April 18, 2024 • 37 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!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
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is I gotta wiggle, got a wiggle, got a wigle lit? No,
I just for 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.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Don't want to wigle lit just a little bit. I
want to see you wigle lit, just two in a room. Yeah,
it was a big song at like nineteen ninety one
said nobody ever, no, trust me to it.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Room was a big hit.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Nobody ever do in a room the number or 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 (01:11):
I'm in hell.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
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quarterback waggle.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
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Speaker 1 (01:16):
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
The waggle. That's a whole other thing.
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Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
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 mean
I gotta find it, you know, somewhere unserious.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Ohs good for onelevision of weeks, but you just say,
you know everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
This game between two teams with thirty nine wins, sorry,
one with thirty six wins. Hey, it's a national television, man,
this is pretty cool. Well, do they have the betting
accompaniment like they did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Too soon for betting? Too soon?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, but we have the true TV betting channel for
yesterday's games. Out of the gambling in the NBA is
not a great story today, man, Well not a great.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Did we suddenly bail out of that contract because they
were doing it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not a great yesterday, a lot better than today.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
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
(02:39):
can't bet more than twenty bucks here or fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, somehow you got an eighty thousand dollars prop bet
down on this guy. Come on, now, doesn't have to
ought to be good to gamble. That's how it goes.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
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 (02:57):
So right now, ESPN gambling that people are at gonna
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 in the hall. That
was a good bit on the good Place trolley the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, regional semifinals, I mean it's it's getting it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're in the playoffs now, this is the reason this
we're getting hit by. Go watch the Dodgers offense some more.
Shut up Bulls. Oh you all, now you're chesty. You
win a play a play in game. Your knicks are
good for the first time since the joj Chase. You're
all excited and chesty, so you know what, It's still
(03:40):
a playing game. Balls. Hey, but congratulations on making it
to National Tulelevis. It's a big it's a big thing
for the Bulls and the Hawks in one game against
each other.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
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 you Amy Spot on the internet too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is this is terrific kind of the big deal.
It's it's and it is thirteen to ten right now?
Will it draw half of what the w NBA draft did?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Uh? Eight seven?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just get half of two point eight million? This is
a tough ca yeah, well, one point four.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Million people watch the Bulls and the Hall. Have you
suckered them in with the word playoff?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Playoff?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's a that's a that's a great prop bet right
there at.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That enough of a Pavlovian response, that's something, because you
know you like you like that number, don't you. You
had the great game early, right, you had the with
the sixers and and the heat and hey 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
(04:50):
was fantastic. It was a great accomplishment. Good luck, that's
all I'm gonna say. Good luck all text dougs porters. Yeah, yeah,
he should know right away. I mean, because he's got
no he's got nothing that's holding him back. He can
still gamble. He can gamble now, I mean, he doesn't
have to worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You can probably still has that. Yeah. I mean, look,
there's a lot of questions about that case.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I need to be asked too, but yeah, it's uh,
he's got time on his nets. 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
(05:31):
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 not the
US Olympic team, but anybody 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 a seven game.
Ser here's a question.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Absolutely fine for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That final roster spot on the US team. Are they
going to do a Bachelor like contest? No, eventually he'll
get it because Kawhi will get hurt something else.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Eventually.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We don't know what Kawhi is right Eventually, Oh, 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 (06:07):
I don't know this.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know that is Kawhi even showing up these
questions and more. 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 a round where they will host the winner.
And I put winner in quotes of the Hawks Bulls game.
(06:29):
Is that I'm saying winners? No, it's still a winner
of a game. They're a winning team, but are they
a winner? That's why I say winner in quotes. They're
a winning team, but are they a winner? You're all winners.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, it's just a random side.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
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 quotes? They
will play the winners to because I can't believe these
teams are go, oh yeah, they're winners.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Not what do you know about women?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Dude?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I want to welcome you to the playoffs too, Frostburg,
welcome to the Lakers on behalf of the Micks. I
want to welcome over and 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 (07:17):
Better sleep with one eye open.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's Michael. You got to call him Michael, Mike. 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
as motivation. Good 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
(07:41):
over the world. 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
(08:03):
are 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 embaid. As we talked
to Rick Buker last week. I've never seen a guy
tired shooting free throws like Joel embiid Is. He's had
a week to get himself. Freddy, 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
(08:23):
the playoffs, not one of those oh hey we lose
the first game.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, here we have that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They should coast into the second round the playoffs because
the Knicks have been a machine. They have days off
now to because you know, you do things like playing
Tonty 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 (08:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
The game one for Saturday, April twentieth, six pm Eastern
time tip off. Knicks are only two and a half
point favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Man, it's eight games on four to twenty. Man, it's
pretty cool basketball at four to twenty. He's exciting, man,
And he's really exciting.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Because I have to pick your U dispensary of choice
to get your Knicks bud theme.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Man, you don't think there's Nick Buddy. I think somebody's
selling Nick's budd out there.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There's a Clyde.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Frazier strain, there's a you get Dave Butcher strain, and
they got them all. I'll wrap it up in blue
and orange for you, man, it will be really cool
and mellow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The mall is the Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
When you open it, you get the guy that was
the announcer all those years, and he goes, yes, it's
really cool. It's like one of those greeting cards being
able to open up, and it's a song like Emma
Stone had an easy A would see you had to pocket?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Just kept opening up. Man, you open up, you hear
that guy going yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Surely frightening that you brought up easy A. It has
become an obsession for my daughter. I gotta talk about
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta stupid song.
I gotta pocket, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Gotta Do you pay for the orange? Julius? Hey man,
that's ano. Hey man, We're gonna win with that. Julie.
Look the entire run for the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
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
they don't even have Julius Randall. That's gonna be what
people are gonna say about the Knicks. This entire playoff
(10:26):
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
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
(10:46):
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 playoffs. Piadelphia 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 5 (11:01):
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 (11:14):
We're not the underdog. We're not the underdog.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Betting the bett line is I clicks. I called chantay porter.
He told me that's not the betting line. He obviously
want betting job.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I don't care because you you have to be the
dumbest guy in the world where you have no stats
and no status.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Good luck to go, good luck. You think the seventy
six is a gona that that's great, that's great. They think, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
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 the
history of human No, no, no, nobody, nobody wants to
give the Knicks slash Jalen Brunson credit for anything this year, anytime,
(12:06):
and he's stop.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You would trade everybody on your team for Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Everywhere you go.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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
(12:33):
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 CoA, go New York,
Go New York Co. 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, click
(12:56):
that off. Yeah, this is a nation wide fraud being
perpetrated on the Knicks. And the fraud is recognize greatness,
recognize No no, no.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Here's the thing though, because.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They're all from villanoul and I don't liked 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
the people talk about is how good Jalen Brunson is.
And I don't like Jalen Brudson just because I don't
like him because he's a Knick.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I just don't like him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
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 perpetrated against the Knicks because of their
obvious greatness.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I can file that in the court of law, file
all you want.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You can sue anybody for anything, anytime, anywhere, and uh
well you can still get laughed out of court. Uh
just as easily.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Knicks finish 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 River. You can go mock Giannis and the Milwaukee
(14:02):
Bucks for their failures down the stretch, allowing you to
chase them down, but proclaiming greatness and wizardry.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
In the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
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. That's
the Eastern Conference. And then you're gonna try at the
same time off chest off and get all excited about Joseph.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
After seven, No, don't give me that half ass argument.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You're done. It falls off after seven. You just pointed
out me five times. You're trying to throw me out
of the studio. You're done, like you're like you're out
tarm It really is pointed like five times the door, like, ok,
I'm not going anyway, just like the Knicks not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You're done going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Underdog, go New York, Go New York. Remember when you
were talking about yesterday you were gonna bet the five, six,
seven and eight seeds.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh in the Western Conference? No, no, no, you never
specified head Western.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I did say here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I did say, what's go for Philadelphia? You find Jason
Kelsey's rings yelling, yelling, Hey, you yelling?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I did, okay, I didn't say East. I say you
want to radio.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hey coming up? We got music from this from the
bladders and some stuff from there. I mean, look what
this is, this is just hey.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We do it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, it's up for ye.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We ran that, Jason. The Knicks are so bad. Alan
Iversons statue, you could drop forty on him.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The little tiny one, little tiny baby statue. I'd like
to see some kind of some kind of movie where
all those little baby seventy six or statues come to
life and attack people.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I think I want to see.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's gonna write that movie right now. Hey, Allen Iverson
baby statue, Here comes the Juliet Irving baby statue.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome any game, anytime.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The Knicks are ready. Coming up next.
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You can't blame me, No, this is a great song,
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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, when we found
out last night, I have a pipeline to David Stearns
now for advice and for and for Uh, I guess
you could call me a what an unpaid consultant decision maker?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Well, my daughter's being the Wizards that they are personnel
moved told this information. Uh this morning as we're getting
you know, getting ready to go out the door for school.
Both looked at me and said, so, when do you
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
If, if, if that 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. Just want to make sure we're not
We're not gonna meet in the Senate anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We're not gonna not gonna have some kind of big speech.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What are you gonna take spinach and punch him through
the ceiling? No, I was I was going Shakespeare and Brutus. Oh,
I thought you were going Papa and I was going
Brutus who stabbed Caesar? Hey, hey, what's Popeye's favorite food?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Spinach?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
You've never seen that viral clip? No where there's gonna
be contestant. And she gets all excited because she knows it,
and she goes chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Wow, you know it's chicken.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She doesn't dance in the whole idea, and everybody looks
at her like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, I see. I could see why she said chicken.
I could see why she said it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Obviously, maybe she thought they said Popeyes instead of Popeye,
but I could see why she said chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh they did say Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
They said, what is popeyes favorite food?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Chicken? I could saw. I could see that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Uh, you know, not for nothing, And I used to
say that a lot to My wife said, I'm done
hearing you say not for nothing.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
But not for nothing, But you were 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 at 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
(20:31):
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 the Yeah, behind the scenes
and here's the travel, yeah, and all the celebrity and
there were players. 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
(20:52):
and everything.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Like, oh, you think they would have edited that out
when the.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Show is going to be about fifteen seconds last, Why
well we show ipe a few do And I don't
mean like they just showed like he happened to be
in a shot like he's he's smiling and joking with
Otani and like taking a picture with a guy, Like, oh,
you think they would.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Have 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.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And if you got.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Convicted of something really serious, yeah, they blacked you out.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Oh well, well they should.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Like you don't exist in that class photo anymore. That
guy was convicted of murder done, Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I would think so, I'd like to think, well, I
mean he's still graduated. How many hey, I mean you
walk down the hallway when you come for a reunion. Hey,
remember that guy?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How many he did you hear? How how many pictures
got blocked out?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
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 Like how many pictures?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I think there's only one or two across the you know,
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And they don't just.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Have a big can of spray paint and go put
the X over it, Bob, leave that one alone. I
kind of like it, Like 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 3 (22:10):
But uh, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
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. And
remember this is this is this is not a story.
This is this is reported by a lot of sources. Now,
Caitlyn Clark is nearing a quote lucrative eight figure deal
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with Nike and is set to receive her own signature shoe.
Now Shamsterrannia 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 the WNBA players,
because that's all the last twenty four hours has been
since the draft happened, since Kitlyn Clark goes number one.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
It's like people said, oh, hey, you know the the
women don't get paid as much. I didn't know this
one thing. Yes, it's low. Is it embarrassingly low? Yeah?
It is low.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
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. It's how it is. 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 (23:23):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And people that just have no idea about sports that
are weighing in and saying, well, obviously the women need
to be paid as much as the men. This is
not an equal payment kind of thing. We're being this.
This is this is the WNBA, which is a league
that is not nearly as power. Look it isn't it's
not nearly as powerful as the NBA other sports leagues.
Is it low?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
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 Woods. 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.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So much so, get the Live Golf Tour.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hey take 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 before. All because
Tiger Woods showed up to the PGA Tour and he
played any won that every single golfer should get on
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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 he was made a
number one pick. This is what she's going to do.
Every single person. If you want to see women's sports succeed,
(24:54):
I'll tell you that, get behind Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
She is the show.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A lot of other players are great, doesn't mean I'm
not saying other players aren't. Angel Reese is a great player.
See other players come in the other Cardoso is a
great player. Are the great players in the WNBA as well.
Caitlin Clark 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
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you're gonna see more money for people in WNBA, more relevance,
more television coverage, more everything because of her. Anybody who's
not behind 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.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Shying away from it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
She knows I have a big responsibility on my shoulders here. Yes,
she gets the big signature, shoe deals, gets anything. Do
you know why, 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 If you want women's sports to seed,
(26:00):
do you want the WNBA, You get behind Caitlin Clark,
because that's where to go. If you don't like the
salaries where they are, get behind her, watch her succeed
and you'll see the salaries go up.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
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 is that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, people complain.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You know, it's like going to a party, right, This
was the analogy we used and have all on. Right,
I might be late, right, might not be getting there.
You started at eight whatever, it's kind of open, whatever,
and I show up at nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
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.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Should there been more investment at some point?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But was the market there for it? And we could
argue that to aal we blew in the face.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
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 5 (27:11):
The Women's Soccer League talked about the private funding, a
couple with mahomes and others jumping in eventually.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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 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.
(27:41):
Becker's is in the next class, right, and you have
this thing that hopefully from the collegiate side, you gain momentum.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
But I'm looking at tickets here.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
They're playing at the Pyramid when they come out here
instead of the crypt for the Indiana game, get ins
three hundred bucks. Now it's five thousand seats versus an
eighteen 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
(28:11):
to get something for face. Otherwise, the secondary market is active.
The fanatics thing, they just 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 (28:29):
But is that but is that really shocker or is
that kind of the norm what we've seen with Nike
and fanatics over the last everything, like they the baseball
anticipate this. They should have been ordered four months ago.
Everything is wrong, It was inevitable, like the Fano snap.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
But you're not gonna get these literally till after the season.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
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
(29:12):
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 (29:20):
Your televised practices.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Before it's all said and done, You're right, But folks
being mad about the salary, this is not new.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
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 and market segmentations to the Super Bowl. Right, you
had makeup ads. You didn't have makeup ads before you
(29:48):
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 WN.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The opportunity is there. Everybody's gonna start eating from the trough.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
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's got a lot on a play.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Can I put hers for Nike? Though? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Sure? Can they make shoes that are a little wider?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
They do make why I get some? Mike, can you
get the Yeah, I get some.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I had to get basically krusty, the clown like size
shoes to get a pair of Customs years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Dude, you'r athotics working nikes?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Where are you? Can hear you coming from down.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
The hall.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Stop exit out out of Fresca exit swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon But in all this,
she's getting ten million dollars at least new shoe.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But no one's gonna pay attention to cad Park. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Now you're joining them.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Nobody's paying attention right right, right, Hey, we have a
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Speaker 1 (31:16):
We are closing into halftime and the Chicago Bulls lead
the Atlanta Hawks seventy three sixty seven. It was the
best first half or fest 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. Oh loving Quinn
(31:39):
Snyder's red glasses always eye catching when you see the
Monta the style. But the Bulls and Hawks is now
a game, and yes it is nationally televised, despite the
fact neither team has forty wins.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Right, yes, this is on national number one, Shutty number two.
They gave up forty five points in the second quarter.
Is that a Bulls wreck or two?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It might be, It might be, And well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I got to think in some quarter they give it
more than that at some point to somebody this year.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
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. 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 Heat
who lost to the Sixers earlier tonight. Meanwhile, we got
(32:31):
big injury news today about Zion Williamson.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
He is going to.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Be definitively out against the Sacramento Kings and the 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
(32:56):
home tomorrow night. You're talking about teams without their best player,
without the guy who was the difference maker 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 for over the
(33:19):
course of his NBA career and missed the biggest 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
(33:39):
shoulders for a decade and a half. But now he's
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 (33:53):
He just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
When you get hurt every single year, and you can
hurt going back to college when you're playing AAU schedules
and you're playing a thirty game cop he got has
gotten hurt every single year. I'm hope, 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. Wilson,
we're talking about Zion Williamson doing something, but you look
at what he's been a c he's seventeen, eighteen years old.
(34:16):
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
just 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,
(34:37):
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 to 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 5 (34:48):
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's 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
(35:10):
that went on last night wherever you get podcasts.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But yeah, it's just the difficulty.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The rim, and last night was fun as hell to
watch him.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
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,
(35:59):
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, you know, add them to the
laundry list of big men and guys that have problems
staying healthy. I don't know if you if you said,
are we going to any point get from Zion Williamson
(36:22):
a full season and a full playoff run, meaning full season,
we play seventy games and a couple rounds in the playoffs,
I would say.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
There's no way that's not gonna happen. It simply isn't
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
And that's and it's sad, you know, for a guy
what is he twenty four twenty three. Yeah, yeah, twenty
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 fate's gonna allow that exit.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
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The biggest gambling the end of the league has seen
in quite a while broke today.
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Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
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 mean
I gotta find it, you know, somewhere unserious.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Ohs good for onelevision of weeks, but you just say,
you know everything else.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
This game between two teams with thirty nine wins, sorry,
one with thirty six wins. Hey, it's a national television, man,
this is pretty cool. Well, do they have the betting
accompaniment like they did yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Too soon for betting? Too soon?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
No, but we have the true TV betting channel for
yesterday's games. Out of the gambling in the NBA is
not a great story today, man, Well not a great.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Did we suddenly bail out of that contract because they
were doing it yesterday?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Not a great yesterday, a lot better than today.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
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
(02:39):
can't bet more than twenty bucks here or fifty bucks.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, somehow you got an eighty thousand dollars prop bet
down on this guy. Come on, now, doesn't have to
ought to be good to gamble. That's how it goes.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
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 (02:57):
So right now, ESPN gambling that people are at gonna
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 in the hall. That
was a good bit on the good Place trolley the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, regional semifinals, I mean it's it's getting it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
We're in the playoffs now, this is the reason this
we're getting hit by. Go watch the Dodgers offense some more.
Shut up Bulls. Oh you all, now you're chesty. You
win a play a play in game. Your knicks are
good for the first time since the joj Chase. You're
all excited and chesty, so you know what, It's still
(03:40):
a playing game. Balls. Hey, but congratulations on making it
to National Tulelevis. It's a big it's a big thing
for the Bulls and the Hawks in one game against
each other.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
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 you Amy Spot on the internet too.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
This is this is terrific kind of the big deal.
It's it's and it is thirteen to ten right now?
Will it draw half of what the w NBA draft did?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Uh? Eight seven?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Just get half of two point eight million? This is
a tough ca yeah, well, one point four.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Million people watch the Bulls and the Hall. Have you
suckered them in with the word playoff?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Playoff?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
That's a that's a that's a great prop bet right
there at.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That enough of a Pavlovian response, that's something, because you
know you like you like that number, don't you. You
had the great game early, right, you had the with
the sixers and and the heat and hey 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
(04:50):
was fantastic. It was a great accomplishment. Good luck, that's
all I'm gonna say. Good luck all text dougs porters. Yeah, yeah,
he should know right away. I mean, because he's got
no he's got nothing that's holding him back. He can
still gamble. He can gamble now, I mean, he doesn't
have to worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You can probably still has that. Yeah. I mean, look,
there's a lot of questions about that case.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I need to be asked too, but yeah, it's uh,
he's got time on his nets. 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
(05:31):
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 not the
US Olympic team, but anybody 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 a seven game.
Ser here's a question.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Absolutely fine for.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That final roster spot on the US team. Are they
going to do a Bachelor like contest? No, eventually he'll
get it because Kawhi will get hurt something else.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Eventually.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
We don't know what Kawhi is right Eventually, Oh, 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 (06:07):
I don't know this.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I don't know that is Kawhi even showing up these
questions and more. 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 a round where they will host the winner.
And I put winner in quotes of the Hawks Bulls game.
(06:29):
Is that I'm saying winners? No, it's still a winner
of a game. They're a winning team, but are they
a winner? That's why I say winner in quotes. They're
a winning team, but are they a winner? You're all winners.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
You know, it's just a random side.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
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 quotes? They
will play the winners to because I can't believe these
teams are go, oh yeah, they're winners.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Not what do you know about women?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Dude?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I want to welcome you to the playoffs too, Frostburg,
welcome to the Lakers on behalf of the Micks. I
want to welcome over and 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 (07:17):
Better sleep with one eye open.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's Michael. You got to call him Michael, Mike. 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
as motivation. Good 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
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over the world. 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
(08:03):
are 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 embaid. As we talked
to Rick Buker last week. I've never seen a guy
tired shooting free throws like Joel embiid Is. He's had
a week to get himself. Freddy, 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
(08:23):
the playoffs, not one of those oh hey we lose
the first game.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, here we have that.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
They should coast into the second round the playoffs because
the Knicks have been a machine. They have days off
now to because you know, you do things like playing
Tonty 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 (08:45):
Well.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
The game one for Saturday, April twentieth, six pm Eastern
time tip off. Knicks are only two and a half
point favorites.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Man, it's eight games on four to twenty. Man, it's
pretty cool basketball at four to twenty. He's exciting, man,
And he's really exciting.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Because I have to pick your U dispensary of choice
to get your Knicks bud theme.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Man, you don't think there's Nick Buddy. I think somebody's
selling Nick's budd out there.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
There's a Clyde.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Frazier strain, there's a you get Dave Butcher strain, and
they got them all. I'll wrap it up in blue
and orange for you, man, it will be really cool
and mellow.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
The mall is the Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
When you open it, you get the guy that was
the announcer all those years, and he goes, yes, it's
really cool. It's like one of those greeting cards being
able to open up, and it's a song like Emma
Stone had an easy A would see you had to pocket?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Just kept opening up. Man, you open up, you hear
that guy going yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Surely frightening that you brought up easy A. It has
become an obsession for my daughter. I gotta talk about
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta stupid song.
I gotta pocket, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Gotta Do you pay for the orange? Julius? Hey man,
that's ano. Hey man, We're gonna win with that. Julie.
Look the entire run for the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
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
they don't even have Julius Randall. That's gonna be what
people are gonna say about the Knicks. This entire playoff
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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
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
(10:46):
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 playoffs. Piadelphia 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 5 (11:01):
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 (11:14):
We're not the underdog. We're not the underdog.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Betting the bett line is I clicks. I called chantay porter.
He told me that's not the betting line. He obviously
want betting job.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I don't care.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I don't care because you you have to be the
dumbest guy in the world where you have no stats
and no status.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Good luck to go, good luck. You think the seventy
six is a gona that that's great, that's great. They think, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
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 the
history of human No, no, no, nobody, nobody wants to
give the Knicks slash Jalen Brunson credit for anything this year, anytime,
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and he's stop.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You would trade everybody on your team for Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Everywhere you go.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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
(12:33):
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 CoA, go New York,
Go New York Co. 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, click
(12:56):
that off. Yeah, this is a nation wide fraud being
perpetrated on the Knicks. And the fraud is recognize greatness,
recognize No no, no.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Here's the thing though, because.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
They're all from villanoul and I don't liked 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
the people talk about is how good Jalen Brunson is.
And I don't like Jalen Brudson just because I don't
like him because he's a Knick.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I just don't like him.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
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 perpetrated against the Knicks because of their
obvious greatness.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I can file that in the court of law, file
all you want.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You can sue anybody for anything, anytime, anywhere, and uh
well you can still get laughed out of court. Uh
just as easily.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Knicks finish 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 River. You can go mock Giannis and the Milwaukee
(14:02):
Bucks for their failures down the stretch, allowing you to
chase them down, but proclaiming greatness and wizardry.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
In the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
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. That's
the Eastern Conference. And then you're gonna try at the
same time off chest off and get all excited about Joseph.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
After seven, No, don't give me that half ass argument.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
You're done. It falls off after seven. You just pointed
out me five times. You're trying to throw me out
of the studio. You're done, like you're like you're out
tarm It really is pointed like five times the door, like, ok,
I'm not going anyway, just like the Knicks not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You're done going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Underdog, go New York, Go New York. Remember when you
were talking about yesterday you were gonna bet the five, six,
seven and eight seeds.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Oh in the Western Conference? No, no, no, you never
specified head Western.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I did say here we go.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I did say, what's go for Philadelphia? You find Jason
Kelsey's rings yelling, yelling, Hey, you yelling?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I did, okay, I didn't say East. I say you
want to radio.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hey coming up? We got music from this from the
bladders and some stuff from there. I mean, look what
this is, this is just hey.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
We do it.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
No, it's up for ye.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
We ran that, Jason. The Knicks are so bad. Alan
Iversons statue, you could drop forty on him.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
The little tiny one, little tiny baby statue. I'd like
to see some kind of some kind of movie where
all those little baby seventy six or statues come to
life and attack people.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I think I want to see.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's gonna write that movie right now. Hey, Allen Iverson
baby statue, Here comes the Juliet Irving baby statue.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome any game, anytime.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
The Knicks are ready. Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
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Speaker 3 (17:45):
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Speaker 1 (17:49):
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Speaker 3 (17:59):
Mary's and Banish Now, Uh, you know, not for nothing.
You can't blame me, No, this is a great song,
she played. She's getting she because she knows that weird
conversation about this.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
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, when we found
out last night, I have a pipeline to David Stearns
now for advice and for and for Uh, I guess
you could call me a what an unpaid consultant decision maker?
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Well, my daughter's being the Wizards that they are personnel
moved told this information. Uh this morning as we're getting
you know, getting ready to go out the door for school.
Both looked at me and said, so, when do you
take over the show?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
If, if, if that 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. Just want to make sure we're not
We're not gonna meet in the Senate anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We're not gonna not gonna have some kind of big speech.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
What are you gonna take spinach and punch him through
the ceiling? No, I was I was going Shakespeare and Brutus. Oh,
I thought you were going Papa and I was going
Brutus who stabbed Caesar? Hey, hey, what's Popeye's favorite food?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Spinach?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
You've never seen that viral clip? No where there's gonna
be contestant. And she gets all excited because she knows it,
and she goes chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Wow, you know it's chicken.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She doesn't dance in the whole idea, and everybody looks
at her like, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Well, I see. I could see why she said chicken.
I could see why she said it.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Obviously, maybe she thought they said Popeyes instead of Popeye,
but I could see why she said chicken.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Oh they did say Popeyes.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
They said, what is popeyes favorite food?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Chicken? I could saw. I could see that.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Uh, you know, not for nothing, And I used to
say that a lot to My wife said, I'm done
hearing you say not for nothing.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
But not for nothing, But you were 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 at 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
(20:31):
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 the Yeah, behind the scenes
and here's the travel, yeah, and all the celebrity and
there were players. 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
(20:52):
and everything.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Like, oh, you think they would have edited that out
when the.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Show is going to be about fifteen seconds last, Why
well we show ipe a few do And I don't
mean like they just showed like he happened to be
in a shot like he's he's smiling and joking with
Otani and like taking a picture with a guy, Like, oh,
you think they would.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Have 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.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And if you got.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Convicted of something really serious, yeah, they blacked you out.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Oh well, well they should.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Like you don't exist in that class photo anymore. That
guy was convicted of murder done, Wow.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I would think so, I'd like to think, well, I
mean he's still graduated. How many hey, I mean you
walk down the hallway when you come for a reunion. Hey,
remember that guy?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
How many he did you hear? How how many pictures
got blocked out?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
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 Like how many pictures?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
I think there's only one or two across the you know,
one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And they don't just.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Have a big can of spray paint and go put
the X over it, Bob, leave that one alone. I
kind of like it, Like 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 3 (22:10):
But uh, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
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. And
remember this is this is this is not a story.
This is this is reported by a lot of sources. Now,
Caitlyn Clark is nearing a quote lucrative eight figure deal
(22:33):
with Nike and is set to receive her own signature shoe.
Now Shamsterrannia 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 the WNBA players,
because that's all the last twenty four hours has been
since the draft happened, since Kitlyn Clark goes number one.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
It's like people said, oh, hey, you know the the
women don't get paid as much. I didn't know this
one thing. Yes, it's low. Is it embarrassingly low? Yeah?
It is low.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
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. It's how it is. 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 (23:23):
I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And people that just have no idea about sports that
are weighing in and saying, well, obviously the women need
to be paid as much as the men. This is
not an equal payment kind of thing. We're being this.
This is this is the WNBA, which is a league
that is not nearly as power. Look it isn't it's
not nearly as powerful as the NBA other sports leagues.
Is it low?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
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 Woods. When Tiger Woods got to the PGA Tour,
what do we see in the last twenty years, persons
(24:04):
have doubled in nearly every event.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So much so, get the Live Golf Tour.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Hey take 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 before. All because
Tiger Woods showed up to the PGA Tour and he
played any won that every single golfer should get on
(24:31):
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 he was made a
number one pick. This is what she's going to do.
Every single person. If you want to see women's sports succeed,
(24:54):
I'll tell you that, get behind Caitlyn Clark.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
She is the show.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
A lot of other players are great, doesn't mean I'm
not saying other players aren't. Angel Reese is a great player.
See other players come in the other Cardoso is a
great player. Are the great players in the WNBA as well.
Caitlin Clark 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
(25:21):
you're gonna see more money for people in WNBA, more relevance,
more television coverage, more everything because of her. Anybody who's
not behind 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.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Shying away from it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
She knows I have a big responsibility on my shoulders here. Yes,
she gets the big signature, shoe deals, gets anything. Do
you know why, 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 If you want women's sports to seed,
(26:00):
do you want the WNBA, You get behind Caitlin Clark,
because that's where to go. If you don't like the
salaries where they are, get behind her, watch her succeed
and you'll see the salaries go up.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
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 is that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, people complain.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
You know, it's like going to a party, right, This
was the analogy we used and have all on. Right,
I might be late, right, might not be getting there.
You started at eight whatever, it's kind of open, whatever,
and I show up at nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
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.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Should there been more investment at some point?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But was the market there for it? And we could
argue that to aal we blew in the face.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
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 5 (27:11):
The Women's Soccer League talked about the private funding, a
couple with mahomes and others jumping in eventually.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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 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.
(27:41):
Becker's is in the next class, right, and you have
this thing that hopefully from the collegiate side, you gain momentum.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
But I'm looking at tickets here.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
They're playing at the Pyramid when they come out here
instead of the crypt for the Indiana game, get ins
three hundred bucks. Now it's five thousand seats versus an
eighteen 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
(28:11):
to get something for face. Otherwise, the secondary market is active.
The fanatics thing, they just 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 (28:29):
But is that but is that really shocker or is
that kind of the norm what we've seen with Nike
and fanatics over the last everything, like they the baseball
anticipate this. They should have been ordered four months ago.
Everything is wrong, It was inevitable, like the Fano snap.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
But you're not gonna get these literally till after the season.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
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
(29:12):
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 (29:20):
Your televised practices.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Before it's all said and done, You're right, But folks
being mad about the salary, this is not new.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
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 and market segmentations to the Super Bowl. Right, you
had makeup ads. You didn't have makeup ads before you
(29:48):
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 WN.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The opportunity is there. Everybody's gonna start eating from the trough.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
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's got a lot on a play.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Can I put hers for Nike? Though? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Sure? Can they make shoes that are a little wider?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
They do make why I get some? Mike, can you
get the Yeah, I get some.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I had to get basically krusty, the clown like size
shoes to get a pair of Customs years ago.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Dude, you'r athotics working nikes?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Where are you? Can hear you coming from down.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
The hall.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Stop exit out out of Fresca exit swollen down The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon But in all this,
she's getting ten million dollars at least new shoe.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
But no one's gonna pay attention to cad Park. No, no, no, no, no, no,
Now you're joining them.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Nobody's paying attention right right, right, Hey, we have a
big update on a big NBA playoff injury. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Shut that off, Man's a menace. Fox Sports Radio, The
Jason Smith Show with my best.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Friend Mike Harmon. My ears are burning.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We are closing into halftime and the Chicago Bulls lead
the Atlanta Hawks seventy three sixty seven. It was the
best first half or fest 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. Oh loving Quinn
(31:39):
Snyder's red glasses always eye catching when you see the
Monta the style. But the Bulls and Hawks is now
a game, and yes it is nationally televised, despite the
fact neither team has forty wins.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Right, yes, this is on national number one, Shutty number two.
They gave up forty five points in the second quarter.
Is that a Bulls wreck or two?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
It might be, It might be, And well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I got to think in some quarter they give it
more than that at some point to somebody this year.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, you might be right.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
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. 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 Heat
who lost to the Sixers earlier tonight. Meanwhile, we got
(32:31):
big injury news today about Zion Williamson.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
He is going to.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Be definitively out against the Sacramento Kings and the 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
(32:56):
home tomorrow night. You're talking about teams without their best player,
without the guy who was the difference maker 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 for over the
(33:19):
course of his NBA career and missed the biggest 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
(33:39):
shoulders for a decade and a half. But now he's
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 (33:53):
He just doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
When you get hurt every single year, and you can
hurt going back to college when you're playing AAU schedules
and you're playing a thirty game cop he got has
gotten hurt every single year. I'm hope, 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. Wilson,
we're talking about Zion Williamson doing something, but you look
at what he's been a c he's seventeen, eighteen years old.
(34:16):
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
just 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,
(34:37):
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 to 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 5 (34:48):
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's 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
(35:10):
that went on last night wherever you get podcasts.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
But yeah, it's just the difficulty.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
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.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
The rim, and last night was fun as hell to
watch him.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
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,
(35:59):
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, you know, add them to the
laundry list of big men and guys that have problems
staying healthy. I don't know if you if you said,
are we going to any point get from Zion Williamson
(36:22):
a full season and a full playoff run, meaning full season,
we play seventy games and a couple rounds in the playoffs,
I would say.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
There's no way that's not gonna happen. It simply isn't
gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
And that's and it's sad, you know, for a guy
what is he twenty four twenty three. Yeah, yeah, twenty
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 fate's gonna allow that exit.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
How about a Fresca exit? Swollen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike
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Speaker 3 (36:56):
We have more NBA on the way.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The biggest gambling the end of the league has seen
in quite a while broke today.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
We'll break it down next Fox
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