay, he just got very exciting. You've activated.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Cortizone.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Cortizone, cortizone, you know about your cortisol levels and why
that's so important?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Jason, belly fat, that's what that tells me in the
late night infomercials.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Stress cornisol levels. Belly fat.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh yeah, no, the body it's a stress. It was
a stress response hormone. Make sure I say it all right?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Some thing about it like when you trip and you
sprain your ankle, right, yeah, you know how it starts
to get inflamed. Only this is the part that your
entire body starts getting flame because if your cortisol levels
going so high, it actually stresses the body out and
is the reason why you age so rapidly.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
See. This is why if I, if somebody on the
show had to operate on me, I would pick you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I would save your life.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
About that, I think you must. You might. You might
just kill me a little bit slower than everybody else. No,
but that's why I would do that.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Jason. I would revert your age and you'd wake up
with hair.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You would die from a kale overdose.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I would Oh, could he get his hair back? That
would be great.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm just gonna whatever that.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Was that he was rocking back in the day to broccoli,
because you know, we'd have a.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Headband like Austin Reeves. Before it was done.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, the big knife would go in and I'd get
the rip spreader and Tyster's just stuffing vegetables in me.
Here you go, give me that celery, break it up.
Break it up, all right? Stuff that in here comes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Wait, you've been rewatching mid summer again, like he's a turkey.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, I've done, nurse sew him up. He's done here.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Okay, great, where's the sour sop?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And uh then take the patient uh into the really
warm sauna and spin him around a little bit so
uh we can heat them up a bit because you know, boy,
I'll tell you those carrots and broccoli taste best when
they get a little bit of heat on.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
All right, Jason, so post operation and needs you to
do twenty minutes in the clay room, thirty minutes in
the crystallized sea salt room, and then I'm gonna need
you to do forty minutes in the cold room.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Crystallized sea. Yeah, I tell you too salty, too much
like carbone? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I'm reevaluating your levels of serotonin that's going to your
cholesterol snow snowsberries.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
See again, Tysher, I think I really think you don't
even need to watch the pit and you could be
a doctor.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think you do that, man. That's how I'm saying.
The knowledge you have just of cortisoone is.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Terrific, Jason. If I wouldn't get uh, you know, blacklisted
or my head chopped off, I would go against any
doctor you put me up against.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Wow. Wow, Wow. Is that violence?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Who just proves the whole industry?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay? Why would you get your head cut off?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I mean that used to be an ad for Jimmy
John Subs back in the day when I was in college.
It would cut your head off, but it was you
want to lose well, it was either eat their sandwiches
or cut off your.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Head if you want to lose eight pounds. I think
he said that because gangs in New York's On and Bill.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
There are a lot of knives to be seen, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So cortizone there there it is. Rick Flair would like
Luka Dantic to take some cortizone and get going.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Take your fake pain elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, I wonder if I wonder if Rick Flair, and
I'm just saying fake wrestlers as upset as he is, Like.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
The wolves weren't even real.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Like you never threw a guy into the turnbuckle. He
just jumped in there of his own accord.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Your limousines were hollow inside. They didn't even have seats.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Like if I heard Harmon say something like this, I
would say, Oh, Harmon got futures on the Lakers in
this series and he's not going to make any money
on it. He's all upset, like that's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
No, yeah, that's what you've reduced me to. That's sad
after all this time.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know, man, I mean I I this sounds
like this could be a brawl here now. I let
you guys talk to Rick Flair the way you are, man.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
That's I feel like we need to reach out to
Rick Flair and have him as part of this conversations.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Legend this guy is I mean, come on, man, I
mean he's calling.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
He's calling one of the greatest performers of all time.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
John take a shot at Cortizona and deal with the pain.
They are paying you fifty million years. And the thing
is is that he's doing the thing that that you
did when you got your first phone. Remember when you
when you first got your phone, you had to text,
and it was you had to type the number of
the letter you want to, Like, if you wanted to
type the letter B, you had to hit the number
(12:04):
and then the number A was capitalized, and then you
had to wait, go to B, and then you hit
B and B was a capital letter and every word
begins capitalized. Like that's what he did, Like I feel
like that. That's what somebody who learned is like you know,
is like in their seventies now and learned how to
text in their fifties. Every every word is capitalized. Please
get in the game, take a shot of cortizone, and
(12:25):
deal with the pay like everything is capitalized.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Now you're going.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
First you said he's not real, and now you're you're
going after the fact that he's old.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I didn't say he wasn't real. I said I don't
think he knows what lame duck is. And like he's
texting like you know how you yeah, Frostburg, I mean,
you know what's gonna happen. Frostburg is gonna leave the
studio tonight and all of a sudden, it's gonna be
some sort of drop that's gonna just take him out.
(12:58):
As he's walking into the into the parking garage, all of.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
A sudden, someone's gonna start chopping away in his chest.
Whoa slap and it's either him or Gunther it's one
or the other.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
He's gonna come to that restaurant like that video, and.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
He's gonna knock Frostburg down and he's gonna do a
pretend bugging for the camera. That's what happens, baby, when
you mess with the Rolls Royces.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And then he puts you in the figure four and
that's it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
And guess who's riding in the limos after that? This
guy Rick.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
There's no there's no cameras around. It doesn't matter. It's
a high flying limousine ride at Rick Rick. Nobody. You
heard a producer from Fox Sports Radio. He's bleeding from
the temples. It doesn't matter. Whoo because I got the
Rolls roys Man Rick again, No no cameras here. There
are no cameras here, There's none. Uh yeah. Then Frostburg
would own uh well, he could have enough money to
(13:50):
buy the Lakers from Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't think Rick Flare is that liquid. I think
the divorces and many other things, you might be.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Able to buy out Genie, but his share that she's paying,
you know, whatever Mark Walter is paying her to run
the team might be able to do that. And something I.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Would buy WWE and race all Rick Flair's audio and video.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way, twenty fifth anniversary of switching from WWF
to WWE because they lost the lawsuit to the World
Wildlife Fund.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
There you go first circle this guy right here.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's still but still. I'd like to see Frostburg and
Jmore run the Lakers. I think that'd be pretty fun.
I think that's a reality show. Forget about Running Point.
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Running Point was pretty good season two?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh coming up next? Boy? How to follow this?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Whoo?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Rick Buker Fox Sports One NBA Insider stops by, is
there hope for the Lakers the rest of this series?
When will Luca come back? Are the Knicks headed to
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
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Speaker 3 (16:25):
Still hasn't happened. Jason stopped trying to wish that Hu existence,
but he.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Did not look I talked about it last hour. I
think that it's a Luca for Game two or the
Lakers are cooked? What does Rick Buker have to say?
Fox Sports one NBA Insider Extraordinary joins us now on
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Are the Lakers cooked? They have a chance? Where are you?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Let's just refer to me as Chef Buker for this
for this episode. Okay, yes, no, there they were. They
were cooked. They were cooked in the Rocket series. They
were cooked coming into the playoffs once they lost Luca
and Austin. I mean, look, Austin's going through. What Austin's
(17:15):
going through is why you don't even have a chance
if Luca comes back, because that first game, you're gonna
be on adrenaline, You're gonna you're gonna find a rhythm.
The fact is that he hadn't gone for a month
of Austin and you're now having to play at at
a playoff level. It's gonna catch up to you quick.
(17:38):
That's that's that type of endurance and that kind of
mental toughness is something that you build and when you
take a month off, it's hard to catch your breath
and be ready. Luca has been out since April second,
the all to talk about like you know, he's I mean,
this is what we know. He hasn't started running yet,
(17:59):
he hasn't done anything with contact. It's all kind of controlled. Basically,
spot shooting is what he's doing. And by the time
he might be available, if we're going to go another week,
so it's five weeks he hasn't played. You need some
kind of a ramp up to get ready for the postseason,
(18:20):
and this series simply isn't going to last long enough
for him to get there. So let's put the bed
the idea that we're going to see Luka Dancis again
this season, because it just doesn't make a whole lot
of sense based on how lopsided this series is. Even
with them, I don't see them winning, and let's not
forget this is a reoccurring injury for him. It doesn't
(18:42):
make a whole lot of sense to try to bring
him back. He's got to go from zero to sixty
to give you a chance of what of extending the series,
certainly not winning it. The risk simply is not worth
the reward to bring Luca back for this season, so he.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Just extinguished all your hopes.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well look, hey, well listen, you say extinguished all my
hope You would tell me that he thinks the Lakers
are cooked and the Knicks are cooked, and I know
that's not the case.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Yeah, I I the Knicks showed me a lot in
that first round, So i'man h in the uh in
the first game against Philly, I'm not, by no means
am I going to say they're cooked?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
That is going to be an interesting series, though. I
think Philadelphia is a lot better than they showed in
Game one. We'll see. But but New York took care
of business.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I got to tell you, this is very weird to
be talking in a way that's gonna make Jason happy.
I feel it Just it feels awkward, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
There's no question and usually and usually it's not a problem.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Because whatever, I'm just gonna I mean, I'm just gonna
speak the truth, and I speak the truth, and it's
painful for Jason when I speak the truth. I'm speaking
the truth right now and it's not painful. And I'm like,
it just feels like something's missing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, No, I mean, because the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I mean, sitting side by side within the here look
the the happiness and good times really just over the times.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
A little crazy, huh, I mean it doesn't Yeah, I
don't even know how to say it. Hey, this too
shall pass. It's you know, I think we just got
a we got a soldier through it right now, but
we'll be back to the norm. How the Met's doing.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
By the way, Rick, all my other teams are terrible. Okay,
I got no time for that right now. Okay, that
was a.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Nice drive by. I like the way you open the
door as you you slid on by. Uh, let's let's
rewind it though, of how we got here. A little
bit of a lack of Celtic pride, Jalen Brown complaining
and an absolute choke job.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I mean, I love the Joe Missoula.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Hey, let's think about the world at large, and I
never get too high, too low whatever else.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
But uh, just a miserable collapse.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I feel as if we may
have made too much of the Celtics based on their
overachievement during the regular season. To be honest with you,
I mean they did. There's no questions that they overachieved.
But I'm just looking at this seventy six ers team
and why I and the look and going into the
(21:19):
series the way Boston was playing, and looking at the Sixers,
I really didn't pay attention to the beginning of that series,
I'll be perfectly honest, because I just did not expect.
I expected Boston to win it. And then I started
paying attention. And one, Tyrese Maxey and Edgecombe are playing
terrific basketball and they're leading that team. And you have
(21:43):
Joel Embiid and Paul George in their right roles, which
is you're not counting on them to make the decisions
anytime the game gets a little wobbly or in crunch
time situations. They're really like the I mean, you can
play through through Embiid and Paul at times. But you
(22:04):
even saw it. You saw it against the Knicks, Like
if you start relying on them to be your brain trust,
that's where you get into trouble. And anytime they got
wobbly against the Celtics, Tyrese Maxey would come in and
he would settle things down. Even Edgecombe would settle things down.
And so you just have you have new leadership there,
(22:24):
and you have Paul George and Embiid who now Paul George,
if he defends well, which he did, he'd like defended
the hell out of out of Jylan Brown, and MBID
just punished whatever centers that they had. I mean, Cato
was on my most improved ballot, but still it's in
(22:46):
comparison to what mbid's capable of. But they don't have
to rely on those guys. And yet you look at
that starting line up, Tyree Edgecombe, Paul George, Embiid and
and Poppy Yeah, Obray, Kelly Obra. That's a pretty that's
and then you're looking at the other lineup, the Celtics lineup,
(23:10):
and particularly with Jason Tatum injured, you know, they overachieved
and I kind of like, I don't have a problem.
What I like about Joe Mizzoula is he tells you
exactly what he's thinking, and he doesn't. It's not platitudes,
it's not you know, just the normal run of the
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mill saying. Is like, he's brutally honest. And I've heard
from athletes when he was talking about how like he
felt as empty after this as he did, or felt
as empty after winning the championship as he did after this.
I've heard that from plenty of coaches and athletes that
it's like the journey that you go through. When you
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finally get to the end, win or lose, it's like wow,
Like it's it's over. You've put You've put so much
emotion and energy into getting there that it's it feels
you feel empty afterward because it's now it's all over.
And and so I appreciate that he that he had
(24:19):
that perspective and that he was willing to share it
even though I knew that, you know, there were a
lot of people going to look at that and go,
this is a weird bird. And he is a weird bird,
but he's a consistently weird bird. And I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You know, the thing, Rick, and in the difference that
I see between the Eastern Conference of Western Conference, and
I'm eminently okay with this as a Knicks fan, is
that you see the excellence of the Thunder, You've seen
the excellence of the Spurs. Now the excellence of the
Tea Wolves and the way they were able to win
that game. And I look at the East and I
just say, it's gonna be the team with the least problems, Right,
that's why the Knicks have the least problems of it.
(24:54):
Like they're kem like they look like they're enjoying playing
with each other now. And they figured out defensively the
end of the year that were really good the last month. Like,
it's who's got the least problems in the East and
you have all the great teams in the Western Conference.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You're not wrong, You're not wrong at all.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
The only the only caveat I have is what Kid
Cunningham has been doing in Detroit, and I don't Detroit
doesn't have the same depth of scoring and talent. I mean,
Tobias Harris has been their second best player, and he's
been great, but it's still it's Tobias Harris. Kid Cunningham
(25:30):
has been carrying them like Atlas and and and what
he has that the Knicks don't have is when you
have a guy who's a six to sixth point guard,
he has a physical advantage on matchups. If you're gonna
go a little bit bigger, then he's got a speed advantage.
If you're gonna go smaller than he's just gonna shoot
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over him. And that's essentially what he's done to this point,
I don't know that he's enough to get past the name.
So to your point, I mean it almost feels as this.
If the Knicks don't get there this year, if they
don't get to the finals this year, I don't know
how there they would ever get there with this, with
this group, because it's not the door. The door is
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never going to be wide er open than it is
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
One of the great bands that I love Rick. One
of their lines in a song is if you're not
ready now, you're never going to be at the anniversary
of the release today.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Your book coming out this week, by the way, as
well coachable wherever you get your fine books to add
to your library and your knowledge base.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Get it wherever you can at RI C b U
C h E R.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Where you find Rick in the Twitter verse and all
that he's got popping there, including more on the book,
but about Chris Chris Finch and his comments on wem
bin Yama and the block party that we experienced last night,
about goaltending fouls and the other Normally, after you win,
you don't certainly go to that much games, but.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I like it. Well, well, yeah, they won by the
skin of their teeth though, I mean you've got.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
A well wide open look that goes the other way.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Right exactly, and and they and they kind of melted
down down the stretch and yeah, I mean, look, he's
it's also it's legit. There there was We've had some
I really liked the officiating buy and large in the
In the majority of these games, I don't think that
(27:33):
game was very well officiated at all. There's been some
of the other games, like the Game seven with Philly
and Boston, like we had we had Joel Embiid and
Jalen Brown like barking at each other and and and
they let it go. And I just I love that
because there's always this concern, Oh, it's gonna unravel and
(27:57):
it's gonna become more than it is. And it's like, no, like,
don't take the passion out of the game. Guys are
going one on one and the and the and they're
and they're bumping each other in the post and one
guy scores over the other. You gotta let him like
talk a little mess. Or when the guy's defending him
and he's undersized, like Jalen Brown, and he's like digging
at the ball and and yelling at Joe hellemb like
(28:19):
bring it, like that's what we love. That's the passion
we love about the game, and always being fearful that
you know what guys might throw down. If you let
it go too far, you kind of cut off, you
cut off the emotion and the passion and and uh,
the the way the first round was in particular, as
competitive as it was, I'm just I'm glad that they
let it breathe. But watching watching the officiating in that
(28:43):
first game between Minnesota and San Antonio, I just thought
it was very uneven. You know, at times they allowed
a lot of physicality. At other times they were calling
touch fowls.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
It.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
That was one that I thought that they missed on
and and they missed and was itimately missed a couple
of calls it should have been it should have been goaltending.
I don't know if I'd go to you know, most
or all of them, but there were they were a
handful that were dubious.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick
Buker on the Ball podcast. As Harmon said, his book
comes out this week as well. Get all the info
again on his Twitter page at Rick Buker. Rick has
always might appreciate man.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
We'll talk to you later on this week, Landry shamit yo.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There goes Rick, Like, didn't you get the sense that
Rick spent all day going, I I have to say
good things about the Knicks. I don't know how how
I can't cut things up? And he did. I gotta
say good things, okay, And like he spent the whole
day stealing himself towards that tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Walking around the beach, looking at the ocean and its vastness, uh,
and wondering if this is where it's all turned.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I just love the beginning of you guys as interfere
with Rick, where you said the thunder were cooked.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So Numbe has been called the Rick
Buker of Fox Sports Radio. He's surprised he's got to
say so many good things about the Knicks as well.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
It's Steve de Sega New York hoast Philadelphia again on Wednesday,
and then Minnesota plays at San Antonio. By the way,
wolfsguard Ayo Desumu was out again last game. With Calf
Soornis seventy six Ers coach Nick Nurse was away from
the team today to be at his brother's funeral. Philadelphia
is Game seven at Boston over the weekend drew eleven
million total viewers, coming right after the Kentucky derby. The
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first round average for the NBA was four million per game.
Jalen Brown of the Celtics was fined by the league
fifty thousand dollars for his recent criticism of the ref
at Oklahoma City tonight in a second round opener, the
defending champion Thunder regular season sixty four wins for him.
They beat the Lakers one oh eight ninety now. The
Thunder lead mid third quarter was just sixty nine to
(30:56):
sixty five, but eventually chet Holmgrin and Krugey the w
homer in twenty four points twelve rebounds. Shay Gilgis Alexander
eighteen points. He had six assists seven turnovers. Detroit won
at second round opener, hosting Cleveland and beating the Cavs
one eleven to one oh one. Cad Cunningham twenty three
points on six of nineteen shooting from the floor. The
(31:17):
Cavaliers James Harden had twenty two points, but seven assists,
seven turnovers, and Harden from three point range one of
seven In the NHL playoffs one game tonight, Colorado up
two games to none, now five to the final over Minnesota.
ABS up to six and Oho this postseason. Montreal's opener
at Buffalo is Wednesday. That Anaheim plays at Vegas again.
(31:38):
Toronto won the lottery for the NHL Draft, held a
late June. It was a top five protected pick. Boston
does not get it, number two selection to San Jose
this summer. By the way, the NBA has a draft
lottery coming up on Sunday. The WNBA season starts this Friday.
Tina Charles retired after fourteen years. Former Puerto Rico star
(31:59):
center Josets passed away of cancer at the age of
sixty two. He was a Utah Jazz first rounder in
nineteen eighty seven. The NFL Referees Union is due to
vote on a new labor contract Thursday. The current CBA
expires at the end of this month. Phil Mickelson withdrew
from next week's PGA Championship. Max Homa is now in
the field. Arsenal advanced to the Champions League final the
(32:21):
other semi on Wednesday has Paris Sancherman at Bayern, Munich.
A reminder Nascars on FS one again the next two
Sundays from Watkins Glenn This Sunday at three pm Eastern Time.
In baseball, the Braves won again, record of twenty six
and eleven up by about nine games in the division already. Atlanta,
with a solo homer in the ninth from Matt Olsen,
(32:42):
who is tearing it up, got a win at Seattle
three to two. Mariners offense three for twenty nine with
sixteen strikeouts. Cal Rowley did return. He'd missed three games
with a sore right side. He went over four Pirates
offense two for twenty nine, got shut out nine to
nothing at Arizona, a team that had lost its previous
four games in a row. San Diego won ten to
(33:03):
five at San Francisco, beating Logan Webb, who continues to struggle.
Angels at home held on four to three over the
White Sox, who left bases loaded in the ninth. Halo's
had entered with the worst record in the majors thirteen
and twenty three, but they hit three solo homers in
victory Milwaukee at Saint Louis, reigned out Mets at Colorado
reigned out. Houston beat the Dodgers and pitchers show Heyo
(33:25):
Tani two to one. Cubs won their seventh in a
row a ten inning comeback against the Reds three to two.
Reds closer Emilio Pegan was carted off with a hamstring injury.
Yankees won their fifth straight. Rays won their fifth in
a row. Royals won their fifth straight. Baltimore ended a
five game losing streak with two runs in the ninth,
winning at Miami nine to seven, and Boston was a
(33:46):
ten to three winner at Detroit. The loss to from Bervaldez,
who allowed ten runs, then hit a better in the
fourth inning and.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Was hit one brawl. I gotta see you got like
the brawl? I think now is an absolute stat for
starting pitchers. Well, somebody, what's in the action? Ual brawl?
Speaker 9 (34:00):
I think the opponents would have preferred actual punch is
thrown against said pitcher. Instead, there was a meeting with
the umps and then they threw him out.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
How many T shirts did Scooball throw to the crowd.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Right now? Why he didn't? Now, Pam's families, they're gonna
be so pissed at you for saying that they're gonna
be pissed at me. Why don't you control your producers
saying things about that's.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
All right if we don't back in his country for
two three more months, it's fine because they paid so
much to Valdez.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I'm sure he'll be fine. Have you pitched in the
World Baseball Classic, he'd be.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right. I hear you, I hear
That's what I'll say to them.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You I don't care us.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Say what's Frostburg's address and I'll give me your address?
Or the elbow blows up one game sooner.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Perhaps Loose Bodies.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon lot from the Fox Sports Radio
Studios Coming up next, Wait till you hear what Lebron
James had to say about the Lakers' issues coming off
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pointed with what he had to say was at the
root of all their difficulties? What is it? You'll find
(35:09):
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon Lakers Lakers Foh, we have plenty of time
for the Jets. Lakers fall tonight to the Thunder, one
away to ninety Lakers. Look, they hung as tough as
they could. They had a four point game midway through
the third quarter, but Austin Reeves couldn't hit a shot.
(35:50):
He's fourteen of forty six since he came back two
for seventeen from three point range. Just not working. There's
no Luka Doncic. What is the salution shin for the
Lakers to get back in this series? How do they
solve their offensive problems? Well, enter Lebron James. This from
just a few moments ago where Lebron was asked, hey, uh, well,
(36:13):
you know what do you do, Lebron? How do you
solve these issues that you all have here offensively? And
here's Lebron's answer.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Where do you think the offensive issues are coming from?
Right now?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Obviously that's a great issues coming from. Yeah, we have them,
got average thirty seven in the game. What are you
five this year and a half?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
I mean, what are you.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Asking okay, front of the show, Dan Wiki.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Secondly, I find it hard to believe that that Lebron
didn't know exactly how many points Luka Doncic average.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
This thirty three point four eight?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, what are you have?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Until somebody corrects you?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, yeah, wait there's thirty three and a half whatever.
Uh yeah, Look, sometimes it is that simple. I mean really,
sometimes it just is that simple. No, Luka Doncic, and
what do the Lakers really have? I mean, look, and
I know we talked to Rick Buker earlier this hour.
He goes, look, I think he got a poor cold
water on seeing Lebron and seeing Luka Doncic play again
(37:21):
this year. But I mean it, I'm gonna be really
surprised that he's not out there for game two if
he's supposedly on track to be cleared for game three.
And I get that, yes, it's a it's a situation
you want to make sure you take care of Luka Doncich.
I get all of that, But if he's gonna be
cleared for game three, I find hard to believe he's
not gonna find a way to be out there for
(37:42):
Game two, even even in a way like the Wolves
used Ann Edwards last night, where it was hekay, yeah,
we know what the big superstar you're coming off the bench.
We really want to limit your minutes because just to
get the rust out, right, Like even Rick talked about how, yeah,
Luca's gonna come out. He hasn't played in a month.
What's it gonna be. He's not gonna come back and
get three if the Lakers are down to zip and
(38:02):
lead the Lakers to a huge win, score forty eight
points and look at now, now get on my back.
I'm taking this all the way. No, you gotta get
that first game out. You gotta get your win back on.
You haven't played basketball in a while. He comes back
in game two, Yeah, I'll give the Lakers a chance
coming back in game three. If he's gonna play, the
energy's gonna be through the roof. They'll have their they'll
have all their guys back, and maybe Austin Reese will
(38:23):
hit a shot or two at some point. Eventually. You
gotta think it is But if he doesn't play man
like it's it, and he he comes back in game three,
it's gonna be a sweep, right, I mean, I mean
sometimes things are that simple, but I really if he's
that close to coming back for Game three, he's been
out a while, he's here, I'd be really surprised that
he's not playing in game two.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Well, but that's just the question what's real, what's imagined
in terms of where he's at in the reab process, right,
because as Rick laid out, he's not even doing contact.
He's doing light running at most. So if he's just
a stand around shooter, man that that's great for your
rec league and you're over four where he had the
gym pickup games, but that didn't help him for a
(39:03):
guy that was already a defensive liability before he was
before he.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Was injured at all.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
So look wishing and hoping that we don't love to
see him out there, I just I don't believe at
this point we're gonna see him. And I still have
to wonder what Windhorse was trying to allude to in
terms of what he went to Spain for. I did,
because you know, we know you go to Germany for
a lot of these procedures. So yeah, I mean there's
(39:30):
still that, but it's just that curiosity for me, like,
unless he's running behind the scenes and he's been ramping
up this whole time, and he's pulling a full rope
a dope to where he comes out and he starts
hulking out like he's Hull Cogan back in the day. Brother,
I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, But here's the thing is, is I understand what
we're being told about Luca and understand that Ann Edwards
wasn't supposed to come back until maybe the end of
the second round. If he was coming back at all,
it was maybe the middle of the round, and all
of a sudden, guess what, guys, I'm good to go
in Game one, all right, and he comes back to play.
We thought Jason Tatum was all good, Joe Mizula said
(40:09):
after game Yeah, no, Jason's fine. Stretched it out, He's
absolutely fine. He's fine, ready to go for Game seven,
ready to go, ready to go. There are all liars
who didn't play in Game seven. Jason Tatum, he's still
the backers of the Celtics and explanation and maybe some money.
So not that you need to go the opposite of
what's being said up on someone's injury. Just understand like that,
(40:29):
I'm just going told what we're being told about injuries
in the playoffs, and what the reality is sometimes can
be a little bit different. I mean, I'm just going
I'm just going back in time for the last four
days two guys who were playing and not playing, and
it turned out to be the actual opposite for both ways.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
So what you're saying is Adam Silver has a problem
in terms of the relationships and information being proffered by
players and coaches league wide. Yeah, no problems there. I
am three word answer to your question.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What's that called? Joe Mizulu? That's what you're gonna do?
Speaker 9 (41:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Coming up next, Frostburg says, I'm not gonna like this
next basketball conversation. Uh oh, what is it? We'll find
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Speaker 1 (01:29):
So tonight is in the books NBA Playoffs the Pistons
over the Cavaliers one eleven one oh one. Will have
more on that and playoff James Harden coming up in
a few minutes. Uh the fund turnover? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Did he have a turnover in the game or did
he eat a turnover?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I think I think he committed seven turnovers and had
nine turnovers to eat. That's what it was. Got to
eat more turnovers than you commit turnovers. Okay, good, Yeah,
I think I think that's a competitive eating contest. If
you if if you like Joey Chestnut and you had
him watch a Cavalier's playoff game, he say, Okay, every
time James Harden turns the ball over, you have to
(02:09):
eat a turnover. He would say, great, Yeah, but I'm
making a monster size turnover like It's not just a
regular this is like a monster size turnover. And he's
got to eat one every turnover. Hardens guy, Let's see
how far he goes. You got two, you got two
screen experience going on it to be great.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now I found a As of March twenty sixteen, the
record for meat pie turnovers was a Jeffrey Esper, who
consumed twenty three six ounce meat pies in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, but six ounce that's not that big, though six athlete.
It's gotta be like double. That's gotta be like, you know,
or maybe a full pound turnover.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Man, that's one pound turnover.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, yeah, one pound, one pound turnover. I mean, this
is Joey check. I'm just asking some you know, slat
blank guy to come in here, and this is Joey Chesnut.
We're getting to do this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I don't have an updated on the turnovers. I'm just
kinda you know, we're waiting it here.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Staff is on it.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
How many James Hardens beards could Joey Chestnut eat?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh wow, that's like that's like the worst spaghetti in
the world. I think spaghetti, Well, it's really it's really good.
It's like few silly it's gotta be like like if
you if you go you shaved Harden's beard. Man, It's like, yeah,
I would think when.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
You look at James Harden, you picture like Meader.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know. I'm just thinking. I don't know. I
made that jump to the commercial, the World Cup commercial
where the United States wins the World Cup and Brady
is shus head. It's a lot that of.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Stuff can for false advertising.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, I mean they're telling you that, you know, potentially,
in some kind of crazy world, the United States winning
the World Cup is something.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
The same thing Fox does at the beginning of the
MLB season they have the Mats in a promo.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Sure, hey, maybe the last time you see him. You're
now I know, Frostburg, you are salty here because as
upset as you are the Lakers losing the Oklahoma City Thunder,
I know as upset as you are as me that
I bring up the Lakers and you say things seem
to happen to the Lakers when I talk about it. Uh,
you hate Ric Flair more than you hate me right now?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh it's not even close. Okay, Get between one A
and one B is very large.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What's your beef with Rick Flair.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Well, did you see his tweet?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I did see his tweet. I was hoping you would.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Say, Lucas, please get in the game, take a shot
of cortizone and deal with the pain. They are paying
you fifty million a year and you're not even out there. WTF.
Hope Genie Buss trades you next year. Nobody wants a
lame duck on their team. Insert the implied who on
(04:44):
the back end. They say to Ric Flair, you know
nothing about pain. You know a lot about fake pain
because wrestling is fake.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Wow, it's a terrible take it still zone shot and
beat it.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Oh but he's got the rolls. Royce's baby, he's got
a buck.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's moved on from his feud with Ludvig Kaiser. Nobody
does Americano d You're laying Rick Flair trade Luca limits.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I think my favorite part is nobody wants a lame
duck on their team. Like, I don't know that he
knows what the phrase lame duck means, Like what do
you mean? Like are you calling him a duck and
he can't run, so he's lame? Like lame duck means
something completely different? Like what I don't know that that's.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
The person who gets touched on their head during Duck
Duck goose Man.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
He's a professional wrestler who's.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Been the dirtiest player in the game for fifty years,
oldest ride in the park, but still the longest line.
I can run this all day. But yeah, he does
not clearly know what the term is take ding.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I also like the fact that that you know
he's a doctor saying, hey, take a shot a cortizone.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Okay, well, I mean he's taken plenty of those.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Sure do you would have gone to Spain if he
needed a courtizone shot?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No, nobody knows why he went to Spain.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think Rick Flair did what most of us do.
They watch all thirty hours of the Pit and think
I can dispense medical advice and.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
If anybody really knows, coon shots don't work for pain.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, it's tough, man, But hey, I watched thirty hours
of the Pit. Now I'm a doctor. Hey, I'm a doctor.
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I should take his belts back.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Wow. Wow, the lose the belts for that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Whoa man, Luca, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Woh wait, wait, wait, now, before we get to more
of that way, Hey, we got to make sure Alex
Tye shirt, do you know who Rick Flair is?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Jason even ask this.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, I gotta make sure, man, I gotta make sure
you know these things.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Do you know Michael Jordan is?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes? I do know who Michael is? Okay, okay, do
you know who Rick Flair is?
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It's the guy that carries the torch at the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Right, that's right, because he has a lot of what.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
Flair?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right exactly?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
There you go, so did Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, this is me expressing my flare, which is the
what what Frostburger is expressing to Rick Flair right now?
Bank you Rick, I get a feeling. Alex Tischer could
tell you more about cortizone than he can about Rick Flair.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Absolutely, really okay, he just got very exciting. You've activated.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Cortizone.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Cortizone, cortizone, you know about your cortisol levels and why
that's so important?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Jason, belly fat, that's what that tells me in the
late night infomercials.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Stress cornisol levels. Belly fat.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Oh yeah, no, the body it's a stress. It was
a stress response hormone. Make sure I say it all right?
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Some thing about it like when you trip and you
sprain your ankle, right, yeah, you know how it starts
to get inflamed. Only this is the part that your
entire body starts getting flame because if your cortisol levels
going so high, it actually stresses the body out and
is the reason why you age so rapidly.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
See. This is why if I, if somebody on the
show had to operate on me, I would pick you.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
I would save your life.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
About that, I think you must. You might. You might
just kill me a little bit slower than everybody else. No,
but that's why I would do that.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Jason. I would revert your age and you'd wake up
with hair.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You would die from a kale overdose.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
I would Oh, could he get his hair back? That
would be great.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm just gonna whatever that.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Was that he was rocking back in the day to broccoli,
because you know, we'd have a.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Headband like Austin Reeves. Before it was done.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
No, the big knife would go in and I'd get
the rip spreader and Tyster's just stuffing vegetables in me.
Here you go, give me that celery, break it up.
Break it up, all right? Stuff that in here comes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Wait, you've been rewatching mid summer again, like he's a turkey.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, I've done, nurse sew him up. He's done here.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Okay, great, where's the sour sop?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And uh then take the patient uh into the really
warm sauna and spin him around a little bit so
uh we can heat them up a bit because you know, boy,
I'll tell you those carrots and broccoli taste best when
they get a little bit of heat on.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
All right, Jason, so post operation and needs you to
do twenty minutes in the clay room, thirty minutes in
the crystallized sea salt room, and then I'm gonna need
you to do forty minutes in the cold room.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Crystallized sea. Yeah, I tell you too salty, too much
like carbone? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I'm reevaluating your levels of serotonin that's going to your
cholesterol snow snowsberries.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
See again, Tysher, I think I really think you don't
even need to watch the pit and you could be
a doctor.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
I think you do that, man. That's how I'm saying.
The knowledge you have just of cortisoone is.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Terrific, Jason. If I wouldn't get uh, you know, blacklisted
or my head chopped off, I would go against any
doctor you put me up against.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Wow. Wow, Wow. Is that violence?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Who just proves the whole industry?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Okay? Why would you get your head cut off?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I mean that used to be an ad for Jimmy
John Subs back in the day when I was in college.
It would cut your head off, but it was you
want to lose well, it was either eat their sandwiches
or cut off your.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Head if you want to lose eight pounds. I think
he said that because gangs in New York's On and Bill.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
There are a lot of knives to be seen, all right.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So cortizone there there it is. Rick Flair would like
Luka Dantic to take some cortizone and get going.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Take your fake pain elsewhere.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, I wonder if I wonder if Rick Flair, and
I'm just saying fake wrestlers as upset as he is, Like.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
The wolves weren't even real.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Like you never threw a guy into the turnbuckle. He
just jumped in there of his own accord.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Your limousines were hollow inside. They didn't even have seats.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Like if I heard Harmon say something like this, I
would say, Oh, Harmon got futures on the Lakers in
this series and he's not going to make any money
on it. He's all upset, like that's what I would say.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
No, yeah, that's what you've reduced me to. That's sad
after all this time.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I don't know, man, I mean I I this sounds
like this could be a brawl here now. I let
you guys talk to Rick Flair the way you are, man.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
That's I feel like we need to reach out to
Rick Flair and have him as part of this conversations.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Legend this guy is I mean, come on, man, I
mean he's calling.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
He's calling one of the greatest performers of all time.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
John take a shot at Cortizona and deal with the pain.
They are paying you fifty million years. And the thing
is is that he's doing the thing that that you
did when you got your first phone. Remember when you
when you first got your phone, you had to text,
and it was you had to type the number of
the letter you want to, Like, if you wanted to
type the letter B, you had to hit the number
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and then the number A was capitalized, and then you
had to wait, go to B, and then you hit
B and B was a capital letter and every word
begins capitalized. Like that's what he did, Like I feel
like that. That's what somebody who learned is like you know,
is like in their seventies now and learned how to
text in their fifties. Every every word is capitalized. Please
get in the game, take a shot of cortizone, and
(12:25):
deal with the pay like everything is capitalized.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Now you're going.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
First you said he's not real, and now you're you're
going after the fact that he's old.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I didn't say he wasn't real. I said I don't
think he knows what lame duck is. And like he's
texting like you know how you yeah, Frostburg, I mean,
you know what's gonna happen. Frostburg is gonna leave the
studio tonight and all of a sudden, it's gonna be
some sort of drop that's gonna just take him out.
(12:58):
As he's walking into the into the parking garage, all of.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
A sudden, someone's gonna start chopping away in his chest.
Whoa slap and it's either him or Gunther it's one
or the other.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
He's gonna come to that restaurant like that video, and.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
He's gonna knock Frostburg down and he's gonna do a
pretend bugging for the camera. That's what happens, baby, when
you mess with the Rolls Royces.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
And then he puts you in the figure four and
that's it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
And guess who's riding in the limos after that? This
guy Rick.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
There's no there's no cameras around. It doesn't matter. It's
a high flying limousine ride at Rick Rick. Nobody. You
heard a producer from Fox Sports Radio. He's bleeding from
the temples. It doesn't matter. Whoo because I got the
Rolls roys Man Rick again, No no cameras here. There
are no cameras here, There's none. Uh yeah. Then Frostburg
would own uh well, he could have enough money to
(13:50):
buy the Lakers from Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't think Rick Flare is that liquid. I think
the divorces and many other things, you might be.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Able to buy out Genie, but his share that she's paying,
you know, whatever Mark Walter is paying her to run
the team might be able to do that. And something I.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Would buy WWE and race all Rick Flair's audio and video.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
By the way, twenty fifth anniversary of switching from WWF
to WWE because they lost the lawsuit to the World
Wildlife Fund.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
There you go first circle this guy right here.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That's still but still. I'd like to see Frostburg and
Jmore run the Lakers. I think that'd be pretty fun.
I think that's a reality show. Forget about Running Point.
I'd like to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Running Point was pretty good season two?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh coming up next? Boy? How to follow this?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Whoo?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Rick Buker Fox Sports One NBA Insider stops by, is
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When will Luca come back? Are the Knicks headed to
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my bass
friend Mike Harmon, Thunder Up One's It, Take Care of
the Lakers one oh eight to ninety Lakers keep it close,
but hoping for Austin Reeves to at least make a
shot at some point.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Still hasn't happened. Jason stopped trying to wish that Hu existence,
but he.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Did not look I talked about it last hour. I
think that it's a Luca for Game two or the
Lakers are cooked? What does Rick Buker have to say?
Fox Sports one NBA Insider Extraordinary joins us now on
the hot Line. He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, the
On the Ball podcast Rick thunder Win Tonight by eighteen.
Are the Lakers cooked? They have a chance? Where are you?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Let's just refer to me as Chef Buker for this
for this episode. Okay, yes, no, there they were. They
were cooked. They were cooked in the Rocket series. They
were cooked coming into the playoffs once they lost Luca
and Austin. I mean, look, Austin's going through. What Austin's
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going through is why you don't even have a chance
if Luca comes back, because that first game, you're gonna
be on adrenaline, You're gonna you're gonna find a rhythm.
The fact is that he hadn't gone for a month
of Austin and you're now having to play at at
a playoff level. It's gonna catch up to you quick.
(17:38):
That's that's that type of endurance and that kind of
mental toughness is something that you build and when you
take a month off, it's hard to catch your breath
and be ready. Luca has been out since April second,
the all to talk about like you know, he's I mean,
this is what we know. He hasn't started running yet,
(17:59):
he hasn't done anything with contact. It's all kind of controlled. Basically,
spot shooting is what he's doing. And by the time
he might be available, if we're going to go another week,
so it's five weeks he hasn't played. You need some
kind of a ramp up to get ready for the postseason,
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and this series simply isn't going to last long enough
for him to get there. So let's put the bed
the idea that we're going to see Luka Dancis again
this season, because it just doesn't make a whole lot
of sense based on how lopsided this series is. Even
with them, I don't see them winning, and let's not
forget this is a reoccurring injury for him. It doesn't
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make a whole lot of sense to try to bring
him back. He's got to go from zero to sixty
to give you a chance of what of extending the series,
certainly not winning it. The risk simply is not worth
the reward to bring Luca back for this season, so he.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Just extinguished all your hopes.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Well look, hey, well listen, you say extinguished all my
hope You would tell me that he thinks the Lakers
are cooked and the Knicks are cooked, and I know
that's not the case.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Yeah, I I the Knicks showed me a lot in
that first round, So i'man h in the uh in
the first game against Philly, I'm not, by no means
am I going to say they're cooked?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
I do.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
That is going to be an interesting series, though. I
think Philadelphia is a lot better than they showed in
Game one. We'll see. But but New York took care
of business.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know what.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
I got to tell you, this is very weird to
be talking in a way that's gonna make Jason happy.
I feel it Just it feels awkward, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
There's no question and usually and usually it's not a problem.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Because whatever, I'm just gonna I mean, I'm just gonna
speak the truth, and I speak the truth, and it's
painful for Jason when I speak the truth. I'm speaking
the truth right now and it's not painful. And I'm like,
it just feels like something's missing.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, No, I mean, because the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I mean, sitting side by side within the here look
the the happiness and good times really just over the times.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
A little crazy, huh, I mean it doesn't Yeah, I
don't even know how to say it. Hey, this too
shall pass. It's you know, I think we just got
a we got a soldier through it right now, but
we'll be back to the norm. How the Met's doing.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
By the way, Rick, all my other teams are terrible. Okay,
I got no time for that right now. Okay, that
was a.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Nice drive by. I like the way you open the
door as you you slid on by. Uh, let's let's
rewind it though, of how we got here. A little
bit of a lack of Celtic pride, Jalen Brown complaining
and an absolute choke job.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I mean, I love the Joe Missoula.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Hey, let's think about the world at large, and I
never get too high, too low whatever else.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
But uh, just a miserable collapse.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I feel as if we may
have made too much of the Celtics based on their
overachievement during the regular season. To be honest with you,
I mean they did. There's no questions that they overachieved.
But I'm just looking at this seventy six ers team
and why I and the look and going into the
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series the way Boston was playing, and looking at the Sixers,
I really didn't pay attention to the beginning of that series,
I'll be perfectly honest, because I just did not expect.
I expected Boston to win it. And then I started
paying attention. And one, Tyrese Maxey and Edgecombe are playing
terrific basketball and they're leading that team. And you have
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Joel Embiid and Paul George in their right roles, which
is you're not counting on them to make the decisions
anytime the game gets a little wobbly or in crunch
time situations. They're really like the I mean, you can
play through through Embiid and Paul at times. But you
(22:04):
even saw it. You saw it against the Knicks, Like
if you start relying on them to be your brain trust,
that's where you get into trouble. And anytime they got
wobbly against the Celtics, Tyrese Maxey would come in and
he would settle things down. Even Edgecombe would settle things down.
And so you just have you have new leadership there,
(22:24):
and you have Paul George and Embiid who now Paul George,
if he defends well, which he did, he'd like defended
the hell out of out of Jylan Brown, and MBID
just punished whatever centers that they had. I mean, Cato
was on my most improved ballot, but still it's in
(22:46):
comparison to what mbid's capable of. But they don't have
to rely on those guys. And yet you look at
that starting line up, Tyree Edgecombe, Paul George, Embiid and
and Poppy Yeah, Obray, Kelly Obra. That's a pretty that's
and then you're looking at the other lineup, the Celtics lineup,
(23:10):
and particularly with Jason Tatum injured, you know, they overachieved
and I kind of like, I don't have a problem.
What I like about Joe Mizzoula is he tells you
exactly what he's thinking, and he doesn't. It's not platitudes,
it's not you know, just the normal run of the
(23:33):
mill saying. Is like, he's brutally honest. And I've heard
from athletes when he was talking about how like he
felt as empty after this as he did, or felt
as empty after winning the championship as he did after this.
I've heard that from plenty of coaches and athletes that
it's like the journey that you go through. When you
(23:56):
finally get to the end, win or lose, it's like wow,
Like it's it's over. You've put You've put so much
emotion and energy into getting there that it's it feels
you feel empty afterward because it's now it's all over.
And and so I appreciate that he that he had
(24:19):
that perspective and that he was willing to share it
even though I knew that, you know, there were a
lot of people going to look at that and go,
this is a weird bird. And he is a weird bird,
but he's a consistently weird bird. And I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You know, the thing, Rick, and in the difference that
I see between the Eastern Conference of Western Conference, and
I'm eminently okay with this as a Knicks fan, is
that you see the excellence of the Thunder, You've seen
the excellence of the Spurs. Now the excellence of the
Tea Wolves and the way they were able to win
that game. And I look at the East and I
just say, it's gonna be the team with the least problems, Right,
that's why the Knicks have the least problems of it.
(24:54):
Like they're kem like they look like they're enjoying playing
with each other now. And they figured out defensively the
end of the year that were really good the last month. Like,
it's who's got the least problems in the East and
you have all the great teams in the Western Conference.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
You're not wrong, You're not wrong at all.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
You know.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
The only the only caveat I have is what Kid
Cunningham has been doing in Detroit, and I don't Detroit
doesn't have the same depth of scoring and talent. I mean,
Tobias Harris has been their second best player, and he's
been great, but it's still it's Tobias Harris. Kid Cunningham
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has been carrying them like Atlas and and and what
he has that the Knicks don't have is when you
have a guy who's a six to sixth point guard,
he has a physical advantage on matchups. If you're gonna
go a little bit bigger, then he's got a speed advantage.
If you're gonna go smaller than he's just gonna shoot
(25:53):
over him. And that's essentially what he's done to this point,
I don't know that he's enough to get past the name.
So to your point, I mean it almost feels as this.
If the Knicks don't get there this year, if they
don't get to the finals this year, I don't know
how there they would ever get there with this, with
this group, because it's not the door. The door is
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never going to be wide er open than it is
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It's funny.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
One of the great bands that I love Rick. One
of their lines in a song is if you're not
ready now, you're never going to be at the anniversary
of the release today.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Your book coming out this week, by the way, as
well coachable wherever you get your fine books to add
to your library and your knowledge base.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Get it wherever you can at RI C b U
C h E R.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Where you find Rick in the Twitter verse and all
that he's got popping there, including more on the book,
but about Chris Chris Finch and his comments on wem
bin Yama and the block party that we experienced last night,
about goaltending fouls and the other Normally, after you win,
you don't certainly go to that much games, but.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
I like it. Well, well, yeah, they won by the
skin of their teeth though, I mean you've got.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
A well wide open look that goes the other way.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Right exactly, and and they and they kind of melted
down down the stretch and yeah, I mean, look, he's
it's also it's legit. There there was We've had some
I really liked the officiating buy and large in the
In the majority of these games, I don't think that
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game was very well officiated at all. There's been some
of the other games, like the Game seven with Philly
and Boston, like we had we had Joel Embiid and
Jalen Brown like barking at each other and and and
they let it go. And I just I love that
because there's always this concern, Oh, it's gonna unravel and
(27:57):
it's gonna become more than it is. And it's like, no, like,
don't take the passion out of the game. Guys are
going one on one and the and the and they're
and they're bumping each other in the post and one
guy scores over the other. You gotta let him like
talk a little mess. Or when the guy's defending him
and he's undersized, like Jalen Brown, and he's like digging
at the ball and and yelling at Joe hellemb like
(28:19):
bring it, like that's what we love. That's the passion
we love about the game, and always being fearful that
you know what guys might throw down. If you let
it go too far, you kind of cut off, you
cut off the emotion and the passion and and uh,
the the way the first round was in particular, as
competitive as it was, I'm just I'm glad that they
let it breathe. But watching watching the officiating in that
(28:43):
first game between Minnesota and San Antonio, I just thought
it was very uneven. You know, at times they allowed
a lot of physicality. At other times they were calling
touch fowls.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
It.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
That was one that I thought that they missed on
and and they missed and was itimately missed a couple
of calls it should have been it should have been goaltending.
I don't know if I'd go to you know, most
or all of them, but there were they were a
handful that were dubious.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick
Buker on the Ball podcast. As Harmon said, his book
comes out this week as well. Get all the info
again on his Twitter page at Rick Buker. Rick has
always might appreciate man.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
We'll talk to you later on this week, Landry shamit yo.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There goes Rick, Like, didn't you get the sense that
Rick spent all day going, I I have to say
good things about the Knicks. I don't know how how
I can't cut things up? And he did. I gotta
say good things, okay, And like he spent the whole
day stealing himself towards that tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Walking around the beach, looking at the ocean and its vastness, uh,
and wondering if this is where it's all turned.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I just love the beginning of you guys as interfere
with Rick, where you said the thunder were cooked.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
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Speaker 9 (30:13):
It's Steve de Sega New York hoast Philadelphia again on Wednesday,
and then Minnesota plays at San Antonio. By the way,
wolfsguard Ayo Desumu was out again last game. With Calf
Soornis seventy six Ers coach Nick Nurse was away from
the team today to be at his brother's funeral. Philadelphia
is Game seven at Boston over the weekend drew eleven
million total viewers, coming right after the Kentucky derby. The
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first round average for the NBA was four million per game.
Jalen Brown of the Celtics was fined by the league
fifty thousand dollars for his recent criticism of the ref
at Oklahoma City tonight in a second round opener, the
defending champion Thunder regular season sixty four wins for him.
They beat the Lakers one oh eight ninety now. The
Thunder lead mid third quarter was just sixty nine to
(30:56):
sixty five, but eventually chet Holmgrin and Krugey the w
homer in twenty four points twelve rebounds. Shay Gilgis Alexander
eighteen points. He had six assists seven turnovers. Detroit won
at second round opener, hosting Cleveland and beating the Cavs
one eleven to one oh one. Cad Cunningham twenty three
points on six of nineteen shooting from the floor. The
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Cavaliers James Harden had twenty two points, but seven assists,
seven turnovers, and Harden from three point range one of
seven In the NHL playoffs one game tonight, Colorado up
two games to none, now five to the final over Minnesota.
ABS up to six and Oho this postseason. Montreal's opener
at Buffalo is Wednesday. That Anaheim plays at Vegas again.
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Toronto won the lottery for the NHL Draft, held a
late June. It was a top five protected pick. Boston
does not get it, number two selection to San Jose
this summer. By the way, the NBA has a draft
lottery coming up on Sunday. The WNBA season starts this Friday.
Tina Charles retired after fourteen years. Former Puerto Rico star
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center Josets passed away of cancer at the age of
sixty two. He was a Utah Jazz first rounder in
nineteen eighty seven. The NFL Referees Union is due to
vote on a new labor contract Thursday. The current CBA
expires at the end of this month. Phil Mickelson withdrew
from next week's PGA Championship. Max Homa is now in
the field. Arsenal advanced to the Champions League final the
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other semi on Wednesday has Paris Sancherman at Bayern, Munich.
A reminder Nascars on FS one again the next two
Sundays from Watkins Glenn This Sunday at three pm Eastern Time.
In baseball, the Braves won again, record of twenty six
and eleven up by about nine games in the division already. Atlanta,
with a solo homer in the ninth from Matt Olsen,
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who is tearing it up, got a win at Seattle
three to two. Mariners offense three for twenty nine with
sixteen strikeouts. Cal Rowley did return. He'd missed three games
with a sore right side. He went over four Pirates
offense two for twenty nine, got shut out nine to
nothing at Arizona, a team that had lost its previous
four games in a row. San Diego won ten to
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five at San Francisco, beating Logan Webb, who continues to struggle.
Angels at home held on four to three over the
White Sox, who left bases loaded in the ninth. Halo's
had entered with the worst record in the majors thirteen
and twenty three, but they hit three solo homers in
victory Milwaukee at Saint Louis, reigned out Mets at Colorado
reigned out. Houston beat the Dodgers and pitchers show Heyo
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Tani two to one. Cubs won their seventh in a
row a ten inning comeback against the Reds three to two.
Reds closer Emilio Pegan was carted off with a hamstring injury.
Yankees won their fifth straight. Rays won their fifth in
a row. Royals won their fifth straight. Baltimore ended a
five game losing streak with two runs in the ninth,
winning at Miami nine to seven, and Boston was a
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ten to three winner at Detroit. The loss to from Bervaldez,
who allowed ten runs, then hit a better in the
fourth inning and.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Was hit one brawl. I gotta see you got like
the brawl? I think now is an absolute stat for
starting pitchers. Well, somebody, what's in the action? Ual brawl?
Speaker 9 (34:00):
I think the opponents would have preferred actual punch is
thrown against said pitcher. Instead, there was a meeting with
the umps and then they threw him out.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
How many T shirts did Scooball throw to the crowd.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Right now? Why he didn't? Now, Pam's families, they're gonna
be so pissed at you for saying that they're gonna
be pissed at me. Why don't you control your producers
saying things about that's.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
All right if we don't back in his country for
two three more months, it's fine because they paid so
much to Valdez.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I'm sure he'll be fine. Have you pitched in the
World Baseball Classic, he'd be.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right. I hear you, I hear
That's what I'll say to them.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
You I don't care us.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Say what's Frostburg's address and I'll give me your address?
Or the elbow blows up one game sooner.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Perhaps Loose Bodies.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon lot from the Fox Sports Radio
Studios Coming up next, Wait till you hear what Lebron
James had to say about the Lakers' issues coming off
of Game one loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Very
pointed with what he had to say was at the
root of all their difficulties? What is it? You'll find
(35:09):
out next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio thirty.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Seven in a row.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:27):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon Lakers Lakers Foh, we have plenty of time
for the Jets. Lakers fall tonight to the Thunder, one
away to ninety Lakers. Look, they hung as tough as
they could. They had a four point game midway through
the third quarter, but Austin Reeves couldn't hit a shot.
(35:50):
He's fourteen of forty six since he came back two
for seventeen from three point range. Just not working. There's
no Luka Doncic. What is the salution shin for the
Lakers to get back in this series? How do they
solve their offensive problems? Well, enter Lebron James. This from
just a few moments ago where Lebron was asked, hey, uh, well,
(36:13):
you know what do you do, Lebron? How do you
solve these issues that you all have here offensively? And
here's Lebron's answer.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Where do you think the offensive issues are coming from?
Right now?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Obviously that's a great issues coming from. Yeah, we have them,
got average thirty seven in the game. What are you
five this year and a half?
Speaker 5 (36:34):
I mean, what are you.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Asking okay, front of the show, Dan Wiki.
Speaker 9 (36:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Secondly, I find it hard to believe that that Lebron
didn't know exactly how many points Luka Doncic average.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
This thirty three point four eight?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, what are you have?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Until somebody corrects you?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, yeah, wait there's thirty three and a half whatever.
Uh yeah, Look, sometimes it is that simple. I mean really,
sometimes it just is that simple. No, Luka Doncic, and
what do the Lakers really have? I mean, look, and
I know we talked to Rick Buker earlier this hour.
He goes, look, I think he got a poor cold
water on seeing Lebron and seeing Luka Doncic play again
(37:21):
this year. But I mean it, I'm gonna be really
surprised that he's not out there for game two if
he's supposedly on track to be cleared for game three.
And I get that, yes, it's a it's a situation
you want to make sure you take care of Luka Doncich.
I get all of that, But if he's gonna be
cleared for game three, I find hard to believe he's
not gonna find a way to be out there for
(37:42):
Game two, even even in a way like the Wolves
used Ann Edwards last night, where it was hekay, yeah,
we know what the big superstar you're coming off the bench.
We really want to limit your minutes because just to
get the rust out, right, Like even Rick talked about how, yeah,
Luca's gonna come out. He hasn't played in a month.
What's it gonna be. He's not gonna come back and
get three if the Lakers are down to zip and
(38:02):
lead the Lakers to a huge win, score forty eight
points and look at now, now get on my back.
I'm taking this all the way. No, you gotta get
that first game out. You gotta get your win back on.
You haven't played basketball in a while. He comes back
in game two, Yeah, I'll give the Lakers a chance
coming back in game three. If he's gonna play, the
energy's gonna be through the roof. They'll have their they'll
have all their guys back, and maybe Austin Reese will
(38:23):
hit a shot or two at some point. Eventually. You
gotta think it is But if he doesn't play man
like it's it, and he he comes back in game three,
it's gonna be a sweep, right, I mean, I mean
sometimes things are that simple, but I really if he's
that close to coming back for Game three, he's been
out a while, he's here, I'd be really surprised that
he's not playing in game two.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Well, but that's just the question what's real, what's imagined
in terms of where he's at in the reab process, right,
because as Rick laid out, he's not even doing contact.
He's doing light running at most. So if he's just
a stand around shooter, man that that's great for your
rec league and you're over four where he had the
gym pickup games, but that didn't help him for a
(39:03):
guy that was already a defensive liability before he was
before he.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
Was injured at all.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
So look wishing and hoping that we don't love to
see him out there, I just I don't believe at
this point we're gonna see him. And I still have
to wonder what Windhorse was trying to allude to in
terms of what he went to Spain for. I did,
because you know, we know you go to Germany for
a lot of these procedures. So yeah, I mean there's
(39:30):
still that, but it's just that curiosity for me, like,
unless he's running behind the scenes and he's been ramping
up this whole time, and he's pulling a full rope
a dope to where he comes out and he starts
hulking out like he's Hull Cogan back in the day. Brother,
I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, But here's the thing is, is I understand what
we're being told about Luca and understand that Ann Edwards
wasn't supposed to come back until maybe the end of
the second round. If he was coming back at all,
it was maybe the middle of the round, and all
of a sudden, guess what, guys, I'm good to go
in Game one, all right, and he comes back to play.
We thought Jason Tatum was all good, Joe Mizula said
(40:09):
after game Yeah, no, Jason's fine. Stretched it out, He's
absolutely fine. He's fine, ready to go for Game seven,
ready to go, ready to go. There are all liars
who didn't play in Game seven. Jason Tatum, he's still
the backers of the Celtics and explanation and maybe some money.
So not that you need to go the opposite of
what's being said up on someone's injury. Just understand like that,
(40:29):
I'm just going told what we're being told about injuries
in the playoffs, and what the reality is sometimes can
be a little bit different. I mean, I'm just going
I'm just going back in time for the last four
days two guys who were playing and not playing, and
it turned out to be the actual opposite for both ways.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
So what you're saying is Adam Silver has a problem
in terms of the relationships and information being proffered by
players and coaches league wide. Yeah, no problems there. I
am three word answer to your question.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
What's that called? Joe Mizulu? That's what you're gonna do?
Speaker 9 (41:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Coming up next, Frostburg says, I'm not gonna like this
next basketball conversation. Uh oh, what is it? We'll find
out
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