June 11, 2024 • 37 mins
Danny Hurley turning down a mega-offer from the Lakers is as embarrassing as it gets. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show. And the guys explain why leaving Caitlin Clark off of Team USA was a missed opportunity!
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We got a couple of days off between now and
Game three of the NBA Finals.
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That's okay. We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We had a big hacking going on on social media today.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Okay, we'll get to that coming up in a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Got got hey Froszburg, I want to say I am
so sorry. The Dodgers are screwed with Shoeo Tani getting
banned for life from baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I saw Buster only his account. Man, I'm sorry about that. Yeah,
but the Mets are losing Lindor, so all good. It
doesn't traded the Mets, you know, Lindor to the A's.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, Otani's banned for life.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Whatever that I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Look Lewis Robert got traded away. I mean, like, yeah,
all sorts of things going on. That half hour was
absolute lost cyber terrorism boy.
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But Buster only we We'll get into Buster early. But
his account on Twitter has been restored, and it looks
like the the thief, the the hacker was never there.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Poof.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's like in uh when when he when Kevin Spacey
does the poof at the end of Usual Suspects, heier
SoSE poof, he disappeared.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The guy just disappears from the internet. He's gone.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But today was a day because because oh my goodness,
the Lakers are completely embarrassed and have been completely embarrassed
by Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley rejected the Lakers offer of
six years and seventy million dollars to come coach Lakers
and instead will return to Yukon to chase a third
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straight national title. In a statement, today, he said, I'm
humbled by the experience.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
At the end of the day, I want to go
back to Yukon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We're getting better this summer as we continue to pursue championships.
And just as important is that Governor ned Lamont. The
governor said, don't worry, we are going to make sure
Danny Hurley is the top paid coach in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Calhoun is pissed. Oh boy, what was it take tonight?
What was it take tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The first things first for the Lakers before we get
to Danny Hurley. This is so unbelievably embarrassing. I mean,
this shows you that the Lakers are just They're just
another team. They're just another franchise. Now, there's no you
don't say no to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
There's no.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They went after their guy and they played it, Hey,
we're gonna come over the top and offer that that
you can't say no to because we're the Lakers. And
the guy chose to stay at college basketball. The guy
chose to stay in stores, Connecticut rather than come coach
the Lakers, which supposedly is such a great gig. This
tells you where the Lakers are at right now, and
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and and what people think of the job. It's awful. Mean,
this is so embarrassing. How do you go so publicly
after one guy and get told no, not that you
lost a bidding war, just I'd rather stay in college, man,
than come to the NBA and don't give me this.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Ah, well, you know the NBA. The jobs aren't what
they used to be there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, this is the Lakers, right, This was the Lakers
and you were told no, we're not doing it. This
is embarrassing on so many levels. Like, you don't run
this this whole gamut with Danny Hurley unless you know
your getting him, Like, you don't go public, you don't,
you don't have Hey, we're going to prepare a.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Huge offer of him.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You don't let this go the way it is unless
you know you're getting out. Remember, but certain certain places
you can say no to it. Hey, we were talked
to a couple of different guys. Beer's supposed to be
the Lakers man, and you know somebody could say, yeah, no,
I'm not gonna take it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Like, how do you not know? Like that? That's what's
so embarrassing about this.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, but just remember the guy that reported it, wrote
the book on the guy's damn family for crying out loud.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Woj is in there at every point, so sure the Lakers.
The only thing that was confirmed was, yeah, he's flying
out for an interview. I don't think this was the
Lakers pushing all this stuff. It got completely Hurley's camp.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It rocked Woje. But he might be part of the family.
I don't know what his is, but this is where
he might actually be a loss loss long lost brother.
We don't know about Adrian Wojia Hurley.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's his real name, and he changed it because dude
that wrote a book about the Old Old Man and
the Miracle of Saint Anthony is the guy that goes
way Wait wait, you like your JJ Reddick story shams.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yesterday I said, it's all no, no, no, hey, Danny
Hurley over here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
My guy has been the guy for months.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So until you know, Jeanie Buss and Rob Polinka sit
in front of a microphone under the bright lights like
they're being interrogated by sip wits and admit that it
was a month long process. And here's all the phone
calls and receipts. I think Wosh got over here. Oh
he didn't got over.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And that's why it's so embarrassing on the Lakers because
once this gets out, if it's not a done deal,
what did the Lakers need to do. Hey, we're searching,
we're leaving no stone unturned. Clearly, Danny Hurley's name has
come up. He's one of the best coaches we've seen
the last twenty years in college basketball, and Danny Hurley.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Certainly is something we could be considering for this job.
That's it. You didn't get the art, that's right, you
didn't get that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's why this is such a big fail by the
Lake because they failed at every turn because obviously they.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Didn't know they were getting him. They didn't tamp down
the story, and they treated it like we're the Lakers,
we're gonna come out, we're gonna overwhelm you with money,
and you're gonna and you're gonna come here, and they
don't get him. Well, six years, seventy million, they arewhelming
anybody with money going back.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, well, no, you're talking about a guy that's not
even coaching in the NBA and you're giving him over
ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
But money money Williams is making thirteen to just show
up for Detroit yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But still that's a it's a pretty good deal. It's
it's a pretty good deal money Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's also done more in the NBA than well by any.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Early But there's also a Laker tax at this point
because you have to come in and you got to
try to coach Lebron and Ad You've got to rebuild
a roster, right that to try to navigate the West,
like thinking he was gonna come under what other people
were making.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No, no, No, he's got a pretty good thing going. He's
the king of college basketball. Man. Well, but our guy
that joins us every year is going back to school,
but he's going for a three.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
There's only there's only three coaches that would be making
more money than him right now that that would sign.
That is saying okay, And that's because obviously Bonnie Williams,
the guy they signed the game a lot of money.
But the three guys that only only are the three
guys making more than him are Steve Kerr, Popovich and Spolstra. Right, everyone,
all guys who have won multiple championships. Right, Kerr's got four,
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Popvich has five, Spolstra has two. Right, Yes, Monti Williams
is the outlier here. But if you're de Trey, we
gotta spend money. We got to get somebody that's pretty
finy good. That's a pretty good offer for Danny Hurley
to come in as the as the fourth ish third
or fourth ish most highest paid coach in the NBA,
considering he's got no titles and the three guys above
him have a total of eleven. So it's not like
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the money wasn't there. I mean, it's not like and
it's not like they were gonna lose him because of money.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It's not like, oh hey, we watch it. We can't
give you that kind of money. No, I think the
money was there.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think they didn't know they were going to get him,
and that's why it's so embarrassing for the Lakers. But
here's the other part as to why this was so
embarrassing for the Lakers. I don't know that Danny Hurley
was ever gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Say yes, sure.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean, think think about it for a second. If
this story comes out and Danny Early goes to the Lakers,
he knows what the Lakers is, he knows what the
job is, right, he knows I'm coaching Lebron, I'm coaching
ad I'm gonna go out for a meeting, and I'm
gonna say the meeting went really well, and they have
a lot of stuff going on. The money is not
an issue. They didn't try to lowball me. They brought
me in. Hey, this is in line with what coaches
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in the NBA. I'm coming in as the third highest
paid coaching Okay, okay, he knew all of this. And
how quickly did he say no? Did he just say nope?
And all by the way, the governor of Connecticut is saying,
we're gonna put money together, We're gonna rub nickels together to.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Make sure that we make him eye.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I don't know that Danny Hurley was ever going And
you think about this, that he used the Lakers as leverage.
This is like stuff that happened to the Knicks like
ten years ago, or stuff that happened to the Jets
with Kirk Cousins. The Lakers got used as leverage and
they didn't see it. He knew everything about this job.
He knew everything was gonna entail, the money was there,
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said everything was there, and he comes out, Yeah, everything
seems pretty great. Nope, I'm saying no, I'm going back
he played the Lakers. That's what it's doubly It's not
just one embarrassing We didn't get the guy, but you
let the guy go leverage on you, and you got
used as leverage as many good moves as Rob Polinka
has made as ye, because look they still won the
title in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
They made something.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He made a trade for Anthony Davis that I didn't
think he could make. They brought in some good pieces here,
they get Lebron to come off. This is such an
epic fail. It's like it wipes everything else out. This
is such a fail when not only do you not
get your coach, you let him play you into something
that gets in more money from where he is now.
This is this is like embarrassment. It's like having a
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cheeseburger and then having like a like a sausage patty
on top of it. I don't have enough. I need more.
It's so doubly embarrassing for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well, I mean, everybody always wants a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I mean, and when you have the cachet, you have
the juice that Danny Hurley has in this moment. I
don't doubt that there was some percentage of him that
got on that plane going.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, let's see what this is all about.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Right, you've had your prelimit, he talks, and you've obviously
gone down the road if we're to believe it that
for months he's the.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Quote unquote front runner in all of this.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So you go out there and you take the meeting,
and you fly across country and you sit in the
meeting room. All right, here's what we discussed all of
these parameters on the phone. Now it's kind of a
little bit of formalities, some face to face, maybe some
extra questions, facilities, all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Get wind and dine for a day. He got back
on that plane.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
As soon as I saw him at the Billy Joel
concert with his wife and Bill Murray's kid, I'm like, oh,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
He's back home. He flew back.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
He's happy, he's smiling. Either that or he really got
the bag of bags, or he knows it's coming. But
it was just the idea of you got him out
of the room, all right. As soon as he leaves California,
there's got to be a little head scratching moment of
how do we not seal this?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What's still undecided, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
But for him, I do believe leverage is the giant
part of the you know, you're a hamburger, if we're
gonna cut it into slices, right, it's most of it,
but a little bit of what was true curiosity of
all Right, if we get in the room, maybe that
number goes from seventy to something else, right because we'd
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heard some whispers of one hundred million dollar offer. I
don't know where that thirty million gap is in terms
of the reports, but let's go with the six for seventy.
At one hundred, maybe it changes you a little bit.
But I gotta imagine if you're a guy and your
families all East Coast and all of those things that
we talk about, you know, royalty out on the East
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Coast in the coaching world, you've got an opportunity for
a three p You've got a lot of component parts
of those teams coming back. So all of that is like,
all right, you're really happy, contented and excited about where
you're at and the trajectory there, and the NBA is
not going anywhere, and as good as the Laker brand
may be, And I saw a bunch of tweets about
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here's all the banners and here's all the retired numbers
and legends of the past.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You know what, that's all in the pasture. That doesn't matter, man.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, listen, your brand keeps coming back depending on
how good it is, right, It's just like anything else
in the world. Like you buy a brand because you
like it. If you don't think the brand is doing well,
you don't buy it. If it starts doing well, you
buy it again. It doesn't matter. But the Lakers brand,
they don't have a brand right now. Brand it's it's nothing.
They're gonna wind up having to go back and get
another Darvin Ham. They're gonna have to go get somebody
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else like that, because now they're completely embarrassed and they
have no idea where to go. They had all their
eggs in Danny Hurley's basket and and not only not
only does he say no, he uses them to get
more money out of you. Gone, Like that's just like
I don't know that Rob Polenka and Genie Bush should
show their faces for a long time, like even when
they hire a new head coach, whoever it is, just
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have them do the press conference by themselves.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What about that? No, that they don't want to be here?
You kidding, man, I'm like the seventeenth choice. I just
took the because I don't know, I got bored for
five minutes. Yeah, they're not going to be here. Like
it's so amazingly embarrassing for the Lakers, Like this is
the biggest hit to their brand, or maybe to show
you just exactly the biggest example of where their brand
is at that I can remember in the last fifteen years,
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the losing, you know, after they won back to back titles,
when they beat Orlando and they beat they beat Boston.
The down years after that were one thing. It's like, wow,
how do the Lakers stay down for so long? But
then they bounce back with Lebron? But now here they are, Dude,
look at the NBA and the Lakers are sitting around.
They're a middling team, even with Lebron James. They're a
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middling team right now. And you can't even go get
a guy to come and coach the Lakers, who you
wanted to give all kinds of money to is just
coming off back to back national championships, and you know,
the guy at some point wants to coach in the
NBA and he tells you no like this is one
of the worst days for the Laker franchise and at
least in a decade.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is awful.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was really looking for my Frank langela moment today to
the Yukon Huskies that get to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
We had a great day. There was no gret day
a day kingdom of the planet of the age. What
a wonderful day that was Yukon, that was the governor
of What a wonderful day for us. Oh, it's so exciting. Uh,
exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swollen Dome. The Jason
(14:24):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from
the Tirec dot Com Studios. We'll have more on this
incredibly embarrassing day for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And hey, good day for Danny Hurley got I got
a free weekend in La right at We went to
a concert my wife.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We had a good time. My wife went shopping or
I went shopping. I love shopping. Whatever it is. Hey,
we had a great weekend. Man, this was awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And now I'm back back in Youcott it was good.
Howbout your week out in La? Yeah, it was great.
What'd you do? Then we'll get more money out of Yukon. Yeah, no,
I'm staying man, It's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Don't worry about it like this. What a great weekend
for the Hurlies. What an awful weekend for the Lakers.
Although I'm sure they can still get Bobby Hurley, like well,
people know see to get Bobby Hurley instead. Do you
really think people will know? Hey, it looks okay, it
looks like the guy. Yeah, sure, okay, look at Bobby Early.
How do you have a shaved head? I don't think
it matters other people knowing of Okay, I think it's fine.
I think it works. I think it works. Exit out
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Com Studios. Third period underway in Florida, Game two of
the Stanley Cup Final. Edmonton and Florida tied at one
a piece. Look, Florida puts together a big two nothing
lead right here, because you know Edmonton, they felt they've
had a lot of problems trying to solve Lebrovski and
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now one one this could be a crushing l for
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Speaker 3 (18:21):
So we'll have more and this keep you updated on this,
but right now, big news in the NFL today to
get to and nobody better to talk to than a
guy who is celebrating an Oriole sweep right now, one
O five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Washington Post,
longtime NFL insider front of the show, Jason locking for it. Jay,
what's happening? Man?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Greetings.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I judge I always judge how happy I think you
are by how by look at your post and I
see if I see too many about the Orioles and Burholter,
I know you're really Kedah.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Yeah, well I'm actively rooting against the nasty us men
at this point. It's the only way those losers who
run the Federation will do anything, because this is just
a joke to give this guy eight years with this
group and the only uh you know, World Cup on
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our soil for many of the rest of our lifetimes
and certainly you know, the the peak which should be
the peak World Cup for this group. It's just it's ridiculous.
It's it's beyond asinine. It's almost like a parody, like
it's almost like they're trolling, you know what I mean,
their most loyal long term fans. But I hope people
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don't show up like one hundred and fifty two hundred
dollars for tickets to have slopped to these friendlies, to
this garbage, like they haven't gotten a penny atomy since
they hired this Almost cuss that they hired this goof
in the first place. They certainly ain't getting it until
they fire him. And I hope they crash out badly
(19:58):
in the Kopa, like badly badly, b like like five
to one, three nil the Panama, like whatever it takes,
just just give somebody with a clue a chance with
this group, someone with a resume.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, well, how about we get to an extension
that makes a little bit more sense.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So the timing kind of weird. Big news today. Hey,
we thought maybe Mike Tomlin was playing out this season
could be his last in Pittsburgh. Last year wasn't very smooth.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He didn't talk about his future following the season, kind
of was given a bit of an ultimatum about being
a playoff team deep in the playoff team. But today
he signed a three year extension with the team, taking
us through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I know, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
In the last couple of days suddenly to make you
think Mike Tomlin's a great coach, not a great coach.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Was this just was this something that was coming?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Was this something that because I feel like the timing
of this is like, wait a minute, so right now
it smack dad right for a training camp, he gets
a big deal.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Well, I mean a lot of times it would happen, yeah,
I mean even closer to camp. You know, I don't
know what his vacation plans are, you know what I mean,
if they're taking an extended family vacation out of the
country for a period of time or whatever. These have
tended not to be very tumultuous negotiations. They're done, you know,
very much sort of old school. And they don't I mean,
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you know who, they don't get ready coaches like they
haven't had to, you know what I mean. Cower stepped aside.
You know, Noel was there forever and it ran its course,
and you know, he was basically ready to move on.
Like I've just covered I don't know, sixty years of
Pittsburgh Stewers football, and you know, like the people who
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have been trying to act like this was some sort
of thing or who's quaturing for his job or oh
oh they're good a little freed up with no, like
maybe some people in the media certainly, and yeah, a
segment of the fan base, but no, he's gonna be there,
probably as long as he wants to be there, because
they're going to remain a competitive team. They've shown that
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over decades. Like I mean, he's been there a long time,
and I know that they don't win the Super Bowl
every year and they don't win a playoff game every year,
and oh boy, that's just gonna make some people pout,
but the people who matter in that organization prize and understand,
you know what, the length and breadth of his career,
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he's never had a losing season like in a league
that's meant to drag people down, like yet that's crazy,
you know. And he hasn't had a good quarterback for
quite some time, certainly not the last three years of
Ben Roethlisberger, and we know what they've been doing since then.
So no, I'm not surprised. I mean a little bit,
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Like if you'd have told me it was going to
happen in like late July, I would have that's kind
of like more than norm But so be it. He's
he's their guy, and that's not gonna change.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's a reward that he's got Russell Wilson and Justin
Fields and all the questions there at it combat day
a little bit for that. Speaking of a guy who
didn't show up for media day, Hassan Reddick, all of
the nice things that Jason wanted to say about his
Jets didn't show up for this mandatory day.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
How badly is this going to turn here? Jason?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Oh, I don't know. Is that? I mean? I think
they've got way bigger fished, like with what their quarterback
is going to say on national television every single point
whatever whenever. You know what I mean, what day is
that that show? I can't remember if it's Tuesdays or Thursdays.
You know, there's just that. I don't know. They've They've
(23:38):
had some mouth contents there. They'll probably continue to have
some male contents. I would have fired the coach. They
didn't fire the coach because somebody else is going to
come in and want to throw out Hacket and want
to put in real guardrails and want to run a
real offense, and want to actually have the quarterback report
to the coordinator and the head coach rather than the
coordinator and the head coach report to the quarterback. But
(23:59):
but you know, this is what it is. It's going
to be a beautiful disaster. Like I guarantee that.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whether he's crippled at quarterback or healthy
at quarterback, you know, whether we have to watch him
die slowly on the field or somebody shreds one.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Of his achilles early in the year and gets it
over with that way, Like, however you want to watch this,
it's it's going to be brutal. Just trust me.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You know you don't you know, you don't filling the
conference here that we're going to have a big season.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
We have an incredible roster. And if and if Aaron
Rodgers is healthy, Okay, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
That's okay. You do you. I'll go play out to
watch you. Do you enjoy your summer? It's all good.
So you have to start playing games and.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Hey, well no, that is true. The Jet. The Jet's
best part of the season is always the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
His story it always is we we went in the
off season trophies or something.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, let me take.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You outside of football for second, because because the craziness happened,
I want to know if if if this is something
that that you worry about, it happens. Uh Buster only
ESPN had his Twitter account hacked today and people started
posting whoever hacked his account started posting all kinds of
crazy trades and other kinds of nutty things, and then suddenly, boom,
it just disappeared.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was an unbelievable few hours. Do you worry about that,
you know?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know, because look there's been inside You've been breaking
stuff for a long time now.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Is that that's something that concerns you or I.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Don't know that this guy had any clue who Buster was, though,
do you I just think I don't know he.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Said I hate he said I hate Mets, So I
mean I did, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
I don't know he was. I don't think he's from
this country. I don't think he knows anything about certainly
American sports or not a sport like baseball that's pretty
domestic or at least domestic to this side of the globe.
Like I don't know that English was his first language,
Like I just he probably just I don't have no
idea how Buster would have even gotten on his radar.
(26:08):
But I mean, so part of me is like I'm
a nobody, why would he mess with me? But then again,
Busters are somebody. But I don't think he even knows
the Busters or somebody, so I don't really worry. I mean,
what are you gonna do? Like that happens like I
would think when people kind of figure out pretty quickly,
like that's really unusual, like maybe, you know, maybe a
demented person has his phone or maybe he's been hacked, like.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Like I was surprised that ESPN wasn't sending out tweets
like on their account like right away, like you know,
please don't look at anything, or you know, this is
not the words of Buster, Like I kind of was
waiting for his employee, like let the world know that, hey,
this is not the work of the person we're employing.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Yeah, But like when I got off the air on
the radio at five point fifty five, I stopped paying
attention to it. So at some point, you know, the
powers that be at Bristol stepped in. But I'm a
has been dude.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Who's gonna who's gonna.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Bess with me? I mean they do, I hope they're
at least funny, Like I've set the bar pretty well,
so they're probably a better tweeter than me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, but dude, you have a lot of there's a
lot of fake Jason lock and four accounts on Twitter.
I mean there's a there's a lot of them. Oh yeah,
you kidding. Oh sure, there's Jason Locking for with two f's.
There's Jason Locke if that's not really an l Oh,
there's a few of them, man.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Yeah, more power to them. I don't know like why
people do that or what kind of perverse though they
get from it. I just hope, honestly, if I do
get hacked, I hope it's not the dude who sell
the MacBooks. You've seen that, like people like hey, I
only have one hundred MacBooks left at like like, well,
(27:52):
no one of the things that like literally sell like
you know, stolen stuff. Like, I hope it's somebody like
this who just asks people what should I wait? Man?
You know Louis Swabbert's getting traded too, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Nobody actually did. At one point he did that old
Hey I have a PS five. I'm trying to so well,
but I mean the thrillers in trying to get media
markets to run with her, boy, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I just hope it's not a dude sewing like stolen
stuff on that. I hope that somebody was a little
bit creative, but they could find somebody way more important.
He's probably couldn't even the difference.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I think that's the big red flag. If people can't
tell the difference between what you tweet, I probably.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Wouldn't even notice that. I don't look at it that much,
like like that really wasn't me, did you.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Do you see? Looking for? What time? Was that scent?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I thought it was a normal day for him? No,
were you kidding? And I thought it was a normal day.
I don't know, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
He is on Twitter at Jason locking For.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He is the real at He is at Jason locking
For one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore Odyssey
all his latest NFL In the Washington Post, Jay is
always buddy, appreciated, my friend.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
We'll talk to you nex have a wonderful week.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
There he goes, yeah, you about it, thanks buddy, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
He gives me a go Jets and then laughs, go
you know, you know, you know that's how you know
that we're You've become really good friends in the years
that we are.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We've been talking to mister locking for because only friends
could could go out and send you that kind of
love before hanging in the phone.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The Jason, But the Dodgers are screwed because SHOEO Tony
has been banned for life.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I saw I saw Buster on his account today. You're
so trying. I saw it on Twitter. You still got
to spend all that money, But Buster only was spelled
with an A. I think so I'm not quite all
the way there and that this was his actual account.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
We'll have more on that crazy ass story next hour
on the show. But straight ahead, how about some absolute
positive and something good about the most controversial story of
the last two days. That's coming up next right here, Jason, Mike,
you are listening to Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (30:15):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Foster Yo Panthers have a two to
one lead over the Oilers right now, nine and a
half to go in the third period. Pathers are going
to take a two games done lead in the Stanley Cup. Final.
Look at Paul Maurice, former Whaler's head coach, up there
coaching the Stanley Cup final. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But how about some positivity for a story that's had
nothing but controversy, especially the last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You had some positivity Monday. Hear Mike Carmon, You're ready,
now let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We need some positivity all right now? Tonight ay WNBA
resumed play tonight. Caitlin Clark played tonight, not one of
her best games.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
They get thumped again.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Look I can follow in trouble a lot of out
to where the crowd was chanting we want Clark.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, it was a bad game against the best team
in the WNBA. They played the Connecticut Sun again. They
get thumped. Eighty nine seventy two. Caitlyn Clark just ten
points to assist, no rebounds, is minus thirty. That's in
line with what most of the stars were for tonight.
So not a great night for Caitlin Clark. Just the
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first working day after we found out she was not
picked for the Olympic team, and there's been so much
talk about this this weekend and Caitlyn Clark not taken.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
How do you not take Caitlin Clark. Caitlyn Clark shouldn't
be taken in the in the Olympics anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But to take this story in a different direction, something
you've talked about her for the last seventy two hours.
Just to want you to listen for a second to
Caitlin Clark from this weekend talking about not making the
Olympic team and where she is and the decision to
leave her home from the Games.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
I think it's give me something to work for, to dream,
you know, hopefully we'll be there.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Think it's just a little more motivation.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
You remember that, and you know, hopefully in four years
or four years, come knock around.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
You know I can be there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay, now look for a second. Do I think she's
not disappointed? No, of course you disappointed. You want to
be on the Olympic team. But listen to you listen
to her talk this weekend. Hey, I use it as motivation.
Hopefully I can be there. This is the best team
of the world.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I have to give her so much credit for how
classy she has been throughout all of this controversy that
she has nothing to do with over the past few weeks,
nothing and she you know, while jealous players and analysts
want to do their thing to diminish Caitlin Clark because either, hey,
we feel everybody should have been paying attention to WNBA
(32:43):
before she showed up. Hey she's a young player. We're
jealous of her success. Why does she have a shoe deal?
There has been no shortage of people, both both who
play in the WNBA and people who write about it
and cover it and talk about it, to sit here
and say, oh, yeah, Caitlin Clark, she's not that good,
not that great. WNBA's got a Kitlin Clark problem, which
is just ridiculous. All Caitlyn Clark has done is show
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up to play.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Does she talks back during a game? Of course she does,
But that's that's that happens.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
During a game. Everybody talks back during game. That's nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But there's no there's no coming out after a game
and saying I can't believe this is happening and this
needs to go on, and this needs to go on.
All that she has been classy when she is.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Getting all kinds of flak from every side, and mainly
it's jealousy and it's other people who are upset.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's something that has nothing to do with her. And
that's what kind of pisses me off about this whole thing, Mike,
is that everybody says, oh, w ba's got a Kitlin
Clark problem. No, no, no, w wnbda's got a problem.
It's had nothing to do with Kitlyn Clark because she's
not doing anything. If she was coming out, she was
angel reacing it, and she was coming out and talking
all the time about how great she is and all this,
and I'm going down in history and I'm doing this, I'm.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Doing then I get it right.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I mean, look, hey, you come out and be outspoken,
You're gonna make yourself a target people.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Okay, let's see how good you really are. But she's
not done any of that.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She's been quiet, she has taken everything that's gone her way,
and she has been really classy throughout this entire situation.
And that's what upsets me is that the optic is
there's a Caitlin Clark problem. Now everyone else has a problem.
She's the one that's actually fine with this. She's not
doing or saying anything to foster any sort of of
ill will. She's not out canvassing saying how do I
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not make the Olympic team. I'd love to play if
they want me on. She's done none of that. And yet,
and yet, it seems like at every turn there are
people ingrained in the game of women's basketball that want
to come out and say, yeah, I don't like her,
I don't think she deserves it, whatever it is. They
want to come out and say how anti Caitlyn Clark
they are, when all she is coming into the WNBA
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and lifting it up. But no, no, no, that's not
good enough. People still want to hate. And I got
to give her a lot of credit because it would
be enough for me to sit here and say, if
you don't want me, I'll find I'll go play a
different league. I'll go overseason playing Europe from millions and
millions and millions of dollars, I'll go play it. No,
but I'm coming to the WNBA. I want to help.
This is where I want to be. And still she's
being treated at arm's length, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Well that's you know, she's you say, there's it's not
the Clark problem, it's the other side of it. And
certainly from a commentator standpoint, we've talked about it at
nauseum the.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You know folks saying well where were you? It's like, well,
we're here now, and yes, it's all learning curves. Like
when people try to talk Stanley Cup final, it's like
hockey guy might get mad for a minute and then realize,
wait a minute, you're talking hockey. This is cool.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
And I think that's the moment that kind of needs
to happen here for the WNBA women's basketball. We've been
talking about women's sports, you know, as a collective, you know,
with the US women's national team for soccer starting to
lead the way, and you see what extrapolates from there.
With Clark, she could teach pr classes the way she's
gone through. Angel Rees had that moment where it got
(35:52):
clipped off talking about you know, about me, and she
went to that a couple of times, but also been
pretty good to make sure to add, Hey, other folks
have been here, and that's true. Again, it's all about
the embracing and the reht rhetoric around it.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
You know.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
The closest Clark's ever come to stepping, you know, putt
her foot in her mouth was the you know, I
feel like I'm getting hammered, which made for a great
Saturday night bar run and a T shirt line that
you can just talk about, Hey, I'm going to a
festival which shirt? I feel like I'm getting hammered. Okay,
you can do that. But beyond that, you know, it's
(36:28):
all She just keeps getting up, take the hits, keep working.
It's the right attitude, the right way to go the
and eventually it'll wear off like that, and that anger
and that anxiousness that people have will eventually go away.
It won't subside anytime soon because ratings are too high
and there's too many other elements to it to get
people excitable in this echo chamber.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, it's it's just I feel like if you if
you hooked up a lie detector to the w NBA
players and that's said, what's your feeling about Kate Clark,
You get a lot of them who would say, I
love what she brings, but I wish she wasn't here.
We should have the attention that we're getting without her
being here. I think that's what they that's what they would.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Say, Oh sure, well, and unfortunately that's Fantasyland.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Not just Byce and Disney's. It's just insane. But she
has been nothing but class throughout this entire ordeal. More
on that, but coming up next we get back into
the biggest story in basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
What now for a team who got really embarrassed today
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
We got a couple of days off between now and
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
That's okay. We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
We had a big hacking going on on social media today.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Okay, we'll get to that coming up in a bit.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Got got hey Froszburg, I want to say I am
so sorry. The Dodgers are screwed with Shoeo Tani getting
banned for life from baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I saw Buster only his account. Man, I'm sorry about that. Yeah,
but the Mets are losing Lindor, so all good. It
doesn't traded the Mets, you know, Lindor to the A's.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, Otani's banned for life.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Whatever that I mean.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Look Lewis Robert got traded away. I mean, like, yeah,
all sorts of things going on. That half hour was
absolute lost cyber terrorism boy.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But Buster only we We'll get into Buster early. But
his account on Twitter has been restored, and it looks
like the the thief, the the hacker was never there.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Poof.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's like in uh when when he when Kevin Spacey
does the poof at the end of Usual Suspects, heier
SoSE poof, he disappeared.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The guy just disappears from the internet. He's gone.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
But today was a day because because oh my goodness,
the Lakers are completely embarrassed and have been completely embarrassed
by Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley rejected the Lakers offer of
six years and seventy million dollars to come coach Lakers
and instead will return to Yukon to chase a third
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straight national title. In a statement, today, he said, I'm
humbled by the experience.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
At the end of the day, I want to go
back to Yukon.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
We're getting better this summer as we continue to pursue championships.
And just as important is that Governor ned Lamont. The
governor said, don't worry, we are going to make sure
Danny Hurley is the top paid coach in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Calhoun is pissed. Oh boy, what was it take tonight?
What was it take tonight?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The first things first for the Lakers before we get
to Danny Hurley. This is so unbelievably embarrassing. I mean,
this shows you that the Lakers are just They're just
another team. They're just another franchise. Now, there's no you
don't say no to the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
There's no.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
They went after their guy and they played it, Hey,
we're gonna come over the top and offer that that
you can't say no to because we're the Lakers. And
the guy chose to stay at college basketball. The guy
chose to stay in stores, Connecticut rather than come coach
the Lakers, which supposedly is such a great gig. This
tells you where the Lakers are at right now, and
(03:24):
and and what people think of the job. It's awful. Mean,
this is so embarrassing. How do you go so publicly
after one guy and get told no, not that you
lost a bidding war, just I'd rather stay in college, man,
than come to the NBA and don't give me this.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Ah, well, you know the NBA. The jobs aren't what
they used to be there.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
No, this is the Lakers, right, This was the Lakers
and you were told no, we're not doing it. This
is embarrassing on so many levels. Like, you don't run
this this whole gamut with Danny Hurley unless you know
your getting him, Like, you don't go public, you don't,
you don't have Hey, we're going to prepare a.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Huge offer of him.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You don't let this go the way it is unless
you know you're getting out. Remember, but certain certain places
you can say no to it. Hey, we were talked
to a couple of different guys. Beer's supposed to be
the Lakers man, and you know somebody could say, yeah, no,
I'm not gonna take it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Like, how do you not know? Like that? That's what's
so embarrassing about this.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, but just remember the guy that reported it, wrote
the book on the guy's damn family for crying out loud.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Woj is in there at every point, so sure the Lakers.
The only thing that was confirmed was, yeah, he's flying
out for an interview. I don't think this was the
Lakers pushing all this stuff. It got completely Hurley's camp.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It rocked Woje. But he might be part of the family.
I don't know what his is, but this is where
he might actually be a loss loss long lost brother.
We don't know about Adrian Wojia Hurley.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's his real name, and he changed it because dude
that wrote a book about the Old Old Man and
the Miracle of Saint Anthony is the guy that goes
way Wait wait, you like your JJ Reddick story shams.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yesterday I said, it's all no, no, no, hey, Danny
Hurley over here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
My guy has been the guy for months.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So until you know, Jeanie Buss and Rob Polinka sit
in front of a microphone under the bright lights like
they're being interrogated by sip wits and admit that it
was a month long process. And here's all the phone
calls and receipts. I think Wosh got over here. Oh
he didn't got over.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
And that's why it's so embarrassing on the Lakers because
once this gets out, if it's not a done deal,
what did the Lakers need to do. Hey, we're searching,
we're leaving no stone unturned. Clearly, Danny Hurley's name has
come up. He's one of the best coaches we've seen
the last twenty years in college basketball, and Danny Hurley.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Certainly is something we could be considering for this job.
That's it. You didn't get the art, that's right, you
didn't get that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's why this is such a big fail by the
Lake because they failed at every turn because obviously they.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Didn't know they were getting him. They didn't tamp down
the story, and they treated it like we're the Lakers,
we're gonna come out, we're gonna overwhelm you with money,
and you're gonna and you're gonna come here, and they
don't get him. Well, six years, seventy million, they arewhelming
anybody with money going back.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
No, well, no, you're talking about a guy that's not
even coaching in the NBA and you're giving him over
ten million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
But money money Williams is making thirteen to just show
up for Detroit yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
But still that's a it's a pretty good deal. It's
it's a pretty good deal money Williams.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
That's also done more in the NBA than well by any.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Early But there's also a Laker tax at this point
because you have to come in and you got to
try to coach Lebron and Ad You've got to rebuild
a roster, right that to try to navigate the West,
like thinking he was gonna come under what other people
were making.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No, no, No, he's got a pretty good thing going. He's
the king of college basketball. Man. Well, but our guy
that joins us every year is going back to school,
but he's going for a three.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
There's only there's only three coaches that would be making
more money than him right now that that would sign.
That is saying okay, And that's because obviously Bonnie Williams,
the guy they signed the game a lot of money.
But the three guys that only only are the three
guys making more than him are Steve Kerr, Popovich and Spolstra. Right, everyone,
all guys who have won multiple championships. Right, Kerr's got four,
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Popvich has five, Spolstra has two. Right, Yes, Monti Williams
is the outlier here. But if you're de Trey, we
gotta spend money. We got to get somebody that's pretty
finy good. That's a pretty good offer for Danny Hurley
to come in as the as the fourth ish third
or fourth ish most highest paid coach in the NBA,
considering he's got no titles and the three guys above
him have a total of eleven. So it's not like
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the money wasn't there. I mean, it's not like and
it's not like they were gonna lose him because of money.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
It's not like, oh hey, we watch it. We can't
give you that kind of money. No, I think the
money was there.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think they didn't know they were going to get him,
and that's why it's so embarrassing for the Lakers. But
here's the other part as to why this was so
embarrassing for the Lakers. I don't know that Danny Hurley
was ever gonna.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Say yes, sure.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I mean, think think about it for a second. If
this story comes out and Danny Early goes to the Lakers,
he knows what the Lakers is, he knows what the
job is, right, he knows I'm coaching Lebron, I'm coaching
ad I'm gonna go out for a meeting, and I'm
gonna say the meeting went really well, and they have
a lot of stuff going on. The money is not
an issue. They didn't try to lowball me. They brought
me in. Hey, this is in line with what coaches
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in the NBA. I'm coming in as the third highest
paid coaching Okay, okay, he knew all of this. And
how quickly did he say no? Did he just say nope?
And all by the way, the governor of Connecticut is saying,
we're gonna put money together, We're gonna rub nickels together to.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Make sure that we make him eye.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I don't know that Danny Hurley was ever going And
you think about this, that he used the Lakers as leverage.
This is like stuff that happened to the Knicks like
ten years ago, or stuff that happened to the Jets
with Kirk Cousins. The Lakers got used as leverage and
they didn't see it. He knew everything about this job.
He knew everything was gonna entail, the money was there,
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said everything was there, and he comes out, Yeah, everything
seems pretty great. Nope, I'm saying no, I'm going back
he played the Lakers. That's what it's doubly It's not
just one embarrassing We didn't get the guy, but you
let the guy go leverage on you, and you got
used as leverage as many good moves as Rob Polinka
has made as ye, because look they still won the
title in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
They made something.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He made a trade for Anthony Davis that I didn't
think he could make. They brought in some good pieces here,
they get Lebron to come off. This is such an
epic fail. It's like it wipes everything else out. This
is such a fail when not only do you not
get your coach, you let him play you into something
that gets in more money from where he is now.
This is this is like embarrassment. It's like having a
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cheeseburger and then having like a like a sausage patty
on top of it. I don't have enough. I need more.
It's so doubly embarrassing for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Well, I mean, everybody always wants a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I mean, and when you have the cachet, you have
the juice that Danny Hurley has in this moment. I
don't doubt that there was some percentage of him that
got on that plane going.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, let's see what this is all about.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Right, you've had your prelimit, he talks, and you've obviously
gone down the road if we're to believe it that
for months he's the.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Quote unquote front runner in all of this.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
So you go out there and you take the meeting,
and you fly across country and you sit in the
meeting room. All right, here's what we discussed all of
these parameters on the phone. Now it's kind of a
little bit of formalities, some face to face, maybe some
extra questions, facilities, all that fun stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Get wind and dine for a day. He got back
on that plane.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
As soon as I saw him at the Billy Joel
concert with his wife and Bill Murray's kid, I'm like, oh,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
He's back home. He flew back.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
He's happy, he's smiling. Either that or he really got
the bag of bags, or he knows it's coming. But
it was just the idea of you got him out
of the room, all right. As soon as he leaves California,
there's got to be a little head scratching moment of
how do we not seal this?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
What's still undecided, et cetera.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
But for him, I do believe leverage is the giant
part of the you know, you're a hamburger, if we're
gonna cut it into slices, right, it's most of it,
but a little bit of what was true curiosity of
all Right, if we get in the room, maybe that
number goes from seventy to something else, right because we'd
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heard some whispers of one hundred million dollar offer. I
don't know where that thirty million gap is in terms
of the reports, but let's go with the six for seventy.
At one hundred, maybe it changes you a little bit.
But I gotta imagine if you're a guy and your
families all East Coast and all of those things that
we talk about, you know, royalty out on the East
(11:37):
Coast in the coaching world, you've got an opportunity for
a three p You've got a lot of component parts
of those teams coming back. So all of that is like,
all right, you're really happy, contented and excited about where
you're at and the trajectory there, and the NBA is
not going anywhere, and as good as the Laker brand
may be, And I saw a bunch of tweets about
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here's all the banners and here's all the retired numbers
and legends of the past.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You know what, that's all in the pasture. That doesn't matter, man.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I mean, listen, your brand keeps coming back depending on
how good it is, right, It's just like anything else
in the world. Like you buy a brand because you
like it. If you don't think the brand is doing well,
you don't buy it. If it starts doing well, you
buy it again. It doesn't matter. But the Lakers brand,
they don't have a brand right now. Brand it's it's nothing.
They're gonna wind up having to go back and get
another Darvin Ham. They're gonna have to go get somebody
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else like that, because now they're completely embarrassed and they
have no idea where to go. They had all their
eggs in Danny Hurley's basket and and not only not
only does he say no, he uses them to get
more money out of you. Gone, Like that's just like
I don't know that Rob Polenka and Genie Bush should
show their faces for a long time, like even when
they hire a new head coach, whoever it is, just
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have them do the press conference by themselves.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
What about that? No, that they don't want to be here?
You kidding, man, I'm like the seventeenth choice. I just
took the because I don't know, I got bored for
five minutes. Yeah, they're not going to be here. Like
it's so amazingly embarrassing for the Lakers, Like this is
the biggest hit to their brand, or maybe to show
you just exactly the biggest example of where their brand
is at that I can remember in the last fifteen years,
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the losing, you know, after they won back to back titles,
when they beat Orlando and they beat they beat Boston.
The down years after that were one thing. It's like, wow,
how do the Lakers stay down for so long? But
then they bounce back with Lebron? But now here they are, Dude,
look at the NBA and the Lakers are sitting around.
They're a middling team, even with Lebron James. They're a
(13:38):
middling team right now. And you can't even go get
a guy to come and coach the Lakers, who you
wanted to give all kinds of money to is just
coming off back to back national championships, and you know,
the guy at some point wants to coach in the
NBA and he tells you no like this is one
of the worst days for the Laker franchise and at
least in a decade.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
This is awful.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Was really looking for my Frank langela moment today to
the Yukon Huskies that get to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
We had a great day. There was no gret day
a day kingdom of the planet of the age. What
a wonderful day that was Yukon, that was the governor
of What a wonderful day for us. Oh, it's so exciting. Uh,
exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swollen Dome. The Jason
(14:24):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from
the Tirec dot Com Studios. We'll have more on this
incredibly embarrassing day for the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And hey, good day for Danny Hurley got I got
a free weekend in La right at We went to
a concert my wife.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
We had a good time. My wife went shopping or
I went shopping. I love shopping. Whatever it is. Hey,
we had a great weekend. Man, this was awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And now I'm back back in Youcott it was good.
Howbout your week out in La? Yeah, it was great.
What'd you do? Then we'll get more money out of Yukon. Yeah, no,
I'm staying man, It's all good.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Don't worry about it like this. What a great weekend
for the Hurlies. What an awful weekend for the Lakers.
Although I'm sure they can still get Bobby Hurley, like well,
people know see to get Bobby Hurley instead. Do you
really think people will know? Hey, it looks okay, it
looks like the guy. Yeah, sure, okay, look at Bobby Early.
How do you have a shaved head? I don't think
it matters other people knowing of Okay, I think it's fine.
I think it works. I think it works. Exit out
(15:13):
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with Mike Carmon.
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Keep it right here. That's next Jason and Mike. You're
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Speaker 1 (17:09):
This is gonna be the song out of the gate
every night now because I hear it when you play
a tight shirt usually used to move it around in
the show. Now I realize, Hey, we hit the show,
we're out of the gate. We're rolling with a big
take or big opinion, you're entertaining, and then nah, you're
gonna play this song. I'm gonna bring it back down.
You gonna bring back down. You're gonna play this song.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
For you right here?
Speaker 6 (17:27):
I think judge your takes off of how hot they are,
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Speaker 1 (17:31):
So if you're gonna play that song, you play it
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Speaker 3 (17:36):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Come on, I love this song, hey man.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
It puts him in a good mood and he's vibing out.
I mean, I can't I can't blame the man.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Colin saying, who's that Adam Talbert? Why does he always
play this song? I don't understand why does it play?
How do you play this? What's going on?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I want to roll the airwaves.
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The Jesus Smith.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Show with the Mike Carbon Live from the Direct dot
Com Studios. Third period underway in Florida, Game two of
the Stanley Cup Final. Edmonton and Florida tied at one
a piece. Look, Florida puts together a big two nothing
lead right here, because you know Edmonton, they felt they've
had a lot of problems trying to solve Lebrovski and
(18:16):
now one one this could be a crushing l for
the Oilers.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So we'll have more and this keep you updated on this,
but right now, big news in the NFL today to
get to and nobody better to talk to than a
guy who is celebrating an Oriole sweep right now, one
O five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Washington Post,
longtime NFL insider front of the show, Jason locking for it. Jay,
what's happening? Man?
Speaker 8 (18:40):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Greetings.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I judge I always judge how happy I think you
are by how by look at your post and I
see if I see too many about the Orioles and Burholter,
I know you're really Kedah.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Yeah, well I'm actively rooting against the nasty us men
at this point. It's the only way those losers who
run the Federation will do anything, because this is just
a joke to give this guy eight years with this
group and the only uh you know, World Cup on
(19:13):
our soil for many of the rest of our lifetimes
and certainly you know, the the peak which should be
the peak World Cup for this group. It's just it's ridiculous.
It's it's beyond asinine. It's almost like a parody, like
it's almost like they're trolling, you know what I mean,
their most loyal long term fans. But I hope people
(19:36):
don't show up like one hundred and fifty two hundred
dollars for tickets to have slopped to these friendlies, to
this garbage, like they haven't gotten a penny atomy since
they hired this Almost cuss that they hired this goof
in the first place. They certainly ain't getting it until
they fire him. And I hope they crash out badly
(19:58):
in the Kopa, like badly badly, b like like five
to one, three nil the Panama, like whatever it takes,
just just give somebody with a clue a chance with
this group, someone with a resume.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
All right, well, how about we get to an extension
that makes a little bit more sense.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So the timing kind of weird. Big news today. Hey,
we thought maybe Mike Tomlin was playing out this season
could be his last in Pittsburgh. Last year wasn't very smooth.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He didn't talk about his future following the season, kind
of was given a bit of an ultimatum about being
a playoff team deep in the playoff team. But today
he signed a three year extension with the team, taking
us through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I know, nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
In the last couple of days suddenly to make you
think Mike Tomlin's a great coach, not a great coach.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Was this just was this something that was coming?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Was this something that because I feel like the timing
of this is like, wait a minute, so right now
it smack dad right for a training camp, he gets
a big deal.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Well, I mean a lot of times it would happen, yeah,
I mean even closer to camp. You know, I don't
know what his vacation plans are, you know what I mean,
if they're taking an extended family vacation out of the
country for a period of time or whatever. These have
tended not to be very tumultuous negotiations. They're done, you know,
very much sort of old school. And they don't I mean,
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you know who, they don't get ready coaches like they
haven't had to, you know what I mean. Cower stepped aside.
You know, Noel was there forever and it ran its course,
and you know, he was basically ready to move on.
Like I've just covered I don't know, sixty years of
Pittsburgh Stewers football, and you know, like the people who
(21:37):
have been trying to act like this was some sort
of thing or who's quaturing for his job or oh
oh they're good a little freed up with no, like
maybe some people in the media certainly, and yeah, a
segment of the fan base, but no, he's gonna be there,
probably as long as he wants to be there, because
they're going to remain a competitive team. They've shown that
(21:59):
over decades. Like I mean, he's been there a long time,
and I know that they don't win the Super Bowl
every year and they don't win a playoff game every year,
and oh boy, that's just gonna make some people pout,
but the people who matter in that organization prize and understand,
you know what, the length and breadth of his career,
(22:21):
he's never had a losing season like in a league
that's meant to drag people down, like yet that's crazy,
you know. And he hasn't had a good quarterback for
quite some time, certainly not the last three years of
Ben Roethlisberger, and we know what they've been doing since then.
So no, I'm not surprised. I mean a little bit,
(22:41):
Like if you'd have told me it was going to
happen in like late July, I would have that's kind
of like more than norm But so be it. He's
he's their guy, and that's not gonna change.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's a reward that he's got Russell Wilson and Justin
Fields and all the questions there at it combat day
a little bit for that. Speaking of a guy who
didn't show up for media day, Hassan Reddick, all of
the nice things that Jason wanted to say about his
Jets didn't show up for this mandatory day.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
How badly is this going to turn here? Jason?
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Oh, I don't know. Is that? I mean? I think
they've got way bigger fished, like with what their quarterback
is going to say on national television every single point
whatever whenever. You know what I mean, what day is
that that show? I can't remember if it's Tuesdays or Thursdays.
You know, there's just that. I don't know. They've They've
(23:38):
had some mouth contents there. They'll probably continue to have
some male contents. I would have fired the coach. They
didn't fire the coach because somebody else is going to
come in and want to throw out Hacket and want
to put in real guardrails and want to run a
real offense, and want to actually have the quarterback report
to the coordinator and the head coach rather than the
coordinator and the head coach report to the quarterback. But
(23:59):
but you know, this is what it is. It's going
to be a beautiful disaster. Like I guarantee that.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whether he's crippled at quarterback or healthy
at quarterback, you know, whether we have to watch him
die slowly on the field or somebody shreds one.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Of his achilles early in the year and gets it
over with that way, Like, however you want to watch this,
it's it's going to be brutal. Just trust me.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
You know you don't you know, you don't filling the
conference here that we're going to have a big season.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
We have an incredible roster. And if and if Aaron
Rodgers is healthy, Okay, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
That's okay. You do you. I'll go play out to
watch you. Do you enjoy your summer? It's all good.
So you have to start playing games and.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Hey, well no, that is true. The Jet. The Jet's
best part of the season is always the summer.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
His story it always is we we went in the
off season trophies or something.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Hey, let me take.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
You outside of football for second, because because the craziness happened,
I want to know if if if this is something
that that you worry about, it happens. Uh Buster only
ESPN had his Twitter account hacked today and people started
posting whoever hacked his account started posting all kinds of
crazy trades and other kinds of nutty things, and then suddenly, boom,
it just disappeared.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was an unbelievable few hours. Do you worry about that,
you know?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You know, because look there's been inside You've been breaking
stuff for a long time now.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Is that that's something that concerns you or I.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Don't know that this guy had any clue who Buster was, though,
do you I just think I don't know he.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Said I hate he said I hate Mets, So I
mean I did, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
I don't know he was. I don't think he's from
this country. I don't think he knows anything about certainly
American sports or not a sport like baseball that's pretty
domestic or at least domestic to this side of the globe.
Like I don't know that English was his first language,
Like I just he probably just I don't have no
idea how Buster would have even gotten on his radar.
(26:08):
But I mean, so part of me is like I'm
a nobody, why would he mess with me? But then again,
Busters are somebody. But I don't think he even knows
the Busters or somebody, so I don't really worry. I mean,
what are you gonna do? Like that happens like I
would think when people kind of figure out pretty quickly,
like that's really unusual, like maybe, you know, maybe a
demented person has his phone or maybe he's been hacked, like.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:31):
Like I was surprised that ESPN wasn't sending out tweets
like on their account like right away, like you know,
please don't look at anything, or you know, this is
not the words of Buster, Like I kind of was
waiting for his employee, like let the world know that, hey,
this is not the work of the person we're employing.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Yeah, But like when I got off the air on
the radio at five point fifty five, I stopped paying
attention to it. So at some point, you know, the
powers that be at Bristol stepped in. But I'm a
has been dude.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Who's gonna who's gonna.
Speaker 8 (27:06):
Bess with me? I mean they do, I hope they're
at least funny, Like I've set the bar pretty well,
so they're probably a better tweeter than me.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, but dude, you have a lot of there's a
lot of fake Jason lock and four accounts on Twitter.
I mean there's a there's a lot of them. Oh yeah,
you kidding. Oh sure, there's Jason Locking for with two f's.
There's Jason Locke if that's not really an l Oh,
there's a few of them, man.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
Yeah, more power to them. I don't know like why
people do that or what kind of perverse though they
get from it. I just hope, honestly, if I do
get hacked, I hope it's not the dude who sell
the MacBooks. You've seen that, like people like hey, I
only have one hundred MacBooks left at like like, well,
(27:52):
no one of the things that like literally sell like
you know, stolen stuff. Like, I hope it's somebody like
this who just asks people what should I wait? Man?
You know Louis Swabbert's getting traded too, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Nobody actually did. At one point he did that old
Hey I have a PS five. I'm trying to so well,
but I mean the thrillers in trying to get media
markets to run with her, boy, Yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
I just hope it's not a dude sewing like stolen
stuff on that. I hope that somebody was a little
bit creative, but they could find somebody way more important.
He's probably couldn't even the difference.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I think that's the big red flag. If people can't
tell the difference between what you tweet, I probably.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Wouldn't even notice that. I don't look at it that much,
like like that really wasn't me, did you.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Do you see? Looking for? What time? Was that scent?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
You know?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I thought it was a normal day for him? No,
were you kidding? And I thought it was a normal day.
I don't know, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
He is on Twitter at Jason locking For.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He is the real at He is at Jason locking
For one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore Odyssey
all his latest NFL In the Washington Post, Jay is
always buddy, appreciated, my friend.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
We'll talk to you nex have a wonderful week.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
There he goes, yeah, you about it, thanks buddy, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
He gives me a go Jets and then laughs, go
you know, you know, you know that's how you know
that we're You've become really good friends in the years
that we are.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
We've been talking to mister locking for because only friends
could could go out and send you that kind of
love before hanging in the phone.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The Jason, But the Dodgers are screwed because SHOEO Tony
has been banned for life.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I saw I saw Buster on his account today. You're
so trying. I saw it on Twitter. You still got
to spend all that money, But Buster only was spelled
with an A. I think so I'm not quite all
the way there and that this was his actual account.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
We'll have more on that crazy ass story next hour
on the show. But straight ahead, how about some absolute
positive and something good about the most controversial story of
the last two days. That's coming up next right here, Jason, Mike,
you are listening to Fox.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Foster Yo Panthers have a two to
one lead over the Oilers right now, nine and a
half to go in the third period. Pathers are going
to take a two games done lead in the Stanley Cup. Final.
Look at Paul Maurice, former Whaler's head coach, up there
coaching the Stanley Cup final. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
But how about some positivity for a story that's had
nothing but controversy, especially the last couple of days.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You had some positivity Monday. Hear Mike Carmon, You're ready,
now let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
We need some positivity all right now? Tonight ay WNBA
resumed play tonight. Caitlin Clark played tonight, not one of
her best games.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
They get thumped again.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Look I can follow in trouble a lot of out
to where the crowd was chanting we want Clark.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Yeah, it was a bad game against the best team
in the WNBA. They played the Connecticut Sun again. They
get thumped. Eighty nine seventy two. Caitlyn Clark just ten
points to assist, no rebounds, is minus thirty. That's in
line with what most of the stars were for tonight.
So not a great night for Caitlin Clark. Just the
(31:23):
first working day after we found out she was not
picked for the Olympic team, and there's been so much
talk about this this weekend and Caitlyn Clark not taken.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
How do you not take Caitlin Clark. Caitlyn Clark shouldn't
be taken in the in the Olympics anyway.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
But to take this story in a different direction, something
you've talked about her for the last seventy two hours.
Just to want you to listen for a second to
Caitlin Clark from this weekend talking about not making the
Olympic team and where she is and the decision to
leave her home from the Games.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
I think it's give me something to work for, to dream,
you know, hopefully we'll be there.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Think it's just a little more motivation.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
You remember that, and you know, hopefully in four years
or four years, come knock around.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
You know I can be there.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Okay, now look for a second. Do I think she's
not disappointed? No, of course you disappointed. You want to
be on the Olympic team. But listen to you listen
to her talk this weekend. Hey, I use it as motivation.
Hopefully I can be there. This is the best team
of the world.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I have to give her so much credit for how
classy she has been throughout all of this controversy that
she has nothing to do with over the past few weeks,
nothing and she you know, while jealous players and analysts
want to do their thing to diminish Caitlin Clark because either, hey,
we feel everybody should have been paying attention to WNBA
(32:43):
before she showed up. Hey she's a young player. We're
jealous of her success. Why does she have a shoe deal?
There has been no shortage of people, both both who
play in the WNBA and people who write about it
and cover it and talk about it, to sit here
and say, oh, yeah, Caitlin Clark, she's not that good,
not that great. WNBA's got a Kitlin Clark problem, which
is just ridiculous. All Caitlyn Clark has done is show
(33:06):
up to play.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Does she talks back during a game? Of course she does,
But that's that's that happens.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
During a game. Everybody talks back during game. That's nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But there's no there's no coming out after a game
and saying I can't believe this is happening and this
needs to go on, and this needs to go on.
All that she has been classy when she is.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Getting all kinds of flak from every side, and mainly
it's jealousy and it's other people who are upset.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
It's something that has nothing to do with her. And
that's what kind of pisses me off about this whole thing, Mike,
is that everybody says, oh, w ba's got a Kitlin
Clark problem. No, no, no, w wnbda's got a problem.
It's had nothing to do with Kitlyn Clark because she's
not doing anything. If she was coming out, she was
angel reacing it, and she was coming out and talking
all the time about how great she is and all this,
and I'm going down in history and I'm doing this, I'm.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Doing then I get it right.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I mean, look, hey, you come out and be outspoken,
You're gonna make yourself a target people.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Okay, let's see how good you really are. But she's
not done any of that.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
She's been quiet, she has taken everything that's gone her way,
and she has been really classy throughout this entire situation.
And that's what upsets me is that the optic is
there's a Caitlin Clark problem. Now everyone else has a problem.
She's the one that's actually fine with this. She's not
doing or saying anything to foster any sort of of
ill will. She's not out canvassing saying how do I
(34:22):
not make the Olympic team. I'd love to play if
they want me on. She's done none of that. And yet,
and yet, it seems like at every turn there are
people ingrained in the game of women's basketball that want
to come out and say, yeah, I don't like her,
I don't think she deserves it, whatever it is. They
want to come out and say how anti Caitlyn Clark
they are, when all she is coming into the WNBA
(34:44):
and lifting it up. But no, no, no, that's not
good enough. People still want to hate. And I got
to give her a lot of credit because it would
be enough for me to sit here and say, if
you don't want me, I'll find I'll go play a
different league. I'll go overseason playing Europe from millions and
millions and millions of dollars, I'll go play it. No,
but I'm coming to the WNBA. I want to help.
This is where I want to be. And still she's
being treated at arm's length, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Well that's you know, she's you say, there's it's not
the Clark problem, it's the other side of it. And
certainly from a commentator standpoint, we've talked about it at
nauseum the.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
You know folks saying well where were you? It's like, well,
we're here now, and yes, it's all learning curves. Like
when people try to talk Stanley Cup final, it's like
hockey guy might get mad for a minute and then realize,
wait a minute, you're talking hockey. This is cool.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
And I think that's the moment that kind of needs
to happen here for the WNBA women's basketball. We've been
talking about women's sports, you know, as a collective, you know,
with the US women's national team for soccer starting to
lead the way, and you see what extrapolates from there.
With Clark, she could teach pr classes the way she's
gone through. Angel Rees had that moment where it got
(35:52):
clipped off talking about you know, about me, and she
went to that a couple of times, but also been
pretty good to make sure to add, Hey, other folks
have been here, and that's true. Again, it's all about
the embracing and the reht rhetoric around it.
Speaker 8 (36:08):
You know.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
The closest Clark's ever come to stepping, you know, putt
her foot in her mouth was the you know, I
feel like I'm getting hammered, which made for a great
Saturday night bar run and a T shirt line that
you can just talk about, Hey, I'm going to a
festival which shirt? I feel like I'm getting hammered. Okay,
you can do that. But beyond that, you know, it's
(36:28):
all She just keeps getting up, take the hits, keep working.
It's the right attitude, the right way to go the
and eventually it'll wear off like that, and that anger
and that anxiousness that people have will eventually go away.
It won't subside anytime soon because ratings are too high
and there's too many other elements to it to get
people excitable in this echo chamber.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, it's it's just I feel like if you if
you hooked up a lie detector to the w NBA
players and that's said, what's your feeling about Kate Clark,
You get a lot of them who would say, I
love what she brings, but I wish she wasn't here.
We should have the attention that we're getting without her
being here. I think that's what they that's what they would.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Say, Oh sure, well, and unfortunately that's Fantasyland.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Not just Byce and Disney's. It's just insane. But she
has been nothing but class throughout this entire ordeal. More
on that, but coming up next we get back into
the biggest story in basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
What now for a team who got really embarrassed today
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