July 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the three-team trade that sent Utah's John Collins to the Clippers and Noman Powell to the Heat, Lakers GM Rob Pelinka explaining why DeAndre Ayton is the ideal center for the Lakers, the Rockets GM explaining the Kevin Durant trade, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number wad Our, one
of the original Recipe podcast. I hope you're doing well.
It's the eighth day of July. On this Tuesday, we
were up all night cooking up these sports stakes. We
start with pro bouncy ball this hour number one. How
do you grade the three team trade that sent Utah's
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John Collins to the Clippers. Norman Powell goes to the
Heat and Utah got some spare parts. Also, how do
you react to GM Rob Polenka skinny jeans explaining why
DeAndre Ayton is the ideal center for the Lakers and
the Rockets GM. Rafael Stone explained the Kevin Durant trade,
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saying that we're not a developmental team anymore, implying that
Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece. Your thoughts on that,
all of it right now? Settle in. It's our one.
You get a player, you get a player, you get
two players. The wheeling and dealing is underway. The hot Stove, Belie,
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very windy. Pro bouncy buff you didn't see this, maybe not?
We had a not one, not two, but three team
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trade in pro bouncy ball. The Miami Heat have acquired
Storman Norman Powell from the People's Team, while John Collins
has escaped the Great Salt Lake. He's headed to La
La Land for the real team, the People's Team in
La and then Kevin Love he's still playing. Kevin Love
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and Kyle Anderson have been sentenced to play for the
Utah Jazz. All that in a three team trade. So
let us discuss the question, how do you grade? Keep
it simple? How do you grade the three team trade
that sent John Collins to the Clippers and Norman Powell
to the to the Miami Heat. Those are the key
parts of this trade. So I've got Sorcery, Disneyland, and Sprinkles,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the gabba ghool. We're gonna
make the gobba gol so ay malor grading. People talk
about different insiders. You know, I was a big wog guy.
He retired love woge. He's doing the college basketball thing
there in the East Coast. Now they've got that sham guy.
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He's out there doing that thing like the sham Wow guy.
But it's the sham basketball guy. But when it comes
to when it comes to grading the trade, this is
the most important spot on the radio dial. It wasn't
a blockbuster. I'm not gonna say this it's a blockbuster.
It was a block whisperer is what this trade was,
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right and regardless, and make no mistake, this was a heist.
It was a heist. It was a daylight train robbery situation.
Now the low information fan would not know that it's
a little more nuanced, and so that's why we're starting
with this here. It's a daylight train robbery of the
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Utah Jazz. And they played the role the jazz, Danny
Ainge and his kid, the Nepo baby, who's the gam
with the jazz. They played the role of the distracted
security guard while the heist took place. So the Clippers
pull off a trade. It's under the radar. Admit it's
under the radar, and you know, might we will put
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that under the on a milk carton witness protection and
all that stuff. But John Collins six foot nine, he's
got a pretty good jump shot and appears to have
a nice big chip on his shoulder. Stuck in Atlanta
and Utah. Now he's going to the bright lights of
the Clips and Steve Bamer and all that money and
just more sorcery, more sorcery from the Clippers. They get
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an A plus with with the possibility of upping that
to an A plus plus plus on this trade. Selling
Norman Power, they got him low, they got him on
the low side. They sold them on the high side
at the top of his market. They weren't going to
pay storm And Norman Powell, who is a role player
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that played above his means and we saw spotty play
in the playoffs. Miami, I'll give them a be not
because I think Norman Pou's amazing, solid but not great
player Norman Powell, but because really what the Miami traded
was a bunch of either washed up players or spare parts.
So Powell will give Pat Riley and his team there
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in Miami, a microwave scoring option, but not Vinnie the
Michael Wave Johnson. If you're old, you know who that is.
And defensive indifference, which is there's a lot of that,
a lot of defensive indifference in the NBA. So the
Jazz they get the old f another f trade for
the Utah Jazz. They traded a good player for a
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fossil and another player who's not all that good. But
the star of the show is John Collins. That's the
star of the show. Goes to the Clippers. Nineteen points
a game, eight rebounds. That wasn't a bad team. And
we always put the qualifier. Anybody can put up stats
on a crap team like the Utah Jazz were he
shot the ball well, shot the ball well from three
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point range, almost forty percent, shot the ball well from
the floor, and so re bounding points the whole thing.
And it's efficiency. All the nerds love John Collins, all
the geeks they geek out because he's very efficient and
all that stuff. And so, uh, he can be a
rim runner, which is that's a cool basketball rim runner
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can be that. But he's got the he's got the range,
he's a lob threat. Those are all good things. And
the Clippers clips have picked up already Brook Lopez from
later of the Milwaukee Bucks. They've got zoobots still hanging around,
so they've changed their identity. And now you have John
Collins sliding in there like a nice velvet glove at
the fore position for the for the Clippers. So James
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Harden's got that vertical pick and roll threat. Kawhi Leonard. Uh,
he's he's fine, and maybe he'll pause and when his
uh you know, his quad starts whispering sweet nothings to
him when we get to February, Uh, maybe he'll calm
down a little bit. But the Clippers they needed a
different flavor after their Game seven no against the Denver Nuggets,
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and so they got John Collins, who's still not thirty
years only twenty seven years old. I mean it turns
twenty eight during the upcoming before the upcoming NBA season.
So that's the kind of move. It doesn't get the
big headlines for the basketball paparazzo. They don't get excited
about John Collins. They don't. But that doesn't get a
lot of attention. In July on Our show, it does
because we're not mainstream, we're on late at night in
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the overnight. But that's the kind of move that wins
you playoff games when we get to May of twenty
twenty six, that's the kind of move that does that.
It's a chess move and it's not a checkers move.
It's a chess move. There's a difference there. And so
this will also lead to other additions. There's some chatter,
some chatter in the grapevine that to Bradley Beal is
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about to come inbound to La La Land to the Clippers. Now,
moving on from that, we turn the page. We move
across Los Angeles to skid Row. That's where the Lakers play.
Talk about Hollywood, they play on skid Row. If you've
ever been to that arena, it is literally in skid Row.
So how do you react to the GM Skinny Jeans
Rob Polinka explaining why DeAndre Ayton, Now, he agreed to
(09:10):
a contract recently. I think on Sunday he agreed to
a contract, and so Rob Polenka, this quote went viral
of Rob Skinny Jeans Polenka saying that DeAndre Ayton is
the ideal center for the Lakers, He talked about championships
and getting back to that level because of DeAndre eight
and all this stuff. So I saw the quotes and
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I give this a shoulder shrug. I give it a
shoulder shrug, is what I did. Rob Polenka is selling
the dumb fan. He knows his fan base. I'll give
Rob Polenka credit. Now, listen, he knows the fan. It's
not a real knowledgeable fan. It's a dumb fan. So
he knows that, and he can sell a bill of
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goods and he's like a used car salesman. He's got
a little bit of a blush, but he knows that
the idiot. So why DeAndre Ayton has officially been now
been crowned. If you read the comments of Skinny Jeans
Rob Polinka, he has been crowned now as the Purple
and Gold Savior, the great Messiah in the middle. And
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Polenka who turned in with these quotes. It was slobber, chops, slaber,
slava slava all over. DeAndre Ayton talked about his size, mobility,
his athleticism. Hey laid it on, thick guy. Talked about
the playoff experience. Now this is the part which is
next level bull crap oh DeAndre eight and he's got
finals experience NBA Finals with the Phoenix songs, so that
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aligned well with the Lakers championship aspers. Lakers haven't won
a championship, said Kobe Bryant. He's dead. They have not
won in a long time, so it sounds like a
news release by the Lakers. It was like it was
from Disneyland, but it was in fantasy Land at Disneyland
is what it was. I mean, really, like, what are
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you doing seriously? I mean you cut through the bull
crap and it's like, this is not the second coming
of Shaquille O'Neal. It could be the ghost of Kwame Brown,
possibly haunting Woo Spookie. The Crypt is in appropriate. The
Lakers now playing on skid Row and they play at
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the Crypt. How perfect is that? Franchise is about dead
and they play at the Crypt. Now, box score readers
otherwise known as dumb fans box score readers, they get
a woody when they look at DeAndrea look at the
double doubles. They get all sided. But the numbers do
not tell the entire story on this one. They don't.
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His motor runs cooler than a Saskatoon winner. And my
goal is to get the word Saskatoon in every show possible.
Did we play very well in Saskatoon? We have a
ten share. The Ben Malors show dominates the land of Saskatoon.
We do anyway. So Aidan has been dogged much like
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he's play. He is a dog. He needs some dog food,
whispers of laziness, apathy his entire career in Phoenix. He
was supposed to be an anchor. He was the number
one overall pick, so he was supposed to be an anchor,
but more like an anchor dragging the ship down to
the bottom of the water there. And don't let Rob
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Polenka and his purple and gold colored glasses fool you.
As Mark Twain great Mark Twain quote, never let the
truth get in the way of a good story. And
so Ayton was essentially a role player on that Sun's
team that choked against the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Finals,
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and he was there. He had no fire. He was
like a wet matchbook is what he was like. He
had very little heart, got out hustled, and then I
look like he was essentially working a nine to five job,
not not battling, not scratching in clog for the championship.
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He wasn't like that. In Portland, the Blazer's like, oh,
we're gonna untap this guy. We figured out he's gonna
go there. It's his team. There's nobody else ahead of
him in the in the pecking order. It's gonna be
DeAndre Aiden's team on the Oregon Trail. So he went
there and the Blazers had him for a couple of
years and they said, wait, me, we gotta get risk
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and not for capril. If they didn't do it for
salary cap relief, they did it because they couldn't deal
with the drama. Would he show up that night? Would
he not show up that night? And now Rob Polinka
thinks that he's somehow the missing link to championship dreams. Okay,
did he take the bottle of pills called stupid stupid pills?
Did he take them? And as far as the Luca
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narrative which is being passed around, well, Luca, they're draft
class buddies, Luca Dotsik right, Ukah, Luca and DeAndre they
can go to Hukah. I know some hookah bars in
La If they want to can text me. I'll let
them know. Even Luca's wizardry, even his ability. You think
it's going to get any kind of passion out of
a passionless player, and DeAndre eight and come on, you
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cannot coach hunger. And in the history of the NBA,
players that don't have that drive don't all of a
sudden get it. They don't. So if you're seven foot tall,
that's great. If you're sleepwalking, that does not work. Last word,
quickly to Houston we go. Some interesting commentary paperwork was
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turned into the boys over on Fifth Avenue for the
rock Cats. The NBA has rubber stamped I use the
old rubber stamp the Kevin Durant trade from the Suns
to the Rockets. This week the dust has settled massive
seventeen wreck seventeen trade. However, it really is just about
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Kevin Durant. The other players are good for them. I'm
sure their families are excited, their friends are excited for us.
It's all about Kevin Durant. So some interesting comments to
decipher from the State of Texas. So the Rockets GM.
You probably don't know who that is. We didn't know
what it is. We had to look him up. His
name is Rafael Stone. Sounds like a professional wrestler's name.
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So Rafael Stone, the jam of the Rockets, explained that
Kevin Durant trade, he said, you see this, He said,
We're not a developmental team anymore, the Jamb of the
Rockets said, implying that Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece,
that Kevin Durant is the player that they needed to
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get to a higher level. So your thoughts, So my
first thought is did I miss something? That's my first
thought when it comes to Kevin Durant, like did Kadi
suddenly turn back the clock? Did he get in the
hot up time machine and said it to the year
twenty fourteen. So if you unpack this, if the Rockets
GM truly believes that, maybe he's just blowing smoke. But
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if he truly leaves that, but he's got some dated thinking,
I mean, what do you doing? Kevin Durant is not
the closer. In fact, unpopular opinion, Kevin Durant has never
been that guy. You're not that guy, Palp, You're not
that guy. He's never been the final piece. They've tried,
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it's never happened. So let's call it what is called
Durant going to the Rockets. His only championship runs came
with the Splash Brothers in the Bay Area in Golden State.
And that team was a wedding cake. But not just
a wedding cake, Okay. That team was like a ten
layer cake with all the greatest frosting, and oh my god,
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KD was just a few extra sprinkles on top. That's it.
That's it. They had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, even that
punk Draymond Green. They had all those guys. They were
the cake. They were the cake. And KD came in there,
he was the sprinkles. He was the cherry on top.
So Houston now thinks, all of a sudden, they're getting
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the cake, boss? Is what they're getting here? And are
they smoking crack over there? What's going on? Seriously, look
at the track record. Oklahoma City went. Kevin Durant was there.
The old Sonics that became the Thunder couldn't get past
the Warriors. So he went to the Warriors. But that
was a ready main team, as we already explained, went
to Brooklyn that was a disaster. He had Kyrie and
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Durant who conspired at the All Star Game to form
a super team in Brooklyn, and that was like a
bad sitcom, like a Buddy comedy that got canceled after
one season. He went to Phoenix, they got bounced from
the playoffs and didn't make the playoffs here this past year.
And he looked at times like he was moving in
slow motion, Kevin Durant. And now Houston's like, yeah, that's
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our guy.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Raw Raw.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We got our guy phowit phow Kevin Durant. He'll be
efficient if you play fantasy basketball or daily fantasy, which
they're trying to make illegal in California, the people, the
Republic of California. But he's not carrying a team through
four playoff rounds, Kevin Durant. That is not happening. It
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up a little bit later. We started with some pro
bouncy balls, some interesting stories bouncing around the NBA. Not everyone,
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not everyone a fan of that monologue. The schmuck known
as Supermarket Steve chimps in and says, Malard, can you
stop fighting it and discuss the WNBA already, like the
rest of the talk shows are doing instead of John Collins,
He says, Then he names some way player I've never
heard of, and he wants me to he wants me
(21:10):
to break down WNBA game gonna happen, Well, supermarg receive.
I'll let you in a little secret. A lot of
the people that do to talk radio whatever is on
the front of ESPN's website, they just read. They're lazy.
They don't do any preparation. They don't do any prep
when that becomes when the WNBA gets ratings other than
Kaitlin Clark, we'll talk about Kaitlin Clark, but when that
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becomes a relevant operation, we will absolutely talk about it.
And they're not there yet and I don't think they're
ever going to get there. And I don't know if
you know this. One of the things that makes us
unique is we are not followers. We are We're not
sitting in the back of the bus just writing for
ESPN's website to update. So you can just whatever they
talk about, you just talk about that. No, we don't
(21:54):
care what they talk about over there. We do our
own thing. We're pioneers. We're Trialblazers, but not Portland's Blazers
because they suck no. So we are fearless in the
middle of the night and I can do as I
did last night, a full malor monologue on the possibility
of Shudur Sanders going to Toronto playing the CFL and
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we get it. We get massive downloads in Toronto, in
Saskatoon because I mentioned Saskatoon Pie. So that went very well.
So no, but I promise you our competition is what's
on tape, our competition, and they'll probably breaking down those
WNBA games. So go over there if you want that,
If you want real sports talk, stay right here. Nature
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Boy rights and says the Clippers are probably reloading, properly,
reloading while the Clippers wait for the DeAndre eight and
grenade to blow in skid row. Yes, who else do
we have? Billy from Parts Unknown? Hell, he's in Florid.
Billy's in Florid, he says. Kevin Durant is the missing piece.
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If it's twenty five fifteen, certainly not twenty twenty five.
Bagel Boy, nothing better than a fresh bagel if you
get there early enough when they're making the bagels and
the fresh out of the oven. Hall Man Coop always
gets their early Amazing those fresh bagels. Begel Boy says.
Skinny Jeans and the Fakers have become the Dallas Cowboys
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of the NBA. Quite a bit, quite a bit, Ferg
Dog says, the NBA trade market runs through the Clippers
as it should. Everyone wants to play for the IT
team or the it the ID team in the league.
Also loved the return of the live reads. They had
so much spice to the show. Something felt off without them. Yes,
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Ferg Dog, We're the only show where the live reads
add to the show. Oh yes, yes, yes, that's right,
Milkman Mike and Colorado says intriguing opening monologue to start
off the night. I will admit I am not familiar
with John Collins game. The most famous Collins I'm aware
of are Phil Collins, Tom Collins, and Joan Collins. Okay, well,
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very nice. Well now you'll see him in the playoffs
with the clips to the phones and eeny meenie miney mall.
Let's say hello to Steve, who's hanging out with us
in Maine. Hello, Steve, you're on Fox Sports Radio. It
is the Ben Maler Show. Really, you fool James, You
(24:27):
fooled Coop? How did you do that? That is amazing?
I am in you know what, James, I'm giving you
a golden ticket that you were able to get in
as Steven Maine. That is a stunner. James, Why didn't
you Why didn't you just James? Why didn't you just
(24:47):
call in with your name? Why did you say you're
Steve from Maine? That makes no sense?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Because I had a pullward over us. I'm sorry, man,
I didn't mean to make your partner.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Coop's telling me that you're now banned from the next
two years from the show because of this your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Oh more, wonder because I made him part of my blunder.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's for Lorena, okay, all right, as anything else? Yeah,
you just congratulations, first calls a phony phone call. Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Guess what Kevin Love left everything in Minnesota when he
went packed in He wasn't stacking. He might choose what
you got traded to.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yes, I have Kevin Love come back. They can make a
statue of him, or just have him stand next to
the Sid Hartman statue. And Kevin Love can stand there
next to the Sid Hartman statue. Be perfect.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I did, I did. I saw the I saw the
Sid Hartman statue. I saw that, George Mikens. There's a
lot of statues Minnesota, big statue town. Not as many
as they have at the crypt in La. But I
saw that the Twins mascot. The Twins mascot even has
a statue.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
You have, but they have one or George Mikeen it's retired.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To I saw Rod Caru statue. Saw that, you know,
Kirby pocket as a statue.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
What I met Mark Rose in a few years.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Oh, congratulation, you know what. I'm gonna give you a
cookie because you met Mark Rosen. Congratulations. I don't know
about that works for that. We don't have a butt.
You get a cookie, you get a cookie.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I get ticket. Burse I'm enjoying that. Pull the ticket
to pass head. I'm gonna tam me from my data.
But she doesn't talk to me in a while. Then
you called me about the.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Blue I got a birthday coming up in sixteen days.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, Well, we don't do shout outs. This is not
a morning show. I'm sorry. We don't holler at James.
We don't do And you're gonna turn twenty three years old.
Congratulations on that. That's a big birthday, twenty three.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
And that's like the one I'm telling everybody to send
me a car.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You want everyone to send you a car? Do you
want everyone to send you money or poorn or whatever.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Right, it's a birthday, Carr. No, I didn't ask for money.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You didn't ask so much. All right? Can I go now?
I feel like I need to go. Yeah, congratulations on
the Phony Punk all though not Kevin Durant.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I think Kevin Durant left his tank and phoenix with
the Phoenix sons.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
No, No, he didn't leave his tank there. He left
his tank with the Golden State Warriors. And I know
the moment it all ended was against Toronto when it
went snap crackle pop. That was it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, that's when he was a championship mode. I'm talking
about when he was calm the heel.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Okay, all right, I gotta go. You got a golden
ticket though. Congratulations what bark was headed the same way? Okay,
you won't, she won't, she won't shut up. I'm hanging
up on you. Go away, please my god? All right?
See a ferd Duck says Coop must still be on
vacation mode, mailing it in on that screening duty. Trucker
Joe writes and says, the reason why you didn't sit
(27:43):
in the back of the bus is because you was
not part of the cool people crew. You probably sat
up front with the butt in the bush and in class. No,
I definitely did not sit in front of the class
because I did not want to get asked questions. So
I sat in the back of the class and I
tried to say west possibly said when I asked me questions.
Ryan writes in Ryan a longtime supporter of the show,
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and he's a Sandyegan. He says, the day the Ben
Mathers Show talks w NBA on a daily basis is
today I'm six feet and under. But you can find
a podcast dedicated to the w NBA hosted by Eddie Garcy.
Is that true? Is that what he's doing now, is
he's doing a wn No. There's no chance, right, there's
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no way, there's no chance. I mean he's any name
out shaw f in Mouth. I mean, I haven't chatted
with Eddie in a little bit. I know he's like
mister Hockey over there. He does the whole hockey thing,
and I think he's doing like a daily hockey podcast.
But I can't imagine he's talking WNB. I remember when
the company mandated some wolkes during the company said you
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gotta talk w n B. A and the updates, and
there's everyone say, what one's watching that? And they aren't,
by the way, unless Caitlin Clark's playing, no one's watching
double O. Mexican writes in we haven't heard him in
a while. He says, please, no Ben, no WNBA talk.
That league is a jog dah of course. And again,
I know a lot of these guys that do sports radio.
They're very lazy. They roll in here. Whatever's on the
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ESPN's website, they just read it. And they have a
lot of WNBA stories on their website, I'm told because
they're in business with the WNBA. But I have no
allegiance to that league. We're not in business here, so
we don't have to talk about it. See Nick writes
in it's Nick the Windy's Guy, and he says, got
to get big congrats to Byron Buxton for making the
All Star Game and the home run derby. Now go
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out and win. That I think is what he meant
to say. It's from Nick to Windy's Guy. Biggest Minnesota
sports story in months Buxton in the home run derby.
I saw the reason he's doing it, he said, because
his kid. He's got a young son, and his kid
loves playing the home run derby mode on the video game,
and so his kid shamed the dad and said, dude,
(29:58):
I want to be the guy that gives you the
time in the time out. So that's why Buston's doing that. Supposedly,
let's go back to the phones. We'll say hello to
Enie Meenie, miney Moe. Let's say hello to Scott, who's
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Scott, Welcome, Hey Ben, How you doing, guys, Scott.
If I was any better Scott, I would be a Celtic,
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but not a Boston Celtic because they lost and get
embarrassed in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
They're trash a team. You're absolutely treasuring team. Okay, So
first off, I want to say hi to Hi Lorena.
How is your vacation?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It was not a vacation, but I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Oh you weren't like drop from the team or a
thing for a week or suspense?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
No, no, she was not. She's but she's back. There
was a suspended I'm you, guys, are what are we drinking?
What are we drinking tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I am? I mean what we call French fries?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh? Really is that right. Vodka? Okay, yeah, basically potatoes
eating potatoes.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No, guys, all you and all of you don't like this.
I used to have a good dal friend and we
drank nips. We call them French fries.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah that's good. You know that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Everyone loves potatoes. Whether you drink the potatoes or eat
the potatoes, everyone loves potatoes. Have you realized I'm really
not that funny unless you're drunk. When you're drunk, I'm
the funniest guy in talk radio. If you're drunk, you
laugh at everything I say. Why am I so freaking?
It's the potatoes. The potatoes make me funny.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That's a fascinating contest because vaka is made from potato.
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Oh my god, Captain, we're talking to a captain. This
guy's a captain of the military. Captain Obvious. Right here.
You know what, I'm gonna give you a star next
to your name. Congratulations, Scott, you'll get a star right
next to your name, Captain Obvious in the mallor militia.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Gives me a classy.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
See a doctor, it does sound bad. Uh, we should
just have a drunk line and just have like the
drunk people call in and uh but but thank you, Scott.
It's a tremendous phone call. You'll never remember this phone call.
So we'll just move on. Turn out for the tire
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That's where we pretend to be somebody else. Chiefs tight
end Travis Kelcey had the most catches ninety seven in
NFL history for a player in his age season thirty
five or older. So Travis Kelcey ninety seven catches the
most in NFL history for player in his age thirty
five season or older. Last year he broke my record.
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I was the previous old guy catches record guy in
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That is the question the answer. We'll get to it
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age thirty five season or older. Last year. He broke
my record. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Bobby and Florida
with a very relevant name, Telly Savalis. It's a good
name if you're seventy. Who else do we have? Supermarcus
(36:47):
Steve says it's some no name WNBA player, Alf the Alien,
Ol Pineter going with the Boss George Steinbrenner, and he
would be very upset if he was live today with
what's going on with the Yankees. Holy crap. Ike and Roseville,
Minnesota said Joe Horn is the way to go. Scott
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in the Commonwealth with the potatoes catching the clappies. That's milkman.
Mike Tony Gonzalez from Josh in Nebraska. Rob Gronkowski from
Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Sheen in Des Moines going
with Shelton Jay Benjamin is his answer. Mister nice guy
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going with someone who I guarantee is sleeping right now,
the legendary professional sleeper, Young Young Kim of the Arizona
Diamondbacks from years ago. I forty ian, says the Dixter
Dick and Dayton, who made an appearance on the Mark
Levin Show. How about that? Give me a little taste
of that. Dick Dixter loves sports radio and political talk radio.
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Andrew Vaughan from King Rory. That's his answer. Else, do
we have a page? Dan? I can't read that our
main man hollering? James from Mallard Prop ever heard of
the Well, there's James as a Viking. That's a good photo.
James will never see it, but that's him as a
Minnesota Viking. I think he's a little skinny in that photo.
Thought a little on the thin side. Mallard Prop guy,
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I don't know about that. I don't know about that one.
Who else? Do we have a milkman? Mike says Marcel
and the Titanic? Anyway? Do you have an answer, Lorena?
Do you have an answer?
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Yes?
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One of my favorite receivers al G Crumpler, Alg Crumper.
Somebody told you that that is incorrect. No, I'll be
a correct answer from the Minnesota Vikings. And know he's
played with a bunch of other teams. But Chris Carter
with no h Chris Carter with no age. He had
the previous righted ninety six catches in the year two thousand,
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Travis Kelce with eighty seven. Chris Carter. He used to
be on TV. He lost. He had a couple of
TV jobs. He lost those, but that happens anyway now
to pay off the butter story, it's all about the butter.
It's all about the butter. We mentioned in a previous
episode of this show, what if sham We believe this
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Jake Paul is. So if you're of a certain age,
you know who this is. There was a kind of
a gag boxer named Butterbean from back in the day,
and Butterbean he knows a thing or two about sham
fights because in my opinion, he took part in it.
He's fifty eight years old now, but he's the guy
known as Butterbean, and he would like to take on
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Jake Paul. He would like to box Jake Paul. Paul,
of course, has been publicly called out because he likes
to fight people who either aren't boxers or older people,
and it's just a total joke, right, It's a total
joke what he's been doing here and boxing so fed
up one of the organizations actually ranked him. There was
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a big blowback, I'm told on that. But yeah, Butterbean
wants to fight Jake Paul and I'm all for it now.
Actually met Butterban years ago, the Legend of Butterbean, in
a baseball press box and he looked to me like
King Kong Bundy is what he looked like. He was
also a dated name, a professional wrestler from back in
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the day. But I'm all for it because why not
in me another sham fight and Jake Paul, my opinion,
can't sue me. It's my opinion. Sham Sham, sham sham. Wow,
sham sham sham sham sham sham
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of the original Recipe podcast. I hope you're doing well.
It's the eighth day of July. On this Tuesday, we
were up all night cooking up these sports stakes. We
start with pro bouncy ball this hour number one. How
do you grade the three team trade that sent Utah's
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John Collins to the Clippers. Norman Powell goes to the
Heat and Utah got some spare parts. Also, how do
you react to GM Rob Polenka skinny jeans explaining why
DeAndre Ayton is the ideal center for the Lakers and
the Rockets GM. Rafael Stone explained the Kevin Durant trade,
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saying that we're not a developmental team anymore, implying that
Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece. Your thoughts on that,
all of it right now? Settle in. It's our one.
You get a player, you get a player, you get
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buy tires. All right, So our lead this hour is
from the high Speed sports Wires. One of my mentors
like to say, back in the day, the wings of
change are howling. You can almost hear them. Oh, it's
very windy. Pro bouncy buff you didn't see this, maybe not?
We had a not one, not two, but three team
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trade in pro bouncy ball. The Miami Heat have acquired
Storman Norman Powell from the People's Team, while John Collins
has escaped the Great Salt Lake. He's headed to La
La Land for the real team, the People's Team in
La and then Kevin Love he's still playing. Kevin Love
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and Kyle Anderson have been sentenced to play for the
Utah Jazz. All that in a three team trade. So
let us discuss the question, how do you grade? Keep
it simple? How do you grade the three team trade
that sent John Collins to the Clippers and Norman Powell
to the to the Miami Heat. Those are the key
parts of this trade. So I've got Sorcery, Disneyland, and Sprinkles,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the gabba ghool. We're gonna
make the gobba gol so ay malor grading. People talk
about different insiders. You know, I was a big wog guy.
He retired love woge. He's doing the college basketball thing
there in the East Coast. Now they've got that sham guy.
(04:05):
He's out there doing that thing like the sham Wow guy.
But it's the sham basketball guy. But when it comes
to when it comes to grading the trade, this is
the most important spot on the radio dial. It wasn't
a blockbuster. I'm not gonna say this it's a blockbuster.
It was a block whisperer is what this trade was,
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right and regardless, and make no mistake, this was a heist.
It was a heist. It was a daylight train robbery situation.
Now the low information fan would not know that it's
a little more nuanced, and so that's why we're starting
with this here. It's a daylight train robbery of the
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Utah Jazz. And they played the role the jazz, Danny
Ainge and his kid, the Nepo baby, who's the gam
with the jazz. They played the role of the distracted
security guard while the heist took place. So the Clippers
pull off a trade. It's under the radar. Admit it's
under the radar, and you know, might we will put
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that under the on a milk carton witness protection and
all that stuff. But John Collins six foot nine, he's
got a pretty good jump shot and appears to have
a nice big chip on his shoulder. Stuck in Atlanta
and Utah. Now he's going to the bright lights of
the Clips and Steve Bamer and all that money and
just more sorcery, more sorcery from the Clippers. They get
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an A plus with with the possibility of upping that
to an A plus plus plus on this trade. Selling
Norman Power, they got him low, they got him on
the low side. They sold them on the high side
at the top of his market. They weren't going to
pay storm And Norman Powell, who is a role player
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that played above his means and we saw spotty play
in the playoffs. Miami, I'll give them a be not
because I think Norman Pou's amazing, solid but not great
player Norman Powell, but because really what the Miami traded
was a bunch of either washed up players or spare parts.
So Powell will give Pat Riley and his team there
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in Miami, a microwave scoring option, but not Vinnie the
Michael Wave Johnson. If you're old, you know who that is.
And defensive indifference, which is there's a lot of that,
a lot of defensive indifference in the NBA. So the
Jazz they get the old f another f trade for
the Utah Jazz. They traded a good player for a
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fossil and another player who's not all that good. But
the star of the show is John Collins. That's the
star of the show. Goes to the Clippers. Nineteen points
a game, eight rebounds. That wasn't a bad team. And
we always put the qualifier. Anybody can put up stats
on a crap team like the Utah Jazz were he
shot the ball well, shot the ball well from three
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point range, almost forty percent, shot the ball well from
the floor, and so re bounding points the whole thing.
And it's efficiency. All the nerds love John Collins, all
the geeks they geek out because he's very efficient and
all that stuff. And so, uh, he can be a
rim runner, which is that's a cool basketball rim runner
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can be that. But he's got the he's got the range,
he's a lob threat. Those are all good things. And
the Clippers clips have picked up already Brook Lopez from
later of the Milwaukee Bucks. They've got zoobots still hanging around,
so they've changed their identity. And now you have John
Collins sliding in there like a nice velvet glove at
the fore position for the for the Clippers. So James
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Harden's got that vertical pick and roll threat. Kawhi Leonard. Uh,
he's he's fine, and maybe he'll pause and when his
uh you know, his quad starts whispering sweet nothings to
him when we get to February, Uh, maybe he'll calm
down a little bit. But the Clippers they needed a
different flavor after their Game seven no against the Denver Nuggets,
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and so they got John Collins, who's still not thirty
years only twenty seven years old. I mean it turns
twenty eight during the upcoming before the upcoming NBA season.
So that's the kind of move. It doesn't get the
big headlines for the basketball paparazzo. They don't get excited
about John Collins. They don't. But that doesn't get a
lot of attention. In July on Our show, it does
because we're not mainstream, we're on late at night in
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the overnight. But that's the kind of move that wins
you playoff games when we get to May of twenty
twenty six, that's the kind of move that does that.
It's a chess move and it's not a checkers move.
It's a chess move. There's a difference there. And so
this will also lead to other additions. There's some chatter,
some chatter in the grapevine that to Bradley Beal is
(08:46):
about to come inbound to La La Land to the Clippers. Now,
moving on from that, we turn the page. We move
across Los Angeles to skid Row. That's where the Lakers play.
Talk about Hollywood, they play on skid Row. If you've
ever been to that arena, it is literally in skid Row.
So how do you react to the GM Skinny Jeans
Rob Polinka explaining why DeAndre Ayton, Now, he agreed to
(09:10):
a contract recently. I think on Sunday he agreed to
a contract, and so Rob Polenka, this quote went viral
of Rob Skinny Jeans Polenka saying that DeAndre Ayton is
the ideal center for the Lakers, He talked about championships
and getting back to that level because of DeAndre eight
and all this stuff. So I saw the quotes and
(09:32):
I give this a shoulder shrug. I give it a
shoulder shrug, is what I did. Rob Polenka is selling
the dumb fan. He knows his fan base. I'll give
Rob Polenka credit. Now, listen, he knows the fan. It's
not a real knowledgeable fan. It's a dumb fan. So
he knows that, and he can sell a bill of
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goods and he's like a used car salesman. He's got
a little bit of a blush, but he knows that
the idiot. So why DeAndre Ayton has officially been now
been crowned. If you read the comments of Skinny Jeans
Rob Polinka, he has been crowned now as the Purple
and Gold Savior, the great Messiah in the middle. And
(10:15):
Polenka who turned in with these quotes. It was slobber, chops, slaber,
slava slava all over. DeAndre Ayton talked about his size, mobility,
his athleticism. Hey laid it on, thick guy. Talked about
the playoff experience. Now this is the part which is
next level bull crap oh DeAndre eight and he's got
finals experience NBA Finals with the Phoenix songs, so that
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aligned well with the Lakers championship aspers. Lakers haven't won
a championship, said Kobe Bryant. He's dead. They have not
won in a long time, so it sounds like a
news release by the Lakers. It was like it was
from Disneyland, but it was in fantasy Land at Disneyland
is what it was. I mean, really, like, what are
(10:59):
you doing seriously? I mean you cut through the bull
crap and it's like, this is not the second coming
of Shaquille O'Neal. It could be the ghost of Kwame Brown,
possibly haunting Woo Spookie. The Crypt is in appropriate. The
Lakers now playing on skid Row and they play at
(11:19):
the Crypt. How perfect is that? Franchise is about dead
and they play at the Crypt. Now, box score readers
otherwise known as dumb fans box score readers, they get
a woody when they look at DeAndrea look at the
double doubles. They get all sided. But the numbers do
not tell the entire story on this one. They don't.
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His motor runs cooler than a Saskatoon winner. And my
goal is to get the word Saskatoon in every show possible.
Did we play very well in Saskatoon? We have a
ten share. The Ben Malors show dominates the land of Saskatoon.
We do anyway. So Aidan has been dogged much like
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he's play. He is a dog. He needs some dog food,
whispers of laziness, apathy his entire career in Phoenix. He
was supposed to be an anchor. He was the number
one overall pick, so he was supposed to be an anchor,
but more like an anchor dragging the ship down to
the bottom of the water there. And don't let Rob
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Polenka and his purple and gold colored glasses fool you.
As Mark Twain great Mark Twain quote, never let the
truth get in the way of a good story. And
so Ayton was essentially a role player on that Sun's
team that choked against the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Finals,
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and he was there. He had no fire. He was
like a wet matchbook is what he was like. He
had very little heart, got out hustled, and then I
look like he was essentially working a nine to five job,
not not battling, not scratching in clog for the championship.
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He wasn't like that. In Portland, the Blazer's like, oh,
we're gonna untap this guy. We figured out he's gonna
go there. It's his team. There's nobody else ahead of
him in the in the pecking order. It's gonna be
DeAndre Aiden's team on the Oregon Trail. So he went
there and the Blazers had him for a couple of
years and they said, wait, me, we gotta get risk
(13:29):
and not for capril. If they didn't do it for
salary cap relief, they did it because they couldn't deal
with the drama. Would he show up that night? Would
he not show up that night? And now Rob Polinka
thinks that he's somehow the missing link to championship dreams. Okay,
did he take the bottle of pills called stupid stupid pills?
Did he take them? And as far as the Luca
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narrative which is being passed around, well, Luca, they're draft
class buddies, Luca Dotsik right, Ukah, Luca and DeAndre they
can go to Hukah. I know some hookah bars in
La If they want to can text me. I'll let
them know. Even Luca's wizardry, even his ability. You think
it's going to get any kind of passion out of
a passionless player, and DeAndre eight and come on, you
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cannot coach hunger. And in the history of the NBA,
players that don't have that drive don't all of a
sudden get it. They don't. So if you're seven foot tall,
that's great. If you're sleepwalking, that does not work. Last word,
quickly to Houston we go. Some interesting commentary paperwork was
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turned into the boys over on Fifth Avenue for the
rock Cats. The NBA has rubber stamped I use the
old rubber stamp the Kevin Durant trade from the Suns
to the Rockets. This week the dust has settled massive
seventeen wreck seventeen trade. However, it really is just about
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Kevin Durant. The other players are good for them. I'm
sure their families are excited, their friends are excited for us.
It's all about Kevin Durant. So some interesting comments to
decipher from the State of Texas. So the Rockets GM.
You probably don't know who that is. We didn't know
what it is. We had to look him up. His
name is Rafael Stone. Sounds like a professional wrestler's name.
(15:17):
So Rafael Stone, the jam of the Rockets, explained that
Kevin Durant trade, he said, you see this, He said,
We're not a developmental team anymore, the Jamb of the
Rockets said, implying that Kevin Durant is the missing puzzle piece,
that Kevin Durant is the player that they needed to
(15:39):
get to a higher level. So your thoughts, So my
first thought is did I miss something? That's my first
thought when it comes to Kevin Durant, like did Kadi
suddenly turn back the clock? Did he get in the
hot up time machine and said it to the year
twenty fourteen. So if you unpack this, if the Rockets
GM truly believes that, maybe he's just blowing smoke. But
(15:59):
if he truly leaves that, but he's got some dated thinking,
I mean, what do you doing? Kevin Durant is not
the closer. In fact, unpopular opinion, Kevin Durant has never
been that guy. You're not that guy, Palp, You're not
that guy. He's never been the final piece. They've tried,
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it's never happened. So let's call it what is called
Durant going to the Rockets. His only championship runs came
with the Splash Brothers in the Bay Area in Golden State.
And that team was a wedding cake. But not just
a wedding cake, Okay. That team was like a ten
layer cake with all the greatest frosting, and oh my god,
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KD was just a few extra sprinkles on top. That's it.
That's it. They had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, even that
punk Draymond Green. They had all those guys. They were
the cake. They were the cake. And KD came in there,
he was the sprinkles. He was the cherry on top.
So Houston now thinks, all of a sudden, they're getting
(17:07):
the cake, boss? Is what they're getting here? And are
they smoking crack over there? What's going on? Seriously, look
at the track record. Oklahoma City went. Kevin Durant was there.
The old Sonics that became the Thunder couldn't get past
the Warriors. So he went to the Warriors. But that
was a ready main team, as we already explained, went
to Brooklyn that was a disaster. He had Kyrie and
(17:29):
Durant who conspired at the All Star Game to form
a super team in Brooklyn, and that was like a
bad sitcom, like a Buddy comedy that got canceled after
one season. He went to Phoenix, they got bounced from
the playoffs and didn't make the playoffs here this past year.
And he looked at times like he was moving in
slow motion, Kevin Durant. And now Houston's like, yeah, that's
(17:51):
our guy.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Raw Raw.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We got our guy phowit phow Kevin Durant. He'll be
efficient if you play fantasy basketball or daily fantasy, which
they're trying to make illegal in California, the people, the
Republic of California. But he's not carrying a team through
four playoff rounds, Kevin Durant. That is not happening. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to
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it's pure butter. Baby, It's pure butter. We'll get to
that and we will do it next.
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Your comments can and we'll be used against you in
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to it. Back to it. We will have the very
important tire Iraq play of the day that'll be coming
up a little bit later. We started with some pro
bouncy balls, some interesting stories bouncing around the NBA. Not everyone,
(20:48):
not everyone a fan of that monologue. The schmuck known
as Supermarket Steve chimps in and says, Malard, can you
stop fighting it and discuss the WNBA already, like the
rest of the talk shows are doing instead of John Collins,
He says, Then he names some way player I've never
heard of, and he wants me to he wants me
(21:10):
to break down WNBA game gonna happen, Well, supermarg receive.
I'll let you in a little secret. A lot of
the people that do to talk radio whatever is on
the front of ESPN's website, they just read. They're lazy.
They don't do any preparation. They don't do any prep
when that becomes when the WNBA gets ratings other than
Kaitlin Clark, we'll talk about Kaitlin Clark, but when that
(21:33):
becomes a relevant operation, we will absolutely talk about it.
And they're not there yet and I don't think they're
ever going to get there. And I don't know if
you know this. One of the things that makes us
unique is we are not followers. We are We're not
sitting in the back of the bus just writing for
ESPN's website to update. So you can just whatever they
talk about, you just talk about that. No, we don't
(21:54):
care what they talk about over there. We do our
own thing. We're pioneers. We're Trialblazers, but not Portland's Blazers
because they suck no. So we are fearless in the
middle of the night and I can do as I
did last night, a full malor monologue on the possibility
of Shudur Sanders going to Toronto playing the CFL and
(22:16):
we get it. We get massive downloads in Toronto, in
Saskatoon because I mentioned Saskatoon Pie. So that went very well.
So no, but I promise you our competition is what's
on tape, our competition, and they'll probably breaking down those
WNBA games. So go over there if you want that,
If you want real sports talk, stay right here. Nature
(22:38):
Boy rights and says the Clippers are probably reloading, properly,
reloading while the Clippers wait for the DeAndre eight and
grenade to blow in skid row. Yes, who else do
we have? Billy from Parts Unknown? Hell, he's in Florid.
Billy's in Florid, he says. Kevin Durant is the missing piece.
(22:59):
If it's twenty five fifteen, certainly not twenty twenty five.
Bagel Boy, nothing better than a fresh bagel if you
get there early enough when they're making the bagels and
the fresh out of the oven. Hall Man Coop always
gets their early Amazing those fresh bagels. Begel Boy says.
Skinny Jeans and the Fakers have become the Dallas Cowboys
(23:19):
of the NBA. Quite a bit, quite a bit, Ferg
Dog says, the NBA trade market runs through the Clippers
as it should. Everyone wants to play for the IT
team or the it the ID team in the league.
Also loved the return of the live reads. They had
so much spice to the show. Something felt off without them. Yes,
(23:41):
Ferg Dog, We're the only show where the live reads
add to the show. Oh yes, yes, yes, that's right,
Milkman Mike and Colorado says intriguing opening monologue to start
off the night. I will admit I am not familiar
with John Collins game. The most famous Collins I'm aware
of are Phil Collins, Tom Collins, and Joan Collins. Okay, well,
(24:06):
very nice. Well now you'll see him in the playoffs
with the clips to the phones and eeny meenie miney mall.
Let's say hello to Steve, who's hanging out with us
in Maine. Hello, Steve, you're on Fox Sports Radio. It
is the Ben Maler Show. Really, you fool James, You
(24:27):
fooled Coop? How did you do that? That is amazing?
I am in you know what, James, I'm giving you
a golden ticket that you were able to get in
as Steven Maine. That is a stunner. James, Why didn't
you Why didn't you just James? Why didn't you just
(24:47):
call in with your name? Why did you say you're
Steve from Maine? That makes no sense?
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Because I had a pullward over us. I'm sorry, man,
I didn't mean to make your partner.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Coop's telling me that you're now banned from the next
two years from the show because of this your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Oh more, wonder because I made him part of my blunder.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
That's for Lorena, okay, all right, as anything else? Yeah,
you just congratulations, first calls a phony phone call. Congratulations.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Guess what Kevin Love left everything in Minnesota when he
went packed in He wasn't stacking. He might choose what
you got traded to.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yes, I have Kevin Love come back. They can make a
statue of him, or just have him stand next to
the Sid Hartman statue. And Kevin Love can stand there
next to the Sid Hartman statue. Be perfect.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I did, I did. I saw the I saw the
Sid Hartman statue. I saw that, George Mikens. There's a
lot of statues Minnesota, big statue town. Not as many
as they have at the crypt in La. But I
saw that the Twins mascot. The Twins mascot even has
a statue.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
You have, but they have one or George Mikeen it's retired.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
To I saw Rod Caru statue. Saw that, you know,
Kirby pocket as a statue.
Speaker 6 (26:07):
What I met Mark Rose in a few years.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Oh, congratulation, you know what. I'm gonna give you a
cookie because you met Mark Rosen. Congratulations. I don't know
about that works for that. We don't have a butt.
You get a cookie, you get a cookie.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
I get ticket. Burse I'm enjoying that. Pull the ticket
to pass head. I'm gonna tam me from my data.
But she doesn't talk to me in a while. Then
you called me about the.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Blue I got a birthday coming up in sixteen days.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Okay, Well, we don't do shout outs. This is not
a morning show. I'm sorry. We don't holler at James.
We don't do And you're gonna turn twenty three years old.
Congratulations on that. That's a big birthday, twenty three.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
And that's like the one I'm telling everybody to send
me a car.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
You want everyone to send you a car? Do you
want everyone to send you money or poorn or whatever.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Right, it's a birthday, Carr. No, I didn't ask for money.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You didn't ask so much. All right? Can I go now?
I feel like I need to go. Yeah, congratulations on
the Phony Punk all though not Kevin Durant.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I think Kevin Durant left his tank and phoenix with
the Phoenix sons.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
No, No, he didn't leave his tank there. He left
his tank with the Golden State Warriors. And I know
the moment it all ended was against Toronto when it
went snap crackle pop. That was it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, that's when he was a championship mode. I'm talking
about when he was calm the heel.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Okay, all right, I gotta go. You got a golden
ticket though. Congratulations what bark was headed the same way? Okay,
you won't, she won't, she won't shut up. I'm hanging
up on you. Go away, please my god? All right?
See a ferd Duck says Coop must still be on
vacation mode, mailing it in on that screening duty. Trucker
Joe writes and says, the reason why you didn't sit
(27:43):
in the back of the bus is because you was
not part of the cool people crew. You probably sat
up front with the butt in the bush and in class. No,
I definitely did not sit in front of the class
because I did not want to get asked questions. So
I sat in the back of the class and I
tried to say west possibly said when I asked me questions.
Ryan writes in Ryan a longtime supporter of the show,
(28:06):
and he's a Sandyegan. He says, the day the Ben
Mathers Show talks w NBA on a daily basis is
today I'm six feet and under. But you can find
a podcast dedicated to the w NBA hosted by Eddie Garcy.
Is that true? Is that what he's doing now, is
he's doing a wn No. There's no chance, right, there's
(28:28):
no way, there's no chance. I mean he's any name
out shaw f in Mouth. I mean, I haven't chatted
with Eddie in a little bit. I know he's like
mister Hockey over there. He does the whole hockey thing,
and I think he's doing like a daily hockey podcast.
But I can't imagine he's talking WNB. I remember when
the company mandated some wolkes during the company said you
(28:50):
gotta talk w n B. A and the updates, and
there's everyone say, what one's watching that? And they aren't,
by the way, unless Caitlin Clark's playing, no one's watching
double O. Mexican writes in we haven't heard him in
a while. He says, please, no Ben, no WNBA talk.
That league is a jog dah of course. And again,
I know a lot of these guys that do sports radio.
They're very lazy. They roll in here. Whatever's on the
(29:12):
ESPN's website, they just read it. And they have a
lot of WNBA stories on their website, I'm told because
they're in business with the WNBA. But I have no
allegiance to that league. We're not in business here, so
we don't have to talk about it. See Nick writes
in it's Nick the Windy's Guy, and he says, got
to get big congrats to Byron Buxton for making the
All Star Game and the home run derby. Now go
(29:34):
out and win. That I think is what he meant
to say. It's from Nick to Windy's Guy. Biggest Minnesota
sports story in months Buxton in the home run derby.
I saw the reason he's doing it, he said, because
his kid. He's got a young son, and his kid
loves playing the home run derby mode on the video game,
and so his kid shamed the dad and said, dude,
(29:58):
I want to be the guy that gives you the
time in the time out. So that's why Buston's doing that. Supposedly,
let's go back to the phones. We'll say hello to
Enie Meenie, miney Moe. Let's say hello to Scott, who's
in the Commonwealth. Hello, Scott, Welcome, Hey Ben, How you doing, guys, Scott.
If I was any better Scott, I would be a Celtic,
(30:20):
but not a Boston Celtic because they lost and get
embarrassed in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
They're trash a team. You're absolutely treasuring team. Okay, So
first off, I want to say hi to Hi Lorena.
How is your vacation?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
It was not a vacation, but I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Oh you weren't like drop from the team or a
thing for a week or suspense?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
No, no, she was not. She's but she's back. There
was a suspended I'm you, guys, are what are we drinking?
What are we drinking tonight?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
I am? I mean what we call French fries?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Oh? Really is that right. Vodka? Okay, yeah, basically potatoes
eating potatoes.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
No, guys, all you and all of you don't like this.
I used to have a good dal friend and we
drank nips. We call them French fries.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah that's good. You know that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Everyone loves potatoes. Whether you drink the potatoes or eat
the potatoes, everyone loves potatoes. Have you realized I'm really
not that funny unless you're drunk. When you're drunk, I'm
the funniest guy in talk radio. If you're drunk, you
laugh at everything I say. Why am I so freaking?
It's the potatoes. The potatoes make me funny.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
That's a fascinating contest because vaka is made from potato.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Oh my god, Captain, we're talking to a captain. This
guy's a captain of the military. Captain Obvious. Right here.
You know what, I'm gonna give you a star next
to your name. Congratulations, Scott, you'll get a star right
next to your name, Captain Obvious in the mallor militia.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Gives me a classy.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
See a doctor, it does sound bad. Uh, we should
just have a drunk line and just have like the
drunk people call in and uh but but thank you, Scott.
It's a tremendous phone call. You'll never remember this phone call.
So we'll just move on. Turn out for the tire
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we will, I promise. If you say you're gonna do something,
you gotta do it. So we will get to the
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It's pure butter story time. Now for the who am I?
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
That's where we pretend to be somebody else. Chiefs tight
end Travis Kelcey had the most catches ninety seven in
NFL history for a player in his age season thirty
five or older. So Travis Kelcey ninety seven catches the
most in NFL history for player in his age thirty
five season or older. Last year he broke my record.
(34:42):
I was the previous old guy catches record guy in
the NFL.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That is the question the answer. We'll get to it
and we will do it. Next.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
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most catches in NFL history for a player in his
(36:26):
age thirty five season or older. Last year. He broke
my record. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer? Bobby and Florida
with a very relevant name, Telly Savalis. It's a good
name if you're seventy. Who else do we have? Supermarcus
(36:47):
Steve says it's some no name WNBA player, Alf the Alien,
Ol Pineter going with the Boss George Steinbrenner, and he
would be very upset if he was live today with
what's going on with the Yankees. Holy crap. Ike and Roseville,
Minnesota said Joe Horn is the way to go. Scott
(37:08):
in the Commonwealth with the potatoes catching the clappies. That's milkman.
Mike Tony Gonzalez from Josh in Nebraska. Rob Gronkowski from
Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Sheen in Des Moines going
with Shelton Jay Benjamin is his answer. Mister nice guy
(37:28):
going with someone who I guarantee is sleeping right now,
the legendary professional sleeper, Young Young Kim of the Arizona
Diamondbacks from years ago. I forty ian, says the Dixter
Dick and Dayton, who made an appearance on the Mark
Levin Show. How about that? Give me a little taste
of that. Dick Dixter loves sports radio and political talk radio.
(37:50):
Andrew Vaughan from King Rory. That's his answer. Else, do
we have a page? Dan? I can't read that our
main man hollering? James from Mallard Prop ever heard of
the Well, there's James as a Viking. That's a good photo.
James will never see it, but that's him as a
Minnesota Viking. I think he's a little skinny in that photo.
Thought a little on the thin side. Mallard Prop guy,
(38:12):
I don't know about that. I don't know about that one.
Who else? Do we have a milkman? Mike says Marcel
and the Titanic? Anyway? Do you have an answer, Lorena?
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
One of my favorite receivers al G Crumpler, Alg Crumper.
Somebody told you that that is incorrect. No, I'll be
a correct answer from the Minnesota Vikings. And know he's
played with a bunch of other teams. But Chris Carter
with no h Chris Carter with no age. He had
the previous righted ninety six catches in the year two thousand,
(38:46):
Travis Kelce with eighty seven. Chris Carter. He used to
be on TV. He lost. He had a couple of
TV jobs. He lost those, but that happens anyway now
to pay off the butter story, it's all about the butter.
It's all about the butter. We mentioned in a previous
episode of this show, what if sham We believe this
(39:08):
Jake Paul is. So if you're of a certain age,
you know who this is. There was a kind of
a gag boxer named Butterbean from back in the day,
and Butterbean he knows a thing or two about sham
fights because in my opinion, he took part in it.
He's fifty eight years old now, but he's the guy
known as Butterbean, and he would like to take on
(39:29):
Jake Paul. He would like to box Jake Paul. Paul,
of course, has been publicly called out because he likes
to fight people who either aren't boxers or older people,
and it's just a total joke, right, It's a total
joke what he's been doing here and boxing so fed
up one of the organizations actually ranked him. There was
(39:51):
a big blowback, I'm told on that. But yeah, Butterbean
wants to fight Jake Paul and I'm all for it now.
Actually met Butterban years ago, the Legend of Butterbean, in
a baseball press box and he looked to me like
King Kong Bundy is what he looked like. He was
also a dated name, a professional wrestler from back in
(40:12):
the day. But I'm all for it because why not
in me another sham fight and Jake Paul, my opinion,
can't sue me. It's my opinion. Sham Sham, sham sham. Wow,
sham sham sham sham sham sham
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