Brian Noe Zones in on Jayson Tatum’s Ascension & NFL Schedule Goodies

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we can figure out the payment scheme over here. But

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but we fast forward to the here and now. It's
not about Game three, it's about a pair of Game
six is on Friday night at least in the NBA,
maybe a little Love for Puck later in the show,
A Little Love, A Little Love. But let's start off
with the NBA. Jason freaking Tatum. Let's just start there

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and we'll we've our way to Mr Clay Freakin Thompson,
but let's start with Jason freaking Tatum. The guy goes
off for forty six points. This was and somebody think
this is a stretch. I don't. It reminded me of
Lebron's epic and five game. You go all the way

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back to the playoffs when Lebron and the Cabs beat Boston,
and that was the infamous Lebron game where he had
forty five points, fifteen boards, five i've assists. I think
Tatum's evening it wasn't quite there, but it was close.
It was shades of Lebron's five game. Jayson Tatum went

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for forty six points, nine rebounds, and four assists. He
shot fifty three from the field. And look, it doesn't
have to be the spitting image of Lebron's game. I
think it's comparable. But Tatum's game was so special. It
just reminded me of Lebron's uh spectacular game. And those

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were both Game sixes. And they were both on the road.
And the funny twist was, obviously Lebron's game came against
the Celtics and Tatum's game was for the Celtics, so
it's just a weird little parallel between those two. But
I thought Tatum was that special. Whether you buy that
he was Lebron five special, fine, whatever, But that's the

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first thing I thought of, was it's similar because Lebron
hadn't won a championship yet, and obviously Tatum he hasn't
been in the league as long as Lebron was in
the league back then, and he hasn't gotten the same
criticism of you haven't won a championship yet, and when's
it gonna be and all that type of stuff. It

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hadn't it hadn't happened yet. Um. And by the way,
that obviously that Lebron game was with the Miami Heat,
not the Calves. He had left Cleveland, went to Miami
and had that and five game. But I thought Tatum
was that special. And although he hadn't gotten the pushback
and doesn't have the same pressure that Lebron had when

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he had that epic game, it still was a spectacular
performance by Jayson Tatum and the Celtics force a game seven.
How about that they head into Milwaukee and they win
pretty convincingly. They win on a night where Janice he
goes for forty four points with twenty rebounds, and the

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Celtics win going away. They won comfortably one o eight.
To think about that, Janice Troup's forty four points and
the Bucks score ninety five points. So to takeaways from
that one, you gotta look at the role players around
Yannice like you wasted an epic performance by Jannie. This

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is gonna be a footnote because the Bucks lost the game.
We're not gonna remember forty four and twenty from from Joannice,
But it was really the role players who let Milwaukee down.
But you also have to give a lot of credit
to that Celtics defense. It's something that Jimmy Butler said
Jimmy Buckets going into Game six on the road against Philadelphia,

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when Miami had won game five. He said, we shouldn't
even worry about making shots. We just have to worry
about defending. Let's just defend and we're gonna win the game.
And that was largely true. They held philipde Elfie had
at ninety points in Game six. So I I see
a parallel between what Miami did on the road in

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Game six, shutting down Philly, and also what Boston did
in Game six, shutting down everybody not named Janice. They
had no answer for that guy, and he is freaky special.
But uh, the Celtics played enough solid team defense to
get the win. And uh, Jason Tatum, that is one

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for the archives, right there, only twenty four years old,
and was that special? I'm Brian No, it is the
no show here on Fox Sports Radio. Now the other game,
I think you gotta highlight Clay freakin Thompson. Right, we
already checked Jason freaking Tatum off the list. Let's get
to Clay freakin Thompson over here. Thirty points from the guy,
eight for fourteen from three. I don't know what it

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is with Clay Thompson in Game six is, but he's
had some enormous performances. When it comes to Game six,
and you look at this, the Warriors, obviously they close
out the Grizzlies. That series is done. Golden State was
super sloppy. Not just a little sloppy here, super sloppy.
You remember this is dated, Remember Mark Duper from the

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Miami Dolphins. Goes back to my childhood. Loved Super Duper.
That was the Warriors. They weren't just super sloppy, they
were super duper sloppy. Seventeen ugly turnovers. Yet they go
on a run towards the end of the game and
it looks like a laugher when it was anything but
that game was nip and tuck, nip and tuck, and

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the Warriors end up winning by fourteen points. If you
didn't watch the game and you just see the score,
you're like, oh, yeah, typical Warriors. You know, I just
cranked it up. Of course we knew they would win
Game six. It was not that easy, man. They just
went on a run towards the end of the game.
But Clay Thompson with those two major needs, two major injuries,

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the a c L tear and also the achilles injury,
he was out of basketball for nine hundred and forty
one days. You're talking about the better part of two
and a half seasons. And this guy comes back and
he is balling out, hitting eight three pointers and scoring
thirty points. When Steph Curry, that was not a vintage

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Steph Curry performance. He had twenty nine points but on
twenty seven shots, very inefficient. He just didn't quite have it.
And that was the theme for the Warriors all night.
Seventeen turnovers, just could not get into a rhythm trying
to hit the home run instead of taking their time

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making the simple plays. It was just an odd game
from the Warriors. But hey, they close out the Grizzlies,
they move on. I'm just curious where this Warriors team goes.
What's interesting to me is when you look at the
teams that have a great chance to win it all,
the Warriors, the Sons have a great chance this second

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round of the playoffs. You've seen the warts on both teams.
You've seen the Warriors turn it over left and right
like they did on Friday night. You've seen them be
trailing by fifty five points in Game five, that's unbelievable.

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And with Phoenix on the road, they have gotten dump
trucked a few times on the road against Dallas. So
you see the warts with both teams, we also see
the strengths. And that's what it makes it so interesting
to me is you don't see just clear dominance. It's
not awake me when it's the finals and it's the

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second coming of old school Warriors and Calves, right Like,
that's not where we're at right now. So I think
it's I think it's very interesting. I definitely think it's
very interesting. The other thing that's something that stands out
home court advantage. It's been definitely the case in some series,

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but not all. If you look at the Bucks and Celtics,
the road team has won four of their six games,
so there really hasn't been a home court advantage. But
then you go to this Dallas Phoenix series, the home
team has won every game convincingly. You go to that

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Philly Miami series, the home team won every game but
the closeout game Miami one, Game six on the road.
So like, home court is valuable for the most part,
but it isn't, you know, fool proof if you will.
And the the counterexample would be that Bucks Celtics series,

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but you also saw it in the Warriors series, where goodness,
think about the difference between the Grizzlies leading by fifty
five points at home in Game five and then losing
on the road against the Warriors in Game six. So
it's a bit of a mixed bag. I think what
strange is not only is home court paid off at

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times in the second round, when it has paid off
more times than not, it has really paid off like
boat Race City blowout Schoolore Um, and then you get
this abnormal uh Celtics Bucks series. I would like to
I really would um. I think I would like to

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see the Sun's um. I would like to see them
move on to the next round. And I wonder if
you get you injected the truth serum into Adam Silver,
I would think he would hope that home court would matter, right, Like,
if you're the commissioner, you want these regular season games
to matter. You want teams to value the regular season

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instead of treating the regular seas and like it's a
Tuesday mercy date. You know, there are a lot of
teams that are just like, let's just and we we
got our star player with a hangnail. You know, it's
just a precaution. Let's keep him out. Let's make sure
he's fully healthy and rested for the playoffs. Oh, we're
the four seed. Who cares, We'll be fine, Like, who,

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what's the big deal? I would like to see a
team like Phoenix, and especially that Phoenix Dallas series where
home court has meant so much. I think it it
could be a benefit to the league that a team
like Phoenix benefits from having home court advantage they valued
the regular season. Now I think it's in the least,

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at least in that series. I think it's a big advantage.
We'll see what happens in Game seven between the Celtics
and the Box. If it'll be the Bucks winning on
the road and the road team would have won five
of the seven games if that happens, and we could
see Phoenix on Saturday night close it out, and the
home team would have one all seven games in that

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Son's Maverick series. So that's crazy as well. Hey, the
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That is where you can reach me. We got a
lot more besides basketball here. We've gotta get knee deep.
Well not really. Some things that stood out to me
about the NFL schedule release. It is crazy that this
is an absolute event, but here we are. Here we are,
and there are a couple of things that stood out

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to me that I find interesting. I'm not gonna do
a deep dive with every team, and we're gonna highlight
Week six matchups and but there are a couple of
things that I think are worth talking about, including one team.
You might not think this is an advantage I actually do.
I'll tell you an advantage from their schedule around the corner.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Brian no you're
on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, so the NFL schedule was
released on Thursday. You might have heard something about that. Look,
i am an NFL junkie, so I've already got my

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geeky team by team charts all done. It's it's kind
of sad, actually, but it helps me keep track of
who's doing what, who's playing who. And a few things
stood out to me. I mean, one, the Detroit Lions,
of all teams, their schedule, so they every single one

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of their games is at one pm Eastern time, except
for Thanksgiving Day, which is at twelve pm Eastern time.
So essentially every single one of their seven team games
is that one pm Eastern. I think that's an advantage.
You don't have these short weeks, you don't play on

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Thursday night, you don't have those weird turnarounds, you don't
have your body clock is off because you played on
Monday night or Thursday. I think that's an advantage. There's
actually a team where that was pretty comparable to their schedule.
Last year, there was a team that went very far
in the playoffs that had one prime time game scheduled.

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That team was the Cincinnati Bengals. And look, I'm not
saying that the Lions are going to be the version
of the Bengals. That's not what I'm saying. I am saying.
I do think it can be an advantage when you're
not having these quirky prime time games and you played
on a short week and then you got this quick

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turnaround here and one pm Eastern time almost all season long.
I think that helps out the Lions. And I think
sometimes these prime time games for other teams, the popular teams,
I think that can at times be a disadvantage. Where
if you look at the Patriots, this stood out to me.
The Patriots have four primetime games in four straight weeks.

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So they play on Thanksgiving evening against the Vikings, then
they play a Thursday night game against Buffalo, then they're
on Monday Night against the Arizona, then they play on
Sunday night against the Raiders. Four straight primetime games. That's
quirky right there. The Rams they've got four standalone games

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in a row late in the season, weeks fourteen through seventeen.
Thursday night they host the Raiders, then they're on Monday
Night football at Green Bay. They play a Christmas Day game,
although that isn't a prime time game. It's a late
afternoon kickoff, and that's on, you know, Christmas Day, and

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then you've got the next Sunday night you're at the Chargers.
So four straight standalone games for the Rams. And look,
I just think it's an an advantage for the Lions.
Am I expecting them to I don't know run the
table or no, of course not. But I do think
that if you're looking at season win totals, I'll put

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it that way, maybe you don't rush to the under
because I do think there's something about establishing a routine,
not traveling all over the place, not having all. We
played Sunday night football last week. Now we're playing an
early game this week. Now we're on Thursday night football,
We're on Sunday night. Like, It's not like that at

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all for Detroit. I think that's an advantage I do.
I wouldn't race to the under. I don't. I do
a little bit more digging before I I ran to
the under. There a few other schedule observations here. We'll
get to that momentarily. I think one team has gone
from the B stage to a headliner, and uh, there

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is one major reason why they have done that. So
I'll get to that momentarily. Let's go to the phone though,
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That is your
phone number, my guy, I am it's over there in Olympia.
He wants to talk some all over here, some hoops
over here. What's going on? Emmett? How you doing, Bud? Brian? No,
my guy, A long time, no talk. How you doing?

(18:15):
I'm good man. What's the newest with you? Oh? You know,
I'm just kind of chilling, you know, past couple weeks
and kicking in with friends as I've been away from
the show. So um, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
you're choosing friends over the show. How dare you? Emm it?
Oh no, that's a bad job by me. Yeah exactly.
Oh no, you didn't tell these friends like I've got

(18:38):
a real friend and his name is Brian. No, we're
gonna have to hang out some other time. You didn't
say that to them. Well, Actually, funny story about friends here.
Before I get the Jayson Datum had a friend over
last weekend, and I get a request from your guys
V J. Husky, who you're actually co hosting, where he's like, hey,
you're want to hop on my show. I'm like, bro,
I gotta do something real quick. So I pops on

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the show with him for about like forty minutes. Now
I have done that before. Very cool man, I'm happy
to hear that. Yep. And about the thing with Jason
Tatum is I just think this guy is really carrying
the Celtics. Like the Celtics, I am expected to be
like this, like you know, crazy against the Bucks. And
the thing is, Jason Tatum had thirty four Wednesday thirty

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on Monday, Like it's it's crazy to me, and you
know it was you know, even be honest, like I
was watching the game tonight, you know, and you're honest
to shooting three with your test career. I think it's
like what four threes? Like it was something else and
it would be you know interesting too on Sunday if
the Bucks are actually able to pull that one off
on the road. And I think the Bucks will actually
come out and pull it, you know, pull it off.

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I expect the Honest to just go full on beast
mode and you know, carry like the Greek Freest does.
Like I think it'd be cool to see Jayson Tatum
go to the finals. I think the guys, you know,
head ain't definitely the next two years in the league.
From where he's at, you know, he's definitely proving himself
off as a star superstar. And how about this Jason
Tatum take. I don't know if I agree with it,

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But do you see what Jason Smith said about Jason Tatum.
I didn't, but I would steal it and pass it
off as my own, as every host on this network
does in other networks. I don't know if you know that.
It's a dirty secret around here. Emmett. Yeah, well Jason Smith,
our guy, said that, yeah, exactly. Oh no, he said that,
Uh well, Jason Tatum will win m v P next year.

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I'll got you in a tweet. Uh in a minute
here on, let me pull it up. But yeah, yeah,
he said that. I don't think that's crazy. I think
he's got a legitimate shot next year, because look, man,
he's a two way player. He is a nasty offensive player,
and he can play a lockdown defense. He's extraordinary. I
don't think it's a crazy take at all. Jason has

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a heartaches man, and sometimes to either bounce off the
wall or sometimes he nails it from three. Sometimes he
sees it and the font the next day on ESPN
and they're stealing his stuff, you know, exactly exact. Yeah,
the ESPN producers are scrowing through a how about a
Fresco Twitter feed to find them and see them. Yeah,

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that's how it goes. Man, Well, hey, thanks for checking in. Emmett.
Good stuff. But man, thank you. There he is Emmett.
Olympia is following this stuff. Um. Look, here's the thing.
If you look towards Game seven Buck Celtics. The thing
that's so discouraging. If you're a Bucks fan or I

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don't know you, you believe the Bucks are gonna win
Game seven. Janice went off in Game six and they
weren't even that close down the stretch. Janice went for
forty four points, twenty rebounds, and six assists. Like every
now and then you'll get these. They do it like

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ESPN has daily Wager, and they'll throw out there their
takes of hey, you might want to get in on
this bet. You might want to take Janice And I
forget exactly what it was points, rebound and assists. I
think the number was somewhere around fifty three and a half,
and they're like, take the over. He always shows up
in the big games, Janice points, rebounds and assists. The

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guy had seventy combined. Like it seventy. He blew fifty
three and a half out of the freaking water, and
the Celtics won by thirteen points. They won comfortably. So
the point is, if you're envisioning Janice just putting the
team on his back and carrying them to victory, I mean, look,

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and six is pretty special. In Game six and they
lost by thirteen. Now we all know this, No two
games are the absolute same. So if Janice goes off
the same white, hey, maybe the role players playing a
little bit better. Maybe Drew Holiday is a little bit
more efficient shooting the basketball. Maybe Grayson Allen isn't god
awful like he was in Game six, right, like, maybe

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Jayson Tatum doesn't go off for forty six points. There
are a lot of things that can change. But I
do think that is what's disheartening after Game six is
Janice did put the Bucks on his back and they
were nowhere close to winning that game. So it's not
to say that if Jannie goes off, they still have
no chance. Of course they have a chance, but I
don't feel as confident about the Bucks as I would

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have based on how Game six played out. Janice went
ballistic and they still got boat race pretty good. All right,
We've got Kevin Figures with this Mr k fig to
spin us around the sporting landscape. What's going on, kig?
All right, Brian? We'll start in the NBA. The Warriors
back in the Western Conference Finals after he won ten
to nineties six game six victory over Memphis on Friday night,

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Clay Thompson leading them and scoring with thirty points on
eight May three pointers. Steph Corey chipped in nine. In
the East, Celtics state alive what they won away to
nine games six victory in Milwaukee. Jayson Tatum forty six
points leading all scores. Yeahs to Kompo, as you mentioned,
let the Bucks with forty four points in twenty rebounds.
Game seven will be in Boston on Sunday. Stanley Cup

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Playoffs Dallas pe Calgary four to two, forcing a Game
seven on Sunday. Rangers and Penguins will head back to
Pittsburgh for Game seven. After New York not day five
to three victory, Florida advance with a four to three
overtime went over Washington, and baseball had just when final,
Phillies over the Dodgers twelve to ten in ten innings,
Angels shutout Oakland to nothing, Yankees all over the White Sox,
Twins beat the Guardians twelve to eight. Victories for Boston,

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Kansas City, and the Giants back to Brian No, by
the way, k Fig, what do you think about your
raiders and the schedule for them? Uh? In two? Any
big take big takeaways from them? No, not really. I
initially thought that the back to back East coast trips
was interesting, and then I later find out that that's
something they requested that the NFL actually give them. Yes,

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they wanted to make a long trip I believe to
New Orleans, and then I believe they're playing one of
the Florida teams, possibly Jacksonville. And so they told the
NFL we want to stay back east. We're just gonna
stay east that entire time, as as opposed to making
multiple East coast trips, which I didn't know teams could
actually do, but apparently. And I listened to an interview
with Michael North, who's kind of the they had han
show as far as putting schedules together for the NFL,

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and he said, yeah, teams often times will approach to
them and say, hey, this is what we prefer, this
is what we want. This is when we prefer our
bye week, and we try our best to try to
accommodate teams, which I think is actually pretty cool for
the league to do that. Yeah, well that's interesting. I
didn't know that. And they'll play after that, Saints Jags,
you know those back to back away games. They've got
the Colts at home and then they're on the road

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for two straight at Denver and then at Seattle. So
I would imagine they'd go back to Vegas for that.
That wouldn't make sense to you know, I would just
stay in Denver and then go to Seattle. Or yeah,
that's just go to Seattle. Yeah yeah, clearly not as
bad as a trek there. That's like the old act
with Seattle and in the mix. But travel, Yeah, it's

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crazy to travel though, kay fig Is. If you look
at the numbers in Seattle is always flying around ridiculous amounts,
but they're around thirty thousand miles and the Steelers they're
under sixty. Dress dude, like you're doing the math, that's
four five times as many miles for Seattle compared to Pittsburgh. Yeah,

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I guess it's just one of those quirks in the
schedule of how it works out. You know that what
your schedule is set like eight years in advance or something.
So really it's just the depending on where you fall
in your division as to who you play and where
you play them, And it happened to work out in
the Steelers favor where they basically they basically don't have
to get on a plane this whole season. Just take
bus rides left and right and that's pretty much all
they need for travel. It's really unbelievable. It is unbelievable. Man,

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that's crazy. All right, we'll have more on the schedule.
Release tastefully done, k Fig. You know, tastefully done. We
can't get too nerdy with this. I promise you this,
k Fig. I will never ever, ever, ever, ever, I
will never go week by week wins and losses. Thank you.
That is the biggest wasted time ever. It tries to

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be crazy. Let's drive you crazy to It's a week
fifteen against uh Indianapolis. I'm gonna go win. Really, how
do you know who's healthy at that stage of the season.
It's waste of time, man, don't do it. Yeah, I've
never fully understood that, and and to a to a
maybe not even a lesser extent, But I understand the
strength of schedule aspect of it because that's kind of

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the way that you have to gauge based on last season.
But I mean, how many years every year there's a
worst of first team. Every year there's two or three
teams that you expect to have highest spectations that disappoint.
So it's really difficult right now to say, like, oh,
so and so has the hardest, the Rams have the
hardest schedule. Okay, based on last year. Every year is unique,
Every year is different. So I really don't think that
you can really base everything that happened last year and

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use that to future project onto this season. I think
I would get fired, k fig. I really do, because
I could just picture it, like, Okay, here's what we're
gonna do, all right, Brian, you're up next. You're gonna
give your week by week wins and losses for some
random NFL team. Let's say it's the Broncos. I would

(28:07):
be such a jerk with that. I'd be like, all right,
Week six against whoever they play, I'm gonna say Russell
Wilson is gonna miss that game, So I'm gonna go
with Jacksonville to to pull a stunner right that, You
know what I mean? Like, I wouldn't even take it
seriously because, dude, you you barely know who's gonna be
healthy for week one. You've got training camp entries. Sometimes

(28:27):
people go down in preseason. You don't even know week one,
let alone week fourteen. It's crazy to me. Yeah, I'm all,
I'm with you on that. I just roably go out
that approach. So and so is gonna stub his toe
on the table and not be able to play for
three weeks. It's like the mock drafts. A lot of
people that do mock drafts is that just do random
trades because random trades happen, and you never know how
to project and who's gonna go where? So why the
hell not have at it? Do your thing, have some

(28:49):
fun with it. Yeah, I think that's what I would do.
I think I would not take it seriously and I
would probably be unemployed as a result. How it would unfold.
Right there, I'll go out to the phones here, Ricky,
is sir, scratch off there yet? Do we have any uh,
we have any signs of Sir scratch Off. Who Nope,
not yet, No, still looking for Sir scratch Off. Alright, alright,

(29:13):
hopefully maybe next hour. If it's not this hour, the
man does owe me two hundred dollars. I don't know
if I've made that clear or not, but just just
making sure he's a man of his word or anything.
We'll find out. Report back for you here from sir
scratch Off. We got Mike. He's over in New York.

(29:34):
What's going on, Mike? You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's
a pleasure. Your sports dods is awesome. I want to
talk about the Box Subtic series for four or six.
That's awesome. But she a school super in game seven

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and Bosses is like it was in a seven. What
do you think about series? I think it's gonna be
a barn burner, Mike, that's what I think. I think
it's gonna be an awesome game. Game five, as you
will know, was outstanding. I still don't know how the
fucks won that game. Right If if the Celtics get

(30:17):
one rebound, the series could be over right now. That
changes everything going into tonight. But Game five was spectacular.
I would expect something similar. I would expect Janice and
Tatum are going to do their thing. I think they're
both gonna be great. It's just a question of who's
gonna be great around those guys. Right Hey, you got it, man,

(30:42):
thank you? There he is Mike and New York very nice. Yeah, man, yeah,
I Jannice. Think about what Janice is thinking right now.
He must be at home thinking I went off for
forty four points, grab twenty rebounds, wrinkled in six assists,

(31:02):
and we lost by thirteen. How did that happen? How
can you even explain? And oh, by the way, Milwaukee
didn't even crack triple digits. It's like, Janice gotta look around, like,
can I get a little help around here? Will help?
We'll help. And as spectacular as as Jason Tatum was,

(31:27):
and he was, he he was outstanding, he got more
help you had you had. Jalen Brown scored twenty two points.
Marcus Smart scored twenty one. I mean, I'm looking, who's
got twenty some points here? For the box that you're
not gonna find that you are not going to find that,
and uh yeah, that's a head scratcher right there. But man,

(31:49):
all that hard work that Milwaukee did winning a road game.
In Game five, when they were in rough shape, rough
shape down the stretch. They were trailing by with two
minutes to go, I forget what the deficit is. I
have to go back and check. I don't want to
say something that's wrong. I think they were down by
double ditches. They might have been down by like twelve

(32:11):
with two minutes. I have to go back and check
Game five, but they were on thin ice from losing
that game. They find a way to win the game.
Then they have a chance to close it out at home,
and they lose pretty convincingly when Janice goes out. When
he goes off, that man that's has a missed opportunity.

(32:34):
Deluxe to put it lightly all right, Coming up next,
I want to get to a team. They have officially
gone from the B stage to a headlining act and
it is all due to one player in particular. That's
on the way. I'm Brian No. Keep it locked right
here on Fox Sports Radio. Fox Sports Radio has the

(32:55):
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I'll get more in depth on the Denver Broncos, who
have gone from the B stage to a headlining act

(33:18):
thanks to Russell Wilson. They are now featured prominently all
over prime time games. They had one primetime game scheduled
last year, so obviously landing Ross makes them a lot
more relevant. They actually play four of their first six
games in prime time. Think about that. You're gonna get
a heavy dose of Denver in prime time for six weeks.

(33:40):
Four of their six games in prime time. So I'll
get a little bit more in depth on that. Well,
let's go out to the phones here for a little bit. Jed,
who fled is in Florida. Let's start with Jed here?
What is going on? Jed very quick, did not even
have time to google get sports information. It's the Cleveland Guardians.

(34:02):
It sounds like someone that down in front of a Walmart.
You I mean trying to me from running out with
their merchandise. The seminal name is Greatness. You know, I mean, Brian,
help me. I dude, I'm drowning. You can't give any
time to research and stuff. What do you got the interesting? Um?
I don't have anything either. I can't google that fast.
Chad who Fled? You know what I mean? What is

(34:24):
not carc fuss started a band and you call this
health contraband. I think about that like that's I know what.
I like that. I like that. I'm surprised that it
hadn't been done before. They didn't rip it off from
somebody else. Yeah, Craig Martin would usual the pmsion of
getting fled and brought no incorporate. Now, um, how do
we get sports and got there? How do we get sports?
You what I'm saying, you know you can't. You can't.

(34:46):
You can't do great women, You can't. You know Japanese
because it's short. I don't know. I don't really know
the contraband. You know it's contraband running and stuff like that.
This is terrible. It's terrible. This is what happens when
you're on drugs and it's not good. Do you have
any big takes on NBA Playoff Action or the NFL
schedule release? Jet who Fled? Did I have to humongous takes? Do?

(35:07):
They can't? However, when I have these like Lebron tames,
he's a sale of a person. His name is one Dean.
He's Chinese dude. Look at how Yes he's a hard
I mean he's supposed to the Commish party and that's us.
I mean he think he's the crazy basketball brain of
all time. Dude, you know he's Chinese dude, this one
or not, that's what it's okay. I hadn't thought about that,

(35:30):
had not. Okay, dude, I just you failed that Dude,
that was not go here at all? How can that be? Okay, man,
y'all have a good and appreciate it, are you too? Jed?
There he is Jed who Fled. I didn't know he
needed to google stuff. I had no idea, Like, Jed,
here's the thing. Jet might be on the line, and
he might. It's kind of like a shot clock, you

(35:53):
know what I mean, Like you better, you better get
to him in twenty four seconds or he's about to flee,
Like Jet who fled? That is the right name. It
has nothing to do with fleeing from the authorities. It's
fleeing from the phone line. I really believe that's where
it comes from. And so I saw he was on
I was like, I better go to him. He's gonna

(36:13):
check out here you know, that's how he rolls. And
it turns out he needed time to google stuff. I
had no idea, but this, now, this could make my evening.
I welcome in with great pride, possibly because he owes
me two hundred American dollars. My man, sir scratch off.

(36:34):
Oh are you still there, sir scratch off? Are you
with us? All right? Man? Everybody out can't listen up
one thing? Who I want my money? I want my money, man.
I won't tell you by sir scratch off, folks when
I sit there for thirty minutes to scratch off twar

(36:56):
two like a skip in a bucket. I just betted
on the Grizzly because you know what, I thought maybe
they might step up. But they, like the razorbacks of Arkansas.
I think they're yuck. They can't win the big games.
When I played the bet, I'm all in a paying it.
So here's what's going on. I told you that I

(37:19):
was six and bury my niece's daughter. I buried my
niece's daughter Tuesday. My phone went to the ground at
my home on the concrete. I broke it to pieces
because I was so mad, just like I did twenty
one years ago in July on Friday, when my daughter died.
I have a bad anger problem. My whole point of

(37:40):
this is I've lost scanned all my information, so with
you and your dad, and you tell your dad I'll
be getting him soon because we're getting it all back up.
I the s a new street on my phone yesterday,
and I want you to give me your address to
your buddy that answers the phone. And I want to
get you this money because I think a lot of
you and your father, and I don't play the bet

(38:01):
that I don't put my mouth and then make sure
he gets paid. Yeah, no doubt, sir. Scratch off. Well,
hey man, I'm sorry for your losses. Dude, seriously, you
know he was the only one he cared when I
told you it was happening like she was gonna probably
die when he wasn't sure, and then she died and
I told ben't matter about and he said, yo, yo, Yeah.
He was ready to keep me off the radio. But
I'm gonna tell you something. For two solid weeks, I

(38:23):
waited for you tonight because I have not listened to
Fox Sports for two solid weeks because the last thing
I want to hear is Jason Smith and Bim Matters
filthy Mouth. So all you tell your boy Maller because
I thought it was because I thought it was because
the Grizzlies got worked by thirty points. It was it

(38:45):
was more of the Fox Sports radio hosts. Are you
sure it wasn't the Grizzlies. I love Fox Sports, buddy
for nineteen years. I've been listening, folks, But I love
your show Friday Night and Jonas used to have the
picks every week and I enjoyed that because I want
to see what he picked on my rams, you know.
But I love that. I love when you do that
pick that like that. It's I think it's pretty cool.
But yeah, I get some Venmo. You gotta get an

(39:07):
app going on here? Are you too old school? Uh? Sir?
Scratch off. We don't do addresses, and you know it's
all Venmo or PayPal or stuff like that. You know. Yeah,
I got boom push a button. Oh you boys, I'm
hooked up with Lincoln Kennedy and a bunch of these guys,
man and all you felt its I like talking to
you guys. But we got games coming up in June
and St. Louis Cubs and St. Louis Cardinal, your dad,

(39:29):
and you need to get a car. Get get up
there and save me. All right, scratch put me on
hold to Ricky. You can't get my address. Your address,
but you didn't hear a word I said, sir, scratch off.
You gotta work on your listening skills. All right. There's
no addresses going on. It's Venmo, right, it's PayPal, it's
all online. I don't push it on button. I don't.
I don't play all that stuff, buddy. You'll get your money,

(39:51):
and you'll get your money just like just like you'll
have your money just like I pay my best. I'm sorry, brother,
I don't play with all that stuff I do before
that kind of stuff. Okay, all right, we gotta go.
We gotta go, buddy. But I appreciate. Okay, all right,
Yes there is a scratch off. Man. That was that

(40:12):
was difficult right there, all right, coming up next. It
was a shame that happened, but we gotta be reasonable
about it. Hang with us. Oh, what's going on? Everybody?
Hope you're enjoying your Saturday morning. Lots to do, lots
going on over here. I'm gonna get to a point
that Ricky our trusted producer made off the air. I

(40:35):
thought it was a great point about selecting the wrong
guy in the draft, and we have a very recent
example of that. So I'll get to that momentarily. Let
me start off with this though, because the Grizzlies went
down on Friday night. They played really tough ball against

(40:59):
the Warriors and we're in it. It was a fourth
quarter game. Golden State finally finally hit the gas towards
the very end of the game. But that was a
close game throughout until the end, and then the Warriors
just cranked it up and they won pretty easily at
the end. But the gritty Grizzlies, they're here to stay.

(41:23):
The Warriors, they gave him a lot of props after
the series. And it was a shame that John Morant
got hurt. It was a shame that he went down
and missed the final three games of the series. But
we've got to be reasonable about this. There was a
lot of talk about, oh, well, Jordan's Pool grabbing the
knee of John morand that's what did it. That's what

(41:45):
did it, That's what caused this knee injury. I'm not
convinced that's the case now, it's possible it was the case,
but I don't know that for certain to be the case.
And what I know that's even more morton and that
whether it did or didn't contribute or cause the knee injury,
what I do know is that was not a dirty play.

(42:10):
That was a play from Jordan Pool where he was
trying to prevent John Morant from getting the basketball. And
maybe it contributed to John Morant missing half the series.
That sucks. That's unfortunate, but you gotta be reasonable about this.
It's not like it's intentional. It's not like it was dirty.

(42:32):
You see this happen all the time. The way I
would compare that file from Jordan's Pool on John Morant
or that play, it was very similar to a take file. Really,
that's what it is. You see this all the time
in the NBA. That's not a basketball play either. If
somebody is in the open looks like they're gonna score,

(42:54):
it's gonna be an easy dunk, gonna be an easy layup.
You'll see a take filey around half court. Someone just
up and filed them. That's not basketball. That's not a
basketball play. There's a penalty involved, but it's a reasonable penalty.
It's not a flagrant two in a one game suspension
because it's a take foul. You know, it's unfortunate that

(43:17):
John got banged up again. I'm not positive it was
because of that play, but it's possible that he missed
half the series because of that. But I think he's
still gotta be reasonable about it. And what Jordan Poole did,
he was reaching into knock the ball away and he

(43:37):
did initially and then it looked like he was trying
to prevent John Morant from getting the basketball and grabbed
the knee and it was the slightest of you know,
twists and all of a sudden jaws out for the
rest of the series. And that's just that's unfortunate. But

(43:59):
to act, I think there's something wrong with overreacting as
if it's malicious, it's dirty, Like look at what happened
over here. If you compare the two plays, like John
Morant missing half the series and it possibly being because
of a little knee twist, you know, compared to Gary
Payton the second missing the rest of the series after

(44:23):
getting collabored in mid air and breaking his elbow because
dirty Dylan Brooks committed that file like, those are two
completely different plays, completely different. And I don't care that
the Jordan Pool knee tug wasn't a basketball play, but

(44:44):
it was. It was the slightest of tugs. And I think, like,
if you look at every take file seriously, how obnoxious
would this be? And the only reason I bring this
up is because Job was in street close. Again. John
didn't get to play in Game six. He didn't play
in games four, five, or six for the Grizzlies, And really,
who knows how this series unfolds if John Moran is

(45:06):
able to play the whole series. Uh, we don't know
that the Grizzlies had a fifty five point lead in
Game five without John Moran. That's crazy. So I don't
know what would have happened in this series if Job
was able to go. But I don't think that what

(45:26):
would be obnoxious is if you looked at every take foul,
would it makes sense to overreactive like, oh, that take file,
it's not a basketball play. One guy was gonna go
in for an easy deuce, right, He's gonna either have
a dunk or a layup, but he got filed at
mid court that could have led to a knee injury
that that could have led to a shoulder injury. Mean,

(45:47):
that was a little forceful, that foul and no, because
that would be obnoxious. That would be a total joke.
And I think for anybody who's making a bigger deal
out of the Jordan's cool slight knee twist maybe contributing
to John missing half the series, I think that's exactly
what it is. It's a total overreaction. Alright, eight seven

(46:10):
seven nine on Fox. That is your phone number. Also
at the no show on Twitter is where you can
reach me. Our guy, Ricky are trusted producer. He said
something to me off the year. I thought it was
really interesting. Point. So, Ricky, you are you're a fan
of the Purple and Gold? Is that right? You're a
Laker guy? Laker guy, Okay, you're a big time Laker guy.

(46:36):
And what Ricky said to me is you have a
hard time getting over the draft pick of Lonzo Ball
instead of one Jason Tatum who went ballistic for forty
six points on Friday Night. Yeah, I could see where
you're coming from on that one. That is that would
be hard to get over. And the crazy thing is

(46:58):
I remember it like it was yesterday. You probably do too.
When Magic Johnson, who was still in the front office,
he said to Alonzo Ball, He's like, you see those uniforms,
I'm paraphrase, May you see those uniforms hanging over there?
We expect your name to be on one of those
retired jerseys. That's what we think of you. And that

(47:18):
didn't quite work out. Did not quite work out with
Alonzo Ball to the Lakers, and the very next pick
is Jason Tatum, who is a freaking stud. You know,
there are just so many layers on that. Think about
this too, think about going back to that draft. How

(47:39):
great of a job Danny Ainge did right where he
has this trade with Philadelphia. They move up and they
get a guy who does nothing for them, there's not
even on the team anymore. And the Celtics walk away
with Jason Tatum. I'm googling the guys that I can't

(48:01):
even remember. I know he plays for the Orlando Magic.
He had the shoulder issue with Philadelphia and I I
cannot give me a second here. Martelle Folts could not
think of it. That just shows you how great of
a job Danny Ainge did in the seventeen draft. Marquelle
Folts did not pan out for Philly at all at all.

(48:26):
He's had all these injury issues. He's actually played decent
for Orlando, but he gets banged up all the time.
I'll put it this way with Philadelphia. Think I think
where Philadelphia would be had they gone with Jason Tatum
instead of Marquelle Folts, who isn't even on the team anymore.
Just think about that one move. You could have Tatum

(48:50):
and himbeid. You could have Tatum on the Lakers if
they went with him number two overall, but instead he's
in Boston. And the funny thing is Danny Ainge won't
get a whole lot of flowers for where the Celtics
are right now. He deserves them though he built the
core of that basketball team. And the crazy twist with

(49:13):
Danny Ainge when he was in Boston, it was all
about what he didn't do right or how the Celtics
didn't advance in the playoffs. And now look at them.
They get a huge road win in Game six against
the Bucks. And oh, by the way, the core pieces
are Tatum and Brown. Well, Danny Ainge was all over

(49:33):
both of those draft picks. And it's just like Angel,
what is he doing here. They have this treasured chest
of draft picks, and what do they turn into? Exactly?
Have you looked at the roster that that roster largely
has Danny Aingels fingerprints all over it, all over it,

(49:54):
and he deserves some credit for that. But going back
to Ricky's original point, think about this, some of the
draft picks that have been made where the very next
guy turned out to be a superstar. Certainly Jason Tatum
to pick after a Lonzo Ball And think about another
guy who has been out standing in the playoffs this year,

(50:18):
Luca don Chich, one pick after the Sacramento Kings went
with Marvin Bagley. Just think about that. The Kings just
hired Mike Brown as their head guy. To think about
where that franchise would be. They might not have made
any coaching changes had they drafted Jason Tatum, I'm sorry,

(50:42):
had they drafted Luca don Chich instead of Marvin Bagley,
Like just that blows my mind. One false move and
you see the fallout. You could go back, you know
to what, oh three, it was dar Go Mili going
number two overall and then Mellow the next pick. I

(51:04):
hate to bring this up. Chris Chris is with us
this evening technical producer extraordinaire rides for Detroit Sports. That
was not one of the shining moments of Joe Dumar's career,
and largely he did a great job. But going with
Mili over either take your pick. Could have had Mellow,
could have had Chris Bosh, could have had Dwayne Wade,

(51:25):
any of those guys who would have worked out just fantastically.
But now it went with Darko. So I don't know
what it is with these number two overall picks. There
have been a few duds, and in every case the
number three pick Jason Tatum, Luca don Chich, Carmelo Anthony
is a walk in Hall of Famer. It's one of
the better scores in the history of the game, way

(51:48):
better than Darko. You know, the funny thing with Mello
is we always compare him to who's better than him.
Let's just take a brief time out from that and
compare him to Darko Milici. That would be the other
side of that whole debate right there. But yeah, I

(52:11):
great point by Ricky Man seeing Jason Tatum go off
for forty six on Friday night, then go ballistic in
these playoffs. The Lakers could have had that guy, just
just a few honorable mentions after the Lonzo Ball pick.
Of course the Jayson Tatum, but there was Donovan Mitchell
at that was the Trey Young draft though too, right

(52:33):
at five? No, five, No, it was with Luke. I'm sorry,
I'm getting two drafts mixed up right there. But okay, yeah,
seen draft Deer and Fox at five after a Lonzo Ball,
Donovan Mitchell at thirteen, and bam at a Bio at fourteen. Yeah,
those are those They're all players that are better than Alonzo.

(52:54):
And look, Alonzo is actually done pretty well with the Bulls.
They got banged up, missed a lot out of time
due to injury. But I think that was a ton
of pressure on him with the Lakers. I know it was,
but hey, look man, when you're a high pick, it
comes with pressure. And look, LaMelo Ball, he didn't have
the same type of pressure. He's had pressure and he's

(53:17):
responded great. Uh that's not going to ease the hurt
for Laker fans over there. I'm trying to think. I'm
sure there are examples the teams I root for the Dolphins,
it's not so much with a draft. Well, it could
be a draft pick as well to a tongue of
VLOA next pick is Justin Herbert. That's that looking great.

(53:42):
Not looking great for the Aquain Orange right now. But
I also think about free agency and going with Dante
Colepepper instead of Drew Brees. Just a tiny misstep, right,
there's a slight misstep. But yeah, to just see a
dude balling out for another franchise when you know, had

(54:04):
your organization made the right decision, he'd be doing all
of that for your favorite team. That's tough to take, man,
tough to take. Sorry about that, Ricky. We will figure
out a way to remedy the situation. I'll distract you
with with soundbites that will hopefully make you laugh. That's

(54:24):
what we'll do around the corner, all right, Coming up next,
feel free to check in, always interactive with you. We'll
get to the phones here momentarily eight seven seven nine
on Fox. That's your phone number, coming up next. Man,
there were a lot of people that were incredibly passionate
while making this argument, and I can't find a single
one of them anymore. We'll dive into that. I'm Brian No,

(54:47):
keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
Brian no Here on Fox Sports Radio. I will get
to one of the lighter moments of the schedule being
released for the NFL. Like these videos are always made,
some of them were really creative, some of them were funny.
So we'll play a little bit of sound around the

(55:09):
corner here. But man, this was a huge debate a
few days ago when Nicola Yokich was named m v
P for a second straight year, there were a lot
of people pounding the table for one Joel Embiid. And look,
here's the deal. Joel Embiad had a fantastic season and

(55:30):
if you think he should have been named m v P,
I get it. You make a great argument for Joel Embiid.
He led the league in scoring as a center, first
time since shock did it. Ind he plays fantastic defense,
he worked his way through numerous injuries, and obviously you

(55:52):
know more so in the playoffs after the voting was done.
But you can make a great argument, you can make
a lot of great point on the behalf of Joel Embiid.
But these people that were just banging the table, he
was robbed. That's what I heard for two straight days
he was robbed, And now that Philly has been bounced,

(56:15):
I really don't hear any of those people. And I
just want to say this, This is my stance, This
is my official point. Joel Embiid was not robbed. You
could say he should have been m v PAY all right,
you can make an argument, but to make it sound
like Yokich had no business whatsoever. The only reason Joel

(56:39):
Embiad didn't win m v P is that he was robbed.
That is such a bad argument. And and the other
part of this is like, what does this really stem from?
Let's call it like it is. What does it really
stem from? A large part of what this stems from
is that NICOLEA. Yokis was at home after getting bounced
from the first round while Joel Embiid was still playing.

(57:04):
That's a flawed argument. Think about this for a second.
By the way, the Warriors just won on Friday night
to advance to the Western Conference finals. That team that
beat Denver, Right, So ask yourself this, what do you
think Phillies chances would have been to beat Golden State?
Really just think about that for a second. What would

(57:25):
their chances have been? Oh and by the way, Denver
didn't have Jamal Murray. They didn't have Michael Porter Jr.
And before you roll your eyes at either of those guys,
Jamal Murray was averaging twenty one over forty eight games
when he tore his a c L in the season.

(57:47):
Right like last season, the guy was a twenty one
point guy. Also, Michael Porter Jr. He played sixty one
games that season, he would was averaging twenty one points
and seven rebounds. So like, again, let's let's let's do
a pretend to hear so if the Sixers, led by

(58:08):
Joel Embiid, they were playing the Golden State Warriors. Oh
and by the way, let's just say a couple of
guys like let's say Tyrese Maxie he can't play in
the series. And let's say Tobias Harris can't play in
the series. Those are comparable guys to Jamal Murray and

(58:28):
Michael Porter Jr. Comparable. What do you think Philly's chances
are without Maxie, without Tobias Harris to beat Golden State?
What do you They'd have no chance at all. So
this whole argument stems largely from Yo kich being bounced
from the playoffs, while Embiid was still playing. It's absurd,

(58:53):
by the way, think about Toronto. Philly had problems with Toronto.
They went up three oh and then they kicked away
two straight games, and it was like, look at Toronto.
They were a mash unit. They had Fred van Vleet
with injury issues, they had Scottie Barnes with injury issues.
It's a team with no stars. And yet Philly was

(59:17):
in a dog fight. They looked like for a little
bit that maybe they gonna kick away a three oh lead.
That's the team who they beat. The Sixers beat the Raptors,
while the Nuggets lost to the Warriors. Don't act like
all things are equal there. And before he said, well, Brian,
it's Denver his own fault for being a six seed,

(59:39):
It's like, well, you do realize that Jamal Murray and
Michael Porter Jr. Being out That kind of matters, right,
Like the whole thing is this, You can't act like
Yo Kich is some undeserving guy. He's the only guy
in NBA history to have two thousand points, a thousand rebounds,

(01:00:01):
and five hundred assists in a single season, the only
dude to ever have done that. And all I heard
was and Bead was robbed again. I I think your
argument loses value and loses steam when you take things

(01:00:22):
to the extreme. I really do. If you just said, hey,
you had an outstanding season, but and Bead was better,
he was more valuable for X, y Z reasons, Okay, fine,
But as soon as just he was robbed, I'm not
listening to you anymore because your point is stupid. I mean, really,
it's what what it boils down to right there. And

(01:00:43):
the funny thing is, man, for a couple of days,
all I heard was the beating of the table and
and Bead was robbed. And you look at the votes.
Yo Kitch got sixty five out of a hundred first
place votes. I didn't hear many of those people who
voted for Yokich saying, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa before

(01:01:05):
you say and Bead was robbed. Let's let's think about
this for a second. Yokich was freaking unbelievable, and go
down the the litany of reasons why. I didn't hear
too many of the voters. It's kind of like they
were looking at the floor, like was I one of
those people that voted for Yo? I didn't hear a
whole lot of Yeah, I voted for Yokich, and I

(01:01:28):
do it again. I didn't hear much of that. I
wish I would have. But the whole point of this
thing is Embiad was not robbed. Fantastic season could have
easily been m v P. But to act like Yokich
was undeserving, that's that's insane. That's crazy. You weren't paying attention.

(01:01:48):
If that's your takeaway, alright, let me get out to
the phones here momentarily, But right now I want to
hand the baton in smooth for by one like fashion
to Mr Kevin. Figures you'd take it away, Kate. All right, thanks.
Brian Clay Thompson had a resurgent game thirty points and

(01:02:09):
a one ten to nineties six Warriors victory over the
Grizzlies on Friday night, Golden States, sending Memphis home in
six games. They will await the winner of Sunday's Game
seven between the Mavericks and the Suns. There will be
a Game seven in the Eastern Conference on Sunday. Satan
Tatum scoring forty six points leading Boston to a one
away to nine victory in Milwaukee, forcing the series back
to Boston for a seventh and decisive game. In the NHL,

(01:02:32):
Dallas defeated Calgary four to two, forcing a game seven.
On Sunday, Rangers over the Penguins five to three behind
a couple of Chris Crider goals. They forced a game
seven in Pittsburgh. Panthers notch date four it's at three
overtime victory over Washington, taking that series four games to two.
And baseball Bright's Harper with the home run helping the
Phillies beat the Dodgers twelve to ten. And extras Angels

(01:02:52):
rookie Chase sil Seth scored or I should say, allowed
one hit in six innings of work in his major
league debut Angels with a two nothing VIC three there
in Oakland, Arizona beat the Cubs four to three. Back
to Brian No, So what's jumping out in the sports
world in your mind right now, Kate fig where are
you into? Well? The hysteria for me over the schedule release,

(01:03:13):
and we discussed it a little bit last hour. It
really is amazing to me. And I saw that I
believe it was. Mike Florio posted something earlier this week
saying the NFL is actually considering stretching this out even more.
Now the way this week is has kind of played out, Brian,
you know we've had leaks, you know, Monday, Oh, here's
a primetime gamer two. Tuesday, all right, well here's a
game Wednesday. Oh I was supposed to tell you this,

(01:03:33):
but here's another game. But now that they're actually internal
discussions within the NFL of actually stretching things, this thing
out and making it'so a week long event. Maybe Monday's
a couple of teams, and then Tuesday we give the
Thursday night schedule and Wednesday we give the Monday night schedule.
And you know what, I don't blame him because people
eat it alive. So as much as many of us

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may think that it's you know, sort of past or
really not that big of a dealer who knows what's
gonna happen on a week to week basis, no major
sports entity markets itself better than the NFL, and it
it proved itself over these last couple of days, over
just the mass hysteria we've seen over the schedule release
of all things. Yeah, hey man, I hear you, absolutely,

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and I think this was the beginning of it because
they created news on multiple days instead of just one day.
It is obnoxious that it's this big of an event.
It's just the schedule being released, but it shows how
much we are football obsessed, and it makes more sense.
Instead of just saying, all right, Thursday, May twelfth, here
are all the games, it was just a gradual thing like, oh,

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here are the international games and that made news. Oh,
here's the Christmas Day game between the Rams and Broncos.
That made news. Right, they had four or five days
of news instead of just one schedule being released on
one day. I think that makes a lot more sense
and you get more value out of it that way.
I mean, look, the NFL, to your point, k Fix,

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they want to be front and center as much as possible.
So even if it's something as silly as releasing a
couple of games here and there, if it's leading sports
radio or some of the sports TV shows, they'd be
crazy not to do it that way. Yeah. You know,
there's a bite of you in your show open where
you mentioned how the NFL is able to stay relevant,

(01:05:21):
you know, despite the fact they're not in season, but
it feels like they're always in season because every month
there's something new. You know, you go from the end
of the season into the combine, from the combined into
free agency, from the agency into the draft, from the
draft into the schedule release, and a month and that
from now we're gonna have the post June one designation cuts.
So that's another second wave of free agency of guys

(01:05:41):
who are still floating around out there. And then a
month from then you have the start of training camp.
Like it's a masterful job by the folks at the
NFL to make themselves relevant even when they're there. Are
the sport, the American sport that has the longest off
season and the shortest regular season. Yeah, it remains relevant.
Seven It's remarkable. I wonder who is the most salty

(01:06:05):
while looking at the NFL. You know, I would think
Adam Silver has gotta be high on the list. With
the gangster move of the NFL scheduling a triple header
on Christmas Day that used to be the NBA's day,
I wonder that, right, Like if you had a non
NFL convention and it was just all the other sports league,

(01:06:25):
which guy from which league would talk the loudest trash
about the NFL? Or it's like, oh gosh, yeah, triple
header on Christmas Day? Can you get a load of
this freaking league over? You know, like, would Silver be
saying something like that. I would love to know the
answer to that question. Yeah. Probably. Uh, you can argue
maybe to a certain degree, major League Baseball. I mean

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there are times, you know, Baseball is in the in
the thick of its postseason in October November, and oftentimes
even that gets overshadowed by the NFL. I remember some
years ago, the Monday Night and Sunday Night football would
actually take their spective day off if there was a
World Series game scheduled in that time slot. They don't
even do that anymore. They don't care because like we
have a Sunday night game if there's a World Series game,

(01:07:08):
all right, well we'll see what We'll see what the
raidings look like on Monday, and we all know how
that works out. Yeah. It's nuts, man, It really is crazy.
But that's the way the business is. And the truth is,
if um, if Adam Silver was in Goodell's shoes, or
if Gary Bettman was in goodell shoes or Rob Manfred,

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they'd be crazy not to do the exact same things, right, Yeah,
absolutely it is. Let's go out to the phone here.
Andrea is out in Berkeley, wants to check in. What's
going on? Andrea Fox Sports Radio, Brian, how are you great?
How are you doing good? I just have to call
because you know what, we got the full moon lunar

(01:07:52):
clips happening on Sunday, So I thought i'd give you
some time to get ready to howl. I'm looking forward
to it, as you know, Andrea, I proudly howl at
the moon. It's the inner wolf in me. That's how
I get down. I honestly, I haven't seen the full
moon for a number of months. I know it's existed,
but I just haven't seen it for a while now.

(01:08:13):
I don't know what's going on with my lifestyle patterns here,
or maybe there's been some fog, you know, the weather,
but there's We're depending on where you live. They say
we should be able to see it, and you know
it's not. You know, of course they're going to live
stream it, but it's really neat. It's actually the full
moon lunar eclips in Taurus and Scorpio. So a little

(01:08:34):
extra mojo for you, very nice. Is it gonna look
any different? Is to be colored a little? Yeah, it's
glad you asked. Yeah, it's gonna be it's called the
full flower blood moon, so it's going to be tinged
somewhat orange. Yeah, and it's really, you know, quite a phenomena.
The Farmers All in Act does a nice article on that.

(01:08:56):
I always share that with Ben. So that's coming up.
It's called the ud moon lunar eclipse, and it's going
to turn somewhat red in the night sky as long
as it's not cloudy, like you said, so it's visible
Sunday night depending on where you are. So it's it's
quite a celestial spectacle. And we've got you know, today's

(01:09:18):
Friday thirteenth, we have mercury retrograde. We've had like a
very busy astronomical week. So how do we take advantage
of this? Gambling wise, Andrew, is my next question? The
blood moon lunar eclipse or mercury and retrograde. Does it
favor the Celtics or Bucks in Game seven on Sunday.

(01:09:39):
You know that's interesting that you asked. Um. Literally, I
just started writing a sports astrology column for astrology dot
Com and I did Tom Brady's profile. So the gambling thing,
to me, that's not really my cup of tea. But
I would say, Brian, with mercury retrograde to kind of
you know, double check, expect the unexpect, did that kind

(01:10:01):
of thing that we do, we think, reassess, revalue because
mercury retrograde can be like some fits and starts there. Okay,
all right, I'll do some thinking on that. Expect the
unexpected in Buck Celtics. Yeah, yeah, that's that's what I
would say. And uh, you know, full moon lunar eclipses
are always kind of wild cards, so it'll be interesting

(01:10:23):
and I'll take a look. I know your scorpio, how
it uh is in your chart where the full moon
lunar eclipse in tourist scorpio falls. Yeah. Well, I appreciate
you doing some research, Andrea. That's very nice of you. Yes,
we're going service. That's what I do, right, Absolutely, well,
I hope you enjoy the early morning hours here, Andrew.
I appreciate you checking in. Oh yeah, total night out.

(01:10:45):
I love your show and look forward to hearing your
how Yeah, well, thank you. I appreciate that. Absolutely. You
have a good one and you take good care all right,
you too. Um So, now here's what I'm thinking Ricky,
I'm confused because if we're expecting the unexpected in game seven,
you could make the argument where the home team is

(01:11:08):
typically more successful winning game seven, right, So you could
expect the unexpected where the road team wins Game seven,
that would be the Bucks. Or you could make the
argument that because the road team has won four of
six games in the series so far, that the home
team winning would actually be unexpected. So which do you

(01:11:31):
think is more unexpected? Right there? Oh? Man, that was
a mouthful? Right? Did I confuse you totally? Now? I
think you're onto something, but I think you gotta go
with experience. Man, you're going box on the road. Huh.
I'm not putting anything past your honest Okay, hey, I

(01:11:52):
can see why you wouldn't. I get that. All right,
let's go real fast. Steve is over in Sherman Oaks.
What's going on? Steve? Welcome to the show. But what's up? Man?
I wanted to talk about Doc Rivers has to be
one of the biggest frauds in sports. Um, first off,
I'm joining the playoffs. I don't think they need the Lakers,
Lebron or Durant nets. These are great teams and uh,

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It's been a great playoffs, but all the hype around
Doc Rivers possibly coming to my Lakers as head coach,
he's awful. I think he's watching him here. I went
to a couple of games, even though I'm not a
Clipper fan, one of my bosses as a sitting ticket holder,
so I just watched him in person. He's had more
talent than any coach, and he's the biggest choker. He's
living off the glory of winning that one title, which

(01:12:34):
any NBA coach with half a brain could have won.
That team with that Boston load, they were so loaded
top to bottom. Um, He's lost more three one leads
than any coach. His rotations are terrible, his substitution patterns
are awful, and the guys always making excuses. He did
it again yesterday. He was talking about how before he
got to Philly, they weren't favorite to win a title.

(01:12:56):
It was like, what the hell are you talking about.
Philly was one of the favorite to be NBA title contenders.
So I just don't get the hype around this guy.
He's just living off the glory that one title with Boston.
He's awful as a coach, and I found I'm a
sixer's coach. I would fire him. The reason why you
lost is a big portion of your dumb decision when
you're up thirty to have drolling bed in the game.

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And he's continually making excuses of Ben Simmons. It's it's
his coaching that's the biggest problem. And I just don't
get a reason why anybody would hire him. Besides oh
he's a great guy. I don't care if you're a
great guy. He can't coach. And if the Lakers go
down this hill, they're gonna be even more screwed than
they or you are going forward because he's not a
good coach and real real quick. I'm just curious, though,

(01:13:41):
do you have anybody at the top of your wish
list you don't want Doc? That's clear, But is there anybody? Yeah?
The guy is Mark Jackson. I just don't get it. Uh.
The reason why he was let going Golden State wasn't
for basketball reasons. I guess he didn't get along with
the owner of Lake Up And it's just I don't
understand why this guy is being black balled. It is
a personality anyways. The players love him across the league.

(01:14:02):
He's beloved, but for some reason, I guess the memos
gotten out that he doesn't get along with management. So
if I'm coaching, I would hire him. I would have
hired him over I can't willave. Sacramento took Mike Brown,
a guy who has been let's be honest, he didn't
pass around from from team the team over a guy
like Mark Jackson. So he put the Golden State Warriors
in position to be where they are. Now, what are

(01:14:24):
your thoughts in terms of him being black balled because
he hasn't getting even an interview like ten years outside
of the Sacramento and they took Mike Brown over Mark Jackson.
What are your thoughts of him being black balled? Uh?
And what do you think about him as a Laker coach?
Because I think he'd be me the perfect fate. They
respect him lebron a d and and he's a vet
coach and I think he's a great coach. But um,

(01:14:46):
what are your thoughts and him as a coach overall? Thanks?
All right, Stevie Man. Thanks, I'll get to that right
around the corner. Right. Um, I definitely have thoughts about
Doc some of the other guys. Um, so I'll get
to that right around the corner, and uh oh, we
got funny audio as well. Funny audio to come. I mean, look,

(01:15:08):
you come back for the funny audio, you stick around
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(01:15:31):
listen live. I'm Brian No here on Fox Sports Radio.
It is the No Show. Could you Chris dusting off
some new stuff over here? I don't know if this
is a new song per se, but uh, I haven't
heard you play this before. Very nice to try to
get some new stuff through rotation where I can. I
like that any slayer on deck potentially don't think so,
don't think so? And he slip not on the way.

(01:15:57):
Maybe I'll get that mash up of slip and Justin
Bieber's Psychosocial Baby. Okay, we could do that. I think
I have bits of it. Yeah, yeah, definitely. By the way,
we're just talking to Steve and he asked me a question.
We're up against it, so I wanted to circle back
here where he was saying that Doc Rivers is the

(01:16:20):
sixers biggest problem. I disagree with that. I think that
James Harden is their biggest problem because let's be honest,
James Harden is supposed to be a star and he's
playing like a role player, and now they're in a
position of do we break the bank for this guy
who might just be a role player going forward? And

(01:16:42):
if we don't, what's planned b Like, that's a much
tougher question to answer than it is with Doc Rivers.
Like you can. I'm not gonna sit here and say
like Doc Rivers walks on coaching water because he clearly doesn't.
But the melt own in Game six against the Miami

(01:17:03):
Heat that had way more to do with James Harden's
performance than it did anything Doc Rivers did coaching wise.
But Doc's an easy target, you know, Like Doc, he's
blown series leads before and he seems to be the
common denominator, and so he'll get blamed first. But James

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Harden took two shots in the second half, had way
more to do with James Harden than it did with Doc.
Now I can understand why a Laker fan wouldn't want
Doc Rivers as their next head coach. That's fine. But
the other part of this is with Mark Jackson. I
don't know why the discussions turning into all he's clearly

(01:17:46):
black bald from the NBA. That's the only reasonable explanation,
is it. I mean, I think if he wants to
be coaching in the NBA, he should I didn't think
he was a disaster with the Golden State Warriors, but
I think this is the likability factor. And I also
think it's the commentating factor. Right when you like a dude,

(01:18:09):
and Mark Jackson's very likable, and when you hear him
commentating and making good points and sometimes cracking jokes, and
he's entertaining, and him and Jeff Van Gundi there a treat.
I love those guys. But we get further and further
from the truth of the last season of Mark Jackson

(01:18:30):
coaching the Golden State Warriors, they lost in the first round,
and the next season under Steve Kurt they're winning a
championship like Dad's on Mark Jackson's resume. So this idea
that oh, they were a well oiled machine in Golden
State with Mark Jackson. It's not true, but we're far

(01:18:52):
removed from fourteen when he was a head coach in
Golden State, Like four team was a long time ago.
That's getting close to a decade ago, right where eight
years removed from Mark Jackson being on the sidelines. And
I think when you get that far away from it,

(01:19:12):
you just forget stuff over time. No, I don't think
Mark Jackson is the solution for the Lakers. I just
think that his credentials seem to be better than they
actually are because you forget about what happened the last
time he was coaching. I mean, look, I'm not saying
he's incompetent, he can't do the job. I'm not saying

(01:19:34):
any of those things. I'm just saying his credentials are
overvalued by some people. That's all, okay. One of the
lighter moments of the NFL schedule being released, Chris, your
Detroit Lions. What they did? What a job they did?
This was there? Uh it was a self defense training
video and so it's all tongue in cheek and this

(01:19:56):
is how they were unveiling their schedule. This is a
brief portion of it. I'm gonna share with you intelligent
options the Detroit Lions will be using to increase win
ability throughout the season. I love the music that they chose.
It's just total tongue in cheek, funny stuff. This was

(01:20:17):
a couple of the lighter moments, one with the Vikings
being on the schedule for the Lions. Another way Viking
was to realize it without a helmet. They're just a
average person for the above average rage winner. And listen
to this the Lions talking smack about the New York Jets.
Here you go. Don't you worry about disarming this team

(01:20:40):
intended by themselves missed the big one in there about
what they said about the Jaguars that you've already gone
through urban warfare, get it? That was a good line,
absolutely urban meyer, no doubt. Alright, coming up next, a
team on the rise and a team on the decline
that's on the way. Oh what's going on? Everybody? Hope

(01:21:02):
you're enjoying your Saturday morning. Big night in the NBA Warriors,
they knock off the Grizzlies. Audio Smouchacos, better luck next
season to the gritty Grizzlies. Actually you know, I've been
pressed by them. No John Morant the last three games.

(01:21:24):
They gave the Warriors more than enough and that was
that was a fourth quarter game without John in a
close out. It's been gritty. And we got a game
seven between Boston and Milwaukee that'll be coming our way
on Sunday. We'll get to the uh the Saturday action, right,

(01:21:46):
I gotta talk about this uh Son's MAVs game and
all that good stuff. But we're gonna table all of
that and get to just two teams. Focus on two teams,
two different sports. Actually, one team that's on the rise
and one team you could argue they're either in decline
or they're certainly in transition. Let's start with the team

(01:22:08):
on the rise. In terms of interest, that's the Denver Broncos.
The Denver Broncos, and I'm not sure how their season
is gonna play out. They got a lot of talent.
They could make some noise. That's a loaded division. But
in terms of being a headlining act, yeah, they were

(01:22:29):
gone to a music festival. These music festivals where they
have numerous stages. They have the B stage, sometimes they
have the C stage. If you go to whatever, right
Lollapalooza was a very popular concert festival. I've never been,
but a lot of people have. And they have numerous stages.

(01:22:50):
The Broncos used to be on the B stage. They
had one primetime game last season scheduled initially now they
did have two primetime games flexed. They actually played the
Chiefs in prime time twice, but on the original schedule
only one prime time game. That was it. They were

(01:23:11):
not box office. But if you look at this season,
things have changed and it is because of one Russell Wilson.
The Denver Broncos have five prime time games. They that's
the most you can have. They play on Thursday night
against the Colts. These are big time matchups. Listen to

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first place teams or teams that made noise in the playoffs, right,
So a Thursday night game against the Colts. They play
Sunday night games against the forty Niners and the Chiefs,
and they also have on Monday Night football the Chargers
and Seattle. Now Seattle, they're not going to be what

(01:23:55):
they once were. But in Week one on the road,
so Wilson goes back to Seattle. Like that's pretty interesting
right there. So Denver, all of a sudden Think about this,
Think of being a Broncos fan. Think about last year
when it was the Teddy Bridgewater Drew Lock two headed Monster.

(01:24:18):
Any Bronco fan just winced in pain, you know, just like,
oh gosh. It's almost like watching an athlete. You're watching
a basketball game and someone accidentally gets kicked right in
the man zone and any man will just win. It's like,
oh gosh, that's what Bronco fans just did. When I

(01:24:39):
mentioned Bridgewater and Drew Lock, the two headed monster, you
have gone from that to Russell Wilson and oh, by
the way, it's not just the five prime time games
that are scheduled. Denver has to standalone games as well.
They play a London game against Jacksonville. That's not exactly like,

(01:25:01):
hey man, West Coast, wake up at six am to
watch the Jags. God, fine, but it is a standalone game.
Is the only show in town. There's not another game
going on at that time while the Broncos are playing.
And also on Christmas Day, now, that is a standalone
game right there. When you're playing the defending champion Los

(01:25:22):
Angeles Rams, that's a big time game. So you've got
five prime time games to standalone games and who knows
what gets flexed later in the season to prime time.
So all of a sudden, the Broncos they are a draw.
They are a team that networks want to see highlighted

(01:25:42):
on their network. And that's all because of Russell Wilson.
So I'm really curious to see where the season goes.
But they have gone from the B stage to a
headlining act in a major, major way. And if nothing else,
if you're a Broncos fan, to go from the B
stage in terms of relevance and interest to a headlining act,

(01:26:05):
I mean that in and of itself is just like,
all right, here we go. We're in business over here.
So we'll see if the winds follow or not. I'm
probably no here. On Fox Sports Radio it is the
No Show. Feel free to check in. Eight seven seven
on Fox is where you can reach us. So the
team on the decline, or at least the team in transition,

(01:26:27):
that would be the Philadelphia seventies sixers. This is a
team in transition, we believe, but not according to Daryl Morey,
who is the president of basketball operations there in Philadelphia
seventies six Ers land. Now, if you go by what
he says, it's just like we're keeping the band together.

(01:26:50):
It's the bottom line is nothing to c in terms
of major changes. So the first part of it Darryl
Morey and his exit interview his news con friends talking
about Embid Hardening Company. Here you go, Joel and James
Tobias Maxie. That group played very well together. We can
play even better and so we're excited about what that

(01:27:14):
can look like in the future. Okay, all right, excited
about what it could look like us it to digest
right there. All right, we got another one from Darryl
Moorey here. Just listen to the question. In the response,
can you assure the people with Philadelphia and US here
that the head coach will be back next year? Yes? Okay,

(01:27:35):
So now different question. Okay, you get one that's okay.
It seems like out. I don't know if he's just
ribbing Howard Eskin right there. I don't know. I don't
know if there's that a lot of level was That
was actually the same guy that Doc Rivers was going

(01:27:56):
back and forth with saying, Hey, if you feel that
way about the job I done, then you should run
with that and you should write that column. Go for it. Howard.
It's the it's the same guy, So I don't know.
I'm sure there's some back and forth that's in good nature,
and I'm sure there's some non good natured back and forth.
But anyway, getting back to Darryl Morey, one more about
Doc Rivers. Huh, there's a gleam in Darryl Morey's eye,

(01:28:21):
and he says it's because the Doc Rivers check this out.
I'm excited for Doc and his staff to have a
whole offseason work with the players versus obviously because of
our circumstances. You know, having it all come together in
February makes it very difficult. You know. It just dawns
on me. It's very funny because he makes a good

(01:28:45):
point in terms of continuity. Now hear me out here,
I'm gonna partially side with Darryl Morey, and then there's
gonna be a sharp left turn. Okay. So what's funny
to me is a lot of times fans and the
media when things don't go well, when they don't go

(01:29:07):
as expected and a team doesn't have as much success
as a fan base wants it to have, you'll hear
the cries for change. Get this coach out of here,
get this star player out of here. Change it up.
It's not working. The definition of insanity is doing the
same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
You'll hear that time and time and time again, and

(01:29:29):
then what will you hear shortly after that? It's there's
so much change they can't have any continuity. So you
get the exact opposite argument. And oftentimes you'll hear fans
say change it, change it, change it, change it, and
that doesn't work, and it's like, well, no, wonder it
doesn't work. You keep changing it. It's like, well, that's

(01:29:52):
what you were begging for us to do. And so, really,
fandom one oh one, it is do the opposite of
what you're doing and hopefully it will magically work out.
Oftentimes it doesn't go down like that. So while I
hear Darryl Morey's point, now, let's be objective here. Really,

(01:30:15):
let's think about this. Instead of saying, okay, we make
the trade mid season with James Harden, it doesn't work out,
let's go in a different direction. Let's get him out
of here. What if you think let's give it a
little bit more time, Let's give it a little bit
more time and see where it goes. Because James Harden,
he certainly didn't play his best basketball. It was an

(01:30:37):
obnoxious performance in the second half of a closeout game
when he's taking two shots. There's no defending that. But
you could look at this and say, I mean goodness,
he had a handful of games half the season before
we get into the playoffs, and we shouldn't be shocked

(01:30:58):
that it didn't lead to a champ being ship. So
instead of just blowing it up, why don't we give
it another go? Now, the problem with that is giving
it another go entails backing up the Brinks truck for
James Harden, who is not a star player anymore. And
that's where it gets really, really dicey. So here's the

(01:31:20):
deal with Darryl Morey. He's doing something that's smart. We
should all agree with this, whether you think that Doc
should go or James Harden should go and other people
think that both should stay, or what that could differ.
But what we should be able to agree on is
that Darryl Morey is not revealing his hand like there's

(01:31:40):
some sleight of hand over here. There are oftentimes magical
acts when it comes to presidents of basketball operations and
all of that type of stuff. Right, Darryl Morey isn't
gonna sit there in a press conference and say, hey,
I thought it'd be way better than it was with
James Harden coming over here. We gave up a lot

(01:32:02):
and I honestly, I thought he'd play a lot better.
And also, honestly, I don't know if it's gonna work
out going forward. He wouldn't say something stupid like that
because it decreases James Harden's value if they're trying to
move him. He wouldn't say something crazy like, Man, Doc

(01:32:23):
Rivers left a lot to be desired this season, Why
would he do that? He should say, oh, love what
Doc has done. You know, if we get a whole
off season to gel and work together, and it just
makes sense to keep the value as high as possible
instead of negotiating against himself. What if what if the

(01:32:45):
Lakers want Doc Rivers. It's possible they do well. If
he's under contract with Philly, the Lakers are gonna have
to give something up. It's better to get anything for
Doc Rivers if he's going elsewhere than nothing, So at
least in a press conference, Darryl Morey is going to
say glowing things. It doesn't mean that James Harden, for certain,

(01:33:12):
is going to re up in Doc Rivers. For certain
is going to be the head coach next season. But
it doesn't make sense to reveal his hand. Why would
you sit at the poker table and say, hey, just
so everybody knows, I've got I've got ACE nine. But
it's suited right, Like why why why would you do
the clubs actually is what I'm working with here, ace nine,

(01:33:34):
you know, not on a straight draw, but hey, look,
if a couple of clubs show up on the flop,
I might stick around and see the turn. You know,
why why would you reveal all of them? Of course
you would play it close to the vest. It doesn't
mean he's going to follow through with everything that he's saying.
I know, makes make sure you're sitting down for this.
Not every GM or president of basketball operations does what

(01:33:59):
he says, okay, like just looking at the playbook over here,
Not every GM or president of basketball operations follows through
on everything that he's saying in an exit interview news conference.
I mean, I know it's another sport, and I know

(01:34:20):
it's a head coach. But you had Pete Carroll with
the Seahawks saying, oh no, we have no plans of
moving Russell Wilson, like a week before they moved them.
So that's all I would say is it's an exit interview,
and Daryl Morey would be crazy two to devalue publicly,

(01:34:41):
either Doc Rivers or James Harden. It doesn't mean because
he says complimentary things that those guys will both be back,
no doubt about it. Uh, there is some uncertainty there,
but I think there is probably more transition to come
in Philly that Daryl Moray is leading onto as of

(01:35:02):
right now. We'll see what happens. Should be exciting though,
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skepticism for one team's low winning total, and I will

(01:35:28):
get to that momentarily. I'm Brian No keep it locked
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to listen live. I'm Brian no Here on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,

(01:35:49):
so I was talking about I didn't talk very long
about season win totals. Um, I don't. Actually, I don't
think I even brought it up. But I was talking
about the Detroit Lions, and I think it is an
advantage where they play almost every single one of their
games at one pm Eastern Time, with the exception of

(01:36:11):
a Thanksgiving Day game that's at twelve thirty pm Eastern Time.
I mean, maybe their clocks will be way off that
week with the half hour earlier start time, but I
think it's an advantage. Look, we're creatures of habit, and
especially these NFL players. If you can just have put

(01:36:34):
it this way, the only thing that you wouldn't sign
up for is not being on prime time like these guys,
like being the only show in town. Probably like being
on Sunday Night football from time to time, right, Like
you want to be on the bigger stage. But in
terms of just consistency, do you think that players would

(01:36:55):
sign up for, Hey, we play on Thursday night this
week and then it's Monday night, and then it's this
quick turnaround. Then we're on Sunday night and now we're
at one pm Eastern time, and it's all wacky. It's
all over the place. Which is sign up for that
or almost every week one pm Eastern time. There'll be
a lot of players that would sign up for one
pm and not have all the craziness with your body

(01:37:17):
trying to adjustin Like we're playing on the East Coast
and we're not used to it as one pm Eastern
tyner all year long. For the Lions, I think that's
an advantage. Now. I got a tweet here from m
L Times who wrote in and said it's six, meaning
the Lions win total for the season, and they had

(01:37:41):
a total of three wins. They're not doubling their number.
Already had the under last month. Okay, so m L
Times not buying the Lions. Okay, I I could understand
why you might think that way. But here are a
couple of things to consider. So depending on where you

(01:38:02):
get it. Maybe mL Times got it at six at
Draft Kings right now as we speak at six and
a half, so you know, you might have to shop
around for a better win total. If you're betting the under.
So if you look at the Lions, though, it's interesting
to me, it's not just the one pm kickoff times

(01:38:22):
all season long. And while they don't have the talent
that the Bengals do, that would be ridiculous to suggest
that they do. Jared Goff is not Joe Burrow. Okay,
they don't have Jamaar Chase. Maybe they do, and Jamison Williams,
but he's gonna miss half the season, so there are differences.
But the Bengals played the bulk of their schedule, with

(01:38:45):
the exception of one prime time game, that game against
the Jaguars when urban Meyer went to his own restaurant
and got lap dances instead of going back with the team.
That was the only prime time game the Bengals play
all season long. That was it, and I think that
was a benefit for them. Now, I'm not putting all

(01:39:07):
of their wins on that alone, but I do think
that not having this short week here on Thursday followed
by a Sunday night and then a Monday night and
then we're at four pm and now we're at one pm,
and I do I think there's an advantage with continuity there.
But if you look at the Lions. I didn't anticipate

(01:39:29):
doing a deep dive with the Detroit Lions here. Maybe
it is the influence of Chris our technical producer. I'm
not sure. I'm not sure. To two notes real quick. Yeah, One,
I think Jamison Williams is probably not gonna miss half
the season. You don't think, Well, he's already talked about
being ready by training camp, so like he's recovering like

(01:39:49):
modern medicine. Big one it is. I think he's probably
going to see most of the season. If he goes
in the populist he's able to come back. I think
by we no, I mean if it's it's early enough.
I think I think he's backed by like the third
game or something. I forget the rules now, But either way,
I'm not expecting him to miss a lot of time.
He could just eat very easily be starting the season. Well,

(01:40:09):
I hope you're right man. The other thing, too, is
like it is rough doubling the wind total. All I'll
say to that is like they changed there. They changed
their offensive system midway through the season last year, like
they had Anthony Lynn system which was really not working out.
Dan Campbell took over play calling in the middle of
the year and put their tight ends coach in charge

(01:40:31):
of like basically redrawing the playbook mid season, and at
the end of the year they started making strides and
that's where they picked up the three wins. You know,
I was hurting for some of those games too, So like, yeah, okay,
we're gonna be talking about the backup right guard in
a second or fully, I'm done. I'm sorry. But you
know what's crazy about the Bengals last season, they improved

(01:40:54):
it ten and seven. Their record the previous season was
four eleven and one. That's comparable to the Lions three
thirteen in one. Like really, um so this idea of
getting to seven wins for the Lions, I would not
rule that out. I would not. And they're also pulling

(01:41:17):
the a f C East an NFC East two for
their schedule. See that you're beating me to the punch
over here. This is exactly where I was going the
same wavelength. Yes, yeah, um yeah. So the NFC East
not exactly a gauntlet, you know, unless you think the
Giants and you know, Washington are gonna be goliaths this year.
And then also look at the division. You get two

(01:41:40):
games against the Bears. Honestly, who's a better team right now?
There's a legitimate question who's gonna have more wins? Is
that the Bears or is it the Lions. Think about
the Bears, they were six and eleven last year, but
you lose Allan Robinson, who was their best wide receiver.
He had a horrible season last year. So I know
Bear fans are like big eel, but who do you

(01:42:01):
have to throw to exactly? And oh, by the way,
Khalil Mack is playing for the Chargers, so you lost
two big playmakers. You didn't have a first round pick
because of the Justin Fields trade. Like, I think the
Bears are worse this year then last year, and I
think the Lions are better this year than last year.

(01:42:22):
So I'm telling you, Chris, don't rule out seven wins
for the Lions. I'm thinking our guy mL times he
might take it on the chin with that one. Now,
I'm not I'm gonna be in Vegas in a couple
of days. Um, I'm not telling you I'm gonna run
to a sports book there and be like, give me
the Lions seven wins at least. I I might be tempted,

(01:42:45):
But the other thing. Last thing I'll mention with the
Lions and our deep dive, it'll be complete here. Don't
forget about this too. The Lions play a last play schedule,
and with this additional game in the NFL, will you
get one more last place game for the Lions. So
the Lions, they'll face the Seahawks, which have their issues, right,

(01:43:10):
They're gonna face the Jags, which are in the same
boat with the Lions. Right that the Jags had the
number one overall pick, Lions had the number two overall picks,
so they're both trying to get on track. And then
the Lions will also pick up a last place game
against the Panthers. Like so, think about that. You get

(01:43:32):
two games in the division against the Bears, you get
last place games against the Seahawks, Jags, and Panthers, you
play the NFC East. You got opportunities for for wins.
With all that I mentioned right there, I'll tell you this,
if I had to go one way or the other,
I would take the under six and a half for

(01:43:52):
the Bears. And if I had to go over or
under for the Lions, man, I would white knuckle it.
This is this is not my comfort zone. Over here
with Jared Goff behind center. But I would take the
over six and a half for the Lions. I would
I would go opposite of mL Times who tweeted us

(01:44:15):
That's what I would do, and watch both picks be wrong.
I'll tell you that's the worst thing ever. If media
guys says, oh, thanks for the tweet, I'll do the opposite.
And the guy who wrote in the tweet was completely right.
So we'll see, We'll see how it shakes out. Eight

(01:44:35):
seven seven Ninete on Fox is your phone number. If
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Our main man, Kevin Figures, is with us now. I
mentioned handing the baton to you ever so smoothly as
if it was a four by one hundred relay race,
what would be your event of choice? K Fig? Would
it be the one hundred, the two hundred, the four hundred?

(01:44:57):
More of a distance runner over there? Uh, probably a
four by one hundred if we had to to talk
about running, I'm more of a I will be more
of a sprinter than a long distance that's for damn
sure of any track and field sport to be shot
put because it doesn't evolve any running whatsoever. And that's
that's where I would excel. So what what do you
think our time would be? Ki? If it was the

(01:45:17):
crew right? Like, I don't know the order. Let's say
you run anchor, Ricky starts it off, he adds the
baton to me, I hand it to Chris, he hands
it to you. What do you think are four by
one hundred meter relay team would run it in? We're
talking about like one lap around the track of four
hundred What do you think we would do? I'm trying

(01:45:38):
to think of what the slowest time in the history
of Olympic sports is and see if we can come
up close to that. That way, that would be the
bar for us, and we probably fall disturbingly low. When
could we get under a minute thirty? That's my question
is would we crack that? I don't know. You gotta
have the exchanges. You run at a one hundred good,

(01:46:00):
What do you think some seconds now if you're setting
it at a minute and a half and we were
talking gambling and over unders, I think I'm taking the
under on that or the over excuse me, the over
on that, to be honest with you, right right, yeah, exactly,
so that that that was probably not gonna work too
well in our favorit. You might want to get some
better teammates or some better in shape teammates for that,
especially when it comes to to running. UH. To be

(01:46:21):
honest with you, UH, gold State Warriors can run a
little bit rand the Memphis Grizzlies off the court at
the Memphis Grizzly stage somewhat competitive. One of way to
ninety five was the final score of Golden State did
pull away in the fourth quarter. Clay Thompson one of
his best games of the series, scoring thirty points. They
advanced now to the Western Conference Finals. They await the
winner of the Phoenix matchup this coming weekend as well.

(01:46:44):
We have a couple of games sevens in the NHL
coming up. We have three of them coming up later today,
two more on Sunday, Dallas beating Calgary four to two,
Rangers over Pittsburgh five to three, Panthers able to defeat
the Capitals four to three and overtime to take that
series four games to two. By the way I mentioned
seven is there is one in the NBA in the
Eastern Conference taking place on Sunday. That is where Jayson

(01:47:05):
Tatum scored forty six points leading Boston over Milwaukee Game
seven in Boston on Sunday Golf News. Reigning PGA championship
winner Phil Mickelson opted out of this year's tournament in Tulsa.
Major League Baseball College shoreber Bryce Harper each eating home
runs for the Phillies in an extrating victory over the Dodgers.
Aaron Judge home runner for twelve on this season as
a Yankee steam roll. The White Sox went for the Giants, Angels,

(01:47:26):
twins and Padres. Back to brian O. By the way,
Kate fig what do you think about Game seven on
Saturday Sons hosting the MAVs. That's a hard one, um,
you know, I would I would have thought that Phoenix would.
I would actually end up wrapping this thing up in
six games. I was surprised that Dallas came a fourth
with the effort. The problem is when you have an
individual player as great as Chris Paul and Devin Booker

(01:47:49):
is the best player in this series is Luca don Chick.
And it seems to a fact that they've kind of
woken awakened the beast a little bit and gotten under
his skin, and that could be sort of a bad thing.
Even in elimination games. The last couple of years, he's
played out of his mind. He now has a little
bit more help from the offensive standpoint. They're much better
defensively now that Jason Kids they head coach. So I

(01:48:10):
would not be surprised if Dallas found a way to
pull that game out tonight. But ultimately I'm gonna be
going with Phoenix, but it would not surprise me whatsoever
if Dallas were to come with the victory. Such a
weird series, isn't it, Where the role players on the road,
they're just like, ah, we forgot how to play basketball.
But at home, some of these dudes like it'll be
Dorrian Finney Smith one day, and yeah, Bullock will get you,

(01:48:36):
and and then some of these dudes on the road.
I think largely that's what it comes down to, is
I'd be surprised if Don Chich isn't special in Game seven.
He's been unbelievable in the playoffs. But it's all about
dudes like Kliba and you know, Davis Burton's and those
dudes right like how do you shoot it from three?

(01:48:57):
And and the roller coaster ride that is Chris Paul like,
which which Chris Paul shows up in game seven, because
we've gotten both versions in each of the first two series.
He was brilliant at times against the Pels, and then
he's scoring four points in another game, you know, And
it's the same thing against Dallas, where he's having seven

(01:49:18):
first half turnovers and filling out well, scoring fewer points
than fouls, right, and and then he's been brilliant at times.
I don't know which Chris Paul is gonna show up,
And it's very odd. Usually Chris Paul when he's been healthy,
which he usually is not in the playoffs because he's
beat up and worn down by this time. But he
sat out what the last twenty semi games of the
regular season with that thumb injury. You assume this is

(01:49:39):
the freshest he's been coming into the playoffs. You wonder
why he's been so inconsistent in this series. Look, we've
seen him take games over too, as good as Devin
Booker has been. There are times a Booker has been
down and Chris Paul has looked like the best player
on the floor. But to your point, it just hasn't
been consistent enough for whatever reason. So, uh, it's gonna
be interesting this is the biggest, I mean the biggest

(01:50:00):
stage you know right now in a game seven. The
question for me is, and I don't know this, and
I'm sure it's already out there. I can dig it up.
Who's the officiating crew for this particular game. I saw
that Scott Foster was scheduled to be on one of
the games the other night, and he was out with
an illness. It'll be interesting if all of a sudden
he's nice and well to go on Sunday for the
Mavericks and the Suns. I believe the status Chris Paul

(01:50:23):
is like, oh for like twelve or thirteen or something,
and the games that are officiated by Scott Foster in
the place I say something, k fig. Now, this might
be uh perceived as a hot take. I honestly believe this.
Make sure you're sitting down for this, because I get
all kinds of brush back for it. Here's my statement.
Scott Foster is not as bad as nearly all of

(01:50:50):
NBA Twitter seems to think he is. I'm not telling
you he's awesome. I'm not telling you he's flawless or
anything like that. They make this dude out to be
the worst official ever and it's freaking obnoxious. He's not
nearly as bad. I'll have this argument all day. It

(01:51:13):
was funny how Mike Breen started off the telecast of
this Grizzlies Warriors game. He was he was singing the
praises of Scott Foster. He was like, actually, I think
they were doing the uh the other game? Were they
doing the Bucks game? Because it was the Bucks game
that he couldn't do, so I think it was yeah, yeah,

(01:51:34):
So he started off the game and he was singing
the praise. He's like, oh, he's one of the highest
rated officials in the NBA and highly regarded. And I'm like,
Mike Breen, wow, singing the praises of Scott Foster here,
But do you agree with that at all? You might not.
I seem to be on no island. It's me and
Mike Breen on this one where I wouldn't go as
far as Breen singing his praises. But I don't think

(01:51:57):
he's nearly as bad as many people make him out to. Well,
you know what what he has working against him was
his link to Tim Donnie. He years ago when that
whole scandal, when you know the series of phone calls.
The two of them would make you know, before games
in the hallway for two minutes at a time or
whatever it was. And so ever since having that kind
of air or that cloak of suspicion over him, people

(01:52:19):
have watched him even more closely. I think players in
general and not the biggest fans of Scott, mostly because
he's not one to give into them, which I think
you want an official to do someone who's being somewhat objective.
But I think the air of objectivity has kind of
been has kind of waned over the years because of
his past link to Tim Donnie He and I think ultimately,
whether he does a great job calling games or not,

(01:52:40):
and the stats show that or not, that's just a
stigma that's gonna be with him his entire career, unfortunately
for him. Yeah, it's a it's a good assessment, and
it's more than a coincidence. By the way, that has
to be the stats. How poorly Chris Chris Paul performs
in games that he officiates. It's too much for somebody
to tell me that it's a coin it. I don't

(01:53:00):
buy it. I think it's more of a coincidence. We're
talking double digit games almost into twenty some odd games.
You know what's funny, It makes me think of I
think the referee's name is Bill Vinovich. Yeah, this goes
back to the NFC Championship game. It was between the
Rams and the Saints, right with that phantom pass interference

(01:53:24):
no call. So the Rams fans they had a petition
going where I believe they were o and eight in
games that Bill Vinovich was the head referee. They had
a petition, they had all these signatures to get Bill
Vinovich away from that game. And then ironically they benefit

(01:53:48):
from the biggest no call and blown you know, officiating
mishap right there where the Saints receiver is getting mugged,
Tommy Lee lewis getting mugged by NIKEL Robie Coleman A
right is that? Yeah? Yeah? And USC product right k

(01:54:08):
fig yeah and uh and and right there was this
whole petition get him out of here. We always lose
these games, and then they ended up winning the NFC
Championship game going to the Super Bowl because they benefited
from his crew screwing that up royally. So no, I
don't buy a second of this where it's just Scott

(01:54:28):
Foster is somehow fine found a way to screw Chris Paul.
It has nothing to do with anything else. That just
Scott Foster is doing the games. I don't buy it
for a second. I would never say it's all on
Scott Foster. But to be one in twelve and thirteen
and eleven eleven in his last eleven, I don't know,
that's pretty glaring to me. So I I I'm gonna

(01:54:51):
stand on on the mountain and say that it has
It's not everything, because certainly is not everything, but it
is a factor and there's something. There was something going
on between Chris Paul the Scott Foster. I'll tell you
if you ask. If you ask Chris, he'll tell you
there's an issue there for sure. You know what's funny, man,
is uh? I think we're getting more into the black

(01:55:12):
and white way of thinking we're really in sports. There's
a lot of gray, always gray, right, I'm with you
on that, Yeah, And I just think that take Scott
Foster for instance, great example. If you aren't crushing the guy,
if you aren't, this dude sucks. He's the worst. Right
If you say something halfway complimentary like I did, like

(01:55:33):
he's not as bad as people make him out to be.
That's taken as if I'm saying he's the greatest official
of all time. You know what I mean. It's crazy
how if you are just not in lockstep somehow you're
thought to be saying something you're not saying whatsoever. It's
weird like that. No, No, trust me, I get I
get it all the time when I say that Tom
Brady is not the best quarterback of all time, I

(01:55:54):
get incoming all the time from people. We might have
to investigate this. Are you? Are you related to Rob
Parker at all? Not in the least bit. I just
talking about zero some games. Is just the fact that
he has more Super Bowl than anybody doesn't make him
the best, Kay Thick, this is a scorcher. This is
a bigger bomb dropping than your stance on in and out. Goodness,

(01:56:19):
I didn't know you had this in the bag with
Tom Brady. I had no clue. Yeah, we're gonna have
to We're gonna have to get into that, man, the discussion.
I'm not saying we're like gonna engagement, No, if it's
quite that serious. But no, it's not that serious. All right,
coming up next, we'll have a little bit of fun.
It's time people we pronounced this guy's name correctly. I'll

(01:56:44):
have that for you around the corner. I'm Brian No.
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(01:57:07):
some early morning hours with us, letting our hair down.
Now here's the thing. I want to give a shout
out here. I want to give a shout out to
Richard Jefferson. He was calling the Grizzlies Warriors game on
Friday night and he said something that was correct and

(01:57:29):
I just wanted to highlight it because there have been
many who have failed, many who have failed over here
saying this man's name correctly. So listen very carefully. Here's
Ryan Ruco and also Richard Jefferson on the call. Another
turnover from Golden State about his team. He sounds like
DJ Khaled out here right now, that's what we sound.

(01:57:52):
Other one and another one he said it right, it's
DJ Khaled. I don't know how many times. This has
been butchered, just left and right. Shout out to Jefferson
getting it correct. You sound like DJ Khaled out here
right now, Kalid, think about it like this, like the
cal Bears, c al cal It's not I got it.

(01:58:16):
I gotta bring out Grant Hill real fast, Grant Hill
on TNT. Listen carefully. That's it's a common mistake. DJ Khalid.
He I wouldn't care if Dj Khaled didn't shout himself
out in every freaking song, every song that he's a

(01:58:37):
part of. He starts it off like this. How is
this still getting screwed up? How? So, thank you Richard
Jefferson forgetting it right. He was right on the money
with that. You sound like DJ Khaled out here right now.
Thank you now, Richard Jefferson. He he did make a

(01:58:57):
boo boo. It's not the end of the world. But
you know, fair is fair. So you got Dj Khaled right.
He got this name wrong. He made amends, but he
made that he got this wrong. Here you go. You
cannot win championships without guys like Kevin Money on your team. Now,
it's not a big deal. It's Kavan Looney, no big deal.

(01:59:21):
It's just funny to me, the way that he emphasized it.
You know, it would be like emphasizing, you can't win
championships without Clay Thompson's on your team, you know what
I mean? Like, it was just funny how he was emphasizing,
emphasizing that it happens. Look, man, I I do it

(01:59:44):
all the time, and he knows how to say it.
This was just shortly after Cavan Looney is only two
for second, He's got four points and twenty one rebounds. Wrong,
that is ridiculous, right, like a minute later said Cavan.
So no, big, I just thought it was funny. Where
listen now he he drew it out. You cannot win

(02:00:05):
championships without guys like Kevin. Maybe maybe it's just me.
I don't know. I don't know, but uh yeah, I
thought that was funny. Man. A couple of tweets here
I wanted to mention, so Creed checked in. We were
trying to come up with a number. Here are four

(02:00:25):
by one relay team where it's myself, it's k Fig,
it's Chris, our technical producer, and it's our trusted producer Ricky.
What would we crack as a four by one meter team?
And so Creed checked in and said, the four of
you guys would run a one twenty in the relay.

(02:00:50):
I would sign up for that immediately. But here's the
question for anybody listening, what do you think you would
run the one hundred in right now? Seriously? I can't
imagine I would crack twenty seconds, and that is sun
dial slow right there, So I don't know that we're
cracking one twenty. Is a team. You gotta get the exchange.
We gotta gotta make this experiment happen. I think at

(02:01:12):
some point also a tweet here from wind Condition Rights
in regards to Scott Fish Scott Foster, I think it's
less that he's the worst official ever and more that
he's become the universal symbol of the fixes in given
how many how often games he officiates wind up extending
a series just my two cents, and I just think

(02:01:35):
fans are in conspiracy mode. I get that, but I
think it's more a conspiracy theory than anything. Alright, coming
up next, numbers that are ding bat crazy. That's on
the way. Oh, what's going on, everybody? Let's get to
some ding bat crazy numbers. Got some ballers doing exactly

(02:01:58):
that balling out and we got a couple of Games
seven's in the near future in the NBA very much
looking forward to that. Ricky, our trusted producer. He brought
up a great point earlier in the evening where with
Jason Tatum going ballistic for the Celtics on Friday night

(02:02:20):
he scored forty six points. I thought that it was
shades of Lebron James in the playoffs, or Lebron had
that fifteen and five game, and uh, I don't know
how to describe it. You might see the picture in
your head where Lebron is just sort of leaning over
and he has a like a Friday the thirteenth scowl

(02:02:43):
on his face, like I will end you Celtics, that
sort of thing. He's just kind of looking up. That
was Lebron's moment. That was one of the signature moments
of his career. That certainly was the signature moment at
that stage of his career with the Miami Heat scoring
forty five points with fifteen rebounds and five assists. I

(02:03:06):
thought Jayson Tatum on Friday evening was comparable. I thought
he was that spectacular. And Tatum had forty six points,
nine rebounds, and four assists, so statistically in a similar ballpark, right,

(02:03:26):
if you want to nitpick, Okay, he had six uh
fewer rebounds, he had one more point one less assist.
We're nitpicking right there, right, he played great defense. Um,
he does what he always does and show up offensively.
He's done that throughout the entire playoffs. And you had

(02:03:48):
to get this game. It's an elimination game. So both
Lebron and Jayson Tatum in Game six on the road
come up huge. Lebron back in and Jason and Tatum
on Friday night? What Ricky brought up with Tatum in
this outstanding evening he had on Friday, Our trusted producers said, Yeah,

(02:04:10):
as a Laker fan, kind of tough to take with
the Lakers sitting there with the number two overall pick
and going with Lonzo Ball and really just think about
this for a second. The first part of it is
the deal that Danny Ainge made with the Sixers. So

(02:04:32):
they swap, right, the Sixers move up and they take
Mark hell Faults. We've talked about where the Sixers go
from here, Right, it's a big thing. There's so many layers.
Do they re up with James Harden is Doc Rivers back,
you know, Jimmy Butler instead of Tobias Harris. Why did

(02:04:55):
they do that? Like all of these layers. Imagine if
the Sixers drafted Jason Tatum instead of Mark l Folds,
where they would be. Can you just wrap your mind
around Tatum and him bead that one to combo right there?

(02:05:15):
Oh my gosh, that would be lethal. But instead Danny
Ainge works his magic gets Jayson Tatum. By the way,
Danny Ainge hardly gets a shred of credit when he's
actually in Boston. Now that he's gone and his fingerprints
are all over that roster, I wonder if he's gonna

(02:05:36):
get some flowers the more games that the Celtics win.
If the Celtics fight a way to win Game seven
at home, get to the Eastern Conference finals, they got
a great shot against Miami, they got a great shot
to get to the finals. They got a great shot
to win a championship. So I wonder if if Danny
Ainge will get some dap, if he'll get some praise

(02:05:58):
for putting most of the roster together, because while he
was in Boston, it was just, oh, you got all
these draft picks, and what does it turn into another
early exit in the playoffs, and YadA, yadda, yadda, all
that was true, but man, look at where it is now.
I think what the Celtics have done to this point
in the postseason. It is a perception shifter. It changes

(02:06:23):
the way you look at how Danny Ainge did his
job in Boston. So that's another layer. And then you
get back to the Lakers. Where would the Lakers be
if instead of drafting a Lonzo Ball they took Jason Tatum.
And look, depending on where you go, who you're surrounded by,

(02:06:48):
the playing time you get, who your head coaches, There's
so many factors. But Jayson Tatum is a special player.
It's hard to envision Tatum being a stall are in
Boston and not being a star in l A. I
just don't see that being the case. And just think
of the ripple effect. Imagine if Tatum is a member

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of the Lakers right now. Who knows how everything works
around that and who the Lakers acquire And there's no
telling there. But if the Lakers had Jayson Tatum, they
would be in in much better shape than they are
right now. I can guarantee you that. But that's not
the way it went down, But man, it just makes

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me think of some other situations here as we look
at another guy who's gonna be playing Game seven. So
you got Tatum in Game seven on Sunday, you actually
have the nightcap on Sunday. The Sun's hosting the maps.
Luca don Chich has been unfreaking believable in the playoffs.

(02:07:52):
The numbers on him are staggering. If you want to
talk about numbers that are ding bat crazy, you can't
do much better than this. So Luca don Chich in
twenty two playoff games over his first four seasons, he's
averaging thirty two and a half points, over nine rebounds,

(02:08:12):
and eight and a half assists per game. He's in
the neighborhood of averaging a triple double over twenty two
playoff games. And some people say this is totally unfair,
But just as a reference, if you compare him to
a guy named Michael Jordan's over the course of his

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playoff career, Jordan's averaged a little over thirty three points,
six point four rebounds, five point seven assists. So, just statistically,
and it's not all about stats, you've got Luca scoring
about a point less per game, but he's giving you
almost three more rebounds and almost three more assists per game. Now,

(02:09:00):
don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not telling you
Luca is better than m J. I'm not saying that,
but it's just for reference. If he's comparable and in
some areas statistically better, it just puts into perspective what
this guy's been doing so far. I think that's really
as far as you gotta take it, because all things

(02:09:21):
aren't equal. MJ's winning six championships. Lucas trying to get
out of the second round, you know, like you have
to take that into account. But he has been sensational,
and it goes right back to another layer of what
Ricky was getting to man our trusted producer. I don't
know if Ricky knew driving in tonight that he was

(02:09:44):
gonna make a comment and it would just blossom. You know.
It's like we're in the heart of summer. It is
just blossoming right now, you know. And you look at
another team that could have taken Luca don Chich, but didn't.
Look at the Sacramento Kings. They went with Marvin Bagley,

(02:10:06):
and the very next pick is Luca Dungeon. That is
that is unreal that I saw the stat. This is
unbelievable to me. I did a little bit of digging.
I didn't even believe that. You ever hear a stat
and you're like, is that is that true? Or did
they screw that stat up? I heard the stat Where

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the Kings since they've hired four different uh Golden State
Warrior coaches, They've hired Warrior assistant coaches four four separate
times now, So it's think about all these coaches that
they've hired over the years. They just hired Mike Brown.

(02:10:52):
Of course he's he's the acting head coach with Steve
Kerr on the COVID list, right, So the things just
hired Mike Brown. They had uh, they had Luke Walton.
They also had Mike Malone who's the current Denver Nuggets
head coach for a cup of coffee there like a

(02:11:13):
season and a half. And also Keith Smart was a
Warrior's assistant lasted there for a year. They've had four
former Warrior assistant coaches that they've hired as the head coach.
Like there are some teams that like Pop has been

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around forever. Pops like oh, gosh, yeah, I was around
like how many more fifteen twenty years before that. Like
I'd have to look exactly what the number is. But
just think if Sacramento had drafted Luca don Chich number
two overall, instead of him going to the MAVs at

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number three, and instead the King's get Marvin Actlee, who's
not even there anymore. It's unreal like that. Like sometimes
you think we overdo the coverage of the draft where
it's like, oh my gosh, all this. I was in
Vegas for the first round of the draft, you know,
and there are a lot of people that roll their

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eyes and oh, here we go with the draft, and
oh the the instant analysis and the grades and who
did what, and we get it's a guessing game. But
if you're downplaying the importance of the draft, whether it's
the NFL the NBA, there are franchises that are made

(02:12:38):
or broken on the draft. And those are just a
couple of the examples. Man, you go back all the
way with Sam Booie and Michael Jordan's or where ever
you want to talk about, with Darko Milicic and Mellow
or d Wade that came after that just blows my mind.
But keeping it current day, just think about the landscape

(02:13:01):
of the NBA. It's hard to even wrap your mind
around this. Can you wrap your mind around Luca don
Chech going to the Sacramento Kings and those guys being legit?
That seems like no, I can't even really envision that,
But that's exactly what would have been the case. Luca

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is too special for the Kings to not be relevant.
And there was a time where the Kings were really good.
They just couldn't get outside of the Lakers, right, They
couldn't beat them, but those old school Chris Weber and
Stoyakovich and Bobby Jackson, and it was a fun team man, Bibby,
you could go on and on with those guys. The

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Kings they would be thinking about the second coming of
that era. If they had Luka don Chech, that's where
they would be. And all this with the Lakers outside
of the Bubble Championship, it's been a lean eight ish
years or so lean. And if you had Jayson Tatum instead, unreal,

(02:14:06):
unreal how much that changes As far as what happened
on Friday Night. Jason Tatum was magnificent. The Bucks they
absolutely wasted historically great performance by Jannis forty four points,
twenty rebounds, just sprinkled in six assists just for the
heck of it. He went for forty four and twenty

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and they lost by thirteen. Yeah, Drew Holiday with seventeen
points on seventeen shots. The role players were just not there.
Man Grays and Allen was brutal. It was just it's
hard to wrap your mind around that. How honest was
that special? And the Bucks weren't even that close to

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challenging to win the game down the stretch and in
the Warriors game. Shout out to Clay Thompson man nine
hundred and forty one days but mean games. Torres a
c l against the Raptors in the finals is out
the whole next season and he's coming back, jacks up
his achilles out that whole season. MS is a big

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portion of this season. It's just like two and a
half years, almost nine and fifty days between NBA games,
and he comes back and he drops thirty on the
Grizzlies in a closeout game, eight for fourteen from three
point range. So shout out to him for sticking with
the rehab, coming back and not just being a good

(02:15:36):
but lesser version of himself. He's working back to being
the old Clay Thompson. The dude is an absolute freaking baller,
and uh, it was nice to see him play that well.
I get it. If you know, if you root for
the Grizzlies, you might not see it the same way,
but I really do. I think that even if you're
a Grizzlies fan, you might not love Clay Thompson going

(02:15:58):
off and you being a eliminated but you gotta be
able to to respect it man to fight back over
years to come back to that point. And also the
Warriors organization for sticking with them right. They don't get
in patient, they don't move on, they don't do anything
like that. So you're seeing you don't always see this

(02:16:18):
with a team like the Warriors. You're seeing another run
where I don't know they're gonna win a three more
championships from here on out with the Splash Brothers and
some of the young guns. But to revamp yourself and
to reinvent yourself and battle back from all the injuries

(02:16:38):
and be in this position there in the Western Conference Finals,
that's pretty impressive. And I also think this too. Last thing,
Clay Thompson where he was just giddy on the court
in the postgame interview on ESPN, and just getting to
the Western Conference Finals when the road has been that long.

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I'm not saying that the Warriors took it for granted,
but there is a different appreciation when they've gotten their
teeth kicked in a few times right there in the
playing game, not that long ago, beating the Lakers and
now they're in the Western Conference Finals. It was a
long road. And that's the other thing. Think about being

(02:17:20):
in the penthouse and then go into the outhouse the Lakers.
I'm sorry. The Warriors. They're used to eating seven course meals,
fine dining, the greatest steak you've ever tasted. They're winning
championships left and right. Kevin Durant joins the team, they
win seventy three games, like this is the high life,

(02:17:41):
you know, and then to just be absolutely battling and
not having the success for years to get another taste
of it, man, that's gotta feel sweet, No wonder Clay
Thompson was a little bit giddy after winning Game six
and dropping thirty. But that's a great story. Even if
you dislike the war years, that's a great story with

(02:18:01):
Clay Thompson fighting back from injury like that and getting
back to being the old Clay Thompson. Alright, eight seven
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(02:18:24):
I'll interact with you along the way. Alright, Coming up next,
a winner of the off season actually missed half of
last season. I'll tell you who this person is. Right
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(02:18:47):
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listen live. I'm Brian No here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, some people want to check in, you know,
far be it from me to get in the way
of the interactive audience. You know, I don't want to

(02:19:07):
do that. I'll get to one of the winners of
the off season that actually missed half of last season.
I think it's an interesting story, but let's make way.
A couple of people want to check in. Ian is
over there in Illinois, let's talk some hoops. So what's
going on? I and you're on Fox Sports Radio earlier

(02:19:31):
on taking Luke Dodgers for uh the season tickets to
the bus a few years ago. Where I live in
northern always actually easier to get to Milwaukee to downtown Chicago.
And it was during the Honest's breakout season when he
won uh most Implude and Scimento in Milwaukee. And I
would say, like Orlando franchises like that, those are the

(02:19:54):
perfect teams in the NBA to take a chance on
a guy if you're uncertain, like Luca, like Janis onto scoomboat, UH,
players like that with that upside, because what happens if
you miss on him, nothing, somebody gets fired, you move on.
They're not one of the glamorous franchises, and everything you
know goes on as it did before. But if you

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hit on a guy like you, or you hit on
a guy like Donch, it changes your franchise and all
of a sudden, it elevates you for a decade or
fifteen years or whatever, uh to one of the halves
instead of have not. And in the NBA, you know,
you hit on a guy like that like Milwaukee has
done again and you building out of it. It's elevated
the franchise unbelievable. He's now a guy that people want
to come over and play with him. They get caught,

(02:20:36):
you know, veterans pick the minimum and come play with him.
So for Salkamuno to continually screw up their drafts by
not taking guys that have that potential upside your Sanfermuno,
you know, who the hell are you to not take
a chance on a guy like that who could transform
your franchise. Like I said, we saw in Milwaukee firsthand.
They got lucky hitting on a guy and then they
struck off the next year trying to hit him again
with Maker in the draft. So it just takes one

(02:20:57):
of those guys to be able to do that, and
then NBA has per we to be able to try
to do to hit a lottery like that. I think, yeah, yeah, no,
thanks for checking in. Man. It's it's crazy too, because
like Marvin Bagley wasn't even good. I'm just I pulled
up the draft and I forgot how this went down.
It's even worse for Sacramento than originally thought. So this
is the teen draft, Okay, The first pick is in

(02:21:22):
that same mav Son series, DeAndre Ayton, who's a good player,
he's really gotten better and he's gonna sign a huge
deal with with the Sun's here momentarily. So no, DeAndre
Ayton isn't as special as Luca don Chiches, but he's
not a dud. Are you gonna get a huge contract extension?

(02:21:45):
Marvin Bagley is not. So even if Sacramento had a
guy like DeAndre Ayton, that's better than Bagley. But look
at the three other players. This is Darko Milicic, like
it really is. So DeAndre Ayton goes number one, then
it's Marvin bag Glee, not even with the Sacramento Kings anymore.
Followed by Luca Jaren Jackson Jr. Who also played on

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Friday Night for the Grizzlies, and he's a very good player.
And then Trey Young goes number five. So the Kings
they had their choice between Luca Jaren Jackson Jr. Or
Trey Young, and they said, let's go with Bagley. Let's
go with bags over here. And look, man, it's an

(02:22:28):
inexact science. It's all you know hindsight. Now, we didn't
know any of this at the time, but it just
shows you how you're it can make or break your franchise.
Dallas franchise is set for the next decade with Luca
don Chich and the Kings are in constant rebuild mode,

(02:22:49):
just constantly until they hit on a dude. And look, uh,
they've got a couple of dudes I can play. They've
got a couple of guys that are decent on that
squad um, but they don't have Luca don chech that's
for sure. Let's go out to John. He's in California.
Wants to check in. What's going on, John, You're on

(02:23:10):
Fox Sports Radio. How you doing, Brian good things? Um,
I'm curious. I always hear about Luca gonna be the
next best European player, you know, he could surpass Dirk.
But then I'm curious about Joanness because Johnest considered European
player an African player because he's the Greek freak. He
was born in Greece, but his parents are Nigerian. If

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he's because he's better than Luca, I don't think I'm
going out on a limb seeing that he's better than Luca.
So he insider he would be the BIG's best European player,
or if you're considering in African and he's going after
a king. I just wasn't sure which way. You You know,
people are looking at him like that. Yeah, well you're right,
he's from Greece, But yeah, I don't I don't know
if I don't know if he's thought to be in

(02:23:54):
that category. Like to your point, I guess you should be. Um,
But I'll just keep it simple, like I would agree
he's better than Luca, although man, Luca is just putting
up numbers. It's just a matter of he's got to
have the team success like Janice obviously has him in
that department. But I would also keep it with the

(02:24:17):
years as well, like Janice was deeper into his career
when he won a championship last season than Luca is
right now. So if you give it the same amount
of years, we'll see what what Luca can do as
far as team success goes. But um, yeah, I would
have Jannice ahead of Luca right now. But Luca's got
a chance. Luca has a good chance to go down

(02:24:40):
as a better player. Um. And look, it's a tail
of the tape right now. And uh, that's the other
thing they were having this debate. I caught a I
don't know where I caught a portion of this video,
but um, Kendrick Perkins was talking about Luca could end
up on the Mount Rushmore, that's how special of a

(02:25:01):
player he is. And there's a lot of pushback like whoa, whoa,
you know they're only four people of Mount Rushmore and
uh but and I know people just breakout in hives
when they hear anything with Mount Rushmore rules. And we're
gonna have a knockdown, drag out Mount Rushmore discussion. But
I do think it's interesting this path that Janice is on.

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He's an all time talent and he's just racking up
MVPs and playoff series wins and titles, and it's gonna
be really interesting to see where he ranks when it's
all said and done. I don't know why there's such
pushback on Janice being an all time great, where it's
like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not go too far
with this. It's I don't know why we shouldn't to

(02:25:47):
Kendrick Perkins point. I thought he was. He was making
a decent point right there. All Right, we gotta make way.
We gotta make way for our anchor leg over here,
Mr Kevin Figures who I mean by unofficial statistics here,
I'm gonna say that anchor leg it's at least eleven
second flat seconds. Might be a little generous, k fig

(02:26:11):
but listen to you. You've trimmed down some weight. I
think you can fly like a gazelle out there. Well,
I appreciate the kind wars of actually put a couple
back on. So I'm trying to work in the opposite direction.
You know, maybe I should go on the track there, Brian,
run a couple of wins prints and then call me
back in about a year or two. I might be
able to make that work for you. Okay, I like that.
Right now, I'm probably I'm the heavy kid who's like,

(02:26:31):
you know, have to two steps out of the block
and my side starts hurting enough, fall down and fall
out of breath. That's me right now. So give me
a little bit a bit of time and I'll catch up. Okay.
After two year, playoff high eight is for the Golden
State Warriors. They're back in the Western Conference Finals. They
notch a game six victory over Memphis on Friday one,
ten to nineties six, Clay Thompson scoring thirty points, Steph

(02:26:51):
Curry with twenty nine come on Luny a game had
twenty two rebounds. They await the winner of Dallas and Phoenix.
Miami will have to wait another day to find out
who their opponent will be in the Eastern Conference Finals
after Boston defeating Milwaukee won away to ninety five in
Game six, Jason Tatum a game high forty six points
for the Celtics. They will host games seven on Sunday
on the ice, Florida beating Washington and over time taking

(02:27:13):
their series four games to to Dallas a fourtitude victory
over Calgary to force a game seven. There will be
a game seven in Pittsburgh after the Rangers defeated the
Penguins five to three. In baseball, the Phillies over the
Dodgers twelve to ten in ten innings, Bryce Harper with
a home run there, Angels blanking Oakland to nothing. Royals
won a fourteen to ten shoot out over Colorado. Went
for the Yankees and the Giants. The yellow Carbrero home

(02:27:36):
run number five oh four as the Tigers defeat of
Baltimore news out of the NFL. The Saints are expected
to sign former Brown's receiver and five time Pro bowler
Jarvis Landry. Factor Briano. By the way, I'm gonna hit
on that story, k Fig. I think that's an interesting one.
But I shouldn't even tell this story. I'm gonna tell
you briefly though. I'm just watching the Grizzlies and Warriors.

(02:27:57):
They got the replay on and Lynn Brooks indulge me
for a second. So this goes back to I guess
it would be game four, and so the Warriors blew
them out. In Game three, they won by thirty and
then in Game four they just they could not get
on track. But in game I had vested interest on

(02:28:18):
the Warriors k fix minus five and a half. I
had a little bit more than the money that serves
scratch off owes me this, okay, So like I'm in
right for me, like I'm invested here, and the Warriors
they just cannot get going. It's like it's a tie

(02:28:38):
game or it's a one point game in the final minute,
you know, and so Steph Curry hits a layup and
they get a stop, and they get another bucket and
now it's the foul game, and so the Warriors are
up by five. I've got a minus five and a
half and the Grizzlies miss a shot in the final seconds,
and I'm thinking they might just say, well the heck

(02:29:00):
with it, you know, and not foul, and just the
way the rebound happened, Wiggins grabbed it and they just
happened to like kind of fall into him and follow him.
And I'm like, I got a shot. I got a
shot here, k Fig and so Andrew Wiggins there, there's
like about four seconds to go. Wiggins hits the first one.
Warriors are up by six. I'm covering right. He misses

(02:29:24):
the second one, and they throw it to Dylan Brooks.
I'm not even kidding you, k Fig. He hits it's
almost a half quarter. It's a good thirty seven forty
ft out, roughly pretty close to a half court heave.
I do remember this, yes, and he banks it in

(02:29:45):
at the freaking buzzer. Dude, totally inconsequential unless you're Brian
know and your point spread gets destroyed. It was so dirty.
I didn't even get that mad it was. I really
didn't because and the weird part is, I was just
the way the final minute unfolded. It was the ultimate

(02:30:08):
tease where I was thinking, just I don't know, a
couple of minutes prior, we're probably dead. They're not even
gonna foul. And so when they filed Wiggins, I was like,
there's hope. There's hope here. But I might not have
even been in that position. But in any event, so
this thing was lesson because you felt that by that
point you were kind of playing with house money anyway,
I guess, pardon the pun. So I was like, hey,

(02:30:29):
I feel fortunate to be in a position where I
could possibly cover. So the fact that they didn't win,
I mean, that was probably gonna be my fate anyway.
It just worked out the way that it was likely
going to to begin with. Yeah, yeah, pretty much make
pretty much what it was easier to digest if you,
you know, break it down that way. I guess. Yeah.
And it was funny too, because I'm like, hey, look,
getting mad, and it's only taken me about a decade

(02:30:52):
to learn this lesson. With any bet that I've lost,
it doesn't make it any better to just lose your
freaking mind. You know, you still lost. So I'm like, well,
there's a story out of it at least. Oh, that
was just dirty. And why would you get upset and
take the kids baseball bat and destroy the room. It's like,
well the money could have won, you're not going to win,

(02:31:13):
and now you have your out of podcats have to
repair everything. Son, What's what's the point. But see, I
cannot believe he hit that shot. And see situations like that,
Brian is the reason why I don't gamble. Yeah, it
just rips your heart out. It wills I don't need
that extra stress. But but there's a flip side to it, Kate,
fig wherever now and then you win based on something

(02:31:33):
similar happening. Unfortunately for for you and I and I
did a little bit in the past. It wasn't often enough, man.
So then you start chasing the loss and we know
how that goes. Oh gosh, yeah that normally That's exactly
what I was doing that night, So you were chasing
another absolutely, Oh, Kate, fix this is what happened earlier

(02:31:54):
that night. I had And you'll know I'm not making
this up, because otherwise how would I know this off
the top of my head. I had in game bets.
I had it on Janice who was just crushing it
over thirty four and a half he scored thirty four.
And I had over Jayson Tatum thirty and a half
he scored thirty. So I missed on both of those.

(02:32:17):
Parlay those together, No, they were just single bets. Yeah, yeah,
I'm making straw. It's a nut parlaying everything, you know,
baby steps, because it's tempty, man, it is tempting. I
could just add one other thing here for added value,
and that's what screws you. But yeah, I had lost those,
and so I was down, and I was you can't

(02:32:39):
chase k Fig. But I'm like, yeah, I thought the
Warriors would do in game four what they basically did tonight.
They're stuck in the mud. They're turning it over left
and right, they're sloppy, and they're just like, Okay, it's
winning time. Let's let's just knock it out right here.
And it didn't happen. It took too long for it
to happen. In game four. They still we're covering that

(02:33:02):
in game and then Dylan brooks, oh my gosh, great shot. Yeah,
absolutely so the overunder on Luca Doneck points on Sunday, Uh,
if we have we looked at that yet and whatever
you Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'll look
at it, you know what, I'll report back to you
in a second. Um, see what that is, because it's
gonna be a healthy point total. I can imagine it's

(02:33:23):
gonna be at least one. Yeah, if it's even out.
I don't they sometimes they don't put those prop bets
out this far in advance. May not even be out
right now. But yeah, we'll see. I don't know. Maybe
I'll dip the big toe in those waters. Are you
suggesting I do k fake you say over, Luca, I
suggest you do whatever makes you, whatever helps you enjoy

(02:33:47):
the game. You know what I mean? I hear you, man,
no doubt. All right, we'll close it down in style.
If you're on hold, stay right there, I'll get to
the phone calls. Um and uh oh, I've got to
pay this off. A winner of the off season. This
guy actually missed half of last season. I thought he
was a big winner this offseason. I'll give you the
cliffs notes version of that right around the corner. I'm

(02:34:09):
Brian No. Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.
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So I was telling you there was a winner of

(02:34:30):
the off season, a guy who actually missed half of
last season. That would be Jamis Winston. So if you
look at what's happening with the Saints. They pick up
Jarvis Landry, He's headed to New Orleans. And oh, by
the way, the Saints, they get Michael Thomas back, their
stud wide receiver he missed all the last season with

(02:34:52):
an ankle injury. They also drafted Chris Lave out of
Ohio State, So you think about what Jamis had to
work with last season. And by the way, before he
tore his a c l he threw fourteen touchdown passes
in three interceptions. And I was looking up, just out
of curiosity the Saints leading receivers last year. So the

(02:35:14):
guy with the most catches for the Saints last season
Alvin Kamara running back with forty seven. And I just
looked for comparisons sake at Tampa. How many players did
they have with over forty seven catches last year? They
had four guys. They had Chris Godwin, Mike Evans for Net,

(02:35:36):
and Gronk. By the way, Chris Godwin had nine eight catches.
That's amazing because I just think of him getting injured
against the Saints. I had no idea he got up
to ninety eight catches, missing as many games as he did.
Even Antonio Brown had forty two catches, he would have
had at least forty seven if he didn't go a

(02:35:57):
B and quit mid game against the Jets. But and
then if you look at the Saints last season, what
they had to work with receiving wise, the most receiving yards,
it was from Marquez Callaway who had just under seven
hundred yards receiving. Deante Harris had five seventy Like those

(02:36:19):
are their leading receivers in yardage. Godwin again had over
eleven hundred yards last season, missing a healthy chunk of
the year. Mike Evans was over a thousand, Gronk was
over eight hundred. So like Jamis played pretty well all
things considered who he had to work with around him

(02:36:39):
and also getting Jarvis Landry. He didn't have a great
season for Cleveland last year. Fifty two catches, five hundred
seventy yards two touchdowns. But he went to Twitter back
in February and wrote, reality behind all this is. I
came back to play in the best shape of my life.
I got hurt Week two with a high ankle with
the high great m c l sprain, partial quad tear,

(02:37:03):
and bone bruise. Then came back way too early and
ended up staying hurt the entire season. You never heard
me mention anything about it. I'm cool with it until
that last line because he sort of mentioned something about
it right there, right, But whatever, he had a lot
of injuries to deal with, and so you coupled that
with Baker throwing him the ball at him being banged up.

(02:37:27):
Look if he's healthier on a fast track there in
New Orleans with Jamis Winston, who Jamis Winston was better
last season than Baker was. All of a sudden, Baker's
I'm sorry, Jamis got some weapons to throw too. If
that's what it ends up being. Michael Thomas back from injury,
Chris Lave the rookie, and Jarvis Lantry, you can do

(02:37:50):
a lot worse than that. That trio right there, all right?
Eight seven seven Fox, that's your number. Let me work
Billy from Tennessee into the conversation. We've been talking hoops tonight.
What's on your mind, Billy, hey Man, thanks for taking
my call. Got it cut on something that you were
speaking on earlier about the Sacramento Kings taking Marvin Bagley

(02:38:13):
at number two. Well, the Atlanta Hawks took Luca don
Chick at three, and the Mavericks took Trade Young at five,
and they traded right there. So with the Hawks being
a borderline playoff team Eastern Conference, about what if they
would have just kept Luke Bill, you know, and and

(02:38:34):
and let Telly Young stay in him go to Dallas
or where he might have been. And you were saying,
and what if they would have the Lakers would have
drafted Tatum instead of Alonzo Ball well Lebron or we GM.
He would have sent him on the New Orleans Francony
Davis anyway, so he would just be in New Orleans
instead of Boston. You know, I don't know about that, man,

(02:38:58):
I really don't know. Tatum is that shull. I don't
know that he would have gotten the brandon Ingram treatment.
You know. Yeah, we got kicked out the door with
the rist of him. Yeah, yeah, I don't know would go,
but yeah, I just wanted to say because the Hawks
had dodged it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and that Yeah,

(02:39:20):
and you were talking about the Saint Alvin Kamar been
their leading reception and Mark west Callaway been there leading
yarded guy. Well from here in Knoxville, Tennessee them them
cat here Knoxville. So I wasn't I was as glad
that they you know, Kamara, he's you know, a pro bowler,

(02:39:41):
all pro. But Mark west Callaway went undrafted and I
knew he was good. We we watched him every Saturday here,
even though we wasn't that good, you know, at that
point in time, I knew he could do big things.
But yeah, well they did put a good season. Yeah, well,
thanks for jacking in, Billy. Yeah, right, Going back to

(02:40:01):
his original point, look, Trey Young, at least it's not
a Marvin Bagley situation. Trey Young is a an All Star.
He's a good player. He's not Luca special, but it
at least softens the blow that Trey Young is a player.
But to Billy's point, lucas better. Atlanta would have been
better off holding onto Luca with the numbers he's putting

(02:40:24):
up in the playoffs. Yeah, it's advantage Luca um. By
the way, how the mighty have fallen? I saw this
with the UH team win totals five and a half
caught my eye. In the NFL, you know the teams
that have a five and a half win total, the
Carolina Panthers, the New York Jets, and the Seattle Seahawks. Man,

(02:40:52):
just think about that. The again, the power of Russell Wilson.
He goes to Denver. Denver had one primetime game scheduled
last year and they've got five this year. Owen playing
on Christmas Day in the late afternoon window as well.
And Seattle has a wind total of five and a half.

(02:41:12):
It's a brutal division and they have drew lock. So
there's that. By the way, I would just like to
we were talking about snacks off the air, and I
apologize because this is absolutely overnight radio on the air content.
I would just like to say I am fully endorsing
the snack of a sliced up apple with peanut butter

(02:41:34):
on top. I'm just saying. Chris sounded a little skeptical.
Ricky sounded like, oh man, there's moving parts, there's labor involved.
You will not be disappointed. Apple with peanut butter

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