May 22, 2024 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about the Pacers losing Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, reports that Jalen Brunson will accept a huge pay cut to stay with the Knicks, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Com away tire buying should be. It's kind of obvious
what our lead is. I don't think I need to
tell you. From the Commonwealth, the curtain went up. The
flag is up on the Eastern Conference Finals, and a
very unusual thing happened. This was actually a game that
we can spend time talking about. It was not boring,
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It was not on eventful. There were things that actually
happened on the iconic par que as Boston a cord
to the odds makers, a huge mismatch. In fact, this
is a game the sharps took a bath on and
the public did very well. Boston a ten point favorite.
In fact, the wise guys who hadn't seen this big
a favorite in the Conference finals since the Jordan Bulls
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back in the nineties, and it certainly didn't start out
that way. If you saw the game, you know what
I'm talking about. Maybe I missed it, you weren't into it.
But Jalen Brown the headliner twenty six points, and he
made the game time sirked a shot like moneyball Mallor
in the final seconds there. In fact, there were six
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point one seconds on the clock in regulation, and the
Celtics rally back in overtime, they get to win one
thirty three to one to twenty eight, and they steal game,
won a game that the Pacers had right up until
they rode the vomit comet in the late stages of
the fourth quarter. There, Jason Tatum had thirty six points.
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I didn't even play it all. Oh you had thirty
six points, no ten in overtime, and the Celtics get
the win, drew Holiday a season high twenty eight points
for Boston. There they take a one to zero series
lead in the Conference Finals. Game two will be on
Thursday back in Boston. But the better story, you know
where it is the losing locker room and oh how
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great the nectar of the gods? What happened in this game?
So the question did the Celtics win the game because
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum stepped up? Or did the
Pacers lose the game? I think you know the answer.
I've got NonStop flight, presidential and Switzerland, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are going
to make the Boston cream Pie, which is what the
Celtics threw at the face of the Indiana basketball team.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
My God. To answer the question, if you didn't see it,
I'll walk you through it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But this is clearly pointing the direction of the team
from the Hoosier State. Whoa, that was a cosmic struggle.
At the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You get one job, get one job. At the end
of the game. You couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Andy End is up three with ten seconds to go
in the game, got a three point lead. Just inbound
the ball. The Celtics are going to give you a foul.
You make one of the foul shots. For all intensive purposes.
The game's over. You had possession of the ball. Possession
is nine tenths of victory, and you screwed it up.
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It's just it's just wonderful. And then you screwed it
up again. So the game was in the bag. And
then the Pacers decide, you know what we're gonna do.
We're gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They took defeat from the jaws of it victory. Very impressive. Now,
Tyrese Haliburton, in the late stages they were over, he
dribbled the ball off his foot in a big mom
What a klutz, as my grandfather would say. But the
real dunce cap of Dune Caps goes to someone named
Andrew Nebhard, who is booking a flight on it's a
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one way flight. It's a NonStop, one way flight, NonStop flight,
one way Panic City, because that's where he was. He
was at Panic City. Nebhard on the inbounds played with
ten seconds to go in the game, did the thing
you can't do at the time. You can't do it
a terrible pass and then it bounced off. Pascal siakam
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our favorite player in the Indiana basketball team, but overall
final five point thirty regulation and he had more turnovers
than field goals made, and the moment was too big.
They choked. They that's an absolute Choker's not. The Celtics
were the better team and this game was there for
Indiana was right there, and they gave it back. If
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you want to crown them, you can crown the rass
the Celtics, but they didn't play well all right now, postgame,
Jalen Brown was lunch than pleased in his postgame media situation.
There with the Celtics' overall performance, he was asked what
the difference was in overtime fact that we have the
audio on this. Here's do we have Jalen Brown? Yes,
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all right, we have Jalen We do not Coople Loop
did not get the Sun. I sent it to him
an hour and a half ago. All right, well, I'll
just tell you what he said. So, when asked what
was different in overtime for the Celtics, Jalen Brown said,
quote JT finally woke up, meaning Jason Tatum made some baskets,
made some baskets. Can you decode this one? Can you
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decode this one? So it's rather obvious. I wish you
could hear it, but apparently can't. But anyway, listen, Jalen
Brown did not nibble around the edges. He said it postgame,
he said it. And the way I decoded this and
I have a decota ring is he got a mulligan.
Jason Tatum was given a presidential pardon. This was a
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hollow win by the Celtics. Tatum missed a wide open
pull up three ball if you saw with thirty six
seconds to go. That has forgotten because Boston won the game.
But he missed a wide open three point shot with
thirty six seconds to go, and in the fourth quarter,
so one point game going to the fourth quarter. But
Jason Tatum took seven shots from the floor and missed
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five of them. I didn't play in the NBA, but
I don't think that's good. He was bailed out. He
was bailed out by a bad pass by Indiana and
Jalen Brown taking and making a three point shot while
Pascal Siakam. Not only did they not foul, Siakam put
his hands behind his back, but he's like, I put
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my hand like I'm being handcuffed. I'm putting my hands
behind my back because I do know what to get
called for a foul when you should have just tackled
Jalen Brown. But hey, that's not after the fact, I
was screaming at my television as what are you doing.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But Jason Tatum thirty six points, and it's another onse
weird things that happens a lot in sports where someone
has a sexy stat line and the uneducated fan, the
fan that doesn't know what they're watching or they're just fanboys,
they're oh, he played so well, Jason Tittum at thirty
six points. It didn't play well. He took twenty six shots.
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He got ten from the charity stripe, but twenty six
points on twenty six field goal attempts, which is not
very efficient. Forget saved by the bell, how about it
also saved by the referees. Tony Brothers should get a
game ball and his crew from Joe Missoula. Tony Brothers
should absolutely get a game ball. Twenty four of thirty
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from the charity stripe. The Boston basketball team Indiana was
nine of ten. So clearly Boston and took many more
shots around the basket. That's why they got fouled unless
they didn't. The Celtics attempted forty five three point shots
forty five Indiana took a lot to thirty five. This
was some old fashioned meddling by the official. Now this
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Indiana also turned the ball over. Multiple things can be true.
At the same time. Indiana didn't play well. They had
the game, they blew it even with all that, but
both teams were sloppy. Both teams were sloppy. Boston happened
to have a night watchman with a whistle to help them,
so you had that, all right, last word here. So
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in the lead up to this game, Indiana's Miles Turner,
who I believe he looked like Reggie Miller in the
first half. Maybe I was imagining that, but Miles Turner
of the Pacers said that everybody's quote, everybody and their
mother is rooting for the Celtics. Is that how you see?
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I contemplated this because I have no life, and I
determined that this is bullshoi, as they say in Russia,
the Bolshoi ballet. So I'm gonna shake my head no
on this. The Celtics are not media darters. They have
more of a national fan base because there are people
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who are from Boston. All over the country. There's people
that like the Celtics is they've won more championships than
anybody in the NBA. All their championships as Boston Lakers
count the ones from Minnesota, which is fraudulent. We all
know that. So the Celtics have the most championships. But
the Celtics are not the darling of the NBA right
now if you're talking about Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
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and part of Connecticut, because there's that weird point of
demarcation where like part of Connecticut likes New York sports
and then there's part that like the Boston Sports, but
it's more I think it's more New York than than
Boston when I've been there. Anyway, the rest of the country,
the rest of the country, when you look at the
Celtics and you're like, it's like Switzerland, you're neutral as
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can be when it comes to that. You don't really
hate them. They're not really hateable like some old Celtic teams.
And you also like the chocolate. You like you like
getting chocolate, you like that, just like Switzerland. But outside
of ex Bostonians, it's not universal support. Jason Tatum, for
all the accolades that he's gotten over his career as
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the face of the Celtics, does not have that widespread
slobber slab or slobber where everyone genuflects to him and
the Celtics team. They have not yet captured the heart,
mind and soul of the average Drabbroni. Now, if they win,
and they do it with Gusto and Rasmataz, we're going
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to have that happen because that's part of the package.
That's the all inclusive package when you win a championship.
The band Wagner as our old friend Blair and Man
used to say that fan will go gaga, and we
saw it with Golden State when they had their run.
And we'll see what what transpires here with the Sells.
But they win, and then of course that will be
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the case. But right now, answer Myles Turner question. Miles
Turner's question, I don't I don't see that.
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But we'll get back to the Celtics getting a gift
from the Indiana basketball team. Shocking that we've been on
the air for over an hour on a major sports
talk radio station in Indianapolis and have pitched a shutout
on Pacervase. You would think the Pacer fan would want
to call up and bash the team, but not one
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Pacer fan has called up to critique the performance of
the Indiana Pacers. We'll we cover the spread. Okay, you
had the game in the bag. It was in the bag,
and you cut a hole in the bag. Put our
headline this hour from the speculation machine. Know it is
not about the Western Conference Game one, Western Conference Finals
Game one, which is later on here on Wednesday. But
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more noise, The Naked City never sleeps. More noise out
of the Big Apple say what so he might know
where I'm going with this, but maybe not. I thought
this was a fascinating tale, so I thought we'd spend
a couple of minutes talking about it. The story out
of the Big Apple saying that Jalen Brunson, that's a
basketball player that plays for the New York basketball team,
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is open to signing a massive contract this summer, which
would help the Knicks out would do a solid for
the Knickerbockers. But here's the thing. He would be leaving
a ton of dough, really delicious dough, sugary, light, fluffy
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dough on the table. So you make the call, right,
you make the call. Now, the tabloids in New York
City say that Brunson is willing to sign a four
year contract for one hundred and fifty six million. That's
a great amount of money. Now, after you pay the
New York tax and the federal tax, that's about fifty bucks,
maybe fifty six bucks. That might give you a break,
give you an extra six bucks, but over one hundred
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and fifty six million contract total extension after taxes, again, it's.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
About fifty six bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And he can sign that this summer. Now, that's a
lot of money. It's a great mitzvah to get that
kind of mind's wonderful. However, if Jalen Brunson waits a
little bit, he's got a bet on himself, right, bets
on himself. Jalen Brunson can sign a five year contract
for two hundred and seventy million dead presidents. That can
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happen the summer of twenty twenty five, So would you again,
you make the call here, Jalen Runson said, He said
quota's report, he said, to be opened, leaving over one
hundred million dollars on the table to sign with the
Knicks this summer to do them a solid.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Could you actually see this happy? You make the call
on this one.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So I've got nonprofit charitable organization, candy Land, and traffic
ticket Quota. We'll combine all these things together and we
are going to make a hot dog stand, which.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
They don't have.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I've been in New York the last couple times I've
been in New York day they don't have as many
hot dog stands as they used to have back in
the old day. You get a lot of flaffel now,
a lot of flafful, not a lot of hot dog stands.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a lot of stands in general.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Last time I was in New York anyway, Number one,
to answer the question, could you actually see Jalen Brunson
leave one hundred plus million dollars sitting there on the
table to help the Knickerbockers out. I am agnostic on
this one. I am not a believer. This is risky business.
He's already got fu money. He's already got a lot
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of money, assuming he's not frivolous with his money. Jalen
Brunson already has enough money. He shouldn't have to work,
so as well he doesn't need the money. Well, you
say that, when you say it's not about the money,
it's always about the money. And JA, I know that
Jalen Brunson is rooted in Gotham. I get that he's beloved,
He's everything carb Llo Anthony was supposed to be in
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a bag of chips. I understand that. But leaving money
on the table in that business is a sin, and
really in any business, it's a cardinal sin. And it's
certainly easier said than done. It's easier for some blow
hard or he should leave money on the table and
all that. I don't know about you, but I do
not leave money on the table. I take all eighteen
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dollars and seventy two cents. I get paid here every hour. Yeah,
but we are in a Missouri show me state of mind,
a Missouri show me state of monol. In my life
commentating on sports nonsense, I can count on one hand
and have extra fingers the time that the times overall
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that I've seen people leave money on the table, took
less money.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Do the team solid? Do the team solid?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And while I understand rich is rich, and I get that,
Jalen Runson if he left one hundred and whatever it
is million on the tail, fourteen million per year on
the table extra money, the NBA Players Association would be
upset with jalb Brons, like, what are you doing you, Jamoke?
What's wrong with you? Your big dumbball? What are you
doing now? Giving a break also to the Knickerbockers. I
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was gonna kick when big companies claim poverty and the
Knicks are not claiming poverty. But James Dolan needs extra
money to spy on customers, right, doesn't that what he
does at Massive Square Garden in the other place. I
get you in trouble for that, but face recognition cameras
and all that. But giving a break to the Knickerbockers.
Who were they a non profit charitable organization unless they're
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actually worth six almost seven billion dollars?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Say why?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And with the TV money the great unknown, The NBA
is about to sign new partnerships with possibly NBC, Netflix.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Might who know?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, there's it's a open world there where the
NBA is going to get their TV money. They're going
to get their TV money. So our position is that
while Jalen Brunson this is being floated out makes him
look like a good guy, looks a wonderful guy and
all that, our position is the when everything is done,
it will be not a dimeback, no givebacks, that Brunson
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will not end up signing that contract the summer.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Now we'll see be surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But my money, if you gave me a thousand dollars
of funny money, my money is that Jalen Brunson does
not end up taking less money. Now we go to
La La Land, where the Lakers have a vacancy. They
whack their coach because their team gagged. They got old
Lebron and Anthony Davis who vanishes for a half here
or a half there, so they had to fire the coach.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I read that this is quite the story. I don't
even saw this.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The Lakers are said to be infatuated with JJ Reddick
and what he conceivably would be as a head coach.
Viewing him, I love this as a pat riley like
coaching prospect and could help the franchise short term and
I love this part. Long term, could lead the team
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for years to come. It's what we call in the
business the money quote. It was buried behind a paywall,
the Old Gray Lady, the Athletic. So the Lakers think
JJ Reddick has pat riley like potential.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
What do you make of that report?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So you are a coaching prospect, apparently, JJ Redick. Any
prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And as Bill
Parcells taught me when I was a little kid, potential
is stuff you haven't done. Things you have not done
that is potential, and that's the way it is. But
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what I took away from this is it's good to
have friends in influential positions. This was obviously coming from
JJ Reddick. It reads like his mom wrote it. It's
like it's from his publicist, My god, gloating all over,
dotting all over JJ Reddick. Albert Einstein of coaching JJ Reddick.
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This is Candy Land commentary, sugarcoated, and the longevity in
La Laland.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Is a myth. The Laker coaching job is a temp job.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Since nineteen ninety nine, there's only been one coach that's
lasted more than a few seasons, more than three seasons.
That's Phil Jackson. They've had ten coaches other than Phil
Jackson since nineteen ninety nine, ten and nobody's lasted more
than three years. Now, I do endorse JJ Reddick. I
never saw a player miss more clutch shots in his
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life than JJ Reddick with the Lob City Clippers. And
it took Doc Rivers like two or three seasons before
he finally realized this guy is lacking the clutch gen
JJ Reddick. He's one of the great shooters of all
time in the first quarter, second quarter, the third quarter,
but as a player in the fourth quarter, there's no one,
no one I would rather have take a shot less
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than JJ Reddick in a big spot. So if he
coaches like that, he'll be great for three quarters and
then just futs away the game in the fourth quarter,
and more importantly, get him off television because he blows right.
It's very hard when you're doing a basketball game to
sound like as a viewer you want to punch the
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guy calling the game. Part of what we do here
on some level is likability, Like you have to be
somewhat likable, JJ Reddick.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
There's nothing likable about the guy, the way he talks.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's got this duke elitism, this smarmy arrogance from JJ Reddick,
and just get him off television. And my god, pat
Riley is a straight shooter. I don't think of JJ
Reddick like a straight shooter. And I talk to guys
that were around the Lakers when Riley started he was
a broadcaster, said, well, JJ Reddick's a broadcaster.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
The thing about right, Well, he wore nice suits.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right at that time, there were a lot of coaches
dressed like slobs, like Doug mo and Don Nelson and
people like that, and pat Riley dress like he just professional.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
But in terms of his commentary, he was a straight shooter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, I remember Big Joe McDonald who used to
be big LA radio guy. He passed away, but he
tell me stories about the Lakers in those days and
what it was like and being around them, and Riley
would he would tell if somebody sucked, he would tell
the media. I don't know that JJ Reddy doesn't seem
like Reddicks that kind of guy, all right now, final point,
Speaking of broadcasting, another story made the rounds this week
claiming that the NBA did not appreciate the dulcetones of
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Jeff Van Gundy. I did not like him. He criticized
the officiating, He criticized a lot of things in the NBA,
And so the league complained to the small fledgling cable
channel out of Bristol, Connecticut called ESPN now.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
The Athletic Athletic.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
They said there is no proof, no proof that the
league ordered his banishment Van Gundy, but they suggested that
the NBA did play a role in Jeff Van Gundy's
departure from television.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
So where are you at on this one? So this
is a bit of a rerun.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We talked about this when Van Gundy was whacked as
a commentator and in he took a job with the Celtics.
But it's a low level job with the Celtics and
all that. But I absolutely believed the conspiracy theory that
was going around, and I don't even think it's a
conspiracy theory at the time. I believe it to be
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true that people the NBA have thin skin, they have
salamander skin. And it's while the story the way it
was reported, it's being reported this way again. It's one
of these semantical arguments. Having been in the game, been
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around relationships between sports teams and leagues and broadcast companies.
I know what normally happens. I don't think this is
any different than what normally happens my experience in the business.
It's kind of like traffic ticket quotas. In many states.
Did you know it's illegal for the police to have quotas.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You can't have there's no quota allowed to write certain
number of traffic tickets every month. However, what I've heard
is cops are encouraged to write tickets. That's why usually
at the beginning of the month and not that many
tickets at the end of the month. You're trying to
meet your unofficial official quota. So while the NBA, I
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don't believe sent a message via email or text messaging saying, hey,
we got to get rid of this Van Gundy guy.
Whack this guy, he's terrible, they just didn't have a
problem with it, and they sent out a few messages
critiquing his performance. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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Speaker 4 (27:04):
Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
To the third.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Degree, this is one thing that gets called Coop dhal loop.
He's got his headphones, he's got a bike.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
He's ready to The NBA will crown a different champion
for the sixth year in a row. A streak like
this hasn't happened since nineteen seventy six through nineteen eighty, Ben,
do you think this kind of parody is good for
the NBA?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yes, but it's bad for those of us to do
talk radio. It's bad for what I do. But for
the business of the NBA, it's good because now it
at least gives the perception that a bunch of teams
have a chance to win a championship. My entire life
that has not been the case. But it's bad for
talk radio because nobody really gives a rats ass about
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most of these teams nationally.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Next, Anthony Edwards recently saying the praises of head coach
Chris Finch, calling him the best coach in the NBA.
Ben Finch has led the Tea Wolves to the playoffs
in each of his three years at the Helm.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You think he's underrated, I wouldn't say underrated. I like
the story though. First of all, he's not some former
star player. He's spent his life in coaching. He's in
his mid fifties. He's not like an overnight celebrity and
all that. So I like that he's paid his dues
and he's had success, and he was coaching a bunch
of other teams as an assistant, So why not. I
(28:22):
like it, But he's not underrated.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Next, yesterday you did a monologue about teams monitoring Jannison Tennakumpo. Well,
he'sn't the only one being monitored. Reports said that teams
have their eye on Julius Randall and think that the
Knicks could look to trade him this offseason. Ben, do
you think that's the right move? Well for the Knicks,
it is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
My concern Coop is that he's going to end up
with the Clippers because he's making a lot of money.
He gets hurt by the time the playoffs come around.
That's the perfect Clipper, right, I mean, Kawhi Leonard's like,
give me that guy. He'll disappear when it matters most.
How did we do?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Koop? Loop passes are wonderful? I won that that's another way,
he said. Thumbs up.
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Here's Ben Meller and right to the game we go.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's welcome in arcontestas we have a Black Steve the
Second from North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Hello, Black Steve.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
What's up, guys, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's very nice meeting you. Thanks for coming out to
the Malar meet and greet in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You ain't coming Tobacco Road.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You was on the coast.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
You were in a different states.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I was in North Carolina but stopped in South You
were on Tobacco Road.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
You so triggered. So you're so triggered by that Black Steve.
You're so triggered by the other day too.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
But it's all good.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I did take a cheap shot. I did take a
cheap sh Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you heard it. Yeah,
and I'll take it. I'll take another cheap shot at you.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Two.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Though, Steve, I'm gonna go with the Bessie Garcia. You
want to be a loser yet again, that's up to you.
Aaron is in the Great State of Michigan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Hello, Aaron, Welcome, Good morning, Ben a door. Good to
talk to you, Aaron. And who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Erin?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
All right, we're going down blocks. And what do you
do for a living? Aaron? What do you What kind
of work do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're gonna hust be ice cream.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I make ice cream for a living.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You're good. We're gonna shove ice cream down your throat, Steve.
Let's play. Let's play the game, all right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Uh black Steve the second? Picking number one to ten, Please,
let's go with number one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
You're stealing my material. That's my trademark, number one. Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Please, let's go with headlines.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Head lines, Oh got a headline? Hurry up? Yeah, it
was easy. And he's still almost gag he's still almost shut.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's my line, Eddie. Go ahead there, ice cream man, Aaron,
come on. Picking number two to ten.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Please, let's go four, number four? All right, let's go
with any meaning, man, how about.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
We go with.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Hmmm, can he go with him? No, I'm not going
with him. How about we go with uh? Hum?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
What Aaron?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Listen?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Hum?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Hum?
Speaker 8 (31:55):
That's not even a word.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
That's the automatic piece.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
No, that's not he's a word. Hum's a word.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
That's not a word.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Well, the guess was bees. I'm gonna go with I'm
gonna go with bees.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Wow, Eddie. The word is the hand his bees.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
The clue clue is bees. And then Ben was doing
that hum thing. Think I'm gonna say that's right.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Domination situation. Go ahead, come on, teg a number, state,
bigger number.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Gonna go with number eight, number.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Eight, No chance, no chance to get this one, zero chance.
How about no, you're not cow about tattoo?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Tattoo? Tattoo? Yeah at two.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Permit.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
No, that's the worst guess I've ever had, permanent.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I thought you said, alright, let's go with how about
out artwork? Artwork? Aaron tattoo artwork? Mm hmmm. The word
was inch. The word another he had some bad ice cream. Man,
(33:18):
you had bad ice cream.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's what.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
You got.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
The easier words, and you got the easier work. I
helped you got
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what our lead is. I don't think I need to
tell you. From the Commonwealth, the curtain went up. The
flag is up on the Eastern Conference Finals, and a
very unusual thing happened. This was actually a game that
we can spend time talking about. It was not boring,
(01:58):
It was not on eventful. There were things that actually
happened on the iconic par que as Boston a cord
to the odds makers, a huge mismatch. In fact, this
is a game the sharps took a bath on and
the public did very well. Boston a ten point favorite.
In fact, the wise guys who hadn't seen this big
a favorite in the Conference finals since the Jordan Bulls
(02:20):
back in the nineties, and it certainly didn't start out
that way. If you saw the game, you know what
I'm talking about. Maybe I missed it, you weren't into it.
But Jalen Brown the headliner twenty six points, and he
made the game time sirked a shot like moneyball Mallor
in the final seconds there. In fact, there were six
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point one seconds on the clock in regulation, and the
Celtics rally back in overtime, they get to win one
thirty three to one to twenty eight, and they steal game,
won a game that the Pacers had right up until
they rode the vomit comet in the late stages of
the fourth quarter. There, Jason Tatum had thirty six points.
(03:04):
I didn't even play it all. Oh you had thirty
six points, no ten in overtime, and the Celtics get
the win, drew Holiday a season high twenty eight points
for Boston. There they take a one to zero series
lead in the Conference Finals. Game two will be on
Thursday back in Boston. But the better story, you know
where it is the losing locker room and oh how
(03:27):
great the nectar of the gods? What happened in this game?
So the question did the Celtics win the game because
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum stepped up? Or did the
Pacers lose the game? I think you know the answer.
I've got NonStop flight, presidential and Switzerland, and we will
(03:49):
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make the Boston cream Pie, which is what the
Celtics threw at the face of the Indiana basketball team.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
My God. To answer the question, if you didn't see it,
I'll walk you through it.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But this is clearly pointing the direction of the team
from the Hoosier State. Whoa, that was a cosmic struggle.
At the end of the game.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You get one job, get one job. At the end
of the game. You couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Andy End is up three with ten seconds to go
in the game, got a three point lead. Just inbound
the ball. The Celtics are going to give you a foul.
You make one of the foul shots. For all intensive purposes.
The game's over. You had possession of the ball. Possession
is nine tenths of victory, and you screwed it up.
(04:45):
It's just it's just wonderful. And then you screwed it
up again. So the game was in the bag. And
then the Pacers decide, you know what we're gonna do.
We're gonna snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
And they did.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
They took defeat from the jaws of it victory. Very impressive. Now,
Tyrese Haliburton, in the late stages they were over, he
dribbled the ball off his foot in a big mom
What a klutz, as my grandfather would say. But the
real dunce cap of Dune Caps goes to someone named
Andrew Nebhard, who is booking a flight on it's a
(05:22):
one way flight. It's a NonStop, one way flight, NonStop flight,
one way Panic City, because that's where he was. He
was at Panic City. Nebhard on the inbounds played with
ten seconds to go in the game, did the thing
you can't do at the time. You can't do it
a terrible pass and then it bounced off. Pascal siakam
(05:43):
our favorite player in the Indiana basketball team, but overall
final five point thirty regulation and he had more turnovers
than field goals made, and the moment was too big.
They choked. They that's an absolute Choker's not. The Celtics
were the better team and this game was there for
Indiana was right there, and they gave it back. If
(06:05):
you want to crown them, you can crown the rass
the Celtics, but they didn't play well all right now, postgame,
Jalen Brown was lunch than pleased in his postgame media situation.
There with the Celtics' overall performance, he was asked what
the difference was in overtime fact that we have the
audio on this. Here's do we have Jalen Brown? Yes,
(06:27):
all right, we have Jalen We do not Coople Loop
did not get the Sun. I sent it to him
an hour and a half ago. All right, well, I'll
just tell you what he said. So, when asked what
was different in overtime for the Celtics, Jalen Brown said,
quote JT finally woke up, meaning Jason Tatum made some baskets,
made some baskets. Can you decode this one? Can you
(06:49):
decode this one? So it's rather obvious. I wish you
could hear it, but apparently can't. But anyway, listen, Jalen
Brown did not nibble around the edges. He said it postgame,
he said it. And the way I decoded this and
I have a decota ring is he got a mulligan.
Jason Tatum was given a presidential pardon. This was a
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hollow win by the Celtics. Tatum missed a wide open
pull up three ball if you saw with thirty six
seconds to go. That has forgotten because Boston won the game.
But he missed a wide open three point shot with
thirty six seconds to go, and in the fourth quarter,
so one point game going to the fourth quarter. But
Jason Tatum took seven shots from the floor and missed
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five of them. I didn't play in the NBA, but
I don't think that's good. He was bailed out. He
was bailed out by a bad pass by Indiana and
Jalen Brown taking and making a three point shot while
Pascal Siakam. Not only did they not foul, Siakam put
his hands behind his back, but he's like, I put
(07:54):
my hand like I'm being handcuffed. I'm putting my hands
behind my back because I do know what to get
called for a foul when you should have just tackled
Jalen Brown. But hey, that's not after the fact, I
was screaming at my television as what are you doing.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's a bad job by you.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But Jason Tatum thirty six points, and it's another onse
weird things that happens a lot in sports where someone
has a sexy stat line and the uneducated fan, the
fan that doesn't know what they're watching or they're just fanboys,
they're oh, he played so well, Jason Tittum at thirty
six points. It didn't play well. He took twenty six shots.
(08:31):
He got ten from the charity stripe, but twenty six
points on twenty six field goal attempts, which is not
very efficient. Forget saved by the bell, how about it
also saved by the referees. Tony Brothers should get a
game ball and his crew from Joe Missoula. Tony Brothers
should absolutely get a game ball. Twenty four of thirty
(08:53):
from the charity stripe. The Boston basketball team Indiana was
nine of ten. So clearly Boston and took many more
shots around the basket. That's why they got fouled unless
they didn't. The Celtics attempted forty five three point shots
forty five Indiana took a lot to thirty five. This
was some old fashioned meddling by the official. Now this
(09:15):
Indiana also turned the ball over. Multiple things can be true.
At the same time. Indiana didn't play well. They had
the game, they blew it even with all that, but
both teams were sloppy. Both teams were sloppy. Boston happened
to have a night watchman with a whistle to help them,
so you had that, all right, last word here. So
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in the lead up to this game, Indiana's Miles Turner,
who I believe he looked like Reggie Miller in the
first half. Maybe I was imagining that, but Miles Turner
of the Pacers said that everybody's quote, everybody and their
mother is rooting for the Celtics. Is that how you see?
(10:00):
I contemplated this because I have no life, and I
determined that this is bullshoi, as they say in Russia,
the Bolshoi ballet. So I'm gonna shake my head no
on this. The Celtics are not media darters. They have
more of a national fan base because there are people
(10:20):
who are from Boston. All over the country. There's people
that like the Celtics is they've won more championships than
anybody in the NBA. All their championships as Boston Lakers
count the ones from Minnesota, which is fraudulent. We all
know that. So the Celtics have the most championships. But
the Celtics are not the darling of the NBA right
now if you're talking about Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
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and part of Connecticut, because there's that weird point of
demarcation where like part of Connecticut likes New York sports
and then there's part that like the Boston Sports, but
it's more I think it's more New York than than
Boston when I've been there. Anyway, the rest of the country,
the rest of the country, when you look at the
Celtics and you're like, it's like Switzerland, you're neutral as
(11:04):
can be when it comes to that. You don't really
hate them. They're not really hateable like some old Celtic teams.
And you also like the chocolate. You like you like
getting chocolate, you like that, just like Switzerland. But outside
of ex Bostonians, it's not universal support. Jason Tatum, for
all the accolades that he's gotten over his career as
(11:25):
the face of the Celtics, does not have that widespread
slobber slab or slobber where everyone genuflects to him and
the Celtics team. They have not yet captured the heart,
mind and soul of the average Drabbroni. Now, if they win,
and they do it with Gusto and Rasmataz, we're going
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to have that happen because that's part of the package.
That's the all inclusive package when you win a championship.
The band Wagner as our old friend Blair and Man
used to say that fan will go gaga, and we
saw it with Golden State when they had their run.
And we'll see what what transpires here with the Sells.
But they win, and then of course that will be
(12:07):
the case. But right now, answer Myles Turner question. Miles
Turner's question, I don't I don't see that.
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But we'll get back to the Celtics getting a gift
from the Indiana basketball team. Shocking that we've been on
the air for over an hour on a major sports
talk radio station in Indianapolis and have pitched a shutout
on Pacervase. You would think the Pacer fan would want
to call up and bash the team, but not one
(14:30):
Pacer fan has called up to critique the performance of
the Indiana Pacers. We'll we cover the spread. Okay, you
had the game in the bag. It was in the bag,
and you cut a hole in the bag. Put our
headline this hour from the speculation machine. Know it is
not about the Western Conference Game one, Western Conference Finals
Game one, which is later on here on Wednesday. But
(14:53):
more noise, The Naked City never sleeps. More noise out
of the Big Apple say what so he might know
where I'm going with this, but maybe not. I thought
this was a fascinating tale, so I thought we'd spend
a couple of minutes talking about it. The story out
of the Big Apple saying that Jalen Brunson, that's a
basketball player that plays for the New York basketball team,
(15:15):
is open to signing a massive contract this summer, which
would help the Knicks out would do a solid for
the Knickerbockers. But here's the thing. He would be leaving
a ton of dough, really delicious dough, sugary, light, fluffy
(15:36):
dough on the table. So you make the call, right,
you make the call. Now, the tabloids in New York
City say that Brunson is willing to sign a four
year contract for one hundred and fifty six million. That's
a great amount of money. Now, after you pay the
New York tax and the federal tax, that's about fifty bucks,
maybe fifty six bucks. That might give you a break,
give you an extra six bucks, but over one hundred
(15:57):
and fifty six million contract total extension after taxes, again, it's.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
About fifty six bucks.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And he can sign that this summer. Now, that's a
lot of money. It's a great mitzvah to get that
kind of mind's wonderful. However, if Jalen Brunson waits a
little bit, he's got a bet on himself, right, bets
on himself. Jalen Brunson can sign a five year contract
for two hundred and seventy million dead presidents. That can
(16:28):
happen the summer of twenty twenty five, So would you again,
you make the call here, Jalen Runson said, He said
quota's report, he said, to be opened, leaving over one
hundred million dollars on the table to sign with the
Knicks this summer to do them a solid.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Could you actually see this happy? You make the call
on this one.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So I've got nonprofit charitable organization, candy Land, and traffic
ticket Quota. We'll combine all these things together and we
are going to make a hot dog stand, which.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
They don't have.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I've been in New York the last couple times I've
been in New York day they don't have as many
hot dog stands as they used to have back in
the old day. You get a lot of flaffel now,
a lot of flafful, not a lot of hot dog stands.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
It's a lot of stands in general.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Last time I was in New York anyway, Number one,
to answer the question, could you actually see Jalen Brunson
leave one hundred plus million dollars sitting there on the
table to help the Knickerbockers out. I am agnostic on
this one. I am not a believer. This is risky business.
He's already got fu money. He's already got a lot
(17:41):
of money, assuming he's not frivolous with his money. Jalen
Brunson already has enough money. He shouldn't have to work,
so as well he doesn't need the money. Well, you
say that, when you say it's not about the money,
it's always about the money. And JA, I know that
Jalen Brunson is rooted in Gotham. I get that he's beloved,
He's everything carb Llo Anthony was supposed to be in
(18:01):
a bag of chips. I understand that. But leaving money
on the table in that business is a sin, and
really in any business, it's a cardinal sin. And it's
certainly easier said than done. It's easier for some blow
hard or he should leave money on the table and
all that. I don't know about you, but I do
not leave money on the table. I take all eighteen
(18:22):
dollars and seventy two cents. I get paid here every hour. Yeah,
but we are in a Missouri show me state of mind,
a Missouri show me state of monol. In my life
commentating on sports nonsense, I can count on one hand
and have extra fingers the time that the times overall
(18:45):
that I've seen people leave money on the table, took
less money.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Do the team solid? Do the team solid?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
And while I understand rich is rich, and I get that,
Jalen Runson if he left one hundred and whatever it
is million on the tail, fourteen million per year on
the table extra money, the NBA Players Association would be
upset with jalb Brons, like, what are you doing you, Jamoke?
What's wrong with you? Your big dumbball? What are you
doing now? Giving a break also to the Knickerbockers. I
(19:18):
was gonna kick when big companies claim poverty and the
Knicks are not claiming poverty. But James Dolan needs extra
money to spy on customers, right, doesn't that what he
does at Massive Square Garden in the other place. I
get you in trouble for that, but face recognition cameras
and all that. But giving a break to the Knickerbockers.
Who were they a non profit charitable organization unless they're
(19:42):
actually worth six almost seven billion dollars?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Say why?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And with the TV money the great unknown, The NBA
is about to sign new partnerships with possibly NBC, Netflix.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Might who know?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I mean, there's it's a open world there where the
NBA is going to get their TV money. They're going
to get their TV money. So our position is that
while Jalen Brunson this is being floated out makes him
look like a good guy, looks a wonderful guy and
all that, our position is the when everything is done,
it will be not a dimeback, no givebacks, that Brunson
(20:19):
will not end up signing that contract the summer.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Now we'll see be surprised by that.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But my money, if you gave me a thousand dollars
of funny money, my money is that Jalen Brunson does
not end up taking less money. Now we go to
La La Land, where the Lakers have a vacancy. They
whack their coach because their team gagged. They got old
Lebron and Anthony Davis who vanishes for a half here
or a half there, so they had to fire the coach.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I read that this is quite the story. I don't
even saw this.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The Lakers are said to be infatuated with JJ Reddick
and what he conceivably would be as a head coach.
Viewing him, I love this as a pat riley like
coaching prospect and could help the franchise short term and
I love this part. Long term, could lead the team
(21:05):
for years to come. It's what we call in the
business the money quote. It was buried behind a paywall,
the Old Gray Lady, the Athletic. So the Lakers think
JJ Reddick has pat riley like potential.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
What do you make of that report?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
So you are a coaching prospect, apparently, JJ Redick. Any
prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. And as Bill
Parcells taught me when I was a little kid, potential
is stuff you haven't done. Things you have not done
that is potential, and that's the way it is. But
(21:47):
what I took away from this is it's good to
have friends in influential positions. This was obviously coming from
JJ Reddick. It reads like his mom wrote it. It's
like it's from his publicist, My god, gloating all over,
dotting all over JJ Reddick. Albert Einstein of coaching JJ Reddick.
(22:09):
This is Candy Land commentary, sugarcoated, and the longevity in
La Laland.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Is a myth. The Laker coaching job is a temp job.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
It is.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Since nineteen ninety nine, there's only been one coach that's
lasted more than a few seasons, more than three seasons.
That's Phil Jackson. They've had ten coaches other than Phil
Jackson since nineteen ninety nine, ten and nobody's lasted more
than three years. Now, I do endorse JJ Reddick. I
never saw a player miss more clutch shots in his
(22:43):
life than JJ Reddick with the Lob City Clippers. And
it took Doc Rivers like two or three seasons before
he finally realized this guy is lacking the clutch gen
JJ Reddick. He's one of the great shooters of all
time in the first quarter, second quarter, the third quarter,
but as a player in the fourth quarter, there's no one,
no one I would rather have take a shot less
(23:04):
than JJ Reddick in a big spot. So if he
coaches like that, he'll be great for three quarters and
then just futs away the game in the fourth quarter,
and more importantly, get him off television because he blows right.
It's very hard when you're doing a basketball game to
sound like as a viewer you want to punch the
(23:25):
guy calling the game. Part of what we do here
on some level is likability, Like you have to be
somewhat likable, JJ Reddick.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
There's nothing likable about the guy, the way he talks.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
He's got this duke elitism, this smarmy arrogance from JJ Reddick,
and just get him off television. And my god, pat
Riley is a straight shooter. I don't think of JJ
Reddick like a straight shooter. And I talk to guys
that were around the Lakers when Riley started he was
a broadcaster, said, well, JJ Reddick's a broadcaster.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
The thing about right, Well, he wore nice suits.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Right at that time, there were a lot of coaches
dressed like slobs, like Doug mo and Don Nelson and
people like that, and pat Riley dress like he just professional.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
But in terms of his commentary, he was a straight shooter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, I remember Big Joe McDonald who used to
be big LA radio guy. He passed away, but he
tell me stories about the Lakers in those days and
what it was like and being around them, and Riley
would he would tell if somebody sucked, he would tell
the media. I don't know that JJ Reddy doesn't seem
like Reddicks that kind of guy, all right now, final point,
Speaking of broadcasting, another story made the rounds this week
claiming that the NBA did not appreciate the dulcetones of
(24:41):
Jeff Van Gundy. I did not like him. He criticized
the officiating, He criticized a lot of things in the NBA,
And so the league complained to the small fledgling cable
channel out of Bristol, Connecticut called ESPN now.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
The Athletic Athletic.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
They said there is no proof, no proof that the
league ordered his banishment Van Gundy, but they suggested that
the NBA did play a role in Jeff Van Gundy's
departure from television.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
So where are you at on this one? So this
is a bit of a rerun.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We talked about this when Van Gundy was whacked as
a commentator and in he took a job with the Celtics.
But it's a low level job with the Celtics and
all that. But I absolutely believed the conspiracy theory that
was going around, and I don't even think it's a
conspiracy theory at the time. I believe it to be
(25:39):
true that people the NBA have thin skin, they have
salamander skin. And it's while the story the way it
was reported, it's being reported this way again. It's one
of these semantical arguments. Having been in the game, been
(25:59):
around relationships between sports teams and leagues and broadcast companies.
I know what normally happens. I don't think this is
any different than what normally happens my experience in the business.
It's kind of like traffic ticket quotas. In many states.
Did you know it's illegal for the police to have quotas.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You can't have there's no quota allowed to write certain
number of traffic tickets every month. However, what I've heard
is cops are encouraged to write tickets. That's why usually
at the beginning of the month and not that many
tickets at the end of the month. You're trying to
meet your unofficial official quota. So while the NBA, I
(26:42):
don't believe sent a message via email or text messaging saying, hey,
we got to get rid of this Van Gundy guy.
Whack this guy, he's terrible, they just didn't have a
problem with it, and they sent out a few messages
critiquing his performance. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
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Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
To the third.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Degree, this is one thing that gets called Coop dhal loop.
He's got his headphones, he's got a bike.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
He's ready to The NBA will crown a different champion
for the sixth year in a row. A streak like
this hasn't happened since nineteen seventy six through nineteen eighty, Ben,
do you think this kind of parody is good for
the NBA?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yes, but it's bad for those of us to do
talk radio. It's bad for what I do. But for
the business of the NBA, it's good because now it
at least gives the perception that a bunch of teams
have a chance to win a championship. My entire life
that has not been the case. But it's bad for
talk radio because nobody really gives a rats ass about
(27:48):
most of these teams nationally.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Next, Anthony Edwards recently saying the praises of head coach
Chris Finch, calling him the best coach in the NBA.
Ben Finch has led the Tea Wolves to the playoffs
in each of his three years at the Helm.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
You think he's underrated, I wouldn't say underrated. I like
the story though. First of all, he's not some former
star player. He's spent his life in coaching. He's in
his mid fifties. He's not like an overnight celebrity and
all that. So I like that he's paid his dues
and he's had success, and he was coaching a bunch
of other teams as an assistant, So why not. I
(28:22):
like it, But he's not underrated.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Next, yesterday you did a monologue about teams monitoring Jannison Tennakumpo. Well,
he'sn't the only one being monitored. Reports said that teams
have their eye on Julius Randall and think that the
Knicks could look to trade him this offseason. Ben, do
you think that's the right move? Well for the Knicks,
it is.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
My concern Coop is that he's going to end up
with the Clippers because he's making a lot of money.
He gets hurt by the time the playoffs come around.
That's the perfect Clipper, right, I mean, Kawhi Leonard's like,
give me that guy. He'll disappear when it matters most.
How did we do?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Koop? Loop passes are wonderful? I won that that's another way,
he said. Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
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Speaker 4 (29:22):
Here's Ben Meller and right to the game we go.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
That's welcome in arcontestas we have a Black Steve the
Second from North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Hello, Black Steve.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
What's up, guys, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
It's very nice meeting you. Thanks for coming out to
the Malar meet and greet in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Man.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
You ain't coming Tobacco Road.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You was on the coast.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
You were in a different states.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I'm busy.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
I was in North Carolina but stopped in South You
were on Tobacco Road.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
You so triggered. So you're so triggered by that Black Steve.
You're so triggered by the other day too.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
But it's all good.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I did take a cheap shot. I did take a
cheap sh Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you heard it. Yeah,
and I'll take it. I'll take another cheap shot at you.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Two.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Though, Steve, I'm gonna go with the Bessie Garcia. You
want to be a loser yet again, that's up to you.
Aaron is in the Great State of Michigan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Hello, Aaron, Welcome, Good morning, Ben a door. Good to
talk to you, Aaron. And who do you want to
partner up with?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Erin?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
All right, we're going down blocks. And what do you
do for a living? Aaron? What do you What kind
of work do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
We're gonna hust be ice cream.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
I make ice cream for a living.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You're good. We're gonna shove ice cream down your throat, Steve.
Let's play. Let's play the game, all right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Uh black Steve the second? Picking number one to ten, Please,
let's go with number one.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
You're stealing my material. That's my trademark, number one. Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Please, let's go with headlines.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Head lines, Oh got a headline? Hurry up? Yeah, it
was easy. And he's still almost gag he's still almost shut.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
That's my line, Eddie. Go ahead there, ice cream man, Aaron,
come on. Picking number two to ten.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Please, let's go four, number four? All right, let's go
with any meaning, man, how about.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
We go with.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Hmmm, can he go with him? No, I'm not going
with him. How about we go with uh? Hum?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
What Aaron?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Listen?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Hum?
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Hum?
Speaker 8 (31:55):
That's not even a word.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
That's the automatic piece.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
No, that's not he's a word. Hum's a word.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
That's not a word.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Go ahead, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Well, the guess was bees. I'm gonna go with I'm
gonna go with bees.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Wow, Eddie. The word is the hand his bees.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
The clue clue is bees. And then Ben was doing
that hum thing. Think I'm gonna say that's right.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Domination situation. Go ahead, come on, teg a number, state,
bigger number.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
Gonna go with number eight, number.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Eight, No chance, no chance to get this one, zero chance.
How about no, you're not cow about tattoo?
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Tattoo? Tattoo? Yeah at two.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Permit.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
No, that's the worst guess I've ever had, permanent.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
I thought you said, alright, let's go with how about
out artwork? Artwork? Aaron tattoo artwork? Mm hmmm. The word
was inch. The word another he had some bad ice cream. Man,
(33:18):
you had bad ice cream.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
That's what.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
You got.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
The easier words, and you got the easier work. I
helped you got
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