June 28, 2024 • 42 mins
In Hour 1 of the Ben Maller Show Ben breaks down the latest from the NBA! How do you explain Bronny James ending up with Lakers? What did you make of Woj defending the Lakers drafting Bronny James saying ‘The NBA is full of nepotism’? Where are you at on Rich Paul manipulating the draft for Bronny James?
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the NBA draft And how do you explain Bronnie James
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ending up with the Lakers? Also, what don't you make
of woje respected NBA pundit Woge defending the Lakers drafting
of Bronnie James, saying the NBA is full of nepotism?
And where are you at on Rich Paul manipulating the
draft to clear the way for Bronnie James to end
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up in La La Land with his daddy. We'll talk
about all that and more right now here. It is
our number one.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, if you.
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Thought that lebron James would allow his son to not
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dateline the second round of the draft. The second round
of the Draft, so exciting. The second round of the
draft pro bouncy ball on a sleepy late June afternoon.
The event took place in afterthought and after now did
I have it on in the background? Yeah, yeah, it
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was like white noise. He was in the background, a
marginalized to the dreaded daytime hours now one person stood out,
head and shoulders above all the rest. Yes, we assume
you know by now, But maybe you have been living
in a van down by the river without Wi Fi
and you haven't figured this out. With much fanfare and gusto,
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Bronnie James, the spawn of lebron was picked by his
daddy's company. Just when you thought the Lakers could not
get any more embarrassing, Tada, the Lakers picked the guy
who averaged less than five points a game in college
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in the second round of the NBA j After months
and months of speculation, the long standing rumor has become
a sad reality and a testimonial to the incompetence of
Genie Buss as the owner of the Lakers. Another body
blow to the once proud franchise in Los Angeles. So
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let us discuss how do you explain Bronni James ending
up with the Lakers. So I've got Pedro, pom Poms
and the three little pigs, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will provide a bundle
of joy this much anticipated Malon monologue. So hey, the
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obvious thing here, this has been carefully crafted. Bronnie to
the Lakers took a lot of work by some by
others that didn't take that much work. It was WWE
like I flashed back to when I was about ten
or eleven years old, and I kind of figured out,
Wait a minute, Hulk Hogan is playing a character, and
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so is mean gene Oakerland and Andre the Giant and
the macho man. Wait a minute, bending reality? Now, what
is my evidence? Let me give you my evidence here.
After Bronnie James was selected by the Lakers, a business
partner of the Lakers and the NBA, Nike quickly released
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a new ad for Bronni highlighting his journey to the
NBA freshure was never a question. The ad read, when
passion has always been the answer. Now, riddle me this, batman.
Do you think that that possibly was choreographed from the
ivory tower of prompt bouncy ball. Bronni James, when he's
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asked how the hell did you get drafted? You sucked
in college? He can quote Red Sox legend Pedro Martinez,
who's your daddy? Yeah? This is the family business? And
Lebron there sipping champagne major flex for lebron He held
the once proud Laker franchise hostage, and he won. When
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will Genie Buss be forced to sell the Lakers inquiring
mindes would like to know. This is like a ransomware
attack GM by proxy. Lebron, I'm opting out of my contract.
I would like you to pay more money than even
when I'm forty two, not even hiding it. There's not
even decorum of hiding it. So here's what we believe
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are the King James demands in the ransom note that
he gave. He wanted to hire the Lakers, to hire
his podcast partner as coach, and draft his son. All
of those boxes were checked. Podcast guy coaching that's embarrassing,
and drafting your son that wasn't even good enough to
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average five points a game in college, that's also there. Now,
if Lebron really cared about winning, don't you think he
would have forced Genie Buss to acquire I don't know,
Jason Tatum and Nikola Jokic instead of JJ podcast Reddick
the snobbish ahole who's coaching the team, and Bronnie James
who can't play. Come on now. The other part of
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this was the media coverage, which is another part of
how this all went down. And if you weren't watching,
Steve and a are former Morning Guy and Adrian Wardronowski
were laying it on thick, but I wanted to focus
in on the WOJ comments. What do you make of
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respected basketball pundit Woge passionately defending a full throated defense
of the Lakers drafting Bronnie James by saying the NBA
is full of nepotism. That's what he said, And while
that point is technically true, perhaps it is irrelevant. Shame
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on you. I love Wog. I actually I know him.
It's weak sauce, believe it or not, actually in TV
with them years ago at the defunct NBC Sports Network.
WOJ does not want you to know that it was
not the highlight of his broadcasting career. But he's good people,
but he missed the mark on this take. You might
as well just get out the face paint, the ones
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and the purple and gold pom poms with this take.
You are now part of the Lakers spirit squad. Congratulations.
And what I've determined is all these media hacks, the
media elites in the NBA are afraid to say anything
negative about Lebron. And they're afraid Lebron's He's the don
you can't say anything bad about the Godfather and so
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they're afraid of that. And so by definition, you look
at how this plays out and the trickle down of that.
You can't rip Lebron, but you can't rip Bron's kid.
And woje what he did here on this take when
he used the line that the NBA is full of nepotism,
that's a version of the but everyone does that defense.
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I heard this from the a holes, the fans of
the ass two one thousand strows when they were cheating,
and they're twenty seventeen world serious and they never got punished.
Not a player got punished, right, And this is what's
known as trying to rationalize. In this case, it's all
the old fashioned nepotism good luck. And as we point out,
every time in the legal world, they ask how could
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you possibly believe that an act is right simply because
everyone else does it? And next time you get pulled
over for speeding on the interstate, you're out in the highway,
you get pulled over spinning. When the cops says, hey,
can I have your license and registration? You say yes, officer.
By the way, everyone else was speeding too, I shouldn't
get a ticket. Good luck. See how that works. Come
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back and see how that works. Let me know. Okay,
just do it. Last word now. During the morning hours
leading in to the second round of the draft, Bronnie
James agent Rich Paul, according to multiple reports, was said
to be telling teams not to draft Lebron's son. Don't
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draft him, doubt, doubt, doubt dot dout dot. In the
second round of the draft. The threat was, if you do,
Bronnie James is going to Australia, He's gonna hang out
with Ozzie w was in Western Australia and the boys
that listen to the show religiously there. And so it's
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clear that Rich Paul was ensuring that his client would
go to the Lakers. So where are you at on
the agent Rich Paul manipulating the draft in cahoots with
Lebron to help out Bronnie James. So I have an
unpopular opinion on this. I'm not upset with Rich Paul.
Rich Paul's a snake oil salesman. He's a slide ball.
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He's an agent that goes with the gig, right, goes
with the territory. When you're an agent, that's what you're
supposed to be. All of those things, and apparently he's
good in his job. Of course, it helps to have
Lebron backing you. But to me, this is an indictment
of the association, the entire NBA. It's the classical story
of the three little pigs who's afraid of the big
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bad wolf, and in this case the entire NBA. Everyone
in the NBA is afraid of the big bad wolf.
They're all a bunch of cowards, all of them, right,
you're telling me that nobody nobody thought why don't it's
the second round? These picks are worthless anyway most of
the time. So why don't we just pick Bronni just
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to spite lebron just to poke the bear? Why not? Right,
call Bronni's bluff. See if he can go surfing and
hang out with kangaroos in Australia in your team like
the Indiana Pacers or the Charlotte Hornets. Why wouldn't you
have done that, just a goof with Lebron? How great
would that have been? But no, every single team in
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the NBA, they're all a bunch of cats, scaredy cats,
every single one of them. All, right, is the Bane
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projected to go in the first round of the draft
slipped down the draft board because of his girlfriend girl problems,
lady problems. Yes, that is the story. We'll fill you
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It's Ben mallor settling in to the overnight hours. Freddie
writes in began with a basketball monologue pro bouncy ball,
as there is no debate Lebron running the Lakers. He's
been running the Lakers for years, not doing a very
good job, by the way, Freddie says a plus plus
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on the male of monologue. I know you don't give
out birthday shout outs, but can you not wish my
brother Emmanuel a happy birthday? He's the reason I listened
to the best sports show. Well, the best means is
destroyed the rest, and Lebron James has destroyed the Laker legacy. Well,
I will not do a birthday shout out to a manual,
even though I should, because he helped grow the audience.
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And if every man, woman and child that listens either
to the live radio show or the podcast version of
the show, added one listener, we would overnight double double
the money in terms of audience that we have all
right now, Jordan writes, since this the Lakers drafting Brownie
was a good representation of the current state of the
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NBA it's one hundred percent for show, and competition doesn't
really matter. Jerry West did not die for this rest
in peace. Well, that's a little bold. I think he
died because he doesn't. He's too old and there's some
weird music being played in the background. He writes and says, Hey,
malard a plus in an Italian beef sandwich. He's in
Chicago Italian beef sandwich. On the Mallon monologue, the Lakers
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GM is going to need a higher dose of the
drugs that Biden took to explain the Bronni pick. Okay,
what else do we have? Double ow Mexican and San
Diego's with us? On the Live show, he says ten
out of ten. On the Mallen monologue, the Lakers are
being run like they're the Hornets. I don't know what's worse,
hiring Reddick or drafting Bronnie paper Towel. The ownership and
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front office are run by a bunch of amateurs. Ah
wells JJ Reddick is worse because I would say Bronni's
not gonna play, but methinks he will play. They have
to play him to begin the year. He has to
be on the team because the whole point is Bronni
and Lebron his teammates, and in order for that to
be reality, he actually has to get on the court.
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Am I wrong on that? As I understand it? In
order for you he can be on the team, but
for the whole father son thing to work, they actually
both have to be out in the court. David rights
in from Ohio. He says, ben Ben Ben, Ben, Ben
Ben Ben, I can tell with your deep delve into
the Lakers and the James Gang that you will undoubtedly, unequivocally,
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one thousand percent be leading the Laker bandwagon next year.
I can tell by the tone of your voice that
your love for Lebron and Minnie Lebron is spiritual. Yes,
it's the gospel, unless it's not just like you and
the Terrible towel, even though you're in Ohio, if you're
a fan of that Pittsburgh team, Femi writes in from
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the twin season at Femi one of the great listeners
in Minnesota, and he went back to his home country
there and passed out signs of this show. And I
have that photo saved, one of the great photos ever taken.
Warms my cockles. I don't even know what that means.
But Femmi says, Ben, don't you think the Lakers are
going to smile all the way to the bank with
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this Bronnie James move. Genie might finally become a billionaire.
That's a shot. Rod, abassador of Bakersfield, says, every single
team but the Lakers got it right in the draft.
Bronnie sucks and all of them know it. It will
all come out in the wash. He will be a
complete failure. So so he says, King Rory rights in,
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he is the King, not lebron It's King Rory. He says,
we need to hear from a true Laker fan and
not from a fan of the second rate l a
team who will never win anything. So can we ask
Laker expert Justin Cooper his thoughts on brownie jams? All right,
let me do that right now, Coop. What do you
have to say here, Coop about your Lakers? Come on,
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you're completely right, Ben, Come on, give me something more
than that, Coop. Come on, this is your team. Higher
a joke there to joke? Hey, I want a steamer octopussy?
What happened to you? Don't want a fluffer nutter in
your mouth? His voice so different there, Coop. Are you sick,
(20:03):
Cooper Loop, Maybe you got a cold or something like that. No,
you're stammering a little bit. Are you in a debate?
What's going on with you? I have no I checking
some games of note in the Major League Baseball. Yeah,
And I don't blame Coop. He took a mental health night.
He's not here, and I would too if I was
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a Laker guy. We're worried about Coop. Hopefully it'll be okay.
He was a little emotional. All of his teams stink.
The Broncos traded for Zach Wilson, that's embarrassing. The Angels
he stopped watching because they didn't re sign Otani and
they have no good players. And Mike Trout is a malingerer.
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And the one team he held onto was the Lakers,
and now it's over. They hired a podcaster, and they
drafted Lebron's kid, which shuck again. So good. When I
was a little boy, I hope this would happen at
some point. I didn't think it would be this bad
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for the Lakers, but they had some bad Lean years
when at the end of the Kobe run there, but
this is worse. This is worse, This is more embarrassing.
Mass Ole Mickey says, grade a prime beef on the
mall monologue, and you took the words out of my
typing fingers. Nepotism, so so, he says. A Cowboy Drew
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playing the Cowboy video game says JJ Reddick will be
out of a job by this time next year. Gumby
Dave from the Sunshine State said, woj had on his
league issued purple and yellow knee pads this afternoon. Rich
Paul did his job. Yeah, it's not much more that
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you can say, not much more that you can say.
All right, let's see Justin in Cincinnati sending a bunch
of random messages. He says, if figure you know who
is conveniently often I eight after the Laker takeover by
Lebron officially and the president basically pulled a weekend at Bernie's,
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he says. A Matthew Warrior Raider fan says, Kobe Bryant
is rolling over in his grave and Jerry West is
rolling over on the embalmbing table. The Lakers have been
completely hijacked by Lebron. James, a once sprout franchise, has
been reduced to bending over for a thirty nine year
old player coach GM Right now, Matt, the Laker front
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office is licking the toes of Lebron. Is what they're doing.
What do you want, Lebron? Whatever you need, Lebron, We
got you, Lebron, Come on, we gotcha whatever you need
you want Brownie Okay, he can't put. I don't care,
I don't care. We're good. It is the Ben Malors Show.
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As we are rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling on here through
the overnight. We'll take a phone call. Let's start out
with Enie Meenie miney mo. Laker Mike is in La,
La Land. Hello Laker Mike.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Oh Ben Okay, here's what Lebron must do. He is
a checklist, and I have a checklist for him. By
the way, your monologue was spot on. He has a checklist,
and it's to stay in La to get JJ Reddick
as his coach, to get Bronny on the team. But
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is it to also win a championship? Is it to
get rid of D'Angelo Russell? Be if it is. If
it is, we get rid of D'Angelo Russell, he gets
for I know he has a contract where it's the
player option, So Lebron has to get rid of him
and bring in arnovin Mitchell. And then here is where
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we see if Lebron really cares about being loved by
Laker nation, he has to take a rady haircut.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Five million a year to bring in veteran All Stars,
to bring it all stars, and then veterans at the
minimum salary.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
This is where we can see if Lebron really wants
to win a championship or just doesn't give a you
know what about that. If he does that, you bring
in some serious talent. Now, I usually don't.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Care about other people, you know, to delve into.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Other people's paychecks. But the guys worth a billion dollars
and he's gonna own a team in Las Vegas in
three years or so. If he does that, and he
gets rid of D'Angelo Russell by his pressure, then the
Lakers could be another viable team. And if Jeanie Bus
stays out of the management of the Lakers, and if
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Polinka kind of stays out of it to the best
of his her of her ability, the Lakers could be
a viable team. But if Lebron keeps all that money
and the Lakers just keep who they.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Have, they will be a playing team.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And that's maybe it's all right.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I take a breath, Laker, Mike, I got three points.
Number one, I appreciate your passion. Number two, you're doing
the Ifsen butts, and if Ifsen butts were candy and nuts,
it would be a holiday every single day. That's number two.
And number three, Stay away from the mini bar, Laker, Mike,
stay away from the mini bar. Okay, Lebron's not taking
a pay cut. No chance he's taking a pay cut,
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nor should he take a pay cut. I will defend
Lebron getting the full amount. I don't want someone to
say I should take a pay cut. I feel like
I already do take a pay cut, so I don't
need to take a bigger pay cut to do this show.
So thank you, I'm hanging up on you. That was
longer than the Gettysburg addresses with that that ranth final lately, Mike.
That was long winded, is what that was. But yeah,
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he had a lot to say, a lot to say,
a little out there, little little little bit a little bit.
So is it true a player dropped in the NBA
draft because of his girlfriend? We will get to that
coming up in a couple of minutes. But right now,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
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the overnight, and we say hello too. Games of Note, Garcia, Yah.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
All right, thank you, Ben, and we start with the
second round of the NBA Draft. And as you were
talking about, the only drama was would Bronni James, the
son of NBA legend lebron James, get drafted. The answer
was yes, he was the fifty fifth overall pick. Bye.
Of course, his father's team, the Los Angeles Lakers. If
Bronnie makes the Lakers roster, which is funny because of
course he's gonna make the Lakers roster, but if he does,
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it would be the first five Sun duo in league history.
If baseball Games of Note, the Orioles down the Rangers
eleven to two, Baltimore, eating four home runs in the win. Meanwhile,
the Yankees lose to the Blue Jays nine to two,
George Springer a couple of homers six rbi for Toronto,
so the Yankees and Orioles are now tied for the
Al East lead. Phillies lose to the Marlins seven to four.
Philadelphia also maybe losing Bryce Harper for a while he
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was running out of grounder on the final out of
the game, came up lame pulled his hamstring. He's gonna
have an MRI. On Friday, Guardians lose to the Royals
two to one. The Braves were shut out by the
White Sox one nothing. Chicago used five different pitchers in
a bullpen game to limit Atlanta to no runs on
five hits. Only run of the game on a first
inning home run from Chicago's Luis Robert. Angels shut out
the Tigers five nothing. Angels starter Davis Daniels first major
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league start eight shutout innings for its eight strikeouts, no
walks in getting the victory. Twins outscore the Diamondbacks thirteen
to six. Four different Twins drove in two or more,
with Bryson Buxton hitting a three run homer. Comes over
the Giants five three to ten, reds of the Cardinals
eleven to four. Soccer Copa America, the US embarrassed with
a two to one loss to Panama and a game
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played in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The lost to Panama.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
They did lose the Panama and apparently.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Marianna Rivera come in there and no.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, he came in and closed.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Then closed it out for Panama.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
They played played the Enter Sandman and everything there, so
us now in jeopardy of missing out in the in
the knockout, advancing in the knockout round there and that's it.
That's pretty embarrassing. NHL Avalanche star Nathan McKinnon wins the
Heart Trophy as League MVP.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You gotta have heart, Eddie, you gotta have heart.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It's it's a good thing to have.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, you don't have a heart. You're probably not alive,
but it doesn't matter anymore. You could be a I
like you just live on forever. That's that hard, that's true.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Or you could be the son of a you know,
star and mental health.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
My dad may he rest in peace, But I used
to I used to bust my dad's balls because my
dad was a Ham radio offer. He loved Ham radio.
I said, Dad, you know, if you worked in terrestrial radio,
I'd be like a morning guy somewhere, a lot of money.
Bad job by you. I don't think he appreciated mine. No, No,
he always told me, said, you know you, you don't
appreciate Ham radio. Someday there's gonna be an earthquake or
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you're gonna need Ham Radio. I'm like, okay, Dad, thank
you hilarious shout out to your pops. No, we did.
We had that conversation many many times.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Doesn't love Ham? Yeah, well I guess you don't.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't know, but he did.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
He love the Ham Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, there you go. You want a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, let's have a fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, fun fact. He was a fun fact. The Lakers,
again urinating on the memory of Kobe Bryant, lebron James
and Bronnie James, have officially overtaken Kobe Bryant and Joe
Bryant in the NBA record books without even playing a
game yet, Bronnie James, just by being drafted in the NBA,
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they become the first father's son duo with the mo
combined points in NBA history. Even though Bronny, don't you
have to score a point?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Let's say you have. That's not right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, well, here's the let's do the mask. So Kobe
Bryant scored thirty three thousand, six hundred forty three points,
Joe Bryant five two hundred and fifty two points. My
computer like brain tells me that's thirty eight thousand, eight
hundred ninety five points, Lebron forty thousand, four hundred and
seventy four points, Brianni James no points. No, No, that
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doesn't work. One point. Come on no, never say you're
saying no to this, Stadddy. That's my fun fact. Eddy,
though it's a funfetti fun fact. You don't come on no, no, no, Alright,
what about Rick Berry? Rick Berry had three kids playing
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in the NBA, right, they must have all they must
have all not been that good. His JN Scooter Brent Berry,
the slam Dug cham Brent Berry. But his other kids
played too. But according to this that I have the
big board Brent Berry and Rick Berry the father son combo.
They obviously did include the other kids, but their fifth
the number one now is Lebron and his kid Kobe
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goes to the two slot with Joe Bryant, Steph Curry
and Del Curry slide down to number three. Klay Thompson
and Michael Thompson are number four, and now the new
number five Danny Shays and the great Dolph Shays who
played for the Syracuse Nats. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I just remember his dad was, you know, someone like
founding member of the NBA or something.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, I remember watching Danny Shays in my early days
in the media, being amazed that he was playing in
the NBA. It was like, Wow, he's tall. But that's
kind of that's kind of awkward. Let's go to the
phones and it's a call in radio program and let's
say hello to Eeny Meenie, miney mo. Let's saillo to
Tom who is in Boston? Tom Ocome, you were on
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the Ben Maler Show on Fox. What's up Tom?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
You look like somebody who loves him.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh look at that, Brian Scott, Shay already got punked.
Second call in, you got punk Shay, you got. But
now Shay's defense. He's not a listener to the show,
so he has no any of the people that call in.
So it's understandable that he would be punk like that.
But right away blind Scott. Wow, it happens all us
every time. Now I think he does. It's it's sad.
(32:27):
I think this is just becomes pathetic. Yeah, how many
more phony phone calls will we get while Shae Shay
is here? Oh yeah, now you're inviting them. I'm not
inviting them. I need to invite them. Let's try Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Is this the real Andre
or a cheap ripoff and posta version of Andre?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
No rip off from posta Ben. I'm just in the Commonwealth,
glad to be with you. A very important day and
have to say, first time in history we have a
second day of the NBA Draft. Find the mimick the NFL.
We talked about this previously and it was probably the
most significant in terms of highlights, right, but everybody's been
waiting for Bronnie James all the way down. If you
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fit and fick, you know, so the suspense was there,
and you know, to your point, Bent, I don't know
if it's as much a matter of fear at you know,
ominous power of clutch sports and lebron James. I think
it has more to do with you know, if if
you're looking across at the stupid money's from the table
and they're spending money and making decisions that aren't gonna
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help them, then it's probably best to just sit back,
play your cards and be successful. Because move after move
that the Lakers make are for clicks. There for highlights,
they're for making them, you know, a fashionable and you
know what I'm getting at is I'm kind of rambling,
but bottom line, the Lakers of the are the Dallas
Cowboys of the NBA. Right, They're going to be interesting
and it's going to be sexty and appealing, and they're
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gonna be right back in the lottery next year because
Bronnie James for all of the nostalgia and the like
storyline and the silver lining play, but nonsense, he's not
an NBA player. They're going to have to play him.
So he's going to be thrown to the wolves on
an NBA court.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Right.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
People are going to be watching, tuning in for the
train wreck and it's just not going to help the
Lakers overall. Last point, bottom line, there's talking about bringing
in Dwayne Casey, who's a good coach, Jaquevaughn, who's bringing
in the goods coach to sit behind JJ Reddick. Then
when has a four star general stack behind a freaking
lieutenant and it ever worked? Okay, So it doesn't matter
who you bring into the coaching staff to help somebody
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that's not going to be competent as the head coach.
And JJ Reddick's making the decision he's not going to
be a successful coach of Los Angeles Lakers after coach
in fourth grade Aau. So back to your point, I
don't think it's a matter of fear. I think it's
a matter of the super money at the table. Let
him keep spending money, sit back, collect your chips, and
be successful. Thanks taking time, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right there he goes back to his walking the dog, Hendre.
I think that's what he does while he's he's with us.
So a wild story that I don't know whether it's
true or not. It's a conspiracy theory story, but is
it true. A player dropped in the NBA Draft because
of his girlfriend. Kyle Philipowski, a Dukie, was supposed to
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go in the first round of the draft. Some people
even said he would be a lottery pick near the
end of the lottery, but he lasted until the second round.
He's picked by the Utah Jazz in the second round,
and the conspiracy theory is teams got the hebe gbis
because Philipowski, his girlfriend is much older than him. And
(35:30):
not only that, his brother and mom on social media
shared some details of this, and they implied that the
slide of Kyle Philipowski, the Dukie from out of the
first round on night one and into day two of
the draft is because he's he's with a older, older lady.
(35:51):
But it's more than that. It's not the just the
age gap, but it's also the fact that he's she's
accused of cutting him off from his family, like it's
some kind of cult or something. Kyle's oldest brother, Daniel Philipowski,
sent off some messages on social media and he clearly
(36:17):
implied that this has been going on for years. She's
twenty eight now, this started when she was twenty five,
and she's been grooming Philipowski for a couple of years.
But the part is the brother said that the family
has been cut off from Kyle, who is drafted by
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the Jazz because of the relationship. And he even claimed
there was an email sent regarding the woman in question.
She forced him to cut off from his life almost
two years ago. The family sent us an email basically
the official goodbye letter. But that but wait, there's more.
(37:02):
These are some serious accusations. The brother also posted a
message on social media on x saying he doesn't know.
He says he messages him on Instagram, his brother, but
he doesn't know how to get in touch with him.
I guess he changes his number, and he said, look
(37:22):
up and read on Mormon grooming and brainwashing. And he
said that he implied obviously the brother did that. That's
what's going on. I don't know anything about Mormon grooming
and brainwashing. I don't anthing about that, But I have
heard stories about guys that get swept up by women
and then they just cut off the family. Wasn't that
one of the accusations on Aaron Rodgers years ago, that
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that's why he cut off his family to some of
the women he was with, or something along those lines.
But that's a while story. And do I believe it's
possible that NBA teams got a little freaked out that
this guy Philipowski was with an older woman and was
kind of there's some monkey business going on there. Yeah,
trust me, they won't say it publicly. They're all in fact.
(38:07):
I've seen some of the quotes coming out of Salt
Lake and they're like, oh, no, we trust our due
diligence and all that. Yeah. I think, you know, some
of these guys that get caught up with certain people
and teams are a little gunshot. They're like, that's trouble,
that's trouble.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Time now for the who am I? Game? The Lakers
Lebron James would be the fifth father in the NBA,
Major League Baseball, NFL, and NHL history to play on
the same team with one at least one of his sons,
assuming Broni actually plays in the NBA. I was the
last father to play with my kid in one of
(38:46):
the big four sports leagues. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer. We'll get to it and we
will do it.
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It's Ben Mallor and time now for the who Am
I Game? A blatant attempt to get you to listen
a bit longer. We're call it with who am I? Game?
So the story of the hour, the Hour of Bronnie
and Lebron the Lakers. Lebron James about to become the
fifth father in baseball, NBA, NFL, NHL history to be
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able to play with their son on the same same team.
I was the last father to play with his kid
in one of the big four North American sports leagues.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And we go to the Hoy Poloy the Great Unwashed
to see if anyone knows the answer and thet's see
(40:08):
page down here page I did point out to Lorena
in our production meeting that she's actually paying a lot
of the people to call the show. And I did
you like how to explain that, Lorena the math on
You did it perfectly, Ben, Thank you, Thank you, Loreena.
Milkman Mike says Jerry and Ben Stiller Cowboy Drew going
with the kool aid Man as his answer. Jay Dot
(40:29):
gave an answer to the Mormon grooming thing. I won't
have time for that right now, but maybe you'll call
up Jay Dot. Donkey Sausage says weird Al Yankovich. A
legend from back in the day. Cowboy says, it has
to be Daddy, Yankee. That dad is the answer. Joey
Chestnut's dad, William Chestnut from Fudgie. Who else do we have?
(40:49):
A big and little enis from Stevie Meatballs. Mayor Parker
the snow Dog. We gotta get Parker the snow Dog
in here again. Who Parker the snow Dog is Lorena No, Yes,
does the snow Yes, he lives in Colorado. And every
(41:10):
Broncos game CBS will show b roll of park Of
the snow Dog sitting wearing a Bronco jersey and sunglasses.
It's the He's the coolest dog around. So it's a
real dog. It's all one of your callers who thinks
he's a dog.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
We do have people like that, but yeah, but this
is a real No. I don't think he's I don't
think that's it. I think he's a different type of dog. Yeah,
mountain dogut fluffy though. Yeah, but he's a legend and
we'll have him come by so hopefully sometime, So he said.
Mayor park Of the snow Dog. Al Collings is the answer,
he said. Mike Hargrove, the human. Regindoway from alf the
(41:48):
Alien Opiner Terry in England says, is it Bronnie James
Nike deal? Is that the answer? Gordy Howe from Art Puffin,
that's his answer. Brittany Renner, who groomed PJ. Washington from
Fields of Green Well, she had the skills to do
that for sure. Andy from lion O Lakes and Minnesota
(42:09):
says Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Eddie, do you
have an answer again? The who am I game? Lakers?
Lebron James would be the fifth father and the four
big sports leagues in North American play on the same
team with their son. I was the last to do it.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Yeah, I mean it seems obvious to me, but I'll
go with the Griffies.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
That is incorrect, Eddie. It was actually Tim Tim Raines
and his son Tim Junior, which I believe the Baltimore
Orioles at the end of Tim Rain's career. But it's Rains,
the Rains family, the Griffy family, Gordy Howe and Hockey
and his kid as well, and Ted Nesser in the NFL.
(42:48):
Ted Nesser and his son
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ending up with the Lakers? Also, what don't you make
of woje respected NBA pundit Woge defending the Lakers drafting
of Bronnie James, saying the NBA is full of nepotism?
And where are you at on Rich Paul manipulating the
draft to clear the way for Bronnie James to end
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dateline the second round of the draft. The second round
of the Draft, so exciting. The second round of the
draft pro bouncy ball on a sleepy late June afternoon.
The event took place in afterthought and after now did
I have it on in the background? Yeah, yeah, it
(02:43):
was like white noise. He was in the background, a
marginalized to the dreaded daytime hours now one person stood out,
head and shoulders above all the rest. Yes, we assume
you know by now, But maybe you have been living
in a van down by the river without Wi Fi
and you haven't figured this out. With much fanfare and gusto,
(03:04):
Bronnie James, the spawn of lebron was picked by his
daddy's company. Just when you thought the Lakers could not
get any more embarrassing, Tada, the Lakers picked the guy
who averaged less than five points a game in college
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in the second round of the NBA j After months
and months of speculation, the long standing rumor has become
a sad reality and a testimonial to the incompetence of
Genie Buss as the owner of the Lakers. Another body
blow to the once proud franchise in Los Angeles. So
(03:48):
let us discuss how do you explain Bronni James ending
up with the Lakers. So I've got Pedro, pom Poms
and the three little pigs, and we will combine all
of these things together and we will provide a bundle
of joy this much anticipated Malon monologue. So hey, the
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obvious thing here, this has been carefully crafted. Bronnie to
the Lakers took a lot of work by some by
others that didn't take that much work. It was WWE
like I flashed back to when I was about ten
or eleven years old, and I kind of figured out,
Wait a minute, Hulk Hogan is playing a character, and
(04:36):
so is mean gene Oakerland and Andre the Giant and
the macho man. Wait a minute, bending reality? Now, what
is my evidence? Let me give you my evidence here.
After Bronnie James was selected by the Lakers, a business
partner of the Lakers and the NBA, Nike quickly released
(05:01):
a new ad for Bronni highlighting his journey to the
NBA freshure was never a question. The ad read, when
passion has always been the answer. Now, riddle me this, batman.
Do you think that that possibly was choreographed from the
ivory tower of prompt bouncy ball. Bronni James, when he's
(05:22):
asked how the hell did you get drafted? You sucked
in college? He can quote Red Sox legend Pedro Martinez,
who's your daddy? Yeah? This is the family business? And
Lebron there sipping champagne major flex for lebron He held
the once proud Laker franchise hostage, and he won. When
(05:48):
will Genie Buss be forced to sell the Lakers inquiring
mindes would like to know. This is like a ransomware
attack GM by proxy. Lebron, I'm opting out of my contract.
I would like you to pay more money than even
when I'm forty two, not even hiding it. There's not
even decorum of hiding it. So here's what we believe
(06:10):
are the King James demands in the ransom note that
he gave. He wanted to hire the Lakers, to hire
his podcast partner as coach, and draft his son. All
of those boxes were checked. Podcast guy coaching that's embarrassing,
and drafting your son that wasn't even good enough to
(06:30):
average five points a game in college, that's also there. Now,
if Lebron really cared about winning, don't you think he
would have forced Genie Buss to acquire I don't know,
Jason Tatum and Nikola Jokic instead of JJ podcast Reddick
the snobbish ahole who's coaching the team, and Bronnie James
who can't play. Come on now. The other part of
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this was the media coverage, which is another part of
how this all went down. And if you weren't watching,
Steve and a are former Morning Guy and Adrian Wardronowski
were laying it on thick, but I wanted to focus
in on the WOJ comments. What do you make of
(07:15):
respected basketball pundit Woge passionately defending a full throated defense
of the Lakers drafting Bronnie James by saying the NBA
is full of nepotism. That's what he said, And while
that point is technically true, perhaps it is irrelevant. Shame
(07:38):
on you. I love Wog. I actually I know him.
It's weak sauce, believe it or not, actually in TV
with them years ago at the defunct NBC Sports Network.
WOJ does not want you to know that it was
not the highlight of his broadcasting career. But he's good people,
but he missed the mark on this take. You might
as well just get out the face paint, the ones
(08:00):
and the purple and gold pom poms with this take.
You are now part of the Lakers spirit squad. Congratulations.
And what I've determined is all these media hacks, the
media elites in the NBA are afraid to say anything
negative about Lebron. And they're afraid Lebron's He's the don
you can't say anything bad about the Godfather and so
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they're afraid of that. And so by definition, you look
at how this plays out and the trickle down of that.
You can't rip Lebron, but you can't rip Bron's kid.
And woje what he did here on this take when
he used the line that the NBA is full of nepotism,
that's a version of the but everyone does that defense.
(08:43):
I heard this from the a holes, the fans of
the ass two one thousand strows when they were cheating,
and they're twenty seventeen world serious and they never got punished.
Not a player got punished, right, And this is what's
known as trying to rationalize. In this case, it's all
the old fashioned nepotism good luck. And as we point out,
every time in the legal world, they ask how could
(09:07):
you possibly believe that an act is right simply because
everyone else does it? And next time you get pulled
over for speeding on the interstate, you're out in the highway,
you get pulled over spinning. When the cops says, hey,
can I have your license and registration? You say yes, officer.
By the way, everyone else was speeding too, I shouldn't
get a ticket. Good luck. See how that works. Come
(09:29):
back and see how that works. Let me know. Okay,
just do it. Last word now. During the morning hours
leading in to the second round of the draft, Bronnie
James agent Rich Paul, according to multiple reports, was said
to be telling teams not to draft Lebron's son. Don't
(09:54):
draft him, doubt, doubt, doubt dot dout dot. In the
second round of the draft. The threat was, if you do,
Bronnie James is going to Australia, He's gonna hang out
with Ozzie w was in Western Australia and the boys
that listen to the show religiously there. And so it's
(10:16):
clear that Rich Paul was ensuring that his client would
go to the Lakers. So where are you at on
the agent Rich Paul manipulating the draft in cahoots with
Lebron to help out Bronnie James. So I have an
unpopular opinion on this. I'm not upset with Rich Paul.
Rich Paul's a snake oil salesman. He's a slide ball.
(10:38):
He's an agent that goes with the gig, right, goes
with the territory. When you're an agent, that's what you're
supposed to be. All of those things, and apparently he's
good in his job. Of course, it helps to have
Lebron backing you. But to me, this is an indictment
of the association, the entire NBA. It's the classical story
of the three little pigs who's afraid of the big
(10:58):
bad wolf, and in this case the entire NBA. Everyone
in the NBA is afraid of the big bad wolf.
They're all a bunch of cowards, all of them, right,
you're telling me that nobody nobody thought why don't it's
the second round? These picks are worthless anyway most of
the time. So why don't we just pick Bronni just
(11:21):
to spite lebron just to poke the bear? Why not? Right,
call Bronni's bluff. See if he can go surfing and
hang out with kangaroos in Australia in your team like
the Indiana Pacers or the Charlotte Hornets. Why wouldn't you
have done that, just a goof with Lebron? How great
would that have been? But no, every single team in
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the NBA, they're all a bunch of cats, scaredy cats,
every single one of them. All, right, is the Bane
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You are more than welcome to join us. The lines
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Bad job by me. But I will correct that. I
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NBA draft conspiracy theory. Is it true that a player
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projected to go in the first round of the draft
slipped down the draft board because of his girlfriend girl problems,
lady problems. Yes, that is the story. We'll fill you
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It's Ben mallor settling in to the overnight hours. Freddie
writes in began with a basketball monologue pro bouncy ball,
as there is no debate Lebron running the Lakers. He's
been running the Lakers for years, not doing a very
good job, by the way, Freddie says a plus plus
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on the male of monologue. I know you don't give
out birthday shout outs, but can you not wish my
brother Emmanuel a happy birthday? He's the reason I listened
to the best sports show. Well, the best means is
destroyed the rest, and Lebron James has destroyed the Laker legacy. Well,
I will not do a birthday shout out to a manual,
even though I should, because he helped grow the audience.
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And if every man, woman and child that listens either
to the live radio show or the podcast version of
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right now, Jordan writes, since this the Lakers drafting Brownie
was a good representation of the current state of the
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NBA it's one hundred percent for show, and competition doesn't
really matter. Jerry West did not die for this rest
in peace. Well, that's a little bold. I think he
died because he doesn't. He's too old and there's some
weird music being played in the background. He writes and says, Hey,
malard a plus in an Italian beef sandwich. He's in
Chicago Italian beef sandwich. On the Mallon monologue, the Lakers
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GM is going to need a higher dose of the
drugs that Biden took to explain the Bronni pick. Okay,
what else do we have? Double ow Mexican and San
Diego's with us? On the Live show, he says ten
out of ten. On the Mallen monologue, the Lakers are
being run like they're the Hornets. I don't know what's worse,
hiring Reddick or drafting Bronnie paper Towel. The ownership and
(17:29):
front office are run by a bunch of amateurs. Ah
wells JJ Reddick is worse because I would say Bronni's
not gonna play, but methinks he will play. They have
to play him to begin the year. He has to
be on the team because the whole point is Bronni
and Lebron his teammates, and in order for that to
be reality, he actually has to get on the court.
(17:50):
Am I wrong on that? As I understand it? In
order for you he can be on the team, but
for the whole father son thing to work, they actually
both have to be out in the court. David rights
in from Ohio. He says, ben Ben Ben, Ben, Ben
Ben Ben, I can tell with your deep delve into
the Lakers and the James Gang that you will undoubtedly, unequivocally,
(18:11):
one thousand percent be leading the Laker bandwagon next year.
I can tell by the tone of your voice that
your love for Lebron and Minnie Lebron is spiritual. Yes,
it's the gospel, unless it's not just like you and
the Terrible towel, even though you're in Ohio, if you're
a fan of that Pittsburgh team, Femi writes in from
(18:32):
the twin season at Femi one of the great listeners
in Minnesota, and he went back to his home country
there and passed out signs of this show. And I
have that photo saved, one of the great photos ever taken.
Warms my cockles. I don't even know what that means.
But Femmi says, Ben, don't you think the Lakers are
going to smile all the way to the bank with
(18:53):
this Bronnie James move. Genie might finally become a billionaire.
That's a shot. Rod, abassador of Bakersfield, says, every single
team but the Lakers got it right in the draft.
Bronnie sucks and all of them know it. It will
all come out in the wash. He will be a
complete failure. So so he says, King Rory rights in,
(19:19):
he is the King, not lebron It's King Rory. He says,
we need to hear from a true Laker fan and
not from a fan of the second rate l a
team who will never win anything. So can we ask
Laker expert Justin Cooper his thoughts on brownie jams? All right,
let me do that right now, Coop. What do you
have to say here, Coop about your Lakers? Come on,
(19:41):
you're completely right, Ben, Come on, give me something more
than that, Coop. Come on, this is your team. Higher
a joke there to joke? Hey, I want a steamer octopussy?
What happened to you? Don't want a fluffer nutter in
your mouth? His voice so different there, Coop. Are you sick,
(20:03):
Cooper Loop, Maybe you got a cold or something like that. No,
you're stammering a little bit. Are you in a debate?
What's going on with you? I have no I checking
some games of note in the Major League Baseball. Yeah,
And I don't blame Coop. He took a mental health night.
He's not here, and I would too if I was
(20:25):
a Laker guy. We're worried about Coop. Hopefully it'll be okay.
He was a little emotional. All of his teams stink.
The Broncos traded for Zach Wilson, that's embarrassing. The Angels
he stopped watching because they didn't re sign Otani and
they have no good players. And Mike Trout is a malingerer.
(20:45):
And the one team he held onto was the Lakers,
and now it's over. They hired a podcaster, and they
drafted Lebron's kid, which shuck again. So good. When I
was a little boy, I hope this would happen at
some point. I didn't think it would be this bad
(21:06):
for the Lakers, but they had some bad Lean years
when at the end of the Kobe run there, but
this is worse. This is worse, This is more embarrassing.
Mass Ole Mickey says, grade a prime beef on the
mall monologue, and you took the words out of my
typing fingers. Nepotism, so so, he says. A Cowboy Drew
(21:27):
playing the Cowboy video game says JJ Reddick will be
out of a job by this time next year. Gumby
Dave from the Sunshine State said, woj had on his
league issued purple and yellow knee pads this afternoon. Rich
Paul did his job. Yeah, it's not much more that
(21:49):
you can say, not much more that you can say.
All right, let's see Justin in Cincinnati sending a bunch
of random messages. He says, if figure you know who
is conveniently often I eight after the Laker takeover by
Lebron officially and the president basically pulled a weekend at Bernie's,
(22:10):
he says. A Matthew Warrior Raider fan says, Kobe Bryant
is rolling over in his grave and Jerry West is
rolling over on the embalmbing table. The Lakers have been
completely hijacked by Lebron. James, a once sprout franchise, has
been reduced to bending over for a thirty nine year
old player coach GM Right now, Matt, the Laker front
(22:36):
office is licking the toes of Lebron. Is what they're doing.
What do you want, Lebron? Whatever you need, Lebron, We
got you, Lebron, Come on, we gotcha whatever you need
you want Brownie Okay, he can't put. I don't care,
I don't care. We're good. It is the Ben Malors Show.
(23:00):
As we are rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling on here through
the overnight. We'll take a phone call. Let's start out
with Enie Meenie miney mo. Laker Mike is in La,
La Land. Hello Laker Mike.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Oh Ben Okay, here's what Lebron must do. He is
a checklist, and I have a checklist for him. By
the way, your monologue was spot on. He has a checklist,
and it's to stay in La to get JJ Reddick
as his coach, to get Bronny on the team. But
(23:39):
is it to also win a championship? Is it to
get rid of D'Angelo Russell? Be if it is. If
it is, we get rid of D'Angelo Russell, he gets
for I know he has a contract where it's the
player option, So Lebron has to get rid of him
and bring in arnovin Mitchell. And then here is where
(24:03):
we see if Lebron really cares about being loved by
Laker nation, he has to take a rady haircut.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Five million a year to bring in veteran All Stars,
to bring it all stars, and then veterans at the
minimum salary.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
This is where we can see if Lebron really wants
to win a championship or just doesn't give a you
know what about that. If he does that, you bring
in some serious talent. Now, I usually don't.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
Care about other people, you know, to delve into.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Other people's paychecks. But the guys worth a billion dollars
and he's gonna own a team in Las Vegas in
three years or so. If he does that, and he
gets rid of D'Angelo Russell by his pressure, then the
Lakers could be another viable team. And if Jeanie Bus
stays out of the management of the Lakers, and if
(25:05):
Polinka kind of stays out of it to the best
of his her of her ability, the Lakers could be
a viable team. But if Lebron keeps all that money
and the Lakers just keep who they.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Have, they will be a playing team.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
And that's maybe it's all right.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I take a breath, Laker, Mike, I got three points.
Number one, I appreciate your passion. Number two, you're doing
the Ifsen butts, and if Ifsen butts were candy and nuts,
it would be a holiday every single day. That's number two.
And number three, Stay away from the mini bar, Laker, Mike,
stay away from the mini bar. Okay, Lebron's not taking
a pay cut. No chance he's taking a pay cut,
(25:46):
nor should he take a pay cut. I will defend
Lebron getting the full amount. I don't want someone to
say I should take a pay cut. I feel like
I already do take a pay cut, so I don't
need to take a bigger pay cut to do this show.
So thank you, I'm hanging up on you. That was
longer than the Gettysburg addresses with that that ranth final lately, Mike.
That was long winded, is what that was. But yeah,
(26:08):
he had a lot to say, a lot to say,
a little out there, little little little bit a little bit.
So is it true a player dropped in the NBA
draft because of his girlfriend? We will get to that
coming up in a couple of minutes. But right now,
let's get you caught up on everything going on in
(26:28):
the overnight, and we say hello too. Games of Note, Garcia, Yah.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
All right, thank you, Ben, and we start with the
second round of the NBA Draft. And as you were
talking about, the only drama was would Bronni James, the
son of NBA legend lebron James, get drafted. The answer
was yes, he was the fifty fifth overall pick. Bye.
Of course, his father's team, the Los Angeles Lakers. If
Bronnie makes the Lakers roster, which is funny because of
course he's gonna make the Lakers roster, but if he does,
(26:58):
it would be the first five Sun duo in league history.
If baseball Games of Note, the Orioles down the Rangers
eleven to two, Baltimore, eating four home runs in the win. Meanwhile,
the Yankees lose to the Blue Jays nine to two,
George Springer a couple of homers six rbi for Toronto,
so the Yankees and Orioles are now tied for the
Al East lead. Phillies lose to the Marlins seven to four.
Philadelphia also maybe losing Bryce Harper for a while he
(27:21):
was running out of grounder on the final out of
the game, came up lame pulled his hamstring. He's gonna
have an MRI. On Friday, Guardians lose to the Royals
two to one. The Braves were shut out by the
White Sox one nothing. Chicago used five different pitchers in
a bullpen game to limit Atlanta to no runs on
five hits. Only run of the game on a first
inning home run from Chicago's Luis Robert. Angels shut out
the Tigers five nothing. Angels starter Davis Daniels first major
(27:45):
league start eight shutout innings for its eight strikeouts, no
walks in getting the victory. Twins outscore the Diamondbacks thirteen
to six. Four different Twins drove in two or more,
with Bryson Buxton hitting a three run homer. Comes over
the Giants five three to ten, reds of the Cardinals
eleven to four. Soccer Copa America, the US embarrassed with
a two to one loss to Panama and a game
(28:06):
played in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The lost to Panama.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
They did lose the Panama and apparently.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Marianna Rivera come in there and no.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yeah, he came in and closed.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Then closed it out for Panama.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
They played played the Enter Sandman and everything there, so
us now in jeopardy of missing out in the in
the knockout, advancing in the knockout round there and that's it.
That's pretty embarrassing. NHL Avalanche star Nathan McKinnon wins the
Heart Trophy as League MVP.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You gotta have heart, Eddie, you gotta have heart.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It's it's a good thing to have.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yeah, you don't have a heart. You're probably not alive,
but it doesn't matter anymore. You could be a I
like you just live on forever. That's that hard, that's true.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Or you could be the son of a you know,
star and mental health.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
My dad may he rest in peace, But I used
to I used to bust my dad's balls because my
dad was a Ham radio offer. He loved Ham radio.
I said, Dad, you know, if you worked in terrestrial radio,
I'd be like a morning guy somewhere, a lot of money.
Bad job by you. I don't think he appreciated mine. No, No,
he always told me, said, you know you, you don't
appreciate Ham radio. Someday there's gonna be an earthquake or
(29:11):
you're gonna need Ham Radio. I'm like, okay, Dad, thank
you hilarious shout out to your pops. No, we did.
We had that conversation many many times.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Doesn't love Ham? Yeah, well I guess you don't.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't know, but he did.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
He love the Ham Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, there you go. You want a fun fact.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, let's have a fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
All right, fun fact. He was a fun fact. The Lakers,
again urinating on the memory of Kobe Bryant, lebron James
and Bronnie James, have officially overtaken Kobe Bryant and Joe
Bryant in the NBA record books without even playing a
game yet, Bronnie James, just by being drafted in the NBA,
(29:56):
they become the first father's son duo with the mo
combined points in NBA history. Even though Bronny, don't you
have to score a point?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Let's say you have. That's not right.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, well, here's the let's do the mask. So Kobe
Bryant scored thirty three thousand, six hundred forty three points,
Joe Bryant five two hundred and fifty two points. My
computer like brain tells me that's thirty eight thousand, eight
hundred ninety five points, Lebron forty thousand, four hundred and
seventy four points, Brianni James no points. No, No, that
(30:28):
doesn't work. One point. Come on no, never say you're
saying no to this, Stadddy. That's my fun fact. Eddy,
though it's a funfetti fun fact. You don't come on no, no, no, Alright,
what about Rick Berry? Rick Berry had three kids playing
(30:50):
in the NBA, right, they must have all they must
have all not been that good. His JN Scooter Brent Berry,
the slam Dug cham Brent Berry. But his other kids
played too. But according to this that I have the
big board Brent Berry and Rick Berry the father son combo.
They obviously did include the other kids, but their fifth
the number one now is Lebron and his kid Kobe
(31:14):
goes to the two slot with Joe Bryant, Steph Curry
and Del Curry slide down to number three. Klay Thompson
and Michael Thompson are number four, and now the new
number five Danny Shays and the great Dolph Shays who
played for the Syracuse Nats. Is that right?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I just remember his dad was, you know, someone like
founding member of the NBA or something.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, I remember watching Danny Shays in my early days
in the media, being amazed that he was playing in
the NBA. It was like, Wow, he's tall. But that's
kind of that's kind of awkward. Let's go to the
phones and it's a call in radio program and let's
say hello to Eeny Meenie, miney mo. Let's saillo to
Tom who is in Boston? Tom Ocome, you were on
(32:01):
the Ben Maler Show on Fox. What's up Tom?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
You look like somebody who loves him.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Oh look at that, Brian Scott, Shay already got punked.
Second call in, you got punk Shay, you got. But
now Shay's defense. He's not a listener to the show,
so he has no any of the people that call in.
So it's understandable that he would be punk like that.
But right away blind Scott. Wow, it happens all us
every time. Now I think he does. It's it's sad.
(32:27):
I think this is just becomes pathetic. Yeah, how many
more phony phone calls will we get while Shae Shay
is here? Oh yeah, now you're inviting them. I'm not
inviting them. I need to invite them. Let's try Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Is this the real Andre
or a cheap ripoff and posta version of Andre?
Speaker 7 (32:48):
No rip off from posta Ben. I'm just in the Commonwealth,
glad to be with you. A very important day and
have to say, first time in history we have a
second day of the NBA Draft. Find the mimick the NFL.
We talked about this previously and it was probably the
most significant in terms of highlights, right, but everybody's been
waiting for Bronnie James all the way down. If you
(33:09):
fit and fick, you know, so the suspense was there,
and you know, to your point, Bent, I don't know
if it's as much a matter of fear at you know,
ominous power of clutch sports and lebron James. I think
it has more to do with you know, if if
you're looking across at the stupid money's from the table
and they're spending money and making decisions that aren't gonna
(33:29):
help them, then it's probably best to just sit back,
play your cards and be successful. Because move after move
that the Lakers make are for clicks. There for highlights,
they're for making them, you know, a fashionable and you
know what I'm getting at is I'm kind of rambling,
but bottom line, the Lakers of the are the Dallas
Cowboys of the NBA. Right, They're going to be interesting
and it's going to be sexty and appealing, and they're
(33:50):
gonna be right back in the lottery next year because
Bronnie James for all of the nostalgia and the like
storyline and the silver lining play, but nonsense, he's not
an NBA player. They're going to have to play him.
So he's going to be thrown to the wolves on
an NBA court.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Right.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
People are going to be watching, tuning in for the
train wreck and it's just not going to help the
Lakers overall. Last point, bottom line, there's talking about bringing
in Dwayne Casey, who's a good coach, Jaquevaughn, who's bringing
in the goods coach to sit behind JJ Reddick. Then
when has a four star general stack behind a freaking
lieutenant and it ever worked? Okay, So it doesn't matter
who you bring into the coaching staff to help somebody
(34:26):
that's not going to be competent as the head coach.
And JJ Reddick's making the decision he's not going to
be a successful coach of Los Angeles Lakers after coach
in fourth grade Aau. So back to your point, I
don't think it's a matter of fear. I think it's
a matter of the super money at the table. Let
him keep spending money, sit back, collect your chips, and
be successful. Thanks taking time, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right there he goes back to his walking the dog, Hendre.
I think that's what he does while he's he's with us.
So a wild story that I don't know whether it's
true or not. It's a conspiracy theory story, but is
it true. A player dropped in the NBA Draft because
of his girlfriend. Kyle Philipowski, a Dukie, was supposed to
(35:08):
go in the first round of the draft. Some people
even said he would be a lottery pick near the
end of the lottery, but he lasted until the second round.
He's picked by the Utah Jazz in the second round,
and the conspiracy theory is teams got the hebe gbis
because Philipowski, his girlfriend is much older than him. And
(35:30):
not only that, his brother and mom on social media
shared some details of this, and they implied that the
slide of Kyle Philipowski, the Dukie from out of the
first round on night one and into day two of
the draft is because he's he's with a older, older lady.
(35:51):
But it's more than that. It's not the just the
age gap, but it's also the fact that he's she's
accused of cutting him off from his family, like it's
some kind of cult or something. Kyle's oldest brother, Daniel Philipowski,
sent off some messages on social media and he clearly
(36:17):
implied that this has been going on for years. She's
twenty eight now, this started when she was twenty five,
and she's been grooming Philipowski for a couple of years.
But the part is the brother said that the family
has been cut off from Kyle, who is drafted by
(36:38):
the Jazz because of the relationship. And he even claimed
there was an email sent regarding the woman in question.
She forced him to cut off from his life almost
two years ago. The family sent us an email basically
the official goodbye letter. But that but wait, there's more.
(37:02):
These are some serious accusations. The brother also posted a
message on social media on x saying he doesn't know.
He says he messages him on Instagram, his brother, but
he doesn't know how to get in touch with him.
I guess he changes his number, and he said, look
(37:22):
up and read on Mormon grooming and brainwashing. And he
said that he implied obviously the brother did that. That's
what's going on. I don't know anything about Mormon grooming
and brainwashing. I don't anthing about that, But I have
heard stories about guys that get swept up by women
and then they just cut off the family. Wasn't that
one of the accusations on Aaron Rodgers years ago, that
(37:45):
that's why he cut off his family to some of
the women he was with, or something along those lines.
But that's a while story. And do I believe it's
possible that NBA teams got a little freaked out that
this guy Philipowski was with an older woman and was
kind of there's some monkey business going on there. Yeah,
trust me, they won't say it publicly. They're all in fact.
(38:07):
I've seen some of the quotes coming out of Salt
Lake and they're like, oh, no, we trust our due
diligence and all that. Yeah. I think, you know, some
of these guys that get caught up with certain people
and teams are a little gunshot. They're like, that's trouble,
that's trouble.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Time now for the who am I? Game? The Lakers
Lebron James would be the fifth father in the NBA,
Major League Baseball, NFL, and NHL history to play on
the same team with one at least one of his sons,
assuming Broni actually plays in the NBA. I was the
last father to play with my kid in one of
(38:46):
the big four sports leagues. Who am I? That is
the question. The answer. We'll get to it and we
will do it.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
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Meler Show weeked he said, two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
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Speaker 1 (39:24):
It's Ben Mallor and time now for the who Am
I Game? A blatant attempt to get you to listen
a bit longer. We're call it with who am I? Game?
So the story of the hour, the Hour of Bronnie
and Lebron the Lakers. Lebron James about to become the
fifth father in baseball, NBA, NFL, NHL history to be
(39:45):
able to play with their son on the same same team.
I was the last father to play with his kid
in one of the big four North American sports leagues.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And we go to the Hoy Poloy the Great Unwashed
to see if anyone knows the answer and thet's see
(40:08):
page down here page I did point out to Lorena
in our production meeting that she's actually paying a lot
of the people to call the show. And I did
you like how to explain that, Lorena the math on
You did it perfectly, Ben, Thank you, Thank you, Loreena.
Milkman Mike says Jerry and Ben Stiller Cowboy Drew going
with the kool aid Man as his answer. Jay Dot
(40:29):
gave an answer to the Mormon grooming thing. I won't
have time for that right now, but maybe you'll call
up Jay Dot. Donkey Sausage says weird Al Yankovich. A
legend from back in the day. Cowboy says, it has
to be Daddy, Yankee. That dad is the answer. Joey
Chestnut's dad, William Chestnut from Fudgie. Who else do we have?
(40:49):
A big and little enis from Stevie Meatballs. Mayor Parker
the snow Dog. We gotta get Parker the snow Dog
in here again. Who Parker the snow Dog is Lorena No, Yes,
does the snow Yes, he lives in Colorado. And every
(41:10):
Broncos game CBS will show b roll of park Of
the snow Dog sitting wearing a Bronco jersey and sunglasses.
It's the He's the coolest dog around. So it's a
real dog. It's all one of your callers who thinks
he's a dog.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
We do have people like that, but yeah, but this
is a real No. I don't think he's I don't
think that's it. I think he's a different type of dog. Yeah,
mountain dogut fluffy though. Yeah, but he's a legend and
we'll have him come by so hopefully sometime, So he said.
Mayor park Of the snow Dog. Al Collings is the answer,
he said. Mike Hargrove, the human. Regindoway from alf the
(41:48):
Alien Opiner Terry in England says, is it Bronnie James
Nike deal? Is that the answer? Gordy Howe from Art Puffin,
that's his answer. Brittany Renner, who groomed PJ. Washington from
Fields of Green Well, she had the skills to do
that for sure. Andy from lion O Lakes and Minnesota
(42:09):
says Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Eddie, do you
have an answer again? The who am I game? Lakers?
Lebron James would be the fifth father and the four
big sports leagues in North American play on the same
team with their son. I was the last to do it.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Yeah, I mean it seems obvious to me, but I'll
go with the Griffies.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
That is incorrect, Eddie. It was actually Tim Tim Raines
and his son Tim Junior, which I believe the Baltimore
Orioles at the end of Tim Rain's career. But it's Rains,
the Rains family, the Griffy family, Gordy Howe and Hockey
and his kid as well, and Ted Nesser in the NFL.
(42:48):
Ted Nesser and his son
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