May 13, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Celtics falling to the Knicks and going down 3 games to 1 in the East Semifinals, if Jayson Tatum going down with a suspected torn Achilles officially ends the Celtics title defense, "celebrity row" at Madison Square Garden, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah Our, one
of the original Recipe podcast. We thank you for being
a loyal minion and being part of the pod. Happy Tuesday.
It is the thirteenth day of May. We stayed up
all night to provide fresh pod. So here in our
number one. If reports are true and Jason Tatum is
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out for the rest of this series and for the
extended dance remix, does this officially end Boston's title defense
the Knickerbocker's winning the game at the Garden on Monday night? Also,
what are the long term implications for Jason Tatum Again,
it appears he shredded his achilles. Those are the reports
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trickling in overnight. And what are the chances that Jason
Tatum makes a full recovery. We'll take a look at that.
And what impact is celebrity row having on your opinion
of the Knicks. Can't stop watching those celebrities when you
watch an NBA game. We'll get to all that and
more right now here. It is our number one. Honey,
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luck of the Celtics. I think it's over. It's all over.
What was that?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
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So I made an editorial decision. I was like, well,
there's a couple of games and you normally the protocol
if you listen to the show on a semi regular basis,
we normally begin with whatever game happened last, because that's
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the freshest, but in this particular night, this night different
than all the And I said a couple of other
stories that were somewhat interesting, intriguing that are worthy of
some talk. And we'll get to the draft lottery. There's
some funny business with that, as the Dallas maver Rex
one and they will have the number one pick in
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the draft. Have some thoughts on that I will share
with you later if you're with us for their Yeah,
they got that top top pick. But the story here
is not like there's much to talk about to begin
with Golden State not showing up in the third quarter
and losing. They were supposed to lose without Steph Curry.
They lost without Steph Curry. We will get to that
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as Minnesota is now on the brink of advancing to
the Final four of the NBA again. But our lead
this hour from Midtown Manhattan, game number four, Eastern Conference
Semi Finals. The Green team looking to even things up.
They'd those blown leads in games one and two, and
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they made every three point shot, so it seemed at
least half of them in the game over the weekend,
so they could even things up with the Knickerbockers on
a Monday night. Were you engaged? You were not? You
have a life? Okay? Good? So Jalen Brunson went bonkers
in the say and that, but overall he had thirty
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nine points twelve assists, a partridge in the pear tree.
And yet again the New York basketball team rallying back,
and they now move on the brink of an advancement
to the Final four in the East, as they are
a win away from the first Eastern Conference final appearance
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in twenty five years. That's a generation of suck for
the Knickerbockers, but they are on the brink of doing that.
As the reigning champions of the NBA, the Boston Celtics,
they are staring down the barrel of an elimination situation.
They lose by eight on Monday night. The Knicks were
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down fourteen in the third quarter, yet another blown lead
by the Boston basketball team. And so what is the setup?
Game five is on Wednesday back in the Commonwealth, and
the setup is there have only been thirteen teams that
have come back from a three to one deficit. That's it,
thirteen teams from a three to one deficit. And so Boston,
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if they want to do this. They have to be
the fourth fourteenth team. Fourteenth team. My malor math tells
me to come back, and they're going to have to
do it. We are ninety nine point nine percent sure
without Jason Tatum, who had to be carried off the
court then used a wheelchair. But unlike Paul Pierce who
pooped his pants, Jason Tatum did not poop his pants.
He had a right leg injury with two point fifty
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eight to go in the basketball game. As he was
withering in pain on the court, hopped off the court.
And if you have watched sports at all for any
amount of time, chances are you were going to come
up with the same diagnosis that everyone's come up with. Now,
there's no official confirmation that I've seen, And if you've
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seen it, that's fine. I haven't seen anything. I was
looking around. I hadn't seen any official confirmation. I'm not
a doctor, but I did stay at a holiday and
express years ago, and so I will give you my
radio diagnosis here in a minute. Ninety nine point nine
percent sure, Pop goes the Achilles. Unfortunately, MRI is scheduled
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for later on on Tuesday, So let us discuss the
question if these reports are true. If true and Jason
Tatum is out for the series and for the long run,
does this officially end Boston's title defense?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Are they cooked at this point? So I've got Buckingham Palace,
Owen Wilson, and Tabernacle and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to have a
pity party, which the Celtics can all show up to.
They can have a nice little pity party. So a
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to answer the question, if Tatum did suffer the injury
that everyone's pretty sure he suffered, although not one hundred percent.
If that's the case at this hour, does it end
Boston's title hopes? And to that I will say, is
the new Pope a white Sox fan? Yes? I think yeah.
So that's a rhetorical question. Obviously, it's game, set and match.
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If this was monopoly, Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers would
pass go collect two hundred dollars and a fast pass
to the Eastern Conference finals. You can even crank up
if you are the classic from Willie and Nelson who
just had a birthday, turn out the lots the parties over.
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Oh yeah, and then some and So the Celtics in
this era of one win champions and then you fade
into oblivion. It would appear that that is the track,
that is the dimension that we are in a different dimension,
Jason Tatum finishes the game, doesn't get hurt, and the
Celtics come back, although they were down nine at that point,
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come back and win the game. But in the dimension
that we're in, Tatum suffers the Achilles injury and just
a one win title team and Jalen Brown and the
Celtics can get together. They can have a team get
together at a nice boutique in on Martha's vineyard, a
cozy bed and breakfast, because it appears the Celtics are
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dining on one thing, and one thing only, a Kellogg's product.
That would be Rice Crispy, Snapcrackle and Pop for the
Boston Celtics. There the Celtics in the process you talk
about a change here, the Celtics in a process of
an ownership change with Jason Tatum likely out most if
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not all, of next season, so he's gone next season.
Think of this like, if you will, the Celtics all
of a sudden deciding we're going to visit Buckingham Palace,
and we're going to witness the changing of the guard
because that's what's going on in the Eastern Conference. It
opens things up obviously this year, it opens things up,
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and I mean, we're looking barring some kind of really
awkward situation here Indiana and New York in the Eastern
Conference final. So one of those two teams guaranteed to
go to the finals. My Malard math tells me that,
So expect to see seven thousand different shots of Reggie
Miller and the old pacer Knicks matchups back, you know,
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a million years ago when they actually used to play
each other in the playoffs on a on a semi
regular basis. And it also opens things up down the line.
You look at the off season wheeling and dealing, and
if the Celtics are cooked because the owner, the new
ownership is going to force some contracts to leave and
Tatum will be out all of a sudden, the Celtics
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at at the very least they going on to a
middle of the pack Eastern Conference team next season, and
that opens things up for some of these other pretenders
to go. And pat Riley goes out and get Giannis
in Miami and all of a sudden the heater back
near the top. All right, now turning the page on that,
what are the long term implications? We went over some
of them, but what are the other long term implications
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for Jason Tatum if he did shred his achilles like
we put into context for him and for everyone involved.
So the first name that popped in my head when
I was watching this Joe Missoula. Joe Missoula. Yeah, that's
the first name the coach because this Jason Tatum injury
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where he goes down snap, crackle pop. For Joe Missoula,
it is like an old Owen Wilson comedy from over
a decade ago. Hall pass. This is a hall It
wasn't a good movie, but it's a hall pass for
Joe Missoula. He'll get immunity, management will overlook his faux
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pause in coach, you're now coaching. There's not a lot
in the NBA compared to other sports. It's pretty low
on the big board of impact and whatnot. But there
were a number of what are you doing moments in
this Celtic Runner reminds you a couple of years ago
when we gave Joe Mozulda and the nickname let him
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play Joe, sleepy Joe, and he was kind of sleeping
on the sidelines, and he didn't morph back into let
him play Joe. In this series, it's arcade basketball. It's
the old school going to the arcade playing Papa shot.
You put a token in, and you put another one
and another one, over and over and over and over.
There were no meaningful adjustments. It is an indictment of
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the Celtic franchise. They blew two twenty point leads. You know,
it's a much different conversation if the Celtics are up
three nothing going into this game, which they had the
lead that blew out the Knicks in the game over
the weekend on Saturday, and then you look at what
happened to the first two games in Boston. So there
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is a world where the Celtics win the first three
and then if Tatum still gets hurt, that's fine. You're
still thinking, Okay, we still get to the Eastern Conference Finals.
But in this particular game four outscored by twenty two points.
They went up fourteen in the third quarter, outscored by
twenty two points to close the game. Jalen Brunson put
on an absolute clinic with twenty six points six assists
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to close the game, and even when Tatum left with
two point fifty eight to go, Boston was down by Now,
I guess we're having postgame sound, but what are the
chances that Jason Tatum makes a full recovery? So even
the outlook is not great on that, and we're not
one hundred percent sure it's in Achilles, but we're ninety
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nine point nine percent shirts an achilles. If it is
an achilles, the chances are slim and none that he
makes a full recovery. There was just a study done
last year. Thirty seven players had suffered the Achilles injury
going back decades in the NBA. Now, seventy eight percent
of them did return. That's the good news. Seventy eight
percent of them did return. However, most players struggled to
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get anywhere close to where they re matter how terrible
Kobe Bryant was at the end, that's one of the
guys Jason Tatum copies. And Kobe could not do anything
at the end there when he was playing because he
had the Achilles injury and he was a shell of
what he had been. He was also older, and the
numbers indicate, and this tells you what has happened, now
what's going to happen. That it's mostly the backups, that
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it's the reserve players that are able to come back
and perform. Thirty one percent of players who returned from
an achilles injury were out of the NBA within three years. Now, again,
a lot of those were older players. It's normally something
that happens to someone's older, not in the prime of
their careers, so you have to factor that in. But yikes,
double yikes, if you will. All right, now, last word here.
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So I wanted to address this because it's a pet
peeve of mine and this is really my therapy. I
don't pay for a therapist. I don't talk to anyone.
This is I talk to you. You're the person that
has to listen to me complain. I sit around. I'm
very grateful to have a job where they want me
to watch random games and then give my hot takes.
What a great job. But occasionally I want to pull
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the hair out of my head that is left on
my head and watching the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
I want to preface this first of all, I'd like
to curse I don't think I'm allowed to. But what
impact let me let me phrase it this way. What
impact is Celebrity Row having on your judgment, your opinion
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of the Knicks in watching this? So these entertainment people,
these entertainment elites that are given these seats courtside so
they can get on television, and the Knicks can make
everyone think they're the coolest thing in town and everyone
wants to be at the next game, sitting court set
and all that major Ick factor, major Ick fact. And
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there they were again. Look there's Cardi b all my
Benny Blanco, Oh my god, Selena Gomez is there sting
Chris Rock, Ben Stiller. MSG. When it comes to the
celebrity is the tabernacle of worship. It's celebrity worship is
what it is, excessive admiration and to the level of
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obsession of the celebrity, putting them on a pedestal. And
those aren't the real nick fans. See that's the thing. Like,
and I got those, I got family from New York whatever,
find they're they're nick fans sprinkled through my cousins and
whatnot that are from that area. But watching Celebrity Row
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makes me want to puke in my mouth. Okay, I
want to literally I want to vomit in my mouth
watching the celebrity row, I would like it. And and
it's one thing to show them once. How many cutaway
shots did we? Like, did somebody at the ESPs? Okay?
This just keep showing all of them continuous spotlight reaction,
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Like I really need to see Spike Lee celebrating or
Tracy Morgan or an these other cats, and like why
And it's whether it's a celebrity or not that celebrities
annoy me more. But when I'm much in a college
football game on a Saturday, I don't need the reaction
shot on that either. The frequent cutaways. And it's just
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like the early television producers and directoris this is what
they did, and everyone just copies the early people in television.
They do the same things. Well, this is all we
did it back and there we had fan reaction shots. Listen,
you cut away. It's excessive, it's unnecessary. It takes away
from the broadcast. And you keep cutting away to these
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reaction shots. And does anyone need to see someone else
reacting to something that we can't see be because we're
seeing them react to what they're looking at but we
can't see it, but they're actually there. It's like, how
dumb is this?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Dumb?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
D dumb dumb dumb. Seriously and at very least, at
least diversify your crowd reaction shots. I get it your
star efforts. I understand. You don't need to fixate on
the celebrities. We know they're there. Okay, great, they got
free tickets. Wonderful. Outstand many of them haven't done anything
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entertaining in years anyway, they're living off what they did
thirty years ago or twenty years ago. All right, it
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commentary from a well known athlete who became a coward
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and hid and has now admitted. This athlete admitting they
were a coward for what they did. We'll explain. We've
got the audio, we'll play it for you. We get
to all that and we will do it next.
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a Bronco fan. As we are just beginning a journey
into the wee hours of the morning, further and further
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into the abyss when most are sleeping, do it live
and only few souls are awake to talk sport. Let's
get back to it all right, Let's get and as
I ben as, we will have the play of the
day coming up in a couple of minutes. We look
forward to that. We have some great audio though that
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we'll play from the Golden They game. Actually do a
full rundown on that later, but we'll get that audio
in a second. As a NBA star has admitted he
was a coward, and we love when people admit their cowards.
We love to play the audio. It's good. Audio doesn't
happen all the time. So we'll have that for you
coming up in a couple of minutes. I'd also like
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to rip the previous show for leaving the temperature at
a very hot temperature in here, Lorena, are you sweat well?
I have a lot of lights on. They don't leave
the lights on. Why do I have to have the
lights on? They don't have the lights on. Why come
I don't I have the lights on here?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Because you understand, like Mariah Carrey does, that lighting is everything.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are you comparing me to Mariah carry? Yes, you are
a diva. Wait till I sing Christmas music? Okay? T
defrost you around? Yeah? Absolutely? Man, absolutely super Argus Steve
says that you're trying to trigger me by not posting
the rundown again. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to
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annoy him. Yes that that that is my goal, and
I think it's working by the way. I think it's working. Yeah,
So I'll get to it at some point. I got
other things going on, you know, maybe Bill Miller or
Coop or somebody else can put Why do I have
to post? How come I gotta I don't need to
post it? What's up with that? Uh? Milkman. Mike in
Colorado says, fantabulous opening monologue and absolutely the most important
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story of the night the collapse of the Celtics. They
were struggling with Tatum and now it's almost elementary that
the Knicks move on. There you go. Uh. Justin in
Cincinnati says, maybe Jason Tatum can get a new Achilles
at that clinic blind. Scott goes to there and help
him out. Yeah, sure, why not? See what else do
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we have? Page down? Shane in des Moines says Andre
in the Commonwealth went live on on X he did
a live show. There there he is as Andre. He's
doing live. He said, what did he He's trying to
enter it into were he's taking over Andre and the
Commonwealth's up with that. Let's go to the phone. Let's
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say hello to Hugh who's driving around I five somewhere. Hello, Hugh, welcome,
You're on the Ben Malor Show on Fox. Hi. So hey,
what taught me was that you were going on a
rant about panning around.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The audience and just focus on celebrities watching games.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Or something like that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Am I right?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Did you watch the next game? Okay, yes, it was
non stop. Here. Look here's a celebrity. Look they're eating
popcorn that one's gotten na chos we.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is that new?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
That's not new?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's like, hey, isading three batters away?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah. The difference is these guys aren't playing in the game.
They're sitting in the crowd. Okay, they're not athletes. They're
sitting in the crowd. They're watching We don't need the
cutaway shot. It was too much. It makes me hope
the Knicks lose and get stomped on by the Pacers
in the next round. How about that?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, I think I think that's what they're going for.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
They're looking to incite the audience and have things.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Like talk about them on sports trading or just like yeah, well,
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
We talk about whether they show that or not, we
have that's what we talk about. We talk about sports, okay,
so that it doesn't matter whether they show that or not,
we're going to talk about it. My theory is they
show that because there's a lot of dumb people that
live their lives through celebrities, and they worship celebrities, and
so that's why they show that, because they know these
people that can't can barely live their lives. They they
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desperately want to see these famous people.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Can I hear an amen for Ben Mallory?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I gotta amen, I gotta amen. Look at that. Live
your life man, You're you're the celebrity in your own movie.
How about that? You're your own celebrity in your own movie.
You're living your own movie right there. Boom, all right,
thank you, all right, go away? All right there he is. Well,
let's say, well, who do we have here? Let's go
to Justin who's hanging out? He's he's in Jersey and
I think this is very odd comment. He wants to
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talk Uber. Are you gonna You're gonna break down Uber?
I love Uber. Let's break down Uber. Bring me some
dinner hot Uber talk right now with Justin and Jersey.
Right now, let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So today, this morning, I'm doing my uber ship listening
to Dan Patrick. I pick up somebody and he goes sports.
I'm like, yeah, like you listening to Ben Mallers though,
you know who I picked up today?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Who's a trucker?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No way? Is that right? Yep? It's beautiful. Look at
that guy. We know, truck or Joe? What are the odds?
It's a small world, after all, it's a small small world.
Only I can make Disney references. Ben, I just did
you're gonna stop me? Well? That's great? Was he was
he nice? Did he smell? Did he take a shower?
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He was? He was nice to you?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
He wasn't a jerk or.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes, he's very nice. It was just very random. I
think you can appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, I do. That's great, Justin awesome, man.
How's the uber game working there for you? In Jersey Pennsylvania?
You're in Pennsylvania? All right? It says Jersey on the screen.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But yeah, I'm from originally from Jersey, but I just
lived a.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Po Okay, well, I think Trucker Joe lives in Pennsylvania.
I think, yeah, Oh, the Paul look at he's doing.
He's hanging out and the Polcono's out there with the
trees and all the beautiful land out there. Beautiful nice.
All right, Well that's very cool, John, thanks for listening.
And you got and you always have Fox Sports Radio
on as you're doing your Uber driving around. Yes, that's
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a p one right there.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know what, I'm gonna give you a golden ticket.
You got a golden ticket. You gotta golden take your dedication, sir.
I don't know if the company appreciates it, but I
appreciate it. So thank you Justin for going out. Yes, Lauren, Justin,
would you like to give an acceptance speech for your
golden to it? Ah, I don't think he's a man
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of few words, Lorraine. He's a man of few words.
He's a man of action, not words, Right, Justin, You're
a man of action, absolutely, man. Well, thanks for checking
and thanks for that's a great story. I love it.
I love it. It's wonderful. I had my one of
my cousins, thanks Justin. I had one of my cousins
who was from He lives in Colorado and he's live
all over the country. He moves every like five years.
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I think he's hiding from someone. But I read into
him and he was like, yeah, I was on I
was like an uber and Sacramento and they were listening
to your show or whatever. That's kind of cool. So
that's me. I appreciate that. It's good for my ego.
Do you ever mind what ubers play when they're like
giving you ride somewhere? Did they ever ask you? Yeah? Normally,
I don't mind if they play something. I just don't
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like the small talk, you know, I don't want to
ask me a million questions, you know, I don't want
to don't talk to me to me, Wow, it's like
anti socialesh, oh, like your social coop. Come on, you're
not social? Not social? Well, look, I'm not like vol
entarily social, but if somebody talks to me when I
get into uber, I'm not like, uh, well, no, I'm
not no no no no. In my head, I'm like,
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don't talk to me. Like I'll respond, but I'm like,
don't talk to me in my head, and the soundtrack
in my head is like, I really don't want to talk.
I just want to sit here and play with my
phone and wait till I get to the airport to
where I'm going, and that's it, and then normally something
will happen and conversation will begin. I find it more
awkward when they don't say anything. I don't know. As
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long as they smell good, I don't really mind. And
don't drive like they're trying to get away from law
enforcement and they just robbed a bank and they're trying
to get on the interstate, and that's usually usually pretty good.
We have the play of the day. We got to
play this, So let's go now to Madison Square Garden, Midtown,
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Manhattan and the New York knicker Bockers down fourteen. Jalen
Brunson had some other ideas. The Knick sixploded creen on
the right from end and they'll be picking roll right
wing side, step three in.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And out and packing again.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He got it, tailing crunts. It puts the Knicks up
by twelve from down fourteen to up twelve, just like that.
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should be. And let's sailo to Andre in the Commonwealth.
Who's next up? Andre? You're branching out? Is this correct?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Andre?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I'm getting clips here that you had your own, your
own show on X earlier? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Be good to be with you?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
How to Go? How to Go? Was this the first
show that you've done? Have you done other shows? I
was unaware of.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
No, no, no, I've been doing a couple other shows.
You know. This is the passing projects, Ben, you know
what I mean. So you start start quite small and
you build it up step by step by step. So
actually been at it for a couple of years and
not the moment a.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Couple of years, and I'm just finding out about this
right now, a couple of years. I'm a little slow,
bad job by me.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
No, no, no, not at all, you know, because again
it's just like much by side thing. You know, it's
indie Ben. You know, I'm not a big major studio.
It's an indie project, you know, and enjoy the sports
talk and you know, you have these great conversations calling
me your great show, or maybe you're in the barbershop
just kind of chopping it up and you say to yourself, man,
you know, we got a little bit of magic here,
and what can we do with it? So that was
kind of the kernel. And then again didn't have the
(29:37):
patience today. I wish I could joined the drama club
back in high school and I had the patient to
kind of sit down. So I don't have a technology background.
So a little, by a little I learned about this
and about that and about the third so long story
not so long. I really does my heart well, worm,
you know, made my whole day, even though it's going
to the next day that somebody saw it and maybe
maybe got something from it. But bottom up, like I said,
(29:57):
it's a passion project. I enjoyed doing it, you know,
and it's just kind of my thing. You know. You
try to get the buddies, you know, and say maybe
you can do it, you know, if everybody's busy. But
if they're busy, I'm still gonna do what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, listen, good for you. You might as well listen. You
knock yourself out, you never know, might might end up.
You don't know where you're gonna end up. I've heard
the story from the great Rob Parker. He told me
the story. Stephen A. Smith wanted to retire from broadcasting
and work at a bank, and I think it was
in North Carolina. He's gonna take a job at a
bank and Rob convinced him to. If you if you're
(30:30):
upset with Stephen A. Smith, is because Rob Parker convinced
him to keep going in sports media and he did
and things things have worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So you know, he had those years in the valley.
Once you're like two years out of the business, you know,
trying to find his way, and then he gets back
into it and uh, you know, now he's now he is,
So you know, you don't have any bottom line. You know,
I just want to make it clear. You know, the
passion project is the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
You don't have the delusions of grandeur that you might
have had in your youth, you know. But you know,
if it works out that way, you know, great. But
if it doesn't, you know what does that mean? It's
that's what I'm trying to get, you know, coming from
the educational we say kids in sports stay out of court,
you know. So that's that's kind of the theory, you know,
keeps me and keeps me on the straight and Darrow.
But Ben, look here, my New York Nick, and I
(31:15):
know you got other calling, but you know, I'm not
gonna be too triumphant tonight because again all the TIBs
slander talking about he's the worst coach in the NBA,
people don't want to play for him, and people chastizing
him because he has people show up for the best
job on the planet, and all the mantian he's having players. Okay,
so all of that, let me just tell you for
myself and a lot of other Knicks fans, Okay, we
are cautiously optimistic right now. Now. Jason Tatum, the injury
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I don't, you know, obviously he's going for his ankle,
so it does look like a little bit of an achilles,
But it was just kind of awkward. He just seemed
to plant wrong and his leg kind of cramped up.
So I think we're all hoping against hope that it's
not an achilles, even though that you know, that kind
of the look of it. But you know, you want
Jason Tatum to be healthy. You know, who knows if
he's going to be able to be back, you know,
for this pivotal Game five, quite a convergence here with
(32:01):
the Celtics on the one hand looking dynastic and now
having their absolutely back up against the wall. So twofold
that you said the story is in the loser's locker room.
The Celtics are missing Jeff van Gundy and they're missing
Charles Lee. I've been on that their coaching staff took
a big hit and it wasn't replenished. So you look
at Joe Missoula looking kind of lost. He doesn't have
the brain trust that he had before. On the other
(32:22):
side of the aisle. Last point that I'm going to
make go back and look at Tom Tibdaud. He's with
the Minnesota timberwolfs. I'm talking mullet Tom Thibodeaux. He's a
basketball life for this is his moment. He take advantage
of it. Go New York, Go New York. Go Ben,
thanks for taking the call in the shout out passion.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Thank you. There's Andre in the Commonwealth checking in. Joe
the ghost Hunter from Ohio rights and says, you hate celebrities,
but you're too good for an uber guy. Be better.
Bet we know you're a big time celebrity. Well trust me,
that's uh the company, And I really would like to
thank management here at Fox bors RADI now, I've worked
here pretty much my entire adult life. They did fire
(32:59):
me in O nine out for six months in twenty
six days, but I've worked your my entire adult life.
And the company has always said, you know, we don't
want you to really get a big head, so we're
going to keep your salary reasonable. And I've always said,
thank you. I appreciate that. You know, I don't want
to make the big money. Where I buy a house,
it ends up in the real estate section online and
all that. And they've made sure that I've I've made
a living a good wage. But not too much. You're
(33:20):
not the big tump exactly. They're keeping me grounded, and
I do appreciate that, so I don't get a big head.
And you know, I would hate to make ridiculous money
and and just not have to worry about money. That
would be That would be really bad. No, nobody would
want that at all. Femi says, don't fall for the
uber drivers small talk, bend. It's to suck you into
(33:42):
higher tips. It works all the time. Look at that,
that's Femi. He's in the Uber game. He's in the
Uber Eats game. But he's in the Uber game too,
and that's inside information. Yeah. Gumby Dave says, they show
so many celebrities at Nicks games so the fans can
play the new fan favorite game of the year. Which
celebrity will blow lunch next? Shout out Tracy Morgan. Yeah,
(34:09):
one of the many celebrity shots which triggered me. They
did show Tracy Morgan eating, and when they showed him,
I was thinking, well, I wonder how that's gonna look
on the court. What's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Uh.
(34:30):
Nick the Wendy's guy writes and says, Ben, Buddy, can
you look into your crystal ball. Tell me if the
Wolves put the nail in the coffin on Wednesday, or
does Curry save the Warriors. Oh, and I'll give you
an ata boy. Oh an way to go? Big rig
Rob says, how do we find Andre on the X
machine to see his show? Ben, I can give it out.
(34:54):
I guess it's his passion project. Let's see page second.
Find it here. I got a bunch of messages. I
think it's the cape Cod Kid. I believe the cape
Cod Kid on X. I think that's Andre. I believe.
I don't know their nicknames, Well that's his You don't
know their names, but that's his name. Oh anyway, I'm
up against the clock, So we'll have to wait to
(35:15):
have that star basketball player admitting he was a coward.
We'll have to wait on that because I am on time,
outed by the clock for the clock plausibly all about
the clock. And here's the who am I game? We'll
go to that Golden State game with Minnesota and just
dreadful shooting this entire series by Brandon Pajemski. So Warriors
(35:36):
guard Brandon Pajemski is shooting twenty three point one percent
in this series. That would be the worst of any
player in a playoff series with thirty five or more shots.
Since me, who am I? That's the question? The answer,
We'll get to it what the head next?
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Now back to it all, Right, back to it we go,
and time to pay off the who am I? Game? Question?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else in
a blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. Thus we call it the Whomi game. So
(36:42):
Warriors guard Brandon Pajemski is not only a basketball player,
is horrible. He's shooting twenty three point one percent this
series and if that continues, that would be the worst
of any player, any player in a playoff series with
thirty five or more shots. See it's me since me?
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Sayes?
(37:05):
Anyone know the answer? Paige down Downtown, Freddie Brown guests
by William h Sabu, rest in Peace from King Rory
James Harden guests by Fami. That's a low blow, Femi's
low blow. Alf the Alien Opiner says the Pope, Yeah,
(37:26):
he just missed it. Andre's co host from ferg Dog
that would be Willis the imaginary Dog. You are, Candice King,
who is thirty eight today from Late Night Drug Tester
Page Down Andy in Line O Lakes, Minnesota says, I
think it's your favorite choke artist, Latrell Spreewell. That is
the answer. Rick Burlson, Butterfingers Burlson from Mister Nice Guy
(37:50):
rest in Peace. The Boston Hater Kelly Donut. Kelly says,
my favorite player, lamar odom Eke in Roseville, Minnesota going
Horace Grant as his answer. That's the year. Bozo the
distric attorney says, Ben, if you want to be anti
social with your rideeshair driver. There's an app for that, really,
I have to click on that save that. Who else
(38:11):
do we have? Paige Dan I forty Ian, says Pope Pilarius.
That's his name. Don't wear it out from I forty ian,
That's what he says. Caitlin Clark from Shane in Des Moines.
A good photo there of her. Arnie Spaniard from Big
Greg in Iowa. Michael Andretti from Malibu, Ruben, who else
do we have? Paige down paigedn supermarket Steep says dang
(38:35):
men taking a shot at my Polish brother Azemski. Bad
job by you. There, you are right, let's see, let's
get the answer right now. And Larna Warriors guard Brandon
Pajemski shooting twenty three point one percent this series. That
would be the worst for any player in a playoff
playoff series with thirty five or more shots. Who since me?
(38:58):
Who am I that the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I'm going with Yosemite Sam, fine basketball player for the
Utah Jazz back And remember what Yosemite Sam?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It was Stockton Malone and Yosemite Sam was the third
option to the tune squad. Remember, yeah, how do you
know that's wrong. Maybe it is Yosemite. Sam, how about that?
You don't think it is been wrong? You have been
wrong a lot people. I got a lot of feedback
from the game that you did on Monday, your game
there are you smart? In the FSAR Tech Queen, people
saying that you're rigging it. You're not trying, You're you're
(39:30):
not putting the effort into that game. That's when I
try and my phone gets taken away. Oh okay, gotcha,
I understand well the correct answer. Warriors guard Brandon Pajemski
is shooting twenty three point one percent this series, somehow
would be the worst for any player in a playoff
series thirty five or more shots since me that answer,
Pero Antich, Pero Anditch of the Atlanta Hawks. That was
(39:56):
way back in twenty fourteen. I was barely alive in
twenty fourteen. But way back then, this guy shot sixteen
point seven percent. I looked it up. He didn't last
long in the NBA. I wonder why. I wonder why
he didn't last Hm, things are making go hmmm.
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number one. If reports are true and Jason Tatum is
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out for the rest of this series and for the
extended dance remix, does this officially end Boston's title defense
the Knickerbocker's winning the game at the Garden on Monday night? Also,
what are the long term implications for Jason Tatum Again,
it appears he shredded his achilles. Those are the reports
(00:44):
trickling in overnight. And what are the chances that Jason
Tatum makes a full recovery. We'll take a look at that.
And what impact is celebrity row having on your opinion
of the Knicks. Can't stop watching those celebrities when you
watch an NBA game. We'll get to all that and
more right now here. It is our number one. Honey,
(01:09):
luck of the Celtics. I think it's over. It's all over.
What was that?
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So I made an editorial decision. I was like, well,
there's a couple of games and you normally the protocol
if you listen to the show on a semi regular basis,
we normally begin with whatever game happened last, because that's
(02:42):
the freshest, but in this particular night, this night different
than all the And I said a couple of other
stories that were somewhat interesting, intriguing that are worthy of
some talk. And we'll get to the draft lottery. There's
some funny business with that, as the Dallas maver Rex
one and they will have the number one pick in
(03:05):
the draft. Have some thoughts on that I will share
with you later if you're with us for their Yeah,
they got that top top pick. But the story here
is not like there's much to talk about to begin
with Golden State not showing up in the third quarter
and losing. They were supposed to lose without Steph Curry.
They lost without Steph Curry. We will get to that
(03:25):
as Minnesota is now on the brink of advancing to
the Final four of the NBA again. But our lead
this hour from Midtown Manhattan, game number four, Eastern Conference
Semi Finals. The Green team looking to even things up.
They'd those blown leads in games one and two, and
(03:46):
they made every three point shot, so it seemed at
least half of them in the game over the weekend,
so they could even things up with the Knickerbockers on
a Monday night. Were you engaged? You were not? You
have a life? Okay? Good? So Jalen Brunson went bonkers
in the say and that, but overall he had thirty
(04:07):
nine points twelve assists, a partridge in the pear tree.
And yet again the New York basketball team rallying back,
and they now move on the brink of an advancement
to the Final four in the East, as they are
a win away from the first Eastern Conference final appearance
(04:27):
in twenty five years. That's a generation of suck for
the Knickerbockers, but they are on the brink of doing that.
As the reigning champions of the NBA, the Boston Celtics,
they are staring down the barrel of an elimination situation.
They lose by eight on Monday night. The Knicks were
(04:47):
down fourteen in the third quarter, yet another blown lead
by the Boston basketball team. And so what is the setup?
Game five is on Wednesday back in the Commonwealth, and
the setup is there have only been thirteen teams that
have come back from a three to one deficit. That's it,
thirteen teams from a three to one deficit. And so Boston,
(05:10):
if they want to do this. They have to be
the fourth fourteenth team. Fourteenth team. My malor math tells
me to come back, and they're going to have to
do it. We are ninety nine point nine percent sure
without Jason Tatum, who had to be carried off the
court then used a wheelchair. But unlike Paul Pierce who
pooped his pants, Jason Tatum did not poop his pants.
He had a right leg injury with two point fifty
(05:32):
eight to go in the basketball game. As he was
withering in pain on the court, hopped off the court.
And if you have watched sports at all for any
amount of time, chances are you were going to come
up with the same diagnosis that everyone's come up with. Now,
there's no official confirmation that I've seen, And if you've
(05:54):
seen it, that's fine. I haven't seen anything. I was
looking around. I hadn't seen any official confirmation. I'm not
a doctor, but I did stay at a holiday and
express years ago, and so I will give you my
radio diagnosis here in a minute. Ninety nine point nine
percent sure, Pop goes the Achilles. Unfortunately, MRI is scheduled
(06:15):
for later on on Tuesday, So let us discuss the
question if these reports are true. If true and Jason
Tatum is out for the series and for the long run,
does this officially end Boston's title defense?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Are they cooked at this point? So I've got Buckingham Palace,
Owen Wilson, and Tabernacle and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to have a
pity party, which the Celtics can all show up to.
They can have a nice little pity party. So a
(06:54):
to answer the question, if Tatum did suffer the injury
that everyone's pretty sure he suffered, although not one hundred percent.
If that's the case at this hour, does it end
Boston's title hopes? And to that I will say, is
the new Pope a white Sox fan? Yes? I think yeah.
So that's a rhetorical question. Obviously, it's game, set and match.
(07:19):
If this was monopoly, Jalen Brunson and the Knickerbockers would
pass go collect two hundred dollars and a fast pass
to the Eastern Conference finals. You can even crank up
if you are the classic from Willie and Nelson who
just had a birthday, turn out the lots the parties over.
(07:39):
Oh yeah, and then some and So the Celtics in
this era of one win champions and then you fade
into oblivion. It would appear that that is the track,
that is the dimension that we are in a different dimension,
Jason Tatum finishes the game, doesn't get hurt, and the
Celtics come back, although they were down nine at that point,
(08:01):
come back and win the game. But in the dimension
that we're in, Tatum suffers the Achilles injury and just
a one win title team and Jalen Brown and the
Celtics can get together. They can have a team get
together at a nice boutique in on Martha's vineyard, a
cozy bed and breakfast, because it appears the Celtics are
(08:23):
dining on one thing, and one thing only, a Kellogg's product.
That would be Rice Crispy, Snapcrackle and Pop for the
Boston Celtics. There the Celtics in the process you talk
about a change here, the Celtics in a process of
an ownership change with Jason Tatum likely out most if
(08:45):
not all, of next season, so he's gone next season.
Think of this like, if you will, the Celtics all
of a sudden deciding we're going to visit Buckingham Palace,
and we're going to witness the changing of the guard
because that's what's going on in the Eastern Conference. It
opens things up obviously this year, it opens things up,
(09:06):
and I mean, we're looking barring some kind of really
awkward situation here Indiana and New York in the Eastern
Conference final. So one of those two teams guaranteed to
go to the finals. My Malard math tells me that,
So expect to see seven thousand different shots of Reggie
Miller and the old pacer Knicks matchups back, you know,
(09:27):
a million years ago when they actually used to play
each other in the playoffs on a on a semi
regular basis. And it also opens things up down the line.
You look at the off season wheeling and dealing, and
if the Celtics are cooked because the owner, the new
ownership is going to force some contracts to leave and
Tatum will be out all of a sudden, the Celtics
(09:50):
at at the very least they going on to a
middle of the pack Eastern Conference team next season, and
that opens things up for some of these other pretenders
to go. And pat Riley goes out and get Giannis
in Miami and all of a sudden the heater back
near the top. All right, now turning the page on that,
what are the long term implications? We went over some
of them, but what are the other long term implications
(10:13):
for Jason Tatum if he did shred his achilles like
we put into context for him and for everyone involved.
So the first name that popped in my head when
I was watching this Joe Missoula. Joe Missoula. Yeah, that's
the first name the coach because this Jason Tatum injury
(10:35):
where he goes down snap, crackle pop. For Joe Missoula,
it is like an old Owen Wilson comedy from over
a decade ago. Hall pass. This is a hall It
wasn't a good movie, but it's a hall pass for
Joe Missoula. He'll get immunity, management will overlook his faux
(10:56):
pause in coach, you're now coaching. There's not a lot
in the NBA compared to other sports. It's pretty low
on the big board of impact and whatnot. But there
were a number of what are you doing moments in
this Celtic Runner reminds you a couple of years ago
when we gave Joe Mozulda and the nickname let him
(11:18):
play Joe, sleepy Joe, and he was kind of sleeping
on the sidelines, and he didn't morph back into let
him play Joe. In this series, it's arcade basketball. It's
the old school going to the arcade playing Papa shot.
You put a token in, and you put another one
and another one, over and over and over and over.
There were no meaningful adjustments. It is an indictment of
(11:38):
the Celtic franchise. They blew two twenty point leads. You know,
it's a much different conversation if the Celtics are up
three nothing going into this game, which they had the
lead that blew out the Knicks in the game over
the weekend on Saturday, and then you look at what
happened to the first two games in Boston. So there
(11:58):
is a world where the Celtics win the first three
and then if Tatum still gets hurt, that's fine. You're
still thinking, Okay, we still get to the Eastern Conference Finals.
But in this particular game four outscored by twenty two points.
They went up fourteen in the third quarter, outscored by
twenty two points to close the game. Jalen Brunson put
on an absolute clinic with twenty six points six assists
(12:22):
to close the game, and even when Tatum left with
two point fifty eight to go, Boston was down by Now,
I guess we're having postgame sound, but what are the
chances that Jason Tatum makes a full recovery? So even
the outlook is not great on that, and we're not
one hundred percent sure it's in Achilles, but we're ninety
(12:42):
nine point nine percent shirts an achilles. If it is
an achilles, the chances are slim and none that he
makes a full recovery. There was just a study done
last year. Thirty seven players had suffered the Achilles injury
going back decades in the NBA. Now, seventy eight percent
of them did return. That's the good news. Seventy eight
percent of them did return. However, most players struggled to
(13:07):
get anywhere close to where they re matter how terrible
Kobe Bryant was at the end, that's one of the
guys Jason Tatum copies. And Kobe could not do anything
at the end there when he was playing because he
had the Achilles injury and he was a shell of
what he had been. He was also older, and the
numbers indicate, and this tells you what has happened, now
what's going to happen. That it's mostly the backups, that
(13:30):
it's the reserve players that are able to come back
and perform. Thirty one percent of players who returned from
an achilles injury were out of the NBA within three years. Now, again,
a lot of those were older players. It's normally something
that happens to someone's older, not in the prime of
their careers, so you have to factor that in. But yikes,
double yikes, if you will. All right, now, last word here.
(13:52):
So I wanted to address this because it's a pet
peeve of mine and this is really my therapy. I
don't pay for a therapist. I don't talk to anyone.
This is I talk to you. You're the person that
has to listen to me complain. I sit around. I'm
very grateful to have a job where they want me
to watch random games and then give my hot takes.
What a great job. But occasionally I want to pull
(14:14):
the hair out of my head that is left on
my head and watching the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
I want to preface this first of all, I'd like
to curse I don't think I'm allowed to. But what
impact let me let me phrase it this way. What
impact is Celebrity Row having on your judgment, your opinion
(14:38):
of the Knicks in watching this? So these entertainment people,
these entertainment elites that are given these seats courtside so
they can get on television, and the Knicks can make
everyone think they're the coolest thing in town and everyone
wants to be at the next game, sitting court set
and all that major Ick factor, major Ick fact. And
(15:00):
there they were again. Look there's Cardi b all my
Benny Blanco, Oh my god, Selena Gomez is there sting
Chris Rock, Ben Stiller. MSG. When it comes to the
celebrity is the tabernacle of worship. It's celebrity worship is
what it is, excessive admiration and to the level of
(15:23):
obsession of the celebrity, putting them on a pedestal. And
those aren't the real nick fans. See that's the thing. Like,
and I got those, I got family from New York whatever,
find they're they're nick fans sprinkled through my cousins and
whatnot that are from that area. But watching Celebrity Row
(15:44):
makes me want to puke in my mouth. Okay, I
want to literally I want to vomit in my mouth
watching the celebrity row, I would like it. And and
it's one thing to show them once. How many cutaway
shots did we? Like, did somebody at the ESPs? Okay?
This just keep showing all of them continuous spotlight reaction,
(16:07):
Like I really need to see Spike Lee celebrating or
Tracy Morgan or an these other cats, and like why
And it's whether it's a celebrity or not that celebrities
annoy me more. But when I'm much in a college
football game on a Saturday, I don't need the reaction
shot on that either. The frequent cutaways. And it's just
(16:29):
like the early television producers and directoris this is what
they did, and everyone just copies the early people in television.
They do the same things. Well, this is all we
did it back and there we had fan reaction shots. Listen,
you cut away. It's excessive, it's unnecessary. It takes away
from the broadcast. And you keep cutting away to these
(16:50):
reaction shots. And does anyone need to see someone else
reacting to something that we can't see be because we're
seeing them react to what they're looking at but we
can't see it, but they're actually there. It's like, how
dumb is this?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Dumb?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
D dumb dumb dumb. Seriously and at very least, at
least diversify your crowd reaction shots. I get it your
star efforts. I understand. You don't need to fixate on
the celebrities. We know they're there. Okay, great, they got
free tickets. Wonderful. Outstand many of them haven't done anything
(17:28):
entertaining in years anyway, they're living off what they did
thirty years ago or twenty years ago. All right, it
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I ben as, we will have the play of the
day coming up in a couple of minutes. We look
forward to that. We have some great audio though that
(19:57):
we'll play from the Golden They game. Actually do a
full rundown on that later, but we'll get that audio
in a second. As a NBA star has admitted he
was a coward, and we love when people admit their cowards.
We love to play the audio. It's good. Audio doesn't
happen all the time. So we'll have that for you
coming up in a couple of minutes. I'd also like
(20:18):
to rip the previous show for leaving the temperature at
a very hot temperature in here, Lorena, are you sweat well?
I have a lot of lights on. They don't leave
the lights on. Why do I have to have the
lights on? They don't have the lights on. Why come
I don't I have the lights on here?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Because you understand, like Mariah Carrey does, that lighting is everything.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are you comparing me to Mariah carry? Yes, you are
a diva. Wait till I sing Christmas music? Okay? T
defrost you around? Yeah? Absolutely? Man, absolutely super Argus Steve
says that you're trying to trigger me by not posting
the rundown again. Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to
(20:59):
annoy him. Yes that that that is my goal, and
I think it's working by the way. I think it's working. Yeah,
So I'll get to it at some point. I got
other things going on, you know, maybe Bill Miller or
Coop or somebody else can put Why do I have
to post? How come I gotta I don't need to
post it? What's up with that? Uh? Milkman. Mike in
Colorado says, fantabulous opening monologue and absolutely the most important
(21:21):
story of the night the collapse of the Celtics. They
were struggling with Tatum and now it's almost elementary that
the Knicks move on. There you go. Uh. Justin in
Cincinnati says, maybe Jason Tatum can get a new Achilles
at that clinic blind. Scott goes to there and help
him out. Yeah, sure, why not? See what else do
(21:43):
we have? Page down? Shane in des Moines says Andre
in the Commonwealth went live on on X he did
a live show. There there he is as Andre. He's
doing live. He said, what did he He's trying to
enter it into were he's taking over Andre and the
Commonwealth's up with that. Let's go to the phone. Let's
(22:05):
say hello to Hugh who's driving around I five somewhere. Hello, Hugh, welcome,
You're on the Ben Malor Show on Fox. Hi. So hey,
what taught me was that you were going on a
rant about panning around.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
The audience and just focus on celebrities watching games.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Or something like that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Am I right?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Did you watch the next game? Okay, yes, it was
non stop. Here. Look here's a celebrity. Look they're eating
popcorn that one's gotten na chos we.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is that new?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
That's not new?
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
It's like, hey, isading three batters away?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah. The difference is these guys aren't playing in the game.
They're sitting in the crowd. Okay, they're not athletes. They're
sitting in the crowd. They're watching We don't need the
cutaway shot. It was too much. It makes me hope
the Knicks lose and get stomped on by the Pacers
in the next round. How about that?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Well, I think I think that's what they're going for.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
They're looking to incite the audience and have things.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Like talk about them on sports trading or just like yeah, well,
I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
We talk about whether they show that or not, we
have that's what we talk about. We talk about sports, okay,
so that it doesn't matter whether they show that or not,
we're going to talk about it. My theory is they
show that because there's a lot of dumb people that
live their lives through celebrities, and they worship celebrities, and
so that's why they show that, because they know these
people that can't can barely live their lives. They they
(23:41):
desperately want to see these famous people.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Can I hear an amen for Ben Mallory?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I gotta amen, I gotta amen. Look at that. Live
your life man, You're you're the celebrity in your own movie.
How about that? You're your own celebrity in your own movie.
You're living your own movie right there. Boom, all right,
thank you, all right, go away? All right there he is. Well,
let's say, well, who do we have here? Let's go
to Justin who's hanging out? He's he's in Jersey and
I think this is very odd comment. He wants to
(24:12):
talk Uber. Are you gonna You're gonna break down Uber?
I love Uber. Let's break down Uber. Bring me some
dinner hot Uber talk right now with Justin and Jersey.
Right now, let's break it down.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So today, this morning, I'm doing my uber ship listening
to Dan Patrick. I pick up somebody and he goes sports.
I'm like, yeah, like you listening to Ben Mallers though,
you know who I picked up today?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Who's a trucker?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
No way? Is that right? Yep? It's beautiful. Look at
that guy. We know, truck or Joe? What are the odds?
It's a small world, after all, it's a small small world.
Only I can make Disney references. Ben, I just did
you're gonna stop me? Well? That's great? Was he was
he nice? Did he smell? Did he take a shower?
(24:58):
He was? He was nice to you?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
He wasn't a jerk or.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yes, he's very nice. It was just very random. I
think you can appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, I do. That's great, Justin awesome, man.
How's the uber game working there for you? In Jersey Pennsylvania?
You're in Pennsylvania? All right? It says Jersey on the screen.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But yeah, I'm from originally from Jersey, but I just
lived a.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Po Okay, well, I think Trucker Joe lives in Pennsylvania.
I think, yeah, Oh, the Paul look at he's doing.
He's hanging out and the Polcono's out there with the
trees and all the beautiful land out there. Beautiful nice.
All right, Well that's very cool, John, thanks for listening.
And you got and you always have Fox Sports Radio
on as you're doing your Uber driving around. Yes, that's
(25:38):
a p one right there.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Man.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know what, I'm gonna give you a golden ticket.
You got a golden ticket. You gotta golden take your dedication, sir.
I don't know if the company appreciates it, but I
appreciate it. So thank you Justin for going out. Yes, Lauren, Justin,
would you like to give an acceptance speech for your
golden to it? Ah, I don't think he's a man
(26:04):
of few words, Lorraine. He's a man of few words.
He's a man of action, not words, Right, Justin, You're
a man of action, absolutely, man. Well, thanks for checking
and thanks for that's a great story. I love it.
I love it. It's wonderful. I had my one of
my cousins, thanks Justin. I had one of my cousins
who was from He lives in Colorado and he's live
all over the country. He moves every like five years.
(26:25):
I think he's hiding from someone. But I read into
him and he was like, yeah, I was on I
was like an uber and Sacramento and they were listening
to your show or whatever. That's kind of cool. So
that's me. I appreciate that. It's good for my ego.
Do you ever mind what ubers play when they're like
giving you ride somewhere? Did they ever ask you? Yeah? Normally,
I don't mind if they play something. I just don't
(26:46):
like the small talk, you know, I don't want to
ask me a million questions, you know, I don't want
to don't talk to me to me, Wow, it's like
anti socialesh, oh, like your social coop. Come on, you're
not social? Not social? Well, look, I'm not like vol
entarily social, but if somebody talks to me when I
get into uber, I'm not like, uh, well, no, I'm
not no no no no. In my head, I'm like,
(27:07):
don't talk to me. Like I'll respond, but I'm like,
don't talk to me in my head, and the soundtrack
in my head is like, I really don't want to talk.
I just want to sit here and play with my
phone and wait till I get to the airport to
where I'm going, and that's it, and then normally something
will happen and conversation will begin. I find it more
awkward when they don't say anything. I don't know. As
(27:29):
long as they smell good, I don't really mind. And
don't drive like they're trying to get away from law
enforcement and they just robbed a bank and they're trying
to get on the interstate, and that's usually usually pretty good.
We have the play of the day. We got to
play this, So let's go now to Madison Square Garden, Midtown,
(27:52):
Manhattan and the New York knicker Bockers down fourteen. Jalen
Brunson had some other ideas. The Knick sixploded creen on
the right from end and they'll be picking roll right
wing side, step three in.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And out and packing again.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He got it, tailing crunts. It puts the Knicks up
by twelve from down fourteen to up twelve, just like that.
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Who's next up? Andre? You're branching out? Is this correct?
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Andre?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
I'm getting clips here that you had your own, your
own show on X earlier? Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Be good to be with you?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
How to Go? How to Go? Was this the first
show that you've done? Have you done other shows? I
was unaware of.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
No, no, no, I've been doing a couple other shows.
You know. This is the passing projects, Ben, you know
what I mean. So you start start quite small and
you build it up step by step by step. So
actually been at it for a couple of years and
not the moment a.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Couple of years, and I'm just finding out about this
right now, a couple of years. I'm a little slow,
bad job by me.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
No, no, no, not at all, you know, because again
it's just like much by side thing. You know, it's
indie Ben. You know, I'm not a big major studio.
It's an indie project, you know, and enjoy the sports
talk and you know, you have these great conversations calling
me your great show, or maybe you're in the barbershop
just kind of chopping it up and you say to yourself, man,
you know, we got a little bit of magic here,
and what can we do with it? So that was
kind of the kernel. And then again didn't have the
(29:37):
patience today. I wish I could joined the drama club
back in high school and I had the patient to
kind of sit down. So I don't have a technology background.
So a little, by a little I learned about this
and about that and about the third so long story
not so long. I really does my heart well, worm,
you know, made my whole day, even though it's going
to the next day that somebody saw it and maybe
maybe got something from it. But bottom up, like I said,
(29:57):
it's a passion project. I enjoyed doing it, you know,
and it's just kind of my thing. You know. You
try to get the buddies, you know, and say maybe
you can do it, you know, if everybody's busy. But
if they're busy, I'm still gonna do what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, listen, good for you. You might as well listen. You
knock yourself out, you never know, might might end up.
You don't know where you're gonna end up. I've heard
the story from the great Rob Parker. He told me
the story. Stephen A. Smith wanted to retire from broadcasting
and work at a bank, and I think it was
in North Carolina. He's gonna take a job at a
bank and Rob convinced him to. If you if you're
(30:30):
upset with Stephen A. Smith, is because Rob Parker convinced
him to keep going in sports media and he did
and things things have worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
So you know, he had those years in the valley.
Once you're like two years out of the business, you know,
trying to find his way, and then he gets back
into it and uh, you know, now he's now he is,
So you know, you don't have any bottom line. You know,
I just want to make it clear. You know, the
passion project is the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
You don't have the delusions of grandeur that you might
have had in your youth, you know. But you know,
if it works out that way, you know, great. But
if it doesn't, you know what does that mean? It's
that's what I'm trying to get, you know, coming from
the educational we say kids in sports stay out of court,
you know. So that's that's kind of the theory, you know,
keeps me and keeps me on the straight and Darrow.
But Ben, look here, my New York Nick, and I
(31:15):
know you got other calling, but you know, I'm not
gonna be too triumphant tonight because again all the TIBs
slander talking about he's the worst coach in the NBA,
people don't want to play for him, and people chastizing
him because he has people show up for the best
job on the planet, and all the mantian he's having players. Okay,
so all of that, let me just tell you for
myself and a lot of other Knicks fans, Okay, we
are cautiously optimistic right now. Now. Jason Tatum, the injury
(31:40):
I don't, you know, obviously he's going for his ankle,
so it does look like a little bit of an achilles,
But it was just kind of awkward. He just seemed
to plant wrong and his leg kind of cramped up.
So I think we're all hoping against hope that it's
not an achilles, even though that you know, that kind
of the look of it. But you know, you want
Jason Tatum to be healthy. You know, who knows if
he's going to be able to be back, you know,
for this pivotal Game five, quite a convergence here with
(32:01):
the Celtics on the one hand looking dynastic and now
having their absolutely back up against the wall. So twofold
that you said the story is in the loser's locker room.
The Celtics are missing Jeff van Gundy and they're missing
Charles Lee. I've been on that their coaching staff took
a big hit and it wasn't replenished. So you look
at Joe Missoula looking kind of lost. He doesn't have
the brain trust that he had before. On the other
(32:22):
side of the aisle. Last point that I'm going to
make go back and look at Tom Tibdaud. He's with
the Minnesota timberwolfs. I'm talking mullet Tom Thibodeaux. He's a
basketball life for this is his moment. He take advantage
of it. Go New York, Go New York. Go Ben,
thanks for taking the call in the shout out passion.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Thank you. There's Andre in the Commonwealth checking in. Joe
the ghost Hunter from Ohio rights and says, you hate celebrities,
but you're too good for an uber guy. Be better.
Bet we know you're a big time celebrity. Well trust me,
that's uh the company, And I really would like to
thank management here at Fox bors RADI now, I've worked
here pretty much my entire adult life. They did fire
(32:59):
me in O nine out for six months in twenty
six days, but I've worked your my entire adult life.
And the company has always said, you know, we don't
want you to really get a big head, so we're
going to keep your salary reasonable. And I've always said,
thank you. I appreciate that. You know, I don't want
to make the big money. Where I buy a house,
it ends up in the real estate section online and
all that. And they've made sure that I've I've made
a living a good wage. But not too much. You're
(33:20):
not the big tump exactly. They're keeping me grounded, and
I do appreciate that, so I don't get a big head.
And you know, I would hate to make ridiculous money
and and just not have to worry about money. That
would be That would be really bad. No, nobody would
want that at all. Femi says, don't fall for the
uber drivers small talk, bend. It's to suck you into
(33:42):
higher tips. It works all the time. Look at that,
that's Femi. He's in the Uber game. He's in the
Uber Eats game. But he's in the Uber game too,
and that's inside information. Yeah. Gumby Dave says, they show
so many celebrities at Nicks games so the fans can
play the new fan favorite game of the year. Which
celebrity will blow lunch next? Shout out Tracy Morgan. Yeah,
(34:09):
one of the many celebrity shots which triggered me. They
did show Tracy Morgan eating, and when they showed him,
I was thinking, well, I wonder how that's gonna look
on the court. What's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Uh.
(34:30):
Nick the Wendy's guy writes and says, Ben, Buddy, can
you look into your crystal ball. Tell me if the
Wolves put the nail in the coffin on Wednesday, or
does Curry save the Warriors. Oh, and I'll give you
an ata boy. Oh an way to go? Big rig
Rob says, how do we find Andre on the X
machine to see his show? Ben, I can give it out.
(34:54):
I guess it's his passion project. Let's see page second.
Find it here. I got a bunch of messages. I
think it's the cape Cod Kid. I believe the cape
Cod Kid on X. I think that's Andre. I believe.
I don't know their nicknames, Well that's his You don't
know their names, but that's his name. Oh anyway, I'm
up against the clock, So we'll have to wait to
(35:15):
have that star basketball player admitting he was a coward.
We'll have to wait on that because I am on time,
outed by the clock for the clock plausibly all about
the clock. And here's the who am I game? We'll
go to that Golden State game with Minnesota and just
dreadful shooting this entire series by Brandon Pajemski. So Warriors
(35:36):
guard Brandon Pajemski is shooting twenty three point one percent
in this series. That would be the worst of any
player in a playoff series with thirty five or more shots.
Since me, who am I? That's the question? The answer,
We'll get to it what the head next?
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Now back to it all, Right, back to it we go,
and time to pay off the who am I? Game? Question?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else in
a blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. Thus we call it the Whomi game. So
(36:42):
Warriors guard Brandon Pajemski is not only a basketball player,
is horrible. He's shooting twenty three point one percent this
series and if that continues, that would be the worst
of any player, any player in a playoff series with
thirty five or more shots. See it's me since me?
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer? Sayes?
(37:05):
Anyone know the answer? Paige down Downtown, Freddie Brown guests
by William h Sabu, rest in Peace from King Rory
James Harden guests by Fami. That's a low blow, Femi's
low blow. Alf the Alien Opiner says the Pope, Yeah,
(37:26):
he just missed it. Andre's co host from ferg Dog
that would be Willis the imaginary Dog. You are, Candice King,
who is thirty eight today from Late Night Drug Tester
Page Down Andy in Line O Lakes, Minnesota says, I
think it's your favorite choke artist, Latrell Spreewell. That is
the answer. Rick Burlson, Butterfingers Burlson from Mister Nice Guy
(37:50):
rest in Peace. The Boston Hater Kelly Donut. Kelly says,
my favorite player, lamar odom Eke in Roseville, Minnesota going
Horace Grant as his answer. That's the year. Bozo the
distric attorney says, Ben, if you want to be anti
social with your rideeshair driver. There's an app for that, really,
I have to click on that save that. Who else
(38:11):
do we have? Paige Dan I forty Ian, says Pope Pilarius.
That's his name. Don't wear it out from I forty ian,
That's what he says. Caitlin Clark from Shane in Des Moines.
A good photo there of her. Arnie Spaniard from Big
Greg in Iowa. Michael Andretti from Malibu, Ruben, who else
do we have? Paige down paigedn supermarket Steep says dang
(38:35):
men taking a shot at my Polish brother Azemski. Bad
job by you. There, you are right, let's see, let's
get the answer right now. And Larna Warriors guard Brandon
Pajemski shooting twenty three point one percent this series. That
would be the worst for any player in a playoff
playoff series with thirty five or more shots. Who since me?
(38:58):
Who am I that the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 3 (39:01):
I'm going with Yosemite Sam, fine basketball player for the
Utah Jazz back And remember what Yosemite Sam?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
It was Stockton Malone and Yosemite Sam was the third
option to the tune squad. Remember, yeah, how do you
know that's wrong. Maybe it is Yosemite. Sam, how about that?
You don't think it is been wrong? You have been
wrong a lot people. I got a lot of feedback
from the game that you did on Monday, your game
there are you smart? In the FSAR Tech Queen, people
saying that you're rigging it. You're not trying, You're you're
(39:30):
not putting the effort into that game. That's when I
try and my phone gets taken away. Oh okay, gotcha,
I understand well the correct answer. Warriors guard Brandon Pajemski
is shooting twenty three point one percent this series, somehow
would be the worst for any player in a playoff
series thirty five or more shots since me that answer,
Pero Antich, Pero Anditch of the Atlanta Hawks. That was
(39:56):
way back in twenty fourteen. I was barely alive in
twenty fourteen. But way back then, this guy shot sixteen
point seven percent. I looked it up. He didn't last
long in the NBA. I wonder why. I wonder why
he didn't last Hm, things are making go hmmm.
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