January 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon bring you the one big issue with Mike Tomlin. And Fox Sports 1 NBA Analyst Ric Bucher drops in for all the latest news on Jimmy Butler, Zion Williamson and Steph Curry!
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we got big drama in the NBA. Steph Curry says, no,
I will sacrifice myself. Do not make trades just to
(01:23):
make us good if it's gonna cost the future of
the team. Rick Buker stops buying about twenty minutes with
more on that, but the future? Could Zion actually get traded?
Will he get traded before? After? Jimmy Butler? All of
this and more right up the wheelhouse of Rick Buker.
But as we get set from other week in the NFL, still,
(01:44):
you know, because it's Tuesday right till still Tuesday, Tuesday,
Tuesday till Tuesday Tuesday, the the stories of the teams
that have left us in the playoffs are still going strong.
When we last left you, and the Steelers and Mike
Tomlin had their end of season press conference today and
(02:04):
you know, obviously there's a lot of attention about you know,
is Mike Tomlin gonna stay? Is he not? We told you, Look,
he's coaching for his job. Last weekend a really bad
outing and especially going all out for Russell Wilson at Pittsburgh.
You're gonna need a change, just for a different voice,
for a different path. Because you're seeing the same thing
out of the Steelers for the past six or seven years,
(02:25):
which is, hey, we're good enough to get in the playoffs,
we'll lose the first game and that's it. So he
was coaching for his job. What decision's going to be
made right now, it's still up in the air. But
one thing Mike Tomlin wanted people to know today is that, oh,
if you're calling Pittsburgh to trade for me, well, he
had this very short bit of advice, your time, that's it,
(02:47):
save your time, don't call. I don't think he gets
to make that. Don't call. No, he does, believe it
or not. And this is why Kimbley he does actually
have a no trade clause in his country. Great agent. Hey,
if they want a trade, yeah, but no trade cluse.
That's fine, nice move, save your time.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It just comes down and this has been such a
divisive issue. There's Mike Tomlin thinking people get really mad
about it, like, if you're just doing enough? Is that
is that okay? For longevity for history? And in some
places it is right. Hey, And I would.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Love to have I would love to have a Steelers
type existence for any of my teams every year we're
good enough. We get through the regular season, there's a
lot of ups and downs. We have talent, we get
to the playoffs and we lose. But you can ask
for more from a team than what the Steelers doing.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But that's the thing, after seventeen eighteen years of that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it's when you get tired. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
all time.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It's settled in your ways, your schedule right now, all
of you think about your home lives.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There's certainly aspects of it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Or maybe you just say it's still just the way
it's always been.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Are you happy about it? No?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Would you change it if you could? What's what's the
opportunity cost? It gets very partisionally. Maybe you can be bad. Yeah,
you know is good? You know, I don't know, you
close instead of whoever cooks the meal.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If I could get used to that, I could get
used to being, Hey, we're a ten win team. I
can wear my gear with pride, because boy, I can't
tell you the last I'm worrying jet skear uh get.
I could wear my gear with the center. If you
wear Jets, I'm gonna have ups and downs. We're gonna
have great wins. We're gonna have games that we should
probably win but not. There's gonna be a little bit
of controversy. We're gonna get to the playoffs and we're
(04:32):
gonna lose. Okay, all right, I will take that. I
will take that because you know how many times my
team has been to the playoffs last twelve years. Close
your eyes? What do you see? Nothing? But again, you
actually did close your eyes. I like that you did, Like,
can you the little cat?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Did you really need to do that? I have seconds
right there, Jason, close your eyes closing? Oh, you know
we're on video, so I mean I don't need to
sit here and listen you talk about the Jets. Are
I'm done with it?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Legitimately.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I would tell you when you wear Jet skiars, you
get a reaction. It's like me wearing the Cutler jersey.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You want to see what kind of response I'm gonna get?
Do people put cigarettes out on you when you wear that?
You're smoking Jay Cutler? I think I can do this.
Ah a badge of honor, damn it. That would be
Mike Harmon's personal hell. Right, if Harmon didn't live a
great life and he went to which is like kind
of like The Life of harm If Harmon went to hell,
(05:23):
it would be him wearing a Cutler shirsey and and
he would he would be yelling, ay a shirt jersey.
Oh yeah, a full on jersey, but it's it's a
T shirt that looks like the jersey, right, you would
and your hell would be sitting in front of a TV,
not a new TV, one of those like TVs from
the early two thousands where there's fifty pounds like that
anchor from CNN's TV. Yes, exactly, yea full on it's
(05:47):
so excited. Yeah, And it would be where you'd see
the trail of the player like Blitzer almost yeah, almost
like you're watching a college football game on like uh,
you know a far out you know sports station two thousands, right, Oh,
look it's BYU and Utah and you just you'd be
watching the Bears on that television and it would be
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Jay Cutler forever getting you so close and losing that game.
And he would throw at least four interceptions with every game,
and for every interception, someone from behind from your past
that you really did wrong gets to put out a
cigarette on your back right there because of Jay coulor smoking.
Jake Color, Hey, smoking my Carmen, this is this is
jumping knucklehead billy from second grade? Remember when you picked
(06:29):
your nose and you put it on my desk, here's
for that. And it would just keep repeating that, look past.
How long a line of congo line would this be? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think I just have a couple of folks that
would be repeating, and they would all say, your brothers
are coming to right, Your brother's gonna be down here?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are they down here yet? Are they down here yet?
Where are they? They're the ones I really want. I'm
taking my frustrations out on you, but your brothers are
the ones I really want.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
A We were good kids as far as you know,
Oh you were not. Come on, although they so on?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What what is it? The all seeing guy kind of thing?
What did you tell? What did you tell me?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your dad was a cop and he could keep the
piece everywhere and keep the law everywhere but your house?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well no, my mom would then take things into her
own hands. Oh, down and down, eat Rambo.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Down in hell. There would be all.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The switches, wooden spoons and everything that had been broken
across my head, neck and back all those years, and
maybe the liquorice whip that my brothers got me with licorice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Licorice whip. Yeah, you know you'd get the super rope. Yeah,
it would be like and then you could tie him together.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, no, no, but like literally it was like three
foot and probably a good I don't know, half inch diameter.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Peopould say, hey, do you want to play Raiders of
the Lost Ark. Yeah, let's play Raiders the Lost Ark.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How is that while with one of those once boy,
he got his ass he saw the open welts on
my back.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
When you start hearing the theme to Indiana Jones run
you have five, I never lay fell asleep on his back. Well,
he's got memories. Yeah, when they ran out of licorice,
when they used like seaweed, Uh no, they come by
that was two the too far inland. They just went.
They just went straight to uh two by fours and
chasing around like hacksaw Jim Duggan, what do you think about?
(08:15):
Tough God? But look, but Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
See a Rams defender using Jimmy superfly stick a flying
ahead butt At.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The end of Can't Tug, Can't talk about him Too?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm actually getting ready to watch the Dark Side of
the ring on him. Oh the next one in the queue. Okay,
now available on one of the streaming services to not
be named because they don't pay me.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Tomlin says, save your time.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
What are the issues with Mike Tomlin that we we've
talked about? And it's something can't in a big game?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well that well that's number one. Number one is he's
extremely stubborn and he can't pick quarterbacks and he doesn't
see that right, He keeps failing. He was handed Ben Roethlisberger.
It worked out was were he and Roethlisberger the biggest
fans of each other? No, but they figured out a
way to make it work. They rode that into the ground.
I mean that was he was digging. I mean he
was digging to hell the final couple of years that
(09:01):
he was there. Sure, and and for looking for everybody's
Oh but he's the coach that No, no, you think
Mike Tomlin doesn't have an incredibly large voice into who
the quarterback is and who the personnel is.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course he would be the greatest course here, it's
legitimately he did not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I just love to watch how that office operated.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Mike walking by lunch pail in hand right past Omar
Khan passed all the other Ay sam Ai you George.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It just keeps talking. He's walking by going. Russell Wilson,
Russell Wilson. I mean, he's he's really stubborn. And he
can't pick quarterbacks, right, whether it's Trubisky, whether it's Kenny Pickett,
whether it's Justin Fields, whether it's Russell Wilson's out because
he was bad. He was bad. I'm sorry, was bad.
He was bad. They were all bad, and and and
he has a big voice, right, So don't sit here
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and tell oh, Mike Tomlin. These are the gro No,
he shops for the groceries with Omar con They all
go to the supermarket together. They all get here's your league.
Why don't you go pick out the produce? You go
pick out can foods?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You you know you go here, sure, Cardburg Post Gazette.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I run things like I get a bunch of flowers. Listen,
ed Bouschett was not. He was dropping them off and
picking them up. And that was when Roethlisberger was playing. But look,
he's not good at it, and he's very stubborn, and
he is he is one of the coaches. That is
so the minute he is questioned, he digs in further.
The minute there was questions about Russell Wilson, he dug
in further on Russell Wilson. And look what happened. Russell
(10:21):
Wilson turned back into the guy we thought he was.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
He took when when Wilson had a modicum of success.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right, But but but what did Jay Lazer tell us?
That's why you guys do what you do and I
do what I do? He was, He's, look, he's very much.
He takes it personal, and he takes all of that personal.
He went to the wall for Russell Wilson, who is
just a guy, right, And he's just a guy. And
and and you're looking at how the Steelers could have
gone further if they had a better plan at quarterback,
(10:48):
and tell me how that's a good plan. We're gonna
get a guy the Bears don't want, a guy the
Bears don't want, And then we're gonna get a guy
that the Broncos said, here, you take him, and we're
gonna eat eighty million dollars in money this year. These
are the two guys. And suddenly Pittsburgh just say, yeah,
they're gonna be great. No, this is part of his
decision making. He's bad at it because that's the thing.
(11:09):
He is bad at the offensive part of football because
he wants to win a certain way. And just ask
Bill Belichick what it's like when you want to win
a certain way. No, No, we lost Tom Bradies. Now
we're gonna win the way I want to with no stars,
because the system is the star. I'm gonna draft guys
you've never heard of. I'm not gonna really sign star
free agents. Belichick wanted to win a certain way, and
what happened to got him fired. Mike Tomlin's trying to
(11:30):
win like it's nineteen eighty five. He wants to win
every game sixteen thirteen. Defense plays great quarterback, makes a
player two two running backs have big games like that's
like his thing, Like he loves that. He he wants
that more than anything, more than winning games. He wants
to win that way, which is an antiquated way to
try to win. Anybody who tries to win that way
in the NFL, you're only going so far. You're only
(11:52):
going maybe as far as the playoffs, and you're losing
because you need to be dynamic and score points in
the NFL you can't. I know Mike Tomlin has this
whole belief, but this this is such an antiquated system,
and those are the issues with Mike tom That's why
going forward, if Tomlin stays I'm cool, because I know
the stealers aren't going to jump ahead of any of
the teams that I you know, and the Jets or
anybody else and say, oh, We're suddenly going to be
(12:12):
a Super Bowl favorite. Those are the issues of Mike Tomlin,
and they're not going away.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Fan of Mike Tomlin long of this kind of way
and approach to doing business, but you recognize that the
game has changed, you recognize that the standards should change
along the way, and recognizing you know, it's the old
definition of insanity. You're doing the same damn thing year
after year, and even if you have a couple the
(12:37):
highs are a little higher during the year, You're ending
up at the same point each and every year.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
A very quick exit, exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmon the two issues. They're not going anywhere, So
good luck Pittsburgh if you keep Mike Tomlin, good luck.
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speaking of transforming, Jimmy Butter would like to be transformed
to another team. Is Zion about to head out of town?
Joining us now on the hotline. Body better to break
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What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The NBA is killing me, guys, It's killing me.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What happened? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
This darn the news salary capitals Like you're gonna ask
me about Zion, You're gonna ask me about Jimmy Butler,
and transactions are like, it's one of the reasons you
guys have me on right, that's one of the who's
going where? What are they gonna do? What's happening? And
I keep looking at it and talking to people in
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the league, and they're like, we're not spending that money.
They should do it. They should do it, they should
do upstates on the NBA now on the Food Network,
because all we talk about are aprons, like the first apron,
the second aprons. Where's Jimmy Butler going, Oh no, no, no,
(16:08):
second apron?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No, no, no, no, We're on third and fourth aprons.
Now I mean can't we can't do that, and it's
not happening.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So it's it's an interesting dynamic. But the fact of
the matter is that you look across the league. You know,
owners have finally come up with rules because the salary
cap is for those who may not know, the reason
that there's a salary cap is because the owners can't
help themselves. They are for whatever reason, they will spend,
(16:38):
and they will spend and they will spend. And even
you know, with the luxury tacks and all that you
got billionaires, they're like, okay, I can throw a couple
extra million if it means that we can we can
get another another player. But now it's you literally can't prade.
Once you get far enough over the salary cap, it
(17:00):
then becomes we got to trade one for one, You
can't aggregate players, and there's all sorts of restrictions that
make it almost impossible to go get It's even if
you were like Phoenix Sons. I'm sure Phoenix Suns would
like to make a deal for Jimmy Butler, but they
literally it's it's it's nearly impossible because it would mean
getting convincing Bradley Beal to waive his trade, his no
(17:24):
trade and then sending him to Charlotte or Detroit, you know,
some some team that's close to having cap room or
is willing to make a move like that, and those
teams are are That's not a place that Bradley Beal
is gonna wave his no trade for. So unfortunately, you
(17:46):
know that, I just don't expect that. As much as
the New Orleans Pelicans have to move somebody they can't sign.
We signed Brandon Ingram and keep Zion Williamson financially just
does not work for them. And I believe the reason
that you're hearing Zion's name is because actually he might
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be easier to move because of the way that his
contract is written, in the fact that Brandon Ingram is
a is offending free agent and can't be guaranteed that
you're going to be able to resign him if you
trade for him, So that those are the complications there.
And with Jimmy Butler, it's the same thing that you know,
(18:28):
it's it's going to sound weird, but the Miami Heat
are probably better served letting him walk in free agency
than signing him to the extension that he wants because
they will lose all of their cap flexibility. And now
you're tied to a nucleus of Tyler herro Ban out
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of bio and a thirty six year old, thirty seven
year old thirty eight year old Jimmy Butler and unible
basically unable to make any other moves. So that's that's
That was very long winded, but it's why it's why
I'm sad today because the NBA has found a way
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to just choke the life out of the kind of
moves that we love to talk about and that fans
are are thrilled by the possibility of big names going
to new places.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So what you're saying is, Okay, it's going to be really,
really hard for Jimmy Butler to get dealt. It's going
to be really hard, but not quite as hard for
Zion Williamson. So maybe Steph Curry is ahead of the
curve when he said today, hey, don't make a move,
don't make a panic move just to make this team
better in the short term, like he was telling the Warriors,
don't go out and make a trade.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, And that was a message directly to Joe Lake.
Joe lakem thinks that we're there are only one piece away,
like one more piece, and let's let's let's do something.
And I think that, you know, the way Steph looks
at it is like we're just not We're not one
piece away. So if we move with Jonathan Commingia now
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or we you know, and Andrew Wiggins or whatever it
may be, that's not going to dramatically change who we are.
And so why do that at this point? Where again,
if you do make a move like that, you know,
and again from on a on a on on paper,
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I could say, hey, you know, Jimmy Butler would be
a nice addition, except it would cost you Andrew Wiggins
and Jonathan Cominga. Are you really better if if you
give up those pieces, and and you would have to
you'd have to either give up Draymond Green or or
Andrew Wiggins in the deal, and then the only reason
and that's not enough, they would have to be in
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the deal to make it work. And then you'd have
to add Jonathan Kaminga and and at least at least
one more piece to financially make it work. And so
I just I'm looking at the possibilities. They took their
swings last summer. They tried to get Larry markin in,
they tried to get Paul George, couldn't make it happen.
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Sometimes you just have to recognize this is not the
time for us to do it. And that's more the
case now than ever before because of the new salary
cap rules.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So Rick right as well, instead of talking about the
difficulties of making moves a team that maybe doesn't have
to do anything because they're running and brilliantly bouncing back
from a loss.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, they win a game with.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Donovan Mitchell the other day where he goes three of sixteen,
and then they roll up on Indiana here again tonight
in a nationally televised game, and it seems like the
bandwagons starting to fill up.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was just working on
my all Star ballot and I'm like, well, I got
to have somebody from the Cleveland Cavaliers. I mean, probably
Donovan Mitchell. But if you if you look at how
they've been successful, it's like it's by strength and numbers.
It's Evan Mobley, it's Jarrett Allen, it's Darius Garland and
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Donovan Mitchell finding a way to play together. It's they've
just gotten it from a multitude of places and it's
what makes them what makes them so good as the
regular season team. And then so then we start to
turn towards, Okay, well what can they do in the playoffs?
And I do think that they are more prepared. I
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think they're more legit for as a playoff team than
they ever have been. But it's still going to come
down to, like we've seen Donovan Mitchell time and time
and time again in the playoffs, right, and you put
a big athletic guy on him and suddenly the game
(22:53):
is not the same for him as in the regular season.
You gain plans for him. Now. The difference with Cleveland
now is, you know, the way Darius Garland is playing
and Evan Mobley is giving you something. So it's not
just Jared Allen, like, they have multiple guys who can contribute.
I just at this point, I'm already like I'm thinking,
you know, second round or sure, can they get to
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the conference finals? You know, that's that's where they are.
And that's the question. And what's going to be the
answer is does Donovan Mitchell is he a different guy?
This time around in the postseason, or if he's not,
is Evan Mobley ready to step up in a way
that he's never before or Darius Garland. That's going to
(23:37):
be the question before me. But in terms of their
depth and versatility, and if you look at all the
teams like Oklahoma City in the Western Conference, like all
the teams that are that are running away or at
the top, are all teams where you know, in hindsight,
if one of them ends up winning a ring, we'll say, oh,
this is their big three. But the fact is they
(23:58):
don't have big threes. They got big or they get
medium size, maybe a big one or.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Don't try McDonald's. Y'all have us a one super side,
but a two regular and a three stepper.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, which is a happy meal?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
F as was Rick Buker, our guest to Jason Smithson
with Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All Right, I want to hit you with something we
said on the show a few nights ago. I don't
want you, I mean agree or disagree. Okay, by the
end of this season, by the end of the by
the end of the season, it will be widely accepted
that Wemby is the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Wait, Ricky just dunked on the Lakers again. Hang on
a second, it's on Michael Cooper Knights. Hang another reaction
shot of them playing no defense in the force.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah. Well, but here's the thing I like, I'm I'm
a big fan of what wemb and Yama is going
to be. But everybody has him already as the runaway
to win Defensive Player of the Year. It's been since
I think the playoffs last year, Gobert, it looks so good.
(25:21):
Everybody's like, Wemby finished second. Why did he finished second?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I didn't go bear say hey, I got this one
before Wemby starts winning them all. Didn't he say that
when he won his award?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, we're never like so ever since then, it
was like, well, Wemby's Wemby's going to get the next
one no matter what. And while certainly, I you know,
he's a factor and very well should win, I don't
think he's a runaway. I mean, guy, he's he's he
(25:50):
still needs to get stronger because guys are willing are
able to not bump him off. Anthony Davis. For as
bad as the Lakers were, was completely comfortable against him
when thirteen for eighteen. Some of that was against Charles Vassie, obviously,
but he didn't have any problems stepping out and scoring
over over Wemby and offensively. Like I'm watching him and
(26:17):
maybe this is look, maybe this is my personal tecadilla,
But I watch him on the break pull up twice
to shoot threes, missing both of them, and I'm like, Okay,
I gave you the first one, Like it's from thirty feet,
Like whatever, you made one earlier, Okay, you're going to
come down and do it again, Like dude, you are
(26:37):
seven whatever and lethal, why are we pulling up and
shooting thirty footers? So I feel as if his game
still has to mature. Put him in that category of
best player in the league, because I need to be
able to play through him if he's going to be
(26:58):
the best player in the league. And I see all
too often that it really is it's still Chris Paul
organizing them. Uh, it's it's still Define Castle making plays.
It's it's uh, it's other guys constributing. He's a He's
a big part of it, and he'll eventually get there,
But in watching him this year, I feel like maybe
(27:21):
the absence of Greg Popovich has allowed his game to
be a remain a little more immature and inefficient than
it would if if Pop will with them. And can
I say one thing I want to? I want to
And I don't know if you guys have talked about this,
but on the Jimmy Butler case, right, pat Riley has
(27:43):
been getting and I don't know if you guys have
talked about it, but it's like, you know, it's it's
a damn shame that pat is handling Jimmy this way
and players are never going to come to Miami again
and look at all that Jimmy has done for them,
And I'm thinking, you know, how are you feel about
this particular situation. Pat Riley has been in Miami for
(28:04):
thirty years. They have or damn near for thirty years.
They have made the playoffs twenty four out of those
thirty years. Only once have they missed the playoffs in
two consecutive seasons. You can't say that about the Celtics,
the Spurs, any other franchise. They've never been that consistent
(28:29):
in terms of always being a postseason team. Being one
of the better teams and sometimes the best team in
the league. And this idea that pat Riley doesn't know
what he's doing, or that Jimmy Butler of all people,
is going to change the template, and that he should
(28:50):
be caw towing him. He's rebuilt and redone this team
four or five times over and made it into a
viable team with like one season off. So I just
do not want to hear any sort of critique of
how pat Riley is handling this situation, because he really
(29:15):
is the og of all OG's and his track record
speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He defends and loves pat Riley. He defends and loves
Steph Curry. He hates Victor Webbin Yama. He is Rick Buker,
the Nicks and the Knicks. Don't forget the Nicks. He's
on Twitter at Rick by Wemby, That's at Rick Buker.
That is at Rick Buker. Check out the On the
Ball podcast has Quad Shot Mellows value the King Surge
(29:42):
more on Wemby's defense The ascension of Kate Cunningham. I
was just two years too early on the ascension of
Kate Cunningham. Again, it's right up there. Now it went
up again. Check it out on Rick's page. At Rick
Buker on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You're gonna get me pushed into the riverwalk. Yo.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hey, look at TMZ Wemby. Actually he's Rick Buker and
throws him into the riverwalk like the well. He's treating
him like Hulkin Loki from the Avengers.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I mean, we got a movie coming out in a month, Rick,
it would be good promotion if Wemby actually did that.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, to go so much, guys, much appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We'll talk to you next week and I'll pencil you
in for Wemby's Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Thank you. I'm glad to speak on his.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Behalf longevity wreck soon.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Good fuddy. There closed, Rick Buker. The Jason smithser with
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Speaking of our own best of, it is Steve de Sager,
who give you the best of sports tonight and also
the worst because you know he's going to talk about
the Denver game and he's going to talk about the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
My goodness, Dallas had Kyrie Irving back tonight. He'd missed
five games with the bad Backs. Seems like good news.
He's four of eighteen shooting and they're down one ozho
five eighty two to Denver with mercifully six minutes left
in this game. Jamal Murray and the Nuggets forty three points.
He had thirty two in the first half, when the
(31:25):
lead at the break was seventy one forty five Denver.
Brooklyn is trying to end a five game losing streak.
The Nets are leading at Portland mid third quarter eighty
eight to seventy six, despite twenty five points from Scoot Henderson.
Victories from Milwaukee and New Orleans. Atlanta got forty three
points from Trey Young and beat Phoenix, won twenty two
to one seventeen. Cleveland wins again one twenty seven to one.
(31:46):
Seventeen at Indiana, Donovan Mitchell thirty five points and Oklahoma
City wins again as shay Gilchiff Alexander started ten of
ten shooting from the floor. He had thirty two points
in the thunder victory at Philadelphia one eighteen one oh two.
Philly was without injured stars Joel Embiid, Paul George, and
Tyrese Maxi. On to college basketball now and the final seconds,
(32:07):
Missouri is still leading at number five ranked Florida eighty
three to seventy nine. Ole, miss ranked twenty first, got
to win at number four Alabama seventy four sixty four.
Mississippi had lost sixteen straight against ranked opponents. DePaul is
oh and seven in the Big East after losing in
overtime at home tonight to seventh rank Marquette eighty five
eighty three.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
In ot that's basically a win, though for it seems
like a win for DePaul back you can hang a
banner for that. Mark Mark almost beat Marquette. Yeah. January twelfth,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
I was gonna say Mark and Terry are not coming
through that door, but that would be going back about
four years.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
We'll really start. Yeah. Yeah, the Opening night tonight Today
was the opening night.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
First game for everybody yelling at people now, Yeah, DePaul
would get in thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
McK cronin would like it if the season hadn't started yet. Yeah,
he definitely.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
There were thirteen NHL games. Winnipeg sixty one over Vancouver
bustin six to two, beating Tampa Bay and Florida in
a shootout, one at New Jersey two to one. The
Houston Texans waved wide receiver Deontae Johnson. Lyons running back
David Montgomery participated fully at walkthrough after last month's knee injury.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
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NFL as one team prepares for a huge playoff game
this weekend. They are dealing with the most knuckleheaded of controversies.
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I bought Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis when their albums
came out that they did return Brutal. Yeah, I bought
them both. Sweet, I bought them both. Do you still
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he was a comedian, very popular, very popular in the eighties,
and he's done absolutely nothing substance since he's donkey nothing
of substance since the eighties. It's a hated mansion.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
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Speaker 1 (35:06):
He is not delirious. He is not even raw. He's
he's fully cooked. He is like overcooked because he's still
a caught. Is that he did coming to America too?
The place has too many right angles? Oh my god?
Like wait waited for that? Like the only funny line
was John Amos at the end. Oh we have mcflurby's.
Our toppings are on the bottom, They're on the bottom. Yeah.
(35:28):
Here we got to hang out with Rick James. Sure. Sure.
While the Eagles get ready for their playoff game this
Sunday against the Rams, they are dealing with the fallout
of book Gate, which is is this is typical Philadelphia
Eagles that they're dealing with a controversy that has to
(35:48):
do with reading take over book. Hey, you know, the
quarterback and wide receiver don't get along. The head coach
and the quarterback don't get Look, no, no, No, we're
in a controversy about reading, reading, which is what is
taught to kids in school. And you hope your your
kid likes to read. Reading is an awesome thing. Reading
is fundamental.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
SENTI the hell out of your reading. In the summer
and through the school year.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
The Eagles are involved in a controversy about being about
being anti reading against reading.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You can never go to Philly again. You can never
go there. Do you think I want a guy yelling
word at me? No job, You work for d I Company.
And that's bad job by him, work for d I Company.
But the Eagles are dealing with a a controversy coming
(36:45):
off of the A. J. Brown story this week and
where he was reading a self help book motivational book
on the sideline during their win. And I can't believe
there was criticism of this. But you know, hey, Philadelphia, Hey,
I don't know why we're just doing right. We're reading
books here in Philadelphia. We should just be watching the Eagles,
watching the Flyers and seeing if the Philly sign more people.
(37:05):
That's what we need to do here, just reading books.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I don't know about that. Maybe I don't teach reading
in school anymore. This is bad now, this is bad
for us in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Go ask Danny DeVito. No, obviously, because you win going away.
And the other controversy is Saquon Barkley costing everybody all
those anytime touchdown bets. Is the subplot is if it
wasn't a win, that you were winning going away, that
(37:33):
it becomes a all right, is he salty? Disgruntled and
hateful because he's been so limited in the offense. So yeah,
there's some legitimacy to why's he got a book? Why's
he not got a playbook?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Why is he reading? Why is he reading? Why are
you worried about reading? And today Nick Sirianni had had
enough of it and he came to the defense of
aj Brown and says, anybody who is criticizing my wide
receiver as capital la easy, why are you okay with
him reading a self help book on the sideline or
would you rather he not?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
I'm definitely okay with it. Everybody has there. You know.
The crazy thing is it's been happening for you know,
we've been he's been reading this book on the sideline
for a long time. It's not it's just so happened
that a camera saw it this week and kind of
you know, I don't know if made a big deal
about it or not, but everybody has their own way.
We talk so much about dog mentality, playing the next play,
(38:28):
focusing your mind so you on what you're about to do,
so you can play with great effort and great detail.
And some guys pray, you know, in between, some guys
meditate in between, some guys, you know, AJ reads in between.
Whatever these guys need to do to put their mind
in a place where they can play with great detail
(38:49):
and great effort. I fully encourage them to do that.
And Aj is I love Aj, he is, he's such
a good teammate. I find it a little bit like
I saw johan Na Dotson said something like defending Aj,
and I thought that was awesome too, Just another opportunity,
another example of our teammates defending each other. That you know,
we don't do any research to figure out why, how
(39:12):
long he's been doing it, why he's doing it, what
he's reading, and he's not reading a you know, whatever
romance novel on the Sideline's novel.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But if it got him inspired, your whole argument was
that that was okay, whatever you mean.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, Jayalen hurts, I've never seen the guy read before
in the sunlight.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
But it seems like there'd be a lot of video
of AJ reading if this was a common occurrence.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, I think you're right, but look, he says. And
criticism of this is lazy because it is if the
guy's going to read inside okay, right, like like it's
I get it. Whatever. It's because it's about whatever an
athlete needs to do to be ready to go back
out there. Some guys sit by themselves and don't do
any It's not like you know, they said, hey, come
over here working on a play. No, no, dude, I
(39:55):
gotta read. I gotta read. I get no. It was
he had the time to sit here. This is what's
gonna help me focus. Right, So it's okay, But of
course Nick Sirianni is going to defend me even if
it wasn't right, because the last Nick Sirianni is walking
on such thin ice with all of his stars. It's
anything you want. I love you guys. I don't want
to get fired. I love you guys. I'm gonna say
whatever you guys say. I'm gonna say is great. I
(40:16):
don't care what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I'm surprised you didn't get the AI Sirianni. Guys self
help you guys believe in that.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I don't care what you read. It could be a
highlights magazine. You could be doing the word search. I
don't care. I am by and behind this one.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I was kind of hoping he'd go, Hey, if they
have to play cards on the sideline, what whatever's gonna
get him through?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
You know, I'm telling you a little bit of yoga,
have at it. I'll end with this. Don't be surprised
when I picked the Rams this week to win. Look
at I gotta stay with your pick before the season.
You can't flip flopper. Hey, coming up next, what people
are getting really wrong about? Two big quarterbacks in the
news today. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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we got big drama in the NBA. Steph Curry says, no,
I will sacrifice myself. Do not make trades just to
(01:23):
make us good if it's gonna cost the future of
the team. Rick Buker stops buying about twenty minutes with
more on that, but the future? Could Zion actually get traded?
Will he get traded before? After? Jimmy Butler? All of
this and more right up the wheelhouse of Rick Buker.
But as we get set from other week in the NFL, still,
(01:44):
you know, because it's Tuesday right till still Tuesday, Tuesday,
Tuesday till Tuesday Tuesday, the the stories of the teams
that have left us in the playoffs are still going strong.
When we last left you, and the Steelers and Mike
Tomlin had their end of season press conference today and
(02:04):
you know, obviously there's a lot of attention about you know,
is Mike Tomlin gonna stay? Is he not? We told you, Look,
he's coaching for his job. Last weekend a really bad
outing and especially going all out for Russell Wilson at Pittsburgh.
You're gonna need a change, just for a different voice,
for a different path. Because you're seeing the same thing
out of the Steelers for the past six or seven years,
(02:25):
which is, hey, we're good enough to get in the playoffs,
we'll lose the first game and that's it. So he
was coaching for his job. What decision's going to be
made right now, it's still up in the air. But
one thing Mike Tomlin wanted people to know today is that, oh,
if you're calling Pittsburgh to trade for me, well, he
had this very short bit of advice, your time, that's it,
(02:47):
save your time, don't call. I don't think he gets
to make that. Don't call. No, he does, believe it
or not. And this is why Kimbley he does actually
have a no trade clause in his country. Great agent. Hey,
if they want a trade, yeah, but no trade cluse.
That's fine, nice move, save your time.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It just comes down and this has been such a
divisive issue. There's Mike Tomlin thinking people get really mad
about it, like, if you're just doing enough? Is that
is that okay? For longevity for history? And in some
places it is right. Hey, And I would.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Love to have I would love to have a Steelers
type existence for any of my teams every year we're
good enough. We get through the regular season, there's a
lot of ups and downs. We have talent, we get
to the playoffs and we lose. But you can ask
for more from a team than what the Steelers doing.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But that's the thing, after seventeen eighteen years of that.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, it's when you get tired. Oh yeah, yeah, it's
all time.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It's settled in your ways, your schedule right now, all
of you think about your home lives.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There's certainly aspects of it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Or maybe you just say it's still just the way
it's always been.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Are you happy about it? No?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Would you change it if you could? What's what's the
opportunity cost? It gets very partisionally. Maybe you can be bad. Yeah,
you know is good? You know, I don't know, you
close instead of whoever cooks the meal.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
If I could get used to that, I could get
used to being, Hey, we're a ten win team. I
can wear my gear with pride, because boy, I can't
tell you the last I'm worrying jet skear uh get.
I could wear my gear with the center. If you
wear Jets, I'm gonna have ups and downs. We're gonna
have great wins. We're gonna have games that we should
probably win but not. There's gonna be a little bit
of controversy. We're gonna get to the playoffs and we're
(04:32):
gonna lose. Okay, all right, I will take that. I
will take that because you know how many times my
team has been to the playoffs last twelve years. Close
your eyes? What do you see? Nothing? But again, you
actually did close your eyes. I like that you did, Like,
can you the little cat?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Did you really need to do that? I have seconds
right there, Jason, close your eyes closing? Oh, you know
we're on video, so I mean I don't need to
sit here and listen you talk about the Jets. Are
I'm done with it?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Legitimately.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I would tell you when you wear Jet skiars, you
get a reaction. It's like me wearing the Cutler jersey.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You want to see what kind of response I'm gonna get?
Do people put cigarettes out on you when you wear that?
You're smoking Jay Cutler? I think I can do this.
Ah a badge of honor, damn it. That would be
Mike Harmon's personal hell. Right, if Harmon didn't live a
great life and he went to which is like kind
of like The Life of harm If Harmon went to hell,
(05:23):
it would be him wearing a Cutler shirsey and and
he would he would be yelling, ay a shirt jersey.
Oh yeah, a full on jersey, but it's it's a
T shirt that looks like the jersey, right, you would
and your hell would be sitting in front of a TV,
not a new TV, one of those like TVs from
the early two thousands where there's fifty pounds like that
anchor from CNN's TV. Yes, exactly, yea full on it's
(05:47):
so excited. Yeah, And it would be where you'd see
the trail of the player like Blitzer almost yeah, almost
like you're watching a college football game on like uh,
you know a far out you know sports station two thousands, right, Oh,
look it's BYU and Utah and you just you'd be
watching the Bears on that television and it would be
(06:07):
Jay Cutler forever getting you so close and losing that game.
And he would throw at least four interceptions with every game,
and for every interception, someone from behind from your past
that you really did wrong gets to put out a
cigarette on your back right there because of Jay coulor smoking.
Jake Color, Hey, smoking my Carmen, this is this is
jumping knucklehead billy from second grade? Remember when you picked
(06:29):
your nose and you put it on my desk, here's
for that. And it would just keep repeating that, look past.
How long a line of congo line would this be? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I think I just have a couple of folks that
would be repeating, and they would all say, your brothers
are coming to right, Your brother's gonna be down here?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are they down here yet? Are they down here yet?
Where are they? They're the ones I really want. I'm
taking my frustrations out on you, but your brothers are
the ones I really want.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
A We were good kids as far as you know,
Oh you were not. Come on, although they so on?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
What what is it? The all seeing guy kind of thing?
What did you tell? What did you tell me?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Your dad was a cop and he could keep the
piece everywhere and keep the law everywhere but your house?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Well no, my mom would then take things into her
own hands. Oh, down and down, eat Rambo.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Down in hell. There would be all.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The switches, wooden spoons and everything that had been broken
across my head, neck and back all those years, and
maybe the liquorice whip that my brothers got me with licorice.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Licorice whip. Yeah, you know you'd get the super rope. Yeah,
it would be like and then you could tie him together.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, no, no, but like literally it was like three
foot and probably a good I don't know, half inch diameter.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Peopould say, hey, do you want to play Raiders of
the Lost Ark. Yeah, let's play Raiders the Lost Ark.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
How is that while with one of those once boy,
he got his ass he saw the open welts on
my back.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
When you start hearing the theme to Indiana Jones run
you have five, I never lay fell asleep on his back. Well,
he's got memories. Yeah, when they ran out of licorice,
when they used like seaweed, Uh no, they come by
that was two the too far inland. They just went.
They just went straight to uh two by fours and
chasing around like hacksaw Jim Duggan, what do you think about?
(08:15):
Tough God? But look, but Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
See a Rams defender using Jimmy superfly stick a flying
ahead butt At.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The end of Can't Tug, Can't talk about him Too?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I'm actually getting ready to watch the Dark Side of
the ring on him. Oh the next one in the queue. Okay,
now available on one of the streaming services to not
be named because they don't pay me.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Tomlin says, save your time.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
What are the issues with Mike Tomlin that we we've
talked about? And it's something can't in a big game?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well that well that's number one. Number one is he's
extremely stubborn and he can't pick quarterbacks and he doesn't
see that right, He keeps failing. He was handed Ben Roethlisberger.
It worked out was were he and Roethlisberger the biggest
fans of each other? No, but they figured out a
way to make it work. They rode that into the ground.
I mean that was he was digging. I mean he
was digging to hell the final couple of years that
(09:01):
he was there. Sure, and and for looking for everybody's
Oh but he's the coach that No, no, you think
Mike Tomlin doesn't have an incredibly large voice into who
the quarterback is and who the personnel is.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course he would be the greatest course here, it's
legitimately he did not.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I just love to watch how that office operated.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Mike walking by lunch pail in hand right past Omar
Khan passed all the other Ay sam Ai you George.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It just keeps talking. He's walking by going. Russell Wilson,
Russell Wilson. I mean, he's he's really stubborn. And he
can't pick quarterbacks, right, whether it's Trubisky, whether it's Kenny Pickett,
whether it's Justin Fields, whether it's Russell Wilson's out because
he was bad. He was bad. I'm sorry, was bad.
He was bad. They were all bad, and and and
he has a big voice, right, So don't sit here
(09:46):
and tell oh, Mike Tomlin. These are the gro No,
he shops for the groceries with Omar con They all
go to the supermarket together. They all get here's your league.
Why don't you go pick out the produce? You go
pick out can foods?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You you know you go here, sure, Cardburg Post Gazette.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I run things like I get a bunch of flowers. Listen,
ed Bouschett was not. He was dropping them off and
picking them up. And that was when Roethlisberger was playing. But look,
he's not good at it, and he's very stubborn, and
he is he is one of the coaches. That is
so the minute he is questioned, he digs in further.
The minute there was questions about Russell Wilson, he dug
in further on Russell Wilson. And look what happened. Russell
(10:21):
Wilson turned back into the guy we thought he was.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
He took when when Wilson had a modicum of success.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Right, But but but what did Jay Lazer tell us?
That's why you guys do what you do and I
do what I do? He was, He's, look, he's very much.
He takes it personal, and he takes all of that personal.
He went to the wall for Russell Wilson, who is
just a guy, right, And he's just a guy. And
and and you're looking at how the Steelers could have
gone further if they had a better plan at quarterback,
(10:48):
and tell me how that's a good plan. We're gonna
get a guy the Bears don't want, a guy the
Bears don't want, And then we're gonna get a guy
that the Broncos said, here, you take him, and we're
gonna eat eighty million dollars in money this year. These
are the two guys. And suddenly Pittsburgh just say, yeah,
they're gonna be great. No, this is part of his
decision making. He's bad at it because that's the thing.
(11:09):
He is bad at the offensive part of football because
he wants to win a certain way. And just ask
Bill Belichick what it's like when you want to win
a certain way. No, No, we lost Tom Bradies. Now
we're gonna win the way I want to with no stars,
because the system is the star. I'm gonna draft guys
you've never heard of. I'm not gonna really sign star
free agents. Belichick wanted to win a certain way, and
what happened to got him fired. Mike Tomlin's trying to
(11:30):
win like it's nineteen eighty five. He wants to win
every game sixteen thirteen. Defense plays great quarterback, makes a
player two two running backs have big games like that's
like his thing, Like he loves that. He he wants
that more than anything, more than winning games. He wants
to win that way, which is an antiquated way to
try to win. Anybody who tries to win that way
in the NFL, you're only going so far. You're only
(11:52):
going maybe as far as the playoffs, and you're losing
because you need to be dynamic and score points in
the NFL you can't. I know Mike Tomlin has this
whole belief, but this this is such an antiquated system,
and those are the issues with Mike tom That's why
going forward, if Tomlin stays I'm cool, because I know
the stealers aren't going to jump ahead of any of
the teams that I you know, and the Jets or
anybody else and say, oh, We're suddenly going to be
(12:12):
a Super Bowl favorite. Those are the issues of Mike Tomlin,
and they're not going away.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Fan of Mike Tomlin long of this kind of way
and approach to doing business, but you recognize that the
game has changed, you recognize that the standards should change
along the way, and recognizing you know, it's the old
definition of insanity. You're doing the same damn thing year
after year, and even if you have a couple the
(12:37):
highs are a little higher during the year, You're ending
up at the same point each and every year.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
A very quick exit, exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmon the two issues. They're not going anywhere, So
good luck Pittsburgh if you keep Mike Tomlin, good luck.
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speaking of transforming, Jimmy Butter would like to be transformed
to another team. Is Zion about to head out of town?
Joining us now on the hotline. Body better to break
down these and all the other big NBA stories. Fox
Sports one NBA Insider check out Beyond the Ball podcast
as well. He is on Twitter at Rick Buker, Big
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(15:14):
at Rick Buker, Big Bodega for MVP. It is Rick Buker.
What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
The NBA is killing me, guys, It's killing me.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
What happened? What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
This darn the news salary capitals Like you're gonna ask
me about Zion, You're gonna ask me about Jimmy Butler,
and transactions are like, it's one of the reasons you
guys have me on right, that's one of the who's
going where? What are they gonna do? What's happening? And
I keep looking at it and talking to people in
(15:48):
the league, and they're like, we're not spending that money.
They should do it. They should do it, they should
do upstates on the NBA now on the Food Network,
because all we talk about are aprons, like the first apron,
the second aprons. Where's Jimmy Butler going, Oh no, no, no,
(16:08):
second apron?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No, no, no, no, We're on third and fourth aprons.
Now I mean can't we can't do that, and it's
not happening.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So it's it's an interesting dynamic. But the fact of
the matter is that you look across the league. You know,
owners have finally come up with rules because the salary
cap is for those who may not know, the reason
that there's a salary cap is because the owners can't
help themselves. They are for whatever reason, they will spend,
(16:38):
and they will spend and they will spend. And even
you know, with the luxury tacks and all that you
got billionaires, they're like, okay, I can throw a couple
extra million if it means that we can we can
get another another player. But now it's you literally can't prade.
Once you get far enough over the salary cap, it
(17:00):
then becomes we got to trade one for one, You
can't aggregate players, and there's all sorts of restrictions that
make it almost impossible to go get It's even if
you were like Phoenix Sons. I'm sure Phoenix Suns would
like to make a deal for Jimmy Butler, but they
literally it's it's it's nearly impossible because it would mean
getting convincing Bradley Beal to waive his trade, his no
(17:24):
trade and then sending him to Charlotte or Detroit, you know,
some some team that's close to having cap room or
is willing to make a move like that, and those
teams are are That's not a place that Bradley Beal
is gonna wave his no trade for. So unfortunately, you
(17:46):
know that, I just don't expect that. As much as
the New Orleans Pelicans have to move somebody they can't sign.
We signed Brandon Ingram and keep Zion Williamson financially just
does not work for them. And I believe the reason
that you're hearing Zion's name is because actually he might
(18:07):
be easier to move because of the way that his
contract is written, in the fact that Brandon Ingram is
a is offending free agent and can't be guaranteed that
you're going to be able to resign him if you
trade for him, So that those are the complications there.
And with Jimmy Butler, it's the same thing that you know,
(18:28):
it's it's going to sound weird, but the Miami Heat
are probably better served letting him walk in free agency
than signing him to the extension that he wants because
they will lose all of their cap flexibility. And now
you're tied to a nucleus of Tyler herro Ban out
(18:52):
of bio and a thirty six year old, thirty seven
year old thirty eight year old Jimmy Butler and unible
basically unable to make any other moves. So that's that's
That was very long winded, but it's why it's why
I'm sad today because the NBA has found a way
(19:14):
to just choke the life out of the kind of
moves that we love to talk about and that fans
are are thrilled by the possibility of big names going
to new places.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
So what you're saying is, Okay, it's going to be really,
really hard for Jimmy Butler to get dealt. It's going
to be really hard, but not quite as hard for
Zion Williamson. So maybe Steph Curry is ahead of the
curve when he said today, hey, don't make a move,
don't make a panic move just to make this team
better in the short term, like he was telling the Warriors,
don't go out and make a trade.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, And that was a message directly to Joe Lake.
Joe lakem thinks that we're there are only one piece away,
like one more piece, and let's let's let's do something.
And I think that, you know, the way Steph looks
at it is like we're just not We're not one
piece away. So if we move with Jonathan Commingia now
(20:05):
or we you know, and Andrew Wiggins or whatever it
may be, that's not going to dramatically change who we are.
And so why do that at this point? Where again,
if you do make a move like that, you know,
and again from on a on a on on paper,
(20:26):
I could say, hey, you know, Jimmy Butler would be
a nice addition, except it would cost you Andrew Wiggins
and Jonathan Cominga. Are you really better if if you
give up those pieces, and and you would have to
you'd have to either give up Draymond Green or or
Andrew Wiggins in the deal, and then the only reason
and that's not enough, they would have to be in
(20:48):
the deal to make it work. And then you'd have
to add Jonathan Kaminga and and at least at least
one more piece to financially make it work. And so
I just I'm looking at the possibilities. They took their
swings last summer. They tried to get Larry markin in,
they tried to get Paul George, couldn't make it happen.
(21:09):
Sometimes you just have to recognize this is not the
time for us to do it. And that's more the
case now than ever before because of the new salary
cap rules.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So Rick right as well, instead of talking about the
difficulties of making moves a team that maybe doesn't have
to do anything because they're running and brilliantly bouncing back
from a loss.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The Cleveland Cavaliers. Yeah, they win a game with.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Donovan Mitchell the other day where he goes three of sixteen,
and then they roll up on Indiana here again tonight
in a nationally televised game, and it seems like the
bandwagons starting to fill up.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I was just working on
my all Star ballot and I'm like, well, I got
to have somebody from the Cleveland Cavaliers. I mean, probably
Donovan Mitchell. But if you if you look at how
they've been successful, it's like it's by strength and numbers.
It's Evan Mobley, it's Jarrett Allen, it's Darius Garland and
(22:10):
Donovan Mitchell finding a way to play together. It's they've
just gotten it from a multitude of places and it's
what makes them what makes them so good as the
regular season team. And then so then we start to
turn towards, Okay, well what can they do in the playoffs?
And I do think that they are more prepared. I
(22:32):
think they're more legit for as a playoff team than
they ever have been. But it's still going to come
down to, like we've seen Donovan Mitchell time and time
and time again in the playoffs, right, and you put
a big athletic guy on him and suddenly the game
(22:53):
is not the same for him as in the regular season.
You gain plans for him. Now. The difference with Cleveland
now is, you know, the way Darius Garland is playing
and Evan Mobley is giving you something. So it's not
just Jared Allen, like, they have multiple guys who can contribute.
I just at this point, I'm already like I'm thinking,
you know, second round or sure, can they get to
(23:16):
the conference finals? You know, that's that's where they are.
And that's the question. And what's going to be the
answer is does Donovan Mitchell is he a different guy?
This time around in the postseason, or if he's not,
is Evan Mobley ready to step up in a way
that he's never before or Darius Garland. That's going to
(23:37):
be the question before me. But in terms of their
depth and versatility, and if you look at all the
teams like Oklahoma City in the Western Conference, like all
the teams that are that are running away or at
the top, are all teams where you know, in hindsight,
if one of them ends up winning a ring, we'll say, oh,
this is their big three. But the fact is they
(23:58):
don't have big threes. They got big or they get
medium size, maybe a big one or.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Don't try McDonald's. Y'all have us a one super side,
but a two regular and a three stepper.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, which is a happy meal?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
F as was Rick Buker, our guest to Jason Smithson
with Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All Right, I want to hit you with something we
said on the show a few nights ago. I don't
want you, I mean agree or disagree. Okay, by the
end of this season, by the end of the by
the end of the season, it will be widely accepted
that Wemby is the best player in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
The wrong guy.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Wait, Ricky just dunked on the Lakers again. Hang on
a second, it's on Michael Cooper Knights. Hang another reaction
shot of them playing no defense in the force.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yeah. Well, but here's the thing I like, I'm I'm
a big fan of what wemb and Yama is going
to be. But everybody has him already as the runaway
to win Defensive Player of the Year. It's been since
I think the playoffs last year, Gobert, it looks so good.
(25:21):
Everybody's like, Wemby finished second. Why did he finished second?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I didn't go bear say hey, I got this one
before Wemby starts winning them all. Didn't he say that
when he won his award?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Yeah, yeah, we're never like so ever since then, it
was like, well, Wemby's Wemby's going to get the next
one no matter what. And while certainly, I you know,
he's a factor and very well should win, I don't
think he's a runaway. I mean, guy, he's he's he
(25:50):
still needs to get stronger because guys are willing are
able to not bump him off. Anthony Davis. For as
bad as the Lakers were, was completely comfortable against him
when thirteen for eighteen. Some of that was against Charles Vassie, obviously,
but he didn't have any problems stepping out and scoring
over over Wemby and offensively. Like I'm watching him and
(26:17):
maybe this is look, maybe this is my personal tecadilla,
But I watch him on the break pull up twice
to shoot threes, missing both of them, and I'm like, Okay,
I gave you the first one, Like it's from thirty feet,
Like whatever, you made one earlier, Okay, you're going to
come down and do it again, Like dude, you are
(26:37):
seven whatever and lethal, why are we pulling up and
shooting thirty footers? So I feel as if his game
still has to mature. Put him in that category of
best player in the league, because I need to be
able to play through him if he's going to be
(26:58):
the best player in the league. And I see all
too often that it really is it's still Chris Paul
organizing them. Uh, it's it's still Define Castle making plays.
It's it's uh, it's other guys constributing. He's a He's
a big part of it, and he'll eventually get there,
But in watching him this year, I feel like maybe
(27:21):
the absence of Greg Popovich has allowed his game to
be a remain a little more immature and inefficient than
it would if if Pop will with them. And can
I say one thing I want to? I want to
And I don't know if you guys have talked about this,
but on the Jimmy Butler case, right, pat Riley has
(27:43):
been getting and I don't know if you guys have
talked about it, but it's like, you know, it's it's
a damn shame that pat is handling Jimmy this way
and players are never going to come to Miami again
and look at all that Jimmy has done for them,
And I'm thinking, you know, how are you feel about
this particular situation. Pat Riley has been in Miami for
(28:04):
thirty years. They have or damn near for thirty years.
They have made the playoffs twenty four out of those
thirty years. Only once have they missed the playoffs in
two consecutive seasons. You can't say that about the Celtics,
the Spurs, any other franchise. They've never been that consistent
(28:29):
in terms of always being a postseason team. Being one
of the better teams and sometimes the best team in
the league. And this idea that pat Riley doesn't know
what he's doing, or that Jimmy Butler of all people,
is going to change the template, and that he should
(28:50):
be caw towing him. He's rebuilt and redone this team
four or five times over and made it into a
viable team with like one season off. So I just
do not want to hear any sort of critique of
how pat Riley is handling this situation, because he really
(29:15):
is the og of all OG's and his track record
speaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
He defends and loves pat Riley. He defends and loves
Steph Curry. He hates Victor Webbin Yama. He is Rick Buker,
the Nicks and the Knicks. Don't forget the Nicks. He's
on Twitter at Rick by Wemby, That's at Rick Buker.
That is at Rick Buker. Check out the On the
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(29:42):
more on Wemby's defense The ascension of Kate Cunningham. I
was just two years too early on the ascension of
Kate Cunningham. Again, it's right up there. Now it went
up again. Check it out on Rick's page. At Rick
Buker on Twitter.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You're gonna get me pushed into the riverwalk. Yo.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hey, look at TMZ Wemby. Actually he's Rick Buker and
throws him into the riverwalk like the well. He's treating
him like Hulkin Loki from the Avengers.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I mean, we got a movie coming out in a month, Rick,
it would be good promotion if Wemby actually did that.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, to go so much, guys, much appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Rick.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
We'll talk to you next week and I'll pencil you
in for Wemby's Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Thank you. I'm glad to speak on his.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Behalf longevity wreck soon.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Good fuddy. There closed, Rick Buker. The Jason smithser with
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Speaking of our own best of, it is Steve de Sager,
who give you the best of sports tonight and also
the worst because you know he's going to talk about
the Denver game and he's going to talk about the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
My goodness, Dallas had Kyrie Irving back tonight. He'd missed
five games with the bad Backs. Seems like good news.
He's four of eighteen shooting and they're down one ozho
five eighty two to Denver with mercifully six minutes left
in this game. Jamal Murray and the Nuggets forty three points.
He had thirty two in the first half, when the
(31:25):
lead at the break was seventy one forty five Denver.
Brooklyn is trying to end a five game losing streak.
The Nets are leading at Portland mid third quarter eighty
eight to seventy six, despite twenty five points from Scoot Henderson.
Victories from Milwaukee and New Orleans. Atlanta got forty three
points from Trey Young and beat Phoenix, won twenty two
to one seventeen. Cleveland wins again one twenty seven to one.
(31:46):
Seventeen at Indiana, Donovan Mitchell thirty five points and Oklahoma
City wins again as shay Gilchiff Alexander started ten of
ten shooting from the floor. He had thirty two points
in the thunder victory at Philadelphia one eighteen one oh two.
Philly was without injured stars Joel Embiid, Paul George, and
Tyrese Maxi. On to college basketball now and the final seconds,
(32:07):
Missouri is still leading at number five ranked Florida eighty
three to seventy nine. Ole, miss ranked twenty first, got
to win at number four Alabama seventy four sixty four.
Mississippi had lost sixteen straight against ranked opponents. DePaul is
oh and seven in the Big East after losing in
overtime at home tonight to seventh rank Marquette eighty five
eighty three.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
In ot that's basically a win, though for it seems
like a win for DePaul back you can hang a
banner for that. Mark Mark almost beat Marquette. Yeah. January twelfth,
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
I was gonna say Mark and Terry are not coming
through that door, but that would be going back about
four years.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
We'll really start. Yeah. Yeah, the Opening night tonight Today
was the opening night.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
First game for everybody yelling at people now, Yeah, DePaul
would get in thirteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
McK cronin would like it if the season hadn't started yet. Yeah,
he definitely.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
There were thirteen NHL games. Winnipeg sixty one over Vancouver
bustin six to two, beating Tampa Bay and Florida in
a shootout, one at New Jersey two to one. The
Houston Texans waved wide receiver Deontae Johnson. Lyons running back
David Montgomery participated fully at walkthrough after last month's knee injury.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Back to you, beg You, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen live from the tire rack dot
Com Studios. Coming up next, we got more from the
NFL as one team prepares for a huge playoff game
this weekend. They are dealing with the most knuckleheaded of controversies.
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I bought Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis when their albums
came out that they did return Brutal. Yeah, I bought
them both. Sweet, I bought them both. Do you still
have them? Oh? I wish?
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I wish now you had original long Gone man, sweet manose.
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Sorry I explained the millennials who Eddie Murphy is. Okay,
he was a comedian, very popular, very popular in the eighties,
and he's done absolutely nothing substance since he's donkey nothing
of substance since the eighties. It's a hated mansion.
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Now.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
He is not delirious. He is not even raw. He's
he's fully cooked. He is like overcooked because he's still
a caught. Is that he did coming to America too?
The place has too many right angles? Oh my god?
Like wait waited for that? Like the only funny line
was John Amos at the end. Oh we have mcflurby's.
Our toppings are on the bottom, They're on the bottom. Yeah.
(35:28):
Here we got to hang out with Rick James. Sure. Sure.
While the Eagles get ready for their playoff game this
Sunday against the Rams, they are dealing with the fallout
of book Gate, which is is this is typical Philadelphia
Eagles that they're dealing with a controversy that has to
(35:48):
do with reading take over book. Hey, you know, the
quarterback and wide receiver don't get along. The head coach
and the quarterback don't get Look, no, no, No, we're
in a controversy about reading, reading, which is what is
taught to kids in school. And you hope your your
kid likes to read. Reading is an awesome thing. Reading
is fundamental.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
SENTI the hell out of your reading. In the summer
and through the school year.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
The Eagles are involved in a controversy about being about
being anti reading against reading.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
Whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You can never go to Philly again. You can never
go there. Do you think I want a guy yelling
word at me? No job, You work for d I Company.
And that's bad job by him, work for d I Company.
But the Eagles are dealing with a a controversy coming
(36:45):
off of the A. J. Brown story this week and
where he was reading a self help book motivational book
on the sideline during their win. And I can't believe
there was criticism of this. But you know, hey, Philadelphia, Hey,
I don't know why we're just doing right. We're reading
books here in Philadelphia. We should just be watching the Eagles,
watching the Flyers and seeing if the Philly sign more people.
(37:05):
That's what we need to do here, just reading books.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I don't know about that. Maybe I don't teach reading
in school anymore. This is bad now, this is bad
for us in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Go ask Danny DeVito. No, obviously, because you win going away.
And the other controversy is Saquon Barkley costing everybody all
those anytime touchdown bets. Is the subplot is if it
wasn't a win, that you were winning going away, that
(37:33):
it becomes a all right, is he salty? Disgruntled and
hateful because he's been so limited in the offense. So yeah,
there's some legitimacy to why's he got a book? Why's
he not got a playbook?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Why is he reading? Why is he reading? Why are
you worried about reading? And today Nick Sirianni had had
enough of it and he came to the defense of
aj Brown and says, anybody who is criticizing my wide
receiver as capital la easy, why are you okay with
him reading a self help book on the sideline or
would you rather he not?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
I'm definitely okay with it. Everybody has there. You know.
The crazy thing is it's been happening for you know,
we've been he's been reading this book on the sideline
for a long time. It's not it's just so happened
that a camera saw it this week and kind of
you know, I don't know if made a big deal
about it or not, but everybody has their own way.
We talk so much about dog mentality, playing the next play,
(38:28):
focusing your mind so you on what you're about to do,
so you can play with great effort and great detail.
And some guys pray, you know, in between, some guys
meditate in between, some guys, you know, AJ reads in between.
Whatever these guys need to do to put their mind
in a place where they can play with great detail
(38:49):
and great effort. I fully encourage them to do that.
And Aj is I love Aj, he is, he's such
a good teammate. I find it a little bit like
I saw johan Na Dotson said something like defending Aj,
and I thought that was awesome too, Just another opportunity,
another example of our teammates defending each other. That you know,
we don't do any research to figure out why, how
(39:12):
long he's been doing it, why he's doing it, what
he's reading, and he's not reading a you know, whatever
romance novel on the Sideline's novel.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But if it got him inspired, your whole argument was
that that was okay, whatever you mean.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, Jayalen hurts, I've never seen the guy read before
in the sunlight.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
But it seems like there'd be a lot of video
of AJ reading if this was a common occurrence.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, I think you're right, but look, he says. And
criticism of this is lazy because it is if the
guy's going to read inside okay, right, like like it's
I get it. Whatever. It's because it's about whatever an
athlete needs to do to be ready to go back
out there. Some guys sit by themselves and don't do
any It's not like you know, they said, hey, come
over here working on a play. No, no, dude, I
(39:55):
gotta read. I gotta read. I get no. It was
he had the time to sit here. This is what's
gonna help me focus. Right, So it's okay, But of
course Nick Sirianni is going to defend me even if
it wasn't right, because the last Nick Sirianni is walking
on such thin ice with all of his stars. It's
anything you want. I love you guys. I don't want
to get fired. I love you guys. I'm gonna say
whatever you guys say. I'm gonna say is great. I
(40:16):
don't care what it is.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
I'm surprised you didn't get the AI Sirianni. Guys self
help you guys believe in that.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I don't care what you read. It could be a
highlights magazine. You could be doing the word search. I
don't care. I am by and behind this one.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I was kind of hoping he'd go, Hey, if they
have to play cards on the sideline, what whatever's gonna
get him through?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
You know, I'm telling you a little bit of yoga,
have at it. I'll end with this. Don't be surprised
when I picked the Rams this week to win. Look
at I gotta stay with your pick before the season.
You can't flip flopper. Hey, coming up next, what people
are getting really wrong about? Two big quarterbacks in the
news today. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox.
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