June 13, 2023 • 32 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon break down game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Nuggets and Heat telling you what the future will hold if Denver wins it all tonight!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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else on the planet Earth right now tonight saying the
same thing. Can the NBA Finals please end tonight? Can
we please? Can the Finals please? And because the heat
art 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 of workouts for NFL
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teams as they get into 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. I think people are ready for that. Mike Harmon, Yeah,
I gotta think.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
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 1 (01:37):
The NBA said.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
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.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We We're gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Watch Josh Groban dance around is Sweeteye Todd. We're gonna
watch all sorts of great musical performances. Aaron Rodgers continuing
as the greatest tourist the Greater New York Area has
ever seen. And we're gonna play on Monday. On Monday,
(02:12):
Aaron 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 1 (02:21):
Sorry, How are you not playing on a Sunday? I
can't do it. Do you give up the week Aaron
Rodgers is at the Tonys man because Aaron Rodgers is there, they.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Knew waiting for them, go up and do a song
and dance. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You really feel like he's not talented?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Mike good No, no nom today that I'm like that
got nominated?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The show when you're is we're bringing passion. Dude, But dude,
who are turning?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Getting off?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Like Steven A, did you go?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Did you lose a Tony Award? Pool or something?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I did lose ats and I was kind of upset
about a couple of the category.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
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? What? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, No, it's just making fun of the NBA, that's all.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do you have to buy them sandwiches?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I do?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
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 anymorey.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
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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
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other night And now you're changing venues, right, because I
thought you're 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? 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.
(04:14):
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. 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.
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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
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
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you want to do the last three games of the series,
you can now that they games change changed 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,
and then you can go Wednesday Friday and then come
back and make game seven. Like on Tuesday. Robbie can say,
let's have three days between game six and game seven.
(05:19):
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, again,
I don't make the in the NBA schedule, but that
would be the best way to do.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
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 (05:39):
So maybe you just play Saturday, Sunday, take the week off, Saturday, Sunday,
take the weekday, then Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
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 right, there's gonna be a game, come
on later, isn't there. It's like no, oh, and it's
Monday night.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was trying to explain that to someone then, 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 (06:20):
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
(06:42):
told you playoff Jimmy is a myth.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Steals down the stretch he did that was nice. That
was yeah, But you know, he make it look good.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Playoff Jimmy shooting two for nine Is it helping playoff
Jimmy is not helping playoff Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We talked about it. Jimmy became one of those things
of legend and when people start doing the comparisons and saying, well,
it's y'all online, kind of looks like Madam Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Might it be?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And he's a good story. Like his story is tremendous
for those unaware, I mean, just do it. Do a
quick Google search. Plenty of long thought pieces have been
have been done about it. But he's a guy that
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. That's just not who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
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.
Here at Game five, Well, he's not a ways to
go to forty. He's got seventeen. But he is having
a big night. He's got seventeen, thirteen boards, and for assists,
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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. He has
not entered the game for the heat. 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
(08:07):
to put him on the court. Man. You can't just
sit here and have this be so much topic of conversation. Active.
You got to put him in just to satisfy the fans.
I never say teams just stuff for the fans, But no,
we spent a lot of time on the storyline. You
got to put him in just so we could talk
about it, get him in the game.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Such greatness in the talking points and certainly throughout Monday
it was he was up to questionable and then spolster
answering questions, and you 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 flow through. But we did get DeAndre Jordan's siding,
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so I mean we 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 and Aaron Gordon as as it went.
So it's it's the key curiosity of where are you
gonna find some extra juice from your offense? Because at
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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. Oh well, you know the three point shot
is now outlawed. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
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, that's it.
That there is, there is your three pointers for the
Denver Nuggets so far in this game. That's it. And
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you look you 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 3 (09:54):
Jimmy Butler with 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 boll Aaron Gordon and for Nicola Jokic.
Gordon just four points. He's been fantastic, one of the
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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, so.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
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 leaving Green Bay for
(10:59):
the Jets make complete and total sense. Right. 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,
(11:21):
this all falls in line with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers
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.
(11:41):
He's now in movies, He's doing all these different things. Yeah,
he wanted Los Angeles for the brand and to play
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.
This is what he wanted. Aaron Rodgers wants the same thing.
There is not one person ever that I have, and
(12:04):
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, this franchise.
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
why he's so excited to play for the Jets. His
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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, oh,
New York City, you'll swallow him up, They're not gonna
(12:45):
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
could still play football at a high level here in
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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 3 (13:18):
Well, in this particular case, I think it also reaks
up a little bit of desperation and a little bit
of brand management. Those two things align as well. I'm
not saying that some of what you said isn't true
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
(13:41):
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
going to get into the particulars. But let's face it,
he took a lot of slings and arrows acrosst sports
media and regular media for some of his commentary in
(14:03):
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 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
(14:24):
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 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
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a shirt that said it, you know, with like a
too coloradic.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
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 MVPs. He had a down iss year
last year, which still put him in the league. In
the middle of the league. I get a little bit
more cachet.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
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, dude, you look like a jerk. And
he actually listened to someone in his family. Maybe he
listened to his girlfriend, Miss Eden's over there in Milwaukee saying.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Hey, legend girlfriend, I haven't said it alleged.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
They hang out a lot. Okay, constant companion, Let's go
and put it that way, 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
(15:48):
be the greatest thing in the world. I wait and
see as it actually happens. Yes, we have to make predictions,
and my prediction would be far south of that based
on the playing in the AFC. But that all said
is I think it's a guy that recognizes how bad
things have gotten. For the name, my name is mud
(16:08):
to come on, man, you're just you're you're projecting that
on it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know. We'll have more on this coming up. What
you gonna tell him? As Mike, I love New York
Mike the Jets, He jets me more than anything. Upset
here bears owner Aaron Rodgers just has you very very upset.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
At least Mike has a life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We have this dude, Wait till we beat the crap
out of you week nine and against the charges we
went like forty eight to thirs.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And then he's gonna be the TA pictures with me afterwards.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You better not come in for a week after that.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're the producer, right, Can I get a picture? I
went to the Tony Awards.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Speaker 4 (16:54):
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
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a seal hater.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
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Speaker 4 (17:40):
Tears for Fears, So I thought you'd hate Seal.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well, that's too completely good music, that's complete.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
When you think about Seal, you get to think about
Heidi and that makes everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, and Seal is and Seal knows, Seal knows who
he is. Look, I've had like three hits in twenty
five years. Okay, that's what that Seal is. You're not
they're not trying to be something. He's not Tears for Fears.
You're trying to dress themselves up like we're't the greatest
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Speaker 4 (18:07):
I will call mister freeze.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Its uh So, right now, we're heading to the fourth
quarter and oh boy, if you like points, well you
hate this game. Uh seventy one seventy the heat lead
the Nuggets says, you know, this is this is if
you like the way the NBA was in the nineteen nineties,
that's that's what it is. This is a rock fight.
(18:30):
This is one of those gay Yes, this is one
of those tough, grind it out NBA Finals games on
a on a hot night. You're watching on a Monday
in late June, early July, and that's a yeah, that's
what this is right now. This is a throwback to
the nineteen ninety y. No, it's a seventy one to
seventy game where the two teams have combined to shoot
eight for forty eight from three point range and the
Nuggets are nine of seventeen from the free throw line.
(18:52):
Let's not confuse the fact that we're glad it's close
with it being a great game. But it doesn't matter
because if it's close, that's something we can work with.
That's all it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Matters, especially at this point seeing so many terrible blowouts
or back end runouts to finish games, like, all right,
we got ourselves a good one final six minutes, suddenly
there's a lid on the other basket. So if you
can come down to the wire here and we've got
some stressful moments for these players, it's great because it's
better for us here on a national radio show, So.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We'll keep you updated. Eleven minutes ago in the fourth quarter,
the Nuggets have now opened with a five zero run
to start the fourth They lead at seventy five seventy one,
still long time ago, and the Heat had been playing
really well. Somehow they're in this game with Jimmy Buckets
despite the fact he only has eight points.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Bam Adebayo is a boss.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, he's great. Bam Adebayo's great. But right now are
things getting away from them a little bit? Maybe? Now?
You brought this up a few minutes agoing, I would have
bring this up here for a couple minutes because there's
not a lot of gigs that I would leave doing
what I do for a living for as I like
doing this. This is a lot of fun with you guys,
especially when we can charge dinner to your credit card.
(20:03):
You don't want to night? Oh yeah, but uh, you know,
as you mentioned a few minutes ago, pat Say Jack
announces today he's retiring as the host of Wheel of Fortune.
He's gonna make next year his forty first year running
Wheel of Fortune his last year. He's gonna stay on
as a consultant for the next three years. There's no
(20:23):
word who's going to replace him. Oh but dude, come on, man,
I get you. Oh no, that that that I would
love doing that, you kidd and I would love. I would,
I would try to solve it along with the people
that are playing again. No, no, oh, dude, no oh,
come on, I love Vana White. Oh my god, forty
years Oh I love Vana White. No, I'd add a
nude element. I go, I'm gonna play along with them.
(20:45):
Don't don't uh, don't let me know what the answer
is the puzzle. I want to play along with them,
and if I get it right, nobody wins the money.
It's a whole new thing. Now you try all these
crazy things with all before and after, and then now
here's three words that have something to go with each other.
Because we've gotten We've used every in the world the
last forty five years on Wheel of Fortune. Let's bring
something new to it. I'll play along and I'll get
(21:07):
I'll buzz in with the answers, and I think that's
kind of cool. Let the host play along and the
host can win. And if the host wins, nobody wins.
And I saved. I saved. I saved money for the
for the the people doing the show. How's that not great? Right?
We still get on, we still have everything else. People
still go on, they try to win, but I save
some money. Now, and again, oh, you could just pay
me combatant that you pay me with the money I win.
(21:27):
I don't get paid a salary, but I get paid
what I win on the show.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
See, I really want to hit the rewind button to
where you have to buy ceramic dogs and crap. At
the end, I'll take the trip. Yeah, I'll take the painting.
And when I got left, oh it's the ceramic badger.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, give me that, gay, I'll take that couch. Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I fore and you know, and that was the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was always really impressed, right because with the way
wheel force used to be with that, I was always
really impressed it. As soon as it got to a
point where the person didn't have enough money left to
buy anything in the in the post preadiosis and we'll
wrap up that other one hundred and twenty three dollars
for it in he givet certificate, I'm like, Wow, that's
the bat really does math really fast? Is there nothing
else out there you can buy? But then, of course
(22:16):
I understand he's got people in his ear that are
telling him how much is let here, here's what's left over?
You know, So he sounds really quick. But when I'm
watching it as a kid, because that's back when they
did this, when you would just put a showroom out
there for you to buy, you know it would I
would be like, wow, he gets that really really faf
He's got to be really good at math. I don't
know if I'm that good at math. No, now I
know it's just being told about it, so I know
I could work with that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
No, it's good. You gotta because you got to have
a good team with you. I mean, there's no question
about it. Pat Sajak, I mean, the only thing I
would say negatively, Look, and folks could get mad at
him for politicals whatever. He's a cub fan, so for me,
I mean he loses there. But he's a huge baseball fan.
He's done tons of baseball shows through the year years
on satellite radio and local radio and whatever. So that's
(22:59):
pretty cool in the process. But this is a job.
I think, like you, I I could step into there.
You get after it, and you can really open up
a whole new run of categories with pop culture references
and obscure Hogwarts memories and all of those things.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh I'm sorry. Then you don't got the answer in time,
and we have to we have to end. The show
is only a half hour long. The answer was Paul
Konerko konerko k o n e r k Oh. Sorry,
nobody wins this one. Nobody knows who that is on
this show. I'm sorry, No, I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I mean they go down the injection choot. Yeah, that
they have to take the physical challenge.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That'd be the best one. Oh oh, here's my favorite category.
It's obscure Athletes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Nicely done, spell Skrzewski.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'll can I buy a why no? Why is already
up there? Oh boy, I don't know how to spell
this name. His category is going.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
To take us forever.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, they spell for Barkowitz.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, Jameson, I have a way to get you on
the show.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Wait as a host, lay it on me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So you're not gonna go this time around, But once
Vanner retires you might have an in.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, you just.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Go as like mister Mett and change the letters.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I just oh see now what we could have mascot
night for that, and mister Mett comes in as a
letter too.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
No, no, not mister met You as mister Mett.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh me as mister met Oh I could do that too, boy,
I could be I.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
That's not allowed on regular team.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But dude, just think about that, man, how I could
live out double fantasy there. I forget about John Lennon's album.
I could be mister Met and host Wheel of Fortune.
What if I I could host mister Met? I will no,
I host is mister Met? I think that'll be pretty good.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Do the turning of the letters?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Man, No, no, no, no, I can't. Are you kidding? Fat?
How fat mister Met's fingers are? I couldn't even press
that. That would be too much, too hard to do. They
have to make the tiles really really big.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Nah tis ninjatle fingers.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Jason gotta be really really big man. It's a really
that's a deal, though, big paw to get out there.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But you know, to pull it back to after forty
one years saying goodbye to this, it's another one of
those instances where.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Damn it, don't do it?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Make them take it from your cold, dead hand every
time guys walk away into retirement, and makes me feel
that much older, especially when you're saying for forty one years, like, yeah,
my whole bleep in childhood through adulthood, so now I'm old.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
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Speaker 1 (25:38):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, Where good music goes to die. Apparently
that's the case. Right now on the floor, they are
reviewing a foul that initially was ruled a foul on
the Nuggets that's gonna send Jimmy Butler to free throw
(25:58):
line for three free throw except it's been challenged, and
if there's any type of sanity in the world, this
is going to be overturned. Maybe they give it to
Jimmy Butler because Butler jumped up kicked one of the
Nuggets players where you don't like to kick a player,
and fell down like he got fouled. So somehow the
best referees in the world fell for that, and they
(26:20):
are looking at it right now. If there's no way
they could let this stand. There is absolutely's eighty six
eighty two Butler nobody on the Nuggets. He wasn't touched
by anybody. He jumped up, shot it, kicked out with
his foot hit the ground. There was absolutely zero contact
from anybody on the Nuggets except for Jimmy kicking out
(26:41):
his foot and kicking between the players that were guarding him.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Did he not get touched by by Gordon on that
at all?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
No, Gordon didn't know. The only touching was was Jacky
Bunny with his foot. The only touching was Butler with
his Gordon's still moving into him. No, all, No, it's
an absolutely day he doesn't. Are you watching the same play?
I am what Frossburg?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The call on the floor stands, Yo.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You've gotta be he is walking into the he's walking
into his shooting. He's not walking into his shooting. He's
standing there. No, he is still moving forward. He's not moving,
he's there's he's not moving anyway. Jimmy Butler can land
anywhere he wants to. That That is absolutely ridiculous. That
is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe that stood. I really,
(27:31):
that is that is insane. Wow, this is hey. We'd
like the NBA Finals to keep going another another couple
of games.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Look at you?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That is that is insane? That is that That is
absolutely I mean, I don't know how you look at
that and say, yeah, that's a foul. I really don't.
I I.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You're not arguing to protect your your nuggets in a sweep.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, No, I just want the right thing to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm not saying he didn't kick him. I'm just saying
that Gordon got into the space whereby he allowed himself
to be kicked. If he'd stopped and stop walking forward,
there's no contact. He takes an extra step and while
he gets kicked by, he gets what he's.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
At all kinds of room to land. He's got nothing happen.
He doesn't go into him. There's no contact. That nothing,
he is no contact. There's no contact. There's no contact.
I'm kicking out and it's wow.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But you're physically in the space to be kicked. So
that means that means you were on him and you
were Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Next time I'm in studio harm when I come in tomorrow,
I'm gonna kick you right there, you know what the hell?
And I'm gonna say, oh, you were in my kicking range.
So I'm gonna kick you right If we're playing basketball,
gonna get no. No, that's a soul the same thing. Hey,
the rules, the rules of law of this land, they
carry over from basketball. To real life all the time.
(28:53):
I could kick you. Now you're saying, I can kick
you that if you were if you're in my space,
I can kick you there. So I'm gonna do that
next time. We'll see it. It'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I mean if I jump and then you land in
my space, or say you jump. But since you can't
put three pieces of paper underneath your vertical, we're not
gonna be able to prove you actually left the ground
whereby the kick could be initiated.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Jason. So again, we'll keep you updated on this game.
That he'd have just taken the lead eighty seven eighty
six with two and a half left to go in
this game, the heat on an eight ozer run, well,
thanks to that call that they just had right there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Hey, you still had to hit all the foul shots.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now. Meanwhile, are we really sure that Tom Brady is retired?
And I don't mean well. This weekend, the video came
out of him on a yacht hitting a drone with
a football and then throwing a pass to somebody in
a jet ski from like fifty yards away and he
hits him on a dime and the guy drops it.
Here's the audio of that you've probably seen by now
(29:54):
Brady impressively knocking off a drone and almost completing that
pass in the open sea air, in which Brady says,
if I knocked this drone out, maybe I'll come back.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I want to see if you can hit my drone
out of the sky the football. All right, if I
hit the drone on the first try, maybe I should
come out of retirement.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I like that. I probably will miss the first try.
I like that part that his daughter didn't think he
could do it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Now. This is not hey Brady said, maybe I'll come
out of retirement if I can make this throw. This
is this is not saying, oh, now he's coming back.
But let me just say this. Do you really think
Tom Brady hasn't been working out throwing a lot of footballs.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
We've been doing.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You really think he hasn't been doing that? Because if
you're retired, how much you're throwing can you really knock
knock off? I mean, I get the year the best
quarterback today of it. But if you don't do something
for a long time and you're trying to throw off
a boat and hit something in the air, then you're
throwing a pass to a guy who's fifty yards way
on a jet ski. I mean, I think you've been
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throwing a football around a little bit, man, Maybe a
little bit more than a little bit, just in case
something happens in the fall and something opens up. Either
with Miami or San Francisco, the only two places he
would go that are two teams absolutely loaded for him.
I'm not gonna come out and do it be a
whole thing because maybe they don't want me. Maybe, But
(31:24):
if it turns out that that works out, I am
ready for one of those things that you can't tell me.
You guysn't been throwing a football. Well.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
The third is obviously hanging out in Vegas to torment
frostburn twice a year. Lotty would need to happen. Oh,
I gotta put it out there, the potential on me
because they don't really have a quarterback right now.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Do they.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
They got a contract that could maybe come back, so
you have the opportunity there. But I think you also
found a new skills competition. He maybe all is out
of the sky because it's something I would really like
to do because I think they're a menace.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I like I like that I think that's I think
that's a show that could be a show that let's
go uh coming up next? Hey so ready? Tom Brady
could be back. Are we ready to crown an NBA champion?
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else on the planet Earth right now tonight saying the
same thing. Can the NBA Finals please end tonight? Can
we please? Can the Finals please? And because the heat
art 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 of workouts for NFL
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teams as they get into 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. I think people are ready for that. Mike Harmon, Yeah,
I gotta think.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
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 1 (01:37):
The NBA said.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
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.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We We're gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Watch Josh Groban dance around is Sweeteye Todd. We're gonna
watch all sorts of great musical performances. Aaron Rodgers continuing
as the greatest tourist the Greater New York Area has
ever seen. And we're gonna play on Monday. On Monday,
(02:12):
Aaron 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 1 (02:21):
Sorry, How are you not playing on a Sunday? I
can't do it. Do you give up the week Aaron
Rodgers is at the Tonys man because Aaron Rodgers is there, they.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Knew waiting for them, go up and do a song
and dance. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
You really feel like he's not talented?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Mike good No, no nom today that I'm like that
got nominated?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
The show when you're is we're bringing passion. Dude, But dude,
who are turning?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Getting off?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Like Steven A, did you go?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Did you lose a Tony Award? Pool or something?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I did lose ats and I was kind of upset
about a couple of the category.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
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? What? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, No, it's just making fun of the NBA, that's all.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do you have to buy them sandwiches?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I do?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
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 anymorey.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
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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
(03:52):
other night And now you're changing venues, right, because I
thought you're 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? 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.
(04:14):
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. 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.
(04:36):
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
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
(04:57):
you want to do the last three games of the series,
you can now that they games change changed 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,
and then you can go Wednesday Friday and then come
back and make game seven. Like on Tuesday. Robbie can say,
let's have three days between game six and game seven.
(05:19):
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, again,
I don't make the in the NBA schedule, but that
would be the best way to do.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
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 (05:39):
So maybe you just play Saturday, Sunday, take the week off, Saturday, Sunday,
take the weekday, then Sunday.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
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 right, there's gonna be a game, come
on later, isn't there. It's like no, oh, and it's
Monday night.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was trying to explain that to someone then, 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 (06:20):
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
(06:42):
told you playoff Jimmy is a myth.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Steals down the stretch he did that was nice. That
was yeah, But you know, he make it look good.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Playoff Jimmy shooting two for nine Is it helping playoff
Jimmy is not helping playoff Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
We talked about it. Jimmy became one of those things
of legend and when people start doing the comparisons and saying, well,
it's y'all online, kind of looks like Madam Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Might it be?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
And he's a good story. Like his story is tremendous
for those unaware, I mean, just do it. Do a
quick Google search. Plenty of long thought pieces have been
have been done about it. But he's a guy that
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. That's just not who he is.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
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.
Here at Game five, Well, he's not a ways to
go to forty. He's got seventeen. But he is having
a big night. He's got seventeen, thirteen boards, and for assists,
(07:46):
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. He has
not entered the game for the heat. 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
(08:07):
to put him on the court. Man. You can't just
sit here and have this be so much topic of conversation. Active.
You got to put him in just to satisfy the fans.
I never say teams just stuff for the fans, But no,
we spent a lot of time on the storyline. You
got to put him in just so we could talk
about it, get him in the game.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Such greatness in the talking points and certainly throughout Monday
it was he was up to questionable and then spolster
answering questions, and you 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 flow through. But we did get DeAndre Jordan's siding,
(08:45):
so I mean we 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 and Aaron Gordon as as it went.
So it's it's the key curiosity of where are you
gonna find some extra juice from your offense? Because at
(09:06):
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. Oh well, you know the three point shot
is now outlawed. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
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, that's it.
That there is, there is your three pointers for the
Denver Nuggets so far in this game. That's it. And
(09:44):
you look you 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 3 (09:54):
Jimmy Butler with 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 boll Aaron Gordon and for Nicola Jokic.
Gordon just four points. He's been fantastic, one of the
(10:16):
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, so.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
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 leaving Green Bay for
(10:59):
the Jets make complete and total sense. Right. 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,
(11:21):
this all falls in line with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers
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.
(11:41):
He's now in movies, He's doing all these different things. Yeah,
he wanted Los Angeles for the brand and to play
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.
This is what he wanted. Aaron Rodgers wants the same thing.
There is not one person ever that I have, and
(12:04):
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, this franchise.
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
why he's so excited to play for the Jets. His
(12:24):
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, oh,
New York City, you'll swallow him up, They're not gonna
(12:45):
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
could still play football at a high level here in
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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 3 (13:18):
Well, in this particular case, I think it also reaks
up a little bit of desperation and a little bit
of brand management. Those two things align as well. I'm
not saying that some of what you said isn't true
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
(13:41):
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
going to get into the particulars. But let's face it,
he took a lot of slings and arrows acrosst sports
media and regular media for some of his commentary in
(14:03):
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 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
(14:24):
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 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
(14:45):
a shirt that said it, you know, with like a
too coloradic.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
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 MVPs. He had a down iss year
last year, which still put him in the league. In
the middle of the league. I get a little bit
more cachet.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
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, dude, you look like a jerk. And
he actually listened to someone in his family. Maybe he
listened to his girlfriend, Miss Eden's over there in Milwaukee saying.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Hey, legend girlfriend, I haven't said it alleged.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
They hang out a lot. Okay, constant companion, Let's go
and put it that way, 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
(15:48):
be the greatest thing in the world. I wait and
see as it actually happens. Yes, we have to make predictions,
and my prediction would be far south of that based
on the playing in the AFC. But that all said
is I think it's a guy that recognizes how bad
things have gotten. For the name, my name is mud
(16:08):
to come on, man, you're just you're you're projecting that
on it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know. We'll have more on this coming up. What
you gonna tell him? As Mike, I love New York
Mike the Jets, He jets me more than anything. Upset
here bears owner Aaron Rodgers just has you very very upset.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
At least Mike has a life.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
We have this dude, Wait till we beat the crap
out of you week nine and against the charges we
went like forty eight to thirs.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And then he's gonna be the TA pictures with me afterwards.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You better not come in for a week after that.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
You're the producer, right, Can I get a picture? I
went to the Tony Awards.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
See All Night on the show.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
When someone's apparently watching Batman Forever Fox Sports Radio. That
Bason Smith's show with my best friend Mike Rman. What
did you say, no, no, no on a Batman? Well,
I figured that's where a ty shirt was going, so
I wanted to lead him right to it. Why not
you because you know what, because you didn't play bleeping
You know. I don't want to say it because he'll
(17:15):
play it again, which is but usually it's right out
of the gate with it, and I'm like, come on, man,
you can't play playing at the end of your first year.
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Speaker 4 (17:35):
Got to say, Jay, I'm surprised I thought you'd be
a seal hater.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
No, why am I Sealing? I like iause you hate.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Tears for Fears, So I thought you'd hate Seal.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well, that's too completely good music, that's complete.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
When you think about Seal, you get to think about
Heidi and that makes everybody happy.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, and Seal is and Seal knows, Seal knows who
he is. Look, I've had like three hits in twenty
five years. Okay, that's what that Seal is. You're not
they're not trying to be something. He's not Tears for Fears.
You're trying to dress themselves up like we're't the greatest
rock bands of all time. No, you're not. You're not.
You're not. You're not. You're not. Wow, you're not.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I will call mister freeze.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Its uh So, right now, we're heading to the fourth
quarter and oh boy, if you like points, well you
hate this game. Uh seventy one seventy the heat lead
the Nuggets says, you know, this is this is if
you like the way the NBA was in the nineteen nineties,
that's that's what it is. This is a rock fight.
(18:30):
This is one of those gay Yes, this is one
of those tough, grind it out NBA Finals games on
a on a hot night. You're watching on a Monday
in late June, early July, and that's a yeah, that's
what this is right now. This is a throwback to
the nineteen ninety y. No, it's a seventy one to
seventy game where the two teams have combined to shoot
eight for forty eight from three point range and the
Nuggets are nine of seventeen from the free throw line.
(18:52):
Let's not confuse the fact that we're glad it's close
with it being a great game. But it doesn't matter
because if it's close, that's something we can work with.
That's all it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Matters, especially at this point seeing so many terrible blowouts
or back end runouts to finish games, like, all right,
we got ourselves a good one final six minutes, suddenly
there's a lid on the other basket. So if you
can come down to the wire here and we've got
some stressful moments for these players, it's great because it's
better for us here on a national radio show, So.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
We'll keep you updated. Eleven minutes ago in the fourth quarter,
the Nuggets have now opened with a five zero run
to start the fourth They lead at seventy five seventy one,
still long time ago, and the Heat had been playing
really well. Somehow they're in this game with Jimmy Buckets
despite the fact he only has eight points.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Bam Adebayo is a boss.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, he's great. Bam Adebayo's great. But right now are
things getting away from them a little bit? Maybe? Now?
You brought this up a few minutes agoing, I would have
bring this up here for a couple minutes because there's
not a lot of gigs that I would leave doing
what I do for a living for as I like
doing this. This is a lot of fun with you guys,
especially when we can charge dinner to your credit card.
(20:03):
You don't want to night? Oh yeah, but uh, you know,
as you mentioned a few minutes ago, pat Say Jack
announces today he's retiring as the host of Wheel of Fortune.
He's gonna make next year his forty first year running
Wheel of Fortune his last year. He's gonna stay on
as a consultant for the next three years. There's no
(20:23):
word who's going to replace him. Oh but dude, come on, man,
I get you. Oh no, that that that I would
love doing that, you kidd and I would love. I would,
I would try to solve it along with the people
that are playing again. No, no, oh, dude, no oh,
come on, I love Vana White. Oh my god, forty
years Oh I love Vana White. No, I'd add a
nude element. I go, I'm gonna play along with them.
(20:45):
Don't don't uh, don't let me know what the answer
is the puzzle. I want to play along with them,
and if I get it right, nobody wins the money.
It's a whole new thing. Now you try all these
crazy things with all before and after, and then now
here's three words that have something to go with each other.
Because we've gotten We've used every in the world the
last forty five years on Wheel of Fortune. Let's bring
something new to it. I'll play along and I'll get
(21:07):
I'll buzz in with the answers, and I think that's
kind of cool. Let the host play along and the
host can win. And if the host wins, nobody wins.
And I saved. I saved. I saved money for the
for the the people doing the show. How's that not great? Right?
We still get on, we still have everything else. People
still go on, they try to win, but I save
some money. Now, and again, oh, you could just pay
me combatant that you pay me with the money I win.
(21:27):
I don't get paid a salary, but I get paid
what I win on the show.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
See, I really want to hit the rewind button to
where you have to buy ceramic dogs and crap. At
the end, I'll take the trip. Yeah, I'll take the painting.
And when I got left, oh it's the ceramic badger.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, give me that, gay, I'll take that couch. Uh.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I fore and you know, and that was the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I was always really impressed, right because with the way
wheel force used to be with that, I was always
really impressed it. As soon as it got to a
point where the person didn't have enough money left to
buy anything in the in the post preadiosis and we'll
wrap up that other one hundred and twenty three dollars
for it in he givet certificate, I'm like, Wow, that's
the bat really does math really fast? Is there nothing
else out there you can buy? But then, of course
(22:16):
I understand he's got people in his ear that are
telling him how much is let here, here's what's left over?
You know, So he sounds really quick. But when I'm
watching it as a kid, because that's back when they
did this, when you would just put a showroom out
there for you to buy, you know it would I
would be like, wow, he gets that really really faf
He's got to be really good at math. I don't
know if I'm that good at math. No, now I
know it's just being told about it, so I know
I could work with that.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
No, it's good. You gotta because you got to have
a good team with you. I mean, there's no question
about it. Pat Sajak, I mean, the only thing I
would say negatively, Look, and folks could get mad at
him for politicals whatever. He's a cub fan, so for me,
I mean he loses there. But he's a huge baseball fan.
He's done tons of baseball shows through the year years
on satellite radio and local radio and whatever. So that's
(22:59):
pretty cool in the process. But this is a job.
I think, like you, I I could step into there.
You get after it, and you can really open up
a whole new run of categories with pop culture references
and obscure Hogwarts memories and all of those things.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Oh I'm sorry. Then you don't got the answer in time,
and we have to we have to end. The show
is only a half hour long. The answer was Paul
Konerko konerko k o n e r k Oh. Sorry,
nobody wins this one. Nobody knows who that is on
this show. I'm sorry, No, I don't know what to
tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I mean they go down the injection choot. Yeah, that
they have to take the physical challenge.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
That'd be the best one. Oh oh, here's my favorite category.
It's obscure Athletes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Nicely done, spell Skrzewski.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I'll can I buy a why no? Why is already
up there? Oh boy, I don't know how to spell
this name. His category is going.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
To take us forever.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Yeah, they spell for Barkowitz.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, Jameson, I have a way to get you on
the show.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Wait as a host, lay it on me.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So you're not gonna go this time around, But once
Vanner retires you might have an in.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, you just.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Go as like mister Mett and change the letters.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I just oh see now what we could have mascot
night for that, and mister Mett comes in as a
letter too.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
No, no, not mister met You as mister Mett.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh me as mister met Oh I could do that too, boy,
I could be I.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
That's not allowed on regular team.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But dude, just think about that, man, how I could
live out double fantasy there. I forget about John Lennon's album.
I could be mister Met and host Wheel of Fortune.
What if I I could host mister Met? I will no,
I host is mister Met? I think that'll be pretty good.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Do the turning of the letters?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Man, No, no, no, no, I can't. Are you kidding? Fat?
How fat mister Met's fingers are? I couldn't even press
that. That would be too much, too hard to do. They
have to make the tiles really really big.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Nah tis ninjatle fingers.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Jason gotta be really really big man. It's a really
that's a deal, though, big paw to get out there.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But you know, to pull it back to after forty
one years saying goodbye to this, it's another one of
those instances where.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Damn it, don't do it?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Make them take it from your cold, dead hand every
time guys walk away into retirement, and makes me feel
that much older, especially when you're saying for forty one years, like, yeah,
my whole bleep in childhood through adulthood, so now I'm old.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Be sure, to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, Where good music goes to die. Apparently
that's the case. Right now on the floor, they are
reviewing a foul that initially was ruled a foul on
the Nuggets that's gonna send Jimmy Butler to free throw
(25:58):
line for three free throw except it's been challenged, and
if there's any type of sanity in the world, this
is going to be overturned. Maybe they give it to
Jimmy Butler because Butler jumped up kicked one of the
Nuggets players where you don't like to kick a player,
and fell down like he got fouled. So somehow the
best referees in the world fell for that, and they
(26:20):
are looking at it right now. If there's no way
they could let this stand. There is absolutely's eighty six
eighty two Butler nobody on the Nuggets. He wasn't touched
by anybody. He jumped up, shot it, kicked out with
his foot hit the ground. There was absolutely zero contact
from anybody on the Nuggets except for Jimmy kicking out
(26:41):
his foot and kicking between the players that were guarding him.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Did he not get touched by by Gordon on that
at all?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
No, Gordon didn't know. The only touching was was Jacky
Bunny with his foot. The only touching was Butler with
his Gordon's still moving into him. No, all, No, it's
an absolutely day he doesn't. Are you watching the same play?
I am what Frossburg?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
The call on the floor stands, Yo.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You've gotta be he is walking into the he's walking
into his shooting. He's not walking into his shooting. He's
standing there. No, he is still moving forward. He's not moving,
he's there's he's not moving anyway. Jimmy Butler can land
anywhere he wants to. That That is absolutely ridiculous. That
is absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe that stood. I really,
(27:31):
that is that is insane. Wow, this is hey. We'd
like the NBA Finals to keep going another another couple
of games.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Look at you?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That is that is insane? That is that That is
absolutely I mean, I don't know how you look at
that and say, yeah, that's a foul. I really don't.
I I.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You're not arguing to protect your your nuggets in a sweep.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, No, I just want the right thing to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I'm not saying he didn't kick him. I'm just saying
that Gordon got into the space whereby he allowed himself
to be kicked. If he'd stopped and stop walking forward,
there's no contact. He takes an extra step and while
he gets kicked by, he gets what he's.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
At all kinds of room to land. He's got nothing happen.
He doesn't go into him. There's no contact. That nothing,
he is no contact. There's no contact. There's no contact.
I'm kicking out and it's wow.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
But you're physically in the space to be kicked. So
that means that means you were on him and you
were Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Next time I'm in studio harm when I come in tomorrow,
I'm gonna kick you right there, you know what the hell?
And I'm gonna say, oh, you were in my kicking range.
So I'm gonna kick you right If we're playing basketball,
gonna get no. No, that's a soul the same thing. Hey,
the rules, the rules of law of this land, they
carry over from basketball. To real life all the time.
(28:53):
I could kick you. Now you're saying, I can kick
you that if you were if you're in my space,
I can kick you there. So I'm gonna do that
next time. We'll see it. It'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I mean if I jump and then you land in
my space, or say you jump. But since you can't
put three pieces of paper underneath your vertical, we're not
gonna be able to prove you actually left the ground
whereby the kick could be initiated.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Jason. So again, we'll keep you updated on this game.
That he'd have just taken the lead eighty seven eighty
six with two and a half left to go in
this game, the heat on an eight ozer run, well,
thanks to that call that they just had right there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Hey, you still had to hit all the foul shots.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now. Meanwhile, are we really sure that Tom Brady is retired?
And I don't mean well. This weekend, the video came
out of him on a yacht hitting a drone with
a football and then throwing a pass to somebody in
a jet ski from like fifty yards away and he
hits him on a dime and the guy drops it.
Here's the audio of that you've probably seen by now
(29:54):
Brady impressively knocking off a drone and almost completing that
pass in the open sea air, in which Brady says,
if I knocked this drone out, maybe I'll come back.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I want to see if you can hit my drone
out of the sky the football. All right, if I
hit the drone on the first try, maybe I should
come out of retirement.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I like that. I probably will miss the first try.
I like that part that his daughter didn't think he
could do it.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Now. This is not hey Brady said, maybe I'll come
out of retirement if I can make this throw. This
is this is not saying, oh, now he's coming back.
But let me just say this. Do you really think
Tom Brady hasn't been working out throwing a lot of footballs.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
We've been doing.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You really think he hasn't been doing that? Because if
you're retired, how much you're throwing can you really knock
knock off? I mean, I get the year the best
quarterback today of it. But if you don't do something
for a long time and you're trying to throw off
a boat and hit something in the air, then you're
throwing a pass to a guy who's fifty yards way
on a jet ski. I mean, I think you've been
(31:02):
throwing a football around a little bit, man, Maybe a
little bit more than a little bit, just in case
something happens in the fall and something opens up. Either
with Miami or San Francisco, the only two places he
would go that are two teams absolutely loaded for him.
I'm not gonna come out and do it be a
whole thing because maybe they don't want me. Maybe, But
(31:24):
if it turns out that that works out, I am
ready for one of those things that you can't tell me.
You guysn't been throwing a football. Well.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
The third is obviously hanging out in Vegas to torment
frostburn twice a year. Lotty would need to happen. Oh,
I gotta put it out there, the potential on me
because they don't really have a quarterback right now.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Do they.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
They got a contract that could maybe come back, so
you have the opportunity there. But I think you also
found a new skills competition. He maybe all is out
of the sky because it's something I would really like
to do because I think they're a menace.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I like I like that I think that's I think
that's a show that could be a show that let's
go uh coming up next? Hey so ready? Tom Brady
could be back. Are we ready to crown an NBA champion?
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