May 6, 2026 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin explain why James Harden’s NBA legacy will be his history of playoff failures rather than his transformational style of play, tell us if the Philadelphia 76ers will ever be able to count on Joel Embiid, and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob's nightly bets. Plus, NBA champion and FOX Sports Radio NBA analyst Antonio Daniels swings by to discuss all the biggest headlines around The Association.
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He is kelvin Washington.
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I never felt so broke or uneducated as I did
twenty four hours ago.
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I don't even know where you're sitting at.
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I didn't know where I was sitting at alex I'll
just say I was at the Milkin Institute conference.
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If you don't know what it is, look it up, Bree.
It was in the chocolate milk.
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Oh well, there was some chocolate, min but it wasn't
a lot of chocolate milk. And long story short, everybody
who was the CEO of you name it, YouTube to Shack,
to President Joe, Joe Biden's wife Jill Biden, first Lady
Joe Biden, to CEOs and sheikhs and princes of Saudis,
and it was insane. I never felt so poor in
(04:47):
my life just to see the amount of people and
powerful people. I had the opportunity to host a panel yesterday,
moderated a panel and it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
But I'd never heard of this conference.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's the second biggest financial investment in just smart people
conference in.
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The entire world.
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So yeah, So just when I thought I was doing
something in life, rob g don't ever say I got
a couple dollars ever again in your life. I saw
cars that I don't even know existed on Earth and
people with it was amazing.
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So shout out to everybody.
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The Lebron James Foundation, Uh, the Dodgers Foundation, Sir Lewis
Hamilton's foundation and project line was there as well as
a great panel.
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It was a great time.
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So he has togrees the people that he serves the most,
Lebron James Foundation of the Dodgers.
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Which you mean, I can't I listen. I didn't choose
it first two people I was chosen.
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Look at my back? Do you not see the chosen one? Yeah?
Look get mad? That looks like that looks like acne
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Speaker 3 (06:10):
No you're not. You're not hitting anymore. I'm saying. Everybody
knows free look at you ready fight it's the one.
If it's Bree is for week. He's not sweet, So
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Speaker 5 (06:23):
There you go, Brie, and she's at the anchor that
she'll keep us updated throughout the program. And of course
and Elijah our social all right, rob g. James Harden,
he never disappoints every spring or what are we not
in the summer yet, so every sprying James Harden does
(06:44):
what he does, and uh, it just falls in line
to his mo o and who he is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Our Detroit Pistons take Game one over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But you mentioned it, James Harden.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
If you look at the stat like, hey, twenty two
point eight, rebound seventy to steal two blocks, Slim Jim
Harden came to play, and then you read a little
bit further and you see that he had more turnovers
seven they made baskets six. That is the third time
he's had more turnovers they made baskets in this playoff alone,
the twenty ninth time in his playoff career. Guys, here's
(07:18):
another one. Across one hundred and eighty one career playoff games,
one in every four times James Harden will have as
many turnovers or more turnovers than made Buskets shout out
to Slim Jim Harden being who he thought he was.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And I'm just gonna say this, what you're gonna say, Ron,
This playing is.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Simple because I know people have they'll take a look
at somebody stats or whatever, and you know all the
numbers that he compiled and whatnot, and and go, man,
this guy's been one of the all time great scorers
in this league.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We get it. He won an MVP. Just prolific, prolific.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But I'm here to tell you that when it comes
to James Harden, it ain't about being a prolific scorer.
James Harden has cemented himself. You heard of the low
I did it well, Tom Brady sitting next to you time.
You heard of Lebron the ffoul finals failure of all time?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What it was? What's the new oat we got?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
And now James Harden is officially, okay, the puffo the
playoffs failure of all time, puffo p foat the playoff
failure of all time. And it is well documented because
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as good as he's been during the regular season for
so many years in the NBA, he's been that bad
for that long in the postseason. In the NBA one
in four one in four games where he has more
turnovers than baskets. I think that speaks for itself. That's
an incredible number, and it speaks to your volume. I
(09:11):
know people always a Hall of Famer. Okay, I get it,
because they open up the door and everybody gets into
the Basketball Hall of Fame. James Harden is a major disappointment.
And Rob g brought it up. If you just looked
at those numbers, Oh he had twenty two points. Wow? Okay, Well, no,
this is not new. This is a movie we've seen
(09:33):
over and over. I told you I've seen the Wizard
of Ours a million times. I've seen James Harden be
the fote a million in one times. This is who
he is.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't know if he'll ever change it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
He'd have to be go to the NBA Finals, win
the finals, MVP, you know what I mean, and put
on a display that no one has ever seen, and
guess what. As the clock ticks on James hard career,
I don't believe he's going to ever be there. And
this is just another example of James Harden being who
we thought he was.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
James Harden, of course, is an example of what you say.
He made his name. He made his name. He's been
an MVP, He's been an MVP runner up a couple
of times, he's been an All Star a billion times,
one of the best offensive weapons this league name has
ever seen. He's made his name, but he didn't make
his fame because you know, they say the regular season
whereas you make your name, and the playoffs are where
(10:29):
you make your fame, and he has not been able
to do that latter portion.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He has not been able to make his fame.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And if anything, he's become infamous or s anonymous with
bad performances, non clutch performances, showing up short, showing up
falling short. And that's sad because of how great he
was offensively during a regular season for the bulk of
his career. And I gave you a couple of things.
Robert Or not going in the Hall of Fame. Some
people say he should just be, but he's not. And
(10:56):
that's fair to say he's not. I don't necessarily think
he should, but rob Starter right, so I'm with it.
I get it. But Robert Or made his name become
famous by making all types of big shots, and not
just big shots. You were at I believe you were
Game five or Spurs Pistons. I was there too, and
it wasn't just oh, he hit the big shot to
(11:17):
tie it. He went crazy in overtime. Between overtime and
fourth quartery like twenty four points. And he made When
he was with the Rockets, he had huge games, hitting
six strees. He made his name and became famous with
big shots, big performances, clutch shots, clutch performances. In the playoffs,
we already know guys like Game six, Clay, where he
(11:37):
had a multitude of Game six is where his team
needed him the most, and he showed up. And you
Thatt's not even go the MJ's and the Kobe's and
the Lebron's Kim Murray.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Step into this conversation, but go ahead, no step steph two.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hiss Credit has had some games. He didn't say shot.
I didn't say shot. And so my point is we
have these other big time guys, Kawhi Leonard, even where
they showed up when it was needed. Paul Pierce showed
up when it was James Harden. You can't think of
a time. And I'm not saying he didn't have one
single game, but for them, you associate him if you're
playing the word association game and the and the theme
(12:10):
is playoffs, and I go flip up, Harden, you're gonna
go failure or you're gonna go let down. Are you
gonna go didn't show up? Or you're gonna go less
than And that's and that's a shame because how great
he was for the regular season. There was a ten
year period where he was one of the greatest offensive weapons.
And mean, he could drove forty points and twenty assists
and it wouldn't be crazy. And so when it comes
(12:30):
postseason and now he says after Game one against the Pistons,
he goes, oh, it's nothing they did. I can just
fix my stuff. I know I was the reason, so
I could just fix that. Well, let me tell you something.
The Pistons led the league in points off turnovers. Last night.
They had twenty nine off those nineteen or twenty turnovers.
The Cavs had ye.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
But his point is, yeah, but I agree that he's
been turning the ball over long before they play the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
No, my point is no, I'm not questioning that. I'm
saying following Game one, he.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Can handle the take care of them basketball. He's been
turning the ball over for years and he turned true.
But I'm saying he act like it's an easy fix. Oh,
I'll just be good. It ain't nothing they did, no,
they that's what they do. You came up short, you
turned the ball over when they needed it most. And
I don't think it's just an oh, I ain't gonna
turn it over. They didn't do nothing. Again, I say,
he can say I'm not gonna turn it over, but
he's been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's all. This is his moment, this is who he is.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So I just yeah, I think it's just one of
the more perplexing and disappointing because it's not like he
was a good player during his NBA career. He was
a great He was one of the absolute probably five
best players in the last fifteen to twenty years in
the NBA. And to come up regularly, routinely short in
the postseason is just very strange. And I think the
last part I'll make is also what makes it difficult
(13:45):
is he can't just say the shots not falling, well,
I'm gonna lock up on defense, or I'm gonna get
all the rebounds or I'm gonna block shots. The problem
is if he's not really scoring and kind of in
the flow of things, well, then he's out of the game.
Other guys can at least contribute other ways, and that's
not his forte.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He can't do that, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
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Is let me know when you got it?
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Oh, okay, I'm looking at this, Thanks Rob g I'm
like trying to read what he said here, but I'm
this one.
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How do you struggling reading? You've got your glasses on,
maybe usually reading voice. It's a typo, so I'm trying
to read it as a Oh, b ron, your new
nickname is Rob Bergendy Today? All right?
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I heard once watching live on television w FSB in Hartford, Connecticut,
Gail King, who's anchoring the CBS Mornings, looks straight into
camera and say I'll be black tomorrow night at six
or whatever, straight the camera.
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But anyway, first of all, again, Rhys, why does he
remember that? Why does he remember their call letters? Why
does he remember her first job? Why is he like.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I remember it? Jail King?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
W FSB, all right, what is James Harden's NBA legacy.
Is it the MVP and all the scoring or is
it the history of playoff you already know. I think
he's the pufffot playoff failure of all time. We'll continue
that conversation next with you eight seven seven ninety nine
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Minutes, looking forward to that.
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great regular season, poor playoff performances? Are we wrong for that?
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Can he change it? Or maybe we're exaggerating it?
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What do you think? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
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Let's do it. Let's start with josh and Idaho. He's
limit in his private Idaho. That's right, Joshua and the
Odd Couple. Fox Ports Radio, what's up guys?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
On a few times now, last time we talked about
the good old fry sauce. You got to try it here?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, but I do want to know, and I
think we asked you might ask you before our French
fries cheaper there.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'm just saying like they should be.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Like it's the cheaper and better.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Okay, I believe, so it's worth I was going to
fly Spirit to Idaho, but I don't think that's.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Going to work.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
No longer.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, all right, what you got on James? All right?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I got the three things that that James has brought.
Number one, the beard, number two, the side step three
everybody does now which I think was a travel but
now it's not. And and he really is the one
to put the spot on that. And then the third
is his ability to out and complain about where he's
(17:54):
at so that he could get traded and go to
the next big place. I don't think offensively he is
a great player, but he doesn't add anything to the team.
That's why he has zero chips.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
All right, appreciate it, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And I thought he was gonna pull up say number
four had been appreciated the jersey in Houston, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Why hanging up at the Strip club. Yeah, I thought
he was gonna mention that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Ye Kevin in Culver City, you're in the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What's up Kevin God is good all the time.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Hey, Rob, did you have a little fleeing going on
with Gail Kings back.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
In the day?
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Shoot, I mean Rob, you know, I mean you're the man.
I know you got some interests in Rendez.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, Gail King, Now you've been I was, I was
in college.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I know you inside that private Idaho. That's b shippy
twos man. You get that fan that's an all time classic.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Like I feel like Kevin in our group text. Hey,
let me tell you something. That's one of my favorite songs.
What's that?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Well me to me?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What's on? Oh? Private Idaho? Wait, man, you don't know
that one? Hold on, here we go. We gotta play
this one. This rivate You remember that one? B Rob
g Rob g Yes, I mean no, Alex, I ask
Brandon to shame.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
That's it.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
That's the one.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Can you see me in the clubs in the eighties?
You come here.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Living in your own private Idaho on the ground like
a wall potato.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Elijah, all right.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I can't let Sam out the ball's finest you know,
this is this is l a. This is the man
from all the Bam. Look, James came back to the Clippers.
He tried to do right for the city of l
A and the Clippers went in a different direction, so
they said they want to trade him, and he ran
into the bulls of this.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You know, Era, That's that's fine, that's fine, Kevin, Kevin,
and I I know you love the hometown.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
This is crazy, but come on down with the turnovers.
Come on, dude, stop.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I'll say this. He wanted to get a bag and
go to Houston and get paid, which is fine, fine.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
But also if you go back to when he was
with OKC, he played tremendously up until you got terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To find out in the finals he was terrible.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
South Beach got him.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
South Beast got him in that series that was all
South Beach.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Before that, I was like, who is this guy? God?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, and then he goes to Houston and he's an
MVP candidate pretty much every year, and he's bawling out
and then twenty seven twenty seven threes and then not
to mention the come they don't, they don't come back.
A couple of times he has some other black bat
performance against the Spurs and just.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Off like there's always something.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then he's injured here and this, so it's not just
like a one time thing.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We've been doing this now for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
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way Antonio Daniels and be a chant will chop it
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Speaker 3 (21:27):
A d what's up brother, what's up today? Doing great?
How are you awesome? There you go?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
What is today? And today's what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's worship windsay there you go, look at it. He's
got the show down to his side.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, because we give him, we.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Either give him the Angel or the devil on the shoulder.
We give him zero hundreds. Either it is either the
God or the Strip Club, Magic City. That's what we've
gone to the extremes.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
With ad Antonio you don'tknock like you ain't never been
to a strip club back in the day.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
When you were playing.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I know, okay, but you've been there. That's all I'm saying.
You're a married man, family man. I get all that.
I used to be married.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Too, and we see what you chose. A duh. There's
a lot of great hoops to get to right now.
I want to start with what we saw yesterday, which
was the Pistons kind of four games now in a row,
been able to find ways to win. Wasn't the greatest
offensive showing from really both teams. A few players had
a couple of nice games here there. I want to
(22:23):
start with the concern most people have, including myself, as
who's going to be that second scorer. It's been five
games now, believe it is maybe six for Tobias Harris
twenty straight points, twenty games or more those five or
six straight games.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can he be that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Guy for them? Can he be you know, k is
gonna kd? Can he be that for the Pistons?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I mean for the right now? I mean eventually you
would hope that that second guy is Jalen Durance because
that's who has been all year before Cunningham and Luca
you know, want their cases to be you know, first
second team and be eligible. Before Jalen Durham was thirteen,
(23:02):
you know he was gonna be thirteen. He was, you know,
in the top three most improved player of the year conversation.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I don't, right, not Dylan Durham, that it doesn't
look like it's gonna happen eighty The playoffs get tighter, often,
defensive schemes get better. It just doesn't look like he's
going to be that guy.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
This is what I tell you, Kelvin. It changes from
series the series. So just because one series wasn't good
for you doesn't mean the next series can't be. We
see that the narrative changes so much around the playoffs,
Like it is amazing to me how you.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Can play eighty two games, build.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Up the narrative and then had a bad three or
four game stretch and the narrative change. Think of the
narrative right now, that's around Brandon England. Think of the
narrative right now, that's surrounding Austin Reeves.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Right.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
These are guys that had great individual years, but if
you struggle in the playoffs, we're having a completely different conversation.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, let's go there, because Austin Reeves, this ain't no
one year. Last year he didn't play well either, So
at some point people do look at stuff and they go,
whoa you you played well last year and then when
the playoffs come came, you didn't this year.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
They're they're counting on you with with Luca out.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I mean, it did nothing wrong with people expecting for
a guy who's played well to play relatively well expectations.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Expectations are different than a narrative flipping. Because let me
ask you the question. If you guys can go back
to when Lebron was out and when Luca was out
and when Austin Reeves is putting up forty fifteen and twelve,
think of the narrative that was around him then the
games versus Denver Nuggets. So would you guys offer Austin
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reaveson max contract?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I wouldn't. No, that's too much. I can't. I can't
do that.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
And I don't care when he was scoring forty points. No, no, no, no,
I'm telling you here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Do you think there's one team out there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That would yeah? But that but that it doesn't mean
anything as.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Far as I'm gonna tell you what it means, Rob,
if one team out there offers you a max contract
you're a mac player.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, but that's fine. But we've also seen bad contracts
and play. It happens all the time. And tonyo, that
doesn't mean you're good. I saw a John contact John
contract get a bigger contract than Dominique Wilkins with the
Hawks and that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And but here's the thing, though, Rob, when you think
about the Lakers, the question becomes how much do they
need Austin Rees? Because can you afford for him to
walk out? Can you afford for him to go somewhere else?
I can Bron go somewhere else? And you have a
Luka there. We know what that looks like already.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, but everything to me, it's it's you're right.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
All it takes is for one bad team to pay
somebody or decide for them it's worth it because they
don't have anybody and they want somebody and they'll do it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But I'm talking from my standpoint.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
If you're the Lakers, you got to understand that if
this guy melts come postseason time, that the guy you
really want, And I'm just being it ain't a sample
size of one game or one series.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
This is two years in a row. Now. It just
makes me pause, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
And we've seen guys that are first ballot Hall of
Famer When it comes to the public season, then narrative changes.
Think right, but those are still Max contract guys.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Yeah, but would if you ask me, I'll tell you
that was a bad contract, especially Paul George.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I don't care what anybody's the bad contract terrible? Well,
I think I don't agree. I think you can the
person be a max player.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They just came up short like that, doesn't They don't
have to be you James Harden to ask, I just
told max player he just I would have expected him
to show up better.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I just look at stuff. I think I get it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And teams got to spend money and players are available,
and it's a it's a small uh Antonio group of people,
and everybody can't play ball at that level. So I
get it why they get paid what they get paid.
But I'm not paying every body, I really, I just
think it's got to be somebody who who you really
believe like this.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Guy is is a can't miss. This is what I
believe in the thing as a can't miss.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
No no, no.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
But I'm saying, but I don't have I don't have
a problem with them paying Uh. When they decided the
Lakers trade and got Luca and paid him like, okay,
five times All NBA, First Team All NBA, I'm okay
with that, even with the weight, even with some of
the other issues, and now of course him being hurt,
which is a part.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Of right right, I want to go here. I want
to go here a d Antonio daniels on with the
eye couple. Uh is it you?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You got one? Go ahead. I was just gonna say,
we're watching this next Sixers.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Game one Sixers were just tired coming away from that
Game seven, or the Knicks were just that good.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
What do you kind of look at that?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I think it's both.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Here's nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
I don't you don't want to give excuses, but I
think like, if you're an older team or you have
someone that needs it, rest is more important than rhythms.
If you're a younger team and you don't need the rest,
I would prefer rhythms. So the Lakers got an extra
day of rest, right, and if I'm the Philadelphia seventy
six Ers, a play at Game seven on Saturday, a
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play at Game seven on Saturday, and emotional Game seven
against Boston, and in forty eight hours you're at Madison
Square Garden playing again. Is it a coincidence that now
Joe lmb can't go today because they need the rest.
But if I'm the San Antonio.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Spurs and I'm a younger team.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Right, I don't need the rest. I want the rhythms.
So yeah, I feel like two things could be true
at the same time. Because the Knicks are defending in
a completely different They've ramped it up defensively. They changed
their offense where they're using carl ethne Counts as a hub,
which is great to see. But on the other end,
I also think the Philadelphia seventy six Ers could have
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used an XT day arrest similar to what the Lakers got.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got the seventy six Ers winning this game. This
will be typical New York Knicks. I got the typically
I got pick. I'm gonna pick the Sixers because we
had a big argument conversation about do they play better
without Joe l EMBII.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Like like no, no, no, I'm just Boston without Joel.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I get it, I get it, but I'm just saying
there is sometimes when you think, Okay, somebody's out, just
like we saw in the Denver series. True, right, Oh no,
they can't win now, Minnesota can't win. Other guys, you notice, Antonio,
they ball players, right.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I feel like I feel like one of the biggest
misconceptions in the league is guys and fans feel like
because guys don't play, that they can't play, and when
they do play, that's all that they have. Like to
watch Io Desumu go out there and put up forty points,
that's not surprising. Like these dudes have so much in
their bag. They just are in a box. The league
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does a great job at putting guys in a box, right,
and a lot of times it takes multiple guys being
injured for them to get out of that box.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
All right. Last thing, the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
A couple of my friends they're like, oh, there's no
way the Lakers can't cover fifteen and a half. That's
so disrespectful to Lebron and them, and they lost by eighteen.
And my point is, do they have a chance in
this series? Seriously, it looks like they won't win a game.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
No, No, The question The question is do they have
a chance to win a game?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
All right? I agree with that, and I.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Think that they can win. I think that they can win.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Game four based off desperation.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Happening is Oklahoma City wins the first three pretty handily,
and then they we've seen them do this before, Oklahoma City,
and it's like, you're just you're comfortable. So you come
out in game four and you just on slow motion
a little bit, and then you give that game away
and then the Thunder winning game five. You know, so
a gentleman sweep as opposed to a regular sweep.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
That's very possible. I mean that could happen for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Last point for me with the Spurs in Minnesota, do
we underrest ofmate Minnesota year in Yurana?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Where are yes? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yes? And now I will tell you this, I'm guilty myself.
I'm guilty of at myself, Like, yeah, I initially I
had to Spurs in five because I didn't think at
the Edwards, who obviously has vibranium running through a day
like print or whatever it's called, but black pande, he
would be playing until game three or game four. The
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fact that he not just showed up in Game one,
but he wasn't limping, he wasn't laboring. Like that's a
culture defining moment for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah, we forget that.
This is a team that went to the Western Conference
Finals two years in a row. It's not by accident.
They're talented, their physical, they're long, they're athletic, and they
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check a lot of boxes.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And then when at Edward's coming back to giving that
morale to Pep and this stuff, they got to go
and we'll see what happens a little bit later on
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They got a long Elijah trying to hold the Shekel
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So keep a shay out.
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Of this, all right, Elijah, just go ahead, don't matter
he's here, Just go ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It don't matter, all right, We're good, all right, a
little Sheco City. I don't have all my totals, Elijah,
what's the total from last night? Did you put it
up on the grab or something? He didn't put it up,
So I'll come back with that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
But we'll remember that, all right, all right, because I
want it to be I'm not gonna make it up
a number or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I want to keep it real. I don't know. Ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I just felt right, remember I was like twenty nine
games felt right like that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
All right, here we go tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
I'm gonna take the Spurs minus ten and a half
hosting the t Walls whenby.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Will bounce back? Why didn't he? Giving them ten and
a half? Is crazy? What what? You win the game
and then you're all of a sudden expected like.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Inver double digit right, that's crazy double digit dogs?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
You Yeah, that's just crazy. All right, we'll be got
all right.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And then I got the Mets minus one and a
half runs during Colorado taking on the Rockies. I think
the Rocky swept them in New York. Mets have won
the first couple of games or whatever. And I think
today's a makeup or whatever because that had a rain out.
But anyway, and I'm gonna take the Pirates minus one
and a half as well, the Pirates minus one and
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a half, the Mets minus one and a half, and
the Spurs minus ten.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And a half.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
And remember, Calvin, what's that I'm not telling you who
the bet I'm telling you who I bet on?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Did I do that? She did?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
We'll find out how you did when you get those
numbers back. All right, let's get to your tirec Player
of the day.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Swings hits a drive to left and this ball is
gone a three home run day.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Brandy Pis it is twelve to two. Uh high, I'm
all stop at a five seventy on the call.
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I'm just that Okay, that's your number two impression. That's
your number two oh man. Anyway, am five seventy on
the call. There your tire rec players work over there.
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might be up to if I'm not mistaken something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I mean, if they're in the game, they are even
run out the building.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Like the Knicks played really well, and you we talk
about all the time there's a law of averages that
sometimes play into play into and we've seen the Sixers
without and be played well as well.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
So I'm not ready to consume that series, yo.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I mean, listen, they kind of can match them speed
and kind of aggression with the Wings without embiid. Obviously
he's dominating, but if he's too hurt and he starts
to hamper you, he's too slow, or if he's just
fall in love with the three too much because he's
too hurt, it affects them. So it'll be you know,
there's got enough guys to be in this game without him. Obviously,
I don't want to say they're better, but because you
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need that height, the defense, and again the ability to
just get a bucket down low.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
But they got enough guys. I mean, I V J
had Come was a really good rookie.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
We talked about Tyree's Maxie and All Star Paul George's
playing pretty well, Oubre some other guys like they got
enough to be in this thing. But I will say
Mike Brown, I will give him credit for how he
switched up the offense and is what we have been
calling for. Just running through Cat Moore, drop it in
him at the elbow and let him dish it off
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and get assists and the high post and find guys cutting, cutting,
and OG's cutting and Josh Harder Bridges cutting finding guys
out on the corner for threes.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
That is both well for them.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And remember so you know, supposedly Mike Brown is an
offensive guy. I don't necessarily know him like that and
that to be, but that's his strength. Well dat can
you get to your strength? And he's final out. Give
him credit. The last three or four games, they've been
producing a lot of points. I mean between how they
ended Atlanta gank last couple of games with Atlanta, specifically
that last one game one in this series.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
All it takes is.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
For them to have one off night or dud and
then they'll go back to you know what I mean,
like they're not gonna continue this run.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
No, that's gonna score one thirty.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But I will give them credit for him for saying,
you know, we talked about the Celtics, you're not gonna
mix it up, You're not gonna try something different.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I don't want to give him credit.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
For differences that Celtics won a championship, and so then
they're going to say, we don't care what the outside said.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
We won playing this way.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And I understand that I do compared to the Knicks
that haven't won anything, and that wasn't working, and it
made sense.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I agree with you. Like playing through cat.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I like that just just because teams starting to be
able to zero in on brunts and they can just
all right, Brunton is gonna brunch it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Is he's having good games, really good games, great games
in fact, in this system. So credit to them for
doing that. Can they can it? Wood staying can they
can win this series? We'll have to wait and see
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he never disappoints every spring or what are we not
in the summer yet, so every sprying James Harden does
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what he does, and uh, it just falls in line
to his mo o and who he is.
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That's right.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Our Detroit Pistons take Game one over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
But you mentioned it, James Harden.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
If you look at the stat like, hey, twenty two
point eight, rebound seventy to steal two blocks, Slim Jim
Harden came to play, and then you read a little
bit further and you see that he had more turnovers
seven they made baskets six. That is the third time
he's had more turnovers they made baskets in this playoff alone,
the twenty ninth time in his playoff career. Guys, here's
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another one. Across one hundred and eighty one career playoff games,
one in every four times James Harden will have as
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to Slim Jim Harden being who he thought he was.
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And I'm just gonna say this, what you're gonna say, Ron,
This playing is.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Simple because I know people have they'll take a look
at somebody stats or whatever, and you know all the
numbers that he compiled and whatnot, and and go, man,
this guy's been one of the all time great scorers
in this league.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We get it. He won an MVP. Just prolific, prolific.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But I'm here to tell you that when it comes
to James Harden, it ain't about being a prolific scorer.
James Harden has cemented himself. You heard of the low
I did it well, Tom Brady sitting next to you time.
You heard of Lebron the ffoul finals failure of all time?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
What it was? What's the new oat we got?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
And now James Harden is officially, okay, the puffo the
playoffs failure of all time, puffo p foat the playoff
failure of all time. And it is well documented because
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as good as he's been during the regular season for
so many years in the NBA, he's been that bad
for that long in the postseason. In the NBA one
in four one in four games where he has more
turnovers than baskets. I think that speaks for itself. That's
an incredible number, and it speaks to your volume. I
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know people always a Hall of Famer. Okay, I get it,
because they open up the door and everybody gets into
the Basketball Hall of Fame. James Harden is a major disappointment.
And Rob g brought it up. If you just looked
at those numbers, Oh he had twenty two points. Wow? Okay, Well, no,
this is not new. This is a movie we've seen
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over and over. I told you I've seen the Wizard
of Ours a million times. I've seen James Harden be
the fote a million in one times. This is who
he is.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I don't know if he'll ever change it.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
He'd have to be go to the NBA Finals, win
the finals, MVP, you know what I mean, and put
on a display that no one has ever seen, and
guess what. As the clock ticks on James hard career,
I don't believe he's going to ever be there. And
this is just another example of James Harden being who
we thought he was.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
James Harden, of course, is an example of what you say.
He made his name. He made his name. He's been
an MVP, He's been an MVP runner up a couple
of times, he's been an All Star a billion times,
one of the best offensive weapons this league name has
ever seen. He's made his name, but he didn't make
his fame because you know, they say the regular season
whereas you make your name, and the playoffs are where
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you make your fame, and he has not been able
to do that latter portion.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
He has not been able to make his fame.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
And if anything, he's become infamous or s anonymous with
bad performances, non clutch performances, showing up short, showing up
falling short. And that's sad because of how great he
was offensively during a regular season for the bulk of
his career. And I gave you a couple of things.
Robert Or not going in the Hall of Fame. Some
people say he should just be, but he's not. And
(10:56):
that's fair to say he's not. I don't necessarily think
he should, but rob Starter right, so I'm with it.
I get it. But Robert Or made his name become
famous by making all types of big shots, and not
just big shots. You were at I believe you were
Game five or Spurs Pistons. I was there too, and
it wasn't just oh, he hit the big shot to
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tie it. He went crazy in overtime. Between overtime and
fourth quartery like twenty four points. And he made When
he was with the Rockets, he had huge games, hitting
six strees. He made his name and became famous with
big shots, big performances, clutch shots, clutch performances. In the playoffs,
we already know guys like Game six, Clay, where he
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had a multitude of Game six is where his team
needed him the most, and he showed up. And you
Thatt's not even go the MJ's and the Kobe's and
the Lebron's Kim Murray.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Step into this conversation, but go ahead, no step steph two.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hiss Credit has had some games. He didn't say shot.
I didn't say shot. And so my point is we
have these other big time guys, Kawhi Leonard, even where
they showed up when it was needed. Paul Pierce showed
up when it was James Harden. You can't think of
a time. And I'm not saying he didn't have one
single game, but for them, you associate him if you're
playing the word association game and the and the theme
(12:10):
is playoffs, and I go flip up, Harden, you're gonna
go failure or you're gonna go let down. Are you
gonna go didn't show up? Or you're gonna go less
than And that's and that's a shame because how great
he was for the regular season. There was a ten
year period where he was one of the greatest offensive weapons.
And mean, he could drove forty points and twenty assists
and it wouldn't be crazy. And so when it comes
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postseason and now he says after Game one against the Pistons,
he goes, oh, it's nothing they did. I can just
fix my stuff. I know I was the reason, so
I could just fix that. Well, let me tell you something.
The Pistons led the league in points off turnovers. Last night.
They had twenty nine off those nineteen or twenty turnovers.
The Cavs had ye.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
But his point is, yeah, but I agree that he's
been turning the ball over long before they play the Pistons.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
No, my point is no, I'm not questioning that. I'm
saying following Game one, he.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Can handle the take care of them basketball. He's been
turning the ball over for years and he turned true.
But I'm saying he act like it's an easy fix. Oh,
I'll just be good. It ain't nothing they did, no,
they that's what they do. You came up short, you
turned the ball over when they needed it most. And
I don't think it's just an oh, I ain't gonna
turn it over. They didn't do nothing. Again, I say,
he can say I'm not gonna turn it over, but
he's been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's all. This is his moment, this is who he is.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So I just yeah, I think it's just one of
the more perplexing and disappointing because it's not like he
was a good player during his NBA career. He was
a great He was one of the absolute probably five
best players in the last fifteen to twenty years in
the NBA. And to come up regularly, routinely short in
the postseason is just very strange. And I think the
last part I'll make is also what makes it difficult
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is he can't just say the shots not falling, well,
I'm gonna lock up on defense, or I'm gonna get
all the rebounds or I'm gonna block shots. The problem
is if he's not really scoring and kind of in
the flow of things, well, then he's out of the game.
Other guys can at least contribute other ways, and that's
not his forte.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
He can't do that, all right?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
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Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is let me know when you got it?
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Oh, okay, I'm looking at this, Thanks Rob g I'm
like trying to read what he said here, but I'm
this one.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
How do you struggling reading? You've got your glasses on,
maybe usually reading voice. It's a typo, so I'm trying
to read it as a Oh, b ron, your new
nickname is Rob Bergendy Today? All right?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I heard once watching live on television w FSB in Hartford, Connecticut,
Gail King, who's anchoring the CBS Mornings, looks straight into
camera and say I'll be black tomorrow night at six
or whatever, straight the camera.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But anyway, first of all, again, Rhys, why does he
remember that? Why does he remember their call letters? Why
does he remember her first job? Why is he like.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I remember it? Jail King?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
W FSB, all right, what is James Harden's NBA legacy.
Is it the MVP and all the scoring or is
it the history of playoff you already know. I think
he's the pufffot playoff failure of all time. We'll continue
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Can he change it? Or maybe we're exaggerating it?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
What do you think? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
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Speaker 5 (16:50):
Let's do it. Let's start with josh and Idaho. He's
limit in his private Idaho. That's right, Joshua and the
Odd Couple. Fox Ports Radio, what's up guys?
Speaker 9 (17:00):
On a few times now, last time we talked about
the good old fry sauce. You got to try it here?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, yeah, but I do want to know, and I
think we asked you might ask you before our French
fries cheaper there.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'm just saying like they should be.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Like it's the cheaper and better.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Okay, I believe, so it's worth I was going to
fly Spirit to Idaho, but I don't think that's.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Going to work.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
No longer.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, all right, what you got on James? All right?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I got the three things that that James has brought.
Number one, the beard, number two, the side step three
everybody does now which I think was a travel but
now it's not. And and he really is the one
to put the spot on that. And then the third
is his ability to out and complain about where he's
(17:54):
at so that he could get traded and go to
the next big place. I don't think offensively he is
a great player, but he doesn't add anything to the team.
That's why he has zero chips.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
All right, appreciate it, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And I thought he was gonna pull up say number
four had been appreciated the jersey in Houston, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Why hanging up at the Strip club. Yeah, I thought
he was gonna mention that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Ye Kevin in Culver City, you're in the odd couple
of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What's up Kevin God is good all the time.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
Hey, Rob, did you have a little fleeing going on
with Gail Kings back.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
In the day?
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Shoot, I mean Rob, you know, I mean you're the man.
I know you got some interests in Rendez.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yeah, Gail King, Now you've been I was, I was
in college.
Speaker 10 (18:41):
I know you inside that private Idaho. That's b shippy
twos man. You get that fan that's an all time classic.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Like I feel like Kevin in our group text. Hey,
let me tell you something. That's one of my favorite songs.
What's that?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Well me to me?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What's on? Oh? Private Idaho? Wait, man, you don't know
that one? Hold on, here we go. We gotta play
this one. This rivate You remember that one? B Rob
g Rob g Yes, I mean no, Alex, I ask
Brandon to shame.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
That's it.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
That's the one.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Can you see me in the clubs in the eighties?
You come here.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Living in your own private Idaho on the ground like
a wall potato.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Elijah, all right.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
I can't let Sam out the ball's finest you know,
this is this is l a. This is the man
from all the Bam. Look, James came back to the Clippers.
He tried to do right for the city of l
A and the Clippers went in a different direction, so
they said they want to trade him, and he ran
into the bulls of this.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
You know, Era, That's that's fine, that's fine, Kevin, Kevin,
and I I know you love the hometown.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
This is crazy, but come on down with the turnovers.
Come on, dude, stop.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I'll say this. He wanted to get a bag and
go to Houston and get paid, which is fine, fine.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
But also if you go back to when he was
with OKC, he played tremendously up until you got terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To find out in the finals he was terrible.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
South Beach got him.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
South Beast got him in that series that was all
South Beach.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Before that, I was like, who is this guy? God?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, and then he goes to Houston and he's an
MVP candidate pretty much every year, and he's bawling out
and then twenty seven twenty seven threes and then not
to mention the come they don't, they don't come back.
A couple of times he has some other black bat
performance against the Spurs and just.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Off like there's always something.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then he's injured here and this, so it's not just
like a one time thing.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
We've been doing this now for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
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Speaker 3 (21:27):
A d what's up brother, what's up today? Doing great?
How are you awesome? There you go?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
What is today? And today's what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It's worship windsay there you go, look at it. He's
got the show down to his side.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Well, because we give him, we.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Either give him the Angel or the devil on the shoulder.
We give him zero hundreds. Either it is either the
God or the Strip Club, Magic City. That's what we've
gone to the extremes.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
With ad Antonio you don'tknock like you ain't never been
to a strip club back in the day.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
When you were playing.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I know, okay, but you've been there. That's all I'm saying.
You're a married man, family man. I get all that.
I used to be married.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Too, and we see what you chose. A duh. There's
a lot of great hoops to get to right now.
I want to start with what we saw yesterday, which
was the Pistons kind of four games now in a row,
been able to find ways to win. Wasn't the greatest
offensive showing from really both teams. A few players had
a couple of nice games here there. I want to
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start with the concern most people have, including myself, as
who's going to be that second scorer. It's been five
games now, believe it is maybe six for Tobias Harris
twenty straight points, twenty games or more those five or
six straight games.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Can he be that.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Guy for them? Can he be you know, k is
gonna kd? Can he be that for the Pistons?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I mean for the right now? I mean eventually you
would hope that that second guy is Jalen Durance because
that's who has been all year before Cunningham and Luca
you know, want their cases to be you know, first
second team and be eligible. Before Jalen Durham was thirteen,
(23:02):
you know he was gonna be thirteen. He was, you know,
in the top three most improved player of the year conversation.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So I don't, right, not Dylan Durham, that it doesn't
look like it's gonna happen eighty The playoffs get tighter, often,
defensive schemes get better. It just doesn't look like he's
going to be that guy.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
This is what I tell you, Kelvin. It changes from
series the series. So just because one series wasn't good
for you doesn't mean the next series can't be. We
see that the narrative changes so much around the playoffs,
Like it is amazing to me how you.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
Can play eighty two games, build.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Up the narrative and then had a bad three or
four game stretch and the narrative change. Think of the
narrative right now, that's around Brandon England. Think of the
narrative right now, that's surrounding Austin Reeves.
Speaker 9 (23:47):
Right.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
These are guys that had great individual years, but if
you struggle in the playoffs, we're having a completely different conversation.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, let's go there, because Austin Reeves, this ain't no
one year. Last year he didn't play well either, So
at some point people do look at stuff and they go,
whoa you you played well last year and then when
the playoffs come came, you didn't this year.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
They're they're counting on you with with Luca out.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I mean, it did nothing wrong with people expecting for
a guy who's played well to play relatively well expectations.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Expectations are different than a narrative flipping. Because let me
ask you the question. If you guys can go back
to when Lebron was out and when Luca was out
and when Austin Reeves is putting up forty fifteen and twelve,
think of the narrative that was around him then the
games versus Denver Nuggets. So would you guys offer Austin
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reaveson max contract?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I wouldn't. No, that's too much. I can't. I can't
do that.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
And I don't care when he was scoring forty points. No, no, no, no,
I'm telling you here's the thing.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Do you think there's one team out there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
That would yeah? But that but that it doesn't mean
anything as.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Far as I'm gonna tell you what it means, Rob,
if one team out there offers you a max contract
you're a mac player.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, but that's fine. But we've also seen bad contracts
and play. It happens all the time. And tonyo, that
doesn't mean you're good. I saw a John contact John
contract get a bigger contract than Dominique Wilkins with the
Hawks and that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And but here's the thing, though, Rob, when you think
about the Lakers, the question becomes how much do they
need Austin Rees? Because can you afford for him to
walk out? Can you afford for him to go somewhere else?
I can Bron go somewhere else? And you have a
Luka there. We know what that looks like already.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, but everything to me, it's it's you're right.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
All it takes is for one bad team to pay
somebody or decide for them it's worth it because they
don't have anybody and they want somebody and they'll do it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
But I'm talking from my standpoint.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
If you're the Lakers, you got to understand that if
this guy melts come postseason time, that the guy you
really want, And I'm just being it ain't a sample
size of one game or one series.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
This is two years in a row. Now. It just
makes me pause, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
And we've seen guys that are first ballot Hall of
Famer When it comes to the public season, then narrative changes.
Think right, but those are still Max contract guys.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Yeah, but would if you ask me, I'll tell you
that was a bad contract, especially Paul George.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I don't care what anybody's the bad contract terrible? Well,
I think I don't agree. I think you can the
person be a max player.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They just came up short like that, doesn't They don't
have to be you James Harden to ask, I just
told max player he just I would have expected him
to show up better.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I just look at stuff. I think I get it.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And teams got to spend money and players are available,
and it's a it's a small uh Antonio group of people,
and everybody can't play ball at that level. So I
get it why they get paid what they get paid.
But I'm not paying every body, I really, I just
think it's got to be somebody who who you really
believe like this.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Guy is is a can't miss. This is what I
believe in the thing as a can't miss.
Speaker 10 (27:10):
No no, no.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
But I'm saying, but I don't have I don't have
a problem with them paying Uh. When they decided the
Lakers trade and got Luca and paid him like, okay,
five times All NBA, First Team All NBA, I'm okay
with that, even with the weight, even with some of
the other issues, and now of course him being hurt,
which is a part.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Of right right, I want to go here. I want
to go here a d Antonio daniels on with the
eye couple. Uh is it you?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
You got one? Go ahead. I was just gonna say,
we're watching this next Sixers.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Game one Sixers were just tired coming away from that
Game seven, or the Knicks were just that good.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
What do you kind of look at that?
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I think it's both.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
Here's nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
I don't you don't want to give excuses, but I
think like, if you're an older team or you have
someone that needs it, rest is more important than rhythms.
If you're a younger team and you don't need the rest,
I would prefer rhythms. So the Lakers got an extra
day of rest, right, and if I'm the Philadelphia seventy
six Ers, a play at Game seven on Saturday, a
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play at Game seven on Saturday, and emotional Game seven
against Boston, and in forty eight hours you're at Madison
Square Garden playing again. Is it a coincidence that now
Joe lmb can't go today because they need the rest.
But if I'm the San Antonio.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Spurs and I'm a younger team.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Right, I don't need the rest. I want the rhythms.
So yeah, I feel like two things could be true
at the same time. Because the Knicks are defending in
a completely different They've ramped it up defensively. They changed
their offense where they're using carl ethne Counts as a hub,
which is great to see. But on the other end,
I also think the Philadelphia seventy six Ers could have
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used an XT day arrest similar to what the Lakers got.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got the seventy six Ers winning this game. This
will be typical New York Knicks. I got the typically
I got pick. I'm gonna pick the Sixers because we
had a big argument conversation about do they play better
without Joe l EMBII.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Like like no, no, no, I'm just Boston without Joel.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I get it, I get it, but I'm just saying
there is sometimes when you think, Okay, somebody's out, just
like we saw in the Denver series. True, right, Oh no,
they can't win now, Minnesota can't win. Other guys, you notice, Antonio,
they ball players, right.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
I feel like I feel like one of the biggest
misconceptions in the league is guys and fans feel like
because guys don't play, that they can't play, and when
they do play, that's all that they have. Like to
watch Io Desumu go out there and put up forty points,
that's not surprising. Like these dudes have so much in
their bag. They just are in a box. The league
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does a great job at putting guys in a box, right,
and a lot of times it takes multiple guys being
injured for them to get out of that box.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
All right. Last thing, the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
A couple of my friends they're like, oh, there's no
way the Lakers can't cover fifteen and a half. That's
so disrespectful to Lebron and them, and they lost by eighteen.
And my point is, do they have a chance in
this series? Seriously, it looks like they won't win a game.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
No, No, The question The question is do they have
a chance to win a game?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
All right? I agree with that, and I.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Think that they can win. I think that they can win.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Game four based off desperation.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Happening is Oklahoma City wins the first three pretty handily,
and then they we've seen them do this before, Oklahoma City,
and it's like, you're just you're comfortable. So you come
out in game four and you just on slow motion
a little bit, and then you give that game away
and then the Thunder winning game five. You know, so
a gentleman sweep as opposed to a regular sweep.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
That's very possible. I mean that could happen for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Last point for me with the Spurs in Minnesota, do
we underrest ofmate Minnesota year in Yurana?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Where are yes? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Yes? And now I will tell you this, I'm guilty myself.
I'm guilty of at myself, Like, yeah, I initially I
had to Spurs in five because I didn't think at
the Edwards, who obviously has vibranium running through a day
like print or whatever it's called, but black pande, he
would be playing until game three or game four. The
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fact that he not just showed up in Game one,
but he wasn't limping, he wasn't laboring. Like that's a
culture defining moment for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah, we forget that.
This is a team that went to the Western Conference
Finals two years in a row. It's not by accident.
They're talented, their physical, they're long, they're athletic, and they
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check a lot of boxes.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And then when at Edward's coming back to giving that
morale to Pep and this stuff, they got to go
and we'll see what happens a little bit later on
ad Thank you as always, my man. We appreciate it
first sure appreciated Fellows, thank you, no doubt you too.
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On the way, we'll see how Robb did with Shekel City.
We got your direct play of the day as well,
and give you a little bit more update on the
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We'll get that up on the podcast the end of
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Speaker 3 (32:46):
All right. It is now time for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Welcome to Shekel City, a home base for Rob Parker's
daily dix against the scrap.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Baby cigarettes. I need a double package.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
They got a long Elijah trying to hold the Shekel
City sign.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
So keep a shay out.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Of this, all right, Elijah, just go ahead, don't matter
he's here, Just go ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
It don't matter, all right, We're good, all right, a
little Sheco City. I don't have all my totals, Elijah,
what's the total from last night? Did you put it
up on the grab or something? He didn't put it up,
So I'll come back with that.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
But we'll remember that, all right, all right, because I
want it to be I'm not gonna make it up
a number or whatever.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I want to keep it real. I don't know. Ninety seven.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
I just felt right, remember I was like twenty nine
games felt right like that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
All right, here we go tonight.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
I'm gonna take the Spurs minus ten and a half
hosting the t Walls whenby.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Will bounce back? Why didn't he? Giving them ten and
a half? Is crazy? What what? You win the game
and then you're all of a sudden expected like.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Inver double digit right, that's crazy double digit dogs?
Speaker 3 (33:59):
You Yeah, that's just crazy. All right, we'll be got
all right.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
And then I got the Mets minus one and a
half runs during Colorado taking on the Rockies. I think
the Rocky swept them in New York. Mets have won
the first couple of games or whatever. And I think
today's a makeup or whatever because that had a rain out.
But anyway, and I'm gonna take the Pirates minus one
and a half as well, the Pirates minus one and
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a half, the Mets minus one and a half, and
the Spurs minus ten.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And a half.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
And remember, Calvin, what's that I'm not telling you who
the bet I'm telling you who I bet on?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Did I do that? She did?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
We'll find out how you did when you get those
numbers back. All right, let's get to your tirec Player
of the day.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Swings hits a drive to left and this ball is
gone a three home run day.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Brandy Pis it is twelve to two. Uh high, I'm
all stop at a five seventy on the call.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Go oh my, hellybay it the way home.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I'm just that Okay, that's your number two impression. That's
your number two oh man. Anyway, am five seventy on
the call. There your tire rec players work over there.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I see why you don't anymore?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Thanks, and you know our boss has run that too,
by the way. And also, yes, I remember we did
shows over there together, you and I.
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That's right, and they threw me out. Yeah.
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to our bos for holding you down here.
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You know that though it was gonna be double those
will get a double wise like just an out everything
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went the commercial. I think it's like I think Sixers
might be up to if I'm not mistaken something like that.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I mean, if they're in the game, they are even
run out the building.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Like the Knicks played really well, and you we talk
about all the time there's a law of averages that
sometimes play into play into and we've seen the Sixers
without and be played well as well.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
So I'm not ready to consume that series, yo.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I mean, listen, they kind of can match them speed
and kind of aggression with the Wings without embiid. Obviously
he's dominating, but if he's too hurt and he starts
to hamper you, he's too slow, or if he's just
fall in love with the three too much because he's
too hurt, it affects them. So it'll be you know,
there's got enough guys to be in this game without him. Obviously,
I don't want to say they're better, but because you
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need that height, the defense, and again the ability to
just get a bucket down low.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
But they got enough guys. I mean, I V J
had Come was a really good rookie.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
We talked about Tyree's Maxie and All Star Paul George's
playing pretty well, Oubre some other guys like they got
enough to be in this thing. But I will say
Mike Brown, I will give him credit for how he
switched up the offense and is what we have been
calling for. Just running through Cat Moore, drop it in
him at the elbow and let him dish it off
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and get assists and the high post and find guys cutting, cutting,
and OG's cutting and Josh Harder Bridges cutting finding guys
out on the corner for threes.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
That is both well for them.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And remember so you know, supposedly Mike Brown is an
offensive guy. I don't necessarily know him like that and
that to be, but that's his strength. Well dat can
you get to your strength? And he's final out. Give
him credit. The last three or four games, they've been
producing a lot of points. I mean between how they
ended Atlanta gank last couple of games with Atlanta, specifically
that last one game one in this series.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
All it takes is.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
For them to have one off night or dud and
then they'll go back to you know what I mean,
like they're not gonna continue this run.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
No, that's gonna score one thirty.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But I will give them credit for him for saying,
you know, we talked about the Celtics, you're not gonna
mix it up, You're not gonna try something different.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I don't want to give him credit.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
For differences that Celtics won a championship, and so then
they're going to say, we don't care what the outside said.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
We won playing this way.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
And I understand that I do compared to the Knicks
that haven't won anything, and that wasn't working, and it
made sense.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I agree with you. Like playing through cat.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I like that just just because teams starting to be
able to zero in on brunts and they can just
all right, Brunton is gonna brunch it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Is he's having good games, really good games, great games
in fact, in this system. So credit to them for
doing that. Can they can it? Wood staying can they
can win this series? We'll have to wait and see
as it concludes on that. We'll get you ready next week.
Got Rick Kamala, host of Beyond the Surface for X
rated Sports. He's gonna join us next hour. We still
got a whole lot left in the show as well.
We got to talk about the Lakers falling flat against
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