May 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Thunder putting another beatdown on the Timberwolves in Game 2 of the WCF, what happened to playoff Julius Randle, Anthony Edwards not speaking to the media after the game, Michael Malone calling SGA a "foul artist," and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number one, our number one, ready to go,
and here in our number one.
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It is all about pro bouncy ball.
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Another day, another playoff game, Western Conference Finals, game number two,
and we react in real time. We came on the
air just shortly after Game two ended, Wolves and Thunder.
What happened to playoff Julius Randall the salvation of basketball
nation this postseason no longer for the Wolves, as he
had a clunker in that particular game so bad he
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got benched at the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Also, is it fair to criticize.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Anthony Edwards for not speaking to the media after Game two,
considering he's a team leader in the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Face of the franchise.
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Also, former NBA coach Michael Malone on television says, SGA
is almost impossible to guard and is a quote foul artist.
Can you decipher what this means? We'll get to all
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
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there's not what's lightning on the other side. Welcome in
the beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show.
We are in the air everywhere cheek to cheek as
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by Kyrie in OKC. He's big fan of Josie, the
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This hour is from the Jules heist or the Julius Heist,
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or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But we'll go to the Sooner State game number two.
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And if you were optimistic, if you were excited, thinking, wow, yeah,
you had a pretty bad Game one in this series,
but then you had the Knickerbockers and the Pacers go
bonkers in their series. So certainly you're not gonna get
two clunkers in a row in the Minnesota OKC series.
So after truancy in the series, Opener ant Man and
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the Wolves flew in for game two with SGA and
the Thunder, And I don't know what you got going on,
whether you sampled this or not. Maybe you were watching it,
or maybe you were staring at a wall. If you
were staring at the wall, you likely had as much
fun as those watching the game. And as we like
to point out our public service announcement, do not worry.
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We watched so you did not have to in the game.
Very similar same blueprint as Game one. It was close
at halftime and then they had to play the rest
of the game and Shay Gilgess Alexander thirty eight points,
twenty four hours after he was named the MVP, picked
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up the award there in a Gallas ceremony. How upset
was Adam Silver he had to fly to Oklahoma to
hand him the trophy.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He must have been so pissed.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Anyway, he got the trophy, and then Oklahoma City went
out there in the second half and the term his
I'll use the term disemboweled. They disemboweled Minnesota yet again.
They win one eighteen to one oh three the final,
and so it is two nothing in favor of the
team from Oklahoma and they have held Serve at home,
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and now the series will shift up north. The Gilgess
Alexander made twelve of twenty one field goals and thirteen.
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Or fifteen foul shots.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That continues to be a cloud following him around as
the critics of Gildas Alexander are having a field there
with that. But he did get the trophy there from
Adam Silver. He also had eight assists and three steals
and a partridge in a pear tree.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jaylen Williams had twenty six.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Chet Holmgren, who looks like Skeletor, had twenty two.
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And so that's where we are.
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Game three will be Saturday in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are
not available like game sold out. The better story, though,
is in that losing locker room. And if you listen
to the show on a semi regular basis, there is
a method to the madness. There is a formula that
we have. You've likely picked up on it unless you're
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totally obtuse. And the way it works is we look
at the team that lost, and then we break it apart,
we put it under the microscope, and we analyze it.
We like to play this game called the blame game.
We like to play the blame game. It's a fun
game to play the blame game. And this night rather
easy to play the blame game. Now, before we get
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into that, let's get to the head coach of the
Minnesota Timbarolls.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
First off, here, let's go to cut two.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
First, here's coach Finch, who was commenting about how his
team has had no clue how to stop s g
A take a listen.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, obviously, you know, Shay's a handful to contain. You know,
he's getting around us to you know, to when there's contact.
He's getting around us, and uh, you know we gotta
do a better job of square on him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
O kiss all about the square you squares you gotta
square them up.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's what I always told my my players when I
was coaching back and they got square them up.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Uh, here's one more from coach Finch. And so it's
too nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're down. You got game three in the Wolf's den,
and what's gonna happen in that game?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Coach?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Every minute in the series is a chance to find something,
you know. So, uh, we're gonna go back home. This
is a you know, good team, good team at home.
So we're gonna go home and you know, fight for
game three. I mean, heads up and look at the
table and get ready for Game three.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So they I think they have a better chance. Like
if it was a fight, I think that Minnesota has
tougher players than Lahoma City. Like I think chet Holmgan
could win a fight. I know he's tall, but he
one punch.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now, don't bury the lead, my man.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So the story here is Julius Randall, who was not
only a basketball player, he was horrible. So let's discuss
that part of it, because this is the number two,
number two options behind the star, the headliner Anthony Edwards,
who also made some headlines for what he did after
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the game.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Let's discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What happened to playoff Julius Randall for the Wolves. So
I've got day spa vacuum, and Quickie Martin, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make some amazing, sticky rice and beef bogogie.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's what we're gonna make, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So a Julius Randall, I was just asked in a
previous episode of the show, has he changed his reputation now?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Has he figured things out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And he was known early in his career as a
guy that was a ghost in playoff games. Well, Randall
in this game sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And forget load management. I know that's all the rage
in the NBA. Not load management. This was waste management.
What a waste, what a waste, hot garbage. And he
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was benched in the fourth quarter. Your second player on
the team is benched in the fourth quarter. Now, this
is a reminder that even when Randal is going well,
and he has had some nice performances in the playoffs,
So a lot of that was against Fat Luca in
the Lakers, So how much credit you get for that?
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But he still he still has those demons, those demons.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
From NBA playoff pass in him, and that was a
total clunker, and that doesn't do it justice. Six points,
four turnovers, five assists, five rebounds, two of eleven floor
and got hemorrhoids from sitting on the bench in the
fourth quarter.
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But wait, there's more.
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So Randall, we're pretty sure that he went to the
day spa during the game and he decided, you know,
I'm under that cold plunge thing, and he did it
during the game at the wrong time. So the game
was ultimately lost in the third quarter, but specifically a
seven minute, roughly seven minute stretch of the fourth quarter,
Minnesota was down by four at seven forty three.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
On the clock.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I went back and I looked in the third quarter.
So down by four, anyone's game. Two baskets. Really with
the NBA, it's a three point shot and maybe a
four point player tied up from that point. Over the
next seven minutes and eight seconds, Oklahoma City went after burners.
They went turbotastic, and it was thirty to ten plus
twenty for Minnesota or plus twenty for Oklahoma City minus
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twenty for the Timberwolves, and they were down by twenty
four points at that point, game, set, and match, and
in that meltdown that stretch, Oklahoma City shot eighty two percent,
which means the only way the Thunder could miss a
shot is if the air conditioning events were pointed at
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the ball and the ball went flying and the Thunders
swarming the wolves like locusts, and Minnesota did not do well.
They find themselves now in the bowl, and as long
as they win at home they can keep hope alive.
But the dust bowl is where they're at right now,
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and if they don't snap out of it and figure
some things out here, they.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Will be put into an urn with a capital you.
They'll just be some dust now.
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Outscored by twelve again on points on turnovers, points off turnovers.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
But the most maddening thing, listen, talk about both sides.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We're talking about the losing locker room here. But the
Minnesota teams one thing to lose. But they got outworked, right.
The Thunder won all the hustle stats in a playoff game. Hey,
you're on the road. You got to out hustle the opposition.
That's basketball. One oh one didn't do it, did not
do it all right, Now, turning the page I mentioned
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Anthony Edwards made some headlines, the ant man, making headlines
on and off the court. He declined to speak with
reporters after the game, his team losing in non competitive fashion.
Again the base of the franchise said, I ain't talking,
and he stormed out without had a little.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Pity party and took off.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He apparently was upset because he was fined fifty thousand
dollars for a rather mild F bomb that he tossed
out just in casual We know how men talk. We
just used the F bomb. I think women do it too.
We all use the F bomb, but you can't do
it with polite society anyway. Edwards had thirty two points
in the game, and the low information fans, oh, I
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played well at thirty two points. Come on now, well
he took twenty six shots.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That ain't great.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The issue, though, is he skipped out. He's ski daddled
at a time you're not supposed to ski daddle. So
the question for the esteem panel, which you are a
part of, is it fair to criticize Anthony Edwards for
not speaking to the media after game two? Considering that
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he is a team leader and we are told the
face of the franchise. So after a thirty second Mallard deliberation,
one thousand percent is it fair?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It is a breach of the NBA protocol.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's one thing, as a violation of your responsibilities literally
in the contract.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Like the NBA players signed the contract.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They get all the big money, but they have to
talk to the media because the NBA is just a
TV show and it's based on media stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And it also shows you that there's a leadership vacuum there.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There's poor accountability and you're the guy, Anthony Edwards. You're
the guy, right, I'm not the guy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You're the guy.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
How can you be the guy if you don't act
like the guy? You're the guy. It's supposed to be
the future of the NBA. I think we've eliminated that
after the Big D coming you you do have the
Big D. You told everyone you have the Big D.
If you have the Big D, why would you hide
when the lights are the brightest. It's easy. When you
go out and put up fifty points in a game
and our hammer dunking the ball down people's throats, it's easy.
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You're out there shaking and bacon. Oh yeah, go out there.
You want to make up. You got the sound person
over there, you have the camera prison. The test is
when you're stumbling and bumbling. Take one for the team,
right shoulder, the what a burden getting up there and
talking in cliches for seven minutes. Oh my god, and
for that two hundred and forty million dollars in a
winfall contract.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's a real SOB story, It really is.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Can't a guy get a break? Can he get a break?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
There's an issue here. The NBA has not many people
are talking about it. Anthony Edwards can go over to
the deli counter and take a number.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Is.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The NBA has an infestation of mister softy players. When
things are going well, they're out in front, they're on
the camera. When things get bad, they play hide and
seek by Mike Count.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
By Mike Count.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Anthony Edwards is the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Third number three.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's number three in terms of players that have skipped
out on media responsibilities because they lost a tough game.
Draymond Green tough guy. Draymond Green will punch his teammate
in a face, sucker punch him. He's a tough guy.
Couldn't show up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
To the media thing, got scared of the media.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
How about Tyrese Halliburton, the hero of this playoff, the
story of this playoffs, the breakout star of the playoffs.
Pacers lost a tough.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Game in the last round, and he's scared Dada out
of there.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He couldn't he couldn't man up and talk to the
to the reporters.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh my god, I can't speak in cliches. So he'll
get fined again.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Anthony Edwards and upward and onward and last word here.
So I saw this, I wanted to mention it. I
don't if you saw it not. Former NBA coach Michael Malone,
for the second consecutive night providing content.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We thank him for that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
He's masquerading as a TV guy, even though he'll just
be coaching someone.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Else next year.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So Michael Malone spoke about guarding Shaye Jugis Alexander right.
I talked about how do you defend him and all
that stuff. He said, quote, it's almost impossible. A lot
of times, offensive players like Shay will initiate the contact
or hook their arm looking to draw the contact.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He is.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Here's the money. Quote from Michael Malone. He said of SGA,
he is a foul artist. Powell Artist. So Michael Malone,
longtime NBA coach, says that the MVP of the NBA, SGA,
is quote almost impossible to guard because of the arm
movement that he makes and is a foul artist. Can
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you decipher what exactly that means?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So, yes, I can.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I have turned to the Mallor Rosetta stone. I have
turned to the mallord Rosetta stone, which is never wrong.
So SGA's game, what Malone is saying is SGA's game is.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like a quickie mart.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's stopping got, stopping Ghost, stopping Ghost, stopping ghost. He's
bating the defender in and it's not so much that
he's beating the defensive player, if you know what I'm saying,
But if you're stopping and going and the defender is
reacting to that.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You're drawing foul.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And really all this is, and we point this out
in previous episodes of the show, this is the next
generation Artisan. He is the next generation Artisan who took
the baton. I know James Harden is still playing, not
in big games in the playoff season show for those,
but he plays in the regular season and in Dwayne Wade,
who's not playing anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He's out getting tattoos those guys. Right. If foul drawing,
here's the other question.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
If foul drawing is a legitimate part of the game,
then why do so many coaches and players and fans everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Get very upset and they very angry.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Right, they label the players for mastering the art of
foul baiting, if you will, So, I look at it
like gamesmanship, and I look at it like the tush push.
Instead of trying to ban the tush push, you should figure.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Out what Philadelphia is doing and run the play like.
That's my argument.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And instead of being upset with SGA because he's baiting
for fouls, you should say, what is he doing? Let's
do that. That's really good, that's something we should be doing. Right.
He's he's like a surgeon out there on offense using
a scalpel to leverage defenders' mistakes and get cheap points.
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And this is a great example this game right here,
where from the foul line he got fifteen foul shots
thirteen points where no one's guarding you. You're just standing
there and it's it's practice. It's Papa shot, is what
it is. Well, this is the Ben Mahlor show. So
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Starting to get a little pumped up here for this
Malor meet and greet which will be coming up. We
mentioned it earlier next hour, well not next hour, the
meet and greet. We mentioned it earlier this hour, but
it's going to be coming up next week and give
me a lot of fun. And I've had some more
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people who are have RSVP. You don't need rs VP.
I'm not keeping track, and there's several reasons I don't
keep track, because a I know I've done a lot
of these in different cities over the years. I've been
very fortunate you know, usually just when I travel somewhere anyway,
this is a special trip. But normally I'll just like, hey,
I'm available whatever, and sometimes people will will show up
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on a lot of people. We do very well in Boston.
We had a good turnout in Vegas, did well. The
ones we've done in l A.
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And you know, some some are last minute, some not so.
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Good, but it's original. One We started out with just
a couple like Chip and the Cues. There was a
gentleman I don't think he wants me to say his name,
a professor at Syracuse who was a listener to the show.
We met him. Pete and Pittsburgh the dough Boy, Breadman
and Pittsburgh.
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I did that. That was Those were like the first
two that we did.
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I already started packing today. We might need a head count.
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I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't want to even estimate because the people say
they're gonna be there Coop, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
They're not gonna they're not gonna show off. So how
what why is that? What do we need a ballpark
food that we for the food? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't, I don't know, because I again I was
confident these people.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
People say oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure a lot of
people have told how many people like I have said,
oh I'm coming to you.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, it's a lot of I plan on being there
if if I might, you know, I can.
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Get a babysitter. That kind of thing, you know, is thatch.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, so that that I always count that as a
nocuse that you know, if you have, if you haven't out,
you're gonna take the out.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's always the way I look at it. You know,
I hope some people.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Want it out from their children.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ben, Well, why would you want out from your children?
You're spawn.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Anyway, it's gonna be fun. We're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And we had the basketball tonight, which was again another
another dud of a game. And I guess that's just
the way it's gonna go in Minnesota. You know, it's
only two games and they haven't lost in the Once
they lose at home, then we can officially start the
eulogy for the Timberwolves. And not yet, not yet, it
doesn't look good. Just appears to be a bad match up.
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And we'll get to You should have purchased a ticket
coming up here in in a little bit. You should
have purchased a ticket. Let's see here the Green Bay Gobbler.
Right Since says I'm effing tired, Ben, and you're screaming
here you go, Am I really screaming? I'm talking. I
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don't know that I'm screaming. I don't like classify. You
want to hear me scream? I can scream A Hoosier Bill,
that fake Hoosier guy who lives in LA says, when's
the next Laker?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
A Clipper game? There was just a Clipper game a
few hours ago.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A guy won the MVP, former Clipper and a part
of the farm system for the Clippers, the great SGA Clipper.
So you see Clipper win a championship this year with OKC.
If they get it done, they're a couple of wins
away from the finals. G Manage in Chicago, Right Since
says a plus plus on the Mall monologue. These athletes,
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especially in the NBA, are soft because of how they
were brought up. I don't know who's more soft. Your
NBA players are golfers. Oh, we definitely golfers. Golfers are
like beyond soft, Like that's you know, soft to infinity
and beyond soft to infinity and beyond.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
The burner account, not just any burner account.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The number one says, Man, this NBA final is gonna
blow chunks if it's Indiana. And Okay, see geez Randall
had an Angel Reese performance. I knew it wouldn't be
long until he shows his true colors. Writing the Vomit Comet,
there you go, Troy writes and says the timberl is
more mentally weak in big playoff games than even the
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pitiful Lakers. Uh well, yeah, I don't know about that.
I mean, the Minnesota did beat as bad as Minnesota looks.
I mean, they did dominate the Lakers. And how much
I was thinking about this.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
When I was when I was coming to the studio,
I was like, I.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Cannot believe that Rudy Gobert look like nineteen ninety seven
or ninety five Keim Elijahwan or mid nineties Shaquille O'Neal
against the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
They didn't play a center.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I mean, it's unbelievable. He is so horrific and he dominated.
That's what happens when kids, when you hire a podcaster
as your coach, that's what happens. Okay, you will allow
Rudy go bear when you hire a podcaster as your coach.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You allow Rudy Gobert to.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Become a cross between Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal and Elijahon
my God. And against Oklahoma City, a team that has
a real coach, Rudy Gobert, let's see five.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Points, five points and what do you have?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Nine rebounds and a couple of fouls, and that's it useless,
completely useless. That's playoff Rudy Gobert. How do you get
Rudy Gobert to not be useless? Put JJ pod cast
Reddick as the coach, and all of a sudden, this
guy is Mozart on the court.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He's Mozart. You put a podcast guy out there.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He didn't make the he didn't make the trade, and
then and then the Mark Williams trade didn't go through,
and then they're left with Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What you're listening to right now is a man making excuses.
His name is Justin Cooper. He's on the public relations
staff for the LA Lakers, breaking it down, breaking downe.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Hating.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's that's like half of your your stick is hate
for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, it's not the I call like is you call
it hate because nobody else. You're surrounded, you're insulated, you live.
You're the boy in the bubble. Cooper is the boy
in the bubble. He's insulated, is what he is. Okay,
he's insulated from reality. He surrounded all these Laker toe
lickuers and boot lickuors and they give him the bubble back,
the many and the petty. That's what they do, and
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he's That's what he's used to. That is what he
is used to. That is what he expects. And so
when anyone gives the real facts about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
The real facts is that they traded away Anthony Davis
and they didn't get a center to replace him. They
had Jackson Hayes and Alex lenn that's their frontcore game.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, you're embarrassing yourself. I hope, I hope you What
did I say?
Speaker 9 (28:28):
That was wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
You're You're absolutely embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Rudy Gobert sucks. You just put a body in front
correct me. Put you put a body in front of
Rudy Gobert and he will just melt.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's what he does. He melts.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's what he's known for his entire playoff career against
the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I remember that game was a game two. I forget
which game it will. I have to go back and look.
But Rudy Gobert dominate. You lost the room. What do
you go there? You've lost?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You lost the playoff, Rudy Gobert, and you're not.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You don't seem too upset about that. I'd be upset.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Podcast Coach, Podcast coach, That's what happened, Casey carr ha
Holler writes and said, the only person who can find
Julius Randall's game during the playoffs is Sam Darnall.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
A plus on the the Mallor Monologue Mallard Monologue. What
else do we have? Page down? See?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Terry in England was complaining he wanted the menu for
the show, and the menu is up now. I don't
know why you're such a little baby. If it doesn't
pop up right away, you get all upset. It's a
bad job by you. All right, what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Page down? Let's see what can we read here? What
can we not?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Nick the Wendy's guy writes in Nick, in my order,
I get the chicken sandwich combo and a thing of nuggets.
That's my my go to get that upsized at the
Windy's and it used to cost about ten bucks. Now
it's probably about forty five dollars, but back in the
day it was like a ten dollars combo with the
nuggets on the side. You can hit us up on
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That's at Ben Mahlor. You can be part of the
program and we'll also take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Before we do that, though,
before we do that, good old Julius Randall postgame losing
locker room Minnesota, Julius Randall was asked what happened?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Like what the bleepity bleep? I mean, how did that happen?
Like seriously, what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And Julius Randall said, quote for the most part, probably
just standing and spectating a little bit too much. I
got to get myself into action, get myself on the move, right.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'll give him an a for honesty. Stand around? What
was he doing?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
He was looking at people in the crowd. Hey, there's
some pretty girl over there. Is who's that celebrity? Are
there any celebrities go these games in Oklahoma? I just
see a lot of people. It's like they're they're all
wearing the same color shirt. You know, you go to LA,
New York, San Francisco and hardly anyone wears those those
shirts they give out.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oklahoma City, everyone is wearing the same shirt. It's wild.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
I love that. I hate that about Los Angeles that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
People are too good in LA to not wear the
free shirt that they hand out.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, because they don't want to cover up their two
hundred dollars whatever shirt with their free Lakers T shirt,
which is dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And they's just like back when I used to go
to those games, Like after the game, they just the
really wealthy bro they just they didn't care about the shirt.
They just throw they'd leave them in the arena or
they'd throw them when they got outside. They give them
the people.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I can't. I keep the thundersticks. I still have thundersticks
from like the playoffs, like five years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You're on the air, Coop. I don't know that it's
been embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Let's go to the phones and let's say hello to
any meany miny.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Let's go to John John Is in Seattle. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (32:01):
John?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Welcome?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Hey, what's that big being. You know, I love you.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Man, Hey, I just want to say this, man, I'm
tired of hearing all this black and white crap on
the w n B. A man, this got to stop.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Bro. If they want to file each other, file each other,
fight each other, I don't care. They can punch each
other and the boobies whatever they want to do, but
leave the race out of it. It's gotta bro who cares.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, clearly though, but if your engagement, like a lot
of those guys are engagement farming, and what better way
to engagement farm if you throw racing there, because people
lose their minds so that one. I don't I remember
the guy's name of the guy ESPN like, that's pretty
much all he does is like from I understand.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He's just like a race bad guy Ryan Clark. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I don't know much.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't know much about it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I know he played in the NFL, but it seems
like every time I hear him, he's like race bating.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So I guess that's his thing. But good for him.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
And he didn't learns from the comedian from the comedian,
Oh my god, what's.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
The comedian with?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
There's a lot there's a lot of comedians.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I don't. I don't know, man, I don't know which comedian?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Come, mom, and why what do you want? What do
you want me to do? I don't know what you're
talking I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
What you have to know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I have to know. If I don't know, I'm gonna
let you down. I don't want to let you do.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
What's the comedian put him in the face?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Are you are you watching the I don't, I know,
I don't. I don't care what Ryan Clark says, So
I don't really. It doesn't I don't pay attention to him.
He's meaningless to me, so I don't really. I don't
worry about what Ryan Clark has to say.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Stephen A. Smith is a joke, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Well, but these guys, you do realize, you know who
they are, and their job.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Their job is to get you. Oh my god, their
job is geting react.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You're reacting to them, You're you're falling into their trap.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
No, I love you, guys. I love you you.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Guys, Thank you very kind of you.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Not just some radio, but on on the TV.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That's right, were we we're not even on TV?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And we dominate TV when I by not even being
on television, we own TV.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Clearly.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
The only thing you guys need to do is get
mad Max Kellerman. You guys, Mad Max keller Man.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's what we need. We gotta get Kellerman on the
phone right now. Wake him up. Okay, get kellerm in on.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
You guys need to get Whop's gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Call him right now? Is gonna wake kill him up?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And he made all that TV money back in the
day's probably as he retired. Now I know he's lost
all these jobs.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Is he still working somewhere?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Okay, I got I gotta thank you. I did see
Scott Foster got popped, got hit by Lou Dort the
beginning part.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Of the game there, Bloody knows.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
There's some kind of symbolic nature to that. It's Scott
Foster gets popped right there. Sure, our friend from San Diego,
Well call it.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I told you better the thunder.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Scott Foster was the referee. I told you, I told you,
I told Okay, wonderful time Now for the who am
I Game? This is where we pretend to be somebody
else us. We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And here is today's Who am I game? And we'll
go to basketball. I'm an NBA star who has been
fined over four hundred thousand dollars this season for various
rules violations.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Again, i am an NBA star, and I have been
fined over the.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Course of this NBA season over four hundred thousand dollars
almost half a million, for various rules violations.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer I'll
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gonna pay off the who am I gave? I did
want to take a call though, before we we take
the answer to the who am I giving?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Nick? Nick in l a real quick what's going on?
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Welcome? Nick is gone typical? He was going to defend
the Lakers? Is that what he was gonna do? Coop?
Was he gonna give a defense of the podcast? Guy?
Speaker 9 (37:21):
That was more of just how the Lakers are treated
in the media.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, they're They're treated with a manny and a petty
They get the the No.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
He was talking about how if the Lakers had traded
away s g A for Paul George and a bunch
of crap, you know, lottery tickets, that they would be
being raked over the colds right now.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
But the Clippers, nobody cares about the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
So that would be impossible because the Lakers don't have
to trade any players that are good.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
The other teams.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
See, that's the difference the other teams, the real NBA
teams actually have to give up something.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Trades are supposed to be quid pro quote, Anthony.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
Davis is a Hall of Famer. I don't know. I'm
not sure if you'd know that.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You give away garbage and you ten time All Star
you get in return four.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Time first All NBA First Team.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
That's a that's a Laker deal that that trade was
so bad the NBA had to give the Mavericks the
number one pick.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That's how And you're still defending the trade like they did.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Literally, the NBA had rigged the lot of I'm just correct.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You said that they didn't.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
They didn't give away anything, but they gave away an
All NBA player.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Again, you're wrong, Coop, in the wrong of the value
of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
In your head, does Anthony Davis an All NBA First Team?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Not? Not for me? He's not maybe for you. I
don't about what other people say.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
It's I don't care. It's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It's a talk show. You're paid for your opinion. My
opinion is no.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
Your opinion is that he is not, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Time never who have my game? Oh my god, we
don't have to.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I don't. I can't read a stupid answer because of this.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm an NBA star who has been fined over four
hundred thousand dollars this season for various rules violations.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Loreno, who do you think it is?
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Would I say Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Conan O'Brien, fine answer, No, it is Anthony Edwards of
the Minnesota Timperles. With my over four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, that's a lot of dough technical foul here, there,
and everywhere.
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number one, our number one, ready to go,
and here in our number one.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
It is all about pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Another day, another playoff game, Western Conference Finals, game number two,
and we react in real time. We came on the
air just shortly after Game two ended, Wolves and Thunder.
What happened to playoff Julius Randall the salvation of basketball
nation this postseason no longer for the Wolves, as he
had a clunker in that particular game so bad he
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got benched at the end of the game.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Also, is it fair to criticize.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Anthony Edwards for not speaking to the media after Game two,
considering he's a team leader in the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Face of the franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Also, former NBA coach Michael Malone on television says, SGA
is almost impossible to guard and is a quote foul artist.
Can you decipher what this means? We'll get to all
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
We want to notice the thunder, the maying lots of noise,
there's not what's lightning on the other side. Welcome in
the beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show.
We are in the air everywhere cheek to cheek as
we say hello everybody, as we are hanging out coast
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to coast, port of the border and beyond on the.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Vast and humongously powerful microphones of FSR, am monating live
from the Warmer the Benchwarmer like a Minnesota star sitting
his tuckas on the bench there as we're hanging out
here at the Fox Sports Radio studios, which are approved
by Kyrie in OKC. He's big fan of Josie, the
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only one I know consistently has supported the thunder and
Gunner who has been in hiding, and I don't blame
him in Minnesota. As he's predicted the Wolves are gonna win.
Things are not looking so good for Gunner at this
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This hour is from the Jules heist or the Julius Heist,
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or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But we'll go to the Sooner State game number two.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And if you were optimistic, if you were excited, thinking, wow, yeah,
you had a pretty bad Game one in this series,
but then you had the Knickerbockers and the Pacers go
bonkers in their series. So certainly you're not gonna get
two clunkers in a row in the Minnesota OKC series.
So after truancy in the series, Opener ant Man and
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the Wolves flew in for game two with SGA and
the Thunder, And I don't know what you got going on,
whether you sampled this or not. Maybe you were watching it,
or maybe you were staring at a wall. If you
were staring at the wall, you likely had as much
fun as those watching the game. And as we like
to point out our public service announcement, do not worry.
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We watched so you did not have to in the game.
Very similar same blueprint as Game one. It was close
at halftime and then they had to play the rest
of the game and Shay Gilgess Alexander thirty eight points,
twenty four hours after he was named the MVP, picked
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up the award there in a Gallas ceremony. How upset
was Adam Silver he had to fly to Oklahoma to
hand him the trophy.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
He must have been so pissed.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Anyway, he got the trophy, and then Oklahoma City went
out there in the second half and the term his
I'll use the term disemboweled. They disemboweled Minnesota yet again.
They win one eighteen to one oh three the final,
and so it is two nothing in favor of the
team from Oklahoma and they have held Serve at home,
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and now the series will shift up north. The Gilgess
Alexander made twelve of twenty one field goals and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Or fifteen foul shots.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That continues to be a cloud following him around as
the critics of Gildas Alexander are having a field there
with that. But he did get the trophy there from
Adam Silver. He also had eight assists and three steals
and a partridge in a pear tree.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jaylen Williams had twenty six.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Chet Holmgren, who looks like Skeletor, had twenty two.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And so that's where we are.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Game three will be Saturday in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are
not available like game sold out. The better story, though,
is in that losing locker room. And if you listen
to the show on a semi regular basis, there is
a method to the madness. There is a formula that
we have. You've likely picked up on it unless you're
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totally obtuse. And the way it works is we look
at the team that lost, and then we break it apart,
we put it under the microscope, and we analyze it.
We like to play this game called the blame game.
We like to play the blame game. It's a fun
game to play the blame game. And this night rather
easy to play the blame game. Now, before we get
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into that, let's get to the head coach of the
Minnesota Timbarolls.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
First off, here, let's go to cut two.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
First, here's coach Finch, who was commenting about how his
team has had no clue how to stop s g
A take a listen.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, obviously, you know, Shay's a handful to contain. You know,
he's getting around us to you know, to when there's contact.
He's getting around us, and uh, you know we gotta
do a better job of square on him.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
O kiss all about the square you squares you gotta
square them up.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
That's what I always told my my players when I
was coaching back and they got square them up.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Uh, here's one more from coach Finch. And so it's
too nothing.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're down. You got game three in the Wolf's den,
and what's gonna happen in that game?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Coach?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Every minute in the series is a chance to find something,
you know. So, uh, we're gonna go back home. This
is a you know, good team, good team at home.
So we're gonna go home and you know, fight for
game three. I mean, heads up and look at the
table and get ready for Game three.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So they I think they have a better chance. Like
if it was a fight, I think that Minnesota has
tougher players than Lahoma City. Like I think chet Holmgan
could win a fight. I know he's tall, but he
one punch.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now, don't bury the lead, my man.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So the story here is Julius Randall, who was not
only a basketball player, he was horrible. So let's discuss
that part of it, because this is the number two,
number two options behind the star, the headliner Anthony Edwards,
who also made some headlines for what he did after
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the game.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Let's discuss the question.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What happened to playoff Julius Randall for the Wolves. So
I've got day spa vacuum, and Quickie Martin, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make some amazing, sticky rice and beef bogogie.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's what we're gonna make, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
So a Julius Randall, I was just asked in a
previous episode of the show, has he changed his reputation now?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Has he figured things out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And he was known early in his career as a
guy that was a ghost in playoff games. Well, Randall
in this game sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And forget load management. I know that's all the rage
in the NBA. Not load management. This was waste management.
What a waste, what a waste, hot garbage. And he
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was benched in the fourth quarter. Your second player on
the team is benched in the fourth quarter. Now, this
is a reminder that even when Randal is going well,
and he has had some nice performances in the playoffs,
So a lot of that was against Fat Luca in
the Lakers, So how much credit you get for that?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But he still he still has those demons, those demons.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
From NBA playoff pass in him, and that was a
total clunker, and that doesn't do it justice. Six points,
four turnovers, five assists, five rebounds, two of eleven floor
and got hemorrhoids from sitting on the bench in the
fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So Randall, we're pretty sure that he went to the
day spa during the game and he decided, you know,
I'm under that cold plunge thing, and he did it
during the game at the wrong time. So the game
was ultimately lost in the third quarter, but specifically a
seven minute, roughly seven minute stretch of the fourth quarter,
Minnesota was down by four at seven forty three.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
On the clock.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I went back and I looked in the third quarter.
So down by four, anyone's game. Two baskets. Really with
the NBA, it's a three point shot and maybe a
four point player tied up from that point. Over the
next seven minutes and eight seconds, Oklahoma City went after burners.
They went turbotastic, and it was thirty to ten plus
twenty for Minnesota or plus twenty for Oklahoma City minus
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twenty for the Timberwolves, and they were down by twenty
four points at that point, game, set, and match, and
in that meltdown that stretch, Oklahoma City shot eighty two percent,
which means the only way the Thunder could miss a
shot is if the air conditioning events were pointed at
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the ball and the ball went flying and the Thunders
swarming the wolves like locusts, and Minnesota did not do well.
They find themselves now in the bowl, and as long
as they win at home they can keep hope alive.
But the dust bowl is where they're at right now,
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and if they don't snap out of it and figure
some things out here, they.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Will be put into an urn with a capital you.
They'll just be some dust now.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Outscored by twelve again on points on turnovers, points off turnovers.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
But the most maddening thing, listen, talk about both sides.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
We're talking about the losing locker room here. But the
Minnesota teams one thing to lose. But they got outworked, right.
The Thunder won all the hustle stats in a playoff game. Hey,
you're on the road. You got to out hustle the opposition.
That's basketball. One oh one didn't do it, did not
do it all right, Now, turning the page I mentioned
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Anthony Edwards made some headlines, the ant man, making headlines
on and off the court. He declined to speak with
reporters after the game, his team losing in non competitive fashion.
Again the base of the franchise said, I ain't talking,
and he stormed out without had a little.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Pity party and took off.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
He apparently was upset because he was fined fifty thousand
dollars for a rather mild F bomb that he tossed
out just in casual We know how men talk. We
just used the F bomb. I think women do it too.
We all use the F bomb, but you can't do
it with polite society anyway. Edwards had thirty two points
in the game, and the low information fans, oh, I
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played well at thirty two points. Come on now, well
he took twenty six shots.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That ain't great.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The issue, though, is he skipped out. He's ski daddled
at a time you're not supposed to ski daddle. So
the question for the esteem panel, which you are a
part of, is it fair to criticize Anthony Edwards for
not speaking to the media after game two? Considering that
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he is a team leader and we are told the
face of the franchise. So after a thirty second Mallard deliberation,
one thousand percent is it fair?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
It is a breach of the NBA protocol.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That's one thing, as a violation of your responsibilities literally
in the contract.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Like the NBA players signed the contract.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They get all the big money, but they have to
talk to the media because the NBA is just a
TV show and it's based on media stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And it also shows you that there's a leadership vacuum there.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There's poor accountability and you're the guy, Anthony Edwards. You're
the guy, right, I'm not the guy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You're the guy.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
How can you be the guy if you don't act
like the guy? You're the guy. It's supposed to be
the future of the NBA. I think we've eliminated that
after the Big D coming you you do have the
Big D. You told everyone you have the Big D.
If you have the Big D, why would you hide
when the lights are the brightest. It's easy. When you
go out and put up fifty points in a game
and our hammer dunking the ball down people's throats, it's easy.
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You're out there shaking and bacon. Oh yeah, go out there.
You want to make up. You got the sound person
over there, you have the camera prison. The test is
when you're stumbling and bumbling. Take one for the team,
right shoulder, the what a burden getting up there and
talking in cliches for seven minutes. Oh my god, and
for that two hundred and forty million dollars in a
winfall contract.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It's a real SOB story, It really is.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Can't a guy get a break? Can he get a break?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Now?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
There's an issue here. The NBA has not many people
are talking about it. Anthony Edwards can go over to
the deli counter and take a number.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Is.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
The NBA has an infestation of mister softy players. When
things are going well, they're out in front, they're on
the camera. When things get bad, they play hide and
seek by Mike Count.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
By Mike Count.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Anthony Edwards is the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Third number three.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's number three in terms of players that have skipped
out on media responsibilities because they lost a tough game.
Draymond Green tough guy. Draymond Green will punch his teammate
in a face, sucker punch him. He's a tough guy.
Couldn't show up.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
To the media thing, got scared of the media.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
How about Tyrese Halliburton, the hero of this playoff, the
story of this playoffs, the breakout star of the playoffs.
Pacers lost a tough.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Game in the last round, and he's scared Dada out
of there.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
He couldn't he couldn't man up and talk to the
to the reporters.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh my god, I can't speak in cliches. So he'll
get fined again.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Anthony Edwards and upward and onward and last word here.
So I saw this, I wanted to mention it. I
don't if you saw it not. Former NBA coach Michael Malone,
for the second consecutive night providing content.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We thank him for that.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
He's masquerading as a TV guy, even though he'll just
be coaching someone.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Else next year.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So Michael Malone spoke about guarding Shaye Jugis Alexander right.
I talked about how do you defend him and all
that stuff. He said, quote, it's almost impossible. A lot
of times, offensive players like Shay will initiate the contact
or hook their arm looking to draw the contact.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He is.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Here's the money. Quote from Michael Malone. He said of SGA,
he is a foul artist. Powell Artist. So Michael Malone,
longtime NBA coach, says that the MVP of the NBA, SGA,
is quote almost impossible to guard because of the arm
movement that he makes and is a foul artist. Can
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you decipher what exactly that means?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So, yes, I can.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I have turned to the Mallor Rosetta stone. I have
turned to the mallord Rosetta stone, which is never wrong.
So SGA's game, what Malone is saying is SGA's game is.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like a quickie mart.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
It's stopping got, stopping Ghost, stopping Ghost, stopping ghost. He's
bating the defender in and it's not so much that
he's beating the defensive player, if you know what I'm saying,
But if you're stopping and going and the defender is
reacting to that.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You're drawing foul.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And really all this is, and we point this out
in previous episodes of the show, this is the next
generation Artisan. He is the next generation Artisan who took
the baton. I know James Harden is still playing, not
in big games in the playoff season show for those,
but he plays in the regular season and in Dwayne Wade,
who's not playing anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
He's out getting tattoos those guys. Right. If foul drawing,
here's the other question.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
If foul drawing is a legitimate part of the game,
then why do so many coaches and players and fans everyone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Get very upset and they very angry.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Right, they label the players for mastering the art of
foul baiting, if you will, So, I look at it
like gamesmanship, and I look at it like the tush push.
Instead of trying to ban the tush push, you should figure.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Out what Philadelphia is doing and run the play like.
That's my argument.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And instead of being upset with SGA because he's baiting
for fouls, you should say, what is he doing? Let's
do that. That's really good, that's something we should be doing. Right.
He's he's like a surgeon out there on offense using
a scalpel to leverage defenders' mistakes and get cheap points.
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And this is a great example this game right here,
where from the foul line he got fifteen foul shots
thirteen points where no one's guarding you. You're just standing
there and it's it's practice. It's Papa shot, is what
it is. Well, this is the Ben Mahlor show. So
if you would like to comment on any of the
things we just said, something we might say later on,
(18:26):
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also remember we're less than a week away from the
Big Malor Meet and greet in Vancouver.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
We're going to Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I know you might be far away from Vancouver's I
can't make it to Vancouver, but for those that can,
if it's geographically desirable, we'd love to meet you. It's
gonna be Thursday night this next week. Obviously, Thursday night,
we will be hanging out everyone from the show. Lorraine
is gonna be there, Coop I'll be there. We'll all
be hanging out, having a great time telling stories and
(19:26):
just bonding, bonding over food and all the details are
on social media, so if you're interested in doing that,
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and also the Instagram page Ben Mallor on Fox. So
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(19:49):
have purchased a ticket. We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Next.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
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Speaker 3 (20:14):
In the third shift.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
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Most people are sleeping when we're here, so say hello
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Speaker 3 (20:49):
I believe it is working.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It's not on there during the day, but it appears
there's some gremlins attacking the X machine.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
We are on there. It appears to be working. So
say hello at Ben Mahler.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
That's at Ben mahlor Lorraine, the FSR Tech Queen, and
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(21:27):
are like fine art, they're open to interpretation. Back to
it all, right, back to where we go, and very excited.
Starting to get a little pumped up here for this
Malor meet and greet which will be coming up. We
mentioned it earlier next hour, well not next hour, the
meet and greet. We mentioned it earlier this hour, but
it's going to be coming up next week and give
me a lot of fun. And I've had some more
(21:49):
people who are have RSVP. You don't need rs VP.
I'm not keeping track, and there's several reasons I don't
keep track, because a I know I've done a lot
of these in different cities over the years. I've been
very fortunate you know, usually just when I travel somewhere anyway,
this is a special trip. But normally I'll just like, hey,
I'm available whatever, and sometimes people will will show up
(22:09):
on a lot of people. We do very well in Boston.
We had a good turnout in Vegas, did well. The
ones we've done in l A.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And you know, some some are last minute, some not so.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Good, but it's original. One We started out with just
a couple like Chip and the Cues. There was a
gentleman I don't think he wants me to say his name,
a professor at Syracuse who was a listener to the show.
We met him. Pete and Pittsburgh the dough Boy, Breadman
and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I did that. That was Those were like the first
two that we did.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
I already started packing today. We might need a head count.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I don't want to even estimate because the people say
they're gonna be there Coop, and they don't.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
They're not gonna they're not gonna show off. So how
what why is that? What do we need a ballpark
food that we for the food? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I don't, I don't know, because I again I was
confident these people.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
People say oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure a lot of
people have told how many people like I have said,
oh I'm coming to you.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, it's a lot of I plan on being there
if if I might, you know, I can.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Get a babysitter. That kind of thing, you know, is thatch.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, so that that I always count that as a
nocuse that you know, if you have, if you haven't out,
you're gonna take the out.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
That's always the way I look at it. You know,
I hope some people.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Want it out from their children.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ben, Well, why would you want out from your children?
You're spawn.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Anyway, it's gonna be fun. We're looking forward to that.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And we had the basketball tonight, which was again another
another dud of a game. And I guess that's just
the way it's gonna go in Minnesota. You know, it's
only two games and they haven't lost in the Once
they lose at home, then we can officially start the
eulogy for the Timberwolves. And not yet, not yet, it
doesn't look good. Just appears to be a bad match up.
(24:03):
And we'll get to You should have purchased a ticket
coming up here in in a little bit. You should
have purchased a ticket. Let's see here the Green Bay Gobbler.
Right Since says I'm effing tired, Ben, and you're screaming
here you go, Am I really screaming? I'm talking. I
(24:25):
don't know that I'm screaming. I don't like classify. You
want to hear me scream? I can scream A Hoosier Bill,
that fake Hoosier guy who lives in LA says, when's
the next Laker?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
A Clipper game? There was just a Clipper game a
few hours ago.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
A guy won the MVP, former Clipper and a part
of the farm system for the Clippers, the great SGA Clipper.
So you see Clipper win a championship this year with OKC.
If they get it done, they're a couple of wins
away from the finals. G Manage in Chicago, Right Since
says a plus plus on the Mall monologue. These athletes,
(24:58):
especially in the NBA, are soft because of how they
were brought up. I don't know who's more soft. Your
NBA players are golfers. Oh, we definitely golfers. Golfers are
like beyond soft, Like that's you know, soft to infinity
and beyond soft to infinity and beyond.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
The burner account, not just any burner account.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The number one says, Man, this NBA final is gonna
blow chunks if it's Indiana. And Okay, see geez Randall
had an Angel Reese performance. I knew it wouldn't be
long until he shows his true colors. Writing the Vomit Comet,
there you go, Troy writes and says the timberl is
more mentally weak in big playoff games than even the
(25:42):
pitiful Lakers. Uh well, yeah, I don't know about that.
I mean, the Minnesota did beat as bad as Minnesota looks.
I mean, they did dominate the Lakers. And how much
I was thinking about this.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
When I was when I was coming to the studio,
I was like, I.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Cannot believe that Rudy Gobert look like nineteen ninety seven
or ninety five Keim Elijahwan or mid nineties Shaquille O'Neal
against the Lakers.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
They didn't play a center.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I mean, it's unbelievable. He is so horrific and he dominated.
That's what happens when kids, when you hire a podcaster
as your coach, that's what happens. Okay, you will allow
Rudy go bear when you hire a podcaster as your coach.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You allow Rudy Gobert to.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Become a cross between Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal and Elijahon
my God. And against Oklahoma City, a team that has
a real coach, Rudy Gobert, let's see five.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Points, five points and what do you have?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Nine rebounds and a couple of fouls, and that's it useless,
completely useless. That's playoff Rudy Gobert. How do you get
Rudy Gobert to not be useless? Put JJ pod cast
Reddick as the coach, and all of a sudden, this
guy is Mozart on the court.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
He's Mozart. You put a podcast guy out there.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
He didn't make the he didn't make the trade, and
then and then the Mark Williams trade didn't go through,
and then they're left with Jackson Hayes.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
What you're listening to right now is a man making excuses.
His name is Justin Cooper. He's on the public relations
staff for the LA Lakers, breaking it down, breaking downe.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Hating.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's that's like half of your your stick is hate
for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, it's not the I call like is you call
it hate because nobody else. You're surrounded, you're insulated, you live.
You're the boy in the bubble. Cooper is the boy
in the bubble. He's insulated, is what he is. Okay,
he's insulated from reality. He surrounded all these Laker toe
lickuers and boot lickuors and they give him the bubble back,
the many and the petty. That's what they do, and
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he's That's what he's used to. That is what he
is used to. That is what he expects. And so
when anyone gives the real facts about the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
The real facts is that they traded away Anthony Davis
and they didn't get a center to replace him. They
had Jackson Hayes and Alex lenn that's their frontcore game.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, you're embarrassing yourself. I hope, I hope you What
did I say?
Speaker 9 (28:28):
That was wrong?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
You're You're absolutely embarrassing yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Rudy Gobert sucks. You just put a body in front
correct me. Put you put a body in front of
Rudy Gobert and he will just melt.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
That's what he does. He melts.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That's what he's known for his entire playoff career against
the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
I remember that game was a game two. I forget
which game it will. I have to go back and look.
But Rudy Gobert dominate. You lost the room. What do
you go there? You've lost?
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You lost the playoff, Rudy Gobert, and you're not.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You don't seem too upset about that. I'd be upset.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Podcast Coach, Podcast coach, That's what happened, Casey carr ha
Holler writes and said, the only person who can find
Julius Randall's game during the playoffs is Sam Darnall.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
A plus on the the Mallor Monologue Mallard Monologue. What
else do we have? Page down? See?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Terry in England was complaining he wanted the menu for
the show, and the menu is up now. I don't
know why you're such a little baby. If it doesn't
pop up right away, you get all upset. It's a
bad job by you. All right, what else do we have?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Page down? Let's see what can we read here? What
can we not?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Nick the Wendy's guy writes in Nick, in my order,
I get the chicken sandwich combo and a thing of nuggets.
That's my my go to get that upsized at the
Windy's and it used to cost about ten bucks. Now
it's probably about forty five dollars, but back in the
day it was like a ten dollars combo with the
nuggets on the side. You can hit us up on
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X at Ben Mahlor if you'd like to be part.
That's at Ben Mahlor. You can be part of the
program and we'll also take your calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Before we do that, though,
before we do that, good old Julius Randall postgame losing
locker room Minnesota, Julius Randall was asked what happened?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Like what the bleepity bleep? I mean, how did that happen?
Like seriously, what happened?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And Julius Randall said, quote for the most part, probably
just standing and spectating a little bit too much. I
got to get myself into action, get myself on the move, right.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'll give him an a for honesty. Stand around? What
was he doing?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
He was looking at people in the crowd. Hey, there's
some pretty girl over there. Is who's that celebrity? Are
there any celebrities go these games in Oklahoma? I just
see a lot of people. It's like they're they're all
wearing the same color shirt. You know, you go to LA,
New York, San Francisco and hardly anyone wears those those
shirts they give out.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Oklahoma City, everyone is wearing the same shirt. It's wild.
Speaker 9 (31:18):
I love that. I hate that about Los Angeles that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
People are too good in LA to not wear the
free shirt that they hand out.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, because they don't want to cover up their two
hundred dollars whatever shirt with their free Lakers T shirt,
which is dumb.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
And they's just like back when I used to go
to those games, Like after the game, they just the
really wealthy bro they just they didn't care about the shirt.
They just throw they'd leave them in the arena or
they'd throw them when they got outside. They give them
the people.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I can't. I keep the thundersticks. I still have thundersticks
from like the playoffs, like five years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You're on the air, Coop. I don't know that it's
been embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Let's go to the phones and let's say hello to
any meany miny.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Let's go to John John Is in Seattle. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (32:01):
John?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Welcome?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Hey, what's that big being. You know, I love you.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Man, Hey, I just want to say this, man, I'm
tired of hearing all this black and white crap on
the w n B. A man, this got to stop.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Bro. If they want to file each other, file each other,
fight each other, I don't care. They can punch each
other and the boobies whatever they want to do, but
leave the race out of it. It's gotta bro who cares.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Well, clearly though, but if your engagement, like a lot
of those guys are engagement farming, and what better way
to engagement farm if you throw racing there, because people
lose their minds so that one. I don't I remember
the guy's name of the guy ESPN like, that's pretty
much all he does is like from I understand.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He's just like a race bad guy Ryan Clark. Yeah,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
I don't know much.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I don't know much about it.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I know he played in the NFL, but it seems
like every time I hear him, he's like race bating.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
So I guess that's his thing. But good for him.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
And he didn't learns from the comedian from the comedian,
Oh my god, what's.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
The comedian with?
Speaker 2 (33:06):
There's a lot there's a lot of comedians.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I don't. I don't know, man, I don't know which comedian?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Come, mom, and why what do you want? What do
you want me to do? I don't know what you're
talking I have no idea.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
What you have to know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
I have to know. If I don't know, I'm gonna
let you down. I don't want to let you do.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
What's the comedian put him in the face?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Are you are you watching the I don't, I know,
I don't. I don't care what Ryan Clark says, So
I don't really. It doesn't I don't pay attention to him.
He's meaningless to me, so I don't really. I don't
worry about what Ryan Clark has to say.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Stephen A. Smith is a joke, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Well, but these guys, you do realize, you know who
they are, and their job.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Their job is to get you. Oh my god, their
job is geting react.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
You're reacting to them, You're you're falling into their trap.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
No, I love you, guys. I love you you.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Guys, Thank you very kind of you.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Not just some radio, but on on the TV.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That's right, were we we're not even on TV?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And we dominate TV when I by not even being
on television, we own TV.
Speaker 9 (34:16):
Clearly.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
The only thing you guys need to do is get
mad Max Kellerman. You guys, Mad Max keller Man.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
That's what we need. We gotta get Kellerman on the
phone right now. Wake him up. Okay, get kellerm in on.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
You guys need to get Whop's gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Call him right now? Is gonna wake kill him up?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
And he made all that TV money back in the
day's probably as he retired. Now I know he's lost
all these jobs.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Is he still working somewhere?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Okay, I got I gotta thank you. I did see
Scott Foster got popped, got hit by Lou Dort the
beginning part.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Of the game there, Bloody knows.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
There's some kind of symbolic nature to that. It's Scott
Foster gets popped right there. Sure, our friend from San Diego,
Well call it.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
I told you better the thunder.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Scott Foster was the referee. I told you, I told you,
I told Okay, wonderful time Now for the who am
I Game? This is where we pretend to be somebody
else us. We call it the who am I?
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And here is today's Who am I game? And we'll
go to basketball. I'm an NBA star who has been
fined over four hundred thousand dollars this season for various
rules violations.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Again, i am an NBA star, and I have been
fined over the.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Course of this NBA season over four hundred thousand dollars
almost half a million, for various rules violations.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Who am I? That is the question. The answer I'll
tell you who. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 2 (36:01):
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It's a radio show. Okay, this thing called the inter web.
It's a wild thing, wild. I think it'll take off.
I think people will like it. They'll be zombies, they'll
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Speaker 4 (36:57):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Now back to it, back to what we go. We're
gonna pay off the who am I gave? I did
want to take a call though, before we we take
the answer to the who am I giving?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Nick? Nick in l a real quick what's going on?
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Welcome? Nick is gone typical? He was going to defend
the Lakers? Is that what he was gonna do? Coop?
Was he gonna give a defense of the podcast? Guy?
Speaker 9 (37:21):
That was more of just how the Lakers are treated
in the media.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, they're They're treated with a manny and a petty
They get the the No.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
He was talking about how if the Lakers had traded
away s g A for Paul George and a bunch
of crap, you know, lottery tickets, that they would be
being raked over the colds right now.
Speaker 9 (37:46):
But the Clippers, nobody cares about the Clippers.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
So that would be impossible because the Lakers don't have
to trade any players that are good.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
The other teams.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
See, that's the difference the other teams, the real NBA
teams actually have to give up something.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Trades are supposed to be quid pro quote, Anthony.
Speaker 9 (38:01):
Davis is a Hall of Famer. I don't know. I'm
not sure if you'd know that.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You give away garbage and you ten time All Star
you get in return four.
Speaker 9 (38:10):
Time first All NBA First Team.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
That's a that's a Laker deal that that trade was
so bad the NBA had to give the Mavericks the
number one pick.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
That's how And you're still defending the trade like they did.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Literally, the NBA had rigged the lot of I'm just correct.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You said that they didn't.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
They didn't give away anything, but they gave away an
All NBA player.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Again, you're wrong, Coop, in the wrong of the value
of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
In your head, does Anthony Davis an All NBA First Team?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Not? Not for me? He's not maybe for you. I
don't about what other people say.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
It's I don't care. It's my opinion.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It's a talk show. You're paid for your opinion. My
opinion is no.
Speaker 9 (38:53):
Your opinion is that he is not, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Time never who have my game? Oh my god, we
don't have to.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I don't. I can't read a stupid answer because of this.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm an NBA star who has been fined over four
hundred thousand dollars this season for various rules violations.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Loreno, who do you think it is?
Speaker 9 (39:07):
Would I say Conan O'Brien.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Conan O'Brien, fine answer, No, it is Anthony Edwards of
the Minnesota Timperles. With my over four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, that's a lot of dough technical foul here, there,
and everywhere.
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