May 8, 2026 • 32 mins
Rob and Kelvin pay homage to all of their moms ahead of this Mother’s Day weekend, debate whether the WNBA at-large still has it out for Caitlin Clark. Plus, Essentially Sports and FOX Sports Radio NBA insider Mark Medina swings by to discuss the controversial officiating surrounding the Oklahoma City Thunder, what to look for in Game 3 between the San Antonio Spurs and the Minnesota Timberwolves, and much more!
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Couple fs R and subscribe. I know at the end
of the show to be kind of frantic and we'll
be trying to get out of here and Mother's Day
is here. Obviously, it's an important day for everybody and
their moms, and you know, and we talk about different
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things that go on. My mom has passed, and of
all the things, I just want to say this, and
you know, feel free to you guys if you want
to say something about your moms. But of all the things,
my mom, Mary Parker, that stands out the most to me,
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and I might have mentioned this to you before, is
my mom was an excellent baker. The kid used to
got a nickname for a called her Betty Crocker. How's
Betty Crocker doing? Because she was she was fantastic baking cakes,
making pies, all that kind of stuff. But I think
the thing that spoke volumes about her is that all
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the kids in the neighborhood wanted her to make their
birthday cakes. That's a special thing for a mom, you
know what I mean, to make a birthday cake for
their kid. And my mom would not go against the
mom cold, so to speak. So my mom would be like,
you have to get your mom to call me and
(02:38):
say it's okay, and then you can bring the ingredients
or whatever. But if your mom does not call me
and say and ask you know is it okay and
that she's cool with it.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I can't do it, And that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Do you imagine having a mom who bakes all the
kids in the neighborhood their birthday cake?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that was Mary Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Happy, my blessed Miss Mary Parker. I know she's proud
of you. Yeah, you know, shout out to my mother,
Marcia and Mama dud. We had her on the show
Spectrum earlier. It was really special. Got a chance to,
you know, talk live with her on TV and kind
of asked her a little bit. What was it like,
you know, being my mother, my sister's mother, and any
motherly advice for everybody. So she she did an excellent job.
(03:18):
I'll just say quickly for me, the safeness. I always
felt safe. I always felt comfortable in her presence. I felt,
you know, it was home. And I don't mean just
a literal one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, like being.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
On somebody who cares for you and looking out for you,
protecting you.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's been always man, just building up my confidence, praying
for me, treating me great, treating my friends great, as
you mentioned, and I think what is like an everlasting
thing for me was that she was that for so
many others, Like people felt like, man, if I could
just talk to your mom, it'll be okay. Hey man,
can you ask your mom to pray for me? Hey man,
(03:58):
can I come over it? And I go upstairs? Man,
let me go switch hoodies and come back downstairs. My
friends are crying. She's loving on them. You know it's
gonna be okay. Like she became that for so many
that my sister Dovey can agree where it was normal
for us to go be running around a grocery store
and come back and then aisle six, so you know,
she's like loving up on somebody who's been through some things.
Or can we come home and there's somebody in the
(04:20):
dining room we'd ever knew there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
She's making them a hot meal.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So that same comfort, that piece that loved, that that
security that we felt, she extended that to others and
it just kind of became second nature for us to
have people around.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And she just felt like that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
My friends loved being around my mom because she was
that for them as well. Man, So happy Mother's Day
to Mama, Mama dub and yeah, so I totally get that, man.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Rob g Alex, please shime in.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
So it's funny you guys have such touching things to say.
My mom has done a plethor of things for me,
not only being a single mom for half of my life,
coming from outside the country, being first born here on
both sides, my mom single handedly has not only made
me the man I am today, she decided to give
me the name of Alexander, which means I had to
take over a lot of stuff, so that didn't make
it like, you know, a lot of place for failure.
And also a great thing she did is she taught
(05:07):
me not only the value of confidence, but to stand
up for yourself. And I still remember my first job
when I was in I think it was a freshman
in high school. There was a local batting cages by
my house and my buddy Natter worked throughout the time,
and so he got a job. He was filling whenever.
And I remember my mom she was like, you should go,
you should get a job. So I was like, all right,
I guess, So so I went there, talked to the guy.
He's like, yeah, for sure, you know, like I'll call
(05:28):
you whenever I need you and you'll get whatever hours
I can think of. And I was like, okay, cool shit,
it's my first job. I'm not gonna shoot that down.
So remember, I went back to the crib.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Told my mom.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
She's like, okay, so when you work. I was like,
I don't know. She's like, what do you mean you
or know? I was like, he said he'd call me
when he needs me. She's like, what do you mean
he call you? She don't have set hours And I
was like no, She's like, give me a sec. Give
me a sec. So she did something. I was hanging
out with my buddy. She comes back ten minutes later
and she says, yeah, you're no longer working there. I
was like, I got hired and fired at the same
(05:58):
time by my mom, which was amazing. But it taught
me to stand up for myself, you know, and like
really to move forward and to know the value of
what your value is and so like from cooking to
cleaning to morals to values to being solidarity with self
and being able to stand up for myself and to
move forward in a country with no family here, Like
I can safely say my mom's a superhero. She's ran
a daycare for twenty five years. She's raised almost a
(06:19):
thousand kids, herself, like.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I already know, right, she's a super mom.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So shout out to my mom.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
No doubt, Happy Mother's Day, rob Ge. I just wrap
it up quickly. I know we're gonna have late.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
So my mom's single mom, as Alex mentioned, so that
alone presents a lot of challenges, and we have three boys,
and having to raise three men as a single mom
can be very challenging. And she did a phenomenal job.
But the one thing I've always loved about my mom
and I still love about my mom is everything about
her is you know, exaggerated is the word I would use.
Like if she's happy, she is the happiest person in
(06:50):
the room. When she's emotional and you know, we find
out the kid, the girls are pregnant, she's crying hysterically, right,
all the things that you want, and you want to
see the emotionality from all spectrum. That's one thing I've
always loved to appreciate about my mom because if I
have good news, the first person, even ahead of my wife,
sometimes the first person I want to tell is my
mom because she's going to be over the moon excited
(07:10):
about it. And if I'm feeling sad and I need
somebody who can relate to what I'm going through. She
will sit and cry with you for hours. Wow, because
she feels so big about everything.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And that's something I've always lived about my mom.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Awesome, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I just thought it was important that we know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'm I'm glad we did that, man, because I belive
everybody driving listening podcasts and you know they can relate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And and the last thing, don't take your mom for granted, like,
like I'm telling you you really can't. I've said this before.
I was really really busy on a Father's Day covering
a baseball game in Philadelphia, and you know, like Father's Day,
I was like I need to call my dad or whatever.
And I did call him. I was able to get
(07:55):
a call through and whatever whatever, and that was it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
He was. He was gone three days later.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So I always, you know what I mean, that always
stuck with me, like thank God, it would have killed
me literally that I didn't, you know what I mean,
make an effort even though I was really busy on
the road. That's all the excuses why you wouldn't make
that call. But all right, rob G we do want
to talk about the w NBA, which I think the
season started.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Today, started tonight in honor of Mother's Day week, were
celebrating women's basketball.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I've never missed the WNB, right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm glad we got all that out the way now
because now you already know so.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well this is so I'm trying to soften the blow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Ahead of opening night, the w NBA themselves, not ESPN,
not the Athletic, not CBS, the w NBA themselves pulled
their GMS and asked forty two different questions all related
to the upcoming season, and one of the questions that
they asked was which player would you pick to start
a franchise with? Now context. When they asked this question
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last year, Clark ran away within fifty percent of the vote.
This year they asked the question again, Paige Beckers was
the runaway winner thirty three percent of the vote. Kaitlin
Clark and raining m VP Asa Wilson finished tied for second.
That's notable because when the Kaitlyn Clark and the DNA
Fever open the season this weekend, they will open it
(09:21):
up with Paige Beckers head.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Dad, I just don't get to the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I really don't because at every turn they seem to
not want Caitlyn Clark to be what she's turned into.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
The contract that they have, the.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Charter flights, you know, and all these other things that
they weren't getting for the thirty years this league was
hobbling around and this woman comes in along and people
are watching the sport like it's undeniable.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So I'm just not sure.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I get it, there can I And I want
to say this with all sincerity because I'm not trying
to be flipping. Jackie Robinson wasn't the greatest black player
at the time when Nate when he showed up, Do
you know what I mean in nineteen forty he wasn't.
There were Josh Gibson, there were other black players who
(10:17):
were better, but he was the right guy at the
right time.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Do you know what I mean? To fit? And I
get it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
There are other players, women, players who probably who were
better than Caitlyn Clark, but they don't have all the
other stuff that goes with it. What made her not
being she was doing stuff nobody else was doing.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Kelvin. It's more than just oh this she's better than her.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, it was Kitlyn Clark with that got everybody's interest,
got guys interested in watching her because they never saw
a woman shoot like that. There's other stuff that goes
with it and her and she moved the needle. Why
they have an issue with her, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know what, We've had this conversation since I've been
a show a few times, just because different things will happen,
not making the Olympic team, the way they kind of
treated her with all star stuff and I and just
with the files and whatnot. I do believe there's an
element of hold on, young lady. You know, we've been
here before you, We'll be here after you. I think
there was a WNBA kind of a christening or a
hazing or a welcome to the league, for sure, without
(11:20):
a doubt. And I disagree with some of it. I
disagree with the Olympics. It was a chance to put
the big star on a platform across the world. This
one I don't have a problem with. Paige Beckers is incredible.
Paige Beckers is a bucket page. Beckers is probably more
complete of a player than Caitlyn Clark. Also, Kaitlyn Clark's
coming off a big injury didn't quite look the same
(11:42):
when she came back, and so I think there's an
element of people saying, let me see how she bounces back,
let me see what she ends up looking like. So
this one, to me, isn't quite the gripes and the
being petty that I think had happened historically. This one,
I think on just a basketball since there's what's happening
and the real to be honest with you, the offense
that I would take is anyone who actually chose anyone
(12:04):
other than Asia Wilson. Asia Wilson is in a league
figuratively literally of her own at this point, four time MVP,
three time NBA champ, including the reigning NBA champ, I mean,
multiple time Defensive Player of the Year, already in the
argument for the greatest WNBA player of all time, and
(12:24):
she's not even I don't even know if she's thirty yet.
Like so it's crazy what she's been able to do
already in her career. So to me, I'm actually blown away.
And if you're asking me who I'm starting a career
right now, that it's not Agiel Wilson, or that she
only got twenty percent of the vote, I get that
they've been petty before.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They've been short sighted.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They didn't take the long term of a long term
approach with some of the Caitlyn Clark stuff. And I'll
be the first one to raise my hand saying, y'all
tripping get her on that Olympic team. Stop filing her,
beating her up, because you know, she's been great for
the league. She's been great to monetize the league. She's
been great to get the sport and commercials in places
that we haven't seen. But to me, I looked at
this as a slapping the face to Asia Wilson, and
(13:04):
Alex hit me with my what more do you want
from me? Because I don't know what more she wants.
She's walking, she got the commercials for me. Her shoes
sold out in ten minutes. I mean, Asia Wilson, is
that that chick? And I just think, wait, where's Paige?
Did she play for?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
The Dallas?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What are the the Wings? Chicken Dallax Chicken Wings? Is
it Lemon Pepper?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My point is this as good as she is? Guess
what they are intendeds like? Seriously, guess what they are?
The third worst, the third worst, the less than seven
thousand people a game, this is the person you're starting
the league with. I'm like, like seriously, and last year
(13:47):
I think Golden State had the best attendance.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They were an expansion team, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So I'm in a basket of basketball crazy hub right now.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, so so that they had but just barely beat
out Indiana.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
What is that? The fevers that it is? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Where are the aces?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The Las Vegas aces were fourth at twelve thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Okay, all right, that's about right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I thought, And I just I'm assuming these are
all real, paid for tickets, not you know, fluffers.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You haven't Detroit shot flashbacks? Stop it?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, because I know the details. I know where the
bodies were buried. I'm just being honest there. But I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I I just think I think there's some hate around her.
But I personally I didn't view with this one. There's
been stuff where I come on this show with you
and say, hey, y'all got to stop it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There are people who have something that it's just it's
not just being the best player.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
There's a lot that goes with it. That's that's my point.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh, I completely agree. We talked about the time.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
In fact, it factor ain't always you the best at
it and not for me. Asia also has that it factor,
so that's why. And she's just insanely good. So for me,
I would be more like if I'm agent, like, what
the what excuse me? How is is there anybody would
choose over me?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It would it's always Caitlin Clark because I don't want
the arena to be drafty. I want Phil did the
building to be filled as uh so if I'm the
general manager.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
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Speaker 5 (15:20):
Nobody laughs, right, trying to make a Barkley joke.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He Raymond. Thanks, That's how Chuck. That's how Chuck felt.
Chuck handled. Chuck spoke about it too.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Yeah, he was good, all right?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Did the uh did the w NBA gms take a
shot at Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
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NBA hating on Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Is Pagebacker's just that chick? Is uh Asia Wilson? The one?
Is she the star?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Want to care?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Now?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
To wait to set us up with all the Mother's
Day talking about? What do you think you slick? I
just want to say women are amazing and I love
them and we need.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
It and there's nothing to do with the w n
B A I think it could be great. I'm not
we we're celebrating Mother's Day, moms. That doesn't mean that now.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I'm just saying, Roger, he had two other hours to
do it. He waited to this time to do it
right before the talk.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You think you slick? I get your tricks? I get
your tricks?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Rob all Right eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox?
How about Andrea Massachusetts? You're in the odd couple of
Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
They don't even have a team in Boston? Right, they
don't even have a team. What's up? Dry?
Speaker 9 (17:58):
How you doing? Thanks? Taking a call? Oh, there was
talk about bringing the team from Connecticut over into Boston.
I'm not sure if that went through.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, no, no, I didn't go through the people in Boston.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
When I went up there to speak at Harvard, they
were talking about that whole thing.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh and uh no, they don't have a team now, so.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
All we do.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, they want to sell tickets, go ahead, want.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
To sell tickets. We worked out of town until the
Celtics traded away Jew Holliday and broke up what could
have been a dynasty. So right now the teams are
the teams are down, but we're all for We're all
for the sports in Boston. Listen. In terms of Kaitlyn
Clark and Page Beckers, people need to remember they're They're
the same class. They came out of high school together.
All this talked about why Caitlin Clark didn't go to Yukon.
Paige Beckers is the reason she didn't go to Yukon,
(18:46):
and the whole Kitlyn Clark's phenomenon happened their sophomore year
when guess what, Page Beckers was injured. Okay, and then
her junior year she broke out they beat South Caroline.
So these two players have been neck and neck their
entire their entire life, from the same age they came
up together. And it's much more on one a than
the media, and the exposure kind of give it credence
(19:08):
to right, they're both equally very good stars of the game.
It's just that Paige Beckers had injuries and then broke
through her senior year when she was finally healthy, and
that's when Caitlyn Clark went through to the WNBA. So
this whole thing. Listen Page Becker. She's wonderful for women's basketball,
wonderful for the w NBA. She is the north star.
People gravitate to her. There's nothing wrong with that. It
(19:28):
doesn't mean if there's not other talented, capable, dynamic, extraordinary
women's basketball players. And frankly, they pumble the ball. They
fight amongst themselves, far too much bird and magic. They battled,
but David Stern realized, we need both of you for
the growth of the game. Let's get along and that
can be the rise and tie to lift all boats. WNBA.
I need to see more of that.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Thanks tak Nicole, Hey did you leave? Are you down?
I'll Have you been to a w NBA game? I'm
just curious, have.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
You because there's not to know I haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And that's all I know. You have you can come
to New Jersey in New York. I'm just asking you're
a basketball game.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
It was closer, i'd definitely be then. This is one
of the things I'm big big on basketball players. We
love women's basketball, support it, and you see the NBA
guys showing love. So I just think it's a no
brainer for people in the sport and we just need
to grow it for more people who are not hoopers.
Thanks taking a call.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yep, thank you, Rob You guys, I appreciate you. Oh,
I thought YOURU you want me to weigh in on
women's basketball here around? No, I don't know. You know,
Kelvin goes to games or whatever it takes is.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
I don't even go to NBA games anymore. The last
NBA game I went to, true story was Lakers Clippers
during the Kobe Powell era and it was Blake Griffin.
And the only reason why I even went to that
game is because the Clippers, you don't have a hard
time selling tickets at that time. They did a promotion
(20:50):
with the college that my wife was working at at
the time where the tickets were only thirty five dollars
in the lower bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
So I saw.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Like four times and it was by one gift four
free right, but.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Not like to go to a Linker placially with Lebron
like one hundred and fifty allers did at the top.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, rob Gi, you know way too many people, and
I don't. It doesn't I'm gonna be honest, ROGGI. It
makes zero sense that you've not been to a game
in that long. If you say, oh, it's been three
four years, or maybe COVID threw me off, and I
get that. That Blake Griffin on the Clippers, he didn't
been to the Penstons. He'd been doing team, he'd been retired.
That's my point, Like what you just don't want to go?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
No, because if I'm going to go to a game,
I want to sit close. And there's no good reasons.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
You don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know too many people, You've been doing this too long.
You don't want to go. You because I know how
you make stuff happen, to go to Sea World and
Disney on ice and all that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You just want to be dad and don't want to go.
That's that's it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He's right.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's harder to get tickets people, Kelvin. Everybody's not getting
free tickets like you. Everybody like, wait, why are you
gonna frame me up?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You get free What do you mean you people?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I'm just saying you get free tickets. I'm just saying
you can win.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
She read to go see the Lakers? And was it
Kyrie Irving?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Dallas, Dallas? Me, don't stop this one game? My father
and two nephews.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I paid two thousand dollars to go to a basketball rob, Rob.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Nobody gave me tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Rot, Rob, you ain't going you How many games are
you going to in the last three or four years
that you ain't paid for?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Stop me twenty? What's that thirty for? Hey?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
What are you telling about baseball games?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No? I paid off basketball.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I'm paying for those. I got a big thing coming
up June tenth. And when you went into a dome
weeks ago, did you pay those tickets?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Hello, I can't hear you, Rob exactly. You know, don't
tell Rob you anything. He'll just drop dome one.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What do you think I thought you pay for them?
Stopping Rob? Rob?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
G We got a remedy that, that's sir, I got it.
We got a remedy that Robbie that will make any sense,
all right, all the way.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
But you have to take the whole family right. You
need for are you afford him?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
You know, one of the kids that can be paying
attention to the other one be cheering for the wrong team.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
But we will look bad at a unit.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You are a great dad, a great husband. You work hard.
You deserve a night. You can go to a game.
We'll get to a game, man, because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
In fact, for Mother's there you're cooking breakfast for your
wife and another that.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We can around breakfast in bed. She had two kids
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I mean, if I had a wife with two kids,
I think I would walk on water for her.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I don't think you would rap. I think, Hey, hey,
the Yankees playing.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
You gotta go to the ballpark tonight because playing the
Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I gotta go. But you're not even covering the game.
But I gotta go. I gotta you sound, I just gotta.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Gotta meet a potential new Uh, you gotta be the potential.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, I gotta go to the game. But it's Mother's Day,
I know, but it'll be Mother's Day next year too.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh god, all right, all right, Mark, fucking coming on
the other side right now trending with Steve the Singer.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
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Speaker 1 (24:14):
Hey Steve, you have a great, great weekend, Steve Couple,
Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington on a funky flash back Friday.
That's right, And as always we get to talk to
our guy, Mark Funky Cole Medina and he let's see
whatever thing he got to be for Rob right now, Rob,
whatever you owe him something for, let's check with him.
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Fox Sports Radio, NBA Insider, essentially Sports Mark g Underscore Madina.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
What up?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Mark Calvin, I'll Rob, I'm losing track of what bets
rabos because there's many, so you guys can gotcha up
to speed.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Even the one bet that we did have didn't even
I mean, it was no clear winner.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
It was like you said, I bet you about the
postseason being good and whatever with.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
The Christmas Day game is be competitive within single digits.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
That's I don't I don't remember. We gotta get the tape, Alex.
We're gonna get the tape for that.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
We'll do that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And if it's if that's what I said, with what
you saying single digits or whatever, then I'll get you
a piece of cheese.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Cut. How about this, Rob, we got to run the tape.
There's many of you saying Mike Brown's Charlie Brown. What's
he gonna do with this Knicks? I mean, look there
on a Royer.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, hey, you know it's funny Mark. Somebody called you
out Rob on Twitter. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
They said. So the Pistons are fraud. The Knicks ain't
making into the finals. What you gonna do? Rob, Ain't
got no easy.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Easy. The Pistons lose to the Calves, and the Calves
beat the Knicks. How's that?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Stop it?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Rock?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
How's that?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I told you the Calves that don't happen?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
But how's that all right? Ain't happen?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Nobody believes that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's like it's like it's like the Lions weren't losing
to the Washington uh uh commanders with a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I remember that with the best record.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
Rob, you know what's a safe? But remember that one
on what you thought I was wrong to win we
took serious Lakers have no shot.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Well, I think we already said that. I think anybody
and the uncle could say that.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well start there for us man, the Lakers, more than
anything we were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't think they can play with the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't think anybody except maybe one or two teams
of Spurs being one of them. But more than anything,
they have had periods of each game where they're either
up or they're right there, and then there's just a
period where the SGA goes to the bench and next
thing you know, they're going like a big thirteen oh
run or the league gets up to thirteen. But the
Lakers have issues with these calls the officials. Do you
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see it the same way a lot of people do
a lot of folks even during the broadcast, Dan van
Gunni and others, do you see it that way?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Well?
Speaker 10 (26:45):
I think both things can be true, but it's not
like it's going to change anything. I think you hit
the nail on the head, Calvin, that we were saying
that when the Lakers going a run, then the Thunder
do it anything to extend this, you know, Charlie Brown,
analogy that Rob would have It's like when he was
making momentum with finally getting the ball and then Lucy
Pools at the last minute. Right, That's what the Thunder
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do to the Lakers. The Lakers aren't giving up. They're
still competitive. They're making adjustments, like you know, Austin Reeves
bounce back game from game one game two. They're getting
guys three point shots better. But it doesn't matter every
time they counter with something. To your point, that Thunder
have another answer. Shay has foul trouble so well when
he's on the floor, he's still great. When he's off
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the floor, everyone else are making threes. And the officiating part,
I get it. You know, Lebron he gets four attempts.
There are times that he will get superstar calls. There
are times that he won't get calls. I think because
he has that such strong athletic build, like a normal
foul doesn't look as egregious as a wood for a
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smaller guy. And I get the emotions of things, and
you know, maybe the playoff politicking, but look like even
if you grant the Lakers a few extra free throws,
they lost by eighteen points, not going to change anything dramatically,
and they also got twenty one free throws as a whole,
the Thunder got twenty six.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
So I don't think it's just that I don't think
people expect the Lakers to win.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That is that when you watch the games and what
the Thunder do and just what they get away with people,
it just was glaring last night.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I think that's all it is.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Nobody's like, oh, the Lakers are supposed to win this
series and they getting job.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
It's ugly. It's an ugly it's an ugly watch.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
It's an ugly league wide.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Throughout the season, they haven't getten gotten called for a
lot of fouls, and I think that threw up people
the wrong way because they do play physical. You know,
we look at the altercation of Lou Dort had with
Nikole Jokic. So yeah, like all these all these things
are valid. The frustrations are real. I don't think it's excuses,
but I don't think it changes, you know, the underlying
outcome here and the other thing I agree.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
With that, I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't think that they lost by eighteen yeast ten eight, Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I think Mark, to add to what Rob's saying is
I use an example.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I said Barry bonds ay, Rod didn't need steroids.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
He was already one of the best in the league
and best of his generation.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You add that to it, and I my point was
all the flopping, not just necessarily even trying to draw
files for shots. They're flopping on you know, acting like
a guy hit him in the jaw while they're on defense.
And to me, if you're a tough, hard nosed team,
you don't typically see that on the other side, like
the Knicks back in the day in the nineties weren't floppers.
The Bad Boys weren't floppers. And I mean Bill Lambert
whatever now and again. But you know what I mean,
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like this team, they don't need that portion because of
what you're saying, how great they are.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
Yeah, no, one hundred percent. I mean that Shed Honger
and acting job.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I wondered over that was insane.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
Commercials Now now, I guess he's ready to do some
movies here. And that was the rare case that JJ
Riddick challenges the call and it was overturned. I think
the other thing that the thunder have concluded is that officials,
like they obviously make mistakes, they obviously still get some
calls right, by a lot of times officials determine, you
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know what, Like, it's not so much about making the
right or wrong call, it's about to ensure the consistent
flow of the game. And so I think the thunder
of calculators look like they're not going to call every single,
you know, potential foul, especially in the playoff game. So
let's just make it a numbers game, right, And because
they have so much depth and talent, they can get
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away and afford someone gaining foul troubles.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
How about lasting on the Spurs in Minnesota Timberwolves?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
What do you make of that series?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And you know, Timberwolves win game one, people are ready
to push the panic button, and then the Spurs drub
them in game two.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
How important is this for the for the Timberwolves at home? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
I think usually when you have a team that goes
back and forth game three, typically it doesn't determine, okay,
who's going to win a seven game series, but it
usually provides clarity on where the series is going to turn.
So I think it's vastly important. Even though the Wolves
stole game one and and San Antonio responded by resounding
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double digits. The weird thing about Minnesota is when they're
down and they feel challenged a lot of times, that's
when they're at their best. But I think on paper,
the Spurs are a better team. Victor Lemniama is obviously
a dominant defensive room protector, and I think that they
have better depth. But the Wolves they got Anthony Edwards.
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He's the best offensive player in the series, and he
does get up when he feels challenged. So I still
get the nod to San Antonio, but I also want
to be surprised if they make this series interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Hey, last one for me real quick, the Pisson Calves.
Is this a series still? Do you think the Calves
have something, you know, to be able to pull this
thing and make it too too?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
They could, but I think that they just They've shown
throughout this playoffs that James Harden is the James hard
in the past. He's unreliable. The playoffs, he's not efficient.
They're spen games that Donvin Mitchell has been the same thing.
So not that Detroit has been a perfect team because
they barely survived that first round series against Orlando, but
I think as it pertains to Cleveland, I think they're
going to be just fine. But then they're going to
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run into this new Eastern Conference, sugar, not that are
the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Should be if that's the end up being the Eastern
Confas finals, should be great. All right, Hey, thank you
so much, Sava.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Wonderful weekend, Rob Calvin, all the.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Best of you guys, and looking forward to the bet
at some point, all.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Right man saying calf sixers. All right, thank you, appreciated.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
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of the show to be kind of frantic and we'll
be trying to get out of here and Mother's Day
is here. Obviously, it's an important day for everybody and
their moms, and you know, and we talk about different
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things that go on. My mom has passed, and of
all the things, I just want to say this, and
you know, feel free to you guys if you want
to say something about your moms. But of all the things,
my mom, Mary Parker, that stands out the most to me,
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and I might have mentioned this to you before, is
my mom was an excellent baker. The kid used to
got a nickname for a called her Betty Crocker. How's
Betty Crocker doing? Because she was she was fantastic baking cakes,
making pies, all that kind of stuff. But I think
the thing that spoke volumes about her is that all
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the kids in the neighborhood wanted her to make their
birthday cakes. That's a special thing for a mom, you
know what I mean, to make a birthday cake for
their kid. And my mom would not go against the
mom cold, so to speak. So my mom would be like,
you have to get your mom to call me and
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say it's okay, and then you can bring the ingredients
or whatever. But if your mom does not call me
and say and ask you know is it okay and
that she's cool with it.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I can't do it, And that was it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Do you imagine having a mom who bakes all the
kids in the neighborhood their birthday cake?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that was Mary Parker.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Happy, my blessed Miss Mary Parker. I know she's proud
of you. Yeah, you know, shout out to my mother,
Marcia and Mama dud. We had her on the show
Spectrum earlier. It was really special. Got a chance to,
you know, talk live with her on TV and kind
of asked her a little bit. What was it like,
you know, being my mother, my sister's mother, and any
motherly advice for everybody. So she she did an excellent job.
(03:18):
I'll just say quickly for me, the safeness. I always
felt safe. I always felt comfortable in her presence. I felt,
you know, it was home. And I don't mean just
a literal one.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah, like being.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
On somebody who cares for you and looking out for you,
protecting you.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's been always man, just building up my confidence, praying
for me, treating me great, treating my friends great, as
you mentioned, and I think what is like an everlasting
thing for me was that she was that for so
many others, Like people felt like, man, if I could
just talk to your mom, it'll be okay. Hey man,
can you ask your mom to pray for me? Hey man,
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can I come over it? And I go upstairs? Man,
let me go switch hoodies and come back downstairs. My
friends are crying. She's loving on them. You know it's
gonna be okay. Like she became that for so many
that my sister Dovey can agree where it was normal
for us to go be running around a grocery store
and come back and then aisle six, so you know,
she's like loving up on somebody who's been through some things.
Or can we come home and there's somebody in the
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dining room we'd ever knew there.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
She's making them a hot meal.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
So that same comfort, that piece that loved, that that
security that we felt, she extended that to others and
it just kind of became second nature for us to
have people around.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And she just felt like that.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
My friends loved being around my mom because she was
that for them as well. Man, So happy Mother's Day
to Mama, Mama dub and yeah, so I totally get that, man.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Rob g Alex, please shime in.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
So it's funny you guys have such touching things to say.
My mom has done a plethor of things for me,
not only being a single mom for half of my life,
coming from outside the country, being first born here on
both sides, my mom single handedly has not only made
me the man I am today, she decided to give
me the name of Alexander, which means I had to
take over a lot of stuff, so that didn't make
it like, you know, a lot of place for failure.
And also a great thing she did is she taught
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me not only the value of confidence, but to stand
up for yourself. And I still remember my first job
when I was in I think it was a freshman
in high school. There was a local batting cages by
my house and my buddy Natter worked throughout the time,
and so he got a job. He was filling whenever.
And I remember my mom she was like, you should go,
you should get a job. So I was like, all right,
I guess, So so I went there, talked to the guy.
He's like, yeah, for sure, you know, like I'll call
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you whenever I need you and you'll get whatever hours
I can think of. And I was like, okay, cool shit,
it's my first job. I'm not gonna shoot that down.
So remember, I went back to the crib.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Told my mom.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
She's like, okay, so when you work. I was like,
I don't know. She's like, what do you mean you
or know? I was like, he said he'd call me
when he needs me. She's like, what do you mean
he call you? She don't have set hours And I
was like no, She's like, give me a sec. Give
me a sec. So she did something. I was hanging
out with my buddy. She comes back ten minutes later
and she says, yeah, you're no longer working there. I
was like, I got hired and fired at the same
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time by my mom, which was amazing. But it taught
me to stand up for myself, you know, and like
really to move forward and to know the value of
what your value is and so like from cooking to
cleaning to morals to values to being solidarity with self
and being able to stand up for myself and to
move forward in a country with no family here, Like
I can safely say my mom's a superhero. She's ran
a daycare for twenty five years. She's raised almost a
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thousand kids, herself, like.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I already know, right, she's a super mom.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So shout out to my mom.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
No doubt, Happy Mother's Day, rob Ge. I just wrap
it up quickly. I know we're gonna have late.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
So my mom's single mom, as Alex mentioned, so that
alone presents a lot of challenges, and we have three boys,
and having to raise three men as a single mom
can be very challenging. And she did a phenomenal job.
But the one thing I've always loved about my mom
and I still love about my mom is everything about
her is you know, exaggerated is the word I would use.
Like if she's happy, she is the happiest person in
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the room. When she's emotional and you know, we find
out the kid, the girls are pregnant, she's crying hysterically, right,
all the things that you want, and you want to
see the emotionality from all spectrum. That's one thing I've
always loved to appreciate about my mom because if I
have good news, the first person, even ahead of my wife,
sometimes the first person I want to tell is my
mom because she's going to be over the moon excited
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about it. And if I'm feeling sad and I need
somebody who can relate to what I'm going through. She
will sit and cry with you for hours. Wow, because
she feels so big about everything.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
And that's something I've always lived about my mom.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Awesome, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I just thought it was important that we know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I'm I'm glad we did that, man, because I belive
everybody driving listening podcasts and you know they can relate.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
And and the last thing, don't take your mom for granted, like,
like I'm telling you you really can't. I've said this before.
I was really really busy on a Father's Day covering
a baseball game in Philadelphia, and you know, like Father's Day,
I was like I need to call my dad or whatever.
And I did call him. I was able to get
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a call through and whatever whatever, and that was it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
He was. He was gone three days later.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So I always, you know what I mean, that always
stuck with me, like thank God, it would have killed
me literally that I didn't, you know what I mean,
make an effort even though I was really busy on
the road. That's all the excuses why you wouldn't make
that call. But all right, rob G we do want
to talk about the w NBA, which I think the
season started.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Today, started tonight in honor of Mother's Day week, were
celebrating women's basketball.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I've never missed the WNB, right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I'm glad we got all that out the way now
because now you already know so.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well this is so I'm trying to soften the blow.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Ahead of opening night, the w NBA themselves, not ESPN,
not the Athletic, not CBS, the w NBA themselves pulled
their GMS and asked forty two different questions all related
to the upcoming season, and one of the questions that
they asked was which player would you pick to start
a franchise with? Now context. When they asked this question
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last year, Clark ran away within fifty percent of the vote.
This year they asked the question again, Paige Beckers was
the runaway winner thirty three percent of the vote. Kaitlin
Clark and raining m VP Asa Wilson finished tied for second.
That's notable because when the Kaitlyn Clark and the DNA
Fever open the season this weekend, they will open it
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up with Paige Beckers head.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Dad, I just don't get to the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I really don't because at every turn they seem to
not want Caitlyn Clark to be what she's turned into.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
The contract that they have, the.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Charter flights, you know, and all these other things that
they weren't getting for the thirty years this league was
hobbling around and this woman comes in along and people
are watching the sport like it's undeniable.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
So I'm just not sure.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I get it, there can I And I want
to say this with all sincerity because I'm not trying
to be flipping. Jackie Robinson wasn't the greatest black player
at the time when Nate when he showed up, Do
you know what I mean in nineteen forty he wasn't.
There were Josh Gibson, there were other black players who
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were better, but he was the right guy at the
right time.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Do you know what I mean? To fit? And I
get it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
There are other players, women, players who probably who were
better than Caitlyn Clark, but they don't have all the
other stuff that goes with it. What made her not
being she was doing stuff nobody else was doing.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Kelvin. It's more than just oh this she's better than her.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
No, it was Kitlyn Clark with that got everybody's interest,
got guys interested in watching her because they never saw
a woman shoot like that. There's other stuff that goes
with it and her and she moved the needle. Why
they have an issue with her, I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You know what, We've had this conversation since I've been
a show a few times, just because different things will happen,
not making the Olympic team, the way they kind of
treated her with all star stuff and I and just
with the files and whatnot. I do believe there's an
element of hold on, young lady. You know, we've been
here before you, We'll be here after you. I think
there was a WNBA kind of a christening or a
hazing or a welcome to the league, for sure, without
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a doubt. And I disagree with some of it. I
disagree with the Olympics. It was a chance to put
the big star on a platform across the world. This
one I don't have a problem with. Paige Beckers is incredible.
Paige Beckers is a bucket page. Beckers is probably more
complete of a player than Caitlyn Clark. Also, Kaitlyn Clark's
coming off a big injury didn't quite look the same
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when she came back, and so I think there's an
element of people saying, let me see how she bounces back,
let me see what she ends up looking like. So
this one, to me, isn't quite the gripes and the
being petty that I think had happened historically. This one,
I think on just a basketball since there's what's happening
and the real to be honest with you, the offense
that I would take is anyone who actually chose anyone
(12:04):
other than Asia Wilson. Asia Wilson is in a league
figuratively literally of her own at this point, four time MVP,
three time NBA champ, including the reigning NBA champ, I mean,
multiple time Defensive Player of the Year, already in the
argument for the greatest WNBA player of all time, and
(12:24):
she's not even I don't even know if she's thirty yet.
Like so it's crazy what she's been able to do
already in her career. So to me, I'm actually blown away.
And if you're asking me who I'm starting a career
right now, that it's not Agiel Wilson, or that she
only got twenty percent of the vote, I get that
they've been petty before.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
They've been short sighted.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
They didn't take the long term of a long term
approach with some of the Caitlyn Clark stuff. And I'll
be the first one to raise my hand saying, y'all
tripping get her on that Olympic team. Stop filing her,
beating her up, because you know, she's been great for
the league. She's been great to monetize the league. She's
been great to get the sport and commercials in places
that we haven't seen. But to me, I looked at
this as a slapping the face to Asia Wilson, and
(13:04):
Alex hit me with my what more do you want
from me? Because I don't know what more she wants.
She's walking, she got the commercials for me. Her shoes
sold out in ten minutes. I mean, Asia Wilson, is
that that chick? And I just think, wait, where's Paige?
Did she play for?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
What?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
The Dallas?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What are the the Wings? Chicken Dallax Chicken Wings? Is
it Lemon Pepper?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
My point is this as good as she is? Guess
what they are intendeds like? Seriously, guess what they are?
The third worst, the third worst, the less than seven
thousand people a game, this is the person you're starting
the league with. I'm like, like seriously, and last year
(13:47):
I think Golden State had the best attendance.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They were an expansion team, and you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
So I'm in a basket of basketball crazy hub right now.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, so so that they had but just barely beat
out Indiana.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
What is that? The fevers that it is? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Where are the aces?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
The Las Vegas aces were fourth at twelve thousand.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Okay, all right, that's about right.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I thought, And I just I'm assuming these are
all real, paid for tickets, not you know, fluffers.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
You haven't Detroit shot flashbacks? Stop it?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, because I know the details. I know where the
bodies were buried. I'm just being honest there. But I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I I just think I think there's some hate around her.
But I personally I didn't view with this one. There's
been stuff where I come on this show with you
and say, hey, y'all got to stop it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
There are people who have something that it's just it's
not just being the best player.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
There's a lot that goes with it. That's that's my point.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Oh, I completely agree. We talked about the time.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
In fact, it factor ain't always you the best at
it and not for me. Asia also has that it factor,
so that's why. And she's just insanely good. So for me,
I would be more like if I'm agent, like, what
the what excuse me? How is is there anybody would
choose over me?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
It would it's always Caitlin Clark because I don't want
the arena to be drafty. I want Phil did the
building to be filled as uh so if I'm the
general manager.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
No, okay eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
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Nobody laughs, right, trying to make a Barkley joke.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He Raymond. Thanks, That's how Chuck. That's how Chuck felt.
Chuck handled. Chuck spoke about it too.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Yeah, he was good, all right?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Did the uh did the w NBA gms take a
shot at Caitlin Clark?
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UMGC dot E d U all Right, is a w
NBA hating on Caitlin Clark?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Is Pagebacker's just that chick? Is uh Asia Wilson? The one?
Is she the star?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Want to care?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Now?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
To wait to set us up with all the Mother's
Day talking about? What do you think you slick? I
just want to say women are amazing and I love
them and we need.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
It and there's nothing to do with the w n
B A I think it could be great. I'm not
we we're celebrating Mother's Day, moms. That doesn't mean that now.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I'm just saying, Roger, he had two other hours to
do it. He waited to this time to do it
right before the talk.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You think you slick? I get your tricks? I get
your tricks?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Rob all Right eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox?
How about Andrea Massachusetts? You're in the odd couple of
Fox Sports.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
They don't even have a team in Boston? Right, they
don't even have a team. What's up? Dry?
Speaker 9 (17:58):
How you doing? Thanks? Taking a call? Oh, there was
talk about bringing the team from Connecticut over into Boston.
I'm not sure if that went through.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
No, no, no, I didn't go through the people in Boston.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
When I went up there to speak at Harvard, they
were talking about that whole thing.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh and uh no, they don't have a team now, so.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
All we do.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, they want to sell tickets, go ahead, want.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
To sell tickets. We worked out of town until the
Celtics traded away Jew Holliday and broke up what could
have been a dynasty. So right now the teams are
the teams are down, but we're all for We're all
for the sports in Boston. Listen. In terms of Kaitlyn
Clark and Page Beckers, people need to remember they're They're
the same class. They came out of high school together.
All this talked about why Caitlin Clark didn't go to Yukon.
Paige Beckers is the reason she didn't go to Yukon,
(18:46):
and the whole Kitlyn Clark's phenomenon happened their sophomore year
when guess what, Page Beckers was injured. Okay, and then
her junior year she broke out they beat South Caroline.
So these two players have been neck and neck their
entire their entire life, from the same age they came
up together. And it's much more on one a than
the media, and the exposure kind of give it credence
(19:08):
to right, they're both equally very good stars of the game.
It's just that Paige Beckers had injuries and then broke
through her senior year when she was finally healthy, and
that's when Caitlyn Clark went through to the WNBA. So
this whole thing. Listen Page Becker. She's wonderful for women's basketball,
wonderful for the w NBA. She is the north star.
People gravitate to her. There's nothing wrong with that. It
(19:28):
doesn't mean if there's not other talented, capable, dynamic, extraordinary
women's basketball players. And frankly, they pumble the ball. They
fight amongst themselves, far too much bird and magic. They battled,
but David Stern realized, we need both of you for
the growth of the game. Let's get along and that
can be the rise and tie to lift all boats. WNBA.
I need to see more of that.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Thanks tak Nicole, Hey did you leave? Are you down?
I'll Have you been to a w NBA game? I'm
just curious, have.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
You because there's not to know I haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And that's all I know. You have you can come
to New Jersey in New York. I'm just asking you're
a basketball game.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
It was closer, i'd definitely be then. This is one
of the things I'm big big on basketball players. We
love women's basketball, support it, and you see the NBA
guys showing love. So I just think it's a no
brainer for people in the sport and we just need
to grow it for more people who are not hoopers.
Thanks taking a call.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yep, thank you, Rob You guys, I appreciate you. Oh,
I thought YOURU you want me to weigh in on
women's basketball here around? No, I don't know. You know,
Kelvin goes to games or whatever it takes is.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
I don't even go to NBA games anymore. The last
NBA game I went to, true story was Lakers Clippers
during the Kobe Powell era and it was Blake Griffin.
And the only reason why I even went to that
game is because the Clippers, you don't have a hard
time selling tickets at that time. They did a promotion
(20:50):
with the college that my wife was working at at
the time where the tickets were only thirty five dollars
in the lower bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
So I saw.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Like four times and it was by one gift four
free right, but.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Not like to go to a Linker placially with Lebron
like one hundred and fifty allers did at the top.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
No, rob Gi, you know way too many people, and
I don't. It doesn't I'm gonna be honest, ROGGI. It
makes zero sense that you've not been to a game
in that long. If you say, oh, it's been three
four years, or maybe COVID threw me off, and I
get that. That Blake Griffin on the Clippers, he didn't
been to the Penstons. He'd been doing team, he'd been retired.
That's my point, Like what you just don't want to go?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
No, because if I'm going to go to a game,
I want to sit close. And there's no good reasons.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
You don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You know too many people, You've been doing this too long.
You don't want to go. You because I know how
you make stuff happen, to go to Sea World and
Disney on ice and all that.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You just want to be dad and don't want to go.
That's that's it.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He's right.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
It's harder to get tickets people, Kelvin. Everybody's not getting
free tickets like you. Everybody like, wait, why are you
gonna frame me up?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
You get free What do you mean you people?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I'm just saying you get free tickets. I'm just saying
you can win.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Rob.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
She read to go see the Lakers? And was it
Kyrie Irving?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Right?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Dallas, Dallas? Me, don't stop this one game? My father
and two nephews.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I paid two thousand dollars to go to a basketball rob, Rob.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Nobody gave me tickets.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Rot, Rob, you ain't going you How many games are
you going to in the last three or four years
that you ain't paid for?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Stop me twenty? What's that thirty for? Hey?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
What are you telling about baseball games?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
No? I paid off basketball.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I'm paying for those. I got a big thing coming
up June tenth. And when you went into a dome
weeks ago, did you pay those tickets?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Nope?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Hello, I can't hear you, Rob exactly. You know, don't
tell Rob you anything. He'll just drop dome one.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
What do you think I thought you pay for them?
Stopping Rob? Rob?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
G We got a remedy that, that's sir, I got it.
We got a remedy that Robbie that will make any sense,
all right, all the way.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
But you have to take the whole family right. You
need for are you afford him?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
You know, one of the kids that can be paying
attention to the other one be cheering for the wrong team.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
But we will look bad at a unit.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You are a great dad, a great husband. You work hard.
You deserve a night. You can go to a game.
We'll get to a game, man, because that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
In fact, for Mother's there you're cooking breakfast for your
wife and another that.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We can around breakfast in bed. She had two kids
for you.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I mean, if I had a wife with two kids,
I think I would walk on water for her.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I don't think you would rap. I think, Hey, hey,
the Yankees playing.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
You gotta go to the ballpark tonight because playing the
Dodgers tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I gotta go. But you're not even covering the game.
But I gotta go. I gotta you sound, I just gotta.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Gotta meet a potential new Uh, you gotta be the potential.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, I gotta go to the game. But it's Mother's Day,
I know, but it'll be Mother's Day next year too.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh god, all right, all right, Mark, fucking coming on
the other side right now trending with Steve the Singer.
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Speaker 1 (24:14):
Hey Steve, you have a great, great weekend, Steve Couple,
Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington on a funky flash back Friday.
That's right, And as always we get to talk to
our guy, Mark Funky Cole Medina and he let's see
whatever thing he got to be for Rob right now, Rob,
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Speaker 2 (24:39):
What up?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Mark Calvin, I'll Rob, I'm losing track of what bets
rabos because there's many, so you guys can gotcha up
to speed.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Even the one bet that we did have didn't even
I mean, it was no clear winner.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
It was like you said, I bet you about the
postseason being good and whatever with.
Speaker 10 (24:57):
The Christmas Day game is be competitive within single digits.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
That's I don't I don't remember. We gotta get the tape, Alex.
We're gonna get the tape for that.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
We'll do that.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
And if it's if that's what I said, with what
you saying single digits or whatever, then I'll get you
a piece of cheese.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
Cut. How about this, Rob, we got to run the tape.
There's many of you saying Mike Brown's Charlie Brown. What's
he gonna do with this Knicks? I mean, look there
on a Royer.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, hey, you know it's funny Mark. Somebody called you
out Rob on Twitter. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
They said. So the Pistons are fraud. The Knicks ain't
making into the finals. What you gonna do? Rob, Ain't
got no easy.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Easy. The Pistons lose to the Calves, and the Calves
beat the Knicks. How's that?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Stop it?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Rock?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
How's that?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I told you the Calves that don't happen?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
But how's that all right? Ain't happen?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Nobody believes that.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It's like it's like it's like the Lions weren't losing
to the Washington uh uh commanders with a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
I remember that with the best record.
Speaker 10 (25:57):
Rob, you know what's a safe? But remember that one
on what you thought I was wrong to win we
took serious Lakers have no shot.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Well, I think we already said that. I think anybody
and the uncle could say that.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Well start there for us man, the Lakers, more than
anything we were talking about this earlier.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't think they can play with the Thunder.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I don't think anybody except maybe one or two teams
of Spurs being one of them. But more than anything,
they have had periods of each game where they're either
up or they're right there, and then there's just a
period where the SGA goes to the bench and next
thing you know, they're going like a big thirteen oh
run or the league gets up to thirteen. But the
Lakers have issues with these calls the officials. Do you
(26:37):
see it the same way a lot of people do
a lot of folks even during the broadcast, Dan van
Gunni and others, do you see it that way?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
Well?
Speaker 10 (26:45):
I think both things can be true, but it's not
like it's going to change anything. I think you hit
the nail on the head, Calvin, that we were saying
that when the Lakers going a run, then the Thunder
do it anything to extend this, you know, Charlie Brown,
analogy that Rob would have It's like when he was
making momentum with finally getting the ball and then Lucy
Pools at the last minute. Right, That's what the Thunder
(27:06):
do to the Lakers. The Lakers aren't giving up. They're
still competitive. They're making adjustments, like you know, Austin Reeves
bounce back game from game one game two. They're getting
guys three point shots better. But it doesn't matter every
time they counter with something. To your point, that Thunder
have another answer. Shay has foul trouble so well when
he's on the floor, he's still great. When he's off
(27:26):
the floor, everyone else are making threes. And the officiating part,
I get it. You know, Lebron he gets four attempts.
There are times that he will get superstar calls. There
are times that he won't get calls. I think because
he has that such strong athletic build, like a normal
foul doesn't look as egregious as a wood for a
(27:48):
smaller guy. And I get the emotions of things, and
you know, maybe the playoff politicking, but look like even
if you grant the Lakers a few extra free throws,
they lost by eighteen points, not going to change anything dramatically,
and they also got twenty one free throws as a whole,
the Thunder got twenty six.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
So I don't think it's just that I don't think
people expect the Lakers to win.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
That is that when you watch the games and what
the Thunder do and just what they get away with people,
it just was glaring last night.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I think that's all it is.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Nobody's like, oh, the Lakers are supposed to win this
series and they getting job.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
It's ugly. It's an ugly it's an ugly watch.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
It's an ugly league wide.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Throughout the season, they haven't getten gotten called for a
lot of fouls, and I think that threw up people
the wrong way because they do play physical. You know,
we look at the altercation of Lou Dort had with
Nikole Jokic. So yeah, like all these all these things
are valid. The frustrations are real. I don't think it's excuses,
but I don't think it changes, you know, the underlying
outcome here and the other thing I agree.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
With that, I don't.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I don't think that they lost by eighteen yeast ten eight, Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I think Mark, to add to what Rob's saying is
I use an example.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I said Barry bonds ay, Rod didn't need steroids.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
He was already one of the best in the league
and best of his generation.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
You add that to it, and I my point was
all the flopping, not just necessarily even trying to draw
files for shots. They're flopping on you know, acting like
a guy hit him in the jaw while they're on defense.
And to me, if you're a tough, hard nosed team,
you don't typically see that on the other side, like
the Knicks back in the day in the nineties weren't floppers.
The Bad Boys weren't floppers. And I mean Bill Lambert
whatever now and again. But you know what I mean,
(29:31):
like this team, they don't need that portion because of
what you're saying, how great they are.
Speaker 10 (29:37):
Yeah, no, one hundred percent. I mean that Shed Honger
and acting job.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
I wondered over that was insane.
Speaker 10 (29:42):
Commercials Now now, I guess he's ready to do some
movies here. And that was the rare case that JJ
Riddick challenges the call and it was overturned. I think
the other thing that the thunder have concluded is that officials,
like they obviously make mistakes, they obviously still get some
calls right, by a lot of times officials determine, you
(30:03):
know what, Like, it's not so much about making the
right or wrong call, it's about to ensure the consistent
flow of the game. And so I think the thunder
of calculators look like they're not going to call every single,
you know, potential foul, especially in the playoff game. So
let's just make it a numbers game, right, And because
they have so much depth and talent, they can get
(30:24):
away and afford someone gaining foul troubles.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
How about lasting on the Spurs in Minnesota Timberwolves?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
What do you make of that series?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
And you know, Timberwolves win game one, people are ready
to push the panic button, and then the Spurs drub
them in game two.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
How important is this for the for the Timberwolves at home? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:46):
I think usually when you have a team that goes
back and forth game three, typically it doesn't determine, okay,
who's going to win a seven game series, but it
usually provides clarity on where the series is going to turn.
So I think it's vastly important. Even though the Wolves
stole game one and and San Antonio responded by resounding
(31:08):
double digits. The weird thing about Minnesota is when they're
down and they feel challenged a lot of times, that's
when they're at their best. But I think on paper,
the Spurs are a better team. Victor Lemniama is obviously
a dominant defensive room protector, and I think that they
have better depth. But the Wolves they got Anthony Edwards.
(31:30):
He's the best offensive player in the series, and he
does get up when he feels challenged. So I still
get the nod to San Antonio, but I also want
to be surprised if they make this series interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Hey, last one for me real quick, the Pisson Calves.
Is this a series still? Do you think the Calves
have something, you know, to be able to pull this
thing and make it too too?
Speaker 10 (31:51):
They could, but I think that they just They've shown
throughout this playoffs that James Harden is the James hard
in the past. He's unreliable. The playoffs, he's not efficient.
They're spen games that Donvin Mitchell has been the same thing.
So not that Detroit has been a perfect team because
they barely survived that first round series against Orlando, but
I think as it pertains to Cleveland, I think they're
going to be just fine. But then they're going to
(32:12):
run into this new Eastern Conference, sugar, not that are
the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Should be if that's the end up being the Eastern
Confas finals, should be great. All right, Hey, thank you
so much, Sava.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Wonderful weekend, Rob Calvin, all the.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Best of you guys, and looking forward to the bet
at some point, all.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Right man saying calf sixers. All right, thank you, appreciated.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
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