July 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Lakers "stressed" about Luka not accepting the max this summer. Hey, Lakers. SUCK IT UP. This is the price you pay for running a franchise how it's been run the last few years. Spend the year wooing him and convincing him to stay. That's how you do it.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon. We are your Open
Championship pregame show. Oh yeah, almost there, as we are,
what a half hour away the beginning of the Open Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I love it. Yeah, I gotta find the first round
tea times.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, let's let's do our Let's do our pre show
first here because okay, yeah, there's been a lot of
stuff that's gone on the last few days in the
world of golf. So let me just tell you, let
me catch you up to date. I could do it
pretty quickly here as we get set for the Open Championship. Oh,
the most popular player in the world, E feels like
(01:13):
he needs some time off.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everybody needs a little time to heal.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One of the other best players in the world said
he has no idea where his medals and trophies are,
and the best player in the world could take or
leave being a golfer. That's kind of been the last
few days leading up to the Open Championship.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Am I wrong? Am I oh? That sounds about right,
and McElroy and Scheffler am I wrong. Yeah, it's a
pretty good encapsulation. Okay, that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, you Schoffley, I don't know where my trophies are,
my gold met none of it.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know where it is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Rory McElroy clears, but it's hard to be motivated to
get ready coming out.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And you had.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Scotti Scheffler say, yeah, I play golf, but you know, yeah,
I don't know why I do sometimes. You know, yeah,
winning is great, but the feeling leaves you after like
two minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It was like an old sixty minutes bit.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know, they do the profiles of athletes or so,
you know, celebrities, political figures, whatever, and one week they
had Bruce Springsteen and this is long ago. He's going, well,
you know I could I could rock out to eighty
thousand people but on Sunday morning, I'm still the guy
that's got to make the pancakes. Oh yeah, yeah, I
mean that's what Scheffler's saying, Like I can go win
(02:20):
a giant, novelty sized check.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know that that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think he's more saying, yeah, I play because I
love it, but I don't know why I play sometimes
and winning's not that big a deal like that. He
sounds like a guy that's like, dude, you something like
you might need to stop playing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean he could go Nicola Jokich kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Go find himself his sulky and horses to ride around
to where we wonder if he just walks away at
some point, just lays his club down after winning another
major and just goes that's it, like done.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, like he talks about how much he loves
the like in his big press conference, he guy made
a lot of news. Yes, but unfortunately we had the
MLB All Star Game. He's said, you know, base I
love the game. I prepped out it, I love to play.
I love to all this, and then went out of
his way to say how much there's so many things
about it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't love.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, well, you know winning's not the winning, but everybody's
got that with every job. Though, I know that I'm
gonna show up every day and likely I'm not going
to win. You know, I got to understand that. And yeah,
I get when your sport is is is based on failing,
because you know there's you know, there's one winner forty
two losers, right like in Nascar, though, you know, a
great year, Look, a great year. For the longest time
(03:26):
in golf was if you want two events, not two majors.
Two events. Now we've we've ratchedt up where hey, you
have a great year. If you win two majors, You're like,
that's a great, great year. So I understand that, you know,
all right, the the the how we judge successes has changed.
But hearing him talk, I just feel like, dude, okay,
(03:46):
you need you need some time away. You need to
see if you still want to be a professional golfer.
Like nobody, you never hear anybody say stuff like that. Look,
Rory McElroy the last few weeks saying hey, it's been
difficult for me after winning the career Grand Slam to
get back up and play right. I completely understand that,
and what Maury McElroy needed was disappear. The guy needs that,
(04:08):
you know what, you need some time off, right, you
need some time off, some time away to recharge. And
because I firmly believe that that that's something that when
when you are when you are in pursuit of goals
and you are training and you are grinding and you
get to the top of the mountain, because clearly that's
a big top of the mountain type thing for you,
it's hard to come right back and play. So yeah,
(04:29):
that's where if I'm McIlroy out, you know, I need
some time off. Maybe I'll see it for the majors
later on this year, maybe not, but I need some
time away. I got to recharge. I'm excited to get
back at it whenever I want to get back at it.
But he needed some time off.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's the hard part, right, Cheffle.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I feel like it's like like like he's like, yeah,
I could play or not play. Like if you could
play or not play, you got to think is this
you really still like doing this?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, but you may like it well enough, but you
don't think about it when you're done, right, Yeah, you're
rolling through your practices and you're doing all your your
background work on the courses and knowledge of how things
are getting changed or whatever else, weather patterns, wind patterns,
all of those things that you would bring in on
(05:11):
your Doppler radar that you've purchased for yourself after all
your wins.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Whatever the case is, that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You might need that space, right, Sometimes it's easy to
just decompartmentalize and it's like, you know what, I got
to go and I've got chores to do, I've got
kids to run around whatever, and you can do that
and we.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Do that and everybody out there listening.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Whatever your job is, right, you try to have that
work life balance that everybody always talks about to where
you pause and you recognize that's my job and I
have to leave it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I get it. But when he says stuff like what's
the point to winning? Why do I want to win
this tournament so bad? Like, okay, you're competing, like you're
out there like this is when everything else goes away
and you're doing something you love. Well, I think he
was trying to have that big existential moment for everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's like, what does this all really?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Who am I really? What am I all about a
guy behind him with a sitar. He's a meadle. Are
you all in the matrix?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Were not here? Is this not happen?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean he might be having a little bit of
that kind of thing there, you know, as you go.
But we've talked to plenty of athletes through our years
in this business of I was good at it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Did I love it? No?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Winning is not a fulfilling life. I'm like, winning should
make you happy and should make you want to strive
towards doing it more. Yeah, you know you're not gonna
win every week, but that should be some Hey, this
is why it's great to say I'm the best in
the world of something. But that's also the best.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
For him to be able to say, Yeah, I just
go out there and play. Sometimes it comes together, sometimes
it doesn't. Meanwhile, you know what's going on in his
head or on his left and right shoulder. You got
the angel and devil. They're fighting every stroke. I don't
know if there's many angel left on it. I think
the devil's got residents on both should Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean, the dude said I'm not here to I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Not here to inspire the next generation of golfers. Well,
I mean, look, Charles Markley famously said, you know, I'm
no role models.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Ter Ceph, can I have your beat?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A kid famously said, I ain't an athlete. I'm a ballplayer.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean, come on, but I mean to say, hey,
I'm not out here to it. No, you don't have
to be running clinics and everything, but to see her,
He's saying, I'm not out.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Here to inspire the next the next generation of golfers.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Like what okay, what is that really? How much do
you really love what you do?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You think he watched He's bounding down over the like
binge that this last week and it was just gonna
run something he thought Kenny Powers would say.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean, I at it's it's just so odd. It's
just it's just so odd.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Like you know, it does feel a little existential form
a bit where where he's.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know, what do I do after the way you
bab okay have dinner.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But the thing is is that he's talking about this
is why it's a big deal, because he's talking about
things between the lines. Right, I understand the Bruce Springton,
I'm the guy making pancakes in the morning. That's life balance, right,
that's life balance where I'm this, I'm this, Can I
devote the time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
In my life?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I need you to my personal life, to my kids,
to my wife versus am I spending too much time
on the course. This is him between the line between
the ropes. This is between the ropes going yeah, I
don't know what the point to all of this is. Whoa, whoa, whoaoa.
That's your that's everybody when you're doing free sponsor what
that's my god.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That's your that's your safe space. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mean look, I mean that that's what when when
you do something creative for a living, everybody's got to
have their safe space where all the other bs goes away.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's on that door closes and.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You understand that, okay, this is where I go and
that now I'm out to have fun and whatever was
going on the other parts of the day. I got
to check that at the door, right like that. That's
been you know, we've all done that many many times.
That's the way we turn on the mics here. Hey,
it's we're having fun for four hours and we're discussing
and we're entertaining. We're talking about sports and we're arguing,
and we're we're having punchlines and you're farting a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
No, oh, I was just kidding, pulled back a little
too far. Hey whoao, No, but that but that's kind
of how it is.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I feel like between the ropes is no longer
his safe space. And that's why these these these statements
really jump out at me, you know, because McElroy is saying, Hey,
my motivation is tough right now, motivation to get on
the course and do it. I understand you need a break.
Dude needs a break. He needed a break after Hey,
after you did that, take a break for a couple
of months. But it's funny, right because the way this
(09:21):
is condensed. Something Dan and I talked about a little
bit Sunday on the Fox Sports Sunday Show is you've
got the majors going from April and this is it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, right, we're in mid July.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah, here's your majors, all gooddense here. So there
was really no window to disappear. Well, you know, we
could have disappeared for like a week here. Yeah, you
could have don't play in a tournament here, take two
three weeks off, go on vacation, you know, to go
to some beach for a week and a half. You
could do that, right, You could have done that and
drop off and not talk to anybody and that helps you.
(09:52):
And if you're recharged great, if you're not taking some
more time off.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, So now he comes back and for McElroy, it's
the you know, the home course and all that stuff,
you know the word. He's going to be fighting those
demons as he goes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
He's the second thing.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Show up to practice, to play a practice round, like
at seven am after the Scottish Open, like he came
in second the Scottish Open this weekend, he showed showed
back up. Okay, correct, Now he's motivated a gay Yeah,
he's MOBUS seven hundred. Yeah, Scheffler plus six hundred. He
is minus one seventy to make the top ten. Rory
just minus one oh five.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
John Rahm is the third favorite, followed by de Chambeau,
Fleetwood and Shuffley.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The aforementioned.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He is twenty five to one tied with Oberhattan Hoveland.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean, look, Scheffler seems likely. You know, if
if you're having this kind of question about your life,
now I look at I'm glad he talked about it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Maybe it helped him talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
As we talked about mental health with a lot of
this right and trying to find your space.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I can't see the guy having a long career because
he goes into detail about what it is getting motivated
where this is. I think golf is going to be
something he does for a short amount of time, is
extremely successful at it. He's not gonna try to chase
Jack Nicholas's record, not gonna chase Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Look in golf, guys play forever because you can't.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You your prime can be from when you're twenty four
till you're forty five, right, Like you could do that.
You can still win majors up to me your earlier example.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
This is where Duranti should be. Kad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
If you were playing golf, I'd say you can maybe
it a title, But dude, thirty five, come on, now,
it's done. But but he's a he's a guy that
you know, how is he really gonna play more than
five more years? Like if he get if he gets
to a point where he stops winning majors for a
couple of years, he gonna say that's it. Like if
he's still playing if you're singing like this at twenty nine,
obviously you have peak earning potential. You want to keep going.
(11:46):
You don't want to turn away that money because you
never know. But yeah, your kids are younger. You want
to find a balance. But like, if he's still playing
after thirty five, like I'd be surprised, Like his reign
is number one, it's gonna be It's gonna be a
while because no one clearly is is at his level,
like you thought, like the whole you know, you know,
the whole Brooks Koepka, that generation is gonna come up
all of a sudden, Scotty Scheffer comes out like the dude,
(12:07):
dude's the best golfer in the world. But is his
reign going to be that long? Like I mean, if
he's still playing and maybe younger than that, maybe at
thirty two thirty three, he decides I'm done, I'm walking away.
I'm not going to be that guy trying to stick
it out for ten majors or twelve majors or or
I'm looking at Jack like he's not Tiger Woods. You know,
I'm incredibly good at what I do and and I'm
(12:31):
thankful for it. But this is going to be something
that clearly there's there's the end of the tunnel is
on this thing, Scotty. How much of the incident in
May of twenty twenty four in Louisville is contributing to
your mindset of what it's all about?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Jeff Darlington following him going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You have this guy here, but like, oh man is
like kind of the uh wow, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know. I mean, I'm sure that affected him
for a little while. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm sure the you know, get getting pulled out of
the car and arrested before you know, when you hear
what's before round one.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Of a major, that's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But I but the detail he went into to talk
about his balance his family life and join golf and playing, Uh,
that tells me something different.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Again.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This is between the between the ropes, which is your
safe space. He's saying he is having trouble between the ropes. No,
I get that, And look, everybody's got it. No matter
what your job is, whatever your love is, hobby or
you know, things you do with your family, whatever, there
are gonna be moments where you have that that existential
It could be a moment it could linger right. You know,
we do radio and we love it. There are days
(13:38):
there's stories that we have to talk about where you're like, yeah,
I don't really love this one as much.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This one. I'm gonna have to sell a bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And it's not you know, hey, I don't like that
sport or whatever, but like we cover everything. We run
the game, and it's not just box scores, it's everything
that goes in.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Much like having this conversation is it's it's one that
he is a little elevated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a little different.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Then just all right, I'm motivated, I'm really good on
the back nine here or whatever. It's like no, no, no,
you're talking about life stuff and you know everybody has
those crosses. Sitting in traffic, you get alone with your
thoughts a lot, and maybe it doesn't put you in
the best place, but.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Then you go and you find your your bit of relief.
And I hope Scheffler finds whatever it is he's looking for,
and we'll be curious to see what his first round
looks like and how the weekend progresses. Exit ou about
a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studio. So there, Hey, we
got open Championship coming up in fifteen. Yeah, buddy, let's go.
But straight ahead, a double barrel of big basketball stories
(14:40):
coming your way. What team is stressed out about their
situation with their best player? And what league is now
sitting here looking at their worst nightmare this weekend?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's coming up there.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The Lakers is the answer to one of those questions,
Alex type, Ah, you should have spent the last couple
of seconds, get stressed out by twenty one pilots ready,
But that's okay? Why because I just did the whole
stress thing stressed out.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh they're cool man.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Uh,
just really quick, because it's happening right now. Let's want
to mention this. You know what a sports center doing
their thing of fifty states fifty days, the biggest sports
plays in each state sports history. Yeah, and big one
(16:18):
tonight because they're doing California. I had no problem number one.
Kirk Gibson's home run absolute one hundred percent one of
the three most famous plays in the history of baseball.
So Kirk Gibson number.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
One, now only by Babe Schwarber. I get the swing off. Yeah,
uh so I get it. Great, So Kirk Gibson number
one got it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The fact that Kobe's alley oop to Shack to beat
the Blazers, to help beat the Blazers and the Lakers
run to their first championship in nineteen two thousand, that
was ranked higher than the play than the Stanford cal
The band is on the field play that was This
is California, not lost an California, and I got I
(16:59):
live in Saners, But come on, man, the Kobe.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Alley oop to shack.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Like the average sports fan is saying, I don't know,
oh I've seen that play.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
When was that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Okay, that was during the Lakers first run. That's not
bigger than the play.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You know what? My bigger than the play?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You know, my kids are eventually going to college here,
I'm gonna have a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm basically gonna do the seven minute ABS version of
this crap because these lists all sticks have six minute apps.
I'm gonna go six minute ABS. I'm gonna shorten it
from fifty and I'll do this and we'll do this properly,
because clearly they decided this was a big deal and
they've got a bunch of No. I can't spoil a
movie with the joke I wanted to make. Who's voting
(17:41):
on this?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah? I how do you vote?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean really, I get you're looking for something to
get the Lakers in. I understand, but come on, man,
the play is what may be the most famous play
in sports history. The band being out on the field
and noe of it put the Kobe allioop to shack.
Come on, come on, man, it's not even clothes. And
I like, how Steph Curry passing ray Allen on the
(18:07):
list of three pointers is just one above Lebron breaking
the all time scoring record.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So Curry breaking ray Allen's record, which the average NBA
is going, what was it?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When he broke the all time three point that was
the eighth best moment in California sports history. Number seven,
Lebron breaking the all time scoring record.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, that's just one. That's just one above it. Oh right,
got what number was the Padres never winning a World Series?
That was number two.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
They used those guys that had that rant that remember
when they did that rap outside of the stadium. Yeah,
they used that as emblematic.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I mean, come on, man, what is that? What are
you doing? Really? That's the Yeah? The allep is epic
you what do you? Yeah? What's bigger the alley oop
of the play? Come on, Frostburg.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
For the state of California, it's the biggest in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
There's no bigger played in that alleyup.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Right, And so and this is in California. This is inky,
It's it's a bigger play. It's a much bigger play.
That could have been a time and it would have
been right the Kobe aliop to shack better than Gibson,
right the head.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That list made my head hurt. Oh but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But I wanted to say okay, yeah, because I had
the alioop to shack.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, and is on the field. All the band is
out on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I mean there's books that have been written about that,
like like numbers of books that have been written about
that play.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, so uh, Speaking of Los.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Angeles, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst, the Lakers are quote
stressed about Luka Donc's contract situation. It is a stressed
situation for the Lakers. Why is it stressed because in
about to what's today, the sixteenth, in two and a
half weeks, the second, the second, I think the third,
(19:58):
second or the third, Luca not such a eligible to
sign a long term contract extension with the Lakers. If
he signs this, it won't be what he would have
gotten had he signed long term with the Mavericks. But okay,
that's never happening. So, okay, I get it, but the
trade happened and he's a Laker now. The stress level
for the Lakers is if Luka Doncich says no, and
(20:21):
clearly the chances are good that he might because next
year he can sign.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A bigger, more lucrative deal and make more money.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
This is the whole thing with Nikola Jokic, who is
not signing the long term contract extension with the Nuggets
now because he can sign a much richer one next
off season. Okay, I get it, I understand, but the
Lakers are stressed out, and rightfully so, because you don't
know if Luca wants to stay long term.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If he says no, this is not we have our
long term star. We're gonna give him all the money
we can as soon as we can.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's not with the thunder and shake Gildess Alexander. This
is used to left to see if Luca wants wants
to be here, you have a change in own, you
have a situation where are're gonna be able to build
around me?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Am I gonna be able to win?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And the Lakers are stressed because if he's if he
doesn't sign, he'll become a free agent next year, and
other teams are gonna say, hey, come here, we're ready
for you. We're gonna do X, Y and Z. We
can give you this, we can do it. And you
could lose him after making this big deal and swooping
in and grabbing him away from the Mavericks. You could
lose Luka donsis right that that's gonna be the Lakers'
biggest thing, and that's why they're stressed, right, pimples on
(21:28):
the face. But luckily I have a response.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I have an answer. I'm okay, I have, I have.
I can solve this. Yeah, gonna do a quick reminder
of the folks in the math of all this.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, he lost one hundred and sixteen million dollars. Yeah,
because he got traded by his original team. That's how
acid I'm The rules of engagement are in this sport.
But that's look, but that's not but again, that's not
coming back right, No, and here I could solve that,
but that's too much energy because it's the summer. And Okay, no,
(21:58):
I keep trying to give you all the business this stuff,
and I'm clearly vexing you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't want to solve the Apron.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I don't want that's just it's too too much hard work,
especially since I can just solve this for Luca and
the Lakers right now. I guess saw this for the Lakers. Okay,
the Lakers, Okay, yeah, you can solve this with you
one hundred percent. I can solve this for you. Uh
here's my advice. What what do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Lakers?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Suck it up and kiss his ass for the next
year and woo him for the next ten months.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's how you do.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It, because that's the price you pay for the way
you ran your team over the course of the past
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
To show your price, you.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Pay, so you have to hire Michael Finley and he's
the guy that has to get miss post game beer,
get guys who take the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Beer out of his hands. This is this is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The price you pay for running the Lakers like a
mom and pop operation, which again, I you know, it's
a shame that ever ends. But what did we say
when the Lakers got sold to Mark Walter? Maybe now
things can be better and they can be run like
a more modern day NBA franchise, because they weren't. They've
been run under the the the guideeship of Hey, if
(23:02):
this is too much money, we got to figure something
else out with allowing Clutch Sports to come in and
help run them alongside before they decided, okay, we're moving
away from Lebron era.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The Lakers have been run horribly, So this is the
price you pay when you're not run well. The Lakers
want to be able to let the team sell itself
and yeah, I used to be able to do that,
not anymore. Can't do that anymore. And that's why the
sale of the team was a good thing. But there's
a lot of unknowns going on. Am I gonna opt in?
Am I gonna sign with this team long term? Do
I know that Mark Walter is gonna spend in theory?
(23:32):
I think he's going to because this is a guy
who's worth way more money than the Bus family. And
these are the owners that buy teams now. They buy
teams because they just want to. They're not their number
one source of income, so they don't have to treat
it as such because they're so incredibly wealthy. These are
the guys buying teams. These are guys that should be
owning teams because teams shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Be operating under the guys as well.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Hey, we really have to fiscally be beholden to this
because teams are never gonna win if that's the case.
So I want to think it's going to change for
the Lakers, but you need to show that. So, yeah,
suck it up and woo Luca and kiss his ass
and show them that we're the right place for you,
and spend doing that over the next ten months and
then he'll be comfortable signing next year when you have
money to spend and figuring things out as far as
(24:17):
moving on from Lebron, maybe you do, maybe the trade
actually happens, or maybe they buy them out and they
figure out something else. But this is what you have
to do because of how the team has been run
for the past few the past basically fifteen years. It sucks,
but you know what, suck it up because you gotta
get You gotta roll your sleeves up and get your
hands dirty a little bit and make sure that Luca
(24:37):
knows this is the place for you to stay. Yeah,
I'm sorry the Lakers are stressed out. Run your team
better and you wouldn't be stressed out at this Yeah,
this is where.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You need to figure out everything that goes on behind
the scenes, right, because that's the Walter influence, working with
the second apron. That has a lot of restrictions if
if you're there in terms of how you can reconstruct
and make changes to your roster, what it does to
your draft selection, Like, there's a lot of different parts
to it that make it truly a pain in the
(25:05):
ass for teams as they move forward here. So you're
gonna have to from the on court spending. Yeah, there's
a bit of strategy and nuance that goes to it.
Where Walter and the Gougenheim money and all of this
comes into play. Is all the infrastructure, everything that's around it.
So yes, how many you have to have a team
(25:27):
of therapists around twenty four to seven to make sure
physically he's got everything he wants. You want to change
out the meal process, you want to change out how
he gets to and from the practice facilities. Whatever it is,
whatever is going to make him happy and want to
stick around, You're going to have to do it right. Obviously,
(25:47):
the team, there's only so much you can do. You
don't have a lot of options here. You're at the
point where you really can't even be in the market
against the Clippers for guys like Brook Lopez and the
Bradley Beal eye out that we talked about to like,
you're not even in that space.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You don't have a Brook Lopez.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He was like, ah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, and you don't have a lot of discernible assets
that would be you know, wanted in a trade. All right,
don't connect any value he had going back to that
trade that failed summer league did not help any of that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It has not helped in terms.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Of his play JJ Clearly the Lakers would try love
to try to trade Connect for anything.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
At this point, I'd done there. You go at a back, back,
back and you've got goal.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Doesn't matter if you play red or yellow. Connect for
someone might work.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But yes, it is now the all out assault on
the sensibilities of Luka Danchetz and his family, his dad,
all these folks that you gotta make sure they're happy.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Here's a Luca Pillow theme night.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Look, here's a Luca twel Here's an extra bottle head,
I mean, Lucah hooka Knight. Here's a Luca Beeryes. Hey, yeah,
oh youet free beer noyes. You get two dollars off
of whatever his favorite beer, and I get it. And
if I'm Luca, I stay and make sure. Hey, if
I'm going to commit to this team. Yeah, clearly being
a Laker is awesome. It looks like he wants to
(27:17):
be a Laker. But you're not thirty one, thirty two.
This is the best off from And again you're twenty five,
twenty six years old, and you know in a year,
I can get more money. I can get more money
from someplace else. I have no problem playing the year
the way this is and seeing if it's where I
want to go. He has gone from. He had all
the power in Dallas, and then the Lakers had all
(27:37):
the power when they traded for him, because it was
a hey, Luca, guess what you can't You have to
start getting yourself into shape. You have to start doing
things differently. You just got yourself traded out of Dallas
because they were sick of whatever you put forth every day,
whether it was your effort, whether it was your lack
of desire to stay in shape, whatever it was, you
lost that. Now Okay, I got I gotta do this,
(27:59):
and now the power is shifted. With the Lakers going
out in the first round, Lebron opting in, not making
any moves to bring anybody else in. It's gonna be
the same team as it was last year unless something
happens with Lebron and there's a big trade. So now
Lucas saying okay, and Will Wilso had to change an ownership. Yeah,
maybe maybe the smart thing is to sit back and say, yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sign this extension. I'm
(28:20):
gonna wait because I will either get it more money
from here next year or a different destination where I'll
be happier. Well, you're trying to figure out what the
connect for board looks like as you move forward, Right,
Lebron opting in, that's fine, it's his final year, right,
there was no Hey, let's massage the money for twenty
five twenty six and make it a two year deal,
(28:41):
you know, the one and the bonus.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No, he's playing on the this year.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So even if he wanted to come back to the
Lakers and they decided to remarry after the season, guess what,
he ain't coming back at fifty three million dollars. So
there will be some money to be able to be
spent to augment your roster, and you can try to
read the tea leaves there after. And this is where
we get into the fun of tampering, but not really tampering.
As you make your way throughout the league with guys
(29:07):
that are on expiring deals or guys that are maybe
a little less than satisfied where they are. You all
know each other, y'all talk to each other. Those first
seeds have already been put into the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, I mean, look, I understand.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Then the Lakers, guess what, They're gonna have a stressful
season if they fail. We're stressed because Luca's not gonna sign.
Guess what he ain't gonna sign, and so it's gonna
be a stressful season for you.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is Rob Polincoln gonna paint his hair? Will we know?
Does he already?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Uh? Oh, yeah, no, I think it's probably Ooh, it's La.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Does it look so natural? No one can tell? Or
is it?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Is it by bottle? Or is he still naturally?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Just you live in La, you know that there's there's
a lot of work that people make on their bodies
to make it look like I don't care, and this
is how I wake up naturally.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
A lot of work to put into that. I mean
That's what I do every damn day, you kid, Yes,
that's wow. The T shirts and sweatpants I work. I
mean I got the rock I got some sweatpants. Yeah,
i'd say that the shoes are kind of news. So
that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I care, but I want to show you that I
really don't care, which makes me look cool. You know
that's right time now to find out what's trending in
the wide role of sports. But guy's been really cool himself.
It's Martin Weiss. You you got at all with what's trending?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Nicely done. Forty nine and second round pick Alfred Collins.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
He's a second round i'd see what's an agreement on
a four year, ten point three million dollars deal includes
nine million dollars guaranteed. That's about eighty eight percent of
his contract. Before now, only one second round pick had
been signed over a big deal with the He got
a ton of guaranteed money m L worry for the
Seahawks and it held up everybody. Now with this deal
(30:46):
helped me. NFL insiders expecting that more and more of
the second round picks we'll sign again thirty at thirty
two unsigned. Different story in the first round, where thirty
one of thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Two picks are signed.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
The only one remaining after the Broncos signed first pick
cornerback John A. Baron to his rookie deal, is bengals
seventeenth overall pick Shamar Stewart agent Wilson at a thirty
seven point ten rebound double double as the Aces beat
the Wings ninety to eighty six. The Liberty beat the
Fever ninety eight to seventy seven. Brown A Stewart with
a twenty four point eleven rebound double double. Fever ruled
(31:18):
Caitlin Clark out before the game started.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
With right groin pain.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
She had left the last contested team had played in
the last minute of the game, grabbing at that injury.
Her status for All Star Weekend has not yet been confirmed.
Spur shutting down number two overall pick Ylan Harper for
the remainder of Summer League. Bradley Beal agrees to a
contract byle with the Suns. He'll join the Clippers two years,
eleven million dollars with a player option, and free agent
defensive end Von Miller will join the Commanders on a
(31:44):
reported one year deal. He posted a picture of Champ
Bailey in a Washington uniform and on his Instagram earlier today,
and a clip from Paid from Full where Rico says, man.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
DC is ready for us. Also take that for what
it's worth. Thank you guys for data. You just get
the David Fizdale take that for data. Likes a bunch
Martin making me break my hand by saying that twice jerk.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next. Yeah, no baseball game tonight, Okay. NFL
teams just getting ready to come to camp. Okay, NBA
we're kind of waiting for a trade. Okay, Open Championship,
about to tee off or waiting for it. Okay, But
there is a sport that is incredibly nervous about what
(32:32):
could happen this weekend. That's next, right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon. We are your Open
Championship pregame show. Oh yeah, almost there, as we are,
what a half hour away the beginning of the Open Championship.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I love it. Yeah, I gotta find the first round
tea times.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, let's let's do our Let's do our pre show
first here because okay, yeah, there's been a lot of
stuff that's gone on the last few days in the
world of golf. So let me just tell you, let
me catch you up to date. I could do it
pretty quickly here as we get set for the Open Championship. Oh,
the most popular player in the world, E feels like
(01:13):
he needs some time off.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Everybody needs a little time to heal.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
One of the other best players in the world said
he has no idea where his medals and trophies are,
and the best player in the world could take or
leave being a golfer. That's kind of been the last
few days leading up to the Open Championship.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Am I wrong? Am I oh? That sounds about right,
and McElroy and Scheffler am I wrong. Yeah, it's a
pretty good encapsulation. Okay, that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, you Schoffley, I don't know where my trophies are,
my gold met none of it.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I don't know where it is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Rory McElroy clears, but it's hard to be motivated to
get ready coming out.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And you had.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Scotti Scheffler say, yeah, I play golf, but you know, yeah,
I don't know why I do sometimes. You know, yeah,
winning is great, but the feeling leaves you after like
two minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It was like an old sixty minutes bit.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know, they do the profiles of athletes or so,
you know, celebrities, political figures, whatever, and one week they
had Bruce Springsteen and this is long ago. He's going, well,
you know I could I could rock out to eighty
thousand people but on Sunday morning, I'm still the guy
that's got to make the pancakes. Oh yeah, yeah, I
mean that's what Scheffler's saying, Like I can go win
(02:20):
a giant, novelty sized check.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know that that's what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I think he's more saying, yeah, I play because I
love it, but I don't know why I play sometimes
and winning's not that big a deal like that. He
sounds like a guy that's like, dude, you something like
you might need to stop playing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean he could go Nicola Jokich kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Go find himself his sulky and horses to ride around
to where we wonder if he just walks away at
some point, just lays his club down after winning another
major and just goes that's it, like done.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, like he talks about how much he loves
the like in his big press conference, he guy made
a lot of news. Yes, but unfortunately we had the
MLB All Star Game. He's said, you know, base I
love the game. I prepped out it, I love to play.
I love to all this, and then went out of
his way to say how much there's so many things
about it.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't love.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, well, you know winning's not the winning, but everybody's
got that with every job. Though, I know that I'm
gonna show up every day and likely I'm not going
to win. You know, I got to understand that. And yeah,
I get when your sport is is is based on failing,
because you know there's you know, there's one winner forty
two losers, right like in Nascar, though, you know, a
great year, Look, a great year. For the longest time
(03:26):
in golf was if you want two events, not two majors.
Two events. Now we've we've ratchedt up where hey, you
have a great year. If you win two majors, You're like,
that's a great, great year. So I understand that, you know,
all right, the the the how we judge successes has changed.
But hearing him talk, I just feel like, dude, okay,
(03:46):
you need you need some time away. You need to
see if you still want to be a professional golfer.
Like nobody, you never hear anybody say stuff like that. Look,
Rory McElroy the last few weeks saying hey, it's been
difficult for me after winning the career Grand Slam to
get back up and play right. I completely understand that,
and what Maury McElroy needed was disappear. The guy needs that,
(04:08):
you know what, you need some time off, right, you
need some time off, some time away to recharge. And
because I firmly believe that that that's something that when
when you are when you are in pursuit of goals
and you are training and you are grinding and you
get to the top of the mountain, because clearly that's
a big top of the mountain type thing for you,
it's hard to come right back and play. So yeah,
(04:29):
that's where if I'm McIlroy out, you know, I need
some time off. Maybe I'll see it for the majors
later on this year, maybe not, but I need some
time away. I got to recharge. I'm excited to get
back at it whenever I want to get back at it.
But he needed some time off.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's the hard part, right, Cheffle.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I feel like it's like like like he's like, yeah,
I could play or not play. Like if you could
play or not play, you got to think is this
you really still like doing this?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, but you may like it well enough, but you
don't think about it when you're done, right, Yeah, you're
rolling through your practices and you're doing all your your
background work on the courses and knowledge of how things
are getting changed or whatever else, weather patterns, wind patterns,
all of those things that you would bring in on
(05:11):
your Doppler radar that you've purchased for yourself after all
your wins.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Whatever the case is, that.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You might need that space, right, Sometimes it's easy to
just decompartmentalize and it's like, you know what, I got
to go and I've got chores to do, I've got
kids to run around whatever, and you can do that
and we.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Do that and everybody out there listening.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Whatever your job is, right, you try to have that
work life balance that everybody always talks about to where
you pause and you recognize that's my job and I
have to leave it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I get it. But when he says stuff like what's
the point to winning? Why do I want to win
this tournament so bad? Like, okay, you're competing, like you're
out there like this is when everything else goes away
and you're doing something you love. Well, I think he
was trying to have that big existential moment for everybody.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's like, what does this all really?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Who am I really? What am I all about a
guy behind him with a sitar. He's a meadle. Are
you all in the matrix?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Were not here? Is this not happen?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean he might be having a little bit of
that kind of thing there, you know, as you go.
But we've talked to plenty of athletes through our years
in this business of I was good at it.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Did I love it? No?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Winning is not a fulfilling life. I'm like, winning should
make you happy and should make you want to strive
towards doing it more. Yeah, you know you're not gonna
win every week, but that should be some Hey, this
is why it's great to say I'm the best in
the world of something. But that's also the best.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
For him to be able to say, Yeah, I just
go out there and play. Sometimes it comes together, sometimes
it doesn't. Meanwhile, you know what's going on in his
head or on his left and right shoulder. You got
the angel and devil. They're fighting every stroke. I don't
know if there's many angel left on it. I think
the devil's got residents on both should Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean, the dude said I'm not here to I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Not here to inspire the next generation of golfers. Well,
I mean, look, Charles Markley famously said, you know, I'm
no role models.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Ter Ceph, can I have your beat?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
A kid famously said, I ain't an athlete. I'm a ballplayer.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I mean, come on, but I mean to say, hey,
I'm not out here to it. No, you don't have
to be running clinics and everything, but to see her,
He's saying, I'm not out.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Here to inspire the next the next generation of golfers.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Like what okay, what is that really? How much do
you really love what you do?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You think he watched He's bounding down over the like
binge that this last week and it was just gonna
run something he thought Kenny Powers would say.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean, I at it's it's just so odd. It's
just it's just so odd.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Like you know, it does feel a little existential form
a bit where where he's.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know, what do I do after the way you
bab okay have dinner.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But the thing is is that he's talking about this
is why it's a big deal, because he's talking about
things between the lines. Right, I understand the Bruce Springton,
I'm the guy making pancakes in the morning. That's life balance, right,
that's life balance where I'm this, I'm this, Can I
devote the time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
In my life?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I need you to my personal life, to my kids,
to my wife versus am I spending too much time
on the course. This is him between the line between
the ropes. This is between the ropes going yeah, I
don't know what the point to all of this is. Whoa, whoa, whoaoa.
That's your that's everybody when you're doing free sponsor what
that's my god.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
That's your that's your safe space. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I mean look, I mean that that's what when when
you do something creative for a living, everybody's got to
have their safe space where all the other bs goes away.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
It's on that door closes and.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You understand that, okay, this is where I go and
that now I'm out to have fun and whatever was
going on the other parts of the day. I got
to check that at the door, right like that. That's
been you know, we've all done that many many times.
That's the way we turn on the mics here. Hey,
it's we're having fun for four hours and we're discussing
and we're entertaining. We're talking about sports and we're arguing,
and we're we're having punchlines and you're farting a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
No, oh, I was just kidding, pulled back a little
too far. Hey whoao, No, but that but that's kind
of how it is.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
And I feel like between the ropes is no longer
his safe space. And that's why these these these statements
really jump out at me, you know, because McElroy is saying, Hey,
my motivation is tough right now, motivation to get on
the course and do it. I understand you need a break.
Dude needs a break. He needed a break after Hey,
after you did that, take a break for a couple
of months. But it's funny, right because the way this
(09:21):
is condensed. Something Dan and I talked about a little
bit Sunday on the Fox Sports Sunday Show is you've
got the majors going from April and this is it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, right, we're in mid July.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Oh yeah, here's your majors, all gooddense here. So there
was really no window to disappear. Well, you know, we
could have disappeared for like a week here. Yeah, you
could have don't play in a tournament here, take two
three weeks off, go on vacation, you know, to go
to some beach for a week and a half. You
could do that, right, You could have done that and
drop off and not talk to anybody and that helps you.
(09:52):
And if you're recharged great, if you're not taking some
more time off.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, So now he comes back and for McElroy, it's
the you know, the home course and all that stuff,
you know the word. He's going to be fighting those
demons as he goes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
He's the second thing.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Show up to practice, to play a practice round, like
at seven am after the Scottish Open, like he came
in second the Scottish Open this weekend, he showed showed
back up. Okay, correct, Now he's motivated a gay Yeah,
he's MOBUS seven hundred. Yeah, Scheffler plus six hundred. He
is minus one seventy to make the top ten. Rory
just minus one oh five.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
John Rahm is the third favorite, followed by de Chambeau,
Fleetwood and Shuffley.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
The aforementioned.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He is twenty five to one tied with Oberhattan Hoveland.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean, look, Scheffler seems likely. You know, if
if you're having this kind of question about your life,
now I look at I'm glad he talked about it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Maybe it helped him talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
As we talked about mental health with a lot of
this right and trying to find your space.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I can't see the guy having a long career because
he goes into detail about what it is getting motivated
where this is. I think golf is going to be
something he does for a short amount of time, is
extremely successful at it. He's not gonna try to chase
Jack Nicholas's record, not gonna chase Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Look in golf, guys play forever because you can't.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
You your prime can be from when you're twenty four
till you're forty five, right, Like you could do that.
You can still win majors up to me your earlier example.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
This is where Duranti should be. Kad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
If you were playing golf, I'd say you can maybe
it a title, But dude, thirty five, come on, now,
it's done. But but he's a he's a guy that
you know, how is he really gonna play more than
five more years? Like if he get if he gets
to a point where he stops winning majors for a
couple of years, he gonna say that's it. Like if
he's still playing if you're singing like this at twenty nine,
obviously you have peak earning potential. You want to keep going.
(11:46):
You don't want to turn away that money because you
never know. But yeah, your kids are younger. You want
to find a balance. But like, if he's still playing
after thirty five, like I'd be surprised, Like his reign
is number one, it's gonna be It's gonna be a
while because no one clearly is is at his level,
like you thought, like the whole you know, you know,
the whole Brooks Koepka, that generation is gonna come up
all of a sudden, Scotty Scheffer comes out like the dude,
(12:07):
dude's the best golfer in the world. But is his
reign going to be that long? Like I mean, if
he's still playing and maybe younger than that, maybe at
thirty two thirty three, he decides I'm done, I'm walking away.
I'm not going to be that guy trying to stick
it out for ten majors or twelve majors or or
I'm looking at Jack like he's not Tiger Woods. You know,
I'm incredibly good at what I do and and I'm
(12:31):
thankful for it. But this is going to be something
that clearly there's there's the end of the tunnel is
on this thing, Scotty. How much of the incident in
May of twenty twenty four in Louisville is contributing to
your mindset of what it's all about?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Jeff Darlington following him going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You have this guy here, but like, oh man is
like kind of the uh wow, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I don't know. I mean, I'm sure that affected him
for a little while. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I'm sure the you know, get getting pulled out of
the car and arrested before you know, when you hear
what's before round one.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Of a major, that's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But I but the detail he went into to talk
about his balance his family life and join golf and playing, Uh,
that tells me something different.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Again.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
This is between the between the ropes, which is your
safe space. He's saying he is having trouble between the ropes. No,
I get that, And look, everybody's got it. No matter
what your job is, whatever your love is, hobby or
you know, things you do with your family, whatever, there
are gonna be moments where you have that that existential
It could be a moment it could linger right. You know,
we do radio and we love it. There are days
(13:38):
there's stories that we have to talk about where you're like, yeah,
I don't really love this one as much.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
This one. I'm gonna have to sell a bit, you know.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
And it's not you know, hey, I don't like that
sport or whatever, but like we cover everything. We run
the game, and it's not just box scores, it's everything
that goes in.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Much like having this conversation is it's it's one that
he is a little elevated.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
It's a little different.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Then just all right, I'm motivated, I'm really good on
the back nine here or whatever. It's like no, no, no,
you're talking about life stuff and you know everybody has
those crosses. Sitting in traffic, you get alone with your
thoughts a lot, and maybe it doesn't put you in
the best place, but.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Then you go and you find your your bit of relief.
And I hope Scheffler finds whatever it is he's looking for,
and we'll be curious to see what his first round
looks like and how the weekend progresses. Exit ou about
a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, live
from the Fox Sports Radio studio. So there, Hey, we
got open Championship coming up in fifteen. Yeah, buddy, let's go.
But straight ahead, a double barrel of big basketball stories
(14:40):
coming your way. What team is stressed out about their
situation with their best player? And what league is now
sitting here looking at their worst nightmare this weekend?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It's coming up there.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
The Lakers is the answer to one of those questions,
Alex type, Ah, you should have spent the last couple
of seconds, get stressed out by twenty one pilots ready,
But that's okay? Why because I just did the whole
stress thing stressed out.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh they're cool man.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Okay, that's coming up next right here, Jason Michael Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
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Speaker 1 (15:57):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Uh,
just really quick, because it's happening right now. Let's want
to mention this. You know what a sports center doing
their thing of fifty states fifty days, the biggest sports
plays in each state sports history. Yeah, and big one
(16:18):
tonight because they're doing California. I had no problem number one.
Kirk Gibson's home run absolute one hundred percent one of
the three most famous plays in the history of baseball.
So Kirk Gibson number.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
One, now only by Babe Schwarber. I get the swing off. Yeah,
uh so I get it. Great, So Kirk Gibson number
one got it.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The fact that Kobe's alley oop to Shack to beat
the Blazers, to help beat the Blazers and the Lakers
run to their first championship in nineteen two thousand, that
was ranked higher than the play than the Stanford cal
The band is on the field play that was This
is California, not lost an California, and I got I
(16:59):
live in Saners, But come on, man, the Kobe.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Alley oop to shack.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Like the average sports fan is saying, I don't know,
oh I've seen that play.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
When was that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Okay, that was during the Lakers first run. That's not
bigger than the play.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
You know what? My bigger than the play?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
You know, my kids are eventually going to college here,
I'm gonna have a lot of free time.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I'm basically gonna do the seven minute ABS version of
this crap because these lists all sticks have six minute apps.
I'm gonna go six minute ABS. I'm gonna shorten it
from fifty and I'll do this and we'll do this properly,
because clearly they decided this was a big deal and
they've got a bunch of No. I can't spoil a
movie with the joke I wanted to make. Who's voting
(17:41):
on this?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah? I how do you vote?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean really, I get you're looking for something to
get the Lakers in. I understand, but come on, man,
the play is what may be the most famous play
in sports history. The band being out on the field
and noe of it put the Kobe allioop to shack.
Come on, come on, man, it's not even clothes. And
I like, how Steph Curry passing ray Allen on the
(18:07):
list of three pointers is just one above Lebron breaking
the all time scoring record.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
So wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So Curry breaking ray Allen's record, which the average NBA
is going, what was it?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
When he broke the all time three point that was
the eighth best moment in California sports history. Number seven,
Lebron breaking the all time scoring record.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, that's just one. That's just one above it. Oh right,
got what number was the Padres never winning a World Series?
That was number two.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
They used those guys that had that rant that remember
when they did that rap outside of the stadium. Yeah,
they used that as emblematic.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I mean, come on, man, what is that? What are
you doing? Really? That's the Yeah? The allep is epic
you what do you? Yeah? What's bigger the alley oop
of the play? Come on, Frostburg.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
For the state of California, it's the biggest in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
There's no bigger played in that alleyup.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Right, And so and this is in California. This is inky,
It's it's a bigger play. It's a much bigger play.
That could have been a time and it would have
been right the Kobe aliop to shack better than Gibson,
right the head.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That list made my head hurt. Oh but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
But I wanted to say okay, yeah, because I had
the alioop to shack.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay, and is on the field. All the band is
out on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I mean there's books that have been written about that,
like like numbers of books that have been written about
that play.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, so uh, Speaking of Los.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Angeles, according to ESPN's Brian Windhorst, the Lakers are quote
stressed about Luka Donc's contract situation. It is a stressed
situation for the Lakers. Why is it stressed because in
about to what's today, the sixteenth, in two and a
half weeks, the second, the second, I think the third,
(19:58):
second or the third, Luca not such a eligible to
sign a long term contract extension with the Lakers. If
he signs this, it won't be what he would have
gotten had he signed long term with the Mavericks. But okay,
that's never happening. So, okay, I get it, but the
trade happened and he's a Laker now. The stress level
for the Lakers is if Luka Doncich says no, and
(20:21):
clearly the chances are good that he might because next
year he can sign.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
A bigger, more lucrative deal and make more money.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
This is the whole thing with Nikola Jokic, who is
not signing the long term contract extension with the Nuggets
now because he can sign a much richer one next
off season. Okay, I get it, I understand, but the
Lakers are stressed out, and rightfully so, because you don't
know if Luca wants to stay long term.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
If he says no, this is not we have our
long term star. We're gonna give him all the money
we can as soon as we can.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
It's not with the thunder and shake Gildess Alexander. This
is used to left to see if Luca wants wants
to be here, you have a change in own, you
have a situation where are're gonna be able to build
around me?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Am I gonna be able to win?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And the Lakers are stressed because if he's if he
doesn't sign, he'll become a free agent next year, and
other teams are gonna say, hey, come here, we're ready
for you. We're gonna do X, Y and Z. We
can give you this, we can do it. And you
could lose him after making this big deal and swooping
in and grabbing him away from the Mavericks. You could
lose Luka donsis right that that's gonna be the Lakers'
biggest thing, and that's why they're stressed, right, pimples on
(21:28):
the face. But luckily I have a response.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I have an answer. I'm okay, I have, I have.
I can solve this. Yeah, gonna do a quick reminder
of the folks in the math of all this.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, yeah, he lost one hundred and sixteen million dollars. Yeah,
because he got traded by his original team. That's how
acid I'm The rules of engagement are in this sport.
But that's look, but that's not but again, that's not
coming back right, No, and here I could solve that,
but that's too much energy because it's the summer. And Okay, no,
(21:58):
I keep trying to give you all the business this stuff,
and I'm clearly vexing you.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't want to solve the Apron.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I don't want that's just it's too too much hard work,
especially since I can just solve this for Luca and
the Lakers right now. I guess saw this for the Lakers. Okay,
the Lakers, Okay, yeah, you can solve this with you
one hundred percent. I can solve this for you. Uh
here's my advice. What what do you do?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Lakers?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Suck it up and kiss his ass for the next
year and woo him for the next ten months.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's how you do.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It, because that's the price you pay for the way
you ran your team over the course of the past
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
To show your price, you.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Pay, so you have to hire Michael Finley and he's
the guy that has to get miss post game beer,
get guys who take the.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Beer out of his hands. This is this is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
The price you pay for running the Lakers like a
mom and pop operation, which again, I you know, it's
a shame that ever ends. But what did we say
when the Lakers got sold to Mark Walter? Maybe now
things can be better and they can be run like
a more modern day NBA franchise, because they weren't. They've
been run under the the the guideeship of Hey, if
(23:02):
this is too much money, we got to figure something
else out with allowing Clutch Sports to come in and
help run them alongside before they decided, okay, we're moving
away from Lebron era.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The Lakers have been run horribly, So this is the
price you pay when you're not run well. The Lakers
want to be able to let the team sell itself
and yeah, I used to be able to do that,
not anymore. Can't do that anymore. And that's why the
sale of the team was a good thing. But there's
a lot of unknowns going on. Am I gonna opt in?
Am I gonna sign with this team long term? Do
I know that Mark Walter is gonna spend in theory?
(23:32):
I think he's going to because this is a guy
who's worth way more money than the Bus family. And
these are the owners that buy teams now. They buy
teams because they just want to. They're not their number
one source of income, so they don't have to treat
it as such because they're so incredibly wealthy. These are
the guys buying teams. These are guys that should be
owning teams because teams shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Be operating under the guys as well.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Hey, we really have to fiscally be beholden to this
because teams are never gonna win if that's the case.
So I want to think it's going to change for
the Lakers, but you need to show that. So, yeah,
suck it up and woo Luca and kiss his ass
and show them that we're the right place for you,
and spend doing that over the next ten months and
then he'll be comfortable signing next year when you have
money to spend and figuring things out as far as
(24:17):
moving on from Lebron, maybe you do, maybe the trade
actually happens, or maybe they buy them out and they
figure out something else. But this is what you have
to do because of how the team has been run
for the past few the past basically fifteen years. It sucks,
but you know what, suck it up because you gotta
get You gotta roll your sleeves up and get your
hands dirty a little bit and make sure that Luca
(24:37):
knows this is the place for you to stay. Yeah,
I'm sorry the Lakers are stressed out. Run your team
better and you wouldn't be stressed out at this Yeah,
this is where.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You need to figure out everything that goes on behind
the scenes, right, because that's the Walter influence, working with
the second apron. That has a lot of restrictions if
if you're there in terms of how you can reconstruct
and make changes to your roster, what it does to
your draft selection, Like, there's a lot of different parts
to it that make it truly a pain in the
(25:05):
ass for teams as they move forward here. So you're
gonna have to from the on court spending. Yeah, there's
a bit of strategy and nuance that goes to it.
Where Walter and the Gougenheim money and all of this
comes into play. Is all the infrastructure, everything that's around it.
So yes, how many you have to have a team
(25:27):
of therapists around twenty four to seven to make sure
physically he's got everything he wants. You want to change
out the meal process, you want to change out how
he gets to and from the practice facilities. Whatever it is,
whatever is going to make him happy and want to
stick around, You're going to have to do it right. Obviously,
(25:47):
the team, there's only so much you can do. You
don't have a lot of options here. You're at the
point where you really can't even be in the market
against the Clippers for guys like Brook Lopez and the
Bradley Beal eye out that we talked about to like,
you're not even in that space.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
You don't have a Brook Lopez.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
He was like, ah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, and you don't have a lot of discernible assets
that would be you know, wanted in a trade. All right,
don't connect any value he had going back to that
trade that failed summer league did not help any of that.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
It has not helped in terms.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Of his play JJ Clearly the Lakers would try love
to try to trade Connect for anything.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
At this point, I'd done there. You go at a back, back,
back and you've got goal.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Doesn't matter if you play red or yellow. Connect for
someone might work.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But yes, it is now the all out assault on
the sensibilities of Luka Danchetz and his family, his dad,
all these folks that you gotta make sure they're happy.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Here's a Luca Pillow theme night.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Look, here's a Luca twel Here's an extra bottle head,
I mean, Lucah hooka Knight. Here's a Luca Beeryes. Hey, yeah,
oh youet free beer noyes. You get two dollars off
of whatever his favorite beer, and I get it. And
if I'm Luca, I stay and make sure. Hey, if
I'm going to commit to this team. Yeah, clearly being
a Laker is awesome. It looks like he wants to
(27:17):
be a Laker. But you're not thirty one, thirty two.
This is the best off from And again you're twenty five,
twenty six years old, and you know in a year,
I can get more money. I can get more money
from someplace else. I have no problem playing the year
the way this is and seeing if it's where I
want to go. He has gone from. He had all
the power in Dallas, and then the Lakers had all
(27:37):
the power when they traded for him, because it was
a hey, Luca, guess what you can't You have to
start getting yourself into shape. You have to start doing
things differently. You just got yourself traded out of Dallas
because they were sick of whatever you put forth every day,
whether it was your effort, whether it was your lack
of desire to stay in shape, whatever it was, you
lost that. Now Okay, I got I gotta do this,
(27:59):
and now the power is shifted. With the Lakers going
out in the first round, Lebron opting in, not making
any moves to bring anybody else in. It's gonna be
the same team as it was last year unless something
happens with Lebron and there's a big trade. So now
Lucas saying okay, and Will Wilso had to change an ownership. Yeah,
maybe maybe the smart thing is to sit back and say, yeah,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sign this extension. I'm
(28:20):
gonna wait because I will either get it more money
from here next year or a different destination where I'll
be happier. Well, you're trying to figure out what the
connect for board looks like as you move forward, Right,
Lebron opting in, that's fine, it's his final year, right,
there was no Hey, let's massage the money for twenty
five twenty six and make it a two year deal,
(28:41):
you know, the one and the bonus.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
No, he's playing on the this year.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
So even if he wanted to come back to the
Lakers and they decided to remarry after the season, guess what,
he ain't coming back at fifty three million dollars. So
there will be some money to be able to be
spent to augment your roster, and you can try to
read the tea leaves there after. And this is where
we get into the fun of tampering, but not really tampering.
As you make your way throughout the league with guys
(29:07):
that are on expiring deals or guys that are maybe
a little less than satisfied where they are. You all
know each other, y'all talk to each other. Those first
seeds have already been put into the ground.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, I mean, look, I understand.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Then the Lakers, guess what, They're gonna have a stressful
season if they fail. We're stressed because Luca's not gonna sign.
Guess what he ain't gonna sign, and so it's gonna
be a stressful season for you.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is Rob Polincoln gonna paint his hair? Will we know?
Does he already?
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Uh? Oh, yeah, no, I think it's probably Ooh, it's La.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Does it look so natural? No one can tell? Or
is it?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Is it by bottle? Or is he still naturally?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Just you live in La, you know that there's there's
a lot of work that people make on their bodies
to make it look like I don't care, and this
is how I wake up naturally.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
A lot of work to put into that. I mean
That's what I do every damn day, you kid, Yes,
that's wow. The T shirts and sweatpants I work. I
mean I got the rock I got some sweatpants. Yeah,
i'd say that the shoes are kind of news. So
that's good.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I care, but I want to show you that I
really don't care, which makes me look cool. You know
that's right time now to find out what's trending in
the wide role of sports. But guy's been really cool himself.
It's Martin Weiss. You you got at all with what's trending?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Nicely done. Forty nine and second round pick Alfred Collins.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
He's a second round i'd see what's an agreement on
a four year, ten point three million dollars deal includes
nine million dollars guaranteed. That's about eighty eight percent of
his contract. Before now, only one second round pick had
been signed over a big deal with the He got
a ton of guaranteed money m L worry for the
Seahawks and it held up everybody. Now with this deal
(30:46):
helped me. NFL insiders expecting that more and more of
the second round picks we'll sign again thirty at thirty
two unsigned. Different story in the first round, where thirty
one of thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Two picks are signed.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
The only one remaining after the Broncos signed first pick
cornerback John A. Baron to his rookie deal, is bengals
seventeenth overall pick Shamar Stewart agent Wilson at a thirty
seven point ten rebound double double as the Aces beat
the Wings ninety to eighty six. The Liberty beat the
Fever ninety eight to seventy seven. Brown A Stewart with
a twenty four point eleven rebound double double. Fever ruled
(31:18):
Caitlin Clark out before the game started.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
With right groin pain.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
She had left the last contested team had played in
the last minute of the game, grabbing at that injury.
Her status for All Star Weekend has not yet been confirmed.
Spur shutting down number two overall pick Ylan Harper for
the remainder of Summer League. Bradley Beal agrees to a
contract byle with the Suns. He'll join the Clippers two years,
eleven million dollars with a player option, and free agent
defensive end Von Miller will join the Commanders on a
(31:44):
reported one year deal. He posted a picture of Champ
Bailey in a Washington uniform and on his Instagram earlier today,
and a clip from Paid from Full where Rico says, man.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
DC is ready for us. Also take that for what
it's worth. Thank you guys for data. You just get
the David Fizdale take that for data. Likes a bunch
Martin making me break my hand by saying that twice jerk.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next. Yeah, no baseball game tonight, Okay. NFL
teams just getting ready to come to camp. Okay, NBA
we're kind of waiting for a trade. Okay, Open Championship,
about to tee off or waiting for it. Okay, But
there is a sport that is incredibly nervous about what
(32:32):
could happen this weekend. That's next, right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
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