April 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to one of the biggest choke jobs in the NBA playoff history. To NO surprise the Knicks lost Game 5 to the Pistons. Jon Paul Morosi checks in LIVE from Madison Square Garden. And Tyrese Haliburton weighs in on the confrontation his dad had with Giannis following Pacers-Bucks!
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside.
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, oh, just good advice for all players.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
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the Pistons. It is a nip tuck game. Midway through
(01:10):
the fourth quarter. Well, don't worry, We'll get to Giannis
in a minute. Don't We'll get to Jannis in a minute.
Five minutes to go in the fourth quarter. If you
like offense, this is not your game. Nine into the
nineties though, yeah, okay, even in the nineteen nineties, even
scores get into barely into the nineties. Right, good, five
we might get we might get to the hunt. We
may not get ten more points the rest of this.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Not everybody can be the Cleveland Cavaliers and a model
of efficiency.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Time out on the floor. Pistons lead the Knicks ninety
one to ninety. Again, this is not one of those
games you're gonna say, wow, man, I'll tell you doctor
Nasmith that it right. But but it's a close game
and we're down in the last five minutes. That's it
what you want.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So it meets the definition of a good game in
today's NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now, you know, I really want to talk about this
when I say, that's an about the Knicks for now. Okay,
that's enough about the Knicks for now, because coming into
tonight right with the with the Bucks down three to
one to the Indiana Pacers and all the talk of
Giannice is leaving, Giannice is gone, Certainly it doesn't look
great for the Bucks future because Damian Lillard now might
be out for all of next year as well. With
(02:17):
the Achilles tare coming back from You feel so bad
for the guy because coming back from where he was
and not getting to a you know, quote, real contending
team intil late in his career. So yeah, okay, yeah,
things are gonna be a little difficult, right, Things are
gonna be a little tough. Uh, Jannicie's future. Okay, but
I always thought, you know what, he's not gonna leave now,
He's not gonna force a trade. He's got a contract
for another three or four, you know, three more years.
(02:39):
And okay, it's gonna be an offseason where the Bucks
have to say, okay, once again, we have to go
get somebody because we don't know if Damian Lillard's out.
But after this collapse, after this collapse of a seven
point lead in the final forty seconds to lose to
the Pacers, to get eliminated by turning the ball over
rediculously badly twice in the final thirty five seconds, this
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is where I say, yeah, if it's like the Bucks
want Giannis to say, I'm out. I don't want to stay.
I can't stay here. If anything is gonna push Giannis
out to say I need out. I want to be dealt.
I want to be traded. What we saw tonight, that's
what when it.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Fails spectacularly, you're going up against the heated rival, and
there's a good debt we actually have. That we can
say with great confidence in the NBA, because normally the
criticism is everybody gets along, everybody likes he.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, these teams hate each other.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we knew we were gonna get some fireworks as
it goes out, and with Lillard's injury opening the door
to all right, they're gonna go out easy. No they didn't,
because they get out to that thirty to thirteen lead
that first quarter, a blistering pays and like, all right,
we got some fight left in these bucks for Doc Rivers.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Down three one, Hey, he's got a chance. Down three one, yeah,
up three one, no chance, but down three one, yeah,
look at the maybe maybe maybe he can push the
right buttons there, And instead we see this epic collapse
in overtime, you know, building the big lead and then
a comedy of errors followed by postgame fireworks in the
(04:18):
celebration line and chaos. But yeah, coming into this game,
a lot of the it seem fata complete. Uh, and
you start running the math and doing the numbers as
to how you work everything going forward. That they're just
in a no win situation to try to augment this
(04:38):
roster around Yannis to where the best thing would seem
to be to cut ties and hit a massive reset button.
And obviously Frostburg is already trying to order his Giannis
Lakers Drew.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, no, no, you know you've are You've already you
already made the chiff with Giannis as a Laker. You
send it to me today A couple of already next
and shocked to let him use his jersey number.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, I hope he goes full Lawrence Taylor and says
he can't can't wear it, can't wear Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Look, I mean you blow a seven point lead with
forty seconds left to go, it means really special stack.
I mean you have you had misfree throws, you had
two turnovers. This is bad. And look, I've always want
to say, hey, keep your superstar stay, you're the number one.
You want a title there, But you know what, you've
maxed out, man, Giannis has maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee
(05:30):
has turned into a mess. They're a mess because they
made changes they thought was gonna result in a championship team.
Now you're without Damian Lillard, who's gonna be gone for
you know, most of next year. Who knows when he
comes back. Who knows what the team is gonna be. Yeah,
you wonder everything you can. But if you're Yiannis, you're like,
am I really gonna win? If I stay? He's got
to get to that point in his career. You mentioned
(05:50):
Shack where Shaq got to where he said, you know what,
I've been having fun. I've been a dominant player, but
I know I want my legacy to be cemented. I
don't want to be one of those Oh yeah, you
want a chanceampionship? No, no, I know. So I'm going
to the Lakers And look, won four championships right one
three at the Lakers won with the Miami Heat, And
of all the players in the history of the game,
Shack's legacy maybe is the most secure. And Yiannis has
(06:12):
to get to that point too, right. Kevin Durant did
the same thing. Hey, I was in Oklahoma City. We
made it close, we made it to the finals. Once
got boat raced, I have to go. I know, I
want my legacy to be something that is that is
better than what it is right now. So he goes
to the Golden State Warriors. They win a couple of titles,
probably would have won a third if he didn't blow
out his achilles, and so, yeah, I went and secured
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my legacy, no matter what I did it. Jannis has
to get to that point too. And look, I'm not saying, oh, hey,
Milwaukee is off of but you had a great run
with him, and you got to the top of the
mountain and you won a title a couple of years ago,
and it was a tremendous accomplishment. But Jannis has to
look at this and say, I'm thirty years old. I've
seen the best part of my career. I don't know
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how many more peak years I have left, maybe four
or five. He's a bigger player, obviously, being six eleven
and two fifty, So how many more years does he
have until his skill because you know, skills road on
big men much earlier. How many more years do I have?
Can I wait two more years in Milwaukee to try
to figure this out two of my last peak four years,
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or do I need to go someplace else? And the
answer is especially after this, and I'm saying no, you can.
You can be emotional. You can say I want out,
I'm done. It's not working here. We're going in the
wrong direction. And this should be the exclamation point that
if your Janisa tells you this is when I knew
I had to leave, if.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Anything was at the end where if I was questioning myself,
do I do it? Do I not? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Losing this game like this, with the with the mistakes
at the end of the game, this is what tells you, okay,
you know what. This is the last straw. This pushes
me over the top. Yiannis needs to ask out. There
needs to be a big, big looking into this this offseason.
How do we move on? Where do we move on
here to?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Could be the Lakers, right, could be the Knicks. You know,
I mean, you don't think he wants to team up
with Luca? Yeah, oh, of course, of course, but maybe
straight up for mcael Bridges. You know that could work.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
We also have to convince Luca that he wants to
stay to Yeah, well, well Luca just gave five grand
you know, I get to pay for to Redo Kobe's
Mureau in downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I think he's saying, I really just.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Want to do I think it's a wrench into all
of this, say that you know that's not a guarantee, but.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
This you have to I mean, this is where if
you're Yannis and you say, Okay, this is my legacy,
my career. We've got to the top. We had great times,
it was an awesome run, and we won a title,
but it's just not happening. In the next four years
are going to be the best four years I have
and I gotta be someplace where I can win. I
keep going out in the first round. That keeps being
different iterations of the team. Oh, we're gonna do this instead,
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we're gonna make a trade, We're gonna trade this guy here,
We're gonna go get Dame Illworth. And none of it
is worked. None of it is getting you out of
the first round. No, let's getting you any closer to
a title. If you're Yannis in the offseason, you have
to say, hey, let's be let's do this really well,
let's do this very I'm not gonna throw you guys
under the bus, Let's not do do this in the
in the press, but hey, let's make this amicable as
we can move me. I need you to move me.
(08:58):
Don't make it bad because I'm make it bad. If
you say no, I'll make it bad. Because we know
the NBA is a star driven league. Stars get what
they want right, you can. Hey, I'm just gonna hold
my breath and pout. We watched James Harden. Happen to him,
It happens to all bunch of guys. But if I'm honest,
I say, look, let's keep this amicable. I really need
a new start. I need to go somewhere else. If
you make it bad, I can make it bad.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Let's do this amicably. And the Bucks you had your chance,
you had your time. It's not getting any better. You
need to move on and Yannis. Yannis should be on
another team for the beginning of next year.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Had their championship win.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Then you lose in the Eastern Conference semi final, and
now you got three straight first round losses, so you
probably excised the coach and Doc Rivers moves into whatever
the next phase.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Of his career is.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
But from a roster perspective, you're you're cash strapped. You
made the move to get Lillard uh and you brought
in Kuzmo, who had a big deal. All all of
that to say, moving forward for Jannis, even with these
gaudian numbers, I mean statistically just really one of the
more ridiculous series. You see thirty three fifteen point four,
(10:09):
six point six assists per game, shot sixty one percent
from the field, go on the line, and you're not
nowhere near enough against the Pacers, a good but not
great team. And that should be the thing that gets
underscored here. It's not that you went and lost to
what looks like a juggernaut and a deep squad in
(10:30):
Cleveland or you know, a squad that's assembled that he's
to say, wow, we probably didn't have a punch of chance. No, here,
you got eliminated pretty quickly, and obviously between Lillard's illness
and now this injury, you didn't have the full workload
and anticipation of what this series could be. But you
(10:52):
don't have that going forward while you're still committed to
that money on the books, So you're hamstrung in terms
of the moves you can make to make this any better.
So for Jannis, yeah, Shack is known for two things, right,
He's he was still the big Shactus and all of
those things, and it was a vagabond the final years
of his career, the time he's in Cleveland, that he's
(11:15):
in Boston, all of and you know, Phoenix, all of
those things. You don't want to become that guy, because
that does take away from some of those titles. But
but your point is still well taken, is that you're
still in the prime of your career if you're Yannis,
so sputtering to first round exits year after year is
(11:35):
certainly not how you anticipate the rest of your career going.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Loyalty is great to a point. Yeah, I mean, and
you can't fault him for the look. I stayed, and
then after we won a couple of years later, I
kept staying. I said, Okay, you went out and got played. Okay, great,
but it just hasn't work. This is nobody's fault, right.
I thought when they got Damian Lillard, the Bucks are
going to run the East for the next three or
four years.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
We talked about it. Leland's been waiting for the playoffs,
that they were potentially a dangerous team if things broke right,
and quite clearly everything that could go wrong did.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, I mean, I can't fault them. They went out
and got the best player they could to beat Jannie's
one A and it just hasn't worked. And you can't
tell you, honest, what if we get your new coach.
You dried that a couple of times already didn't work, Well, okay,
didn't work.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Can't tell me Janni's Jannis didn't have an invisible hand
in some of that movement is.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, of course, but but there's nothing you can say
if you're Milwaukee that's going to convince him to say, yes,
I'm going to buy him to stay. Who are we
gonna get I don't know, what's the deal with Damian Lillard?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know. Are we gonna get out of the
first round? That's our goal? Okay? Not enough? Not good enough? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That can't be the goal? No, Heed, And that's the
Knicks goal. Yeah, this could, This should be Yannis. Where
Yannis gets traded should be the number one topic of
conversation once the NBA Finals. And where is he going
to end up? How are they going to facilitate this deal?
How does it happen? Different sources, reports from Shams or
(13:03):
anybody else over the course of you know, the month.
This is what it should be because really, and then
you're throwing in guys like Mbid who probably should be
on the trading block too. Other big players are gonna
be out there, but this should be the Yannis offseason
because you know he's signed for the next few years,
so okay. And that helps a team because they know
what they're paying for them. So it's not like, well,
(13:23):
we don't know we got a bet. No, no, you know
we can make a great trade because you know you
got them for the next three years. You can give
us these assets. This is how we can make it
work in Milwaukee, because it's it's just it's done.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's hit. Its it's hit.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Its natural conclusion is the best is the best way
to look at it is that sometimes endings are abrupt.
Sometimes endings are pushed by one side. Maybe it ends
too early, maybe it ends too late, but sometimes things
just end. And this is a natural conclusion. This is
a natural end of this relationship.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Well, and it's got the much longer tail than perhaps
it even should have. Right when we talk about coaching
changes and the number of times we've seen teams turned
the page on a coach the year after they've won.
A coach of the Year award. They don't get that
long run here. Jannis gave them a four year launching pad.
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After a title, it's reached its natural endpoint because now
you're chasing other teams that have risen in conference that
aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
When someone goes to college and a freshman and graduates
and hasn't gotten better, Okay, so it's four you you've
had four years.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You've had four years. That's a good four years.
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the garden. The Knicks have cut their deficit two three
(14:52):
with twenty five seconds left to go.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The big night in the NBA. Just cantu. We got
another game going on, another game.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It started a few minutes ago on gripping and so
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action packed show, and coming up next, we get into
the day after what the hell is going on with
Bill Belichick? Because if you thought yesterday was insane, today
and might be even more insane, it's next right here.
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Bill Belichick in a second. We have a couple of
big stories here to get to. To no one's surprise,
including my own, the Knicks fall to the Pistons at
Madison Square Garden a chance to close this out. This
is completely on brand for the Knicks. They play absolutely
horrendous for most of the game. They lose to the
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Pistons one oh six to one oh three. They get
a chance to potentially tie the game at the end,
they miss a free throw, they can't get the rebound,
and instead it is the Pistons who are going back home.
Singing Detroit Basketball. Detroit Basketball one O six, one oh
three is the final big night for Cade. Cunningham just
(17:28):
six out of seventeen from the floor, but eleven out
of twelve from the free throw line. Uh, this is
a game where, look, I'll tell you this, it's completely
on brand for the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It was a horrible game from Brunston and Towns. They
were both really, really bad. The other supporting players played
pretty well, and Mitchell Robinson. But this is like a
quintessential Knicks game. And I don't know what it is
with my teams, but it's like, I don't feel like
at any time there's a home court or a home
field advantage, Like I watched the Knicks, I and I
go teams come into MSG. They should be coming into MSG,
(17:59):
going gonna win. Here the most famous arena in the
and they come in it's like they're in their own
living room.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No, but that's it. They're jacked up to play there.
We've talked about it for years.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
There's been nothing of significance for your team in that
facility since nineteen seventy three. Outside of Billy Joel and
Taylor sw there's lots of teams.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
There's lots of good concerts there. Stop with that silliness there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It's no, that's what I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
You've got the concert streaks and and all that sell out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You might it seemed like it was just Billy Joel
and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well no, but those are the two most prominent in
terms of selling out large blocks.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay, all right, sure.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Billy Joel's residency Obviously he's from Long Island, so his
residency is kind of yeah, well but he did he
drove from his house, but that's where he decided every night.
And I'm gonna keep doing this but easy money. But
the Knees had that song this eighties Joel, this should
be the easiest clinching game.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You could possibly want, right, And I don't know if
this was just they came out flat. They thought they
was gonna roll over, but it was They played poorly
the Star. They struggled from the beginning, and then you know,
typical Knicks. Oh we're gonna really start playing the last
few minutes of the game. I mean, it was a
nip tuck game all the way through. And I give
Detroit credit because they could have just said, hey, it's done.
We thought it was gonna happen for us, but instead
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they find a way to win, and the Knicks find
a way to lose. And it's and it should be
a much bigger home court, Advan, it should be a
much bigger let's show up and let's put the hammer
down on here. But now I'm realized that. Then I'm
reminded this is not a great Knicks team. This is
a team that looks really good on paper, but they
don't always and they don't all mesh with each other,
(19:37):
and the games don't mesh. And here's a games when
when Townsend, Bruns and were bad, Hey, the other three
guys all played really well. Well that's because, hey, the
other guys weren't shooting. So these guys are able to
take up the slack. There's no cohesion with this roster.
It's like the Knicks have five guys out there to
out talent you. And that doesn't work in the playoffs.
It can work in the regular season when you're one
of eighty two out talenting other teams. That works, but
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here in the play this is a series that if
a foul goes the other way, you're looking at the
Knicks being down three to two, or maybe you know,
worse in this series. I'm telling you it's you know,
I was feeling good up three to one. I said, Okay,
maybe they're figuring out that problems. Like, No, it's the
same old stuff. And this is a typical Knicks loss.
And I have seen too many typical Knicks losses in
(20:21):
my life, too many of them. At least now they're
in the playoffs. But I mean still, I'm seeing way
too many typical Knicks loss and this was one that
I could see coming from twenty miles right. What did
I tell you last night? Yeah, not feeling great about game?
Why think it was not feeling great about this game
because I knew they would come out with an effort
like this, which is absolutely unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But yet here we.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Are, Townsend Brunson combined to shoot nine for thirty from
the field. We talk about the aesthetics of this this
game as we were starting it. You know, as we
started the show, it was what ninety one ninety or
whatever the score was with five minutes and change left,
finishes one O six, one O three.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But we look inside, you know what we were.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Wandering through the box score and just from an aesthetics standpoint,
it failed that test. Twenty one miss free throws between
the two teams. Twenty one miss free throws? What are
we doing professional basketball? Twenty one miss free throws. The
Pistons in victory shot eight of twenty nine from three
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point range. A lot of the other stats line up
when you talk about turnovers and trying to find the
obvious offensive rebounding advantages weren't there. Just your two stars
came up small and frantic efforts at the end were
few and far between to get them over the top.
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And you are dealing with the one place where home
court advantage really doesn't exist, even as the mecca of
basketball or whatever you want to do on it is
that we get this kind of thing where other teams
come in and it's where they've always wanted to play,
So you get the extra juice that you've got to
(22:05):
put up with.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now, speaking of extra juice, now we've never did We've
been on how many years have been.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
On the here this is the year, Eliven, the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Eleventh year we've been on the air. We have never
done what we're going to do. Quite right now, Okay,
now we have John Paul Morosi, our major League Baseball
about that insider is set to join us next hour
on the show right and talk baseball big stuff. Oh,
Tony's already got a home run, tow. I think the
Dodgers have about twelve runs already. H He's gonna talk
do join us next hour. So he still is coming
(22:34):
on with us next hour. But he's also joining us
right now because John Paul Morosi is in the belly
of the Beast, the proud Michigan native that he is
calling us from Madison Square Garden where he just witnessed
the Pistons win over the next John Paul, I'd say
welcome to the show, but it said I'm gonna say, hey,
what's up.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Greetings from the garden, my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It is a it is.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
It's a very mournful addition of a New York state
of mind that is playing through the garden right now
as we speak. I'm in the two hundred levels and
I'm live on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks. So I had
to speak with our security guard here to let them
know that I'm doing a live national radio hit as
(23:20):
we're sitting here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought that was Jane Willin maybe telling you to leave.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Okay, No, no, no, no, we're I had to let
our security guard know what I was doing here. So
what a game, right, And certainly plenty of the Knicks
fans around me we're second guessing the lack of a
timeout called late to get Brunson back on the floor.
But this was a gritty game. And when you consider
the way this series has gone back and forth, the
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controversial end of Game four, I would say this the
series is about where it should be. There should be
a game six in Detroit. And whether it was fall
Don't Lie or poetic justice that there's a six game,
I think this series has been so competitive that it
deserves one.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's very diplomatic, gou John Paul, I'll tell you're full
of it.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Well, let me tell you this. Let me tell you
this about the Pistons plate tonight. I thought from the
outset this you could call this any other, any name
of the game that you want.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
This to me was the.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Usar Thompson game. Because the way that Vickerstaff had him
as the defensive player at the outset of the game
to try to deny Jalen Brunson right away, I think
said a lot about the way the Pistons wanted to
have a certain tempo to this game in a physicality.
I thought Duran was excellent down low, and I certainly
(24:41):
Kate cunning in at some big moments. Slate that's a
file line from the field as well. So a deserved
win for the Pistons, and this series gets the sixth
game that I think rightfully should.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Have pull it back out big scale.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Jason was lamenting the fact that the Knicks really don't
seem to have the home court advantage because of the
juice other teams bring. What's what's the atmosphere like as
you walk in and you're witnessing this live.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Well, it was loud, it was raucous. I think that
when you consider it's still Madison Square Garden, it's still
the world's most famous arena. And if you go back
to game one of this series, Yes, I'm live on
the radio right now on Fox Sports Radio nationwide. Thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So tell them in New York channel XM eighty three,
just to make sure they.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Know, Yes, we're on.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
New York.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yes I have I have my immediate credential if needed,
it's right here. So long long story, short, long story, short,
you go back to game one of this series, the
twenty one point run by the Knicks. I think that
the Garden had its moments still in the series at
that point in time to help the Knicks gap it,
get back into the into that series and win that game.
(25:51):
But it's sort of the Pistons one Game two, and
then they found a way here to win Game five.
I don't think I'll say this the Pistons and their competitiveness,
that they've got enough veteran players. Harris certainly Hardaway knows
this building very well. They don't seem to be overcome
by the moment and by the scene here. I think
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they actually seem to handle themselves pretty well. And the
officiating of that was pretty even overall. I know there
was a lot of talk about that in game four,
but I think in game five there certainly some some
issues on either side of the game, but I think
by and large it was a fairly well officiated, fairly
played game.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, John Paul, I think I know why the
the Conjurer Yard's giving you issues is because he hears
you talking a lot about the Pistons, and the Pistons win.
So here's what I want you to do. Since you're
on here and you're trolling me for the last few minutes.
I want you to turn to the security guard and go
Detroit basketball.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That would probably not be in my best interests, particularly juncture.
Again again, you have to you have to you have
to know when you're playing on the road. Okay, I
am still at the essence of me. I am still
someone who grew up in a town that's one square
mile And right now I'm sitting in the in the
world's most famous arena discussing an NBA playoff game that
(27:09):
wasn't an excellent sporting event well worth the price of
admission that I paid to get in here. So it
was it was all great and uh and and now
we get a chance to talk Game six at some point,
and we'll talk baseball in an hour or so. And
I believe your hometown New York Mets, Jason Smith, have
done a pretty good job of getting on the scoreboard
this evening as well.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, So so we'll we'll end with this. And
and yes, because I do have a big question about
the Mets. And when I ask you in the second,
ye will you seeing all the Knicks fans leaving? Are
they leaving?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Upset?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Are they leaving sad? Are they leaving anxious?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What what did it seem like the crowd was like
when they were walking out?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Good question. Uh. I think a little disappointed. And again
there was maybe some second guessing about the lack of
And this is this is my Midwestern translation of what
I was witnessing and hearing here. This is this is
my my Midwestern translation of of what I'm experiencing here
at the Garden. I think disappointed about maybe the lack
of a time out called I would say that, But
(28:04):
there was one thing that I did see on the
on the board as I was as I was exiting,
which was next home game if necessary, game seven.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Ah, very nice.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I think I think they'll be I think they'll be
coming back. And again, maybe that's the time when the
Garden atmosphere is the one that brings the Knicks their
winning Game seven. But Detroit has their game six as
they should have there back at LCA this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi who is
joining us from Madison Square Gardeners. He just watched the
Pistons beat the Knicks. In Game five of the first
round of the playoffs, and he's stopping by with us
in an hour from now to talk all the big
baseball news. And I want to ask you one question,
a very difficult question. I hope I'm not putting you
(28:49):
on the spot with us, but I have a quick
question for you. Sure, can you tell me, because my
internet's down, what team has the best record in baseball?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Can you tell me with a with a quick calculation,
I believe that will be then.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Oh, JP had to go hang up, You had to
go Frotzburg hangs up on John Paul Morosi like, I
don't need that after after watching Nickson, I need that too.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Thanks a lot. You have to tune in next hour.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
The Mets is your answer, right long tease, The Mets
is your answer. Just so you know, the Mets is
your answer.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
But the Mets. You can't play that. You can't we
have the best record of base You can't play that.
You just seem you won. No, you can't put we
have the best record. We don't suck. We don't suck.
You celebrate like nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, we said we were in the NLCS last year.
We have the best writ in nineteen eighty six. Okay,
just so you know, I mean other years you could
have said yeah, but right now we don't.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It was even born. No, it doesn't meant lots of
things happened. It's where you were born. Lots of tea.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, the eighties of the fashions people wore, powletize, it
all happened there.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm telling you. I just found out the other day.
I thought tyshert was thirty. He's thirty four. Yeah, no,
I really didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
We've aged ourselves, but you forgot to age tyser.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I thought he was thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Like when Elijah, who does social media Force is a
great job, he was talking about Tysher and said, yeah, hey,
six more years till you're forty.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I said, wait what he goes?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, I said, wait, Alex, I thought you were thirties,
not thirty four.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'm you know, what else is thirty four? Okay? What else?
The number Yannis is gonna wear with the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You think so?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Huh? You think so thirty two? Thirty four?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, that might work now. But I didn't know that
that Tysher got four more years. I didn't know that.
I don't know if I think more more of you
because you're four years older than I thought, or if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I think you really still struggle with stuff. I don't know.
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I'm both okay, all right, very good time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
From a guy who's been called the Tom Thibodeau of
Fox Sports Radio, take that back, because when times get tough,
he stands around with his arms folded and stares at
his computer.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
The next did not clingch tonight It's three games to
two lead after losing it home to T'sroyight one oh
six to one oh three. The Knicks bench on free
throws three for nine and lost a close game. Meanwhile,
in Boston, chance to clinch that first round series as
the Celtics lead Orlando three games to one. Boston until
a moment Ago had only made three three pointers the
(31:16):
entire game, and yet late third quarter Boston's now up
seventy six sixty two. The magic from three point range
four of twenty seven. Late first quarter at Denver, the
Nuggets up on the Clippers twenty six seventeen that first
round series, tied it to Indiana in Game five put
away Milwaukee. The Bucks season is over in overtime one
(31:37):
nineteen to one to eighteen the final. The Bucks had
led by twenty early in the second quarter, in fact
still led by seven with thirty five seconds left in
the OT, but Milwaukee with two late turnovers. Tyrese Haliburton
of the Pacers with five late points score. The NBA
Rookie of the Year is the Spurs Stefan Castle. He
got ninety two of the one hundred first place votes.
The Hawk Zachary Reschichev finished second. The Kings are finalizing
(32:01):
a deal to keep Doug Christie as head coach to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The NHL playoffs.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
If you know anything about hockey, you may have heard
that the Toronto Maple Leafs are not good at closing
out a series. They had a chance to do so
in a Game five and lost at home in shutout
fashion to Ottawa tonight for nothing. It was one nothing
in the third.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Wait, better record the Leafs and closeout games. Or the
Colorado Rockies, Oh I.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Thought you werena say, Or Doc Rivers, Oh, that would
be a He was good to close outgames.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
He got closed out. He finished the job.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The other way.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And if not Blake's fault, the Maple Leafs and potential
series clinchers since twenty eighteen have a record of one
and twelve and their power play in those potential series
clinchers one for thirty one. So yet again, try again
next time. We're middle of the first overtime for New
Jersey tied at Carolina four to four. Vegas at home
(32:58):
leads to to one over Minnesota after one and middle
of the first period of the late game Kings hosting
the Oilers. That game is scoreless to Major League Baseball.
Here it is ten forty Eastern time. They've just ended
the fifth inning at Cleveland. Guardians tied one to one
with the Twins after a long rain delay at the start.
Cincinnati's home game against Saint Louis reigned out at Pittsburgh
(33:19):
after a rain delay at the start, paid attendance nine thousand,
and the Cubs won nine to nothing over the Pirates.
The Rangers got a great start from Jacob de Grom
and beat the A's, well they will. It's bottom of
the eighth. Twelve to two is the lead, and yes,
the Mets did okay as well. Led eight nothing in
the fourth, Mets beat Arizona eight to three. Mets record
(33:40):
twenty one and nine.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Which is pretty good, which is where does it rank
in baseball?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It's probably the best in all of New York.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Oh and more than that, I think too.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The Yankees are eighteen and twelve after their dominant win
at Baltimore fifteen to three, Dodgers nineteen and ten. Right now,
and they're leading the Marlins three to one, going to
the bottom of the second Tani with a leadoff homer.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O And now you
know me.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Carolina Hurricanes fan Devil's in the Hurricanes four to four
and overtime. The Hurricanes are throwing everything at Jacob Markston
right now, and he is playing like he's nine feet tall.
They have forty five shots there. It looks like it
was like, yeah, it looks like this is like a
three on three overtime with the number of times the
Hurricanes have the puck in close and he is just
(34:25):
making every save. I mean, he's playing like he is
nine feet tall. Amazing. So we got playoff hockey. We
got big time NBA drama coming up next. Yes, we'll
get to Bill Belichick. I feel bad, but boy, we
got stuff that continues to come up here. We have
something to tell you about one of the NBA's biggest
superstars who got trolled by another star's dad on the
(34:49):
court following a game tonight. And if you can put
two and two together, you know exactly who we're talking about. Yes,
that's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 2 (35:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
And TJ Clearly Tonight, the Knicks got locked out of
the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
TJ, Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Mike Harmon live from Thetirac dot Com studios. Uh oh boy,
do we have just entertaining basketball story after basketball story
come in your way over the next few minutes. Here,
you're gonna hear Yannis after the Bucks elimination. Coming up
in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You you he is You're cool. Not happy. I love you,
but not happy from getting eliminated.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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buying should be. So here's the final play of the game.
In overtime, it looked like it was gonna be a
Bucks runaway victory that had a seven point lead with
forty seconds left to go. However, missed free throws and
turnover after turnover resulted in this turning Tyre's Halliburton into
the hero Alibert.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
Five seconds, four sentence, the lead one point three to go,
Pacers by one.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Jonnis is gonna take it down. Here's carry twent two or.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Sub crime in the Pacers moving.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
On NBA TV on the call.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yes, this game began at noon today, so hopefully you
got to see that. Now you'd think, okay, boy Yan
is dealing with all this drama following the game. Yeah,
but he's got to deal with something else because you'll
see video. It's on the internet right now, it's on
social media that Following the game, Halliburton makes the big
makes the big bucket, Uh, Yannis. They chuck it up
(37:26):
from seventy five feet. It doesn't go celebration on the court.
Halliburton stands on the scorer's table yelling to the crowd
you've seen this. And then Halliburton's dad runs up to
Jannis who is just standing on the court, and he
starts yelling at him and trolling him and shaking a
jersey in his face. Janni's is just standing there like
almost like this is like, with one swipe of his hand,
(37:49):
he could knock this guy to the ground. So Halliburton's
dad decides to run on the court and get into
it with Yannis. Now, nothing happened. He was taken away
and led away, and Tyrese Haliburton talked about it following
the game, and he actually took the side of Jannie.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
You know, as far as the incident between Honest and
my pops, I had no idea what happened till I
got to the back and we showed the video.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Me and my pops have talked about that, and I
don't agree with you know what what transpired there from him.
You know, you know, I think basketball is basketball and
let's keep it on the court. And I think that
he just you know, got excited saw this son make
of the game winner and came on the court. But
I think we had a we had a conversation, and
you know, I think he just needs to just allow
me to just play basketball. Stay over there. I'll come
(38:37):
to him to celebrate. But I think it's the emotions
of the game. Just got excited there.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Uh yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I get look, you're gonna, of course, you're gonna make
excuses for your dad, but this is not I ran
on the court to celebrate with you, like that's what
you do.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Go chase, No, no, no. I ran on the court strictly.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
To go troll Jannis because the honest stuff stopped about
the foul line. Yeah, and it was kind of taking
it in right, crowd losing their minds. Haliburton's up on
the score table. He just got scored on. Yeah, right,
because Haliburton took it to him for the game winner.
Like all of those things are being processed, and Giannis
has just stopped on the court. Yeah, and like we've
(39:19):
we've seen a video that must have been taken from
the three hundred level that shows him coming off of
the baseline and he literally runs and this is now
Halliburton's dad runs in front of Yannis and starts waving
the jersey and jawing.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
At him, and you can just see Yannis is like,
what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That's such a that's such a punk move man, because
you know, Yannis isn't gonna do anything to him, He
can't do anything to him. I'm gonna get up and
troll you right like that, That's what I'm like, come on,
I mean, if you getta Yeah, it is almost.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Like a sucker punch kind of like, ah, look, I'm
gonna stand right in front of you and do you
can't do anything to me? He can't do it.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Well, it's like all those jackass influencers that you know
come up and give you the the shoulders, you know,
little walk by thing and when they've got a bodyguard
with him, like, what are you gonna do to me?
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Or it's the kid at the zoo who wants to
I'm gonna tease the tiger because I know he can't
break through the glass in front of me.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
And then the tiger runs up to the fence and
scares the Jesus. That's just such a weak move, man.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I mean, come on, running on the court, Okay, you
want to run on the court and celebrate with your kid,
That's what I would do.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Go find his teammates, Go find you know, someone on
the staff that you're close to.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Whatever the case is, sure.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I hate Yannis so much I'm gonna go troll it.
Come on, man, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Now we've talked about the teams having you know, Animus
and you know, being bad blood and all of those things,
that there is a legit rivalry that's developed, but no
man getting in Janis's face. May look Mathern got little
hands to the neck from you, honest in the line there,
so you know there's an extension to this. But yeah,
(40:55):
certainly Halliburton having to address it as well.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's just bad business man.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'll tell you we'll have more on this story because
we're gonna hear from Giannis coming up next, right, here.
Maybe he'll mention wanting to go to the Lakers. Oh,
I mean maybe more the Knicks Ni Nicks might eat
a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
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Speaker 3 (41:09):
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, oh, just good advice for all players.
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the Pistons. It is a nip tuck game. Midway through
(01:10):
the fourth quarter. Well, don't worry, We'll get to Giannis
in a minute. Don't We'll get to Jannis in a minute.
Five minutes to go in the fourth quarter. If you
like offense, this is not your game. Nine into the
nineties though, yeah, okay, even in the nineteen nineties, even
scores get into barely into the nineties. Right, good, five
we might get we might get to the hunt. We
may not get ten more points the rest of this.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Not everybody can be the Cleveland Cavaliers and a model
of efficiency.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Time out on the floor. Pistons lead the Knicks ninety
one to ninety. Again, this is not one of those
games you're gonna say, wow, man, I'll tell you doctor
Nasmith that it right. But but it's a close game
and we're down in the last five minutes. That's it
what you want.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So it meets the definition of a good game in
today's NBA.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now, you know, I really want to talk about this
when I say, that's an about the Knicks for now. Okay,
that's enough about the Knicks for now, because coming into
tonight right with the with the Bucks down three to
one to the Indiana Pacers and all the talk of
Giannice is leaving, Giannice is gone, Certainly it doesn't look
great for the Bucks future because Damian Lillard now might
be out for all of next year as well. With
(02:17):
the Achilles tare coming back from You feel so bad
for the guy because coming back from where he was
and not getting to a you know, quote, real contending
team intil late in his career. So yeah, okay, yeah,
things are gonna be a little difficult, right, Things are
gonna be a little tough. Uh, Jannicie's future. Okay, but
I always thought, you know what, he's not gonna leave now,
He's not gonna force a trade. He's got a contract
for another three or four, you know, three more years.
(02:39):
And okay, it's gonna be an offseason where the Bucks
have to say, okay, once again, we have to go
get somebody because we don't know if Damian Lillard's out.
But after this collapse, after this collapse of a seven
point lead in the final forty seconds to lose to
the Pacers, to get eliminated by turning the ball over
rediculously badly twice in the final thirty five seconds, this
(03:04):
is where I say, yeah, if it's like the Bucks
want Giannis to say, I'm out. I don't want to stay.
I can't stay here. If anything is gonna push Giannis
out to say I need out. I want to be dealt.
I want to be traded. What we saw tonight, that's
what when it.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Fails spectacularly, you're going up against the heated rival, and
there's a good debt we actually have. That we can
say with great confidence in the NBA, because normally the
criticism is everybody gets along, everybody likes he.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
No, these teams hate each other.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So we knew we were gonna get some fireworks as
it goes out, and with Lillard's injury opening the door
to all right, they're gonna go out easy. No they didn't,
because they get out to that thirty to thirteen lead
that first quarter, a blistering pays and like, all right,
we got some fight left in these bucks for Doc Rivers.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Down three one, Hey, he's got a chance. Down three one, yeah,
up three one, no chance, but down three one, yeah,
look at the maybe maybe maybe he can push the
right buttons there, And instead we see this epic collapse
in overtime, you know, building the big lead and then
a comedy of errors followed by postgame fireworks in the
(04:18):
celebration line and chaos. But yeah, coming into this game,
a lot of the it seem fata complete. Uh, and
you start running the math and doing the numbers as
to how you work everything going forward. That they're just
in a no win situation to try to augment this
(04:38):
roster around Yannis to where the best thing would seem
to be to cut ties and hit a massive reset button.
And obviously Frostburg is already trying to order his Giannis
Lakers Drew.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, no, no, you know you've are You've already you
already made the chiff with Giannis as a Laker. You
send it to me today A couple of already next
and shocked to let him use his jersey number.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, I hope he goes full Lawrence Taylor and says
he can't can't wear it, can't wear Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Look, I mean you blow a seven point lead with
forty seconds left to go, it means really special stack.
I mean you have you had misfree throws, you had
two turnovers. This is bad. And look, I've always want
to say, hey, keep your superstar stay, you're the number one.
You want a title there, But you know what, you've
maxed out, man, Giannis has maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee
(05:30):
has turned into a mess. They're a mess because they
made changes they thought was gonna result in a championship team.
Now you're without Damian Lillard, who's gonna be gone for
you know, most of next year. Who knows when he
comes back. Who knows what the team is gonna be. Yeah,
you wonder everything you can. But if you're Yiannis, you're like,
am I really gonna win? If I stay? He's got
to get to that point in his career. You mentioned
(05:50):
Shack where Shaq got to where he said, you know what,
I've been having fun. I've been a dominant player, but
I know I want my legacy to be cemented. I
don't want to be one of those Oh yeah, you
want a chanceampionship? No, no, I know. So I'm going
to the Lakers And look, won four championships right one
three at the Lakers won with the Miami Heat, And
of all the players in the history of the game,
Shack's legacy maybe is the most secure. And Yiannis has
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to get to that point too, right. Kevin Durant did
the same thing. Hey, I was in Oklahoma City. We
made it close, we made it to the finals. Once
got boat raced, I have to go. I know, I
want my legacy to be something that is that is
better than what it is right now. So he goes
to the Golden State Warriors. They win a couple of titles,
probably would have won a third if he didn't blow
out his achilles, and so, yeah, I went and secured
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my legacy, no matter what I did it. Jannis has
to get to that point too. And look, I'm not saying, oh, hey,
Milwaukee is off of but you had a great run
with him, and you got to the top of the
mountain and you won a title a couple of years ago,
and it was a tremendous accomplishment. But Jannis has to
look at this and say, I'm thirty years old. I've
seen the best part of my career. I don't know
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how many more peak years I have left, maybe four
or five. He's a bigger player, obviously, being six eleven
and two fifty, So how many more years does he
have until his skill because you know, skills road on
big men much earlier. How many more years do I have?
Can I wait two more years in Milwaukee to try
to figure this out two of my last peak four years,
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or do I need to go someplace else? And the
answer is especially after this, and I'm saying no, you can.
You can be emotional. You can say I want out,
I'm done. It's not working here. We're going in the
wrong direction. And this should be the exclamation point that
if your Janisa tells you this is when I knew
I had to leave, if.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Anything was at the end where if I was questioning myself,
do I do it? Do I not? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Losing this game like this, with the with the mistakes
at the end of the game, this is what tells you, okay,
you know what. This is the last straw. This pushes
me over the top. Yiannis needs to ask out. There
needs to be a big, big looking into this this offseason.
How do we move on? Where do we move on
here to?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Could be the Lakers, right, could be the Knicks. You know,
I mean, you don't think he wants to team up
with Luca? Yeah, oh, of course, of course, but maybe
straight up for mcael Bridges. You know that could work.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
We also have to convince Luca that he wants to
stay to Yeah, well, well Luca just gave five grand
you know, I get to pay for to Redo Kobe's
Mureau in downtown LA.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I think he's saying, I really just.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Want to do I think it's a wrench into all
of this, say that you know that's not a guarantee, but.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
This you have to I mean, this is where if
you're Yannis and you say, Okay, this is my legacy,
my career. We've got to the top. We had great times,
it was an awesome run, and we won a title,
but it's just not happening. In the next four years
are going to be the best four years I have
and I gotta be someplace where I can win. I
keep going out in the first round. That keeps being
different iterations of the team. Oh, we're gonna do this instead,
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we're gonna make a trade, We're gonna trade this guy here,
We're gonna go get Dame Illworth. And none of it
is worked. None of it is getting you out of
the first round. No, let's getting you any closer to
a title. If you're Yannis in the offseason, you have
to say, hey, let's be let's do this really well,
let's do this very I'm not gonna throw you guys
under the bus, Let's not do do this in the
in the press, but hey, let's make this amicable as
we can move me. I need you to move me.
(08:58):
Don't make it bad because I'm make it bad. If
you say no, I'll make it bad. Because we know
the NBA is a star driven league. Stars get what
they want right, you can. Hey, I'm just gonna hold
my breath and pout. We watched James Harden. Happen to him,
It happens to all bunch of guys. But if I'm honest,
I say, look, let's keep this amicable. I really need
a new start. I need to go somewhere else. If
you make it bad, I can make it bad.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
But let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Let's do this amicably. And the Bucks you had your chance,
you had your time. It's not getting any better. You
need to move on and Yannis. Yannis should be on
another team for the beginning of next year.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Had their championship win.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Then you lose in the Eastern Conference semi final, and
now you got three straight first round losses, so you
probably excised the coach and Doc Rivers moves into whatever
the next phase.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Of his career is.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
But from a roster perspective, you're you're cash strapped. You
made the move to get Lillard uh and you brought
in Kuzmo, who had a big deal. All all of
that to say, moving forward for Jannis, even with these
gaudian numbers, I mean statistically just really one of the
more ridiculous series. You see thirty three fifteen point four,
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six point six assists per game, shot sixty one percent
from the field, go on the line, and you're not
nowhere near enough against the Pacers, a good but not
great team. And that should be the thing that gets
underscored here. It's not that you went and lost to
what looks like a juggernaut and a deep squad in
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Cleveland or you know, a squad that's assembled that he's
to say, wow, we probably didn't have a punch of chance. No, here,
you got eliminated pretty quickly, and obviously between Lillard's illness
and now this injury, you didn't have the full workload
and anticipation of what this series could be. But you
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don't have that going forward while you're still committed to
that money on the books, So you're hamstrung in terms
of the moves you can make to make this any better.
So for Jannis, yeah, Shack is known for two things, right,
He's he was still the big Shactus and all of
those things, and it was a vagabond the final years
of his career, the time he's in Cleveland, that he's
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in Boston, all of and you know, Phoenix, all of
those things. You don't want to become that guy, because
that does take away from some of those titles. But
but your point is still well taken, is that you're
still in the prime of your career if you're Yannis,
so sputtering to first round exits year after year is
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certainly not how you anticipate the rest of your career going.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Loyalty is great to a point. Yeah, I mean, and
you can't fault him for the look. I stayed, and
then after we won a couple of years later, I
kept staying. I said, Okay, you went out and got played. Okay, great,
but it just hasn't work. This is nobody's fault, right.
I thought when they got Damian Lillard, the Bucks are
going to run the East for the next three or
four years.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
We talked about it. Leland's been waiting for the playoffs,
that they were potentially a dangerous team if things broke right,
and quite clearly everything that could go wrong did.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, I mean, I can't fault them. They went out
and got the best player they could to beat Jannie's
one A and it just hasn't worked. And you can't
tell you, honest, what if we get your new coach.
You dried that a couple of times already didn't work, Well, okay,
didn't work.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Can't tell me Janni's Jannis didn't have an invisible hand
in some of that movement is.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, of course, but but there's nothing you can say
if you're Milwaukee that's going to convince him to say, yes,
I'm going to buy him to stay. Who are we
gonna get I don't know, what's the deal with Damian Lillard?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know. Are we gonna get out of the
first round? That's our goal? Okay? Not enough? Not good enough? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:43):
That can't be the goal? No, Heed, And that's the
Knicks goal. Yeah, this could, This should be Yannis. Where
Yannis gets traded should be the number one topic of
conversation once the NBA Finals. And where is he going
to end up? How are they going to facilitate this deal?
How does it happen? Different sources, reports from Shams or
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anybody else over the course of you know, the month.
This is what it should be because really, and then
you're throwing in guys like Mbid who probably should be
on the trading block too. Other big players are gonna
be out there, but this should be the Yannis offseason
because you know he's signed for the next few years,
so okay. And that helps a team because they know
what they're paying for them. So it's not like, well,
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we don't know we got a bet. No, no, you know
we can make a great trade because you know you
got them for the next three years. You can give
us these assets. This is how we can make it
work in Milwaukee, because it's it's just it's done.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's hit. Its it's hit.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Its natural conclusion is the best is the best way
to look at it is that sometimes endings are abrupt.
Sometimes endings are pushed by one side. Maybe it ends
too early, maybe it ends too late, but sometimes things
just end. And this is a natural conclusion. This is
a natural end of this relationship.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Well, and it's got the much longer tail than perhaps
it even should have. Right when we talk about coaching
changes and the number of times we've seen teams turned
the page on a coach the year after they've won.
A coach of the Year award. They don't get that
long run here. Jannis gave them a four year launching pad.
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After a title, it's reached its natural endpoint because now
you're chasing other teams that have risen in conference that
aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
When someone goes to college and a freshman and graduates
and hasn't gotten better, Okay, so it's four you you've
had four years.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You've had four years. That's a good four years.
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with twenty five seconds left to go.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
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another game going on, another game.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
It started a few minutes ago on gripping and so
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Bill Belichick in a second. We have a couple of
big stories here to get to. To no one's surprise,
including my own, the Knicks fall to the Pistons at
Madison Square Garden a chance to close this out. This
is completely on brand for the Knicks. They play absolutely
horrendous for most of the game. They lose to the
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Pistons one oh six to one oh three. They get
a chance to potentially tie the game at the end,
they miss a free throw, they can't get the rebound,
and instead it is the Pistons who are going back home.
Singing Detroit Basketball. Detroit Basketball one O six, one oh
three is the final big night for Cade. Cunningham just
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six out of seventeen from the floor, but eleven out
of twelve from the free throw line. Uh, this is
a game where, look, I'll tell you this, it's completely
on brand for the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
It wasn't.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It was a horrible game from Brunston and Towns. They
were both really, really bad. The other supporting players played
pretty well, and Mitchell Robinson. But this is like a
quintessential Knicks game. And I don't know what it is
with my teams, but it's like, I don't feel like
at any time there's a home court or a home
field advantage, Like I watched the Knicks, I and I
go teams come into MSG. They should be coming into MSG,
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going gonna win. Here the most famous arena in the
and they come in it's like they're in their own
living room.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
No, but that's it. They're jacked up to play there.
We've talked about it for years.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
There's been nothing of significance for your team in that
facility since nineteen seventy three. Outside of Billy Joel and
Taylor sw there's lots of teams.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
There's lots of good concerts there. Stop with that silliness there.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It's no, that's what I mean.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
You've got the concert streaks and and all that sell out.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You might it seemed like it was just Billy Joel
and Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well no, but those are the two most prominent in
terms of selling out large blocks.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay, all right, sure.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Billy Joel's residency Obviously he's from Long Island, so his
residency is kind of yeah, well but he did he
drove from his house, but that's where he decided every night.
And I'm gonna keep doing this but easy money. But
the Knees had that song this eighties Joel, this should
be the easiest clinching game.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You could possibly want, right, And I don't know if
this was just they came out flat. They thought they
was gonna roll over, but it was They played poorly
the Star. They struggled from the beginning, and then you know,
typical Knicks. Oh we're gonna really start playing the last
few minutes of the game. I mean, it was a
nip tuck game all the way through. And I give
Detroit credit because they could have just said, hey, it's done.
We thought it was gonna happen for us, but instead
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they find a way to win, and the Knicks find
a way to lose. And it's and it should be
a much bigger home court, Advan, it should be a
much bigger let's show up and let's put the hammer
down on here. But now I'm realized that. Then I'm
reminded this is not a great Knicks team. This is
a team that looks really good on paper, but they
don't always and they don't all mesh with each other,
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and the games don't mesh. And here's a games when
when Townsend, Bruns and were bad, Hey, the other three
guys all played really well. Well that's because, hey, the
other guys weren't shooting. So these guys are able to
take up the slack. There's no cohesion with this roster.
It's like the Knicks have five guys out there to
out talent you. And that doesn't work in the playoffs.
It can work in the regular season when you're one
of eighty two out talenting other teams. That works, but
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here in the play this is a series that if
a foul goes the other way, you're looking at the
Knicks being down three to two, or maybe you know,
worse in this series. I'm telling you it's you know,
I was feeling good up three to one. I said, Okay,
maybe they're figuring out that problems. Like, No, it's the
same old stuff. And this is a typical Knicks loss.
And I have seen too many typical Knicks losses in
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my life, too many of them. At least now they're
in the playoffs. But I mean still, I'm seeing way
too many typical Knicks loss and this was one that
I could see coming from twenty miles right. What did
I tell you last night? Yeah, not feeling great about game?
Why think it was not feeling great about this game
because I knew they would come out with an effort
like this, which is absolutely unforgivable.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
But yet here we.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Are, Townsend Brunson combined to shoot nine for thirty from
the field. We talk about the aesthetics of this this
game as we were starting it. You know, as we
started the show, it was what ninety one ninety or
whatever the score was with five minutes and change left,
finishes one O six, one O three.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But we look inside, you know what we were.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Wandering through the box score and just from an aesthetics standpoint,
it failed that test. Twenty one miss free throws between
the two teams. Twenty one miss free throws? What are
we doing professional basketball? Twenty one miss free throws. The
Pistons in victory shot eight of twenty nine from three
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point range. A lot of the other stats line up
when you talk about turnovers and trying to find the
obvious offensive rebounding advantages weren't there. Just your two stars
came up small and frantic efforts at the end were
few and far between to get them over the top.
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And you are dealing with the one place where home
court advantage really doesn't exist, even as the mecca of
basketball or whatever you want to do on it is
that we get this kind of thing where other teams
come in and it's where they've always wanted to play,
So you get the extra juice that you've got to
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put up with.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now, speaking of extra juice, now we've never did We've
been on how many years have been.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
On the here this is the year, Eliven, the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Eleventh year we've been on the air. We have never
done what we're going to do. Quite right now, Okay,
now we have John Paul Morosi, our major League Baseball
about that insider is set to join us next hour
on the show right and talk baseball big stuff. Oh,
Tony's already got a home run, tow. I think the
Dodgers have about twelve runs already. H He's gonna talk
do join us next hour. So he still is coming
(22:34):
on with us next hour. But he's also joining us
right now because John Paul Morosi is in the belly
of the Beast, the proud Michigan native that he is
calling us from Madison Square Garden where he just witnessed
the Pistons win over the next John Paul, I'd say
welcome to the show, but it said I'm gonna say, hey,
what's up.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Greetings from the garden, my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It is a it is.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
It's a very mournful addition of a New York state
of mind that is playing through the garden right now
as we speak. I'm in the two hundred levels and
I'm live on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks. So I had
to speak with our security guard here to let them
know that I'm doing a live national radio hit as
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we're sitting here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I thought that was Jane Willin maybe telling you to leave.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Okay, No, no, no, no, we're I had to let
our security guard know what I was doing here. So
what a game, right, And certainly plenty of the Knicks
fans around me we're second guessing the lack of a
timeout called late to get Brunson back on the floor.
But this was a gritty game. And when you consider
the way this series has gone back and forth, the
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controversial end of Game four, I would say this the
series is about where it should be. There should be
a game six in Detroit. And whether it was fall
Don't Lie or poetic justice that there's a six game,
I think this series has been so competitive that it
deserves one.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
That's very diplomatic, gou John Paul, I'll tell you're full
of it.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Well, let me tell you this. Let me tell you
this about the Pistons plate tonight. I thought from the
outset this you could call this any other, any name
of the game that you want.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
This to me was the.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Usar Thompson game. Because the way that Vickerstaff had him
as the defensive player at the outset of the game
to try to deny Jalen Brunson right away, I think
said a lot about the way the Pistons wanted to
have a certain tempo to this game in a physicality.
I thought Duran was excellent down low, and I certainly
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Kate cunning in at some big moments. Slate that's a
file line from the field as well. So a deserved
win for the Pistons, and this series gets the sixth
game that I think rightfully should.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Have pull it back out big scale.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Jason was lamenting the fact that the Knicks really don't
seem to have the home court advantage because of the
juice other teams bring. What's what's the atmosphere like as
you walk in and you're witnessing this live.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Well, it was loud, it was raucous. I think that
when you consider it's still Madison Square Garden, it's still
the world's most famous arena. And if you go back
to game one of this series, Yes, I'm live on
the radio right now on Fox Sports Radio nationwide. Thank you, sir,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
So tell them in New York channel XM eighty three,
just to make sure they.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Know, Yes, we're on.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
New York.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yes I have I have my immediate credential if needed,
it's right here. So long long story, short, long story, short,
you go back to game one of this series, the
twenty one point run by the Knicks. I think that
the Garden had its moments still in the series at
that point in time to help the Knicks gap it,
get back into the into that series and win that game.
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But it's sort of the Pistons one Game two, and
then they found a way here to win Game five.
I don't think I'll say this the Pistons and their competitiveness,
that they've got enough veteran players. Harris certainly Hardaway knows
this building very well. They don't seem to be overcome
by the moment and by the scene here. I think
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they actually seem to handle themselves pretty well. And the
officiating of that was pretty even overall. I know there
was a lot of talk about that in game four,
but I think in game five there certainly some some
issues on either side of the game, but I think
by and large it was a fairly well officiated, fairly
played game.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
All right, John Paul, I think I know why the
the Conjurer Yard's giving you issues is because he hears
you talking a lot about the Pistons, and the Pistons win.
So here's what I want you to do. Since you're
on here and you're trolling me for the last few minutes.
I want you to turn to the security guard and go
Detroit basketball.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
That would probably not be in my best interests, particularly juncture.
Again again, you have to you have to you have
to know when you're playing on the road. Okay, I
am still at the essence of me. I am still
someone who grew up in a town that's one square
mile And right now I'm sitting in the in the
world's most famous arena discussing an NBA playoff game that
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wasn't an excellent sporting event well worth the price of
admission that I paid to get in here. So it
was it was all great and uh and and now
we get a chance to talk Game six at some point,
and we'll talk baseball in an hour or so. And
I believe your hometown New York Mets, Jason Smith, have
done a pretty good job of getting on the scoreboard
this evening as well.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, So so we'll we'll end with this. And
and yes, because I do have a big question about
the Mets. And when I ask you in the second,
ye will you seeing all the Knicks fans leaving? Are
they leaving?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Upset?
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Are they leaving sad? Are they leaving anxious?
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
What what did it seem like the crowd was like
when they were walking out?
Speaker 6 (27:42):
Good question. Uh. I think a little disappointed. And again
there was maybe some second guessing about the lack of
And this is this is my Midwestern translation of what
I was witnessing and hearing here. This is this is
my my Midwestern translation of of what I'm experiencing here
at the Garden. I think disappointed about maybe the lack
of a time out called I would say that, But
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there was one thing that I did see on the
on the board as I was as I was exiting,
which was next home game if necessary, game seven.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Ah, very nice.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
I think I think they'll be I think they'll be
coming back. And again, maybe that's the time when the
Garden atmosphere is the one that brings the Knicks their
winning Game seven. But Detroit has their game six as
they should have there back at LCA this weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi who is
joining us from Madison Square Gardeners. He just watched the
Pistons beat the Knicks. In Game five of the first
round of the playoffs, and he's stopping by with us
in an hour from now to talk all the big
baseball news. And I want to ask you one question,
a very difficult question. I hope I'm not putting you
(28:49):
on the spot with us, but I have a quick
question for you. Sure, can you tell me, because my
internet's down, what team has the best record in baseball?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Can you tell me with a with a quick calculation,
I believe that will be then.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Oh, JP had to go hang up, You had to
go Frotzburg hangs up on John Paul Morosi like, I
don't need that after after watching Nickson, I need that too.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Thanks a lot. You have to tune in next hour.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
The Mets is your answer, right long tease, The Mets
is your answer. Just so you know, the Mets is
your answer.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
But the Mets. You can't play that. You can't we
have the best record of base You can't play that.
You just seem you won. No, you can't put we
have the best record. We don't suck. We don't suck.
You celebrate like nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
No, we said we were in the NLCS last year.
We have the best writ in nineteen eighty six. Okay,
just so you know, I mean other years you could
have said yeah, but right now we don't.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It was even born. No, it doesn't meant lots of
things happened. It's where you were born. Lots of tea.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, the eighties of the fashions people wore, powletize, it
all happened there.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm telling you. I just found out the other day.
I thought tyshert was thirty. He's thirty four. Yeah, no,
I really didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
We've aged ourselves, but you forgot to age tyser.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I thought he was thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Like when Elijah, who does social media Force is a
great job, he was talking about Tysher and said, yeah, hey,
six more years till you're forty.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I said, wait what he goes?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, I said, wait, Alex, I thought you were thirties,
not thirty four.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'm you know, what else is thirty four? Okay? What else?
The number Yannis is gonna wear with the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
You think so?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Huh? You think so thirty two? Thirty four?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, that might work now. But I didn't know that
that Tysher got four more years. I didn't know that.
I don't know if I think more more of you
because you're four years older than I thought, or if.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I think you really still struggle with stuff. I don't know.
I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I'm both okay, all right, very good time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
From a guy who's been called the Tom Thibodeau of
Fox Sports Radio, take that back, because when times get tough,
he stands around with his arms folded and stares at
his computer.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
The next did not clingch tonight It's three games to
two lead after losing it home to T'sroyight one oh
six to one oh three. The Knicks bench on free
throws three for nine and lost a close game. Meanwhile,
in Boston, chance to clinch that first round series as
the Celtics lead Orlando three games to one. Boston until
a moment Ago had only made three three pointers the
(31:16):
entire game, and yet late third quarter Boston's now up
seventy six sixty two. The magic from three point range
four of twenty seven. Late first quarter at Denver, the
Nuggets up on the Clippers twenty six seventeen that first
round series, tied it to Indiana in Game five put
away Milwaukee. The Bucks season is over in overtime one
(31:37):
nineteen to one to eighteen the final. The Bucks had
led by twenty early in the second quarter, in fact
still led by seven with thirty five seconds left in
the OT, but Milwaukee with two late turnovers. Tyrese Haliburton
of the Pacers with five late points score. The NBA
Rookie of the Year is the Spurs Stefan Castle. He
got ninety two of the one hundred first place votes.
The Hawk Zachary Reschichev finished second. The Kings are finalizing
(32:01):
a deal to keep Doug Christie as head coach to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
The NHL playoffs.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
If you know anything about hockey, you may have heard
that the Toronto Maple Leafs are not good at closing
out a series. They had a chance to do so
in a Game five and lost at home in shutout
fashion to Ottawa tonight for nothing. It was one nothing
in the third.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Wait, better record the Leafs and closeout games. Or the
Colorado Rockies, Oh I.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Thought you werena say, Or Doc Rivers, Oh, that would
be a He was good to close outgames.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
He got closed out. He finished the job.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The other way.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
And if not Blake's fault, the Maple Leafs and potential
series clinchers since twenty eighteen have a record of one
and twelve and their power play in those potential series
clinchers one for thirty one. So yet again, try again
next time. We're middle of the first overtime for New
Jersey tied at Carolina four to four. Vegas at home
(32:58):
leads to to one over Minnesota after one and middle
of the first period of the late game Kings hosting
the Oilers. That game is scoreless to Major League Baseball.
Here it is ten forty Eastern time. They've just ended
the fifth inning at Cleveland. Guardians tied one to one
with the Twins after a long rain delay at the start.
Cincinnati's home game against Saint Louis reigned out at Pittsburgh
(33:19):
after a rain delay at the start, paid attendance nine thousand,
and the Cubs won nine to nothing over the Pirates.
The Rangers got a great start from Jacob de Grom
and beat the A's, well they will. It's bottom of
the eighth. Twelve to two is the lead, and yes,
the Mets did okay as well. Led eight nothing in
the fourth, Mets beat Arizona eight to three. Mets record
(33:40):
twenty one and nine.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Which is pretty good, which is where does it rank
in baseball?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It's probably the best in all of New York.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Oh and more than that, I think too.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The Yankees are eighteen and twelve after their dominant win
at Baltimore fifteen to three, Dodgers nineteen and ten. Right now,
and they're leading the Marlins three to one, going to
the bottom of the second Tani with a leadoff homer.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O And now you
know me.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Carolina Hurricanes fan Devil's in the Hurricanes four to four
and overtime. The Hurricanes are throwing everything at Jacob Markston
right now, and he is playing like he's nine feet tall.
They have forty five shots there. It looks like it
was like, yeah, it looks like this is like a
three on three overtime with the number of times the
Hurricanes have the puck in close and he is just
(34:25):
making every save. I mean, he's playing like he is
nine feet tall. Amazing. So we got playoff hockey. We
got big time NBA drama coming up next. Yes, we'll
get to Bill Belichick. I feel bad, but boy, we
got stuff that continues to come up here. We have
something to tell you about one of the NBA's biggest
superstars who got trolled by another star's dad on the
(34:49):
court following a game tonight. And if you can put
two and two together, you know exactly who we're talking about. Yes,
that's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 2 (35:16):
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
And TJ Clearly Tonight, the Knicks got locked out of
the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
TJ, Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Mike Harmon live from Thetirac dot Com studios. Uh oh boy,
do we have just entertaining basketball story after basketball story
come in your way over the next few minutes. Here,
you're gonna hear Yannis after the Bucks elimination. Coming up
in about ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
You you he is You're cool. Not happy. I love you,
but not happy from getting eliminated.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Also not happy with the final play in what happened
after the final buzzer and this brings us to the
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buying should be. So here's the final play of the game.
In overtime, it looked like it was gonna be a
Bucks runaway victory that had a seven point lead with
forty seconds left to go. However, missed free throws and
turnover after turnover resulted in this turning Tyre's Halliburton into
the hero Alibert.
Speaker 9 (36:38):
Five seconds, four sentence, the lead one point three to go,
Pacers by one.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Jonnis is gonna take it down. Here's carry twent two or.
Speaker 9 (36:56):
Sub crime in the Pacers moving.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
On NBA TV on the call.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yes, this game began at noon today, so hopefully you
got to see that. Now you'd think, okay, boy Yan
is dealing with all this drama following the game. Yeah,
but he's got to deal with something else because you'll
see video. It's on the internet right now, it's on
social media that Following the game, Halliburton makes the big
makes the big bucket, Uh, Yannis. They chuck it up
(37:26):
from seventy five feet. It doesn't go celebration on the court.
Halliburton stands on the scorer's table yelling to the crowd
you've seen this. And then Halliburton's dad runs up to
Jannis who is just standing on the court, and he
starts yelling at him and trolling him and shaking a
jersey in his face. Janni's is just standing there like
almost like this is like, with one swipe of his hand,
(37:49):
he could knock this guy to the ground. So Halliburton's
dad decides to run on the court and get into
it with Yannis. Now, nothing happened. He was taken away
and led away, and Tyrese Haliburton talked about it following
the game, and he actually took the side of Jannie.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
You know, as far as the incident between Honest and
my pops, I had no idea what happened till I
got to the back and we showed the video.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
Me and my pops have talked about that, and I
don't agree with you know what what transpired there from him.
You know, you know, I think basketball is basketball and
let's keep it on the court. And I think that
he just you know, got excited saw this son make
of the game winner and came on the court. But
I think we had a we had a conversation, and
you know, I think he just needs to just allow
me to just play basketball. Stay over there. I'll come
(38:37):
to him to celebrate. But I think it's the emotions
of the game. Just got excited there.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Uh yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I get look, you're gonna, of course, you're gonna make
excuses for your dad, but this is not I ran
on the court to celebrate with you, like that's what
you do.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Go chase, No, no, no. I ran on the court strictly.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
To go troll Jannis because the honest stuff stopped about
the foul line. Yeah, and it was kind of taking
it in right, crowd losing their minds. Haliburton's up on
the score table. He just got scored on. Yeah, right,
because Haliburton took it to him for the game winner.
Like all of those things are being processed, and Giannis
has just stopped on the court. Yeah, and like we've
(39:19):
we've seen a video that must have been taken from
the three hundred level that shows him coming off of
the baseline and he literally runs and this is now
Halliburton's dad runs in front of Yannis and starts waving
the jersey and jawing.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
At him, and you can just see Yannis is like,
what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (39:38):
That's such a that's such a punk move man, because
you know, Yannis isn't gonna do anything to him, He
can't do anything to him. I'm gonna get up and
troll you right like that, That's what I'm like, come on,
I mean, if you getta Yeah, it is almost.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Like a sucker punch kind of like, ah, look, I'm
gonna stand right in front of you and do you
can't do anything to me? He can't do it.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Well, it's like all those jackass influencers that you know
come up and give you the the shoulders, you know,
little walk by thing and when they've got a bodyguard
with him, like, what are you gonna do to me?
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Or it's the kid at the zoo who wants to
I'm gonna tease the tiger because I know he can't
break through the glass in front of me.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
And then the tiger runs up to the fence and
scares the Jesus. That's just such a weak move, man.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
I mean, come on, running on the court, Okay, you
want to run on the court and celebrate with your kid,
That's what I would do.
Speaker 5 (40:23):
Go find his teammates, Go find you know, someone on
the staff that you're close to.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Whatever the case is, sure.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I hate Yannis so much I'm gonna go troll it.
Come on, man, what the hell is that?
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Now we've talked about the teams having you know, Animus
and you know, being bad blood and all of those things,
that there is a legit rivalry that's developed, but no
man getting in Janis's face. May look Mathern got little
hands to the neck from you, honest in the line there,
so you know there's an extension to this. But yeah,
(40:55):
certainly Halliburton having to address it as well.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
It's just bad business man.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
I'll tell you we'll have more on this story because
we're gonna hear from Giannis coming up next, right, here.
Maybe he'll mention wanting to go to the Lakers. Oh,
I mean maybe more the Knicks Ni Nicks might eat
a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
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