June 10, 2024 • 34 mins
Big Ben talks about the Mavericks losing Game 2 of the Finals against the Celtics to go down 0-2, Dan Hurley making comments that shed doubt on him coming to the Lakers, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, Maller Militia Feud, and more!
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That was the sight of Game two. They took about
a week off between games. The players were so tired
after having that grueling schedule in the NBA playoffs. But
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that was the stage Boston, Game two of the Finals.
Not sure if you watched it or not. There was
breathless around the clock reporting all day on Sunday. Will
Luca play? Will he not play? A chess contusion for
Luka Doncik? Where did he fall off his bike? I
don't know, But the Mavericks trying to even up the
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books against Jalen Brown and the Celtics. I don't know
if you were watching this or not. It's the most
compelling NBA Finally, Game one was not that compelling, so
maybe you missed it. Perhaps you were not watching. So
we watched. We watched every second so you would not
have to all of it, even the terrible half time.
Well actually turned the sound down at halftime. But it's
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our good miss for the day. So here's the way
it went down. Drew Holiday, not Jalen Brown, not Jason Tatum.
Drew Holiday twenty six points, eleven rebounds, and the Celtics
held Serve at home as they take Game two, beating
Dallas in a game that was closed, not a blowout,
but you never really got the sense that the Mavericks
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trash are gonna win the game down the stretch one
to oh, five to ninety eight the final. So now
the Celtics lucky the Leprechaun up two to zher heading
back to Texas for Game three, which will be played
several days from now, apparently having by stagecoach to go
from Boston to Texas. So let us discuss the question
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where did things go wrong for the Mavericks. The better
story is in the losing locker room. So where did
things go wrong here for the Mavericks. I've got Tony Stark,
scattershot and oxygen, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will make.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
A bell which you did not hear, but trust me,
normally you do. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So a the Mavericks right now, they're on the highway.
They're not on the highway to Hell. They're on the
highway to Cancun and a nice tropical destination somewhere. They
were simply not good enough yet again in any phase
of the game. I sense a theme in this NBA
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Finals shh, you're not supposed.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
To say that part though, right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I mean, just two games in, two games in and
the mav Rex not good. And this was an opportunity,
This was a golden opportunity, and they fetched it away
to steal a game for Dallas. It was teed up
for the Mavericks to sneak out with the victory of
the Commonwealth, but they were unable to get it done.
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Boston was absolutely drowning from downtown. They could not consistently
hit the three ball. It was an embarrassing, futile effort
for the Celtics, and it wasn't because of great defense
by the Mavericks. They were missing open shots most of
the time, but it didn't matter. They were missing early
and missing often in this game. In fact, to give
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you an idea, through the first three quarters of the game,
the Celtics who lived by the three point shot and
they died by the three points.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They didn't die in this game.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Even though they took thirty three point shots, so ten
a quarter on average over the first three quarters and
made six of them twenty percent from behind the arc
heading to the fourth quarter, and even with that, the
Boston basketball team still had a nine point lead going
to the final twelve minutes, So who gets to where
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the Texas sized dunce cap for.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The team from Dallas on the losing side of this.
So Kyrie Irving yet again.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This was supposed to be his showcase, right redemption, Kyrie Irving,
He's back, Kyrie Irring.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
A oh yeah, he's back. He sucks. God is he bad?
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Every miss, I get a little excited, a little tingley
every miss by Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's so good. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The guy blows in the NBA Final, Kyrie Irving garbage,
absolute garbage, and he stands out yet again like an
infected swollen thumb on your hand, right, just throbbing, just
absolutely thumbing. Uncle Drew had sixteen points on eighteen shots,
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sixteen points on eighteen shots. He shot thirty eight point
nine percent from the floor. And but wait, there's more,
because it was really worse than that. Kyrie came out
was four five in the first quarter, So all right,
he's back.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
There you go, Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Right, all the hype, all the bull crap from the media,
that sucks tolles that Kyrie is back.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
All right, So four or five in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
My computer like brain tells me that's eighty percent. So
the rest of the game. After having eight points in
the first quarter, Kyrie Irving took thirteen shots. He made
three of them, which works out to less than twenty
five percent the rest of the game, and over the
final three quarters had eight total points eight total points
the rest of the game. Overall, Kyrie Irving shooting thirty
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five percent from the floor and averaging fourteen points per
game in the first two in the NBA Finals, while
taking an average of eighteen and a half shots per game,
which I don't think is all that great. But anyway,
here's Kyrie trying to put a nice body spray on
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a pretty pathetic, pretty pathetic effort by the Dallas basketball team.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You want to take advantage of playing in front of
your home crowd, feeling confident and being able to play
in a familiar place. And like I said, they handle
what they were supposed to do first two games, and
now it's our drive to go home and handle our business.
But you gotta give him credit. They kept competing, We
kept competing. We just got to stay together in some
of the tough times throughout the game, where it could
be a four point lead on them or a four
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point lead that we have. We just got to keep competing,
and I think we'll be in a better place.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, by the time you get into a better place,
you'll be on vacation rubbing suntan lotion on your Body's
what you'll be doing here now. Kyrie bad a Luca
though unpopular opinion, you kind of criticized Luca don Chick.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Luca ended up with thirty two points for Dallas, But
did you notice he faded? He faded in the second half.
He was iron Man in the first half of the game,
and then he was Tony Stark without the suit, just
a mere mortal in the second half, unable to deflect
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and absorb. Don Chick twenty three points in the first
half on nine of thirteen, almost seventy percent shooting in
the first half, and then in the second half he
was three of eight from the floor for nine points
in the second half. I think he at three in
the fourth quarters. Just bad, bad to the bone. He's
God's gift to basketball. You told me that if he's
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God's gift of basketball, he should not fade like that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He's Luca, you don't fade. He faded all right. Now. Furthermore,
what the hell happened to Jason Tatum?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
This is another one of those situations that's set up
for Jason Tatum and the domination of Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What happened to that domination of Jason Tatum?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Well, that whoo man that went away, that's a memory,
that's a regular season performance by Jason Tatum from bygone times.
But after being besmirched by Jason Kidd over the weekend
in a talking point that got a lot of attention,
as Jason Kidd called Jalen Brown the best, the best
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player on the Celtics, not Jason Tatum, Tatum responded with
another scatter shot performance.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
When I say scatter shot, that's his offensive game.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He's bad. How bad was? He took twenty two shots,
made six of them. That's less than thirty percent for
Jason Tatum in this game, and just one of seven
from behind the arc at eighteen points on twenty two shots.
And the Celtics still in the game with Jason Tatum
being an auxiliary part of what they were doing here.
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And he does have some good numbers elsewhere, right, be
overall in the finals. He's averaging seventeen points in these
first two games on thirty one and a half percent shooting,
which is not good. And some of the media that
are trying to look out and run interference for tatumill said, well,
wait a minute, he's leading the team in rebounds and assists. Okay,
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regardless of that getting paid, you become a star because
the volume of your offense. That's where you become a star.
And Tatum has well, he's not been a total bust
because of the rebounds and the assist It's the ensemble
crew that has picked up the slack here for the
lack of offense by Jason Tatum. And even the unicorn he
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had a very quiet was not as memorable game two.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And of course the excuses are out. He's hard. He's
already of course he's hard. He's always hurt. The guy
was born hurt. All right, last word in this series?
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In this series over? The first couple of games or
two games in, is it done? Is it lights out?
Is this series over? Now that the Celtics have won
the first two games at home, so that is a
premature take. I would not say the series is over.
He can't say they gotta play two more games. Don't
jump the gun on this. It's not over. However, if
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you look at the oxygen level, there's low oxygen here
for the teams. Oh live and played a home game, Okay, Well,
I gotta wait till Wednesday. Wednesday is a remake of
a very popular documentary about four years ago called The
Last Dance. For all intensive purposes, the Mavericks either show
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up and win that game, or Lizzo is warming up
her vocal cords and we'll all be singing no Da
Da Da da da good bye. Historically, the teams that
win the first two games at home in the finals
are thirty one and five overall. That is an eight
sixty one winning percentage. I tell you what has happened,
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not necessarily what's going to happen. But the other players
for Dallas should play better at home. That normally is
how it works in these series. But it's not gonna
matter if Kyrie Irving continues to be bag manure out
on the court, and I for one hope that happens.
Dallas is absolutely cooked in that situation and before the series,
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as a distant relative of Nostre Damas and friend of Nostradinis.
We said the Celtics in five, and at this point
I might have been wrong. Celtics in four looking better
and better by the minute they win Game three. Mavericks
will be on vacation. They'll hardly show up in game
number four. But if you look at the overall talent,
Boston based on the nerd websites, have five of the
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top seventy players in the entire NBA. They have nine
of the top one hundred and twenty five players in
the NBA, and so far, so good. They have lived
up to that building, even with Jason Tatum not being
a contributor offensively at a high volume.
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our lead this hour from basketball, but not the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not much of a talker.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Two games into the finals, Boston clearly the better team
and Dallas has bout out the first two games, so
now we'll see what happens in game three. But our
lead from the coaching carousel of the NBA is the
weekend is coming.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
God. Now you might remember when.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We last talked to you on the original Recipe Show,
not the podcast which I did all weekend, but on
the original Recipe Show, the talk was all about Lakerland.
What's going on in Lakerland? They were reaching for the stars,
trying to find their new head coach. Did you hear
the latest on this perhaps not so, Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Did he take the job? No, he didn't take the job.
Did he reject a job? No, he didn't reject a job.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So Dan Hurley made some comments over the week and
said the Lakers made a quote compelling case and presented
a compelling vision for him to become their next head coach,
but that he loves what he has built in Connecticut
and plans to decide on his future later today. This
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being Monday, the tenth day of June, so decision day
for Dan Hurley. We are told that the Laker job
is his if he wants. The sign on the dotted line.
The question is does he wanted? So let us discuss
the question. Dan Hurley seriously weighing the Laker head coaching job.
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How do you unravel where this story is right now?
So I've got cracker, barrel, puffy sticker, and needle point
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will make a headache. Is what you get when
you hear a certain person give certain scores on this show.
So number one, all right, So Genie buss, the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Goes round and round.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The wheels on the bus go round end round and
so do the Laker coaching search round and round. So
Genie Buss and the Lakers rolled out the Red Harvard
VIP meet and greet with Dan Hurley over the weekend.
He flew out Thursday night, landed in LA on Friday morning,
and spent all Friday being whined and dined by Laker
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big shots and being indoctrinated with Laker propaganda. Historians love
to talk about the good old days of the franchise.
They've been in a dark time lately, flying through some
dark clouds. So that was on Friday, and then very
public courtship, very public courtship, and Saturday morning, Dan Hurley
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was wheels up gone. All of this a sales pitch
to try to convince and persuade Hurley to leave Stores,
Connecticut with a population of less than sixteen thousand, a
sleepy college town in Connecticut, to head to the La
Basin with a population o over ten million men, women
and children. And based on the early returns, it ain't
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looking good for the It's not looking good right now
at this hour, barring some kind of change in Lakerland,
Dan Hurley is having a nice breakfast at the Cracker Barrel.
He's having the breakfast special, which is waffles, meaning he's waffling.
He's waffling. Why the man even bothered to go meet
with the Lakers is beyond me, other than maybe he
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can use that as a feather in recruiting. But the
fact that he left LA on Saturday morning without agreeing
to a contract indicates it's highly unlikely that he's going
to leave Connecticut because then he'd have to fly back
three thousand miles to a coast, to three thousand miles
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to the West coast. The only reason there's only one
to take the Laker job it's money. The team's not
very good, the fan base is irrational and unstable, the
owner is poor compared to other owners in that particular sport.
The arenas in skid row. Who would want that job.
It's not a good job. The Laker job is not
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a good job, and Dan Hurley knows that, but he
would take it because he knows he could go there
and the Lakers would fire him in two years like
every other coach, and then he can go back to
Connecticut or somewhere else and get a college job at
I'm almost noticed, it's generational wealth. From what I understand
he'd be making three times the money that he's making
a Connecticut and he just got a bunch more money
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from Connecticut. So take the money. It's all guaranteed, and
then you can go back in two years, go back
to college if that's what you like.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But it sounds like he's not gonna do that now.
Page two.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Here we move away from that because there is some
other things that caught my attention to some other stuff
at TV land over the weekend, Lebron James decided he
was so upset with a certain NBA commentator that he
unfollowed this particular person on X and that got some
attention Kendrick Perkins perk very large man, Kendrick Perkins. This
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comes after Perkins lambay did Lebron for inserting himself squarely
in the NBA Finals dialogue. You might remember the two
months off we had between the conference finals ending and
then the NBA Finals beginning, and Kendrick Perkins took some
shots at Lebron for making it all about him and
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not letting Kyrie Irving have his own moment. So how
should Kendrick Perkins handle Lebron James unfollowing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Him on the social on the social media.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So if you're Kendrick Perkins, you got to pump your
chest out and I go to Costco. Eat the entire
banana cream pie from Costco. It's like seventeen bucks. Eat
the whole thing and enjoy every delicious bite because this
is wonderful. You are not genuflecting to Lebron, and Lebron
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clearly expected you to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
That's a reaction of someone that's hurt that. How dare you?
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This is a contemporary who played against and I believe
with Lebron in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
They're Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They were together, and you gotta pump your chest out
a little bit and say, hey, this is someone Kendrick
Perkins who earned his stripes here.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Good job by you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He's not like your standard media hack that gives the
manny and the petty to Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
He's not doing that in this case.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Kendrick Perkins, in my book, gets a puffy sticker, and
as an added most not just a puffy sticker near
his name, he gets one of those bright neon colored erasers.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So good job by you. And I don't think it
was tough love it was just like, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Lebron made sure that he wanted everyone to talk about him,
and everyone did talk about Lebron James, but it was
rather ridiculous the way it all all went about, and
Kendrick Perkins touched a nerve. Otherwise Lebron would not have
done what he did. All right, final point, We head
now to Motown. Normally a team we don't talk about
this time of the year 're in the NBA Finals,
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but the Piston's making some headlines and n NBA circles.
The word on the street is, and we've heard this
from multiple people, that someone named Cave Cunningham, that's a
player for the Detroit basketball team.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Caid Cunningham is.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Ninety nine point nine percent likely to sign a max
contract extension with the Pistons this offseason. Detroit can offer
Cunningham a five year deal worth up to two hundred
and twenty five million dead presidents for Cave Cuttingham. Okay,
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so this is the first time he is eligible for
said contract on his rookie deal. Is the Pistons Caid
Cuttingham a worthy max player? Is he a worthy max player?
And shaking my head, no, this is not that hard.
It's not my money, you know, so I get it.
You know, hey, spend money how you want. You want
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to burn money, have a big bonfire somewhere in Detroit
and burn all the money.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But it's really neat point.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I look at this like needle point and Kid Cuttingham
does not budget the needle. And in order to be
a max player, there's two things that I have for correcter.
You gotta do one of the two. To be a
max player. You've either got to move the needle or
you got to win at a high level. And this guy,
ain't it. Cad Cuttingham is not that guy. You're not
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that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. He's not all
right to rephrase this, Kid Cuttingham, who's been in the
NBA for several years now, is averaging in his career
twenty points per game, six and a half assists, and
five or six and a half is says five rebounds. He's
a career forty three percent shooter. It's just true. Run
of the mil Diamond does an NBA player. He is
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not a difference maker. He has not been a difference maker,
and he doesn't make a difference in winning. It's not
like he sells a lot of tickets. It's he's not
box office. So if the guy doesn't sell tickets and
he doesn't help.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
You win, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He's played one hundred and thirty eight games in Detroit,
Kid Cunningham, he missed most of one season with injury
and cuttingham. While he's been on the court, in games
he's played on he has played one hundred and thirty
eight games. The Pistons have won thirty two of the
one hundred and thirty eight games that he's played in.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That's a two thirty two winning percentage. That's a max player,
my ass. That's a max player.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And the Pistons were middling team attendance wise, It's not
like they were able to pack the house, home or row.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They're right in the middle.
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To the third degree? This is one Big.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Ben gets and big krupolo justin googy. Over the weekend,
Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler sent social media into a frenzy
when he was interviewed while attending a Los Angeles Sparks.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Game the WNBA team.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Yes, he said for some reason, twenty two looks good
in per in gold. Now Sparks player came in Brinkwear's
twenty two, but so does Butler. Do you think he
was hinting at a potential trade to the Lakers or
are people looking too much into this?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Ah, he doesn't seem like an LA guy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But Butler does know that in order to get more
money out of the Heat or someone else, he has
to like throw it out there.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So I don't think he plans on playing for the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I think there's people who are banding over backwards, reading
too much into the story. Anyway, Jimmy Butler was at
that game, apparently, what was he doing there? Was he
paid to be there? He was wearing like Sparks gear?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Oh man, go ahead and get a life next.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
There was also a big debate on social media about
Kaitlin Clark being left off.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What do you as any coming up with his questions here, Coop?
Speaker 8 (25:45):
The last one was an NBA question.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Oh you referenced the LA sports it's a WNBA team.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I did. It's the hot thing on social media right now.
Ben's whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We don't live on social media. We live in the
real world. Coop, well lot to see the real world.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Social media is kind of a gauge of what people
are talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Not a real one. Not what I mean. Listeners did
nothing like social media anyway.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
They left Kaitlyn clarkoff team.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Some support the move, saying she's not one of the
best twelve players in the country, while others say that
she would grow interest in the sport and it's dumb
for them to leave her off the team.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Ben was leaving her off the team a bad move.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think it's great, just like Eddie should leave the
WNBA scores out of his news updates.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
How about that? Next?
Speaker 9 (26:19):
During it part of a pregame show on Saturday, David
Ortiz asked Alex Rodriguez when the Yankees would be retiring
his number. Arod replied that Ortiz has a better chance
at getting his number retired by the Yankees than he does.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Ben, do you think the chances are really that low?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, unless he played in the WNBA and then you
and Eddie would retire his number then, but Ay Rod
didn't play in the WNBA.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
So he failed this adition.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That is a win.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You fed two WNBA references. You're a failure.
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were you talking to? Some extent advice?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Hold that on. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, and if you don't like it.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Anyway, we go.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's the install advice line on Screened Radio. Who needs
our advice this week in the world sports could be
a prominent athlete, a coach, a media member, and this
week's rather obvious Yukon head coach Dan Hurley flew out
to La met with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They whined and dined them and they played foot see.
He flew back to Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's supposed to announce his decision later here on Monday,
whether or not he's gonna stay at Connecticut or go
coach the Lakers. Any last second advice? Last second advice
to Dan Hurley, you're live on the air. When you
hear my voice eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
Line one, You're on the air. Advice to Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Line one, I don't give it all right. Line two,
you're on the air Hello. Line two in morning time. Hey.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Richard Burton said it best from the movie where Eagles
did Nanny barn door to Danny Boy.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Don't go, okay, don't go on Line three, you're on
the Airline three.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We're giving advice to the head coach at Connecticut, Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Does he stay or does he go to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Don't do it? Dan, LA's at clipper Town. It's hit
the clip.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's right, Fergie, Good job, Fergie. It's hip the clip.
Line four, you're on the airline four. Hello. I didn't
call for that.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
If I called it to the mound. All right, well
hang up then go away. Line five, you're on the
airline five. Hello, it's the instant advice line for Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Line five.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I'm grateful I woke up today.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Now, all right, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Line Line one, you're on the airline. When I was
toning the bay. You didn't hear that. You'll hear it
on the podcast though. Yet again, Tony's at it again.
Line one, Hello, Line one, I know, Oh watch out, Mark,
he's coming to get your Line two, you're on the
airline too. Advice to Dan Hurley, head coach at Connecticut.
Does he stay or does he go to thee?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah? Man, this problem can only be solved with more
w NBA Mallard monologue.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Okay, no, that's that's a lie. Shame on you.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
A Line three, you're on the airline three, Hello, take
the Lakers money.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We don't want JJ Redder.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Oh yeah, that's a buddy slug there, and ince he's
worried about JJ Reddick.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Line four, you're on the air line four. Hello, yeah, take.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
The job because Kevin Durant will.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Help you get in our championship.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Okay, go away. A line five, you're on the air
line five. Hello, it's Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Did he go?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh yeah, that's true? Is money?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I hadn't gone. That's right. That's a good point. Yeah,
all right. Line while you're on the air, we're giving
advice to Dan Hurley.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Line one, Hello, yeah, you take the job, and the
first thing you do is you bench Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh yeah, that'll go over well. Line too, he's a
free agent. Line two bullet All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
For that line too, was not are yukon coach Dan
Hurley deciding today, on this Monday, whether or not to
leave Connecticut and go coach the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Any last second advice? Line four?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Hello, yeah, party, okay, yes, that always that has always done.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, that's okay. What the hell is going on? Line one?
You're on the Airline one?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Hello, Lord hates you for leaving Yukon? Should too, and
then everyone's gonna hate.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
You, all right, everyone will hate you. Very nice line too, Hello.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Line two, okay, all right, one more we'll do one
more of It's good.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I'll take credit. I'm not. I'll blame it coop a
little bit. Pick the final call on the incident.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If slide for Yukon coach Dan Hurley's decision, date does
he stay or does he go to the Lakers?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Line four?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Line four, you're on the Airline four. Got Clark up?
All right? Something with Caitlin Clark. I don't know. He
got cut off. He's about to curse, probably, so I
had to cut him off there, all right? Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
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Speaker 8 (31:06):
Is winning so important? List winning and everything?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's time for another Mallard game show, you are so go.
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Dun curs. I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
That is the top answer. Forty points.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's malor militia, few.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And where we go and a few that's walking in archancessus.
We have from the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York.
We say hello to Marcell. Hello, marcell I hope.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I will not be loose Ben, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well said kings English. All right, hold on a second,
you will be going against all boy. A couple of
legends here, Keg drinking Steve from Missouri.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Marvelous Marcell, Now, Marcel do you know, Marcel?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Do you know what a keg is? Marcel? You know, yes,
very That's exactly what it is. All right, What do
you think? One? Or two?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Coop? What are they here? Coops? Looking here is deciding?
I sent him a couple of categories here. Both would
be good and No. One number one are very good.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
All right, gentlemen, The top six answers are on the board.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
One hundred people surveyed. That's the way the bit works.
It's the malin militia feud.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Name an if you want to go first, say your name,
name an animal story.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Maybe two is better, Maybe two is better.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Okay, hold on, we'll change it that. We'll go to
number two.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
All right, we're changing on the fly. All right, Name
something again. Top six answers to the board. Name something
that has to be licked?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Steve, a marijuana joint? All right? Is a marijuana joint
on the board? Is that all?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I like that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Mark's looking to see if it's on the board. No,
it is not on the board. No, all right, Marcel,
you're up. Named something that has to be licked? Marcel?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh, lick?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
L I C k oh?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Do I mention it? Drugs?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Dude? Is drugs on the board? Is that on there?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
That is not?
Speaker 8 (33:27):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Fact that keg drinking? Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Top six answers on the board. Names something that has
to be licked. I think the number one answer is
kind of obvious, but maybe not Steve.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The party.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Now now we're just you're fussing around. Now, all right,
you're two strikes back to Marcel. Named something, Marcel that
has to be licked? L I C K right, l
I C k.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yes, licking like.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
That's what Marcel.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You're gonna get hit by lighting? Marcel?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, I mean well yes, but no that was not
on the board, Marcel. I mean man, yeah, news side
of Marcel in Brooklyn. Wow, all right, not one right
answer so far. Battle of Idiots A key drinking Steve.
You're back up here, Steve. Name something that has to
be licked. Top six answers on the board, man, Kaylin
(34:31):
Clark has to be licked A you're maron? Alright, Marcel,
one more chance, Marcel, Come on, what do you got Marcel?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Oh? Lick representing?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh no, what what was that?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
What did he say?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Dog?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You say dog
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That was the sight of Game two. They took about
a week off between games. The players were so tired
after having that grueling schedule in the NBA playoffs. But
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that was the stage Boston, Game two of the Finals.
Not sure if you watched it or not. There was
breathless around the clock reporting all day on Sunday. Will
Luca play? Will he not play? A chess contusion for
Luka Doncik? Where did he fall off his bike? I
don't know, But the Mavericks trying to even up the
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books against Jalen Brown and the Celtics. I don't know
if you were watching this or not. It's the most
compelling NBA Finally, Game one was not that compelling, so
maybe you missed it. Perhaps you were not watching. So
we watched. We watched every second so you would not
have to all of it, even the terrible half time.
Well actually turned the sound down at halftime. But it's
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our good miss for the day. So here's the way
it went down. Drew Holiday, not Jalen Brown, not Jason Tatum.
Drew Holiday twenty six points, eleven rebounds, and the Celtics
held Serve at home as they take Game two, beating
Dallas in a game that was closed, not a blowout,
but you never really got the sense that the Mavericks
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trash are gonna win the game down the stretch one
to oh, five to ninety eight the final. So now
the Celtics lucky the Leprechaun up two to zher heading
back to Texas for Game three, which will be played
several days from now, apparently having by stagecoach to go
from Boston to Texas. So let us discuss the question
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where did things go wrong for the Mavericks. The better
story is in the losing locker room. So where did
things go wrong here for the Mavericks. I've got Tony Stark,
scattershot and oxygen, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will make.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
A bell which you did not hear, but trust me,
normally you do. All right.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So a the Mavericks right now, they're on the highway.
They're not on the highway to Hell. They're on the
highway to Cancun and a nice tropical destination somewhere. They
were simply not good enough yet again in any phase
of the game. I sense a theme in this NBA
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Finals shh, you're not supposed.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
To say that part though, right.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I mean, just two games in, two games in and
the mav Rex not good. And this was an opportunity,
This was a golden opportunity, and they fetched it away
to steal a game for Dallas. It was teed up
for the Mavericks to sneak out with the victory of
the Commonwealth, but they were unable to get it done.
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Boston was absolutely drowning from downtown. They could not consistently
hit the three ball. It was an embarrassing, futile effort
for the Celtics, and it wasn't because of great defense
by the Mavericks. They were missing open shots most of
the time, but it didn't matter. They were missing early
and missing often in this game. In fact, to give
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you an idea, through the first three quarters of the game,
the Celtics who lived by the three point shot and
they died by the three points.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They didn't die in this game.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Even though they took thirty three point shots, so ten
a quarter on average over the first three quarters and
made six of them twenty percent from behind the arc
heading to the fourth quarter, and even with that, the
Boston basketball team still had a nine point lead going
to the final twelve minutes, So who gets to where
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the Texas sized dunce cap for.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The team from Dallas on the losing side of this.
So Kyrie Irving yet again.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This was supposed to be his showcase, right redemption, Kyrie Irving,
He's back, Kyrie Irring.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
A oh yeah, he's back. He sucks. God is he bad?
I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Every miss, I get a little excited, a little tingley
every miss by Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's so good. I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The guy blows in the NBA Final, Kyrie Irving garbage,
absolute garbage, and he stands out yet again like an
infected swollen thumb on your hand, right, just throbbing, just
absolutely thumbing. Uncle Drew had sixteen points on eighteen shots,
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sixteen points on eighteen shots. He shot thirty eight point
nine percent from the floor. And but wait, there's more,
because it was really worse than that. Kyrie came out
was four five in the first quarter, So all right,
he's back.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
There you go, Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Right, all the hype, all the bull crap from the media,
that sucks tolles that Kyrie is back.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
All right, So four or five in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
My computer like brain tells me that's eighty percent. So
the rest of the game. After having eight points in
the first quarter, Kyrie Irving took thirteen shots. He made
three of them, which works out to less than twenty
five percent the rest of the game, and over the
final three quarters had eight total points eight total points
the rest of the game. Overall, Kyrie Irving shooting thirty
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five percent from the floor and averaging fourteen points per
game in the first two in the NBA Finals, while
taking an average of eighteen and a half shots per game,
which I don't think is all that great. But anyway,
here's Kyrie trying to put a nice body spray on
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a pretty pathetic, pretty pathetic effort by the Dallas basketball team.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You want to take advantage of playing in front of
your home crowd, feeling confident and being able to play
in a familiar place. And like I said, they handle
what they were supposed to do first two games, and
now it's our drive to go home and handle our business.
But you gotta give him credit. They kept competing, We
kept competing. We just got to stay together in some
of the tough times throughout the game, where it could
be a four point lead on them or a four
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point lead that we have. We just got to keep competing,
and I think we'll be in a better place.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Well, by the time you get into a better place,
you'll be on vacation rubbing suntan lotion on your Body's
what you'll be doing here now. Kyrie bad a Luca
though unpopular opinion, you kind of criticized Luca don Chick.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Luca ended up with thirty two points for Dallas, But
did you notice he faded? He faded in the second half.
He was iron Man in the first half of the game,
and then he was Tony Stark without the suit, just
a mere mortal in the second half, unable to deflect
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and absorb. Don Chick twenty three points in the first
half on nine of thirteen, almost seventy percent shooting in
the first half, and then in the second half he
was three of eight from the floor for nine points
in the second half. I think he at three in
the fourth quarters. Just bad, bad to the bone. He's
God's gift to basketball. You told me that if he's
(08:22):
God's gift of basketball, he should not fade like that.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
He's Luca, you don't fade. He faded all right. Now. Furthermore,
what the hell happened to Jason Tatum?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
This is another one of those situations that's set up
for Jason Tatum and the domination of Jason Tatum.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What happened to that domination of Jason Tatum?
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Well, that whoo man that went away, that's a memory,
that's a regular season performance by Jason Tatum from bygone times.
But after being besmirched by Jason Kidd over the weekend
in a talking point that got a lot of attention,
as Jason Kidd called Jalen Brown the best, the best
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player on the Celtics, not Jason Tatum, Tatum responded with
another scatter shot performance.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
When I say scatter shot, that's his offensive game.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
He's bad. How bad was? He took twenty two shots,
made six of them. That's less than thirty percent for
Jason Tatum in this game, and just one of seven
from behind the arc at eighteen points on twenty two shots.
And the Celtics still in the game with Jason Tatum
being an auxiliary part of what they were doing here.
(09:35):
And he does have some good numbers elsewhere, right, be
overall in the finals. He's averaging seventeen points in these
first two games on thirty one and a half percent shooting,
which is not good. And some of the media that
are trying to look out and run interference for tatumill said, well,
wait a minute, he's leading the team in rebounds and assists. Okay,
(09:56):
regardless of that getting paid, you become a star because
the volume of your offense. That's where you become a star.
And Tatum has well, he's not been a total bust
because of the rebounds and the assist It's the ensemble
crew that has picked up the slack here for the
lack of offense by Jason Tatum. And even the unicorn he
(10:18):
had a very quiet was not as memorable game two.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
And of course the excuses are out. He's hard. He's
already of course he's hard. He's always hurt. The guy
was born hurt. All right, last word in this series?
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
In this series over? The first couple of games or
two games in, is it done? Is it lights out?
Is this series over? Now that the Celtics have won
the first two games at home, so that is a
premature take. I would not say the series is over.
He can't say they gotta play two more games. Don't
jump the gun on this. It's not over. However, if
(10:55):
you look at the oxygen level, there's low oxygen here
for the teams. Oh live and played a home game, Okay, Well,
I gotta wait till Wednesday. Wednesday is a remake of
a very popular documentary about four years ago called The
Last Dance. For all intensive purposes, the Mavericks either show
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up and win that game, or Lizzo is warming up
her vocal cords and we'll all be singing no Da
Da Da da da good bye. Historically, the teams that
win the first two games at home in the finals
are thirty one and five overall. That is an eight
sixty one winning percentage. I tell you what has happened,
(11:38):
not necessarily what's going to happen. But the other players
for Dallas should play better at home. That normally is
how it works in these series. But it's not gonna
matter if Kyrie Irving continues to be bag manure out
on the court, and I for one hope that happens.
Dallas is absolutely cooked in that situation and before the series,
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as a distant relative of Nostre Damas and friend of Nostradinis.
We said the Celtics in five, and at this point
I might have been wrong. Celtics in four looking better
and better by the minute they win Game three. Mavericks
will be on vacation. They'll hardly show up in game
number four. But if you look at the overall talent,
Boston based on the nerd websites, have five of the
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top seventy players in the entire NBA. They have nine
of the top one hundred and twenty five players in
the NBA, and so far, so good. They have lived
up to that building, even with Jason Tatum not being
a contributor offensively at a high volume.
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our lead this hour from basketball, but not the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Not much of a talker.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Two games into the finals, Boston clearly the better team
and Dallas has bout out the first two games, so
now we'll see what happens in game three. But our
lead from the coaching carousel of the NBA is the
weekend is coming.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
God. Now you might remember when.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
We last talked to you on the original Recipe Show,
not the podcast which I did all weekend, but on
the original Recipe Show, the talk was all about Lakerland.
What's going on in Lakerland? They were reaching for the stars,
trying to find their new head coach. Did you hear
the latest on this perhaps not so, Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Did he take the job? No, he didn't take the job.
Did he reject a job? No, he didn't reject a job.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
So Dan Hurley made some comments over the week and
said the Lakers made a quote compelling case and presented
a compelling vision for him to become their next head coach,
but that he loves what he has built in Connecticut
and plans to decide on his future later today. This
(15:58):
being Monday, the tenth day of June, so decision day
for Dan Hurley. We are told that the Laker job
is his if he wants. The sign on the dotted line.
The question is does he wanted? So let us discuss
the question. Dan Hurley seriously weighing the Laker head coaching job.
(16:24):
How do you unravel where this story is right now?
So I've got cracker, barrel, puffy sticker, and needle point
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will make a headache. Is what you get when
you hear a certain person give certain scores on this show.
So number one, all right, So Genie buss, the bus.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Goes round and round.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The wheels on the bus go round end round and
so do the Laker coaching search round and round. So
Genie Buss and the Lakers rolled out the Red Harvard
VIP meet and greet with Dan Hurley over the weekend.
He flew out Thursday night, landed in LA on Friday morning,
and spent all Friday being whined and dined by Laker
(17:15):
big shots and being indoctrinated with Laker propaganda. Historians love
to talk about the good old days of the franchise.
They've been in a dark time lately, flying through some
dark clouds. So that was on Friday, and then very
public courtship, very public courtship, and Saturday morning, Dan Hurley
(17:35):
was wheels up gone. All of this a sales pitch
to try to convince and persuade Hurley to leave Stores,
Connecticut with a population of less than sixteen thousand, a
sleepy college town in Connecticut, to head to the La
Basin with a population o over ten million men, women
and children. And based on the early returns, it ain't
(17:59):
looking good for the It's not looking good right now
at this hour, barring some kind of change in Lakerland,
Dan Hurley is having a nice breakfast at the Cracker Barrel.
He's having the breakfast special, which is waffles, meaning he's waffling.
He's waffling. Why the man even bothered to go meet
with the Lakers is beyond me, other than maybe he
(18:19):
can use that as a feather in recruiting. But the
fact that he left LA on Saturday morning without agreeing
to a contract indicates it's highly unlikely that he's going
to leave Connecticut because then he'd have to fly back
three thousand miles to a coast, to three thousand miles
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to the West coast. The only reason there's only one
to take the Laker job it's money. The team's not
very good, the fan base is irrational and unstable, the
owner is poor compared to other owners in that particular sport.
The arenas in skid row. Who would want that job.
It's not a good job. The Laker job is not
(19:02):
a good job, and Dan Hurley knows that, but he
would take it because he knows he could go there
and the Lakers would fire him in two years like
every other coach, and then he can go back to
Connecticut or somewhere else and get a college job at
I'm almost noticed, it's generational wealth. From what I understand
he'd be making three times the money that he's making
a Connecticut and he just got a bunch more money
(19:24):
from Connecticut. So take the money. It's all guaranteed, and
then you can go back in two years, go back
to college if that's what you like.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
But it sounds like he's not gonna do that now.
Page two.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Here we move away from that because there is some
other things that caught my attention to some other stuff
at TV land over the weekend, Lebron James decided he
was so upset with a certain NBA commentator that he
unfollowed this particular person on X and that got some
attention Kendrick Perkins perk very large man, Kendrick Perkins. This
(19:58):
comes after Perkins lambay did Lebron for inserting himself squarely
in the NBA Finals dialogue. You might remember the two
months off we had between the conference finals ending and
then the NBA Finals beginning, and Kendrick Perkins took some
shots at Lebron for making it all about him and
(20:19):
not letting Kyrie Irving have his own moment. So how
should Kendrick Perkins handle Lebron James unfollowing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Him on the social on the social media.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
So if you're Kendrick Perkins, you got to pump your
chest out and I go to Costco. Eat the entire
banana cream pie from Costco. It's like seventeen bucks. Eat
the whole thing and enjoy every delicious bite because this
is wonderful. You are not genuflecting to Lebron, and Lebron
(20:53):
clearly expected you to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
That's a reaction of someone that's hurt that. How dare you?
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This is a contemporary who played against and I believe
with Lebron in Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
They're Kendrick Perkins.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They were together, and you gotta pump your chest out
a little bit and say, hey, this is someone Kendrick
Perkins who earned his stripes here.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Good job by you.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He's not like your standard media hack that gives the
manny and the petty to Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
He's not doing that in this case.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Kendrick Perkins, in my book, gets a puffy sticker, and
as an added most not just a puffy sticker near
his name, he gets one of those bright neon colored erasers.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
So good job by you. And I don't think it
was tough love it was just like, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Lebron made sure that he wanted everyone to talk about him,
and everyone did talk about Lebron James, but it was
rather ridiculous the way it all all went about, and
Kendrick Perkins touched a nerve. Otherwise Lebron would not have
done what he did. All right, final point, We head
now to Motown. Normally a team we don't talk about
this time of the year 're in the NBA Finals,
(21:58):
but the Piston's making some headlines and n NBA circles.
The word on the street is, and we've heard this
from multiple people, that someone named Cave Cunningham, that's a
player for the Detroit basketball team.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Caid Cunningham is.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Ninety nine point nine percent likely to sign a max
contract extension with the Pistons this offseason. Detroit can offer
Cunningham a five year deal worth up to two hundred
and twenty five million dead presidents for Cave Cuttingham. Okay,
(22:32):
so this is the first time he is eligible for
said contract on his rookie deal. Is the Pistons Caid
Cuttingham a worthy max player? Is he a worthy max player?
And shaking my head, no, this is not that hard.
It's not my money, you know, so I get it.
You know, hey, spend money how you want. You want
(22:54):
to burn money, have a big bonfire somewhere in Detroit
and burn all the money.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
But it's really neat point.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I look at this like needle point and Kid Cuttingham
does not budget the needle. And in order to be
a max player, there's two things that I have for correcter.
You gotta do one of the two. To be a
max player. You've either got to move the needle or
you got to win at a high level. And this guy,
ain't it. Cad Cuttingham is not that guy. You're not
(23:20):
that guy, Pal, You're not that guy. He's not all
right to rephrase this, Kid Cuttingham, who's been in the
NBA for several years now, is averaging in his career
twenty points per game, six and a half assists, and
five or six and a half is says five rebounds. He's
a career forty three percent shooter. It's just true. Run
of the mil Diamond does an NBA player. He is
(23:41):
not a difference maker. He has not been a difference maker,
and he doesn't make a difference in winning. It's not
like he sells a lot of tickets. It's he's not
box office. So if the guy doesn't sell tickets and
he doesn't help.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
You win, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He's played one hundred and thirty eight games in Detroit,
Kid Cunningham, he missed most of one season with injury
and cuttingham. While he's been on the court, in games
he's played on he has played one hundred and thirty
eight games. The Pistons have won thirty two of the
one hundred and thirty eight games that he's played in.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
That's a two thirty two winning percentage. That's a max player,
my ass. That's a max player.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
And the Pistons were middling team attendance wise, It's not
like they were able to pack the house, home or row.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They're right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's Mallard, how about that?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
To the third degree? This is one Big.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Ben gets and big krupolo justin googy. Over the weekend,
Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler sent social media into a frenzy
when he was interviewed while attending a Los Angeles Sparks.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Game the WNBA team.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
Yes, he said for some reason, twenty two looks good
in per in gold. Now Sparks player came in Brinkwear's
twenty two, but so does Butler. Do you think he
was hinting at a potential trade to the Lakers or
are people looking too much into this?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Ah, he doesn't seem like an LA guy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But Butler does know that in order to get more
money out of the Heat or someone else, he has
to like throw it out there.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
So I don't think he plans on playing for the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I think there's people who are banding over backwards, reading
too much into the story. Anyway, Jimmy Butler was at
that game, apparently, what was he doing there? Was he
paid to be there? He was wearing like Sparks gear?
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Oh man, go ahead and get a life next.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
There was also a big debate on social media about
Kaitlin Clark being left off.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
What do you as any coming up with his questions here, Coop?
Speaker 8 (25:45):
The last one was an NBA question.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Oh you referenced the LA sports it's a WNBA team.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I did. It's the hot thing on social media right now.
Ben's whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
We don't live on social media. We live in the
real world. Coop, well lot to see the real world.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
Social media is kind of a gauge of what people
are talking about.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Not a real one. Not what I mean. Listeners did
nothing like social media anyway.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
They left Kaitlyn clarkoff team.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Some support the move, saying she's not one of the
best twelve players in the country, while others say that
she would grow interest in the sport and it's dumb
for them to leave her off the team.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Ben was leaving her off the team a bad move.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think it's great, just like Eddie should leave the
WNBA scores out of his news updates.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
How about that? Next?
Speaker 9 (26:19):
During it part of a pregame show on Saturday, David
Ortiz asked Alex Rodriguez when the Yankees would be retiring
his number. Arod replied that Ortiz has a better chance
at getting his number retired by the Yankees than he does.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Ben, do you think the chances are really that low?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Yeah, unless he played in the WNBA and then you
and Eddie would retire his number then, but Ay Rod
didn't play in the WNBA.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
So he failed this adition.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
That is a win.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You fed two WNBA references. You're a failure.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
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FSR to listen live sports figure guy or your here
were you talking to? Some extent advice?
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Hold that on. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds, and if you don't like it.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Anyway, we go.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's the install advice line on Screened Radio. Who needs
our advice this week in the world sports could be
a prominent athlete, a coach, a media member, and this
week's rather obvious Yukon head coach Dan Hurley flew out
to La met with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
They whined and dined them and they played foot see.
He flew back to Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's supposed to announce his decision later here on Monday,
whether or not he's gonna stay at Connecticut or go
coach the Lakers. Any last second advice? Last second advice
to Dan Hurley, you're live on the air. When you
hear my voice eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
Line one, You're on the air. Advice to Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Line one, I don't give it all right. Line two,
you're on the air Hello. Line two in morning time. Hey.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Richard Burton said it best from the movie where Eagles
did Nanny barn door to Danny Boy.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Don't go, okay, don't go on Line three, you're on
the Airline three.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
We're giving advice to the head coach at Connecticut, Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Does he stay or does he go to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Don't do it? Dan, LA's at clipper Town. It's hit
the clip.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
That's right, Fergie, Good job, Fergie. It's hip the clip.
Line four, you're on the airline four. Hello. I didn't
call for that.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
If I called it to the mound. All right, well
hang up then go away. Line five, you're on the
airline five. Hello, it's the instant advice line for Dan Hurley.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Line five.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I'm grateful I woke up today.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Now, all right, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Line Line one, you're on the airline. When I was
toning the bay. You didn't hear that. You'll hear it
on the podcast though. Yet again, Tony's at it again.
Line one, Hello, Line one, I know, Oh watch out, Mark,
he's coming to get your Line two, you're on the
airline too. Advice to Dan Hurley, head coach at Connecticut.
Does he stay or does he go to thee?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Yeah? Man, this problem can only be solved with more
w NBA Mallard monologue.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Okay, no, that's that's a lie. Shame on you.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
A Line three, you're on the airline three, Hello, take
the Lakers money.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We don't want JJ Redder.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Oh yeah, that's a buddy slug there, and ince he's
worried about JJ Reddick.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Line four, you're on the air line four. Hello, yeah, take.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
The job because Kevin Durant will.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
Help you get in our championship.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Okay, go away. A line five, you're on the air
line five. Hello, it's Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Did he go?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh yeah, that's true? Is money?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
No?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I hadn't gone. That's right. That's a good point. Yeah,
all right. Line while you're on the air, we're giving
advice to Dan Hurley.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Line one, Hello, yeah, you take the job, and the
first thing you do is you bench Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Oh yeah, that'll go over well. Line too, he's a
free agent. Line two bullet All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
For that line too, was not are yukon coach Dan
Hurley deciding today, on this Monday, whether or not to
leave Connecticut and go coach the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Any last second advice? Line four?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Hello, yeah, party, okay, yes, that always that has always done.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, that's okay. What the hell is going on? Line one?
You're on the Airline one?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Hello, Lord hates you for leaving Yukon? Should too, and
then everyone's gonna hate.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
You, all right, everyone will hate you. Very nice line too, Hello.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Line two, okay, all right, one more we'll do one
more of It's good.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I'll take credit. I'm not. I'll blame it coop a
little bit. Pick the final call on the incident.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
If slide for Yukon coach Dan Hurley's decision, date does
he stay or does he go to the Lakers?
Speaker 8 (30:45):
Line four?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Line four, you're on the Airline four. Got Clark up?
All right? Something with Caitlin Clark. I don't know. He
got cut off. He's about to curse, probably, so I
had to cut him off there, all right? Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Is winning so important? List winning and everything?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's time for another Mallard game show, you are so go.
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Dun curs. I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
That is the top answer. Forty points.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's malor militia, few.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And where we go and a few that's walking in archancessus.
We have from the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York.
We say hello to Marcell. Hello, marcell I hope.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I will not be loose Ben, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well said kings English. All right, hold on a second,
you will be going against all boy. A couple of
legends here, Keg drinking Steve from Missouri.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Marvelous Marcell, Now, Marcel do you know, Marcel?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Do you know what a keg is? Marcel? You know, yes,
very That's exactly what it is. All right, What do
you think? One? Or two?
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Coop? What are they here? Coops? Looking here is deciding?
I sent him a couple of categories here. Both would
be good and No. One number one are very good.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
All right, gentlemen, The top six answers are on the board.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
One hundred people surveyed. That's the way the bit works.
It's the malin militia feud.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Name an if you want to go first, say your name,
name an animal story.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
Maybe two is better, Maybe two is better.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Okay, hold on, we'll change it that. We'll go to
number two.
Speaker 9 (32:39):
There.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
All right, we're changing on the fly. All right, Name
something again. Top six answers to the board. Name something
that has to be licked?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Steve, a marijuana joint? All right? Is a marijuana joint
on the board? Is that all?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
I like that?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Mark's looking to see if it's on the board. No,
it is not on the board. No, all right, Marcel,
you're up. Named something that has to be licked? Marcel?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Oh, lick?
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
L I C k oh?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Do I mention it? Drugs?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Dude? Is drugs on the board? Is that on there?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
That is not?
Speaker 8 (33:27):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Fact that keg drinking? Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Top six answers on the board. Names something that has
to be licked. I think the number one answer is
kind of obvious, but maybe not Steve.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
The party.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Now now we're just you're fussing around. Now, all right,
you're two strikes back to Marcel. Named something, Marcel that
has to be licked? L I C K right, l
I C k.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yes, licking like.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
That's what Marcel.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
You're gonna get hit by lighting? Marcel?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
No, I mean well yes, but no that was not
on the board, Marcel. I mean man, yeah, news side
of Marcel in Brooklyn. Wow, all right, not one right
answer so far. Battle of Idiots A key drinking Steve.
You're back up here, Steve. Name something that has to
be licked. Top six answers on the board, man, Kaylin
(34:31):
Clark has to be licked A you're maron? Alright, Marcel,
one more chance, Marcel, Come on, what do you got Marcel?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Oh? Lick representing?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Oh no, what what was that?
Speaker 3 (34:52):
What did he say?
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Dog?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You say dog
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