June 24, 2025 • 40 mins
The guy’s debate of the Houston Rockets gave up too much in exchange for Kevin Durant. We play the 1991 Milwaukee Brewers. And the guys weigh-in on Tyrese Haliburton’s injury!
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Game seven of the NBA Finals in our rear view,
Mirrio will have more on Halliburton in that situation coming
up in a few minutes. But the ratings for Game
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seven have just come out in the last couple of hours,
and surprise, surprise, the ratings two point two million. We're
that's how many people watch Caitlin Clark in a layup line. Uh.
Game seven of the NBA Finals. By the way, you
broke her the Yeah she hasn't yet. As soon as
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you had the suck her Down tour take that went viral.
Thank you everybody for sharing that. And and yes, she
she can't hit the broadside of a bar. She's like
two out of twenty your last two games from three. Uh. Yes,
even in the broadcast, they're not able to sugarcoat it. Yeah,
she's been terrible. That's a bad shot. Oh, that's a
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that's a bad shot. That's a bad shot. Okay, And
that's a bad shot.
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Doing a Ooh, that's a band show. That's a bend shot.
It's a bet Okay. Hey, Asian Wilson is back. So
Game seven of the NBA Finals averaged over sixteen million
viewers on Sunday. It is the most watched Finals game
in six years. Right thunder winning one oh three ninety one. Uh,
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this is big news for the NBA concerned in Game
one had just under nine million viewers for Game one. Uh,
this is a big deal, right and and you know, yes,
there's a lot of conversations that happened about ratings for
the NBA especially, And there's a lot of conversations that
are irrelevant, and there's some that you have to have.
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The irrelevant ones are, oh, people aren't watching, Nobody cares
about the NBA. The NBA's two woke or whatever crazy
ass stuff that's being said about it. Number one, it's
really hard to measure ratings now because of the different
ways that people consume sports. I mean, yeah, one of
the biggest Shorts fans I know right that I had.
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I had dinner with him this week, Oh frostmember Jerry
right from We went to the Jets Chargers game with him.
My friend Jerry, would you say to me when the
charge is won like forty two to nothing? A bunch
of years ago we went to Gino Smith. Of course, Jerry,
like Jerry is the biggest Padres fan in the world.
But he hasn't had a spind he watches all the games.
He hasn't had any sort of cable package in years.
He just streams what he wants son. He's a Mets fan, right, No, No,
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he lives in Diecey. Sure, Jerry Seinfeld is a Mets fan.
What's wrong with one soda? Why does he strike out
in the eighth penning? Well, but that was part of
the big thing when I went to that Barrett conference,
just talking about it from a radios. So what's going
to measure things that it's become so difficult, fractured, you know,
the different ways people consume things, And on the television side,
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it's that much more noise trying to sort through it
and get to a real number. But it's still it's
it's a bad optic when you talk when you have
bad when you have bad ratings, and a good optic
when you have good ratings. Now, why suddenly did we
at nearly over sixteen million people and it peaked at
nineteen million in the fourth quarter? Why does this happen?
Suddenly people start caring about the thunder and the pacers
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throughout that. No, they didn't, right, because I saw that,
Oh people started getting into the finals more. No, they didn't,
that's not what happened. Give sports fans more credit than that, right,
because I'll tell you exactly why we have become a
society where we now watch sports when we have to, right,
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Like we know when we can parse stuff out, and
we watch when it matters. And we watch every Sunday
in the NFL because every Sunday means so much. Games
that your your local team is playing one day a week,
you watch that game right now. Do you watch Monday
Night too? Yeah? Do you watch Thursday night too? Yeah,
but not as much as you watch your local team,
and you pick and choose. Hey, I'd love to watch
(04:53):
the Monday night game tonight, but I can't because I
have a bar mitzvah, or I have a dinner, or
I have a Kensanier, or I have a dinner with family,
or I have a business dinner. Right, I don't football? Well,
you never know. Yeah, people people still still schedule stuff.
I mean, you think they would know by now. But
that happens, right, So, okay, get a cheaper rate on
the banquet halls. But but my team is playing. I
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gotta find a way to make that happen. Right. Major
League Baseball, Hey, you play every day, you watch, sometimes
you miss, But here's the NBA. Right, Let's focus on
the NBA. The NBA asks a lot of you. They
ask more of you than any other sport, more than
the NHL, more than Major League Baseball, more than the NFL.
They say, we're gonna give you a three month marathon
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of playoffs, right, We're gonna this is gonna see them
feel like it goes forever. And when just when we
get to the best part, we're gonna give you a
schedule that looks like it's gonna take two and a
half weeks to play this NBA Finals, Right, And you
lose a lot of steam, a lot of momentum because
for the viewer and for the fan, it's okay, it's
all everything you did to get to the finals. And
now suddenly, yeah, game one is in five days, and
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Game two is three days after that, and Game three
is a couple of days out. Then we're taking three
days off until Game four, and you lose a lot
of steam and momentum. Now, think about this from the
perspective of when you're gonna tune in and watch. People
didn't start watching the series going, oh I like the
thunder or oh I like the paces. If they didn't
like the paces of Thunder going in, no one just
(06:20):
does our homeogo, I'm gonna learn about these teams. Oh, look,
I like this. No, what it is is it's the
NBA Finals. So the average NBA fan knows, and the
average sports fan knows because our lives are different now,
and our lives are taken up by much more, much
more events, and we're busier than we ever were, and
there's big things going on politically, or there's big things
going on over the course of a week. I pick
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and choose when I need to watch games. And for
NBA fans, the average NBA fan is going, Oh, the
NBA Finals. They don't starting the five day you know what.
I'll check back in with that series as it gets longer,
and if it gets closer at the end, I'll watch.
So what did we get? We got Game seven, Game seven.
I'm gonna watch Game seven. It's a Sunday, it's a
Sunday night. The last of us isn't on. The season
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is over. I'm gonna I'm gonna watch it. Right, we're
out of school, we're into the summer. People are getting
on vacation. I'm gonna watch Game seven of the NBA Finals.
It didn't matter who it was, it was Indiana Oklahoma City.
It could have been the Kings and the Pistons. It
could have been the Knicks and the Lakers. But people
are gonna watch Game seven because it's a thing. It's
when the NBA matters. And this is when the NBA
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happened to matter here because it's an NBA finals of
two smaller market teams. It doesn't didn't quite have the
star power. So yeah, if it doesn't grab your attention
right away, you're gonna say when do I need to
tune in? If it was Nicks Lakers, you would say,
I'm watching game one, Game two, game Vinay, it doesn't matter.
But when you feel this series needs to be it's
getting your attention, that's when you'll watch. So people started
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watching and it just happened to matter for Game seven, Right,
that's just happened to be where this is for the playoffs.
But that's it for all sports. Now we watch when
things matter. Do we watch college football every Saturday? Yeah?
Do you watch every game? Do you watch Saturday night? Get?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You pick and choose because we're generally overserved in sports.
Now we get there. You know, for all of the
talk about oh the dude, look at these games, how
you have to pay to watch this game? Pay to
watch this game? You know, we get everything? Now you
get everything. You get, You get all kinds of college
football you could possibly want. On Saturdays, you get everything
single NFL you could possibly want. On Sundays, right, you
get no even no matter what your cable package is.
(08:24):
You get your local team, you get a doubleheader, you
get the Sunday night game. It do you get? You
get the Monday night game? Okay, right, you get enough football? Right,
We're overserved. So now fans are getting a little bit
smarter and getting a little bit more picky and a
little bit more strict with their time saying okay, you
know what, It's not like it used to be, where
while I'm watching the game on Monday, watching the game
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on Thursday, watching the game. No it's okay, well I'm
gonna miss this. I can miss that, but I have
to watch this. We watch when it matters. Game seven mattered,
didn't matter the matchup, but people watch. That's why you
had sixteen nineteen million people. Well why you get twenty
million people watching the ends a men's tournament final and
watch the rest of the year. There's consequence. Obviously, you
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get into the march madness, and people have their wagers,
their pools, whatever else, and now they want to be
an expert on all the teams that made the field
and complain about the couple that got snubbed all of
those things. But it's it's the curiosity, and I always
get the blowback of yeah, you guys and media, you're
given this, you're giving that. It's like, no tickets and
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stuff don't flow as quickly as you thought. And nobody
has handed me any money to pay me for any
of my streaming services anytime recently. So I'm paying just
like you. But you have the choice. As you talked
about growing up, what did we have? I had the
Bears and then either the Cowboys or the forty nine
ers after it. On a Sunday Monday night football, I
got to stay up for a half. Occasionally you can
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convince your parents to let you stay up a little
bit longer. That's it. I used that to you. Yeah,
because I would watch the first time, I would always
have to go to beut a head here in New York.
I'm in Chicago. Yeah, game starts, I have to go
to bed before like ten third. Like you can watch
the first half, right, and I go to I go,
I go to bed, and I'm thinking about the game.
It's like ten three at halftime, and think at all
the Giants couldn't run the ball or the Redskins were
(10:11):
doing this, so the Cowboy's doing this. And then you
wake up the next day and goes, yeah, you know finals,
go Cowboys beat the Giants twenty eight, twenty seven. Well,
you know, a last second touch of bascle. It doesn't
even seem like the same game that I watched, the
entire first halftime, adjustments there was what there were there
were there were like four touchdowns in the second half hour.
It would seem like the same game. But that's it, right,
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that that's the way we consume things. And now people
complain about the service like you don't have to watch
it all, like nobody's forcing you to. And clearly you
voted as a collective. Again, noise and numbers, but to
the you come when it matters and these numbers. Anybody
that's trumpeting, Oh yeah, I guess they you know the
little guy people watch, Yeah, people watch a game seven, Yeah,
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that the two can still be a I don't care
what uniform it was, what city it was could have
been the two smallest markets in the known universe. If
they're playing in a game seven, winner take all, I'm
showing up, especially if you know, I'm done with my
soccer tournament for the weekend in and I'm trying to
relax a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I wonder if
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we're gonna get to a point where and again that
this could be this is just me, you know, spitballing
where people are gonna bid on games, and and networks
are gonna bid on games, and they're gonna say, we
just want to bid on game five through seven of
the finals, right, you will split it. It'll be less money,
and we have games one through four and then because
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that it used to be that way, right NBCA. I
remember sometime like NBC would say that, oh we god
fun the first four games. Hey now the t now,
TNT crew whatever would take you to the last five.
I wonder if we ever get back to that where it's, hey,
game one through four is gonna be one level of
pricing to bid on, but if you want games five
through seven, you bid on that. Obviously, if there's no
game five, you know, you know the money is not there.
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So I wonder if that would ever be part of
part of a package going on. You get this is
what I'm gonna bid on. Yeah, the hard part is that,
and then you got to do all the make goods
or just give all the money back. So how early
is it paid to you buy advertiser but you spent
you sell those ad spats giving back anyway, even if
one network has it, you don't have Game six, Game seven,
you're still giving. My point is you're you're collecting all
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that ad money you got to get back. You got
to really make the most of your investments. It's like
buying concert tickets. What it's a concert November? What is it?
It's February three. I'll get that money back to you,
just just to give me a little bit. Okay, Okay,
hey Bernice, when they call again and you can't find me, okay,
we've invested this. Much like when you went to the
car wash money a new car. Nobody there's no car
(12:42):
wash there. You gotta listen to the whole show. Nice
call back, but again, I mean, this is what we
watch when it matters. Now, that's bad news for the
for for networks who are spending all money on stuff
because Hey. Live programming is always a big thing, but
now we're much more discerning because we're overserved with sports,
and especially this NBA Finals. Yeah, like if you if
you know, Hey, NBA Final. But we're waiting four days
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and they're starting and game six, Game seven isn't for
two and a half weeks. Yeah, I'll keep track of
it and maybe i'll watch the end of the game.
If it's close, I'll tune in, but I don't really
need to. Yeah, I want to watch game six or
Game seven. I'll still follow Following along without watching has
become a great sportsman's and sports fans way of consuming sports.
The last, following along without watching, that's a big thing.
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Frostburg's got a game. I asked if it was about
Martin Cove or Cobra kay reunions, and he said, if
a man confronts you on the street, that man is
your enemy, so he's not lying. The uh. The headline
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that shared importance with Game seven of the NBA Finals
a day ago, Kevin Durant dealt to the Houston Rocket.
KD said, hey, listen, it's one of my preferred destinations.
And the deal goes down, and now KD is a
Houston Rocket. Two big things One Houston gave up way
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too much for Kevin Durant, way too much. Jalen Green
is a young, ascending player, led the team in scoring
last year. I don't care if maybe we were looking
for way to move on. You didn't need to give
him up to get a thirty seven year old Kevin Durant. Right,
you traded away Dylan Brooks as well, who is a
great rotation guy. These guys are getting so yeah, but
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I mean they're valuable, right, someone who plays great d
hits threes, right, because he hits threes, These guys are
valuable number ten overall pick five second round picks. It's like,
who did you bid against for Kevin Durant. Nobody else
was gonna give any of that up, right, Nobody else
is gonna give it Kevin Durant is basically it's a
salary dump. Okay, it's money. It's not working out. Phoenix
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was desperate to move on from him. Mark Stein hold
us that on Friday night when he joined us, and listen,
Phoenix wants to make a trade and have Kevin Durant
dealt before the draft so badly. And the Rockets decided, hey,
we're gonna panic and give you everything. I mean, really,
you're talking about two starters. One is a young, ascending player.
I don't get it, right, I don't get that you
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had to give up this much for Kevin Durant. Hey,
we're gonna take him off of your hands. Right. He's
not Kevin Durant to five seven years ago. This is
not This is a Kevin Durant in twenty twenty five.
That okay? Is he still gonna be healthy enough? He's
a guy that scores. But we'll get to his impact
in a minute. But overall, this was way too much.
And I guarantee you every NBA team right now is saying, oh, well,
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I'm glad we stayed out of that because we weren't
giving up anything close. We feel good not going into
the Spurs, feel good not going in on that for
Kevin Durant the Knicks. In the beginning, we're saying, nope, sorry,
we don't want KD by way. I know, oh you
didn't want to come to us five seven years ago
when you had a chance. Oh now, forget it, we
don't want you out. Every team around the NBA is said,
I'm so glad we didn't going on that. Yeah, I
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think some of it comes back to it was narrowed
down to three teams where Kevin Durant had the hand
in the deal, as he talked about in his interviews
at Fanatics Fest. You know when he found out, broke
the news on stage with Taylor Rooks and then talking
to Kay Adams and everybody else. But it's the idea
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that you bring him into a pretty good roster and
you kept a pretty good core. You had to distress
property in theory in Phoenix that you shouldn't have had
to give up much. But you can argue that five
second round picks isn't a whole lot, right, It's no,
but it's more value and more assets that you're able
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to know. I get it right, the number ten, not
like the number ten pick you say, oh, we have
a guy we're going to get. But it's the value
of that pick, the value of five seconds to be
able to move around, to be able to sweet like
you give up like I want like me, I really
want that, Jimmy Johnson, charge them. Okay, here's the value
of everything you gave up and what it means like
when you go to a dynasty trade calculator in football,
going oh, do I want to trade so and so
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for so and so. And they calculate a player's value
not just for this year, but for the rest of
their career and say, Okay, you're trading a player that's
got a value of seven thousand for a player with
a value of three thousand. Don't do this deal. Or
you're trading a player with a value of five thousand,
you're asking for a player with a value of ten thousand.
That team is not going to that owner is not
going to do that trade with you. Yeah, we'd heard
that had been down to three teams talking Miami trying
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to make a splash, but there were young players they
didn't want to get rid of. You talk about san Antonio,
They sure as hell weren't giving up the number two pick.
And if they were able to get de Aaron Fox
without giving up any of their core, they weren't going
to give up any of those guys for Kevin Durant.
So that was a non starter. So that leaves you
with Houston and they get to keep Singoon, They get
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to keep Aman Thompson, some of the other Smith junior
and go on down the line. They keep a lot
of a roster that got them to the second place
finish in the regular season. The one thing with Jalen Green,
what does he do? He's a scorer. Kevin Durant's a score.
Kevin Durant's a proven guy at the back end. And
I know you've got an injury history, his age, many
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a weary mile on those legs. But I think with
Houston they'd signed Jalen Green, and he's a guy that
we'd heard potentially trade rumors. I'd seen him photoshopped into
myriad uniforms over the last couple of months of he
ain't gonna be here because they hadn't seen the advancement.
And with Udoka that he's got other veterans like Van
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Vliet and others that you bring in. Kevin Durant, he's
your closer and you can be judicious with his minutes
to keep him fresh for the long, arduous second season
of the playoffs that we've been talking about here tonight.
So in the end, while it looks a lot, you're
not exactly talking about a bevy of draft picks that
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are expected to become superstars out of this draft either.
So the number ten pick doesn't have the same juice.
Perhaps that it did once upon a time, roster building
being at a different place than it was a few
years back. Now, the other part of it is this,
how much do I like this trade for the Rockets? Nah? Now,
only because you know, I say what I say, and
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I think what I think, and I said that I'm
not a big I'm not going to go crazy to
get KD. And I don't like the Rockets gave up
too much. But the one team I said that is
the best fit where Slim Reaper can come right in
and contribute is the Rockets because they need somebody to
make big shots at the end of game, right, the
one thing they're missing, Right, They had a nice, really
good young corn Loook shing Gun is really good and
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Fred van Vliet is a terrific point guard. You know
they need someone, Okay, So I get it right, So
I get KD because he kind of fits there. But
KD is not sending you and not bringing you to
the finals. He's not right because he's someone who, at
this point in his career, he gets his he gets
his points. That's what he does, right, He gets his points, right,
twenty seven a game, he gets it. But players who
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get their points They're not leading you anywhere, right, I
guarantee you. The next thought, Gay getting Kevin Durant, He's
gonna lead us to the fight. Nope, didn't happen. Again,
she was too big, I guarantee you. The Phoenix Suns thought, hey,
he's gonna lead us some Nope, not happening. Right. So
the last two teams the last six years both thought
KD is gonna bring us there, and he didn't lead
them anywhere. And this is when he was playing with
really good all NBA type players on the team on
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both of those teams, and it didn't work. Yeah, you're
getting a guy that can score, and he's gonna score
in big moments, Kenny, Yeah, but can he still score
with teams that are gonna roll coverages to him in
the final final minute of games? Is he's still gonna
be that guy at thirty seven? Can he still play?
Can he stay healthy? Right? Like this is I don't
look at Kevin Durant as a piece it's gonna put
them over the top. Yeah he fits with Houston. Okay, great,
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But I'm just kind of met on it. And I
get that the odds for the Rockets to go to
the finals had to go down because people are gonna say, oh,
let me put money on them. Sorry, we got to
make it down because that's gonna be a big bet.
It'll be an expensive payout for Vegas. But overall, like
like KD is not suddenly gonna like in seven years
he's been, he's not been really relevant in seven years.
Only now on this Rockets team, seven years after the
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last time he was he really meant something, which was
twenty nineteen. He's doing day Now, He's gonna lead them
to the finals. Not happen. Come on, he never did
leg day And that was the guy that came into
the league. They were like, ah, this guy's never gonna
make it. Look how leany is that. I go back
and look at his tops, chrome rookie card, and I
see sticks where legs should be. Uh, And yet here
he is all these years later and so many points.
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But it's to the to the point for what Houston
is that with the number two seed out of the West,
you lose to the Warriors, go back to Phoenix and
the imperfect roster, and this is where it's the curiosity, right,
and that changeover seven champions seven years. As we've talked
about but also you're not looking at a team that's
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you know, replete with but just superstars that we have,
and that was in vogue for a while. What didn't
work in Brooklyn. Again, if his shoe was a half
size smaller, maybe we have a different outcome. And Milwaukee
never gets their title. But then he goes to Phoenix
and now you got to combat de Marcus Cousins saying
everybody was fist fighting in the background, so that you
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got that going on, which is fun. So in perfect
Truck here it's a bunch of guys still on the
come and guys that have shown to be good teammates,
like ver Fred van Vliet, And he got a guy
in Nudoka showing that he could be a leader. So
Durant trade out for Jalen Green. He's a scorer. Durant's
a score, come in and do his thing. So I'm
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slightly bullish. And also we were just talking about okay
see and not really saying all right, they gave us
the best sixty eight wins and they got their title,
but you could see the flaws in their game. So
if you're Houston, why wouldn't you say, hey, let's push in.
We get rid of the guy that we have already
paid that we don't see developing in this system. Get
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more minutes, more playing time and rotation for these other guys,
and you bring in the slim reaper to close the
door like it. I'll tell okay, you watch wait and see.
Oh no, this season's going to be a lot like
last season. Well yeah, because that's kde I'm telling you,
it's just meh. It's just meh. Time not to find
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out what's trending in the wide rolling sports. But guy
who was definitely not meth it's Steve de Seger wife.
Thank you, hey, good even to you once again, gentlemen. Pacers
guard Tyrese Haliburton had his surgery tonight for a torn
achilles He could miss next season. His Indiana team was
a four seed this postseason. Still only one team seeded
lower than third has won the title. That was the
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Rockets in nineteen ninety five. Oklahoma City's Game seven winning
the finals last night drew over sixteen million TV viewers.
The Celtics tonight are trading guard Drew Holliday to Portland
for Afony Simons, who has an expiring contract, and for
two second rounders, the WNBA is off tonight four games Tomorrow,
the A's broke ground on a baseball stadium on the
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Las Vegas Strip where the Tropicana used to be, across
from the MGM. Air Conditioning in the new place will
be distributed through the seats instead of a centralized system
allparksdue to cost one point seventy five billion dollars in
seat thirty three thousand fans, is expected to be finished
in time for the twenty twenty eight season. The A's
are in Sacramento for now. By the way, state of
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Nevada and Clark County have already approved up to three
hundred eighty million in public funds for their part of
the project. The funding bill for Arizona's Chase Field passed,
it'll be signed by the governor. Now the stadium's owned
by the county. The Diamondbacks lease there runs currently only
through twenty twenty seven. Prosecutors in the Dominican Republic requested
a five year sentence for Ray's suspended shortstop Wander Franco
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for sexual abuse of a minor. Decision on this comes Thursday.
As for Major League Baseball, on the field tonight, Washington
A ten to six winner in the late game at
San Diego, James Wood, former Padres draft Joys, had three hits,
including a homer four RBIs. The Padres now five and
a half games behind the idle Dodgers in the NL West.
San Francisco three and a half back. The Angels beat
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Boston nine to five with four runs in the bottom
of the eighth. Angels closer Kenniley Jansen left in the
ninth with what looked like a shoulder injury. They said
it was simply a cramp in the pectoral muscle. Walker
Buehler was the Boston starter, no decision, but it was
an adventure. He allowed five runs in the first, including
two bases loaded walks and the bases loaded hit batter,
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eventually seven walks in Bueller's four innings. Arizona won ten
nothing at the White Sox. Arizona signed veteran catcher James McCann.
Outfielder Corbyn Carroll was out again with what's called a
fractured wrist. A Henneo Suarez of Arizona, who just won
Player of the Week in the National League for the
third time this year, was hit by a pitch early
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in this game on the hand X rays were negative
wins for Pittsburgh and the Cardinals. Seattle's Cal Raley with
his thirty second home run and an eleven to win
at Minnesota. Cincinnati six won over the Yankees, but Aaron
Judge hit his twenty eighth home run. Baltimore shut out
Texas six to nothing, and the Mets have lost nine
of ten. Atlanta beat him three to two. Ronald Acunya
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with a solo homer.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's been back a months from the long injury layoff
and is batting three ninety six.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Beg to you, thanks, Steve. And when I say thanks Steve,
I mean blank you. Steve all right swinging a long one.
So we got a game going on right now. Steve's
gonna play it with U. We're all gonna play me, Mike,
Steve Frostburg ty shirt. I have no idea what this
game is. Frows, I got a great idea. I said, Okay,
we're gonna play gain. If this is about name the
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teams that Mets lost to in the last ten days,
we're not playing way too many.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I wouldn't do that to you guys, all right, Braves, Phillies, Rays, raise,
we don't ever do this Okay, we never ever ever
talk about the Angels.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, true, but they did something tonight. Like your friend
Jason stark A, he says, right, something that you've ever
seen some years in baseball, you see something new all
the time. Yes, this is the second time this has happened. Okay,
with Reed, Debtmers and Sam Bachman pitching the night for
the Angels. Okay, they got all eight of their first
round picks in the game. Okay, that's a quiz.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'll say, Troy Gloss, Darre Nurse dead tonight, Jared Weaver.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Troy Percival. I'm doing that. The Angels are the first
team to use all eight of their own first round
draft picks in the game since the Brewers in nineteen
ninety one on July third. Okay, so nineteen ninety one,
July third, the Brewers had eight first round picks playing. Again.
Since I'm a nice guy, I'm not gonna make you
name all eight of the Angels eight first rounders of
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their own correct. Wow. Okay, so first time since ninety
one Brewers. But I will make you name the eight
Brewers too early for Ryan Braun all right to, I'll
give you right away because I know that we're both
still playing, mollitor and you out. Yes right, Malia, we're
both still playing. You have six left. I gotta get
six more. Okay, this is all the way back to nineteen.
(29:54):
I'm in college, the Brewers. This was the cecil Cooper,
Greg bron No, Greg was a dodger. See Charlie Moore. Well,
you guys only get like three strikes? Where do we go?
Hang on? Hang on?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Hey, okay, hold on, Jason?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Two for two?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Jason, remember the hoff I'm going with Sir hoff Oh stop,
you looked up BJ. So talking to you.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He's a definite. Yes, you absolutely, we know You're welcome, Jason.
Just say good job, Alex. No, we're the same team.
Way to cheat, Alex lose. You guys can't get along.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
First round? Okay, I'm gonna go. So it's five left.
We named Paul was playing center field. Mallodor was probably
the d H at that point, Sir hoff was catcher.
And who else do we say? We said, BJ Sir
Hoffner play second? Yeah, but that was too where Jim
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Gantner was early eighties. Uh oh, Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield,
you have four left? Why right? Jeff Jenkins Jeff Jenkins, Usc,
you get out of here. You're wrong. I think that's
too early for Jakins.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Jason, do you want some help again?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What did you look up this time? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Do you want help? Sure? Yeah? I gotta see.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Can you believe the talent I work with these days?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay? I really thought Jeff Jenkins, I thought I had
Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Good, I am aspiring to say Bill Spires, Bill.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's one. You guys have three laughs, Bills. I don't
know that I'm getting any of them. Oh, I got nothing.
I was trying to picture old rookie cards. Yeah, no,
do we really have to go to tysher for the
remaining ninety one Brewers? Are any of them? Pitchers? Bosio?
Is that too early for pat less Dash? So we
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said bj Sirhoff, the al Spires, Gary Sheffield, Paul Muller
and Robin I don't know man Gorman Thomas was still
early that whole.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, those are the Rob robbed Jason. Come on, Rob
Deer's a good guess there is Rob Deer. No, but
I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I just swinging a miss right there, just like Rob Dear.
He's saying very nice, I'm saying, is it Robbed Deer
and Tyser telling me, oh no, no, not rob Deer. No,
not him, yes, exactly no not Robbed Deer.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Didn't you like when they brought in Vaughan? How about
Greg Vaughan?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh, Greg Vaughan, very I should have got there are
two left.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I should have got Greg vaugh Jason if you need
me anymore, just like especially.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Since Major League is he's right now different yeah, different, vall.
This is the slugger for the World Series. Two lefts
Greg Vaughan, Okay, we probably got the outfield, probably had
the outfield there he did, Sir Hoff, Spires, Sheffield, Monitor,
Vaughn and ye out. I don't know that I'm getting
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anybody else. Yeah, no, I'm no. Not Mike Caldwell. That
was too Mike called Weell. I thought you'd go Willie Randolph,
Willy Randolph. He's not the answer.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Oh, shout us to Dan Bayer. I'm going Dan, please sack.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh you have one left. Steve Horseman. You know people
are listening to the show for the first time, going wow,
the engineer knows a lot about the ninety one visitors.
I just looked up Jeff Jenkins was nineteen ninety five first. Yeah. Yeah,
jedd Let's Stash was the rookie of the Year in
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ninety two. I just didn't know if he had been called.
Really upset that I didn't get Jeff Jenkins. I'm trying
to think of a starting pitcher that may have started
the game for the for the Brewers in ninety one.
Not Pete Lack, Dan Plee. Well, no, we were even closing.
Pleie Sack was a closer. Al right, So y'all failed,
(33:53):
We tapped we tap it out? Seven should answered most
of them? He did.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I got the last one.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yes, that was very much a tower of terror.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Who was the who we miss you? Ready? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Dale sim Dale, Swain Swaying, Dale Swayin. Oh, I know
him personally likesm Dale's for you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
The ems Dale sway.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He says he's Dutch.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Jalm. Yes, you could call it with the s is
silent name all any of the Angels. Forget it. I'm
just kidding. They just called up their first rounder from Tennessee,
Taylor Ward Taylor Ward, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift,
John Sure everybody who started with always yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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oh yeah, I started. Yeah, all those guys starting now, Wow,
that's pretty I like that. Frost bring a good game,
T shirt. Wait to go man, Frank, how about Frank?
We done t J Frank Tanana Dakery into pitch for
the Brewers. J More debt mers than Bachmann debtmer. I
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just saw a lot of those guys play when I
went to the Grup. It was the first rounder. He's
the top seven sucks he was, No, he was. He
wasn't number one, but he was a top ten pick.
Mike Trout really yeah, pretty sure, barely plays. I know. Well,
back then he had a lot of promise, a lot
of potential. They thought he could do something. Uh. Coming
up next, what is the big impact off of tires
Halliburton's injury on the NBA. We'll tell you next. Jason
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and Mike, Fox Sports Radio, Jeff Jenkins, Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I'm your poppy Chulow. So as we get say, as
we put the NBA season to bed and get ready
for the draft. It's one day to put it to bed,
done in thirty six hours.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Look, we're still coming off Game seven of the NBA
Finals and Tyres Halliburton's Achilles injury that honestly had flipped
the game. Things were going the Pacers way in the
first half and that would have been a game. You
could tell they were starting to put their will on
the game. But second half without Halliburton, it was just
too much to overcome. They couldn't hit their threes. But
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the big takeaway from this is that, and you know,
cause you always learn from something like this, is that
Halliburton's just the latest star player to have a calf
strain turn into a full blown Achilles tear, which we've
seen now for many players. Right, three players had it
happened this this postseason, including two superstars. Right. We watched
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the Jets season get derailed because Aaron Rodgers strain calf
turned into a full blown Achilles two years ago. Right,
Kevin Durantz strain calf in the NBA Finals turned into
a full blown Achilles. You were gonna see teams now
when when a player has a strained calf like that
used to be like, ah, it's a one to two
week injury, Like you're Halliburton, say I'd be out in
what one or two weeks? Okay, But that's now gonna
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become a six week injury because teams are gonna say
it is not worth it for a strained calf to
try to come back and play when clearly this could
be the result which would cost you a season and
maybe two seasons depending where it's at, because Halliburn's not
gonna play probably all this season. Jason Tatum is not
gonna play probably all of this season. So now you're
costing them a season and then coming back from an achilles.
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It's generally you see a team a player doesn't get
back to fully normal until they're two years removed from
the injury. So teams are gonna see this and go okay, Now,
we've seen it too many times where someone has an
achilles injury or someone has a strained calf. We don't
want it to turn into that, and not all of
them do, but it's gonna be. We want to be
safe because this guy is a star player, and we
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don't want to because look at the Celtics, right they
traded Drew Holliday tonight, they're changing up their entire team
because if Jason Tatum's injury right, Porzingis is gonna go.
This roster is gonna be unrecognizable next year because they
have to move on because this era is over. So
you aren't going to see team say okay when it
comes to these star players. This injury is going to
be a six weeks, gonna be a long term thing
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now because better safe than sorry, and we don't want
you to come back and really really do all kinds
of career damage because that sets our franchise back, not
just to you. Well, talk about Tatum, talk about Halliburton.
You go over to Damian Lillard. Questions of Giannis does
he stay or does he go? More noise to the
idea that he stays in Milwaukee and they retool. Eastern
(38:30):
Conference is up for grabs. He got Cleveland as you
your clear winner, but you also still have you know,
Orlando already made a big move to get into it.
But this type of injury still going through the data, right,
We've done it with other sports, you know, baseball and
torn Laboram's and UCLs and and how do you go
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through those processes, How fast do you push a guy
back and whether it's an inevitable injury that it's going
to pop eventually. Was the question we asked when Durant
got onto the court. Going back to the finals. It's
a question we've asked with Haliburton over the last week,
you and I talking about It's like, all right, he
played a lot of minutes, played a lot of good
minutes in game six when they needed him, until Okasee said, yeah,
(39:15):
we got a home game in game seven, so he
only played twenty three minutes. Was that tonight? Because even
Halliburton put out of a long thing on Twitter and
had his comments saying, I do it again, I take
my shot. And also, did you know that you know
where where was the percentage of all right, you'll be
able to get through unscathed versus hey, this could blow
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it anything. Where was any of the of the Pacers
medical concern because that's the big question now, is that
Wait a minute, so you played, he got hurt in
game five, he got examined, he played thirty four minutes,
then he got an MRI. Everything was fine. He had
a full workload in game six until they didn't need
him because they were up so big, but he didn't
do anything less And he comes back and plays in
game seven, like, Okay, where was the I mean you
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put him back on the floor when clearly it looked like, hey,
you had every single chance to lighten his workload or
examine him that that's the next big question. Well, and
he said it was still sore, right, his calf was
still hurting and entire Latin joked about it and his
girlfriend helping him while they sat and watched Love Island,
which evidently is now the thing for NBA players to
(40:18):
give miser rate about. Maybe the podcast. It's a lot
of people are love adding to people, our kids watch it.
They can't try to drag me into it because it
is a daily event. And the thing is, I know
people that you wouldn't think would. It's not in your wheelhouse.
And all of a sudden, after like two episodes, Oh
I'm in Love Island. I'm in, I'm in, I'm in.
I'm like, oh wow. Yeah. They also want me to
watch the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders show that's back on No,
(40:40):
watch the movie from nineteen seventy eight where Bucky Dent
plays a football player watching mean Bucky leaping dent, Jane Seymour. Yeah,
that's the one you want to watch. Well, it's got
Jane Seymour. I'm sold. My buddy Ben Maller coming up
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Game seven of the NBA Finals in our rear view,
Mirrio will have more on Halliburton in that situation coming
up in a few minutes. But the ratings for Game
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seven have just come out in the last couple of hours,
and surprise, surprise, the ratings two point two million. We're
that's how many people watch Caitlin Clark in a layup line. Uh.
Game seven of the NBA Finals. By the way, you
broke her the Yeah she hasn't yet. As soon as
(01:32):
you had the suck her Down tour take that went viral.
Thank you everybody for sharing that. And and yes, she
she can't hit the broadside of a bar. She's like
two out of twenty your last two games from three. Uh. Yes,
even in the broadcast, they're not able to sugarcoat it. Yeah,
she's been terrible. That's a bad shot. Oh, that's a
(01:53):
that's a bad shot. That's a bad shot. Okay, And
that's a bad shot.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
How are the skuy.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Doing a Ooh, that's a band show. That's a bend shot.
It's a bet Okay. Hey, Asian Wilson is back. So
Game seven of the NBA Finals averaged over sixteen million
viewers on Sunday. It is the most watched Finals game
in six years. Right thunder winning one oh three ninety one. Uh,
(02:21):
this is big news for the NBA concerned in Game
one had just under nine million viewers for Game one. Uh,
this is a big deal, right and and you know, yes,
there's a lot of conversations that happened about ratings for
the NBA especially, And there's a lot of conversations that
are irrelevant, and there's some that you have to have.
(02:41):
The irrelevant ones are, oh, people aren't watching, Nobody cares
about the NBA. The NBA's two woke or whatever crazy
ass stuff that's being said about it. Number one, it's
really hard to measure ratings now because of the different
ways that people consume sports. I mean, yeah, one of
the biggest Shorts fans I know right that I had.
(03:02):
I had dinner with him this week, Oh frostmember Jerry
right from We went to the Jets Chargers game with him.
My friend Jerry, would you say to me when the
charge is won like forty two to nothing? A bunch
of years ago we went to Gino Smith. Of course, Jerry,
like Jerry is the biggest Padres fan in the world.
But he hasn't had a spind he watches all the games.
He hasn't had any sort of cable package in years.
He just streams what he wants son. He's a Mets fan, right, No, No,
(03:25):
he lives in Diecey. Sure, Jerry Seinfeld is a Mets fan.
What's wrong with one soda? Why does he strike out
in the eighth penning? Well, but that was part of
the big thing when I went to that Barrett conference,
just talking about it from a radios. So what's going
to measure things that it's become so difficult, fractured, you know,
the different ways people consume things, And on the television side,
(03:46):
it's that much more noise trying to sort through it
and get to a real number. But it's still it's
it's a bad optic when you talk when you have
bad when you have bad ratings, and a good optic
when you have good ratings. Now, why suddenly did we
at nearly over sixteen million people and it peaked at
nineteen million in the fourth quarter? Why does this happen?
Suddenly people start caring about the thunder and the pacers
(04:10):
throughout that. No, they didn't, right, because I saw that,
Oh people started getting into the finals more. No, they didn't,
that's not what happened. Give sports fans more credit than that, right,
because I'll tell you exactly why we have become a
society where we now watch sports when we have to, right,
(04:31):
Like we know when we can parse stuff out, and
we watch when it matters. And we watch every Sunday
in the NFL because every Sunday means so much. Games
that your your local team is playing one day a week,
you watch that game right now. Do you watch Monday
Night too? Yeah? Do you watch Thursday night too? Yeah,
but not as much as you watch your local team,
and you pick and choose. Hey, I'd love to watch
(04:53):
the Monday night game tonight, but I can't because I
have a bar mitzvah, or I have a dinner, or
I have a Kensanier, or I have a dinner with family,
or I have a business dinner. Right, I don't football? Well,
you never know. Yeah, people people still still schedule stuff.
I mean, you think they would know by now. But
that happens, right, So, okay, get a cheaper rate on
the banquet halls. But but my team is playing. I
(05:16):
gotta find a way to make that happen. Right. Major
League Baseball, Hey, you play every day, you watch, sometimes
you miss, But here's the NBA. Right, Let's focus on
the NBA. The NBA asks a lot of you. They
ask more of you than any other sport, more than
the NHL, more than Major League Baseball, more than the NFL.
They say, we're gonna give you a three month marathon
(05:37):
of playoffs, right, We're gonna this is gonna see them
feel like it goes forever. And when just when we
get to the best part, we're gonna give you a
schedule that looks like it's gonna take two and a
half weeks to play this NBA Finals, Right, And you
lose a lot of steam, a lot of momentum because
for the viewer and for the fan, it's okay, it's
all everything you did to get to the finals. And
now suddenly, yeah, game one is in five days, and
(06:00):
Game two is three days after that, and Game three
is a couple of days out. Then we're taking three
days off until Game four, and you lose a lot
of steam and momentum. Now, think about this from the
perspective of when you're gonna tune in and watch. People
didn't start watching the series going, oh I like the
thunder or oh I like the paces. If they didn't
like the paces of Thunder going in, no one just
(06:20):
does our homeogo, I'm gonna learn about these teams. Oh, look,
I like this. No, what it is is it's the
NBA Finals. So the average NBA fan knows, and the
average sports fan knows because our lives are different now,
and our lives are taken up by much more, much
more events, and we're busier than we ever were, and
there's big things going on politically, or there's big things
going on over the course of a week. I pick
(06:42):
and choose when I need to watch games. And for
NBA fans, the average NBA fan is going, Oh, the
NBA Finals. They don't starting the five day you know what.
I'll check back in with that series as it gets longer,
and if it gets closer at the end, I'll watch.
So what did we get? We got Game seven, Game seven.
I'm gonna watch Game seven. It's a Sunday, it's a
Sunday night. The last of us isn't on. The season
(07:03):
is over. I'm gonna I'm gonna watch it. Right, we're
out of school, we're into the summer. People are getting
on vacation. I'm gonna watch Game seven of the NBA Finals.
It didn't matter who it was, it was Indiana Oklahoma City.
It could have been the Kings and the Pistons. It
could have been the Knicks and the Lakers. But people
are gonna watch Game seven because it's a thing. It's
when the NBA matters. And this is when the NBA
(07:24):
happened to matter here because it's an NBA finals of
two smaller market teams. It doesn't didn't quite have the
star power. So yeah, if it doesn't grab your attention
right away, you're gonna say when do I need to
tune in? If it was Nicks Lakers, you would say,
I'm watching game one, Game two, game Vinay, it doesn't matter.
But when you feel this series needs to be it's
getting your attention, that's when you'll watch. So people started
(07:45):
watching and it just happened to matter for Game seven, Right,
that's just happened to be where this is for the playoffs.
But that's it for all sports. Now we watch when
things matter. Do we watch college football every Saturday? Yeah?
Do you watch every game? Do you watch Saturday night? Get?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You pick and choose because we're generally overserved in sports.
Now we get there. You know, for all of the
talk about oh the dude, look at these games, how
you have to pay to watch this game? Pay to
watch this game? You know, we get everything? Now you
get everything. You get, You get all kinds of college
football you could possibly want. On Saturdays, you get everything
single NFL you could possibly want. On Sundays, right, you
get no even no matter what your cable package is.
(08:24):
You get your local team, you get a doubleheader, you
get the Sunday night game. It do you get? You
get the Monday night game? Okay, right, you get enough football? Right,
We're overserved. So now fans are getting a little bit
smarter and getting a little bit more picky and a
little bit more strict with their time saying okay, you
know what, It's not like it used to be, where
while I'm watching the game on Monday, watching the game
(08:45):
on Thursday, watching the game. No it's okay, well I'm
gonna miss this. I can miss that, but I have
to watch this. We watch when it matters. Game seven mattered,
didn't matter the matchup, but people watch. That's why you
had sixteen nineteen million people. Well why you get twenty
million people watching the ends a men's tournament final and
watch the rest of the year. There's consequence. Obviously, you
(09:07):
get into the march madness, and people have their wagers,
their pools, whatever else, and now they want to be
an expert on all the teams that made the field
and complain about the couple that got snubbed all of
those things. But it's it's the curiosity, and I always
get the blowback of yeah, you guys and media, you're
given this, you're giving that. It's like, no tickets and
(09:28):
stuff don't flow as quickly as you thought. And nobody
has handed me any money to pay me for any
of my streaming services anytime recently. So I'm paying just
like you. But you have the choice. As you talked
about growing up, what did we have? I had the
Bears and then either the Cowboys or the forty nine
ers after it. On a Sunday Monday night football, I
got to stay up for a half. Occasionally you can
(09:49):
convince your parents to let you stay up a little
bit longer. That's it. I used that to you. Yeah,
because I would watch the first time, I would always
have to go to beut a head here in New York.
I'm in Chicago. Yeah, game starts, I have to go
to bed before like ten third. Like you can watch
the first half, right, and I go to I go,
I go to bed, and I'm thinking about the game.
It's like ten three at halftime, and think at all
the Giants couldn't run the ball or the Redskins were
(10:11):
doing this, so the Cowboy's doing this. And then you
wake up the next day and goes, yeah, you know finals,
go Cowboys beat the Giants twenty eight, twenty seven. Well,
you know, a last second touch of bascle. It doesn't
even seem like the same game that I watched, the
entire first halftime, adjustments there was what there were there
were there were like four touchdowns in the second half hour.
It would seem like the same game. But that's it, right,
(10:32):
that that's the way we consume things. And now people
complain about the service like you don't have to watch
it all, like nobody's forcing you to. And clearly you
voted as a collective. Again, noise and numbers, but to
the you come when it matters and these numbers. Anybody
that's trumpeting, Oh yeah, I guess they you know the
little guy people watch, Yeah, people watch a game seven, Yeah,
(10:55):
that the two can still be a I don't care
what uniform it was, what city it was could have
been the two smallest markets in the known universe. If
they're playing in a game seven, winner take all, I'm
showing up, especially if you know, I'm done with my
soccer tournament for the weekend in and I'm trying to
relax a little bit. Yeah, I mean, I wonder if
(11:16):
we're gonna get to a point where and again that
this could be this is just me, you know, spitballing
where people are gonna bid on games, and and networks
are gonna bid on games, and they're gonna say, we
just want to bid on game five through seven of
the finals, right, you will split it. It'll be less money,
and we have games one through four and then because
(11:39):
that it used to be that way, right NBCA. I
remember sometime like NBC would say that, oh we god
fun the first four games. Hey now the t now,
TNT crew whatever would take you to the last five.
I wonder if we ever get back to that where it's, hey,
game one through four is gonna be one level of
pricing to bid on, but if you want games five
through seven, you bid on that. Obviously, if there's no
game five, you know, you know the money is not there.
(12:00):
So I wonder if that would ever be part of
part of a package going on. You get this is
what I'm gonna bid on. Yeah, the hard part is that,
and then you got to do all the make goods
or just give all the money back. So how early
is it paid to you buy advertiser but you spent
you sell those ad spats giving back anyway, even if
one network has it, you don't have Game six, Game seven,
you're still giving. My point is you're you're collecting all
(12:21):
that ad money you got to get back. You got
to really make the most of your investments. It's like
buying concert tickets. What it's a concert November? What is it?
It's February three. I'll get that money back to you,
just just to give me a little bit. Okay, Okay,
hey Bernice, when they call again and you can't find me, okay,
we've invested this. Much like when you went to the
car wash money a new car. Nobody there's no car
(12:42):
wash there. You gotta listen to the whole show. Nice
call back, but again, I mean, this is what we
watch when it matters. Now, that's bad news for the
for for networks who are spending all money on stuff
because Hey. Live programming is always a big thing, but
now we're much more discerning because we're overserved with sports,
and especially this NBA Finals. Yeah, like if you if
you know, Hey, NBA Final. But we're waiting four days
(13:03):
and they're starting and game six, Game seven isn't for
two and a half weeks. Yeah, I'll keep track of
it and maybe i'll watch the end of the game.
If it's close, I'll tune in, but I don't really
need to. Yeah, I want to watch game six or
Game seven. I'll still follow Following along without watching has
become a great sportsman's and sports fans way of consuming sports.
The last, following along without watching, that's a big thing.
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Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
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Coming up next, we got more from the NBA Finals
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what it's coming up next? Right here?
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Speaker 1 (15:25):
We got the game coming up in a few minutes.
Frostburg's got a game. I asked if it was about
Martin Cove or Cobra kay reunions, and he said, if
a man confronts you on the street, that man is
your enemy, so he's not lying. The uh. The headline
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that shared importance with Game seven of the NBA Finals
a day ago, Kevin Durant dealt to the Houston Rocket.
KD said, hey, listen, it's one of my preferred destinations.
And the deal goes down, and now KD is a
Houston Rocket. Two big things One Houston gave up way
(16:13):
too much for Kevin Durant, way too much. Jalen Green
is a young, ascending player, led the team in scoring
last year. I don't care if maybe we were looking
for way to move on. You didn't need to give
him up to get a thirty seven year old Kevin Durant. Right,
you traded away Dylan Brooks as well, who is a
great rotation guy. These guys are getting so yeah, but
(16:34):
I mean they're valuable, right, someone who plays great d
hits threes, right, because he hits threes, These guys are
valuable number ten overall pick five second round picks. It's like,
who did you bid against for Kevin Durant. Nobody else
was gonna give any of that up, right, Nobody else
is gonna give it Kevin Durant is basically it's a
salary dump. Okay, it's money. It's not working out. Phoenix
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was desperate to move on from him. Mark Stein hold
us that on Friday night when he joined us, and listen,
Phoenix wants to make a trade and have Kevin Durant
dealt before the draft so badly. And the Rockets decided, hey,
we're gonna panic and give you everything. I mean, really,
you're talking about two starters. One is a young, ascending player.
I don't get it, right, I don't get that you
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had to give up this much for Kevin Durant. Hey,
we're gonna take him off of your hands. Right. He's
not Kevin Durant to five seven years ago. This is
not This is a Kevin Durant in twenty twenty five.
That okay? Is he still gonna be healthy enough? He's
a guy that scores. But we'll get to his impact
in a minute. But overall, this was way too much.
And I guarantee you every NBA team right now is saying, oh, well,
(17:40):
I'm glad we stayed out of that because we weren't
giving up anything close. We feel good not going into
the Spurs, feel good not going in on that for
Kevin Durant the Knicks. In the beginning, we're saying, nope, sorry,
we don't want KD by way. I know, oh you
didn't want to come to us five seven years ago
when you had a chance. Oh now, forget it, we
don't want you out. Every team around the NBA is said,
I'm so glad we didn't going on that. Yeah, I
(18:01):
think some of it comes back to it was narrowed
down to three teams where Kevin Durant had the hand
in the deal, as he talked about in his interviews
at Fanatics Fest. You know when he found out, broke
the news on stage with Taylor Rooks and then talking
to Kay Adams and everybody else. But it's the idea
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that you bring him into a pretty good roster and
you kept a pretty good core. You had to distress
property in theory in Phoenix that you shouldn't have had
to give up much. But you can argue that five
second round picks isn't a whole lot, right, It's no,
but it's more value and more assets that you're able
(18:44):
to know. I get it right, the number ten, not
like the number ten pick you say, oh, we have
a guy we're going to get. But it's the value
of that pick, the value of five seconds to be
able to move around, to be able to sweet like
you give up like I want like me, I really
want that, Jimmy Johnson, charge them. Okay, here's the value
of everything you gave up and what it means like
when you go to a dynasty trade calculator in football,
going oh, do I want to trade so and so
(19:05):
for so and so. And they calculate a player's value
not just for this year, but for the rest of
their career and say, Okay, you're trading a player that's
got a value of seven thousand for a player with
a value of three thousand. Don't do this deal. Or
you're trading a player with a value of five thousand,
you're asking for a player with a value of ten thousand.
That team is not going to that owner is not
going to do that trade with you. Yeah, we'd heard
that had been down to three teams talking Miami trying
(19:27):
to make a splash, but there were young players they
didn't want to get rid of. You talk about san Antonio,
They sure as hell weren't giving up the number two pick.
And if they were able to get de Aaron Fox
without giving up any of their core, they weren't going
to give up any of those guys for Kevin Durant.
So that was a non starter. So that leaves you
with Houston and they get to keep Singoon, They get
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to keep Aman Thompson, some of the other Smith junior
and go on down the line. They keep a lot
of a roster that got them to the second place
finish in the regular season. The one thing with Jalen Green,
what does he do? He's a scorer. Kevin Durant's a score.
Kevin Durant's a proven guy at the back end. And
I know you've got an injury history, his age, many
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a weary mile on those legs. But I think with
Houston they'd signed Jalen Green, and he's a guy that
we'd heard potentially trade rumors. I'd seen him photoshopped into
myriad uniforms over the last couple of months of he
ain't gonna be here because they hadn't seen the advancement.
And with Udoka that he's got other veterans like Van
(20:30):
Vliet and others that you bring in. Kevin Durant, he's
your closer and you can be judicious with his minutes
to keep him fresh for the long, arduous second season
of the playoffs that we've been talking about here tonight.
So in the end, while it looks a lot, you're
not exactly talking about a bevy of draft picks that
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are expected to become superstars out of this draft either.
So the number ten pick doesn't have the same juice.
Perhaps that it did once upon a time, roster building
being at a different place than it was a few
years back. Now, the other part of it is this,
how much do I like this trade for the Rockets? Nah? Now,
only because you know, I say what I say, and
(21:13):
I think what I think, and I said that I'm
not a big I'm not going to go crazy to
get KD. And I don't like the Rockets gave up
too much. But the one team I said that is
the best fit where Slim Reaper can come right in
and contribute is the Rockets because they need somebody to
make big shots at the end of game, right, the
one thing they're missing, Right, They had a nice, really
good young corn Loook shing Gun is really good and
(21:34):
Fred van Vliet is a terrific point guard. You know
they need someone, Okay, So I get it right, So
I get KD because he kind of fits there. But
KD is not sending you and not bringing you to
the finals. He's not right because he's someone who, at
this point in his career, he gets his he gets
his points. That's what he does, right, He gets his points, right,
twenty seven a game, he gets it. But players who
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get their points They're not leading you anywhere, right, I
guarantee you. The next thought, Gay getting Kevin Durant, He's
gonna lead us to the fight. Nope, didn't happen. Again,
she was too big, I guarantee you. The Phoenix Suns thought, hey,
he's gonna lead us some Nope, not happening. Right. So
the last two teams the last six years both thought
KD is gonna bring us there, and he didn't lead
them anywhere. And this is when he was playing with
really good all NBA type players on the team on
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both of those teams, and it didn't work. Yeah, you're
getting a guy that can score, and he's gonna score
in big moments, Kenny, Yeah, but can he still score
with teams that are gonna roll coverages to him in
the final final minute of games? Is he's still gonna
be that guy at thirty seven? Can he still play?
Can he stay healthy? Right? Like this is I don't
look at Kevin Durant as a piece it's gonna put
them over the top. Yeah he fits with Houston. Okay, great,
(22:41):
But I'm just kind of met on it. And I
get that the odds for the Rockets to go to
the finals had to go down because people are gonna say, oh,
let me put money on them. Sorry, we got to
make it down because that's gonna be a big bet.
It'll be an expensive payout for Vegas. But overall, like
like KD is not suddenly gonna like in seven years
he's been, he's not been really relevant in seven years.
Only now on this Rockets team, seven years after the
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last time he was he really meant something, which was
twenty nineteen. He's doing day Now, He's gonna lead them
to the finals. Not happen. Come on, he never did
leg day And that was the guy that came into
the league. They were like, ah, this guy's never gonna
make it. Look how leany is that. I go back
and look at his tops, chrome rookie card, and I
see sticks where legs should be. Uh, And yet here
he is all these years later and so many points.
(23:24):
But it's to the to the point for what Houston
is that with the number two seed out of the West,
you lose to the Warriors, go back to Phoenix and
the imperfect roster, and this is where it's the curiosity, right,
and that changeover seven champions seven years. As we've talked
about but also you're not looking at a team that's
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you know, replete with but just superstars that we have,
and that was in vogue for a while. What didn't
work in Brooklyn. Again, if his shoe was a half
size smaller, maybe we have a different outcome. And Milwaukee
never gets their title. But then he goes to Phoenix
and now you got to combat de Marcus Cousins saying
everybody was fist fighting in the background, so that you
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got that going on, which is fun. So in perfect
Truck here it's a bunch of guys still on the
come and guys that have shown to be good teammates,
like ver Fred van Vliet, And he got a guy
in Nudoka showing that he could be a leader. So
Durant trade out for Jalen Green. He's a scorer. Durant's
a score, come in and do his thing. So I'm
(24:28):
slightly bullish. And also we were just talking about okay
see and not really saying all right, they gave us
the best sixty eight wins and they got their title,
but you could see the flaws in their game. So
if you're Houston, why wouldn't you say, hey, let's push in.
We get rid of the guy that we have already
paid that we don't see developing in this system. Get
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more minutes, more playing time and rotation for these other guys,
and you bring in the slim reaper to close the
door like it. I'll tell okay, you watch wait and see.
Oh no, this season's going to be a lot like
last season. Well yeah, because that's kde I'm telling you,
it's just meh. It's just meh. Time not to find
(25:09):
out what's trending in the wide rolling sports. But guy
who was definitely not meth it's Steve de Seger wife.
Thank you, hey, good even to you once again, gentlemen. Pacers
guard Tyrese Haliburton had his surgery tonight for a torn
achilles He could miss next season. His Indiana team was
a four seed this postseason. Still only one team seeded
lower than third has won the title. That was the
(25:29):
Rockets in nineteen ninety five. Oklahoma City's Game seven winning
the finals last night drew over sixteen million TV viewers.
The Celtics tonight are trading guard Drew Holliday to Portland
for Afony Simons, who has an expiring contract, and for
two second rounders, the WNBA is off tonight four games Tomorrow,
the A's broke ground on a baseball stadium on the
(25:50):
Las Vegas Strip where the Tropicana used to be, across
from the MGM. Air Conditioning in the new place will
be distributed through the seats instead of a centralized system
allparksdue to cost one point seventy five billion dollars in
seat thirty three thousand fans, is expected to be finished
in time for the twenty twenty eight season. The A's
are in Sacramento for now. By the way, state of
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Nevada and Clark County have already approved up to three
hundred eighty million in public funds for their part of
the project. The funding bill for Arizona's Chase Field passed,
it'll be signed by the governor. Now the stadium's owned
by the county. The Diamondbacks lease there runs currently only
through twenty twenty seven. Prosecutors in the Dominican Republic requested
a five year sentence for Ray's suspended shortstop Wander Franco
(26:35):
for sexual abuse of a minor. Decision on this comes Thursday.
As for Major League Baseball, on the field tonight, Washington
A ten to six winner in the late game at
San Diego, James Wood, former Padres draft Joys, had three hits,
including a homer four RBIs. The Padres now five and
a half games behind the idle Dodgers in the NL West.
San Francisco three and a half back. The Angels beat
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Boston nine to five with four runs in the bottom
of the eighth. Angels closer Kenniley Jansen left in the
ninth with what looked like a shoulder injury. They said
it was simply a cramp in the pectoral muscle. Walker
Buehler was the Boston starter, no decision, but it was
an adventure. He allowed five runs in the first, including
two bases loaded walks and the bases loaded hit batter,
(27:18):
eventually seven walks in Bueller's four innings. Arizona won ten
nothing at the White Sox. Arizona signed veteran catcher James McCann.
Outfielder Corbyn Carroll was out again with what's called a
fractured wrist. A Henneo Suarez of Arizona, who just won
Player of the Week in the National League for the
third time this year, was hit by a pitch early
(27:38):
in this game on the hand X rays were negative
wins for Pittsburgh and the Cardinals. Seattle's Cal Raley with
his thirty second home run and an eleven to win
at Minnesota. Cincinnati six won over the Yankees, but Aaron
Judge hit his twenty eighth home run. Baltimore shut out
Texas six to nothing, and the Mets have lost nine
of ten. Atlanta beat him three to two. Ronald Acunya
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with a solo homer.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's been back a months from the long injury layoff
and is batting three ninety six.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Beg to you, thanks, Steve. And when I say thanks Steve,
I mean blank you. Steve all right swinging a long one.
So we got a game going on right now. Steve's
gonna play it with U. We're all gonna play me, Mike,
Steve Frostburg ty shirt. I have no idea what this
game is. Frows, I got a great idea. I said, Okay,
we're gonna play gain. If this is about name the
(28:25):
teams that Mets lost to in the last ten days,
we're not playing way too many.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
I wouldn't do that to you guys, all right, Braves, Phillies, Rays, raise,
we don't ever do this Okay, we never ever ever
talk about the Angels.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, true, but they did something tonight. Like your friend
Jason stark A, he says, right, something that you've ever
seen some years in baseball, you see something new all
the time. Yes, this is the second time this has happened. Okay,
with Reed, Debtmers and Sam Bachman pitching the night for
the Angels. Okay, they got all eight of their first
round picks in the game. Okay, that's a quiz.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I'll say, Troy Gloss, Darre Nurse dead tonight, Jared Weaver.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Troy Percival. I'm doing that. The Angels are the first
team to use all eight of their own first round
draft picks in the game since the Brewers in nineteen
ninety one on July third. Okay, so nineteen ninety one,
July third, the Brewers had eight first round picks playing. Again.
Since I'm a nice guy, I'm not gonna make you
name all eight of the Angels eight first rounders of
(29:30):
their own correct. Wow. Okay, so first time since ninety
one Brewers. But I will make you name the eight
Brewers too early for Ryan Braun all right to, I'll
give you right away because I know that we're both
still playing, mollitor and you out. Yes right, Malia, we're
both still playing. You have six left. I gotta get
six more. Okay, this is all the way back to nineteen.
(29:54):
I'm in college, the Brewers. This was the cecil Cooper,
Greg bron No, Greg was a dodger. See Charlie Moore. Well,
you guys only get like three strikes? Where do we go?
Hang on? Hang on?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Hey, okay, hold on, Jason?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Two for two?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Jason, remember the hoff I'm going with Sir hoff Oh stop,
you looked up BJ. So talking to you.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He's a definite. Yes, you absolutely, we know You're welcome, Jason.
Just say good job, Alex. No, we're the same team.
Way to cheat, Alex lose. You guys can't get along.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
First round? Okay, I'm gonna go. So it's five left.
We named Paul was playing center field. Mallodor was probably
the d H at that point, Sir hoff was catcher.
And who else do we say? We said, BJ Sir
Hoffner play second? Yeah, but that was too where Jim
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Gantner was early eighties. Uh oh, Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield,
you have four left? Why right? Jeff Jenkins Jeff Jenkins, Usc,
you get out of here. You're wrong. I think that's
too early for Jakins.
Speaker 4 (31:08):
Jason, do you want some help again?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What did you look up this time? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Do you want help? Sure? Yeah? I gotta see.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Can you believe the talent I work with these days?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Okay? I really thought Jeff Jenkins, I thought I had
Jeff Jenkins.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
All right?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Good, I am aspiring to say Bill Spires, Bill.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
There's one. You guys have three laughs, Bills. I don't
know that I'm getting any of them. Oh, I got nothing.
I was trying to picture old rookie cards. Yeah, no,
do we really have to go to tysher for the
remaining ninety one Brewers? Are any of them? Pitchers? Bosio?
Is that too early for pat less Dash? So we
(31:49):
said bj Sirhoff, the al Spires, Gary Sheffield, Paul Muller
and Robin I don't know man Gorman Thomas was still
early that whole.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, those are the Rob robbed Jason. Come on, Rob
Deer's a good guess there is Rob Deer. No, but
I like that.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I just swinging a miss right there, just like Rob Dear.
He's saying very nice, I'm saying, is it Robbed Deer
and Tyser telling me, oh no, no, not rob Deer. No,
not him, yes, exactly no not Robbed Deer.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Didn't you like when they brought in Vaughan? How about
Greg Vaughan?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Oh, Greg Vaughan, very I should have got there are
two left.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I should have got Greg vaugh Jason if you need
me anymore, just like especially.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Since Major League is he's right now different yeah, different, vall.
This is the slugger for the World Series. Two lefts
Greg Vaughan, Okay, we probably got the outfield, probably had
the outfield there he did, Sir Hoff, Spires, Sheffield, Monitor,
Vaughn and ye out. I don't know that I'm getting
(32:53):
anybody else. Yeah, no, I'm no. Not Mike Caldwell. That
was too Mike called Weell. I thought you'd go Willie Randolph,
Willy Randolph. He's not the answer.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Oh, shout us to Dan Bayer. I'm going Dan, please sack.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Oh you have one left. Steve Horseman. You know people
are listening to the show for the first time, going wow,
the engineer knows a lot about the ninety one visitors.
I just looked up Jeff Jenkins was nineteen ninety five first. Yeah. Yeah,
jedd Let's Stash was the rookie of the Year in
(33:32):
ninety two. I just didn't know if he had been called.
Really upset that I didn't get Jeff Jenkins. I'm trying
to think of a starting pitcher that may have started
the game for the for the Brewers in ninety one.
Not Pete Lack, Dan Plee. Well, no, we were even closing.
Pleie Sack was a closer. Al right, So y'all failed,
(33:53):
We tapped we tap it out? Seven should answered most
of them? He did.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I got the last one.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Yes, that was very much a tower of terror.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Who was the who we miss you? Ready? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Dale sim Dale, Swain Swaying, Dale Swayin. Oh, I know
him personally likesm Dale's for you.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
The ems Dale sway.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
He says he's Dutch.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
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silent name all any of the Angels. Forget it. I'm
just kidding. They just called up their first rounder from Tennessee,
Taylor Ward Taylor Ward, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift,
John Sure everybody who started with always yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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oh yeah, I started. Yeah, all those guys starting now, Wow,
that's pretty I like that. Frost bring a good game,
T shirt. Wait to go man, Frank, how about Frank?
We done t J Frank Tanana Dakery into pitch for
the Brewers. J More debt mers than Bachmann debtmer. I
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just saw a lot of those guys play when I
went to the Grup. It was the first rounder. He's
the top seven sucks he was, No, he was. He
wasn't number one, but he was a top ten pick.
Mike Trout really yeah, pretty sure, barely plays. I know. Well,
back then he had a lot of promise, a lot
of potential. They thought he could do something. Uh. Coming
up next, what is the big impact off of tires
Halliburton's injury on the NBA. We'll tell you next. Jason
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I'm your poppy Chulow. So as we get say, as
we put the NBA season to bed and get ready
for the draft. It's one day to put it to bed,
done in thirty six hours.
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Look, we're still coming off Game seven of the NBA
Finals and Tyres Halliburton's Achilles injury that honestly had flipped
the game. Things were going the Pacers way in the
first half and that would have been a game. You
could tell they were starting to put their will on
the game. But second half without Halliburton, it was just
too much to overcome. They couldn't hit their threes. But
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the big takeaway from this is that, and you know,
cause you always learn from something like this, is that
Halliburton's just the latest star player to have a calf
strain turn into a full blown Achilles tear, which we've
seen now for many players. Right, three players had it
happened this this postseason, including two superstars. Right. We watched
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the Jets season get derailed because Aaron Rodgers strain calf
turned into a full blown Achilles two years ago. Right,
Kevin Durantz strain calf in the NBA Finals turned into
a full blown Achilles. You were gonna see teams now
when when a player has a strained calf like that
used to be like, ah, it's a one to two
week injury, Like you're Halliburton, say I'd be out in
what one or two weeks? Okay, But that's now gonna
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become a six week injury because teams are gonna say
it is not worth it for a strained calf to
try to come back and play when clearly this could
be the result which would cost you a season and
maybe two seasons depending where it's at, because Halliburn's not
gonna play probably all this season. Jason Tatum is not
gonna play probably all of this season. So now you're
costing them a season and then coming back from an achilles.
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It's generally you see a team a player doesn't get
back to fully normal until they're two years removed from
the injury. So teams are gonna see this and go okay, Now,
we've seen it too many times where someone has an
achilles injury or someone has a strained calf. We don't
want it to turn into that, and not all of
them do, but it's gonna be. We want to be
safe because this guy is a star player, and we
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don't want to because look at the Celtics, right they
traded Drew Holliday tonight, they're changing up their entire team
because if Jason Tatum's injury right, Porzingis is gonna go.
This roster is gonna be unrecognizable next year because they
have to move on because this era is over. So
you aren't going to see team say okay when it
comes to these star players. This injury is going to
be a six weeks, gonna be a long term thing
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now because better safe than sorry, and we don't want
you to come back and really really do all kinds
of career damage because that sets our franchise back, not
just to you. Well, talk about Tatum, talk about Halliburton.
You go over to Damian Lillard. Questions of Giannis does
he stay or does he go? More noise to the
idea that he stays in Milwaukee and they retool. Eastern
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Conference is up for grabs. He got Cleveland as you
your clear winner, but you also still have you know,
Orlando already made a big move to get into it.
But this type of injury still going through the data, right,
We've done it with other sports, you know, baseball and
torn Laboram's and UCLs and and how do you go
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through those processes, How fast do you push a guy
back and whether it's an inevitable injury that it's going
to pop eventually. Was the question we asked when Durant
got onto the court. Going back to the finals. It's
a question we've asked with Haliburton over the last week,
you and I talking about It's like, all right, he
played a lot of minutes, played a lot of good
minutes in game six when they needed him, until Okasee said, yeah,
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we got a home game in game seven, so he
only played twenty three minutes. Was that tonight? Because even
Halliburton put out of a long thing on Twitter and
had his comments saying, I do it again, I take
my shot. And also, did you know that you know
where where was the percentage of all right, you'll be
able to get through unscathed versus hey, this could blow
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it anything. Where was any of the of the Pacers
medical concern because that's the big question now, is that
Wait a minute, so you played, he got hurt in
game five, he got examined, he played thirty four minutes,
then he got an MRI. Everything was fine. He had
a full workload in game six until they didn't need
him because they were up so big, but he didn't
do anything less And he comes back and plays in
game seven, like, Okay, where was the I mean you
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put him back on the floor when clearly it looked like, hey,
you had every single chance to lighten his workload or
examine him that that's the next big question. Well, and
he said it was still sore, right, his calf was
still hurting and entire Latin joked about it and his
girlfriend helping him while they sat and watched Love Island,
which evidently is now the thing for NBA players to
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give miser rate about. Maybe the podcast. It's a lot
of people are love adding to people, our kids watch it.
They can't try to drag me into it because it
is a daily event. And the thing is, I know
people that you wouldn't think would. It's not in your wheelhouse.
And all of a sudden, after like two episodes, Oh
I'm in Love Island. I'm in, I'm in, I'm in.
I'm like, oh wow. Yeah. They also want me to
watch the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders show that's back on No,
(40:40):
watch the movie from nineteen seventy eight where Bucky Dent
plays a football player watching mean Bucky leaping dent, Jane Seymour. Yeah,
that's the one you want to watch. Well, it's got
Jane Seymour. I'm sold. My buddy Ben Maller coming up
next to this as Fox
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