Hour 2 - Unicorn on the Move

Ben Maller talks about the 3-team trade in the NBA that saw Kristaps Porzingis go to the Celtics and Marcus Smart to the Memphis Grizzlies, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two of
the radio show, and the Unicorn is on the move
trade as it's NBA Draft Day, Boston, Memphis and Washington
playing swapperoo So who won the Chris stops porzingis trade

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as he heads to the Celtics. What do you make
of the Celtics trading Marcus Smart to Memphis? And can
you explain what the Wizards and Grizzlies are doing in
this trade? We'll talk about that and more right now here.
It is our number two. You have just entered the

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So don't burn the lead, my man, heart. We won't
last hour. We talked some baseball, but now we get
to what everyone else says is the number one story.
We gotta trade. We gotta trade. Our league comes from

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pro bouncy ball. This hour twas the morning before the
NBA Draft, and all was not quiet in the land.
The swap meet is open for business, and we are
told it's been an interesting twenty four hours. So we
were originally told the Celtics, the Clippers, and the Wizards
had agreed to the outline on a three team trade

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that would have sent Christops Porzingis to Boston. He would
have gone there. The Clippers are going to get Malcolm
Brogden and the Wizards would get some leftover spaghetti. That
was how that was going to go. Well. Then the
deal fell apart. Even though the framework was done, it crumbled.

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There were reports that Porzingis, who's got a player option,
was gonna opt out. He did not want to play
in Boston, and the old SWITCHERU was done. Well, it
turns out that reports of Perzingis not wanting to go
to Boston were incorrect. It would appear because if you
didn't see it, perhaps not, maybe you just waking up

(02:50):
to the world here of sports for the last twenty
four hours. In a trade that has now been agreed
upon a updated, updated trade center, Christaps Porzingis goes to
the Celtics Garden. Marcus Smart, a glue guy, heads to

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the Grizzlies and guard Higas Jones, who was supposed to
fill in for John Morant. He now learns how to
become a sorcerer as he is a wizard now. WOJ
tells us there's other players involved in this. Memphis will
be sending a draft pick, sending Boston its first round pick,
the twenty fifth overall selection, and also the Golden State

(03:35):
Warriors draft pick for twenty twenty four. As part of
this trade, there's other picks moving around, and the Celtics
will also send Dnio Gallinari, who never even played a
game as a Celtic he got hurt before the season.
Gallinari goes to the Beltway and sener Mike Muscala also

(03:56):
heading to Washington as part of the deal. That will
be a quiz on this later. Hopefully you will get
a passing grade. So let us discuss the question who
won the Chris stops porzingis convoluted trade for Marcus Smart.
So on the Malard report card, the Mallard report card,

(04:19):
I give these Celtics a B minus, a B minus.
I give the Grizzlies a C, and the Wizards get
an F. So that's how I have the grading on
this trade. I'll explain why am I added to get there.
I know you're dying to know that. I've got home depot,

(04:41):
the floor is lava and Hello Kitty, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a switcheroo, which is what we've had here,
the old switcheroo. So a this deal does not change
the time space continuum. And we had a call from

(05:05):
Paul and Rhode Island last hour, who's all worked up.
He needs his therapy dog. He's very upset by Marcus
Smart being traded. But when I look at the Celtics,
this is actually a good thing, right. Jalen Brown and
Jason Tatum are the meat and potatoes of the Boston
basketball team. And so one of the reasons I went
to beat as one of the main reasons is because

(05:25):
I think this is actually a step to grow Tatum
and Brown. And I'm not a huge Chris stops Perzingis guy.
I'm not fact I loathe Porzingis. He's he's empty cowories
is what he is, form over function and Porzingis is yes,
that's right. He's got music and all. But his stats

(05:48):
are aesthetically pleasing to the low information fan. But he
doesn't contribute all that much to winning. And that explains
why he's been passed around like a bottle of whiskey. He's,
you know, go some cities said he was with the Knicks, Mavericks, Wizards.
Now he's on to the Celtics. But when you look

(06:09):
at the team that plays on the parque there, this
trade is essentially a trip to home depot.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
You're you're attempting to spackle over the imperfections. You're looking
to hide the holes and the cracks, and that Marcus
Smart had some really good games with us some terrible games,
and you think that Porzingis will be more consistent. So
I gave them a B minus because I believe this
is mainly to try to evolve Brown and Tatum, that

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they fell into this this trap, if you will, of
depending on Marcus Smart, where they often deferred to Marcus Smart,
but do better, be better? And then the other part
of this, what do you make of the Celtics, And
we've kind of outlined this, what do you make of
the Celtics trading Marcus Smart? So it's it's a shockwave
type thing, right because he's been there for so long

(06:59):
longest ten years player on the Celtic's been there nine years.
And so the message is, hey, Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown,
you can't lean on Marcus Smart. We're gonna pay you
three hundred million dollars each and you gotta do it.
You gotta get it done now. So it messes with
the zeitgeist in the locker room. But I believe that

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was intentional. That Marcus Smart is a firecrack. He oozes green. Literally,
the man ooses green. Have you seen his hair? That
green hair dyet oozes out of his hair. And so
the guy has own cereal in Boston at the grocery stores.
And on how many times did Jason Tatum and Jalen

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Brown defer to Marcus Smart on end of game situations
where they deferred and they gave it to Marcus Smart
and he would shoot a three pointer and oftentimes he
would miss it right and that was a common occurrence.
Am I imagining that? I don't think I'm imagining that?
Am I imagining that?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
My guy? And so now that there's like, hey, you
gotta do it, man, we need you to take the
shots at the end of the game, right, And there
were Jason Tatum passed over open shots. Jalen Brown was
so passive he didn't even attempt a lot of shots
in late game situations. But now, as for Marcus Smart
and starting over on Beal Street, I don't think it's

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a great fit, assuming he stays there, and it looks
like he will. But for the Celtics, it's an odd return.
Why the unicorn? Why I'm really scratching my and I'm
not just doing this for talk radio purposes. Like Porzingis's
skill set is extremely limited. A pretty good rim protector,

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he's very tall, He's an above average outside shooter. Get
some baskets around the rim on put backs and the
old pick and pop and all that. But that's that's
about it. When you look at his game. The big
fundamental was Tim Duncan back in the day. Whatever the
antithesis of the big fundamental that would be Chris dops Pors.

(09:04):
That term is when it comes to screening, passing, out
of double teams, boxing out, rebounding, he is useless. I
would rather have crying Craig do those things. He rarely
takes advantage and you go back to his days in Dallas.
I know this because the Mavericks played the Clippers back
to back years in the playoffs and Prezingis was there,

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and the mismatches against smaller players, if I if I'm
not mistaken, he got out rebounded by Marcus Morris and
Marcus Morris. All he does is pretty much stand out
around the three point line and just wait for the
ball and then shoot it and does nothing else. He's
really good at that, but that's all he does. So

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needless to say, we are not part of the unicorn
marching and chowder society. And Porzingis will bring a level
of cool, whip softness that the Boston fan is now.
And some of you guys have said, well what about
Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum solf No, no, side by side. Porzingis

(10:09):
will make Jason Tatum look like Rambo side by side.
I'm not kidding, I'm not kidding. So the trade is
also a tell. All trades are a tell. It's a
big admission. A guy like Porzingis is doubling down on
the Celtic franchise charge. The trade for Chris tops Berzingis

(10:32):
is the Green Team analytical department winning whatever battle there was.
They love three pointers, if you love three pointers. Porzingis
is a dream boat. He's the perfect arcade player. Papa shot.
That is a vote of confidence to let him play
Joel Joe Missoula in the playoffs last year when the

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Celtics had defensive breakdowns? What did pors What did the Mosilla?
What did he say? Joe Mosula? Joe Mozula said what
he said? Hey, we got to shoot the three points?
Shot better. Anything went wrong, Mozilla's we gotta shoot better.
That was his answer to everything. So Porzingis what he

(11:13):
loves to do is shoot endless moneyballs. He's allergic to
pounding the paint. In fact, even though he's a grown up,
in many ways, he's like a child. Playing The floor
is lava game. The painted area, by the way, is
the lava on the floor there. You can't go in
the painted area because his face melts. You're that famous

(11:34):
scene from the iconic Indiana Joseph Raider is a lost
ark man that the scene where the face melts, that's
porzingis when he goes in the lake. Good luck, good
luck Now. The good news is for now, Lucky the
Leprechaun is going to have a field day with goofing
on Porzingis. And there's a lot to work with. There's

(11:56):
a lot of materials. I feel happy for my brothers
and sisters that do sports radio in Boston because when
they do talk about the Celtics, they'll be able to
goof on on Porzink is pretty good. All right, last
word here. So we've got two other teams. We haven't
really gotten too much into those teams, So explain the logic.
Explain the logic for the Wizards and the Grizzlies in

(12:16):
this trait. So for Memphis, we gave them on the
malor report card. We gave them. See other people are
right now slobbering all over Memphis giving them an A plus.
And what a great trade. I'm not as big a
Marcus smart guy as others are. He's a fine player.
He plays hard, but I don't think he puts you

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over the top. I he puts you over the top.
And in this scenario, I've looked at the script and
the Grizzlies are counting on Marcus Smart being a Hello
Kitty band aid that while John Morant is out cleaning
his guns and the lighting cakes on fire with his

(12:59):
gun candle, then Marcus Smart can hold down the four
and he fits into the whole marketing campaign, the grid
and grind, and that's what they go with and all that.
And this is gonna be the first time in NBA
history we are told that the last two defensive players
of the year will play on the same team. Marcus
Smart a couple of years ago, Jared Jackson Junior is

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still there in Memphis, and that sounds wonderful and all that,
But is anybody like Denver Ayby in the West, like,
oh crap, now now now this puts Memphis over the top.
Me thinks not so much. As for the Wizards, they
are continuingly liquidation sale. They're going out of business. Just

(13:43):
go back and call themselves the Bullets again. Everything must
go so incoming. They've got Mike Muscala, Tyris Jones, and
Danilo Gallinari and those players are roster spam if they
aren't traded now. Now Tyris Jones is say he's gonna play.
He'll be the starting guard there because Chris Paul's gonna

(14:03):
be bought out for Washington. Okay, so maybe he's not
completely a rosters man, but Gallinari and Moscalo absolutely are.
And if they're not repackaged now, they will be made
available once the season begins at the trade deadline. On
all that, so, the Wizards are running and gunning for
l and L as in losses and lottery aka lottery

(14:26):
balls and Bradley Beal. Bradley Beal was given away for
some pocket lint, and now Porzingis has been sent away
and the return coming into Washington is slightly better. It's
like some old m and ms but not peanut m
and ms, regular m and ms that have been laying around,
and then some potato chips but not crisp potato chips,

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so more dirty tricks inside the belt. Wait, and the
good news is the Wizards will continue to be off
our radar and there's really no reason to pay attention
to them anytime soon. It is the Ben Malor Show.
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
Berg Doger writes say he says, hey, Ben, was it
smart for a guy to bet sixty thousand dollars on
Victor Wiman Yama to go first in the draft and
win three hundred dollars? He's guaranteed to win the bet, right,
Who wouldn't want a free three hundred dollars Unless something
happens between now and the start of the draft. There's
some TMZ story and it's a scandal. But even then,

(16:43):
I think Victor wm by Yama is gonna be the
first pick. But I don't have sixty thousand dollars to
throw down on that at all. Who else do we
have to see? Page down, Ryan writes. Sin says a
plus on the Mallon monologue with Marcus Smart in the trade.
Does this mean Chris Paul is coming to town? Yeah,
he likes to hang out with those Hollywood phonies. I

(17:04):
don't know he wants to hang out in Boston. You know,
he's got to Allison La He's into that crowd. Derek Wright.
Sin says, Marcus Smart the Lockdown Defensive Player of the Year,
in the West is going to make Memphis a problem
for the rest of the conference. Are you saying they're
gonna make some noise? Derek? Is that what you're saying,
They're going to make some noise? Paul writes, sinceys the

(17:26):
Great White Hope Chris tops porzingis just what the Celtics needed. Yeah,
clip and save that for later. We'll see how you're
feeling about that. Down down the line, Nature boy says
he's ready for some WOJE bombs is what he's he's
ready for. I'm sure can't wait, cannot wait for that.

(17:48):
Will take your calls. Eight seven seven nine on Fox
is the number. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
And Ben? What's going on? Listen? Speaking of folks who
can't wait, I can't wait for Memphis to get out
of their identity crisis and you know, put on their
big boy pants and act like adults.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
What you let Dan?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
You let Dylan Brooks go? You know who's the kind
of rowdy, rowdy piper, you know, kind of a mixed
things up type of a player. And you bring in
somebody like Marcus Smart, Yes, Marcus Smart is a little
bit more. Season has the defensive player of the year,
but Memphis has this identity crisis where who's the adult
in the room. And by the way, it's not going
to be Marcus Smart. We know that from the Commonwealth.

(18:34):
You know he's an energy player, but he's not your
your leader of men. He's not like your Steve Nash
or your Joe Dumars or you know that season veterans
so and so from Memphis. Case, what the heck are
you doing? You give up two first round picks for
a guy that's basically a duplicate of the guy you
just kicked out in Dylan Brooks makes absolutely no sense. Now,
Ben back to.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Marcus Smart. He's better than Dylan, right, Dylan Brooks. I
love the trash talk by Dylan Brooks, but you do
got to back it up. I mean, he didn't back it.
That's the problem. He didn't back it off. You gotta
you gotta go out and back and talk to talkie
to walk the walk. He didn't do that. He was
terrible at the end of that series against the Lakers.
And I look at Marcus, he's better defensive player. He'll

(19:15):
he'll be pretty similar though offensively. I don't think Marcus
Smart's consistent. I don't think of him as a guy.
It's gonna be game to game. You're gonna know what
you're gonna get from him.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Exactly. Memphis they were, they were a team that was contending,
that was on the doorstep. To me, they're taking a
big step back and they're not gonna be at the
forefront in the Western Conference. The Celtics, I think that's
the better story. Then listen, this deal is similar. I
have to go back a couple of years when the
Celtics traded Kendrick Perkins, they got Jeff Green. Yeah, Athletics,
they got a guy in the NID Christis, you know,

(19:45):
was a big manch to throw them there, and they
got a first round pick. And Danny was like, this
is gonna be like a bridge move, but it actually
the bridge had collapsed and you took out somebody who
was integral to that team, and that group they just
faded out and they traded everybody away. Look, Christoph per
Singis is exactly the same type of young, uncertain personality
that we have too many of them in Boston. Jason Tatum,

(20:07):
Jalen Brown, Christoph porstingis they're young, they're talented, they're not leaders.
So you're gonna tell me that three three are gonna
all of a sudden mesh and work together. Where Christoph
he didn't work out I mean New York, Okay, Pine,
I forget that. But he couldn't get along with Lucas
and we had to go. He was actually I mean
his numbers in Washington. Yes, he he's gotten there and
rebounded a little bit more mixed it up, you know,

(20:28):
a block, a couple more shots, a little bit more
toughness than I expected.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
But he's not come on like to stop. Stop.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Okay, but I'm just saying, then my pointing a little
bit more than we saw in downs here.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, he's gone. He disappeared. I thought I was gone
for a second. I said, what happened is he vanished? Hey,
I had nothing to do with that, By the way,
I have no He's Andre's back. Hello, Andre, you're back.
Mid sentence, you were cut off, Andre, but you're back.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I apologize, I'm back. They're just a bunch of They
shoot a bunch of threes, and if they make the threes,
they win. That they missed the three, they lose. Ben,
what does christoft per sing to do? He just takes
a bunch of threes. Okay, so schematically, no, I get it.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I mean that's what I'm kind of repeating what I
was saying. I mean, that's the deal, and that's the Celtics,
that's their organizational the franchise charter for the Celtics. It
just keep shooting threes and they're gonna do it. And
I know pretty much everyone does it in the NBA.
But the thing that's that's maddening is you got to
have a second gear. Some nights you're not gonna make
the shots, so you gotta be able to do something else.
They got seemingly nothing else. That's all they do is

(21:37):
shoot three point shots. I gotta leave it there, but
thank you Andre from the Commonwealth, and we'll say hello
to Mason the Millennial in the Bay Area. Hello Mason
the Millennial.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Hey Ben, how are you doing tonight?

Speaker 1 (21:50):
If I was any better, I'd be a poppy, but
not picking with poppy.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah night. He had Bruce Buffer on. I heard that
was cool.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah, it sounded kind of like you a little bit.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
What makes you say that?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I don't know. Some of my headphones all right.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Well, whatever the case may be.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
Man, Hey, I feel rejuvenated.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Man, I feel rejuvenated.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
In the in the the religion that is baseball. You know,
I remember one time I called up in here played
a game show. I had an embarrassing drag ass performance.
So you know, since that day, you know, I downloaded
mL BE the show and I have ever since.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Wa, wow, what's going on here?

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Right over there? As I was saying, I'm hitting the
mini bar, I think you might be hitting the mini bar.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Yeah, we got we got we got ghosts. We've got
poultry guys in the system.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
What's going on over there?

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, we're okay.

Speaker 7 (22:53):
I don't know what happened there there.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Maybe one of them will be right.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
We've got goblins in the system.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Carry on, We're not a break.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Okay anyway, So you know, I just fell in love
with the sport.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know, it's really like a fun strategic sport. And
you know, you download the game and you get all
these old players and stuff. So it's cool you learn
about the old players and stuff. So I love baseball.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
I'm totally into it.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
So I'm gonna get better at the baseball now.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
All right, everyone's dying to hear that content that you're
going to get better at the game show. So now
everyone can rest easy that Mason the Millennial will not
embarrass himself and everyone went in California.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Man, what you're talking about? So I call up here
on meth and talk about God knows what that would
be a better call.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Probably all right, I thank you. I gotta go, all right,
thank you? Yeah, huh, all right, everyone calm down, Everything
will be okay. Yeah, these guys are jealous of Jet
who fled. I can email some people. Well do you
put Jet on so much? The guy's just a drug addict,
He's a loser. What do you put them on.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Like?

Speaker 1 (23:59):
I don't know. He falls off and put them on
the guys willing to stay on hold for four hours
to get on for thirty seconds? What do you want
for me? Anyway?

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Speaker 5 (24:52):
Yeah, big news from college basketball and I don't know
how Penny Hardaway is going to recover from this, but
the ment head coach hit with a suspension for recruiting violations.
He will be sitting out the first three games of
next season.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Does anyone watch the first three games of a college
basketball season?

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Ah? Not many?

Speaker 4 (25:21):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Do they still play those games in Hawaii around.

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Yeah, Mali Imitational and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Sure, but no one actually watches the games.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
I mean, you got to be a hard oh college
hoops fan to watch that stuff. But I mean three
game suspension, man, that is dropping the hammer.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Yeah, the punishment from he advising.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
I'm sure he's learned his lesson, he will never do
that again.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
So he was punished more than Jose Altuve though, So
there is that.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
That's what Bobby Huggins got before after his little radio ran.
He got three games and a million dollars docked. But
that was it. Three games.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, he learned his lesson, didn't He never gonna do
anything wrong again.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
No.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
I was details about the Huggins story, and I always wondered,
like when the police pull you over, like like where
you're going, you know, they asked you like the same questions,
where you're going, where you're headed, where you're coming from,
that kind of stuff. And they asked Bob Huggins those
kind of questions. He didn't know what city he was in.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yes, I don't even think they pulled him over.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
I think he didn't an entire issue, and I think
he called for help or he he asked for assistance
and thought.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
And then that's we realized, if your if your car
breaks down, you have a tire issue, and you're drunk,
you probably should start walking. You probably should start well,
you shouldn't be drinking and driving anyway, but you do that,
you should probably start walking. I'm just saying remember when
Tony LaRussa got popped and he was like passed out
a green lights.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
There was audio that with the cop tapping on his
window with there's like his flashlight. We used to play
that goud. It was good stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
That was good. I remember the one. It was an
outfielder for the old Cleveland Indians. I think it was
they got popped and he like started he was like
a crying Remember that one. I don't don't remember that well,
forget the guy's name, but he was all he was
worked uf. He was very emotional that thought his career
was over. I don't think his career was over, but
it ended shortly after that, but not because of that.

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NBA money without being an NBA player, Well, you divorce

(27:58):
an NBA player. Lar's Pippin, good old Lars Pippen, and
she's still stooping Michael Jordan's kid. I don't know. I
haven't read the tabloids the last couple of days, but
I did see that the ex of Scottie Pippen, good
old no Tippin' Pippen, Lars Pippen, has been given half
of Scottie Pippen's retirement money. That all of that she's

(28:24):
living large in South for So this might explain why
Scotty Pippens sounds like a Looney tune in some of
these interviews. But it has been uncovered documents obtained by
something called the Blast. I don't know what that is,
but they have the documents and they say that the
documents show that in the legal battle over Scottie Pippen's assets,

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all that he made from playing in the NBA with
the bulls and the Blazers and the Rockets and all
that that Lars has been a word half of that money.
And she has his rights to the four oh one
k the savings trust of Scottie Pippen. And she didn't
have to play with Michael Jordans. She had to play

(29:09):
with Michael Jordan's kid is all she had to do
to get that money. So there you go, congratulations, how
much that is. Scotty didn't make a ton of money
compared to some other players. He got low ball. He
took the contract from Jerry Reinsdorf. If you're old, you
remember that he took the money because his family in
Arkansas needed the money. Supposedly, if he had waited, he
would have gotten like ten times what he got from

(29:31):
the Bulls. And he was bitter and all of that,
and so we don't know how much money he has.
There were reports he was not doing very well. Other
people said that was bogus. Guys like Scottie Pippen, though,
could always make money because you're never that far away
from an autograph show and merchandise deal and make easy

(29:53):
money fifty one hundred thousand dollars in a weekend signing
some autographs and things like that, doing some photo ops,
so you're never that far away from making some money.
We'll get to the matchmaker in a moment, but let's
go back to the calls right now, because that's what
we do here. And we'll say hello to Jed who

(30:13):
fled the aforementioned Jed who fled. Hello, Jed, Hey, do.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
You want to give a shut No, we don't do
shout out to shout And my friend jasmine this list
and being the first time I ever met her, she
was not sure if I was a real human being
or a figment of her imagination because I was quote
ten out of ten hard and narcotics dud my back
and my friend made me wait inside her maybe waiting
inside her house for her while she wasn't there. They're like,
bust open the door on me. Like, I swear to god,
I did not want to be in here. My buddy

(30:38):
made me do it. He one, he's a drug dealer,
so I had to do what he said. I want
to get cut off. I apologized for being in your house,
and it was it was a good it was a
good experience. Hey Mason, Millennial hard narcotics is a built
in excuse for when my call suck. There's the reason
when your call suck. You've just discovered baseball. Like, Wow,
if you look at that screen over there, change the colors,
there's a broadcast. Wow, it said, who's that talking? Because

(31:00):
that's a commentator? Whoa baseball? It's revolutionary technology. Man, That's
that's good stuff. Mason. The millennial was the way your
year one thousand baseball and TV? Dude, was that a
real cocky thing?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Is he blind?

Speaker 8 (31:13):
I mean, what work he's pretending like he justice covered baseball?
You gonna protest to day against well, you just be cryet.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
It's not you got jack.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Jack you you complain when I interrupt you. You complain
when I don't interrupt you. All you do is complain.
I allowed you to talk. You you talk. You use
more words, more words than I use in a monologue.
In about ninety seconds. You just used more words than
I use in an entire monologue.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
Hey, I already Ben Mallard on his show complaining about
me complaining when he got unlimited a lifetime. Now, I'm
just I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
You are not that.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I believe in Sigmund Freud's line, there is truth in
every joke. You believe what you.

Speaker 8 (31:56):
Just said, telling the truth when I need to think
I'm telling the truth when I'm lying. I need to
think I'm lying when I'm get on the truth. I'm
not exactly sure why, but it's a good way to live.
I was catching up in the gun Back podcast yesterday
and this company called Colossus then is in the business
of the extinction that brings the trying to bring back
the Willie Mammos, the Dodo Bird, and some third one
which I wish I could remember right now. But I mean,

(32:16):
how long before the current All Star teams of baseball
and so you say football are playing against the Ted
Williams is of the you know, the all Star teams
that are on the video game, and we can turn
this into a real life happen when it happens.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Here's the problem. I like that you're you're doing so
many drugs. You're now worried about Ted Williams coming back
and playing against the Red Sox or something like that.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Williams left his DNA to his family Ben he was
worried about it. Gets some of that.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
See, I believe I'm gonna I'm gonna blow your mind
I believe if you brought Ted Williams back, if you
could recreate the DNA of Ted Williams and bring him
back as a child will grow up, he wouldn't even
be a baseball player. He'd be on twitch. He wouldn't
even play baseball. He'd be a twitchin you think of
it now, Not the kind, not the kind you do.
All right, thank I gotta go, Thank you? No other again?

(33:01):
An interaction, right, they're getting an argument in a fight. Yeah,
we'll push back the matchmaker story. That's a good one time.
Now for the Insta trivia, and we'll go to baseball
where the Washington Nationals are a miserable team. They have
a catcher named Cabert Ruiz and he is on pace
to give up one hundred and thirty four steals this season.

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That would be the most by a catcher since Blank.
Cabert Ruiz is on pace to give up one hundred
and thirty four steals. That would be the most by
a catcher since Blank, most steels allowed by catchers since Blank.
That is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it.
We have Mallard of the third degree. We'll do it all.
We will do it next.

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(34:18):
new member at a time. And now from the tyrac
dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Mallor.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah Mallard of the third degree that is coming up momentary,
but first time. Now for the Insta trivia. That's right,
the Insta trivia. We do it every time, around this time,
every day, I should say, around this time, and this
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Progressive com. So the Nationals are a baseball team, not
a good one. They have a catcher it used to
be Dodger suspect, and he's out there doing his thing
for the Washington Nationals, and needless to say, it's not

(35:12):
gone particularly well behind the plate. And so the question
on this one, kberd Ruiz is on pace to give
up one hundred and thirty four steals, which would be
the most by a catcher since blank. Got to fill
in the blank. That is the question. What is the answer?

(35:33):
And let's see if anybody who chimed in try to
answer nose and see here page down, milkman Mike says
jed who fled's high school counselor mister hand is the answer?
Who else? Page down? Crying. Craig did not answer, but
did send a message in I can't read that. Doink
the cloud, doink the clown from Rob in Vegas, the

(35:57):
penguin ron say from Bean boot maker that's his answer.
Callagan Tim in Michigan goes with John Candy in Brewsters millions. Yes,
I'm old. I saw that movie. I recall Richard Pryor
and John Candy. I do remember that movie. Johnny Bench
from The Raider Freak, I haven't heard from The Raider
Freak in a while, and called in Kylie Jenner from

(36:20):
the Dixter parody account William Shatner Benito the Cowboy fans
answer will Smith the actor tossed out by ferk Dog.
Who else do we have? Jay Scoop says, a m
PM is the answer for Matt the Raider Warrior fan. Yes,
all right, let's see who else do we have? Justin's upset,

(36:43):
he says. Jed's calls don't completely suck. Oh wow, he
actually likes him. Can't read that. Jason Kendall from Matt
the Raider Warrior fan and Pete and Cavilia guess by
Manny Eddie, Do you have an answer? Eddie quickly, Oh yes.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Former Milwaukee Brewer slugger Rob Dear It's incorrect.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
The correct answer. He did it as a dodger. Mike
Piazza about one hundred and fifty five steals in nineteen
ninety six, and that is the most before this year possible.
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go here,
it's Mallard. How about that?

Speaker 4 (37:16):
To the third degree. This is one big fan gets
grilled Kobulu.

Speaker 10 (37:24):
It's being reported that the Bulls are open to trading
Zach Levine and would be looking for quote, a good
young player, multiple first round picks, and salary filler. They'd
also consider a high end player and one first round pick.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Ben.

Speaker 10 (37:38):
Do you think they could get either of those for Levine?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Oh, the white players are being traded. They're not being
traded for much of anything, but zachly I say yes.
And here's why. He's in the prime of his career.
Zach Lavine. He's been an All Star a couple of times.
He's the master, the Ninja of the slam Donk. He's
not perfect, but his playoff resume is incomple I say yeah.
If the Bulls are hell bent to trade him, they
will find someone to take him. Next.

Speaker 10 (38:03):
Giants legend Tiki Barber appeared on a podcast Tuesday and
said that he isn't sure that the Giants would be
worse off without Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Ben, Is he right? Well, that is first of all, blasphemy, Coop.
As you know in the running Back Fraternity, you're gonna
have to do extra burpies if you're Tiki Barbara because
of that. But he's actually not wrong. As long as
you get a serviceable running bay, the Giants would be
much different without Tiki Barber. But you may have a
good offensive line and the passing game does its job,
you can be productive. The Chiefs didn't have a great

(38:32):
running back. The Eagles didn't have a great running back,
and they were able to win.

Speaker 10 (38:35):
Next Jet safety Jordan Whitehead said that he thinks this
team could be very similar to the twenty twenty Buccaneers,
which he was also a part of. He pointed to
having a good defense the year before and then finding
the missing piece with an upgraded quarterback. Ben could he
be onto something?

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Well? Could is a weasel word. So could. Yes, I
could win the lottery, I could get Morning Drive. I could,
But no history rarely repeats itself that quickly. Aaron Rodgers
is a threat. I don't know what Rogers is gonna
show up though? Is it the m v P Rogers?
And here's the thing, Emoy in Green Bay was good

(39:11):
with Rogers. They didn't win that much.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
How did we do?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Kobolo? You pass? That is a win?

Speaker 9 (39:15):
I put on the bar