June 26, 2025 • 30 mins
Jason and Mike recap the Round 1 of the NBA Draft. And the guys breakdown the Portland Trail Blazers drafting Colin Cowherd!
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Uh So we'll get to a big The biggest question
coming out of the first round of the NBA Draft
coming up in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Which player actually likes where he was drafted? Eight seven seven.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Besides Cooper Flag, how many people like where they were drafted?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, we also had the phenomenon that only two teams
actually drafted their spot after the tenth pick.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Phenomenon. It's phenomena phenomenon. Uh yeah, once you get outside
the tenth.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Pick, everything was it's players and trades where you can't
even keep it, you can't keep it strong. How many
times this trade hands before this guy actually got picked? Here?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I guarantee you if I was producing the draft, producing
the NBA draft, I could send notes onto the to
the set, to the talent, and I could just make
up whatever I wanted to and they would go with it.
Hey that this pick was traded to the nick and
in and in return they got back Dwight Shreut. Okay, hey,
(02:04):
Dwight true, Hey you know what hey be for Krutan?
And yeah, it's a big move right there, big move,
jig move getting Dwight Tree. He was a pretty good
power forward in famous you know office versus the Warehouse game.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He's uh, he's he's he has to leave Mose behind
but you know he's gonna legend. Uh, but tonight really
is is gonna be known for the draft where even
the most staunchest of NBA insiders are gonna be shocked
that some of the people who got drafted.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be stunning. It's gonna be' stunning, right, Okay,
you know Cooper flag number one, sure, okay, and then
you got Dylan Harper number two. Okay, we'll get to
the Ace Bailey thing at five in a few minutes.
But okay, I got.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Rich Paul got his dude drafted in in the middle
of the round.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Come on, yeah, maybe think that he could have had
Brownie James drafted earlier than last year.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, he didn't work hard.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I mean, come on, man, you got that have you
could want to make it so obvious, would have had
Browny go like, you know, like right after Steph Castle and.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Number rowing alone. So the Trailblazers picked at number eleven,
and I guarantee nobody had this draft pick on their
draft board.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The Portland Trailblazers select Centric Coward from Washington State University.
So the Portland Trailblazers select Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here Ah Colin Coward gets selected by the Blazers, and
you know what happened. Then he traded me to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I started out Portland, didn't want to go there, Oregon,
trail all the way through the state. Now I go
to Memphis. Great barbecue, Memphis, showboats, Reggie White. Now go
to Memphis. Well, you go straight from trailblazing to walking
in Memphis. I can do the show in the morning.
Playing a game at night. Is that bad way to
be Yep? I didn't work out for anybody. Me and
NAIs Bailey still drafted both of us. I mean, conceptually,
(03:57):
we've all agreed that it's okay to play and do
your sport and do a podcast. So just say it's
a longer podcast. How the NBA goes, I'll do it
at the end like Draymond, We'll do a show in
the morning, game podcast, rinse, repeat next day. It works
and if you can get the game, you get to
do it earlier. I'll coach Memphis two. You're gonna co Yeah, coach.
(04:18):
I'll do do it all. Take a lot of threes.
It's gonna work. Time management skills, certainly under pressure. Looking
forward to doing my blazing five picks with the Blazers
made sense. Blazing five picks, Blaze easily done now now
Blazer five and Memphis. I mean that graphic builds itself.
I got the Grizzly picks. Grizzly picks, Now that's what
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it's going to be. So it's gonna be five things
you hate still as Grizzly picks still is the worst
things that happened in the sporting universe today, Blazing five ones,
Griz I kind of like, there you go, right there,
Grizzly picks.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You know, hey, hey, speaking of Grizzlies, watch the Bear.
Season four didn't today?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, munch came out. You think something that happens in
this season little so many times the channel is in
her Springsteen. I dropped all the episodes at once. Not
a great sign, Not a great sign. Hey, season three
not good. I could recap season three like the next season.
I got to say, not not terribly excited by the
dropping all at once. That is always that. It's always
makes me a little nerves O.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, so guys, I've investigated this. Yeah, Andrew's Colin Coward.
Then okay, sure she's a free agent. She did this
purposely Okay, I've broken it down.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
She did it purposely, okay, because she wants to join
the volume.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, I have no idea why. Okay, but she's trending.
It was done purposely.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Good Colin Coward does get her some juice, no question
about it. Sure, we did a little bit of cursory
research in that her contract is up unless there's a
renewal that has not been announced, and the follows her
and Windy we're expected free agents, which is why Shams
was running unopposed, like a local election, running out of
(06:02):
those forced If you watch it really, it really looks. Wow,
you're not getting too conspiracy theory. Honest with that? You think, really, okay,
me get conspiracy. I don't know, you know what I mean.
I would never come on there tomorrow morning. I planted
it and look at it. Oh, he's gonna do the
(06:22):
show in a Blazers jersey. No, he's now, he's in Memphis.
Now it's Memphis. Now they trained him right away. I
think maybe the Blazer are real.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh man, we drafted a television personality, I mean a
really successful one.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What he does. He was always drafted by the Portland
Trail Blazer. That's true. That's true. I started there, not
going back there, No, no, no, went Portland, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Chicago.
It's me. Can we get him in an original Grizzlies
Jersey to start tomorrow's show throw back Bryant Reeves the
Big Country Grizzlies Jersey. Wow, what a pull the sharif
(06:54):
Raheem Jersey. Nice. Yeah, yeah, I think that would be good.
I know, let's hear it again. Let's hear it again.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Let's let's I'm gonna listen to it like Frostburg, listen
to think that maybe this was Don Wadris.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Before you play it, you gotta watch the video too,
because you have to see your face.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you can hear it here. Okay, all right, God, look, the.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Portland Trailblazer select Centric Coward from Watchington State University. So
the Portland Trailblazers select Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She even thinks about it for a sex should I
say it or not?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And she does? Ah, it's a casual dress. NBA draft.
Once upon a time, there was this this thing we're watching,
and they had the hijacking with a guy that was
dressed like that Mac Tonight character, and he just kind
of bounced around like they interrupted the cable signal. Now,
that would have been funny if all of a sudden
(07:44):
you had a Colin Coward takeover, like the Joker in
the nineteen eighty nine Batman when the mayors try to
give a speech and he just pushes him off. I'm
in control. Now. It's the Herd live during the NBA Draft.
Congratulations Colin. I mean that is awesome. I mean yeah,
(08:05):
that's the best advertising you never had to pay for. There.
We I guarantee you.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
At ESPN they saw that one oh Man man Now
now because the biggest thing we talked about this last hour,
ESPN is fighting the biggest optic with their NBA coverage right,
how how disjointed it is, a big pocket of fans
think they don't make the games look special. They just
don't have an identity. They've never had an identity. They
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keep throwing different people on the air hoping that it
sticks when and and some guys work, and some people
work and some people don't. But they keep cycling through
in there. There's no identity to it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right. The last thing they wanted.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Okay, we don't want the broadcast to make headlines. Want
to do a broadcast where the the event is the star.
Because I tell you, ESPN and people up high, they
look and they are just paniced. They don't want to
get on social media and go are people criticizing our
broadcast because the the the upper management ESPN thinks of
it as this is this is a mark against me
(09:04):
if if if our package is getting made fun of. Sure,
the last thing they wanted is for something like this
to happen. And what's the biggest Cooper Flagg It's taken
number one overall, Colin Coward goes eleventh. I mean, I Gary,
what the hell.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is going on? Man? Like this is worse than Stephen A.
Smith playing solitaire in the middle of the NBA Finals
and then doubling down on it. Well, I mean that
was almost in character doing that, but look you have
you have.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
ESPN is fighting such an image battle with with their
NBA coverage and now in the last two weeks it's
here's Malik andersaoning Colin Coward gets drafted when you know,
I guess it's just a slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's just something that said. But it's not something you
can have, especially coming off with Stephen A. Smith playing
Solitaire on the desk because you know, we talked about
that the night had happened. This is not this is
not someone who was boarded NBA Finals game. This is like,
this is not something because oh, I'm playing during a break. Meanwhile,
there's all the video. He's not playing during your break.
Stephen A. Smith is someone who was bored with what
he does. Like, that's what that When you're playing solitaire
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and you're working covering an NBA Finals game, this tells
me you are bored with what you do for a living.
Like you see him, he's jacked up when he goes
on Hannity and all these different shows and talks politics
all there. But like, when you're doing that, it tells
me you should stop doing what you're doing for because
you're bored with what you're doing. You're bored with being
at the NBA Finals talking about a game. I'm just
(10:27):
gonna play solitaire instead of watching the game or at
least putting some kind of effort into what I'm saying.
And that that's the biggest thing. That's the biggest The
big takeaway is that they just gave him so much
money to continue to be the face of the network.
Can he have shown that I am bored doing what
I am doing? Yeah, But to be fair, I mean
it had long been in the books of what are
(10:47):
we talking about this segment? All right? That guy? Yeah,
that guy doesn't play there anymore. Uh, And they have
to correct all of those. So, like you've seen a
number of those instances when they go to talk about
the NFL, in's citing guys that we're on a roster
a decade prior, right, and it happens with the regular
It's like, ah, whatever, So the solitary thing is not
that big at stretch. Now, the fact that he'd been
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on a Law and Order episode less than two weeks earlier, yeah, whatever,
that had filmed, whatever, It just lends to it. But
what's funny is you've just had this constant battle network,
the everybody in media as a whole, and Adam Silver
trying to raise his you know, wag his finger of hey,
(11:30):
we deserve more respect, our products better, don't talk down,
and then time and time again you have this. Now
that would have been better if she said Colton Kowser,
then you could have just said I was thinking about
the woes of the Orioles or Hulehauser. Oh boy, look
at that. But boy he's been dead a decade.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It was like, here's ESPN, right, think about it, because
here's ESPN and not only is the biggest thing a
mistake from the broadcast, but it's something that spotlights the
biggest personality from your biggest competitive right.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
This is not a guy that used to work there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean they like it's like, okay, this is
now where Fox Sports won and Fox Sports Radio gets
all kind of attention because of the big star and
the presence and the personal that Colin Coward is. I mean,
like this this is the worst nightmare for ESPN and said, hey,
we're spotlighting the biggest talent that Fox has and and
the biggest star they have.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I mean it's like they gotta be saying.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
To themselves, how does that happen? How do how does
how does that happen? We were always we produced this
story ready to go, and all of a sudden, with
one fell swoop, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sounds like being an insider and being told don't tip
picks and oh wait uh, this year you didn't have
to worry about that with Champs. No, no, no, no no,
because he has, he's running unopposed. So he just said
you could just sit back and relax and wait for
the pick to go through, and then we'll see which
guy's mad.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And verbally, I think if you wanted to hear the
picks to get tipped, you had to go to Starbucks, right, Frostburg?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is that right? If you wanted the picks tipped in
the NBA drafted to go to Starbucks? Yes, I'm allowed
to tip the picks. Well, okay, all right, exit out
out of the exit swollen dome.
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Speaker 3 (13:29):
So I got a big question about the NBA Draft,
hit Man, I have a question. So the way the friend,
We'll get to the Ace Bailey controversy coming up in
a minute. But you look at the NBA draft, right,
top five picks, h Cooper flag goes number one, Okay, great,
Dylan Harper Rutgers goes second to the Spurs. We talked
about him. We talked about the Spurs and how they
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could be the big power forget about the Thunder. They
can wind up being the big power in the West
in a couple of years because of all the young
talent they ever met. I mean, like Thanos is getting stones,
Like that's what that that's what the Spurs are getting.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
No, he gave us two subplots too, that people are
enamored with Dylan Harper's mom and the comparisons of his
career and what he's gonna earn as a rookie versus
his dad. A five time jacket for a career. Oh,
I think he gives minus twenty one millions. I think
his rookie contract might be more than what Ron Harper is. Yeah,
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it's twenty one million dollars more a fifty six to
thirty five.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So, and then fourth pick is Conkinepple from Duke. Okay,
gra I see that because all right, you know Cooper
flag and and Knepel. Duke had a big year, right
did win the national title, but at a big year
in the regular season, big favorite, you know, long NCAA
tournament run, Okay, I get it. Then at five, Ace
Bailey is picked by the Jazz. Yeah, that part of
the conversation in a few minutes. But you now have
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the number two overall pick in the draft is Harper
from Rutgers. Sure, okay, number five overall pick the draft,
a's Bailey from Rutgers.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Rutgers had two of the top five picks in the
NBA draft. Ye, And they were fifteen and bleeping seventeen
this year in the Big Ten. They finished eleventh in
the Big Ten that now has like seventeen teams.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And they finished fifth.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They couldn't even finish five hundred in a conference in
which two of the top five picks in the NBA
Draft were their players. Sure, And it's not like you're
drafting Harper and Bailey on potential like Ed Davis, who
was a top pick you know, years ago when he
was coming off the bench for North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It doesn't matter. Ed Davis has such a great NBA
future coming, We're gonna take him and we're gonna, you know,
continue to nourish him and get him up and bring
him along slope. No, these are two guys who were stars.
They were the leading scorers of Rutgers in every game
twenty five thirty thirty five, forty points, triple doubles. How
the hell is Rutgers suck so bad? How are they
fifteen and seventeen with two of the top five picks
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in the NBA draft. Well, say you have a dozen eggs, okay,
and you give everybody a basket. Okay, I have a
dozen eggs and I give twelve people baskets. Yeah, okay,
And then you start distributing said eggs. Can you say
you get one? Yeah? And you get one okay, And
then you're playing duck duck goose, and you don't touch
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the rest of the other ten baskets, and you circle
back to those other two guys another five times each.
You get six, you get six, you I'll get nothing.
So what you're saying is TJ, there were too many
eggs in one basket? Correct? Harper nineteen four a game,
Bailey seventeen to six. You didn't have another guy more
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than eight points a game? You average seventy seven or
has a team mad? Oh it does no. And I'm
not saying you needed to be duke and go thirty
one and one, but not fifteen and seventy touch tough conference. No,
it's not the top to bottoms. It's tough to win
on the road in the Big t it's tough to
even going into Welsh Ryan arenas a pain in the
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It's tough to win anywhere in the Big Ten because
Big ten is not good. But it's it's an average year.
You're gonna talk coming from your conference now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It was great, he said, sire. We can't even get
to the tournament. The Art Art Conference is even worse. Exactly,
power is up and down. Big ten was an average
year for the Big Ten, right, it was an average
year for the legendary and you had a team with
two of the top five overall picks and they couldn't win.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They couldn't even be five hundred. Look, man, we're not
playing NBA jam. I think.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
In the in the in the conference tournament. I think
their season ended losing to USC in basketball embarrassing enough,
you losing football, well, you losing basketball to us.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
While that meant their basketball team at least wanted to
play people that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Should that shouldn't be anything that shouldn't be in the realm, though,
but now it helps recruiting.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Think about it going forward. We landed two guys in
the top five of the NBA. So here's a thing. Uh,
you're gonna stink getting your ass kicked every game, you know,
and really underachieving. But when that draft comes, hey, you
could get drafted by a team that doesn't want you
to So come play hard, come play with us. Wait,
am I getting top five money that I'm in dude?
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You can?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You can go play someplace. The second thing off of
because you can get to the NBA from anywhere. But
the second thing they're gonna say to you, you want
to go play a Rutgers They had two They had
two guys that that that was in the top five
of the draft that they could I couldn't win more
than fifteen games.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Dylan Harper remember, made somewhere around one point seven one
point eight million. Well you'd get that they would get
more money someplace else maybe, but you're not the guy. No. Well,
I think Dylan Harper pretty much would be the guy
anywhere else. Because I'm just gonna say that, you know,
for Dylan Harper, I don't think he's worried about, you know,
the failures of Rutgers basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, but I'm saying he's okay, Okay. What I'm saying
is it's not about them, it's the failure of the team.
How how do you have this building back?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean a building. Yeah, you had to go to
the top five. I ain't going there. Man, Look we
could build Look at I'm a starmaker. I am a starmaker.
Look what I did not out with these talents. I
showcase them and now they're top five in the NBA.
Trying to change the argument from but the argument is,
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how do you lose that many games with these two guys?
I get they made We showcased them, and look at
what they were able to do. That's not that's not
the I made them super stuff. You're not answering the question.
The question. I am dancing around your question to create
a better tomorrow question, Jerk, answer the question, I created
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a better future. No, you did. That doesn't make it.
And I said, if we get those two guys, they
from those stones, we are going to build a fortress.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Two of the five top picks in the top five
of the draft, only three schools had players taken. You
had I had.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Two of them, and now coach on his resume NBA
players have made x dollars off of my coaching acumen
got man a s maker John Caliperry can do that
because at least he a wins some games and b
makes it to the NC Tournament. But did. But he
didn't talk about winning for the last decade. But he
didn't have to because his team still won. They still
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won the Southeast Conference or they got far in the tournament.
But he came about the contracts guys were signing less
than He didn't mind him talking about Maker because he
kept having press conferences because when you win, they keep listening.
Just because the NCAA finally caught up to what he'd
been doing for a decade. He was ahead of his time.
I'm gonna do the one and John ahead of his time,
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and now it all came back to him, which is
why he had great success this year. You're insane. I'm
not gonna I'm just not gonna answer how he were
so bad. I'm gonna kind of try to misdirect you
to We'll get all the money my guys made.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, how about let me misdirect to this.
You have an entire basketball program, an entire conference, Like wow,
this would have been great for all of us. No, no,
but these two guys did well. But what about everybody else?
Oh no, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But these two guys got a lot of attention on
the conference now Big ten Home of Stars in top
five dresses. This is like in politics where you could say, hey,
you know the tax cuts are only for the rich.
You know, hey, these two guys did really well. Nobody
else did well, but these two guys did. You don't
want to go politics. There's a lot of crazy stuff
going on from coast to coasts. I think that was
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my favorite head rated top fives from.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The Onion earlier today was like, I think Wes Anderson
has a new movie coming out or it's at some point,
And the Onion headline was you sure you're ready for
a new Wes Anderson movie with all the crazy stuff
that's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The Phoenician Experiment was very good. No, that's the Mark
Williams story. The Phoenician Experiment getting the trade to Phoenix?
Is he gonna pass the physical? Didn't there well that Troy?
Are they gonna get enough backlash that they need do
fail him on the physical like the Lakers did? Hello
Phoenix suns Ah, this is rob Ron polunka h. Might
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want to check that physical before you make that trade
for Mark Williams. Who is this Rob polega Ho. Sorry,
gotta go by. Our fans didn't really like us getting
rid of adult it don't get act. This did not
test well. I got him it Williams.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Williams got traded tonight to the to the Suns, and
it was a It was surprised me because I honestly
thought they would get back to this trade in the offseason.
They would they would have this trade go back again.
They do the connect for Williams trade. Maybe you have
to make things move a little differently to put a
couple other sweeteners in there. But I really thought, Okay,
the Lakers need this. You need an athletic rim runner
(22:45):
for Luca, right, they know you have to go get
that guy. Okay, great. I really thought they would look
back at that trade after Williams played most of the
back half of the season and say, okay, well we'll
do this deal now. Sorry it went through whatever cold feet,
whatever you want to say. I really thought that deal
would get done again, and now it's not because now
he's going to Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. No, that's it, and they drafted Malo Watch
as well, So let's look for that next iteration of
the Phoenix Suns. But like we talked with Rick Buker earlier,
he doesn't believe any of that's, you know, a done
deal in the post Kevin Durant trade, that a bunch
(23:23):
of those guys may still get shipped out of town
before it's done. Exit out bout a Fresca exit swelling Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now,
the Ace Bailey story.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Is something that this was a huge deal. I don't
know if people realized how big a deal this was
coming in tonight. Right, Ace Bailey, you've heard about him
in the last few days. Big obviously, big player, Rutgers
fifteen wins, and he didn't work out for anybody, most
famously didn't want to work out for the seventy six
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ers who held the number three overall pick. And look
for months it's been hey, pretty sure the draft is
gonna go Cooper Flag number one, Dylan Harper number two,
and then as Bailey number three, but he wouldn't work
out for anybody. He wanted to take the power of
the draft and own it, which I get. I completely
understand that, right. He didn't want to start his career
somewhere where I really don't want to go play, So
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by not working out for teams, he wanted to scare
the teams away that he didn't want to take them,
And I'm sure through back channels he kind of let
teams know where he wanted to go. We had heard
that Washington might have been a preferred destin Ah. Shrim
didn't talk to Utah, didn't go there. He even said
at the end when he got drafted by the Jazz
at five, I don't know why they picked me up.
I was surprised they picked me. Well, someone's gonna pick you.
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I mean, you can't be that surprised someone's gonna pick
you because you're a great player. But he tried to
control the narrative of I want to control where I go,
and if I don't work out for you, or if
you don't hear from me, don't draft me, because I
want to go someplace where I know I can go play.
And this is such a big story because if he
got to a place he wanted to go. Let's just
(25:00):
say he's able to get to Washington, right, all of
a sudden, how many players in college basketball, the big
ones are gonna get draft. They're going to say, well,
you know what, that's a big power play, and he
was able to win that. He was able because I
have money, So it doesn't matter if I get less
money if I fall through the draft a bit because
I get to my preferred destination because I've made pretty
(25:21):
good nil money and I've made a million dollars the
last year or two in college, so I have a
little bit of cachet. Or I could say, you know what,
blank that I don't want to go here. I don't
want to go to the Sixers. I want to get
to Washington, and I'm not going to drop precipitously. So
with the slotting system, I'm not losing a ton.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
But if I miss it, but even if I do,
I'm okay with it because I get to a place
I want to be because I have money.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I don't have to worry about money because I haven't.
So this is where the nil A helps empower those players.
If he was able to get there. How many players
would say, oh that I'm doing that. I don't want
to go play in Sacramento, New Orleans, the Knicks, wherever
it is, I don't want to play there. And in
five years, the NBA draft would be completely in need
of change because with so many players doing this, with
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the power to do this.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Now, don't take me. I'm not going to draft there.
The NBA would be stuck. Right, But what happened? He
goes to the Jazz, which allegedly was a team he
didn't want to go to. Maybe now he's happier to
be there, But this is a team, he says, I
don't know why they picked me. This is the Jazz
and the NBA saying, you are not going to tell
us where you go in the draft. This is how
(26:27):
the draft works. It's the best thing we have. If
you think we can find something better, I'll tell you
we can't because we would have found something better. Right.
I get the draft is not perfect and there's certain
foibles you can find in certain warts with the NBA draft. Hey,
players have to start where they might not want to start.
I understand that, but we have the draft this way
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in the NBA. In the NFL because it's the best
thing we have. It's the fairest thing we have to
get players to professional sports. It's not a right to
play professional sports. It's a privilege to get drafted. And
yeah it's not perfect, but there's no better system. So yeah,
this is kind of what we have to go along
with because this is the best thing we have found
to get players to professional sports where they can go
(27:09):
make a living, make a lot of money, be stars
and everything you want and realize your dreams. Right, this
is the best thing we have. And this was the
NBA and the Jazz saying yeah, we're gonna take you.
And maybe he winds up playing for the Jazz, maybe
he gets traded, whatever it's going to be. But this
was the NBA saying, no one's coming into the league,
letting us know and dictating where they get drafted. This
was a huge win for the NBA. This storyline coming
(27:30):
into tonight was massive and depending on which way it went,
it would have been great for the players and all
for the league, or great for the league and all
for the players.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Because now anybody in college that was thinking about doing
and saying, oh man, he wanted to getting drafted by
a team that didn't even call him.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He didn't even talk to He doesn't know why. I
don't want that to happen to me. Okay, I'll go
through the draft process, I'll talk to teams, I'll interview you,
I'll do all the stuff I need to because you know,
I don't know what's gonna happen, and I'm scared that
that's gonna be my reality if I try to take
the bull by the horns and say no, I'm going
to tell you where I want to go. So this
is a huge victory for the NBA. I mean, go
back to the pre draft reports a year ago in
(28:08):
the NFL. I mean as talked about on our colleague
and current Memphis Grizzly guard Colin Coward show about Tayleb
Williams and what he may or may not have wanted
to do ahead of the NFL Draft and eventually tamp down. Hey,
he met with the Bears front office, he visited Chicago,
and now that guy is everywhere right, He's embraced Chicago
(28:31):
in a whole other way. It takes time for He's
Bailey in this process for the Jazz. If it doesn't
work and Tim teams start calling. Guess what you might
You might still end up with a huge win here. Right,
You either get the player and the evaluations are great.
You watched what he did at Rutgers wins and losses,
(28:52):
notwithstanding that he could become a multi time All Star
with the skill set that he had. But if not,
then you look and you flip it. Hopefully it's not
too much of a distress property situation where you have
to take dimes on the dollar and you move on.
I did like the reaction to Jazz Co owner Dwayne Wade,
(29:16):
you know, did one of those memes which just says,
I love it. And then while when you can get
a player's talented his ace with the fifth pick, you
don't overthink it, you just do it. Good job Utah Jazz, so,
you know, endorsing it, and I have no doubt he
was on the phone as quickly as he could possibly
get in as Bailey's ear to talk about the opportunities
(29:37):
that now present themselves to become the face of a Franchi.
Because we've heard a lot pretty much anybody on that
roster was was gettable, right, Kessler among them in potential
movement this offseason, maybe Bailey's the guy that becomes the centerpiece,
and you're moving pieces around to to pair and compliment him.
(29:58):
But for the NBAS, oh yeah, the ability to tamp
down and say, hey, this is still the best system.
We'll see how it plays going forward, but for now,
in lieu of something a huge alternative or a full
on player revolt. With seventy six billion dollars coming in
off TV revenue over the next eleven years, which they
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get fifty percent of, I don't think you're going to
have the anxiousness and angst from the player's association to
subtenly say hey, let's blow this all up. That's a
lot of money that they get to share, and we're
talking about one hundred million dollar contracts per annum before
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Uh So we'll get to a big The biggest question
coming out of the first round of the NBA Draft
coming up in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Which player actually likes where he was drafted? Eight seven seven.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Besides Cooper Flag, how many people like where they were drafted?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, we also had the phenomenon that only two teams
actually drafted their spot after the tenth pick.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Phenomenon. It's phenomena phenomenon. Uh yeah, once you get outside
the tenth.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Pick, everything was it's players and trades where you can't
even keep it, you can't keep it strong. How many
times this trade hands before this guy actually got picked? Here?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I guarantee you if I was producing the draft, producing
the NBA draft, I could send notes onto the to
the set, to the talent, and I could just make
up whatever I wanted to and they would go with it.
Hey that this pick was traded to the nick and
in and in return they got back Dwight Shreut. Okay, hey,
(02:04):
Dwight true, Hey you know what hey be for Krutan?
And yeah, it's a big move right there, big move,
jig move getting Dwight Tree. He was a pretty good
power forward in famous you know office versus the Warehouse game.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
He's uh, he's he's he has to leave Mose behind
but you know he's gonna legend. Uh, but tonight really
is is gonna be known for the draft where even
the most staunchest of NBA insiders are gonna be shocked
that some of the people who got drafted.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, it's gonna be stunning. It's gonna be' stunning, right, Okay,
you know Cooper flag number one, sure, okay, and then
you got Dylan Harper number two. Okay, we'll get to
the Ace Bailey thing at five in a few minutes.
But okay, I got.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Rich Paul got his dude drafted in in the middle
of the round.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Come on, yeah, maybe think that he could have had
Brownie James drafted earlier than last year.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, he didn't work hard.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I mean, come on, man, you got that have you
could want to make it so obvious, would have had
Browny go like, you know, like right after Steph Castle and.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Number rowing alone. So the Trailblazers picked at number eleven,
and I guarantee nobody had this draft pick on their
draft board.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
The Portland Trailblazers select Centric Coward from Washington State University.
So the Portland Trailblazers select Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Here Ah Colin Coward gets selected by the Blazers, and
you know what happened. Then he traded me to Memphis.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I started out Portland, didn't want to go there, Oregon,
trail all the way through the state. Now I go
to Memphis. Great barbecue, Memphis, showboats, Reggie White. Now go
to Memphis. Well, you go straight from trailblazing to walking
in Memphis. I can do the show in the morning.
Playing a game at night. Is that bad way to
be Yep? I didn't work out for anybody. Me and
NAIs Bailey still drafted both of us. I mean, conceptually,
(03:57):
we've all agreed that it's okay to play and do
your sport and do a podcast. So just say it's
a longer podcast. How the NBA goes, I'll do it
at the end like Draymond, We'll do a show in
the morning, game podcast, rinse, repeat next day. It works
and if you can get the game, you get to
do it earlier. I'll coach Memphis two. You're gonna co Yeah, coach.
(04:18):
I'll do do it all. Take a lot of threes.
It's gonna work. Time management skills, certainly under pressure. Looking
forward to doing my blazing five picks with the Blazers
made sense. Blazing five picks, Blaze easily done now now
Blazer five and Memphis. I mean that graphic builds itself.
I got the Grizzly picks. Grizzly picks, Now that's what
(04:40):
it's going to be. So it's gonna be five things
you hate still as Grizzly picks still is the worst
things that happened in the sporting universe today, Blazing five ones,
Griz I kind of like, there you go, right there,
Grizzly picks.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
You know, hey, hey, speaking of Grizzlies, watch the Bear.
Season four didn't today?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, munch came out. You think something that happens in
this season little so many times the channel is in
her Springsteen. I dropped all the episodes at once. Not
a great sign, Not a great sign. Hey, season three
not good. I could recap season three like the next season.
I got to say, not not terribly excited by the
dropping all at once. That is always that. It's always
makes me a little nerves O.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, so guys, I've investigated this. Yeah, Andrew's Colin Coward.
Then okay, sure she's a free agent. She did this
purposely Okay, I've broken it down.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
She did it purposely, okay, because she wants to join
the volume.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, I have no idea why. Okay, but she's trending.
It was done purposely.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Good Colin Coward does get her some juice, no question
about it. Sure, we did a little bit of cursory
research in that her contract is up unless there's a
renewal that has not been announced, and the follows her
and Windy we're expected free agents, which is why Shams
was running unopposed, like a local election, running out of
(06:02):
those forced If you watch it really, it really looks. Wow,
you're not getting too conspiracy theory. Honest with that? You think, really, okay,
me get conspiracy. I don't know, you know what I mean.
I would never come on there tomorrow morning. I planted
it and look at it. Oh, he's gonna do the
(06:22):
show in a Blazers jersey. No, he's now, he's in Memphis.
Now it's Memphis. Now they trained him right away. I
think maybe the Blazer are real.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Oh man, we drafted a television personality, I mean a
really successful one.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
What he does. He was always drafted by the Portland
Trail Blazer. That's true. That's true. I started there, not
going back there, No, no, no, went Portland, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Chicago.
It's me. Can we get him in an original Grizzlies
Jersey to start tomorrow's show throw back Bryant Reeves the
Big Country Grizzlies Jersey. Wow, what a pull the sharif
(06:54):
Raheem Jersey. Nice. Yeah, yeah, I think that would be good.
I know, let's hear it again. Let's hear it again.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Let's let's I'm gonna listen to it like Frostburg, listen
to think that maybe this was Don Wadris.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Before you play it, you gotta watch the video too,
because you have to see your face.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you can hear it here. Okay, all right, God, look, the.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Portland Trailblazer select Centric Coward from Watchington State University. So
the Portland Trailblazers select Colin Coward.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Here.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
She even thinks about it for a sex should I
say it or not?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
And she does? Ah, it's a casual dress. NBA draft.
Once upon a time, there was this this thing we're watching,
and they had the hijacking with a guy that was
dressed like that Mac Tonight character, and he just kind
of bounced around like they interrupted the cable signal. Now,
that would have been funny if all of a sudden
(07:44):
you had a Colin Coward takeover, like the Joker in
the nineteen eighty nine Batman when the mayors try to
give a speech and he just pushes him off. I'm
in control. Now. It's the Herd live during the NBA Draft.
Congratulations Colin. I mean that is awesome. I mean yeah,
(08:05):
that's the best advertising you never had to pay for. There.
We I guarantee you.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
At ESPN they saw that one oh Man man Now
now because the biggest thing we talked about this last hour,
ESPN is fighting the biggest optic with their NBA coverage right,
how how disjointed it is, a big pocket of fans
think they don't make the games look special. They just
don't have an identity. They've never had an identity. They
(08:31):
keep throwing different people on the air hoping that it
sticks when and and some guys work, and some people
work and some people don't. But they keep cycling through
in there. There's no identity to it.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right. The last thing they wanted.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Okay, we don't want the broadcast to make headlines. Want
to do a broadcast where the the event is the star.
Because I tell you, ESPN and people up high, they
look and they are just paniced. They don't want to
get on social media and go are people criticizing our
broadcast because the the the upper management ESPN thinks of
it as this is this is a mark against me
(09:04):
if if if our package is getting made fun of. Sure,
the last thing they wanted is for something like this
to happen. And what's the biggest Cooper Flagg It's taken
number one overall, Colin Coward goes eleventh. I mean, I Gary,
what the hell.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Is going on? Man? Like this is worse than Stephen A.
Smith playing solitaire in the middle of the NBA Finals
and then doubling down on it. Well, I mean that
was almost in character doing that, but look you have
you have.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
ESPN is fighting such an image battle with with their
NBA coverage and now in the last two weeks it's
here's Malik andersaoning Colin Coward gets drafted when you know,
I guess it's just a slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's just something that said. But it's not something you
can have, especially coming off with Stephen A. Smith playing
Solitaire on the desk because you know, we talked about
that the night had happened. This is not this is
not someone who was boarded NBA Finals game. This is like,
this is not something because oh, I'm playing during a break. Meanwhile,
there's all the video. He's not playing during your break.
Stephen A. Smith is someone who was bored with what
he does. Like, that's what that When you're playing solitaire
(10:06):
and you're working covering an NBA Finals game, this tells
me you are bored with what you do for a living.
Like you see him, he's jacked up when he goes
on Hannity and all these different shows and talks politics
all there. But like, when you're doing that, it tells
me you should stop doing what you're doing for because
you're bored with what you're doing. You're bored with being
at the NBA Finals talking about a game. I'm just
(10:27):
gonna play solitaire instead of watching the game or at
least putting some kind of effort into what I'm saying.
And that that's the biggest thing. That's the biggest The
big takeaway is that they just gave him so much
money to continue to be the face of the network.
Can he have shown that I am bored doing what
I am doing? Yeah, But to be fair, I mean
it had long been in the books of what are
(10:47):
we talking about this segment? All right? That guy? Yeah,
that guy doesn't play there anymore. Uh, And they have
to correct all of those. So, like you've seen a
number of those instances when they go to talk about
the NFL, in's citing guys that we're on a roster
a decade prior, right, and it happens with the regular
It's like, ah, whatever, So the solitary thing is not
that big at stretch. Now, the fact that he'd been
(11:09):
on a Law and Order episode less than two weeks earlier, yeah, whatever,
that had filmed, whatever, It just lends to it. But
what's funny is you've just had this constant battle network,
the everybody in media as a whole, and Adam Silver
trying to raise his you know, wag his finger of hey,
(11:30):
we deserve more respect, our products better, don't talk down,
and then time and time again you have this. Now
that would have been better if she said Colton Kowser,
then you could have just said I was thinking about
the woes of the Orioles or Hulehauser. Oh boy, look
at that. But boy he's been dead a decade.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
It was like, here's ESPN, right, think about it, because
here's ESPN and not only is the biggest thing a
mistake from the broadcast, but it's something that spotlights the
biggest personality from your biggest competitive right.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
This is not a guy that used to work there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean they like it's like, okay, this is
now where Fox Sports won and Fox Sports Radio gets
all kind of attention because of the big star and
the presence and the personal that Colin Coward is. I mean,
like this this is the worst nightmare for ESPN and said, hey,
we're spotlighting the biggest talent that Fox has and and
the biggest star they have.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I mean it's like they gotta be saying.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
To themselves, how does that happen? How do how does
how does that happen? We were always we produced this
story ready to go, and all of a sudden, with
one fell swoop, this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Sounds like being an insider and being told don't tip
picks and oh wait uh, this year you didn't have
to worry about that with Champs. No, no, no, no no,
because he has, he's running unopposed. So he just said
you could just sit back and relax and wait for
the pick to go through, and then we'll see which
guy's mad.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
And verbally, I think if you wanted to hear the
picks to get tipped, you had to go to Starbucks, right, Frostburg?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Is that right? If you wanted the picks tipped in
the NBA drafted to go to Starbucks? Yes, I'm allowed
to tip the picks. Well, okay, all right, exit out
out of the exit swollen dome.
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Speaker 3 (13:29):
So I got a big question about the NBA Draft,
hit Man, I have a question. So the way the friend,
We'll get to the Ace Bailey controversy coming up in
a minute. But you look at the NBA draft, right,
top five picks, h Cooper flag goes number one, Okay, great,
Dylan Harper Rutgers goes second to the Spurs. We talked
about him. We talked about the Spurs and how they
(13:51):
could be the big power forget about the Thunder. They
can wind up being the big power in the West
in a couple of years because of all the young
talent they ever met. I mean, like Thanos is getting stones,
Like that's what that that's what the Spurs are getting.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
No, he gave us two subplots too, that people are
enamored with Dylan Harper's mom and the comparisons of his
career and what he's gonna earn as a rookie versus
his dad. A five time jacket for a career. Oh,
I think he gives minus twenty one millions. I think
his rookie contract might be more than what Ron Harper is. Yeah,
(14:24):
it's twenty one million dollars more a fifty six to
thirty five.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
So, and then fourth pick is Conkinepple from Duke. Okay,
gra I see that because all right, you know Cooper
flag and and Knepel. Duke had a big year, right
did win the national title, but at a big year
in the regular season, big favorite, you know, long NCAA
tournament run, Okay, I get it. Then at five, Ace
Bailey is picked by the Jazz. Yeah, that part of
the conversation in a few minutes. But you now have
(14:53):
the number two overall pick in the draft is Harper
from Rutgers. Sure, okay, number five overall pick the draft,
a's Bailey from Rutgers.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Rutgers had two of the top five picks in the
NBA draft. Ye, And they were fifteen and bleeping seventeen
this year in the Big Ten. They finished eleventh in
the Big Ten that now has like seventeen teams.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
And they finished fifth.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
They couldn't even finish five hundred in a conference in
which two of the top five picks in the NBA
Draft were their players. Sure, And it's not like you're
drafting Harper and Bailey on potential like Ed Davis, who
was a top pick you know, years ago when he
was coming off the bench for North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It doesn't matter. Ed Davis has such a great NBA
future coming, We're gonna take him and we're gonna, you know,
continue to nourish him and get him up and bring
him along slope. No, these are two guys who were stars.
They were the leading scorers of Rutgers in every game
twenty five thirty thirty five, forty points, triple doubles. How
the hell is Rutgers suck so bad? How are they
fifteen and seventeen with two of the top five picks
(16:01):
in the NBA draft. Well, say you have a dozen eggs, okay,
and you give everybody a basket. Okay, I have a
dozen eggs and I give twelve people baskets. Yeah, okay,
And then you start distributing said eggs. Can you say
you get one? Yeah? And you get one okay, And
then you're playing duck duck goose, and you don't touch
(16:21):
the rest of the other ten baskets, and you circle
back to those other two guys another five times each.
You get six, you get six, you I'll get nothing.
So what you're saying is TJ, there were too many
eggs in one basket? Correct? Harper nineteen four a game,
Bailey seventeen to six. You didn't have another guy more
(16:43):
than eight points a game? You average seventy seven or
has a team mad? Oh it does no. And I'm
not saying you needed to be duke and go thirty
one and one, but not fifteen and seventy touch tough conference. No,
it's not the top to bottoms. It's tough to win
on the road in the Big t it's tough to
even going into Welsh Ryan arenas a pain in the
(17:03):
It's tough to win anywhere in the Big Ten because
Big ten is not good. But it's it's an average year.
You're gonna talk coming from your conference now.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It was great, he said, sire. We can't even get
to the tournament. The Art Art Conference is even worse. Exactly,
power is up and down. Big ten was an average
year for the Big Ten, right, it was an average
year for the legendary and you had a team with
two of the top five overall picks and they couldn't win.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They couldn't even be five hundred. Look, man, we're not
playing NBA jam. I think.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
In the in the in the conference tournament. I think
their season ended losing to USC in basketball embarrassing enough,
you losing football, well, you losing basketball to us.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
While that meant their basketball team at least wanted to
play people that.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Should that shouldn't be anything that shouldn't be in the realm, though,
but now it helps recruiting.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Think about it going forward. We landed two guys in
the top five of the NBA. So here's a thing. Uh,
you're gonna stink getting your ass kicked every game, you know,
and really underachieving. But when that draft comes, hey, you
could get drafted by a team that doesn't want you
to So come play hard, come play with us. Wait,
am I getting top five money that I'm in dude?
(18:15):
You can?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You can go play someplace. The second thing off of
because you can get to the NBA from anywhere. But
the second thing they're gonna say to you, you want
to go play a Rutgers They had two They had
two guys that that that was in the top five
of the draft that they could I couldn't win more
than fifteen games.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Dylan Harper remember, made somewhere around one point seven one
point eight million. Well you'd get that they would get
more money someplace else maybe, but you're not the guy. No. Well,
I think Dylan Harper pretty much would be the guy
anywhere else. Because I'm just gonna say that, you know,
for Dylan Harper, I don't think he's worried about, you know,
the failures of Rutgers basketball.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, but I'm saying he's okay, Okay. What I'm saying
is it's not about them, it's the failure of the team.
How how do you have this building back?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean a building. Yeah, you had to go to
the top five. I ain't going there. Man, Look we
could build Look at I'm a starmaker. I am a starmaker.
Look what I did not out with these talents. I
showcase them and now they're top five in the NBA.
Trying to change the argument from but the argument is,
(19:18):
how do you lose that many games with these two guys?
I get they made We showcased them, and look at
what they were able to do. That's not that's not
the I made them super stuff. You're not answering the question.
The question. I am dancing around your question to create
a better tomorrow question, Jerk, answer the question, I created
(19:42):
a better future. No, you did. That doesn't make it.
And I said, if we get those two guys, they
from those stones, we are going to build a fortress.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Two of the five top picks in the top five
of the draft, only three schools had players taken. You
had I had.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Two of them, and now coach on his resume NBA
players have made x dollars off of my coaching acumen
got man a s maker John Caliperry can do that
because at least he a wins some games and b
makes it to the NC Tournament. But did. But he
didn't talk about winning for the last decade. But he
didn't have to because his team still won. They still
(20:22):
won the Southeast Conference or they got far in the tournament.
But he came about the contracts guys were signing less
than He didn't mind him talking about Maker because he
kept having press conferences because when you win, they keep listening.
Just because the NCAA finally caught up to what he'd
been doing for a decade. He was ahead of his time.
I'm gonna do the one and John ahead of his time,
(20:43):
and now it all came back to him, which is
why he had great success this year. You're insane. I'm
not gonna I'm just not gonna answer how he were
so bad. I'm gonna kind of try to misdirect you
to We'll get all the money my guys made.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, how about let me misdirect to this.
You have an entire basketball program, an entire conference, Like wow,
this would have been great for all of us. No, no,
but these two guys did well. But what about everybody else?
Oh no, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
But these two guys got a lot of attention on
the conference now Big ten Home of Stars in top
five dresses. This is like in politics where you could say, hey,
you know the tax cuts are only for the rich.
You know, hey, these two guys did really well. Nobody
else did well, but these two guys did. You don't
want to go politics. There's a lot of crazy stuff
going on from coast to coasts. I think that was
(21:33):
my favorite head rated top fives from.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
The Onion earlier today was like, I think Wes Anderson
has a new movie coming out or it's at some point,
And the Onion headline was you sure you're ready for
a new Wes Anderson movie with all the crazy stuff
that's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
The Phoenician Experiment was very good. No, that's the Mark
Williams story. The Phoenician Experiment getting the trade to Phoenix?
Is he gonna pass the physical? Didn't there well that Troy?
Are they gonna get enough backlash that they need do
fail him on the physical like the Lakers did? Hello
Phoenix suns Ah, this is rob Ron polunka h. Might
(22:09):
want to check that physical before you make that trade
for Mark Williams. Who is this Rob polega Ho. Sorry,
gotta go by. Our fans didn't really like us getting
rid of adult it don't get act. This did not
test well. I got him it Williams.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Williams got traded tonight to the to the Suns, and
it was a It was surprised me because I honestly
thought they would get back to this trade in the offseason.
They would they would have this trade go back again.
They do the connect for Williams trade. Maybe you have
to make things move a little differently to put a
couple other sweeteners in there. But I really thought, Okay,
the Lakers need this. You need an athletic rim runner
(22:45):
for Luca, right, they know you have to go get
that guy. Okay, great. I really thought they would look
back at that trade after Williams played most of the
back half of the season and say, okay, well we'll
do this deal now. Sorry it went through whatever cold feet,
whatever you want to say. I really thought that deal
would get done again, and now it's not because now
he's going to Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. No, that's it, and they drafted Malo Watch
as well, So let's look for that next iteration of
the Phoenix Suns. But like we talked with Rick Buker earlier,
he doesn't believe any of that's, you know, a done
deal in the post Kevin Durant trade, that a bunch
(23:23):
of those guys may still get shipped out of town
before it's done. Exit out bout a Fresca exit swelling Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now,
the Ace Bailey story.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Is something that this was a huge deal. I don't
know if people realized how big a deal this was
coming in tonight. Right, Ace Bailey, you've heard about him
in the last few days. Big obviously, big player, Rutgers
fifteen wins, and he didn't work out for anybody, most
famously didn't want to work out for the seventy six
(23:56):
ers who held the number three overall pick. And look
for months it's been hey, pretty sure the draft is
gonna go Cooper Flag number one, Dylan Harper number two,
and then as Bailey number three, but he wouldn't work
out for anybody. He wanted to take the power of
the draft and own it, which I get. I completely
understand that, right. He didn't want to start his career
somewhere where I really don't want to go play, So
(24:17):
by not working out for teams, he wanted to scare
the teams away that he didn't want to take them,
And I'm sure through back channels he kind of let
teams know where he wanted to go. We had heard
that Washington might have been a preferred destin Ah. Shrim
didn't talk to Utah, didn't go there. He even said
at the end when he got drafted by the Jazz
at five, I don't know why they picked me up.
I was surprised they picked me. Well, someone's gonna pick you.
(24:38):
I mean, you can't be that surprised someone's gonna pick
you because you're a great player. But he tried to
control the narrative of I want to control where I go,
and if I don't work out for you, or if
you don't hear from me, don't draft me, because I
want to go someplace where I know I can go play.
And this is such a big story because if he
got to a place he wanted to go. Let's just
(25:00):
say he's able to get to Washington, right, all of
a sudden, how many players in college basketball, the big
ones are gonna get draft. They're going to say, well,
you know what, that's a big power play, and he
was able to win that. He was able because I
have money, So it doesn't matter if I get less
money if I fall through the draft a bit because
I get to my preferred destination because I've made pretty
(25:21):
good nil money and I've made a million dollars the
last year or two in college, so I have a
little bit of cachet. Or I could say, you know what,
blank that I don't want to go here. I don't
want to go to the Sixers. I want to get
to Washington, and I'm not going to drop precipitously. So
with the slotting system, I'm not losing a ton.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
But if I miss it, but even if I do,
I'm okay with it because I get to a place
I want to be because I have money.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I don't have to worry about money because I haven't.
So this is where the nil A helps empower those players.
If he was able to get there. How many players
would say, oh that I'm doing that. I don't want
to go play in Sacramento, New Orleans, the Knicks, wherever
it is, I don't want to play there. And in
five years, the NBA draft would be completely in need
of change because with so many players doing this, with
(26:05):
the power to do this.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Now, don't take me. I'm not going to draft there.
The NBA would be stuck. Right, But what happened? He
goes to the Jazz, which allegedly was a team he
didn't want to go to. Maybe now he's happier to
be there, But this is a team, he says, I
don't know why they picked me. This is the Jazz
and the NBA saying, you are not going to tell
us where you go in the draft. This is how
(26:27):
the draft works. It's the best thing we have. If
you think we can find something better, I'll tell you
we can't because we would have found something better. Right.
I get the draft is not perfect and there's certain
foibles you can find in certain warts with the NBA draft. Hey,
players have to start where they might not want to start.
I understand that, but we have the draft this way
(26:48):
in the NBA. In the NFL because it's the best
thing we have. It's the fairest thing we have to
get players to professional sports. It's not a right to
play professional sports. It's a privilege to get drafted. And
yeah it's not perfect, but there's no better system. So yeah,
this is kind of what we have to go along
with because this is the best thing we have found
to get players to professional sports where they can go
(27:09):
make a living, make a lot of money, be stars
and everything you want and realize your dreams. Right, this
is the best thing we have. And this was the
NBA and the Jazz saying yeah, we're gonna take you.
And maybe he winds up playing for the Jazz, maybe
he gets traded, whatever it's going to be. But this
was the NBA saying, no one's coming into the league,
letting us know and dictating where they get drafted. This
was a huge win for the NBA. This storyline coming
(27:30):
into tonight was massive and depending on which way it went,
it would have been great for the players and all
for the league, or great for the league and all
for the players.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Because now anybody in college that was thinking about doing
and saying, oh man, he wanted to getting drafted by
a team that didn't even call him.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
He didn't even talk to He doesn't know why. I
don't want that to happen to me. Okay, I'll go
through the draft process, I'll talk to teams, I'll interview you,
I'll do all the stuff I need to because you know,
I don't know what's gonna happen, and I'm scared that
that's gonna be my reality if I try to take
the bull by the horns and say no, I'm going
to tell you where I want to go. So this
is a huge victory for the NBA. I mean, go
back to the pre draft reports a year ago in
(28:08):
the NFL. I mean as talked about on our colleague
and current Memphis Grizzly guard Colin Coward show about Tayleb
Williams and what he may or may not have wanted
to do ahead of the NFL Draft and eventually tamp down. Hey,
he met with the Bears front office, he visited Chicago,
and now that guy is everywhere right, He's embraced Chicago
(28:31):
in a whole other way. It takes time for He's
Bailey in this process for the Jazz. If it doesn't
work and Tim teams start calling. Guess what you might
You might still end up with a huge win here. Right,
You either get the player and the evaluations are great.
You watched what he did at Rutgers wins and losses,
(28:52):
notwithstanding that he could become a multi time All Star
with the skill set that he had. But if not,
then you look and you flip it. Hopefully it's not
too much of a distress property situation where you have
to take dimes on the dollar and you move on.
I did like the reaction to Jazz Co owner Dwayne Wade,
(29:16):
you know, did one of those memes which just says,
I love it. And then while when you can get
a player's talented his ace with the fifth pick, you
don't overthink it, you just do it. Good job Utah Jazz, so,
you know, endorsing it, and I have no doubt he
was on the phone as quickly as he could possibly
get in as Bailey's ear to talk about the opportunities
(29:37):
that now present themselves to become the face of a Franchi.
Because we've heard a lot pretty much anybody on that
roster was was gettable, right, Kessler among them in potential
movement this offseason, maybe Bailey's the guy that becomes the centerpiece,
and you're moving pieces around to to pair and compliment him.
(29:58):
But for the NBAS, oh yeah, the ability to tamp
down and say, hey, this is still the best system.
We'll see how it plays going forward, but for now,
in lieu of something a huge alternative or a full
on player revolt. With seventy six billion dollars coming in
off TV revenue over the next eleven years, which they
(30:20):
get fifty percent of, I don't think you're going to
have the anxiousness and angst from the player's association to
subtenly say hey, let's blow this all up. That's a
lot of money that they get to share, and we're
talking about one hundred million dollar contracts per annum before
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