May 23, 2024 • 36 mins
Anthony Edwards is terrific. But he's being Mac Jones'ed by the media as being "next.” Caitlin Clark is going to hit a rough patch coming up. Plus, Jason and Mike tell you if it’s really the end of Inside the NBA!
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't know. I like hobo though, Mike, what do
you think.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, we're still sitting homes, We're thing hobo in there.
We're still hobo is still a better word.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
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little bit. It's like, you know, a really good song,
like when you take Who's the Band? Do you want
to play all the remakes of its?
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I like it kind of fresh and.
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is Ned Batty from Superman.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
See, I'm just thinking it was just a bunch of
those lines. It's Otis he loves us?
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the dog right?
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Buying should be. Well, Apparently, Mike Carmon Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Listens to the show, and not only that, he took
what I said last night personally, when you and I
picked the Western Conference Finals, I said, look the Timberwolves defense.
You look what it did in the last round when
they were able to do it to Dallas. They'd have
it figured out. They know when what they can do,
what they can get away with physically. This is going
to be a dominant showing against the Mavericks. I have
(02:37):
a tough time seeing the Mavericks win a game, and honestly,
I think Kyrie might be cooked. He's not played well.
This is the most basketball he has played in a
long time. I wouldn't be surprised if he's just hit
the wall because he hasn't played this much basketball in years.
Right now, it's a two point game, middle of the
third quarter, and Kyrie's got twenty four.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
On eleven to fifteen shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He's got the bed saying I took that, Jason Sifth,
I took that personally. So far, no wall if there
is any wall, he has broken through it and it
is a two point game six minutes to go on
the third.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well, he's gone and given you all the scoring, right
He and Luca combining for nine assists. So that's where
it comes together, thirty eight points between them. But yeah,
Kyrie irving from the outset more or less just saying
blank you Jason Smith, I've not done yet.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, he took it personally. It's absolutely taken it personally.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
And that's good because we need guys to, you know,
really up their game based on things they hear from
the show or things that are echoed as our show
is throughout eternity and other talk show mediums.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now, I will say this all right again, seventy five
seventy one is a score, five and a half to
go on the third. Yes, Kyrie's got twenty four. McDaniel's
leading the way from Minnesota twenty one. Michael Jordan has
thirteen on four of nine shooting. I will say this,
I feel good if I'm Minnesota right now, because Dallas
has played out of their shoes the first two and
(04:05):
a half quarters. They have run up and down the floor,
they have taken on the challenge of Minnesota's defense and
one of the best backcourts we've.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Seen in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I still am gonna have confidence that when we get
to the fourth quarter, Luca and Kyrie are probably gonna
be dragging. Minnesota's defense is gonna put their will on
the game a little bit more. And even though it's
a two to three point game now, I expect middle fourth,
final four minutes, Minnesota to pull away on this a
little bit, because it is a lot to maintain this
for forty eight minutes. Even though Luca and Luca and
(04:37):
then Kyrie have both had their minutes cut a little bit.
They're not gonna wind up playing overly busy minutes, not
gonna be in the forties. But still you get to
the fourth quarter with this kind of defense of what
they're gonna do, I still feel good right now if
I'm Minnesota, well, I.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Mean, four point game right, seventy seven to seventy three
inside a six minutes remaining, Luca complaining with the referees,
yelling at teammates, those things. Had a little spat at
the end of the first with Gafford that was pretty
well chronicled, and looking for foul calls. But eventually Dallas
might actually hit a three point shot too, though, right,
(05:12):
two of seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
From the field, crazy, don't get crazy, that's far.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Two of seventeen.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
They're shooting fifty four percent as a team, but just
eleven percent from three pointers.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, not not great from behind the air? Not not great?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And just how long until if Dallas starts losing we
then start seeing Luca limping? How long untill he starts limping?
When they're losing by five points, eight point? How long
till he starts limping.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
He's looking pretty spry. He's taking a couple of big
hits and got it right back to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's a two point game in there in it. I mean,
if they start getting down by a lot, what we're
gonna see the limping?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, but normally if you if you take a big hit, Right,
he just drove to the lane and was looking for
a call that didn't come. They got the put back,
so but he glared at the referee. I mean, that's normally.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
A spot to get up and call, you know, do
your Peter Griffin kind of moment.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No, he got right back up and was ready to
go back on.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The defensive ends, So he's had a couple of moments
where he really could have milked it. Instead he's been
spry and and bouncing into the lane. So you know
the fact that you you just want to perpetrate hate
on Luka Doncicic.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Oh no, no, I'm not sad.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm just saying that it's usually when when they're not playing,
whether they live, that's when the limping starts. That's that's
when we get the Luca limping. That's when it happens. Well,
but I mean it's the gamesmanship, just like Rick Carlyle
last round, trying to make sure you knew that he
didn't think he was being officiated properly. Yes, and the
small market teams are not being given a fair shake.
I have. I have mountains still crying about this. I
(06:36):
have mounted I didn't bring it up. Harmon brought it up. Well,
you could have just let it go, Harmon Bright. No,
you're the one that you can't bring up Rick Carlyle.
Not expect me to say, Hey, Rick Carlyle. Rick carl
moaned and cried.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Right right right, you want to get a nem hard
whining thing in. I don't need to see that three
pointer you want to hear it. I do not know. No, no, no,
I do not know.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Come on, they're not going to have that ready?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
What are you kidding me? What are you new here, Camonica?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Have that ready?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Look? Of course it don't have that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Make you wear it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
You be careful, you'll get it fourteen times in a row,
you know, talking about my team like that first shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Tight Shirt has to get rid of all the fortnight
stuff off the computer. Then he's got to load all
the sound on.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The Fortnight and then they think twelve.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's just a better story if people think you're playing Okay, yeah,
doing the show. It's a much better story everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I really thought, you know it was no never mind,
it's like ty Shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So it's like it's his own Twitch channel. You know what.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I'm doing the.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Show, I'm watching a horror movie and I'm I'm I'm
I'm playing a video game.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yes, I'm doing all these things.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
As long as nothing suffers in the work displayed society
to the global audience that we've called together here the
community we built on.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Fox Sports Radio. Hey, all the power to.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Him, buddy. Uh Now, one other thing to get into
with this game, right, because we got some we got
some big game.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
We got big off the court NBA news to get into.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
People are going crazy about the potential end of inside
the NBA.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh, let me just say this, Lord, let me just
say this left the air and you started crying. All right,
go ahead. You gotta fill a void. You have to
be if there's a void, you have to fill it. TJ.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If the people expect certain things and they look Anthony
Edwards tonight is having a fine game, right. He's not
having an overly great game. He's got thirteen points, nine rebound,
six assists. He's not shooting particularly well. He's got a
couple of threes, you know, going into this finals and
from here on out. The one thing that that that
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is top of mind with him now after the last
couple of weeks, is that, Wow, everybody is trying so
hard to make him happen.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean, it is, it is Gretchen Wieners.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm gonna keep saying fetch until somebody picks it up, right,
Like every but he's trying so hard to make Anthony
Edwards Superstar happen. He's Michael Jordan, he says, he's being
Mac Jones. You know, everything you see all the coverage
of the Western Conference Finals, all the cover to the timber.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh, he's just.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Look at what he's doing, Look at what do Yeah,
Anthony Edwards is a fantastic player, but all of a sudden,
he's Michael Jordan. I mean, come on, man, let's just stop. Right,
let's stop with that for a second. If it's meant
to be for him, and he's meant to be next
and he's meant to be speak superstar, we're gonna see it, right,
But coming off of game seven, going into this game,
what did you see, hey, Anthony Edwards. Let's ignore the
(09:34):
fact he shot six or twenty four in game seven.
Let's just say, but defensively, the game they had, you know,
it's all five guys defensively, it's not just Anthony Edwards
and what he did in other aspects of the game.
It's like, okay, we're moving the goalpost just so we
can always say incredible things about Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And you know what, sometimes the guy has a bad game.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Sometimes he's a little bit invisible, kind of like he's
been tonight for long stretches. In this game, right, he's
not nearly the high scorer and other guys are having
big games, and defensively, Dallas is playing. Dallas has been
able to do what they needed to do against their
defense so far. But it's like to the point where
I feel like he's being mac Jones, where he's all
(10:11):
of a sudden, we need him to fill this role.
We need him to fill the role of who is next,
because we don't have that Who's next superstar.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Jalen Brunson's not physical enough. He doesn't dunk.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He's smart and he's crafty and he's quick, and I
don't like it because it's not something I could go
wow about. So here's Anthony Edwards, and everything you see
is awe look out, he's Jordan. He's like, hang on
a second. He's a really good player and he's accomplished
a lot by the time he's twenty two. Right, he
is the guy coming out of college he was pretty good,
he stayed pretty good. He's gotten even better. He's gonna
(10:43):
be a terrific player for a long time. But wow,
trying to make this happen. I mean, just coming off
of Game seven, I said, there's nothing the guy can do.
If the guy if he shoots one for thirty in
a game, but his bucket happens to come in the
final four minutes, it's gonna be and Anthony Edwards, what
are you gonna say about that one bucket? And hey,
the other twenty nine shots he missed, but look at
that big hoop he made with less than four minutes
(11:04):
left to go. It's like they're they're pushing so much
to make Anthony Edwards happen. The media is doing it,
the fans is doing it, and I'm like, you know
what this is where if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen,
even as trash say, hey, we'll see you guys back
here in game seven. That's some of the most benign
trash talk. But yet it's been thrown out there like
he guaranteed a win in front of the entire press
(11:25):
corps and the world. After again, we're gonna win. We're
down three, is that we're gonna win this series? Like
there's so much trying to make him happen that there's
nothing he can do that's going to be judged as ah,
maybe he should have played better, he should have done
this and instead of just letting him happen, it's it's
it's the mac Jones situation all over again.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Well, I think he's gonna have a much better career
than Mac Jones, is it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, that's what That's what I see with this
and now where he is at after the last couple
of weeks, going into the Western Conference Finals, a couple
of things.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It would have been a better SoundBite and more noteworthy
for me had he said, yeah, I told the clubhouse
attendance where I had left them with their season tips
because we ain't getting back. That would have been far
more entertaining to me saying hey, I'll see it for
Game seven because we're gonna win. Nah, he's guaranteeing a loss.
So that sucked. That was a non story and whatever.
But we're hanging on every word. I would say it
(12:15):
runs in parallel a lot to Caitlin Clark and hear
me out on this, is that there's gonna be a
certain percentage of folks just ain't gonna care no matter
how much you try to make them right. They're not
gonna talk about the WNBA, the numbers, the attendance sales,
any of that stuff, and her play unless it's a
corporate mandate or they're going to try to prove themselves, right,
(12:39):
but look how terrible she was, and look at her
complaint with Anthony Edwards. It's the comparison to Jordan here.
Let's do some side by side and look, Lebron's getting older.
So we really need to start pushing faces of the game,
especially with new blood in these conference finals, right, it's
the Celtics, and then we got three new teams that
we can really push. And everybody already knows who Huke is,
(13:00):
so uh, let's go to that guy. Uh, and really
let's beat that drum as often as we can. And again,
it either happens or it doesn't. You either want to
watch or you don't. Just like Caitlin Clark and the
w NBA, Angel Reese and Brink and everybody else, I
can't make you watch, I can't make you care.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Hopefully you do.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hopefully you can open up a little bit with Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Bit by bit you see things in his game, but
it's it's not gonna happen overnight, and the oversell gets
a bit nauseating. But again this becomes now coverage of
the game, and you know, we've got a couple of
guys that that's all they do with their careers. Now,
I still have sports to diagnose rather than the media's
(13:44):
coverage of it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, he's Matt Matt Jones ll antres go. Dude,
just understand what people are saying about you. It ain't
always great, but I'm better than you were.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Mac. Okay, that might be true, but still okay.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Bunny, They're not hiring a defense if they ordinator to
teach them how to run up and roll.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Jason, you tried to make Jalen Brunson happen.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Dude, Jalen Brunson just happened. Man, I don't have to
do anything triganic that was organic. Like, I'm going through
the produce isle and I just found organic spinach. It
was so organic. Everything was organic.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I mean, what would you know about organic spinach except
by stock in the show.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I buy organic stuff all the time. We don't buy
anything that it's not organic. Look at tight shup like, wow, Jason,
you're my hero. Any any any vegetable we buy always organic.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And every person in America listening and in the studio,
all the.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fruit we get is organic.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All they just get a full ron burgundy. You know. No,
the hand of the nose going I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You hundred percent. You know what we could you know what.
I will try to weigh in on this now, I'm
bobcat Gulfwad all of a sudden, I'll have my wife
weigh in this, and she'll tell you everything is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're going to bring her on to lie for you.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Come on, organic don't buy no, no, no, come on, man,
I tell the truth. I can't lie. What's what's the
purpose of being on the air every night if I'm
gonna lie? Come on, man, that's something. Let some other
people do there.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You have the looks in the finals, I'm gonna lie
about stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, the Lions winning the Super Bowl? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
How close did I get to? A? Okay a, how
close did I get to the Lions? It was just
bad Dan Campbell decisions for twenty minutes to stop that
from happening, and the Knicks almost got there, but the
entire team got hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I feel pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't lie to anybody, which means you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Get people up towards the finish line and then you
abandon them.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Why do you forsake.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Them when you're about to win, when you're about to
get over It's.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Like hah, yeah, fools, whatever taking you? You're the guy
at the crossroads.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, you're the devil when I drive Zoey's friend zone
after they if they're hanging out here and ride. Hey,
I'm gonna let you off right here. But my house
is three blocks away. It's really not well lit. Nah,
I take you. I take as close as I can.
Then you gotta do the rest of yourself. But really,
there's no lights on, and I think there's some wolves
over there. Nah, just keep walking.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You'll be no lesson If I take you straight to
the door. What happens?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You get home and you're safe. What do you learn
from that? Suddenly feel like Dwight shrewed?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
What do you learn from that?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You don't go through any kind of adversity?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Zipping or I'll play the name three.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You gotta find it first exit out about a Fresca
exit swollowen doll that shut clucked down.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Halliverrton double cheeve shut cluck at Porkr's gotta put it
up step fuck.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
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Fourth quarter just underway in Minnesota, Tea. What was with
a four point lead over the Mavericks eighty six eighty two? Again,
a lot of basketball left to go. We'll keep you
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updated on this. Kyrie going to the free throw line,
continuing the masterful game that he has.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Had so far because he hates you.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, well listen if he listen. I think if if
Dallas wins, they win the title, they owe me then
because I said, oh, he's gonna he's hitting the wall.
How much basketball can you have left in him? He
hasn't played this much basketball in four or five years,
Narius and I playing great. So okay, maybe if I'm
the guy that did spur him, Mom, I'm okay with that.
I get a ring, Cuban, Cuban, come give me a
ring and get mad at me and throw it. But
I still get a ring.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cood be pretty impressive. I mean, who hates you more
right now? Him? Or or a Herscheizer?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Ooh, it's gonna be tough Oral orls Nah, I think
it's still lurel. Yeah the oh this game plays out
there like if Kyrie plays a great game and and
Dallas winds up losing. No, but no, Oral still doesn't
land know it's still oral right there?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Okay? Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Meanwhile, speaking of basketball elsewhere another day, because apparently Caitlin
Clark is going to play every other day, which shorts
into what we're going to talk about here. The uh,
the Indiana Fever. Caitlin Clark playing at Seattle right now
on a West coast road trip. They got Seattle, they
have Los Angeles, Las Vegas all coming up in the
next few days. Right now, Seattle's leading Indiana twenty five
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sixteen end of the first quarter. So far, Caitland Clark
is scoreless. It's played nine minutes oh for four from
the floor, oh for three from three point range, minus
five on the night. It has not been a great start.
She's not been able to hit anything. Now, look, I'm
not I told you how fine everything is, because now
you've seen very quickly boom WNBA has become part of
(18:55):
the sports landscape, just like everything else. Right, So so
all that stuff has gone. But let me just say
this for Caitlin Clark, because she's fine. Everything's gonna be fine.
If she has a bad couple of games here and there,
I'm gonna understand because they gave the Indiana Fever seven
games in the first eleven days of the season. She's
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gonna play a game on the fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, twenty,
which he's done today the twenty second. Then she's got
Friday against Los Angeles and then Saturday back to back.
They're playing Vegas. Oh, by the way, Vegas the best
team in the league. So you're talking about seven games
in the first eleven days of the season, like, there's
nobody that's gonna be able to play well. If you
(19:38):
put a schedule like that out there every other day
and then two nights, you're gonna play back to back.
I'm telling you that that's gonna hasten the rut that
she's gonna inevitably fall in because she's played.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
A lot of basketball right now.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I get the players play aau all the time getting
into college, I understand, but this is where she has
gone from a full entire college basketball senior year where
they made it all the way to the championship game,
and eight hours later she gets drafted number one overall
by the Fever and a day and a half after that,
she's playing her first game. This is the most basketball
we talk about Kyrie and playing a lot of basketball
(20:14):
hitting the wall. Kaitlyn Clark's gonna hit the wall at
some point pretty soon in this season. Well, I would say, well,
there's gonna be a lot of what's wrong with Kaitlyn
Clark just because she's not gonna be performing.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Because this is a ton of basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's a lot, and you can get past the the
initial excitement of the newness of the WNBA and that
little bit of energy in that burst, And that's great.
She's she's shown that her game translates. Everything is fine.
But when it happens, because it's gonna happen, she's gonna
have bad games.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
She's gonna stack bad games.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's just that there's too much basketball, that she's had
to play too much, high profile basketball where there's no
rest is not like well, players play overseas. Yeah, but
the the overall commitment level of what they need to
be doing outside of the game.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That said, they're kind of out of the spotlight. It's
it's kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So, but Caitlin Clark has been a front page story
pulled in a lot of different directions for a long time. Yeah,
she's gonna hit the wall. It's gonna happen. She's gonna struggle.
She'll bounce back eventually. But boy, I'll tell you, these
seven games eleven days aren't helping matters at all.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Yeah, it's it's the curiosity though, right is that you
know the way this schedule is, it's a breakneck pace.
I mean WNBA season, it's a fast, fast season right
to roll into as the summer months go on, so
you know, the curiosity becomes. You know, and I haven't
(21:33):
looked further down the schedule how many breaks there are,
you know where you get multiple days off. I mean
they get help now that they're getting chartered, so I
mean that helps a little bit, cuts down on that
airport lag time and all that fun stuff. But legitimately
it is something to monitor and not the best of
things for the WNBA in terms of the early schedule,
(21:57):
which we talked about just as as a whole, not
just the teams, but this type of pace of as
you have the struggles where you're trying to capture eyeballs
and get in and sell, sell, sell, and for those
that are on board, it's it's not going to not
going to matter, right, folks bought their tickets, they've bought
(22:18):
their advance and we've watched it in the secondary market.
It's the folks that are on the fence that if
you're tuning into the product right now and you're seeing
a bit of unevenness between the ankle injury uh and
the schedule perhaps having its weight not to mention the
fact that what's that key thing you keep saying about
the fever.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's only one thing. It's only one thing. Remember, it's
only one thing about the fever. It's only one thing.
It's only one thing. They stink that's the only but
that's the only thing that's been nuts only.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
And bit by bit, I mean they've gotten better, and
they've had some stretches where it looks like they're starting
to communicate better on the court, recognize things a bit better.
But again, you know, if you tune in for some
clips of these, right, she's eleven minutes, one of six,
right now, finally hit a shot. It's it's it's a
(23:12):
tough watch for you, right, if you're expecting you here
to come in and dominate. Now, if you're one of
those people that just wants to hate, watch, good luck
to you. But you know, for the w NBA as
a whole, when you're trying to sell, you can say, well,
she had nineteen points, but people are gonna dig a
little deeper in the box score, yeah, right, and things
of that nature, and.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Look, the haters are gonna come out and there's gonna
be all kinds of stuff going on. It's it's just
it's just too much basketball. And I don't mean like saying, oh,
here's the what, No, it's just the the one time
only when you're gonna go from hey, I've played all
this basketball. There's no break, and now I'm going right
into a high profile season without any break. And then, oh,
by the way, may look at the Olympics coming up
(23:52):
later on, she's gonna wind up playing the Olympics. You're
gonna have a lot of stuff, and it's just a
lot of basketball. So anything you see, because it's gonna
come and there's gonna be a off patch, you're gonna see, Oh,
she's overrated, and maybe she's not the best rookie, all
these crazy ass things, which, oh, by the way, nobody
gets any more attention in the league than defensively than
Caitlin Clark. So just understand that as a rookie, nobody
(24:12):
gets that. Angel Reese doesn't get it. Cameron Brink doesn't
get it much. No, no, no, much different players though, right,
but much different. But but how nobody is having their
entire hers but nobody's having an entire defensive scheme before
the game of this is what we do to stop Caitlyn, Like, no, no,
you're not doing You're not even I know you're doing
that for Brianna Stewart like you did. This is what
(24:34):
we are doing. Our entire defensive meeting is gonna be
about stopping Kitlyn Clark, Like, I mean, that's a that's
a huge deal that that she's gonna deal with as.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, and all this is part of it, right, all
this is part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But it's just that's gonna happen, and she's gonna hit
the wall a bit, and that's all it's gonna be.
And when when she gets used to the schedule, hits
her second win, starts hitting more shots, it's gonna be
back to where it is and Caitlyn Clark is going
to be the show like it was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
And it's offer right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
July seventeenth, their final game ahead of a one month break,
July seventeenth at Dallas. They come back on the sixteenth
against Phoenix. So you've got the Olympic break or perhaps
the ability to just go sleep in a hyperbaric chamber
for a month.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Maybe you do both. Maybe you play in the Olympics
and sleep in the Hyperbarrick. Well, I mean she's got enough.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Endorsements and sponsorships and all of those things to come
together to where, you know, you just have a little
extra cargo on the jet.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We got room down there, Mets games to fall asleep.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Hi, I'm Caitlin Clark. Have a trouble sleeping. Need your
body recover? Well, put on these TB twelve pajamas and
then either flip on the Mets game or get into
cryo sleep therapy. Hey, here's what it is, right. Let
me show you how easy it is to just get
inside this hyperbaric chamber, close your eyes and breathe.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Youn't get how you home runs two days in a
row and still lose.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Historically? Did you see that stat Smith historically?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, it hit three home runs in a game, you
win almost four out of five, just like your damn
dentist making a recommendation.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah no, no, really, I You're you're like someone You're
like a lifeguard of the beach telling me you know
the ocean is pretty deep. I know how deep the
ocean is. I know the Mets stink. I know we
thinking we should be selling our players right now. You
don't have to worry. You have to warm them into
every conversation to Caitlyn Clark, conversation specialist City, we don't
(26:26):
need that here. No, that was a good work by
frost Off, bringing something that would put you to sleep.
We don't get it gone for the easy, easier joke
of the White Sox. We can't because nobody cares about
the White Sox. Well, nobody cares about the Mets. Sure
they keep jamming them down. Of course they do, because
they spend a lot of money and they lose. That's
all it happens to. It's not about the Knicks either, Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You're trying to make them happen.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Your team has been home for so long. People forget
the colors of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Dude, you've been through this how many times?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
What's there? I've seen it enough?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Good basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, when you need a break and when you get
Doc Rivers as your head coaching, going to see anymore?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Doc?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, that was just means that was just you wait
for doctor, was so far over the line, you can't
even see the line.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, the line is way behind me, right, I mean
I went so far over I don't.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Even see it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I even said hi to you today. Yeah, and you
hit me with doc rivers.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You well you you say you said to me high
I said, Hi, you said see the Mets game. I
mean that's the first thing you said, said, I see
the Mets game. Like that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well, he cares about you and your mental well being.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I was going to celebrate the three home runs and
then tear you down.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah. Sure, hey the metsa three runs? They did they win?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Not man, they got doubled up. Oh all right, great,
not even they lose. It wasn't like they we lost
nine to eight or like eleven ten. I was like, no, no, no, no,
this is a game where hey, every every every game
now someone's breaking something, right, Jake Deekman broke a h
Gatorade cooler. Last game today, Adam Outovino broke an iPad.
He was so upset, like the metsa just break. This
(27:58):
is how bad it is. It's May and they're already
throwing stuff and breaking things every single game.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
No, they should just say.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Come on, man, dude, come on, guy's not even a
real guy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Come on, you'd love to have Adam. You want Adam
of Veto, I give him to you. Whatever, you want anything.
Everybody is available from the Mets. Everybody's slicer and the
smells of a Jersey Mix him too, Tommy cutlets let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Hey. So I'm here and I got extra cheese on
my Jersey mics.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I just love that he's whispering and all those camera
I'm here at Jersey mics.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
How badly do you drool at that commercial when he
puts the extra cheese on?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Oh? I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh you're kidding. I love the Jersey Mix commercials. Man.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It's like that's how they hypnotize you.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's sitting there holding.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
No I go.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The thing is I just I don't get it Mike's
way because it's with you know, onions. Oh I love
then like put tomato and and all kinds of of
lettuce and like okay, and then they put like vinegar
and oil. I'm like, nah, no, no, no, come on, man,
don't give me that. Give me give me mayonnaise, give
me some kind of aoli. That that's the sandwich right there.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So you basically tell them no fancy craft.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You take away the healthy stuff and give me mayo.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, come on, man, I need some viscosity on this
sub man, I can't just hear it, oh, because then
you pick up the sub and your hands are all
greasy and it's golle that you're gonna wipe them off,
and then the bread just kind of soaks a little bit. No, no, no,
a perfect sandwich, the number two, the turkey with extra
provolone onions, mayo.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
And mustard on both sides. There's your sub.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That's all you need. It's perfect sandwich right there. I'd
always tell the guy too. I always tell the guy
anything else, I go, no, he goes, that's all you want?
Like they always like, you don't wantny Moore. I go,
it's a perfect sandwich. And they all feel like, oh okay,
because it is a perfect sandwich. If I wanted something more,
I would tell you, but no, this is what do
you want? A MIC's way, Why would I want vinegar
and oil? Or why would I want that gumles?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It's tasty and delicious. No, it's and it's not mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
No, it's just it's not no mayonnaise, manaise mayonnaise to
come on, bomba Mike.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You don't dip your friesen, ma'am, No mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Come on. He has mayonnaise and poutine all the time.
That's I mean the okay, well, hey, poutineute poutine is
the poutine when I went to when I went to
Canada a couple of years ago, I was like, what
would you like to I want to go somewhere and
get poutine.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That's what I want to have that right now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I gotta have it right now.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I gotta have it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I gotta have cheese, I gotta have gravy, I gotta
have French fries.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I gotta have it right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon again.
Four point lead now for Dallas over Minnesota. Minnesota does
have the ball just over six minutes left to go
in this one.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So we'll have more on this. But coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, there's a we had to get into sandwiches, and
unfortunately that happens sometimes. But coming up next, people think
one of the most beloved things in basketball is gonna
go away, and I'm here to tell you it's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
What is it? We'll tell you next right here, Jason
and Mike.
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, Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Two
minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Minnesota with a
one oh two, one oh one lead over Dallas. It
has been the Carl Anthony town Show. He has been
on a heater the last couple of minutes. In fact,
if anybody says, hey, what's an example of when someone says, hey,
(31:33):
it's a heat check three point attempt? That's Karl Anthony
Towns a thirty foot like Kimmy, I'm hot man, Kimmy,
I got it, and he hits a three pointer that
gives Minnesota the lead with a couple minutes left to go.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
However, we just watched a three from PJ.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Washington. He now has thirteen, and now it is Dallas
with a two point leader with about one forty left
to go.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Yeah, bad turnover gives an opportunity for a break the
other way, Washington set up beautifully in the corner, wide open.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Look, so we'll have more on this game coming up
in a couple of minutes. But look, there's a lot
of talk today, a lot of people upset, Hey, the
end of inside the NBA is coming, like wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait now. If you've been paying attention,
it's a very big deal. The last couple of weeks
that it looks like the TNT is going to lose
(32:19):
their NBA package. They have the B package right now,
and it looks like they're gonna get outbid by NBC,
who is going to then have the rights to the
NBA that Turner used to have.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
They're gonna want.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
To put on a Sunday Night basketball in America after
football season's over, like they've been doing with football. So
they have big plans, and with more and more time
going on, especially today, it felt like with the with
the reports that this deal is all but done, inside
the NBA is going to go away, not in inside
the NBA anymore. Tn T is not gonna have it.
(32:50):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Everybody just
stopped for one second. Do you really think no one's
gonna try, No one's gonna keep this inside the NBA
TV crew together, It's still the gold standard show, no
matter how many athletes want to give us Land of
a thousand podcasts This is still the gold standard for
what people want. People watch game. There's blowout games during
(33:12):
the season where people watch just to see what Kenny
and Charles and Shack have to say to each other.
And Ernie. Of course, someone's gonna try to pick this up.
Maybe it's Amazon, who has all kinds of money to spend.
Maybe it's ESPN because ESPN's wanted some of these guys
for years. Yes, I know that Ernie Johnson's the key,
And Charles Barkley said, I don't know if he's gonna go.
If he's gonna leave a network, he's gonna go someplace else.
(33:34):
Maybe he's gonna retire soon. Okay, that could happen. But
also somebody Amazon could say, Ernie, you want twenty million
dollars a year to host inside the NBA. I mean,
it could be that simple, or it could be where
Ernie Johnson does retire, in which case then it'll be
those guys on with another host. It'll be somebody else
on with them. But inside the NBA is going to
live at some point, it's going to live on. We're
(33:56):
not gonna lose it. It's going to be different, sure,
and it'll be different on other network. I'm sure they're
gonna want to put their own spin on it, or
Amazon will do it, or ESPN will do it. But
we're still going to get the guys. These guys aren't
going anywhere. They're not gonna be done. They want to
stay together. They understand the strength of the group, and
whether it's all of them with Ernie Johnson or them
with somebody else, they'll have somebody else that everybody recognizes.
(34:17):
It'll be a fun person to put on the set.
Everybody they've put on the set has worked to an
extent the last fifteen years. So I'm feeling pretty good
about the future of Inside the NBA.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, in the end, if it goes the way of
the Dodo, it's just another great thing to remember that
was once on television. Everything goes away, Guys take other jobs,
Guys retire. Ernie Johnson's sixty seven years old.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He may be done. They have had a good run.
And just look at it from a contractual standpoint.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Maybe he's a lifer there that he still has contractual
obligations that you know, they'd have to do a bunch
of buyouts and all that kind of fun stuff, And
you know they have a deal now where they've sublet,
which is where it really gets kind of fun, sublet
college football games or whatever. I don't I don't know
what his interest is in moving right, you get used
(35:06):
to your institutionalized as it works.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Take my Shashank redemption notes as we go through. But
even if it were to go away, we've had a
hell of a run with it.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I mean, everything comes to an end, buddy. I mean,
I'd like to think there's enough money, interest, et cetera
for everybody to want to rally together, bring all sorts
of producers and assistance with because that's the other part
that needs to be we need to.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Be mindful of.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
As much as we love Shack and Charles and Kenny
and Ernie together, that crew has been there a long
time that they've worked with to make that show what
it is as well.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I mean, really it's going to be different. But to
think it's gonna go and it's gonna go away completely,
that's not gonna happen. And I think in the end,
if it comes down to it, Ernie Johnson is either
gonna retire he's gonna go. And I know some of
it's posturing, all of its negotiation, everything is on the table.
I can't believe he's not gonna go for a little
bit to be with the guys. I mean, I really,
(36:01):
I really, I can't believe he's not gonna go for them.
Maybe he doesn't, but in that case, and it's it's
somebody else there with with with everybody.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
That becomes a real coveted seat.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Uh, but it's it's throwing my hat and there's a
you're you're not tall enough to be on the set.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'm sorry, dude.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
I mean, look, we got you guys six phone books
Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Every day they can't they will. You won't even see
the top.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Of your head to show a big headed it's not
gonna fit. Maybe we'll get just get the top of
your eyes and we won't see your mouth moving, but
just be the top of your eyes and a jaunty
hat while you're talking. And then here Shaq and Charles
and there and Kenny. That I'd become a sexy man
of mystery. Who's the parade?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Come on now? I think that would get old pretty fast.
You know what, You shut your faces. I only see
the top of his head on the TV. His eyes. Wait,
he doesn't have any eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Coming up next, we have an amazing finish in Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
I don't know. I like hobo though, Mike, what do
you think.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Well, we're still sitting homes, We're thing hobo in there.
We're still hobo is still a better word.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, but it's a way to freshen it up a
little bit. It's like, you know, a really good song,
like when you take Who's the Band? Do you want
to play all the remakes of its?
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Yeah?
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Like when Royal Otis redes a famous I was like, oh,
I like it kind of fresh and.
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His voices of a saint? You stop that?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
What would be better if it was the otis that
is Ned Batty from Superman.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
See, I'm just thinking it was just a bunch of
those lines. It's Otis he loves us?
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Or with Garfield the movie Coming Back? I mean otis
the dog right?
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Buying should be. Well, Apparently, Mike Carmon Kyrie Irving.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Listens to the show, and not only that, he took
what I said last night personally, when you and I
picked the Western Conference Finals, I said, look the Timberwolves defense.
You look what it did in the last round when
they were able to do it to Dallas. They'd have
it figured out. They know when what they can do,
what they can get away with physically. This is going
to be a dominant showing against the Mavericks. I have
(02:37):
a tough time seeing the Mavericks win a game, and honestly,
I think Kyrie might be cooked. He's not played well.
This is the most basketball he has played in a
long time. I wouldn't be surprised if he's just hit
the wall because he hasn't played this much basketball in years.
Right now, it's a two point game, middle of the
third quarter, and Kyrie's got twenty four.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
On eleven to fifteen shooting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
He's got the bed saying I took that, Jason Sifth,
I took that personally. So far, no wall if there
is any wall, he has broken through it and it
is a two point game six minutes to go on
the third.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well, he's gone and given you all the scoring, right
He and Luca combining for nine assists. So that's where
it comes together, thirty eight points between them. But yeah,
Kyrie irving from the outset more or less just saying
blank you Jason Smith, I've not done yet.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, he took it personally. It's absolutely taken it personally.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
And that's good because we need guys to, you know,
really up their game based on things they hear from
the show or things that are echoed as our show
is throughout eternity and other talk show mediums.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now, I will say this all right again, seventy five
seventy one is a score, five and a half to
go on the third. Yes, Kyrie's got twenty four. McDaniel's
leading the way from Minnesota twenty one. Michael Jordan has
thirteen on four of nine shooting. I will say this,
I feel good if I'm Minnesota right now, because Dallas
has played out of their shoes the first two and
(04:05):
a half quarters. They have run up and down the floor,
they have taken on the challenge of Minnesota's defense and
one of the best backcourts we've.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Seen in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I still am gonna have confidence that when we get
to the fourth quarter, Luca and Kyrie are probably gonna
be dragging. Minnesota's defense is gonna put their will on
the game a little bit more. And even though it's
a two to three point game now, I expect middle fourth,
final four minutes, Minnesota to pull away on this a
little bit, because it is a lot to maintain this
for forty eight minutes. Even though Luca and Luca and
(04:37):
then Kyrie have both had their minutes cut a little bit.
They're not gonna wind up playing overly busy minutes, not
gonna be in the forties. But still you get to
the fourth quarter with this kind of defense of what
they're gonna do, I still feel good right now if
I'm Minnesota, well, I.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Mean, four point game right, seventy seven to seventy three
inside a six minutes remaining, Luca complaining with the referees,
yelling at teammates, those things. Had a little spat at
the end of the first with Gafford that was pretty
well chronicled, and looking for foul calls. But eventually Dallas
might actually hit a three point shot too, though, right,
(05:12):
two of seventeen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
From the field, crazy, don't get crazy, that's far.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Two of seventeen.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
They're shooting fifty four percent as a team, but just
eleven percent from three pointers.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, not not great from behind the air? Not not great?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And just how long until if Dallas starts losing we
then start seeing Luca limping? How long untill he starts limping?
When they're losing by five points, eight point? How long
till he starts limping.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
He's looking pretty spry. He's taking a couple of big
hits and got it right back to the game.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
It's a two point game in there in it. I mean,
if they start getting down by a lot, what we're
gonna see the limping?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, but normally if you if you take a big hit, Right,
he just drove to the lane and was looking for
a call that didn't come. They got the put back,
so but he glared at the referee. I mean, that's normally.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
A spot to get up and call, you know, do
your Peter Griffin kind of moment.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No, he got right back up and was ready to
go back on.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The defensive ends, So he's had a couple of moments
where he really could have milked it. Instead he's been
spry and and bouncing into the lane. So you know
the fact that you you just want to perpetrate hate
on Luka Doncicic.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Oh no, no, I'm not sad.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'm just saying that it's usually when when they're not playing,
whether they live, that's when the limping starts. That's that's
when we get the Luca limping. That's when it happens. Well,
but I mean it's the gamesmanship, just like Rick Carlyle
last round, trying to make sure you knew that he
didn't think he was being officiated properly. Yes, and the
small market teams are not being given a fair shake.
I have. I have mountains still crying about this. I
(06:36):
have mounted I didn't bring it up. Harmon brought it up. Well,
you could have just let it go, Harmon Bright. No,
you're the one that you can't bring up Rick Carlyle.
Not expect me to say, Hey, Rick Carlyle. Rick carl
moaned and cried.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Right right right, you want to get a nem hard
whining thing in. I don't need to see that three
pointer you want to hear it. I do not know. No, no, no,
I do not know.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Come on, they're not going to have that ready?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
What are you kidding me? What are you new here, Camonica?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Have that ready?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Look? Of course it don't have that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Make you wear it.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
You be careful, you'll get it fourteen times in a row,
you know, talking about my team like that first shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Tight Shirt has to get rid of all the fortnight
stuff off the computer. Then he's got to load all
the sound on.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
The Fortnight and then they think twelve.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
It's just a better story if people think you're playing Okay, yeah,
doing the show. It's a much better story everyone.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I really thought, you know it was no never mind,
it's like ty Shirt.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So it's like it's his own Twitch channel. You know what.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I'm doing the.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Show, I'm watching a horror movie and I'm I'm I'm
I'm playing a video game.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yes, I'm doing all these things.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
As long as nothing suffers in the work displayed society
to the global audience that we've called together here the
community we built on.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Fox Sports Radio. Hey, all the power to.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Him, buddy. Uh Now, one other thing to get into
with this game, right, because we got some we got
some big game.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
We got big off the court NBA news to get into.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
People are going crazy about the potential end of inside
the NBA.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Oh, let me just say this, Lord, let me just
say this left the air and you started crying. All right,
go ahead. You gotta fill a void. You have to
be if there's a void, you have to fill it. TJ.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
If the people expect certain things and they look Anthony
Edwards tonight is having a fine game, right. He's not
having an overly great game. He's got thirteen points, nine rebound,
six assists. He's not shooting particularly well. He's got a
couple of threes, you know, going into this finals and
from here on out. The one thing that that that
(08:45):
is top of mind with him now after the last
couple of weeks, is that, Wow, everybody is trying so
hard to make him happen.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean, it is, it is Gretchen Wieners.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I'm gonna keep saying fetch until somebody picks it up, right,
Like every but he's trying so hard to make Anthony
Edwards Superstar happen. He's Michael Jordan, he says, he's being
Mac Jones. You know, everything you see all the coverage
of the Western Conference Finals, all the cover to the timber.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Oh, he's just.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Look at what he's doing, Look at what do Yeah,
Anthony Edwards is a fantastic player, but all of a sudden,
he's Michael Jordan. I mean, come on, man, let's just stop. Right,
let's stop with that for a second. If it's meant
to be for him, and he's meant to be next
and he's meant to be speak superstar, we're gonna see it, right,
But coming off of game seven, going into this game,
what did you see, hey, Anthony Edwards. Let's ignore the
(09:34):
fact he shot six or twenty four in game seven.
Let's just say, but defensively, the game they had, you know,
it's all five guys defensively, it's not just Anthony Edwards
and what he did in other aspects of the game.
It's like, okay, we're moving the goalpost just so we
can always say incredible things about Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And you know what, sometimes the guy has a bad game.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Sometimes he's a little bit invisible, kind of like he's
been tonight for long stretches. In this game, right, he's
not nearly the high scorer and other guys are having
big games, and defensively, Dallas is playing. Dallas has been
able to do what they needed to do against their
defense so far. But it's like to the point where
I feel like he's being mac Jones, where he's all
(10:11):
of a sudden, we need him to fill this role.
We need him to fill the role of who is next,
because we don't have that Who's next superstar.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Jalen Brunson's not physical enough. He doesn't dunk.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He's smart and he's crafty and he's quick, and I
don't like it because it's not something I could go
wow about. So here's Anthony Edwards, and everything you see
is awe look out, he's Jordan. He's like, hang on
a second. He's a really good player and he's accomplished
a lot by the time he's twenty two. Right, he
is the guy coming out of college he was pretty good,
he stayed pretty good. He's gotten even better. He's gonna
(10:43):
be a terrific player for a long time. But wow,
trying to make this happen. I mean, just coming off
of Game seven, I said, there's nothing the guy can do.
If the guy if he shoots one for thirty in
a game, but his bucket happens to come in the
final four minutes, it's gonna be and Anthony Edwards, what
are you gonna say about that one bucket? And hey,
the other twenty nine shots he missed, but look at
that big hoop he made with less than four minutes
(11:04):
left to go. It's like they're they're pushing so much
to make Anthony Edwards happen. The media is doing it,
the fans is doing it, and I'm like, you know
what this is where if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen,
even as trash say, hey, we'll see you guys back
here in game seven. That's some of the most benign
trash talk. But yet it's been thrown out there like
he guaranteed a win in front of the entire press
(11:25):
corps and the world. After again, we're gonna win. We're
down three, is that we're gonna win this series? Like
there's so much trying to make him happen that there's
nothing he can do that's going to be judged as ah,
maybe he should have played better, he should have done
this and instead of just letting him happen, it's it's
it's the mac Jones situation all over again.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Well, I think he's gonna have a much better career
than Mac Jones, is it.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean, that's what That's what I see with this
and now where he is at after the last couple
of weeks, going into the Western Conference Finals, a couple
of things.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
It would have been a better SoundBite and more noteworthy
for me had he said, yeah, I told the clubhouse
attendance where I had left them with their season tips
because we ain't getting back. That would have been far
more entertaining to me saying hey, I'll see it for
Game seven because we're gonna win. Nah, he's guaranteeing a loss.
So that sucked. That was a non story and whatever.
But we're hanging on every word. I would say it
(12:15):
runs in parallel a lot to Caitlin Clark and hear
me out on this, is that there's gonna be a
certain percentage of folks just ain't gonna care no matter
how much you try to make them right. They're not
gonna talk about the WNBA, the numbers, the attendance sales,
any of that stuff, and her play unless it's a
corporate mandate or they're going to try to prove themselves, right,
(12:39):
but look how terrible she was, and look at her
complaint with Anthony Edwards. It's the comparison to Jordan here.
Let's do some side by side and look, Lebron's getting older.
So we really need to start pushing faces of the game,
especially with new blood in these conference finals, right, it's
the Celtics, and then we got three new teams that
we can really push. And everybody already knows who Huke is,
(13:00):
so uh, let's go to that guy. Uh, and really
let's beat that drum as often as we can. And again,
it either happens or it doesn't. You either want to
watch or you don't. Just like Caitlin Clark and the
w NBA, Angel Reese and Brink and everybody else, I
can't make you watch, I can't make you care.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Hopefully you do.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hopefully you can open up a little bit with Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Bit by bit you see things in his game, but
it's it's not gonna happen overnight, and the oversell gets
a bit nauseating. But again this becomes now coverage of
the game, and you know, we've got a couple of
guys that that's all they do with their careers. Now,
I still have sports to diagnose rather than the media's
(13:44):
coverage of it.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, he's Matt Matt Jones ll antres go. Dude,
just understand what people are saying about you. It ain't
always great, but I'm better than you were.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Mac. Okay, that might be true, but still okay.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Bunny, They're not hiring a defense if they ordinator to
teach them how to run up and roll.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Jason, you tried to make Jalen Brunson happen.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Dude, Jalen Brunson just happened. Man, I don't have to
do anything triganic that was organic. Like, I'm going through
the produce isle and I just found organic spinach. It
was so organic. Everything was organic.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I mean, what would you know about organic spinach except
by stock in the show.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I buy organic stuff all the time. We don't buy
anything that it's not organic. Look at tight shup like, wow, Jason,
you're my hero. Any any any vegetable we buy always organic.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And every person in America listening and in the studio,
all the.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Fruit we get is organic.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All they just get a full ron burgundy. You know. No,
the hand of the nose going I don't believe.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You hundred percent. You know what we could you know what.
I will try to weigh in on this now, I'm
bobcat Gulfwad all of a sudden, I'll have my wife
weigh in this, and she'll tell you everything is.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're going to bring her on to lie for you.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Come on, organic don't buy no, no, no, come on, man,
I tell the truth. I can't lie. What's what's the
purpose of being on the air every night if I'm
gonna lie? Come on, man, that's something. Let some other
people do there.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You have the looks in the finals, I'm gonna lie
about stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, the Lions winning the Super Bowl? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
How close did I get to? A? Okay a, how
close did I get to the Lions? It was just
bad Dan Campbell decisions for twenty minutes to stop that
from happening, and the Knicks almost got there, but the
entire team got hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I feel pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I don't lie to anybody, which means you.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Get people up towards the finish line and then you
abandon them.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Why do you forsake.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Them when you're about to win, when you're about to
get over It's.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Like hah, yeah, fools, whatever taking you? You're the guy
at the crossroads.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, you're the devil when I drive Zoey's friend zone
after they if they're hanging out here and ride. Hey,
I'm gonna let you off right here. But my house
is three blocks away. It's really not well lit. Nah,
I take you. I take as close as I can.
Then you gotta do the rest of yourself. But really,
there's no lights on, and I think there's some wolves
over there. Nah, just keep walking.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You'll be no lesson If I take you straight to
the door. What happens?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You get home and you're safe. What do you learn
from that? Suddenly feel like Dwight shrewed?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
What do you learn from that?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You don't go through any kind of adversity?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Zipping or I'll play the name three.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You gotta find it first exit out about a Fresca
exit swollowen doll that shut clucked down.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Halliverrton double cheeve shut cluck at Porkr's gotta put it
up step fuck.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Here's three parters.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
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Speaker 1 (16:39):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Fourth quarter just underway in Minnesota, Tea. What was with
a four point lead over the Mavericks eighty six eighty two? Again,
a lot of basketball left to go. We'll keep you
(17:25):
updated on this. Kyrie going to the free throw line,
continuing the masterful game that he has.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Had so far because he hates you.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, well listen if he listen. I think if if
Dallas wins, they win the title, they owe me then
because I said, oh, he's gonna he's hitting the wall.
How much basketball can you have left in him? He
hasn't played this much basketball in four or five years,
Narius and I playing great. So okay, maybe if I'm
the guy that did spur him, Mom, I'm okay with that.
I get a ring, Cuban, Cuban, come give me a
ring and get mad at me and throw it. But
I still get a ring.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cood be pretty impressive. I mean, who hates you more
right now? Him? Or or a Herscheizer?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Ooh, it's gonna be tough Oral orls Nah, I think
it's still lurel. Yeah the oh this game plays out
there like if Kyrie plays a great game and and
Dallas winds up losing. No, but no, Oral still doesn't
land know it's still oral right there?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Okay? Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Meanwhile, speaking of basketball elsewhere another day, because apparently Caitlin
Clark is going to play every other day, which shorts
into what we're going to talk about here. The uh,
the Indiana Fever. Caitlin Clark playing at Seattle right now
on a West coast road trip. They got Seattle, they
have Los Angeles, Las Vegas all coming up in the
next few days. Right now, Seattle's leading Indiana twenty five
(18:35):
sixteen end of the first quarter. So far, Caitland Clark
is scoreless. It's played nine minutes oh for four from
the floor, oh for three from three point range, minus
five on the night. It has not been a great start.
She's not been able to hit anything. Now, look, I'm
not I told you how fine everything is, because now
you've seen very quickly boom WNBA has become part of
(18:55):
the sports landscape, just like everything else. Right, So so
all that stuff has gone. But let me just say
this for Caitlin Clark, because she's fine. Everything's gonna be fine.
If she has a bad couple of games here and there,
I'm gonna understand because they gave the Indiana Fever seven
games in the first eleven days of the season. She's
(19:17):
gonna play a game on the fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, twenty,
which he's done today the twenty second. Then she's got
Friday against Los Angeles and then Saturday back to back.
They're playing Vegas. Oh, by the way, Vegas the best
team in the league. So you're talking about seven games
in the first eleven days of the season, like, there's
nobody that's gonna be able to play well. If you
(19:38):
put a schedule like that out there every other day
and then two nights, you're gonna play back to back.
I'm telling you that that's gonna hasten the rut that
she's gonna inevitably fall in because she's played.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
A lot of basketball right now.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I get the players play aau all the time getting
into college, I understand, but this is where she has
gone from a full entire college basketball senior year where
they made it all the way to the championship game,
and eight hours later she gets drafted number one overall
by the Fever and a day and a half after that,
she's playing her first game. This is the most basketball
we talk about Kyrie and playing a lot of basketball
(20:14):
hitting the wall. Kaitlyn Clark's gonna hit the wall at
some point pretty soon in this season. Well, I would say, well,
there's gonna be a lot of what's wrong with Kaitlyn
Clark just because she's not gonna be performing.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Because this is a ton of basketball.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
It's a lot, and you can get past the the
initial excitement of the newness of the WNBA and that
little bit of energy in that burst, And that's great.
She's she's shown that her game translates. Everything is fine.
But when it happens, because it's gonna happen, she's gonna
have bad games.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
She's gonna stack bad games.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's just that there's too much basketball, that she's had
to play too much, high profile basketball where there's no
rest is not like well, players play overseas. Yeah, but
the the overall commitment level of what they need to
be doing outside of the game.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That said, they're kind of out of the spotlight. It's
it's kind of okay.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So, but Caitlin Clark has been a front page story
pulled in a lot of different directions for a long time. Yeah,
she's gonna hit the wall. It's gonna happen. She's gonna struggle.
She'll bounce back eventually. But boy, I'll tell you, these
seven games eleven days aren't helping matters at all.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Yeah, it's it's the curiosity though, right is that you
know the way this schedule is, it's a breakneck pace.
I mean WNBA season, it's a fast, fast season right
to roll into as the summer months go on, so
you know, the curiosity becomes. You know, and I haven't
(21:33):
looked further down the schedule how many breaks there are,
you know where you get multiple days off. I mean
they get help now that they're getting chartered, so I
mean that helps a little bit, cuts down on that
airport lag time and all that fun stuff. But legitimately
it is something to monitor and not the best of
things for the WNBA in terms of the early schedule,
(21:57):
which we talked about just as as a whole, not
just the teams, but this type of pace of as
you have the struggles where you're trying to capture eyeballs
and get in and sell, sell, sell, and for those
that are on board, it's it's not going to not
going to matter, right, folks bought their tickets, they've bought
(22:18):
their advance and we've watched it in the secondary market.
It's the folks that are on the fence that if
you're tuning into the product right now and you're seeing
a bit of unevenness between the ankle injury uh and
the schedule perhaps having its weight not to mention the
fact that what's that key thing you keep saying about
the fever.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It's only one thing. It's only one thing. Remember, it's
only one thing about the fever. It's only one thing.
It's only one thing. They stink that's the only but
that's the only thing that's been nuts only.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
And bit by bit, I mean they've gotten better, and
they've had some stretches where it looks like they're starting
to communicate better on the court, recognize things a bit better.
But again, you know, if you tune in for some
clips of these, right, she's eleven minutes, one of six,
right now, finally hit a shot. It's it's it's a
(23:12):
tough watch for you, right, if you're expecting you here
to come in and dominate. Now, if you're one of
those people that just wants to hate, watch, good luck
to you. But you know, for the w NBA as
a whole, when you're trying to sell, you can say, well,
she had nineteen points, but people are gonna dig a
little deeper in the box score, yeah, right, and things
of that nature, and.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Look, the haters are gonna come out and there's gonna
be all kinds of stuff going on. It's it's just
it's just too much basketball. And I don't mean like saying, oh,
here's the what, No, it's just the the one time
only when you're gonna go from hey, I've played all
this basketball. There's no break, and now I'm going right
into a high profile season without any break. And then, oh,
by the way, may look at the Olympics coming up
(23:52):
later on, she's gonna wind up playing the Olympics. You're
gonna have a lot of stuff, and it's just a
lot of basketball. So anything you see, because it's gonna
come and there's gonna be a off patch, you're gonna see, Oh,
she's overrated, and maybe she's not the best rookie, all
these crazy ass things, which, oh, by the way, nobody
gets any more attention in the league than defensively than
Caitlin Clark. So just understand that as a rookie, nobody
(24:12):
gets that. Angel Reese doesn't get it. Cameron Brink doesn't
get it much. No, no, no, much different players though, right,
but much different. But but how nobody is having their
entire hers but nobody's having an entire defensive scheme before
the game of this is what we do to stop Caitlyn, Like, no, no,
you're not doing You're not even I know you're doing
that for Brianna Stewart like you did. This is what
(24:34):
we are doing. Our entire defensive meeting is gonna be
about stopping Kitlyn Clark, Like, I mean, that's a that's
a huge deal that that she's gonna deal with as.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, and all this is part of it, right, all
this is part of it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
But it's just that's gonna happen, and she's gonna hit
the wall a bit, and that's all it's gonna be.
And when when she gets used to the schedule, hits
her second win, starts hitting more shots, it's gonna be
back to where it is and Caitlyn Clark is going
to be the show like it was.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
And it's offer right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
July seventeenth, their final game ahead of a one month break,
July seventeenth at Dallas. They come back on the sixteenth
against Phoenix. So you've got the Olympic break or perhaps
the ability to just go sleep in a hyperbaric chamber
for a month.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Maybe you do both. Maybe you play in the Olympics
and sleep in the Hyperbarrick. Well, I mean she's got enough.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Endorsements and sponsorships and all of those things to come
together to where, you know, you just have a little
extra cargo on the jet.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We got room down there, Mets games to fall asleep.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Hi, I'm Caitlin Clark. Have a trouble sleeping. Need your
body recover? Well, put on these TB twelve pajamas and
then either flip on the Mets game or get into
cryo sleep therapy. Hey, here's what it is, right. Let
me show you how easy it is to just get
inside this hyperbaric chamber, close your eyes and breathe.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Youn't get how you home runs two days in a
row and still lose.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Historically? Did you see that stat Smith historically?
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Yeah, it hit three home runs in a game, you
win almost four out of five, just like your damn
dentist making a recommendation.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah no, no, really, I You're you're like someone You're
like a lifeguard of the beach telling me you know
the ocean is pretty deep. I know how deep the
ocean is. I know the Mets stink. I know we
thinking we should be selling our players right now. You
don't have to worry. You have to warm them into
every conversation to Caitlyn Clark, conversation specialist City, we don't
(26:26):
need that here. No, that was a good work by
frost Off, bringing something that would put you to sleep.
We don't get it gone for the easy, easier joke
of the White Sox. We can't because nobody cares about
the White Sox. Well, nobody cares about the Mets. Sure
they keep jamming them down. Of course they do, because
they spend a lot of money and they lose. That's
all it happens to. It's not about the Knicks either, Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
You're trying to make them happen.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Your team has been home for so long. People forget
the colors of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Dude, you've been through this how many times?
Speaker 4 (26:53):
What's there? I've seen it enough?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Good basketball.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, when you need a break and when you get
Doc Rivers as your head coaching, going to see anymore?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Doc?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yeah, that was just means that was just you wait
for doctor, was so far over the line, you can't
even see the line.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, the line is way behind me, right, I mean
I went so far over I don't.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Even see it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I even said hi to you today. Yeah, and you
hit me with doc rivers.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You well you you say you said to me high
I said, Hi, you said see the Mets game. I
mean that's the first thing you said, said, I see
the Mets game. Like that's what it was.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Well, he cares about you and your mental well being.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I was going to celebrate the three home runs and
then tear you down.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah. Sure, hey the metsa three runs? They did they win?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Not man, they got doubled up. Oh all right, great,
not even they lose. It wasn't like they we lost
nine to eight or like eleven ten. I was like, no, no, no, no,
this is a game where hey, every every every game
now someone's breaking something, right, Jake Deekman broke a h
Gatorade cooler. Last game today, Adam Outovino broke an iPad.
He was so upset, like the metsa just break. This
(27:58):
is how bad it is. It's May and they're already
throwing stuff and breaking things every single game.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
No, they should just say.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Come on, man, dude, come on, guy's not even a
real guy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Come on, you'd love to have Adam. You want Adam
of Veto, I give him to you. Whatever, you want anything.
Everybody is available from the Mets. Everybody's slicer and the
smells of a Jersey Mix him too, Tommy cutlets let's go.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Hey. So I'm here and I got extra cheese on
my Jersey mics.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I just love that he's whispering and all those camera
I'm here at Jersey mics.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
How badly do you drool at that commercial when he
puts the extra cheese on?
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Oh? I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Oh you're kidding. I love the Jersey Mix commercials. Man.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It's like that's how they hypnotize you.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
He's sitting there holding.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
No I go.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The thing is I just I don't get it Mike's
way because it's with you know, onions. Oh I love
then like put tomato and and all kinds of of
lettuce and like okay, and then they put like vinegar
and oil. I'm like, nah, no, no, no, come on, man,
don't give me that. Give me give me mayonnaise, give
me some kind of aoli. That that's the sandwich right there.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So you basically tell them no fancy craft.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
You take away the healthy stuff and give me mayo.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, come on, man, I need some viscosity on this
sub man, I can't just hear it, oh, because then
you pick up the sub and your hands are all
greasy and it's golle that you're gonna wipe them off,
and then the bread just kind of soaks a little bit. No, no, no,
a perfect sandwich, the number two, the turkey with extra
provolone onions, mayo.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
And mustard on both sides. There's your sub.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
That's all you need. It's perfect sandwich right there. I'd
always tell the guy too. I always tell the guy
anything else, I go, no, he goes, that's all you want?
Like they always like, you don't wantny Moore. I go,
it's a perfect sandwich. And they all feel like, oh okay,
because it is a perfect sandwich. If I wanted something more,
I would tell you, but no, this is what do
you want? A MIC's way, Why would I want vinegar
and oil? Or why would I want that gumles?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
It's tasty and delicious. No, it's and it's not mayonnaise.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
No, it's just it's not no mayonnaise, manaise mayonnaise to
come on, bomba Mike.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You don't dip your friesen, ma'am, No mayonnaise.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Come on. He has mayonnaise and poutine all the time.
That's I mean the okay, well, hey, poutineute poutine is
the poutine when I went to when I went to
Canada a couple of years ago, I was like, what
would you like to I want to go somewhere and
get poutine.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
That's what I want to have that right now.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I gotta have it right now.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I gotta have it.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I gotta have cheese, I gotta have gravy, I gotta
have French fries.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I gotta have it right now, right now, right now.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon again.
Four point lead now for Dallas over Minnesota. Minnesota does
have the ball just over six minutes left to go
in this one.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So we'll have more on this. But coming up next.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yes, there's a we had to get into sandwiches, and
unfortunately that happens sometimes. But coming up next, people think
one of the most beloved things in basketball is gonna
go away, and I'm here to tell you it's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
What is it? We'll tell you next right here, Jason
and Mike.
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, Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Two
minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Minnesota with a
one oh two, one oh one lead over Dallas. It
has been the Carl Anthony town Show. He has been
on a heater the last couple of minutes. In fact,
if anybody says, hey, what's an example of when someone says, hey,
(31:33):
it's a heat check three point attempt? That's Karl Anthony
Towns a thirty foot like Kimmy, I'm hot man, Kimmy,
I got it, and he hits a three pointer that
gives Minnesota the lead with a couple minutes left to go.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
However, we just watched a three from PJ.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Washington. He now has thirteen, and now it is Dallas
with a two point leader with about one forty left
to go.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Yeah, bad turnover gives an opportunity for a break the
other way, Washington set up beautifully in the corner, wide open.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Look, so we'll have more on this game coming up
in a couple of minutes. But look, there's a lot
of talk today, a lot of people upset, Hey, the
end of inside the NBA is coming, like wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait now. If you've been paying attention,
it's a very big deal. The last couple of weeks
that it looks like the TNT is going to lose
(32:19):
their NBA package. They have the B package right now,
and it looks like they're gonna get outbid by NBC,
who is going to then have the rights to the
NBA that Turner used to have.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
They're gonna want.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
To put on a Sunday Night basketball in America after
football season's over, like they've been doing with football. So
they have big plans, and with more and more time
going on, especially today, it felt like with the with
the reports that this deal is all but done, inside
the NBA is going to go away, not in inside
the NBA anymore. Tn T is not gonna have it.
(32:50):
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Everybody just
stopped for one second. Do you really think no one's
gonna try, No one's gonna keep this inside the NBA
TV crew together, It's still the gold standard show, no
matter how many athletes want to give us Land of
a thousand podcasts This is still the gold standard for
what people want. People watch game. There's blowout games during
(33:12):
the season where people watch just to see what Kenny
and Charles and Shack have to say to each other.
And Ernie. Of course, someone's gonna try to pick this up.
Maybe it's Amazon, who has all kinds of money to spend.
Maybe it's ESPN because ESPN's wanted some of these guys
for years. Yes, I know that Ernie Johnson's the key,
And Charles Barkley said, I don't know if he's gonna go.
If he's gonna leave a network, he's gonna go someplace else.
(33:34):
Maybe he's gonna retire soon. Okay, that could happen. But
also somebody Amazon could say, Ernie, you want twenty million
dollars a year to host inside the NBA. I mean,
it could be that simple, or it could be where
Ernie Johnson does retire, in which case then it'll be
those guys on with another host. It'll be somebody else
on with them. But inside the NBA is going to
live at some point, it's going to live on. We're
(33:56):
not gonna lose it. It's going to be different, sure,
and it'll be different on other network. I'm sure they're
gonna want to put their own spin on it, or
Amazon will do it, or ESPN will do it. But
we're still going to get the guys. These guys aren't
going anywhere. They're not gonna be done. They want to
stay together. They understand the strength of the group, and
whether it's all of them with Ernie Johnson or them
with somebody else, they'll have somebody else that everybody recognizes.
(34:17):
It'll be a fun person to put on the set.
Everybody they've put on the set has worked to an
extent the last fifteen years. So I'm feeling pretty good
about the future of Inside the NBA.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, in the end, if it goes the way of
the Dodo, it's just another great thing to remember that
was once on television. Everything goes away, Guys take other jobs,
Guys retire. Ernie Johnson's sixty seven years old.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
He may be done. They have had a good run.
And just look at it from a contractual standpoint.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Maybe he's a lifer there that he still has contractual
obligations that you know, they'd have to do a bunch
of buyouts and all that kind of fun stuff, And
you know they have a deal now where they've sublet,
which is where it really gets kind of fun, sublet
college football games or whatever. I don't I don't know
what his interest is in moving right, you get used
(35:06):
to your institutionalized as it works.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Take my Shashank redemption notes as we go through. But
even if it were to go away, we've had a
hell of a run with it.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I mean, everything comes to an end, buddy. I mean,
I'd like to think there's enough money, interest, et cetera
for everybody to want to rally together, bring all sorts
of producers and assistance with because that's the other part
that needs to be we need to.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Be mindful of.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
As much as we love Shack and Charles and Kenny
and Ernie together, that crew has been there a long
time that they've worked with to make that show what
it is as well.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I mean, really it's going to be different. But to
think it's gonna go and it's gonna go away completely,
that's not gonna happen. And I think in the end,
if it comes down to it, Ernie Johnson is either
gonna retire he's gonna go. And I know some of
it's posturing, all of its negotiation, everything is on the table.
I can't believe he's not gonna go for a little
bit to be with the guys. I mean, I really,
(36:01):
I really, I can't believe he's not gonna go for them.
Maybe he doesn't, but in that case, and it's it's
somebody else there with with with everybody.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
That becomes a real coveted seat.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Uh, but it's it's throwing my hat and there's a
you're you're not tall enough to be on the set.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'm sorry, dude.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
I mean, look, we got you guys six phone books
Anthony Davis.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Every day they can't they will. You won't even see
the top.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Of your head to show a big headed it's not
gonna fit. Maybe we'll get just get the top of
your eyes and we won't see your mouth moving, but
just be the top of your eyes and a jaunty
hat while you're talking. And then here Shaq and Charles
and there and Kenny. That I'd become a sexy man
of mystery. Who's the parade?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Come on now? I think that would get old pretty fast.
You know what, You shut your faces. I only see
the top of his head on the TV. His eyes. Wait,
he doesn't have any eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Coming up next, we have an amazing finish in Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
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