06/20/2021 - FOX Sports Sunday with Mike Harmon and LaVar Arrington - Fox Sports Radio

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It's LaVar Arrington. What up? Happy Father's Day? My brother
back at you. I'm good. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Yeah nice,
thank you. Yeah. Wherever you are, however, you are being
celebrated this morning. And if you're not, and you're you're
still up walking the dog, making pancakes all those that's

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what you do. You keep the line moving exactly. We're
line chefs, it line cooks, making it done and maybe
get done. And we're not the real superstars. Well, I
mean it's I think there were a lot more a
lot bigger effort by companies this year than in years past.
Why because they're trying to make up for sales they

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didn't have last year. Especially if you're in any kind
of merchandizing that requires people to be out and about, right,
you didn't get to do it last year. So now
it's like, Hey, take Dad to his favorite restaurant. Like
normally it's Hey, by Dad, more grill stuff. Right, here's
another that that's cool. I mean, there's only so many

(02:53):
gadgets you can fit in the space. But you know
what they get used? You use them. I use them.
I've got a thing that has Butterball branding to fry
a turkey. So I mean, what, whatever you need, you
can find it and branded. That's what we need to
figure out. How do we put our branding on a
series of cooking implements, seasonings, the whole nine yards, maybe

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some white label dipping sauces, whatever the case may be.
Merchandizers out there, get in touch with us at Swallen Dome,
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you see the wisdom of LaVar Arrington as well as
his efforts at the Grille and again wherever you're at, Hi, pop,
if you're out there listening out for your morning walk

(03:38):
in the hundred forty two degree weather there in Clearwater, Florida,
I appreciate you. Hey. Yeah, well it gets you know,
really sticky and human. And occasionally you'll go for a
walk and find yourself a gator or two along your trail.
But you know, hey, life's about adventuring. Could Yeah, and
then some sometimes some good eats too. I crushed it

(04:01):
onto grill yesterday. You what what'd you? What'd you go
to work on yesterday? Uh? It was the normal. You know.
My specialty is is ribs. I crushed it. I mean
they were my best ones. I've I've I've mastered my sauce.
It's a secret sauce. Uh, and I've mastered my technique
of how I approached the meats. It's like a it's

(04:25):
like a real process. There's there's really a lot to
unpack there, and uh, most know that. You know, it's
Sunday morning, so there's only so much I can do
with what you just put. We just gotta raise my
glass gear and just say let's let's leave that where
it is. Yeah, find your winds, baby, Look we got

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some F one action earlier early this morning, we've got
the final round of another massive golf tournament. Still waiting
to see if there's any kind of fights or anything
that will come off of the PGA Tour this time around,
and in post match celebrations and well the agony of
defeat as it were. We've got full slate of Major

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League Baseball. We got a Game seven, we got a
game one. But yesterday you want to talk about a game,
you want to talk about a game like, well, we'll
get in and we'll we'll pop in with some activity
as the US Open final round gets going. It's just
down the road here, so you gotta pay it some
love here in southern California. But the game last night

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between the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn nets Is is one
for the ages. Some great performances, and I want to
take the you know, remember the old ABC's Wide World
of Sports, and they'd have the montage and the music
playing the thrill of victory and that terrible tumble down
the ski slope the defeat, And in this case, we're

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gonna say it like we're in the South Side of Chicago, defeat,
because that's really what it comes down to first the
thrill of well victory or at least moving on green
lot's a cross court Durant Carter, Mike Tucker. They booked
head of the key turn around. Okay, but one second

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ago time out books that's that's two point or a
long one. It ties the game one on line. There
you have it, obviously NETS Radio on the call. Uh.
And I was waiting for this Brooder film and the Hey,
how do we zoom in on this? See what I want?
Like we always talk about we need sensors on the

(06:41):
nose of a football to figure out did you get
the first down? I wanted all around the three point
arc from now on, like light up, buzzers, whatever the cases. Like,
I don't know the die that they say is in
a pool if you should have someone kind of do
their thing. Uh. So you know all of that so
we we can get a definitive answer. Hey, you know

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what we're doing. We're we're making people laugh. We're bringing
joy to the masses right now. And that's that's the
thing they die for. The toe that that touches the
three point line from my car's right now now. Royce
Young now writing for ESPN uh it's been out of
Oklahoma City for a long time. Made sure to point

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out a story from that says k D actually wears
a shoe that's one size bigger than his foot. So
game of inches, he said, yeah, you know, my big
gass foot cost me because he was well right on

(07:45):
the line and we're talking waffer thin. Uh that that
area where they was over and then because we have that,
we go into overtime and exhausted k D trying to
do everything. This was the last ditch effort. Durant a
three pointers straight away, short and out of bounds bucks
ball with three tips of a second to play. I

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think on some level you saw the man's soul leave
because he'd given everything, so like the last of it
went with that shot. And that was the Bucks radio
network on the second call. Uh. You know, it was
an interesting play as you get down to it. LaVar
a lot too. You can break down in the sequencing
wide open misses from Joe Harris, the guy that led
the NBA in three point effectiveness in the regular season,

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but his shot the last couple of games definitely off
and then he had a wide open look in the
waning seconds that well, it was just another clank off
the iron, but this one for Durant got the ball
to James hard and almost with the all right, you
gotta do something for me here, And what did Harden do?
Give it right back? You know, it was one of

(08:53):
those games where I think we will all have the
storyline of it will all run down the line in
the lane of one guy can't do at all. And
you're right, I mean he was looking for support. There
wasn't too much of a supporting cast. I mean, Harten
had had his points. Uh, but it just wasn't a

(09:15):
hardened like performance. And and why would it be. You know,
he was hobbled. Uh. He made mention of it. You know,
the rest of the guys they needed to step up,
Mike and they and they didn't. And like you said, let'sten.
If you're looking at Kadie to pull the wagon too,
you know, you're hitching your your rig to it, like

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you know, your cargo, your cargo hold. He did a
great job of pulling it. But with that being said,
you still have to have some effort and some contribution
in in a more major way than what the nets
gave last night. It's just one of those unfortunate things
because it goes from a series where you think that

(09:58):
the Milwaukee Bucks are heading towards getting swept and if
Kyrie Irving doesn't go down with the ankle injury, I
think it's very well could have been what happened, you know,
and in that situation. Um so, but that's you know,
that's sports, and that's why you lace them up, and
that's why you go out there, and that's why you

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compete because you just never know what the tide. Maybe
it may change, it may stay the same. You may
get steam rolled the way the Sons did, uh the
Nuggets or and what's here's what's interesting. And then you
look at what happens to Chris Paul and it's like,
all right, Chris Paul's shoulders hurting. Uh, maybe this is

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the one time that you know, again that again time
where we say because they didn't have Chris Paul, because
Chris Paul was injured, you don't win the series. He
gets himself together, he comes back, they win the series,
and then they steamroll the Nuggets. So you know, Mike,
it can go either way sometimes, And you watched a

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resilient Kevin Durant try to pull them through. Um, but
it just wasn't It just wasn't enough. Joannice played a
heck of a game. Middleton played a heck of a game.
P J. Tucker is is such an unsung hero for
this this Milwaukee Bucks team. Your your guy from Campbell Hall.

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You know, Drew Holidays is playing some some really fine
basketball as well. I think it's gonna be whoever they
end up meeting in the in the conference finals. I
look at it like, you know what, all things given,
the Milwaukee Bucks earn't their opportunity to try to make
it to the finals for the first time. Will do
a little Philly Atlanta coming up a little later. But yeah,

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to your point, Uh, look, only eleven players scored in
this game. That's the fewest in any game since the merger. Uh, right,
your season or post season according to stats. Uh so
that's that's kind of a big deal. Uh. You mentioned
the Denver Ouster and we watched Utah. It's funny you

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win an award and you go home. I forget who
it was on Twitter. I'd like to give him credit,
but uh, Yokich four straight after getting his m v
P plaque. Uh, he was back in the right he
was back in the salt because he likesense. So both
of those guys get their awards in a way they
go as well. But uh, it's a couple of other

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quick stats k D in the overtime because this is
where the Bucks. You got to celebrate them a bit
for what they were able to do here. Uh O
for six over one zero points in the overtime. Uh
six to your final in overtime. So not exactly the
most aesthetically pleasing, but when you got guys long and
fifty plus minutes, uh, that's bound to happen. Tired legs,

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bad passes. There were a few turnovers from James Harden
where I thought Kevin Durant was gonna on back and
just start screaming at him. It's like, I like your idea.
The execution has got to be better. I'm kind of open,
but not with the chest pass necessarily. Each time. A
couple of times it worked beautifully. A couple of others, Uh,
not so much. And the Bucks defensively, I mean that

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was just a next level execution down the stretch. The
crowd still counting off Janice's free throws. After a while,
he started hitting them. As you mentioned forty thirteen boards.
He did go eight of fourteen from the free throw line. Yeah,
the only video you're gonna see are of the the
two air balls, and there was one shot of James

(13:40):
Harden just with shaking his head and looking at the
referee like are we are you kidding me? It's like
we're here all day. So just a crazy game, but
one that united all NBA fans. You want to talk about, uh,
the blowing up social media back and forth with the
runs that you had, and then watching Durant finish off

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with another forty eight point performance, nine boards, six assists,
a guy that we all wondered and I think rightly
so with the injury that he sustained, where and how
he'd get back into the fray and what did you have?
The argument once again and well there's the best player
in the world, Janice said it once again. Uh. And
in the post game, LaVar I think the best comment

(14:24):
of them all a guy saying, wow, you really left
it all out there. Do you take some consolation that
he looked at him, he goes cares You know, Katie's
he's a different character. Yeah, he's a good one though.
He's a good egg. Man, Listen, I know k D
pretty well. Um, he used to come into my restaurant

(14:45):
all the time. We used to have great times talking. Um,
he's a pretty cerebral dude, man, and he just he
trying to shoots it straight. You know, he's one of
those guys, kind of a non you know, no nonsense
type of guy. Um. So yeah, that's a Katie like response,
just you know, stay off the burner accounts. Other than that, like,

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you know, it's the punching down thing that we talked
about even last we didn't know you don't let people
find out that you have them. Well, that's you could
have the burner accounts. I mean, you know, you've got
CIA agents, You've got d e A. You know, you've
got all kinds of different right why not right, So

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he could have his own intelligence gathered, you know. But
but the whole point of it is is that you
don't let people know and figure out that you have
burner accounts because all it does is open up to
being assailed by hot take nonsense on a day to
day basis. We look forward to bringing you some of
that over the course and today welcome in. It's Fox

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Sports Sunday Mike Garment alongside LaVar Arrington celebrating a fantastic
game and celebrating Father's Day. Wherever you are, raise my
oversized cup of coffee to you, the first of many
this morning from the Fox Sports Radio studios. You can
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We'll read some of them over the airwaves, you know,
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whoever fills that role in your life. Let's celebrate them today.
Let's have some fun. We got a lot of sports

(16:29):
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little bit uncomfortable. It's Cole Beasley, Joe Mixing and what
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ones and twos because when I think of my dad
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that bring us together. As a former police officer, this
is the Departed. Yeah, so you run lines right of
all these movies, from Reservoir Dogs to uh Copland which
holds a special place, and some of the stuff we've

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opening of this, it's either I think of that good
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a matter of mood today, you know, in the more
sentimental kind of phase, at least for the moment, are you.
I thought you were just being really really edgy and

(20:06):
risk today. No, I mean off the jump, but I
didn't sleep very well, LaVar. I'm gonna be real honest,
I'm gonna tell you all America. Uh, you know, the
brain starts going on a million things you want to do, right,
It's it's kind of the Hamilton's thing. Why do you
write well like you're running out of time. You know
there's a million things I haven't done. Just you wait
all those kind of lines running through. So I'm making notes.
I'm making all these these boards of what I want

(20:28):
to build because football's common body. You and I have
grand plans for a takeover of epic proportions. I know
you're doing a couple of shows this week with Jonas
Knox getting up with the wee wee hours of the morning.
So uh, you'll rally here on Fox Sports Radio, the
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course up on Game ten a m. Till noon every Saturday,
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about it? See we get all the plugs in. I
think that's it. That's what that's what you know? You

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do this on on the daily. I love it. Microphone,
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got a good team assembled that that are ready to
dominate the earholes of America. It's a beautiful thing. You know.
It's only work if you make it work. Yeah, I
mean looking and the fact that we're in the latter

(21:34):
part of June now and there are so many glorious
stories that are floating about. It's a rarity like this
is normally the time of year where things are drifting right.
The NBA Finals are usually wrapping up, and you've got
a couple of days, then you have the Draft, and
then you have a couple of weeks where it's baseball
because the Stanley Cup Final is normally done by this point,

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and you have a couple of weeks that are that
are not quite dry, but we focus on baseball. It's
like here we are, now, we're at that point. We're
really looking at all, right, who's got a legitimate contender,
trade deadlines, superstars of the first half. What have we
been talking about? And we'll get into it as we
roll spin rate and foreign substances and all of those

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kind of things, and and pictures about the injuries that
they attribute to such and so on. So you've got
that mess, and then we we have a couple of
weeks all Star break, and then we get into training
camp and fantasy football content. We came through a pandemic.
I was gonna saying, we had four months where we
had no sports. So it was like, you know, this

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is like, you know, we have no ankle weights on,
nobody weights on. It's just running. Yeah, I mean, it's
you know, I like him it the other day to
being in the on deck circle with the old donuts
as you're swinging the bat getting ready and then you
flip those off and away you go, you know, or
you're running with the fat whatever you're doing, and feeling

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that much more vigorous and free. So one of the
things that is certainly it has been in the news
the past weekend and something you know, I think near
and dear to you as well as you know, you've
got a son playing sports, your daughters are playing sports.
You you played in the National Football League of course

(23:23):
and the NFL p A and being called the task
Cole Beasley doing a lot of ranting and his social
media sphere about the policies adopted for this upcoming year
between the PA and the National Football League, most of
which are really the same as last year. It's just
now that if you're vaccinated, well you have some more freedoms,

(23:45):
just like the rest of society. And for Beasley is like, well,
I may have to retire if this is the case. Like, well,
you're a good player, You've had a good run. No,
I just I just gotta call what it is, right,
he had a good decade. Yes, you beat the odds,
because he tried to say, hey, I beat the odds

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to be in the league. I can beat this. Like no,
no, no no, that's not the point. You're you're missing the
whole point of this exercise here as to what they
agreed to in terms of trying to get another season
off without a hilt, you know, without a hitch to it,
without any kind of problems. And we talked about it
about a month ago on this show levard the coaches

(24:28):
and that being a somewhat of an impediment, right because
they weren't going to be allowed to be on the
field and they were gonna be some restrictions. And now
it comes out for the players, Well here's what happens.
And there's been a lot of talk that Buffalo was
in particular having some issues with guys, you know, getting
to the to the forefront of saying all right, let's

(24:49):
get to a threshold, as they did major League Baseball
and in the NBA. But the way they've drawn it
up now, it's like, all right, are you going to
have multi hotels for players? How are how are you
monitoring there? There's there's a bunch of the details and
I'm like, all right, what's the administrative of this beyond Hey,
we we have daily checks for you still and you

(25:12):
still have daily testing. But the p A. It's always
been a curiosity for me as to how information gets disseminated,
how well, how poorly, and whether everybody's ideas and thoughts
like it comes to a vote in the end, but
how well that gets disseminated, and how much different it

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is team to team, well, you know the larger groups
that have you know, representation. You know, no one is
always going to be on the on the same page.
You're not going to make everybody happy. Um, so you
got to try to figure out where's the best place
to say, okay, we can't push this in or go

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any further, or the just the amount of sensibility that
goes in to, uh, what what the conclusions are. I think,
you know, for all the criticisms that go towards the
NFL p A, I still think that there are a
lot of fine guys that are representing UM, that that
group and that body, and and there are a ton

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of really really great things that comes from the p A.
I think this is one of those hard topics, Mike.
I mean, there's there's you know, there's so many ways
to try to go about handling it, and so many,
so many directions it can go into. This is one
of those ones where you gotta almost say, here's the
approach unless narrow the focus to this being the approach

(26:40):
of how we're going to handle it. And it comes
down to philosophies, It comes down to belief systems, it
comes down to ideologies, and and we all know that
those are going to differ by by different you know,
different people. So I mean, listen, I don't know what
the right answer is for the whole way of of

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approaching UM, you know, the coronavirus situation and and the vaccinations.
But I do know this we haven't heard very very
very much. I mean, the intensity level of the coverage
of of this topic, like we just mentioned earlier in
the segment, was off the charts in terms of what

(27:27):
you knew about the and maybe not knew about the coronavirus,
but the coverage and what you were being told, the
information being disseminated, and now it's all but like kind
of died down and you're not hearing much. So the
whole Chris Paul thing comes up, and that pops up,
and then it's like, oh, yeah, here's the reminder, like

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we had a short memory here, but we are still
dealing with the effects of coronavirus, and even though we're
not hearing these astronomical numbers being reported and people having
you know, hospital bits and rooms set up in parking
lots and parking decks and stuff like that going on
now or maybe it still is. I don't know, it's

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just not being discussed as much. So it's just like
when you hear these topics come up, it's such a
big issue that you're going to have people that have
really really strongline beliefs in how they want to approach it. Well,
because the other other prong of this was the Lebron
James commentary, well, I mean just just from a Hey, well,

(28:35):
a bunch of guys got hurt because of the way
we had to handle our seasons and everything else, which
I I don't doubt that the strain on the body
was certainly there. But most of the injuries, especially when
he started talking about All Stars, could be attributed to
fluke circumstance, the Kyrie irving, you know, ankle being bent

(28:55):
to a ninety degree ankle. That that's that's not corona
of virus and pandemic scheduling related and at any any way,
shape or form. Now, Chris Paul, the fact that everybody
suddenly got really quiet, he's in protocol, like even Monty
Williams and his latest presser, he's in protocol. That's all
I'm gonna say. Well, you're one of the heads of

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the p A, and so now there's just the question
of what you were preaching versus your individual choice and
and what the league was trying to do. And you know,
one of those things is what what It's the old
adage your best ability is your available ability. Uh. And
injury or COVID uh, he's not available. Circle back to

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this and in just a moment to expand just from
the the p A side, you know, at least from
my my layman's uh outside looking in kind of understanding
and and Lavark had set me straight. But first we're
gonna go over to Isaac Lowan Crown, who's gonna give
us an update on the US Open and all other
things sports. Indeed, and everyone's still buzzing about the drama

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Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals last night, the
Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets. In overtime of Game seven
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clock study for Chris Fell that put Milwaukee up one

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thirteen to one eleven, and in the final seconds it
was Brooklyn's ball and Kevin Durant's ball direct for three
pops up before the air ball with three texts on
the second romania for Milwaukee Bucks Brookie one elevel league.

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They would go on to win it one fifteen to
one eleven over Brooklyn. Despite Durants forty eight points, nine
rebounds and six assist he played all fifty three minutes.
Janis Antea Kompo scored forty points four mill Walkee in
fifty minutes. In Game four, the Stanley Cup Semifinals on
Saturday night. The New York Islanders defeated the Tampa Bay
Lightning three to two, tying the series at two wins apiece,

(31:10):
and we've got a three way tie for the lead
going to the final rout of the US Open today
at Tory Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes
and South Africa's Louis oost Haysen at five under par overall,
Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo two shots back at three
under par overall. Michael and LaVar speaking of Marvelous back

(31:32):
to you guys, I was a little nervous as to
what the call was going to be because people have
been ultra critical of marved in big moments and I
was having a blank. He didn't mess that one up,
did he, Because he'd misidentified some players, So it wasn't
a yes. Oh wait, it was an air ball. And
you know what that could have been If the Eastern

(31:53):
Conference finals do not go seven games, that could have
been the final game seven that Marv Albert has called
in his legend. There a career last night, how about that?
See there you go at Isaac lowan crowd where you
find him on Twitter, find me over at Swollen Dome. Yeah,
find my guy LaVar over at on Instagram at King
of the Mammals, Yeah, Swollen Dome for me there as well.

(32:16):
Just to continue, uh Beasley mixing. There's been a few
others who who piped up a little bit on social media,
and there's always chirping about the p A And one
of the things to me that that stands out as
football is a different animal in all this one. Contracts
aren't guaranteed. Now some of the guys are getting more
guaranteed money. Uh, You're starting to see a little bit

(32:37):
of a trend that way. But you just have such
a wide stratosphere, you know, stratification, I guess is the
right way to say it, of players where they are
on the continuum, when you've got such a small window
short careers, right, the average being what three and a
quarter years or whatever. The last data point was that

(32:57):
they put up guys that are friend players cup of
coffee and it looks all professionals and you know, I
tip my cap to all all guys that that make
make that level right, keep grinding, keep hustling, showing up
at camps the following year to another team and hustling
and trying to get uh their shot right because a

(33:18):
lot of time scheme fit as we know. But you
talk about the money being made by a quarterback and
your upper echelon players at insert position here, and the
rest of a squad and made up of undrafted guys
or guys that are kind of moving team to team
and they fit a need here for a year and

(33:39):
and push along that the economics of what they're dealing with,
family structure, etcetera. Really doesn't allow for a lot of
like minded thinking in some of these areas. Again, I
take it all make the same amount of money and
they're still going to ahead disagreements. You know, I've I've

(34:02):
been in meetings where you're trying to find you know,
solutions with with guys, And I mean, if you really
think about it, if you are in the league, you
should not be mentioning financially like it's it's hardship or
anything like that, because in in real terms, you know,

(34:26):
everybody is is making good enough money to make you know,
solid decisions, like if you're making it based off of
the guy who's making fifteen forty million a year. I
get that, but that's the extreme. You know, if you're
down in the upwards of three or four grand a

(34:46):
year for your services, you know you should be trying
to figure out the best ways to move forward and
not you know, not lose sight of that. Well but
but that but but yeah, mean that that was more
the point of the guys on the lower end, right
and playing for league minimum or or just above there.

(35:06):
There's the idea that you've only got the small window,
right because you didn't get the big signing bonus. Your
your considerations are a little different, right, so you might
give up something. What is that considered? You know what
I mean? Like, I'm just saying, like, if you're gonna
be in that all right, the just say you're at
the average, right, that's a good amount of money minus tax,

(35:27):
monusty agency and I'm not trivia, and then certainly it's
it's still a lot of money compared to the the
rest of the world. And I think that that's what
gets lost sometimes. That's the point I'm trying to make,
is like what gets lost in this is it's like, oh,
this is altering my way of life for this that
I have a small window data that you're making three

(35:48):
four four hundred per season, So even if you only
make one to two seasons, if you're if you're living
the way you were living before you were making that
that minimum salary. I don't know what it is at
this point, but I mean, if you're making that while
you're playing, I think your focus it's just should be

(36:11):
on how can you maximize the amount of years, you know,
amount of checks that you can get, not not going
crazy over situational things like health protocols. That's that's well
said and the smart way to approach. But as we know,
well as we know, you're gonna have your issues, everybody's

(36:33):
gonna have their reasons to say what they want to
say and do it how they want to do it.
But with that being said, it kind of goes back
to how you presented it in the first place. It's
like Cole Beasley like, aren't you like the poor man's
version of the West Welkers at Edelman's and even the Avendolas.

(36:55):
You know, it's like, aren't you the poor man's version
of that? Like it's just like it depends on who
it's coming from. If it's coming from somebody it makes sense,
then you're going to like kind of put a little
bit more into it. But it's like, if you don't
want to deal with it, cole keeping you here, plenty

(37:16):
of wide receivers in camps and thanks, I'll take the
extra reps right next man. It's next man up in
every other circumstance. And and it goes back to the
basic tenant that I remind folks kind of like the
the First Amendment, when folks start throwing that out liberally
and I didn't mean that as a liberal or conservative thing,

(37:37):
just liberally as in a lot is you have the
freedom to say what you want, just remember that there
are consequences for it, and your employer could take umbrage
with what you're doing. And in the NFL it's a
private business. If these are the rules that have been
established and negotiative, then that's it. Yeah, I mean, take

(37:58):
it or leave it, As you know, Kevin Durant said earlier,
I did the who cares line. The other was if
you don't like it, don't watch. In this case, if
you don't like it, you know, go go find someone stiff.
It's it's a new world order, uh, And they're trying
to get fans back in at a hundred percent capacity,
a lot of revenue to be made up, no question

(38:21):
about it. The league minimum because you know I do
my own quick research here six d and that's what layoff.
You know, well, that means it's escalated quite a bit
in the last few years. We'll have to go back
and look at the evolution of that, because I remembered
it in the four hundreds of myself. If you're making
six grand a year at the league minimum, things like

(38:46):
protocols and stuff like that, you know, I would just
say you have bigger fish to fry, you know what
I mean, Like if it's something that could give you
benefits moving forward, like if something were to have happened
to you or just that and other I get it.
But if you're saying, oh, I'm not taking the vaccination,
I'll retire before I take the vaccination. Next man up,

(39:09):
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so I'll leave this off. We're gonna bring in the
crew as they want to share or mock me. Uh.
One of the great moments of uh, well, you dad
worked a lot, right, trying to hustle keep us in uh,
you know, the Catholic grade schools, and then to our
our efforts at Saint Ignatious in Chicago, and so hustling

(40:57):
a bunch. And there were time you're playing whatever sport like.
I would be really cool if he could have seen
that as I, you know, just danced into the backfield
and took down another quarterback. Uh. But there there was
a time where I got under the pile and LaVar.
I know you could speak to this in graphic detail,
but we'll save it for a chapter of a book

(41:19):
of what happens in the pile, And I got well
ripped pretty bad and my knee went the absolute wrong way.
The kid even apologized, saying, coach said to do this,
which is always great. But I'm laying there like a
sack of potatoes. And then I was hurled over the
shoulder by my dad, who had figured out a way

(41:40):
to switch up lunch schedules with the police department to
come watch said game, and well, you know one of
those that evidently he was always there in some way,
shape or form. Ah, you just didn't know it until
you got hurt and had to be carried off. So there,
there's my There, there's my memory. It's either that or

(42:01):
watching people drunkenly in a parking lot at the Chicago
Stadium yelling beat Boston in the pre Jordan days and
potential fights in the parking lot. But we'll save that
for another time. How about you. Any anything that comes
to mind. I think a super cool memory that I
I have of my dad is when when I started
playing ball, um, I was, I was very emotionally charged.

(42:26):
I know, if anybody knows my game has ever saw
me play, they know I'm I played with um a
ton of passion and a ton of emotion and and
so one of the things that my dad used to
do before games, even like when I I think I
had a moment where I had like maybe like a

(42:48):
small minor um kind of a panic attack before a
game when I was younger, and you know, he pointed
to his temples, you know, he on it, both point
their fingers. He pointed to his head, like keep your
head you know, it's like, calm down, You're okay, it's
gonna be all right. And it became our thing. So

(43:09):
every game that that we would play, I would look.
The first thing I would do is identify where my
mom and dad was. And my dad would always point
to his his temples every single game, all the way
up until in fact, my rookie year was a struggle
for me because my parents weren't at all of the

(43:29):
games my rookie year. I ended up moving them to
Washington and they were able to come to all of
the home games at least, and they there. It is
I find my dad, no matter how far away they were,
I find him. And until the end of our our
you know, till the end of my career, he would
always point to his temples, you know, like keep your head,

(43:51):
like have a good time, like play smart, you know,
and and that was our thing. Like and I knew
I was ready to go when I saw him do it,
I knew I was ready to go. See, we we
all talk about superstition and and all the rituals that
you have. We'll get the rest of the crew in
as we continue here on Fox Sports Sunday, because you know,
the timekeepers, the time variance Authority. UH tells me that

(44:14):
we're we're up against it. No, no, no, no no, I'm
sorry those props. Oh no, there's no there's no apologies.
You know we we we we are storytellers. That's what
we do. And uh off the clock, well they can
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(48:40):
and of course, in about forty minutes from now, we'll
go off the rails with our guy Isaac Lowen Crin.
But a couple of things for the NBA playoffs, LaVar
the first of with the Brooklyn Nets going down and
Lebron James long Home. The only thing right now any
any hate watching for Lebron is every time there's a
space Jam commercial, which seemed to come in rapid fire. Yeah, yeah,

(49:05):
at rapid succession. Here's the thing that they're they've got
like two or three cuts. You gotta give me more cuts.
May maybe not that you want to give away all
the movie, but the same commercial running over and over again.
I guess repetition works in advertising. There's one that that
school of thought. The other is what are you doing
to me? It's like when you're they used to preview

(49:26):
the uh, you know, the next drama that they really
wanted you to watch every commercial block and then even
the live read coming back. You'd have Marv Albert, Hey,
we're in the third quarter reminder Thursdays on TND, you know,
coming up this new whatever it was. I remember when
Claus was debuting now going into its final season with

(49:47):
Dean Norris and and the crew there. But we we
don't have the necessarily the hate watching element to this
of super teams and superstars that you have some aversion
too because of the team up factor, overexposure um threatening
of legacies. When whatever the reason, maybe Brooklyn going down yesterday,

(50:11):
it kind of deprives people of that that part of
the equation because you got Phoenix. I don't know that
it does only for the simple fact that if if
they would have won, if they would have won it all,
it would have been more of a miracle because they

(50:32):
just the the circumstances surrounding the season for the Brooklyn Nets. Uh,
it just would have been something that we had never
seen before. And and so when I look at the
Nets coming up short, I mean you should have anticipated
that they would come up short, even if this series
wasn't the series that they came up short in not

(50:53):
With that being said, before Kyrie Irving goes down, I
think a lot of people would say that, well, that
was likely to happen, that that they could win it all.
We're gonna runs were well, And I think that that
would have been logical and sensible to think that it
possibly could have if all of them had gotten healthy

(51:14):
and we're able to stay on the court, which is
the start of the playoffs. Thirty seconds and that was
right and then that was it. So, um, I think
that this is a trend that will become the new norm. Um,
just because the way guys communicate, Like when I was
coming up, we knew of one another, we didn't know

(51:37):
each other, you know, And I think that that is
the tremendously different aspect of all of this moving forward
in sports as a whole. I mean, you know, we
don't talk about this as it applies to other sports
like baseball or hockey or soccer, but I'm sure it
goes on and or no doubt. I mean, basketball just

(51:58):
seems to be the the different, different path, as it were,
just because guys play a you ball together and do
each other through the draft process, right going to the
Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and whatever other camps, whether
they're training in the off season, pick up games and
the like. It's it's to me and you're right, that's

(52:23):
that's what becomes very prominent when you think about, um,
what what what the NBA does and how how it's represented.
So I don't I just feel like when I think
about the NBA and super teams and stuff like that,
they have always been super teams. Well, yeah, I don't
get to go all the way back to the Lakers,

(52:45):
right when when the base was there super team players, right,
like even going all the way back to Kareem showing up,
That's what I'm saying. You had like like James Worthy
was like we never talked James Worthy being like one
of the best players, if not the best player on
the team, you know, and and people was like, well

(53:07):
what about Magic, what about Kareem? You take away James Worthy,
like and and and and listen. I know a lot
of people may not remember that far back, but James
Worthy is one of the dopest basketball players that I've
ever seen play ever. And and that goes all the
way back to college when he was the dude on

(53:29):
the team. I had Sam Perkins and oh yes, Michael
Jordan's yeah right, sleepy yeah. So it's like for me,
there have always been super teams. I think what what
has happened now is that it has become so prevalent
as to what the relationships are between these guys creating

(53:52):
these super teams and seeing it play out on social
media like Herring dudes talk about you know who was
that Carmel I was talking about how Lebron saved him, like, no,
they didn't play on the same team. But but just
understanding that these guys become friends literally while they're eight,

(54:12):
nine years old, ten years old, and they are friends,
and they are are around each other, and they're connected
through social media through their entire career. And so now
that turns into we have money, so we're renting you know,
private yachts or or maybe even owning them. Yeah, oh jeez.

(54:32):
Uh and then yeah, you know, I had an experience
with a banana boat. We'll we'll broach that another time.
But uh, you know, that's that's uh that you know,
I just think that now it's easier to create the
lines of connection and say, Okay, this wasn't a GM deal.

(54:55):
And I think that that's what has made this such
a big thing, the whole Super Team situation is it's
not the GM's that are dictating these moves by the teams.
And that's just something historically that we have not you know,
we have not seen we have not seen players dictate
other players coming to play for teams or not wanting

(55:16):
to play for teams and different things like that. Like
I mean, Lebron got people to come to Cleveland. Man
like Cleveland. Well, I think that's the biggest piece of
all of this, right is player agency recognizing the other
revenue streams are, in a lot of cases for the
superstars greater than even the most exorbitat of contracts, right

(55:38):
when you talk about shoot deals and the multi media
opportunities that are out there. I mean, we talked about
Kevin Durant. We went into him, you know, the the
guy right a little bit last hour, And one of
the reasons and things he loved about Golden State was
going and picking the brains of all the Silicon Valley people.
And we talked about some of the big investments he's making,

(56:00):
uh in different forms, and one of them was in
the whole collectibles business, recognizing the value and sentimental worth
and and where it's just another line of toys more
or less for folks with money when you start playing
in the upper echelon of cards, autographs and all of
those things. So why not go and learn and just

(56:21):
go back to a team saying all right, I think
I want to come here. How do we make the
money work? How do we make the situation work? Sit
me down with Steph Curry he's got Holy moldy and
and people can laugh about it. It does ratings and
they're in a third season already, all right, So I
mean and executive producing films. We know Lebron and Russell

(56:42):
Westbrook have movies in in process, not just Space Jam,
but other things that their development companies are doing. So
it's part of it is recognizing that one you can
make that money anywhere, but two where where can you
go where your happiest? And people want to work with
their friends, right We want to work with people we

(57:03):
we get to know and we're comfortable with, and if
you you know, have a moment, you can yell at
them and they recognize that it's all in love for
the betterment of the product, and they don't take it personally,
right And and that's one of the things I think
that is the appeal for for what's going on in
that respect right now is all right, I can get

(57:25):
after you and we come back after the next time.
I was like, Okay, cool, you know, not not you.
I mean I was talking about some more universal you.
But but in all business right there, that's certainly you
want to be around people you're comfortable with. But to
that end, it's it's just one of those things for
those that wanted to see it fail, whether they did,

(57:47):
but it's round two. You you didn't get to see
it on the biggest stage. So maybe if you feel
like you were cheated in that regard, or maybe you
had a long term bet on the nets that you
were hoping to cash now continuing in the playoffs live right,
here's one that I think it's kind of entertaining. And well,
if you're from a city that has multiple teams in
any sport, you'll understand why this is problematic. Just seeing

(58:09):
our fans and how they stayed till the end and
how they would cheer, and um, it just you know,
it just felt good. It was a great feeling, you know.
And um, like I said, a team in starving for
some success, the fan base has been doing the same thing,
and you know, um to me, I just you know,
I always look at it differently, Like, you know, I
know the Lakers are out and there's a lot of
Laker fans here, but once the Lakers are gone, if

(58:29):
we're not playing Lakers, you should be cheering for the Clippers.
And that's just how I feel because all one city
and I can just feel to love and you know,
I'm just very happy and proud of our guys. Yeah,
I don't agree with that. Yeah, as a kid from
Chicago that wears an awful lot of white Sox merch
and represents the hatshtag change the game wherever I can. Yeah, No,

(58:55):
you know, I had to be on air while the
Cubs were winning the World Series. And you want to
talk about hard professional experiences, that might be one of them. Uh,
but I did so professionally because you know, broadcast professional
and everything. But I look, I get where he's coming from. Hey,
jump on board with us a little bit. I mean,
great statistic twelve and one as a coach when his

(59:15):
team's got a chance to win a playoff series, and
we talked about the adjustments coming back from twenty five
down to vanquish the Jazz and really have a lot
of people call into question the prowess and the reality
of what Rudy Gilbert is. But that's a story for
another conversation here. But for ty Louis, he's calling on

(59:37):
Laker fans and I can tell you all the Laker
fans I know, I don't think they've ever taken to
social media. Or two group text faster than to blast
that comment. Yeah, that's again, I get where he's coming from.
And you know, that's it's so funny because that I

(59:57):
was talking to coach and staff, uh where my son
is going to attend high school next year, and one
of the coaches had a Lakers mug, Lakers clipboard, uh,
Lakers mask. Like I was like, yeah, like the Lakers.
He was like, well, you're forced to choose around here,

(01:00:19):
you know, that's how things work. And you know that's
how people work, you know, by pocket and pocket of areas.
You know, from all the way to the heart of
l A to all of the neighboring cities and the
sea cities that are on the outskirts and all the
way through. It's like you choose even if it and

(01:00:39):
and here's the thing I think the cool thing about
living here that I've learned is there there are certain
things that because of the way things have worked out,
like football had left l A. But if if you
are in l A person and there is an l
A based team like the Dodgers or the Lakers, or

(01:01:02):
the Clippers, you know, or the you know, uh, you know,
the Kings, then it's like well, and in some cases,
you know, because the Kings were somewhere else, I do
believe right where or have they always been in l A.
I think they came from somewhere else, right, Okay, So
if if there is a team that has been here

(01:01:22):
for a long long because the Lakers came from somewhere
else too. But when you're when you're talking about teams
that have historically been rooted here, you got to choose.
You have to choose, or you have to or you
have to be a part of it. Like I don't
meet very many New York uh, New York Yankee fans

(01:01:44):
in in l A. Because everybody is Dodgers fans, you know,
and and and, which is interesting because they used to
be you know, Brooklyn. But what that's here North there.
The thing about it is is that it's like you're
Dodgers fan and and and as it appli to the
basketball world, it's like you gotta choose between the Clippers
and Lakers. And it's like a real thing here. It's

(01:02:07):
like a real thing. So it's like, okay, the realms
have just come back. You now have the Chargers here,
So it's like, I don't know, maybe it has the
potential of getting to that you had the Rams before
you know they left. But you know the idea of
it is is that it's like you had USC and
everybody chooses USC football. So it's like kind of like

(01:02:31):
the loyalty factor of of a lot of people who
live here. You know, whether it's East South l A,
you know, whatever it may be when you get out
on the outskirts, even hair and like Glenn Dora, everybody chooses.
Everybody chooses, and that the one thing I think is
pretty cool is they choose someone from around here. And

(01:02:53):
I think that's why Tyron Lou he understands the fan
bases a little bit because he played here, he won
a championship, and now he's coaching here. I think he
understands the fan base, Mike, and I think that that's
what's driving what why he would say something like that, Well, look,
I think it's hip to clip I'll steal from Ben
mallor why because I'm not I'm not from here. So

(01:03:13):
while while you while you live in Los Angeles, you
gotta you gotta ride with one team. And where am
I gonna go? I'm a White Sox fan. I'm going
with the the underdog. I'm not jumping on board the
bandwagon of the Banners. No, let's go Steve Balmer. Let's
get it done in year one. So I'm all, I'm all,
and and I have been since I moved. Well, I

(01:03:35):
don't know. Chris Paul isn't playing game one, and we'll
see how quickly he's able to get back in. But no,
I look, even with Chuck, the con was talking about you,
I got, I got my White Sox. They're they're rolling,
so I'll get a title there. But hey, it's my year. Many,

(01:03:56):
it's Harmon's year. Look, Andy Dalton may still be q
B one, but this is my year. And I want
to do a little bit of a correction because it
was a trivia question, uh that I was starting to
think about going. No, I think they played a little
further south. Uh. The Kings were awarded Jack Kent Cook
got an expansion franchise here in Los Angeles, but they

(01:04:18):
had to start this scene. Their first season was in
Long Beach while they waited for the Forum to be ready.
And there's your there's one to grow on Washington Football team. Jack.
Yeah that that Jack? Okay, Okay, that's interesting. I might
have known that a bit of trivia, not the Long

(01:04:40):
Beach part, not the Long Beach part, but the other
part of it. Yeah, that that one I just remember
being like a trivia thing of all right, where where
did teams really start? And los Angeach? But there you go,
Long Beach. I've been doing a lot of uh, you know,
memory laning this past week. I know, if you're paying
attention to my I kind of caught that, including some

(01:05:01):
little acronyms that we can't do on air. Yeah. At
King of the Mammals if you want to see that.
More story time with LaVar and me coming up next
as we continue down the road, and and one coaching rehab.
Evidently there is a place you can go to bring
yourself back to the forefront. We'll talk about that next

(01:05:23):
year on Fox Welcome back in. It's Fox Sports Radio,
Fox Sports Sunday Mike Armen alongside the King of the
Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, a fight time pro bowler, legend,
man about town, entrepreneur, a man of deep thoughts. I
do have thoughts. I don't know how deep they are,

(01:05:45):
but no, I mean, look, as folks go at King
of the mammals on Instagram, or they take the podcast
of Up on Game ten am to noon Saturdays here
Pacific time, live on Fox Sports Radio alongside Plaskow, Morris
and t J who Szada. How's t J doing? Is he?
Is he gonna be okay? Now that the Clippers have
advanced in the Lakers didn't. Kind of goes back to

(01:06:09):
that conversation we had last segment, right, like everybody's forced
to choose, and t J is a Lakers fan abbot,
and he uses the whole our team like when when
my team and as soon as you get it's only Yankees,
Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah, well,

(01:06:35):
I never come across the White Sox fan that says, hey,
my White Sox and when we and because we don't,
and and like it's like every single day I will
hear my team and the moment they say my team,
I know it's Dallas every single day. All right, LaVar,
you're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're

(01:06:56):
gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field, and I'll take
you to the to the one of eights uh, and
you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm listen. I'm from Pittsburgh,
so I understand that from being where the downtime the Steelers,

(01:07:18):
not the steel Steelers, the Stellers. Yeah, we have weird dialect.
I just say a lot of like as we say
beer instead, and you don't know if you're saying beer
to drink or beer from from the woods you know which.

(01:07:38):
By the way, we had one in front of the
house the other day, Um, how about it? Uh. Anyway,
we say a lot of words that are interesting. So
when people like human, I have to really focus on
saying human with an H because it always comes out
as just human. But that's just how we said it

(01:07:58):
in Pittsburgh, like human. It's funny because them for a
long time on the show I do here on Fox
Sports Radio, Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to eleven
Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering
uh big games and big events as they go. Luck,
he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries

(01:08:21):
to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time
in Pennsylvania, but not a ton. But then yeah, and
then we watched Mayor Easttown. I just did that with
Kate Winslet Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed
like he had captured at least some of the dialect
Pittsburgh Philly because Philly is like you know what you

(01:08:44):
know what about key like or uh you know, uh,
it's a lot of of but it's some of it
is driven by you know, uh, you know, Muslim faith. Um,
you know they're there's like a different it's a different
like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking

(01:09:06):
about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like,
there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of
of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well,
it's all about languages. This was East Town. So the
point the point. The point Mike is I can go

(01:09:27):
with you two where you're from and hear people say
us and we and I as their team, and that's legit.
But if you're in Jamaica, or you're in Europe, or
you're in Mexico and you're in all these other different
places in America and around the world and they say
my team, it's generally one of those Global branding is

(01:09:51):
a reality, there's no question about it. And I get
sick of it. That's why. That's why I know I
get get I get tired of it. Like my team, Okay,
you're a Dallas fan. You want everybody in the world
to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great, And now
I got to change my tone on it because my
baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like which is weird,

(01:10:12):
because Sean Lee has been with the team for has
been great, and and I wasn't. It wasn't good enough
for me to really come off of the hating Dallas thing,
whereas Micah, you know, has has changed the way I'm
looking at Dallas like I actually my root for Dallas
this year. Well, not to mention they did a masslid.

(01:10:32):
His money is guaranteed at LaVar Arrington add King of
the Mammals. Well, we'll dive into that more. I I
think that's more an off air counseling session to be had.
Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh. In a moment,
we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his comments going back
to language and trying to find a path towards greatness. Uh.

(01:10:54):
He had to do a little bit of rehab. But
first it's Isaac Low and crown with What's trending. In
Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night,
the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were both chasing a
path to greatness. Only one of them could achieve it
though we were in the final minute of overtime, tied
at one eleven in Brooklyn. Here's Marv Albert on TNT

(01:11:17):
four to five seconds left over to ten off the
shot clock, study as hits for Chris Falter so that
put Milwaukee up one third team to one eleven, and
then Brooklyn's ball down two in the final seconds marvelous
take it away direct for three air ball with three

(01:11:44):
texts on the second rebellion well Milwaukee Bucks, Brookie one
thirteen one elevel loud, and Milwaukee would go on to
win at one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durant's forty
eight points, nine rebounds and six assists, he played all
fifty three minutes last night. Janie Antea Kopa scored forty

(01:12:05):
and fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern
Conference Finals. In Game four the Stanley Cup Semifinals on
Saturday night, the New York Islanders to be to the
Tampa Bay lightning three to two, that series tied to
two games apiece and going into the final round of
the US Open today at Tory Puns, we've got a
three weights high for the lead between American Russell Henley,
Canada's Mackenzie Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Haysen at

(01:12:29):
five under par overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington. Man, LaVar,
I warned you about those bears a couple of weeks ago.
Glad you're okay? You know what were We are okay?
It was it was interesting. I was not I was.
I was almost pulling up to the house, but I

(01:12:50):
had got the call. Like they were outside. One of
the friends of one of my kids was leaving the
house and they thought they saw a dog walk out
of the h out of the yard, and then they
saw its head and they're like, there's no dog that
has a head that big. That's not a dog. We

(01:13:11):
should probably stop thinking about what it is and get
back into the house. And then once they got back
into the house they realized that looking at it as
it was moving, it was a bear. And we've just
we just received confirmation from Fox Sports Radio sources that

(01:13:31):
when the bear realized whose house he was outside of,
he decided to cut his losses and beat a hasty retreat.
You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking
for it. I definitely wanted to see it, see what
he's looking like. I was like literally three minutes away
when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes

(01:13:54):
too late. Well. The only the only way that works, though,
is if someone's got the phone on in the family
as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've
talked about celebrity boxing. I wanted to try to hurt
the bear. I wouldn't have tried to hurt the bear,
but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now,
we certainly did see um remember that viral video we
talked about Isaac about the girl that was protecting her

(01:14:18):
dogs and did a run block and move and save
them from the bear that was just a couple of
miles from LaVar's house. Yeah, yeah, Nerve, No, that's just it.
That was a big bear. Though. I don't think these
were I don't think these were big. I don't think
this one was big. Like, I mean, it's all perspective.

(01:14:38):
I mean, I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear.
I'll messing around with a brown bear. You know, six
percent of people said they could take down a grizzly car.
Remember when we were talking about we were talking there's
the nerve to be a percentage for an elephant, Like,
come on, man, like people are crazy. I still want
to know what the percentages that thinks they can take
down a hippo. We'll hear more from Ilo about ten

(01:15:00):
minutes as we go off the rails here on Fox
Sports Trading. I wanted to pay this one off just
in terms of language as we talked about identification with
a team in the we aspect. Uh Lane Kiffin speaking
with Dennis Dot of CBS Sports exploring just his road
back to the University of Mississippi and the rehab program

(01:15:24):
established or what it's being called a rehab program for
Nick Saban quote, it was perfect. There wouldn't be a
better job in the NFL. I say, it's the rehab stamp.
You go there, spend some time, all of a sudden
you can coach again. One of yeah, no, Well, he
just said there wouldn't be a better job in the NFL.
Just in terms of if you had to go from

(01:15:46):
being a head coach to doing you know, coordinator whatever,
you'd go to Alabama one of the I think just
kind of skipped from A to Z. But we'll connect
the dots for you. No, and you and you connect
in them beautifully. There. Uh Kiffin was one of five
former college head coaches to work under Saban in the
last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being another that got another

(01:16:10):
another shot. What do you think it is that I mean,
obviously the great success, but since most of that gets
attributed to Nick Saban and the process, or does it
matter because you're probably seen more as the recruiting arm
of this at this point and the communicators. I'm I'm
trying to figure out how just being on the staff

(01:16:33):
would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well, clearly
it was something you were doing, so let's give you
another job. Well, success is all in the structure and
the process and in the approach and the execution. And
if you've had if you have those established and and

(01:16:53):
they work, and you're actually able to identify what they are,
then the reason why coach would go there and they're
able to rehab their careers. They learn that that they
learn all of those things, and they're able to take
that that process. They're able to take that structure, the
way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the way
it's it's executed. They're able to take that to the

(01:17:16):
programs they go to. Now here's the key. The key
is is that generally it's only one person that really
knows how to manage it and and pull it together
the way that they do. And and you have to
have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking,
the UH, the ability to lead and communicate men, not

(01:17:41):
just the men that are players, but the men that
are coaches in a way where you're getting those results.
We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not
when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick. Belichick. Tree
certainly has UH branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right, So that's
the thing about it. But you still have a chance, right,

(01:18:02):
you still have a chance because you have the information
and so like it's interesting like when I started my
head coaching career, I called I called my coaches, I
called my coach from high school, I called I called
my my one of my teammates. That was my my
you know, my freshman year when we won the championship. Um,

(01:18:23):
he's won championships now as a head coach of high
school major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call
all of the guys that I know. I called coach
Bradley that we had on our show. UM, I call them.
And I asked for the information that will allow for
me to lead the team and structure the team and

(01:18:44):
do all of those things, create the processes that work.
And and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, and and
it was you know, for me, I had to do
it to like one of the most watered down versions
because I just wasn't to football school for the last
three years. But it still works. I mean I still

(01:19:05):
was able to get a third team win, you know,
career and and what uh sixteen wins ten losses something
fifteen wins, ten loss something like that. But we were
on the other side of five hundred you know, over
the course of three seasons. So you know, for me,
once you are able to show that success, people are

(01:19:26):
going to buy into the success because they want to
have success and they want to learn how to be successful.
And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly,
is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting
the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role
and fitting their role. A lot big thing about it.
It also is just being willing and being humble enough

(01:19:50):
to play your role or wait your turn. You know
a lot of places you're not going to have that
from coaches. You're not going to have it from players.
Players want to play right now, they expect to play
play right now, or they leave. You know, coaches, you know,
have egos sometimes and they approach things a certain way,
from a certain angle, and they wanted to be handled

(01:20:11):
a certain type of way, even if they're not the
head guy, and and it creates a lot of confusion
sometimes it can create friction. And you know, a guy
like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really hear about
any real craziness that takes place with the people that
he brings in. And he brings in some heavyweight guy
Brian Now, yeah, yeah, well there you go. So the

(01:20:34):
next guy trying to figure out what that next step
is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can get
an iron cheek in here. On a Father's Day there
you go, all the dad's and and uncles and grandpa's
and everybody just raise their hands on Yeah, iron cheek.
Thinking about is wrestling culture? That I was watching a
guy do a case break of a bad product yesterday

(01:20:55):
from a company, and it was a wrestling product, and
they pulled an iron cheek on a graph and that
the guy knew who it was that opened the pack
for the person, but the guy who bought it was like,
I have no idea who these people are. Like, just
go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match,
If you go to Twitter and just read two or
three days of motivational sayings from the iron sheet, uh,

(01:21:18):
you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction
and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. Then Cheek is a
funny dude, man, no question about it. Strong as hell too.
Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen Dotting, one of
the great finishers of all time. That and stomping the
boot to load it up and getting after it there, Uh,

(01:21:40):
no question about it. Memories. Well you know what's maybe
maybe folks will just pop on some classic wrestling off
the old Google search later on as well. Uh, this
is Fox Sports Sunny. Coming up next, We're gonna go
off the rails. We're gonna do a quick whip around
with our guys as well. Get one of those big
Father's Day moments. If you have any you'd like to share,

(01:22:03):
please send him in at swoll And Dome on Twitter.
This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. Welcome back in.
It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Carmen alongside
the King of the Mammals himself. It's LaVar Arrington, hiight
time pro bowler, legends, man about town, entrepreneur, a man

(01:22:26):
of deep thoughts. I do have thoughts. I don't know
how deep they are, but no, I mean, look as
folks go at King of the Mammals on Instagram or
they take the podcast of up on Game ten am
to noon Saturdays here Pacific time, live on Fox Sports Radio,
alongside Plaskow, Morris and t J Houshmnzada. How's t J doing?

(01:22:47):
Is he? Is he gonna be okay? Now that the
Clippers have advanced and the Lakers didn't kind of get
goes back to that conversation we had last segment, right, like,
everybody's forced to choose and t J is a Lakers fan, Abbott,
and he uses the whole our team, like when when
my team and as soon as you get it's only Yankees,

(01:23:10):
Dallas and Lakers fans that do that mess. Yeah. Well,
I never come across the White Sox fan that says, hey,
my White Sox and when we and because we don't
and and like it's like every single day I will

(01:23:34):
hear my team and the moment they say my team,
I know it's Dallas every single day. All right, LaVar,
you're gonna travel with me to the South Side. We're
gonna go hit up guaranteed raid Field and I'll take
you to the to the one oh eights uh, and
you'll hear a lot of we'se I'm sure guy. Listen,
I'm from Pittsburgh, so I understand that from being where

(01:23:58):
the the Insers is the ins Dantan the Steelers, not
the stee Steelers, the Stellers. Yeah, we have weird dialect.
I mean to say a lot of like as we
say beer instead, and you don't know if you're saying

(01:24:19):
beer to drink or beer from from the woods, you
know which, By the way, we had one in front
of the house the other day, Um, how about it? Uh. Anyway,
we say a lot of words that are interesting. So
when people like human, I have to really focus on
saying human with an H because it always comes out

(01:24:39):
as just human. But that's just how we said it
in Pittsburgh like human. It's funny because them for a
long time on the show I do here on Fox
Sports Radio Jason Smith and I weeknights seven to eleven
Pacific time, arguing about all the day's events and covering
uh big games and big events as they go. Luck,

(01:25:02):
he's always done this uh Pennsylvania thing where he tries
to emulate the accent and it. I've spent some time
in Pennsylvania, but not a ton but yeah, And then
we watched Mayor of Easttown. I just did that with
Kate Winslet. Uh. Some recommended viewing there, but it seemed
like he had captured at least some of the dialect

(01:25:24):
Pittsburgh or Philly, because Philly is like you know what
if you know what about key like or uh you know, uh,
it's a lot of is um, but some of it
is driven by you know, uh, you know, Muslim faith. Um.
You know there there's like a different it's a different

(01:25:47):
like Joan John Joan like you know when you're talking
about that a girl like that Joan there that John Like,
there's different different like slang, terminology and way of of
of delivering your your stuff. But anyways, I digress. Well,
it is all about languages. This was the East Town.
So the point the point, the point Mike is I

(01:26:11):
can go with you too where you're from. And here
people say us and we and I as their team
and that's legit. But if you're in Jamaica, or you're
in Europe, or you're in Mexico and you're in all
these other different places in America and around the world
and they say my team, it's generally one of those

(01:26:34):
Global branding is a reality, there's no question about it.
And I get sick of it. That's why. That's why
I know, I get get I get tired of it.
Like my team. Okay, you're a Dallas fan. You want
everybody in the world to know you're a Dallas fan. Okay, great,
And now I got to change my tone on it
because my baby's playing for Dallas. So it's almost like

(01:26:56):
which is weird because Sean Lee has been with the
team for has been great and and I wasn't it
wasn't good enough for me to really come off of
the hating Dallas thing, whereas Micah, you know, has it's
changed the way I'm looking at Dallas, like I actually
my route for Dallas this year. Well, not to mention

(01:27:17):
they did a Missalid his money is guaranteed at LaVar
Arrington at King of the Mammals. Well, we'll dive into
that more. I think that's more an off air counseling
session to be had. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Uh.
In a moment, we'll get into Lane Kiffin and his
comments going back to language and trying to find a

(01:27:37):
path towards greatness. Uh, he had to do a little
bit of rehab. But first it's Isaac Lowan Crown with
what's trending. In Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals
on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and Brooklyn Nets were
both chasing a path to greatness. Only one of them
could achieve it. Though we were in the final minute
of overtime, tied at one eleven in Brooklyn, hears Marv

(01:28:00):
Albert on TNT four to five seconds left Overton ten
on the shot clock study as it hits for Chris
falter So that put Milwaukee up one third team to
one eleven, and then Brooklyn's ball down two in the
final seconds marvelous take it away direct for three pops

(01:28:26):
up before the air ball with three texts on the
second Romania for Milwaukee Bucks Crook through work thirteen one
eleven league and Milwaukee would go on to win at
one fifteen to one eleven. Despite Durant's forty eight points,
nine rebounds and six assists, he played all fifty three minutes.

(01:28:48):
Last night, Iannis Antea Koopo scored forty and fifty minutes
for Milwaukee, which advances to the Eastern Conference Finals. In
Game four the Stanley Cup semi Finals on Saturday night,
the New York Islanders to be to the Tampa Bay
Lightning three to two. That series tied to two games
apiece and going to the final route of the US
Open today at Tory Puns. We've got a three ways

(01:29:08):
high for the lead between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie
Hughes and South Africa's Louis oost Hazen at five under
par overall. Back to Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington Man,
LaVar I warned you about those bears a couple of
weeks ago. Glad you're okay, you know what were we are? Okay?

(01:29:30):
It was it was interesting. I was not I was.
I was almost pulling up to the house, but I
had got the call. Like they were outside. One of
the friends of one of my kids was leaving the
house and they thought they saw a dog walk out
of the out of the yard, and then they saw

(01:29:50):
its head and they're like, there's no dog that has
a hit that big. That's not a dog. We should
probably stop thinking about what it is and get back
into the house. And then once they got back into
the house, they realized that looking at it as it
was moving, it was a bear. And we've just we

(01:30:12):
just received confirmation from Fox Sports Radio's sources that when
the bear realized whose house he was outside of, he
decided to cut his losses and beat it hasty retreat.
You want to talk about intimidation, Well, I came looking
for it. I definitely wanted to see it. See where
you're looking like, I was like literally three minutes away

(01:30:36):
when they saw it, and I was probably two minutes
too late. Well, the only the only way that works though,
is if someone's got the phone on in the family
as you go to wrestle a bear. I mean, we've
talked about celebrity boxing. I wanted to try to hurt
the bear. I wouldn't have tried to hurt the bear,
but I would have definitely would have wrestled the bear. Now,
we certainly did see um. Remember that viral video we

(01:30:58):
talked about I Isaac about the girl that was protecting
her dogs and did a run, block and move and
save them from the bears. That was just a couple
of miles from LaVar's house. Yeah, no, that's just it.
That was a big bear though. I don't think these were.
I don't think these were big. I don't think this

(01:31:19):
one was big. Like, I mean, it's all perspective. I mean,
I'm not messing around with no grizzly bear. I'll messing
around with a brown bear. You know, six percent of
people said they could take down a grizzly gar. Remember
when we were talking about there's the nerve to be
a percentage for an elephant, Like, come on, man, like
people are crazy. I still want to know what the

(01:31:40):
percentages that thinks they can take down a Hippo. We'll
hear more from Ilo in about ten minutes as we
go off the rails here on Fox Sports Trade. I
wanted to pay this one off just in terms of
language as we talked about identification with a team in
the we aspect. Lane Kiffin speaking with Dennis Dot of

(01:32:00):
CBS Sports exploring just his road back to the University
of Mississippi and the rehab program established or what it's
being called a rehab program for Nick Saban. Quote, it
was perfect. There wouldn't be a better job in the NFL.
I say, it's the rehab stamp. You go there, spend
some time, all of a sudden, you can coach again.

(01:32:23):
One of yeah, No, well, he just said there wouldn't
be a better job in the NFL, just in terms
of if you had to go from being a head
coach to doing you know, coordinators, you'd go to Alabama
one of the I think just kind of skipped from
A to Z. But we'll connect the dots for you. No,

(01:32:44):
and you and you connected them beautifully there. Uh. Kiffin
was one of five former college head coaches to work
under Saban in the last eight years, Steve Sarkisian being
another that got another another shot. What do you think
it is that? I mean, obviously great success, but since
most of that gets attributed to Nick Saban and the process,

(01:33:06):
or does it matter because you're probably seen more as
the recruiting arm of this at this point and the communicators.
I'm I'm trying to figure out how just being on
the staff would immediately lend to the transitive property of Well,
clearly it was something you were doing, so let's give
you another job. Well, success is all in the structure

(01:33:29):
and the process and in the approach and the execution.
And if you've had if you have those established and
and they work, and you're actually able to identify what
they are, then the reason why coach would go there
and they're able to rehab their careers. They learn that that,
they learn all of those things, and they're able to

(01:33:51):
take that that process, They're able to take that structure,
the way it's organized, the way it's it's taught, the
way it's it's executed. They're able to take that to
the programs they go to. Now here's the key. The
key is is that generally it's only one person that
really knows how to manage it and and pull it

(01:34:11):
together the way that they do and and you have
to have in a lot of ways, the mindset, the thinking,
the UH, the ability to lead and communicate men, not
just the men that are players, but the men that
are coaches in a way where you're getting those results.

(01:34:32):
We've seen plenty of coaches leave Nick Saban and not
when we've seen plenty of coaches leave Belichick. Belichick. Tree
certainly has UH branches haven't necessarily sprouted, right. So that's
the thing about it, though, But you still have a chance, right,
You still have a chance because you have the information.
So like it's interesting, like when I started my head

(01:34:53):
coaching career, I called, I called my coaches. I called
my coach from high school, I called I called my my, my,
one of my teammates that was my my, you know,
my freshman year when we won a championship. Um, he's
won championships. Now, as a head coach of high school
major football in Pittsburgh, I call him. I call all

(01:35:15):
of the guys that I know. I called coach Bradley
that we had on our show. UM, I call them
and I asked for the information that will allow for
me to lead the team and structure the team and
do all of those things create the processes that work,
and and that's just that's invaluable information, Mike, And and

(01:35:38):
it was you know, for me, I had to do
it to like one of the most watered down versions
because I just wasn't out of football school for the
last three years. But it still works. I mean I
still was able to get a third team win, you know,
career and and what uh sixteen wins ten losses something,

(01:35:58):
fifteen wins tene something like that. But we were on
the other side of five hundred, you know, over the
course of three seasons. So you know, for me, once
you are able to show that success, people are going
to buy into the success because they want to have
success and they want to learn how to be successful.
And you know, it's turned into something that quite frankly,

(01:36:21):
is just kind of revolving door in terms of getting
the players, getting the coaches and everybody playing their role
and fitting their role. A lot big thing about it.
It also is just being willing and being humble enough
to play your role or wait your turn. You know,
a lot of places you're not going to have that
from coaches, You're not going to have it from players.

(01:36:43):
Players want to play right now. They expect to play
a play right now, or they leave. You know, coaches,
you know, have egos sometimes and they approach things a
certain way, from a certain angle, and they wanted to
be handled a certain type of way, even if they're
not the head guy, and and theyre rates a lot
of confusion. Sometimes it can create friction. And you know,

(01:37:04):
a guy like Nick Saban, you just don't ever really
hear about any real craziness that takes place with the
people that he brings in. And he brings in some
heavyweight guy now yeah, yeah, well there you go. So
the next guy trying to figure out what that next
step is and you know, humbling yourself. See I can
get an iron cheek in here. On a Father's day.

(01:37:27):
There you go all the dad's and and uncles and
grandpa's and everybody just raise their head going, yeah, iron cheek,
thinking about as wrestling culture that. And I was watching
a guy do a case break of a bad product
yesterday from a company and it was a wrestling product,
and they pulled an iron cheek autograph and that the
guy knew who it was that opened the pack for

(01:37:49):
the person. But the guy who bought it was like,
I have no idea who these people are. Like, just
go to Twitter, even if you never watch a match.
If you go to Twitter and just read two or
three days of motivational sayings from the Iron sheet, Uh,
you'll laugh and and and maybe you'll find some direction
and purpose, but you'll definitely laugh. The iron cheek is

(01:38:10):
a funny dude, man, no question about it. Strong as
hell too. Uh he's LaVar Arrington. I'm my Carmen doing
one of the great finishers of all time. That and
stomping the boot to load it up and getting after
it there, Uh, no question about it. Memories, Well, you
know what's maybe maybe folks will just pop on some

(01:38:33):
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(01:39:17):
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that's a preview of what's to come here on Fox
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(01:39:40):
American himself. Happy Father's Day to my guy, LaVar Arrington. Yeah,
Happy Father's Day to you, sir. And happy Father's Day
out there to all the the daddy's and the daddo's
and the padres and the yeah and the poppies and
weapons whatever term of endearment or sometimes derision, you know,
we have. We all have weird relationships sometimes with the

(01:40:02):
the relatives. And you know how your kids address you. I,
you know I from my younger daughter, I get the
hello sir, versus hello child, and things of that nature.
It's uh, sometimes weird, but it's it's our own way
of communicating. However, you do you, you do you, I
guess is what it comes down to here. We appreciate

(01:40:23):
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(01:40:44):
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(01:41:06):
to steal from Heath Ledger in the dark night as
it were about that, I get another movie reference, and
we have a quota I think you know of like
the over Unders, like thirteen and a half, So I
think we're we're a little behind, so I have to
get back on the pace we've got Iowa, Sam checks in,
Chris Perfett tags out. I would say, I'm back from

(01:41:27):
his sojourn of self discovery and reflection and all of
those things thanks to Johnny Robbos, who was with us
last week. But Sam returns a little worse for the weary,
looks a little tired, you know, running running around the
corn field and and maybe looking up grain prices. See,

(01:41:48):
I know Sam's I Sam's world. Well, why not growing
in the backyard? Now, that would be something if you say,
pull that, pull that off here in southern California. I
could just see him on the plane. What do you
got there, sir? It's like, well, that's water. You know.
I gotta keep this plant alive. What are you gonna do?

(01:42:10):
It's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna build the field of
dreams in southern California. Man. And I'm not saying there's
anything wrong with that, no question, r No. You know
what's funny, because I wanted to talk about relocation mention
the Bears a little bit earlier, with the idea of
heading to Arlington Heights buying the site of Arlington Park

(01:42:33):
Race Track, looking at at least putting a bid in
three six acres. Think of all of the magnificent enterprising
things you can do there. Plus you have ample parking,
You've got mass transit already running out there, beautiful facility
opportunities and businesses. Oh and your own stadium that you're

(01:42:54):
not paying rent to the Chicago Park District, who rents
it out to whomever. Well they lease and according to reports,
they only pay about six million dollars in rent each year.
Believe and believe me, Uh, triple check that number and
tried to find any other source that can give me
another number somewhere between five point seven and six point

(01:43:15):
three million dollars. So we're not talking about a lot.
But Mayor Lightfoot fighting with the Bears, Brass went into
a whole thing about, you know, playing meaningful football beyond
October u encounting herself as a season ticket holder and
then using that line like they they've gone to the
playoffs two of the last three years, Mayor, Uh, if
you would have known that, I think if you'd attended

(01:43:36):
a game or two. But that's a whole other thing
for another time. Another team that is a long term potential.
Is the New Orleans Pelicans, And they're in the news
for two reasons right now. One Gayle Benson and just
the idea of is is basketball quote unquote working there

(01:43:57):
or do you need to move to another city? We
always hearing about Seattle and maybe a return of the
Glorious Sonics moniker and logo from all those years ago.
Remember once upon a time Kevin Durant wore those duds
for the final season before the Oklahoma City Thunder popped up.
And now we look at the Yeah, now we're looking

(01:44:21):
at New Orleans with the exodus of top talent from
Chris Paul and Anthony Davis member with eighteen months left
on his deal set, I'm out and came here to
Los Angeles, And now there's rumblings that well, another superstar
in the making and his family aren't necessarily pleased with
the direction of this. Well, you had the family, and

(01:44:44):
I bring that in because it's the all right, what
are we talking about here? Right right? Yeah, you're in
year two. Obviously a lot of huge expectations and to
this point, Zion's delivered right in terms of his product productivity.
There's certain games of his certain parts of his game

(01:45:07):
of course that need to be refined, like most young players,
but the explosiveness and availability has also been huge. Now
he suffered a finger injury that ended his season, and
we looked at the at New Orleans and the and
the Pelicans fall short. Van Gundi gets fired and now
we've got the revolving door coaches. So that's problematic, right,

(01:45:29):
No stability there. But when you talk about young talent,
they have a nucleus. But you don't know if Lonzo
Ball is coming back. He's a guy that will be
sought after in free agency. And Brandon Ingram has developed
into a pretty fine player. But already after year two,
the rumblings are that Zion wants greener pastures. And there's

(01:45:52):
not really a lot of detail other than you know,
some shots at the organization and and and the building process.
Which you're in the Western Conference, growing pains are gonna
be there. Put that team in the East, you might
have been what middle of the back or at least
looking at a playoff birth maybe, but you've got to

(01:46:13):
play the hand you're dealt, and you you're building, and
you've got a good nucleus. You you traded off Reddick,
which rubbed people the wrong way because that was a
guy Zion was leaning on. And then Reddick left and
didn't have great things for the organization. I raised my
hand to that, just saying I get it. In the
best circumstances, they wanted to help you out with where

(01:46:33):
a trade was gonna happen, and they got a better
offer somewhere else. So thing. So it's it's the business
of the business. Uh, it's not always gonna flow, you
know by you know, my word is my bond. But
it does just lend to between him and Luca, we
got young guys that are now raising their hand perhaps

(01:46:55):
earlier than they ever have because we were used to
it with the veteran players now, but now we got
the guy's middle of their first contracts looking around and
and upset with organizational decisions. And I think flexing now
perhaps more than ever. Yeah, I just think the landscape
is changing. And again, guys like Zion have way more

(01:47:21):
exposure at this point in their careers than what guys
at this point in their career has had years ago,
before technical technical, logical advances have taken place, so you know,
you can get your message out there. One way or
the other. Uh, there's all kinds of different you know,

(01:47:41):
alternative media sources now including yourself. And and so when
when you want to dictate things, when you're at a
certain level of popularity and influence, uh, you can do it.
And and and what's gonna be interesting is going to
be watching how these traditional organizational protocols and approaches are

(01:48:10):
going to have to adjust and adapt to the changes
in the times. Like that's there is I bet you
there is friction behind closed doors. I bet you there's
this whole you know, when cold air meets warm air
in the in the air, you know, it creates you know,
thunder and lightning and stuff like that, and then you
can feel it in the air tonight there you go, wow, yeah, wow,

(01:48:36):
that was really good. Yeah. I mean I think that
that's where that's where sports, major sports, that's where it's going. Well.
When particularly in the NBA, where one or two guys
change the face of a franchise, right, you get that
one name to your town. You're selling out the arena,
you're selling a bunch of merch and jerseys. Why a

(01:48:58):
guy like Lebron I mean not the the Lakers don't
already move mountains and mountains of merchandise. But when you've
got that level of following and it's like, you know what,
I think, I think. I think we've maxed out our
twenty three sales. I'm changing the six And what are
people gonna do. They're gonna go pony up for a
replica or or authentic or whatever they need to do,

(01:49:21):
and they'll add to their list of jersey purchases. Man,
there's there's a lot to it in the marketing, merchandizing
and self branding that go with it. Right within the NFL,
we've got the fights of the Aaron Rodgers and other players,
huge impactful players, but the power structure is different and
what you can do one guy going to an organization

(01:49:43):
and I know the Tom Brady just one after leaving
for one year. He's the outlier. Okay, man, you got
him and Manning, two of the guys we talked about
as the greatest of all time. Yes, they were able
to go into different situations and win, but generally it
doesn't work out. Point generally doesn't work out that way.
But with that being said, generally speaking, it hasn't worked

(01:50:08):
out that way, probably because you weren't able to have
anymore than the opportunity to go somewhere else. These guys
are going somewhere else, and they're dictating who's there, Like
you know, Peyton Manning not so much. They already had
a super team. They just't were missing that one. We
needed a guy to just guide it along, Tom Brady.

(01:50:29):
They had a ton of talent, they just needed somebody
who could bring winning, a winning mentality. I don't think
I don't think folks recognize that, like it was some
grand turnaround. Jameis Winston obviously, we know he's in the
very rare thirty thirty club on a couple of possessions,

(01:50:50):
you know, the old I'd like to have that one back.
And they're a twelve and four team the year before.
But that's a damn good team. The base was, know. Yeah,
like on defense, they had David They you know, they
had players. Their defensive front was crazy, you know, and
and you had some guys step up and and play better.

(01:51:13):
Uh But again, I mean it was the pieces were there.
I mean, give give Tom Brady credit. He chose, he
had a couple of different options. He chose Chicago was
one of those l A teams. Was was in the
mix as well. I think the Rams were in the
mix to to try to get them or the Chargers

(01:51:33):
the Charges before they did the draft or whatever. But
you know, I just think that he he hatched his
bet very well. You're just not gonna be in situations
that that aligned that way for you to be able
to have the type of success, even if you're that
amazing of a talent. Now, with somebody like like Zion,

(01:51:57):
you would assume that if he's trying trying to make
a move to go somewhere else, he's gonna try to
go somewhere where they have tremendous bones and talent and
play and so far. I was listening to uh Chris
and and Rob debate you know, the other day, and
and Chris Broussart was talking about uh, Luca and and

(01:52:20):
Dallas and and how it would be hard to have
another dominant guy there with him and he's going to
have to learn to play in the system. I mean,
I could see a guy like Zion going to Dallas
and that being the missing piece to what that team
would need to to have a dominant one to punch
and and have some good role players and and make

(01:52:42):
you know, make it make it pretty far in and
maybe further than what they did this year. You know,
I get out of the first round. So I mean
you think about things like that, like would they be
able to coexist? You know, what are those teams that
Zion could go to where you had the type of
dynamic where they could coexist. So you know, you throw

(01:53:06):
those conversation points out there. It's great for conversation um
by sports fans, but in reality, does Zion have that
type of relationship with somebody around the league? Somebody's where
you could influence them to want to all go to
the same team and make a move. I don't know

(01:53:26):
that I've seen that from Zion. You know. The only
thing that came out, I think he's just stating he
doesn't feel good about what's going on where he's at. Yeah,
the only thing that came out over the course of
the year was remember when they played at Madison Square
Garden and he was like a little kid in the
press conference right of playing there and the aura of

(01:53:47):
that arena and it was fun, as we talked about
last week, just that you had that playoff atmosphere they're
in basketball was relevant right the last time it was
and we commemorated the aniversary, and it's a terrible, terrible anniversary.
But when we know in pop culture of the O. J.
Bronco Chase, that was the last time the Knicks were

(01:54:09):
in the finals, right, so you know you're talking about,
you know, a lifetime ago as it were, so to
have the crowd at you know, full throated in losing
their minds under Tom Thibodeau and company. You've reignited that
as a place and maybe that becomes a destination. Got

(01:54:31):
a couple of nice pieces there. How it fits, I
don't know, but yeah, watching him run the floor with
Luca would be a lot of fun, right, a guy
who is ball dominant but passes and Zion as we know,
ran point quite often this year, which was a whole
other thing once Alonzo ball was hurt. You saw him
handling the ball quite a bit. So shades of well

(01:54:53):
what Lebron became, but just doing this at the very
early part of his career. But interesting ynamics a foot
in the NBA. I think player movement is going to
be uh well, I think it's gonna be very active
again this year. It was a great article of Brooklyn
just eliminated that talked about all of the different mechanics

(01:55:15):
of contracts, not only for your three superstars who can
all opt and try to get a huge pay day
or opt out altogether, but all the ancillary players that
we'd come to know during this playoff run and towards
the end of the regular season where they've got to
make some huge contract decisions. And Spencer Dinwiddie who was injured,

(01:55:35):
who's gonna opt out of his contract and test free agency.
But all these pieces that are moving just in one squad. UH.
Delicious theater to come and no days off, just like
Bill Belichick has always preached, Lovar, which is good for
all of us, no question about it. But you'll be
doing some early work, doing the Lord's work three to

(01:55:58):
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(01:56:22):
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(01:56:46):
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(01:57:07):
up about twenty minutes from now, it's my guy, LaVar Arrington.
If the father's date all the dad's dad figures out there, Yes,
Adam corrects me. I forget. The Knicks did have the
I didn't. I didn't think that really mattered because they
stunk losing in five. But yes, they did get there.
I just remember them from the fun and excitement of

(01:57:28):
that one. Uh, so, yes, I appreciate it. I I
really should know my Knick's history, seeing as I work
with a wee guy Monday through Fridays on the network,
the greatness that is h Yeah, well Jason Smith, look
he owns him. He also owns every pick of every
team in these playoffs. It's kind of interesting. Uh, the

(01:57:49):
way he's worked it. I can't fault a good strategy,
so it becomes my box now my so it's it's good,
it's good. And yes, how can I forget those nineteen
nine nine Nicks? I feel I feel bad for that. Well, no,
I mean because you gotta you gotta do the corrections
on that bad job by me. That was Jeff Van
Gundy Lad Squad at that point. So good times. Uh,

(01:58:14):
no question about it. Now. One of the things wanted
to address Major League Baseball with the on Monday will
begin the enforcement umpires having to go and and decide, well,
is there something funny about the grip? And are they
gonna wait for a manager or a coach or a
player to utter their disapproval of what they're seeing? Are

(01:58:37):
they gonna wait for the television broadcast to give us
something obvious Because I think that's where some of the
problem has been with all of this LaVar. Obviously they
want more offense in the game, but I think part
of it becomes a hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, um,
that guy's got a giant glop of something on the
brim of his hat, or he keeps reaching down to

(01:58:59):
his belt buckle, or whatever the case may bee. Uh.
Trevor Bauer did a great thing in in front of
some assembled press earlier this week. He goes, well, between
rosin and sweat, you can do this. It's like whoa
goes So, now arbitrarily, you can decide to toss me
from a game and there's no appeal. Right, you're out

(01:59:20):
of the game. You're gonna get your suspension because you're
not gonna be able to prove you didn't have it
on there. Right, So you you're you're now a judicating
something based on feeling suspicion. Into his point, which I
thought was a pretty good one. It's like, what if
I was arguing balls and strikes in the third inning
and so now he's he's gotta ticked off at me

(01:59:41):
because I'm challenging him. And then in the fifth inning,
for giggles, and I'm dominating. The opposing manager comes out
and says, hey, I want him checked. If he suddenly
decides I've got too much of a grip on the
ball by spin rates up, whatever, I gotta problem them.
Mm hmm. I still get paid during the suspension, right,

(02:00:05):
that's the rule they put in place, But it seems, well,
not something you do in the middle of a season.
I don't know that stuff is. It's it's out of
my wheelhouse. But I have seen, like the tar on
the socks and the different different approaches to you know,

(02:00:25):
how guys can get a competitive advantage that you know
kind of go against the rules. But you know, I
don't know. You know, when you think about in baseball,
like the the the inches that that are at play
when you're swinging the bat, different things like that, or
when you're throwing the ball. Um, you know, it can

(02:00:47):
make the difference for guys. But you know, if you
get caught. Yeah, I don't know, Matt, because because there
there's the there's the politically correct way of answering, and
then there's the there's a brutally honest way of answering,
and you know, the brutal lions answer to you have

(02:01:07):
something the way you can grip your bat and stuff
like that, the brutally on His answer is if it
makes you better, do it, you know. But well, but
that's the thing, right, You've allowed it to go on
in some capacity, somewhere in shape or form for and
now offense is flailing. You've got no hitters and would
be no hitters, so everybody is suddenly up in arms.

(02:01:29):
And look to some degree you've got you've got a
number of players where it just got so brazen, like,
all right, come on, don't don't rub it in our
faces what you're doing here, because now you're just being
too obvious. But it's still just the point of you've
always had grip, and some pictures say, hey you had
Tyler Tyler glass now saying hey I had to change this,

(02:01:51):
and now my arm hurts right, And you've got others
wondering about the same, their their level of effectiveness. I
think we'll have the lits of this year that will
look at the tree decision and and starts after that
date and certainly after tomorrow that will be monitoring quite
a bit. I was just wondering if there was anything

(02:02:12):
NFL related that would stand out to you. I mean
these days, I would probably just say these gloves that
they're wearing these days are pretty I mean, that's spider
tack on on steroids, isn't it. I mean in terms
of they don't need you don't need stick them, I'll
tell you that. And what's upon a time you did,

(02:02:33):
man Lester, All these all these big handed receivers, it's
like you only have to have a strong hand to
squeeze the ball because you don't have to have a
strong hand to catch it. And and let me qualify
that because somebody's sitting there in their cars somewhere, like
LaVar is punch drunk and I'm really not uh. When

(02:02:56):
the ball hits your hand, like you said, attack that's
on the bottom of the glove is so crazy, so sticky,
so grabbing onto the texture of the football. That the
catching part, you know, the contact, it's staying there. That part.
It's kind of you just gotta get your hand on

(02:03:17):
the ball. It's when you say, like when DeAndre Hopkins
squeezes the ball and you can't get the ball out
of his hand to create an incomplete pass, that's where
you're saying, strong hands come into play. You're in traffic,
different things like that. But make no mistake about it,
if you're by yourself and that ball hit your hands,

(02:03:38):
I'm just telling you right now, guys that were gloves
that drop balls in today's NFL is it's a travesty.
It is a flat out travesty because in some regards,
it doesn't take skill to catch a ball at this
point in time, because if the ball touches your glove,
it's going to kill the moment him of the ball

(02:04:01):
and stick to your hand, and all you gotta do
is make sure you secure the catch. I don't want
to make it in simple, so simplified terms that it
takes away of everything that takes place for you to
be in place to make that. Well. See that's the key,
right for all the wide receivers at King of the
Mammals on Instagrams where you can find him in comment. Uh,

(02:04:22):
I think that's the fine distinction, right. There's still a
lot to get open, a lot to get into your space,
and the physicality of it all. It takes away nothing
from that except for the ability sometimes to snag the
ball one handed that seemingly defies the laws of physics.
But also remember that you almost have a magnet on

(02:04:42):
your hand. So he's got to he's got to hand
the size of a mit. No, he's got the bottom
of a glove. That's going to It's like it literally
is going to make that ball like slow down and
stick in a way where you can grab it. But
home Spiderman, Yeah, or something to that level. I mean,

(02:05:04):
that's kind of where we're at. That's right. I don't
even know whether what's where's that from? Sam? Oh? That
was a Ben Mallard drop. It was like I was like,
what what movie? What TV show? Normally we know what
the what the references are when it comes out of
left field. I mean, obviously I would know the the
dulcet tones of our our teammate Ben mallor here on

(02:05:26):
the overnight Fox Sports Radio and that's Chris Myers, Fox
Sports Radio alumni. We're gonna play this game now, Sam,
is that what we're doing? Name this voice? Hey? I
do that with we We were doing that with commercial
voice over. Sam was incredulous about a certain No Award
winning actor. We'll talk about that momentarily. Let's get into

(02:05:49):
that for a second, but first we're gonna go to Isaac.
This is great. This is great trivia stuff. This is
Isaacloin Crow Hey, Buddy, hey, mikel LeVar. This morning in Brooklyn,
they are crying in their organ oat milk lte is
with avocado toasts and pickled kale because the events of Saturday.
That's like meal. Unfortunately, you're not exaggerating because of what

(02:06:13):
happened on Saturday night and their beloved nets in the
Milwaukee Bucks tied at one eleven on the final mile
of overtime in Game seven of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Here is Marv Albert on TNT marvelous four to five
seconds left ten on the shot clock study for christ

(02:06:36):
that put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, but
Brooklyn still had a chance in the final seconds of
otret for three tops up before air ball with three
texts on the second romania for Milwaukee Bucks on thirteen

(02:06:58):
one eleven League Sorry Hipsters, as Milwaukee would go on
to win at one fifteen to one eleven. Durant played
the entire game, all fifty three minutes. His forty eight
points were the most points scored in a Game seven
in NBA history, eclipsing the mark set by Dominique Wilkins
of the Atlanta Hawks and his epic Game seven showdown

(02:07:20):
with Larry Bird in Game seven of the nineteen eighty
eight Eastern Conference Semifinals, in which the Celtics prevailed over
the Hawks at Boston Garden. Yatis Antea Coon po forty
points last night in fifty minutes for Milwaukee, which advances
to the Eastern Conference Finals and Game four the Stanley
Cup Semifinals on Saturday night to New York Islanders defeated
the Tampa Bay Lightning three to two, tying the series

(02:07:41):
of two games apiece, three way tie for the lead
going into the final round of the US Open today
at Tory Pines between American Russell Henley, Canada's Mackenzie Hughes,
and South Africa's Louis Oustasen at five under par overall,
you've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson Deshambo lurking two
shots back at three under par. Overall. That to two

(02:08:05):
gentlemen who are most definitely not hipster's and I say
that as a compliment, Michael Harmon and LaVar Arrington, although
Michael does own at least one hipster esque hat. Oh,
I've got more than a dozen jaunty hats at the disposal.
I might be there with you, bro, Yeah, I just
gotta spoke too soon. Perhaps no oat milk. I can't

(02:08:30):
say I've had any avocado toast goodness, she wiz. That's
a deal breaker for yours, truly, sorry, buddy. You shouldn't
have to pay six bucks for a cup of coffee
that's not even that great. I'm just saying I make
my own experience and and the branding. And another tip off,

(02:08:50):
by the way, if breakfast is served with a salad,
that's another deal breaker. No breakfast should be served with
a salad. I'd rather you won't see a side salad
for breakfast and waffle? Why but why is that? Why
can't you have a salad with your breakfast. You can
have a steak for your breakfast that's totally different than

(02:09:11):
a salad. And frankly, why Frankly coming from one of
the great breakfast towns of American Pittsburgh, I'm I'm kind
of I'm kind of disappointed. I'm just listen, I'm just
challenging the traditional ideas and approaches. Why not have a breakfast?
Salad is a breakfast? Why is a breakfast burrito, breakfast

(02:09:36):
burrito that doesn't have any type of lettuce or anything
in it, you know, LaVar. The best analysis I can
give is it just is some things are appropriate for breakfast,
like a breakfast burrito. A salad is not one of
those things. I feel like we're having. I feel that
I'm the guy who should be arguing the hipster in here,

(02:09:56):
not you. You know, it's crazy. You are more of
a hipster. And I do love that you had a
Tabasco sauce shirt on the other day, But my wife,
thank you. I gotta say, I gotta say here, why
why is fruit not a part of dinner? It's a
good question, you know, people bring fruits right here, But

(02:10:18):
I'm just saying, like, why can't you have a salad
with lettuce, tomatoes and greens, cucumbers. I love cucumbers with
some Italian dressing on there, or even some ranch. Why
would you not be able to put that with like
some eggs and you know, a meat. I do too,
just not for breakfast. And the issue is these hipster

(02:10:40):
salad breakfast things. It's not just typical lettuce. It's these
ninety three different kinds of bitter green. You just had
to pay for a breakfast for people. You you're mad.
You're mad. You know you bought yourself some little breakfast
burrito or maybe some eggs and a couple of oustages,

(02:11:00):
and then someone at the table ordered something else and
you had already said you're picking up the tab, and
you paid like twenty bucks for someone's bougie breakfast, and
now you're calling him out here on national radio. I'm
just exactly what it is. I'm just saying a Tacos
via Corona in Silver Lake or Lucky Boy in Pasadena,
the breakfast burritos would never come with lettuce or greens.

(02:11:22):
And let me guess someone at this person at the
table also ordered a seven dollar glass of fresh squeezed
orange juice. Oh gosh, you know me so well, ce LaVar.
I I cut through that really quick sparkling water. Yeah,
really good. Hall He I mean he just owned you
right now. That was like we're playing poker and I
read you. I read your face without even seeing you,

(02:11:45):
and I've got that's right. He Michael is so is
so um sensitive and so observant. He can pick up
on tells from people He's not even in direct visual
contact with Salute your thing. We love you. You're not
You're not the hipster, You're the You're the toaster. You
get it, the to s part. But do you like

(02:12:09):
breakfast with without green? So we'll call it like toaster
or like like nobody eats toast at unless it's like
Texas toast, you don't eat it. Stop talking about food now,
now you got got Sam losing it. I want to
get back to you. Gotta pay off the teas about
voice over acting and well it comes back to food ironically,

(02:12:32):
but one of those things you pick up voices, right.
I watch Obviously, when I'm hearing at Fox Sports Radio,
I've got walls of television with no sound, so fine.
But oftentimes when I'm trying to work right create whatever
I'm doing, I've got movies or familiar TV shows in
the background so I don't actually have to watch, so

(02:12:52):
it dialogue and voices all the time. So when there
is a commercial one I'm watching an NBA game, in
NFL game, whatever, I can normally pick up who the
actor is or actress fairly quickly. And Sam had a
revelation this week that really irked him. Oh well, the
fact that UH Award winning actor yes excuse me, I'm

(02:13:15):
still voice is still waking up a little bit. Award
winning actor Paul Jamati was a voicing over Burger King commercials,
which I have to give him credit. It's starting to
sound better and better, which with each new commercial so well,
because you know their competitor has a very well known
actor as well, and I do. I do see the
Burger King Breakfast and it looks very enticing, So I

(02:13:36):
may give that a Because McDonald jusues Brian Cox, legendary
actor and those that know him from The X Men
as Strikerval, they certainly should use my voice. Well, we
need to work to that. We that's that's why would
you not use my voice? As you've always said, I'm
not pretty, but I'm sexy. I am sexy. That is true.

(02:14:01):
And spice that that that shirt will be available for
purchase tomorrow, buddy, We're gonna load that up later on
tonight as part of the Father's Day memorabilia part of
the program. Appreciate you there, Sam, Yeah, he put this
on Twitter. It's like, my man, It's like these guys
have been cashing checks forever. It's how they get to

(02:14:22):
do some of their passion projects. Or payoff gambling. Gay.
He's John Adams though that's in the Guy from Sideways.
He's one of the most esteemed actors out there. That's fine,
Burger King. I'm like, if you can the total poll,
but if you could collect another check and Home of
the Whopper okay, and and Home of the the Chicken

(02:14:46):
the what is it the chicking? You have get a
lot of free advertise. Nice. You want to know what's funny?
What's that the commercial running King Run and he's running
up the wall? I gotta it is one of the
funniest commercials I've ever seen it like bad like for
a fast food commercial. That joke really did win Funniest

(02:15:07):
commercial Bad because the King looked funny as Hale running
up that wall. Bad. Still trying to get one of
those King heads from my memorabilia collection. I would that
he's at LaVar Arrington, at King of the Mammals. We'll
try to work this out. Dang. That's when people have
been saying for me all my life, ats wool and

(02:15:28):
no where you find me? Coming up next, we find
our mammals and we crowd them the Mammals of the week. Yeah,
welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday
Mike Arment alongside the kank of the mammals himself, three
time pro bowler, my guy LaVar Arrington. Happy Father's Day
to all the fathers out there, and to you, my friend. Yeah,

(02:15:49):
that got you and all the other dads out. Yeah, big,
big day ahead. I actually get to pick where we eat.
I don't know. I don't know what to do with that.
That's whole if you want to tell men, say that again.
I'm gonna go burn after I'm done. Soon as I
get off, I'm I'm on that grill. Nicely done. Yeah, man,

(02:16:09):
my guy. All right, So you know it's that time
of the show where I step out of the way
and LaVar goes to the podium because you gotta hand
out some awards. It takes an apex predator to properly
assess situations and spot potential greatness, no matter how big
or small. LaVar Arrington puts the spotlight on them all.

(02:16:34):
These are his mammals of the weeds. Here we go.
Let's start off. Hello, Let's go in the NBA and
stay in the NBA. Since it's the NBA playoffs. Yesterday
was a big game obviously Game seven, deciding game between
the Brooklyn Nets and the Milwaukee Bucks. Yes, we sure

(02:16:57):
can go to Janice and say Janice would be a
Mammal of the Week, but we're gonna go to a
different team mate, Mike, We're gonna go with Chris Middleton.
How about it, Hits a game winning shot, has showed up,
had to carry the load. Last year, Janice gets hurt,
he couldn't quite get them over the humpboun himself. But
this year, you know what, his help, his contribution has

(02:17:20):
been major for the Milwaukee Bucks. They advanced to the
Eastern Conference Finals. Shots out to Chris Middleton. All Man,
old baby, all right, let's go to the western side
of of everything that took place. We saw the Clippers
and what I saw. Listen, I chose the Clippers, but

(02:17:40):
I'm a Utah fan, and I thought the Utah Jazz
may take it to a game seven. They had such
a big lead over twenty points. Epic fail in terms
of keeping the league. But a major reason why emerging
star Terrence Man. How about him showing up and doing

(02:18:01):
the things that he did in the game, contributing in
the way that he did. A young, budding star for
this Clippers team and has done it the right way.
I got him through the draft. He's grown, he's matured,
and now he well, he's grown man Utah and helped
out Paul George. As we all know that Kauai Leonard
is out with the knee injury. So shots out to

(02:18:22):
Terence Man for doing what he needed to do to
help the team get to the Western Conference finals. Yes,
let's see if he could do it against them sons.
All right, now, this last guy. It's interesting because for
so long we have laughed, we have joked. His dad
has been the punchline to many, many, many, many many conversations.

(02:18:46):
LaVar Ball. LaVar Ball has always been the guy that
you said, oh, he's loud, he's brash, he's obnoxious, and
you know he probably is. But he just celebrated his
baby boy getting m a Rookie of the Year. That's right,
LaMelo Ball gat Rookie of the Year. And you know what,
somewhat debate other guys, but I say, deservingly so he

(02:19:10):
has shown us that he is a potential superstar in
this National Basketball Association. And congrats to him, uh for
playing and living up to that that potential so shots
out the LaMelo Ball for getting NBA Rookie of the
Year and that is my Mammals of the week. We
will talk about that Rookie of the Year world. Why

(02:19:30):
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(02:20:13):
LaVar Arrington coming up in about twenty minutes from now.
We will find a few wins on our sporting horizon.
Celebrate Father's Day as we do. We've got a little
Aaron Rodgers talk. We've got a training day. That's when
I put out there and you know, King Kong got
nothing on me. But we also have well, you know

(02:20:37):
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(02:20:58):
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j O n A s and guy who's kind of
getting well cut up a little bit by his fans
by media. We mentioned Ben Simmons a few minutes ago, LaVar,

(02:21:18):
and you know, they all always comes down to you
gotta have a fall guy. Someone's gotta pay for losses
and ineffectiveness and and all of those things. It's he's
in a situation where his head coach will get a
bunch as we've got Atlanta Philadelphia later on today, and
we look look at the early lines and we we

(02:21:38):
certainly know that well Doc Rivers is in a position
that it's not a three one lead. But whenever he's
in front in a series, the poison pens come out.
And for Ben Simmons, I think he's been traded almost
everywhere in the NBA in the last seventy two to

(02:21:59):
nine so hours. Uh, and many very whimsical and creative
ways to get him out of Philadelphia. A guy with
immense talent, and he brings a lot to the table.
And you saw defensively what he can do. You have
him and and Matist table on the floor at the
same time with Joel Ebad. You've got three guys that

(02:22:20):
can defend the hell out of the ball, right. I
mean you look at and Bead I'm sorry Simmons a
first team all defense, and then and Beat and Thyble,
uh second team. And you saw how effective they were
in bottling up Trey Young and making life very difficult
the other night. And now they'll they'll get called down
to do it one more time. And we watched Simmons

(02:22:42):
and made a lot yesterday about Janice's free throw shooting.
He ends up going eight to fourteen. Is it tremendous
for most No, But for him after a couple of airballs,
You'll take it. For Ben Simmons, a lot of it
is when are you going to get the confidence to
actually take a shot that That is one of the

(02:23:03):
the glaring problems here. Right, free throw shooting is bad,
we know this, but good playmaker, one of the best
defenders in the game, but offensively still so much lacking
to where he's a non factor in a lot of
sets during games. So it becomes a difficult proposition where

(02:23:23):
you've got to do a substitution of all Right, is
Maxi coming in for Thyble whose game isn't developed offensively?
Is he coming in for Ben Simmons? What are we
doing here? And when you're sitting looking at a game seven,
he's the guy that I think all the eyes are
on because in Beads played with the meniscus tear. And
while he's had some really rough stretches, remember the over

(02:23:44):
twelve and the second half a couple of games back,
it's the fact that you've got a guy in Simmons
that won't take a shot that becomes the problem and
becomes the spotlighted portion of their squad. You know, they
asked Doc Rivers if he was going to bench Ben

(02:24:05):
Simmons and not start Ben Simmons, and he's clearly over
over it, trying to justify and talk about it and
discuss it um. But you know what it has become
a story and and it will continue to be a
story and unless they do something about it. It's like
the old adage. You know, if you don't want us

(02:24:25):
to score that many points on you, then don't allow
us to do it. Um. And then that's kind of
the same thing here. If you don't want people, you know,
coming coming really aggressive about what do you do about
Ben Simmons in this situation, then Ben Simmons has to
do better. You know. The one thing that you would say, um,
in terms of observation wise, that's something that's correctable. You know,

(02:24:49):
what we're talking about with Ben Simmons is something that
you can work on and you can actually correct it.
So it opens up the conversation to a bigger amount
of topic like what's his dedication level? Like what and
he could be the hardest working dude out here, but
the results that you're seeing are not are not in

(02:25:12):
in the in the lane where you would give him
a pass and say, oh, you know, he's just having
an off time or he's just you know, he just
needs a little bit of this or a little bit
of that. Like now he's you know, he's he's making
it so that the conversation says, does he care enough
to to correct some of the things that are plaguing

(02:25:32):
him right now, which is ultimately hurting this team. You
got a super a super two, you got a super
combo in him, and and and beat and Beat lives
up to the building. The only thing he deals with
his injuries. But otherwise and Beat does what he needs
to do. Um, some of these other guys have to
also step up for the seventies sixers if they're gonna

(02:25:54):
win this game as well. UM, I really like their
chances going into this this game today. But again, as
it applies to Ben Simmons and all of the continued
uh intensity of coverage on his his inability to make
shots and his him not looking for shots and deferring

(02:26:16):
on on those things, you know, he's got to go
out there and he's got to have a game today
and and whatever that game is, it doesn't have to
be him proving everybody wrong. It has to be him
putting his best foot forward, whatever that is. Because all
of those conversations have started to come out that you know,
his confidence may be shaking, shooking, or the team's confidence

(02:26:40):
in him is shooking, And you know, it's just you know.
For me, I think that those are things that you
have to play through, not allowed to become. Um the
reason why you don't you don't excel. Yeah, I think
the hard part is as soon as you also getting
snared in the Kardashian general world, the poison pens are
re doubled. There's no question, even if there's no correlation whatsoever,

(02:27:05):
people are gonna tie those strings together for you regardless.
He's LaVar Arrington on Mike Carman. This is Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Let's go over to Isaac
Loewen Crod find out what's trending all about Game Seven's
plural Michael and LaVar. Starting with Game seven of the
Eastern Conference Semifinals on Saturday night, the Milwaukee Bucks and
Brooklyn Nets tied at one eleven in the final minute

(02:27:28):
of overtime. Here's Marv Albert on TNT four to five
seconds left off the shot clock study for Cristal That
put Milwaukee up one thirteen to one eleven, but Brooklyn
still had one last chance. Marvelous take it Away Direct

(02:27:52):
for free? What's up for the air ball? With three
texts all the second Romania Walkie Bucks for what one
E level League, and Milwaukee would go on to win
it one fifteen to one eleven, despite Durant scoring forty

(02:28:12):
eight points, the most points scored in a Game seven
in NBA history, eclipsing the record of forty seven set
by Atlantis Dominique Wilkins against the Celtics back in nine
at Boston Garden. Durant played all fifty three minutes of
last night's game. Janice Antea Kumpo scored forty points for
Milwaukee in fifty minutes. Michael LaVar the NBA has just

(02:28:35):
announced that Atlanta Hawks back up big man Bruno Fernando
has been suspended for their Game seven tonight against the
seventy six ers for leaving the bench area during an
altercation in Game six on Friday. Fernando has only played
a total of two minutes and twenty eight seconds in
the entire series, so it's really not that big of
a deal relatively speaking. But get this. Philadelphia's Joel and

(02:28:59):
Beid was find thirty five thousand dollars for his role
in the altercation. There you go, including listen to this
specific language. He also part of the fine was because
he failed to comply with an NBA security interview after
the game. In fact, Fox Sports Radio has obtained exclusive

(02:29:19):
audio of Embiad's interview with NBA security. Listen to Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Well,
I mean, I'm just Cincinnati. Feel sorry for the NBA
security official trying to conduct that interview. We got a
three way tie for the lead going to the final
round of the US Open today at Tory Pines between

(02:29:40):
Russell Henley, Mackenzie Hughes, and Louis oust Hazen at five
underpar overall. Hughes and oust Hazen will tee off at
three fifty five eastern, Henley at three forty four eastern.
You've also got Rory McElroy and Bryson de Shambo just
two shots back at three underpar overall. Michael and LaVar,
thank you all. I guess that goes back to the
embiid uh John Collins thing where double technical and he

(02:30:05):
did he outstretched arms, never grabbed him, never you know,
tried to throw punches or or any physicality other than
outstretched arms, like he was a security guard pushing you back,
like get back. They odd here and pushed him into
the crowd. I guess that's the I was thirty grand
good for him. Hopefully it goes to a good cause.

(02:30:28):
Thanks Silo at Isaac Lowan Crown is where you find
him on Twitter. So yeah, Fernando suspended. See, we always
get something cool during the course of our four hours
here on Fox Sports Radio. Not just the hot take nonsense,
great debates uh and laughs and information that we give.
We also get breaking news uh and a story that's
still developing, LaVar. I haven't seen it officially announced, but

(02:30:52):
it's rumored that the Lakers have decided to part ways
with head trainer Nina Shay after an injury plagued season.
This would be the second time in the last couple
of years that the Lakers got rid of their head trainer.
And that that's your conduit for so many of these

(02:31:14):
series anymore, the importance of being available. And we we
saw with the Lakers just one one player felled after another,
Lebron James talking about the short offseason to wear and tear.
That's part of it. But you know other teams facing
injury woes, and I mean you you've been in the

(02:31:35):
NFL locker rooms, friends that are still playing guys, you're
you're a confidante too, And I mean what's that relationship
with with a trainer like at that level, it's a major,
super important And and if if anybody has paid attention
to the Washington football team that became a big thing

(02:31:56):
is injuries, UM and stemming all the way back to me.
And that's that's you know, early early two thousand's so UM,
it's important. It's important to have the right training staff,
the right support, the right relationships that are connected to
um that you you gotta have guys who want to

(02:32:19):
report their injuries and want to get their their injuries addressed.
You're you're gonna want to have a training staff that
is good at at at buffering and handling things in
a way where you know, just the comfort and the
trust level. I think trust trust was the biggest. Yeah, yeah,

(02:32:41):
that's the biggest one. So yeah. So so the Lakers
moving on, and obviously some of the comments from Lebron
James probably don't say, well, you know, the Lakers are
developing a sitcom though, we'll see what they do with
the training position. They're evidently Genie Buss working with Mindy
kaling M to develop a half hour sitcom based on

(02:33:03):
the Lakers world. We also know that the Showtime Lakers.
There's another thing in production, but that that doesn't apply
to the Well maybe it will. Who knows. Trainers may
have a huge role there. Another story I wanted to
get to switching to the NFL for a moment Aaron Rodgers,
because we have to have at least three minutes of
Aaron Rodgers talk every week. LaVar and folks got excited, right, stalemate,

(02:33:27):
We've got a couple of weeks before training camp. What's
gonna happen? And out of Wisconsin, the report that Aaron
Rodgers renewed his membership to the Green Bay Country Club
for the remainder of the year. Huh So what does
that make you feel? They made me laugh because I'm like,

(02:33:48):
that's your property. Well, that's also an auto renew and
maybe you forgot to turn it off. Maybe maybe I
don't know. I don't know. We'll have to call them
and find out. Yeah, he's a large enough purchase that
you might have to country club. They got it. Yeah,
because that look, I'm I'm on record for months now anywhere.

(02:34:11):
I'm I don't know that that story takes you away
from him not being there. I mean just because you
go play somewhere else doesn't mean that you can't keep
your country club status. Sure. I mean, he he's he's alleged,
he's an icon there. Why would he leave even if

(02:34:32):
he's done playing? Why would you? Why would you leave? Now?
You've angered the fan base, the fan base. I don't
think he's anger at the fan base, you know. I
think that he has handled things the way that he
has wanted too. But I think he's he's pretty bulletproof.
I mean a lot of the people that are upset
with him will probably get over it at some point

(02:34:55):
in time. And I think that that's just Yeah, I
just think that that's kind of what it is right now.
I mean, he's one of those few guys that actually
can overcome um situations like this. Most athletes can't do it,
but but Aaron Rodgers is in perfect position to do it. Yeah.
I think one of the things that that comes along
is Jordan's love or insert replacement here, uh in the

(02:35:19):
next couple of years, has to establish that winning will continue,
because I think he gets spoiled after thirty two years
of exceptional quarterback play. Speaking as a guy from you know,
the south side of Chicago, we don't we don't know
that very well, just you know, in case folks missed
that memo. Uh, so that is there. The other is

(02:35:39):
just a reminder that his foray into television with Jeopardy
was not his first. No, no, no no. He appeared
in one of the final episodes of the Office as
a judge for an acapella competition that Andy Bernard was
trying to be part of. Had a couple of speaking lines.
He was a bit wooden, but he got him, but
got him across. So there you got. He's an entertaining dude.

(02:36:02):
See I added value, nicely done. Guys like that end
up getting opportunities. Good lore. Yeah, I think it'll be
just fine. Yeah, no, there's there's no question, especially nowadays.
You there's so many channels looking for programming. Uh you
can call me as well, always looking to expand and
and well, I mean I'm I'm not pretty, but I'm sexy.

(02:36:25):
I'm stealing your line. Uh. Coming up next, we'll find
some of the greatest wins of our sporting universe. Will
also pick today's NBA games. He's Lavarre and I'm Bike Carmen.
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports or Radio.

(02:36:45):
Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app
search f s R to listen live. Thanks for giving
us a few minutes of your time today wherever you
may be. Happy Father's Day to you. I know LaVar
is gonna hit the pool and the grill. I'm gonna
go create some chaos and run around Barnes and Noble
for a while, so that'll be fun. Hey man, you

(02:37:07):
gotta keep the education flowing. So it's summer summer reading.
Go to your local library. Spicy anymore. Yeah, you just
wanted to get Sam to hit his favorite drop. That
was well done. That was very well played. Wherever you are, though,

(02:37:30):
remember to give a call figure out how to how
to mend those bridges if you got an issue uh
in the family, if if there's a possibility, uh, because
nobody's promised tomorrow and you don't want that regret. That's
all I can say. My dad down in Florida, love you, buddy.
I'll talk to you later. Hopefully you're having a good
power walk. Avoid those alligators uh and go lightning and

(02:37:50):
all that stuff. Uh. And yeah, peace, Love to all
you out there uh and the roles that and the
young minds and even older minds that you continue to shape.
And with that, let's find a couple of winds. Blocker
room squabbles, struggling teens, cheaters and no account owners. There's

(02:38:12):
so much negativity in sports that it can ruin your dad.
But not Mike hard mat Piece here to shine a
light on the good at sports with a simple mantra,
find your winds. I gotta put. I don't know if
we can actually do this. We might have to kill
kill the music for a moment, Sam, can you give
me the audio of the Big Shot made by Kevin Durant.

(02:38:38):
He's gonna feed me that in a second, because it
really is just demonstrative, illustrative of what we're going on
and what is happening here in our sporting universe, because
there's an energy, there's a life force that is gotten
its wind right and and we've got it back. Listen
to this crowd, Queens across Court, Tourant Carter, Mike Tucker.

(02:39:02):
They booked Head of the Key turn Around Okay, but
one second ago, time out books. That's that's two part
or along on ties. There you have it. Nets Radio
network and then people that I know that we're in

(02:39:22):
the building the other night the Staples come back by
the Clippers down said it was the loudest and they
were talking to people that work the arena, the ushers,
the concessionaires, everybody saying the only time it was ever
louder Kobe Bryant and finishing his Hall of Fame career.

(02:39:46):
So we we talked about that, and obviously we'll get
into a game prediction as we've got Game one coming
up a little bit later, but just to illustrate the
point of of that collective experience, that energy flow that
I speak of on the show and sell a break
as part of this is back in a big, big way.
Also a a little bit of love too. Joey Votto

(02:40:07):
of the Cincinnati Reds got himself thrown out very early
in yesterday's game, first inning, to be exact, arguing balls
and strikes and a little girl in her Votto T
shirt and everything tearful because that's why she came to
the game. She was ready to see her guy. She
was down front, UH and he handed her after being ejected.

(02:40:32):
She's in tears and we love you and everything. UH
sent to a ball I'm sorry I didn't play the
entire game. Signed from Joey Votto to the kid, you
know you gotta you gotta get him young right in
baseball's in particular, very big movement for youth. Uh interaction.
And I want to go back to the Clippers really quick,

(02:40:54):
just to acknowledge where we're at with with Tehron Lou
as a head coach that I don't know has been
highlighted enough, especially because the wind came on a Friday
night late right, so a lot of folks would have
gone to bed. They wake up like, wow, came back,
got this huge win, et cetera. Lost in that. Our

(02:41:17):
our buddy Todd Ferman at Todd Ferman joins Jason and
I every Friday night. Uh, you see him on Fox
Bet Live on FS one. His research team best playoff
record as an NBA head coach with a minimum of
twenty five games. Number one Steve Kerr winning percentage seven
thirty three, so he's seventy eight. Phil Jackson at number

(02:41:38):
two to twenty nine and one oh four Tyler forty
nine and twenty five good for a six sixty two
winning percentage. So just something we're watching winning because we
had olden polinies on Friday. LaVar right, long time navt um.
There there's a there's a guy to ring on on

(02:42:00):
on up on game two because you guys would enjoy that.
Because he's like, you ask a question, I tell you
no lies, here's my here's my answer, and said, hey,
they got a shot down down O two with Doc
Rivers coach, and he goes man, they would have lost
that series three games ago. One of one of the

(02:42:24):
fine assessments of where a team was. All right, So
let's get to it. Iowa, Sam, any any shoutouts back home?
Did you want to give to family? I'll give my
dad Mike a shout out. I got him a new
WiFi router for Father's David. I actually got to see
him last week, so I just picked it up in
uh bam, wham bam. Thank you, ma'am positivity. I gotta

(02:42:45):
give Sam some love to I've got this beautiful colonel's hat. Yes, yes,
Midwest League Baseball. Hi a baseball, Hi a baseball, and
it's got the uh the corn cob getting ready to
down bace. It's a it's a beautiful thing. As a
guy who tasseled corn for a couple of summers. Uh,
near and dear to my heart. So if you're out

(02:43:06):
and about traveling, Uh, hold on an extra second or
two on those hugs, folks. Uh make that phone call
last an extra minute or two. Let's make a couple
of game picks here, LaVar. We've got Clippers at Phoenix, Like, okay,
sixers minus six and a half, all right, so you're
gonna take you, You're gonna lay the points to How
about Phoenix minus four? I think Phoenix is going dominate

(02:43:31):
the game even with no CP three. I love I
love the boldness of the PROC proclamation. Uh. The Clippers
seem to feel things out there, taking a page out
of the old Lebron James playbook here. Uh in the
prior series, I will take the Sons with eighton putting
up a solid effort alongside Booker with a narrow victory.

(02:43:54):
I think I'll take the Clippers plus four if I'm
betting against the spread. Uh, Philly, I think they showed
me what they needed to in game six. Uh, succeed
and proceed because they could have gotten on a bus.
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are they'll finish the job. Happy Father's Day, Ryan and
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