April 30, 2025 • 48 mins
Big Ben talks about the Clippers getting blown out by the Denver Nuggets as Denver takes a 3-2 lead in the series, the Bucks blowing a 7-point lead in the last 40 seconds of the game to get eliminated by the Pacers, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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and the lead this hour. We will start out in
the Mile High City NBA Basketball Pro bouncy Ball, as
we occasionally call it, continue the never ending journey in
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the NBA to get to the finals. I think I'll
start about seven months from now, something like that. Every
night there's a couple of games and you watch. There
were a bunch of games tonight, so many games that
some games were demoted to the Dunce cap of the
NBA World NBA TV, but the games that were not.
The Clippers and the Nuggets was one of those games.
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Series locked up to two, a best of seven series.
I don't know if you saw saw this game?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Game just ended not that long ago before we cracked
the mics here. Perhaps you missed it augh. Some would
argue the game actually ended way before we cracked the mikes.
Some would say the game ended by about the middle
of the first quarter. As Jamal Murray you got beat
by Jamal Murray, Jamal Murray looking like a cross between
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Alex English and Fat Lever, and all the.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Human go on trying to think of old Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But Jamal Murray forty three points and the Nuggets led
by as many as twenty two points. They never trailed
in Molly whopping. The Clippers won thirty one to one,
fifteen to the final, and so Denver is now up
three games to two. Hope they don't choke. That would
be terrible to lose the last two games. Game six
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will be back at the end to a dome in
the hood in Inglewood. That'll be coming up here in
a couple of days. So let us discuss. The better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will begin. And it was a dreadful performance,
if you want to call it, performance by the team
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that lost to the Clippers on this night all the
way around. But who gets to wear the loss the
scarlet letter l for the Clippers. I've got fantastic Sam's
foggy andolbox and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a viral post.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Is what we're going to make.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Not that I really want that, but we're just gonna
make that. So a before I get into the minutia
of the game. He saw the game. I think, you
know kind of how this is going to go. I
don't think this is going to be surprised you. I'm
not gonna throw a curveball at you. That's not going
to happen. So before we address the Komodo dragon in
the room, congratulations to Jamal Murray, who was moving and
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grooving throughout the game. Kind of looked like me when
I'm out in the playground moneyball Malleord knocking down those shots.
There was NBA jam style. He was on fire for
the Nuggets. Now, Murray's a second level players, a second
rate player, has never been an All Star. He's not
that good, but on this night he was so congratulations
he had an out of body experience for the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
And the big argument in Denver.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
For those who watched the Nuggets over the years, well,
Nikole Yokis has no one around him, and people say
that they're really talking about Jamal Murray. Now, Murray's made
some big shots randomly in the playoffs, but that performance
right there was a again, out of body experience. Now
to get down into the nitty gritty here of the
outcome of the game, the Clippers, it was I say
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that the person that needs to wear the scarlet letter
the L for loser, that would be I'll use the
term fantastic SAMs here known for haircuts over the years.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Fear the beard. Fear the beard.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now in the setup to the plus, we had talked
about this in a previous episode of the show, that
this is a legitimate possibility, this is going to happen
at some point, this kind of a performance. And sure enough,
there it was playoff Harden. He's done this with every
team he's played on who's actually been halfway decent, mostly
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the Rockets.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But playoff Harden was there. It arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The antithesis of playoff Jimmy Jimmy Butler, who rises to
the occasion and almost never ever gives a half ass
effort in a playoff game.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Right, That's what Golden State got.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The Clippers have James Harden, who sucked at a time
you cannot suck, which is from the beginning to the
end of the game. All the way through he was
stumbling and bumbling on the court. It was embarrassing. And
not surprising. Embarrassing is the word I was. You can't
be surprised Harden's done. This is entire career. It's why
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despite having a Hall of Fame resume and he'll be
a Hall of Famer, everyone gets in Muffet McGraw's in
the Hall of Fame that James Harden's got this kryptonite
and he's like, is he gonna really change? Well, no,
he's not gonna change. So Harden finished three of nine.
That's thirty three point three percent half the sign of
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the Devil, eleven points four turnovers in an effort. That
is a capitol you useless performance by James Harden, supposedly
one of the headliners. Now Denver took advantage of some opportunities.
The Clippers allowed Russell Westbrook to shoot wide open shots,
which I'm fine with. If you lose to Russell Westbrook,
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that's fine. He sucks. So if he happens to make
some shots and you lose, you're fine with that. You
want him to make as many shots, you want him
to take as many shots, because the guy's garbage and
he's a stat stuffing loser. Russell Westbrook, so fine. The
Jamal Murray thing that at some point you might have
wanted to adjust a little bit. Denver shots seventeen of
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thirty three from three point range, fifty one percent on
moneyballs for the Nuggets. Now, is this series over? Is
that all she wrote is that it now? Well, a
lot of low information fans will say it's over. Course,
we know better than that. It's not a best of five.
I would agree with you if it's the best of five,
it's over. But I double checked, and it's not a
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best of five.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh j. It's a best of seven, so that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Means no one's decided anything in this particular series. It's
a best of seven. And this thing will be going
to a seventh game. Book it, book it, book it,
book it. And the encouraging news for the Clippers this
good loss. Let me tell you why it's a good loss.
You got playoff Harden out of your system. We did
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the math on this. James Harden. Ten percent of his
playoff games has been a dumpster like he was in
that game. The other ninety percent he's usually fine. So
you got that out, so you're good for nine more
playoff games where James Harden will be okay.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
If you play the odds. You do the math. Ninety
percent of the time, he's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Ten percent of the time he goes out there and
urinates down his leg like he did in Denver.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So, okay, you got that out of your system. That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Keep inind the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win this game.
Otherwise Adam Silver, the spineless alien Commissioner of the NBA,
would have done the proper thing and suspended Michael Porter
Junior for clearly violating NBA Code of Conduct rules by
leaving the bench in a skirmish back in Game four.
It's caught on video. It's black and white. He did it,
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and the NBA looked the other way. They did not
follow their own guidelines. Now, I didn't come up with
those rules. The NBA came up with those rules because
of the malice at the palace and a clear violation.
And since the NBA chose to look the other way
and Porter played a great game for Denver, congratulations. That
verifies that the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win that game,
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but they wanted Game seven. Game seven is a great
theater on television. Stre will be a Game seven this weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now, moving on.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
From that, we head to midtown Manhattan, right there above
Penn Station, in the the middle of the concrete jungle,
where the Pistons seemingly wasting money traveling to play the
next Everyone, Oh, it's over. The Knicks are going to
win this game. There's no chance the Pistons are going
to win another game in this series. Forget about it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Then they had to play the game. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Kate Cunningham did not shoot the ball all that well,
but he had twenty four points, eight rebounds, eight assists
and a partridge to the pear tree for the Detroit
basketball team. Detroit Basketball, the Pistons, staying alive, staying alive.
The Pistons get it done their first postseason appearances twenty nineteen,
and now they've won a second playoff game, and they
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did it in clutch time on the road, one oh
six to one oh three the final. So Detroit will
have a chance to even things up now on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday,
Thursday Night, Game six at home back in Michigan. They
win that, and there will be a Game seven. If
Detroit wins that, Game seven will be back at Madison
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Square Garden to Mecca on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
So that'll give us something to watch on Saturday. Game seven.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There we have a game seven Clippers and Nuggets will
be a game seven Pistons and the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Game seven.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, let's get down to the big part of this game.
Jalen Brunson is getting roasted. He's getting peppered with criticism
the Knickerbocker guard for his lousy play in this game.
Is that fair or foul? That Brunson, who has been
the heart and soul of the Knickerbockers, is getting just
shredded for his play. So it is a fair bare
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It is absolutely fair. I don't know how anyone could
say it's not fair. I mean, you gonna be like
the biggest fanboy loser.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh, it's not fair.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He played a terrible game and people sent me things
about him. Oh my god, all shut up. My word
for Jalen Brunson is foggy.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
That is my word. Foggy.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Brunson is the headliner of an off Broadway show right
there in New York. And he had on this night
two left feet. He could not dance, and he forgot
his script, he forgot his words. He had brain fog.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
He was foggy. Uh was what it was. And Jalen Brunson,
who picked up some dopey award.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We talked about this the other day on the show,
that they came up with these fugazi awards. They have
the the Clutch Player Award, which they just you know,
to appease the nerds. They have all the stats. They
gave Jalen Brunson the clutch stat or clutch Player of
the Year award, So we got that before the game.
Of course, then in a game where you needed clutch play,
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who goofed.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I've got to know that would be Jalen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Brunson, who shot one of four from the floor in
the final twelve minutes of the game, and overall he
shot twenty five percent the entire game. Bruntson sixteen points
four turnovers for the New York Knickerbockers in this game
and last I checked. Criticism is part of the equation.
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Criticism comes with the territory as the face of the Knicks.
As the face of the Nicks, you have to be
prepared to face, I don't know, negative comments. Possibly now
New York has left the door open. It is wide open.
Right now, it is wide open. They're futzing around and
they're setting themselves up for a wacky Tobacci ending they're
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gonna need wacky Tobacci by the time this series is over.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
The way things are going here, the Knicks miss.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten,
eleven foul shots. Now, the foul shot is one of
those things that universally, any man, woman and child could
conceivably make. You know, there's a lot of things in sports
that like people in sports, like the brag, Oh, you
can't hit a fastball, you can't play in the NFL,
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you couldn't do. Any man, woman or child can make
a foul shot in the NBA. There's no one stopping you.
You are You're there. It's you, the ball and the net.
There's no no one gonna block it. It's the easiest thing.
And yet they missed eleven foul shots. Bunnies, they dropped
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the bunnies. Don't drop the bunnies, all right, now, last word,
quick late, we head that to Boston where it's all
over for Orlando. Jason Tatum thirty five points, ten assist,
eight rebounds, and Celtics did something that many did not
think they could do.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
They abandoned the.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Three point arsenal in the early part of this game,
and they still beat Orlando by thirty one points and
nanaana na, good bye, see you later.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
They're done the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So did the Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from what
turns out to be a gentleman's sweep? As the Boston
Celtics advance, now they will play on the raigning champs
will play either the Knicks or the Pistons in the
next round.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So did the.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from this gentleman sweep?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna nod my head yes on this.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And the reason I'm not in my head yes is
they added another element.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
To the toolbox.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Good handy man, you gotta have a lot of tools,
so they added another. The Celtics have been a one
trick operation. They're one trick band here, the Celtics. But
on this night, they've been so dependent on the three
point shot. It's the it's the crutch of the Celtics, right,
That's what they fall on, is the three point shot.
And they showed against a lesser team to a point
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They're okay, right, they can leave their comfort zone. The Celtics,
who set all kinds of NBA records for most three
point shots during the regular season.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It was the personification of Popper shot most three points
baskets made. I can go through all the records if
you want, but that's boring. Who wants to hear that.
I don't want to hear that. I don't think you
want to hear that. They made none in the first half.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
None.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Now, it is interesting to note that even though they
made none and they won the game by thirty one points,
the game did not turn lopsided until they started to
make shots. They were actually trailing at halftime. Orlando led
by two at halftime, believe it or not, and then
Boston went night rider and they cranked on the turbo boost.
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They hit that turbo boost button on the dashboard, and
they outscored the Magic. The Celtics did seventy three to forty.
That is a one two three can kun for the
Orlando Magic, so thirty three point advantage for the Celtics
in the second half. The Sea shot sixty percent from
the floor in the second half, and seventy two percent
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if my math is correct, from three point range after halftime,
so they had no three point shots in the first half.
They made thirteen of eighteen in the second half, many
of them wide open. But more importantly, unless I missed it,
no major snap, crackle pop injuries. Jason Tatum, who did
miss some time in this series with a bruise, played
thirty five minutes or so in this game, and so
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all the key figures, all the key actors are going
to be there when the play continues in round number two.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
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bouncyball talk. The teams that won we talked to last
hour in a previous edition. Here the hour of the show,
we talked to the Denver Nuggets, who took advantage of
playoff Harden and got an easy win. So Denver up
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three to two in that series. H back to Southern California.
It'll be a game seven in that series. The Pistons
staved off elimination. They beat the Knicks, and so that
series will go back to Motown Detroit a chance to
continue on in the Boston Celtics without making a three
point shot for the first half of that game, still
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won by thirty. They made a bunch in the second
half over Orlando. But now we need to turn our
focus to a game that I did not anticipate. When
I got up and prepared for the shot, I was like, AHM,
not gonna talk much about this game. But surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
That's why they play their games. So we go to Indianapolis,
just a random.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Game five, game five.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
In the city there and in the Hoosier State, big city,
big capital there state. So the Bucks and Pacers and
they were locking horns and opportunity here for Milwaukee to
continue even though Dame Time ain't walking through that door,
Dame leathered snap crackle poppies out, the Bucks could win,
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show some fight, force a game six and put the
pressure on the Indiana Pacers who were looking to win
at home and advance. So if you were not watching
this particular game, and it was hard to find, it
was on the state run PROP the news service of
the NBA, the NBA's own television channel. But this game
turned out to be a humdinger. Now, it wasn't a
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humdinger for most of the game. It turned out to
be a humdinger because of the finish. Well, let's set
you up on this tyrese Halla Burton with twenty six points.
He had nineusis, which is not that crazy, but twenty
six points. The Pacers rally all the way back. They
were down twenty points. They forced the overtime. So then
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you get to overtime and and what happened? Well, how
did that go? Let's see here. So they go to
overtime and Milwaukee is up by seven with forty seconds
to go in the game. You are a seven point
there's a three possession lead in the last forty seconds.
You know how difficult it is to not win that game.
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But I think you assume, I assume you know by
now that sure enough, Yes, the Milwaukee Bucks did the
thing you can't do at the time, you can't do it,
and it was a Haliburton layup in the final seconds
that did end the Milwaukee Bucks one eight to one
oh seven the final as they punched their ticket. They
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being the Pacers into the second round of the playoffs,
and they'll be dismissed. They'll be well, yeah, they advanced,
but Damian Lillard got hurt. Indiana has dominated the Milwaukee
Bucks now for consecutive seasons. Indiana will play Spider Mitchell
and the number one that would be the Cleveland Cadavers,
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and well, I guess they're good So they're the Caves
and they're bad. They're the cadavers, but the Cleveland Cavaliers
and Pacers. So we are gare wrong teed of having
one of those two teams in the final four of
the NBA. But the better story here is clearly in
the losing locker room, as is pack up the bags
and go home time.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No no naana, no no nada, Hey, go bye. The
Bucks are out. The Bucks are out, epic meltdown by.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Milwaukee, a loss for the Ages for the Milwaukee Bucks.
So let us discuss the question who gets the blame
cheese for the Bucks? Who gets the blame cheese for
the Bucks blowing a seven point lead in the final
forty seconds seven point lead vanished in the final forty seconds.
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So I've got stones, peer pressure, and atomic and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to make some soul food. Because somewhere right now, at
a fine restaurant the greater Milwaukee area, our friend Artes
in Milwaukee is drowning his sorrows in meat loaf and
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other delicious foods that he cooks all night as he
listens to our show. So anyway, numb burn can I
get a numb burn?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
If you're looking for a singular player to answer the question,
who gets the blame cheese for the Bucks blowing a
seven point lead? So a player, it's easy. Gary Trent Junior,
who also hit like four to three point shots. I
think it was in the overtime, but it doesn't matter.
All that matters is what you did in the final
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forty seconds. So despite having a statistic with good performance
at the end, this portal opened up, a trapdoor opened up,
and Gary Trent Junior fell into the to the trap door,
and he was eaten by a pit of vipers right there,
right there in the And he gets the charcuterie board,
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and it's a cheese charcuterie board, and there's only Limburger cheese,
and there's some rotting crow, which apparently tastes okay according
to the Internet.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I don't believe that. I believe that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So Gary Tranjunior, how bad was he in the final
forty seconds? He is the player of the game for
the Indiana Pacers because in the final forty seconds, Gary
Tran Jr. He took the only shot the Bucks took
in the final forty seconds, he missed it. He also
turned the ball over twice in forty seconds, so two
turnovers and a misshot, and that set things up for
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Tyrese Haliburton to be the hero there. And also Andrew
Nemhard who who hit a three point shot from like
forty feet away or some ridiculous thing like that. Regardless. Now,
so if the player is Gary Trent Junior, but if
you want to look at the wide angle lens, consider
this particular game a time capsule for the career of doctors.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Just a moment in time, random moment.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No one's gonna remember this, it's the first round of
the NBA playoffs, but.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The real ones, the real ones.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Know this is a time capsule moment that forty seconds
of complete chaos and dropping your.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Paints for the whole world to see.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That sums up the coaching career of Doc Rivers, one
of the great frauds of our time. The fact that
this guy's coached as many teams as he's coached is
a testimonial to the incompetence of the ownership class in
the NBA and how just being a smooth talker you'll
get a lot of opportunities in life. But the names
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of the players change, right, the teams he's coaching have
changed over the years. For Doc Rivers, the results are
the same. Doc Rivers is an animated cartoon character from
The Flintstones Schlepprock.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Doc Rivers. I don't know if you know that cartoon
Character's an old cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But Doc Rivers has either exceptionally bad luck or he
is the bad luck. His mere presence causes top flight
professional ballplayers to do really dumb things, really bad things on.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The court in pressure situations.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And with all of these NBA teams that Doc Rivers coach,
though Orlando, the Clippers, the Celtics, the seventy six Ers,
the Milwaukee Bucks, all of these teams, he is the
common denominator. Doc Rivers is the common denominator. If you
think it like a bon Jovi tune, Dead or alive,
It's all the same, only the names change around Doc Rivers.
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Other than that, it's all the same, all of it,
all of it is the same.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Do we have any Doc Rivers by the way, No,
no Doc Rivers. We have any Doc here.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I always love Doc giving excuses when his team loses,
because Doc Rivers is a master of this He's.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Done it more than anyone.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All Right, I guess, all right, all right, all right,
here's a random Doc Rivers SoundBite on a Yannis miss.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I just want to hear Doc's bull crap. Let's hear it.
We're looking for them.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
If he had an eye, so great. But we anticipated
a trap and I thought we had the proper space.
And you know, we give Giannis his choice. You know,
I thought he may have had aj green, if my
memory serves me right. We told him that the next
pass would be open, but it felt good about it out.
I'm kind of live with Yannis making a decision on that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Okay, Well, is Doc going back to TV? Are we gonna?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is he gonna be on there? We say, gonna have
to watch Doris Burke on TV? Or is they gonna
ge rid of her and put Doc on there? I
don't know anyway? All right, So page two, What are
the odds? What are the odds that Giannis Adenta Combo
played his final game in a Milwaukee Bucks uniform on
this random Tuesday night in late April?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
What are the odds?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So I'm setting the Mallor line, which is the most
important line in overnight talk radio on Fox. The Mallar line.
The Mallar line on this that the Greek Freak will
be traded at minus one ninety. That implies a sixty
five percent chance that packed your bags and with the
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last one left in the Bucks locker room, turn out
the lights because it's all over.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
So sixty five percent chance.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now here's why You've got Dame Lillard, who's not walking
back through that door. If he is, he's limping a
Killes injury. He's out all of next season, so he's gone.
You're gonna whack Doc Rivers. You can't bring Doc Rivers
back because he's terrible, and Doc wouldn't want to come
back because he's a carpetbagger and he knows the Bucks
(29:11):
have no chance of winning. So Doc's not going to
come back. You'll kick him out of the state of Wisconsin.
The bigger issue, though, for Milwaukee is this Giannis Identikombo
is going to face immense pure pressure in that world,
in that universe of the NBA, it's a transient business.
(29:35):
The expectation is if you're a certain level star, you
have to manipulate your way to one of five teams.
Like that's just how it works, right, and the people
who are living off Giannis. There are a bunch of
people who have no talent. They are writing his coat
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tails and they're just hangers on. Those are the people
that'll be like, Hey, we got to get that one
more big Madison Avenue run of endorsements, and we can't
do that in Milwaukee. But if Yannis goes to fill
in the blank the usual suspects, right La Miami, New York,
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Golden State, somewhere along those lines, you're set up. But
if you do the math on this, Giannis is thirty.
He's gonna be thirty one next season. Now, thirty one
in life is not old, but in sports, you're athletic prime.
You're in the final stages of your athletic prime. So
unless you find the bag of goodies like others, I'm
not gonna name any names here have found, I.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Don't know what you know. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So you're at the end of your athletic prime and
you've got maybe a couple more real dominant seasons left
before the decline really kicks in.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
If you're Giannis a dem.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Pacombo and you want the endorsements you've already got. I
believe two years left on the contract, then you can
get out. So this would be the time. This would
be the time, and expect this to be NonStop conversation
on the usual, the usual, the sources of NBA smut
that will throw this out. Now, final point, let's go
(31:12):
back to the end. We have some great contrived Shakespearean
drama at the end of Indiana's Went over Milwaukee. This
will be a story that gets a lot of attention
over the next twenty four hours or so.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
The way these stories work.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Because it involves family, it involves a star player, it
involves doing things you're not supposed to do, all of
those elements. So postgame there was a story. Everyone's gonna
be talking about this giannisidenta koombo moments after the game
ed Tyreek Halliburt, Tyreese Aliburton game winning shot, Bucks went.
You know, Bucks lose, Pacers win, crowd goes wild. Halliburton
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stands on the scorer's table like they've just won the championship.
I don't know if he realizes the first round he celebrated.
He looked like Patrick Beverly when Minnesota won the play
in thing. Remember Beverly got up there and he the
crowd went well, so Halliburton stood up like they had
just won a championship. I don't think you get a
trophy for winning the first round of the playoffs. But
(32:06):
while that was going on, let me, I'm gonna I'm
gonna walk you through this. So Yiannis a Denta Kombo
was confronted by a random person while on the court
wearing a jersey. That person was the father of Tyres Halliburton.
Say what, yes, they got into The guy's name is
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John John Halliburton.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I assume that's his last name.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Halliburton and Yannis Adenta Coombo started screaming. Well, it was
mostly the dad screaming at Giannis, but they did exchange
heated words on the court. On the It's the funniest
thing because you've got the kid who's off to the
side and he's standing on the scorer's table. He won
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the game, and his dad, his old man is Pops
is over here in the face of Yannis add the
Kouba wild. Here is by the way, here's Giannis add
the cupbo his side of the story. Here is his
commentary on being confronted by the other team's top players.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Parade Parade, I believe like being humbled in victory. That's
how way I am. Now, there can be a lot
of people out there that are like, no, when you
when you win the game, it's a green light for
you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I've
won the championship. They have it okay, and that doesn't
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even say anything. I'm not trying to minimize their effort,
but losing the game emotions right run high. Having a fan,
which at the moment I thought it was fun, but
then I realized it was Titis's son, which I love
Titis I think is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry,
coming in the floor and showing me his son at.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Towel with his face.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
This is what we do, This is what we een
do this. If we do this, I feel like that's very,
very disrespectful.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is this scripted? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Are they coming up with these storylines? Is they got
the old the old writers from professional wrestling? I'm convinced,
so all right, I mean, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
This is like so stupid. What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The father of the Star of the Indiana Pacers got
on the court and shoved it in the face of
Yannis while the kid is going crazy.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
With the crowd.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now, remember Janis, was it a year ago or I
guess it was a couple of years ago. He said,
there's no failure in sports. There's good days, bad days.
So he said, some days you're able to be successful,
some days you're not able to be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Blah blah blah blah blah. But that is that is great.
So how did you score? How did you score?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
The confrontation between Tyrese Haliburton, his father and Giannis adent
to Kumbo, the Greek freak.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Let's go to the judges scorecard.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
As the great Jackie Slater said back in his day
in the NFL, what in the world?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Seriously, what in the world? So I wrote down on
my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I wrote down A, a capital A for atomic as
in atomic Wedgie, which is what you should give to
Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
You are not helping. The dad is not helping. This
is not a.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Good thing for Haliburton. It seems like a pretty good ballplayer. Like, seriously,
your kid was just voted the most overrated player in
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
People perceive him to be a mister softy.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, they think the kid is soft and you are
running out to fight his battle on the court.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Big win old man out there in.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
A jersey confronting the two time MVP jiannasident to Koombo,
thus confirming everything that has been said about the kid,
Like seriously, all right?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I can go on and on, but.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
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Speaker 5 (36:24):
Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Hurry up, this is who gets grilled, all right.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
It was reported on Monday that the Cowboys could be
interested in a reunion with wide receiver and Marie Cooper.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Cooper's been pretty consistent performer throughout his career up until
last season. Do you think that was just an off
year for Cooper or was at the beginning of the end?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
No, it's perfect because he's already played in Dallas and
Mary Cooper is a falling star, which is just what
Jerry Jones loves.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's not gonna turn the move the needle for the
Cowboys if you go back next.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Speaking of reunions, there was an article in The Atlantic
yesterday talking about the Vikings potentially making a trade for
Kirk Cousins. Ben, could you see Minnesota bringing Cousins in
as an insurance just in case JJ McCarthy doesn't work out?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Uh No, They already made a trade at the draft
for Sam Howe, who also sucks. So this limited how
many quarterbacks you can get that sucked. But it is
going to be interesting to keep an on Kirk Cousins
because he's not gonna stand in Atlanta. Someone's gonna get
hurt and then he'll go to whoever whatever team loses
their starting quarterback. But I just don't think that it's
just not that's not the team. The Vikings are not
(37:33):
the team next well.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Ben, you already talked about it, but with being confirmed
that Damian Lillard is torn his achilles, it's likely that
Lillard will miss a big chunk of next season as well.
Do you think this offseason is a time for Giannis
to jump ship again?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Malarrods coop minus one ninety sixty five percent chance that
Jannis is Gonzo and then he can give us more
funny sound by t elsewhere there it.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Is Mallard a third degree? How did we go he passes.
That is a win.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Yeah, checking down?
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Pro dinner? Pro Dinner.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
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Speaker 7 (38:18):
It's O it does with lir Rain at nine, Clean
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Speaker 4 (38:30):
Dear ry.
Speaker 10 (38:33):
You heard the man. It's time for love here on
the Ben Mallors Show. One of my favorite times of
the week.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
What's your other favorite time of the week is ah?
Speaker 10 (38:49):
I would say when I beat people on being smarter
than everyone else, But it.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Doesn't happen that often.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I'm just saying, just pointing that out to me. I'm
not who do you think you are?
Speaker 10 (39:02):
Bill Miller?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No, definitely not nothing like Bill Miller. Yeah, all right,
let's get to it. Ready for the questions, You're ready
for the questions?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
All right? Very nice?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Truck stop fungus rites and says, how do I inform
my wife that she needs to have her back waxed
without her divorcing?
Speaker 10 (39:22):
Oh gosh, you know you can make it playful. So
pull on her hair, just like when you're cuddling. Just
pull on one single hair, you know, and then she'll
get the idea. It be like we make make chwobakka noises,
you know, all sorts of things make it fun. Yeah, Okay,
(39:43):
everyone has issues. Everyone has things that they're not you
know that you don't like.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, well, usually whatever you have, do you think the
other people are better than you? Whatever?
Speaker 6 (39:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Anyway, all right, ferg Dog rights and says, what is
the best way to demonstrate love for a man I
really admire in my life? This is a little Creepy's
a little bit rub is back. No, that's not a
good answer.
Speaker 10 (40:07):
Rub his back, that's not long and hard.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
But something tells me that whoever darts talking about prefers
foot rubs. There's talking about feet now, maybe licking, I.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Don't think so. If you want your feet licked, that's fine.
Speaker 10 (40:22):
If that is your kink, that is your kink. There's
no kinks that are wrong, except for the ones that
involve dead people.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
All right, This is a very controversial one from a
nailed Hey Seuss or something like that. Says, if you
can't get a girlfriend, should you just become the girlfriend instead?
Speaker 5 (40:41):
That's very controversial.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
I don't you see that a lot? You know where
women marry themselves?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Oh do they?
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's this right. We have some calls for it.
You want to toar your call?
Speaker 10 (40:51):
I would love to all right.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Anonymous Mike is somewhere in the Boston area. Hello, Anonymous Mike, Welcome.
Speaker 11 (40:58):
Hey, i's it going, guys?
Speaker 10 (40:59):
We've seen better days? What's up?
Speaker 11 (41:03):
So, Lorraina, If I was, like, for instance, really good
at sex, should I just save that for one girl
or try to spread it out?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
He's got a gift, Florinda, the guys in his head,
he's got a gift.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (41:20):
And see that's the thing. Is it just in your
head or is this actual fact? Because yeah, if you're
young and like you think, you know, you have a long, sexual,
lustrous life ahead of you, keep.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Down that path, that's what.
Speaker 11 (41:35):
Yeah, you know, Because I'm just saying, like, I've been
with a girl for a while and she's like happy
all the time. But are you happy the other ladies?
Speaker 5 (41:46):
Yeah? Really want to get back to the women, Loraa.
He's really worried about the women.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
You know, what if you need what you need, you
need what.
Speaker 11 (41:52):
You need, all right. Look, thanks for the advice to
the seed.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Such a big stut.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
Advice and love. But that's cool, all right.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Well a big stud there, and he took a shot
at you.
Speaker 10 (42:02):
Then you can put all that lust towards one lady.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
All right, hollering James is on, Hello, James, say a
little Lorena.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
Hello, Lorena? How you doing her? Friends?
Speaker 8 (42:15):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I'm good, I'm good. What's up, James?
Speaker 9 (42:18):
I got to let you know this. I want to
rekindle the fire between me and Dammy. I'm not getting
no calls. I'm not getting no character letters, not even
no gifts. You know. I'm just wondering what can I
do to rekindle the flame between me and miss Montana.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
I think, well, the straight idea is to call the
radio show and say this on the e that we're
really That will get the job done.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
Qui, I think you should do radio poetry.
Speaker 9 (42:45):
Maybe I should give her a golden taking it.
Speaker 10 (42:47):
Maybe they'll get it that you've given her a few
and she hasn't used them yet.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Stuck in Sacramento, rights since, says Lorena, I finally went
on a date with my very own tech queen. Question,
why do you think she punched me and ran out
when we were making whoopie? When I asked her if
she wanted to role play with me being a leprechaun
and her trying to find my pot of gold.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Oh no, I.
Speaker 10 (43:12):
Would have run away right way earlier than that.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
All right, Quickly, JT.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
The Wingman says, what is the best way to say
I'm sorry to a woman I love?
Speaker 10 (43:22):
Ooh oh gosh, deliciousness, deliciousness and pampering.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Pampering easy, okay.
Speaker 10 (43:30):
Always, but start with food first, because grumpy food.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Chocolate possibly chocolate.
Speaker 10 (43:35):
Yes, always melted?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
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Speaker 1 (43:56):
And it's time for pass word. The word Game of
the Stars is welcome in our contest we have let's
see here Daniel in Fort one.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Let me make sure I punch up the right line.
Hello Daniel, welcome.
Speaker 11 (44:10):
Good morning event.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Hel's everything, America's favorite crossing guard of course, checking in
with us.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
Hello, welcome you, who do you like to partner up
with your Daniel.
Speaker 9 (44:19):
Ben I have to go with you. We've been unbeen
like the last seven times.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
We'll make it a wow. All right? See that domination domination?
All right.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Hold on a second, and we have Brandon in cans
Uh City. Hello Brandon, welcome and the jet Hello Brandon,
welcome to the show. You're gonna play the game. Now,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
Brandon?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
I'm already taking, but you got Loraina and Koboloop respectfully.
Speaker 11 (44:51):
I'm gonna take coogy Liot because he after my second call.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
So fast. Okay, so you're in good customer service.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Yeah, wow, Well I've got nothing else to do right now.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
No, it's bag it's working, is it? It's not for me?
You got to use the other one.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
You got to use the uh the Martha's House thing.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Yeah, that one, that one's working.
Speaker 6 (45:12):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Anyway, all right, let's play the game.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
Here.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
We have a list of words. Let's see. You can't
see you can't see him, right, Daniel. Hold I second,
you punch hold on me, punched him up. Hold a second.
You can't see the words, right, Nope, I cannot see
the words. Brandon.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
You can't see the words, right, Brandon, negative band? Okay, well, Brandon,
you were on first. Pick a number one to ten,
one to ten? Please let me go seven.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Number seven? All right, all right, let's play pass. We're here.
We can start with ten points. Let's go with squam band.
What's that?
Speaker 11 (45:54):
I thought it was first?
Speaker 5 (45:54):
Oh you are? I thought you? I thought you said,
wait a minute, will you pick a number? Daniel? I
thought you said. I thought that was you.
Speaker 11 (45:59):
Go ahead, Hey, that's okay, all's forgiven.
Speaker 9 (46:03):
Uh, three weeks from today.
Speaker 11 (46:05):
The school year's over, so with number three?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
All right, number three, let's go with hmm, how about
uh Earth.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Globe?
Speaker 4 (46:19):
No, uh, Brandon, let's go with uh planet. No, let's
go with.
Speaker 5 (46:36):
Universe. Oh oh, Daniel, oh solar.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
No, well, this is the one that should be easy
but is not. And go ahead, goop. Let's go with
password the word game of the stars. Uh wow, I
don't know, is it?
Speaker 5 (47:00):
No?
Speaker 8 (47:00):
That's oh boy, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Maneuver, Brandon.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Uh, water, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 11 (47:16):
Well, okay, repeat yourself, Coop, Sorry.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Come on, water, water nothing, you're wasting my ten.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
No, how about this I'm gonna do a reverse malle maneuver.
Speaker 11 (47:32):
Oh my gosh, Series.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
World.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
You know what, you're the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Data Almost nobody gets the reverse Malor maneuver.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
And because we wasted so much time trying.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
To get to that, that's the only word we have
time for. But you did it, was World, that was
the word. O. Good job, Daniel Quest, short game. That's
another win on the all time wins, King Coope, King
of the Wins right here.
Speaker 5 (48:03):
Another win. I'm ready to win.
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we occasionally call it, continue the never ending journey in
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the NBA to get to the finals. I think I'll
start about seven months from now, something like that. Every
night there's a couple of games and you watch. There
were a bunch of games tonight, so many games that
some games were demoted to the Dunce cap of the
NBA World NBA TV, but the games that were not.
The Clippers and the Nuggets was one of those games.
(02:30):
Series locked up to two, a best of seven series.
I don't know if you saw saw this game?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Game just ended not that long ago before we cracked
the mics here. Perhaps you missed it augh. Some would
argue the game actually ended way before we cracked the mikes.
Some would say the game ended by about the middle
of the first quarter. As Jamal Murray you got beat
by Jamal Murray, Jamal Murray looking like a cross between
(02:57):
Alex English and Fat Lever, and all the.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Human go on trying to think of old Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But Jamal Murray forty three points and the Nuggets led
by as many as twenty two points. They never trailed
in Molly whopping. The Clippers won thirty one to one,
fifteen to the final, and so Denver is now up
three games to two. Hope they don't choke. That would
be terrible to lose the last two games. Game six
(03:24):
will be back at the end to a dome in
the hood in Inglewood. That'll be coming up here in
a couple of days. So let us discuss. The better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will begin. And it was a dreadful performance,
if you want to call it, performance by the team
(03:46):
that lost to the Clippers on this night all the
way around. But who gets to wear the loss the
scarlet letter l for the Clippers. I've got fantastic Sam's
foggy andolbox and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a viral post.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Is what we're going to make.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Not that I really want that, but we're just gonna
make that. So a before I get into the minutia
of the game. He saw the game. I think, you
know kind of how this is going to go. I
don't think this is going to be surprised you. I'm
not gonna throw a curveball at you. That's not going
to happen. So before we address the Komodo dragon in
the room, congratulations to Jamal Murray, who was moving and
(04:33):
grooving throughout the game. Kind of looked like me when
I'm out in the playground moneyball Malleord knocking down those shots.
There was NBA jam style. He was on fire for
the Nuggets. Now, Murray's a second level players, a second
rate player, has never been an All Star. He's not
that good, but on this night he was so congratulations
he had an out of body experience for the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
And the big argument in Denver.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
For those who watched the Nuggets over the years, well,
Nikole Yokis has no one around him, and people say
that they're really talking about Jamal Murray. Now, Murray's made
some big shots randomly in the playoffs, but that performance
right there was a again, out of body experience. Now
to get down into the nitty gritty here of the
outcome of the game, the Clippers, it was I say
(05:22):
that the person that needs to wear the scarlet letter
the L for loser, that would be I'll use the
term fantastic SAMs here known for haircuts over the years.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Fear the beard. Fear the beard.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Now in the setup to the plus, we had talked
about this in a previous episode of the show, that
this is a legitimate possibility, this is going to happen
at some point, this kind of a performance. And sure enough,
there it was playoff Harden. He's done this with every
team he's played on who's actually been halfway decent, mostly
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the Rockets.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But playoff Harden was there. It arrived.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The antithesis of playoff Jimmy Jimmy Butler, who rises to
the occasion and almost never ever gives a half ass
effort in a playoff game.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Right, That's what Golden State got.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
The Clippers have James Harden, who sucked at a time
you cannot suck, which is from the beginning to the
end of the game. All the way through he was
stumbling and bumbling on the court. It was embarrassing. And
not surprising. Embarrassing is the word I was. You can't
be surprised Harden's done. This is entire career. It's why
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despite having a Hall of Fame resume and he'll be
a Hall of Famer, everyone gets in Muffet McGraw's in
the Hall of Fame that James Harden's got this kryptonite
and he's like, is he gonna really change? Well, no,
he's not gonna change. So Harden finished three of nine.
That's thirty three point three percent half the sign of
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the Devil, eleven points four turnovers in an effort. That
is a capitol you useless performance by James Harden, supposedly
one of the headliners. Now Denver took advantage of some opportunities.
The Clippers allowed Russell Westbrook to shoot wide open shots,
which I'm fine with. If you lose to Russell Westbrook,
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that's fine. He sucks. So if he happens to make
some shots and you lose, you're fine with that. You
want him to make as many shots, you want him
to take as many shots, because the guy's garbage and
he's a stat stuffing loser. Russell Westbrook, so fine. The
Jamal Murray thing that at some point you might have
wanted to adjust a little bit. Denver shots seventeen of
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thirty three from three point range, fifty one percent on
moneyballs for the Nuggets. Now, is this series over? Is
that all she wrote is that it now? Well, a
lot of low information fans will say it's over. Course,
we know better than that. It's not a best of five.
I would agree with you if it's the best of five,
it's over. But I double checked, and it's not a
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best of five.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Oh j. It's a best of seven, so that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Means no one's decided anything in this particular series. It's
a best of seven. And this thing will be going
to a seventh game. Book it, book it, book it,
book it. And the encouraging news for the Clippers this
good loss. Let me tell you why it's a good loss.
You got playoff Harden out of your system. We did
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the math on this. James Harden. Ten percent of his
playoff games has been a dumpster like he was in
that game. The other ninety percent he's usually fine. So
you got that out, so you're good for nine more
playoff games where James Harden will be okay.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
If you play the odds. You do the math. Ninety
percent of the time, he's fine.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Ten percent of the time he goes out there and
urinates down his leg like he did in Denver.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
So, okay, you got that out of your system. That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Keep inind the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win this game.
Otherwise Adam Silver, the spineless alien Commissioner of the NBA,
would have done the proper thing and suspended Michael Porter
Junior for clearly violating NBA Code of Conduct rules by
leaving the bench in a skirmish back in Game four.
It's caught on video. It's black and white. He did it,
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and the NBA looked the other way. They did not
follow their own guidelines. Now, I didn't come up with
those rules. The NBA came up with those rules because
of the malice at the palace and a clear violation.
And since the NBA chose to look the other way
and Porter played a great game for Denver, congratulations. That
verifies that the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win that game,
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but they wanted Game seven. Game seven is a great
theater on television. Stre will be a Game seven this weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now, moving on.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
From that, we head to midtown Manhattan, right there above
Penn Station, in the the middle of the concrete jungle,
where the Pistons seemingly wasting money traveling to play the
next Everyone, Oh, it's over. The Knicks are going to
win this game. There's no chance the Pistons are going
to win another game in this series. Forget about it.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Then they had to play the game. Now.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Kate Cunningham did not shoot the ball all that well,
but he had twenty four points, eight rebounds, eight assists
and a partridge to the pear tree for the Detroit
basketball team. Detroit Basketball, the Pistons, staying alive, staying alive.
The Pistons get it done their first postseason appearances twenty nineteen,
and now they've won a second playoff game, and they
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did it in clutch time on the road, one oh
six to one oh three the final. So Detroit will
have a chance to even things up now on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday,
Thursday Night, Game six at home back in Michigan. They
win that, and there will be a Game seven. If
Detroit wins that, Game seven will be back at Madison
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Square Garden to Mecca on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
So that'll give us something to watch on Saturday. Game seven.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
There we have a game seven Clippers and Nuggets will
be a game seven Pistons and the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Game seven.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now, let's get down to the big part of this game.
Jalen Brunson is getting roasted. He's getting peppered with criticism
the Knickerbocker guard for his lousy play in this game.
Is that fair or foul? That Brunson, who has been
the heart and soul of the Knickerbockers, is getting just
shredded for his play. So it is a fair bare
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It is absolutely fair. I don't know how anyone could
say it's not fair. I mean, you gonna be like
the biggest fanboy loser.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh, it's not fair.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
He played a terrible game and people sent me things
about him. Oh my god, all shut up. My word
for Jalen Brunson is foggy.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
That is my word. Foggy.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Brunson is the headliner of an off Broadway show right
there in New York. And he had on this night
two left feet. He could not dance, and he forgot
his script, he forgot his words. He had brain fog.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
He was foggy. Uh was what it was. And Jalen Brunson,
who picked up some dopey award.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We talked about this the other day on the show,
that they came up with these fugazi awards. They have
the the Clutch Player Award, which they just you know,
to appease the nerds. They have all the stats. They
gave Jalen Brunson the clutch stat or clutch Player of
the Year award, So we got that before the game.
Of course, then in a game where you needed clutch play,
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who goofed.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I've got to know that would be Jalen.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Brunson, who shot one of four from the floor in
the final twelve minutes of the game, and overall he
shot twenty five percent the entire game. Bruntson sixteen points
four turnovers for the New York Knickerbockers in this game
and last I checked. Criticism is part of the equation.
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Criticism comes with the territory as the face of the Knicks.
As the face of the Nicks, you have to be
prepared to face, I don't know, negative comments. Possibly now
New York has left the door open. It is wide open.
Right now, it is wide open. They're futzing around and
they're setting themselves up for a wacky Tobacci ending they're
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gonna need wacky Tobacci by the time this series is over.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
The way things are going here, the Knicks miss.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten,
eleven foul shots. Now, the foul shot is one of
those things that universally, any man, woman and child could
conceivably make. You know, there's a lot of things in sports
that like people in sports, like the brag, Oh, you
can't hit a fastball, you can't play in the NFL,
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you couldn't do. Any man, woman or child can make
a foul shot in the NBA. There's no one stopping you.
You are You're there. It's you, the ball and the net.
There's no no one gonna block it. It's the easiest thing.
And yet they missed eleven foul shots. Bunnies, they dropped
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the bunnies. Don't drop the bunnies, all right, now, last word,
quick late, we head that to Boston where it's all
over for Orlando. Jason Tatum thirty five points, ten assist,
eight rebounds, and Celtics did something that many did not
think they could do.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
They abandoned the.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Three point arsenal in the early part of this game,
and they still beat Orlando by thirty one points and
nanaana na, good bye, see you later.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
They're done the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So did the Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from what
turns out to be a gentleman's sweep? As the Boston
Celtics advance, now they will play on the raigning champs
will play either the Knicks or the Pistons in the
next round.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So did the.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from this gentleman sweep?
Speaker 5 (15:09):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna nod my head yes on this.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And the reason I'm not in my head yes is
they added another element.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
To the toolbox.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Good handy man, you gotta have a lot of tools,
so they added another. The Celtics have been a one
trick operation. They're one trick band here, the Celtics. But
on this night, they've been so dependent on the three
point shot. It's the it's the crutch of the Celtics, right,
That's what they fall on, is the three point shot.
And they showed against a lesser team to a point
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They're okay, right, they can leave their comfort zone. The Celtics,
who set all kinds of NBA records for most three
point shots during the regular season.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It was the personification of Popper shot most three points
baskets made. I can go through all the records if
you want, but that's boring. Who wants to hear that.
I don't want to hear that. I don't think you
want to hear that. They made none in the first half.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
None.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Now, it is interesting to note that even though they
made none and they won the game by thirty one points,
the game did not turn lopsided until they started to
make shots. They were actually trailing at halftime. Orlando led
by two at halftime, believe it or not, and then
Boston went night rider and they cranked on the turbo boost.
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They hit that turbo boost button on the dashboard, and
they outscored the Magic. The Celtics did seventy three to forty.
That is a one two three can kun for the
Orlando Magic, so thirty three point advantage for the Celtics
in the second half. The Sea shot sixty percent from
the floor in the second half, and seventy two percent
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if my math is correct, from three point range after halftime,
so they had no three point shots in the first half.
They made thirteen of eighteen in the second half, many
of them wide open. But more importantly, unless I missed it,
no major snap, crackle pop injuries. Jason Tatum, who did
miss some time in this series with a bruise, played
thirty five minutes or so in this game, and so
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all the key figures, all the key actors are going
to be there when the play continues in round number two.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
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expresspros dot com. So we get back to the pro
bouncyball talk. The teams that won we talked to last
hour in a previous edition. Here the hour of the show,
we talked to the Denver Nuggets, who took advantage of
playoff Harden and got an easy win. So Denver up
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three to two in that series. H back to Southern California.
It'll be a game seven in that series. The Pistons
staved off elimination. They beat the Knicks, and so that
series will go back to Motown Detroit a chance to
continue on in the Boston Celtics without making a three
point shot for the first half of that game, still
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won by thirty. They made a bunch in the second
half over Orlando. But now we need to turn our
focus to a game that I did not anticipate. When
I got up and prepared for the shot, I was like, AHM,
not gonna talk much about this game. But surprise, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
You never know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
That's why they play their games. So we go to Indianapolis,
just a random.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Game five, game five.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
In the city there and in the Hoosier State, big city,
big capital there state. So the Bucks and Pacers and
they were locking horns and opportunity here for Milwaukee to
continue even though Dame Time ain't walking through that door,
Dame leathered snap crackle poppies out, the Bucks could win,
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show some fight, force a game six and put the
pressure on the Indiana Pacers who were looking to win
at home and advance. So if you were not watching
this particular game, and it was hard to find, it
was on the state run PROP the news service of
the NBA, the NBA's own television channel. But this game
turned out to be a humdinger. Now, it wasn't a
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humdinger for most of the game. It turned out to
be a humdinger because of the finish. Well, let's set
you up on this tyrese Halla Burton with twenty six points.
He had nineusis, which is not that crazy, but twenty
six points. The Pacers rally all the way back. They
were down twenty points. They forced the overtime. So then
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you get to overtime and and what happened? Well, how
did that go? Let's see here. So they go to
overtime and Milwaukee is up by seven with forty seconds
to go in the game. You are a seven point
there's a three possession lead in the last forty seconds.
You know how difficult it is to not win that game.
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But I think you assume, I assume you know by
now that sure enough, Yes, the Milwaukee Bucks did the
thing you can't do at the time, you can't do it,
and it was a Haliburton layup in the final seconds
that did end the Milwaukee Bucks one eight to one
oh seven the final as they punched their ticket. They
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being the Pacers into the second round of the playoffs,
and they'll be dismissed. They'll be well, yeah, they advanced,
but Damian Lillard got hurt. Indiana has dominated the Milwaukee
Bucks now for consecutive seasons. Indiana will play Spider Mitchell
and the number one that would be the Cleveland Cadavers,
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and well, I guess they're good So they're the Caves
and they're bad. They're the cadavers, but the Cleveland Cavaliers
and Pacers. So we are gare wrong teed of having
one of those two teams in the final four of
the NBA. But the better story here is clearly in
the losing locker room, as is pack up the bags
and go home time.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
No no naana, no no nada, Hey, go bye. The
Bucks are out. The Bucks are out, epic meltdown by.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Milwaukee, a loss for the Ages for the Milwaukee Bucks.
So let us discuss the question who gets the blame
cheese for the Bucks? Who gets the blame cheese for
the Bucks blowing a seven point lead in the final
forty seconds seven point lead vanished in the final forty seconds.
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So I've got stones, peer pressure, and atomic and we
will combine all of these things together and we're going
to make some soul food. Because somewhere right now, at
a fine restaurant the greater Milwaukee area, our friend Artes
in Milwaukee is drowning his sorrows in meat loaf and
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other delicious foods that he cooks all night as he
listens to our show. So anyway, numb burn can I
get a numb burn?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
All right?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
If you're looking for a singular player to answer the question,
who gets the blame cheese for the Bucks blowing a
seven point lead? So a player, it's easy. Gary Trent Junior,
who also hit like four to three point shots. I
think it was in the overtime, but it doesn't matter.
All that matters is what you did in the final
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forty seconds. So despite having a statistic with good performance
at the end, this portal opened up, a trapdoor opened up,
and Gary Trent Junior fell into the to the trap door,
and he was eaten by a pit of vipers right there,
right there in the And he gets the charcuterie board,
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and it's a cheese charcuterie board, and there's only Limburger cheese,
and there's some rotting crow, which apparently tastes okay according
to the Internet.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
I don't believe that. I believe that's wrong.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So Gary Tranjunior, how bad was he in the final
forty seconds? He is the player of the game for
the Indiana Pacers because in the final forty seconds, Gary
Tran Jr. He took the only shot the Bucks took
in the final forty seconds, he missed it. He also
turned the ball over twice in forty seconds, so two
turnovers and a misshot, and that set things up for
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Tyrese Haliburton to be the hero there. And also Andrew
Nemhard who who hit a three point shot from like
forty feet away or some ridiculous thing like that. Regardless. Now,
so if the player is Gary Trent Junior, but if
you want to look at the wide angle lens, consider
this particular game a time capsule for the career of doctors.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Just a moment in time, random moment.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No one's gonna remember this, it's the first round of
the NBA playoffs, but.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The real ones, the real ones.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Know this is a time capsule moment that forty seconds
of complete chaos and dropping your.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Paints for the whole world to see.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
That sums up the coaching career of Doc Rivers, one
of the great frauds of our time. The fact that
this guy's coached as many teams as he's coached is
a testimonial to the incompetence of the ownership class in
the NBA and how just being a smooth talker you'll
get a lot of opportunities in life. But the names
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of the players change, right, the teams he's coaching have
changed over the years. For Doc Rivers, the results are
the same. Doc Rivers is an animated cartoon character from
The Flintstones Schlepprock.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Doc Rivers. I don't know if you know that cartoon
Character's an old cartoon character.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But Doc Rivers has either exceptionally bad luck or he
is the bad luck. His mere presence causes top flight
professional ballplayers to do really dumb things, really bad things on.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The court in pressure situations.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And with all of these NBA teams that Doc Rivers coach,
though Orlando, the Clippers, the Celtics, the seventy six Ers,
the Milwaukee Bucks, all of these teams, he is the
common denominator. Doc Rivers is the common denominator. If you
think it like a bon Jovi tune, Dead or alive,
It's all the same, only the names change around Doc Rivers.
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Other than that, it's all the same, all of it,
all of it is the same.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Do we have any Doc Rivers by the way, No,
no Doc Rivers. We have any Doc here.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I always love Doc giving excuses when his team loses,
because Doc Rivers is a master of this He's.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Done it more than anyone.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
All Right, I guess, all right, all right, all right,
here's a random Doc Rivers SoundBite on a Yannis miss.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I just want to hear Doc's bull crap. Let's hear it.
We're looking for them.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
If he had an eye, so great. But we anticipated
a trap and I thought we had the proper space.
And you know, we give Giannis his choice. You know,
I thought he may have had aj green, if my
memory serves me right. We told him that the next
pass would be open, but it felt good about it out.
I'm kind of live with Yannis making a decision on that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Okay, Well, is Doc going back to TV? Are we gonna?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Is he gonna be on there? We say, gonna have
to watch Doris Burke on TV? Or is they gonna
ge rid of her and put Doc on there? I
don't know anyway? All right, So page two, What are
the odds? What are the odds that Giannis Adenta Combo
played his final game in a Milwaukee Bucks uniform on
this random Tuesday night in late April?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
What are the odds?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So I'm setting the Mallor line, which is the most
important line in overnight talk radio on Fox. The Mallar line.
The Mallar line on this that the Greek Freak will
be traded at minus one ninety. That implies a sixty
five percent chance that packed your bags and with the
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last one left in the Bucks locker room, turn out
the lights because it's all over.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
So sixty five percent chance.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Now here's why You've got Dame Lillard, who's not walking
back through that door. If he is, he's limping a
Killes injury. He's out all of next season, so he's gone.
You're gonna whack Doc Rivers. You can't bring Doc Rivers
back because he's terrible, and Doc wouldn't want to come
back because he's a carpetbagger and he knows the Bucks
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have no chance of winning. So Doc's not going to
come back. You'll kick him out of the state of Wisconsin.
The bigger issue, though, for Milwaukee is this Giannis Identikombo
is going to face immense pure pressure in that world,
in that universe of the NBA, it's a transient business.
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The expectation is if you're a certain level star, you
have to manipulate your way to one of five teams.
Like that's just how it works, right, and the people
who are living off Giannis. There are a bunch of
people who have no talent. They are writing his coat
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tails and they're just hangers on. Those are the people
that'll be like, Hey, we got to get that one
more big Madison Avenue run of endorsements, and we can't
do that in Milwaukee. But if Yannis goes to fill
in the blank the usual suspects, right La Miami, New York,
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Golden State, somewhere along those lines, you're set up. But
if you do the math on this, Giannis is thirty.
He's gonna be thirty one next season. Now, thirty one
in life is not old, but in sports, you're athletic prime.
You're in the final stages of your athletic prime. So
unless you find the bag of goodies like others, I'm
not gonna name any names here have found, I.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Don't know what you know. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
So you're at the end of your athletic prime and
you've got maybe a couple more real dominant seasons left
before the decline really kicks in.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
If you're Giannis a dem.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Pacombo and you want the endorsements you've already got. I
believe two years left on the contract, then you can
get out. So this would be the time. This would
be the time, and expect this to be NonStop conversation
on the usual, the usual, the sources of NBA smut
that will throw this out. Now, final point, let's go
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back to the end. We have some great contrived Shakespearean
drama at the end of Indiana's Went over Milwaukee. This
will be a story that gets a lot of attention
over the next twenty four hours or so.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
The way these stories work.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Because it involves family, it involves a star player, it
involves doing things you're not supposed to do, all of
those elements. So postgame there was a story. Everyone's gonna
be talking about this giannisidenta koombo moments after the game
ed Tyreek Halliburt, Tyreese Aliburton game winning shot, Bucks went.
You know, Bucks lose, Pacers win, crowd goes wild. Halliburton
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stands on the scorer's table like they've just won the championship.
I don't know if he realizes the first round he celebrated.
He looked like Patrick Beverly when Minnesota won the play
in thing. Remember Beverly got up there and he the
crowd went well, so Halliburton stood up like they had
just won a championship. I don't think you get a
trophy for winning the first round of the playoffs. But
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while that was going on, let me, I'm gonna I'm
gonna walk you through this. So Yiannis a Denta Kombo
was confronted by a random person while on the court
wearing a jersey. That person was the father of Tyres Halliburton.
Say what, yes, they got into The guy's name is
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John John Halliburton.
Speaker 5 (32:33):
I assume that's his last name.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Halliburton and Yannis Adenta Coombo started screaming. Well, it was
mostly the dad screaming at Giannis, but they did exchange
heated words on the court. On the It's the funniest
thing because you've got the kid who's off to the
side and he's standing on the scorer's table. He won
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the game, and his dad, his old man is Pops
is over here in the face of Yannis add the
Kouba wild. Here is by the way, here's Giannis add
the cupbo his side of the story. Here is his
commentary on being confronted by the other team's top players.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Parade Parade, I believe like being humbled in victory. That's
how way I am. Now, there can be a lot
of people out there that are like, no, when you
when you win the game, it's a green light for
you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I've
won the championship. They have it okay, and that doesn't
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even say anything. I'm not trying to minimize their effort,
but losing the game emotions right run high. Having a fan,
which at the moment I thought it was fun, but
then I realized it was Titis's son, which I love
Titis I think is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry,
coming in the floor and showing me his son at.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Towel with his face.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
This is what we do, This is what we een
do this. If we do this, I feel like that's very,
very disrespectful.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Is this scripted? Seriously?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Are they coming up with these storylines? Is they got
the old the old writers from professional wrestling? I'm convinced,
so all right, I mean, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
This is like so stupid. What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The father of the Star of the Indiana Pacers got
on the court and shoved it in the face of
Yannis while the kid is going crazy.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
With the crowd.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now, remember Janis, was it a year ago or I
guess it was a couple of years ago. He said,
there's no failure in sports. There's good days, bad days.
So he said, some days you're able to be successful,
some days you're not able to be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
Blah blah blah blah blah. But that is that is great.
So how did you score? How did you score?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
The confrontation between Tyrese Haliburton, his father and Giannis adent
to Kumbo, the Greek freak.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Let's go to the judges scorecard.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
As the great Jackie Slater said back in his day
in the NFL, what in the world?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Seriously, what in the world? So I wrote down on
my scorecard.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
I wrote down A, a capital A for atomic as
in atomic Wedgie, which is what you should give to
Tyrese Haliburton.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
You are not helping. The dad is not helping. This
is not a.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Good thing for Haliburton. It seems like a pretty good ballplayer. Like, seriously,
your kid was just voted the most overrated player in
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
People perceive him to be a mister softy.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Okay, they think the kid is soft and you are
running out to fight his battle on the court.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Big win old man out there in.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
A jersey confronting the two time MVP jiannasident to Koombo,
thus confirming everything that has been said about the kid,
Like seriously, all right?
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I can go on and on, but.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
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Speaker 5 (36:24):
Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Hurry up, this is who gets grilled, all right.
Speaker 8 (36:35):
It was reported on Monday that the Cowboys could be
interested in a reunion with wide receiver and Marie Cooper.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Cooper's been pretty consistent performer throughout his career up until
last season. Do you think that was just an off
year for Cooper or was at the beginning of the end?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
No, it's perfect because he's already played in Dallas and
Mary Cooper is a falling star, which is just what
Jerry Jones loves.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
He's not gonna turn the move the needle for the
Cowboys if you go back next.
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Speaking of reunions, there was an article in The Atlantic
yesterday talking about the Vikings potentially making a trade for
Kirk Cousins. Ben, could you see Minnesota bringing Cousins in
as an insurance just in case JJ McCarthy doesn't work out?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Uh No, They already made a trade at the draft
for Sam Howe, who also sucks. So this limited how
many quarterbacks you can get that sucked. But it is
going to be interesting to keep an on Kirk Cousins
because he's not gonna stand in Atlanta. Someone's gonna get
hurt and then he'll go to whoever whatever team loses
their starting quarterback. But I just don't think that it's
just not that's not the team. The Vikings are not
(37:33):
the team next well.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
Ben, you already talked about it, but with being confirmed
that Damian Lillard is torn his achilles, it's likely that
Lillard will miss a big chunk of next season as well.
Do you think this offseason is a time for Giannis
to jump ship again?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Malarrods coop minus one ninety sixty five percent chance that
Jannis is Gonzo and then he can give us more
funny sound by t elsewhere there it.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Is Mallard a third degree? How did we go he passes.
That is a win.
Speaker 9 (38:00):
Yeah, checking down?
Speaker 8 (38:03):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (38:03):
Pro dinner? Pro Dinner.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
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Speaker 7 (38:18):
It's O it does with lir Rain at nine, Clean
Up Hearts, Gonna help you. Dear Rye, gear Rye to night,
dear Rye to night.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Dear ry.
Speaker 10 (38:33):
You heard the man. It's time for love here on
the Ben Mallors Show. One of my favorite times of
the week.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
What's your other favorite time of the week is ah?
Speaker 10 (38:49):
I would say when I beat people on being smarter
than everyone else, But it.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Doesn't happen that often.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
It doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I'm just saying, just pointing that out to me. I'm
not who do you think you are?
Speaker 10 (39:02):
Bill Miller?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
No, definitely not nothing like Bill Miller. Yeah, all right,
let's get to it. Ready for the questions, You're ready
for the questions?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
All right? Very nice?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Truck stop fungus rites and says, how do I inform
my wife that she needs to have her back waxed
without her divorcing?
Speaker 10 (39:22):
Oh gosh, you know you can make it playful. So
pull on her hair, just like when you're cuddling. Just
pull on one single hair, you know, and then she'll
get the idea. It be like we make make chwobakka noises,
you know, all sorts of things make it fun. Yeah, Okay,
(39:43):
everyone has issues. Everyone has things that they're not you
know that you don't like.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, well, usually whatever you have, do you think the
other people are better than you? Whatever?
Speaker 6 (39:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Anyway, all right, ferg Dog rights and says, what is
the best way to demonstrate love for a man I
really admire in my life? This is a little Creepy's
a little bit rub is back. No, that's not a
good answer.
Speaker 10 (40:07):
Rub his back, that's not long and hard.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
But something tells me that whoever darts talking about prefers
foot rubs. There's talking about feet now, maybe licking, I.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Don't think so. If you want your feet licked, that's fine.
Speaker 10 (40:22):
If that is your kink, that is your kink. There's
no kinks that are wrong, except for the ones that
involve dead people.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
All right, This is a very controversial one from a
nailed Hey Seuss or something like that. Says, if you
can't get a girlfriend, should you just become the girlfriend instead?
Speaker 5 (40:41):
That's very controversial.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
I don't you see that a lot? You know where
women marry themselves?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Oh do they?
Speaker 6 (40:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's this right. We have some calls for it.
You want to toar your call?
Speaker 10 (40:51):
I would love to all right.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Anonymous Mike is somewhere in the Boston area. Hello, Anonymous Mike, Welcome.
Speaker 11 (40:58):
Hey, i's it going, guys?
Speaker 10 (40:59):
We've seen better days? What's up?
Speaker 11 (41:03):
So, Lorraina, If I was, like, for instance, really good
at sex, should I just save that for one girl
or try to spread it out?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
He's got a gift, Florinda, the guys in his head,
he's got a gift.
Speaker 6 (41:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (41:20):
And see that's the thing. Is it just in your
head or is this actual fact? Because yeah, if you're
young and like you think, you know, you have a long, sexual,
lustrous life ahead of you, keep.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Down that path, that's what.
Speaker 11 (41:35):
Yeah, you know, Because I'm just saying, like, I've been
with a girl for a while and she's like happy
all the time. But are you happy the other ladies?
Speaker 5 (41:46):
Yeah? Really want to get back to the women, Loraa.
He's really worried about the women.
Speaker 10 (41:49):
You know, what if you need what you need, you
need what.
Speaker 11 (41:52):
You need, all right. Look, thanks for the advice to
the seed.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
Such a big stut.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
Advice and love. But that's cool, all right.
Speaker 5 (42:00):
Well a big stud there, and he took a shot
at you.
Speaker 10 (42:02):
Then you can put all that lust towards one lady.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
All right, hollering James is on, Hello, James, say a
little Lorena.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
Hello, Lorena? How you doing her? Friends?
Speaker 8 (42:15):
You know what?
Speaker 10 (42:15):
I'm good, I'm good. What's up, James?
Speaker 9 (42:18):
I got to let you know this. I want to
rekindle the fire between me and Dammy. I'm not getting
no calls. I'm not getting no character letters, not even
no gifts. You know. I'm just wondering what can I
do to rekindle the flame between me and miss Montana.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
I think, well, the straight idea is to call the
radio show and say this on the e that we're
really That will get the job done.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
Qui, I think you should do radio poetry.
Speaker 9 (42:45):
Maybe I should give her a golden taking it.
Speaker 10 (42:47):
Maybe they'll get it that you've given her a few
and she hasn't used them yet.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Stuck in Sacramento, rights since, says Lorena, I finally went
on a date with my very own tech queen. Question,
why do you think she punched me and ran out
when we were making whoopie? When I asked her if
she wanted to role play with me being a leprechaun
and her trying to find my pot of gold.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Oh no, I.
Speaker 10 (43:12):
Would have run away right way earlier than that.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
All right, Quickly, JT.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
The Wingman says, what is the best way to say
I'm sorry to a woman I love?
Speaker 10 (43:22):
Ooh oh gosh, deliciousness, deliciousness and pampering.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
Pampering easy, okay.
Speaker 10 (43:30):
Always, but start with food first, because grumpy food.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
Chocolate possibly chocolate.
Speaker 10 (43:35):
Yes, always melted?
Speaker 5 (43:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
And it's time for pass word. The word Game of
the Stars is welcome in our contest we have let's
see here Daniel in Fort one.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
Let me make sure I punch up the right line.
Hello Daniel, welcome.
Speaker 11 (44:10):
Good morning event.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Hel's everything, America's favorite crossing guard of course, checking in
with us.
Speaker 5 (44:15):
Hello, welcome you, who do you like to partner up
with your Daniel.
Speaker 9 (44:19):
Ben I have to go with you. We've been unbeen
like the last seven times.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
We'll make it a wow. All right? See that domination domination?
All right.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Hold on a second, and we have Brandon in cans
Uh City. Hello Brandon, welcome and the jet Hello Brandon,
welcome to the show. You're gonna play the game. Now,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
Brandon?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
I'm already taking, but you got Loraina and Koboloop respectfully.
Speaker 11 (44:51):
I'm gonna take coogy Liot because he after my second call.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
So fast. Okay, so you're in good customer service.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
Yeah, wow, Well I've got nothing else to do right now.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
No, it's bag it's working, is it? It's not for me?
You got to use the other one.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
You got to use the uh the Martha's House thing.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Yeah, that one, that one's working.
Speaker 6 (45:12):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Anyway, all right, let's play the game.
Speaker 11 (45:15):
Here.
Speaker 5 (45:15):
We have a list of words. Let's see. You can't
see you can't see him, right, Daniel. Hold I second,
you punch hold on me, punched him up. Hold a second.
You can't see the words, right, Nope, I cannot see
the words. Brandon.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
You can't see the words, right, Brandon, negative band? Okay, well, Brandon,
you were on first. Pick a number one to ten,
one to ten? Please let me go seven.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Number seven? All right, all right, let's play pass. We're here.
We can start with ten points. Let's go with squam band.
What's that?
Speaker 11 (45:54):
I thought it was first?
Speaker 5 (45:54):
Oh you are? I thought you? I thought you said,
wait a minute, will you pick a number? Daniel? I
thought you said. I thought that was you.
Speaker 11 (45:59):
Go ahead, Hey, that's okay, all's forgiven.
Speaker 9 (46:03):
Uh, three weeks from today.
Speaker 11 (46:05):
The school year's over, so with number three?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
All right, number three, let's go with hmm, how about
uh Earth.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
Globe?
Speaker 4 (46:19):
No, uh, Brandon, let's go with uh planet. No, let's
go with.
Speaker 5 (46:36):
Universe. Oh oh, Daniel, oh solar.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
No, well, this is the one that should be easy
but is not. And go ahead, goop. Let's go with
password the word game of the stars. Uh wow, I
don't know, is it?
Speaker 5 (47:00):
No?
Speaker 8 (47:00):
That's oh boy, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Maneuver, Brandon.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
Uh, water, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 11 (47:16):
Well, okay, repeat yourself, Coop, Sorry.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Come on, water, water nothing, you're wasting my ten.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
No, how about this I'm gonna do a reverse malle maneuver.
Speaker 11 (47:32):
Oh my gosh, Series.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
World.
Speaker 5 (47:40):
You know what, you're the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Data Almost nobody gets the reverse Malor maneuver.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
And because we wasted so much time trying.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
To get to that, that's the only word we have
time for. But you did it, was World, that was
the word. O. Good job, Daniel Quest, short game. That's
another win on the all time wins, King Coope, King
of the Wins right here.
Speaker 5 (48:03):
Another win. I'm ready to win.
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