July 18, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about NBA commissioner Adam Silver not addressing concerns raised by Knicks owner James Dolan over the direction of the NBA, reports pinpointing the Clippers as a landing spot for Zach LaVine, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bird two, a chip
off the old block, the original recipe Ben Mahler Show podcast,
and we're talking some basketball this hour. Why did Adam Silver,
the Commissioner sidestep addressing Nick's owner James Dolan's pointed concerns
over the direction of the business of basketball. Also, reports
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are pinpointing the Clippers as a potential landing spot for
zach Lavine. Where you're at on that as a fit
and Rachel Nichols of FS one says, the criticism of
Brownie James summer League performance is unfair. Is that valid
or invalid? That take? We'll go there as well as
we get started here in our number two. Now that
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Bouncy Ball. That's right, high drama, high drama this week,
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the last couple of days, my first swing in the
batter's box. Here a member of the upper crust. The
cartel of basketball has gone rogue, gone rogue. I assume
you heard by now it was like he talked about
quite a bit. But when I've tuned in, I've heard
mostly WNBA talk, so maybe not. Knicks owner James Dolan.
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James Dolan wrote a letter. He went scorched earth. He
turned on the flamethrower against the NBA and their new
mega mega, mega million dollars billion dollar checked that billion
dollar media rights deal, and also unloaded on Adam Silver
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in particular. Now Dolman accusing the League of trying to
disrupt the regional sports network industry regional cable television involving sports.
But wait, there's more. He attacked the revenue sharing policies.
Let's give you the money quote saying that the NBA
has made the move to an NFL model, the emphasis
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sizing and depowering the local market. Close quote. So let
us discuss the question Adam Silver was given an opportunity
to respond. Why did Adam Silver sidestep addressing the Knicks
owner James Dolan and his concerns over the direction of
the business of basketball, which is plausibly what Adam Silver
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is hired to do to manage the business of basketball.
So I've got Guillotine Central Casting and Rusty Pelican, and
we will combine all of these things together. And we
are not going to nickel and daim you, which is
assume what Dolan is concerned about some nickel and diming
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going on here. So number w all right, thank you, James.
Now that's actually number you said three times. You did
number three, Now it's four times. So James Dolan is
looking out across the Serengetti and he's worried about the
golden goose. Now you don't normally find a goose on
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the serengetty, but he's worried about the golden goose. He
inherited the goose from his father, Jim Dolan was the
guy who gave birth to the bird. It's worth all
the money. And now Adam Silver and his minions are
looking to destroy the bird. Right, They've rolled in, Just imagine,
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in that little cartoon bubble over your head. Adam Silver
has rolled in with a couple of people from the
planet he came from outside the Milky Way. They have
rolled in the guillotine and they're looking to place the neck,
the very large neck of the goose, underneath the guillotine.
And you know what happens when the thing falls down.
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If Madison Square Garden Network, better known by its nickname MSG,
if that goes away, so does much of the old
family money and so. James Dolan is a menacing character
in this story, but he has a lot of skin
in the game. And one of the reasons that the
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Knickerbockers exists the way they do with the Dolan family
is because of MSG programming for MSG and so Dolan
because he's uh called like he's a nut job, like
he's used a lot of crazy things over the years,
and he gets dismissed as a troublemaker. However, right, he
actually has some good points here, such as bad customer
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service and say what you want about the product of
basketball being garbage. And so many of you complain about
pro bouncy ball when I talk about it, and we
do a lot of shows during the playoffs in the
NBA about pro bouncy ball, and you get very upset.
But from a user standpoint, it's not good. As a
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fan the customer service. You need five or six streaming
services to watch all of your team's games. Forget the
other games, just your team's games. Now, ultimately, it is
always about the money, right the NBA. This is where
the money is. It's in streaming, it's not in cable,
and so people are going there. Of course, what ends
up happening is you circle back to the cable because
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in the end, with all these nickel and dime operations,
you end up costing more money if you want to
watch everything. Now, what ends up happening is a lot
of people turn to the Russian websites, and you should
not do that. It's wrong. Eddie tells me it's wrong
to do that. But it's a much better user service
to watch on the pirate websites than the actual websites
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where people are willing to pay for the NBA product.
What does that say about the business of basketball? Whereas
the user, the customer, you're better off. It's more convenient
for you to have a one stop shop. You can
watch every game on the Russian website, shall we say?
As opposed to if you go through the NBA's means
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of doing business, you have to have five or six
different streams and you have different tiers and all that. Uh.
Now the money part of it. Adam Silver as the
guardian of the game, paid by the owners. He is
looking to take the league office a massive, a massive
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slice of the seventy six million billion dollar media rights
of seventy six billion with a B like Ben and
so Dolan's looking at this, He's like, wait a minute,
James Dole's like, so you're taking over six billion dollars.
You're siphoning that off for no good reason in the
middle of the day. You're just not in not the
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middle of that. You're taking six or six billion dollars
being siphoned out of the in the media rice deal.
And many aristocrats are afraid to speak up because by
an NBA team, it's a a toy for rich people,
and you don't want to be kicked out of the
club and all that stuff. You don't want to deal
with the blowback and all that, and so you're worried
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about that part of it. James don't and though it
doesn't care. He's unhinged a right, turning the NBA completely.
These are his words, not my words. He says that
Adam Silver's turning the NBA into a risk free, idiot
proof business. That's that's what Dolan said. James Dolan said
it due to revenue pooling. You are there wrong teed
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to be neither a success nor a failure, which, if
I remember correctly I've been in school in a while,
I think that is a form of communism socialism, right,
everyone gets the same, right in that somewhere in that,
in that little category. Uh So that's what Dolan's complaining about.
But ultimately it's about MSG and if the NBA was
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doing the same exact thing and taking six billion dollars
but they were keeping the regional cable model intact, then
Dolan would not be complaining as publicly as he is.
But there is infighting, and I will promise you that
he's not alone because there were other owners, old school
owners in the NBA that also have a horse in
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the race or a dog in the fight when it
comes to regional cable, and if they devalue that completely,
then they're gonna lose a lot of money. Also. Now
page two we go to Sweet Home Chicago, where Yuphimi
and Eugene in Chicago. Eugene did not stop sending me
stories the entire time I was away. I kept getting
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messages from Eugene in Chicago about stories that I could
not have cared less about. But anyway, one of the
stories involving Chicago indirectly actually is directly. It's just about
a player leaving Chicago. There are reports that are pinpointing
the people's team, the Clippers, as a potential landing spot
for zach Lavine. And so the question is where are
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you at on that as a fit. So my response,
and I'll give this to Eugene in Chicago and all
the other guys that are in the Windy City there,
I give this one side eye that there's some kind
of fit there between zach Lavine from the Bulls and
the Clippers. Here, I don't believe that the Bulls are
actually going to trade zach Lavine. That's the first thing,
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because if you pay attention to the chatter around the NBA,
he has been available for three plus years. I'm not exaggerating.
I've done the show every night for the most part
for many many years. And over the last three or
four years, Zach Lavine's name has popped up in trade
rumors early and often, and yet he remains in the
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Windy City. Plus, if you look at Zach in terms
of connecting him with the people's team, he would be
out of central casting for the Clippers. He's a player,
by basketball standards, is middle aged, he's in that weird
middle of career period, he's got a hefty contract, and
he's injury. A lot of empty calories there, a lot
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of empty calories and a lot of meaningless statistics. A
stat bandito, as we like to say in these parts,
zactly me check this out. He has played five hundred
and eighty regular season games. How many playoff games has
he played with the Bulls? And he came up with
the Timberwolves before that, so it was in Minnesota for
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a few years and went to Chicago. Been in with
the Bulls for a while. Five hundred and eighty regular
season games. He has played, not one, not two, not three,
four four a four pack of postseason games. And a
lot of that is because he doesn't elevate the player
play of others around you. That he's a good stat
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stuffer and he'll fill the box score and you'll have
a nice hammer dunk now and again, and that's exciting
and people like that. But in terms of actually making
people around him better, he hasn't done that. It's the
old change of scenery. And maybe you'll go to a
team like the Clippers and be better and yeah, good luck.
All right, final point, we go to Viva Las Vegas,
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where Bronnie James actually did not suck at a time
you should not suck. Video at eleven. Nevertheless, he overall
still has had more bad than good, even with a
stat line that did not pop your eyeballs out when
you looked at it. Now, I bring this up because
FS one's Rachel Nichols. Yes, she's working there. Rachel Nichols
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says the criticism of Bronnie James' summer league performance is unfair,
and she's one of several that have said this is
Eddie told me, Brian Know who sat in this chair
for me, is singing the sorrows of Bronnie James, and
what a tough, tough road this is for Bronnie James.
But in terms of Rachel Nichols saying that the criticism
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of Bronnie james Summer League performances is unfair, is that
a valid or invalid take? So it is valid with
a capital eye capital eye. And now I'll just use
the Rachel Nichols commentary. She used someone named Isaiah Wong
as an example. Now, why would she use somebody named
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Isaiah Wong. You don't know who that is, but he
was the fifty fifth pick of the twenty twenty three
NBA Draft, the same slot where Bronnie James was picked.
You don't know who he is at all. But that's
the example. She said. Well, nobody obsessed when he had
a bad game, and now people are upset with Bronnie James.
I'm paraphrasing, but that whole conversation is a night out.
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It's a dinner at the Rusty Pelican seafood Shack, is
what it is. It's the catch of the day. It's
a red herring. It is a red herring. Bronnie James
was not treated like Isaiah Wong by anyone. He got
a four year, eight million dollars guaranteed contract from the Lakers.
Didn't earn it, didn't deserve it, got it. Why did
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he get it because because he was born on third base, right,
he had the silver spoon and the net Bo baby
and all that net Bo James. Now Isaiah Wong went
to college, did things the right way. He got you know,
he got the standard two way contract. He played four
minutes in the NBA for the Indiana paces that's who
drafted him. Four minutes with the Indiana Pacers. He mostly
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played for a team called the mad Ants. I'm told
that's in the G League, So that's where he played.
He played four minutes of the NBA, played for the
mad Ants of the G League. He made the minimum
salary you can make. He was fired by the Indiana
basketball team. They released him and he's now with a
G League team for the Suns. That's the story of
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Isaiah Wong. Now you look at Bronnie James has got
to say which mansion he wants to live in, what
private airline, what Gulf Stream plane he wants to fly,
and what car service he wants to pick him up?
And which armed guard is going to p It's a
whole different world. It's a whole different You don't feel
bad for a guy like who feels bad You're a loser.
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You're a loser. If you feel bad for Broddie James,
shame on you. That's not someone you feel bad for.
What are you adope? It's ridiculous anyway, It is the
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President Trump became sug night. Yes, I'm aware of what happened.
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What do you mean to say, Justin?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I was sitting at a bar in Hawaii and it
was on the TV and it was like, it's like
in the morning, It's like midday in Hawaii when all
that went down. Shane form de Moines says, even Ben
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jingle Right there, John doing late night deliveries on a
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rainy night in Boston, says, my Red Sox are on
the uptick. What are we gonna do with the deadline?
And says go Duran for All Star MVP. Weird. He
has a similar war to one Soto so far this year. Hey,
John driving around the rain there in Boston, says Boston
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still loves you, John. Yeah, so the Red Sox here.
It's interesting to note my friends in Boston tell me
that there's a lot of pressure on John Henry to
not sit on his hands, which is the assumption that
the Red Sox are not going to do anything at
the trade deadline, that they're going to sit it out
and say, you know, we don't really we don't really
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want to do anything drastic. We like our young players.
We don't want to give up any one of the
young core players. It's always the argument. Now, the thing
that annoys me the most, and I'll have to do
a rant at some point when you talk about the
trade deadline in baseball, which is coming up here in
a couple of weeks at the end of the month.
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But the thing that I love to complain about, right
when you talk about the trade deadline, this, that, and
the other thing. It's the excuses that teams make when
they don't make a trade. And it's like, well, you
don't want to make a trade the deadline just to
make a trade, Yes you don't, Yes, you want to
make a trade just to say you made a trade.
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All right? That one annoys me. And then you also
get the best deals are the ones that you don't make.
I don't agree with that. And then it's always some
injured players coming back. That's the one that's really the
most in maddenings like, well, some player who's not been
playing recently, but he's on the disabled list or injury
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list whatever they call it, and he'll be coming back,
and that'll be like a trade. I got shut up,
Just stop all right, stopping tod nonsense. Just tell me
you don't want to invest in the team because you
don't think the team's good enough. So we'll see if
that pressure that is being put on the Red Sox
ownership to make a trade actually pays off and they
actually do something here of note, which would be I
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would think add another starting pitcher or another arm in
the bullpen. That would be what I would do. But
to each their own. Who else do we have? Page
down here? Late night drug tester says, James Dolan just
needs to sign some pickleballers to replace those lost Knickerbocker games.
So he says, all right, let's go to the phones
and we'll see who do we have? Here is Mike
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the leprecan there, Mike the Leprechon, It says here on
my board, Hello.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Mike, welcome back? Then nice? Can you hear me? No?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
But oh my god, what happening? Years? Did you lose
your ears?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes? If I dropped them out of the plane somewhere.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
That's the thing God, for God put the faith together.
He put two years and one mouth. I think he
gave you two mouths in one year.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yes, that's so. I have a very large mouth.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
So I have two. I'm going to kids six o'clock
on Friday morning. And he's not bad. It's raining in Boston.
I agree, and I'm going to do my number one,
number one. So John Henry shouldn't be sitting on his hands.
And look what happened to Liverpool this year? Right, New
York Liverpool? They tanked it. Man City didn't do bad
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but Liverpool totally went down to twops. I don't have
a dog anymore because my two kids, who actually I'm
in the base now because my two kids interrupted my talking.
One night. I have a chicken out. Would you like
to have my chicken?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yes, the bus.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
That's the way my chicken talks.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's not that's a sound. That's not a chicken. That's
not I mean, I know, that's not. That's not real.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
That's fair, it's a good right, I oh my god,
it's a goose, Canadian goose. But anyway, all right, what
else do I have? So I'm going to talk a
little bit about college bouncy balls.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Bronnie, you want you want to talk?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You want to talk college basketball?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Of course, Bronnie twelve points a job. He did not
talk when he was a tired to suck Kithon Clark.
I think they said last night, nobody follows college basketball.
I do. He said, nobody knows a single person's name.
She comes right, she's a girl.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
She's not in college anymore. She was playing professional.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
She went straight from college, straight from college, no risk.
The next week, you.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What college did you play for?
Speaker 8 (22:58):
I believe Iowa?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, their mouth.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
The mat side is a.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Penguin, right, that's right, a lot of penguin.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
You never mentioned Alan Drewis Williams.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
That's true. You never mentioned something Williams long Gray.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
But yeah, so laundry Williams. The Knickrobockers are aware at
the time. I don't care about how much six billion.
My daughter worked for Boma Sacks in New York twenty
eight she makes a half a million.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Oh really, did she give me a job? I'll quit.
I'll quit this right now. She got a job of
Golden Sacks there.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
My previous marriage. They're both becoming They became Irish citizens
this past week. I have an old paper passport, no
past certificates. If Trump wins on whenever, they're right over here,
they're out of dodge.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Are you are you leaving? If Trump wins? Are you gone?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
No? I'm not like you daughter.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All your daughters are.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Okay, you didn't mention that, Alexar. I have an updated
him one zero alex Ar.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Oh, yeah, we talked about it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, number two over fifteen.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
The other thing, you're a fifteen couldn't I could have
done better than that, even me. I play professional sports
as a cad.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So you're a leprechaun. How tall could you be? You're
a leprecaun.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I'm six one.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're not a real leper. You're a fake leprechaun. Then
you're not a real Have.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
You ever seen in the movie Out? Have you seen
the movie else?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes? I did see the movie Out?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
So picture that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So you're Will Ferrell, You're the tall You're the illegitimate leprecaun.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So I used to play. I spoke out gay lick gaylic.
Can I say Gaelic Gaelic Irish football? I did?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And then when you just did, I just said it.
You just said it, and.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
I didn't do I didn't do like a twenty six
miles of marriage and I did the.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hundred dollers hundred mallards. So why are you awaken this hour? You?
You came out of nowhere. Well what's your story?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Well I'm digressing to you. But you have a dog
who dies? Kind of ship? What a ship? Shoes?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It's a ship to make sure you get on there?
You need the soup.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
My son had allergies and we had to get a
chicken or a goose stead all right, so I have
I have picture connections. I'll tell you the story Okay,
the story. I know Bronk, I know bron personally.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh you do? Can you get him on the show?
Can you? Can you book him for my podcast? Okay,
I'll make it do. I'll make it do. I'll give
you seven golden tickets. That's a lucky number broadcast to
do it podcast podcast. I don't want to you know
what you sound like to me? You sound like that
guy in Arkansas that that that remember he says he
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knows like all these famous people and then he vanishes
to scratch off.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Okay, So I live in the town called Framingham. I
go to a club called Longfellow. There's one in Whale End,
and there's one in Natick. Since very the first time
the Patriots won, the first Super Bowl forever that was played.
It was a great game of two thousand and one,
I get I believe.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, that was the first super Bowl was in two
thousand and one.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah, yes, of course I said this. So I'm down there,
I take on my little girl at the time, three
little girls. So shooting back to around, so I have
another famous member. I'm two legs and anyway, who's out there?
Bill Deeli, Jack, Bill Belichick and Doug Clutie.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And they saw a Leprechaun. They're like, oh, this is
a leprequn. It's a lucky day here. It's like, no,
I gotta I gotta go. I gotta have time. You
gotta be you gotta tighten up these stories. Thank you.
Mike the Leprechaun six foot one leprechaun. My leprechaun is
supposed to be like four feet or short.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I remember he he's not on social media.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
By the way, there are some members of the mall
Or militia requesting Mike, if you're still listening, that you
get on social media. But he mailed Coop a picture
of himself, and Coop posted on on X and we
saw him and he's yeah, he's tall.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, so he's just sounds like a leprechaun, but he
doesn't look like a leprechaunt. Got it.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, it's accurate, Yeah, got it?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I understand.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I mean if he were like really tiny, I mean
he he kind of has a leprechaun face. I could
see that face on a leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Does he have a pipe?
Speaker 7 (27:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Does he wear a funny hat?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
He did have a funny hat on you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Does he have a bow tie.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
He has a regular necktie, regular necktie. Yeah, but it
does have a rainbow on him. He is definitely not
a leprechaun. Lorraine, are you telling me that this man's
face would not fit on a leprechaun?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
M No, okay, she says, well you have, Lorraine, you
gotta look at Lucky the Leprecaun. That's the Celtics mascot,
and then to a side by side between Lucky the
lepreca because that's a real leprecaun.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Well, that photo looks like he just did the pub
crawl on Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
What's the name of the fighting Irish leperconn does? Does
that person have a name?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Good question?
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Just the Leprechaun? I don't know. I have to ask
Brady Quinn after this show's over.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Ok.
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WNBA Fever lose to the Wings one oh one ninety eight,
but nobody cares about that. What did Caitlin Clark do?
That's all we care about. She had twenty four points
and a w NBA record nineteen assists. The former Iowa Penguin.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Great NBA record.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Now Ben asked who had the previous record? He wanted
to know, and so I am delivering the previous record
for assists in a game, held by the immortal Courtney
vander Slute. Oh, I'm not making this up. Courtney vander Slutes.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
What team did she play?
Speaker 8 (28:49):
She?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Well, she played for Chicago. She had eighteen assists August thirty,
first of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Twenty twenties. A recent record. And what's what numbers you wear?
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Eddie? I do not know.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You're a frug You're a w n B A guy.
Come on, Adie, you're supposed to have w NBA knowledge.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I just I just gave you some great Courtney Vanderslute
knowledge and you're really You're not appreciative.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
That's awful.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
What was your mom's name?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Also, Courtney, that's a that's the same last name as
the that dude that killed uh Natalie Holloway. Okay, I
think they're related.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I I don't know. I did not know that.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Guys, that is that a common last name? Vander Slute?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
I would say no.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I would say no, I had an avanders Hulish fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But I'm not going to use it on the air
because I don't want to deal with I don't want
my boss to call me tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
So yeah, yeah, you don't want that.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
No, I want to hear this. That's my favorite kind
of fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'll give it. I'll give it to you a coop.
If you want to use it, you can use it
about that. I want you to come back and yeah,
you want me to go on vacation again. I can.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
But nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That is true, nobody can. All it takes is one
person that cares. That's it.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Is it that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I don't think it's that bad at all? But some
would say, yeah, send it to me.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I'll say it.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Okay, all right, So that will be the unfund fact of.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The hour, but not this hour because I have a
different fun fact for this hour.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Fun fact I.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Want to follow up. We had a conversation last hour
about Pat Williams, the very beloved executive of the Orlando
Magic who died this week in his eighties, eighty four
years old. Did you know that Pat Williams at one
point was nicknamed the King of the Lottery because in
the early days of the Orlando Magic they regularly got
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that number one pick when that maddened when you got
a big time star. Pat Williams was at the Dais
when the Magic won the lottery to get Shaquille O'Neal,
Anthony Hardaway and also Dwight Howard all ended up in
Orlando as the number one overall pick. And he had
a great quip. He was the guy wrote a hundred books,
(31:01):
he ran fifty eight marathons. But his quip was, most
teams have a trophy case full of trophies. Pat Williams said,
we have a case filled with ping pong balls. Which
I love that quote because it was like the Clippers
back in the day. He used to win the lottery
a lot but they they didn't anything else. Now the
Clippers made the Final four a couple of years ago,
but Pat Williams passing away. He also ran thirteen Boston marathons.
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He finished thirteen Boston marathons, and a bunch of just
the weird things that he did that are quirky in
his life, but a great character. We had him on
here when I was over the years at Fox Sports Radio.
We had him on many times, and we had him
on often to promote a book that he wrote, and
he would engage us in his little basketball talk, and
(31:46):
then he'd talked about the book, and we didn't really
care about the book. We cared about the basketball. But
he was so interesting talking about the book, pipping himself
out for the book, that we were like, that's kind
of cool. Maybe I want to get that book. He
was that great as salesman. So anyway, that's more bonus
fun facts about the life and times of Pat Wiams. Now,
speaking of fun, we have a Mallard follow up Malord
(32:08):
follow up from the Parisian Olympics. The Paris Olympics there
coming up in a little bit this summer, a couple
weeks away from the start of the Olympic Games. The
Mayor of Perie has done the unthinkable, the unimaginable. Mayor
I'm told his name Anne Hidalgo. And you remember we
(32:32):
were talking about a certain body of water in Paris
that is so filthy, so toxic, so disgusting that they're
concerned about the health of the Olympic swimmers. Yeah, the
famous Sane River there in Paris. And the mayor jumped
in and said it's clean and swam after multiple protests
(32:58):
about poopy water and jumped in now we don't know
if the mayor is still alive. The mayor might have died,
I don't know, maybe some poisoning or whatever. But the
mayor jumped in there with some other big shots in Paris,
followed the mayor by, and they of course did this
with a parade of cameras to document everything. And they said, oh,
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totally clean, totally clean. The Olympics, which actually kick off
next Friday. I thought they were a little further down
the line, but next Friday the Olympics start. They have
spent tons of money trying to clean up the waterways.
The problem is that when they get a lot of
rain in Paris, the overflow of the poopy goes in
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the water a and so yeah, it's the poop in
the river. But they claim it's okay, so good luck,
good luck. They've got a bunch of people monitoring the
water there, with the Mayor of Paris jumping into the
water and swimming in the poopy water to prove a point.
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We have no follow up whether they made it or not.
No idea. We have mallard of the third degree. We'll
get to that coming up time. Now for the insta trivia,
we'll go back to Baseball's All Star Game from a
couple of nights ago. The Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochie
became the second skipper to win an All Star Game
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in both leagues, both the obviously the AL and the
ANL did that back with the Giants back in the day,
so Bruce Bochie at one point when he was with
the Padres I played pool with a couple times. But
Bruce Bochie's second manager to win an All Star Game
in both leagues, joining Blank. That's the Insta trivia the
answer next.
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Here is the Insta trivia Rangers manager Bruce Bochie, the
second skipper to win All Star Game, win the All
Star Game in both Lacy joins blank, that is the question.
What is the answer, And let's see does anyone know
the answer? We'll go page down, page down. We can't
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read that on the air. A lot of people ripping
random calls to the show. Freddy says, it's ww Hornswaggle,
the Little Irish Leprechaun, Mickey Goldsmith from Milkman Mike, that's
his answer. Ivanka Trump from I forty I. That's his selection.
La Troy Hawkins from Mister Nice Guy, cub legend the
(36:05):
page down, Canelo Alvarez, who is thirty four today from
the Late Night Drug Tester Chuck Norris guests by Alf
the Alien opiner, nice commercial for those action pants. Who
else do we have? Robbie the Communist fan from Ferg Dog.
That's his answer. Mason in Honey and Beach is Pete
Rose is the answer? Sweet Lou Brown guessed by the
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Casey Carhaller beer drinking in Hell raising ferg Dog from
Art puffin Yogi bearra from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who
else Matthew Warrior Raider as Tom Brady roast fan got
it right? Obviously cheated, so polydep bad job by them.
Moe Taylor guest by Shane of Des Moines, Jim Riggleman
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from Shawn and Portland, Forrest Greg from Robin, Minnesota, Dave
Roberts from Chip and the Cues, Sparky Anderson from Johnny Q.
Good picture of Sparky, Eddie. Do you have an answer quick?
It is Tony Larusa, So you're not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Get it right?
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You bet job, bet job? Here we go. It's Mallard.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
To the third degree? This is one big that gets grill.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
There are plenty of reports this week that DeVante Adams
is looking to get out of Vegas, and many analysts
say he will be gone by the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Adam's agents addressed these reports as baseless and unfounded, as
and there have been no trade talks. Ben, do you
believe any of that?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
No. I learned when I was a kid. When you
find bees, there's gonna be honey, right, Bees and honey
go together. This continues to be a storyline around the Raiders.
Davante Adams has a wandering eye, and that's the thing. Adams,
his agent comes out one day says deny, deny, deny,
no trade, and then he goes on some fledgling podcast
and plays foot seat with Aaron Rodgers. So make your
mind up. Next.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
With Kawhi Leonard getting replaced on Team USA's Team USA Basketball,
many assumed that it was a joint decision between USA
Basketball and the Clippers. However, the Clippers front office said
it was just USA Basketball's call and they were disappointed
with the decision. Are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
No, of course, it's never any how many times do
I have today, It's never a joint or mutual decision.
Someone acts first. When a relationship ends, someone steps up
and reacts first. And I get Steve Balmer's got a
lot invested in that into a dome, and they want
Kawhi there to actually play in the playoffs and not
get hurt like he does every You know, he's not
been healthy one year with the Clippers. It's ridiculous. So
(38:34):
I'm real, relatively confident. The Clippers made some phone calls
and said, get Kawhi out of the Olympics. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Derek Jeter was asked in a recent interview if Aaron
Boone being too buddy buddy with the players is to
blame for their summer slide. Jeter said, he isn't buying that.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
What do you think I'm buying the fact that Derek
Jeter is vanilla and he wouldn't say anything bad about
a former teammate and Aaron Boone. But Aaron Boone is spineless.
That's the problem. Not about being nice. He's spineless. He's
a middle manager. He follows the Nerds recipe. He doesn't
have his own spice. That's part of the problem with
the Yanks. He's not about being a hard guy or
a tough guy or any of that stuff. How do
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we go pass this decision that is a ways a player.
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Hello and welcome. It's our numb Bird two, a chip
off the old block, the original recipe Ben Mahler Show podcast,
and we're talking some basketball this hour. Why did Adam Silver,
the Commissioner sidestep addressing Nick's owner James Dolan's pointed concerns
over the direction of the business of basketball. Also, reports
(00:23):
are pinpointing the Clippers as a potential landing spot for
zach Lavine. Where you're at on that as a fit
and Rachel Nichols of FS one says, the criticism of
Brownie James summer League performance is unfair. Is that valid
or invalid? That take? We'll go there as well as
we get started here in our number two. Now that
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Bouncy Ball. That's right, high drama, high drama this week,
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the last couple of days, my first swing in the
batter's box. Here a member of the upper crust. The
cartel of basketball has gone rogue, gone rogue. I assume
you heard by now it was like he talked about
quite a bit. But when I've tuned in, I've heard
mostly WNBA talk, so maybe not. Knicks owner James Dolan.
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James Dolan wrote a letter. He went scorched earth. He
turned on the flamethrower against the NBA and their new
mega mega, mega million dollars billion dollar checked that billion
dollar media rights deal, and also unloaded on Adam Silver
(02:37):
in particular. Now Dolman accusing the League of trying to
disrupt the regional sports network industry regional cable television involving sports.
But wait, there's more. He attacked the revenue sharing policies.
Let's give you the money quote saying that the NBA
has made the move to an NFL model, the emphasis
(03:00):
sizing and depowering the local market. Close quote. So let
us discuss the question Adam Silver was given an opportunity
to respond. Why did Adam Silver sidestep addressing the Knicks
owner James Dolan and his concerns over the direction of
the business of basketball, which is plausibly what Adam Silver
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is hired to do to manage the business of basketball.
So I've got Guillotine Central Casting and Rusty Pelican, and
we will combine all of these things together. And we
are not going to nickel and daim you, which is
assume what Dolan is concerned about some nickel and diming
(03:43):
going on here. So number w all right, thank you, James.
Now that's actually number you said three times. You did
number three, Now it's four times. So James Dolan is
looking out across the Serengetti and he's worried about the
golden goose. Now you don't normally find a goose on
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the serengetty, but he's worried about the golden goose. He
inherited the goose from his father, Jim Dolan was the
guy who gave birth to the bird. It's worth all
the money. And now Adam Silver and his minions are
looking to destroy the bird. Right, They've rolled in, Just imagine,
(04:26):
in that little cartoon bubble over your head. Adam Silver
has rolled in with a couple of people from the
planet he came from outside the Milky Way. They have
rolled in the guillotine and they're looking to place the neck,
the very large neck of the goose, underneath the guillotine.
And you know what happens when the thing falls down.
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If Madison Square Garden Network, better known by its nickname MSG,
if that goes away, so does much of the old
family money and so. James Dolan is a menacing character
in this story, but he has a lot of skin
in the game. And one of the reasons that the
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Knickerbockers exists the way they do with the Dolan family
is because of MSG programming for MSG and so Dolan
because he's uh called like he's a nut job, like
he's used a lot of crazy things over the years,
and he gets dismissed as a troublemaker. However, right, he
actually has some good points here, such as bad customer
(05:29):
service and say what you want about the product of
basketball being garbage. And so many of you complain about
pro bouncy ball when I talk about it, and we
do a lot of shows during the playoffs in the
NBA about pro bouncy ball, and you get very upset.
But from a user standpoint, it's not good. As a
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fan the customer service. You need five or six streaming
services to watch all of your team's games. Forget the
other games, just your team's games. Now, ultimately, it is
always about the money, right the NBA. This is where
the money is. It's in streaming, it's not in cable,
and so people are going there. Of course, what ends
up happening is you circle back to the cable because
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in the end, with all these nickel and dime operations,
you end up costing more money if you want to
watch everything. Now, what ends up happening is a lot
of people turn to the Russian websites, and you should
not do that. It's wrong. Eddie tells me it's wrong
to do that. But it's a much better user service
to watch on the pirate websites than the actual websites
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where people are willing to pay for the NBA product.
What does that say about the business of basketball? Whereas
the user, the customer, you're better off. It's more convenient
for you to have a one stop shop. You can
watch every game on the Russian website, shall we say?
As opposed to if you go through the NBA's means
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of doing business, you have to have five or six
different streams and you have different tiers and all that. Uh.
Now the money part of it. Adam Silver as the
guardian of the game, paid by the owners. He is
looking to take the league office a massive, a massive
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slice of the seventy six million billion dollar media rights
of seventy six billion with a B like Ben and
so Dolan's looking at this, He's like, wait a minute,
James Dole's like, so you're taking over six billion dollars.
You're siphoning that off for no good reason in the
middle of the day. You're just not in not the
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middle of that. You're taking six or six billion dollars
being siphoned out of the in the media rice deal.
And many aristocrats are afraid to speak up because by
an NBA team, it's a a toy for rich people,
and you don't want to be kicked out of the
club and all that stuff. You don't want to deal
with the blowback and all that, and so you're worried
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about that part of it. James don't and though it
doesn't care. He's unhinged a right, turning the NBA completely.
These are his words, not my words. He says that
Adam Silver's turning the NBA into a risk free, idiot
proof business. That's that's what Dolan said. James Dolan said
it due to revenue pooling. You are there wrong teed
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to be neither a success nor a failure, which, if
I remember correctly I've been in school in a while,
I think that is a form of communism socialism, right,
everyone gets the same, right in that somewhere in that,
in that little category. Uh So that's what Dolan's complaining about.
But ultimately it's about MSG and if the NBA was
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doing the same exact thing and taking six billion dollars
but they were keeping the regional cable model intact, then
Dolan would not be complaining as publicly as he is.
But there is infighting, and I will promise you that
he's not alone because there were other owners, old school
owners in the NBA that also have a horse in
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the race or a dog in the fight when it
comes to regional cable, and if they devalue that completely,
then they're gonna lose a lot of money. Also. Now
page two we go to Sweet Home Chicago, where Yuphimi
and Eugene in Chicago. Eugene did not stop sending me
stories the entire time I was away. I kept getting
(09:28):
messages from Eugene in Chicago about stories that I could
not have cared less about. But anyway, one of the
stories involving Chicago indirectly actually is directly. It's just about
a player leaving Chicago. There are reports that are pinpointing
the people's team, the Clippers, as a potential landing spot
for zach Lavine. And so the question is where are
(09:51):
you at on that as a fit. So my response,
and I'll give this to Eugene in Chicago and all
the other guys that are in the Windy City there,
I give this one side eye that there's some kind
of fit there between zach Lavine from the Bulls and
the Clippers. Here, I don't believe that the Bulls are
actually going to trade zach Lavine. That's the first thing,
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because if you pay attention to the chatter around the NBA,
he has been available for three plus years. I'm not exaggerating.
I've done the show every night for the most part
for many many years. And over the last three or
four years, Zach Lavine's name has popped up in trade
rumors early and often, and yet he remains in the
(10:39):
Windy City. Plus, if you look at Zach in terms
of connecting him with the people's team, he would be
out of central casting for the Clippers. He's a player,
by basketball standards, is middle aged, he's in that weird
middle of career period, he's got a hefty contract, and
he's injury. A lot of empty calories there, a lot
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of empty calories and a lot of meaningless statistics. A
stat bandito, as we like to say in these parts,
zactly me check this out. He has played five hundred
and eighty regular season games. How many playoff games has
he played with the Bulls? And he came up with
the Timberwolves before that, so it was in Minnesota for
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a few years and went to Chicago. Been in with
the Bulls for a while. Five hundred and eighty regular
season games. He has played, not one, not two, not three,
four four a four pack of postseason games. And a
lot of that is because he doesn't elevate the player
play of others around you. That he's a good stat
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stuffer and he'll fill the box score and you'll have
a nice hammer dunk now and again, and that's exciting
and people like that. But in terms of actually making
people around him better, he hasn't done that. It's the
old change of scenery. And maybe you'll go to a
team like the Clippers and be better and yeah, good luck.
All right, final point, we go to Viva Las Vegas,
(12:06):
where Bronnie James actually did not suck at a time
you should not suck. Video at eleven. Nevertheless, he overall
still has had more bad than good, even with a
stat line that did not pop your eyeballs out when
you looked at it. Now, I bring this up because
FS one's Rachel Nichols. Yes, she's working there. Rachel Nichols
(12:30):
says the criticism of Bronnie James' summer league performance is unfair,
and she's one of several that have said this is
Eddie told me, Brian Know who sat in this chair
for me, is singing the sorrows of Bronnie James, and
what a tough, tough road this is for Bronnie James.
But in terms of Rachel Nichols saying that the criticism
(12:52):
of Bronnie james Summer League performances is unfair, is that
a valid or invalid take? So it is valid with
a capital eye capital eye. And now I'll just use
the Rachel Nichols commentary. She used someone named Isaiah Wong
as an example. Now, why would she use somebody named
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Isaiah Wong. You don't know who that is, but he
was the fifty fifth pick of the twenty twenty three
NBA Draft, the same slot where Bronnie James was picked.
You don't know who he is at all. But that's
the example. She said. Well, nobody obsessed when he had
a bad game, and now people are upset with Bronnie James.
I'm paraphrasing, but that whole conversation is a night out.
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It's a dinner at the Rusty Pelican seafood Shack, is
what it is. It's the catch of the day. It's
a red herring. It is a red herring. Bronnie James
was not treated like Isaiah Wong by anyone. He got
a four year, eight million dollars guaranteed contract from the Lakers.
Didn't earn it, didn't deserve it, got it. Why did
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he get it because because he was born on third base, right,
he had the silver spoon and the net Bo baby
and all that net Bo James. Now Isaiah Wong went
to college, did things the right way. He got you know,
he got the standard two way contract. He played four
minutes in the NBA for the Indiana paces that's who
drafted him. Four minutes with the Indiana Pacers. He mostly
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played for a team called the mad Ants. I'm told
that's in the G League, So that's where he played.
He played four minutes of the NBA, played for the
mad Ants of the G League. He made the minimum
salary you can make. He was fired by the Indiana
basketball team. They released him and he's now with a
G League team for the Suns. That's the story of
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Isaiah Wong. Now you look at Bronnie James has got
to say which mansion he wants to live in, what
private airline, what Gulf Stream plane he wants to fly,
and what car service he wants to pick him up?
And which armed guard is going to p It's a
whole different world. It's a whole different You don't feel
bad for a guy like who feels bad You're a loser.
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You're a loser. If you feel bad for Broddie James,
shame on you. That's not someone you feel bad for.
What are you adope? It's ridiculous anyway, It is the
Ben Maler Show, which is none of those things. As
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Show follow up, We'll get to that and we will
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I would add four inches.
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A Bronco fan and I'll I from the Tyraq dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You'll be happy to know, Eddie that I'll have some
new copy, new commercials that will be popping up here
on Fox Sports Radio to record. Yep, that a live
recording session, well not live because it was on tape tape,
live to tape, and so you'll be hearing some of
those great commercials coming up here in a little bit.
So very exciting, very exciting. Freddie Wrightson says a plus
(17:36):
plus on the Malltain monologue, Brownie James is the one
person who we kind of hate who is born with
a silver spoon. Yeah, there you go, of course. See
Justin in Cincinnati says, are you going to address the
elephant in the room? You take off a week and
President Trump became sug night. Yes, I'm aware of what happened.
(17:58):
What do you mean to say, Justin?
Speaker 7 (18:00):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I was sitting at a bar in Hawaii and it
was on the TV and it was like, it's like
in the morning, It's like midday in Hawaii when all
that went down. Shane form de Moines says, even Ben
Mallar thinks Iravon Ben Simmons thinks the Malor Show is
number one. He says he wants to the number one
jingle Right there, John doing late night deliveries on a
(18:24):
rainy night in Boston, says, my Red Sox are on
the uptick. What are we gonna do with the deadline?
And says go Duran for All Star MVP. Weird. He
has a similar war to one Soto so far this year. Hey,
John driving around the rain there in Boston, says Boston
(18:47):
still loves you, John. Yeah, so the Red Sox here.
It's interesting to note my friends in Boston tell me
that there's a lot of pressure on John Henry to
not sit on his hands, which is the assumption that
the Red Sox are not going to do anything at
the trade deadline, that they're going to sit it out
and say, you know, we don't really we don't really
(19:09):
want to do anything drastic. We like our young players.
We don't want to give up any one of the
young core players. It's always the argument. Now, the thing
that annoys me the most, and I'll have to do
a rant at some point when you talk about the
trade deadline in baseball, which is coming up here in
a couple of weeks at the end of the month.
(19:29):
But the thing that I love to complain about, right
when you talk about the trade deadline, this, that, and
the other thing. It's the excuses that teams make when
they don't make a trade. And it's like, well, you
don't want to make a trade the deadline just to
make a trade, Yes you don't, Yes, you want to
make a trade just to say you made a trade.
(19:50):
All right? That one annoys me. And then you also
get the best deals are the ones that you don't make.
I don't agree with that. And then it's always some
injured players coming back. That's the one that's really the
most in maddenings like, well, some player who's not been
playing recently, but he's on the disabled list or injury
(20:10):
list whatever they call it, and he'll be coming back,
and that'll be like a trade. I got shut up,
Just stop all right, stopping tod nonsense. Just tell me
you don't want to invest in the team because you
don't think the team's good enough. So we'll see if
that pressure that is being put on the Red Sox
ownership to make a trade actually pays off and they
actually do something here of note, which would be I
(20:33):
would think add another starting pitcher or another arm in
the bullpen. That would be what I would do. But
to each their own. Who else do we have? Page
down here? Late night drug tester says, James Dolan just
needs to sign some pickleballers to replace those lost Knickerbocker games.
So he says, all right, let's go to the phones
and we'll see who do we have? Here is Mike
(20:54):
the leprecan there, Mike the Leprechon, It says here on
my board, Hello.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Mike, welcome back? Then nice? Can you hear me? No?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
But oh my god, what happening? Years? Did you lose
your ears?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yes? If I dropped them out of the plane somewhere.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
That's the thing God, for God put the faith together.
He put two years and one mouth. I think he
gave you two mouths in one year.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yes, that's so. I have a very large mouth.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
So I have two. I'm going to kids six o'clock
on Friday morning. And he's not bad. It's raining in Boston.
I agree, and I'm going to do my number one,
number one. So John Henry shouldn't be sitting on his hands.
And look what happened to Liverpool this year? Right, New
York Liverpool? They tanked it. Man City didn't do bad
(21:46):
but Liverpool totally went down to twops. I don't have
a dog anymore because my two kids, who actually I'm
in the base now because my two kids interrupted my talking.
One night. I have a chicken out. Would you like
to have my chicken?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yes, the bus.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
That's the way my chicken talks.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's not that's a sound. That's not a chicken. That's
not I mean, I know, that's not. That's not real.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
That's fair, it's a good right, I oh my god,
it's a goose, Canadian goose. But anyway, all right, what
else do I have? So I'm going to talk a
little bit about college bouncy balls.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Bronnie, you want you want to talk?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
You want to talk college basketball?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Of course, Bronnie twelve points a job. He did not
talk when he was a tired to suck Kithon Clark.
I think they said last night, nobody follows college basketball.
I do. He said, nobody knows a single person's name.
She comes right, she's a girl.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
She's not in college anymore. She was playing professional.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
She went straight from college, straight from college, no risk.
The next week, you.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What college did you play for?
Speaker 8 (22:58):
I believe Iowa?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, their mouth.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
The mat side is a.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Penguin, right, that's right, a lot of penguin.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
You never mentioned Alan Drewis Williams.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
That's true. You never mentioned something Williams long Gray.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
But yeah, so laundry Williams. The Knickrobockers are aware at
the time. I don't care about how much six billion.
My daughter worked for Boma Sacks in New York twenty
eight she makes a half a million.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Oh really, did she give me a job? I'll quit.
I'll quit this right now. She got a job of
Golden Sacks there.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
My previous marriage. They're both becoming They became Irish citizens
this past week. I have an old paper passport, no
past certificates. If Trump wins on whenever, they're right over here,
they're out of dodge.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Are you are you leaving? If Trump wins? Are you gone?
Speaker 8 (23:58):
No? I'm not like you daughter.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
All your daughters are.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
Okay, you didn't mention that, Alexar. I have an updated
him one zero alex Ar.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Oh, yeah, we talked about it.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, number two over fifteen.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
The other thing, you're a fifteen couldn't I could have
done better than that, even me. I play professional sports
as a cad.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
So you're a leprechaun. How tall could you be? You're
a leprecaun.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
I'm six one.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're not a real leper. You're a fake leprechaun. Then
you're not a real Have.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
You ever seen in the movie Out? Have you seen
the movie else?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yes? I did see the movie Out?
Speaker 8 (24:34):
So picture that.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
So you're Will Ferrell, You're the tall You're the illegitimate leprecaun.
Speaker 8 (24:41):
So I used to play. I spoke out gay lick gaylic.
Can I say Gaelic Gaelic Irish football? I did?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And then when you just did, I just said it.
You just said it, and.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
I didn't do I didn't do like a twenty six
miles of marriage and I did the.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hundred dollers hundred mallards. So why are you awaken this hour? You?
You came out of nowhere. Well what's your story?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Well I'm digressing to you. But you have a dog
who dies? Kind of ship? What a ship? Shoes?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
It's a ship to make sure you get on there?
You need the soup.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
My son had allergies and we had to get a
chicken or a goose stead all right, so I have
I have picture connections. I'll tell you the story Okay,
the story. I know Bronk, I know bron personally.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Oh you do? Can you get him on the show?
Can you? Can you book him for my podcast? Okay,
I'll make it do. I'll make it do. I'll give
you seven golden tickets. That's a lucky number broadcast to
do it podcast podcast. I don't want to you know
what you sound like to me? You sound like that
guy in Arkansas that that that remember he says he
(25:52):
knows like all these famous people and then he vanishes
to scratch off.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
Okay, So I live in the town called Framingham. I
go to a club called Longfellow. There's one in Whale End,
and there's one in Natick. Since very the first time
the Patriots won, the first Super Bowl forever that was played.
It was a great game of two thousand and one,
I get I believe.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, that was the first super Bowl was in two
thousand and one.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah, yes, of course I said this. So I'm down there,
I take on my little girl at the time, three
little girls. So shooting back to around, so I have
another famous member. I'm two legs and anyway, who's out there?
Bill Deeli, Jack, Bill Belichick and Doug Clutie.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
And they saw a Leprechaun. They're like, oh, this is
a leprequn. It's a lucky day here. It's like, no,
I gotta I gotta go. I gotta have time. You
gotta be you gotta tighten up these stories. Thank you.
Mike the Leprechaun six foot one leprechaun. My leprechaun is
supposed to be like four feet or short.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
I remember he he's not on social media.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
By the way, there are some members of the mall
Or militia requesting Mike, if you're still listening, that you
get on social media. But he mailed Coop a picture
of himself, and Coop posted on on X and we
saw him and he's yeah, he's tall.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Okay, so he's just sounds like a leprechaun, but he
doesn't look like a leprechaunt. Got it.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
Yeah, it's accurate, Yeah, got it?
Speaker 1 (27:14):
I understand.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I mean if he were like really tiny, I mean
he he kind of has a leprechaun face. I could
see that face on a leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Does he have a pipe?
Speaker 7 (27:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Does he wear a funny hat?
Speaker 7 (27:26):
He did have a funny hat on you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Does he have a bow tie.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
He has a regular necktie, regular necktie. Yeah, but it
does have a rainbow on him. He is definitely not
a leprechaun. Lorraine, are you telling me that this man's
face would not fit on a leprechaun?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
M No, okay, she says, well you have, Lorraine, you
gotta look at Lucky the Leprecaun. That's the Celtics mascot,
and then to a side by side between Lucky the
lepreca because that's a real leprecaun.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Well, that photo looks like he just did the pub
crawl on Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
What's the name of the fighting Irish leperconn does? Does
that person have a name?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Good question?
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Just the Leprechaun? I don't know. I have to ask
Brady Quinn after this show's over.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
WNBA Fever lose to the Wings one oh one ninety eight,
but nobody cares about that. What did Caitlin Clark do?
That's all we care about. She had twenty four points
and a w NBA record nineteen assists. The former Iowa Penguin.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Great NBA record.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Now Ben asked who had the previous record? He wanted
to know, and so I am delivering the previous record
for assists in a game, held by the immortal Courtney
vander Slute. Oh, I'm not making this up. Courtney vander Slutes.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
What team did she play?
Speaker 8 (28:49):
She?
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Well, she played for Chicago. She had eighteen assists August thirty,
first of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Twenty twenties. A recent record. And what's what numbers you wear?
Speaker 7 (28:59):
Eddie? I do not know.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You're a frug You're a w n B A guy.
Come on, Adie, you're supposed to have w NBA knowledge.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I just I just gave you some great Courtney Vanderslute
knowledge and you're really You're not appreciative.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
That's awful.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
What was your mom's name?
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Also, Courtney, that's a that's the same last name as
the that dude that killed uh Natalie Holloway. Okay, I
think they're related.
Speaker 7 (29:23):
I I don't know. I did not know that.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Guys, that is that a common last name? Vander Slute?
Speaker 7 (29:29):
I would say no.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
I would say no, I had an avanders Hulish fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
But I'm not going to use it on the air
because I don't want to deal with I don't want
my boss to call me tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
So yeah, yeah, you don't want that.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
No, I want to hear this. That's my favorite kind
of fun fact.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'll give it. I'll give it to you a coop.
If you want to use it, you can use it
about that. I want you to come back and yeah,
you want me to go on vacation again. I can.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
But nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That is true, nobody can. All it takes is one
person that cares. That's it.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Is it that.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I don't think it's that bad at all? But some
would say, yeah, send it to me.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
I'll say it.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Okay, all right, So that will be the unfund fact of.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
The hour, but not this hour because I have a
different fun fact for this hour.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Fun fact I.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Want to follow up. We had a conversation last hour
about Pat Williams, the very beloved executive of the Orlando
Magic who died this week in his eighties, eighty four
years old. Did you know that Pat Williams at one
point was nicknamed the King of the Lottery because in
the early days of the Orlando Magic they regularly got
(30:40):
that number one pick when that maddened when you got
a big time star. Pat Williams was at the Dais
when the Magic won the lottery to get Shaquille O'Neal,
Anthony Hardaway and also Dwight Howard all ended up in
Orlando as the number one overall pick. And he had
a great quip. He was the guy wrote a hundred books,
(31:01):
he ran fifty eight marathons. But his quip was, most
teams have a trophy case full of trophies. Pat Williams said,
we have a case filled with ping pong balls. Which
I love that quote because it was like the Clippers
back in the day. He used to win the lottery
a lot but they they didn't anything else. Now the
Clippers made the Final four a couple of years ago,
but Pat Williams passing away. He also ran thirteen Boston marathons.
(31:25):
He finished thirteen Boston marathons, and a bunch of just
the weird things that he did that are quirky in
his life, but a great character. We had him on
here when I was over the years at Fox Sports Radio.
We had him on many times, and we had him
on often to promote a book that he wrote, and
he would engage us in his little basketball talk, and
(31:46):
then he'd talked about the book, and we didn't really
care about the book. We cared about the basketball. But
he was so interesting talking about the book, pipping himself
out for the book, that we were like, that's kind
of cool. Maybe I want to get that book. He
was that great as salesman. So anyway, that's more bonus
fun facts about the life and times of Pat Wiams. Now,
speaking of fun, we have a Mallard follow up Malord
(32:08):
follow up from the Parisian Olympics. The Paris Olympics there
coming up in a little bit this summer, a couple
weeks away from the start of the Olympic Games. The
Mayor of Perie has done the unthinkable, the unimaginable. Mayor
I'm told his name Anne Hidalgo. And you remember we
(32:32):
were talking about a certain body of water in Paris
that is so filthy, so toxic, so disgusting that they're
concerned about the health of the Olympic swimmers. Yeah, the
famous Sane River there in Paris. And the mayor jumped
in and said it's clean and swam after multiple protests
(32:58):
about poopy water and jumped in now we don't know
if the mayor is still alive. The mayor might have died,
I don't know, maybe some poisoning or whatever. But the
mayor jumped in there with some other big shots in Paris,
followed the mayor by, and they of course did this
with a parade of cameras to document everything. And they said, oh,
(33:22):
totally clean, totally clean. The Olympics, which actually kick off
next Friday. I thought they were a little further down
the line, but next Friday the Olympics start. They have
spent tons of money trying to clean up the waterways.
The problem is that when they get a lot of
rain in Paris, the overflow of the poopy goes in
(33:44):
the water a and so yeah, it's the poop in
the river. But they claim it's okay, so good luck,
good luck. They've got a bunch of people monitoring the
water there, with the Mayor of Paris jumping into the
water and swimming in the poopy water to prove a point.
(34:04):
We have no follow up whether they made it or not.
No idea. We have mallard of the third degree. We'll
get to that coming up time. Now for the insta trivia,
we'll go back to Baseball's All Star Game from a
couple of nights ago. The Texas Rangers manager Bruce Bochie
became the second skipper to win an All Star Game
(34:25):
in both leagues, both the obviously the AL and the
ANL did that back with the Giants back in the day,
so Bruce Bochie at one point when he was with
the Padres I played pool with a couple times. But
Bruce Bochie's second manager to win an All Star Game
in both leagues, joining Blank. That's the Insta trivia the
answer next.
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(35:17):
Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Here is the Insta trivia Rangers manager Bruce Bochie, the
second skipper to win All Star Game, win the All
Star Game in both Lacy joins blank, that is the question.
What is the answer, And let's see does anyone know
the answer? We'll go page down, page down. We can't
(35:43):
read that on the air. A lot of people ripping
random calls to the show. Freddy says, it's ww Hornswaggle,
the Little Irish Leprechaun, Mickey Goldsmith from Milkman Mike, that's
his answer. Ivanka Trump from I forty I. That's his selection.
La Troy Hawkins from Mister Nice Guy, cub legend the
(36:05):
page down, Canelo Alvarez, who is thirty four today from
the Late Night Drug Tester Chuck Norris guests by Alf
the Alien opiner, nice commercial for those action pants. Who
else do we have? Robbie the Communist fan from Ferg Dog.
That's his answer. Mason in Honey and Beach is Pete
Rose is the answer? Sweet Lou Brown guessed by the
(36:28):
Casey Carhaller beer drinking in Hell raising ferg Dog from
Art puffin Yogi bearra from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who
else Matthew Warrior Raider as Tom Brady roast fan got
it right? Obviously cheated, so polydep bad job by them.
Moe Taylor guest by Shane of Des Moines, Jim Riggleman
(36:50):
from Shawn and Portland, Forrest Greg from Robin, Minnesota, Dave
Roberts from Chip and the Cues, Sparky Anderson from Johnny Q.
Good picture of Sparky, Eddie. Do you have an answer quick?
It is Tony Larusa, So you're not supposed to.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Get it right?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
You bet job, bet job? Here we go. It's Mallard.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:13):
To the third degree? This is one big that gets grill.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
There are plenty of reports this week that DeVante Adams
is looking to get out of Vegas, and many analysts
say he will be gone by the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Now.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Adam's agents addressed these reports as baseless and unfounded, as
and there have been no trade talks. Ben, do you
believe any of that?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
No. I learned when I was a kid. When you
find bees, there's gonna be honey, right, Bees and honey
go together. This continues to be a storyline around the Raiders.
Davante Adams has a wandering eye, and that's the thing. Adams,
his agent comes out one day says deny, deny, deny,
no trade, and then he goes on some fledgling podcast
and plays foot seat with Aaron Rodgers. So make your
mind up. Next.
Speaker 6 (37:57):
With Kawhi Leonard getting replaced on Team USA's Team USA Basketball,
many assumed that it was a joint decision between USA
Basketball and the Clippers. However, the Clippers front office said
it was just USA Basketball's call and they were disappointed
with the decision. Are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
No, of course, it's never any how many times do
I have today, It's never a joint or mutual decision.
Someone acts first. When a relationship ends, someone steps up
and reacts first. And I get Steve Balmer's got a
lot invested in that into a dome, and they want
Kawhi there to actually play in the playoffs and not
get hurt like he does every You know, he's not
been healthy one year with the Clippers. It's ridiculous. So
(38:34):
I'm real, relatively confident. The Clippers made some phone calls
and said, get Kawhi out of the Olympics. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Derek Jeter was asked in a recent interview if Aaron
Boone being too buddy buddy with the players is to
blame for their summer slide. Jeter said, he isn't buying that.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
What do you think I'm buying the fact that Derek
Jeter is vanilla and he wouldn't say anything bad about
a former teammate and Aaron Boone. But Aaron Boone is spineless.
That's the problem. Not about being nice. He's spineless. He's
a middle manager. He follows the Nerds recipe. He doesn't
have his own spice. That's part of the problem with
the Yanks. He's not about being a hard guy or
a tough guy or any of that stuff. How do
(39:10):
we go pass this decision that is a ways a player.
My leftrecauon it paid off Letracon the leftracaon
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