May 3, 2023 • 47 mins
In this Best Of The Jason Smith Show, Jason proclaims that the Knicks are "back" after New York evened its series with the Miami Heat 1-1 following Game 2 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Semifinals. Also, Jason is thrilled Philadelphia center Joel Embiid won the NBA MVP award for one reason in particular. Plus, Jason and Mike examine how Green Bay's coaching staff is handling Packer QB1 Jordan Love. Finally, Jason and Mike react to the news that the Memphis Grizzlies are not extending the contract of controversial forward Dillon Brooks.
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Knicks on a twenty one to seven run the last
six minutes up by eight with tw twenty seconds left
(01:01):
to go, Let me just borrow from the great justin Frozburg.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The knicker back, the knicker back. They're back. It doesn't matter,
nothing else matters, because the knickser back. The Knicks are back.
It was so bad. I was so nervous, I was
so worried. I was a wreck all day. And now
the knickser back. They're back, my carpet, they're back. Still
hasn't caught up to what actually transpired in the game
(01:26):
that's now back with three zero six remaining of fraudulent
twenty four second violation was called on the heat, negating
what was then a lay in that would have made
it a one point game. Instead, Brunson comes back, makes
a floating jump shot. Now we got a five point game.
It's a huge swing. Bad officiating, terrible officiating, home cooking
(01:48):
in front of every celebrity that possibly could have shown
up and gotten a ticket. How many guys did they
give tickets to tonight? Good lord, everybody. They gave everybody
tickets for everybody, Peggy to show up for this one,
tickets for everyone, tickets for everyone. Okay, First of all, yes,
I'm sorry this game did not turn on one twenty
four second call with three and a half minutes left
(02:10):
to go. Sorry, Hey, it matters. Didn't happen. That didn't happen.
That's quite It's a three point game that's now in
that point game. If they get that lay in, okay,
or does wrong go differently?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Orders the game go different I'm sorry. It's one play
with four minutes left to go. It's not the end
all be all of the game. The bigger deal is
Julius Randall bleeping turning the ball over on the inbounds
and Duncan Robinson hitting a three to cut this lead
to three now with twenty two seconds left to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's the bigger deal. You could have your oh yeah,
you know what if they had those other two points.
Oh yeah, if they had these other two points, if somehow,
yes the law, if somehow the heat had more points
than the next, they'd be winning. Yes, I agree with
you there, I agree with By the way. The general
rule of all of this, though, still comes back to Caliperry.
The last useful thing he gave anyone, As much as
(02:58):
he wants to talk about the contracts, then that players
have gotten into the NBA is succeed and proceed. That's it.
That's all you need. You can only beat who's on
the court. So you're enting how many guys are out
Tyler Hero and and there's Jimmy Buckets, and over there
is Oladipo didn't matter. You know who's out there and
(03:20):
is hurt. Vincent has been fantastic. I go wanted to
sing Starry, Starry Night for him with some of the
rain rain drops and beautiful starry shots he's been putting
up in front of the luminaries at the Goden.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
But look, but that's the way it goes is there
is a game every night, and somebody is hurt, and
a star is hurt every single night and goes and
it's exactly what what is it when a bell rings
and angel gets its wings?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And every time the bell rings and angel gets his wings.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean that's really I mean, it's everybody is hurt.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Look, when I talked about the Nick's not having Julius
Randol and Jalen Brunson, I'm not saying it is an excuse,
like all, look they didn't have them. This is just
how it goes now in the NBA, everybody gets hurt.
There are stars who are hurt all the time. It's
just the way the playoffs go.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Because it's Gianni's or it's Kawhi, or it's Randall or
it's brother. Guys get hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All the time. Now, that's the new norm of the
NBA playoffs. Stars get hurt, Guys get hurt. It's how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm more just ah, man, it hit us right like,
you know, trying to avoid it. I'm trying to avoid
I don't want I don't want the injury bugged in is.
I don't want it. I'm trying to duck it as
it sliding around and swooping around like a big game
of tether ball. I'm trying to miss that, bob oh,
that hits us. But that's just the way it is now.
So yeah, no you can't hear her. Give me well
if this guy played it. Guys miss all the time. Now,
(04:45):
it's it's it's part of a given of the NBA playoffs. Yeah,
Jimmy Butler's hurt. You know why because stars get hurt.
Stars get hurt all the time. Now, that's just how
it goes. But at the end the end of the day,
at the end of the day, Sam, I'm stealing from
our gat the end of the day, at the end
of the day, whoever shows up up on the court,
it's an opportunity for greatness. And tonight people got introduced
to a number of undrafted players playing big minutes for
(05:08):
the Miami Heat and putting up big time performances. Just
one shot after the next seven of seventeen from the
field twenty one points uh for a guy named Gabe Vincent,
and everybody said, who he began to gave Barbara baby, Yeah,
you gotta get to play so right now, the Knicks
get fouled somehow, the Heat let ten seconds get off
(05:32):
the clock before Josh Hart is fouled. He makes both
free throws. The Knicks are the one ten to one
oh five lead. Now with the ball and four seconds left,
a desperation three from Miami clangs off the back of
the rim.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Four seconds left. The Knicks up five. The Knicks are back.
I said it a couple of minutes ago. The Knicks
are back.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They just they just showed Aaron Rodgers next to Sauce
Gardner and the Knicks are back, and Aaron Rodgers and
Madison Square Gardens. How great are things right now? It
doesn't get any better than this. The Knicks are winning
in the second round of the playoffs, and Aaron Rodgers,
Jets quarterback, is at the game. It's so awesome. I
can't even tell you I was gonna say, because if
(06:12):
they lost this one, the Jets were gonna ban him
from all the games. Oh well, if they lost that,
knowing that they every time he shows up they lose,
They're not even gonna bother. It's the Zack attack for you. There.
You know what I do. You want to celebrate because
we are broadcasting live from the Tirak dot com studios,
which means the sound on our television is done. But
that long little love fest that they didn't they no
(06:35):
doubt had at the announcers table when they showed Carmelo
Anthony in the crowd, that really did the body good.
Now I've had You know, I can't say what I
want to say in terms of everywhere I turn I
see Aaron Rodgers face. No you could say it. No, No,
I can't say it. It's no go ahead. I think
it's borderline.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Non FCC complain, just saying the knicker back, the knickser back.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Look, you barely battery. We talked about it last night.
The expectation was that unless suddenly there was a miracle,
you know, extra extra read all about it, stealing straight
from the Who's Tommy, and all of a sudden Jimmy
Butler's run around the beach shirt listen doing cartwheels like
Roger Daltrey was saying, Hey, you know I'm back. No,
(07:18):
he wasn't gonna play and get ready to take the
extra three days for Game three. So nix hold serve
probably more of a scare than anybody in the garden
really wanted to believe. A no pregame, I want to
talk about the number of Heat fans that were in
the building, only again to be out numbered by the
number of celebrities that had a night off. So congratulations,
(07:40):
big effort from Brunson came up big late. It was
good to see some other players in your offense because
I tweeted with about eight minutes left in the third
quarter that everybody not named Randall, Brunson, and Barrett and
combined for nine points nine nine not a lot now finished.
(08:00):
They finished as a crew with thirty two fourteen from
Josh Art. He must have heard the wake up call
fourteen eleven and.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Nine That three that he hit with a minute and
a half left to go to give him make it
a five point lead. I'll tell you, John, what an
un Maybe the greatest deadline acquisition in the history of sports,
Josh Lay maybe the greatest ever.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Wow, maybe look at you. Uh, that's insane, Jason.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You do realize once the Lakers tip the next all
matter right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Frostburg, they're not tipped yet. The Knicks are back. They're
not tipped, and the Knicks are back. The game is over.
The Knicks are back. They're back, They're back, one eleven,
one oh five. Look at Tom Tibbadau.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's so happy, enjoy for the next three minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's maybe the one thing did make me laugh over
the in the course of the game, back when audio
was available, you know, pre show, uh was there was
an R. J. Barrett turnover where the ball just went
through his hands, Yeah, out of bounds and they couldn't
find Thibodeau's reaction fast and you do the the lip
(09:00):
reading again, not save for radio. No, no, not at all.
But he went from having a pretty calm demeanor the
last time they looked at him, to where you would
have thought he was anger, as voiced by Lewis Black
in the classic Pixar film Inside Out, but his stack
had exploded. Maybe hades. Not that we should bring up
James Woods with great regularity, but again a great character
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for the junior varsity game the Lakers and the Warriors
Varsity tipped off. Nicks win another big night. And look,
(09:48):
I know we gave out.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
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everything matters. Everything is about Niggers and Warriors, and none
of it matters. It's all on your card with concert
in the middle where you go the snacks, the Yeah,
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So here they are for you now, playing a twenty
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Speaker 4 (10:17):
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Speaker 3 (10:19):
Hey, it's great.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Hey, Sugar, Ray is gonna be doing twenty minutes every
here we go every morning.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
They're out here at Beach Life. You're gonna come see him.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You know, I was hearing today who was out of
beach life with the Ugly Kid Joe or they were
making a big deal to the Ugly Kid.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm like, oh my god, Ugly Kid Joe is still around. Wow.
Oh and they have more than two songs. I mean,
I hate everything about you and the remake of Cats
and the Cradle, Right, that's it. Yeah, that's the kid Joe.
That's a fine song.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, I hate everything about us A great song.
I mean, that's an awesome, awesome song. But you know,
I don't know, do you do those two songs and
they go play that big head one more time? Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Dude, Dude, I had no idea, you no idea. They
were the I know the Pixees are there, Okay, all
the other guy's band of horses are there. Yeah. Yeah,
Black Keys, the Fraudulent Black Crows without our guy Gorman.
They're now going to open Ferosmith Fogerty's on Sunday night though,
(11:14):
So if you want to go sing some Born on
the Bayou.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
How many days is this festival?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Three days? It's a three day festival, starts Friday.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Bason just said this This band Cats in the Cradle
were there today.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, no, no, the band Ugly Kid Joe is the band.
They do a remake of Cats in the Crate.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
The legendary Harry Chapin.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now you say it's too bad, Ty Shirts off to night.
This has been a great conversation for Ty Shirt. Yes,
I love the Cats and the Cradle. I had a
great song. It's great, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The great cats. Didn't they sing that song?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
He has no idea who they are.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm a ladies cat feeling cats know the hell I
would I put some money into the center of the
table that somehow Ty Shirt would have known about the
Brian setz Or Orchestra doing their Christmas stuff. Oh yo
know the suit suit ryot. That's not that's not Brian
(12:04):
setzter No, No, that's the squirrel Nuts Zippers.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, squirrel nuts Zippers. What's Brian Setzer's big song?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But yeah, the other No, that's Cherry Pop and Daddy. Sorry,
now you're lying to me. These are the dopes. These
are fake bands. Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Popping, those are
all fake bands. What what's what's the big Brian Setster song?
What's he had the big swing one never heard of him.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh, I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
He had the straight cat stuff. But as well, let's
jump drive and whale. Oh that's right, jump driveway. But
you know I'm the dirty boogie. But you know you
have heard of Frostburg. You ready for this.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I've heard the Lakers are back.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, you've heard. No, take my line, you jerk, because
the line is the knickser back, you know, the knicks
in their back. That's the line. He laid it up
thinking you were gonna give the give and go for
the dunk. Shrosburg and you said you mout him.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Of course I did.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No wave your fingers. No, Frostburg. Frostburg's alan iverson. That
ball goes in. I'm not that ball's not coming back out, man,
it's going up for a shot.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You got one minute left the man, enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hey, listen, just you know, just like a public service
announcement here, clearly I know that we selected and elected
the MVP today, Joel Embiid, which we'll get to.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But uh.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Jalen Brunson thirty points six out of ten from three
point range. He is a franchise player. He is a
franchise play. Julius Randall was great. I told you he
had to come back for the Knicks to win. Why
because it's a matchup nightmare.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
They didn't have Jimmy Butler. Stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Stuff. You can't say that. You can't. I just said you.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Jimmy Butler plays the next lose by twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, Jimmy Butler was out and the Heat loss because
the Knicks are it's science.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
What's going on? It's not so what do you know
about science? What's the last time you took a science.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I know that if Jimmy Butler plays that game, my
the Heat win.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's not sign Jimmy buckets.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I mean, it's kind of science that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
None of that is science. None of that foul. That's
math if it's anything, and okay it's math. B it's
not fact. And see it's not science. You know what,
it's scientience.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Bryce Harper is now four strikeouts away from a platinum sombrero.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He is back Twitter at how about a fresca? Mike
gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So the Knicks are back and now no, seriously,
we are waiting for the main event of main events,
the Lakers in the war. Everything in the world ceases
to matter right now, Everything ceases to matter.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's the Lakers and the Warriors. It's Lebron and the
Powder and everything else. Lakers Warriors. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Which is worse the powder nonsense or Steph Curry chewing
his mouthpiece? Right now, they're doing both of them on
my screen, and I want to put you both in
the face. Hey, you know what, that's as viable a
pole question as any other damn thing someone's gonna ask. No.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
See, the thing is I like the powder. I don't
like the chewing of the mouthpiece. I hate him, but
I love the powder. I love these doing it. I
just love I just love the powder. And he does
it everywhere. You know what you say it is.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The one time I did like it was when he
subbed back in after he was hurt and his first
came back. He came in as a sub and he
didn't doing the powder on the road. All that's all awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
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Speaker 1 (15:28):
Wow, the Ugly Kid Joe b Side that Iowa Sam's
pulling out for us.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's all they have.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
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(15:57):
It's a ten to two Warriors lead. It could eat
be twenty to two. Clay's got a three already, Wiggins
has a three. Steph has a bucket. The Lakers get
a time out. Lebron a bad turnover. Ad tries to
outlet him. He just goes through his hands, going out
of bounds. The Lakers simply have to withstand the first
quarter of this game to stay in it. The Warriors
(16:18):
are great in game one. Steve curR is the opposite
of Mike, buttenholes are in game ones. They have to
just withstand this first quarter and stay within striking distance.
But I gotta be honest, Mike, just for a second,
just to be a total and complete fan. I mean,
the level of awesomeness of this series on a scale
(16:38):
of one to ten is like a thousand, right, because
you know about the hype going in, you think about it.
It's Lebron and Steph and Clay, and you turn on.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The TV and you watch and it looks and it
feels and it sounds like a bleeping NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Like I don't know, I don't know how do we
go on from here? This is the only series anybody's
gonna have any time. For as much as I love
the Nick, right, how are we gonna go on? The
only way we can go on from Lakers Warriors is
the Lakers win and we go straight to Lakers Knicks
NBA Finals. That's the only one. Because how do you
go on to the next round? How do you go
on to like Lakers nuggets or Warriors nuggets and then
(17:14):
mix in the heat versus the Sixers or the celt out.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I mean, how do you do that? We I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean, this is such an epic playoff series right now,
and you see the way the crowds and it looks,
it looks and it feels like an NBA Finals game,
it's so outstanding.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
But just even into the build up of it, right,
injury reports, practice notes, here's this guy simulating being Curry
in a workout. There is the video equipment guy, you know,
that kind of thing. All of it got to dress
up to be a Steph Pray. Yeah, and then he
went on to become a super coach somewhere else. But
the idea just of legacies, histories, heroes and villains, right,
(17:54):
because even the the the only guy that kind of
escapes things is Steph. But even then, I mean, how
many times did you have people come back on the
system quarterback run after his fifty burger the other night?
So I mean, no matter where you're looking at injury histories,
the placement in history, right, everybody rewriting top ten lists
(18:16):
wherever they can. There's so much other content, guys, you
can wait until the season's done to do all that.
But in the end, Roum, you know, we've got a
build up of a huge game, D'Angelo Russell playing such
a huge time the other night, and then I can't
wait to see what shirt Kyrie Irving's wearing. Does it say, Hey,
(18:36):
I can get myself free for either of you or
what the deal is, Like he did when Lakers played
played the other night. It's like, hey, you know, hey,
I'm here. And then the Warriors King's like, look at
I'm courtside here too. He's just whack themle popping up everywhere.
So so many storylines, so much history in the building
(18:57):
and greatness and legacies. And then we get back to, hey,
there's Jokich because he didn't win MVP, so the streak
is over. There's no extra sulky for him this year.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How does Reeves not get one vote?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I was actually just looking at the top five voting
breakdown here.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, I know Lebron didn't get on in volte, but
how the hell does Reeves not get one?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Look, Reeves is on the list.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He's getting all the votes on players about to get
paid way too much money in the offseason, Austin Reeves
at the top of that.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why is it way too much? It's not your money,
don't care, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It is what the market will bear, my man, It
is what the market will bear. But I mean, you
go all the way down the list, Embiid, Jokich, Giannis Tatum, Mitchell,
and Shaye Gilgis Alexander finishing sixth in voting Twitter at
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seventeen thirteen Warriors. With the lead over the Lakers, Lebron
and Steph both go to the bench for Rest five
(20:09):
forty nine to go in the first quarter. A ruy
Haachimura checks in the game for the Lakers. Will keep
you updated on this throughout the night, obviously, and Isaac
lowen Kron gonna have more in a couple of minutes
when he has what's trending. But I swear you I
am happy that Joel Embiid won the NBA MVP right,
A bit.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Of a shocker today.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
We'd heard Yokich's name for a long time, but then
Embiid's name came in.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He had a big end. What was gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And you know, so, I think there was a mild
surprise at embiid one. But I am so glad that
he won. I'm being serious, I'm not being facetious. I
am so glad that he won. Now ask me why,
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Please explain to me and to the millions and millions
of the fans out there across the globe, why you're
happy Joel embiid won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because now I don't have to hear him and the
Sixers whine about how he's the MVP but he can't
win it, because I'm done with that.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Every year it's IBMVP. Why am I not? Oh he's
the MVP looking out club?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He cares so much about the MVP, and why am
I not the MVP?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
My own life IBMVP. Yeah, that's all they talk about,
is Joel and b Yeah. Now I'm glad he one.
So now he doesn't have to whine and complain about it.
No one's got a politic for it for it for
him in a postgame press conference?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What else did Joel emb need to do? You don't
say he's the MVP.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
He's coming off fifteen points on six and twenty one shooting,
but he has a big night and suddenly he's the MVP.
So I'm glad he won and double that. Now, go
show you're the MVP. Go show you can stay healthy
and stay in and win and lead your team all
the way to at least the Eastern Conference finals. Now
show me you're the MVP. Or is that enough? Is
that enough to be the MVP? And now yeah, I'm
hurt and I can't, but no, Now show me you're
(21:54):
the MVP, and go actually do something here in the
playsts that are going home early and pointing fingers and saying, oh,
it's Ben SI's fault, it's James Hart's Fault's seven. Yeah, no,
now go show me you're the Now, go do it.
Now you want to be the MVP. Congratulations, you're the MVP.
Now show me you really are, and let's see what
you can do the rest of the playoffs when you
get back in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, I think way, that's how I feel. I kind
of like that. I like that. And then you threw
down the microphone in the new tire rack dot Com
Fox Sports Radio s here, I say, take that, uh,
and but I agree with you because that was my
first gut reaction to it too. All right, there's the
video of Joel Embiid. Good now, shut up, and I
said it just like a former colleague of ours here
(22:33):
at Fox Sports Radio. Shut up, Hey man, PB is
locked in on this Lakers game. He's got no time
to have beef with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
It's way past.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Okay, perhaps that is true? Shut up? Yeah, yeah, you
think it. You think of Pat O'Brien like you know, hey,
I'm a forty year old announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That not so young anymore, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, no, he's a little bit older now. He's gonna
be at the Laker game. You don't know, seven thirty
time forbid.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Could be at the Rainbow Room for all know that
there's not true.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He could be sitting there having having a little beverage
next to the Lemi statue. You don't know. But the
idea being that we we have Joel Embiid for the
last couple of years. Right. There's this campaign in the
final month of seats, almost like a Heisman campaign. I
was waiting for everybody to start sending us beer cooozies
(23:23):
and bumper stickers and things. Here there's a picture of
Joel Embiid. He's got a googly eyes on it or
a bobble or something, just waiting for it to show
up in our mailboxes at Fox Sports Radio. Not that
we're part of the voting electorate on it, but the
fact that you you've had this late season every year
(23:44):
is like, look what he does and back to back
scoring titles. Pretty cool. First MVP since the aforementioned Alan Iverson.
I think that was what two thousand and one. So
go all the way down down the line, I mean, huge,
huge things, but in the end it's okay, he it.
So everybody's got one? Is that is that the game
we play anymore? Jokicch Giannis both have too, so they
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can't win again because if they win a third it
changes how we have to look at them. I've heard
that argument. Listen, listen, he's got one. Judge.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
This is you know, this is like the Academy Awards,
where okay, let's give you an award. You've been trying
so desperately to win an oscar for years. Look at
all these roles.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I am taking.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I'm taking a big biopic role of someone who is
really famous or notorious in history, or.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm taking a lot, taking a role that's outside my
comfort zone. I'm gonna do all of these things. I'm
gonna I'm gonna go and now I really okay. When
you win, now go away? You want now go away?
Now stop?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You want now go It's that's kind of like it
is you want now go away. I don't want to
hear it. Why do they only win one?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
No, I'm done. I'm done. Joell embiid you're done. You're done.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Find something else to complain about now I can't be everything.
Find something else complain We're done again. Show me you're
the m v P. Show I don't say that about
I don't you know?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
To show you're the MVP, you get back on the
damn court some Yeah, exactly, Although I look, I hope
his knee is okay, because clearly when it happened, we're
looking around going well, he probably should have gotten suspended
for the kick. So is this part of a Hey,
we're gonna have at a minimum a gentleman and sweep
in the first round, so it really doesn't matter. Uh No. Instead,
now it's the getting a little bit better every day
(25:23):
trending upward. Yeah, if he just sat on his ass
for six days and didn't aggravate the knee, the natural
human body tendencies is that you're having a little bit
of healing. So that doesn't give me a whole lot
of comfort. But he did look happy as he heard
the news and his teammates. Yes, he's the m v
P nowday, he's the MVP. Now you just Brunson didn't
(25:44):
get any real consider a.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Finalist, though maybe I'll win it next year. Well listen, okay,
let's say wait, Joellen.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Jovann Buja had no desire for it. He had Jokich
if but if but if if embiid gets the Michael
Jordan because that's the MVP now named after him, and
Jaylen Brunch gets the Larry O'Brien Trophy. I'm okay with
that trade. I'm okay with that, and I want Jayalen
Brunch to then go, oh, look at the real MVP.
Are you the MVP, Joel? You still the real MVP.
(26:13):
You're the real because the Knicks are back. The Knicks
are back. Oh, are you the real VP? Are you
the real?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You're the real MVP because I know I know how
it's gonna go. I know how to play because because
of what I'm putting out.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
In the universe.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I told you that the biggest thing, right was what
I was afraid of, that this was gonna be the
year the Sixers who like to talk talk, talk talk to.
They're like Memphis except except they really talk just as much.
But it's Doc and it's Embian. It's better players with
more cachet. So you go, oh, I kind of get it.
But they just talk talk talk talk talk to. And
this is gonna be the year. I gotta watch the
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Sixers actually win, and they're gonna be insufferable.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And I know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
They're gonna play the Knicks in the Conference finals and
they're gonna beat him to get to the NBA Finals.
And I'm gonna be upset that I watched the Knicks
get to the conference finals lose to the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But then I got to hear the Sixers.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Talking about how great they are when they make the
NBA Finals before they get swept by the Denver Nuggets.
I'm gonna have to hear that for so long. That's
gonna happen. I put that out in the universe, Mike.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
During that entire monologue, the entire time of Mike Stigrim
Reaper in the Meaning of Life, you Americans. All you
do is just talk talk and say let me tell
you something, and I just want to say, well, you're dead. Now,
this a shut up.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
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Speaker 3 (27:42):
Early in the second quarter, the Lakers have made it
all the way back. They now lead the Warriors thirty
three to thirty one. Anthony Davis fourteen already for LA.
He is seven out of eight from the floor.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Meanwhile, Steph Curry Clayson, both with ten apiece, each have
two threes, leading the way for the Warriors again early
in the second quarter. What feels like an NBA Finals game.
It's just getting going. Really an amazing night to be
a fan, to watch the NBA, especially to watch the
Knicks play as well as they did. I check, but
this year, but this series, this is everything we need.
(28:20):
I mean, there's no other series right now. It's Lakers Warriors.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
That's it. I mean, they just should cancel the rest
of it after this.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, probably, Yeah, Look, we played the Knicks. That's fine,
that's great. You people had something to watch now Lakers Warriors. Yeah,
now what about the rest of this it? Nah, because really,
how do you go back to watching six Ers, Celtics
and Nuggets Suns? I mean, how do we go back.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
To well, I mean I want to watch some more
games and tear you up.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, man, that's really Hey. Look, as a Knicks fan,
I'm like, I don't know. I think I'd rather have
more of this series.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I think I can said to see more of this.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Uh So again, it's a one point game, ten and
a half minutes to go in the second quarter. More
NBA coming up in a few minutes, but big NFL
news today. Look, all eyes are gonna be on Aaron Rodgers, obviously,
whether he is court side at the Knicks, at the Rangers,
wherever else. Wherever there's a game, he is court side.
Now he gets ready to take his first snap for
the Jets. But the Packers his replacement. They did something
(29:15):
really interesting today. They extended Jordan Love's contract for another year.
I love see what I did there. I love what
the Packers are doing when it comes to Jordan Loves.
I mean both, yeah, I love what they're doing. First
of all, they said the other day that, uh, they're
(29:36):
not going to bring in the experience backup, right, you
know that they draft to Clifford the experience backup.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, we kind of like where we are right now.
In other words, Jordan Love doesn't have to worry about, Hey,
it's your first go round. If you don't play well,
we have a Andy Dalton's gonna come in ben a
I'm QB one.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
No, no, you don't have to worry about that. We're
not going If someone fired that off with Jordan Love, now,
Dalton's my guy. He sent me a case of sausages
that's Skyline Chili, so he weighs, you sent me a
case of sausage. I'll be your friend. I'll say good
things about it. I'm your friend. But now the contract deal,
(30:16):
they could have easily waited and said, okay, you're on
a one year sink or swim deal, because really, Jordan
Love kinda is And they could have easily said, this
is what we're gonna do. We're gonna let you play
out this year. Let's worry about you worry about being
the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. But they
extended him by a year, and Jordan Love knows they
could have punted on it and waited and made improve himself.
(30:38):
But instead they're gonna give him twenty two million dollars
for next year. Thirteen and a half million dollars of
it is guaranteed. So now they're saying you're a quarterback
for the next two years. That is one hell of
a message and positivity. You mentioned Ted Lasso, that is
one hell of a message in positivity for Jordan Love
from the packers. They are putting him in a position
(30:59):
to succeed, and they are.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Telling them, don't worry about over your shoulder, don't worry
about being just this year.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
You gotta cup.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now there's gonna be some kind of clock on it,
because you gotta put some kind of clock. You don't
just get forever to prove that you can or can't
do it. But hey, you got a couple of years.
We drafted you, we moved up for you, we have
a lot invested in you. We're all getting fired if
you suck. So we're in this together. But giving you
two years, you got this year, you got next year.
Let's go out and ball. You don't worry aboutnybody looking
(31:27):
over your shoulder. I love this message they have put
out there. To Jordan Love, it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, I think it works both ways, and a lot
of it aligns up with my thoughts and what I
expressed as we were talking about Lamar Jackson during the
stalemate and questions of how things would resolve. It's the
all right, you both get the best of both worlds. Right.
For the Ravens, it was go out and see if
you can find the better deal. It's not personal, just
(31:52):
go see what the market really thinks of you. For
Lamar Jackson, it was damn it, I'm gonna go figure
out what my world is. I'm gonna grab my knaps
and I'm gonna start crisscrossing the country like I'm Bruce
Banner and the incredible Hull Kitch, hiking along the road
with the sad music playing. And instead he comes back
to Baltimore. That long road brought him back. Now with
Jordan Love, he's got a bit of security, but he
(32:13):
also didn't have to try to try and say, hey,
you know what, I've been here and I've been working,
so you need to look at me as a long
term solution. Didn't hold him over a barrel or cause
any kind of issue there recognizing and reading the tea
leaves of it all to say, Okay, I've got my
chance to go be the guy and for the Packers.
Look at that cost, because if he plays two expectations
(32:39):
that were set when he first joined this squad to
carry the torch for legacy giant quarterbacks and Hall of
Fame candidacies there in Green Bay. Think about that dollar
amount for next year. That's nothing, man, It's gonna be
one of the best bargains in quarterbacking for one more year. Meanwhile,
next Offseas is gonna be like, all right, so what
(33:00):
about my extension? Hey, so I've been pretty good. Now
let's work about that. Oh you know what I was
really I was really good, and I gave you that
twenty twenty four deal. Now let's uh, let's start talking
long term.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just we just got done. I need a vacation.
We just tried that this whole thing for three years
with Aaron Rodgers. You gotta give me some time, I kid.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And then he with his walked back into the offices
at SENDA. I'm back.
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we told you the world was stopping when the Lakers
and Warriors played, and yes, that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Five and a.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Half to go in the second quarter, Lakers on top
of Golden State forty six, forty four. This has been
a heavyweight battle of up and down the floor. Just
what it looks like. The Lakers are seizing momentum. You
get a three from the Warriors. It has been some
kind of start. And I gotta say, so far, if
you're saying, all right, who's really winning, the Lakers are
(35:12):
winning because this is a game. I honestly expected the
Warriors to get out to a huge lead early and
try to run away from the Lakers, and the Lakers
staying in the game was gonna be difficult. Were they
gonna be able to have to expend a lot of
energy on this And the fact they're this close with
five minutes to go in the second quarter, now, I
feel like, so far that this is going the Lakers way,
(35:34):
because I really expect this to be a Warriors night.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Well, I would say this going forward, and Steph Curry
missed a couple of shots early, some wide open threes,
and then he started to heat up a little bit
and found his rhythm, so He's got ten. Thompson's got
thirteen thus far, nine points off the bench for the Warriors,
six from Green and three from Pool. But if I'm
the Lakers, I'm just living inside me. Anthony Davis are
(36:00):
has eighteen points on eight of nine. He should never
leave the paint and there should not be an offensive
possession that the ball doesn't at least touch his hands.
He decides to pass back out, fine, but at no
point should anybody else be free lancing and the ball
not be on his hands at some point in the
possession if he's on the court, because there's there's nobody
that can check him down low as good as Looney
(36:22):
has been thus far down the stretch, and certainly in
the first round of the playoffs. So but a fun
spirited first half. And we had the the universe broke
just a couple of minutes ago. Coming out of the
last commercial break is broke. They showed that Polenka and
Rob Low are in the same place.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Person.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, but but is it really?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Is it like McAvoy No, No, No, It's gonna be
like Mission Impossible, where Tom.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Cruise is gonna take off a match. It's gonna resched
up as long as he doesn't bring James Cordon with
him soon.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
He just cost Mirramax like a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Jason, No, everybody knows that. What he ain't worrying about
Mira Max and Harvey Weinstein right now. They haven't done
the mask thing since like m I three. I think
that was the last mask when they did. I don't
think they've done do they do it?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And Ghost Protocol there and now people that go see
four know that that's not gonna happen in.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Protocol the go go see four ware where you can
watch it on your television if you want, you mean.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Go see it where go see Ghost Protocol where seven
and eight are coming out like back to back, like
John Wick in the next few weeks, we're getting all
of them.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
John Wick, seven and eight are coming out.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
John Wick is back.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Dude, John Wick. They're gonna do the next John Wick
from a space. It's gonna be awesome. He's gonna ride
a meteor into the Earth and he's gonna be killing
assassins on the way down on the media.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
It's gonna be fantastic. Okay, that escalated.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
We've got it all planned out.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah, I do, I do. Hey, but the suit was bulletproof.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well, if the boy if the suit was media proof
and like out space proof, and like we put him
on the moon and he just rides back on a
media and he starts being and he starts killing all
the assassins.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
The coming in all the media is which is worse,
the English accent or the Philadelphia accent? Eight seven seven.
I don't know why I go to the English accent
when I'm pitching a movie idea.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It was more of a crappy South African.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It's p's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
No, if that was I would go more like you're
right right, yeah, you're I would go down like that.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
No, No, this is this well I kind of missed it.
Now I kind of hang on, hang on, Now.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
You sound like the dad from Bluie. What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I need I need an I need a HOGI witch.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You guys are like challenging me. It's like this is
a big improv thing. Okay, now the person is from Philadelphia.
Now they're from South Africa. Now they're on the moon.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Now they're John Wick do your best Lemmy impression when
he's telling uh in the and he's impersonating Brian cox Law,
whoa I don't my can't escalated quickly. My kids all
suck my kids, I'll suck the a subspect. There's my
(39:02):
Lemmy is Brian. That's pretty good. Yeah, there you go
right there, Actually done so again. It is a three
point game. Now Warriors with a fifty six to fifty
three lead over the Lakers again, just over three minutes
to go before halftime. Incredibly wild and entertaining game. Tonight's show,
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lebron really doesn't get you anywhere. A big story today
(39:47):
Shamsterrani reporting this earlier that the Memphis Grizzlies have told
Dylan Brooks they are not re signing him under any circumstances.
Dylan Brooks, of course, became famous as an agitator this year.
In many games, you would log onto Twitter at some
point late, and why is Dylan Brooks trending? Okay, got
into it with somebody, but very famously got into with
(40:10):
Lebron James early in the Lakers Grizzly series, says he
doesn't respect anybody unless they put forty points on him,
and Lebron is old. Fast forward to the Lakers knocking
the Grizzlies out of the playoffs the way they did,
and Memphis has said, according to Shams, that they are
not going to bring Dylan Brooks back under any circumstances.
(40:31):
I don't know if he's been on a downward swing.
He was tipping picks, so he was drew the ire
of a lot of people. And then the last report
he tried to give us was wrong. Yes, I mean,
I'll take the under any circumstances with the greatest sault,
but let's run with it for now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well, I think if that okay, if he was wrong
about it, I think we would have heard that.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
There would have been a statement from the Grizzlies. No,
we love Dylan Brooks, We're bringing it. We love the guy.
Don't say that about us now either. You would have
heard under any circumstance you want to heard something about
the we don't intend to bring him back is one thing.
They we'll see you in hell. Uh, well, you know
that that seemed to be extreme groot. Under no circumstances.
(41:11):
Do you press this button? I am grouped. No, no, no, no,
not that, but no, no, no, don't press the red button.
I am grouped.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh now is this strictly because of Lebron James. No,
this is more dealing with a symptom than the disease.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Right, That's that's kind of what it is. Now follow me,
because I feel like a doctor. Yeah, because everybody's got
the sickness. This is because everyone seems to need the cure. Yeah,
look was it you mean you mean the music group
the cure? No? I I used that was the Metallica lyric.
Oh okay, I thought every one's got to have the
sick because everyone seems to need the cure.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, that's good because I like Metallica much more than
I like the cure. Yeah, the cure is very Their
songs are all very depressing, very very depressed.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Metallica just upbeaten, uplifting every time.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Well at least, you know, they kind of they have
pile drivers Metallica. I mean you know, I mean the
Robert Smith and the Cure is like, what's the song
about death?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Oh? Okay, great, that's what I want to listen to him.
That's outstanding. I listen. They're running up that hill on
a loop for like forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Okay, we can arrange that.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
No no, no, no no not say no no no
no that far just said it. Want to no no no,
that was not me. That was Harmon who said that.
That wasn't me.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
I'm gonna have Alex work on it from his home studio.
We will not be playing that today.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
That was Harmon, Thank you. Look, Iowa Sam wants ty
shirt job. We're not gonna play that today. He's going
on with John Wick shirt. Look, it's more the.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Symptom than the disease, because this was the biggest example
of the Grizzlies doing what showing immaturity.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
And they like to talk. They talk talk, talk, talk,
talk to They were great front runners. When things are
going well, they love to talk. Things a little more difficult.
Look what happens they go home? How do we deal
with this? How did the Grizzlies deal with a message
they want to send to the entire team? Guess what,
Dylan Brooks, You're not coming back. You are the fall
guy for our maturity issues. And this is what they're
(43:16):
hoping is going to send a message to the rest
of the team. Look, the GM said, after the series
is over, we had a lot of self created distractions
in these playoffs and that we can't stand for that.
You can't change out all the players because some.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Of them are all really bleeping good, right, But Dylan
Brooks is a guy who Okay, he's an agitator.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Is he absolute instrumental to what you do? Now? Dylan
Brooks said, Hey, he's a great addition, he's a great
flavor piece. That's awesome. But you need something to send
a message. And now here's a guy who was a
pretty decently important member of the team, not one of
the top three players. So anybody's out one of the
top three is always expendable to it to a point.
(43:55):
So he's the fall guy. He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Okay, we are gonna send this message, hopefully to everybody
by telling you this guy's not coming back. And you
could sit here and say, oh, because he pissed off Lebron, No,
he was the guy that talked the most we want
you guys to grow up, and we gotta send a message,
so we're doing it this way. Dylan Brooks was not
as important to the Grizzlies as the other guys were.
(44:17):
If he was, it would be somebody else getting this message.
But Dylan Brooks is getting it because he's expendable, and
they're hoping that this solves the issue of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Who look outward. I thought they were going to the
NBA Finals this year. Clearly they were talented enough, they
were good enough. They just couldn't get out of their
own way. They're a young team. They started believing everything
about themselves. They didn't really when they had to dig
down and really find a way to get something done,
they couldn't do it. And now they need to recalibrate,
not reconfigure themselves or restart. Now. I just got a
(44:47):
kind of okay, let's recalibrate what's going to work here,
and now getting rid of him and not bringing Dylan
Brooks back, that's gonna be the big message to say,
you guys got your heads on straight, or there's gonna
be other moves because this was a year where we
he should still be playing, and it's a huge missed
opportunity because you look at the way the NBA Playoffs
is going right now, and why not the Grizzlies. There's
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talented as they are. John Morant had his issues but
came back they were playing strong. He's an MVP candidate now,
probably will win it sometime the next couple of years.
But he is the absolute fall guy Dylan Brooks for
what happened right here. Yeah, I mean we've talked about
hard reboots. I got a reboot, do a nice little
callback to prior episodes, but rebooting this squad, you got
(45:28):
a guy in Brooks who is a career forty one
point six percent shooter, three rebounds to assists a game,
and it's a This story hit early enough, so I'm
sure this has been covered at nauseum, but you're not
worth the headache. If he'd shown any level of accountability
for you know, stirring the bear and all of that
(45:51):
nonsense that was going on with Lebron, maybe maybe there'd
be a little different sentiment to it that he at
least owned it and acted like a profe and a
grown up after not acting like a professional fake. But
that's just it, you know, going down the full fake
tough guy route. I mean the one thing you could
say for John Morant, for everything that was off the
(46:13):
field and so many different allegations and still trying to
corroborate and get to a conclusion on most of that stuff.
As it ended, he said, A, you know what, I
caused a lot of issues. My off court stuff weighed
on us. And two as the fans sang no, no, no, no, hey, hey,
hey goodbye, he sang along too. So he had fun
(46:38):
with it and recognized, you know what we we got
got with Dylan Brooks didn't took the took the fine,
didn't even do the I'm here so I don't get
fine bit. Uh by the way, very low fine. They
didn't restructure all that stuff. If you're gonna act that
big a fool, uh some level of accountability. But for
the Grizzlies, does it xcize everything? No, But you got
(46:59):
to somewhere and if you're going to rebuild your culture
and look I to a degree, I like them leaning
into Hey, we're going to try to be badasses, but
you know what, you have to follow through with it, right.
You can't do it and then bail on it shortly
thereafter when things start going a ride. Now, I don't know.
That's when you've got to truly lean in. And I'm
(47:21):
not saying hard files and causing problems in that regard,
but just saying, look, sometimes you get gotten, and I'm
going to stay with it. He said it via statement
after going on vacation. It's not the way this works.
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Knicks on a twenty one to seven run the last
six minutes up by eight with tw twenty seconds left
(01:01):
to go, Let me just borrow from the great justin Frozburg.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The knicker back, the knicker back. They're back. It doesn't matter,
nothing else matters, because the knickser back. The Knicks are back.
It was so bad. I was so nervous, I was
so worried. I was a wreck all day. And now
the knickser back. They're back, my carpet, they're back. Still
hasn't caught up to what actually transpired in the game
(01:26):
that's now back with three zero six remaining of fraudulent
twenty four second violation was called on the heat, negating
what was then a lay in that would have made
it a one point game. Instead, Brunson comes back, makes
a floating jump shot. Now we got a five point game.
It's a huge swing. Bad officiating, terrible officiating, home cooking
(01:48):
in front of every celebrity that possibly could have shown
up and gotten a ticket. How many guys did they
give tickets to tonight? Good lord, everybody. They gave everybody
tickets for everybody, Peggy to show up for this one,
tickets for everyone, tickets for everyone. Okay, First of all, yes,
I'm sorry this game did not turn on one twenty
four second call with three and a half minutes left
(02:10):
to go. Sorry, Hey, it matters. Didn't happen. That didn't happen.
That's quite It's a three point game that's now in
that point game. If they get that lay in, okay,
or does wrong go differently?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Orders the game go different I'm sorry. It's one play
with four minutes left to go. It's not the end
all be all of the game. The bigger deal is
Julius Randall bleeping turning the ball over on the inbounds
and Duncan Robinson hitting a three to cut this lead
to three now with twenty two seconds left to go.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's the bigger deal. You could have your oh yeah,
you know what if they had those other two points.
Oh yeah, if they had these other two points, if somehow,
yes the law, if somehow the heat had more points
than the next, they'd be winning. Yes, I agree with
you there, I agree with By the way. The general
rule of all of this, though, still comes back to Caliperry.
The last useful thing he gave anyone, As much as
(02:58):
he wants to talk about the contracts, then that players
have gotten into the NBA is succeed and proceed. That's it.
That's all you need. You can only beat who's on
the court. So you're enting how many guys are out
Tyler Hero and and there's Jimmy Buckets, and over there
is Oladipo didn't matter. You know who's out there and
(03:20):
is hurt. Vincent has been fantastic. I go wanted to
sing Starry, Starry Night for him with some of the
rain rain drops and beautiful starry shots he's been putting
up in front of the luminaries at the Goden.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
But look, but that's the way it goes is there
is a game every night, and somebody is hurt, and
a star is hurt every single night and goes and
it's exactly what what is it when a bell rings
and angel gets its wings?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And every time the bell rings and angel gets his wings.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean that's really I mean, it's everybody is hurt.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'm not saying.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Look, when I talked about the Nick's not having Julius
Randol and Jalen Brunson, I'm not saying it is an excuse,
like all, look they didn't have them. This is just
how it goes now in the NBA, everybody gets hurt.
There are stars who are hurt all the time. It's
just the way the playoffs go.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Because it's Gianni's or it's Kawhi, or it's Randall or
it's brother. Guys get hurt.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All the time. Now, that's the new norm of the
NBA playoffs. Stars get hurt, Guys get hurt. It's how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I'm more just ah, man, it hit us right like,
you know, trying to avoid it. I'm trying to avoid
I don't want I don't want the injury bugged in is.
I don't want it. I'm trying to duck it as
it sliding around and swooping around like a big game
of tether ball. I'm trying to miss that, bob oh,
that hits us. But that's just the way it is now.
So yeah, no you can't hear her. Give me well
if this guy played it. Guys miss all the time. Now,
(04:45):
it's it's it's part of a given of the NBA playoffs. Yeah,
Jimmy Butler's hurt. You know why because stars get hurt.
Stars get hurt all the time. Now, that's just how
it goes. But at the end the end of the day,
at the end of the day, Sam, I'm stealing from
our gat the end of the day, at the end
of the day, whoever shows up up on the court,
it's an opportunity for greatness. And tonight people got introduced
to a number of undrafted players playing big minutes for
(05:08):
the Miami Heat and putting up big time performances. Just
one shot after the next seven of seventeen from the
field twenty one points uh for a guy named Gabe Vincent,
and everybody said, who he began to gave Barbara baby, Yeah,
you gotta get to play so right now, the Knicks
get fouled somehow, the Heat let ten seconds get off
(05:32):
the clock before Josh Hart is fouled. He makes both
free throws. The Knicks are the one ten to one
oh five lead. Now with the ball and four seconds left,
a desperation three from Miami clangs off the back of
the rim.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Four seconds left. The Knicks up five. The Knicks are back.
I said it a couple of minutes ago. The Knicks
are back.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They just they just showed Aaron Rodgers next to Sauce
Gardner and the Knicks are back, and Aaron Rodgers and
Madison Square Gardens. How great are things right now? It
doesn't get any better than this. The Knicks are winning
in the second round of the playoffs, and Aaron Rodgers,
Jets quarterback, is at the game. It's so awesome. I
can't even tell you I was gonna say, because if
(06:12):
they lost this one, the Jets were gonna ban him
from all the games. Oh well, if they lost that,
knowing that they every time he shows up they lose,
They're not even gonna bother. It's the Zack attack for you. There.
You know what I do. You want to celebrate because
we are broadcasting live from the Tirak dot com studios,
which means the sound on our television is done. But
that long little love fest that they didn't they no
(06:35):
doubt had at the announcers table when they showed Carmelo
Anthony in the crowd, that really did the body good.
Now I've had You know, I can't say what I
want to say in terms of everywhere I turn I
see Aaron Rodgers face. No you could say it. No, No,
I can't say it. It's no go ahead. I think
it's borderline.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Non FCC complain, just saying the knicker back, the knickser back.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Look, you barely battery. We talked about it last night.
The expectation was that unless suddenly there was a miracle,
you know, extra extra read all about it, stealing straight
from the Who's Tommy, and all of a sudden Jimmy
Butler's run around the beach shirt listen doing cartwheels like
Roger Daltrey was saying, Hey, you know I'm back. No,
(07:18):
he wasn't gonna play and get ready to take the
extra three days for Game three. So nix hold serve
probably more of a scare than anybody in the garden
really wanted to believe. A no pregame, I want to
talk about the number of Heat fans that were in
the building, only again to be out numbered by the
number of celebrities that had a night off. So congratulations,
(07:40):
big effort from Brunson came up big late. It was
good to see some other players in your offense because
I tweeted with about eight minutes left in the third
quarter that everybody not named Randall, Brunson, and Barrett and
combined for nine points nine nine not a lot now finished.
(08:00):
They finished as a crew with thirty two fourteen from
Josh Art. He must have heard the wake up call
fourteen eleven and.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Nine That three that he hit with a minute and
a half left to go to give him make it
a five point lead. I'll tell you, John, what an
un Maybe the greatest deadline acquisition in the history of sports,
Josh Lay maybe the greatest ever.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Wow, maybe look at you. Uh, that's insane, Jason.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
You do realize once the Lakers tip the next all
matter right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Frostburg, they're not tipped yet. The Knicks are back. They're
not tipped, and the Knicks are back. The game is over.
The Knicks are back. They're back, They're back, one eleven,
one oh five. Look at Tom Tibbadau.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
He's so happy, enjoy for the next three minutes.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's maybe the one thing did make me laugh over
the in the course of the game, back when audio
was available, you know, pre show, uh was there was
an R. J. Barrett turnover where the ball just went
through his hands, Yeah, out of bounds and they couldn't
find Thibodeau's reaction fast and you do the the lip
(09:00):
reading again, not save for radio. No, no, not at all.
But he went from having a pretty calm demeanor the
last time they looked at him, to where you would
have thought he was anger, as voiced by Lewis Black
in the classic Pixar film Inside Out, but his stack
had exploded. Maybe hades. Not that we should bring up
James Woods with great regularity, but again a great character
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I know we gave out.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
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Speaker 4 (10:17):
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Speaker 3 (10:19):
Hey, it's great.
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here we go every morning.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
They're out here at Beach Life. You're gonna come see him.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
You know, I was hearing today who was out of
beach life with the Ugly Kid Joe or they were
making a big deal to the Ugly Kid.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I'm like, oh my god, Ugly Kid Joe is still around. Wow.
Oh and they have more than two songs. I mean,
I hate everything about you and the remake of Cats
and the Cradle, Right, that's it. Yeah, that's the kid Joe.
That's a fine song.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, I hate everything about us A great song.
I mean, that's an awesome, awesome song. But you know,
I don't know, do you do those two songs and
they go play that big head one more time? Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Dude, Dude, I had no idea, you no idea. They
were the I know the Pixees are there, Okay, all
the other guy's band of horses are there. Yeah. Yeah,
Black Keys, the Fraudulent Black Crows without our guy Gorman.
They're now going to open Ferosmith Fogerty's on Sunday night though,
(11:14):
So if you want to go sing some Born on
the Bayou.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
How many days is this festival?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Three days? It's a three day festival, starts Friday.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Bason just said this This band Cats in the Cradle
were there today.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, no, no, the band Ugly Kid Joe is the band.
They do a remake of Cats in the Crate.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
The legendary Harry Chapin.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now you say it's too bad, Ty Shirts off to night.
This has been a great conversation for Ty Shirt. Yes,
I love the Cats and the Cradle. I had a
great song. It's great, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The great cats. Didn't they sing that song?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
He has no idea who they are.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm a ladies cat feeling cats know the hell I
would I put some money into the center of the
table that somehow Ty Shirt would have known about the
Brian setz Or Orchestra doing their Christmas stuff. Oh yo
know the suit suit ryot. That's not that's not Brian
(12:04):
setzter No, No, that's the squirrel Nuts Zippers.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Oh, squirrel nuts Zippers. What's Brian Setzer's big song?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
But yeah, the other No, that's Cherry Pop and Daddy. Sorry,
now you're lying to me. These are the dopes. These
are fake bands. Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Popping, those are
all fake bands. What what's what's the big Brian Setster song?
What's he had the big swing one never heard of him.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Oh, I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
He had the straight cat stuff. But as well, let's
jump drive and whale. Oh that's right, jump driveway. But
you know I'm the dirty boogie. But you know you
have heard of Frostburg. You ready for this.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I've heard the Lakers are back.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, you've heard. No, take my line, you jerk, because
the line is the knickser back, you know, the knicks
in their back. That's the line. He laid it up
thinking you were gonna give the give and go for
the dunk. Shrosburg and you said you mout him.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Of course I did.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No wave your fingers. No, Frostburg. Frostburg's alan iverson. That
ball goes in. I'm not that ball's not coming back out, man,
it's going up for a shot.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
You got one minute left the man, enjoy.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Hey, listen, just you know, just like a public service
announcement here, clearly I know that we selected and elected
the MVP today, Joel Embiid, which we'll get to.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
But uh.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Jalen Brunson thirty points six out of ten from three
point range. He is a franchise player. He is a
franchise play. Julius Randall was great. I told you he
had to come back for the Knicks to win. Why
because it's a matchup nightmare.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
They didn't have Jimmy Butler. Stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Stuff. You can't say that. You can't. I just said you.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Jimmy Butler plays the next lose by twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
No, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, Jimmy Butler was out and the Heat loss because
the Knicks are it's science.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
What's going on? It's not so what do you know
about science? What's the last time you took a science.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I know that if Jimmy Butler plays that game, my
the Heat win.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
That's not sign Jimmy buckets.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I mean, it's kind of science that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
None of that is science. None of that foul. That's
math if it's anything, and okay it's math. B it's
not fact. And see it's not science. You know what,
it's scientience.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Bryce Harper is now four strikeouts away from a platinum sombrero.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
He is back Twitter at how about a fresca? Mike
gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So the Knicks are back and now no, seriously,
we are waiting for the main event of main events,
the Lakers in the war. Everything in the world ceases
to matter right now, Everything ceases to matter.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's the Lakers and the Warriors. It's Lebron and the
Powder and everything else. Lakers Warriors. Here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Which is worse the powder nonsense or Steph Curry chewing
his mouthpiece? Right now, they're doing both of them on
my screen, and I want to put you both in
the face. Hey, you know what, that's as viable a
pole question as any other damn thing someone's gonna ask. No.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
See, the thing is I like the powder. I don't
like the chewing of the mouthpiece. I hate him, but
I love the powder. I love these doing it. I
just love I just love the powder. And he does
it everywhere. You know what you say it is.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
The one time I did like it was when he
subbed back in after he was hurt and his first
came back. He came in as a sub and he
didn't doing the powder on the road. All that's all awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
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Speaker 1 (15:28):
Wow, the Ugly Kid Joe b Side that Iowa Sam's
pulling out for us.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
That's all they have.
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(15:57):
It's a ten to two Warriors lead. It could eat
be twenty to two. Clay's got a three already, Wiggins
has a three. Steph has a bucket. The Lakers get
a time out. Lebron a bad turnover. Ad tries to
outlet him. He just goes through his hands, going out
of bounds. The Lakers simply have to withstand the first
quarter of this game to stay in it. The Warriors
(16:18):
are great in game one. Steve curR is the opposite
of Mike, buttenholes are in game ones. They have to
just withstand this first quarter and stay within striking distance.
But I gotta be honest, Mike, just for a second,
just to be a total and complete fan. I mean,
the level of awesomeness of this series on a scale
(16:38):
of one to ten is like a thousand, right, because
you know about the hype going in, you think about it.
It's Lebron and Steph and Clay, and you turn on.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
The TV and you watch and it looks and it
feels and it sounds like a bleeping NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Like I don't know, I don't know how do we
go on from here? This is the only series anybody's
gonna have any time. For as much as I love
the Nick, right, how are we gonna go on? The
only way we can go on from Lakers Warriors is
the Lakers win and we go straight to Lakers Knicks
NBA Finals. That's the only one. Because how do you
go on to the next round? How do you go
on to like Lakers nuggets or Warriors nuggets and then
(17:14):
mix in the heat versus the Sixers or the celt out.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I mean, how do you do that? We I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean, this is such an epic playoff series right now,
and you see the way the crowds and it looks,
it looks and it feels like an NBA Finals game,
it's so outstanding.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
But just even into the build up of it, right,
injury reports, practice notes, here's this guy simulating being Curry
in a workout. There is the video equipment guy, you know,
that kind of thing. All of it got to dress
up to be a Steph Pray. Yeah, and then he
went on to become a super coach somewhere else. But
the idea just of legacies, histories, heroes and villains, right,
(17:54):
because even the the the only guy that kind of
escapes things is Steph. But even then, I mean, how
many times did you have people come back on the
system quarterback run after his fifty burger the other night?
So I mean, no matter where you're looking at injury histories,
the placement in history, right, everybody rewriting top ten lists
(18:16):
wherever they can. There's so much other content, guys, you
can wait until the season's done to do all that.
But in the end, Roum, you know, we've got a
build up of a huge game, D'Angelo Russell playing such
a huge time the other night, and then I can't
wait to see what shirt Kyrie Irving's wearing. Does it say, Hey,
(18:36):
I can get myself free for either of you or
what the deal is, Like he did when Lakers played
played the other night. It's like, hey, you know, hey,
I'm here. And then the Warriors King's like, look at
I'm courtside here too. He's just whack themle popping up everywhere.
So so many storylines, so much history in the building
(18:57):
and greatness and legacies. And then we get back to, hey,
there's Jokich because he didn't win MVP, so the streak
is over. There's no extra sulky for him this year.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
How does Reeves not get one vote?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I was actually just looking at the top five voting
breakdown here.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, I know Lebron didn't get on in volte, but
how the hell does Reeves not get one?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Look, Reeves is on the list.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He's getting all the votes on players about to get
paid way too much money in the offseason, Austin Reeves
at the top of that.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Why is it way too much? It's not your money,
don't care, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
It is what the market will bear, my man, It
is what the market will bear. But I mean, you
go all the way down the list, Embiid, Jokich, Giannis Tatum, Mitchell,
and Shaye Gilgis Alexander finishing sixth in voting Twitter at
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seventeen thirteen Warriors. With the lead over the Lakers, Lebron
and Steph both go to the bench for Rest five
(20:09):
forty nine to go in the first quarter. A ruy
Haachimura checks in the game for the Lakers. Will keep
you updated on this throughout the night, obviously, and Isaac
lowen Kron gonna have more in a couple of minutes
when he has what's trending. But I swear you I
am happy that Joel Embiid won the NBA MVP right,
A bit.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Of a shocker today.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
We'd heard Yokich's name for a long time, but then
Embiid's name came in.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He had a big end. What was gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And you know, so, I think there was a mild
surprise at embiid one. But I am so glad that
he won. I'm being serious, I'm not being facetious. I
am so glad that he won. Now ask me why,
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Please explain to me and to the millions and millions
of the fans out there across the globe, why you're
happy Joel embiid won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because now I don't have to hear him and the
Sixers whine about how he's the MVP but he can't
win it, because I'm done with that.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Every year it's IBMVP. Why am I not? Oh he's
the MVP looking out club?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
He cares so much about the MVP, and why am
I not the MVP?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
My own life IBMVP. Yeah, that's all they talk about,
is Joel and b Yeah. Now I'm glad he one.
So now he doesn't have to whine and complain about it.
No one's got a politic for it for it for
him in a postgame press conference?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What else did Joel emb need to do? You don't
say he's the MVP.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
He's coming off fifteen points on six and twenty one shooting,
but he has a big night and suddenly he's the MVP.
So I'm glad he won and double that. Now, go
show you're the MVP. Go show you can stay healthy
and stay in and win and lead your team all
the way to at least the Eastern Conference finals. Now
show me you're the MVP. Or is that enough? Is
that enough to be the MVP? And now yeah, I'm
hurt and I can't, but no, Now show me you're
(21:54):
the MVP, and go actually do something here in the
playsts that are going home early and pointing fingers and saying, oh,
it's Ben SI's fault, it's James Hart's Fault's seven. Yeah, no,
now go show me you're the Now, go do it.
Now you want to be the MVP. Congratulations, you're the MVP.
Now show me you really are, and let's see what
you can do the rest of the playoffs when you
get back in the lineup.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, I think way, that's how I feel. I kind
of like that. I like that. And then you threw
down the microphone in the new tire rack dot Com
Fox Sports Radio s here, I say, take that, uh,
and but I agree with you because that was my
first gut reaction to it too. All right, there's the
video of Joel Embiid. Good now, shut up, and I
said it just like a former colleague of ours here
(22:33):
at Fox Sports Radio. Shut up, Hey man, PB is
locked in on this Lakers game. He's got no time
to have beef with me.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
It's way past.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Okay, perhaps that is true? Shut up? Yeah, yeah, you
think it. You think of Pat O'Brien like you know, hey,
I'm a forty year old announcement.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
That not so young anymore, guys.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, no, he's a little bit older now. He's gonna
be at the Laker game. You don't know, seven thirty
time forbid.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Could be at the Rainbow Room for all know that
there's not true.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
He could be sitting there having having a little beverage
next to the Lemi statue. You don't know. But the
idea being that we we have Joel Embiid for the
last couple of years. Right. There's this campaign in the
final month of seats, almost like a Heisman campaign. I
was waiting for everybody to start sending us beer cooozies
(23:23):
and bumper stickers and things. Here there's a picture of
Joel Embiid. He's got a googly eyes on it or
a bobble or something, just waiting for it to show
up in our mailboxes at Fox Sports Radio. Not that
we're part of the voting electorate on it, but the
fact that you you've had this late season every year
(23:44):
is like, look what he does and back to back
scoring titles. Pretty cool. First MVP since the aforementioned Alan Iverson.
I think that was what two thousand and one. So
go all the way down down the line, I mean, huge,
huge things, but in the end it's okay, he it.
So everybody's got one? Is that is that the game
we play anymore? Jokicch Giannis both have too, so they
(24:08):
can't win again because if they win a third it
changes how we have to look at them. I've heard
that argument. Listen, listen, he's got one. Judge.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
This is you know, this is like the Academy Awards,
where okay, let's give you an award. You've been trying
so desperately to win an oscar for years. Look at
all these roles.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I am taking.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I'm taking a big biopic role of someone who is
really famous or notorious in history, or.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm taking a lot, taking a role that's outside my
comfort zone. I'm gonna do all of these things. I'm
gonna I'm gonna go and now I really okay. When
you win, now go away? You want now go away?
Now stop?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You want now go It's that's kind of like it
is you want now go away. I don't want to
hear it. Why do they only win one?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
No, I'm done. I'm done. Joell embiid you're done. You're done.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Find something else to complain about now I can't be everything.
Find something else complain We're done again. Show me you're
the m v P. Show I don't say that about
I don't you know?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
To show you're the MVP, you get back on the
damn court some Yeah, exactly, Although I look, I hope
his knee is okay, because clearly when it happened, we're
looking around going well, he probably should have gotten suspended
for the kick. So is this part of a Hey,
we're gonna have at a minimum a gentleman and sweep
in the first round, so it really doesn't matter. Uh No. Instead,
now it's the getting a little bit better every day
(25:23):
trending upward. Yeah, if he just sat on his ass
for six days and didn't aggravate the knee, the natural
human body tendencies is that you're having a little bit
of healing. So that doesn't give me a whole lot
of comfort. But he did look happy as he heard
the news and his teammates. Yes, he's the m v
P nowday, he's the MVP. Now you just Brunson didn't
(25:44):
get any real consider a.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Finalist, though maybe I'll win it next year. Well listen, okay,
let's say wait, Joellen.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Jovann Buja had no desire for it. He had Jokich
if but if but if if embiid gets the Michael
Jordan because that's the MVP now named after him, and
Jaylen Brunch gets the Larry O'Brien Trophy. I'm okay with
that trade. I'm okay with that, and I want Jayalen
Brunch to then go, oh, look at the real MVP.
Are you the MVP, Joel? You still the real MVP.
(26:13):
You're the real because the Knicks are back. The Knicks
are back. Oh, are you the real VP? Are you
the real?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
You're the real MVP because I know I know how
it's gonna go. I know how to play because because
of what I'm putting out.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
In the universe.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I told you that the biggest thing, right was what
I was afraid of, that this was gonna be the
year the Sixers who like to talk talk, talk talk to.
They're like Memphis except except they really talk just as much.
But it's Doc and it's Embian. It's better players with
more cachet. So you go, oh, I kind of get it.
But they just talk talk talk talk talk to. And
this is gonna be the year. I gotta watch the
(26:46):
Sixers actually win, and they're gonna be insufferable.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And I know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
They're gonna play the Knicks in the Conference finals and
they're gonna beat him to get to the NBA Finals.
And I'm gonna be upset that I watched the Knicks
get to the conference finals lose to the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
But then I got to hear the Sixers.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Talking about how great they are when they make the
NBA Finals before they get swept by the Denver Nuggets.
I'm gonna have to hear that for so long. That's
gonna happen. I put that out in the universe, Mike.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
During that entire monologue, the entire time of Mike Stigrim
Reaper in the Meaning of Life, you Americans. All you
do is just talk talk and say let me tell
you something, and I just want to say, well, you're dead. Now,
this a shut up.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
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Speaker 3 (27:42):
Early in the second quarter, the Lakers have made it
all the way back. They now lead the Warriors thirty
three to thirty one. Anthony Davis fourteen already for LA.
He is seven out of eight from the floor.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Meanwhile, Steph Curry Clayson, both with ten apiece, each have
two threes, leading the way for the Warriors again early
in the second quarter. What feels like an NBA Finals game.
It's just getting going. Really an amazing night to be
a fan, to watch the NBA, especially to watch the
Knicks play as well as they did. I check, but
this year, but this series, this is everything we need.
(28:20):
I mean, there's no other series right now. It's Lakers Warriors.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
That's it. I mean, they just should cancel the rest
of it after this.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, probably, Yeah, Look, we played the Knicks. That's fine,
that's great. You people had something to watch now Lakers Warriors. Yeah,
now what about the rest of this it? Nah, because really,
how do you go back to watching six Ers, Celtics
and Nuggets Suns? I mean, how do we go back.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
To well, I mean I want to watch some more
games and tear you up.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, man, that's really Hey. Look, as a Knicks fan,
I'm like, I don't know. I think I'd rather have
more of this series.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I think I can said to see more of this.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Uh So again, it's a one point game, ten and
a half minutes to go in the second quarter. More
NBA coming up in a few minutes, but big NFL
news today. Look, all eyes are gonna be on Aaron Rodgers, obviously,
whether he is court side at the Knicks, at the Rangers,
wherever else. Wherever there's a game, he is court side.
Now he gets ready to take his first snap for
the Jets. But the Packers his replacement. They did something
(29:15):
really interesting today. They extended Jordan Love's contract for another year.
I love see what I did there. I love what
the Packers are doing when it comes to Jordan Loves.
I mean both, yeah, I love what they're doing. First
of all, they said the other day that, uh, they're
(29:36):
not going to bring in the experience backup, right, you
know that they draft to Clifford the experience backup.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
No, we kind of like where we are right now.
In other words, Jordan Love doesn't have to worry about, Hey,
it's your first go round. If you don't play well,
we have a Andy Dalton's gonna come in ben a
I'm QB one.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
No, no, you don't have to worry about that. We're
not going If someone fired that off with Jordan Love, now,
Dalton's my guy. He sent me a case of sausages
that's Skyline Chili, so he weighs, you sent me a
case of sausage. I'll be your friend. I'll say good
things about it. I'm your friend. But now the contract deal,
(30:16):
they could have easily waited and said, okay, you're on
a one year sink or swim deal, because really, Jordan
Love kinda is And they could have easily said, this
is what we're gonna do. We're gonna let you play
out this year. Let's worry about you worry about being
the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. But they
extended him by a year, and Jordan Love knows they
could have punted on it and waited and made improve himself.
(30:38):
But instead they're gonna give him twenty two million dollars
for next year. Thirteen and a half million dollars of
it is guaranteed. So now they're saying you're a quarterback
for the next two years. That is one hell of
a message and positivity. You mentioned Ted Lasso, that is
one hell of a message in positivity for Jordan Love
from the packers. They are putting him in a position
(30:59):
to succeed, and they are.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Telling them, don't worry about over your shoulder, don't worry
about being just this year.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
You gotta cup.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Now there's gonna be some kind of clock on it,
because you gotta put some kind of clock. You don't
just get forever to prove that you can or can't
do it. But hey, you got a couple of years.
We drafted you, we moved up for you, we have
a lot invested in you. We're all getting fired if
you suck. So we're in this together. But giving you
two years, you got this year, you got next year.
Let's go out and ball. You don't worry aboutnybody looking
(31:27):
over your shoulder. I love this message they have put
out there. To Jordan Love, it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, I think it works both ways, and a lot
of it aligns up with my thoughts and what I
expressed as we were talking about Lamar Jackson during the
stalemate and questions of how things would resolve. It's the
all right, you both get the best of both worlds. Right.
For the Ravens, it was go out and see if
you can find the better deal. It's not personal, just
(31:52):
go see what the market really thinks of you. For
Lamar Jackson, it was damn it, I'm gonna go figure
out what my world is. I'm gonna grab my knaps
and I'm gonna start crisscrossing the country like I'm Bruce
Banner and the incredible Hull Kitch, hiking along the road
with the sad music playing. And instead he comes back
to Baltimore. That long road brought him back. Now with
Jordan Love, he's got a bit of security, but he
(32:13):
also didn't have to try to try and say, hey,
you know what, I've been here and I've been working,
so you need to look at me as a long
term solution. Didn't hold him over a barrel or cause
any kind of issue there recognizing and reading the tea
leaves of it all to say, Okay, I've got my
chance to go be the guy and for the Packers.
Look at that cost, because if he plays two expectations
(32:39):
that were set when he first joined this squad to
carry the torch for legacy giant quarterbacks and Hall of
Fame candidacies there in Green Bay. Think about that dollar
amount for next year. That's nothing, man, It's gonna be
one of the best bargains in quarterbacking for one more year. Meanwhile,
next Offseas is gonna be like, all right, so what
(33:00):
about my extension? Hey, so I've been pretty good. Now
let's work about that. Oh you know what I was
really I was really good, and I gave you that
twenty twenty four deal. Now let's uh, let's start talking
long term.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I just we just got done. I need a vacation.
We just tried that this whole thing for three years
with Aaron Rodgers. You gotta give me some time, I kid.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And then he with his walked back into the offices
at SENDA. I'm back.
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we told you the world was stopping when the Lakers
and Warriors played, and yes, that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Five and a.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Half to go in the second quarter, Lakers on top
of Golden State forty six, forty four. This has been
a heavyweight battle of up and down the floor. Just
what it looks like. The Lakers are seizing momentum. You
get a three from the Warriors. It has been some
kind of start. And I gotta say, so far, if
you're saying, all right, who's really winning, the Lakers are
(35:12):
winning because this is a game. I honestly expected the
Warriors to get out to a huge lead early and
try to run away from the Lakers, and the Lakers
staying in the game was gonna be difficult. Were they
gonna be able to have to expend a lot of
energy on this And the fact they're this close with
five minutes to go in the second quarter, now, I
feel like, so far that this is going the Lakers way,
(35:34):
because I really expect this to be a Warriors night.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Well, I would say this going forward, and Steph Curry
missed a couple of shots early, some wide open threes,
and then he started to heat up a little bit
and found his rhythm, so He's got ten. Thompson's got
thirteen thus far, nine points off the bench for the Warriors,
six from Green and three from Pool. But if I'm
the Lakers, I'm just living inside me. Anthony Davis are
(36:00):
has eighteen points on eight of nine. He should never
leave the paint and there should not be an offensive
possession that the ball doesn't at least touch his hands.
He decides to pass back out, fine, but at no
point should anybody else be free lancing and the ball
not be on his hands at some point in the
possession if he's on the court, because there's there's nobody
that can check him down low as good as Looney
(36:22):
has been thus far down the stretch, and certainly in
the first round of the playoffs. So but a fun
spirited first half. And we had the the universe broke
just a couple of minutes ago. Coming out of the
last commercial break is broke. They showed that Polenka and
Rob Low are in the same place.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Person.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, but but is it really?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Is it like McAvoy No, No, No, It's gonna be
like Mission Impossible, where Tom.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Cruise is gonna take off a match. It's gonna resched
up as long as he doesn't bring James Cordon with
him soon.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
He just cost Mirramax like a billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Jason, No, everybody knows that. What he ain't worrying about
Mira Max and Harvey Weinstein right now. They haven't done
the mask thing since like m I three. I think
that was the last mask when they did. I don't
think they've done do they do it?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
And Ghost Protocol there and now people that go see
four know that that's not gonna happen in.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Protocol the go go see four ware where you can
watch it on your television if you want, you mean.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Go see it where go see Ghost Protocol where seven
and eight are coming out like back to back, like
John Wick in the next few weeks, we're getting all
of them.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
John Wick, seven and eight are coming out.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
John Wick is back.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Dude, John Wick. They're gonna do the next John Wick
from a space. It's gonna be awesome. He's gonna ride
a meteor into the Earth and he's gonna be killing
assassins on the way down on the media.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
It's gonna be fantastic. Okay, that escalated.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
We've got it all planned out.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah, I do, I do. Hey, but the suit was bulletproof.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Well, if the boy if the suit was media proof
and like out space proof, and like we put him
on the moon and he just rides back on a
media and he starts being and he starts killing all
the assassins.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
The coming in all the media is which is worse,
the English accent or the Philadelphia accent? Eight seven seven.
I don't know why I go to the English accent
when I'm pitching a movie idea.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It was more of a crappy South African.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It's p's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
No, if that was I would go more like you're
right right, yeah, you're I would go down like that.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
No, No, this is this well I kind of missed it.
Now I kind of hang on, hang on, Now.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
You sound like the dad from Bluie. What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I need I need an I need a HOGI witch.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You guys are like challenging me. It's like this is
a big improv thing. Okay, now the person is from Philadelphia.
Now they're from South Africa. Now they're on the moon.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Now they're John Wick do your best Lemmy impression when
he's telling uh in the and he's impersonating Brian cox Law,
whoa I don't my can't escalated quickly. My kids all
suck my kids, I'll suck the a subspect. There's my
(39:02):
Lemmy is Brian. That's pretty good. Yeah, there you go
right there, Actually done so again. It is a three
point game. Now Warriors with a fifty six to fifty
three lead over the Lakers again, just over three minutes
to go before halftime. Incredibly wild and entertaining game. Tonight's show,
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lebron really doesn't get you anywhere. A big story today
(39:47):
Shamsterrani reporting this earlier that the Memphis Grizzlies have told
Dylan Brooks they are not re signing him under any circumstances.
Dylan Brooks, of course, became famous as an agitator this year.
In many games, you would log onto Twitter at some
point late, and why is Dylan Brooks trending? Okay, got
into it with somebody, but very famously got into with
(40:10):
Lebron James early in the Lakers Grizzly series, says he
doesn't respect anybody unless they put forty points on him,
and Lebron is old. Fast forward to the Lakers knocking
the Grizzlies out of the playoffs the way they did,
and Memphis has said, according to Shams, that they are
not going to bring Dylan Brooks back under any circumstances.
(40:31):
I don't know if he's been on a downward swing.
He was tipping picks, so he was drew the ire
of a lot of people. And then the last report
he tried to give us was wrong. Yes, I mean,
I'll take the under any circumstances with the greatest sault,
but let's run with it for now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well, I think if that okay, if he was wrong
about it, I think we would have heard that.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
There would have been a statement from the Grizzlies. No,
we love Dylan Brooks, We're bringing it. We love the guy.
Don't say that about us now either. You would have
heard under any circumstance you want to heard something about
the we don't intend to bring him back is one thing.
They we'll see you in hell. Uh, well, you know
that that seemed to be extreme groot. Under no circumstances.
(41:11):
Do you press this button? I am grouped. No, no, no, no,
not that, but no, no, no, don't press the red button.
I am grouped.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Uh now is this strictly because of Lebron James. No,
this is more dealing with a symptom than the disease.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Right, That's that's kind of what it is. Now follow me,
because I feel like a doctor. Yeah, because everybody's got
the sickness. This is because everyone seems to need the cure. Yeah,
look was it you mean you mean the music group
the cure? No? I I used that was the Metallica lyric.
Oh okay, I thought every one's got to have the
sick because everyone seems to need the cure.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, that's good because I like Metallica much more than
I like the cure. Yeah, the cure is very Their
songs are all very depressing, very very depressed.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Metallica just upbeaten, uplifting every time.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Well at least, you know, they kind of they have
pile drivers Metallica. I mean you know, I mean the
Robert Smith and the Cure is like, what's the song
about death?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Oh? Okay, great, that's what I want to listen to him.
That's outstanding. I listen. They're running up that hill on
a loop for like forty five minutes.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Okay, we can arrange that.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
No no, no, no no not say no no no
no that far just said it. Want to no no no,
that was not me. That was Harmon who said that.
That wasn't me.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
I'm gonna have Alex work on it from his home studio.
We will not be playing that today.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
That was Harmon, Thank you. Look, Iowa Sam wants ty
shirt job. We're not gonna play that today. He's going
on with John Wick shirt. Look, it's more the.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Symptom than the disease, because this was the biggest example
of the Grizzlies doing what showing immaturity.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
And they like to talk. They talk talk, talk, talk,
talk to They were great front runners. When things are
going well, they love to talk. Things a little more difficult.
Look what happens they go home? How do we deal
with this? How did the Grizzlies deal with a message
they want to send to the entire team? Guess what,
Dylan Brooks, You're not coming back. You are the fall
guy for our maturity issues. And this is what they're
(43:16):
hoping is going to send a message to the rest
of the team. Look, the GM said, after the series
is over, we had a lot of self created distractions
in these playoffs and that we can't stand for that.
You can't change out all the players because some.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Of them are all really bleeping good, right, But Dylan
Brooks is a guy who Okay, he's an agitator.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Is he absolute instrumental to what you do? Now? Dylan
Brooks said, Hey, he's a great addition, he's a great
flavor piece. That's awesome. But you need something to send
a message. And now here's a guy who was a
pretty decently important member of the team, not one of
the top three players. So anybody's out one of the
top three is always expendable to it to a point.
(43:55):
So he's the fall guy. He's the guy.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Okay, we are gonna send this message, hopefully to everybody
by telling you this guy's not coming back. And you
could sit here and say, oh, because he pissed off Lebron, No,
he was the guy that talked the most we want
you guys to grow up, and we gotta send a message,
so we're doing it this way. Dylan Brooks was not
as important to the Grizzlies as the other guys were.
(44:17):
If he was, it would be somebody else getting this message.
But Dylan Brooks is getting it because he's expendable, and
they're hoping that this solves the issue of Memphis.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Who look outward. I thought they were going to the
NBA Finals this year. Clearly they were talented enough, they
were good enough. They just couldn't get out of their
own way. They're a young team. They started believing everything
about themselves. They didn't really when they had to dig
down and really find a way to get something done,
they couldn't do it. And now they need to recalibrate,
not reconfigure themselves or restart. Now. I just got a
(44:47):
kind of okay, let's recalibrate what's going to work here,
and now getting rid of him and not bringing Dylan
Brooks back, that's gonna be the big message to say,
you guys got your heads on straight, or there's gonna
be other moves because this was a year where we
he should still be playing, and it's a huge missed
opportunity because you look at the way the NBA Playoffs
is going right now, and why not the Grizzlies. There's
(45:07):
talented as they are. John Morant had his issues but
came back they were playing strong. He's an MVP candidate now,
probably will win it sometime the next couple of years.
But he is the absolute fall guy Dylan Brooks for
what happened right here. Yeah, I mean we've talked about
hard reboots. I got a reboot, do a nice little
callback to prior episodes, but rebooting this squad, you got
(45:28):
a guy in Brooks who is a career forty one
point six percent shooter, three rebounds to assists a game,
and it's a This story hit early enough, so I'm
sure this has been covered at nauseum, but you're not
worth the headache. If he'd shown any level of accountability
for you know, stirring the bear and all of that
(45:51):
nonsense that was going on with Lebron, maybe maybe there'd
be a little different sentiment to it that he at
least owned it and acted like a profe and a
grown up after not acting like a professional fake. But
that's just it, you know, going down the full fake
tough guy route. I mean the one thing you could
say for John Morant, for everything that was off the
(46:13):
field and so many different allegations and still trying to
corroborate and get to a conclusion on most of that stuff.
As it ended, he said, A, you know what, I
caused a lot of issues. My off court stuff weighed
on us. And two as the fans sang no, no, no, no, hey, hey,
hey goodbye, he sang along too. So he had fun
(46:38):
with it and recognized, you know what we we got
got with Dylan Brooks didn't took the took the fine,
didn't even do the I'm here so I don't get
fine bit. Uh by the way, very low fine. They
didn't restructure all that stuff. If you're gonna act that
big a fool, uh some level of accountability. But for
the Grizzlies, does it xcize everything? No, But you got
(46:59):
to somewhere and if you're going to rebuild your culture
and look I to a degree, I like them leaning
into Hey, we're going to try to be badasses, but
you know what, you have to follow through with it, right.
You can't do it and then bail on it shortly
thereafter when things start going a ride. Now, I don't know.
That's when you've got to truly lean in. And I'm
(47:21):
not saying hard files and causing problems in that regard,
but just saying, look, sometimes you get gotten, and I'm
going to stay with it. He said it via statement
after going on vacation. It's not the way this works.
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