06/12/2021 - The Fellas with Anthony Gargano - Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to sports. Well, good good, good, good, good morning,
every buddy, happy habby, Abby more and Saturday across the nation.
That's right, the fellas, I'm any going, I gotta and

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we'll meet the whole crew coming up shortly. And today, guys,
First of all, it's good to be back after my
little so join into uh the little league, but big
league NBA basketball is here, and you gotta have to
forgive me today. I'm gonna warn you guys. Listen. I

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love you, guys. I love convening every Saturday morning with
you guys. And uh, I know at times they could
probably get on your nerves with certain takes, but uh,
today I will assure you and I will probably get
on your nerves today. It's just just like a fair

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warning because I love you that I gotta warn you
that I want to get on your nerves today because
my team and you know, this is what brings us
all together, right, that we all love sports, and that
we all have these moments where there's a moment in

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time when your team is doing well and you're on
pins and needles and you're just all consumed by your
team's run. You guys all know it everybody stands our
poor friends in Cleveland, at least when it comes to football.

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And that's on it's way to change. But you guys
all know about it, right, You all know you can
all pick a moment where your team has is making
a run and you're swept up in the moment. And
right now my team is in the middle, in the

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throes of an NBA title run. Now it's still the
conference semifinals. But my team, which is the Sixers, took
a huge step last night, a monster step by blowing

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out the Hawks in Game three of that series. They
kind of take all the momentum and all the wind
out of the Hawks and take all the momentum from
the series. And you know, I was thinking about this
this morning on the ride to the studio, and this
is what you can relate to that, you know, when

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you love a team, and I think today we're gonna
have some fun with loving a team. And you have
the special relationship with your teens and you love them
and your man at um and you you curse him
and you love him as a child, and you grow

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with them, and you know, you can look at your
teams through the prism of your own life. Right, it's
almost the timeline of your own life, like I can
look back. Let's take the Sixers, because there they've always
been a special team in my heart, right, and I
go back to being a kid in grade school when

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they won the title the last time for a long,
long time ago, when my cohort Effect he wasn't even
alive when the Sixers last won the title eighty three.
So you gotta go back to nine eighty three, the
last time the Sixers won the title. You're talking nearly

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four years ago, was the last time the Sixers wonted title. Now,
you know, I go from being a grade school kid
to being a middle aged man with two children, and
you know that whole ride, right, I rode through the
end of that team, which included the greatest you know,

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Julius Irving and Moses Malone, and through Charles Barkley, and
then like dark ages, when they took a guy named
Sean Bradley who was seven ft six and just a
hideous player, and he somehow found this way into Space Sham,
the original movie that the sequel of Space Sham is

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coming out, So through Sean Bradley. Then too, all of
a sudden, this flash of of wonder kin, this ball
of energy named Allen Iverson and Ai who was an
that trick, right, and he was amazing, and he gets

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us to the finals in two thousand, twenty years ago.
But then they flame out quick and then it's just
a horrible time, right, Like they can't put anything around Ai.
You gotta watch him just kind of grow old. They
trade him, he comes back. It's ugly. They don't win.

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They stink, and then they're buzzing around where they stink,
but they don't stink bad enough. And then we have
something called the process, which people to this day loathe
people and they hold it against them. And there is
and I will talk about this, but there is. The

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league is against the Sixers. I'm convinced of it. But
it takes us through this ugly slug all the way
to now the precipice of contention where they are a
real contender and a real one of the favorites to
win the championship. And that's a journey, right, And I

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want to hear at some point today about your journey
with your team, because in so many ways it tells
the story of not only your team, but your life
and your relationship with your team, and let's be real, right,
That's why we convene here. That's why you turn on

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Fox Sports Radio because you love the sport, You love
the game, you love your team, and you love it all.
And this is what we do. We love sports and
that's the beauty in sports. And that's why it's a
great thing because it brings everybody together, brings all your

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you know, your fan bases and your families and your friends,
and it brings human beings together. And it brings Foster's rivalry,
which is healthy, and it does all that and it's
enriching to our lives. So we're gonna go on. That's
gonna be today's theme. And you're gonna have to forgive

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me while I true. Good morning, Fingy, oh, good morning Anthony.
I love it. You know what I appreciate about you,
and a lot of you know that you are an
objective journalist and broadcaster, but the fandom, the the ember
still burns within you. They had the ember of being

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a fan, and I appreciate that you can be a
fan without being a homer. And you've been critical of organizations,
You've been critical of teams that you love and cherish,
but you're still a fan, and I love that because
I think that's the reason why many of us got
into this business, is because the love of sport, and
so many of us get so caught up they were like, Oh,
I don't I don't like I'm not a fan of
the teams anymore. I don't care about this stuff. I'm

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an objective and that's fine. You can be objective and
be a fan at the same time, because we can't
lose sight of the fact of the reason as to
why we got into this to begin with. So I
appreciate the fact that you bring that passion from that way. Well,
I you know what, thank you. I mean, the fact
that you say that means a lot to me because
you know, you're my man, You're my wingman and the

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great Kevin Figures and Figgy. You know what it is,
it's if you're gonna do it. Like I didn't get
into into sports media because I wanted to be a
game show host, right, Like you get a lot of
guys who are want to be a star and they
need to find bring attention to themselves. For for me,

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I gotta because I love the game. Like you're a
great sports fan and that's what it's. That's what it
should be, right Like, you can cover it and all
the things like that, but and be respectful of the profession.
But you know, the whole point is to enjoy. Like
I watch, I'm taking this. I'm gonna take the sixes

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for a second. I'm watching Joel embiide. Now you know,
I'm a grown man, alright, So I'm not gonna walk
around with a Joel and beat Jersey. I'm with Charles
Barkley on that one, right right, Like, I'm not gonna
walk around with with another grown man's name on my back,
which if you did, I listen, that's you, do you.

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I'm just exactly right. However, I tell you, I love
that dude, al right, Like I marvel at what I
see as someone that appreciates the sport, right and the
fact that that guy is on my team. I I

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adore the dude. I mean, I love watch didn't play.
I love that he's the most dominant force in the NBA.
That that last night they had the Hawks had to
run three guys at him just to try to slow
him down, and they couldn't really slow him that and
you can't play a game where you have to throw
that much at one guy. It's just to pleat you.

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And I watch a man who's seven ft one, who's
as close as you're gonna get to a superhero in
the flesh, because a seven ft one man is not
supposed to do the kinds of things that he does
on a basketball court, and he chose it time and
time again. He should have been the m v P.

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And all the haters, all the hats and I love
my my couple, but if I gotta hear one more time,
you didn't play enough game. You did not play enough games.
He was the most valuable player for the team that
won the East. The act that he's not the m
v P is criminal. I don't care about games played.

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I don't care about any of that. How Rudy Gobert
one defensive Player of the Year, Figgy, it's criminal over
Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons guards one through five. Rudy Gobert
can't even guard Ben Simmons, So I don't want to
hear about defensive metrics and anything else. Well, leaping eyes,

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you can guard Ben Simmons, just stand fifteen feet away
from him. Well, remember you remember what Ben Rudy Gobert. Yes,
I said that in jest. I believe I'm hot today,
man today. And then there is certainly a case to
be made for Joel Embid to do what you know
was done last year for Jhannae. He could have easily

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won Defensive Player of the Year. And you know m
VP and Ben Simmons could have won Defensive Player of
the Year. Uh, for sure. I give the credits Joel
Embiad as an objective observer who has no dog in
the fight. That this guy is out here dropping forty
points fifteen a bounce, twenty seven points last night. He's
playing on a tor meniscus at that size and he's
playing through it. That's amazing to me. For anyone who

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wants to say that, oh he's he's soft because he's
always hurt, there's a difference between been injury prone to
being soft. Maybe he's injury prone, he's had some issues
early on in his career, but he is far from soft.
He's a tough s O B and I have all
the respect in the world for Joel and Beat. I've
always loved him Beat. I've always thought he was the
guy that was going to take them to the promised
Land even more so that Ben Simmons that he was

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the outpha on the team and they needed him to
play the way that he's played this year for them
to actually arrive. And he's done that. And now we'll
have to see, you know, if he can continue this
level of dominance and put that injury as we get
deeper as to the playoffs. You're right, we're still early
part of the journey, so there's no you know, I'm
just feeling good that my team wanted a crucial game

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three of us the Eastern Conference semifinals. But that's it.
I mean, they got a long way to go before
I could sit back and actually, Papa Bob, absolutely, I'm
with you, man, I'm with trending in the right direction though, right,
And that's the only thing that makes me feel good.
And I can tell Chris to play the song. No, no,

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come on, don't come on, Chriss if you want to
do that catch me off guard here, I'm catching you
off court. You should have known that I was gonna
tell you to play the freaking song all the time.
I don't care if it's slow. I'll wait and I'll
vamp and I'll wait till I hear the freaking song

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all right, I think I got deleted from the system. Sorry,
hard drop, crash, drive crash. You guys are killing me.
We come back. I want to hear it. I also
have an update from our friend. Oh my god, Figgy,

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where do you hear where he's at this week? Right? Yes,
our dear friend big Link. Uh we got a toll.
College football is Christmas time for you? Plan? Oh? Listen

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to him? I have to. Yes, you're dosa. This is
what they call play the song. There you go, sing
along Figgy sis, Yes, yes, where the fellas, he's Biggy,

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it's Chris all the rud standing up a cheer. Heaven
any actually win the championship. We're not going to hear
the end of it. Yeah, Anthon's is gonna say, play
this song on a loop for four hours. Don't even

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do the show. That's not the plate from the FCCS, like,
why are you bouncing back every break with a song?
Oh yeah, alright, fellas, We're just getting started on a
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and within the I heart radio app search f s
R to listen live. I imagine they feel similarly in
Phoenix this morning, Suns looking strong as they take a
commanding three oh lead against the Nuggets, and speaking of Phoenix,

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one of the great Phoenix residents and uh former fella
oh way's a fella Big Link Figgy. So I hear
from my man this week and it's a picture of
Big Link and he's trimmed, and he looks relaxed, and

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he's got peace in his eyes and he's smoking a
big fat elk Ca cigar as he lounges on a
wicker chair. And you know what. The caption of the
picture says, what is it? Uh? Brother, I miss you
dot dot dot Chilling and Bara Bara were really slumming

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it their link. That's incredible? Are you kidding me? I
was like, listen, you know, you gotta he's always gonna rue.
But that was his place. He used to love him
doing that, you know. He sends me a picture from
a ruby postcard from a rum b I go, yeah,
that's awesome, you know, but I don't think twice about it.

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He sends me that he's in Bara Bara. Isn't that
where you go and seek like the ultimate peace in life,
peace seclusion. Absolutely, I'm gonna send you to picture from
Oh yeah, please do it. That's I mean, it's absolutely fabulous. Man.

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I was like, look at my man and I and
I had nothing, but like it was, I'm looking at
the picture right and you know when you go, you
know what, my man, he deserves this, you know what
I mean, like, you know, big big links are. He's

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like our brothers. So when I when I when he
sends me this and I'm I'm sent it to you now.
I just had to. I had to bring it up
because I'm like, look at my boy man go for you. Yeah,
he's been through a lot and you know, health wise,
and he looks fantastic, and so I was like, you know,

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thank god, that's great to hear been through a lot
of health wise. Is you know, one of the hardest
working people we know, we know that. You know, there's
never been an off season for him, despite you know,
we know he grinds through the football season and it
just goes year around for him. So I'm happy to uh,
I'll celebrate through him. Oh yeah, that's a great fundo.
Look at that in that class. Not a care in
the world right on the on the wicker chair leading

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back right, and he's like and he just the caption
is the is the greatest because he's like, dude, that
makes you I'm chilling in bora bora, all right, my man?
More and more maybe the uh I'm curious, uh fig
because last week I didn't get a chance to say,

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we had a little league tournament? How he had Uh? Okay,
you know, I sorry, sorry I asked. You know, I
can I tell I man? Uh we didn't get like
a double golden sombrero or something, did we? Like? It
wasn't that man, little man, little maid slumping? You know
what I mean. He's a lot of walks. You know,

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I'm saying it could be a slog sometimes little League baseball.
So right, So it's funny. So my fiance and I
went to a friend of ours. Their son is nine,
and so I had never been to a little league
game before full disclosure. So we went to go watch
him play. Um, and I'm sitting there in the crowd.

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You know, there's only basically everything everybody is within an earshot.
I'm parking here. Every single word that you possibly say.
So I'm sitting here biting my shirt saying, how old
that a strike? There was a ball before and then
and so uh, my my friend's um husband he tells me,
he's like, hey, look, we'll be here all day and
it feels the same strike zone. I mean, guys will
be walking left and right. We gotta keep the game moving.

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So they do. They fudge a little bit when it
comes to the strike zone. It's like, this is so
anti what I'm used to watching. Right now, I would
be very fresh, said, if I was a kid in
the box, I'll be arguing with the umpire. I would
have got ejected already. I got objected to tw winnings ago.
How the hell is that a strike? And it wasn't
a strike before? But for for her, what's going on? Yeah,
you know, and that's a big that's a part of it, right.

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And it's funny because when you have when you when
it's your kid, you feel a certain way right, like
you're what do you do that's not a strike? Right? Cool?
My kid out on the things that's four ft outside right,
come on blue. And for that reason, there's a multiple

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signs on the on the fence facing the stands saying uh,
the umpires are volunteers. The coaches are getting paid, the
kids are here to have fun. Just giant signs pointing
right at you for all the people who may want
to pop up and say say something to the umpire. Oh,
that's fantastic, volunteer. My oral parties get paid. They get

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they get fifty a game. Okay, you know, I'm not
not bad scratch. You know, get it right, game, you
better get it right. By man. It's classic the uh
it was. It was like right and they and they're

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playing like four games in a day, terrible and you're like,
oh my god, you know. And at the end of it,
I felt bad. And Sunday night, it's Sunday night, like
seven o'clock, right, we just had this full weekend of
basque of baseball in the heat. And he's got he's
like daddy, and he didn't eat, Like all day Sunday,

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we didn't eat. We're just playing, were at the fields
all day and uh, He's like, I got on my stomach.
He starts crying. He's on my stomach, curs and I
knew he needed he needed to eat because I had
food for him. He's like, and it was so hot,
you know, in your thirsty. All you want to do
is drink a couple of waters and gatorade. You don't
want to eat because it's too you know, it's too

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hot to eat. And at the end and then I
throw a slice of pizza down his throat quick and
then he starts to come and then he had his
chicken nuggets and he was good. But that was that
was our weekend. But I want to ask you um
about the Lakers and and how you felt. And we

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didn't get a chance to talk about it on the
on the on the whole thing, and then the Clippers
coming back. So what's what's kind of the pulse of
Los Angeles? Well on the Laker front. You know, people,
I usually try not to make too simplistic of very
nuanced situations, which most of the time these things are,
but I feel like for the Lakers, it's very simple,

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and it's something we had talked about early in the season.
Their season hinges on the health of Lebron James and
Anthony Davis. Those guys are healthy, then when it doesn't
matter about the role players or if they're making their shots.
If they're not making shots, there were time last year
where their role players are Ice Code and Lebron James
and Anthony Davis combined for eighty five points and they won.
You know, so that's really what it came down to.

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If there's no doubt in my mind, in many other
people's minds, especially in the city of Los Angeles, they
had the Lakers been healthy, they're still playing against the
Nuggets right now. So that's the prevailing thought when it
comes to that. I would agree with that. I would agree,
And this is no slight to the Suns. And quite honestly,
if if if Chris Paul hadn't gotten hurt, if every
if both teams were fully healthy in the first round,

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it very conceivably could have gone seven games. You know,
between the Sons and the Lakers. The Sons are that good.
The Sons are for real. They're with you. You know,
asked for the Clippers. They're a tough read. So you know,
they get down into the old two hole against Dallas,
they find a way to fight back. Kawhi Leonard has
one of the greatest series in the history of basketball
that individual player can have on both ends of the court. Uh.

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And then they come back against Utah and you think, like,
all right, they got the wake up call. They're playing
against the quality opponent, they'll turn the corner and then
they don't do it again. Uh. And it's almost as
if the Clippers are taking on the personality of Kawuahi Leonard,
where sometimes they're engaged, sometimes they're not. They could turn
it all when they want to, but sometimes they can
slog their way through, and that's just not working for them.

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It's worked for them throughout the regular season. It worked
against a lesser opponent in the Dallas Mavericks, and look,
Luca Donteck basically carried them. Everything goes through him. Utah
doesn't necessarily have to do that. You know, they are
a great and efficient three point shooting team. Donovan Mitchell
can take over games. And by the way, Mike Conley
hasn't even played yet. That's a seventeen point in game
eight assist guy that they're missing from their lineup. Utah

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can beat you in multiple ways, whereas Dallas couldn't. And
now the Clippers find themselves in a hole again, but
against a real quality opponent. It's the old flip the
switch mentality. At a certain point when you play against
top notch competition, and it gets better and better deeper
in the postseason. That switch isn't gonna turn on, or
if you do, the other team's gonna turn it off
for you real quick, because they're just that good. And

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I think what that's what the Clippers are experiencing right now. Yeah,
I think that's a good point because I agree with you.
I do think the Clippers are experiencing that. I think
you look at that Utah team, that team is they're deep.
I think they're I think they've been under kind of overlooked,
the underrated team. They had the best record in the league,

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and yes they're over and that they were overlooked, as
odd as that may seem. Yeah, you know, and you
know what I mean. That Memphis team wasn't as Memphis
Wilson's bad team man that they were, and Utah it's
a game one steam rolls and that team was good. Yeah,
well you know what the X factor was? You know,
people have been comparing this Utah team. Remember that Hawks

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team a couple of years ago that won sixty games.
You know, the whole, the whole was greater than some
of its parts. No superstar, but a few all stars,
you know, Jeff t and Al Horford and all those guys,
but they didn't have a guy that you can give
the ball to when it Matt is most that can
get you a bucket. And people compare this at Utah
Jazz team to that team, and I've been saying all year, no,

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because they have an ace in the whole. They have
a guy that can get you buckets. And that's Donovan Mitchell,
who from his very first playoff game, I believe about
three or four years ago, I think you scored thirty
or forty points in his first game. And it's continued.
You know, last year, we remember the epic him going
back and forth with Jamal Murray in that playoff series
last year before the Jazz blew that blew that lead. Um. So,

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he is a spectacular individual player and we've seen that absolutely.
When the lights are brightest, he plays amazing. You know,
he did it as soon as he Yeah, and Anthony
twelve from three, I mean, he was amazed. And it
didn't matter who guarded him. They put Paul George on
him at times, they put Kawhi Leonard on him at times,

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Pat Beverley, every good individual defensive player that the Clippers had,
they put on him. And it wasn't until they switched
up to his own defense in the late in the
third quarter of Game two that he kind of cooled
off a little bit. But the thing about it is, Okay,
you can take him out of the game. Here comes
Joe Ingles, who's placed to be playing point forward half
the time, and he can eat you up. You know, Bogdanovitch,

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we know can shoot from the outside. Uh, they come
at you in waves. They have Donovan Mitchell that can
let you up, but they don't rely on Donovan Mitchell
lighting you up like the Dallas Mavericks do with Luka
don Chick. And I think that's just been the downfall
of the Clippers. You know that that Jazz imaged one flaw.
It's just they're short, they're they're thin. I mean, they're

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they're bench. You got you know Clarkson, And that's basically
really it, right, I mean, you're scoring punch standpoint, yeah,
you know. I mean that's that's really all we're talking about.
I mean, your your star is gonna play a lot
of minutes. I mean, if you're gonna win in a

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grinding out series, I mean, who you got favors coming
off the bench. So your rotation is really seven nang.
I mean he's good. I mean he's okay. I don't
because he's no good, but he's he's okay, he's okay.
He's certainly not a guy that you would rely on.
They brought in earth On Iliasvo who they thought was
going to make more of an impact, and he hadn't surprised. Yeah,

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he must be done. Must be because he has a
lot of postseason experience. I mean, say for Mike Conley,
he might have more postseason experience than anybody else on
the roster, yet he's not even in the in the mix.
So yes, I would say depth is is a slight
issue for them. But I mean, you know, as you
get deeper into the postseason, your bench shrinks anyway, or
your rotation shrinks. From Phoenix, I mean Phoenix. You know

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they got some decent role players. Yes, they can run
guys at you for sure. You know, I'm so, I
will say, I think it's great to have some new blood.
You know you talked about in the first segment. You know,
the seventies Sixers hadn't won a championship, they didn't since
eighty three. You know, you look at all the teams
that are still alive in this postseason. None of them

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have won recently, not a single one. There's no Lebron,
there's no Steph. It's kind of the new breed of stars,
you know. You know the Kauai has won championships with
the Clippers have not. You know, if they're in it,
you know, So you look at teams like Utah, Like
Utah mate runs in the late nineties with Malone and
Stockton but didn't win. Phoenix got there with with Barkley

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and Kevin Johnson and those guys, but never won it.
So Brooklyn's never won. So there's gonna be a new champion.
There's gonna be a new experience in the NBA finals
that we haven't seen in a while. And I think
this is healthy for the NBA. Who's the team you said,
the seventies sixers Milwaukee, but Brooklyn, Brooklyn is still alive.

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Who were they? The Brooklyn Nets, the ones who are
favorites to come out of the what's that franchise that
fake as franchise? And what what? What? What are they? Three?
I don't think I've heard that. I've heard the three
Ami Goes. I haven't heard the three hosh, I go
free Hose. I'm going to three. I call him free hose.

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It's hot led by the hassa and the hass is harding.
Remember they remember that great line in scar Face where
Sosa looks up at the at the trader and he goes,
you know what a hassa is. That's a pig that

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doesn't fly straight so hard. It's a hassa. You got
flat earther and then you got resting k D Face.
Call him around, call him rabbit here because he hears everything.
You know that we come on. You know he got

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some beach tendencies. Yeah, well yeah, the big the biggest
one was leaving okay See and going to Golden State
to begin with. So I listen, they're great, but the
resident villains, they are the resident villains. I think there
was even a nationwide pole of the most hated teams
in the NBA, and Brooklyn actually beat out the Lakers,
or maybe the Lakers beat them ever so slightly. But

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then there was a list of like the top five
most hated players, and three of the top five were
the men you dubbed the three holes. So that tells
you all you need to know. Yes, and and and
the franchise. It's such a perfect fit, the Hose going
to Brooklyn, because there's no real Brooklyn does not exist anymore,

(31:36):
like real New Yorkers are Knicks fans like they don't
like them. That's because the Brooklyn that franchise is fifteen
minutes old, correct, and the Barrow is fake ass Barrow.
There's all people from all over the country that moved
there city. It's it's it's bunch Chris's that they came here.

(32:03):
I love Chris because I've never I feel like I've
been through Brooklyn, but I haven't been to Brooklyn, so
I can't speak to it. I can't speak to it.
You know. No, it's the days of the old school Brooklyn,
Bay Ridge and Benson Hurts and Brownsville, you know all
those neighborhoods that had a lot of character. Yeah, that's going.

(32:26):
That's the I P eight Barrow. So now that was
just a bunch of you know, fifteen dollar latte shops
all over the place, those kind of things. It's it's all,
it's all changed. But it's funny. I like to poke
fund because it's it's fake. It's just as fake as Blake.
That's what I say. You mentioned that name? Hey, you

(32:46):
had a throwback game in game one? You know you
know he did? Man if I tell you, I'm route
like how from Milwaukee? Man, I have no idea. Uh,
we'll get into all the series. We got lots to
a ton. I can't wait to tell to the guys
it's the Fellas again. You got Figgy, you got Chris

(33:07):
Nick Vittalia is producing. I'm couz and Figgy had some
trending for us. All right. Well, speaking of the NBA playoffs,
you talked about the Sons. They took a commanding three
games to none lead over the Denver Nuggets in their
Western Conference semifinal series. One sixteen to one oh two
was the final score in Denver. Devin Booker let the

(33:27):
Sons of twenty eight points, Chris Paul that twenties seven.
All five Phoenix starters actually scored in double figures. Nicola
Yoki played like an MVP thirty two points twenty boards tennisis,
but was not enough. Denver now facing elimination in Game
four on Sunday Earlier, Joel and b twenties seven points
to Bias Harris twenty two for the seventies sixers their
second straight victory over Atlanta. They now have a to

(33:51):
one series lead on the Diamond. Clayton Kershaw nine strikeouts
drove in a run as well for the Dodgers. They
dominated the Rangers twelve to one for their fourth Street wins.
Five home runs in totally, three in the first first inning.
It's amazing. They do that a lot. They have that,
like five games this year where they're up it's like

(34:11):
fourth inning. Yeah, well, you know, it's it's been a
lot of feaster famine for the Dodgers this year, and
mostly famine. If I'm gona be completely honest when it
comes to offense, they've really been buoyed by their starting
pitching staff. Uh. They've had a lot of games where
they've scored eleven, twelve, thirteen runs, and a lot more
games if they scored one two runs, and that's been
there today. Well, and they've been beating up. You know,

(34:31):
Corey Seen was still out and just got hurt again.
He get hurt again. He got he pulled up, pulled up.
Landman was taking out. Doesn't seem to be serious, they said,
maybe cramps, But Max mns he's leading them in home runs.
He got hurt, taken out with some side tightness. Mookie
Betts has been struggling since starting off the season slow
with a back injury. So they're just dealing with a

(34:52):
lot of things right now. But thankfully, thankfully for them,
it's actually a one sixty two game season and not
sixty games, because they would they would be in a
tough situation now if it was sixty like last year. Uh.
Jacob de Graham, speaking of amazing, he was six endings,
ten strikeouts, dealing with an elbow issue and then took
himself out of the game essentially after the six he said,

(35:14):
it's fine. There was some sort of elbows to denitis.
He doesn't think it's gonna be anything serious. Fully planned
on making his next start, but he's having an historic season.
He actually drove into runs by the way as well.
Doing his work on the map, you realize he's actually
driven in more runs than he's allowed earned runs. At
least this year. He has five rb I as a hitter.
He's given up four earned runs as a starting pitcher.

(35:35):
That's unreal. God, he's other world like Jacob Degraam. Three
two was the final by this by the way, then
beating the Padres Angels won six of the last seven.
They beat Arizona, who has been dreadful h and extra
innings walk off victories for the A's and the Red Sox.
Anthony deskill Fani with a complete game shutout for the Giants.
They keep winning. They beat the Nationals one nothing, Buster posting, yeah, sure,

(35:59):
as he got just I got one out and was
taken out of the game. I'm not exactly sure how
serious his injury is, but we'll have to see. Growing
issue for Max Scherzer Buster Posey having a bounce back
season by the way he opted out of last year
and putting up numbers rivaling his MVP season from a
few years ago. So the Giants are not going anywhere

(36:20):
anytime soon. They continue to play well. Back to the Fellas,
all right, Well, we got lots to get to. It's
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(36:46):
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Good morning, sir. How you doing. What's going on? Many good?
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(37:32):
uh we get ready. There is a huge game tomorrow night.
I mean, I can't wait to see what happens between
Milwaukee and Brooklyn. I mean, i'm, I'm it's such an
interesting game. I was talking to Tim Leigler, who's the
ESPN and NBA analysts, my neighbor who who I love,

(37:54):
and uh legs and I was listening because it's all
about officiating, right Like, if you're gonna a fig she
ate the game tight, then Milwaukee can beat them. It's
all about how the game is called. That's part of it.
And I also think it's just about before the nets,
whether or not they're making their shots. I mean, the

(38:14):
other night looked like nineties Knicks basketball, just ugly in
it up, not even intentionally, like they were playing physical
or anything that teams they just couldn't hit. You know,
Chris Middleton finally woke up and essentially he and j
honest did all the scoring for Milwaukee because nobody gets
the side of the barn. I don't know if you
can rely on that. Now. Milwaukee did play better defensively,

(38:36):
but I don't know if it was a dominant defensive
performance on their part by any stretch. I just think
Brooklyn was cold. Um, So if you're Milwaukee, you feel
like I said that, they know it's interesting, because what
do you think of this? Because we were talking about
it and they were running and then I mean they
ran them. They they blitzed them, and they were physical.

(38:57):
They were physical with them, and they're not used to
getting back. Because if you could hound and you could
be physical up top with their ball handling, uh, you
know you're gonna, you know, you're you're that's a big
deal for them, sure, and it helps throw them off
the rhythm. And look, you can only do so much
against Kyrie and Kevin Durant, but if you can body

(39:18):
up on guys like Joe Harris, you know who was
I think it was one for eight or something like that.
He had a horrible game, you know, and just run
off the other guys. You almost use the same strategy
that at least the Clippers attempted to use against Luca.
Let him get his and take away everybody else. Now
that's harder to do when there's two superstar players versus one,
but it's rare that too. Even two guys are gonna

(39:39):
beat you by themselves. You can't allow the Claxtons and
the Mike james Is and the Landry Shammits to beat you,
is what it is. Um So I think if they
go back with that strategy, yeah, they have a really
good shot of being able to tie this thing up
coming up on Sunday. Yeah, it's interesting because you can
look at him and you go, you know, they got
a real shot. They got a real shot. If you're

(40:01):
able again, you gotta be able to do that, and
you've got to be able to play physical and you know,
be allowed to play that way. I mean, I think
is the biggest thing particularly up top in particularly Kyrie,
because Kyrie, remember Kyrie k D I mean, they're amazing.
They're also very slight. So when you start to body

(40:24):
those guys up and if you're not worried about fouls
for that, that's a really good advantagement. And a lot
of that comes from Middleton. He needs to show up
in the playoffs because he's been a no show on
some big moments for them the last three years. And
the other thing. And we're gonna get in this as
the show goes on, but you know, we're gonna we're
gonna talk about Janice as your front man and whether

(40:44):
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(41:06):
Welcome back, happy happy, happy sports Saturday to all around
the country. Let me at the Gargano, Figgy, Kevin Figures,
Chris Nikki. That's the crowd today on this Saturday. It's
great NBA Saturday. Man. I've been fun. I've been joining
all the playoffs. You know, for all of us that

(41:29):
look at this summer as a sports slog to bring
back that word, because this is not I love baseball,
but you need a little variety, right, you need And
the thing about baseball is that it doesn't hits you
with butterflies, not until Oxober or at least the penet races.

(41:50):
So summertime, it's baseball by nature, is a relaxed game. Right,
It's all about chilled umber. But if you're a sportsman,
one thing you like is you like what football brings,
and that is importance and butterflies where games matter. And

(42:13):
while of course the regular season matters in Major League
Baseball with one sixty two, it leads it to the
chill kind of way. So having the NBA take us
through July, I love it. Now. I know the league
is trying to help bent on getting back to its

(42:34):
traditional schedule, but I I get I think it's a
mistake and from again, and I want to ask your figgy,
because a lot of the people I talked to love
the way the league is now and love this schedule,
like Christmas Day being a big deal. Now they have
to tweak it to get eighty two games in and

(42:55):
you don't want to cram everything in and have like
what you had this year where I said, but all
that said, basketball, the NBA gets lost in late October
and much in November. It does, and I think that
most of this is driven by the TV networks and
them trying to get ratings. You know, the NBA pretty

(43:16):
much as a presence on television every night of the week,
whether it's a bouncing back and forth between the fourth
letter and T and T and then sometimes ABC will
get in the mix. So you mentioned having to get
eighty two games in a regular season schedule. That's difficult.
First of all, it's difficult to do. Already with the
players and the players union talking about wanting to play
fewer games per week, you know, they've already taken away

(43:38):
the amount of back to backs that team's play. So
I think in an ideal situation, I agree it it's
great to have, you know, NBA basketball playoff basketball that
we'll be in the finals the midway through, if not
ending the finals here in the next week or so.
In a normal calendar year, and we're just in the
second round at this point, I think it's great to
have some NBA going into July. UM. But for the

(43:59):
league and for television partners. I think it's more advantageous
for them to go back to the model they have
been and I think that's why they're gonna do it
going into next season. So so let me ask you
a question, why why is he Why do you think
it's advantageous in that sense, because if you're going through July,

(44:20):
you have the world to yourself. I mean, you know
you're not really sharing raving of baseball. True, I wonder
what and I'm not an expert when it comes to
ratings and all that versus. All right, if let's say
the Lakers are playing the Heat in the finals rematch
or something on a random Tuesday in October, there's not
gonna be an NFL game. There's not gonna be a

(44:40):
college football game. And if it is, you know, no
disrespect to the MEIAK or whoever, but most people are
not gonna be watching that. So the networks needs to
fill out programming for the in the middle of the
week during their fall schedule. And so you're talking about
taking away two full months of content if you're talking,
or at least a month and a half October into November.
If under the scenario off starting the NBA season on

(45:01):
Christmas Day. You know, they're losing a lot of potential
eyeballs for those TV slots and have to fill them
with something. And they're not paying these billions of dollars
to the league to not have them on and the
time slots that they basically slide at them in And
that's what it's for Versus in the summertime, people are
getting away, people are traveling. What are the ratings points

(45:23):
looking like in July versus what they're looking like in
October when people are bundled up and staying inside versus
July when people want to be outdoors. And I wonder
if that has something to do with it. I don't know, man,
I think think about October for a second. October you
have the confluence of all the sports, so right, I mean,

(45:46):
you know how many you know, you're not really directly
competing as much with football, but people football is on
their minds, you know, Basketball's on their minds. And then
you have baseball playoffs, right, like that's a big deal.
You have you know, the start of hockey too, not

(46:07):
that that matters, it really doesn't, No disrespect to hockey,
but no, no, it's yeah, I know I'm with you,
but my I guess my point is is that I
don't know people aren't in hoop mode in October and
the like that's football, that's the teeth of football man.
And then he got Baseball World Series October Fall Classic,

(46:32):
Like I don't know, like who's paying I know that
in my neck it awards on the East Coast, nobody,
nobody pays attention to the NBA in October except you know,
people like us. Who are you know in it? Yeah,
And I would say it's very much dependent on the
market that you're in. And I feel like I was
using Los Angeles as an example, and they are very
It's a very unique market because NFL hadn't been here

(46:54):
in twenty years. Basically a generation didn't have NFL football,
and it was always, you know, if the Lakers Opening
Night was a big deal and always has been a
big deal, And even with the NFL being back in
the market, it's still a big deal and people do
care about the Lakers in October and November and December.
But again, I feel I feel like that's more of
a unicorn, and that's that's exclusive to l A and

(47:14):
maybe a couple of other places. Where the NFL footprint
isn't as big. So I agree that I think it
would be more events. He is if they have more
of a spotlight, But you know, for those for those
midweek holes, for a random Wednesday night when there's no
football on, I do think that's where the NBA feels
like they can get some rating points, and I think
that's why they continue they I'm sure they looked at

(47:35):
some sort of researcher, probably thought about it, and ultimately
determined it's best for us and best for our media
partners to just keep the course the way that it
is and and keep it that way. I don't necessarily
mind it, but I do understand. And look, I'm excited
about this too. I love having some some meaningful basketball
going into July. I think it's excellent. But um, I

(47:56):
understand why the NBA is going back to their original
model because it makes sense for them. So that was
always one of my things. And I used to do
the Gargano plan all the time, and and talk about
schedules and when leagues should begin and who said I'm
a loser, And I just know from myself what's advantageous

(48:17):
to myself. So one of the other plans I've had
for a long time and do. When this came out,
it took I was gonna call you on the air. Yes,
I was gonna go it's Anthony on the mobile and
uh and call you a go he fig. Dude, Well,

(48:39):
the first person I thought of when I saw this
college football? Can you believe? I can't believe with the
swiftness and what's their react once they're acting where they're
going to go and go? You know what, we gotta
turn this thing into its wealth team. Well, I can.

(49:01):
I can believe they're doing it this quickly because it's
all about We know it's all about money. So we
talked about having more meaningful games. You have more meaningful
bowl games, bowl games that are playoff games. You know,
we felt that it was inevitable. It was. It is
happening more quickly than I think any of us anticipated.
You know, we're still technically in the infancy stages of

(49:21):
the four team playoff have been that long, and they're
already talked about expanding it twelve. So it's a little
It's more than I would have liked, but I'm not
wholly opposed to it. When people started talking about sixteen
I was like, Okay, you're giving you're doing too much.
Now I would I felt that six would have been perfect.
Talk twelve at some point the scenarios were. I feel

(49:46):
like I've always been the one who has set it
on six and just having the top two seeds, having ris.
The most popular theories have always been somewhere between eight
and sixteen. That's kind of where people have the biggest
debate has raged. Um, So we've talked about eight, We've talked.
I've always felt that six team was too much. I
thought twelve is too much, but I can get with it,
and I felt that eight was about what they were

(50:07):
going to go with. I'm actually surprised that they're actually
expanding it out to twelve. Yeah, you know, but like
to me, you get a true champion that way, in
the truest sense. Went from a playoff. You know that
the playoff is more than just four teams. You know,
give a bunch of different teams from a bunch of
different backgrounds and conferences a legitimate chance to be able

(50:27):
to win while still maintaining some integrity for their regular season.
It's not the it's it can't be the n C
Double A tournament you can't have sixties teams, but it
can be. It can mimic the NFL correct, and I
believe that's what they're trying to do. Yes, I think
I thought the same thing. I thought, you know, that's
what you're saying, basically the NFL type of you know,

(50:52):
playoff tournament if you want to call it, and it
gives an element of fairness to to the smaller schools
that will hop up and actually have a really good season.
Your UCF type of teams, you know, in a twelve
team playoff. UCF is easily in a couple of years
ago when they went undefeated, and we're not worried about like, well,
you know, strength the schedule, they couldn't have done this,
or who knows what would have happened neutral side. Instead

(51:14):
of using all these metrics, just say, look, they were
undefeated in a smaller conference, they were number ten. Let's
see what they can do against better competition in a
game that actually matters. So the more I've thought about it,
I've warmed over to it. The last I guess three
days since the story initially came out, I'm still adamant.
If they I'm glad they're not talking sixteen. It wouldn't

(51:37):
have been a fan of sixteen. Yeah, I would have.
But I always thought like I'd never get sixteen. I
never brought sixteen up really because I never thought I'd
get sixteen by it. But I I thought swell like,
I always settled on twelve because they go, ah, I
think I can get twelve. I love it. I was.

(52:01):
I was called Lincoln Bora, Bora that you're right. Something
tells me he might not have been by his phone.
That's weirdo. By the way, did they give you any
credit for this? By the way, are gonna get any
cut from this? Like one percent of the college football
playoff money for are you proposing this plan initially? For years? Bad?

(52:26):
I get nothing, man, and I get I got got love?
They say, no love whatsoever? All right, we gotta get
lots to do. I want to get back to the NBA.
And let's kind of focusing hone in on each of
these series and the conferences and look at each team's
chance to win it. Where the Fellas that's right on

(52:50):
Fox Sports Radio, Fellas Figgy because and Chris Nicky. So
let's let's visit for a second. I want to get
into the kind of the state of the playoffs and

(53:11):
kind of look at each of the teams. But I know, Chris,
you're not the biggest NBA man. He's counting the days
until lines football begins. What are you up to? I'm
busying myself right now. Well, uh, Euros started, and I
know that's you know, usually European soccer. It's not something

(53:32):
a lot of Americans get into, but Italy always has
a big US following and they look strong on Friday.
So I was watching that and they'll probably you know,
it comes on early here. I think matches starting about
an hour, so I'll be watching that. But I am
watching some of the NBA playoffs just because playoff NBA
it's kind of like what you were talking about. For
for me, it's like what you're talking about with playoff baseball,

(53:54):
right Like it feels like when we hit the playoffs
and NBA, it starts to actually means thing. Players stop
talking about how much these games don't matter, and they
suddenly now all these games matter. And that's what's what
I love. Like that idea of butterflies, that idea that

(54:15):
games matters. Why we watch why we love football, man,
because the football regular season, these games matter so dramatically. Yeah,
and when it comes to football too, it's it's funny
how much even right now, if you're really dialed into
your football team right now, you probably follow a beat
writer or two from your team, and you're following along

(54:36):
with what's been going on at mini camp and O
T A s and practices and everyone wants to get
you know, who's throwing what, who's looking good in practice
and everything. So it's it's that anticipation right now, just
just even for the season. So I yeah, don't that
doesn't catch steam like, oh no, that's it's much like

(54:59):
with the draft, it's it's totally it's just methadone. The
real stuff is in September. That's a good aug That's right,
it's getting out. I love it, Nikki, what's got you?
I know you're Mr Falcon. Yeah, I've been looking at
falcons MANI mini camp and I'm just watching clips of
Kyle Pitts man every route he run. I love it.

(55:23):
I love it. It's a shame, you know, I will say,
this is a shame that we're not gonna be able
to see Julio and Redley and and Pits out on
the field. At the same time. But I understand the
Julio trade. They got what they got for him. Hey,
it's better than nothing, and now they can sign their rookies.
And hey, when it took Pitts. We were talking about
during the break and you know they when it took Pitts.

(55:45):
That was pretty much the book on Julio. And I mean,
I'm watching every little video from Falcons mini camp and
I am I'm pumped. I'm excited about the hire of
Arthur Smith. I love Terry Fotton and his new GM.
They're making a lot of really really good smart moves
and let's see, uh how they how they manage it.
So I'm really excited about this season. I have a
lot of hope. Now is that what's all consuming you

(56:06):
right now? Are you a n B A nine? I
mean for the most I mean I'm I'm a Lakers fan,
so I mean the Lakers are out of it, but
I mean the n B A is my favorite. I
would say I have all the sports is because I
played basketball the most growing up and I got there
was the earliest exposure to Um. I'm I'm really digging
the playoffs. And to back on what rip back up?
What Chris said about them just a playoff basketball there

(56:28):
is like a big like a hockey. It's just a
different atmosphere when we get to this time of the year,
and you know, it's partly just feels like, you know,
we talked about how long these seasons are. What these
leagues actually benefit from cutting maybe ten games or or
a few games here and there, because the fast we
get to the playoffs, the bigger the impact, the more

(56:49):
views we're gonna get, the leagues are gonna get. So
it's just really brings up some interesting questions. Well, I
think for sure if you look at baseball, baseball will
be the one sport fig that I think you would
benefit from lopping a few games off of. Yeah, it
makes sense. I don't know if won sixty two really
makes sense in the model, especially if you're gonna have

(57:10):
playoff expansion and have as many teams make the postseason
as they're thinking of. It made sense back in the
day when the National League champion was basically just whoever
at the best record in the National League versus whoever
at the best record of the American League. It makes
sense to have that many games. Uh, it doesn't necessarily
now the problem is it's always hard to put the
you know, the toothpaste back in the tube. How are

(57:31):
you gonna make up that gate revenue from sixty fewer games,
you know what I mean? That's always the tough part.
Are you going to raise the ticket prices? And people
are already complaining about how high ticket prices are because
they are uh in certain parks in certain markets. That's
the that's the issue. Or the TV revenue, especially for
the local TV revenue, which in baseball does amazing. I know,
national ratings EBB and flow, but local TV ratings and

(57:54):
baseball have been going up over the last six or
seven years, and you know they're not gonna wanted to
have less games on the air to hurt them from
that standpoint. So I I just don't know how from
a financial standpoint you do that if you're baseball. I
also question if cutting the regular season will actually drive
more numbers to the postseason. I feel like what we

(58:15):
have of the postseason is already you know what you're
going to be saturated with With the teams who are
in the postseason, their stadiums are already full, their markets
are already glued in when their team is in the postseason.
I don't know, if you know, cutting twenty games, thirty
games out of the MLB regular season suddenly convinces a
lot more an appreciable amount of people, more enough to

(58:38):
make up that lost gate revenue that Figgy was talking
about two to those TVs to offset any losses there.
I don't. I don't think the calculus just works out
for it. Well, I mean one thing I would always
do if I'm baseball, and I think they've been kind
of around it, and at some point they will, they

(58:59):
will do it, But you gotta fix your playoff system.
You gotta expand it, you gotta. I mean, it's one
game playoff, I think is the dumbest thing in baseball
and antithetical to what baseball is. Baseball has always been
about series. But yeah, at the same time, though, like

(59:20):
we see how much people like these winner take all games,
like that was the whole impetus for the NBA to
do the play the playing tournament. Yeah, but that's the
playing tournaments. It's really just for taking purposes, and that
there was it was kind of, hey, let's do something fun,

(59:40):
to try to make something interesting, you know, that's all
that is. Keep more teams alive to distancentivise them from tanking.
So if you know, if you're within three games of
the eighth seed, instead of just saying, well, our seasons over,
you have a chance to actually make it. The only
thing I fear about the playoff or the playing games
in the NBA is what if we're gonna get to
a point where it team that maybe is five games

(01:00:02):
over and and it's put in the playoff playing game
and they lose to a team that's like maybe just
barely five hundred. And we're kind of the same thing
with the NFL. We're like, you know, oh, the Washington
football team wins you know, four games or whatever it is,
and they're in the playoffs because they win the division.
You know, that's kind of a slippery slope that we're getting.
I I liked the playing game before because it means

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understandable because um, the pandemic, you know, put the hold
on the season, and so you have a lot of
teams whose records are really identical to one another, and
so those made sense by I fear that we're gonna
get to a point where, you know, a team that
has a much better record loses out on the chance
of making it to the playoffs. And again we talked
about revenue and stuff like that, how is that gonna

(01:00:45):
affect the playoffs and and how people view teams they're
in the playoffs. And another thing with the whole TV
revenue is, you know, streaming is becoming a thing now,
Like an MLB recently had the Dodgers game on YouTube,
and you know, so maybe there's a partner if they
can do with YouTube or Twitch or something like that
where they can you know, package a few games here

(01:01:05):
and there, how many games a year. Same thing with
you know, Amazon, and so you know, there are opportunities
to make up if they were for in terms of
TV revenue, if they were to cut some games here
and there. I agree with that, I do. I do.
I just think, look, America, we love playoffs. You know that.

(01:01:27):
That's the thing, that's the difference. That's why it's funny.
It's why I still and I like the ep L.
But I mean, it's so it's such a drastic change
from how we look at playoff in the season and
crowning a champion like it just ends. It's it feels

(01:01:49):
like there's no complete ending to it. Yeah, we never
go to that model. That's it's not how the American sports.
I mean even our soccer isn't that way. Like MLS
has playoffs. Yeah, I mean all of a sudden it's over,
like it's just I don't know, that's just weird. But
I think there's something if that, if you're going too
far the other way and you know, just just putting

(01:02:12):
too many games in there at maybe de values again.
I I think the most exciting time in the playoff
is when you hear it's a game seven or and
I see my friends who tune in for wild card
games because you win or you go home. Yeah, it's
different from baseball. You've got to have the series. But
when it's a game seven, be at n b A

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or hockey or baseball, it it really electrifies people. They
just they want to tune in for it. They don't
want to deal with the rest of the series. They
just want to get to that one winner, take all game.
And that's what makes I disagree, especially with baseball. You
can add worse two a three game series, you know

(01:02:53):
what I mean for a wild card round and have
to win two games. Yeah, I don't think it's fair
if it's just one game. But I'm just saying that's
that's the time to disagree with people seem to really
jump in for the casual. But here's why I disagree
with you, because I think the whole story of a series. Man,
you know, you're losing everything. This the rivalry. Like when

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you play a team in the best of seven series,
you there's bad blood. That's that's organically kind of put
out there. I mean, it's it's real. I mean, you
see the same guys you're competing, you start to dislike them,
and storylines crop up over a seven game series. No,

(01:03:36):
I agree with all that, I think though in the
point the other factor is people have busy lives and
they don't want to Again, they don't. They don't want to.
I don't want to hear people got busy lives, Well,
they don't watch the don't watch it? Okay, you want
the ratings up though, you know, listen, I think the
rings will be there. So I've disagree with you that people,

(01:03:57):
what do you got, what do you got to do?
What do you got to dude? You're not gonna watch
the seven game series? You want to watch one game?
You know, if it falls on a Saturday, I might
want to go out to the beach or something. Okay, dude,
how many times gonna fall on Saturday afternoon? I get
you know, the playoff there at night time. Actually, if
it's Saturday, I'm probably sleeping because I'm in between these

(01:04:18):
overnight you know, he loves tweak Man always. I feel
like that's there's some reciprocation going on their best I'm
back and forth with the two of you, and I'm
here for it. Yes, do me a favorite. My brother
hit this with some trending. Alright, well, if you call
it Yokick had a phenomenal night on Friday, thirty two points,

(01:04:38):
twenty boards, ten assists for the m v p U
didn't matter if the Sun's pretty much led wire to
wire in Denver with a one, sixteen to one or
two victory to take a three nothing series lead. Devin
Booker leading the way for Phoenix with twenty eight points,
Chris Paul twenties seven points and eight assists as the
Sons are just one victory away from making it back

(01:04:58):
to the conference finals for the first time since two
thousand and ten. Seventies sixers handing the Hawks their first
home loss since April, Joel and beat twenty seven points
in a one seven to one eleven victory. Philadelphia now
leads that series two games to one. Clippers for Sergebacco
will not return this postseason. He had had to undergo
back surgery on Friday. Raptors were not in the postseason,

(01:05:21):
but a big loss for them heading into next season.
Pascal Siakam at shoulder surgery on Friday. He's going to
miss the start of the upcoming season. In Major League Baseball,
the Dodgers steam rolling the Rangers twelve to one, l
A hitting five home runs in that game. They have
won four games in a row. Angels have won six
of their last seven. They beat the Diamondbacks six to

(01:05:41):
five in extra innings Milwaukee Surgery. They beat the Pirates
twelve wins in their last fourteen games. For the Brewers,
they are now tied with the Cubs for the top
spot in the NL Central. The Cubs did beat the
Cardinals earlier in the day by the score of eight
to five. Houston and Cleveland with victories as well, White
Sox with a victory with the Tigers five to four,

(01:06:02):
and they have won four of their last five. Back
to the Fellas. Thanks fig I got one quick question
if your trending it, am I right to say that
Ohtani is completely under played. I mean, he pitched again

(01:06:23):
last night and his stuff is ridiculous. Yeah, he's amazing.
Now you he feel he doesn't get the hype that
he deserves. Yes, I mean I feel there have been
times where he's I've been the lead story on Sports
Center here and there, and there will be network talks
about him, but quite a bit. What what hurts his
cause is the same thing that's hurt Mike Trouss calls

(01:06:44):
over the last decade. The team sucks. And I can
say that because I'm ajil fan, because I'm an Angel fan,
I can say that they suck. Dude, How's that possible? Uh? Pitching?
They have not been able to show up their pitching staff.
But he and that dude is me. The kids got
a good arm. He h's the boy crushes the ball.
He can't do everything, Anthony, That's what I mean. He can.

(01:07:06):
He's been amazing as a hitter and as a picture,
but he can't pitch every single day, you know. Uh so,
so that's the problem. They've They've been better recently, but
the problem is just finding consistency throughout an entire season.
They haven't had an a since Jared Weaver and we
were retired probably about eleven years ago, whatever give or take.
So it's that's been the issue for them throughout this

(01:07:29):
entire situation. They've had years where our offense has been fine,
has been great, just not enough pitching. So I think
o Tany is getting enough shine for what he is
because he's been great even at times when the team
has not been. But that's only gonna last so long
when the team is just not being competitive on a
night in, night out basis or season in, season out basis.

(01:07:50):
But look, I think even if you look at the
top of the leaderboard for a l m v P,
you know Vlad Jr. Is up there with Toronto is
having a good year offensively, and I think Otany, at
least as two weeks ago, those guys were neck and
neck Oltani could be one of those guys who was
an m v P on a losing team. I think
A Rod may have been the last person who did
that with the Ranger some years ago. I guess you

(01:08:10):
know what it is being in the East Coast, Being
on the East coast. You know, maybe that's what it is,
because I feel like this dude gets nothing like he needs,
you know, I mean I I he amazes me. The
fact that he was, the way he hits the ball,
and the fact that he's a picture like that. That's

(01:08:32):
I mean, when's the last ky who did that? At
this level? I don't know what's ploy. And God doesn't
take days off Anthony. It's ridiculous. I mean, even when
he has scheduled days off, they bring him in as
a pinch hitter. I can't tell you the last one
the Angels played a game in Oltani did not make
an appearance. I mean, it's unbelievable. How could he they

(01:08:52):
have I just don't understand it. How could you have
Trout and Otani and be I just don't get it. Well,
Trout has also been out out for a month, but still, yes,
absolutely absolutely, it's not for lack of offensive talent. Otani

(01:09:13):
had Tommy John last year, so I missed all of
last year. He struggled on the mound after getting off
to a good start, but this season he's been spected.
He had some walk issues and I think that's still
a problem. He's one of those guys who because his
stuff is so good, he tries to strike out everybody,
so he has some walk issues every now and then.
But yeah, he's absolutely spectacular. He's he's fun to why

(01:09:33):
he's he's turned into appointment viewing. You know, it's one
of those if there's something else on, you know, perfect
example I'll give for for the last night. I'm kind
of going back and forth between the Sons and Denver
and the Angels and the Diamondbacks and Otani's you know,
stepping up to the plate. Like I know, I know
the Denver and the Sons are going at it in
the playoff game, but I got to see this guy
hit because he might hit a five football out of

(01:09:54):
the stadium, you know what I mean. He must watch TV,
you know it would happen to Rendown. So he had
some injury issues to start the season, and then he
came back and he's just been cold. He's been better
than last two weeks or so, but certainly has not
lived up to the contract that they gave him last
off season. Uh, for sure, he is not that that

(01:10:18):
investment has not has not paid dividends for them quite yet. Yeah,
I'm it felt like he's lost a lot of I mean,
he had dynamic power, you know he has he still
has a bit of power, but I just think for
whatever reason, whether it's trying to find his footing in
the American League, I don't know exactly what it may

(01:10:38):
be with him, but I know there are some injury
issues that popped up the last couple of years, and
the Angels have just had tough luck with a lot
of these big signings forever. You know, Pools never lived
up to the inspectation they had for him. Josh Hamilton's
was a disaster for them. So this is par for
the course. She signed a big name free agent and
for whatever reason, he doesn't seem to come through. But

(01:10:59):
there's still time. And like I said, he's been turning
a corner. He's been playing better, just not been himself yet.
And I think getting Trout back in that lineup will
certainly help things too. So we'll see. But again, unless
any of those guys can actually make some head away
on the mound and pitch, I don't think it really
matters what they do offensively. Yeah, no, I feel you.
All right, Let's uh, let's take a look at the

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playoffs right now, Let's take a look at each team
and who has the best shot. As we are dwindling
and moving closer to crowning an NBA champion, Tonight's game
A thirty Eastern five thirty Pacific is gained three as
the series switches to Los Angeles Jazz and Clippers Clippers.

(01:11:44):
The Jazz lead two. Oh and we'll see they're digging
themselves a hole again. I don't know, fake, can the
Clippers come out of this thing again? You know, you're
defending home court, so as long as you defend home court,
you're good. But they're again, man, yeah, they can do it,
and I mean, but again, it's gonna get tougher and

(01:12:06):
tougher against really good competition like the Utah Jazz. Are
why the Clippers feel the need to have to lollygag
and sleepwalk their way through first halfs and first quarters
of games and then try to turn it on, because
we've seen what they can do when they turn it on.
Look at game Look at games seven against Dallas. I mean,
they're as good as anybody when they're clicking. They just

(01:12:26):
don't do it all the time. I don't know where
that lack of motivation or where that lack of fire
comes from um Bullock. They were right in it at
the end of both of them. They lost game one
by three. The Game two got away from him a
little bit. But guys who have been coming through for
them all season long, and this kind of happened throughout
the Dallas series as well, just weren't doing it. Marcus
Marcus Morris was the second best three point shooter in

(01:12:46):
the entire league, and he's been ice cold outside of
Game seven against Dallas, where I think he was seven
of nine from three. He was ice cold that entire
Dallas series, and he's been ice cold the first two
games against Utah, and he's a sin actually been. They
don't have a traditional quote unquote third All Star with
Paul George Kawai Leonard, but he's been their third best

(01:13:06):
offensive player and they just haven't gotten contributions from And
the problem is, you know, you get twenty nine points
from Reggie Jackson, that's almost like a wasted performance. I
was sure to say that. I mean, you get you
get that kind of those concert numbers from him. Yeah,
you're not gonna get that on every so on a
night in night out basis, you know, so you have
to take advantage when you get nights like that from
a role player like him. But you need guys like

(01:13:29):
Morris and but Toom to make their open shots. And
I mean, really, I think that's what it came down
to the last five minutes of Game two. They just
weren't able to make the open looks that they had,
And even ty Loo said that. So when asked, well,
what adjustments and what can you do offensively, He's like,
all we can do offensively is make open shots. Like
Paul and Caua, I have done their jobs. If they're
not getting if they're not clicking on all the cylinders

(01:13:50):
offensively themselves, they're getting good looks for everybody else. The
name of the game is being able to make shots
in this league, and the Clippers haven't been able to
do with these first couple of games. Now, listen, playoff
Pop has played well. He has especially in fourth quarters,
especially in fourth quarter. I think he's the second leading
fourth quarter score in the entire postseason to this point.
Then shooting at a shooting at an efficient clip at that. Yeah,

(01:14:13):
now it's the truth. Now that Utah team, it's it's could.
I mean, they just they were a defensive team. They
could score and they'll rain threes on yet and you
know it's amazing because when they get hot, they're just ridiculous. Yeah,
they can come at you in waves, and again they
have an ace in the whole. I mean, if i'm

(01:14:34):
if i'm them, I don't know if if Mike Connolly's
sevent whatever he is, I don't even play him. Why
would I even play him tonight? You know? No, No,
I don't do that at all. Just let him sit
and keep resting. And if you if and depending on
how even if you lose, maybe depending on how things
are shaping up, maybe you don't play him in game

(01:14:56):
four either, knowing that you have two of the next
three at home. Yeah, I greet, I'm with you. All right,
we'll take a look at the Phoenix Suns. What a
story were up three oh amazing? Taken out the Joker,
the the man who stole the MVP, I mean, the

(01:15:16):
m v P of the league. We'll talk about it.
Were the fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
fig let's look at Phoenix and let's look at the
Sun's Because the Sun's up a commanding three oh lead
after last night, and they go into Denver, and they

(01:15:41):
basically have their way with the Nuggets. And uh, Joker,
the I mean the m D P the whatever, thirty two,
twenty and ten. Not the Joker's fault. He did everything
he could. He was ridiculous, just not an enough. You
can't have that guard play and actually beat Phoenix, No,

(01:16:03):
and that's the issue. Phoenix is too complete of a team.
And look, I mean even Michael Porter Jr. Is out there,
but his back has been flaring up again. We know
he had that issue which made him slip in the draft,
but it's been a chronic issue for him. And then
not having their second best player in Jamal Murray in general.
And I know that Joker played better once Murray left,
which was hard to do because he was already having
a great year. But you've brought this up on the

(01:16:25):
show multiple times. This your best It might not have
to be your best player, but you gotta have somebody
who can create shots and who can make things happen
with the ball in his hands from the back court,
and the Nuggets just don't have anybody that can do
that from a consistent basis. Monte Morris came back in
and gave them a bit of a boost. But he's
a good player. He's a role player. He's not a

(01:16:46):
star player to be able to take it to the
next level. They just don't have enough horses and they're
just not good enough defensively. And Chris Paul has either
uh miraculously healed or found the way to deal with
that shoulder injury he suffered against the Laker because he's
been spectacular, and more so than anything, he's been spectacular
when it's matter at most, you know, whenever Denver is

(01:17:07):
making runs or you know, late in the game in
the fourth quarter, if the game happens to be close.
Devin Booker spectacular and he really didn't have his first
breakout game in this series until last night. But Chris
Paul has been absolutely amazing for them in every sense
of the way. Oh my god, he's been unbelievable. What
a story. Yeah, CP three just amazing. A move by

(01:17:32):
the way, that was deadpanned by a lot of people, like, oh, well,
the Sun's doing all right. Cool. They trade for an
old Chris Paul who gets beat up at the end
of the season every year. Maybe they'll sneak into the playoffs,
but this really won't do much maybe it'll help them
in their development for the future. And I don't think
there's a single soul out there that thought the Phoenix
Suns will be have the second best record in the

(01:17:53):
entire league and now be basically on the verge of
making it to the conference finals and possibly you know,
I mean, who knows. I mean, if they in Utah
make it there, Utah will probably favorite, but probably not
by much because they both teams played very similarly. It's true, now,
you're right about that. They're a great story. They are
an amazing story, an absolutely amazing story. I I marvel

(01:18:19):
at what they've done. I do are they getting how
much love are they getting out West? Because at East,
you know, sometimes he gets lost and there's such a
great story. They're going to get more now, for sure. Look,
I feel like a lot of people didn't give them
a lot of credit for beating the Lakers because that
wasn't really the Lakers. They weren't a hundred percent healthy.

(01:18:40):
But look, you know their professionals and Lakers are running
guys out there too on the court, and Phoenix worked
them over and worked them over pretty good. Now the
m v P comes in, Yes, you can say they
didn't have Jamal Murray. But look, they haven't had Jamal
Murray for a month and a half two months, so
Denver has had to adjust without them. They've played well.
They want to playoff series without them, so we really

(01:19:00):
can't use that excuse at this point in time. And
you think they put up a better effort than getting
trounced the first three games of the series. And outside
of Joker and Monte Morris when he's back in the lineup,
really not putting up much of a fight. But I
think it's just an onslaught. It's the way that Phoenix plays,
coming downhill and just pushing the ball every single time.
DeAndre Ayton has been spectacular. Even with Yokik playing as

(01:19:23):
well as he played, he had to earn those thirty
two points. DeAndre Ayton I think has been kind of
an unsung hero for them on both ends. I know
he's shooting a high percentage on a lot of dunks
and all that, but defensively running the floor, diving on
the floor for loose balls. Uh, He's been amazing for them.
Everybody's playing their role for them and that's why they're
a young, exciting team. Not a lot of playoff experience.

(01:19:46):
With the exception of Chris Paul. I don't think anybody
else on their team, but the exception of him and
Jay Crowder really have any playoff experience. So they're like
the pert prime example of the young, don't know any
better type team who's just out there gunning and having
a lot, having a lot of fun and having a
good time. And I enjoy seeing it, to be honest.
It's some new blood, yeah, I and having I'll tell

(01:20:08):
you one thing. If it's like we think it's gonna
be and in Utah Phoenix, man, that could be an
amazingly fun serious Oh my god. First of all, the
brand of basketball will be fun. It'll be up and down,
it'll be threes, all kinds of stuff. You and you'll have,

(01:20:28):
you know, between Eton and the guy who stole the
Defensive Player of the Year award. I mean, I think
that will be fun. So you have bigs, you have
all kinds of you'll have to Donovan Mitchell versus Devin Booker,
Chris Paul versus Mike Conley to veteran guards. Yeah, that'll

(01:20:50):
be fantastic to see. Yeah, that's a great series. I
will take a look at the East coming up next,
then to college football. Lots to do, Fellas right here
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(01:21:10):
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All right, that's us, good, good, good, good, good morning everybody.
Well the happy sports Saturday from the Fellas as we

(01:21:33):
hang out convene. It's June twelve, and it's uh, it's
fun time. It's fun time in NBA land and the
land of the my squad. I've been very excited and
I don't know, Figgy, have I have? Have I gone
overboard today? I'm trying not to know about the Sixers.

(01:21:53):
Absolutely not. Yes, I think this is only the second
time you brought them up. Yes, other than the start
of the show. Well outside of little pot shots at
Nicola Yokick and uh Rudy Gobert here and there. Well,
I didn't want to discuss this, and I want to
ask you because I I think it's real and I'm
curious at what your thoughts are. If you think I

(01:22:16):
am I'm out of line with this statement here, but
I think that the league does not want the Sixers
to these anti Sixers. I think the league is anti Sixer.
I think the NBA writers and the media and they

(01:22:38):
all hate the process, and they all have something to
say about it. All he depends, they whine about it.
I've heard about it and what it all it is.
It's just a mere rebuild, It's all it was. It
just got a lot of play and they got a
cute name, so they you know, people blanch at it.

(01:23:00):
Oh my god. Sam Hinky definitely leaned into it and
talked about what exactly he was doing. So, I mean, yes,
it was a rebuild, but it was a very aggressive rebuild.
I now, looking you're much closer to it than I am.
I don't feel like I've heard a lot of people
harping over the last two years about the tanking and
all that. Heink, he's not even there anymore. It's a

(01:23:20):
different game more. He's in there, Elton. So I haven't
heard much about the whole process talk or people taking
shots at the Sixers for the process for a couple
of years now, um, at least from my standpoint, So
I didn't even know that that narrative was even out there. Yes, well,
we feel that way, Okay, you feel slighted. I mean, look,
there's and I know you said I don't want to

(01:23:41):
hear about Joel and beat in the games he's missed,
but that's what people use for precedent. And look, I'm
not a fan of president either. I got into a
debate about Chris Paul and I thought the merits that
he should be should have been in the top three
for m v P. I know he's not the best
player on his team, but he was a culture changer
and that he went from the Sun winning thirty five
games to competing for the best record in the league.

(01:24:03):
And look at the impact he's having in the playoffs.
I know it's a regular season award, but still, um so,
I So, I understand the sentiment on that, but you know,
it's it's very difficult. It's it's never happened where an
m v P has played in less than seventy percent
of a team's games in the regular season, and that's
what Joel Embi would have done had he won. Um So,
I think that's just a president. But can I can I?

(01:24:26):
Um can I jump in here for one second because
here's my argument is that we were coming off of
a COVID season. We had the Bubble playoffs and then
we had a COVID season. I don't see where everything
you've changed, So you can't go by the past. There's

(01:24:49):
never been a COVID season before, so you know, you
can give me percentage of games played all that stuff,
but there's it lacks context. And to my you got
to reward the team that one that was a one seed,
like what the Dever didn't win it. The Sixers were
the one seed, and if you watch the game at all,

(01:25:13):
you know how important he is to that team. He's
the definition of most valuable player. They're not a one seed.
If Joel Embiid is not on the floor. Can you
argue that Nicole and Yokick is at least as valuable
to the Denver Nuggets as Joel embiatis to the seventies Sixers,

(01:25:35):
that neither team would be Jamal Murray's as equally as
important to him. I would debate that greatly, but equally
as important. Well, I mean how they fare without Jamal,
but they finished the season a lot beat They were
nine and one to finish the season after the October playoff.
I mean, you could see it in front of you

(01:25:55):
that they're dying. They're missing Murray so badly. I mean, yeah,
but it's not because because of Yoki's lack of efforts.
He's a great player. I'm not taking anything away from him.
I'm just saying, you know, he's got married. They're also
playing against the better team then the Sixers are playing
against all I Atlanta and Trey Young. But saying, i mean,

(01:26:16):
you know who's who's it's also a regular season Award
Tobias Harris, by the way, and it's also I mean
Jamal mary Is. It's a legitimate three point threat. He
is and and a great and a great creator. I'm
not saying Jamal Murray is not a very good player.
But nicolea Yoaki, damn your average a triple double as
a center and that hasn't happened in fifty years. I mean,
that's that's up almost unprecedented, and stayed healthy the entire

(01:26:40):
season after playing deeply into the Bubble playoffs. Every other
star player that had played deeply into the playoffs last year,
they're either out or they got injured, including his teammate
Jamal Murray. And he's standing tall that So I'm not
saying as that. Not that people care about deep ends,
but just saying the metrics would say he's okay, he's

(01:27:05):
not great, he's not terrible, he's fine. Is he as
good as Joel Embiid? No? Yeah, I mean I just
look at the completeness and the greatness that is Emdeed
and I think it's a dramatic slight and oh, he's
kind available. I was going back and forth my buddy

(01:27:25):
frank Eye Solo from the NBA. You know, he covered
the NBA. He and I used to work together in
New York, and I love Frankie, but you know the
same thing. Oh, you gotta be available, gonna be available.
I'm sorry. He still played fifty two games, and look
at the Sixers record. He was drama, he was fantastic.
And his injury, it wasn't like he was he was

(01:27:48):
sitting out, you know, doing his nails. I mean, he
was legitimately hurt when he had when he had his knee,
and I will say, you should not have been as dramatic.
I mean, nicolea yokig one convincing, yea. I think he'd
only had one first place vote. Yes, that's a little
surprising joke, a little surprising to me. And he's another one.
You know, I was talking about Otani, but you know

(01:28:10):
I had him beaten the back of my mind. He
never gets. He's the best. I will tell you right now, this,
right now, this very moment. He's the most dominating force
in the league. And that includes the three hose in
Brooklyn lebron A, d Dame Booker, Mitchell Joker. He's the

(01:28:36):
He's the most dominating force. I can't disagree with that. Yes,
God gets triple teams and he's still and he's seven one,
and he's doing floaters and he's doing pull ups and
he I mean, and he shoots the three and he
makes his fouls. I mean, I mean, but he never gets.

(01:28:56):
He never gets. He's never in the face of the league.
I mean, on our own airwaves. Colin a complete slight
disrespect of Himbad. He put the three Hords in front
of him, he put at his list. His list was bogus,
as though he didn't watch a second of the playoffs.

(01:29:17):
It was a complete slight of Himbad. Uh. Yeah, And
it's not fair for him, But the best way to
shut people up is to keep balling out and to
keep oneing keep getting deeper into the postseason. That's the
only way to shut people up. And like he should,
you have a legitimate claim to him being an m
VP candidate or being the m v P of the league.

(01:29:38):
I don't disagree, but I'm not gonna be angry about
the fact that nicolea yokig one over Joel Embiid. Okay,
I'm not like, I'm not making big deals out of awards,
but I mean not for nothing. I mean, what about
Defensive Player of the Year. Who's a better player than
Simmons defensively? I mean that's what he does. He shuts

(01:30:02):
down once through five. Can go bear play a one? No,
he can't. But Ben did. Ben shut down everybody. He
freaked out Luca. The only guy to slow Luca down
was that Simmons. He was so uncomfortable with Ben Gardener.

(01:30:24):
He was he was. He was utterly meaningless in those
games because he couldn't he can't deal with Ben's length.
It is always difficult when assessing the the difference between
the dominance of a defensive player when they played different positions.
Because Rudy Gobert does such a good job at blocking

(01:30:44):
up the paint, changing shots, blocking shots. Ben Simmons does
such a good job of locking up players on the perimeter,
which is more important to a team's success. But Ben
could play your honest and that's that's that's great, and
that's great. But Rudy Gobert is a master at his

(01:31:05):
own as his own creed at his own craft. So
it's not like Rudy Gobert is a terrible defensive player,
you know. I mean he's He's the three time defits
a Player of the Year for a reason. I'm not
saying Ben Simmons didn't deserved it. Didn't that it's not
a slight. I don't think the fact that I think

(01:31:25):
it's a crime. In fact, I want to investigate it.
I didn't get these dudes you vote, don't even watch
the game? Oh who who you vote for? Oh you Gobert? Yeah, Cobert,
he watched the game, and it's the Holy League's against
the Sixers. And it's a cause of Darryl Morey. It's

(01:31:47):
cause of the process. There's stone man of Darryl because
he's a truth sayer. He spoke the truth. He talked
about China, and he caused the league money and he
got a lot of backlash. Well, it's a theory that
I can't disprove obviously, so I don't know if that's
the case. I I'm inclined to disagree. I don't know

(01:32:07):
if that's necessarily the case. I don't know if the
league teams hold that against will hold that against the players.
By the way, I'm gonna slight Ben Simmons in Joel
and b because I don't like what is about. You know,
I think it's the whole thing. I think it's the process.
I think it's all. It's deep. This is deep rooted stuff. Man,

(01:32:30):
it very well could be. Uh, but I'm not. I'm
not willing to go that far with the anthem. I
think you can have legitimate claims as to why Rudy
Gobert would win the Defensive Player of the Year and
your people win the m v P. I am going
that far. I sense of injustice. You know what you
know about justice. Whatever it takes to motivate the team
to play better there in the playoffs there, Anthony, I

(01:32:52):
like it. Hopefully the Sixers feel the same way you do,
and they can battle their way all the way to
the NBA Finals. My boys, they do. It was good
to see Ben Simmons actually shoot a shot or two,
uh the lat in the game last night and be
aggressive offensively. I like it. Yeah, you know why because
the situation called for him to do that the playoffs.

(01:33:15):
What do you mean, the situation calls you play let's
go there are Yeah, but but yeah, he's a great player.
People don't realize, you know, when he's on the floor.
Do you know what the six Ers shoot as a
team when he's on the door? Fifty five? You know

(01:33:37):
why because he's an incredible facilitator. He is he sometimes
they just need a little more from him. And we're shuch,
we're so blinded by offense, offence, offense, shoot three three street, stree,
stree streets. We think that's the whole game, box, scored, dfs,

(01:33:58):
you name it, stocks coming out of our gigs that
we don't respect the game and what Simmons does. It's
not all about that, but a lot of that is important,
especially as you get deeper into the postseason, and being effective,
being a threat on the offensive end, making free throws

(01:34:19):
for heaven's sake at times when it matters, those are
all big things that matter. So I think it's I
think it's better when he's actually being aggressive even if
he's not making his shots. I think it helps the
team when he's being more aggressive offensively and being able
to find ways to pick your spots, when to facilitate
and when to be aggressive. And I think he's still
in the process of being able to figure out when
to do that, but I think he needs to do

(01:34:41):
a little bit more here in the postseason. That's all. Why, Well, well,
we'll just continue to discuss who comes out of the East.
And I got some for stuff for as well. It's
coming back, it's coming back. We have too much fun
to just let it go. Where the fella is right
here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas.

(01:35:08):
I'm Anthony Guaragonda, Kevin Figures and of course Chris Psycho
Chris and Nicki, Nick Battalia and for the bow doing
a great job, all right. So, um, Nick, are you
familiar with the four? You know what the four? So

(01:35:32):
I guess not. So the four is this figgy when
you want you want honors, you want to explain it
from your perspective. Yeah, So basically Anthony has four topics
or what could be questions. It could be a list
of things per topic. That come out of his wacky brain.

(01:35:56):
And we have a few minutes to kind of jot
down our answers too, said questions, and Anthony at the
end will decide at the end of each topic will
decide who at the best answer. Oh so it's not
really a competition, but it's sort of a competition where
Anthony just tries to get inside of our minds, in
our heads and see us see how our crur minds
are working on various topics, some sports related. So I'm

(01:36:18):
not simple enough, yes, So without further ado, I give
you the four topics four today, here we go. If
I don't know if you guys have saw the the
the SpongeBob thing making the rounds on Twitter, but they

(01:36:40):
did a thing where it's the food opinion that you're
alone on. So I need I need, which is a
great idea. It's the food opinion in which you are
completely alone, and that's question number one. Question number two
is the sports opinion in which you are completely alone.

(01:37:08):
Question number three is the great injustice. Okay, and the
great injustice. I need three sports injustices, so of course
for me, number one sports injustice would be the anti

(01:37:31):
sixer rhetoric that's making the rounds and I'm here to
protect the sixers nation so stupid anyway, Uh, give me
three sports injustices that bother you. And then last, if

(01:37:52):
you have the injustice, I need a crusade. Yes, give
me who your wingman is. I need three guys that
you ride and die with in the world of sports.
All right, So you have your ride and die guys.

(01:38:15):
You have your sports injustices. You have your food opinion
what you're alone on, and your sports opinion in which
you are alone on. Chris, you got that, yep, And
as per be four it is let me count this,
it is eight. But it's really just just let to know,

(01:38:38):
just letting Nick know what he's in for. When when
we say the four, that number is very variable because
one category could be like nine things. Okay, oh that's
the best. You guys got me down, man, You guys
got me down, and someone's got to call it out
without link here, you guys, you have the vest ist. Uh. Nikki,

(01:39:07):
one of our great listeners on the text board, says,
it's not a competition, but you must best Psycho Chris.
That because Psycho Chris his answers are usually very interesting.
Would you agree with that there, figuring? I think that's
an accurate assessment. Yes, well, I will say this, I

(01:39:30):
have one may have one armed. I'm gonna come out swinging.
I like it, man, I like that attitude, dude, I
like that. That's all right. Way to go, man, let's
get started out further Ado. I'll start in fact, I
want to start with you, Nick. We're gonna go NICKI

(01:39:51):
psycho Chris, and the fig will be least okay, swat
up a bit. Yes, so we'll st are it off
with your sports opinion. Nick, that you're alone on sports
opinion that I am alone on Um well, I'm fasten

(01:40:12):
to write down, but I will have to go and
say that the n c Double A basketball tournament should
only be comprised of about thirty teams, while you want
to go thirty two. Yeah. I think that because the

(01:40:33):
thing is interesting, because I think that when you have
so many teams and we talked about this, figgy, you
talked about this, Uh, we're talking about the whole college
football playoffs earlier in the evening, earlier in the morning.
When you get to a stern amount of teams, you

(01:40:53):
dilute the field and I think that when you know, yes,
of course, have the people the teams who win their
conference finals or conference championships and stuff like that. But
when you get to like sixty and seventy and you're
bringing in like teams that are gonna be under five
hundred or at five hundred, then you kind of are like,
why these people really in this because we know they're

(01:41:15):
not gonna have a chance, Like, do we really think that,
like in terms of like college football, is even this
college basketball like the number one team? And I know
upsets happen, but do we really think that if there's
a team that's just like a Gonzaga that's just a
dominant and undefeated the entire season, do we really think
that like they're gonna, you know, really lose to a

(01:41:37):
team that like nobody has ever heard of that has
never been to uh a tournament ever in their entire
like hundred year history or whatever how long they've had
basketball or football around. So I think I think the
less teams, the more important you make it. Now again,
don't go with four guys, but or four teams. I

(01:41:57):
just say, like in football, but basketball I think already
is a proper cut off because I know a lot.
It was more basketball schools, and I think there is
just a better cut off than than having or sixty plus.
I give you points for you the way you came out.
He did come out swagging. I think it's it's a
stupid opinion, but I like the fact that you came
out swagging. Brother, Alight you get you get big ops

(01:42:22):
for that. Ahi, Chris, give me a sports opinion which
you are alone on about to make some people mad.
I think you're performed. I think that he gets a
way too much credit for a super Bowl. He was
dragged to one ring while he was in Indianapolis, but

(01:42:43):
he had the power and the offense around him to
get many more than that, and he only has one.
And he had a lot of just short, ignominious exits
from the playoffs. I just I I know, people serial
one of the greats. I just see a career in
the playoffs that just feels like there should have been

(01:43:06):
something else there. Wow, you gotta be kny. This category
is opinions that I am completely alone on, and I
recognize that implete be alone on on Needling Peyton Manning's career. Yeah,
that's cool. Listen again, I like it figure. Well, I've
talked about this before. I'm not alone, but I'm in

(01:43:28):
the part of the very very small minority that says
that although he is a great player and possibly a
top eight quarterback, he's not the best of all time,
and that he is Tom Brady, very very good, great quarterback,
Hall of Fame. But the talk of him being the
best quarterback of all time is laughable to me because
he's not. Well, you've just woken up Rob Parker and

(01:43:48):
he doesn't know why. Yeah, exactly, Wow, look at that.
I like these. It's just you guys came out strong.
I think HiT's with some trending and then we'll keep
it up. All right, Well, we'll start in the NBA
second round action. We had a double dip of second
round action. The Phoenix Sun surprisingly up three nothing in

(01:44:12):
their series against the Denver Nuggets after a convincing one
sixteen to one or two victory in Denver. Devin Booker
with twenty eight points leading the Sons League MVP. Nicola
Yoki balled out thirty two points, twenty rebounds, ten assists,
yet it was all in a losing effort. Earlier in
the night, you at the seventies sixers led by Joel
embiads twenty seven points. Yeah, Joel embiid uh some the

(01:44:33):
man who some says should be the MVP. Uh. Twenty
seven points and nine boards uh from Mbad for a
two one series lead over the Hawks for the Philadelphia
U seventies sixers. Uh. Some tough news for the Clippers,
who are hosting Utah tonight, by the way, in game
three of their series. They're looking to get back into
this one down oh two Uh. They're not gonna have
the services of Sergey Baka for the remainder of the

(01:44:54):
playoffs after he underwent back surgery on Friday afternoon. Some
base fall news. Dodgers hitting five home runs in total,
three in the first inning as they dominated the Texas
Rangers twelve to one for their fourth straight victory. Angels
getting a victory in Arizona six to five, and ten
innings Oakland with the walk off victory over the Royals.
Same for the Red Sox. They got three hits from

(01:45:15):
Alex Verdugo, including the game winning single as a notched
the comeback victory over Toronto. Tampa Bay Ray's first team
to forty wins in the Majors. They beat the Orioles
four to t Baltimores, whilst thirteen games in a row
wins for the White Sox and the Cubs. Back to
the Fellas, all right, that's us, the fellas right here

(01:45:37):
on Fox Sports Radio. As we hang out on a
great sports Saturday, we do something called the four. I
give the guys four questions and they give me their answers.
We have some funds. Who wins that round? And Nikki
came out swinging. I like it. Ripping the n C
double a tournament? Should pare it down thirty two teams

(01:45:59):
at I think you know we got a Hi Peyton
Manning and Psycho Chris and its Hi Brady with the Fig.
But of course you know that Fig, ultimate Raider fan.
He's a Brady hater. Al Right, so let's go to
this question. Give me the great sports injustices is you're

(01:46:23):
up on the clock, Nikki. Uh. The NBA not having
a team in Seattle as a travesty two. I like
that good. The strong the reason why. There's a great
documentary called Sonic skate Um you can watch and it
just shows how the NBA literally ripped the Seattle Supersocks

(01:46:43):
away from Seattle and moved them to the Thunder and
how when Clay Bennett bought the team from Schultz and
he basically had this promise of I'm not going to
move the team, and then when the documentary dives into
is he had no intention of keeping a team in Seattle.
He there were emails that were leaked showing that, uh,

(01:47:07):
there's there, there's really no. The plan was to move
in from Oklahoma City from day one, and when he
wanted to build a new arena to replace Key Arena,
he wanted to put it in like the most the
worst part of say it in terms of just traffic
and basically just sank it to where the city council
just wasn't gonna vote on it. Um. So you know,
Seattle just has you know, you're thinking about Sean Camp

(01:47:29):
and Gary Payton and just just the intimate feeling arena. Yeah,
come on, everybody's talking about all the NBA needs a
team in Vegas or Kansas City. No, put the team
back and see it. I'm not talking about when I'm
not talking about when the Kings years ago, we're couldn't
get a new arena, like oh they might go to Seattle.
Put an expansion team in Seattle because the world. The

(01:47:50):
one thing I don't want to see is another city.
Have happened to them? What happened to the city. See,
it's the worst thing in the world. Only he has
learned about that after the travesty that happened in Cleveland,
it was in Baltimore. It was horrible. One of the
worst things ever that that league. You should never ever

(01:48:13):
lose a franchise. Never, it would be a disgrace. I agree.
That's a good job, man, That's a great sports injustice
you have any more you can stop at that. I'll
tell you I thought you were great at it. I mean,
the the only injustice is one that's been carrying around
me for over a decade. Basically, Um, I'm a big
USC football fan, college sports fan. Vince Young's knee was

(01:48:35):
down that championship game against USC and Netlateral. It was
absolutely was it was. I agree, Nick Strong, I actually
with you with both of them. Vinch Young was dow.
I have a and so in my room, I have
a banner. USC championship banner has all the titles that

(01:48:56):
are on there. And you can get them, you know,
you can whenever they went any one you can get
a new one stitched on them and not having one
hat seeing looking on it every time, seeing two thousand
and four being like the last one hurts every time.
It just fills me with rage. Yeah, yeah, dude, excellent, dude,
I can't. I'm supremely impressed. Psycho Chris. What do you say,

(01:49:18):
Psycho Chris, I've got three lined up here? I bet
you do. Yep. First off, right off the bat, you
know me um a combat sports guy. I'm a boxing guy.
Not getting Mayweather and packing out the height of their
powers will still remain kind of one of those has
a commonality with my with my second one, because both

(01:49:38):
of them are about we wanted the this this match
in its prime, and we got it. We eventually got
this one, but at the end it was a bunch
of old eggs, just kind of you know, you crack it.
You have old eggs in the cart and you crack them,
and it's like, at this point, that's what we got
with the Weather and rousing start. Yeah, the second one,

(01:50:01):
as I said, we never we never got this matchup though,
and again we could have had this at the height
of the power. If it's just a couple of games
have gone the right way. Alabama and Oregon circa about
when Saban was still running. Oregon had a chip, had
the Chip Kelly offense. Everyone wanted to see Alabama versus Auburn,

(01:50:23):
I mean Alabama versus Oregan, excuse me, and we never
got it. Yeah, I agree that that's a that's a
real good one. And I and I did. I wanted
to see them too. Yeah, this is this is the
number one though with a bullet. Nothing else will touch this.
Armando Galarraga and the perfect game that should have been
the perfect game as the Tigers. As a Detroit guy,

(01:50:45):
as a Tiger's guy, I will never live it down.
I will never forget it. And you cannot convince me
that that was not an out. You're right, get you guys, man.
I'm telling you strong dudes, very good man. I tell you,
I like I. I agree with all of them so far.

(01:51:07):
Fig I know you won't disappoint well from our first one.
I just got two words, tuck rule. Do I need
to say anything else? Now? If I'm to keep it
in the Raider territory, I'm gonna go with Cliff Branch
not being in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He

(01:51:27):
one of the best receivers of his era. Three times
Super Bowl champion numbers are comparable with some of the
same receivers that he were, some of his contemporaries, and
for whatever reason, couldn't make it in. Passed away in,
which makes it even worse because he's been eligible for years,
he's been I don't know exactly what else he could
possibly do. I mean you, I mean you look at

(01:51:48):
guys like Drew Pearson who just got in, and he
should have been in a decade ago. I don't know
what these Pro Football Hall of Fame voters are thinking,
but some of these great players, you gotta get him
in when you have a chance. Where they have a
chance is too Actually, what's the line about being able
to smell the flowers while they can? And Cliff Branch
unfortunately wasn't able to do that until this day, still
not doesn't even seem to be top of mind when

(01:52:09):
it comes to being discussed to making into the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. And I don't understand it. That's
an injustice to me. You know what, I couldn't agree
with you more. I mean, I Cliff Branch was a
great player, more than more than just a speedster. He
was a really good receiver, and for whatever reason, I
think he gets pigeonholed. That's Oh, he's just a deep guy.

(01:52:31):
He was an now Davis run deep. He caught a
lot of balls, thousand yards receiving seasons. He was an
amazing player. And then the third one for me. I
know it's overdone and things are being putting the works
to make sure that we get over it. But the
fact that college kids still aren't getting compensated for not
only name, image and likeness, but just for the amount
of money that these TV networks and these conferences are making.

(01:52:53):
And the kids get, you know, a sandwich with peanut butter,
but heaven forbid they put jelly on it. That costs
too much. You don't want to give him that. It's
been totally ridiculous, and it's taken way too long for
it to get to a point now where Congress has
to get involved just for the injustice of the kids
having to basically endure all of this and make all
this money for these schools and not getting any of
the residuals is totally ridiculous to me, and I will

(01:53:15):
continue to fight that fight until something actually does happen.
I am. I'm just proud. I almost want to stop
it here. I how you guys phenomenal. Let me just
tell you, absolutely phenomenal. We'll see if you guys can

(01:53:37):
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go and our man Nicky, who was a Virgin four.
As we play the game, doing a good job out
that out a fig you're gonna give nick credit. Amazing.
This is the hell of a debut. I'll tell you

(01:54:46):
one thing blows away. Bo absolutely crushes Bore. I just
you know, just saying, if I were to keep it
you know, we keep it real the show, you know
what I mean, My man, my make frushing it. I
gotta love it. Nice job, all right, let's uh let's

(01:55:09):
do this. Let's uh see how well you do second
half and give me your ride and die guys, my
riding die guys. Well. Of course, being from New York,
big Yankees fan, I gotta go with the Sandman Mariano Rivera. Oh,
that's a great one. I gotta go with since we're

(01:55:31):
going with a couple of current guys, I gotta go
with Damian Lillard. And then I gotta go Tom Brady,
the Brady one. But Dame, Hey, I'm a Falcons fan
twenty into three, will forever live in the Obviously, I
feel you on that, but you know you get my
points like you know, that's an obvious that's an obvious one.

(01:55:56):
I love, I love love. Your Dame is awesome and uh,
I a great job I'll give you. I'll give you
a big props on that. Thank you, good effort. I psycho, Chris, psycho,
what do we look at? All right? So I'm just

(01:56:16):
looking for I'm looking for off the wall here. So
I'm gonna keep Detroit down. You are and you are
a site. You're great at that. Off the wall. Well,
let me just talk about someone who's in the playoffs
right now, because I I've been ride or die for
him and I have my like own head and cannon
on like why he acts the way he acts. But
Chris Paul is the supreme villain of the NBA just

(01:56:41):
seems to hold grudges against everyone. He'll laugh with Steph
with the with the kerr Stephen kerk for a little
bit and then he'll just you know, he'll scowl as
he looks the other way. Just total villain. Love it,
and I love that he's leading the sons to Uh
that's a great answer, dude. Going back to the boxing, well, uh,

(01:57:02):
Tyson Fury in an age now. We're coming off a
weekend where we had an awful fight with Mayweather and
one of the Paul brothers that was just blatant cash grab.
The people just were like, yeah, but it's gonna get money,
so it should be fine. Tyson Fury is the real deal, though,
have you wait? Talks so much junk Like I love him.
I boxing just just very very God's own prototype. As

(01:57:27):
Hunter S. Thompson would say, no, no one else may
kind of like him. And then the third guy isn't
a guy, it's um, it's a woman. It's Naomi Osaka,
who I love her infectious, just when she does when
she plays, when she uh, it's it's affect, it's effectious,
it's fun. I I was right or Die with Williams,

(01:57:47):
but I feel like Osaka is here to take the
torch for her. I like it. Excellent, excellent answer. I
like it. Uh, Figgy, you're a ride and die kind
of guy. I'm telling you so really recognize real. So
here's who I'm riding with. Number one for me is
Russell Westbrook. You know he will go down guns blazing

(01:58:11):
and will not give a you know what about anybody
who cares. He will do his own thing, and I
love that about him. And he plays hard every single
solitary night. And he'll give it to the media if
they try to say something to the sideways about him,
and I love that. In that same vein, since we're
talking fight game a little bit that Chris brought up,

(01:58:32):
I'm going with Nate Diaz. He is absolutely insane. Absolutely
everybody needs somebody like that in their corner. Now, he's
a bit of a wild card. You know, you don't
know what to expect from him. But this is why
I brought my third guy in to kind of calm
things down a little bit. He sens deceased. But if
we're talking about all time ride or die, I gotta
give it to the Minister of Defense, Reggie white Field.

(01:58:55):
But a soft teddy bear off the field, somebody gets
a little crazy. Hey, it's okay, brother, Let me say
a little prayer for you and we'll be okay. So
that's great. The group dynamic there and you know, got
a little fire, a little bit of ice. Yes, that's fantastic, dude,
that's excellent. I love though. That's great answers all right,
here we go. Now the last one, and you guys

(01:59:19):
have astist sets right now even without the last one
is the food opinion in which you are alone. This
is off the spongebog tweet that's making the rounds. So
I'll start with you, Nikki. Give me the food opinion
in which you are alone. Well, I'm grabbing my ax

(01:59:43):
and I'm probably be the only man riding to this battle.
But bonus wings are much better than bone and wings.
That's a hot take for sure. Oh my God, really,
are you more? Checking are all Buffalo? Man? Yeah you are.
You're from upstate, are from Syracuse, near Open, near Buffalo,
and uh oh my god? Like, will they let you

(02:00:05):
back in? Well, I mean going back in July, so hopefully.
I mean, I don't know, dude, they might like, you know,
let it. He's out spies. You know you've done it,
lost you all privileges. I mean, hey, at least I'm
not saying, you know, branch or blue cheese over here.
I think that's more sacrilegious than than saying bonus wings

(02:00:25):
or bone and wings. No, cause I don't know more
more chicken. Don't have to deal with the whole bone thing.
Don't have to, don't. I can't go with you. I don't.
You don't have to go when when you get wings
and you're like, man, they gave me, they gave me
too many flats, so they gave me too many drums
like boneless. You know what you're getting. You're getting you
call them flats that you have your Is that is

(02:00:49):
that a heard other people call them flats? Yeah? Oh yeah,
I don't think I've ever heard you can call some flats.
You can actually request certain up your eateries. If you
want all flats are all drums, they'll give them to you. Well,
I've never even heard of the term flat. But that's interesting. Okay, Um,
all right, I like it. I like it, Chris, Psycho, Chris,

(02:01:11):
what do you got, buddy? I am not I like
it sometimes, but it's sometimes a hard sell. I'm not
big on tomatoes on my sandwiches or just in a
bunch of other things. No, I mean, I love here's
the thing. I love kapraise, but sometimes tomatoes if it's
too much the guts in it, I just don't like that. Yeah,

(02:01:32):
I want to like it, man, I do you don't
like tomato? Tomato? I know, I'm just not big in
them sandwiches, salads, whatever. That's horrible. It's a horrible take. Uh,
he got fake. I could be quick. I'll tell you

(02:01:53):
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(02:02:38):
As we hang out, we're talking a lot of n
B A and quite frankly, I am basking in the
victory of the Sixers in Game three against the Hawks.
They're kind of taking They really took their soul last night,
and uh, we we need to dive into the East.
We went through the West. Um we all of its

(02:03:00):
love Utah Phoenix with a series that's gonna be uh
if it ends up that way, and we kind of
both we all think that that's where it's headed in
the East. I don't. I mean, I think when Atlanta
loses like that, they get dropped on their home floor,
on their home floor, and they get really suffocated by

(02:03:22):
the Sixers because they do something in today's NBA that
not a lot of teams do. They play defense figgy,
and I think that's what makes them really dangerous. And uh,
that's what would make a matchup between the three hordes
of the three hos of Brooklyn against the Sixers. This

(02:03:45):
is true, I mean, independent of the Brooklyn nets. I mean,
I think that's an attribute they had. Pretty much every
team that's still alive in the playoffs does have tang
their head onto a degree is their defense. But I
want to see how Milwaukee comes out against Brooklyn next.
I mean, because that's the way the game starts again.
Brooklyn was so ice cold. You know, KD was good,

(02:04:06):
Carry Irving was okay, Joe Harris was terrible there. The
role players are absolutely awful, could not hit anything, and
Chris Middleton woke up. Now can you duplicate that and
do that again? Is what I'm willing to see, because
that Milwaukee team looked dead, deads or rights in the
first couple of games of the series, and Jay with
James Harden playing all of forty five seconds or whatever

(02:04:26):
it was. So I want to see how Milwaukee comes
out on Sunday, uh and if they can find a
way to get themselves a victory, then maybe they have
something here. Um. But quite honestly, just knowing the history
of Chris Middleton and how he's performing in big moments
for them, or how he has not performed. I'll be
honest with you, Anthony, I'm not super confident that they're
gonna find a way to win Game four. And then
Yanness too, who has come up small at certain points

(02:04:48):
as well, especially as series go on and on and
get deeper into it, You're honest, at times tends to
get worse. Let's talk about that for a second, because
I wanted to bring this up to here earlier, and
that is the curious case of Janice as a lead star. Right,
is Kenyannis and his lack of pruder game and lack

(02:05:11):
of free throw shooting be a top banana? Right? Like?
Can he be the top star? Or is he better
off as more of a complimentary guy like a peach?
To use the food analogy further Right, it's almost I
believe he can be a top star as long as
he has the right number two next to him, which

(02:05:34):
I think is what he's really been lacking. They've kind
of by, you know, they've basically been forced to have
to have Chris Middleton be their number two because you know,
free agents are not gonna come to Milwaukee. You have
to overpay average guys it was the Lebron paradox in Cleveland.
His first goal around where you're overpaying you know, Larry
Hughes Is and guy and guys like that, because you're
not drawing in free agents, so you have to kind

(02:05:55):
of manufacture they They brought in Drew Holiday, and he's
been fairly inconsistent at times, especially on the all fensive
end for them. I do think Janice can be the alpha,
but I do think he he needs a legit number
two who can actually create shots and be able and
make open shots and take some pressure off of them
on a consistent basis. Because they can fill up the
stat sheet most nights, but it's the crunch time. It

(02:06:15):
goes back to talking about the joker, or even to
a lesser extent, Joel and Beat as great as he is,
you gotta have guys who can get you a bucket,
who can create, and I don't believe that the Milwaukee
Bucks have a guy who's good enough to be able
to do that for them to take them to the
next level as the second best player. Mhm. It's interesting
because he you know, if you look at the other

(02:06:37):
night and answer it's a great first quarter. Toude and
score all the points from Milwaukee in the first quarter,
and then Brooklyn comes back and it becomes a game.
And in the second half of that game, when it
looked like Brooklyn was about to seize all the momentum
and you honest is broking them from three, the crowd

(02:06:59):
started boom him, which I found, like, you know, pretty
pretty surprising that they were lusty booze. They were, well,
it's almost one of those why do you keep shooting,
especially because he was so spectacular everywhere else. I think
he was one of nine or something like that, or
one of ten from from three point distance in the game,

(02:07:20):
but I mean he was making everything else. So I mean,
look at the nets. Strategy is keen, it's not. It's
very smart, the sag off of him. Give him the
three point shot if he wants to make things harder
on himself and try to run himself into the paint,
and by all means we're gonna give him every single
outside shot that he wants. And the strategy for the
most part has worked. Uh, but whenever except for the

(02:07:40):
times when he's been aggressive and actually gotten into the post,
and that's where he's been able to eat. So I
think if you remember walk, your strategy is stopped giving
him the ball at the top of the key, give
it to him closer in the basket, because they're just
gonna stand out there and let him shoot. And the
more he shoots, the more he plays into the net's hands. Yeah,
it's true. You have a problem that he's the key
kind of has his you know, he don't they It's

(02:08:03):
it's very similar to interesting because he and Simmons are
very similar to get you know, except Ben is more facilitator,
Yannice more attacked the rim. You know, that's what they
do best, right. Ben's a facilitator and Janice is fantastic
and attacking the rim. The only problem is, you know,

(02:08:24):
you you build that kind of circular wall against both
of them to kind of ward off the rim, and
you forced them to kind of plow in the guys.
That's where both of them are getting the foul trouble absolutely,
And I know Doc Rivers complained before the previous game
about some foul trouble issues that plagued Ben. I think
Ben may have had four or five fouls last night too. Um,

(02:08:46):
But I think that happens when you're a good defensive player.
You're an aggressive defender. He was tasked with guarding Trey
Young a lot these last couple of games. Um that
will happen. I'm not as concerned about that aspect of it,
but I do think it just adds much another to menion.
It's not about just trying to philip stat sheet and
being enamored with guys who can shoot threes. But Ben Simmons,
as good as he is, can be unstoppable. If he

(02:09:09):
was just okay from the mid ranger, okay from three
point distance is all people are asking for. And I
think with rightfully so rite criticism from Philadelphia fans as well,
saying the exact same thing. Just to be a threat
from the outside. It opens things up so much more
for you and everybody else if they have to actually
to night right like he gives you eighteen and in

(02:09:30):
the third quarter when they blow them out. That's where
he played a huge role, because I'm like Milwaukee, the
Sixers have a beat the end beast, the letter M
the word beast that follows Joel and be the beast

(02:09:51):
is you know, unguardable in these playoffs and so if
he just he just provides so much for the his
teammate eat here. Yeah, it can get open looks for
guys that can knock down shots. You know, Tobias Harris
and Seth Curry has been huge at times. I don't
know what the status of Danny Green is going to
be moving forward. Is it okay? Because I know they

(02:10:13):
said it was a strained calf I think is what
they died diagnosed to that, So that's a that's a
big loss on both ends of the floor, especially defensively
on the perimeter for them not having him. But you've
got a big effort from cork Mos last night, So
they have depth, they have guys who can make outside shots. Um,
they're definitely i'd say the most complete team in the
East that's still left. But again, if and when the

(02:10:37):
Nets find a way to get healthy and look, who
knows what James hard and the hamstring flares up again.
I don't know if he's gonna be back. I know
I saw a report I think it was Brian Whittenhorse
who says they expect him back, but you know that
hamstring was to say it doesn't flare up on him
again five seconds into his next game. So those things,
those things are very finicky. So I know the Nets
were favored by it for a lot of people, even
before they got James Harden. But I mean, look at

(02:10:59):
they had to give up assets to get him, you know,
you know Joe, you know, they had to give up
a bunch of contributors for him to come in there.
So they'll be shorthanded if he's not there, and it'll
it'll actually cost him a lot. They end up playing
the seventies sixers in the next from next round. So
that barrass Monitor who do you who do you like? Uh?
In that matchup between Brooklyn and Milwaukee tomorrow, the pivotal

(02:11:20):
Game four, if Milwaukee wins it down all of a sudden,
that thing becomes a sweat. Yeah, I mean, the whole
series is gonna be down to the mar and you know,
Milwaukee wins that all of a sudden, all that stuff
creeps in and you still and it's dynamic. Is the
three of them are There's still one basketball and it's

(02:11:42):
the three. You know, I'm so curious see how that
whole thing works with Griffin. Well, I mean I've seen games.
I mean, Griffin is kind of just get in where
you fit in. You know, I don't know if he's
much of a factor when it comes to that, but
I have there have been games where Katie's had thirty
eight and Kyrie's had twenty seven and Hard has had twenty,
so they found ways well. They also haven't played a

(02:12:05):
lot together either, so I guess that's uh. I mean,
I just I always look at when it comes to
playoff series, things that are repeatable. I brought this up
in the the Dallas Clipper series and why I thought
the Clippers will come back and win that series. And
for the Nets, I don't see them having an eleven
point quarter again or another eighteen point scoring quarter. That
those guys can score eleven twenty points by themselves in

(02:12:27):
a quarter. So in Milwaukee's defense is solid, it's good,
but I don't know if it's good enough to actually
stop this offense consistently. So I wouldn't be surprised if
Milwaukee one today, but I'm not expecting them to win today,
I'll put it that way. Yeah, that's a that's a
good one. Sorright, Sixers take care of it, Atlanta, and

(02:12:49):
you would agree that they took their heart last night
with that win. It seemed like it. It seemed like it,
but Trey Young is a tough dog man. He's off,
so I'm not counting him out and he's confident, so
I know Ben is on him and been a ferocious defender.
And Trey Young talked about it in the post game
that you know, we have to make adjustments to them

(02:13:10):
making adjustments to us. I'm not willing to count Atlanta
out quiet yet. I think the Sixers will win the series. Now,
whether or not they'll win the next couple remains to
be seen, but I think they could be in for
for a bigger fight than maybe we're expecting. And then
who knows how Look, Embi went down a couple of
times last night, and so you have to hold your
breath with the guy who's already playing on a tor

(02:13:32):
meniscus anytime he goes to the ground. That that's that's tough.
I know. I'm not I'm not trying to put bad,
you know, energy out there, but I'm just speaking truth.
You know, yes that I will tell you being a
fan of the Sixers, and I'm a huge Joel and

(02:13:53):
Be fan, and they grow part and parcel because he
is the Sixers. But being a fan of that and him,
it's white knuckle fandom. Yeah, so white knuckle fandom is
is a horrible endeavor because you know what it is,
It's like you're watching please don't get hurt, don't fall,

(02:14:15):
but like you're constantly watching him and looking at his
movements and hoping. I had a guy tell me and
he was really good. He was dead on when we talked.
One of the things that makes him so special is
that he can replicate moves right, Like he's seven one
and can replicate a heart and move right like. That's

(02:14:37):
what's crazy about his game. I It's why I always
called him the art forger, right, Like he can replicate
the most amazing pieces out there, and this is the
art of movement and he can replicate it. And so, uh,
the issue becomes is that he's seven one, not six four,

(02:15:00):
and he forgets he's got another Tenantcy's a leg, right,
you know, So when he's up in the air, he
forgets he's got tenants. He's a leg and that's what
gets him into trouble where he lands awkwardly and stuff
like that. Yeah, and that's someone who's had a history
of some back issues that can affect your balance and
your legs. And I look l a has lived it too,

(02:15:21):
with Anthony Davis to a degree you know where you
hold your breath every time he goes to the ground,
you know, because you realize how how important they are
to the cause and what you're trying to aim for,
and you know, so I mean, and joe Lyn b
I think it's been amazing this run he's been on
these last couple of games after suffering that injury, and
he's been just as dominant afterwards as he was before.

(02:15:42):
If you didn't know that he was injured, you couldn't tell.
That's how good he's been. And that's how tough of
a playoff I did. In fairness, I did hear the
injury was like the media made a lot more out
of it than what it really is. And I mean,
there is a tear, but I mean, if you go
in m R, a lot of guys knees right now,
you'll see a lot of ding, a lot of you know,

(02:16:05):
a lot of cartilage that's not perfect. And my guess
is if it was worse, it's one of those It
can't get worse unless you know, right, he falls on
it wrong or something. It's not gonna be a wear
and tear type of injury that just running up and
down the playing basketball is gonna make it worse. Yes, yes,
that's great. It's that's exactly right. And look it's about
pain tolerance when you're dealing with cartilage. Figgy, you're the greatest.

(02:16:29):
I missed you last week, So it's it's great. Angry
is always my brother, always a place to Mom and
the fiance give the girls my love. Will do brother, likewise,
I will definitely will do. Coming up, we will talk
to Brad Feinberg, are betting analyst on the program. So

(02:16:50):
we'll take a look at the weekends sports the NBA,
the NHL playoffs, and baseball from a betting standpoint. That's
coming up next where the fellas right here on Fox
Sports Radio. Where the fellas. I'm Anthony. I gotta coming
up Brad Feinberg, who we will go over all of

(02:17:15):
the weekend sports from a betting standpoint. He is, uh,
one of these really good betting analysts that we'll get
into and we'll get into all the NBA playoffs and
the whole thing, and you know it'll be a lot
of fun. You know it'll be it'll be a blast. Uh.

(02:17:36):
All right. Also, it was funny because I was listening
to Colin. I love Colin and he's very provocative, but
his list of the NBA impactful players in the playoffs
just absolutely horrendous. Absolutely, and I love the guy. But

(02:18:02):
you know, listen, we we all get if we're whatever
coast we're on, we get accused of being uh bias
of that coast, that there's some sort of bias, I guess.
But his list of ten most valuable players left in
the playoffs, he starts with Kevin Durant one, Kawai Letter two,

(02:18:26):
Chris Paul three, Harden four Are you kidding me? He
hasn't even played this series, Donovan Mitchell five, Kyrie six,
The Joker seven as they're down, three, Oh, Trey Young
eight as they're down, Devin Booker nine, and duel and beat.

(02:18:49):
It was just done nothing but dominate. I just don't
get it. I don't get it. All right, let's uh
look at it from a adding standpoint, the weekend, the playoffs,
everything with our man Brad five by Brad. Good morning,
How are you today, my friend? Well, you know I'm

(02:19:09):
feeling good. You know I feel good. You know I've
been screaming from the from the high tops. I've been
screaming out of my high tops from the hill tops,
out of my high tops. Sixers will bury the Hawks. Yeah,
that's what we wanted to see. You. Look, that was

(02:19:33):
a great performance last night. Indeed, as you said, Anthony,
he's I mean, he's right now as good as any
player in the entire league. Um, that was just again,
I don't want it to be interesting to see what
fur can. Cork Moons came in and had a really
nice first half of them, which helps. Um. Look again
they're they're better than Atlanta the Landa though. Again it's interesting, Anthony.

(02:19:55):
When I when I watched it, man a play a
couple of things. Really he came up, he was, I
gotta tell you like Trey Young. He's a very good player,
but he really gets a lot of a lot of
benefits of the town in my opinion, where I watch
him foul the opponent and they call foul on on
the defense he gets away with more the garbage calls

(02:20:17):
and they almost think I have seen this year. How
about the stopping lean? Yeah, if I can't take it
to stop and lean, Yeah, he's look, I give him credit,
he's able to do it in a way where he
keeps tricking and I'll use the word tricking the officials
because every time it's not a foulon it's a joke.

(02:20:39):
It really is. But look, you know this was an
interesting series, Anthony, you know, especially when Podolie was down
well nothing. I felt like it was a really good
opportunity to take them there around to pick them. They're
better in Atlanta, as you said, they just are. It's
not not insolving in Atlanta. They're good team Atlanta. But
I think Phiodolfi is gonna finish yourself pretty quickly. Yeah,
I think so. Now again for them going forward, the

(02:21:04):
Danny Green is gonna be a big loss because he
hasn't played well thus far in this series. But he's
a guy. Yeah, he's a veteran. He shoots the ball
normally well. And they've got to figure out who do
they start alongside. Now I would start, I would go
with Maxie and go with the young Buck at least

(02:21:25):
for the rest of the series, and see if I
can get Once upon a time, they drafted Marquell fALS
to play alongside Ben Simmons, and I would think, I'm
I would like to see if max he's the guy.
If they play Brooklyn, I would go with Mattis Thibel
and go with more defense. But it's kind of interesting
because they have to survive that loss. Bread. Yeah, well,

(02:21:46):
you know what, listen to certain losses you can and
cannot survive in the playoffs. Look, Danny Green, I agree
with you if he is a is a key contributor
for sure, but let's not you know, this is not
using Joel and beat Ben sim Ins or Tobias Harris.
If there is an injury you can overcome. I'm sure.
Again it's the guy who was playing thirty minutes a night,
who was a real player for the team. If I

(02:22:07):
had to rank the packing order of players on this team,
I mean maybe Danny Green it best, and I mean
it best. Maybe I would have ranked fifth. Um, And
that's nothing. Again, it's not insulting. It's a legitimate but
taken overcome it and I think that, I really think that.
Look again, I I think there's value and taking the
six or still to win the East. Ampy there around

(02:22:27):
close to still four to one area to win the East.
I don't get it. Um, I think it's interesting. Uh, Brooklyn.
The reason I'm late to Brooklyn, so much going into
the bliss was the fact they had three dying. To
my superstar players were not only if two again. I've
been very disappointed in Milwaukee. Um how they've looked in

(02:22:49):
this in this series so far. But I think Philadelphia
if that is the series and heart and is out,
I would I would pick Philadelphia. I really would. If
if there's no Heart again. To me, the edge Brooklyn
hack was having three of those guys not too I'm
not sure why Brooklyn is getting as much respect they're
getting considering one of the three superstars out. Uh, let's

(02:23:11):
come through the whole playoffs. Okay, and let's look at
it from your betting standpoint. Let's begin with tonight's game.
And this is uh, this is interesting because the series
shifts back to Los Angeles for the Clippers. But man,
I don't know. I think I like this Jazz team

(02:23:33):
a lot. Man I think they get by them. And uh,
tonight the Clippers four and a half. How do you
see it? I see this one the same way I
saw last night Denver a Phoenix game. I think Phoenix
was better and I think Phoenix was gonna win. I
think right now I think Utah is better. I think

(02:23:53):
Utah is gonna win let alone getting four and a
half points. See, I think you tall us the better
team the Clippers. To me, Uh, look, this was a
team that had, you know, one Hall of Fame level
player and obviously Kawhi Leonard another really really good player
in Paul George. But when I watched this team, I
mean I've now watched them. I think I think I've

(02:24:14):
watched them nine times in these playoffs. Um, They're just
not that good. Uh. They really don't have Um, they
don't have enough of the other players around those two guys.
In my opinion, where a team like you, all the
players are good, okay, like like when they're when they're
five guys are on the court, you know, with you

(02:24:34):
Tanovic Ingles, you know, Mitchell Gobert Cartson off the bench,
they had just they just have more good players. It
just it really is that simple. Um. And I think
that you're getting one last chance here in my opinion,
to grab the better team getting four and a half points,
because I think the Clippers still have the perception of

(02:24:57):
being this dynamite team and I don't. I just don't
think they are. I mean, they watched Dallas play them
nippt talk for seven games. Utah's obviously a different class. Um,
I think this incredible value here in taking the Jazz
getting four and half, and you want to take the money,
like you know either way, you know, I just I don't.
I don't understand why the Clippers continue to get this

(02:25:18):
kind of respect from the lunchmakers. Uh. Any props that
you look at in this game? Yeah, I did actually have. Um,
I actually didn't have too props in this game. One
Reggie Jackson, he's been you know, probably the third best guy, Anthony.
And then he's he's found eight straight games over two

(02:25:42):
and a half three's. He's been a in their third wheel,
so to speak. So I like, you know, and even
if I bring it back even over that it's been
a winning bat. I like Reggie Jackson over two and
a three's. They really need him for their offense. And
then this is one and it's just it's a pure
value play. Bohan Bogdanovitch Anthony in seventy nine games, that's
your is the average two assist the game and he

(02:26:05):
went over one of the half assists one and thirty
eight in the seventy nine games. Well, you're able to
get him over one and a half assist plus an Um,
it's just to me. You want to give me plus
one on it on something that's a coin flip, I'm
gonna take it. Yeah. Yeah, I like that a lot. Actually,
I think that's great. He averages again, he averages to

(02:26:28):
assists a game, and now he's also getting about six
more minutes the game in the playoffs on top of it.
I think this that probably goes about close to five
and four. Instead, you're actually getting plus one. We should
not be taking outs there, we should be laying Yeah.
I like that a lot. I do. I like that
a lot. Um. All right, how would you look at
when we look at tomorrow Game four Brooklyn Milwaukee? Which

(02:26:50):
is that just I mean, the other night was amazing
because it was a throwback to Night n B A right,
you know, uh, you didn't expect it. I was talking
to Tim Legler, who's uh the analysts for ESPN, who's
legs is fantastic, and he thought, and I give him credit,
that the whole series, the rest of the series, it

(02:27:13):
will be dictated by how it's officiated. If there if
Milwaukee is able to play physical up top and not
get calls well then they could win, come back and
win the series. Yeah. Well, you know, as I said, Anthony,
I've been incredibly disappointed in Milwaukee in this series. And

(02:27:36):
I say that because, look, I thought Brooklyn would win
a tough series. But this is with Harton. Okay, hartnessn't
played literally one minute. He played about fIF team second
the game one, and we know in both games wonning
game to Anthony Brooklyn one beyond easily, and in game
three they get off to the thirty you know, actually,
look I got a fortunate push. I bet the box

(02:27:57):
minus three in that game. I really thought the Bucks
we're gonna, you know, just a great spot for them.
I thought they were to come out with intensity, which
did up thirty to nine. Yeah, and then and then
by the time the game was at halftime, it was
almost a tie game. And then they were down three.
But the minutes ago. Again it's just and this is
an alt James Harden Again, I've really been surprised. But

(02:28:18):
I will say this, um again, it's interesting to me.
You're honest as good as he is. And I I
watched every one of these playoffs game and if you
know what you do as well for a superstar player.
I mean, gosh, you just he's just very very guardable.
I I I can't say in any other way. I mean,
you know, in any shooting all these threes, breaking them,

(02:28:41):
I don't. I don't. I just I don't know. I
think you know what, it's funny. I hate to say.
It almost reminds me like it. As good as Scotty
Pitpott was as a player, he wasn't a dominant offensive
player per se. You though he made the average twenty
of game. You're honest to me, I think he's almost
miscast as the as the top scorer on a team.
I think you should just be the all around, you know,

(02:29:03):
jack of all trades, good defensive guy. About it is right?
And I was. I had this conversation a little bit
earlier with Figgy with my coast, and we were talking
about it, and I said that Janice and Ben Simmons
are very similar and that just except here's what makes

(02:29:26):
Ben really valuable to his team, and that is he's
an incredible facilitator and defender and the thing and because
he does just like Janice still both rebound, except the differences.
And I saw the stat and I was amazed that
when Ben Simmons is on the floor in these playoffs,

(02:29:47):
his team shoots fifty from the field. Well, it's amazing.
That really is amazing. I think Ben Simmons and you know,
the Sixers, as well as anyone with more or less
he owned the in the world. Um, I think they
should use him more in the post too. I think
I think he is the ability if they wanted to
where I think he could actually be a really effective

(02:30:09):
low post score to me, because he has the size,
the agility of the quickness that he's everything. I think
he could actually maybe score a little bit more, like
you honest if again be honest doesn't really rely on
the outside shot either. I would hope that maybe Ben
could try to get a little bit more of this
stuff down low. But you're just talking about your honest again.

(02:30:31):
Like again, I just think that he he's just I
think he's miscasts as this big time score. Um, I
see real flaws with Milwaukee. I'm not betting this game.
It's interesting how the line has switched, Anthony. It's moves like,
you know, five points the other way. Um, but I can't,
I can't back Milwaukee. Yeah, well it's sort of the

(02:30:56):
line was closed at the other line, Anthony closed at
three and a half point um for Milwaukee in Game three.
Now it's Brooklyn minus two. I mean, but again that's
because of just how this series is going. I did.
How much is that? How much is that public? When
we say public, we mean the the masses that just

(02:31:18):
expects Brooklyn to come back because luck, even in that
game they were down big and came all the way back.
How much is that a reaction to Brooklyn coming back
in the game. There has not been. There has not
been the money has come in on Brooklyn from from everyone.
The money is not like there's there's not been sharp.
There was a ton of sharp money on Milwaukee and

(02:31:38):
both games two and three a ton. I had Milwaukee
games two and three. Again, I got very lucky to
get a push in one and lose the other one. No,
there's now the sharp there's there's not been sharp money
on Milwaukee in this game as of yet. Um, again,
I can't get myself to back them, even though I'm
seeing the line, I'm like, every part of my body's
telling me Milwaukee plus two is the right play. But

(02:32:01):
just by watching how these three games have gone again,
I'm trying not to be stubborn. I thought without Harden,
Milwaukee would be the better team. Um, through three games
they've been they deserved to be down at best to one,
and they maybe three zero, And um again, I'm not
betting this game because I just can't. I think walk

(02:32:21):
is the only way bet it, but I cannot get
myself to the window to do it. I just can't. Curious,
I just did from a strategy, because we do talk
to the betting on the show. Is what about this
concept of money line versus lane at three? Well, they

(02:32:43):
usually translate Anthony usually about the same like it really know,
it's funny in these playoffs so far, I think I
read it was something crazy. We've only been two games. Uh,
they've only been two games that were decided within the spread.
And what I mean by that is basically, if you
just picked the win, or if there, let's say there
was sixty games, you would have been fifty eight and
two just picking the winner where the spread really didn't

(02:33:05):
make any kind of difference. So yeah, you're much better
off taking the money line versus taking the spread these games.
But it also can go either way, where you can
have that a run of games where it falls within
the numbers. Let's those you liked Brooklyn plus three a
three and a half and like. For example, here's an example.
The game left. The game three between these teams, Flyne

(02:33:25):
closed at three and a half, Anthony, if you were
taken Brooklyn, let's say plus a dour fifty with the
money line, you would have lost. But if you took
the plus three and a half you would have won. Yeah,
that's interesting. It can go away, all right, So give me,
give us all what you have. Any props for tomorrow?
How do you see Phoenix? Is it a close out?

(02:33:46):
What are you looking at in that series? Well, no
props up yet for the games for to morrow, Anthony,
But Phoenix. Yeah, the only way I can look in
that game is the Suns. And I'll say this, I mean,
for whatever reason, and I don't agree with this, they Phoenix.
I'm sorry Utah, and I think Utah is really good. Uh,
but I think Phoenix and Utah are comparable teams in

(02:34:07):
my opinion. Right now, you can get you know, let's say,
just to win the West, you can get Phoenix getting
over two to one odds and Utah is like minus
about one fifty five. Um, I see that as a
very close series. That's what we're gonna get, which I
think we will are and I'll be on the underdog
sons there because I think that's gonna be a kind
of a coin flip series. UM. I think that serious

(02:34:30):
can go either way. Have a slight lean to Utah
getting the finals, but I really think Phoenix has a
really good chance as well. I think that that would
be a marvelous series. UM. I will tell you the
same thing to in hockey. There's actually a game I
do like. UM. I know we're switching sports a little bit,
but I like the Islanders against Tampa Bay. Um I do. Um.

(02:34:53):
They're getting you know, plus one seventy in game one,
I had them all. I have them in all the
road games against Boston, I went three in one, and
I'm gonna take them in all the road games here.
Just so you know, Hockey playoffs, Anthony, the last five years,
the road team has actually won more games in the
home team. There is no home ice advantage, and it's
priced very aggressively like there is. UM. I will not

(02:35:15):
take Tampa Bay in New York because it's there's not
as much value. But when you get the road team
like New York against Tampa Bay. Not quite a fifty
fifty game, but I think they've at least at least
a chance of winning that game, which means they should
be getting no more than plus one fifty. You can
get plus one seventy. I think there's some nice value there.

(02:35:35):
And I also do have a couple of baseball games
my friends that I think have some nice value today,
um Wade Miley and Herman Marquez. Now Wade Miley the unrunning.
This game's nine and a half Anthony. If not for
his one game where you give up eight runs in
three innings, Miley would have his sub two e r A. Okay,
he's still at two point nine six. Marquez and his

(02:35:57):
last four games and only allowed three runs rock It's
one of the worst line ymps in baseball. I like
under nine and a half runs there. I think I
would have made that total a full run lower in
my numbers, so I think there's real value and taking
under nine and a half runs in the Rockies Reds game.
And John Gamp of the Cardinals Anthony versus Kyle Hendricks
Gant has a two six three r A. That would

(02:36:19):
have that was a one point six o R a
before his last start. Okay, in his last ten starts,
eight of them he's given up two runs or less.
Kyle Hendricks has a four or five nine and only
in three of his ten starts has he given up
two runs or less. Well, the line in this game
the Cubs are minus. You can get plus one sixty
three with the Cardinals. I think this game is much

(02:36:40):
closer to a coin flip. You want to give me
plus sixty three, I like that very very much, and
I'll give you one more. Trevor Bower has been great.
Texas is the worst team in the American League. They
can't score. I'm not gonna lay minus three hundred, but
I did take the Dodgers minus a run and a
half twin by two runs. Are more lang a dollar thirty.
There you go. I like you. Brad Feinberg are betting analysts.

(02:37:03):
You're the man, buddy. That's about we love you. Uh.
There it is hope you enjoyed that give some winners.
Brad's really sharp and he just does it and there's
no you know, not one of these touts or anything
like that. All right, but I'll tell you a guy
who's even sharper than Brad. Oh yeah, the one, the

(02:37:26):
only lord of trendings. I very kind words, Anthony, got
some real good stuff here across the board. Here we
start with Game three of the Western Conference Semifinals Friday nights. Yep,
the Phoenix Suns over the Denver Nuggets one six team
to one oh two for three games to non lead,
despite m v P. Nikolokas thirty two points, twenty rebounds

(02:37:48):
and tennessis for Denver earlier on Friday night. Jeez oh yeah,
indeed that would be embid. Indeed, twenty seven points, nine rebounds,

(02:38:10):
eight assists and three blocks as his and more importantly,
Anthony's Philadelphia seventy six one in Atlanta one to one
eleven for a two games to one lead as the
Sixers broke the hawks thirteen game winning straight Get out
of here, all right, and here comes the piece della resistance, Anthony.

(02:38:36):
We are actually going to bypass our jam master Jam
of the Week this week because we have a new
comment emerging in the Aaron Rodgers saga, Anthony. The headline
is Packers president Mark Murphy publicly refers to Aaron Rodgers
as a complicated fella. Here's the full context. Thursday, night.

(02:39:01):
Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy was speaking at an
event for local business leaders at lambeau Field and related
that the late former Packers general manager Ted Thompson would
refer to Rogers as a complicated fellas. So, if you
don't mind, we have to take a time out here.
I can play the exact audio in context for you

(02:39:22):
when we come back. Would you like to do that?
I would love that. All right, let's say I love that.
I love that. All right, let's do it. Let's take
a quick respite, will come back. We'll take a listen
to that because that's fascinating stuff. Where the fellas right
here on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the
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(02:39:44):
our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within
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listen live. All right, welcome back, fellas, sawn a beautiful
sports Saturday. I know I'm dying here or about this
whole thing. And you know we talked about Aaron Rodgers

(02:40:04):
and and and what's going on in Green Bay? What
do you got for us? Here? It is again the
full context Thursday night, Mark Murphy, the president of the
Green Bay Packers. Speaking at an event for local business
leaders at lambeau Field, he said that the late former
Packers general manager Ted Thompson would refer to Aaron Rodgers
as a complicated fellow. Here are the full remarks. Who

(02:40:26):
can hear him in context? This courtesy of w l
w l UK television. Something you may have realized you
have a situation with our quarterback. I don't know it.
That's my attempt at here Murphys right with in term
to Maaron Rodgers. Obviously, he's a tremendous, tremendous talent, reigning
m v P, and we've been working with Aaron for

(02:40:48):
a number of months to resolve some of the concerns
that he has, but we remained committed to having him
as our quarterback for one and be on. I'm often
reminded though, uh Ted Thompson. I think mostly, you know,
just as a great general manager who passed away this
past year, of course gives me earlier this year often

(02:41:10):
talked about Aaron that he's a complort, and it wasn't
just Aaron and a lot of different players. He would say,
he's a complicated fellow. So I'll just say that, So
there you go. He basically publicly refers to Aaron Rodgers
as a complicated and used a revered deceased general manager
to make his point against Aaron Rodgers, because that's what

(02:41:32):
he did. And here's these guys who will understand is
nobody cares about you. Nobody cares about this suit. Nobody
cares about you. They care about Aaron Rodgers. He's the franchise,
not you. And these ego maniacs never understand that, who

(02:41:53):
are behind the scenes and quietly resent the great players
that only give them their elite standing in the first place.
Pisses me off. Understand, I know, bothers me hardly flattering
remarks this after Murphy last week said the less both

(02:42:16):
sides say publicly, but better do as I say, not
as I do. Unbelievable, I mean, absolutely ridiculous. But of
course they never ever learned. Well, lots to do. I
know you guys have a great weekend. Thanks for hanging.
We love you.

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