April 16, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Smith & Steve DeSaegher discuss Nico Harrison having no regrets at his closed-door news conference.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Radio, Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve to say. You're
in for Harmon tonight and the night cap and the
playing round. Well, let's just say it started out well
from Memphis. I mean, you got to be honest, It
did start out well for them, That's accurate. Not so
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much after the first four minutes. With five and a
half to go until halftime, the Warriors have a fifty
five forty two lead. They could have a seventy point
first half against Memphis right now. John Moran started out
hot eleven points. I've not seen him do one finger
gun celebration yet. I mean I've been watching, you know,
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doing the show watch, I've not seen it yet. Meanwhile,
for the Warriors, it has been Jimmy Buckets with sixteen
points and Steph Curry has Eleven's been a really balanced
day overall so far for the Warriors. From the floor,
they are getting it from everywhere. Everybody from their benches
jumped in already. So it is a thirteen point lead
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for the Warriors now still five and a half to
go before half.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And the good news for Golden State he hasn't attempted
a shot yet. Draymond Green is not only scoreless, he
hasn't gotten the ball two feet from the baskets. Hey,
you know, instead of concentrating on a lab just jump
to the right into the defender like you did on
Sunday when he missed a key bucket lay. What are
you doing? That's the reason you're not a scorer.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you think the Warriors can win it? Because I
want to see this now like one of those experiments.
Do you think wars can win a game where Draymond
Green never touches the basketball offensively? No, never touch, doesn't
touch the ball once, No, doesn't touch the ball once. No,
doesn't touch not offensive rebound, not not not in when
they pass it to him down, doesn't touch defensively, Yes,
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touches the ball but doesn't touch the ball once offensively.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You sure about that?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
For success, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You sure? I don't know. I'd like to see it.
I'd like to see it just like it be the
one guy in the corner and it's not passing to
the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He has three assists and no turnovers. Just for the record.
Oh and Will Smith is just home. Our Dodgers up
four nothing on Colorado. You know there's a chance the
Rockies are down eleven and a half games in the
standings after tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know, is it just me? Or has every ball
the Dodgers have hit off of Rockies pitching the last
two nights had like an exit vlaw of one hundred
and eighty miles an hour. Oh. I feel like every
time I've seen the ball in it's like, Wow, that
ball was scalded. Oh my goodness, that ball was.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Scald Usually a Rockies game, you're thinking distance, flying, floating, continuing, carrying.
This is not what you're talking about, O.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Man, I mean, it is just watchless, like, oh my god,
that ball was scalded. Oh my goodness, that ball was.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Ripped well, uh, you've seen the Rocky staff, so I
think we know what we're dealing with here over under.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
For Rockies wins against teams in the NL West this year,
I put it at three three.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, I'm gonna go way out of a limb. Draymond
Green's gonna touch the ball and they're gonna win. And
the Rockies are gonna win more more than three games
in the division.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All right, five, where are those three wins? Steve O?
Where tell me where those three wins are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This is the good news for them in baseball is
that even the worst team still wind up with about
fifty total wins. So some of those will be in
their division.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm somewhat sure about You're sure about that? I said that,
somewhat sure about that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, because because you know, you look at the standings
and you see, hey, look at look at the West.
You know Padres fourteen and three, Irons are twelve and five,
Dodgers are twelve and six. Oh, by the way, those
are the three best records in all of baseball. You know,
I would say this, Okay, maybe they take three out
of the year against Arizona maybe, I mean, I could
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they could take that. Arizona's not bad too.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Over the course of six months, your head.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Get on this. I don't know. Maybe maybe they take three.
I don't know. It's gonna be tough, gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay. Last year in your division, I just looked it
up the full season for the NL East. The worst
record in the NL East, the last place Marlins, who
lost one hundred games last year, went eighteen and thirty
four in the division.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
See that's that. The the NL East last year did
three playoff teams. Right, division was good last year? Right,
the Mets come out of nowhere. This NL West is
way better. It's just way better. Maybe they beat the
Did they beat the Dodgers once? I don't know, that's
probably an oph. Do they beat the Padres, that's probably
an over the Giants'll get him a win against the
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Giants at some point, man, you know, And maybe they
got to get to two or three against the Diamondbacks.
Ad maybe maybe three and forty seven is going to
be the is gonna be their record?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
By the way, also had eighteen wins in their division
last year and they lost one hundred and one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, okay, but the Dodgers got better, the Giants got better,
the Padres got better. All, oh, that'll be fun. Uh
now let's get to this again. Playing going on right now.
Memphis is looking to cut the lead before halftime against
the Warriors. We'll have more on this game coming up
in a bit. But uh, Nico Harrison MAVs GM spoke
today for just the second time since pulling off the
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Luka Doncic trade.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Wait did he?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Did? He? I think we have to well, well, there's well,
the print reporters at this press conference or this this
media availability that he had, people were able to write
down what he said. But he spoke two reporters today.
They were not allowed to have any recording devices or
cameras in for this media.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So the next question is did they actually check the
pieces of paper that the media members were writing down
notes on? Did they have to clear their notes in
order to exit the room afterwards?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I mean, it's so high school. It's okay, I'll talk worse,
but nobody can write stuff out. Nobody can write stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Can you imagine a teacher saying, I don't want you
to take notes on this lecture. Please, by all means,
put you don't recorder away.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And the thing is, I want I'm going to defend
the guy, but like, wow, dude, you made it really tough. Man.
I mean, I'm still gonna do it, but you made
it really tough with this ridiculous no cameras anywhere. This
is kind of what media availability is. Then don't talk
to the media. If you don't do interviews, I don't understand.
Don't talk to it. Don't do it. Then I'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You're thinking this day is a big win for you.
It was a loss before you entered the room. If
that's the poll.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Like, I don't know what he what he wanted the
narrative to be, other than if you keep taking shots
at me and the if I keep getting criticized, I
won't talk to anybody because I can't believe it's he
has He doesn't want to be quoted accurately, right, because
that's a That's the biggest thing is like, well, we
can't record you. What I got to remember what you wrote.
I got to write in shorthand, like this is back
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when when when that's what reporters had to do was
take notes in shorthand because the guy, wait, go back
and say that again. You said, yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is like when you asked the biology teacher, can you
slow down, we're just catching up on our handwritten notes here.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That was one of my favorite things to say in class.
Like I usually got it. And like when we were
doing math when the math teacher was showing us a
derivation either in calculus or something, and and the teacher saying, okay,
everybody got it, and I'd raise my hand. She goes Chase,
I go, what is anything you just said? And then
people would laugh to you go okay, okay, okay, and
you realized that you lost everybody because it was this, like,
why do we need to know the derivation? Just show
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us the Formula's what we're gonna do. They're not gonna
ask about the derivation eight tests.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
What I remember about college biology is that our lecture
had an accent. And at one point he said this,
the nutrition in this item is found in pacons. And
we all look at each All the students simultaneously start
looking around the room. Did he just use a word
in English? We don't know what he And somebody finally
boldly raised their hand and said, sir, what what was
(08:18):
the last sentence? It's found in Pagan's pick. What is
pig nuts, Pacan's pacons?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh you mean pecans?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, pecan pie? You have that right, you pacon pie.
Don't you sure?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I dare anybody? Well, it's past now, But anybody at
that lecture from the general manager of the MAVs today
to literally raise their hand and say, you know, I
could go back over my recorded notes later, but since
you're such a jerk, can you just slow down? Hand
cramping up?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wait at my best recollection, you said, screw everybody criticizing
I've never said that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is he under the impression that it's the media leading
the fire kneekers even last Sunday, It's not.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Look, and here's the and this is where it gets tough,
because now I'm gonna defend the guy, right because I'm like, dude,
you really make it difficult just not for that. Do
this is that here's the thing, is that you gotta
let him off the hook because this trade wasn't Nico
Harrison who woke up one day and decided I'm gonna
trade Luka doncic right, I'm gonna do that. A trade
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of this magnitude has to be okayed and thought of
at the highest level. Right, and Mark Cuban, who liked
to say, oh, I wasn't on board. Well, you know,
guess what, Mark Cuban is one of the minority owners
of the teams.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now the at the highest level there no.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Adamson and the Dumont families own it from Vegas. Right,
So what was it the what was it the crux
of this? Hey, we having some problems with Luca. We
want him to be able to stop vaping and stop
drinking and get in shape and take care of his
body because he wants three hundred million dollar contract. Do
you really think Nico Harrison just decided and said, hey,
you know what, Hey, Jerry Adison, Yeah, here's what I'm
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gonna do. I'm I'm gonna trade Luca. Oh okay, yeah,
I'm just gonna do it. Don't worry about it. Don't
worry about it. You have to get the sign offs
at every level to make a trade like this, right,
The Addilson families had to do it, the Dumont families
had to do it. You had to get a sign off. Right.
This is bigger than just hey, I'm gonna make a
move here, I'm gonna make this. This is not Billy
Bean just walking into you know, Steve Schatz offs a
(10:23):
moneyball saying hey, I need more money for Ricardo Roncone,
Like you know this is this is where this is
a franchise, all trained trade where everybody's got to be
on board with it. And guess what, everybody was on
board because this trade doesn't happen if everybody's not on board, right,
it does it just it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
So they walked into the office of the owner there
in Dallas and said, why do we need Davis and
then he said, because he gets on base.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Guy's but a point of pete again, you know the answer.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's the Scott Mannenberg of our Dallas Mavericks franchise.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So you know that that everybody was on board with this,
and likely the crux of it was here are the
Adamsons in the Dumont saying, yeah, we don't want to
give that guy three hundred and fifty million dollars if
we don't think he's gonna come in and be.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And you're not just throwing out a figure just so
people know, re signing your own free agent. It's a
set in amount of money. It's called a super max contract.
According to NBA rules. He would get less elsewhere, but
that extreme amount of cash. If it was Dallas, they
really didn't have a choice. Their choice is do we
want a divorce from him now or else we're going
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to owe him that.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, this is this is what the money he was
going to get was three hundred and fifty million dollars.
And here's a team that really isn't Dallas, right. Here's
the owners who really aren't Dallas right. These are families
that bought the team and bought controlling interests from Mark Cuban. Now,
I believe Cuban went from the perspective where he says, oh,
if I was still owning the team, he wouldn't have
made that trade that I get for the perspective of
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he knows Dallas and knows what the ramifications of that
is going to.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Be, and he had Dirks the French trade, and he.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Gets it, and he's Dallas right. These owners aren't Dallas.
These owners aren't Dallas right. Yeah, Okay, three hundred fifty
million dollars, we'll get another superstar, Okay, go ahead, make
the trade. And so all the frustration that they have
had with Luca, which I'm sure the front office has hacked.
Just didn't just you know, come up out of nowhere. Okay,
now we can make this trade. So understand that this
is not Nico Harrison saying hey I did this, and
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the owners are waking up the next day, go we
were blindsided by we had no idea. Oh well, I
guess regular trade. Everybody was on board, and I give
him credit. Not I'll just let him off the hook
because this is everybody. But he's the guy taking all
the arrows. Right now, there is nobody stepping up saying
I made this. The Addison's aren't saying and the Dumonts
aren't saying no, no, no, No one is saying this. They're
just hey, Nico made this tree. Nico made the trade,
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and they are just silent. So he is taking all
of the criticism, which I think is a pretty big thing.
It's a pretty good GM thing to do, to say,
all right, we make this train. I'm the most unpopular guy.
I would like people to help me. I'd like somebody
to say something, but but I'm gonna I'm gonna defend it.
I'm gonna defend the trade again. Like he did today.
So it's time to give him a lot of credit
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for stuff like that. And you know, because you know,
in the end, Luca is not a favorite of the
new ownership. When they came in, for whatever reason it was,
it was different. Maybe that's what Luca was referring to
when he said, I always thought my time in Dallas
would end this way. I'm not the guy. This is
not the franchise it was when I came in, When
Mark Cuban run ran the day to day of it,
things are different. So this whole Nico Harrison think, Yeah,
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I get he's unpopular. I get there. But they decided
to make this trade. Everybody's on board with it. But
yet it's not Nico who woke up one day and
said let's do it. This was we're gonna move on.
We're not gonna pay this money. It's gonna be very
clinical because we're rich owners and we don't want to
pay money to somebody that we don't have to pay
money to that we don't think is gonna give us
that return. So guess what, Yes, go ahead and trade him.
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And maybe you misconstrued what the reaction was gonna be,
or just how bad it was gonna be. But this
is where you are. It's not all on Nico. It's
not just Nico Harrison's fault, and the guys stood up
taking all the criticism for it. I think it's time
to let him off the hook a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I am almost there with you, because any trade this
enormous obviously involves ownership. However, when you keep shooting yourself
in the foot in other areas, I'm sorry, I just
lose a little bit of sympathy. If you want to
say he's taking arrows, Okay, I can see that he
is the general manager. That's part of the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But many guys want to help anybody. You guys want
to help it. Hey, I gotta go out. I'll be
back later on, Back later.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
On, absolutely, Frigates, can we update before we end the segment.
It is halftime at the NBA playing game at Golden State,
and the Warriors, who were down eleven too early, now
lead Memphis at the break sixty seven fifty five. So
you're right. They got close to seventy points in this
first half despite the low start, and the Padres are
winning again at home. Manny Machado has homered. It is
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one nothing pods. As they start the sixth against the Cubs,
the Padres are eleven and oh at home.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Still gonna still think Rocky is gonna get those four wins, Yes,
four wins in baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm very confident in baseball's history. Even okay, even well,
with the exception of the nineteen sixty two Mets, even
awful teams still win about fifty sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Games, even with the Padres being allowed to play every
game at home this year to make the NL West
race a little bit closer, even with that year, Okay, with.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It, Well, if Bud Selig were still commissioner, they probably
would change that, so I would have a different opinion
as it stands now. No, I'm sticking with.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
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in for harm and tonight we are at halftime and
the Warriors looked like they were giving away some of
the lead. However, that did not happen as a twelve
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point lead for Golden State at halftime. Were the Memphis
Grizzlies right now.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
So you're saying they're a better team with Jimmy Butler, Yeah, sorry,
sixty seven fifty five.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I it's tiny, tiny bit better, tiny bit better. And
I have not seen one any gun celebration from John Moran.
I've not seen that, even though he's got fifteen in
the first half, I've not seen it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No, although for most of the first half it was
like horns down. Of course he didn't play at Texas,
but you know where I go thumbs down for most
of this first half performance after the nice start.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Sure, sure, and you know it doesn't mean he's not
going to do it again. You never know all the persons,
you know, it could be a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Now you know, Trey Young got kicked out late in
the earlier game Atlanta lost it Orlando. He not only
got kicked out, he like faked that he was giving
the ref the ball and then kept it and walked
off and then threw the boo. I'll show you, dude,
are you even out of third grade? I would I
would double the fine just out of principle for that.
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That was your Trey Young.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Nico Harrison, who's who's in high school? More the last
the last few days, I mean, I've been on a
lot of the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Let's see Trey Young hold a press conference tomorrow about
his actions. But you can't tape it, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Look, they do have another game, right, they do have
another game. The Hawks do have another game. But at
this point have you maxed out with Trey Young? I mean, really,
you're a five hundred team, That's what you've been for
the past four years, and unless you're playing the Knicks,
you're not motivated to win enough basketball games, right, Trey
Young loves playing. Like if the Knicks flame out and
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lose to the Pistons in the first round of the playoffs,
something crazy ass stuff like that happens, I will say,
go get Trey Young, Go get it, because he obviously
he loves playing. Anybody who loves playing in Madison Square
Garden can put up the kind of performances that he has,
Go ahead, go get him. He's a guy. But honestly,
Trey Young, at some point, if you're the Hawks, do
you realize we've had the best of them and we're
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barely a five hundred team and we're barely a playing
round team. That don't you look to say, hey, maybe
it's time to move on from Trey Young.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And they just had the number one nick last summer.
They had who is a starter and was two of
ten shooting in this game tonight. So in the last decade,
there's one year when the Hawks have made a quote
run through the Eastern Conference playoffs. One year out of
the last decade.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and who they beat? They beat the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, that's what it is years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So again we'll have more basketball coming up, and again
halftime for Golden State and Memphis. Again, the winner moves on,
they become the two seed in the West. They will
take on the Rockets, and the loser gets to play
the loser of tomorrow's game. Meanwhile, I'm surprised this is
still a story because for me, it's not really a story,
but it seems like because people want to keep talking
(20:43):
about it. So Rory McElroy wins the Masters on Sunday,
an incredible final round. He had three of the greatest
golf shots you'll ever see sandwiched around two of the
worst golf shots you'll ever see under pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So it was like Bernie Carbo in the World Series
years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Bernie Wow, t you gotta explain to millennials with Bernie
Carbowens come on.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
In the greatest World Series in history nineteen seventy five
Reds Red Sox. He hit a pinch, three run homer
right after fouling off a pitch with the worst swing
you've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So this was Rory McElroy, right, this is the day
had he's the most popular golfer in the world and
it's it's an incredible accomplishment for him. Now he's got
only the sixth player ever with a lifetime Grand Slam.
And after kind of a headline comes out from Bryson
d Chambeau, who he played with in the final round,
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and Bryson d Chambeau gave an interview saying, yeah, guy
didn't say a word to me the entire final round.
Didn't say one word, didn't speak to me, nothing, and
d Chambeau went on to say, I don't think it
was me.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Hey, I don't think it was me. I don't think
I'm a bad guy. I come on, I golf people
don't like the whole live golf thing. But I mean
I know that he hates live golf. Oh wait a minute,
Wait a minute, it is. But he said, maybe it's
not me, but he didn't say a word to me
the entire route And that became kind of a story.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And then today Rory McElroy sports psychologist Bob Rotella actually
gave an interview on it and talked about it and
he said, quote, look, it didn't have anything to do
with Bryson. That was the game plan all week. We
wanted to get lost in it. We didn't want to
pay attention to what anyone else was scoring or shooting
or swinging or how far they were hitting it. We
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just wanted Rory to play his game. So here's here's
his sports psychologist saying, Hey, it wasn't It wasn't anything
with Bryce and de Chambeau. We just wanted him to
be locked in and focused.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I can believe that. And that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah. And because here's the thing, Steve, I'm surprised it's
the story because this kind of makes sense, right, It
kind of makes sense. And there's lots of times where
golfers don't talk to each other on the you know,
on the tee when they playing together. If it's two
golfers don't get along, the don't need to do.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But there is, as you mentioned, a backdrop a history
with the hasn't been emerge yet with PGA and Live Golf,
and those two golfers are on each on the other side,
the other side, opposite side of this.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And even if there are, it's okay, because it's not like, okay,
I'm not gonna do anything that's going to exacerbate this feud.
I'm not gonna yell at him on the putting green.
Golf is a different sport, right everybody you see players
before they play a game, they tap up their friends,
people on the other team, and then boom, right away
we are competing against each other, right, say hey, good luck,
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good luck, good luck. Boom, We see it, right.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And then shoving Isaiah Thomas in the lane.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Exactly, That's how it goes, right batting cages before the game,
guys are talking to each other. Then the game comes
and we start, because you're competing against each other. But
golf is you're competing against the course. You're not really
competing against the guy you're golfing with. Although you know
final round, you know you and d Chambeau, you want
to beat the guy. So could it be a little
bit of gamesmanship?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Maybe clearly d Chambeau I had problems. He had a
horrible back nine, But generally I think, okay, I need
to lock in to win, and how often do you
need to talk?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You undersold that there he had a horrible back nine.
What the psychologist for Rory should have said is we
would have had a conversation. But Roy didn't want to
go into the water to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh wow, he wanted to say, in the sand where
he was on that really bad approach. Uh so, yeah,
I mean I get it. It It just it just
makes sense. You're staying focused and you're playing against the course,
and this is what you need to win. This is
a big deal. He wanted this man, this is the
major he had to have desperately, and the door was
opened for him to do it. So I get it.
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Not everybody has to talk to it. You don't need
to play around the golf and talk to the other person, right,
you know, you don't need to do that. You know
you're talking to your caddy and being locked in. It's
really not that big a deal. And you know, the
funny thing is is I call it my brother in
law because he's my age even though my wife's an
only child. But it's like they my wife and and
his and his wife. They grew up like sisters. It's there.
(25:00):
She's her aunt, my wife's aunt, and she's only a
year and a half older. Oh right, there's just how
just how, just how it worked. Nothing crazy, just like
the youngest kid and the oldest kids. Yes, so, and
he is kind of a sports psychologist. What he does.
And I talked about it today. I said, is it
a really big deal that this is? You know that
this went on, because I don't think it is, But
why is this around like two three days later? Like
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is this like d Chambeau trying to say something is
And I'm taking, like, what do you think when you
see this story? And he said, you know, try everybody.
What we try to do is we try to get
the players doing anything to a point where they are
locked in to what they're doing, kind of like when
we would always say a guy was in the zone, right,
that was a way to talk about it years ago.
(25:43):
Oh guys, and I don't know why the guy's making
all these threes, but he is right. But you know,
players want to get to that point where they're so
locked in with what they're doing everything else is just noise.
And and that's how you went. And now that that
that's become a popular thing, now that you know they're
sports psychologists, different things, now you see this more often.
So when I talked about it, I said, Okay, so
I kind of felt I kind of felt emboldened by
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I's like yeah, because I really I didn't think this
was that big a deal, and I thought this was, Hey,
here's Rory McElroy. Maybe maybe he doesn't like bryceon d Schambeau,
but clearly it could have been d Chambeau, it could
have been Brooks Kopka, it could have been anybody else.
And he probably would have been quiet the most of
the round as well and not spoken well because.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
This is how he's never wanted.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, this is how I need to win, and I
need to make sure this is where I need to
be to be at the highest point i'm at mentally,
and if that means not talking to the guy, not
talking to the guy, and at the end, I mean,
you even had people say no, nothing against him, nothing
against him. This is just what I needed to be.
So I'm like, okay, but like it's still being thrown
out there like it's a story, and I'm really surprised
about because I don't think it's a story.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I like the fact that bringing in the sports psychologist
aspect really kind of normalizes that profession even more, because
I know, even as recently as a decade ago, some
people would still raise an eyebrow as if theyre pressure
and you need to talk it out and have an approach,
have a game plan. To me, this is an aspect
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of coaching for the elite of the elite, and the
fact that Rory McElroy, who certainly fits that bill in
his sport, has a sports psychologist. I say, go for it,
great good, use your money to put it back into
the product, so to speak. This is good for you
as a human and good for you as a competitor.
Do you remember when the Lakers had that seven game
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final against the Celtics and run our Test was a
part of the winning team. I mean, part of the
reason they won was him. And yet just a few
years before he was almost a non functioning NBA player
and he got with a psychologist and they were obviously
larger than issues at basketball going on. It worked. It
made him a better person, It made him a better player,
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and it made him a good team player and contributor.
There are so many things that are potentially positive to
come out of that type of investment relationship. I'm surprised
that we don't hear about it with more of the elite.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You know, you know, it's funny you say that because
I was thinking about that today, because I thinking about
you know, sports psychologists and how it's such a big deal.
And obviously when when you are playing an individual game,
maybe it has a little bit more importance because there's
no teammates you can rely on or anything. But it's
but still, you know, hey, there's big team sports stars
who have sports psychologists. And I didn't really think about
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this as much until after I started coaching, right, coaching
youth sports, and I you know, I coached at a
pretty high level for soccer and softball and and and
twice we made it to the finals in the state championship.
We lost the better team both times, and you know, okay,
you know we you know, they moved on, and it
was it was heartbreaking for the girls of everything, but
you know what happened. And you know, here I am
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and I still think about, you know, regularly, like this
is what coaches do. Like coaches, I mean, this is
what this is what I wish parents would understand us
more about what coaches like. We live with these losses
way more than the kids do. Like we live, we
live with these losses. And I'm sitting there's times where
I just say, for very idly, I go, oh, man,
if only this had happened in that game, we could
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have won that game. We could have been we could
have won. Say, like I think about that like these things,
you know, pop in a lot, like when I when
I see one of my former players at school or
something like that, and I go, this is me at
a youth level, you know, coaching at a pretty high level,
youth level. But this is me still thinking about games
that got away, you know, like I think more about
the games that got away than about the the the
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championships or the big games.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And this wasn't wired, wasn't twenty million people watching away playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So I can't imagine what it's like for a golf
for a Rory McElroy who has given away leads, anybody
who was given something away and gagged away a championship before.
How do you deal with that? How do you continue?
How do you continue to achieve and put out the
level you need to be at When this is something
that I would dwell on all the time, I'd think
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about it every day, and you know these guys think
about it every day. How could you not need some
help with to get past that? I mean, whether it's
anybody think about anybody losing a big game, anybody you
know making a really bad play, whether it's whether it's
you know, Russell Wilson throwing an interception on the goal line,
Leon Lett, whatever, you want to go back and go JR.
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Smith forgetting how much time is left in the game,
what the score of the game was. Think about all
these things that we laugh at, we have punchlines with,
and these athletes they live with them, like every day
they live with them. I don't know how anybody doesn't
have a sports psychologist to deal with this, because that's
a real How do you go through every day with
this being the thing that defines you in what you
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do for a living. That's a really hard thing.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And I'll go with just the basic level of non athletes.
How often do we hear like a sad story in
the news as we heard recently, and then they give
the suicide hotline afterwards, and then they make sure if
you're going through anything, make sure to talk to someone.
Reach out to someone. There are not only these people
that would help you over the phone, and here's the number.
Chat with a friend, find somebody talking it out and
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not leaving things bottled in in general is a good idea.
In this story, we have a golfer, a person in
a solo sport with as you say, no teammate, and
this is clearly strategy and planned for last week. I
thought this was great, So Rory Macro, I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't know why it's a story, but hey, the
whole part about it, I get everything behind it. Time
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. Steve de Seger has all this and more.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
With what's trending, We'll start at Golden State's NBA playing
game that play in tournament with two openers. Tonight's Orlando
won its home game. Golden State is winning at home
against Memphis right now, about eight and a half to
go third quarter. Warriors up seventy six sixty seven. Golden
State scored sixty five points in the first half despite
being down eleven to two early fifty one percent shooting
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for the Warriors. They're led by Jimmy Butler with twenty
six points. Earlier, Trey Young had twenty eight but did
get kicked out late and the Hawks lost badly at
Orlando one twenty to ninety five. The Magic led at
home by twenty two in the first half, nearly blew
that but wound up winning by even more twenty five
Cole Anthony twenty six points in twenty minutes off the bench.
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So Orlando goes to Boston. Now is the seventh seed.
That first round Eastern Conference playoff series starts this weekend.
Winner of the Golden State matchup right now, that team
will be going to Houston to start a first round
series on Sunday. In the NHL. Among the late games,
about a minute left in regulation, Vegas tied at Calgary
four to four. LA Kings lead early second period two
(32:36):
to one at Seattle already wins for Washington and Tampa Bay.
Minnesota has won in overtime against Anaheim three to two.
The NHL regular season ends this Thursday. Former Cal running
back Jayden od is transferring to Oklahoma. He was first
team All Pack twelve two years ago. The spring transfer
window officially opens Wednesday. The Dolphins are trying to trade
former Pro Bowl defensive back Jalen Ramsey. He has twenty
(32:59):
one million dollar left on his deal for this year.
Former Dallas tackle Tyron Smith will retire after fourteen seasons.
In the league news conference on this Wednesday, we mentioned
last night Dallas and New Orleans each started their voluntary
offseason workout programs Monday, so that includes meetings, conditioning, rehab work.
It's not like full training camp yet certainly. There are
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two late games in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers lead
five to two against Colorado in the top of the
fifth inning, and Will Smith did have the big blow
for the Dodger Bats, a three run homer in the third.
The Padres have a home record of eleven to zero.
They're tied with the Cubs one to one in the
top of the seventh. Manny Machado with a solo homer
(33:40):
in the fifth for the lead for the home team,
but then the Padres gave that lead right back on
an infield error in the top of the sixth, so
once again one one Cubs at Padres, top of the seventh. Earlier,
Houston won two nothing at Saint Louis, the win to
Hunter Brown, who went six innings, saved to Josh Hader,
Texas for nothing over the Angels. Rangers at home seven
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and one, Milwaukee five nothing over Detroit, Tigers held to
one hit, and it was Washington winning three to nothing
at Pittsburgh. The Pirates offense four for thirty one.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to you, thank you, Steve though the Jason Smith
Show is Steve Desanger and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes,
as Steve told you, one NFL team trying to trade
one of their stars. They also said they're not trading
their other bigger star unless someone's got a couple of
first round picks. Wait what Yeah, that story is coming
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the Warriors seventy nine seventy two midway through the third quarter.
They've had a big start to the third quarter, outscoring
Golden State seventeen to twelve. John Morant with fifteen, but
it's Desmond Bane leading the way with seventeen for Memphis.
For the Warriors, Jimmy Butler already with twenty nine from
that floor.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Jason one of his baskets, he gave it the too small,
too short celebration. Yeah yeah, exactly seven.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Four So yeah, fun one happening right now and again
Golden State leads at seventy nine to seventy two. Draymond
Green has scored one has scored in this game. He
has a basket, a couple of free throws and fourth Scoard. Yeah,
he has four points and four fouls. That's Draymond Green.
(36:31):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes. Again, the winner moves on into the
seven slot and takes on the number two seed Houston Rockets.
Loser gets one more chance to try to move on.
So this is my favorite story of the day because
this this falls out of the category of Hey, how
do I pass it aggressively? Let people know that they
can call me and will trade anybody. Dolphins GM Chris
(36:55):
Greer today said that they're looking to trade Jalen Ramsey,
time All Pro cornerback, one of the best cornerbacks in
the game in the last decade. Didn't talk about why
they want to trade Jalen Ramsey, but they did say
that he did not request a trade or a salary adjustment.
This is the Dolphins now thinking we need to move
on from Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Not that he can't play football and they can't play.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
No, no, no, it still good, but they want to
move on. Then he was asked about Tyreek Hill. I
was trying to trade Tyreek Hill, who just saw that.
You know, he had his own controversy now and has
talked about wanting to get dealt and Chris Greer. This
is where it gets all the you know, passive aggressive
moments of it is that he said, Hey, no, that's
(37:40):
not something we're thinking about right now, but if you
want to call me with a couple of first round picks,
then we can talk. So I love that. I love it. No,
we're not looking to trade Tyreek Hill, but if you
want to trade two first round picks can be called.
In other words, hey, I'll give you the opening salvo
for if you want time, and my phone is open
(38:02):
if you want to give me a call. A completely
not looking to trade him, but two first round picks. Ah,
you could twist my armor, and that we could trade
Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It was literally about half the games Tyreek Hill played
last year. He was at forty yards receiving or less,
and almost every game in the final month of the
season was like that. We know, and we have seen
many times over how much of a game changer he
can be and what he can turn a short pass into.
But my goodness, this is an expensive guy. He needs
(38:31):
to deliver more than he did.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, and this is you know, and I keep going
back this because I always like to think, and I do.
I have the answers for most things, but there's certain
things I go this is just a mystery, right, it's
just a mystery. At this time a year ago, Okay,
not this, but let's say the off season a year ago,
the Dolphins were young, they were on the rise. They
(38:54):
had a franchise quarterback. You had a wide received Tyreek
Hill couldn't be stopped. You had a running back in
eight chan who is gonna be the next great running
back in the game. And still you were gonna dominate.
You were you were it. Now you played the one
the game of the third coldest game ever in Kansas City.
But that's the thing. It's built into Miami having to
win on the road.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Well, you didn't hurt my own game.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah right, but okay, I get it. But still a
year ago, at this point, you were young and on
the rise and loaded. You were absolutely loaded. And now
here we are a year later, and it's we have
all kinds of problems. We couldn't keep our guys on
the field. We faltered out of contention early, and now
we're dumping people. We're gonna dump Jalen Ramsey. You want
(39:37):
to give me a couple of first round picks, or
call me about Tyreek Hill. We can trade Tyreek Hill.
Like in a year, they've gone from young and dangerous
to we're just a mess and need to start over.
Like how did they get there so fast? I mean,
I get it. This is not the overall uh time
you get. This is not the the the the time
you get when Hey, a team has been to the
top of the mountain. They need to re reassess now
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because a lot of older players they got a jettison.
They have to let go, Like the forty nine ers
had to let some guys go. Look, the Jets decided,
we can't do it with these over the hill guys
and we have to move on and get younger. Like
that that I understand. This is just in the middle
of when they were gonna be great and Mike McDaniel
was the next great head coach and the capris that
he wore a fantastic and the sneakers like everything a
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year ago at this time was look at, Hey, We're
gonna come take over the NFL with our speed and
our talent. And now it's hey, we have to just
completely retool now. They let where he moster go, We're
gonna bring in new talent. We have to kind of
reload on the fly because what we have isn't working.
Like That's the big that's the biggest mystery in the
NFL to me, Steve, is how the Dolphins got to
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this point in a year. They went from we are
absolutely gonna be dominant to now, whoa, whoa, whoa, We're
in trouble and need to start over. Now.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm guessing the tipping point for you was when they
signed Zach Wilson as they're back indication. Now let me
say that I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I'm waiting for the Hey and Zach it will battle
it out in camp to be the number one quarterback.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That's right. Drum up some headlines there. More seriously for
the Miami Dolphins history, and I don't think we need
to go over how great they have been in their history.
It's just not recently great. And we're extending to a
decade and a half now since they've been anything that
you could call great. They haven't earned a home game
in the playoffs but one time since two thousand and one.
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Two thousand and one that was a two thousand and
eight home loss when they lost badly at home to
the Ravens, and in fact, since two thousand and eight,
they've always lost at least six games on their schedule,
including a couple of years ago when they had to
go to Kansas City for that very cold game. So
they've been I know, I know, they've been in the
same division as Tom Brady for a lot of years.
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He's not in the division anymore. You've got to make
your stand in your division, and it opens up the
whole postseason bracket for you.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I really it's really hard for me to believe that
that how fast the Dolphins went from we are going
to We're gonna be the next great deal. You know
now that that didn't work and now we completely have
to start over.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
NBA update, John Morant just turned his ankle landing taking
a shot at Golden State and they've had to pause
the game for him. But the Grizzlies are down two.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, eighty two eighty four and a half to go
on the third. Moran is injured. They're looking at it
on replay. We'll have more on this big story coming
up next right here. Jason Smith, Steve de Seger, Fox
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Radio, Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon. Special delivery Steve to say. You're
in for Harmon tonight and the night cap and the
playing round. Well, let's just say it started out well
from Memphis. I mean, you got to be honest, It
did start out well for them, That's accurate. Not so
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much after the first four minutes. With five and a
half to go until halftime, the Warriors have a fifty
five forty two lead. They could have a seventy point
first half against Memphis right now. John Moran started out
hot eleven points. I've not seen him do one finger
gun celebration yet. I mean I've been watching, you know,
(01:09):
doing the show watch, I've not seen it yet. Meanwhile,
for the Warriors, it has been Jimmy Buckets with sixteen
points and Steph Curry has Eleven's been a really balanced
day overall so far for the Warriors. From the floor,
they are getting it from everywhere. Everybody from their benches
jumped in already. So it is a thirteen point lead
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for the Warriors now still five and a half to
go before half.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And the good news for Golden State he hasn't attempted
a shot yet. Draymond Green is not only scoreless, he
hasn't gotten the ball two feet from the baskets. Hey,
you know, instead of concentrating on a lab just jump
to the right into the defender like you did on
Sunday when he missed a key bucket lay. What are
you doing? That's the reason you're not a scorer.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you think the Warriors can win it? Because I
want to see this now like one of those experiments.
Do you think wars can win a game where Draymond
Green never touches the basketball offensively? No, never touch, doesn't
touch the ball once, No, doesn't touch the ball once. No,
doesn't touch not offensive rebound, not not not in when
they pass it to him down, doesn't touch defensively, Yes,
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touches the ball but doesn't touch the ball once offensively.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You sure about that?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
For success, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You sure? I don't know. I'd like to see it.
I'd like to see it just like it be the
one guy in the corner and it's not passing to
the ball.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He has three assists and no turnovers. Just for the record.
Oh and Will Smith is just home. Our Dodgers up
four nothing on Colorado. You know there's a chance the
Rockies are down eleven and a half games in the
standings after tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know, is it just me? Or has every ball
the Dodgers have hit off of Rockies pitching the last
two nights had like an exit vlaw of one hundred
and eighty miles an hour. Oh. I feel like every
time I've seen the ball in it's like, Wow, that
ball was scalded. Oh my goodness, that ball was.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Scald Usually a Rockies game, you're thinking distance, flying, floating, continuing, carrying.
This is not what you're talking about, O.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Man, I mean, it is just watchless, like, oh my god,
that ball was scalded. Oh my goodness, that ball was.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Ripped well, uh, you've seen the Rocky staff, so I
think we know what we're dealing with here over under.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
For Rockies wins against teams in the NL West this year,
I put it at three three.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Okay, I'm gonna go way out of a limb. Draymond
Green's gonna touch the ball and they're gonna win. And
the Rockies are gonna win more more than three games
in the division.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
All right, five, where are those three wins? Steve O?
Where tell me where those three wins are gonna be.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
This is the good news for them in baseball is
that even the worst team still wind up with about
fifty total wins. So some of those will be in
their division.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Are you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I'm somewhat sure about You're sure about that? I said that,
somewhat sure about that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, because because you know, you look at the standings
and you see, hey, look at look at the West.
You know Padres fourteen and three, Irons are twelve and five,
Dodgers are twelve and six. Oh, by the way, those
are the three best records in all of baseball. You know,
I would say this, Okay, maybe they take three out
of the year against Arizona maybe, I mean, I could
(04:16):
they could take that. Arizona's not bad too.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Over the course of six months, your head.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Get on this. I don't know. Maybe maybe they take three.
I don't know. It's gonna be tough, gonna be very difficult.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Okay. Last year in your division, I just looked it
up the full season for the NL East. The worst
record in the NL East, the last place Marlins, who
lost one hundred games last year, went eighteen and thirty
four in the division.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
See that's that. The the NL East last year did
three playoff teams. Right, division was good last year? Right,
the Mets come out of nowhere. This NL West is
way better. It's just way better. Maybe they beat the
Did they beat the Dodgers once? I don't know, that's
probably an oph. Do they beat the Padres, that's probably
an over the Giants'll get him a win against the
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Giants at some point, man, you know, And maybe they
got to get to two or three against the Diamondbacks.
Ad maybe maybe three and forty seven is going to
be the is gonna be their record?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
By the way, also had eighteen wins in their division
last year and they lost one hundred and one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, okay, but the Dodgers got better, the Giants got better,
the Padres got better. All, oh, that'll be fun. Uh
now let's get to this again. Playing going on right now.
Memphis is looking to cut the lead before halftime against
the Warriors. We'll have more on this game coming up
in a bit. But uh, Nico Harrison MAVs GM spoke
today for just the second time since pulling off the
(05:44):
Luka Doncic trade.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Wait did he?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Did? He? I think we have to well, well, there's well,
the print reporters at this press conference or this this
media availability that he had, people were able to write
down what he said. But he spoke two reporters today.
They were not allowed to have any recording devices or
cameras in for this media.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
So the next question is did they actually check the
pieces of paper that the media members were writing down
notes on? Did they have to clear their notes in
order to exit the room afterwards?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I mean, it's so high school. It's okay, I'll talk worse,
but nobody can write stuff out. Nobody can write stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Can you imagine a teacher saying, I don't want you
to take notes on this lecture. Please, by all means,
put you don't recorder away.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
And the thing is, I want I'm going to defend
the guy, but like, wow, dude, you made it really tough. Man.
I mean, I'm still gonna do it, but you made
it really tough with this ridiculous no cameras anywhere. This
is kind of what media availability is. Then don't talk
to the media. If you don't do interviews, I don't understand.
Don't talk to it. Don't do it. Then I'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
You're thinking this day is a big win for you.
It was a loss before you entered the room. If
that's the poll.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Like, I don't know what he what he wanted the
narrative to be, other than if you keep taking shots
at me and the if I keep getting criticized, I
won't talk to anybody because I can't believe it's he
has He doesn't want to be quoted accurately, right, because
that's a That's the biggest thing is like, well, we
can't record you. What I got to remember what you wrote.
I got to write in shorthand, like this is back
(07:20):
when when when that's what reporters had to do was
take notes in shorthand because the guy, wait, go back
and say that again. You said, yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Is like when you asked the biology teacher, can you
slow down, we're just catching up on our handwritten notes here.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
That was one of my favorite things to say in class.
Like I usually got it. And like when we were
doing math when the math teacher was showing us a
derivation either in calculus or something, and and the teacher saying, okay,
everybody got it, and I'd raise my hand. She goes Chase,
I go, what is anything you just said? And then
people would laugh to you go okay, okay, okay, and
you realized that you lost everybody because it was this, like,
why do we need to know the derivation? Just show
(07:53):
us the Formula's what we're gonna do. They're not gonna
ask about the derivation eight tests.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
What I remember about college biology is that our lecture
had an accent. And at one point he said this,
the nutrition in this item is found in pacons. And
we all look at each All the students simultaneously start
looking around the room. Did he just use a word
in English? We don't know what he And somebody finally
boldly raised their hand and said, sir, what what was
(08:18):
the last sentence? It's found in Pagan's pick. What is
pig nuts, Pacan's pacons?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Oh you mean pecans?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Sorry about that?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, pecan pie? You have that right, you pacon pie.
Don't you sure?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I dare anybody? Well, it's past now, But anybody at
that lecture from the general manager of the MAVs today
to literally raise their hand and say, you know, I
could go back over my recorded notes later, but since
you're such a jerk, can you just slow down? Hand
cramping up?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wait at my best recollection, you said, screw everybody criticizing
I've never said that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is he under the impression that it's the media leading
the fire kneekers even last Sunday, It's not.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Look, and here's the and this is where it gets tough,
because now I'm gonna defend the guy, right because I'm like, dude,
you really make it difficult just not for that. Do
this is that here's the thing, is that you gotta
let him off the hook because this trade wasn't Nico
Harrison who woke up one day and decided I'm gonna
trade Luka doncic right, I'm gonna do that. A trade
(09:25):
of this magnitude has to be okayed and thought of
at the highest level. Right, and Mark Cuban, who liked
to say, oh, I wasn't on board. Well, you know,
guess what, Mark Cuban is one of the minority owners
of the teams.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now the at the highest level there no.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The Adamson and the Dumont families own it from Vegas. Right,
So what was it the what was it the crux
of this? Hey, we having some problems with Luca. We
want him to be able to stop vaping and stop
drinking and get in shape and take care of his
body because he wants three hundred million dollar contract. Do
you really think Nico Harrison just decided and said, hey,
you know what, Hey, Jerry Adison, Yeah, here's what I'm
(10:01):
gonna do. I'm I'm gonna trade Luca. Oh okay, yeah,
I'm just gonna do it. Don't worry about it. Don't
worry about it. You have to get the sign offs
at every level to make a trade like this, right,
The Addilson families had to do it, the Dumont families
had to do it. You had to get a sign off. Right.
This is bigger than just hey, I'm gonna make a
move here, I'm gonna make this. This is not Billy
Bean just walking into you know, Steve Schatz offs a
(10:23):
moneyball saying hey, I need more money for Ricardo Roncone,
Like you know this is this is where this is
a franchise, all trained trade where everybody's got to be
on board with it. And guess what, everybody was on
board because this trade doesn't happen if everybody's not on board, right,
it does it just it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
So they walked into the office of the owner there
in Dallas and said, why do we need Davis and
then he said, because he gets on base.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Guy's but a point of pete again, you know the answer.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's the Scott Mannenberg of our Dallas Mavericks franchise.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
So you know that that everybody was on board with this,
and likely the crux of it was here are the
Adamsons in the Dumont saying, yeah, we don't want to
give that guy three hundred and fifty million dollars if
we don't think he's gonna come in and be.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And you're not just throwing out a figure just so
people know, re signing your own free agent. It's a
set in amount of money. It's called a super max contract.
According to NBA rules. He would get less elsewhere, but
that extreme amount of cash. If it was Dallas, they
really didn't have a choice. Their choice is do we
want a divorce from him now or else we're going
(11:31):
to owe him that.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, this is this is what the money he was
going to get was three hundred and fifty million dollars.
And here's a team that really isn't Dallas, right. Here's
the owners who really aren't Dallas right. These are families
that bought the team and bought controlling interests from Mark Cuban. Now,
I believe Cuban went from the perspective where he says, oh,
if I was still owning the team, he wouldn't have
made that trade that I get for the perspective of
(11:54):
he knows Dallas and knows what the ramifications of that
is going to.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Be, and he had Dirks the French trade, and he.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Gets it, and he's Dallas right. These owners aren't Dallas.
These owners aren't Dallas right. Yeah, Okay, three hundred fifty
million dollars, we'll get another superstar, Okay, go ahead, make
the trade. And so all the frustration that they have
had with Luca, which I'm sure the front office has hacked.
Just didn't just you know, come up out of nowhere. Okay,
now we can make this trade. So understand that this
is not Nico Harrison saying hey I did this, and
(12:23):
the owners are waking up the next day, go we
were blindsided by we had no idea. Oh well, I
guess regular trade. Everybody was on board, and I give
him credit. Not I'll just let him off the hook
because this is everybody. But he's the guy taking all
the arrows. Right now, there is nobody stepping up saying
I made this. The Addison's aren't saying and the Dumonts
aren't saying no, no, no, No one is saying this. They're
just hey, Nico made this tree. Nico made the trade,
(12:46):
and they are just silent. So he is taking all
of the criticism, which I think is a pretty big thing.
It's a pretty good GM thing to do, to say,
all right, we make this train. I'm the most unpopular guy.
I would like people to help me. I'd like somebody
to say something, but but I'm gonna I'm gonna defend it.
I'm gonna defend the trade again. Like he did today.
So it's time to give him a lot of credit
(13:06):
for stuff like that. And you know, because you know,
in the end, Luca is not a favorite of the
new ownership. When they came in, for whatever reason it was,
it was different. Maybe that's what Luca was referring to
when he said, I always thought my time in Dallas
would end this way. I'm not the guy. This is
not the franchise it was when I came in, When
Mark Cuban run ran the day to day of it,
things are different. So this whole Nico Harrison think, Yeah,
(13:29):
I get he's unpopular. I get there. But they decided
to make this trade. Everybody's on board with it. But
yet it's not Nico who woke up one day and
said let's do it. This was we're gonna move on.
We're not gonna pay this money. It's gonna be very
clinical because we're rich owners and we don't want to
pay money to somebody that we don't have to pay
money to that we don't think is gonna give us
that return. So guess what, Yes, go ahead and trade him.
(13:49):
And maybe you misconstrued what the reaction was gonna be,
or just how bad it was gonna be. But this
is where you are. It's not all on Nico. It's
not just Nico Harrison's fault, and the guys stood up
taking all the criticism for it. I think it's time
to let him off the hook a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I am almost there with you, because any trade this
enormous obviously involves ownership. However, when you keep shooting yourself
in the foot in other areas, I'm sorry, I just
lose a little bit of sympathy. If you want to
say he's taking arrows, Okay, I can see that he
is the general manager. That's part of the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
But many guys want to help anybody. You guys want
to help it. Hey, I gotta go out. I'll be
back later on, Back later.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
On, absolutely, Frigates, can we update before we end the segment.
It is halftime at the NBA playing game at Golden State,
and the Warriors, who were down eleven too early, now
lead Memphis at the break sixty seven fifty five. So
you're right. They got close to seventy points in this
first half despite the low start, and the Padres are
winning again at home. Manny Machado has homered. It is
(14:53):
one nothing pods. As they start the sixth against the Cubs,
the Padres are eleven and oh at home.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Still gonna still think Rocky is gonna get those four wins, Yes,
four wins in baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm very confident in baseball's history. Even okay, even well,
with the exception of the nineteen sixty two Mets, even
awful teams still win about fifty sixty.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Games, even with the Padres being allowed to play every
game at home this year to make the NL West
race a little bit closer, even with that year, Okay, with.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
It, Well, if Bud Selig were still commissioner, they probably
would change that, so I would have a different opinion
as it stands now. No, I'm sticking with.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
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the Warriors looked like they were giving away some of
the lead. However, that did not happen as a twelve
(17:57):
point lead for Golden State at halftime. Were the Memphis
Grizzlies right now.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
So you're saying they're a better team with Jimmy Butler, Yeah, sorry,
sixty seven fifty five.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I it's tiny, tiny bit better, tiny bit better. And
I have not seen one any gun celebration from John Moran.
I've not seen that, even though he's got fifteen in
the first half, I've not seen it.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
No, although for most of the first half it was
like horns down. Of course he didn't play at Texas,
but you know where I go thumbs down for most
of this first half performance after the nice start.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Sure, sure, and you know it doesn't mean he's not
going to do it again. You never know all the persons,
you know, it could be a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Now you know, Trey Young got kicked out late in
the earlier game Atlanta lost it Orlando. He not only
got kicked out, he like faked that he was giving
the ref the ball and then kept it and walked
off and then threw the boo. I'll show you, dude,
are you even out of third grade? I would I
would double the fine just out of principle for that.
(18:54):
That was your Trey Young.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Nico Harrison, who's who's in high school? More the last
the last few days, I mean, I've been on a
lot of the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Let's see Trey Young hold a press conference tomorrow about
his actions. But you can't tape it, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Look, they do have another game, right, they do have
another game. The Hawks do have another game. But at
this point have you maxed out with Trey Young? I mean, really,
you're a five hundred team, That's what you've been for
the past four years, and unless you're playing the Knicks,
you're not motivated to win enough basketball games, right, Trey
Young loves playing. Like if the Knicks flame out and
(19:30):
lose to the Pistons in the first round of the playoffs,
something crazy ass stuff like that happens, I will say,
go get Trey Young, Go get it, because he obviously
he loves playing. Anybody who loves playing in Madison Square
Garden can put up the kind of performances that he has,
Go ahead, go get him. He's a guy. But honestly,
Trey Young, at some point, if you're the Hawks, do
you realize we've had the best of them and we're
(19:51):
barely a five hundred team and we're barely a playing
round team. That don't you look to say, hey, maybe
it's time to move on from Trey Young.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And they just had the number one nick last summer.
They had who is a starter and was two of
ten shooting in this game tonight. So in the last decade,
there's one year when the Hawks have made a quote
run through the Eastern Conference playoffs. One year out of
the last decade.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, and who they beat? They beat the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay, that's what it is years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So again we'll have more basketball coming up, and again
halftime for Golden State and Memphis. Again, the winner moves on,
they become the two seed in the West. They will
take on the Rockets, and the loser gets to play
the loser of tomorrow's game. Meanwhile, I'm surprised this is
still a story because for me, it's not really a story,
but it seems like because people want to keep talking
(20:43):
about it. So Rory McElroy wins the Masters on Sunday,
an incredible final round. He had three of the greatest
golf shots you'll ever see sandwiched around two of the
worst golf shots you'll ever see under pressure right now.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So it was like Bernie Carbo in the World Series
years ago.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Bernie Wow, t you gotta explain to millennials with Bernie
Carbowens come on.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
In the greatest World Series in history nineteen seventy five
Reds Red Sox. He hit a pinch, three run homer
right after fouling off a pitch with the worst swing
you've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
So this was Rory McElroy, right, this is the day
had he's the most popular golfer in the world and
it's it's an incredible accomplishment for him. Now he's got
only the sixth player ever with a lifetime Grand Slam.
And after kind of a headline comes out from Bryson
d Chambeau, who he played with in the final round,
(21:39):
and Bryson d Chambeau gave an interview saying, yeah, guy
didn't say a word to me the entire final round.
Didn't say one word, didn't speak to me, nothing, and
d Chambeau went on to say, I don't think it
was me.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Hey, I don't think it was me. I don't think
I'm a bad guy. I come on, I golf people
don't like the whole live golf thing. But I mean
I know that he hates live golf. Oh wait a minute,
Wait a minute, it is. But he said, maybe it's
not me, but he didn't say a word to me
the entire route And that became kind of a story.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
And then today Rory McElroy sports psychologist Bob Rotella actually
gave an interview on it and talked about it and
he said, quote, look, it didn't have anything to do
with Bryson. That was the game plan all week. We
wanted to get lost in it. We didn't want to
pay attention to what anyone else was scoring or shooting
or swinging or how far they were hitting it. We
(22:27):
just wanted Rory to play his game. So here's here's
his sports psychologist saying, Hey, it wasn't It wasn't anything
with Bryce and de Chambeau. We just wanted him to
be locked in and focused.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I can believe that. And that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah. And because here's the thing, Steve, I'm surprised it's
the story because this kind of makes sense, right, It
kind of makes sense. And there's lots of times where
golfers don't talk to each other on the you know,
on the tee when they playing together. If it's two
golfers don't get along, the don't need to do.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
But there is, as you mentioned, a backdrop a history
with the hasn't been emerge yet with PGA and Live Golf,
and those two golfers are on each on the other side,
the other side, opposite side of this.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
And even if there are, it's okay, because it's not like, okay,
I'm not gonna do anything that's going to exacerbate this feud.
I'm not gonna yell at him on the putting green.
Golf is a different sport, right everybody you see players
before they play a game, they tap up their friends,
people on the other team, and then boom, right away
we are competing against each other, right, say hey, good luck,
(23:28):
good luck, good luck. Boom, We see it, right.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
And then shoving Isaiah Thomas in the lane.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Exactly, That's how it goes, right batting cages before the game,
guys are talking to each other. Then the game comes
and we start, because you're competing against each other. But
golf is you're competing against the course. You're not really
competing against the guy you're golfing with. Although you know
final round, you know you and d Chambeau, you want
to beat the guy. So could it be a little
bit of gamesmanship?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Maybe clearly d Chambeau I had problems. He had a
horrible back nine, But generally I think, okay, I need
to lock in to win, and how often do you
need to talk?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
You undersold that there he had a horrible back nine.
What the psychologist for Rory should have said is we
would have had a conversation. But Roy didn't want to
go into the water to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Oh wow, he wanted to say, in the sand where
he was on that really bad approach. Uh so, yeah,
I mean I get it. It It just it just
makes sense. You're staying focused and you're playing against the course,
and this is what you need to win. This is
a big deal. He wanted this man, this is the
major he had to have desperately, and the door was
opened for him to do it. So I get it.
(24:36):
Not everybody has to talk to it. You don't need
to play around the golf and talk to the other person, right,
you know, you don't need to do that. You know
you're talking to your caddy and being locked in. It's
really not that big a deal. And you know, the
funny thing is is I call it my brother in
law because he's my age even though my wife's an
only child. But it's like they my wife and and
his and his wife. They grew up like sisters. It's there.
(25:00):
She's her aunt, my wife's aunt, and she's only a
year and a half older. Oh right, there's just how
just how, just how it worked. Nothing crazy, just like
the youngest kid and the oldest kids. Yes, so, and
he is kind of a sports psychologist. What he does.
And I talked about it today. I said, is it
a really big deal that this is? You know that
this went on, because I don't think it is, But
why is this around like two three days later? Like
(25:22):
is this like d Chambeau trying to say something is
And I'm taking, like, what do you think when you
see this story? And he said, you know, try everybody.
What we try to do is we try to get
the players doing anything to a point where they are
locked in to what they're doing, kind of like when
we would always say a guy was in the zone, right,
that was a way to talk about it years ago.
(25:43):
Oh guys, and I don't know why the guy's making
all these threes, but he is right. But you know,
players want to get to that point where they're so
locked in with what they're doing everything else is just noise.
And and that's how you went. And now that that
that's become a popular thing, now that you know they're
sports psychologists, different things, now you see this more often.
So when I talked about it, I said, Okay, so
I kind of felt I kind of felt emboldened by
(26:05):
I's like yeah, because I really I didn't think this
was that big a deal, and I thought this was, Hey,
here's Rory McElroy. Maybe maybe he doesn't like bryceon d Schambeau,
but clearly it could have been d Chambeau, it could
have been Brooks Kopka, it could have been anybody else.
And he probably would have been quiet the most of
the round as well and not spoken well because.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
This is how he's never wanted.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, this is how I need to win, and I
need to make sure this is where I need to
be to be at the highest point i'm at mentally,
and if that means not talking to the guy, not
talking to the guy, and at the end, I mean,
you even had people say no, nothing against him, nothing
against him. This is just what I needed to be.
So I'm like, okay, but like it's still being thrown
out there like it's a story, and I'm really surprised
about because I don't think it's a story.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I like the fact that bringing in the sports psychologist
aspect really kind of normalizes that profession even more, because
I know, even as recently as a decade ago, some
people would still raise an eyebrow as if theyre pressure
and you need to talk it out and have an approach,
have a game plan. To me, this is an aspect
(27:06):
of coaching for the elite of the elite, and the
fact that Rory McElroy, who certainly fits that bill in
his sport, has a sports psychologist. I say, go for it,
great good, use your money to put it back into
the product, so to speak. This is good for you
as a human and good for you as a competitor.
Do you remember when the Lakers had that seven game
(27:27):
final against the Celtics and run our Test was a
part of the winning team. I mean, part of the
reason they won was him. And yet just a few
years before he was almost a non functioning NBA player
and he got with a psychologist and they were obviously
larger than issues at basketball going on. It worked. It
made him a better person, It made him a better player,
(27:48):
and it made him a good team player and contributor.
There are so many things that are potentially positive to
come out of that type of investment relationship. I'm surprised
that we don't hear about it with more of the elite.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
You know, you know, it's funny you say that because
I was thinking about that today, because I thinking about
you know, sports psychologists and how it's such a big deal.
And obviously when when you are playing an individual game,
maybe it has a little bit more importance because there's
no teammates you can rely on or anything. But it's
but still, you know, hey, there's big team sports stars
who have sports psychologists. And I didn't really think about
(28:24):
this as much until after I started coaching, right, coaching
youth sports, and I you know, I coached at a
pretty high level for soccer and softball and and and
twice we made it to the finals in the state championship.
We lost the better team both times, and you know, okay,
you know we you know, they moved on, and it
was it was heartbreaking for the girls of everything, but
you know what happened. And you know, here I am
(28:44):
and I still think about, you know, regularly, like this
is what coaches do. Like coaches, I mean, this is
what this is what I wish parents would understand us
more about what coaches like. We live with these losses
way more than the kids do. Like we live, we
live with these losses. And I'm sitting there's times where
I just say, for very idly, I go, oh, man,
if only this had happened in that game, we could
(29:05):
have won that game. We could have been we could
have won. Say, like I think about that like these things,
you know, pop in a lot, like when I when
I see one of my former players at school or
something like that, and I go, this is me at
a youth level, you know, coaching at a pretty high level,
youth level. But this is me still thinking about games
that got away, you know, like I think more about
the games that got away than about the the the
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championships or the big games.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
And this wasn't wired, wasn't twenty million people watching away playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So I can't imagine what it's like for a golf
for a Rory McElroy who has given away leads, anybody
who was given something away and gagged away a championship before.
How do you deal with that? How do you continue?
How do you continue to achieve and put out the
level you need to be at When this is something
that I would dwell on all the time, I'd think
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about it every day, and you know these guys think
about it every day. How could you not need some
help with to get past that? I mean, whether it's
anybody think about anybody losing a big game, anybody you
know making a really bad play, whether it's whether it's
you know, Russell Wilson throwing an interception on the goal line,
Leon Lett, whatever, you want to go back and go JR.
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Smith forgetting how much time is left in the game,
what the score of the game was. Think about all
these things that we laugh at, we have punchlines with,
and these athletes they live with them, like every day
they live with them. I don't know how anybody doesn't
have a sports psychologist to deal with this, because that's
a real How do you go through every day with
this being the thing that defines you in what you
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do for a living. That's a really hard thing.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And I'll go with just the basic level of non athletes.
How often do we hear like a sad story in
the news as we heard recently, and then they give
the suicide hotline afterwards, and then they make sure if
you're going through anything, make sure to talk to someone.
Reach out to someone. There are not only these people
that would help you over the phone, and here's the number.
Chat with a friend, find somebody talking it out and
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not leaving things bottled in in general is a good idea.
In this story, we have a golfer, a person in
a solo sport with as you say, no teammate, and
this is clearly strategy and planned for last week. I
thought this was great, So Rory Macro, I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I don't know why it's a story, but hey, the
whole part about it, I get everything behind it. Time
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports. Steve de Seger has all this and more.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
With what's trending, We'll start at Golden State's NBA playing
game that play in tournament with two openers. Tonight's Orlando
won its home game. Golden State is winning at home
against Memphis right now, about eight and a half to
go third quarter. Warriors up seventy six sixty seven. Golden
State scored sixty five points in the first half despite
being down eleven to two early fifty one percent shooting
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for the Warriors. They're led by Jimmy Butler with twenty
six points. Earlier, Trey Young had twenty eight but did
get kicked out late and the Hawks lost badly at
Orlando one twenty to ninety five. The Magic led at
home by twenty two in the first half, nearly blew
that but wound up winning by even more twenty five
Cole Anthony twenty six points in twenty minutes off the bench.
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So Orlando goes to Boston. Now is the seventh seed.
That first round Eastern Conference playoff series starts this weekend.
Winner of the Golden State matchup right now, that team
will be going to Houston to start a first round
series on Sunday. In the NHL. Among the late games,
about a minute left in regulation, Vegas tied at Calgary
four to four. LA Kings lead early second period two
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to one at Seattle already wins for Washington and Tampa Bay.
Minnesota has won in overtime against Anaheim three to two.
The NHL regular season ends this Thursday. Former Cal running
back Jayden od is transferring to Oklahoma. He was first
team All Pack twelve two years ago. The spring transfer
window officially opens Wednesday. The Dolphins are trying to trade
former Pro Bowl defensive back Jalen Ramsey. He has twenty
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one million dollar left on his deal for this year.
Former Dallas tackle Tyron Smith will retire after fourteen seasons.
In the league news conference on this Wednesday, we mentioned
last night Dallas and New Orleans each started their voluntary
offseason workout programs Monday, so that includes meetings, conditioning, rehab work.
It's not like full training camp yet certainly. There are
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two late games in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers lead
five to two against Colorado in the top of the
fifth inning, and Will Smith did have the big blow
for the Dodger Bats, a three run homer in the third.
The Padres have a home record of eleven to zero.
They're tied with the Cubs one to one in the
top of the seventh. Manny Machado with a solo homer
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in the fifth for the lead for the home team,
but then the Padres gave that lead right back on
an infield error in the top of the sixth, so
once again one one Cubs at Padres, top of the seventh. Earlier,
Houston won two nothing at Saint Louis, the win to
Hunter Brown, who went six innings, saved to Josh Hader,
Texas for nothing over the Angels. Rangers at home seven
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and one, Milwaukee five nothing over Detroit, Tigers held to
one hit, and it was Washington winning three to nothing
at Pittsburgh. The Pirates offense four for thirty one.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Back to you, thank you, Steve though the Jason Smith
Show is Steve Desanger and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes,
as Steve told you, one NFL team trying to trade
one of their stars. They also said they're not trading
their other bigger star unless someone's got a couple of
first round picks. Wait what Yeah, that story is coming
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Harmon tonight. Grizzly's making a run right now. They trail
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the Warriors seventy nine seventy two midway through the third quarter.
They've had a big start to the third quarter, outscoring
Golden State seventeen to twelve. John Morant with fifteen, but
it's Desmond Bane leading the way with seventeen for Memphis.
For the Warriors, Jimmy Butler already with twenty nine from
that floor.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Jason one of his baskets, he gave it the too small,
too short celebration. Yeah yeah, exactly seven.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Four So yeah, fun one happening right now and again
Golden State leads at seventy nine to seventy two. Draymond
Green has scored one has scored in this game. He
has a basket, a couple of free throws and fourth Scoard. Yeah,
he has four points and four fouls. That's Draymond Green.
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So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes. Again, the winner moves on into the
seven slot and takes on the number two seed Houston Rockets.
Loser gets one more chance to try to move on.
So this is my favorite story of the day because
this this falls out of the category of Hey, how
do I pass it aggressively? Let people know that they
can call me and will trade anybody. Dolphins GM Chris
(36:55):
Greer today said that they're looking to trade Jalen Ramsey,
time All Pro cornerback, one of the best cornerbacks in
the game in the last decade. Didn't talk about why
they want to trade Jalen Ramsey, but they did say
that he did not request a trade or a salary adjustment.
This is the Dolphins now thinking we need to move
on from Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Not that he can't play football and they can't play.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
No, no, no, it still good, but they want to
move on. Then he was asked about Tyreek Hill. I
was trying to trade Tyreek Hill, who just saw that.
You know, he had his own controversy now and has
talked about wanting to get dealt and Chris Greer. This
is where it gets all the you know, passive aggressive
moments of it is that he said, Hey, no, that's
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not something we're thinking about right now, but if you
want to call me with a couple of first round picks,
then we can talk. So I love that. I love it. No,
we're not looking to trade Tyreek Hill, but if you
want to trade two first round picks can be called.
In other words, hey, I'll give you the opening salvo
for if you want time, and my phone is open
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if you want to give me a call. A completely
not looking to trade him, but two first round picks. Ah,
you could twist my armor, and that we could trade
Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
It was literally about half the games Tyreek Hill played
last year. He was at forty yards receiving or less,
and almost every game in the final month of the
season was like that. We know, and we have seen
many times over how much of a game changer he
can be and what he can turn a short pass into.
But my goodness, this is an expensive guy. He needs
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to deliver more than he did.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, and this is you know, and I keep going
back this because I always like to think, and I do.
I have the answers for most things, but there's certain
things I go this is just a mystery, right, it's
just a mystery. At this time a year ago, Okay,
not this, but let's say the off season a year ago,
the Dolphins were young, they were on the rise. They
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had a franchise quarterback. You had a wide received Tyreek
Hill couldn't be stopped. You had a running back in
eight chan who is gonna be the next great running
back in the game. And still you were gonna dominate.
You were you were it. Now you played the one
the game of the third coldest game ever in Kansas City.
But that's the thing. It's built into Miami having to
win on the road.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Well, you didn't hurt my own game.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah right, but okay, I get it. But still a
year ago, at this point, you were young and on
the rise and loaded. You were absolutely loaded. And now
here we are a year later, and it's we have
all kinds of problems. We couldn't keep our guys on
the field. We faltered out of contention early, and now
we're dumping people. We're gonna dump Jalen Ramsey. You want
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to give me a couple of first round picks, or
call me about Tyreek Hill. We can trade Tyreek Hill.
Like in a year, they've gone from young and dangerous
to we're just a mess and need to start over.
Like how did they get there so fast? I mean,
I get it. This is not the overall uh time
you get. This is not the the the the time
you get when Hey, a team has been to the
top of the mountain. They need to re reassess now
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because a lot of older players they got a jettison.
They have to let go, Like the forty nine ers
had to let some guys go. Look, the Jets decided,
we can't do it with these over the hill guys
and we have to move on and get younger. Like
that that I understand. This is just in the middle
of when they were gonna be great and Mike McDaniel
was the next great head coach and the capris that
he wore a fantastic and the sneakers like everything a
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year ago at this time was look at, Hey, We're
gonna come take over the NFL with our speed and
our talent. And now it's hey, we have to just
completely retool now. They let where he moster go, We're
gonna bring in new talent. We have to kind of
reload on the fly because what we have isn't working.
Like That's the big that's the biggest mystery in the
NFL to me, Steve, is how the Dolphins got to
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this point in a year. They went from we are
absolutely gonna be dominant to now, whoa, whoa, whoa, We're
in trouble and need to start over. Now.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'm guessing the tipping point for you was when they
signed Zach Wilson as they're back indication. Now let me
say that I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
I'm waiting for the Hey and Zach it will battle
it out in camp to be the number one quarterback.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That's right. Drum up some headlines there. More seriously for
the Miami Dolphins history, and I don't think we need
to go over how great they have been in their history.
It's just not recently great. And we're extending to a
decade and a half now since they've been anything that
you could call great. They haven't earned a home game
in the playoffs but one time since two thousand and one.
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Two thousand and one that was a two thousand and
eight home loss when they lost badly at home to
the Ravens, and in fact, since two thousand and eight,
they've always lost at least six games on their schedule,
including a couple of years ago when they had to
go to Kansas City for that very cold game. So
they've been I know, I know, they've been in the
same division as Tom Brady for a lot of years.
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He's not in the division anymore. You've got to make
your stand in your division, and it opens up the
whole postseason bracket for you.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
I really it's really hard for me to believe that
that how fast the Dolphins went from we are going
to We're gonna be the next great deal. You know
now that that didn't work and now we completely have
to start over.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
NBA update, John Morant just turned his ankle landing taking
a shot at Golden State and they've had to pause
the game for him. But the Grizzlies are down two.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, eighty two eighty four and a half to go
on the third. Moran is injured. They're looking at it
on replay. We'll have more on this big story coming
up next right here. Jason Smith, Steve de Seger, Fox
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