Hour 2 - Did He Know?

Ben Maller talks about media reports that LeBron James had no idea this Luka trade was coming, how the dust settles with the Lakers and Luka Doncic, the oddest part of the trade, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our bird two hour two ready
to go, and we have a MEGAMEGAMEGA trade and more
reaction NBA media lap dogs claiming that Lebron James had
no idea that the Luca Anthony Davis trade was coming

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down the pike and he found out while at dinner
in New York, believe it or not. Also, how does
the dust settle with the Lakers now that Luca is
joining the team, And what's the oddest part of the
Luka Doncic trade from Dallas to la We'll talk about
all of that and more. It's another hour of power

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and big NBA trade reaction here it is our number two.
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are talking about here. Massive trade, so much more to discuss,
pro bouncy ball and the trade heard around the association.
A big weekend story, big weekend story here, and we've
got you covered in depth team coverage which is really
just me because I'm awake here. Everyone else is partying
in New Orleans, but we're here. Luka Luka. Doncik putting

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himself into the transfer portal. Well, he didn't actually put himself.
The Mavericks put him in the transfer portal. Luca sent
packing as the Mavericks said bye bye and get out
of here. You're no longer needed to their franchise player,
the player that got them to the NBA Finals where
they lost to Jason Tatum and the Celtics in the

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summer of twenty twenty four. And here we are in
February of twenty twenty five, and it's asta la vista
of even that Jay to Luca, He's gone mega mega
mega tred happened after the Knicks Lakers game on Saturday. Now,
the part of the story that I want to focus
in on right now with you and have a little

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chat me and you okay, involves Lebron James because Luca
was put in the trade machine on Saturday. And did
you hear the Lebron part of the story? Maybe not so.
The reporting over the weekend claims that Lebron James learned

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of this massive transaction in our little sporting world. Lebron
learned of this trade following the win over the next
when it broke on social media and he was out
to dinner with his family in Manhattan and he found
out about the trade. That's the reporting. We're told that

(03:39):
James was surprised by the news. Here no idea that
this trade was in the works whatsoever. So this was
seemingly reported with the straight face. We don't really know why,
but it apparently was. So let us discuss the question
the NBA media lap dogs claiming that Lebron James no

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no idea that Luka Doncic would be traded to the Lakers,
and Anthony Davis would go back the other direction to Texas,
and that he found out while he was having a
nice meal. Believe it or not, that's the question. So
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to make. We'll make the chicken sharma. So number all right,
So you gotta look through the lens of this unfolding

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drama that's still playing out here as we head into
the early hours on a Monday. But Lebron, the way
I look at this, Lebron already had his alibi all
laid out. The thing that Lebron worries about more than
anything is optics. It's like when he's talked about watching
movies or reading books and asked about it, he has
no clue because he doesn't actually watch those movies or

(05:07):
read those books, and it's awkward for him, but he
wants the perception, the optics of being that guy, right,
the guy that loves the Godfather movies and reads the
Malcolm X book and all that, even though he doesn't
really know much about it. Because he's not actually doing
those things. But that's Lebron. That's what we know Lebron
to be. It's all about the appearance, which is perfect

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for LA. That's what Hollywood's all about, right, It's about
the appearance, the illusion that you know what you're doing.
So the guy we're supposed to believe here in order
for us to believe that Lebron James had no clue
about what happened here, we're supposed to be the same
player that bullied the Lakers to draft his kid who
can't play, Bronnie James, and then make sure that Bronni

(05:53):
was on the roster to play right away and a
father son duet when his kid sucks. That we're sup
to believe that that same player had nothing nothing to
do with this, that this is completely foreign to him
and came out of nowhere, mister GM by proxy, going

(06:14):
back to his days in Cleveland and couldn't really do
that in Miami, although he did form the team with
Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh and then was at Loggerheads
with pat Riley and then went back to Cleveland to
run things and then went out to LA. But that
same guy Lebron James was out eating linguinie and he

(06:35):
was having an appetizer, maybe was eating like one of
those little piece of bread, and then the trade happened.
He had no idea. I just eating linguini with a
little piece of bread, maybe some red wine. In the
trade out what in the wall? I mean? Come on,
if you believe this, I want you to call me
up because I have a pink polka dotted unicorn. I

(06:58):
would like to sell you. It's the most beautiful pink
polka dotted unicorn you could possibly have, and it's yours.
I'll sell it to you for a nominal fee. If
you think Lebron had no knowledge of the trade prior
to the trade going down, I would like to have
you purchase this. I'll give you a sweetheart deal. It's
a pink polka dotted unicorn and it can be yours

(07:19):
and it's only going to cost you about eighty thousand dollars.
That's a deal. That's a deal. You can have it right.
Tell me your gullible without telling me your Google. What
was Lebron James' role in LA dealing? Anthony Davis? Well,
the way this works, and I can't imagine it's much

(07:39):
different here at that level of player talking about Luka
Doncik here and then Anthony Davis also, it's going to
fundamentally change both the Lakers and the Mavericks the direction.
Some are convinced it's for the better, some are convinced
it's for the worst. But in order for this to happen,

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in order this to happen, you need ownership the rubber stamp.
But also Lebron has to give his blessing. You know,
I want to upset Lebron James face of the NBA
and all that stuff. You do want upset Lebron. And
as far as the reporting that he was just at
dinner and he had no idea, you know, it's against
the optic thing. Lebron has these NBA writers eating out

(08:23):
of the palm of his hand. He really does. Right,
It's like the side of a mirror when you're driving around, right,
the objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. Yikes,
they're in the tank. They are in the tank. Tank,
tank tank, and really just aggregating, repackaging Lebron James content.

(08:44):
At this point, Lebron's people send a narrative over and
then that's his version of the truth and they just
repeat it and that's that all right, now, Patrew, So
how does the dust settle with Luke who did touch
down and private plane? Because you know, the one percenter
is when you're a pro basketball player, you travel in

(09:04):
private planes. So Luca's in La. Now, explain how this
all goes down. Now the dust settles, we'll look at
the micro, not the macro in the near future. Now,
Luca's hurt right now, he's not playing. He's supposed to
come back. The Maverick said he was going to come
back before the All Star break. The All Star breaks
right around the corner here. It's in the middle of February,

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and if you look at the calendar, today's February third,
So we're not that far away from this this taking place.
So it's not a one size fit all situation. It's not. Now,
this is the old trope in basketball, which is true
because it happens all the time. There's only one basketball,
there's only one ball, and situations like this rarely work,

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rarely work. Because Luca, while he is an absolute offensive
dynamo and the beginning of his career, there's no question
he's one of the top players this far into his career.
He's historical. He's a top five player offensively all time
in NBA history. However, you look at this, he's the

(10:14):
big Poppy of the NBA. He is a designated hitter
like David Ortiz was to the Red Sox and his heyday.
He's all bat, no glove. That's what he brings you
and sounds like at this point similar to Lebron James,
a Doppo ganger, if you will, of Lebron James and

(10:36):
two ball dominant players that are weak defenders. Essentially, the
opposition against the Lakers will be on the power play
on offense, He'll be playing five on three. Now, Lebron
occasionally a couple times a game will make a good
defensive play, so he gets in the highlights. But the
rest of the time he's saving his energy to work

(10:57):
on the offensive side of the the situation. Now, the
other part of this, the heel a monster in the room,
the Komodo dragon in the room, if you will, is
the poor work habits that Luca supposedly has. It's been
an open secret. Luca does not believe in things like
the gym. He does not believe in doing cardio and

(11:18):
things like that. I believe the reporting that's out there,
and he's got bad work ethic, he's lazy, he just
has an I don't give an f He's so talented
he can get away with it right now. And the
argument is that it's not gonna work that long term
is he's been playing basketball since he was a kid,

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at a high level in Europe and it's just not
gonna that's what the Mavericks. If you believe the Mavericks
are not doing this intentionally just so they can move
the team to Vegas, and that this was actually some
kind of planned, out formulated effort to improve the team,
which I don't. But if you believe that, if you're
someone that wants to believe that, that's fine. I don't
agree with you. We can agree to dis agree. But

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if that's your mindset, if that's the case here, and
then like the MAVs are betting that he will age
like milk and we know that doesn't go well. That
just does not end up very well all right now,
final point, So, what was the oddest part of this

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big trade between the Mavericks and the Lakers that sends
Luca to skid Row. That's who the Lakers play right
there on skid Row in La. All homeless people can
sit right there the arena. Now, when they built it,
skid Row was not there, but the good people of
California make sure skid Row moves over to that area,
so it's all there. So what is the oddest part
of the Luka Doncik trade? So it would be the

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unorthodox tactics of the Mavericks and it's not even close. Right,
Normally a star player gets put on the auctioning block.
Now we saw the Aaron Fox who was also traded.
We'll get to that later. It's on my big board.
Dearon Fox traded from Sacramentos and Antonio. That had been
talked about for about two weeks. He's traded. That's how

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it goes. Jimmy Butler has not been traded at this
hour from Miami, but Jimmy Butler's name has been floated
out there. It's been talked about on gas bag shows
like this and Blowhards on TV have talked about where
Jimmy Butler's gonna end up. And it's social media fodder
for the bots on social media, the fake accounts they
get to talk about that, go back and forth, and

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so all of that, all of that going on, and
yet here you have none of it. In Dallas, this
is accurate, and the mavers are all saying the same thing.
It was early on it was just reports, and now
it's like, this is what we did, and maybe they're lying.
I don't know it. Channeling Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone.

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Picture if you will, a world where you have a
beach front palazzo in Italy, a palatial home with millions
of dollars, and you decide not to list the home.
You call one person up and say, hey, would you
like this home, and just offer whatever you want. We'll
take whatever you send us. That's it. Here you go.

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It's like they went to that we buy uglyhomes dot
com or houses or whatever dot com and they reached
out to the some company like that. There's a bunch
of them out there that just they'll take your home
and maybe they give you a good deal, maybe they don't,
and that's what they got. They just all right, that's it.
You know. It's like going on eBay and just paying
the price and there's no bidding. You just like buying

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out price and that was it the buying out price.
You skip the hassles of having to do the prep
work for the house no showings. You took an all
cash offer, but it was really pennies on the dollar.
And again, if this is the way it went down
and you own the team, would you would say, Okay,

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we are done. We're done with Nico Harrison. I'm firing him.
If I am someone that cares about the Dallas Mavericks,
if I'm the owner, I fire Nico Harrison. But they
had the ownership had to sign off on this. So
now the other part of it. Night somebody text me
over the weekend they said, well, there's some scandal coming
down with Luca and you don't know about it yet,

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but they traded him and there's something's gonna come out
about Luca in the coming days. And well, what is that?
You know? Who knows? I wouldn't. I wouldn't put past
the world we live in today. But at this point
we don't know. It is scandal right around the corner.
So based on what we do know, Dallas did not
do their due diligence. The front office of the Mavericks.

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They didn't even send a group text to a bunch
of gms. They just went and had a cup of coffee.
Nico Harrison and the Lakers executive, well, I really the
assistant GM skinny jeans under lebron and they took an
all cash offer and that was it. And it's malfeasance.
It is malpractice, is what it is to trade this,

(16:02):
to make this trade. And it's also nepotism because the
rest of the story. See, Nico Harrison and Rob Polenka
are besties. They're besties, ah, and they go way back.
Laker GM and the Maverick GM have been buddies since
Harrison was Kobe Bryant's marketing manager. We understand at Nike

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and Rob Polenka was Kobe's agent, So Kobe Bryant is
responsible for this trade. Yeah, here is the GM Nico Harrison,
and listen to him. Lick the toes of Rob Polenka.
Take a listen. This is illegal in the Bible Belt.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I thought Rob and I were able to have, you know,
really intense conversations over the course of three or four
weeks that started out as a coffee that you know,
was more Hey, would you ever, I don't know, would
I let me think of it, you know, and then
it built upon.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
That, you know, out of context, doesn't it sound like
they're talking about a hookup like a booty call? Right?
Can we how about this? Let's try something. Let's play
this again and just say this is like they're there,
They're talking about on a dating show how they started
dating and how one thing led to another. And just
imagine Nico Harrison and Rob Polinka are in a relationship

(17:21):
and they're onlike the what the Huntingmooners is? What's the
what it was that show called? Is that what I'm
thinking of? Anyway?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Tell you listen, Rob and I were able to have,
you know, really intense conversations over the course of three
or four weeks. It started out as a coffee that,
you know, it was more, hey, would you ever.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Let me think of?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
You know? And then it built upon that.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh my god, that's perfect. That is like a day.
How'd your relationship start? How do you guys start hooking up? Like?
What you got? Man? Yes? Look, god, I want to
play it again. Play it again? All right, So again
for this little exercise, imagine, if you will, Nico Harrison
and Rob Polinker on some dating TV show and Nico

(18:06):
Nico Can you tell us how you and Rob started
and started your relationship back in the day? How did
it begin?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Let me now, plet me now, Rob and I were
able to have, you know, really intense conversations over the
course of three or four weeks. It started out as
a coffee that you know is more Hey, would you
ever I don't know? Would I let me think of?

Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know?

Speaker 2 (18:25):
And then it built upon that.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
One thing led to another, and that's so good. I
love it. It's so great. Nothing better than out of
context audio. It is the Ben Mallor Show. As we
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(18:49):
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Speaker 3 (19:13):
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Speaker 1 (19:22):
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Speaker 3 (19:37):
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Speaker 1 (19:38):
Ain't got no testosterone? Bill? You know we should play
we should play Do we have Nico Herrick? Can we
play that maverick GM there and play Bruno mars behind
the maverage? Yes here? How would that sound? Let's hit
that button.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Rob and I were able to have, you know, really
intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
It started out as a coffee that, you know, was
more Hey, would you ever?

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I let me think of you know, and then it
built upon that.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Why does it work so lot? Bruno perfect sets the
mood you know, Nico he needs to have the mood set.
Little candlelight right, the candlelight meal, come on? I got hey.
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I don't like that, but there is a clip. I

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posted a long clip. I don't normally do that because
the people over there at NBC don't necessarily like that,
but I posted a big clip of some outtakes from
the TV show that made this week's episode of Bennie
Versus the Penny. And oh, by the way, we did
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The NFC took down the AFC the handicapping next level,

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so check that out. That's on the Facebook page and
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and I understand. We do the TV show and I
sit there and we have to re record segments. A
lot of it's because of timing. It has to fit together,

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because you have to have a certain number of commercials
and if you go too long, it screws up the
whole clock. And so sometimes we have to redo a
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page and the Instagram page for the show. You can
check that out. And on Instagram it is Ben Mahler
on Fox the Facebook page Ben Mahler Show talking about
this big trade. Luca, my name is Luca and I'm
on the move took a private plane out to La
La Land and he is now going to join the
Lakers whenever he is actually able to play. Good luck

(22:35):
on that big rig. Rob says the GM dating game
take is an absolute gem. You never cease to amaze me.
Ben hands down. He says, that is the take of
the year so far, phenomenal job, take of the So
is it over now? I can I don't have to
do any more tanks because that was the take of
the year. And now we know why Luca was traded.

(22:57):
There was romance between Nico Harrison and Rob Polinka. Take
a listen again, this is romance here.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Rob and I were able to have, you know, really
intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
They started out as a coffee that, you know, was
more hey, would you ever? I don't know, you know,
and then it built upon that.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
Oh god, so perfect, that is so perfect. Thank you,
thank you for that. Nico Harrison, I appreciate that. Cowboy
Killer says the Dallas Lakers trade was so egregious that
NBA two K five would would not even let me
approve the trade in the game. It's okay. Instead of
being with the Clippers the future of LA he is

(23:39):
going to run a rundown, washed up franchise. It's hipped
the clips as the Cowboy Killer. Bozo, the District attorney says,
you know who's really happy about the Luca trade? Justin
Tucker yeah, he got bumped Tucker. Well apparently he got
bumped a lot. But Justin Tucker facing more allegations over
the weekend that this is always We mentioned this the

(24:03):
other day when we did the Tucker monologue. It's not
the initial wave, it's what happens after that. It's like
Deshaun Watson came out, denied everything, and then there was
a conga line of women wrapped around the buildings. So, oh,
you do this to me too. Well, here's another one.
Here's another massage therapist has come forward sharing allegations that

(24:24):
Justin Tucker was inappropriate during a massage, and she gave
us salacious details. This is a different report in the
Baltimore Sun, which is a different publication, joining several other
women who told a different outfit the Baltimore Banner. Whatever
that is about this, and so there you go. Is

(24:48):
that seven women? Now, let me do this. See not one,
not two, not three, not four. I think we're at six.
I think we're at six. Is it seven? I think
we're at six. My Matt Malamass says six. So yeah, impressive.
Do they all have the same attorney or there's no lawsuits?
I don't think there's any lawsuits. They're just saying he

(25:09):
was creepy. They're saying, is it illegal to be creepy?
Just like it's not illegal to be a freak. We
really got to have some hard evidence here, man, you
think all right evidence a woman's perspective. Women, you think
you're a massage therapist, you kind of expect guys to
be a little creepy. I expect it. I would definitely

(25:29):
expect it. Yeah, it wouldn't wouldn't it be a little
odd if they weren't creepy. You don't even have to
be a massage therapist to expect that type of reac
Are you saying men are just creepy? Is that what
you're saying? Okay, get a little horned up. You know,
things happen. What are you gonna do? All right, let's
go to the phones. Let's go to Ryan in San Diego. Hello, Ryan, welcome.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
I can't even say his dand last name. And you're
blind Date. I think you're talking about blind Date or
we'll stating TV.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh you are all right, So, Nico Harrison, you're on
Blind Date. This old TV show is not anymore. Nico
tell us how the relationship started.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Nico, Rob and I were able to have, you know,
really intense conversations over the course of three or four weeks.
It started out as a coffee that, you know, it
was more, Hey, would you ever I don't know, I mean,
you know, and then it built upon.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
That you'll have kids? Probably not. I don't think that's
the math on that. I don't think it's possible.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Hey, but nepotism exists. I mean, it's an existing for
years in the NBA. Who who was on tellum or
Jerry West best friend allegedly on Tell Them Aren't.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Tell It's everywhere. It's all over sports, not just the NBA.
It's everywhere.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
I mean Bob, Bob Myers worked for ARN, Jerry goes
to Golden State, Bob Myers comes in. I mean yeah,
Actually going on forever and real quick. On your theory
of Dallas possibly moving.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
To Vegas, could you ever imagine an NFL team creating
probably one of the five best running backs ever in
the NFL, and Dan you hire a has been coached
who has once foot in the grave, and then you
moved to the team of Damn Saint Louis.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Oh, I can't think. Yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
I lived that. Actually, yeah, I live that back and
yeah we lived that. Yeah. I was a big RAM
fan growing up. That sucked.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Man, I don't want you know what. I don't watch
football when they left. I mean it hurts.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well as far as the people say, well, it's just
you know, just making stuff, I mean, not making it up.
I mean people have talked. It's I'm not the one
that made it up first of all. Other people, I
guess made it up. But the other thing is, like
people said, well, Dallas is a much bigger market than
Las Vegas. That's true. Well, the Bay area where the
Raiders and the A's played and the Wars, I mean,
the Warriors stayed there, they just moved across the Bay Bridge.

(27:53):
But the the A's are moving to Vegas, and the
Raiders moved to Vegas, and that's a smaller market.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
So doesn't and her and I didn't even know who
she was until today, And I guess she was very
too casino logo. I told Coop Coop, I didn't even
know Mark Cuban was not fully in charge.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
And then and since twenty.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Twenty three, then I think, hey, there was a lot
of shenanigans going on there with the med too movement.
I wonder if the NBA kind of came in didn't
force him to give up the team completely, but well
he did, but still well he.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Still owns part of that. Man. The thing is with
that is I think Cuban was betting that the value
would go down. The value hasn't gone down. The value
has gone up.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
There has a lot of crap, and I think they
maybe wanted to get him off the TV, away from
the sideline because of all the company.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
He's still there. Though he's still that's so many people
didn't even know that he sold He sold out Cuban.
They thought he was still the guy. People were giving
him death threats online idiots spots or whatever, and just.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
What I'm gonna tell you. And I haven't watched the
NDIA per year, but when I did watch the NBA,
I saw Luca several And remember I coached Borisky at
the high I mean, man, I take basketball home every
day and eat you for twelve months and I'm not
making what they made. But you look, I saw Luca
wave off Jim Carrey, Rick Carlisle several times a couple

(29:20):
of years ago on a play. I know you're saying
it's all over the NBA.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
But I'm telling you it is. Ahh wait, no, that
is it. But Ryan, if you're a coach and you
are willing to, you know, pull your hair out because
a star player doesn't listen, You're not gonna have any
hair left. You'll be done. That's it's over. And they
don't think a lot of these guys do not listen.
They're not coachable.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
But why was it so quick that that's the only thing?
Why was it so quick? They didn't He's just gonna
look at it. They wanted this ship, his ask pray
out of town.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
But and then the centementa Lakers and what do you
do you could have you could have done so much
bet better than that.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, and then Jason Kidd was insistent for a d Yeah,
I mean they maybe three three away. I gotta be
careful I say that with Jimmy Butler. I'm telling you, Jim.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Or you called me Jim, How dare you Jim?

Speaker 4 (30:14):
I'm gonna have to hear this sound ba.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
No, I mean, just hey, you gotta keep an open
mind on this. That that's all I'm saying. I seriously
think there were some issues between Jason Kidd and Luca
and now we're going to get a seat.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Well, what tm is going to have the school?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
We're going to see TMZ catching Luca and and Blotdy
having to smoke out off for Dale drive Lucas smoke
more cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
All right, yeah, take care of it. All right, thank you,
there you go. I don't burst your bubble. Ryan. If
you saw the body language of Jason Kidd, it did
not appear that he was on board with this trade.
They had a news conference. The SoundBite we got from
Nico Harrison, but uh, the expression Jason Kitty looked absolutely

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thunderstruck as he was He was sitting there like this
is you gotta be joking. He was completely baffled by
what he was hearing from Nico Harrison as he was
explaining the trade, like he had no idea.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
See what's gonna happen. Lebron's got a couple more years
in the NBA. That's enough time for him to teach
Luca his whole training regimen and and like body preservation methods.
And we're gonna see Luca unlock the next step of
his game. And it's gonna be He's gonna be the

(31:40):
when it's all said and done, He's gonna be the goat.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Either that or he'll be holding up that giant donut
over at Randy's Donuts in Englewood. That'll be be holding
it above his head eating it. Yeah, well, I like
the joke. So this does you know? He's he's a
double double guy in and out, you know, animal style,
you know, got that going for him. So my god,
what a what a move. But that Nico Harrison. Do

(32:07):
we not all agree he's a low level batman villain?
That Nico Harrison in Dallas, Like, he's got to be
one of the great sports villains in Dallas. I'm not
a historian of the Dallas sports scene, but I gotta
believe that Nico Harrison is at the very top of
the villain list in Dallas sports.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Have you seen some of the videos of the reactions
of Dallas fans.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's it's it's next level people.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
That brought the coffin to the.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
All right, yeah, all right, anyway, it is the Ben
Mallards show we are going to have. We are going
to have coming up. We're gonna have mallardly third degree
do some quick editing for next hour, Well, mallardly third degree.
Here's the Insta triviaw here's the Insta trivia. Blank has
the most consecutive appearances in the Super Bowl with five straight.

(33:00):
Now we mentioned the only player in the history of
the NFL with three straight Super Bowl rings is Ken
Norton Junior back in the nineties with the Cowboys and
the forty nine Ers. He won one with the Niners,
two with the Cowboys. With three in a row. But
Blank has the most consecutive appearances in the Super Bowl
with five straight. That is the Insta trivia. The answer.

(33:24):
We'll get to it and we will do it next.

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Now for the instad trivia, And here's the instant trivia.
Blank has the most consecutive appearances all time in the
Super Bowl with five. One player played in five consecutive

(34:43):
Super Bowls. That is the question. What is the answer?
Alf the alien? Opiner says the take Burglar is the
the answer. Fer Dog says Halo Honk Roger Lodge is
the way to go. Who else we have? John Madden
and Pat Summer all from Donkey Sausage, Bill Romanowski Guess

(35:04):
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(35:27):
from Brooklyn Core Punk Ass, Phil the Groundhog Punk Satani
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Who else? Ryan says? The answer is Jim Maller my
bad Kermit the Frog Guess by Mark in Santa Monica.
Johnny Ques going with Ricky Waters is his answer. V

(35:48):
Smack got it right. He's a cheater. Bad job by you.
Who else do you have? Page Dan can't read that?
Nature Boy said, would it be the be creepy to
Lorena if Justin liked to end his sessions with a spanking?
Says Nature Boy? Okay, who else do you I have?
Page down? I can't read that. There's Eugene in Chicago

(36:08):
wants to know about the Grammys. No comment on that?
All right, Larina, do you have an answer? Here's the
insta trivia. Blank has the most consecutive appearances in the
Super Bowl with five.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
Well, it's obviously has to be Kellogg's Kellogg.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh you get it is a theme is a cereal? Yeah?
Looking down milk? All right, it's incorrect. You correct answer
is Gail Gilbert, who went four times with the Bills
and then was on the old San Diego Chargers when
they got pollaxed by the forty nine ers. Here week

(36:44):
a maller. How about that?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
To the third degree, This is one big gets graill.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
That was my first year in San Diego radio. The
Chargers played the forty nine Ers in the Super Bowl
and lost by a gazillion points. All right, Cooper, look
what do we have here? Cooper.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
In a recent interview, Bill's GM Brandon Bean said he
does not regret the trade for a Marii Cooper Flyer.
He then revealed that Cooper's wrist injury was more serious
than anyone outside the buildings. Double liar, and he also
noted that the team averaged seven more points in games
Cooper played than in games that he didn't.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Those things aren't related, triple liar. Ben, do you think
Cooper stays with Buffalo? No, because who wants to stay
in Buffalo? Come on, let's be honest. Here, Andy the
comic book guy, he left Buffalo Flexus is there he
tried Felexis, try to leave to go to Lexington, Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Know.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I think ultimately Amari Cooper goes somewhere else. He's at
that weird crossroads in his career where he's near the
end of his prime and make up excuses for him
being hurt. But he's a twenty million dollar receiver. He
didn't play like a twenty million dollar receiver. I think
he's gone next.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Kevin Garnett took a profane shot at Jimmy Butler over
the weekend, saying, this is how non guarantees are going
to come into our league. Ride here for s like this.
We efing fought our asses off through five or six
damn lockouts where we protect the integrity of the talent.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Ben.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
Do you think this Butler situation could have ramifications for
the rest.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Of the league? I actually do, because the NBA owners
are gonna look at this and say, well, why are
we giving out Why does everyone get a guaranteed contract,
Because then a guy like Jimmy Butler can just be
a And I like Jimmy Butler, but he's been a
complete a hole from what I've read, So I think
this is absolutely something that will be brought up by
a certain click of owners who are annoyed that they

(38:27):
have to give out only guaranteed. They're jealous of the
in the NFL because most NFL countries are not guaranteed.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
Next Over the weekend, Many Machado expressed disappointment that the
Padres haven't made any moves this offseason. Now, Ben, the
Padres won ninety three games last year. Do you think
they can replicate that success or are they going to
take a step back?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Well, no chance. They will win fewer games. Although the
nationally West, the Giants blow and the Rockies are bad.
Arizona is decent, but it's the Padres. They're still unloading
players like the team is in a holding pattern right
now because the owner died a couple of years ago,
and the family, the widow and the brothers of the

(39:05):
guy are sewing for control of the team. It's a
hot mess, all right. So the Potters are going to
unload a couple of pictures, which my spidy like senses
tell me is not good for the Potters winning more
than ninety three games. I'll take the under. How did
we do you pass?

Speaker 6 (39:21):
That?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Wins passed her dog and alp I passed I put