June 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike with more on the Pacers stealing Game 1 of the NBA Finals. NBA Insider Ric Bucher joins the party. And we play The Magic Johnson Twitter Game!
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Jason Period, Alex Tyshirt, Yes question, yes answer Tyres Albert.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
He's been tweeting.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Ah, Yes, a very special someone has been tweeting, and
I would say I'll give you a guarantee.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I will give you a guarantee. We have two hours
left in tonight show.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I will say, not once, but twice, will we get
to focus on what one specific special person is tweeting.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You're falling along with Elon Musk too.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'll give you a Trump or Musk right now. Eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Who you got Jason?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who gets to be custody of Joe Rogan?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't see. I think it's too early for custody. Okay,
I think it's too early for custos. I think we
have to wait a little bit and see.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's like one of those I don't know that I
want is I want to see where the dust settles.
Then I'm going to see who I really want to say,
who I want to get behind that that's what I want.
That's how this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I gotta wait.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I can't give you an answer right now. I'll get
a let all my calls go to voicemail. I'll let
you know when I make a decision, but it might
not be for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
My man, this is supposed to be about the greatness
of Indiana basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Definitely signing with Michael Conforta.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't I don't know what's better today for the
Pacers and the Thunder or musk and trumpet.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I don't know what was a better battle.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
For that was the hell of the Battleford finally got one, man,
I'll tell you yes, Yes, congratulations, Yes, the Dodger dagger
hurt more.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Mike hal Burton to the Thunder or Confordo to Jason.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Do you think, dude, we split?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Because only you care about playoff baseball. In June you
were no.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You can't sit here and say either either it's it's
unimportant to you or it's not. No, you just want
to say last night, last night you said, Jason, I
can't believe you were doing this with a with a
with a series and nobody cares. Nobody doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter. But now today you want him. You mentioned
Michael Conforto's name. I think more than I mentioned Michael
(03:07):
Conforto's name when he was a met. Now this category
you got to pick a lane for either either you
split the series and you are all we won, or
oh it doesn't matter. But you can't sit here and say,
oh it doesn't matter when we lose, but we win.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
We got to figure out how to get AI to
be able to research our eleven years on the air,
because I gotta guarantee you an awful lot of Conforto
a run in this particular case, this is clearly Frostburg
just giving you the needle.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You used to kick us out of the studio is
to have ten seconds of a long time to Conforto highlights.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think if you look, pulled the shades and everything
the Confordo mentioned spiked in twenty fifteen, and then I
think they.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Went away after that. It's not like Lindor, you know,
It's not like I'm saying that. It's not like de gram.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Come on, That's what it is. That's why it hurts
a god that's been washed up for ten years beat.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You, okay and starting for you. So what does that
say about your team? It says we just won a
world series, Dude, I don't know what it says. They
don't care about basketball and we have we have, we
have a better record than you do, and we beat
you in the season series. What else do I need
to say right now?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Really? What else I need to say?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Just say you suck.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He loves that. Take the l just like the fund
Man tonight that matters is on the thunder is the
only actually, you know, the sports world give it and
to take it away. I was just talking to Brianna.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
She's going through the calls and highlights and post and
everything of you know, we have this because this now
extends our series. We're getting at least five games people, Okay,
so all the sweep and thoughts that that at least
gets us an extra week of basketball talk, because that's
how they schedule it, right. It's like once a week
that they'll actually play a game, so we we get
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more of that. But meanwhile, all the B and C
blocks about Ara Rogers and what he's going to do
and where he's.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
At whatever, those go away. So there's balance in the force.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Are you talking about the team that's going to bring
balance to the Fauldt Yes, I'm talking very much so
about Tyrese Haliburton, who seduced and murdered.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
A young MVP named Shaye Gilgers. Alexander. What I told
you was true from a certain point of view.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The old from a certain point of view, is one
of the least quoted and remembered lines that just said
so much about it all.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, that was just so stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Not a point of view.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
How do I get out of this? It was true
from a certain point of view. That's like a high
school that's like a high school thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And this is no, no, no, That's how you get
into the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
So now you have a little bit of reasonable doubt
and you just got your client off for imperial grinds.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I just I just told you what was true, for
it was true from a certain point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
From the way I saw it. I don't know what
else to tell you. From a certain point of view,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What the hell are you talking about a certain point
of Because it gets back to the costanza.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're not lying if you believe it's true.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So we got Rick Buker coming up in about fifteen
minutes for all the big breakdown of game one, and
let's just say take it away from from the Pacers
and the thunder and then and the the.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Heroics of Halliburton the Pacers for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The one thing I really don't want to hear for
this five because it's already the big it's the big crescendo.
That's building that build towards this. Oh it's Indiana, Oklahoma
City and the finals. The ratings, the ratings, ratings aren't
gonna be be better if the Knicks are And of
course the ratings are better if the Nicks are in.
But you know what I mean, really, at this point
(06:44):
the two things. I don't want to hear anything about
the ratings because one, have we figured out the best
way to measure ratings so many, so many places now
it's not just look at the Neils. Of course, Nielsen
ratings are down. Nielsen ratings are down everyone, but look,
no one's right, it's the lowest rate thing. But you
don't count how many people are consuming the NBA Finals,
either a little bit of the time or on different
(07:05):
different platforms, Like this is kind of how it's done now, right,
you can't count, but people are listening.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
On the radio. That doesn't take into a calp so
no one's watching.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No one's watching, right, I mean, there's so many different
ways to look at ratings now. It's like anytime you
see just see the Nielsen's, Like, boy, it feels kind
of antiquated, doesn't it, Like, oh the Nielsen, Yeah, if
this was nineteen ninety three, I would say, you're right,
look at this deal. Because you were either watching this
game on television on Channel seven, or you were listening
on the radio, or you weren't watching. That was it right,
(07:33):
That was all you could do.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Went to that very conference a couple of weeks ago
in Chicago, and it basically they had a guy from
Nielsen feared for him.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
A couple of times his guys were asking.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
This started to get a little I don't know, it's
personal and angry for your individual market. And he kept
trying to diffuse. I'm like, yeah, no, I don't know this.
I mean this is fun and entertaining to me, but
it sounds like someone's really got a problem because he's
trying to push a sale through and they're fighting about
Nielsen ratings and you don't have this and don't have that,
(08:04):
and you've got no way to tweak that to get
to your desired end and sign that big sponsorship or
sales deal.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So it started getting contentions and we're all looking at it. Yeah,
this is the one you got to take offline.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The other part of it is this right, because look,
it's hard to say what's accurate, right, But the other
part of it is this is that I feel like
Kevin Durant does. You don't like it, don't watch it's it? Right,
and enough people are watching it's a big deal. Like
this is still it's great basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We saw the Pacers to do it, so we've never
seen a team like this in the playoffs. All they're different,
come from behind wins and last second gaps. And here's
the MVP and Shay Gildess Alexander like this is a
and this team, this Oklahoma City Thunder team is almost
perfectly constructed, and still they're facing a one game to
none deficit in the NBA Finals. Like this is basketball
how it's supposed to be. Man, I love it. People
(09:01):
are watching, love it? Okay, all right, I mean here's
the thing. What do you want people to talk about
if no one where's everybody going, if they're not watching
the NBA Finals, what what should you talk about instead?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
What should we talk about on sports talk radio.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
On TV, instaid, everybody who's going, they're all watching something else,
right there?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Watch an they've gone to watch late major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Hey, I'm watching the Giants and the A's on on
on a on a local regional cable sports network. But
it's not like people, you don't like it, don't watch it, right,
don't don't watch it. But this is it's incredible basketball,
and it's it's something that you can appreciate. And I
really don't care. I really don't care. It's still the
biggest thing that's going on right now bar none in.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
The sports world. I mean, all right, Aaron Rodgers is
a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We'll get back into that too, But I mean, it's
the biggest thing going on in the sports world. And again,
if you don't like it, don't watch you don't like it.
But this is not the end of the NBA. The
NBA is not going out of business. If the ratings
look like they're low in this, they're not going to
suddenly dis They're not gonna be less teams. The Pacers
aren't gonna go away. They're not gonna have an expansion
draft and say, Okay, we're gonna disperse these Pacers stars
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across the league and Siakam you get to go to
the Knicks and Halliburton, you get to go to the Lakers.
None of that is happening, right. All of this, like
what you want to harp on the ratings and heart breaking?
What do you think is gonna happen. They're gonna sign
bigger contracts. The TV contracts are just gonna get bigger.
The player salaries are just gonna get bigger. This is growth, right,
(10:29):
But you want to pull all those play NBA, the NBA,
the rate, Yeah, nothing, nothing bad is happening there. Every
single big sports league can withstand a hell of a
lot in if the ratings are down for the NBA
Finals or the or they're down in the World Series
because non traditional teams are there.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The NBA has always proven that we can. We put
the name on the back of the jersey, which is
more important the name on the front of the jersey?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
The NFL is the other way.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They always say name on the Front's more important, the
name on the back, and the stars come organically. The
end has shoved down our throats for the last thirty years.
The individual superstar. But he plays, it doesn't matter where
he plays. But he plays in San ANTOI doesn't matter
where he plays. He is a superstar and you will
follow him. And people are gonna watch Halliburton and watch
SGA and watch Siakam again. You don't like it, don't watch,
(11:17):
but don't sit here and tell me, oh, here come
the bad ratings and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Now, oh, the NBA is going away. Stop just stop
with that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, just real quick.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I mean seventy six billion dollar deal fractionalized right in
different entities wanting pieces of the by why live programming,
live sports the last bastion of advertising, sales, consistency numbers,
et cetera, and how you get those numbers. Maybe it's
not the linear way that we've seen in the past.
(11:45):
But the league as it stands is healthy. Do they
need to make tweaks? Sure, is Adam Silver on his
soapbox and complaining about negative coverage? Guess what they're talking
about your game, and they can point out things that
are wrong. They don't have to sit here in all
hold hands and tell you how.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Great the league is.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
No, because there are a lot of games that, as
much as we may love the product overall, are unwatchable
styles of play that get people upset. The SGA free
throw merchant again, he's free throws shooting fewer this year
than he did a couple of years ago. But all
of that to say, you've already signed these huge deals.
Now it's a matter of distribution and selling your product
(12:25):
and figuring out how to capture and monetize the next iteration,
whether it's TikTok, whatever comes after TikTok and Instagram and
all these other places where people and younger people are
consuming audio and video.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's it. That's the challenge.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It ain't about trying to say, hey, we need to
go find numbers that look like the ninety eight finals
with Jordan or Mash's final episode that Ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
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Speaker 4 (12:58):
You brought up goodbye well and.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Amen, very men, brother, very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Coming up next, Rick Bucker stops by Fox Sports one
NBA Insider. Does this mean the Pacers are in the
driver's seat, They're gonna win the series?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Who's gonna coach the Knicks?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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best Friend Mike Harmon houcked still on overload from the
Pacers one to eleven to one to ten win over
the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The Thunder give the game away. The Pacers do pacers.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The best way to say, the pacers doing pacers things right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You get so many things to say to say, the
pacers doing pacers things.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
That's what happened tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
They'll get you. Let him hang around.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't take advantage of the number of great opportunities they
give you, because in order to have these great comebacks,
guess what, you have to play miserably or mediocre basketball
for about forty four minutes. But if you let them
hang around and don't take advantage, oh, they'll get you.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Carlisle, the evil genius that he is.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
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we just saw and what is ahead and the guy
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Ball podcast as well on Twitter at Rick Buker.
It is Rick Buker, And here I was, Rick thought, well,
we'll talk a little about.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
This game, but who are the next gonna hire? Instead? Well,
we have a little bit of a reversal.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Can I get back to you on that.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I'm sure we'll get to the next We'll get to
the next.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Watching what we saw the fourth quarter, I just said
it like, this is the Pacers doing Pacers things. It's
what they've done the entire playoff. And I gotta be honest,
like watching Tyre's Halliburton and what he's able to do
at the end of games, like I really I have
to go back to the I mean, I gotta what
I mean, go back, like I gotta go and go
back and go through games and go Did Jordan ever
(16:46):
have a playoff run like Tyre's Halliburton has had so far?
With these dagger shots in every single round up? I
don't know the Jordan he may be having the greatest
playoff that we've seen in the last fifty years.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Pretty good.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Certainly, he's certainly had his moments. But to answer your question, yes,
Michael Jordans did have games like this, maybe not the
games coming down to plays like this, because as was
noted on my introduction, you kind of have to put
yourself in position on a consistent basis to create these
to create these scenarios. And uh, you know, the Bulls
(17:24):
and Jordan did a great job of not needing constant
game winners playing from behind in order to get it done.
But Jordan, Jordan gave you plenty of daggers, gave you,
gave you plenty of daggers when they had to lead
by three, and he'd give you that bucket that made
it five and closed the door. Uh So we don't
remember those in the same way. But it's also not
(17:46):
to take anything away from from Haliburton. I mean, basically,
he outdueled the m v P when it comes to
a game winner and Shay got to his spot, got
a good look.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
But I you know, I I just put out a
podcast earlier today that was that started with why the
Indiana Pacers have a chance and a couple of the reasons.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
The first and foremost is the fact that they shoot
the three the way that they do.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
And this is what I found.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Extraordinary is when you first of all, Indiana's number one
shooting the three in the postseason at forty percent, and
they've got like seven to eight guys who can shoot
forty percent or better from three. So it's it's as
good as OKAC is. Defensively, you've got to cover everybody.
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But what was really striking is that among Indiana's five starters,
Tyrese Haliburton is the worst three point shooter in the
playoffs at thirty three percent. Among okc's five starters, Ted
Holmgren is the best three point shooter in their starting
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lineup at thirty three percent. It goes down from there,
and with the Pacers it goes up from there, and
as we know, the three point shot can be a
great equalizer. I think one of the other elements is
we talked about in this series. Why people thought that
Indiana couldn't couldn't hold a candle to OKAC is because
the way Indiana plays, OKAC does everything they do except
(19:25):
a little bit better, or at least prove that they have.
But the flip side of that is Okac hasn't played
a team like Indiana that is very comfortable playing their style,
and so they're not going to go away, as they've
proved time and time again, and that makes a big difference.
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I thought the turnovers were going to be a big issue.
They clearly were in the first half, but the fact
that Okac could only score nine points off of those turnovers,
I thought was a great sign for Indiana. I think
we're in for a great, great series. I don't think
that this is like Philadelphia Lakers, where you know, the
underdog wins Game one and then it's a sweep. I
(20:07):
really think we're in for a great series because Indiana
is present some some issues and some matchup problems that
Okac is going to have to figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So why why did the Knicks not figure out Obi Toppin?
Was this girl?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
In part in part why Tom Civido no longer has
a job because you enough, because I mean he kind
of he basically did the same thing right.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
In the in the postseason.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
It was like, I can't play Landry Shamitt, I can't
play Delon right Oh, I mean I have to Okay, I.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Guess I will. Oh, hey, these guys can play a
little bit.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
I mean, if you're Leon Rose over there, you're going
I gave you, I gave you everything that you needed,
and you still can't get past the Indiana Pacers. We
need to make a change. And to answer your question,
I was gonna be I was gonna be really cynical with.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Your first question.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
I was gonna go, does it really matter? Does it
really matter? But I have a hard time believing that
they are going to go to a Mike Brown or
a Mike Malone, somebody who's in the who's in the
vein of Tom Sibado comes from the same school, and
(21:27):
generally the way these things go is if you have
like a tough, defensive, no nonsense coach, then you bring
in a players coach, or if it's a player's coach,
if it's Mike d'An toni, then you bring in somebody
who's more more of a hard ass. I am really
intrigued by the idea, and I think Peter Vessie was
(21:49):
the first one to float it out. There is U
is the possibility of.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Jay Wright coming in and coaching the Villanova guys.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
I would be prize if they didn't try to go
to to a new wrinkle and because and and the
big part with with Malone is if you're a GM
and you know that he had a toxic relationship with
(22:18):
his previous GM and the players were not unhappy to
see him go, Like, is that, no matter how successful
he's been, no matter how good he's been, is that
someone that you want to bring in? And I think
what we're seeing with all of these you know, you
look at the guys that are the candidates for UH
(22:39):
for Phoenix, and you look at Johnny Bryant, who's a
candidate for the next job. It's about relationships, and it's
about relationships with the GM and ownership and that in
today's world counts almost as much as as as as
success and the ability to coach, because what we have
now is we have these elaborate teams with all of
(23:02):
the you know, advanced medical staff and nine or ten
you know people on the coaching staff and then businesses,
and your head coach is at the center of all that.
He has to have healthy relationships with everybody. He is
the center point of all of that, with your players,
(23:22):
with your front office, with your medical staff, with the media.
And if that person is not somebody you're comfortable having
a relationship with and somebody who builds healthy relationships, then
you're going to have You're gonna have trouble putting your
team together. And that's not That's not the way it was.
You know, when I first got into the business, it
(23:43):
really was you hired a head coach who was going
to tell everybody this is how I do things, and
he had a big hand and who was hired. And
it was also a very smaller operation, so there weren't
as many people to deal with. That's changed, and so
it really comes down to who are you comfortable with
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and who do you think is going to be malleable
enough to to make it work and to take advice,
insight strategy from your GM and your owner and other
people in the in the in the organization rather than
taking more of my way or the highway approach.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Now way, Rick, I thought I saw on your on
the Ball podcast you reported today that the Knicks we're
going to get Steve Kerr and Steph Curry from Golden State.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I thought you had that in there.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Did you say that you know what it would be
a it would be Classic Knicks to get those two
guys at the coin because they are they are certain
not to meet expectations. The good news is we got
Steve Kerr and Steph Curry. The bad news is both
of them are retiring from a year from now.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
And they're going to give us nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
In the news.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
It's almost as good as that recirculating rumor that they
tried to bring in Kevin Durant at the trade line.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Yes, yes, yes, exactly, I mean, and that's I mean,
that's a that's a great that's a great comparison, because
I think that at this stage, everybody's making a big
deal about you know, where's Katie gonna go and is
he gonna is he gonna you know, elevate elevate the
next team? You know, can you go to Can you
go to Minnesota and join uh and join aunt and
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and take that team to the finals. And I'm I'm thinking,
have we have we not been paying attention? The Phoenix
Suns sent Michael Bridges and Cam Johnson to the Brooklyn
Brooklyn Nets after going to the second round of.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
The playoffs, and then the following season at.
Speaker 10 (25:49):
The trade deadline, they traded those gut ties along with
Jay Crowder essentially to get Kevin Durant, and they went
to the the second round of the playoffs, and then
the next year they got knocked out in the first round.
They got swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
And then, of course we know what happened this year.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
They didn't They didn't make the play in or the
playoffs or any postseason action. So this idea that KD
is a game changer, He's still putting up amazing numbers,
but that he is a game changer when it comes
to the trajectory of your team. I just don't know
that we have any recent evidence of that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Rick, Rick, we should be doing I said that the
other night, we should be doing a podcast together.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
We should as we do.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I said, I like KD, but boy, he hasn't been
a game changer in six years. You got to go
back to twenty nineteen, the last time that he went
in and changed the fortunes of a franchise. It should
be on the ball, well, on the ball squaredes you
and Matt Buker on the ball to the fourth power
will be you and I do the podcast.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
You know, there are many things, Jason, that I would
be comfortable.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Doing with you, going and having a cup of coffee.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Lunch, I know, bowling, laundry, laundry, I'd I'd be okay, laundry,
doing podcast podcast, not on the list, but.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Doing a podcast. Now you come on the show every
week with us.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
It's just I know and this is this is so
this is so good.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
I wouldn't want to ruin it. Okay, there's such a thing.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
There's too much of a good thing like this is
just perfect. This this, this little nugget every week. It's
just it's a delightful morsel. I don't I couldn't.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
I don't think I could do a full meal.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
All right, now, last for here, I was saying it
as a full compliment of me being a great buffer.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I was only going to get a bit of women.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
That was the most genuine noise ever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, okay, okay, hey, like I understand, I understand
all the like, I understand all the ideas I give
you for your podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
When you come on the show. I got thank you,
I thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
I like you as a ghostwriter.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
So so now to get back to look ahead of
game two. Now, this is it now for Oklahoma City, Rick,
can you see what happens when you lose the first
two games at home and have to go and win
in Indiana. What do you expect to see in game
two different from game one?
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Boy, it's a great question, and I wish I had
an answer for you, because this is the one issue
that I have with Oklahoma City's offense is that it
is it's not hard to figure out they're really good,
(28:36):
but they're essentially playing pick and roll and playing off
of that and the fact that they have I think
Andrew Nemhart and aaron Ne Smith one, the job they
did against your Nicks is vastly underrated, and they are
so much better than Jaden McDaniels and Nikeel Alexander Walker,
(28:59):
who were the two primary defenders that OKAC saw in
the last series, and then you had you had Christian
Brown with the Denver Nuggets. I think you have defenders,
multiple defenders that can really do a number on SGA.
And then with Obi Toppin. Sorry, I know that this
is the source of subject.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Obi Toppin and.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
And Pascal Siakam. You can play, you can play the
pick and roll, and you can switch it and you
don't lose anything. So I think there are like I
still thought, okay, see, was they were going to win
the series. I was hoping and had reason to believe
(29:39):
that it could go six or seven. And I'm not
giving you an answer to what we're going to see
from OKAC because I'm not really certain how much they
can change. They had a huge advantage in the turnovers
and couldn't and couldn't translate those into points. And in
(30:00):
the playoffs, far and away they were the best team
getting points off of scoring points off of turnovers. They
averaged twenty four points a game on points off of turnovers,
and that's almost a fourth of your scoring. And my
feeling was if Indiana could turn that faucet off and
make them try to get those points in the half court,
(30:23):
but that would go a long way toward making this game,
this series competitive. So I'm going to be as interested
as you to find out what Oklahoma City does. I
think Indiana can actually play better, but I'm not sure
what Oklahoma City can do different other than one potentially
(30:44):
shoot the three a little bit better, and then they're
going to have to defend the three a lot better.
But that means guarding five guys who potentially can hit
that shot and the other part is up and Tiger's
Haliburton because from what I saw, he was getting to
the paint, uh pretty pretty comfortably in this game. And
unless they can shut that off, that's gonna be a
(31:05):
problem too.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.
Check out the On the Ball podcast, my future podcast
partner Rick Bucker and I always.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Bringing you all the best NBA content.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
That's right, that's right. The subhead also contributing, Yeah, also contributing,
Rick Buker.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Take it easy, buddy, We'll talk to you as the
series goes on.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Thanks rag top of you there it goes right, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And the thing is Obie Topping, Like the Knicks got
rid of Obie Topping because there was no place for
him to play because they had Julius Randall. Like that
was the reason why. It's like, whether there's no they
play the same position. When Julius Randall's terrific, why we
we can't blame him. So he was a guy that
they can trade and now they don't have either of them.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Now there's only forty eight minutes in a game, and
then what are you gonna do now?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From missus Bobblehead herself Monzi Belagyo, She's.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Got all the hi.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I like that.
Speaker 11 (32:02):
I like that.
Speaker 12 (32:03):
Tyrese Haliburn has tweeted, it's gotta be the shoes. So
apparently he had his shoes revealed today for the first time,
Puma Hallie ones, and he put them on the table
at his presser after the game. So maybe it's the shoes,
he says. But Caliburn with another game winner, Pacers another
(32:26):
comeback win. Nineteen turnovers in the first half did not
matter one bit.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
They came back to defeat.
Speaker 12 (32:34):
The Thunder went eleven to one to ten on a
jumper from Tyrese Haliburn, who ended with fourteen points and
ten rebounds. But they scored by committee. This is exactly
what they did in this game. Six players for Indiana
ended in double digits. In fact, the leading scorer was
Pascal Siakam for Indiana. He had nineteen points and eleven rebounds.
Leading scorer of the game, though, was shay Gilgi Alexander
(32:56):
with thirty eight points.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
We just got to focus on being better.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
The series is in first to one it's first of four,
so we have four more games together. They have three,
and that's just where we are. We got to understand that,
and we got to get to four before they get
the three. If we won to win MR Championship, and
it is that symbol. It's not rocket science. We lost
game one. We have to be better.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Well, du it's not rocket science. Yes, you have to
win four. Very good shy in Basel.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And this is also Montie where I'm sure Halliburton got
a text from his agent going, hey, dude, great idea.
If you pumped those shoes in the post game, presto,
I'll put them right on the table so everybody can
see them.
Speaker 11 (33:35):
Absolutely, that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's Spikealy. You get any money for that.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
He gotta be the shoes, gotta.
Speaker 11 (33:40):
Be the shoes.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
But the advertisement, it's done. It's out there. Everyone's going
to be.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Buying these shoes. In baseball. The Final Game. The final
game has wrapped up.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
Astros top the Pirates eight to two, The Rays as
the Rangers four to three.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
The Yankee shout out the Guardians four zero.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
Max freed six innings, pitched, one hit, seven strikeouts. Guy
has an ERA of one point seven. To eight, and
Michael Confordo hit the go ahead RBI single in the
eighth inning as a Dodgers defeated them at six to five.
At the Women's College World Series Championship, Texas Tech edge
Texas four to three to force a Game three, which
will be tomorrow Friday in a best of three series.
(34:18):
In the NFL, Aaron Rodgers he is signing a one
year deal with the Steelers, and the Baltimore Ravens have
signed wide receiver Rashaan Bateman to a three year extension.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch monch Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming
up next, we celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals
with the best way possible.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's next right here, Jason.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Oh no, we'll get to Aaron Rodgers coming up in
about twelve minutes. But right now, it is time to
celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals the best way
we know how. All of the heroism all of the
(35:16):
drama by playing.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
No more obvious than vanilla tweeter in the world than
Magic Johnson. So we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
He has been tweeting up a storm since Game one
of the NBA Finals ends, So we get to play.
The game is pretty easy, or so you'd think. I
give you a tweet and you simply tell me if
it is a real Magic Johnson tweet or if it
(35:49):
is made up entirely by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Yeah,
Justin Frosberg, Alex tishert are you ready?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let's get it on.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
The Pacer came back from a fifteen point deficit in
the second half to win the game.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Is that a Magic Johnson Yeah, tweet.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
This the Pacers came back from a fifteen point deficit
in the second half to win the game.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay, Harmon says, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Frostburg, well that's exactly what actually happened on the court.
So I'm gonna go yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Okay, all right, tight shirt.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I don't believe he watched the game, Jason, Okay, well,
this doesn't seem like his forte Okay, I think he
needs more stardom, you know. Okay, all right, I don't
think Sga is in his wheelhouse or Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okayow, No, the Pacers came back from a fifteen point
deficit in the second half to win the game. That
is a magic Johnson tweet.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yes, here we go.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What an incredible shot by Tyrese Halliburton to seal the
victory for the Indiana pay in Game one of the
NBA Finals. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What an incredible shot by tyres Halliburton to seal the
victory for the Indiana Pacers in Game one of the
NBA Finals. All right, Harmon says, yes, Rosburg.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Just like last time, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Vanilla magic it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Is, okay, all right, tight shirt.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Jason, you heard me. He did not watch this game.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
So now.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
That is a magic Johnson tweet. There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Wow, Okay, NBA fans, we have a series. Is that
a magic Johnson tweet? NBA fans, we have a series.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You stop it right now? Is he going by the
old definition?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You know, as soon as the home team lose it?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh yeah, let's go for the trifecta.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
We do have a series.
Speaker 13 (38:09):
We do we do so? Yeah, okay, tight shirt Jason. Yeah,
I don't think magic washing him. I know you don't
think magic watching.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
No, did he have an exclamation point or a question mark?
We have a series of.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Forehead off, four s is and one exclamation point? What
about that? What if I just said that?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Okay, I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yes that.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
NBA fans, we have a series that is a magic
Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Well, look he's not disappointing.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
No, no, no, giving us exactly what the Billings says.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
He's coming with the facts tonight.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeahs, Tyree's Halliburton does it again?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Is that a double
exclamation point or.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
A Tyrese Halliburton does it again? I'll give you three
exclamation points?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Why not? Is that a yeah magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Okay, yes it is Frostburg.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, Tyres Halliburton did do it again?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Oh yes, We're going to keep doing this, okay.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Which is funny because the back of the New York
Post is Pete and repeat picture of Pete Alonzo, Pete.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Falls out of a boat, Peat and repeater. That's one
of my favorite kid jokes of all time. Pete and
repeater in a boat. Pete falls out of the boat.
Who's left in the boat?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, Madeline would have tackled you.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What do you say, ty shirt?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
So you're agreeing with me, he's on a boat.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Sure, I'm on a boat.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Pete and repeater on a boat. Pete falls out of
the boat. Who's left in the boat?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Boats?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And no, Pete falls out of step on Diggs's boat.
Reb's okay, Dardi b Tyres Halliburton does it again, ty Shirt?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You are saying, I know well that and all of these.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Have been magic, you selfish bastard Twins. He's taking up
all the interwebs with that brilliance.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You just need that coming up next.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Why we made Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers happen on
the show last night.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
I'm not kidding. That's next. Fog
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Jason Period, Alex Tyshirt, Yes question, yes answer Tyres Albert.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
He's been tweeting.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Ah, Yes, a very special someone has been tweeting, and
I would say I'll give you a guarantee.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I will give you a guarantee. We have two hours
left in tonight show.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I will say, not once, but twice, will we get
to focus on what one specific special person is tweeting.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You're falling along with Elon Musk too.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I'll give you a Trump or Musk right now. Eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Who you got Jason?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Who gets to be custody of Joe Rogan?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I didn't see. I think it's too early for custody. Okay,
I think it's too early for custos. I think we
have to wait a little bit and see.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's like one of those I don't know that I
want is I want to see where the dust settles.
Then I'm going to see who I really want to say,
who I want to get behind that that's what I want.
That's how this is gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I gotta wait.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I can't give you an answer right now. I'll get
a let all my calls go to voicemail. I'll let
you know when I make a decision, but it might
not be for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
My man, this is supposed to be about the greatness
of Indiana basketball.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Definitely signing with Michael Conforta.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I don't I don't know what's better today for the
Pacers and the Thunder or musk and trumpet.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I don't know what was a better battle.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
For that was the hell of the Battleford finally got one, man,
I'll tell you yes, Yes, congratulations, Yes, the Dodger dagger
hurt more.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Mike hal Burton to the Thunder or Confordo to Jason.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Do you think, dude, we split?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I know it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Because only you care about playoff baseball. In June you
were no.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
You can't sit here and say either either it's it's
unimportant to you or it's not. No, you just want
to say last night, last night you said, Jason, I
can't believe you were doing this with a with a
with a series and nobody cares. Nobody doesn't matter, it
doesn't matter. But now today you want him. You mentioned
Michael Conforto's name. I think more than I mentioned Michael
(03:07):
Conforto's name when he was a met. Now this category
you got to pick a lane for either either you
split the series and you are all we won, or
oh it doesn't matter. But you can't sit here and say,
oh it doesn't matter when we lose, but we win.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
We got to figure out how to get AI to
be able to research our eleven years on the air,
because I gotta guarantee you an awful lot of Conforto
a run in this particular case, this is clearly Frostburg
just giving you the needle.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
You used to kick us out of the studio is
to have ten seconds of a long time to Conforto highlights.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I think if you look, pulled the shades and everything
the Confordo mentioned spiked in twenty fifteen, and then I
think they.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Went away after that. It's not like Lindor, you know,
It's not like I'm saying that. It's not like de gram.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Come on, That's what it is. That's why it hurts
a god that's been washed up for ten years beat.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You, okay and starting for you. So what does that
say about your team? It says we just won a
world series, Dude, I don't know what it says. They
don't care about basketball and we have we have, we
have a better record than you do, and we beat
you in the season series. What else do I need
to say right now?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Really? What else I need to say?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Just say you suck.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He loves that. Take the l just like the fund
Man tonight that matters is on the thunder is the
only actually, you know, the sports world give it and
to take it away. I was just talking to Brianna.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
She's going through the calls and highlights and post and
everything of you know, we have this because this now
extends our series. We're getting at least five games people, Okay,
so all the sweep and thoughts that that at least
gets us an extra week of basketball talk, because that's
how they schedule it, right. It's like once a week
that they'll actually play a game, so we we get
(04:56):
more of that. But meanwhile, all the B and C
blocks about Ara Rogers and what he's going to do
and where he's.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
At whatever, those go away. So there's balance in the force.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Are you talking about the team that's going to bring
balance to the Fauldt Yes, I'm talking very much so
about Tyrese Haliburton, who seduced and murdered.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
A young MVP named Shaye Gilgers. Alexander. What I told
you was true from a certain point of view.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The old from a certain point of view, is one
of the least quoted and remembered lines that just said
so much about it all.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yeah, that was just so stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Not a point of view.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
How do I get out of this? It was true
from a certain point of view. That's like a high
school that's like a high school thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And this is no, no, no, That's how you get
into the courtroom.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
So now you have a little bit of reasonable doubt
and you just got your client off for imperial grinds.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I just I just told you what was true, for
it was true from a certain point of view.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
From the way I saw it. I don't know what
else to tell you. From a certain point of view,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
What the hell are you talking about a certain point
of Because it gets back to the costanza.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're not lying if you believe it's true.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So we got Rick Buker coming up in about fifteen
minutes for all the big breakdown of game one, and
let's just say take it away from from the Pacers
and the thunder and then and the the.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Heroics of Halliburton the Pacers for a second.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The one thing I really don't want to hear for
this five because it's already the big it's the big crescendo.
That's building that build towards this. Oh it's Indiana, Oklahoma
City and the finals. The ratings, the ratings, ratings aren't
gonna be be better if the Knicks are And of
course the ratings are better if the Nicks are in.
But you know what I mean, really, at this point
(06:44):
the two things. I don't want to hear anything about
the ratings because one, have we figured out the best
way to measure ratings so many, so many places now
it's not just look at the Neils. Of course, Nielsen
ratings are down. Nielsen ratings are down everyone, but look,
no one's right, it's the lowest rate thing. But you
don't count how many people are consuming the NBA Finals,
either a little bit of the time or on different
(07:05):
different platforms, Like this is kind of how it's done now, right,
you can't count, but people are listening.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
On the radio. That doesn't take into a calp so
no one's watching.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No one's watching, right, I mean, there's so many different
ways to look at ratings now. It's like anytime you
see just see the Nielsen's, Like, boy, it feels kind
of antiquated, doesn't it, Like, oh the Nielsen, Yeah, if
this was nineteen ninety three, I would say, you're right,
look at this deal. Because you were either watching this
game on television on Channel seven, or you were listening
on the radio, or you weren't watching. That was it right,
(07:33):
That was all you could do.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Went to that very conference a couple of weeks ago
in Chicago, and it basically they had a guy from
Nielsen feared for him.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
A couple of times his guys were asking.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
This started to get a little I don't know, it's
personal and angry for your individual market. And he kept
trying to diffuse. I'm like, yeah, no, I don't know this.
I mean this is fun and entertaining to me, but
it sounds like someone's really got a problem because he's
trying to push a sale through and they're fighting about
Nielsen ratings and you don't have this and don't have that,
(08:04):
and you've got no way to tweak that to get
to your desired end and sign that big sponsorship or
sales deal.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So it started getting contentions and we're all looking at it. Yeah,
this is the one you got to take offline.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The other part of it is this right, because look,
it's hard to say what's accurate, right, But the other
part of it is this is that I feel like
Kevin Durant does. You don't like it, don't watch it's it? Right,
and enough people are watching it's a big deal. Like
this is still it's great basketball.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We saw the Pacers to do it, so we've never
seen a team like this in the playoffs. All they're different,
come from behind wins and last second gaps. And here's
the MVP and Shay Gildess Alexander like this is a
and this team, this Oklahoma City Thunder team is almost
perfectly constructed, and still they're facing a one game to
none deficit in the NBA Finals. Like this is basketball
how it's supposed to be. Man, I love it. People
(09:01):
are watching, love it? Okay, all right, I mean here's
the thing. What do you want people to talk about
if no one where's everybody going, if they're not watching
the NBA Finals, what what should you talk about instead?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
What should we talk about on sports talk radio.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
On TV, instaid, everybody who's going, they're all watching something else,
right there?
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Watch an they've gone to watch late major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Hey, I'm watching the Giants and the A's on on
on a on a local regional cable sports network. But
it's not like people, you don't like it, don't watch it, right,
don't don't watch it. But this is it's incredible basketball,
and it's it's something that you can appreciate. And I
really don't care. I really don't care. It's still the
biggest thing that's going on right now bar none in.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
The sports world. I mean, all right, Aaron Rodgers is
a really big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We'll get back into that too, But I mean, it's
the biggest thing going on in the sports world. And again,
if you don't like it, don't watch you don't like it.
But this is not the end of the NBA. The
NBA is not going out of business. If the ratings
look like they're low in this, they're not going to
suddenly dis They're not gonna be less teams. The Pacers
aren't gonna go away. They're not gonna have an expansion
draft and say, Okay, we're gonna disperse these Pacers stars
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across the league and Siakam you get to go to
the Knicks and Halliburton, you get to go to the Lakers.
None of that is happening, right. All of this, like
what you want to harp on the ratings and heart breaking?
What do you think is gonna happen. They're gonna sign
bigger contracts. The TV contracts are just gonna get bigger.
The player salaries are just gonna get bigger. This is growth, right,
(10:29):
But you want to pull all those play NBA, the NBA,
the rate, Yeah, nothing, nothing bad is happening there. Every
single big sports league can withstand a hell of a
lot in if the ratings are down for the NBA
Finals or the or they're down in the World Series
because non traditional teams are there.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The NBA has always proven that we can. We put
the name on the back of the jersey, which is
more important the name on the front of the jersey?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
The NFL is the other way.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They always say name on the Front's more important, the
name on the back, and the stars come organically. The
end has shoved down our throats for the last thirty years.
The individual superstar. But he plays, it doesn't matter where
he plays. But he plays in San ANTOI doesn't matter
where he plays. He is a superstar and you will
follow him. And people are gonna watch Halliburton and watch
SGA and watch Siakam again. You don't like it, don't watch,
(11:17):
but don't sit here and tell me, oh, here come
the bad ratings and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Now, oh, the NBA is going away. Stop just stop
with that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, just real quick.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
I mean seventy six billion dollar deal fractionalized right in
different entities wanting pieces of the by why live programming,
live sports the last bastion of advertising, sales, consistency numbers,
et cetera, and how you get those numbers. Maybe it's
not the linear way that we've seen in the past.
(11:45):
But the league as it stands is healthy. Do they
need to make tweaks? Sure, is Adam Silver on his
soapbox and complaining about negative coverage? Guess what they're talking
about your game, and they can point out things that
are wrong. They don't have to sit here in all
hold hands and tell you how.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Great the league is.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
No, because there are a lot of games that, as
much as we may love the product overall, are unwatchable
styles of play that get people upset. The SGA free
throw merchant again, he's free throws shooting fewer this year
than he did a couple of years ago. But all
of that to say, you've already signed these huge deals.
Now it's a matter of distribution and selling your product
(12:25):
and figuring out how to capture and monetize the next iteration,
whether it's TikTok, whatever comes after TikTok and Instagram and
all these other places where people and younger people are
consuming audio and video.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
That's it. That's the challenge.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It ain't about trying to say, hey, we need to
go find numbers that look like the ninety eight finals
with Jordan or Mash's final episode that Ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
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Speaker 4 (12:58):
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Speaker 2 (13:00):
Amen, very men, brother, very nice.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Coming up next, Rick Bucker stops by Fox Sports one
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driver's seat, They're gonna win the series?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Who's gonna coach the Knicks?
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Pacers one to eleven to one to ten win over
the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
The Thunder give the game away. The Pacers do pacers.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The best way to say, the pacers doing pacers things right.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You get so many things to say to say, the
pacers doing pacers things.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
That's what happened tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
They'll get you. Let him hang around.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Don't take advantage of the number of great opportunities they
give you, because in order to have these great comebacks,
guess what, you have to play miserably or mediocre basketball
for about forty four minutes. But if you let them
hang around and don't take advantage, oh, they'll get you.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Carlisle, the evil genius that he is.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
The Ball podcast as well on Twitter at Rick Buker.
It is Rick Buker, And here I was, Rick thought, well,
we'll talk a little about.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
This game, but who are the next gonna hire? Instead? Well,
we have a little bit of a reversal.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Can I get back to you on that.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I'm sure we'll get to the next We'll get to
the next.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Watching what we saw the fourth quarter, I just said
it like, this is the Pacers doing Pacers things. It's
what they've done the entire playoff. And I gotta be honest,
like watching Tyre's Halliburton and what he's able to do
at the end of games, like I really I have
to go back to the I mean, I gotta what
I mean, go back, like I gotta go and go
back and go through games and go Did Jordan ever
(16:46):
have a playoff run like Tyre's Halliburton has had so far?
With these dagger shots in every single round up? I
don't know the Jordan he may be having the greatest
playoff that we've seen in the last fifty years.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Pretty good.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Certainly, he's certainly had his moments. But to answer your question, yes,
Michael Jordans did have games like this, maybe not the
games coming down to plays like this, because as was
noted on my introduction, you kind of have to put
yourself in position on a consistent basis to create these
to create these scenarios. And uh, you know, the Bulls
(17:24):
and Jordan did a great job of not needing constant
game winners playing from behind in order to get it done.
But Jordan, Jordan gave you plenty of daggers, gave you,
gave you plenty of daggers when they had to lead
by three, and he'd give you that bucket that made
it five and closed the door. Uh So we don't
remember those in the same way. But it's also not
(17:46):
to take anything away from from Haliburton. I mean, basically,
he outdueled the m v P when it comes to
a game winner and Shay got to his spot, got
a good look.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
But I you know, I I just put out a
podcast earlier today that was that started with why the
Indiana Pacers have a chance and a couple of the reasons.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
The first and foremost is the fact that they shoot
the three the way that they do.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
And this is what I found.
Speaker 10 (18:16):
Extraordinary is when you first of all, Indiana's number one
shooting the three in the postseason at forty percent, and
they've got like seven to eight guys who can shoot
forty percent or better from three. So it's it's as
good as OKAC is. Defensively, you've got to cover everybody.
(18:39):
But what was really striking is that among Indiana's five starters,
Tyrese Haliburton is the worst three point shooter in the
playoffs at thirty three percent. Among okc's five starters, Ted
Holmgren is the best three point shooter in their starting
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lineup at thirty three percent. It goes down from there,
and with the Pacers it goes up from there, and
as we know, the three point shot can be a
great equalizer. I think one of the other elements is
we talked about in this series. Why people thought that
Indiana couldn't couldn't hold a candle to OKAC is because
the way Indiana plays, OKAC does everything they do except
(19:25):
a little bit better, or at least prove that they have.
But the flip side of that is Okac hasn't played
a team like Indiana that is very comfortable playing their style,
and so they're not going to go away, as they've
proved time and time again, and that makes a big difference.
(19:46):
I thought the turnovers were going to be a big issue.
They clearly were in the first half, but the fact
that Okac could only score nine points off of those turnovers,
I thought was a great sign for Indiana. I think
we're in for a great, great series. I don't think
that this is like Philadelphia Lakers, where you know, the
underdog wins Game one and then it's a sweep. I
(20:07):
really think we're in for a great series because Indiana
is present some some issues and some matchup problems that
Okac is going to have to figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So why why did the Knicks not figure out Obi Toppin?
Was this girl?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
In part in part why Tom Civido no longer has
a job because you enough, because I mean he kind
of he basically did the same thing right.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
In the in the postseason.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
It was like, I can't play Landry Shamitt, I can't
play Delon right Oh, I mean I have to Okay, I.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Guess I will. Oh, hey, these guys can play a
little bit.
Speaker 10 (20:48):
I mean, if you're Leon Rose over there, you're going
I gave you, I gave you everything that you needed,
and you still can't get past the Indiana Pacers. We
need to make a change. And to answer your question,
I was gonna be I was gonna be really cynical with.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
Your first question.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
I was gonna go, does it really matter? Does it
really matter? But I have a hard time believing that
they are going to go to a Mike Brown or
a Mike Malone, somebody who's in the who's in the
vein of Tom Sibado comes from the same school, and
(21:27):
generally the way these things go is if you have
like a tough, defensive, no nonsense coach, then you bring
in a players coach, or if it's a player's coach,
if it's Mike d'An toni, then you bring in somebody
who's more more of a hard ass. I am really
intrigued by the idea, and I think Peter Vessie was
(21:49):
the first one to float it out. There is U
is the possibility of.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
Jay Wright coming in and coaching the Villanova guys.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
I would be prize if they didn't try to go
to to a new wrinkle and because and and the
big part with with Malone is if you're a GM
and you know that he had a toxic relationship with
(22:18):
his previous GM and the players were not unhappy to
see him go, Like, is that, no matter how successful
he's been, no matter how good he's been, is that
someone that you want to bring in? And I think
what we're seeing with all of these you know, you
look at the guys that are the candidates for UH
(22:39):
for Phoenix, and you look at Johnny Bryant, who's a
candidate for the next job. It's about relationships, and it's
about relationships with the GM and ownership and that in
today's world counts almost as much as as as as
success and the ability to coach, because what we have
now is we have these elaborate teams with all of
(23:02):
the you know, advanced medical staff and nine or ten
you know people on the coaching staff and then businesses,
and your head coach is at the center of all that.
He has to have healthy relationships with everybody. He is
the center point of all of that, with your players,
(23:22):
with your front office, with your medical staff, with the media.
And if that person is not somebody you're comfortable having
a relationship with and somebody who builds healthy relationships, then
you're going to have You're gonna have trouble putting your
team together. And that's not That's not the way it was.
You know, when I first got into the business, it
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really was you hired a head coach who was going
to tell everybody this is how I do things, and
he had a big hand and who was hired. And
it was also a very smaller operation, so there weren't
as many people to deal with. That's changed, and so
it really comes down to who are you comfortable with
(24:04):
and who do you think is going to be malleable
enough to to make it work and to take advice,
insight strategy from your GM and your owner and other
people in the in the in the organization rather than
taking more of my way or the highway approach.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Now way, Rick, I thought I saw on your on
the Ball podcast you reported today that the Knicks we're
going to get Steve Kerr and Steph Curry from Golden State.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I thought you had that in there.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
Did you say that you know what it would be
a it would be Classic Knicks to get those two
guys at the coin because they are they are certain
not to meet expectations. The good news is we got
Steve Kerr and Steph Curry. The bad news is both
of them are retiring from a year from now.
Speaker 9 (24:57):
And they're going to give us nothing.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
In the news.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
It's almost as good as that recirculating rumor that they
tried to bring in Kevin Durant at the trade line.
Speaker 10 (25:08):
Yes, yes, yes, exactly, I mean, and that's I mean,
that's a that's a great that's a great comparison, because
I think that at this stage, everybody's making a big
deal about you know, where's Katie gonna go and is
he gonna is he gonna you know, elevate elevate the
next team? You know, can you go to Can you
go to Minnesota and join uh and join aunt and
(25:30):
and take that team to the finals. And I'm I'm thinking,
have we have we not been paying attention? The Phoenix
Suns sent Michael Bridges and Cam Johnson to the Brooklyn
Brooklyn Nets after going to the second round of.
Speaker 9 (25:46):
The playoffs, and then the following season at.
Speaker 10 (25:49):
The trade deadline, they traded those gut ties along with
Jay Crowder essentially to get Kevin Durant, and they went
to the the second round of the playoffs, and then
the next year they got knocked out in the first round.
They got swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
And then, of course we know what happened this year.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
They didn't They didn't make the play in or the
playoffs or any postseason action. So this idea that KD
is a game changer, He's still putting up amazing numbers,
but that he is a game changer when it comes
to the trajectory of your team. I just don't know
that we have any recent evidence of that.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Rick, Rick, we should be doing I said that the
other night, we should be doing a podcast together.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
We should as we do.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I said, I like KD, but boy, he hasn't been
a game changer in six years. You got to go
back to twenty nineteen, the last time that he went
in and changed the fortunes of a franchise. It should
be on the ball, well, on the ball squaredes you
and Matt Buker on the ball to the fourth power
will be you and I do the podcast.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
You know, there are many things, Jason, that I would
be comfortable.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
Doing with you, going and having a cup of coffee.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
Lunch, I know, bowling, laundry, laundry, I'd I'd be okay, laundry,
doing podcast podcast, not on the list, but.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Doing a podcast. Now you come on the show every
week with us.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
It's just I know and this is this is so
this is so good.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
I wouldn't want to ruin it. Okay, there's such a thing.
Speaker 10 (27:22):
There's too much of a good thing like this is
just perfect. This this, this little nugget every week. It's
just it's a delightful morsel. I don't I couldn't.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
I don't think I could do a full meal.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
All right, now, last for here, I was saying it
as a full compliment of me being a great buffer.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
I was only going to get a bit of women.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
That was the most genuine noise ever.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right, okay, okay, hey, like I understand, I understand
all the like, I understand all the ideas I give
you for your podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
When you come on the show. I got thank you,
I thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
I like you as a ghostwriter.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
So so now to get back to look ahead of
game two. Now, this is it now for Oklahoma City, Rick,
can you see what happens when you lose the first
two games at home and have to go and win
in Indiana. What do you expect to see in game
two different from game one?
Speaker 9 (28:15):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (28:16):
Boy, it's a great question, and I wish I had
an answer for you, because this is the one issue
that I have with Oklahoma City's offense is that it
is it's not hard to figure out they're really good,
(28:36):
but they're essentially playing pick and roll and playing off
of that and the fact that they have I think
Andrew Nemhart and aaron Ne Smith one, the job they
did against your Nicks is vastly underrated, and they are
so much better than Jaden McDaniels and Nikeel Alexander Walker,
(28:59):
who were the two primary defenders that OKAC saw in
the last series, and then you had you had Christian
Brown with the Denver Nuggets. I think you have defenders,
multiple defenders that can really do a number on SGA.
And then with Obi Toppin. Sorry, I know that this
is the source of subject.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Obi Toppin and.
Speaker 10 (29:19):
And Pascal Siakam. You can play, you can play the
pick and roll, and you can switch it and you
don't lose anything. So I think there are like I
still thought, okay, see, was they were going to win
the series. I was hoping and had reason to believe
(29:39):
that it could go six or seven. And I'm not
giving you an answer to what we're going to see
from OKAC because I'm not really certain how much they
can change. They had a huge advantage in the turnovers
and couldn't and couldn't translate those into points. And in
(30:00):
the playoffs, far and away they were the best team
getting points off of scoring points off of turnovers. They
averaged twenty four points a game on points off of turnovers,
and that's almost a fourth of your scoring. And my
feeling was if Indiana could turn that faucet off and
make them try to get those points in the half court,
(30:23):
but that would go a long way toward making this game,
this series competitive. So I'm going to be as interested
as you to find out what Oklahoma City does. I
think Indiana can actually play better, but I'm not sure
what Oklahoma City can do different other than one potentially
(30:44):
shoot the three a little bit better, and then they're
going to have to defend the three a lot better.
But that means guarding five guys who potentially can hit
that shot and the other part is up and Tiger's
Haliburton because from what I saw, he was getting to
the paint, uh pretty pretty comfortably in this game. And
unless they can shut that off, that's gonna be a
(31:05):
problem too.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.
Check out the On the Ball podcast, my future podcast
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Speaker 4 (31:15):
Bringing you all the best NBA content.
Speaker 10 (31:18):
That's right, that's right. The subhead also contributing, Yeah, also contributing,
Rick Buker.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Take it easy, buddy, We'll talk to you as the
series goes on.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Thanks rag top of you there it goes right, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And the thing is Obie Topping, Like the Knicks got
rid of Obie Topping because there was no place for
him to play because they had Julius Randall. Like that
was the reason why. It's like, whether there's no they
play the same position. When Julius Randall's terrific, why we
we can't blame him. So he was a guy that
they can trade and now they don't have either of them.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Now there's only forty eight minutes in a game, and
then what are you gonna do now?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
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Tyrese Haliburn has tweeted, it's gotta be the shoes. So
apparently he had his shoes revealed today for the first time,
Puma Hallie ones, and he put them on the table
at his presser after the game. So maybe it's the shoes,
he says. But Caliburn with another game winner, Pacers another
(32:26):
comeback win. Nineteen turnovers in the first half did not
matter one bit.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
They came back to defeat.
Speaker 12 (32:34):
The Thunder went eleven to one to ten on a
jumper from Tyrese Haliburn, who ended with fourteen points and
ten rebounds. But they scored by committee. This is exactly
what they did in this game. Six players for Indiana
ended in double digits. In fact, the leading scorer was
Pascal Siakam for Indiana. He had nineteen points and eleven rebounds.
Leading scorer of the game, though, was shay Gilgi Alexander
(32:56):
with thirty eight points.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
We just got to focus on being better.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
The series is in first to one it's first of four,
so we have four more games together. They have three,
and that's just where we are. We got to understand that,
and we got to get to four before they get
the three. If we won to win MR Championship, and
it is that symbol. It's not rocket science. We lost
game one. We have to be better.
Speaker 11 (33:15):
Well, du it's not rocket science. Yes, you have to
win four. Very good shy in Basel.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And this is also Montie where I'm sure Halliburton got
a text from his agent going, hey, dude, great idea.
If you pumped those shoes in the post game, presto,
I'll put them right on the table so everybody can
see them.
Speaker 11 (33:35):
Absolutely, that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
That's Spikealy. You get any money for that.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
He gotta be the shoes, gotta.
Speaker 11 (33:40):
Be the shoes.
Speaker 12 (33:41):
But the advertisement, it's done. It's out there. Everyone's going
to be.
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Buying these shoes. In baseball. The Final Game. The final
game has wrapped up.
Speaker 12 (33:48):
Astros top the Pirates eight to two, The Rays as
the Rangers four to three.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
The Yankee shout out the Guardians four zero.
Speaker 12 (33:55):
Max freed six innings, pitched, one hit, seven strikeouts. Guy
has an ERA of one point seven. To eight, and
Michael Confordo hit the go ahead RBI single in the
eighth inning as a Dodgers defeated them at six to five.
At the Women's College World Series Championship, Texas Tech edge
Texas four to three to force a Game three, which
will be tomorrow Friday in a best of three series.
(34:18):
In the NFL, Aaron Rodgers he is signing a one
year deal with the Steelers, and the Baltimore Ravens have
signed wide receiver Rashaan Bateman to a three year extension.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch monch Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming
up next, we celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals
with the best way possible.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
That's next right here, Jason.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Oh no, we'll get to Aaron Rodgers coming up in
about twelve minutes. But right now, it is time to
celebrate Game one of the NBA Finals the best way
we know how. All of the heroism all of the
(35:16):
drama by playing.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
No more obvious than vanilla tweeter in the world than
Magic Johnson. So we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
He has been tweeting up a storm since Game one
of the NBA Finals ends, So we get to play.
The game is pretty easy, or so you'd think. I
give you a tweet and you simply tell me if
it is a real Magic Johnson tweet or if it
(35:49):
is made up entirely by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Yeah,
Justin Frosberg, Alex tishert are you ready?
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let's get it on.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
The Pacer came back from a fifteen point deficit in
the second half to win the game.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Is that a Magic Johnson Yeah, tweet.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
This the Pacers came back from a fifteen point deficit
in the second half to win the game.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay, Harmon says, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Frostburg, well that's exactly what actually happened on the court.
So I'm gonna go yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Okay, all right, tight shirt.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I don't believe he watched the game, Jason, Okay, well,
this doesn't seem like his forte Okay, I think he
needs more stardom, you know. Okay, all right, I don't
think Sga is in his wheelhouse or Halliburton.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Okayow, No, the Pacers came back from a fifteen point
deficit in the second half to win the game. That
is a magic Johnson tweet.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yes, here we go.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What an incredible shot by Tyrese Halliburton to seal the
victory for the Indiana pay in Game one of the
NBA Finals. Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
What an incredible shot by tyres Halliburton to seal the
victory for the Indiana Pacers in Game one of the
NBA Finals. All right, Harmon says, yes, Rosburg.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Just like last time, that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Okay, So.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Vanilla magic it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Is, okay, all right, tight shirt.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Jason, you heard me. He did not watch this game.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
So now.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
That is a magic Johnson tweet. There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Wow, Okay, NBA fans, we have a series. Is that
a magic Johnson tweet? NBA fans, we have a series.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You stop it right now? Is he going by the
old definition?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
You know, as soon as the home team lose it?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Oh yeah, let's go for the trifecta.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Okay, I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
We do have a series.
Speaker 13 (38:09):
We do we do so? Yeah, okay, tight shirt Jason. Yeah,
I don't think magic washing him. I know you don't
think magic watching.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
No, did he have an exclamation point or a question mark?
We have a series of.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Forehead off, four s is and one exclamation point? What
about that? What if I just said that?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Okay, I changed my mind.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Yes that.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
NBA fans, we have a series that is a magic
Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Very nice.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Well, look he's not disappointing.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
No, no, no, giving us exactly what the Billings says.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
He's coming with the facts tonight.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeahs, Tyree's Halliburton does it again?
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Is that a double
exclamation point or.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
A Tyrese Halliburton does it again? I'll give you three
exclamation points?
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Why not? Is that a yeah magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Okay, yes it is Frostburg.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, Tyres Halliburton did do it again?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Oh yes, We're going to keep doing this, okay.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Which is funny because the back of the New York
Post is Pete and repeat picture of Pete Alonzo, Pete.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Falls out of a boat, Peat and repeater. That's one
of my favorite kid jokes of all time. Pete and
repeater in a boat. Pete falls out of the boat.
Who's left in the boat?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, Madeline would have tackled you.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What do you say, ty shirt?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
So you're agreeing with me, he's on a boat.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Sure, I'm on a boat.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Pete and repeater on a boat. Pete falls out of
the boat. Who's left in the boat?
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Boats?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And no, Pete falls out of step on Diggs's boat.
Reb's okay, Dardi b Tyres Halliburton does it again, ty Shirt?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
You are saying, I know well that and all of these.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Have been magic, you selfish bastard Twins. He's taking up
all the interwebs with that brilliance.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
You just need that coming up next.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Why we made Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers happen on
the show last night.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
I'm not kidding. That's next. Fog
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