Bernie Fratto Talks Lakers without LeBron & Much More!

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potentially historical headlines and saycial headlines and what do they
all mean? We're gonna break it down, you know. At
my heart, but doing radio since June ninety four, you

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all know I've made my debut in terms of being
a credential media member. June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four. That
was the night of the OJ Chase. I was in
the press box of Tiger Stadium. So I've been fortunate
to have seen a lot. But in my heart, I
consider myself a journalist who happens to talk on the radio.
And as a journalist, I've always believed that if one

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source tells you it's raining and the other source tells
you it's not raining. It's not my job to argue
a second guess. It's my job to look out the
window and see for myself. When Lebron James suffered that
tenant injury in his right foot against Dallas last Sunday,
And by the way, the Lakers are two and two

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since losing James losing a tough one tonight against Minnesota
what was a bit of a de facto playoff game.
Can't afford to lose that, and Darvinham called out their effort. Obviously,
Lebron originally thought that he had stepped on Dwight Paul's foot.
Turns out it was a non contact injury. But where
am I going with this? In three weeks? I believe

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that would put us at about Thursday in March twenty third.
That's when this was suggested that three weeks Ron would
have the situation. This is the operative word reevaluated. He's
not coming back in three weeks. He's not taking the
floor in three weeks. They're going to reevaluate it in

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three weeks, which means they don't know what they're looking
at until three weeks ago. Buying he's had a chance
to stay off it. It's obviously a weight and bearing injury.
This speaks on several levels to this experiment called the Lakers.
Lebron this is his fourth year, if and the operative
word as if they don't even make the playoffs remember
or the play in game like last year. Of course,

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Lebron famously said, whoever invented the play in games should
be fired. Well, he better hope the guy get a bonus,
because that's really the Lakers only shot. And frankly, I
don't like their chances. And I'll tell you why. This
feels a hell of a lot like twenty nineteen Lebron's
first year. Do you remember that team, because once I

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start dropping names like Lonzo Ball and Hart and Brandon
Ingram and Kyle Kuzma, those were that young group of
Lakers that were talented youngsters. And then it was mentioned
in a potential trade talk for Anthony Davis, and those
poor guys all got theirs finers in a jam and
got nervous and couldn't really play, and they showed promise

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throughout the season. They smashed the Warriors on Christmas Day,
beating by like twenty five points. Instead once when Lebron
got hurt. The same type of situation back then. He
got an injury and he missed like six weeks, and
then Lonzo Ball got hurt, and there was this hope

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that this young team, because of their resilience and youth
and athleticism and desire, they might just have the medal.
To surprise folks, they didn't. They only won nine of
their twenty seven games, their final twenty seven games, and
that snapped Lebron in his run of eight consecutive trips
to the NBA Finals. Fast forward to now, okay, you

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got James, you got Anthony Davis, who finally became a
Laker when the Lakers parted with all those young bucks
back in twenty nineteen at the fragile parts of their career. Well,
here you go. Now you've got another similar situation. They
trade Russell Westbrook already doing his magic oh and five

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with the Clippers story for a different day. Maybe we'll
get to that in the fifth hour of the show.
Such a tired story, but you bring in a group
of dudes that, in their own right all find a
way to try to contribute. Daniela Russell, Jared Vanderbilt, Moligue Beasley,
Mobamba Rui Hachimura. Give those guards some credit. There's some
athleticism there, there's hustle there, some of them can shoot.

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But this is pretty similar to me as to what
happened in twenty nineteen with respect to the fact that
I think it's deja vu all over again, Yogi, and
what do I mean by that? In making these trades
in one last ditch effort to try to bring some
prestige back to this franchise, the Lakers basically assembled a

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brand new roster here essentially in the last few weeks
that has no margin of error, virtually no margin of error.
Lebron's the aging star who is pretty clear his Laker
era is going to be one that will be fraught
and defined by injuries. And again I'm not taking anything

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away from the fact that they did with a championship
in the bubble. I don't put an asterisk on it.
You've you've already heard my asterisk. Uh, you know the
ideology behind what I think should be an asterisk, and
that you know that was Roger Maris in Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris had sixty one home runs, Babe Ruth had

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sixty There was an asterisk by Maris' number, not to
diminish his accomplishment, but because he did it in a
hundred and sixty two games, and Ruth did it one
fifty four, that's all. Just to make the distinctunity, you
got to do it more games. Well, everybody had the
same situation back in the bubble, what did I call
it back then? The Hotel California League. You can check

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out anytime you want, but you can never leave. Remember
that that fun back in the fourth quarter of twenty twenty. Well,
yet the Lakers did win it. But here's where I draw,
Here's where I do throw a flag. They had four
months off and when they got into the bubble, they
didn't have to travel. The Lakers benefited from that rest significantly,
not having to travel and getting four months off. Then

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you could say, well, all the other teams got that too. Well,
rest is not the same for a beginning to break
down thirty five year old like Lebron James thirty six
year old. Actually, and in the rest of the team
as well, they benefited far more from that rest and
how not having to travel in the bubble than some

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of the other teams. But they want it. They did
what they needed to do. So the question is how
do we react to this? Where do we go from here?
I don't know, home dinner, maybe a show what happens
if the Lakers don't make the playoffs? By the way,
what would be the legacy then of Lebron three or
four years missing the playoffs? And do they really need

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to do something to valid eat that championship from twenty
twenty because there are still a lot of people that
question it. Again, I don't no asterisk. However, if you
tell me that they didn't benefit more significantly from the
time off and not having to travel, I'm not buying it.
So we got a couple of guys, Laker guys, Southern California.
Let's have a little round table here because I'm curious.
First of all, Kevin figures, when you saw Lebron go

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down Sunday after saying these are the most twenty three
the final twenty three games of the most important of
his life, what was your immediately what was your immediate needs?
Your reaction? Well, first I was like, oh crap, here
we go again. It's either him or Jackie Davis, you know,
And look, Lebron had been dealing with the foot injury.
Really before the All Star break, So this is not
some thing new when it just kind of flared up

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yet again and we find out that it's even worse
than was previously a thought of. But to your point, Bernie,
you put all your eggs in the basket of Lebron James,
who's pushing forty and has had some recent injury issues
and Anthony Davis, who basically has the body of a
forty year old with all the injuries he's had over
his career, and this is kind of what you get now.
The margin for error has been widened a little bit
because they did improve their depth at the trade deadline.

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You just wonder if it was too little, too late.
I guess the one thing they have working in their
favor at this point in time is it's a it's
a bit of a jumble mess from you know, the
eleventh spot to the sixth spot in the Western Conference.
So there's and a lot of teams that were in
front of them lost on Friday Night just like they did.
But yeah, you're kind of running out of time and
talking about Lebron James's Los Angeles legacy outside of that

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Bubble Championship, you're talking about one other playoff Berth and
that was a getting eliminated in the first round by
the Suns. The year after the bubble, it's been an
unmitigated disaster, to be honest with you, all the way around.
So they're one game in the lost column behind the
Palaquin in the Utah Jazz. They're one game back basically
for that tenth that coveted tenth spot to get into

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the play and I can't see them climbing, you know,
several teams to get into that sixth spot or seventh spot.
Just can't see it. Let's let's go to you Ethan again.
What was your knee jerk reaction when you saw the
Lebron injury. Well, for them, the six seeds out the window.
So I agree with you guys. For Lebron, I think

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it's just one of those things where I don't think
he's gonna play until the last five games of the season.
He's only gonna play because of his pride and all
that stuff. I don't think he's gonna be one hundred percent.
I think he's gonna be banged up. And I don't
think the Lakers are gonna, you know, go, I don't
think they can even beat the Jazz or the Clippers,
you know, so I don't. I don't think they're gonna
get out of the playing tournament. And you know it's

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I think it's gonna be able to wash up a season.
I don't have any I don't have any faith in
a d so I think they're only shot is the
play in tournament, and that's maybe fifty fifty at this point.
My so, Kevin's need jerk reactions. Here we go again.
I agree and your deacon jerk reactions. You know, this
really sort of cooks their chances for any kind of

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a playoff run. I never thought they had a munch
of a playoff run anyway, With all due respect the
Shannon Chappy who wants to see the Lakers of the playoffs.
Everybody wants to see the Lakers in the ploffs. Who
the hell can they beat four times in seven days?
It's a legitimate playoff team. But the bottom line is
there is still there are sort of this hope springs
eternal for this Lakers franchise, because look, the Lakers are

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a franchise of eras. You had the Chamberlain era and
they want then you had you know, the Elgin Baylor,
Jerry West, and then you had the Cream El du
Jabbar and Magic, and you had the Kobe era and
now and now Lebron and the Lebronze era to me,
is going to be checkered with respect to his era.

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It's entirely possible misses the playoffs three or four years.
So Kevin, let me go back to you when they regroup.
We know Lebron's probably gonna miss at least ten games,
regardless of how many games he misses. Do it gun
to your head? Do you expect the Lakers to make
the play in tournament? I do. I do think that
they made enough moves to keep themselves afloat so at

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least make the play in. Whether it's after making know
whether they make the play and they make noise after that,
that's a different discussion. But I do think that they're
good enough roster wise to hold the fort down, bring
it back for the last few games to make the
play in tournament. Yes, and you agree with that, Ethan.
They'll make the play in tournament. Yeah, I think they'll
make it play in around like nine ten seed. Yeah, Im,

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it's entirely possible. I'm not going to write it off
I just think there's a sixty seventy percent chance or
not based on the effort us all to night following
what I consider to be an outstanding effort to you know,
last night, so or a couple of nights ago. But
it's been an up and down week two and two,
and you've got Golden State coming, They've got Golden State
Sunday with Steph Curry and and so you've got this.

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You know we had all these if you're if you're
if you're a Laker fan, you know you had all
these high hopes. So I want to shift gears in
this discussion because Lebron says these are the twenty three
most important games of his career. Come on, man, that's
just bull vine scatology. He's played a lot more important games,
including when he was at Cleveland and I was in

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Detroit covering the Pistons and onto Miami and back to Cleveland.
How is the acclese the twenty three most important? When
you were so hell bent on breaking the record on
that Tuesday night that you're not only emptied the tank,
you flat the tires and damage the rims. You were
a hell band on breaking the record. You break the record.
Then you come out of the game, you don't finish
the game, they lose the games, then you missed the

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two games after that, and if the Lakers missed the
play and tournament by one game. I will remember that
Tuesday night game where he broke the record, and I
will consider that to be selfish because it was inevitable
he was going to break the record, but he had
to do it that night when he could have done
it two nights later with Milwaukee, where a lot of
people thought and they were going to break it that night.
So Kevin, I, I know it's against the law for

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me to practice psych college he was out of license,
but is your marriage to the following that? Bye? Well?
I put selfishly in quotes insisting they break the record
that night and not being able to finish the game.
That's someone set the stage for Lebron to overtax his body,
which may have led to this injury, which may have

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led to the Lakers not making the playoffs. Or is
that too much of a stretch Completely fair, because if
you consider the fact that he played that game played
I don't know how many minutes a lot scored thirty
eight points, so they still lost by the way that
night he missed like the next three games, four games
after played the last game before the All Star break
for the Lakers. They lost all those games that he
didn't play. So to your point, if he doesn't because

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jay Z and all these other stars in the crowd,
he felt the needs to have to put on a show.
If you don't do that, to your point, just play
your game. Break the record. When you break the record,
he doesn't push himself that hard. Think he plays in
at least a couple of the next few games. Maybe
they get those victories. So no, I don't think you're
out of school by saying that. You know, I certainly
said it that night and the subsequent days after that,

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because he just he was overtaxed. He did way too
much and pushed himself way too hard. He put himself
ahead of the team, and maybe the team players put
him over the team themselves. It was just a bad
look all the way around. And he could have asked, look,
there's a classic case for needing load management. Sure you
would think that that night he could have paced himself.
Maybe he doesn't get thirty eight points, maybe he gets

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thirty two, but he hangs on finishes and they get
to w against Oklahoma City a game clearly they would
you look back now, and that would have been a
precious win. Two nights later, they faced Milwaukee jay Z
and everybody would have been in the crowd then as well.
He would have broken the record, same deal. But for
some reason that night he was shell bent on doing it.

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And again I'll ask you the same question, Ethan, by
overtaxing himself, creating a situation where maybe there was fatigue. Again,
he couldn't even finish the game that night and they lost,
and you would think he would know that those wins
are precious. Did that perhaps light the fuse and set
the stage for the domino effect to where what is
happening now that Lebron will have missed? You know, by

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the time March twenty third rolls around, he would have
missed like fifteen in the last nineteen games. Yeah, I
would say yes and no. Maybe I'm not quite sure,
but I think the biggest part from it, Like I
said prior, Lebron's just a pride guy. He wanted it
that night. He was gonna do it no matter what,

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no matter what anybody said to him. That's been his
whole memo his entire career. He tries to make it
about the team, but at the end of the day,
it's really about himself and his career breakings and his
records and how many rings he can get. I mean,
I'm a big Lebron fan, but I'm just trying to
keep it real and how I see it. Yeah, I

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mean again, he by his actions seem to send the
message that it's more important that I not only break
this record, I break the record tonight as opposed to
winning a game. And how will Laker fans feel if
they missed the playing round by one game? Coming up,

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we continue with the crew. I want to talk about
the legacy for this team, and I want to revisit
twenty twenty. Again. I don't think the championship was a vighazy,
but I also think that because it was the bubble,
and because the Lakers benefited greatly from not having to travel,
having four months off and having that pristine environment, all

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time off is not created equally. They had a lot
of aging bodies on that team, and they had a
situation where the rest and not having to travel benefited
them more than some of the younger athletic teams. That
is how I feel. But they still won that championship,
but some people feel they need to win another one
to validate the lebron era because the Bubble Championship to

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them wasn't necessarily legit. We'll chop it up with the crew.
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into the next portion of our roundtable discussion. I want
to quote our buddy, good buddy, the great Ben Maller.
This is exactly what he said about the Lebron situation. Quote.
There are plenty of people in the media who will
slobber all over Lebron for whatever he does, but the
legend has lost his luster. His tenure with the Lakers,
if you're objective here is shaky at best. Nobody takes

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the bubble runs seriously, especially after what happened year two,
right because remember Lebron was injured his first year, they
won the championship. A second year, the third year the
Lakers made the playoffs. They couldn't even make the playoffs,
by the way, the following year after the champion Chip,

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both the Heat and the Lakers were bounced in the
first round. So where am I going with this? Lebron
believes that that championship was fraudulent Mickey Moss ring, you
had one hundred days off. It was a bullcrap situation,
all right. I'm not willing to go there. I love Ben.
They won the championship, Okay. I if you win it,

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you win it. I just believe they've benefited more from
the rest and not having to travel. But Kevin, how
do you feel was the Bubble Championship legit? It was
legit because everybody played under the exact same conditions. So
it's all like the Lakers had some sort of inherent
leg up over anyone else. If you want to say
a play to their advantage that they were an older

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team and they were had the giant layoff in between them.
Sure I'll give you that, but sure everybody else had
all that rest too, everybody else. No one else had
to travel either. So I still give them credit, full
credit for winning that championship because everybody played it under
the exact same condition So no asterisk for me, Right,
I agree with about ninety four percent of that. I

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do think they had inherent leg up because they've been
it from the rest. But and here's the big butt
pee week. They didn't fumble it. They didn't fumble it,
and they won the championship. So irrespective of whether or
not they had a perceived advantage, which I think they did,
they didn't fumble it. So they won the championship, and
everybody had to live in the bubble and everybody had
the same situation, Ethan, was it a legit championship? Yeah,

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championships a championship. Everybody was in the bubble. I can't
really buy the you know, they didn't have to travel thing.
You know, I get it. But at the same time,
they're all there, they're all away from their families that
are all figuring it out, what's going on with COVID.
You know, it's the same thing, and they won a championship,
So I give it to them. I'm gonna have to

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agree with both of you guys. You went. You just
can't win a championship by accident. They got to win
four playoff rounds. Yeah, so we'll leave that there. I'm
not gonna I feel like I'm splitting hairs on that one.
And we're picking up an award on Lincoln's nose if
we if we go there, it's a championship. However, Lebron
is hypersensitive about his image. He wants to be liked.

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He's hypersensitive about his legacy more than anybody I've ever seen.
If they if the Lakers don't make the playoffs this
year and they missed three of us four years, Um,
how much does that tarnished Lebron's legacy? Kevin your thoughts,
I don't know if it's harnishes it too much. And
by the way, I would say that the person who

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people compare him to as far as the greatest of
all time, I think is just as sensitive when it
comes to his legacy and all that at basically evidence
by the fact that he's greenlit the last dance right
after Lebron and the Cavaliers came back from the So
I think Lebron, he and m j R. Kind of
a lockstep when it comes to that, but maybe a

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little bit. I think what what softens the blow a
little bit there, Bernie is the fact that he at
least did win a championship while wearing the Laker uniform.
So had they not won that championship in the bubble,
like you mentioned, they didn't fumble the bag there. Had
they not won in the bubble, and basically all he
had to show for it was a playoff Berth in
the bubble, and then another playoff Berth in a loss

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in the first round. In missing the playoffs the rest
of his tenure, that will be a failure, but considering
that he at least won a championship, I can't say
that it was a total and complete failure with his
run in Los Angeles. I think when the decades go by,
that will be what he's remembered that he did win
a championship, irrespective of what happened around it, So his
legacy is secure. I agree with that. So Ethan, you

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got the last word on this. If this doesn't end
well here with the Lakers this year and they missed
the playoffs again, to what degree is that tarnish Lebron's legacy.
I don't think it ultimately tarnishes his legacy too bad.
You know, he was injured at the end of the season.
That will always be the excuse. But I do think

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if he doesn't win another championship within the next years
before he retired, just definitely be a tires to his legacy,
just because people would compare him to MJA and how
many rings he has, So I think he's gonna have
to face that well, I give Lebron credit. He won,
you know, rings with three different teams and all, but
Jordan won three, took year off to play baseball, came

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back and won three in a row. I've seen Jordan
court side. I've seen Bird courtside. I've seen Magic courtside.
Was an intern with the form, and I've seen Lebron
court side. I've always said this, I don't look, I
don't argue about who's the greatest. You're never gonna win
that argument. No one, No one cares, no one. Theater
side'd never just submit. I would just say this, if
I had one game in my life was on the

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line and I needed someone to win it for me,
it would be Michael Jordan, and that it would not
be Lebron. It would be probably Magic or Bird, second
or third that one game. But look the body of
workers there, and at some point it just gets tiresome.
When you diminished someone's accomplishments, you usually have a personal
you know, dislike for the guy. But the bottom line
is this, let's let the season play out. Let's see

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where it goes. The Lakers have shown in flashes that
they can compete, but then after tonight it's just as
a sobering reminder that this team has a ceiling and
it's not very high, and that's just the way it is.
That's just the way it is. Minnesota is not a
great team, they're an average team, and the Lakers had
them on their own floor and it was basically a
pick them game. And Anthony Davis is supposed to be

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a superstar, so the Lakers should have had enough gas
in the tank to take care of the Wolves tonight.
And the fact that they didn't have to be troublesome
Lebron's legacy. Let's do this. Let's say it's still being written.
Let's see what happens this year and probably in the
next year as well. Coming up, the Phoenix Suns have
really got my attention. I'll tell you why. First, let's
go all guy Kevin figures with the latest. All right, well,

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speaking of those Lebron Lakers there, Bernie, they drop a
tough one at home on Friday night two Minnesota one,
twenty two points and fourteen boards there for Rudy Gobert.
Anthony Davis did have a big game in a losing
effort with thirty eight points. Elsewhere, you had the other
triple double. How about that from Nicola Yokick eighteen points,
eighteen boards, ten assists. Third straight victory there for the Nuggets,

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one thirteen to ninety seven the final score. They handed
Memphis their third consecutive loss. I Meanwhile, the Kings beat
the Clippers for the second Friday Night in a row.
This time did not get into the one seventies. It
was one twenty eight to one twenty seventy Aaron Fox
scoring a game high thirty three points to lead the
Kings to their fifth straight victory. Bernie mentioned Kevin Durant
and the Sons. They pick up a victory over the
Bulls one twenty five to one oh four. Kevin Durant

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score twenty points, had nine boards and six assists. Devin
Booker the leading scorer with thirty five points. By the way,
you have the Clay Thompson twenty seven points there for
the Golden State Warriors. They overcame a seventeen point deficit.
By the way, the fourth game in a row that
the Golden State Warriors have been down by double digits
and have come back to get a victory, this time
over the New Orleans Pelicans one o eight to ninety nine.
Nets overcame a twenty eight point deficit. They beat the

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Celtics one fifteen to one oh five, Michael Bridges with
thirty eight points back to Bernie Freddo. All right, thanks Kevin.
You mentioned the Suns win to Night by twenty one,
and of course that's following up from their game the
other night when Kevin Durant made his son's debut and
they beat the Hornets by fourteen. So they win their

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first two games by thirty five points. The new look Suns,
I don't really feel like I'm going on on a limb.
I'd be assuming they stay healthy, which is everything in
today's NBA, and there's always been. It's hard for me
not to picture the Suns in the NBA Finals as
the West Conference entrant. No, I don't know who comes
out of the East. Could be Boston, could be Milwaukee, whatever.

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But I don't know who's beating the Suns four times
in two weeks. If you watch him the other night,
Durant look sharp. Yeah, there's some questions. He had twenty
three points on ten to fifteen, six rebounds, blocked a
couple of shots, dished them. You don't had a couple
of dimes and you just keep your fingers crossed because

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injuries have always limited Durant's availability for four straight years.
But you with Durant on the floor, you watched Devin
Booker go to work and DeAndre Ayton, who becomes very
efficient offensively because there's not a lot of pressure he had.
Durant doesn't really have to take over. He doesn't have
to go into take at least he hasn't so far

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in a couple of games. And you can't really take
so much away from two games. And you don't know
one hundred percent how Monnie Williams is going to continue
to manage their rotation. But frankly, this Phoenix, this Phoenix
team looks really scarity. They beat Chicago in Chicago night
by twenty one. It's interesting. They play the Mavericks Sunday

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in Dallas. Now that's a national TV game. I will
it's pretty obvious that Luca and Kobe are cool. We
got why do I us do that? Luca and and
Kyrie have not exactly meshed. I mean, they found their
formula last night. You know, we'll just combined for eighty
three points and we'll just outscore the other team. We'll

(27:54):
just outshoot the other team. You know, that's not a
recipe for for running, you know, making a deep run
into the playoffs. So the Suns that have eighteen games left,
we'll see if they can adjust to their new construction.
There's no question it was a win, big win for
the Suns to get Durant. They'll figure out how to
play together. There doesn't seem to be any drama there

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like there is with westbrook In with the Clippers, and
of course even the LA has got through on drama
and Dallas with Kyrie certainly has drama. But this is
pretty lethal scoring lineup that features Kevin Durant, and I
haven't even met mentioned Chris Paul, who's probably a first
ballot Hall of Famer because Chris Paul is able to

(28:39):
distribute the ball and when you've got DeAndre eight and
securing the interior, he's always going to have somebody to
get the ball to. You know, the Suns did give
up a starter, Michaale Bridges to get Durant, and they
you know, a pretty decent role player on Cameron Johnson. Johnson,
but when you look at the big you know, this
new big three, Durant, Chris Paul, and Devin Booker and

(28:59):
the throwing DeAndre Ayden. Kevin figures, Am I wrong? I mean?
Gun to my head? How is Phoenix not in the
NBA Finals this year? Yeah, so you're a point. The
only way they're not making it to the NBA Finals
out of the West as if they get an injury,
which look especially when it comes to someone like Chris
Paul who was always hurt when the playoffs roll around
at some point in time. Granted he's not the biggest

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piece of the puzzle at this point in time for them,
I guess, thankfully, But yeah, I still I know I'm
more bullished on Denver than a lot of people are,
and I think they never good. Can actually give them
a really good run, But yeah, it will fills a
gun to my head right now. If you told me
to pick somebody to come out of the West, I'd
have to give it to the Suns. Ethan your thoughts
are you know? I mean, Kevin rings up a good

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point because this Denver team is good, but there's so
much star power on this Sun's team, and I think
Durant does not get enough credit when they beat Cleveland,
they being the Golden State Warriors, beating Cleveland back in
twenty seventeen to win the NBA Championship. I don't think

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Durant gets enough pressure, uh, you know, credit for probably
being the best player on the floor in that Entires series.
So Ethan Miller, do you like Phoenix or you got
somebody else's mind? I actually love Phoenix, but I don't
want you guys to, you know, forget obviously you guys
are talking about the Nuggets and off of also Memphis.

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I know Jaw is on a mission. You know, I
know that guy is hungry, but it's tough. You know,
I don't think it's it's it's Kevin Durant, one of
the best in the world. You know, he's mad, he's
pissed off. He thinks people are doubting him. He's the
same way. He's gonna go out and he's gonna show
out every single playoff game, and it's gonna be tough

(30:45):
to stop him. So I wouldn't be surprised if the
Suns were in the NBA Finals this season. Yeah, the
job things got me worried. He's got a body of work. Now.
I just heard about the deal in the pickup game
in the seventeen year old getting getting worked. Did you
hear about that, Kevin, Oh? I certainly did. Its top
about a player that can't get out of his own
way right now, all of a sudden, I'm stacking up,
He's stacking up. See this isn't good. And for some reason,

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Memphis can't win on the road. I think they're a
really good team. But something happened after that Channon Sharp
night and they haven't been the same. And you know what,
why put a target on your back? Why make it
harder for yourself? And I feel, you know what, we
go through life, and I've always said, you know, we
always know how alpha dogs handle failure. They always handle

(31:29):
it the same way. I'm gonna get up. I'm gonna
knock you on your butt. I'm getting up, I'm getting
back up. I'm not gonna quit. But every but people
handle success differently. And I believe that the success that
the Memphis grously started to have, they've kind of shown
they're not ready for prime time. And they could still
prove me wrong. But but Kevin, think about it. When

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they started to have success and started to read their
newspaper clippings, started to puff their chest out a little
bit and pride usually comes before the fall, absolutely and
need a little bit of humble pie, I guess. And
maybe last year's you know, they a lot, they had
a lot come soon last season, had a little more
expectations coming into this year, and to their credit, they
start out and got out to a great start. The

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problem with John Moran specifically talking about these off court issues,
I just don't understand, as one of the faces of
the league, as high of a profile as you have,
how you can continuously put yourself allegedly, I guess in
these situations. You know a lot of you have crew
members a lot of times to deal with these sorts
of things, and not that not that you should have
to put yourself in these situations anyway, but usually there's

(32:34):
someone you have a security guard, you have friends, you
have somebody in your entourage that can handle any sort
of misgivings that come your direction from other people. And
I don't understand why John Moran feels the need to
have to insert himself directly into these situations. It's a
bad look for him. I don't know if Memphis or
the NBA can or should do anything about it. They
should try to do something about it. I just don't

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know what they can do about it. Bernie, I think
at this point I'm going to write it off to
youth and immature. But he's still got to fix it.
And let me be clear, for the people who selectively listen, listen,
things can be very fleeting in the NBA. While I
have just mentioned pretty emphatically the Suns have got my attentions,

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Let's keep it real. Chris Paul will be thirty eight
by the time the playoffs roll around them. We were
about halfway of the playoffs, thirty eight. DeAndre eight. Remember
just last summer he wanted to be elsewhere because Phoenix
kind of gave him no choice. Devin Booker, who I
think is a baller, he missed twenty seven games earlier

(33:39):
this season, and then of course Kad just came back
from his own seven week absence. So no time, like
the president for Phoenix to make their bones. But there's
no one guarantee they're gonna look the same now or
check that, look the same in six weeks as they
look now. For now, they look damn good, but we
see how things change. The Lakers thought they cracked the

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code twice. They thought they were on their way to
postseason glory. First the start of last season when they
brought in Russell Westbrook, and then last month's tradeline when
they got rid of what Westbrook. But now Lebron's hurt.
The Lakers are frankly a relatively mediocre team, maybe five
hundred at best. There's still four games under five hundred,
and we're into March. Clippers they bring in Westbrook after

(34:24):
he's bought out by Utah, believing they could compete. I've
seen nothing to indicate that could happen there. And five
the Grizzlies show a lot of flash, but look what's
happened to them in the last month. I think the
Nuggets are legit. Memphis is probably too young to make
a legit run. You got those troubling reports with John
Morant Denver. They've dealt with their own injuries, and I

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can't believe we haven't mentioned the Warriors. They expect to
give Steph Curry back for Sunday's game. They are the
defending chance, but they've been incredibly inconsistent all along, which
leaves the Sacramento Kings can't mention can't have this kind
stage without mentioning them there and then the Mavericks will
have something to say too, so I would just say this,

(35:06):
while Phoenix looks slick right now. Back in twenty fifteen,
the Lob City Clippers look slick too. They had Chris
Paul Blake, Griffin, DeAndre Jordan. Remember they went up three
to one on the Rockets. They were looking to go
to the conference finals. Boom. Then the lay at the
end of the tunnel was an oncoming train and went
in hindsight, the window closed before whatever got open. Bottom line,

(35:31):
you don't know what can happen. No One Toronto came
out of nowhere in twenty nineteen. I guess I'm more
looking forward to this version of the playoffs in the NBA,
more sottle than I have in a while, because there's
been so many musical cheers coming up. Dame Lillard had
seventy one points against the Rockets last Sunday night, just
the eighth player in the NBA to scored seventy points

(35:53):
in the game. But he put himself in some pretty
rare company. I don't share some names, will name drop
some names and where Dame Miller Damian Lillard belongs. After
his seventy one point performance, I'm Bernie fraderwork Comedy Alive
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Pete Maravich left his way too early. He died in
nineteen eighty eight. He was only forty. He was an
incredibly prolific, stylish basketball player, and he held he still holds,
one of the most prestigious records, and that is being
it's probably considered an unbreakable record as the all time

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leading nca score in Division one history. Now, Pete didn't
get to play as a freshman because back in the
sixties when he was at LSU, freshman couldn't play varsity basketball.
So in his entire career in college he only played
eighty three games, and he again couldn't play as a freshman,
and there was no three pointer back then. But Pete's

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record was so significant that coming into this year, there
was no one within four hundred and eighteen points of
that record, and the record stood for fifty three years. Well,
meet Antoine Davis twin. Davis is a very talented point
guard who plays for University Detroit Mercy. You would d

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nice campus. I've been to that gym many times. They're
in the Horizon League and after the Titans, the Detroit
Titans beat produced Fort Wayne in the first round of
the Horizoning Tournament. The other night, Davis was just twenty
six points away from leapfrogging Pete Maravich. Now, the game tonight,

(38:31):
he had a very interesting ending because Davis had I
think twenty three points and he took the last seven
shots of the game, missed them all, and now he's
three points short of the all time record, tying it
four points from beating it. Now, let's give Antoine Davis

(38:54):
some props because he's already this year college most basketball
college basketball by far, is there the most prolific sharpshitter
in the country. He's I think he's I think he's
corraled like one hundred and fifty five three pointers this year.
He's averaging like twenty nine points a game. And if

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you've watched him play, he's very quick. He's got a
great first step, he can create his own shot off
the bounds. He's got tremendous range. I mean, he can
shoot threes from NBA range. And that's how he got
to this point. Detroit is fourteen and nineteen on the year.
Now here's where I'm going with this. Detroit has reached out.

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Now they obviously they're not getting a bid in in
the Big Dance and they're not going to the n
I but they've already thrown the flag up the poll
that hey, we wouldn't mind going to the CBI. But
it's purely for the opportunity to get Antoine Davis a
shot at catching pistol peat and passing him. Clearly, if

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he just played one more game, or he made two
of his last seven shots tonight, he would have broken
the record. And for the record, Antoine Davis has already
played fifty more games in his college career than Pete
Marriage played. Marriage played eighty three. I think Antoine Davis
has played one hundred and thirty three. So, look, records
are made to be broken. I get that we have

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to understand that there's something to celebrate, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure where I weigh it on this one,
because it seemed it would seem to me if somehow
Detroit gets a CBI bid and Antoine Davis goes on
to break the record, it will feel a little bit
artificial to me. Still a phenomenal accomplishment because it stood

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for fifty three years. No one was within four hundred points.
You get, you get the drift if you do what
you do it. But if they're going to manipulate that
in a way, now, there's something about it, and I'm
not able to verbalize exactly where it's sticking in my
craw Kevin, you followed this story. Are you aware of
what's going on there? Yeah? I followed it a little
bit for sure, Yes, So what's your take I mean

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from the whole Records are made to be broken standpoint,
But the way they're trying to artificially maybe manipulate this, yeah,
they're made to be broken. Legitimately. This is not you know,
Brett Farve laying down for Michael. You know that I
was just about to invoke that very go ahead. Yeah, No,
So that that's what it is for me. So I'm
not going to allow them into the CBI just so
we can break the record. If they feel that they

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earn their way in, or it's a numbers game and
we need one more team and they qualify for it
based on their record or whatever their ranking may be,
than sure. But I'm not going to allow somebody to
go into a tournament just so they can break a record.
That's that's not what sports are supposed to be all about.
They are fourteen and nineteen, and it's not all the
room of possibility that the CBI would invite them. And

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I know that years ago when I covered UNOV basketball,
they were invited to go to the CBI and the
team voted down. You're guaranteed a home game, but you've
got to pay fifty thousand dollars for the right to
to to to be in the CBA and you're guaranteed
at least one home game and then you use the
gate receipt topefully to make money on that. So uh,

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do I think they're getting a CBA bid? No, I don't,
but I would have surprised me if they did not necessarily, Uh, Ethan,
Ethan Miller, what are your thoughts about this? I'm with you, guys.
They should not be getting a bid just because we
feel bad for a guy who needs to break a record.
If he was going to break the record, he should
have broke the record. Like you said, he shouldn't have
gone two for seven at the end of the game seven.

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If you would have gone two for seven, he would
have broken Okay, yeah, so o for seven And yeah,
I'm with you, guys. I'm one um. Their team stinks
and what have they been fourteen games not getting in
the tournament? You know they don't deserve what's this other
tourna in the CBI. You're saying, yeah, CBI? Yeah, nah,
all right. Still a tremendous accomplishment for a young man.

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And I'll probably seem in the NBA Summer League next year.
Good athlete, good player, and the fact that he came
this close, and you know there there was something Pete
Merovich had a flair for their domatic. If he didn't
ever see him play, just google it, go to YouTube,
watches highlights. It's just surreal what you're looking at. It's
from another planet. But speaking of teams that also have

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not particularly had a stellar season, this March bandness could
look vastly different. There are no great teams. I know,
there are over twenty teams with better with less than
ten to one odds to get to the final four.
That's unheard of. And if you really break it down,
there are legitimately maybe twenty teams in theory that could
win this damn thing. But a great team like North Carolina,

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who actually got to the final last year, might not
even get in the tournament. And they entered this this
season with very lofty expectations. North Carolina returned four starters
from last year's national runner up team. They were voted
number one in the AP preseason poll. What the hell happen? Well,
I guess you could say they haven't really replaced Brady Mannick.

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They haven't you know, been able to really you know,
fill that hole in the production he brought. He had
a couple of guys Caleb Love, R. J. Davis. They
played two you know, play hero ball and frankly, this
North Carolina teams turned out to not have a lot
of depth based on their production, and they didn't get
their first Quad one victory the entire year. To last Saturday,

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somehow they beat Virginia ranked number six in Chapel Hill.
But North Carolina, it's hard to imagine a tournament without
North Carolina, especially when you consider they were the runner up.
But that's where we're at in twenty twenty three, and
North Carolina is gonna eat every win just to make
it back to the dance on my Gutfield tells me

(44:53):
they're going to but the fact that we're having this
conversation doesn't bolde well if you're a Carolina fan. Meanwhile, Kansas,
the team that North Carolina lost to last year in
the finals, I think they've got a real shot at
being the first School of defendish national championship. You got
to go back to twenty seven when you had the
last repeat teams at the Florida and the Jayhawks will

(45:16):
look they've got I mentioned North Canada didn't have their
first quad one win. Until last Saturday, Kansas has like
sixteen quad one wins, even though they've lost three starters
from a year ago, including two first round draft picks.
But you got Jalon Wilson, He's a Wooden Award canad
h Juan Harris is one of the top playmakers in

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the country. KG Adams. Now that he's starting, he's proven
that he can he can thrive. You've had a couple
of new additions. Grady Dick first of all, he makes
the All Name Team. And and they had a transfer
from Texas Tech named Kevin mccullar. Tremendous defensive player. So

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can if they were to repeat, would not surprise me.
But we're a long way from having that conversation. I
will say this, though you can't rule it out. Purdue
produces a weird team to me. Zach Edy has been
good during his first two seasons at Perdue. He's made
the most of his minutes. But you know, and then

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Trevion Williams went went to the NBA. Now ed he's
got center stage. He's averaging twenty two and thirteen. He
blocked shots, he scores points, he gets rebounds. It's he's
very hard to defend. I would say, right now, gun
to my head, Zach Edy probably wins the Wooden Award.

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But I will say this, something's wrong with Purdue. What
have they lost now three of their last five games,
for their last six games, they get into high leverage moments,
you know, so I don't know Perdue. When I fail
on my bracket, I will not have them in the
Final four. They're just they're setting you up for a

(47:02):
major disappointment. Speaking of the Final four, you know the
it's in Houston this year, the Final four. And here's
here's a trivia question. By the way, I love the
Houston Cougars. I love Kelvin Samson. And this is the
forty year anniversary of five Slam a Jamma. Back then

(47:23):
the Cougars were legit had thought they had Jimmy Valvano's
team beat and lost one of the great visuals. But
this version of the Houston Cougars are pretty damn good too.
They've held the number one spot more than once. This year.
They are going to be a top seed. First time
there'll be a top seed since nineteen eighty three. And
here comes the trivia part. Nole School has played a

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Final four in their own home town, well since Gordon
Haywood and Butler did back in twenty ten. Remember that
great final game against Duke took it all the way
to the wire. But I think there's a very good
chance Houston and make the fin on of four in
their own hometown this year. They got a hell of
a team. They got, you know what, two losses on

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the season, one against Alabama. However, there are only one
there only there's only one issue if you're gonna split
hairs here. The Cougars are only ranking one hundred and third,
one hundred and three and Ken Palm Strength of Schedule rating,
largely because they play in the AC. And you know what,
as much as Houston's defense is crazy stupid aggressive, you know,

(48:30):
like the UNLV defense was back in nineteen ninety, They're
scoring punch is exposed when they when they get on
the floor against superior opponents. So you know, they've got
a little bit of heavy lifting to do. But I
think it would be Houston will probably be in my
final four. They certainly were last year. And there's something

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about the way this team knows how to just lock
you down in the final five minutes of the game.
Coming up more March madness stuff. We've got some coaches
on the hot seat. We've got to talk about Brandon Miller.
We'll bringing the crew on that one. The Big Twelve, well,
they've always been good in football, but now they're damn
good in basketball. They always been good in basketball, but
now they're crazy stupid good. And the Big East may

(49:15):
not be like what the Big East used to be,
but it's still a wide open tournament. And he can't
have this conversation without giving some due credit to some
elite mid majors. It doesn't feel like March madness is
upon us, but it is. And you know darn well
that next week at this time, everybody will be chomping
at the bid to download their brackets and will be

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glued that Thursday when there are sixteen games and then
sixteen games in XT. I tell you here in Vegas,
it's pandemonium. I'm Bernie Frauderer, Comty of Life in Las Vegas.
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young man by the name of Brandon Miller. He's an
All American All American caliber season for the nation's number
two team in the country, Alabama. He's averaging about twenty
a game, eight rebounds. He'll be a top five selection
in June's NBA draft. If you look at it from
three hundred from thirty thousand feet again, at the risk

(50:20):
is sounding judgmental, it just looks like Alabama has prioritized
playing basketball over any discipline, any education. Again and again,
the school has not acted. I can't tell they what
to do. I can only say this that there seems
to be some confusion here. Coaches to spend players for
mincing classes, for violating all sorts of unnamed team rules.

(50:44):
They make them run for blowing defensive assignments. They're turning
the ball over in practice. Everything for me changed quite
a bit lass Saturday night when Brandon Miller was part
of the pregame, you know, introduction, using bad judgment and
allowing this, you know this, he knowingly and willingly mimic

(51:09):
to pack down like you're patting him for gun or weapons.
Just this is just days after the name came up
in the Tulsa or the Tuscaloosa courtroom and during the
bond hearing, what are we doing here? It's stupid, it's foolish,
it's callous, it's tone deaf, and it has caused a

(51:33):
lot of media members to raise their hand and say, Alabama,
who's going to be the adult in the room. I
don't know what to do. Kevin figures, should there be
a situation where Brandon Miller sits for a couple of
games just because? Or what do you do? Or you
don't do anything? You know? I got a demira on
this one. What do you do? I mean, I think

(51:53):
there should have been, but I only feel like the
time has kind of passed a little bit for that.
If you were going to set them or suspending for
a game or two, I think you would have done
it by now. And then you know, Nate Oates is
the one who really mishandled this entire situation with his
initial comments then having to backtrack. I think it's interesting
that they have in the school. The administration hasn't said
anything to Brandon Miller. Maybe you should make some sort

(52:14):
of statement, even if you're not gonna say anything to
necessarily incriminate yourself. Sorry for being a distraction to the program.
I'm sorry for the role out played, however indirectly in
a tragic situation. He said nothing. The school has just
spun their wheels three different times in three different messages
and really handled this the wrong way. To your a point,
seems like they prioritize the sport of basketball over the
fact that somebody lost their life here, and that's that's

(52:37):
just a bad sign from the adults in the room.
Like you said, it should be Nate Olts, it should
be the administration at Alabama, and it's just been poor
leadership from there from that standpoint for them, no question.
The fact that Alabama did not get out in front
of this when they had a chance to will to
me be a big miss. Ethan Miller. Kevin said, you've

(53:00):
if Brandon Miller was gonna it was gonna sit, should
have already been done and probably not gonna go back
and do it now, or maybe should they your thoughts, Yeah,
it's just a sad, sad, sad situation. And to be honest,
I don't like what he did with you know, the
whole pat down thing when he was coming through in
you know, in the starting lineups. But I honestly, and

(53:23):
with both of you guys what you're saying, you know,
kept saying it should have already been done. I agree
with that, And you know, I feel like if more
pressure comes towards Alabama, they may pull the trigger inst
at him. I'm not positive, but they're also probably thinking
of a championship. So you know how that works. Well yeah, well,

(53:45):
and that's you know, coaches don't get renewed contracts for
having their kids kid good grades or attend class or
be good citizens. They get it for winning. And it's
a systemic situation. All I know is they've added insult
to injury with the look uh and and the optic

(54:05):
that Alabama has allowed to take places. And this is
a very proud institution. But if you line up, you
know all the Division one basketball teams from from top
to bottle, from A to Z, these three hundred and
forty or thereabouts. You know, there's some schools that run
their program like a professional organization. Then that case are
going to keep Brandon Miller on the floor. They're not

(54:27):
going to do anything until they have to or there's
a legal issue. Brandon Miller appears will not be charged
or there's there are other teams where Miller might have
been kicked off or suspended. There are other situations Wherenados
might have been fired. But Bama's online in line to
win a national championship and they got Brandon Miller. So

(54:47):
there you have it. A story that I believe will continue.
I don't feel like the story is over yet. The
Big Twelve having major success. If everything breaks right, nine
of the Big twelve ten schools could get into the
NCAA tournament. This is unprecedented. Obviously, the top is as
solid and impressive as anybody. You got Kansas number three,

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Baylor number seven, Texas number nine. By the way, they
fired their coach Chris Beard for the alleged alleged domestic
violence situations. Since been those charges has been dropped. Now
there's a rumor he may be interviewing at Mississippi. But
you had Kansas City eleventh, TCU twenty second, amazing. They've

(55:32):
all been in the app A people, and even Iowa
State was as high as number twelve. So we know
there are six schools there that our lock from March
Band is coming out of the Big twelve. But the
bottom of the conference is ridiculously solid as well. You
talk about depth, you got Texas Tech, West Virginia, Oklahoma,

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Oklahoma State. They're they're they're kind of bubble teams. And
even though Oklahoma is in last place, they probably not
got to make the tournament unless they win the Big
twelve Tourney or some damn thing. The Sooners actually beat
Alabama in January by twenty four, that's how good this
conference is. So the Big twelfth not only the best

(56:15):
conference in the in the nichetion this year, but it's
it's if you consider the cumulative rankings of the schools
I just mentioned and where they might fare it out
when March Madness Election Sunday, they might be considered the
best regular season conference in modern basketball history. There you

(56:36):
have it, not bad. That's just another reason why I'm
really looking forward to the tournament. Can Kansas repeat? And
by the way, there's always men majors. You overlooked them
until March Madness and the bracket rolls around and you start, oh,
wait a minute, who are these guys? And you look
at the record and you say to yourself, oh, well wait,
And then they get into they get on the floor

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and they're good. And you got a handful of elite
meeten majors this year. They could be a Cinderella and
Tomorrow Night shown next week. By the way, I'm going
to give a little anthology March Madness is twelve greatest
Cinderella stories of all the time. We'll bring back some
good memories. But you got college at Charleston Florida Atlantic.
They're both combined fifty four and six and they should

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both earn an at large bid. They got big time,
high powered offenses. They both ranked in the top ten
nationally in three pointers. Another team with the best chance
to make a splash is a familiar name, Oral Roberts.
They bring back their star guard, Max Abnos. They got
a bunch of rotation pieces. Remember they made the Sweet
sixteen in twenty twenty one. And they also got a

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guy that they got from Arkansas. I got by the
name of Connor van Over. Just a little guy. It's
only about seven foot five. So keep an eye on Charleston,
Florida Atlantic or Roberts. As usual, will be some gaudy
mid majors that'll get in there, and like Al McGuire
once said, they may not win at all, but they
might screw it up for someone else. That might be
like a cock roaching to play the spaghetti it'll fallen

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and mess it up for somebody else. Coming up. Yeah,
the Underworld Olympics. We're this week in Indianapolis. I'm talking
about the NFL Combine. They may not have the same
kind of bazas they used to. Oh yeah, there were
plenty of storylines around the NFL Combine this week, and
I've got them for you. But first, let's go back
to our guy, Kevin Figgers with the least All right, Bernie,

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your full slate of action in the NBA Friday Night,
Nicola Yokich another triple double eighteen points, eighteen rebounds, ten assists,
leading Denver over Memphis one thirteen to ninety seven. Three
straight wins there for the Nuggets. Meanwhile, Memphis had its
three game win streak snapped. Daron Fox scored thirty three
points to lead the Kings to their fifth consecutive victory,
a one twenty eight to one twenty seven win over

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the Clippers, who lost their fifth game in a row.
Twenty seven points for Clay Thompson, nineteen for Johnathan Cominga
Warriors the Feeding New Orleans one o eight to ninety nine.
No Shay Yodas Alexander in the lineup for Oklahoma City,
but they still curb stomp Utah one thirty to one
oh three, Minnesota one into one h two victory over
the Lakers. In Los Angeles, Kevin Durant scored twenty points
to propel Phoenix to a one twenty five to one

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or four victory over Chicago, who had wins for Atlanta, Orlando,
the Knicks, and the Nets, who overcame a twenty eight
point deficit. They defeat Boston as mcl bridges scored thirty
eight points. Back to Bernie Frido, all right, thanks Kevin, Well,
the super Bowl is coming gone. And it was a
you know, quiet what three weeks the NFL you call that,
they call out the NFL offseason like twenty days. That's it,

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three hundred and sixty five days, maybe twenty days. You're
gonna hear a lot of draft talk coming up March seventh, Tuesdays,
a big, big day because that's a franchise tag. They
were gonna find out what's happening with Lamar Jackson. We
already know Josh Jacobs would be franchise tagged. I think
you're gonna see Tony Pollard franchise tagged and and don't

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look now, but fifty four days away from the draft
in Kansas City, Thursday, April twenty seven, it starts and
it'll go by like that. So now the NFL season
has begun on earnest with the scouting combine workouts got
started this last week. Defensive linemen. Linebackers took the field,
then followed by defensive backs and then quarterbacks, wide receivers.

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It's going to continue through Sunday, running backs, an offensive lineman.
I think. So you know, it's not something you can
watch a whole hell of a lot of it for
a length of time, but you know you sample it
because it's become part of the lexicon and there are
always storylines. Now one of the storylines, unfortunately, this is

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kind of a theme of tonight's show, has to do
with the police blotterer because Jalen Carter, the man child
out of Georgia who could have started in the NFL
last year for all the wrong reasons. Jalen Carter was
the talk of the combine. See because before this week,

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there was this belief that in case you were on
a living under a rock. Jalen Carter is the stud
defensive tackle for Georgia and on many draft boards was
projected to potentially be the number one pick next month,
number one pick overall, because he's got this Kenny ability
to reach havoc on the interior, there's no question. But

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all of a sudden, now there are issues potentially surrounding
his personality, his off field decision making. And then we
have this arrest warrant issued for Carter in relation to
a January car crash in which he was racing against
somebody else. The sad part that car crash killed a

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teammate by the name of Devon Willock and then a
gentleman who's on the Georgia football staff named Chandler Lacroix.
Now Carter faced his charges here in connection with reckless
driving and racing. And and he you know, the police
reports that he was driving in a manner consistent with racing.

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Plus turns out that Carter told police conflicting stories. Now
how that affects is you know, during the investigation, how
that affects his draft stock, I don't know yet. I
don't know. But now we come to find it. Also,
I think sixty days ago they found out that he
was clocked at like eighty five miles an hour and

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a forty five mile hour zone. So again there you
have a body at work. So if Jalen Carter isn't
the first overall selected next month, which at this point
I would say, that's very much in jeopardy. You're a GM.
You just can't take that kind of chance until this
is vetted out and ferreted, and it's not going to
be by April twenty seven. Now, he may still get

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drafted in the first round by somebody, that's possible, but
number one overall, top ten, not with these charges pending.
This is not especially in light of the Henry Ruck situation.
What happened. Here are the Raiders. So who's going to
be drafted? I think it's gonna likely be Bam a
quarterback Bryce Young, and Young's not going to throw at
the combine. But and I'm tired of hearing how big

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is he? He's a stud. Okay, this isn't in nineteen
ninety eight where you could completely, as Kevin said, would
curb stomp a quarterback and molly wamp him. Back then
you could not only go after the quarterback and sack him,
you can go after his family. I mean they beat
the crap out of quarterbacks. They hit him after the
ball was thrown. He at helmet, the helmet. Nothing like
that anymore. And if you've watched Bryce Young on film,

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he doesn't take direct hits. He slides and maneuvers through
the pocket like a pro, keeps his eyes down field.
He's got a great arm, He's got a credible field
for the position. He doesn't take a lot of hits.
So size doesn't really matter, does it. Justin Field's a
big dude. He takes hits. He's hurt a lot. Lots
of quarterbacks get hurt. Lamar Jackson's hurt. He missed a

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ten of his last twenty two games. I think Bryce
Young size means nothing he can play. I can give
you a bunch of big guys that sucked at quarterback.
You want a big guy. Draft Dan McGuire, Mark McGuire's brother,
out of San Diego City, with six foot seven size.
I've always said the least important aspect in all the sports.
You get a player you can't and at least Young

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at six feet tall and one hundred and ninety four pounds.
He says he's more about Alabama or more about two hundred.
But I realized quarterbacks that size rarely go near the
top of the draft. But you have to take each
individual case. Three years ago, we were having the same
conversation about Kylinmer. I love the guy, stuck off for him.
I think he's proven me right. Same on Lamar Jackson.

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Back in the day had guys like Drew Brees. How
about Russell Wilson, who's ten five foot ten, drip and wet.
You can either player, you can't plenty. You know how
tall was it was packed to Lynch. How did height
help him? It didn't? All right? So the group think
echo chamber is working over time about Bryce Young. I
could give a flying horses p twot how big he is.

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The dude can play, And I know, here we go.
We're concerned about his height, we're concerned about his weight. Nice, well,
he's actually five ten and a half. Oh he might be.
He might not even meet two hundred pounds. By the way,
Russell Wilson weighed two fifty eight, and Kyler Murray Wade
two or seven and Breeze Wade two or nine. Well,
guess what he can gain weight he might not need to.

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You know, I watched the guy play. He's gonna he's
gonna be somebody's franchise quarterback. I don't I don't think
the Bears should draft him. I think you got to
give Justin Fields one more year. But I do think
the Bears will trade that number one pick, and I
would you know, Houston might be parent. Houston might trade
up to get that pick and give the Bears some
more assets, and they'll cover themselves and take Bryce young
number one overall would not not surprise me. But again,

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you know again the group, Paco Chamber, these are all
the this is all the scuttle butt around the combine
because that could open the door if if you look
at Bryce Younger, he's not big enough. Some idiot GM's
gonna pass on this guy. If they do, they deserve
what they get. Don't put limitations on people. The kid
can play. So that opens the door for CJ. Strout.
I really like when I see out of Anthony Richardson.

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But again, is he a college version of a dual
threat quarterback or an NFL calls version? Is gonna run
first and fell is gonna be a passer first. Will
Levis reminds me a lot of Jay Cutler back in
two thousand and six. Remember when I was covering the lines,
everybody was already itchy about Joey Harrington. They got a
draft to quarterback. They've been a draft Jay Cutler said,

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please don't draft Jay Cutler. I realized they can throw
a football better than Uncle Rico. A big, strong guy.
He didn't win games in Vanderbilt. Well, Will Levis didn't
win a lot of games in Kentucky. And I know
he says he's got a cannon. He probably does. He's
a little kind of a little bit of a meathead mentality.
He listened to him talk like a regular old dude,
and he may have real success in the NFL. Someday.

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I wouldn't draft him. Someone will he's got a potential
future in the league. But when you don't win games
in college, naming the quarterback who didn't who struggled to
win in college, But all of a sudden he got
to the National Football League, which is ten times more sophisticated,
and all of a sudden he figured out how to win,
all right, But they're your top prospects. Quarterback Bryce young CJ. Strout,

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Anthony Richardson, Will Levis, and they're all scheduled to throw
an indie babe they already have. Richardson is moving up
the draft boards because he's got a cannon arm, he's
got great athleticism. He did average over six and a
half yards per carrying college, again, which is you don't
really want your quarterback run that much, but there's always

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the big butt pee. We only started thirteen games, right,
so he doesn't necessarily have the experience. Bill Partsell's used
to have a formula that if you started over twenty
eight games in college, completed seventy percent of your passes
one seventy percent of your games, you're going to have
success in the National Football League. And so you know
he's not wrong. By the way, Anthony Richardson may do

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very well in the NFL, but he hasn't played a lot. Now.
One of the things they've always done and they'll be
doing to the end of time is a forty yard dash.
And what's really what I get a kick out of.
We all know that, you know, receivers and running backs
are fast and their forty yard dash times are our
you know, But what I get a kick out of
sometimes and I will watch this part of the compine

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our quote unquote the big uglies and when they run
forty yard dashes. Pitt's got a defensive tackle named Kalijah Kancy.
The dude runs a four six seven. That's at four
six seven. That's the fastest forty by defensive tackle since
wait for it, Aaron Donald. He ran a four six

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eight back in twenty fourteen. This dude runs a four
to six seven. Now kansis six one, two eighty one,
and he came close to breaking the fastest forty by
a player more than two hundred and eighty pounds. That
is still held by Mario Williams. Remember Mario Williams was
drafted I think number one overall back in those six
everybody thought it was gonna be Reggie Bush. He was

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Mario Williams. Mario Williams was six seven two ninety five
and round of four to six six. Elijah Cancy ruanda
four six seven. The fastest player in the combine was
Texas A and M running back Devin Aka. Now he's
also an All American sprinter. He ran the indoor sixty
meters at six point sixty three that's the fourth bass
in the country. And he had a ninety six yeard

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kickoff returning against Alabama, not last year, the year before,
and it was a hell of a highlight film. He
ran a four two forty. But again I get the
biggest kick out of the as Keith Jackson said, Oh,
the big Uglies. Georgia has a guy Nolan Smith. There's
nothing more crazy to watch than a two hundred and
eighty pound man than running faster than anybody. You know.

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Georgia has a guy named Nolan Smith. No, this is bonkers.
He ran in the forties and fourty three nine and
how do you do that? I mean, it's just incredible.
By the way, Northwestern had a defensive end I can't
pronounce his name, had Awema had a Bori or something
like that. He ran a four point four nine. He's
listed to two hundred and eighty two pounds. This is

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the fastest recorded by a player over two hundred and
eighty pounds. And by the way, he's only like number
six ninety six on draft boards. Head into the week,
you know he's gonna move up. So the Underwear Olympics
are about behind us. How you do there? In fifty
cents might get you a cup of coffee. Ass at
Mike Mamula. You just don't know. Coming up. Bernie Fouder

(01:10:19):
Show continues, Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie
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With all those great buzzer beaters last weekend, you know
that March madness is around the corner. Conference terms, conference

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tournaments are revving up. A lot will happen between now
and Sunday, and of course next week multiple more conference tournaments. So, Kansas,
you're on notice. You've won six straight Big twelve games
and no one else has done that this season. You
smashed Baylor in the second half a couple of weeks ago.
You've got that gear. Can you do it? No one's

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repeated since twenty h seven. Kansas. You've got the players,
You've got the coach, You've got the winning culture. That
will be a storyline. Can Kansas repeat? Kansas? You're on notice. Purdue,
you're on notice. Here we go. You are already injecting
doubt a month ago February first, Purdue was twenty two

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and one, the consensus number one overall seed. Now they're
twenty five and five, they're three and four. They got
swept by Indiana in state rival once again. This high
achieving program. They always get heartburn come tournament time. They're
not they're ball security. They're not. They're loose with the balls.
What I'm trying to say, they're a little vulnerable defensively.

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They're very reliant on you know, Zach Edie and making
free throws. And Purdue has real issues when you put
them on the floor with Alabama, Kansas or Houston. I
think Purdue's in trouble. You're unnoticed. To prove us wrong,
North Carolina, you're unnoticed. Can you pull out a bid? Okay,

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they got a big victory last Saturday, beating Virginia, and
you know they did it defensively. Of course, Virginia had
an off night, ten to twenty two. But the point
of the matter is that was North Carolina's first Quad
one win. It didn't come to late February. Here you go.
I believe North Carolina's got Florida State on Monday, and

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there you go. You gotta beat them where that cancels
out the Virginia victory. You're unnoticed North Carolina Tea Wilson
is unnotice. Kentucky. For the past two weeks, Kentucky has
really moved up the charts like a big hit. They
cut their ken palm raiding and half there. Up to
twenty two, John Callipari had this team. They were on

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the brink of falling apart, but they have rallied. They
had a couple of impressive home wins against Tennessee and Auburn,
some good road winds Mississippi State in Florida. But Kentucky,
you're on notice. Between Oscar schwi Bay and Antonio Reeves
and Jacob Topping, you gotta rebound the ball, you gotta
make a run. You're on notice. Villanova, You're on notice.

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You're a big East treat. But she's still got to
do it. And who can't forget unreal the great buzzer
beaters last weekend Arizona State Arizona, I mean, my goodness,
Arizona was favored by thirteen Arizona States down ten with
six minutes to play. They trailed by a point with
two seconds left. Omar Baalo goes to the line. He

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makes one or two that opens the door for an
Arizona State miracle. Desmond Cambridge takes the inbound pass takes
Wonder about fifty five feet swish. Sun Devils win great
buzzer beater Florida State in Miami. Florida State visits Miami.
They're having a miserable season, one like seven games all year.
They've lost twenty games for the first time in twenty

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three years. They're just playing out the string. I mean,
while the Hurricane they got a half game lead in
the ANCC, going for the right straight win. Miami savored
by fourteen points. Cans are blowing out the knolls for
much of the game, leading by twenty five in the
second half, they get outscored thirty to eight in the
final eleven minutes. Matthew Cleveland pulls up from thirty nothing

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button at He's only made three for the game. Florida
State buzzer beater upsets Miami and then the aforementioned Perdue,
who's just coming off a second straight road loss. They
got hammered at Michigan State. They go to Purdue, where
they hadn't won in twelve years. Perdue thirteen and one
of Mackey Arena. They're looking for revenge. Perdue favored by

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seven Indiana, led by their guard Jalen Hoodskafino thirty five
points dominance in mid rage goes to the basket and
guess what. Perdue goes down. Buzzer Beater Michigan. You're on
the bubble, North Carolina, You're on the bubble Wisconsin. All
these teams right, I will tell you that's where it's

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com the way tire buying should be. Okay, we're into March.
It's March fourth. And oh, by the way, your New
Year's resolutions are probably long gone. They don't have to be.
You know. I saw a bumper sticker in Hollywood once.
It's that anything's possible if you don't have to do it.
But one of the most rewarding things in life is
taking care of your body and your health, and there

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are ways to do it with sustainable game plans, and
that's why we're bringing this. Gentleman Jack Bly, the founder
of Default Kings. Jack, how are you, hey, Bernie doing
amazingness evening? How are you doing doing well? And so
let's chick up where we left off. You are on
around January tenth when people are making their New Year's resolutions,

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and you know as well as me by now they've
jumped most of those resolutions. How do they get them
back and how do they get back on track? Absolutely
so all of us have been there at that point
in time where we got our New years old. We're
motivated first week, first two weeks, or in the gym

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or eating super healthy, and then something happened, some life
thing happens, work gets busy to go on a trips, holiday, birthday,
something comes up and fall off the wagon. So the
best approach that we found for this, myself been working
with over three under plus men now is fixing to

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the approach in the first place. The most times. The
mistake that people make is they go super hard, super
all in on some sort of extreme time where they
cut out all carbs, they cut out all their favorite foods,
and that makes it very unsustainable, all right. So the
approach that we do is called we'll call it eighty

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twenty diets. That's where eighty percent of times you're eating
healthy food, whole food, foods high in the protein, adds sugars.
Then twenty percent of the the time you give yourself more flexibility,
or you can enjoy date night, you can enjoy you know,
dessert with the kids, whatever it is. And this could
be more flexibility. Also, what's the pressure off of you?

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So you don't have to be perfect, you don't have
to be a robot. So the eighty twenty diets, fixing
that approach in the first place, we'll give you a
lot more stainability to push back when you know, life
happens and you can keep on going. So let's make
that a little more granular. Let's say folks eat fourteen
meals a week, and not every everybody eats breakfast, lunch,
and dinner. Frank, I'm not normal. I feel better when

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I don't eat breakfast. I intermitten fast, but do Everybody's
got to find their own thing. So if you're fourteen
meals a week, that means basically two to three meals tops,
you have what you want that makes you sustainable. And
it would it be your belief that most people fall
off the wagon not just because of life events, but
because they're depriving themselves and they can't do it anymore.
Is that fair? H? Yeah? Absolutely, I've been there myself

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where my first time I'm going to lose that extra
layer of body fats I you know, when I'm this
extreme diet, you know, basically starved myself and then I
would slip up. Now I would feel guilty about it,
and next day I would be, you know, on the
treadmill running do an extra workout, trying to make up
for it. And I felt this, you know a kind
of bingeing restrict cycle. So fixing that approach in the

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first place is really where that the big leverage is at.
So of the fourteen meals a week, could you say,
let's make this a little granular for people, And then
of course they can find you on Twitter at the
jack Bly for more personalized instruction. But the point is
is you can see to yourself, all right, two meals

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a week out of fourteen Wednesday and Saturday, or if
I go to a birthday party, I'm gonna have what
I want. Then I'm gonna right back to it. You
would think that's sustainable, but do you do you believe
that we'll still produce long term, long lasting lifetime results. Absolutely, So,
it really comes down to the individual. Ask yourself, what

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really is your goals. Most of us don't have aspirations
to be a professional athlete or you know, a pro
bodybul or like the healthiest man alive. Most of us
just want to live a long wealth, a long life,
be healthy, feel good. And to do that, it really
it doesn't take you know, crazy effort. It just takes

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that eighty percent. And so giving yourself flexibility two to
three meals a week where you can have the flexibility. Okay,
Friday night, I know I'm going out to a restaurant.
I just want to enjoy myself. Saturday night, I don't
have this. I just want to enjoy myself. All right.
It gives you that sustainability and it still gives you
massive results. Now, when you coach your people, Jack, are

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they allowed to do that from day one, or is
there like a two week you know, a two week
restrictive period just after two weeks you can start doing that,
or is it beginning week one you had the eighty
twenty rule from day one. We give them those tools,
we give them that mindset. Most guys, honestly that they're
they trying to be a little bit more strict. That's

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what they're used to. They're used to going super hard
and knowing that one hundred zero type of diet. So
we kind of have to stay to them. Hey, it's okay,
how do you have this, this trip coming up or whatever.
You can enjoy yourself with it. And what happened is
the first or the second time that you actually, you know,
you go out for ice cream, you know, enjoy a

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meal out and you don't feel guilty about it, and
next day you're back on your defaul actions. You go
work out, you go eat healthy. It gives you comp
it is you kind of think yourself, Oh, I can
do this. This isn't something that you know, I have
to give up after a month because it's so miserable,
it's so hard. It's all I can do for probably
the rest of my life. It gives you that confidence

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to keep going, and that's really the key to develop
a lifestyle, not a diet, not a temporary fad, but
a lifestyle. Talking with Jack Life founder Default Kings, explain
to our folks the context by with which you use
default kings. I think we're on the same page. I mean,

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the second I get up, I don't feel like doing it.
I do like fifty situps and Samara squads. Every it's
a default. Okay, I don't like it, but I do it,
and it just becomes habit. Talk about default kings and
how you get people in habits that become default habits
and they stay with them and over the long haul
they start to really become a lifestyle that serves them. Yeah.

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So I'll to be honest with everyone year This might
be sound surprising, but like, I'm like this big fitness guy,
but I'm not a robot. I don't feel motivated every
day every morning to go work out. I don't feel
motivated to eat the right foods every day. I have
days I wake up, I'm tired, I'm unmotivated. Working out
the last thing I want to do. But it is

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my my default, my default action and That's what we
teach guys is this is not going to be easy.
They're not going to feeling during it every day. You're
not going to become some robots, but it will become
your defaul action. Right. If you know, think of yourself
brushing your teeth. You don't have to get motivated to
brush your teeth. You don't have to you know, grit

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yourself and use discipline to brush your teeth. But it's
something that you do. And so with default kings um
the name of our company, and kind of the self
bidnd that guys take on when they join our programs,
it's it's powerful because self, by the end, is the
thing that drives your default actions. All right, whatever those

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labels are that you put on yourself, you labor your
yourself as lazy, as as fat as a slab, your
defaul actions are going to follow. What does the lazy
man do. Of course he's going to skip the workout,
that's what he does. So if that's what you refer
to yourself and as your head all the time, your
default actions are going to follow. Those kind of the

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root of things where we start that process is in
the mind and that self talk. So there are a
lot of folks who say, yeah, but I'm just too
tired after work. I just can't get to the gym.
I don't have time. I'm too busy, I mean this
or that. So let's start with diet. Talk about what
people can accomplish, even if they just start by fixing

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their diet, because that's part of your coaching as well. Absolutely. Yeah,
so you're busy, you know, have a job, as a family,
have a lot of things going on. I get it.
Diet it's one of the biggest levers that you can pull.
The biggest thing I focused on from the get go.
It's approaching, all right, you're approaching and tageum. Chances are

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right now you're not eating nearly enough proteins um and
proteins are point for a number of reasons. Number one,
protein is the building block a muscle um. So most
people once they hit peach thirty forty, they start losing
muscle masks slowly every year. And that theateria's obviously, you know,
their quality of life is how they feel. There's their

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strength on a day toabase, the day to day basis.
It's also their metabolism, right, this is very important. So
protein is gonna eat enough protein allowed to help you
maintain that most mass forever or even build muscle masks.
So that's very important on that front. And also for
fat loss. Protein fields you up. It's the most satiating
type of food. So when you're eating a high protein

(01:24:43):
diet like we have, most guys they tell us this
where they feel more full losing weight than they were
they were gaining weight. They feel more full losing weight.
It's because of the high protein diet that we recommend. UM.
So that's the first thing I would focus on as
hard as diat goes is UM you're protein take and
typically recommend zero point eight the one grammar proteins per

(01:25:05):
pound of your target body weight. So if you're trying
to get to let's say two hundred pounds, aim for
one sixty two grams of protein per day. What do
you find some of the best sources of protein from you?
Red meat, eggs, Yeah, yeah, so I love I love steak,
I love eggs, beef, chicken, different types of fish. There,

(01:25:29):
there's just plenty of different sources of the protein out there.
Really just find what works for you, what you enjoys,
because that's what you're gonna sustainable with to hit that
that good protein at take all. Right, So we've talked
about we'll talk about Jack Bly, founder of the Fall Kings.
Follow them on Twitter at the Jack Bly um and
there's information there on a contact and personally by the way.

(01:25:51):
So so we've talked about diet, We've talked about exercise.
Let's talk about supplements. A lot of items I particularly
shop in vitamin Shop and I have quite a regiment.
Talk about some basic supplements that people should be on
to put themselves in the proper frame of mind and
physical readiness, so that can also assist they're you know,

(01:26:16):
finding their way to their optimal weight. M. Yeah, that
great questions. But with supplementations, UM, it is definitely like
one of the last things that we'll focus on with guys,
because they'll be honest with you, it's everything else is
going to give you ninety five percent of the way there.

(01:26:36):
Supplements are that that extra boos for those those you know,
extra achievers out there. But to answer your question, supplements, UM,
the big ones that I would recommend, it's it's all
situation dependent. UM. So let's say you know you struggle
to hit enough protein personally, recommend it okay, weight, protein powder,

(01:26:56):
something simple as that. Other supplements for general health well being,
Magnesium is extremely important. I believe it was fifty percent
or sixty percent of all Americans are decision magnesium. That's
extremement or our circadian rhythm Corshall release. So if you're

(01:27:17):
having problems with sleep or stress, magnesium is a great
one to look at. Other ones creating, Creating is fantastic
for muscle growth, all right. So if you're trying to
pack on our muscle right now, creating is probably the
most researched, well known supplement and it's very cheap. So
creating is a no brainer as far as muscle growth goes.

(01:27:38):
And those would be the big ones that I would
recommend right off to bat so big three all right,
So supplementation, obviously, diet and workouts. Now, the nice thing
about it is you're not a one size fits all.
Tell folks how they can get a hold of you. Absolutely.
So main place I'm on it is Twitter, but I

(01:27:59):
am on basically every social media. My handle is asked Jack,
Why last name is b l y And if you
want to get in touch work anymore, simply reach out
shoot me a message on social media, or you can
click the links at in those bios and he'll be
taken to kind of a page on what we do,

(01:28:19):
but that they can get in touch with me. Final question,
and we'll resume this maybe in midsummer as we get
as folks are heading to their parties and barbecues and
they might need a complete reset from their original resolution.
One of the things that plagues I think a lot

(01:28:40):
of folks who have the best intentions and do everything.
Maybe they they're trying to go from two forty to
two hundred and they get to they get to two
twenty one and in their weight, and their body just
keeps giving them the middle finger and they plateau. What's
the best advice you give those people for breaking through
that plateau? Yeah, some plateaus is extreme of commons. So

(01:29:02):
actually the protocol might be surprising to some people. Um
usually after a bounds of twelve to sixteen weeks of
weight loss, you're actually gonna want to hit that pause,
but you don't want to hit a maintenance mode what
we call it. So after those twelve sixteen weeks of
where you're losing weight, you lose your twenty thirty pounds,
you want to hit a maintenance mode for a period

(01:29:24):
of one to two months, and you can think of
this as kind of locking in that that new body weight.
There's a number of reasons behind this, both your physical
and mental stress from guiding. So giving you this little
reset the whole maintenance mode allows you to recover mentally
from the stresses with diiding. I'm also physically all right,

(01:29:46):
You're going to be able to jump start your metabolism again.
You give yourself more food, Let's be easier to grow
a little bit more muscle during this maintenance phase. And
once you're done without one to two months of maintenance,
you're going to be ready to ready to rock to
lose that final twenty pounds. All right. So, typically the

(01:30:08):
audience of a sports talk radio show are men between
twenty five to fifty four. We also have women. We
also have people of all ages, all groups of people
around the world. So this is generic, good, strong advice
for everybody. You can follow Jack Bly at Twitter at
the Jack Bly default Kings and we'll pick this up
Jack as we head into summer, because I want this

(01:30:29):
to be an ongoing theme for my audience. We are
a nation of people who are overweight. I'm not picking
on anybody. It's fixable. You didn't do it to yourself overnight.
You're not going to get out of it overnight. So
this is going to be a theme. So Jack, keep
up the good work. We'll talk to you again. Absolutely
appreciate you. Bernie, all right, that's Jack Bly, very entrepreneurial guy,

(01:30:50):
Default Kings. Give it a look. It's nothing is more
important than your health, and your health starts with you.
Coming up, Ethan Miller has been working very hard behind
the scenes on something we're finally going to roll out
next Friday night, March tenth, at midnight Pacific time, three

(01:31:11):
am Eastern time. A chance to jump in, be part
of the action. Call in, have some fun and games.
Have a little trivia scoreboard twelve week contest. Ethan's going
to lay it out. Coming up. I'm Bernie Frati, Where
Company Alive from the Las Vegas Tirac dot Com Fox
Sports Radio Studios. Don't go away, you're listening to the
Bernie Fratto Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back

(01:31:35):
at the Bernie Frato Show, Where Company Alive from the
Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas, the Tirak
dot Com Studios. Coming up bottom of the hour after
Kevin's update Chris Prefet's World of Soccer. All Right, Ethan
Miller's been working very hard the last several weeks. Finally,
Friday March third, midnight Pacific time, we'll sign on the show.

(01:31:58):
Check that Friday, March tenth, we will sign on eleven
pm Pacific and one hour into the show at midnight
Pacific three am Eastern, we're going to roll out the
new game show that Ethan has created. So Ethan take
it away, explain to the folks how it's gonna work on,
how they can be involved. All right, Bernie really excited

(01:32:18):
for this. It's going to be a great three month
competition between you and the listeners and what the segments called,
It's called Bernie's Backyard Bunks and Bets. So bunks have
obviously a debunk of a trivia question, and bets are
gambling questions that would be giving out. But let me
get into it. So every Friday night at twelve am
Pacific time on Fox Sports Radio eight seven, seven nine, nine,

(01:32:41):
six sixty three six nine on the Bernie Fratto Show,
lines will open up at eleven forty five. We will
have a three month competition between Bernie and his listeners,
and hello will go is fans will call in between eleven,
forty five and twelve, like I said prior, and it's
very important. Then you make sure you start calling early

(01:33:02):
because we're only going to take five callers every Friday night.
So to continue. Once the callers on the line, the
caller will give their name where they're from, and myself
I will put you on hold after letting you know
the rundown of the rules in the game. So once
on air with Bernie me producer Ethan will give a

(01:33:23):
trivia question to the caller, a trivia question, maybe like
how many seasons did it take Lebron James to break
the all time NBA scoring record and who did he surpass? So,
and then the caller you will give your answer, and
then following Bernie will give his answer. Now whether it's
right or wrong, the caller will get an opportunity at

(01:33:47):
answering or giving their prediction on a gambling question that
I'm going to give them for the weekend. So tomorrow
I'll give you an example. The sixers in Bucks play,
So Joel embiads over it's thirty two and a half
app so I may ask the caller, is Joe all
Emby gonna get over thirty two and a half points,
and then the caller will say yes or no. Over

(01:34:10):
under will mark that down on my sheet that I
have in front of me, Mike scel sheet that puts
all of the answers and the points, and then Bernie
will give his prediction. And then on Monday, I'm going
to explain how the scoring works, so you guys all understand,
so you can earn a total of two hundred points

(01:34:32):
on your call on your night. The way it happens
is you'll earn a hundred points if you get the
trivia question right, and you'll get one hundred points if
you get the gambling question right. Now, obviously you're not
going to know if you get the gambling question right
until that Monday, or that Saturday or that Sunday when
the game happens. So on that Saturday night you'll only

(01:34:56):
know if you'll have or that Friday night, which next
Friday night you only know if you one hundred points
through your trivia question. So you'll know on that Monday
when I put together the standings, I'll have everybody's names,
the caller's names, and we'll put out the standings of
how many points you have, what question you got right

(01:35:16):
or wrong, and which gamble question you got right or wrong,
so you could see clear on Monday morning where you
stand in the competition. Now moving forward, this is exciting
because the winner of this three month competition that's going
to end on May twenty sixth is going to get

(01:35:40):
Fox Sports Radio merchandise, a blanket, a mug, and a
couple other things. Right now, I'm working with the sales
and promos team with a gift card that I can't
say yet, so it'd be very exciting, and I'm looking
forward to, you know, chatting up with people who call in,
and definitely make sure to call early. Like I said,

(01:36:01):
eleven forty five to eleven fifty, you're definitely going to
start calling in. The lines will be open and I'll
explain the world's clear to you so you understand again,
and we'll just keep this moving and you know, after
a couple of weeks, I think everybody will get used
to it. Who's playing so five callers and the good
news is it's twelve weeks, so if you don't get
in every single week, there should be plenty of opportunity,

(01:36:23):
fair equity for everybody to get into five callers every week,
and one last thing, we will eat them. I'll get
the data from you on Sunday and I will post
Monday the top five for the contest. And I think
in your in your game plan there you laid out
what that announcement was going to be called on Monday.

(01:36:44):
It's not the full name of the uh, the contest.
It was there was some kind of a leaderboard announcement
that you came up with. You remember what that was. Yeah,
it's just going to be the leaderboard standings, and it's
gonna be organized as you know Bernie's backyard bunking bets standings,
and it's going to be with the names, how many

(01:37:05):
points you have the question you got right or wrong,
and so everybody's able to see where they stand. All right,
sounds good? So that rules out finally, Friday March tenth, midnight.
As we head into midnight on Friday March tenth, specific
three am Eastern, coming up, Chris Perfet's World is soccer.

(01:37:26):
But first let's go back to I got Kevin Figure
with his d All right, Bernie starting in the NBA
t wols completing the sweep of the Los Angeles teams
on this road trip. They beat the Clippers earlier this week,
beat the Lakers on Friday night, one ten to one
h two, Anthony Etward scoring nineteen points, Anthony Davis thirty
eight points and a losing effort for the Lakers. And
speaking of the Clippers, they lost their fifth in a row.

(01:37:47):
King's picking up a one twenty eight to one twenty
seven victory. They're leading scorer dearon Fox with thirty three
points five straight wins there for the Kings, forty three
points for Julius Randall. He let the Knicks to a
two point victory over the Miami Heap. Knicks have won
eight games in a row, never won its third straight.
Nicola Yokitch get another triple double. Warriors beat the Pelicans
one o eight to ninety nine, their fourth straight win

(01:38:09):
after being down by double digits. The Nets with the
victory over the Celtics one fifteen to one oh five,
coming back from being down twenty eight points. Mike Heel
bridges the game high thirty eight points. There. Wins for Atlanta,
Oklahoma City and the Magic and Golf second around at
the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Kurt kitz a Yama has a
two stroke lead over Jordan's Speeth. Back to Bernie Freddo.

(01:38:30):
All right, thanks, Kevin Well, I will see this that
the MLS is underway. Soccer news is twenty four to
seven around the world, across the United States, and that's
why every week at this time we bring you Christopher
Fess World of Soccer, the greatest schools, the thrilling finishes,

(01:38:55):
the international drama. It's all here in this report from
the World of Soccer. We don't usually do this, Bernie,
but we're going to start with MLS. We were denied
el traffico in the first week due to inclement weather

(01:39:16):
in Los Angeles, but the LAFC supporters will get to
see the ring ceremony this Saturday here instead against the
Portland Timbers. Meanwhile, last week saw the first win ever
of the brand new expansion team, Saint Louis SC, going
on the road defeat Austin in a game quite frankly,
they really weren't supposed to take three points from Austin.
Is a bit of a heavyweight, maybe a light heavyweight,

(01:39:39):
maybe not LAFC or Philadelphia, but with great attackers in
Sebastian Drew c and Emiliano Rigoni. Not one St. Louis
supposed to take so good on them. They'll look for
their home winner. But we're going to try to give
you a name every week, Bernie. To watch in the MLS.
Thiago al Mada, Argentinian, twenty one years old, already has
a World Cup under his belt. Atlanta United was down

(01:40:02):
zero to one to the San Jose Quakes and stoppage
time when Almada banged in an equalizer in the ninety
third minute and then followed it up with a ninety
ninth minute free kick to take the lead. Absolute golazzos.
He's going to be a gem to watch this season,
so be sure to be tuning into him. Now we
shift our action to Europe and more cup action. We discussed,

(01:40:23):
man you not long ago. The Red Devils proved once
more why they're on the mends. They took the Carabao
Cup also know as the League Cup over the last
week from Newcastle United with goals from English star Marcus Rashford,
as did Casimiro to get a two goal victory over
the Zebras, and the rebuild is on the right track.

(01:40:43):
There's nothing that that much is clear at this point.
Eric Tenhag has done a fantastic job. The organization itself, however,
is skeptical on how it's going to keep everything together
with the financial fair play rules looming, even if new
ownership comes in here following the sale from the Glazers. Nevertheless,
the key point this game is that the Sleeping Giant
isn't sleeping much anymore and they're still in play for

(01:41:04):
Europa League the FA Cup. They're in play here, an
outside chance for the Premier League and probably making Champions
League one way or another next year. But big action
in Spain Bernie, where we got a well earned l
classic in the Copa del Ray semi finals. The first
leg of a tie saw the two Spanish heavyweights, Barcelona
and Real Madrid, the rivalry to end all rivalries in

(01:41:28):
action in Madrid. It didn't go Madrid's way in spite
of the fact that Barcelona's had a very bad week.
They were drummed out of the Europa League to Manu
They lost to the Laligua side Almera. I think they're
ranked about fifteenth on Sunday. On the flip side, Real
Madrid had just worked over Liverpool in the Champions League
and they hadn't lost at home in over eleven months,

(01:41:50):
and they lose it on an own goal, one nil
to Barcelona. It was the lack of pressure. It was
a lack of physicality that has now gotten the Real
Madrid board talking about the boss carl and Slotti. He's
in a bit of hot water in Spain. El Classico
is everything. Losing at home to Barcelona invites instant criticism,

(01:42:11):
instant heated, faster than microwaves set to plutonium. The board
at Real Madrid, who was an intendance for this game,
we're disappointed at a Slotti's tactics, and they were also
criticizing his lineups, which included stars Tony Cruse and Luka
Modric to start. The Madrid board, according to ESPN, believe
the pair together or not suited for a tough, physically
demanding game leg El Classico, and starting both the same

(01:42:33):
time might not be the way to go. Internal debate
at the club is questioning whether both these stars can
be on the pitch at the same time. Overall, though,
if you are a soccer fan, it's good news for
you because this next calendar month is the month of
El Classico. There's going to be a La Liga matchup
between the two clubs on March nineteenth, and the second
leg of the semifinal Copa del Rey is set for

(01:42:55):
April fifth. There is a lot to be watching in
Spain right now between these two and I'll be make
sure to tuning in every so often just to catch
El Classico. But if you're looking for a place to
turn your eyes is coming week. We talked a lot
about MLAST it's going strong, Premier League is still going
strong with their race, but might I make a suggestion
to turn your eyes to Germany? Yes, Germany. On Friday

(01:43:19):
this game I was watching Brussia Dortmund took on Leipzig
in a two one thriller and that game was important
because it has netted Brussia Dortmund the lead in Bundesliga,
which hasn't happened since the days of Jerk and Klop.
Have we seen Dortmund in this form Going into the
weekend here they hold a three points over Bayern Munich,

(01:43:42):
with Union Berlin six points back in Freiburg seven. That
could change over the weekend as the matches are played,
but it's setting up for a thrilling showdown in Germany,
and a lot of it has to do with Bayern Munich, who,
in case you're not aware, they have won the last
ten straight Bundesliga titles. If this was Italy and we're
talking about GIU Venus, we'd say it's a down league. Germany, however,

(01:44:05):
is suffering, which one source to the Athletic put it
like this that a source for Bundesligue was talking about
football the fatigue for viewership. Couple it between Bayern Munix
dominance with the poor performances from the German national team.
Viewership for Bundesliga has been down. This was a league
that was once well lauded for amazing fans. We see

(01:44:28):
the tifos all the time. We hear about the yellow
wall for Dortmund, in particular for the big banners they
hang up there. Bundesliga itself loved for the stereotype of pressing,
hard pressing attacks, a lot of action in Bundesliga. And
but with Bayern Munich down, which has happened several times
in the past, and they're slipping at a bad time.

(01:44:50):
They had to say farewell to Robert Lewandowski and several
other players over the past few years, and right now
Muni's trouble is the opportunity for other clubs, and it's
not even that much of a change. Dortman has the
same number of points they had last year. Around the
same time, we're entering a golden time of the year

(01:45:11):
for clubs soccer. Bernie MLS's back, obviously, all these domestic
league races are heating up. In about a month or so,
we'll get the second leg for Champions League at All
and even more cup action. The summer transfer window continues
to loom and rumors are flying hot. We'll keep an
eye on all of it, as we would turn next
time on the world of soccer. So one of the

(01:45:33):
stories to watch this year, we're not that far removed
from the World Cup, the legendary match between Argentina and
France and bob A versus Lionel Messi. Messi wins the
Gold Cup after the World Cup after having it Ludium
all those years, scores a couple of goals. Don't be

(01:45:56):
surprised as his contract winds down with Argentina that he
joins the MLS sometime this summer in er Miami trying
to find a way they can bring him in. This
could cost him as much as twenty five million dollars
a year. Look, we've seen guys coming David Beckham, whatever
the case may be. This is incredible star power. This

(01:46:18):
is not you know, it's this basically this generation's pelee.
So if the MLS is willing to be flexible and
they want to come up with the money, you might
see Lionel Messi on us soil playing for an MLS team.
That is a story worth watching. Coming up, we wrap
up the show plus say it ain't so Joe, A

(01:46:41):
top player, a guy who was in line to possibly
be the number one overall pick, was released on Bond
Wednesday Night on two mistermeanor charges. But again it involved
another death. The timing couldn't have been worse. I' Bernie
Fritawa County Alive from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios,

(01:47:02):
Tireract dot Com Studios. Keep it locked right here. You're
listening to the Bernie Fratto Show on Fox Sports Radio.
Back at the Bernie Frado Show, wrapping it up, Bernie
fratdocoming you Alive from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio,
Tireact dot Com Studios. Before I go any further, well,

(01:47:26):
I think my broadcast team. They've been with me since
eleven pm Pacific on a Saturday night. That would be
Mark Ramsey turning all the dials, keeping us glued together.
Kevin Figures on the updates, and of course see Ethan Miller.
Could not do the show without all the great teamwork again,
turning all the dials, keeping us glued together. I'll be

(01:47:47):
back on these airwaves eleven pm Saturday night Pacific. That's
eleven pm Saturday at Pacific. Later to night March fourth,
and we'll take you all the way to three am Pacific,
six am Eastern. Physic five will join us, Mark Medino
will join us for more NBA Medina magic and all

(01:48:09):
the headlines, multiple things to talk about. We barely were
able to scratch the surface tonight. We'll get to a
lot more of that tomorrow. March seventh, Tuesday is a
very very pivotal day because we're going to be finding
out if your favorite player has been franchise tag. We
know now that it looks like Josh Jacobs will be
franchise tag for the Raiders, looks like Tony Pollard will

(01:48:31):
be franchise tag for the Cowboys, And I would bet
dollars to donuts that you will also see. You will
also see Lamar Jackson, which is really the prize. But
that's a contentious situation, so a lot to unpack there,

(01:48:51):
another contentious situation. You just absolutely hate to see this.
You hate to see it anywhere, anytime for any reason.
But when you got a kentleman who might have been
the number one overall pick in the NFL draft, which
is fifty three days away, about April twenty seven, something
along those lines. Right around the corner, we just finished
up the Underwear Olympics. We're still going this weekend the

(01:49:14):
combine in Indianapolis. Graduating Georgia defensive tackles. I think he graduated.
He's gotten a weligibility. He left Jalen Carter his household name,
basically because he was so dominant, so impressive. He's facing
two chargers for his alleged role in a car crash
that killed a teammate and a staffer. So he turned

(01:49:35):
himself in this last week, and on Wednesday he was
released on bond on two misdemeanor charges of reckless driving
that he faces and again allegedly for his role in
the car crash that not only killed his teammate Devin Willick,
but a recruiting staffer by the name of Chandler Lacroix.
Happened in mid January. He's booked in jail this last
week at Athens Clark County Jail. He was released, you know,

(01:49:58):
fairly quickly posted bond for the two charges. The police
department announced he would be charged with reckless driving and racing.
Racing authorities were called. The scene was back on January fifteenth,
or quarter to three in the morning, a single vehicle crash.
But then you come to find out one of the

(01:50:19):
vehicles was traveling in one hundred and four miles an hour.
That was the vehicle that Jalen Carter was racing against.
It was his teammate Lacroix. Very consistent with racing is
what the officer wrote. One hundred four miles an hour.
Lacroix had a blood alcohol concentration of point one ninety seven,

(01:50:43):
which is over double the legal limit. So he was
alcohol impaired, racing, reckless driving speed and you know, the
aspects of the crass investigation are still ongoing. This is
a man who's got the world in his hand, heading

(01:51:04):
into the NFL, and he did issue a statement on
social media. I don't know if it comes from him.
I don't know how sincere it is. I'll just read
it to you. Quote this morning, this is from Jalen Carter.
I don't know if he wrote it or his agent
wrote it. This morning, I received a telephone call from
the Athens, Georgia Police Department informing me that two misdemeanor

(01:51:27):
warrants have been issued against me for reckless driving and racing. Quote.
Numerous media reports have circulated containing inaccurate information concerning the
tragic events of January fifteenth. It's my intention to return
to Athens to answer the misdemeanor charges against me and
make certain the complete and accurate truth he is presented.

(01:51:48):
There's no question in my mind that when all the
facts are known, I will be fully exonerated of any
criminal wrongdoing. Yeah, okay, maybe you're right. We'll find out.
I don't do moot court on the radio. I'm not
the judge, jury and executioner. Sounds a little bit like
what Reggie Bush had back in two thousand and seven. Yeah,
when the truth comes out, you'll see I did nothing wrong. Okay,

(01:52:10):
forgive me for that one. Then, Coach Kirby Smart issue
to statement. He said that, you know, the chargers are
concerning will cooperate fully with the authorities, you know the usual.
Here's the thing, this would be tragic if anybody did this,
and you know that. But Jalen Carters have not only
projected first round pick, he might have been the first
pick overall. And he did return to the combine after

(01:52:32):
being released to finish interviews with teams and did the
measurements and all that other kind of stuff. But his
teammate Nolan Smith was very emotional because they lost a
teammate Willock and he never saying, you know this one guy,
I love the guy never did anything wrong. It's sensitive
and loved him. Blahah. Why he was supposed to graduate.
And by the way, his brother passed like that as well,

(01:52:53):
and his mom's gotta deal with that, and you gotta
live like that. No one deserves to die like that.
Three years in a row, the kid showed up, worked
in out and day out, and now and now he's
gone and you have to ask yourself why. And we
talked earlier about the Brandon Miller situation at Alabama and
I don't again, I don't do mood Court on the radio.

(01:53:14):
But these are horrible choices to be making when you
have so much life in front of you, especially the
future you have in the NFL. And even if you don't,
these are horrible choices to be making. And I'm not
so sure when the truth comes out what it's going
to reveal. And it particularly hits home because we had

(01:53:35):
to hear a horrible situation with Henry Rucks other Raiders
about a year ago. In the same situation, young guys
piss away their life. People needlessly die and for the
rest of their lives, these folks have to live with us.
How will this affect Jalen Carter's draft status? Not sure,
but I will tell you that might be the least
of his worries after April twenty seventh, because he was

(01:53:59):
allegedly part of a situation that costs them in their life.
That's gonna do it for the Bernie Frader Show back
on the airways eleven o'clock to night Pacific and the
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