Hour 4 - The Lakers are a .500 team!!

Jason and Mike discuss the Lakers just achieving .500 on their season after they beat the Thunder.

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should be. I mean, we talked about the teams we
expect to see playing for the National Championship after what
we saw in the action tonight. The ones go out,
Houston loses, Alabama loses. I'm telling you if the two
teams I expect to see playing on Monday night are

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Creton and Yukon, and I feel better about Creton than
I do about Yukon. I mean, I say, I feel
really good about Yukon, but I feel like that that's
it's Creton's side of the bracket to lose at this point.
Kansas State's good, don't get me wrong, and like, hey,
you know we talked about the effort the other night.
Nineteen assists in the game. I mean that that's something
for Noel. But boy, Creton's got They're a really good guard.

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They got a really good big and man, I'm telling you,
I expect to see Creton in the National Championship on Monday.
Harmon is speechless. No, no, no no, I went back, Hey,
you know what beat? Were you sleeping like you were
in john Wick last night? Fell asleep, fell asleep twice
in the movie shows how boy bored I was with

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the number of kills. Yeah, he just kept killing people.
They started talking and I'm out, we win. The killing
season begins again here. I wait, I mean that was
I right or wrong? Because I don't even think it
was close. I'm not spoiling anything. Did did john Wick
have more kills last night? Or lines? Oh, it's killed,

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it's killed when half your lines are yeah, yeah, not really.
I'm going to need a gun you know, yeah, I
mean that that's that's all. Yeah, it's about look and
I celebrate Kean who's entire catalog. However, when it comes
to I mean he gets a lot out of the look.
That's it, slow movement and the soundtrack. Are you kidding me?

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I want to go into battle? I mean that's gonna
be the next for the Wick soundtracks will now be
the workout videos and anything you're putting on as a
motivational speaker, developers, developers, developers. You come running out with
your hot dog gun and you shoot it off, but
it's John Wick music in the background. So do you
think that'll keep you awake? You'll you want you want

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to fall asleep during a workout, like where you'll be
biking and then you'll just fall to sleep, fall forward.
You know what if if my I've allowed me to
get up at like noon like you, then then maybe
I would have been able to stay No, no, no,
I told you yet what time I got up yesterday?
At like eight thirty in the morning because we had
stuff going on. I know, I got up early yesterday
and I rallied for the for the movie last night.
I R A L I E D like I'm not

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gonna I'm not gonna play the game. The reality is
I fell asleep and I own it. You fell asleep
this week. My well, my body finally collapsed and that's
the problem. And this is a lesson for all of
you out there. We gotta take care of yourself. I
take care of yourself. Body will take care of you.
Don't run yourself into the ground like me, where you're
in a really nice reclining seat. So I don't know

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how much I really lost in what I paid for
the nap, you know what I mean. Like when I
try to talk about it, it's like, you know, it
was a pretty good nap, good power nap. Then I
couldn't fall back asleep once I got home, So I
was kind of pissed off because you were up from
john Wick from Well and that's just it. I was like,
let's go. I'm ready for part five? Yeah, getting ready, buddy,
get ready. We have mores from the NCAA tournament coming

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up a little bit. We got a visit to Vegas
find out where the oddsmakers really are. Where our Vegas
insider Todd Ferman is on who he expects to be
cutting down the nets A couple of mondays from now,
but a result that just hit the board a few
moments ago. Forget about being in thirteenth, forget about twelve,
about eleventh, tenth or ninth or eighth. Guess who is

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now tied for seventh in the West. The alls important
be daring. Those streamers will be coming down, which means
the Lakers than they are now thirty seven and thirty
seven or thirty seven, we're the ladder in the Western Conference.
Billy Ramers on the the banner. Notice how when I

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throw to like something Lakers or Dodgers, No, I never
get the butt fumble. It's always, oh, you get what
you're thrown. But I throw to something anything else, and
it's the butte. Would you get the butterfu? The Lakers
are five hundred for the first time since January twenty six,
twenty twenty two. Are they gonna start jumping on cars
like NIX champions? Oh yeah, yeah, you got you gotta.
You gotta cordon off downtown and make sure things are okay.

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Five hundred for the first time in a year and
two months, twenty three days. That's unbelievable. And you know
what their record is, right, They're thirty seven and thirty seven.
That's shut up squared seven. Now you want stats, I
gotta stats. Stats for days, because this goes into what
we talked about last hour. With every passing day, the

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Lakers seem like they're moving on from the Lebron James era,
and they are ready to move on from him their
reliance on him, and maybe ready to move on in
the off season because the Lebron era just hasn't been
going anywhere right since they won the championship in twenty
twenty and since then they've had a tough time even
making the playoffs. Before Lebron's injury, on February twenty sixth,

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the Lakers were twenty nine and thirty two and they
were in thirteenth place in the West. Okay, so Lebron
has the big that you know, they beat Dallas one
even which, now, how big of a win does that seem?
Dallas can't win? They beat Dallas, they're twenty nine and
thirty two, they are in thirteenth place. Since then, since
that day, the Lakers have gone eight and five and

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they are now tied for seventh in the West. They
have moved up six spots in the last month. Fish
little less than a month fish without Lebron James. Now,
just think about that. If you say, oh, how do
you say move on? It happens for everybody. No matter
how good of a player you are, you don't always

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get to call how you go out. And Lebron James
is someone who the Lakers clearly have been playing better without,
and the fact that he has never really been embraced
by Laker fans. If the Lakers wanted to move on,
everybody would say, fine, but you need you need the
results on the court to say, Okay, let's justify, like,

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we don't like the fact Lebron wants to run things
and clutch sports and bringing in free agents and everything else.
We don't like that. It's one thing to say that,
but another thing to say, yeah, we don't like this,
and we can point to the results on the court
being better than they were when Lebron James was playing. Okay,
because you want to go back there, you talk about
going back since Lebron James got hurt on the twenty

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sixth of February, here's Anthony Davis's nights for the Lakers
since then, thirty twenty eight, thirty eight, thirty nine thirty eight.
He played just a handful of minutes in a big
win over Toronto seventeen thirty five, twenty six, twenty seven,

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thirty seven, thirty averaging shut up. He's averaging four more
points per game since Lebron got hurt, and he has
been everything they expected him to be when they signed him. Finally,
maybe now he's better on the court. He feels more
at ease without Lebron. All you gotta do is go
back and look at the night Lebron broke Kareem's record.

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Who was the guy who didn't stand up in clapform
Anthony Davis. They can say, hey, everything is fine, everything
is cool. Ad doesn't stand up to watch Lebron doesn't
stand up for a moment in history. I'm coming and
I'm sitting down on the bench. That tells you loads
about the relationship they have and where the Lakers are
and how they feel about Lebron. And if you're if
you're now at the point where okay, this is eighties team,

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then it's eighties team, and we're looking to build now
around him and Suddy. Now they love Austin Reeves so much,
and Austin Reeves had a good game tonight, didn't have
the thirty five and twenty five that he had been
thrown up there the last couple of nights, but still
Austin Reeves had a nice night eleven nine and six,
close to a triple double, and the Lakers win. And
here they are playing better without Lebron James. Baby. I

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don't know if it's just, hey, screw it, we're moving
on without him. We can't rely on him anymore and
we've circled the wagons and now that's what we're doing,
or if it's more of a uh, you know, hey,
we're missing a great player and we have to really
step up. But however you want to cut it up,
they've played better without him, and and there's something to
be said for that. And when when I think about this,

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I think back to what Jay Glazer told us a
few years ago during the big Philadelphia Eagles quarterback debate
with with Carson Wentz and Nick Foles, right when the
Eagles won the Super Bowl the first time, when they
when they won with with Carson Wentz hurt and Nick
Foles coming in, and Nick Foles comes in, he plays well,
and it's boy, what is this Carson Wentz was playing well,
and Jay Glazer, I remember, I still remember him saying,

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for whatever reason, the Eagles just play better with Nick
Foles then they play with Carson Wentz. Doesn't mean Carson
Wentz is a better quarterback, but for whatever reason he
said it twice they played better with Nick Foles, and
there was a lot loaded into that, for whatever reason,
because this just wasn't Jay Glazer saying, hey, whatever reason,

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you know, No, it's for whatever reason, meaning there is
a little knee of reasons why the team plays better.
Doesn't mean he's a better quarterback, but they played better
with him at quarterback for whatever reason. The Lakers are
playing better without Lebron James and rallying behind a d
who had thirty seven and fifteen tonight in the win.

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Oh it goes back to, I mean the age of
Jordan and so many other stars to no matter the sport,
you stand around watching all right, you want to see
what he's gonna do next. Right, we can go into
myriad TV may even John Wick. Hey, there he goes
which guy's getting it first? That guy and then you

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just stand and watch him go to work. Same thing
with the Lakers. I mean we talk about ball stoppers.
We talk about how you have to shift and your
responsibilities and opportunities to touch the basketball change. Maybe you
know you're you're a little more aggressive with your opportunities
because you knew that, you know, you don't you're not

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penciling in what Lebron does and you're not getting the
double team on him and everything else. So the responsibilities,
the intensities, and some levels rise up. And let's face it,
you're gonna get more touches and opportunities. So the stats
are gonna look a little better when you go to
negotiate your next contract. And right now, I mean, Reeves
is the great poster child. Right how many articles have

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been written, right but every local newspaper, radio show, blogger
or whatever it's it's timing again of Reeves. And we
were watching him like he's an internet stock during the
bubble back in the late nineties, Like all right, what's
he worked today, what's he gonna get? You know what

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the next twenty point game? What does it do? And
when they win, you know, and tying that together. And
that's kind of where we're at as these guys have
taken some ownership of this team where it was supposed
to be Lebron's jersey's not on sunglasses? Are these guys
are playing better basketball and feeling themselves a bit? Twitter?
And how about a fresca Mike has swollen dome? The

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Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I
mean it, this offseason with the Lakers and Lebron is
gonna get really, really messy. I'm telling you just watch Jason.
He's gonna tweet at you. He speaks for himself. Hell yeah,
well he does talk for himself. He does. He doesn't
want anybody else told us a whole lot of nothing
when he did. No other sorts don't believe them, Well,

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what's the truth? Shut it. He also wears sunglasses at
night and indoors b b b b b B bit
indoors and at night. That's a that's a big double
lemu right there, Twitter At how about a fresca Mike
hat swollen dome? Just trust me, this is where it's going.
It's where And congratulations all the shows they're gonna pick
up this take over the next few days. You're welcome.
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one seeds in the Elite eight joining us now our
Vegas inside are You can follow him on Twitter at
Todd Furman. Check them out Bet the Board podcast on
CBS as well NHL Puck Line. He does it all.
It's happening, Todd. Not a whole heck of a lot
this evening, gentlemen. At least my day faring better than

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it was for some of these fan bases that were
rooting for number one and number two seeds so far
in this big dance. So you had all the threes
and the fours and the fives moving on, right, you said, Ah,
screw with chalk, I'm going three four five. I did not.
I had some liability and exposure going to Houston Cougars
from before the year. They were my pick to win
it all. Let me down with a disappointing effort today
against Miami. But tis the beast this time of year,

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and you know, none of the wins that came from
some of those underseated teams was cheap by any stretch
of the imagination. Alabama took the haymakers from San Diego State,
and San Diego State answered right back in second half.
You look at the way Texas went out there and
boat Ray Xavier Creton getting the best of Princeton, and
obviously the results we saw yesterday should be a fantastic
couple days of basketball with some unfamiliar names vying to

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cut down the nets in Houston Todd, how crazy? How
much of a difference I should say is there from
say week one, where it's upset minded and everybody wants
to be on board an upset special, whereas today maybe
the book's got fat because people went back to the
old reliables. And you know, surprisingly enough, there was a
lot of underdog money that came in on the trio

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of dogs being Miami of Florida, San Diego State and Princeton.
Princeton didn't have any sharp money on them. Professionals were
looking to lay a shorter price that never got there.
And of course the Blue Jays get outside the number
without eleven point victory. But you did have recreational batters
and pros lining up to back San Diego State. That
worked out in their favor, and you know, a little
bit of a battle on the Miami Florida and Houston game.

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The Xavier Texas game, though it took on an interesting
tenor because that number ping pong back and forth between
four and four and a half. It was all about
how you valued Dylan de Sue, who obviously played the
first media time out dealing with a bit of a
stress fracture in his foot or whatever, but deep bone
bruise whatever they reported, and can't imagine he'll be a
full go for their elitiate game on Sunday against the Hurricanes.
All Right, todd I said, we talked about a few

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minutes ago we saw the odds come out. If you
ask me what two teams do I expect to see
play for the national Championship, I'm gonna say Creighton and Yukon, which, wow,
what do you think of that? Where are you on
who you expect to see to play for the title?
You know, I mean, if you're looking at the odds,
Yukon in Texas are cut above everybody else in terms
of their odds, hovering right around three and a half
to one to win the national title. I know those

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two teams can't get to the National Title game and
play against one another, but that's not how oddsmakers view
the field. And then things start to get a little
bit more muddled. Gonzaga upwards to San Diego State all
price in that five to nine range, Miami of Florida
and Florida Atlantic the long shots, so to speak, on
the board and look discount FAU at your own peril.
I mean, this is a team that's one thirty plus

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game this year and it hasn't been because of a fluke.
We've seen how Conference USA's performed in the n I
t if I was looking at some of those numbers
there you could get. You would get more from Florida
Atlantic if you rolled them over on the money line
to win three more games. But I don't think FAU
Cinderella run ends tomorrow and MSG. How much did UCLA's
loss cost to everybody, not only in spirit but in cash?

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And what was the atmosphere like there Vegas? You know,
good two a action on that game. UCLA got that
out from pick them to minus two. You started to
see money coming on Gonzaga, and early before that game
tipped off about half out of forty five minutes before
you saw the favorites flip with Gonzaga go from plus
one to minus one. Once it was widely available in
the information that Boma wouldn't be out there, and Ucla

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looked the part early on in that first half, they
just weren't able to keep up that breakneck pace and
you could see them running out of gas electric atmosphere
though a team mobile. Both the Gonzaga fans and UCLA
fans had plenty to cheer about, but it was a
little bit entertaining. With about ninety seconds to go, you
could see UCLA fans filing out towards the exits, looking
to try and get in their first hands a blackjack
at the evening. And obviously the Bruins take that one

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point lead with under ten seconds to go, and it's
Julian Straw they're pulling up essentially from the parking lot
to knock down that triple that punchkin zagas ticket to
the next round. Todd Firm in Vegas inside with us
here that Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from
the tire Rack dot Com studios. All right, so we
head to the NBA. We just watched the Lakers win again.
They're five hundred now, they've moved up six places since

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Lebron James got injured. If I said to Utadd, I
want odds that after this season Lebron James is playing
on another team, what kind of odds would you give me?
You know, it's an interesting saught process. He always figured
that when Lebron hung him up, it was going to
be a member of the Lakers. But at this point
it leads you to believe that there is a possibility
he would explore greater pastures somewhere else. But I would

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still make him about a dollar fifty a dollar sixty
favorite to come back and be a member of the Lakers.
I'm not sure at this point in his career. He
kind of wants to start over from scratch, so I
think he'll be with the Lakers, and that number, quite frankly,
is probably a shade short. So as we look get
the landscape, there are so many injuries and question marks.
Luca Donchez has seemingly lost his love of the game
with this press conference tonight. Everything frustrating and is it

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working not to mention, well, that whole debacle the other night, Todd,
what are we seeing in any kind of movement? Or
is it still just all right? These teams will find
their way. I mean, who could have imagined you bring
Kyrie Irving into a locker room and the player no
longer love at that playing basket? Also right, if you
didn't see that coming a mile away. Mark Cuban isn't

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as sharper business man as I anticipated before. But as
far as the odds are concerned, the Bucks and Celtics
stelicot above. The sun's a shade behind them, and the Nuggets,
even with their struggles when they had gone on that
losing streak, didn't drift too far out seventy six ers
and Warriors there, and it's kind of a log gym
at this point right now, I'm not sure if you
really believe in Cinderella stories. Maybe a dabble on the

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Kings at a price of forty to one, but clearly
not the best number in the market, knowing how astronomical
their odds were before the season started, but no doubt
the most exciting team to watch on a night in
night out basis all right, Todd? Now I'm gonna ask
you something. I'm gonna give you a situation that you've
never been given before, and I want to know the
odds you're gonna give me on this. All right, I

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can't imagine where this is going, but fire away. Okay,
So let's just say this. For example, eleven thirty at
night showing of John Wick, myself, Harmon Frostburg tie shirt.
The odds you would give me that Harmon would fall
asleep during the movie, not once, but twice? What odds

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would you give me on that? I mean, that's a
heavy favorite here, Smith. So I mean I feel like
I'm walking into, you know, a little bit of a
trap line here. I mean, I'd have made hard, I'd
have made harm about a five dollar favorite to fall
asleep once. And that number comes down a little bit
if you're trying to hit the exact at right around
minus three thirty or there about the question, Yeah, that's
the question trying to figure out, you know what kind

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of range we're talking about, because this becomes a will
they win by five to eight points nine to twelve
falls minutes? Forty eight minutes? I hate you all, Major
League Baseball, Todd, who are we betting with potential chaos
across the leagues. Yeah, I don't think there's anybody to

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try and run make a case for right now to
win the World Series. The one good thing about baseball odds,
unless you want to try and isolate a long shot
before the season starts, most of the prices won't move
a whole heck of a lot on favorite. I think
when you look at the landscape right now, if you
want to try and find a team that not a
lot of people are talking about to win the division,
maybe it's the Minnesota Twins in the American League Central.
I think they have bounced back potential. I like some

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of the additions they made. They'll get Carlos Correa and
his genetically engineered lower back, foot, knee, ankle, whatever else
couldn't pass the physical for multiple teams headed in the
right direction, I think their rotation will be a little
bit better. So everyone wants to talk about the Guardians
in the White Sox, I'd be making a case for
the Twins to be the best team in that division.
You can follow on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is

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at Todd Furman. Check him out on CBS. Check out
the bet the Board podcast as well. Todd has always Buddy,
appreciate your time with us on Friday nights. Man, thank
you so much. You got a chance. Best we walk
this weekend staying awake in the movie There we Go, Hey,
so you are a five dollar favorite to fall asleep?
Can you drop to three thirty defaults minus three thirty

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to fall asleep a second time? Furman knows the schedule
and hours I try to run on a weekly basis.
Once we get to Thursday night, operations shut down has
begun too, So okay, except for when I'm on air
and barking at you. Okay, all right, great, Then I
go and I find my windows. Where am I needed?

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At this point? You guys didn't need me? At that point.
You were perfectly content munching away on your popcorn, sipping
on your coachs, watching a guy get tumbled down the stairs.
All those things. You didn't need me. That guy was
John So one night said, I said, to hell with this.
I'm not feeling myself. This is a three hour movie.

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I gotta pace myself. Let's catch a little bit of
a nap coming up in ninety seconds. Do we have
a way to celebrate what we've seen so far in
the NCAA Tournament. But first, be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Let's celebrate with and now

(22:31):
it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game. Oh, Magic Johnson's been
tweeting about the NCAA Tournament. So we play the game.
No more obvious and vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson. So
we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game. I give you
a tweet. Your job is simply to tell me whether
or not this is a Magic Johnson tweet or made

(22:53):
up entirely by me playing myself. Mike Harmon, Alex Tichert,
Steve to Sayer, Are you ready? Let's go? Oh, I'm
gonna hit you right between the odds of the one
right away. You're ready? Here we go bunching sound effect.
For those that haven't been watching the men's and women's
NCAA Tournament games, you've missed some of the best and
exciting basketball games. Ever, is that a Magic Johnson I'll

(23:17):
say yes. It was kind of ungrammatical there. For those
that I haven't been watching the men's and women's NCAA
tournament games, You've missed some of the best and exciting
basketball games. Ever. Yeah, I'm in just to be a contrarian, Jason,
I will say nay, that is a magic Yes. Congratulations

(23:46):
of Kansas State men's basketball team and especially point guard
Marquise Noel. Is that a magic guard? Yes? Yeah? Okay,
DJ no, well, no, no, it's not it tweet No,
that is a magic tweets take that, Alex tar another

(24:14):
great game in the women's NCAA Tournament. I just watched
Miami beat Villanova seventy to sixty five. I'm gonna say no,
but did he tweet about the punch from yesterday? Is
that a magic? Johnson tweets no, good. Did Harmon say
no too? I said no, oh gosh, then yes, I
gotta get one of these. On the opposite, that is

(24:40):
a magic. Johnson tweets the price is right horn sound
effect right? Wow? Two number one seeds went down? Is
that a magic? Johnson and tweet thanks for tweeting. Yeah,

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I think I think I can get on board that.
As a few number one scenes went down an excited utterance. Okay,
I'll just say no on principle, Steve hates Magic Johnson.
In your life, you screwed. Tis always got to make
a decision. He just likes going opposite of way a
Forest Gump? Can you make this pick for ty shirt?

(25:24):
Let me go get Forest real quick? Oh well, here
we go? Is jed a back? I think that is
a tweet. That is not a magic tweet. I'm sorry,

(25:45):
I think I've clinched this one already. Cinderella ride for
Princeton has come to an end. But congratulations of the
Tigers for a great season. The Cinderella Ride for Princeton
has come to an end, But congratulations to the Tigers
for a great season. Is that Tigers magic? Johnson tweets

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I'll say no, maybe he wasn't up later game, Jen a,
I didn't say the Cinderella rode. Yes, yes, that is
that is no Magic Johnson tweets same is tough. If

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you like upsets, check out the NCAA tournament. Number five
San Diego State and number five Miami have both upset
number one seeds. Yeah, I could see that. Is that
a Magic Johnson tweet? If you like the NCAA tournament

(26:56):
number five San Diego State number five Miami have both
upset number one seeds. You know what sucks is I'm
gonna be able to tell my kids one day I
used to be good at this game. I used to
be a long time ago. I'm gonna sitting on the
front porch. Kids, there's no talent here. Stop it. I'm
gonna win it tonight and I know that. Yes, that

(27:17):
is not I'm just magic. Johnson tweet. Not many people
have watched Creton play this year, but they can really ball.
We're still playing? Is a magic Johnson tweet. Not many
people have seen Creton play this year, but they can

(27:38):
really ball. It is a total insult to Fox, which
owns the Big East rites. By the way, I'll say no, no, yes,
he didn't see Creton Texas, Creton Arizona. I don't know.
It's the game you gotta get. Can give me an answer,

(27:58):
basketball fan, he is you think, hey, magic, are you
watching Biggie's basketball or not? That hell is wrong with you?
That is not a magic Johnson tweets Go Canes, go Aztecs,
and hook him horns. Congratulations to all three of those teams. No,

(28:21):
that's a little bit of cole in the middle of
their Astex, Goastecs, go Canes, and four teams played, so
that can't possibly be. I think he had the separate
tweet about crighton. Okay, yeah, but magic Johnson's tweet or
like try to congratulate every It's like the when Bill
Clinton had the State of the Union addresses and they

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went on for two and a half hours because he
had to cover everybody and congratulate everybody. It's that he's
a politician, all right, Yeah, what Steve said? That is
not magic. Speaking of congratulations, last one another one. My
MSUs lost a thriller and ot to Kansas State. I

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want to thank coach Iszo and all of the players
for a fantastic season. Is that a magic and tweets?
So not today, just anytime this week? Yeah, it's all
just all the last few days tweeting about the tournament.
My MSU Spartans lost a thriller and ot to Kansas State.
I want to thank coach Izo and all of the
players for a fantastic season. Okay, wow, okay, fine, yes,

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you've warned me down, Steve. I don't like that you
were my guy right now. I don't like that it's
the blind leading the blind. You got me fold, I'm
gonna say yes, that is a magic let's go way
to finish with the flourish Alexisher. There goes the Lakers. Baby,

(29:56):
I'm back put her it out about a fresca. Mike
gets swallowed down. The Jay at Smith Show with Mike
Carmen coming up next. We got the Play of the Night.
And you want to talk about expansion, Well, when I
have the NCAA tournament in the NFL, come in your way.
That's next Fox. I don't think Jenny likes that game.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

(30:16):
Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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yet again without Lebron James eight and five since his injury,
and you go from thirteenth place into tide for seventh

(30:59):
in the West. You get to be the play of
the nights, the most important to day. The streamers will
be coming down, which means the Lakers are victor us.
They want a championship and thirty seven and they're moving
up there the ladder in the Western Conference. Billimack on

(31:20):
Lakers TV, Here come all the confetti the Lakes basically
like a championship. It's so funny, right, because a lot
of context, you would think that the confetti is there
because they've gotten back to five hundred, right, yeah, yeah,
it's opposed to it being part of a win and
a tradition and all of that. Like it's like they're
back to five hundred. Can you believe it? Back to

(31:42):
if I running for the first time since January of
last year. Here comes a confetti, Here comes the balloons
and the streamers. There's gonna be a parade right outside here.
Chickherne coming up in a few minutes. One of an
exciting day to be a Lakers man. Oh my god,
what a day to be alive. But look, let's just
be let's just be realistic on something for a second,

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because this is how bad the Western Conference is. Right,
I guarantee you if the Lakers win five in a row,
If the Lakers win five in a row, they'll be
in fourth place. It's pretty crazy. That's how bad the
Western Conference is. Right, you win five in a row
and you get to forty three win you win five
in a row, forty two wins, you're gonna be in

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fourth place because everybody else stinks. They're all barely hanging
on to five hundred. If you can take advantage of
an easy schedule at the Bulls coming up twice, got
tons a few easy games coming up, then you're gonna
wind up being in fourth place. That's how bad that.
And don't give me, oh the West is so competitive, No,
the West is bad. It's bad. Okay, it's bad. That's
what it is. It's bad. Well, but that's just in right.

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One man's bad is another parody mediocrity discussion. The same
thing we're doing with college basketball right now. Every game
matters living at dyeing like they've played some terrible basketball.
Yet here are potentially in the upper part of the
playoff bracket. How sad or exciting? Is that because you're good,

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but you're going to get to the dance, right. It's
like your knicks when they're sitting there and they'd have
some tremendous wins, some tremendous efforts through the season. You
don't know what you're getting come April. You just want
to be in the dance and able to at least
make some Hey, look what happened when you guys were
climbing all over cars and you had to grease up

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polls like you were in Philadelphia. It's the same thing
here if you get in after the year they've had.
Can you imagine the poison pens on Lebron James at
this point, it's been kid gloves to this point. Now
it's gonna be the sledgehammer coming out. Twitter time about
a Fresca Mike gets swallen down the Jason Smiths with
Mike Harment. All Right, two big things we talked about tonight,

(33:53):
the NCAA tournament expanding to maybe upwards of ninety or
one hundred teams because this is now the age of
anybody can win the tournament. We're not going back to
the blue bloods and everybody plays well, also talked about
the NFL is gonna have We're going to vote on
flexible scheduling for Thursday night football for the end of
the season. And I've told you that we are not

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far away from forget about just Sunday, Monday, Thursday, but
get ready for Tuesday games as well. What happens first
Tuesday games in the NFL or NCA goes up to
ninety or one hundred teams, NC double a expansion, more
televised windows. Go get it there it is for Mike

(34:34):
Im Jason, I'm gonna go watch John Wick four again.
Coming up next burning Bernie Fratto, Fox