June 18, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike are joined by NBA Insider Ric Bucher to recap the Celtics hanging banner number 18. Ric explains why he was so shocked Jaylen Brown won Finals MVP over Jayson Tatum. And we play the world famous Magic Johnson Twitter game!
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(00:51):
a shocker. The Boston Celtics aire your NBA champions. Maybe
a shocker. As to who the MVP is we talked
about this last hour. There were three candidates heading into
Game five in any order. While Jason Tatum was at
at the top, Jalen Brown and he became co favorites.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Drew Holiday right there as well. I told you I
tried to make Drew Holiday happen?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You really did try? Did I clutch? I got you,
I got fetching it up, I got Drew. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Did I get Drew Holiday closer to the MVP or
the Lions closer to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
With my prediction it's closed. I got him right there.
I got him right there. Well, Holiday, I would say,
because it went from sixty six to one down to
uh twenty twenty three to one entering today, So I
mean that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Maybe, yeah, because I think I think I made it
happen more because the Celtics actually won, not my fault.
Dan Campbell decides, well, we're going to go for it
here and do this here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean they still cute though. Yeah, yeah, in the end,
you still got to make place.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, No, you're right. The Lions failed, like because a
couple of those they were actually makeable. And I think
to catch.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Its, right, you got to catch these passes. You gotta
find where the sticks are, I mean all of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
But the thing is I can only do so much. Eventually,
something else. I can get you eighty eighty five percent
of the way there, but someone's gotta take the last
fifteen I'm like a starting pitcher. I'm gonna go give
you one hundred and ten pitches. I'm a strikeout fifteen.
But someone's got to take care of the last inning,
inning and a half.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean, come on, I'll get you as close as
I can.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And and suddenly they're bringing in Edwin Diaz and suddenly, ah,
come on, man, it's not working. As soon as the
trumpet starts, it's done. Although maybe you should come into
hire by the Mariachi band. They should take that out
of the planet, take that out of Texas and bring
that back to New York. And always remember that the
Boston Celtics have won the first championship of the Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, here in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Sports kind of crazy, you know, in seventeen years to
the day, right of winning the last one.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Thirty year anniversary of the OJ Chase thirty years, Yeah,
of the Ojhase.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Thirty if someone put up the twenty minutes that you
didn't get to see because they were doing coverage of the.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thirty years, and I remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember it like it was yesterday, I really, because
it was Look, it was the it was the Knicks
and the Rockets and the Knicks needed to win, and
it was a big game, and suddenly O J. Simpson
because I remember I was faunting and the font, no,
the font. I was funting for ESPN for Sports Center,
and they called me up and said, hey, get up,
we're going live right now for a while. Okay, great,
And I had two TVs in front of me, one
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with the Knicks and one with the O. J.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Simpson car chase.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So we're up there, we're working, and it was insane.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I remember the whole time was going back and forth going,
I wonder what we're gonna lead the show with tonight.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
When we're gonna leave the show with tonight, it's gonna
be the Files? Is it going to be because the
Knicks win?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Of course, you know, the one went away that the
Knicks is gonna be OJ And then my boss came
going to go. Everybody jumped into their programming to show
the OJ chase. I think we're gonna lead with OJA.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just remember I was between my junior and senior
year at Northwestern and they cut to the chase and
I said, I don't keep a rats ass about this.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Put the NBA Finals back on man Uh. We'll have
more on that aspect of it in the anniversary in
a few minutes. But joining us now on the hotline,
nobody better and I say that the legend nobody better
than FS one insider extraordinary Rick Buker.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And he is stunned that the MVP award in the
NBA Finals did not go to Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Rick, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
As I said, I am somewhat stunned. I just if
I look at if I look at how things generally go,
guy with the best stat who has the biggest close
out game, that's where the voting goes. So I get
where they might have gone with Jalen Brown. I don't know,
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it's not it's not full on andre iguodala ish, but
it feels like Dalen was credited for hitting some key
shots along the way. I think shooting a slightly better
overall percentage and uh and then and then defending either
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Kyrie or Luca uh for the better part of the series.
Although I mean they constantly hunted mismatches, so how much
time he actually spent on him is debatable. And I
thought that on the flip side, Adam ends up leading
in assists, points, rebounds, had to carry a much bigger
playmaking role in the schemes and in Boston scheme, and
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defensively ended up having to defend Biggs because of christophin
Forzingis's of absence. So I just overall, I don't you know,
I'm just done. I mean, I just I thought everything
was set for the way this ended, that this was
going to be the redemption song for Jason Tatum. And
when it was, and when they said Dalen Brown won,
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I thought, you know, what did the voters did they
hear Tatum say, you know, I don't really care whether
it was where they were like, let's see how much
you don't care. Okay, let's just see.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
See.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Here's where I completely disagree, right because you saw how
hard he's going in the final six minutes of a
twenty five point game. He looked like he was a
walk on getting his first action in college basketball. He's
diving for loose balls into the stands. I'm setting up plays,
I'm roaring in for dunks like hey, I could taste
the NBA Finals, MVP.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Everybody else at three quarter speed. The game is over.
The series over.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
No, no, Jason Tatum is going just lights out with
six minutes to go.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Well, I'm gonna have to go back and look at
just I mean, because I thought he was already having
a good game and he may have finished it off.
But last night checked going into the fourth quarter, he
was their leading scorer. He'd racked up a bunch of assists.
So I'm not saying that he didn't see the opportunity
and said let me, let me put a stamp on it,
and he wouldn't be the first to do it, but
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I just I don't know again whether he whether he
went for it or not. The fact is that he
had a bigger closeout game than Jalen did. He had
the better stats overall over the course of the series,
and that generally wins it for you. So it's not
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that I can't I don't see a case being made
for Jalen. It's more based on the history of who
wins finals MVP. I am surprised that what Jason did
tonight didn't bring it home for him. And I saw
somebody tweeted I haven't double checked it. Somebody tweeted that
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going into the fourth quarter, that odds wise betting wise
that Jason Tatum was the favorite to win it going
into the fourth quarter. So like, I don't know what
happened in the fourth quarter, they would have changed that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, I saw that it had evened out and both
were at minus one. Rick, that was the last odds
I had seen to that point. I did appreciate that
you went straight to discussing Jalen Brown and gave no
mind to the fact that Smith tried to set you
up with a Jalen brunts and MVP man. Rick, just blight,
(08:14):
I'm not engaging your knicks crap.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
An anticipation of NBC getting getting the NBA broadcasting rights
or a piece of them back the NBC and the
the NBC or the NBA on NBC intro music was
so loud I could not hear Jason. So so what
I'm suggesting is that we do that every time.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Okay, good, good, and you just go to the question
that it should be.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The thing that's fascinating for me, Rick is now I
want a full off season documentary on Joe Missoula, because
every one of his players has given us a little
glimpse of his method to his madness as well as
some of his answers impressors, I find him absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, no, I agree, and and he brought it home.
I mean, I wrote a piece for Fox just sort
of a quick take off of the game, and I
felt like there were a number of Boston Celtics who
lived down their reputations tonight and one lived up to it.
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And Joe Mizula was one of those who lived it down.
That he was too young, he was too inexperienced, he
was two hands off. And when I look at the
what what he did in terms of attacking Luca, in
terms of studying the ship, just the matchups that he had,
how he used Christaps, I thought there was a lot
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of death moves that he made. And and to your point,
I thought he said all the right things in terms
of keeping their focus in the right place through throughout
this series. So Joe Mizoula, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, even Christopsforzingis,
I would say all of those guys lived down the
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reputations that they had certainly going into these into these playoffs.
And then the one guy who lived up to it
was Do Holiday, who, if anybody was making a case
for him as MVP. I wouldn't have an issue with that,
even because I just thought I thought he was just
so s He did so many intangible things in terms
of keeping this, like doing a lot of things that
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just don't show up in the box score. That just
steadied and answered the bell when when things would get
a little rough for Boston. And I think he did
that consistently throughout this throughout this series. If you wanted
to say, if there was any one guy who was
just consistently good the entire series, I'd say the two
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Holiday was first in that line.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh that was my That's who I picked before the series.
I could have got him at sixty plus sixty six hundred.
I could have got him at one hundred to one in.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Some places, because I thought the storyline of the this
is how the Celtics are going to win, right, Tatum
and Brown will split votes. You know there's an anti
Tatum miss out there. And if Holliday plays consistently well
and shuts Kyrie down, that's a bit through storyline.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But I don't know if it well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He was he didn't guard Kyrie enough, but all that happened,
he was great all the way through, and Kyrie was
terrible outside of one game.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
He really was. I mean to me, that was the
Houston Sinks, and there was two players. Each team had
a player who had a championship ring for you could
argue knew what it took to win a championship. And
Kyrie is still clearly battling whatever gremlins that exist with Boston.
He just the three games in Boston, it just looked
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like he he just he was forcing it at times.
And some of it is just match ups. I mean,
this is where when people get in you know, stan
Van Gundy and any number of people who were just
Reggie Miller, all of them, just like when Bonker is
in the Minnesota Series in in that, you know, Kyrie
Irving is all this and all that, and he's still
(12:07):
only sixty one sixty two and uh and I still
don't put him in the same category as uh as
Steph Curry in terms of his ability to uh to
manipulate a game and to utilize in spite of his size,
to be able to orchestrate an offense. He's good, and
it's and his and his individual skills. If you want
(12:29):
to say he's got the best handle, okay, I'll give
you he's got the best handle his ability to create shots,
his creativity. Uh, you want to give him an edge
over step? Okay, I would debate that. But okay, but
but all of that is well and good, but like,
can you win games? Can you? Can you do the
(12:49):
simple things in terms of decision making that win games?
And that's where Kyrie is still sort of up and
down and and it's still at a disadvantce. I mean,
some of it is just wise. I mean he's being
guarded by by Dalen Brown or Jason Tatum or Drew
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Holliday or Derek White, all of whom have size and
length on him, and that's going to make everything that
he does difficult. And so that's where we just sometimes,
you know, we get a little ahead of ourselves in
terms of there's one series and a guy just is fabulous,
and we don't take into account like, okay, well where
(13:35):
is he on the chart in terms of priorities in
stopping and is he taking advantage of that? And I
thought that Kyrie did took advantage of that in the
Minnesota series.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right, Rick, we had the confetti fall down. How
soon do we see the yellow and purple puff of smoke?
To announce a new coach and why was it a
JJ Reddick. But while in the middle of all the ceremony.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, I honestly, I wish I could give you an answer.
I don't think it's a matter of JJ. It's a
matter of what kind of UH support and assistance assistance
can they put around him in order to make this work.
This is why they came off of him when they
(14:18):
discovered that Dan Hurley was available, because they like the
idea of JJ, because he thinks out of the box
and he's got some unique perspectives. And that's also why
they're scared to tell of having him as their head coach,
because they're like, we tell, you know, we have a
set way of doing things, and we have established you know,
(14:40):
protocol and people who who who are decision makers here?
And how just how zany do we want to get
I mean, it's it's it's fun when you're having conversations
with someone who thinks out of the box and and
wants to move you in a different direction. But we're
working on a short timeline here with a D and Lebron.
I don't know that it's time to get super creative.
(15:02):
So I wish I could tell. I wish I could
give you like a definitive, but the fact is that
they came off of date. That the reporting on this
is what really cracks me up. Like everybody's saying that
Chims took a victory lap because now we're back to
jj Reddick because both that doesn't mean that they were
zeroing in on him before this, Like do we have
(15:22):
any other options? Oh? We do, Okay, let's go and
then oh we can't get that. Okay, let's go back
and see if if we can figure this out with JJ.
I wish I had an answer for you, but I
honestly I don't know. I don't know where this is
because it really it has less to do with JJ.
(15:44):
I think they'd like to hire him and make him
their head coach, but they're not going to do it
unless they have the right assistance to put next to him,
And my understanding is that that has been the difficulty
in putting together a staff that they feel can kind
of carry him as he learns how to be a
head coach for the first time ever in his life.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker,
Fox Sports One, NBA inside of check out the onma
Ball podcast. Rick as always, Buddy, appreciate it, my friend,
thanks for joining us all season, and we'll talk to
you really, really soon.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Appreciate it, Buddy. Off season begins tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Man, can't start to get new rules about signing man,
it's crazy soon as.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Soon as you know who's gonna take Bronnie James. That's
true too.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Uh So, there it is great stuff from Rick questioning
whether Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Really should have been the MVP.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Coming up next, it's time to circle back to a
big debate that was going on at the beginning of
the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
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Speaker 1 (17:37):
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Speaker 4 (17:42):
His name is Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
NBA title decided thirtieth anniversary of one of the seminal
moments in television viewing of our lifetimes, intersecting real crime,
which is such a huge marketplace and the sporting universe,
especially when your team was involved in at you want
to make it about a short winning street.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
We're in.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Dead ball era, live ball era, modern baseball history till
last week, and now the Grimace era. That's what it is.
Dead Ball era nineteen hund nineteen twenty, Live ball era
nineteen twenty to nineteen eighty, Modern era nineteen eighty till
last week.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Currently in the Grimace Era. Yeah, but isn't it also
intersecting the Soup Dog era. It's uh, I mean he
was really.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Good, damn entertaining on that Brewer's Reds broadcast.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Grimace era. Grimace era because two people watch he's purple. Uh. Now,
I just want to circle back. He's arguing about the Mets.
What are you doing in the hand side?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Hey, congratulations to the Celtics, who we're the first championship
of the Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I will be crushing the hell out of them. What
can I do? It's really hard to argue against. I know.
I want to circle.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Back to a to a point that a lot of
people really were captured as prisoners of the moment before
the NBA Finals, and I wanted to circle back to
this this argument, And I asked, because I don't know
the answer. I like to think I know the answer
a lot of things. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are Luca and Kyrie still the best backcourt to ever
play in the NBA?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Look? Man, he still He's got a team of writers
and producers. Are still the best?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Set have a higher population than some of the states
of our country.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Some crazy ideas they're going to show up on a grease?
Are they still?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I mean, it was so many people couldn't have come
up with anything else to talk about. Look out great
because you know, a couple of games they each had
thirty points.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, best backcourt of all time.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Meanwhile, you and I are flipping pencils up into the
ceiling like we're Letterman back in the day, going all right,
we're playing dozens.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right, you got a duo. I got a duo.
You got a duo. I gotta do. We got to
like thirty five pencils in the ceiling, and we didn't
get past, you know, three minutes of a commercial.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It'd be one thing if we didn't just watch a
team win four titles with a backcourt that won four times.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Ever heard of him?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You know, one of the guy's unfollowed his team. Did
you hear that, Hey we can do something about that. Yeah, again,
just so you know, it's want to go back to
that big you know, because apparently because they had a
couple of big moments, the best NBA backcourt of all time.
Because I'm out of things to say and this, we
always get to that point and Isaiah Thomas, come on,
(20:23):
you gotta.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Explain the millennials with Joe.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
They think Isaiah Thomas just a guy that ruined the Knicks,
just a guy that was l Jordan, and Joe Dumores
is a guy that finds everybody in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean that's it. They don't know. Those guys are
Come on, man, you can just do magic. And I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Nothing gets to a point that's more embarrassing than during
the NBA playoffs when I know that because people can't
talk about the NBA every day, let's really make something.
I don't know what to say. Oh yeah, I got
never a right okay, not even close.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Not even close. You know, I know if it's the
best backcourt in the NBA, not even closed, not even closed.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You got a bunch of backcourts with four or five
finals between them, and these are players who were star players.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh, best backcourt ever, because hey, look at this they're on.
They're in a nice run in the second round of
the Western Converence playoffs. Oh man, I'll tell you. But
just wanted to check in on that. Just want to
check Okay, good because something important to check in on.
But right now, uh, it's time Alex tyshirt hot route.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
ChEls down, pencil's down, close your book finals have only
been over and books pencils down. Pass your tests up
to the front. Nobody can look at that. Do that emphatically.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That was very nice. That was very emphatic.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The Magic Johnson Twitter game the greatest radio game ever.
Magic Johnson, the most obvious vanilla tweeter you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So what we do is we give you a tweet, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And your job is to figure out if it's a
Magic john And tweet or made up entirely by me.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know what was great about this is that as
you introduced this, Steve was working on some stats.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
His head popped up like he was amused. Do you
hear the music? Like he was a mercat in all
of those nature videos. 's Pavlov's dog.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
At this point, it's like one of those cooking shows
at time.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Step away from your plate, step away from your plate.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's like Guy Fieri going ten seconds, five seconds finished plating, now, finished, plating.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It was so great.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, So playing as myself, Mike carbon Steve to say,
you're Alex Tyshert justin Frosburg.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Are you ready? Let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Congratulations to Jalen Brown on winning NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Oh please wow.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Congratulations to Jami Brown on winning NBA Finals MV.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It doesn't say you know I did that? No, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Congratulations to Jayleen Brown on winning NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I figured he would follow up with some stats on that,
but I'll say yes, that a Magic Johnstone.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Want to I am pulled to say yeah. Just when
I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.
All right, you're saying yes, Okay, I mean it's.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
The most obvious info out there. Yeah, all right, ty shirt?
Is it open ended? Exclamation point period? Exclamation point? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, Magic Johnson's happy. I'll say yes, that is
a magic sweet all right, so let me get this street.
He's happy for a Celtic.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Wow, Wow, I'm gonna give back the autograph card I
just thought of him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did Magic Johnson tweet out I hate that the Celtics
have more championships.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Than we do now, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Breaking the record with the Lavery. I hate that the
Celtics have more championships than we do now? Is that
a magic John's tweet?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yes? From the SEGA harmon.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
If in fact this is a yes, you have to
reply with don't forget you got your eighteenth at the
mid season.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, okay, all right? For is that the exact quote?
That is the exact quote? He did not say that?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, no, he's a Celtic fan now so no, because
he doesn't like Rob Polinka.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
He's actually turned. This is the ultimate heel.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh that's a heeled turn if there was. He's part
of the Wyatt six man. He's putting up videos with
himself wearing a Larry Bird jersey.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Hey, look at the Celtics. We won. I exclaiming Tatum
is gonna be like LeVar Ball.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I hate that the Celtics officially have more championships than us.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Now that is a magic tweet. You know what t shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm gonna get you a Lasberg's upset.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Hang on Forrofberg's upset. Oh you said we.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Than us? He said us than us? Now more championships
than answer? Okay, okay, you can't.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Change your answer. Already have the question. You changed the question.
It's a Ronnie Piper kind of situation.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
There was not correct grammar in NBA any NBA pla
tweet I saw tonight, all right, plenty and I mean
literally not one of them.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
All right, you have to go to the grammar police
to uh to trade gun down. All right, very good,
all right, here we.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Go the grammar boys. Oh no, sorry, it was Glamor Boys.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Magic Johnson Celtics GM Brad Stevens trading for Drew Holliday
and Christops Porzingis.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Was an MVP move. Oh that's a good one. It's again,
that's a middle finger to Rob Polak. Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Is he trying to appreciate that because he had the
title of general manager that he quit without telling his BOMs.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, you know, I think season what do you watch everybody?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He just did it in a press conference and inly, Yeah,
Celtics GM bradst he was trading for brute, Drew Holliday
and Christops Porzingis was an MVP move? Is that Magic
Johnson's tweet? I'll say no, all right, Frostburg.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
He's congratulating the guy that again, Yes, because he he's
just saying the obvious, okay, shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It's a tough one for me, Jason, it is. It
is difficult because he is a Celtics fan now, so
he would say that that is.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
A mat.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Celtics fan. Baby, guys are pretty good. Come on now, now,
let's go. Let's get a little bit deeper.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Joe Mizzoula really improved as a coach this year and
had the Celtics prepared for every round of the playoffs?
Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Kind of a swipe?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Joe Mizula really improves the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Head coach this year and had the Celtics prepared for
every round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Said he kind of sucked last year? Is really what
he's saying? Really? After his failure?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Good from the start this year.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Weren't they seem like it?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna say no, yeah, okay, no, so no
from Harmon, no to Sager and I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We can't talk anymore because we changed each other. No,
it's Sam Shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Who is the name of the guy? You said again?
And the name of the Celtic X coach the Celtics. Yes, yes, absolutely, it's.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
That guy.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I don't even know who that was. Who was it?
I need to know? You know what?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know when you go into the store and you
buy a Mozola corn oil? Yeah, that's his his whole family.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm not that huge. Dude doesn't need to work.
That's that's how he got the job. Dude doesn't need
to work. No, wait, wait do you see the patches
on the on the Celtics jerseys? Next year, it's gonna
be insane.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
That's how Michelle got the sideline job tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's right, that's Is that a Magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I'm gonna say no, that is a magic Wow Johnson.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Look at that, only tight Shirt had faith Celtics fan
Magic Johnson. I'm calling erroneous. That was counts a lifetime
of hate gone in a single tweet.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Despite the loss. I was incredibly proud of Luka Doncic
and the effort he and the Mavericks had. Is that
a Magic Johnson tweet? Despite the loss? I prove the
effort that look at Dontics and the rest of the
Dallas Mavericks had.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Michael Magic Johnson is like Mike Singletary. He likes winners.
He's not congratulating losers tonight, no good.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Does he even know the Mavericks plate.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Can't coach him, can't tweet with him, can't do it.
Now on point guard, I'll go ahead and say, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, ty shirt, Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? Absolutely not.
He's congratulating not the Celtics. So no, he's a Celtics fan.
Come on, that is.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Not He's a Celtics fan. Is a Celtics man.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The playoffs are a game of matchups, and the Celtics
were too much of a challenge for the MAVs.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Wow, is that a Magic Johnson forgive tweet? Forgive me
why I take a running start into this wall play?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And the Celtics were too much of a challenge for
the Maps. We could have written that two weeks ago. Yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That tweet sucks as much as Game five d yes.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Most of the others okay, most of the other tweets and.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
All right, justin yeah, why not? Okay? Tight shirt boy?
Speaker 7 (29:26):
There were only nine point six million viewers on that tweet,
similar to the last NBA game.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Everybody who watched the game follows Magic Johnson on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Apparently Celtics This that is a Magic Johnson tweet. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Time to go get our next banner next year? Hashtag
purple and gold. Oh, let's go. Time to get our
next bat next year? Hashtag perfon Wait for the answer
that tysher to ask for this one. I'm gonna say yes,
that fits, so I'll say yes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
No, we gotta stick with the theme full he's a
Celtic fan. Now purple goal. Okay, this guy's really gonna
lie to America right now.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
My favorite Christmas dude.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Acting like he's not a Celtics fan. No, there's no
way that's not him. Well that is, he's a liar
If it is not, I knew Johnson tweet.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You know what, I'm gonna take it just because I
liked it and it let me sing Burl lives.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We better keep Lebron? Is that a magic? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Johnson tweet? There's gotta be more now please minutes ago?
Is that a magic Johnson's tweet from three minutes?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well, you know, teams can resign their guys Lebron. They
can talk. Yeah, they can.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Talk right now, all right, because it is after midnight
East Coat, so we're we're all gonna be peaches and
cream after midnight, all right, I want peaches and cream.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I did see a guy eating a peach at a
Kiosk in the mall this week, which is kind of
odd because he was working.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It just I think he hates Lebron more than the Celtics.
So ty Shirt, what you said, we better keep Lebron.
We better keep Lebron next year? Okay, but Celtics don't
have Lebron him.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, okay, that is tell me no, we have to
know tweet.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But I like Tyshert's creativity and how he the destinies
the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Man, that was a far better past. I'll tell you,
tyss one. I think I missed too. Yeah, it's been
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Williams, Jason, that's right. Wow, Hey, what sport to Ted Williams.
Justin said the name, so I went with it. He's like, actually,
I'm the Ted Williams tonight. I'm batting four oh six.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Oh, very very nice. Again, let's find out which one
of you is more likely to be cried Jess, Venus's brother.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Let's yes, you're right it is Ted Williams yet, right,
Yeah yeah, yeah he got you see a little bit
older brother. Yeah yeah, he was a big quarterback in football. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
You know. I wish she had hurt his knee though, Steve.
Let's let go splinter.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Let's find out from the thumper what is trending tonight
in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
As Ed Williams, star of Frozen, three.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Oh good of the NBA, brother of Venus and Williams,
and tonight the whole season's over people get you.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Final, Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Boston over Dallas one oh six eighty eight. Celtics led
by twenty one points at the half. They're kind of
good at home and pretty good overall. Remember how this
series started with a home game of the Celtics leading
by twenty nine in the first half. They took that,
they took Game two, They won again tonight. Regular season
Boston's home record was thirty seven and four thirty seven,
(33:01):
that is correct. Jason Tatum thirty one points, eleven assists tonight.
Jalen Brown named Finals MVP. Remember Dallas, speaking of lopsided,
had won well by a fair margin at home last
week to keep this season going, and then ended the
season with this l tonight. You know, last game, with
about six minutes left, Dallas was up by forty eight.
(33:24):
They didn't get forty eight the entire first half of
this game tonight, and they were down big. Boston Celtics. Remember,
had the game won at home, the Porzingis game, and
the game two win at home the holiday game. But again,
Jalen Brown is Finals MVP. Stanley Cup Game five is tomorrow.
By the way, the Celtics join these teams in winning
(33:45):
an NBA title after a full regular season, but not
beating a single team in the playoffs that won more
than fifty games in that regular season. In NBA history,
it had only happened twice, and now it's happened two
years in a row. Now Gets had that run last year.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So what you're saying, Seltics?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
This year the Lakers in season tournament championship more impressive
than the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I was going to the water. I can't quite drink.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Okay, all right? That one.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Major League Baseball, the Mets won their six game in
a row, fourteen to two at Texas. The Mets record, suddenly, people,
is thirty four and thirty seven. And since everybody and
their brother gets in the playoffs, I'll go ahead and
say it onto the postseason for these New York Mets people.
Francisco Lindor four for four Tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
J D.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Martinez was named NL Player of the Week. Today, Dodgers
were up nine to one in the ninth and won
at Colorado nine to five. Mookie Betts today when on
the injured list. He's out six to eight weeks with
a broken hand. Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo could miss
four to six weeks with a broken arm. Yankee pitcher
Garrett Cole will make his season debut on Wednesday after
(34:52):
an elbow injury. He won the Cy Young Award last
year and it was unanimous. The A's have lost nine
in a row. Off tonight. They've been off a lot
of nights. They'll be hosting Kansas City and then Minnesota
starting tomorrow. The Twins have won five straight. They're off tonight.
They'll be hosting Tampa Bay on Tuesday. Minnesota won a
doubleheader yesterday.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
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Speaker 4 (35:17):
Now that the NBA Finals is.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Over, what I am really waiting for the league to do, Like,
there's one thing I can't wait to see that they do.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And if they really are going to be.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
A I would say, if they're gonna be true to themselves,
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Speaker 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
You know it's funny you played that alex Ty shirt
because now that these Celtics win the NBA title, yeah
right now, if the NBA is going to be true
to themselves as do I'm going all the way back
to the beginning of the year. What the outline they
wanted this season to be about. I am waiting this
(37:02):
is I'm waiting for a full recognition. What I'm really
waiting for is the the tweet to come out from
the official NBA account. That's a split screen that says,
congratulations to both our champions this year, and it's and
it's Lebron on one side with the I T Trophy,
and it's it's Jalen Brown or Jason Tatum on the
(37:24):
other side with the Larry O'Brien track.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I don't think Jalen Brown's keep gotten the picture with
it yet. No, No, well, Jason Tatum, I believe still
left with it. He might have gone Yoda with that
son of a gun. Nobody else put it in a
backpack building. He was holding on to that thing once
he got into the trophy celebration. Nobody else was getting it.
He's had that whole thing.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Hey, but hey, Jayleen, you got that m VP right,
This one's mine.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
But if you are, if you are the NBA, don't
you have to do that, because I think so, I'd
sell the hell congratulations to our two champions, Lakers on
one side, Celtics on the Lebron's still the face of
your league. It's a guy that moves needles, So why
would you not do that? I put out there, if
nothing else, just to piss people off and keep engagement.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
You'll get more tweets on that. By far.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Then you had viewers for the second half of this game.
Soon as Pritchard hit that shot, they were already running
the line underneath the game going, Hey, don't worry, Wheel
of Fortune is gonna be on about nine o'clock and
Jeopardy after locally.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Here in La And I think we're waiting the countdown
right to the end of the patch Age era.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Only five episodes. It's done.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
No, But I just saw him on a couple of
seconds ago. He was just on. I just saw him.
He was just He's still on. I think his shows
are still running beyond in perpetuity. Yeah, but I think
his shows still running this ye only it's like the
end of Friends when they would keep playing that maya
Mortal by evan essence. Only five episodes remain until Friends
is ending, only three episodes left. Friends is ending A
(38:51):
Very Special Friend, only two episodes are left.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
They would play the maya mortal.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh Friends, join us to say goodbye to the Friends
for one last time, Join us to say goodbye to Pat,
Say Jack one last time. You had a good run, Jay,
blank blank, and us to say good blank blank blank
to Pat s a blank ak one last time?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Uh so Jack? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I like that? Put it back in the land of
sitcoms when I was heading to sweeps and longtime shows
were saying goodbye.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Only five episodes remained before the two episodes prior to
the mid season finale of Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Wait is not the season premiere.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It's the episode after the season premiere.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Thank You Do the Math? It was the episode after.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Only six episodes remain until the special double episode that
precedes the three episodes prior to the two episodes that
is the mid season finale of Chicago Med.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
No, that's that's a lot of math that I got
to do in my head. So I'm gonna burns you
if you keep doing this. Yeah, no stop.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Only eighty six more episodes of things that have to
do with Chicago on broadcast television in the next couple
of months.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
No no, no, you're killing off the.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Entire nbcasting schedule between that and game shows.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
That's all they got. Man, it's oh my god.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
They got to bring back r before it's all said
and done. But yeah, Pat Sanjak was in fact on
our television screen. And then they did a montage of
all the food that they'd done through the year and
they experienced during their travels. Deep Dish Pizza figured prominently
help us.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Say goodbye to Lebron James and the Lakers one final
time as we celebrate the Celtics trophy.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Well as we celebrate him making it makes split screen.
Make that split screen same same uh real estate halfway
down the middle, so it's half Lakers and half cel
Then you.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Have a montage of the nd season tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Pick your song, okay, and then it does a star
wipe to the left, and then you bring in the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
No, no, no, it goes back and forth between the two.
You're making the equal champions. They're equal, two champions, they're equal.
The ball is tip there you go, and then you
cut to something else, Yeah, which version. You gotta be
losing those new Kids on the Block, right, You got
something with Donnie Wall.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Two of those guys there though, because it was McIntyre
and and Donnie.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
That's okay, it's still two of the kids that are
the new kids. Don't need all the kids, some of
the kids new kids on the Block. You're champions.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Coming up next to the most unlikely of NBA champions.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
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a shocker. The Boston Celtics aire your NBA champions. Maybe
a shocker. As to who the MVP is we talked
about this last hour. There were three candidates heading into
Game five in any order. While Jason Tatum was at
at the top, Jalen Brown and he became co favorites.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Drew Holiday right there as well. I told you I
tried to make Drew Holiday happen?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You really did try? Did I clutch? I got you,
I got fetching it up, I got Drew. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Did I get Drew Holiday closer to the MVP or
the Lions closer to the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
With my prediction it's closed. I got him right there.
I got him right there. Well, Holiday, I would say,
because it went from sixty six to one down to
uh twenty twenty three to one entering today, So I
mean that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Maybe, yeah, because I think I think I made it
happen more because the Celtics actually won, not my fault.
Dan Campbell decides, well, we're going to go for it
here and do this here.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean they still cute though. Yeah, yeah, in the end,
you still got to make place.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, No, you're right. The Lions failed, like because a
couple of those they were actually makeable. And I think
to catch.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Its, right, you got to catch these passes. You gotta
find where the sticks are, I mean all of those things.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
But the thing is I can only do so much. Eventually,
something else. I can get you eighty eighty five percent
of the way there, but someone's gotta take the last
fifteen I'm like a starting pitcher. I'm gonna go give
you one hundred and ten pitches. I'm a strikeout fifteen.
But someone's got to take care of the last inning,
inning and a half.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean, come on, I'll get you as close as
I can.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And and suddenly they're bringing in Edwin Diaz and suddenly, ah,
come on, man, it's not working. As soon as the
trumpet starts, it's done. Although maybe you should come into
hire by the Mariachi band. They should take that out
of the planet, take that out of Texas and bring
that back to New York. And always remember that the
Boston Celtics have won the first championship of the Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Yeah, here in the world.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Sports kind of crazy, you know, in seventeen years to
the day, right of winning the last one.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Thirty year anniversary of the OJ Chase thirty years, Yeah,
of the Ojhase.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Thirty if someone put up the twenty minutes that you
didn't get to see because they were doing coverage of the.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thirty years, and I remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember it like it was yesterday, I really, because
it was Look, it was the it was the Knicks
and the Rockets and the Knicks needed to win, and
it was a big game, and suddenly O J. Simpson
because I remember I was faunting and the font, no,
the font. I was funting for ESPN for Sports Center,
and they called me up and said, hey, get up,
we're going live right now for a while. Okay, great,
And I had two TVs in front of me, one
(03:23):
with the Knicks and one with the O. J.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Simpson car chase.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
So we're up there, we're working, and it was insane.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I remember the whole time was going back and forth going,
I wonder what we're gonna lead the show with tonight.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
When we're gonna leave the show with tonight, it's gonna
be the Files? Is it going to be because the
Knicks win?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Of course, you know, the one went away that the
Knicks is gonna be OJ And then my boss came
going to go. Everybody jumped into their programming to show
the OJ chase. I think we're gonna lead with OJA.
I'm like, oh, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I just remember I was between my junior and senior
year at Northwestern and they cut to the chase and
I said, I don't keep a rats ass about this.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Put the NBA Finals back on man Uh. We'll have
more on that aspect of it in the anniversary in
a few minutes. But joining us now on the hotline,
nobody better and I say that the legend nobody better
than FS one insider extraordinary Rick Buker.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And he is stunned that the MVP award in the
NBA Finals did not go to Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Rick, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
As I said, I am somewhat stunned. I just if
I look at if I look at how things generally go,
guy with the best stat who has the biggest close
out game, that's where the voting goes. So I get
where they might have gone with Jalen Brown. I don't know,
(04:47):
it's not it's not full on andre iguodala ish, but
it feels like Dalen was credited for hitting some key
shots along the way. I think shooting a slightly better
overall percentage and uh and then and then defending either
(05:07):
Kyrie or Luca uh for the better part of the series.
Although I mean they constantly hunted mismatches, so how much
time he actually spent on him is debatable. And I
thought that on the flip side, Adam ends up leading
in assists, points, rebounds, had to carry a much bigger
playmaking role in the schemes and in Boston scheme, and
(05:31):
defensively ended up having to defend Biggs because of christophin
Forzingis's of absence. So I just overall, I don't you know,
I'm just done. I mean, I just I thought everything
was set for the way this ended, that this was
going to be the redemption song for Jason Tatum. And
when it was, and when they said Dalen Brown won,
(05:54):
I thought, you know, what did the voters did they
hear Tatum say, you know, I don't really care whether
it was where they were like, let's see how much
you don't care. Okay, let's just see.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
See.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Here's where I completely disagree, right because you saw how
hard he's going in the final six minutes of a
twenty five point game. He looked like he was a
walk on getting his first action in college basketball. He's
diving for loose balls into the stands. I'm setting up plays,
I'm roaring in for dunks like hey, I could taste
the NBA Finals, MVP.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Everybody else at three quarter speed. The game is over.
The series over.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
No, no, Jason Tatum is going just lights out with
six minutes to go.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Well, I'm gonna have to go back and look at
just I mean, because I thought he was already having
a good game and he may have finished it off.
But last night checked going into the fourth quarter, he
was their leading scorer. He'd racked up a bunch of assists.
So I'm not saying that he didn't see the opportunity
and said let me, let me put a stamp on it,
and he wouldn't be the first to do it, but
(06:55):
I just I don't know again whether he whether he
went for it or not. The fact is that he
had a bigger closeout game than Jalen did. He had
the better stats overall over the course of the series,
and that generally wins it for you. So it's not
(07:17):
that I can't I don't see a case being made
for Jalen. It's more based on the history of who
wins finals MVP. I am surprised that what Jason did
tonight didn't bring it home for him. And I saw
somebody tweeted I haven't double checked it. Somebody tweeted that
(07:37):
going into the fourth quarter, that odds wise betting wise
that Jason Tatum was the favorite to win it going
into the fourth quarter. So like, I don't know what
happened in the fourth quarter, they would have changed that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, I saw that it had evened out and both
were at minus one. Rick, that was the last odds
I had seen to that point. I did appreciate that
you went straight to discussing Jalen Brown and gave no
mind to the fact that Smith tried to set you
up with a Jalen brunts and MVP man. Rick, just blight,
(08:14):
I'm not engaging your knicks crap.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
An anticipation of NBC getting getting the NBA broadcasting rights
or a piece of them back the NBC and the
the NBC or the NBA on NBC intro music was
so loud I could not hear Jason. So so what
I'm suggesting is that we do that every time.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Okay, good, good, and you just go to the question
that it should be.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The thing that's fascinating for me, Rick is now I
want a full off season documentary on Joe Missoula, because
every one of his players has given us a little
glimpse of his method to his madness as well as
some of his answers impressors, I find him absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, no, I agree, and and he brought it home.
I mean, I wrote a piece for Fox just sort
of a quick take off of the game, and I
felt like there were a number of Boston Celtics who
lived down their reputations tonight and one lived up to it.
(09:23):
And Joe Mizula was one of those who lived it down.
That he was too young, he was too inexperienced, he
was two hands off. And when I look at the
what what he did in terms of attacking Luca, in
terms of studying the ship, just the matchups that he had,
how he used Christaps, I thought there was a lot
(09:44):
of death moves that he made. And and to your point,
I thought he said all the right things in terms
of keeping their focus in the right place through throughout
this series. So Joe Mizoula, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, even Christopsforzingis,
I would say all of those guys lived down the
(10:07):
reputations that they had certainly going into these into these playoffs.
And then the one guy who lived up to it
was Do Holiday, who, if anybody was making a case
for him as MVP. I wouldn't have an issue with that,
even because I just thought I thought he was just
so s He did so many intangible things in terms
of keeping this, like doing a lot of things that
(10:29):
just don't show up in the box score. That just
steadied and answered the bell when when things would get
a little rough for Boston. And I think he did
that consistently throughout this throughout this series. If you wanted
to say, if there was any one guy who was
just consistently good the entire series, I'd say the two
(10:49):
Holiday was first in that line.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh that was my That's who I picked before the series.
I could have got him at sixty plus sixty six hundred.
I could have got him at one hundred to one in.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Some places, because I thought the storyline of the this
is how the Celtics are going to win, right, Tatum
and Brown will split votes. You know there's an anti
Tatum miss out there. And if Holliday plays consistently well
and shuts Kyrie down, that's a bit through storyline.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But I don't know if it well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He was he didn't guard Kyrie enough, but all that happened,
he was great all the way through, and Kyrie was
terrible outside of one game.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
He really was. I mean to me, that was the
Houston Sinks, and there was two players. Each team had
a player who had a championship ring for you could
argue knew what it took to win a championship. And
Kyrie is still clearly battling whatever gremlins that exist with Boston.
He just the three games in Boston, it just looked
(11:46):
like he he just he was forcing it at times.
And some of it is just match ups. I mean,
this is where when people get in you know, stan
Van Gundy and any number of people who were just
Reggie Miller, all of them, just like when Bonker is
in the Minnesota Series in in that, you know, Kyrie
Irving is all this and all that, and he's still
(12:07):
only sixty one sixty two and uh and I still
don't put him in the same category as uh as
Steph Curry in terms of his ability to uh to
manipulate a game and to utilize in spite of his size,
to be able to orchestrate an offense. He's good, and
it's and his and his individual skills. If you want
(12:29):
to say he's got the best handle, okay, I'll give
you he's got the best handle his ability to create shots,
his creativity. Uh, you want to give him an edge
over step? Okay, I would debate that. But okay, but
but all of that is well and good, but like,
can you win games? Can you? Can you do the
(12:49):
simple things in terms of decision making that win games?
And that's where Kyrie is still sort of up and
down and and it's still at a disadvantce. I mean,
some of it is just wise. I mean he's being
guarded by by Dalen Brown or Jason Tatum or Drew
(13:12):
Holliday or Derek White, all of whom have size and
length on him, and that's going to make everything that
he does difficult. And so that's where we just sometimes,
you know, we get a little ahead of ourselves in
terms of there's one series and a guy just is fabulous,
and we don't take into account like, okay, well where
(13:35):
is he on the chart in terms of priorities in
stopping and is he taking advantage of that? And I
thought that Kyrie did took advantage of that in the
Minnesota series.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right, Rick, we had the confetti fall down. How
soon do we see the yellow and purple puff of smoke?
To announce a new coach and why was it a
JJ Reddick. But while in the middle of all the ceremony.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, I honestly, I wish I could give you an answer.
I don't think it's a matter of JJ. It's a
matter of what kind of UH support and assistance assistance
can they put around him in order to make this work.
This is why they came off of him when they
(14:18):
discovered that Dan Hurley was available, because they like the
idea of JJ, because he thinks out of the box
and he's got some unique perspectives. And that's also why
they're scared to tell of having him as their head coach,
because they're like, we tell, you know, we have a
set way of doing things, and we have established you know,
(14:40):
protocol and people who who who are decision makers here?
And how just how zany do we want to get
I mean, it's it's it's fun when you're having conversations
with someone who thinks out of the box and and
wants to move you in a different direction. But we're
working on a short timeline here with a D and Lebron.
I don't know that it's time to get super creative.
(15:02):
So I wish I could tell. I wish I could
give you like a definitive, but the fact is that
they came off of date. That the reporting on this
is what really cracks me up. Like everybody's saying that
Chims took a victory lap because now we're back to
jj Reddick because both that doesn't mean that they were
zeroing in on him before this, Like do we have
(15:22):
any other options? Oh? We do, Okay, let's go and
then oh we can't get that. Okay, let's go back
and see if if we can figure this out with JJ.
I wish I had an answer for you, but I
honestly I don't know. I don't know where this is
because it really it has less to do with JJ.
(15:44):
I think they'd like to hire him and make him
their head coach, but they're not going to do it
unless they have the right assistance to put next to him,
And my understanding is that that has been the difficulty
in putting together a staff that they feel can kind
of carry him as he learns how to be a
head coach for the first time ever in his life.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He's on Twitter at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker,
Fox Sports One, NBA inside of check out the onma
Ball podcast. Rick as always, Buddy, appreciate it, my friend,
thanks for joining us all season, and we'll talk to
you really, really soon.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
My pleasure.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Appreciate it, Buddy. Off season begins tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Man, can't start to get new rules about signing man,
it's crazy soon as.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Soon as you know who's gonna take Bronnie James. That's
true too.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Uh So, there it is great stuff from Rick questioning
whether Jason Tatum.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Really should have been the MVP.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Coming up next, it's time to circle back to a
big debate that was going on at the beginning of
the NBA Finals.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
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Speaker 4 (17:31):
We're in the Grima Serah. We are in the grim
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Speaker 1 (17:37):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best Friend.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
His name is Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
NBA title decided thirtieth anniversary of one of the seminal
moments in television viewing of our lifetimes, intersecting real crime,
which is such a huge marketplace and the sporting universe,
especially when your team was involved in at you want
to make it about a short winning street.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
We're in.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Dead ball era, live ball era, modern baseball history till
last week, and now the Grimace era. That's what it is.
Dead Ball era nineteen hund nineteen twenty, Live ball era
nineteen twenty to nineteen eighty, Modern era nineteen eighty till
last week.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Currently in the Grimace Era. Yeah, but isn't it also
intersecting the Soup Dog era. It's uh, I mean he
was really.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Good, damn entertaining on that Brewer's Reds broadcast.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Grimace era. Grimace era because two people watch he's purple. Uh. Now,
I just want to circle back. He's arguing about the Mets.
What are you doing in the hand side?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Hey, congratulations to the Celtics, who we're the first championship
of the Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I will be crushing the hell out of them. What
can I do? It's really hard to argue against. I know.
I want to circle.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Back to a to a point that a lot of
people really were captured as prisoners of the moment before
the NBA Finals, and I wanted to circle back to
this this argument, And I asked, because I don't know
the answer. I like to think I know the answer
a lot of things. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Are Luca and Kyrie still the best backcourt to ever
play in the NBA?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Look? Man, he still He's got a team of writers
and producers. Are still the best?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Set have a higher population than some of the states
of our country.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Some crazy ideas they're going to show up on a grease?
Are they still?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I mean, it was so many people couldn't have come
up with anything else to talk about. Look out great
because you know, a couple of games they each had
thirty points.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yeah, best backcourt of all time.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Meanwhile, you and I are flipping pencils up into the
ceiling like we're Letterman back in the day, going all right,
we're playing dozens.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
All right, you got a duo. I got a duo.
You got a duo. I gotta do. We got to
like thirty five pencils in the ceiling, and we didn't
get past, you know, three minutes of a commercial.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It'd be one thing if we didn't just watch a
team win four titles with a backcourt that won four times.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Ever heard of him?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
You know, one of the guy's unfollowed his team. Did
you hear that, Hey we can do something about that. Yeah, again,
just so you know, it's want to go back to
that big you know, because apparently because they had a
couple of big moments, the best NBA backcourt of all time.
Because I'm out of things to say and this, we
always get to that point and Isaiah Thomas, come on,
(20:23):
you gotta.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Explain the millennials with Joe.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
They think Isaiah Thomas just a guy that ruined the Knicks,
just a guy that was l Jordan, and Joe Dumores
is a guy that finds everybody in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I mean that's it. They don't know. Those guys are
Come on, man, you can just do magic. And I mean.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Nothing gets to a point that's more embarrassing than during
the NBA playoffs when I know that because people can't
talk about the NBA every day, let's really make something.
I don't know what to say. Oh yeah, I got
never a right okay, not even close.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Not even close. You know, I know if it's the
best backcourt in the NBA, not even closed, not even closed.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You got a bunch of backcourts with four or five
finals between them, and these are players who were star players.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Oh, best backcourt ever, because hey, look at this they're on.
They're in a nice run in the second round of
the Western Converence playoffs. Oh man, I'll tell you. But
just wanted to check in on that. Just want to
check Okay, good because something important to check in on.
But right now, uh, it's time Alex tyshirt hot route.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
ChEls down, pencil's down, close your book finals have only
been over and books pencils down. Pass your tests up
to the front. Nobody can look at that. Do that emphatically.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That was very nice. That was very emphatic.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
The Magic Johnson Twitter game the greatest radio game ever.
Magic Johnson, the most obvious vanilla tweeter you've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
So what we do is we give you a tweet, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And your job is to figure out if it's a
Magic john And tweet or made up entirely by me.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You know what was great about this is that as
you introduced this, Steve was working on some stats.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
His head popped up like he was amused. Do you
hear the music? Like he was a mercat in all
of those nature videos. 's Pavlov's dog.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
At this point, it's like one of those cooking shows
at time.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Step away from your plate, step away from your plate.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's like Guy Fieri going ten seconds, five seconds finished plating, now, finished, plating.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
It was so great.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, So playing as myself, Mike carbon Steve to say,
you're Alex Tyshert justin Frosburg.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Are you ready? Let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Congratulations to Jalen Brown on winning NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Oh please wow.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Congratulations to Jami Brown on winning NBA Finals MV.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It doesn't say you know I did that? No, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Congratulations to Jayleen Brown on winning NBA Finals MVP.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I figured he would follow up with some stats on that,
but I'll say yes, that a Magic Johnstone.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
Want to I am pulled to say yeah. Just when
I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.
All right, you're saying yes, Okay, I mean it's.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
The most obvious info out there. Yeah, all right, ty shirt?
Is it open ended? Exclamation point period? Exclamation point? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, yeah, Magic Johnson's happy. I'll say yes, that is
a magic sweet all right, so let me get this street.
He's happy for a Celtic.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
That's what he said.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Wow, Wow, I'm gonna give back the autograph card I
just thought of him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did Magic Johnson tweet out I hate that the Celtics
have more championships.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Than we do now, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Breaking the record with the Lavery. I hate that the
Celtics have more championships than we do now? Is that
a magic John's tweet?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yes? From the SEGA harmon.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
If in fact this is a yes, you have to
reply with don't forget you got your eighteenth at the
mid season.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, okay, all right? For is that the exact quote?
That is the exact quote? He did not say that?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, no, he's a Celtic fan now so no, because
he doesn't like Rob Polinka.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
He's actually turned. This is the ultimate heel.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Oh that's a heeled turn if there was. He's part
of the Wyatt six man. He's putting up videos with
himself wearing a Larry Bird jersey.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Hey, look at the Celtics. We won. I exclaiming Tatum
is gonna be like LeVar Ball.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
I hate that the Celtics officially have more championships than us.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Now that is a magic tweet. You know what t shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm gonna get you a Lasberg's upset.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Hang on Forrofberg's upset. Oh you said we.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Than us? He said us than us? Now more championships
than answer? Okay, okay, you can't.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Change your answer. Already have the question. You changed the question.
It's a Ronnie Piper kind of situation.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
There was not correct grammar in NBA any NBA pla
tweet I saw tonight, all right, plenty and I mean
literally not one of them.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
All right, you have to go to the grammar police
to uh to trade gun down. All right, very good,
all right, here we.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Go the grammar boys. Oh no, sorry, it was Glamor Boys.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Magic Johnson Celtics GM Brad Stevens trading for Drew Holliday
and Christops Porzingis.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Was an MVP move. Oh that's a good one. It's again,
that's a middle finger to Rob Polak. Yes, yes, it is.
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Is he trying to appreciate that because he had the
title of general manager that he quit without telling his BOMs.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, you know, I think season what do you watch everybody?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
He just did it in a press conference and inly, Yeah,
Celtics GM bradst he was trading for brute, Drew Holliday
and Christops Porzingis was an MVP move? Is that Magic
Johnson's tweet? I'll say no, all right, Frostburg.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
He's congratulating the guy that again, Yes, because he he's
just saying the obvious, okay, shirt.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It's a tough one for me, Jason, it is. It
is difficult because he is a Celtics fan now, so
he would say that that is.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
A mat.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Celtics fan. Baby, guys are pretty good. Come on now, now,
let's go. Let's get a little bit deeper.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Joe Mizzoula really improved as a coach this year and
had the Celtics prepared for every round of the playoffs?
Is that a magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Kind of a swipe?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Joe Mizula really improves the.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Head coach this year and had the Celtics prepared for
every round of the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Said he kind of sucked last year? Is really what
he's saying? Really? After his failure?
Speaker 7 (26:44):
Good from the start this year.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Weren't they seem like it?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna say no, yeah, okay, no, so no
from Harmon, no to Sager and I.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
We can't talk anymore because we changed each other. No,
it's Sam Shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Who is the name of the guy? You said again?
And the name of the Celtic X coach the Celtics. Yes, yes, absolutely, it's.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
That guy.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I don't even know who that was. Who was it?
I need to know? You know what?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You know when you go into the store and you
buy a Mozola corn oil? Yeah, that's his his whole family.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm not that huge. Dude doesn't need to work.
That's that's how he got the job. Dude doesn't need
to work. No, wait, wait do you see the patches
on the on the Celtics jerseys? Next year, it's gonna
be insane.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
That's how Michelle got the sideline job tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's right, that's Is that a Magic Johnson tweet?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I'm gonna say no, that is a magic Wow Johnson.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Look at that, only tight Shirt had faith Celtics fan
Magic Johnson. I'm calling erroneous. That was counts a lifetime
of hate gone in a single tweet.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Despite the loss. I was incredibly proud of Luka Doncic
and the effort he and the Mavericks had. Is that
a Magic Johnson tweet? Despite the loss? I prove the
effort that look at Dontics and the rest of the
Dallas Mavericks had.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Michael Magic Johnson is like Mike Singletary. He likes winners.
He's not congratulating losers tonight, no good.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Does he even know the Mavericks plate.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Can't coach him, can't tweet with him, can't do it.
Now on point guard, I'll go ahead and say, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, ty shirt, Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? Absolutely not.
He's congratulating not the Celtics. So no, he's a Celtics fan.
Come on, that is.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Not He's a Celtics fan. Is a Celtics man.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The playoffs are a game of matchups, and the Celtics
were too much of a challenge for the MAVs.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Wow, is that a Magic Johnson forgive tweet? Forgive me
why I take a running start into this wall play?
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And the Celtics were too much of a challenge for
the Maps. We could have written that two weeks ago. Yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That tweet sucks as much as Game five d yes.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Most of the others okay, most of the other tweets and.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
All right, justin yeah, why not? Okay? Tight shirt boy?
Speaker 7 (29:26):
There were only nine point six million viewers on that tweet,
similar to the last NBA game.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Everybody who watched the game follows Magic Johnson on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Apparently Celtics This that is a Magic Johnson tweet. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Time to go get our next banner next year? Hashtag
purple and gold. Oh, let's go. Time to get our
next bat next year? Hashtag perfon Wait for the answer
that tysher to ask for this one. I'm gonna say yes,
that fits, so I'll say yes.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
No, we gotta stick with the theme full he's a
Celtic fan. Now purple goal. Okay, this guy's really gonna
lie to America right now.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
My favorite Christmas dude.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
It's the best.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Acting like he's not a Celtics fan. No, there's no
way that's not him. Well that is, he's a liar
If it is not, I knew Johnson tweet.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You know what, I'm gonna take it just because I
liked it and it let me sing Burl lives.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
We better keep Lebron? Is that a magic? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Johnson tweet? There's gotta be more now please minutes ago?
Is that a magic Johnson's tweet from three minutes?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Well, you know, teams can resign their guys Lebron. They
can talk. Yeah, they can.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Talk right now, all right, because it is after midnight
East Coat, so we're we're all gonna be peaches and
cream after midnight, all right, I want peaches and cream.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I did see a guy eating a peach at a
Kiosk in the mall this week, which is kind of
odd because he was working.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It just I think he hates Lebron more than the Celtics.
So ty Shirt, what you said, we better keep Lebron.
We better keep Lebron next year? Okay, but Celtics don't
have Lebron him.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, okay, that is tell me no, we have to
know tweet.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
But I like Tyshert's creativity and how he the destinies
the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Man, that was a far better past. I'll tell you,
tyss one. I think I missed too. Yeah, it's been
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Williams, Jason, that's right. Wow, Hey, what sport to Ted Williams.
Justin said the name, so I went with it. He's like, actually,
I'm the Ted Williams tonight. I'm batting four oh six.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Oh, very very nice. Again, let's find out which one
of you is more likely to be cried Jess, Venus's brother.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Let's yes, you're right it is Ted Williams yet, right,
Yeah yeah, yeah he got you see a little bit
older brother. Yeah yeah, he was a big quarterback in football. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
You know. I wish she had hurt his knee though, Steve.
Let's let go splinter.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Let's find out from the thumper what is trending tonight
in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 7 (32:24):
As Ed Williams, star of Frozen, three.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Oh good of the NBA, brother of Venus and Williams,
and tonight the whole season's over people get you.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Final, Yeah, very much so.
Speaker 7 (32:38):
Boston over Dallas one oh six eighty eight. Celtics led
by twenty one points at the half. They're kind of
good at home and pretty good overall. Remember how this
series started with a home game of the Celtics leading
by twenty nine in the first half. They took that,
they took Game two, They won again tonight. Regular season
Boston's home record was thirty seven and four thirty seven,
(33:01):
that is correct. Jason Tatum thirty one points, eleven assists tonight.
Jalen Brown named Finals MVP. Remember Dallas, speaking of lopsided,
had won well by a fair margin at home last
week to keep this season going, and then ended the
season with this l tonight. You know, last game, with
about six minutes left, Dallas was up by forty eight.
(33:24):
They didn't get forty eight the entire first half of
this game tonight, and they were down big. Boston Celtics. Remember,
had the game won at home, the Porzingis game, and
the game two win at home the holiday game. But again,
Jalen Brown is Finals MVP. Stanley Cup Game five is tomorrow.
By the way, the Celtics join these teams in winning
(33:45):
an NBA title after a full regular season, but not
beating a single team in the playoffs that won more
than fifty games in that regular season. In NBA history,
it had only happened twice, and now it's happened two
years in a row. Now Gets had that run last year.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So what you're saying, Seltics?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
This year the Lakers in season tournament championship more impressive
than the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
I was going to the water. I can't quite drink.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Okay, all right? That one.
Speaker 7 (34:15):
Major League Baseball, the Mets won their six game in
a row, fourteen to two at Texas. The Mets record, suddenly, people,
is thirty four and thirty seven. And since everybody and
their brother gets in the playoffs, I'll go ahead and
say it onto the postseason for these New York Mets people.
Francisco Lindor four for four Tonight.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
J D.
Speaker 7 (34:32):
Martinez was named NL Player of the Week. Today, Dodgers
were up nine to one in the ninth and won
at Colorado nine to five. Mookie Betts today when on
the injured list. He's out six to eight weeks with
a broken hand. Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo could miss
four to six weeks with a broken arm. Yankee pitcher
Garrett Cole will make his season debut on Wednesday after
(34:52):
an elbow injury. He won the Cy Young Award last
year and it was unanimous. The A's have lost nine
in a row. Off tonight. They've been off a lot
of nights. They'll be hosting Kansas City and then Minnesota
starting tomorrow. The Twins have won five straight. They're off tonight.
They'll be hosting Tampa Bay on Tuesday. Minnesota won a
doubleheader yesterday.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
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Speaker 4 (35:17):
Now that the NBA Finals is.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Over, what I am really waiting for the league to do, Like,
there's one thing I can't wait to see that they do.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And if they really are going to be.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
A I would say, if they're gonna be true to themselves,
they have to do this. That's coming up next right here,
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Speaker 2 (36:31):
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 1 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
You know it's funny you played that alex Ty shirt
because now that these Celtics win the NBA title, yeah
right now, if the NBA is going to be true
to themselves as do I'm going all the way back
to the beginning of the year. What the outline they
wanted this season to be about. I am waiting this
(37:02):
is I'm waiting for a full recognition. What I'm really
waiting for is the the tweet to come out from
the official NBA account. That's a split screen that says,
congratulations to both our champions this year, and it's and
it's Lebron on one side with the I T Trophy,
and it's it's Jalen Brown or Jason Tatum on the
(37:24):
other side with the Larry O'Brien track.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I don't think Jalen Brown's keep gotten the picture with
it yet. No, No, well, Jason Tatum, I believe still
left with it. He might have gone Yoda with that
son of a gun. Nobody else put it in a
backpack building. He was holding on to that thing once
he got into the trophy celebration. Nobody else was getting it.
He's had that whole thing.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Hey, but hey, Jayleen, you got that m VP right,
This one's mine.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
But if you are, if you are the NBA, don't
you have to do that, because I think so, I'd
sell the hell congratulations to our two champions, Lakers on
one side, Celtics on the Lebron's still the face of
your league. It's a guy that moves needles, So why
would you not do that? I put out there, if
nothing else, just to piss people off and keep engagement.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
You'll get more tweets on that. By far.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Then you had viewers for the second half of this game.
Soon as Pritchard hit that shot, they were already running
the line underneath the game going, Hey, don't worry, Wheel
of Fortune is gonna be on about nine o'clock and
Jeopardy after locally.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Here in La And I think we're waiting the countdown
right to the end of the patch Age era.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Only five episodes. It's done.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
No, But I just saw him on a couple of
seconds ago. He was just on. I just saw him.
He was just He's still on. I think his shows
are still running beyond in perpetuity. Yeah, but I think
his shows still running this ye only it's like the
end of Friends when they would keep playing that maya
Mortal by evan essence. Only five episodes remain until Friends
is ending, only three episodes left. Friends is ending A
(38:51):
Very Special Friend, only two episodes are left.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
They would play the maya mortal.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Oh Friends, join us to say goodbye to the Friends
for one last time, Join us to say goodbye to Pat,
Say Jack one last time. You had a good run, Jay,
blank blank, and us to say good blank blank blank
to Pat s a blank ak one last time?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Uh so Jack? Oh?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I like that? Put it back in the land of
sitcoms when I was heading to sweeps and longtime shows
were saying goodbye.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Only five episodes remained before the two episodes prior to
the mid season finale of Grey's Anatomy.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Wait is not the season premiere.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
It's the episode after the season premiere.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Thank You Do the Math? It was the episode after.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Only six episodes remain until the special double episode that
precedes the three episodes prior to the two episodes that
is the mid season finale of Chicago Med.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
No, that's that's a lot of math that I got
to do in my head. So I'm gonna burns you
if you keep doing this. Yeah, no stop.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Only eighty six more episodes of things that have to
do with Chicago on broadcast television in the next couple
of months.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
No no, no, you're killing off the.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Entire nbcasting schedule between that and game shows.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
That's all they got. Man, it's oh my god.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
They got to bring back r before it's all said
and done. But yeah, Pat Sanjak was in fact on
our television screen. And then they did a montage of
all the food that they'd done through the year and
they experienced during their travels. Deep Dish Pizza figured prominently
help us.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Say goodbye to Lebron James and the Lakers one final
time as we celebrate the Celtics trophy.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Well as we celebrate him making it makes split screen.
Make that split screen same same uh real estate halfway
down the middle, so it's half Lakers and half cel
Then you.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Have a montage of the nd season tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Pick your song, okay, and then it does a star
wipe to the left, and then you bring in the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
No, no, no, it goes back and forth between the two.
You're making the equal champions. They're equal, two champions, they're equal.
The ball is tip there you go, and then you
cut to something else, Yeah, which version. You gotta be
losing those new Kids on the Block, right, You got
something with Donnie Wall.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Two of those guys there though, because it was McIntyre
and and Donnie.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
That's okay, it's still two of the kids that are
the new kids. Don't need all the kids, some of
the kids new kids on the Block. You're champions.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Coming up next to the most unlikely of NBA champions.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
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