April 7, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon dive into the ‘butt-ugly Houston comments made by the Governor of Connecticut after the time he spent there watching his Huskies. Then, NBA Insider & Writer Mark Medina joins the show to talk Jalen Brunson’s MVP caliber season, The Dallas Mavericks woes, and much more!
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A couple of big things to get to. I always
like when there's a big political beef involving governors and
mayors of cities that have basketball and football and baseball
games against you. Do you have any bets with bad
bets of food stuffs? I'm going to bet that the
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governor of this one state is never gonna be able
to go to this other state again. How about that?
Do you think he wants to after what he said.
Probably not, Okay, I don't think so. But would anybody
if you walked down the street, would anybody know who
the hell he was? No? Probably not. When you say
any street, I mean there's some streets. I mean you
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could go down Bad Street, USA, and I mean you're
gonna get a fight pick no matter who you are.
Where do you live? I'm on Bad Street US. You
know what you like the way I got the fabulous
Freebirds in here at the top of the hour two.
We just celebrated Michael Hayes's birthday just the other day.
My brother met him at a house show out there
in Chicago. I mean, all good things, all good things,
all good things. But before we get to that, you know, now,
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tonight's one of those nights where I said, you know,
I hate baseball. I hate baseball game. I hate the
team didn't even play in loose I know, I know,
I know because because I hate baseball, like and you
know how much I love baseball and I love about
my whole life to love it for I hate baseball
right now. I hate it. I hated it when Bob
Euker was it not to get up, get out of
here and out to walk off again. I hated Bob
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Uker last night. Damn the pitch. How about you get up,
get out of here, and get gone. How about that, Bob?
You want The thing we didn't highlight too much, though,
was the fact that in his postgame press conference, in
a little interview on the field, that she was talking
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about how something good always happens when his wife doesn't
attend a game. She got his mentions and got on
Twitter saying, say that to my face. Yeah, yeah, that's great, Yeah,
all all fun stuff that happens with Yeah, that's great.
No tonight, because this just happened a few moments ago,
and this has me just a tiny bit depressed. Rosario
ready to run on contact two two bitch, and there's
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a bot after center field. Down for a base head.
Here comes Eddie, Here comes the through playing the playing Braves.
Oh walk off base heap Braves Radio Network on the call.
They went on a walk off. They beat the Padres
there six and one already. I feel like the Braves
are in there. We're only gonna lose one game a
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week mode, and we're gonna walk off at least twice
a week. And that depresses me like, at least it
was last year, it was the middle of the year,
or they decided, hey, you know, the Mets are in
the first place. You know, we know they're gonna collapse.
Let's get our heads on straight. And they went on
and they won the division. Didn't work, didn't work for
them in the playoffs, expending so much energy they were
flatten in their in their round of the playoffs. So
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now it's let's make sure that doesn't happen to us
this year. And now they're already out wearing the invincible
armor of Yes, we will walk off when we feel
like it. We'll lose one game a week, and everybody
will will bow at our feet as the season goes on.
I'm afraid that this is what's gonna happen. How does
that make you feel? When Max isn't even there? For
not good, I don't feel not not great, Bob, not great,
not not great, Bob, not great, not great, No, no,
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not great, not great, Bob. It's not your not great,
not great. No, it's not doesn't mean doesn't mean it
doesn't depress me that I feel like the National League
race is over already and it's you know, it's a
you conceding already. It's April sixth, quicker, and I'm watching
the Braves just like it was the middle of last year. Hey, yeah,
we're just gonna keep winning. It's gonna win it. Yeah.
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It help when you play the Nationals and you know
the first week of the season. Okay, I get that,
but you know here it is, it's like this exactly
how the Braves would do it all last year. And
I can't stand it. And I can't stand it. I
feel like it's over. I love that you're losing your
mind over for everybody listen? Is it As a Mets fan,
I'm very calm and level headed and cool, and this
is this is kind of a hallmark of Mets fans.
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You know, we don't panic, We don't we don't overrate things.
We don't say things without thinking about them a lot.
You know that we don't ride the lightning. And every
win is a World Series win, every loss is getting eliminated. No,
we're very very calm and cool and collected. No, it's
how I've always right now, It's how I viewed you
my entire life. Really, come on now, yeah, yeah, no,
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just watch, just watch, just watch my carment just watch
watch I mean, you've already ruined the seasons for our friends.
And in Seattle, what hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I
picked the Mariners to go to the World Series. It's early.
Normally that that used to be excited. Look, national guy
gets on board. It's it's picked us. It's okay, right,
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it's all right, everything is fine and everything you stand
for them. It's early for me, it's late because we
got to sit here and watch the braces and look
how good we are. We signed all our players because
they signed bad deals. They signed twenty year contracts for
one hundred million dollars and so listen this with pay
and we don't have to look how smart we are. Oh,
I can't stand it. I hate baseball. Maybe they build
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a culture that says I want to stay around. I
like get here, I want to be a member of
this fraternity for a long time. Yeah, maybe they signed
a blood tack. I don't know. Man, No, just wait
until the Braves they gets off. But then, like in
a couple of years, Ronald Kuna says, hey, I'm not
I'm not coming to spring training for ten million dollars
a year. Not doing that anymore. And I know I
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signed a ten year deal, but not doing it. I
need a new deal. I need more money. So I
know that's coming. So there is that. But until then,
it's gonna be three four years of all the good Brave.
It isn't all he knew was geting young talent with
so good with the Braves. I love the Braves of
the nineties because somebody was beating the Pirates. It wasn't us,
but somebody was beating them. They were fun. Now it's like,
oh look, wait, were so great with the Braves. Remember
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the Braves won all those division titles and then they sucked.
Yeah you know when it mattered they couldn't win. Yeah,
I know, I know, but I got there. Ye happy
thoughts mets home. Hey, it goes back to that whole
conversation we were having the other day about blue Bloods
and Yukon of the last twenty five years and their
five times idols five King Kong, Bundy, five count. You'll
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take the lulls, you'll take the dips from five five titles.
Would you rather win a division every year and then
watch your deem gacket in the playoffs? No, I don't
think you would I think you would, Bob so. But
tomorrow is Met's home opening day, so there is that.
It's very exciting and very excited to watch them lose
six nothing very no, I mean, I mean a bit.
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But as I said, to get past this, let's talk
about somebody else who put their foot in their mouth.
Yukon your national champion in college basketball. Great, right. You know,
normally when you hear about the governors of states, you know,
playing in the Final four and natural champion gaps, there's
a bet and if you win, you get a side
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of beef and if you would get a bunch of
cheese or you know, something insane like that. There's a
controversy now involving Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, who traveled to
Houston and was on hand Monday night to watch you
con win the national championship. Okay, so he's in Houston
for the Final four, and he went on a w
p l R FM's Chatz an Aj show and talked
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about what his visit to Houston, the city of Houston
was like. Now, remember Yukon wasn't playing Houston, all right,
Yukon was playing San Diego State. But the Final four
was held in Houston. And this is what Governor Ned
Lamont had to say on the radio about his visit
to Houston. You walk around, it's not pray. You know
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that's gonna be tweeted. Houston, we have a problem. You
walk around cha, Well, I don't know why. One of
them's AJ, one of them's chats. Uh. You walk around
downtown Houston, which is but ugly there's not much. Then
how do you really feel? Wow? Dude, oh my god.
First of all, I gotta say this about the city
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of Houston. It is human. So there is that I
understand that I under yeah, but it's only mark man
I know right now. And Houston. I have a soft
spot for Houston because that was the first city and
the first place I ever had Quiznos in and I
don't know that that was gonna start my lifelong. Hey,
it's all like I got to Quizzos all the time.
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But I like Quiznos, and I'm like, okay, I kind
of like the hot subs and man, And when I
was in Houston covering the playoffs with the Lakers, like
you know, twenty years ago, Uh yeah, I was like, Hey,
I'm gonna go to Quiznos. Is my place. Now it's
gonna it's gonna be my base of operations. Now, here's Quiznos. Right,
here's where don't go. And so it's always been a
soft spot because I like Quiznos and now and that
was the first place I ever had it was in Houston. See,
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I always like their demented commercials, would like that sock
puppet or whatever the hell that there was Quiznos shops.
How how do you say that about another city? And then,
of course his defenses, I was just joking, I was
I was only joking. Come on, I was only joking.
Just just say, you aligned with Charles Barkley and his
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feelings of San Antonio, and you just extended it to
the planet Houston. It's okay, I was only joking about
it being But okay, they don't get to vote for you.
What does he care? I mean, but how do you
how do you say that you're a governor of a state.
How do you say that about a city that just
hosted you. Hey, we're here for the final. Our hosted
you and your we cad. We took what we wanted
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and here's our parting shot. You're blood ugly. Here here's Houston.
Mayo Sylvester Turner responding to when he heard uh Ned
LaMotte say that about his city. No, no, hell no,
we're not going feet you Dan, you host you, how's you?
And you gonna go back and talk about but ugly
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which him was he looking from? Oh wow, oh, SHOT's fine.
Which end are you looking from? That's a pretty good line.
Did they pay for their accombinations and stuff? Then he
can say what he wants. But but if he is
literally looking the gift horse in the mouth and we
got a problem. Oh if he's if he's doing that
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to the city that just gave you a bunch of stuff, Yeah,
that's a problem. That's it. Yeah, it's like, hey, we
were just down here, but yeah, thanks for nothing, but
the National championship. We walked away. We're taking hard. We're
going home. Like wait, wait, you like I did that?
You know? That was that was you know, that was
a great one to hear that, uh, you know, to
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hear I got my answ are all ready to go
on you out here, which edrey're looking out from? And
even Lamont's apology that he made today wasn't a real
apology because he said we had a ball in Houston
during the Final four. The people there were incredibly gracious
and welcoming for us, and the basketball game was pretty
darn good as well. That's not quite the apology. That's
not quite by Hey, you called my city but ugly, man,
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what the hell? I mean? It's not it's just like, hey,
we had a good time. I mean, what what what is?
What is wrong with you? You know, you know how
you saw this with you getting the ring? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well I think you don't hell it us. So maybe
you get split open like Baalor did the other night.
Maybe it's just the octagon. I don't know. Let's go no,
you know, we need to do you know when when
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certain places do the whole the one day a week
when your trade jobs man, your trade jobs for a
day and go, oh, here, here's what it's like to
do my job. Here's like to do your job undercover. Boss. Yeah. Yeah.
I want the governor of Connecticut to go be the
mayor of Houston for a day and you have to
do all kinds of public appearances and talk about the
city and certain things and take questions from the media
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and people who live in the city. I want that
to happen. That's how it should go. Hey, you come
and be the mayor down here for a day. I would.
I was just kidding. I would. And then there's a
plant in the middle of it. Right, he was like undercover.
It's like, you know, there was a guy from Connecticut
that had some choice words about us. What do you
say to him in there? All inching forward? Oh? Man,
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have you thought Jill Biden was in a bit of
a hot water when she said, Hey, let's have Iowa
to the White House. Here's a governor saying a city
is but ugly and there's not much there? What is it?
I mean? I don't understand, you know, man, I don't know.
Sometimes sometimes when politicians say things, I feel like the
toughest job. Because I'm a big fan of Veep. Right,
Veep is one of the funniest shows in the last
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ten years, And I so identified with Anna Klumsky's role
because she was the pr person and wanted, you know,
was always in charge of the image of the office
and and and stripes will always say that the worst things,
the most inappropriate things, and you could just see it
on her face and pains are going. How do you
not think more before you say it. Obviously this is
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for comic effect because it's a television show. This is
real life. I mean, if you're if you're one of
those PR staffers and you're going and then suddenly it's
at someone's yell a going, where the hell were you
when the governor said this on the radio? Oh you know, sorry,
not my turn to watch. It's your job. The governor
is a grown person interview. What do you wanted you
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want me to do? Tell him, hey, make sure you
don't say this city is but ugly. That that's where
I feel like. That's if I came back, if I
was reincarnated, you'd say, what would hell be? It would
be working for a politician that would say things like that,
and I'd have to worry about cleaning it up and
sit there and go, no, it's not with them, And
why would you say that? Why would you? I don't know,
I don't know. I just decided to say it, just because,
just because, just because, no, no, no no, no, no, why why?
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Why why do you do this? Why do you do this? Why?
That's the most thankless job in the world. I'm thankful
I don't have it, which means I'm gonna wind up
doing it one day. Well, I mean that you always
said you'd be great to be able to give PR
support to folks. Yeah, yeah, no, you know it's gonna
have they really need it. Here's what's gonna happen. In
a few years. We're gonna find different platforms to run
for office on and Alex Tishert's gonna run on on
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the health food platform, and it's gonna be Hey, follow me.
I don't know a lot about taxes or education or
budget anything, but if you follow me, you'll all live
an extra fifty years. Well you know what, Yeah, he
actually knows something because the the other people don't know
any of that. Crappy either eat eat the foods I eat,
and you live another fifty years. Everybody's gonna vote for him,
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and he's gonna say, Jay, you know, listen, I know
you're really smart. I need you to be my PR
guy here and and Kraft my met should be the
be the the White House a press secretary would be.
Then I'd say, okay, I have to worry about clean
up stuff, where he would say like, what do you mean,
what do you mean? I didn't know it, but I
didn't know there were other people in charge of the countries.
I didn't know that that would be the best response
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to anything. I didn't know there was someone to charge
of Canada. I thought it was just part of us,
like like we ruled them, like we the under stands
a Canada's can I didn't know that, Jay, Can you
fix that form here? I'm gonna go play Fortnite? Yes, yes, yes,
mister president, all that's the best. I'll go fix that.
Between Biden and Trump and everybody else, they've they've done
the walk off. I'm not answering that question. I'm just
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getting ignore you and I'm gonna walk to the helicopter
or behind this door. Tis you're just standing on What
do you mean? What even that's really coming back at
the interviewer and make them really explain their point. What
are you asking me? Cuts of Jays? What are you
telling me this is really going on? I think you're
lying because this is news to me. Is this is
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this true? Is is really? Is this really happening? Is
this true? I heard Cuba it's really close to the
United States? Is this true? I did not, Jason Digono,
That's not it's Cuba that play movie closer. Jason and
that's why I've been a part of this this whole time.
So when I fly to Hawaii, I'm still in the
United States. Yes, what do you mean I'm water? I
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guess you're told me gonna go to a last cops.
Still in the United States. Oh God, I can't have
that too. I'm flying over an entire country. How do
I do? What do you mean? What do you mean?
You better not even get me started on Canada. Okay,
that's what's gonna happen. What tariffs on maple syrup? And
Jason Smith walked in the ocean to die today after
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the latest calf by President Alexis Dan a good run.
Jason couldn't swim. What do you mean you he was buoyant,
he didn't wind me to a boll party. I pushed
him out of Marine one. I thought it was gonna
be fine, and he didn't realized Marine one. We were
an Air Force one, so we're not over water. I
didn't know that. I didn't know. I thought Marine one.
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I didn't know he was a fan of top Gun.
I thought he could swim. Twitter, how about a fresca?
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up next? Where is the NBA MVP vote as it
sits right now? Can j Brunson actually went no? But
could he be a finalist? What to expect as we
get into the final two and three games of the
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NBA season? Who's gonna be in the playoffs? Who's going
to be in the playing round? Outside looking in? Inside,
looking out? Keep it right here, that's next, Fox, you're
telling me on these certain teams can play in the playoffs.
You're telling me the Decoration of Independence is a real thing.
I just thought it was in a Nicholas Cage movie.
What do you mean? I thought the Brads tried to come?
So why do we friends with England? Now we're still friend?
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Do we make up? We still wet up? Something about
that fight and all the others Hunters here the other
years ago. All the invites are set. The queen has
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Radio app. Yeah, you know, I think ty Shirt is
the president and me is the press Secretary. I think
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that's a show genius. I think that's a TV show,
and I think we can just improv the hell out
of that one and just put it up in podcast
for him. I think the show and I think I
think you Harmon would be like one of the chairman
of the Joint chief of Staff, Like, Okay, we have
to go in the situation room, like that's your room
and it's decorated in northwestern color. No, it's good, and
Ricky and I will be the ones. We'll get some
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of the questions together instead of maps. Instead of maps
of the world, you have like the Big ten Standings.
No Big ten Standings, the road between distances, titles, all
of that laid out. Where's our navy? Oh that's another page.
Let me get off this Big ten standingsang on, they
let me get that love in The Jason Smith Show
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with my best friend Michael from the entire rac dot
Com studios. Time now to get to all the latest
news in the NBA. Joining us now in the hot line.
Longtime friend of the show. One of the most impressive
resumes you'll see NBA dot Com, USA Today, Mercury News,
LA Daily News, LA Times. It is Mark Medina follow
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on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, who has promised
on Twitter with hot takes tonight. But I gotta tell you, Mark,
Jalen Brunson MVP isn't quite as hot as it was.
I've been driving the bandwagon. I'm glad people are on
board with that now. Well, Jason, uh, you know what
I might have to add to the resume is that
my awards ballot. It's just a straight ticket all nixt baby.
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Oh wow, look at that. See he jumped in on
the political talk. I love it. Sixth Man of the Year, MVP,
every the defensive Player of the Year, Comeback Player of
the Year, most improved player all the way through knicks
everywhere down the road. Yeah. And you know what, if
only they could have Owner of the Year, James Dolan
would get that vote again. Wow forgetting the hell out
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of the way. You're right, hey, that's a skill. Sometimes
being an owner is the best thing to do. Is
to do nothing, back up and go play with your band. Yeah, look,
getting out of the way, unless you're a lawyer that's
in litigation, and that case, he'll send people to spy
on you. Oh okay, that is true. Yeah, wow, that's
I'll tell you what now that Now that's a you know, Mark,
(20:53):
that's a great like undercover assignment for you is following
the spies that are spying. See, that's a thing. I
think that's the thing you can do. And like you
have your own thirty for thirty on it, I'll forget
about the NBA playoffs. I'll just spend the next few
months doing this as Simon here all right, So here
we are, and and every every night it seems like
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we have different arguments for MVP Joel embiid Oh, he
thinks he's the MVP after the other night. Doc Rivers
says he's the MVP. So with twenty one points tonight,
you know, and they lost by twenty eight, is he
not the MVP after tonight because they got boat racing
and and have a big game, Like if he wanted
the other night, can he not win it tonight? Is
that how it goes? Yeah? I think you know, with
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presidential polls, right, it's always by the day. I guess
we'll have to do the same thing with MVP, and
I think to extend that political election analogy, I'm getting
calls from people from different teams, you know, representing the
different MVP candidates, trying to pitch their case. It's really amusing.
But the bottom line is, hey, really you are You're
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getting phone calls, but really it's like, are you getting
the rows answer? It's not a robo call, it's an
actual live person, but it's a musing. It's like, all right,
like stay your case. Beyond the obvious that that players,
what's your team? It is funny though, but the bottom
line is there's no such thing as a wrong vote
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this year. You know, Yannis, Joel Embiid, uh, Yoki Starley,
Joe Brunson. But it's among those three and all seriousness.
They all have their own case, and you know, I
guess if you want to microanalyze things, there's things against them, like, hey,
Yokich's defense, the Nuggets inconsistent play as of late. You know,
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Joel Embiid injuries per usual, Jannie Uh he had some injuries,
and defense isn't as strong as embid. But the bottom
line is, I think that the conversation needs to be
more about what these players have been during really well,
like Yokich is a triple double machine. MB Not only
is the a dominant defensive player and post player, he's
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a great facilitator. Now, Jannie, you know, when he's been
healthy for the most part, he's expanded his offensive game.
He's improved defensively. So as far as where I'm leaning
with my vote, it's changed. I mean, at first it
was your k, then it was embiid. Lately it's been
y honest. Thankfully, I still have a few days left
to honor all this while I pour through all the
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analytical data and field robo calls are actual calls from
some of the team executives, So I don't know where
I'm leaning, But yeah, it's it's a tough one to
say the least, as Jason. How many times Jason texted you.
You know, I always have to keep the sourcing anonymous,
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so I'll plead the fifth. All right, He's usually logged
in on Twitter here, so I'll just look. I'll just
look here from the studio and try to suss that
out for you. Mark All right. Last night Clippers Lakers
sense of urgency. I talked about the fact that Davis
and James were kind of shamed into being on the
court in the back to back we got the odds schedule.
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I don't really take much away from the game other
than it was fun to watch and see people in
the LA get excited. How about you, Yeah, I was
glad that, you know, we actually saw a team where
they fielded their players in how of doing load management.
But I think to your point, it would have been
totally understandable if they did sit because you know, second
night of back to back, end of a long trip. Look,
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I'm usually on the league side of this, but if
they're trying to address all these availability concerns, like they
shouldn't schedule MARKUEE games on the second night of a
back to back after a long trip. But I digress.
I'm glad that they play. I think that they're very competitive,
even even through the obvious sluggishness. It did scratch my
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head that, you know, while the Clippers have been known
to give up double digit leads in the final minutes,
that they were still on the floor with like a
minute left, at some point they got to pull the cord,
but I think it was encouraging that they're still competing.
But that being said, I think it can also be
on the flip side that as much as we've been
impressed with how the Lakers have played as of late,
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they have their limitations. Maybe it's premature to think they're
all of a sudden a championship contender. I've always thought
from the beginning that they are obviously a dangerous out
if they're fully healthy. But I think that that's the stealing.
There are dangers out to maybe win in the first round,
but nothing beyond the second. I think this week kind
of encapsulated, even though in the playoffs you have more
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rest days in between. I think the war of attrition
will eventually catch up to the Lakers, and hence they
won't be able to really beat teams significantly once the
playoffs start. NBA Inside or the NBA dot Com. Mark
Medina our guest here. All Right, So from the Lakers,
let's go to the Warriors, because for the longest time
(25:49):
it was the Warriors. Got Look, they can't win on
the road, they're limited to but they win a couple
of games on the road at the end of the year,
and suddenly everybody's du look at the Warriors. So where
are you on what their playoff they're likely playoff path
and how far can they go? Well, I guess he
never rule anything out because they're defending champs. They got
Steph Curry and Draymond Green. But I think the bigger
(26:10):
thing is that Jed Gary Payton the second and now
Andrew Wiggins ispected to come back. He's not playing the
final two regular season games. It remains to be seeing
what the ramp up is going to look like and
what his minis restriction is going to be. So I
do anticipate some rustiness, but I think that Andrew Wiggins
can become the defensive player that he was during last
(26:31):
season's championship run. And they're gonna need it because Clay Thompson,
he's improved as a score, but still not the same
defender pre injury. And you know, I don't take too
much stock of the you know, strong disparity between the
home and road splits. If I do take stock that
the Warriors are in the middle of the pack defensively
this season, and when you look at their championship years,
(26:52):
they're always at the top of the league. Level in
terms of team rankings and so I think that there
is a window for them to improve substantially, but there's
all so unknown. I think they can defend a title
now that Andrew Wiggins is back. If he wasn't back,
I couldn't see any scenario. But it's all going to
depend on how seamless that you know Roadmap is to return,
(27:13):
because I anticipate there's at least going to be some
hiccups in the initial stages. Mark lass one for you
real quick. I have to pound the table a little
bit for the road Warriors Sacramento. They're the only team
with a great record on the road in the Western Conference.
Let's go Yeah. Look, Kings are the real deal, one
of the best offenses in the NBA. They're not afraid.
(27:33):
They got a good guy, the young and veteran talent,
great head coach at Mike Brown. I think though, that
eventually their poor defense is going to catch up to them.
I think so far they've shown during the regular season.
In today's NBA doesn't matter if you don't defend well,
because if you have a productive offense, you can make
up for that. But in the playoffs, I think it's
a different story. I think I can win a playoff series,
(27:54):
but I think it's second round at best because the
defense and the inexperience will eventually catch up to them.
And before I let you go, Mark one more, because
you mentioned you know, being able to score is great
and defense in the playoffs. So let me ask you
about the Dallas Mavericks and everything going on the last
few days. And Mark Cuban missus Jalen Brunson is blaming
Rick Brunson for this, and Luca says, we blew it
(28:15):
when you watch the Mavericks free fall through the standings
right now after getting Kyrie Irving? Is this on Luca?
Is this on Kyrie? Is it on both of them?
Is it on none of them? What do you seized
as how all of sudden the Mavericks went from boy,
they can be an NBA Finals contenders. They're lucky if
they make it into the plane. Yeah. Well, anytime there's
a train wrecord on NBA team, no one's blameless, but
(28:38):
percentage of the blame high. It starts with roster construction
number one. Before the Kyrie Irving trade, they didn't have
you know, I don't want to say scrub. They had
decent role players, so they didn't have, you know, dependable
depth alongside Luca Dodgers and still the same story, they
gave up some of that depth to get Kyrie Irving.
I think Kyrie, you know, from what I've been told,
(28:58):
even throughout Shenet again, he has for a positive locker
room presence. The problem is he and Luca have not
formed enough offensive chemistry. And then Luca great player, but
I think his complaining and how he handles adversity has
had a trickle down effect. But I think the bottom
line is this. The main sources of the Dallas average
problems point to how they've constructed the roster, and so
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when you look at this offseason, you know it's not
necessarily a bad thing. The Kyrie Irving's probably gonna leave,
They're not going to agree to long term deal. But
when they made that deal, they thought, on the back
of their mind, hey, if this doesn't work out, the
least we have cap space. But you know what, there's
a lot of folks around the NBA and differ enough
for ant offices that say, well, it doesn't matter if
the MAVs have cap space because in past years they
(29:42):
haven't used it. Wisely, so it could be another turbulent offseason,
to say the least for them. You can find them
on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That said, Mark
g Underscore Medina, NBA dot Com. Longtime NBA insider, Who
is now about to go to the movies? You're going
to see air? Right? Is that? What you say? Is?
How are you're doing right now? Yeah? I gotta see
learn more about Michael Jordan's greatness. We haven't heard about. Yeah, listen,
(30:05):
apparently they had a shoe that was made for him
that he wore that became very popular. WHOA. I wonder
if that shoe is worn by a lot of NBA
players today. I'll guess I'll find out. Yeah, Hey, I
think we need I think yeah. We definitely report back
after and find out if that's the case, because I
don't know they'll be wearing New Balance like Kawhias. Thanks
(30:28):
a bunch, buddy, Mark. We'll talk to appreciate you guys.
I'll provide a movie review next week. Appreciate it outstand. Yeah,
I'm gonna try to see that this weekend. I think yeah, Yeah,
I mean, look, I hope it's good again. I'm the
the assault of it's the greatest. But okay, okay, okay, okay,
uh now I couldn't tell just really quick. Do you
(30:49):
think Mark was was one hundred percent one hundred percent
in joking when he said people call him to pitch
their clients for him. No, I think he's one hundred
percent real. We we gotta read when we talked to him,
Buker and Wike. Next we got to talk about this phenomena.
I think it's a real thing. I think it's like
a political campaign where you're canvassing. Wow, what would it
(31:09):
take to get you into our candidates? To MVP Belloty?
What do I got? I got? I got advanced in
metrics for days. It's like when when Frostburg turns and says,
all right, de Seger, what do you got? On Keenan
Allen Today. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I'm gonna eat that tiny but ass up out live
from the tirerack dot Com studios, where I want to
talk about an inspiring moment from the world of sports today.
And you know, part of it is I enjoy the
back and forth between the PGA Tour and the live
golfers so much, and the Masters being here today and
(31:55):
Freddie Couples, who was once upon a time the best
golfer on the plant it, you know, in the early
to mid nineteen nineties, and he went on a radio
show and just blowtorch Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson, a
couple of guys who left for the live tour, and
he said, listen, you guys, go and have fun, but
(32:16):
you rip my tour, I'm gonna rip you right back.
And I thought that was great, a boom boom to
do that. And then not only that, but he follows
it up with a one under round. Today, at the
age of sixty three, he shoots one. If you're gonna talk,
you gotta back it up, right, I mean, I mean
Freddie Couples shooting one. I mean, Look, the Master is
(32:37):
one of those courses where it is designed now for
players to go low and if you have if you
can hit the ball long as we've seen the evolution
of players the last few years, you're gonna do well.
At it and Freddie Couples shooting one under. Greg It's
not like shooting one under at the US Open where
someone wins it three over, so he doesn't have a
chance to win. But sixty three years old and he
shot one under today, and just watching him a little
(32:59):
bit today, that nice easy swing up the fairway getting
out par par par par par. That was really it
makes me think today, Okay, I'm fifty two. Not that
I could make the Senior Tour, because that's I thought
when I was thirty, but you know, I didn't put
enough work into it. But it makes think, Okay, maybe
maybe I can still be playing golf, okay, you know
in a few years. And I guess he'll be able
(33:19):
to throw the softball around in a couple of years
when really my arms should be falling off. So that
makes me think that things are still out there for me.
It's pretty inspiring. From friend, No, it's pretty good. I'm
trying to get mine surgically reattached and capable of more
than the underarm throw. Because of the underhand throw, because
like Philip Rivers, because everything's so jacked up there. But no,
(33:41):
dear point, certainly you find some inspiration there a little
bit of excitement, because if you're gonna talk trash, and
you gotta go back it up, if you're gonna pick
up the sticks. If not, then you have to designate
someone else to wear it for you. All right, you're
playing for me like I'm playing for myself. I'm no, No,
you're playing for me because I got playing a bark uh.
(34:03):
And then if you stink, then we all fail. No.
I like this. I like the cut of his gim
I look, just keep you moving one foot in front
of the other. I mean this means you've got the
inspiration that you can have that second sandwich today, maybe
said a new personal best sandwich for the amount of
chocolate you consume or cheese in a given day. I mean, look, man,
(34:25):
the world's your oyster. And that's the point to our
beloved extended Fox Sports Radio family here is you know
sees the day. I better not have anymore. Oh, Freddy
Freddie Couples just came in one n I'm gonna have
ice cream. I'm gonna have much. He inspired me to
another pint. Yeah, And just to pull back the curtain
little bit, Harmon is not lying what he says. He
(34:46):
can't throw because every time there's usually like a nerf
ball in the studio at some point that we get
to throw around with each other and you know, in
commercial breaks and everything else. And every time Harmon throws
to throw it underhand because he can't, I can get
a couple of in and then my shoulders slumps a
good six inches. You're just throwing under so bad. You're
like Kent Taculve. The way you throw the football. It's awful,
(35:10):
but it hurts. Yeah, like there's damage there, there's no
question about it. It makes me know I'm alive, though, buddy,
you need to you need to go to a different
doctor than the guy that fixed you up the first time. Well,
I think my finger's broken again. By the way, what
do you mean you think your finger? Go to the doctor?
But no, no, no, no, I ain't going through that again.
A lot of wasted time. What do you mean I
(35:31):
ain't going through that again. Don't be that guy that
doesn't go to the doctor when you're hurt or no, no,
don't be that guy. Fine, it's just a finger. I
got nine okay, yeah, wait till in ten years and
the doctor says, oh, you should have come see me this,
this has to be amputated. Just wait, just wait till that,
and I'll say he got sixty years. I had a
good run. Yeah, no, you don't trust me. You're not
(35:52):
gonna be John Wick. Oh, I'm sacrificing my pinky because
I gotta get boiler. But that was in the previous
move the hell he's got no ring finger in part four?
Come on, man, everybody knows that I might see that again,
ring on his finger. Yeah, buddy, stay awake. This time
to Twitter and out by Prescot, Mike and swollen dumb
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A couple of big things to get to. I always
like when there's a big political beef involving governors and
mayors of cities that have basketball and football and baseball
games against you. Do you have any bets with bad
bets of food stuffs? I'm going to bet that the
(01:09):
governor of this one state is never gonna be able
to go to this other state again. How about that?
Do you think he wants to after what he said.
Probably not, Okay, I don't think so. But would anybody
if you walked down the street, would anybody know who
the hell he was? No? Probably not. When you say
any street, I mean there's some streets. I mean you
(01:31):
could go down Bad Street, USA, and I mean you're
gonna get a fight pick no matter who you are.
Where do you live? I'm on Bad Street US. You
know what you like the way I got the fabulous
Freebirds in here at the top of the hour two.
We just celebrated Michael Hayes's birthday just the other day.
My brother met him at a house show out there
in Chicago. I mean, all good things, all good things,
all good things. But before we get to that, you know, now,
(01:55):
tonight's one of those nights where I said, you know,
I hate baseball. I hate baseball game. I hate the
team didn't even play in loose I know, I know,
I know because because I hate baseball, like and you
know how much I love baseball and I love about
my whole life to love it for I hate baseball
right now. I hate it. I hated it when Bob
Euker was it not to get up, get out of
here and out to walk off again. I hated Bob
(02:16):
Uker last night. Damn the pitch. How about you get up,
get out of here, and get gone. How about that, Bob?
You want The thing we didn't highlight too much, though,
was the fact that in his postgame press conference, in
a little interview on the field, that she was talking
(02:38):
about how something good always happens when his wife doesn't
attend a game. She got his mentions and got on
Twitter saying, say that to my face. Yeah, yeah, that's great, Yeah,
all all fun stuff that happens with Yeah, that's great.
No tonight, because this just happened a few moments ago,
and this has me just a tiny bit depressed. Rosario
ready to run on contact two two bitch, and there's
(03:02):
a bot after center field. Down for a base head.
Here comes Eddie, Here comes the through playing the playing Braves.
Oh walk off base heap Braves Radio Network on the call.
They went on a walk off. They beat the Padres
there six and one already. I feel like the Braves
are in there. We're only gonna lose one game a
(03:23):
week mode, and we're gonna walk off at least twice
a week. And that depresses me like, at least it
was last year, it was the middle of the year,
or they decided, hey, you know, the Mets are in
the first place. You know, we know they're gonna collapse.
Let's get our heads on straight. And they went on
and they won the division. Didn't work, didn't work for
them in the playoffs, expending so much energy they were
flatten in their in their round of the playoffs. So
(03:43):
now it's let's make sure that doesn't happen to us
this year. And now they're already out wearing the invincible
armor of Yes, we will walk off when we feel
like it. We'll lose one game a week, and everybody
will will bow at our feet as the season goes on.
I'm afraid that this is what's gonna happen. How does
that make you feel? When Max isn't even there? For
not good, I don't feel not not great, Bob, not great,
not not great, Bob, not great, not great, No, no,
(04:06):
not great, not great, Bob. It's not your not great,
not great. No, it's not doesn't mean doesn't mean it
doesn't depress me that I feel like the National League
race is over already and it's you know, it's a
you conceding already. It's April sixth, quicker, and I'm watching
the Braves just like it was the middle of last year. Hey, yeah,
we're just gonna keep winning. It's gonna win it. Yeah.
(04:26):
It help when you play the Nationals and you know
the first week of the season. Okay, I get that,
but you know here it is, it's like this exactly
how the Braves would do it all last year. And
I can't stand it. And I can't stand it. I
feel like it's over. I love that you're losing your
mind over for everybody listen? Is it As a Mets fan,
I'm very calm and level headed and cool, and this
is this is kind of a hallmark of Mets fans.
(04:47):
You know, we don't panic, We don't we don't overrate things.
We don't say things without thinking about them a lot.
You know that we don't ride the lightning. And every
win is a World Series win, every loss is getting eliminated. No,
we're very very calm and cool and collected. No, it's
how I've always right now, It's how I viewed you
my entire life. Really, come on now, yeah, yeah, no,
(05:08):
just watch, just watch, just watch my carment just watch
watch I mean, you've already ruined the seasons for our friends.
And in Seattle, what hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I
picked the Mariners to go to the World Series. It's early.
Normally that that used to be excited. Look, national guy
gets on board. It's it's picked us. It's okay, right,
(05:34):
it's all right, everything is fine and everything you stand
for them. It's early for me, it's late because we
got to sit here and watch the braces and look
how good we are. We signed all our players because
they signed bad deals. They signed twenty year contracts for
one hundred million dollars and so listen this with pay
and we don't have to look how smart we are. Oh,
I can't stand it. I hate baseball. Maybe they build
(05:56):
a culture that says I want to stay around. I
like get here, I want to be a member of
this fraternity for a long time. Yeah, maybe they signed
a blood tack. I don't know. Man, No, just wait
until the Braves they gets off. But then, like in
a couple of years, Ronald Kuna says, hey, I'm not
I'm not coming to spring training for ten million dollars
a year. Not doing that anymore. And I know I
(06:17):
signed a ten year deal, but not doing it. I
need a new deal. I need more money. So I
know that's coming. So there is that. But until then,
it's gonna be three four years of all the good Brave.
It isn't all he knew was geting young talent with
so good with the Braves. I love the Braves of
the nineties because somebody was beating the Pirates. It wasn't us,
but somebody was beating them. They were fun. Now it's like,
oh look, wait, were so great with the Braves. Remember
(06:40):
the Braves won all those division titles and then they sucked.
Yeah you know when it mattered they couldn't win. Yeah,
I know, I know, but I got there. Ye happy
thoughts mets home. Hey, it goes back to that whole
conversation we were having the other day about blue Bloods
and Yukon of the last twenty five years and their
five times idols five King Kong, Bundy, five count. You'll
(07:04):
take the lulls, you'll take the dips from five five titles.
Would you rather win a division every year and then
watch your deem gacket in the playoffs? No, I don't
think you would I think you would, Bob so. But
tomorrow is Met's home opening day, so there is that.
It's very exciting and very excited to watch them lose
six nothing very no, I mean, I mean a bit.
(07:26):
But as I said, to get past this, let's talk
about somebody else who put their foot in their mouth.
Yukon your national champion in college basketball. Great, right. You know,
normally when you hear about the governors of states, you know,
playing in the Final four and natural champion gaps, there's
a bet and if you win, you get a side
(07:46):
of beef and if you would get a bunch of
cheese or you know, something insane like that. There's a
controversy now involving Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, who traveled to
Houston and was on hand Monday night to watch you
con win the national championship. Okay, so he's in Houston
for the Final four, and he went on a w
p l R FM's Chatz an Aj show and talked
(08:08):
about what his visit to Houston, the city of Houston
was like. Now, remember Yukon wasn't playing Houston, all right,
Yukon was playing San Diego State. But the Final four
was held in Houston. And this is what Governor Ned
Lamont had to say on the radio about his visit
to Houston. You walk around, it's not pray. You know
(08:32):
that's gonna be tweeted. Houston, we have a problem. You
walk around cha, Well, I don't know why. One of
them's AJ, one of them's chats. Uh. You walk around
downtown Houston, which is but ugly there's not much. Then
how do you really feel? Wow? Dude, oh my god.
First of all, I gotta say this about the city
(08:53):
of Houston. It is human. So there is that I
understand that I under yeah, but it's only mark man
I know right now. And Houston. I have a soft
spot for Houston because that was the first city and
the first place I ever had Quiznos in and I
don't know that that was gonna start my lifelong. Hey,
it's all like I got to Quizzos all the time.
(09:15):
But I like Quiznos, and I'm like, okay, I kind
of like the hot subs and man, And when I
was in Houston covering the playoffs with the Lakers, like
you know, twenty years ago, Uh yeah, I was like, Hey,
I'm gonna go to Quiznos. Is my place. Now it's
gonna it's gonna be my base of operations. Now, here's Quiznos. Right,
here's where don't go. And so it's always been a
soft spot because I like Quiznos and now and that
was the first place I ever had it was in Houston. See,
(09:35):
I always like their demented commercials, would like that sock
puppet or whatever the hell that there was Quiznos shops.
How how do you say that about another city? And then,
of course his defenses, I was just joking, I was
I was only joking. Come on, I was only joking.
Just just say, you aligned with Charles Barkley and his
(09:57):
feelings of San Antonio, and you just extended it to
the planet Houston. It's okay, I was only joking about
it being But okay, they don't get to vote for you.
What does he care? I mean, but how do you
how do you say that you're a governor of a state.
How do you say that about a city that just
hosted you. Hey, we're here for the final. Our hosted
you and your we cad. We took what we wanted
(10:20):
and here's our parting shot. You're blood ugly. Here here's Houston.
Mayo Sylvester Turner responding to when he heard uh Ned
LaMotte say that about his city. No, no, hell no,
we're not going feet you Dan, you host you, how's you?
And you gonna go back and talk about but ugly
(10:45):
which him was he looking from? Oh wow, oh, SHOT's fine.
Which end are you looking from? That's a pretty good line.
Did they pay for their accombinations and stuff? Then he
can say what he wants. But but if he is
literally looking the gift horse in the mouth and we
got a problem. Oh if he's if he's doing that
(11:07):
to the city that just gave you a bunch of stuff, Yeah,
that's a problem. That's it. Yeah, it's like, hey, we
were just down here, but yeah, thanks for nothing, but
the National championship. We walked away. We're taking hard. We're
going home. Like wait, wait, you like I did that?
You know? That was that was you know, that was
a great one to hear that, uh, you know, to
(11:28):
hear I got my answ are all ready to go
on you out here, which edrey're looking out from? And
even Lamont's apology that he made today wasn't a real
apology because he said we had a ball in Houston
during the Final four. The people there were incredibly gracious
and welcoming for us, and the basketball game was pretty
darn good as well. That's not quite the apology. That's
not quite by Hey, you called my city but ugly, man,
(11:49):
what the hell? I mean? It's not it's just like, hey,
we had a good time. I mean, what what what is?
What is wrong with you? You know, you know how
you saw this with you getting the ring? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well I think you don't hell it us. So maybe
you get split open like Baalor did the other night.
Maybe it's just the octagon. I don't know. Let's go no,
you know, we need to do you know when when
(12:10):
certain places do the whole the one day a week
when your trade jobs man, your trade jobs for a
day and go, oh, here, here's what it's like to
do my job. Here's like to do your job undercover. Boss. Yeah. Yeah.
I want the governor of Connecticut to go be the
mayor of Houston for a day and you have to
do all kinds of public appearances and talk about the
city and certain things and take questions from the media
(12:32):
and people who live in the city. I want that
to happen. That's how it should go. Hey, you come
and be the mayor down here for a day. I would.
I was just kidding. I would. And then there's a
plant in the middle of it. Right, he was like undercover.
It's like, you know, there was a guy from Connecticut
that had some choice words about us. What do you
say to him in there? All inching forward? Oh? Man,
(12:55):
have you thought Jill Biden was in a bit of
a hot water when she said, Hey, let's have Iowa
to the White House. Here's a governor saying a city
is but ugly and there's not much there? What is it?
I mean? I don't understand, you know, man, I don't know.
Sometimes sometimes when politicians say things, I feel like the
toughest job. Because I'm a big fan of Veep. Right,
Veep is one of the funniest shows in the last
(13:17):
ten years, And I so identified with Anna Klumsky's role
because she was the pr person and wanted, you know,
was always in charge of the image of the office
and and and stripes will always say that the worst things,
the most inappropriate things, and you could just see it
on her face and pains are going. How do you
not think more before you say it. Obviously this is
(13:38):
for comic effect because it's a television show. This is
real life. I mean, if you're if you're one of
those PR staffers and you're going and then suddenly it's
at someone's yell a going, where the hell were you
when the governor said this on the radio? Oh you know, sorry,
not my turn to watch. It's your job. The governor
is a grown person interview. What do you wanted you
(14:00):
want me to do? Tell him, hey, make sure you
don't say this city is but ugly. That that's where
I feel like. That's if I came back, if I
was reincarnated, you'd say, what would hell be? It would
be working for a politician that would say things like that,
and I'd have to worry about cleaning it up and
sit there and go, no, it's not with them, And
why would you say that? Why would you? I don't know,
I don't know. I just decided to say it, just because,
just because, just because, no, no, no no, no, no, why why?
(14:23):
Why why do you do this? Why do you do this? Why?
That's the most thankless job in the world. I'm thankful
I don't have it, which means I'm gonna wind up
doing it one day. Well, I mean that you always
said you'd be great to be able to give PR
support to folks. Yeah, yeah, no, you know it's gonna
have they really need it. Here's what's gonna happen. In
a few years. We're gonna find different platforms to run
for office on and Alex Tishert's gonna run on on
(14:45):
the health food platform, and it's gonna be Hey, follow me.
I don't know a lot about taxes or education or
budget anything, but if you follow me, you'll all live
an extra fifty years. Well you know what, Yeah, he
actually knows something because the the other people don't know
any of that. Crappy either eat eat the foods I eat,
and you live another fifty years. Everybody's gonna vote for him,
(15:06):
and he's gonna say, Jay, you know, listen, I know
you're really smart. I need you to be my PR
guy here and and Kraft my met should be the
be the the White House a press secretary would be.
Then I'd say, okay, I have to worry about clean
up stuff, where he would say like, what do you mean,
what do you mean? I didn't know it, but I
didn't know there were other people in charge of the countries.
I didn't know that that would be the best response
(15:26):
to anything. I didn't know there was someone to charge
of Canada. I thought it was just part of us,
like like we ruled them, like we the under stands
a Canada's can I didn't know that, Jay, Can you
fix that form here? I'm gonna go play Fortnite? Yes, yes, yes,
mister president, all that's the best. I'll go fix that.
Between Biden and Trump and everybody else, they've they've done
the walk off. I'm not answering that question. I'm just
(15:47):
getting ignore you and I'm gonna walk to the helicopter
or behind this door. Tis you're just standing on What
do you mean? What even that's really coming back at
the interviewer and make them really explain their point. What
are you asking me? Cuts of Jays? What are you
telling me this is really going on? I think you're
lying because this is news to me. Is this is
(16:08):
this true? Is is really? Is this really happening? Is
this true? I heard Cuba it's really close to the
United States? Is this true? I did not, Jason Digono,
That's not it's Cuba that play movie closer. Jason and
that's why I've been a part of this this whole time.
So when I fly to Hawaii, I'm still in the
United States. Yes, what do you mean I'm water? I
(16:33):
guess you're told me gonna go to a last cops.
Still in the United States. Oh God, I can't have
that too. I'm flying over an entire country. How do
I do? What do you mean? What do you mean?
You better not even get me started on Canada. Okay,
that's what's gonna happen. What tariffs on maple syrup? And
Jason Smith walked in the ocean to die today after
(16:55):
the latest calf by President Alexis Dan a good run.
Jason couldn't swim. What do you mean you he was buoyant,
he didn't wind me to a boll party. I pushed
him out of Marine one. I thought it was gonna
be fine, and he didn't realized Marine one. We were
an Air Force one, so we're not over water. I
didn't know that. I didn't know. I thought Marine one.
(17:16):
I didn't know he was a fan of top Gun.
I thought he could swim. Twitter, how about a fresca?
Mike and swollen dough Jes. My best friend Mike Harmon
were the tire Ac dot com studios. He at the
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(17:37):
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for yourself at discover dot com. Slash match. Well coming
up next? Where is the NBA MVP vote as it
sits right now? Can j Brunson actually went no? But
could he be a finalist? What to expect as we
get into the final two and three games of the
(17:57):
NBA season? Who's gonna be in the playoffs? Who's going
to be in the playing round? Outside looking in? Inside,
looking out? Keep it right here, that's next, Fox, you're
telling me on these certain teams can play in the playoffs.
You're telling me the Decoration of Independence is a real thing.
I just thought it was in a Nicholas Cage movie.
What do you mean? I thought the Brads tried to come?
So why do we friends with England? Now we're still friend?
(18:18):
Do we make up? We still wet up? Something about
that fight and all the others Hunters here the other
years ago. All the invites are set. The queen has
to come. 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 iHeart
Radio app. Yeah, you know, I think ty Shirt is
the president and me is the press Secretary. I think
(18:41):
that's a show genius. I think that's a TV show,
and I think we can just improv the hell out
of that one and just put it up in podcast
for him. I think the show and I think I
think you Harmon would be like one of the chairman
of the Joint chief of Staff, Like, Okay, we have
to go in the situation room, like that's your room
and it's decorated in northwestern color. No, it's good, and
Ricky and I will be the ones. We'll get some
(19:01):
of the questions together instead of maps. Instead of maps
of the world, you have like the Big ten Standings.
No Big ten Standings, the road between distances, titles, all
of that laid out. Where's our navy? Oh that's another page.
Let me get off this Big ten standingsang on, they
let me get that love in The Jason Smith Show
(19:22):
with my best friend Michael from the entire rac dot
Com studios. Time now to get to all the latest
news in the NBA. Joining us now in the hot line.
Longtime friend of the show. One of the most impressive
resumes you'll see NBA dot Com, USA Today, Mercury News,
LA Daily News, LA Times. It is Mark Medina follow
(19:46):
on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, who has promised
on Twitter with hot takes tonight. But I gotta tell you, Mark,
Jalen Brunson MVP isn't quite as hot as it was.
I've been driving the bandwagon. I'm glad people are on
board with that now. Well, Jason, uh, you know what
I might have to add to the resume is that
my awards ballot. It's just a straight ticket all nixt baby.
(20:08):
Oh wow, look at that. See he jumped in on
the political talk. I love it. Sixth Man of the Year, MVP,
every the defensive Player of the Year, Comeback Player of
the Year, most improved player all the way through knicks
everywhere down the road. Yeah. And you know what, if
only they could have Owner of the Year, James Dolan
would get that vote again. Wow forgetting the hell out
(20:31):
of the way. You're right, hey, that's a skill. Sometimes
being an owner is the best thing to do. Is
to do nothing, back up and go play with your band. Yeah, look,
getting out of the way, unless you're a lawyer that's
in litigation, and that case, he'll send people to spy
on you. Oh okay, that is true. Yeah, wow, that's
I'll tell you what now that Now that's a you know, Mark,
(20:53):
that's a great like undercover assignment for you is following
the spies that are spying. See, that's a thing. I
think that's the thing you can do. And like you
have your own thirty for thirty on it, I'll forget
about the NBA playoffs. I'll just spend the next few
months doing this as Simon here all right, So here
we are, and and every every night it seems like
(21:14):
we have different arguments for MVP Joel embiid Oh, he
thinks he's the MVP after the other night. Doc Rivers
says he's the MVP. So with twenty one points tonight,
you know, and they lost by twenty eight, is he
not the MVP after tonight because they got boat racing
and and have a big game, Like if he wanted
the other night, can he not win it tonight? Is
that how it goes? Yeah? I think you know, with
(21:34):
presidential polls, right, it's always by the day. I guess
we'll have to do the same thing with MVP, and
I think to extend that political election analogy, I'm getting
calls from people from different teams, you know, representing the
different MVP candidates, trying to pitch their case. It's really amusing.
But the bottom line is, hey, really you are You're
(21:56):
getting phone calls, but really it's like, are you getting
the rows answer? It's not a robo call, it's an
actual live person, but it's a musing. It's like, all right,
like stay your case. Beyond the obvious that that players,
what's your team? It is funny though, but the bottom
line is there's no such thing as a wrong vote
(22:18):
this year. You know, Yannis, Joel Embiid, uh, Yoki Starley,
Joe Brunson. But it's among those three and all seriousness.
They all have their own case, and you know, I
guess if you want to microanalyze things, there's things against them, like, hey,
Yokich's defense, the Nuggets inconsistent play as of late. You know,
(22:38):
Joel Embiid injuries per usual, Jannie Uh he had some injuries,
and defense isn't as strong as embid. But the bottom
line is, I think that the conversation needs to be
more about what these players have been during really well,
like Yokich is a triple double machine. MB Not only
is the a dominant defensive player and post player, he's
(23:00):
a great facilitator. Now, Jannie, you know, when he's been
healthy for the most part, he's expanded his offensive game.
He's improved defensively. So as far as where I'm leaning
with my vote, it's changed. I mean, at first it
was your k, then it was embiid. Lately it's been
y honest. Thankfully, I still have a few days left
to honor all this while I pour through all the
(23:21):
analytical data and field robo calls are actual calls from
some of the team executives, So I don't know where
I'm leaning, But yeah, it's it's a tough one to
say the least, as Jason. How many times Jason texted you.
You know, I always have to keep the sourcing anonymous,
(23:42):
so I'll plead the fifth. All right, He's usually logged
in on Twitter here, so I'll just look. I'll just
look here from the studio and try to suss that
out for you. Mark All right. Last night Clippers Lakers
sense of urgency. I talked about the fact that Davis
and James were kind of shamed into being on the
court in the back to back we got the odds schedule.
(24:04):
I don't really take much away from the game other
than it was fun to watch and see people in
the LA get excited. How about you, Yeah, I was
glad that, you know, we actually saw a team where
they fielded their players in how of doing load management.
But I think to your point, it would have been
totally understandable if they did sit because you know, second
night of back to back, end of a long trip. Look,
(24:28):
I'm usually on the league side of this, but if
they're trying to address all these availability concerns, like they
shouldn't schedule MARKUEE games on the second night of a
back to back after a long trip. But I digress.
I'm glad that they play. I think that they're very competitive,
even even through the obvious sluggishness. It did scratch my
(24:49):
head that, you know, while the Clippers have been known
to give up double digit leads in the final minutes,
that they were still on the floor with like a
minute left, at some point they got to pull the cord,
but I think it was encouraging that they're still competing.
But that being said, I think it can also be
on the flip side that as much as we've been
impressed with how the Lakers have played as of late,
(25:09):
they have their limitations. Maybe it's premature to think they're
all of a sudden a championship contender. I've always thought
from the beginning that they are obviously a dangerous out
if they're fully healthy. But I think that that's the stealing.
There are dangers out to maybe win in the first round,
but nothing beyond the second. I think this week kind
of encapsulated, even though in the playoffs you have more
(25:29):
rest days in between. I think the war of attrition
will eventually catch up to the Lakers, and hence they
won't be able to really beat teams significantly once the
playoffs start. NBA Inside or the NBA dot Com. Mark
Medina our guest here. All Right, So from the Lakers,
let's go to the Warriors, because for the longest time
(25:49):
it was the Warriors. Got Look, they can't win on
the road, they're limited to but they win a couple
of games on the road at the end of the year,
and suddenly everybody's du look at the Warriors. So where
are you on what their playoff they're likely playoff path
and how far can they go? Well, I guess he
never rule anything out because they're defending champs. They got
Steph Curry and Draymond Green. But I think the bigger
(26:10):
thing is that Jed Gary Payton the second and now
Andrew Wiggins ispected to come back. He's not playing the
final two regular season games. It remains to be seeing
what the ramp up is going to look like and
what his minis restriction is going to be. So I
do anticipate some rustiness, but I think that Andrew Wiggins
can become the defensive player that he was during last
(26:31):
season's championship run. And they're gonna need it because Clay Thompson,
he's improved as a score, but still not the same
defender pre injury. And you know, I don't take too
much stock of the you know, strong disparity between the
home and road splits. If I do take stock that
the Warriors are in the middle of the pack defensively
this season, and when you look at their championship years,
(26:52):
they're always at the top of the league. Level in
terms of team rankings and so I think that there
is a window for them to improve substantially, but there's
all so unknown. I think they can defend a title
now that Andrew Wiggins is back. If he wasn't back,
I couldn't see any scenario. But it's all going to
depend on how seamless that you know Roadmap is to return,
(27:13):
because I anticipate there's at least going to be some
hiccups in the initial stages. Mark lass one for you
real quick. I have to pound the table a little
bit for the road Warriors Sacramento. They're the only team
with a great record on the road in the Western Conference.
Let's go Yeah. Look, Kings are the real deal, one
of the best offenses in the NBA. They're not afraid.
(27:33):
They got a good guy, the young and veteran talent,
great head coach at Mike Brown. I think though, that
eventually their poor defense is going to catch up to them.
I think so far they've shown during the regular season.
In today's NBA doesn't matter if you don't defend well,
because if you have a productive offense, you can make
up for that. But in the playoffs, I think it's
a different story. I think I can win a playoff series,
(27:54):
but I think it's second round at best because the
defense and the inexperience will eventually catch up to them.
And before I let you go, Mark one more, because
you mentioned you know, being able to score is great
and defense in the playoffs. So let me ask you
about the Dallas Mavericks and everything going on the last
few days. And Mark Cuban missus Jalen Brunson is blaming
Rick Brunson for this, and Luca says, we blew it
(28:15):
when you watch the Mavericks free fall through the standings
right now after getting Kyrie Irving? Is this on Luca?
Is this on Kyrie? Is it on both of them?
Is it on none of them? What do you seized
as how all of sudden the Mavericks went from boy,
they can be an NBA Finals contenders. They're lucky if
they make it into the plane. Yeah. Well, anytime there's
a train wrecord on NBA team, no one's blameless, but
(28:38):
percentage of the blame high. It starts with roster construction
number one. Before the Kyrie Irving trade, they didn't have
you know, I don't want to say scrub. They had
decent role players, so they didn't have, you know, dependable
depth alongside Luca Dodgers and still the same story, they
gave up some of that depth to get Kyrie Irving.
I think Kyrie, you know, from what I've been told,
(28:58):
even throughout Shenet again, he has for a positive locker
room presence. The problem is he and Luca have not
formed enough offensive chemistry. And then Luca great player, but
I think his complaining and how he handles adversity has
had a trickle down effect. But I think the bottom
line is this. The main sources of the Dallas average
problems point to how they've constructed the roster, and so
(29:21):
when you look at this offseason, you know it's not
necessarily a bad thing. The Kyrie Irving's probably gonna leave,
They're not going to agree to long term deal. But
when they made that deal, they thought, on the back
of their mind, hey, if this doesn't work out, the
least we have cap space. But you know what, there's
a lot of folks around the NBA and differ enough
for ant offices that say, well, it doesn't matter if
the MAVs have cap space because in past years they
(29:42):
haven't used it. Wisely, so it could be another turbulent offseason,
to say the least for them. You can find them
on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That said, Mark
g Underscore Medina, NBA dot Com. Longtime NBA insider, Who
is now about to go to the movies? You're going
to see air? Right? Is that? What you say? Is?
How are you're doing right now? Yeah? I gotta see
learn more about Michael Jordan's greatness. We haven't heard about. Yeah, listen,
(30:05):
apparently they had a shoe that was made for him
that he wore that became very popular. WHOA. I wonder
if that shoe is worn by a lot of NBA
players today. I'll guess I'll find out. Yeah, Hey, I
think we need I think yeah. We definitely report back
after and find out if that's the case, because I
don't know they'll be wearing New Balance like Kawhias. Thanks
(30:28):
a bunch, buddy, Mark. We'll talk to appreciate you guys.
I'll provide a movie review next week. Appreciate it outstand. Yeah,
I'm gonna try to see that this weekend. I think yeah, Yeah,
I mean, look, I hope it's good again. I'm the
the assault of it's the greatest. But okay, okay, okay, okay,
uh now I couldn't tell just really quick. Do you
(30:49):
think Mark was was one hundred percent one hundred percent
in joking when he said people call him to pitch
their clients for him. No, I think he's one hundred
percent real. We we gotta read when we talked to him,
Buker and Wike. Next we got to talk about this phenomena.
I think it's a real thing. I think it's like
a political campaign where you're canvassing. Wow, what would it
(31:09):
take to get you into our candidates? To MVP Belloty?
What do I got? I got? I got advanced in
metrics for days. It's like when when Frostburg turns and says,
all right, de Seger, what do you got? On Keenan
Allen Today. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific, Very Sexual, Strong, Twitter, Game, Fox Sports Radio,
(31:33):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I'm gonna eat that tiny but ass up out live
from the tirerack dot Com studios, where I want to
talk about an inspiring moment from the world of sports today.
And you know, part of it is I enjoy the
back and forth between the PGA Tour and the live
golfers so much, and the Masters being here today and
(31:55):
Freddie Couples, who was once upon a time the best
golfer on the plant it, you know, in the early
to mid nineteen nineties, and he went on a radio
show and just blowtorch Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson, a
couple of guys who left for the live tour, and
he said, listen, you guys, go and have fun, but
(32:16):
you rip my tour, I'm gonna rip you right back.
And I thought that was great, a boom boom to
do that. And then not only that, but he follows
it up with a one under round. Today, at the
age of sixty three, he shoots one. If you're gonna talk,
you gotta back it up, right, I mean, I mean
Freddie Couples shooting one. I mean, Look, the Master is
(32:37):
one of those courses where it is designed now for
players to go low and if you have if you
can hit the ball long as we've seen the evolution
of players the last few years, you're gonna do well.
At it and Freddie Couples shooting one under. Greg It's
not like shooting one under at the US Open where
someone wins it three over, so he doesn't have a
chance to win. But sixty three years old and he
shot one under today, and just watching him a little
(32:59):
bit today, that nice easy swing up the fairway getting
out par par par par par. That was really it
makes me think today, Okay, I'm fifty two. Not that
I could make the Senior Tour, because that's I thought
when I was thirty, but you know, I didn't put
enough work into it. But it makes think, Okay, maybe
maybe I can still be playing golf, okay, you know
in a few years. And I guess he'll be able
(33:19):
to throw the softball around in a couple of years
when really my arms should be falling off. So that
makes me think that things are still out there for me.
It's pretty inspiring. From friend, No, it's pretty good. I'm
trying to get mine surgically reattached and capable of more
than the underarm throw. Because of the underhand throw, because
like Philip Rivers, because everything's so jacked up there. But no,
(33:41):
dear point, certainly you find some inspiration there a little
bit of excitement, because if you're gonna talk trash, and
you gotta go back it up, if you're gonna pick
up the sticks. If not, then you have to designate
someone else to wear it for you. All right, you're
playing for me like I'm playing for myself. I'm no, No,
you're playing for me because I got playing a bark uh.
(34:03):
And then if you stink, then we all fail. No.
I like this. I like the cut of his gim
I look, just keep you moving one foot in front
of the other. I mean this means you've got the
inspiration that you can have that second sandwich today, maybe
said a new personal best sandwich for the amount of
chocolate you consume or cheese in a given day. I mean, look, man,
(34:25):
the world's your oyster. And that's the point to our
beloved extended Fox Sports Radio family here is you know
sees the day. I better not have anymore. Oh, Freddy
Freddie Couples just came in one n I'm gonna have
ice cream. I'm gonna have much. He inspired me to
another pint. Yeah, And just to pull back the curtain
little bit, Harmon is not lying what he says. He
(34:46):
can't throw because every time there's usually like a nerf
ball in the studio at some point that we get
to throw around with each other and you know, in
commercial breaks and everything else. And every time Harmon throws
to throw it underhand because he can't, I can get
a couple of in and then my shoulders slumps a
good six inches. You're just throwing under so bad. You're
like Kent Taculve. The way you throw the football. It's awful,
(35:10):
but it hurts. Yeah, like there's damage there, there's no
question about it. It makes me know I'm alive, though, buddy,
you need to you need to go to a different
doctor than the guy that fixed you up the first time. Well,
I think my finger's broken again. By the way, what
do you mean you think your finger? Go to the doctor?
But no, no, no, no, I ain't going through that again.
A lot of wasted time. What do you mean I
(35:31):
ain't going through that again. Don't be that guy that
doesn't go to the doctor when you're hurt or no, no,
don't be that guy. Fine, it's just a finger. I
got nine okay, yeah, wait till in ten years and
the doctor says, oh, you should have come see me this,
this has to be amputated. Just wait, just wait till that,
and I'll say he got sixty years. I had a
good run. Yeah, no, you don't trust me. You're not
(35:52):
gonna be John Wick. Oh, I'm sacrificing my pinky because
I gotta get boiler. But that was in the previous
move the hell he's got no ring finger in part four?
Come on, man, everybody knows that I might see that again,
ring on his finger. Yeah, buddy, stay awake. This time
to Twitter and out by Prescot, Mike and swollen dumb
come down to one nap. Yeah. We ask a very
(36:15):
big question that we need an answer to. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike, this is Fox Sports or Radio.
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