May 25, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason’s Mets are proving there's no such thing as rock-bottom. The Timberwolves effort/focus/energy is so inconsistent. And dishes out some PR advice to the WNBA!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend, Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are you gonna be better than the Mavericks?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, be better than the Mets? How about that. Let's
let's set the sites a little low and that way,
you know we under promise and over deliver. That'll get
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Speaker 4 (01:02):
Buying, Jason. If that's where the line is drawn, we
might as well just go home.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah. Well, look, look this is this is how bad
it was. This is the third game in a row.
The Mets hit three home runs and they've lost all
three of them. According to some of the tank stats
take people on, this is only the fifth time in
baseball history that's happened where a team is at three
home runs three games and lost all three of them.
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The Mets proving there's no such thing as rock bottom. No, no, no,
We're gonna get there and keep digging in. We want
to get to the core of the Earth. We want
to split the Earth in half. And I have a
just fly out in the Andromeda Galaxy. It's what we're
gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nicely done, and there's something to be said for, you know,
getting into that rarefied air and doing something historic, not
just another loss.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We're up six to two in the eighth inning, Nope,
Grand Slam. We're losing seven to six. Oh bases loaded,
one out in the ninth inning, Nope, nope, can't get
another run across. We lose eight.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Jason, the real question is at what point they're so
bad right now and MLB doesn't let you play in
game highlights out the point are we allowed to play
their in game highlights? They're so bad?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh, they will give they will give you any we'll
get any right to find us. No, you know you
want you want to hear something really funny. Here's how
everybody knows, is that? Like when I go to eBay,
you know, I'm on eBay, like you know every day
look for different stuff, like wearing my clothes and everything. Sure, exactly,
And I always put stuff in my cart because I
always you know, once in a while, someone will see
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something in your cart on eBay and then they will
make you an offer, like say, here's a here's a
Mets t shirt for seventeen dollars. You put it in
your cart, leave it there for a day. Someone knows
it to the person selling and he goes, hey, how
would you like this shirt for twelve dollars? And you
save money on it? Right, That's just how it goes
for eBay. Right in the last twenty four hours, the
Mets stuff I've had in my cart, everybody has made
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me offer. It's here, baby, how would you like this?
What is this? It's David right coming to live in
your house? Oh, how much is that? Four dollars? Just
send it to me. I'll put them on a plane.
Like every all of a sudden, it's like, hey, you
gotta get rid of this met stuff. Man, no one's
gonna buy it this summer. This season's done. I gotta
get rid of it. Go that guy. The guy's got
his card, give it to whatever he wants, whatever he
wants to give it to him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know what's great is that? I mean, as long
as it's not dated stuff. I man, you can play
with that all day.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Just outstanding.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Like, come on this, he's only hitting two hundred in
his last two weeks. Now it's one of the young
and up and coming stars of the game. But right now,
I'm selling you it's kind of like doing fantasy trades,
only with some other dollars involved.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Everybody knows it's over. Let's get, let's get. We'll move
on for next year. We'll get some new stuff coming in.
Let's just make sure we do that. Get rid of
this stuff now, and then we'll move on again. Welcome
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hopefully that's the last mention of the Mets tonight. We
we really don't need to talk about it. We're done.
We're kind of fin. I think we can be done.
It's okay, but that at least I need.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You want me to get the Syracuse loss in while
you're at Come, dude, come on, man. Boston College is
in the They're in the championship every bleeping year.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Man, I mean, come on playing. Did you guys win?
Did you guys win to oh Night? Well, that's what
it should I think that's the last rematch of last year. Yeah,
I think that's the last three national championships. And women's
lacrosse has been BC in Northwestern I think that's it's
every year. Dial it up, yeah, BC. I think BC's
been in the national title game now seven years in
a row. I want to say something insane like that.
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You can find stop them.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
You damn your teams are so bad. We're talking lacrosse.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, dude, we're in the final four. We were in
the final four. Women's were in the final four and
they lost bottom. Men's fell a step short of the
final four. But speaking of a step short, and a
step slow. That is the Dallas Maverick so far tonight
against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Six and a half to go
in the third quarter. Timberwl's looking to even this series up,
but one game at piece of hav an eleven point
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lead over Dallas seventy one to sixty. This game looked
like was going to get out of control in a
big way. But Luka Donsich has come back, hit a
bunch of shots. He's at twenty two points now, So
now it's an eleven point game, which is still manageable
for Dallas midway through the third quarter. But I want
to tell you, Mike, when we talked about this game
last night and we previewed, I said, this is the
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Timberwolves team I expect to show up for Game two.
It baffles me that a team that is built on
defense and effort can show up flat. The number of
times Minnesota has this playoff and we get great stuff
like the post game from Minnesota is great because they
tell us everything, like Anthony Edwards will tell you whatever
is going on. Yeah, we were flat. I don't know
what happened. Didn't have the energy, didn't have it. I
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was tired, wait, whoa what are you talking about? So
we know that it's a problem of effort and energy
and focus and being consistent, because if you watch the
way the Timberwolves play defense first two games against the Nuggets,
it should have been over. It should have been a sweep.
You're looking at a defensive effort like the Pistons of
the early aughts when they won the championship over the Lakers,
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almost beat the Spurs the next year. That's what we've seen.
And it was so not there in Game one, and
you saw Luca and Kyrie were able to do whatever
they want to on the floor, and Luca's able to
hit that fifteen foot step back like he has. And
I'm saying to myself, where is this Minnesota team? Where's
that should be running rough shot over everybody into the
finals against the Celtics. They show up tonight in a
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big way. This is who I expected seventy one sixty.
And I'm not saying, obviously, if a team plays at
their highest level, they're gonna win, but like, if this
is the Minnesota team that shows if they show up focused,
it's almost like the same thing with the Celtics. If
they show up focused and on game and on point.
And I don't mean like they gotta be going crazy.
It's just, hey, show up, focused and on point. You'll
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be in the NBA Finals. And if this Timberwolves team
shows up, this is what's going to happen. But the
problem is getting them to show up every single game,
which is baffling because it's not missing shots. It's not hey,
we had a bad night shooting, and hey, Anthony Edwards
was awful shooting, which she has been now for a while.
It's not all Karl Anthony town say it'll pracked everything else,
but this is where you're talking about effort and intensity. Defensively,
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it's just not there. But it's here tonight. And if
this is a team we get, they're gonna I mean,
Dallas has won their last game of the Western Conference Finals,
but that's the thing, getting to show up every night.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Well, he's still getting some poor shooting right now across
the board for the Wolves. Right they're shooting thirty seven
percent and still have an eight point lead, twelve offensive rebounds,
and they've been efficient in terms of moving the basketball
sixteen assists on their twenty three makes, but they've doubled
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up the three point makes on the Mavericks to this point,
which is really your difference here in rebounding edges and
it is marginal at best, but when you're looking at
the three point makes has really been a big deal.
Although Lucas starting to heat it up to make this
interesting because he's struggled in the first half. He had
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a few of those moments that you've chronicled of. All Right,
is he hurt? Is he just complaining because he got hit?
What's going on now? He's standing under the basket, refusing
to move towards the basketball, was watching? Stop being an observer?
And then Kyrie Irving's just two of nine. It's like
all the residual hate he had on you for Game one.
It's torn off man torn off. Right now he's got
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five points and two assists, not giving you much of
an effort at all.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, it's look, it's a weird series to handicap, right,
It's that the two Maverick stars against the Timberwolves defense.
And look, I don't know, maybe Kyrie nut for Kyrie.
Maybe Kyrie used up all his energy in Game one
because look, what did I say going into it? He's
probably hit the wall? He did he didn't have a
great series of last series. He's probably hit the wall
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because he's playing a lot of basketball, more basketball than
he's played on in a bunch of years, And that
could be the case. Made me look silly in Game one,
but now it's making me look pretty accurate here in
game two. That Hey, with some days off, he goes
for Game one, he has a big game. Now one
day later, you got to come back for game two
and he struggles, almost kind of like what we saw
happened to Chris Paul in the playoffs a few years ago,
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when boy, he was phenomenal and he found the fountain
of youth, and because they were playing every eight days,
the Suns were able to win. But you get to
the NBA Finals where suddenly it's a game every other night,
and that's where Chris Paul ran up on empty and
you saw the Bucks go on and win the NBA title.
I wonder if that's the case with Kyrie Irving again.
Still a long way to go here, but it makes
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sense to see, Hey, game one, he was great because
he had time rest all that great. But now here
we are one game away game two, and it's a
much different story. Fro him so far.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Now, let's be honest, at least with Kyrie, we've had
a number of moments where we've praised his defensive effort
and t defense and leadership.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We've never done that with Chris Paul. Oh no no, no, no, no,
no no no.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So you know, you know the kind of comparison, I
get it, but one big very but just.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
About you're talking about a point guard, a guy who's
going to handle the ball a lot, who is coming
up with a huge effort, which is what you need.
We know, No, we're not. We've never heard defensive effort
for Chris.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Come on, man, I'm just saying because Kyrie Irving's expending
energy on that side too, not just you know, being ball.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Dominant and getting it done.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But you know, the key thus far has been the
shooting for the Tea Wolves of nas reed your six
man of the year sixteen minutes four or four from
three point range for twelve points.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Gonna be interesting because it looks like Luca's doing everything
he can to now take over and going in amongst
the trees.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well about, I'll tell you, I mean, it's gonna be
really tough for Luca to do it by himself. But clearly,
hey man, you know we gave you the blueprint for
this series. Right. Minnesota's defense is this, They're gonna win.
If they get inconsistent, can't play a full forty eight,
that opens the door for the Mavericks. Right, it's it's
it's pretty simple. And again, even though it's an eight
point lead right now for Minnesota, there's still a long
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time left to go. Now the other point of this game, right,
three big points we had coming out of this game
when it was defensively here what we saw from Kyrie.
Minnesota leads this game despite the fact Anthony Edwards, who
is Michael Jordan? Apparently right, Michael Jordan's there is four
out of fifteen from the floor tonight for fifteen points.
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This is yet another game after he was anointed as
the next Michael Jordan, where he has really struggled to
shoot the basketball. Right, you want to go back his
last five games, five for fifteen, eight for seventeen, six
for twenty four, six for sixteen, and now four for fifteen. Right,
this is what he's been. Now, maybe he's hit the wall.
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Maybe teams have realized, Okay, this is the guy we
got to stop if we're gonna flow down the Timberwolves. Now,
so far it hasn't worked as well because the other
guys are picking up the slack. Right, We're getting great
stuff from Rudy Gobert. Didn't think we get enough get
that from him offensively, getting a little bit more from him, Karl,
Anthony Towns has been fantastic. Right. You're looking at up
players who were stepping up and he going, wow, man,
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I can't believe we're seeing their supporting cast do more
than just play defense.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Jade McDaniels up until tonight has been fantastic. Right, But
this is what we said when I said you have
to stop Mac jones ing Anthony Edwards right because he's
not ready. He's a great player, he's a great young player,
and if he's gonna be a superstar he will show you.
He will show you in the playoffs and it will
be Look at Anthony Edwards another thirty five point game,
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another forty point game, and instead you see what he's shot.
Now over the last five games, he has not been good.
There are times he's been invisible. Just call like I said,
I want that. I want the kid to be a
big time superstar. But it's all of a sudden, it's hey,
he had some big games, some big highlights, and now
he's Jordan. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a
minute again. This is the dangers when you Mac Jones, somebody,
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you Mac Jones, somebody, you go over the top and
people try to figure out ways to top their takes
so much. He's doing things Michael Jordan hasn't even done
in his fourth year in the league. He's doing things
that Tom Brady or Michael Jordan or Lebron James or
Gordy how Is done in their first four years ago.
And it just gets more and more and more until
it's just stupid. And that's why we talked about it
a couple of days ago. You have to stop mac
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Jones again, you mac Jones, and look what happens right now.
Obviously he's more talented than mac Jones, but you're seeing
now that, Okay, maybe everybody was a little early with
anointing him as next because what did we say going
into this game? From from game one? The other thing
is Anthony Edwards. I expect him to come out and
have a huge game. He's gonna go for forty, He's pissed.
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He knows that he needs more. He says, we didn't
have the effort. He was tired for some reason in
game one. He's gonna come out and have a big effort,
but the Tea Wolves have the lead and he has
been again largely invisible. He can't hit anything, and he's
kind of like a big decoy and a playmaker at
this point. And that's not what the Timberwolves are gonna
need if they're gonna win this game. They can't go
down the stretch and rely that. Okay, let's get the
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ball of Karl Anthony Towns down low or maybe he'll
at a couple of threes, Like you're gonna win or
lose if this guy steps up and proves that he
is a big superstar, and so far he's not. At
that point, he's more Devin Booker than he is anything else.
At this point, Hey, Booker had some big games always next,
isn't that? And then oh wow, Devin Booker kind of
showed up lame in the playoffs a little bit here.
I don't know about that. That's really the more accurate
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description right now for Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Now on the plus side, at least a lot of
his shots are in and around the rim. Problem is
he's missed every one of those. There's only shots that
he's made are from distance. So yeah, just curiosity. I
like the aggressiveness that's gotten Um to the free throw
line a couple of times. But yeah, you wanted him
to have forty Nah too much defense from Kyrie Irving
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and company.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Man, you ain't getting there. You ain't Jordan exit. How
about of Fresco exit? Swollen dumb The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carter. I thought you jumping
on the Jordan thing a little bit more because that's
your guy, man, like your whole sports existence is on
Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, I didn't want to talk over you as you
Oh okay, I didn't really know. And the other thing is,
really respond to all of the asinine things are Brethren
in the media do.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I would never.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sleep, I'd never be able to do anything else if
I just jumped on all of the asinine and positively
insane things that get said.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Jason, Stop trying to make ant Man happen.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, ant Man was good until the first.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Stop just trying to keep everybody's minds on. Mac Jones,
who they forgot about you gotta get a guy that's
still playing.
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Now I got a hot take
for you, Mike, and I think you're gonna come around
me on this. I mean, maybe maybe it's not Anthony Edwards.
Maybe nas is the Timberwolves player who was the next
Michael Jordan. It might be like I mean, it might
be NOAs Reed, I may not be Anthony. Anthony Edwards
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is so ten days ago. Now it's nos Reed five
five out of five. The center is five for five
from three point range tonight. He's got fifteen off the bench.
He's a game high plus eight for the Timberwolves as
they lead the Mavericks going to the fourth quarter right now,
eighty six to seventy nine, just like anytime they needed three.
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It's like this is you know, it ruins me. It
reminds me when the and I'm going back now, you
know to the very famous two thousand and eight Celtics
team that they can never stop talking about it. Celtics,
Hey docs on that forever. Yeah, I remember I coached it.
Talk that was sixteen years ago. No, it was just
a couple of years ago. No, no, no, no it's not.
It's not right. It's not two thousand and eight. No,
it's not. It's in that finals. The big memory I
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have that that that first Laker Celtics Finals was not
you obviously, as you have Paul Pierce in the wheelchair,
but it was every time the Celtics need did a basket,
I felt like James Posey was hitting threes, and it
was really James Posey seriously hitting it three. It's crazy,
but that was everyone. I feel like that's anytime the
Timberwolves need a big shot of big three, it's nas
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Reed hitting it. I'm going this isn't this is crazy.
But hey, six men in the NBA for reasons proving
it so far.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Stop trying to make nas Read happen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Go bear now with four falls. That's just why you're
seeing more of Reed. He had a couple early on
Towns as well. He's only got two for the game
now though, Reed. As you said, though plus eight fifteen points.
Their game high, though still is Kyle Anderson. He's at
plus seventeen in his twelve minutes, but not quite the
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impact of nas Reed and the spectacular display he's giving
us from three point range. But I will say this,
you know, the the Jordan thing. I mean, what do
we do every year? All right, Who's going to be
the Jordan guy? It's like everybody has a meeting and
there's a whiteboard or there's a bunch of play.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Your profile head shots up there, like I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We kind of talked about him as a Jordan, right
because if John Morant were playing in Memphis was active
at all in the playoffs, wouldn't it be him? I mean,
or pick somebody else? Like did we do this every year?
Like spin the wheel? Like all right, it's your turn?
And then with Edwards, everybody does the photo thing and says,
well he kind of looks like Michael. Well, that takes
it down a whole other kind of creepy and on
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toward kind of path. But you know, it's good for
the fodder. But yeah, a lot of yelling for no reason.
Let the guy play basketball, just because you hadn't watched
him for his first three years in the league, and
you're finally figuring out, Hey, you know this guy's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Who can we call him? Hey, I saw a dunk.
Guess who that looked like, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, he's got too menisquas, so he can't be Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh too soon on Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Then hey, Lonzo's getting twenty one million dollars next minute,
whether he plays a minute or not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Dude, Lonzo said he's getting him, and he's getting another meniscus.
Somehow he's got his. He's getting a donation of a meniscus.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Something did I didn't even know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I'm an organ donor. I didn't give him mine,
but it's there.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Donate meniscus. I never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Kobe used to go to Germany and get new blood.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can go into the pightlet therapy and everything.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, no, no, no, I guarantee you. Obviously it's a
cadaver meniscus. It's not like live I mean like like
but here's something like for instance, like if Aaron Rodgers
got hurt again and needed an achilles, I would give
him my dad's achilles. I would. I would, I would
get the chloroform. There's not in there. I'd knock my
he doesn't need it anymore. I would knock my dad
out and I would take him and say he would
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wake up and hey, dad, you're fine, Everything is good.
What happened? You had a fall? You're all good? What happened? No, No,
you're good, You're good. And Aaron Rodgers would have a
new achilles and it'd work out. Let. But this, obviously,
I'm sure it's a cadaver meniscus, because this is how
they do it. And look this. People sign up there
they're organ donors and and they uh and and you know, hey,
we got a match. You gotta got a miniscus. Very good.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
To be honest, Before today, guys, you never heard of
a meniscus donor.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh I don't know that I've ever met somebody. He's
saying at a party. Tone, Hey what you now? I'm Bob,
I'm a moniscus doner.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh hey, dude, you don't go to parties?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Bob? Did I go to party? You go to more parties?
Than you do.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Man, church doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You don't know. You don't know. The parties I go to.
You have a church is wh party? It's a party.
Come on, Mary, you know that churches the place to
be seen and to meet and greet. Right there.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You don't even believe that.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Right now, right now, the Mavericks beat lead the Tea Wolves.
They have just gone on an eight to oh run
to start the fourth quarter. They lead it eighty seven
eighty six. All of a sudden, Kyrie Irving has caught fire.
He hits a three and now it's a one point lead.
Time out. Timber Wolves could even get to the four
minute mark for a time out. Time out a minute
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and a half into the fourth quarter again Mavericks with
a one point lead, but still a lot of time left. Meanwhile,
another big game tonight right now going on here in La.
The Sparks lead the Fever twenty three seventeen. Because you know, obviously,
Caitlyn Clark is going to play every single night for
the rest of her life. So far, Caitlyn Clark has
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four points in eight minutes. She has missed both of
her threes again early in this game. Eight minutes to
go on the second quarter, Caitlin Clark four points for
the Fever Sparks lead at twenty three seventeen. Cameron Brink
has six. She's already plus ten for the game, now
four boards as well. Yeah, I mean she's she's having
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a big look at It's great. And then and this
gets into my point because there is nobody who needs
my pr advice right now more than WNBA, more than
the than the league and the players, okay, because what's
been going on in the last few weeks is just unacceptable.
All right, now, this is what I would do. This
is what I would do, because they need my advice.
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I get everybody in a room, and it's and it's
and it's commissioner, and it's the teams, it's the coaches,
and it's everybody. I'd say, okay, all right, let's let
let's let me tell you something here because everybody's got
a cool down. And the biggest thing I got to
tell this league, with everything that's going on in the
last few days, which has been kind of embarrassing, is
we need to learn how to handle success, because that's
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the biggest thing that causes downfall for teams players is
when you have some success. You can't handle it, and
you melt down and you suddenly you can't focus. You
can't handle the good times, and that brings on the
bad times. And the last few days what's dominated the
news a really bad optic that WNBA players are jealous
(23:38):
of Caitlyn Clark. And it's funny that the day, you know,
we told you this a couple of weeks ago, We
talked to this a couple weeks ago that hey, gotta
watch out. Everybody should be thanking Caitlyn Clark. She's got
you wanted charter flights, right, everybody complained for so long. Yeah,
she's the next one, right, She's here. She's the biggest
star they ever come in. She goes on one commercial
flight and the next week it's here. We have twenty
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five million dollars. Everybody's going to be on charter flights.
That's a pretty big deal. And yet still it's met
with a little bit of skepticism from some people, and
you get a back and forth that may not be
one hundred percent accurate, right, Diana Tarossi's comments kind of
misconstrued a little bit. But then you get some other
players who are clapping back at Charles Barkley. When Barkley
said the other night, everybody should be aligned up to
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kiss Caitlyn Clark's butt and all this stuff and everything
and the hate shouldn't be there, and you got a
couple of players tweeting back saying, what hate? What are
you talking about? We all love Caitlyn what she brings
to the league. And then last night Angel Reese puts
out a tweet saying, look at us, we won full arena,
not because of one person that got us a charter flight.
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Now she deleted the tweet, But
(24:41):
it's kind of funny that one day after Charles Barkley says, yeah,
you gotta stop hating on Caitlyn Clark, and you get
a bunch of players saying, what hate are you talking about?
Angel Reese puts out there, Hey, a bit a bit
of a shade tweet on Caitlin Clark. Not a bit
of a shade on Caitlyn Clark. And what I you know,
the biggest thing I would say is okay, everybody just
calm down. I understand from some players with you guys
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that there's gonna be some kind of jealousy. I get
that but don't go to social media with it, don't
do interviews on this. You are seeing the good times
hitting the wa You have been fighting for this for
so long, for the WNBA to be relevant, for you,
for your players to be stars, for people to be
talking about you, and now we're talking about all of them.
(25:25):
You are a nightly show. Now we're talking about every
big star in the WNBA. We're talking big about women's
college basketball. And yet what's the optic out there that
there's too many people that are jealous of Caitlin Clark's
success and the race card is played and there's all
kinds of crazy stuff going on. I would I would,
I would tell the players and the coaches this, listen.
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I understand that. But this is the best that our
league's ever had.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
We are trying to capitalize right now and grow this game.
And if you have anything petty that you're upset about
for whatever reason, you know what, Hey, that stuff you
vent to your event to your friends about, but go
on social media with it? How does that help us?
How does that help everybody else? Right? You say you
want it's not about one player, it's about the league,
then stop coming up with things that make it look like,
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oh I don't like Caitlyn, I'm jealous of her success
or why did we get this before? Why didn't I
get a shoe deal? It really is. It just sucks.
And I'm not saying there's not anything that is legitimate
on there. You know, we talk about the success of
Kaitlyn Clark and being white, and I understand that part
of it, but also understand she's the all time leading
scorer in women's college basketball. I mean, we're talking about
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a player who is the biggest superstar that's ever come
out of the college basketball. But I get all of it.
I get it's not one neat thing. But we're in
a time right now where, hey, this is the momentum
this league has been looking for for twenty five years.
Can we can we handle success? Can we show that
we're ready for the moment, that we're ready for it
to be taken seriously as a big league that gets
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highlights played on Sports Center alongside the NBA Playoffs, that
gets stories done on players, that gets players shoe deal.
Can we just focus on that? Can we put away
we're upset about how one person has looked at or
how other people talk about what Can we just stop that,
because that's not helping anybody. And that's why I would
say this, because I'm saying handle success. And if you
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really are looking out for everybody in the WNBA, let's
just stops. Just let's just keep this down. Let's take
the temperature down a bit. Let's go play basketball. Let's
get on the television shows every night. Let's get people
watching on IOW, and let's get people watching on Twitter,
like two hundred thousand people watching the game the other night,
Like that woman who streamed Angel Reese's first game on
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her phone got two hundred thousand viewers. Let's show that
we can handle success. That's the biggest thing I would
tell the WNBA right now.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, I mean it goes back to several weeks ago
when these conversations began. I likened it to the old
all right, I had a party that started at eight
and you didn't show up till eight twenty five. Am
I mad that you showed up at eight twenty five. Now,
if it was a watch party for some half ass
reality show and you made us sit and wait for
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you because you were stuck in traffic or couldn't bother to,
you know, show up on time. Sure, that might happen
for a minute, but then hey, I'm happy you made it.
Let's have a glass of wine, grab a beer, whatever,
and sit and hang out. And I feel like that's
kind of where we're at is there's just residual anger.
It's like, well, why did it need this? And for
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angel Rees, she wants her love. She's done a lot
of big things, right because became a part owner of
a team, she graduated, she was on stage with like
top notche wrappers, all of this stuff. She went to
the met Gala, I mean, not the Mets, the met Gala,
all of those things are big milestones, and I get it.
Maybe you feel like the coverage of your entry to
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the w NBA got dwarfed by Clark's brink. I'm sure.
I mean in their private moments, sure's a little bit
of that, but you go to social media and now
it becomes you know, it's a battle and petty and
do I begrudge it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No, You're young and you want your shine too.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You won a title, You've done all these great things,
and you came to the party at the exact same time.
So I understand the frustration to a degree. The larger perspective,
and the fact that veteran players are still being asked
about this stuff is asinine to me. Right if you
watch the clips of her game and you want to
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comment on how Caitlin Clark is playing, if that were
the question, fine, But at this point you're settling into
the new norm. You're being publicized and scrutinized in a
way that hasn't been there, which great power comes the
great responsibility. We'll get Spider Man in here to help
Spider Man because a bunch of folks who haven't covered
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the sport are on board, and I get it. Some
of it's going to be a little uncomfortable, and you're
gonna have some folks that do it in a handhanded way.
Don't help them, don't enable them by buying into some
Bucus narratives.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And the thing is is that I'm I'm just telling you,
is this is how it's playing. Like to look at
and said, well, that's not what I meant. That's not
But when all of this looks this way, that's how
this is playing. It's playing with a really bad optic
and it's unnecessary grab the moment without making it look
like we're tearing each other apart to get up there.
I mean, I I really, you've been waiting for this
(30:18):
for twenty five years. Twenty five. Yeah, someone's got to
be the adult and say, hey, guys, can we just
cool it and just enjoy the success and move on?
And everybody can everybody does really well? I mean, we
can't do that. I mean that that's what we need
right now. That's what I would say my pr advice.
And it's free white sides. Man. We need a little solidarity.
Free to the WNBA right there by, free advice right now.
A guy who gave me the best advice I ever had.
(30:42):
He said, hey, don't eat any yellow snow. It's Steve
Disager with what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I thought you were gonna say, cut down on McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Did you not learn anything from the late grade Morgan
spurl that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's two suits?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I did not have Jason out living, not guy on
my big one cards to WHOA.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
By the way, up dating that game in LA. That's
the only WNBA game tonight, the oh to five. Yeah,
Kitlin Clark's Indiana fever down twenty nine to twenty five.
Mid second quarter. Clark at four points and four rebounds
so far in the game. In the NBA playoff game
at Minnesota, Timberwolves had regained the lead six and a
half minutes to go. This is Game two of the
(31:24):
NBA's West Final. Dallas had taken the opener Minnesota head
tonight ninety four ninety two as Naz Reid off the
bench from three point range is seven of eight for
twenty one points. Anthony Edwards four of sixteen shooting, Karl
Anthony Towns four of sixteen shooting. Those two guys from
three point range have combined to go three for twelve,
(31:44):
but Minnesota is back in the lead by two. Luka
Donsich with twenty seven points, eight rebounds, nine assists for Dallas.
In the NHL's East Final Game two at New York
boy the Rangers scored very early a few minutes into
this game tonight. They haven't scored since it's Rangers won
Florida one six and a half minutes to go in regulation.
(32:06):
Florida took the opener of the best of seven. Davis
Riley leads by two strokes. At Colonial play resumed after
being suspended by bad weather today Scottie Scheffler shot sixty
five to move up into the top twenty. The champion
Kansas City Chiefs will visit the White House next Friday.
The Indy five hundred is scheduled for this Sunday, but
thunderstorms are expected. Then NASCAR's Coca Cola six hundred is
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this Sunday night on Fox TV from Charlotte, with temperatures
near ninety there. And the UFL football season continues Sunday
on Fox TV before the race the next to last
weekend of that league's regular season their conference finals June
the eighth. To Major League Baseball. The Yankees are in
San Diego, not exactly a park known for home runs,
and yet you Darvish has given up four in four innings.
(32:52):
It's Yankee seven nothing over the Padres. In the bottom
of the fourth. He allowed to Wan Soto x Padre
a long two run homer in the third over four
hundred twenty feet. Right after that, Aaron Judge a home
run over four hundred feet, and yes, Gen Carlos stand
also homered in that inning, a two run shot nearly
(33:13):
four hundred twenty feet. Now, Glebor Torres homered in the
top of the fourth that was over four hundred feet
seven nothing. Yankees in the lead against Darvish, who had
thrown twenty five straight scoreless innings until tonight. The White
Sox have tied it up against the Orioles four to
four in the top of the eighth. The Phillies have
won six in a row. They're leading two to one
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at Colorado. Top of the ninth. Bryce Harper was kicked
out early. Guardians are having a great season and they've
won six in a row. Cleveland leads four to two
at the Angels in the top of the fourth inning.
Houston had six to' to one at the A's in
the top of the fourth. The A's starter tonight was
Ross Stripling, who's won and eight. Marlins lead three to
nothing at Arizona in the fifth. Everything else's final, including
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wins for Cincinnati and San Francisco. NBA up todates six
minutes to go. Dallas has tied it again at Minnesota
at ninety four.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Back to you, thanks a Buch Steve O The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon Livethetirack dot
Com Studios. More on Dallas Minnesota coming up next again,
it's a tie game with six minutes left to go.
But straight ahead, there's some topics that we give you big,
strong opinions on. Then there's some topics that we double
down on. Then after today there's one I can now
(34:26):
triple down on it. After what happened? What is it?
Mike and I will tell you next Right here Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio, Bailey tries.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Speaker 2 (34:46):
Hey, the Giants are doing it again tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Thanks a lot. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
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Just picturing Jeffrey Jones limping along the side of the
road the bus comes to pick him up at the
end of Farispeeler. Three and a half to go in
the fourth quarter. After a frantic Dallas Mavericks comeback, it
has been a back and forth battle. Minnesota now leads
(35:23):
Dallas one oh two to one hundred. Luka Doncic closing
in on a triple double again a two point game
with three and a half left to go, Donte HiT's
a free throw, may get one o two, one oh
one time out on the floor. We will have some
kind of finish to this game coming up the next
few minutes. But elsewhere in the NBA, there's topics that
(35:46):
we give strong opinions on. Then there's topics that you
learn stuff and say I am doubling down on this.
Then we learn even more and I say I am
tripling down on this. For reasons passing understanding. Bronni James
has been a huge topic of conversation the last few
days and his draft status and how a lot of
money is going down on him going number one overall
(36:07):
because people want to just throw fifty bucks on a
flyer that somehow someone will take Bronnie James and hopes
they're gonna get lebron James to come along with them.
And and most casinos are saying, yeah, we'll keep taking
that bet. Yet, oh give it up your money, keep
giving out your money, free, free money, baby. But what
if we said all along, this is how it's gonna
play out. Bronni's not going to get drafted, and there's
(36:27):
going to be some sort of understood. Understand. Yeah, I
would say understood back door Shenanigans that we're gonna get
Bronni to the Lakers, and this is what's going to happen. Well,
the Lakers take to use a draft pick on him, No,
but he won't go get drafted, and after the draft
(36:48):
is over, the Lakers will sign him. That's how it's
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Bet im GM Jason disagrees with you.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Well, I'll.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Row on him being drafted and number one.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, no, we talked about this a little bit last night.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Just y.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean that that percentage went up a little bit there. Yeah, yeah,
I would. I could. Can I be my own bookie
and and take bets on that. I'll take bets on
that legally.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Sure, we're on Fox Sports Radio or so.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I can't do it. I like that. I could be
e Bay. Why I would? We have mar Harmon's credit
card number. I could do that. That'd be absolutely fine.
Uh So, yeah, look that's not happened. It's not happening
for for Brownie James. Too too late. We already we
already have a card number. We already have your new
number as well. It's been automatically generated. We have Ai
Harmon that's already said yesterday. So this is what we
(37:47):
said for a while, and we doubled down on it
with the with the information the last couple of days,
and now after today, I'll triple down on that because
we find out that he's only going to have limited workouts,
like the Lakers and the Suns gonna work out for
a couple of teams. Right, this is a guy that
is a second round pick, should be working out for
as many teams as he wants to, but instead limited workouts.
(38:08):
And Rich Paul, who's his agent obviously Bronny's gonna be
Clutch Sports, says, yeah, we're not doing a two way deal,
which means, you know, you get paid the same whether
you're playing in the NBA or you're in the G League.
Not doing a two way deal, which is something that
is usually pretty common for guys taking in the second round.
Each team can have three players on two way deals,
and when you have someone that's likely going to spend
time in the G League, that's what you do. But
(38:30):
here's I'm saying, you're not gonna have two way deals. Now,
why at both of these things significant because with stories
in the last few days that. Ever, since Bronnie's draft
position story has come out, we have seen that, yes,
a lot of teams have him as a late second
round pick. This is to scare those teams off. He's
not gonna come work out for you and we're not
gonna sign a two way deal anything else. Okay, guess
(38:52):
what crossing Brownie James off that list? Not taking him
in the second round just so the draft can end
and he can go to the Lakers. That's what's yeah.
I mean for Rich Paul and Bronnie James to be
putting this out there, this is not anything any second
round pick is ever gonna say limited workouts and yeah,
no two way deal. Dude, don't you want to make
the league? Obviously they don't care. They don't care because
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they know they can finagle Bronnie James's destination to wherever
they want it to be, and obviously it's going to
be with the Lakers. The Lakers have said, I want
to do anything we can to make Lebron James happy.
It's gonna be getting Bronnie James, right, It's gonna be
him playing in the G League. It's gonna be Lebron
and Bronnie playing a couple of games together in the preseason,
which will be fun video that everybody looks for. OU
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it's gonna be a great thing. That's how it's gonna go.
And after today, these stories are to scare other teams off.
So it's an easier path for Bronnie James to be
a Laker because they know someone could draft him and
then the plan and then then the plan goes out
the window. So this is saying stay away, we know
where you want them to go, and we're gonna push
him that direction. With the fifty third pick.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Whatever that team is goes up, and they've issued a
statement in addition to their draft pick.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
It says, you ain't the boss of me. We select
Ronnie James.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
How many teams don't have a clutch player on their squad.
How many of those people have expressed disinterest in getting
going down that rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I don't know. It's it's a curious thing. I agree.
Didn't we have Donovan Klingon as Nubody? Didn't we have
him as the top guy of ALBA. Nope, We're going
with Bronnie James. Now, let's cross him off.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Let's go down bypasst all tell me what to do
and what we're not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I still run this squad here.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Look, I still think the Lakers draft him for the
you know, optics be damned because people are gonna say
what they're gonna say regardless, So why not give him
his moment and give the NBA a thrill during the draft.
But yeah, all in all, it's it's bully ball time
for clutch sports.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I how both your teams suck for ten years.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I hope you're hey, you're getting Doc Rivers too. I hope.
I hope Doc comes out. I hope Doc comes out
and announces the pick, and uh, we're gonna sit here
and take always say we sorry, let the cat out
of the bag. You on the new head coach. Oh
we're taking Brownie all right?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Thanks lot Giants Grand Slam coming
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Up next, some kind of finish in
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Are you gonna be better than the Mavericks?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well, be better than the Mets? How about that. Let's
let's set the sites a little low and that way,
you know we under promise and over deliver. That'll get
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way tire.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Buying, Jason. If that's where the line is drawn, we
might as well just go home.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah. Well, look, look this is this is how bad
it was. This is the third game in a row.
The Mets hit three home runs and they've lost all
three of them. According to some of the tank stats
take people on, this is only the fifth time in
baseball history that's happened where a team is at three
home runs three games and lost all three of them.
(01:26):
The Mets proving there's no such thing as rock bottom. No, no, no,
We're gonna get there and keep digging in. We want
to get to the core of the Earth. We want
to split the Earth in half. And I have a
just fly out in the Andromeda Galaxy. It's what we're
gonna do.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Nicely done, and there's something to be said for, you know,
getting into that rarefied air and doing something historic, not
just another loss.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We're up six to two in the eighth inning, Nope,
Grand Slam. We're losing seven to six. Oh bases loaded,
one out in the ninth inning, Nope, nope, can't get
another run across. We lose eight.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Jason, the real question is at what point they're so
bad right now and MLB doesn't let you play in
game highlights out the point are we allowed to play
their in game highlights? They're so bad?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh, they will give they will give you any we'll
get any right to find us. No, you know you
want you want to hear something really funny. Here's how
everybody knows, is that? Like when I go to eBay,
you know, I'm on eBay, like you know every day
look for different stuff, like wearing my clothes and everything. Sure, exactly,
And I always put stuff in my cart because I
always you know, once in a while, someone will see
(02:24):
something in your cart on eBay and then they will
make you an offer, like say, here's a here's a
Mets t shirt for seventeen dollars. You put it in
your cart, leave it there for a day. Someone knows
it to the person selling and he goes, hey, how
would you like this shirt for twelve dollars? And you
save money on it? Right, That's just how it goes
for eBay. Right in the last twenty four hours, the
Mets stuff I've had in my cart, everybody has made
(02:44):
me offer. It's here, baby, how would you like this?
What is this? It's David right coming to live in
your house? Oh, how much is that? Four dollars? Just
send it to me. I'll put them on a plane.
Like every all of a sudden, it's like, hey, you
gotta get rid of this met stuff. Man, no one's
gonna buy it this summer. This season's done. I gotta
get rid of it. Go that guy. The guy's got
his card, give it to whatever he wants, whatever he
wants to give it to him.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know what's great is that? I mean, as long
as it's not dated stuff. I man, you can play
with that all day.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Just outstanding.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Like, come on this, he's only hitting two hundred in
his last two weeks. Now it's one of the young
and up and coming stars of the game. But right now,
I'm selling you it's kind of like doing fantasy trades,
only with some other dollars involved.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Everybody knows it's over. Let's get, let's get. We'll move
on for next year. We'll get some new stuff coming in.
Let's just make sure we do that. Get rid of
this stuff now, and then we'll move on again. Welcome
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hopefully that's the last mention of the Mets tonight. We
we really don't need to talk about it. We're done.
We're kind of fin. I think we can be done.
It's okay, but that at least I need.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You want me to get the Syracuse loss in while
you're at Come, dude, come on, man. Boston College is
in the They're in the championship every bleeping year.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Man, I mean, come on playing. Did you guys win?
Did you guys win to oh Night? Well, that's what
it should I think that's the last rematch of last year. Yeah,
I think that's the last three national championships. And women's
lacrosse has been BC in Northwestern I think that's it's
every year. Dial it up, yeah, BC. I think BC's
been in the national title game now seven years in
a row. I want to say something insane like that.
(04:32):
You can find stop them.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
You damn your teams are so bad. We're talking lacrosse.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, dude, we're in the final four. We were in
the final four. Women's were in the final four and
they lost bottom. Men's fell a step short of the
final four. But speaking of a step short, and a
step slow. That is the Dallas Maverick so far tonight
against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Six and a half to go
in the third quarter. Timberwl's looking to even this series up,
but one game at piece of hav an eleven point
(04:56):
lead over Dallas seventy one to sixty. This game looked
like was going to get out of control in a
big way. But Luka Donsich has come back, hit a
bunch of shots. He's at twenty two points now, So
now it's an eleven point game, which is still manageable
for Dallas midway through the third quarter. But I want
to tell you, Mike, when we talked about this game
last night and we previewed, I said, this is the
(05:18):
Timberwolves team I expect to show up for Game two.
It baffles me that a team that is built on
defense and effort can show up flat. The number of
times Minnesota has this playoff and we get great stuff
like the post game from Minnesota is great because they
tell us everything, like Anthony Edwards will tell you whatever
is going on. Yeah, we were flat. I don't know
what happened. Didn't have the energy, didn't have it. I
(05:39):
was tired, wait, whoa what are you talking about? So
we know that it's a problem of effort and energy
and focus and being consistent, because if you watch the
way the Timberwolves play defense first two games against the Nuggets,
it should have been over. It should have been a sweep.
You're looking at a defensive effort like the Pistons of
the early aughts when they won the championship over the Lakers,
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almost beat the Spurs the next year. That's what we've seen.
And it was so not there in Game one, and
you saw Luca and Kyrie were able to do whatever
they want to on the floor, and Luca's able to
hit that fifteen foot step back like he has. And
I'm saying to myself, where is this Minnesota team? Where's
that should be running rough shot over everybody into the
finals against the Celtics. They show up tonight in a
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big way. This is who I expected seventy one sixty.
And I'm not saying, obviously, if a team plays at
their highest level, they're gonna win, but like, if this
is the Minnesota team that shows if they show up focused,
it's almost like the same thing with the Celtics. If
they show up focused and on game and on point.
And I don't mean like they gotta be going crazy.
It's just, hey, show up, focused and on point. You'll
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be in the NBA Finals. And if this Timberwolves team
shows up, this is what's going to happen. But the
problem is getting them to show up every single game,
which is baffling because it's not missing shots. It's not hey,
we had a bad night shooting, and hey, Anthony Edwards
was awful shooting, which she has been now for a while.
It's not all Karl Anthony town say it'll pracked everything else,
but this is where you're talking about effort and intensity. Defensively,
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it's just not there. But it's here tonight. And if
this is a team we get, they're gonna I mean,
Dallas has won their last game of the Western Conference Finals,
but that's the thing, getting to show up every night.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Well, he's still getting some poor shooting right now across
the board for the Wolves. Right they're shooting thirty seven
percent and still have an eight point lead, twelve offensive rebounds,
and they've been efficient in terms of moving the basketball
sixteen assists on their twenty three makes, but they've doubled
(07:41):
up the three point makes on the Mavericks to this point,
which is really your difference here in rebounding edges and
it is marginal at best, but when you're looking at
the three point makes has really been a big deal.
Although Lucas starting to heat it up to make this
interesting because he's struggled in the first half. He had
(08:01):
a few of those moments that you've chronicled of. All Right,
is he hurt? Is he just complaining because he got hit?
What's going on now? He's standing under the basket, refusing
to move towards the basketball, was watching? Stop being an observer?
And then Kyrie Irving's just two of nine. It's like
all the residual hate he had on you for Game one.
It's torn off man torn off. Right now he's got
(08:24):
five points and two assists, not giving you much of
an effort at all.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, it's look, it's a weird series to handicap, right,
It's that the two Maverick stars against the Timberwolves defense.
And look, I don't know, maybe Kyrie nut for Kyrie.
Maybe Kyrie used up all his energy in Game one
because look, what did I say going into it? He's
probably hit the wall? He did he didn't have a
great series of last series. He's probably hit the wall
(08:51):
because he's playing a lot of basketball, more basketball than
he's played on in a bunch of years, And that
could be the case. Made me look silly in Game one,
but now it's making me look pretty accurate here in
game two. That Hey, with some days off, he goes
for Game one, he has a big game. Now one
day later, you got to come back for game two
and he struggles, almost kind of like what we saw
happened to Chris Paul in the playoffs a few years ago,
(09:13):
when boy, he was phenomenal and he found the fountain
of youth, and because they were playing every eight days,
the Suns were able to win. But you get to
the NBA Finals where suddenly it's a game every other night,
and that's where Chris Paul ran up on empty and
you saw the Bucks go on and win the NBA title.
I wonder if that's the case with Kyrie Irving again.
Still a long way to go here, but it makes
(09:33):
sense to see, Hey, game one, he was great because
he had time rest all that great. But now here
we are one game away game two, and it's a
much different story. Fro him so far.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Now, let's be honest, at least with Kyrie, we've had
a number of moments where we've praised his defensive effort
and t defense and leadership.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We've never done that with Chris Paul. Oh no no, no, no, no,
no no no.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So you know, you know the kind of comparison, I
get it, but one big very but just.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
About you're talking about a point guard, a guy who's
going to handle the ball a lot, who is coming
up with a huge effort, which is what you need.
We know, No, we're not. We've never heard defensive effort
for Chris.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Come on, man, I'm just saying because Kyrie Irving's expending
energy on that side too, not just you know, being ball.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Dominant and getting it done.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But you know, the key thus far has been the
shooting for the Tea Wolves of nas reed your six
man of the year sixteen minutes four or four from
three point range for twelve points.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Gonna be interesting because it looks like Luca's doing everything
he can to now take over and going in amongst
the trees.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Well about, I'll tell you, I mean, it's gonna be
really tough for Luca to do it by himself. But clearly,
hey man, you know we gave you the blueprint for
this series. Right. Minnesota's defense is this, They're gonna win.
If they get inconsistent, can't play a full forty eight,
that opens the door for the Mavericks. Right, it's it's
it's pretty simple. And again, even though it's an eight
point lead right now for Minnesota, there's still a long
(10:59):
time left to go. Now the other point of this game, right,
three big points we had coming out of this game
when it was defensively here what we saw from Kyrie.
Minnesota leads this game despite the fact Anthony Edwards, who
is Michael Jordan? Apparently right, Michael Jordan's there is four
out of fifteen from the floor tonight for fifteen points.
(11:20):
This is yet another game after he was anointed as
the next Michael Jordan, where he has really struggled to
shoot the basketball. Right, you want to go back his
last five games, five for fifteen, eight for seventeen, six
for twenty four, six for sixteen, and now four for fifteen. Right,
this is what he's been. Now, maybe he's hit the wall.
(11:42):
Maybe teams have realized, Okay, this is the guy we
got to stop if we're gonna flow down the Timberwolves. Now,
so far it hasn't worked as well because the other
guys are picking up the slack. Right, We're getting great
stuff from Rudy Gobert. Didn't think we get enough get
that from him offensively, getting a little bit more from him, Karl,
Anthony Towns has been fantastic. Right. You're looking at up
players who were stepping up and he going, wow, man,
(12:02):
I can't believe we're seeing their supporting cast do more
than just play defense.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Jade McDaniels up until tonight has been fantastic. Right, But
this is what we said when I said you have
to stop Mac jones ing Anthony Edwards right because he's
not ready. He's a great player, he's a great young player,
and if he's gonna be a superstar he will show you.
He will show you in the playoffs and it will
be Look at Anthony Edwards another thirty five point game,
(12:29):
another forty point game, and instead you see what he's shot.
Now over the last five games, he has not been good.
There are times he's been invisible. Just call like I said,
I want that. I want the kid to be a
big time superstar. But it's all of a sudden, it's hey,
he had some big games, some big highlights, and now
he's Jordan. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a
minute again. This is the dangers when you Mac Jones, somebody,
(12:50):
you Mac Jones, somebody, you go over the top and
people try to figure out ways to top their takes
so much. He's doing things Michael Jordan hasn't even done
in his fourth year in the league. He's doing things
that Tom Brady or Michael Jordan or Lebron James or
Gordy how Is done in their first four years ago.
And it just gets more and more and more until
it's just stupid. And that's why we talked about it
a couple of days ago. You have to stop mac
(13:11):
Jones again, you mac Jones, and look what happens right now.
Obviously he's more talented than mac Jones, but you're seeing
now that, Okay, maybe everybody was a little early with
anointing him as next because what did we say going
into this game? From from game one? The other thing
is Anthony Edwards. I expect him to come out and
have a huge game. He's gonna go for forty, He's pissed.
(13:32):
He knows that he needs more. He says, we didn't
have the effort. He was tired for some reason in
game one. He's gonna come out and have a big effort,
but the Tea Wolves have the lead and he has
been again largely invisible. He can't hit anything, and he's
kind of like a big decoy and a playmaker at
this point. And that's not what the Timberwolves are gonna
need if they're gonna win this game. They can't go
down the stretch and rely that. Okay, let's get the
(13:53):
ball of Karl Anthony Towns down low or maybe he'll
at a couple of threes, Like you're gonna win or
lose if this guy steps up and proves that he
is a big superstar, and so far he's not. At
that point, he's more Devin Booker than he is anything else.
At this point, Hey, Booker had some big games always next,
isn't that? And then oh wow, Devin Booker kind of
showed up lame in the playoffs a little bit here.
I don't know about that. That's really the more accurate
(14:14):
description right now for Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Now on the plus side, at least a lot of
his shots are in and around the rim. Problem is
he's missed every one of those. There's only shots that
he's made are from distance. So yeah, just curiosity. I
like the aggressiveness that's gotten Um to the free throw
line a couple of times. But yeah, you wanted him
to have forty Nah too much defense from Kyrie Irving
(14:38):
and company.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Man, you ain't getting there. You ain't Jordan exit. How
about of Fresco exit? Swollen dumb The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carter. I thought you jumping
on the Jordan thing a little bit more because that's
your guy, man, like your whole sports existence is on
Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, I didn't want to talk over you as you
Oh okay, I didn't really know. And the other thing is,
really respond to all of the asinine things are Brethren
in the media do.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
I would never.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Sleep, I'd never be able to do anything else if
I just jumped on all of the asinine and positively
insane things that get said.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Jason, Stop trying to make ant Man happen.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, ant Man was good until the first.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Stop just trying to keep everybody's minds on. Mac Jones,
who they forgot about you gotta get a guy that's
still playing.
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Now I got a hot take
for you, Mike, and I think you're gonna come around
me on this. I mean, maybe maybe it's not Anthony Edwards.
Maybe nas is the Timberwolves player who was the next
Michael Jordan. It might be like I mean, it might
be NOAs Reed, I may not be Anthony. Anthony Edwards
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is so ten days ago. Now it's nos Reed five
five out of five. The center is five for five
from three point range tonight. He's got fifteen off the bench.
He's a game high plus eight for the Timberwolves as
they lead the Mavericks going to the fourth quarter right now,
eighty six to seventy nine, just like anytime they needed three.
(17:30):
It's like this is you know, it ruins me. It
reminds me when the and I'm going back now, you
know to the very famous two thousand and eight Celtics
team that they can never stop talking about it. Celtics,
Hey docs on that forever. Yeah, I remember I coached it.
Talk that was sixteen years ago. No, it was just
a couple of years ago. No, no, no, no it's not.
It's not right. It's not two thousand and eight. No,
it's not. It's in that finals. The big memory I
(17:52):
have that that that first Laker Celtics Finals was not
you obviously, as you have Paul Pierce in the wheelchair,
but it was every time the Celtics need did a basket,
I felt like James Posey was hitting threes, and it
was really James Posey seriously hitting it three. It's crazy,
but that was everyone. I feel like that's anytime the
Timberwolves need a big shot of big three, it's nas
(18:13):
Reed hitting it. I'm going this isn't this is crazy.
But hey, six men in the NBA for reasons proving
it so far.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Stop trying to make nas Read happen.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Go bear now with four falls. That's just why you're
seeing more of Reed. He had a couple early on
Towns as well. He's only got two for the game
now though, Reed. As you said, though plus eight fifteen points.
Their game high, though still is Kyle Anderson. He's at
plus seventeen in his twelve minutes, but not quite the
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impact of nas Reed and the spectacular display he's giving
us from three point range. But I will say this,
you know, the the Jordan thing. I mean, what do
we do every year? All right, Who's going to be
the Jordan guy? It's like everybody has a meeting and
there's a whiteboard or there's a bunch of play.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Your profile head shots up there, like I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
We kind of talked about him as a Jordan, right
because if John Morant were playing in Memphis was active
at all in the playoffs, wouldn't it be him? I mean,
or pick somebody else? Like did we do this every year?
Like spin the wheel? Like all right, it's your turn?
And then with Edwards, everybody does the photo thing and says,
well he kind of looks like Michael. Well, that takes
it down a whole other kind of creepy and on
(19:26):
toward kind of path. But you know, it's good for
the fodder. But yeah, a lot of yelling for no reason.
Let the guy play basketball, just because you hadn't watched
him for his first three years in the league, and
you're finally figuring out, Hey, you know this guy's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Who can we call him? Hey, I saw a dunk.
Guess who that looked like, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Well, he's got too menisquas, so he can't be Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Oh too soon on Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Then hey, Lonzo's getting twenty one million dollars next minute,
whether he plays a minute or not.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Dude, Lonzo said he's getting him, and he's getting another meniscus.
Somehow he's got his. He's getting a donation of a meniscus.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Something did I didn't even know that was a thing.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, I'm an organ donor. I didn't give him mine,
but it's there.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Donate meniscus. I never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Kobe used to go to Germany and get new blood.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
You can go into the pightlet therapy and everything.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, no, no, no, I guarantee you. Obviously it's a
cadaver meniscus. It's not like live I mean like like
but here's something like for instance, like if Aaron Rodgers
got hurt again and needed an achilles, I would give
him my dad's achilles. I would. I would, I would
get the chloroform. There's not in there. I'd knock my
he doesn't need it anymore. I would knock my dad
out and I would take him and say he would
(20:37):
wake up and hey, dad, you're fine, Everything is good.
What happened? You had a fall? You're all good? What happened? No, No,
you're good, You're good. And Aaron Rodgers would have a
new achilles and it'd work out. Let. But this, obviously,
I'm sure it's a cadaver meniscus, because this is how
they do it. And look this. People sign up there
they're organ donors and and they uh and and you know, hey,
we got a match. You gotta got a miniscus. Very good.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
To be honest, Before today, guys, you never heard of
a meniscus donor.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh I don't know that I've ever met somebody. He's
saying at a party. Tone, Hey what you now? I'm Bob,
I'm a moniscus doner.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh hey, dude, you don't go to parties?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Bob? Did I go to party? You go to more parties?
Than you do.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Man, church doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You don't know. You don't know. The parties I go to.
You have a church is wh party? It's a party.
Come on, Mary, you know that churches the place to
be seen and to meet and greet. Right there.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
You don't even believe that.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Right now, right now, the Mavericks beat lead the Tea Wolves.
They have just gone on an eight to oh run
to start the fourth quarter. They lead it eighty seven
eighty six. All of a sudden, Kyrie Irving has caught fire.
He hits a three and now it's a one point lead.
Time out. Timber Wolves could even get to the four
minute mark for a time out. Time out a minute
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and a half into the fourth quarter again Mavericks with
a one point lead, but still a lot of time left. Meanwhile,
another big game tonight right now going on here in La.
The Sparks lead the Fever twenty three seventeen. Because you know, obviously,
Caitlyn Clark is going to play every single night for
the rest of her life. So far, Caitlyn Clark has
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four points in eight minutes. She has missed both of
her threes again early in this game. Eight minutes to
go on the second quarter, Caitlin Clark four points for
the Fever Sparks lead at twenty three seventeen. Cameron Brink
has six. She's already plus ten for the game, now
four boards as well. Yeah, I mean she's she's having
(22:32):
a big look at It's great. And then and this
gets into my point because there is nobody who needs
my pr advice right now more than WNBA, more than
the than the league and the players, okay, because what's
been going on in the last few weeks is just unacceptable.
All right, now, this is what I would do. This
is what I would do, because they need my advice.
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I get everybody in a room, and it's and it's
and it's commissioner, and it's the teams, it's the coaches,
and it's everybody. I'd say, okay, all right, let's let
let's let me tell you something here because everybody's got
a cool down. And the biggest thing I got to
tell this league, with everything that's going on in the
last few days, which has been kind of embarrassing, is
we need to learn how to handle success, because that's
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the biggest thing that causes downfall for teams players is
when you have some success. You can't handle it, and
you melt down and you suddenly you can't focus. You
can't handle the good times, and that brings on the
bad times. And the last few days what's dominated the
news a really bad optic that WNBA players are jealous
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of Caitlyn Clark. And it's funny that the day, you know,
we told you this a couple of weeks ago, We
talked to this a couple weeks ago that hey, gotta
watch out. Everybody should be thanking Caitlyn Clark. She's got
you wanted charter flights, right, everybody complained for so long. Yeah,
she's the next one, right, She's here. She's the biggest
star they ever come in. She goes on one commercial
flight and the next week it's here. We have twenty
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five million dollars. Everybody's going to be on charter flights.
That's a pretty big deal. And yet still it's met
with a little bit of skepticism from some people, and
you get a back and forth that may not be
one hundred percent accurate, right, Diana Tarossi's comments kind of
misconstrued a little bit. But then you get some other
players who are clapping back at Charles Barkley. When Barkley
said the other night, everybody should be aligned up to
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kiss Caitlyn Clark's butt and all this stuff and everything
and the hate shouldn't be there, and you got a
couple of players tweeting back saying, what hate? What are
you talking about? We all love Caitlyn what she brings
to the league. And then last night Angel Reese puts
out a tweet saying, look at us, we won full arena,
not because of one person that got us a charter flight.
Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Now she deleted the tweet, But
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it's kind of funny that one day after Charles Barkley says, yeah,
you gotta stop hating on Caitlyn Clark, and you get
a bunch of players saying, what hate are you talking about?
Angel Reese puts out there, Hey, a bit a bit
of a shade tweet on Caitlin Clark. Not a bit
of a shade on Caitlyn Clark. And what I you know,
the biggest thing I would say is okay, everybody just
calm down. I understand from some players with you guys
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that there's gonna be some kind of jealousy. I get
that but don't go to social media with it, don't
do interviews on this. You are seeing the good times
hitting the wa You have been fighting for this for
so long, for the WNBA to be relevant, for you,
for your players to be stars, for people to be
talking about you, and now we're talking about all of them.
(25:25):
You are a nightly show. Now we're talking about every
big star in the WNBA. We're talking big about women's
college basketball. And yet what's the optic out there that
there's too many people that are jealous of Caitlin Clark's
success and the race card is played and there's all
kinds of crazy stuff going on. I would I would,
I would tell the players and the coaches this, listen.
(25:45):
I understand that. But this is the best that our
league's ever had.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
We are trying to capitalize right now and grow this game.
And if you have anything petty that you're upset about
for whatever reason, you know what, Hey, that stuff you
vent to your event to your friends about, but go
on social media with it? How does that help us?
How does that help everybody else? Right? You say you
want it's not about one player, it's about the league,
then stop coming up with things that make it look like,
(26:10):
oh I don't like Caitlyn, I'm jealous of her success
or why did we get this before? Why didn't I
get a shoe deal? It really is. It just sucks.
And I'm not saying there's not anything that is legitimate
on there. You know, we talk about the success of
Kaitlyn Clark and being white, and I understand that part
of it, but also understand she's the all time leading
scorer in women's college basketball. I mean, we're talking about
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a player who is the biggest superstar that's ever come
out of the college basketball. But I get all of it.
I get it's not one neat thing. But we're in
a time right now where, hey, this is the momentum
this league has been looking for for twenty five years.
Can we can we handle success? Can we show that
we're ready for the moment, that we're ready for it
to be taken seriously as a big league that gets
(26:53):
highlights played on Sports Center alongside the NBA Playoffs, that
gets stories done on players, that gets players shoe deal.
Can we just focus on that? Can we put away
we're upset about how one person has looked at or
how other people talk about what Can we just stop that,
because that's not helping anybody. And that's why I would
say this, because I'm saying handle success. And if you
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really are looking out for everybody in the WNBA, let's
just stops. Just let's just keep this down. Let's take
the temperature down a bit. Let's go play basketball. Let's
get on the television shows every night. Let's get people
watching on IOW, and let's get people watching on Twitter,
like two hundred thousand people watching the game the other night,
Like that woman who streamed Angel Reese's first game on
(27:34):
her phone got two hundred thousand viewers. Let's show that
we can handle success. That's the biggest thing I would
tell the WNBA right now.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yeah, I mean it goes back to several weeks ago
when these conversations began. I likened it to the old
all right, I had a party that started at eight
and you didn't show up till eight twenty five. Am
I mad that you showed up at eight twenty five. Now,
if it was a watch party for some half ass
reality show and you made us sit and wait for
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you because you were stuck in traffic or couldn't bother to,
you know, show up on time. Sure, that might happen
for a minute, but then hey, I'm happy you made it.
Let's have a glass of wine, grab a beer, whatever,
and sit and hang out. And I feel like that's
kind of where we're at is there's just residual anger.
It's like, well, why did it need this? And for
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angel Rees, she wants her love. She's done a lot
of big things, right because became a part owner of
a team, she graduated, she was on stage with like
top notche wrappers, all of this stuff. She went to
the met Gala, I mean, not the Mets, the met Gala,
all of those things are big milestones, and I get it.
Maybe you feel like the coverage of your entry to
(28:45):
the w NBA got dwarfed by Clark's brink. I'm sure.
I mean in their private moments, sure's a little bit
of that, but you go to social media and now
it becomes you know, it's a battle and petty and
do I begrudge it.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
No, You're young and you want your shine too.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
You won a title, You've done all these great things,
and you came to the party at the exact same time.
So I understand the frustration to a degree. The larger perspective,
and the fact that veteran players are still being asked
about this stuff is asinine to me. Right if you
watch the clips of her game and you want to
(29:22):
comment on how Caitlin Clark is playing, if that were
the question, fine, But at this point you're settling into
the new norm. You're being publicized and scrutinized in a
way that hasn't been there, which great power comes the
great responsibility. We'll get Spider Man in here to help
Spider Man because a bunch of folks who haven't covered
(29:44):
the sport are on board, and I get it. Some
of it's going to be a little uncomfortable, and you're
gonna have some folks that do it in a handhanded way.
Don't help them, don't enable them by buying into some
Bucus narratives.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
And the thing is is that I'm I'm just telling you,
is this is how it's playing. Like to look at
and said, well, that's not what I meant. That's not
But when all of this looks this way, that's how
this is playing. It's playing with a really bad optic
and it's unnecessary grab the moment without making it look
like we're tearing each other apart to get up there.
I mean, I I really, you've been waiting for this
(30:18):
for twenty five years. Twenty five. Yeah, someone's got to
be the adult and say, hey, guys, can we just
cool it and just enjoy the success and move on?
And everybody can everybody does really well? I mean, we
can't do that. I mean that that's what we need
right now. That's what I would say my pr advice.
And it's free white sides. Man. We need a little solidarity.
Free to the WNBA right there by, free advice right now.
A guy who gave me the best advice I ever had.
(30:42):
He said, hey, don't eat any yellow snow. It's Steve
Disager with what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I thought you were gonna say, cut down on McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Did you not learn anything from the late grade Morgan
spurl that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's two suits?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I did not have Jason out living, not guy on
my big one cards to WHOA.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
By the way, up dating that game in LA. That's
the only WNBA game tonight, the oh to five. Yeah,
Kitlin Clark's Indiana fever down twenty nine to twenty five.
Mid second quarter. Clark at four points and four rebounds
so far in the game. In the NBA playoff game
at Minnesota, Timberwolves had regained the lead six and a
half minutes to go. This is Game two of the
(31:24):
NBA's West Final. Dallas had taken the opener Minnesota head
tonight ninety four ninety two as Naz Reid off the
bench from three point range is seven of eight for
twenty one points. Anthony Edwards four of sixteen shooting, Karl
Anthony Towns four of sixteen shooting. Those two guys from
three point range have combined to go three for twelve,
(31:44):
but Minnesota is back in the lead by two. Luka
Donsich with twenty seven points, eight rebounds, nine assists for Dallas.
In the NHL's East Final Game two at New York
boy the Rangers scored very early a few minutes into
this game tonight. They haven't scored since it's Rangers won
Florida one six and a half minutes to go in regulation.
(32:06):
Florida took the opener of the best of seven. Davis
Riley leads by two strokes. At Colonial play resumed after
being suspended by bad weather today Scottie Scheffler shot sixty
five to move up into the top twenty. The champion
Kansas City Chiefs will visit the White House next Friday.
The Indy five hundred is scheduled for this Sunday, but
thunderstorms are expected. Then NASCAR's Coca Cola six hundred is
(32:29):
this Sunday night on Fox TV from Charlotte, with temperatures
near ninety there. And the UFL football season continues Sunday
on Fox TV before the race the next to last
weekend of that league's regular season their conference finals June
the eighth. To Major League Baseball. The Yankees are in
San Diego, not exactly a park known for home runs,
and yet you Darvish has given up four in four innings.
(32:52):
It's Yankee seven nothing over the Padres. In the bottom
of the fourth. He allowed to Wan Soto x Padre
a long two run homer in the third over four
hundred twenty feet. Right after that, Aaron Judge a home
run over four hundred feet, and yes, Gen Carlos stand
also homered in that inning, a two run shot nearly
(33:13):
four hundred twenty feet. Now, Glebor Torres homered in the
top of the fourth that was over four hundred feet
seven nothing. Yankees in the lead against Darvish, who had
thrown twenty five straight scoreless innings until tonight. The White
Sox have tied it up against the Orioles four to
four in the top of the eighth. The Phillies have
won six in a row. They're leading two to one
(33:35):
at Colorado. Top of the ninth. Bryce Harper was kicked
out early. Guardians are having a great season and they've
won six in a row. Cleveland leads four to two
at the Angels in the top of the fourth inning.
Houston had six to' to one at the A's in
the top of the fourth. The A's starter tonight was
Ross Stripling, who's won and eight. Marlins lead three to
nothing at Arizona in the fifth. Everything else's final, including
(33:57):
wins for Cincinnati and San Francisco. NBA up todates six
minutes to go. Dallas has tied it again at Minnesota
at ninety four.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Back to you, thanks a Buch Steve O The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon Livethetirack dot
Com Studios. More on Dallas Minnesota coming up next again,
it's a tie game with six minutes left to go.
But straight ahead, there's some topics that we give you big,
strong opinions on. Then there's some topics that we double
down on. Then after today there's one I can now
(34:26):
triple down on it. After what happened? What is it?
Mike and I will tell you next Right here Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio, Bailey tries.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
One a deep right field.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yes, good swam.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Hey, the Giants are doing it again tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Thanks a lot. Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Mayor be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the diirec dot Com studios.
Just picturing Jeffrey Jones limping along the side of the
road the bus comes to pick him up at the
end of Farispeeler. Three and a half to go in
the fourth quarter. After a frantic Dallas Mavericks comeback, it
has been a back and forth battle. Minnesota now leads
(35:23):
Dallas one oh two to one hundred. Luka Doncic closing
in on a triple double again a two point game
with three and a half left to go, Donte HiT's
a free throw, may get one o two, one oh
one time out on the floor. We will have some
kind of finish to this game coming up the next
few minutes. But elsewhere in the NBA, there's topics that
(35:46):
we give strong opinions on. Then there's topics that you
learn stuff and say I am doubling down on this.
Then we learn even more and I say I am
tripling down on this. For reasons passing understanding. Bronni James
has been a huge topic of conversation the last few
days and his draft status and how a lot of
money is going down on him going number one overall
(36:07):
because people want to just throw fifty bucks on a
flyer that somehow someone will take Bronnie James and hopes
they're gonna get lebron James to come along with them.
And and most casinos are saying, yeah, we'll keep taking
that bet. Yet, oh give it up your money, keep
giving out your money, free, free money, baby. But what
if we said all along, this is how it's gonna
play out. Bronni's not going to get drafted, and there's
(36:27):
going to be some sort of understood. Understand. Yeah, I
would say understood back door Shenanigans that we're gonna get
Bronni to the Lakers, and this is what's going to happen. Well,
the Lakers take to use a draft pick on him, No,
but he won't go get drafted, and after the draft
(36:48):
is over, the Lakers will sign him. That's how it's
gonna go.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Bet im GM Jason disagrees with you.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Well, I'll.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Row on him being drafted and number one.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, no, we talked about this a little bit last night.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Just y.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean that that percentage went up a little bit there. Yeah, yeah,
I would. I could. Can I be my own bookie
and and take bets on that. I'll take bets on
that legally.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Sure, we're on Fox Sports Radio or so.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I can't do it. I like that. I could be
e Bay. Why I would? We have mar Harmon's credit
card number. I could do that. That'd be absolutely fine.
Uh So, yeah, look that's not happened. It's not happening
for for Brownie James. Too too late. We already we
already have a card number. We already have your new
number as well. It's been automatically generated. We have Ai
Harmon that's already said yesterday. So this is what we
(37:47):
said for a while, and we doubled down on it
with the with the information the last couple of days,
and now after today, I'll triple down on that because
we find out that he's only going to have limited workouts,
like the Lakers and the Suns gonna work out for
a couple of teams. Right, this is a guy that
is a second round pick, should be working out for
as many teams as he wants to, but instead limited workouts.
(38:08):
And Rich Paul, who's his agent obviously Bronny's gonna be
Clutch Sports, says, yeah, we're not doing a two way deal,
which means, you know, you get paid the same whether
you're playing in the NBA or you're in the G League.
Not doing a two way deal, which is something that
is usually pretty common for guys taking in the second round.
Each team can have three players on two way deals,
and when you have someone that's likely going to spend
time in the G League, that's what you do. But
(38:30):
here's I'm saying, you're not gonna have two way deals. Now,
why at both of these things significant because with stories
in the last few days that. Ever, since Bronnie's draft
position story has come out, we have seen that, yes,
a lot of teams have him as a late second
round pick. This is to scare those teams off. He's
not gonna come work out for you and we're not
gonna sign a two way deal anything else. Okay, guess
(38:52):
what crossing Brownie James off that list? Not taking him
in the second round just so the draft can end
and he can go to the Lakers. That's what's yeah.
I mean for Rich Paul and Bronnie James to be
putting this out there, this is not anything any second
round pick is ever gonna say limited workouts and yeah,
no two way deal. Dude, don't you want to make
the league? Obviously they don't care. They don't care because
(39:13):
they know they can finagle Bronnie James's destination to wherever
they want it to be, and obviously it's going to
be with the Lakers. The Lakers have said, I want
to do anything we can to make Lebron James happy.
It's gonna be getting Bronnie James, right, It's gonna be
him playing in the G League. It's gonna be Lebron
and Bronnie playing a couple of games together in the preseason,
which will be fun video that everybody looks for. OU
(39:34):
it's gonna be a great thing. That's how it's gonna go.
And after today, these stories are to scare other teams off.
So it's an easier path for Bronnie James to be
a Laker because they know someone could draft him and
then the plan and then then the plan goes out
the window. So this is saying stay away, we know
where you want them to go, and we're gonna push
him that direction. With the fifty third pick.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Whatever that team is goes up, and they've issued a
statement in addition to their draft pick.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
It says, you ain't the boss of me. We select
Ronnie James.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
How many teams don't have a clutch player on their squad.
How many of those people have expressed disinterest in getting
going down that rabbit hole?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I don't know. It's it's a curious thing. I agree.
Didn't we have Donovan Klingon as Nubody? Didn't we have
him as the top guy of ALBA. Nope, We're going
with Bronnie James. Now, let's cross him off.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Let's go down bypasst all tell me what to do
and what we're not gonna do.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I still run this squad here.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Look, I still think the Lakers draft him for the
you know, optics be damned because people are gonna say
what they're gonna say regardless, So why not give him
his moment and give the NBA a thrill during the draft.
But yeah, all in all, it's it's bully ball time
for clutch sports.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
I how both your teams suck for ten years.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I hope you're hey, you're getting Doc Rivers too. I hope.
I hope Doc comes out. I hope Doc comes out
and announces the pick, and uh, we're gonna sit here
and take always say we sorry, let the cat out
of the bag. You on the new head coach. Oh
we're taking Brownie all right?
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Thanks lot Giants Grand Slam coming
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Up next, some kind of finish in
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