June 27, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason tells you why it is a "Title or Bust" year next season for the NY Knicks. Right now, the NL MVP is either Shohei Ohtani or Grimace. Plus, some NBA Draft talk!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Or NBA Draft. The Los Angeles Lakers select Dalton Connect
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The latest selection in the draft right there, Dn't Connect
goes to the Lakers. Good shooter, a guy that look
was on the board for a long time. And for
everybody who's on social media saying, boy, if we can
get connect boy man, if he was that great, he
wouldn't be on the board at number twelve. But still
a shooter. Lakers need a shooter, need somebody that could
put points on the board. And at this point, why
(01:21):
not I know we were waiting maybe hope goodness, could
we really upend the draft and give us something unbelievablerobdy?
Could it be broddy Dick? Couldn't be broddiyda. I really
wanted Adam Silver to do that and do the goal.
At number seventeen, the Lakers select, but first, I have
a trade to announce, because he announced the trader killing
him from the Spurs. Can you match if he did that?
(01:43):
If he just said I have first, the Lakers like seventeen,
but there's a trade to announce first, people would have known.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I think what he should have said was, you know
what I veto it like? Had it concerned the Lakers pick? No, No, no,
hell with this. We got a second night of a draft.
We can't have this here. We can't have this here.
This guy cannot be drafted at seven to eight. We
have a whole other night. That's a feature point for him.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
With the Lakers pick at number seventeen. Remember, Round two
of the draft is tomorrow. I just want to let
you know we're gonna be running it right back here
on television broadcast live good Night two of the draft.
So look, no, they did not take Bronnie James. And look, honestly,
this is what we thought we said last night. He's
a second round guy. I'll triple down when he's there
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at fifty five because nobody else is gonna upset the
Apple cart and risk getting clutch Sports upset at them.
Rich Paul, Clutch Sports very powerful. They're not going to
draft a guy when you can draft other players. If
Bronnie James is a great, great prospect, he was a
first round graded prospect. If he was a top fifteen
graded prospect, it would be a different story about Rich
(02:52):
Paul pulling the strings again to go somewhere. But this
is a kid that could go anywhere right in the
second round, maybe even undrafted. His name wasn't Bronnie James, Okay,
So teams will lay off him because they don't want
the circus, don't want the sideshow, don't want to upset
Rich Paul if suddenly, oh he didn't work out for you,
we didn't want this, This wasn't the great fit for us. Fine,
you want to push it, you want to find his
(03:13):
way to make his way to the Lakers. Absolutely, we'll
make it happen. So fifty five will come. He will
be there because teams will lay off him because they
could take other guys rather than take Bronnie James. And
it's not that big a deal. Don't even know how
much of it of a conversation Bronnie James probably has
been with other teams. Oh yeah, yeah, no worry. We're
gonna go after something.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Worked worked out for two teams, and we've talked about
it a little bit, and Rich Paul had even brought
it up at times. Gay, you know what, he's got relationships.
There's a couple of teams where it wouldn't be completely
out of the blue, but certainly not teams where we
worked out for. And also, you know, he went deep
into the contracts, two way contracts and all of that
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stuff that's doing.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now here's the thing. If I am a team that's.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Not you know, the Lakers, and I'm looking at Bronnie
James and legitimately think, hey, he may get another growth spurt.
He's a good defender, right, we all acknowledge that there's
some parts of his games that are that that they're good.
He just needs more development as a shooter, distributor, all
of that stuff. But remember, if you look at the
Rich Paul client list, at least the one that I've
(04:19):
got in front of me, the two guys that really
stir the drink and ads over there too are Draymond
Green and lebron James. They're both near the out of
the league. So Rich Paul ain't got the juice that
you think he does long term. By friend, who's he
gonna wind up getting after? Who are the new guys
coming in?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I am worried about upsetting I don't want either of
those guys, but you never know. You never know, right,
You never know who he's gonna wind up getting. You know, Oh,
we don't care about it. And then in two years it's,
oh wow, Rich Paul represents this kid and he's still
mad at us for what happened with Bronnie James. You
never know, I'm telling, isn't what you They're going to
(05:00):
talk about New Jets City later you're bringing in? Now
you know you want to sit here and say, oh,
there's no way this will ever come back to bite
me in the ass. There's no no trust me it
will And look and I get the whole thing, which
you really worry about agents, but when you have very
powerful people, this is the way the NBA. I mean,
can people worry about Scott Borer? No, they tell him
to beat it? Well, well initially, well, eventually there's going
(05:22):
to be a collusion investigation on Scott. But gee, why
did his guys sit around with no offers all the
way until the end of February. You want to deal
with him as much as you want to. That's part
of the risk reward of who you hire is your agent, right,
But still if they if you're not calling someone's agent
because of who it is, that's kalude. That's it. That
thirty teams aren't calling one agent, thirty teams are not
(05:43):
callings is thirty teams independently? Can all say I hate
that guy, Yeah, I'm not going to deal with it. Nah,
but you got to prove it in a court of law.
And well, I think thirty thirty teams not calling for
for no, no, But you have to all your gods,
you have to prove that they talk to it like him,
We're not gonna go on all your hate. You don't
call him either, because let's see how this happens. Because
(06:04):
that's that's bad for that's bad for sports if that,
if that goes on. Oh, I have this guy and yeah,
he's driving stuff up. I get it, I get I
understand it. I don't want to sit I've already said
goodbye to Peter A. Lonzo. It doesn't matter what I believe.
It's a matter of what I can prove. But that.
But you're sitting here and say, okay, another year of
those guys sitting back. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna
be bad things that come up. And as you always
(06:26):
like to say, you don't know what can come up
during discovery of you don't know come up. That's a
bad thing, man, bad things. What do you got, Frostburg? Oh,
I just wanted to know if you saw Tony's home run.
Yet I did see Toni's home run. Okay, see Tony's run. Yeah,
I was in the car.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I heard it live, and I may have had a
Harvey ca Tell like bad lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Moment, Yo, mother, right, But I do want to say,
this is this is where you know, this is the
NBA Draft night. There's a lot to get to and
there's a team that's absolutely killing it in the draft.
We'll get to in a few minutes. But I got
to say this after today, do we really need the
NBA Draft? The Knicks are bringing back og Anunobi for
over two hundred million dollars. He declined he could have
(07:07):
gotten the match from another team, but said no, I'll
take a little bit less because I like what we're
building here. The Knicks now have the best one through
eight in the NBA. It's not even close. Boston's got
a great roster. Knicks have the best one through eight
in the NBA. Do we even need the draft anymore?
We don't need it, we you know we need. I
want to see tonight. I want to see Adam Silver
come up and say, hey, welcome to the NBA Draft.
Everybody claps, obviously with late breaking things happening going on,
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here we are, and he pulls out the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Jalen Brunson, all the Villanova guys come on. Here's mcal Bridges,
who doesn't even have any Knicks gear yet because he
just got traded yesterday and they handled the trophy and
say thank you so much. The Knicks will go on
a good will tour throughout the country. You'll get to
see this unbelievable team one through eight play Yanks. Wow,
what a great what a great time this is in
(07:50):
the NBA. And we'll see you for the NBA Draft
next year at this time. Goodbye, everybody. We don't need it.
The Knicks are winning the title. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Have you seen Ani's home run?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know one thing I know that's good. We can't
play it yet because the MLB rules, so you can't
just foist it on me. I got you to talk
about the Knicks for five seconds. Back to Knicks, back
to Hey, listen, you've got me not to talk about
a guy dressed as a grimace down in beers at
the rain delay between the Mets and the Yankees tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
That's how big a I had that for the forty
five block. What are you talking about like that's a
segment in and of itself. I between that guy and
the down spout at the end of the rail who's
standing there and drinking himself a tall boy as well.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, come on, that's as good as a game.
But just just sit back for a second, take a
breath to go. Okay, Jason with the Knicks, but let's
think about this. You think about their rotation one through eight,
where now Hart and Devincenzo are coming off the bench,
right Mitchell Robinson, if he stays on the team comes
off the bench, or he lays back something else. One
(08:55):
through eight, Right now, the Knicks have the best roster
in the NBA. They should win the title next year. Yeah,
I mean really, it's it's a title or bust year
for the Knicks next year because again, they have the
best roster in the NBA. Porzingis helps the Celtics to
some sort of high level. Right, we saw that, But
now what do we find out today? May miss the
(09:15):
beginning of the season, ye with surgery. Don't know what
he's going to be back already going on one through eight,
Knicks have the best roster in the NBA. And it's
not close. You give me, give me any other team
one through eight, Give me any other team one through
I'll give you the Knicks. Come on, man, the pace
is out of a miracle. Three, they're gonna have the
best point guard. Come on, just stop now, just stop now.
(09:37):
When four guys get hurt for the Knicks, we still
have four really good players left to go. We're not
just throwing out Bogdanovich or Alec Burks. Hey, go get hot,
hit some shots. Man one through eight, most talented roster
in the NBA. Knicks are going. It's a title or
bust year now for the Everything is on this year,
next year. They have a two to three year title
in year window until they have to give bruntson one
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hundred million dollars. Just gonna happen at some point. So yeah,
I mean, this is this is what it is for
all of for all of the oh Jason with the Knicks,
you can't ignore this. This is a team that was
second in the East last year, that remade themselves of
the deadline, the Ananobe trade, turned into the best defensive
team in the NBA. Yeah, and now you have Ananobe
and Heart and Bridges now all defending wings. Good luck
(10:18):
trying to score, good luck trying to hang thirty five.
Good luck to Haliburton trying to hang thirty five. Good
luck to Nembar trying to make a thirty footer with
his eyes closed again, not gonna happen. It's a title
or bust.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So no, no, So at this point you gotta be better
than that. You gotta leave Nemhart in the in the
rear view mirror, because if you're gonna still do that,
then then you know, you gotta grow up here in
this moment, right if you're gonna claim them as your
title winning squad and you're gonna crown him today saying
the season doesn't even matter.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So long arduous journey. You have Tom Thibodeau, those guys
kind of survive year one with the fifty wins, and
then what did we have at the end? One by one?
It sound like the guy from Hell Razer one bed, Oh,
I thought that was Saw I mean Saw, yeah, one
bar one, Yeah, I think I thought that was hell Razor.
(11:09):
But anyway, anyway, the hell Razor was pinhead, the ends
in his head and the ball right no and yeah no,
that was fantasmic phantasm. Had this spear coming at you?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know hell Razor, had you know, all
the people from Hell coming in uh, tormenting you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But the point being you got a long way to go.
That's a lot of weary minutes for Tom Thibodeau lead squads.
I can't dance. We got eight guys playing now. Guys
don't have to play forty five minutes. Acad Heart doesn't
have to play forty eight minutes even gender later.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
But even if they play thirty five, they're a harder
thirty five than most people play, because he expects you
to play defense and not take him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But that's the thing. Now, everybody expects you to play
defense in the ENBA. That's where it's going right now.
That's where the NBA is going right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, but there's everybody expec two ahead in terms of shifting.
So I know the odds look how good the knicks
are there? No, no, no, And I appreciate it. And I
know you know from all our guys that have already
contacted me on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I get it. This is gonna be painful.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I give him his due for these two nights, and
then I just remind him how hard life is gonna
be when this fails.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Mike, we also got to ask him if he's heard
the home run.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I know we can hear it in a little bit.
We can hear it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's not even over, and I'll play it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
That's all right, Look, no risk. Just like Enron, the
Knicks are too big to fail. See that that's where
you're going to get you. They have all this money
to give. I have no idea what all these rules
and everything else. It's not like they're not paying Devincenzo
in heart. They're paying these guys to just remember. The
(12:43):
salary cap is a fictional mythical product of the NBA,
as evidenced by the fact that, Hey, we're gonna we
might lose on Anobi. Nah, two hundred and twelve million dollars,
come on back. Jalen Browns is not top market, but
he's not exactly walking around scratching nickels do He's twenty
five million a year And when he comes up and
in what did what do you want?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Like, that's just what I got? This window, the Bridges deal.
We've talked about that. Hartenstein some rumors that he wants
to stand, Like what's he He's gonna do it for
a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, Like, how the hell did they have any money?
I would stay for a sandwich? I mean, did you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I mean, there's they're pretty good delis where I mean,
that's one hell of a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You would do it New York sandwich.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Do I get a sand literally?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do anything?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do I get a sandwich every day? Yes? During the season? Okay, fine,
I'm in see.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I remember when you showed me the the video when
you tried to audition for the Klondike bar ad and
you kept getting it wrong by saying what kind of sandwich?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's like, No, it's about ice cream, jerk. Best roster
in the NBA one through eight, but ile or bust?
How about this? How about a deal? We'll play he
will play Atani's home run coming up next, will play
Atoni's on run coming up next. Then we'll get into
the fact the NBA season for twenty twenty four is
basically over and the Knicks of the champions.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Why do you have to talk about him if it's over, Well,
because it's a big night.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Anytime you crown a champion, it's a big night.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We talked about the Celtics one they won. Now you're
talk about the Knicks they won the championships. How it
goes right straight ahead? You want a hot take for
the NBA Draft, We'll tell you who's gonna come out
of this draft. As the biggest star and it's not
who you think that's coming up next? Radio Jason and Mike.
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
At that point, there's a smash right center field. Forget
about it, the marvelous one. So Hey, Tommy, let's started again.
Dodgers Radio Network on the call apparently show hal Tony's
gonna hit a home run every night now, which is
(15:43):
gonna throw the MVP race in a difficult direction. But
if you hit a home run every day, I think
he's I think he's gonna sort of make that two
million dollars a year contract worth it. Well.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Back to back nights, White Sox were the opponent hang
a star on a White Sox actually to sell out
tonight Mexican heritage, and I think it was one cool
last Jerseys.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yes, first one of the year.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
So you get that, you get the Otani effect right
off the jump, the leadoff home run. Yes, MVP conversations
start to get very interesting, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I really I feel like he hits a home run
every game. Now he's got ten straight games. I mean,
I feel like he has a home run every single game.
I'm gonna have one one home run in the first
four innings of every game. Really, because you know, you
want to talk about MVP in the National League, because
I can tell you right now, sho Heotani house hundred percent.
(16:36):
I could make a great case for Mets catcher Francisco
Alvarez because what their record is and games he plays.
Now he's hitting over three hundred, he's got two big
it's a night and home run. I mean, I think
the Mets are like twenty seven and three when he plays,
and they're like three and three and thirty when he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
No, but it doesn't matter like any of the games
of the last couple of weeks. It's it's the Grimace effect.
It's got nothing to do with Alvarez.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, I mean, we have to, but that's why.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I mean, you don't get to write a credit for
Alvarez gets no credit for it. It's a great stat
It's like, uh, you know, hey, what what is it?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Twenty three? And you know when Rojas as a hit?
I mean, what are we doing? I'm gonna put a
poll up right now. Who is your n L m
VP at the show? Hao Tani or Grimace Frostburg? Tell
me the truth. Who would you vote? Shoo Tani or Grimace?
Who's been Who's been more important?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I mean, Grimas has to have a couple more weeks
than Insanity to take it two weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Well, it's been more than two a two weeks run.
But we're in We're in three weeks of Grimace. Now,
this is three weeks of grimise. Yeah yeah, but here's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
We expected greatness from Otani, Right, I'm gonna play MVP
voter and Hall of Fame voter or whatever. I expect greatness.
I expected a little bit more. So we already knew
he was gonna be great. So you really got a well,
me and and Grimace came out of nowhere and he
was laying in the weeds, and all of a sudden
he pops out out and a season that. I mean,
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you were ready to already turn the page to Aaron Rodgers.
Now you get this whole Knicks thing that's causing us
all sorts of vexation and problems here. But you you
were ready to write the Mets off, and all of
a sudden you're back on the band.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's what I mean. That's why he gets my vote. Well,
when I took a Grimace, Jason was over first off
one A when you lost, No, no, no, it's basically
when McDonald's took him down, you did not avatar Grimaces.
That was disappointing. I gotta say that that was too quick.
Grimace has decided screw you. I'm sticking around. Mets are
beating the Yankees tonight seven nothing. There's a fan at
(18:38):
the game and look, the game is just resuming after
a long rain delay, which is why it's still going
on seven nothing Mets in the sixth inning. Uh. There
is a dude who came to the game tonight dressed
as Grimace, and there's a big viral video out. He's
standing above the crowd. Everybody is taking video and he's
pounding a beer. Grimace is now pounding beers at City
(18:58):
Field in between innings of a rain delight. This is Grimace.
This is the Grimace effect.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I think one of the things that that shouldn't be
lost on this, uh is how quickly the proliferation, uh
and growth of the appearance of Grimace costumes happened. I
mean we're talking from concept to maybe maybe they're all
just laying in storage because they've been unsold, and all
of a sudden there's some market demands like hey, I
(19:25):
got him here.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's like the Seinfeld episode. I got these raincoats sitting
in my in my you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
So all these Grimace outfits suddenly are fighting the light
and day. They're they're they're not as purple as we
they used to do.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They're like Lilac. It doesn't even look it looks like
a poor imitation of Grimace. We need to get real purple.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Purple, because remember, I mean he was evil Grimace, which
meant he was the most purple that you could possibly
be when he started TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Clearly, if you're looking for a deep purple Grimace, there
is definitely smoke on the water tonight, DJ, Hey, there
will be, and keep going. Knock find some more deep
purple as the Knicks as the as the Knicks the
next nick as the Mets are knocking on the door
(20:20):
of the playoffs. No one's knocking at your back door
for deep Purple.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
DJ later, dude, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Would come. That's the name of the song. I didn't
I didn't say anything about that.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Was the name of the song.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Was popular in the eighties when Deep Purple tried their comeback.
That's all it said.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Could have gone.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I just said, we have to now stop talking
about Grimace because Aaron Judges at a home run. It's
now seven to because for some reason, the Mets have
a thing where we're gonna walk the guy batting in
front of Aaron Judge for some stupid ass reason. When
we're up by seven runs, we're gonna walk the guy
in front of a judge, So I, judge, come in
home run. It's seven to no. But you gave the
(21:05):
kids a three that came to this game the first sellout.
Happy Knicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks, Mets, metsar Judge hit a
home run. Now you go home happy? Hey the Mets
one Grimace was shot gun and beers that saw him
out there sixth thenning sixth.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The real question, Yeah, have you knocked on your dad's
door yet? As Grimace?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
My dad?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, since the last time I talked to my dad
was before, No, was before this series. He has not
come anywhere near me or the house or Zoe in
the last happen door. No, no, no, no, I'll have
to do it because what I did do him last
time a couple of years ago, in the Mets swept
(21:50):
the Yankees in a uh in in in the inter
League series, I put a bunch of brooms at his
door so he would open the door and the brooms
would fall on him. And then I felt bad, like
my dad's in his seventies and what's gonna happen if
he opens a door and brooms fall. So I just
put the brooms and oh, I went to the store
and bought I went to a dollar store. I bought
a whole bunch of brooms. Yeah, so I put him
like right when my dad would open the door, he
(22:10):
would see them, so he didn't want them falling on
him and go what is this? So I did that
and he didn't really appreciate that all that much. So, uh,
that's a big thing. So I haven't done that, but
he has not been around. I have not done since
the beginning of this.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Why aren't you trolling at all?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is your time the troll, and you're not because
the thing is Yankee fans are no fun toatrol. They
are no fun. You know, you have people in your
life it makes it fun, No, But it's not. It
makes is it fun for you?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Because if it's fun for you, then like them. Sometimes
it's like doing the thing right, I mean, come on, exactly.
Doing the thing with the brooms for my dad was fun.
But when I try to troll my dad or Fabiano,
all I get is records better than yours. And up there,
call me when you've won twenty six championships. I'm like, okay,
that's just stuff that people have said for fifty years now.
(22:58):
It's not fun. It's not fun. It's like, okay, how
about you give me something little bit different. Call me
when you've done this. This happens, what happened the last
time we played in the World Series? I mean, all
of these things. I mean, clearly the Yankees have a
lot over the Mets, which is what Yankee fans to
fall to. But me, it's not fun. Like, give me
something fun. Like putting brooms in front of your door
is fun. Down we open the door and see all
these brooms. It's kind of fun. But I just gotta yeah, yeah,
(23:20):
what happened here? What about this?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How many World Championships were you have? Your last one
was not? Like, I don't know the last one was
nineteen eighty six. Really it was nineteen eighty six. What happened?
I don't even know what happened in that series? Was
it really good?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Was it fine?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I don't understand, like something, Yankee fans are no fun.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
The way you respond is you just say, can I
just give you a hug? Because clearly this hurts you
so badly that you have to go we'll get all
the titles we have.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Your team has sucked.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'll tell you, right, it's like being here in La Sorry,
sorry justin, but it's the same idea, right, there's a
lot of near misses.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There's a lot of greatness.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Dodgers have been great, been a long time since the
World Series win, other than the one that some folks
don't count. Likewise, the Laker title.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I count them. Look, you get to march around with it,
with the trophy, a hunk of metal you win. I'm
all for it. But the world at large fights about it.
So that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
But it's the when you tell me I got seventeen
when I like, eh, that doesn't matter to me. One
because most of the people that are touting that weren't
alive for most of them win. But second, like, all right,
we're talking about today, and if your team sucks today
and I beat your team today, it's about today's game.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's not about forty years ago. It's not about what
Babe ruth in the earth I get. Look at the
standings I get looking at it. Tell you it's no fun.
It used to I used to have this thing because
I used to love playing jokes on peap I still do.
But and usually the people who didn't respond were always
the most fun, Like they either didn't get it or
they didn't do it. But now I've just lost my
my Uh, how do I say? I've lost some of
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the love and feeling though, No, I've lost some of
the satisfaction of pulling a joke on somebody who's who's
going to react, not in a fun way, like it's
kind of funny to be in a good all. This
person has no idea about this, and I can do
it and they're not gonna react, but it's still fun.
It's fun for me. It's a fun story to tell.
Now I've done enough of those where I'm like, you
know what, you're no fun? Well, there's episode the time investment.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
At some point it's like, all right, if I got
to put up a bunch of effort to make it,
like right now, you'd have to go and fight traffic
to get to a store to stand in line to
buy all those brooms. We're talking about a significant investment
in time. If it's not gonna yield the yucks that
you need, no or a violent response, you know, angry,
you know, while you've got your helmet camera and you're
(25:37):
recording the response. If you're not gonna get a good response,
that's a lot of time you could be doing something else.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You're a sandwich, Yeah, watching another movie. I'm sorry I
could have pulled this joke, but I want to have
a sandwich instead. It's about time. See it's all look
like doing it with Frostburg is fun because Frostburg is
something different every night. It's different audio, you know, it's
different home runs by show. Heo Tani, thank you for
that audio clip. Eventually, eventually we're gonna you know, we've
(26:03):
gotten past the butt fumble. Now now we're on the
fail Mary. Now we're on to nem Haard's three. Okay,
we're moving on. We're not doing the saying right. It's fun.
It's an evolution. But like when when when people don't
make it, fund says don't want to have your team stakes?
What are you talking about? Oh great, that's that's great.
I'll just shake my go you know what, My time
is too valuable. I can't sit here and and and
(26:23):
and control you when I know that your response is
gonna be huffy and it's just gonna be Look at
the standings. Look at the standings. Look at me, Jemmie chips.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You have when's the last time you did this?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
What's the last time you did this? Was? It's like
you but it's still but I mean, it's still no
fun to do those jokes. Right Like at the end,
if the Mets win this game, I will send broom
emojis to my dad, I'll do some fun stuff. I
don't hear from them for like that, what's the game?
But then when the Yankees like take the lead, it No,
(26:52):
but that's but that's the only thing I can get
away with that at least it's if I'm trolling on
social media. No, no, here's the thing because if my floor, yeah,
if my dad and Fabiano want to just blow it off,
at least a lot of other people get it. So
that's a fun thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Dude, Fabian has been asleep for like at least the
last four innings of probably true.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh So again, we have to stop talking to this
because the Mets just made an error and now the
Yankees have two on and there's one out. No no, no,
we're actually talking into making this game more exciting. No, no,
we're not. We're not worse talking about this or the
or the Yeah, what do you mean, it's talking about what?
Talking about what?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I'm not gonna say it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well, listen, Grimace is a big deal, right, and clearly
maybe Grimmace needs to come out and start yell at
the guys saying, hey, let's get going here. Let let's
make sure we get out of the thing and not
keep giving the Yankees more runs.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Well, we know, definitely, if you go to the bullpen,
they'd rather see Grimmace come out than their manager.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Everybody would rather see Grimmas come out every single Oh,
Grimace is gonna Oh Grimace is already called for the hook. Yeah,
but I mean do a little lip reading during pitching changes.
Very entertaining. Give me the ball, Give me the ball,
give me the ball. I'm coming in. You're coming in. Yeah,
but I found you actual video. Yeah, No, it's pretty good.
I like my voice of Grimace the other night. Grimbeth, Gribbeth, Gribbath, Hello, Gribbeth,
(28:15):
you're not that far off. I am here to help
the Mets and to.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Help you grim We have a situation at the draft, guys, Grimace.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Uh, what's going on in the draft right now?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Is a guy that keeps showing in the green room
or right there on the court. He looks like he
does not want to be there tonight. It's one of
these Aaron Rodgers moments. Philip Kowski.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Oh, you know, for a second, I thought that's who
you were going to take. The Lambers are going to take.
Like when I saw J. J. Reddick getting very up,
very happy and animated and he's shaking hands with everybody. Yeah, yeah,
this is great, this is like, Oh, they took Philipowski.
They did that, duke guy Philipowski. He's happy.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
No, no, no, the the do they do? They trade
Giannis and take him.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Uh? They trade Giannis to the Knicks for Mitchell Robinson.
That's what that. That's the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
The next two picks after that, they the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Knicks don't need these picks. We don't need them.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
We don't need you know, the Knicks should do you
know what you say, We're just taking the next Nova guy. Yeah,
we're not even putting a name on him anymore. The
Knick should say, listen, here's we're gonna do for the NBA.
We're gonna auction off these picks to the highest bidder,
and all the money is gonna go charity. And we're
gonna do something good because we clearly don't need anybody
because we have the best rotation one through rate in
the NBA. Or did you not see we're bringing Head
(29:23):
and Nobe back? Okay, I did.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We'll make some money for the NBA. What whatever? Found
ot Hey, maybe Lebron can come in and bid and
do some stuff and do a do a whole nother
uh decision thing. Hey, I've been boy help Boys and
Girls Club the Knicks. The Knicks should end up just hey, listen,
let's just auction off these picks. Yeah, I would say this.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
The the most entertaining meme that started floating around relating
to the draft was that the Knicks had announced their
city Connect uniforms for next year, and it was just
an alternate in Villanova.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
In Yeah, it's gotta go all. I'm in you know, uh,
little Victor. We're gonna do our beginning of the season
interview process with you, Gregor. And what's your name? You're
paying me a lot of money. I'm Julius Randall. Julius.
Where'd you go to school? I went to the University Kentucky. Julius.
Thanks so much. We'll be in touch we'll see you.
Wait what, Yeah, we'll see it. Hey, what's you to
(30:14):
have a divided locker rooms? What's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Ry? What's your last name? Arcadiacano? Oh? Where'd you go
to school? You come on? Hey, the money we were
given that guy, we're gonna give it for I'm our
guest to the show. We're gonna give it to you.
How about that?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You have me, Ryan, but you also have a the
the opportunity, you know, of having a lot of division
in that locker room. I think that's really where this
potentially falls apart. Not Valanova physically, that they fall apart
in a Thibodeau environment, but that because you didn't go
to Villanova, you're on out.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So they're gonna do secret handshakes, right, and they're gonna
have movie nights. You don't involve anybody else, I would say,
nobody knows. Oh sure, Hey we're going to the movies.
Oh can we go? No, this is a Villanova. All
the world going to see Inside Out too. Sorry you can't.
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All right. So we had to have that moment in
Grimace because when you're shot gunning beers in between innings
of a game, you need that moment. But straight ahead time, Yeah,
who's coming out of this NBA draft is the biggest star?
(31:25):
We'll tell you that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (31:36):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Oh boy, poor Kyle Philipowski. He is
still not been selected. We are at pick number twenty five,
the Knicks taking their second of back to backs after
trading their first. Yeah, I really, I really want to
say for the next two picks they've taken, Brownie James Boo,
(32:02):
I would love that. That's a combos selection. Boy, how
piss would Lebron be? You know, the one thing I
really always want to do in my career was playing
Madison square guard. And now my bleeping son's gonna get
to My kid's gonna beat me there, man causing a
rift in the time, continue him in a in a
family rivalry that will span generations. I'll tell you and
Leon Rose always say, hey, let's FaceTime your dad and
(32:24):
show him what the lighting looks like here.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
But you know he's not yet.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Wait, wait, wait, fantastic wit, we simulated your whole introduction.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Ready ready to dad Jason if the next do take him.
Guess who can't afford Lebron James after last night's trade? Uh,
well your next We're not getting Lebron's done.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now you can come. He's got to show up for
a dollar. Not happening, not having a dollar. But well,
whatever the minimum is, he's not doing that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He's not doing That's what they offered him, that blaze pizzadvicement.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
But look, this NBA draft, there's a lot of players
that the average basketball fan hasn't heard of. Look when
a lot of players are coming from overseas, and and
every other guy is from France, Okay, I get you.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Get the guys from Yukon, from Villanova, Yukon. We're paying
attention to Villanova and the guys from Duke's still rate, right,
Philipowski is a guy because you mentioned him there legitimately
going back to the top ten picks if you were,
you know, just kind of shuffling up a deal names.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
We know, yeah, he's got to go early. Why because
we know who he is.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
And the giant from Purdue, yeah, Zack Well, the fact
that Zach they don't know his name, but the fact
that he went ninth overall.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Is George Mirrasan because remember all of the evaluations like
he might not get drafted at all, he'll be a
late second day guy. But look, I'll tell you this
right now, the biggest star of this draft is, and
I've been talking about it for a while, is gonna
be Steph Castle. This kid is fantastic. And I'm not
always a big fan of saying, well, the guy didn't
(33:56):
show enough in college. He should have shown a little
bit more, cause you know what I say about JJ mccarr.
J McCarthy's so good, why didn't he play good? But
Steph Castle showed you the skill set that he has
and he wasn't asked to do a lot on a
Yukon team. That was absolutely loaded. You winning every game
by twenty points, you're ownto the national championship. But he's
exactly what everybody is looking for, is he is. He
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is a guy that can handle the ball, he can
play off the ball, he can shoot. You're gonna see
a little bit more of that at the next level.
But the main thing is you watched him hot knife
through butter through the tournament, defending all the best players,
and he was sending guys home who were scoring twenty five,
twenty eight a game. Your guy Boo Booi went home, right,
Terren Shannon went a one. Shannon was scoring thirty eight
(34:39):
a game, and he would one for fourteen when the
when Miami played Yukon. He is that good? Yeah, well,
at least we were in the tournament. That's true. Thanks Smith, Dad,
I went full Walt on you.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I'm gonna go with the guy that was selected right
ahead of him and Reed Shepherd going to a Houston team.
It's great shooter Chrumbered potentially to be, you know, in
this Kevin Durant thing. We'll see what happens there. But
a team on the come right. San Antonio still has
a bunch of building blocks and He's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
There's no question.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
You add him, you add to him to Wemby uh
and that's a that's a formidable duo uh to to rebuild.
They've got a couple of other pieces that I think
were underrated, didn't translate to win. Now with Houston, you
got a team that's uh young and rising and a
guy that can shoot the lights out. So I'll take
him because you know what, in the grand scheme, people
(35:28):
still don't care about defense.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But see, but that's the thing now, is that that's
become a thing. Now we want no, no, no, want
that for our basketball. Now I'm talking about sex appeal.
He shoot it. He's gonna come out the biggest because
he's gonna be one of those combo guards that the
castle that can do more than he should just because
he didn't have to. But when you see the defensive acumen, Yeah,
you want to look at a guy like o Giana
(35:51):
Nobe getting the money that he had that he got today,
that's that's become a big uh. That's become a big thing,
a big trend in the NBA is okay. When he
guys that can make sure and we need guys that
condition shut wing defenders. Right, that's what every team is
looking for now. We need a guy that can make shots,
play well offensively, and is a good wing defender. It's
why mckel bridges went for five first round picks yesterday.
(36:11):
It's why the Knicks are given Ogan Unobi two hundred
and twelve million dollars. Right, Castle's the guy, and I'm
telling you go through all this. Look, I'll be the
first guy to tell you. I don't know a ton
about a lot of these players where they're all coming
from France. I don't know a ton about guys from France.
But watching Castle especially is run during the tournament. Seeing
him shut down the best players, the best offensive players
in college basketball, who all had different skill sets, that
(36:34):
is something special, man. And I can't believe he didn't
go number one. It was a gift to the Spurs
at number four. You talk about Castle and Wemby for
the next ten years. Good luck, man, good luck.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
All I can say is I mean, obviously we've watched
a lot of clips and seen a lot of highlight
reels out out of the French League.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
But I know this.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
I need to go see some of the history in France.
I need to go and get myself some bag ats
and some nice cheeses. And evidently I need to get
some kind of subscription to watch French basketball because they're
coming over in waves.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We just had your knicks just took a guy from
France Coke. Uh yeah, I gotta start thinking, are we
paying too much attention to the NBA and not enough
to French League. I think it seems like we might
shoot not watch the NBA playoffs and watch more French
league playoffs. I think we could do bold but no
(37:30):
the NBA draft, but you know what, the French league
is where it's at eight seven, NBA is overrated. Coming
up next, we will answer the biggest question every NBA
fan has about their team in the draft tonight. That's next.
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The latest selection in the draft right there, Dn't Connect
goes to the Lakers. Good shooter, a guy that look
was on the board for a long time. And for
everybody who's on social media saying, boy, if we can
get connect boy man, if he was that great, he
wouldn't be on the board at number twelve. But still
a shooter. Lakers need a shooter, need somebody that could
put points on the board. And at this point, why
(01:21):
not I know we were waiting maybe hope goodness, could
we really upend the draft and give us something unbelievablerobdy?
Could it be broddy Dick? Couldn't be broddiyda. I really
wanted Adam Silver to do that and do the goal.
At number seventeen, the Lakers select, but first, I have
a trade to announce, because he announced the trader killing
him from the Spurs. Can you match if he did that?
(01:43):
If he just said I have first, the Lakers like seventeen,
but there's a trade to announce first, people would have known.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I think what he should have said was, you know
what I veto it like? Had it concerned the Lakers pick? No, No, no,
hell with this. We got a second night of a draft.
We can't have this here. We can't have this here.
This guy cannot be drafted at seven to eight. We
have a whole other night. That's a feature point for him.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
With the Lakers pick at number seventeen. Remember, Round two
of the draft is tomorrow. I just want to let
you know we're gonna be running it right back here
on television broadcast live good Night two of the draft.
So look, no, they did not take Bronnie James. And look, honestly,
this is what we thought we said last night. He's
a second round guy. I'll triple down when he's there
(02:31):
at fifty five because nobody else is gonna upset the
Apple cart and risk getting clutch Sports upset at them.
Rich Paul, Clutch Sports very powerful. They're not going to
draft a guy when you can draft other players. If
Bronnie James is a great, great prospect, he was a
first round graded prospect. If he was a top fifteen
graded prospect, it would be a different story about Rich
(02:52):
Paul pulling the strings again to go somewhere. But this
is a kid that could go anywhere right in the
second round, maybe even undrafted. His name wasn't Bronnie James, Okay,
So teams will lay off him because they don't want
the circus, don't want the sideshow, don't want to upset
Rich Paul if suddenly, oh he didn't work out for you,
we didn't want this, This wasn't the great fit for us. Fine,
you want to push it, you want to find his
(03:13):
way to make his way to the Lakers. Absolutely, we'll
make it happen. So fifty five will come. He will
be there because teams will lay off him because they
could take other guys rather than take Bronnie James. And
it's not that big a deal. Don't even know how
much of it of a conversation Bronnie James probably has
been with other teams. Oh yeah, yeah, no worry. We're
gonna go after something.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Worked worked out for two teams, and we've talked about
it a little bit, and Rich Paul had even brought
it up at times. Gay, you know what, he's got relationships.
There's a couple of teams where it wouldn't be completely
out of the blue, but certainly not teams where we
worked out for. And also, you know, he went deep
into the contracts, two way contracts and all of that
(03:55):
stuff that's doing.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Now here's the thing. If I am a team that's.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Not you know, the Lakers, and I'm looking at Bronnie
James and legitimately think, hey, he may get another growth spurt.
He's a good defender, right, we all acknowledge that there's
some parts of his games that are that that they're good.
He just needs more development as a shooter, distributor, all
of that stuff. But remember, if you look at the
Rich Paul client list, at least the one that I've
(04:19):
got in front of me, the two guys that really
stir the drink and ads over there too are Draymond
Green and lebron James. They're both near the out of
the league. So Rich Paul ain't got the juice that
you think he does long term. By friend, who's he
gonna wind up getting after? Who are the new guys
coming in?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I am worried about upsetting I don't want either of
those guys, but you never know. You never know, right,
You never know who he's gonna wind up getting. You know, Oh,
we don't care about it. And then in two years it's,
oh wow, Rich Paul represents this kid and he's still
mad at us for what happened with Bronnie James. You
never know, I'm telling, isn't what you They're going to
(05:00):
talk about New Jets City later you're bringing in? Now
you know you want to sit here and say, oh,
there's no way this will ever come back to bite
me in the ass. There's no no trust me it
will And look and I get the whole thing, which
you really worry about agents, but when you have very
powerful people, this is the way the NBA. I mean,
can people worry about Scott Borer? No, they tell him
to beat it? Well, well initially, well, eventually there's going
(05:22):
to be a collusion investigation on Scott. But gee, why
did his guys sit around with no offers all the
way until the end of February. You want to deal
with him as much as you want to. That's part
of the risk reward of who you hire is your agent, right,
But still if they if you're not calling someone's agent
because of who it is, that's kalude. That's it. That
thirty teams aren't calling one agent, thirty teams are not
(05:43):
callings is thirty teams independently? Can all say I hate
that guy, Yeah, I'm not going to deal with it. Nah,
but you got to prove it in a court of law.
And well, I think thirty thirty teams not calling for
for no, no, But you have to all your gods,
you have to prove that they talk to it like him,
We're not gonna go on all your hate. You don't
call him either, because let's see how this happens. Because
(06:04):
that's that's bad for that's bad for sports if that,
if that goes on. Oh, I have this guy and yeah,
he's driving stuff up. I get it, I get I
understand it. I don't want to sit I've already said
goodbye to Peter A. Lonzo. It doesn't matter what I believe.
It's a matter of what I can prove. But that.
But you're sitting here and say, okay, another year of
those guys sitting back. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna
be bad things that come up. And as you always
(06:26):
like to say, you don't know what can come up
during discovery of you don't know come up. That's a
bad thing, man, bad things. What do you got, Frostburg? Oh,
I just wanted to know if you saw Tony's home run.
Yet I did see Toni's home run. Okay, see Tony's run. Yeah,
I was in the car.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
I heard it live, and I may have had a
Harvey ca Tell like bad lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Moment, Yo, mother, right, But I do want to say,
this is this is where you know, this is the
NBA Draft night. There's a lot to get to and
there's a team that's absolutely killing it in the draft.
We'll get to in a few minutes. But I got
to say this after today, do we really need the
NBA Draft? The Knicks are bringing back og Anunobi for
over two hundred million dollars. He declined he could have
(07:07):
gotten the match from another team, but said no, I'll
take a little bit less because I like what we're
building here. The Knicks now have the best one through
eight in the NBA. It's not even close. Boston's got
a great roster. Knicks have the best one through eight
in the NBA. Do we even need the draft anymore?
We don't need it, we you know we need. I
want to see tonight. I want to see Adam Silver
come up and say, hey, welcome to the NBA Draft.
Everybody claps, obviously with late breaking things happening going on,
(07:30):
here we are, and he pulls out the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Jalen Brunson, all the Villanova guys come on. Here's mcal Bridges,
who doesn't even have any Knicks gear yet because he
just got traded yesterday and they handled the trophy and
say thank you so much. The Knicks will go on
a good will tour throughout the country. You'll get to
see this unbelievable team one through eight play Yanks. Wow,
what a great what a great time this is in
(07:50):
the NBA. And we'll see you for the NBA Draft
next year at this time. Goodbye, everybody. We don't need it.
The Knicks are winning the title. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Have you seen Ani's home run?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
You know one thing I know that's good. We can't
play it yet because the MLB rules, so you can't
just foist it on me. I got you to talk
about the Knicks for five seconds. Back to Knicks, back
to Hey, listen, you've got me not to talk about
a guy dressed as a grimace down in beers at
the rain delay between the Mets and the Yankees tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
That's how big a I had that for the forty
five block. What are you talking about like that's a
segment in and of itself. I between that guy and
the down spout at the end of the rail who's
standing there and drinking himself a tall boy as well.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, come on, that's as good as a game.
But just just sit back for a second, take a
breath to go. Okay, Jason with the Knicks, but let's
think about this. You think about their rotation one through eight,
where now Hart and Devincenzo are coming off the bench,
right Mitchell Robinson, if he stays on the team comes
off the bench, or he lays back something else. One
(08:55):
through eight, Right now, the Knicks have the best roster
in the NBA. They should win the title next year. Yeah,
I mean really, it's it's a title or bust year
for the Knicks next year because again, they have the
best roster in the NBA. Porzingis helps the Celtics to
some sort of high level. Right, we saw that, But
now what do we find out today? May miss the
(09:15):
beginning of the season, ye with surgery. Don't know what
he's going to be back already going on one through eight,
Knicks have the best roster in the NBA. And it's
not close. You give me, give me any other team
one through eight, Give me any other team one through
I'll give you the Knicks. Come on, man, the pace
is out of a miracle. Three, they're gonna have the
best point guard. Come on, just stop now, just stop now.
(09:37):
When four guys get hurt for the Knicks, we still
have four really good players left to go. We're not
just throwing out Bogdanovich or Alec Burks. Hey, go get hot,
hit some shots. Man one through eight, most talented roster
in the NBA. Knicks are going. It's a title or
bust year now for the Everything is on this year,
next year. They have a two to three year title
in year window until they have to give bruntson one
(09:57):
hundred million dollars. Just gonna happen at some point. So yeah,
I mean, this is this is what it is for
all of for all of the oh Jason with the Knicks,
you can't ignore this. This is a team that was
second in the East last year, that remade themselves of
the deadline, the Ananobe trade, turned into the best defensive
team in the NBA. Yeah, and now you have Ananobe
and Heart and Bridges now all defending wings. Good luck
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trying to score, good luck trying to hang thirty five.
Good luck to Haliburton trying to hang thirty five. Good
luck to Nembar trying to make a thirty footer with
his eyes closed again, not gonna happen. It's a title
or bust.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
So no, no, So at this point you gotta be better
than that. You gotta leave Nemhart in the in the
rear view mirror, because if you're gonna still do that,
then then you know, you gotta grow up here in
this moment, right if you're gonna claim them as your
title winning squad and you're gonna crown him today saying
the season doesn't even matter.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
So long arduous journey. You have Tom Thibodeau, those guys
kind of survive year one with the fifty wins, and
then what did we have at the end? One by one?
It sound like the guy from Hell Razer one bed, Oh,
I thought that was Saw I mean Saw, yeah, one
bar one, Yeah, I think I thought that was hell Razor.
(11:09):
But anyway, anyway, the hell Razor was pinhead, the ends
in his head and the ball right no and yeah no,
that was fantasmic phantasm. Had this spear coming at you?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, you know hell Razor, had you know, all
the people from Hell coming in uh, tormenting you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
But the point being you got a long way to go.
That's a lot of weary minutes for Tom Thibodeau lead squads.
I can't dance. We got eight guys playing now. Guys
don't have to play forty five minutes. Acad Heart doesn't
have to play forty eight minutes even gender later.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
But even if they play thirty five, they're a harder
thirty five than most people play, because he expects you
to play defense and not take him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But that's the thing. Now, everybody expects you to play
defense in the ENBA. That's where it's going right now.
That's where the NBA is going right now. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, but there's everybody expec two ahead in terms of shifting.
So I know the odds look how good the knicks
are there? No, no, no, And I appreciate it. And I
know you know from all our guys that have already
contacted me on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I get it. This is gonna be painful.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I give him his due for these two nights, and
then I just remind him how hard life is gonna
be when this fails.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Mike, we also got to ask him if he's heard
the home run.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I know we can hear it in a little bit.
We can hear it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
It's not even over, and I'll play it.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
That's all right, Look, no risk. Just like Enron, the
Knicks are too big to fail. See that that's where
you're going to get you. They have all this money
to give. I have no idea what all these rules
and everything else. It's not like they're not paying Devincenzo
in heart. They're paying these guys to just remember. The
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salary cap is a fictional mythical product of the NBA,
as evidenced by the fact that, Hey, we're gonna we
might lose on Anobi. Nah, two hundred and twelve million dollars,
come on back. Jalen Browns is not top market, but
he's not exactly walking around scratching nickels do He's twenty
five million a year And when he comes up and
in what did what do you want?
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Like, that's just what I got? This window, the Bridges deal.
We've talked about that. Hartenstein some rumors that he wants
to stand, Like what's he He's gonna do it for
a sandwich?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, Like, how the hell did they have any money?
I would stay for a sandwich? I mean, did you?
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I mean, there's they're pretty good delis where I mean,
that's one hell of a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You would do it New York sandwich.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Do I get a sand literally?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do anything?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Do I get a sandwich every day? Yes? During the season? Okay, fine,
I'm in see.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
I remember when you showed me the the video when
you tried to audition for the Klondike bar ad and
you kept getting it wrong by saying what kind of sandwich?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
It's like, No, it's about ice cream, jerk. Best roster
in the NBA one through eight, but ile or bust?
How about this? How about a deal? We'll play he
will play Atani's home run coming up next, will play
Atoni's on run coming up next. Then we'll get into
the fact the NBA season for twenty twenty four is
basically over and the Knicks of the champions.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Why do you have to talk about him if it's over, Well,
because it's a big night.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Anytime you crown a champion, it's a big night.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
We talked about the Celtics one they won. Now you're
talk about the Knicks they won the championships. How it
goes right straight ahead? You want a hot take for
the NBA Draft, We'll tell you who's gonna come out
of this draft. As the biggest star and it's not
who you think that's coming up next? Radio Jason and Mike.
You're listening to the Fox Sports radios.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
At that point, there's a smash right center field. Forget
about it, the marvelous one. So Hey, Tommy, let's started again.
Dodgers Radio Network on the call apparently show hal Tony's
gonna hit a home run every night now, which is
(15:43):
gonna throw the MVP race in a difficult direction. But
if you hit a home run every day, I think
he's I think he's gonna sort of make that two
million dollars a year contract worth it. Well.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Back to back nights, White Sox were the opponent hang
a star on a White Sox actually to sell out
tonight Mexican heritage, and I think it was one cool
last Jerseys.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yes, first one of the year.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
So you get that, you get the Otani effect right
off the jump, the leadoff home run. Yes, MVP conversations
start to get very interesting, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I really I feel like he hits a home run
every game. Now he's got ten straight games. I mean,
I feel like he has a home run every single game.
I'm gonna have one one home run in the first
four innings of every game. Really, because you know, you
want to talk about MVP in the National League, because
I can tell you right now, sho Heotani house hundred percent.
(16:36):
I could make a great case for Mets catcher Francisco
Alvarez because what their record is and games he plays.
Now he's hitting over three hundred, he's got two big
it's a night and home run. I mean, I think
the Mets are like twenty seven and three when he plays,
and they're like three and three and thirty when he doesn't.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
No, but it doesn't matter like any of the games
of the last couple of weeks. It's it's the Grimace effect.
It's got nothing to do with Alvarez.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, I mean, we have to, but that's why.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
I mean, you don't get to write a credit for
Alvarez gets no credit for it. It's a great stat
It's like, uh, you know, hey, what what is it?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Twenty three? And you know when Rojas as a hit?
I mean, what are we doing? I'm gonna put a
poll up right now. Who is your n L m
VP at the show? Hao Tani or Grimace Frostburg? Tell
me the truth. Who would you vote? Shoo Tani or Grimace?
Who's been Who's been more important?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
I mean, Grimas has to have a couple more weeks
than Insanity to take it two weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Well, it's been more than two a two weeks run.
But we're in We're in three weeks of Grimace. Now,
this is three weeks of grimise. Yeah yeah, but here's
the thing.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
We expected greatness from Otani, Right, I'm gonna play MVP
voter and Hall of Fame voter or whatever. I expect greatness.
I expected a little bit more. So we already knew
he was gonna be great. So you really got a well,
me and and Grimace came out of nowhere and he
was laying in the weeds, and all of a sudden
he pops out out and a season that. I mean,
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you were ready to already turn the page to Aaron Rodgers.
Now you get this whole Knicks thing that's causing us
all sorts of vexation and problems here. But you you
were ready to write the Mets off, and all of
a sudden you're back on the band.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That's what I mean. That's why he gets my vote. Well,
when I took a Grimace, Jason was over first off
one A when you lost, No, no, no, it's basically
when McDonald's took him down, you did not avatar Grimaces.
That was disappointing. I gotta say that that was too quick.
Grimace has decided screw you. I'm sticking around. Mets are
beating the Yankees tonight seven nothing. There's a fan at
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the game and look, the game is just resuming after
a long rain delay, which is why it's still going
on seven nothing Mets in the sixth inning. Uh. There
is a dude who came to the game tonight dressed
as Grimace, and there's a big viral video out. He's
standing above the crowd. Everybody is taking video and he's
pounding a beer. Grimace is now pounding beers at City
(18:58):
Field in between innings of a rain delight. This is Grimace.
This is the Grimace effect.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
I think one of the things that that shouldn't be
lost on this, uh is how quickly the proliferation, uh
and growth of the appearance of Grimace costumes happened. I
mean we're talking from concept to maybe maybe they're all
just laying in storage because they've been unsold, and all
of a sudden there's some market demands like hey, I
(19:25):
got him here.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's like the Seinfeld episode. I got these raincoats sitting
in my in my you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
So all these Grimace outfits suddenly are fighting the light
and day. They're they're they're not as purple as we
they used to do.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They're like Lilac. It doesn't even look it looks like
a poor imitation of Grimace. We need to get real purple.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Purple, because remember, I mean he was evil Grimace, which
meant he was the most purple that you could possibly
be when he started TJ.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Clearly, if you're looking for a deep purple Grimace, there
is definitely smoke on the water tonight, DJ, Hey, there
will be, and keep going. Knock find some more deep
purple as the Knicks as the as the Knicks the
next nick as the Mets are knocking on the door
(20:20):
of the playoffs. No one's knocking at your back door
for deep Purple.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
DJ later, dude, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Would come. That's the name of the song. I didn't
I didn't say anything about that.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Was the name of the song.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Was popular in the eighties when Deep Purple tried their comeback.
That's all it said.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Could have gone.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I just said, we have to now stop talking
about Grimace because Aaron Judges at a home run. It's
now seven to because for some reason, the Mets have
a thing where we're gonna walk the guy batting in
front of Aaron Judge for some stupid ass reason. When
we're up by seven runs, we're gonna walk the guy
in front of a judge, So I, judge, come in
home run. It's seven to no. But you gave the
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kids a three that came to this game the first sellout.
Happy Knicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks, Mets, metsar Judge hit a
home run. Now you go home happy? Hey the Mets
one Grimace was shot gun and beers that saw him
out there sixth thenning sixth.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
The real question, Yeah, have you knocked on your dad's
door yet? As Grimace?
Speaker 4 (21:26):
My dad?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Okay, since the last time I talked to my dad
was before, No, was before this series. He has not
come anywhere near me or the house or Zoe in
the last happen door. No, no, no, no, I'll have
to do it because what I did do him last
time a couple of years ago, in the Mets swept
(21:50):
the Yankees in a uh in in in the inter
League series, I put a bunch of brooms at his
door so he would open the door and the brooms
would fall on him. And then I felt bad, like
my dad's in his seventies and what's gonna happen if
he opens a door and brooms fall. So I just
put the brooms and oh, I went to the store
and bought I went to a dollar store. I bought
a whole bunch of brooms. Yeah, so I put him
like right when my dad would open the door, he
(22:10):
would see them, so he didn't want them falling on
him and go what is this? So I did that
and he didn't really appreciate that all that much. So, uh,
that's a big thing. So I haven't done that, but
he has not been around. I have not done since
the beginning of this.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Why aren't you trolling at all?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
This is your time the troll, and you're not because
the thing is Yankee fans are no fun toatrol. They
are no fun. You know, you have people in your
life it makes it fun, No, But it's not. It
makes is it fun for you?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Because if it's fun for you, then like them. Sometimes
it's like doing the thing right, I mean, come on, exactly.
Doing the thing with the brooms for my dad was fun.
But when I try to troll my dad or Fabiano,
all I get is records better than yours. And up there,
call me when you've won twenty six championships. I'm like, okay,
that's just stuff that people have said for fifty years now.
(22:58):
It's not fun. It's not fun. It's like, okay, how
about you give me something little bit different. Call me
when you've done this. This happens, what happened the last
time we played in the World Series? I mean, all
of these things. I mean, clearly the Yankees have a
lot over the Mets, which is what Yankee fans to
fall to. But me, it's not fun. Like, give me
something fun. Like putting brooms in front of your door
is fun. Down we open the door and see all
these brooms. It's kind of fun. But I just gotta yeah, yeah,
(23:20):
what happened here? What about this?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
You?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
How many World Championships were you have? Your last one
was not? Like, I don't know the last one was
nineteen eighty six. Really it was nineteen eighty six. What happened?
I don't even know what happened in that series? Was
it really good?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Was it fine?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I don't understand, like something, Yankee fans are no fun.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
The way you respond is you just say, can I
just give you a hug? Because clearly this hurts you
so badly that you have to go we'll get all
the titles we have.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Your team has sucked.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
I'll tell you, right, it's like being here in La Sorry,
sorry justin, but it's the same idea, right, there's a
lot of near misses.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
There's a lot of greatness.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Dodgers have been great, been a long time since the
World Series win, other than the one that some folks
don't count. Likewise, the Laker title.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I count them. Look, you get to march around with it,
with the trophy, a hunk of metal you win. I'm
all for it. But the world at large fights about it.
So that's fine.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
But it's the when you tell me I got seventeen
when I like, eh, that doesn't matter to me. One
because most of the people that are touting that weren't
alive for most of them win. But second, like, all right,
we're talking about today, and if your team sucks today
and I beat your team today, it's about today's game.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's not about forty years ago. It's not about what
Babe ruth in the earth I get. Look at the
standings I get looking at it. Tell you it's no fun.
It used to I used to have this thing because
I used to love playing jokes on peap I still do.
But and usually the people who didn't respond were always
the most fun, Like they either didn't get it or
they didn't do it. But now I've just lost my
my Uh, how do I say? I've lost some of
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the love and feeling though, No, I've lost some of
the satisfaction of pulling a joke on somebody who's who's
going to react, not in a fun way, like it's
kind of funny to be in a good all. This
person has no idea about this, and I can do
it and they're not gonna react, but it's still fun.
It's fun for me. It's a fun story to tell.
Now I've done enough of those where I'm like, you
know what, you're no fun? Well, there's episode the time investment.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
At some point it's like, all right, if I got
to put up a bunch of effort to make it,
like right now, you'd have to go and fight traffic
to get to a store to stand in line to
buy all those brooms. We're talking about a significant investment
in time. If it's not gonna yield the yucks that
you need, no or a violent response, you know, angry,
you know, while you've got your helmet camera and you're
(25:37):
recording the response. If you're not gonna get a good response,
that's a lot of time you could be doing something else.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You're a sandwich, Yeah, watching another movie. I'm sorry I
could have pulled this joke, but I want to have
a sandwich instead. It's about time. See it's all look
like doing it with Frostburg is fun because Frostburg is
something different every night. It's different audio, you know, it's
different home runs by show. Heo Tani, thank you for
that audio clip. Eventually, eventually we're gonna you know, we've
(26:03):
gotten past the butt fumble. Now now we're on the
fail Mary. Now we're on to nem Haard's three. Okay,
we're moving on. We're not doing the saying right. It's fun.
It's an evolution. But like when when when people don't
make it, fund says don't want to have your team stakes?
What are you talking about? Oh great, that's that's great.
I'll just shake my go you know what, My time
is too valuable. I can't sit here and and and
(26:23):
and control you when I know that your response is
gonna be huffy and it's just gonna be Look at
the standings. Look at the standings. Look at me, Jemmie chips.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
You have when's the last time you did this?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
What's the last time you did this? Was? It's like
you but it's still but I mean, it's still no
fun to do those jokes. Right Like at the end,
if the Mets win this game, I will send broom
emojis to my dad, I'll do some fun stuff. I
don't hear from them for like that, what's the game?
But then when the Yankees like take the lead, it No,
(26:52):
but that's but that's the only thing I can get
away with that at least it's if I'm trolling on
social media. No, no, here's the thing because if my floor, yeah,
if my dad and Fabiano want to just blow it off,
at least a lot of other people get it. So
that's a fun thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Dude, Fabian has been asleep for like at least the
last four innings of probably true.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh So again, we have to stop talking to this
because the Mets just made an error and now the
Yankees have two on and there's one out. No no, no,
we're actually talking into making this game more exciting. No, no,
we're not. We're not worse talking about this or the
or the Yeah, what do you mean, it's talking about what?
Talking about what?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I'm not gonna say it.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Well, listen, Grimace is a big deal, right, and clearly
maybe Grimmace needs to come out and start yell at
the guys saying, hey, let's get going here. Let let's
make sure we get out of the thing and not
keep giving the Yankees more runs.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Well, we know, definitely, if you go to the bullpen,
they'd rather see Grimmace come out than their manager.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Everybody would rather see Grimmas come out every single Oh,
Grimace is gonna Oh Grimace is already called for the hook. Yeah,
but I mean do a little lip reading during pitching changes.
Very entertaining. Give me the ball, Give me the ball,
give me the ball. I'm coming in. You're coming in. Yeah,
but I found you actual video. Yeah, No, it's pretty good.
I like my voice of Grimace the other night. Grimbeth, Gribbeth, Gribbath, Hello, Gribbeth,
(28:15):
you're not that far off. I am here to help
the Mets and to.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Help you grim We have a situation at the draft, guys, Grimace.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Uh, what's going on in the draft right now?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Is a guy that keeps showing in the green room
or right there on the court. He looks like he
does not want to be there tonight. It's one of
these Aaron Rodgers moments. Philip Kowski.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Oh, you know, for a second, I thought that's who
you were going to take. The Lambers are going to take.
Like when I saw J. J. Reddick getting very up,
very happy and animated and he's shaking hands with everybody. Yeah, yeah,
this is great, this is like, Oh, they took Philipowski.
They did that, duke guy Philipowski. He's happy.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
No, no, no, the the do they do? They trade
Giannis and take him.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Uh? They trade Giannis to the Knicks for Mitchell Robinson.
That's what that. That's the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
The next two picks after that, they the.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Knicks don't need these picks. We don't need them.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
We don't need you know, the Knicks should do you
know what you say, We're just taking the next Nova guy. Yeah,
we're not even putting a name on him anymore. The
Knick should say, listen, here's we're gonna do for the NBA.
We're gonna auction off these picks to the highest bidder,
and all the money is gonna go charity. And we're
gonna do something good because we clearly don't need anybody
because we have the best rotation one through rate in
the NBA. Or did you not see we're bringing Head
(29:23):
and Nobe back? Okay, I did.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We'll make some money for the NBA. What whatever? Found
ot Hey, maybe Lebron can come in and bid and
do some stuff and do a do a whole nother
uh decision thing. Hey, I've been boy help Boys and
Girls Club the Knicks. The Knicks should end up just hey, listen,
let's just auction off these picks. Yeah, I would say this.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
The the most entertaining meme that started floating around relating
to the draft was that the Knicks had announced their
city Connect uniforms for next year, and it was just
an alternate in Villanova.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
In Yeah, it's gotta go all. I'm in you know, uh,
little Victor. We're gonna do our beginning of the season
interview process with you, Gregor. And what's your name? You're
paying me a lot of money. I'm Julius Randall. Julius.
Where'd you go to school? I went to the University Kentucky. Julius.
Thanks so much. We'll be in touch we'll see you.
Wait what, Yeah, we'll see it. Hey, what's you to
(30:14):
have a divided locker rooms? What's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Ryan?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Ry? What's your last name? Arcadiacano? Oh? Where'd you go
to school? You come on? Hey, the money we were
given that guy, we're gonna give it for I'm our
guest to the show. We're gonna give it to you.
How about that?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
You have me, Ryan, but you also have a the
the opportunity, you know, of having a lot of division
in that locker room. I think that's really where this
potentially falls apart. Not Valanova physically, that they fall apart
in a Thibodeau environment, but that because you didn't go
to Villanova, you're on out.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So they're gonna do secret handshakes, right, and they're gonna
have movie nights. You don't involve anybody else, I would say,
nobody knows. Oh sure, Hey we're going to the movies.
Oh can we go? No, this is a Villanova. All
the world going to see Inside Out too. Sorry you can't.
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All right. So we had to have that moment in
Grimace because when you're shot gunning beers in between innings
of a game, you need that moment. But straight ahead time, Yeah,
who's coming out of this NBA draft is the biggest star?
(31:25):
We'll tell you that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
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Speaker 1 (31:36):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Oh boy, poor Kyle Philipowski. He is
still not been selected. We are at pick number twenty five,
the Knicks taking their second of back to backs after
trading their first. Yeah, I really, I really want to
say for the next two picks they've taken, Brownie James Boo,
(32:02):
I would love that. That's a combos selection. Boy, how
piss would Lebron be? You know, the one thing I
really always want to do in my career was playing
Madison square guard. And now my bleeping son's gonna get
to My kid's gonna beat me there, man causing a
rift in the time, continue him in a in a
family rivalry that will span generations. I'll tell you and
Leon Rose always say, hey, let's FaceTime your dad and
(32:24):
show him what the lighting looks like here.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
But you know he's not yet.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Wait, wait, wait, fantastic wit, we simulated your whole introduction.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Ready ready to dad Jason if the next do take him.
Guess who can't afford Lebron James after last night's trade? Uh,
well your next We're not getting Lebron's done.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now you can come. He's got to show up for
a dollar. Not happening, not having a dollar. But well,
whatever the minimum is, he's not doing that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
He's not doing That's what they offered him, that blaze pizzadvicement.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
But look, this NBA draft, there's a lot of players
that the average basketball fan hasn't heard of. Look when
a lot of players are coming from overseas, and and
every other guy is from France, Okay, I get you.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Get the guys from Yukon, from Villanova, Yukon. We're paying
attention to Villanova and the guys from Duke's still rate, right,
Philipowski is a guy because you mentioned him there legitimately
going back to the top ten picks if you were,
you know, just kind of shuffling up a deal names.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
We know, yeah, he's got to go early. Why because
we know who he is.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
And the giant from Purdue, yeah, Zack Well, the fact
that Zach they don't know his name, but the fact
that he went ninth overall.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Is George Mirrasan because remember all of the evaluations like
he might not get drafted at all, he'll be a
late second day guy. But look, I'll tell you this
right now, the biggest star of this draft is, and
I've been talking about it for a while, is gonna
be Steph Castle. This kid is fantastic. And I'm not
always a big fan of saying, well, the guy didn't
(33:56):
show enough in college. He should have shown a little
bit more, cause you know what I say about JJ mccarr.
J McCarthy's so good, why didn't he play good? But
Steph Castle showed you the skill set that he has
and he wasn't asked to do a lot on a
Yukon team. That was absolutely loaded. You winning every game
by twenty points, you're ownto the national championship. But he's
exactly what everybody is looking for, is he is. He
(34:18):
is a guy that can handle the ball, he can
play off the ball, he can shoot. You're gonna see
a little bit more of that at the next level.
But the main thing is you watched him hot knife
through butter through the tournament, defending all the best players,
and he was sending guys home who were scoring twenty five,
twenty eight a game. Your guy Boo Booi went home, right,
Terren Shannon went a one. Shannon was scoring thirty eight
(34:39):
a game, and he would one for fourteen when the
when Miami played Yukon. He is that good? Yeah, well,
at least we were in the tournament. That's true. Thanks Smith, Dad,
I went full Walt on you.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
I'm gonna go with the guy that was selected right
ahead of him and Reed Shepherd going to a Houston team.
It's great shooter Chrumbered potentially to be, you know, in
this Kevin Durant thing. We'll see what happens there. But
a team on the come right. San Antonio still has
a bunch of building blocks and He's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
There's no question.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
You add him, you add to him to Wemby uh
and that's a that's a formidable duo uh to to rebuild.
They've got a couple of other pieces that I think
were underrated, didn't translate to win. Now with Houston, you
got a team that's uh young and rising and a
guy that can shoot the lights out. So I'll take
him because you know what, in the grand scheme, people
(35:28):
still don't care about defense.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But see, but that's the thing now, is that that's
become a thing. Now we want no, no, no, want
that for our basketball. Now I'm talking about sex appeal.
He shoot it. He's gonna come out the biggest because
he's gonna be one of those combo guards that the
castle that can do more than he should just because
he didn't have to. But when you see the defensive acumen, Yeah,
you want to look at a guy like o Giana
(35:51):
Nobe getting the money that he had that he got today,
that's that's become a big uh. That's become a big thing,
a big trend in the NBA is okay. When he
guys that can make sure and we need guys that
condition shut wing defenders. Right, that's what every team is
looking for now. We need a guy that can make shots,
play well offensively, and is a good wing defender. It's
why mckel bridges went for five first round picks yesterday.
(36:11):
It's why the Knicks are given Ogan Unobi two hundred
and twelve million dollars. Right, Castle's the guy, and I'm
telling you go through all this. Look, I'll be the
first guy to tell you. I don't know a ton
about a lot of these players where they're all coming
from France. I don't know a ton about guys from France.
But watching Castle especially is run during the tournament. Seeing
him shut down the best players, the best offensive players
in college basketball, who all had different skill sets, that
(36:34):
is something special, man. And I can't believe he didn't
go number one. It was a gift to the Spurs
at number four. You talk about Castle and Wemby for
the next ten years. Good luck, man, good luck.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
All I can say is I mean, obviously we've watched
a lot of clips and seen a lot of highlight
reels out out of the French League.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
But I know this.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
I need to go see some of the history in France.
I need to go and get myself some bag ats
and some nice cheeses. And evidently I need to get
some kind of subscription to watch French basketball because they're
coming over in waves.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
We just had your knicks just took a guy from
France Coke. Uh yeah, I gotta start thinking, are we
paying too much attention to the NBA and not enough
to French League. I think it seems like we might
shoot not watch the NBA playoffs and watch more French
league playoffs. I think we could do bold but no
(37:30):
the NBA draft, but you know what, the French league
is where it's at eight seven, NBA is overrated. Coming
up next, we will answer the biggest question every NBA
fan has about their team in the draft tonight. That's next.
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