May 11, 2024 • 40 mins
Hour 4 – Vegas Baby, Vegas!
Jason wears Andrew Nembhard’s game-winning shot. And the guys welcome in Las Vegas Insider Todd Fuhrman for all the NBA Playoff odds, Lakers next head coach and NFL schedule release.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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get to a big, fat hot take I have about
Nick Pacers, I'm gonna show you how right I am
about something big we talked about tonight where you said, oh,
you're not giving Andrew Nembard any credit for that three
You're not good to him any credits. When I told
you everything, it was a prayer. He didn't want to
take the shot. NiFe is a mystery. I'm telling you,
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I guarantee everyone would stand alone. I guarantee you he
didn't want to take the shot. He blacked out at
some point and and and his is stunned, and the
look on his face after he was stunned. He even
made the shot, of course, I'm talking about this shot.
Cluck down to eighth.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Halliverton double team shot, Cluck at court them March gotta
put it up, step back his three.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Quarters time out, next time out. Mike Breen on the call. Yeah,
well the knixt blue that we come Nick, this gets
to my hot te coming up in a company some of.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The knicks for not double teaming. Uh yeah, the worst
shot instead of Aliburton, the worst guy on the floor
who scored two points all games. If they were smart
and Tims smart, they would have double team. You know
what was finish with it was Yes, that's why you
do the math on the show. Now I understand that
he did.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know what he hit?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Bang?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He hit a three from thirty feet away, and the
guy had two points the entire game. He didn't want
the ball, he didn't want it, he didn't want any
part of it. And I told you all of this
you're like, oh, come on, you gotta give the guy credit.
I'm gonna read to you right now from the game
summary with quotes from Andrew Embart Are you ready? You
from the quote and mister Helper, I knew before he
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spoke that that's what it was. The shotgun his face,
Oh my god, I made it. It says like at
the end of Carrie when Carrie gets the crowd, Oh,
I thought you didn't like me, and I'm the homecoming
QUI I mean without the pouring the blood onter and
then she kills everybody but including the greatest American hero.
But that other part is, oh my good, look at
this like I've won, Like I've won a contest. Cat's
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origin story, Believe it or not, he didn't survive and
carry he was dead up then she killed Travolta. In
a later scene he was driving the car. Okay, Uh,
here is Andrew Nemhard. Okay was living on at TJ,
living on a prayer with that shot at the end,
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which I'm sure his eyes weren't even open for quote
when I got the ball, I didn't realize what the
time was. Tyrese Halliburton said something I looked up and
it was like two seconds on the clock, so I
just knew I had to get something off. Okay, I
created a little bit of space and put it up,
said Nembard, his mind going blank as he was mobbed
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by his teammates. I told you he blacked out because
he was so lucky making that shot. Lacked out, continuing
on quote, I was just in the moment. I was
kind of shocked a little bit. I was just happy
the ball went in. Come on, man, it's a you
know really, it's like, hey, I need to say a prayer.
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I need something again. It's like the new eighth Wonder
of the World is this shot. You have the hanging
gardens of Babylonia. You have the Pyramids, we have King Khan,
we have the Grand Canyon, we have the astronom, and
now we have this shot by Andre the Giant, Andre
the Giant shore and now we have Andrew dam hard shot.
And really, you look at him, I guarantee you he
has no memory of what happened after, just that silly
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ass grin on his face, like I just made a
big shot. We're gonna go get ice cream. Memory's that's
a highlight. He's got the video that highlight will live forever,
People sending him Mike Breen's call, people sending him the
videotape of hallim Burton's reaction, going my god, you just
did that and what was always going through your head
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on after that? I don't remember. I don't remember. I
remember remembers the shot that turned the series around. I'm
pretty sure he shot at underhand like Rick Barry. I'm
pretty sure that's how the shot. He had extra flair
or he flipped over his head. Mind.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
This is why people hate the Knicks. He's Jason's literally,
can't give the guy credit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For hitting him. If he threw up a shot he
didn't want to take. He doesn't even remember shoot. That's
how much shock he was. No, I'm telling you the
truth is it's an absolute prayer that he throws up
and it's all look, get over it. Perfect form, I'm
saying from deep and it was perfect swish. He didn't
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need every part of the rim, the backboard and angels
to float around through stop one second, stop for one
perfect art, stop for one stop for one second. If
you are the pacers, I want I want you to
freeze with him getting the ball from thirty feet away
and putting up a shot and ready to put up
a shot. I'm freezing, and I'm asking every member of
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the Pacers, Rick Carlile, I remember the team, the fans
saying are you okay with this? Right now? I can
change it if I snap my fingers, I can change
your result of this play from this to something with
a higher percentage. Every single person would say, yes, this
is awful. Halliburton gave up the dribble. Our worst guy
out there has the ball. Yes, yes, yes, please give
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me something new, give me something. This is low, that's
what it was. That's hurt. No, No, it would be
really low if I day you know, the officiating really
screwed us, and I am seventy eight. No, this is
telling you that I'd rather have you spend the rest
of the night complaining about the officials and how they
adjudicated poorly in the in the scrums, or this wasn't
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really gold tending, or Jalen Bruns he got fault. I'd
rather have you do that than give this guy no
credit for the jump shot that he hit. He threw
it up. It was a prayer. He's gonna go to
autographed shows for the rest of his life signing this
for twelve dollars. Good, damn's gonna do. Congratulate your win.
That's great, it was. It was, Why isn't hurt your
soul so much? Because because my team works their ass
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so because you know what if if Halliburton knife to
the to the hoop for a layup, or Haliburton stepped
back and hit a three. Okay, if they got the
ball to Siaka and Sam went underneath and scored and
got an n one. Okay, all right, these are great point.
We always talk about what you needed for playoff moments,
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and that was your guy. Nobody knew he was stepped up,
but he knew he was. Even on the court. You
know who he was. He was Ali at the end
of the one Hoosiers game where the only pass was
to him in the corner, standing by himself, and he
got foul, had to go shoot free throws. That fly
who Nembard was. You're just the guy close to me,
shoot it. There's nothing else week in that. To be fair,
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he had actually taken seven shots the rest of the night,
so it's not like he was mister invisible two points.
Ye was one for seven and guess what when it mattered.
He looked at that red light coming down that tenths
of the second running off and he went bang bang.
He was olie. I remember Hoosiers when Ali's just in
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the game because everybody else is out and they only
passed to him because he was the only guy open. Like,
that's what this was for. Nembar tonight, come on, well,
that's just it. Halliburton does a bad job of time management,
gets caught, decides to get rid because they pulled a
Homer Simpson. They succeeded despite themselves done. They blew it
and they still want That's what upsets me is they
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blew it and they still that's I know. And the
Pacers blew the guy next to the next blew it
to this was listening. This was not a great game
by any means. This is always great. It was a
close gas that had a couple of clutch shots that
This was not a well played game, not a great game.
(08:32):
This was just a close game that was tight and
physical and fun, and it had a couple of big
shots at the end. Let me ask you, Frostfing, you
agree with me. Wouldn't you rather have them complaining about a.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Couple of calls No, this is way worse. No, no, no,
this is this is almost as low as a guest stop.
This is right after murder.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Here's the thing. I know, there's only a couple of
things I could think of that are worse. So it's
down there always.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, wow, Frostburg, you should have been a lawyer. Man.
That's a that's a very What this.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Man has committed.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The atrocities on these national airways is worse, just lower
than murder.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I've heard some crazy stuff over the years, but this
is isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Isn't he accused of stealing a mailbox? It's worse than murder?
Well it is. You don't know that might have been
their sole security check that you've took away sky might
have been insulin by mail, now my insolin? Uh? Now
you want a hot take? You want a hot take?
You didn't know what to do it, I'll give you no.
I just went I went Simpsons. When I did, I
(09:41):
defaulted the Simpsons because I was thinking of when they
were going to Camp Krusty and know we can get anything.
And Ralph goes my insulin when it finally comes in
the mail. Uh, is you want a hot take?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I'm not going to blame the officials for this, and
I know Tom Timbodeau talked about it after about there
was some place called, and Josh Hart talked about a
goaltending call that he should have got with a couple
minutes left. Now, look, I get it because they need
to say something because the Pacers decided to put officiating
front and center with here's seventy eight calls. It should
have been caught. Every Nick should have fouled out a
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game one end game two. We should have to stop
playing middle of the third quarter because they were out
of eligible players. You should have called all of these fouls, right,
which is ridiculous. But I'm gonna tell you, officials didn't
blow this game. The Knicks blew this game. I've talked
about it. The misfree throws in the final minute, Devincenzo,
a ridiculous goaltending call when he's got to stay away
from the ball, his turnover stepping out of bounds, Brunson's
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bad decision on that three when it could have gone
to the hoop and made it a one point game
with ten or twelve seconds left to go. The Knicks
made mistakes. They made a lot of mistakes. That's why
they lost. They didn't lose this game. And then you
have the cherry on top of the sunny. They still
almost escaped, but Nembard closes his eyes and throws it
up and said, oh my god, I can't believe it.
I made it. It went in. It's like it's like
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at the end of Papa Shot when you make one
of go oh, I want a Teddy Bear. Oh look
at that. What a great shot. I made. That's so great.
I'm glad there's video of this because I'm not gonna
remember any of this, all right, But look, but it's
not it's not the Knicks. It's it's not the referees fall.
The Knicks lost the game. They blew it. I'm not
going to blame the refs because I because I don't. No,
I didn't do that, and you took your you shook
(11:18):
your fist at god. I didn't blame the refs. No,
I'm shaking my fisted shirt because whatever. But and the
other part in this hot take is you know who
to mean whatever? You know to blame? Oh, you're paying attention,
paying attention? What were we talking about? Right? Yes? And
what two teams the Knicks, probably in Pacers, okay, and
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who won tonight? The Knicks? Right, very good? Oh yeah,
get the final call ready, I want to hear okay, right,
very good. The other part of it is this, right,
I'm not because I'm I told you, I'm not going
to blame the refs. If if Rick Carl wants to
sound ridiculous, I'm not going to be the same thing.
So you know I'm telling the truth. The other part
of it is that line. The guy that's got to
own it at the end is Jalen Brunson because he
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made a really bad decision any mister free throw and
it's something that he's gotta do better. He can't. When
that miracle shot goes up with Nembard, right, everything is
going crazy. The arena is going nuts. There's fifteen seconds left.
There is a lot of time and a lot of
basketball and at least two Knicks possessions. But instead he
goes for an all or nothing three off balance, trying
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to draw a foul that he's not touched on the shot,
and it doesn't even come close, and that ends the game.
They had three guys out at him on the perimeter.
They would have allowed him to drive to the hoop,
go in, get a layup. There's ten or eleven seconds
left right now. I know you use your final timeout,
so okay, you can't advance the ball, but with ten
or eleven seconds you foul. There's seven or eight seconds
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if whatever the Pacers make. If they make both their
free throws, you're still down three. If they make one,
you're only down two. You still have enough time to
get down the court and get a good shot at
the end. It's not like, oh, there's only two seconds
and we got to throw it all the way down.
Like I don't understand Brunson making that was an awful decision.
It was awful. So when you talk about the goat
of the game, and I mean the bad goat, not
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the good goat, not the goat the g O dot
A dot t dot, No, the goat is in who
wears the goat horns? No, it's Brunson for that decision
and the misfree throw in the final minute. I'm gonna
blame you. Good last night, look last night on the show.
You can find it wherever you get your audio, pick
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(13:24):
you elevated him to a deity. You built your shrine
to the greatness of the closing ability of Jalen Bronson.
You know what, he believed your hype. He subscribed to
the iHeart Sports Daily newsletter and he believed it. So
he didn't look to do anything but be a hero
in that moment, and he failed. Now, should there have
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been a foul on the ground? Maybe, but not there. God,
how long has Mike Breen been calling next games?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Wow, long time? How many years? Like twenty? Pra close
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He was full time for a while, but then he
took over full time.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, he's been waiting his whole career to get a
call like this, Like what I finally got one?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
A call like what you mean? A call like have
never hit one?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I thought you're gonna play it for me? Okay, that's great.
I thought we're gonna hear it. Okay, that's fin If
you don't want to play it, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well I'm just saying his greatest call ever is is
a Pacers beating the next Okaang?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now, had we had the double bang call? He says,
a double bang for the Knicks. He gets banged the
double bang is say for the next guy. Oh, I
had the best line if we were only on satellite.
If we were only on satellite, I can say it,
it would be hilarious, but I'm not gonna say it. Uh.
Coming up next, I'll tell you there's my hot tay.
I'm not blaming the refs, And it was Jalen Brunson's
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fault in the final minute. Four for nineteen from the field,
three turnovers, five offensive rebounds for the Pacers in the fourth.
Coming up next, we head to Vegas. Take a look
at all the big action this weekend. Where's a smart
money headed who's bouncing back in the NBA playoffs? Who's not?
Are the Bears odds of going to the playoffs just
gone up? Wait a minute?
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromtheti rag dot com studios, where
we watched the Pacers escape with a victory over the Knicks.
Now two games to one lead for New York. Also
two games to one for the timber Wolves, as the
Nuggets just show up and boat race them from the jump.
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They win by fifty eight points. All right, twenty seven
points to get back into this series. Heading into Gape
four on Sunday, joining us now on the hot Line,
take a look back at the Actress tonight and preview
everything we're going to see this weekend. Our Vegas Insider,
former odds maker at Caesars. Now check them out to
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the Bet the Board podcast, CBS Sports, NHL puck Line.
It is Todd Furman. Todd what's happening, Bud.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
A little bit of drama goes a long way, gentlemen,
in these playoffs, nobody wants to see sweeps in the
series come to a premature end, unless you're, of course,
a Knicks fan.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, Todd over under the number of calls the Knicks
sent to the NBA about that weren't made in tonight's game.
I'm gonna set the over under at forty nine. What
do you say?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I mean at this point, you just figure fifty as
a baseline, so it'll do a different than when you're
watching Angel Hernandez Umpire baseball game that they're going to
be fifty blown balls, strike calls, So may as well
be the same in the NBA when you talk about
playoff officiating. But series clearly gets a little bit tighter
with the Pacers putting together a fourth quarter and they
are pretty sizable favorites for Game four. As we've seen
(17:13):
that series price drink as well, Todd.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
As we go through all this process, the two minute report,
what does Vegas do with that? If anything? Does that
help lean? You know, when you see the reevaluation of stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Absolutely nothing until you see the league that they decide
they want to overturn a particular outcome. I mean odds
makers saying numbers. They let people bet into their spreads,
and anyone who feels that they gain a competitive advantage,
knowing the officiating crew can take it one way or another.
We know there are a couple of zebras out there
in the National Basketball Association prone to extending series and such.
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But every time you think you have a beat on
a number, or you feel you have an intangible edge
that you can exploit in the betting market, trust me,
someone is always going to be one step out of you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bella. But Toda want to go back to what you
said a second ago. After tonight's game, the Pacers are
even more sizable favorites in Game four. I would think
it would be the opposite.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
They were a seven, seven and a half point favorite
depending on the shop you looked at for the closing
number on game three, and when you look at the
game four point spread, the Pacers right around a six,
six and a half point favorite. We'll see if that
number comes down a little bit before we get the
tip off of Game four. But as far as the
series price is concerned, I mean, the Knick's still a
one to two favorite because they have that two to
one lead, and Game four will go a long way
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in determining how odds makers view it, as well as
the overall outcome. Knowing that this best of seven could
turn into a best of three if the Pacers maintain
their home court advantage.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Where we find value in the Knicks over unders and
prop bets given the fact that they all have to
play forty plus minutes.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I mean, you do wonder somewhere along the way when
this team starts to show signs of fatigue. They would
have clearly loved to have about seven and a half
weeks off like we saw between Game two and Game
three and the Timberwolves and Nugget series. But the Knicks,
of their credit, have gone out there and fight fought.
I mean, you're seeing all the superstars contribute, you know,
thirty five plus minutes is more or less a formality.
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Contributions off the bench from Alec Burks tonight. But the
bottom line is this team has to get healthy, and
we're very interested, of course, to see how long that
hamstring injury sidelines og and Andobe, if it's for the
duration of the series or considerably longer.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Todd what what are the number you give me? If
I say I want to I want to bet that
Josh Hart plays all forty eight minutes in a game
like what do what do I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Up until tonight, I would have made you lay a
substantial price for that to be the case. The fact
that coach Tibbs was in a giving mood. I don't
know what Josh Hart did with all that extra free
time on the bench. Maybe drab a power aid, a
bucket of popcorn, interact with some pacers fans probably had
could have been part of the reason that he lost
focus late in the game because he wasn't fully entrench
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for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now, in the the other Eastern Conference matchup right, we've
seen two blowouts. Looking at game three, calves are are
plus eight at home? Do we just read it as
a blip on the radar for the for the Celtics?
Is that what the line said here? Or you know
is do these caves still on a puncher's chance?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You know? Similar tra jackery, I think to what we
saw in the opening round where the Celtics basically stub
their toe, and that may be the lightest way to
put it at home in Game two, and then they
go out and take care business in the remaining games
of the series. You know, the favorite in terms of
number of games for the series to last was five.
You had a lay a substantial price if you wanted
to lay two and a half games with the Celtics,
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And I don't think there's any reason for people to
panic despite Cleveland going in there into Boston winning Game
two outright as a fourteen fourteen and a half point
underdog at a price north of six to one. This
is just what the Celtics do, and it's in their DNA,
and you wonder the lack of killer instinct if this
will come back to haunt them at any point because
you clearly want to make quick work, or your opponents
spend as much time resting rather than playing extra games
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that are completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Todd odds that we get the true story as to
what sounds were being made during Luca donge just press
conference last night.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Oh though you're never going to be able to get that.
Maybe you'll get that somewhere down the road when Luca
decides he wants to write an audible biography. But that's
not going to come out anytime in the near future,
So you're kind of chasing after a little bit of
a wife tailer.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
All right, I thought I would get something night. Try
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You got the Bet the Board podcast, multiple variants of
the podcast for your listening pleasure and angle that you're
going sport to sport, Todd. As we get closer, we've
(21:30):
got the NFL schedule lot and coming out this next week.
How quickly do you get that information input to where
you can start spitting out win totals?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, I mean win totals widely available now. But to
your point home, when you get the exact location of
all seventeen games, it goes a long way towards creating
a little bit of a competitive advantage for professional betters
that are going to look to try and jump on
some of those opportunities, figuring out who has short weeks,
which teams are going to find themselves, you know, play
a congested schedule, whether it's early in the season or
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late where rest is typically at a premium which teams
are going to find themselves, you know, traveling for three
straight road games. Things go along those lines, all the little
edges that you can't find now, even if we do
know what opponents that all of these teams are going
to play, especially outside the division. So it's always fascinating
and maybe most importantly, especially for some of the recreational betters,
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you're going to get week one lines probably within forty
five minutes to an hour of when all those schedule
leagues start to come out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
All right, tod So when it comes to outside of
the games, we're looking at where the Lakers go for
their next head coach, what's the leader? Who's the leader
right now? As far as where it goes for odds
for who they could wind up hiring whenever they make
a decision.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I mean, you've seen odds makers kind of tinker with
some of them, and a lot of the names have
been pulled off the board as some of these other
organizations make commitments to their head coaches. Not like anybody
considered Mike Budenholzer a front runner by any stretch of
the imagination to take over in LA. We'll see how
serious some of the overtures are for JJ Reddick. One
thing I'm disappointed by more than anything else, Smith is
that on all of these lists and os boards in
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terms of trying to figure out who the Lakers' next
head coach will be, Lebron James hasn't been listed anywhere.
And the last time that we saw a player coach
take his team to the next level may have been
Reggie Dunlop as the bench boss for the Charleston Chiefs
way back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Say trade me right blaking now, Trade me right blaking now.
Now hang up. Well, it's kind of tough. I don't
think anybody can be GM head coach and the player.
I don't think any can do all three of those things.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
No, it gets to be extremely difficult. And then when
you tack on owner as well, when he gets the
NBA expansion franchise out here in Vegas, you wonder how
he'll be able to wear all four hats simultaneously. But
if there's someone who's going to try and do it,
Lebron James will no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Be the first look at you already looking forward to
the ownership stake out there, all right, So schedule release
this week, we've got the NHL Playoffs giving us some
thrillers night tonight. What's the average spread half a goal?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I mean when you're looking at the price year, I
mean this time of year, you get the numbers to
really tighten up. The Oilers will be one of the
bigger favorites that you'll see in any of these matchups
for Game three when they go back to Alberta, with
the series noted up at one to one, in the
wake of the Oilers getting an overtime win earlier tonight.
But the way things are trending for Florida and Boston,
Florida starting to emerge as the dominant team on that
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side of the draw and appear to be on a
collision course to take on the New York Rangers in
the Eastern Conference finals. So still a lot of star
power out there, But there are definitely easier ways this
time of year to make money than trying to bet
into some of these NHL playoff games, where most of
them boiled down to bounce here, bounce there, and a
lot more of a coin flip component than what you'll
find in some of the other sports.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, it's better for you to say, just bet against
the Mets. I was waiting for you to say that.
That was your line right there, Todd, you had your chance.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, look, your matscot hot for a while, and
they could have bankrupted me and my Martin Gale system
trying to bet against But I mean the reality of
it is, even a blind squirrel can find a nut
in Major League Baseball, unless you're a Chicago White Sox fan.
Although don't don't look now, Gavin Kroschet doing everything he
can to insert his name as a long shot in
the Cy Young race in the American League.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
See if they just get to play the Rays and
the Guardians with some regularity, they got a shot. And
if you can look, if you can say I won
every game my team played this year, that's a pretty
good thing. Well he only won eighteen games, Yeah, but
I won all eighteen of those games. Shut ups.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
That's it's great. It's great negotiating power when you go
to the arbitration table and you try and find that
next extension. If you're the only one responsible for a
team winning eighteen to twenty games, and one starting pitcher
gets to put all of them on his resume.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, but Reinsdorf would pull the old Kamiski. Twenty nine
is not thirty, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Hey, I mean, at this point, it's just a question
of how long Jerry Reinsdorf will actually own the team
for or what he'll do to try and sell it
off for parts. That's becomes the great one hundred million
dollar question as they explore new stadium concepts somewhere along
the Chicago River.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is, at Todd Furman.
Check him out on CBS NHL fuck line. Todd is
always buddy, Appreciate your time, my friend. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Enjoy the game, always a pleasure, gentlemen, and joy the
next week of playoff action.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Thanks for stopping down, brother. In other words, don't bet hockey.
Don't bet hockey. Well, you look at the spreads for tomorrow.
They are actually one and a half goals, so you know,
a little bigger margin for her. But to his point,
like we'd watched some crazy ass stuff the last couple
and that sequence earlier tonight. Hey, you start the period
with the goal. Oh wait, we scored back the other
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way back to even. Yeah, here's my big prediction. From
our right, the Rangers will beat the Hurricanes. Buy a
goal because they know because the Hurricane Hurricanes are on
the verge of getting swept out of the play a
second straight year. They've lost every game in these series
by a goal and five I think five going to overtime.
So take the Rangers, buy a goal in Game four.
There you go there in overtime. Here's my best bet.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Time Now to find out what's trending in the widd
world of sports, Let's check in with Montcy Blagos, who
is about to cash in all her winnings because she
had today as the day Caleb Williams would be named
Bear Starting. How about that I had about weeks ago?
I know you one congratulation. No, I'm surprised it just
came out. I thought we knew that weeks ago. Well,
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you know, you know, sometimes it takes a while. Ficial,
you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yes, I should have put all my money on that
silly me.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Instead, I put it all on the Clippers, And that's
exactly what I did. Got crazy crazy. I don't I
don't know what I'm doing with my life.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Nuggets know what they're doing with their lives. They came
out for Game three crushed the Timberwolves one seventeen to ninety.
Minnesota still leads that series two to one. Nicola Yoga
just shive a triple double twenty four, fourteen to nine
the Pacers. It got close. It was not ag it
was not pretty, it wasn't ugly. It just got close
and it was physical. They beat the Knicks one eleven
to one oh six. New York still leads that series
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two to one. Now, the Dallas Mavericks are listing Luka
Doncic as questionable for Saturday's Game three against the Thunder
with a right knee sprain and left ankle soreness. In
the NHL Playoffs, the Oilers just even the series about
ten minutes ago with the four to three overtime win
against the Canucks. The Panthers defeated the Bruins six to two,
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so Florida leads that series two to one. In baseball,
Luis Araz with the walk off RBI single the padres
hedge the Dodgers two to one. The Reds snapped in
eight game losing streak. They beat the Giants four to two.
Elie de Lacruz twenty five stolen bases so far. The
Astros came back earlier today today to defeat the Tigers
five to two, while the Yankees beat the Rays to
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zero and the Orioles had a four to two victory
over the Diamondbacks. The Braves topped the Mets in New
York for to two, and the Phillies defeated the Marlins
nine to four. Miami has now lost.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Four in a row.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Other news in sports, Toronto has been awarded a WNBA
expansion team that's going to be getting playing in twenty
twenty six. Paris Sainterer mainstar Achillian and bappe Anno said
he's going to leave the club after their match on Sunday,
and Xander Schoffley is in the lead at the Wells
Fargo Chain being Chip After their two rounds, he is
eleven under par overall.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Back to you guys, that's fun. You know, I love
I love you know European soccer stories where yeah, I'm
gonna leave now, I'm gonna play one more game than
I'm gonna go. Okay, yeah, and I'm here and then
I'm gonna go like like here in the United States,
where it's about oh, if you want out and you're done.
You're on the restricted last. We're putting you on the
(29:24):
active last. I'm gonna leave, but I'll play one more
I'm gonna give you one more chance to cheer me
or Boomy one more game then I'm gonna go. Then
I'm gonna leave. That. I mean, he's coming to the MLS.
Not yet, No, young young Yeah yeah, rs. You have
to be over thirty to come to the MLS. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Thank you very much. Guys, to the way the Jason
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Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack
dot Com Studios. We get a great big football hot
take coming your way in a few minutes. But a
couple of minutes here to remember the life of Sean Burrows.
And I'm sure everybody was shocked today when you saw
the story. Yes for Major League in Fielder League World
Series hero Sean Burrows died at the age of forty three.
He'd been out of the game for a while. He
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was coaching his kid's little league team Thursday and collapsed
while he was coaching the game.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He was forty three years old, and it was a stunner,
obviously when you see someone this young something like that happen,
especially since ye know he was coaching. He was coaching
a little league team and and speaking a little league
you know, did he have the the MLB career that
everybody expected. No, he had a great first couple of years.
But then, as he had said in recent years, you know,
(30:33):
I didn't really have the drive. I realized I was
just like sick of baseball. It didn't give me a
joy because plays so much for so long your life
with your dad, right, and sometimes yeah, sometimes you know,
you do too much of it and you wind up
backing off. But you know, but he said, listen, I
just and I needed to get away from the game.
Then he tried to come back and play a little bit,
which was great. But you know the thing is, I
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remember back when I was a PA at ESPN and
in nineteen ninety three, and and this is you know,
Sean Burrows was the best Little leaguer that any of
us had ever seen. Like in the on the Mount
rushmore of great little leaguers in history, like he's at
the top. He went back to back the Little League
World Series. He was a pitcher, he was a home
run hitter. I remember watching him play and you know,
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he was a big kid, and he was big, full
of power, and when he hit home runs, he round
the bases like a big leaguer like he didn't you
know a kid. You know a kid, it's a home
running the bases like yeah, home run, just like my
dad did it. And it was you could tell, Okay,
this kid's gonna be special. And he was so much
fun to cover. He was such a big drawing card
for Little League Baseball, little League World Series. And it's
(31:37):
just such a such a sad, sad story. But you know,
for someone who touched so many people, uh in his life,
he heard a lot of people say today he was
one of the great guys, always stay in touch with
people and understood when he had issues and he would
be able to ask for help and always try to
do the right thing and getting his life on track.
And it's just it's just such a sad story to
see that, hey, here he was giving back to the
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sport that made him fits and gave him the life
he had and this is where you know, he winds
up passing away. It's just a sad story. So damn
young Because I had been offline a bit earlier today
and I came back to find that. And then Sam Rubin,
who was an institution here in Los Angeles, an entertainment reporter,
a ton of vehicles, a lot of the red carpet stuff.
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It's like the two of those in order, one what
forty three, forty four and one at sixty four, And
I think Sam Rubin had just did a radio he
did this morning, like he did a TV hit yesterday
in a radio. So it's like, you know, you got Burrows.
He's on the field and he's you know, practicing and
all of that stuff, and he passes away Ruben doing
his job, and it's just one of those things just
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you know, be embraced the moment that you're in, people
that you're with, make sure you're communicating whatever else. Like
just just stunned. Like the Burroughs news just hit me
in a whole other way. With the amount of youth
sports you and I engage in between our kids and
what we're facilitating. It's just one of those Wow, you
think about just how quickly everything changes. You know, when
(33:03):
I'm going through Twitter and I see Sean Burrows trending,
I go, oh, what did he like? Also, the name
I haven't heard again a coach, And I read the
Bob Nightingale tweet like three times of like what what what?
And I and and my friends and I because the
ones I still talk to from ESPN, we're all texting
each other because we all were twenty two to twenty
three years old working on the Little League World Series
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when he was big to and it was like this
whole thing between us about remember when he did this,
but when he did this? Uh, such a sad, sad story. Uh.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire Rack dot
Com studios here at Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio
dot Com. Uh, coming up next, Yes, sports is our business.
We continue on a great big NFL hot take for you,
(33:45):
one that the man on my left is gonna love
unless he doesn't. Are you sure? I'm sure you're on
my left? That's not that's about him. That's about it,
Neil Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Chuck cuck down, Hey, Caliverton, double tem shut cluck at
cork them. Mart's gotta put it up, step back.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
His three pointers, the heart the Brave.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
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Speaker 1 (34:20):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live from Thetirack dot Com studios. And we've
had a lot of NBA tonight. Yeah, a lot of knicks,
a lot of lucky pacers. One of the greatest shots
at NBA history and marks one shining moment. He closed
his eyes, turned with his back to the basket and
threw it up and it went in. Hey, congratulations, Yes, great?
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Did that get someone in the age of the Oh,
I'm so scared. I don't want to shoot it. You
have to, Okay, Oh it went in. I'm so lucky.
I'm such a lucky player. Oh hey, what was going
through mind when you shot it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I just blacked out. I don't even though it was.
It was so so difficult. I don't even know. Could
you make that shot?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Again?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Never, I'm never gonna. I really wish his answer would
have been better, because he really did kind of channel
everything you surmised. I told you, I'm lucky. I didn't
expect it because obviously look shot clock running down Halliburton
with a bad decision to give it up late, where
he's thirty feet from the basket. Yes, I told you,
he would say afterwards, I don't I don't remember and
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I and I was lucky. And that's exactly what he
said after the game. I don't remember it. Boy, I
was shocked it went in. I mean, come on, man,
the Giants step back. Look at the smile. I'm looking
at the smile on those things now. He's like, like,
I just want you to just want to contest like that.
He backed Brunson off. You gotta get him like he
did dribble right, backed him off and then stepped way
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back and bang. That was just what a what a
what a lucky shot? See that final final four minutes.
Teammates didn't believe it. He He's like, I don't believe
that guy with two points tonight one for seven made
that show with Caitlyn Clark in the crowd hitting a
Clark like shot. You told me who has a better
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chance of hitting a big three pointer at the end
of a game in winning and nempard Caitlin Clark. I
would say, Caitlyn Clark coming down in blue jeans and
a T shirt and he's gonna hit the shot more
than that's gonna happen. But let me make it unless
I don't make it happy, well you will. Big NFL
News today, Caitlin Clark, Caleb Williams, Kaylyn Clark, although she'd
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be fine to Caleb Williams named QB one for the
Chicago Bears, taking the mantle from Andy Dalton with the
famous QB one And here comes Captain Obvious floating down
the river. So not a surprise because they didn't postpone
the future. And I love this because it's not like
there was a guy there that you could put in
where Williams could sit and watch and then take over
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when he's ready. Well, once they traded Justin Kield, everything
was gone. If they had a Gardner Minshew, let's say, okay,
you can let him sit and watch, because Minshew has
played pretty well and he's that kind of guy. Right
about the time he turns into a pumpkin, Williams ready.
But the thing is is that you want Williams in there.
And that's why this is a great decision, is because
forget about this whole crazy ass bet that was made
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and then canceled with Jayden Daniels and Malik Neighbors about
who's gonna win. Offensive rookie of the year. It's gonna
be Caleb Williams in a walk because the Bears are loaded.
This is not a team, Hey, we're starting over, give
us a couple of years. This is no We are
taking advantage of a franchise quarterback and the best prospect
the last few years on a rookie contract deal. So
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we go out in the offseason. We get the running
back we need and DeAndre Swift. We get two more
wide receivers that we need, and Keenan Allen and Romo Doones.
We have two good tight ends now, not just one.
The Bears are loaded. If he accounts for thirty touchdowns
this year, I'm not surprised. The Bears are gonna flip
seven and ten to ten and seven. They're going to
the playoffs. There's a reason why Caleb Williams is a
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number one overall pick in their There was never any
conversation that maybe Jaden Daniels would go or anybody else
would go above him. He is that good. He is
NFL ready, and he's got incredible weapons around him. This
off season makeover by the Bears is one of the
most impressive in maybe the last two decades. Because you
brought in a franchise quarterback, a franchise wide receiver, an
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All Pro wide receiver, and a Pro Bowl running back.
I mean, you did that, and it's not like you
spent so so much money to do it. You hardly
spent any money to go and you started it in
season last year when you traded for Montes Sweat. It's
right because you watched how that defense change once he arrived.
Look the Bears, that buddy. If you're If the Bears
don't go to the playoffs and Williams doesn't account for
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thirty touchdowns, it's a disappointment, No, ab one hundred percent.
Like the expectations are huge and certainly, I mean you
chronicled all of it. You already had a pretty good
run running attack, and most of those guys are still
there to pick up the pieces there. The offensive line
played much better as the season war on. We already
talked about the defense they rated as what top seven,
top eight unit down the stretch, gave away a game
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to the Lions, beat him in the other I mean
you go back through what it should have could is
that game they were bludgeoning Denver and then gave that
game up. Like there were opportunities even last year to
have maybe crept in in that seventh seed. But the
depth of that early season struggle when they like it
was just such a mess that that there was no
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coming back, too big a gap. But you look at
it now, Yeah, I'm a bit upset that it's so
overweighted with positivity for the Bears in the front office.
But normally it's all right, well, I mean they could
be okay. Now it's oh, we got Caleb Williams and
we got that guy, and that guy and look at him.
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Well get Halo's floating over their heads like this is
the greatest day in Bears.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
History till Jason said they're gonna be good. You really
think he screwed me?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right there? Done three games tops here it is May tenth.
So far risingly, they've lost their first eight games and
Caleb Williams still yet to throw a touchdown Pat and
now Vin Scully's calling Bears games. Really time out from
this pick six by the Lions to bring you this
word from farmer John sausage even got the sausage and
sausages from farmer John. Let's take time up from this
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pick six, Like as the guy's running down the sunlight
and let's take time out from this pick six thirty
twenty ten Farmer John sauce as the lower third just
comes up with the farmer John logo. They changed the
score on the floor and as he goes to spike
the ball and is now a sausage, the little Farmer
John just runs up and hits the button and it
changes I hate you Bird Burdy Fox mix Yo.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
The milk is from cows, the chicken choke on the
ding Dong latte, It's from all
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get to a big, fat hot take I have about
Nick Pacers, I'm gonna show you how right I am
about something big we talked about tonight where you said, oh,
you're not giving Andrew Nembard any credit for that three
You're not good to him any credits. When I told
you everything, it was a prayer. He didn't want to
take the shot. NiFe is a mystery. I'm telling you,
(01:11):
I guarantee everyone would stand alone. I guarantee you he
didn't want to take the shot. He blacked out at
some point and and and his is stunned, and the
look on his face after he was stunned. He even
made the shot, of course, I'm talking about this shot.
Cluck down to eighth.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Halliverton double team shot, Cluck at court them March gotta
put it up, step back his three.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Quarters time out, next time out. Mike Breen on the call. Yeah,
well the knixt blue that we come Nick, this gets
to my hot te coming up in a company some of.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
The knicks for not double teaming. Uh yeah, the worst
shot instead of Aliburton, the worst guy on the floor
who scored two points all games. If they were smart
and Tims smart, they would have double team. You know
what was finish with it was Yes, that's why you
do the math on the show. Now I understand that
he did.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know what he hit?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Bang?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
He hit a three from thirty feet away, and the
guy had two points the entire game. He didn't want
the ball, he didn't want it, he didn't want any
part of it. And I told you all of this
you're like, oh, come on, you gotta give the guy credit.
I'm gonna read to you right now from the game
summary with quotes from Andrew Embart Are you ready? You
from the quote and mister Helper, I knew before he
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spoke that that's what it was. The shotgun his face,
Oh my god, I made it. It says like at
the end of Carrie when Carrie gets the crowd, Oh,
I thought you didn't like me, and I'm the homecoming
QUI I mean without the pouring the blood onter and
then she kills everybody but including the greatest American hero.
But that other part is, oh my good, look at
this like I've won, Like I've won a contest. Cat's
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origin story, Believe it or not, he didn't survive and
carry he was dead up then she killed Travolta. In
a later scene he was driving the car. Okay, Uh,
here is Andrew Nemhard. Okay was living on at TJ,
living on a prayer with that shot at the end,
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which I'm sure his eyes weren't even open for quote
when I got the ball, I didn't realize what the
time was. Tyrese Halliburton said something I looked up and
it was like two seconds on the clock, so I
just knew I had to get something off. Okay, I
created a little bit of space and put it up,
said Nembard, his mind going blank as he was mobbed
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by his teammates. I told you he blacked out because
he was so lucky making that shot. Lacked out, continuing
on quote, I was just in the moment. I was
kind of shocked a little bit. I was just happy
the ball went in. Come on, man, it's a you
know really, it's like, hey, I need to say a prayer.
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I need something again. It's like the new eighth Wonder
of the World is this shot. You have the hanging
gardens of Babylonia. You have the Pyramids, we have King Khan,
we have the Grand Canyon, we have the astronom, and
now we have this shot by Andre the Giant, Andre
the Giant shore and now we have Andrew dam hard shot.
And really, you look at him, I guarantee you he
has no memory of what happened after, just that silly
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ass grin on his face, like I just made a
big shot. We're gonna go get ice cream. Memory's that's
a highlight. He's got the video that highlight will live forever,
People sending him Mike Breen's call, people sending him the
videotape of hallim Burton's reaction, going my god, you just
did that and what was always going through your head
(04:40):
on after that? I don't remember. I don't remember. I
remember remembers the shot that turned the series around. I'm
pretty sure he shot at underhand like Rick Barry. I'm
pretty sure that's how the shot. He had extra flair
or he flipped over his head. Mind.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
This is why people hate the Knicks. He's Jason's literally,
can't give the guy credit.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
For hitting him. If he threw up a shot he
didn't want to take. He doesn't even remember shoot. That's
how much shock he was. No, I'm telling you the
truth is it's an absolute prayer that he throws up
and it's all look, get over it. Perfect form, I'm
saying from deep and it was perfect swish. He didn't
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need every part of the rim, the backboard and angels
to float around through stop one second, stop for one
perfect art, stop for one stop for one second. If
you are the pacers, I want I want you to
freeze with him getting the ball from thirty feet away
and putting up a shot and ready to put up
a shot. I'm freezing, and I'm asking every member of
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the Pacers, Rick Carlile, I remember the team, the fans
saying are you okay with this? Right now? I can
change it if I snap my fingers, I can change
your result of this play from this to something with
a higher percentage. Every single person would say, yes, this
is awful. Halliburton gave up the dribble. Our worst guy
out there has the ball. Yes, yes, yes, please give
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me something new, give me something. This is low, that's
what it was. That's hurt. No, No, it would be
really low if I day you know, the officiating really
screwed us, and I am seventy eight. No, this is
telling you that I'd rather have you spend the rest
of the night complaining about the officials and how they
adjudicated poorly in the in the scrums, or this wasn't
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really gold tending, or Jalen Bruns he got fault. I'd
rather have you do that than give this guy no
credit for the jump shot that he hit. He threw
it up. It was a prayer. He's gonna go to
autographed shows for the rest of his life signing this
for twelve dollars. Good, damn's gonna do. Congratulate your win.
That's great, it was. It was, Why isn't hurt your
soul so much? Because because my team works their ass
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so because you know what if if Halliburton knife to
the to the hoop for a layup, or Haliburton stepped
back and hit a three. Okay, if they got the
ball to Siaka and Sam went underneath and scored and
got an n one. Okay, all right, these are great point.
We always talk about what you needed for playoff moments,
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and that was your guy. Nobody knew he was stepped up,
but he knew he was. Even on the court. You
know who he was. He was Ali at the end
of the one Hoosiers game where the only pass was
to him in the corner, standing by himself, and he
got foul, had to go shoot free throws. That fly
who Nembard was. You're just the guy close to me,
shoot it. There's nothing else week in that. To be fair,
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he had actually taken seven shots the rest of the night,
so it's not like he was mister invisible two points.
Ye was one for seven and guess what when it mattered.
He looked at that red light coming down that tenths
of the second running off and he went bang bang.
He was olie. I remember Hoosiers when Ali's just in
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the game because everybody else is out and they only
passed to him because he was the only guy open. Like,
that's what this was for. Nembar tonight, come on, well,
that's just it. Halliburton does a bad job of time management,
gets caught, decides to get rid because they pulled a
Homer Simpson. They succeeded despite themselves done. They blew it
and they still want That's what upsets me is they
(08:11):
blew it and they still that's I know. And the
Pacers blew the guy next to the next blew it
to this was listening. This was not a great game
by any means. This is always great. It was a
close gas that had a couple of clutch shots that
This was not a well played game, not a great game.
(08:32):
This was just a close game that was tight and
physical and fun, and it had a couple of big
shots at the end. Let me ask you, Frostfing, you
agree with me. Wouldn't you rather have them complaining about a.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Couple of calls No, this is way worse. No, no, no,
this is this is almost as low as a guest stop.
This is right after murder.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Here's the thing. I know, there's only a couple of
things I could think of that are worse. So it's
down there always.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Okay, wow, Frostburg, you should have been a lawyer. Man.
That's a that's a very What this.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Man has committed.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
The atrocities on these national airways is worse, just lower
than murder.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I've heard some crazy stuff over the years, but this
is isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Isn't he accused of stealing a mailbox? It's worse than murder?
Well it is. You don't know that might have been
their sole security check that you've took away sky might
have been insulin by mail, now my insolin? Uh? Now
you want a hot take? You want a hot take?
You didn't know what to do it, I'll give you no.
I just went I went Simpsons. When I did, I
(09:41):
defaulted the Simpsons because I was thinking of when they
were going to Camp Krusty and know we can get anything.
And Ralph goes my insulin when it finally comes in
the mail. Uh, is you want a hot take?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I'm not going to blame the officials for this, and
I know Tom Timbodeau talked about it after about there
was some place called, and Josh Hart talked about a
goaltending call that he should have got with a couple
minutes left. Now, look, I get it because they need
to say something because the Pacers decided to put officiating
front and center with here's seventy eight calls. It should
have been caught. Every Nick should have fouled out a
(10:12):
game one end game two. We should have to stop
playing middle of the third quarter because they were out
of eligible players. You should have called all of these fouls, right,
which is ridiculous. But I'm gonna tell you, officials didn't
blow this game. The Knicks blew this game. I've talked
about it. The misfree throws in the final minute, Devincenzo,
a ridiculous goaltending call when he's got to stay away
from the ball, his turnover stepping out of bounds, Brunson's
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bad decision on that three when it could have gone
to the hoop and made it a one point game
with ten or twelve seconds left to go. The Knicks
made mistakes. They made a lot of mistakes. That's why
they lost. They didn't lose this game. And then you
have the cherry on top of the sunny. They still
almost escaped, but Nembard closes his eyes and throws it
up and said, oh my god, I can't believe it.
I made it. It went in. It's like it's like
(10:56):
at the end of Papa Shot when you make one
of go oh, I want a Teddy Bear. Oh look
at that. What a great shot. I made. That's so great.
I'm glad there's video of this because I'm not gonna
remember any of this, all right, But look, but it's
not it's not the Knicks. It's it's not the referees fall.
The Knicks lost the game. They blew it. I'm not
going to blame the refs because I because I don't. No,
I didn't do that, and you took your you shook
(11:18):
your fist at god. I didn't blame the refs. No,
I'm shaking my fisted shirt because whatever. But and the
other part in this hot take is you know who
to mean whatever? You know to blame? Oh, you're paying attention,
paying attention? What were we talking about? Right? Yes? And
what two teams the Knicks, probably in Pacers, okay, and
(11:38):
who won tonight? The Knicks? Right, very good? Oh yeah,
get the final call ready, I want to hear okay, right,
very good. The other part of it is this, right,
I'm not because I'm I told you, I'm not going
to blame the refs. If if Rick Carl wants to
sound ridiculous, I'm not going to be the same thing.
So you know I'm telling the truth. The other part
of it is that line. The guy that's got to
own it at the end is Jalen Brunson because he
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made a really bad decision any mister free throw and
it's something that he's gotta do better. He can't. When
that miracle shot goes up with Nembard, right, everything is
going crazy. The arena is going nuts. There's fifteen seconds left.
There is a lot of time and a lot of
basketball and at least two Knicks possessions. But instead he
goes for an all or nothing three off balance, trying
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to draw a foul that he's not touched on the shot,
and it doesn't even come close, and that ends the game.
They had three guys out at him on the perimeter.
They would have allowed him to drive to the hoop,
go in, get a layup. There's ten or eleven seconds
left right now. I know you use your final timeout,
so okay, you can't advance the ball, but with ten
or eleven seconds you foul. There's seven or eight seconds
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if whatever the Pacers make. If they make both their
free throws, you're still down three. If they make one,
you're only down two. You still have enough time to
get down the court and get a good shot at
the end. It's not like, oh, there's only two seconds
and we got to throw it all the way down.
Like I don't understand Brunson making that was an awful decision.
It was awful. So when you talk about the goat
of the game, and I mean the bad goat, not
(13:03):
the good goat, not the goat the g O dot
A dot t dot, No, the goat is in who
wears the goat horns? No, it's Brunson for that decision
and the misfree throw in the final minute. I'm gonna
blame you. Good last night, look last night on the show.
You can find it wherever you get your audio, pick
up your podcast, always stay with us here, download it,
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(13:24):
you elevated him to a deity. You built your shrine
to the greatness of the closing ability of Jalen Bronson.
You know what, he believed your hype. He subscribed to
the iHeart Sports Daily newsletter and he believed it. So
he didn't look to do anything but be a hero
in that moment, and he failed. Now, should there have
(13:45):
been a foul on the ground? Maybe, but not there. God,
how long has Mike Breen been calling next games?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Wow, long time? How many years? Like twenty? Pra close
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He was full time for a while, but then he
took over full time.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, he's been waiting his whole career to get a
call like this, Like what I finally got one?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
A call like what you mean? A call like have
never hit one?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I thought you're gonna play it for me? Okay, that's great.
I thought we're gonna hear it. Okay, that's fin If
you don't want to play it, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well I'm just saying his greatest call ever is is
a Pacers beating the next Okaang?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Now, had we had the double bang call? He says,
a double bang for the Knicks. He gets banged the
double bang is say for the next guy. Oh, I
had the best line if we were only on satellite.
If we were only on satellite, I can say it,
it would be hilarious, but I'm not gonna say it. Uh.
Coming up next, I'll tell you there's my hot tay.
I'm not blaming the refs, And it was Jalen Brunson's
(14:38):
fault in the final minute. Four for nineteen from the field,
three turnovers, five offensive rebounds for the Pacers in the fourth.
Coming up next, we head to Vegas. Take a look
at all the big action this weekend. Where's a smart
money headed who's bouncing back in the NBA playoffs? Who's not?
Are the Bears odds of going to the playoffs just
gone up? Wait a minute?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
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Speaker 1 (15:44):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromtheti rag dot com studios, where
we watched the Pacers escape with a victory over the Knicks.
Now two games to one lead for New York. Also
two games to one for the timber Wolves, as the
Nuggets just show up and boat race them from the jump.
(16:07):
They win by fifty eight points. All right, twenty seven
points to get back into this series. Heading into Gape
four on Sunday, joining us now on the hot Line,
take a look back at the Actress tonight and preview
everything we're going to see this weekend. Our Vegas Insider,
former odds maker at Caesars. Now check them out to
(16:28):
the Bet the Board podcast, CBS Sports, NHL puck Line.
It is Todd Furman. Todd what's happening, Bud.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
A little bit of drama goes a long way, gentlemen,
in these playoffs, nobody wants to see sweeps in the
series come to a premature end, unless you're, of course,
a Knicks fan.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, Todd over under the number of calls the Knicks
sent to the NBA about that weren't made in tonight's game.
I'm gonna set the over under at forty nine. What
do you say?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I mean at this point, you just figure fifty as
a baseline, so it'll do a different than when you're
watching Angel Hernandez Umpire baseball game that they're going to
be fifty blown balls, strike calls, So may as well
be the same in the NBA when you talk about
playoff officiating. But series clearly gets a little bit tighter
with the Pacers putting together a fourth quarter and they
are pretty sizable favorites for Game four. As we've seen
(17:13):
that series price drink as well, Todd.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
As we go through all this process, the two minute report,
what does Vegas do with that? If anything? Does that
help lean? You know, when you see the reevaluation of stuff.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Absolutely nothing until you see the league that they decide
they want to overturn a particular outcome. I mean odds
makers saying numbers. They let people bet into their spreads,
and anyone who feels that they gain a competitive advantage,
knowing the officiating crew can take it one way or another.
We know there are a couple of zebras out there
in the National Basketball Association prone to extending series and such.
(17:45):
But every time you think you have a beat on
a number, or you feel you have an intangible edge
that you can exploit in the betting market, trust me,
someone is always going to be one step out of you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Bella. But Toda want to go back to what you
said a second ago. After tonight's game, the Pacers are
even more sizable favorites in Game four. I would think
it would be the opposite.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
They were a seven, seven and a half point favorite
depending on the shop you looked at for the closing
number on game three, and when you look at the
game four point spread, the Pacers right around a six,
six and a half point favorite. We'll see if that
number comes down a little bit before we get the
tip off of Game four. But as far as the
series price is concerned, I mean, the Knick's still a
one to two favorite because they have that two to
one lead, and Game four will go a long way
(18:23):
in determining how odds makers view it, as well as
the overall outcome. Knowing that this best of seven could
turn into a best of three if the Pacers maintain
their home court advantage.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Where we find value in the Knicks over unders and
prop bets given the fact that they all have to
play forty plus minutes.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I mean, you do wonder somewhere along the way when
this team starts to show signs of fatigue. They would
have clearly loved to have about seven and a half
weeks off like we saw between Game two and Game
three and the Timberwolves and Nugget series. But the Knicks,
of their credit, have gone out there and fight fought.
I mean, you're seeing all the superstars contribute, you know,
thirty five plus minutes is more or less a formality.
(19:00):
Contributions off the bench from Alec Burks tonight. But the
bottom line is this team has to get healthy, and
we're very interested, of course, to see how long that
hamstring injury sidelines og and Andobe, if it's for the
duration of the series or considerably longer.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Todd what what are the number you give me? If
I say I want to I want to bet that
Josh Hart plays all forty eight minutes in a game
like what do what do I mean?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Up until tonight, I would have made you lay a
substantial price for that to be the case. The fact
that coach Tibbs was in a giving mood. I don't
know what Josh Hart did with all that extra free
time on the bench. Maybe drab a power aid, a
bucket of popcorn, interact with some pacers fans probably had
could have been part of the reason that he lost
focus late in the game because he wasn't fully entrench
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for forty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now, in the the other Eastern Conference matchup right, we've
seen two blowouts. Looking at game three, calves are are
plus eight at home? Do we just read it as
a blip on the radar for the for the Celtics?
Is that what the line said here? Or you know
is do these caves still on a puncher's chance?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You know? Similar tra jackery, I think to what we
saw in the opening round where the Celtics basically stub
their toe, and that may be the lightest way to
put it at home in Game two, and then they
go out and take care business in the remaining games
of the series. You know, the favorite in terms of
number of games for the series to last was five.
You had a lay a substantial price if you wanted
to lay two and a half games with the Celtics,
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And I don't think there's any reason for people to
panic despite Cleveland going in there into Boston winning Game
two outright as a fourteen fourteen and a half point
underdog at a price north of six to one. This
is just what the Celtics do, and it's in their DNA,
and you wonder the lack of killer instinct if this
will come back to haunt them at any point because
you clearly want to make quick work, or your opponents
spend as much time resting rather than playing extra games
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that are completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Todd odds that we get the true story as to
what sounds were being made during Luca donge just press
conference last night.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Oh though you're never going to be able to get that.
Maybe you'll get that somewhere down the road when Luca
decides he wants to write an audible biography. But that's
not going to come out anytime in the near future,
So you're kind of chasing after a little bit of
a wife tailer.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
All right, I thought I would get something night. Try
Todd Ferman our guest Jason Smith Show with Me and
Mike Carmon here live from the tyrac dot com studios.
Find them on Twitter at Todd Furman. Also just download subscribe.
You got the Bet the Board podcast, multiple variants of
the podcast for your listening pleasure and angle that you're
going sport to sport, Todd. As we get closer, we've
(21:30):
got the NFL schedule lot and coming out this next week.
How quickly do you get that information input to where
you can start spitting out win totals?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, I mean win totals widely available now. But to
your point home, when you get the exact location of
all seventeen games, it goes a long way towards creating
a little bit of a competitive advantage for professional betters
that are going to look to try and jump on
some of those opportunities, figuring out who has short weeks,
which teams are going to find themselves, you know, play
a congested schedule, whether it's early in the season or
(22:02):
late where rest is typically at a premium which teams
are going to find themselves, you know, traveling for three
straight road games. Things go along those lines, all the little
edges that you can't find now, even if we do
know what opponents that all of these teams are going
to play, especially outside the division. So it's always fascinating
and maybe most importantly, especially for some of the recreational betters,
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you're going to get week one lines probably within forty
five minutes to an hour of when all those schedule
leagues start to come out on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
All right, tod So when it comes to outside of
the games, we're looking at where the Lakers go for
their next head coach, what's the leader? Who's the leader
right now? As far as where it goes for odds
for who they could wind up hiring whenever they make
a decision.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
I mean, you've seen odds makers kind of tinker with
some of them, and a lot of the names have
been pulled off the board as some of these other
organizations make commitments to their head coaches. Not like anybody
considered Mike Budenholzer a front runner by any stretch of
the imagination to take over in LA. We'll see how
serious some of the overtures are for JJ Reddick. One
thing I'm disappointed by more than anything else, Smith is
that on all of these lists and os boards in
(23:04):
terms of trying to figure out who the Lakers' next
head coach will be, Lebron James hasn't been listed anywhere.
And the last time that we saw a player coach
take his team to the next level may have been
Reggie Dunlop as the bench boss for the Charleston Chiefs
way back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Say trade me right blaking now, Trade me right blaking now.
Now hang up. Well, it's kind of tough. I don't
think anybody can be GM head coach and the player.
I don't think any can do all three of those things.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
No, it gets to be extremely difficult. And then when
you tack on owner as well, when he gets the
NBA expansion franchise out here in Vegas, you wonder how
he'll be able to wear all four hats simultaneously. But
if there's someone who's going to try and do it,
Lebron James will no doubt.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Be the first look at you already looking forward to
the ownership stake out there, all right, So schedule release
this week, we've got the NHL Playoffs giving us some
thrillers night tonight. What's the average spread half a goal?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I mean when you're looking at the price year, I
mean this time of year, you get the numbers to
really tighten up. The Oilers will be one of the
bigger favorites that you'll see in any of these matchups
for Game three when they go back to Alberta, with
the series noted up at one to one, in the
wake of the Oilers getting an overtime win earlier tonight.
But the way things are trending for Florida and Boston,
Florida starting to emerge as the dominant team on that
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side of the draw and appear to be on a
collision course to take on the New York Rangers in
the Eastern Conference finals. So still a lot of star
power out there, But there are definitely easier ways this
time of year to make money than trying to bet
into some of these NHL playoff games, where most of
them boiled down to bounce here, bounce there, and a
lot more of a coin flip component than what you'll
find in some of the other sports.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Well, it's better for you to say, just bet against
the Mets. I was waiting for you to say that.
That was your line right there, Todd, you had your chance.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I mean, look, your matscot hot for a while, and
they could have bankrupted me and my Martin Gale system
trying to bet against But I mean the reality of
it is, even a blind squirrel can find a nut
in Major League Baseball, unless you're a Chicago White Sox fan.
Although don't don't look now, Gavin Kroschet doing everything he
can to insert his name as a long shot in
the Cy Young race in the American League.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
See if they just get to play the Rays and
the Guardians with some regularity, they got a shot. And
if you can look, if you can say I won
every game my team played this year, that's a pretty
good thing. Well he only won eighteen games, Yeah, but
I won all eighteen of those games. Shut ups.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
That's it's great. It's great negotiating power when you go
to the arbitration table and you try and find that
next extension. If you're the only one responsible for a
team winning eighteen to twenty games, and one starting pitcher
gets to put all of them on his resume.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, but Reinsdorf would pull the old Kamiski. Twenty nine
is not thirty, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Hey, I mean, at this point, it's just a question
of how long Jerry Reinsdorf will actually own the team
for or what he'll do to try and sell it
off for parts. That's becomes the great one hundred million
dollar question as they explore new stadium concepts somewhere along
the Chicago River.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is, at Todd Furman.
Check him out on CBS NHL fuck line. Todd is
always buddy, Appreciate your time, my friend. We'll talk to
you next week.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Enjoy the game, always a pleasure, gentlemen, and joy the
next week of playoff action.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Thanks for stopping down, brother. In other words, don't bet hockey.
Don't bet hockey. Well, you look at the spreads for tomorrow.
They are actually one and a half goals, so you know,
a little bigger margin for her. But to his point,
like we'd watched some crazy ass stuff the last couple
and that sequence earlier tonight. Hey, you start the period
with the goal. Oh wait, we scored back the other
(26:29):
way back to even. Yeah, here's my big prediction. From
our right, the Rangers will beat the Hurricanes. Buy a
goal because they know because the Hurricane Hurricanes are on
the verge of getting swept out of the play a
second straight year. They've lost every game in these series
by a goal and five I think five going to overtime.
So take the Rangers, buy a goal in Game four.
There you go there in overtime. Here's my best bet.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Time Now to find out what's trending in the widd
world of sports, Let's check in with Montcy Blagos, who
is about to cash in all her winnings because she
had today as the day Caleb Williams would be named
Bear Starting. How about that I had about weeks ago?
I know you one congratulation. No, I'm surprised it just
came out. I thought we knew that weeks ago. Well,
(27:11):
you know, you know, sometimes it takes a while. Ficial,
you're right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Yes, I should have put all my money on that
silly me.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Instead, I put it all on the Clippers, And that's
exactly what I did. Got crazy crazy. I don't I
don't know what I'm doing with my life.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Nuggets know what they're doing with their lives. They came
out for Game three crushed the Timberwolves one seventeen to ninety.
Minnesota still leads that series two to one. Nicola Yoga
just shive a triple double twenty four, fourteen to nine
the Pacers. It got close. It was not ag it
was not pretty, it wasn't ugly. It just got close
and it was physical. They beat the Knicks one eleven
to one oh six. New York still leads that series
(27:48):
two to one. Now, the Dallas Mavericks are listing Luka
Doncic as questionable for Saturday's Game three against the Thunder
with a right knee sprain and left ankle soreness. In
the NHL Playoffs, the Oilers just even the series about
ten minutes ago with the four to three overtime win
against the Canucks. The Panthers defeated the Bruins six to two,
(28:11):
so Florida leads that series two to one. In baseball,
Luis Araz with the walk off RBI single the padres
hedge the Dodgers two to one. The Reds snapped in
eight game losing streak. They beat the Giants four to two.
Elie de Lacruz twenty five stolen bases so far. The
Astros came back earlier today today to defeat the Tigers
five to two, while the Yankees beat the Rays to
(28:32):
zero and the Orioles had a four to two victory
over the Diamondbacks. The Braves topped the Mets in New
York for to two, and the Phillies defeated the Marlins
nine to four. Miami has now lost.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Four in a row.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
Other news in sports, Toronto has been awarded a WNBA
expansion team that's going to be getting playing in twenty
twenty six. Paris Sainterer mainstar Achillian and bappe Anno said
he's going to leave the club after their match on Sunday,
and Xander Schoffley is in the lead at the Wells
Fargo Chain being Chip After their two rounds, he is
eleven under par overall.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Back to you guys, that's fun. You know, I love
I love you know European soccer stories where yeah, I'm
gonna leave now, I'm gonna play one more game than
I'm gonna go. Okay, yeah, and I'm here and then
I'm gonna go like like here in the United States,
where it's about oh, if you want out and you're done.
You're on the restricted last. We're putting you on the
(29:24):
active last. I'm gonna leave, but I'll play one more
I'm gonna give you one more chance to cheer me
or Boomy one more game then I'm gonna go. Then
I'm gonna leave. That. I mean, he's coming to the MLS.
Not yet, No, young young Yeah yeah, rs. You have
to be over thirty to come to the MLS. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Thank you very much. Guys, to the way the Jason
(29:45):
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack
dot Com Studios. We get a great big football hot
take coming your way in a few minutes. But a
couple of minutes here to remember the life of Sean Burrows.
And I'm sure everybody was shocked today when you saw
the story. Yes for Major League in Fielder League World
Series hero Sean Burrows died at the age of forty three.
He'd been out of the game for a while. He
(30:05):
was coaching his kid's little league team Thursday and collapsed
while he was coaching the game.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He was forty three years old, and it was a stunner,
obviously when you see someone this young something like that happen,
especially since ye know he was coaching. He was coaching
a little league team and and speaking a little league
you know, did he have the the MLB career that
everybody expected. No, he had a great first couple of years.
But then, as he had said in recent years, you know,
(30:33):
I didn't really have the drive. I realized I was
just like sick of baseball. It didn't give me a
joy because plays so much for so long your life
with your dad, right, and sometimes yeah, sometimes you know,
you do too much of it and you wind up
backing off. But you know, but he said, listen, I
just and I needed to get away from the game.
Then he tried to come back and play a little bit,
which was great. But you know the thing is, I
(30:54):
remember back when I was a PA at ESPN and
in nineteen ninety three, and and this is you know,
Sean Burrows was the best Little leaguer that any of
us had ever seen. Like in the on the Mount
rushmore of great little leaguers in history, like he's at
the top. He went back to back the Little League
World Series. He was a pitcher, he was a home
run hitter. I remember watching him play and you know,
(31:15):
he was a big kid, and he was big, full
of power, and when he hit home runs, he round
the bases like a big leaguer like he didn't you
know a kid. You know a kid, it's a home
running the bases like yeah, home run, just like my
dad did it. And it was you could tell, Okay,
this kid's gonna be special. And he was so much
fun to cover. He was such a big drawing card
for Little League Baseball, little League World Series. And it's
(31:37):
just such a such a sad, sad story. But you know,
for someone who touched so many people, uh in his life,
he heard a lot of people say today he was
one of the great guys, always stay in touch with
people and understood when he had issues and he would
be able to ask for help and always try to
do the right thing and getting his life on track.
And it's just it's just such a sad story to
see that, hey, here he was giving back to the
(31:58):
sport that made him fits and gave him the life
he had and this is where you know, he winds
up passing away. It's just a sad story. So damn
young Because I had been offline a bit earlier today
and I came back to find that. And then Sam Rubin,
who was an institution here in Los Angeles, an entertainment reporter,
a ton of vehicles, a lot of the red carpet stuff.
(32:20):
It's like the two of those in order, one what
forty three, forty four and one at sixty four, And
I think Sam Rubin had just did a radio he
did this morning, like he did a TV hit yesterday
in a radio. So it's like, you know, you got Burrows.
He's on the field and he's you know, practicing and
all of that stuff, and he passes away Ruben doing
his job, and it's just one of those things just
(32:40):
you know, be embraced the moment that you're in, people
that you're with, make sure you're communicating whatever else. Like
just just stunned. Like the Burroughs news just hit me
in a whole other way. With the amount of youth
sports you and I engage in between our kids and
what we're facilitating. It's just one of those Wow, you
think about just how quickly everything changes. You know, when
(33:03):
I'm going through Twitter and I see Sean Burrows trending,
I go, oh, what did he like? Also, the name
I haven't heard again a coach, And I read the
Bob Nightingale tweet like three times of like what what what?
And I and and my friends and I because the
ones I still talk to from ESPN, we're all texting
each other because we all were twenty two to twenty
three years old working on the Little League World Series
(33:24):
when he was big to and it was like this
whole thing between us about remember when he did this,
but when he did this? Uh, such a sad, sad story. Uh.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire Rack dot
Com studios here at Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio
dot Com. Uh, coming up next, Yes, sports is our business.
We continue on a great big NFL hot take for you,
(33:45):
one that the man on my left is gonna love
unless he doesn't. Are you sure? I'm sure you're on
my left? That's not that's about him. That's about it,
Neil Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Chuck cuck down, Hey, Caliverton, double tem shut cluck at
cork them. Mart's gotta put it up, step back.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
His three pointers, the heart the Brave.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
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Speaker 1 (34:20):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live from Thetirack dot Com studios. And we've
had a lot of NBA tonight. Yeah, a lot of knicks,
a lot of lucky pacers. One of the greatest shots
at NBA history and marks one shining moment. He closed
his eyes, turned with his back to the basket and
threw it up and it went in. Hey, congratulations, Yes, great?
(34:43):
Did that get someone in the age of the Oh,
I'm so scared. I don't want to shoot it. You
have to, Okay, Oh it went in. I'm so lucky.
I'm such a lucky player. Oh hey, what was going
through mind when you shot it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I just blacked out. I don't even though it was.
It was so so difficult. I don't even know. Could
you make that shot?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Again?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Never, I'm never gonna. I really wish his answer would
have been better, because he really did kind of channel
everything you surmised. I told you, I'm lucky. I didn't
expect it because obviously look shot clock running down Halliburton
with a bad decision to give it up late, where
he's thirty feet from the basket. Yes, I told you,
he would say afterwards, I don't I don't remember and
(35:28):
I and I was lucky. And that's exactly what he
said after the game. I don't remember it. Boy, I
was shocked it went in. I mean, come on, man,
the Giants step back. Look at the smile. I'm looking
at the smile on those things now. He's like, like,
I just want you to just want to contest like that.
He backed Brunson off. You gotta get him like he
did dribble right, backed him off and then stepped way
(35:50):
back and bang. That was just what a what a
what a lucky shot? See that final final four minutes.
Teammates didn't believe it. He He's like, I don't believe
that guy with two points tonight one for seven made
that show with Caitlyn Clark in the crowd hitting a
Clark like shot. You told me who has a better
(36:12):
chance of hitting a big three pointer at the end
of a game in winning and nempard Caitlin Clark. I
would say, Caitlyn Clark coming down in blue jeans and
a T shirt and he's gonna hit the shot more
than that's gonna happen. But let me make it unless
I don't make it happy, well you will. Big NFL
News today, Caitlin Clark, Caleb Williams, Kaylyn Clark, although she'd
(36:32):
be fine to Caleb Williams named QB one for the
Chicago Bears, taking the mantle from Andy Dalton with the
famous QB one And here comes Captain Obvious floating down
the river. So not a surprise because they didn't postpone
the future. And I love this because it's not like
there was a guy there that you could put in
where Williams could sit and watch and then take over
(36:54):
when he's ready. Well, once they traded Justin Kield, everything
was gone. If they had a Gardner Minshew, let's say, okay,
you can let him sit and watch, because Minshew has
played pretty well and he's that kind of guy. Right
about the time he turns into a pumpkin, Williams ready.
But the thing is is that you want Williams in there.
And that's why this is a great decision, is because
forget about this whole crazy ass bet that was made
(37:16):
and then canceled with Jayden Daniels and Malik Neighbors about
who's gonna win. Offensive rookie of the year. It's gonna
be Caleb Williams in a walk because the Bears are loaded.
This is not a team, Hey, we're starting over, give
us a couple of years. This is no We are
taking advantage of a franchise quarterback and the best prospect
the last few years on a rookie contract deal. So
(37:37):
we go out in the offseason. We get the running
back we need and DeAndre Swift. We get two more
wide receivers that we need, and Keenan Allen and Romo Doones.
We have two good tight ends now, not just one.
The Bears are loaded. If he accounts for thirty touchdowns
this year, I'm not surprised. The Bears are gonna flip
seven and ten to ten and seven. They're going to
the playoffs. There's a reason why Caleb Williams is a
(37:58):
number one overall pick in their There was never any
conversation that maybe Jaden Daniels would go or anybody else
would go above him. He is that good. He is
NFL ready, and he's got incredible weapons around him. This
off season makeover by the Bears is one of the
most impressive in maybe the last two decades. Because you
brought in a franchise quarterback, a franchise wide receiver, an
(38:21):
All Pro wide receiver, and a Pro Bowl running back.
I mean, you did that, and it's not like you
spent so so much money to do it. You hardly
spent any money to go and you started it in
season last year when you traded for Montes Sweat. It's
right because you watched how that defense change once he arrived.
Look the Bears, that buddy. If you're If the Bears
don't go to the playoffs and Williams doesn't account for
(38:43):
thirty touchdowns, it's a disappointment, No, ab one hundred percent.
Like the expectations are huge and certainly, I mean you
chronicled all of it. You already had a pretty good
run running attack, and most of those guys are still
there to pick up the pieces there. The offensive line
played much better as the season war on. We already
talked about the defense they rated as what top seven,
top eight unit down the stretch, gave away a game
(39:05):
to the Lions, beat him in the other I mean
you go back through what it should have could is
that game they were bludgeoning Denver and then gave that
game up. Like there were opportunities even last year to
have maybe crept in in that seventh seed. But the
depth of that early season struggle when they like it
was just such a mess that that there was no
(39:27):
coming back, too big a gap. But you look at
it now, Yeah, I'm a bit upset that it's so
overweighted with positivity for the Bears in the front office.
But normally it's all right, well, I mean they could
be okay. Now it's oh, we got Caleb Williams and
we got that guy, and that guy and look at him.
(39:48):
Well get Halo's floating over their heads like this is
the greatest day in Bears.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
History till Jason said they're gonna be good. You really
think he screwed me?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right there? Done three games tops here it is May tenth.
So far risingly, they've lost their first eight games and
Caleb Williams still yet to throw a touchdown Pat and
now Vin Scully's calling Bears games. Really time out from
this pick six by the Lions to bring you this
word from farmer John sausage even got the sausage and
sausages from farmer John. Let's take time up from this
(40:20):
pick six, Like as the guy's running down the sunlight
and let's take time out from this pick six thirty
twenty ten Farmer John sauce as the lower third just
comes up with the farmer John logo. They changed the
score on the floor and as he goes to spike
the ball and is now a sausage, the little Farmer
John just runs up and hits the button and it
changes I hate you Bird Burdy Fox mix Yo.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
The milk is from cows, the chicken choke on the
ding Dong latte, It's from all
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