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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon 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 Giannis addresses his postgame confrontation with Tyrese Haliburton's dad.

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside. Happy Tuesday Jason Smith Show with my
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are Nicks and the Pistons. It is a niptuck game.

(01:09):
Midway through 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 3 (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
Nasman 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 3 (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 enough 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 stare coming back from. He feel so bad
for the guy because coming back from where he was
and not getting to a you know quote, real contending
team into late in his career. So yeah, okay, yeah,
things are gonna be a little difficult, right, Things are
gonna be a little tough. Uh, Jannie's future. Okay, but
I always thought, you know what, he's not gonna leave now.
He's not going to 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
ridiculously 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 you
on us 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 3 (03:20):
Fails spectacularly, you're going up against the heated rival, and
there's good debt.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
We actually have that.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
We can say with great confidence in the NBA, because
normally the criticism is everybody gets along, everybody likes he No, these.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Teams hate each other.

Speaker 3 (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.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
No they didn't, because.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
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 1 (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.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
At the maybe maybe maybe he can push the right
buttons here, And instead we see this epic collapse in
over time, you know, building the big lead and then
a comedy of errors, followed by postgame fireworks in the
celebration line and chaos. But yeah, coming into this game,
a lot of the it seem fata complete. Uh, and

(04:26):
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
roster around Giannis to where the best thing would seem
to be to cut ties and hit a massive reset button.

(04:47):
And obviously Frostburg's already trying to order his Yiannis Lakers
jersey car.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
No, no, no, you know you've are you've already you already
made the jiff with Jannis as a Laker. You sent
it to me today. A couple of shocked to let
him use his jersey number.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, I hope he goes full Lawrence Taylor and says
he can't can't wear it, can't wear Uh. Look, I
mean you blow a seven point lead with forty seconds
left to go really special, stucky. I mean you have
you had misfree throws, you had two turnovers. This is bad.
And look, I want I've always want to say, hey,
keep your superstar stay, you're the number one. You want

(05:24):
a title there, But you know what, you've maxed out man,
Jannis has maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee 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 Giannis, you're like,

(05:46):
am I really gonna win? If I stay? He's got
to get to that point in his career. You mentioned Shack.
Where Shack 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 champmpionship. No, no, I know. So I'm going
to the Lakers and look, won four championships right, one,
three at the Lakers, one with the Miami Heat. And

(06:07):
of all the players in the history of the game,
Shack's legacy maybe is the most secure. And Yannis has
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,

(06:28):
probably would have won a third if he didn't blow
out his achilles, And so, yeah, I went and secured
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 with 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

(06:49):
look at this and say, I'm thirty years old. I've
seen the best part of my career. I don't know
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

(07:12):
to figure this out too on my last peak four years?
Or do I need to go someplace else? And the
answer is especially after this, you know, 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 Jannis, it tells you this is
when I knew I had to leave, if anything was

(07:33):
at the end where if I was questioning myself, do
I do it? Do I not? I don't know. 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. Giannis 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 could be the Lakers, right, could be the Knicks.

(07:54):
You know, I mean we don't think he wants to
team up with Luca. Yeah, oh of course, of course,
but maybe straight up for mckael Bridges. You know that
coulrorct be. I 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 muau in downtown LA. I think he's staying
I really just.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Want to do I think he's wrench into all of
this say that you know that's not a guarantee, but this.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You have to I mean, this is where if you're
Yiannis 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,

(08:36):
we're gonna make a trade, We're gonna trade this guy here,
We're gonna go get Damila. And none of it is worked.
None of it is getting you out of the first round.
None of it'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.

(08:57):
I need you to move me. Don't make it bad
because I'm make it bad. And if the because if
you say no, I'll make it back. 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 a whole 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.

(09:17):
If you make it bad, I can make it bad.
But let's go. 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, then you lose in the Eastern
Conference semi final, and now you got three straight first
round losses. So you probably excise the coach and Doc
Rivers moves into whatever the next phase.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Of his career is. But from a roster perspective, you're
you're cash strapped. You made the move to get Lillard.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Uh and you brought in Kuzmo, who had a big deal.
All all of that to say moving forward for Jannis,
even with these gaudy numbers, I mean, statistically just really
one of the more ridiculous series. You see thirty three
fifteen point four, six point six assists per game, shot

(10:11):
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 Cleveland or you know, a squad that's

(10:33):
assembled that he's just said, wow, we probably didn't have
a punch a chance. No, here, you got eliminated pretty quickly,
and obviously between Lillard's illness and now this injury, you
didn't have.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
The full.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Workload and anticipation of what this series could be. But
you 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 and make this
any better. So for Jiannis, Yeah, Shack is known for
two things, right, He's he was still the big shactice
and all of those things, and it was a vagabond

(11:11):
the final years of his career, the time he's in Cleveland,
that he's 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,

(11:31):
so sputtering to first round exits year after year is
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 3 (11:58):
Well, we talked about it, either 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 Janie's
one A and it just hasn't worked. And you can't
tell you, honest, what if we get your new coach.
You tried that a couple of times already didn't work? Well, okay,
didn't work.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Can't tell me Janniss Jannis didn't have an invisible hand
in some of that movement as.

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?
I don't know. Are we gonna get out of the
first round? That's our goal? Okay? Not enough? Not good enough?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:43):
That can't I can't be the goal? No, he needs
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 anybody else over the course of

(13:05):
you know, the month. This is what it should be
because really, and then you're throwing in guys like Embiid
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 him, so
it's not like, well, we don't know, we got to
put no, no, you know, we can make a great trade

(13:26):
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. It's hit. Its it's hit. 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

(13:49):
of this relationship.

Speaker 3 (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.

(14:12):
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.

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(15:07):
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buying should be. All right, Well, we'll get to 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 the series out. This
is completely on brand for the Knicks. They play absolutely
horrendous for most of the game. They lose to the

(17:08):
Pistons one oh six to one to 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

(17:28):
just 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. It wasn't. 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,

(17:49):
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 going how
are we gonna win?

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Here?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The most famous arena in the and they come in
it's like they're in their own living room. No, but
that's it. They're jacked up to play there. We've talked
about it for years.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
There's been nothing of significance for your team in that
facility since nineteen seventy three outside of Billy Joel and Taylor.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Now, there's lots of teams, there's lots of good concerts there.
Stop with that silliness.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
There's what I mean, you've got the concert streaks and
and all that sellout.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Might it seemed like it was just Billy Joel and
Taylor Swift.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well, no, but those are the two most prominent in
terms of selling out large blocks. Okay, all right, sure,
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

(18:47):
the k 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 Detroit
was going to roll over, but it was. They played poorly.
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 they

(19:17):
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, and

(19:37):
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 here in the playoffs,

(20:01):
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 their problems. Like No, it's the same old stuff.
And this is a typical Knicks loss. And I have
seen too many typical Knix losses in my life, too

(20:22):
many of them. At least now they're in the playoffs,
but I mean still, I'm seeing way too many typical
Knix 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 I
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. But yet here we.

Speaker 3 (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. But we look inside,
you know, what we were wandering through the box score,

(21:05):
and just from an esthetics 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 point range. A lot

(21:25):
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. And you are dealing

(21:46):
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 put up with.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Now, speaking of extra juice, now, we've never did We've
been on how many years have been on the here
this is the year, Eliven, the 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

(22:28):
runs already. H He's gonna talk dog join us next hour.
So he still is coming 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

(22:49):
next John Paul, I'd say welcome to the show, but
it said I'm just gonna say, hey, what's up.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Greetings from the garden, my friends. It is a it
is 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

(23:18):
know that I'm doing a live national radio hit as
we're sitting here.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
I thought that was James willin maybe telling you to leave.

Speaker 5 (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

(23:46):
controversial end of Game four, I would say that 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 sixth game.
I think this series has been so competitive that it
deserves one.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
That's very diplomatic, gou John Paul, I'll tell you're full
of it.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Well, let me tell you this. Let me tell you
this about the Pistons play tonight, I thought from the
outset this you could call this any other, any name
of the game that you want. This to me was
the usar Thompson game because the way that Bickerstaff had
him as the defensive player at the outset of the
game to try to deny Jalen Brunson right away. I

(24:32):
think said a lot about the way the Pistons wanted
to have a certain tempo to this game and a physicality.
I thought Duran was excellent down low, and I certainly
Kate Cunningham had some big moments late. 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 (24:53):
Have pull it back out big scale. 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, Well, it was.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Loud, it was raucous. I think that when you consider
it's still Madison Square Guard 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 5 (25:28):
Know, yes, we're on.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
New York.

Speaker 5 (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 moment 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.

(25:52):
But it's certain 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

(26:13):
they actually seem to handle themselves pretty well. And the
officiating that was pretty even overall. I know there's 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, all.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Right, John Paul, I think I know why the the
conjurer Yuard's giving you issues is because he hears you
talking a lot about the Pistons and the Pistons. 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 5 (26:48):
That would probably not be in my best in particularly Junctor.
Again again, you have to you have to you have
to know when you're playing on the road. Okay, I
am still.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Of me.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
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 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 us. She has to talk Game
six at some point, and we'll talk baseball in an
hour or so. And I believe your hometown New York

(27:22):
Met 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 well we'll end with this. And
and yes, because I do have a big question about
the Mets, and when I ask you in a second,
but will you seeing all the Knicks fans leaving, are
they leaving upset? Are they leaving sad? Are they leaving anxious?

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Like?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
What what did it seem like the crowd was like
when they were walking out?

Speaker 5 (27:43):
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 timeout called I would say that, But there

(28:04):
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 1 (28:13):
Ah, very nice.

Speaker 5 (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

(28:50):
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 5 (28:57):
Can you tell me with the with a quick calculation,
I believe that will be then.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Oh, JP had to go hang up, run 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. Thanks a lot. You have to tune in
next hour. The Mets is your answer, right long tease,
The Mets is your answer. Just so you know, the
Mets is your answer.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
But the Mets.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
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
rec We don't suck. We don't suck. You celebrate like nothing. 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. It was even born. No,

(29:46):
it doesn't matter. Lots of things happened. It's where you
were born. Lots of tea. Yeah, the eighties. Uh, the
fashions people wore, powle tize. Now it all happened. They're
telling you. I just found out the other day. I
thought tyshert was thirty. He's thirty four.

Speaker 6 (29:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I really didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean, you've aged ourselves, but you forgot to age tyser.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
I thought he was thirty. 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. I said, wait what he goes? Yeah? I said, wait, Alex,
I thought you were thirties, not thirty four. I'm like,
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 1 (30:23):
Huh? You think so thirty two thirty four? 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 I think
you really still struggle with stuff. Don't know, I'm trying
to think I'm both. Okay, all right, very good time
now to find out what's trending in the wide world

(30:43):
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. It's Steve di Seger.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, the Nicks did not clingch tonight It's three games
to two lead after losing it home to Detroit 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 one 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. Tyres Halliburton 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

(31:58):
Zachary Reshachev finished second. The Kings are finalizing a deal
to keep Doug Christie as head coach to.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
The NHL playoffs.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
If you know anything about hockey, you may have heard
that the Toronto Maple Leafs are.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Not good at closing out a series.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
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 the Leafs and close out games.
Or the Colorado Rockies. Oh I thought you werena say?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Or Doc Rivers, Oh, that would be.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
He was good to close outgates se he got closed out.
He finished the job. The other way, and it's not
Blake's fault.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
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 leads to to one over

(32:59):
min 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 after a rain delay

(33:21):
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 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 1 (33:47):
Oh and more than that, I think too.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
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 show. Heyo Tani with a
leadoff homer.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o and now you
know me. 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 on 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

(34:24):
and he is just 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.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Here.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
We have something to tell you about one of the
NBA's biggest superstars who got trolled by another star's dad
on the 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,
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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 DJ Clearly. Tonight, the Knicks got locked out of
the second round of the playoffs. TJ Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live fromthtirec 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 Yiannis after the Bucks elimination coming up in

(35:46):
about ten minutes. You you he is You're cool. Not happy, Lakers,
I love you, but not happy from getting eliminated. Also
not happy with the final play in what happened after
the final buzzer and this brings us to the play
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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

(36:29):
left to go. However, missed free throws and turnover after
turnover resulted in this turning Tyre's Halliburton into the hero.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Haliburton five seconds, four sentence.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Lead, one point three to go, Pacers pot one. No
Jonnis is gonna.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Take it down.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Wos carry twent two years prime in the Pacer Start
moving on there. NBA TV on the call. Yes, this
game began at noon today, so hopefully you got to
see that. Uh now you think, okay, boy Yan is
dealing with all this drama following the game. Yeah, but

(37:16):
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 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

(37:39):
who is just standing on the court, and he starts
yelling at him and trolling him and shaking a jersey
in his face. Yanni's is just standing there like almost
like this is like, with one swipe of his hand,
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 let way and Tyrese Halliburton talked about it following

(38:03):
the game, and he actually took the side of Jannie.

Speaker 6 (38:07):
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 5 (38:15):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
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 the Sun make
the game winner and came on the court. But I
think we had 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 to him

(38:37):
to celebrate. But I think it's the emotions of the game.
Just got excited there.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Uh yeah, I don't know about that. 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. Go chase, no, no, no.
I ran on the court strictly to go troll Yannis
because honest man, stopped about the foul line.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
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 we've seen a
video that must have been taken from the three hundred

(39:22):
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 1 (39:36):
At him, and you can just see Janis is like,
what are we doing here? That's such a that's such
a punk move man, because you know, Yannis isn't gonna
do anything to him, 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 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 3 (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.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Me, 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 (40:13):
And then the tiger runs up to the fence and
scares the Jesus.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
That's just such a weak move, man, 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 3 (40:24):
Go find his teammates, Go find you know, someone on
the staff that you're close to.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Whatever the case is, sure, I hate Yannis so much
I'm gonna go troll it. Come on, man, what the
hell is that?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
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 Yiannis'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 1 (40:58):
It's just bad business. Oh man, 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 next the nixt might need a little bit more.
Uh he wants The story continues right here. This is
fox them less. I said, that's it we got because
I saw again my hockey gift is all for my life,
my career. I could see the place coming. I said,

(41:21):
this is it. And he somehow gets his gets his
glove on it and is able to snag it out
of mid air. Oh what I just said? Wow, Okay,
he he's got a cool off. It's good. They're going
double overtime. Give him some time to sit in the
dressing room and cool off right now. No, it's one
of those things.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
You know, you watch hockey games, and certainly with my
daughter's soccer run, every once in a while the parents
on our side will look at me like a nuts
because if the opposing goalie makes a big play, I'll
give him an ad of boy, you know, and clap
and and like wow, that was incredible, Like why why
are you cheering for the opposite?

Speaker 5 (41:55):
That's mad?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
He's dead he does that. Just ignore him, Just let
him stand there he likes. He's got problem. Why does
he wear purple shorts? Don't, don't, don't engage him. Just
don't again, good, you know what, I need a new parent.
Purple shorts, engauge, don't engage with the PhD weight loss.
They're another falling off my ass. Just you know, he'll
start he look like a dope with a Belton. He'll
start saying crazy stuff. Just let him sit there and

(42:16):
say his own thing. Okay.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I mean it's if you're new to the team, new
to the show, that is gonna happen. Excited utterances and
a celebration of the chaos within the white line.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
I'm glad you brought up youth sports because this is
where we start this hour of the show, with the
controversy coming off of the Pacers eliminating the Bucks. Earlier tonight,
look last hour, we talked about how this should be
the final straw. Giannis should be on a new team.
He should ask for a trade, the Bucks should facilitate it.
This should be his last game in a Bucks uniform.

(42:49):
You blow a seven point lead in the final forty
seconds with turnovers and misfree throws, and then you end
with the embarrassment of getting trolled by Tyres Halliburton's dad. Yeah.
He The time in Milwaukee for Giannis has reached its
natural conclusion, and he needs to be very upfront with
the Bucks and say, I'm thirty years old. I got
probably four good years left. Bigger guys member, they don't

(43:12):
stay great forever. The bigger guys do. And Giannis is
you know, big guy two fifty seven footer. Yeah, probably
about four more years of really good prime left for him.
He can't waste it in Milwaukee going yeah, we're gonna
fix it. No, he's tried. He's tried for four years
after they won the title, and they haven't fixed it,
and they can't get out of the first round. It's
time for him to go three.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Straight first round exits. The thing that to remember in
and all, and look, if you're deep into basketball, you
understand this.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
He's been in the league twelve years.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
And I think that would surprise a lot of folks
that when he had they had their title run, it
was like, all right, the new kid on the scene.
He's like, No, he was already deep into his career
because because of Lebron James on the NBA side, guys
like James Harden and Kawhi Leonard and others that are
thirty five plus. We've started to just expect these long,

(44:08):
long AHSS careers that that's going to be the norm.
So in the NFL, we do we're doing the same
thing with a lot of guys like because of Brady
and Farv and now Aaron Rodgers that you're expecting this
long career to keep going.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Twelve years a hell of a long career. That's a
long time, yeah, right.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Especially as you as you point out his size and
the way he plays. It's a bruising style that, like Lebron,
defies everything still contend. He's part of the whole Terminator
series and this is all being filmed for a film
release as a cyborg later on.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
But for Giannis, you have to look at.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Your basketball mortality and that you've been able to direct
traffic and to his credit, at no point has he
ever been vilified because you can't tell me that those
were all done in a vacu. Yeah right, as a
power player, that he's been able to dictate, dictate some
moves and they haven't worked.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
No, And like I said, it's the next dangle. Everybody tried,
and you can't say, boy Jannis has been has fallen
short Tonight thirty twenty and thirteen. In the game thirty
twenty and thirteen and wait for the Start, he's the
first guy in a close out game guy in thirdeam
since George Mikeen in nineteen forty seven. He was the

(45:27):
first player with thirty twenty ten to two and two
in playoff NBA history. See there you go. You gotta
get the two and two and then they shure you
get the two and two. The first guy with thirty
points said no assists in the game. I mean, look, yan,
this is it's just like I said, it's it's nobody's fault.
It's just it's not getting better. You've had four years
since you won the title. This is where you're at now,

(45:48):
and he needs to go. It's kind of Doc's fault,
and well that Doc is. Doc is the first one
to go. Doc is a guy's Hey, he's already. I
can help you pack, because you know, I got all
kinds of free tis fault. It's not We'll have time
for Doc in a minute, because now we have to
get to the post game drama, which if this is
Janni's last game. Okay, like we said, this is this
is the final straw. Okay, we blow a seven point

(46:11):
lead in the final forty seconds and then he gets
trolled by Tyre's Halliburton's dad. We brought to this story
a few minutes ago. Halliburton. It's the game winning shot.
The final seventy five footer is chucked up by the Bucks.
It doesn't go. There's mayhem on the court. Everybody's celebrating,
and Tyre's Halliburton's dad, Ben comes on the court with
a big jersey towel and goes up, doesn't go to

(46:35):
celebrate with his kid, goes to stand in front of
Jannis and shaking the towel at him and trolling it.
Which is such a punk move, man, that's such a
punk move. And Haliburton said, a few minutes ago, Hey,
I told my dad. I think my dad just got excited. No,
getting excited would be I ran on the court to
come hug you while you were standing on the scorer's table.
This was I'm coming right out to stand in front
of Jannis, Which, come on, man, what a punk move

(46:56):
that is? So Halliburn toddt least he said, I disagree
with my dad, and he takes the honest aside, which
is a really good thing. So I give Tyre's Halliburton
credit for that, but.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Almost started like you were getting into a cadence where
you're gonna go full chrispa and.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Stop pointing that gun in my dad. But that's a
little bit of of of well, let's say, not quite
enough for Giannis, who was not happy with what went
on as he met the media moments ago following the game,
where he talked about the loss and and and Tyre's
Halliburton's head get in his face after the game.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
I believe like being humbled in victory. That's how way
I am.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Now.

Speaker 8 (47:34):
There can be a lot of people out there that are.

Speaker 7 (47:36):
Like, no, when you when you win the game, it's
a green light for you to be disrespectful towards somebody else.
I disagree. I've won the championship. They have it okay,
and that doesn't say anything.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
Minimize that effort.

Speaker 7 (47:51):
But losing the game emotions run high. Having a fan,
which at the moment I thought it was fun, but
then I realized he was Tidy Song, which I love.
Titus I think is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry,
coming in the floor and showing me his son not
towel with his face.

Speaker 8 (48:11):
This is what we do. This is what we do. This,
I f we do this. I feel like that's very
very this is pepful.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
That's a great statement. That's a great statement. Like I thought,
I thought it was a fan. I find it out. Yeah,
I won a title, they have, and so he gets
a little bit of as well. So look, you know,
Yannis for the most part, outside of the Tide one, Look,
he gets into with the Pacers a lot, right, because
the Pacers was the team with the ball right when
they took his ball? Yeah there, right, So we know

(48:39):
there's a there's a bit of a history with them.
But outside of that, we went looking for the basketballities,
you know, where's the basketball he scored my points with?
Outside of that, when stuff like this comes up, Yannis
handles himself with a lot of class, and I you know,
especially in a situation like this where're talking about a
player's dad running on the court controlling, Yannis finds a

(49:01):
way to kind of calm everybody down and be calm
himself and say very distinctive things and get his point across.
It's not ranting, it's not my mind is going one
thousand miles an hour. This is hey, you know, there's
about you know, being able to win and win with class.
And this is not guys saying stuff in the handshake line.
This is not guys waving goodbye. This is someone's dad

(49:23):
who comes on the court and he says, hey, yeah,
win with class, win with class. I know what it's
all about. And he finds a way to just cut
through in a very calm way and say, look, this
was very disrespectful. And who listens to what he just
said and disagrees with him? Nobody. He's got that, He's
got that way of speaking that makes you just want
to agree with what he says, which is a real skill.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
I'm still working on that. But he's got that way
to say, hey, is anybody, is anybody disagree with what
I'm saying? And really I can't find a way I
disagree with him.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
I mean the follow up is why was his hand
up around Mathern's neck and jake line to where that
dusts up a bit, but certainly here, yeah, the win
with class, you know, honor the fight, the battle that
you just had. I mean, we always see and celebrate
it in hockey at the end of playoff series, the

(50:12):
handshake line, no matter how bad the blood was and
how content contentious everything was, that you know, the sportsmanship
prevails here. Family members get involved. We talked about it
last last night with the Belichick story and his girlfriend,
and we've gone all through shador Sanders. How much of

(50:34):
the invisible hand of Dion Sanders was part of the
decision process. I still come back to, no team got
desperate enough for a quarterback, So good job on the
war rooms there for finally not falling into I think
that's the other reason the chador was so high, right,
was the desperation. But here it's family getting involved and

(50:54):
escalating things that I don't know. I think everybody would
have just gone on to their celebration and shake your
hands and move on. But then you've got him running
off the baseline. I've watched this probably fifty times and
I'm still shaking my head, going.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
How does it get to that? You know what? My
favorite part of it, what's that, buddy? If it was? Yeah,
when he put a Laker's hat on, when he walked,
he was wearing a Lakers sweater. They take him out,
like when they take Kareem out an airplane and he's
wearing his Lakers jersey under his pope.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
I mean, he always got to be ready, right, it's
like your superhero costume.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
But Yannis's point the reveal, like he was like, was
like he's a kid announcing where he's going to go
to college. I just want to say, and he puts
Lakers hat on. I love la to see it. Peace out.
That would be an interesting cap to the night, no
question about it. Really. Uh yeah, but it would have
taken Tyrese Haliburton's dad off the hook.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
If wait, I'm announcing I'm leaving and forcing my hand.
But it's just that that curiosity of where the line goes.
In competition at any level, and certainly from the professional side,
not often do you have the It's not quite a
finger wagging moment, but it's close of the the superstar

(52:05):
going all right, all right, we're done.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
So what I still have a scoreboard. I still have
one book titled.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
It's a nice little like straight line, Straight Line. Oh,
by the way, I have a title. Blah blah.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
He's just got that weight, no matter what he says,
even if it's a little bit of yeah, I know
you're right, janith Yan, you are right. No, you're right, man,
you're right, you're right, You're right, you're.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
But that's the thing, right, I don't know what was said,
you know, from the Pacers themselves, but you know, guy's
dad can't control that guy's dad, right, and then he's
gonna act the fool.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
He's gonna act the full yeah no look, and he
even said that he lets, I have great respect for Tyree,
so he didn't say it was Tyree. It's just because
you're you're you're part of team. You're part of Pacers Nation, right,
You're part of the team. You ran on the court
after the game, you're you're a player's dad, so you're
pretty much you're you're part of that team, and you
run on the court to get in my face like that,

(53:02):
as embarrassed. Bad job by security. Everybody was on the court.
What do you expect them to do? That's it. Everybody
was on the court.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Gotta at least pretend that you're, you know, trying to
protect this house. There's several hundred million dollars worth of
athletes U mulling about, and this guy's able to run
out with his giant towel with it without being checked
at all.