Steve Hartman & Monse Bolanos Talk Dodgers Collapse, Bronny James Slumping, and More!!

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We already found out that we're gonna have a major
disagreement coming up on the show today. I hope it
doesn't affect our friendship and our partnership are on the air.
I hope it doesn't get that bad, but it's it's
clear we're definitely on different sides on one very significant

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sports issue.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yes, I'm about to take my earrings off. That's how
serious this is gonna get.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Okay, well, we'll hold off on that. By the way,
when we talk about you know how they talk about
baseball announcers that have a no hitter going, Yes, and
you don't want to Jinx literally.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Just talked about this with Kerry Rhoads yesterday, Right, don't
jinx it.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
So the idea of jinxing with something, you say, the
old proverbial kiss of death. Right, Yes, So, as I
was coming in today here Fox Sports Radio. We are
aired on five point seventy in Los Angeles, which happens
to be the longtime home of the Los Angeles Dodgers
and Dodgers on the road against Detroit today. So obviously

(01:24):
the Dodger game was on instead of Fox Sports Radio.
But we're coming to the end of the game, and
as I'm driving in and you know I like to
get here early anyways, Yes, I'm listening to the Dodger
broadcast and as they go to the ninth inning, Dodgers
leading nine to four going into the bottom of the
ninth inning against you know, a sub part Detroit Tiger's team.

(01:46):
Tim Neverett, who does the radio play by play, works
with one of my all time favorite announcers, the great
Rick Monday. Tim Neverett comes on and gives out this
stat Oh no, he says, the Dodgers not only have
the best bullpen road er in Major League Baseball, it's

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not even close. And then Rick Monday chimes in. He goes,
it was like sub three to two points something right,
and Rick chimes in. He goes, yeah, the league average
is like four. And I'm thinking to myself as they're
saying this, Okay, you probably feel safe saying this going
against a team like the Tigers, right.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's that's the wrong feeling.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
So bringing bullpen guy. Three batters later, it's a nine
to six game, and now you bring Evan Phillips. It
gets the first two outs, Okay, they're fine. Gives up
a base hit. Now it's nine to seven. Yeah, first
pitch to a rookie, has the ball landed yet, I
don't watch that thing was bombed out of America. And

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we go to extra inning. Dodgers have the bases loaded
with one out in the top of the tenth and
Freddie Freeman hits into a double play, and then in
the bottom of the tenth walk off. Oh yeah, so
I'm doing the math on this. So he gave the
stat that Dodgers have the best road bullpen era in

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Major League Baseball. In the time I was listening, which
was an inning and a third, the bullpen gave up
seven earned runs. So my guess that number one up
significantly after that. That's what we call kiss of death.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It's one of those unwritten rules of sports which we
talked about.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Don't say that.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's like when somebody is on a free throw streak. Oh,
Steph Curry has made ninety seven free throws in a row.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Don't say that. Why don't you wait until he makes it?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Can you say it?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
That's exactly what I was What I was thinking is
if the Dodgers closed that game out in the bottom
of the ninth, then the game's over. And then you say,
by the way, the guy there's bullpen show that their
master on the road once again, they had the number one.
You don't do that going into the bottom of the
ninth inning, do not.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I don't understand that. The same thing with like a
no hitter. It's like, don't mention it. Just wait.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
You can still say this, just wait until after the fact.
I don't understand this. And it happens all the time.
You hear it all the time in all sports. They
haven't missed a field goal in seven games.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
He just waited ninety five consecutive extra port right, like,
we wait until after yes, after he makes it, then
you say, by the way, that's sudden that I could not.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Agree with you more on this one.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
It was I was literally thinking that as he said it,
like okay, he should be fine. It's the Tiger, the Tigers,
I mean, they're not gonna unbelievable. So it happened to
the Dodgers. They go down to the Tigers today. That's okay.
They have a healthy lead in the National League West.
We're getting ready for the All Star Game obviously next week.

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And as I term it the some Star League or
some Star Game, he can't say they're all Stars when
literally we're getting just a bevy of replacements here. But
the big story going into this All Star Game is
Paul Skins. So I look this up because I wanted
to make sure I was right on this. I knew

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that Paul Skins, I believe, is the fifth rookie to
start the All Star Game, but I was thinking about
how many career major league starts before starting an All
Star Game, and he has started eleven games, And the
name in the back of my mind, and if you're
older enough to remember, the summer of nineteen seventy six,

(05:48):
Mark the Bird Fedrich was this phenom in Major League baseball,
pitching for the Detroit Tigers. He pitched two games in
relief and then they put him in the starting rotation
and he had eleven starts. He was nine and two.
Here's the difference in those eleven starts in which he
was nine and two. You know, Skeens is six and
oh in eleven starts. Yeah, Fidrich had ten complete games.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Ooh.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
In fact, Mark the bird Fitrich had thirty one complete
games in this first forty major league starts.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Well, ex squeeze me, which.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Is why his arm fell off and he was done
after his second year. Very different game. I mean, we
just saw Paul Skeins have a seven and eight no
hitter and had not thrown a hundred pitches and they
pulled them out of the game.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, and the manager was like, it was a gut feeling.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It was I felt it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
It wasn't even that he couldn't he said, it wasn't analytics.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
He said, it was a feeling.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Well, you saw and I saw Clayton kershe I get
pulled after seven eighths of a perfect game. Yeah, with
well under one hundred pitches's and he had no complaints.
By the way, it.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Really, I think is one of the most frustrating things
watching that, and I think all sports fans, all baseball
fans were frustrated when Paul Skeens didn't come back into
the game.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's a nonbelievable story though. I mean, Skeens obviously is
e are is sub two. It's a one point nine
to zero right now. He is completely dominant and yet
makes significantly less money than his girlfriend would be done.
I mean it's not even close. I bet she's supporting
him right now.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean she might be, she might be been. I
don't think I don't think they're worried about that.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I think he's going to be making his money sooner
rather than later, because he really is right now the
face of baseball. He is the face of baseball. And
it works because he's a pirate. He's loved by everybody.
He gets standing ovations wherever he goes. If he was
a Yankee, a Dodger, he would not be welcomed with
open arms. The way he is everywhere he goes. It

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is quite awesome. But he is the face of baseball.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, he's going to be the face of this All
Star Game. And it's a brilliant move to start him
in this All Star Game because again, as I said,
it's the sums some stars you have, especially with pitchers.
I mean, pitchers are finding ways to not pitch in
this All Star Game, and the lineups are littered with

(08:13):
a lot of players that may have a couple of
hot months to start a season, and they're anointed as
All Stars when they really aren't stars yet they're you know,
maybe stars, Yeah, maybe stars.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's all stars.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah. I mean it's happened many, many times where you'll
look on Baseball Reference and you'll see a name that
you've never heard of and they're listed as an All
Star and you're like, you're like an All Star? What
did this happen? And you're like, yeah, there was like
the third string catcher for the American League in nineteen
ninety nine, and you're like, I have never heard of

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this person.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, And you know, we're going to see more of
that every year, more and more until we wrap up
the All Star Game, right until it's not a thing anymore.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
By the way, I'm going to give you a who's
your daddy answered to a question you probably don't have today,
And I'm gonna give myself a question.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
You're gonna give yourself a question.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Who is the only player to win the Most Valuable
Player award that was never named an All Star in
their career. Actually, it's someone that you know the name. Oh,
I do know that, you do you know the name.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
But this was never named an All Star.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
He played seventeen years of Major League baseball, he won
an MVP Award and was never once selected to the
All Star team. And it's a name that you would know. Well,
it's it's the fact, the fact his name is Kirk Gibson.
What Kirk Gibson, who of course was MVP for the
Dodgers in nineteen eighty eight before It's heroics with that

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incredible home run in the eighty eight World Series. Not
once in his career with the Tigers, Dodgers anywhere was
he ever named to the All Star team. He's the
only player to win an MVP award and never once
name to an All Star team. O.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Wow, who's your daddy? Came early today.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
I just had to asked that for myself. I love
that question.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I did not know that. That is actually quite interesting.
Who dropped?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I don't know. I mean, obviously he was a star
in Detroit, yeh before a game of the Dodgers and
during that eighty eight season, he was not named to
the All Star team.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
But that's the problem again. It's a first half award, right.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
It is a first half award, So I put.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
A lot more way than that MVP award. All right,
coming up on the other side, all right, we're going
to get into this.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Are we going to get into it?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, we have a disagreement on who should be recognized
right now as the best rookie in the WNBA. We'll
find out what side you're on as well. This is
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Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ohereva you get your podcasts, yee, Steve Arvin Manzi Blanos here.
We are Fox Sports Saturday and we're live from the
tire Rag dot com studios. So you you were mentioning
during the break that someone you know was listening with
my yes little shits your daddy question about prit Gibson.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, shout out to Lisa who's listening to us.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I assume maybe on.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Five seventy, Yes, the game's over, along over that disaster
for the Dodgers to day.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yes, she works with me at the Dodgers, and she's like,
I knew that answer.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Really yeah, I like that. Well, again, the question was
that I gave myself who was the only player to
win an MVP Award who was never once named to
an All Star team? And the answer is Kurt Gibson.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
At that time, were the rosters a lot Well here's
the difference.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, it wasn't so much that there were maybe twenty
five man rosters as supposed to thirty two. But the
difference now is is that half the team is replaced.
In those days, you may have had one player that
had a legitimate injury be replaced. Now every excuse to
get out of the All Star Game, especially with pitchers,
so you end up with forty or fifty players each

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league suddenly get designated. Same thing with the Pro Bowl.
That's that's why again, when I'm looking at career achievements,
you know, and gaging let's say, for Hall of Fame candidacy,
the last thing I'm looking at is also the Star. Yeah,
because it's a popularity contest first and foremost, if it's
a fan vote. And like in the NFL, they give

(12:57):
three quarterbacks in each conference Pro Bowl designation, and yet
each conference only designates three total offensive tackles. Well, shouldn't
it be like six? I mean, if you're going to
go thirdeen quarterback, why you don't even do full two teams? Again,
look at the postseason honors, yes, you know, look at

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you know all league teams or even mid league Baseball
now has an all league team, MVP awards, stuff like that.
I think is a better gauge if their entire a season.
All right, Well, speaking of awards, one of the most
competitive awards in sports this year is going to be
the w NBA Rookie of the Year. And you have

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to remind yourself again. Obviously, Caitlin Clark was the first
pick in the draft. Angel Reese was the seventh pick
in the draft. The women from two to six are
not in the conversation. These two rookies have not only
earned their spot on the All Star team, they have

(14:02):
ignited this league as this league has never seen before.
And yes, Caitlin Clark gets a lot of attention and
she deserves it. But Angel Reese, in.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
My opinion, also gets a lot of attention.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
She gets a lot of attention. A lot of people
said initially, and I was one of those that said,
she's just wrapping her hands, you know, arms around the
legs of Caitlyn Clark in order to get attention. So
I had to do a little digging here to really
evaluate what Angel Reese has done her rookie season. Angel
Reese is the rookie of the Year. I'm going to

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give you two stats. First of all, each one of
these players, Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese is currently leading
the WNBA in one statistical category. Angel Reese is leading
the WNBA in rebounding eleven point eight rebounds a game.
Kaitlin Clark is leading the league in turnovers five point

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five per game, and no one's even close to that number.
But here's the other number. So we hear this war
stat in baseball all the time, wins above replacement. In
other words, how many wins is this player responsible for
if replaced by a regular player. And so this is

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a gauge where we see a Shohei o Tani or
Mike Trout back in the day, they get these big
war numbers that separates them from the pack. So each
of these players is played twenty four games. Angel Reese's
win share, which is the equivalent of war again, wins
that this player is responsible for, is at two point six.

(15:43):
Caitlin Clark is at one point one. It's not even close.
Angel Reese is the WNBA Rookie of the year.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Man, you're tripping, you are trip in, Steve Hartman.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
First of all, if you pick one or the other,
everyone says you hate the one you didn't pick.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
And that's not what this is at all.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think they are actually both really fun to watch
for various different reasons. I was watching the Chicago Sky
game today against the New York Liberty because I wanted
to see if Angel Reese was gonna.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Get another double double. I was all about that. I
was all about her. People were like, oh, she's stat
patting that other game. I said, I.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Would have done the same thing. I would have tried
to keep my street going. I like Angel Reese, but
what you just said to me are numbers.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
And I know you're a numbers guy, but just watch
the game.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
And I think that Angel Reese has been very good,
but she also has kind of stayed the same in
the first twenty four games. I think Caitlin Clark has
gotten better as the games have progressed from Game one
to now game whatever twenty four that you just said,
obviously I can throw at you.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
The first rookie with the triple double.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
She also has five games in a row now with
her own double double with assists.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
She is doing it all.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I cannot not point out that Angel Reese is three
of thirteen from today's game, and it's not her only
game where she's three of thirteen, three of fourteen and
she's taking interior shots. She needs to get a little
bit better at that. She needs to get a little
bit more grounded with her feet, and I saw that today.
I see that a lot in her games. I like injuries.
I think she's super fun, but I think that Caitlin

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Clark is the more well rounded player.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
And you see it with your eyes. I don't need
you to throw numbers at me. The Fever do not.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Sometimes I don't know what the coach is doing. Sometimes
the Fever coach, I feel like they're not running the
right place. But her and Aliah Boston are gonna be
a very dominant one two punch that we have already seen.
The progression from Game one to Game twenty four. I
to me, there's there was a point where it was like, oh,
maybe Ajuries can be the rookie of the year.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I think Caitlyn has pulled away a little further.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
If you would have talked to me two weeks ago,
I would have been like, it's a little closer. I
think Caitlyn has pulled away. Now at the end of
the year, can I be saying something different. We'll see
how the later half of the season goes with Angel
Reese because what she is doing is pretty incredible. She
broke Kansas Parker's record. I saw today that the Rookie
of the Year every year has had at least fifteen

(18:15):
double doubles. She's already at sixteen and we have a whole,
you know, half of a season to go. So she
is on a trajectory where she could make an argument
for Rookie of the Year. But what you just threw
at me were numbers. I'm talking about the eye test.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
All right. Again, I'll preface by saying, this is no
hate on Katelin.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And this is no hate on Angel Reese, because that's
what I hate about the discussion. If you don't pick one,
then you're supposedly a hater of the other one.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's not what this is. They're both so great.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Okay. The most overrated stat in basketball, by far is
a cyst because we don't even know how to actually
gauge and assist. I remember John Stockton, who's the all
time leader, insists with the NBA, the running joke was
he was handed five assists when he walked into the building.

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So back in the day, he played almost his entire
career with the mailman Carl Malone. So Carl Malone is
posting up, Stockton throws the ball into Malone and he
turns around and hits a jump shot, and you get
stocked in an assist, And it's like, how is that

(19:26):
an assist? I mean, if you were to And again,
this is not a knock on the fact that obviously
very different players. Angel Reese is a six ' to
three big obviously, and Caitlin Clark is a guard, and
so Reese's job is to get boards and she's doing
it better than any player in the WNBA, leading the
WNBA in rebounding just under twelve a game. And the

(19:50):
idea of Kaitln Clark is she's you know, by the way,
Kayln Clark finally has gotten her field goal percentage over
forty percent for the year. She's shooting the ball much
better recently. And I sort of my excuse for Caitlin
Clark struggling with her shot early on is they had
to be sort of a fatigue factor, almost going directly

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from her college season, which obviously went all the way
to the championship game, right into the start of the
WNBA season. So she is getting her shot back. That's
good news. There. But when you compare rebounds versus assist
in my opinion, rebounds have a far greater legitimacy than

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assists to and so that's another reason why I give
the edge. But this wind share staff because when you
look at the records of the Sky and the Fever,
it's almost identical. I mean, these two teams basically have
the same right I think, one's ten and fourteen, one's
nine and fourteen, you know, in the lower half obviously
of the WNBA. But that win share tells you that

(20:52):
right now, it's not even close that Angel Revees is
having a greater impact on the success of her team
than Caitlyn Clark is having on the success of her team.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, but right now, the Fever have the better record
half a game.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Hey, but if we're gonna do numbers, and let's you
know there right now, are are I think in the
seventh position.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Right further, they're ten and four Tamblay in the Sky.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
But yeah, the Fever are seven in the league and
the Chicago Sky are eighth in the league. Right now,
what you were just mentioning about assists, I actually hear
what you're saying, and it makes perfect sense. What you
just the example, toss it into you know, a big
dude like you just mentioned John Stockton. He gets the
points in and Stockton would get the assists, except Caitlyn
Clark's passes are ridiculous. She is not just passing it

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to a Leah Boston. She is doing that, but that's
not all she's doing. And then we can go to
the turnovers. If you watch some of the turnovers that
are counted against her, she throws the perfect pass and
her player mishandles it and loses the ball and the
turnover goes to Kayln Clark. Kaitlyn Clark's vision of the
court is incredible, and in her rookie year, to see that,

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I'm like, I can't imagine what it's.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Going to be in three years.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Her passes, the way she looks ahead, the way she
looks at her teammates around like she could probably score more,
but instead she is looking around to make the best play.
She is the better all around player right now. She
is the rookie of the year.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
She may be a better player, but like I said,
Angel Reese has had a greater impact on her team.
And again, you could if we're just talking about putting
Butts in seats, then there is no second place to
Caitlin Clark in the entire WNBA. I mean, if you
really were to sit down and say who's the most
valuable player in the WNBA, every single vote should go

(22:45):
to Caitlin Clark. Who's more valuable to the WNBA than
Caitlin Clark in the league's history. Yeah, so how do
you gauge most valuable player who has the best stats?
I mean, again, this is the argument when you talk
about impact is a rookie. I'm not arguing the fact
that Caitlin Clark has had the greatest impact of any

(23:08):
forget rookie, any player in the history of this league
by leap years. But if you go statistically, if you
really break down what they're doing on the court, Angel
Reese is having a better year than kit Leclark.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I don't agree.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Okay, we'll agree to disagree. There's one way to figure
this out, right, shall we bring on right now? Find
out what's trending?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Here?

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Is Martin's here?

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Well, the WNBA record that Angel Reese currently has the
double double streak for most consecutive doubles in a row, ended.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Today at fifteen.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
Side note Kaitlin Clark is on pace to break the
all time turnover record before the All Star break.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yes exactly. She will actually have more turnovers than half
the season in half a season than any player in
wa Heads series had in a full season.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yain, tell me, you don't watch the games, that's what
you're saying this her passes. A lot of the turnovers
that are against her are because her teammates don't handle
her passes well and the turnover goes to her.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
All right, again, if Martin, if you had a vote
for w NBA Rookie of the Year, who would get
your vote?

Speaker 7 (24:16):
It would be Angel Reese. Wow, it'd be Angel Rees.
I mean, and I hear what you're saying. But this
guy actually went down on Twitter and broke down everyone
of Caitlin Clark's turnovers.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I don't have it currently and.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
It's not like it was like two days ago, so
I'm not sure if they played between now and then.
But he said that of the turnovers that she has,
about three per game are just people taking the ball
from her from on her dribble, which if you watch
the games, the high test shows that she will dribble
the ball for foot. She'll get the ball stolen from her,
So I have the tidiest hand though. Yeah, just just

(24:48):
thinking it's like the one thing everybody ignores and then
I'm not ignoring it.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
I could also say Angel Reese today missed layups, miss
shots right under the basket, like they're rookies.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
They're rookies, and these are miss stakes that they're going to.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Majela should definitely be shooting better than forty one percent player.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
They're both going through growing pains, of course, but to
say that it's like Angel Reeves has it because why
because of the consecutive double doubles, Just because of.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
That, well, she leads, she leads the NBA the WNBA.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
Rather to say in a positive category, I'd say that
read the rest of her team is that they are.
I think there are other WNBA starters on the Fever.
I don't know, both outside of maybe Malina Maybury. I mean,
Kennedy Carter's been in and out of the league and
she is one of the prime like shot takers on
the Chicago Skuy Like, I don't the Chicago s guy

(25:40):
to me, seems to be a much worse team. In
mind you, they did have two picks in the top
ten this year for.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
The feverite back to back number one picks. That's how
bad they've been.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I feel you. Hey, I go, Angel Reaes, there you go.
That's my take.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
You know, I've never seen people care more about five
and five games than they have.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Kena Clark twenty points, five points. Okay, what does that mean?
Awesome on the Tuesday in the rain. All right, we'll
see where they are at the end of the year.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
The Liberty beat this guy eighty one to sixty seven.
Sabrina ies you let all scores with twenty eight points.
Angel Reese quadruple teams down the stretch to make sure
she didn't continue her consecutive double double streak that ends
at fifteen. That's a record held by former WWBA player
Campus Parker. Those Sparks beat the Wings eighty seven eighty one.
Dierica Hanby had twenty seven points and Wimbledon Bora Bora

(26:39):
creat Chicoba.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Let's get that name again because I don't want to
mention this.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
Bora Bora, Barbora, barbar bor bor Barbora, Barbora kra Chikova
crat Chicoba.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Great, how I haven't written out here Chicoba all right,
that's all you wanted. Just the name again. I just
want the name because I'm gonna mention after all right, Well,
it's a tough one. I was the Czech Republic.

Speaker 7 (27:01):
She beat Italy, Jasmine Paulini and Lady Singles six two
two six six ' four. Djokovic and al Karaz will
be in the men's final tomorrow. Baseball games in progress
right now, we're just wrapped up the Kansas City Royals.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
The Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals five
to nothing. The Brewers have a five to four lead
over the Nationals. Philadelphia with a seven to four lead
over Oakland. Yankees have been beating Baltimore since the game
started at a four run lead in the first inning,
six to one. Now in the ninth, Cincinnati with a
ten to six lead over the Marlins raised. I'm sorry

(27:36):
the Guardians four raised two and the ninth Mets lead
the Rockies for to one. In the eighth, Houston and Texas.
Houston's in Texas, but I'm talking about the Texas Rangers
one to one in the ninth inning. Denver's first round
NBA picked around Holme suffered the torn right Achilles at
Summer League and is expected to miss the upcoming season.
Todaj Gibson signed a one year, three point three million

(27:58):
dollar contract with the Hornet. And I don't know if
you guys smell that in the air, that's football. That's
that's what you smell. That's football. The rookies for the
Baltimore Ravens, they report to training camp today. The Ravens
are the first team in the NFL to start camp.
The rest of the veterans reporting on July twentieth, the
earliest day the veterans can report July seventeenth, when the
Texans who are playing in the Hall of Fame game,

(28:21):
they're expecting their entire roster to be there in July seventeenth.
Monci and Steve back to you guys.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
All right, Martin, well, thank you very much, and by
the way, once again we are alive from the tai
Iraq dot Com studios here Fox Sports Saturday. He mentioned
kri Chikova winning Wimbledon, who she is. Very few people know.
She did win the French a few years ago, so
it's not her first Grand Slam title, although I think

(28:49):
people forgot that she had done that. One of the
problems is she has a name that Sunds strikingly familiar
to many other women's names in women's tennis. Here's the
reason I mentioned this. When it comes to professional sports
for women, the money that women tennis players make is

(29:10):
a thousand times more than any other sport. I mean,
it's like not even close. Remember in the Grand Slam tournaments,
men and women are paid equal. This great Chikova will
make the exact same amount of money. Then the winner
tomorrow between Djokovic at al Karaz they will get the
same amount of money you got. And remember women only

(29:30):
play two out of three sets and men have to
play three out of five. So actually it's not even
equal pay for equal play. Women play less and still
make the same amount of money. The point I wanted
to bring up is this, so since Serena won her
last Wimbledon in twenty sixteen, we've had seven different Wimbledon
first time champions on the women's side. Remember there was

(29:52):
no Wimbledon in twenty twenty because of COVID. Considering how
much money women make in tennis, it would just seem
to me that if you had a young athlete, female athlete,
that you would steer them to tennis, like Richard Williams
did with his two girls, because that's where the money is.

(30:15):
Venus and Serena became incredibly wealthy women because they went
into a sport that pays them. People were talking about
Caitlin Clark's rookie contract in the WNBA like it's an insult. Well, yeah,
because when you look at the men and they're making
fifty sixty million dollars a year, and you looked at WNBA,
it's not equal tennis. It's equal tennis is the same.

(30:36):
And yet on the women's side, with all the money
it's being paid, this is a sport desperately in need
of a face since the retirement of Serena Williams, desperately
Coco Goff. You know, she did win the US Open.
She's never even made it to the quarters at Wimbledon,
which is the marquee event in tennis. It just seems
amazing to me with all the money that is in

(31:00):
women's tennis by far the biggest payoff sport for women
in sports, that we haven't found that next star and
that they're going to other sports. Why if honest, I mean,
my daughter was an out great athlete. She got to
junior high school, she decided to go in a different direction.
That's fine. At one point I did have visions though,

(31:20):
because she was so dominant as a youth athlete. But seriously,
why why is it that women's tennis where there is
so much money being handed out that they can't produce
a star right now?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Does it have to do with it being expensive to
play in when you're a child like you got to
you know, if you play basketball, you don't have to
go buy a basketball.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Somebody. The team's gonna have a basketball.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, you need your sneakers or you need But I
wonder if it's just more expensive.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
And that's why.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
You saw with Richard Williams did in Compton with his
two daughters.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, but not every that. I feel like that's an
exception to the.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Rule because that but that isn't that the success Richard
Williams had with his daughters with Venus and Serena. If
you were going to go that route and you don't
have the money, wouldn't you use that as an example
of how to get it done?

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah? Yeah, I know, I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
But obviously there is also, like you just said, there
haven't been many faces of tennis, and so when you
think of even even on the men's side, I feel
like people don't really know tennis players.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Right.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
But I'm growing up and.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
It's like I'm watching my dad watch John Stockton, you know,
and it's like, I want to play like John Stockton.
I may not have been watching women play basketball, but
I was watching people play basketball. I was watching, you know,
my brothers play soccer. And so I think just tennis
has never had like a face.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Hold on hold really, though you had Billy Jean King,
you had Chris There's been a lot of major Tennis.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Is not It's not popular. It's just not popular the
way other sports are.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Well, it should be popular. Well if they must be
popular if they're paying the women that much money.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
But it's obviously not here. It's not to say that
tennis Garners, the attention.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
With William's sisters weren't big.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
They were, but tennis itself has not been a big sport.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
I mean, why is it then with the success that
the Williams sisters had and Serena Williams is the most
successful female athlete in any sport ever ever.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, but I think people know that now. I don't
think people knew that as it was happening.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
I don't think so, because tennis is not that big
of a sport.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Now, maybe Serena wasn't big even if it didn't follow tennis.
You knew Serena.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Williams, right, but I didn't know what she was doing
at the time. I knew the name, but I didn't
know what she was doing.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Wow. So in other words, tennis was just like not
a part of your world.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Was not a part of my world.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
I don't know why. I don't know why, but it wasn't.
And I played tennis now I think. I mean I
taught myself like now I go out and play tennis.
But definitely, growing up, tennis was not on my radar.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I don't know why. I mean, latinosn't really playing tennis.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Maybe that's part again, Like I said, if you have
a young female athlete that has the athletic skills to
play any sport, yeah, no, I would steer them to tennis.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
What you're saying.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Again, this completely anonymous woman that won the Wimbledon today
will get the same check as the winner tomorrow of
Djokovic and Alkarez even if they have a five said
five hour marathon, their winning paycheck will be identical to hers.
Good for her, Well, thank you Billy Jean King, Yes, yes,
who had the greatest impact on women's sports of any

(34:38):
person ever. Look, I'm a big fan of tennis. I'm
a big fan of the women that made tennis. A
huge Billy Jean King fan. I got to meet Martina
and no rot to Lowell, love her, Chris Ever, these
are and and and the Williams sisters. Unbelievable. It just
seems unreal that here we are in the post Areena
era and and all the work that they did to

(35:02):
get women on the same level as the men from
a pay standpoint, and we just have these anonymous women
walking away with the Wimbledon title. Year of day. Last
year's when our gunny remember her name? She went out
on the first round this year FIATK, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
I got you job.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
You got that from your updates. I all right on
the other side, once again, it's the most talked about
segment in the history of this show. In this segment,
talking about Who's your daddy, questions are going to be
fired away.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
They are.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'll do the best I can Yes. This is Fox
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Speaker 4 (35:37):
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Speaker 3 (35:49):
It is Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 8 (35:51):
I am Montiolanos here with Steve Hartman, and we are
coming to you live from the ti Raq dot com studios,
and it's time for our favorite news segment, the wise one.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
They said, what's happening, daddy? We'll see about that. We
gotta know who you're dad, Daddy. You can call me Daddy,
Ddy Dandy.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
All right, So this is the segment where we test
Steve Hartman's knowledge because he knows everything and it's quite annoying,
so we tried to stump him.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
All right, I'm gonna start things off well.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
First of all, last week, you got me, I.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Did get you. I did get you.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
But you know one is not good enough though, all right,
So let's start here. Who was the number one draft
pick in the NBA in twenty thirteen?

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Wow? Okay, twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen. See, that's that's gonna
be tough. Let's see, was it a Cleveland Cavaliers bit
it was.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Fuck it, you're so annoying.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
All right. Well, it's one of two people. One is
completely an honor this and one isn't. It was it Kyrie.
It wasn't Kyrie. It was twenty twelve. It was Kyrie.
It was a guy's name is so obscure. I think
he went to UNLV. Do you remember this guy's name UNLV.
Remember I know the UNLV guy, but I can't even
remember his name anymore. It was Canadian if that helps, good, No,

(37:19):
it doesn't. I mean I know, I know the name.
I know who it was. I know he was a
complete buzz if. It was a complete reach by Cleveland.
He went to UNLV O. For the life of me,
I cannot remember his name.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
All of that is correct. He did go to UNLV.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
What was the guy's name, Anthony Bennett? Anthony Bennett. That's right,
I mean it was. It was such a bizarre pick
at the time, and it lived down to expectation.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
It really really did. All right, Patrick, I think's got
one for you.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
You knew, I do. I got everything but the name
of it.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I know you're so annoying.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
You're so annoying, all right, Steve, I got a baseball
one for you, who is the all time leader in
All Star Game played appearances and hits.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
All time leader in hits and appearance and appearances in
the All Star Game?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
Good one?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
So plate appearances, yes, plate appearances and hits. It's and
either category is the same guy. Okay, Well, my first
instinct on the answer this and I might be jumping
the gun, but my first instinct on this one is
Willie Mays.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
All Right, I guess I'm not daddy today, guys, because
he got it. Monty, you got Moncey. At least you
get the dubbed.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Day a partial.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yeah. I do believe though stam music. Will still has
the most All Star home runs with six.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Let's see if mister sports Trivia can get it for
us today.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
All right, Martin's got one for you, his first time
on Who's your Daddy?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Happy to be here?

Speaker 9 (38:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
What?

Speaker 7 (38:47):
NBA broadcast analyst coach the Kentucky Colonels during the final
two seasons of the ABA, which was nineteen seventy four
through nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
He'll be brown. He nailed it, thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
She's so, I have another one, another one?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I do have another one, all right? All right. By
the way, Human Brown is amazing. He has like ninety
years old, he's still working. Still a great job.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
He's great.

Speaker 7 (39:16):
What NBA Hall of Famer played for Bill Fitch at
the University of North Dakota.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
That would be Phil Jackson.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Boom, he's so annoying.

Speaker 7 (39:30):
You can't remember Phil Jackson with Dakota in nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Yeah, goodness, goodness, all right, one more for me, let's
go okay. What was the first movie to win the
Academy Award for Best Picture?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
That was Wings, which is the only silent movie until
The Artist, which was sort of a silent movie. Remember
that in twenty eleven. No one remembers that movie, but
Wings would say the first as they called it. It
wasn't even Best Picture as the best film production. They
called it.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Oh yeah, I know, you're right. Do you happen to
know the year.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
That was night Well, the awards were presented in nineteen
twenty nine, but it was in the nineteen twenty seven,
twenty eight. Gosh, you're year.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
All of that is correct, everybody, everything you just said
is correct.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
All right, So that was a good run for me.
By the way, we have this update about former President Trump.
He's okay. They're letting him off a stage today. Apparently
there was some kind of pop pop pop at a
stage that he was speaking at. So this is an
unbelievable story, but apparently he's okay. Developing, developing news. We
started updating on everything. That was a good segment for

(40:35):
Who's Your Daddy? Yeah, I just wish Anthony Bennett and
do not remember that guy's nation? I hadn't. Literally, I'm
like watching him like, yeah, I remember that, Like they're
totally reaching for the guy. All right. Coming up on
the other side, what is the latest with one of
the biggest teams in the NBA. We're gonna break it down.
This is Fox Sports Saturday, rolling along Hair on another

(40:59):
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(41:19):
I already talking about the upcoming NFL season already. I know,
we did not have Adam Kaplan today was not able
to join us. He was attending a wedding, And I'm
thinking to myself, so looking back on my history attending weddings,
you know that, like when you're in like your twenties thirties,
you're going to a lot of weddings because you have

(41:40):
friends that get married. I mean, that's the way it works.
And Adam is past thirty and he seems to have
like a wedding every month. Am I wrong? I mean
he doesn't. He definitely seems to have a lot of
weddings that he goes to.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Just times are changing, you know. I think people are
getting married more than once. People are getting married later
in the life than they were, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
But you're right.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
I feel like there was a time period where even
me growing up, I think I was told like, oh,
when you're in your late twenties thirties, you're gonna going
to a lot of weddings.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Do you remember that first friend of yours that got married,
Like you're like already, yes, I.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Mean they've been married now. Leah. I was her maid
of honor.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
She was like one of my best She still has
one of my best friends. She got married in twenty thirteen.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
How old was she about to?

Speaker 2 (42:25):
She was, Oh, man, I gotta do math, and I'm
not very good at quick math.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Like you aren't giving me.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Two early twenties.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
No, maybe like late twenties, late twenties. Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
See the thing about it was Denise the only woman
I actually married. Yes, she was really young, Yes, yeah,
I mean she was twenty four.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Which was the norm for many many years. I was
thirty five, Yes, you were thirty five, but she was
thirty four.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's young, right.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I think at one point that was normal.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Well I'm thinking of young now because my daughter's twenty
and you're just.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Like, no, what would you do if she was like.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Daddy, especially if she had some thirty five year old
guy walking I'm like, nah, that's not happening.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Is that because you knew what you were doing at
that age?

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Is that what that that I had made up my mind? Yes,
this is the woman I'm going to marry. Okay, that
was that's I had that mindset. I have a strong
will about me. You know, yeah I know if you know.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
This, but no, you don't say you don't say I
know Christian McCaffrey just got married.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
He did.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Olivia Coopole.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
She was Miss World I believe, or what was she
she was?

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, she was a Miss major.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I think she was Miss World. Yes, top level.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
She she's gorgeous. Yeah, Olivia Coolpole. Let me double check.
She was After winning Miss Rhode Island, USA, she went
on to win Miss Usa, Miss Us and then Miss Universe,
not the World, Universe, Universe.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
She it all.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
She did it all. She did it all. They just
got married.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Okay, yeah, good for him, right, I mean, you go,
Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Yes, and also you Olivia Coople to make a veryru
he's a pretty good catch.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
They both are, you know, they're they're they're like you
see them as a couple and you're like, yeah, uh huh,
of course you're together.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Like that. When when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you
know that Mister and Missus Smith movie. She's always been incredible,
but in that.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Movie, I I I mean, it was like.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
I was not a fan of that relationship because I
was a big fan of friends Rachel Green Jennifer Aniston,
and I thought they were such a cute couple. But
you know obviously, but when you saw that movie, yeah
you could.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yes, the tension was there, the sexual tension was there.
Can I say that? But she's so okay.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
I mean she's always looked great, she's always looked but
she's almost too good looking, you know, like Angelina Jolie
is almost too good looking.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Well, some people think that of Brad Pitt, like he's
too good looking.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, but she's like two perfect like her lips and
her eyes as she's got like you know, usually it's like, oh,
you have this that's going for you and so you're attractive,
but like everything about her individually is like too attractive.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Honestly, she's too attractive.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
This is how Pedro Martinez was at the height of attraction.
He had He didn't just throw the best, he had
the best of every pitch in baseball. Yeah, think about this.
He had a year where his era was one seventy
four and the second best er in the league was
three point nine. Who this was the height of the
steroid era. Ah, and he literally every pitch he had

(45:34):
was the best pitch. He had the best breaking ball,
the best fastball, the best that slid, our best everything.
So yeah, some people get all.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
The goodies, so you'll forget all that.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, all right, I'll tell you a team that's not
getting all the goodies right now are the Los Angeles Lakers.
I wanted to do a Browny update very quickly.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Oh yeah, I mean, there's not much to say, but
go ahead.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
So he played in his second summer league game. I
have a question before I even get is there such
a thing as a G League summer league, Because if
there was a G League summer league, that's pretty much
where Bronnie James belongs right now. Bronnie James missed the

(46:13):
second game, remember that, because he had swelling of the knee,
so already it was just load management as a nineteen
year old. Yes, this last game he missed all eight
three point shots he took. Again, I hate to harp
on this, but I get back to the idea that

(46:37):
the Lakers are. The Los Angeles Lakers now the second
most championships of any organization in the history of the NBA.
The idea is to win championships, the idea of becoming
a sideshow organization, which is what is happening right now
with the Lakers with the hiring of JJ Reddick and

(46:58):
the drafting of Bronnie James to appease Lebron James. It's embarrassing.
Ronnie James has no business in the NBA. I'm sure
he's a great young man. I'm rooting for him, but
he is what he is. He was, at best a
decent high school player and nothing more than that. He

(47:20):
showed that at USC couldn't play at that level, and
he obviously can't play at this level. When you're watching
summer league basketball these ends, this is like pick up basketball.
It's not even real basketball. These are guys and by
the way, don't connect. Finally connected in the third game
and started dropping some shots. It shows you he obviously
does have a future with the Lakers in the NBA.

(47:43):
Ronnie James does not.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
It is quite shocking to witness and live through right now,
the Lakers downfall, because.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
That's what's happening. It is, and it's didn't I just
can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
You know, as a non Lakers fan, I know what
the Lake Aker's brand organization, what they have represented year
after year after year, and they've started really a downfall
that I think has just started maybe.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
A few years ago, you know, with Lebron maybe but
you really just see it this year.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
How there's no way you can tell me to my
face that you think this is a championship team when
all these other teams are actually getting better before our eyes.
You did not get better this offseason compared to other teams.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
No, they still have it. Let me, let me give
you a trade proposal here. This was actullent that this
game I believe out of the athletic all right. So
really when I when when when they were talking about
picking up a Klay Thompson or DeMar DeRozan, I said
to myself, that's not really what they need. They need
a center. Anthony Davis is not a center.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Which is how they won twenty twenty exactly.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
You had McGee, you had Dwight Howard, and Ad was
playing the four, he wasn't playing the five, and they
won a championship. As great as all round player he is,
and he's absolutely one of the ten best players in
this league on both ends of the court. Lourie market
so Luri marketing is citty in Utah right now. Memory

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came in from Cleveland the Donovan Mitchell trade, and over
the last two years, this guy's averaging you know about
twenty four points a game over the last two years,
about eight rebounds a game. He's a seven footies legit center.
So here is the proposed trade that I saw in
the Athletic. You trade, but you have to give up something,

(49:39):
you do. So the Hoods chavin that that number one
pick they had of a year ago the Lakers, You're
gonna have to give up Austin Reeves yep, and maybe
another player and three future number ones. And when we
say future, this is long after Lebron has gone like
twenty nine, thirty thirty. Want something like that all for

(50:02):
Lori marketing. Now, I don't know again if you Tah'd
be interested in making this deal, but let's say they
were willing to do a trade like that. I don't hesitate. Yeah,
what the Lakers need? The problem for the Lakers, and
it showed up in these series against the Nuggets they're
too small. They need a bigger team. If you added

(50:24):
a Lori market into the alongside ad, that makes sense
and giving up Boston Reeves. As much as I don't
like to do that, it's a no brainer.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, yeah, But the Lakers haven't made sense, and right
here you're making sense and their moves haven't made sense,
and in all reality, I think what we've seen is
that maybe players don't want to play with Lebron.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Maybe they don't want to play with the Lakers right
now because Clay, You and I said it. It makes
too much sense for Clay to go to the Lakers.
That's what you and I thought, and then I think
his dad thought that too, and then all of a
sudden it was like, Nope, I'm not going to go
to the Lakers. There is something there, There is something
going on, and players do not want to go there

(51:07):
right now. The Laker brand is not enough in the
moment for players to go there.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
I love when we had Michael on the show last
Sunday Dead Yeah, and I mentioned him the reason that
Clay did not sign with the Lakers is that he's
not worried about getting one more ring than Steph or Draymond.
He wants one more ring than his own father, who
has two as a Lakers player and three as a

(51:32):
Lakers broadcaster, and if they win together, his father will
always have one more ring. And Michael true, Michael Thompson said,
it's very rare that you make sense with anything you
ever say, but I think he got that one. Yeah, yeah,
I know the Thompson family pretty well. I don't know
what it is. But if the Lakers think they can

(51:54):
just stand pat with his team and hope for a
different result there in Dreamland.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
It's crazy, right.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
It seems like they're okay with it, which is what's crazy,
Like I can't it seems like they are okay with
going through the motions and getting people through the doors
to come watch lebron and Bronnie okay.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
And again, when we talk about the success of this
organization financially, even though since the death of Doctor Bus,
this team has had a losing record a losing record
since his passing, they're worth a lot more money now
than when they when he was living.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
And luckily for them, the fans are still going to games.
Oh yeah, they're also and the tickets are.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
Still more stars and that's the way the Lakers play.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
And that's and that's what's still going for them. And
it's just crazy that it seems like they're okay with.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
By and by the way, speaking of stars, show you
Bronnie James. They're selling out games at the Summer League
with him in the game.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Of course people want to go see. They want to
go see the side show. They want to go see
whether he's going to be good or bad. They just
want to go see with their own eyes.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Again, I have zero against this kid. I think he
is handling it beautifully. He's hanging out with the fans.
They want to see him play, He's doing all. He
just doesn't have the game to play in the NBA.
And then but it doesn't matter right now, and so
fans are selling out games to see these summer league games.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
How And also like, how do you not look at
Lebron and be like, you let your son put himself
in this position?

Speaker 3 (53:19):
You let that happen.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Yeah, but if you're is I take this from a
dad's spot, right. Your son has a dream and I
have the means, unlike anybody else, to actually make it happen.
Nobody else, nobody else could have gotten this done. Nobody
could have gotten that kid to be drafted in the
NBA other than Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
But couldn't he have done this a year from now?
I just feel like he put him in a position
where he can't succeed.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Now. His argument is going to be if he's going
to develop as a player. He's going to get a
lot better reps playing even G league basketball than he
would if he stayed in college. That's probably what his
thought was.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
But I thought he wasn't playing geligue.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Well now, so he's gonna have well. Apparently Browny has
now said he's good wherever they put him. Okay, I
don't know if his agent, rich Baul is happy about that,
but because he made it clear that he's going to
be on the main roster anyway, we'll see how that
plays out. By the way, I haven't given up on
some NBA talk. In fact, this one is more personal

(54:21):
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Radio wherever you get your podcasts, and you'll see this
show posted right after we get off the air. Okay, yeah,
we've been following this story. I laugh now only because
the former president apparently is safe. But wow, I mean,
this is it's unbelievable. But went on this rally, So
we don't have much information, and I guess they're trying

(55:05):
to piece it together. But yeah, loud bangs. I like that.
Loud bangs heard it.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
CNN has right now on the bank. Loud bangs hurt
out rally.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
That would be gunshots. But anyway, we'll have an update
on that obviously a little bit later on. All right, Well,
if I'm going to talk about Lakers, you know, that
was that's that's my own frustration, you know, and I
gave you a possible trade. Maybe that honestly makes sense
to me, I mean, because that's what they need to
become legitimate. Yes, and it's a big and it's a

(55:36):
quality big, and it's going to caut you. He's only
twenty seven years old. By the way, he has an
expiring contract. LORI markin at the end of the year,
so you only make the deal obviously if you're going
to sign him long term, and it's going to cost you.
But again, it.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Would be a good move.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
That would be a good move even if Lebron were
to leave after next season, to you know, get around
the bigs. All right, let's talk about your team, the Clippers.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Paul je I said a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
All right, am I getting this straight with Paul George.
He said that he was upset because he had a
Lebron situation where he had a player option on his
deal that would have paid him. I believe it was
forty eight million dollars sounds by right, So that's where
his contract was. So he basically had a piece of

(56:25):
paper that says, if you sign this, you will be
paid forty eight million dollars next season. And he's like,
that's an insult. So let's let's let's get real. He
is saying that the initial offer by the Clippers to
extend his deal was such an insult that that was it,
That it was such an insult, that was it. Reports

(56:46):
are that that offer was in the sixty million dollar
year range. So let's just start right there. Does this
in any way does this have a greater impact on
your feeling about the organization or you're feeling about Paul George.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
I think it's a little bit of both.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Obviously, the organization if it's true, right, because it was
what sixty million two years, right, Okay, so I'm surprised.
I'm surprised when I heard that number, that that was
the original offer, because you've already put so much effort
into getting him here that I'm surprised that that's how
you felt, you know, after four years. But then at

(57:34):
the same time, Paul George hadn't done anything, especially in
the most recent playoffs for the Clippers, and Paul George
has openly said that he didn't want to be the
number one guy, that he didn't want to do all
of the work up and down the floor.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
And so.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
I you're asking me after it's all been said and
done and all this information has come out, right now,
I have more of a bad taste in my mouth
left from Paul George rather than from the Clippers organization.
And obviously a big part of it is that second
apron with the contract. That's a big part of this

(58:15):
that I you know, we also have to consider. But
we also know that, Okay, they gave you that first offer,
but then they offered you exactly what you wanted, and
then you wanted a no trade clause added, and you
wanted so you wanted to be paid just the same
as Kawhi when You've said you did not want to

(58:36):
be a number one, knowing that Kawhi is number one, and.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Then you were like, no, then I want more. It
just seems like they weren't on the same page from
the beginning.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Well, ultimately, Paul George signed a four year deal with
the Sixers. Yes, and there's no player option in this.
This is four years and the numbers are forty nine,
fifty one, fifty four, fifty six.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Yeah, and he's going to be what age by that time?

Speaker 1 (59:01):
All right, Well, I mean that's Philly's problem. But I mean,
but the bottom line is is that if you're the Clippers,
if you're Steve Bomber, I mean, you don't accumulate one
hundred billion dollars in personal wealth unless you know something
about money. And you're saying, well, I mean he could

(59:24):
afford anything. Yeah, I mean, he could literally buy the
entire league. But my thought is, all right, you've been
here through this whole Kawhi Leonard situation. Honestly, we're no
better off than we were before. Yes, they made one
run to the Western Conference finals, which they had not
done before, but that's as far as they got. How
the last couple of years.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Gone not good, not good, not fun.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
And Kawhi only has three years left on his deal,
so I'm not I'm not going beyond that. In other words,
what they're basically we're saying to Paul George is you're
comfortable with being number one. We're not comfortable with you
being number one. So, in other words, we're not looking
beyond Kawhi. Where all right, we'll build our team around

(01:00:09):
Paul George. And you basically said you didn't want to
be that guy to begin with, right, So we're like, Okay,
Kawhi has got three years left on his deal, We'll
give you two. Maybe you get a player option on
the third. Again, it was just the first offer. Maybe
they would get to that point saying all right, we'll
sink you up with the remainder of Kawai's contract, which
is easy. Why were we going it? But then you

(01:00:31):
have the hole back and forth between Kawhi and Paul George,
and Kawhi doesn't talk a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
He doesn't say anything. We don't know anything about.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Coury, But basically he didn't seem to be sprised, surprised, upset,
or anything about the fact that the guy that he
mandated the Clippers trade for for him to sign with
the Clippers, and he seems incredulous here right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
It seems like something happened behind doors, or maybe Kawhi
just realized, like, you know this, this didn't work out the.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Way I thought, and I'm cool with that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Kawhi just seems like he's cool with whatever right now,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
But we don't know Kawhi. He doesn't say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
And honestly, like, I don't blame the Clippers for not
wanting to build around him beyond the three years.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
I don't blame him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
And then at the same time, I don't blame Paul
George for going to get money somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
And then then we had Kawhi quitting or taking off
the Olympic team, you know, well, and that was imprising.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Are we surprised?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Well, no, but it's pretty clear that this was not
one hundred percent Kawhi's decision. No, Kawhi wanted to be
on an Olympic team, some of the he's never been
on before, amazingly enough, and this was a golden opportunity
for Kawhi to finally maybe this one opportunity for to
be part of this Clippers stepped in on this one.
Clippers are like, all right, we don't have Paul George anymore,

(01:01:58):
we have an older James Harden. Do we want to
really risk our franchise player to have an extended summer
playing competitive basketball in the Olympics as opposed to getting
him rested and ready for our season.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Yeah, that one kind of upset me a little bit
for Kawhi because I just kind of was like, he
can't still be on the roster because it's his first
time and not play many minutes and just you know,
keep him whatever under a certain amount every game so
that he can experience this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
I found that weird. Why completely remove him?

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
Because is Derek White really going to be the difference maker?

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
All right? Well, on the other side, I wanted to
talk about that Derek White selection, but first let's find
out what is trending right now. Martin Weiss is here
and he was very excited today. As you know, he's
a State of Michigan man. He's a University of Michigan grad,
and he's very excited about the tigers unbelievable comeback today

(01:02:57):
as unbelievable. You and Chris, what are the chances of
the only two Tiger fans in all of southern California
in the same building at the end of that game.

Speaker 7 (01:03:05):
Yeah, Alex Carry, who comes over for us, was she
was not happy with our reveling. And as we played
the walk off home run twice back to back during
the update, you guys want.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
To hear it, I got it right here? Why not here?

Speaker 7 (01:03:17):
It is joe Yourshella sending the Tiger I mean sending
the Dodgers home sad swinging a.

Speaker 6 (01:03:23):
Fly ball deeck left. That ball is carrying and it
is good time. Walk off home run g o or
Shella his fourth of the year, and the Tigers battle
back from down five in the night inning to walk
it off on the Los Angeles Dodgers and eleven to

(01:03:46):
nine finalists.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
They dunk the water bucket.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
Well you heard the man that's from WXYZ ninety seven
in the ticket that former workplace and where I first
started covering the Tigers.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Yeah, that was awesome. It was awesome. It was as
I said at the top of the show, Tim Never
at the radio play by pay voice of the Dodgers
literally started the bottom of the ninth inn he with
a stat and I'm thinking, are you going to give
him the kiss of death, lowest bullpen, Lady r and
all of majorly based law. And then they gave up

(01:04:19):
seven earned runs in what inny? And the third that
was a walk off with one out in the tenth? Yeah?
Any and the third seven runs all earned, five in
the ninth, two in the tenth. Wow, And that's all
they needed. Yeah, only seven.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
Elsewhere Original League Baseball, the Cardinals beat the Cubs eleven
to three, Nationals beat the Brewers six to five, Red's
over the Marlins six to ten to six, Ash Rangers
beat the Astros two to one, Guardians over the Rays
four to two, Mets outlast the Rockies seven to three,
Royals blanked Scott dog Get Red Sox blank the Royals. Look,

(01:04:54):
I'm sorry, I've been destroyed. I've been watching TV for
the last half hour. That's what's trending right now, to
be honest, Yankee six what over the Orioles, Phillies eleven
to five over the Athletics. White Sox beat I'm sorry,
Pirates beat the White Sox six to two, and like
we just said, Tigers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Over the Dodgers nine eleven and nine.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
We have a woman at Wimbledon Singles, Barbora Chikovov, the
Czech Republic be Italys, Jasmine Paulini and Lady Singles tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Jokovic and al Karaz In the men's final.

Speaker 7 (01:05:24):
WNBA Liberty beat the Sky eighty one to sixty seven.
Sabrina I Andescu with twenty eight the lead all scorers.
Angel reach double double record streak ends at fifteen. She
finished with eight point sixteen rebounds. Sparks beat the Wings
eighty seven eighty one. Dierka Hanby had twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
See right here.

Speaker 7 (01:05:41):
Doron Holmes, Nuggets first round pick, stuffered the torn rd
Achilles the Summer League.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
He'll miss the rest of the season.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
TODs Gibson signed a one year, three point three million
dollar contract with the Hornets and Brookies for the Baltimore
Ravens reported to training camp. Ravens first team the NFL
to start camp. The rest of the veterans will be
reporting in Baltimore at July twentieth. The earliest Dave Veteriskin
report across the league July seventeenth. Two games still in
progress right now Atlanta and San Diego zero zero in

(01:06:08):
the second inning. Minnesota, San Francisco, same score. Nothing, nothing
in the first Monci and Steve back to you, and
you know what, hold on, I got an extra one Steve,
which player holds the record for most points scored and
his rookie debut.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
In the NBA. This is a trick question, is it?
I have multiple choice here if you'd like it. Well,
because I think a former broadcast partner of mind always
said it was him, Michael Thompson. But I don't believe
it was Michael Thompson.

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
Well, according to this book, Michael Thompson is not even
in the answers yet, He's not part of the tense.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Constantly professed that he had the most points in his
NBA debut number one overall pick by the way, nineteen
seventy eight. Let's see most points in the debut. I mean,
the obvious question answer would be Wilt Tyler. Guess. Well,
the obvious answer is correct. There you go. Yeah, the
champions forty three.

Speaker 7 (01:07:04):
In his first game with the Philadelphia Awards in October
twenty fourth, nineteen fifty nine against the New York Knicks,
had twenty eight rebounds as well.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Yeah, I mean, come on, no judtment period. There By
the way, he wants. He holds the NBA record for
most rebounds in the game, fifty five. Yep, that's insane,
it's stupid. It didn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
That does not makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
I know, fifty five rebounds you would've did. There were
fifty five reounds. I guess all of world's stats forget
thee hundred points fifty five rebounds. The most amazing stat
was in the year that he averaged fifty points a game,
the year he scored the one hundred points in the game.
That season that was an eighty game schedule, not eighty two.
He played every minute of every game in seventy nine

(01:07:44):
of the eighty games. He averaged forty eight point five
minutes per game. There's forty eight minutes in the game.
He averaged forty eight point five minutes a game. He
played every minute of every single game except one game
during that season, and in his entire NBA career he
never filed out of a game, not once. So no

(01:08:07):
load management, then, no load management, I mean, I mean,
it's just a different all right, great stuff. As always, Martin,
appreciate that once again you are listening to us here
as Mark ready to go, we be ready to Roll
joining us right now. By the way, we're live from
the ti rack dot Com studios. Is our NBA insider,

(01:08:29):
Fox Sports Radio insider. The great Mark Medina is joining
us once again. Mark. It's great to catch up with you.
I want to ask you a question right off the
bat about this Derek White selection to replace Kawhi Leonard
on the United States Olympic team as opposed to Jaylen Brown,
who was just of course crowned the NBA Finals MVP.

(01:08:52):
Why do you believe they chose White over Jaylen Brown.
It's not that he has anything against his teammate making it,
but Jayalen Brown's like, hell, hell remember me? Why did
they take that?

Speaker 6 (01:09:02):
Quite stave.

Speaker 9 (01:09:04):
It's a really good question because Joe Brown is the
best player on the Celtics team and he won finals MVP.
I don't think it has anything to do with Nike
or any shoot contracts, even though USA Basketball on Grant
Hill will play the diplomatic round just say, hey, we're
just trying to find the right fit. I think what
it came down to is the continuity card of Derek

(01:09:27):
White being on the Tokyo Olympic team that they're familiarity with.
How he would fill a role and not have to
worry about how much playing time he's going to get,
but be a factor. But I think at Jalen Brown's defense,
we have this. Jalen Brown's obviously a heck of a player,
number one, number two, He's improved as a playmaker, He's
not just a shooter, and he's a great defender. That

(01:09:48):
was one of the reasons, many reasons why I want
Finals MVP to begin with because of his defense on
Luca Dacos. And I think the fourth thing, even though
obviously he's a competitor, would love to have a major
role on the US Olympic team, I don't think he
would be complaining if he stopped starting or playing consistent
minutes because all these guys know what they're signed up for.

(01:10:09):
I think outside of Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant,
assuming all are healthy, everyone's role is up in the air.
But I think that's the reason why they show Derek
White familiarity and I think more of a comfort level
that he'd be able to fill different roles and not
complain about it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Hi, Mark, thanks for joining US Monsea.

Speaker 9 (01:10:28):
Thanks for having me to the best who do you
think is.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
Going to be the starting five for the US Olympic team.

Speaker 9 (01:10:33):
It is a good question. I think that off the bat,
assuming Kevin Durant will be healthy, it'll be Durant, Steph Curry,
Lebron James. I think Joel Embiid starts. I think Anthony
Davis and bam Adebayo will wind up playing more minutes
than Joel Embiid, but I think they'll want to start
out with Joel and b just to have that physical presence.

(01:10:55):
FIBA's game will have a lot of traditional big man,
so I think it'll be him, and then I think
I think it'll be True Holiday that also starts, because
he's a great two way player. He obviously can be
the utility guy. I think Anthony Edwards would obviously like
to start, but I think there could be a value
in having him come off the bets because he could

(01:11:15):
be the lead scorer of that second in a but lots,
I'm giving you that answer. Steve Kurris caution that not
only will that starting lineup change game to game in
the exhibitions, I think there's a good chance to make
change game the game in the actual Olympics, depending on
matchups and performances.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
All right, So Mark, after his oh for eight three
point shooting performance in his second Summer League game coming
off the swollen knee, nineteen year old already load management
Bronnie James says he's okay with any assignment after summer. Look,
I mean, let's it is what it is. Ronnie James
has no business playing in the NBA right now, maybe

(01:11:54):
five years from now, maybe never, We don't know. How
do you think the Lakers are going to handle this?
I mean, is is it possible that he'll start the
season in the G League? Is it possible he'll spend
the entire season in the G League and maybe make
one token appearance so he can take the court with
his dad. But if it's clear after the Summer League
that Browny really doesn't have a really earned a spot

(01:12:17):
on an NBA roster, how will the Lakers handle this?

Speaker 9 (01:12:21):
Yeah? Well, I think that everything's obviously flu But assuming
that his summer League debut in Vegas is what's going
to be par for the course, he'll most likely spend
his time most of the season in the G League.
Now when will that start? I think that he plays
as many Summer league games as he can, plays as
many preseason games as he can, that's what he would

(01:12:42):
get the most on court time with Lebron James, and
then it's all about the G League team. I think
what's interesting, Steve here is when I heard it, when
others heard Rich Faull's comments that you know, he wasn't
going to accept a two way contract. There's people around
the league that interpret that cop as something that they
were just trying to solidify Brownie to have a guarantee

(01:13:05):
contract as opposed to a two way deal. But he
was not opposed to play in the G League. So
you know, be outraged if you want with it or understand.
You know, obviously there are some business mechanisms in play,
but at least philosophically, a lot of people thought that
Brownie would accept playing the G League if it came
down to it, and I think that his words after

(01:13:26):
the game yesterday signified that he's going to accept that,
because that's most likely the most likely outcome.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Last one for me here, Mark, are you surprised at
zach Eaty's performance so far? He was such a polarizing pick.
You know, some people didn't think he was going to
be able to adapt to the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
Are you surprised?

Speaker 9 (01:13:49):
Yeah, Then when I talked with people around the league
before the draft, I asked and that this very specific question,
your outlook on whether his game can translate into the NBA,
And a lot of people thought that, yes, it will
translate enough for him to be a good backup big
man that could play, you know, limited minutes. He could
be a good defender, be a great passer. They did

(01:14:11):
have concerns on how well his conditioning would be and
how well he would be able to run up and
down the floor on a fast paced offense. So because
of that, I was surprised that the Grizzlies actually select
him at number nine. A lot of people I thought
he would be a late first round pick, and one
executive even said, you know, it's it wouldn't be good
if he's playing with John Moran. But that's most likely

(01:14:33):
not who he's going to play with. He'll play with
a team that's more about playing at a slower pace
and trying to ensure ball movement. But yeah, I am
surprised in that respect. But look, I think zach Needi's
shown that he can thrive in a role.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
But what that role?

Speaker 9 (01:14:48):
Look like will be very fluidous whether he's a backup
big man or starter.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
By the way, just getting back to Bronnie James for
a moment on a positive note, I mean, he's like
the Caitlin Clark of the Summer Leagues games. I mean,
it's isn't an amazing really mark how this is all
progressed with nil and you know, just social media. I mean,
Bronni's been very strong on social media for a number
of years, even if he was maybe the fourth best

(01:15:13):
player on his Sierra Canyon High school team. Because of
the name. I think the kids handling it well, he's
out there with the fans and everything else, but that's
a hot ticket all of a sudden if you get
a chance to see Bronni James.

Speaker 9 (01:15:25):
Yeah. Well, look, I think the positive things that he
showed on the court, attitude, defense, so those are recipes
that can at least ensure you know what, you're not
going to be like your father Lebron as far as
a superstar, even a star player in the NBA, they
can only be a role player at some point. But
I think to the point that you're making about the popularity,
you know, I'm in Vegas, still for Summer League. I
was there yesterday. It wasn't a sellout, but it was

(01:15:47):
nearly at full capacity. I talked with Warren Legary, the
executive director of Vegas Summer League, on this question. You know,
obviously there's been bigger stars like Picker one big out,
but that made their Summer League.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
They do.

Speaker 9 (01:15:59):
But I wondered, do you think Bronnie James could be
the biggest Summer League moment just in terms of atmosphere
and interest level. He wouldn't go that far, but he
did say, look, this is perfect for Summer League. There's
a lot of people that are rooting for him because
of the story overcoming cardiac arrest, you know, wanting to
see him succeed, the intrigue because he's playing with the Lakers,

(01:16:19):
he's lebron James, the Sun. And then there's a lot
of people that either want him to fail or just
have a healthy dose of criticism or skepticism. You mix
all those doing interests together and if nothing else, there's
a lot of reason for people who want to tune in.
I'll leave you with this, Steve. It was a near
full capacity crowd and when that game left, the stands

(01:16:40):
almost empty. You know what the next game was. It
was a game with the Atlanta Hawks and the Washington
Wizards between the number one and number two pick with
alexar and zacharyad Us.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:16:57):
So the fact that no one cared about the number
one number two pecks, but everyone cared about brawny and captures.
You know, Laker fans traveling droves and people want to
see what's else.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Well, Mark, we care about you, even though people don't
care about the number one and number two peek, we
care about you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Thank you so much for joining us. We'll talk to
you next week.

Speaker 9 (01:17:18):
Welcome forward to you guys the best, all right, thank
you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Mark Medina, Yeah, the two French guys. Eh no, we
talked about this. That is not going to move the
needle in the NBA. All right, what kind of week
is it going to be? Looking ahead All Star Week
among other things. This is Fox Sports Saturday. Steve Hartman
and Matzi Bolanos Here Fox Sports Saturday. We are live
from the tai Iraq dot Com studios. Want to thank

(01:17:43):
the crew today, Martin doing a phenomenal job. He course
plays many roles here for Fox Sports Radio, and he
does that at the highest level. Patrick, I got you
this week again, many, I mean this week, Steve. You
know I about down to the king. I well, no,
I don't know about that, but but there's no ballot.

(01:18:05):
I don't feel comfortable to the bow down, but I
appreciate the effort. Willie Mays. Of course the question. It
was a good quick question. I had to pause for
a second to just make sure. See sometimes I answer
too quickly and I just think about it for a beat.
You know, that's the whole thing. If I take a beat,
then I usually come up with the right answer. And
what a treat today to have. I mean, you talk

(01:18:27):
about a Fox Sports legend. Ciris is on the board
today for Mary Mack. Curris. Oh you don't want me
to mention your name to this, I'm sorry, it's too late.
I already did. I'm kidding, I'm kidding high how already? Chris?
I'm trying to think of in all the years I've
been here, Curris, and you've been here the whole time

(01:18:49):
i've been here, how many times have you run the
board during a show that I've done too many times? Yeah,
a little few too many times. But Curris, it is
great to see and thank you so much for helping out.
Which is what you do. I mean talk about MVP.
I mean, this guy is off the charts, coming in clutch.
This this place does not run without cares. Period explanation point.

(01:19:12):
All right, all Star game? Are you now? Do you
watch the Baseball All Star Game?

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
I'm going to tune in. Yeah, I know it's not
as exciting, but I'm going to tune in. I would
be lying if.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
I told you I wasn't well.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
I was happy when they got rid of the idea
that the winner of the game gets the home court
home field advantage. I thought that's hokey. Let the game.
Just the one thing about baseball, you know, when we
talk about basketball, it's a joke. Right, they don't play
any defense. And you know, now we don't even have
a Pro Bowl. It's like a flag football game. But
in baseball, it still comes down to the best pitchers

(01:19:45):
against the best hitters. It's not like they're gonna lob
it up there, right, I mean, it's the one All
Star game. At least, it's hard to not play the
game at its highest level.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Yeah, because the pitchers are are so many of them,
you know they're going to go all out for one so.

Speaker 1 (01:20:02):
Start the game for the National League.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Yeah, you have to let him more than one inning.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
You have to.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Well, he used to be starting pitchers for the All
Star Game. We're going to go three innings. That used
to be the deal those days long.

Speaker 8 (01:20:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
No, now it's one inning, next one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
No, he'll pitch one inning more. Maybe he'll strike out
all three bad.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
So good and start like an immaculate home run Derby.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Is that something?

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
Watch it?

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Watch the home run?

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Yeah, it's just I know it's kind of silly, but
I still enjoy it. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
By the way, why were the SPS yesterday instead of
the day after the All Star Game, which is a
dead day when there's no sports going on.

Speaker 5 (01:20:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
I didn't watch a second, honestly, I haven't watched it
in years. All right, everybody, we've got a lot more
coming up on another busy day in sports. Keep it
right here. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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