June 13, 2023 • 43 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrated the first ever NBA Championship for the Denver Nuggets!!! Plus, the great Mark Medina stops by to break down everything from the NBA Finals!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Be Well, just like everybody else on the planet Earth
right now tonight saying the same thing. Can the NBA
Finals Lee's and tonight? Can we please? Can the finals please?
And because the heat ard coming back to win three
in a row, can we end the finals tonight so
we can get onto other things like the second week
(01:12):
of workouts for NFL teams as they get into the
the unofficial start of the season before they all go
away for a month, which is not really the start,
but it's kind of the start, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think people are ready for that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Mike Harmon, Yeah, I gotta think.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The biggest thing here is to note that the NBA,
while they're being dominated by the NFL, the NFL came
in guns a blazing to take over Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The NBA said.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, no, no, no, we can't play on a Sunday
because the Tony Awards are going on. We're gonna play
our finals game on a Monday. That's what we're gonna do.
It's genius. We're gonna watch Josh Groban dance around Is
Sweeney Todd, We're gonna watch all sorts of great music performances.
(02:00):
Aaron Rodgers continuing as the greatest tourist the greater New
York Area has ever seen. And we're gonna play on Monday.
On Monday, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Rodgers at the Tonys. I'm sorry, that's the biggest story
in the world. It's bigger than anything else. If he
goes to the Tonys, we can't play an NBA game
that night.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sorry, How are you not playing on a Sunday. I
can't do it. You give up.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Aaron Rodgers is at the Tonys. Man because Aaron Rodgers
is there. They knew waiting for them. Go up and
do a song and dance. I'm not good.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I'm not gonna you really feel he's not talented Mike good.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No, no, no. A lot of performance today that I'm
like that got nominated. The hell think about corn that
got nominated for So how were you so upset already? Man? Dude?
What is the matter? We're like ninety seconds into the
show when you're the last year is passion? Dude? But dude,
(02:58):
who are turning again? Like Steven A, did you go?
Did you lose a Tony Award pool or something?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I did lots and I was kind of upset about
a couple of the category.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Did you bet against Jody Comer for Best Actress? I mean,
what did you do? What happened? Buddy? Why the Tony's
so upset you so much?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh? No, No, it's just making fun of the NBA all.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Do you have to buy them sandwiches?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I do?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I was told I have to buy them sandwiches based
on the last night Last night's voting, So ty Shirt's
going to dial that up here anymore.
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Speaker 3 (03:41):
Slash match.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
The only thing I can think of why they didn't
play Sunday night. The only reason why I think that
they play Sunday night is that are they worried for
the pushback for the travel because it would have been
a game every other night and now you're changing venues, right,
because I got you thinking about this over the course
of last year. I was like, why do we not
play this weekend? How do you not have a game
on Sunday? And I'm thinking, what's the perfect NBA Final schedule?
(04:06):
And the NBA Finals can forget about always starting on
June first, that's just stupid. You should start on the
first Sunday in June. That should be the start of
the NBA Finals. And you play Sunday Tuesday, Friday Sunday, right,
so you get the first two games right Sunday Tuesday
because you're playing in the same location. Then take two
days off. Then you're changing locations and you play Friday Sundays.
(04:29):
Now you're into game four. All right, great, then you
can do it, and then you can really extend it out.
Let's take two days before game five, then you play Wednesday.
Then you can play game six on Saturday, game seven
on the following Tuesday. But those first four games should
always be Hey, let's go Sunday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday. That's
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the perfect way to start it. And that way you're
guaranteed to get at least two games on a weekend night,
on a Sunday night when people are watching, and that's
the best time to get it. Then you can, however,
you want to do the last three games of this series,
you can now that they change change change out of
two three two. It's a little bit more difficult, but
you could find a way. You could go Sunday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday, right,
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and then you can go Wednesday Friday, and then come
back and make game seven like on Tuesday. Ronnie can say,
let's have three days between game six and game seven.
Let's really draw that that that thing out. Let's let's
go as long as we possibly can. Oh, No, that's
what I would say we did. But you know, I'm again,
I don't make the the NBA schedule, but that would
(05:30):
be the best way to do.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'm just a big believer that you gotta get every
weekend date possible. Friday is a death knell man who's
sitting around on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So maybe you just play Saturday, Sunday, take the week off, Saturday, Sunday,
take the weekday, and then Sunday.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I mean, I think the Friday just confuses me. I mean, Thursday,
you can go up head to head against young Sheldon
re repeats and you'll be okay. But when we talk
about it on the grand scale, you're going to the weekend,
You're like, all.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Right, there's gonna be a game on later, isn't there.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's like, no, oh, and it's Monday night. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I was trying to explain that to someone.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yes, they're like, why I go because it's the NBA
and they didn't properly spaceless thing out. Let's have a
Saturday and then the next weekend do we have one? No,
Now we screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So where do we sit right now? With Game five
on Monday night? It had been a big heat first half.
I think a lot of people at halftime went, oh, really,
the Nugget's really not gonna win this game. Well, now
the game is tied at sixty with six and a
half to go in the third quarter. For the Heat,
it was a huge first half from bam Adebayo. He
had eighteen and ten. Very quiet for playoff Jimmy, We
(06:43):
told you, playoff Jimmy is a myth.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Steals down the stretch he did that was nice, That
was yeah, But you know, help make it look good.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Playoff Jimmy shooting two for nine is it helping? Playoff
Jimmy is not helping playoff Jimmy. We talked about it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Jimmy became one of those things of legend and when
people start doing the comparison and saying, well as jawline
kind of looks like Madam Michael Jordan could be might
it be? And he's a good story, Like his story
is tremendous for those unaware, I mean, just do a
quick Google search. Plenty of long thought pieces have been
have been done about it. But he's a guy that
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shows up in spurts, has some big offensive game. But
at no point are you waiting for him to bust
out a fifty point night.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's just not who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Meanwhile, speaking of fifty point nights, how about Nicole Gilkiz.
Remember I told you he was gonna go for forty
in the final game and lead the Nuggets to victory.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Here at Game five, well, he's not the ways to
go to sipt forty. He's got seventeen. But he is
having a big night.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He's got seventeen, thirteen boards, and for assists, he's seven
out of nine from the floor. Jamal Murray having the
rough night with just nine points. And the guy we
thought was gonna flip the series and be ready for everything,
Tyler Hero he is active.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
He has not entered the game for the heat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And I feel like we spent so much time talking
about Tyler Herro and his how he's gonna he's got
a you know what, Eric Spolster, whether he could play
or not, you got to put him on the court.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You can't just sit here and have this be so
much topic of conversation, Aciate. You got to put him
in just to satisfy the fans. I never say teams
do stuff for the fans, but no, we spend a
lot of time on the storyline.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You got to put him in just so we could
talk about it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Get him in the game, such greatness in the talking
points and certainly throughout Monday it was he was up
to questionable and then spolster answering questions, and he got
that cool thing where he did that I'm bugging out
kind of moment with his eyes and all and and oh,
let me check my phone and having fun with it.
That it was great as you float through. But we
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did get a DeAndre Jordan's siding. So I mean, we
would be remiss if we didn't talk about the three
minutes he gave because Jokic, despite the numbers you put
up there, he had to sit on his ass a
lot because of early foul trouble, both he and Aaron
Gordon as as it went. So it's it's the key
curiosity of where are you gonna find some extra juice
(09:07):
from your offense? Because at a Baio has been fantastic,
and as a team, Miami is still just five of
twenty from three point range. Like both teams can't hit
the broadside of a barn. They are combined seven for
thirty eight tonight, from three point range. O, Well, you
know the three point shot is now outlawed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Let's go Yeah, why are the Nuggets trailing here in
a closeout game? Well, when you are two for twenty
from three point range like the Nuggets are, Yeah, it's
gonna be tough to win games when you when when
when no one is hit one, Jokic hit one in
the first half and Murray's hit one here in the
third quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's it. That there is, there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Is your three pointers for the Denver Nuggets so far
in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And you look cute when that happens. You're not gonna win.
You can go five. You could shoot twenty five percent
from three point range and win a game. You can
do that. You can't shoot ten percent and win a game.
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Jimmy Blew just his eight points, three rebounds, three assists,
three steal the files monitoring the foul trouble as it
were for the Nuggets, because you did have significant time
on the bench for both Aaron Gordon and for Nicola Jokic.
Gordon just four points. He's been fantastic, one of the
(10:18):
unsung heroes and folks I think clamoring to remember, you
know what, he was a top five pick, showing once
again that teams really do screw things up, and if
you're lucky to go someplace where you can have a
coach and get on the right squad, you can have
a huge impact. So I suspect we'll see a lot
of activity from him down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So we'll keep you updated that he'd have a sixty
two to sixty lead. Here again, four minutes to go
in the third quarter, there's a timeout on the floor.
But you mentioned Aaron Rodgers at the Tony's right, and
here's Rogers Tony's. I got a big hot take on
this here, and it kind of gets into and it
kind of makes everything he has done since leave Green
(11:00):
Bay for the Jets make complete and total sense.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Just think about this for a second. Here he is
the Tony's and he's everywhere. He's a Taylor Swift concert,
Confetti is coming down, the Jets want the super Bowl,
he's everywhere. He stays at Jets OTA's for the entire time.
When he was going to go back. What is going on?
When I say this to you, you're gonna say, oh,
this all falls in line with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers
(11:26):
wants to be Lebron James with the Lakers. What he
is looking for for the last year or two of
his career is exactly what Lebron was looking for when
he signed with the Lakers. Lebron wanted la for the brand.
He wanted Los Angeles. He wanted to be a star.
He's now in movies, He's doing all these different things. Yeah,
he wanted Los Angeles for the brand and to play
(11:49):
for the Lakers. You know, one of the biggest heritage
teams in all of NBA history, the Lakers, the Celtics,
the Knicks, the Sixers, you know, those are your Big Four.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
This is what he wanted. Aaron wants the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
There is not one person ever that I have and
you I've been a Jet fan for fifty years. There's
not one guy that's been as excited to be a
Jet as Aaron Rodgers. As It's like, wait a minute, disfranchise.
It's living off one win in the last fifty years.
Aaron Rodgers wants New York for his brand, for his career.
Right now, everything is falling into place. Look, this is
(12:23):
why he's so excited to play for the Jets. His
intention was to play for the Jets. Why he was
in Green Bay. Now he wants New York. He knows
he will be the biggest athlete in the entire city,
in the number one market, and he has jumped in
and embraced it. He wants all of what New York
can offer. You know, for everybody who thinks and thought,
(12:44):
oh New York City, you'll swallow him up, they're not
gonna like it. When he's doing interviews, he is leaning
into everything New York has. Right, Hey, I'm staying longer
for Jets OTAs Really, yes, I was gonna leave, but boy,
I'm gonna stay. Why Because I'm getting everything I want
out of this experience. I am increasing my brand and
I am showing you, going to show you that I
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could still play football at a high level here in
New York. Right if anything else wasn't going to happen,
he would be shying away from it. But this is
exactly what he wants. He wants everything that New York
can offer. And that's why here it's just like why
Lebron went to La.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, in this particular case, I think it also reeks
up a little bit of desperation and a little bit
of brand management.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Those two things align as well. I'm not saying that
some of what you said isn't true.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Of the Hey, I'm going to take it all in
because I'm in a place that has all of this positivity,
et cetera. But a lot of this is how much
can I repair a tarnished brand that made me look
like a jerk in every way, shape and form. Because
you're not talking just sports media. You're talking about nationwide
and we're not going to get into politics. We're not
(13:52):
going to get into the particulars. But let's face it,
he took a lot of slings and arrows across writing,
sports media and regular media for some of his commentary
in the past. The way he handled the last couple
of years in Green Bay, all that it's damage control.
I mean he may want Pat Sajack's job. I mean,
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that may be the thing. He's also thinking about the
long play of getting back into the game show world.
But in the interim, it's the I want the city
to love me. I want the city to embrace me
as the new hero to come into the scene. And
what do you do? You scrap as much as you
can of what might have tarnished your reputation. See what
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I did. They're getting the Taylor swift in there. You
go and you get that, you show up at the
Tony Awards and you start popping in on everything that
says I love New York. I'm surprised he wasn't sitting
there with a shirt that said it, you know, with
like a Tondo coloradic.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I disagree with him when you say he's not He
wasn't desperate trying to hang on. Don't make the guy
in the Baker Mayfield come on, man. I mean he
had two straight m he had a down issure last year,
which still put him in the league.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
In the middle of the league. I get a little
bit more cachet.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I'm not saying the desperation as a player. I'm saying
the desperation of a man, a man who was broken,
a man who read all of the bad ink and
had people saying.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Dude, you look like a jerk. And he actually listened
to someone in his family.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Maybe he listened to his girlfriend, Miss Eden's over there
in Milwaukee saying, hey, legend, girlfriend, I haven't said it
alleged they hang out a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Okay, constant companion. Let's go and put it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
But the idea being I don't think from a playing perspective,
we can argue, and I know locking For is not
a fan. I'm kind of eh, everybody wants him to be,
you know, fourteen and three now following your charge like
it's going to be the greatest thing in the world.
I wait and see as it actually happens. Yes, we
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have to make predictions, and my prediction would be far
south of that based on the playing in the a AFC.
But that that all said is I think it's a
guy that recognizes how bad things have gotten.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
For the name, my name is Mud to come on, man,
you're just you're you're projecting that on it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You know. We'll have more on this coming up. What
you gonna tells, Mike?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I love New York, Mike, the Jets, Jets more than
anything in the upset over here.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Bears owner Aaron Rodgers just has you very, very upset.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
At least, Mike, How's a Life.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
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where the Denver Nuggets are your NBA champions.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
A game that no one's gonna really remember.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is one of the greatest matchups ever, but it doesn't
matter because the Nuggets beat the Heat ninety four eighty
nine to win the title. Now, what did it sound like?
What did it sound like from the Nuggets perspective? What
did it sound like from the Heat perspective? Here's your
world champion. Nuggets call the final words of their NBA
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their first NBA championship.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Eight seconds left, the goal cases across the timeline.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And he'll triple them down. The forty seventy or weightness over.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
The Denver Nuggets stand on top of the NPA world.
They are champions, and Nuggets fans from Seed to Shining
Sea could rust or die in peace.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Altitude Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Okay, then we can res die in peace.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
S it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
In it?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Hold on here, all the plugs you can go.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
It's never gonna win one.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So what was it? What was it? You can let
go now, Daddy, you can let.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Go it's a final let go the nuggets.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
One's hang on clinging. There's nothing else to cling on to,
nothing else to go. Just go, just go, just go,
just go. Just cause you.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Had a good run, you can run it or die
in peace.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
What is the that's a play by playing guy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Because I got a little extemporaneous there, I don't, I don't,
I know, I did get a little bit loose there.
I mean I had the I had the call all set.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
But yeah, I think rest are dying piece. Yeah, I'll
tell you what. It's different. No, no, no, you never
heard one like that before. No, it is no, it
is different.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know, generations having seen this or long time coming
magic No well and national media members had no idea
who any of their stars were.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's okay, no.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But I but again, I usually don't think of, you know,
five calls of my you know, my team's winning?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Are certain teams winning?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Thinking about that? Hey, oh good, now it's okay to die.
I want to be excited about winning a championship. I
don't want to say, well, that's it for me, there's.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Nowhere else to go. I may as well. I've seen
everything I had to. I've seen TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And yes, went from seeing all good people to seeing
the Nuggets win the title. Now it's okay to go.
You can leave and shuffle off this mortal coil. The
Nuggets are your NBA champion.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
As if their fans were waiting their whole lives for this.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh, come on, Frostburg.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Nuggets fans have been waiting for the better part of
the last two and a half years. Come on, man,
since the bubble, since that loss when Ad hit that three, Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Fans have been waiting a good time. I mean it's
they've been waiting.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
For you putting that tweet out. Two years ago, the
Lakers would have won the championship this hey man, No,
they would.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I told you two years ago.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
You can go out Los Angeles ever again.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, but now Denver loves me and they'll want to
buy me dope and stuff and everything, because I don't
think the era of the Nuggets is here. Sure, he
said dope because I knew that harmond that's my favorite word,
and now I just used it a different term, different
way on the show.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I'm pretty sure you will tell them that's what you want.
You don't get dope, what are.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You all on? Dope?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, look, I told you two years ago to it. Hey,
the era of the Nuggets has coming here. It's here,
and now they're here, and now they're gonna be a
yearly NBA final threat for the next five to seven
years because.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You have what you need.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Right, we've done. Do you have Nikola Jokic, who is
a guy who was very indifferent to his success. He
is kind of like the new Steph Curry, where, Okay,
he's a guy I can go team up with in
Denver and win. He's a big that's gonna has an
incredible skill set and I'm okay being there that this
opens up a whole new world for the Nuggets. Man,
and your two best players, You're You're, You're one and
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one A are both in their mid twenties. Dude, I mean,
what do you think is gonna happen? Of course they're
gonna be there the next few years. It's the era
of the Nuggets. It is here to until you find
somebody that can guard Nicola Jokic. The era's gonna stay
here for a while.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I dig your excitement here, and certainly you know we're
talking about the now. I tried to take it out
to the dominant finals of Nikola jokicch and you see
what transpired as the players know, keep moving, he will
find you. Right, So you've got a core that's in
place at least for another couple of years. Jamal Murray,
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you saw the moment with Michael Malone. You know what
Gordon is, former top five pick. Because that's the beauty
of this, right. You got the homegrown guys, and then
you've got a couple of guys who are hungry and
cast off guy who's been shown to be a good
role player fitting in in KCP that and you've got
a couple of the guys coming off the bench, Brown
and Braun who are gonna give you minutes and grow
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into their roles.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You got.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You gotta be pretty excited if you're Michael Malone of
what the future holds now, Like anything, as soon as
we start crowning, get as we start worrying about health
or guys being upset about contracts they may have already signed,
or how much they see the ball whatever. I don't
know that we necessarily see that here with this iteration
of these Denver nuggets. You know, Michael Porter Junior, there
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were concerns in the previous versions of Michael Porter Junior
that that was the case, selfishness, et cetera. He seemed
to have embraced what his role is now coming off
of injuries, and where he stands in the pecking order
here of these Denver Nuggets. Maybe maybe over an offseason
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that changes and he decides he wants to go and
force the issue to be the guy or second guy
somewhere else. But in the interim, it's a pretty good run.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of changes over
the course of the off season, and they'll start soon enough.
We'll talk about, you know, the suspension that comes for Job,
what does that mean for Memphis? What do they do
(23:00):
to stem the time whatever that suspension does become, and
just go on down the line. We've seen Zion Williamson's
name floated in trade rumors. Well, is he ever actually
gonna play again? I'm kidding, obviously he'll Well, we.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Know his nocturnal activity.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
When you say play, you have to make sure people
know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I know exactly what I was talking about, and I
just laid it up there and justin went and dunked
it as if he were Zion Williamson on the court
pre game, pre game, but pregame kind of dunk there,
so you know, one of those three sixties.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
But there's gonna be a lot of movement.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
We've got a lot of big name guys looking to
either change via trade or actually hitting free agency and
player opt outs.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's gonna be a fun offseason.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now is it going to be fun for Nicola Jokicic
going to the parade on Thursday? Jokicic just finished talking
to the media, bringing more of his press conference coming
up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
But here's Jokicic asked.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Hey, are you looking forward to the championship parade on Thursday?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You said after the Lakers when you said you were
surprised that you didn't feel more. So, I'm curious what
you are feeling right now and if you're looking forward
to a parade coming up in.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Denver Menis Parade, Menis Parrade Thursday. No, I need to
go home, Okay, Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He was being honest, Though you want to go home.
I'm done with this, like.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I have, I have, I have plane reservations in three hours. Man,
I'm leaving like the parade. I am leaving the United
States for the next few months. I gotta stay till Thursday.
When is the parade Thursday? Now, I gotta stay It's Monday.
I gotta stay till. No, not doing it, not staying
man about about. Oh I imagine not in the parade Thursday,
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doesn't go.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
No, I need to go home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I need to go All of that I can't say
that is.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
One of the greatest answers ever. Yeah, let's get out there,
let's celebrate with the fans. And it looked like it
was becoming a very unruly situation.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Now Denver this evening.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
But just's just send Stetson Bennett to the parade. He
can be on his phone the entire time.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It'll be awesome.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Maybe they just put Tyler Hero with the bucket hat
as NICOLEA. Jokic on the.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Buck There you have it.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Prop up some some giant who kind of looks.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Like grab one of his brothers, pay one of his
brothers for the day.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You're looking forward to the parade.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, Now, there is a fun video of him that's
making its way around for a couple of minutes ago. Uh,
he grabbed Jamal Murray and there's video of him throwing
Jamal Murray into It looks like a rehab pool that
the players use at the Nuggets facilities. He drags Jamal
Murray into the room with him and who's holding onto
(26:02):
a bottle of champagne, and he threw He jumps into
the pool with Jamal Murray.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Another player jumps in after.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
This is starting to get a lot of attention right now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So it's not like Jokich is all, hey, listen, I
won I'm ready to go home now, and I have
no more responsibility to all of you. He is still
having fun. He just was thinking, oh man, I have
to stay in the United States for another few really.
By the way, I gotta stay and stop.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
You have your just lighting right, I'm watching the video.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I gotta stay till Thursday.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
What do you think happened, Jason.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't want to I don't I don't want to go.
I don't want to go home. I don't want to
go go to the parade. I go to a parade
on Thursday. I want to say, no parade is tomorrow? Wait?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What yeah, no parade is tomorrow. Okay, I got your
parades tomorrow. We're gonna have it tomorrow morning. My flight
is at eleven thirty. Let's have the parade at eight
to eight fifteen and then I leave for the airport.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So why did he just say that, you know what,
I'm going to be driving down this street if you
want to wait, waving me as I'm on my way
to the Denver Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's a good idea, idea.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell us which way you're going so
we can line the streets and say thank you on
your way to the airport.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Because they get.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Spin it as he gets his own parade. He's that
special to us, number one in our hearts, the two
time MVP, now finals MVP. Yeah, we're gonna celebrate him
as we send him home. Are a well deserved off
season of rest and riding and hanging out with his horses.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh. I kind of like that idea.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I kind of like, hey, there's no parade, but follow
me and it will look like a parade.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's right, follow me. I'm the piede piper.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Will you wave to everyone outside your window every mile?
I will wave to one one specific person, unlucky person.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's it. That's anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Will there be photo opportunities, You'll be one photo opportunity
as I exit my car at the airport.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Before I get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I will turn to wave one final time before they
they pull up the stairs and I get on the plane.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's it. That's a last like this. This is good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
See we just work shopped that through that. That now
sounds like a fun event.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (28:17):
We're gonna win right now because joining us on the
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Underscore Medina. It is Mark Medina Mark. What's happening man?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Oh, not too much. I am just intrigued on what
wound up happening with this, uh, with this dinner distrue?
What was the resolution?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You know?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Okay, so just last Friday, hard you know about the
dinner dispute.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Yeah, I was on it. I stood for you.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He laid in on it until I convinced him that
that I shouldn't How did anybody not have I mean,
that shouldn't have been that should have been unanimous standing
up for me.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That wasn't here. Well, it wasn't your fault though.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So what happened was on Friday, Harmon was off and
I bought dinner for everybody because you know, I'm that guy,
and ty Shirt accidentally had Harmon's account up and we
ordered fat sALS and we got sandwiches like.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And so tyche.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
They wouldn't let him fix it, so the meal got
charged Harmon even though he wasn't here. So we asked
throughout the show who should have to pay for the food?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Like, should I have to reimburse Harmon or ty Shirt?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And Medina like three times said it should be me
who pays, and finally I said, this is not my fault.
I gave a big example and he said, okay, Jason,
maybe ty Shirt has to pay.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So in the end he really came around to my side.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Wow, I was always out of it that.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, it's completely you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You offered to pay at some point, the dollars are
out of yours, whether it because Tyson ended up giving
up a bunch of time trying to convince people to
just fix it properly.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Now, did he screw up? Absolutely? Oh, and he knows
he did. It's his fault and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But it shouldn't cost him any dollars out it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's his fault. Why it's why do I have to
pay for tight Shirt's mistake?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
If you were supposed to pay for the meal, I did,
but then he screwed it up, so he's got to
pay for it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Jason, it's also your fault. The Nuggets won the championship.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I will give Jason credit for this. He I think
he's the first one to call the Nuggets championship, right.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I think I see. I'm a trend center, I am
a trendsetter. So it ended up it ended up that
most people voted.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
For me to pay.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So I will pay Harmon back for the for the meal.
I'm in like five years. I don't have to pay
him back yet. I'll pay him back in a few years.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So that's how worked.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
So as we get to the game tonight, a lot
of discussion the final minute of the same the final
thirty seconds. You know, the Heat are so well coached,
we talk about Sposter all the time, and then thirty
seconds left to go, and and Jimmy Buckets has that
horrible turnover. None of his teammates try to get open
for him. KCP it's a couple of free throws. Then
(30:59):
they have this rediculously bad possession where they decide to
put up a force three. Jimmy Butler turns around with
a four three that has no chance of going. They decide,
I don't even know if they had a plan, and
it was coming off a time out, and how do
you not put the Nuggets on the free throw line
as bad as they were shooting. I don't get a
lot of the heat strategy in the final minute of
this game.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Yeah, I don't either, And look, I think that there's
definitely some question we'll play calling as far as why
not draw up some schemes to put a disorganized, disorganized
offense into more structure. But usually this is the time
that Jimmy Butler comes into livers and he did not
play well in the first three quarters. But sometimes even
during those moments, you know that that clutch gene kicks
(31:42):
in and that gene was nowhere near Denver for Jimmy Butler.
And the play that confounded me the most was that
drive to the baschet where he just suddenly stopped, Like
I know, he made defenders, but you can attack the rim,
you can draw foul and not only did he stop
and move his pivot point pivotful, but then he made
this terrible pass that CASECP intercept. I didn't get it.
(32:05):
The other play was bad too, with him just hoisting
up a three, But that first one where he just
stopped and passed, I don't understand it. It was weird.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So Mark, do we chuck this up to just great
defense and slugging it out or were we going to
go into the Hey, they were really tight because neither
team could find the bottom of the basket.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Well, I think when you weigh the totality of the series,
I mean it was just mainly that Denver is a
lot better. They have more depth, they can absorb off performances.
But I think when you're looking at this specific game,
it was ugly all across the board. Denver didn't play
well either, and there very much was a recipe for
the heat at least to force a game six back
to Miami. If you go back to Miami, who knows,
(32:48):
you know, anything can happen. But Jimmy Butler didn't show
up to play. Their shooters didn't show up to play,
as they did for most of the series with Max
Strus and gave Vincent and Duncan Robinson not hit shots.
Cody Zeller, I know it was only like thirty seconds,
but it was thirty seconds too long, Like he was
terrible on the floor, and Tyler hero like, all of
(33:10):
a sudden, he's active. Why not just see what he
can give you? You have nothing to lose, and he
was still a DMC. All those things just didn't make sense.
But in the big picture, the Nuggets were going to
win this series. They have Jokic, the best center in
the league right now. They got Jamal Murray who didn't
have a good performance here necessarily in Game five, but
(33:30):
he's a merch der in this postseason as a defensive
All Star moving forward, and they just have so much
depth that when he weigh everything, it was just a
matter of when, not if they were going to win
their first championship in franchise history.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
You know, And now you go forward and okay, the
Nuggets win this year. A lot had to go right
and that look, I said, if you don't win this year,
when are you going to win?
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Are the teams weren't quite.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
As good, But this is a team now that now
that you are NBA champion Nuggets and you have Jokics,
with the reputation around the league that he does and
the fact that he and Murray are both in their twenties.
They're going to be one of the overwhelming title favorites
for the next five years. Maybe more so because now
that you prove you can win a you'll get more
free agents who want to come play there, and we
(34:15):
might be in the era of the Nuggets now in
the Western Conference.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
Yeah, I mean, I think that don't get ahead of ourselves,
but let's do it anyway. They could become the next Spurs. Right.
We're small market team, but they rely on the continuity
of a really good star in Nikola jokicch and they
have a good head coach, They got a good supporting cast,
and then just continue to reinvent the wheel. So I
think when you look at this next season, I would
(34:42):
put them as the favorites to repeat. But I wouldn't
put them in the category of like the Golden State
Warriors earlier in the decade, where it just seemed like
it's inevitable they're going to win the title once they
had Kevin Durant. I think that there are going to
be other contenders in the mix. And you also have
to account for, like with every NBA offseason, there's going
to be teams we went in dealing and making major moves,
(35:03):
but there's also a lot of question marks with all
those contending teams, whether it's the Boston Celtics, the Milwaukee Bucks,
the Golden State Warriors, maybe even the Lakers, the Clippers,
Like there's all right now fundamental holes in every one
of their rosters. And while because of that you assume
that they're going to make some changes to the roster,
(35:24):
that all of a sudden change the odds. I think
at least right now. You look at the Nuggets, not
as it's inevitable they're going to win the title, but
they have the recipe for a really good window because
everyone's in their prime. There's no fundamental weaknesses in their roster,
and I think knowing how Calvin Booth is a GM,
he is going to find ongoing ways to just improve
(35:46):
within the margins. As also because of the fact that
they have that conduit and great coaching, there's a recipe
of improving from within with their role players. I mean,
most notably with Christian Brawn. You know him being a
rookie and how he shared his development through playoffs. So yeah,
they got a lot of good things going for them,
and this is certainly not a one off championship. This
(36:08):
could be the first of many in years to come.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harmon here from the
tiraq dot Com studios of Fox Sports Radio. Our buddy
Mark Medina is with us to cover the final throws
of this NBA long, arduous journey towards the title at
Mark g Underscore Medina where you find him on Twitter,
Analysts and expert and insider and all of those tags
(36:32):
that we throw on you and so Mark, because we
are thought leaders in this time, Spot Smith and I
we have been talking about it in terms of Jokis
because we have to rank stuff. That's what we love
to do. So in this millennium, is he only behind
Shack as far as the most dominant final series ever?
Speaker 8 (36:51):
Yeah, that's a really good question. I think you would
have to put Tim Duncan obviously there ahead of them.
But I think that not only when you're looking millennium,
but you're looking at the totality of league history. I'm
not going to rank you know, Jokic yet above guys
like Til Russell, Recruim Abdul Jabbar, Wilke Chamberlain, Shaquille O'neilhakima
Lodge wants him Duncan. But the reality is this his
(37:14):
career is far from over, and so I think it's
realistic to think he's going to start having multiple NBA Championships,
He's going to have multiple finals MVPs. He'll probably have
more regular season MVPs. Like that's not out of the
question here, and I think in the present current of time,
it at least knocks down the last remaining stubbornness from
(37:35):
people that are diminishing his two regular season MVP award. Jackson, Yeah, yeah,
Mark Jackson, the guy who was like seeing his phrases
throughout the telecast and saying how he doesn't get enough credit,
and it's like, I wonder why, like who missed the
MVP ballt And I think with that, like when I
would hear Michael Malone, you know, complain and grape about
(37:56):
the underdog, you know, disrespect narrative. I rolled a little
bit specifically with Jokic because reality is the majority of
the voters voted for him to win two MVP awards, right,
so like no one's really disrespecting Jokic. I think he's
gained enough credit, But there was a very vocal minority
that didn't vote for Jokic that diminish the accomplishments of
(38:20):
what he meant what it meant. So I think at
the very least, while he didn't need this championship to
validate it, I think it at least takes away any
ammunition that his detractors could use to downplay what he's shown,
you know, the last few seasons.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
All right, Mark, lastly, we'll put you on the spot
here the nuggets of your NBA champions If I said
to you right now, tell me the two teams in
the NBA Finals next year would be blank and blank.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
If one of them is the Knicks, that's okay. But
if I said to you the.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Two teams in the NBA Finals next year will be
blank and blank, who would you say?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I well, let's see, hang on. If you think the
Knicks are going to lose, that's.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Okay, okay, Well, the good news is we got the
Denver Nuggets against the New York's next to the NBA Finals.
The bad news for you Jason, the Nuggets repeat, the
Knicks don't have a shot.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Wait, wait, you really think the Knicks can make the
finals next year?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (39:20):
They very good? Look they got showing Brunson. I mean,
what are you doubting the Knicks for here?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I'm just like, I'm just like, can't believe you actually
hit the Knicks. I thought you were gonna give me
a funny one liner and say something about Tatum.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
I thought the plot line is that they're not going
to win the title to who cares? But look, I
think that they very well could make the finals. Now,
I think that Boston and Milwaukee they're in the mix.
Maybe Cleveland, maybe Philadelphia. But look, I don't think this
is hot taky to say that New York could be
in it. Uh, you know, I wouldn't say prohibitive favorite,
(39:56):
but Milwaukee and Boston have some things to address. Saying
the Knicks have a good thing going with jam Brunson,
he's just scratching the surface the same way that Nuggets
are with championships. So you never know.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Opening odds for the twenty twenty four Time Old Nuggets
plus five hundred, followed by the Celtics, Bucks, Suns, then
the Mavericks, Warriors, Lakers, Clippers, Sixers, Lakers aren't the favorites.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Wait, you say you didn't say Nicks. They say they're
not there yet. No, no, say nix, say say nix.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Next they were much there are your life savings on
the next everyone, Oh, don't.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Say that, man, No no, no, no, that's all for
entertainment purposes.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah no, no, no. Hell.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, longtime NBA
insider reporter. Mark, thanks so much for everything during the
playoffs and the finals. And well we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Enjoy the night working forward to and I gotta te
back by comment. We're just talking about the games. We're
not advising anyone to put bets down.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
There you go, very in theory, in theory, in theory.
Very good, There you go, Thank you very much, my friend.
There he goes.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
But next to the finals, next nick to no harmon,
give me that list?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Where then you did? I think you just skipped over? No, no, no, like.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
But it was also on a pay site, so it
only went to like the first ten and it's like,
if you'd like the rest of the teams.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Wait a minute, the nixt to the top. You would
say they're not saying not that they're not. You've got
Brunson and what else did you? I like RJ.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Barrett, but only because he's the last man standing of
the twenty nineteen class.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Julius Brandon was hurt. No, he's not gonna be hurt
next year in the fo Okay, Mike.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
It guys are literally wasting your breath.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That might happen right here, Hang on, not where are
the Knicks? Where the Knicks are in two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Eight, got relegated thirteen four, they're fifteen fifteen's come on, man,
they're forty five to one. My man, we just beat
the Cavaliers. How are the Cavaliers higher that next year?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
You don't get points. You don't get bonus points for
beating them this last year. Okay, so how can you
tell me? All that we have seen is the Knicks
just beat the Cavaliers pretty handily. How are the Cavaliers
nine spots ahead of the Nothing else has changed, Nothing
has changed. It's not like the Cavaliers brought in new
players mixed. Nothing has changed. How is that that is
just Nick's hate that Cavaliers are only its new spots.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
There's only the Kings and the Pelicans between them.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh that I'm looking right now. Cavaliers A plus nineteen hundred. Wow,
that may maybe just have This is just this is
just anti Knick stuff. I'm looking at, just anti Nix.
I'm looking at right now. Okay, buddy, Nuggets, Bucks, Celtics, Sons, Sons,
come on, really, Sons, come on, man, Warriors, Warriors, come.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
On, Warriors, Mavericks, Lakers, Sixers, Cavaliers, Lakers, Clippers, come on,
I mean, this is ridiculous. Hey, it's a couple. Is
it really those time? Yes, it is, Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
It should be Nuggets number one, Nicks number two. That's
a what you're going Nuggets Nicks next, our number two.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
You're right, Joe Frostburg
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Be Well, just like everybody else on the planet Earth
right now tonight saying the same thing. Can the NBA
Finals Lee's and tonight? Can we please? Can the finals please?
And because the heat ard coming back to win three
in a row, can we end the finals tonight so
we can get onto other things like the second week
(01:12):
of workouts for NFL teams as they get into the
the unofficial start of the season before they all go
away for a month, which is not really the start,
but it's kind of the start, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think people are ready for that.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Mike Harmon, Yeah, I gotta think.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
The biggest thing here is to note that the NBA,
while they're being dominated by the NFL, the NFL came
in guns a blazing to take over Christmas Day.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The NBA said.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, no, no, no, we can't play on a Sunday
because the Tony Awards are going on. We're gonna play
our finals game on a Monday. That's what we're gonna do.
It's genius. We're gonna watch Josh Groban dance around Is
Sweeney Todd, We're gonna watch all sorts of great music performances.
(02:00):
Aaron Rodgers continuing as the greatest tourist the greater New
York Area has ever seen. And we're gonna play on Monday.
On Monday, Aaron.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Rodgers at the Tonys. I'm sorry, that's the biggest story
in the world. It's bigger than anything else. If he
goes to the Tonys, we can't play an NBA game
that night.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sorry, How are you not playing on a Sunday. I
can't do it. You give up.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Aaron Rodgers is at the Tonys. Man because Aaron Rodgers
is there. They knew waiting for them. Go up and
do a song and dance. I'm not good.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
I'm not gonna you really feel he's not talented Mike good.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
No, no, no. A lot of performance today that I'm
like that got nominated. The hell think about corn that
got nominated for So how were you so upset already? Man? Dude?
What is the matter? We're like ninety seconds into the
show when you're the last year is passion? Dude? But dude,
(02:58):
who are turning again? Like Steven A, did you go?
Did you lose a Tony Award pool or something?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I did lots and I was kind of upset about
a couple of the category.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Did you bet against Jody Comer for Best Actress? I mean,
what did you do? What happened? Buddy? Why the Tony's
so upset you so much?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh? No, No, it's just making fun of the NBA all.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Do you have to buy them sandwiches?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I do?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
I was told I have to buy them sandwiches based
on the last night Last night's voting, So ty Shirt's
going to dial that up here anymore.
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Speaker 1 (03:42):
The only thing I can think of why they didn't
play Sunday night. The only reason why I think that
they play Sunday night is that are they worried for
the pushback for the travel because it would have been
a game every other night and now you're changing venues, right,
because I got you thinking about this over the course
of last year. I was like, why do we not
play this weekend? How do you not have a game
on Sunday? And I'm thinking, what's the perfect NBA Final schedule?
(04:06):
And the NBA Finals can forget about always starting on
June first, that's just stupid. You should start on the
first Sunday in June. That should be the start of
the NBA Finals. And you play Sunday Tuesday, Friday Sunday, right,
so you get the first two games right Sunday Tuesday
because you're playing in the same location. Then take two
days off. Then you're changing locations and you play Friday Sundays.
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Now you're into game four. All right, great, then you
can do it, and then you can really extend it out.
Let's take two days before game five, then you play Wednesday.
Then you can play game six on Saturday, game seven
on the following Tuesday. But those first four games should
always be Hey, let's go Sunday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday. That's
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the perfect way to start it. And that way you're
guaranteed to get at least two games on a weekend night,
on a Sunday night when people are watching, and that's
the best time to get it. Then you can, however,
you want to do the last three games of this series,
you can now that they change change change out of
two three two. It's a little bit more difficult, but
you could find a way. You could go Sunday, Tuesday, Friday, Sunday, right,
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and then you can go Wednesday Friday, and then come
back and make game seven like on Tuesday. Ronnie can say,
let's have three days between game six and game seven.
Let's really draw that that that thing out. Let's let's
go as long as we possibly can. Oh, No, that's
what I would say we did. But you know, I'm again,
I don't make the the NBA schedule, but that would
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be the best way to do.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'm just a big believer that you gotta get every
weekend date possible. Friday is a death knell man who's
sitting around on a Friday night.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So maybe you just play Saturday, Sunday, take the week off, Saturday, Sunday,
take the weekday, and then Sunday.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I mean, I think the Friday just confuses me. I mean, Thursday,
you can go up head to head against young Sheldon
re repeats and you'll be okay. But when we talk
about it on the grand scale, you're going to the weekend,
You're like, all.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Right, there's gonna be a game on later, isn't there.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's like, no, oh, and it's Monday night. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I was trying to explain that to someone.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yes, they're like, why I go because it's the NBA
and they didn't properly spaceless thing out. Let's have a
Saturday and then the next weekend do we have one? No,
Now we screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So where do we sit right now? With Game five
on Monday night? It had been a big heat first half.
I think a lot of people at halftime went, oh, really,
the Nugget's really not gonna win this game. Well, now
the game is tied at sixty with six and a
half to go in the third quarter. For the Heat,
it was a huge first half from bam Adebayo. He
had eighteen and ten. Very quiet for playoff Jimmy, We
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told you, playoff Jimmy is a myth.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Steals down the stretch he did that was nice, That
was yeah, But you know, help make it look good.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Playoff Jimmy shooting two for nine is it helping? Playoff
Jimmy is not helping playoff Jimmy. We talked about it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Jimmy became one of those things of legend and when
people start doing the comparison and saying, well as jawline
kind of looks like Madam Michael Jordan could be might
it be? And he's a good story, Like his story
is tremendous for those unaware, I mean, just do a
quick Google search. Plenty of long thought pieces have been
have been done about it. But he's a guy that
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shows up in spurts, has some big offensive game. But
at no point are you waiting for him to bust
out a fifty point night.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's just not who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Meanwhile, speaking of fifty point nights, how about Nicole Gilkiz.
Remember I told you he was gonna go for forty
in the final game and lead the Nuggets to victory.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Here at Game five, well, he's not the ways to
go to sipt forty. He's got seventeen. But he is
having a big night.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He's got seventeen, thirteen boards, and for assists, he's seven
out of nine from the floor. Jamal Murray having the
rough night with just nine points. And the guy we
thought was gonna flip the series and be ready for everything,
Tyler Hero he is active.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
He has not entered the game for the heat.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And I feel like we spent so much time talking
about Tyler Herro and his how he's gonna he's got
a you know what, Eric Spolster, whether he could play
or not, you got to put him on the court.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You can't just sit here and have this be so
much topic of conversation, Aciate. You got to put him
in just to satisfy the fans. I never say teams
do stuff for the fans, but no, we spend a
lot of time on the storyline.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You got to put him in just so we could
talk about it.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Get him in the game, such greatness in the talking
points and certainly throughout Monday it was he was up
to questionable and then spolster answering questions, and he got
that cool thing where he did that I'm bugging out
kind of moment with his eyes and all and and oh,
let me check my phone and having fun with it.
That it was great as you float through. But we
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did get a DeAndre Jordan's siding. So I mean, we
would be remiss if we didn't talk about the three
minutes he gave because Jokic, despite the numbers you put
up there, he had to sit on his ass a
lot because of early foul trouble, both he and Aaron
Gordon as as it went. So it's it's the key
curiosity of where are you gonna find some extra juice
(09:07):
from your offense? Because at a Baio has been fantastic,
and as a team, Miami is still just five of
twenty from three point range. Like both teams can't hit
the broadside of a barn. They are combined seven for
thirty eight tonight, from three point range. O, Well, you
know the three point shot is now outlawed.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Let's go Yeah, why are the Nuggets trailing here in
a closeout game? Well, when you are two for twenty
from three point range like the Nuggets are, Yeah, it's
gonna be tough to win games when you when when
when no one is hit one, Jokic hit one in
the first half and Murray's hit one here in the
third quarter.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's it. That there is, there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Is your three pointers for the Denver Nuggets so far
in this game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
And you look cute when that happens. You're not gonna win.
You can go five. You could shoot twenty five percent
from three point range and win a game. You can
do that. You can't shoot ten percent and win a game.
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Jimmy Blew just his eight points, three rebounds, three assists,
three steal the files monitoring the foul trouble as it
were for the Nuggets, because you did have significant time
on the bench for both Aaron Gordon and for Nicola Jokic.
Gordon just four points. He's been fantastic, one of the
(10:18):
unsung heroes and folks I think clamoring to remember, you
know what, he was a top five pick, showing once
again that teams really do screw things up, and if
you're lucky to go someplace where you can have a
coach and get on the right squad, you can have
a huge impact. So I suspect we'll see a lot
of activity from him down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
So we'll keep you updated that he'd have a sixty
two to sixty lead. Here again, four minutes to go
in the third quarter, there's a timeout on the floor.
But you mentioned Aaron Rodgers at the Tony's right, and
here's Rogers Tony's. I got a big hot take on
this here, and it kind of gets into and it
kind of makes everything he has done since leave Green
(11:00):
Bay for the Jets make complete and total sense.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Just think about this for a second. Here he is
the Tony's and he's everywhere. He's a Taylor Swift concert,
Confetti is coming down, the Jets want the super Bowl,
he's everywhere. He stays at Jets OTA's for the entire time.
When he was going to go back. What is going on?
When I say this to you, you're gonna say, oh,
this all falls in line with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers
(11:26):
wants to be Lebron James with the Lakers. What he
is looking for for the last year or two of
his career is exactly what Lebron was looking for when
he signed with the Lakers. Lebron wanted la for the brand.
He wanted Los Angeles. He wanted to be a star.
He's now in movies, He's doing all these different things. Yeah,
he wanted Los Angeles for the brand and to play
(11:49):
for the Lakers. You know, one of the biggest heritage
teams in all of NBA history, the Lakers, the Celtics,
the Knicks, the Sixers, you know, those are your Big Four.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
This is what he wanted. Aaron wants the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
There is not one person ever that I have and
you I've been a Jet fan for fifty years. There's
not one guy that's been as excited to be a
Jet as Aaron Rodgers. As It's like, wait a minute, disfranchise.
It's living off one win in the last fifty years.
Aaron Rodgers wants New York for his brand, for his career.
Right now, everything is falling into place. Look, this is
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why he's so excited to play for the Jets. His
intention was to play for the Jets. Why he was
in Green Bay. Now he wants New York. He knows
he will be the biggest athlete in the entire city,
in the number one market, and he has jumped in
and embraced it. He wants all of what New York
can offer. You know, for everybody who thinks and thought,
(12:44):
oh New York City, you'll swallow him up, they're not
gonna like it. When he's doing interviews, he is leaning
into everything New York has. Right, Hey, I'm staying longer
for Jets OTAs Really, yes, I was gonna leave, but boy,
I'm gonna stay. Why Because I'm getting everything I want
out of this experience. I am increasing my brand and
I am showing you, going to show you that I
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could still play football at a high level here in
New York. Right if anything else wasn't going to happen,
he would be shying away from it. But this is
exactly what he wants. He wants everything that New York
can offer. And that's why here it's just like why
Lebron went to La.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, in this particular case, I think it also reeks
up a little bit of desperation and a little bit
of brand management.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Those two things align as well. I'm not saying that
some of what you said isn't true.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Of the Hey, I'm going to take it all in
because I'm in a place that has all of this positivity,
et cetera. But a lot of this is how much
can I repair a tarnished brand that made me look
like a jerk in every way, shape and form. Because
you're not talking just sports media. You're talking about nationwide
and we're not going to get into politics. We're not
(13:52):
going to get into the particulars. But let's face it,
he took a lot of slings and arrows across writing,
sports media and regular media for some of his commentary
in the past. The way he handled the last couple
of years in Green Bay, all that it's damage control.
I mean he may want Pat Sajack's job. I mean,
(14:14):
that may be the thing. He's also thinking about the
long play of getting back into the game show world.
But in the interim, it's the I want the city
to love me. I want the city to embrace me
as the new hero to come into the scene. And
what do you do? You scrap as much as you
can of what might have tarnished your reputation. See what
(14:35):
I did. They're getting the Taylor swift in there. You
go and you get that, you show up at the
Tony Awards and you start popping in on everything that
says I love New York. I'm surprised he wasn't sitting
there with a shirt that said it, you know, with
like a Tondo coloradic.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I disagree with him when you say he's not He
wasn't desperate trying to hang on. Don't make the guy
in the Baker Mayfield come on, man. I mean he
had two straight m he had a down issure last year,
which still put him in the league.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
In the middle of the league. I get a little
bit more cachet.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I'm not saying the desperation as a player. I'm saying
the desperation of a man, a man who was broken,
a man who read all of the bad ink and
had people saying.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Dude, you look like a jerk. And he actually listened
to someone in his family.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Maybe he listened to his girlfriend, Miss Eden's over there
in Milwaukee saying, hey, legend, girlfriend, I haven't said it
alleged they hang out a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Okay, constant companion. Let's go and put it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
But the idea being I don't think from a playing perspective,
we can argue, and I know locking For is not
a fan. I'm kind of eh, everybody wants him to be,
you know, fourteen and three now following your charge like
it's going to be the greatest thing in the world.
I wait and see as it actually happens. Yes, we
(15:55):
have to make predictions, and my prediction would be far
south of that based on the playing in the a AFC.
But that that all said is I think it's a
guy that recognizes how bad things have gotten.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
For the name, my name is Mud to come on, man,
you're just you're you're projecting that on it.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
You know. We'll have more on this coming up. What
you gonna tells, Mike?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I love New York, Mike, the Jets, Jets more than
anything in the upset over here.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Bears owner Aaron Rodgers just has you very, very upset.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
At least, Mike, How's a Life.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
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Speaker 1 (16:41):
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where the Denver Nuggets are your NBA champions.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
A game that no one's gonna really remember.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is one of the greatest matchups ever, but it doesn't
matter because the Nuggets beat the Heat ninety four eighty
nine to win the title. Now, what did it sound like?
What did it sound like from the Nuggets perspective? What
did it sound like from the Heat perspective? Here's your
world champion. Nuggets call the final words of their NBA
(17:17):
their first NBA championship.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Eight seconds left, the goal cases across the timeline.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And he'll triple them down. The forty seventy or weightness over.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
The Denver Nuggets stand on top of the NPA world.
They are champions, and Nuggets fans from Seed to Shining
Sea could rust or die in peace.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Altitude Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Okay, then we can res die in peace.
Speaker 7 (17:54):
S it.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
In it?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Hold on here, all the plugs you can go.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
It's never gonna win one.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So what was it? What was it? You can let
go now, Daddy, you can let.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Go it's a final let go the nuggets.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
One's hang on clinging. There's nothing else to cling on to,
nothing else to go. Just go, just go, just go,
just go. Just cause you.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Had a good run, you can run it or die
in peace.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
What is the that's a play by playing guy.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Because I got a little extemporaneous there, I don't, I don't,
I know, I did get a little bit loose there.
I mean I had the I had the call all set.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
But yeah, I think rest are dying piece. Yeah, I'll
tell you what. It's different. No, no, no, you never
heard one like that before. No, it is no, it
is different.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know, generations having seen this or long time coming
magic No well and national media members had no idea
who any of their stars were.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
It's okay, no.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But I but again, I usually don't think of, you know,
five calls of my you know, my team's winning?
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Are certain teams winning?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Thinking about that? Hey, oh good, now it's okay to die.
I want to be excited about winning a championship. I
don't want to say, well, that's it for me, there's.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Nowhere else to go. I may as well. I've seen
everything I had to. I've seen TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And yes, went from seeing all good people to seeing
the Nuggets win the title. Now it's okay to go.
You can leave and shuffle off this mortal coil. The
Nuggets are your NBA champion.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
As if their fans were waiting their whole lives for this.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh, come on, Frostburg.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Nuggets fans have been waiting for the better part of
the last two and a half years. Come on, man,
since the bubble, since that loss when Ad hit that three, Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Fans have been waiting a good time. I mean it's
they've been waiting.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
For you putting that tweet out. Two years ago, the
Lakers would have won the championship this hey man, No,
they would.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I told you two years ago.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
You can go out Los Angeles ever again.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, but now Denver loves me and they'll want to
buy me dope and stuff and everything, because I don't
think the era of the Nuggets is here. Sure, he
said dope because I knew that harmond that's my favorite word,
and now I just used it a different term, different
way on the show.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
I'm pretty sure you will tell them that's what you want.
You don't get dope, what are.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You all on? Dope?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I mean, look, I told you two years ago to it. Hey,
the era of the Nuggets has coming here. It's here,
and now they're here, and now they're gonna be a
yearly NBA final threat for the next five to seven
years because.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You have what you need.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Right, we've done. Do you have Nikola Jokic, who is
a guy who was very indifferent to his success. He
is kind of like the new Steph Curry, where, Okay,
he's a guy I can go team up with in
Denver and win. He's a big that's gonna has an
incredible skill set and I'm okay being there that this
opens up a whole new world for the Nuggets. Man,
and your two best players, You're You're, You're one and
(20:54):
one A are both in their mid twenties. Dude, I mean,
what do you think is gonna happen? Of course they're
gonna be there the next few years. It's the era
of the Nuggets. It is here to until you find
somebody that can guard Nicola Jokic. The era's gonna stay
here for a while.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I dig your excitement here, and certainly you know we're
talking about the now. I tried to take it out
to the dominant finals of Nikola jokicch and you see
what transpired as the players know, keep moving, he will
find you. Right, So you've got a core that's in
place at least for another couple of years. Jamal Murray,
(21:30):
you saw the moment with Michael Malone. You know what
Gordon is, former top five pick. Because that's the beauty
of this, right. You got the homegrown guys, and then
you've got a couple of guys who are hungry and
cast off guy who's been shown to be a good
role player fitting in in KCP that and you've got
a couple of the guys coming off the bench, Brown
and Braun who are gonna give you minutes and grow
(21:52):
into their roles.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You got.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
You gotta be pretty excited if you're Michael Malone of
what the future holds now, Like anything, as soon as
we start crowning, get as we start worrying about health
or guys being upset about contracts they may have already signed,
or how much they see the ball whatever. I don't
know that we necessarily see that here with this iteration
of these Denver nuggets. You know, Michael Porter Junior, there
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were concerns in the previous versions of Michael Porter Junior
that that was the case, selfishness, et cetera. He seemed
to have embraced what his role is now coming off
of injuries, and where he stands in the pecking order
here of these Denver Nuggets. Maybe maybe over an offseason
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that changes and he decides he wants to go and
force the issue to be the guy or second guy
somewhere else. But in the interim, it's a pretty good run.
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of changes over
the course of the off season, and they'll start soon enough.
We'll talk about, you know, the suspension that comes for Job,
what does that mean for Memphis? What do they do
(23:00):
to stem the time whatever that suspension does become, and
just go on down the line. We've seen Zion Williamson's
name floated in trade rumors. Well, is he ever actually
gonna play again? I'm kidding, obviously he'll Well, we.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Know his nocturnal activity.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
When you say play, you have to make sure people
know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I know exactly what I was talking about, and I
just laid it up there and justin went and dunked
it as if he were Zion Williamson on the court
pre game, pre game, but pregame kind of dunk there,
so you know, one of those three sixties.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
But there's gonna be a lot of movement.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
We've got a lot of big name guys looking to
either change via trade or actually hitting free agency and
player opt outs.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's gonna be a fun offseason.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Now is it going to be fun for Nicola Jokicic
going to the parade on Thursday? Jokicic just finished talking
to the media, bringing more of his press conference coming
up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
But here's Jokicic asked.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Hey, are you looking forward to the championship parade on Thursday?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You said after the Lakers when you said you were
surprised that you didn't feel more. So, I'm curious what
you are feeling right now and if you're looking forward
to a parade coming up in.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Denver Menis Parade, Menis Parrade Thursday. No, I need to
go home, Okay, Oh.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
He was being honest, Though you want to go home.
I'm done with this, like.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I have, I have, I have plane reservations in three hours. Man,
I'm leaving like the parade. I am leaving the United
States for the next few months. I gotta stay till Thursday.
When is the parade Thursday? Now, I gotta stay It's Monday.
I gotta stay till. No, not doing it, not staying
man about about. Oh I imagine not in the parade Thursday,
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doesn't go.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
No, I need to go home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I need to go All of that I can't say
that is.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
One of the greatest answers ever. Yeah, let's get out there,
let's celebrate with the fans. And it looked like it
was becoming a very unruly situation.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Now Denver this evening.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
But just's just send Stetson Bennett to the parade. He
can be on his phone the entire time.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
It'll be awesome.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Maybe they just put Tyler Hero with the bucket hat
as NICOLEA. Jokic on the.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Buck There you have it.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Prop up some some giant who kind of looks.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Like grab one of his brothers, pay one of his
brothers for the day.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
You're looking forward to the parade.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
No, Now, there is a fun video of him that's
making its way around for a couple of minutes ago. Uh,
he grabbed Jamal Murray and there's video of him throwing
Jamal Murray into It looks like a rehab pool that
the players use at the Nuggets facilities. He drags Jamal
Murray into the room with him and who's holding onto
(26:02):
a bottle of champagne, and he threw He jumps into
the pool with Jamal Murray.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Another player jumps in after.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
This is starting to get a lot of attention right now.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
So it's not like Jokich is all, hey, listen, I
won I'm ready to go home now, and I have
no more responsibility to all of you. He is still
having fun. He just was thinking, oh man, I have
to stay in the United States for another few really.
By the way, I gotta stay and stop.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
You have your just lighting right, I'm watching the video.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I gotta stay till Thursday.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
What do you think happened, Jason.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't want to I don't I don't want to go.
I don't want to go home. I don't want to
go go to the parade. I go to a parade
on Thursday. I want to say, no parade is tomorrow? Wait?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
What yeah, no parade is tomorrow. Okay, I got your
parades tomorrow. We're gonna have it tomorrow morning. My flight
is at eleven thirty. Let's have the parade at eight
to eight fifteen and then I leave for the airport.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
So why did he just say that, you know what,
I'm going to be driving down this street if you
want to wait, waving me as I'm on my way
to the Denver Oh.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's a good idea, idea.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell us which way you're going so
we can line the streets and say thank you on
your way to the airport.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Because they get.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Spin it as he gets his own parade. He's that
special to us, number one in our hearts, the two
time MVP, now finals MVP. Yeah, we're gonna celebrate him
as we send him home. Are a well deserved off
season of rest and riding and hanging out with his horses.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh. I kind of like that idea.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I kind of like, hey, there's no parade, but follow
me and it will look like a parade.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
That's right, follow me. I'm the piede piper.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Will you wave to everyone outside your window every mile?
I will wave to one one specific person, unlucky person.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That's it. That's anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Will there be photo opportunities, You'll be one photo opportunity
as I exit my car at the airport.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Before I get on the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I will turn to wave one final time before they
they pull up the stairs and I get on the plane.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's it. That's a last like this. This is good.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
See we just work shopped that through that. That now
sounds like a fun event.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Winning.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
We're gonna win right now because joining us on the
hotline as yes, they're out the NBA Playoffs NBA Insider
and reporter. You can fall on Twitter at Mark g
Underscore Medina. It is Mark Medina Mark. What's happening man?
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Oh, not too much. I am just intrigued on what
wound up happening with this, uh, with this dinner distrue?
What was the resolution?
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
You know?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Okay, so just last Friday, hard you know about the
dinner dispute.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Yeah, I was on it. I stood for you.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He laid in on it until I convinced him that
that I shouldn't How did anybody not have I mean,
that shouldn't have been that should have been unanimous standing
up for me.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
That wasn't here. Well, it wasn't your fault though.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So what happened was on Friday, Harmon was off and
I bought dinner for everybody because you know, I'm that guy,
and ty Shirt accidentally had Harmon's account up and we
ordered fat sALS and we got sandwiches like.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And so tyche.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
They wouldn't let him fix it, so the meal got
charged Harmon even though he wasn't here. So we asked
throughout the show who should have to pay for the food?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Like, should I have to reimburse Harmon or ty Shirt?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
And Medina like three times said it should be me
who pays, and finally I said, this is not my fault.
I gave a big example and he said, okay, Jason,
maybe ty Shirt has to pay.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So in the end he really came around to my side.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
Wow, I was always out of it that.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, it's completely you.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You offered to pay at some point, the dollars are
out of yours, whether it because Tyson ended up giving
up a bunch of time trying to convince people to
just fix it properly.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Now, did he screw up? Absolutely? Oh, and he knows
he did. It's his fault and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
But it shouldn't cost him any dollars out it.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
It's his fault. Why it's why do I have to
pay for tight Shirt's mistake?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
If you were supposed to pay for the meal, I did,
but then he screwed it up, so he's got to
pay for it.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
Jason, it's also your fault. The Nuggets won the championship.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I will give Jason credit for this. He I think
he's the first one to call the Nuggets championship, right.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I think I see. I'm a trend center, I am
a trendsetter. So it ended up it ended up that
most people voted.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
For me to pay.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
So I will pay Harmon back for the for the meal.
I'm in like five years. I don't have to pay
him back yet. I'll pay him back in a few years.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So that's how worked.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
So as we get to the game tonight, a lot
of discussion the final minute of the same the final
thirty seconds. You know, the Heat are so well coached,
we talk about Sposter all the time, and then thirty
seconds left to go, and and Jimmy Buckets has that
horrible turnover. None of his teammates try to get open
for him. KCP it's a couple of free throws. Then
(30:59):
they have this rediculously bad possession where they decide to
put up a force three. Jimmy Butler turns around with
a four three that has no chance of going. They decide,
I don't even know if they had a plan, and
it was coming off a time out, and how do
you not put the Nuggets on the free throw line
as bad as they were shooting. I don't get a
lot of the heat strategy in the final minute of
this game.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
Yeah, I don't either, And look, I think that there's
definitely some question we'll play calling as far as why
not draw up some schemes to put a disorganized, disorganized
offense into more structure. But usually this is the time
that Jimmy Butler comes into livers and he did not
play well in the first three quarters. But sometimes even
during those moments, you know that that clutch gene kicks
(31:42):
in and that gene was nowhere near Denver for Jimmy Butler.
And the play that confounded me the most was that
drive to the baschet where he just suddenly stopped, Like
I know, he made defenders, but you can attack the rim,
you can draw foul and not only did he stop
and move his pivot point pivotful, but then he made
this terrible pass that CASECP intercept. I didn't get it.
(32:05):
The other play was bad too, with him just hoisting
up a three, But that first one where he just
stopped and passed, I don't understand it. It was weird.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So Mark, do we chuck this up to just great
defense and slugging it out or were we going to
go into the Hey, they were really tight because neither
team could find the bottom of the basket.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
Well, I think when you weigh the totality of the series,
I mean it was just mainly that Denver is a
lot better. They have more depth, they can absorb off performances.
But I think when you're looking at this specific game,
it was ugly all across the board. Denver didn't play
well either, and there very much was a recipe for
the heat at least to force a game six back
to Miami. If you go back to Miami, who knows,
(32:48):
you know, anything can happen. But Jimmy Butler didn't show
up to play. Their shooters didn't show up to play,
as they did for most of the series with Max
Strus and gave Vincent and Duncan Robinson not hit shots.
Cody Zeller, I know it was only like thirty seconds,
but it was thirty seconds too long, Like he was
terrible on the floor, and Tyler hero like, all of
(33:10):
a sudden, he's active. Why not just see what he
can give you? You have nothing to lose, and he
was still a DMC. All those things just didn't make sense.
But in the big picture, the Nuggets were going to
win this series. They have Jokic, the best center in
the league right now. They got Jamal Murray who didn't
have a good performance here necessarily in Game five, but
(33:30):
he's a merch der in this postseason as a defensive
All Star moving forward, and they just have so much
depth that when he weigh everything, it was just a
matter of when, not if they were going to win
their first championship in franchise history.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
You know, And now you go forward and okay, the
Nuggets win this year. A lot had to go right
and that look, I said, if you don't win this year,
when are you going to win?
Speaker 8 (33:51):
Right?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Are the teams weren't quite.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
As good, But this is a team now that now
that you are NBA champion Nuggets and you have Jokics,
with the reputation around the league that he does and
the fact that he and Murray are both in their twenties.
They're going to be one of the overwhelming title favorites
for the next five years. Maybe more so because now
that you prove you can win a you'll get more
free agents who want to come play there, and we
(34:15):
might be in the era of the Nuggets now in
the Western Conference.
Speaker 8 (34:18):
Yeah, I mean, I think that don't get ahead of ourselves,
but let's do it anyway. They could become the next Spurs. Right.
We're small market team, but they rely on the continuity
of a really good star in Nikola jokicch and they
have a good head coach, They got a good supporting cast,
and then just continue to reinvent the wheel. So I
think when you look at this next season, I would
(34:42):
put them as the favorites to repeat. But I wouldn't
put them in the category of like the Golden State
Warriors earlier in the decade, where it just seemed like
it's inevitable they're going to win the title once they
had Kevin Durant. I think that there are going to
be other contenders in the mix. And you also have
to account for, like with every NBA offseason, there's going
to be teams we went in dealing and making major moves,
(35:03):
but there's also a lot of question marks with all
those contending teams, whether it's the Boston Celtics, the Milwaukee Bucks,
the Golden State Warriors, maybe even the Lakers, the Clippers,
Like there's all right now fundamental holes in every one
of their rosters. And while because of that you assume
that they're going to make some changes to the roster,
(35:24):
that all of a sudden change the odds. I think
at least right now. You look at the Nuggets, not
as it's inevitable they're going to win the title, but
they have the recipe for a really good window because
everyone's in their prime. There's no fundamental weaknesses in their roster,
and I think knowing how Calvin Booth is a GM,
he is going to find ongoing ways to just improve
(35:46):
within the margins. As also because of the fact that
they have that conduit and great coaching, there's a recipe
of improving from within with their role players. I mean,
most notably with Christian Brawn. You know him being a
rookie and how he shared his development through playoffs. So yeah,
they got a lot of good things going for them,
and this is certainly not a one off championship. This
(36:08):
could be the first of many in years to come.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Jason Smith Show with me Mike Harmon here from the
tiraq dot Com studios of Fox Sports Radio. Our buddy
Mark Medina is with us to cover the final throws
of this NBA long, arduous journey towards the title at
Mark g Underscore Medina where you find him on Twitter,
Analysts and expert and insider and all of those tags
(36:32):
that we throw on you and so Mark, because we
are thought leaders in this time, Spot Smith and I
we have been talking about it in terms of Jokis
because we have to rank stuff. That's what we love
to do. So in this millennium, is he only behind
Shack as far as the most dominant final series ever?
Speaker 8 (36:51):
Yeah, that's a really good question. I think you would
have to put Tim Duncan obviously there ahead of them.
But I think that not only when you're looking millennium,
but you're looking at the totality of league history. I'm
not going to rank you know, Jokic yet above guys
like Til Russell, Recruim Abdul Jabbar, Wilke Chamberlain, Shaquille O'neilhakima
Lodge wants him Duncan. But the reality is this his
(37:14):
career is far from over, and so I think it's
realistic to think he's going to start having multiple NBA Championships,
He's going to have multiple finals MVPs. He'll probably have
more regular season MVPs. Like that's not out of the
question here, and I think in the present current of time,
it at least knocks down the last remaining stubbornness from
(37:35):
people that are diminishing his two regular season MVP award. Jackson, Yeah, yeah,
Mark Jackson, the guy who was like seeing his phrases
throughout the telecast and saying how he doesn't get enough credit,
and it's like, I wonder why, like who missed the
MVP ballt And I think with that, like when I
would hear Michael Malone, you know, complain and grape about
(37:56):
the underdog, you know, disrespect narrative. I rolled a little
bit specifically with Jokic because reality is the majority of
the voters voted for him to win two MVP awards, right,
so like no one's really disrespecting Jokic. I think he's
gained enough credit, But there was a very vocal minority
that didn't vote for Jokic that diminish the accomplishments of
(38:20):
what he meant what it meant. So I think at
the very least, while he didn't need this championship to
validate it, I think it at least takes away any
ammunition that his detractors could use to downplay what he's shown,
you know, the last few seasons.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
All right, Mark, lastly, we'll put you on the spot
here the nuggets of your NBA champions If I said
to you right now, tell me the two teams in
the NBA Finals next year would be blank and blank.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
If one of them is the Knicks, that's okay. But
if I said to you the.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Two teams in the NBA Finals next year will be
blank and blank, who would you say?
Speaker 8 (38:58):
Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I well, let's see, hang on. If you think the
Knicks are going to lose, that's.
Speaker 8 (39:04):
Okay, okay, Well, the good news is we got the
Denver Nuggets against the New York's next to the NBA Finals.
The bad news for you Jason, the Nuggets repeat, the
Knicks don't have a shot.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Wait, wait, you really think the Knicks can make the
finals next year?
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (39:20):
They very good? Look they got showing Brunson. I mean,
what are you doubting the Knicks for here?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
I'm just like, I'm just like, can't believe you actually
hit the Knicks. I thought you were gonna give me
a funny one liner and say something about Tatum.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
I thought the plot line is that they're not going
to win the title to who cares? But look, I
think that they very well could make the finals. Now,
I think that Boston and Milwaukee they're in the mix.
Maybe Cleveland, maybe Philadelphia. But look, I don't think this
is hot taky to say that New York could be
in it. Uh, you know, I wouldn't say prohibitive favorite,
(39:56):
but Milwaukee and Boston have some things to address. Saying
the Knicks have a good thing going with jam Brunson,
he's just scratching the surface the same way that Nuggets
are with championships. So you never know.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
Opening odds for the twenty twenty four Time Old Nuggets
plus five hundred, followed by the Celtics, Bucks, Suns, then
the Mavericks, Warriors, Lakers, Clippers, Sixers, Lakers aren't the favorites.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Wait, you say you didn't say Nicks. They say they're
not there yet. No, no, say nix, say say nix.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Next they were much there are your life savings on
the next everyone, Oh, don't.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Say that, man, No no, no, no, that's all for
entertainment purposes.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah no, no, no. Hell.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, longtime NBA
insider reporter. Mark, thanks so much for everything during the
playoffs and the finals. And well we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
Enjoy the night working forward to and I gotta te
back by comment. We're just talking about the games. We're
not advising anyone to put bets down.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
There you go, very in theory, in theory, in theory.
Very good, There you go, Thank you very much, my friend.
There he goes.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
But next to the finals, next nick to no harmon,
give me that list?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Where then you did? I think you just skipped over? No, no, no, like.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
But it was also on a pay site, so it
only went to like the first ten and it's like,
if you'd like the rest of the teams.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Wait a minute, the nixt to the top. You would
say they're not saying not that they're not. You've got
Brunson and what else did you? I like RJ.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
Barrett, but only because he's the last man standing of
the twenty nineteen class.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Julius Brandon was hurt. No, he's not gonna be hurt
next year in the fo Okay, Mike.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
It guys are literally wasting your breath.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That might happen right here, Hang on, not where are
the Knicks? Where the Knicks are in two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Eight, got relegated thirteen four, they're fifteen fifteen's come on, man,
they're forty five to one. My man, we just beat
the Cavaliers. How are the Cavaliers higher that next year?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
You don't get points. You don't get bonus points for
beating them this last year. Okay, so how can you
tell me? All that we have seen is the Knicks
just beat the Cavaliers pretty handily. How are the Cavaliers
nine spots ahead of the Nothing else has changed, Nothing
has changed. It's not like the Cavaliers brought in new
players mixed. Nothing has changed. How is that that is
just Nick's hate that Cavaliers are only its new spots.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
There's only the Kings and the Pelicans between them.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh that I'm looking right now. Cavaliers A plus nineteen hundred. Wow,
that may maybe just have This is just this is
just anti Knick stuff. I'm looking at, just anti Nix.
I'm looking at right now. Okay, buddy, Nuggets, Bucks, Celtics, Sons, Sons,
come on, really, Sons, come on, man, Warriors, Warriors, come.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
On, Warriors, Mavericks, Lakers, Sixers, Cavaliers, Lakers, Clippers, come on,
I mean, this is ridiculous. Hey, it's a couple. Is
it really those time? Yes, it is, Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
It should be Nuggets number one, Nicks number two. That's
a what you're going Nuggets Nicks next, our number two.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
You're right, Joe Frostburg
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