Chris Plank & Arnie Spanier Discuss Thunder Winning Their First NBA Championship, Kevin Durant being traded from the Suns, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh, let's go, stinking genius.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Go baby, my Thunder, Let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
No, you don't get to say that.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Lets it is.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
Well, you don't know this feeling, so let me share
it for you. You don't know what it's like to have
your team win a championship. I don't want to be here.
I want to be inside that arena. But in that
same vein, I've been honest about him. I've been very
much a Bandwagon fan. Uh, but I love this and
I've said it a thousand times. I love this group.
I think they're the best. I think they're the best,

(00:32):
and now they got a title. You can never take
it from him. People can complain about Tyrese Haliburton's injury,
and looked like we were on track for a pretty
special game set.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
You know, Oh okay, I was gonna say no, no, no,
go ahead, your Thunder, your show, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I was just gonna say.

Speaker 5 (00:45):
You knew right away when they were saying it was
with a Hams drink or something, I'm like, no, that's
that's not a Hams drag.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
What are you talking about. I knew right away it
was a it was an achilles.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
You see the way you went out screaming and crying
in pain. You knew it was something serious.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Chris.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Well, you saw what we have all become universally accustomed
to with that calf kind of clenching. You know, you
remember the Kevin Durant it happened to him when he
popped his achilles against h.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
We got to catch it.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Was that against was that against the rockets when that happened?
Might have been? It might have been, but we see
it now, we know you.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Of this one. Wow, that was that was right there.
That was hard to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
He started out on fire too. And I'll tell you
what the uh, the Thunder did everything they could down
the stretch to keep that game tight, everything they could
do down this trench to keep that thing tight.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
That was uh.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
That was their uh, that was their weakness, that was
their kryptonite. They're gonna allow that game to stay tight.
But the third quarter separated it and I'm Home City
want a title. Man, I'm still kind of in shock
about it. This was a team that you know, was
in the midst of what was supposed to be a
three year tank. I think it was more of about
a two and a half year tank, and it's you

(02:01):
don't always come out of that in a position like
Oklahoma City, is right, I mean, the seventy six ers
in the process never even sniffed in NBA Finals on
that front. Look at the teams that have a one
of the teams that have gone through that, I guess
you could say idea of tank and it never really works.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And now here's Oklahoma City that did it.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm sorry I shaded it a year because we had,
of course the season with COVID where it was shortened
a little bit. But Alreadie, they basically had a three
year tank and that was it.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
And it wasn't a fluke.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
They were by far the best team in the NBA,
at least record wise.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
They had one of the best.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's one of the greatest regular seasons in NBA history.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
I know that, and it's just amazing. And we've talked
about this before.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
We didn't give them enough credit during the stop Stop Stop. Yes,
you didn't give them enough credit.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I've been telling you since the moment I saw this
team play and all the hype leaning into it. I
tried to tell everybody, I'm like they're really freaking good.
You better start accepting it. And you're like, no, they're Oklahoma.
Nobody cares. So don't try to sit here and say
they it was you. You were part of the problem.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
You know what's funny is when you go back on
Twitter now and people started tweeting the Knicks had a
choice and they decided to go with what was it,
Kevin Knox instead of shake Gil Alexander because they thought
there was a better upside.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
They'm like, no, don't tell me that.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Stop man. Well everyone can say that, And I mean
the Clippers traded him, right, and I mean Oklahoma City,
if you listen to Doc Rivers, Oklahoma City had to
beg them to throw Shay Gilgess Alexander. If he kind
of follow the story as it is, it was Shay
was just part of the package that was in there
that ended up in that Paul George trade and has

(03:51):
landed Oklahoma City a championship. I think that's I think
that's it. In these tanks, right, whenever teams go through this,
you've got to at some point hit on. And it's
unfair to call Shay a veteran when they got him,
but you got to hit on one of the guys
you get in the trade. Because if you look at
all the draft picks at Oklahoma City has had, based
on all the trades they made with the Rockets and

(04:12):
the Clippers, and I think there was a trade with
the Nuggets involved in there. They haven't hit on that mini.
They hit on Jalen Williams, and they hit on chet Holmger.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Yeah, but there's there's only one superstar. Yeah Williams, then good,
But they're they're just good players.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Everybody has good players.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, they don't want a title tonight without Chet Holmgren.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, and I understand that, but it's not like that.
How am I saying? This is not like chet Holmgren
is a.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Hall of Famer or you know, I don't know fifty
top fifty players in the NBA. There's a lot of
players like chet Holmgren out O, there's not I don't
think he had the best series.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Wait wait, he say, just stop what you're saying and
listen to what you're saying. But just for like two
seconds on chet Holmgren, you're saying, there's a lot of
players like chet Holmgren, who is seven foot one and
can shoot threes and handle the basketball, right.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I just mean a guy that's the number three that
helps the team in that aspect is what I'm pretty much.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Fair enough, fair enough.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Because it's not I don't think he's a Hall of famer.
I just think he's a very good player, that's all.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, do you don't know yet?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You're in year three of his career and he's been
hurt for one of them, right, Well, he's been hurt
for all of them. So I mean, you don't know
what he's going to become. I mean, to be honest,
he might end up being a Hall of Famer. Hell,
Jalen Williams might end up being a Hall of Famer
for goodness sakes. I mean, we just we don't know, right,
And that's what makes this so wild. You're trying to say, oh,
it's a bunch of bit players in Shay Gil just Alexander.

(05:39):
I couldn't disagree more.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, good players.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
I thought Hartenstein the pickup of him from the Knicks
was really important. I thought he'd be a bigger part
of it. But he was a big part of it.
And that was a good pick up when they when
they got him as a free agent.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
But the Crusoe trade.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
You know that Josh Kitty was another one of those
lottery picks, right, Giddy was another one of those picks.
And I just I think my pushback that I have
when whenever I think about the way the Thunder had
been built is yeah, they've done a really good job
in a massing draft picks. And Oklahoma City fans already
have Nicolo topic as like the next superstar. So we'll see,

(06:18):
maybe he is. But if you if you start looking
over the last three or four drafts, I mean, there's
there's a lot of misses on there. You know, they
had to they had to catch a break in Shay
Gil just developing like he did. You know. They they
drafted guys like Jalen Williams at twelve overall when not
a lot of people had him that high, and in
that same draft they had uh Chet Holmgren. But that

(06:41):
that same draft they also drafted the other Jalen Williams,
who you know, would really take something bad to happen
for him to step on the court, And they ended
up drafting Peyton Wilson watching but traded him.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Aaron Wiggins was a second round pick.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
They drafted McBride and traded him betray Man, you got
Josh Getty who they dealt. I mean already a lot
of these picks they haven't necessarily hit on, which makes
this even more impressive what they're doing, because they've made
it work.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
They've mentioned together with all the right moves.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, it's to their testament that they've been able to
not only be championship, but to go ahead and my goodness, man,
like you said, one of the best regular seasons of
all time.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
You don't have the way they pick on Lebron and
the Lakers for when you get during the COVID and
say you gotta put an asterisk on it? Of course
I saw this on Twitter too. Is there an asterix
on this one because haw Burton got hurt? I don't
think so. I don't think that should really make much
of a difference. But those people saying it, well, and you.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Can put any You know what, if you want to
put an asterisk on it, go ahead?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Doesn't I remember it? I would remember it like an
hour from Wells, who is you?

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Will?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
You will? But go ahead put it? Guess what, Banner's
not coming down, not being taken away from him. No
one's gonna come out and say they didn't win. But
if you need that to feel better, I've dealt with
this with the Dodgers and the COVID thing for the
better part of the last five five years. Guess what
title ain't going away. It's not one that isn't counted
when we look at the championships, which is probably more
than your team that you root for. So it sucks, man,

(08:10):
because it really seemed like we were headed towards a
great Game seven.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
I wasn't even going to bring this up, but you
just did. No since you went and had brought up
the New York Knicks, I mean, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Wait, I didn't bring up the New York Knicks.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Except for the team I'm rooting for. But I watch,
by the way, the Thunder win a title. It took
approximately nine minutes for you to try to make this
about the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Go ahead, No, only.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Because the NBA has got to be sick to their
stomach over what happened right with halla Burton. They got
to be sick. Well, that's good to destroy. It's going
to destroy half their teams now, how so, what are
you talking about, Chris? The Eastern Conference is already over now,
Boston's done, Indiana has done.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
There's only on team left.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
It's the Knicks, already in the championship. Matter of fact,
I'm gonna text Shapiro tell them I'm gonna need next
summer off. When the Knicks play in the championship. It's
already a done deal. I tell me I'm wrong. Is
there another deed right now? The Knicks already clinched it?
Arrest everybody who.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
The Orlando Magic? Who the Orlando Magic?

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Penny Hardaway still play?

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Cleveland Cavaliers, the Detroit Pistons.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Stop it? Come on, Chris, stop it. You don't even
have a coach. We don't need a coach. We'll take
your coach. How about that?

Speaker 8 (09:36):
You can't know, you can't.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Congrats on making it nine minutes before you try to
make this whole show about I just say, I'm just
saying it's good. Jason, go ahead. I'll just bet Mike
Carman go ahead, you go ahead. Let's make this all
about the Knicks now and how they're gonna do it
next year.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
No, I just I feel bad, and you know, but
I didn't want to get in this way, but I'll
take it.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
What can I say, well, you're not. I mean, we've
got a whole season.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
You got to figure out who your coach is, You
got to figure out what your roster is going to
look like. You're basing this off what.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
There's no other teams of the Eastern I.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Just reeled off three. The Magic already made a move
to bring in Desmond Bane with a solid Magic make it.
The Cavs won sixty four games, and we're thirteen games
better than you in the regular Magic make.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
The Eastern Conference. When the Eastern Conference, the saga will
quit his job. Okay, well you can't put that on
to say I bet I could do that.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I mean, I kind of think Detroit's pretty exciting and
what they're putting together. And I think the Bucks are
going to bounce back next year, so it's not just
going to be a walk in the park for your
New York Knicks.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, next year. And by the way, why all the achilles?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
But notice everybody who had the achilles in the playoffs
all war number zero? How about that Lillard, Tatum, and
Holi Burton all had number zero when they had the achilles?
But why so many achilles injuries like that? Or do
we just notice it a little bit more. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, it's it's a very weird quinkide ink, I guess
more than anything else. But I don't are you trying
to say that everyone that wears zero gets watch out
Al Oliver.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
No, that's that's just the weird coincidence there. I'm just
wondering why the athletes. You know, well, obviously he had
like a hamstring problem, That's what I think.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's what it was, the same thing the cap.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Prop excuse me, that's what Kevin Durant had also before
he tore his achilles, So that's got to be the problem.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Shay Gilgess.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
Alexander won the MVP, he won the Western Conference Finals MVP,
He won the Finals MVP. He was an All Star,
he was All NBA First Team, he won the scoring title.
I mean, the dude is probably what a lock for
the Hall of Fame at twenty six years old. And
he again I'm not gonna get too carried away here,
but doesn't seem like he has a desire to be

(11:50):
anywhere else. Has now created a foundation for a team
that's not going to go anywhere. I think the West
is going to be a beast, but it starts, begins
and ends with Oklahoma City.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
Now absolutely, you're right off there and then leading the team,
and he maybe we talked about who's the next face
of the NBA.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
We may be looking at him.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
He didn't have a great three point shooting night, but
he really didn't need Eddy. And you know what, I
thought the Thunder had a little bit of a letdown
when Halliburton got hurt.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
I think everyone did.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yeah, well, yeah, I agree with that.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
I thought the Thunder were going to just step on
their neck and pull away and this was going to
be a thirty point victory. When they were trailing at halftime,
I'm like, man, you can't let them hang around like
that that, you know, And then they got back within
four in the third and then it was all over
all after that.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Where you're disappointed.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
We never got to see Holli Burton taking off the court,
you know what I mean. They didn't even show it.
I just wanted to see how everything was working out.
I did see it on Twitter later on, but we
never got to see it on the network.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
I thought that was a big mistake not showing it.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Why do okay, can I just for one millisecond here
run It's the worst job I've ever seen by a
sideline reporter. And I don't know if it's on the
producer for not using her more on the broadcast lease
assaults because we know she's really good. But that's your moment, man,
that's your moment when you have an injury like that.
That is the most important thing that's going on right now.

(13:21):
Right We had no idea. I mean everyone kind of
saw what was going on, but we had no idea.
I don't even know if they ever went to her
for an update. We saw a shot in the background
with his dad holding the kids, and I think his
mom was there too, and that was it, right, But
there was never any updates, and they did you see
there was two minutes left in the game and they
flashed on the bottom of the screen Tyre's Halliburton now

(13:43):
for the second half lower leg injury. It's like, I
just to me, it was a real swing, and I
thought the whole listen. I'm not here to make this
about how terrible ESPN is when it comes to covering
the NBA, but I think ESPN should be ashamed of
themselves and embarrassed with the way they covered this. That
booth was awful. It was absolutely awful. Outside.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
We had to have we had to have an update
only for the fact that they kept calling it a
what a hamstring or whatever?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
They kept calling it the wrong thing.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, and and for that reason alt I said, well,
maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it wasn't a killies.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
What the hell do I don't know?

Speaker 4 (14:19):
They had no idea, And and and that is why
you have a That's why you have a sigline reporter, right,
I mean, it's it's it's it's my life, it's what
I do. Whenever someone goes down, that's your that's your job.
And again we all knew watching, but nothing from like
a Pacers athletic trainer, nothing from sources over there, nothing

(14:41):
from anyone with the NBA. I mean, what in the
hell are we even doing? Or were you sitting there
watching the game or what?

Speaker 5 (14:46):
You know? It was crazy is I was a little
confused on what the injury was. And like I said,
when we came back, we never saw him getting taken
off the court because I wanted to see if they were.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
They showed him walking off the court.

Speaker 5 (14:58):
I must have missed that because I wasn't sure if
it was an achilles So what did I do? I
went to Twitter and I wrote, paging doctor Chow, paging
doctor Chow, you know our guest that we've used, And boom,
like five minutes later, I guess people were paging them
and he gave the whole explanation on what happened and

(15:18):
what he thought and showed the video and yeah, he's like, oh,
this is a classic case of blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
It was the Achilles felt pat Vowerburton. He's gonna be
out all of next year. But you're right, they didn't
do a good job explaining it showing it.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I don't know what was what it was about with ESPN.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
They they just didn't have it together this year, and
they're usually not like that, to be honest with No.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
And maybe it was because we found out that, you know, inside,
the NBA was coming to ESPN, so everyone was a
little bit checked out. I don't know, but it was
it was it was I don't want to sit here
and make this tonight about the broadcast. Right tonight is
about the thunder. Yeah, they won their first title, and
now Arnie, you've got to respect him, you have to.

(16:04):
You've got to pitch you can't make your little goofy
comments anymore because in the end, everywhere, and I'm sure
the ratings aren't going to be all that great, but
you know what, they weren't for the Spurs first title,
and they weren't for the Warriors. Now when the Warriors
got into it, man, everyone wanted a piece of staff.
I wonder if shake Gilgess Alexander Can had that type

(16:25):
of effect. He just won a title, he won the MVP,
I laid out all the accolades. I wonder if he's
one of those guys, Arnie, that can kind of bring
people back, that can kind of be a bit of
a magnet where for some reason, I guess if you
put Oklahoma City or in the end in front of anything,
people are gonna freak out and not want to watch
it because it's not the Lakers or the Knicks. But
he's got a title, now, he's got a ring. This

(16:46):
is this is a Oklahoma city just won a championship
in the NBA in a city where nobody thought would
ever be able to host a professional team ever, Arnie,
And I'm going back when I moved here. I'm moved
to Oklahoma in nineteen ninety three. Now, I know we're
going back like thirty a long time ago. So I've
been here for a minute, But I moved here in
ninety three. I would have you would have to pay

(17:10):
me to have gone to Oklahoma City in ninety three.
There was nothing going on down here.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Nothing.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
They had the Myriad and my and my Tuls Oilers
of the COCHL would play the Oklahoma City Blazers, and
that was it. It was a blue collar town. And
then they decided, hey, let's build an arena and try
to wo an NHL franchise, and they built the Ford Center.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
And in the.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Midst of trying to wo an NHL franchise, Arnie Hurricane
Katrina hit and lo and behold, New Orleans needed a
place to play, and they brought the Hornets here, and
the NBA just became a thing. If you would have
told me when I started in radio in the late
nineties here in Oklahoma that Oklahoma City could become an
NBA or Oklahoma in general would be an NBA state,

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I would have told you I was crazy.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Well, that would the way you were going to get
a team, because there was no way if there was
a new expansion, especially with some of the cities that.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
Were waiting to get get teams. I don't think Okahoma City. Well,
when was the last time the NBA expanded.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
With New Orleans? Is that what it was? I'm not sure,
to be honest with you. It's itin like ten to
fifteen years old.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
So well, I mean and again, but there is a
story about them doing it this summer. I got it,
I got it, I got it. But the last team
that the NBA expanded to was the Charlotte Bobcats. Yeah,
in two thousand and four. And prior to that, it
was nineteen ninety five with the Raptors and the Grizzlies.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
They built the arena on a wing and a prayer.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
They brought the hornets here, and everybody fell in love
with the NBA. And I would have people calling me
in the early two thousand it's like nobody wants to
talk about the NBA.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Stupid.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
I don't even know how to pronounce half the guys' names.
Get out of here with the NBA. And now all
of a sudden, everybody loves it, and it's become title tout.
And I'm going to tell you right now, I'm sitting
here tonight on Fox Sports Radio. As surprised as anyone
that they did this. It's amazing. I'm so happy for him.
So there you go, Oklahoma City's title. Sorry, I'm sure
it's not being I'm sure this is a rough night

(19:02):
for the Seales.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Superad against Seattle. They're not having a good time up there.
Jack Sikma's not partying or well.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I mean, remember that the Sonics did win a title too,
so I mean they have their championships, they have their
nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I think this might be more than one. I
think this might be a bit of a run.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
All right. I've already missed the landing on our first segment,
so we'll get a break. The Roman numeral rundown is out.
We'll hit some of the big stories coming up next
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Speaker 3 (19:39):
Oh What's Up?

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Mary Mac along with Brianna Murrow, who is in tonight,
the ladies are running the pro very crabby.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
I gave him a compliment before the show and they
attacked me.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
You know you are two weeks into not telling us
what your big story.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
I know I need another week.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Sorry Shady Sean for twenty Why do you need another week?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
I just need more time. I just don't know.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I can't It's nothing about the show. It's more of
a personal.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'm starting to think that I'm starting to think that
there is no story.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
No wow wow.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
And like I said, I compliment that the women today
and they gave me grief.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Is what happened?

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Is that I I don't bring in.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I just don't know if it was a compliment what
he's saying.

Speaker 9 (20:25):
He was just like, oh, oh have girls running the show,
you know, yeah, it was interesting. I just don't know
if that was a compliment.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Mary Mac, Did you take it as a compliment?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Even it takes nothing as a compliment.

Speaker 10 (20:38):
That's actually not even true, even the fact that you
just said that. Right now, I'm very hurtful.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I've got all the highlights starting to roll in. The
crew behind the scenes is chopping it up. The thunder
of the NBA Champs. Man, I'm still kind of in shock.
I'm not gonna lie h A team that was left
for dead a couple of times, right, or Kevin Durant
left left for dad after the Paul George trade, left
for dad after Russell Westbrook was traded.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
I'm not even that everyone forgot about.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
I'm not even sure what the blueprint is to win
a championship if you're following it their way, trade away
your three top players at are Hall of famers, and.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Well they didn't trade Durant, he left, they didn't get
anything for him. I hope your three best players leave.
I mean, what, it's not like Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
They did the you know, trust the system and that
don't thing, which of course never trust the process, which
never worked.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
But I'm not even sure what.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
The system is now too, or the blueprint to win
an NBA championship, you know.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
So when the Thunder traded Paul George to the Clippers
and they got back five first round picks, Shay, Gilgess, Alexander,
there was a Gallinari was who I thought?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Okay, I got Gallinari.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
There was a quote and I have it here in
ESPN just popped it onto their store. Bobby Marks in
his article about what the thundernea next season, and this
quote's from Sam Presti and it's a good one.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
He said.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
In order to build and then sustain a truly great
basketball team, it requires a method. This method is not
guesswork or a convenient message that miscasts other good fortune
as a repeatable skill.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's his motto. Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 11 (22:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Not really. That's why he's getting the big money. And
I'm not. I guess that's.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Sam Presting Man, Hey, and Presty. There has been some
swings and misses. Man, They've missed on some draft picks
they really have, but that doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Tonight they're the title.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Tuesday, they're gonna have the parade through downtown Oklahoma City.
That's gonna be a site to behold today, a place
is gonna be rocking and and a home court environment
that I think is unlike anything we've ever seen and
continue and will continue to be.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Not to take away from anything, but what is like
how many people are gonna be going to this parade?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Do you think it in like numbers?

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Let me see, the current population of Okay c is
seven hundred and two thousand. I think if you add
in people coming in from Tulsa and all parts of Oklahoma,
I think that you could have quite a few people
that are gonna be here. Remember it's not just one city,
it's an entire state that's behind this team.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
My part was, how does this compare to football?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Though?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
You don't mean if the Sooners win a championship and.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
You were having a pre very similar Oh really okay, wow, yeah,
very similar, very similar?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I think, yeah, I think it'd be crazy. I think
it'd be crazy. This is Oklahoma. You have parts.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
If you think about Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, you have
a smaller sorry pop fans, faction of Oklahoma State fans,
Oklahoma fans, and they got my beloved alma mater, the
University of Tulsa. Already, this brings all of them together.
Everyone's together, and it is a thunderfan. They didn't have
a prior NBA allegiance. And even if you do, I
know what you're trying to do. You're trying to take
a shot and think there's not a lot.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
I just thought I just thought it was more of
a football town than anything.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
But you know, all right, well it is. But it's
becoming a basketball mecca and they won a title. They
want a title. Man, I can't believe it. So let's
get all the details from Steve Sager, who's rolling in
with what's trending, what's going on?

Speaker 8 (24:16):
Steve, Hello, and congratulations to you. What a series that
turned out to be. Game seven of the NBA Finals
at Oklahoma City went to the home team, The thunderbeat
Indiana one oh three ninety one. Series MVP Shay Gilgers
Alexander with twenty nine points, twelve assists, just one turnover

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now Tyres Halliburton in the first well it was a
first in a Game seven of an NBA Finals hit
three three pointers in the first quarter that hadn't happened,
and then before the period was over, left with the
achilles injury, had to be helped off the court. His
team did lead by a point at halftime. The bad
news is, in recent decades, in game seven of the final,

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if you're leading at halftime, that's not good news. Two
to five record in the last seven game sevens of
the Finals for the team that led at halftime. I
remember when Kobe Bryant had put off knee surgery, was
playing the Game seven final at home against Ray Allen
and company of the Celtics. It was a double digit
Boston lead on the road and they did not close

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that out. This a twelve point win for the home
team with a pretty dominant third quarter. Eventually, chet Holmgren
eighteen points, eight rebounds, five blocks, no turnovers as well
Jalen Williams with twenty points and just one turnover, Pacers
with twenty one turnovers as a team. The Suns are

(25:41):
trading Kevin Durant to Houston for Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks
and a first rounder this week, plus five second round
draft choices. The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday. That's a lot,
and it's quite a bit, although it's only one first
round choice, and if you've watched the NBA draft in
recent years, we can't name first rounders, I mean like

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even two and three years after they're selected, so let's
see how valuable they are. The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday.
As mentioned, the new league year begins July sixth, so
any trade can be completed. Then five WNBA games, including
expansion Golden State winning the late game over Connecticut, which

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is two and twelve. Las Vegas beat Indiana. Keegan Bradley
won the Travelers by one stroke in Connecticut. Scottie Scheffler
tied for sixth place with Roy McElroy. Ninja League captured
the Women's PGA, her third major title. Hall of Fame
horse racing trainer d Wayne Lucas is hospitalized and will
not return to training. The Florida Panthers Stanley Cup victory

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parade was today, including a rally at Fort Lauderdale Beach.
US men's soccer defeated Haiti two to one. The Gold
Cup tournament is on Fox n FS one. In fact,
right now, twenty minutes to go, Mexico is finishing up
its group play, scoreless against Costa Rica. So far, the
American is going to be play playing a quarterfinal next Sunday,
maybe against Costa Rica. LSU won the College World Series

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for the second time in the last three years. NASCAR
win for Chase Briscoe Alex Polo was yet another Indy
Car victory, this time at Road America. In Wisconsin. The
Phillies are alone in first place in the NL East
after beating the Mets seven to one tonight. The Mets
offense went four for thirty one, Kyle Schwarber with his
twenty fourth homer for the Phills. Seattle's col Rawley with

(27:27):
his thirty first homer of the season, were not quite
to the halfway point of the season. Seattle won fourteen
to six at the Cubs. The Dodgers were down three
to nothing in the six wound up winning thirteen to
seven over Washington. Shohey Otani pitched a scoreless first inning
with two strikeouts, and at the plate he had five
RBIs today, including a three run triple and two run homer,

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his twenty sixth of the year.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
By the way, the Dodgers should play the Padres all
one hundred and sixty two games.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
I think it's been great for six years, this rivalry.
It's really really great, and I can't wait till I
think it's mid August when they finally played each other again.
It took until mid June until they played each other
at all on this ballot schedule. One thing that I
mentioned many hours ago about the new baseball rules, it's
been two and a half years with the timing and

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speeding things up, and that is taking out the dead
parts of baseball. It's been so good for the game.
Pro sports is an entertainment product. You didn't change fundamentally
the game. And this Dodger game, for example, we had
twenty total runs and the game was done in two
hours and forty five minutes.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Nice.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
The Houston win and Anaheim eight seven over the Angels,
that was two hours thirty eight minutes. The Mariners win
at Wrigley fourteen to six over the Cubs again twenty
total runs, two hours fifty five minutes, and the Giants
home game nine to five over Boston two hours forty
three minutes.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Right, thanks Steve.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
By the way, did you and real quick you mentioned
the LSU talking about speed of game games. Game one
in that series was two thirty for a college baseball game.
Game two today, which was five to three, was like
two hours and twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
So hey, well done.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Base people up at arms about that that the manager
got thrown out in the first inning for a really
not a good enough reason.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
I mean, Kevin Schnall was fired up. Yeah, congrats to LSURE.
You're taking the second fold of the sports page today
outside of Baton Rouge. Party up, t Bob, Party up,
Jacob Astor. You guys have earned it.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
But I mean, the thunder just won the title, so
they're the biggest story in sports right now. I see
your Kat trade Bringana and your son's making moves, so
I understand what you're trying to You're trying to shake
in bake here a bit, and you're trying to get
the thunder off the front fold, but our top fold,
I should say, But Arnie, the first inning of a
championship game, you're gonna get an umpire or really tossing

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a manager.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mean, what are we doing? That's what are we doing?

Speaker 5 (29:57):
But you know, in the umpire's defense, you can't question
balls and strikes, and I think he did it twice.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Well, no, he clarified now, and there's two sides to
every story. So just I'll give what Kevin Schnall said,
because I know you didn't listen to the press conference,
but he said he couldn't hear they warned him, so
he walked out. And that's whenever he was informed that
he was warned. And then the umpire shoot him away.
He gave him the shoe and he's like, I'm a

(30:23):
grown man. You're not gonna shoo me away like that.
And I simply and I simply said, I he said,
you've been warned, and he's said you've missed three calls,
And he said you've missed three calls and he went
as he was going back to the bench, he tossed him.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Yeah, that is pretty weak, just saying you missed the
three calls. I did see that part there.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
So it wasn't cussing Adam, even though allegedly there had
been warnings given to them. But like the like the
Coastal Carolina first year coach said, yeah, first year, aren't
he takes her the champ series? Who they happened to
be in the first game?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I can't remember Arizona.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
That's why I was holding for them, and they won
their championship against Arizona ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
And you know who the head coach was of Arizona at.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
That time, Yeah, I do the coach of LSU, right,
that's right, Jay Johnson.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
John Hey, make sure to check out the Fox Sports
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(31:28):
Roman numeral number. Let's see what number was. This is
caught in my roman numeral two. Okay, you did have
the overall grade on the TV production, which I kind
of went in on early. Your thoughts on the announcer
the grade on the overall series times and days?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Does that say times and days?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Yes, you know, because it was so spread out over
the you know, with the three days between the last
I think, what we have two games and six days
or something because of the travel. So that was that
took away a lot of the momentum I believe that
they had. And then I always thought that the Sunday
earlier time is a better time for a game seven.

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So I mean, it doesn't make a difference to us.
We're on the air anyway. I just figured more people
would be tuning on in. But it is the summertime,
so people are out and about. Maybe it's okay there.
I felt though, overall the super and posed trophy stuff
that was bad.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I'm glad they went though back to showing.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
The uh the introductions, so I thought that was a
good move.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
I thought that was a plus for them.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
We bullied him into it, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah you did, Yeah you did? That was that was funny.
I'm glad, we I'm glad you did you know.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Hey, they listened to us sometimes every now and then.
But I'm not gonna lie. I think the first game
they did intros for was maybe Game four.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, I was gonna say Game four.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yeah, I think it was Game four. And I remember
I was sitting like a little kid, and I was
waiting for the PA guy to go, Ladies and gentlemen.
You know, just that's his moment, man, And now you
know the lights are going on off. Get in the videos.
You feel like you're there. I was really glad they
brought it.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Get your pupped up for the game. I asked Jason
Martin why they took it away. He brought up a
good point.

Speaker 5 (33:07):
They probably wanted the extra minute or two to sell
more commercial time. Man's right, time is money, and that's
a lot of money when you go right to the introductions.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
All right, it's gonna break. Yeah, they need more money.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Anything else on Roman Numeral two you want to add
from the series, I will say, we gotta find a
way because af you people grinch and moan that the
college football playoffs took up too much time on the calendar, right,
you realize we started the NBA playoffs in April.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
We started it around Eastern and it's just now.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I heard Jonas Knox's take on this Friday, and I
was cracking up because you know, I'm an early morning guy.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Now, Arnie, I'm a morning man.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Now I wake up. Yeah, I'm a morning man. But
whenever I heard that, I was laughing, and I'm like,
oh wait, that's right. We kind of did start in
that long ago. Like anything we can do on that
or is that just the NBA and it's season.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
You know, there is talk that maybe you want to
go first round, best of five.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I don't think the NBA can answid because.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
You don't want the top seeds to get eliminated with
some type of upset.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
So I don't think you could really pull that off.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
All right, when we come back, there is a couple
of other topics we need to touch upon, and we'll
do it very briefly, because we've got a Thunder Championship
to celebrate. Todd Furman's coming up next hour. And it's
fitting that Bree is in tonight because she's a Suns
fan and today was a big move out in Phoenix.
We'll get the latest on Kevin Durant's new home. Next
on Fox Sports Radio. Can't talk over though, Mary, you

(34:29):
gotta wait till it hits right. Don't you cry no more?
Now we can talk. I wilcome back to Arnie and
plant here on Fox Sports Radio. How'd you watch Game seven?
Anything special? Or was it just trying to find another
law and order by halftime?

Speaker 6 (34:42):
No?

Speaker 5 (34:43):
No stop, no law in order at half time? Was
a one point game?

Speaker 3 (34:46):
On this?

Speaker 5 (34:48):
Twitter is a buzz. I'm gonna get tacked all over
the place.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Why would you do?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I don't know?

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Like sooner, Lisa says, sneaking with the girl? Now, yeah,
steak a genius.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Have you watched any of the playoffs?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I sometimes too, Lea.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
I'm thinking no, clearly because you missed the rabbit Oklahoma
City fans that turn into the pay Comm Center into
loud City. No, we're not just a football state anymore.
We're the home to the NBA champs. Stop trying to
step on our celebration.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (35:20):
That might I like that. I'll retweet that. Why are
you trying to step on our celebration?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Aren't he? Well?

Speaker 5 (35:25):
First of all, one, if I ask everybody who won
the NBA championship tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
People are gonna forget so lacking. Now. You can't start that,
all right.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
Two, Look, I know why you guys are a little
bit mad. Everybody knows why you guys are mad because
you're not Texas.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Right is that you have that you know comedy.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
You're just getting mad because Sooner.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
I know that's why you're mad, because you're not big
bad Texas. I feel like the little brother the Texas
and it bothered you guys.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
So you're like, we want a championship.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Look at us, we want a championship. Shut up. You're
in Vermont, you clean Arizona. You've done nothing.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
Don't don't start this just because you're mad that you
got called out on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Take a beating, accept it.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Nothing to listen.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Texas has nothing to do with this. Oklahoma City just
won a title. Stop it. You got worked on Twitter
by Sooner. Lease, so wear it. It happens to me
all the time. The odds for next year came out.
You know who the favorites are, right, that'll be okay.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
See it is okay, see by a law, by far, they.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Were the favorite by far this year, and you never
showed him any respect. Plus two twenty. Would you like
to take a guess on there's a tie for second?

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Who the two teams are.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
I bet they probably put Houston up there.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
Oh, good call there plus eight and fifty so eight
and a half to one.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Well, I would think the only reason you brought it
up is because your Nicks are there.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
Of course, that's what I tried to tell you like
a half hour ago, but you shot me down on that.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Well again, do you know off the top of your
head where your Nicks wore for the twenty four twenty
five preseason NBA Championship odds?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
I think they were like number eight or nine, weren't
they right?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
So why are you getting all fired up about it?
I mean, it doesn't matter. It's it's irrelevant. The only
time it seems to matter is whenever it's the Chiefs,
because Kansas City is always there. I don't even think
Oklahoma City was the top pick for the let's see here,
the twenty four to twenty five final champion. Oh shoot,

(37:29):
it took me right to the These websites have got
to keep up their old odds to kind of help
me feel better about that.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
I don't think they were the favorite. To be honest
with you, they no.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
I kind of want to say that it might of
Phoenix had been up there, but I'll have to I'll
have to find the Lakers were probably pretty high too.
People were kind of drunk on the Clippers as well.
To this preseason. Let's say, okay, here we go. Celtics
were plus three hundred. Ye Nicks were plus You were
the second pick.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
The get out of here? Were we get out of here? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:58):
So yes, sir, yes, sir, you were the second pick
last year or two. The Nuggets were plus seven to fifty.
The Timberwolves were plus eight fifty. Oh my gosh, the
Thunderworld plus nine hundred, followed closely by the Dallas Mavericks
at plus one thousand.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
That was it's the money.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
The Dallas Mavericks were a top six pick for the
preseason twenty twenty four odds, according to I let's see
the basketball records archives that are out there, so good stuff.
Mister Nobody writes, I got so tired of the ESPN
broadcast and listen to the thunder broadcast. But speaking of
bashing ESPN, what was up with them following the Pacers

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into the back a staff member having to shoe a
camera person away because she was trying to comfort TJ.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
McConnell.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Well, let me tell you something, mister, nobody, they sure
as heck wanted to peek their head back there and
see what was going on after the game, but not
during the most important moment of the game, whenever you
had a star player go down and we had no
idea what was going on except we'd seen it a
thousand times.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
I know, we're short on time. What was he saying
that he got shoot away? Because I didn't see McConnell,
you know, kind of lose it have a breakdown a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
What were they getting the camera guy aways out? Yeah,
they were trying to get the camera guy away.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
It's like, oh man, they just lost give us like
two minutes here, And that's the moment when they want
to be aggressive and see what's going on. That's when
they're not whenever there's an injury that's taking place. UCLA
Dodger Frank writes, I'd rather put a Benjamin on Detroit
at sixty to one than put the Knicks at eight
and a half to one.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
All things considered, Oh good luck.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
All things considered, the Knicks are gonna be in the championship.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
So you've said this every single year. The Cavaliers are
right there.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
You know, I'm a year ahead of myself. We know that.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, just like you were with Jacksonville as well too.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I was, I was.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
And then Brendan writes, congrats on the ok See Thunder
for being a cameo champion because the Lakers now have
an owner aka governor. If you want to kiss Dave
Draymond's backside, who has very deep pockets. First, LA will
cut Lebron, then get the best coaches and scouts money
can buy. Ooh, Brenda not even giving me twenty four

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hours already claiming the Lakers they're back. We'll talk about
it next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
We're rolling.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Thunder have won the title. We got postgame reaction coming
up will take you lot to Okay. See here from
the Stars Sga Chet Holmgren tonight eighteen point eight boards,
five blocks, set of Finals game seven record did chet
Holmgren you know they had on Friday night?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
We were going through some of it and I can't
find it on FanDuel.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
Now I don't know if they just drop it after
the series is over, but you could actually you can
actually place a wager on if someone would break the
record for most points into game seven or actually uh yeah,
you could bet on that and then fifty or more
if someone scored fifty or more and then they had
the blocks And I thought, oh, the blocks record in
game seven might be interesting?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Was the record?

Speaker 4 (41:01):
I think the record was four? And Kevin Garnett I
was wanting to say, was I think Joe Smith or
someone Marvin Webster, someone random?

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Mark had the human eraser.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Yeah, I had the had the number that was the
record beforehand, but you would have got paid on that one,
which at home having five blocks. We'll talk absolutely. We'll
talk with Todd Furman about that coming up here in
just a bit. Arnie, I know that you have not
spent a lot of time with Brie Brandon Moureau, who
is my co host on Friday Night on the Overnight Show,
but she's running the show tonight because she had a

(41:32):
wedding on Friday night.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Shouts out to it was Burr she got married, right, Bri.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
My producer who didn't invite me to the wedding.

Speaker 9 (41:37):
But would you have actually come out if he had invited.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Of course, Oh yes you would.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Wait now you're going to pretend like you know someone's
name to get invited to their wedding.

Speaker 10 (41:48):
Was found out about the wedding yesterday. It was lightly
five minutes.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
It was my producer for the last ten years. You
didn't know about it. She's literally our producer for the
He's been our producer.

Speaker 10 (42:02):
He asked Ian, Oh it was Brush who got married, right,
and then proceeded to talk about it literally as started.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
In, Oh my god, I've just crushed. I didn't get invited,
that's all. I just I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
That it happens.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
You know, we took him under our wing and showed
him the ropes of the of the business.

Speaker 4 (42:21):
So anyway, Kevin Durant got traded today from the Suns
to the Rockets. Bree is our resident son's expert, Brie,
what'd you think?

Speaker 9 (42:29):
Despicable?

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Really, purely despicable.

Speaker 9 (42:33):
We got hosed, Like we literally got hosed. We gave
up so much to get him. Are our core mckel bridges,
Cam Johnson? How many first round draft picks A ton
and all all just to get like five second round picks.
What are we gonna do with Dot and Jalen Green?

Speaker 3 (42:52):
They're pretty worthless. Those second round picks.

Speaker 9 (42:54):
It seems like, oh yeah, horrible. If I'm Tivin Booker,
I'm calling so and so and just being like I'm out.
I would leave after next year.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
The second round picks are like getting a seven in poker,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (43:05):
They were kind of worth it.

Speaker 9 (43:06):
What do you do with them? Who's gonna take them?
Everyone knows how desperate they were to get rid of him,
So what was the point?

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Can I defend Jalen Green for a moment? I mean, dude,
average twenty one points played in all eighty two games
in each of the last two years, second pick overall
in the draft. No, nothing, No, that's not gonna.

Speaker 9 (43:23):
Make a difference. There's there's been. We don't have anything.
We have no depth, we have no bench. It's just
it's all bad.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I am.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
I'm so depressed, Like this is the end. My Saints
are falling apart, my sons are falling apart. I'm just depressed.
I'd rather be Arnie at this point.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Wow, that's tough.

Speaker 5 (43:42):
And by the way it slowed down, it's not like
you gave up somebody who was young, Kevin Durantz, what
like thirty six, thirty seven years old, thirty eight years I.

Speaker 9 (43:49):
Didn't even want him when we traded for him. I
cried when that trade happened. I was devastated.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
And she's a big Mchael Bridges fantasy love mckel Bridges.

Speaker 9 (43:58):
I think you know that, right, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
I didn't know. I didn't know you liked it. I
like him. Also, he's a games eater, so I like him.

Speaker 9 (44:05):
A lot, though, So I need thoughts in prayers. I'm
much appreciated because I don't know how gonna watch the
Suns this year. It's gonna be really painful.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
How did you feel about I was a little bit
surprised because a story already came out early that said
Kevin Durant's gonna get traded today, and I thought, would
that'd be odd to have a trade happen on the
day of Game seven. I mean, even the Super Bowl says, hey,
we ain't doing bleep personnel wise, trade wise. You guys
keep all that stuff to yourself and then we'll celebrate

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the Super Bowl. Now, granted, this NBA playoff's been going
on since Easter, so there's got to be some business
that takes place exactly. But still, I mean, the timing
of it sucks because it did take away a bit
from Game seven. I thought it was.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Gonna be Monday or Tuesday, to be honest with you,
I thought that's when they're and they broke it during
that Fanatics Fest or whatever.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Right, is that what he found out about it?

Speaker 4 (44:56):
And I've got that Fanatics Fest, which again I wouldn't
complain if I got to go, but just seems like
it's a bunch of people sitting around doing interviews. Am
I missing something with Fanatics Fest? There's people sitting on
a stage with bad audio? I mean, am I missing
anything with this? Is there something more?

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Or seemed crowded? Is what it was? Well?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Did you make it the deal?

Speaker 5 (45:17):
I'm surprised that they and I know they're, you know,
not worth that much, but five second round picks, the
number ten pick. I do like Jalen Green, Dylan Brookshire
throwing on in there, but it seemed a little pricey
for a guy that's thirty eight years old. But the
Suns really had no choice. They had to go ahead

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and move on out. They have to get rid of Beal.
They've got to start fresh, start young, and this is
the way they had to do it.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
So I think they I think they came out okay.
So it's like a win win situation here.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Yeah, And as you saw, which I guess is the
most important thing.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
The odds for the Rockets shot.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Up as far as preseason potential favorites to win the
title next year?

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Can we don't give Katie enough grief about being a
ring chaser by going to all these different teams, you
know what I mean? That's I mean, if there's anybody
that's a ring chaser, it's Kevin Durant, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Well, I mean he's you can say ring chaser, but
I mean this is a guy that does have a
couple of them, So I mean, does that change it
at all? And each ring he won, the he won
the NBA Finals, MVP.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
It just seems, you know that all these teams that
he's playing for kind of takes away from his legacy?

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Am I wrong on that?

Speaker 5 (46:31):
You don't feel any different about him? But then Lebron's.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Played for so many teams also, I mean Lebron's played
for three He's played for the Heat, the Calves and
the Lakers, and it doesn't seem like, well, I don't know,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I just stop right there.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
Yeah, exactly, But I mean Durant, I mean, this is
only his fourth team. And again, in this modern era,
people move around a little bit more. But I mean, Arnie,
we don't see dude stay with one team forever anymore,
do we? Right?

Speaker 3 (46:59):
No, I mean understand that. It just seems I think
it's his fifth team.

Speaker 11 (47:02):
As a not.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Am I wrong about that fifth? You are correct? I
forgot to add on the rockets on my numbers. Okay, well,
I technically if you really want to be that dude's
sixth because he did spend a season with the Seattle
SuperSonics before they moved. I don't know, man, I don't
care about legacy talk. I guess, to be honest with you,
it's I think legacy talk is one of those that

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you have when their career is over. I feel like
that's become something that has been very debate show oriented, right,
I Oh, what's his legacy?

Speaker 12 (47:31):
Like?

Speaker 8 (47:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
He's won two rings, he won the MVP, won the
finals MVP twice, he's won fifteen or he's been in
the NBA All Star Game fifteen times. I think that's
a pretty good number, right. I mean, he's won gold
medals in the Olympics. He's you know, Oklahoma City. I
know tonight they're celebrating the championship and the Durant era
is very much in the rear view.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
But I'll say, bro.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
He was the foundation that kind of helped bring them
to relevant in his third season in Oklahoma City. He
took the team third fourth season in oklahom City, they
went to the NBA Finals as a team that had
just moved to another city. You don't get a team
move to your town and instantly be good. It just
doesn't happen. There's a reason they're moving, right, And Oklahoma
City was able to instantly be good because they had

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thirty five. They had Kevin Durant. So to me, he's
always kind of had that special place in my heart.
I was I thought he's kind of jerkish when he
was here too, but he was also young. I like
what he's become, but I couldn't care less about his legacy.
If that in any of those conversations, right, it makes
me a bad talk show host, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
No, it doesn't make you bad.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
It just you know, some people are like cooking all
the teams he's played for. And you know back in
the day when like a Karl Malone went to the Lakers,
you know, people are right, but they didn't have rings, right,
exactly right, You're right about that. That's the difference maker there.
Kevin Durant does have rings, but they really you know,
you were taking the task just for Jordan what extra team?
Sure things, but things are a lot different now. This

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is all different error of the NBA than it was
back then. So I I have nothing against it. Just
some people put up pictures of all the teams he
played for and they're like, is he gonna play for.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Every team in the NBA.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
I'm like, hey, slow down, it's only been about five so,
you know, relax yourself.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
JJ, this is interesting, He writes.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
I can't even listen to your show gloating about your
stolen franchises championships. The team should still be in Seattle,
g D. Disgraceful the way you acquired this team. As
the Great Eric the actor would say, oh well, I
mean it's business man business, and what you guys had
one moment whenever it's like save our Sonics and you're.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
It was the last game of the year. You stunk
and you didn't go to games.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
And I'm sorry that had happened that way, but we're
not talking about something that happened.

Speaker 5 (49:52):
I'm surprised there was an attendance problem. They were so
popular up there, Chris.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
I remember, you know, this isn't something that happened five
years ago either. I mean, boohoo, bucker, this is something
that we're going back now what seventeen years. I think
there's I think there's a point where you're like, all right,
it's it's time to move on past this and see
if you can't get an expansion franchise, because hey, Clay

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Bennett went out and got that job done. Don't be
mad at Oklahoma City. I'd be mad at the dude
that sold.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Him to him.

Speaker 4 (50:21):
Hey, we're going to sell to this Oklahoma City billionaire.
Why the hell would an Oklahoma City businessman want to
keep a team in Seattle that's losing money. I mean,
it's just it's it's not a it wasn't a good
business deal. And I know you all have your documentary
that you watch and it makes you feel really good
about the way that it was stolen from you.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
But it doesn't it doesn't matter. It's been been though.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Yeah, it's been too long now, it's been a long time.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
It's at some point it's like, hey, you got to
move on. Maybe just maybe you get a team and
you start whipping up on OKAC. Then there you go,
you'll have it. You know, it'll be interesting because you
did send that thing from Mark, not Mark Stein. Mark
spears on ESPN. It was the most confusing and confounding
thing I think I've ever read.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Ways I was going to agree with you there, I'm like,
what am I reading here? I'm not sure exactly are
we expanding or are we not?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
And when are we? They said this early? Is this summer?
Is that possible or what?

Speaker 4 (51:17):
Well? I I guess Here's here's what confused me more
than anything else is you have the report and it's
it's solid, right, the NBA is leaning towards possible expansion
this summer, But then there's all these caveats to it.
It's like, but you go from you know, having thirty

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teams sharing the revenue and the TV deal pie to
thirty two and then you know, you don't know if
the timing is right. It's not a no brainer was
a term that was used. I'm like, well, and what
the hell are you reporting? Are we expanding or not?
Because you lay out that, you think, hey, it's it's possible,
it's gonna happen, and then you give me all the
reasons why it's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
So what, I don't know what's going on here.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
I think what they want to do is, you know,
go to one of the typical cities like what was
it Seattle or in Nashville or or or whatever. You know,
get one of those cities in there, and maybe Vegas obviously,
and then one outside the United States. They always want
to go global, so I think that's what they're trying
to do this for.

Speaker 4 (52:19):
Do you think so when you say go global, you're
not thinking they're trying to go overseas with a franchise.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Right I do?

Speaker 4 (52:26):
I really with an NBA franchise. I don't know how
they're gonna make it. Heard zero talk about that. Really,
I thought it was in that article. That's what I was.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
No, it just won't work. It can't work.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Quote.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
The league's doing good, They're about to do the europe thing.
They're making money with NBA Africa, which had better attendance China.
They're making a bunch of money in China. They're talking
about like other teams are not moving teams there, leagues
that they have that are being played over there.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
They're gonna you're gonna have to play more games there
or something because they do want to go ahead and
you know, take advantage of all the finances and the
money they're making.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
But I know, I think you're misconstruing what they're laying out.
They're not saying that they're going to put a team overseas.
They're saying they've had success over there. Okay, that's at
least the way that I took it, right, So what
would a franchise fee be? Like what would it cost

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to try to to try to bring a team to
your town and they just don't move them there for
the good of it because they're a big market. You
got to pay for it, right, So what's that look like?

Speaker 3 (53:32):
I don't know, I have no idea, man, you're the
money guy. I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
All right, Well, I'm just saying right now, I can't
make any sense of this because in one moment, it's like, hey,
I talked to a high ranking league source that says
expansion is possible. But here's all the reasons why it's
not gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
Hey, then you get to Daryl, who sent this tweet
in because he agrees with me. So I figure I'll
read this one. Steak a genius, Arntie, you nailed it.
The dude has a million jerseys now, but he is
a Lebron James, so the criticism won't come.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
We talk about by the way, Kevin Durant.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Go ahead, Kevin, had Lebron had that many, had that
much laundry heat me, he'd get killed and he already does.
He played for three franchises. Durant is in an NBA vagabond.
He wrote Golden State's coat tails, So there you go.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
That's from he wrote what That's what he was the
NBA Finals MVP Darrel wrote.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Their coat tails.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yes, that's what he said.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
They couldn't beat Lebron without him, and then they get
him and they win two rings.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Come on, man, Rode, now not at all.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
There are people that do look at it. Where all
the teams that he played for sure?

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Oh I'm not disagreeing with it.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Listen, I'm not here to try to fan or stand
for one Kevin Durant tonight. That's not the case at all.
I'm just saying, if you're going to say he wrote
the coattails, I mean go back and look at the numbers. Man.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
He was the difference maker.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
In those five series, in those playoffs for the Warriors,
And I think all those Warriors guys would even tell
you that right now.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
But I understand the optics of it, right.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
The optics of it are, he went to a team
that he couldn't beat in Oklahoma City and then won
two titles with them, right and awest the way it looks.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
It's also I guess he couldn't get it done here
or couldn't get it done in Phoenix.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
So I'm out of here. I'm gonna go somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Well, Brooklyn was the place I think where you look
at the most right too.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Forgot about all right.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
When we come back to the Fox Sports Radio studios,
we'll be joined by our buddy Todd Freman. Keep those
tweets coming, though, really good. We're going to dive into
all of them at the bottom of the hour right
here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
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Speaker 4 (55:51):
Alright, he's back, Todd Furman's in the house with Ardy
and Plank on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
What's going on, Todd? How about them Thunder?

Speaker 4 (55:57):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (55:58):
Pretty impressive. They didn't make things easy for you and
the rest the Thunder fans that were out there. Look
to be a little bit touch and go, trailing by
a point at the half, and then the Thunder found
another gear. Unfortunately. I hate to see the way things
played out for the Pacers. You'd like to see the
Thunder beat them at full strength, but it shouldn't detract
from anything OKC was able to accomplish. When you look

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at the three year trajectory from twenty four wins to
one of the best teams that we've seen arguably an
NBA history, is what they were able to do on
the defensive end of the floor all season long.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Yeah, big big money coming in on Game seven tonight,
or it was just pretty much average.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
No, I mean, it's always going to get a little
bit more aggressive in terms of the betting handle. I mean,
we're starting to enter the dog days of summer, as
it pertains to sports betters, so they're looking for any
single way they can get themselves involved. But surprisingly enough,
a lot of the books that I spoke to said
they saw a lot of Pacers tickets come in from
the recreational betters, thinking that this indie team as a

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team of destiny, so to speak, and the wake of
that dominant game six performance would carry over. Interestingly enough,
the Thunder were this spot once already this postseason, when
they appeared to be undervalued from a true number standpoint.
They exceeded Oddsmaker's expectations against the Nuggets, and they did
so again tonight in stylish fashion.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
First team since twenty thirteen the Miami Heat to be
in two game sevens during their playoff run, which kind
of surprised me. Hey, Todd, are we waiting for one
of those attention seeking books somewhere to say we'll refund
all the Pacers tickets and the Halliburton over unders at
some point here tonight? Oh they did already, there you go.

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Yeah, I figure there's some books out there already. They
want to do everything they can to try and incentivize
people to keep their money in play with their particular
establishments as we enter about a sixty day blackout period,
so to speak. No offense of those folks out there
listening to bet Major League Baseball or who may be
glued to the edge of their seat next Sunday night
for Costa Rica and Tmusa in the quarterfinals of the

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Gold Cup. Not exactly items on the sporting calendar that
move the needle the same way as the NFL or
the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
You know, Todd, I'm just curious on this.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
You know, you can't obviously bet Oklahoma City to win
it be as they want it, So yeah, you can't
bet it. Are they going to take off betting the
Eastern Conference next year since the Knicks already won it?
Because Indiana's out and Boston's out now, so there's really
nobody left, right, I.

Speaker 6 (58:16):
Mean, apparently not. The Knicks are just going to roll
out the red carpet. They're going to play without a coach,
and they're gonna find a way to win the Eastern Conference.
So I figure, Arnie, you go through your rule of
decks there, you might want to see if Whoopy Goldberg
wants to dust offer coaching manual from doing such a
tremendous job playing the role of Eddie which he was
in charge of the Knicks. But uh, maybe it's just
Rick Brunson that Jalen goes, picks up the phone and goes, Dad,

(58:38):
it's your time to shine. You're going to be the
man in charge. And not a team that I would
back at such short odds. Oh, give these tremendous respect
that odds makers are paying to the Knicks.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
Right now, the second favorite to win the NBA Championship.
It's already guaranteed they're going to go to the Championship.
I already text Shapiro to give me the week off
when the Knicks are or in the Championship next year.

Speaker 6 (58:59):
Yeah, I don't think that's going to be the case,
but hey, dream big, Arenie. I I have love that
kind of effort. But I will say, you know, if
you're looking further down the board, I mean and trying
to make a case for a long shot or two,
a team that no doubt benefits from the Pacers injury
to Tyre's Halliburton, which will probably keep him shelved for
a long period of time, and you don't want to
speculate you know, you would think to Detroit Pistons, maybe

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take the next step forward and we'll see what the
seventy six ers do to kind of retool their roster
as well.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
You know, Todd, I get it that it's going to
get lost in the finals, in the NBA Finals tonight,
But tossing a manager in the first inning of a
championship game, what'd you make of the decision in Omaha today?
And not going to say that it changed the outcome
or anything of that nature, but just come on, that
was a little bit much, wasn't it.

Speaker 6 (59:45):
I mean, under the guys of excessive conversation, if that
was the case, Arnie would be outliving a single life
because his wife would have tossed him out a long
time ago. So apparently the umpire much thinner skin than
what we see going on. You hate to see it
in a game of that magnitude. And to my underst
and I won't claim again to be a college baseball expert,
that he wouldn't have been available should this have gone
to a rush take all game three, given the rules

(01:00:07):
of college baseball. So just a little bit surprising that
the umpire wanted to steal the show. But it shouldn't
attract from anything coach that was able to accomplish and
much less LSU on the other side, who leaned into
two dominant pitching performances and a somewhat favorable road to
return to the top of college baseball glory.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
You know, Todd, serious question here.

Speaker 5 (01:00:27):
The Kevin Durant story was leaked out during the fan fest,
that fanatics fest because obviously he was there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Look, they had the information beforehand.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
What do you think, do you will you get the
information on Giannis whether he goes back to Milwaukee or
goes to another team ahead of like the public, And
do you run to the sports book before the odds changed,
because look what happened to the Rockets. They're like eight
and a half to one now, you'd love to get
them when they were twenty to one or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:55):
It's all about information and that's the one thing that's
much different in sports betting than when you're trading a
financial You can keep your political opinions aside in terms
of how people try and utilize perfect information to beat
the market before it moves, whether it's the Kevin Durant
situation or NHL free agency that we'll go into an
earnest as well on July first. It's all an information game,

(01:01:15):
but the one tool that bookmakers have working in their
favors they can profile a lot of their customers and
if they happen to see irregular betting patterns around a
team or player or something along those lines, they'll move
the number and nothing illegal about it. So I'm sure
there may be a couple of folks out there that
are privy to that information before it came widely available.
But you're exactly right. Much better to have the Houston
Rockets at sixteen or eighteen to one, and then the

(01:01:38):
way they're currently being priced in the market right now,
moving up to the second favorite in the Western Conference,
behind of course, the defending NBA champions.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
So todd for you. I know that you like to bet,
or at least keep an eye on what's going on
in NASCAR. Interesting race today with the rain delay, But
what else for you during this downtime? Do you take
some time off or you getting into baseball or do
you really start diving into what the grid picks are
going to look like as we get closer the late
August early September.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
No baseball for me, it's really a talent chance to
buckle down and get myself ready for both the college
and pro football seas, and that work has largely been underway,
you know, going all the way back to you know,
late March early April, and that puts me, even me
behind the eight ball when you're talking about win totals
and some of the conference futures that available. The nice
part about the NASCAR schedule is you can't do a
ton of work during the course of the week. Most

(01:02:25):
of the heavy lifting will come once cars onload and
you begin to identify who's going to be good in
terms of some of the buy on or sell candidates
that's out there. And look, I won't ever claim to
be the smartest man in the room, but I do
surround myself with people that happen to have great information.
So I will dabble a little bit in golf, although
after running back, you know, golfers over the last three
weeks that have finished in the top three not coming

(01:02:47):
in to win a tournament. It can frustrate even the
best of us. But it's why we play the game,
and it's why money management is so important. To know
your strength and weaknesses, to try and be able to
identify opportunities regardless of what sport they present themselves in.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
Well, you and some of your degenerate fans drive into
the are your degenerate gamblers?

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
You bet the preseason football? Right? You got to get
into that, right, I.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
Mean, Arnie, you've been telling me for years the preseason
is the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Free season he had because he was so bad going.

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Up to work in early September every single year. Eventually
you're going to be able to make so much money
bet in the NFL preseason you'll be able to retire.
But yes, the preseason does provide opportunities. But like a
lot of the other sporting ventures and pursuits that are
out there, you know, some of the edges dry up
a lot faster these days than what they would have
if you were betting any of these things ten to
fifteen years ago. Oh yeah, it really becomes a challenge,

(01:03:37):
and you have to be willing to put in the
time and the work to prepare yourself for that the
same way you do for the regular season of both
like pro college football.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Already, I was bad last year on the preseason first time,
and you're bad every year. No first time, first time.
I was bad, Todd, I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:52):
I thank Plank. It's not a lie. If you believe it,
that's it's not a variety of different fronts.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Hands a line, all right, Todd, I have a great week, buddy.
We appreciate it. Man, thanks you time.

Speaker 6 (01:04:04):
Always a pleasure in playing State safe out there. I
know as soon as you get off with Arnie, you'll
be headed right down to Bricktown to celebra all the
other crazy Thunder fans out there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
I'm in, I'm in.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
I think they're gonna they're gonna leave everything open until
I get there. So that's what makes me happy. All right,
when we come back, we got your tweets that we
need to get to. But first, Steve de Seger is
in the house with everything that's trending. What's going on, Steve,
we have.

Speaker 8 (01:04:25):
The Oklahoma City Thunder is NBA champions after taking Game
seven at home to end the NBA Finals tonight against
Indiana one oh three ninety one. So that was actually
the most lopsided Game seven of the Finals of the
last fifty years, a twelve point win. Shay Giljas Alexander
the series MVP twenty nine points, twelve assists just one turnover.

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Tyrese Haliburton of the Pacers left in the first quarter
with an achilles injury, so overall the home team still dominates. Finals.
Game seven sixteen and four is the record, and it
was a great homes ski edule for the Thunder regular
and postseeds. In fact, in the playoffs, eleven and two
at home, and the Thunder did not lose the turnover

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battle at home in any playoff game this postseason at
home wow Pacers with twenty one turnovers at OKC tonight,
The Suns are trading Kevin Durant to Houston. Among the
WNBA games, Seattle beat New York, which had been ten
and two. Las Vegas a winner over Indiana Jaguars rookie
Travis Hunter signed. He reportedly gets a thirty million dollars signing.

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Bonus Chargers training camp starts in less than a month.
Players report July sixteen they'll be playing in the Hall
of Fame exhibition in late July. Keegan Bradley won the
Travelers by one stroke. In Connecticut, US men's soccer defeated
Haight two to one. The Americans will play a quarterfinal
next Sunday against Costa Rica. The Gold Cup tournament is
on Fox and FS one. LSU won the College World Series,

(01:05:54):
beating Coastal Carolina again five to three to baseball wins
for the Padres, Giants and Dodgers. LA was down three
to nothing in the six but still defeated Washington thirteen
to seven. Max Munsey a Grand Slam and a three
run homer, and the Phillies beat the Mets seven to one.
The Mets offense tonight four for thirty one, and that

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includes a late homer by Francisco Lindor, So the streak
is over, ARENI that we brought.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Up last night solo home runs.

Speaker 8 (01:06:22):
The Mets had won twenty eight straight games when Lindor homered.
Oh yeah, regular season until tonight, when a meaningless home run.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Was short of the record.

Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
That is correct. The records still twenty nine straight wins
for a team when a certain player homers. In this
case it was the Brooklyn Dodgers Carl Farrillo in the
early nineteen fifties. Back to you, thanks, Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:06:45):
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Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
Yeah, there's a couple of them. Just one was set
to both of us, but some of them are just
sent to me for some reason.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
Well, pop Cranger, he writes, I can understand the idea
that Kevin Duran is a ring chaser because he moves
to a team, he takes a back seat to what
drives their success, Warriors deferring to him as the number
one when he won two finals. MVP Lebron actively assumes
the GM role when he joins a team. Katie passively

(01:07:46):
does his best while proclaiming not to be a leader.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Yeah, maybe that's a.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
Little bit of a different because Katie's like, I'm not
a leader, man, I just like to go play ball.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
I don't know maybe I'd misunderstood your thoughts on this,
but I think more people it bothered by Kevin Durant
being on so many teams.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Sure you're not wrong, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Uh was there any more that
were sent to just you that you wanted to hit?

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Oh? No, No, the rest of us is to both
of us, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Okay, the dab crab whom I love.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Right, Yeah, you know I love your show, but as
a lifelong Sonics fan, I'm taking tonight off? Oh say,
what's up to Arnie for me? Why would you take
tonight off? Come on, man, he's not happy. It's mooweet.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
It's like your ex wife getting remarried to a doctor
that's a billionaire.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
What's wrong with that? You don't have to pay child support?

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
I always wondered what would happen if, like your ex
got married to a billionaire.

Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
And you were on good terms? Would she give you
some money?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Which is no, it's an X. What are you talking about?

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
But you know I feel bad that we're divorced. Then
you give you like five or ten mil?

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Have you gone through a divorce before?

Speaker 12 (01:08:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Shut up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Here's one from UCLA Dodger Frank.

Speaker 4 (01:08:58):
I mean until you've gone through, and I wonder if
someone will be like, hey, you want some money.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I give you a ten mil about that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
A divorce is the worst because one side is very
jaded and it never ends.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
I let these people like we had a very very
it was a good divorce. No, it's not screaming and
yell and I.

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
Bet there's amicable.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Right, No, no such thing, UCLA Dodger Frank writes to
us tonight on Twitter. The biggest losers in the NBA
this week have to be the Clippers. First, their crosstown rivals,
The Lakers sell to an owner who will spend, spend,
and then spend, and then the Oklahoma City Thunder win
a championship, kicking sand in their face for trading away

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sg A.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Yeah, Bomber's rough night for Ben Maller, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
Also Barber is if there's any silver lining, it's that
he has the team in the same city, that that
team is worth ten bill. He got his team for
two billion, so he's thinking he got a pretty good
deal on the whole thing, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
But it's also it's also like saying you've got well
I was trying to make some sort of Coca Cola
comparison to mister Pib. But I like mister Pib better.
I love mister It's almost as if you got like
Pepsi light or something. You got the Clippers, man, you
didn't get the Lakers. There's it's obviously gonna be worth
more money because they're the Lakers, right, I see what

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you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
You feel like that's four times five times the value.

Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
Would you say the Lakers are that much more valuable
than the Clippers.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
I'm not sure it's that much more.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
Obviously, there may be, you know, it was like ten
to five, then I would say that sounds a little
bit more reasonable.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
But it knows this is pretty good.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
From nature Boy, Eddie writes, I gotta admit the Sonics
to Thunder transition sure is plenty different from the Cincinnati
Royals to the Sacramento Kings. I get how Seattle must
feel today. Well, I mean, I was thinking to myself
on Friday night we had a conversation about tortured fan bases. Yeah,
and I mean I feel like I'm in that with

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the Raiders. You're in that with all of your teams
because they all stink right now. But I was I
was kind of worrying a little bit because had Oklahoma
City lost in a Game seven where they were up
three games to two and everyone was talking about parades,
and then all of a sudden, you get the game
seven where buses were being painted.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
I was starting to think to myself.

Speaker 4 (01:11:23):
Oof, could Oklahoma City end up in kind of one
of those cursed slash torture fan bases mindset if they
lose this game because of the way they left Seattle
and kind of how it's viewed that they stole the
team from Seattle. Thankfully though, Rnie, I don't have to
worry about that here tonight, so it's not an issue.

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
Go with the other tortured fan base, maybe Portland with
that well, this Portland was on the list very high
because I think people forget Oklahoma City was able to
do what.

Speaker 4 (01:11:49):
Portland, Utah, and I guess maybe to an a lesser,
lesser extent outside of seventy nine, were the Sonics weren't
able to do? You know, all teams that made the
finals against the Bulls and the Pistons and the oh gosh,
who else was in that mix in the East for
a while there, well, basically the Bulls and the Pistons
and they could never get it done right, and now

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you get the thunder that end up getting it done.
So it's kind of for those torturit fan bases a
little bit more of salt in that wounds.

Speaker 5 (01:12:17):
Never recovered from that loss to the Lakers when they
blew a sixteen point lead. I believe it was sixteen
point lead and the Lakers went on to win the
Championship with Kobe and Chack that year.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
This all started after Arkansas blew their lead on Wednesday night.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Oh I saw that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
That was horrible because now the last three trips that
they've made of the World Series have just been three
to the last four have just been disasters. They had
to drop the foul ball that if they catch it,
it wins the World Series for him, and it falls
between three guys they have that dude gets hit by
a fly ball this year. I mean, it's just tortured.
It's maybe even cursed. But that's a fun list. We'll

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save that topic for a July afternoon. Art Absolutely this
one for mister nobody. I don't doubt the Lakers will
be better, but remember the NBA has a salary tack,
a salary cap, and a luxury tax. So they've got
to have the right people in charge. They got deep pockets. Yeah,
well they have deep pockets. With Walters, you got to

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be happy, I mean your Dodgings. Yeah, have him as
an owner. The Lakers are the owner. You know, I
was surprised when this all came down. I always thought
that Genie Buss was gonna hold it as a family thing.
And you know, I went to high school obviously with her,
and I just thought.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
It was cool that her and Jeanie and Jimmy and.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
But then you could see there was a divide there.
Even though they I guess they kissed it made up.
I think that was part of the problem. But that's
a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Yeah, the bus fed, We didn't have a boatload of money.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
This was their business. There wasn't another business on the
side or where they made their money.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
This was their business. Then, yeah, the Lakers absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
Now you've got a they got a guy that's got
a couple of nuns in front of that bee out
there helping, you know, I mean billion helping. You try
to go get players and add more assets, and then
there's Paul Real quick off Twitter before we grab a break,
who writes, I live in a world where OKC is
one of sports title Before Buffalo, there's maybe the ultimate

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tortured fan base.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
Hony True, Oh, Buffalo, I totally agree. Well, you live it,
then you live it with bath right.

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
Oh, it's it's it's terrible for they lost their basketball team,
the Buffalo Braves who went on to becoming the Clippers,
and torture that fan base. So it's like a double
torture there, and obviously what's going on with the Bills
and the Sabers.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
It's just been horrible. Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
Disaga with all the news notes and tidbits we missed
on Fox Sports Radio, A right area is the man,
the myth, the legend.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Steve to say, you're with everything.

Speaker 8 (01:14:52):
You guys talked about the tortured fan bases.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
That's right.

Speaker 8 (01:14:55):
Our boss, Justifiable annually talks about to get jokes in Minneapolis,
who haven't had a Pro sports winner since the nineteen
ninety one Twins, Cincinnati, Ohio since the nineteen ninety Reds.
You mentioned Portland since the nineteen seventy seven Blazers. Buffalo
was just mentioned. Since the nineteen sixty five Bills title
that was an AFL championship beating the Chargers. The city

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of San Diego has not had a title since nineteen
sixty three, since the AFL Chargers won the title and
the Padres started as a National League team in the
late sixties. It's been a while. They have been to
the World Series twice and got their clocks cleaned in
each of these.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Garber right Steve Garbine nineteen.

Speaker 8 (01:15:38):
Eighty four and then against a SUPERB Detroit team they
lost pretty quickly there, and then against a SUPERB Yankees
team in ninety eight, lost pretty quickly there. So the
Padres are one in eight all time in World Series
games and San Diego did have the NBA for four
years around nineteen seventy. How did the Houston Rockets get

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the nickname. It's not because of NASA in Houston. They
were originally the San Diego Rockets because of defense contracts. Yes,
they were called that because rockets were made in San Diego.
It's just a coincidence that they.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Had AMaGA slippers.

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
Now, the Clippers came from the Buffalo Braves in the
nineteen seventies. This is a decade before pat Riley I
believe played for the San Diego Rockets and Rick Adelman
as well, but City of San Diego has not had
a title since nineteen sixty three.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
San Diego kissed the doors unless you.

Speaker 8 (01:16:31):
Count like indoor soccer things like that. As for the
title at Oklahoma City, it was a game seven win
for the Thunder one oh three ninety one over Indiana,
which means shay Gilgis Alexander in the same season has
the scoring title, MVP Trophy and now Finals MVP. That
hasn't been done since Shaquille O'Neal in two thousand, a

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dominant season for him and the Lakers. Kareem As a
youngster in nineteen seventy one did that, and Michael Jordan
four times in the nineties won Scoring Title, MVP and
Finals MVP all in the same year. And we can
update the stat about how the Thunder generally blew people
out this year. They finish including postseason, with a plus

(01:17:17):
twelve point per game differential compared to their opponents averaging
a twelve point win. In other words, over all these games,
regular season and playoffs, that's nearly the record Kareem's Bucks
the champs of seventy one was twelve point six points for.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
Different they and nineteen and two after losses.

Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
This is the stunning thing is after a loss nineteen
and two including playoffs, which means you just can't get
them into a losing streak. That is the best such record,
by the way, in such games in a single season
all time. So you have the thunder franchise. Yes, originally
in Seattle. It moved to Oklahoma City in two thousand

(01:17:59):
and eight, and you brought it this up briefly that
Kevin Durant in the early days, of course, was already
there with this franchise. People have seen the Seattle Jerseys
right with him. Anyway, four years, fourth year in OKC,
they made the finals. Two years after that, made a
conference finals two years after that. They had Golden State
in the conference finals in twenty sixteen and lost game

(01:18:21):
seven to the Warriors. After that, for Oklahoma City it
was seven straight years without winning a single playoff series
until the Coach of the Year last year in fifty
seven wins and the titleists this year going sixty eight
and fourteen. By the way, the Seattle Sonics did win
an NBA title nineteen seventy nine. The Pacers franchise had

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not been in a finals since Reggie Miller in two thousand.
Tyres Halliburton was born in two thousand. This franchise won
ABA titles. They showed the banners during the broadcast this
past week nineteen seventy nineteen seventy, two seventy three, they
won the ABA crown. But then after that league fold
with the Red, White, and Blue basketballs. The Pacers, like

(01:19:03):
the Spurs, were part of the merger with the NBA
in nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
And that's the Nuggets, right, That's still.

Speaker 8 (01:19:08):
No NBA title, though, for the Pacers got so close
here and notable how close they got because on January first,
the win loss record for the Indiana Pacers was sixteen
and eighteen. They went on to regular season against Oklahoma City,
this dominant team, and you know they earned a four seed.
I think we can put it that way. Indiana is

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still the only still there has been only one team
seeded lower than third to win a title, and that
was Akeem's Houston Rockets in nineteen ninety five. At least
since this playoff format began about forty years.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Ago they were the sixth seed right in the end.

Speaker 8 (01:19:45):
They were. That was stunning. And by the way, Sportsnet
in Canada make sure to point out that the reigning
Finals MVP in the NBA is Canadian Shay Gilgess Alexander
and the Raining Hockey Consme Trophy winner this past week,
Sam Bennett is Canadian, and they point out that technically
the reigning World Series MVP is because Freddie Freeman's parents
are Canadian.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
I didn't know that one slid that one under wire.
All right, thanks Steve. Hey, we got a buttload of
tweets to get to. It's a celebration night. We haven't
even heard from Mark Dagnall or Shay Gilgess. Alexander will
do that when we get back. Oklahoma City has won
an NBA championship, the Thunder first title in franchise history,

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and we're talking about it next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
Now, the Thunder Champs. You heard it from the SEGA,
My Thunder.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
You hate when I say that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:42):
No, it's you've sat here and you've crushed them for
the better part. How long have these playoffs been going on?
Six months?

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Two and a half months.

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
Yeah, wow, yeah, wow, we have not heard yet from
the champs.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
So let's do that here.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
You know, I'm sure you're as you are now, they're
number one fan. I'm sure you're a big fan of
their coach.

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:21:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Absolutely?

Speaker 8 (01:21:07):
What's his name?

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
Mark Diagno, not even close to the pronunciation, close enough,
but you got close enough.

Speaker 13 (01:21:14):
They behave like champions, they compete like champions. They root
for each other's success, which is rare in professional sports.
I've said it many times. I'm gonna say one more time.
This is an uncommon team and nother championship.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Yeah, now we're here.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
His name when he goes the coaches the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
Well, I mean it's gonna be tough. You know, his
wife coaches here in Oklahoma too, damn. So it's been
a good run for Mark and his wife, Ashley, because
she won a national championship as an assistant with OU
women's gymnastics, and now Mark wins an NBA title with
the Thunder in his I'm trying to this off top
of I have fourth fifth year, not too bad, by

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the way, sixth year because he's the second longest tenured,
our third longest tenured coach in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
That's crazy, really if you think about.

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
That, because I mean, it's it's wild to think about it.
But with all the firings that have taken place and
the movement, I mean Tom Tom Thibodeaux was third longest
and now he's gone. We're getting Mike Brown, so that
that's okay. You know, he had a good run at Sacramento.
He took Sacramento back to the playoffs whenever we thought

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they were gonna have a great future. One more from
one more here from Dagnault, real quick, talking about just
being grateful to be in that moment.

Speaker 13 (01:22:31):
For more, it was a dream for everybody here at
one point in our lives. There's one point where we
didn't know if we're going to be in the NBA,
from players to.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
Staff to coaches.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
It's a privilege. We're incredibly grateful for you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:41):
Yeah, and you know, Chris, maybe I didn't make myself
I didn't make myself clear.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
And now we're number one.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
But so I'll try to say it again. I'm really
not sure.

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
I mean, the year Oklahoma City had has just been phenomenal. Okay,
As you mentioned earlier, one of the best years the
team's had in the entire NBA. But when I look
at their team, yes, they have a superstar in Sga,
But once again, Williams is a good player.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
Ched Holmgum's a good player.

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
And I haven't done this, but I bet you if
I went through with the NBA roster, I could probably
come up with ten teams that have a bigger three
than Oklahoma City.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
I'm okay it or no?

Speaker 5 (01:23:23):
Well, I mean, I'm not gonna go. It's gonna take
so long for me to do that. But am I
wrong about that?

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Do you think that's that's crazy or what?

Speaker 4 (01:23:32):
I would say that you're gonna have a hard time
finding a team that has a better two. They just
won a title and they won eighty They when they
finished wins Wy's in the season, they won sixty eight games.

Speaker 5 (01:23:42):
So like when you take like Lebron and Luca or
something like that, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:47):
Sure more high profile, absolutely, but did they want a
title this year?

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
But that's see.

Speaker 5 (01:23:54):
I'll give him credit because I think you did it,
but it's more of a team effort for Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
I look, I think, why.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Are you holding that against them?

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
I'm not I'm not holding against them.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
I think they're good players, but I just don't think
they're like a big three when we talk about a
big three in general, like like boss of that, Tatum
and Brown, Uh and White. To me, that's a better
three than what Oklahoma City has.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
But I could be wrong on that. I would disagree.

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
I mean, Shay just won the league MVP, right and
I would take Listen, I don't know if Oklahoma City
has a three. I think chet Holmgren is a unicorn,
and it looks like they're very committed to him, and
I think they should be. But add lou Dord into that,
you know, where does he factor in for the future
of this team. He's a pretty major part of what

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they've done. So maybe you're right, But who cares?

Speaker 11 (01:24:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Why does that matter?

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
Are you getting are you? Are you bucking up here
to fight with steven A. Smith tomorrow or something about
the popularity of the team. I don't care. I got
rings in my ears right now. I can't hear you talking.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
No, I'm not pulling a steven A. Smith. I'm not
doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:25:02):
I've got confetti. I can't see your take right now.
It's falling in my face. Who cares well, I don't
care about your TV ratings either. I don't care about
hurt feelings in Seattle.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
Right now, I'm wondering what their TV ratings are going
to be. Though, I'm curious about that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
I know he's probably not going to be good.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
Mark Dagnault was the head coach of the Oklahoma City
Blue in twenty nineteen, Arnie. That was his previous head
coaching job before he was hired with the Thunder as
their head coach in nine and twenty two. Think about that.
So whenever you're losing your mind, it's like, gosh, we
keep missing out on all these coaching guys. When Mark
Dagnault was hired by the Oklahoma City Thunder in twenty twenty,

(01:25:37):
whenever he was, you know, thirty five years old, I
don't think a lot of people were losing their minds
about that higher And now he's got an NBA time.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Well, you're just making my point for me. You know that.
You know when I say about coaching, so oh.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
Hold on here. If you're going to try to say
he doesn't matter just because he's not a big gay,
a big name.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
The same crap coaching in general, for the most part.

Speaker 4 (01:26:00):
No again, you're you're you're twisting this. It's because he's
not a big name and you're given. I've just given
he's a hell of a coach. Then why would you well,
I mean, you've got the Knicks up there at number two,
they're gonna win the title next year and you don't
even know who.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Again, that's my boy.

Speaker 5 (01:26:15):
The Knicks are number two to win the NBA Championship
and they don't even have a coach.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
They're like, who cares? Doesn't make a different too their coaches.

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
It's gambling. It's not real life scambling.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
You're if you're gonna base everything on what an odds
tell you, then you're gonna lose more often than you win.
Hashtag just saying okay, So from Dagnall, uh oh, you
mentioned chet Holm Grid He seems pretty happy to Oklahoma
City say.

Speaker 13 (01:26:39):
You in the fight no matter what happened, never given,
And uh you know.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
I just couldn't be happier for the rest of my teammates.

Speaker 11 (01:26:46):
Man, I'm gonna be happier for the city, happier for Clay,
for Presty, the rest of the organization.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
I'm just so happy for all of them.

Speaker 11 (01:26:54):
And it's gonna be a great night in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
You know, it's interesting because Sam Presty doesn't talk very much,
and he mentioned Sam there and he was on the podium.
You know, Sam doesn't do interviews. You won't find him
on talk shows or podcasts anywhere. He just doesn't. He
kind of works in the shadows. So when he talks,
it's one of those that you kind of you sit
up in your seat a little bit and you listen.

Speaker 14 (01:27:19):
The first thing is Oklahoma has a.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
True team and not just a winner.

Speaker 14 (01:27:29):
These guys represent all that's good at a young age.
They prioritize winning, they prioritize sacrifice, and it's just kind
of unfolded very quickly. But you have to give the
credit to the guys, and we're super grateful to have
these guys representing us now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
So he doesn't talk very much. It's a young team.

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
I guess now now that the title is a couple
hours old, I start to wonder what the pitfalls could be,
because if this team stays together even in this iteration, right,
I'm sure they're going to have to decide to.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
Make some moves.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
They're not gonna be able to keep all these draft
picks that they have, or at least at the very least,
they've they've got to shed players. I mean, I wonder
what their pitfalls could be.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
Who was the one person I heard rumored the league
was Caruso that was teams interested in him. I guess,
is he a free agent now that the season's done
or what.

Speaker 4 (01:28:21):
I don't think truly they have any free agents right now.
They don't have anyone at least that I understand, on
expiring deals. So at least maybe I should say that
is that is based on that one players. But Caruso, No,
he's under contract.

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
I wonder how they had him to two other teams
that were interested maybe trading for him then, I guess,
is the only way.

Speaker 3 (01:28:46):
You can get him?

Speaker 4 (01:28:46):
Then I would assume so. But he's he became a
major part of what they did. And you know, Caruso,
it's kind of wild because he has bounced around a
little bit, right, I mean, if he was with the
Lakers when they won their title, had to go down
to the D League for a little bit, then ended
up getting dealt to the Bulls. What was was he? No,

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he signed with the Bulls is what it was. And
then he was traded to Oklahoma City in that move
for Josh Giddy. So I don't know, you know, maybe
he is going to be a guy that could be
considered a trade target, but I think they'd be more
apt or more apt to give him a deal and
commit to him.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Then they might be what lou Dort, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
I don't know what that looks like for them, but
I just I guess I started wondering, Huh, how's this
thing going to slow down? I mean, they're gonna lose
a series, they're gonna get beat. Not everyone's gonna go
out and win five straight titles. But if you just
look at the core in the foundation you said it,
Harmony Arnie, it's more of a team, right. And you
got a superstar, but you got a team around him, right.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
And if nobody's leaving and everybody's on their contract and
what are they maybe picking up a small piece here
or there, but other than that, you just running back.
No reason to go ahead, and you don't make any waves.
You had such a great year this year.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
Yeah, And I mean lou Dort would be someone that
probably is up for an extension.

Speaker 11 (01:30:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Chet Holmgren obviously, Jalen Williams. I mean, I was trying
to look here real quick. I think I think that
they've got Caruso under contract for a couple more seasons.
I could be wrong on that though, but as it
stands right now, the guys that are free agents after
this year, according to uh REALGM dot com are Brandon Carlson,

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Alex Ducas, Adam Flagler, Jay Mitchell, and the other Jalen Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
By the way, if you were.

Speaker 5 (01:30:33):
At the arena doing interviews after the game, right, I'm
surprised no other person, no other media person has done this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
I would have.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Shown up in that that blue suit that they wear
in the commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
You know what I'm talking about? Uh huh. I would
have showed up with the exact same one. See you
know what I mean. See if they was just cracked
up laughing or something like that, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that uh that they're all wearing
in that commercial.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
Save exact suit on. I would have with that on.
I would have just.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
Started walking around and doing all the interviews and that
that'd be That'd be that'd be pretty funny. I got
a couple more cuts that I want to play here
before we grab our Brake and hand it over to
you on Twitter for the rest of the program. Jalen
Williams Jada obviously talking about what his teammates.

Speaker 14 (01:31:18):
My teammates definitely pushed me through a lot of adversity
this whole entire playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
So without them, I'm nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Alex Caruso on the culture and oksee.

Speaker 12 (01:31:27):
Honestly, they they they bring a joy to work every day.
That is that is unique. You know, it's a long season,
and it's even longer when you're playing deep into the
playoffs and you get into the finals and winning. So
just the joy and the camaraderie that we have is
second to none. Like these guys make it easy to
show up and go to work every day.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
All right, So a couple more here. We haven't heard
from that crowd. Is that a real crowd or.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Is that piped in? No We piped in all the noise,
That's what.

Speaker 4 (01:31:52):
Here's Alexander on how much fun that he had the
fun tonight.

Speaker 11 (01:31:57):
The moment was amazing, The fans were amazing. Oh man,
it was so much fun, exactly what I expected.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
And on becoming a champion, it.

Speaker 11 (01:32:06):
Doesn't feel real. I mean, so many hours, so many moments,
so many emotions, so many nights of.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
This, believe.

Speaker 11 (01:32:15):
Yeah, yeah, too many nights, I believe. Oh yeah, fun.
It's crazy to know that we're all here. But this
group worked for it, this group, but in the hours,
and we deserved this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Oh one more here. I thought this was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Yeah, it means everything.

Speaker 11 (01:32:28):
That's why you played a sport. You played a sport
to win, You play every sport to win. We have
a team full of competitors. Know we did what it
took this here to be champions, and we deserved this.
We roasted a moment here.

Speaker 7 (01:32:37):
We are there.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
I want, I do want to get to one before
I forget one criticism I did have of ESPN that
a lot of people had on Twitter, and I saw
it again. It kind of sparked my memory. They showed
the Hall of Burton injury way too many times, way
too many times, Chris, we didn't have to see because

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to me, it was pretty gruesome. To be honest with
you that I just I had to turn away after
a bunch of times, I'm like, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Do this anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:33:08):
I thought they showed that a lot of people is
even to agree on Twitter that they did it too
many times.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
Well, I mean, don't you think that it was more
about you'd have to know what you were looking for?
Are you just mean more his reaction?

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
No, more about the move and you could see it pop?

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
You can see it pop? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think they had I think they probably did it
because so many people didn't really know what they were
probably looking at looking for. I just I'm guessing. I
have no idea. But yeah, that was gesu. That was
hard to watch. That was hard to watch. Yeah, don't
think anything's tainted though, don't think anything is is is
anti it? And again I wish Halliburton would have been

(01:33:48):
healthy because that would have been something else. Right.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Oh, but do you think, I mean, how much of it?
How different would the game been if he was healthy?
He had three three pointers night, But he was still
hobbling though, Chris. I mean you could tell he was
still dragging a little bit. I don't know what that
would have shown in his play. What do you finished
with twenty third?

Speaker 12 (01:34:12):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
Wait, hold on, hold on, you thought he was dragging
out there?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Yeah? I still think he was limping around a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
No, I thought he looked pretty awesome to be honest
with you.

Speaker 5 (01:34:20):
Well, when he was shooting, yeah, but he was still
he just didn't seem like he was moving like he
used to.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
That's all. Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:34:28):
Maybe I didn't watch the same game that some people
watch because I thought he was moving around pretty good
for a guy that had a multi week injury.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
I mean, I go go back to even game six.

Speaker 4 (01:34:37):
Right, boy, there's some people that are eating some tweets
or eating some crow that was taking the injury.

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
Oh you mean you're talking about Skip Payliss right, yeah, okay,
but oh there's people on our network too. Oh the Knicks.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, Nicks. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Oh, the Pacers did this to try to overshadow his
poor play and give him an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
So I heard him iron it all over the.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Network on Friday, not Friday, because it would have been
which day was the game? The game was Thursday, Thursday. Thursday, Yeah, Thursday.
And then all of a sudden, when he's playing well,
then it be goes, well, maybe they just did this
to try to take the pressure off him and the
heat off him, because he can't really play like that
and be really hurt. We might want to go into
the podcast archives and to lead a few programs by

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the way, too.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
I didn't hear that of it, but I did see.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
I did see the Skip Bayless tweet that you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:35:27):
Yes, yes, that, and then you know what, minutes later
or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:35:31):
Literally seconds afterwards, he goes down with an injury.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Unreal.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
There you go. Thunder are the NBA champs.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
They cap off one of the greatest regular seasons ever
with a championship. They're nineteen and two after losses, and
in this game tonight, Arnie. We haven't really kind of
talked about the game much, but eight thirty two to
go in the third, the games tied at fifty six,
right then Okse goes on a run where they outscore
Indiana thirty three to twelve, and the only pacer to

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score during that stretch was TJ McConnell.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
I know that's I think that's when they had the
back to back three pointers.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
I believe he finally started making threes.

Speaker 5 (01:36:09):
Yeah, right, and then I think it was actually maybe
even a third one to put him up by nine,
and it was all downhill after that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Face.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
McConnell did everything he could. He was he was a gamer.
He's so fun to watch, is he not?

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
Or what.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
I don't know how he gets a shot off. I
don't know how he does it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
It's he'll get in there amongst the trees and he'll
still be able to get his shot off.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:36:33):
And by the way, just one clarification, the Thunder did
sign Caruso to a four year deal, So Arnie, he's
technically tied up with OKC through twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:36:40):
Yeah, but it's called the NBA rule that if a
big market's not in the finals, right then they start
pucking team people from OKC.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
That's right, SGA. So he'll be a right for next year.
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:36:51):
we'll hit some of your tweets next right here with
Arnie and plank a Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 7 (01:36:57):
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Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Oh, by the way, let me give some kudos here
where kudos are due. We have yet to play the
final call courtesy I believe this is the Thunder Radio
network in Matt Pinto.

Speaker 5 (01:37:23):
Thunder fans feel this moment the uncommon young team proves
to be unstoppable.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
It's over at Pey coomm Center Final. In Game seven,
the Thunder.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
One O three the Pacers ninety one, but dream realize
the Storybooks season is complete.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
The final chapter.

Speaker 4 (01:37:40):
Reads the Oklahoma City Thunder over twenty twenty five NBA Champions.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
Solid Matt Pitte, What do I did he do? The Clippers?
Was he the Clippers? Play by play? Guys?

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
I the Mavericks whenever you were down there, probably whenever
you were in Dallas. He's great. And that's the dude
from day one. Man, that's the dude from day one.
For the Thunder he is, He's awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:38:03):
You knows, there's there's something about Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
They were just such good shooters this year.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
I don't know who to give credit to, you know
what I mean, I just can't put my finger on it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:15):
Okay, let me hit some of these tweets then, Oh,
come on, come on, give me a little give me
a little credit here.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Uh, you didn't have anything to do with their shooting.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Chip Engman, who went to high school with me, was
the shooting coach at Oklahoma City this year.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Right, Okay, Whether it's his first year or second year.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
I think it's his third year that he's been there.

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
Pretty much turn you guys around.

Speaker 4 (01:38:37):
You know, Okay, what does that have to do with you? Well,
because I went to high school with.

Speaker 5 (01:38:43):
Him, I taught Chip how to shoot. He taught you
guys how to shoot.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
All the way SGA talks make me, makes makes them
look so experienced. During that interview right after the game,
he was calm, but also very excited and set all
the right.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
He's a likable guy. He's a very likable guy. Is
he not or what? He's the best?

Speaker 2 (01:39:09):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
I here's I do have a complaint. They're very much
involved in the community. They're very much involved in Oklahoma City.
They just don't do interviews like you don't hear them.
Like when I'm driving home whenever I'm out in LA,
I might hear Matt money Smith and Petros talking randomly
to a Dodger player. It's like, oh, look at that
Thunder players don't do that, And that's my that's my

(01:39:32):
only complaint, right, And maybe that's me being a jaded
local guy, But they just they don't do much on
TV or radio, which I guess you don't.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Have to anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
They just don't want to do it or they don't
feel cool.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
But the Thunder franchise is kind of put the cave.
It's Sam Presty man, he's he works in the shadows.
He's not really out there very much. But that's that's
my only complaint, Uh, mister nobody. By the way, a
tortured fan base is the Atlanta Falcons. Two trips to
the Super Bowl that got stomped by Denver. In the
first one, Eugene Robinson gets arrested, and the second one

(01:40:06):
was the infamous twenty eight to three choke.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
That is true. That's a good one. I forget about them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
Yeah, that's second one too.

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
Whenever you were gonna try to whenever you're gonna try
to leave it like halftime, you're.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
Like, this is over.

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
I'm done, They're done.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
Jason B. Diamond, Solid Show contributor. Right, I can finally
say this. I felt this way trading SGA and all
these draft picks for Paul George. It's the worst trade
made in any sport ever. Okay, it led to an MVP,

(01:40:43):
it led to a championship. The Clippers, what's the farthest
they've gone in the playoffs since they traded for Paul George.
Now he's not even on the team anymore. Obviously, did
they go to Western Conference Finals?

Speaker 9 (01:40:56):
Yeah, they played the Suns.

Speaker 8 (01:40:57):
They won.

Speaker 4 (01:41:01):
Okay, let's say they at least they at least went
to the Western Conference Final.

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
Well heck.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
I mean you saw the way the Nicks celebrated whenever
they went to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Speaker 5 (01:41:10):
Oouch.

Speaker 2 (01:41:12):
I mean, is it up there, Arenie, for one of
the worst trades ever?

Speaker 5 (01:41:16):
It would it's probably up there. I was if it's
like top ten. I don't know if it's like the
worst one. I'm trying to go through my mind this sea.

Speaker 4 (01:41:23):
I mean the Tony dor Set Tony door Set, son
of a Bat, the herschel Walker trade, right, that is
often looked at as the worst trade ever because that
kind of really spurned the Cowboys to greatness and herschel
Walker was never the same and what they get like
a ton of draft picks out of it, and they
ended up using that pick to get I think what

(01:41:44):
Emmon Smith was part of it. I mean, I guess
we'll see whenever it comes to the Luca trade, right,
but I think you might be onto something. Jason fitting
that Ben Maller is coming up next. The only Clipper
fan that I know to kind of give us his
perspective on the Thuds a Clipper, Yeah, I don't know, Manci.

(01:42:05):
Here's one from Ahead News who writes, congrats on okay,
See looks like the Thunder broke that Arnie span your
live on the air curse.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Well, we weren't quite on the air yet when the
game was over.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
Right, because I was able to put my curse in there.

Speaker 4 (01:42:20):
Yeah, Ephraim Salaam and Mark Willard, we're busy talking about
Shador Sanders while the Thunder we're winning a title. Paul writes,
you're not allowed to say Doris Burke is bad. You
have to pretend she is as great as John Madden.
Our Rick Carlyle will yell at you also. I think also,
I think Arnie must have forgotten that James Dolan is

(01:42:41):
still making the decisions with the Knicks.

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
Yeah, that I didn't forget about that. We just put
that on the back burner. But he's right, you can't
criticize Doris Burke otherwise you get a ton of crap
rained on you, and everybody shuns you and thinks you're
an idiot.

Speaker 4 (01:42:56):
So I I don't think they listen to the game,
because if you do, I think you'd spend a majority
of the time with what the heck are they talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
I mean, it's crazy. They really love to complain about
the officials.

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Rick Flair has checked in on the show tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:43:13):
He writes, Adam Silver installed Oklahoma City as the NBA
champions and masterminded the Kevin Durant trade even before the
season started, and I'm sure Katie's alleged reaction to the
trade was rehearsed ahead of time. Let the conspiracy theories begin. Well, okay,

(01:43:33):
I mean if Adam Silver was going to install Oklahoma
City as the NBA champs, then, at least from a
TV ratings perspective, it wasn't necessarily the best call. If
you're gonna install anyone as your champ, it would be
like the Knicks or the Lakers, or I don't know,
maybe the Celtics.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
I was bummed out that Bill Foster wasn't going to
be the referee today.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
Our Scott Foster.

Speaker 5 (01:43:51):
Scott, excuse me, Scott Foster wasn't going to be the referee.
There's always some excitement whenever that guy goes out there,
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:43:57):
Well, and especially because everyone had declared on like Friday night,
the Scott Foster was gonna be the guy that's right right, Yeah,
and then one more you see le Dodger Frank who's
been on fire tonight. Can we stop putting asterisks on everything?
It loses all its meaning. It sucks that Haliburton got hurt,
but ok Se is a deserving champ. The only true

(01:44:19):
asterisks in our lifetime is the twenty seventeen World Series period.

Speaker 2 (01:44:26):
See astros.

Speaker 5 (01:44:28):
Yeah, there's no asterisks here. They deserved it that look.
I feel bad that holler Burton went down. And by
the way, it's not talked enough. They had a Indiana
had a two games to one lead and had game four.
That's the one Oklahoma City came back.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Otherwise they go up three to one. This series is over, Chris.

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
And Indiana is going to win it, and they got
to slip through their fingers.

Speaker 4 (01:44:52):
Yeah, all right, more tweets maybe before we get out
of here, more from the post game. Maybe first, for
one final time, Steve Seger's in the house.

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
Steve?

Speaker 8 (01:45:04):
I looked up that gold standard herschel Walker trade. It
was during the season nineteen eighty nine running back to
the Vikings with a couple of third rounders, and Dallas
got three first rounders, three second rounders and a third rounder. Wow,
and they used one of the first rounders to move
up and get Emmitt Smith. Meanwhile, herschel Walker nearly three

(01:45:26):
full seasons in Minnesota, did not have a thousand yards
rushing in any of those three seasons, and then went
to other teams after that to finish out his NFL career.
Shay Gilgess Alexander Is Series MVP NBA Finals Game seven
at Oklahoma City goes to the Thunder tonight beating Indiana
one oh three ninety one SGA twenty nine points, twelve assists. Tonight,

(01:45:49):
Tyres Halliburton of the Pacers left in the first quarter
with an achilles injury. Pacers committed twenty one turnovers. Beneeddet
Macthrin did have twenty four points and thirteen rebounds. Can
we get some love for Benedict mathern r okay see
the chance though. Remember regular season against the East they

(01:46:10):
went twenty nine to one against two and zero against
Indiana regular season they were great at home. Regular season
thirty six and six. Had started eight and one at
home in these playoffs we mentioned earlier. They finished eleven
and two at home this postseason. Did not lose the
turnover battle in any home game. This postseason champs of
the NBA for the first time in Oklahoma City. The

(01:46:32):
Suns are trading Kevin Durant to Houston for Jalen Green,
Dylan Brooks and a first rounder this week. The NBA
Draft starts Wednesday. Also, five second round draft choices are
dealt for Durant. Kevin Durant is averaging twenty seven points
a game for his career. He has one year left
on his contract career. He's a fifty percent shooter from
the floor career at that height. He's eighty eight percent

(01:46:55):
on free throws. Durant turns thirty seven in September. By
the way, the new league year begins July sixth, so
at trade can be completed then. Mavericks assistant Sean Sweeney
is leaving for the Spurs new staff. There were five
WNBA games. Las Vegas beat Indiana eighty nine eighty one.
Caitlin Clarke in defeat nineteen points, tenn assists, eight turnovers,

(01:47:16):
Clark from three point range was one for ten Yesterday,
Angel Reese and a Chicago loss, had two rebounds. She
was one of one shooting in twenty one minutes yesterday
Today nineteen rebounds, but they lost again ninety three eighty
to Atlanta. Chicago is three and ten. New York had
been ten and two, but lost at Seattle tonight eighty

(01:47:36):
nine seventy nine. Sabrina yenescue if New York did not
play due to a neck issue. Dallas now three and
twelve after losing a close one to Washington ninety one
to eighty eight Connecticut two and twelve after losing it
Expansion Golden State this evening eighty seven sixty three Jaguars
rookie Travis Hunter signed Keegan Bradley won the Travelers by
one stroke. US Men's soccer defeated Haiti two to one.

(01:47:59):
The Gold Cup two them and is on Fox and
FS one. In fact, FS one replaying the US game
right now. The Americans will have a quarterfinal against Costa
Rica next Sunday. Alex Poulot took the IndyCar Race at
Roade America and Wisconsin. That is his sixth victory in
nine events. So far this season. Chase Briscoe was the
NASCAR winner at Pocono. Denny Hamlin was second. He'd earned

(01:48:21):
the poll. He's won their record seven times in his career. Second. Today,
the LSU won the College World Series, beating Coastal Carolina
again five to three, two titles in the last three
years for the Tigers. LSU had taken Game one on Saturday,
one nothing that ended Coastal's twenty six game winning streak.
That program had gone two months without a loss until yesterday.

(01:48:41):
The best of three series is over. The Philadelphia Phillies
lead the Mets by a game in the NL East.
The Mets today sent catcher Francisco Alvarez to triple a
at the plate. He at thirty eight strikeouts and thirty
five games. The Mets offense four for thirty one Tonight
lost seven to one at Philadelphia. Kyle Schwarber is twenty
fourth homer. David Peterson's had a great year on the mound,

(01:49:02):
but he allowed five runs in the fourth Tonight the
Windejesu's Lozardo seven and three for the Pills. The Dodgers
sho Heo Tani pitched a scoreless first inning against Washington
with a couple of strikeouts and at the plate. He
had five RBIs today and a comeback thirteen to seven
win Otani with a three run triple, two run homers,
twenty sixth Max Munsey a grand Slam and a three
run homer. The Giants are second in the NL West,

(01:49:25):
still three and a half games behind La Padres, still
five back. Giants took the lead against Boston with four
runs in the seventh, nine to five. The final San
Diego three to two over Kansas City with a run
in the bottom of the ninth, and the winner for
the Padres today was their closer, Robert Suarez, who's still
playing while he's appealing the three game suspension for hitting
show Hey Otani with a pitch on purpose. Arizona outfielder

(01:49:48):
Corbyn Carroll, a star in the National League, out again
today with a bruised hand, missing a fourth straight game.
Arizona lost four to two at Colorado, so the Rockies
record now eighteen and sixty Colorado hosting the Dodgers on Tuesday.
Rockies are eight and twenty nine at home. Back to
you the saga You're gonna be your next Sunday or
what that's the theory.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Well, I don't know why I'm giving Plank the weekend off.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
You're not giving me the weekend off. I'm taking the
weekend off here.

Speaker 8 (01:50:15):
Wow, I'm so anyone's schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Actually, Wow, I don't know why I've given you.

Speaker 8 (01:50:21):
His own schedule. But yeah, wine till Friday, Friday night,
he's gonna be see your Friday night.

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
The Sega Plank the weekend off.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
You're not giving me the weekend off. You control you
nothing over me. I don't like to talk about where
I'm going.

Speaker 8 (01:50:37):
Yeah, do so afterwards after you've actually yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Tell anyone where I go. I a couple of years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
I hate to admit this because it is the same
state that houses the dreaded Denver Broncos. I have fallen
in love with Colorado. I think it's one of the
coolest states I've ever visited in my life. And we're
gonna go spend a week in Colorado, gotcha? Wow, gonna
go to Colorado and I'm gonna hide from my family
the whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
You like a Denver? Are you gonna go like some mountains?

Speaker 2 (01:51:06):
Hiking mountain Baby Manitou Springs.

Speaker 3 (01:51:08):
That's where I'm going.

Speaker 7 (01:51:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
We found like an airbnb there that we like.

Speaker 4 (01:51:13):
And I don't take a lot of time off, so
well take a week off and not do anything.

Speaker 5 (01:51:17):
Now, tell everybody I went to USC. University of Southern
Colorado's where I went.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
But I used to obody was USC.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Did you actually go to Southern Colorado?

Speaker 8 (01:51:26):
At one point?

Speaker 3 (01:51:27):
Colorado? One year?

Speaker 2 (01:51:28):
Is there a state you haven't done something in?

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
Because you have? You try to have a cool whip store.
You got to top everything anyone has. Oh you're going
to Maine. Hey, I got a family member that lives
up in Maine one tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:51:42):
But that shooting coach, I know. Yeah, you gotta cool
with everything.

Speaker 11 (01:51:47):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:51:48):
I know a Lakers got sold, But I I.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
Went to school with Genie Bus. That's your new name.
You're no longer to stink.

Speaker 8 (01:51:55):
I could contribute to that because I remember one season
I worked to a Genie Bus and would come into
our local station every week. It was absolutely great. And
I remember she came in on the exact day once.
You know how every year they had that valuation of
the franchises and the sports comes out and that day
the Lakers it's, oh, they're valued at six hundred million dollars. Now,

(01:52:15):
that's an insane amount of money. Later that same lifetime anyway,
it was a lot back then, six hundred million dollars.
And her comment to me was, yeah, well my dad
wouldn't sell for a billion, So what the evaluation.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
I should I should have asked.

Speaker 8 (01:52:29):
Apparently ten billion they will sell.

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
See he's got a cool whip. Your story. Was a
good looking guy at that divorce.

Speaker 5 (01:52:42):
Wow, that's fine divorce. I would have gotten half of everything.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
Got to top everything.

Speaker 8 (01:52:47):
Instead she married our former co worker.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
That's right. She get either Jay Moore or me. Imagine
there was of course there.

Speaker 4 (01:52:56):
I guess there is the requisite issue that happens around
every cell libration. There was a shooting that happened outside
of the Paycom center. This is being reported by news
outlets in Oklahoma City. If everyone appears to.

Speaker 3 (01:53:08):
Be okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
I know some people were going to social media and
they were complaining, like the police are trying to make
us go straight to our cars and go home. Yeah, dude,
someone got shot. Okay, settle down, but celebrate when you
get home. The victims suffered non life threatening injuries and
is expected to recover. One person has been detained. But
no one has been arrested as of now. Sunday night

(01:53:30):
Monday mornings. So always got to be someone that ruins
it fun for everyone. They used to do and they're
starting to slowly bring it back. They called it thunder Alley,
and they used to shut down one of the streets
and they would play the game outside of the arena.
You know, you see it with hockey, and they're starting
to do it a little bit more over at Scissor Tape.

Speaker 8 (01:53:47):
Did that the first year of Staple Center downtown and
learned to regret it quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:53:51):
That's right, because we had the same thing here. Somebody
got a little carried away, like I can't have that.

Speaker 5 (01:53:58):
Chris, when I used to riot. I'm just kidding, I
just kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
It goes cool with once again, just kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
I got to the top of your story, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:54:05):
I did not do a good job of getting to
the Roman numeral rundown tonight because I under won the title.
But we'll see how many of Roman numerals eleven through
what'd you end up there at?

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Twenty three? We'll see how many.

Speaker 4 (01:54:16):
Of them twenty twenty two, We'll see how many of
them we can fit in next right here on Fox
Sports Radio. I'm starting to wonder, Arenie the tax bracket
that some of my friends are in right now, because
all I saw was exorbitant ticket prices to this game,
and all I'm seeing on my timeline right now is
people that I know that were at the game. I'm like, dude,

(01:54:36):
you get free tickets though you don't have no there
are no free tickets to the Thunder games.

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
He kidding me.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Oh for media, though you could say your media, why
about that?

Speaker 4 (01:54:46):
Well, I'm not going to go well the press, but
your seat with the media is better at home than
it is at the game.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
It puts you up in that upper level.

Speaker 4 (01:54:54):
Plus I can walk right to my my refrigerator and
get whatever I want to drink, and then I don't
have to raise something to do the show with you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Do you want to do.

Speaker 4 (01:55:02):
Your picks here and get him out of the way,
because I don't think you have too much to pick?

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
Dude, I don't have too much. I just take it away.

Speaker 5 (01:55:08):
Let me just get to a couple of things on
my picks. We know that the NBA Draft is coming
up this week. There's no games to pick because I'm
not gonna do baseball. Cooper Flag obviously will be the
number one pick, will go to Dallas. But I think
Yannis some people say he's gonna stay of Milwaukee. I
think he's gonna be traded to the Boston Celtics. If

(01:55:29):
he doesn't get traded to the Celtics and the Celtics
are going to make a big move.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
I really think something's.

Speaker 5 (01:55:34):
Gonna happen with Jalen Brown and they're going to ship
him out. So big, big day that's Wednesday. Round one,
Round two is gonna be on Thursday. So that's all
I have for you. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:55:45):
That's it there in my picks. What are you gonna
do any baseball? Baseball? Get out of here?

Speaker 4 (01:55:55):
Are you anti baseball? You'll be the first one that'll
start talking about baseball whenever it gets closer to the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
Why not jump on board now.

Speaker 5 (01:56:02):
Because we're like game seventy five or something like that.
Let's start picking. If you're betting baseball, now, you've got
a problem, buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:56:12):
You called you try to call the preseason the free season, Well,
the preseason the freezes. I had one bad year, but Arnie,
every year in the preseason, you're terrible. Two years ago,
you two years ago you stopped picking games in the
preseason because it was so bad and said, you're just
gearing up for the regular season.

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
That was last year.

Speaker 4 (01:56:33):
It was both that's the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:56:36):
All right, Well, then let's hit some of these Roman numerals.

Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
You have a lot on the board. There a lot of.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Well, because Oklahoma City won a title tonight, you don't
know what that feels like. Roman numeral eleven. You try
to throw this out every year, and it's fine, but
it's an evergreen topic. The division winners are already everyone's
already won their division in the NFL. Six Madden team
ratings out in the NFL for twenty for Roman numeral twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
Did you see that? Did you see the baden team?

Speaker 4 (01:57:04):
I did, Ian Roddy whenever, whenever Bree bailed on me
Friday night, Ian Roddy pointed it out to me. I
never got to it. But it's fascinating how some teams
are as low as they are.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
I think they had Miami like the third best team
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
Well then it's over. You're gonna win a title.

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
No, but I was just surprised about that, to be
honest with you.

Speaker 4 (01:57:24):
So they have you as the fourth best team. Wow,
after the Chiefs, Niners, Ravens, and then there's it All
and then the Cowboys, Lions, Bengals, Browns, and then there's
the Eagles at an eighty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
So they have the Cowboys higher than the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
I don't I don't know if this is legit or not.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
That can't be.

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
There's just no way. There's just no way. But it's
out there and it was making the rounds. But that's
I saw this from my producer Ian Roddy on Friday
night the filled in for Brie and he was as
shocked as I was.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
So that was Roman number twelve tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:58:00):
Yeah, Joe Burrow's dad made a big bet Roman numeral thirteen.

Speaker 5 (01:58:05):
Seen that story. He bet two thousand dollars on his
son to win the Heisman. Obviously he won and he
won four hundred thousand dollars on that one.

Speaker 4 (01:58:14):
Money Well spit money, well spit fake Roman numeral fourteen.
I just going through that story. Yeah, well, I mean,
what more do you want me to do with it?
I wish I would have been that smart.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Tom Brady passing on Sam Donald.

Speaker 4 (01:58:28):
Uh oh oh, I thought you meant the you thought
there would be more on the four hundred thousand dollars winner.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
No I met on Tom Brady.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
Well, because we'll find out whether or not Sam Donald
was worth it. I'm not really high on Sam Donald.
I still maybe I'm holding it against him what I
saw with the Jets, and maybe I'm holding against it
what I saw the Panthers when Carolina couldn't wait to
get Baker Mayfield to town so they could bench Sam Donald.
I mean, he was good last year, and Ryan Connell

(01:58:57):
kind of figured it out.

Speaker 5 (01:58:57):
But I wonder what I'd love the be a flat
on the wall to here. Why they didn't want to
take him?

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
You know, I don't think they.

Speaker 4 (01:59:04):
I think a lot of teams wouldn't want to have
that kind of investment in a quarterback that has had
all of one good season.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
But then they go on.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
To get Gino Smith, who look at his track record
Roman Numeral fifteen. Tonight was Drew Brees, who apparently his
right arm doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
God shocked me. I didn't know it was that bad.

Speaker 4 (01:59:24):
Well, he had all the shoulder problems throughout his square.
I mean, what's the great story that Nick Saban wanted
to go get Drew Brees whenever he was at Miami
and the Miami trainers failed him in the physical and
would allow him to go get him.

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
Oh, I remember that, right, right, right, right right.

Speaker 4 (01:59:38):
Let's see, just to try to stay on point here.
Is there any other NBA, NFL on there? All right? No? Baseball?
Roman Numeral sixteen Dodgers Padres Dave Roberts versus Mike Schill.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
That was awesome, man, I love that rivory. That's the
new rivaly.

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
That's better than Yankees, Boston, Lakers, Celtics, Cowboys, Philadelphia. It's
it's Padres Dodgers. If you're just gonna tune in any
game to see a rivalry, that's the one you're gonna
tune into.

Speaker 9 (02:00:09):
You.

Speaker 4 (02:00:09):
And then finally, in our last minute, I know you
were excited about Roman Numeral nineteen, Arnie, because you haven't
sent me the tweet for the restaurant.

Speaker 5 (02:00:16):
There's there's a theme bar named after the sailout. They
got the pictures and everything. I'm like, could you imagine
what other teams they should have theme bars, like Bad
News Bears or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
I mean, that was a good, pretty cool, pretty cool story.

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
See we got so we got a majority of the
Roman numeral rundown in tonight and the.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
Proved your day offs All right?

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
Are You're NBA champions?

Speaker 4 (02:00:38):
So Ben Maller is coming up next to celebrate the
Clippers giving Oklahoma City Shay Gilgess Alexander. It should be
fun for Arnie. I'm playing. Great job by Brie and
Mary and Sager. We'll be back next Sunday night. Have
a great week, everybody. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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