BONUS CONTENT - 06/20/2021 - FOX Sports Sunday with Mike Harmon and LaVar Arrington - Up On Game

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports, Greetings, welcome in time to
have some fun with you and our team. We're all
assembled like the Avengers, standing in a quasi circle, ready
to take on the world. On Mike Harmen alongside me,
the three time Pro Bowl or the All American himself.
It's LaVar Arrington. What up? Happy Father's Day? My brother

(00:23):
man back at you? Good? Yeah, yeah, thank you, yeah nice,
thank you. Yeah. Wherever you are, however, you are being
celebrated this morning. And if you're not, and you're you're
still up walking the dog, making pancakes all those that's
what you do. You keep the line moving exactly. We're

(00:44):
line chefs' line cooks making it done and maybe get done.
And we're not the real superstars. Well, I mean it's
I think there were a lot more, a lot bigger
effort by companies this year than in years past. Why
as they're trying to make up for sales they didn't
have last year. Especially if you're in any kind of

(01:05):
merchandizing that requires people to be out and about, right,
you didn't get to do it last year. So now
it's like, hey, take dad to his favorite restaurant. Like
normally it's hey, by Dad, more grill stuff. Here's another
that's cool. I mean, there's only so many gadgets you
can fit in the space. But you know what they

(01:25):
get used? You use them. I use them. I've got
a thing that has a butterball branding to fry a turkey.
So I mean, whatever you need, you can find it
and branded. That's what we need to figure out. How
do we put our branding on a series of cooking implements, seasonings,
the whole nine yards, maybe some white label dipping sauces,

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whatever the case may be. Merchandizers out there, get in
touch with us at Swollen Dome, at King of the
Mammals on Instagram, because that's what you see the wisdom
of LaVar Arrington as well as his efforts at the grille,
and again wherever you're at, Hi pop, if you're out
there listening out for your morning walk in the hundred
forty two degree weather there in Clearwater, Florida, I appreciate you. Hey. Yeah, well,

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it gets you know, really sticky and human and occasionally
you'll go for a walk and find yourself a gator
or two along your trail. But you know, hey, life's
about adventuring. I could dig it. Yeah, some sometimes some
good eats too. I crushed it onto grill yesterday. What
what'd you what'd you go to work on yesterday? Uh?

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It was the normal. You know. My specialty is is ribes.
I crushed it. I mean they were my best ones.
I've I've I've mastered my sauce. It's a secret sauce. Uh,
And I've mastered my technique of how I approached the meats.
It's like a it's like a real process. There's there's

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really a lot to unpack there. And uh, most know that.
You know, it's Sunday morning, so there's only so much
I can do with what you just put us. We're
just gonna raise my glass gear and just say let's
let's leave that where it is. Find your wins, baby,
Uh we're talking about Yeah. Look, we got some F
one action earlier early this morning. We've got the final

(03:21):
round of another massive golf tournament. Still waiting to see
if there's any kind of fights or anything that will
come off of the PGA Tour this time around, and
and post match celebrations and well the agony of defeat
as it were. We've got full slate of Major League Baseball.
We've got a game seven, we got a game one,

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but yesterday you want to talk about a game, You
want to talk about a game like, well, we'll get
in and we'll we'll pop in with some activity as
the US Open final round gets going to it's just
down the road here, so you gotta pay it some
love here in southern California. But the game last night
between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn nets is is one

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for the ages. Some great performances, and I want to
take the You remember the old ABC's Wide World of
Sports and they'd have the montage and the music playing
the thrill of victory and then that that terrible tumble
down the ski slope the deft and in this case,

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we're gonna say it like we're in the South Side
of Chicago defeat, because that's really what it comes down to. First,
the thrill of well victory or at least moving on
Creed lots across court, Durant, Carter, Myke Tucker, they buck
head of the key turned around. Okay, but one second

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ago time out books, that's that's two point or a
long one. It ties the game one, all nine. There
you have it. Obviously the nets radio on the call. Uh,
and I was waiting for this browder film and the Hey,
how do we zoom in on this? See what I want?
Like we always talk about we need sensors on the

(05:10):
nose of a football to figure out did you get
the first down? I wanted all around the three point
arc from now on, like light up buzzers, whatever the
cases like, I don't know the die that they say
is in a pool if you should have some way
to kind of do their thing. Uh. So you know
all of that so we we can get a definitive answer,
uh the edge. Hey, you know what we're doing. We're

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we're making people laugh. We're bringing joy to the masses
right now. And that's that's the thing they die for.
The toe that that touches the three point line from
my car right now now. Royce Young, now writing for
ESPN UH been out of Oklahoma City for a long time,
made sure to point out a story from that says

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k D actually wears a shoe that's one size bigger
than his foot. So the game of inches, he said, yeah,
you know, my big gass foot cost me because he
was well right on the line. And we're talking waffer thin.

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Uh that that area where the foot was over and
then because we had that, we go into overtime and
exhausted k D trying to do everything. This was the
last ditch effort. Durant a three pointers straight away, shorted
out of bounds Bucks ball with three tips of a
second to play. I think on some level you saw

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the man's soul leave because he'd given everything, so like
the last of it went with that shot, and that
was the Bucks radio network on the second call. Uh.
You know, it was an interesting play as you get
down to it. LaVar a lot too. You can break
down in the sequencing wide open misses from Joe Harris,
the guy that led the NBA in three point effectiveness

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in the regular season, but his shot the last couple
of games definitely off and then he had a wide
open look in the waning seconds that well, it was
just another clank off the iron, but this one for Durant,
got the ball to James Harden and almost with the
all right, you gotta do something for me here, yeah,
and what did Harden to give it right back? You know?

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It was one of those games where I think we
will all have the storyline of it will all run
down the line in the lane of one guy can't
do at all. And you're right, I mean he was
looking for support. There wasn't too much of a supporting cast.
I mean, hart And had had his points. Uh, but

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it just wasn't a hardened like performance. And and why
would it be. You know, he was hobbled. Uh. He
made mention of it. You know, the rest of the
guys they needed to step up, Mike and they and
they didn't. And like you said, let'sten if you're looking
at KD to pull the wagon too, you know, you're

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hitching your your rig to it, like you know, your cargo,
your cargo hold. He did a great job of pulling it.
But with that being said, you still have to have
some effort and some contribution in in a more major
way than what the Nets gave last night. It's just
one of those unfortunate things because it goes from a

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series where you think that the Milwaukee Bucks are heading
towards getting swept, and if Kyrie Irving doesn't go down
with the ankle injury, I think it's very well could
have been what happened, you know, and in that situation.
Um so, but that's you know, that's sports, and that's
why you lace them up, and that's why you go

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out there, and that's why you compete because you just
never know what the tide. Maybe it may change, it
may stay the same. You may get steamrolled the way
the Sons did. Uh, the Nugge gets or and what's
here's what's interesting. And then you look at what happens
to Chris Paul and it's like, all right, Chris Paul's

(09:08):
shoulders hurting. Uh, maybe this is the one time that
you know, again that again time where we say because
they didn't have Chris Paul, because Chris Paul was injured,
you don't win the series. He gets himself together, he
comes back, they win the series, and then they steam
roll the Nuggets. So you know, Mike, it can go

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either way sometimes. And you watched a resilient Kevin Durant
try to pull them through. Um, but it just wasn't
it just wasn't enough. Joannice played heck of a game.
Middleton played a heck of a game. P J. Tucker
is is such an unsung hero for this this Milwaukee

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Bucks team. Your your guy from Campbell Hall, you know,
Drew Holidays is playing some some really fine basketball as well.
I think it's going to be whoever they end up
meeting in the conference finals. I look at it like,
you know what, all things given, the Milwaukee Bucks aren't
their opportunity to try to make it to the finals

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for the first time. Will do a little Philly Atlanta
coming up a little later. But yeah, to your point, Uh, look,
only eleven players scored in this game. That's the fewest
in any game since the merger. Uh regular season or postseason,
according to stats. Uh so that's that's kind of a

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big deal. Uh. You mentioned the Denver oust and we
watched Utah. It's funny you win an award and you
go home. I forget who it was on Twitter. I'd
like to give him credit, but uh, Yokich four straight
after getting his m v P plaque. Uh, he was
back in he was back in the salt because he
liked his defensive So both of those guys get their

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awards in a way they go as well. But uh,
it's a couple of other quick stats k D in
the overtime because this is where the Bucks. You got
to celebrate them a bit for what they were able
to do here. Uh. Oh, for six oh for one,
zero points in the overtime. Uh, six to your final
in overtime. So not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing, but

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when you've got guys long and fifty plus minutes, uh,
that's bound to happen. Tired legs, bad passes. There were
a few turnovers from James Harden where I thought Kevin
Durant was gonna run back and just start screaming at him.
It's like, I like your idea. The execution has got
to be better. I'm kind of open, but not with
the chest pass necessarily each time. A couple of times

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it worked beautifully. A couple of others, uh, not so much.
And the Bucks defensively, I mean that was just a
next level execution down the stretch. The crowd still counting
off Janice's free throws. After a while he started hitting them.
As you mentioned, forty boards. He did go eight of

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fourteen from the free throw line. Yeah. The only video
you're gonna see are of the the two air balls,
and there was one shot of James Harden just with
shaking his head and looking at the referee like are
we are you kidding me? It's like we're here all
day so just a crazy game, but one that united

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all NBA fans. You want to talk about, uh, the
blowing up social media back and forth with the runs
that you had, and then watching Durant finish off with
another forty eight point performance nine boards, six assists, a
guy that we all wondered and I think rightly so
with the injury that he sustained, where and how he'd

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get back into the fray and what did you have?
The argument once again and well there's the best player
in the world, Janice said it once again. Uh. And
in the post game, LaVar I think the best comment
of them all guys saying, Wow, you really left it
all out there. Do you take some consolation that he
looked at him, he goes cares you know Katie's Katie's

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He's a different Yeah, he's a good one though. He's
a good egg man. Listen, I know k D pretty well. Um,
he used to come into my restaurant all the time.
We used to have great times talking. Um. He's a
pretty cerebral dude, man, and he just he trying to
shoots it straight. You know, he's one of those guys
kind of a non you know, no nonsense type of guy. Um. So, yeah,

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that's a Katie like response, just you know, stay off
the burner accounts. Other than that, like you know, it's
the punching down thing that we talked about even we
didn't know. You don't let people find out that you
have them. That's you could have the burner accounts. I mean,
you know you got CIA agents, you got d e A.

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You know, you've got all kinds of different in right,
why not right? So he could have his own intelligence gathered,
you know. But but the whole point of it is
is that you don't let people know and figure out
that you have burner accounts because all it does is
open up to being assailed by hot take nonsense on

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a day to day basis. We look forward to bringing
you some of that over the course and today Welcome in.
It's Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Carmen alongside LaVar Arrington celebrating
a fantastic game and celebrating Father's Day. Wherever you are,
raise my oversized cup of coffee to you, the first
of many this morning from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
You can get in touch with the show at Swollen

(14:33):
Dome at King of the Mammals on Instagram. Look, we're
gonna celebrate some of those moments that we've shared the
father figures in our lives and invite you to do
the same. We'll read some of them over the airwaves,
you know, sporting moments, concerts, random dad teaching, teachable moment, Grandpa, uncle's, uh, moms,
whoever fills that role in your life. Let's celebrate them today.

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Let's have some fun. We got a lot of sports
on the docket, and we got one that gets a
little bit uncomfortable. It's Cole Beasley, Joe Mixing and what
the NFL p A may or may not have done
correctly in this situation. We'll talk about that next year
on Fox. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk
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Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart
Radio app search f s R to listen live now.
I absolutely love this coming back Chris Perfett on the
Ones and twos because when I think of my dad
and our love of film, most of our heist films
that bring us together. As a former police officer, this

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is The Departed. Yeah, so you run lines right of
all these movies from Reservoir Dogs to uh Copland, which
holds a special place and uh, some of the stuff
we've done through the years. So yeah, anytime you hear
the opening of this, it's either I think of that

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good thing, I want to go fight. So I just
a matter of mood today, you know, in the more
sentimental kind of phase, at least for the moment. Are you.
I thought you were just being really really uh edgy
and risk today. No, I mean off the jump, but
I didn't sleep very well, LaVar. I'm gonna be real honest.
I'm gonna tell you all America. Uh, you know, the

(16:19):
brain starts going on a million things you want to do, right,
It's it's kind of the Hamilton's thing. Why do you
write well like you're running out of time? You know,
there's a million things I haven't done. Just you wait,
all those kind of lines running through. So I'm making notes.
I'm making all these these boards of what I want
to build because football's common body. You and I have
grand plans for a takeover of epic proportions. I know

(16:40):
you're doing a couple of shows this week with Jonas
Knox getting up with the wee wee hours of the morning,
so uh, you'll rally here on Fox Sports Radio, the
I Heart Radio app wherever you're listening nationwide, you'll hear
a few more a three hour blocks of LaVar getting
Loose with Jonas Knox tomorrow and Tuesday, and then of
course up on Game ten a m. Until noon every

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Saturday alongside t J. Hush Man Zada and Flaxco Burris.
How about it. See we get all the plugs in.
I think that's it. That's what that's what we do.
You know you do this on on the daily. I
love it. Microphone freedom and and everything that comes with

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You got a good team assembled that that are ready
to dominate the ear holes of America. It's a beautiful thing.
You know. It's only work if you make it work. Yeah,
I mean looking and the fact that we're in the
latter part of June now and there are so many
glorious stories that are floating about. It's a rarity like

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this is normally the time of year where things are
drifting right. The NBA Finals are usually wrapping up, and
you've got a couple of days, then you have the Draft,
and then you have a couple of weeks where it's
baseball because the Stanley Final is normally done by this point,
and you have a couple of weeks that are that
are not quite dry, but we focus on baseball. It's

(18:08):
like here we are. Now, we're at that point. We're
really looking at all, right, who's got a legitimate contender,
trade deadlines, superstars of the first half, what have we
been talking about? And we'll get into it as we
roll spin rate and foreign substances and all of those
kind of things, and and pictures about the injuries that
they attribute to such and so on. So you've got

(18:31):
that mess, and then we we have a couple of
weeks all Star break, and then we get into training
camp and fantasy football content. We came through a pandemic.
I was gonna saying we had four months where we
had no sports. So it was like, you know, this
is like, you know, we have no ankle weights on,
nobody weights on. It's just n yeah, I mean, it's

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you know, I like him it the other day to
being in the on deck circle with the old donuts
as you're swinging the bat getting ready and then you
flip those off and away you go, you know, or
you're running with a fast whatever you're doing, and feeling
that much more vigorous and free. So one of the
things that is certainly it had been in the news

(19:14):
the past weekend, and something you know, I think near
and dear to you as well as you know you've
got a son playing sports, your daughters are playing sports.
You you played in the National Football League, of course,
and the NFL p A and being called the task
Cole Beasley doing a lot of ranting and his social

(19:35):
media sphere about the policies adopted for this upcoming year
between the PA and the National Football League, most of
which are really the same as last year. It's just
now that if you're vaccinated, well you have some more freedoms,
just like the rest of society. And for Beasley is like, well,
I may have to retire if this is the case. Like, well,

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you're a good player. You had a good run. No,
I just I just gotta call it what it is, right,
he had a good decade. Yes, you beat the odds,
because he tried to say, hey, I beat the odds
to be in the league. I can beat this Like no,
no, no no, that's not the point. You're you're missing the
whole point of this exercise here as to what they

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agreed to in terms of trying to get another season
off without a hilt, you know, without a hitch to it,
without any kind of problems. And we talked about it
about a month ago on this show levard the coaches
and that being a somewhat of an impediment, right because
they weren't gonna be allowed to be on the field

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and they were gonna be some restrictions. And now it
comes out for the players, well, here's what happens. And
there's been a lot of talk that Buffalo was in
particular having some issues with guys, you know, getting to
the to the forefront of saying all right, let's get
to a threshold, as they did major League Baseball and
in the end, but the way they've drawn it up now,

(21:03):
it's like, all right, are you going to have multiple
hotels for players? How are how are you monitoring? There's
there's a bunch of the details and I'm like, all right,
what's the administrative of this beyond Hey, we we have
daily checks for you still and you still have daily testing.
But the p A. It's always been a curiosity for
me as to how information gets disseminated, how well, how poorly,

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and whether everybody's ideas and thoughts, like it comes to
a vote in the end, but how well that gets disseminated,
and how much different it is team to team. Well,
you know, the larger groups that have you representation, you know,
no one is always going to be on the on

(21:50):
the same page. You're not going to make everybody happy. Um,
so you got to try to figure out where's the
best place to say, Okay, we can't push this or
go any further, or the just the amount of sensibility
that goes into uh what what the conclusions are? I think,
you know, for all the criticisms that go towards the

(22:13):
NFL p A, I still think that there are a
lot of fine guys that are representing um, that that
group and that body, and and there are a ton
of really really great things that comes from the p A.
I think this is one of those hard topics, Mike.
I mean, there's there's you know, there's so many ways
to try to go about handling it, and so many

(22:35):
so many directions it can go into. This is one
of those ones where you gotta almost say, here's the
approach unless narrow the focus to this being the approach
of how we're going to handle it. And it comes
down to philosophies, It comes down to belief systems, it
comes down to ideologies, and and we all know that

(22:57):
those are going to differ by by different you know,
different people. So I mean, listen, I don't know what
the right answer is for the whole way of of
approaching um, you know, the coronavirus situation and and the vaccinations.
But I do know this, we haven't heard very very

(23:20):
very much. I mean, the intensity level of the coverage
of of this topic, like we just mentioned earlier in
the segment, was off the charts in terms of what
you knew about the and that maybe not knew about
the coronavirus, but the coverage and what you were being told,

(23:41):
the information being disseminated, and now it's all but like
kind of died down and you're not hearing much. So
the whole Chris Paul thing comes up, and that pops up,
and then it's like, oh, yeah, here's the reminder, like
we had a short memory here, but we are still
dealing with the effects of corona, the virus, and even

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though we're not hearing these astronomical numbers being reported and
people having you know, hospital bits and rooms set up
in parking lots and parking decks and stuff like that
going on now or maybe it still is. I don't know,
it's just not being discussed as much. So it's just
like when you hear these topics come up, it's such

(24:24):
a big issue that you're going to have people that
have really really strongline beliefs in how they want to
approach it. Well, because the other other prong of this
was the Lebron James commentary, well, I mean just just
from a hey, well, a bunch of guys got hurt
because of the way we had to handle our seasons
and everything else, which I don't doubt that the strain

(24:48):
on the body was certainly there, but most of the injuries,
especially when he started talking about All Stars, could be
attributed to fluke circumstance, the Kyrie irving, you know, ankle
being bent to a ninety degree ankle. That that's that's
not coronavirus and pandemic scheduling related and at any any way,

(25:10):
shape or form. Now, Chris Paul, the fact that everybody
suddenly got really quiet. He's in protocol, like even Monty
Williams and his latest presser. He's in protocol, that's all
I'm gonna say. Well, you're one of the heads of
the p A, and so now there's just the question
of what you were preaching versus your individual choice and

(25:32):
and what the league was trying to do. And you know,
one of those things is what what It's the old
adage your best ability is your available ay uh and
injury or covid uh he's not available. Circle back to
this in in just a moment to expand just from
the the p A side, you know, at least from

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my my layman's uh outside looking in kind of understanding
and and Lavark had set me straight. But first we're
gonna go over to Isaac Lowan Crown, who's gonna give
us an update on the US Open and all other
things sports. Indeed, and everyone's still buzzing about the drama
Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals last night, the
Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets in overtime of Game seven,

(26:16):
tied at one eleven. Marvelous give us some t NT
four to five seconds left overton ten on the shot
clock study for Chris Fell that put Milwaukee up one
thirteen to one eleven, and in the final seconds. It
was Brooklyn's ball and Kevin Durant's ball. Dreant for three

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tops up with for air ball with three texts on
the second Romania for Milwaukee bucks Brookie one elevel week.
They would go on to win at one fifteen to
one eleven over Brooklyn. Despite Durants forty eight points, nine
abounds in six assist he played all fifty three minutes.

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Janis Antea Kompo scored forty points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes.
In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night,
the New York Islanders defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning three
to two, tying the series at two wins apiece. And
we've got a three way tie for the lead going
to the final rot of the US Open today at
Tory Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and

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South Africa's Louis oost Haysen. At five under par overall,
Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo two shots back at three
under par overall. Michael and LaVar speaking of marvelous back
to you guys, I was a little nervous as to
what the call was going to be because people had
been ultra critical of marved in big moments and I

(27:47):
was having a blank. He didn't mess that one up,
did because he'd misidentified some players. So it wasn't a yes.
Oh wait, it was an air mall. And you know
what that could have been. If the Eastern Conference Finals
do not go seven games, that could have been the
final game seven that Marv Albert has called in his
legendary career. Last night, how about that? See there you

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go at Isaac lowan crowd where you find him on Twitter?
Find me over at Swollen domell. Yeah, find my guy
LaVar over at on Instagram at King of the Mammals, Yeah,
Swollen Dome for me there as well. Just to continue,
uh Beasley mixing. There's been a few others who who
piped up a little bit on social media, and there's

(28:29):
always chirping about the p A and one of the
things to me that that stands out his football is
a different animal in all this one. Contracts aren't guaranteed.
Now some of the guys are getting more guaranteed money. Uh,
You're starting to see a little bit of a trend
that way. But you just have such a wide stratosphere,
you know, stratification, I guess is the right way to

(28:50):
say it, of players where they are on the continuum
when you've got such a small window short careers, right,
the average being what three and a quarter years or whatever.
The last data point was that they put up guys
that are fringe players. Cup of coffee, and it looks
all professionals, and you know, I tip my cap to

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all all guys that that make make that level right,
keep grinding, keep hustling, showing up at camps the following
year to another team and hustling and trying to get
uh their shot right because a lot of time scheme
fit as we know. But you talk about the money
being made by a quarterback and your upper echelon players

(29:32):
at insert position here, and the rest of a squad
and made up of undrafted guys or guys that are
kind of moving team to team and they fit a
need here for a year and and push along that.
The economics of what they're dealing with, family structure, etcetera.

(29:52):
Really doesn't allow for a lot of like minded thinking
in some of these areas. Again, I take it all
make the same amount of money and they're still going
to have disagreements. You know, I've I've been in meetings
where you're trying to find you know, solutions with with guys.

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And I mean, if you really think about it, if
you are in the league, you should not be mentioning
financially like it's it's hardship or anything like that, because
in in real terms, you know, everybody is is making
good enough money to make you know, solid decisions, Like

(30:39):
if you're making it based off of the guy who's
making fifteen forty million a year, I get that, but
that's the extreme. You know, if you're down in the
upwards of three or four d grand a year for
your services, you know you should be trying to figure
out the best ways to move forward and not you know,

(31:02):
not lose sight of that. Well but but that but
but yeah, I mean that that was more the point
of the guys on the lower end, right and playing
for league minimum or or just above there. There's the
idea that you've only got the small window, right because
you didn't get the big signing bonus. Your your considerations
are a little different, right, so you might give up

(31:22):
something what is that considered? You know what I mean?
Like I'm just saying, like, if you're gonna be in
that all right, the just say you're at the average, right,
that's a good amount of money minus tax, monust agency
and I'm not trivia, and then certainly it's it's still
a lot of money compared to the the rest of
the world. And I think that that's what gets lost sometimes.

(31:42):
That's the point I'm trying to make, is like what
gets lost in this is it's like, oh, this is
altering my way of life for this that I have
a small window data that you're making three four four
hundred per season, So even if you only make one
to two season, and if you're if you're living the
way you were living before you were making that that

(32:05):
league minimum salary. I don't know what it is at
this point, but I mean, if you're making that while
you're playing, I think your focus it's just should be
on how can you maximize the amount of years, you know,
amount of checks that you can get, not not going

(32:25):
crazy over situational things like health protocols. That's that's well
said and the smart way to approach. But as we know,
well as we know, you're gonna have your issues. Everybody's
gonna have their reasons to say what they want to
say and do it how they want to do it.
But with that being said, it kind of goes back
to how you presented it in the first place. It's

(32:48):
like Cole Beasley, like, aren't you like the poor man
version of the West Welkers at Edelman's and even the
a Mondolas And you know, it's like, aren't you the
poor man's version of that? Like it's just kind of
like it depends on who it's coming from. If it's

(33:08):
coming from somebody, it makes sense, then you're going to
like kind of put a little bit more into it.
But it's like if you don't want to deal with it, Cole,
keeping you here, plenty of wide receivers in camps and thanks,
I'll take the extra reps right next man. It's next
man up in every other circumstance. And and it goes

(33:31):
back to the basic tenant that I remind folks kind
of like the the First Amendment when folks start throwing
that out liberally and I didn't mean that as a
liberal or conservative thing, just liberally as in a lot
is you have the freedom to say what you want.
Just remember that there are consequences for it, and your
employer could take umbradge with what you're doing. And in

(33:54):
the NFL it's a private business. If these are the
rules that have been established and apociated, then that's it. Yeah.
I mean to take it or leave it as uh.
You know, Kevin Durant said earlier, I did the who
cares line. The other was if you don't like it,
don't watch. In this case, if you don't like it,
you know, go go find some of stiff. It's it's

(34:18):
a new world order. Uh. And they're trying to get
fans back in at a hundred percent capacity, a lot
of revenue to be made up, no question about it.
The league minimum, because you know I do my own
quick research here six d sixty dollars and that's what
you know. Well, that means it's escalated quite a bit

(34:39):
in the last few years. We'll have to go back
and look at the evolution of that, because I remembered
it in the four hundreds of myself. If you're making
six grand a year at the league minimum, things like
protocols and stuff like that, you know, I would just
say you have bigger fish to fry, you know. I'm like,

(35:00):
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like if something were to have happened to you or
just that and other I get it. But if you're saying, oh,
I'm not taking the vaccination, I'll retire before I take
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bring in the crew as they want to share or
mock me. Uh. One of the great moments of uh, well,

(36:50):
you dad worked a lot, right, trying to hustle keep
us in uh, you know, the Catholic grade schools and
then to our our efforts at saying ignacious in Chicago,
and so hustling a bunch, and there were times you're
playing whatever sport like I would be really cool if
he could have seen that as I, you know, just

(37:12):
danced into the backfield and took down another quarterback. Uh.
But there there was a time where I got under
the pile and LaVar. I know you could speak to
this in graphic detail, but we'll save it for a
chapter of a book of what happens in the pile.
And I got well ripped pretty bad and my knee

(37:33):
went the absolute wrong way. The kid even apologized, saying
coach said to do this, which is always great. But
I'm laying there like a sack of potatoes, and that
I was hurled over the shoulder by my dad, who
had figured out a way to switch up lunch schedules
with the police department to come watch said game. And well,
you know one of those that evidently he was always

(37:55):
there in some way, shape or form. Ah, you just
didn't know it until you got hurt and had to
be carried off. So there, there's my There there's my memory.
It's either that or watching people drunkenly in a parking
lot at the Chicago Stadium yelling beat Boston in the
pre Jordan days and potential fights in the parking lot,

(38:15):
But we'll save that for another time. How about you,
any anything that comes to mind? I think a super
cool memory that I I have of my dad is
when when I started playing ball, Um I was I
was very emotionally charged. I know, if anybody knows my
game has ever saw me play, they know I'm I

(38:37):
played with um a ton of passion, a ton of emotion,
and and so one of the things that my dad
used to do before games, even like when I I
think I had a moment where I had like maybe
like a small minor um kind of a panic attack
before a game when I was younger, and you know,

(39:01):
he pointed to it his temples. You know, he pointed
both point our fingers, He pointed to his head, like
keep your head. You know, it's like, calm down, You're okay,
It's gonna be all right. And it became our thing.
So every game that that we would play, I would look.
The first thing I would do is identify where my
mom and dad was. And my dad would always point

(39:24):
to his his temples every single game, all the way
up until in fact, my rookie year was a struggle
for me because my parents weren't at all of the
games my rookie year. I ended up moving them to
Washington and they were able to come to all of
the home games at least, and they there. It is

(39:45):
I find my dad no matter how far away they were,
I find him and until the end of our our
you know, till the end of my career, he would
always point to his temples, you know, like keep your head,
like have a good time, like play smart, you know,
and and that was our thing. Like and I knew
I was ready to go when I saw him do it,
I knew I was ready to go. Mike. See, we

(40:07):
we all talk about superstition and and all the rituals
that you have. We'll get the rest of the crew
in as we continue here on Fox Sports Sunday. Because
you know, the timekeepers, the time variance Authority, uh tells
me that we're we're up against it. No, no, no,
but I'm sorry. I gave those props to my pop.

(40:27):
Oh no, there's no there's no apologies. You know we
we we we are storytellers. That's what we do. And uh,
off the clock, Well they can start to go. Uh
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Here Fox Sports Sunday Mike Carmen alongside the all American himself,
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my good friend. Yeah, back at you and everybody else
that our fathers out there. Happy Happy Father's Day to
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(41:58):
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(42:21):
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(42:43):
and stories with the crew, and of course, in about
forty minutes from now, we'll go off the rails with
our guy Isaac Lowan crime. But a couple of things
for the NBA playoffs, LaVar the first of with the
Brooklyn Nets going down and Lebron James long home. The
only thing right now any any hate watching for Lebron
is every time there's a space Jam commercial, which seemed

(43:06):
to come in Rapid Fire. Yeah, yeah, at rapid Succession.
Here's the thing that they're they've got like two or
three cuts. You gotta give me more cuts. May maybe
not that you want to give away all the movie,
but uh, the same commercial running over and over again.
I guess repetition works in advertising. There's what that that
school of thought. The other is what are you doing

(43:28):
to me? It's like when you're they used to preview
the uh, you know, the next drama that they really
wanted you to watch every commercial block and then even
the live read coming back. You'd have Marv Albert, Hey,
we're in the third quarter reminder Thursdays on TND, you know,
coming up this new whatever it was. I remember when
Claus was debuting now going into its final season with

(43:52):
Dean Norris and and the crew there. But we we
don't have the necessarily the hate watching element to the
US of super teams and superstars that you have some
aversion to because of the team up factor, overexposure, um,
threatening of legacies when whatever the reason, maybe Brooklyn going

(44:15):
down yesterday, it kind of deprives people of that that
part of the equation because you got Phoenix. I don't
know that it does only for the simple fact that
if if they would have won, if they would have
won it all, it would have been more of a
miracle because they just the the circumstances surrounding the season

(44:41):
for the Brooklyn Nets. Uh, it just would have been
something that we have never seen before. And and so
when I look at the Nets coming up short, I mean,
you should have anticipated that they would come up short,
even if this series wasn't the series that they came
up short in not. With that being said, before Kyrie
Irving goes down, I think a lot of people would

(45:02):
say that, well, that was likely to happen, that that
they could win it all. We're gonna runs were well,
And I think that that would have been logical and
sensible to think that it possibly could have if all
of them had gotten healthy and we're able to stay
on the court, which is the start of the playoffs

(45:24):
thirty seconds and that was right, and and then that
was it. So um, I think that this is a
trend that will become the new norm um just because
the way guys communicate, Like when I was coming up,
we knew of one another, we didn't know each other,

(45:44):
you know, And I think that that is the tremendously
different aspect of all of this moving forward in sports
as a whole. I mean, you know, we don't talk
about this as it applies to other sports like baseball
or hockey or soccer, but I'm sure goes on and
no doubt, I mean, basketball just seems to be the different,

(46:06):
different path as it were, just because guys play a
U ball together. They do each other through the draft process,
right going to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and
whatever other camps, whether they're training in the off season,
pick up games and the like. It's it's to me

(46:27):
and you're right, that's that's what becomes very prominent when
you think about, um, what what what the NBA does
and how how it's represented. So I don't I just
feel like when I think about the NBA and super
teams and stuff like that, they have always been super teams.

(46:47):
Well yeah, I don't get to go all the way
back to the Lakers right when when the base was
there and says right like even going all the way
back to Kareem showing up, That's what I'm saying. You
had like like James Worthy was like we never talked
about James Worthy being like one of the best players,

(47:07):
if not the best player on the team, you know,
and and people was like, well what about Magic, what
about Kareem? You take away James Worthy, like and and
and and listen. I know a lot of people may
not remember that far back, but James Worthy is one
of the dopest basketball players that I've ever seen play ever.

(47:29):
And and that goes all the way back to college
when he was the dude on the team. I had
Sam Perkins and oh yes, Michael Jordan's yeah right, sleepy yeah.
So it's like, for me, there have always been super teams.
I think what what has happened now is that it

(47:50):
has become so prevalent as to what the relationships are
between these guys creating these super teams and seeing it
play out on social media like Herring dudes talk about
you know who was that Carmelo is talking about how
Lebron saved him, Like, no, they didn't play on the
same team. But but just understanding that these guys become

(48:14):
friends literally while they're eight, nine years old, ten years old,
and they are friends, and they are are around each other,
and they're connected through social media through their entire career,
and so now that turns into we have money, so
we're renting you know, private yachts or or maybe even

(48:34):
owning them. Yeah, oh jeez. Uh and then the yeah,
you know, I had an experience with a banana boat.
We'll we'll broach that another time. But uh, you know
that's that's uh that you know. I just think that
now it's easier to create the lines of connection and say, Okay,

(48:58):
this wasn't a GM d A. And I think that
that's what has made this such a big thing, the
whole super team situation is it's not the GM's that
are dictating these moves by the teams. And that's just
something historically that we have not you know, we have
not seen we have not seen players dictate other players

(49:18):
coming to play for teams or not wanting to play
for teams and different things like that. Like I mean
Lebron got people to come to Cleveland, man like Cleveland. Well,
I think that's the biggest piece of all of this,
right is player agency recognizing the other revenue streams are,
in a lot of cases for the Superstars greater than

(49:40):
even the most exorbitative contracts. Right when you talk about
shoot deals, and the multi media opportunities that are out there.
I mean, we talked about Kevin Durant. We went into him,
you know, the the guy right a little bit last hour,
and one of the reasons and things he loved about
Golden State was going and picking the brains of all
the Silicon Valley people. And we talked about some of

(50:02):
the big investments he's making, uh in different forms, and
one of them was in the whole collectibles business, recognizing
the value and sentimental worth and and where it's just
another line of toys more or less for folks with
money when you start playing in the upper echelon of cards,
autographs and all of those things. So why not go

(50:24):
and learn and just go back to a team saying
all right, I think I want to come here. How
do we make the money work? How do we make
the situation work? Sit me down with Steph Curry. He's
got Holy moldy and and people can laugh about it.
It does ratings. And they're in a third season already,
all right, So, I mean, and executive producing films. We

(50:45):
know Lebron and Russell Westbrook have movies in in process,
not just Space Jam, but other things that their development
companies are doing. So it's part of it is recognizing
that one you can make that money anywhere, but too
where where can you go where your happiest? And people

(51:05):
want to work with their friends, right We want to
work with people we we get to know and we're
comfortable with. And if you you know, have a moment,
you can yell at them and they recognize that it's
all in love for the betterment of the product, and
they don't take it personally right And and that's one
of the things I think that is the appeal for
for what's going on in that respect right now is

(51:28):
all right, I can get after you and we come
back after the next time. I was like, okay, cool,
you know, not not you. I mean I was talking
about are universal you? But but in all business right there,
that's certainly you want to be around people you're comfortable with.
But to that end, it's it's just one of those

(51:48):
things for those that wanted to see it fail, whether
they did, but it's round two. You you didn't get
to see it on the biggest stage. So maybe if
you feel like you were cheated in that regard, or
maybe you had a long term that on the nets
that you were hoping to cash. Now continuing in the playoffs, LaVar,
here's one that I think it's kind of entertaining. And well,
if you're from a city that has multiple teams in

(52:10):
any sport, you'll understand why this is problematic. Just seeing
our fans and how they stay till the end and
how they would cheer, and um, it just you know,
it just felt good. It was a great feeling, you know.
And uh, like I said, a team in starving for
some success, the fan base has been doing the same thing,
and you know, um to me, I just you know,
I always look at it differently, Like, you know, I
know the Lakers are out and there's a lot of

(52:32):
Laker fans here, but once the Lakers are gone, if
we're not playing the Laborers, you should be cheering for
the Clippers. And that's just how I feel because all
one city and I can just feel to love and
you know, I'm just very happy and proud of our guys.
Yeah I don't agree with that. Yeah, as a kid
from Chicago that wears an awful lot of white Sox

(52:54):
merch and represents the hashtag change the game wherever I can. Yeah,
no it, you know, I had to be on air
while the Cubs were winning the World Series. And you
want to talk about hard professional experiences, that might be
one of them. Uh, but I did so professionally because
you know, broadcast professional and everything. But I look, I

(53:14):
get where he's coming from with hey, jump on board
with us a little bit. I mean, great statistic twelve
and one as a coach when his team's got a
chance to win a playoff series and we talk about
the adjustments coming back from down to vanquish the Jazz
and really have a lot of people call into question
the prowess and the reality of what Rudy Gilbert is.

(53:36):
But that's a story for another conversation here. But for
ty Louis's he's calling on Laker fans, and I can
tell you all the Laker fans I know, I don't
think they've ever taken to social media or two group
text faster than to blast that comment. Yeah. Again, I

(53:56):
get where he's coming from. And you know, that's it's
so funny because that I was talking to coaching staff, uh,
where my son is going to attend high school next year,
and one of the coaches had a a Lakers mug.
Lakers clipboard, uh Lakers mask Like. I was like, yeah,

(54:20):
like the Lakers. He was like, well, you're forced to
choose around here, you know, that's how things work. And
you know that's how people work, you know, by pocket
and pocket of areas. You know, from all the way
to the heart of l A to all of the
neighboring cities and the sea cities that are on the outskirts,
and all the way through. It's like, you choose even

(54:43):
if it And and here's the thing I think the
cool thing about living here that I've learned is there
there are certain things that because of the way things
have worked out, like football had left l A. But
if if you are in l A person and there
is an l A based team like the Dodgers or

(55:04):
the Lakers, or the Clippers, you know, or the you know, uh,
you know, the Kings, then it's like, well, and in
some cases, you know, because the Kings were somewhere else.
I do believe, right where or have they always been
in l A. I think they came from somewhere else, right, Okay,
So if if there is a team that has been

(55:26):
here for a long long because the Lakers came from
somewhere else, too. But when you're when you're talking about
teams that have historically been rooted here, you got to choose.
You have to choose, or you have to or you
have to be a part of it. Like I don't
meet very many New York uh, New York Yankee fans

(55:49):
in in l A. Because everybody is Dodgers fans, you know,
and and and, which is interesting because they used to
be you know, Brooklyn. But what that's here, Norther there.
The thing about it is is that it's like your
Dodgers fan and and and. As it applies to the
basketball world, it's like you gotta choose between the Clippers
and Lakers, and it's like a real thing here. It's

(56:12):
like a real thing. So it's like, Okay, the realms
have just come back. You now have the Chargers here,
so it's like, I don't know, maybe it has the
potential of getting to that you had the Rams before
you know, they left, But you know, the idea of
it is is that it's like you had USC and
everybody chooses USC football. So it's like kind of like

(56:36):
the loyalty factor of of a lot of people who
live here, you know, whether it's East, South, l a,
you know, whatever it may be when you get out
on the outskirts, even hair, and like Glenn Dora, everybody chooses.
Everybody chooses, and that the one thing I think is
pretty cool is they choose someone from around here. And

(56:57):
I think that's why Tyron Lou he understand the fan
base is a little bit because he played Harry, won
a championship and now he's coaching here. I think he
understands the fan base, Mike, and I think that that's
what's driving what why he would say something like that, Well, look,
I think it's hip to clip I'll steal from Ben
mallor why because I'm not. I'm not from here. So

(57:18):
while while you while you live in Los Angeles, you
gotta you gotta ride with one team. And where am
I gonna go. I'm a White Sox fan. I'm going
with the the underdog. I'm not jumping on board the
bandwagon of the banners. No, let's go Steve Balmer, Let's
get it done in year one. So I'm all. I'm all,
and and I have been since I moved. Well, I

(57:40):
don't know, Chris Baul isn't playing Game one and we'll
see how quickly he's able to get back in. But no,
I look, even with Chuck, the con was talking about you,
I got, I got my White Sox. They're they're rolling,
so I'll get a title there. But hey, it's my year. Many,

(58:01):
it's Harmon's year. Look, Andy Dalton may still be QB one,
but this is my year. And I want to do
a little bit of a correction because it was a
trivia question, uh that I was starting to think about going. No,
I think they played a little further south. Uh, the
Kings were awarded Jack Kent Cook got an expansion franchise

(58:21):
here in Los Angeles, but they had to start this scene.
Their first season was in Long Beach while they waited
for the forum to be ready. And there's your there's
one to grow on Washington Football team. Jack. Yeah that
that Jack, Okay, Okay, that's interesting. I might have known

(58:42):
that bit of trivia, not the Long Beach part, not
the Long Beach part, but the other part of it. Yeah,
that that one. I just remember being like a trivia
thing of all, right, where where did teams really start? Angeles?
But there you go, Long Beach. I've been doing a
lot of uh, you know, relining this past week. I
know if you're paying attention to mine, I kind of

(59:03):
caught that, including some little acronyms that we can't do
on air. Yeah, at King of the Mammals if you
want to see that. More story time with LaVar and
me coming up next as we continue down the road
and and one coaching rehab. Evidently there is a place

(59:24):
you can go to bring yourself back to the forefront.
We'll talk about that next year on Fox Welcome back in.
It's Fox Moore to Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment
alongside the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, alright,
time pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man

(59:45):
of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know
how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as
folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or
they take the podcast of up on Game ten am
to noon, Sad to Day is here Pacific Time live
on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plasgow Morris and t J Hoovenzada.

(01:00:06):
How's t J doing? Is he? Is he gonna be okay?
Now that the Clippers have advanced in the Lakers didn't.
Kind of goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right,
like everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a
Lakers fan, Abbott, and he uses the whole our team,
like when when my team? And as soon as you
get it's only Yankees, Dallas and Lakers fans that do

(01:00:32):
that mess. Yeah, well, I never come across a White
Sox fan that says, hey, my white Sox and when
we and because we don't, and and like it's like
every single day I will hear my team and the

(01:00:55):
moment they say my team, I know it's Dallas every
single day, Lavar're gonna travel with me to the South Side.
We're gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll
take you to the to the one of eights uh,
and you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure you
guys listen. I'm from Pittsburgh, so I understand that from

(01:01:16):
being where the downtime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers,
the Stellers. Yeah, we have weird dialect. I just say
a lot of like as we say beer instead and

(01:01:37):
you don't know if you're saying beer to drink or
beer from from the woods, you know which by the way,
we had one in front of the house the other day. Um,
how about it. Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of
words that are interesting. So when people like human, I
have to really focus on saying human with an H
because it always comes out as as human. But that's

(01:02:02):
just how we sit it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's
funny because the for a long time on the show
I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and
I weeknights seven to eleven Pacific time, arguing about all
the day's events and covering uh big games and big
events as they go. Luck, he's always done this uh

(01:02:23):
Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the accent and it.
I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but not a ton.
But yeah, and then we watched Mayor East Town. I
just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there,
but it seemed like he had captured at least some
of the dialect Pittsburgh Philly because Philly is like you

(01:02:47):
know what, you know what apokey like or uh you know, Uh,
it's a lot of us. Some of it is driven
by you know, uh, you know Muslim faith. Um, you
know there there's like a different it's a different like
Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking about

(01:03:11):
that a girl like that Joan there that John Like,
there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of
of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well,
but it's all about languages. This was East Town. So
the point the point. The point Mike is I can
go with you two where you're from and hear people

(01:03:34):
say us and we and I as their team, and
that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe,
or you're in Mexico and you're in all these other
different places in America and around the world and they
say my team, it's generally one of those Global branding

(01:03:56):
is a reality, there's no question about it. Get in
there and and I get sick of it. That's why
that's why I know I get I get tired of it.
Like my team. Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want
everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great,
And now I got to change my tone on it
because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like,

(01:04:16):
which is weird, because Sean Lee has been with the
team for has been great and and I wasn't. It
wasn't good enough for me to really come off of
the hating Dallas thing, whereas Mica, you know, has has
changed the way I'm looking at Dallas like I actually
my root for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention,

(01:04:36):
they did a masslid. His money is guaranteed at Lamarrington,
at King and the Mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more.
I I think that's more an off air counseling session
to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh.
In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his
comments going back to language and trying to find a

(01:04:57):
path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little
bit of you have. But first it's Isaac Lowan Crown
with what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference
Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets
were both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of
them could achieve it. Though we were in the final
minute of overtime tied at one eleven in Brooklyn here's

(01:05:20):
Marv Albert on TNT four to five seconds left overton
ten on the shot clock study as it hits for
Chris Falter So that put Milwaukee up one third team
to one eleven and then Brooklyn's ball down two in
the final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three

(01:05:45):
bucks up for the air ball with three texts on
the second Romania the Thelwarkee Bucks Brookie one one elevel
League and Milwaukee would go on to win at one
fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durant's forty eight points, nine
rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes.

(01:06:07):
Last night, Janie Antea Koopo scored forty in fifty minutes
for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In
Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the
New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning
three to two. That series tied to two games apiece
and going to the final rount of the US Open
today at Tory Puns. We've got a three weights high

(01:06:28):
for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes
and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under par Overall.
Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, Man, LaVar, I
warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago.
Glad you're okay, you know what we are? Okay? It

(01:06:50):
was it was interesting. I was not I was. I
was almost pulling up to the house, but I had
got the call, like they were outside. One of the
friends of one of my kids was leaving the house
and they thought they saw a dog walk out of
the out of the yard, and then they saw its

(01:07:10):
head and they're like, there's no dog that has a
head that big. That's not a dog. We should probably
stop thinking about what it is and get back into
the house. And then once they got back into the house,
they realized that looking at it as it was moving,
it was a bear. And we've just we just received

(01:07:32):
confirmation from Fox Sports Radio's sources that when the bear
realized whose house he was outside of, he decided to
cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want
to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it.
I definitely wanted to see it, see where he's looking like.

(01:07:53):
I was like literally three minutes away when they saw it,
and I was probably two minutes too late. Well. The
the only way that works, though, is if someone's got
the phone on in the family as you go to
wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing.
I wouldn't to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't
have tried to hurt the bear, but I would have
definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did

(01:08:15):
see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac
about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did
a run block and move and save them from the
bear that was just a couple of miles from LaVar's house. Yeah, yeah, nerve, No,
that's just it. That was a big bear. Though. I
don't think these were. I don't think these were big.

(01:08:38):
I don't think this one was big. Like, it's all perspective.
I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear.
I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six
percent of people said they could take down a grizzly gar.
Remember when we were talking about we were talking about
there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like,
come on, man like people are crazy. I still want

(01:08:59):
to know what the percentages that thinks they can take
down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about
ten minutes as we go off the rails here on
Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off
just in terms of language as we talked about identification
with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin
speaking with Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports exploring just his

(01:09:23):
road back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab
program established or what it's being called a rehab program
for Nick Saban quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be
a better job in the NFL. I say, it's the
rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all of
a sudden you can coach again. One of yeah, No, Well,

(01:09:46):
he just said there wouldn't be a better job in
the NFL, just in terms of if you had to
go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinators,
you'd go to Alabama one of the I think just
kind of skipped from e Z. But we'll connect the
dots for you. No, and you and you connected them
beautifully there. Uh Kiffin was one of five former college

(01:10:08):
head coaches to work under Saban in the last eight years,
Steve Sarkisian being another that got another another shot. What
do you think it is that I mean, obviously the
great success, but since most of that gets attributed to
Nick Saban and the process, or does it matter because

(01:10:28):
you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm of this
at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm trying to
figure out how just being on the staff would immediately
lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly it was
something you were doing, so let's give you another job. Well,
success is all in the structure and the process and

(01:10:51):
in the approach and the execution. And if you've had
if you have those established and and they work, and
you're actually able to identify what they are, then the
reason why coach would go there and they're able to
rehab their careers. They learn that that, they learn all
of those things, and they're able to take that that process,

(01:11:12):
They're able to take that structure, the way it's organized,
the way it's it's taught, the way it's it's executed.
They're able to take that to the programs they go to.
Now here's the key The key is is that generally
it's only one person that really knows how to manage
it and and pull it together the way that they do.

(01:11:33):
And and you have to have in a lot of ways,
the mindset, the thinking, the UH, the ability to lead
and communicate men, not just the men that are players,
but the men that are coaches in a way where
you're getting those results. We've seen plenty of coaches leave

(01:11:54):
Nick Saban and not when we've seen plenty of coaches
leave Belichick. Belichick. Tree certainly has UH branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right.
So that's the thing about it, though, But you still
have a chance, right, You still have a chance because
you have the information. So like it's interesting, like when
I started my head coaching career, I called I called

(01:12:16):
my coaches. I called my coach from high school, I
called I called my my one of my teammates that
was my my you know, my freshman year when we
won a championship. Um, he's won championships. Now as a
head coach of high school major football in Pittsburgh, I
call him. I call all of the guys that I know.

(01:12:36):
I called coach Bradley that we had on our show um,
I call them and I asked for the information that
will allow for me to lead the team and structure
the team and do all of those things create the
processes that work. And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike,

(01:12:57):
and and it was you know, for me, I had
to do it to like one of the most watered
down versions because I just wasn't out of football school
for the last three years. But it still works. I
mean I still was able to get a third team win,
you know, career and and what uh sixteen wins ten

(01:13:17):
losses something, fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But
we were on the other side of five hundred, you know,
over the course of three seasons. So you know, for me,
once you are able to show that success, people are
going to buy into the success because they want to
have success and they want to learn how to be successful.
And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly,

(01:13:41):
is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting
the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role
and fitting their role. A lot big thing about it.
It also is just being willing and being humble enough
to play your role or wait your turn, you know,
a lot of places. You are not going to have
that from coaches. You're not going to have it from players.

(01:14:03):
Players want to play right now, they expect to play
play right now, or they leave. You know, coaches, you know,
have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way
from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled
a certain type of way, even if they're not the
head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion.
Sometimes it can create friction. And you know, a guy

(01:14:25):
like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about
any real craziness that takes place with the people that
he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy
now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the next
guy trying to figure out what that next step is
and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get an
iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There you

(01:14:47):
go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's and
everybody just raise their hands on yeah, iron sheet. Thinking
about is wrestling culture that? And I was watching a
guy do a case break of a bad yesterday from
a company and it was a wrestling product, and they
pulled an iron cheek autograph and that the guy knew

(01:15:07):
who it was that opened the pack for the person,
but the guy who bought it was like, I have
no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter,
even if you never watch a match, If you go
to Twitter and just read two or three days of
motivational sayings from the Iron Cheek, Uh, you'll laugh and
and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but
you'll definitely laugh. The Iron Cheek is a funny dude man,

(01:15:31):
no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's
LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Dotting, one of the great
finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to
load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no
question about it. Memories. Well, you know what, maybe maybe
folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the

(01:15:54):
old Google search later on as well. Uh, this is
Fox SPORTSNY. Coming up next, we're gonna go off the rail.
Else we're gonna do a quick whip around with our
guys as well. Get one of those big Father's Day moments.
If you have any you'd like to share, please send
him in at Swill and Dome on Twitter. This is
Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Sunday, Welcome back in It's

(01:16:16):
Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Armen alongside the
King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, fight time
pro bowler, legend, man about town, entrepreneur, a man of
deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know how
deep they are, but no, I mean, look as folks

(01:16:38):
go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or they
take the podcast of Up on Game ten am to
noon Saturdays here Pacific time, live on Fox Sports Radio
alongside Plaskow, Morris and t J Houshvenzada. How's t J
doing is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that
the Clippers have advanced and the Lakers didn't. Can again

(01:16:58):
goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like,
everybody's forced to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott,
and he uses the whole our team like when when
my team? And as soon as you get it's only Yankees,
Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well,

(01:17:25):
I never come across the White Sox fan that says, hey,
my White Sox and when we and because we don't
and and like it's like every single day I will
hear my team and the moment they say my team,
I know it's Dallas every single day. A right, LaVar,
you're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're

(01:17:47):
gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take
you to the to the one of eights. Uh, and
you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure guy. Listen,
I'm from Pittsburgh, so I underst stand that from being
where dantime the Steelers, not the stee Steelers, the Stillers. Yeah,

(01:18:17):
we have weird dialect. I mean to say a lot
of like as we say beer and stuff, and you
don't know if you're saying beer to drink or beer
from from the woods you know which By the way,
we had one in front of the house the other day, Um,
how about it? Uh. Anyway, we say a lot of
words that are interesting. So when people like human, I

(01:18:39):
have to really focus on saying human with an H
because it always comes out as just human. But that's
just how we said it in Pittsburgh, like human. It's
funny because them for a long time on the show
I do here on Fox Sports Radio, Jason Smith and
I weeknights seven to a lot in Pacific time, arguing

(01:19:01):
about all the day's events and covering uh big games
and big events as they go. Luck, he's always done
this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries to emulate the
accent and it. I've spent some time in Pennsylvania, but
not a ton. But yeah, And then we watched mayor Easttown.
I just did that with Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended

(01:19:23):
viewing there, but it seemed like he had captured at
least some of the dialect Pittsburgh or Philly because Philly
is like you know what if you know what about
key like or uh you know, uh, it's a lot
of um, but some of it is is driven by

(01:19:43):
you know, uh you know Muslim faith. Um. You know
there there's like a different it's a different like Joan
John Joan like you know when you're talking about that
a girl like that Joan there that John Like there's
different different like slang, terminology and way of of of

(01:20:05):
delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well, it's
all about languages. This was East Town. So the point
to the point, the point Mike is I can go
with you two where you're from, and here people say
US and WE and I as their team, and that's legit.
But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or

(01:20:29):
you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different
places in America and around the world and they say
my team, it's generally one of those. Global branding is
a reality, there's no question about it. And I get
sick of it. That's why that's why I know I
get to get I get tired of it. Like my team, Okay,

(01:20:51):
you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world
to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now
I got to change my tone on it because my
baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like which is weird,
because Sean Lee has been with the team for has
been great, and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough
for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing,
whereas Micah, you know, has It's changed the way I'm

(01:21:15):
looking at Dallas, like I actually my route for Dallas
this year. Well, not to mention they did a Missalid.
His money is guaranteed at LaVar Arrington at King and
the mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I think
that's more an off air counseling session to be had.
Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment,

(01:21:36):
we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back
to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh,
he had to do a little bit of rehab. But
first it's Isaac Low and Crown with what's trending. In
Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night,
the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a
path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it.

(01:21:59):
Though we were in the final minute of overtime tied
at one eleven in Brooklyn. Here's Marv Albert on t
NT four to five seconds left overton ten off the
shot clock study as it hits for Chris Falter. So
that put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven,

(01:22:22):
and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds
marvelous take it away direct for three up for air
ball with three texts on the second rebellion for Milwaukee
Bucks brook on thirteen one eleven d and Milwaukee would

(01:22:44):
go on to win at one fifteen to one eleven.
Despite Durand's forty eight points, nine rebounds and six assists,
he played all fifty three minutes. Last night, the honest
Antea Koopo scored forty and fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which
advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In Game four the
Stanley Cup Semifinals on Saturday night, the New York Islanders

(01:23:04):
to be to the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two.
That series tied to two games apiece and going to
the final rout of the US Open today at Tory Puns.
We've got a three weights high for the lead between
American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis
oost Hazen at five under par overall. Back to Michael
Harmon and LaVar Arrington. Man, LaVar, I warned you about

(01:23:26):
those bears a couple of weeks ago. Glad you're okay?
You know what were we are okay? It was It
was interesting. I was not I was. I was almost
pulling up to the house, but I had got the call,
like they were outside. One of the friends of one
of my kids was leaving the house and they thought

(01:23:48):
they saw a dog walk out of the out of
the yard, okay, and then they saw its head and
they're like, there's no dog that has a hit that big.
That's not a dog. We should probably stop thinking about
what it is and get back into the house. And

(01:24:09):
then once they got back into the house, they realized
that looking at it as it was moving, it was
a bear. And we've just we just received confirmation from
Fox Sports radio sources that when the bear realized whose
house he was outside of, he decided to cut his
losses and beat a hasty retreat. You want to talk

(01:24:30):
about intimidation, Well, I came looking for it. I definitely
wanted to see it, see what he's looking like. I
was like literally three minutes away when they saw it,
and I was probably two minutes too late. Well, the
only the only way that works, though, is if someone's
got the phone on in the family as you go
to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've talked about celebrity boxing.

(01:24:53):
I wanted to try to hurt the bear. I wouldn't
have try to hurt the bear, but I would have
definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now, we certainly did
see um. Remember that viral video we talked about Isaac
about the girl that was protecting her dogs and did
a run, block and move and save them from the bears.
That was just a couple of miles from Lavarre's house. Yeah,

(01:25:17):
so that's just it. That was a big bear. Though
I don't think these were I don't think these were big.
I don't think this one was big. Like, I mean,
it's all perspective. I mean, I'm not messing around with
no grizzly bear. I'll messing around with a brown bear.
You know, six percent of people said they could take
down a grizzly gar. Remember when we were talking about

(01:25:38):
there's the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like,
come on, man, like people are crazy. I still want
to know what the percentages that thinks they can take
down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo in about
ten minutes as we go off the rails here on
Fox Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off
just in terms of language as we talked about identify

(01:26:00):
occasion with a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane
Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dot of CBS Sports, exploring just
his road back to the University of Mississippi and the
rehab program established or what it's being called a rehab
program for Nick Saban. Quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't

(01:26:20):
be a better job in the NFL. I say, it's
the rehab stamp. You go there, spend some time, all
of a sudden, you can coach again. One of yeah, No,
well he just said there wouldn't be a better job
in the NFL, just in terms of if you had
to go from being a head coach to doing you know, coordinator,
what you'd go to? Alabama one of the I think

(01:26:44):
just kind of skipped from A to Z. But we'll
connect the dots for you. No, and you and you
connected them beautifully there. Uh. Kiffin was one of five
former college head coaches to work under Saban in the
last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another
another shot. What do you think it is that I mean,
obviously the great success, but since most of that gets

(01:27:07):
attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it
matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm
of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm
trying to figure out how just being on the staff
would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly

(01:27:28):
it was something you were doing, so let's give you
another job. Well, success is all in the structure and
the process and in the approach and the execution. And
if you've had if you have those established and and
they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are,

(01:27:48):
then the reason why coach would go there and they're
able to rehab their careers. They learn that that, they
learn all of those things and they're able to take
that that process, They're able to take that structure, the
way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way
it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the
programs they go to. Now here's the key. The key

(01:28:10):
is is that generally it's only one person that really
knows how to manage it and and pull it together
the way that they do. And and you have to
have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking,
the uh, the ability to lead and communicate men, not

(01:28:31):
just the men that are players, but the men that
are coaches in a way where you're getting those results.
We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not
when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick Belichick Tree
certainly has uh branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's
the thing about it though, But you still have a chance, right,

(01:28:52):
You still have a chance because you have the information
and so, like it's interesting, like when I started my
head coaching career, I called, I called my coaches. I
called my coach from high school, I called, I called
my my, my, one of my teammates that was my my,
you know, my freshman year when we won a championship. Um,

(01:29:13):
he's won championships. Now, as a head coach of high
school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call
all of the guys that I know. I called coach
Bradley that we had on our show, Um, I call them.
And I asked for the information that will allow for
me to lead the team and structure the team and

(01:29:34):
do all of those things, create the processes that work.
And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and
it was you know, for me, I had to do
it to like one of the most watered down versions
because I just wasn't out of football school for the
last three years. But it still works. I mean I

(01:29:54):
still was able to get a third team win you know,
career and and what, uh sixteen wins ten losses something,
fifteen wins ten loss something like that. But we were
on the other side of five hundred, you know, over
the course of three seasons. So you know, for me,
once you are able to show that success, people are

(01:30:16):
going to buy into the success because they want to
have success and they want to learn how to be successful.
And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly,
is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting
the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role
and fitting their role a lot big thing about it.
It also is just being willing and being humble enough

(01:30:40):
to play your role or wait your turn. You know,
a lot of places you're not going to have that
from coaches. You're not going to have it from players.
Players want to play right now, they expect to play
play right now, or they leave. You know. Coaches, you know,
have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way,
from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled

(01:31:01):
a certain type of way, even if they're not the
head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion.
Sometimes it can create friction, and you know, a guy
like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about
any real craziness that takes place with the people that
he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy
Brian Now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the

(01:31:24):
next guy trying to figure out what that next step
is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get
an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day. There
you go all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's
and everybody just raised their hands on yeah, iron cheek.
Thinking about is wrestling culture? That I was watching a
guy do a case break of a bad product yesterday

(01:31:46):
from a company, and it was a wrestling product and
they pulled an iron Cheek autograph and that the guy
knew who it was that opened the pack for the person,
but the guy who bought it was like, I have
no idea who these people are. Like, just go to Twitter,
even if you never watch a match, If you go
to Twitter and just read two or three days of
motivational sayings from the iron Sheet, uh, you'll laugh and

(01:32:09):
and and maybe you'll find some direction and purpose, but
you'll definitely laugh. The Irish cheek is a funny dude man,
no question about it. Strong as hell too. Uh he's
LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Doting one of the great
finishers of all time. That and stomping the boot to
load it up and getting after it there, Uh, no

(01:32:30):
question about it. Memories. Well, you know what's maybe maybe
folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off the
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Dan Buyer. I'm sure it'll be three hours of festivities
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(01:33:33):
celebratory mood. But that's for later on. See that's a
preview of what's to come here on Fox Sports Radio
later today. But we got two more hours of myself
alongside the three time pro bowler, the All American himself.
Happy Father's Day to my guy, LaVar Arrington. Yeah, Happy
Father's Day to you, sir. And happy Father's Day out
there to all the the daddy's and the daddo's and

(01:33:55):
the padres and the yeah and the poppies and the weapons,
whatever term of endearment or sometimes derision you know we have.
We all have weird relationships sometimes with the the relatives.
And you know how your kids address you. I. You
know I from my younger daughter. I get the hello sir,

(01:34:16):
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Heath Ledger in the Dark Night, as it were about that,
I get another movie reference, and we have a quota

(01:35:20):
I think you know of like the over unders, like
thirteen and a half. So I think we're we're a
little behind. So I have to get back on the
pace we've got Iowa Sam checks in, Chris Perfett tags out.
I was say I'm back from his sojourn of self
discovery and reflection and all of those things. Thanks to
Johnny Robbos who was with us last week, but Sam

(01:35:42):
returns a little worse for the weary, looks a little tired,
you know, running running around the corn field and and
maybe looking up grain prices. See, I know Sam's I
Sam's world. Well, why not growing in the backyard? Now,

(01:36:02):
that would be something if you pull that, pull that
off here in southern California. I could just see him
on the plane. What do you got there, sir? It's like, what, Well,
that's water, you know, I gotta keep this plant alive.
What are you gonna do? It's like, I'm gonna I'm
gonna build a field of dreams in southern California. Man.
And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, no question. No.

(01:36:26):
You know what's funny because I wanted to talk about
relocation mention the Bears a little bit earlier with the
idea of heading to Arlington Heights, buying the site of
Arlington Park race Track, looking at at least putting a
bid in three six acres. Think of all of the magnificent,
enterprising things you can do there. Plus you have ample parking,

(01:36:49):
you've got mass transit already running out there, beautiful facility
opportunities and businesses. Oh and your own stadium that you're
not paying rent the Chicago Park District, who rents it
out to whomever well they please, And according to reports,
they only pay about six million dollars in rent each year.

(01:37:11):
Believe and believe me, Uh, triple check that number and
tried to find any other source that can give me
another number somewhere between five point seven and six point
three million dollars. So we're not talking about a lot.
But Mayor Lightfoot fighting with the Bears, Brass went into
a whole thing about, you know, playing meaningful football beyond
October u encountering herself as a season ticket holder and

(01:37:33):
then using that line, I'm like they they've gone to
the playoffs two of the last three years, Mayor, Uh,
if you would have known that, I think if you'd
attended a game or two. But that's a whole other
thing for another time. Another team that is a long
term potential is the New Orleans Pelicans, and they're in
the news for two reasons right now. One Gayle Benson

(01:37:55):
and just the idea of is is basketball quote unquote
work king there? Or do you need to move to
another city? We always keep hearing about Seattle and maybe
a return of the glorious Sonics moniker and logo from
all those years ago. Remember once upon a time Kevin
Durant wore those duds for the final season before the

(01:38:19):
Oklahoma City Thunder popped up. And now we look at
the Yeah, now we're looking at New Orleans with the
exodus of top talent from Chris Paul and Anthony Davis
member with eighteen months left on his deal set, I'm
out and came here to Los Angeles, and now there's

(01:38:40):
rumblings that will another superstar in the making and his
family aren't necessarily pleased with the direction of Well, you
add the family and I bring that in because it's
the all right, what are we talking about here? Right right? Yeah,
You're in year two obviously a lot of huge expectations,

(01:39:03):
and to this point, Zion's delivered right in terms of
his product productivity. There's certain games of his certain parts
of his game of course that need to be refined,
like most young players, but the explosiveness and availability has
also been huge. Now he suffered a finger injury that
ended his season, and we looked at the at New

(01:39:26):
Orleans and the and the Pelicans fall short. Van Gundi
gets fired and now we've got the revolving door coaches,
so that's problematic, right, no stability there. But when you
talk about young talent, they have a nucleus, but you
don't know if Lonzo Ball is coming back. He's a
guy that will be sought after in free agency and
Brandon Ingram has developed into a pretty fine player. But

(01:39:49):
already after year two, the rumblings are that Zion wants
greener pastures and there's not really a lot of detail
other than and you know, some shots at the organization
and in the building process, which you're in the Western Conference,
growing pains are gonna be there. Put that team in

(01:40:09):
the East, you might have been what the middle of
the back or at least looking at a playoff birth maybe,
but you've got to play the hand you're dealt and
you you're building, and you've got a good nucleus. You
you traded off Reddick, which rubbed people the wrong way
because that was a guy Zion was leaning on, and

(01:40:30):
then Reddick left and didn't have great things for the organization.
I raised my hand to that just saying I get it.
In the best circumstances, they wanted to help you out
with where a trade was gonna happen, and they got
a better offer somewhere else. So thing. So it's it's
the business of the business. Uh, it's not always going
to flow a pent you know by you know, my

(01:40:51):
word is my bond. But it does just lend to
between him and Luca, we got young guys that are
now raising their hand, perhaps earlier than they ever have
because we're used to it with the veteran players now,
but now we've got the guy's middle of their first
contracts looking around and and upset with organizational decisions. And

(01:41:13):
I think flexing now perhaps more than ever. Yeah, I
just think the landscape is changing. And again, guys like
Zion have way more exposure at this point in their
careers than what guys at this point in their career
has had years ago before technical logical advances have taken place,

(01:41:39):
so you know, you can get your message out there
one way or the other. Uh, there's all kinds of
different you know, alternative media sources now, including yourself. And
and so when when you want to dictate things, when
you're at a certain level of popularity and influence, uh
you can do it. And and and what's gonna be

(01:42:02):
interesting is going to be watching how these traditional organizational
protocols and approaches are going to have to adjust and
adapt to the changes in the times, Like that's there
is I bet you there is friction behind closed doors.

(01:42:25):
I bet you there's this whole you know, when cold
air meets warm air in the in the air, you know,
it creates you know, thunder and lightning and stuff like that,
and then you can feel it in the air to
there you go, wow, yeah, wow, that was really good. Yeah.
I mean I think that that's where that's where sports,

(01:42:46):
major sports, that's where it's going well. When particularly in
the NBA, where one or two guys change the face
of a franchise, right, you get that one name to
your town. You're selling out the arena, You're selling a
bunch of merch and jerseys. Why a guy like Lebron
I mean not that the Lakers don't already move mountains

(01:43:07):
and mountains of merchandise, but when you've got that level
of following, and it's like, you know what, I think,
I think I think we've maxed out our twenty three sales.
I'm changing the six and what are people gonna do?
They're gonna go pony up for a replica or or
authentic or whatever they need to do, and they'll add

(01:43:27):
to their list of jersey purchases. And there's there's a
lot to it in the marketing, merchandizing and self branding
that go with it. Right within the NFL, we've got
the fights of the Aaron Rodgers and other players, huge
impactful players, but the power structure is different and what
you can do. One guy going to an organization and

(01:43:48):
I know the Tom Brady just one after leaving for
one year. He's the outlier. Okay, man you got him
and Manning two of the guys we talked about as
the greatest of all time. Yes, they were able to
go into different situations and win, but generally it doesn't
work out quite so that generally doesn't work out that way.
But with that being said, generally speaking, it hasn't worked

(01:44:12):
out that way, probably because you weren't able to have
anymore than the opportunity to go somewhere else. These guys
are going somewhere else and they're dictating who's there. Like
you know, Peyton Manning not so much. They already had
a super team. They justn't were missing that one. We
needed a guy to just guide it along Tom Brady.

(01:44:34):
They had a ton of talent, they just needed somebody
who could bring winning, a winning mentality. I don't think.
I don't think folks recognize that, like it was some
grand turnaround. Jamis Winston obviously, we know he's in the
very rare thirty thirty club. But a couple of possessions,

(01:44:55):
you know, the old I'd like to have that one back.
And there are twelve and four a team. But that's
a damn good team, you know. Yeh Like on defense,
they had David They you know, they had players. Their
defensive front was crazy, you know, and and you had
some guys step up and and play better. Uh. But again,

(01:45:20):
I mean it was the pieces were there. I mean,
give give Tom Brady credit. He chose, he had a
couple of different options. He chose. Chicago was one of
those l A teams. Was was in the mix as well.
I think the Rams were in the mix to to
try to get them, or the Chargers the Charges before
they did the draft or whatever. But you know, I

(01:45:43):
just think that he he hatched his beat very well.
You're just not gonna be in situations that that aligned
that way for you to be able to have the
type of success even if you're that amazing of a talent.
Now with some body like like Zion, you would assume

(01:46:03):
that if he's trying to make a move to go
somewhere else, he's gonna try to go somewhere where they
have tremendous bones and talent and play and so far.
I was listening to UH Chris and and Rob debate,
you know, the other day, and and Chris Broussart was
talking about UH Luca and and Dallas and and how

(01:46:27):
it would be hard to have another dominant guy there
with him and he's going to have to learn to
play in the system. I mean, I could see a
guy like Zion going to Dallas and that being the
missing piece to what that team would need to to
have a dominant one to punch and and have some
good role players and and make you know, make it

(01:46:50):
make it pretty far in and maybe further than what
they did this year, you know, I get out of
the first round. So I mean you think about things
like that, like would they be at would to coexist?
You know, what are those teams that Zion could go
to where you had the type of dynamic where they
could coexist so you know, you throw those conversation points

(01:47:12):
out there. It's great for conversation um by sports fans,
but in reality, does Zion have that type of relationship
with somebody around the league somebody's where you could influence
them to want to all go to the same team
and make a move. I don't know that I've seen
that from Zion, you know. And the only thing that

(01:47:34):
came out, I think he's just stating he doesn't feel
good about what's going on where he's at. Yeah, the
only thing that came out over the course of the
year was remember when they played at Madison Square Garden
and he was like a little kid in the press
conference right of playing there and the aura of that
arena and it was fun, as we talked about last week,

(01:47:57):
just that you had that playoff atmosphere there in basketball
was relevant, right the last time it was and we
commemorated the anniversary and it's a terrible, terrible anniversary. But
when we know in pop culture of the O. J.
Bronco Chase, that was the last time the Knicks were
in the finals, right, so you know you're talking about,

(01:48:18):
you know, a lifetime ago, as it were, so to
have the crowd at you know, full throated in losing
their minds. Under Tom Thibeau and company, you've reignited that
as a place and maybe that becomes a destination. Got
a couple of nice pieces there. How it fits, I

(01:48:39):
don't know, but yeah, watching him run the floor with
Luca would be a lot of fun, right, A guy
who is ball dominant but passes and Zion as we know,
ran point quite often this year, which was a whole
other thing. Once Alonzo ball was hurt. You saw him
handling the ball quite a bit. So shades of well
what Lebron became, but just doing this at the very

(01:49:02):
early part of his career. But interesting dynamics a foot
in the NBA. I think player movement is going to
be uh well, I think it's gonna be very active
again this year. It was a great article of Brooklyn
just eliminated that talked about all of the different mechanics
of contracts, not only for your three superstars who can

(01:49:23):
all opt and try to get a huge pay day
or opt out altogether, but all the ancillary players that
we'd come to know during this playoff run and towards
the end of the regular season where they've got to
make some huge contract decisions. And Spencer Dinwiddie who was injured,
who's gonna opt out of his contract and test free agency.

(01:49:45):
But all these pieces that are moving just in one squad. UH.
Delicious theater to come and no days off, just like
Bill Belichick has always preached Lovar, which is good for
all of us, no question about it. But you'll be
doing some early work, doing the Lord's work. Three to
six am Pacific time, Monday Tuesday, alongside Jonas knocks here

(01:50:08):
on Fox Sports Radio. Give that a listen when you're
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unique brand of humor as well. You know him on
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be well, there you go. You'll you'll have the the

(01:50:30):
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(01:50:51):
do apply. Coming up next, we've got Major League Baseball
with a bunch of rules of enforcement. I gotta find
out from LaVar what would be the equivalent in the
National Football League. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio. Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports or
Radio Fox Sports Sunday. Mike Carmen, alongside the King of
the Mammals himself, will find the Mammals of the Week.

(01:51:12):
Coming up about twenty minutes from now, it's my guy
in LaVar Arrington Eppy father's date all the dad's dad
figures out there. Yes, Adam corrects me. I forget the
Knicks did have the I didn't. I didn't think that
really mattered because they stunk losing in five. But yes,
they did get there. I just remember them from the

(01:51:32):
fun and excitement of that one. Uh so, yes, I
appreciate it. I I really should know my Knick's history,
seeing as I work with a wee guy Monday through
Fridays on the network, the greatness that is h Yeah. Well,
Jason Smith, look, he owns him. He also owns every
pick of every team in these playoffs. It's kind of interesting.

(01:51:54):
Uh the way he's worked it. I can't fault to
good strategy, so it becomes my box now my So
it's it's good, it's good. And yes, how can I
forget those I feel I feel bad for that? Well, no,
I mean because you gotta you gotta do the corrections
on that bad job by me. That was Jeff Van

(01:52:14):
Gundy Lad Squad at that point. So good times, Uh,
no question about it. Now. One of the things wanted
to address Major League Baseball with the on Monday will
begin the enforcement umpires having to go and and decide, well,
is there something funny about the grip? And are they

(01:52:35):
gonna wait for a manager or a coach or a
player to utter their disapproval of what they're seeing? Are
they gonna wait for the television broadcast to give us
something obvious, because I think that's where some of the
problem has been with all of this LaVar. Obviously they
want more offense in the game, but I think part
of it becomes a hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, Um,

(01:52:57):
that guy's got a giant glop of something on the
brim of his hat, or he keeps reaching down to
his belt, buckle or whatever the case. Maybe Uh, Trevor
Bauer did a great thing in in front of some
assembled press earlier this week. He goes, well, between rosin
and sweat, you can do this. It's like WHOA goes So,

(01:53:17):
now arbitrarily, you can decide to toss me from a
game and there's no appeal. Right, you're out of the game.
You're gonna get your suspension because you're not gonna be
able to prove you didn't have it on there. Right,
So you you're you're now a judicating something based on
feeling suspicion. And to his point, which I thought was

(01:53:38):
a pretty good one, it's like, what if I was
arguing balls and strikes in the third inning and so
now he's he's gotta ticked off at me because I'm
challenging him. And then in the fifth inning, for giggles
and I'm dominating, the opposing manager comes out and says, hey,
I want him checked. If he suddenly decides I've got

(01:54:00):
too much of a grip on the ball by spin
rates up, whatever, I got a problem. Mm hmm. I
still get paid during the suspension, Right, that's the rule
they put in place, But it seems well, not something
you do in the middle of a season. I don't
know that stuff is. It's it's out of my wheelhouse.

(01:54:21):
But I have seen like the tar on the socks
and the different different approaches to you know, how guys
can get a competitive advantage that you know kind of
go against the rules. But you know, I don't know.
You know, when you think about in baseball, like the

(01:54:42):
the the inches that that are at play when you're
swinging the bat, different things like that, or when you're
throwing the ball. Um, you know, it can make the
difference for guys. But you know, if you get caught. Yeah,
I don't know, Matt, because because they're they're there's the
there's the politically correct way of answering, and then there's

(01:55:03):
the there's the brutally honest way of answering. And you know,
the brutal lion is answer to you have something, the
way you can grip your bat and stuff like that,
The brutal lion is answer is if it makes you better,
do it. You know. But well, but that's the thing, right,
You've allowed it to go on in some capacity, somebody,

(01:55:24):
shape or form, and now offense is flailing. You've got
no hitters and would be no hitters. So everybody is
suddenly up in arms, and look, to some degree you've
got you've got a number of players where it just
got so brazen, like all right, come on, don't don't
rub it in our faces what you're doing here, because
now you're just being too obvious. But it's still just

(01:55:47):
the point of you've always had grip, and some pictures say, hey,
you had Tyler Tyler glass now saying hey I had
to change this, and now my arm hurts right, And
you've got others wondering about the same, their their level
of effectiveness. I think we'll have the splits of this
year that will look at the tree decision and and

(01:56:10):
starts after that date and certainly after tomorrow that will
be monitoring quite a bit. I was just wondering if
there was anything NFL related that would stand out to you.
I mean, these days, I would probably just say, these
gloves that they're wearing these days are pretty I mean,
that's spider tack on on steroids, isn't it. I mean

(01:56:32):
in terms of they don't need you don't need stick them.
I'll tell you that what's upon a time you did
man Lester all these all these big handed receivers. It's like,
you only have to have a strong hand to squeeze
the ball because you don't have to have a strong
hand to catch it. And and let me qualify that

(01:56:54):
because somebody's sitting there in their cars somewhere like LaVar
is punch drunk and I'm really not uh. When the
ball hits your hand, like you said, that tack that's
on the bottom of the glove is so crazy, so sticky,
so grabbing onto the texture of the football. That the

(01:57:16):
catching part, you know, the contact it's staying there, that part.
It's kind of you just gotta get your hand on
the ball. It's when you say, like when DeAndre Hopkins
squeezes the ball and you can't get the ball out
of his hand to create an incomplete pass. That's where
you're saying, strong hands come into play. You're in traffic,

(01:57:36):
different things like that. But make no mistake about it,
if you're by yourself and that ball hits your hands,
I'm just telling you right now, guys that were gloves
that dropped balls in today's NFL is it's a travesty.
It is a flat out travesty because in some regards.
It doesn't take skill to catch a ball at this

(01:57:59):
point in time, because if the ball touches your glove,
it's going to kill the momentum of the ball and
stick to your hand, and all you gotta do is
make sure you secure the catch. Now, I don't want
to make it in simple, so simplified terms that it
takes away of everything that takes place for you to
be in place to make that. Well. See that's the key,

(01:58:20):
right for all the wide receivers at King of the
Mammals on Instagrams where you can find him in comment. Uh.
I think that's the fine distinction, right. There's still a
lot to get open, a lot to get into your space,
and the physicality of it all. It takes away nothing
from that except for the ability sometimes to snag the

(01:58:41):
ball one handed that seemingly defies the laws of physics.
But also remember that you almost have a magnet on
your hand. So he's got to he's got to hand
the size of a mit No, he's got the bottom
of a glove that's going to It's like literally is
going to make that ball like down and stick in

(01:59:02):
a way where you can grab it. Are you calling
spider man. Yeah, well, there you go, or something to
that level. I mean, that's kind of where we're at.
That's right, I don't even know where what's where's that from? Sam? Oh?
That was a Ben Mallard drop. It was like I
was like, what what movie? What TV show? Normally we
know what the what the references are when it comes

(01:59:25):
out of left field. I mean, obviously I would know
the dulcet tones of our our teammate Ben Mallory here
on the overnight Fox Sports Radio and that's Chris Myers
Fox Sports Radio alumni. We're gonna play this game now, Sam,
is that what we're doing? Name this voice? Hey? I
do that with we We were doing that with commercial
voice over. Sam was incredulous about a certain uh No

(01:59:50):
Award winning actor. We'll talk about that momentarily. Let's get
into that for a second. But first we're gonna go
to Isaac. This is great, This is great trivia stuff.
This is Isaacloan kraw Hey, Buddy, Hey, Michael LeVar. This
morning in Brooklyn. They are crying in their organic oat
milk latte is with avocado toasts and pickled kale because
the events of Saturday. That's like metal Unfortunately, you're not

(02:00:16):
exaggerating because of what happened on Saturday night, their beloved
nets in the Milwaukee Bucks tied at one eleven on
the final but out of overtime in Game seven of
the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Here is Marv Albert on TNT
marvelous four to five seconds left off the shot clock

(02:00:36):
study for christ that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to
one eleven. But Brooklyn still had a chance. In the
final seconds of ot direct for three pops up for
air ball with three text on the second robellion Well,

(02:00:58):
Milwaukee Bucks, brook for what one e level? Sorry hipsters,
as Milwaukee would go on to win at one fifteen
to one eleven. Durant played the entire game, all fifty
three minutes. His forty eight points were the most points
scored in a Game seven in NBA history, eclipsing the

(02:01:20):
mark set by Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks and
his epic Game seven showdown with Larry Bird in Game
seven of the nineteen eighty eight Eastern Conference Semifinals, in
which the Celtics prevailed over the Hawks at Boston Garden,
Jantis antea Coon po forty points last night in fifty
minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals
and Game four the Stanley Cup Semi Finals on Saturday

(02:01:42):
night in New York. Islanders defeat at the Tampa Bay
Lightning three to two, tying the series at two games apiece,
three way tie for the lead going into the final
round of the US Open today at Torrey Pines between
American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes, and South Africa's Louis
Oustaysen at five r par overall, you've also got Rory
McElroy and Bryson Deshambo lurking two shots back at three

(02:02:07):
under par. Overall. That to two gentlemen who are most
definitely not hipster's and I say that as a compliment
Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, although Michael does own at
least one hipster esque hat. Oh, I've got more than
a dozen jaunty hats at the disposal. I might be

(02:02:28):
there with you, bro, Yeah, I just gotta spoke too soon.
Perhaps no oat milk. I can't say I've had any
avocado toasted goodness. She whiz. That's a deal breaker for yours, truly, Sorry, buddy,
you shouldn't have to pay six bucks for a cup
of coffee that's not even that great. I'm just saying
I make my own experience and and the branding. And

(02:02:54):
another tip off, by the way, if breakfast is served
with a salad, that's another deal breaker. No breakfast should
be served with a salad. I'd rather you won't see
a side salad for breakfast and waffle. Why but why
is that? Why can't you have a salad with your breakfast?
You can have a steak for your breakfast that's totally

(02:03:16):
different than a salad. And frankly, why Frankly coming from
one of the great breakfast towns of American Pittsburgh, I'm
I'm kind of I'm kind of disappointed. I'm just listen.
I'm just challenging the traditional ideas and approaches. Why not
have a breakfast salad? Is a breakfast? Why is a

(02:03:38):
breakfast burrito breakfast burrito that doesn't have any type of
lettuce or anything in it? You know, LaVar. The best
analysis I can give is it just is some things
are appropriate for breakfast, like a breakfast burrito. A salad
is not one of those things. I feel like we're
having I feel that I'm the guy who should arguing

(02:04:00):
the hipster end here, not you. You know, it's crazy.
You are more of a hipster. And I do love
that you had a Tabasco sauce shirt on the other day.
But my wife, thank you. I gotta say, I gotta
say here, why why is fruit not a part of dinner?
It's a good question. You know, people bring fruit salad

(02:04:22):
right here, But I'm just saying, like, why can't you
have a salad with lettuce, tomatoes and greens, cucumbers. I
love cucumbers with some Italian dressing on there, or even
some ranch. Why would you not be able to put
that with like some eggs and you know, a meat.
I do too, just not for breakfast. And the issue

(02:04:44):
is these hipster salad breakfast things. It's not just typical lettuce.
It's these ninety three different kinds of bitter green. You
just had to pay for a breakfast for people. You
You're mad, You're mad at you know you you bought
yourself some little breakfast burrito or maybe some eggs and
a couple of sausages, and then someone at the table

(02:05:07):
ordered something else and you had been already said you're
picking up the tab and you paid like twenty bucks
for someone's bougie breakfast and now you're calling him out
here on national radio. I'm just exactly what it is.
I'm just saying a Tacos via Corona in Silver Lake
or Lucky Boy in Pasadena, the breakfast burritos would never
come with lettuce or greens. And let me guess someone

(02:05:28):
at this person at the table also ordered a seven
dollar glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. Oh gosh, you
know me so well, ce LaVar. I I cut through
that really quick sparkling water. Yeah good hall he I
mean he just owned you right now. That was like
we're playing poker and I read you. I read your

(02:05:49):
face without even seeing you, and I've got that's right.
He Michael is so is so um sensitive and so observant.
He can pick up on hells from people he's not
even in direct visual contact with. Salute interesting, we love you.
You're not You're not the hipster, You're the You're the toaster.

(02:06:10):
You get it, the toa sy part. But do you
like breakfast with without green? So we'll call it like toaster,
like like nobody eats toast at unless it's like Texas toast.
You don't eat it. Stop talking about food. Now, Now
you got got Sam losing it. I want to get
back to you. Gotta pay off the tease about voice

(02:06:33):
over acting, and well it comes back to food ironically,
but one of those things you pick up voices right
I watch Obviously, when I'm hearing at Fox Sports Radio,
I've got walls of television with no sound, so fine.
But oftentimes when I'm trying to work right create whatever
I'm doing, I've got movies or familiar TV shows in

(02:06:55):
the background, so I don't actually have to watch, So
it's dialogue and voices all the time. So when there
is a commercial one I'm watching an NBA game, in
NFL game, whatever, I can normally pick up who the
actor is or actress barely quickly. And Sam had a
revelation this week that really irked him. Oh well, the
fact that uh, Award winning actor yes, excuse me, I'm

(02:07:20):
still voice is still waking up a little bit. Award
winning actor Paul Jamati was a voicing over Burger King commercials,
which I have to give him credit. It's starting to
sound better and better, which with each new commercial so well,
because you know their competitor has a very well known
actor as well, and I do. I do see the
Burger King Breakfast and it looks very enticing. So I

(02:07:41):
may give that a because McDonald chuses Brian Cox, legendary
actor and those that know him from The X Men
as Strikerval certainly should use my voice. Well, we need
to work to that. We that's that's why would you
not use my voice? As you always said, I'm not pretty,
but I'm sexy. I am sexy. That is true. And

(02:08:06):
sy that that shirt will be available for purchase tomorrow, buddy,
We're gonna load that up later on tonight as part
of the Father's Day memorabilia part of the program. Appreciate
you there, Sam, Yeah, he put this on Twitter. It's like, well, man,
it's like these guys have been cashing checks forever. It's

(02:08:26):
how they get to do some of their passion projects
or payoff gambling. Gay he's John Adams though, that's in
the guy from Sideways. He's one of the most esteemed
actors out there. That's fine. Burger King. I'm like, if
you can go on the total poll, but if you
could collect another check and home of the Whopper, Okay,
and and Home of the the Chicken, the what is

(02:08:52):
it the Chicking? You haven't get a lot of free advertising, nicely.
You want to know what's funny? What's that the commercial
running King Run and he's running up the wall? I
got it is one of the funniest commercials I've ever
seen it, But like bad, like for a fast food commercial.
That joke really did win funniest commercial bad because the

(02:09:13):
King looked funny as Hale running up that wall. Bad.
Still trying to get one of those King heads from
my memorabilia collection. I would love to have one that
would fat. He's at LaVar Arrington at King of the Mammals.
We'll try to work this out. Dang. That's when people
have been saying for me all my life, ats wool
and no where you find me. Coming up next, we

(02:09:34):
find our mammals and we crown them the Mammals of
the Week. Yeah, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio,
Fox Sports Sunday Mike Arment alongside the King of the
Mammals himself, three time pro bowler, my guy LaVar Arrington.
Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there, and
to you, my friend. Yeah, that got you and all

(02:09:55):
the other dads out. Yeah, big, big day ahead. I
actually get to pick where we eat. I don't know.
I don't know what to do with that. That's well,
if you want to tell me, say that again. I'm
gonna go burn after I'm done. Soon as I get off,
I'm I'm on that grill. Nicely done. Yeah, man, my guy.
All right, So you know it's that time of the

(02:10:17):
show where I step out of the way and LaVar
goes to the podium because you gotta hand out some awards.
It takes an eight pex predator to properly assess situations
and spot potential greatness, no matter how big or small.
LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on them all. These are

(02:10:39):
his mammals of the weeds. Here we go. Let's start off. Hello,
Let's go in the NBA and stay in the NBA
since the NBA playoffs. Yesterday was a big game, obviously
Game seven, deciding game between the Brooklyn Nets and the
Mill Hockey Bucks. Yes, we sure can go to Janice

(02:11:03):
and say Janice would be a mammal of the week,
But we're gonna go to a different team mate, Mike.
We're gonna go with Chris Middleton, how about it, hits
a game winning shot, has showed up, had to carry
the load. Last year, Janice gets hurt. He couldn't quite
get them over the hump bound himself. But this year,
you know what, his help, his contribution has been major

(02:11:26):
for the Milwaukee Bucks. They advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Shots out to Chris Middleton, all Man, old baby, all right,
Let's go to the western side of of everything that
took place. We saw the Clippers and what I saw. Listen,
I chose the Clippers, but I'm a Utah fan, and

(02:11:47):
I thought the Utah Jazz may take it to a
game seven. They had such a big lead over twenty points.
Epic fail in terms of keeping the league. But a
major reason why emerging star Terrence Man. How about him
showing up and doing the things that he did in

(02:12:07):
the game, contributing in the way that he did. A
young budding star for this Clippers team and has done
it the right way. I got him through the draft.
He's grown, he's matured and now he well he grown
man Utah and helped out Paul George. As we all
know that Kauahi Leonard is out with the knee injury.
So shots out to Terrence Man for doing what he

(02:12:28):
needed to do to help the team get to the
Western Conference finals. Yes, let's see if he could do
it against them sons. All right, now, this last guy.
It's interesting because for so long we have laughed, we
have joked. His dad has been the punchline to many, many, many,

(02:12:49):
many many conversations. LaVar Ball. LaVar Ball has always been
the guy that you said, oh, he's loud, he's brash,
he's obnoxious, and you know he probably is. But he
just celebrated his baby boy getting NBA Rookie of the Year.
That's right, LaMelo Ball gat Rookie of the Year. And

(02:13:09):
you know what, somewhat debate other guys, but I say deservingly.
So he has shown us that he is a potential
superstar in this National Basketball Association. And congrats to him,
uh for playing and living up to that that potential.
So shots out the LaMelo Ball for getting NBA Rookie
of the Year. And that is my mammals of the week.

(02:13:32):
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(02:14:20):
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(02:15:14):
who's kind of getting well cut up a little bit
by his fans by media. We mentioned Ben Simmons a
few minutes ago, LaVar, and you know they all always
comes down to you gotta have a fall guy. Someone's
got to pay for losses and ineffectiveness and and all
of those things. It's he's in a situation where his
head coach will get a bunch as we've got Atlanta

(02:15:37):
Philadelphia later on today, and we look look at the
early lines and we we certainly know that well Doc
Rivers is in a position that it's not a three
one lead. But whenever he's in front in a series,
the poison pens come out. And for Ben Simmons at

(02:16:00):
he's been traded almost everywhere in the NBA in the
last seventy two to ninety six hours, uh, and many
very whimsical and creative ways to get him out of Philadelphia.
A guy with immense talent, and he brings a lot
to the table. And you saw defensively what he can
do you have him and and Matisset table on the

(02:16:22):
floor at the same time, with Joel and Bead, you've
got three guys that can defend the hell out of
the ball, right. I mean you look at and Bead,
I'm sorry, Simmons a first team all defense, and then
and Beat and Thyble uh second team. And you saw
how effective they were in bottling up Trey Young and
making life very difficult the other night. And now they'll

(02:16:43):
they'll get called down to do it one more time.
And we watched Simmons and made a lot yesterday about
Janice's free throw shooting. He ends up going eight to fourteen.
Is it tremendous for most No, but for him after
a couple of air balls, you'll take it. You take it,
Ben Simmons. A lot of it is when are you
going to get the confidence to actually take a shot that?

(02:17:06):
That is one of the the glaring problems here, right.
Free throw shooting is bad. We know this, but good playmaker,
one of the best defenders in the game, but offensively
still so much lacking to where he's a non factor
in a lot of sets during games. So it becomes

(02:17:27):
a difficult proposition where you've got to do a substitution
of all right, is Maxi coming in for Thyble whose
game isn't developed offensively? Is he coming in for Ben Simmons?
What are we doing here? And when you're sitting looking
at a game seven, he's the guy that I think
all the eyes are on because in Beads played with
the meniscus tear. And while he's had some really rough stretches,

(02:17:48):
remember the over twelve and the second half a couple
of games back, it's the fact that you've got a
guy in Simmons that won't take a shot that becomes
the problem and be the spotlighted portion of their squad.
You know, they asked Doc Rivers if he was going

(02:18:08):
to bench Ben Simmons and not start Ben Simmons, and
he's clearly over over it, trying to to justify and
talk about it and discuss it um. But you know what,
it has become a story and and it will continue
to be a story and unless they do something about it.
It's like the old adage. You know, if you don't

(02:18:30):
want us to score that many points on you, then
don't allow us to do it um. And then that's
kind of the same thing here. If you don't want people,
you know, coming coming real aggressive about what do you
do about Ben Simmons in this situation? Then Ben Simmons
has to do better. You know. The one thing that
you would say, um, in terms of observation wise, that's

(02:18:51):
something that's correctable. You know, what we're talking about with
Ben Simmons is something that you can work on and
you can actually correct it. So it opens up the
conversation to a bigger amount of topics like what's his
dedication level? Like what and he could be the hardest
working dude out here, but the results that you're seeing

(02:19:15):
are not are not in in the in the lane
where you would give him a pass and say, oh,
you know, he's just having an off time or he's
just you know, he just needs a little bit of
this or a little bit of that. Like now he's
you know, he's he's making it so that the conversation says,
does he care enough to to correct some of the

(02:19:36):
things that are plaguing him right now, which is ultimately
hurting this team. You got a super a super two,
you got a super combo in him, and and and
beat and beat lives up to the building. The only
thing he deals with his injuries, but otherwise and Beat
does what he needs to do. Um, some of these
other guys have to also step up for the seventies

(02:19:58):
sixers if they're gonna win this game as well. UM,
I really like their chances going into this this game today.
But again, as it applies to Ben Simmons and all
of the continued uh intensity of coverage on his his
inability to make shots and his him not looking for

(02:20:19):
shots and deferring on on those things, you know, he's
got to go out there and he's got to have
a game today, and and whatever that game is, it
doesn't have to be him proving everybody wrong. It has
to be him putting his best foot forward, whatever that is,
because all of those conversations have started to come out

(02:20:39):
that you know, his confidence may be shaking, shooking, or
the team's confidence in him is shooking, And you know,
it's just you know, for me, I think that those
are things that you have to play through, not allowed
to become. Um, the reason why you don't you don't excel. Yeah,
I think the hard part is as soon as you
also get ensnared in the Kardashian general world, the poison

(02:21:03):
pens are redoubled. There's no question, even if there's no
correlation whatsoever, people are gonna tie those strings together for
you regardless. He's LaVar Arrington. I'm Mike Rman. This is
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Let's go over
to Isaac Loewen Grod find out what's trending all about
Game Seven's plural Michael and LaVar. Starting with Game seven

(02:21:25):
of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee
Bucks and Brooklyn Nets tied at one eleven in the
final minute of overtime. Here's Marv Albert on TNT four
to five seconds left and overt ten off a shot
clock study for Christ Falter that put Milwaukee up one

(02:21:49):
thirteen to one eleven, but Brooklyn still had one last
chance marvelous take it away direct for three. C's up
for air ball? What pretexts all the second repay all
Milwaukee Bucks one elevel league, and Milwaukee would go on

(02:22:12):
to win it one fifteen to one eleven, despite Durant
scoring forty eight points, the most points scored in a
game seventy in NBA history, eclipsing the record of forty
seven set by Atlantis Dominique Wilkins against the Celtics back
in night at Boston Garden. Durant played all fifty three
minutes of last night's game. Janice Antea Kumpo scored forty

(02:22:35):
points for Milwaukee in fifty minutes. Michael LaVar, the NBA
has just announced that Atlanta Hawks back up big man
Bruno Fernando has been suspended for their Game seven tonight
against the seventy six ers for leaving the bench area
during an altercation in Game six on Friday. Fernando has
only played a total of two minutes and twenty eight

(02:22:56):
seconds in the entire series, so it's really not that
big of a deal relatively speaking. But get this, Philadelphia's
Joel and Bead was find thirty five thousand dollars for
his role in the altercation. There you go, including listen
to this specific language. He also part of the fine
was because he failed to comply with an NBA security

(02:23:19):
interview after the game. In fact, Fox Sports Radio has
obtained exclusive audio of Embiad's interview with NBA security. Listen
to Cincinnati, Toronto, Cincinnati. Well, I mean, I'm just a
Cincinnati I feel sorry for the NBA security official trying
to conduct that interview. We got a three way tie

(02:23:40):
for the lead going in to the final round of
the US Open today at Tory Pines between Russell Henley,
Mackenzie Hughes and Louis oust Hazen at five underpar overall.
Hughes and oust Hazen will tee off at three fifty
five eastern, Henley at three forty four eastern. You've also
got Rory McElroy and Bryson de Shambo just two shots
back at three underpar overall. Michael and LaVar, Thank you, Ilo.

(02:24:03):
I guess that goes back to the embiid uh John
Collins thing where double technical and he did he outstretched arms,
never grabbed him, never you know, tried to throw punches
or or any physicality other than outstretched arms, like he
was a security guard pushing you back, like get back
they odd here about and he pushed him into the crowd.

(02:24:25):
I guess that's the Oh I was thirty grand. Good
for him, hopefully it goes to a good cause. Thanks Ilo.
At Isaac Lowan Crown is where you find him on Twitter.
So yeah, Fernando suspended. See, we always get something cool
during the course of our four hours here on Fox
Sports Radio. Not just the hot take nonsense, great debates,

(02:24:46):
uh and laughs and information that we give. We also
get breaking news uh and a story that's still developing, LaVar.
I haven't seen it officially announced, but it's rumored that
the Lakers have decided to part ways with head trainer
Nina Shay after an injury plagued season. This would be

(02:25:08):
the second time in the last couple of years that
the Lakers trainer got rid of their head trainer. And
that that's your conduit for so many of these series anymore,
the importance of being available. And we saw with the
Lakers just one one player felled after another, Lebron James

(02:25:29):
talking about the short offseason, the wear and tear. Uh,
that's part of it. But you know other teams facing
injury woes. And I mean you you've been in the
NFL locker rooms, friends that are still playing guys, you're
you're a confidante too, And I mean, what's that relationship
with with a trainer, Like at that level, it's a major,

(02:25:51):
super important and and if if anybody has paid attention
to the Washington football team that became big thing is injuries. Um,
and stemming all the way back to me. And that's
that's you know, early early two thousand's. So, um, it's important.

(02:26:12):
It's important to have the right training staff, the right support,
the right relationships that are connected to um that you
you gotta have guys who want to report their injuries
and want to get their their injuries addressed. You're you're
gonna want to have a training staff that is good

(02:26:34):
at at at buffering and and handling things in a
way where you know, just the comfort and the trust level.
I think trust. Trust was the biggest thing. Yeah, yeah,
that's the biggest one. So yeah, So, so the Lakers
moving on, and obviously some of the comments from Lebron

(02:26:54):
James probably don't sit well. You know, the Lakers are
developing a sitcom though, we'll see what they do with
the training position. They're evidently Genie Buss working with Mindy
Kaling m to develop a half hour sitcom based on
the Lakers world. We also know that the showtime Lakers
there's another thing in production, but that that doesn't apply

(02:27:15):
to the well maybe it will. Who knows. Trainers may
have a huge role there. Another story I wanted to
get to switching to the NFL for a moment Aaron Rodgers,
because we have to have at least three minutes of
Aaron Rodgers talk every week. LaVar and folks got excited. Right, stalemate,
We've got a couple of weeks before training camp. What's
gonna happen? And out of Wisconsin, the report that Aaron

(02:27:38):
Rodgers renewed his membership to the Green Bay Country Club
for the remainder of the year. Huh So what does
that make you feel? They made me laugh because I'm like,
that's your property. Well, that's also an auto renew and
maybe you forgot to turn it off. Maybe is that

(02:28:00):
a not aby I don't know. I don't know. And
find out he's had a large enough purchase that you
might have to country club? They got it? Yeah, because
that look, I'm I'm on record for months now he
ain't anywhere, But I don't know that that story takes
you away from him not being there. I mean, just

(02:28:24):
because you go play somewhere else doesn't mean that you
can't keep your country club status. I mean, he's he's alleged,
he's an icon there. Why would he leave even if
he's done playing? Why would you? Why would you leave
but now you've angered the fan base, You've divided the
fan base. I don't think he's angered the fan base,

(02:28:46):
you know. I think that he has handled things the
way that he has wanted too. But I think he's
he's pretty bulletproof. I mean a lot of the people
that are upset with them will probably get over it
at some point in time. And yeah, I just think
that that's kind of what it is right now. I mean,
he's one of those few guys that actually can overcome

(02:29:10):
um situations like this. Most athletes can't do it, but
but Aaron Rodgers is in perfect position to do it. Yeah.
I think one of the things that that comes along
is Jordan's love or insert replacement here, uh, in the
next couple of years, has to establish that winning will continue,
because I think he gets spoiled after thirty two years
of exceptional quarterback play. Speaking as a guy from you know,

(02:29:35):
the South side of Chicago, we don't we don't know
that very well. Just you know, in case folks miss
that memo, uh that is there. The other is just
a reminder that his foray into television with Jeopardy was
not his first no, no, no, no. He appeared in
one of the final episodes of the Office, as a
judge for an acapella competition that Andy Bernard was trying

(02:29:57):
to be part of. H had a couple of speaking lines.
He was a bit wooden, but he got him, got
him across. So there you go. He's an entertaining dude.
See I added value, nicely done. Guys like that end
up getting opportunities. Good lore. Yeah, I think it'll be
just fine. Yeah, No, there's there's no question, especially nowadays.

(02:30:19):
You there's so many channels looking for programming. Uh, you
can call me as well, always looking to expand and
and well, I mean I'm I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy.
I'm stealing your line. Uh. Coming up next, we'll find
some of the greatest wins of our sporting universe. Will
also pick today's NBA games. He's LaVar and I'm Bike Carmen.

(02:30:41):
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(02:31:01):
Happy Father's Day to you. I know LaVar is gonna
hit the pool and the grill. I'm gonna go create
some chaos and run around Barnes and Noble for a while,
so that'll be fun. Hey man, you gotta keep the
education flowing. So it's summer summer reading. Go to your
local library. That's spicy anymore. No, Yeah, you just wanted

(02:31:26):
to get Sam to hit his favorite drop. That was
well done. That was very well played. Wherever you are, though,
remember to give a call figure out how to how
to mend those bridges if you got an issue in
the family, if if there's a possibility, uh, because nobody's
promised tomorrow and you don't want that regret. That's all
I can say. My dad down in Florida, love you, buddy.

(02:31:50):
I'll talk to you later. Hopefully you're having a good
power walk. Avoid those alligators, uh and go lightning and
all that stuff. Uh. And yeah, piece of to all
you out there, uh and the roles that and the
young minds and even older minds that you continue to shape.
And with that, let's find a couple of winds, flocker

(02:32:12):
room squabbles, struggling teams, cheaters and no account owners. There's
so much negativity at sports that it can ruin your day.
But not Mike Hard. That piece here to shine a
light on the good at sports with a simple mantra,
find your winds. I gotta put. I don't know if
we can actually do this. We might have to kill

(02:32:33):
kill the music for a moment, Sam, can you give
me the audio of the Big Shot made by Kevin Durant.
He's gonna feed me that in a second, because it
really is just demonstrative, illustrative of what we're going on
and what is happening here in our sporting universe, because

(02:32:54):
there's an energy, there's a life force that is gotten
its wind night and and we've got it back. Listen
to this crowd, Creed, lots A cross Court, Durant, Carter Bike, Tucker.
They booked head of the Key turn around Okay, but
one second ago time out books. That's that's two point

(02:33:19):
along on that ties there you have it, Nets Radio
Network and then people that I know that we're in
the building the other night, the Staples come back by
the Clippers down twenty five said it was the loudest
and they were talking to people that work the arena.
The ushers, the concessionaires, everybody saying the only time it

(02:33:42):
was ever louder Kobe Bryant and finishing his Hall of
Fame career. So we we talked about that, and obviously
we'll get into a game prediction as we've got Game
one coming up a little bit later. But just to
illustrate the point of of that active experience, that energy
flow that I speak of on the show and celebrate

(02:34:05):
as part of this is back in a big, big way.
Also a a little bit of love too. Joey Votto
of the Cincinnati Reds got himself thrown out very early
in yesterday's game, first inning, to be exact, arguing balls
and strikes and a little girl in her Votto T

(02:34:27):
shirt and everything tearful because that's why she came to
the game. She was ready to see her guy. She
was down front, Uh, and he handed her after being ejected.
She's in tears and we love you and everything. Uh
sent to a ball. I'm sorry I didn't play the
entire game. Signed from Joey Votto to the kid, you
know you gotta you gotta get him young right in

(02:34:50):
Baseball's in particular, very big movement for youth uh, interaction,
and I want to go back to the Clippers really
quick just to acknowledge where we're at with with Tehron
Lou as a head coach that I don't know has
been highlighted enough, especially because the wind came on a

(02:35:10):
Friday night late right, so a lot of folks wouldn't
gone to bed. They wake up like, wow, came back,
got this huge win, et cetera. Lost in that. Our
buddy Todd Ferman at Todd Ferman joins Jason and I
every Friday night. Uh, you see him on Fox Bet
Live on FS one. His research team best playoff record

(02:35:32):
as an NBA head coach with a minimum of twenty
five games. Number one Steve Kerr winning percentage seven thirty three,
so he's seventy eight. Phil Jackson at number two to
twenty nine and one oh four Tyler forty nine and
twenty five good for a six sixty two winning percentage.

(02:35:54):
So just something we're watching winning because we had olden
polonies on Friday LaVar right long time and that, um
there there's a there's a guy to bring on on
on up on game two because you guys can enjoy
that because he's like you ask a question, I tell
you no lies. Here's my here's my answer, and said, hey,

(02:36:16):
they got a shot down down O two with Doc
Rivers coach, and he goes man, they would have lost
that series three games ago. So one of one of
the fine assessments of where a team was. All right.
So let's get to it. Iowa, Sam, any any shoutouts
back home? Did you want to give to family? I'll

(02:36:39):
give my dad Mike a shout out. I got him
a new WiFi router for Father's David actually got to
see him last week, so I just picked it up
in Uh bam, wham bam, thank you, madam positivity. I
gotta give Sam some love to I've got this beautiful
colonel's hat. Yes, yes, Midwest League Baseball. Hi a baseball,
Hi a baseball. And it's at the uh the corn

(02:37:03):
cob getting ready to downdade. It's a it's a beautiful
thing as a guy who tasseled corn for a couple
of summers. Uh near and dear to my heart. So
if you're out and about traveling, UH, hold on an
extra second or two on those hugs, folks. UH make
that phone call last an extra minute or two. Let's
make a couple of game picks here, LaVar. We've got
Clippers at Phoenix, Like, okay, Sixers minus six and a half,

(02:37:27):
all right, so you're gonna take you, You're gonna lay
the points to How about Phoenix minus four? I think
Phoenix is going dominate the game even with no CP three.
I love I love the boldness of the proclam proclamation. Uh.
The Clippers seem to feel things out there, taking a
page out of the old Lebron James playbook here. Uh

(02:37:50):
in the prior series, I will take the Sons with
eighton putting up a solid effort alongside Booker with a
narrow victory. I think I'll take the Clippers plus four
if I'm betting against the spread. Uh, Philly, I think
they showed me what they needed to in game six. Uh,
succeed and proceed because they could have gotten on a bus.

(02:38:11):
Are going cancoon hunting after game five? So here we are.
They'll finish the job. Happy Father's Day, Ryan and Steve
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