May 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about where the Bucks go from here with Doc Rivers after getting eliminated by the Indiana Pacers, Darvin Ham's imminent firing from the Lakers, Kawhi Leonard being ruled out for the next Clippers game, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nubber too, our two on
this Friday fun day, Bucks and Pacers. The conversation to
begin this hour, Where do the Bucks franchise? Where does
the Bucks franchise go from here? With Doc Rivers as
they were exterminated, Doc did not have the Midas touch.
(00:23):
He had the Satom touch, as everything he touched turned
to crap for the Milwaukee basketball team. Also other NBA news,
Darvin Ham is being poll axed from the Laker job.
Did he end up getting a raw deal? And what
is your reaction to Kawhi Leonard. He's been ruled out
from tonight's game in Dallas for the Clippers. He will
miss Game six. Clippers have to win to stay alive.
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We'll get to all of that and much more right
now here. It is make way for our number two.
If you had Doc Rivers in the Milwaukee Bucks advancing
in the NBA playoffs, you lost your money. That is all, folks.
Well come in the beginning of another hour of the
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doc from Indianapolis Bucks Pacers Game six Eastern Opening Round
playoff series. Milwaukee got dame time back before game time,
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looking to win and force a winner take all Game seven.
I assume you know what happened by now, but maybe
you want the details. You might not have watched and heard.
So someone named Obi toppin We're told that's a basketball player.
He scored twenty one points. A guy that looks like
he'd be playing at the local YMCA. TJ McConnell had
twenty points and nine assists, and the Indiana basketball team
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had a laugher over the Milwaukee basketball team as the
Pacers are into the Eastern Conference semifinals for the first
time in a decade. Every ten years like clockwork, and
we will have plenty of time to give Indy its flowers.
They'll play the Knickerbockers. That series will begin on Monday.
Nicks eliminated Philadel But for our purposes now, the better
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and bigger story is in the loser's locker room. So
let us discuss and the most interesting man in all
of Wisconsin. We start with him. Where do the Bucks
go from here with the good doctor Doc Rivers? Where
do they go from here with Glenn Rivers? So I've
got the Navy, Lincoln Park, and superpower, and we will
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combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make an air fryer because we're gonna airfry some
people right now. Number W Let me just get this
out of the way. Doc Rivers is a prolific carpet
bagger period Stop. Okay, that's Doctors. He's a shyster, he's
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a sweet talker, he's overly charismatic. We all know people
like Doc Rivers. He's a used car salesman, and the
Bucks should have he never hired this guy in the
first place. But he's the milk of human kindness, Doc Rivers.
Even though you had the top record of these. Adrian
Griffin a boob, got to bring in Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers,
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at this point, if you're Milwaukee should be treated like
a Navy ship that's been on the oceans for many,
many years. He should be decommissioned. Rivers has become over
his time in the NBA a Rhodes scholar at excuses
and concession speeches. And I laughed when I heard what
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he had to say after the game, because it's the
same crap that he was serving when he coached the Clippers.
It's the same nonsense he had in Philadelphia. He's got
this file. I'm convinced of it. Doc Rivers has a
file on his phone and he just types a couple
of words in. He's like, Okay, I'll repeat the same thing.
I'll just change a few names around, and while everyone
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sinks into depression. That's that. Now we may The twenty
eight Celtics with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce won the
most improbable pro bouncy ball Championship. Wasn't the Pistons when
they beat Shaq and Kobe and all those guys in
the in the NBA finals. Now, it was not that
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the most improbable NBA Championship is the eight Boston Celtics.
They won overcoming medical malpractice, at least coaching malpractice and
Doc Rivers. And I know the media apologists out there,
they'll play the injury card is not his fault. He's
not a real doctor. They'll play that from the bottom
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of the deck. And to that, we say fuey, we
say foe. Dame Lillard, all right, Dame Lillard missed a
couple of games. He didn't miss all the games, and
you won. You won one of the games. He didn't
even play it. So if you own the Milwaukee Bucks,
what you should be doing is sending Doc Rivers back
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to the boobs too. But here's a little taste of
Doc Rivers. And he talked about the mindset winning and
all of that, and let's take a list.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Winning is incredibly hard. It takes twelve to fifteen players
turning themselves into one and buying in your staff being
together as one, and then health and then you still
may not win. You know, it's just hard, and you're
not gonna win unless you're healthy or unless you're really deep.
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So nothing you can do about it. You know, Janus
plays the way he plays and we need them to
continue to play that way. Dame probably out a season
this year where he never really get in the right
condition that he wanted because he didn't know where he
was going all summer, and so he couldn't work.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Out one thing after another, one thing after Because you
can't work out unless you know what city you're going
to play in. They don't have gyms. They don't allow
you to the gym unless you announce what city you're
gonna be playing it. They literally will ban you. They
will ban you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's just so.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's like Doc Rivers walks into an NBA locker room
and it turns out to be a war zone by
the time he leaves. It's just so, so wonderful. But
I would have liked to have been a fly on
the wall wherever Adrian Griffin was. He can't say anything
publicly because he has a clause in his contract not
to besmirch the team that is still paying him a
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ton of money. It's so great. I saw one of
the docs quotes. He says this all the time too.
He was asked about in wanting to win a championship
for the city of Milwaukee in the franchise, he said
because it means more to me than I think you think,
he said, And then when asked about his future with
the Bocks, Doc gave the time tested response. He went
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to his notes on his iPhone and he said, I'm
gonna do whatever I can for this franchise. I think
we can win, and I'm going to do everything I
can to create that because it means more to me
than you think. It's the same crap that he was serving,
repackaged with a different, different bow on top. He said
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it with the clips. He said it almost verbatim when
they gagged against the Denver Nuggets in the bubble, and
he went to Philadelphia and said the same thing, the
same thing. Under Doc Rivers, the Milwaukee basketball team was
in the bottom half of the entire NBA and offensive rating,
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defensive rating, net rating, an overall record. That's the Bucks,
that's the box under Doc Rivers. So enjoy enjoy it.
I hope the owner of the team enjoyed every single
one of those performances, because you deserve it. You served
up an absolute herd burger, and you deserve it. Is
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what you all right. Moving on from that, there is
a developing story, although it hasn't happened. Yet we go
to Tinseltown. We are hearing the Lakers are expected to
purge Darvin Ham. That announcement likely to come down in
a Friday afternoon slash evening news dump behind a paywallt
the Old Gray Lady the Athletic. They say that the
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decision has been made, that Darvin Ham is done. You're
better off as a Ham sandwich, and then the head
coaching search will will begin. Darvinham is being pull axed
from the Laker franchise. Did he get a raw deal?
Did Darvinham get a raw deal? So I'll go first here,
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I'm shaking my head. No, you knew what you were
getting yourself into when you took the gig. It's a
temp job that pays well. If you have a problem,
go back on Express Pros and they'll find you a
different job. But the the Lakers have this tremendous amount
of instability. They are dysfunctional franchise, and nobody has the
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balls and the media to talk about it because they
all want their clicks and they all want to curry
favor with the Lakers. But ever since Jerry Buss died,
the Laker franchise has been a laughing stock when it
comes into stability. Under Genie Buss, the person running the
team the Lakers the last twelve years, they will be
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on their eighth coach. They've had seven in the past
twelve years. They'll be on coach number eight. They've also
missed the playoffs. If my math is correct, seven out
of the last twelve years they missed the playoffs. They
also got eliminated in the first round a couple of times.
They did make the playoffs. The one thing that I
will say, in the context of did Darvin Haam get
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a raw deal? The one sidebar to this is you
got to think of that old Lincoln Park song friendly Fire,
because Darvin Ham did take friendly fire. Anthony Davis threw
him onto an oncoming subway train during the Denver series.
But ultimately it's on Darvin Ham because the Laker players
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did not like him. He lost the locker room, the
front office. They don't give a rats ask. He Ham
handed the coaching job, and Darvin was under fire for
his lack of in game adjustments, and if you go
by coaches challenges and all that, he was pants by
the Nuggets coach mister Malone. There absolutely pants my final point.
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We heading out of the injury report, and I've been
told I must talk about this. If not, I will
be called the fraud. So here we go. What is
your reaction? What is your reaction to Kawhi Leonard being
ruled out for the next Clipper playoff game, which, oh
by the way, is tonight against Dallas. It's a winner,
go home game. So my reaction is shoulder truck right,
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this is a contagious situation. We believe I said this
earlier in the show about hollering James. We believe that
everyone has a superpower. Now it's possible that your superpower
you can't monetize, it's not worth anything. But everyone has
a superpower. For Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers, his superpower
has been malingering. That has been a superpower. If he
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was a soldier, he would you would say he had
gone a wall because that's what he does. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and
a wall the military abbreviation for absent without leave. That
is Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi has been injured the last three postseasons,
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all of his time with the Clippers. He's been heard
he's missed one hundred and sixty one games since he
joined the People's team. And if this was another business
and you got paid that amount of money and you
missed that much time, you would be brought up on
grand larceny charges. But Kawhi Leonard, now he sits there
with a dopey look on his face on the bench
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while the team melts in front of him. La la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la la. Let me go back to my casa
in San Diego. That's the thing. It wouldn't be any
better if Kawhi actually looked like he cared and Paul
George looked like he had any kind of anger, or
God forbid, James Harden did something other than playing his
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night out at the ballet rather, you know, maybe show
some effort, perseverance, things like that. But Kawhi, it's just
so silly what this guy has pulled off. So yeah,
I'm not surprised he's not playing on the game here
in game Friday night, here tonight. But here's the thing.
I still think the Clippers are winning. They'll be a
game seven. There'll be a game seven over the weekend.
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Eddie, the Malond Militia is upset with you for ruining
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Matthew, pim I didn't do anything.
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Playing the harmless victim yet again, Matt, you're in charge
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yourself a favor and by Eddie a watch. The man
is a clock destroyer, says ferg Dog.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Matt the Warrior Raider actually said.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm not done an.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
People can He's not what he meant. Matt's not that
he's not that smart. I know, Matt. He's called he's listen. No, Matt,
that's not what he meant. Matt. I didn't change any posts.
Scrooge writes in he says, just because Eddie likes to
hear himself talk and then plays the victim of his
own incompetence.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Because another you change that one as well, I'll retweet
the actual tweet.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you can do whatever you wanted, and then Eddie
calls you an unintelligent jackass for calling him out on
his own bull crap. It annoys me that Mallard lets
that slide. Almost every day. I agree Scrooge. I should.
I should be a drill sergeant. I need to be
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a drill sergeant. I gotta be tougher. I'm gonna go
desk spot.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I have to become a tyrant. I gotta browbeat you guys, right,
I got listen. I have to and I have to
run a dictatorship here, and I'm gonna have to use
intimidation and bully tactics. That's what I have to do.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Is that the guy you want to be friends with, Lorena,
is that the guy who's your buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
These guys are out of controls. It's the wild West
around here. He's man man.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He probably should be suspended for next week with this
treatment of us.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Maybe I will, Maybe I'll only work one day next week.
Then I'll leave.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I think that's what should happen.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
I did just see my harassment training.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Did you have to do that?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Ben, let me tell you something. I have more degrees
from iHeart University than anyone. Okay, I have graduated how
many years at fifteen years? Fifty years? And they didn't
do it the first did you say fifty? Oh? See,
now Coop's rubbing off on you. Eddie is rubbing off
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on you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, No, you're rubbing off on her.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
No I'm not. She's on She's the greatest benhead of
all time. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, that'll change.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And waiting my entire life for this. And finally Ben had.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Who you'll driver to the right side, who has respect?
And she's learning, she's young, she's learning.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Bag Yeah all right. Shane from the Mooin says Ben.
Who is more over the top about their teams? Yourself
or Jason Smith? He says, great second hour monologue. I've
known Jason for years. He gets all worked up into
a ladder about his teams. I get worked up in
the mica. Really, you're you'll be the one that has
to judge that I can't. What do you want me
to tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I would say, Jason Smith talks about his teams more,
but you are more delusional about.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Your What if I said, thesion, give me an example.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Final four.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, they made the Final four, Eddie. They were in
the final four. That is a thing.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
It is a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You guys are both uneducated. Well, because people are dumb
and I'm a smart one. Anyway, Casey point, Casey car
Holler says, one improbable championship over a decade ago shouldn't
carry this much weight. Signed Dirk, it's a good shot
at Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Ferd Doog says, would you rather the Clippers be stuck
with perennially injured Kawhi, Leonard or Doc Rivers. I'll take my.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Chance with Sophie's choice right there.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Kawhi? Yeah, yeah, all right. Burner account says, I guess
this means we will never get to see Kawhi in
game seven Game seven Leonard, Oh well, I guess we'll
have to settle by watching James Vomit, Comet Harden and
pandemic p What a treat.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I'm watching a fan video of Kawhi sitting on the
bench at a recent Clipper home game, and he looks
so pissed off that he has to be there.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, they probably told him, Hey, we're paying you like
fifty million dollars, you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Gotta Yeah, you actually have to show up and sit
on the bench.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, well you think he's thinking of I'm looking at
the Davidson right, Yes, yes, Oh, I was thinking. Am
I gonna have a turkey for dinner? Maybe I'll have
the roast beef. I don't know, and I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't know what he's thinking of, but I know
what he's not thinking. I'm not thinking about basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I know that I know a good taco place back
in San Diego. I'll go there tonight after the game. Yeah,
maybe that'll happen. Anyway, it is the Ben Mather Show.
We'll take some calls here as my board is being reset,
a lot of pro bouncy while there is other stuff
going on. And we have the story of Candid Camera,
an NFL team, a couple of big names in the NFL,
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or names you've heard of, mocking and laughing at another
NFL team for what they did during this raft. Let's
go to Mark the full name Guy in Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Mark the full Name Guy.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Hello Ben Mallard. The Malatron strikes again. So I am
totally convinced that you are Malatron. You were brought here
by Alse the alien Opiner. My barrage of cliches and
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sports quotes that emanates from you live in the air everywhere.
He's got to be proof that you are actually intelligence.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, that is correct. I am so smart. I am
from another part of the outer edges of the galaxy,
far far away. It was indisputable. No one could be
as brilliant as me.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
My god, I've got some interesting jweets back and forth
with alf alien Opiner. He is the one funny fellow.
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Don't give him a big head here, don't yeh mean?
Come on?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Uh, well, we do broadcast something really nasty in no time.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, you'll you'll have a melt that, but he'll take
a breath. We broadcast from the old Limbo studio. When
he did the show from La the show comes out
of the old Limbo studio. So he used to say,
one hand tied behind his back and like blindfold it
or something like that. What what can my line be? Mark,
You're you're very creative. What should my line be?
Speaker 7 (23:08):
With half my weight left on the gym floor.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Just ripped off limb. I said, half my brain tied
behind my back, just to make it fair and all that.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
But uh yeah, half your weight left in a puddle
of sweat on the gym floor.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, Megadetto's that was terrible? Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What his next?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That was great?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Are you that was not good at all? That was
really my grandfather in law.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Do any better than that. I have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That was like, it stinks.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's necessary. Postparation is necessary for the human body. Eliminate talkings. Anyway,
you you have a toxin on your in your city.
It's called the La Clippers. That team is pathetic. I
cannot believe Kawhi Leonard is still a member of that team.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, you can't believe that one of the all time
great players Clippers. That's quite the opinions, that's quite. He
won the most improbable championship in NBA history, the Toronto Raptors.
But Toronto Raptors won the championship. The team named after
a dinosaur won the championship. The Warriors blow. Have you
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seen Steph Curry's one thousand years old Klay Thompson couldn't
hit water if he fell out a freaking boat. Okay,
Draymond Green's kicking everyone in the nuts and punching them.
The team's a disaster. The Warriors are an absolute disgrace.
They are disgraced. Do you understand? Do you understand it?
And he doesn't want to talk to you. He hates you,
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he says me all the time. He can't stand you. Hello,
he says, how boring your calls are?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Tired official intelligence and passes him offer intelligen human beings.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's a great question, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You'll hate me next week. You'll be like, why is
Molan out here? I can't believe Mother's out here? Every time?
Every time, You're gonna complain your bitch every time.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
The one thing he makes the NFL players look like
the greatest hero is in America. The way the way
he shows up and sits on the bench.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, the only problem with Kawhi is he's completely He's
got this aloofness to him, this disinterest, this detachment. Said,
it is annoying.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Bomba ever made that money.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know he worked at Microsoft. That's how he worked
at Microsoft when everyone was buying Microsoft products.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
That's how selling us out to the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Your everyone's doing that in America these days. Come out.
I get out of here, please go away? All right?
Very annoying, very very rennoying.
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As always, be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We talked about Dak Prescott's last hour.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
How about Julio Arias, former Dodgers pitcher placed on probation
for three years in order to take domestic violence treatment
program after he played no contest to charge his misdemeanor
domestic battery against his wife.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He is in his late twenties, has a career. Are
round three? Will he pitch again? We'll talk more about
that later. Will he pitch in the big legs? But Eddie,
I must do this right now. You know what I
have to do.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You know what fun fact, Ben malor fun fact?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right, here's a fun fact, Joel nbi that's a
basketball player, Eddie for the Philadelphia basketball team in the
fourth quarter against the Knickerbockers and the playoffs. Can you
say fading away Joel Embiid running out of gas, A
broken down Jelopi on the saddle the road, in the
fourth court of the playoffs, Joelle Embiid shot twenty three
percent from the floor eleven percent from three point range.
(27:00):
Joel Embiid, However, the officials loved Embiid. Embiid check this out.
The Miami Heat took sixty free throw attempts in the
playoffs their loss to the Boston Celtics. The Pelicans took
sixty four foul shot attempts in their loss to Okay
see the Thunder. In their series win took seventy foul shots.
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Joel Enbiid took seventy eight foul shots in the game
six game series against the Knicks. He took one less
foul shot than the entire Denver Nugget team against the
Lakers in that five game series. And the Nuggets with
the Joker, a multiple time MVP on their roster, how
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about this story they were gonna pie away from That
was my fun fact. But the NFL draft a bunch
of videos. There was a video a drop. I don't
know if you saw this or not. I kept getting
sent little clips of different NFL teams. What was going
on in the war room. They had cameras and all that,
but nothing quite matched at least nothing I've seen yet
the New York Jets. So the Jets were on the
(28:06):
clock with the tenth overall pick, they got a phone
call from the Minnesota football team. Minnesota had the eleventh pick,
and despite the fact that the Jets were not going
to draft a quarterback because Aaron Rodgers is coming back
and he's gonna be there on the Vikings said, all right,
(28:27):
we really want that pick. We want that tent pick.
You remember, they made the trade and they swapped picks,
and for the Jets, they ended up getting who they wanted,
who they're gonna draft anyway, an offensive lineman, and they
were also able to get a couple of extra picks
in the third round. And the camera caught Robert Sala
(28:50):
with a cheshire cat smile on his face. That's the
coach of the Jets, ear to ear as he declared
that the Vikings had just given them them free money.
All right, free money. You will also see the GM there,
Joe Douglas of the Jets, looking very happy, very happy
that the generosity of the Minnesota Vikings giving up those
(29:15):
extra pits picks. So I just kind of inside into
that kind of stuff. It's it's amusing. I found it
amusing the pure joy that the Vikings, because the Vikings
were paranoid. The Broncos were going to make a move
and they were going to go up and get JJ McCarthy,
and they ended up drafting a guy who was projected
to be a third round pick with their selections.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
That's what the Jets are done.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Ober for the Jets, Well, we have NFL on NFL crime,
how about c J. Stroud that's a quarterback for the
Houston football team, goofing on Micah Parsons and mainly goofing
on Cowboy fans were having great delusions of grandeur. And
(30:01):
now this is the same interview where Michaeh. Parsons said
he would average twenty points per game in the NBA,
which seems rather crazy, but he said it. Then CJ.
Stroud was blown away by that, said yeah, he'd he'd
be lucky if he was able to make a single shot,
before then ripping on Parsons and the rest of the
(30:22):
Cowboy Nation for being naturally delusional. The Texan starting quarterbacks
of this is crazy. I always say I would be
lucky to hit three or two. I'm realistic, fam, He's
a Cowboy. He's naturally delusional, which is accurate. Which is
accurate I know on this show based on the feedback
(30:44):
that we get from Cowboy fans when they win. We
have a certain guy that calls up every single night
when they win. When they lose, you know, he loses
my number. It just kind of happens that way. We
have malardly third degree that is warming up right now.
It's in the aven. Hopefully it's ready to go. We
might have to put it in for a couple more minutes.
Time Now for the Insta Trivia, and I know my
(31:07):
man Jerome and Charleston's gonna love this one. Blank is
the highest paid player in NBA history to go scoreless
in an elimination game in the postseason. Again, Blank the
highest paid player all time in NBA history to go
scoreless in an elimination game. That is the Insta Trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, well, Mallard of the
(31:30):
third Degree, and we will do it nags.
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Live. Today's Friday, and you're Ben Mallard.
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I love you you.
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All the week I liked him in that spot.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I really did jerk yourself away.
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Oh yes, Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday.
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Oh yes, yes, yes, who is that Shirley?
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Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's Ben Mallard with Mallard of the third Degree, Warming up.
I am on time, Mallard by the clock, four o'clock,
plausably all about the clock. Oh Eddie, here's the insta trivia.
Blank is the highest paid player in NBA history to
go scoreless in an elimination game. That is the question.
What is the answer. We go to the mal Or
Militia to see if anybody has it. Art puffin you know,
(33:05):
it's a legit answer if it's art puffing, he says,
Kawhi and trout Berg dog going with the Mickey James,
the Mickey James. Who else? C M Punk from Robin Vegas?
Who else you have? Page down? Glenn big Baby Davis
from Justin in Cincinnati looking good, looking, lean and mean?
Did he get traded to the Lakers? Penny Hardaway from
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Callaghan Tim in Michigan, Haywood workman, good name from Bay City,
Tony Rodney Carney from Fields of Green, Doctor Quinn medicine man,
guess by the King? Rory? Who else? Page down? Late
night drug tester says you are sports talk radio hater
Greg Gumble? Who is seventy eight today?
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
King of the douche is Greg Gumble? What a schmuck
he is? Thank god he's irrelevant these days. Who else
do we have? Any a lion Ola says egg two
tall jokes? Greg Gumbles a guy that tried to do
sports radio but sucked at it and so then turned
on the industry while stealing money with terrible television in
my opinion over the years, Alf the alien ol Piner
(34:13):
says John Harrison. A man named John Harrison has a
job tasting ice cream. He had tasted samples for over
of over two hundred million gallons of ice cream, and
his taste budds are insured for one million dollars. Well, good,
good for him. Mack Mood abdul Rauf from Double Ow
Mexican in San Diego. We're still getting a lot of
Poppy references. I think Poppy's done with the show. I
(34:33):
think we've chased him away. Econ Roseville, Minnesota, says Donielle Marshall.
Robbie the Marina fan going with the Beard, James Harden,
Billy Simms from Rob in Minnesota. Kurt Bavaqua from What Butvaqua?
Could it? Watery Foull Freaking boat courtesy Flusher says O
Fazzi Bear Waka Waka Waka Team Wolf guessed by Mark.
(34:55):
That's his answer. Michael Emerson from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Brutus Beefcake guessed by Donkey Sausage. Caitlin Clark from Mark
and Santa Monica. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
It does not. Ben Wallace, guest by Johnny Q.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
I do have an answer for you, Ben. It is
former Clipper legend and Lorena's favorite clipper of all time
Cherokee Parks great clipper.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's incorrect. It's also not Terry in England. Guessed by
Chris and the Moines. The correct answer, at least for now,
is seventy six Ers forward Tobias Harris at thirty nine
point two million dollars. He pitched a goose egg for
the Sixers in their game on Thursday night at home
(35:38):
against the New York basketball team. Here we got to
the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled
and we headed over to the Cooper Loop. We'll see
if he's motivated here, if he's like Kawhi and indifferent
for the third degree, mostly indifferent.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
Travis Kelcey recently spoke about his record breaking contract extension
and said that he is happy to be able to
quote move the needle for the tight end room.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Do you think Kelsey's rising tide will raise all tight
end ships? No?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And here's why it's a tremendous contract for Travis Kelcey.
It's also a golden parachute. He started declining. I realize
he played well in the postseason, but he was not
sensational during the regular season. I know for some people
that's hard to fathom. But he's only getting older. I think.
I don't think he's getting younger unless he's got some
kind of weird science. And he's getting the money for
(36:36):
two reasons. The Chiefs are really good, and he happens
to be dating a rather famous woman that has helped
the entire NFL rise up. It's a unique situation. He
does rise the money up for all the NFL tight ends,
but it's his situation cannot be matched by anyone because
(36:56):
you'd have to be dating the most famous musician in
the world. And right now she's dating him, and she
probably will not date another football player when they break up. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Speaking of the Chiefs, it's being reported that the team
expects a lengthy suspension for wide receiver with she Rice
for his involvement in a high speed car crash. They're
expecting it to be at least half the season. Then,
do you expect these suspension to be that long?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, Roger Goodell's used kid gloves. He's given some guys immunity.
Now this is on tape. There's no way around it.
The NFL is gonna have to punish him because they
can't go too light but eight is it eight or
nine games? Because you know it was seventeen games seasons,
so eight and a half games. There will be punishment,
there will be come upance, but it will not be
(37:44):
half the season. I'm gonna go six games. I'm going
six games. Rashi Rice will be out and then you
look at what the Chiefs have done this offseason. By
the time he comes back, you're looking at a number
three or number four wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Next, with Tom Brady joining the broadcast booth comes anticipation
of him calling a game in Foxborough. However, Brady is
part of the number one team for Fox and the
Patriots don't figure to be very good. Do you think
they'll have Brady call a pants game this year?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yes, because they want ratings. And it'll be I'll tell
you how it's gonna work, Coop A. It'll be a
weekend they don't have a Cowboy game because the Cowboys
Fox wins the whoever has the Cowboys wins the ratings
every week. So it'll be if you do the arithmetic,
they won't have the Cowboys. It'll be a game where
it's got to be somewhat early in the year. I'll
and the schedule is not announced yet. When the games
are like, we know who they're playing, but we don't
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know the dates. It'll be early in the year, Patriots
against a semi good opponent, and they'll hype it up.
Tom Brady returns to Foxborough and they'll get people to
watch for about five minutes until the game is a blowout.
There it is Mallard of the third degree. How did
we do?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
You pass this edition?
Speaker 8 (38:55):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Look at that no bitterness. I know you're prady. I
set you loses.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
I won
Hello and welcome. It's our nubber too, our two on
this Friday fun day, Bucks and Pacers. The conversation to
begin this hour, Where do the Bucks franchise? Where does
the Bucks franchise go from here? With Doc Rivers as
they were exterminated, Doc did not have the Midas touch.
(00:23):
He had the Satom touch, as everything he touched turned
to crap for the Milwaukee basketball team. Also other NBA news,
Darvin Ham is being poll axed from the Laker job.
Did he end up getting a raw deal? And what
is your reaction to Kawhi Leonard. He's been ruled out
from tonight's game in Dallas for the Clippers. He will
miss Game six. Clippers have to win to stay alive.
(00:45):
We'll get to all of that and much more right
now here. It is make way for our number two.
If you had Doc Rivers in the Milwaukee Bucks advancing
in the NBA playoffs, you lost your money. That is all, folks.
Well come in the beginning of another hour of the
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doc from Indianapolis Bucks Pacers Game six Eastern Opening Round
playoff series. Milwaukee got dame time back before game time,
(02:15):
looking to win and force a winner take all Game seven.
I assume you know what happened by now, but maybe
you want the details. You might not have watched and heard.
So someone named Obi toppin We're told that's a basketball player.
He scored twenty one points. A guy that looks like
he'd be playing at the local YMCA. TJ McConnell had
twenty points and nine assists, and the Indiana basketball team
(02:39):
had a laugher over the Milwaukee basketball team as the
Pacers are into the Eastern Conference semifinals for the first
time in a decade. Every ten years like clockwork, and
we will have plenty of time to give Indy its flowers.
They'll play the Knickerbockers. That series will begin on Monday.
Nicks eliminated Philadel But for our purposes now, the better
(03:03):
and bigger story is in the loser's locker room. So
let us discuss and the most interesting man in all
of Wisconsin. We start with him. Where do the Bucks
go from here with the good doctor Doc Rivers? Where
do they go from here with Glenn Rivers? So I've
got the Navy, Lincoln Park, and superpower, and we will
(03:27):
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make an air fryer because we're gonna airfry some
people right now. Number W Let me just get this
out of the way. Doc Rivers is a prolific carpet
bagger period Stop. Okay, that's Doctors. He's a shyster, he's
(03:51):
a sweet talker, he's overly charismatic. We all know people
like Doc Rivers. He's a used car salesman, and the
Bucks should have he never hired this guy in the
first place. But he's the milk of human kindness, Doc Rivers.
Even though you had the top record of these. Adrian
Griffin a boob, got to bring in Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers,
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at this point, if you're Milwaukee should be treated like
a Navy ship that's been on the oceans for many,
many years. He should be decommissioned. Rivers has become over
his time in the NBA a Rhodes scholar at excuses
and concession speeches. And I laughed when I heard what
(04:34):
he had to say after the game, because it's the
same crap that he was serving when he coached the Clippers.
It's the same nonsense he had in Philadelphia. He's got
this file. I'm convinced of it. Doc Rivers has a
file on his phone and he just types a couple
of words in. He's like, Okay, I'll repeat the same thing.
I'll just change a few names around, and while everyone
(04:56):
sinks into depression. That's that. Now we may The twenty
eight Celtics with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce won the
most improbable pro bouncy ball Championship. Wasn't the Pistons when
they beat Shaq and Kobe and all those guys in
the in the NBA finals. Now, it was not that
(05:16):
the most improbable NBA Championship is the eight Boston Celtics.
They won overcoming medical malpractice, at least coaching malpractice and
Doc Rivers. And I know the media apologists out there,
they'll play the injury card is not his fault. He's
not a real doctor. They'll play that from the bottom
(05:37):
of the deck. And to that, we say fuey, we
say foe. Dame Lillard, all right, Dame Lillard missed a
couple of games. He didn't miss all the games, and
you won. You won one of the games. He didn't
even play it. So if you own the Milwaukee Bucks,
what you should be doing is sending Doc Rivers back
(05:59):
to the boobs too. But here's a little taste of
Doc Rivers. And he talked about the mindset winning and
all of that, and let's take a list.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Winning is incredibly hard. It takes twelve to fifteen players
turning themselves into one and buying in your staff being
together as one, and then health and then you still
may not win. You know, it's just hard, and you're
not gonna win unless you're healthy or unless you're really deep.
(06:31):
So nothing you can do about it. You know, Janus
plays the way he plays and we need them to
continue to play that way. Dame probably out a season
this year where he never really get in the right
condition that he wanted because he didn't know where he
was going all summer, and so he couldn't work.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Out one thing after another, one thing after Because you
can't work out unless you know what city you're going
to play in. They don't have gyms. They don't allow
you to the gym unless you announce what city you're
gonna be playing it. They literally will ban you. They
will ban you.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's just so.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's like Doc Rivers walks into an NBA locker room
and it turns out to be a war zone by
the time he leaves. It's just so, so wonderful. But
I would have liked to have been a fly on
the wall wherever Adrian Griffin was. He can't say anything
publicly because he has a clause in his contract not
to besmirch the team that is still paying him a
(07:31):
ton of money. It's so great. I saw one of
the docs quotes. He says this all the time too.
He was asked about in wanting to win a championship
for the city of Milwaukee in the franchise, he said
because it means more to me than I think you think,
he said, And then when asked about his future with
the Bocks, Doc gave the time tested response. He went
(07:54):
to his notes on his iPhone and he said, I'm
gonna do whatever I can for this franchise. I think
we can win, and I'm going to do everything I
can to create that because it means more to me
than you think. It's the same crap that he was serving,
repackaged with a different, different bow on top. He said
(08:17):
it with the clips. He said it almost verbatim when
they gagged against the Denver Nuggets in the bubble, and
he went to Philadelphia and said the same thing, the
same thing. Under Doc Rivers, the Milwaukee basketball team was
in the bottom half of the entire NBA and offensive rating,
(08:39):
defensive rating, net rating, an overall record. That's the Bucks,
that's the box under Doc Rivers. So enjoy enjoy it.
I hope the owner of the team enjoyed every single
one of those performances, because you deserve it. You served
up an absolute herd burger, and you deserve it. Is
(09:02):
what you all right. Moving on from that, there is
a developing story, although it hasn't happened. Yet we go
to Tinseltown. We are hearing the Lakers are expected to
purge Darvin Ham. That announcement likely to come down in
a Friday afternoon slash evening news dump behind a paywallt
the Old Gray Lady the Athletic. They say that the
(09:24):
decision has been made, that Darvin Ham is done. You're
better off as a Ham sandwich, and then the head
coaching search will will begin. Darvinham is being pull axed
from the Laker franchise. Did he get a raw deal?
Did Darvinham get a raw deal? So I'll go first here,
(09:45):
I'm shaking my head. No, you knew what you were
getting yourself into when you took the gig. It's a
temp job that pays well. If you have a problem,
go back on Express Pros and they'll find you a
different job. But the the Lakers have this tremendous amount
of instability. They are dysfunctional franchise, and nobody has the
(10:07):
balls and the media to talk about it because they
all want their clicks and they all want to curry
favor with the Lakers. But ever since Jerry Buss died,
the Laker franchise has been a laughing stock when it
comes into stability. Under Genie Buss, the person running the
team the Lakers the last twelve years, they will be
(10:31):
on their eighth coach. They've had seven in the past
twelve years. They'll be on coach number eight. They've also
missed the playoffs. If my math is correct, seven out
of the last twelve years they missed the playoffs. They
also got eliminated in the first round a couple of times.
They did make the playoffs. The one thing that I
will say, in the context of did Darvin Haam get
(10:53):
a raw deal? The one sidebar to this is you
got to think of that old Lincoln Park song friendly Fire,
because Darvin Ham did take friendly fire. Anthony Davis threw
him onto an oncoming subway train during the Denver series.
But ultimately it's on Darvin Ham because the Laker players
(11:17):
did not like him. He lost the locker room, the
front office. They don't give a rats ask. He Ham
handed the coaching job, and Darvin was under fire for
his lack of in game adjustments, and if you go
by coaches challenges and all that, he was pants by
the Nuggets coach mister Malone. There absolutely pants my final point.
(11:37):
We heading out of the injury report, and I've been
told I must talk about this. If not, I will
be called the fraud. So here we go. What is
your reaction? What is your reaction to Kawhi Leonard being
ruled out for the next Clipper playoff game, which, oh
by the way, is tonight against Dallas. It's a winner,
go home game. So my reaction is shoulder truck right,
(12:02):
this is a contagious situation. We believe I said this
earlier in the show about hollering James. We believe that
everyone has a superpower. Now it's possible that your superpower
you can't monetize, it's not worth anything. But everyone has
a superpower. For Kawhi Leonard with the Clippers, his superpower
has been malingering. That has been a superpower. If he
(12:24):
was a soldier, he would you would say he had
gone a wall because that's what he does. It's not
a matter of if, it's a matter of when, and
a wall the military abbreviation for absent without leave. That
is Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi has been injured the last three postseasons,
(12:46):
all of his time with the Clippers. He's been heard
he's missed one hundred and sixty one games since he
joined the People's team. And if this was another business
and you got paid that amount of money and you
missed that much time, you would be brought up on
grand larceny charges. But Kawhi Leonard, now he sits there
with a dopey look on his face on the bench
(13:08):
while the team melts in front of him. La la
la la la la la la la la la la
la la la. Let me go back to my casa
in San Diego. That's the thing. It wouldn't be any
better if Kawhi actually looked like he cared and Paul
George looked like he had any kind of anger, or
God forbid, James Harden did something other than playing his
(13:30):
night out at the ballet rather, you know, maybe show
some effort, perseverance, things like that. But Kawhi, it's just
so silly what this guy has pulled off. So yeah,
I'm not surprised he's not playing on the game here
in game Friday night, here tonight. But here's the thing.
I still think the Clippers are winning. They'll be a
game seven. There'll be a game seven over the weekend.
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It's Ben Mallor Oh.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Eddie, the Malond Militia is upset with you for ruining
the equine pick him.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Matthew, pim I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Playing the harmless victim yet again, Matt, you're in charge
of the show, Matthew Warrior Raider fan Rights since says
Eddie took his sweet ass time making his first pick
in the in the bit and you you read the
proper amount of who am I answered, that's a bad
job by Garcia. That was one hundred percent default of
Eddie Garcia. Ferg Dog says, that's not the way you
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yourself a favor and by Eddie a watch. The man
is a clock destroyer, says ferg Dog.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Matt the Warrior Raider actually said.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm not done an.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
People can He's not what he meant. Matt's not that
he's not that smart. I know, Matt. He's called he's listen. No, Matt,
that's not what he meant. Matt. I didn't change any posts.
Scrooge writes in he says, just because Eddie likes to
hear himself talk and then plays the victim of his
own incompetence.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Because another you change that one as well, I'll retweet
the actual tweet.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you can do whatever you wanted, and then Eddie
calls you an unintelligent jackass for calling him out on
his own bull crap. It annoys me that Mallard lets
that slide. Almost every day. I agree Scrooge. I should.
I should be a drill sergeant. I need to be
(17:37):
a drill sergeant. I gotta be tougher. I'm gonna go
desk spot.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I have to become a tyrant. I gotta browbeat you guys, right,
I got listen. I have to and I have to
run a dictatorship here, and I'm gonna have to use
intimidation and bully tactics. That's what I have to do.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Is that the guy you want to be friends with, Lorena,
is that the guy who's your buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
These guys are out of controls. It's the wild West
around here. He's man man.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He probably should be suspended for next week with this
treatment of us.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Maybe I will, Maybe I'll only work one day next week.
Then I'll leave.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I think that's what should happen.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
I did just see my harassment training.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Did you have to do that?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Ben, let me tell you something. I have more degrees
from iHeart University than anyone. Okay, I have graduated how
many years at fifteen years? Fifty years? And they didn't
do it the first did you say fifty? Oh? See,
now Coop's rubbing off on you. Eddie is rubbing off
(18:39):
on you.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, No, you're rubbing off on her.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
No I'm not. She's on She's the greatest benhead of
all time. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, that'll change.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And waiting my entire life for this. And finally Ben had.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Who you'll driver to the right side, who has respect?
And she's learning, she's young, she's learning.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Bag Yeah all right. Shane from the Mooin says Ben.
Who is more over the top about their teams? Yourself
or Jason Smith? He says, great second hour monologue. I've
known Jason for years. He gets all worked up into
a ladder about his teams. I get worked up in
the mica. Really, you're you'll be the one that has
to judge that I can't. What do you want me
to tell you?
Speaker 8 (19:17):
I would say, Jason Smith talks about his teams more,
but you are more delusional about.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Your What if I said, thesion, give me an example.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Final four.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Yeah, they made the Final four, Eddie. They were in
the final four. That is a thing.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
It is a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You guys are both uneducated. Well, because people are dumb
and I'm a smart one. Anyway, Casey point, Casey car
Holler says, one improbable championship over a decade ago shouldn't
carry this much weight. Signed Dirk, it's a good shot
at Doc Rivers.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Ferd Doog says, would you rather the Clippers be stuck
with perennially injured Kawhi, Leonard or Doc Rivers. I'll take my.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Chance with Sophie's choice right there.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Kawhi? Yeah, yeah, all right. Burner account says, I guess
this means we will never get to see Kawhi in
game seven Game seven Leonard, Oh well, I guess we'll
have to settle by watching James Vomit, Comet Harden and
pandemic p What a treat.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I'm watching a fan video of Kawhi sitting on the
bench at a recent Clipper home game, and he looks
so pissed off that he has to be there.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, they probably told him, Hey, we're paying you like
fifty million dollars, you.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Gotta Yeah, you actually have to show up and sit
on the bench.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Yeah, well you think he's thinking of I'm looking at
the Davidson right, Yes, yes, Oh, I was thinking. Am
I gonna have a turkey for dinner? Maybe I'll have
the roast beef. I don't know, and I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't know what he's thinking of, but I know
what he's not thinking. I'm not thinking about basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I know that I know a good taco place back
in San Diego. I'll go there tonight after the game. Yeah,
maybe that'll happen. Anyway, it is the Ben Mather Show.
We'll take some calls here as my board is being reset,
a lot of pro bouncy while there is other stuff
going on. And we have the story of Candid Camera,
an NFL team, a couple of big names in the NFL,
(21:23):
or names you've heard of, mocking and laughing at another
NFL team for what they did during this raft. Let's
go to Mark the full name Guy in Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Mark the full Name Guy.
Speaker 7 (21:35):
Hello Ben Mallard. The Malatron strikes again. So I am
totally convinced that you are Malatron. You were brought here
by Alse the alien Opiner. My barrage of cliches and
(21:56):
sports quotes that emanates from you live in the air everywhere.
He's got to be proof that you are actually intelligence.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, that is correct. I am so smart. I am
from another part of the outer edges of the galaxy,
far far away. It was indisputable. No one could be
as brilliant as me.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
My god, I've got some interesting jweets back and forth
with alf alien Opiner. He is the one funny fellow.
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Don't give him a big head here, don't yeh mean?
Come on?
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Uh, well, we do broadcast something really nasty in no time.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, you'll you'll have a melt that, but he'll take
a breath. We broadcast from the old Limbo studio. When
he did the show from La the show comes out
of the old Limbo studio. So he used to say,
one hand tied behind his back and like blindfold it
or something like that. What what can my line be? Mark,
You're you're very creative. What should my line be?
Speaker 7 (23:08):
With half my weight left on the gym floor.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Just ripped off limb. I said, half my brain tied
behind my back, just to make it fair and all that.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
But uh yeah, half your weight left in a puddle
of sweat on the gym floor.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
All right, Megadetto's that was terrible? Okay?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
What his next?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
That was great?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Are you that was not good at all? That was
really my grandfather in law.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Do any better than that. I have to think about that.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That was like, it stinks.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
It's necessary. Postparation is necessary for the human body. Eliminate talkings. Anyway,
you you have a toxin on your in your city.
It's called the La Clippers. That team is pathetic. I
cannot believe Kawhi Leonard is still a member of that team.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, you can't believe that one of the all time
great players Clippers. That's quite the opinions, that's quite. He
won the most improbable championship in NBA history, the Toronto Raptors.
But Toronto Raptors won the championship. The team named after
a dinosaur won the championship. The Warriors blow. Have you
(24:29):
seen Steph Curry's one thousand years old Klay Thompson couldn't
hit water if he fell out a freaking boat. Okay,
Draymond Green's kicking everyone in the nuts and punching them.
The team's a disaster. The Warriors are an absolute disgrace.
They are disgraced. Do you understand? Do you understand it?
And he doesn't want to talk to you. He hates you,
(24:50):
he says me all the time. He can't stand you. Hello,
he says, how boring your calls are?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Tired official intelligence and passes him offer intelligen human beings.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's a great question, it is.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
You'll hate me next week. You'll be like, why is
Molan out here? I can't believe Mother's out here? Every time?
Every time, You're gonna complain your bitch every time.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
The one thing he makes the NFL players look like
the greatest hero is in America. The way the way
he shows up and sits on the bench.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, the only problem with Kawhi is he's completely He's
got this aloofness to him, this disinterest, this detachment. Said,
it is annoying.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Bomba ever made that money.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know he worked at Microsoft. That's how he worked
at Microsoft when everyone was buying Microsoft products.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
That's how selling us out to the Chinese.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Your everyone's doing that in America these days. Come out.
I get out of here, please go away? All right?
Very annoying, very very rennoying.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
As always, be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
We talked about Dak Prescott's last hour.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
How about Julio Arias, former Dodgers pitcher placed on probation
for three years in order to take domestic violence treatment
program after he played no contest to charge his misdemeanor
domestic battery against his wife.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
He is in his late twenties, has a career. Are
round three? Will he pitch again? We'll talk more about
that later. Will he pitch in the big legs? But Eddie,
I must do this right now. You know what I
have to do.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You know what fun fact, Ben malor fun fact?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
All right, here's a fun fact, Joel nbi that's a
basketball player, Eddie for the Philadelphia basketball team in the
fourth quarter against the Knickerbockers and the playoffs. Can you
say fading away Joel Embiid running out of gas, A
broken down Jelopi on the saddle the road, in the
fourth court of the playoffs, Joelle Embiid shot twenty three
percent from the floor eleven percent from three point range.
(27:00):
Joel Embiid, However, the officials loved Embiid. Embiid check this out.
The Miami Heat took sixty free throw attempts in the
playoffs their loss to the Boston Celtics. The Pelicans took
sixty four foul shot attempts in their loss to Okay
see the Thunder. In their series win took seventy foul shots.
(27:20):
Joel Enbiid took seventy eight foul shots in the game
six game series against the Knicks. He took one less
foul shot than the entire Denver Nugget team against the
Lakers in that five game series. And the Nuggets with
the Joker, a multiple time MVP on their roster, how
(27:43):
about this story they were gonna pie away from That
was my fun fact. But the NFL draft a bunch
of videos. There was a video a drop. I don't
know if you saw this or not. I kept getting
sent little clips of different NFL teams. What was going
on in the war room. They had cameras and all that,
but nothing quite matched at least nothing I've seen yet
the New York Jets. So the Jets were on the
(28:06):
clock with the tenth overall pick, they got a phone
call from the Minnesota football team. Minnesota had the eleventh pick,
and despite the fact that the Jets were not going
to draft a quarterback because Aaron Rodgers is coming back
and he's gonna be there on the Vikings said, all right,
(28:27):
we really want that pick. We want that tent pick.
You remember, they made the trade and they swapped picks,
and for the Jets, they ended up getting who they wanted,
who they're gonna draft anyway, an offensive lineman, and they
were also able to get a couple of extra picks
in the third round. And the camera caught Robert Sala
(28:50):
with a cheshire cat smile on his face. That's the
coach of the Jets, ear to ear as he declared
that the Vikings had just given them them free money.
All right, free money. You will also see the GM there,
Joe Douglas of the Jets, looking very happy, very happy
that the generosity of the Minnesota Vikings giving up those
(29:15):
extra pits picks. So I just kind of inside into
that kind of stuff. It's it's amusing. I found it
amusing the pure joy that the Vikings, because the Vikings
were paranoid. The Broncos were going to make a move
and they were going to go up and get JJ McCarthy,
and they ended up drafting a guy who was projected
to be a third round pick with their selections.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
That's what the Jets are done.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Ober for the Jets, Well, we have NFL on NFL crime,
how about c J. Stroud that's a quarterback for the
Houston football team, goofing on Micah Parsons and mainly goofing
on Cowboy fans were having great delusions of grandeur. And
(30:01):
now this is the same interview where Michaeh. Parsons said
he would average twenty points per game in the NBA,
which seems rather crazy, but he said it. Then CJ.
Stroud was blown away by that, said yeah, he'd he'd
be lucky if he was able to make a single shot,
before then ripping on Parsons and the rest of the
(30:22):
Cowboy Nation for being naturally delusional. The Texan starting quarterbacks
of this is crazy. I always say I would be
lucky to hit three or two. I'm realistic, fam, He's
a Cowboy. He's naturally delusional, which is accurate. Which is
accurate I know on this show based on the feedback
(30:44):
that we get from Cowboy fans when they win. We
have a certain guy that calls up every single night
when they win. When they lose, you know, he loses
my number. It just kind of happens that way. We
have malardly third degree that is warming up right now.
It's in the aven. Hopefully it's ready to go. We
might have to put it in for a couple more minutes.
Time Now for the Insta Trivia, and I know my
(31:07):
man Jerome and Charleston's gonna love this one. Blank is
the highest paid player in NBA history to go scoreless
in an elimination game in the postseason. Again, Blank the
highest paid player all time in NBA history to go
scoreless in an elimination game. That is the Insta Trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, well, Mallard of the
(31:30):
third Degree, and we will do it nags.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to
listen live live.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
Live. Today's Friday, and you're Ben Mallard.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Who he talking to?
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Like?
Speaker 7 (31:57):
I love you you.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
All the week I liked him in that spot.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I really did jerk yourself away.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Oh yes, Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Oh yes, yes, yes, who is that Shirley?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The show is over? Goodbye, Not quite yet.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
The Ben Mallor Show is archive in the audio vault
for posterity, say, giving those work in the dreaded Dat
Show the chance to consume the audio buffet. Follow us
both The Ben Mallor Show and Fifth Hour with Ben
Mallard podcasts are always free and filled with fun for
every man, woman and child. And now live from the
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Speaker 1 (32:41):
It's Ben Mallard with Mallard of the third Degree, Warming up.
I am on time, Mallard by the clock, four o'clock,
plausably all about the clock. Oh Eddie, here's the insta trivia.
Blank is the highest paid player in NBA history to
go scoreless in an elimination game. That is the question.
What is the answer. We go to the mal Or
Militia to see if anybody has it. Art puffin you know,
(33:05):
it's a legit answer if it's art puffing, he says,
Kawhi and trout Berg dog going with the Mickey James,
the Mickey James. Who else? C M Punk from Robin Vegas?
Who else you have? Page down? Glenn big Baby Davis
from Justin in Cincinnati looking good, looking, lean and mean?
Did he get traded to the Lakers? Penny Hardaway from
(33:27):
Callaghan Tim in Michigan, Haywood workman, good name from Bay City,
Tony Rodney Carney from Fields of Green, Doctor Quinn medicine man,
guess by the King? Rory? Who else? Page down? Late
night drug tester says you are sports talk radio hater
Greg Gumble? Who is seventy eight today?
Speaker 7 (33:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
King of the douche is Greg Gumble? What a schmuck
he is? Thank god he's irrelevant these days. Who else
do we have? Any a lion Ola says egg two
tall jokes? Greg Gumbles a guy that tried to do
sports radio but sucked at it and so then turned
on the industry while stealing money with terrible television in
my opinion over the years, Alf the alien ol Piner
(34:13):
says John Harrison. A man named John Harrison has a
job tasting ice cream. He had tasted samples for over
of over two hundred million gallons of ice cream, and
his taste budds are insured for one million dollars. Well, good,
good for him. Mack Mood abdul Rauf from Double Ow
Mexican in San Diego. We're still getting a lot of
Poppy references. I think Poppy's done with the show. I
(34:33):
think we've chased him away. Econ Roseville, Minnesota, says Donielle Marshall.
Robbie the Marina fan going with the Beard, James Harden,
Billy Simms from Rob in Minnesota. Kurt Bavaqua from What Butvaqua?
Could it? Watery Foull Freaking boat courtesy Flusher says O
Fazzi Bear Waka Waka Waka Team Wolf guessed by Mark.
(34:55):
That's his answer. Michael Emerson from Milkman Mike in Colorado.
Brutus Beefcake guessed by Donkey Sausage. Caitlin Clark from Mark
and Santa Monica. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer?
It does not. Ben Wallace, guest by Johnny Q.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
I do have an answer for you, Ben. It is
former Clipper legend and Lorena's favorite clipper of all time
Cherokee Parks great clipper.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
That's incorrect. It's also not Terry in England. Guessed by
Chris and the Moines. The correct answer, at least for now,
is seventy six Ers forward Tobias Harris at thirty nine
point two million dollars. He pitched a goose egg for
the Sixers in their game on Thursday night at home
(35:38):
against the New York basketball team. Here we got to
the third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled
and we headed over to the Cooper Loop. We'll see
if he's motivated here, if he's like Kawhi and indifferent
for the third degree, mostly indifferent.
Speaker 8 (36:01):
Travis Kelcey recently spoke about his record breaking contract extension
and said that he is happy to be able to
quote move the needle for the tight end room.
Speaker 7 (36:10):
Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:10):
Do you think Kelsey's rising tide will raise all tight
end ships? No?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And here's why it's a tremendous contract for Travis Kelcey.
It's also a golden parachute. He started declining. I realize
he played well in the postseason, but he was not
sensational during the regular season. I know for some people
that's hard to fathom. But he's only getting older. I think.
I don't think he's getting younger unless he's got some
kind of weird science. And he's getting the money for
(36:36):
two reasons. The Chiefs are really good, and he happens
to be dating a rather famous woman that has helped
the entire NFL rise up. It's a unique situation. He
does rise the money up for all the NFL tight ends,
but it's his situation cannot be matched by anyone because
(36:56):
you'd have to be dating the most famous musician in
the world. And right now she's dating him, and she
probably will not date another football player when they break up. Next.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
Speaking of the Chiefs, it's being reported that the team
expects a lengthy suspension for wide receiver with she Rice
for his involvement in a high speed car crash. They're
expecting it to be at least half the season. Then,
do you expect these suspension to be that long?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, Roger Goodell's used kid gloves. He's given some guys immunity.
Now this is on tape. There's no way around it.
The NFL is gonna have to punish him because they
can't go too light but eight is it eight or
nine games? Because you know it was seventeen games seasons,
so eight and a half games. There will be punishment,
there will be come upance, but it will not be
(37:44):
half the season. I'm gonna go six games. I'm going
six games. Rashi Rice will be out and then you
look at what the Chiefs have done this offseason. By
the time he comes back, you're looking at a number
three or number four wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Next, with Tom Brady joining the broadcast booth comes anticipation
of him calling a game in Foxborough. However, Brady is
part of the number one team for Fox and the
Patriots don't figure to be very good. Do you think
they'll have Brady call a pants game this year?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yes, because they want ratings. And it'll be I'll tell
you how it's gonna work, Coop A. It'll be a
weekend they don't have a Cowboy game because the Cowboys
Fox wins the whoever has the Cowboys wins the ratings
every week. So it'll be if you do the arithmetic,
they won't have the Cowboys. It'll be a game where
it's got to be somewhat early in the year. I'll
and the schedule is not announced yet. When the games
are like, we know who they're playing, but we don't
(38:34):
know the dates. It'll be early in the year, Patriots
against a semi good opponent, and they'll hype it up.
Tom Brady returns to Foxborough and they'll get people to
watch for about five minutes until the game is a blowout.
There it is Mallard of the third degree. How did
we do?
Speaker 7 (38:54):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
You pass this edition?
Speaker 8 (38:55):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Look at that no bitterness. I know you're prady. I
set you loses.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
I won
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