June 1, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon give you the crazy behind the scenes stuff with Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. Longtime NBA Insider Marc Stein drops by to preview the NBA Finals between the Nuggets and Heat. Plus, a Ted Lasso No-Spoiler Take!
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all the latest on Monti Williams, who's getting six years
and seventy two million dollars to coach the business. Oh
not to play for them, to coach them.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Plus we haven't.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Seen the fine print off the closed contract that suddenly
there was the clause about waivers and stuff about a
foot injury.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
MANI might need to suit up. Well, maybe maybe that's
gonna be part of it what we see, you know.
Maybe maybe that's gonna be how it works. I don't know.
It might be you gotta oh, I we didn't tell
you have to play too. Yeah, that's how we do
things here in Detroit. We're not just gonna give you
that money, fat. We want you to do two jobs.
So you're gonna have to play Monty. Hopefully you can
still get a couple updowns. Maybe it'll work for You're
also the assistant to the kit manager. Very nice. So,
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and we'll get to ted Lasso coming up in a
bit too, because there's so much to get to coming
off of that. But the topic that I hate to
talk about the most is I hate to say I
told you so. You know me, I don't like them, Carmen,
I don't like doing it. It's I mean, we haven't
done it yet today. No, I haven't done you know
that's true. I haven't done it yet today. No, But
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I hate to say I told you so.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Buck can be one of your new new segments feature
segment that Jen Hale gets to throw up to you,
but I should.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Say I told you so about Aaron Rogers. What happened today? Well,
first of all, let me go back. What did I
tell you was? My biggest fear was gonna happen during
the whole Aaron Rodgers goes to the Jets first year?
What cat was gonna blow up? His cat? Fine, he's
going He's gonna be back at practice on Friday, So
stuff it all right, He's back on Friday. Bryce Hall
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is who I'm worried about, and he's either on a
great path to return or it's a really awful path,
depending on who you listen to.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Roger got too many friendship bracelets at the Taylor Swift concert.
Roger fine weighted down his shoulder to where it's torn.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Come on, man, the dude was on camera going the Jets.
What the super Listen, I'll tell you this and I'll
you know, just let me say this before you get
into I told about Aaron Rodgers. The guy is not
going out of his way to say, look at me.
If he was going to suck, it's not happening. Sometimes
you don't get to control that you. I'm pretty sure Aaron.
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Aaron Rodgers knows his career pretty well. I'm pretty sure
after being in the league, as long as he has
winning MVPs, when he's Super Bowl, I think he knows
that he's gonna have a good year. And when he
could suck, he wouldn't be doing this. If he was
going to suck. He wouldn't say look at me, look
at me, look at me. If it was gonna be
a year where, dude, you know, come on, you threw
less touchdowns than Zach Wilson, don't think that's I am
eminently confident that it's gonna be a big year for
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Aaron Rodgers. The only thing I was worried about. What
did I tell you to be worried about, is that
now that he gets he's away from Green Bay, what's
going to happen? Well, things look great and maybe this
is gonna be the plan. When Aaron Rodgers is living
high on the hog and here he is a Taylor
Swift putting out videos, everything is great. You're gonna start
seeing sources Aaron Rodgers blank with the Green Bay Packers.
(04:03):
You are going to see the same thing that happened
to Russell Wilson last year once he was no longer
a Seattle Seahawk and this was gonna be stories are
gonna get out that we're gonna be embarrassing for him
because the Packers don't have to protect him anymore. You
know what's been a big Aaron Rodgers versus the Packers
the last couple of years, and the guys in the
front office, they've been waiting, waiting. When can we let
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these stories go about stuff Aaron Rodgers has done over
the past fifteen years, and today was the first one
because what happened today, Hey, sources, Aaron Rodgers called for
GM Brian Gudocuns to be fired during the twenty twenty
one season. He said, either he goes or I go.
He wanted his general manager fired. Obviously it didn't work out.
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Gutakun stayed. They talked it through and Rogers stay won
the MVP. But here's your first one. Rogers said him
or me, I want the GM fired. The big power
play he which is not a shock to all. Does
that mean that we got to wait another week till
we hear it? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By the way, he also talked about getting Lafloor bounced
to Oh no, no, that is that the next shooting drop. Look,
none of this like you like you, like you. That
guy's a shareholder and I love him.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You're cool. Goodbye. Here's here's where I am is that
when these stories get out, I hold my breath and
I go, Okay, this is this is a benign one,
because this is a very benign and this might just
be the Hey, we're just getting started here. Okay, we're
gonna war you up with a pretty easy one. He
wanted the GM fired. Okay, we knew that. He didn't
get along with Kuda Kunz, didn't like him, didn't like
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what was going on in the front office. That was
going on for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But just look at the whole draft history in the
first round. Yeah, didn't take a genius to realize. He
probably wasn't thrilled.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But I told you this was gonna happen, and it's
gonna happen in regular intervals, and each story is just
gonna get crazier and crazier, just like it was with
Russell Wilson. Just like was oh his behavior? What was
he like? Now Richard Sherman is talking more. I don't
have to worry about the Seahawks, and then you know
it culminates in the office story. Come to my office,
I diagram plays if you have. I need to be
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away from the rest of the team. This is how
bad it was for Russell Wilson. He was playing badly.
He wanted out in Seattle. You know that Schneider and
Carol wanted to make sure. Hey, we want people to
know what we put up with with him here right.
The excellence we had was great. We protected him. I
protected him from the rest of the team when they
were mad at him. Uh. And this is how he
treats Usada. These stories are going to get out. And
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Russell Wilson had a miserable year last year to the
point where now he is playing for his job. He's
playing He's not playing for anything else. And we told
you this in the offseason. Here comes Sean Payton and
now it's can I fix Russell Wilson. This is not hey,
now he's got a few years. This is Russell Wilson
playing for his job this season. We told you months ago,
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and now I saw a couple of people with Hey,
you know I might be playing for his job. You
congratulations coming around to that, maybe you bookmark the tweet
and then saved it. I don't know but that. But
this is where it is with Aaron Rodgers. Now this
is just the first of what's gonna be many. And
this is one where I held my breath. I looked
at it and I said, Okay, this is all cool.
I get controversy. Yes we know Aaron Rodgers tried to
pull a power plane wanted the GM fired. Okay, this
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is fine. What's the next one. I'll dread the next one,
but this one, this is not a big deal. But
I think this is just the opening salvo saying you
just wait, this is the first one. You want to
see how many I got? You want to see how
many arrows I got in this quiver. This was just
the first one. This is the first flaming arrow that
I shot over to your side to start the war
like a battle in brave Art. This is the first way.
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Do you see all the other arrows I got coming
full of flames and all kinds of stuff. And I
got robots that with killer hands and it can fly
in from outer space. Wait, we got it all coming
for you. This was just the first tiny arrow, just
to see with a little bit of fire. We could
wind up lighting up in New York. Oh, don't worry.
The next one. The next one's gonna be a little
bit better. The one after that will be better than that,
and the one after that after that. Trust me, this
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is how it's gonna go for Aaron Rodgers and the Jets.
That's what I'm in fear of. That's what I live
in fear of, waking up every day going is a
day the day we get some kind of crazy ass
bombshall out of Green Bay, that's gonna be so embarrassing
for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers. But today was not
that day.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
At my signal unleash.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Look, there may be a bunch of these, but at
no point as long as they stay in this general vicinity.
Nobody ever painted him out as a happy, go lucky,
nice guy who loved everybody in any part of the building.
Except if you were a veteran player. You got a
little bit of love and he wants to play with
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you forever. That's not a bad thing to have such
job security. But the one thing you wanted that wasn't
present the last couple of years in Green Bay was Hey,
I'm just going to work and I'm gonna go and
be part of the workouts. I'm going to embrace teammates,
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I'm gonna be out and about. I'm gonna be part
of the community. All of those things. Right, he didn't
walk the earth. What's he doing. He's going to concerts,
He's showing up at ball games, hockey games during the playoffs,
all of these things, right, immersing himself and saying, hey,
I'm a good guy. I'm one of the guys. In
Green Bay, it was separate, separate from everybody, and he
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was walking the earth and I'll get there when I
get there. With Russell Wilson, the problem with him is
he didn't leave all of that in Seattle. Right, All
of those could have just been ah, well, that's Seattle.
He's in a new place. Problem was he still wanted
in his own office. He wanted people around him that
weren't part of the team, all of those things, you know,
his own personal staff of massuses and therapists and yes
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men all over the facility. Which when you're not playing, well,
guess what happens, Well, you kind of get badged for that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Otherwise you're a delicate genius. It's a very fine line right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If he was playing well, it's like, hey, you know what,
he's got people that pick up a lot of the
slack and let him just concentrate on being a quarterback instead.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, what was it?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Russell's unfocused, undisciplined, He's on another floor from everybody else,
all these other things. Oh, and he's added a bunch
of weight. Right as soon as they start fat shaming
a guy, you know you've gone down a whole other
path because the rest of it that comes last, Right,
Ben Roethlisberger, he had to have all the other issues before.
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It was like, you know, Ben comes into camp a
little overweight each year as you get older, is that
gonna shed the same way? Russell's in that age range now,
so that goes front and center, whereas it might have
just been a I'll work himself into shape. It'll be
all fine, because if you don't play well out of
the gate, there's gotta be reasons slash excuses for Aaron
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Rodgers right now in New York is the life of
the party, right, everything's great, everything's sunny in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Ah, you were so close, buddy, you were so close.
You were so close. You were so close to making
Aaron Rodgerson to Doyle McPoyle. Oh you were so close.
It was it was, it was right there. I was
got it for you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know what, And then the show that that
does return soon, hopefully it'll be better than the ending
of all the other ones.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I just uh bit a dot that I want to
burn in a trash can. But look, I'm telling you, man,
it's this is how it's gonna go, and and and
Aaron Rodgers and I'm sure he knows a lot of
the stuff that's going to get out there, and is
he gonna get out in front of it? You know,
we tried to a little bit today, you know, talking
about goodacunsk going. I didn't ghost him. I didn't ghost
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the guy. We talked right now. I talked to people
I like, yeah, yeah, exactly right. What a great quote
that was? Yeah? And it was great, right, it was.
You know, he doesn't like Gudaku, okay. And if it's
this stuff where oh we don't like him, he didn't
like me, that's fine. But it's if it gets to
that point where it's, hey, he had an office and
you know you had to go up and talk like
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the Russ not that he did. But I'm saying the
Russell Wilson story of having an office on the second
floor above where the team was, and hey come to
me with ideas for plays, like if that's the stuff
that gets out, man, that's that's gonna that's ruinous that stuff.
But if it's like this, and it's just he said,
she said, with the front office, he said, he said,
with the front office, Yeah, that's gonna be. Okay. So
what this one's okay? I knew it was coming and okay,
(12:13):
I dodged the bullet here. Now it's okay. Is the
next one? How is it going to be? But I
am okay with this. I know the future is coming,
so you can't tell me I'm not gonna be prepared
for it because the sunshine, lollipops and rainbows days with
the Jets, there's gonna be some rain in those days,
especially when the packers like all right, now, why do
I tell you this story about in twenty sixteen with Rogers.
Let me tell you Rogers, Rogers, Let me tell you
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ro I.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Want to come back and give you a couple of
quotes from this appearance that he made, just because you know,
the humble superstar speaks. Quote, You're gonna stand on this
hill of austerity and say that, arguably in the conversation,
the best player in your franchise history. You're gonna say,
I couldn't get a hold of him, and that's why
we had to move on.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Like, come on, man, just tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You wanted to move on, you know, like the fact
that we didn't communicate all the time, Like listen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I talk to the people that I like beat its quost.
I was. I was happy when he used the word austerity. No,
I mean, I don't know that I've ever used that.
I mean, I know the word and I know what
it means, but I don't know that I've ever used
austerity in conversation. I'll see if we can't drop that in.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I might make that part of as my daughters go
into their finals and everything final projects for the year,
see if they can't get us a little bit of
you know, some big words into their final essays.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You need you need to take your finals with a
degree of austerity that's going to allow you to make
the best grade you can. Something like that might work. No,
I like that, that's good. Austerity. Austerity, the austerity Twitter
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we have a big hire in the NBA. We have
the NBA Finals to get to nobody better an NBA
insider Mark Steyne, who joins us now on the Hotline.
You can follo him on Twitter at the Steinline to
check out this League Uncut podcast for all your big
stories this week in the NBA. But Mark, I gotta
tell you the big news tonight. Moni Williams goes to
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the Pistons nine years, seventy eight million dollars. Is he
going to play too? Is this a coaching only? Does
he have to play to earn this money?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Hey? Man, they needed a star, They needed a present,
They needed a leader. They need someone who can establish
a culture and build a program. And you know, I
actually reported it was right after the Draft lottery. I
was in Chicago for the Draft lottery, and what I
had heard at the time was that the Pistons were
hoping that obviously they win the Wembin Yama sweepstakes, and
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then they were hoping from there to put the full
court press on Mani Williams thinking, don't want to come
to Detroit. Now we've got the next generational talent to
come into the league. Well, obviously they didn't get wemb
min Yama. They slipped all the way to number five
from from the worst record in the league. They fell
as far as they could a really rough lottery night,
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but they went after money anyway, and they you know,
he turned them down at least once, from what I'm
being told, and they just continue to put you know,
there's no salary cap for coaches, and they took advantage
of that. And I think, you know, Tom Gores, you
got to give them a lot of credit because he
put an insane number on the table and they got
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themselves a true leader and someone who I think a
lot of people around the league felt like it was.
It was a harsh dismissal in Phoenix, to put it kindly.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Now much speculation about the roster next year in Boston,
but certainly the coaching staff under fire in Missoula. Nobody
liked any of his answers to anybody along the process
in terms of doing interviews Mark, but also the idea
that a number of those assistants are going to end
up going away, including many two former coach Edoka. How
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are they planning to handle this and how much different
did the Celtics look next year?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Well, look even in the Philly As far back as
the Philly Series, I would say there were already rumblings
about what next season's coaching staff might look like. You know,
it wasn't just Ema Udoka who left. They lost Will Hardy,
who proved what a tremendous coach he is by grinding
out a win total in the thirties in Utah when
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that team was expected to be a wemb Yama contender.
And they also lost Damon Sodommeyer, who you know, left
in season to go to Georgia Tech to go back
to the college game, and they didn't replace either one.
So even in the Philly Series, there were already rumblings
that Boston would want to try to hire Frank Vogel
and Steven Silas as assistant next year to bring some
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more experience there in support of Joe Mizzoula. So I
don't know that they will get both. I don't know
that they can hire vocal and even silists. I know,
if Frank Vogel decides that he wants to be an assistant,
and I don't think he's decided that yet. He's still
in the running for the Phoenix job, and he's been
in some of these other coaching searches for head coaching vacancy.
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If he decides he's willing to be an assistant, Dallas
would also have interest, so Bogo would have options there.
But clearly there's going to be a new look on
the Boston bench. I don't think there's any question about that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
NBA insider Mark Stein our guest right now here on
Fox Sports Radio, Mark is on his way to Denver
for the final way. Are you on the plane? Are
you in the airport? Where are you right now?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm not on my way to Denver. I am on
a plane.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Okay, that's the most.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That's the most I can tell you. If I tell
you anything, it's classified. If I tell you it, don't
make me something on the radio. If I have to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Wow, okay, wait whoa okay, wait a minute. Now, this
is this is clandestine stuff, all right. Uh Hey, so
while you are headed wherever you are headed, now to
see wherever it is. Hey, that's just stand.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
At a level of intrigue and now I want it. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm waiting. Now, I'm waiting for a big breaking news.
I'm waiting for, like the Knicks to trade for Yiannis.
I mean, that's what I'm waiting for right now, I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But I don't know that I can deliver on that
level of use. I might be I might be over hyping.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's just a touch. Okay, Hey, so we get to
the finals. Now. On your latest podcast, This League Uncut,
do you talk a lot about the finals. But one
thing you you mentioned that you you break down with
Chris Haynes is what daily life is like with Nicola Jokic.
Give us a little bit of that. We like, well,
what are you get into daily life with Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
So really it was a convert you know, Calvin Booth
obviously with our guests, the general manager of the Nuggets.
So it was really just to kind of get his seal,
you know, because obviously this was, you know, this was
a difficult second half of the season for Jokic. And
as much as he gives the impression that he's not
listening to anything, we say that he's not listening to
your radio show, The Noise, you know, Calvin Booth acknowledge
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that some of the noise did reach Jokicchen frankly that
whole team, and you know, the Nuggets finished, they were
seven and ten to finished the regular season, and it
was kind of that. I think that uninspired finish is
what led people to question their playoff capabilities because really,
these guys have They've been the runaway leaders in the
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West for months. But it was you know, Jokic didn't
finish the season with a flourish. She ended up not
winning the MVP Award, and you know, there was so
much talk about all that he has to have a
huge playoffs to validate his previous two MVPs and then
as soon as he gets the playoffs and he's been Look,
the two best players in the playoffs have been Jokic
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and Jimmy Butlers, and their teams are in the finals.
So you know, if the pressure has bothered him this postseason,
you know, show me, show me where, because you can't tell.
But yeah, the podcast kind of does, you know, Calvin
Booth does take us inside just kind of what this
ride has been like this season for the Nuggets to
be a team that was questioned, be a team that
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got very little national public. The you know, you always
hear Michael Malone at the podium speaking more respect for
his guys. But you know what, none of that matters.
They're in the finals, and no matter what Jokic said today,
they are the favorites to win this series. They are
the favorite in these finals and have a tremendous opportunity
to win the first NBA championship in the team's history.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I do think Michael Malone does maybe needs a
lineup of hugs or something along the way to make
him understand with great power and a number one seed
trying to bring the number eight seed and say, hey, hey,
you know, this is not a big deal for us.
I don't think anybody's buying that. But from the national side,
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you mentioned, you know, the lack of respect. I know,
at some point I saw a Denver writer he goes,
here's twenty five things that are interesting about the Nuggets.
You might not have known to try to give a
bunch of starters for national content. Where do we take
it from here as we get ready for Game one?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Well, look, you know, there are so many questions about
how the heat. You know, first of all, obviously the
gas tank. I mean, I hope you guys have said
red versus russ at least three or four times on
this show already, suh. You know, so we're gonna have
you know, we're gonna have to gauge how how the turnaround,
how the short turnaround affects Miami, how the altitude affects Miami.
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But you know, the two real issues they have in
this series is, you know, beyond Bam out of Bio,
how do they match up with Yokicic. This is not
a big team. They don't have really any other options
that are going to concern. And then scoring. Now during
the regular you know, scoring has not been an issue
for the Heat in the playoffs, they've shot the ball
incredibly well. But this is the lowest scoring team in
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the regular season, So, you know, But saying all that,
like when I had to make my pick at minimum,
I have so much respect for Miami that I can't
see this being shorter than a sixt game series, because again,
I just Miami. We you know, we doubt them, We've
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doubted them in every round and they just con Although
I picked them to pick to beef Boston, so I
got that one right. But they are they are so
good at what they do. They have such a clear
vision of what they're trying to do. They are the
most connected team in the league, and they can make
the game ugly, they can make the game met by
and those are two pretty good counters for Alta.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Dude. He's on Twitter at the Steinline. That is at
the Steinline. Check out this league uncut link to the
podcast right there on Mark Stein's Twitter page, and Mark,
good luck wherever you're going. If it's to New York
to get Joel EMBII to the Knicks, that's fine. I
understand you have to say anything about it. I get it,
and I We'll just wait for the story. That's fine.
I'll go from the honest to embiid.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
All will be revealed. All will be revealed in due time.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Exciting, have fun, buddy, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
All right, guys?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Smart? Wow, how about that? I am going somewhere? Wow, Like,
where is it going? Where can? I mean? Really is
it to get a great superstar to the Knicks? I
mean really is that what it is? Is it get
to Lebron is gonna say I'm gonna retire? I put
it this way, it has to be humongous. If he's
not on his way to Denver, yeah, if he's not
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going to if he's not going to Denver. Yeah, that's
a big deal. I can't wait for this, man, I mean,
that's that's serious. I mean because he's Look, Mark Stein
has been one of the biggest NBA insiders the past
twenty years, and for him to not be going to
the finals now you know. Look, we're one day away,
right the finals a tomorrow, he's going someplace. I can't wait.
Something else.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I can't wait Myers and the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe no, no, no, come on, Let's keep it out
there for the Knicks. Let's keep it out there for
the Knicks. And it's a Knicks getting him beat Like
he didn't notice how when I said Yannis to the Knicks,
he said, oh, I can't make that happen. But I said,
embiid to the Knicks, and he said all will be revealed.
So I'm thinking mbid to the Knicks. Wow, how about that?
The process saying yeah, yeah, buddy, I'm excited now. But
(25:00):
I mean, what can it be? I mean, I mean,
I can't wait now. I mean, I could you listen, Frostburg,
could you hear in the background like where they were
calling flights to like do we have to do like
a fugitive thing? And try to Oh, where you saying that?
Another track? Isn't that the L train? He's here at Chicago,
Kimball's here in Chicago. Let's go get him, Like, can
you figure that out? Frostburg and do something on that?
(25:27):
That was? That was incredible stuff. Man, I can't wait.
I'm just gonna be hitting refresh on Mark Stein's Twitter
account now, like all night, like to figure out what
it's going to be. Like I was hitting refresh all
day going is Judah Men's staying at Syracuse? Is Judah
Min's taking at Syracuse? Hey staying in Syracuse. I'll do
the same thing with Mark Stein. Now that's not awkward.
Same thing with Mark Stein. Shocker, that's exciting stuff. Man.
(25:50):
All will be revealed. I oh, I can't wait. I
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Speaker 1 (26:25):
Now, we haven't got have a lot of ted Lasso
to get to with no spoilers coming up throughout this,
we have a lot of ted Lasso to get to.
But let me just say this with the finale, potentially
seasoned series finale last night, let me start with this, right,
just like you know Green Bay is going to start
with the innocuous Saron Rodgers wanted somebody fired before they
get to the real you know, dishy stuff. As time
(26:47):
went on, how much was Rupert manyd you know who's
the nade of the villain of the series, Like he
was basically Palpatine, right, like, oh yeah, you notice how
I just noticed this? Before the finale they show and
again no spoilers, don't worry, no spoilers. Right, they showed
his office a couple of episodes ago and it looks
just like where the Emperor sat and returned to Jedi,
(27:09):
the same thing behind him. And then last night he's
in that black cape the entire Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
There was a shot I was waiting for the giant
shadow like he was a Sith Lord.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. I mean he's walking with the with the big
drape black. It's like he's like he's Darth Vader. He's no,
that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And watch this morning and we were chuckling and she
just starts going, Dan dun.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
How is this not a spoiler?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, you know, we know, you know, he's the bad guy.
He's in all the movie, he's in all the TV shows. Nothing,
I didn't tell you any content. Just he's he's wearing
like this big, long, flowing But what if you're like
Tyshert and you're just coming in and you're watching the finale,
the only one you've ever seen. Oh well, then okay,
so you're watching it as a spoiler. It's not a spoiler.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, here's the here's the question, though, Like, what's the
new rule of thumb with this stuff? It's upon a time,
it was all right, you had a week because DVRs
or whatever. Now it's streaming. Is such an anticipated event
for these weekly ones succession. Nobody waited on that. I
(28:21):
mean I was in my timeline quickly last night. LASSA
was released early, so that started flowing through while we
were still on air, Like, I'm pretty sure it's keep
your mouth shut and never rout on your friends. Well
there's that too, but I mean we can have a
deep psychological discussion of it all because I mean, really
it is it is one that makes you go a
little little bit in introspective.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Uh, look, it is. It is a difficult thing and
it is something that everybody is learning on. You know,
what can we say? How long can we say it?
Do we say? With spoilers everything else? It's hard. I
get it, it's really hard. But you know, we'll get
into coming up next something that no matter. We talk
about sports being the last bastion of of live television
and and tune in to watch Uh, that's that's it, right,
(29:06):
This is this is the only thing that hey, appointment
television is tuning into watch sports. Everything else you can
watch at your leisure, You can watch when you feel
like it. And yeah, part of it is, well, if
I can't watch ted Lasso or Succession, it's on me
to stay away from social media or to not you know,
not talk to people about it and try to watch
as fast as I cames. Right, Yes, exactly, games. Oh
(29:30):
you know, I can't. Don't tell me what's happening.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's like, dude, you're not watching an NFL game that
you put on the DVR.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh dude, dude, can I tell you? Can I tell you?
I feel awful about it because well look at that.
But let me just tell you this real fast. One
of my best friends is the biggest Broncos fan in
the world, right, huge Broncos fan when I first met him,
and and because he because my daughter Zoe and his
daughter are like best friends, been best friends for a
long time. So we're going to his daughter's birthday part.
His daughter is born in the end of December. So
(29:59):
this is a back in like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen
something like that. And the Broncos just played an amazing
playoff game, and I forget what happened is a big
They came from behind at the end and they won
and it was a huge game. And so the party
they were having was at a skate rink was at
an ice skating rink, so you know, they get there
before the party and they're setting everything up and there,
you know, getting her and he's wearing his Broncos jersey
(30:22):
and his dad is wearing his Broncos jersey, and you
know his brother is wearing a Broncos sweatshirt. So I'm like,
oh cool, I'll get to talk to him about the game.
And I walk up to me. He's putting tables out
and go, hey, what's up. Gary goes, hey, what's up to?
Just so, oh my god, that game, dude. You must
have been doing backflips at the end. He goes, yeah,
we all taped it to watch it later because we
were getting ready for the party. And I just go, oh, no,
(30:45):
I just ruin the entire game for you, And I said,
you get in the d generation X suck it. He ran,
and I said, well you won, So there's that. It'll
be a fun watch. I guess, dude, I had no idea.
I said, where are you wearing? You're in your Broncos gar.
If you haven't watched the game, Why we'll go court.
Someone's gonna clup to you would say Broncos something. Now
It's like, now, you can't blame He's not my fault.
(31:06):
You wore Broncos gear. You should wore Broncos gear. How
it's your fault? Oh? But I felt so bad for Soli. Dude,
you must be doing backflips after.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That and had gotten over that in about four seconds.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
No, we taped it to watch it later. Thanks a lot.
Uh So, if live sports is a last batch of
program you have to pay attention to. Yeah, we got
a hot take on that coming up next. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Hard to watch a sporting event on tape delay. I
(32:16):
get it. But with what happened with Ted Lasso last night, again,
no spoilers, and this is not a conversation about the show.
Whether you watch the show or not, ted Lasso is
one of the big The finale is one of the
biggest TV events of the year. Right, we were seeing
a finale of Succession and Barry and Ted Lasso and uh,
well Barry. I still haven't watched Barry yet, so so
(32:37):
I did. Okay, Well, I don't say you say anything.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I'm watching why that's been That's Sunday, Please, it's Wednesday.
I could say whatever the hell I wanted. Okay, you
could be a friend or you could be a jerk.
Then that so you picked up? But you want to
be that's his friend?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, but pure of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Right with Live Sports, we had the tale of you
and uh you feeling bad about room in your guys' lives. Well,
if it's that important to you, and you can't avoid
everybody unless you're gonna go hide a bunker's.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's gonna find you. But good business. All you have
to do is just not say anything.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
No, I know you haven't seeny I'm not gonna no, no, no, no, no,
but at this point no, but we are part of
pop culture sports sure, and to ignore it means, well,
how far are we going to kick the can down
the road before it's okay to talk about Well what
everybody else been talking about it for seventy two bleeping hours? Well,
well here's the thing, like that Lasso, it's twenty hours.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well it's a lady. They fade the box credits, man
Bob Knight. So they've been releasing ted Lasso all year
long around the same time, about six pm ish, between
six and nine pm ish on the East Coast, and
that's the way it's been going all year long. Last night,
(33:57):
it's not until midnight on the East Coast, and I
didn't get it here until after midnight on the West coast.
Like my wife wanted to watch it last night and
she was staying up. No, no, it's still not available,
still not available. Then after midnight it finally became available.
I watched it last night. Then I watched it today
again with Pam and Zoe. And you know this is
where I'm like, you know, here's the thing. I get it.
(34:20):
The people you can watch whenever you want, but this
is the finale and people are making plans to watch
this show. There's people that have watch parties. That's you're
releasing the show between this time and this time, and
this is when I plan to watch it, and I'm
changing my plans to watch this And there's no notice
at all that we're just gonna drop this show three
and a half hours later. Why, I don't know. They
(34:41):
could have told people, but they didn't. Nobody knew, so
people had watch parties, people tried to stay up late. Hey,
as much as you want to watch a TV show,
if it's on at nine o'clock, I'll watch it. If
they drop it at midnight, no matter if I watch
a show or not, I gotta be sharp at work
in the morning and I'm not gonna sleep five hours
and get up. I can't do it. So yeah, that
was a little bit of dirty pool because I felt
(35:02):
like Apple ruined a lot of people's nights by that.
But yeah, we're gonna drop it later. Don't tell anybody.
And why you're dropping it later, it doesn't make any sense.
This is what we're why we're doing it. So that
was a way where people made plans because we're doing
it at this time, why wouldn't you be doing it
at that same time anyway. So yeah, that I feel like,
you know what, when we're gonna put something out at
a certain time, you got to let people know that.
(35:22):
I mean that. That was really mad about that for Apple.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, I thought philosophically it was always supposed to be
midnight Eastern, and then it was randomly released since we're
prepping for a show that was never on my radar
to try to watch it before we got on air,
regardless of hearing that it was going to be on.
And so when I went at midnight, after we'd wound
down for the night, there it was, I was ready
(35:47):
to roll. So I you know, life goes on again.
Just to make sure you're refrigerating anything that might spoil
while you wait for it live, if that's what you
need to do.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You spoiled it same day Smith, here's the spoiled watched
it midnight West Coast that same day. Yeah, no, it's not,
that's not at all. It's after midnight.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
No, it's it's I mean, it just spoiled it at
eight fifty two.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh my goodness, I gotta deal with the same movie
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and seventy two million dollars to coach the business. Oh
not to play for them, to coach them.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Plus we haven't.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Seen the fine print off the closed contract that suddenly
there was the clause about waivers and stuff about a
foot injury.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
MANI might need to suit up. Well, maybe maybe that's
gonna be part of it what we see, you know.
Maybe maybe that's gonna be how it works. I don't know.
It might be you gotta oh, I we didn't tell
you have to play too. Yeah, that's how we do
things here in Detroit. We're not just gonna give you
that money, fat. We want you to do two jobs.
So you're gonna have to play Monty. Hopefully you can
still get a couple updowns. Maybe it'll work for You're
also the assistant to the kit manager. Very nice. So,
(01:46):
and we'll get to ted Lasso coming up in a
bit too, because there's so much to get to coming
off of that. But the topic that I hate to
talk about the most is I hate to say I
told you so. You know me, I don't like them, Carmen,
I don't like doing it. It's I mean, we haven't
done it yet today. No, I haven't done you know
that's true. I haven't done it yet today. No, But
(02:06):
I hate to say I told you so.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Buck can be one of your new new segments feature
segment that Jen Hale gets to throw up to you,
but I should.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Say I told you so about Aaron Rogers. What happened today? Well,
first of all, let me go back. What did I
tell you was? My biggest fear was gonna happen during
the whole Aaron Rodgers goes to the Jets first year?
What cat was gonna blow up? His cat? Fine, he's
going He's gonna be back at practice on Friday, So
stuff it all right, He's back on Friday. Bryce Hall
(02:40):
is who I'm worried about, and he's either on a
great path to return or it's a really awful path,
depending on who you listen to.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Roger got too many friendship bracelets at the Taylor Swift concert.
Roger fine weighted down his shoulder to where it's torn.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Come on, man, the dude was on camera going the Jets.
What the super Listen, I'll tell you this and I'll
you know, just let me say this before you get
into I told about Aaron Rodgers. The guy is not
going out of his way to say, look at me.
If he was going to suck, it's not happening. Sometimes
you don't get to control that you. I'm pretty sure Aaron.
(03:18):
Aaron Rodgers knows his career pretty well. I'm pretty sure
after being in the league, as long as he has
winning MVPs, when he's Super Bowl, I think he knows
that he's gonna have a good year. And when he
could suck, he wouldn't be doing this. If he was
going to suck. He wouldn't say look at me, look
at me, look at me. If it was gonna be
a year where, dude, you know, come on, you threw
less touchdowns than Zach Wilson, don't think that's I am
eminently confident that it's gonna be a big year for
(03:40):
Aaron Rodgers. The only thing I was worried about. What
did I tell you to be worried about, is that
now that he gets he's away from Green Bay, what's
going to happen? Well, things look great and maybe this
is gonna be the plan. When Aaron Rodgers is living
high on the hog and here he is a Taylor
Swift putting out videos, everything is great. You're gonna start
seeing sources Aaron Rodgers blank with the Green Bay Packers.
(04:03):
You are going to see the same thing that happened
to Russell Wilson last year once he was no longer
a Seattle Seahawk and this was gonna be stories are
gonna get out that we're gonna be embarrassing for him
because the Packers don't have to protect him anymore. You
know what's been a big Aaron Rodgers versus the Packers
the last couple of years, and the guys in the
front office, they've been waiting, waiting. When can we let
(04:26):
these stories go about stuff Aaron Rodgers has done over
the past fifteen years, and today was the first one
because what happened today, Hey, sources, Aaron Rodgers called for
GM Brian Gudocuns to be fired during the twenty twenty
one season. He said, either he goes or I go.
He wanted his general manager fired. Obviously it didn't work out.
(04:48):
Gutakun stayed. They talked it through and Rogers stay won
the MVP. But here's your first one. Rogers said him
or me, I want the GM fired. The big power
play he which is not a shock to all. Does
that mean that we got to wait another week till
we hear it? Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
By the way, he also talked about getting Lafloor bounced
to Oh no, no, that is that the next shooting drop. Look,
none of this like you like you, like you. That
guy's a shareholder and I love him.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You're cool. Goodbye. Here's here's where I am is that
when these stories get out, I hold my breath and
I go, Okay, this is this is a benign one,
because this is a very benign and this might just
be the Hey, we're just getting started here. Okay, we're
gonna war you up with a pretty easy one. He
wanted the GM fired. Okay, we knew that. He didn't
get along with Kuda Kunz, didn't like him, didn't like
(05:37):
what was going on in the front office. That was
going on for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But just look at the whole draft history in the
first round. Yeah, didn't take a genius to realize. He
probably wasn't thrilled.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But I told you this was gonna happen, and it's
gonna happen in regular intervals, and each story is just
gonna get crazier and crazier, just like it was with
Russell Wilson. Just like was oh his behavior? What was
he like? Now Richard Sherman is talking more. I don't
have to worry about the Seahawks, and then you know
it culminates in the office story. Come to my office,
I diagram plays if you have. I need to be
(06:09):
away from the rest of the team. This is how
bad it was for Russell Wilson. He was playing badly.
He wanted out in Seattle. You know that Schneider and
Carol wanted to make sure. Hey, we want people to
know what we put up with with him here right.
The excellence we had was great. We protected him. I
protected him from the rest of the team when they
were mad at him. Uh. And this is how he
treats Usada. These stories are going to get out. And
(06:30):
Russell Wilson had a miserable year last year to the
point where now he is playing for his job. He's
playing He's not playing for anything else. And we told
you this in the offseason. Here comes Sean Payton and
now it's can I fix Russell Wilson. This is not hey,
now he's got a few years. This is Russell Wilson
playing for his job this season. We told you months ago,
(06:50):
and now I saw a couple of people with Hey,
you know I might be playing for his job. You
congratulations coming around to that, maybe you bookmark the tweet
and then saved it. I don't know but that. But
this is where it is with Aaron Rodgers. Now this
is just the first of what's gonna be many. And
this is one where I held my breath. I looked
at it and I said, Okay, this is all cool.
I get controversy. Yes we know Aaron Rodgers tried to
pull a power plane wanted the GM fired. Okay, this
(07:11):
is fine. What's the next one. I'll dread the next one,
but this one, this is not a big deal. But
I think this is just the opening salvo saying you
just wait, this is the first one. You want to
see how many I got? You want to see how
many arrows I got in this quiver. This was just
the first one. This is the first flaming arrow that
I shot over to your side to start the war
like a battle in brave Art. This is the first way.
(07:32):
Do you see all the other arrows I got coming
full of flames and all kinds of stuff. And I
got robots that with killer hands and it can fly
in from outer space. Wait, we got it all coming
for you. This was just the first tiny arrow, just
to see with a little bit of fire. We could
wind up lighting up in New York. Oh, don't worry.
The next one. The next one's gonna be a little
bit better. The one after that will be better than that,
and the one after that after that. Trust me, this
(07:53):
is how it's gonna go for Aaron Rodgers and the Jets.
That's what I'm in fear of. That's what I live
in fear of, waking up every day going is a
day the day we get some kind of crazy ass
bombshall out of Green Bay, that's gonna be so embarrassing
for the Jets and Aaron Rodgers. But today was not
that day.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
At my signal unleash.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Hell.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Look, there may be a bunch of these, but at
no point as long as they stay in this general vicinity.
Nobody ever painted him out as a happy, go lucky,
nice guy who loved everybody in any part of the building.
Except if you were a veteran player. You got a
little bit of love and he wants to play with
(08:31):
you forever. That's not a bad thing to have such
job security. But the one thing you wanted that wasn't
present the last couple of years in Green Bay was Hey,
I'm just going to work and I'm gonna go and
be part of the workouts. I'm going to embrace teammates,
(08:51):
I'm gonna be out and about. I'm gonna be part
of the community. All of those things. Right, he didn't
walk the earth. What's he doing. He's going to concerts,
He's showing up at ball games, hockey games during the playoffs,
all of these things, right, immersing himself and saying, hey,
I'm a good guy. I'm one of the guys. In
Green Bay, it was separate, separate from everybody, and he
(09:13):
was walking the earth and I'll get there when I
get there. With Russell Wilson, the problem with him is
he didn't leave all of that in Seattle. Right, All
of those could have just been ah, well, that's Seattle.
He's in a new place. Problem was he still wanted
in his own office. He wanted people around him that
weren't part of the team, all of those things, you know,
his own personal staff of massuses and therapists and yes
(09:39):
men all over the facility. Which when you're not playing, well,
guess what happens, Well, you kind of get badged for that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Otherwise you're a delicate genius. It's a very fine line right.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
If he was playing well, it's like, hey, you know what,
he's got people that pick up a lot of the
slack and let him just concentrate on being a quarterback instead.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, what was it?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Russell's unfocused, undisciplined, He's on another floor from everybody else,
all these other things. Oh, and he's added a bunch
of weight. Right as soon as they start fat shaming
a guy, you know you've gone down a whole other
path because the rest of it that comes last, Right,
Ben Roethlisberger, he had to have all the other issues before.
(10:21):
It was like, you know, Ben comes into camp a
little overweight each year as you get older, is that
gonna shed the same way? Russell's in that age range now,
so that goes front and center, whereas it might have
just been a I'll work himself into shape. It'll be
all fine, because if you don't play well out of
the gate, there's gotta be reasons slash excuses for Aaron
(10:43):
Rodgers right now in New York is the life of
the party, right, everything's great, everything's sunny in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Ah, you were so close, buddy, you were so close.
You were so close. You were so close to making
Aaron Rodgerson to Doyle McPoyle. Oh you were so close.
It was it was, it was right there. I was
got it for you, buddy.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
But you know what, And then the show that that
does return soon, hopefully it'll be better than the ending
of all the other ones.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I just uh bit a dot that I want to
burn in a trash can. But look, I'm telling you, man,
it's this is how it's gonna go, and and and
Aaron Rodgers and I'm sure he knows a lot of
the stuff that's going to get out there, and is
he gonna get out in front of it? You know,
we tried to a little bit today, you know, talking
about goodacunsk going. I didn't ghost him. I didn't ghost
(11:30):
the guy. We talked right now. I talked to people
I like, yeah, yeah, exactly right. What a great quote
that was? Yeah? And it was great, right, it was.
You know, he doesn't like Gudaku, okay. And if it's
this stuff where oh we don't like him, he didn't
like me, that's fine. But it's if it gets to
that point where it's, hey, he had an office and
you know you had to go up and talk like
(11:51):
the Russ not that he did. But I'm saying the
Russell Wilson story of having an office on the second
floor above where the team was, and hey come to
me with ideas for plays, like if that's the stuff
that gets out, man, that's that's gonna that's ruinous that stuff.
But if it's like this, and it's just he said,
she said, with the front office, he said, he said,
with the front office, Yeah, that's gonna be. Okay. So
what this one's okay? I knew it was coming and okay,
(12:13):
I dodged the bullet here. Now it's okay. Is the
next one? How is it going to be? But I
am okay with this. I know the future is coming,
so you can't tell me I'm not gonna be prepared
for it because the sunshine, lollipops and rainbows days with
the Jets, there's gonna be some rain in those days,
especially when the packers like all right, now, why do
I tell you this story about in twenty sixteen with Rogers.
Let me tell you Rogers, Rogers, Let me tell you
(12:34):
ro I.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Want to come back and give you a couple of
quotes from this appearance that he made, just because you know,
the humble superstar speaks. Quote, You're gonna stand on this
hill of austerity and say that, arguably in the conversation,
the best player in your franchise history. You're gonna say,
I couldn't get a hold of him, and that's why
we had to move on.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Like, come on, man, just tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You wanted to move on, you know, like the fact
that we didn't communicate all the time, Like listen.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I talk to the people that I like beat its quost.
I was. I was happy when he used the word austerity. No,
I mean, I don't know that I've ever used that.
I mean, I know the word and I know what
it means, but I don't know that I've ever used
austerity in conversation. I'll see if we can't drop that in.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I might make that part of as my daughters go
into their finals and everything final projects for the year,
see if they can't get us a little bit of
you know, some big words into their final essays.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You need you need to take your finals with a
degree of austerity that's going to allow you to make
the best grade you can. Something like that might work. No,
I like that, that's good. Austerity. Austerity, the austerity Twitter
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we have a big hire in the NBA. We have
the NBA Finals to get to nobody better an NBA
insider Mark Steyne, who joins us now on the Hotline.
You can follo him on Twitter at the Steinline to
check out this League Uncut podcast for all your big
stories this week in the NBA. But Mark, I gotta
tell you the big news tonight. Moni Williams goes to
(15:13):
the Pistons nine years, seventy eight million dollars. Is he
going to play too? Is this a coaching only? Does
he have to play to earn this money?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Hey? Man, they needed a star, They needed a present,
They needed a leader. They need someone who can establish
a culture and build a program. And you know, I
actually reported it was right after the Draft lottery. I
was in Chicago for the Draft lottery, and what I
had heard at the time was that the Pistons were
hoping that obviously they win the Wembin Yama sweepstakes, and
(15:46):
then they were hoping from there to put the full
court press on Mani Williams thinking, don't want to come
to Detroit. Now we've got the next generational talent to
come into the league. Well, obviously they didn't get wemb
min Yama. They slipped all the way to number five
from from the worst record in the league. They fell
as far as they could a really rough lottery night,
(16:08):
but they went after money anyway, and they you know,
he turned them down at least once, from what I'm
being told, and they just continue to put you know,
there's no salary cap for coaches, and they took advantage
of that. And I think, you know, Tom Gores, you
got to give them a lot of credit because he
put an insane number on the table and they got
(16:30):
themselves a true leader and someone who I think a
lot of people around the league felt like it was.
It was a harsh dismissal in Phoenix, to put it kindly.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Now much speculation about the roster next year in Boston,
but certainly the coaching staff under fire in Missoula. Nobody
liked any of his answers to anybody along the process
in terms of doing interviews Mark, but also the idea
that a number of those assistants are going to end
up going away, including many two former coach Edoka. How
(17:04):
are they planning to handle this and how much different
did the Celtics look next year?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Well, look even in the Philly As far back as
the Philly Series, I would say there were already rumblings
about what next season's coaching staff might look like. You know,
it wasn't just Ema Udoka who left. They lost Will Hardy,
who proved what a tremendous coach he is by grinding
out a win total in the thirties in Utah when
(17:30):
that team was expected to be a wemb Yama contender.
And they also lost Damon Sodommeyer, who you know, left
in season to go to Georgia Tech to go back
to the college game, and they didn't replace either one.
So even in the Philly Series, there were already rumblings
that Boston would want to try to hire Frank Vogel
and Steven Silas as assistant next year to bring some
(17:52):
more experience there in support of Joe Mizzoula. So I
don't know that they will get both. I don't know
that they can hire vocal and even silists. I know,
if Frank Vogel decides that he wants to be an assistant,
and I don't think he's decided that yet. He's still
in the running for the Phoenix job, and he's been
in some of these other coaching searches for head coaching vacancy.
(18:12):
If he decides he's willing to be an assistant, Dallas
would also have interest, so Bogo would have options there.
But clearly there's going to be a new look on
the Boston bench. I don't think there's any question about that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
NBA insider Mark Stein our guest right now here on
Fox Sports Radio, Mark is on his way to Denver
for the final way. Are you on the plane? Are
you in the airport? Where are you right now?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I'm not on my way to Denver. I am on
a plane.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Okay, that's the most.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That's the most I can tell you. If I tell
you anything, it's classified. If I tell you it, don't
make me something on the radio. If I have to
tell you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Wow, okay, wait whoa okay, wait a minute. Now, this
is this is clandestine stuff, all right. Uh Hey, so
while you are headed wherever you are headed, now to
see wherever it is. Hey, that's just stand.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
At a level of intrigue and now I want it. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I'm waiting. Now, I'm waiting for a big breaking news.
I'm waiting for, like the Knicks to trade for Yiannis.
I mean, that's what I'm waiting for right now, I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But I don't know that I can deliver on that
level of use. I might be I might be over hyping.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's just a touch. Okay, Hey, so we get to
the finals. Now. On your latest podcast, This League Uncut,
do you talk a lot about the finals. But one
thing you you mentioned that you you break down with
Chris Haynes is what daily life is like with Nicola Jokic.
Give us a little bit of that. We like, well,
what are you get into daily life with Nicola Jokic.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
So really it was a convert you know, Calvin Booth
obviously with our guests, the general manager of the Nuggets.
So it was really just to kind of get his seal,
you know, because obviously this was, you know, this was
a difficult second half of the season for Jokic. And
as much as he gives the impression that he's not
listening to anything, we say that he's not listening to
your radio show, The Noise, you know, Calvin Booth acknowledge
(19:52):
that some of the noise did reach Jokicchen frankly that
whole team, and you know, the Nuggets finished, they were
seven and ten to finished the regular season, and it
was kind of that. I think that uninspired finish is
what led people to question their playoff capabilities because really,
these guys have They've been the runaway leaders in the
(20:12):
West for months. But it was you know, Jokic didn't
finish the season with a flourish. She ended up not
winning the MVP Award, and you know, there was so
much talk about all that he has to have a
huge playoffs to validate his previous two MVPs and then
as soon as he gets the playoffs and he's been Look,
the two best players in the playoffs have been Jokic
(20:34):
and Jimmy Butlers, and their teams are in the finals.
So you know, if the pressure has bothered him this postseason,
you know, show me, show me where, because you can't tell.
But yeah, the podcast kind of does, you know, Calvin
Booth does take us inside just kind of what this
ride has been like this season for the Nuggets to
be a team that was questioned, be a team that
(20:57):
got very little national public. The you know, you always
hear Michael Malone at the podium speaking more respect for
his guys. But you know what, none of that matters.
They're in the finals, and no matter what Jokic said today,
they are the favorites to win this series. They are
the favorite in these finals and have a tremendous opportunity
to win the first NBA championship in the team's history.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, I do think Michael Malone does maybe needs a
lineup of hugs or something along the way to make
him understand with great power and a number one seed
trying to bring the number eight seed and say, hey, hey,
you know, this is not a big deal for us.
I don't think anybody's buying that. But from the national side,
(21:40):
you mentioned, you know, the lack of respect. I know,
at some point I saw a Denver writer he goes,
here's twenty five things that are interesting about the Nuggets.
You might not have known to try to give a
bunch of starters for national content. Where do we take
it from here as we get ready for Game one?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Well, look, you know, there are so many questions about
how the heat. You know, first of all, obviously the
gas tank. I mean, I hope you guys have said
red versus russ at least three or four times on
this show already, suh. You know, so we're gonna have
you know, we're gonna have to gauge how how the turnaround,
how the short turnaround affects Miami, how the altitude affects Miami.
(22:20):
But you know, the two real issues they have in
this series is, you know, beyond Bam out of Bio,
how do they match up with Yokicic. This is not
a big team. They don't have really any other options
that are going to concern. And then scoring. Now during
the regular you know, scoring has not been an issue
for the Heat in the playoffs, they've shot the ball
incredibly well. But this is the lowest scoring team in
(22:44):
the regular season, So, you know, But saying all that,
like when I had to make my pick at minimum,
I have so much respect for Miami that I can't
see this being shorter than a sixt game series, because again,
I just Miami. We you know, we doubt them, We've
(23:04):
doubted them in every round and they just con Although
I picked them to pick to beef Boston, so I
got that one right. But they are they are so
good at what they do. They have such a clear
vision of what they're trying to do. They are the
most connected team in the league, and they can make
the game ugly, they can make the game met by
and those are two pretty good counters for Alta.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Dude. He's on Twitter at the Steinline. That is at
the Steinline. Check out this league uncut link to the
podcast right there on Mark Stein's Twitter page, and Mark,
good luck wherever you're going. If it's to New York
to get Joel EMBII to the Knicks, that's fine. I
understand you have to say anything about it. I get it,
and I We'll just wait for the story. That's fine.
I'll go from the honest to embiid.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
All will be revealed. All will be revealed in due time.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Exciting, have fun, buddy, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
All right, guys?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Smart? Wow, how about that? I am going somewhere? Wow, Like,
where is it going? Where can? I mean? Really is
it to get a great superstar to the Knicks? I
mean really is that what it is? Is it get
to Lebron is gonna say I'm gonna retire? I put
it this way, it has to be humongous. If he's
not on his way to Denver, yeah, if he's not
(24:16):
going to if he's not going to Denver. Yeah, that's
a big deal. I can't wait for this, man, I mean,
that's that's serious. I mean because he's Look, Mark Stein
has been one of the biggest NBA insiders the past
twenty years, and for him to not be going to
the finals now you know. Look, we're one day away,
right the finals a tomorrow, he's going someplace. I can't wait.
Something else.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I can't wait Myers and the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Maybe no, no, no, come on, Let's keep it out
there for the Knicks. Let's keep it out there for
the Knicks. And it's a Knicks getting him beat Like
he didn't notice how when I said Yannis to the Knicks,
he said, oh, I can't make that happen. But I said,
embiid to the Knicks, and he said all will be revealed.
So I'm thinking mbid to the Knicks. Wow, how about that?
The process saying yeah, yeah, buddy, I'm excited now. But
(25:00):
I mean, what can it be? I mean, I mean,
I can't wait now. I mean, I could you listen, Frostburg,
could you hear in the background like where they were
calling flights to like do we have to do like
a fugitive thing? And try to Oh, where you saying that?
Another track? Isn't that the L train? He's here at Chicago,
Kimball's here in Chicago. Let's go get him, Like, can
you figure that out? Frostburg and do something on that?
(25:27):
That was? That was incredible stuff. Man, I can't wait.
I'm just gonna be hitting refresh on Mark Stein's Twitter
account now, like all night, like to figure out what
it's going to be. Like I was hitting refresh all
day going is Judah Men's staying at Syracuse? Is Judah
Min's taking at Syracuse? Hey staying in Syracuse. I'll do
the same thing with Mark Stein. Now that's not awkward.
Same thing with Mark Stein. Shocker, that's exciting stuff. Man.
(25:50):
All will be revealed. I oh, I can't wait. I
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Speaker 1 (26:25):
Now, we haven't got have a lot of ted Lasso
to get to with no spoilers coming up throughout this,
we have a lot of ted Lasso to get to.
But let me just say this with the finale, potentially
seasoned series finale last night, let me start with this, right,
just like you know Green Bay is going to start
with the innocuous Saron Rodgers wanted somebody fired before they
get to the real you know, dishy stuff. As time
(26:47):
went on, how much was Rupert manyd you know who's
the nade of the villain of the series, Like he
was basically Palpatine, right, like, oh yeah, you notice how
I just noticed this? Before the finale they show and
again no spoilers, don't worry, no spoilers. Right, they showed
his office a couple of episodes ago and it looks
just like where the Emperor sat and returned to Jedi,
(27:09):
the same thing behind him. And then last night he's
in that black cape the entire Yes.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
There was a shot I was waiting for the giant
shadow like he was a Sith Lord.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah. I mean he's walking with the with the big
drape black. It's like he's like he's Darth Vader. He's no,
that's exactly.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
And watch this morning and we were chuckling and she
just starts going, Dan dun.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
How is this not a spoiler?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
What?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well, you know, we know, you know, he's the bad guy.
He's in all the movie, he's in all the TV shows. Nothing,
I didn't tell you any content. Just he's he's wearing
like this big, long, flowing But what if you're like
Tyshert and you're just coming in and you're watching the finale,
the only one you've ever seen. Oh well, then okay,
so you're watching it as a spoiler. It's not a spoiler.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Well, here's the here's the question, though, Like, what's the
new rule of thumb with this stuff? It's upon a time,
it was all right, you had a week because DVRs
or whatever. Now it's streaming. Is such an anticipated event
for these weekly ones succession. Nobody waited on that. I
(28:21):
mean I was in my timeline quickly last night. LASSA
was released early, so that started flowing through while we
were still on air, Like, I'm pretty sure it's keep
your mouth shut and never rout on your friends. Well
there's that too, but I mean we can have a
deep psychological discussion of it all because I mean, really
it is it is one that makes you go a
little little bit in introspective.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Uh, look, it is. It is a difficult thing and
it is something that everybody is learning on. You know,
what can we say? How long can we say it?
Do we say? With spoilers everything else? It's hard. I
get it, it's really hard. But you know, we'll get
into coming up next something that no matter. We talk
about sports being the last bastion of of live television
and and tune in to watch Uh, that's that's it, right,
(29:06):
This is this is the only thing that hey, appointment
television is tuning into watch sports. Everything else you can
watch at your leisure, You can watch when you feel
like it. And yeah, part of it is, well, if
I can't watch ted Lasso or Succession, it's on me
to stay away from social media or to not you know,
not talk to people about it and try to watch
as fast as I cames. Right, Yes, exactly, games. Oh
(29:30):
you know, I can't. Don't tell me what's happening.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's like, dude, you're not watching an NFL game that
you put on the DVR.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Oh dude, dude, can I tell you? Can I tell you?
I feel awful about it because well look at that.
But let me just tell you this real fast. One
of my best friends is the biggest Broncos fan in
the world, right, huge Broncos fan when I first met him,
and and because he because my daughter Zoe and his
daughter are like best friends, been best friends for a
long time. So we're going to his daughter's birthday part.
His daughter is born in the end of December. So
(29:59):
this is a back in like twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen
something like that. And the Broncos just played an amazing
playoff game, and I forget what happened is a big
They came from behind at the end and they won
and it was a huge game. And so the party
they were having was at a skate rink was at
an ice skating rink, so you know, they get there
before the party and they're setting everything up and there,
you know, getting her and he's wearing his Broncos jersey
(30:22):
and his dad is wearing his Broncos jersey, and you
know his brother is wearing a Broncos sweatshirt. So I'm like,
oh cool, I'll get to talk to him about the game.
And I walk up to me. He's putting tables out
and go, hey, what's up. Gary goes, hey, what's up to?
Just so, oh my god, that game, dude. You must
have been doing backflips at the end. He goes, yeah,
we all taped it to watch it later because we
were getting ready for the party. And I just go, oh, no,
(30:45):
I just ruin the entire game for you, And I said,
you get in the d generation X suck it. He ran,
and I said, well you won, So there's that. It'll
be a fun watch. I guess, dude, I had no idea.
I said, where are you wearing? You're in your Broncos gar.
If you haven't watched the game, Why we'll go court.
Someone's gonna clup to you would say Broncos something. Now
It's like, now, you can't blame He's not my fault.
(31:06):
You wore Broncos gear. You should wore Broncos gear. How
it's your fault? Oh? But I felt so bad for Soli. Dude,
you must be doing backflips after.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
That and had gotten over that in about four seconds.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
No, we taped it to watch it later. Thanks a lot.
Uh So, if live sports is a last batch of
program you have to pay attention to. Yeah, we got
a hot take on that coming up next. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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sports programming is the last bashion of entertainment that you
need to make appointment viewing for right, that's not number one? Right?
Hard to watch a sporting event on tape delay. I
(32:16):
get it. But with what happened with Ted Lasso last night, again,
no spoilers, and this is not a conversation about the show.
Whether you watch the show or not, ted Lasso is
one of the big The finale is one of the
biggest TV events of the year. Right, we were seeing
a finale of Succession and Barry and Ted Lasso and uh,
well Barry. I still haven't watched Barry yet, so so
(32:37):
I did. Okay, Well, I don't say you say anything.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I'm watching why that's been That's Sunday, Please, it's Wednesday.
I could say whatever the hell I wanted. Okay, you
could be a friend or you could be a jerk.
Then that so you picked up? But you want to
be that's his friend?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
No, but pure of this conversation.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Right with Live Sports, we had the tale of you
and uh you feeling bad about room in your guys' lives. Well,
if it's that important to you, and you can't avoid
everybody unless you're gonna go hide a bunker's.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's gonna find you. But good business. All you have
to do is just not say anything.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
No, I know you haven't seeny I'm not gonna no, no, no, no, no,
but at this point no, but we are part of
pop culture sports sure, and to ignore it means, well,
how far are we going to kick the can down
the road before it's okay to talk about Well what
everybody else been talking about it for seventy two bleeping hours? Well,
well here's the thing, like that Lasso, it's twenty hours.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Well it's a lady. They fade the box credits, man
Bob Knight. So they've been releasing ted Lasso all year
long around the same time, about six pm ish, between
six and nine pm ish on the East Coast, and
that's the way it's been going all year long. Last night,
(33:57):
it's not until midnight on the East Coast, and I
didn't get it here until after midnight on the West coast.
Like my wife wanted to watch it last night and
she was staying up. No, no, it's still not available,
still not available. Then after midnight it finally became available.
I watched it last night. Then I watched it today
again with Pam and Zoe. And you know this is
where I'm like, you know, here's the thing. I get it.
(34:20):
The people you can watch whenever you want, but this
is the finale and people are making plans to watch
this show. There's people that have watch parties. That's you're
releasing the show between this time and this time, and
this is when I plan to watch it, and I'm
changing my plans to watch this And there's no notice
at all that we're just gonna drop this show three
and a half hours later. Why, I don't know. They
(34:41):
could have told people, but they didn't. Nobody knew, so
people had watch parties, people tried to stay up late. Hey,
as much as you want to watch a TV show,
if it's on at nine o'clock, I'll watch it. If
they drop it at midnight, no matter if I watch
a show or not, I gotta be sharp at work
in the morning and I'm not gonna sleep five hours
and get up. I can't do it. So yeah, that
was a little bit of dirty pool because I felt
(35:02):
like Apple ruined a lot of people's nights by that.
But yeah, we're gonna drop it later. Don't tell anybody.
And why you're dropping it later, it doesn't make any sense.
This is what we're why we're doing it. So that
was a way where people made plans because we're doing
it at this time, why wouldn't you be doing it
at that same time anyway. So yeah, that I feel like,
you know what, when we're gonna put something out at
a certain time, you got to let people know that.
(35:22):
I mean that. That was really mad about that for Apple.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, I thought philosophically it was always supposed to be
midnight Eastern, and then it was randomly released since we're
prepping for a show that was never on my radar
to try to watch it before we got on air,
regardless of hearing that it was going to be on.
And so when I went at midnight, after we'd wound
down for the night, there it was, I was ready
(35:47):
to roll. So I you know, life goes on again.
Just to make sure you're refrigerating anything that might spoil
while you wait for it live, if that's what you
need to do.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
You spoiled it same day Smith, here's the spoiled watched
it midnight West Coast that same day. Yeah, no, it's not,
that's not at all. It's after midnight.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
No, it's it's I mean, it just spoiled it at
eight fifty two.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh my goodness, I gotta deal with the same movie
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