June 27, 2025 • 6 mins
Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the Cooper Flagg press conference that has the entire basketball world buzzing. From his ice-cold composure to his “basketball, golf, and family” lifestyle, the crew breaks down why this 18-year-old phenom might just be the most unintentionally hilarious and laser-focused rookie the league has seen in years.Don’t miss Cooper Flagg’s Mount Rushmore: His picks for NBA and WNBA legends spark debate—and a couple of missed opportunities for local love.🎙️ Whether you're here for the hoops, the hilarity, or the hot takes, this episode delivers it all with the signature chemistry and chaos only Ben, Skin, KT, and Krystina can bring.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
You know, we like to give away things on this show,
and we've got a four pack of tickets to Kaboomtown
next week Big Fireworks Festival. It's a lot of fun.
You can win tickets if you have that free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How do you win?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're gonna take the third person that uses the talkback
feature that leaves their name, their phone number, their email
address and can answer the question who does Ben say
he plays pickleball with every morning? He just told us
like seven minutes ago he plays pickleball every morning with
the same person. Who is that person? The third person
(00:35):
that can tell us that with your name, phone number,
email address, you are going to win those tickets. Also,
Ben forgot to mention Rip Toby Keith. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Book is Track.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Another edition of things is.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Tracking, all right, Cooper Flag was introduced to the Metroplex
this morning. Now, I'm sure MAVs you tube streamed it
and there's tons of media as you can imagine, So
if you haven't seen it yet, I know there's news
clips going around and all this sort of stuff, and
so you will see all of it. But let me
(01:14):
just say the big takeaway, and I can't stop thinking
about all of this. This guy was up there and
he's basically one year older than my son that works
at an ice cream shop once every three weeks and
back talks me. And he's up there and he's answering
(01:34):
questions in just unbelievable fashion. He's not you know, it's
not like he's dropping gems with what he says. But
he's articulate, he projects, he's confident. He answers the questions,
and he says everything that you want him to say.
And I would go so far as to say that
Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd acted way more giddy than
(01:56):
he did. Wow, dude, I wasn't there like you were,
So I'm interested in your eyeballs what you saw. But
just listening to it on the radio, man, he sounds calm, composed.
He doesn't really care about social media. It's not really
into music. He's just a basketball robot, basketball, golf and family.
That's what he's into. That's the answer to the question,
(02:17):
what kind of music do you listen to? He basically said,
I don't know. Whatever I'm whoever, I'm with whatever they
put on. I'm fine, he's gonna end up hearing a
Toby Keith song. Yeah, I mean, that's just the way
it goes. He's gonna be like, yeah, so so anyways,
that's I mean, I'm blown away by the way he
handles himself. The other thing is, I don't know if
(02:40):
you guys heard the question, because when I heard the question,
he was asked who his basketball Mount Rushmore was. Did
you guys hear that question?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Heard about it?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I heard after the fact they asked him his NBA
Mount Rushmore and then they said, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In WNBA. Okay, wait they did add that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They added that at the end to be fair, and
I was like, okay, because I heard a tease for
it on another station, going yeah, coming up next. What
did he say his w NBA Mount Rushmore was. That's
a tough thing to be asked, dude, and he sped
it out just fine, Yeah, I want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hell, you have it. I think I have it, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And and let me just say that when this was
going down, I didn't hear them say w n B
A at the last minute.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I thought he just offered that up on his own.
But still go ahead, that's in your media.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Two fun questions for you, who's on your mount Rushmore
or NBA and of the NBA players, And what's your
favorite basketball movie? And why?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Eddy?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My favorite basketball movie is Hoosiers.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
My favorite movie is Growing Up. I watched it hundreds
of times.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I love Dennis Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
NBA players, I would say Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Lebron
and probably Kobe and then w n B A Canis Parker,
Brittany Griner. I think Asia Wilson is on there, and
(04:03):
then I might put him and Clark on there just.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Case, just two missed opportunities there for uh, for our
new math.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just you gotta drop a Dirk and a Page right
there and just shout hold number one in the city.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Already it's a statue today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So earlier in the day or he was, he talked
about Page because they have a thing because Page though
he lived in Maine, and Page gave him hell for
not going to Yukon. He met her when he visited Yukon.
I honestly kind of like that. He didn't say Dirk
And here's why, man, he's not down to pander definitely
not he because he's got a relationship with Lebron. And
(04:41):
I heard him on Draft night there was like who's
better or who's the goat of all time? Michael Jordan
or Lebron And he's got a relationship with Lebron and
he said, Michael Jordan. Yeah, he's he's not gonna he's
not gonna pander, and he's gonna say what he thinks
and he's gonna go. And here's the other thing. He
had no familiarity with Jason Kibbs game. Did y'all hear that? Okay,
(05:01):
so someone said, you know, I'm paraphrasing, how would you
say that your coach's game.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Was or whatever?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He goes, well, I need to familiarize myself with it.
I need to go back and look at that. I mean,
he's a legend and everybody says he was great, but
you didn't know. And then the other thing, I mean,
he said multiple times Jason Kidd talked about him playing
point guard, and man, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I'm loving this so much. I'm loving it so much.
This is what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean, to me, it's like, let's not sign a
third rate point guard and run him out there until
Kyrie's healthy.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Let's put the best players on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And Jake kids talking about I want to make him
uncomfortable early. That's what I did with the Greek Freak
and he failed and then he came back and perfected it.
And it's like the type of player that we're talking about. Dude,
get out there and do this. I'm going to make
you uncomfortable because ultimately you'll be the best you could
possibly be by going through this process.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Beautiful what I want. I'm so excited for all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yes, and it is fun to still bump into people
that are trying so hard to hate everything.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's like, hey, man, no, I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Man, you cannot watch awesome basketball like you know, I
don't know why you were a basketball fan of the
first place, but dude, deprive yourself of that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Like, I get it. This is important.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
We'll get back into Cooper Flag. At about four fifteen.
We got a scattering report on that. We got to
hear anything else, No, that was that's goods, such good stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Skin is tracking the Cooper Flag press conference coming up next.
In the Hollywood Shuffle, members of one of the greatest
rock bands ever tell you What is the greatest rock
song of all time?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is good, don't miss it. It's next
Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle.
You know, we like to give away things on this show,
and we've got a four pack of tickets to Kaboomtown
next week Big Fireworks Festival. It's a lot of fun.
You can win tickets if you have that free iHeart app.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How do you win?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We're gonna take the third person that uses the talkback
feature that leaves their name, their phone number, their email
address and can answer the question who does Ben say
he plays pickleball with every morning? He just told us
like seven minutes ago he plays pickleball every morning with
the same person. Who is that person? The third person
(00:35):
that can tell us that with your name, phone number,
email address, you are going to win those tickets. Also,
Ben forgot to mention Rip Toby Keith. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Book is Track.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Another edition of things is.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Tracking, all right, Cooper Flag was introduced to the Metroplex
this morning. Now, I'm sure MAVs you tube streamed it
and there's tons of media as you can imagine, So
if you haven't seen it yet, I know there's news
clips going around and all this sort of stuff, and
so you will see all of it. But let me
(01:14):
just say the big takeaway, and I can't stop thinking
about all of this. This guy was up there and
he's basically one year older than my son that works
at an ice cream shop once every three weeks and
back talks me. And he's up there and he's answering
(01:34):
questions in just unbelievable fashion. He's not you know, it's
not like he's dropping gems with what he says. But
he's articulate, he projects, he's confident. He answers the questions,
and he says everything that you want him to say.
And I would go so far as to say that
Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd acted way more giddy than
(01:56):
he did. Wow, dude, I wasn't there like you were,
So I'm interested in your eyeballs what you saw. But
just listening to it on the radio, man, he sounds calm, composed.
He doesn't really care about social media. It's not really
into music. He's just a basketball robot, basketball, golf and family.
That's what he's into. That's the answer to the question,
(02:17):
what kind of music do you listen to? He basically said,
I don't know. Whatever I'm whoever, I'm with whatever they
put on. I'm fine, he's gonna end up hearing a
Toby Keith song. Yeah, I mean, that's just the way
it goes. He's gonna be like, yeah, so so anyways,
that's I mean, I'm blown away by the way he
handles himself. The other thing is, I don't know if
(02:40):
you guys heard the question, because when I heard the question,
he was asked who his basketball Mount Rushmore was. Did
you guys hear that question?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Heard about it?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I heard after the fact they asked him his NBA
Mount Rushmore and then they said, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
In WNBA. Okay, wait they did add that.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
They added that at the end to be fair, and
I was like, okay, because I heard a tease for
it on another station, going yeah, coming up next. What
did he say his w NBA Mount Rushmore was. That's
a tough thing to be asked, dude, and he sped
it out just fine, Yeah, I want to hear it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hell, you have it. I think I have it, okay.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And and let me just say that when this was
going down, I didn't hear them say w n B
A at the last minute.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I thought he just offered that up on his own.
But still go ahead, that's in your media.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Two fun questions for you, who's on your mount Rushmore
or NBA and of the NBA players, And what's your
favorite basketball movie? And why?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Eddy?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My favorite basketball movie is Hoosiers.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
My favorite movie is Growing Up. I watched it hundreds
of times.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I love Dennis Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
NBA players, I would say Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Lebron
and probably Kobe and then w n B A Canis Parker,
Brittany Griner. I think Asia Wilson is on there, and
(04:03):
then I might put him and Clark on there just.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Case, just two missed opportunities there for uh, for our
new math.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just you gotta drop a Dirk and a Page right
there and just shout hold number one in the city.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Already it's a statue today.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So earlier in the day or he was, he talked
about Page because they have a thing because Page though
he lived in Maine, and Page gave him hell for
not going to Yukon. He met her when he visited Yukon.
I honestly kind of like that. He didn't say Dirk
And here's why, man, he's not down to pander definitely
not he because he's got a relationship with Lebron. And
(04:41):
I heard him on Draft night there was like who's
better or who's the goat of all time? Michael Jordan
or Lebron And he's got a relationship with Lebron and
he said, Michael Jordan. Yeah, he's he's not gonna he's
not gonna pander, and he's gonna say what he thinks
and he's gonna go. And here's the other thing. He
had no familiarity with Jason Kibbs game. Did y'all hear that? Okay,
(05:01):
so someone said, you know, I'm paraphrasing, how would you
say that your coach's game.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Was or whatever?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He goes, well, I need to familiarize myself with it.
I need to go back and look at that. I mean,
he's a legend and everybody says he was great, but
you didn't know. And then the other thing, I mean,
he said multiple times Jason Kidd talked about him playing
point guard, and man, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I'm loving this so much. I'm loving it so much.
This is what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I mean, to me, it's like, let's not sign a
third rate point guard and run him out there until
Kyrie's healthy.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Let's put the best players on the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And Jake kids talking about I want to make him
uncomfortable early. That's what I did with the Greek Freak
and he failed and then he came back and perfected it.
And it's like the type of player that we're talking about. Dude,
get out there and do this. I'm going to make
you uncomfortable because ultimately you'll be the best you could
possibly be by going through this process.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Beautiful what I want. I'm so excited for all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yes, and it is fun to still bump into people
that are trying so hard to hate everything.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's like, hey, man, no, I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Man, you cannot watch awesome basketball like you know, I
don't know why you were a basketball fan of the
first place, but dude, deprive yourself of that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Like, I get it. This is important.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
We'll get back into Cooper Flag. At about four fifteen.
We got a scattering report on that. We got to
hear anything else, No, that was that's goods, such good stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Skin is tracking the Cooper Flag press conference coming up next.
In the Hollywood Shuffle, members of one of the greatest
rock bands ever tell you What is the greatest rock
song of all time?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is good, don't miss it. It's next
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