May 28, 2024 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Boston Celtics sweeping the Indiana Pacers to advance to the NBA Finals, if the Pacers are a team on the rise or if this season was a fluke, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our Number one, our one
of the original Recipe podcast up all night to provide
you with marginal overnight audio content on demand. So we
begin with the Eastern Conference Finals Game four, the Celtics
looking to close out the Pacers. Did you watch the game? Well,
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it was close and then Boston wins late. Did the
Celtics sweep of the Pacers? Impress and turnheads for you? Also?
Are Rick Carlisle's Indiana Pacers a team on the rise?
Or was this season of fluke? And Jalen Brown picked
up the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Finals MVP after
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that sweep. How is this going over with Jason Tatum,
who's supposed to be the headliner on the Boston basketball team.
We'll talk about all that and more right now as
we kick off a Tuesday, the twenty eighth day of May,
with our number one on the Green team. Well not
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really steaming, but they are victorious. Well, come in the
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Conference Finals. You were a fan of the Eastern Conference Finals,
you're probably the morning right now. But yes, they played
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of Game number four, and that was the stage of
the Eastern Conference Finals. Jason Tatum and Celtics trying to
close the door on the Pacers clean sweep. If you
watch this game or not, maybe not, but we did
it it well. It was a close game. Indian actually
the lead in the fourth quarter, but much like so
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many of these other games in the Eastern Conference Finals,
in the end, it was not Jason Tatum that knocked
down a key three pointer to win the game. No,
it was not a Jalen Brown running to the basket
and throwing down a hammer dunk. Neither one of those
guys had the kill shot in this game. It was
Derek White who the tie breaking three pointer with forty
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three seconds left, giving Boston a one oh five, one
to oh two win. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
So the Celtics back into the NBA Finals, second time
in the last three years, and they get the four
to oh sweep, not necessarily clean, but a four to
oh sweep. And Derek White, who prior to that shot
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had taken eight three pointers in this game and had
made one more than I had and you had combined.
But he makes the decisive shot there at the end.
So the Celtics will now face Dallas in the NBA Finals,
unless the Mavericks ride to vomit comment for four games.
Otherwise then it would be Minnesota. The Game four of
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the Western Finals be played on Tuesday night. Mavericks up
three to zero in that best of seven series. Keep
in mind, the NBA Finals do not do not get
started till June sixth, and if you look at your calendar,
here we're heading into the twenty eighth day of May,
So that's a pretty sizable gap. In the past, conspiracy
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theorists would say, well, that guarantees that Minnesota is going
to win a game here because the NBA needs content,
their TV partners need content until the NBA Finals begin,
So there's a lot of downtime for the Celtics and
if a Mavericks win tonight, they'll just have a little
less downtime before that. But let's discuss the question did
the Celtics get the sweep here of the Pacers? Did
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the Celtics sweep of the Pacers impress and did it turnheads?
So to answer the question, did the Celtics winning these
four games and going on to the NBA Finals did
it turnheads? So I've got Aristotle, Fuzzy Dice, and Pebble,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make one of those suit your
hats and shirts, which I'm not sure why you would
buy one, because you gotta wait for your team to win.
If you're gonna buy some merchandise like that, just getting
into the finals probably not worthy of a purchase. But
if you win, then you purchase. If you lose, who
wants a souvenir from the NBA Finals. But the NBA
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trying to sell the hell out of those hats and
those shirts and all that. But it to answer the question,
did the Celtics sweep of the Pacers here? Did it impressed?
Did it turn head? So I am going to shake
my head no on this, which in a way is
turning my head to shake it No, So I'm going
no on this. But I was not impressed. Well, you're
just a jerk, You're a hater, You're not. No. The
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mixpoint coming into this series, I go buy the gambling market.
The sportsbook had the Boston basketball team as the biggest
favorite in a conference final we have seen since the
Chicago Bulls of Michael Jordan back in the day. This
was a humongous mismatch. However, nothing was easy. Whoy won
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all the games? All right, Yeah, I get it. Plus
there's this other thing that I have And whether it's
Aristotle or whoever, I don't know. Snoop Dogg, I don't care.
You don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed
to do. The Celtics were supposed to sweep this series,
and they did, but every game, every game came down
to crunch time, Boston was unable to easily exterminate the
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Hicks from Indiana and only one game, and at one
game was when there were some other circumstances that popped up.
Tyrese Halliburton got injured in Game two. But if you
bet the spread again, Boston biggest favorite since the Jordan
Bowls in the conference final. But if you bet against
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the Celtics, then you won three of the four bets.
The only one you didn't win was Game two when
Rick Carlisle called off the dogs. Called off the dogs,
he did, so the Malle report card shows no style points,
no style points. You did what you were supposed to
be doing, all right, now, page do here are Rick Carlyle,
that's the coach. Rick Carlyle's Pacers a team on the
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rise or was this a fluke run by the Indiana
basketball team? So now that we know the outcome, of
course we knew the outcome prior to the conference finals ending.
It's very little to no chance that the Pacers were
going to come back and win this year. So now
that we know what has happened, here and looking at
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the full wide angle lens of the Indiana Pacers playoff run.
Are Rick Carlyle's Pacers a team on the rise or
are they merely a fluke? So the arrow is pointing
at fluky mcfluke on the Indiana playoff run. Now, I
do like the run and gun style the Pacers play,
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with the intoxicating, friendsy pace that they run up and
down the court with. It's wonderful. However, you look at
the Pacers here, this is a team that had the
fuzzy dice. They had the lucky fuzzy dice and it
worked out in their favor. Here they did like Milwaukee,
who they played in the first round Indiana. Milwaukee had
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the curse of Doc Rivers, so they had that going
against them, the curse of Doc Rivers. Then they had
the damage, the damage Giannis, the Greek freak, he got
hurt now actually didn't play, got hurt before the series.
And then you had Dame time as well went down
for the count. Then you played the Knickerbockers who were
without one, not one, not two, I think three starters,
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and then they lost some other players during the series.
So the the way you would describe that is swimming
with the tide. You were swimming with the tide if
you're the Pacers on this and Tyre's Halliburton. While he's
a nice player and assuming his body can hold up,
it did not hold up in this playoff run as
he was down for the count did not come back.
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This Pacer run is the epitome of happenstance. Every dog
has its day, and this was their opportunity. Indiana had
a number of players that had the ball in their
hands late in the game, an opportunity to make a
name for themselves and more importantly, make a lot of money.
You hit some clutch shots in the playoffs and you
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get paid. And they almost all missed. They were outscored
seven to nothing in the Pacers in this game to
close it out in the final seconds, and so a
bunch of those guys dropped the bag and opportunity to
make a bunch of money because Haliburton was out and
some other players did not step up, not in the
final couple of mans A right, last word. Year, Let's
go back to the Celtics. So Jalen Brown picked up
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the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Finals MVP following the
old sweep ARU and how is this going to go over?
With Jason Tatum. That's the question. I was just gonna
go over with Jason Tatum. So publicly he's going to
be diplomatic, the turn would be diplomatic. But privately, you've
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got to think the people that are making their living
grabbing on and riding the coattails of Jason Tatum are
really upset. He is a pebble in the shoe. It's
a small thing, but it's an annoying thing. It's a
nuisance for Jason Tatum. Now he can still go out
and win the finals MVP and then no one will
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remember who won the Eastern Conference find Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
So he still has that opportunity ahead of him. But
that's not a guarantee. He's not a guarantee the Celtics
even win. They should, but Jason Tatum. You can't turn
on an NBA game without seeing Jason Tatum trying to
sell you some crappy product. I mean, that's what he does, right,
He's a pitch man with endless swag on Madison Avenue.
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They advertising people. They love Tatum and this is supposed
to be his Celtic team. This is Jason Tatum's Celtic team.
And yet Tatum got bailed out in the Eastern Conference
files in this game, I think he had twenty six
points on twenty six shots if I remember correctly in
this last game twenty that's not good efficiency. I didn't
play in the NBA, but that's not good efficiency. But
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Tatum needed to be bailed out. He was handed a parachute.
The plane was not doing well, and a parachute went
from Jalen Brown to Jason Tatum. Tada, here you go.
Enjoy your parachute. Now, Tatum not even the top player
on the team, even though he gets paid all that
money for the endorsements, to go around and say I'm
the greatest thing in the world. Well, no, that's on
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that level. It's embarrassing nat he won, And yeah they
win this championship. Many sins will be forgotten and you
can acid wash all of this away. But at this moment, yeah,
it's not the greatest look in the world. It's not.
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by Major League Baseball. They're trying to say that he resigned.
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Speaker 1 (14:00):
Eastern Congerence Finals are over. The Celtics are into the
NBA Finals. King Rory writes, and he says the NBA
needs content and if this might be the second to
last the year, the TNT will be on. There's no
way the Mavericks win Game four. Plus the Celtics haven't
played a healthy team all playoffs of anything. Luca's knee
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gives out and the Wolves force three more games. King
Roy's got his crystal ball out and he's looking ahead.
Greg says, the Pacers choked away three of the four
games in this series, could not close the deal. That
is correct, Mark the full name guy, right, since his
Rick Carlisle may have to do some fast talking to
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remain head coach. This series an indictment of the Pacers team,
not a team on the rise, but a very average
group of ballplayers. And that is being generous from Mark
the full name guy, he says, So we'll talk more
about this. Celtics are into the final, will play the Mavericks.
Most likely small chance if Luca gets hurt and Kyrie
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says some crazy crap and gets suspended again, that the
Mavericks will not make it. Other than that they're in.
Let's go now to a man who is never one
to call up right away and celebrate one of his
teams winning. We say hello to Blind Scott in Boston. Hello,
Blind Scott, welcome.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Hey. That's a Celtics strategy that you see. They're coached
by Joe Mizzoulu. He's like one of the greatest coaches
of all time. They'll hold back when one other player
steps up, like Derek White. These teams they've been playing
suck too. The best player, one of the best plays
hasn't even been playing. Christoph Perzingas Dude, this Marks the
full Name Guy. This guy's one of the biggest idiots
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in the world. He's like, I'm not in the Mala Militia.
It's like, dude, we invented the Malon Militia because of you.
You are the Malad Militia. Ben has literally made his
life on hot sports takes and talking to cycles like
you and the radio. Dude, you're the whole reason why
we started to get done. Guys I got He's out
of his mind. If you have a check his Twitter, Man,
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the guy needs to be locked up in an institution.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Lorena, she's a star in the show. I'm hoping in
the third hour we can hear her trip to Oregon
this weekend and how people reacted to the show. But
you know one thing for sure, she didn't look up
Mark the Full Name Guy in Oregon. Nobody would look
up that guy unless you was throwing trash in a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know what I mean, all right, I just again,
who's the coach of the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Joe medoulahot he played for Virginia Commonwealth, I think in college.
Have you seen the interviews of him when he won
the national championship? This is a genius.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Joe Mosula is a genius.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh yeah, you know Scott so like he went out
to lunch with him?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Sit well, okay, is Joe Mosula and Scott Zolak had lunch?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Then?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Clearly Missoula is a genez Who paid for Who paid
for the lunch? Was it Mossoula or.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I think Beasley Media did as Oh really, he's a
guest on the Sports Hub, you know, Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well free me. I hope they I hope they eat appetize.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Also, do you know about the new New England Revolution
Stadium they're trying to build him downtown Boston. That's big, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is that big news or just news? I don't know.
That might be news. I don't know if it's big news,
that might be news.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
They change the.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Location of downtown Boston to Everett, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So yeah, that seems like it's it makes more sense
to move it out out not in the city in Boston.
There's not a lot of room.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yeah, but everybody wants to trust the Celtics. But did
the best team to ever go through the NBA Clayffs.
They got no competition whatsoever been at all. I mean,
I know you kind of do a radio show here
and stuff, but you'd be better having Donut don Gold
come back and you guys all just eat donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, Well, if don wants to come back, we'll eat donuts.
All right. Hey, I'm hanging up on you. Go away,
all right? My god, I could go for a donut
right now. What kind of donut?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm not too picky.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You'll take any donut.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
There are not many bad donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Let's be honest. Now here's a great debate I've had
over the years. Cinnamon roll donut, non donut, don't.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's a donut. Not buy it at a donut shop.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I wouldn't. I would say, don't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's a donut. It is one. It isnt Where do
I buy a cinaroll?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You buy it at the donut shop.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But it needs to have a hole, But it's you
buy it at the donut Yeah, it does not have
to have a hole. To be a done.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I can buy at the donut shop that I go to.
Is that make the sandwich of donut?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, I will tell you. A Dunkin Donuts they call
the answer.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They they call the cinnamon roll. They call it a
coffee something, coffee roll, something like that. Yeah, because it's
not a cinnamon wrong. Well, no, so they sell cinnamon
rolls at Dunkin Donuts, but it's not They don't call
it that. They call it something else that's not a
cinnamon wrong. A cinamroll is a donut. Can buy it
at donut it's not a donut. If I want a
cinnamon roll, I go to a donut tree. Don't I
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get it a donut? You got a cinnamon Well, that's
that is a that's all. That's your specialty. But that's
a wrong. I can go to any donut shop. There's
a million donut shops open right now while I'm talking.
I can get it. I get a cinroll. I can
get a cinnamon roll at Western Bagel. Does that make
it bagel? Yes, it makes it a begel in that context,
it's a begel. That's correct. You're learning how this works.
Let's go to a man who's licking his wounds right now.
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The only person that calls the show that regularly claims
to be a Pacer fan and he's in Los Angeles,
not even in the state of Indiana. What does that
say about the Pacer fan base? My god, Shawn the
Hood Guy, Hello, Shawn the hood Guy. Defend your squad, Sean,
defend your guys.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Go ahead, Oh here you go.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Now you're gonna put a thought on my wounds. You're
a cold man, Ben. Let me tell you something, man,
they blew it. They had the chance to do something
and they never did. And I think this coach he
had his chance in two thousand and five when the
whole team got suspended. That was a championship right there
to get it. But they didn't get it because the
whole team was gone. So now they know what they
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have to work with, they know what they need to do.
We wont these We won these games because these other
teams got hurt. Now we didn't got hurt.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So you're you're admitting that my take, even though you're
critical of mind take, My take was an accurate take.
My take was an A plus take that this is
a fluke run by the Pacers, that they they played
the right teams at the right time, and they were
exposed when they had to make plays. And everyone wants
to blame Rick Carlisle, And I don't know Rick Carlisle.
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He wouldn't know me if I was in the police lineup.
But ultimately it comes down to the players on the court.
I'm pretty sure Sean the hood guy Carlisle didn't tell
those guys to go out there and miss every shot
in the final ninety seconds of three of the four games.
I'm pretty and throw the ball out of bounds. I mean,
every possible way they could screw up, they did in
three of the four games.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
They ran out of gas, and they ran out a
high ideas what to do. So they just lost control
and they just gave up because the star player wasn't playing.
That he was playing, those points would be replaced, but
he wasn't playing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
But what you say, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You get an A plus on yo, I got an
A plus on my pacer take. That's an A plus take.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You are the leader up us as a malim, that's right,
the leaders. So we have to go. We have to
roll with opinion.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm your you're fearless leader of hot takes right here.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yes, love what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You never lie about now, you tell the truth all
the time.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's right. I'm a truth tailler. Eddy. Say that again,
Sean Eddy wasn't listening. Say that again. Go ahead, Sean
threw the truth about it.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
My Steelers, that's the only thing. So you you like
to bash my Steelers and I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't listen. I just point out that you're trying
to upsell the Pittsburgh Steelers are trying to upsell Russell Wilson,
who's been done for three years. And the Steelers are
trying to polish Russell Wilson up and he has not
been able to play for three He sucked his last
year in Seattle, and then he spent a couple of
years in Denver and sucked. And you think he's gonna
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not suck in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Come on around? Would a better coach offensive coordination?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm gonna see what's going I'm gonna see your outtake
on when this when his team so I winning games.
I'm gonna see what you want and I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I don't thought the stealers will win some games. Is
it going to be because of Russell Wilson that Broncos
won some games with Russell Wilson? Not because of him.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Gonna because the team gonna come together as a better
team as they did last year. But when they when
they win, and they and then they and you feel
kind of assayed about it. You're gonna wash cars in
front of the in front of the place.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
This year, you might wash car I don't know if
you want me to wash your car. I don't care.
All right, I gotta go, But all right, boy, there
go get out. It is a Sean the hood guy
checking in. So Lebron James, who's never really been a Laker, right,
I mean, he's just kind of passing through. He's he's
used the Lakers to try to curry some favor, shall
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we say, with Hollywood. And it's worked, right, it's worked
and all that. So Lebron yet again upsetting the electorate.
There After the Boston Celtics return to the NBA Finals,
you had Lebron James leading the cheers, leading the cheers
for Jalen Brown, who was the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
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So if you think Lebron's really worked up up into
a lather as a Laker. He's a real Laker, and
a real Laker would never want to see the Boston
Celtics have any kind of success. That is a blood rival,
Lakers and Celtics. And there's Lebron James jumping on the
socials after the game saying, keep going, young King, respect,
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it's from Lebron James. It's Lebron and he tagged Jalen Brown.
So yeah, we know he's opting out of his contract. Lebron.
He's said as much, he's gonna opt out of his contract,
and everyone in LA, the Lakers are like, oh, he'll
be back. He's not gonna leave. I don't know about that.
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Give a crap about the Lakers and Bron's been a
disaster with the Lakers. People don't like to talk about
that part out loud. It's been no championships as a Laker,
missed the playoffs a couple of times. It's just embarrassing,
absolutely embarrassing him as a Laker. And he's maybe he'll
go to the Celtic. You can play with Jalen Brown,
the Young King. All right, we'll take your calls if
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That's at Ben Mallord. Can an ant speak? And if
an ant does speak, does anyone listen when the ant speaks?
Say what? We'll get to that and we will do
it next. But right now, let's head over to these
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sports news desk. Right there, he's sitting up with good posture,
wearing a hat for a team that is no longer
in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But nonetheless, here's the merman Eddie.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What are you wearing? Are you wearing that?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The no, No, it's his Boston hat hat to bat
up by you, Lona. This is the Brooklyn Dodgers, the
b Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Do you know that the Dodgers played in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I might have seen it on a wall sometimes maybe
possibly Dodgers the night of time Books. They got rained out.
Dodgers got rained out. They had a night off in Brooklyn.
That's doubleheader coming up on Tuesday against the Metropolitans.
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Basketball News as Hall of Famer Bill Walton passed away
on Monday after battle with cancer. Won back to back
titles at UCLA, was twice the Final four MVP. Also
won two titles in the NBA, one with the Trailblazers,
one with the Celtics. He was NBA MVP one time
in Finals MVP one. It's Bill Walton's seventy one years old.
NHL Game three Western Conference Final Stars were now two
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to nothing in Edmonton against the Oilers, rally back for
a five to three win. Jason robertson the hat trick
for the Stars. Dallas now six to one on the
road this postseason, and they grab a two to one
lead in the series Game four Wednesday, again in Edmonton.
To baseball games A note, The Guardian's nine game winning
streat comes to an end with an eight to six
loss to the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh they lost to the Rockies. That should be worth
five loss.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So you can't win?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Why not that long season? You're such a jock sniffer.
You make excuses for a prosthetic just because I agree
aesthetic long season excuses? Eddie Ye, this win every game
you're more on, That's right, Dicken Dateon expects them to win.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We were talking that long the music ran out. I
don't think it's ever happened before.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Wow, that's crazy. You're so long win. You're trying to
bull guard the show. Eddie, it's not show. Started to
sniff updates. Look at that.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
We had the Phillies listening to the Giants eight to
four battle the Phillies, loss of the Giants did. That's embarrassing. Also,
Blake Snell still looking for his first time risking my
live bro he started for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Playing the less I get mine. You know that part
Blake Snell's friends with vass A. That says a lot
about fast A, my nemesis, now the Dodger post game
host that I will Blake Snell buddies with vast what's
up with that?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You are? Who your friends are? Bat by him?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Brewers beat the Cubs five four old Brewers skipper now
Cubs manager Craig Council back in Milwaukee for the.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
First warm reception. Yes he did. If you like booth,
he said, boot flat or whatever. They were throwing cheese
curds at him. They were so upset.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Orioles beat the Red Sox eleven three of the Royals
losing to the twin six to five, and the Braves
fall to the Nationals eight to four. I know you're
very sad. No w NBA.
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Games, no games of what did anyone practice practice? Update?
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I don't know about no no practice from the w
n b A, and maybe I don't know.
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I don't I don't know. They have a shoot around somewhere. No,
certainly possible. It is conceivable anybody get hurt in the
w n b A and any any of the women
complaining about their travel.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
As you mentioned this earlier, the big news from baseball
angel Hernandez, he.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Go no, no, no, good bye.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You know, decades and suck a real not a real angel,
by the way, not a real No, he's not. Some
would consider him quite the opposite. But longtime umpire, one
of the worst we've ever seen. You got to buy
out from Major League Baseball and he's he's taking his
mask and he's going home wherever.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They are claiming he retired. That is not a retirement.
That is get out here.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
If they pay me money to go away and not
work anymore, I will claim I'm retired.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
How much you need it, I got twenty bucks right now?
But how much you need?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I would need a lot more.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You need more than How about thirty bucks? I got
thirty bucks in my water right away? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You got thirty bucks your wallet right now?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I think so. I never have money in my will No, no,
why not?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Because I'll spend it.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
How do you donate to homeless people if you don't
have cash on you? I don't. No, nope, nope, no
know that. What about when you're walking into the grocery
store and the people are out there begging you to
give money to charity? You give money to charity? No,
I don't either. Wow? What I hate those people? The
people when I'm going to the grocery store, I have
(29:02):
laser like focus. Okay, I don't need these a holes.
And it's always for the kids. Okay, it's all for
their children. Ye, so offensive to me. And they always
have signs out there, no solicity, make five dollars a box.
Have you noticed these shrink flation? The Girl Scout cookie
(29:22):
community of you know what saying I've noticed the cookies
and not only smaller but less price. The same quality
isn't what it used to be. Yeah, it's not okay,
damn shame even the girl Scouts. The girl Scouts strewing
over the American public. It's not right, are they now?
The boy Scouts changed names. I guess the girl Scouts
changed names too, or something did. Yeah, the boy Scouts
(29:45):
changed Scouts of America or something. Is that bad to
be boys? Idy? I don't know, just Scouts of America. Okay,
I'm so old that I was a Cub Scout and
a boy that they got rid of the gender. Yeah,
that's what they did. They got rid of the gender.
They're just scouts. Well that'll fix everything. There you go,
that's it. Eddie supports that, right, Yeah, you know, I
(30:07):
don't care. You don't care. I got you. Are you
done so dumb? It is pretty stupid?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, all right, anyway, we well we we had. I
want Lorena to know last night on the show it
took they weren't here. Well, I want her to know.
So I'm telling her, Loreena, because it took a while
for them to find the fun facts someway. You know,
I had a feeling it took them a while because
I got a call at midnight Ben oh yes, and
(30:34):
they were like, Lorena, where's the Wow, they were on
the wrong. They didn't tell me. They left that out.
They left that they found it. I thought, oh boy,
these guys, Shay really went out and found it.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I gave him credit for looking for it. I mean,
that's a lot of effort from you know. He came
in here and he's like, you know what it's called.
I'm like, fun Fact. I know, I don't know what
it's called. And then he asked me, what does it
sound like. It's like, I said, Ben Maller fun fact.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, that's what it sounds like. It says Ben Mallard
and big letters, and then it says fun fact. Okay,
so they could not find that. They had to call you.
It's literally called Ben Maller fun fact in the system
and they had to call you. And what's good to
feel needed though, And you know, I also was like,
oh I bet Ben misses me. Of course, listen marked
(31:23):
a splendid job, though, he said, you know, he marks
the best. Well the best means as good as all
the rest. He's like Superman. Is he Superman? He's Superman?
He's saving today. Okay, well hit that button.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Fun Fact.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So Jalen Brown wins the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. So
there were nine votes, nine votes. Nine media hacks had
a vote. Media panel that covered the series could vote
for the MVP. Out of the nine, how many votes
for MVP did Jalen Brown get? The answer? If that's it?
(32:00):
He only got He got five. That's all you need
to get the MVP. But it was not a unanimous
He's clearly the MVP. When I thought for sure based
on the way that he dominated the first couple of
games of the series, you would say, okay, he's the MVP.
But the media panel, and who's on that media panel.
You've got PJ. Carlissimo doing radio, Doris Burke from TV,
(32:24):
Dennis Scott, Gary Washburn, a writer, a couple other writers.
I have no idea who they are because I have
I have it in front of me. I have the
the people that voted for the MVP award, and Jason
Tatum got He got four votes. In fact, PJ. Carlissimo
voted Jason Tatum the MVP, which makes me wonder did
(32:47):
he watch the series? Did Carlissimo watch the series? Dennis
Scott voted Tatum the MVP, so it was split. It
was either Tatum or Brown. For the most valuable play.
Let's go to the phones. Mike is in Alabama, if
I remember correctly, Hello Mike, what's going on? Mikey? Oh? Boy,
(33:08):
did Mike pass out? I think he might have might have?
All right, Hello Mike, what's going Mike?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I got the line punched up here. Coop. Oh, he's
in New York. Hello Mike. I don't think he's there.
I'm pretty sure he's not there. Any other Troys in
the United States? Any other Troys? Are there any other cities,
any other states with the Troy in it? No? I
know the men of Troy. There's that.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Anyway, I didn't want to talk to him. Man, he's
probably boring. So ant man speaks Anthony Edwards. The Minnesota
basketball team on life support. They're facing their last supper
in the Greater Dallas area on Tuesday night. It'll be
turned out the lights, the party's over. They do not win.
Anthony Edwards told the Minnesota timbrels quote, it's time to
(33:58):
make history. It's time to make history of that's one
of those things. If Minnesota comes back and wins, people
say that's the moment. They were inspired by Anthony Edwards
when they lose, it will be forgotten. No one will
remember it. It will be forgotten. That's how that works.
(34:20):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Here we go.
I am the only player, the only one in NBA
history to average fifteen or more points per game in
less than twenty five minutes per game in a conference
finals series, East or West. Again, the only player in
NBA history to average fifteen or more points per game
(34:40):
in less than twenty five minutes per game in a
conference final series, East or West? Who am I? That
is the question? The answer, We'll get to it.
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
It's Ben Mallor got the who am I game? We'll
get to that coming up here momentarily. Who What's the
who am I? I pretend to be? Somebody Else's the
who am I game?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, you'll find out in a second. I can't tell
you right now, but it's the who in my game.
A lot of reaction, none of them to my sports
takes more people concerned about the donut conversation. Doctor Robo,
who's misguided, says a cinnamon roll falls under the bakery
bread listening donuts are fried. Well, clearly, doctor Robo, you've
never had a cake donut which is not fried. So
(35:56):
that's a bad job by you. Shame on you. If
Ferg Dog's says, look at this delicious batch of donuts,
I sure could go for one right now. He's got
a nice tray there. The cinnamon rolls absolutely outstanding. By
the way, double Ow Mexican has a poll going on
his social media in San Diego says is a cinnamon
roll a donut? And almost seventy percent of those that
(36:19):
have responded say it is a donut. So you're on
the wrong side of history. You're on the wrong side
of history. And Loraina had no opinion. So you're all
there you go. Where's your what's your take on the donut?
Cinnamon roll donut? It's not a donut. Bet, you're wrong.
That's you're wrong. The people, a lot of people have spoken.
If I want, if I want a donut, I go
(36:40):
to a donut shop. If I want to if I'm
a sentinel, I go to a donut because it's a donut.
Eddie the cinnaon rolls a donut. No, it's not, it
is not. It is you buy it not. You don't
buy it at a donut shot it's ry. Okay, here's
the who m I game? I'm the only player in
NBA history. You don't fry a cake donut either. Yes,
I'm the only player in NBA history to average fifteen
(37:02):
or more points per game in less than twenty five
minutes per game in a conference final series East or West?
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Larry reporting from Nashville says Lebron James VPN account. Who
else do we have? Page down kill the umpire starring
William Bendix from Art puffin very specific who else? Do
(37:25):
we have a King? Roy Is going with Jackie Robinson.
Mike Fertello guests by the Cowboy Killer, Swen Nader Laker
Legend from Matt the Warrior Raider, fan Enus Cabell from
mister nice Guy, Who's not that nice? Fergdug says A
box of donuts? He's the answer, Kay Donuts Our frid
(37:46):
Late Night Drug tester says you are Michael the blind
Side or who is thirty eight today? Robin Vegas going
with Hornswaggle as his answer. Chris in Des Moines says
Walt Bellamy. Walt Bellamy is the answer, I forty and
says no play for mister Gray. Walt Fraser is the answer. Milkman.
(38:08):
Michaeling with the late Bill Walton is his answer. The
White Mamba Brian Scalabrini guests by Double O Mexican in
San Diego. Who else do you have? Paige Down? Walter
Berry from the k C car Haller, Bimbo Coles from
malibur Rubin. Who else Paige Down? Did I say? Ronnie Sykelely?
(38:29):
That was Ike in Roseville, Minnesota's I guess Boomer the
Pacers mascot. Boomer is the answer, Susan says, who cares?
Big Lou is the answer, Well, it's a great thing
that you took time out of your life. Susan to
answer the question by saying, who cares? I appreciate that
(38:51):
level of engagement. I do. It means so much. Deentler
shrimp from Big Lou. By the way, who's on number two?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
He is?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All right, Eddie? Do you have an answer here? And
again the question for those stragglers. Bad job by you.
I'm the only player in NBA history to average fifteen
or more points per game in less than twenty five
minutes per game in a conference final series, either West
or East, doesn't matter. And what say you? Addy?
Speaker 4 (39:16):
A man drafted before Stephen Curry and James Harden. That
would be Memphis Grizzly's legend Hashim Ta beat Let's.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Got quite the name, Eddie. But that's a bad job
by you. You don't know, Donuts and you don't know,
you don't know. This incorrect The correct answer. Indiana pacer
guard t J McConnell this season in the Eastern Conference Finals,
that's the answer. You go, yeah, he averaged he averaged
(39:47):
fifteen points per game five and a half rebounds, four
point three assists per game played, twenty four minutes twenty
four point one minutes per game. And TJ McConnell. There's
a guy wh's gonna have I have a decent career,
not as a star, but as like a part time
bit guy role he's a role player. Oh maybe somebody's
desperate enough they will give TJ McConnell an opportunity. I
(40:10):
remember a couple of years back there was a guard
for the Mavericks who played pretty well, and guys like
me were like, Ah, he's not gonna be able to
do that again. Jalen Brunson man, Jalen Brunson went to
the Knicks. I think he's done, okay, I think he's
done all right for the next I think I think
things have gone pretty well for him there with the Neckerbarker.
So who knows McConnell. Is he getting a demand of trade.
I gotta get out of here, get set me free.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our Number one, our one
of the original Recipe podcast up all night to provide
you with marginal overnight audio content on demand. So we
begin with the Eastern Conference Finals Game four, the Celtics
looking to close out the Pacers. Did you watch the game? Well,
(00:24):
it was close and then Boston wins late. Did the
Celtics sweep of the Pacers? Impress and turnheads for you? Also?
Are Rick Carlisle's Indiana Pacers a team on the rise?
Or was this season of fluke? And Jalen Brown picked
up the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Finals MVP after
(00:44):
that sweep. How is this going over with Jason Tatum,
who's supposed to be the headliner on the Boston basketball team.
We'll talk about all that and more right now as
we kick off a Tuesday, the twenty eighth day of May,
with our number one on the Green team. Well not
(01:06):
really steaming, but they are victorious. Well, come in the
beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show. We
are in the air everywhere as we chattered under the
cover of darkness, coast to coast, border, the border and
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Conference Finals. You were a fan of the Eastern Conference Finals,
you're probably the morning right now. But yes, they played
Game four. How exciting the Hoosier State the site there
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of Game number four, and that was the stage of
the Eastern Conference Finals. Jason Tatum and Celtics trying to
close the door on the Pacers clean sweep. If you
watch this game or not, maybe not, but we did
it it well. It was a close game. Indian actually
the lead in the fourth quarter, but much like so
(02:41):
many of these other games in the Eastern Conference Finals,
in the end, it was not Jason Tatum that knocked
down a key three pointer to win the game. No,
it was not a Jalen Brown running to the basket
and throwing down a hammer dunk. Neither one of those
guys had the kill shot in this game. It was
Derek White who the tie breaking three pointer with forty
(03:04):
three seconds left, giving Boston a one oh five, one
to oh two win. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
So the Celtics back into the NBA Finals, second time
in the last three years, and they get the four
to oh sweep, not necessarily clean, but a four to
oh sweep. And Derek White, who prior to that shot
(03:25):
had taken eight three pointers in this game and had
made one more than I had and you had combined.
But he makes the decisive shot there at the end.
So the Celtics will now face Dallas in the NBA Finals,
unless the Mavericks ride to vomit comment for four games.
Otherwise then it would be Minnesota. The Game four of
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the Western Finals be played on Tuesday night. Mavericks up
three to zero in that best of seven series. Keep
in mind, the NBA Finals do not do not get
started till June sixth, and if you look at your calendar,
here we're heading into the twenty eighth day of May,
So that's a pretty sizable gap. In the past, conspiracy
(04:13):
theorists would say, well, that guarantees that Minnesota is going
to win a game here because the NBA needs content,
their TV partners need content until the NBA Finals begin,
So there's a lot of downtime for the Celtics and
if a Mavericks win tonight, they'll just have a little
less downtime before that. But let's discuss the question did
the Celtics get the sweep here of the Pacers? Did
(04:36):
the Celtics sweep of the Pacers impress and did it turnheads?
So to answer the question, did the Celtics winning these
four games and going on to the NBA Finals did
it turnheads? So I've got Aristotle, Fuzzy Dice, and Pebble,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(04:58):
we are going to make one of those suit your
hats and shirts, which I'm not sure why you would
buy one, because you gotta wait for your team to win.
If you're gonna buy some merchandise like that, just getting
into the finals probably not worthy of a purchase. But
if you win, then you purchase. If you lose, who
wants a souvenir from the NBA Finals. But the NBA
(05:18):
trying to sell the hell out of those hats and
those shirts and all that. But it to answer the question,
did the Celtics sweep of the Pacers here? Did it impressed?
Did it turn head? So I am going to shake
my head no on this, which in a way is
turning my head to shake it No, So I'm going
no on this. But I was not impressed. Well, you're
just a jerk, You're a hater, You're not. No. The
(05:41):
mixpoint coming into this series, I go buy the gambling market.
The sportsbook had the Boston basketball team as the biggest
favorite in a conference final we have seen since the
Chicago Bulls of Michael Jordan back in the day. This
was a humongous mismatch. However, nothing was easy. Whoy won
(06:05):
all the games? All right, Yeah, I get it. Plus
there's this other thing that I have And whether it's
Aristotle or whoever, I don't know. Snoop Dogg, I don't care.
You don't get extra credit for doing what you're supposed
to do. The Celtics were supposed to sweep this series,
and they did, but every game, every game came down
to crunch time, Boston was unable to easily exterminate the
(06:29):
Hicks from Indiana and only one game, and at one
game was when there were some other circumstances that popped up.
Tyrese Halliburton got injured in Game two. But if you
bet the spread again, Boston biggest favorite since the Jordan
Bowls in the conference final. But if you bet against
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the Celtics, then you won three of the four bets.
The only one you didn't win was Game two when
Rick Carlisle called off the dogs. Called off the dogs,
he did, so the Malle report card shows no style points,
no style points. You did what you were supposed to
be doing, all right, now, page do here are Rick Carlyle,
that's the coach. Rick Carlyle's Pacers a team on the
(07:14):
rise or was this a fluke run by the Indiana
basketball team? So now that we know the outcome, of
course we knew the outcome prior to the conference finals ending.
It's very little to no chance that the Pacers were
going to come back and win this year. So now
that we know what has happened, here and looking at
(07:36):
the full wide angle lens of the Indiana Pacers playoff run.
Are Rick Carlyle's Pacers a team on the rise or
are they merely a fluke? So the arrow is pointing
at fluky mcfluke on the Indiana playoff run. Now, I
do like the run and gun style the Pacers play,
(07:56):
with the intoxicating, friendsy pace that they run up and
down the court with. It's wonderful. However, you look at
the Pacers here, this is a team that had the
fuzzy dice. They had the lucky fuzzy dice and it
worked out in their favor. Here they did like Milwaukee,
who they played in the first round Indiana. Milwaukee had
(08:17):
the curse of Doc Rivers, so they had that going
against them, the curse of Doc Rivers. Then they had
the damage, the damage Giannis, the Greek freak, he got
hurt now actually didn't play, got hurt before the series.
And then you had Dame time as well went down
for the count. Then you played the Knickerbockers who were
without one, not one, not two, I think three starters,
(08:39):
and then they lost some other players during the series.
So the the way you would describe that is swimming
with the tide. You were swimming with the tide if
you're the Pacers on this and Tyre's Halliburton. While he's
a nice player and assuming his body can hold up,
it did not hold up in this playoff run as
he was down for the count did not come back.
(09:02):
This Pacer run is the epitome of happenstance. Every dog
has its day, and this was their opportunity. Indiana had
a number of players that had the ball in their
hands late in the game, an opportunity to make a
name for themselves and more importantly, make a lot of money.
You hit some clutch shots in the playoffs and you
(09:25):
get paid. And they almost all missed. They were outscored
seven to nothing in the Pacers in this game to
close it out in the final seconds, and so a
bunch of those guys dropped the bag and opportunity to
make a bunch of money because Haliburton was out and
some other players did not step up, not in the
final couple of mans A right, last word. Year, Let's
go back to the Celtics. So Jalen Brown picked up
(09:48):
the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Finals MVP following the
old sweep ARU and how is this going to go over?
With Jason Tatum. That's the question. I was just gonna
go over with Jason Tatum. So publicly he's going to
be diplomatic, the turn would be diplomatic. But privately, you've
(10:10):
got to think the people that are making their living
grabbing on and riding the coattails of Jason Tatum are
really upset. He is a pebble in the shoe. It's
a small thing, but it's an annoying thing. It's a
nuisance for Jason Tatum. Now he can still go out
and win the finals MVP and then no one will
(10:31):
remember who won the Eastern Conference find Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
So he still has that opportunity ahead of him. But
that's not a guarantee. He's not a guarantee the Celtics
even win. They should, but Jason Tatum. You can't turn
on an NBA game without seeing Jason Tatum trying to
sell you some crappy product. I mean, that's what he does, right,
He's a pitch man with endless swag on Madison Avenue.
(10:53):
They advertising people. They love Tatum and this is supposed
to be his Celtic team. This is Jason Tatum's Celtic team.
And yet Tatum got bailed out in the Eastern Conference
files in this game, I think he had twenty six
points on twenty six shots if I remember correctly in
this last game twenty that's not good efficiency. I didn't
play in the NBA, but that's not good efficiency. But
(11:15):
Tatum needed to be bailed out. He was handed a parachute.
The plane was not doing well, and a parachute went
from Jalen Brown to Jason Tatum. Tada, here you go.
Enjoy your parachute. Now, Tatum not even the top player
on the team, even though he gets paid all that
money for the endorsements, to go around and say I'm
the greatest thing in the world. Well, no, that's on
(11:36):
that level. It's embarrassing nat he won, And yeah they
win this championship. Many sins will be forgotten and you
can acid wash all of this away. But at this moment, yeah,
it's not the greatest look in the world. It's not.
It is the Ben Malor Show. If you would like
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the FIFTIV. He's lost Bill Walton. We'll talk more about
that coming up in an hour two. Bill Walton passing away,
dying on on Monday, so we'll discuss that. Also work
our way through Angel Hernandez. Yeah, he's out forced out
by Major League Baseball. They're trying to say that he resigned.
(12:20):
He did not that. I do not believe that. My
opinion is that is bulcrapo. Well crapo is what that is. Anyway,
we'll talk about all those things as we go through
the overnight, and we'll also take your comments on X
at Ben Mahlor, Lebron James has done something to annoy
(12:40):
the electorate. What did Lebron James do now to annoy
the electorate. We'll get to that and we will do
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Chris Haynes and me Mark Stein join us.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
As we team up to expound on everything we're covering.
Hearing and Chason.
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Listen to this League Uncut with Chris Haynes and Mark Stein.
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Speaker 1 (14:00):
Eastern Congerence Finals are over. The Celtics are into the
NBA Finals. King Rory writes, and he says the NBA
needs content and if this might be the second to
last the year, the TNT will be on. There's no
way the Mavericks win Game four. Plus the Celtics haven't
played a healthy team all playoffs of anything. Luca's knee
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gives out and the Wolves force three more games. King
Roy's got his crystal ball out and he's looking ahead.
Greg says, the Pacers choked away three of the four
games in this series, could not close the deal. That
is correct, Mark the full name guy, right, since his
Rick Carlisle may have to do some fast talking to
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remain head coach. This series an indictment of the Pacers team,
not a team on the rise, but a very average
group of ballplayers. And that is being generous from Mark
the full name guy, he says, So we'll talk more
about this. Celtics are into the final, will play the Mavericks.
Most likely small chance if Luca gets hurt and Kyrie
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says some crazy crap and gets suspended again, that the
Mavericks will not make it. Other than that they're in.
Let's go now to a man who is never one
to call up right away and celebrate one of his
teams winning. We say hello to Blind Scott in Boston. Hello,
Blind Scott, welcome.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Hey. That's a Celtics strategy that you see. They're coached
by Joe Mizzoulu. He's like one of the greatest coaches
of all time. They'll hold back when one other player
steps up, like Derek White. These teams they've been playing
suck too. The best player, one of the best plays
hasn't even been playing. Christoph Perzingas Dude, this Marks the
full Name Guy. This guy's one of the biggest idiots
(15:43):
in the world. He's like, I'm not in the Mala Militia.
It's like, dude, we invented the Malon Militia because of you.
You are the Malad Militia. Ben has literally made his
life on hot sports takes and talking to cycles like
you and the radio. Dude, you're the whole reason why
we started to get done. Guys I got He's out
of his mind. If you have a check his Twitter, Man,
(16:04):
the guy needs to be locked up in an institution.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
You know.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Lorena, she's a star in the show. I'm hoping in
the third hour we can hear her trip to Oregon
this weekend and how people reacted to the show. But
you know one thing for sure, she didn't look up
Mark the Full Name Guy in Oregon. Nobody would look
up that guy unless you was throwing trash in a dumpster.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You know what I mean, all right, I just again,
who's the coach of the Celtics.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Joe medoulahot he played for Virginia Commonwealth, I think in college.
Have you seen the interviews of him when he won
the national championship? This is a genius.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Joe Mosula is a genius.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh yeah, you know Scott so like he went out
to lunch with him?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Sit well, okay, is Joe Mosula and Scott Zolak had lunch?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Then?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Clearly Missoula is a genez Who paid for Who paid
for the lunch? Was it Mossoula or.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I think Beasley Media did as Oh really, he's a
guest on the Sports Hub, you know, Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well free me. I hope they I hope they eat appetize.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Also, do you know about the new New England Revolution
Stadium they're trying to build him downtown Boston. That's big, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is that big news or just news? I don't know.
That might be news. I don't know if it's big news,
that might be news.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
They change the.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Location of downtown Boston to Everett, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
So yeah, that seems like it's it makes more sense
to move it out out not in the city in Boston.
There's not a lot of room.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yeah, but everybody wants to trust the Celtics. But did
the best team to ever go through the NBA Clayffs.
They got no competition whatsoever been at all. I mean,
I know you kind of do a radio show here
and stuff, but you'd be better having Donut don Gold
come back and you guys all just eat donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Okay, Well, if don wants to come back, we'll eat donuts.
All right. Hey, I'm hanging up on you. Go away,
all right? My god, I could go for a donut
right now. What kind of donut?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm not too picky.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You'll take any donut.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
There are not many bad donuts.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Let's be honest. Now here's a great debate I've had
over the years. Cinnamon roll donut, non donut, don't.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
It's a donut. Not buy it at a donut shop.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I wouldn't. I would say, don't.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
It's a donut. It is one. It isnt Where do
I buy a cinaroll?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
You buy it at the donut shop.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
But it needs to have a hole, But it's you
buy it at the donut Yeah, it does not have
to have a hole. To be a done.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I can buy at the donut shop that I go to.
Is that make the sandwich of donut?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, I will tell you. A Dunkin Donuts they call
the answer.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
They they call the cinnamon roll. They call it a
coffee something, coffee roll, something like that. Yeah, because it's
not a cinnamon wrong. Well, no, so they sell cinnamon
rolls at Dunkin Donuts, but it's not They don't call
it that. They call it something else that's not a
cinnamon wrong. A cinamroll is a donut. Can buy it
at donut it's not a donut. If I want a
cinnamon roll, I go to a donut tree. Don't I
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get it a donut? You got a cinnamon Well, that's
that is a that's all. That's your specialty. But that's
a wrong. I can go to any donut shop. There's
a million donut shops open right now while I'm talking.
I can get it. I get a cinroll. I can
get a cinnamon roll at Western Bagel. Does that make
it bagel? Yes, it makes it a begel in that context,
it's a begel. That's correct. You're learning how this works.
Let's go to a man who's licking his wounds right now.
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The only person that calls the show that regularly claims
to be a Pacer fan and he's in Los Angeles,
not even in the state of Indiana. What does that
say about the Pacer fan base? My god, Shawn the
Hood Guy, Hello, Shawn the hood Guy. Defend your squad, Sean,
defend your guys.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Go ahead, Oh here you go.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Now you're gonna put a thought on my wounds. You're
a cold man, Ben. Let me tell you something, man,
they blew it. They had the chance to do something
and they never did. And I think this coach he
had his chance in two thousand and five when the
whole team got suspended. That was a championship right there
to get it. But they didn't get it because the
whole team was gone. So now they know what they
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have to work with, they know what they need to do.
We wont these We won these games because these other
teams got hurt. Now we didn't got hurt.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So you're you're admitting that my take, even though you're
critical of mind take, My take was an accurate take.
My take was an A plus take that this is
a fluke run by the Pacers, that they they played
the right teams at the right time, and they were
exposed when they had to make plays. And everyone wants
to blame Rick Carlisle, And I don't know Rick Carlisle.
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He wouldn't know me if I was in the police lineup.
But ultimately it comes down to the players on the court.
I'm pretty sure Sean the hood guy Carlisle didn't tell
those guys to go out there and miss every shot
in the final ninety seconds of three of the four games.
I'm pretty and throw the ball out of bounds. I mean,
every possible way they could screw up, they did in
three of the four games.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
They ran out of gas, and they ran out a
high ideas what to do. So they just lost control
and they just gave up because the star player wasn't playing.
That he was playing, those points would be replaced, but
he wasn't playing.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
But what you say, I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
You get an A plus on yo, I got an
A plus on my pacer take. That's an A plus take.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You are the leader up us as a malim, that's right,
the leaders. So we have to go. We have to
roll with opinion.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I'm your you're fearless leader of hot takes right here.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yes, love what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You never lie about now, you tell the truth all
the time.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That's right. I'm a truth tailler. Eddy. Say that again,
Sean Eddy wasn't listening. Say that again. Go ahead, Sean
threw the truth about it.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
My Steelers, that's the only thing. So you you like
to bash my Steelers and I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I don't listen. I just point out that you're trying
to upsell the Pittsburgh Steelers are trying to upsell Russell Wilson,
who's been done for three years. And the Steelers are
trying to polish Russell Wilson up and he has not
been able to play for three He sucked his last
year in Seattle, and then he spent a couple of
years in Denver and sucked. And you think he's gonna
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not suck in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Come on around? Would a better coach offensive coordination?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm gonna see what's going I'm gonna see your outtake
on when this when his team so I winning games.
I'm gonna see what you want and I don't.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I don't thought the stealers will win some games. Is
it going to be because of Russell Wilson that Broncos
won some games with Russell Wilson? Not because of him.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Gonna because the team gonna come together as a better
team as they did last year. But when they when
they win, and they and then they and you feel
kind of assayed about it. You're gonna wash cars in
front of the in front of the place.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
This year, you might wash car I don't know if
you want me to wash your car. I don't care.
All right, I gotta go, But all right, boy, there
go get out. It is a Sean the hood guy
checking in. So Lebron James, who's never really been a Laker, right,
I mean, he's just kind of passing through. He's he's
used the Lakers to try to curry some favor, shall
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we say, with Hollywood. And it's worked, right, it's worked
and all that. So Lebron yet again upsetting the electorate.
There After the Boston Celtics return to the NBA Finals,
you had Lebron James leading the cheers, leading the cheers
for Jalen Brown, who was the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
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So if you think Lebron's really worked up up into
a lather as a Laker. He's a real Laker, and
a real Laker would never want to see the Boston
Celtics have any kind of success. That is a blood rival,
Lakers and Celtics. And there's Lebron James jumping on the
socials after the game saying, keep going, young King, respect,
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it's from Lebron James. It's Lebron and he tagged Jalen Brown.
So yeah, we know he's opting out of his contract. Lebron.
He's said as much, he's gonna opt out of his contract,
and everyone in LA, the Lakers are like, oh, he'll
be back. He's not gonna leave. I don't know about that.
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Give a crap about the Lakers and Bron's been a
disaster with the Lakers. People don't like to talk about
that part out loud. It's been no championships as a Laker,
missed the playoffs a couple of times. It's just embarrassing,
absolutely embarrassing him as a Laker. And he's maybe he'll
go to the Celtic. You can play with Jalen Brown,
the Young King. All right, we'll take your calls if
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you want to be part, you can join us. Your
speakeasy rules are in effect also on ex at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Mallord. Can an ant speak? And if
an ant does speak, does anyone listen when the ant speaks?
Say what? We'll get to that and we will do
it next. But right now, let's head over to these
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sports news desk. Right there, he's sitting up with good posture,
wearing a hat for a team that is no longer
in the Stanley Cup playoffs. But nonetheless, here's the merman Eddie.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What are you wearing? Are you wearing that?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
The no, No, it's his Boston hat hat to bat
up by you, Lona. This is the Brooklyn Dodgers, the
b Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Do you know that the Dodgers played in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I might have seen it on a wall sometimes maybe
possibly Dodgers the night of time Books. They got rained out.
Dodgers got rained out. They had a night off in Brooklyn.
That's doubleheader coming up on Tuesday against the Metropolitans.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Tickets are available.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Basketball News as Hall of Famer Bill Walton passed away
on Monday after battle with cancer. Won back to back
titles at UCLA, was twice the Final four MVP. Also
won two titles in the NBA, one with the Trailblazers,
one with the Celtics. He was NBA MVP one time
in Finals MVP one. It's Bill Walton's seventy one years old.
NHL Game three Western Conference Final Stars were now two
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to nothing in Edmonton against the Oilers, rally back for
a five to three win. Jason robertson the hat trick
for the Stars. Dallas now six to one on the
road this postseason, and they grab a two to one
lead in the series Game four Wednesday, again in Edmonton.
To baseball games A note, The Guardian's nine game winning
streat comes to an end with an eight to six
loss to the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh they lost to the Rockies. That should be worth
five loss.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
So you can't win?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Why not that long season? You're such a jock sniffer.
You make excuses for a prosthetic just because I agree
aesthetic long season excuses? Eddie Ye, this win every game
you're more on, That's right, Dicken Dateon expects them to win.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We were talking that long the music ran out. I
don't think it's ever happened before.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Wow, that's crazy. You're so long win. You're trying to
bull guard the show. Eddie, it's not show. Started to
sniff updates. Look at that.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
We had the Phillies listening to the Giants eight to
four battle the Phillies, loss of the Giants did. That's embarrassing. Also,
Blake Snell still looking for his first time risking my
live bro he started for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Playing the less I get mine. You know that part
Blake Snell's friends with vass A. That says a lot
about fast A, my nemesis, now the Dodger post game
host that I will Blake Snell buddies with vast what's
up with that?
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
You are? Who your friends are? Bat by him?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Brewers beat the Cubs five four old Brewers skipper now
Cubs manager Craig Council back in Milwaukee for the.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
First warm reception. Yes he did. If you like booth,
he said, boot flat or whatever. They were throwing cheese
curds at him. They were so upset.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Orioles beat the Red Sox eleven three of the Royals
losing to the twin six to five, and the Braves
fall to the Nationals eight to four. I know you're
very sad. No w NBA.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Games, no games of what did anyone practice practice? Update?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
I don't know about no no practice from the w
n b A, and maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I don't I don't know. They have a shoot around somewhere. No,
certainly possible. It is conceivable anybody get hurt in the
w n b A and any any of the women
complaining about their travel.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
As you mentioned this earlier, the big news from baseball
angel Hernandez, he.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Go no, no, no, good bye.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You know, decades and suck a real not a real angel,
by the way, not a real No, he's not. Some
would consider him quite the opposite. But longtime umpire, one
of the worst we've ever seen. You got to buy
out from Major League Baseball and he's he's taking his
mask and he's going home wherever.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They are claiming he retired. That is not a retirement.
That is get out here.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
If they pay me money to go away and not
work anymore, I will claim I'm retired.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
How much you need it, I got twenty bucks right now?
But how much you need?
Speaker 4 (28:27):
I would need a lot more.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You need more than How about thirty bucks? I got
thirty bucks in my water right away? All right?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
You got thirty bucks your wallet right now?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I think so. I never have money in my will No, no,
why not?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Because I'll spend it.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
How do you donate to homeless people if you don't
have cash on you? I don't. No, nope, nope, no
know that. What about when you're walking into the grocery
store and the people are out there begging you to
give money to charity? You give money to charity? No,
I don't either. Wow? What I hate those people? The
people when I'm going to the grocery store, I have
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laser like focus. Okay, I don't need these a holes.
And it's always for the kids. Okay, it's all for
their children. Ye, so offensive to me. And they always
have signs out there, no solicity, make five dollars a box.
Have you noticed these shrink flation? The Girl Scout cookie
(29:22):
community of you know what saying I've noticed the cookies
and not only smaller but less price. The same quality
isn't what it used to be. Yeah, it's not okay,
damn shame even the girl Scouts. The girl Scouts strewing
over the American public. It's not right, are they now?
The boy Scouts changed names. I guess the girl Scouts
changed names too, or something did. Yeah, the boy Scouts
(29:45):
changed Scouts of America or something. Is that bad to
be boys? Idy? I don't know, just Scouts of America. Okay,
I'm so old that I was a Cub Scout and
a boy that they got rid of the gender. Yeah,
that's what they did. They got rid of the gender.
They're just scouts. Well that'll fix everything. There you go,
that's it. Eddie supports that, right, Yeah, you know, I
(30:07):
don't care. You don't care. I got you. Are you
done so dumb? It is pretty stupid?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, all right, anyway, we well we we had. I
want Lorena to know last night on the show it
took they weren't here. Well, I want her to know.
So I'm telling her, Loreena, because it took a while
for them to find the fun facts someway. You know,
I had a feeling it took them a while because
I got a call at midnight Ben oh yes, and
(30:34):
they were like, Lorena, where's the Wow, they were on
the wrong. They didn't tell me. They left that out.
They left that they found it. I thought, oh boy,
these guys, Shay really went out and found it.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I gave him credit for looking for it. I mean,
that's a lot of effort from you know. He came
in here and he's like, you know what it's called.
I'm like, fun Fact. I know, I don't know what
it's called. And then he asked me, what does it
sound like. It's like, I said, Ben Maller fun fact.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, that's what it sounds like. It says Ben Mallard
and big letters, and then it says fun fact. Okay,
so they could not find that. They had to call you.
It's literally called Ben Maller fun fact in the system
and they had to call you. And what's good to
feel needed though, And you know, I also was like,
oh I bet Ben misses me. Of course, listen marked
(31:23):
a splendid job, though, he said, you know, he marks
the best. Well the best means as good as all
the rest. He's like Superman. Is he Superman? He's Superman?
He's saving today. Okay, well hit that button.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Fun Fact.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So Jalen Brown wins the Eastern Conference Finals MVP. So
there were nine votes, nine votes. Nine media hacks had
a vote. Media panel that covered the series could vote
for the MVP. Out of the nine, how many votes
for MVP did Jalen Brown get? The answer? If that's it?
(32:00):
He only got He got five. That's all you need
to get the MVP. But it was not a unanimous
He's clearly the MVP. When I thought for sure based
on the way that he dominated the first couple of
games of the series, you would say, okay, he's the MVP.
But the media panel, and who's on that media panel.
You've got PJ. Carlissimo doing radio, Doris Burke from TV,
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Dennis Scott, Gary Washburn, a writer, a couple other writers.
I have no idea who they are because I have
I have it in front of me. I have the
the people that voted for the MVP award, and Jason
Tatum got He got four votes. In fact, PJ. Carlissimo
voted Jason Tatum the MVP, which makes me wonder did
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he watch the series? Did Carlissimo watch the series? Dennis
Scott voted Tatum the MVP, so it was split. It
was either Tatum or Brown. For the most valuable play.
Let's go to the phones. Mike is in Alabama, if
I remember correctly, Hello Mike, what's going on? Mikey? Oh? Boy,
(33:08):
did Mike pass out? I think he might have might have?
All right, Hello Mike, what's going Mike?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
I got the line punched up here. Coop. Oh, he's
in New York. Hello Mike. I don't think he's there.
I'm pretty sure he's not there. Any other Troys in
the United States? Any other Troys? Are there any other cities,
any other states with the Troy in it? No? I
know the men of Troy. There's that.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Anyway, I didn't want to talk to him. Man, he's
probably boring. So ant man speaks Anthony Edwards. The Minnesota
basketball team on life support. They're facing their last supper
in the Greater Dallas area on Tuesday night. It'll be
turned out the lights, the party's over. They do not win.
Anthony Edwards told the Minnesota timbrels quote, it's time to
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make history. It's time to make history of that's one
of those things. If Minnesota comes back and wins, people
say that's the moment. They were inspired by Anthony Edwards
when they lose, it will be forgotten. No one will
remember it. It will be forgotten. That's how that works.
(34:20):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Here we go.
I am the only player, the only one in NBA
history to average fifteen or more points per game in
less than twenty five minutes per game in a conference
finals series, East or West. Again, the only player in
NBA history to average fifteen or more points per game
(34:40):
in less than twenty five minutes per game in a
conference final series, East or West? Who am I? That
is the question? The answer, We'll get to it.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
It's Ben Mallor got the who am I game? We'll
get to that coming up here momentarily. Who What's the
who am I? I pretend to be? Somebody Else's the
who am I game?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Who?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Well, you'll find out in a second. I can't tell
you right now, but it's the who in my game.
A lot of reaction, none of them to my sports
takes more people concerned about the donut conversation. Doctor Robo,
who's misguided, says a cinnamon roll falls under the bakery
bread listening donuts are fried. Well, clearly, doctor Robo, you've
never had a cake donut which is not fried. So
(35:56):
that's a bad job by you. Shame on you. If
Ferg Dog's says, look at this delicious batch of donuts,
I sure could go for one right now. He's got
a nice tray there. The cinnamon rolls absolutely outstanding. By
the way, double Ow Mexican has a poll going on
his social media in San Diego says is a cinnamon
roll a donut? And almost seventy percent of those that
(36:19):
have responded say it is a donut. So you're on
the wrong side of history. You're on the wrong side
of history. And Loraina had no opinion. So you're all
there you go. Where's your what's your take on the donut?
Cinnamon roll donut? It's not a donut. Bet, you're wrong.
That's you're wrong. The people, a lot of people have spoken.
If I want, if I want a donut, I go
(36:40):
to a donut shop. If I want to if I'm
a sentinel, I go to a donut because it's a donut.
Eddie the cinnaon rolls a donut. No, it's not, it
is not. It is you buy it not. You don't
buy it at a donut shot it's ry. Okay, here's
the who m I game? I'm the only player in
NBA history. You don't fry a cake donut either. Yes,
I'm the only player in NBA history to average fifteen
(37:02):
or more points per game in less than twenty five
minutes per game in a conference final series East or West?
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Larry reporting from Nashville says Lebron James VPN account. Who
else do we have? Page down kill the umpire starring
William Bendix from Art puffin very specific who else? Do
(37:25):
we have a King? Roy Is going with Jackie Robinson.
Mike Fertello guests by the Cowboy Killer, Swen Nader Laker
Legend from Matt the Warrior Raider, fan Enus Cabell from
mister nice Guy, Who's not that nice? Fergdug says A
box of donuts? He's the answer, Kay Donuts Our frid
(37:46):
Late Night Drug tester says you are Michael the blind
Side or who is thirty eight today? Robin Vegas going
with Hornswaggle as his answer. Chris in Des Moines says
Walt Bellamy. Walt Bellamy is the answer, I forty and
says no play for mister Gray. Walt Fraser is the answer. Milkman.
(38:08):
Michaeling with the late Bill Walton is his answer. The
White Mamba Brian Scalabrini guests by Double O Mexican in
San Diego. Who else do you have? Paige Down? Walter
Berry from the k C car Haller, Bimbo Coles from
malibur Rubin. Who else Paige Down? Did I say? Ronnie Sykelely?
(38:29):
That was Ike in Roseville, Minnesota's I guess Boomer the
Pacers mascot. Boomer is the answer, Susan says, who cares?
Big Lou is the answer, Well, it's a great thing
that you took time out of your life. Susan to
answer the question by saying, who cares? I appreciate that
(38:51):
level of engagement. I do. It means so much. Deentler
shrimp from Big Lou. By the way, who's on number two?
Speaker 3 (38:58):
He is?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
All right, Eddie? Do you have an answer here? And
again the question for those stragglers. Bad job by you.
I'm the only player in NBA history to average fifteen
or more points per game in less than twenty five
minutes per game in a conference final series, either West
or East, doesn't matter. And what say you? Addy?
Speaker 4 (39:16):
A man drafted before Stephen Curry and James Harden. That
would be Memphis Grizzly's legend Hashim Ta beat Let's.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Got quite the name, Eddie. But that's a bad job
by you. You don't know, Donuts and you don't know,
you don't know. This incorrect The correct answer. Indiana pacer
guard t J McConnell this season in the Eastern Conference Finals,
that's the answer. You go, yeah, he averaged he averaged
(39:47):
fifteen points per game five and a half rebounds, four
point three assists per game played, twenty four minutes twenty
four point one minutes per game. And TJ McConnell. There's
a guy wh's gonna have I have a decent career,
not as a star, but as like a part time
bit guy role he's a role player. Oh maybe somebody's
desperate enough they will give TJ McConnell an opportunity. I
(40:10):
remember a couple of years back there was a guard
for the Mavericks who played pretty well, and guys like
me were like, Ah, he's not gonna be able to
do that again. Jalen Brunson man, Jalen Brunson went to
the Knicks. I think he's done, okay, I think he's
done all right for the next I think I think
things have gone pretty well for him there with the Neckerbarker.
So who knows McConnell. Is he getting a demand of trade.
I gotta get out of here, get set me free.
Host
Ben Maller
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