April 18, 2024 • 49 mins
Jason and Mike recap the 76ers huge win over the Heat. Caitlin Clark is nearing a lucrative, eight-figure endorsement deal with Nike, will receive her own signature Nike shoe. And Zion is OUT for Friday’s Play-In game vs the Kings. Plus, Jason and Mike react to the breaking Jimmy Butler injury news!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
You gotta wiggle the thing a little bit? It was
is I gotta wiggle, got a wiggle, got a wigle lit? No,
I just that. Just that was a big song in
the nineties. Yeah, now a room. Now you're doing a
room with oil and getting creepy. Don't want a wigle
lit just a little bit. I want to see you
wigle lit. Just two in a room.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, that's a big song at like nineteen ninety one
said nobody ever, no trust me to it. Room was
a big hit, you know, but do in a room?
The number two in a room, wiggle it. It was
their big song and that's how it goes, I want
to see you wig a lit just a little bit.
I want to see you wig a lit just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm in hell. That's one of the best plays on
Madden was the quarterback Waggle.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Run waggle all the time. Waggle. That's a whole other thing.
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I'll tell you this. Right up until they tipped off
the Hawks and the Bulls tonight, I didn't think there
would be any television on it. I thought, maybe, you know,
internet only. I mean, I gotta find it, you know
(01:45):
somewhere unserious. Ohs good for one division of weeks, but
you just say, you know everything else? This game between
two teams with thirty nine wins or sorry, one with
thirty six wins. Hey, it's a national television, man, this
is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, do they have the betting and company meant like
they did yesterday? Oh too soon for betting, too soon,
But we have the true TV betting channel for yesterday's games.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Out of the gambling in the NBA is not a
great story today, man, Well not a great.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Did he suddenly bail out of that contract because they
were doing it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Not a great yesterday a lot better than today.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, just you know, before we get into all
the particulars of it, there's one number that really stands out.
And look, we can go back to show hey and
epay and some of those fuzzy numbers too, But the
fact that you took an eighty thousand dollars prop bet
on some buster when everybody else is getting limited except
the teams for Portnoy, like everybody else like yeah, I
(02:41):
can't bet more than twenty bucks here or fifty bucks. Yeah,
somehow you got an eighty thousand dollars prop bet down
on this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Come on, now, doesn't have to ought to be good
to gamble. That's how it goes. But the point is,
it's it's fuzzy math. But I digress. Yeah, gambling in
the NBA, there's still plenty of it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So right now, ESPN gambling that people are actually going
to be watching the Bulls and the Hawks. They put
it on television instead of getting hit by a trolley.
Regional semifinals. I was hoping we get to see a
little bit of that, but instead we get balls in
the hall.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That was a good bit on the good place. We're
just getting trolley. The guy well, regional semifinals.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean it's it's getting it. We're in the playoffs. Now,
this is the reason of this. We're getting hit by.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Go watch the Dodgers offense some more. Shut up Bulls.
Oh you all, now you're chesty. You win a play
play in game. Your knicks are good for the first
time since the J O J. Chase, and you're all
excited and all chesty. So you know what, it's still
a playing game balls. Hey, but congratulations on making it
to national tulelel. That's it's a big it's a big
(03:47):
thing for the Bulls and the Hawks in one game
against each other. The fact that you have to down
at the screen to make sure it really does say
the Hawks are playing in this game. You did a
double take to make sure he did rominy spot on
the internet too, And this is this is terrific kind
of a big deal. It's wet, it's and it is
thirteen to ten right now, will it draw half of
(04:09):
what the w NBA draft did?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh? Eight seven? Just get half of two point eight million?
This that is a tough guy. Yeah, well, one point
four million people watch the Bulls and the Hall. Have
you suckered them in with their playoff playoff? That's a
that's a that's a great prop bet right there.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
At that enough of a Pavlovian response, what's that's something?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Because you know, like you like that number, don't you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You had the great game early, right, you had with
the sixers and and the heat and they and let
me let me be the first to welcome the Philadelphia
seventy six ers to the playoffs. Congratulations on making it in. Yes,
you were hot at the end of the year. It
was fantastic. It was a great accomplishment. Good luck, that's
all I'm gonna say. Good luck all text dog porter
for the odds on the ratings.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, he should know right away.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean, because he's got no he's got nothing that's
holding them back on the or he can still gamble.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He can gamble now, I mean he doesn't have to
worry about anything. You can probably still has that.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot of questions about
that case. I need to be asked too, But yeah,
it's uh, he's got time on his nets.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But earlier, look that that is the game of the night.
It was a phenomenal game between the Heat and the Sixers.
The Heat had the lead. But look, you watch both
these teams play tonight, and the one thing that's clear
is that for all the oh, I don't know that
I want to play the Heat of the Sixers, blank
that I'll play whoever you put in front of me
because my team is good. You put whoever you want
to in front of Jalen Brunson, as long as it's
(05:39):
not the US Olympic team, but everybody you want to
in front of Jalen Brunson. I'm fine. I'm fine with
playing the Sixers. I think I'm fine. Last time we
played the Sixers and they had him beat and beat
him by thirty. I am fine playing the Sixers in
the seven games. SERI, here's a question. Absolutely fine For.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That final roster spot on the US team. Are they
going to do a Bachelor like contest?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, eventually he'll get it, because Kawhi will get her
something else. Eventually, Well, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
What Kauahi is right, vually go that you want to
talk about an enigma going into the playoffs. Oh, I
don't know if him Bean can go thirty five minutes
a night.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't know this.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know that is Kawhi even showing up these
questions and more?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But MB tonight twenty three, fifteen and five, Big night
for him, Big night for the Sixers who hold off
the Heat, who now have to jump into Friday Nights
Playing Round where they will host the winner. And I
put winner in quotes of the Hawks Bulls game. Is
that I'm saying winner.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's still a winner of a game.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They're a winning team, but are they a winner? That's
why I'd say winner in quotes. They're a winning team,
but are they a winner?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You're all winners?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, it's just a random sid But Billy Bean says,
you know, you know, you're don't look like winners, but
you are winners. So play leg one tonight. So winners
is winners is in quote? They will play the winners
tonight because I can't believe these teams are go, oh yeah,
(07:04):
they're winners.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Not what do you know about dude? Dude?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh, I want to welcome you to the playoffs to Frostburg.
Welcome to the Lakers on behalf of the Knicks. I
want to welcome all the teams who had to play
in the plane and sweat it through. I want to
welcome you all to the playoffs on behalf of the next.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Better sleep with one eye open.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's Michael. You got to call him Michael, Mike. Why
why do you want to put more stuff on his
bulletin board? Why do you want to be you know
that guy, that crazy ass producer on Fox Sports Radio
keeps calling me Mike because you know picking out, he'll
use it his motivation good.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
As long as he tweets it out and for everybody
properly in socials, it'll it'll get retweeted and reposted and
and we'll get viral and we'll take over the world.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Uh So, look the Sixers winning this game. They have
been very hot down the stretch. They get embiid back,
they are a more dangerous team with embad. However, they're
on my never again list for a reason, and as
I have proven, I should never go against my never
again less not that I would, because the Knicks are
(08:05):
a better basketball team than the Sixers are again. Last
time we played them with him beat we beat him
by thirty. I mean, really, embat As we talked to
Rick Buker last week, I've never seen a guy tired
shooting free throws like Joel embiid Is.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's had a week to get himself.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Are you gonna get the full and beat in this series?
The Knicks should win this series, and they should win
it easily. This should be a Knicks coasting into the
second round of the playoffs, not one of those oh
hey we lose.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The first game.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Here we have that they should coast into the second
round of the playoffs because Knicks have been a machine.
They have days off now to because you know, you
do things like playing Tonte de Vincenzo fifty two minutes
in the final game of the regular season. Okay, guys,
eat a few days off, but the Knicks should roll
through the Sixers and roll into the second round of
the playoffs one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The game one for Saturday, April twentieth, six pm Eastern
time tip off, Knicks are only two and a half
point favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Man It's eight games on four to twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Man it's pretty cool basketball for to any He's exciting, man,
he's really exciting because I.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Gotta pick your U dispensary of choice to get your
Nicks bud.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's the name. Man. You don't think there's Nick Buddy.
Think somebody's selling Nick's budd out.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's a Clyde Frazier strain, there's a you get Dave
Butcher straight and they got them all.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'll wrap it up in blue and orange for you, man,
it will be really cool and mellow. The mall is
the Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
When you open it, you get the guy that was
the announcer all those years, and he goes, yes, it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He it's like one of those greeting cards.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
When to open up, and it's a song like Emma
Stone had an easy A would see you had to pocket.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Just kept opening up. Man, you open up, you hear
that guy going yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Surely frightening that you brought up easy A. It has
become an obsession for my daughter. I gotta talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Have stupid song. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I
gotta I gotta pay for the orange.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey man, it's another strand Hey, hey man, we're gonna
win with that, Julius. Look, the entire run for the Knicks,
I'll tell you this right now, now that I know
we're getting the sixers and again, congratulations with the Philadelphia
seventy six ers from making the playoffs. Uh, the entire
run for the Knicks is gonna be Wow. Here's tomorrow's
headlines tonight. We always say the headlines ahead of time.
Here's your headline. Wow, the Knicks are so good and
(10:22):
they don't even have Julius Randall. That's gonna be what
people are gonna say about the Knicks. This entire playoff
run into the into the Eastern Conference Finals against the Celtics.
Look how good they are and they don't even have
Julius Randall. That's what's gonna be said. Yeah, it's time
to thump my chest because we're good. We're ready, we're rolling,
we're loaded, we're ready to go. I said we're ready
(10:42):
like three times, but we're ready. That's gonna be what
people say. Boy, the Knickers, so boy, imagine if they
had read all next year, they'll be one of the
title favorites. If they get Julius Randall back, they had
to the That's what's gonna happen. I'm telling you how
it's gonna go again. Welcome to the Playoffshildelphia seventy six ers.
Don't expect to stick around long, all right, So I
found this article. You find the article yet there? Uh Frostburg,
Oh yeah, you can do it, all right.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Series price Philadelphia minus one thirty over under total games
five and a half. You are the underdog. How do
you feel about that, mister Helper.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We're not the underdog. We're not the underdog. Bett what
the betting line is?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I clicks? I called chantay porter. He told me that's
not the betting line. He obviously was betting job.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I don't care because you have to be the dumbest
guy in the world where you have no stats and
no status in this game. I'm gonna bet eighty thousand
to watch this. I'm gonna say, Mike Tummy hurts, and
I'm gonna check out early. That doesn't get paid off.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Good luck to go, good luck. You think the seventy
six is a gonna be that, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They think, okay, okay, Oh they won all these games
at the end, and the Knicks bias continues. The bias
against the Knicks continues throughout the country, the anti New
York biobody wants its never so the history of you.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, no, no, no, no, nobody.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Nobody wants to give the Knicks slash Jalen Brunson credit
for anything this year, anytime, and he's great stop. You
would trade everybody on your team for Jalen Brunson everywhere
you go.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I don't think the Knicks are that good. The Knicks
roster is flawed. Well, they finished second, yeah, but they're
not that good. How good is Jalen Brunson. Oh he's
not that good. He's a smaller player. Yeah, he scores
forty a game, but he's not that good, not good
enough for Team USA, even though he did struggle in
feeble last year. Now, Jalen Brunson not even close to
being an MVP favorite. He's like the seventh or eighth
or tenth guy. No, this is There is a huge
(12:36):
anti Knicks bias across the country, from the media, from gamblers,
from everybody, just because of loudmouth fans like me the
people like I can't stand the Knicks. I can't stand
when I turn on the radio and I gotta hear
go New York, Go, New York. Goa go New York, go,
New York go. So no, I'm not gonna give the
Knicks credit. This is this is a I'm telling this
is a credit. This is a nation Yeah yeah, this
(12:59):
is a nation wide fraud being perpetrated on the Knicks.
And the fraud is recognize greatness, recognize No.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No. Here's the thing though, because they're all from Villinol.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And I don't like Evencenzo, and I don't like Tibbs
because he wears the same pullover and he coaches with
his hands folded every single time he plays his guys
in all these minutes, and all you people talk about
is how good Jalen Brunston is. And I don't like
Jalen Brudson just because I don't like him because he's
a Nick. I just don't like him. That's what people
are like around the country, and you're seeing it the
treatment of the Knicks. The Knicks, there's a fraud being
(13:32):
perpetrated against the Knicks because of their obvious greatness. I
can file that in the court of law.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
File all you want.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You can sue anybody for anything, anytime, anywhere, and uh
well you can still get laughed out of court. Uh
just as easily.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Knicks finished fourteen games behind the Boston Celtics, clump together
with the next what six teams behind them, separated by
a total of three games. So you want to do
the greatness and thump your chest. You know you can
do that in one direction. You can go and mock
Doc Rivers.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You can go mock Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks for
their failures down the stretch, allowing you to chase them down,
but proclaiming greatness and wizardry in.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
The Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
That I could go get the audio tape probably some
video too from last week where all you did was
mock the East and how bad it is, which is
what you started doing tonight. Look, they're so bad that
the Hawks and the Bulls are in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And then you're gonna try at the same time, off
chest off and get all excited about you off after seven. No,
don't give me that half ass argument.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're done.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It falls off after seven. You just pointed at me
five times. You're trying to throw me out of the studio.
You're done, like you're like you're out. Tarment really is
pointed like five times at the door, like okay, I'm
not going anyway, just like the Knicks not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You're done going anywhere. Underdog, go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Remember when you were talking about yesterday you were gonna
bet the five, six, seven, and eight seeds.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh in the Western Conference. No, no, no, you never
specified West. No, you did.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I did say here we go. I did say, let's
go for Philadelphia. You find Jason Kelsey's rings. Stop yelling,
take out yelling, you yelling.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I did Okay, I didn't say East. I said you
want to radio, you can do that somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, coming up, we get music from this from the
bladders and some stuff from there. I mean, look what
this is. This is just Hey, we do it. No,
it's not for twenty yet. We ran that Jason. The
Knicks are so bad. Alan Iversons statue could drop forty
on him, the little tiny one, a little tiny baby statue.
I'd like to see some kind of some kind of
(15:40):
movie where all those little baby seventy six er statues
come to life and attack people.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I want to see movie. We're gonna write
that movie right now.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Allen iverson baby statue. Here comes to Juliet Irving baby statue.
Oh my goodness, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Any game, anytime. The Knicks are ready. Coming up next.
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Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mary's been banished now, uh, you know, not for nothing.
You can't blame me.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, this is a great song she played. She's getting
she because she knows a weird conversation about this. So
you got the Mets in it? Yeah, come on, Swept
the Pirates, come on, Look how good we are? Look
at the Met and now me Hey, hey, hey pirates
number one. Pirates are good. Secondly, we found out last
night I have a pipeline to David Stearns now for
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advice and for and for uh, I guess you could
call me a what an unpaid consultant decision maker?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, my daughter's being the Wizards that they are personnel
moves told this information. Uh this morning as we're getting
you know, getting ready to go out the door for school.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Both looked at me and said, so when do you
take over the show if if, if it turns something
I could monetize. Yeah, sure, but I can still do both.
Apparently I could. I could do the show and do
the Met. I'm sorry, brutus, but you're gonna have to
wait a little while. Yeah, I could do both. I
think we're just calling it what it is. Want to
(19:07):
make sure we're not We're not gonna meet in the
Senate anytime soon. We're not gonna not gonna have some
kind of big speech. What are you gonna take spinach
and punch him through the ceiling? No, I was I
was going Shakespeare and Brutus.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Oh, I thought you were going Papa. I was going
Brutus who stabbed Caesar? Hey, hey, what's Popeye's favorite food? Spinach?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You've never seen that viral clip? No, where's gonna be contestant?
And she gets all excited because she knows it, and
she goes chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Wow, you know it's chicken.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
She doesn't dance in the whole on yard, and everybody
looks at her like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, I see. I could see why she said chicken.
I could see why she said it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Obviously, maybe she thought they said pop Eyes instead of Popeye,
But I could see why she said chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh they did said Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
They said what is popeyes favorite chicken? I can saw,
I can see that. Uh, you know, not for nothing.
I used to say that a lot to my wife said,
I'm done hearing you say not for nothing, but not
for nothing, but you were.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Probably correcting something. I'm sure I was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But uh, we're watching you know, we have the game
on in study. We'll get to the Bulls and the
Hall for the second. But uh, on the Dodgers cable channel,
which is Spectrum Sports out here in LA, they're running
a feature. They're running a show, an hour show on
the opening series of the year in South Korea. Everything
like a behind the scenes what went into it all
(20:32):
kinds of stuff. That's what it was like, is what
it was like being there, kind of like a big
long MLB Films production of.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
The Yeah, behind the scenes and here's the travel, yeah,
and all the celebrity and there were players.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And I just looked up and I said, whoa, they're
showing Epey in the dugout like doing stuff, like like
they got cameras on them, like he's taking pictures and everything, like, oh,
you think they would have edited that out when they Yeah,
with the show's gonna be about fifteen seconds last, why well,
we show ipe a few time. And I don't mean
like they just showed like he happened to be in
(21:06):
a shot like he's he's smiling.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And joking with Otani and like taking a picture with
a guy.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Like, oh, you think they would have to see I
immediately started taking back to my high school. But in Chicago,
where you know they've got the class pictures lining all
the hallways, and if you got convicted of something really serious, yeah,
they blacked you out. Oh well, well they should.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Like you don't exist in that class photo anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That guy was convicted of murder done, Wow, I would
think so I'd like to think.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Wow, I mean he's still graduated.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
How many hey, I mean you walk down the hallway
when you come for a reunion, he.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Remember that guy?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How many head did you hear? How how many pictures
got blocked out? Like oh I know that person? Well
I got blacked out, blacked out, blacked out, blacked out,
Oh I know that britt blacked out, blacked.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Like how many pictures?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I think there's only one or two across the you know,
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And they don't just take a.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Big can of spray peyton, go with the X over it, bob,
believe that one alone. I kind of like it, Like
how they show now in the in the movies when
the infected and zombie movies are locked in a place,
the big X over the door and they open it.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But we're gonna get into the big gambling scandal in
the NBA today. But this bit of news just in
Bleach your report and a couple of other basketball sources
are reporting.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And remember this is this is this is not a story.
This is this is reported by a lot of sources.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Now, Caitlyn Clark is nearing a quote lucrative eight figure
deal with Nike and is set to receive her own
signature shoe. Now Shams Grania has it as well, So
this means she's gonna get a ten million dollars deal
with Nike and get her own signature shoe. Can we
stop complaining about her salary now? In the salaries of
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the WNBA players, because that's all the last twenty four
hours has been since the draft happened, since Kitlyn Clark
goes number one, It's like people say, oh.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Hey, you know the the women don't get paid as much.
This is one thing. Yes, it's low. Is it embarrassingly low? Yeah?
It is low.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's way lower than you think it would be a
professional player. But it's also the WNBA. It's a forty
game league.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's how it is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's why a lot of players play overseas. Would the
salaries should they be higher? Sure, they should be. You
know what, more people have to go to games, more
people have to buy the merch and salaries will go
up so before. But to see everybody lose their mindset,
it's like, you know, they're not getting not getting paid
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
And people that just have no idea about sports that
are weighing in and saying.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well, obviously the women need to be paid as much
as the men. This is not an.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Equal payment kind of thing. We're being this. This is
the WNBA, which is a league that is not nearly
as power.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Look it isn't. It's not nearly as powerful as the
NBA other sports leagues. Is it low? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But again this is why Caitlin Clark is here to
shine a light on this. And if more people watch,
and more people go to games and more people buy stuff,
guess what everybody's salary gets raised in this way. She's
like Tiger when Tiger Woods got to the PGA Tour.
What do we see in the last twenty years, persons
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have doubled in nearly every event. So much so, get
the Live Golf Tour. Hey an, take a hundred million dollars,
come play for us. Every single golfer in the world
should show up at Tiger Woods's house at some point
and go, hey, dude, thank you for the last twenty years,
because now I mean the living I can make. I
can't believe that I can make double what I'm making
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before all because Tiger Woods showed up to the PGA
Tour and he played any won that every single golfer
should get on their knees and say, Tiger, thank you
so much, because now look at this might look at
look at what's happened over the last twenty years. This
is why Caitlyn Clark is here. This is what you
expect from the WNBA. More people are gonna watch, more
people will buy merch. We know they're buying merch. Her
jersey sold out in less than like ten minutes when
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he was made the number one pick. This is what
she's going to do. Every single person. If you want
to see women's sports succeed, I'll tell you that, get
behind Caitlyn Clark. She is the show. Lots of other
players are great. Doesn't mean I'm not saying other players aren't.
Angel Reese is a great player. We see other players
come in the other Cardoso is a great player. Are
the great players in the WNBA as well. Caitlin Clark
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is the show. She is Shack, She is Tiger Woods.
She is the one that, Hey, people are gonna come
to see me and I am going to lift the
right of rising tide lifts all boats. She's the rising tide.
She will lift all the boats. And you're gonna see
more money for people in WNBA, more relevance, more television coverage,
mer more everything because of her. Anybody who's not behind
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her is just dumb. If you want to see women's
sports succeed, you get behind her because that's what she
is and she's someone that is not shying away from it.
She knows I have a big responsibility on my shoulders here. Yes,
she gets the big signature, shoe, deals gets anything.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Do you know why?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Because she's the most popular college basketball player in women's history.
She's the leading scorer in women's history. She owned the
sport of college basketball. This is what happens when you
go to the pros, you get shoe deals. It's how
it works for everybody else. Everybody's got to get behind
k Women's Sports succeed. You want the WNA, you get
behind Caitlin Clark, because that's where to go. If you
don't like the salaries where they are, get behind her.
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Watch her succeed and you'll see the salaries go up.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, we've been talking about this for a while now,
you and I on the show, even going back to
the rise of things last year with Caitlin Clark and
the phenomenon that began during last year's tournament.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Is that you know, people complain. You know, it's like
going to.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
A party, right, This was the analogy we used and
have all on. Right, I might be late, right, might
not be getting there.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
You started at eight.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Whatever, it's kind of open, whatever, and I show up
at nine thirty. How long are you going to be
mad that I showed up at nine thirty? All right,
I missed that hour and a half. But I'm here now.
And that's the WNBA argument. A lot of folks are
having and being pissed about this, Like the reality is,
you know, a chicken and egg kind of thing. Should
there been more investment at some point maybe, but was
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the market there for it? And we could argue that
to all we blew in the face. But you're not
going to just hand out massive deals before there's proof
of concept from a revenue standpoint.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That's all we've been talking about for this, right.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
The Women's Soccer League talked about the private funding a
couple with Mahomes and others jumping in eventually. But they
built a stadium in Kansas City. It's a state of
the art facility for women's soccer. And that's the intent, right,
not multipurpose. Not you know, something that was built as
a baseball stadium and you go play at like we
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saw it built for women's soccer. And now you have
the WNBA this kind of deal and the endorsements that
are flowing through the star Power page. Becker's is in
the next class, right, and you have this thing that
hopefully from the collegiate side, you gain momentum. But I'm
looking at tickets here. They're playing at the Pyramid when
they come out here instead of the crypt for the
(27:54):
Indiana game, get in is three hundred bucks. Now it's
five thousand seats versus an eight teen thousand seed arena.
But you look around the league, you've got a couple
of teams that are sold out and Indiana tickets are
almost impossible to get. Right, you might get that odd
ball single seed if you're looking to get something for face. Otherwise,
the secondary market is active. The fanatics thingy, they just
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have to figure out their distribute distribution because they're a
joke at this point because those jerseys are not gonna
ship until August. Seeds is gonna be done before people
are gonna get their Caitlin Clark jerseys the way this is.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But is that but is that really shocker or is
that kind of the norm what we've seen with Nike
and fanatics.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Over the last everything, like they if the baseball anticipate this,
they should have been.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Ordered four months ago.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Everything is wrong, It is inevitable, like the Thano snap.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
But you're not gonna get these literally till after the season.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Hell, there's a couple of Major League Baseball teams that
aren't seeing their jerseys, uh that are actually official jerseys
to be worn in games for another month. So you know,
just lunacy as that goes. But you know, a ten
figure deal and we were seeing things about patches being
sold on jerseys for three million dollars. Like the money's
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flowing and the TV opportunities are going to be there.
What do they say, thirty six games will be televised,
right for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Your televised practices.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Before it's all said and done, you're right. But folks
being mad about the salary, this is not new. This
is not a new discussion. If the money flows and
you can show on the books, there's lots of advertisers,
and it's like we talked about yesterday, Taylor Swift brought
a bunch of random for NFL purposes, random new businesses
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and market segmentations to the Super Bowl. Right, you had
makeup ads. You didn't have makeup ads before you had
the here's another drug with a bunch of side effects
that you need to think about. And here's another beer ad. No,
now you've got makeup ads. Now you've got clothing companies,
all of that that come on board with the w
n b A. The opportunity is there. Everybody's gonna start
eating from the trough.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
This is why she's here. This is what I get
it there. Look, but this is why she's here. And
like I said, She's like Magic and Larry. Now she's
like Tiger Woods. She got a lot on a play
Can I put for Nike though?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah? Sure? Can they make shoes that are a little wider?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
They do make Why I get some mine? I get some.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I had to get basically krusty the clown like size
shoes to get a pair of Customs years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Dude, your athotics working Nikes? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Can hear you coming from down the halls?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Exit out out of Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike carbon But in all this that
she's getting ten million dollars at least new shoe.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
But no one's gonna pay attention to cap Park. No no, no, no, no,
no now joining them. Nobody's paying attention right right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Right Coming up next, Hey, we have a big update
on a big NBA playoff injury.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Keep it right here, Jason and My Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
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Speaker 3 (31:09):
Shut that off, man, it's a menace.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
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Speaker 1 (31:16):
My ears are burning we are closing into halftime and
the Chicago Bulls lead the Atlanta Hawks seventy three sixty seven.
It was the best first half or fst first quarter.
Yeah that the Bulls that all season. A forty to
twenty two lead, but the Hawks be able to eat
away at the lead. And now not a lot of defense,
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no loving Quinn Snyder's red glasses always eye catching.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
When you see Monta style.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But the Bulls and Hawks is now a game, and
yes it is nationally televised, despite the fact neither team
has forty wins.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Right, yes, this is on national number one, shutty number two.
They gave up forty five points in the second quarter.
I had a Bulls record too.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I might be it might be, and well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I got to think in some quarter they give it
more than that at some point to somebody this year.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I may be crazy, but yeah, just a not a
lot of defense here. The best defense is a good
offense is really what we're got going on here.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So the last of the first round playing games hits halftime. Again,
it's a six point lead for the Bulls at halftime,
where the prize is to go play the Miami eat
who lost to the Sixers earlier tonight. Meanwhile, we got
big injury news today about Zion Williamson. He is going
to be definitively out against the Sacramento Kings and the
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winner go home game on Friday night, and he will
be re examined in a couple of weeks. So if
somehow the Pelicans win and make it, maybe he could
come back at the end if depending how long the
first round series of Pelicans have are now likely they're
going home tomorrow night. You're talking about teams without their
best player, without the guy who was the difference maker
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on the court last night. And you know, look, we
had a lot of conversation about him last night on
the show and about how last night's dancer his entire
NBA career, look, how dominant he is, but then he
gets hurt when you need him, and he has been
hurt every single year. He's missed five playing games over
the course of his NBA career and missed the biggest
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three and a half minutes last night when the Pelicans
needed him the most. If you're looking at Zion Williamson,
this is the best reality I can tell you about him.
He could have been Shack, right, he could have been Shack.
He could have been the next guy. He had that
factor where he could have had the NBA on his
shoulders for a decade and a half. But now he's
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someone that, Okay, enjoy him while you can, because clearly,
and this is not anything, it's just it just happens,
and it's awful luck. But he just doesn't have the
body to withstand the poundings of an NBA season.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
He just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
When you get hurt every single year, and you get
hurt going back to college, when you're playing AAU schedule
and you're playing a thirty game cop he got has
gotten hurt every single year. I'm hoping, honestly, and I'm
being honest with I'm just hoping the guy's still in
the league in five years that he's twenty eight years old.
Wils We're talking about Zion Williamson doing something, but you
look at what he's been at Sea's seventeen, eighteen years old.
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His body just can't withstand the pounding of what it
means to be an NBA player. Because of the rigors
of the schedule. It was hard enough in college. Guys
don't get healthy when they get to the NBA. He's
not quite Greg Odin, but you know at some point
he's gonna get hurt, and when he gets hurt, he's
out a long time. There's no quick recovery from him. Honestly,
if you said in five years he in the league,
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I don't know what side I would take. If he's
twenty twenty eight years old, five years from now you're
talking about twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty, is he still
in the NBA?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I don't know. That's real. That's the best answer I
could give you. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But if he is at this rate, he's a guy
coming off the bench and playing fifteen minutes to night
and missing games and load management and whatever else. For
some squad at least, that seems to be the trajectory
of things. We talked about it a lot last night
as it transpired, and we started getting infos, so folks
can check the massive breakdown of that game and everything
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that went on last night wherever you get podcasts. But yeah,
it's just the difficulty. I like the Shack analogy, right.
He could have been a pocket shack because he's what
gives up about six seven inches right, but you know,
the big body, big frame up top, and it's a
lot of wear and tear on the legs, right, especially
the way he plays above the rim.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And last night was fun as hell to watch him.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
And when he left the court, we both just cursed
out loud too, because like we got three and a
half minutes Lakers Pelican's coming down to the wire. You
got this guy playing out of his mind, and you know,
we all got cheated, and it was everything you'd hoped
for for the last five years, all right, Finally seventy games,
thirty one minutes a night, here we go, playoff, big, big,
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bright lights and showing up with that forty point performance
and now two weeks minimum before he's reevaluated and just
just a sad state. Do you know, add him to
the laundry list of big men and guys that have
problems staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't know if you If you said are we
going to any point get from Zion Williamson a full
season and a full playoff run, meaning full season, we
plays seventy games and a couple rounds in the playoffs,
I would say there's no way that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
It simply isn't gonna happen. And that's and that's sad,
you know for a guy, what is he twenty four,
twenty three? Yeah, yeah, I twenty thirty, twenty four years old.
I mean yeah, that we're already at that point. And
it's tough because we've had a lot of guys that
have started their careers with big injury issues and have
somehow been able to push those away. For Zion, doesn't
look like the fate's gonna allow that exit. How about
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Speaker 1 (36:57):
We have more NBA on the way. The big his
gambling scandal the league is seen in quite a while
broke today. We'll break it down next Fox. As we
talked about Zion Williamson's injury a few moments ago. He
is out for a Friday Night against Sacramento, likely out
at least another couple of weeks. We talked about his
future and where it's at right now with him. The
immediate future for Jimmy Butler is now in question. He
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was seen leaving the game tonight limping. A lot of
video of him walking off, limp walking off the court, limping,
walking out of the locker room, limping as he was
leaving for the team bus. And now we have breaking
news on Jimmy Butler from Moncy Bolangos, who has the
latest on this story.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Monsey, you guys, I'm wearing my Yimmy shirt.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
What a terrible moment right now.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
You know, I celebrate big head coffee like Noah, maybe
this is your fault.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe this is my fault.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I hate you so much.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
You really mad, Jimmy Butler. Guys, Sham's just tweeted this
of the athletic that they fear that it's an MCL
injury in his the injury. They think he's gonna be
sidelined for an indefinite period of time.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
MRI to come to confirm all this.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Here is Eric Spolstra after the game about the knee.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
He's putting himself out there, and I just really appreciate
him for that competitive spirit that really stiffened up on
him in the second half. You know, he's able to
still move a little bit in that second quarter after it,
but then as the as the second half went on,
started to limit him a little bit more. Just the movement.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
But we'll see.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Uh, but we have no idea if you know right now,
we'll see when we get back to Miami.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I'm so sad it is.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
I'm so sad.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
It's shocking. It's shocking.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
I wasn't expecting this.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
No, no, no, And I've got a salty about it myself.
I'm a big Jimmy Butler and I'm sad for Mansie.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
The hell was going on with that? It was gonna
be the Heat against the Bulls. Yeah, okay, against.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
The Bulls, heat against the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You guys are both like Johntay Porter, like you put
money on something and now they're gonna shock or the
Knicks fans not sad about there. No, I don't care.
We're not playing the Heat because caring back, they play
the Knicks. I don't whoop that out.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I don't care that you can.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I will play anybody anywhere, anytime, anywhere.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Any time. You're gonna wear that week she was that
that was at the podium.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Was that the Vincenzo that was saying that anytime any
We're not ducking anybody. Next our attitude, Nick, we got
that new back in that New York groove.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Kind of attitude going, uh it is it's okay, Monty,
you're doing okay Mighty Mouse, Yeah, okay, you're right. Sure
this sucks. You do really you see really? And I said, fan,
I know, I understand. Wow, this is me too, and
I know how we cheer up.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Hey, you know clippers talking about talking about when a
guy on my team gets hurt or is out?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
You go Smith stepping on your head when Monty played,
She's oh, hey, it's okay. The hell man, he likes
me better than you like pitching for a Luca Jersey.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh that hey, man, Jimmy's not available anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Next guy, next man, Thanks very much. Do you need
a couple of minutes if you need I would like
a couple of minutes. All right, very good, there you
go there, I would like a drink.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
Can you make that one happen to you?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
What would you like? Rob Roy?
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Sure you had a Robber Roy? No, what a movie
that one is? How disturbing?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Like an Arnold Palmer? Arnold? What the hell is? Actually?
Arnold Palmer is lemonade? Nice tea. That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Rob Roy is not okay? Yeah? Good? You want that?
You want to robb Roy, what's in it? How about
a Harvey wallbanger? That one sounds funner. Funner is a
town in California.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
It's funner.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
That sounds more fun that sounds.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I don't want to be correct. Okay, wow, be correct,
Jimmy Butler is her. I don't want to be correct you.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
If you is wrong, I don't want to be alright.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I actually added that to my playlist just the other day.
Do you actually know what's in a rob Roy?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Though? Rob Roy? It is whiskey, yep, and chicken and
we're ordering chickens separate and onions? What's it is? Vermouth,
whiskey and bitters? Okay, just like you.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
When the Knicks go down in defeat to the Philadelphia seventies.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
To thee what sounds better, Moncie rob Roy or Arnold
Palmer rob Roy? Okay, we'll work on the rob work
on the rob Roy.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Good luck. Well, we'll check on you in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Uh so, then, look, obviously a huge injury here, and
best thoughts to Jimmy Butler of course. Uh again, limping
leaving the court, limping when he was leaving the arena, Norlan,
you see a guy walking out and he's limping. Okay,
the guy might be all right, but now you see
the injury is not quite what you thought it was
going to be. And this is the heat. It it's
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become a thing every year. It's no matter where the
heat finishes. Get ready, you're scared of the heat. It's playoff, Jimmy,
it's playoff.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
They come at Spolstrub. We have to give him as
due is one of the best coaches of the NBA,
and we don't do that so much. And all this stuff,
and we get ready and now it looks like it
could come to a screeching halt for Jimmy Butler and
the Heat on Friday night.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
The way they've tried to navigate this season has been
fairly impressive. Now forty six thirty six regular season uh
lost tonight, but navigating without hero You've missed these numerous
players missed extensive time during the season.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
And the ending of this game was insane.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
You have an intentional foul called on an inbounds play
which gives a free throw to make it a four
point game. They hit the three with point three seconds left,
and the ball gets inbounded and embiiding Maxie collide and
the ball goes out of bounds, but zero point three
seconds done, no review, and you take the one point
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loss and move on like the saltiness in that moment.
And now you get the you know, add the injury
to that wound to.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
A bigger to make to widen this conversation out, to
make it bigger. And it's not going to happen because
we know this because owners would lose money and you
can't give games back. But every year we see it
what happens an All Star team plus winds up getting
hurt in the NBA playoffs, and we watch an NBA
playoffs that the winning team generally is the one who
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is healthiest all the way through till the end. That's
what you get because you see teams falter, like the
Lakers last year because what they're old, they got tired.
You see teams falter because players get hurt and they
can't play, which is what happened last year all through
the Eastern Conference and the Miami Heats run. We had it,
you had the year before in the Western Conference. Here
we are now we're not even two nights done with
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the playing tournament and already two of the best players
in the league are done Zion and Jimmy Butler. Look,
the season is too long, a right, it is. It's
too much basketball. You don't need a you don't need
an eighty two game regular season. You don't need it.
It's too much basketball. You're asking guys to do too much.
The way the NBA has evolved over the last fifteen years,
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the guys play a lot of basketball. They play basketball
in the offseason. Yes, I'd like to see them play
less basketball in the offseason. But the pounding and what
goes on, the physicality the game, it's just become too much.
It's become too much to ask players to say, hey,
as everybody's gotten bigger and stronger and the game's gotten
more physical, to say, all right, you're going to continue
to have you play this same schedule back to backs,
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and there's gonna be soft tissue injuries, and there's gonna
be night you know, your body doesn't have as much
time to heal, and every playoff is going to be
this way. Now, it doesn't matter. Every playoff in the
NBA from now until the end of time is going
to be well, let's just hope you can stay healthy.
Let's hope somebody doesn't get hurt. And it's not something
where the wear and tear of a whole season and
a short turnaround and a soft tissue injury. But this
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is what we have. But we're not even two nights
in and already two of the biggest, most popular, best
players in the NBA are done like they're gonna play
again the rest of this year, Zion Williamson and Jimmy Butler.
And again, we've had three and a half games. We've
had three and a half games, and two players are
already out looks like they're done. So I'm telling you,
I've said the NBA the season is too long, and
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I don't mean it's too long in that, hey, we
don't need to start, you know, well, certainly we don't
need to start at the end of in the middle
of October, but just play too many games. There's too
many bounce backs, there's too many You put too much
mileage on the players every single year. And the fact
that all these starts, you can't tell me that, oh, well,
some teams have a better medical department, No, because you
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see players all across the landscape that wind up getting
injured and missing games because of this, because you're saying,
here's how big it is. Now we ratchet up in
the playoffs and we play even more. It's just a
war of attrition. This is what the NBA playoffs has been.
So get ready because this is what it's gonna every year.
It's gonna be, Hey, what do we need to win?
Stay healthy? Because who knows what you're gonna I'm not
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looking ahead to the to the Eastern Conference Final for
the Knicks or the Lakers. Looking ahead, it's like you
don't know who's gonna be playing anywhere by then. Is
Jason Tatum gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (46:06):
You think so? But maybe you know what. Is Jalen
Brunson gonna be healthy?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I hope so, but maybe I don't know, right I mean,
but that's why to look and say, oh, you need
to get through here and through here and through here.
You just got to take the games in front of you.
And this is how it goes, because this is the
way the NBA playoffs is gonna go until you see
a big change, which again go back to owners aren't
gonna give back money.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Players will give back money. So this is just how
the playoffs are gonna be.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
No it's the difficulty of trying to figure out, you know,
going through all the metrics and algorithms and data points
in terms of injury incidences and and is the raid
higher than it's been or do we just react because
of recency? Right that we've had these in our window
and they're two huge stars. To your point, the last
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couple of years we've had a number of these players
go down. But I guess we can go every year
and just decide, all right, what's critical mass in that
regard two game schedule. Look, you added the play in too, yay,
because the Lakers are already one plus. Remember it was
a lot of for the Lakers, for the Clippers, for
some of these teams, like, all right, they just need
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to get to April and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
I don't know. I don't know if a guy's gonna
be healthy. A lot of it's dumb luck.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
But it's the same argument we're having in baseball, right,
trying to figure out, all right, if we're gonna put
weights on the coefficients to all these variables related to
pitchers getting hurt one after another. Right, we just saw
another reliever go down for the Angels, Stevenson done for
the year. Next man up right, Strider goes down. The
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Astros have had a number of guys hurt so verl
Anders coming back? Is it wise or are they desperate?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (47:45):
Was he truly ready and all of these things were waited?
Is it the torque on the elbow, spin rate? You know,
repetitive stress? Do we not pitch them and hard enough?
You know, coming up the ladder like they did once
upon a time guys were throwing fifteen to twenty complete
games a year, like we're having all of those arguments.
Likewise in the NBA, is like, is it because a
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guy plays above the rim? The zion argument for Jimmy
Butler is it because he's played many a weary minute
on both ends of the court for his entirety of
his career Because he's not a kid anymore. I think
guy's been in the league, what fourteen years, that's a
lot of miles. So, you know, trying to figure out
root causes and effect. In the end, everybody's got to
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give back a giant ass check, which ain't gonna happen.
So you just make the best of it and promote
what's left.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Just stay healthy. That should be everybody's mantra for the playoffs.
Is it one a ring for the king or that no,
stay healthy, Stay healthy. You have the JF you have
a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
But legitimately your off season. At this point, all the
list of things that are written into a contract that
you can't do basketball has to be in like thirty
eight point font and with some kind of effect that
can blink at you do not play basketball. You're already
playing enough minutes, You're already playing enough games, and we're
paying you one hundred million dollars. So stay healthy.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
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at least Friday in the winner go home game that
they will play against the winner of this game between
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the Bulls and the Hawks, and probably longer.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Again. This is the NBA. Welcome to the playoffs. The
season is too long.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:33):
You gotta wiggle the thing a little bit? It was
is I gotta wiggle, got a wiggle, got a wigle lit? No,
I just that. Just that was a big song in
the nineties. Yeah, now a room. Now you're doing a
room with oil and getting creepy. Don't want a wigle
lit just a little bit. I want to see you
wigle lit. Just two in a room.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, that's a big song at like nineteen ninety one
said nobody ever, no trust me to it. Room was
a big hit, you know, but do in a room?
The number two in a room, wiggle it. It was
their big song and that's how it goes, I want
to see you wig a lit just a little bit.
I want to see you wig a lit just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm in hell. That's one of the best plays on
Madden was the quarterback Waggle.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I was.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Run waggle all the time. Waggle. That's a whole other thing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
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I'll tell you this. Right up until they tipped off
the Hawks and the Bulls tonight, I didn't think there
would be any television on it. I thought, maybe, you know,
internet only. I mean, I gotta find it, you know
(01:45):
somewhere unserious. Ohs good for one division of weeks, but
you just say, you know everything else? This game between
two teams with thirty nine wins or sorry, one with
thirty six wins. Hey, it's a national television, man, this
is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, do they have the betting and company meant like
they did yesterday? Oh too soon for betting, too soon,
But we have the true TV betting channel for yesterday's games.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Out of the gambling in the NBA is not a
great story today, man, Well not a great.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Did he suddenly bail out of that contract because they
were doing it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Not a great yesterday a lot better than today.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
You know, just you know, before we get into all
the particulars of it, there's one number that really stands out.
And look, we can go back to show hey and
epay and some of those fuzzy numbers too, But the
fact that you took an eighty thousand dollars prop bet
on some buster when everybody else is getting limited except
the teams for Portnoy, like everybody else like yeah, I
(02:41):
can't bet more than twenty bucks here or fifty bucks. Yeah,
somehow you got an eighty thousand dollars prop bet down
on this guy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Come on, now, doesn't have to ought to be good
to gamble. That's how it goes. But the point is,
it's it's fuzzy math. But I digress. Yeah, gambling in
the NBA, there's still plenty of it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So right now, ESPN gambling that people are actually going
to be watching the Bulls and the Hawks. They put
it on television instead of getting hit by a trolley.
Regional semifinals. I was hoping we get to see a
little bit of that, but instead we get balls in
the hall.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That was a good bit on the good place. We're
just getting trolley. The guy well, regional semifinals.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean it's it's getting it. We're in the playoffs. Now,
this is the reason of this. We're getting hit by.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Go watch the Dodgers offense some more. Shut up Bulls.
Oh you all, now you're chesty. You win a play
play in game. Your knicks are good for the first
time since the J O J. Chase, and you're all
excited and all chesty. So you know what, it's still
a playing game balls. Hey, but congratulations on making it
to national tulelel. That's it's a big it's a big
(03:47):
thing for the Bulls and the Hawks in one game
against each other. The fact that you have to down
at the screen to make sure it really does say
the Hawks are playing in this game. You did a
double take to make sure he did rominy spot on
the internet too, And this is this is terrific kind
of a big deal. It's wet, it's and it is
thirteen to ten right now, will it draw half of
(04:09):
what the w NBA draft did?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Uh? Eight seven? Just get half of two point eight million?
This that is a tough guy. Yeah, well, one point
four million people watch the Bulls and the Hall. Have
you suckered them in with their playoff playoff? That's a
that's a that's a great prop bet right there.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
At that enough of a Pavlovian response, what's that's something?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Because you know, like you like that number, don't you.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You had the great game early, right, you had with
the sixers and and the heat and they and let
me let me be the first to welcome the Philadelphia
seventy six ers to the playoffs. Congratulations on making it in. Yes,
you were hot at the end of the year. It
was fantastic. It was a great accomplishment. Good luck, that's
all I'm gonna say. Good luck all text dog porter
for the odds on the ratings.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, he should know right away.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean, because he's got no he's got nothing that's
holding them back on the or he can still gamble.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He can gamble now, I mean he doesn't have to
worry about anything. You can probably still has that.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot of questions about
that case. I need to be asked too, But yeah,
it's uh, he's got time on his nets.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But earlier, look that that is the game of the night.
It was a phenomenal game between the Heat and the Sixers.
The Heat had the lead. But look, you watch both
these teams play tonight, and the one thing that's clear
is that for all the oh, I don't know that
I want to play the Heat of the Sixers, blank
that I'll play whoever you put in front of me
because my team is good. You put whoever you want
to in front of Jalen Brunson, as long as it's
(05:39):
not the US Olympic team, but everybody you want to
in front of Jalen Brunson. I'm fine. I'm fine with
playing the Sixers. I think I'm fine. Last time we
played the Sixers and they had him beat and beat
him by thirty. I am fine playing the Sixers in
the seven games. SERI, here's a question. Absolutely fine For.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That final roster spot on the US team. Are they
going to do a Bachelor like contest?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
No, eventually he'll get it, because Kawhi will get her
something else. Eventually, Well, we don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
What Kauahi is right, vually go that you want to
talk about an enigma going into the playoffs. Oh, I
don't know if him Bean can go thirty five minutes
a night.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I don't know this.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know that is Kawhi even showing up these
questions and more?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
But MB tonight twenty three, fifteen and five, Big night
for him, Big night for the Sixers who hold off
the Heat, who now have to jump into Friday Nights
Playing Round where they will host the winner. And I
put winner in quotes of the Hawks Bulls game. Is
that I'm saying winner.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's still a winner of a game.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They're a winning team, but are they a winner? That's
why I'd say winner in quotes. They're a winning team,
but are they a winner?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You're all winners?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
You know, it's just a random sid But Billy Bean says,
you know, you know, you're don't look like winners, but
you are winners. So play leg one tonight. So winners
is winners is in quote? They will play the winners
tonight because I can't believe these teams are go, oh yeah,
(07:04):
they're winners.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Not what do you know about dude? Dude?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh, I want to welcome you to the playoffs to Frostburg.
Welcome to the Lakers on behalf of the Knicks. I
want to welcome all the teams who had to play
in the plane and sweat it through. I want to
welcome you all to the playoffs on behalf of the next.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Better sleep with one eye open.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's Michael. You got to call him Michael, Mike. Why
why do you want to put more stuff on his
bulletin board? Why do you want to be you know
that guy, that crazy ass producer on Fox Sports Radio
keeps calling me Mike because you know picking out, he'll
use it his motivation good.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
As long as he tweets it out and for everybody
properly in socials, it'll it'll get retweeted and reposted and
and we'll get viral and we'll take over the world.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Uh So, look the Sixers winning this game. They have
been very hot down the stretch. They get embiid back,
they are a more dangerous team with embad. However, they're
on my never again list for a reason, and as
I have proven, I should never go against my never
again less not that I would, because the Knicks are
(08:05):
a better basketball team than the Sixers are again. Last
time we played them with him beat we beat him
by thirty. I mean, really, embat As we talked to
Rick Buker last week, I've never seen a guy tired
shooting free throws like Joel embiid Is.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's had a week to get himself.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Are you gonna get the full and beat in this series?
The Knicks should win this series, and they should win
it easily. This should be a Knicks coasting into the
second round of the playoffs, not one of those oh
hey we lose.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The first game.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Here we have that they should coast into the second
round of the playoffs because Knicks have been a machine.
They have days off now to because you know, you
do things like playing Tonte de Vincenzo fifty two minutes
in the final game of the regular season. Okay, guys,
eat a few days off, but the Knicks should roll
through the Sixers and roll into the second round of
the playoffs one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
The game one for Saturday, April twentieth, six pm Eastern
time tip off, Knicks are only two and a half
point favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Man It's eight games on four to twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Man it's pretty cool basketball for to any He's exciting, man,
he's really exciting because I.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Gotta pick your U dispensary of choice to get your
Nicks bud.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That's the name. Man. You don't think there's Nick Buddy.
Think somebody's selling Nick's budd out.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
There's a Clyde Frazier strain, there's a you get Dave
Butcher straight and they got them all.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'll wrap it up in blue and orange for you, man,
it will be really cool and mellow. The mall is
the Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
When you open it, you get the guy that was
the announcer all those years, and he goes, yes, it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
He it's like one of those greeting cards.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
When to open up, and it's a song like Emma
Stone had an easy A would see you had to pocket.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Just kept opening up. Man, you open up, you hear
that guy going yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Surely frightening that you brought up easy A. It has
become an obsession for my daughter. I gotta talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Have stupid song. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I
gotta I gotta pay for the orange.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Hey man, it's another strand Hey, hey man, we're gonna
win with that, Julius. Look, the entire run for the Knicks,
I'll tell you this right now, now that I know
we're getting the sixers and again, congratulations with the Philadelphia
seventy six ers from making the playoffs. Uh, the entire
run for the Knicks is gonna be Wow. Here's tomorrow's
headlines tonight. We always say the headlines ahead of time.
Here's your headline. Wow, the Knicks are so good and
(10:22):
they don't even have Julius Randall. That's gonna be what
people are gonna say about the Knicks. This entire playoff
run into the into the Eastern Conference Finals against the Celtics.
Look how good they are and they don't even have
Julius Randall. That's what's gonna be said. Yeah, it's time
to thump my chest because we're good. We're ready, we're rolling,
we're loaded, we're ready to go. I said we're ready
(10:42):
like three times, but we're ready. That's gonna be what
people say. Boy, the Knickers, so boy, imagine if they
had read all next year, they'll be one of the
title favorites. If they get Julius Randall back, they had
to the That's what's gonna happen. I'm telling you how
it's gonna go again. Welcome to the Playoffshildelphia seventy six ers.
Don't expect to stick around long, all right, So I
found this article. You find the article yet there? Uh Frostburg,
Oh yeah, you can do it, all right.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Series price Philadelphia minus one thirty over under total games
five and a half. You are the underdog. How do
you feel about that, mister Helper.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We're not the underdog. We're not the underdog. Bett what
the betting line is?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I clicks? I called chantay porter. He told me that's
not the betting line. He obviously was betting job.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I don't care because you have to be the dumbest
guy in the world where you have no stats and
no status in this game. I'm gonna bet eighty thousand
to watch this. I'm gonna say, Mike Tummy hurts, and
I'm gonna check out early. That doesn't get paid off.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Good luck to go, good luck. You think the seventy
six is a gonna be that, that's great, that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
They think, okay, okay, Oh they won all these games
at the end, and the Knicks bias continues. The bias
against the Knicks continues throughout the country, the anti New
York biobody wants its never so the history of you.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, no, no, no, no, nobody.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Nobody wants to give the Knicks slash Jalen Brunson credit
for anything this year, anytime, and he's great stop. You
would trade everybody on your team for Jalen Brunson everywhere
you go.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I don't think the Knicks are that good. The Knicks
roster is flawed. Well, they finished second, yeah, but they're
not that good. How good is Jalen Brunson. Oh he's
not that good. He's a smaller player. Yeah, he scores
forty a game, but he's not that good, not good
enough for Team USA, even though he did struggle in
feeble last year. Now, Jalen Brunson not even close to
being an MVP favorite. He's like the seventh or eighth
or tenth guy. No, this is There is a huge
(12:36):
anti Knicks bias across the country, from the media, from gamblers,
from everybody, just because of loudmouth fans like me the
people like I can't stand the Knicks. I can't stand
when I turn on the radio and I gotta hear
go New York, Go, New York. Goa go New York, go,
New York go. So no, I'm not gonna give the
Knicks credit. This is this is a I'm telling this
is a credit. This is a nation Yeah yeah, this
(12:59):
is a nation wide fraud being perpetrated on the Knicks.
And the fraud is recognize greatness, recognize No.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
No. Here's the thing though, because they're all from Villinol.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And I don't like Evencenzo, and I don't like Tibbs
because he wears the same pullover and he coaches with
his hands folded every single time he plays his guys
in all these minutes, and all you people talk about
is how good Jalen Brunston is. And I don't like
Jalen Brudson just because I don't like him because he's
a Nick. I just don't like him. That's what people
are like around the country, and you're seeing it the
treatment of the Knicks. The Knicks, there's a fraud being
(13:32):
perpetrated against the Knicks because of their obvious greatness. I
can file that in the court of law.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
File all you want.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You can sue anybody for anything, anytime, anywhere, and uh
well you can still get laughed out of court. Uh
just as easily.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Knicks finished fourteen games behind the Boston Celtics, clump together
with the next what six teams behind them, separated by
a total of three games. So you want to do
the greatness and thump your chest. You know you can
do that in one direction. You can go and mock
Doc Rivers.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
You can go mock Giannis and the Milwaukee Bucks for
their failures down the stretch, allowing you to chase them down,
but proclaiming greatness and wizardry in.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
The Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
That I could go get the audio tape probably some
video too from last week where all you did was
mock the East and how bad it is, which is
what you started doing tonight. Look, they're so bad that
the Hawks and the Bulls are in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And then you're gonna try at the same time, off
chest off and get all excited about you off after seven. No,
don't give me that half ass argument.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're done.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It falls off after seven. You just pointed at me
five times. You're trying to throw me out of the studio.
You're done, like you're like you're out. Tarment really is
pointed like five times at the door, like okay, I'm
not going anyway, just like the Knicks not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You're done going anywhere. Underdog, go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Remember when you were talking about yesterday you were gonna
bet the five, six, seven, and eight seeds.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh in the Western Conference. No, no, no, you never
specified West. No, you did.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I did say here we go. I did say, let's
go for Philadelphia. You find Jason Kelsey's rings. Stop yelling,
take out yelling, you yelling.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I did Okay, I didn't say East. I said you
want to radio, you can do that somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, coming up, we get music from this from the
bladders and some stuff from there. I mean, look what
this is. This is just Hey, we do it. No,
it's not for twenty yet. We ran that Jason. The
Knicks are so bad. Alan Iversons statue could drop forty
on him, the little tiny one, a little tiny baby statue.
I'd like to see some kind of some kind of
(15:40):
movie where all those little baby seventy six er statues
come to life and attack people.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I want to see movie. We're gonna write
that movie right now.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Allen iverson baby statue. Here comes to Juliet Irving baby statue.
Oh my goodness, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Any game, anytime. The Knicks are ready. Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
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Speaker 3 (17:46):
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Mary's been banished now, uh, you know, not for nothing.
You can't blame me.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
No, this is a great song she played. She's getting
she because she knows a weird conversation about this. So
you got the Mets in it? Yeah, come on, Swept
the Pirates, come on, Look how good we are? Look
at the Met and now me Hey, hey, hey pirates
number one. Pirates are good. Secondly, we found out last
night I have a pipeline to David Stearns now for
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advice and for and for uh, I guess you could
call me a what an unpaid consultant decision maker?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, my daughter's being the Wizards that they are personnel
moves told this information. Uh this morning as we're getting
you know, getting ready to go out the door for school.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Both looked at me and said, so when do you
take over the show if if, if it turns something
I could monetize. Yeah, sure, but I can still do both.
Apparently I could. I could do the show and do
the Met. I'm sorry, brutus, but you're gonna have to
wait a little while. Yeah, I could do both. I
think we're just calling it what it is. Want to
(19:07):
make sure we're not We're not gonna meet in the
Senate anytime soon. We're not gonna not gonna have some
kind of big speech. What are you gonna take spinach
and punch him through the ceiling? No, I was I
was going Shakespeare and Brutus.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Oh, I thought you were going Papa. I was going
Brutus who stabbed Caesar? Hey, hey, what's Popeye's favorite food? Spinach?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You've never seen that viral clip? No, where's gonna be contestant?
And she gets all excited because she knows it, and
she goes chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Wow, you know it's chicken.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
She doesn't dance in the whole on yard, and everybody
looks at her like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Well, I see. I could see why she said chicken.
I could see why she said it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Obviously, maybe she thought they said pop Eyes instead of Popeye,
But I could see why she said chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh they did said Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
They said what is popeyes favorite chicken? I can saw,
I can see that. Uh, you know, not for nothing.
I used to say that a lot to my wife said,
I'm done hearing you say not for nothing, but not
for nothing, but you were.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Probably correcting something. I'm sure I was.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
But uh, we're watching you know, we have the game
on in study. We'll get to the Bulls and the
Hall for the second. But uh, on the Dodgers cable channel,
which is Spectrum Sports out here in LA, they're running
a feature. They're running a show, an hour show on
the opening series of the year in South Korea. Everything
like a behind the scenes what went into it all
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kinds of stuff. That's what it was like, is what
it was like being there, kind of like a big
long MLB Films production of.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
The Yeah, behind the scenes and here's the travel, yeah,
and all the celebrity and there were players.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And I just looked up and I said, whoa, they're
showing Epey in the dugout like doing stuff, like like
they got cameras on them, like he's taking pictures and everything, like, oh,
you think they would have edited that out when they Yeah,
with the show's gonna be about fifteen seconds last, why well,
we show ipe a few time. And I don't mean
like they just showed like he happened to be in
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a shot like he's he's smiling.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And joking with Otani and like taking a picture with
a guy.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Like, oh, you think they would have to see I
immediately started taking back to my high school. But in Chicago,
where you know they've got the class pictures lining all
the hallways, and if you got convicted of something really serious, yeah,
they blacked you out. Oh well, well they should.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Like you don't exist in that class photo anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That guy was convicted of murder done, Wow, I would
think so I'd like to think.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Wow, I mean he's still graduated.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
How many hey, I mean you walk down the hallway
when you come for a reunion, he.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Remember that guy?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How many head did you hear? How how many pictures
got blocked out? Like oh I know that person? Well
I got blacked out, blacked out, blacked out, blacked out,
Oh I know that britt blacked out, blacked.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Like how many pictures?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I think there's only one or two across the you know,
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And they don't just take a.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Big can of spray peyton, go with the X over it, bob,
believe that one alone. I kind of like it, Like
how they show now in the in the movies when
the infected and zombie movies are locked in a place,
the big X over the door and they open it.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But we're gonna get into the big gambling scandal in
the NBA today. But this bit of news just in
Bleach your report and a couple of other basketball sources
are reporting.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And remember this is this is this is not a story.
This is this is reported by a lot of sources.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Now, Caitlyn Clark is nearing a quote lucrative eight figure
deal with Nike and is set to receive her own
signature shoe. Now Shams Grania has it as well, So
this means she's gonna get a ten million dollars deal
with Nike and get her own signature shoe. Can we
stop complaining about her salary now? In the salaries of
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the WNBA players, because that's all the last twenty four
hours has been since the draft happened, since Kitlyn Clark
goes number one, It's like people say, oh.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Hey, you know the the women don't get paid as much.
This is one thing. Yes, it's low. Is it embarrassingly low? Yeah?
It is low.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's way lower than you think it would be a
professional player. But it's also the WNBA. It's a forty
game league.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It's how it is.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's why a lot of players play overseas. Would the
salaries should they be higher? Sure, they should be. You
know what, more people have to go to games, more
people have to buy the merch and salaries will go
up so before. But to see everybody lose their mindset,
it's like, you know, they're not getting not getting paid
as well.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
And people that just have no idea about sports that
are weighing in and saying.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well, obviously the women need to be paid as much
as the men. This is not an.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Equal payment kind of thing. We're being this. This is
the WNBA, which is a league that is not nearly
as power.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Look it isn't. It's not nearly as powerful as the
NBA other sports leagues. Is it low? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
But again this is why Caitlin Clark is here to
shine a light on this. And if more people watch,
and more people go to games and more people buy stuff,
guess what everybody's salary gets raised in this way. She's
like Tiger when Tiger Woods got to the PGA Tour.
What do we see in the last twenty years, persons
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have doubled in nearly every event. So much so, get
the Live Golf Tour. Hey an, take a hundred million dollars,
come play for us. Every single golfer in the world
should show up at Tiger Woods's house at some point
and go, hey, dude, thank you for the last twenty years,
because now I mean the living I can make. I
can't believe that I can make double what I'm making
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before all because Tiger Woods showed up to the PGA
Tour and he played any won that every single golfer
should get on their knees and say, Tiger, thank you
so much, because now look at this might look at
look at what's happened over the last twenty years. This
is why Caitlyn Clark is here. This is what you
expect from the WNBA. More people are gonna watch, more
people will buy merch. We know they're buying merch. Her
jersey sold out in less than like ten minutes when
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he was made the number one pick. This is what
she's going to do. Every single person. If you want
to see women's sports succeed, I'll tell you that, get
behind Caitlyn Clark. She is the show. Lots of other
players are great. Doesn't mean I'm not saying other players aren't.
Angel Reese is a great player. We see other players
come in the other Cardoso is a great player. Are
the great players in the WNBA as well. Caitlin Clark
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is the show. She is Shack, She is Tiger Woods.
She is the one that, Hey, people are gonna come
to see me and I am going to lift the
right of rising tide lifts all boats. She's the rising tide.
She will lift all the boats. And you're gonna see
more money for people in WNBA, more relevance, more television coverage,
mer more everything because of her. Anybody who's not behind
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her is just dumb. If you want to see women's
sports succeed, you get behind her because that's what she
is and she's someone that is not shying away from it.
She knows I have a big responsibility on my shoulders here. Yes,
she gets the big signature, shoe, deals gets anything.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Do you know why?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Because she's the most popular college basketball player in women's history.
She's the leading scorer in women's history. She owned the
sport of college basketball. This is what happens when you
go to the pros, you get shoe deals. It's how
it works for everybody else. Everybody's got to get behind
k Women's Sports succeed. You want the WNA, you get
behind Caitlin Clark, because that's where to go. If you
don't like the salaries where they are, get behind her.
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Watch her succeed and you'll see the salaries go up.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Well, we've been talking about this for a while now,
you and I on the show, even going back to
the rise of things last year with Caitlin Clark and
the phenomenon that began during last year's tournament.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Is that you know, people complain. You know, it's like
going to.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
A party, right, This was the analogy we used and
have all on. Right, I might be late, right, might
not be getting there.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
You started at eight.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Whatever, it's kind of open, whatever, and I show up
at nine thirty. How long are you going to be
mad that I showed up at nine thirty? All right,
I missed that hour and a half. But I'm here now.
And that's the WNBA argument. A lot of folks are
having and being pissed about this, Like the reality is,
you know, a chicken and egg kind of thing. Should
there been more investment at some point maybe, but was
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the market there for it? And we could argue that
to all we blew in the face. But you're not
going to just hand out massive deals before there's proof
of concept from a revenue standpoint.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
That's all we've been talking about for this, right.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
The Women's Soccer League talked about the private funding a
couple with Mahomes and others jumping in eventually. But they
built a stadium in Kansas City. It's a state of
the art facility for women's soccer. And that's the intent, right,
not multipurpose. Not you know, something that was built as
a baseball stadium and you go play at like we
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saw it built for women's soccer. And now you have
the WNBA this kind of deal and the endorsements that
are flowing through the star Power page. Becker's is in
the next class, right, and you have this thing that
hopefully from the collegiate side, you gain momentum. But I'm
looking at tickets here. They're playing at the Pyramid when
they come out here instead of the crypt for the
(27:54):
Indiana game, get in is three hundred bucks. Now it's
five thousand seats versus an eight teen thousand seed arena.
But you look around the league, you've got a couple
of teams that are sold out and Indiana tickets are
almost impossible to get. Right, you might get that odd
ball single seed if you're looking to get something for face. Otherwise,
the secondary market is active. The fanatics thingy, they just
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have to figure out their distribute distribution because they're a
joke at this point because those jerseys are not gonna
ship until August. Seeds is gonna be done before people
are gonna get their Caitlin Clark jerseys the way this is.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
But is that but is that really shocker or is
that kind of the norm what we've seen with Nike
and fanatics.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Over the last everything, like they if the baseball anticipate this,
they should have been.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Ordered four months ago.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Everything is wrong, It is inevitable, like the Thano snap.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
But you're not gonna get these literally till after the season.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Hell, there's a couple of Major League Baseball teams that
aren't seeing their jerseys, uh that are actually official jerseys
to be worn in games for another month. So you know,
just lunacy as that goes. But you know, a ten
figure deal and we were seeing things about patches being
sold on jerseys for three million dollars. Like the money's
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flowing and the TV opportunities are going to be there.
What do they say, thirty six games will be televised,
right for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Your televised practices.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Before it's all said and done, you're right. But folks
being mad about the salary, this is not new. This
is not a new discussion. If the money flows and
you can show on the books, there's lots of advertisers,
and it's like we talked about yesterday, Taylor Swift brought
a bunch of random for NFL purposes, random new businesses
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and market segmentations to the Super Bowl. Right, you had
makeup ads. You didn't have makeup ads before you had
the here's another drug with a bunch of side effects
that you need to think about. And here's another beer ad. No,
now you've got makeup ads. Now you've got clothing companies,
all of that that come on board with the w
n b A. The opportunity is there. Everybody's gonna start
eating from the trough.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
This is why she's here. This is what I get
it there. Look, but this is why she's here. And
like I said, She's like Magic and Larry. Now she's
like Tiger Woods. She got a lot on a play
Can I put for Nike though?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah? Sure? Can they make shoes that are a little wider?
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
They do make Why I get some mine? I get some.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I had to get basically krusty the clown like size
shoes to get a pair of Customs years ago.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Dude, your athotics working Nikes? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Can hear you coming from down the halls?
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Exit out out of Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike carbon But in all this that
she's getting ten million dollars at least new shoe.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
But no one's gonna pay attention to cap Park. No no, no, no, no,
no now joining them. Nobody's paying attention right right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Right Coming up next, Hey, we have a big update
on a big NBA playoff injury.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Keep it right here, Jason and My Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Shut that off, man, it's a menace.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best.
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Friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
My ears are burning we are closing into halftime and
the Chicago Bulls lead the Atlanta Hawks seventy three sixty seven.
It was the best first half or fst first quarter.
Yeah that the Bulls that all season. A forty to
twenty two lead, but the Hawks be able to eat
away at the lead. And now not a lot of defense,
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no loving Quinn Snyder's red glasses always eye catching.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
When you see Monta style.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
But the Bulls and Hawks is now a game, and
yes it is nationally televised, despite the fact neither team
has forty wins.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Right, yes, this is on national number one, shutty number two.
They gave up forty five points in the second quarter.
I had a Bulls record too.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I might be it might be, and well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I got to think in some quarter they give it
more than that at some point to somebody this year.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I may be crazy, but yeah, just a not a
lot of defense here. The best defense is a good
offense is really what we're got going on here.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So the last of the first round playing games hits halftime. Again,
it's a six point lead for the Bulls at halftime,
where the prize is to go play the Miami eat
who lost to the Sixers earlier tonight. Meanwhile, we got
big injury news today about Zion Williamson. He is going
to be definitively out against the Sacramento Kings and the
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winner go home game on Friday night, and he will
be re examined in a couple of weeks. So if
somehow the Pelicans win and make it, maybe he could
come back at the end if depending how long the
first round series of Pelicans have are now likely they're
going home tomorrow night. You're talking about teams without their
best player, without the guy who was the difference maker
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on the court last night. And you know, look, we
had a lot of conversation about him last night on
the show and about how last night's dancer his entire
NBA career, look, how dominant he is, but then he
gets hurt when you need him, and he has been
hurt every single year. He's missed five playing games over
the course of his NBA career and missed the biggest
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three and a half minutes last night when the Pelicans
needed him the most. If you're looking at Zion Williamson,
this is the best reality I can tell you about him.
He could have been Shack, right, he could have been Shack.
He could have been the next guy. He had that
factor where he could have had the NBA on his
shoulders for a decade and a half. But now he's
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someone that, Okay, enjoy him while you can, because clearly,
and this is not anything, it's just it just happens,
and it's awful luck. But he just doesn't have the
body to withstand the poundings of an NBA season.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
He just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
When you get hurt every single year, and you get
hurt going back to college, when you're playing AAU schedule
and you're playing a thirty game cop he got has
gotten hurt every single year. I'm hoping, honestly, and I'm
being honest with I'm just hoping the guy's still in
the league in five years that he's twenty eight years old.
Wils We're talking about Zion Williamson doing something, but you
look at what he's been at Sea's seventeen, eighteen years old.
(34:17):
His body just can't withstand the pounding of what it
means to be an NBA player. Because of the rigors
of the schedule. It was hard enough in college. Guys
don't get healthy when they get to the NBA. He's
not quite Greg Odin, but you know at some point
he's gonna get hurt, and when he gets hurt, he's
out a long time. There's no quick recovery from him. Honestly,
if you said in five years he in the league,
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I don't know what side I would take. If he's
twenty twenty eight years old, five years from now you're
talking about twenty twenty nine, twenty thirty, is he still
in the NBA?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I don't know. That's real. That's the best answer I
could give you. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But if he is at this rate, he's a guy
coming off the bench and playing fifteen minutes to night
and missing games and load management and whatever else. For
some squad at least, that seems to be the trajectory
of things. We talked about it a lot last night
as it transpired, and we started getting infos, so folks
can check the massive breakdown of that game and everything
(35:11):
that went on last night wherever you get podcasts. But yeah,
it's just the difficulty. I like the Shack analogy, right.
He could have been a pocket shack because he's what
gives up about six seven inches right, but you know,
the big body, big frame up top, and it's a
lot of wear and tear on the legs, right, especially
the way he plays above the rim.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And last night was fun as hell to watch him.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
And when he left the court, we both just cursed
out loud too, because like we got three and a
half minutes Lakers Pelican's coming down to the wire. You
got this guy playing out of his mind, and you know,
we all got cheated, and it was everything you'd hoped
for for the last five years, all right, Finally seventy games,
thirty one minutes a night, here we go, playoff, big, big,
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bright lights and showing up with that forty point performance
and now two weeks minimum before he's reevaluated and just
just a sad state. Do you know, add him to
the laundry list of big men and guys that have
problems staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I don't know if you If you said are we
going to any point get from Zion Williamson a full
season and a full playoff run, meaning full season, we
plays seventy games and a couple rounds in the playoffs,
I would say there's no way that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
It simply isn't gonna happen. And that's and that's sad,
you know for a guy, what is he twenty four,
twenty three? Yeah, yeah, I twenty thirty, twenty four years old.
I mean yeah, that we're already at that point. And
it's tough because we've had a lot of guys that
have started their careers with big injury issues and have
somehow been able to push those away. For Zion, doesn't
look like the fate's gonna allow that exit. How about
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Speaker 1 (36:57):
We have more NBA on the way. The big his
gambling scandal the league is seen in quite a while
broke today. We'll break it down next Fox. As we
talked about Zion Williamson's injury a few moments ago. He
is out for a Friday Night against Sacramento, likely out
at least another couple of weeks. We talked about his
future and where it's at right now with him. The
immediate future for Jimmy Butler is now in question. He
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was seen leaving the game tonight limping. A lot of
video of him walking off, limp walking off the court, limping,
walking out of the locker room, limping as he was
leaving for the team bus. And now we have breaking
news on Jimmy Butler from Moncy Bolangos, who has the
latest on this story.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Monsey, you guys, I'm wearing my Yimmy shirt.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
What a terrible moment right now.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
You know, I celebrate big head coffee like Noah, maybe
this is your fault.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Maybe this is my fault.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
I hate you so much.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
You really mad, Jimmy Butler. Guys, Sham's just tweeted this
of the athletic that they fear that it's an MCL
injury in his the injury. They think he's gonna be
sidelined for an indefinite period of time.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
MRI to come to confirm all this.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Here is Eric Spolstra after the game about the knee.
Speaker 5 (38:11):
He's putting himself out there, and I just really appreciate
him for that competitive spirit that really stiffened up on
him in the second half. You know, he's able to
still move a little bit in that second quarter after it,
but then as the as the second half went on,
started to limit him a little bit more. Just the movement.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
But we'll see.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Uh, but we have no idea if you know right now,
we'll see when we get back to Miami.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I'm so sad it is.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
I'm so sad.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
It's shocking. It's shocking.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
I wasn't expecting this.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
No, no, no, And I've got a salty about it myself.
I'm a big Jimmy Butler and I'm sad for Mansie.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
The hell was going on with that? It was gonna
be the Heat against the Bulls. Yeah, okay, against.
Speaker 7 (38:54):
The Bulls, heat against the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
You guys are both like Johntay Porter, like you put
money on something and now they're gonna shock or the
Knicks fans not sad about there. No, I don't care.
We're not playing the Heat because caring back, they play
the Knicks. I don't whoop that out.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I don't care that you can.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I will play anybody anywhere, anytime, anywhere.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Any time. You're gonna wear that week she was that
that was at the podium.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Was that the Vincenzo that was saying that anytime any
We're not ducking anybody. Next our attitude, Nick, we got
that new back in that New York groove.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Kind of attitude going, uh it is it's okay, Monty,
you're doing okay Mighty Mouse, Yeah, okay, you're right. Sure
this sucks. You do really you see really? And I said, fan,
I know, I understand. Wow, this is me too, and
I know how we cheer up.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Hey, you know clippers talking about talking about when a
guy on my team gets hurt or is out?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
You go Smith stepping on your head when Monty played,
She's oh, hey, it's okay. The hell man, he likes
me better than you like pitching for a Luca Jersey.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh that hey, man, Jimmy's not available anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Next guy, next man, Thanks very much. Do you need
a couple of minutes if you need I would like
a couple of minutes. All right, very good, there you
go there, I would like a drink.
Speaker 7 (40:17):
Can you make that one happen to you?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
What would you like? Rob Roy?
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Sure you had a Robber Roy? No, what a movie
that one is? How disturbing?
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Like an Arnold Palmer? Arnold? What the hell is? Actually?
Arnold Palmer is lemonade? Nice tea. That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
That's it?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Rob Roy is not okay? Yeah? Good? You want that?
You want to robb Roy, what's in it? How about
a Harvey wallbanger? That one sounds funner. Funner is a
town in California.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
It's funner.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
That sounds more fun that sounds.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
I don't want to be correct. Okay, wow, be correct,
Jimmy Butler is her. I don't want to be correct you.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
If you is wrong, I don't want to be alright.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I actually added that to my playlist just the other day.
Do you actually know what's in a rob Roy?
Speaker 3 (41:04):
Though? Rob Roy? It is whiskey, yep, and chicken and
we're ordering chickens separate and onions? What's it is? Vermouth,
whiskey and bitters? Okay, just like you.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
When the Knicks go down in defeat to the Philadelphia seventies.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
To thee what sounds better, Moncie rob Roy or Arnold
Palmer rob Roy? Okay, we'll work on the rob work
on the rob Roy.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Good luck. Well, we'll check on you in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
Uh so, then, look, obviously a huge injury here, and
best thoughts to Jimmy Butler of course. Uh again, limping
leaving the court, limping when he was leaving the arena, Norlan,
you see a guy walking out and he's limping. Okay,
the guy might be all right, but now you see
the injury is not quite what you thought it was
going to be. And this is the heat. It it's
(41:53):
become a thing every year. It's no matter where the
heat finishes. Get ready, you're scared of the heat. It's playoff, Jimmy,
it's playoff.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Here.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
They come at Spolstrub. We have to give him as
due is one of the best coaches of the NBA,
and we don't do that so much. And all this stuff,
and we get ready and now it looks like it
could come to a screeching halt for Jimmy Butler and
the Heat on Friday night.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
The way they've tried to navigate this season has been
fairly impressive. Now forty six thirty six regular season uh
lost tonight, but navigating without hero You've missed these numerous
players missed extensive time during the season.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
And the ending of this game was insane.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
You have an intentional foul called on an inbounds play
which gives a free throw to make it a four
point game. They hit the three with point three seconds left,
and the ball gets inbounded and embiiding Maxie collide and
the ball goes out of bounds, but zero point three
seconds done, no review, and you take the one point
(42:53):
loss and move on like the saltiness in that moment.
And now you get the you know, add the injury
to that wound to.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
A bigger to make to widen this conversation out, to
make it bigger. And it's not going to happen because
we know this because owners would lose money and you
can't give games back. But every year we see it
what happens an All Star team plus winds up getting
hurt in the NBA playoffs, and we watch an NBA
playoffs that the winning team generally is the one who
(43:25):
is healthiest all the way through till the end. That's
what you get because you see teams falter, like the
Lakers last year because what they're old, they got tired.
You see teams falter because players get hurt and they
can't play, which is what happened last year all through
the Eastern Conference and the Miami Heats run. We had it,
you had the year before in the Western Conference. Here
we are now we're not even two nights done with
(43:47):
the playing tournament and already two of the best players
in the league are done Zion and Jimmy Butler. Look,
the season is too long, a right, it is. It's
too much basketball. You don't need a you don't need
an eighty two game regular season. You don't need it.
It's too much basketball. You're asking guys to do too much.
The way the NBA has evolved over the last fifteen years,
(44:08):
the guys play a lot of basketball. They play basketball
in the offseason. Yes, I'd like to see them play
less basketball in the offseason. But the pounding and what
goes on, the physicality the game, it's just become too much.
It's become too much to ask players to say, hey,
as everybody's gotten bigger and stronger and the game's gotten
more physical, to say, all right, you're going to continue
to have you play this same schedule back to backs,
(44:29):
and there's gonna be soft tissue injuries, and there's gonna
be night you know, your body doesn't have as much
time to heal, and every playoff is going to be
this way. Now, it doesn't matter. Every playoff in the
NBA from now until the end of time is going
to be well, let's just hope you can stay healthy.
Let's hope somebody doesn't get hurt. And it's not something
where the wear and tear of a whole season and
a short turnaround and a soft tissue injury. But this
(44:52):
is what we have. But we're not even two nights
in and already two of the biggest, most popular, best
players in the NBA are done like they're gonna play
again the rest of this year, Zion Williamson and Jimmy Butler.
And again, we've had three and a half games. We've
had three and a half games, and two players are
already out looks like they're done. So I'm telling you,
I've said the NBA the season is too long, and
(45:13):
I don't mean it's too long in that, hey, we
don't need to start, you know, well, certainly we don't
need to start at the end of in the middle
of October, but just play too many games. There's too
many bounce backs, there's too many You put too much
mileage on the players every single year. And the fact
that all these starts, you can't tell me that, oh, well,
some teams have a better medical department, No, because you
(45:37):
see players all across the landscape that wind up getting
injured and missing games because of this, because you're saying,
here's how big it is. Now we ratchet up in
the playoffs and we play even more. It's just a
war of attrition. This is what the NBA playoffs has been.
So get ready because this is what it's gonna every year.
It's gonna be, Hey, what do we need to win?
Stay healthy? Because who knows what you're gonna I'm not
(45:57):
looking ahead to the to the Eastern Conference Final for
the Knicks or the Lakers. Looking ahead, it's like you
don't know who's gonna be playing anywhere by then. Is
Jason Tatum gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (46:06):
You think so? But maybe you know what. Is Jalen
Brunson gonna be healthy?
Speaker 1 (46:10):
I hope so, but maybe I don't know, right I mean,
but that's why to look and say, oh, you need
to get through here and through here and through here.
You just got to take the games in front of you.
And this is how it goes, because this is the
way the NBA playoffs is gonna go until you see
a big change, which again go back to owners aren't
gonna give back money.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Players will give back money. So this is just how
the playoffs are gonna be.
Speaker 4 (46:28):
No it's the difficulty of trying to figure out, you know,
going through all the metrics and algorithms and data points
in terms of injury incidences and and is the raid
higher than it's been or do we just react because
of recency? Right that we've had these in our window
and they're two huge stars. To your point, the last
(46:50):
couple of years we've had a number of these players
go down. But I guess we can go every year
and just decide, all right, what's critical mass in that
regard two game schedule. Look, you added the play in too, yay,
because the Lakers are already one plus. Remember it was
a lot of for the Lakers, for the Clippers, for
some of these teams, like, all right, they just need
(47:11):
to get to April and then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
I don't know. I don't know if a guy's gonna
be healthy. A lot of it's dumb luck.
Speaker 4 (47:18):
But it's the same argument we're having in baseball, right,
trying to figure out, all right, if we're gonna put
weights on the coefficients to all these variables related to
pitchers getting hurt one after another. Right, we just saw
another reliever go down for the Angels, Stevenson done for
the year. Next man up right, Strider goes down. The
(47:39):
Astros have had a number of guys hurt so verl
Anders coming back? Is it wise or are they desperate?
Speaker 3 (47:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (47:45):
Was he truly ready and all of these things were waited?
Is it the torque on the elbow, spin rate? You know,
repetitive stress? Do we not pitch them and hard enough?
You know, coming up the ladder like they did once
upon a time guys were throwing fifteen to twenty complete
games a year, like we're having all of those arguments.
Likewise in the NBA, is like, is it because a
(48:07):
guy plays above the rim? The zion argument for Jimmy
Butler is it because he's played many a weary minute
on both ends of the court for his entirety of
his career Because he's not a kid anymore. I think
guy's been in the league, what fourteen years, that's a
lot of miles. So, you know, trying to figure out
root causes and effect. In the end, everybody's got to
(48:29):
give back a giant ass check, which ain't gonna happen.
So you just make the best of it and promote
what's left.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Just stay healthy. That should be everybody's mantra for the playoffs.
Is it one a ring for the king or that no,
stay healthy, Stay healthy. You have the JF you have
a chance to win.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
But legitimately your off season. At this point, all the
list of things that are written into a contract that
you can't do basketball has to be in like thirty
eight point font and with some kind of effect that
can blink at you do not play basketball. You're already
playing enough minutes, You're already playing enough games, and we're
paying you one hundred million dollars. So stay healthy.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from
the Tireck dot Com studios again. Breaking news in from
Monte Bolanjo's broadcast from Shams Tarani of Yahoo. Jimmy Butler
mcl injury. Looks like he could be without him for
at least Friday in the winner go home game that
they will play against the winner of this game between
(49:28):
the Bulls and the Hawks, and probably longer.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Again. This is the NBA. Welcome to the playoffs. The
season is too long.
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