June 25, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller opens the show discussing the three-team Kristaps Porzingis trade sending him to Atlanta. Which team got the best end of the deal? Then he reacts to Kyrie Irving declining his player option with the intension of signing a new 3-year extension with the Mavericks! Plus, more fun with the 'Who am I?' Game!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one, our.
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One of the original recipe podcast, piping hot and ready
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day of June.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So who got the best of the three? Team?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Chris stops porzingis trade goes from Boston to Atlanta and
the Nets were also involved. Also, how do you process
the Celtic fans celebrating cap relief.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
From the unicorn trade?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In addition, does it surprise you that the mav Rex
are forking over a three year contract for Kyrie Irving
even though he's not gonna be able to play anytime
soon because of a shredded knee.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We'll talk about all that and more right now.
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Buckle up, buccaroo, it's our number one.
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Now.
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I was told when I was a kid that unicorns
aren't real? So how could the Celtics trade the unicorn?
And let's what you can't do? That they don't exist.
It's impossible, but apparently it's happened. Well, dumb. In the
beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show, we.
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from the I'd say the calm before the storm. That
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would not be accurate. That would not be accurate. That'd
be an incorrect statement because the NBA Draft. This is
our Wednesday show, still late Tuesday on the West coast,
but we're heading in to the day of the draft
and not all was quiet in the land.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Pro bouncy ball and oh boy, so exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, it is draft day and Wednesday night there in Brooklyn,
just across the Brooklyn Bridge, down a couple of streets
and then a couple more streets and then you turn
right and then a left and boom, right there you're
in this big place where they have the draft and
all that stuff. So the Mavericks are on the clock
better known as the mav Rex and they're going to
draft Cooper Flag and less and less, their GM is
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told he has to trade that pick, and then that
would be a big story. But Cooper Flag expected to
be the number one overall pick. So it's a big
week for the transaction wire. For reference, though I said,
not all quiet.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In the land.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We had the dismantling of the once proud Boston Celtics
continuing the super team. Remember when they won the championship
a couple of years ago, it was, oh man, this
team is set up for years to come. They are
so explosive. They have an amazing amount of depth on
this team. Well not anymore so. One day after they
said bye bye to the holiday as they sent Drew
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Holliday to basketball purgatory with the Trailblazers. The deals that
kept coming, the Green team, which is ironically making trades
because of Green, because of Green, And if.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You have not been following along here, maybe not.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We've learned that Chris Stops Porzingis, affectionately known as the Unicorn,
has been traded Bye bye, as he's going to the
atl He'll enjoy magic city there in the Atlanta Hawks
have acquired a unicorn, how magical, along with a second
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round pick, part of a three team trade, not a
mega trade, not a mega trade, but a three team trade.
So it's a Portzingis No. There will be a test
on this coming up in a moment. So Porzingis has
been traded to the Hawks along with a second round pick,
and then Terrence Man. There goes that man, a former Clipper,
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Terrence Man. He goes from Atlanta and the number twenty
two pick in the draft, which is tonight to the
Nets for someone named Georges Niang who goes to Boston
and a second round pick. That is what the Celtics
got for Porzingis. So let us discuss the question who
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got the better of this three team Chris tops Porzingis trade.
He's the headliner, so he's the one people know who
he is, so will use him in the description.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So who got the best or better if.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You will, of the three team Christaps Porzingi's trade?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I've got a pringles can, midway and dashboard, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the babaganoosh. We're gonna make the babaosh now.
A to answer the question, who got the better of
this particular transaction, is it A the Celtics, b the
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Atlanta Hawks see.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The nets one of those options?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
How about answer D None of the above, None of
the above right now if you had to force me
gun to the head to pick a team, because why not,
You're really gonna threaten someone's life over this trade. But
if that's the case, man I trying to make sense
of this zingis he goes to Atlanta. This is not
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really a trade, because a trade you're doing quid pro quota.
You get something, you get something, you get some that's
not it. This is more like a yard sale where
you're giving away. You have this vintage leather recliner. The
leather is kind of worn out a little bit, but
it's like your favorite chair. You're giving it away and
because your wife forced you to get rid of it,
and you're getting in return a half eaten pringles can.
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And that's what you're getting. You're giving your favorite chair
away and that's it. It's slop for garbage. So slop
for garbage. That's the trade. And on the mall of
report card, the Atlanta Hawks get a CEUs A C
minus for the Atlanta Hawks, the Nets get the D
and I give the Celtics of d aulsa.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I give the Celtics of d alsa.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So the edge is to Atlanta, but only because they
got the one guy we've heard of in Porzingis in
this trade. When he is upright, which is very rare.
Porzingis is not upright very often. When he is upright,
he's pretty good. He's pretty good player when he's upright
for the thirty games a year that he plays and
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all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So you got that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And he can stretch the floorest when he did in
Boston when he played when they won the championship, and
you can protect the rim occasionally when he decides to
play some defense. And it was a good fit with
Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown in Boston. Allowed them to
do their thing and did not impede what they were doing.
And so that's the rub. The unicorn, as he has known,
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the unicorn. The medical chart, if you look at it.
It's literally longer than those CBS receipts, Like have you
ever checked out back in the day and CBS they
used to print out these massive, massive proceeds. Now on
Q on que porzingis his final act as a Boston Celtic.
Was this mysterious post viral syndrome thinga majig, the what
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you McCall it? They didn't know what it was and
all that stuff? Was it long covid? Was it the
creeping crud? Was it something else? Nobody seems to know.
But he could play sometimes and they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Play other times. And remember one of those.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Playoff games when he got all bloody I think it
was against the Knicks and looked like a boxer that
was a tomato can. And then he came back into
the game and he had a big bandage on his
forehead and all that stuff. But anyway, that's porsaic because
he goes to Atlanta. Now, the other part of this,
as we do our frame by frame breakdown on the
Ben Maler Show, so how do you process the part
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of this which is really surprising that shouldn't be surprising.
It would have been surprising ten years ago, fifteen years
ago twenty years ago in misurpresing. But how do you
process the Celtic supporters, the Marching and Chawter Society of
the Boston Celtics, who seemed to be celebrating the cap belief,
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the cap relief from the porzingis trade. So this is
one of those things why I don't get it. I
didn't grow up in that era where you celebrate this.
I don't understand that mindset. To me, that is ridoculous.
Maybe you can explain it to me. I look at
it like a trip to the circus Circus Midway. It's
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a funhouse of mirrors, is what it is. Right, you
throw a parade and let it gets right. So you're happy.
You're excited because your team.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Which you don't work for. You're just an outside observer.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's not like you're on the payroll and you get
more money because the owner has more money. But you're
happy because the Celtics ducked the second apron. So I
guess like being at a kitchen and you have a
lot of aprons, and so they ducked the second apron.
So this is what the Boston fan base has become
that they feel this is a giant win because their
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owner saves some money.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I have no skin in the game. This may
me want to puke in my mouth, is what this is.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I mean, will come on, you talk about some kind
of warped distorted.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Like that. That's your reality. I mean, that's your representation
of reality.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Like this is a great thing. You know, you're gonna
pump your fist in the air everywhere because of luxury
tax avoidance, Like you got nothing in the trade. I mean,
he just present as you gave him away, so always hurt,
that's fine, but you've got nothing for him. And he
was when he played, a pretty good player for you.
And you're all horny because the Celtics. The the nerds cooked
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up the numbers here and they said, well, the payroll
and tax for the new incoming Celtic ownership there, it's
down from five hundred and twelve million to two hundred
and seventy four million, and so they said.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a big thing. Now. That means the two.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Trades, the holiday trade and the Unicorn trade, saved the
Celtics about two hundred and thirty eight million. The ownership
of the Celtics two hundred and ten million coming from
purely tax penalties. So again, if you're the owner of
the Celtics and you're excited, that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I get it. If you work for the team, more
money for the owner, maybe that money will.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Come to me.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
If you're not an employee and you don't own the team,
I don't understand the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I really I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like, if your biggest offseason transaction is that, hey, we
saved two hundred and ten million in tax penalty as
a fan, like, how does that help you?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't I really don't get it. Right, congratulations, way
to go, we save some tax money. The team is
plausibly worse, but you saved some tax money and a
way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I's like you're sharing for a hedge fund, not so
much a basketball team at that part. To the point,
but what do I know? So the Celtics appear to
be now that Tatum's hurt. They have the green light
of Tatum. They would have done this likely even if
Tatum hadn't gotten hurt, because they were gonna lose in
the necks anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
However they did. In this part of the multiverse, they did.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So the Celtics are like empty nesters without Jason Tatum
the Achilles injury, and so they have decided now they
are going to downsize to a little casa, a little
coss out in the in the woods. And that's what
they're doing. They're downsizing. And the fans are applauding, or
at least some of them are applauding this because the
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owners save some dough. It's like, wowie Cauzawi here, what
are you doing here? It's it's not basketball bookkeeping. It's
like as a team, but no, it team's not better.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But we save some money. Okay, but is the team?
Have you improved the team? No, we haven't improved teams
not but we save some money. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Are they gonna have a Bobblehead Night with a bag
of money that bobbles and be like, hey, this is
the money that we save. We would have had to
pay the Twitter ten million. It's a special promotion for
the Celtics. It's it's money bobble Knight, Taxi Uncle Sam,
Bobblehead or whatever. Anyway, all right, now the last word
to Dallas, we go. Now the mav Rex are on
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the clock. They have the top pick in the draft.
The Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving declined.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
His contract option.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You see this turned down forty three million dollars, said
x nay on the money. A Instead, he opted out
and then said all right, Psych, I'll stay. And so
the Mavericks, because they don't know what they're doing, they
gave Kyrie Irving a three year contract extension for one
hundred and nineteen million dollars one hundred and nineteen million dollars.
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The deal includes a player option for twenty twenty seven
twenty twenty eight, so a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Down the line.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now, Irving is what's known as DG damaged goods.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He's damaged goods.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He tore his ACL Snapcrackle pop back in March, and
so he's damaged.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Does it surprise you? Here's the question.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Does it surprise you that the mav Res and the
great Nico Harrison have forked over this kind of contract
to Kyrie Irving? So I'm gonna nod my head yes,
realizing we're talking about Nico Harrison, I'm going to nod
my head.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Dallas did not just double down. They didn't just double
down on this. They tripled down, and then they slipped
a disc in their back. While doing it with Kyrie IRV.
It's the only way describe it here. Acls are supposed
to be the flashing check engine light on the dashboard
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of the car, right, Like, if you take a car
for a and the dashboard light comes on, there's a
problem with the engine. Do you still buy the car?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
That's a car already they knew there was a problem,
and they said, Okay, we want the car. We'll pay.
In fact, we'll pay a premium price for the car.
That's what we'll do. I know, the check engine light
is flashing on the dashboard. We want the car, so
we'll still pay for the car. So normally that doesn't happen.
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At least it used to not happen. I know what
happens quite a bit now, especially in basketball. Guys are hurt.
They still sign these massive, massive contracts. But the Mavericks
that they see torn ligament in the knee and they're like,
all right, how fast can we grab the check book?
Here you go blank check, knock yourself out. And so
Kyrie's got the double whammy against him. Strike one is
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the shredded ligaments in the knee, so he's got that
going for him. He's also thirty three, which in the
real world is not old, but in the sporting world,
your athletic prime ends at age thirty two. So using Malermath,
if you're thirty three, you're past your athletic prime. He's
garon tea to miss irving most of the almost all
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the first half of this upcoming season. Assuming there are
no bugaboos with his comeback, he's gonna be out until
at least January.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So forget about October, November, all those Monday in December
see you later out So he could come back sometime
in January of twenty twenty six. His knees have over
the years put.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Up more dnps than conspiracy theories, which it was neck
and neck.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He's toned down.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm sure he's still into the wacky conspiracy theories, but
he's not talking about them as much anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And so here we are.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Here we are watching the Nico Harrison, who somehow kept
his job as the Maverick executive the Harrison Experience, and
he signs a deal with the Mavericks Kyrie like he's
like Nico Harrison's buying beachfront property in a resort in Hawaii,
and really it's like a rundown shack. It's got some
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miles on It needs more than just paint, more than
cosmetic At this point, now, when Kyrie has played plays
often like it's poetry, it's a problem. Look, he didn't
play very much another one of these guys, a lot
of mileage, and the injury charts are rather large there
for him as well. And so it ain't my problem.
(17:40):
I'm not a maverick guy. That's guys like Charlie in
Dallas and those guys. That's their problem.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Ain't my problem. All right, If you would like to
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You will have no chance getting in right now. You
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Speaker 2 (18:06):
Later on it'll be about one thirteen. So if you
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as we prove when the phones were down for an
entire week.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Here the show continue here. We didn't miss a beat.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
In fact, I got emails from people saying, I hope
the phones go down again.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The callers suck, They're terrible. Why do you even take them?
So people cheering for the phones to break, but we
do take some calls to change it up. You have
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The porzingis trade Kyrie Irving getting the extension couple of
the moves in pro bouncy balls. We work our way
through the overnight and a ring ring text text, ring
ring text text, What is that all about? We'll get
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to it and we will do it next.
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in the producer's chair we have Ian Roddy who's here
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and he's got an underscore. I believe I have the
correct account here he's got he doesn't follow Ben Mallor,
but Ian Roddy who does not follow Ben Mallor, but
he has a Twitter account. Ian Roddy Underscore got to
get rid of you. You've got to get rid of
the underscore. It's very important to get rid of the underscore,
very important. People do not know what an underscore is.
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But that's Ian Roddy underscore.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He's on ax. You can sell to him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
He's in the producer's chair right now. And now back
to the show, back to when we go. As we're
breaking down this NBA trading season. There should be a
couple more trades today. And we've got the ring ring
text text, ring ring text text. We'll get to that
coming up here in a moment. Milkman Mike from Colorado,
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right sin, he says, excellent the.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Sound of him work right there. Excellent opening monologue.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Though NBA trades are interesting, nothing tops the Mallard militia
trade that just went down. As blind Scott and Marcel
have been traded to Afghanistan for a goat?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is that a goat to be named later? What about
Blair and Maine? Did we toss Blair in there? How
about Dick and Dayon? Now some people saying that we
did trade Angry Bill, who used to call the show
and all of a sudden stopped calling show. I hope
Angry Bill's Okay, I had some medical problems.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know what happened Angry, but I got an email.
Why are you putting Angry Bill on you? Because he
gave you a hard time. I didn't stop Angry Bill
from calling the show number one, number two, he stopped calling.
I don't know what happened. We're not so sweet. I
hope he calls back. He's not sweet at all. He's
a dick, and.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Dayton is what he is. He's not sweet at all.
He's a schmuck, but he's he's, you know, typical New
Jersey guy. He's a schmuck, and we you know, he's
unique because there's not that many schmucks. Well actually are
a lot of schmucks, but he's different than the other
schmucks that call the show.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You see. That's that's the thing there. So anyway, we've
not banned him.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We didn't Mark the full name guy. He had a breakdown.
He couldn't handle the show. There's a lot of pressure
being a talk radio caller, and if you've never done it,
and if you're a star caller, there's a lot of expectations,
and Mark, he just got too old.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He couldn't handle the pressure of it, and so he quit.
And you know that was unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Marked the full name guy who had some good maments
on the show, but it became too much. He could
not handle it, and he went to the corner and
started sucking his thumb in the feed up position.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So that was it. It's unfortunate. What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Let's see here, Terry in England says Malor's Daily List
about I'm not a list, Terry's. That is called a rundown.
That is a teaser, and that allows you a little
taste of what may be coming up on X. And
that's all that is. Bagel Boy writes and says Nico
(23:24):
Harrison is a moron and this further proves it. Cooper
Flag better take charge quick, moron.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Spox Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail and says,
so Ben emphasizes that Boston's main objective was a hedge
fund saving money, Yet no mention of spreadsheets.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
What's up with that?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Spox Weed says itunian for bloviating spreadsheet talk. I'm sorry
to have disappointed you, Spoxwed. And I did not say
the Celtics road vomit comet. I did not mention that
either that did not come up, so put that in
your pipe and smoking.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
What else do we have to see?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Page down and we'll skip over that one. Super Marcus
Steve says, what is the NBA's version of Siberia. It
has to be a bad team in a lame city.
And then he's got four options. He's got the an
He misspelled Charlotte, which is a bad job by him.
(24:29):
That's come on, you should know how to spell Charlotte.
It's also some women are named.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Charlotte charrolette or is it Charlotte charro lette? Is how
he spelled two teas in the end?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yes, that's how he spelled it, he says, corn super Markets.
Stevie says the basketball Siberia, Charlotte Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trailblazers,
Utah Jazz. So to me, there's only one answer here,
and that is the the Utah Jazz, unless you like
the great outdoors at Utah's. They're Portland's close behind, but
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Utah at the time, Like say you're playing Sacramento, you're
a short, relatively short drive away. You're in the Bay
area in San Francisco. There's a lot going on, it's
the next city over and Charlotte. Yes, it's kind of
slow and all that team sucks, but it's not. It's
not a terrible place to reside. So I would say, uh,
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and that that does seem like a list supermarket Steve.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
But and I'm gonna speak for all NBA players. I
got the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Utah Jazz at the very top, and they are in
number one with a bullet and then the Portland Trail
legend right after that, right after.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That, Yes, ferg dog rights.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Since it's the big question whenever a producer fills in
for Coop is where does Emmett have them ranked on
his big board of FSR producers.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I do not know. Emitt is not on the board here,
So if Emmett calls in, I know he's a busy
podcasting blind Emmett. Uh, We're not sure where he has
Ian on the on the board.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I think Ian's downgraded for not following the Ben Malor
account on Twitter. I think that's a clear downgrade. So
let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to ENnie Meenie, Miney,
Moe Jed who fled is hanging out and he is
up first there Deep I'd say, deep in the heart
of Florida, but he's in the.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Panhandle, in the redneck Riviera. Hello, Jed, who fled?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I'm right in the throw to Florida. It does not
bode well for Ian that some sort of training wheels
were put on and someone I know who, but someone
answers the phone before him and then came on, and
then he came home, which is a very very rare
curren So I was like, sort of like swimmy is
what that felt like? Ian's I got faith in you.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I mean, are you already critique? You believe like Ian's
off to a bad start here.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You think that Ian made an early mistake here, like
a pitcher giving up a run in the first inning, well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The first, the first the first hello, but then but
again it sounded golden. So I'm not sure. I don't
know what it's exactly what to say about it, because
it could be a golden boy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I don't know who would pick up the phone. I
would never do that. I'm the host of the show.
I would never pick that. I would never pick up
the phone because that's below me. I would never talk
to the unwashed. It's bad enough. I ever talked to
you on the air, My god, off the air?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Please?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
What me me?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Either?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Did I I was what if?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
What if?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
He answers the phone twice and some.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Sort of stuff refuse like double seven moves answer.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So I don't know why we do that, but he'd
have as must time more than as I do. Anyway, Well,
I'm saying, why don't they ever say, like, al if
these players miss extended periods of times for back pain
or you know, it's just sort of cananigans like a
torn crucier ligament. I don't ever see like absess tooth. Me,
mouth pain is the worst pain, dude. I've been covering
for an absess tooth. Oh my god, dude, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
What you mean?
Speaker 5 (27:55):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What do I what do you want? You want me
to break down dentistry? You like me?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I've had some dental issues myself. I had a big problem.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Intr Yes, yes, no, it's terrible.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You know, your your mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Gets all filled with puss and it's disgusting and you
can't talk. I talk with a list because my mouth
is all messed up. It's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yes, you get your own we know your own heroin Like, no,
I'm not. You want to feel the inside of my
mouth because I all slurred and everything. It does not
make me look well.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You shouldn't have any dental but you take so many pharmaceuticals.
You shouldn't have any dental problems because you just kill
anything in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's diseased.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
You just takes some drugs, but you don't have any
your teeth. I say, I have a preponderance of my teeth.
As a players, I definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Have a yes, like exactly, you just use legal terms
a preponderance of the evidence. I have a preponderance of
my teeth. And now does when you call Glenn beckup?
Does Glenn like hot dental talk? Do you ever get
to talk to Glenn and break down how many teeth
he has?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Here's where I could use your help with the radio industry.
I need I need you know what I'm saying. It's football.
It's like, oh my god, we're running, we're runing, We're running.
Poor pulls the ball away and it's the past. Is
the play action past? I need to know what I need?
How do I need to play action pass? Them to
get through the calls traders to get over the air
my story not seemingly so.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think you need to create a character where you.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Sound like you're from not from the redneck rivi era.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Maybe maybe sound like you're from I don't know, New
York or something like that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You'll get on right away.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Oh yeah, what what was that?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I'm sorry, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I can watch Fargo A hoser? What you hoser? What's
wrong with your fringer?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I will?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I could do. I could do a little Scottish. That's
about what I got.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Maybe I can let you like this Scott You think
he doesn't get sky. He sounded like the character from
the Simpsons. Who's the character from the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know? School? You know whatever? School Guyanah, the maintenance
guy ringer.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I will.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
That's all I got except to go outside that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, I can do, mister I do like a mister
Burns like old guy. That's my person is.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I have somebody who could do Christal walkins. But he
could not drop it into the walkin without going wow,
without saying wow. He couldn't do it. I'm not sure
you don't mean that. And Christmal walkin wherever you are.
I know you're listening. Shout to you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, all the grades. He's old. You can't sleep, so
he's all right, are you done?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Hey, Chris walking really quick? If you need help staying awake,
I can certainly help you there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'm sure you can help anyone stay awake. You have
all the answers. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ferg Dog writes and says Ian not following Ben Maler
is a huge party file. I follow Ben on each
and every one of the many burner accounts that I have,
and you should too.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Now I'm following Ben Maller. I don't know what everyone's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That was nineteen seconds ago. By the way, that's we
the start of the show about forty minutes and nineteen
seconds ago. In nineteen seconds ago. So for thirty eight
minutes and whatever seconds, no follow. So and and that's
a shame follow. That's a pity follow. That's not a
legit the show follow. That's a Hey, I'm being forced
(31:03):
to follow this this old guy. And I don't want
to follow him because I don't like him, but I'm
being forced to follow him because I'm working on the show.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's what that was is that true Ian. Now I'm
gonna plead the fed. Oh he's smiling though, See that
he's smiling. You see that? There you go.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Eugene in Chicago rights and says, rundown, Right, this is
a I have a list. It is not a list.
It looks nothing like a list. It is not. It
is a series of hot takes. Previewing hot takes is
what it is. For example, Ring Ring text text, there
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are reports here in the overnight that the phone lines
are burning up in Boston. The text messages, oh man,
it's gone viral. The Celtics getting offers up the yin
Yang for both Jalen Brown and Derek White. Will they
do the unthinkable, the automatic where they fully break down
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the roster and do a full reset and trade both
Derek White and Jalen Brown to save a couple of shekels?
Will they make those moves and tank to the old
we call it the old San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The Spurs would do that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They would win a championship, and then all of a sudden,
someone's back would go out and they'd tank, and they'd
get a top pick, and then they'd be back and
get another great player.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And that's how they would do it, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
They said, well, the preference of the Celtics is to
keep both players. Well, if that's the preference, you don't
return the text messages and you don't answer the calls,
and then you don't have to worry about being tempted.
Temptation island to trade either one of the players. It's
that simple. Let's go to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
What's going on? Ben It It's good to be with
you now.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Andre, Be careful.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I think you might be traded next Andreltics are looking
to unload you. You may be going to the San
Antonio Spurs, so be careful.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
If it has to be that way, it has to
be the win, and I'll be happy because you know
this true holiday situation.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I've been clear on this.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I think the Celtics they needed to keep the core
four together. That's holiday that Derek White, Jason Tatum and
Jalen Brown. Chrispy p Porzingis, you know, appreciate him and
what he did, but if you had to kind of
work with the salary cap and the second apron, all
this nonsense we're haiting about the second apron. I think
Chrispy p would be the way to go. But for
them to start.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Off with trading true holiday.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I mean, it's just over. Okay, the dynastic window all that,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
HOLI say, can you put that out on the official
the official account of Fox Sports Radio that this is
from a source close to the Celtics. How many Celtic
games have you watched over the heres Andre hundreds? This
guy's an insider source close to the Celtics reports it's
over headline developing hot dot died right.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
All right, Ben, Okay, you know what I mean. I'm
coming from the awesome eighties. Me and Willis are out
here again. He's getting get in some fresh air.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You remember the lass you go in. So it's eighty
degrees right now? Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's like he's got the heat weight. Then it's a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Not a heat wave.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's old school. You're dating yourself. It's a heat dome,
now have you noticed no longer heatwave? When we were kids,
it was called heaway, But now it's a heat dome,
the dome.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And the Willis is out here. He's moving and grove
and he's been inside you know, because I had to
rant and rave about the miscarriage of justice that that
that's been taking place with the Celtics organization. But the
ac is inside, so where we're doing good. But the
bottom line is a spense. Listen to talk about the
second apron. I don't have any time for it, because,
first of all, when you brought you holiday in, when
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you were gifted drew holiday from the Portland trail Blazers
because they wouldn't deal with the Miami Heat because Cronin
and Riley were at odds. Why did you sign into
a four year deal? If you're so concerned about the
second aprin, you could have signed into a two year deal.
Because let's remember when Lebron went back to Cleveland. What
did he sign a succession of two year deals? So
we can come in to free agen, come back into
free agency and give them some caps flexibility. So it
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makes no sense. I'll make another point here. When the
ownership group changed hand, what Grossbrecks say. He said he
was going to stay on and he was going to
take care of Team Opera.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was it was gonna be well, well, he wanted
to stay on because he's an egomaniac Wick and he
wants everyone to know who he is. And if you're
not running the Celtics, somebody knows who you are, nobody
cares about you. But it seems to me and I
had a program director like this in radio. I never
got one of these deals, but he knew he was
on his way out and he gave massive contracts to
his friends. It's like the Celtics, like, listen, these guys
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helped them win a championship. We'll give everyone a big
contract then eventually left unload everybody, but we'll reward them
for the championship.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
And then the Holiday guy, I think he got a.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Last before the season, right, I think he signed the
extension and he's already been traded.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So there you go, all right, so wonderful. So you
put yourself in the same situation as the Dallas Mavericks
who went to the NBA Finals and then decided to
destore their team. And then we'll get the number two picks,
the number one overall pick by the NBA to see
if they can get it right.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Willis does.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
He's up and arms as well. So it just doesn't
make any sense. And you want to talk about this,
there's ways to put a gun over the second apron,
and then then you win a championship, You're getting that
money in perpetuity. I will go spend fifty dollars in
nineteen eighty six Boston Celtics T shirt tomorrow, okay, just
because it needs something. So they had a team that
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was built to win champions all this whole We're gonna
bring in Anthony Simon. It's just genuflecting. Okay, it's you know.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Will He's furious about it, and I'm furious about it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I can tell.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I can hear Willis breathing heavily as clearly this is
a very upsetting story for Willis, and I gotta let
you go on that. I'm up against a hard networkout
andres as you understand, so I must hang up on you.
But be safe out there. Enjoy the heat Dome. So
watching some of the baseball games and everyone's freaking out.
I can't believe it's like it's June, it's hot. Can
you believe it never ever gets hot in June or
July or August or September. This is amazing anyway, It
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is the Ben Maler Show. Time Now for the who
Am I Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else else. We call it who am I?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Game O. Christian Moore became the first Angel player since
me with multiple game tying or go ahead of home
runs in the eighth or later of a game. Again,
Christian Moore became the first Angels player since me to
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the eighth inning or later of a game. Who am I?
That's the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
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Back to it to now for the payoff on the
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So Christian Moore became the first Angels player in first
Angels player since Blank to end up the game with
multiple game tying or go ahead home runs in the
eighth inning or later. The Red Sox lose. Again, they're
pretty good at that these days. So Christian Moore becoming
the first Angel player since me with multiple game tying
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or go ahead home runs in the eighth inning or
later of a game. He didn't even realize he had
hit the game winning home run.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
See who do we have? Kathy?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And Madison says, we don't do shoutouts, and then she
shouts out on Chad who fled? Let's see here, Big
Blu says the US ambassador. The iron chic is the
correct answer. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Paige down?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
We can't read that one on the air. We'll skip
over that flash Gordon from Manuel in Guardina, Albert puolos
from John that's his answer, Jed, who Fled's chemical dealer?
It's Jed with a J, not a G. Not to
touch up your work Terry in England's here Mike Trout
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or Sophia Loren from Spotsweed. Lafonso ellis guessed by Slim
Tim Bernie Frado from Steve who does not reply to
my text anymore because I told him something was too predictable. Okay,
Dave CONCEPSI owned from Robo Minnesota. That's his answer. MotorCity
Mike from Shane in Des Moines, Jose Rribe Good Dame
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Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one, our.
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day of June.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So who got the best of the three? Team?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Chris stops porzingis trade goes from Boston to Atlanta and
the Nets were also involved. Also, how do you process
the Celtic fans celebrating cap relief.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
From the unicorn trade?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In addition, does it surprise you that the mav Rex
are forking over a three year contract for Kyrie Irving
even though he's not gonna be able to play anytime
soon because of a shredded knee.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We'll talk about all that and more right now.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
I was told when I was a kid that unicorns
aren't real? So how could the Celtics trade the unicorn?
And let's what you can't do? That they don't exist.
It's impossible, but apparently it's happened. Well, dumb. In the
beginning of another night of the Ben Mahlor Show, we.
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from the I'd say the calm before the storm. That
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would not be accurate. That would not be accurate. That'd
be an incorrect statement because the NBA Draft. This is
our Wednesday show, still late Tuesday on the West coast,
but we're heading in to the day of the draft
and not all was quiet in the land.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Pro bouncy ball and oh boy, so exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Well, it is draft day and Wednesday night there in Brooklyn,
just across the Brooklyn Bridge, down a couple of streets
and then a couple more streets and then you turn
right and then a left and boom, right there you're
in this big place where they have the draft and
all that stuff. So the Mavericks are on the clock
better known as the mav Rex and they're going to
draft Cooper Flag and less and less, their GM is
(02:57):
told he has to trade that pick, and then that
would be a big story. But Cooper Flag expected to
be the number one overall pick. So it's a big
week for the transaction wire. For reference, though I said,
not all quiet.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In the land.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We had the dismantling of the once proud Boston Celtics
continuing the super team. Remember when they won the championship
a couple of years ago, it was, oh man, this
team is set up for years to come. They are
so explosive. They have an amazing amount of depth on
this team. Well not anymore so. One day after they
said bye bye to the holiday as they sent Drew
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Holliday to basketball purgatory with the Trailblazers. The deals that
kept coming, the Green team, which is ironically making trades
because of Green, because of Green, And if.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
You have not been following along here, maybe not.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
We've learned that Chris Stops Porzingis, affectionately known as the Unicorn,
has been traded Bye bye, as he's going to the
atl He'll enjoy magic city there in the Atlanta Hawks
have acquired a unicorn, how magical, along with a second
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round pick, part of a three team trade, not a
mega trade, not a mega trade, but a three team trade.
So it's a Portzingis No. There will be a test
on this coming up in a moment. So Porzingis has
been traded to the Hawks along with a second round pick,
and then Terrence Man. There goes that man, a former Clipper,
(04:32):
Terrence Man. He goes from Atlanta and the number twenty
two pick in the draft, which is tonight to the
Nets for someone named Georges Niang who goes to Boston
and a second round pick. That is what the Celtics
got for Porzingis. So let us discuss the question who
(04:54):
got the better of this three team Chris tops Porzingis trade.
He's the headliner, so he's the one people know who
he is, so will use him in the description.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So who got the best or better if.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You will, of the three team Christaps Porzingi's trade?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
My thoughts on this.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I've got a pringles can, midway and dashboard, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the babaganoosh. We're gonna make the babaosh now.
A to answer the question, who got the better of
this particular transaction, is it A the Celtics, b the
(05:35):
Atlanta Hawks see.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The nets one of those options?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
How about answer D None of the above, None of
the above right now if you had to force me
gun to the head to pick a team, because why not,
You're really gonna threaten someone's life over this trade. But
if that's the case, man I trying to make sense
of this zingis he goes to Atlanta. This is not
(06:03):
really a trade, because a trade you're doing quid pro quota.
You get something, you get something, you get some that's
not it. This is more like a yard sale where
you're giving away. You have this vintage leather recliner. The
leather is kind of worn out a little bit, but
it's like your favorite chair. You're giving it away and
because your wife forced you to get rid of it,
and you're getting in return a half eaten pringles can.
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And that's what you're getting. You're giving your favorite chair
away and that's it. It's slop for garbage. So slop
for garbage. That's the trade. And on the mall of
report card, the Atlanta Hawks get a CEUs A C
minus for the Atlanta Hawks, the Nets get the D
and I give the Celtics of d aulsa.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I give the Celtics of d alsa.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So the edge is to Atlanta, but only because they
got the one guy we've heard of in Porzingis in
this trade. When he is upright, which is very rare.
Porzingis is not upright very often. When he is upright,
he's pretty good. He's pretty good player when he's upright
for the thirty games a year that he plays and
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all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So you got that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And he can stretch the floorest when he did in
Boston when he played when they won the championship, and
you can protect the rim occasionally when he decides to
play some defense. And it was a good fit with
Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown in Boston. Allowed them to
do their thing and did not impede what they were doing.
And so that's the rub. The unicorn, as he has known,
(07:37):
the unicorn. The medical chart, if you look at it.
It's literally longer than those CBS receipts, Like have you
ever checked out back in the day and CBS they
used to print out these massive, massive proceeds. Now on
Q on que porzingis his final act as a Boston Celtic.
Was this mysterious post viral syndrome thinga majig, the what
(08:02):
you McCall it? They didn't know what it was and
all that stuff? Was it long covid? Was it the
creeping crud? Was it something else? Nobody seems to know.
But he could play sometimes and they couldn't.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Play other times. And remember one of those.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Playoff games when he got all bloody I think it
was against the Knicks and looked like a boxer that
was a tomato can. And then he came back into
the game and he had a big bandage on his
forehead and all that stuff. But anyway, that's porsaic because
he goes to Atlanta. Now, the other part of this,
as we do our frame by frame breakdown on the
Ben Maler Show, so how do you process the part
(08:37):
of this which is really surprising that shouldn't be surprising.
It would have been surprising ten years ago, fifteen years
ago twenty years ago in misurpresing. But how do you
process the Celtic supporters, the Marching and Chawter Society of
the Boston Celtics, who seemed to be celebrating the cap belief,
(08:58):
the cap relief from the porzingis trade. So this is
one of those things why I don't get it. I
didn't grow up in that era where you celebrate this.
I don't understand that mindset. To me, that is ridoculous.
Maybe you can explain it to me. I look at
it like a trip to the circus Circus Midway. It's
(09:20):
a funhouse of mirrors, is what it is. Right, you
throw a parade and let it gets right. So you're happy.
You're excited because your team.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Which you don't work for. You're just an outside observer.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's not like you're on the payroll and you get
more money because the owner has more money. But you're
happy because the Celtics ducked the second apron. So I
guess like being at a kitchen and you have a
lot of aprons, and so they ducked the second apron.
So this is what the Boston fan base has become
that they feel this is a giant win because their
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owner saves some money.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
And I have no skin in the game. This may
me want to puke in my mouth, is what this is.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I mean, will come on, you talk about some kind
of warped distorted.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Like that. That's your reality. I mean, that's your representation
of reality.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Like this is a great thing. You know, you're gonna
pump your fist in the air everywhere because of luxury
tax avoidance, Like you got nothing in the trade. I mean,
he just present as you gave him away, so always hurt,
that's fine, but you've got nothing for him. And he
was when he played, a pretty good player for you.
And you're all horny because the Celtics. The the nerds cooked
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up the numbers here and they said, well, the payroll
and tax for the new incoming Celtic ownership there, it's
down from five hundred and twelve million to two hundred
and seventy four million, and so they said.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That's a big thing. Now. That means the two.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Trades, the holiday trade and the Unicorn trade, saved the
Celtics about two hundred and thirty eight million. The ownership
of the Celtics two hundred and ten million coming from
purely tax penalties. So again, if you're the owner of
the Celtics and you're excited, that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I get it. If you work for the team, more
money for the owner, maybe that money will.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Come to me.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
If you're not an employee and you don't own the team,
I don't understand the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I really I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Like, if your biggest offseason transaction is that, hey, we
saved two hundred and ten million in tax penalty as
a fan, like, how does that help you?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't I really don't get it. Right, congratulations, way
to go, we save some tax money. The team is
plausibly worse, but you saved some tax money and a
way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I's like you're sharing for a hedge fund, not so
much a basketball team at that part. To the point,
but what do I know? So the Celtics appear to
be now that Tatum's hurt. They have the green light
of Tatum. They would have done this likely even if
Tatum hadn't gotten hurt, because they were gonna lose in
the necks anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
However they did. In this part of the multiverse, they did.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So the Celtics are like empty nesters without Jason Tatum
the Achilles injury, and so they have decided now they
are going to downsize to a little casa, a little
coss out in the in the woods. And that's what
they're doing. They're downsizing. And the fans are applauding, or
at least some of them are applauding this because the
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owners save some dough. It's like, wowie Cauzawi here, what
are you doing here? It's it's not basketball bookkeeping. It's
like as a team, but no, it team's not better.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But we save some money. Okay, but is the team?
Have you improved the team? No, we haven't improved teams
not but we save some money. Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Are they gonna have a Bobblehead Night with a bag
of money that bobbles and be like, hey, this is
the money that we save. We would have had to
pay the Twitter ten million. It's a special promotion for
the Celtics. It's it's money bobble Knight, Taxi Uncle Sam,
Bobblehead or whatever. Anyway, all right, now the last word
to Dallas, we go. Now the mav Rex are on
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the clock. They have the top pick in the draft.
The Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving declined.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
His contract option.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You see this turned down forty three million dollars, said
x nay on the money. A Instead, he opted out
and then said all right, Psych, I'll stay. And so
the Mavericks, because they don't know what they're doing, they
gave Kyrie Irving a three year contract extension for one
hundred and nineteen million dollars one hundred and nineteen million dollars.
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The deal includes a player option for twenty twenty seven
twenty twenty eight, so a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Down the line.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Now, Irving is what's known as DG damaged goods.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He's damaged goods.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He tore his ACL Snapcrackle pop back in March, and
so he's damaged.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Does it surprise you? Here's the question.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Does it surprise you that the mav Res and the
great Nico Harrison have forked over this kind of contract
to Kyrie Irving? So I'm gonna nod my head yes,
realizing we're talking about Nico Harrison, I'm going to nod
my head.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Dallas did not just double down. They didn't just double
down on this. They tripled down, and then they slipped
a disc in their back. While doing it with Kyrie IRV.
It's the only way describe it here. Acls are supposed
to be the flashing check engine light on the dashboard
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of the car, right, Like, if you take a car
for a and the dashboard light comes on, there's a
problem with the engine. Do you still buy the car?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
That's a car already they knew there was a problem,
and they said, Okay, we want the car. We'll pay.
In fact, we'll pay a premium price for the car.
That's what we'll do. I know, the check engine light
is flashing on the dashboard. We want the car, so
we'll still pay for the car. So normally that doesn't happen.
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At least it used to not happen. I know what
happens quite a bit now, especially in basketball. Guys are hurt.
They still sign these massive, massive contracts. But the Mavericks
that they see torn ligament in the knee and they're like,
all right, how fast can we grab the check book?
Here you go blank check, knock yourself out. And so
Kyrie's got the double whammy against him. Strike one is
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the shredded ligaments in the knee, so he's got that
going for him. He's also thirty three, which in the
real world is not old, but in the sporting world,
your athletic prime ends at age thirty two. So using Malermath,
if you're thirty three, you're past your athletic prime. He's
garon tea to miss irving most of the almost all
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the first half of this upcoming season. Assuming there are
no bugaboos with his comeback, he's gonna be out until
at least January.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
So forget about October, November, all those Monday in December
see you later out So he could come back sometime
in January of twenty twenty six. His knees have over
the years put.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Up more dnps than conspiracy theories, which it was neck
and neck.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He's toned down.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm sure he's still into the wacky conspiracy theories, but
he's not talking about them as much anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And so here we are.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Here we are watching the Nico Harrison, who somehow kept
his job as the Maverick executive the Harrison Experience, and
he signs a deal with the Mavericks Kyrie like he's
like Nico Harrison's buying beachfront property in a resort in Hawaii,
and really it's like a rundown shack. It's got some
(17:17):
miles on It needs more than just paint, more than
cosmetic At this point, now, when Kyrie has played plays
often like it's poetry, it's a problem. Look, he didn't
play very much another one of these guys, a lot
of mileage, and the injury charts are rather large there
for him as well. And so it ain't my problem.
(17:40):
I'm not a maverick guy. That's guys like Charlie in
Dallas and those guys. That's their problem.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Ain't my problem. All right, If you would like to
be part of this the talk radio.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Hack, the easiest time to get in is at the
very start of the show, and then he gets progressively worse,
and then it'll be impossible to get in.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
You will have no chance getting in right now. You
got a decent shot, can give you about two fifty
batting average right now.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Later on it'll be about one thirteen. So if you
want in on this eight seven set, now listen. You
do not need to call. We have plenty of content,
as we prove when the phones were down for an
entire week.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Here the show continue here. We didn't miss a beat.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
In fact, I got emails from people saying, I hope
the phones go down again.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The callers suck, They're terrible. Why do you even take them?
So people cheering for the phones to break, but we
do take some calls to change it up. You have
some different voices on here other than yours, truly, so
if you would like to be part eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six
sixty three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Also on X at Ben Mahler. That's at Ben Mahler.
The porzingis trade Kyrie Irving getting the extension couple of
the moves in pro bouncy balls. We work our way
through the overnight and a ring ring text text, ring
ring text text, What is that all about? We'll get
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to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It is I Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
We are just settling in on the Red Eye flight
here all night long under the cover of darkness. If
you're working the third shift, we thank you for spending
some time. We know you have options, not good ones,
but we're glad that you chose us here on the
Ben Mahler Show. And you can be part of this show.
Whether you're working the third shift or you work the
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second shift and you just stand up late flutching around
playing video games and enjoying the quietness of the night,
or if you've got the creeping crud and you're just
kind of hanging out because you can't sleep. It's called insomnia.
Might be medically might be medically induced insomnia, but it's
insomnia either way. You can be part of the show,
(20:02):
or you can just hide and not be part of
the show and just sit there and do nothing like
most people do.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
But if you want to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, also on X
at Ben Malor, that's at Ben Mahlor and say hello
to Lorraine, the FSR tech Queen can do that. And
in the producer's chair we have Ian Roddy who's here
(20:34):
and he's got an underscore. I believe I have the
correct account here he's got he doesn't follow Ben Mallor,
but Ian Roddy who does not follow Ben Mallor, but
he has a Twitter account. Ian Roddy Underscore got to
get rid of you. You've got to get rid of
the underscore. It's very important to get rid of the underscore,
very important. People do not know what an underscore is.
(20:55):
But that's Ian Roddy underscore.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
He's on ax. You can sell to him.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
He's in the producer's chair right now. And now back
to the show, back to when we go. As we're
breaking down this NBA trading season. There should be a
couple more trades today. And we've got the ring ring
text text, ring ring text text. We'll get to that
coming up here in a moment. Milkman Mike from Colorado,
(21:19):
right sin, he says, excellent the.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Sound of him work right there. Excellent opening monologue.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Though NBA trades are interesting, nothing tops the Mallard militia
trade that just went down. As blind Scott and Marcel
have been traded to Afghanistan for a goat?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Now?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Is that a goat to be named later? What about
Blair and Maine? Did we toss Blair in there? How
about Dick and Dayon? Now some people saying that we
did trade Angry Bill, who used to call the show
and all of a sudden stopped calling show. I hope
Angry Bill's Okay, I had some medical problems.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know what happened Angry, but I got an email.
Why are you putting Angry Bill on you? Because he
gave you a hard time. I didn't stop Angry Bill
from calling the show number one, number two, he stopped calling.
I don't know what happened. We're not so sweet. I
hope he calls back. He's not sweet at all. He's
a dick, and.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Dayton is what he is. He's not sweet at all.
He's a schmuck, but he's he's, you know, typical New
Jersey guy. He's a schmuck, and we you know, he's
unique because there's not that many schmucks. Well actually are
a lot of schmucks, but he's different than the other
schmucks that call the show.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You see. That's that's the thing there. So anyway, we've
not banned him.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We didn't Mark the full name guy. He had a breakdown.
He couldn't handle the show. There's a lot of pressure
being a talk radio caller, and if you've never done it,
and if you're a star caller, there's a lot of expectations,
and Mark, he just got too old.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He couldn't handle the pressure of it, and so he quit.
And you know that was unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Marked the full name guy who had some good maments
on the show, but it became too much. He could
not handle it, and he went to the corner and
started sucking his thumb in the feed up position.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
So that was it. It's unfortunate. What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Let's see here, Terry in England says Malor's Daily List
about I'm not a list, Terry's. That is called a rundown.
That is a teaser, and that allows you a little
taste of what may be coming up on X. And
that's all that is. Bagel Boy writes and says Nico
(23:24):
Harrison is a moron and this further proves it. Cooper
Flag better take charge quick, moron.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Spox Weed writes in from the Oregon Trail and says,
so Ben emphasizes that Boston's main objective was a hedge
fund saving money, Yet no mention of spreadsheets.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
What's up with that?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Spox Weed says itunian for bloviating spreadsheet talk. I'm sorry
to have disappointed you, Spoxwed. And I did not say
the Celtics road vomit comet. I did not mention that
either that did not come up, so put that in
your pipe and smoking.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
What else do we have to see?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Page down and we'll skip over that one. Super Marcus
Steve says, what is the NBA's version of Siberia. It
has to be a bad team in a lame city.
And then he's got four options. He's got the an
He misspelled Charlotte, which is a bad job by him.
(24:29):
That's come on, you should know how to spell Charlotte.
It's also some women are named.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Charlotte charrolette or is it Charlotte charro lette? Is how
he spelled two teas in the end?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yes, that's how he spelled it, he says, corn super Markets.
Stevie says the basketball Siberia, Charlotte Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trailblazers,
Utah Jazz. So to me, there's only one answer here,
and that is the the Utah Jazz, unless you like
the great outdoors at Utah's. They're Portland's close behind, but
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Utah at the time, Like say you're playing Sacramento, you're
a short, relatively short drive away. You're in the Bay
area in San Francisco. There's a lot going on, it's
the next city over and Charlotte. Yes, it's kind of
slow and all that team sucks, but it's not. It's
not a terrible place to reside. So I would say, uh,
(25:27):
and that that does seem like a list supermarket Steve.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
But and I'm gonna speak for all NBA players. I
got the.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Utah Jazz at the very top, and they are in
number one with a bullet and then the Portland Trail
legend right after that, right after.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That, Yes, ferg dog rights.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Since it's the big question whenever a producer fills in
for Coop is where does Emmett have them ranked on
his big board of FSR producers.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I do not know. Emitt is not on the board here,
So if Emmett calls in, I know he's a busy
podcasting blind Emmett. Uh, We're not sure where he has
Ian on the on the board.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I think Ian's downgraded for not following the Ben Malor
account on Twitter. I think that's a clear downgrade. So
let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to ENnie Meenie, Miney,
Moe Jed who fled is hanging out and he is
up first there Deep I'd say, deep in the heart
of Florida, but he's in the.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Panhandle, in the redneck Riviera. Hello, Jed, who fled?
Speaker 5 (26:32):
I'm right in the throw to Florida. It does not
bode well for Ian that some sort of training wheels
were put on and someone I know who, but someone
answers the phone before him and then came on, and
then he came home, which is a very very rare
curren So I was like, sort of like swimmy is
what that felt like? Ian's I got faith in you.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I mean, are you already critique? You believe like Ian's
off to a bad start here.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You think that Ian made an early mistake here, like
a pitcher giving up a run in the first inning, well.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The first, the first the first hello, but then but
again it sounded golden. So I'm not sure. I don't
know what it's exactly what to say about it, because
it could be a golden boy.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I don't know who would pick up the phone. I
would never do that. I'm the host of the show.
I would never pick that. I would never pick up
the phone because that's below me. I would never talk
to the unwashed. It's bad enough. I ever talked to
you on the air, My god, off the air?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Please?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
What me me?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Either?
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Did I I was what if?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
What if?
Speaker 5 (27:25):
He answers the phone twice and some.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Sort of stuff refuse like double seven moves answer.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
So I don't know why we do that, but he'd
have as must time more than as I do. Anyway, Well,
I'm saying, why don't they ever say, like, al if
these players miss extended periods of times for back pain
or you know, it's just sort of cananigans like a
torn crucier ligament. I don't ever see like absess tooth. Me,
mouth pain is the worst pain, dude. I've been covering
for an absess tooth. Oh my god, dude, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
What you mean?
Speaker 5 (27:55):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What do I what do you want? You want me
to break down dentistry? You like me?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I've had some dental issues myself. I had a big problem.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Intr Yes, yes, no, it's terrible.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You know, your your mouth.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Gets all filled with puss and it's disgusting and you
can't talk. I talk with a list because my mouth
is all messed up. It's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yes, you get your own we know your own heroin Like, no,
I'm not. You want to feel the inside of my
mouth because I all slurred and everything. It does not
make me look well.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You shouldn't have any dental but you take so many pharmaceuticals.
You shouldn't have any dental problems because you just kill
anything in your mouth.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's diseased.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
You just takes some drugs, but you don't have any
your teeth. I say, I have a preponderance of my teeth.
As a players, I definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Have a yes, like exactly, you just use legal terms
a preponderance of the evidence. I have a preponderance of
my teeth. And now does when you call Glenn beckup?
Does Glenn like hot dental talk? Do you ever get
to talk to Glenn and break down how many teeth
he has?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Here's where I could use your help with the radio industry.
I need I need you know what I'm saying. It's football.
It's like, oh my god, we're running, we're runing, We're running.
Poor pulls the ball away and it's the past. Is
the play action past? I need to know what I need?
How do I need to play action pass? Them to
get through the calls traders to get over the air
my story not seemingly so.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think you need to create a character where you.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Sound like you're from not from the redneck rivi era.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Maybe maybe sound like you're from I don't know, New
York or something like that.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You'll get on right away.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Oh yeah, what what was that?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
I'm sorry, I don't know what that was.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I can watch Fargo A hoser? What you hoser? What's
wrong with your fringer?
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I will?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
I could do. I could do a little Scottish. That's
about what I got.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Maybe I can let you like this Scott You think
he doesn't get sky. He sounded like the character from
the Simpsons. Who's the character from the Simpsons?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know? School? You know whatever? School Guyanah, the maintenance
guy ringer.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I will.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
That's all I got except to go outside that.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, I can do, mister I do like a mister
Burns like old guy. That's my person is.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I have somebody who could do Christal walkins. But he
could not drop it into the walkin without going wow,
without saying wow. He couldn't do it. I'm not sure
you don't mean that. And Christmal walkin wherever you are.
I know you're listening. Shout to you.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yeah, all the grades. He's old. You can't sleep, so
he's all right, are you done?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Hey, Chris walking really quick? If you need help staying awake,
I can certainly help you there.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'm sure you can help anyone stay awake. You have
all the answers. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ferg Dog writes and says Ian not following Ben Maler
is a huge party file. I follow Ben on each
and every one of the many burner accounts that I have,
and you should too.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Now I'm following Ben Maller. I don't know what everyone's
talking about.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That was nineteen seconds ago. By the way, that's we
the start of the show about forty minutes and nineteen
seconds ago. In nineteen seconds ago. So for thirty eight
minutes and whatever seconds, no follow. So and and that's
a shame follow. That's a pity follow. That's not a
legit the show follow. That's a Hey, I'm being forced
(31:03):
to follow this this old guy. And I don't want
to follow him because I don't like him, but I'm
being forced to follow him because I'm working on the show.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's what that was is that true Ian. Now I'm
gonna plead the fed. Oh he's smiling though, See that
he's smiling. You see that? There you go.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Eugene in Chicago rights and says, rundown, Right, this is
a I have a list. It is not a list.
It looks nothing like a list. It is not. It
is a series of hot takes. Previewing hot takes is
what it is. For example, Ring Ring text text, there
(31:40):
are reports here in the overnight that the phone lines
are burning up in Boston. The text messages, oh man,
it's gone viral. The Celtics getting offers up the yin
Yang for both Jalen Brown and Derek White. Will they
do the unthinkable, the automatic where they fully break down
(32:02):
the roster and do a full reset and trade both
Derek White and Jalen Brown to save a couple of shekels?
Will they make those moves and tank to the old
we call it the old San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
The Spurs would do that.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
They would win a championship, and then all of a sudden,
someone's back would go out and they'd tank, and they'd
get a top pick, and then they'd be back and
get another great player.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
And that's how they would do it, so stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
They said, well, the preference of the Celtics is to
keep both players. Well, if that's the preference, you don't
return the text messages and you don't answer the calls,
and then you don't have to worry about being tempted.
Temptation island to trade either one of the players. It's
that simple. Let's go to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
What's going on? Ben It It's good to be with
you now.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Andre, Be careful.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I think you might be traded next Andreltics are looking
to unload you. You may be going to the San
Antonio Spurs, so be careful.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
If it has to be that way, it has to
be the win, and I'll be happy because you know
this true holiday situation.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I've been clear on this.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I think the Celtics they needed to keep the core
four together. That's holiday that Derek White, Jason Tatum and
Jalen Brown. Chrispy p Porzingis, you know, appreciate him and
what he did, but if you had to kind of
work with the salary cap and the second apron, all
this nonsense we're haiting about the second apron. I think
Chrispy p would be the way to go. But for
them to start.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Off with trading true holiday.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I mean, it's just over. Okay, the dynastic window all that,
it's over.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It's over.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
HOLI say, can you put that out on the official
the official account of Fox Sports Radio that this is
from a source close to the Celtics. How many Celtic
games have you watched over the heres Andre hundreds? This
guy's an insider source close to the Celtics reports it's
over headline developing hot dot died right.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
All right, Ben, Okay, you know what I mean. I'm
coming from the awesome eighties. Me and Willis are out
here again. He's getting get in some fresh air.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
You remember the lass you go in. So it's eighty
degrees right now? Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
It's like he's got the heat weight. Then it's a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Not a heat wave.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's old school. You're dating yourself. It's a heat dome,
now have you noticed no longer heatwave? When we were kids,
it was called heaway, But now it's a heat dome,
the dome.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
And the Willis is out here. He's moving and grove
and he's been inside you know, because I had to
rant and rave about the miscarriage of justice that that
that's been taking place with the Celtics organization. But the
ac is inside, so where we're doing good. But the
bottom line is a spense. Listen to talk about the
second apron. I don't have any time for it, because,
first of all, when you brought you holiday in, when
(34:45):
you were gifted drew holiday from the Portland trail Blazers
because they wouldn't deal with the Miami Heat because Cronin
and Riley were at odds. Why did you sign into
a four year deal? If you're so concerned about the
second aprin, you could have signed into a two year deal.
Because let's remember when Lebron went back to Cleveland. What
did he sign a succession of two year deals? So
we can come in to free agen, come back into
free agency and give them some caps flexibility. So it
(35:06):
makes no sense. I'll make another point here. When the
ownership group changed hand, what Grossbrecks say. He said he
was going to stay on and he was going to
take care of Team Opera.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was it was gonna be well, well, he wanted
to stay on because he's an egomaniac Wick and he
wants everyone to know who he is. And if you're
not running the Celtics, somebody knows who you are, nobody
cares about you. But it seems to me and I
had a program director like this in radio. I never
got one of these deals, but he knew he was
on his way out and he gave massive contracts to
his friends. It's like the Celtics, like, listen, these guys
(35:36):
helped them win a championship. We'll give everyone a big
contract then eventually left unload everybody, but we'll reward them
for the championship.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
And then the Holiday guy, I think he got a.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Last before the season, right, I think he signed the
extension and he's already been traded.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
So there you go, all right, so wonderful. So you
put yourself in the same situation as the Dallas Mavericks
who went to the NBA Finals and then decided to
destore their team. And then we'll get the number two picks,
the number one overall pick by the NBA to see
if they can get it right.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Willis does.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
He's up and arms as well. So it just doesn't
make any sense. And you want to talk about this,
there's ways to put a gun over the second apron,
and then then you win a championship, You're getting that
money in perpetuity. I will go spend fifty dollars in
nineteen eighty six Boston Celtics T shirt tomorrow, okay, just
because it needs something. So they had a team that
(36:21):
was built to win champions all this whole We're gonna
bring in Anthony Simon. It's just genuflecting. Okay, it's you know.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Will He's furious about it, and I'm furious about it.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I can tell.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I can hear Willis breathing heavily as clearly this is
a very upsetting story for Willis, and I gotta let
you go on that. I'm up against a hard networkout
andres as you understand, so I must hang up on you.
But be safe out there. Enjoy the heat Dome. So
watching some of the baseball games and everyone's freaking out.
I can't believe it's like it's June, it's hot. Can
you believe it never ever gets hot in June or
July or August or September. This is amazing anyway, It
(36:54):
is the Ben Maler Show. Time Now for the who
Am I Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else else. We call it who am I?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Game O. Christian Moore became the first Angel player since
me with multiple game tying or go ahead of home
runs in the eighth or later of a game. Again,
Christian Moore became the first Angels player since me to
(37:20):
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the eighth inning or later of a game. Who am I?
That's the question, the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
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who Am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So Christian Moore became the first Angels player in first
Angels player since Blank to end up the game with
multiple game tying or go ahead home runs in the
eighth inning or later. The Red Sox lose. Again, they're
pretty good at that these days. So Christian Moore becoming
the first Angel player since me with multiple game tying
(38:44):
or go ahead home runs in the eighth inning or
later of a game. He didn't even realize he had
hit the game winning home run.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
See who do we have? Kathy?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
And Madison says, we don't do shoutouts, and then she
shouts out on Chad who fled? Let's see here, Big
Blu says the US ambassador. The iron chic is the
correct answer. Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Paige down?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
We can't read that one on the air. We'll skip
over that flash Gordon from Manuel in Guardina, Albert puolos
from John that's his answer, Jed, who Fled's chemical dealer?
It's Jed with a J, not a G. Not to
touch up your work Terry in England's here Mike Trout
(39:29):
or Sophia Loren from Spotsweed. Lafonso ellis guessed by Slim
Tim Bernie Frado from Steve who does not reply to
my text anymore because I told him something was too predictable. Okay,
Dave CONCEPSI owned from Robo Minnesota. That's his answer. MotorCity
Mike from Shane in Des Moines, Jose Rribe Good Dame
(39:52):
from Jay Scoop the Giant apologies. Who else do we have?
Page down? Sugar White Mike from Shane in des Moines.
Whoopee Pie Blair guest by King Roy Awe quickly.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
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