June 6, 2025 • 40 mins
The Steelers have agreed to terms with Aaron Rodgers on a one-year contract. WPTA, the ABC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana, cut away from Game 1 coverage to tease the upcoming news. And Jason explains that Tyrese Haliburton’s clutch Playoff run is one for the ages!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Ad final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with My
bass friend Mike Harmon, and my goodness, all the drama
surrounding Game one of the NBA Finals and Tirees Hall
of Burton's heroics. We'll get back into that coming up
in about twenty minutes, because boy was this something. But look,
(00:51):
two big dueling headlines today in the world of sports,
and obviously we made it happen, right, So congrat Thank you, welcome,
NFL fans, your welcome Steelers Nation. We got you Aaron
Rodgers today, we.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Got signed ceiling and delivered.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I felt like I did my job, Mike. I did something.
I did pro bono work, right. Like all the cases
in the in the in the movies with lawyers are
all the big pro bono case that came in right
here it is. That's the big pro bono case I did.
By probo, I got Aaron Rodgers back to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, I mean we did get paid for the show. Yeah, No,
I mean kind of pro bono work.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I guess because you didn't get anything extra.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Uh. Last night on the show, we talked about Rogers
and why he's not a Steeler? What if I said
the entire if he wanted to be a Steeler, he
would be there. And the big thing I said was
coming off because they're ending their second OTAs and then
they have their mandatory mini camp next week, and all
the talk has always been, Hey, the Steelers feel like
he's coming in and he's going to be there, uh
(01:56):
you know potentially, and we'll be in the first there.
He'll be there for minatory minimp like. That's how I
knew that's when he's got to get it. What did
I say last night? I said, if he really was
coming next week, right, wouldn't he want to quiet all
the haters and put his future teammates at ease and
at least have the business end of it done. And
by that I mean two things he would have a
(02:18):
contract with the Steelers, and he would have told the Steelers, hey,
I'll be there from mandatory mini caamp. Right, that would
that would settle everything, right, those two, those are my
two big points. If the guy really was going to
show up next week, wouldn't by this point he would
have the contract done, and he would have told Omar
Khan and Mike tom and look, this is when I'm
gonna be there. I have this, this and this, and
(02:38):
you can talk about you know, Ayahuascar retreats or wherever, Egypt,
whatever else, but I'll be there for mandatory minikamp. Because
you want to be able to know to go into
your season with your new team and have them like
you and feel like you want to be there. Why
would you want to foster all of this potential hate
and all this disrespect. He doesn't really want to be here.
The only place he could be held open the position
(03:01):
for right, you would do that. So I said, that's
why he's not going to Pittsburgh. I said, that's why
he's gonna wait until the summer or the fall when
somebody gets hurt and find a better, more advantageous position
for him. That's what Aaron Rodgers is gonna do. Man,
he's gonna wait for that to happen. That's all that's
gonna I'm telling you. And then what happens today, Aaron
Rodgers signs to spite me because what did we find
(03:22):
out today? He signed with the Steelers for a year
and he told the Steelers I'll be there for mandatory
mini camp. The two things I said last night, Hey,
he's not gonna be there because these two things.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Today he came out and he said, yeah, here's my
one year contract and I'm there next week. It's almost
like he probably wasn't gonna do it. But then he
listened to the show last night and said, oh see
what Jason Smith Jets fan, Yeah, I'll see him. Yeah,
screw that guy. I'm gonna come back and play this year.
I'm gonna go play for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Like to sign the episode.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm gonna sign my contract and tell omar Con when
I'm coming in next week. I did so, Congratulations, I
did it by doing that. I dared the guy. I
dared him to come in and he did so. Okay, yes,
was I wrong one hundred percent? But boy did I
do my job Because I got Aaron Rodgers back.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But you also screwed an industry.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
How do I screw an in? Because now that's at
least several days of will Aaron Rodgers play B block
C block television and radio? That just got murdered. It's
your fault. Now people have to look for other stories.
We will find in the long arduous road. We will
to training camp. If it ever comes down to it,
(04:30):
we could do Trump versus Musk. We could do that, right,
I mean, we could do that if we wanted to.
We we got we got Pacers versus Thunder, we got
Trump versus We could do both those things.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think that's a dangerous proposition. I'll go back to
counting you shoulder Sanders completiony, Like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
What if we did this? What if we did this?
What if? What if sports was this? The Thunder Pacers
winner gets the Trump Musk winner. What if we did that?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, and it's all in hell in a cell?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah we oh sho show Yeah? How what whatever? We want?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ladders?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, no, whatever. I will let Mike Harman. I believe
you want tables. You could be the Hunger Games game maker.
I'll let you Beataker. You make everything up as far
as this goes. You get the tracker trackers, you get
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You want there.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You be the game maker.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
At different points in my life, I may or may
not have looked really close in a resemblance to Philip
Seymour Hoffman, go find a timeline of harmon photos.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They're there, but we're on the comeback trail.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But all of that to say it is, you know,
it's sad that the story's over, and yeah, out of spite,
like Seinfeld returning the suit, why are you why do
you want to return it out of spite?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He can't return a suit out of spite, but.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Rogers returns, and there's just been that speculation that he
had the handshake agreement with the Steelers. Problem is nobody,
let the rest of his teammates or former Steelers really
know any of the details. So it stayed in speculation mode,
with everybody taking their shots at the process, both at
the team and at Aaron Rodgers. I mean, you had
(06:03):
the quotes from Terry Bradshaw earlier this week, our teammate
here at Fox, where he just went off calling it
a joke. And now he's got number twelve. Yeah, he
gets to hold that hostage. Yeah, in the yeah, that
guy's not wearing my jersey. Or maybe they've already broke
her a deal too. I don't know, And it was
(06:23):
all k fame. I don't know what's real anymore. But
the decision to come back and look, I thought it
was going one of two ways.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Either it's a done deal.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
He shows up as you get to mandatory, OTA's he's
been thrown with Metcalf. We'd had those reports, and you
have no idea what other workouts may have been done
during this process, So we just put a pin in that.
But the or he was just gonna walk the earth.
I thought the viability of a third option of a
team was going to be the we go and find
(06:55):
him on the retreat and we have to track him
down wherever he is. He's in Yemen, he's in you know, you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Know you're binging friends. Now you just put part where
Chandler threatened to move to Yemen to get away from Jannison.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
No, I think I think that was on the list
of travel bands, wasn't it. But all of that to say,
you know, just just pick your random place. You know,
we used to joke about going and finding Phil Jackson
hiding out somewhere in Montana if you wanted him to
come and coach or or consult for your squad. Same
thing here, that they were going to have to track
(07:28):
Rogers down. Our quarterback went down. Now you've been charged
with this and two guys from the front office are
going backpacking and it becomes a television series of In
Search of Rogers and then they have to sell them
on coming back to play for their team.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's kind of where I thought that option would go.
But in the interim he'd be doing podcasts and espousing
more theories. Guys. The big question is there's no way
in hell he's gonna be able to wear number twelve.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Right, No, that's what I mean, right, I mean we've
got did we get that one together?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think he's okay with that because he went to Well,
he knew it wasn't twelve for the Jets. Okay, he
knew that wasn't happening. Right. Uh, you don't wear Joe's jersey.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You don't think he's gonna cry and make this a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, no, No, he was always thought there was going
to be a ceremonial, him walking in with a hammer
and smashing the case ripping the jersey down and putting
it on.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm the captain. Now, Am I supposed to suck without
my number?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No? I think uh? I think he was. He'll he'll
go back. Look the I think the I think the
last guy to wear number eight was uh? Oh, boy?
Did did Paulama? Did Troy Polamala wear eight? I know
Kenny Pickett warring, Yeah, Palamala was forty three? All right?
I thought Paulama okay? But uh no, I thought he
(08:44):
started with eight. But that yeah, but he went to
forty three. But if Kenny Pickett wore eight, I think
he can wear eight like if he was, unless he
wants to change. Hey, I'm not going back to eight.
Eight did work with the Jets. I'm going someplace else.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
See, now we have to go to the famous number eight.
Uh did Tommy Maddox wear eight?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh? Touchdown, Tommy, touchdown Tommy, Tommy, some of.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Those legends along the way.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, I won a Fantasy football XFL fantasy league thanks
to Tommy Maddens.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Tommy was number eight. I quit.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, that is stuff that should not be locked in
my brain.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think that means it's safe for him to wear eight.
If he wanted to. But let's you want to go
someplace completely different, Like, okay, eight was my college number. Boy,
eight didn't really work with the Jets. Do I really
want to stick with eight? Or do I want to
just start and do something completely different? Do I go
to a different number entirely? I I don't know that.
(09:43):
Uh ah, boy, I think I think and look. I
say this as a Jet fan, right, I say, but
you said, I think you want to remove whatever trace
of the Jets you have on you when you go
to your new team. So I think you want to
pick an entirely new number. Ed Fisher in nineteen forty
Melvin Ingram in twenty twenty one, Melvin Carl Joseph took
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it after. I guess they fought for it or something.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Elmer Coburg, Coburg, Koyberg in nineteen forty one. Okay, Maddison, Pickett,
Josh Gobi and Corliss weightman last year. Oh the big
nasty Corlis Corliss, Yes, exactly nice.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That is well done.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
He was born in Belgium, went to South Alabama. No,
I think I do like that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You bring in the memory of Corlis Williams so we've
been talking a lot about college hoops and history.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Right, yeah, he picks it. Now pick a new number.
I think he picks a new number. I think you
have to. I think you have no choice but to
pick a new number. You don't want that. You don't
want that. I mean, you don't want this stink of
the Jets on you. Man, You really don't you want
to say, Okay, I don't want to talk about the
last year. And you're gonna see, like when he shows up,
he is not going to talk about the Jets at all. Aaron,
can you talk about I think it'll be one of
(10:59):
those I think the less said about those last two years,
the better focus going forward. You know, you had a
lot of relationships with these guys, guys on the team
that I really cherish and guys that I still talk to.
But uh, you know, I'm looking forward now and I'm
here and this year is what I'm all about. Like,
he's not going to talk about the Jets. He would
(11:20):
rather go back and spend an entire conversation talking about
his relationship the last couple of years with everybody in
Green Bay. That he will talk about the Jets the
last two.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Years opportunity to go take number five.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, sure, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Decorated guy was Craig.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Colquit Okay, okay, d cows Key, Josh Dobbs Oh, Josh
Josh doobbsons you can't have my number?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well, I just go on down the line. I mean
opportunity knocks.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah. So I want to say you're welcome. I really,
every NFL fan Steelers Nation, you are welcome. We got
you Aaron Rodgers last night, I mean last We could
have done this story anytime, right, I had this story
ready to go about Rogers, when we were ready to
talk about it. When something happened and hey let's get
to Rogers here for a few We could have done
at any time. We did it last night, and twelve
(12:09):
hours later, Aaron Rodgers. The two things I said, he
and I'm doing them.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We effect change.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
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Speaker 1 (12:27):
Falcons fans, you want Kirk Cousins out, let me know,
let me know, I'll do a Kirk Cousins taken and
then you'll get him out. It'll happen. It'll or maybe
I got it to do the opposite because the opposite
happened with with Aaron. So I got to say, hey,
Kirk Cousins, I'll tell you why he's absolutely staying and
not going anywhere, and I give you all the reasons,
and the next day he'll get.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Traded an open letter to Arthur Blanine.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that's you know, That's the other part of this now,
is that supposedly Kirk Cousins was the number two choice
of the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Right if we have to break glass. Yeah, and look, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Sure that if everything was equal, Kirk Cousins would have
been their number one choice. But Aaron Rodgers comes with
a one year deal for ten million, dot whatever it is,
and Kirk Cousins comes with a lot of money you
have to figure out and a long, a longer term contract.
So I'm sure if everything was equal, Cousins is number one,
But it's not because all the stuff that came with him. Now,
(13:21):
I don't know we talked about it when it happened.
If it wasn't Pittsburgh, like, I don't know where the
Kirk Cousins landing spot is and it's gonna they're gonna
get to a point where they're just gonna have to
cut them. They're gonna have to eat money and cut
them because it's not gonna go well when your former
starting quarterback is the backup on your team.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
He's sitting in a glass case of emotion waiting for
that phone call that was once going to Rogers but
is now being forwarded from his agent to that They.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Taught Brave about keeping them. They've said, it's not that
big a deal. We're gonna keep. No, they are dying
to get rid of them, but just now, unless they
swallow money, they're not gonna get anything for him. And
eventually they're gonna wind up just having to cut them,
and they'll they'll go to and say, okay, can we
figure out some sort of buyout and we'll let you go,
and then a team will be interested. You know. Then
the team will say, okay, well, Kirk Cousins for a
new deal one year, eight million, five whatever, Yeah, okay, yeah,
(14:08):
I like Kirk Cousin. We'll bring him in. He'll get
a chance to be our starter. He'll find that place
where he can be a bridge quarterback. Because that's where
he is. He's got to understand that's the reality for him.
But eventually it's gonna get to that. It maybe in
the summer sometime, maybe the end of but that's what's
gonna happen and eventually Kirk Cousins. But the Steelers was
a great landing spot. Now that's out the window, exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike
(14:30):
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
we got a big, bold, hot take on Tyre's Halliburton. Plus,
you are not going to believe what one Indiana television
station did at the end of tonight's Game one between
the Pacers and the thunder Like it defies logic what
(14:50):
they did. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. We got a big take for you
coming up in a couple of minutes on Tyres Halliburn
after his Game one heroics. But we have to do
this because this is just too good not to do.
Thanks to Awful Announcing for the for the link to this.
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WPTA is the ABC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Okay. Now,
the NBA Finals are on ABC, So WPTA, Fort Wayne,
you're watching the final Pacers home home country of the Pacers.
You're watching the game on ABC on WPTA. Minute fifteen
left in the game and Oklahoma City at this point
(15:49):
leads it one ten to one oh seven. And now
you know, as it happens everywhere, is hey, guess what
local news is coming up after the game? Are your
children in dire jeopardy? Find out after the game? You
know that's coming up. So you know that that at
some point, well, you know WPTA is going to want
to run a promo for the news, right, Hey, everybody's
(16:10):
watching this game, stick around. We got local news coming up, right,
So yeah, okay, you figure we're going to get some
kind of local news promo. But usually you don't get
the news promo when you're smack dab in the middle
of the action with a minute left in the regulation.
Take a listen, Thunder please for this three point lows
(16:35):
SGA the drive. It's tide shut luck, so yall come.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Throws it back.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Next on twenty one Alive News, the man who was
brutally beaten at Pike's Pub last week has come forward.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Here what he wants to have happened now.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Also tonight, a big night for pacer fans as Indiana
is in the NBA Finals, will show you a local
business who has seen a boost from.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The Yes, sir, because see a little fog.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Overnight's night will have the very latest forecast coming.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Up to Paster staying up with us. I'm i'm er
a boss. Fort Wen's most watched news. Start buying them Mars.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And then they go back to the game and there's
thirty seconds left and it's a one point game.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, I mean in the end, they really didn't miss anything,
did they?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh dude, you kidding? You actually interrupted the game to
have the big story be Hey, there's a PACER's watch
party because Indiana's in the NBA Final shocker. Yeah, those
are always my favorite, right, are your kids in dire straits?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Is this this is an epidemic?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You can find out at eleven it's like seven oh five,
Like it's in the middle of Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We interrupt the Pacers game to tell you that we're
going to show you about a PACER's watch party.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was having a watch party, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You Hey, what if you're at the watch party that
they said they were having the watch like, you're what's
a watch party? And you're seeing video of you guys
at the watch party while you're watching it. But now
you can't watch the game because you're watching this promo
of what's going on? We're live at this watch party,
your dirty, miserable son. I mean who gave the I
mean who really? Because you know, somebody gave some crazy
(18:18):
okay to run the promo. Wow, but there's thirty sid
they're not in commercial run the promo. Okay, here we
go right now. The normal forty five seconds of an
NBA game runs eighteen minutes of real time.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
We got plenty of time to make this work.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You could have done it at any time, and yet
that's what happens. I I really I don't I don't
understand it. I don't understand that. How you do that
for the game? You know? Good? Look working in local
news like it did for a couple of years, and
I will tell you It was two of the most
miserable professional years I had in my life. Working local
news was awful. Right when I worked at KBC here
(18:55):
in La, it was just it was really difficult. Man.
There was always a big thing. It was it was
ABC versus NBC and CBS and the local news rate
in the local news race, right, like that was always
what it was, Right, how are we doing against NBC?
CBS is always in third place, but it was always AB.
It was us against NBC for the night. Right, there
(19:15):
was this big rivalry that they tried to build up,
and it's like, okay, that's fine, and it really it
didn't matter what we did, didn't the news didn't matter
on And I'm taking you back now to the to
the early two thousands. Right on Tuesday night, ABC had
NYPD blue at ten o'clock. So guess who won. Guess
who had more people watching the local news at eleven
(19:36):
o'clock that night, ABC because we had NYPD blue On
Thursday nights. NBC had Er. So who do you think
won Thursday nights on local new More people watching NBC
that are watching ABC because it's Er. It's all about
the show you have coming up. The last thing I
want to do is you want to piss people off.
We're watching the game and are gonna stay with you,
(19:57):
you know, all the way through there and gonna go
go to you. Hey, here's the local news. We got
stuff going on. We're gonna see this right here. I
don't know why you would do that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Where are you gonna go?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
We've got a unique value proposition for you know, our
local news.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I know, I don't get it. I don't get it.
This is what we're gonna. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're
gonna take you away. Hey. We have a big story,
a big news story, and a PACER's watch party. And
don't forget the weather. We got the weather coming up.
We'll see what it's gonna be like tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean you do have your favorite weather people. I
mean so, I mean you start getting into the value proposition.
Maybe you don't like Uh, I don't know what. We
have a Johnny Mountain and whatever. What do you have
in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You have Billy Hoosier, So you have that. That's the
weather guy. Billy Hoosier is here.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Billy Hoosier. So where are these producers and all these
executives for that channel working tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, not in Fort Wayne, that's for sure. They're taking
a few steps back. I think, Hey, guess what, Remember
what was the show where Northern Exposure, right where Rob
Morrow was a doctor and he thought it was going
to work like in New York City and they sent
him to like this really small town in Alaska. Like
that's what's gonna happen. Hey, nice job. Yeah, you guys
are gonna go someplace a little bit smaller than Fort Wayne.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Now Fort Wayne is one hundred and tens square miles
of the Yeah, what's the population here Fort Wayne?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I don't know. I don't know. Five hundred thousand, two
d three hundre thousand, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Two hundred and seventy thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, there we go. That's so you're moving down from
two hundred and seventy thousand, two hundred seventy thousand people
that missed from the one oh five mark of the
game to the thirty second mark of the game.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, if we I don't know, are they watching?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
All we've got is a lamentation that the nationwide audience
is in Fort Wayne. Were they watching NYPD Blue reruns instead?
You're gonna get the needle.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I thought they might be threatening the producers with right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Uh maybe, I mean that that's a I mean that's
a that's a thirty year old thing now. But like
they all try to do all these different things and
all these different crats, and it was just whatever the
lead in show was, if we had a better lead
in show. That's how many people watch Man, Like that's
what it was. I mean, it's what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And maybe who you liked on your late night right,
and well usually was that just it was a straight line.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. Oh I like Letterman better
than Leno. I like that. Yeah, I would watch that instead.
Very rarely was so because they all did the same stories.
It's all this it's all the same stories. It's because
by the time you get through the first fifteen minutes,
it's here the big news, the big news trucks are
at these two or three stories. Then everybody does the
same sports stories. The weather is the same. Maybe the
(22:40):
kicker at the end, Oh look at this dog jumping
a lake here. How cute is this bolly? I just
jump right in looking for that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's nutty the squirrel. Squirrel exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I think we should squirrel.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Uh we'll have.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That big take on Tyre's Halibert, a nice up reference
for you right there. Uh, well, that big take on
Tyre's Halliburton coming up in ninety seconds. But first, a
woman who brought a bobblehead in for Justin Frostburg tonight
that you were supposed to bring in each of the
last twelve nights. It finally makes its way in, So
Frostburg gets home with a Vin Scully bobblehead. It is
(23:17):
Manty Blagnas.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
I mean, I don't know who the bigger winner is.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Is it the Pacers fan base or is it Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh definitely me Frostburg slow, because that that Vin Scully's there.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Forever, forever, forever exactly until one of his.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Kids breaks it. And for the Pacers it could be fleeting, it.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Could be that was ridiculous. So that broadcast you guys
just showed us.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I mean, I know, when I'm watching the prices right,
and then they cut to, oh, the President is speaking,
I'm like, yo, I'm watching the price is right.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I don't care about the President's speaking.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I felt like that, That's what I felt when you
guys played that broadcast.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Plenty of time to catch up on any of those comments,
right right.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Oh man, The Pacers did it again, fellas Yeah, a
fifteen point deficit didn't matter.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
They come back. They defeat the Thunder one eleven.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
To one to ten on a Tyres Hall of Burton
game with nur he had to within fourteen points.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Senn rebounds six assists.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But the Indiana Pacers have had success because they scored
by committee, so six players ended in double digits. In fact,
Pascal Siakam was the leading scorer nineteen points.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
He also had eleven rebounds.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Shake Gilgess Alexander was the leading scorer of the game.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
He had thirty eight points.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Indiana also had nineteen turnovers in the first half, compared
to OKC who only had six in.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
The whole game.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Pat boilin I found his Twitter and he covers the
Pacers in the fever. He tweeted that Oklahoma City just
lost to an East team for the first time at
home since March twelfth of twenty twenty four, So fifteen
months ago, and who did they lose to?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
The Pacers? So yeah, so the Pacers are just like
on a run right now in.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Baseball, the Yankees shout out the Guardians four zero. Max
Fried pitched six innings, gave up one hit, struck out seven.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
He is an ERA of one point seven to eight.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Michael Confordo hit the go ahead RBI single and the eighth,
and the Dodgers edged the Mets six to five.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
The Astros top the Pirates eight to two, the.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Rays edge the Rangers four to three, and the Royals
outscored the Cardinals seven to five to split their double header.
Today at the Women's College World Series Championship, Texas Tech
held on four to three to Texas against Texas to force.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The Game three, which will be on Friday.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And in the WNBA, the Liberty are still perfect. They
stay undefeated eight in no to start the season as
they outscored the Mystics eighty six to seventy eight. And
in case he missed it earlier today, Aaron Rodgers, the
weight is over, signing a one year deal with the Steelers.
He's expected to participate in next week's mandatory mini camp,
while Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is out indefinitely after aggravating
(25:57):
a shoulder injury that forced him to miss time last season.
Head coach sheen Steichen wouldn't commit to whether Richardson was
going to be healthy enough to start training camp on
July twenty. Second, and lastly, here guys, French Open, second
seeded American Coco Goff advancing to the finals with the
straight sets victory in her semi finals match. Goff is
going to face top seed Arena sabal Anka in the final,
(26:20):
who beat four time champion IGAs Fiatic.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
So go Coco Golf.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch Mons, Yes, Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now,
look Tyre's Halliburton in that that shot he made. It's
still it's still stunning to think about Wright.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Which one and the shot today are the one against
the Nicks?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I know? Right? Like how about all of his shots
he is now? And we had this stat earlier in
the show. In since they've been keeping track of the NBA,
it's always like, since they've been keeping track, this is
what the Pacers been doing this this place as opposed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
To that other time.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Uh, the non recorded history.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In NBA, going back the last thirty years, the players
with the most game tyme or go ahead shots in
the final five seconds of a playoff game. Lebron James
has eight of them. He's played in a few more
playoff games in Tyre's Halliburton. Reggie Miller has five, who
again played in a few more playoff games in Tyre's Halliburton.
(27:18):
Halliburton also has five. Those are the three players with
the most go ahead or game winning shots in the
final five seconds of an NBA playoff game in the
last thirty years. Right, Halliburton's got four of them in
this playoff. Okay, that's the kind of playoff that the
Pacers are having. This is a The best way to
(27:39):
describe this playoff right now is the Pacers are doing
Pacers things. It's it's become commonplace for them to get
down big and somehow because everybody on the court can
hit a three, they will all be able to hit
threes when they need to. And they all can. It's
not just everybody can hit threes, it's everybody can and
does hit them in the final five or so hand
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cook right, it helps them come back. It's what helps
them come back unlike any other team in the NBA. Right,
you have your three point shooters, but you don't have
five guys get all hit threes. When Miles Turner is
out jacking threes and walking down the court with his
zand in the air, you know you have something special.
This is what we've seen the Pacers. Now, seven points
down in the final minute doesn't matter, nine points down
(28:20):
next doesn't matter. But Halliburton specifically, I mean, I gotta
go back to Jordan in his heyday in the nineties,
right because this whole fact that this stat of of
most more go ahead shots in the final, you don't
have to that game goes back to like the mid nineties.
Now Jordan won his first title, You're going back to
the early nineties when Jordan won three in a row,
(28:42):
out for two years, three in a row. I gotta
look back. Did Jordan have a playoff series where he
had this kind of series like Tyre's Halliburton. Well, because
I don't know that. I don't know that anybody. I mean,
I don't know that Kobe has done it. I don't
know if Duncan has done it. And then one playoff
to have that, but we already know going back to
ninety seven or ninety five, rather that it's Lebron and
(29:05):
then it's Halliburn.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Shot out one for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, but we're talking not Kobe. You know, it's not
Shack saying it. But but here the thing more, the
four of these shots in one in one playoff justin
nobody else has that, nobody else, all the guys you're
mentioning all.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
But it was definitely.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But that's the point I'm trying to You got to
separate between best run as a playoff versus whatever. This
this insulated, isolated category of game one shots. None of
those because all those guys dominated, right in fifteen, all
those playoffs runs.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yes, no, no, no, for a full playoff run.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
This this clutch playoff run, right, there's what we're doing. No,
that's what I've been said. We've been talking about, is
that this four I'm saying four shots like this in
the final five seconds of a game. How many times
have I had to say that before you guys wanted
to change the argument. I've said it like twenty in
the last two hours. I thought you had to say,
what about But you're talking about the best playoff run
(30:06):
and that's about fo Yeah, with the clutch element, we've
been saying this. This is what the conversation has been yes,
other guys have had great, dominant playoffs, but this kind
of run with four game winning shots or game tying
shots throughout each round of the playoffs, this kind of
clubb I don't think we've had. We've had something. I
gotta see if Jordan was able to do something like that. No,
(30:28):
the dream Team doesn't count. Dream Team does not count.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Shot and one Kawhi nineteen clutch shots.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Nobody clutch The clutch shots in me for the Dream
Team was the first basket because they had.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Clutch shot was just when they announced the Dream Team.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Everybody started asking for autographs before tip off.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's over. Now there's individual shots that are huge, right, Yeah,
the Kawhi shot is like a It is like the
painting of the Sistine Chapel or dogs playing.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Poker got there.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's amazing, right, Not not like this, not not not
like Halliburton's done it in every round of the playoffs.
Like Kawhi, Leonard doesn't have four or five. And I
know this because I saw the stat that said, hey,
here's Haliburton second. So okay, if you're if you're jumping
with Lebron and Halliburton and Lebron's eight is over the
course of the last twenty something years. Okay, you got
(31:17):
to go back to pre date Lebron James. Why you
got to go back to Jordan in the in the
early nineties to see and again I don't look, I
remember the big finals he had, But did he have
this many go ahead? Like Rick Buker had a great
point when he said, hey, there were so many of
those bulls are up by two. Jordan hits a shot
to put him up four, bulls up by three, Jordan's
shot to put him up by five. Like there's many
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instances like that. You know. That's why I said, Okay,
I want to go back. But did Jordan have this
kind of run like Halliburton's having, you know, in the
clutch moments at the end of games.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well, and as we were talking about it a little
bit earlier, right, what are those isolated moments from the
Bulls series, Packson and Kerr. They're not Jordan hitting a shot,
They're Jordan making a play, finding the open man. Who
we hit the big shot? Uh So, yeah, I guess
it all becomes the parameter of what's the search and
when does clutch come into effect versus last second?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
In this case, we're talking last second and big giant
comebacks and demoralizing things, Nick show, and now we'll see
how the thunder respond.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But yeah, for Haliburton, hell of a run.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I'd be going out and trying to sell my shoes
everywhere I could do.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Hey, you know what were these today?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah? Well here and here's the thing about Halliburton being clutch, right, Okay,
we talk about clutch shots being at the end of games.
It couldn't come at any time. Doesn't get more clutch
in the final five seconds? I mean, pretty damn clutch
final twenty seven. Yeah he was. He was pretty good.
Tell me shots he hit at the end of games.
Tell me big shots hit.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
At the But here's the big worst stat that really
just kills the Haliburton argument. His over underd for points,
rebounds and assists today was thirty one and a half.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, he finished with thirty.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, how does that kill the argument?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Well, he'd let his batters down, he let his individual
backers down. Those people fort Wayne they got they got
back for that final is rare.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Halliburton, you're a jack. You let all the betters down.
They had you with thirty one.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You you Robert.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Orry is probably the most clutch. You want to go there.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, okay, no clutch, but again, I know.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You want to use that word Robert y.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, but again justin look at the I know Robert
Orry doesn't have shots like this in one playoff. I
know he doesn't. I know he doesn't. Nobody has him
except for Halliburton in the last thirty years. Lebron's got
him over twenty five years. They're not all in one year, right,
They're all spread out, oh, you know, from two thousand
and three all the way until this is.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Halliburton a one shot wonder.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
One shot wonder well, one.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Hit wonder, four shots, but on one playoff run.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm jay he's the Dexia's Midnight Runners of the Playoff didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Require his dad to come back.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Sorr, Come on, ty Reese will be out to exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, my cry,
I mean to go back to George. Let's see, let's
see if anybody's had that kind of run like Haliburton.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Tons of people but coming up.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, everybody you've brought.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Up to me, the answer is no, especially Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
See that's the one I kept waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Way more clutch than Haliburton. Today.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
We made a guarantee earlier in the show that we
would do something great involving the NBA. Two times. We
did it once. The second time is coming up next?
What could it be?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Fox?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
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 (35:06):
On the call that's outstand that's way better than Matt
Pinto's call. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire
rack dot Com Studios. The Pacers win Game one in
a thriller over the Thunder, so we celebrate the best
way we can with shots. Well, yeah, show, maybe after
(35:29):
the show, or if you're Harman during the show, okay,
instead casting aspersions on me. You were just, dude, how
excited you were about shots. I thought maybe you had
been doing them already. I don't know, you were really
really excited.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I'm all about celebrating the economy and having fun.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You get, you gave, you gave the whole meathead. Yeah
wild tonight. Uh So, while shots could be in the
offing for Mike Harmon Before that, we will play.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
No more obvious than Vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson, who
has been tweeting up a storm following the Pacers win
in Game one. So here's how we play the Magic
Johnson Twitter game. I give you a tweet. You tell
me if it's a Magic Johnson tweet or if it's
made up entirely by me playing as myself Mike Harbon,
(36:27):
justin Frostburg, Alex tightshirt. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
No, you addressed me as Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Please sorry, Conforido, I will. I will give you that
today because you won today. Former met who had this
first hit is a Dodger, very good, okay.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
To beat the Mets, Yes, yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Mets won the series season series, Today's story, better record
than the Dodgers and won Mets in seven. Mets won
four games to three. So Mets in seven your story.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
It's nice and all, but not just like the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It's fine, Halliburton, what a shot? Is that a Magic
Johnson tweet? Halliburton? What a shot?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
The name of a book he's got coming out? I'll
go yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right, mister Conforto.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
You know he normally throws in like an amazing and
incredible that's youle house, that's amazing. That might be too
vanilla for even magic.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
No, wow, okay, ty Shirt?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Are we picking names? I want to be Kevin Sorbo.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
You get sure you can be Kevin Sorbo? Was he Hercules?
Kevin sor Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Love that man?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
All right, very good.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
It's a great series.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Alright, alright, very polarizing guy right now, too, nicely done,
ty Shirt. One of them too, mister Simpson, We're going
to give you a new identity. I want to be
John Elway. All right. So uh all right, so Sorbo,
what do you got?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I'm gonna say no, because he didn't watch the game.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
That is.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Not Johnson tweet.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Well, we did get a Lucy Lawless reference in.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So yeah, that is good. That is good. We have
to give the entire team credit because this is a
total team victory. The starting five players scored double figures
and top and added seventeen points from the bench. Is
that a magic? Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You got?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We have to give the entire team credit because this
was a total team victory. The starting five players scored
double figures and top of added seventeen points from the bench.
Is that a Magic Johns or was that me trying
to get Obi Toppin for nick In.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I might be overthinking it by going there now that
you've cited it, because that was gonna be the logic
of you trying to get yourself past the top and her.
Oh he would never give love to Topin though, Jason, Yeah,
that's possibly true. I'm gonna say I'm gonna say no though.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I'm gonna say, okay, no for you Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Well, I'm looking at the box.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
Cor Sorry, sorry, sorry, you just said mister, mister Conforto, yes,
so yes, okay, you're saying yes, all right, sort yes,
you're saying yes, or you're acknowledging that I called your name.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Oh okay, I'm gonna say no because he said everybody
on the team, but I saw people not dressed to play. Okay,
all right, very good, very nah. Sorry. Five players scored
double figures topping added seventeen points from the bench. That
was tweeted by Magic Johnson giving a damn it love
(39:46):
blank Conforto. Is that a Magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, no, he plays for the Dodgers. Now so No, yeah,
I know that. I was just throwing that I just
want to do Did you actually tweet that out?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No? I didn't. I do it quoting you. Sure if
you want to.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, okay no, actually that would take time.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, there it is. I'm sure we'll have the Matchic
Johnson Twitter game Tarar, no doubt for Mike Off Jason
ben Maller coming up next. This is Fox herculeaves her
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Give you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Ad final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with My
bass friend Mike Harmon, and my goodness, all the drama
surrounding Game one of the NBA Finals and Tirees Hall
of Burton's heroics. We'll get back into that coming up
in about twenty minutes, because boy was this something. But look,
(00:51):
two big dueling headlines today in the world of sports,
and obviously we made it happen, right, So congrat Thank you, welcome,
NFL fans, your welcome Steelers Nation. We got you Aaron
Rodgers today, we.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Got signed ceiling and delivered.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I felt like I did my job, Mike. I did something.
I did pro bono work, right. Like all the cases
in the in the in the movies with lawyers are
all the big pro bono case that came in right
here it is. That's the big pro bono case I did.
By probo, I got Aaron Rodgers back to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, I mean we did get paid for the show. Yeah, No,
I mean kind of pro bono work.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I guess because you didn't get anything extra.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Uh. Last night on the show, we talked about Rogers
and why he's not a Steeler? What if I said
the entire if he wanted to be a Steeler, he
would be there. And the big thing I said was
coming off because they're ending their second OTAs and then
they have their mandatory mini camp next week, and all
the talk has always been, Hey, the Steelers feel like
he's coming in and he's going to be there, uh
(01:56):
you know potentially, and we'll be in the first there.
He'll be there for minatory minimp like. That's how I
knew that's when he's got to get it. What did
I say last night? I said, if he really was
coming next week, right, wouldn't he want to quiet all
the haters and put his future teammates at ease and
at least have the business end of it done. And
by that I mean two things he would have a
(02:18):
contract with the Steelers, and he would have told the Steelers, hey,
I'll be there from mandatory mini caamp. Right, that would
that would settle everything, right, those two, those are my
two big points. If the guy really was going to
show up next week, wouldn't by this point he would
have the contract done, and he would have told Omar
Khan and Mike tom and look, this is when I'm
gonna be there. I have this, this and this, and
(02:38):
you can talk about you know, Ayahuascar retreats or wherever, Egypt,
whatever else, but I'll be there for mandatory minikamp. Because
you want to be able to know to go into
your season with your new team and have them like
you and feel like you want to be there. Why
would you want to foster all of this potential hate
and all this disrespect. He doesn't really want to be here.
The only place he could be held open the position
(03:01):
for right, you would do that. So I said, that's
why he's not going to Pittsburgh. I said, that's why
he's gonna wait until the summer or the fall when
somebody gets hurt and find a better, more advantageous position
for him. That's what Aaron Rodgers is gonna do. Man,
he's gonna wait for that to happen. That's all that's
gonna I'm telling you. And then what happens today, Aaron
Rodgers signs to spite me because what did we find
(03:22):
out today? He signed with the Steelers for a year
and he told the Steelers I'll be there for mandatory
mini camp. The two things I said last night, Hey,
he's not gonna be there because these two things.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Today he came out and he said, yeah, here's my
one year contract and I'm there next week. It's almost
like he probably wasn't gonna do it. But then he
listened to the show last night and said, oh see
what Jason Smith Jets fan, Yeah, I'll see him. Yeah,
screw that guy. I'm gonna come back and play this year.
I'm gonna go play for the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Like to sign the episode.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm gonna sign my contract and tell omar Con when
I'm coming in next week. I did so, Congratulations, I
did it by doing that. I dared the guy. I
dared him to come in and he did so. Okay, yes,
was I wrong one hundred percent? But boy did I
do my job Because I got Aaron Rodgers back.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
But you also screwed an industry.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
How do I screw an in? Because now that's at
least several days of will Aaron Rodgers play B block
C block television and radio? That just got murdered. It's
your fault. Now people have to look for other stories.
We will find in the long arduous road. We will
to training camp. If it ever comes down to it,
(04:30):
we could do Trump versus Musk. We could do that, right,
I mean, we could do that if we wanted to.
We we got we got Pacers versus Thunder, we got
Trump versus We could do both those things.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I think that's a dangerous proposition. I'll go back to
counting you shoulder Sanders completiony, Like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
What if we did this? What if we did this?
What if? What if sports was this? The Thunder Pacers
winner gets the Trump Musk winner. What if we did that?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, and it's all in hell in a cell?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah we oh sho show Yeah? How what whatever? We want?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Ladders?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, no, whatever. I will let Mike Harman. I believe
you want tables. You could be the Hunger Games game maker.
I'll let you Beataker. You make everything up as far
as this goes. You get the tracker trackers, you get
everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You want there.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You be the game maker.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
At different points in my life, I may or may
not have looked really close in a resemblance to Philip
Seymour Hoffman, go find a timeline of harmon photos.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They're there, but we're on the comeback trail.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But all of that to say it is, you know,
it's sad that the story's over, and yeah, out of spite,
like Seinfeld returning the suit, why are you why do
you want to return it out of spite?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
He can't return a suit out of spite, but.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Rogers returns, and there's just been that speculation that he
had the handshake agreement with the Steelers. Problem is nobody,
let the rest of his teammates or former Steelers really
know any of the details. So it stayed in speculation mode,
with everybody taking their shots at the process, both at
the team and at Aaron Rodgers. I mean, you had
(06:03):
the quotes from Terry Bradshaw earlier this week, our teammate
here at Fox, where he just went off calling it
a joke. And now he's got number twelve. Yeah, he
gets to hold that hostage. Yeah, in the yeah, that
guy's not wearing my jersey. Or maybe they've already broke
her a deal too. I don't know, And it was
(06:23):
all k fame. I don't know what's real anymore. But
the decision to come back and look, I thought it
was going one of two ways.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Either it's a done deal.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
He shows up as you get to mandatory, OTA's he's
been thrown with Metcalf. We'd had those reports, and you
have no idea what other workouts may have been done
during this process, So we just put a pin in that.
But the or he was just gonna walk the earth.
I thought the viability of a third option of a
team was going to be the we go and find
(06:55):
him on the retreat and we have to track him
down wherever he is. He's in Yemen, he's in you know, you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Know you're binging friends. Now you just put part where
Chandler threatened to move to Yemen to get away from Jannison.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
No, I think I think that was on the list
of travel bands, wasn't it. But all of that to say,
you know, just just pick your random place. You know,
we used to joke about going and finding Phil Jackson
hiding out somewhere in Montana if you wanted him to
come and coach or or consult for your squad. Same
thing here, that they were going to have to track
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Rogers down. Our quarterback went down. Now you've been charged
with this and two guys from the front office are
going backpacking and it becomes a television series of In
Search of Rogers and then they have to sell them
on coming back to play for their team.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That's kind of where I thought that option would go.
But in the interim he'd be doing podcasts and espousing
more theories. Guys. The big question is there's no way
in hell he's gonna be able to wear number twelve.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Right, No, that's what I mean, right, I mean we've
got did we get that one together?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think he's okay with that because he went to Well,
he knew it wasn't twelve for the Jets. Okay, he
knew that wasn't happening. Right. Uh, you don't wear Joe's jersey.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You don't think he's gonna cry and make this a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, no, No, he was always thought there was going
to be a ceremonial, him walking in with a hammer
and smashing the case ripping the jersey down and putting
it on.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I'm the captain. Now, Am I supposed to suck without
my number?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No? I think uh? I think he was. He'll he'll
go back. Look the I think the I think the
last guy to wear number eight was uh? Oh, boy?
Did did Paulama? Did Troy Polamala wear eight? I know
Kenny Pickett warring, Yeah, Palamala was forty three? All right?
I thought Paulama okay? But uh no, I thought he
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started with eight. But that yeah, but he went to
forty three. But if Kenny Pickett wore eight, I think
he can wear eight like if he was, unless he
wants to change. Hey, I'm not going back to eight.
Eight did work with the Jets. I'm going someplace else.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
See, now we have to go to the famous number eight.
Uh did Tommy Maddox wear eight?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh? Touchdown, Tommy, touchdown Tommy, Tommy, some of.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Those legends along the way.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, I won a Fantasy football XFL fantasy league thanks
to Tommy Maddens.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Tommy was number eight. I quit.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yeah, that is stuff that should not be locked in
my brain.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think that means it's safe for him to wear eight.
If he wanted to. But let's you want to go
someplace completely different, Like, okay, eight was my college number. Boy,
eight didn't really work with the Jets. Do I really
want to stick with eight? Or do I want to
just start and do something completely different? Do I go
to a different number entirely? I I don't know that.
(09:43):
Uh ah, boy, I think I think and look. I
say this as a Jet fan, right, I say, but
you said, I think you want to remove whatever trace
of the Jets you have on you when you go
to your new team. So I think you want to
pick an entirely new number. Ed Fisher in nineteen forty
Melvin Ingram in twenty twenty one, Melvin Carl Joseph took
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it after. I guess they fought for it or something.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Elmer Coburg, Coburg, Koyberg in nineteen forty one. Okay, Maddison, Pickett,
Josh Gobi and Corliss weightman last year. Oh the big
nasty Corlis Corliss, Yes, exactly nice.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That is well done.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
He was born in Belgium, went to South Alabama. No,
I think I do like that.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You bring in the memory of Corlis Williams so we've
been talking a lot about college hoops and history.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Right, yeah, he picks it. Now pick a new number.
I think he picks a new number. I think you
have to. I think you have no choice but to
pick a new number. You don't want that. You don't
want that. I mean, you don't want this stink of
the Jets on you. Man, You really don't you want
to say, Okay, I don't want to talk about the
last year. And you're gonna see, like when he shows up,
he is not going to talk about the Jets at all. Aaron,
can you talk about I think it'll be one of
(10:59):
those I think the less said about those last two years,
the better focus going forward. You know, you had a
lot of relationships with these guys, guys on the team
that I really cherish and guys that I still talk to.
But uh, you know, I'm looking forward now and I'm
here and this year is what I'm all about. Like,
he's not going to talk about the Jets. He would
(11:20):
rather go back and spend an entire conversation talking about
his relationship the last couple of years with everybody in
Green Bay. That he will talk about the Jets the
last two.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Years opportunity to go take number five.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Okay, sure, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Decorated guy was Craig.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Colquit Okay, okay, d cows Key, Josh Dobbs Oh, Josh
Josh doobbsons you can't have my number?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Well, I just go on down the line. I mean
opportunity knocks.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yeah. So I want to say you're welcome. I really,
every NFL fan Steelers Nation, you are welcome. We got
you Aaron Rodgers last night, I mean last We could
have done this story anytime, right, I had this story
ready to go about Rogers, when we were ready to
talk about it. When something happened and hey let's get
to Rogers here for a few We could have done
at any time. We did it last night, and twelve
(12:09):
hours later, Aaron Rodgers. The two things I said, he
and I'm doing them.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
We effect change.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
If you want a player signed or cut, or a
coach fired, you contact the firm of Harmon and Smith.
And how about a presca at Swollen Dome at Fox
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Speaker 1 (12:27):
Falcons fans, you want Kirk Cousins out, let me know,
let me know, I'll do a Kirk Cousins taken and
then you'll get him out. It'll happen. It'll or maybe
I got it to do the opposite because the opposite
happened with with Aaron. So I got to say, hey,
Kirk Cousins, I'll tell you why he's absolutely staying and
not going anywhere, and I give you all the reasons,
and the next day he'll get.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Traded an open letter to Arthur Blanine.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But that's you know, That's the other part of this now,
is that supposedly Kirk Cousins was the number two choice
of the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Right if we have to break glass. Yeah, and look, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Sure that if everything was equal, Kirk Cousins would have
been their number one choice. But Aaron Rodgers comes with
a one year deal for ten million, dot whatever it is,
and Kirk Cousins comes with a lot of money you
have to figure out and a long, a longer term contract.
So I'm sure if everything was equal, Cousins is number one,
But it's not because all the stuff that came with him. Now,
(13:21):
I don't know we talked about it when it happened.
If it wasn't Pittsburgh, like, I don't know where the
Kirk Cousins landing spot is and it's gonna they're gonna
get to a point where they're just gonna have to
cut them. They're gonna have to eat money and cut
them because it's not gonna go well when your former
starting quarterback is the backup on your team.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
He's sitting in a glass case of emotion waiting for
that phone call that was once going to Rogers but
is now being forwarded from his agent to that They.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Taught Brave about keeping them. They've said, it's not that
big a deal. We're gonna keep. No, they are dying
to get rid of them, but just now, unless they
swallow money, they're not gonna get anything for him. And
eventually they're gonna wind up just having to cut them,
and they'll they'll go to and say, okay, can we
figure out some sort of buyout and we'll let you go,
and then a team will be interested. You know. Then
the team will say, okay, well, Kirk Cousins for a
new deal one year, eight million, five whatever, Yeah, okay, yeah,
(14:08):
I like Kirk Cousin. We'll bring him in. He'll get
a chance to be our starter. He'll find that place
where he can be a bridge quarterback. Because that's where
he is. He's got to understand that's the reality for him.
But eventually it's gonna get to that. It maybe in
the summer sometime, maybe the end of but that's what's
gonna happen and eventually Kirk Cousins. But the Steelers was
a great landing spot. Now that's out the window, exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike
(14:30):
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
we got a big, bold, hot take on Tyre's Halliburton. Plus,
you are not going to believe what one Indiana television
station did at the end of tonight's Game one between
the Pacers and the thunder Like it defies logic what
(14:50):
they did. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Weaked, he said, ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. We got a big take for you
coming up in a couple of minutes on Tyres Halliburn
after his Game one heroics. But we have to do
this because this is just too good not to do.
Thanks to Awful Announcing for the for the link to this.
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WPTA is the ABC affiliate in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Okay. Now,
the NBA Finals are on ABC, So WPTA, Fort Wayne,
you're watching the final Pacers home home country of the Pacers.
You're watching the game on ABC on WPTA. Minute fifteen
left in the game and Oklahoma City at this point
(15:49):
leads it one ten to one oh seven. And now
you know, as it happens everywhere, is hey, guess what
local news is coming up after the game? Are your
children in dire jeopardy? Find out after the game? You
know that's coming up. So you know that that at
some point, well, you know WPTA is going to want
to run a promo for the news, right, Hey, everybody's
(16:10):
watching this game, stick around. We got local news coming up, right,
So yeah, okay, you figure we're going to get some
kind of local news promo. But usually you don't get
the news promo when you're smack dab in the middle
of the action with a minute left in the regulation.
Take a listen, Thunder please for this three point lows
(16:35):
SGA the drive. It's tide shut luck, so yall come.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Throws it back.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Next on twenty one Alive News, the man who was
brutally beaten at Pike's Pub last week has come forward.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Here what he wants to have happened now.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Also tonight, a big night for pacer fans as Indiana
is in the NBA Finals, will show you a local
business who has seen a boost from.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The Yes, sir, because see a little fog.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Overnight's night will have the very latest forecast coming.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Up to Paster staying up with us. I'm i'm er
a boss. Fort Wen's most watched news. Start buying them Mars.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
And then they go back to the game and there's
thirty seconds left and it's a one point game.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, I mean in the end, they really didn't miss anything,
did they?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Oh dude, you kidding? You actually interrupted the game to
have the big story be Hey, there's a PACER's watch
party because Indiana's in the NBA Final shocker. Yeah, those
are always my favorite, right, are your kids in dire straits?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Is this this is an epidemic?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You can find out at eleven it's like seven oh five,
Like it's in the middle of Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
We interrupt the Pacers game to tell you that we're
going to show you about a PACER's watch party.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I was having a watch party, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You Hey, what if you're at the watch party that
they said they were having the watch like, you're what's
a watch party? And you're seeing video of you guys
at the watch party while you're watching it. But now
you can't watch the game because you're watching this promo
of what's going on? We're live at this watch party,
your dirty, miserable son. I mean who gave the I
mean who really? Because you know, somebody gave some crazy
(18:18):
okay to run the promo. Wow, but there's thirty sid
they're not in commercial run the promo. Okay, here we
go right now. The normal forty five seconds of an
NBA game runs eighteen minutes of real time.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
We got plenty of time to make this work.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You could have done it at any time, and yet
that's what happens. I I really I don't I don't
understand it. I don't understand that. How you do that
for the game? You know? Good? Look working in local
news like it did for a couple of years, and
I will tell you It was two of the most
miserable professional years I had in my life. Working local
news was awful. Right when I worked at KBC here
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in La, it was just it was really difficult. Man.
There was always a big thing. It was it was
ABC versus NBC and CBS and the local news rate
in the local news race, right, like that was always
what it was, Right, how are we doing against NBC?
CBS is always in third place, but it was always AB.
It was us against NBC for the night. Right, there
(19:15):
was this big rivalry that they tried to build up,
and it's like, okay, that's fine, and it really it
didn't matter what we did, didn't the news didn't matter
on And I'm taking you back now to the to
the early two thousands. Right on Tuesday night, ABC had
NYPD blue at ten o'clock. So guess who won. Guess
who had more people watching the local news at eleven
(19:36):
o'clock that night, ABC because we had NYPD blue On
Thursday nights. NBC had Er. So who do you think
won Thursday nights on local new More people watching NBC
that are watching ABC because it's Er. It's all about
the show you have coming up. The last thing I
want to do is you want to piss people off.
We're watching the game and are gonna stay with you,
(19:57):
you know, all the way through there and gonna go
go to you. Hey, here's the local news. We got
stuff going on. We're gonna see this right here. I
don't know why you would do that.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Where are you gonna go?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
We've got a unique value proposition for you know, our
local news.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I know, I don't get it. I don't get it.
This is what we're gonna. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're
gonna take you away. Hey. We have a big story,
a big news story, and a PACER's watch party. And
don't forget the weather. We got the weather coming up.
We'll see what it's gonna be like tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean you do have your favorite weather people. I
mean so, I mean you start getting into the value proposition.
Maybe you don't like Uh, I don't know what. We
have a Johnny Mountain and whatever. What do you have
in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
You have Billy Hoosier, So you have that. That's the
weather guy. Billy Hoosier is here.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Billy Hoosier. So where are these producers and all these
executives for that channel working tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, not in Fort Wayne, that's for sure. They're taking
a few steps back. I think, Hey, guess what, Remember
what was the show where Northern Exposure, right where Rob
Morrow was a doctor and he thought it was going
to work like in New York City and they sent
him to like this really small town in Alaska. Like
that's what's gonna happen. Hey, nice job. Yeah, you guys
are gonna go someplace a little bit smaller than Fort Wayne.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Now Fort Wayne is one hundred and tens square miles
of the Yeah, what's the population here Fort Wayne?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
I don't know. I don't know. Five hundred thousand, two
d three hundre thousand, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Two hundred and seventy thousand.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Okay, there we go. That's so you're moving down from
two hundred and seventy thousand, two hundred seventy thousand people
that missed from the one oh five mark of the
game to the thirty second mark of the game.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, if we I don't know, are they watching?
Speaker 4 (21:42):
All we've got is a lamentation that the nationwide audience
is in Fort Wayne. Were they watching NYPD Blue reruns instead?
You're gonna get the needle.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I thought they might be threatening the producers with right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Uh maybe, I mean that that's a I mean that's
a that's a thirty year old thing now. But like
they all try to do all these different things and
all these different crats, and it was just whatever the
lead in show was, if we had a better lead
in show. That's how many people watch Man, Like that's
what it was. I mean, it's what it was.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
And maybe who you liked on your late night right,
and well usually was that just it was a straight line.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. Oh I like Letterman better
than Leno. I like that. Yeah, I would watch that instead.
Very rarely was so because they all did the same stories.
It's all this it's all the same stories. It's because
by the time you get through the first fifteen minutes,
it's here the big news, the big news trucks are
at these two or three stories. Then everybody does the
same sports stories. The weather is the same. Maybe the
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kicker at the end, Oh look at this dog jumping
a lake here. How cute is this bolly? I just
jump right in looking for that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
It's nutty the squirrel. Squirrel exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I think we should squirrel.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Uh we'll have.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That big take on Tyre's Halibert, a nice up reference
for you right there. Uh, well, that big take on
Tyre's Halliburton coming up in ninety seconds. But first, a
woman who brought a bobblehead in for Justin Frostburg tonight
that you were supposed to bring in each of the
last twelve nights. It finally makes its way in, So
Frostburg gets home with a Vin Scully bobblehead. It is
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Manty Blagnas.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
I mean, I don't know who the bigger winner is.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Is it the Pacers fan base or is it Frostburg?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh definitely me Frostburg slow, because that that Vin Scully's there.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Forever, forever, forever exactly until one of his.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Kids breaks it. And for the Pacers it could be fleeting, it.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
Could be that was ridiculous. So that broadcast you guys
just showed us.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I mean, I know, when I'm watching the prices right,
and then they cut to, oh, the President is speaking,
I'm like, yo, I'm watching the price is right.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
I don't care about the President's speaking.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I felt like that, That's what I felt when you
guys played that broadcast.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Plenty of time to catch up on any of those comments,
right right.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Oh man, The Pacers did it again, fellas Yeah, a
fifteen point deficit didn't matter.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
They come back. They defeat the Thunder one eleven.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
To one to ten on a Tyres Hall of Burton
game with nur he had to within fourteen points.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
Senn rebounds six assists.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But the Indiana Pacers have had success because they scored
by committee, so six players ended in double digits. In fact,
Pascal Siakam was the leading scorer nineteen points.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
He also had eleven rebounds.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Shake Gilgess Alexander was the leading scorer of the game.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
He had thirty eight points.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Indiana also had nineteen turnovers in the first half, compared
to OKC who only had six in.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
The whole game.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Pat boilin I found his Twitter and he covers the
Pacers in the fever. He tweeted that Oklahoma City just
lost to an East team for the first time at
home since March twelfth of twenty twenty four, So fifteen
months ago, and who did they lose to?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
The Pacers? So yeah, so the Pacers are just like
on a run right now in.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Baseball, the Yankees shout out the Guardians four zero. Max
Fried pitched six innings, gave up one hit, struck out seven.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
He is an ERA of one point seven to eight.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Michael Confordo hit the go ahead RBI single and the eighth,
and the Dodgers edged the Mets six to five.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
The Astros top the Pirates eight to two, the.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Rays edge the Rangers four to three, and the Royals
outscored the Cardinals seven to five to split their double header.
Today at the Women's College World Series Championship, Texas Tech
held on four to three to Texas against Texas to force.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
The Game three, which will be on Friday.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
And in the WNBA, the Liberty are still perfect. They
stay undefeated eight in no to start the season as
they outscored the Mystics eighty six to seventy eight. And
in case he missed it earlier today, Aaron Rodgers, the
weight is over, signing a one year deal with the Steelers.
He's expected to participate in next week's mandatory mini camp,
while Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is out indefinitely after aggravating
(25:57):
a shoulder injury that forced him to miss time last season.
Head coach sheen Steichen wouldn't commit to whether Richardson was
going to be healthy enough to start training camp on
July twenty. Second, and lastly, here guys, French Open, second
seeded American Coco Goff advancing to the finals with the
straight sets victory in her semi finals match. Goff is
going to face top seed Arena sabal Anka in the final,
(26:20):
who beat four time champion IGAs Fiatic.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
So go Coco Golf.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch Mons, Yes, Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now,
look Tyre's Halliburton in that that shot he made. It's
still it's still stunning to think about Wright.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Which one and the shot today are the one against
the Nicks?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I know? Right? Like how about all of his shots
he is now? And we had this stat earlier in
the show. In since they've been keeping track of the NBA,
it's always like, since they've been keeping track, this is
what the Pacers been doing this this place as opposed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
To that other time.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Uh, the non recorded history.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In NBA, going back the last thirty years, the players
with the most game tyme or go ahead shots in
the final five seconds of a playoff game. Lebron James
has eight of them. He's played in a few more
playoff games in Tyre's Halliburton. Reggie Miller has five, who
again played in a few more playoff games in Tyre's Halliburton.
(27:18):
Halliburton also has five. Those are the three players with
the most go ahead or game winning shots in the
final five seconds of an NBA playoff game in the
last thirty years. Right, Halliburton's got four of them in
this playoff. Okay, that's the kind of playoff that the
Pacers are having. This is a The best way to
(27:39):
describe this playoff right now is the Pacers are doing
Pacers things. It's it's become commonplace for them to get
down big and somehow because everybody on the court can
hit a three, they will all be able to hit
threes when they need to. And they all can. It's
not just everybody can hit threes, it's everybody can and
does hit them in the final five or so hand
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cook right, it helps them come back. It's what helps
them come back unlike any other team in the NBA. Right,
you have your three point shooters, but you don't have
five guys get all hit threes. When Miles Turner is
out jacking threes and walking down the court with his
zand in the air, you know you have something special.
This is what we've seen the Pacers. Now, seven points
down in the final minute doesn't matter, nine points down
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next doesn't matter. But Halliburton specifically, I mean, I gotta
go back to Jordan in his heyday in the nineties,
right because this whole fact that this stat of of
most more go ahead shots in the final, you don't
have to that game goes back to like the mid nineties.
Now Jordan won his first title, You're going back to
the early nineties when Jordan won three in a row,
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out for two years, three in a row. I gotta
look back. Did Jordan have a playoff series where he
had this kind of series like Tyre's Halliburton. Well, because
I don't know that. I don't know that anybody. I mean,
I don't know that Kobe has done it. I don't
know if Duncan has done it. And then one playoff
to have that, but we already know going back to
ninety seven or ninety five, rather that it's Lebron and
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then it's Halliburn.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Shot out one for sure.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Well, but we're talking not Kobe. You know, it's not
Shack saying it. But but here the thing more, the
four of these shots in one in one playoff justin
nobody else has that, nobody else, all the guys you're
mentioning all.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
But it was definitely.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But that's the point I'm trying to You got to
separate between best run as a playoff versus whatever. This
this insulated, isolated category of game one shots. None of
those because all those guys dominated, right in fifteen, all
those playoffs runs.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yes, no, no, no, for a full playoff run.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
This this clutch playoff run, right, there's what we're doing. No,
that's what I've been said. We've been talking about, is
that this four I'm saying four shots like this in
the final five seconds of a game. How many times
have I had to say that before you guys wanted
to change the argument. I've said it like twenty in
the last two hours. I thought you had to say,
what about But you're talking about the best playoff run
(30:06):
and that's about fo Yeah, with the clutch element, we've
been saying this. This is what the conversation has been yes,
other guys have had great, dominant playoffs, but this kind
of run with four game winning shots or game tying
shots throughout each round of the playoffs, this kind of
clubb I don't think we've had. We've had something. I
gotta see if Jordan was able to do something like that. No,
(30:28):
the dream Team doesn't count. Dream Team does not count.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Shot and one Kawhi nineteen clutch shots.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Nobody clutch The clutch shots in me for the Dream
Team was the first basket because they had.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Clutch shot was just when they announced the Dream Team.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Everybody started asking for autographs before tip off.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
It's over. Now there's individual shots that are huge, right, Yeah,
the Kawhi shot is like a It is like the
painting of the Sistine Chapel or dogs playing.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Poker got there.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That's amazing, right, Not not like this, not not not
like Halliburton's done it in every round of the playoffs.
Like Kawhi, Leonard doesn't have four or five. And I
know this because I saw the stat that said, hey,
here's Haliburton second. So okay, if you're if you're jumping
with Lebron and Halliburton and Lebron's eight is over the
course of the last twenty something years. Okay, you got
(31:17):
to go back to pre date Lebron James. Why you
got to go back to Jordan in the in the
early nineties to see and again I don't look, I
remember the big finals he had, But did he have
this many go ahead? Like Rick Buker had a great
point when he said, hey, there were so many of
those bulls are up by two. Jordan hits a shot
to put him up four, bulls up by three, Jordan's
shot to put him up by five. Like there's many
(31:38):
instances like that. You know. That's why I said, Okay,
I want to go back. But did Jordan have this
kind of run like Halliburton's having, you know, in the
clutch moments at the end of games.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well, and as we were talking about it a little
bit earlier, right, what are those isolated moments from the
Bulls series, Packson and Kerr. They're not Jordan hitting a shot,
They're Jordan making a play, finding the open man. Who
we hit the big shot? Uh So, yeah, I guess
it all becomes the parameter of what's the search and
when does clutch come into effect versus last second?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:10):
In this case, we're talking last second and big giant
comebacks and demoralizing things, Nick show, and now we'll see
how the thunder respond.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
But yeah, for Haliburton, hell of a run.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I'd be going out and trying to sell my shoes
everywhere I could do.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Hey, you know what were these today?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah? Well here and here's the thing about Halliburton being clutch, right, Okay,
we talk about clutch shots being at the end of games.
It couldn't come at any time. Doesn't get more clutch
in the final five seconds? I mean, pretty damn clutch
final twenty seven. Yeah he was. He was pretty good.
Tell me shots he hit at the end of games.
Tell me big shots hit.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
At the But here's the big worst stat that really
just kills the Haliburton argument. His over underd for points,
rebounds and assists today was thirty one and a half.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Okay, he finished with thirty.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Okay, how does that kill the argument?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Well, he'd let his batters down, he let his individual
backers down. Those people fort Wayne they got they got
back for that final is rare.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Halliburton, you're a jack. You let all the betters down.
They had you with thirty one.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You you Robert.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Orry is probably the most clutch. You want to go there.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, okay, no clutch, but again, I know.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You want to use that word Robert y.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, but again justin look at the I know Robert
Orry doesn't have shots like this in one playoff. I
know he doesn't. I know he doesn't. Nobody has him
except for Halliburton in the last thirty years. Lebron's got
him over twenty five years. They're not all in one year, right,
They're all spread out, oh, you know, from two thousand
and three all the way until this is.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Halliburton a one shot wonder.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
One shot wonder well, one.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Hit wonder, four shots, but on one playoff run.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm jay he's the Dexia's Midnight Runners of the Playoff didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Require his dad to come back.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Sorr, Come on, ty Reese will be out to exit
out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, my cry,
I mean to go back to George. Let's see, let's
see if anybody's had that kind of run like Haliburton.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Tons of people but coming up.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, everybody you've brought.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Up to me, the answer is no, especially Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
See that's the one I kept waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Way more clutch than Haliburton. Today.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
We made a guarantee earlier in the show that we
would do something great involving the NBA. Two times. We
did it once. The second time is coming up next?
What could it be?
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Fox?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, NBA Korea.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
On the call that's outstand that's way better than Matt
Pinto's call. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire
rack dot Com Studios. The Pacers win Game one in
a thriller over the Thunder, so we celebrate the best
way we can with shots. Well, yeah, show, maybe after
(35:29):
the show, or if you're Harman during the show, okay,
instead casting aspersions on me. You were just, dude, how
excited you were about shots. I thought maybe you had
been doing them already. I don't know, you were really
really excited.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I'm all about celebrating the economy and having fun.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
You get, you gave, you gave the whole meathead. Yeah
wild tonight. Uh So, while shots could be in the
offing for Mike Harmon Before that, we will play.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
No more obvious than Vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson, who
has been tweeting up a storm following the Pacers win
in Game one. So here's how we play the Magic
Johnson Twitter game. I give you a tweet. You tell
me if it's a Magic Johnson tweet or if it's
made up entirely by me playing as myself Mike Harbon,
(36:27):
justin Frostburg, Alex tightshirt. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (36:31):
No, you addressed me as Michael CONFORDO.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Please sorry, Conforido, I will. I will give you that
today because you won today. Former met who had this
first hit is a Dodger, very good, okay.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
To beat the Mets, Yes, yeah, And.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Mets won the series season series, Today's story, better record
than the Dodgers and won Mets in seven. Mets won
four games to three. So Mets in seven your story.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
It's nice and all, but not just like the NLCS.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
It's fine, Halliburton, what a shot? Is that a Magic
Johnson tweet? Halliburton? What a shot?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
The name of a book he's got coming out? I'll
go yeah, sure.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right, mister Conforto.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
You know he normally throws in like an amazing and
incredible that's youle house, that's amazing. That might be too
vanilla for even magic.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
No, wow, okay, ty Shirt?
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Are we picking names? I want to be Kevin Sorbo.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
You get sure you can be Kevin Sorbo? Was he Hercules?
Kevin sor Okay?
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Love that man?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
All right, very good.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
It's a great series.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Alright, alright, very polarizing guy right now, too, nicely done,
ty Shirt. One of them too, mister Simpson, We're going
to give you a new identity. I want to be
John Elway. All right. So uh all right, so Sorbo,
what do you got?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I'm gonna say no, because he didn't watch the game.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
That is.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Not Johnson tweet.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Well, we did get a Lucy Lawless reference in.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
So yeah, that is good. That is good. We have
to give the entire team credit because this is a
total team victory. The starting five players scored double figures
and top and added seventeen points from the bench. Is
that a magic? Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
You got?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
We have to give the entire team credit because this
was a total team victory. The starting five players scored
double figures and top of added seventeen points from the bench.
Is that a Magic Johns or was that me trying
to get Obi Toppin for nick In.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
I might be overthinking it by going there now that
you've cited it, because that was gonna be the logic
of you trying to get yourself past the top and her.
Oh he would never give love to Topin though, Jason, Yeah,
that's possibly true. I'm gonna say I'm gonna say no though.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I'm gonna say, okay, no for you Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Well, I'm looking at the box.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
Cor Sorry, sorry, sorry, you just said mister, mister Conforto, yes,
so yes, okay, you're saying yes, all right, sort yes,
you're saying yes, or you're acknowledging that I called your name.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Oh okay, I'm gonna say no because he said everybody
on the team, but I saw people not dressed to play. Okay,
all right, very good, very nah. Sorry. Five players scored
double figures topping added seventeen points from the bench. That
was tweeted by Magic Johnson giving a damn it love
(39:46):
blank Conforto. Is that a Magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, no, he plays for the Dodgers. Now so No, yeah,
I know that. I was just throwing that I just
want to do Did you actually tweet that out?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
No? I didn't. I do it quoting you. Sure if
you want to.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, okay no, actually that would take time.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, there it is. I'm sure we'll have the Matchic
Johnson Twitter game Tarar, no doubt for Mike Off Jason
ben Maller coming up next. This is Fox herculeaves her
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