May 9, 2025 • 37 mins
Ben calls out Steve Kerr for failing to manage the roster with Curry out of the lineup. Draymond Green pulls the race card after another technical. Blaming Deion for Shedeur’s slide in the draft is comical and simplistic. Haliburton gets away with his big ball celebration and Paul Pierce cheats in paying off his bet. Plus, Maller to the Third Degree and Lame Jokes of the Week.
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So our lead this hour is from Minneapolis. That was
the scene Game two of the Western Conference Semifinals. Just
one game, an island game, the island life. That's what
we say, you know, in the NFL, when there's only
a game on like Monday or Sunday night or Thursday's
one game, it's an island game. Well, usually in the
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NBA there's double barrel action the first couple of rounds
of the playoffs, but not tonight, the only game in
action on the Thursday night card there. In basketball, there
were some hockey games that were classic, but we talked basketball.
So the Warriors without shorthanded, without Steph Curry as the
hammy went whammy for the Warrior guards. So they were
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looking to try to sneak out of the Twin Cities
with another surprise when Curry played thirteen minutes in Game
one before he grabbed his leg in agony and hopped
off the court. So that was the set of Anthony Edwards,
who sucked at a time you cannot suck in game one,
looking to have the bounce back for the Wolves. If
you're watching this or not, what was Joyous Randall who
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had an up and down day himself, but he finished
with twenty four points eleven rebounds, and the Timber wo
jumped out to a thirteen nothing lead on their way
to a Harvard boat race. They never trailed, ended up
barbecuing the Warriors, covering the rather large point spread one
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from seventeen to ninety three blowout City and so the
playoff series even up. Anthony Edwards was not all that good.
He also had a traumatic ankle scare which turned out
to be a whole lot of nothing. But Anthony Edwards
and Nikil Alexander Walker each had twenty Minnesota gets the win,
so Game three one to one. Now Game three will
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be this weekend in San Francisco. The better story is
in the loser's locker room, so that is where we
are going to direct our attention because we like losers.
The Ben Malor Show loves losers, and the Warriors are losers.
So let's discuss the question, and I want to focus
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in on the coaching here. Does Warriors coach Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for failing to adapt without Steph Curry?
And they knew Curry wasn't gonna play. They knew during
the Game one win that Curry wasn't gonna come back
and play in game two. So does Steve curR deserve
to be criticized for that? I've got flying Dutchmen, iron Man,
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and spirit Animal, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to test our intestinal fortitude,
and Golden State failing that particular test, by the way,
So to answer the question number one, does Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for the Warriors failing to adapt
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without Steph Curry? And I am nodding my head, yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, Golden State looked
like they were lost. They didn't know where they were.
It's like they were zoomed from some other planet out
far out in the cosmos. And they're like, what am
I doing here? Where am I? I don't know where
I am. And so from the other night when they
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were moving and grooving, and all of a sudden, without
Curry for the whole game they come out there, they
were stumbling and bumbling. It was a stagnation situation, error
prone clumb He looked like the Wolves certainly for much
of the game. We're playing at a different speed. Here
is Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors, commenting on
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the situation with rotation and moving players around. The whole
deal thing was he was great.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, you know, he sat in a couple of
seats down. We talked a couple of times during the
game and he was talking to all the players and yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what he
was saying to the guys, but it's very very comforting
having him on that bench for our guys.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, it was him talking about Curry on the It
was comforting. Why exactly was it comforting to have Steph
Curry the Did he massage the player's shoulders, Like, how
is that comforting? Did they think maybe he was just
faking the injury and he was going to suit up
at halftime and go out and play. How's that comforting?
I don't get that anyway. So back to the point
it had, so Steve Kerr on this night was coaching
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the Flying Dutchman a ghost ship that was a ghost ship,
that was an empty vessel that was found abandoned, floating
adrift on the open sea. And the real test is
how you do without your top player. Do you succeed,
do you have some level of success, or do you fail? Now,
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Steve Kerr is going to go in the Hall of Fame,
He's got all kinds of records and all that, But
is this like a Belichick two point zero situation where
once Belichick lost Tom Brady all of a sudden, Belichick
is now stooping some twenty something and everyone's laughing at
him and he can't win. Well, Steve Kerr, his record
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with the Warriors in games without Stephan Curry is seventy
three and one oh nine. He's got a four to
h one winning percentage in games that Curry does not
play in. And Steph Curry is not walking back through
that door anytime soon, not in the next few games anyway,
in this series. So if he doesn't go back, and
who knows if he'll ever come back in this series
it's gonna be And I go and say, should still
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bounce back you would assume at home in Game three?
But man, what a mess? All right? Also, it would
also help if Jimmy Butler did not play like the
end of his run in Miami. Didn't it look like
the Jimmy Butler that was with the Miami Heat when
he was sulking with pat Riley and having issues with
Riley there. It just didn't seem fully invested in the game.
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Is it because he has issues with the fans in
Minnesota and there's a back and forth there between them.
I don't know what's going on. He just seemed like, Hey,
this is your opportunity to step on up. You're now
the alpha dog and you're it's your team now Curry's
not there, and here's your opportunity. And l l L
L la la la. He was acting like that a lot.
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But what do I know? Now? The big talking point
which everyone's going to be happening about, is not about
the outcome of the game. It's not about Steph Curry's injury,
It's not about Steve Kerry. It is about Draymond Green.
Don't bury the lead, my man? All right, well, I
guess we did so Draymond Green made headlines again. Green
picked up a fifth postseason tectic, Oh my god, fifth
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technical the postseason in Golden State's loss. And he did
it with player. He did it with ras Mataz. Draymond
Green was in the second quarter of the game. He
was assessed a technical foul after he elbowed Naz Reid
of the Timberwolves right in the face, right in the kisser, bam,
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right like that. Now Green was irate. He was completely
flabberg acid with the call. And it got to the
point there it looked like a Vaudvillian comedy because you
had the Warriors guard Steph Curry, who again was there
to give good vibrations to the tam. He had Steph
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Curry coming off the bench to try to calm him down.
You had Steve Kerr. It's like professional wrestling taking Raymond
out of the game to try to d s him
from snapping and getting another fowl called and all it. So, now,
what does that mean? So with five technical fouls the
way I'm told, with five technicals and just nine postseason games,
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Draymond Green is two away from earning a suspension, so
he gets at least what a game. So you do
the math on that. It ain't looking good. And so
then that was just the setup. That was the appetizer
to the main event. In the visiting locker room at
the Target Center and the bowels of the arena there
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in the Twin Cities, Draymond Green addressing reporters, and he
played the race card from the bottom of the deck.
Take a listen. It looked like the angry black man.
I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful,
educated black man with a great family, and I'm great
at basketball. I'm great at what I do to the
a gender. To try to keep making me look like
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an angry black man is crazy. I'm sick of it.
It's ridiculous. Okay, dropped the mic and walked off. All right,
So I think he said angry black man three times
in twenty seconds. I think, all right, So what do
you take away? You just heard it. That's what everyone's
gonna be talking about. What did you take away from
Draymond Green his postgame rant about Hey, I'm not an
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angry black man. So my takeaway on this is that
it was iron man like it was Tony Stark who
once said deflect and absorb. This is also out of
the Lebron James playbook, where everyone's gonna be picking on
Draymond Green because you're what are you doing? You know,
you can't be elbowing people like this. You're in a
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situation where you have to be on your best baby,
and so you did the thing you can't really do.
And so he knows that he knows how this works.
He's dabbled in the media. So what does he do.
He takes the deck of cards out and plays the
victim card from the bottom of the deck, right, victim card.
Make it all about me being the victim, which I
think is the playbook from the you know, the last
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few years ago when everyone was playing the victim. I
guess it's still in vogue for some people. But Draymond
Green is I get maybe I'm wrong with this. It
sounds like he's trying to twist this into some kind
of racial issue when it's not about that. It's about him.
The way he plays. He's the enforcer and he is
a in compared to how basketball used to be back
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in the olden days with Charles Oakley and Bill Layane
Beer and people like that. Those were real basketball goons.
Rick Mahorn like Draymond Green's a mister softy compared to
those guys, but compared to the modern basketball player, he
is seen as this tough, brooding player that is the enforcer.
The other problem for Draymond, aside from the fact no
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one was saying he wasn't educated, no one was saying
he's not a great family man. That's not what the
conversation was about. He turned into that is the film
does not lie. As Andy Reid likes to say, a
Draymond Green has a sizzle reel and somebody sent me
this clip, and I will give I don't know who.
I forgot who it was off the top of my head.
I was telling somebody in the pre show meeting this.
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Somebody sent me a clip on social media of Draymond
and his rant and behind the van they put video
up of Draymond his sizzle reel of if you will
were you know, I'm not angry, I'm not angry black man.
And then there's there's clips of him putting a choke
hold on Rudy Gobert, stopping on Demontes Sibonis, kicking Steven
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Adams in the basket balls, poking Lebron's anaconda, and all
these other It was hilarious. It's one of the funniest
things I've seen. And listen, Draymond has a Lifetime Achievement
Award for a history of unsportsmanlike acts in the eyes
of the NBA. Okay, So that's where we are. And
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now it's gonna be twenty four hours of Draymond Green.
Everyone's gonna have a hotache on Draymond. You'll get the
the think pieces, you know, You'll get the deep thinkers
out there that will be all offended that people are
attacking Draymond Green, and they'll they'll pick up the calls
for Draymond. And then you have other people think this
is the dumbest thing in the world, and so nothing
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will change. And that'll be that and we'll move on
to the next games. All right, now, final point, So,
have Anthony Edwards to get back to the series. Have
Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves solved the Warriors riddle?
Did Game two show you that Minnesota has now solved things?
They've solved it? So here's my position, things are pointing up, right,
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things are pointing up. But it's not about Minnesota having
a solution. To to me, it's not about that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
To me, it's not about that, because this is more
about Golden State looking like a nineties comedy. They were
dazed and confused in the first quarter, falling behind thirteen
to nothing and trailing the entire game. They were for
the most part on autopilot. Now I will give them
an ounce of Okay, you didn't get run off the
court and quit like Denver did. Denver completely quit against
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Oklahoma State. That was ridiculous. But Golden State was going
through the motion. It's making no mistake and it is
an embarrassing, e masculating situation that no one stepped up
without Steph Curry in the lineup. And that's really the
story here, right, that's the story. This game was more
about the Warriors sucking than it was about the Wolves
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solving the Rubik's cube. If you will here, and we
imagine Golden State will be getting some smelling salts delivered
from Amazon or somewhere and then they'll have those before
Game three. But the Timberwolves, they have the ingredients to
win this series Anthony Edwards when he plays, he didn't play.
I didn't think he played that great in this game either.
You got little ankle thing, which he as all the
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NBA players do, turned out to be an Academy Award performance.
They've got the defensive prowess, they have the rebounding, they
have all that stuff. My issue, my main issue with
the Wolves is that their spirit animal is a yo yo.
Now you're probably saying a yo yo is not an animal,
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but I would argue that a yo yo identifies as
an animal, therefore it is an animal. So a yo
yo is the spirit animal of the Timberwolves. And what
I'm trying to say is they're up and down. They're
up and they're down and they're all around right. Rather
than smooth peanut putter, they are the extra chunky, crunchy
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peanut Butter's what they are. There's no real consistency from
game to game. And now the good news from Minnesota
is that Steph Curry will not be walking through that
door anytime soon. He'll be sidelined by the hammy that
went whammy until at least sometime next week and likely
longer than that, and even when he comes back, he's
a ticking time bomb, as the hamstring often leads to
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a bigger injury down the line. We've seen that many
times over the years watching these sports games. So we'll
see what happens. But it's a hot mess. It is
a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
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App Our lead. This hour is a hybrid. We're gonna
go to basketball, but I wanted to start with something
else because this story, there's a story that caught my attention,
and it involves college football, it involves the NFL, and
so we're gonna go there prime time if you will
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yet again another Mallard monologue about the life and times
of everyone's favorite fifth round draft pick, Sudur Sanders. So
you might have seen it, maybe not. There were some
clips going around. Should Ur Sanders showed up with very
expensive I guess that was a backpack. I guess it
wasn't a back it was a bag. It was like
a high end designer bag. As he showed up to
Brown's practice, and the chatter continues about how he got there,
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regarding how someone who got so much attention ended up
a fifth round draft pick. Now, if you've not heard
the latest on this, and maybe not, we are told
that multiple NFL executives have come out and put Don
Sanders on the astro blaster coach pram time Dion Sanders,
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claiming that his involvement in Shadur Sanders' pre draft process
played a large part in the massive free fall down
the draft board of Shoulder Sanders. The money quote money
quote from a story in the USA today, the paper
that has the weather map on the back that people
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used to read at hotels back in the day. I
don't know anyone reads it now, but anyway, I guess
they're still in business. The quote was, I think his
dad's involvement hurt him. A high level NFL executive said,
some of the things, some of the things that his
dad said, I think that weighed on people's minds. Another
executive said, I think he he had some bad advice
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from his father. He needed a traditional agent like other players.
All right, so let us discuss the question what intrigues
you the most? What intrigues you the most about the
latest revelations, if you will, of Dion Sanders herting Shadar
Sanders NFL outlook, and he continues to be a narrative
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that is being pressed forward when you see these quotes
from unnamed NFL sources. So my observations on this, I've
got the King of pop, Supreme Court, and trivial pursuit,
and we will combine all of these things together and
try not to have that sinking feeling. We're gonna try
not to have that sinking feeling because we're gonna make
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the Gabba Ghul. And when you make the Gabba Gul,
you're not gonna have that sinking feeling. Numb burn? Can
I get a numb burn? All right? So the passing
the buck part of the story, that is the thing
that stands out. The passing of the buck here, Dion
Sanders being the villain is the word I we use
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is comical. I think it's comical. It's overly simplistic to
blame Dion for this situation. To me, it does not
pass the sniff test. It does not. And I believe
in personal accountability, and so in this one, if you say,
who's really to blame, is it Dion? Is it your
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dure like to me, it's always gonna fall. On the
classic song from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Man
in the Mirror, it's the man in the mirror, and
that is Shadur Sanders, the kid. And you say, well,
it's Dion's fault because he's the father and you know
he raised him, and you know, okay, Well, Dian was
also in the NFL media world living his life. I
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don't know. I don't know the dynamic there, the family dynamic.
But even if you have great parenting, sometimes the kid
just turns out to be a know for years, you know,
schmuck and all that, and it takes time to figure
things out in life. And sometimes it doesn't matter if
you have got perfect parents or not. Kid's gonna be
kind of an a hole. And that's what happened. But
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to me, it's it's the arrogance of Shooter Sanders. It
backfired spectacle. The stories were that he skipped workouts, he
was selective in interviews. I thought, with all that, well,
he's not gonna fall. I thought he'd be drafted at
the end of the first round or early in the
second round. I don't think he was drafting the fifth round.
Nobody did, but there were reports that he was a
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grade AID grade A you know, Dingo Berry Schmendrick, and
he treated the NFL like they needed him more than
he needed them. He thought that he was God's gift
to the NFL. And he could not have been more wrong,
at least in the draft process. And that's that's the rub.
Like if he had been the same way yet had
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the guaranteed level of success in the eyes of the
NFL world, it wouldn't have mat right. If he was
the perfect prospect, then he would have been drafted in
the first round. He would have been the first quarterback pick.
But spoiler alert, he obviously has many warts and imperfections.
And it did not help that he channeled Cam Newton
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with the the the chest puffs, the pelvic thrust, the
arrogance truts that amplified the scrutiny. And so here we are.
They're still blaming Dion and I'm also annoyed. I know
it's a pet peeve of mine with the people that
are convinced you have to have an agent, and it's
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I've used the analogy before. It's like asking a lawyer
if you need legal counsel. They're going to tell you,
of course you need legal counselor or if it's like,
do I have a case? If you ask a lawyer,
well yeah, most lawyers are going to say, yes, you
have a case. How much money do you have? That's
how how big a case you have? Now turning the page,
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I'm gonna go back to pro bouncy ball. The Pacers
are up two to oher over the Calves. There was
no game in this series last night, just the Timberwolves
beating the Warriors last night. But the Pacers are up too. Oh.
They win both games in Cleveland, big road wins, like
big time, big time wins. So even on a day off,
even on a day off in this series, they picked
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up a victory. We have learned that ty Reese Halliburton
over reded. Tyrese Haliburton is not going to be fine.
Was not fine for his big Balls dance celebration after
hitting that game winning dagga the three pointer against the
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Cleveland basketball team back in Game two of the Eastern
Conference semi finals. Remember he did the big Balls dance
and we said, well, that's a tax deductible donation. Well,
the NBA chows to issue a warning instant of a fine.
So question for the esteem panel, how surprised are you
that the NBA over lord's allowed Tyrese Halliburton a free
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big balls dance partay allowed him to get away with it.
So my first thought is it's abnormal. That's not my opinion,
it is in fact, the Supreme Court of Basketball has
overturned the standard. They've overturned the precedent of previous rules. Now,
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what is my evidence If you go back to twenty ten,
fifteen years ago, I remember doing monologues right here in
twenty ten that the NBA had said no to big balls.
The NBA had said, we have no room for big balls.
You can't tell anyone you've got big balls, and they've
been It became taboo. And one of the last ones
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to get away with it was Kobe Bryant who did
a big ball's celebration, but it wasn't illegal. It was
after that a year later, in twenty ten, they banned
the balls. So Halliburton himself, there's a quote going around
he expected to get fined. He said, I've been waiting
for that. I'll take the fine gladly close quote. Halliburton
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said he was aware of the president. He was aware
of the president. Now, the NBA has a history of
fighting players going back again, we're talking about fifteen years
here for the Serrano from Major League Baseball. The movie
celebration deemed obscene, right, and the NBA generally finds you
between fifteen and twenty five thousand dollars. So if you
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do the math on that, that's like, if it's twenty
five thousand dollars, it's twelve thousand, five hundred dollars. I believe,
I think the math is right on there. Per big ball,
So that's an expensive ball, and it depends on the incident.
And if you've done it before. Now, Sam Cassell, half man,
half alien, if you remember him, was the og of
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this this kind of move. Now more recently, Lebron was
fine for this a couple of years ago. Fred van
Vliet was fine when he was in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas,
the Celtics guy, he got dingg for this. But now
it appears the NBA has decided that they are going
to embrace their big balls and that the celebration will
be adjudicated on a case by case basis. So okay,
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you're good to go. You think that was a side
deal with Haliburton's like, hey, listen, we banned your dad
from going to the games. That you're allowed to do
the big balls thing. It's that's the deal, all right.
Final point. We now head to TV Land where pro
bouncy Ball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, a Boston Celtics legend,
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went viral, went viral. On Thursday. He walked approximately twenty
miles from his home, which is not far away from
the Fox Sports radio studios, but he walked from there
to the Fox Sports one studios, which are in West LA,
to fulfill at bet he made during some show that
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he does that, Like, you know, I guess people like that.
I don't know the name of it. I don't I've
remember seen the show anyway, Pierce geron t he guaranteed
that the Celtics were gonna win Game two of their
series with the next season, well, that's it. We're gonna win.
That's it. We're gonna win raw raw and all that.
He stated that he would walk to work, which is
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like fifteen twenty miles something like that, in his robe
and barefoot. That was the bet. I will walk to work,
Paul Pierce said, fifteen twenty miles in my robe barefoot
if if the Celtics lost, well, of course we know
they lost. And so there's video of this, Paul Pierce
walking to work, and several of you knuckleheads, you mouth
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breathing morons, have complained to me, well, you see, look,
Paul Pierce did it. You didn't look to Tucson. You
said you're gonna walked You ain't you? You didn't do
it all. Okay, let me address this. Okay, I would
like to address this. If you've listened for a while,
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you might not know this. This wager was made many, many,
many many years ago. We're going way back. In fact,
I'd have to go back and look to see exactly
what year this wager was made. It's a long time
and some of these morons still remember this. So I
was on the air during the NCAA NCAA Men's basketball
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tournament Arizona. This is how long ago Lude Olsen was
the coach. He's been dead for years. But Lude Olsen
was coaching against Illinois, and Arizona had a commanding lead
in the final minutes. And I was practicing the ancient
art of gat baggery, and I rant it and I
raved and I said there's no way that Illinois is
gonna win this game. It's in the bag for Arizona,
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and if Arizona loses, I will walk to Tucson from
the Fox Sports Radio studios to Tucson. Well, we know
what happened. We've been through the story a bunch of times.
I went to management. I said I'd like to walk
to Tucson. My boss, the late great Andrew Ashwood at
the time, said Ben, you're morbidly obese. You'll die before
you get to Riverside. And I said, I want to
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do it. And then we did the math. We determined
how many miles I could walk per day, how many
days it would take. We then looked at the weather
at that time. It was the tournament was in March,
so the weather wasn't too bad, but it was kind
of a hot week the time we were talking about
doing it. So anyway, it didn't happen. So let's get
into this here. Let's get into it question. Are you
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jealous that Paul Pierce paid off his TV bet to
walk twenty miles to work? And people are accusing yours
truly of not paying off the beat. So I'm gonna
shake my head. No, on this and by the way,
by the way, as the oracle of truth, right, I
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buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracy. Is it true that
while the illusion was that Paul Pierce actually walked all
the way twenty miles to work, is it true that
he actually did not pay off the wager? Say what,
let me explain. We're gonna call this the trivial pursuit.
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If you listen to the words and you read the
fine print, Paul Pierce failed on a technicality. He had
said very specifically, very specifically, Paul Pierce had said he
was gonna walk to work the fifteen to twenty miles
whatever it was, in his robe, bear foot, bear foot, barefoot,
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barefoot if they lost. So Pierce got up early on Thursday, Yeah,
got up early, start walking. He documented everything on Instagram live,
and he was wearing his bathrobe like you said. However, however,
he had shoes, he had shoes, He had clodhoppers, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes.
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Paul Pierce wore shoes. He did not pay off the bet.
That is fraudulent and it's bull crap. It's absolute bull
crap that people said, well, you put it off the bet.
He didn't pay off the bet. He didn't pay off
the bet. I paid off my bet, my last bet
that I made. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters. So the move
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is yours, mister Pierce. You didn't pay off your bet.
You wore shoes. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oisters. Done. You, on
the other hand, did not meet the conditions of the bet.
You didn't do it. It's a bad job by you,
and it's you can't trust the media. Another example of
(29:59):
the meat giving you fake news that Paul Pierce paid
off the bat he said no shows. Paul Pierce war
shows jos ridiculous. Don't fall for it fake news.
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Here we gowout degree. This is one big event. Gets grilled,
all right and leave a.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Lat Ben Manny Pakiao, Manny Pacio will end his nearly
for your retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WC
Welterweight Championship on July nineteenth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Ben, is this a must watch event? And does he
even have a chance? No, this is a money grab.
I guess he's maybe lost some money in the stock market.
Pacquiao is forty six years old. This is all about nostalgia,
Like the people that were fans of Paccio back in
the day. They're gonna watch the curiosity from p that.
Maybe we're too young and didn't watch Packy on his prime.
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He's definitely not his prime. But no, this is not
must watch now. I might check it out for content purposes,
but am I excited about it? No?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Next, more bang for your Becker, Ben, You could get
into Madison Square Garden for four hundred and seventy nine
dollars to watch Game three between the Knicks and Celtics.
Or you could watch the first ever WNBA showdown between
Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker for three hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
What is the most bang for your buck? Well, as
you know, I am a discerning customer and I but
I'm not a customer of the WNBA. That's not something
I pay attention to. So I mean I am interested
in the NBA, so I would rite I'm not gonna
spend money on either one of them. But if I,
if you got into my head, I would take the
NBA game. I would I'd rather see that next Hail Mary.
We talked about it.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
After only two days, the conclave elected the first Pope
ever from the United States, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost All
out of South Side of Chicago, now known as Pope
Leo the Fourteenth. Ben, will the new Holy Father bring
divine intervention into the Windy City or Villanova?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I just want to know if he's gonna bring the
Pope mobile. Isn't that cool? The Pope bring that to America?
This cruise stuff? And uh, how much does the Pope
get paid? Do we know that lead does that?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
It?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Does the Pope get a salary or just everything's taken
care of. I will look into that. How big is
the Pope's bedroom at the Vaticate? These are things I
want to know. He gets good jewelry? Yeah, that's a win.
I won. You didn't answer the last one, Ben, I
did answer. I answered it with more questions. Hey, knock, knock,
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who's there? Blame week?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Blame week too.
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It's big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
let's do it then, jokes in the league. Are you
there weed man hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami. Well, yeah,
I'm here, I'm here, all right. You don't see him
that excited today? Are you not excited?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I'm tired?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, all right? These are actually something great. I know
your roommates got her actual jokes by actual listeners. Send
into the show. I love you, all right, Benmallers show
at gmail dot com. Did you hear the tooth fairy
move to Miami? He became a vagrant and was arrested
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for trespassing. That's not the punchline. Policeas trying to identify
the owner of some dirty dentures found in her apartment
cart or shopping cart. Rather, that's Jordon in Takba. I
screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh was
funny anyway? How much of a bomb is weed man hippie?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
How much?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
in two different ways. So that's Alex the Cinecal. What
do you call weed man in a plane? What?
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Hi?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What do you call weed man on land? What? Also? High?
That's Alex Lisinecal who sent that one? In. Well, interesting
news out. I don't know if you saw this this week.
Did you know that Weedman Hippie once defeated a silver
backed gorilla in combat? You kidding me? Yeah? Yeah, it
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turns out the gorilla could not handle the smell. That's
Tom from Fullerton, who sent that one in. Well, here's
one from the lame joke writer of the Year last year.
I believe he's won a couple of times. Here. What
was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was his nickname?
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That's surfer Tom the comedian. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. How did weed Man get off the streets?
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Wow?
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But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
That's how you did. That's how Drew in Minnesota, Thank
you Drew. What is the difference between Mike the Leprechaun
and weed Man Hippie? What Mike is searching for a
pot of gold and weed Man is just looking for
pot that's a Yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before.
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That's Chip in Maine. It's Big Man's Lame Jokes of
the Week. Well, weed Man, why is it surprising that
you're short and only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds.
That's not true. But why because you're a big dummy.
That's Tony in the Bay Area. That's not nice, Tony,
that's not nice. What is the difference between weed man
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and a catfish? What one is a bottom feeder? The
other is a fish? That's a Noah in Austin. All right?
If Justin Cooper. If the Justin Cooper doll is a
bobblehead and the Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what
is the lorraina doll? What a bubblehead? That's from Eke
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in Roseville, Minnesota. Well do you see that pirate Did
you see that pirate fan that got injured after falling
onto the field. Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have
diagnosed him with Anthony Rendon disease because he got injured
the second he touched the field. That's Alex the Seneca.
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Well this offseason, where is John Morant going to work
on his shot?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Where no the shooting range? He's going to surfer? Todd
the comedian there? Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
holding a crack pipe and a pullover by the cops.
Did you see this weed man. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Jed whu Fled said he's glad his pet raccoon was
found alive. He would like his pipe back, though, he
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would like the pipe back, So make that say that happened.
How can you tell that Mike the Leprechaun is jealous
of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow, he's green with envy.
He's green with NBR. There is lame jokes. We thank
you eat man. There you go, all right, enjoy your
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So our lead this hour is from Minneapolis. That was
the scene Game two of the Western Conference Semifinals. Just
one game, an island game, the island life. That's what
we say, you know, in the NFL, when there's only
a game on like Monday or Sunday night or Thursday's
one game, it's an island game. Well, usually in the
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NBA there's double barrel action the first couple of rounds
of the playoffs, but not tonight, the only game in
action on the Thursday night card there. In basketball, there
were some hockey games that were classic, but we talked basketball.
So the Warriors without shorthanded, without Steph Curry as the
hammy went whammy for the Warrior guards. So they were
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looking to try to sneak out of the Twin Cities
with another surprise when Curry played thirteen minutes in Game
one before he grabbed his leg in agony and hopped
off the court. So that was the set of Anthony Edwards,
who sucked at a time you cannot suck in game one,
looking to have the bounce back for the Wolves. If
you're watching this or not, what was Joyous Randall who
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had an up and down day himself, but he finished
with twenty four points eleven rebounds, and the Timber wo
jumped out to a thirteen nothing lead on their way
to a Harvard boat race. They never trailed, ended up
barbecuing the Warriors, covering the rather large point spread one
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from seventeen to ninety three blowout City and so the
playoff series even up. Anthony Edwards was not all that good.
He also had a traumatic ankle scare which turned out
to be a whole lot of nothing. But Anthony Edwards
and Nikil Alexander Walker each had twenty Minnesota gets the win,
so Game three one to one. Now Game three will
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be this weekend in San Francisco. The better story is
in the loser's locker room, so that is where we
are going to direct our attention because we like losers.
The Ben Malor Show loves losers, and the Warriors are losers.
So let's discuss the question, and I want to focus
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in on the coaching here. Does Warriors coach Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for failing to adapt without Steph Curry?
And they knew Curry wasn't gonna play. They knew during
the Game one win that Curry wasn't gonna come back
and play in game two. So does Steve curR deserve
to be criticized for that? I've got flying Dutchmen, iron Man,
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and spirit Animal, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to test our intestinal fortitude,
and Golden State failing that particular test, by the way,
So to answer the question number one, does Steve Kerr
deserve to be criticized for the Warriors failing to adapt
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without Steph Curry? And I am nodding my head, yes,
I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, Golden State looked
like they were lost. They didn't know where they were.
It's like they were zoomed from some other planet out
far out in the cosmos. And they're like, what am
I doing here? Where am I? I don't know where
I am. And so from the other night when they
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were moving and grooving, and all of a sudden, without
Curry for the whole game they come out there, they
were stumbling and bumbling. It was a stagnation situation, error
prone clumb He looked like the Wolves certainly for much
of the game. We're playing at a different speed. Here
is Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors, commenting on
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the situation with rotation and moving players around. The whole
deal thing was he was great.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, you know, he sat in a couple of
seats down. We talked a couple of times during the
game and he was talking to all the players and yeah,
I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what he
was saying to the guys, but it's very very comforting
having him on that bench for our guys.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, it was him talking about Curry on the It
was comforting. Why exactly was it comforting to have Steph
Curry the Did he massage the player's shoulders, Like, how
is that comforting? Did they think maybe he was just
faking the injury and he was going to suit up
at halftime and go out and play. How's that comforting?
I don't get that anyway. So back to the point
it had, so Steve Kerr on this night was coaching
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the Flying Dutchman a ghost ship that was a ghost ship,
that was an empty vessel that was found abandoned, floating
adrift on the open sea. And the real test is
how you do without your top player. Do you succeed,
do you have some level of success, or do you fail? Now,
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Steve Kerr is going to go in the Hall of Fame,
He's got all kinds of records and all that, But
is this like a Belichick two point zero situation where
once Belichick lost Tom Brady all of a sudden, Belichick
is now stooping some twenty something and everyone's laughing at
him and he can't win. Well, Steve Kerr, his record
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with the Warriors in games without Stephan Curry is seventy
three and one oh nine. He's got a four to
h one winning percentage in games that Curry does not
play in. And Steph Curry is not walking back through
that door anytime soon, not in the next few games anyway,
in this series. So if he doesn't go back, and
who knows if he'll ever come back in this series
it's gonna be And I go and say, should still
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bounce back you would assume at home in Game three?
But man, what a mess? All right? Also, it would
also help if Jimmy Butler did not play like the
end of his run in Miami. Didn't it look like
the Jimmy Butler that was with the Miami Heat when
he was sulking with pat Riley and having issues with
Riley there. It just didn't seem fully invested in the game.
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Is it because he has issues with the fans in
Minnesota and there's a back and forth there between them.
I don't know what's going on. He just seemed like, Hey,
this is your opportunity to step on up. You're now
the alpha dog and you're it's your team now Curry's
not there, and here's your opportunity. And l l L
L la la la. He was acting like that a lot.
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But what do I know? Now? The big talking point
which everyone's going to be happening about, is not about
the outcome of the game. It's not about Steph Curry's injury,
It's not about Steve Kerry. It is about Draymond Green.
Don't bury the lead, my man? All right, well, I
guess we did so Draymond Green made headlines again. Green
picked up a fifth postseason tectic, Oh my god, fifth
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technical the postseason in Golden State's loss. And he did
it with player. He did it with ras Mataz. Draymond
Green was in the second quarter of the game. He
was assessed a technical foul after he elbowed Naz Reid
of the Timberwolves right in the face, right in the kisser, bam,
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right like that. Now Green was irate. He was completely
flabberg acid with the call. And it got to the
point there it looked like a Vaudvillian comedy because you
had the Warriors guard Steph Curry, who again was there
to give good vibrations to the tam. He had Steph
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Curry coming off the bench to try to calm him down.
You had Steve Kerr. It's like professional wrestling taking Raymond
out of the game to try to d s him
from snapping and getting another fowl called and all it. So, now,
what does that mean? So with five technical fouls the
way I'm told, with five technicals and just nine postseason games,
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Draymond Green is two away from earning a suspension, so
he gets at least what a game. So you do
the math on that. It ain't looking good. And so
then that was just the setup. That was the appetizer
to the main event. In the visiting locker room at
the Target Center and the bowels of the arena there
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in the Twin Cities, Draymond Green addressing reporters, and he
played the race card from the bottom of the deck.
Take a listen. It looked like the angry black man.
I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful,
educated black man with a great family, and I'm great
at basketball. I'm great at what I do to the
a gender. To try to keep making me look like
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an angry black man is crazy. I'm sick of it.
It's ridiculous. Okay, dropped the mic and walked off. All right,
So I think he said angry black man three times
in twenty seconds. I think, all right, So what do
you take away? You just heard it. That's what everyone's
gonna be talking about. What did you take away from
Draymond Green his postgame rant about Hey, I'm not an
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angry black man. So my takeaway on this is that
it was iron man like it was Tony Stark who
once said deflect and absorb. This is also out of
the Lebron James playbook, where everyone's gonna be picking on
Draymond Green because you're what are you doing? You know,
you can't be elbowing people like this. You're in a
(09:38):
situation where you have to be on your best baby,
and so you did the thing you can't really do.
And so he knows that he knows how this works.
He's dabbled in the media. So what does he do.
He takes the deck of cards out and plays the
victim card from the bottom of the deck, right, victim card.
Make it all about me being the victim, which I
think is the playbook from the you know, the last
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few years ago when everyone was playing the victim. I
guess it's still in vogue for some people. But Draymond
Green is I get maybe I'm wrong with this. It
sounds like he's trying to twist this into some kind
of racial issue when it's not about that. It's about him.
The way he plays. He's the enforcer and he is
a in compared to how basketball used to be back
(10:19):
in the olden days with Charles Oakley and Bill Layane
Beer and people like that. Those were real basketball goons.
Rick Mahorn like Draymond Green's a mister softy compared to
those guys, but compared to the modern basketball player, he
is seen as this tough, brooding player that is the enforcer.
The other problem for Draymond, aside from the fact no
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one was saying he wasn't educated, no one was saying
he's not a great family man. That's not what the
conversation was about. He turned into that is the film
does not lie. As Andy Reid likes to say, a
Draymond Green has a sizzle reel and somebody sent me
this clip, and I will give I don't know who.
I forgot who it was off the top of my head.
I was telling somebody in the pre show meeting this.
(11:01):
Somebody sent me a clip on social media of Draymond
and his rant and behind the van they put video
up of Draymond his sizzle reel of if you will
were you know, I'm not angry, I'm not angry black man.
And then there's there's clips of him putting a choke
hold on Rudy Gobert, stopping on Demontes Sibonis, kicking Steven
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Adams in the basket balls, poking Lebron's anaconda, and all
these other It was hilarious. It's one of the funniest
things I've seen. And listen, Draymond has a Lifetime Achievement
Award for a history of unsportsmanlike acts in the eyes
of the NBA. Okay, So that's where we are. And
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now it's gonna be twenty four hours of Draymond Green.
Everyone's gonna have a hotache on Draymond. You'll get the
the think pieces, you know, You'll get the deep thinkers
out there that will be all offended that people are
attacking Draymond Green, and they'll they'll pick up the calls
for Draymond. And then you have other people think this
is the dumbest thing in the world, and so nothing
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will change. And that'll be that and we'll move on
to the next games. All right, now, final point, So,
have Anthony Edwards to get back to the series. Have
Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves solved the Warriors riddle?
Did Game two show you that Minnesota has now solved things?
They've solved it? So here's my position, things are pointing up, right,
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things are pointing up. But it's not about Minnesota having
a solution. To to me, it's not about that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
To me, it's not about that, because this is more
about Golden State looking like a nineties comedy. They were
dazed and confused in the first quarter, falling behind thirteen
to nothing and trailing the entire game. They were for
the most part on autopilot. Now I will give them
an ounce of Okay, you didn't get run off the
court and quit like Denver did. Denver completely quit against
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Oklahoma State. That was ridiculous. But Golden State was going
through the motion. It's making no mistake and it is
an embarrassing, e masculating situation that no one stepped up
without Steph Curry in the lineup. And that's really the
story here, right, that's the story. This game was more
about the Warriors sucking than it was about the Wolves
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solving the Rubik's cube. If you will here, and we
imagine Golden State will be getting some smelling salts delivered
from Amazon or somewhere and then they'll have those before
Game three. But the Timberwolves, they have the ingredients to
win this series Anthony Edwards when he plays, he didn't play.
I didn't think he played that great in this game either.
You got little ankle thing, which he as all the
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NBA players do, turned out to be an Academy Award performance.
They've got the defensive prowess, they have the rebounding, they
have all that stuff. My issue, my main issue with
the Wolves is that their spirit animal is a yo yo.
Now you're probably saying a yo yo is not an animal,
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but I would argue that a yo yo identifies as
an animal, therefore it is an animal. So a yo
yo is the spirit animal of the Timberwolves. And what
I'm trying to say is they're up and down. They're
up and they're down and they're all around right. Rather
than smooth peanut putter, they are the extra chunky, crunchy
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peanut Butter's what they are. There's no real consistency from
game to game. And now the good news from Minnesota
is that Steph Curry will not be walking through that
door anytime soon. He'll be sidelined by the hammy that
went whammy until at least sometime next week and likely
longer than that, and even when he comes back, he's
a ticking time bomb, as the hamstring often leads to
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a bigger injury down the line. We've seen that many
times over the years watching these sports games. So we'll
see what happens. But it's a hot mess. It is
a hot mess.
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App Our lead. This hour is a hybrid. We're gonna
go to basketball, but I wanted to start with something
else because this story, there's a story that caught my attention,
and it involves college football, it involves the NFL, and
so we're gonna go there prime time if you will
(15:33):
yet again another Mallard monologue about the life and times
of everyone's favorite fifth round draft pick, Sudur Sanders. So
you might have seen it, maybe not. There were some
clips going around. Should Ur Sanders showed up with very
expensive I guess that was a backpack. I guess it
wasn't a back it was a bag. It was like
a high end designer bag. As he showed up to
Brown's practice, and the chatter continues about how he got there,
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regarding how someone who got so much attention ended up
a fifth round draft pick. Now, if you've not heard
the latest on this, and maybe not, we are told
that multiple NFL executives have come out and put Don
Sanders on the astro blaster coach pram time Dion Sanders,
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claiming that his involvement in Shadur Sanders' pre draft process
played a large part in the massive free fall down
the draft board of Shoulder Sanders. The money quote money
quote from a story in the USA today, the paper
that has the weather map on the back that people
(16:40):
used to read at hotels back in the day. I
don't know anyone reads it now, but anyway, I guess
they're still in business. The quote was, I think his
dad's involvement hurt him. A high level NFL executive said,
some of the things, some of the things that his
dad said, I think that weighed on people's minds. Another
executive said, I think he he had some bad advice
(17:03):
from his father. He needed a traditional agent like other players.
All right, so let us discuss the question what intrigues
you the most? What intrigues you the most about the
latest revelations, if you will, of Dion Sanders herting Shadar
Sanders NFL outlook, and he continues to be a narrative
(17:25):
that is being pressed forward when you see these quotes
from unnamed NFL sources. So my observations on this, I've
got the King of pop, Supreme Court, and trivial pursuit,
and we will combine all of these things together and
try not to have that sinking feeling. We're gonna try
not to have that sinking feeling because we're gonna make
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the Gabba Ghul. And when you make the Gabba Gul,
you're not gonna have that sinking feeling. Numb burn? Can
I get a numb burn? All right? So the passing
the buck part of the story, that is the thing
that stands out. The passing of the buck here, Dion
Sanders being the villain is the word I we use
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is comical. I think it's comical. It's overly simplistic to
blame Dion for this situation. To me, it does not
pass the sniff test. It does not. And I believe
in personal accountability, and so in this one, if you say,
who's really to blame, is it Dion? Is it your
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dure like to me, it's always gonna fall. On the
classic song from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Man
in the Mirror, it's the man in the mirror, and
that is Shadur Sanders, the kid. And you say, well,
it's Dion's fault because he's the father and you know
he raised him, and you know, okay, Well, Dian was
also in the NFL media world living his life. I
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don't know. I don't know the dynamic there, the family dynamic.
But even if you have great parenting, sometimes the kid
just turns out to be a know for years, you know,
schmuck and all that, and it takes time to figure
things out in life. And sometimes it doesn't matter if
you have got perfect parents or not. Kid's gonna be
kind of an a hole. And that's what happened. But
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to me, it's it's the arrogance of Shooter Sanders. It
backfired spectacle. The stories were that he skipped workouts, he
was selective in interviews. I thought, with all that, well,
he's not gonna fall. I thought he'd be drafted at
the end of the first round or early in the
second round. I don't think he was drafting the fifth round.
Nobody did, but there were reports that he was a
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grade AID grade A you know, Dingo Berry Schmendrick, and
he treated the NFL like they needed him more than
he needed them. He thought that he was God's gift
to the NFL. And he could not have been more wrong,
at least in the draft process. And that's that's the rub.
Like if he had been the same way yet had
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the guaranteed level of success in the eyes of the
NFL world, it wouldn't have mat right. If he was
the perfect prospect, then he would have been drafted in
the first round. He would have been the first quarterback pick.
But spoiler alert, he obviously has many warts and imperfections.
And it did not help that he channeled Cam Newton
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with the the the chest puffs, the pelvic thrust, the
arrogance truts that amplified the scrutiny. And so here we are.
They're still blaming Dion and I'm also annoyed. I know
it's a pet peeve of mine with the people that
are convinced you have to have an agent, and it's
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I've used the analogy before. It's like asking a lawyer
if you need legal counsel. They're going to tell you,
of course you need legal counselor or if it's like,
do I have a case? If you ask a lawyer,
well yeah, most lawyers are going to say, yes, you
have a case. How much money do you have? That's
how how big a case you have? Now turning the page,
(21:04):
I'm gonna go back to pro bouncy ball. The Pacers
are up two to oher over the Calves. There was
no game in this series last night, just the Timberwolves
beating the Warriors last night. But the Pacers are up too. Oh.
They win both games in Cleveland, big road wins, like
big time, big time wins. So even on a day off,
even on a day off in this series, they picked
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up a victory. We have learned that ty Reese Halliburton
over reded. Tyrese Haliburton is not going to be fine.
Was not fine for his big Balls dance celebration after
hitting that game winning dagga the three pointer against the
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Cleveland basketball team back in Game two of the Eastern
Conference semi finals. Remember he did the big Balls dance
and we said, well, that's a tax deductible donation. Well,
the NBA chows to issue a warning instant of a fine.
So question for the esteem panel, how surprised are you
that the NBA over lord's allowed Tyrese Halliburton a free
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big balls dance partay allowed him to get away with it.
So my first thought is it's abnormal. That's not my opinion,
it is in fact, the Supreme Court of Basketball has
overturned the standard. They've overturned the precedent of previous rules. Now,
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what is my evidence If you go back to twenty ten,
fifteen years ago, I remember doing monologues right here in
twenty ten that the NBA had said no to big balls.
The NBA had said, we have no room for big balls.
You can't tell anyone you've got big balls, and they've
been It became taboo. And one of the last ones
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to get away with it was Kobe Bryant who did
a big ball's celebration, but it wasn't illegal. It was
after that a year later, in twenty ten, they banned
the balls. So Halliburton himself, there's a quote going around
he expected to get fined. He said, I've been waiting
for that. I'll take the fine gladly close quote. Halliburton
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said he was aware of the president. He was aware
of the president. Now, the NBA has a history of
fighting players going back again, we're talking about fifteen years
here for the Serrano from Major League Baseball. The movie
celebration deemed obscene, right, and the NBA generally finds you
between fifteen and twenty five thousand dollars. So if you
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do the math on that, that's like, if it's twenty
five thousand dollars, it's twelve thousand, five hundred dollars. I believe,
I think the math is right on there. Per big ball,
So that's an expensive ball, and it depends on the incident.
And if you've done it before. Now, Sam Cassell, half man,
half alien, if you remember him, was the og of
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this this kind of move. Now more recently, Lebron was
fine for this a couple of years ago. Fred van
Vliet was fine when he was in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas,
the Celtics guy, he got dingg for this. But now
it appears the NBA has decided that they are going
to embrace their big balls and that the celebration will
be adjudicated on a case by case basis. So okay,
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you're good to go. You think that was a side
deal with Haliburton's like, hey, listen, we banned your dad
from going to the games. That you're allowed to do
the big balls thing. It's that's the deal, all right.
Final point. We now head to TV Land where pro
bouncy Ball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, a Boston Celtics legend,
(24:46):
went viral, went viral. On Thursday. He walked approximately twenty
miles from his home, which is not far away from
the Fox Sports radio studios, but he walked from there
to the Fox Sports one studios, which are in West LA,
to fulfill at bet he made during some show that
(25:08):
he does that, Like, you know, I guess people like that.
I don't know the name of it. I don't I've
remember seen the show anyway, Pierce geron t he guaranteed
that the Celtics were gonna win Game two of their
series with the next season, well, that's it. We're gonna win.
That's it. We're gonna win raw raw and all that.
He stated that he would walk to work, which is
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like fifteen twenty miles something like that, in his robe
and barefoot. That was the bet. I will walk to work,
Paul Pierce said, fifteen twenty miles in my robe barefoot
if if the Celtics lost, well, of course we know
they lost. And so there's video of this, Paul Pierce
walking to work, and several of you knuckleheads, you mouth
(25:54):
breathing morons, have complained to me, well, you see, look,
Paul Pierce did it. You didn't look to Tucson. You
said you're gonna walked You ain't you? You didn't do
it all. Okay, let me address this. Okay, I would
like to address this. If you've listened for a while,
(26:14):
you might not know this. This wager was made many, many,
many many years ago. We're going way back. In fact,
I'd have to go back and look to see exactly
what year this wager was made. It's a long time
and some of these morons still remember this. So I
was on the air during the NCAA NCAA Men's basketball
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tournament Arizona. This is how long ago Lude Olsen was
the coach. He's been dead for years. But Lude Olsen
was coaching against Illinois, and Arizona had a commanding lead
in the final minutes. And I was practicing the ancient
art of gat baggery, and I rant it and I
raved and I said there's no way that Illinois is
gonna win this game. It's in the bag for Arizona,
(26:58):
and if Arizona loses, I will walk to Tucson from
the Fox Sports Radio studios to Tucson. Well, we know
what happened. We've been through the story a bunch of times.
I went to management. I said I'd like to walk
to Tucson. My boss, the late great Andrew Ashwood at
the time, said Ben, you're morbidly obese. You'll die before
you get to Riverside. And I said, I want to
(27:18):
do it. And then we did the math. We determined
how many miles I could walk per day, how many
days it would take. We then looked at the weather
at that time. It was the tournament was in March,
so the weather wasn't too bad, but it was kind
of a hot week the time we were talking about
doing it. So anyway, it didn't happen. So let's get
into this here. Let's get into it question. Are you
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jealous that Paul Pierce paid off his TV bet to
walk twenty miles to work? And people are accusing yours
truly of not paying off the beat. So I'm gonna
shake my head. No, on this and by the way,
by the way, as the oracle of truth, right, I
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buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracy. Is it true that
while the illusion was that Paul Pierce actually walked all
the way twenty miles to work, is it true that
he actually did not pay off the wager? Say what,
let me explain. We're gonna call this the trivial pursuit.
(28:23):
If you listen to the words and you read the
fine print, Paul Pierce failed on a technicality. He had
said very specifically, very specifically, Paul Pierce had said he
was gonna walk to work the fifteen to twenty miles
whatever it was, in his robe, bear foot, bear foot, barefoot,
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barefoot if they lost. So Pierce got up early on Thursday, Yeah,
got up early, start walking. He documented everything on Instagram live,
and he was wearing his bathrobe like you said. However, however,
he had shoes, he had shoes, He had clodhoppers, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes.
(29:14):
Paul Pierce wore shoes. He did not pay off the bet.
That is fraudulent and it's bull crap. It's absolute bull
crap that people said, well, you put it off the bet.
He didn't pay off the bet. He didn't pay off
the bet. I paid off my bet, my last bet
that I made. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters. So the move
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is yours, mister Pierce. You didn't pay off your bet.
You wore shoes. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oisters. Done. You, on
the other hand, did not meet the conditions of the bet.
You didn't do it. It's a bad job by you,
and it's you can't trust the media. Another example of
(29:59):
the meat giving you fake news that Paul Pierce paid
off the bat he said no shows. Paul Pierce war
shows jos ridiculous. Don't fall for it fake news.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Here we gowout degree. This is one big event. Gets grilled,
all right and leave a.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Lat Ben Manny Pakiao, Manny Pacio will end his nearly
for your retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WC
Welterweight Championship on July nineteenth in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Ben, is this a must watch event? And does he
even have a chance? No, this is a money grab.
I guess he's maybe lost some money in the stock market.
Pacquiao is forty six years old. This is all about nostalgia,
Like the people that were fans of Paccio back in
the day. They're gonna watch the curiosity from p that.
Maybe we're too young and didn't watch Packy on his prime.
(31:03):
He's definitely not his prime. But no, this is not
must watch now. I might check it out for content purposes,
but am I excited about it? No?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Next, more bang for your Becker, Ben, You could get
into Madison Square Garden for four hundred and seventy nine
dollars to watch Game three between the Knicks and Celtics.
Or you could watch the first ever WNBA showdown between
Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker for three hundred and seventeen dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
What is the most bang for your buck? Well, as
you know, I am a discerning customer and I but
I'm not a customer of the WNBA. That's not something
I pay attention to. So I mean I am interested
in the NBA, so I would rite I'm not gonna
spend money on either one of them. But if I,
if you got into my head, I would take the
NBA game. I would I'd rather see that next Hail Mary.
We talked about it.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
After only two days, the conclave elected the first Pope
ever from the United States, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost All
out of South Side of Chicago, now known as Pope
Leo the Fourteenth. Ben, will the new Holy Father bring
divine intervention into the Windy City or Villanova?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I just want to know if he's gonna bring the
Pope mobile. Isn't that cool? The Pope bring that to America?
This cruise stuff? And uh, how much does the Pope
get paid? Do we know that lead does that?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
It?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Does the Pope get a salary or just everything's taken
care of. I will look into that. How big is
the Pope's bedroom at the Vaticate? These are things I
want to know. He gets good jewelry? Yeah, that's a win.
I won. You didn't answer the last one, Ben, I
did answer. I answered it with more questions. Hey, knock, knock,
(32:34):
who's there? Blame week?
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Blame week too.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
let's do it then, jokes in the league. Are you
there weed man hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami. Well, yeah,
I'm here, I'm here, all right. You don't see him
that excited today? Are you not excited?
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I'm tired?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, all right? These are actually something great. I know
your roommates got her actual jokes by actual listeners. Send
into the show. I love you, all right, Benmallers show
at gmail dot com. Did you hear the tooth fairy
move to Miami? He became a vagrant and was arrested
(33:14):
for trespassing. That's not the punchline. Policeas trying to identify
the owner of some dirty dentures found in her apartment
cart or shopping cart. Rather, that's Jordon in Takba. I
screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh was
funny anyway? How much of a bomb is weed man hippie?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
How much?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
in two different ways. So that's Alex the Cinecal. What
do you call weed man in a plane? What?
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
What do you call weed man on land? What? Also? High?
That's Alex Lisinecal who sent that one? In. Well, interesting
news out. I don't know if you saw this this week.
Did you know that Weedman Hippie once defeated a silver
backed gorilla in combat? You kidding me? Yeah? Yeah, it
(34:17):
turns out the gorilla could not handle the smell. That's
Tom from Fullerton, who sent that one in. Well, here's
one from the lame joke writer of the Year last year.
I believe he's won a couple of times. Here. What
was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was his nickname?
(34:38):
That's surfer Tom the comedian. These are actual jokes by
actual listeners. How did weed Man get off the streets?
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
That's how you did. That's how Drew in Minnesota, Thank
you Drew. What is the difference between Mike the Leprechaun
and weed Man Hippie? What Mike is searching for a
pot of gold and weed Man is just looking for
pot that's a Yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before.
(35:10):
That's Chip in Maine. It's Big Man's Lame Jokes of
the Week. Well, weed Man, why is it surprising that
you're short and only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds.
That's not true. But why because you're a big dummy.
That's Tony in the Bay Area. That's not nice, Tony,
that's not nice. What is the difference between weed man
(35:31):
and a catfish? What one is a bottom feeder? The
other is a fish? That's a Noah in Austin. All right?
If Justin Cooper. If the Justin Cooper doll is a
bobblehead and the Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what
is the lorraina doll? What a bubblehead? That's from Eke
(35:55):
in Roseville, Minnesota. Well do you see that pirate Did
you see that pirate fan that got injured after falling
onto the field. Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have
diagnosed him with Anthony Rendon disease because he got injured
the second he touched the field. That's Alex the Seneca.
(36:18):
Well this offseason, where is John Morant going to work
on his shot?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Where no the shooting range? He's going to surfer? Todd
the comedian there? Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
holding a crack pipe and a pullover by the cops.
Did you see this weed man. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Jed whu Fled said he's glad his pet raccoon was
found alive. He would like his pipe back, though, he
(36:46):
would like the pipe back, So make that say that happened.
How can you tell that Mike the Leprechaun is jealous
of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow, he's green with envy.
He's green with NBR. There is lame jokes. We thank
you eat man. There you go, all right, enjoy your
(37:07):
freedom without your roommate. There
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