June 15, 2024 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about Dan Hurley rejecting the Lakers offer to be their new head coach, the Mavericks falling 0-3 in the NBA Finals to the Celtics, Maller's Mountain of Money: Bill Burr Edition, and more!
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So really, this hour coming from skid Row, that is
where the Lakers play their basketball games on skid Row
and the highly publicized coaching search. We have a conclusion.
We have closure. And I assume you've heard by now,
but maybe you're a little slow. You have things going on,
you're not paying attention. But after a highly publicized week
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and fling, Dan Hurley has said no. He has rejected
a massive amount of money to coach the Lakers, instead
continue on as the coach at Yukon. He will not
be going to the NBA, at least not now. As
Dan Hurley given the VIP trip to La La Land
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over the weekend, he was whined and dined by the
Laker front office, Laker ownership, and then the moment of
truth and he swiped left, not right, He swiped left.
He said, I am uninterested. You suck, get out of here.
Your team blows. That's essentially what he said. Hurley declining
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seventy million dos. Of course, with California taxes that's about
seventeen dollars, but still seventy million in average of almost
twelve million a year, a little less than twelve million
a year. He turned down cowhard Money's what he now?
Who turns down cowhard money? He did, all right? So
Dan Hurley turning down all that money the discussion. Let's
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have a little conversation here talk radio. We'll have a conversation.
So the question is why why did Dan Hurley reject
the very public courtship from the Lakers. So I've got TikTok, banana,
cream pie, and army, and we will connect all of
these things together and we are going to make a
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nice celebratory party, which I'm guessing Dan Hurley had a
nice party on Monday. Everyone kissed his acid in Connecticut
and said, oh, we love you Dan. Thanks for strewing
the Lakers over, Thanks for making them look like a
bunch of losers. Thank you. All right. So a my
first observation on this story is that Dan Hurley did
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the right thing. He did the thing you have to
do with the time you have to do it. Good
job by him, and it was pretty much telegraphed. I
think you'd agree on this. Dan Hully would have been
a fool. The village would have been without its idiot
if Dan Hurley had taken this job. He's sitting right
now at the summit. Granted it's college basketball, but he's
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at the summit of college basketball. And with all these
old codgers getting out of the college game in recent years,
the old guard like Jim Beeheim and coach k and
that realm of coaches, you've got John Calipari who's now
at Arkansas. But outside of that and really colin parties
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in terms of wins and losses championships is already behind
the success of Hurley. So Hurley's at the summit, And
why would you leave that to go to a Laker
franchise that is crumbling. Everyone knows that, every man, woman
and child knows what's going on with the Lakers. It's
a dead end job. And when the decision comes, you're
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at pork Chop Island? Right do you go to the Lakers?
Dead end job franchise guys that has bad ownership, bad
GM Skinny Jeans the general manager there, Lebron James agent
rapidly and who knows if he'll even be back. Although
it seems like this is all being orchestrated by Lebron
You've got Anthony Davis, the unibrow who is built out
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of toilet paper, but not the good Kirkling brand toilet paper.
The one ply you know, that terrible one ply when
you go to the store and you have to go
to the bathroom in the back and they get the
cheapest toilet paper, that's Anthony Davis. The rest of the roster, though,
is a hodgepodge of nothingness. That's the Laker. Why would
you want that job the money? The only reason to
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take the job is the way. And it's not that
that's a terrible reason. That's that's like a horrible reason
to take the money. But you just have this emptiness there.
And for all the bragging about being a multi billion
dollar international mega brand, which the Lakers love to tell
you about, they love to pump their chest out and
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strut around like a peacock. Where the Lakers they can
get anybody they want, haha. Not a college coach who
chose to stay in stores Connecticut with a population of
about sixteen thousand, turning down Tinseltown said go pound sand
I don't want coach to Lakers, And the Lakers continue
to be all sizzle and no steak. That's the problem there,
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and I love it. I hope it continues for years
to come. But Dan Hurley, we know what he did.
I tell you exactly what did. He hummed some bars
of Piano Man, because that's where he went. He flew
out to la interviewed with the Lakers, then flew back
to the East Coast in time to make it to
a concert at Madison Square Garden at MSG right there.
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And the payoff on this for Hurley it would appear
the media dopes providing him with TikTok influencer level clout.
Can you imagine Dan Hurley? And this is my head.
I don't know about yours, but in my head, that
cartoon bubble, I've got Dan Hurley doing a pirouette as
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he gives the bird to Genie Buss and the Lakers
because Yukon will pay him a little more money. They're
already talking about redoing his contract. They just redid his contract,
so he'll pay him more money. He can then brag
to all the players that are only going to Connecticut
because of the nil deals anyway, but he'll bragg to
them nonetheless about how he's the guy that turned down
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the Lakers. He said, screw you, that Connecticut is so
special that I couldn't go coach Lebron James. I turn
him down. It's a pretty good feather in the cap.
I would say I had pretty good feather in the
cap here in terms of braggadociousness. Now page two here,
how embarrassing is Dan Hurley's rejection in Lakerland? The historians
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who love to talk about all their success, but it's
gonna be devastating with the Celtics, who already are ahead
of the Lakers and championships at an another one. They're
two wins away from that happening. But on the Malard
scale of humiliation for Dan Hurley sticking it to the
Lakers rejecting them, a Malord scale of humiliation one to ten,
with ten being sending a text message to the wrong
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person and some graphic photographs in that text message, the
Lakers get a nine point oh on the Malor scale
of humiliation. This is I'll tell you what. This is
what the Lakers did by even contacting Dan Hurley and
not doing their due diligence. What they did is akin
to being called on in class by the teacher and
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you were daydreaming and you were not paying attention. It's
rather embarrassing. Rights, Hey, can you tell me about what's
on page thirty two? We just covered it well. Actually,
I was thinking about the turkey sandwich I was going
to have for lunch, and I'm sorry, Professor, I did
not pay attention. It's a banana cream pie, not a
good one, A cheap banana cream pie, right to the face, right,
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what kind of mama? Luke's with the Lakers are so
delusional that they thought Dan Hurley, who turned down Kentucky
and other big time jobs, that he was going to
leave Connecticut for a mid NBA job, a second rate
NBA job. And Jennie Buss, who's not a great owner.
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I mean, look at a resumeation, not very good as
an owner. It's being honest and Rob Polenka, tweedled the
and tweedled dumb. A couple of Dingleberry's there with the Lakers.
Read the room, do some opposition research. Dan Hurley is
in his early fifties. He's in his early fifties. He
has worked as a coach since he finished playing college basketball,
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and he started as a high school assistant coach in
nineteen ninety six. Every gig that he has had all
of those years, way back in nineteen ninety six to
all the way till now, every one of those jobs
has been in the eye and ninety five corridor. He's
a New Jersey guy, he married a New Jersey girl.
He's never left that I ninety five quarter within a
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short drive of the motherland in New Jersey. Right, last word,
So where do the Lakers turn now that they have
been pants in their head coaching search that everyone knows
whoever they hire, whoever they hire will not be the
guy that they wanted originally. That's the issue here. So
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at this point, the immediate thing is you circle the
wagons and you enter the spin zone. Spin, spin, Spin,
not the spin cycle because that's a caller that used
to call the show but she doesn't call anymore in Colorado.
But you enter the spin zone, all right, and you
attempt at this point you would dust yourself off, I
would think, right, put an ice pack, maybe some ibuprofen, pharmacy,
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great ibuprofen, because you got a headache. And whoever the
Lakers get though, and there's no way to spin this
in any other direction has stank on them, you know that.
And I know that, and everyone knows that they are
not the preferred choice. So the Lakers are gonna have
to go go army if you will. Now what does
that mean? Go army here? Not the US Army. No, no, no,
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the Lakers are going to have to go Salvation army,
and they're gonna have to jump into that red kettle.
You know the Cowboys when they play on Thanksgiving, they
always of that red kettle in the end zone and
sometimes players jump into it, and then the NFL gets
very upset and finds them and says, oh, no, are
you you cut up? That they got to jump into
the red kettle and get some like a handy down,
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hand me down coach, you some some pre used coach.
And the former Hornets coach has been mentioned. James Barrego
has been tossed out as a possibility, and I still
think it's gonna be jj Reddick. And I can't wait
to laugh when you hire Lebron's podcast buddy as your coach.
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And I just think that's going to be wonderful and
I will have a wonderful guffaw when that that happens.
I hope that happens. Let's speak that into existence.
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hour coming from pro bouncy Ball. After another brief hiatus,
the finals have resumed. Now I don't know if you're
into this or up, and the scenes shifted and they
say they whoever they are, well, that series doesn't start
until the road team wins. Okay, so to the heart
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of Texas we go. I don't know if you were watching,
probably not, perhaps as you were staring at grass growing
out in the distance somewhere on a prairie. But don't worry,
we watched so you would not have to. Jason Tatum
didn't do much late, but he had thirty one points.
Jalen Brown was the better of the two. We had thirty, though,
so we had one less point. And the Boston Celtics,
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who felt behind early by double digits, they weathered that
storm and then hold off a late push, a futile
late push by the Dallas basketball team, and now the
Celtics are on the brink of exterminating the mav Rex,
a lowly number five seed, and they are playing like
you what a joke the Mavericks have been in these
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NBA finals. So Boston one more win and they get
their eighteenth title. They went by seven. They were a
slight dog on the road, Boston Celtics, and they win.
They have a three to nothing lead in the NBA Finals. Now,
Jalen Brown, not only did you have the thirty points,
he had eight rebounds, eight assists. Timing matters. His timing
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was pretty good, pretty good. And so the Celtics have
now extended a franchise record for success in the playoffs,
which means something because they've had a lot of it
over the years. Ten consecutive playoff wins. Now for the
Boston Celtics, they are seven to zero on the road,
trying to match the Kobe shack Lakers back in the
day that they won all of their road games. Now
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they can win the series, and they can do that
on Friday, or Dallas can win, we'll go back to Boston.
But the record for most championships, which is the Celtics
franchise record, they'll tack on another title. But the better
story is in the losing locker room, and so that
is where we go. It's all about six degrees, not
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of Kevin Bacon, of Luka Doncik, who was Bacon and
not the good kind of Bacon. In this game, Luke
foul that with over four minutes to go in the
final game, Game three foul that he fell out of
the end and then he had the gall after the game,
he implied the referees were to blame for not allowing
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the Mavericks to play physical basketball, and he went on
a rant, and he tried not to get himself fine,
but he made it all about him. I've worked with
people like that, So let us discuss the question, Luca.
Luca Donci thinks that the officials are to blame for
the Mavericks not having a chance to win based on physicality.
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What is your verdict on this latest decree from the
headliner in Dallas? My thoughts, I've got SpongeBob SquarePants, Circus show,
and the amazing Cresken, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make jumbo
size cinnabuns which Luca can eat when he's at the
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airport when he's going on vacation, which will be in
a couple of days. So a we'll start it. Luke
Uh sounding like an unhinged whack job? Uh? In fact,
just approve I'm not making this this little taste of
what Luca sounds like when he goes on a little rant.
Take a listen, Luka, what did you think of the
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whistles that would against you in the fourth quarter? I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
We couldn't play physical, so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't want to say nothing. But you know, six
follow in the NBA Finals, basically, I'm like this, come on, man,
better than that. Every time they enjoyed, basically call a foul.
So I tried to be better. So I gotta get better.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You gotta get better, all right. So he threw a
well timed butt in there, and you know, from the
way we use dialogue, if you use the butt, the
word button, everything before the word but is a lie.
So he just said that and then after that that's
what he really meant. But Luca's got a lot of
Hootsbut maybe my television's not that great. I don't know.
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I'm doing the overnight shows, so I might not have
the greatest TV. But certainly looked like those were all
legitimate fouls, and it looked like he could have been
called for seven or eight other fouls throughout the game.
So he's got a lot of hoots. As my grandfather
would say, it was in the best interest of the NBA.
Maybe am I wrong on this? I think it was
in the best interest of the NBA and the media
partners of the NBA, the advertisers for Dallas to win
Game three, because then that brings a little bit of
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excitement into it, and you say, you got a shot,
you got a chance. So it wasn't like there was
this grand conspiracy against Dallas that it would have benefited
the sport, the business of basketball for the Mavericks to win.
All the juice has been emptied in this series. Now
it's all but done. Now is there a path for
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the Mavericks to come back? Sure, Tatum and Brown could
collide together, get injured and both leave, and then then
it's a whole new deal. Strange things can happen, but
we both know more likely than not it's a toast.
But it's not because of that. It's just because Dallas
is not that good. They're not. Luka Doncik is at
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this point a character from SpongeBob SquarePants. When he's on defense,
he's Gary the slug. Remember those stories about Oh, Luca's changed.
He's no longer just a one way player. No, he's
a slug. He slows down to a snail's pace one
on defense and selectively makes any kind of effort on defense.
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If you if you've noticed this in this series, and
maybe I should have noticed it earlier. I don't know,
maybe he's just doing it now, but it's like he's
he picks his spots and he'll play defense I ten
percent of the time, or he'll actually put some effort
into it. And even on the possessions where he puts
effort into it, he's always doing the old reach around.
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Well not that kind of reach, but he's doing the
reach around. He's trying to draw an offensive foul and luka,
you are who he thought you were and you're a
liability on defense he is, and then he has the
standard conniption fit when he doesn't get the whistle, thus
putting a larger spotlight. And a lot of these calls
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were easy. You don't have to be in the tank
for the NBA to oh, that's a foul. That's a foul.
There's another foul booooo all right now. Page two. One
of the other storylines leading into this game was about
the unicorn. You probably think unicorns aren't real because you're
an adult, but in pro bouncy ball, there is one.
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He plays for Boston, at least he occasionally plays for Boston.
But the unicorn was on ice. So what happened to
the narrative? The Celtics are going to have issues with
Chris Stops Porzingis out of the lineup. Without him and
the lineup they were going to have a lot of problems.
In fact, several well known pundits told you there was
little chance the Celtics could even compete in this series
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without Porzingis. So what happened is that take was a
circus show take. It was a spinning play right, balancing
hope and fear. And this was always a contrived storyline
by my fellow blowhards and gasbags. The Celtics have been
a wagon. They continue to be a wagon, and they
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are playing with a fluidity whatever term you want to hear.
In all cylinders, there's confidence there. There is no such
thing as momentum. The Celtics don't have momentum because momentum
doesn't exist. They're just better. But there is a report
going around here from Wojes that says there is real
doubt about Porzingis returning to the NBA Finals because of
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his leg injury. That report is a dog whistle. He
ain't playing it right. Boston Own needs to win one
more game. They will win that game without Porzingis, who
essentially played one game. Will we played most of the
game two. Yeah, but his impact was in game one
and that was it, and they could have won that
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without him. It's not like they needed him to win
that game. Somebody else would have made those shots, all right.
Last word here, So now we go up to ten
thousand feet in the sky and we look down and
we say, who gets to wear the Texas size ten
gallon a hat of shame for Dallas. So it starts
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with the aforementioned lo God Donch starts with him. He's
got to be the dumbest player in the NBA in
terms of playing the game right. You have to be
a statue when you're in foul trouble. Who what to
boat start players? They are I'm supposed to foul out
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start players. I get it, I understand, But when you
whine and bitch every call like Luca does, you're putting
a bigger onus. Because these are still I think human beings.
Maybe they're androids, I don't know. They look human but
when you get your fifth foul, that is a dead
give what dead give way? You got to be a statue,
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don't even try, And like Luca doesn't really try. So
now he's like, well, I want to do the old
rich around. Try to get a foul instead of just
being a statue. He's the leaning tower of Pisa. He's
leaning in. You can't do that. You got to be
the statue of liberty. Arm in the air everywhere, hold
that torch up in the air. And so that was
certainly the kill shot. Luka being an idiot and getting
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making it easy for the referee to call foul on.
But Dallas was unable to keep the fire burning. They
had all the momentum, you idiots, tell me at all
the momentum in the first color up by thirteen points.
They came out like that Tasmania devil. Oh man, were
they great? Oh there's on the broadcast. They're like, oh,
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if they can just stay within And by the time
we get to the second quarter and it was like
a one point game. And then many will say, well,
that's the supporting cast. And I heard all these great
things about the players around Luca and Kyrie. This is
the greatest backcourt of all time. But these other role
players were wonderful, and they they'd stepped up. But I'm
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gonna say the quiet part out locked. You're not gonna
hear this a lot of places. Both Luca and Uncle
Drew got together, they huddled up, They rode the vomit comet.
They went amazing Cresken as the game progressed, And it's
one of these things if you just look at the
box scorers, well, you know, look at the numbers. There's
solid numbers. They are but hocus pocus losing focus as
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the game went on. They vanished for almost eleven minutes
a game time. Dallas was leading fifty nine to fifty eight.
Early third court. I jotted down a note there was
nine to thirty three to go in the third quarter.
It has a lot of basketball we get, I understand,
but it's a one point game. From that point forward,
they got outscored by twenty two points, ended up down
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twenty one. How did that happen? Boston went on a
thirty three to eleven burner at that point, and it
spilled into the fourth quarter, and in that stretch, Luka
Doncik and Kyrie Irvings shot a combined thirty three point
three percent, which is half the side of the devil.
They faded like flowers, all right. And Jalen Brown, Jalen Brown,
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who he's already wrapped up the MVP. Does anyone disagree
that he's the MVP. He's wrapped up the MVP on
res on my ballot by outscoring Dallas in that stretch,
the game turning stretch, he outscored them fourteen to eleven
by himself. It was thirty three to eleven overall, but
fourteen of those points by Jalen Brown and Brown. Then
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at the end when things got a little closer, even
though you never really believe the Mavericks could actually win,
and even when they were within three points of a tie,
but Jaylen Brown helped calm the waters there in the
final three and a half minutes or so.
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Speaker 1 (27:13):
Let's meet our contestants real quick. We'll get the game
set up. We have a masshole Mickey, who is making
the rare inappropriate call. Hello masshole Mickey in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Hello, what's up?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Ben? What's up Malaysia crew, Welcome in mass Mickey, who
do you want to partner up with? As we were
going to play Malar's Mountain of Money. I'm gonna go
with my friend Ben. That's right, Not Eddie, not true,
not mark me? All right, hold on and uh Dave
has been on hold for Dave. Ben, I remember you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I remember you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, you wanted to do the oath and you trash me,
you schmuck.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, I didn't trust you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Try yourself then, yeah, I don't think so. I'm a
god fair man.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Ben, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't give anybody that.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's stuff that don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, you want to play or no? I am other
people that are better than you that want to play.
They are on hold. I want to play. I have
bigger name people on hold of you. They want to play.
But I'm giving you the opportunity. Okay, who do you
want to?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Hurry up?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Who do you want to part up with? Hurry up?
I'm gonna take coo oh not Eddie. Interesting, Eddi's sitting
this one out. Ben's excited about that now because he
has a chance to win. Hey, the all time wins came.
What are the categories here coop a little, please quickly
so we can get plenty of time for the game.
All right.
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This is the Bill Burr edition of Maler's Mountain of Money.
He turned fifty six years old on Monday, old fart.
The categories are at the front runner F is for family,
back home again and Leo.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And let's see, Mickey, was Mickey you were on first?
Which category would you like for family? Efests?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
For family?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And Dave, how about you? We'll go Leo? All right
because my guy's a family guy and he picked the
family category, and you pick a lee. All right. Everyone,
stay where you are, do not hang up. If one
of you hang up. I have a big name backup
ready to go in the bullpen. We'll get to Mallard's
Mountain of Money. We'll do it, and we will do
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I believe I am going first here. I am teamed
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(30:12):
I'm here, all right? You picked f is for family.
These athletes are all members of a sports family. Are
you ready? All right, We'll put forty five secs on
the clock. We're on our way and go. Not Peyton
but his brother at quarterback. Yes, a catcher for the
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Saint Louis Cardinals. He just retired about a year ago.
Longtime Saint Louis catcher's brothers also catching eight Angels. Yes,
professional wrestler was the victim of the Montreal screw job
in the WWE Foundation, nickname of his wrestling outfit. All right,
(30:55):
how about Toronto Blue Jay player spit at an umpire
when he was with Theles I believe second Basement Hall
of Fame, Second Basement. Roberto Almo, Yes, NBA player shot
his shots underhanded for the Warriors in the seventies. His
son's no boy spend a little too much time on
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Brett Hart the hit man. Well, I had to get
Brett Hart. That's a legend. I know. I'd rather lose
and get Brett Hart. I'm not much sorry, you prove
that seven zero? Why'd you say that? With joy ed?
He screw you, all right? Because I like it when
you lose, all right, Dave, all right, Altuve, I'm not
gonna cheat like you would. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
We've got We've got Leo is our category. Dad Davut
there with me? Yes, all right, cool Dave, Leo. These
athletes all have the zodiac sign Leo.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Don't choke, Dave, don't choke. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Choke.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Begin quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Yes, best
cornerback of all time, prime time.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yes. Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Player for the Memphis Grizzlies. He loves guns.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
One of the best known professional wrestlers of all time is.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Mania blank Mania.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yes, first baseman from the Cubs when they won the championship.
He's on the Yankees now. I believe Italian. Yes, this
guy was a Lakers player. He was married to Vanessa Williams. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He's an actor. Also not very impressive, well compared to
what you did. Actually, I set this up perfectly. Sixty
points leads.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
All right, get going there, you're doing it right now, Nickey,
do you want the front runner?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Or back home again? Back home again, back no turn in,
Mike off Dick? Which one do you want? Mickey? Back
home again? All right? Very good?
Speaker 7 (33:08):
All right, these athletes all returned to their original team.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, the
pride of Akron, Ohio. He went to the Heat and
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yes, Prince of the Cardinals, big slugger for the Cardinals.
He went to the Angels, yes, not as flash for
the Miami basketball team with Lebron and Chris Bosh all right.
Safety for the Raiders. He went to the Green Bay
Packers as well. In the two thousands here Hall of
(33:39):
Fame safety won the Heisman at Michigan. All right, how
about this safety for the Patriots kind of got an
Asian surname from Jamaica. Twenty ten. Patriots, you are New England.
You are Patriots fan, not smold no wow, I mean nicky,
(34:02):
oh terrible, shut off the clues. Shut up safety for
the twenty ten pictures of the Age of surname. How many,
how many exactly are there other than Patrick Chung?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
I mean god, Yeah, it was not. It was out
of your tongue. That was nothing on your tongue. Your
tongue was that day. You had nothing else.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Turn That's right. It wasn't even close. One hundred points
total for Ben after two caps. Mike clues were wonderful.
Everyone's compliments. You want to run up the greatest clues
of all. No, there's no need to run up the
stay the other people. I want to talk the score
when they want to hear that loser day. All right,
David got the fad. David, he's such a loser. You
(34:49):
should not celebrate that. Male make tweet. You know what.
This reminds me. This reminds me of Texas Jack. Remember
Texas Jack choked in the octagon unfortunately, and i' like
masshole Mickey, but he panicked, he had he had the
flops away.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
All right, Dave, we got the front runner. These athletes
were all drafted number one overall. You ready, yeah, all right?
Current quarterback of the Detroit Lions. Yes, guard on the Mavericks.
He thinks the earth is flat.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Chinese center he was like seven foot six, yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Picture that was drafted by the pirates. He's now in
the Yankees so boring. He's so this guy's so bad.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
This quarterback that was drafted by the Tampa buy.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
You supposed to do? He panic. This is embarrassing because
already track the Golden get you didn't turn.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
The golden He did not get in the gold It's
not do you want to take you allowed to give
out sexual golden ticket?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yees, he did not.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Tourist.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Because you get such a loser golden figs for your
day or sports, you didn't leave it. Those answers are terrible, Dave,
this is embarrassment to the sports radio. You get to
the front last.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
The next all times you called never a gall with
the other.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Cars up on the street.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
You're not allowed to have your band band DA no
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So really, this hour coming from skid Row, that is
where the Lakers play their basketball games on skid Row
and the highly publicized coaching search. We have a conclusion.
We have closure. And I assume you've heard by now,
but maybe you're a little slow. You have things going on,
you're not paying attention. But after a highly publicized week
(02:00):
and fling, Dan Hurley has said no. He has rejected
a massive amount of money to coach the Lakers, instead
continue on as the coach at Yukon. He will not
be going to the NBA, at least not now. As
Dan Hurley given the VIP trip to La La Land
(02:24):
over the weekend, he was whined and dined by the
Laker front office, Laker ownership, and then the moment of
truth and he swiped left, not right, He swiped left.
He said, I am uninterested. You suck, get out of here.
Your team blows. That's essentially what he said. Hurley declining
(02:44):
seventy million dos. Of course, with California taxes that's about
seventeen dollars, but still seventy million in average of almost
twelve million a year, a little less than twelve million
a year. He turned down cowhard Money's what he now?
Who turns down cowhard money? He did, all right? So
Dan Hurley turning down all that money the discussion. Let's
(03:08):
have a little conversation here talk radio. We'll have a conversation.
So the question is why why did Dan Hurley reject
the very public courtship from the Lakers. So I've got TikTok, banana,
cream pie, and army, and we will connect all of
these things together and we are going to make a
(03:30):
nice celebratory party, which I'm guessing Dan Hurley had a
nice party on Monday. Everyone kissed his acid in Connecticut
and said, oh, we love you Dan. Thanks for strewing
the Lakers over, Thanks for making them look like a
bunch of losers. Thank you. All right. So a my
first observation on this story is that Dan Hurley did
(03:51):
the right thing. He did the thing you have to
do with the time you have to do it. Good
job by him, and it was pretty much telegraphed. I
think you'd agree on this. Dan Hully would have been
a fool. The village would have been without its idiot
if Dan Hurley had taken this job. He's sitting right
now at the summit. Granted it's college basketball, but he's
(04:12):
at the summit of college basketball. And with all these
old codgers getting out of the college game in recent years,
the old guard like Jim Beeheim and coach k and
that realm of coaches, you've got John Calipari who's now
at Arkansas. But outside of that and really colin parties
(04:32):
in terms of wins and losses championships is already behind
the success of Hurley. So Hurley's at the summit, And
why would you leave that to go to a Laker
franchise that is crumbling. Everyone knows that, every man, woman
and child knows what's going on with the Lakers. It's
a dead end job. And when the decision comes, you're
(04:54):
at pork Chop Island? Right do you go to the Lakers?
Dead end job franchise guys that has bad ownership, bad
GM Skinny Jeans the general manager there, Lebron James agent
rapidly and who knows if he'll even be back. Although
it seems like this is all being orchestrated by Lebron
You've got Anthony Davis, the unibrow who is built out
(05:16):
of toilet paper, but not the good Kirkling brand toilet paper.
The one ply you know, that terrible one ply when
you go to the store and you have to go
to the bathroom in the back and they get the
cheapest toilet paper, that's Anthony Davis. The rest of the roster, though,
is a hodgepodge of nothingness. That's the Laker. Why would
you want that job the money? The only reason to
(05:37):
take the job is the way. And it's not that
that's a terrible reason. That's that's like a horrible reason
to take the money. But you just have this emptiness there.
And for all the bragging about being a multi billion
dollar international mega brand, which the Lakers love to tell
you about, they love to pump their chest out and
(05:57):
strut around like a peacock. Where the Lakers they can
get anybody they want, haha. Not a college coach who
chose to stay in stores Connecticut with a population of
about sixteen thousand, turning down Tinseltown said go pound sand
I don't want coach to Lakers, And the Lakers continue
to be all sizzle and no steak. That's the problem there,
(06:21):
and I love it. I hope it continues for years
to come. But Dan Hurley, we know what he did.
I tell you exactly what did. He hummed some bars
of Piano Man, because that's where he went. He flew
out to la interviewed with the Lakers, then flew back
to the East Coast in time to make it to
a concert at Madison Square Garden at MSG right there.
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And the payoff on this for Hurley it would appear
the media dopes providing him with TikTok influencer level clout.
Can you imagine Dan Hurley? And this is my head.
I don't know about yours, but in my head, that
cartoon bubble, I've got Dan Hurley doing a pirouette as
(07:06):
he gives the bird to Genie Buss and the Lakers
because Yukon will pay him a little more money. They're
already talking about redoing his contract. They just redid his contract,
so he'll pay him more money. He can then brag
to all the players that are only going to Connecticut
because of the nil deals anyway, but he'll bragg to
them nonetheless about how he's the guy that turned down
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the Lakers. He said, screw you, that Connecticut is so
special that I couldn't go coach Lebron James. I turn
him down. It's a pretty good feather in the cap.
I would say I had pretty good feather in the
cap here in terms of braggadociousness. Now page two here,
how embarrassing is Dan Hurley's rejection in Lakerland? The historians
(07:54):
who love to talk about all their success, but it's
gonna be devastating with the Celtics, who already are ahead
of the Lakers and championships at an another one. They're
two wins away from that happening. But on the Malard
scale of humiliation for Dan Hurley sticking it to the
Lakers rejecting them, a Malord scale of humiliation one to ten,
with ten being sending a text message to the wrong
(08:14):
person and some graphic photographs in that text message, the
Lakers get a nine point oh on the Malor scale
of humiliation. This is I'll tell you what. This is
what the Lakers did by even contacting Dan Hurley and
not doing their due diligence. What they did is akin
to being called on in class by the teacher and
(08:36):
you were daydreaming and you were not paying attention. It's
rather embarrassing. Rights, Hey, can you tell me about what's
on page thirty two? We just covered it well. Actually,
I was thinking about the turkey sandwich I was going
to have for lunch, and I'm sorry, Professor, I did
not pay attention. It's a banana cream pie, not a
good one, A cheap banana cream pie, right to the face, right,
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what kind of mama? Luke's with the Lakers are so
delusional that they thought Dan Hurley, who turned down Kentucky
and other big time jobs, that he was going to
leave Connecticut for a mid NBA job, a second rate
NBA job. And Jennie Buss, who's not a great owner.
(09:23):
I mean, look at a resumeation, not very good as
an owner. It's being honest and Rob Polenka, tweedled the
and tweedled dumb. A couple of Dingleberry's there with the Lakers.
Read the room, do some opposition research. Dan Hurley is
in his early fifties. He's in his early fifties. He
has worked as a coach since he finished playing college basketball,
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and he started as a high school assistant coach in
nineteen ninety six. Every gig that he has had all
of those years, way back in nineteen ninety six to
all the way till now, every one of those jobs
has been in the eye and ninety five corridor. He's
a New Jersey guy, he married a New Jersey girl.
He's never left that I ninety five quarter within a
(10:08):
short drive of the motherland in New Jersey. Right, last word,
So where do the Lakers turn now that they have
been pants in their head coaching search that everyone knows
whoever they hire, whoever they hire will not be the
guy that they wanted originally. That's the issue here. So
(10:31):
at this point, the immediate thing is you circle the
wagons and you enter the spin zone. Spin, spin, Spin,
not the spin cycle because that's a caller that used
to call the show but she doesn't call anymore in Colorado.
But you enter the spin zone, all right, and you
attempt at this point you would dust yourself off, I
would think, right, put an ice pack, maybe some ibuprofen, pharmacy,
(10:53):
great ibuprofen, because you got a headache. And whoever the
Lakers get though, and there's no way to spin this
in any other direction has stank on them, you know that.
And I know that, and everyone knows that they are
not the preferred choice. So the Lakers are gonna have
to go go army if you will. Now what does
that mean? Go army here? Not the US Army. No, no, no,
(11:16):
the Lakers are going to have to go Salvation army,
and they're gonna have to jump into that red kettle.
You know the Cowboys when they play on Thanksgiving, they
always of that red kettle in the end zone and
sometimes players jump into it, and then the NFL gets
very upset and finds them and says, oh, no, are
you you cut up? That they got to jump into
the red kettle and get some like a handy down,
(11:37):
hand me down coach, you some some pre used coach.
And the former Hornets coach has been mentioned. James Barrego
has been tossed out as a possibility, and I still
think it's gonna be jj Reddick. And I can't wait
to laugh when you hire Lebron's podcast buddy as your coach.
(11:59):
And I just think that's going to be wonderful and
I will have a wonderful guffaw when that that happens.
I hope that happens. Let's speak that into existence.
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hour coming from pro bouncy Ball. After another brief hiatus,
the finals have resumed. Now I don't know if you're
into this or up, and the scenes shifted and they
say they whoever they are, well, that series doesn't start
until the road team wins. Okay, so to the heart
(14:56):
of Texas we go. I don't know if you were watching,
probably not, perhaps as you were staring at grass growing
out in the distance somewhere on a prairie. But don't worry,
we watched so you would not have to. Jason Tatum
didn't do much late, but he had thirty one points.
Jalen Brown was the better of the two. We had thirty, though,
so we had one less point. And the Boston Celtics,
(15:18):
who felt behind early by double digits, they weathered that
storm and then hold off a late push, a futile
late push by the Dallas basketball team, and now the
Celtics are on the brink of exterminating the mav Rex,
a lowly number five seed, and they are playing like
you what a joke the Mavericks have been in these
(15:39):
NBA finals. So Boston one more win and they get
their eighteenth title. They went by seven. They were a
slight dog on the road, Boston Celtics, and they win.
They have a three to nothing lead in the NBA Finals. Now,
Jalen Brown, not only did you have the thirty points,
he had eight rebounds, eight assists. Timing matters. His timing
(16:01):
was pretty good, pretty good. And so the Celtics have
now extended a franchise record for success in the playoffs,
which means something because they've had a lot of it
over the years. Ten consecutive playoff wins. Now for the
Boston Celtics, they are seven to zero on the road,
trying to match the Kobe shack Lakers back in the
day that they won all of their road games. Now
(16:24):
they can win the series, and they can do that
on Friday, or Dallas can win, we'll go back to Boston.
But the record for most championships, which is the Celtics
franchise record, they'll tack on another title. But the better
story is in the losing locker room, and so that
is where we go. It's all about six degrees, not
(16:47):
of Kevin Bacon, of Luka Doncik, who was Bacon and
not the good kind of Bacon. In this game, Luke
foul that with over four minutes to go in the
final game, Game three foul that he fell out of
the end and then he had the gall after the game,
he implied the referees were to blame for not allowing
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the Mavericks to play physical basketball, and he went on
a rant, and he tried not to get himself fine,
but he made it all about him. I've worked with
people like that, So let us discuss the question, Luca.
Luca Donci thinks that the officials are to blame for
the Mavericks not having a chance to win based on physicality.
(17:29):
What is your verdict on this latest decree from the
headliner in Dallas? My thoughts, I've got SpongeBob SquarePants, Circus show,
and the amazing Cresken, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make jumbo
size cinnabuns which Luca can eat when he's at the
(17:53):
airport when he's going on vacation, which will be in
a couple of days. So a we'll start it. Luke
Uh sounding like an unhinged whack job? Uh? In fact,
just approve I'm not making this this little taste of
what Luca sounds like when he goes on a little rant.
Take a listen, Luka, what did you think of the
(18:14):
whistles that would against you in the fourth quarter? I mean,
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
We couldn't play physical, so.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't want to say nothing. But you know, six
follow in the NBA Finals, basically, I'm like this, come on, man,
better than that. Every time they enjoyed, basically call a foul.
So I tried to be better. So I gotta get better.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You gotta get better, all right. So he threw a
well timed butt in there, and you know, from the
way we use dialogue, if you use the butt, the
word button, everything before the word but is a lie.
So he just said that and then after that that's
what he really meant. But Luca's got a lot of
Hootsbut maybe my television's not that great. I don't know.
(19:13):
I'm doing the overnight shows, so I might not have
the greatest TV. But certainly looked like those were all
legitimate fouls, and it looked like he could have been
called for seven or eight other fouls throughout the game.
So he's got a lot of hoots. As my grandfather
would say, it was in the best interest of the NBA.
Maybe am I wrong on this? I think it was
in the best interest of the NBA and the media
partners of the NBA, the advertisers for Dallas to win
Game three, because then that brings a little bit of
(19:37):
excitement into it, and you say, you got a shot,
you got a chance. So it wasn't like there was
this grand conspiracy against Dallas that it would have benefited
the sport, the business of basketball for the Mavericks to win.
All the juice has been emptied in this series. Now
it's all but done. Now is there a path for
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the Mavericks to come back? Sure, Tatum and Brown could
collide together, get injured and both leave, and then then
it's a whole new deal. Strange things can happen, but
we both know more likely than not it's a toast.
But it's not because of that. It's just because Dallas
is not that good. They're not. Luka Doncik is at
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this point a character from SpongeBob SquarePants. When he's on defense,
he's Gary the slug. Remember those stories about Oh, Luca's changed.
He's no longer just a one way player. No, he's
a slug. He slows down to a snail's pace one
on defense and selectively makes any kind of effort on defense.
(20:43):
If you if you've noticed this in this series, and
maybe I should have noticed it earlier. I don't know,
maybe he's just doing it now, but it's like he's
he picks his spots and he'll play defense I ten
percent of the time, or he'll actually put some effort
into it. And even on the possessions where he puts
effort into it, he's always doing the old reach around.
(21:04):
Well not that kind of reach, but he's doing the
reach around. He's trying to draw an offensive foul and luka,
you are who he thought you were and you're a
liability on defense he is, and then he has the
standard conniption fit when he doesn't get the whistle, thus
putting a larger spotlight. And a lot of these calls
(21:26):
were easy. You don't have to be in the tank
for the NBA to oh, that's a foul. That's a foul.
There's another foul booooo all right now. Page two. One
of the other storylines leading into this game was about
the unicorn. You probably think unicorns aren't real because you're
an adult, but in pro bouncy ball, there is one.
(21:48):
He plays for Boston, at least he occasionally plays for Boston.
But the unicorn was on ice. So what happened to
the narrative? The Celtics are going to have issues with
Chris Stops Porzingis out of the lineup. Without him and
the lineup they were going to have a lot of problems.
In fact, several well known pundits told you there was
little chance the Celtics could even compete in this series
(22:10):
without Porzingis. So what happened is that take was a
circus show take. It was a spinning play right, balancing
hope and fear. And this was always a contrived storyline
by my fellow blowhards and gasbags. The Celtics have been
a wagon. They continue to be a wagon, and they
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are playing with a fluidity whatever term you want to hear.
In all cylinders, there's confidence there. There is no such
thing as momentum. The Celtics don't have momentum because momentum
doesn't exist. They're just better. But there is a report
going around here from Wojes that says there is real
doubt about Porzingis returning to the NBA Finals because of
(22:54):
his leg injury. That report is a dog whistle. He
ain't playing it right. Boston Own needs to win one
more game. They will win that game without Porzingis, who
essentially played one game. Will we played most of the
game two. Yeah, but his impact was in game one
and that was it, and they could have won that
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without him. It's not like they needed him to win
that game. Somebody else would have made those shots, all right.
Last word here, So now we go up to ten
thousand feet in the sky and we look down and
we say, who gets to wear the Texas size ten
gallon a hat of shame for Dallas. So it starts
(23:35):
with the aforementioned lo God Donch starts with him. He's
got to be the dumbest player in the NBA in
terms of playing the game right. You have to be
a statue when you're in foul trouble. Who what to
boat start players? They are I'm supposed to foul out
(23:55):
start players. I get it, I understand, But when you
whine and bitch every call like Luca does, you're putting
a bigger onus. Because these are still I think human beings.
Maybe they're androids, I don't know. They look human but
when you get your fifth foul, that is a dead
give what dead give way? You got to be a statue,
(24:16):
don't even try, And like Luca doesn't really try. So
now he's like, well, I want to do the old
rich around. Try to get a foul instead of just
being a statue. He's the leaning tower of Pisa. He's
leaning in. You can't do that. You got to be
the statue of liberty. Arm in the air everywhere, hold
that torch up in the air. And so that was
certainly the kill shot. Luka being an idiot and getting
(24:37):
making it easy for the referee to call foul on.
But Dallas was unable to keep the fire burning. They
had all the momentum, you idiots, tell me at all
the momentum in the first color up by thirteen points.
They came out like that Tasmania devil. Oh man, were
they great? Oh there's on the broadcast. They're like, oh,
(24:58):
if they can just stay within And by the time
we get to the second quarter and it was like
a one point game. And then many will say, well,
that's the supporting cast. And I heard all these great
things about the players around Luca and Kyrie. This is
the greatest backcourt of all time. But these other role
players were wonderful, and they they'd stepped up. But I'm
(25:20):
gonna say the quiet part out locked. You're not gonna
hear this a lot of places. Both Luca and Uncle
Drew got together, they huddled up, They rode the vomit comet.
They went amazing Cresken as the game progressed, And it's
one of these things if you just look at the
box scorers, well, you know, look at the numbers. There's
solid numbers. They are but hocus pocus losing focus as
(25:45):
the game went on. They vanished for almost eleven minutes
a game time. Dallas was leading fifty nine to fifty eight.
Early third court. I jotted down a note there was
nine to thirty three to go in the third quarter.
It has a lot of basketball we get, I understand,
but it's a one point game. From that point forward,
they got outscored by twenty two points, ended up down
(26:07):
twenty one. How did that happen? Boston went on a
thirty three to eleven burner at that point, and it
spilled into the fourth quarter, and in that stretch, Luka
Doncik and Kyrie Irvings shot a combined thirty three point
three percent, which is half the side of the devil.
They faded like flowers, all right. And Jalen Brown, Jalen Brown,
(26:32):
who he's already wrapped up the MVP. Does anyone disagree
that he's the MVP. He's wrapped up the MVP on
res on my ballot by outscoring Dallas in that stretch,
the game turning stretch, he outscored them fourteen to eleven
by himself. It was thirty three to eleven overall, but
fourteen of those points by Jalen Brown and Brown. Then
(26:53):
at the end when things got a little closer, even
though you never really believe the Mavericks could actually win,
and even when they were within three points of a tie,
but Jaylen Brown helped calm the waters there in the
final three and a half minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
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Speaker 1 (27:13):
Let's meet our contestants real quick. We'll get the game
set up. We have a masshole Mickey, who is making
the rare inappropriate call. Hello masshole Mickey in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Hello, what's up?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Ben? What's up Malaysia crew, Welcome in mass Mickey, who
do you want to partner up with? As we were
going to play Malar's Mountain of Money. I'm gonna go
with my friend Ben. That's right, Not Eddie, not true,
not mark me? All right, hold on and uh Dave
has been on hold for Dave. Ben, I remember you.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I remember you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, you wanted to do the oath and you trash me,
you schmuck.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
No, I didn't trust you.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Try yourself then, yeah, I don't think so. I'm a
god fair man.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Ben, I don't.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I don't give anybody that.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's stuff that don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, you want to play or no? I am other
people that are better than you that want to play.
They are on hold. I want to play. I have
bigger name people on hold of you. They want to play.
But I'm giving you the opportunity. Okay, who do you
want to?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Hurry up?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Who do you want to part up with? Hurry up?
I'm gonna take coo oh not Eddie. Interesting, Eddi's sitting
this one out. Ben's excited about that now because he
has a chance to win. Hey, the all time wins came.
What are the categories here coop a little, please quickly
so we can get plenty of time for the game.
All right.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
This is the Bill Burr edition of Maler's Mountain of Money.
He turned fifty six years old on Monday, old fart.
The categories are at the front runner F is for family,
back home again and Leo.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
And let's see, Mickey, was Mickey you were on first?
Which category would you like for family? Efests?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
For family?
Speaker 3 (29:09):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And Dave, how about you? We'll go Leo? All right
because my guy's a family guy and he picked the
family category, and you pick a lee. All right. Everyone,
stay where you are, do not hang up. If one
of you hang up. I have a big name backup
ready to go in the bullpen. We'll get to Mallard's
Mountain of Money. We'll do it, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to
listen live. Now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
And right to the game. We go on Mallow's Amount
of Money and you can play along. We call that
the home work version of the game. Just play along
as you listen, and it is the Bill Burr addition,
I believe I am going first here. I am teamed
up me Ben with our friend Masshole. Mickey, are you there, Masshole?
(30:12):
I'm here, all right? You picked f is for family.
These athletes are all members of a sports family. Are
you ready? All right, We'll put forty five secs on
the clock. We're on our way and go. Not Peyton
but his brother at quarterback. Yes, a catcher for the
(30:33):
Saint Louis Cardinals. He just retired about a year ago.
Longtime Saint Louis catcher's brothers also catching eight Angels. Yes,
professional wrestler was the victim of the Montreal screw job
in the WWE Foundation, nickname of his wrestling outfit. All right,
(30:55):
how about Toronto Blue Jay player spit at an umpire
when he was with Theles I believe second Basement Hall
of Fame, Second Basement. Roberto Almo, Yes, NBA player shot
his shots underhanded for the Warriors in the seventies. His
son's no boy spend a little too much time on
(31:16):
Brett Hart the hit man. Well, I had to get
Brett Hart. That's a legend. I know. I'd rather lose
and get Brett Hart. I'm not much sorry, you prove
that seven zero? Why'd you say that? With joy ed?
He screw you, all right? Because I like it when
you lose, all right, Dave, all right, Altuve, I'm not
gonna cheat like you would. That's funny.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
We've got We've got Leo is our category. Dad Davut
there with me? Yes, all right, cool Dave, Leo. These
athletes all have the zodiac sign Leo.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Don't choke, Dave, don't choke. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Choke.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
Begin quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles right now. Yes, best
cornerback of all time, prime time.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yes. Uh.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Player for the Memphis Grizzlies. He loves guns.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
One of the best known professional wrestlers of all time is.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Mania blank Mania.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yes, first baseman from the Cubs when they won the championship.
He's on the Yankees now. I believe Italian. Yes, this
guy was a Lakers player. He was married to Vanessa Williams. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
He's an actor. Also not very impressive, well compared to
what you did. Actually, I set this up perfectly. Sixty
points leads.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
All right, get going there, you're doing it right now, Nickey,
do you want the front runner?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Or back home again? Back home again, back no turn in,
Mike off Dick? Which one do you want? Mickey? Back
home again? All right? Very good?
Speaker 7 (33:08):
All right, these athletes all returned to their original team.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin all right, the
pride of Akron, Ohio. He went to the Heat and
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yes, Prince of the Cardinals, big slugger for the Cardinals.
He went to the Angels, yes, not as flash for
the Miami basketball team with Lebron and Chris Bosh all right.
Safety for the Raiders. He went to the Green Bay
Packers as well. In the two thousands here Hall of
(33:39):
Fame safety won the Heisman at Michigan. All right, how
about this safety for the Patriots kind of got an
Asian surname from Jamaica. Twenty ten. Patriots, you are New England.
You are Patriots fan, not smold no wow, I mean nicky,
(34:02):
oh terrible, shut off the clues. Shut up safety for
the twenty ten pictures of the Age of surname. How many,
how many exactly are there other than Patrick Chung?
Speaker 6 (34:14):
I mean god, Yeah, it was not. It was out
of your tongue. That was nothing on your tongue. Your
tongue was that day. You had nothing else.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Turn That's right. It wasn't even close. One hundred points
total for Ben after two caps. Mike clues were wonderful.
Everyone's compliments. You want to run up the greatest clues
of all. No, there's no need to run up the
stay the other people. I want to talk the score
when they want to hear that loser day. All right,
David got the fad. David, he's such a loser. You
(34:49):
should not celebrate that. Male make tweet. You know what.
This reminds me. This reminds me of Texas Jack. Remember
Texas Jack choked in the octagon unfortunately, and i' like
masshole Mickey, but he panicked, he had he had the
flops away.
Speaker 7 (35:04):
All right, Dave, we got the front runner. These athletes
were all drafted number one overall. You ready, yeah, all right?
Current quarterback of the Detroit Lions. Yes, guard on the Mavericks.
He thinks the earth is flat.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Chinese center he was like seven foot six, yes, uh.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Picture that was drafted by the pirates. He's now in
the Yankees so boring. He's so this guy's so bad.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
This quarterback that was drafted by the Tampa buy.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
You supposed to do? He panic. This is embarrassing because
already track the Golden get you didn't turn.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
The golden He did not get in the gold It's
not do you want to take you allowed to give
out sexual golden ticket?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yees, he did not.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Tourist.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Because you get such a loser golden figs for your
day or sports, you didn't leave it. Those answers are terrible, Dave,
this is embarrassment to the sports radio. You get to
the front last.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
The next all times you called never a gall with
the other.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Cars up on the street.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
You're not allowed to have your band band DA no
any sucks more to Infinity
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