June 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Mike and NBA insider Mark Medina breakdown and recap Round 2 of the NBA Draft!
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Now, coming up in twenty minutes, we'll talk with NBA
insider Mark Medina look back at what we saw the
first two nights of the draft, including I'm sure it'll
be a conversation about Ace Bailey, the guy that doesn't
want to play for anybody in the NBA, apparently except
the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That's his song.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
They should have played that when he came on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now we talked about his story a little bit last night.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Didn't work out for anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Didn't want to go to the seventy six ers, wanted
to potentially get to the Wizards, maybe one other team
tried to take his draft situation and push himself where
I want to control the team I go to, and
he wound up getting drafted by the Jazz, who he
said he had no idea the Jazz were gonna take him.
He doesn't know why, never talk to them anything else,
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but the Jazz took him comfortable with everything they saw
in him on tape and everything else that goes along
with it. Well, now today we get the story, according
to ESPN sources that leading up to the draft. Ace
Balley's reps informed a team drafting in the top five
they didn't want that team to select him, and they
wouldn't he wouldn't report to the team if it did. Now,
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without knowing, I assume it's the Sixers because he wouldn't
work out for the Sixers, and we know the Mavericks
are taking Cooper Flag, and we know that Dylan Harper's
going number two. So jem, I'm gonna think that's the
Sixers at number three. But I kind of narrows it
down a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I'm just crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Look, you know it went this way last night, and
it was such a big start. I don't think people
understand what a big story this was. Because if he
was able to get his destination, pick his destination where,
hey I will I don't care about going in the
top five, I get to Washington or wherever else I
want to get to. So many other players would try
to pull that power play too, and it would ruin
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the draft, and in five years the draft would be
something unrecognizable. The fact this story gets out tonight, Yeah
he didn't get to his preferred destination, and yeah, you
tell one team or whatever not to take you, that's
not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
To kids coming into the draft, right now, whatever advice
you want to get or you think you can do,
you think the cards you hold. Only very few players
could do that. Only Cooper Flag would be able to
pull the power play of don't draft me, I'm not
gonna go there. And if he told the Mavericks that,
not that he would, but if he told the Mavericks that,
the Mavericks would say, oh, all right, well, we don't
know what to do. If we trade the pick, or
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we draft Cooper Flag and trade him to somebody else,
that's the guy that has the cachet. The average NBA
prospect doesn't have that. And it was a big deal
last night, and the fact that he didn't get to
his preferred team tell me this is going to be
a strategy. You're not going to see players duplicate because
they get it's scared. Now, boy, I don't know what's
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going to I might really wind up on a team
I don't want to go to if I tell players,
if I tell teams I want to go there. So
it becomes now it went from something players could do
to now something they're going to be scared of.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And this story.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Today about hey, it gets out that he told a
team not to draft him and he still wound up
going to a team in the top five they didn't
know anything about. Tells me this strategy is not going
to fly in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, what's curious.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I mean, you've got the different ways of going about it.
The guys that get the advice that's bad and now
they're in no man's land, like we talked about with
Lewis and some of these other two way players that
are coming out with another year of eligibility and now
going man. I could have made money at school XYZ
if I'd stayed. We talk about guys at the back
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end of the draft saying hey, please don't draft me
because they may have their eye on a certain squad
that comes out. We've talked about Austin Reeves right a
little bit about him and his future contracts, but let's
hit the rewind button with him couple of years ago
in that regard. And then you've got guys at the
top of the draft with trying to show a little
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bit of clout, but it fails in that if a
team sees you as an asset to what they're building
as a squad, or as an asset to Hey, you're
really good, and even if you don't want to be here,
and we ultimately decide to part ways, we can go
and put you back into the marketplace. Get players, get
draft picks, get whatever compensation over and above what we
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had to give out to draft you. So sure we're
still going to take you, and you can have a
hissy fit, You can cry to the media, you can
leak whatever you want through your agencies, your business managers,
your family members.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's all going to come out in the wash.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
In this case, for Bailey, I gotta think once you
actually start talking to Dwayne Wade, who applauded the decision
to draft him, he's one of the co owners, or
Danny Ainge, you know who's there, that you've got folks
with the acumen and with the know how to bring
a guy in and say, all right, so here's the
vision with you in it. Because at this point they
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haven't pulled the trigger on all the other would be trades,
doesn't mean they won't still, but Kessler and others they've
rebuffed all offers, at least what's been leaked out there,
and you know, you decide how much is just noise
and stuff to print out for kindling as opposed to
something that's truly has legs. But at this point, he's
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a guy that'll be a focal point. And I gotta
think once they show you the video, it's kind of
like when they were recruiting the guys in Blue Chips.
As soon as they start playing your name over the
speakers and showing you the the how they're going to
showcase you, and oh, by the way, in the fifth slot,
here's what your salary is, things get a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studio. So, yeah, so I think the NBA dodged
a bullet there with the Yace Bailey situation. Again, we'll
have more on this coming up in a few minutes
with Mark enjoy It.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I mean, I like Chao situation, so I kind of wish,
you know, that it would have been more substantivet He
may not have wanted to go to utub, but there
he goes. I went saw the Book of Mormon a
couple of weeks ago. I mean, that's you know, he
could run with that, and I did you know that
Jesus lived here in the good or USA? All Right,
So I have a book written coming up in the
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next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, the biggest story in the world has been pop
culture wise, the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez,
which is happening in Venice, Italy. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We talked to John Paul Morosi last hour and that
you just got prized.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He didn't stay.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He was on vacation.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Well he was invited, but he you know, he's you know,
he doesn't have time for that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, it's tough you had vacated.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, you invite John Paul Morossi, you'd be asking
a lot of inside baseball questions. I don't know if
that's what you want, it'll be a tough thing. But
there's been a lot of controversy about it. Many people
in Venice don't want them there because it's over tourism
and all kinds of crazy ass stuff, and you know,
they're you're having private jets and yachts descending on Venice
and it's become a whole thing. But this does get
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into the sports world because some big time sports personalities
and others have been invited to this wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
So wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Here's a game we're gonna play called invited not invited.
Oh good, I'm gonna give you the star, and you're
gonna tell me if they are going to this wedding
or if they were not.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Invited to this wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
And Lawrence Sanchez in.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Your wedding in Italy and this according to Business Insider,
so you can't say. But wait a minute, this person
could be going. Who's going and who's not? So I'm
playing Harmon Isaac Lohen Kron Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And it's got Kshaw k Kershaw today.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm sorry, and Kim Kershaw is going to play. So
here we go. Are you name?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You tell me if they are attending this wedding Tom Brady.
Is Tom Brady attending the Bezos Lawrence Sanchez wedding?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, king Kershaw? Absolutely, Okay, Tom Brady.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What else is he doing?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, you just finished fanatics Fest. He bought that Lebron
James card. Yeah, making a public stunt and now he
moves on. Okay, ty shirt, Tom Brady. Is he attending
the wedding of the decade?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh god, no, I would never want Bredy at my wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, Isla, what you got is Tom Brady attending this wedding.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Absolutely, he's single and he's ready to mingle.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All right, boy, the bridesmaids at this wedding. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Tom Brady is attending the wedding. He is confirmed to
be in Venice for the wedding, and he's got well
but I mean he's got time before.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
He's got to be at the seminar up in Rancho
Palace Veritas at Taranaa, so he's got time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Is Timothy shallow May at the Bezo Sanchez wedding?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Timothy shallow May at the wedding?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Nah, he wants winners at his wedding.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
He's going to be the Knicks coach. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh? I would go for that. I'd be okay, Shalamay
for next.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Coach, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I would accept Doc Rivers's Nick's head coach. If he
brought Shalame along with him. Yeah, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So King Kershaw is Shalame going.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Unless he's dating Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Now I'm gonna say no, okay, prospered, I mean ty
Shirt no.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
See I think she's gonna Jenner is going to force
him to go, so they could be seeing they need
more fodder for whatever the iteration of the Kardashians.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Is, and that is she a big enough deal the
younger one to be invited.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Michael, she's a billionaire, isn't she? Or is it the
other one there?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think they're all billionaires at that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I think at this point they're all light out. I
think she's the youngest billionaire. I think that's what it is.
I think she's the youngest billionaire in the world. Yes,
all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is Timothy shallow may nick super fan potential head coach.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Unfortunately he could not RSVP because he was planning on
attending the Knicks Championship parade at the same time.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Too soon, Nick show, Timothy Shallowy is not attending the
Bezo Sanchez wedding. See, I'd like it if he showed
up as Wonka Peyton and Eli Manning. Are Peyton and
Eli Manning attending the wedding? Maybe he'll do the Manning
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cast from the wedding from a boat where you got
to say yes, this is where Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's say yes. You can't pause.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's getting all Eli, what's going I can't tell what's
happening right now. That indecision is gonna cost you. Really
to wait, what's happening right I don't understand why don't
know what's Are Peyton and Eli Manning at the wedding?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
King Kershaw?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, ty shirt.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
God, No, I don't want any of these people at
my wedding.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, now your wedding. Oh it's not it's not your wedding.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I mean unless you you got an announcement you want
to make you marrying Lauren Sanchez?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
All right, Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, I'm getting married, but not
telling you who I'm wedding. Okay, So you say no
our Peyton and Eli at.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
The we I would lose all respect for them if
they did so.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No, what if they were there to do the Manning cast? No?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Still no, what if they were there.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
To do with Manning passing camp? Well, now Peyton and
Eli are.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Not goodness, Jason, I got one? Can I step in?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah? Sure you got?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Is Tony Gonzalez.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Speak No?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, I swear that was my next one. I swear
to God that was my next one.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wow, that's a swinging neck breaker right there, and.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'll go I'll go last because I know the answer.
Go ahead, I'll go last.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good, no harmon, no, okay, okay, I love old strategy cotton.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Uh I'm not sure what the status of how that
was all left? I'm gonna say, uh, what the heck?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, tight shirt?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I used to hit him.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Quit it?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What all right?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
What do you to be there?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, Frostburg, you want to tell everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
He will not be there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That was a nice long shot though, now see, but
here's the thing. Tony Gonzalez will be there. I got
him on the list on business inside. Seriously, Tony Gonzalez
is at the I thought Frostburg looked it up about you.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Look up Tony Gonzalez system. He's going. He's gone. Well,
you know, maybe they have.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
A great relationship and maybe this wedding won't take place
if he's going. Just like he would break up past
defenses in the middle of the field, he's.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Breaking up this way.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
He's going to open the church doors. Like Owen Wilson
in wedding crashers.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
At least he'd be the most skilled at trying to
catch the bouquet.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, oh sure, you know he would catch it. I
mean he's not going to drop that, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh yeah, okay, We'll continue to play this game. Boy,
I thought for sure that uh Frost person. No, Tony
Gonzalez and his daughter October.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
It does make sense. I mean he was a chief
and he is a loser.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Wow, boys, Well if that's maybe that's why you weren't invited.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
All right, Really, if they would have paid for you
to fly in first class on a private plane, you
wouldn't go to the wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Really, I got better thing to do. What are you
doing this weekend?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I'm figuring it out still to.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Keep my options the figure it out.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You go, but you mentally make fun of everybody there
and write everything down and then like do a tell
all on your way back about how lame it was there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You go and you write a book. I allo patent pending,
pat petticksy. That's the right idea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I will continue to play this game. We'll play this
game again. This is fun, This is this is just
as hard as a Magic Johnson Twitter game. But coming
up next, NBA insider Mark Medina stops by. What is
next to the Lakers after Austin Reeves turns down the
maximum extension? What is next in the NBA for the
Mavericks and Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Keep it right here.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
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Speaker 3 (15:52):
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Speaker 2 (16:03):
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Well,
the NBA Draft is in the books. Oh yeah, yeah,
Round two with tonight. You just kate, you forgot we
had the second round tonight. I meant to watch that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I forgot. That was all I forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There was a new episode of Wrexham tonight. I'll go
back and get it. I'll go back get it after.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Uh, but look, the Cooper Flag era is about to
begin in the NBA, taking number one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Overall by the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The last day has been good tidings and good feelings
in Dallas. I'm sure Nico Harrison's able to walk around
now going. Hey, everything's Okay, don't worry about It's gonna
be fine. We're all good. We got Cooper Flagg. I
know you're upset, you're mad, but we got Cooper Flag.
It's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh. Yes, the Flag era is beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
U TJ now Flag Day underway in Dallas and joining
us now on the hot line to talk about it.
Longtime NBA insider follow on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.
It is Mark Medina who's got his latest on sports
Keta about an NBA executive that told him Cooper Flag
is easily going to be a multi time All NBA
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guy and an All Star for multiple years. Mark Medina, Uh,
what did you? When did James Dolan tell you this?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
And I can't reveal sources, but when you were when
you were sharing that quote, I was thinking, you know what,
I bet Jason is already imaginating trade machine scenarios for
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, of course, I mean, look, Nico Harrison traded Luca?
Why not?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Could dare everybody got?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
I thought you were already busy getting us hunted the Koompo?
I mean, isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Just what one in?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
One guy at a time, one guy at a time.
We got to get a coach for and then we'll
get Joannis.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Right, yeah, yeah, you do, We'll get a coach. How's
that search coming along? I mean they've finally gone away
from reaching out to every coach that's still in the
playoffs and now shifting toward every assistant coach on a
playoff team. So maybe by the end of the summer
they'll find their head coach.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well, Frostburg said he has Doc rivers phone number, and
against my wishes, he's going to reach out to Doc
Rivers and see if Doc wants because I don't want
Doc anywhere near it. But if he brings Giannis, I
might have to say that.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I was gonna, you know what, you sold the rewards
right out of my mouth. I was gonna say, what
if it is a package deal that if you want
Gianness you got to bring Doc Rivers along? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I you know what I'd think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'd think about it, all right, you gotta be something
to think about it.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Hey, you'd get to a game that in all seriousness,
the Knicks are still, you know, on going with this
coaching search. But the early rumblings is that even though
this won't be finalized probably until after free agency starts.
Mike Brown seems to be in the running. That's the
that's them o that I'm I've ben't getting so far.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh so you think Mike Brown is the is the
front runner right now? For that?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
He is the front runner. That's that's what I've learned,
you know, interviewed well. He has obviously the most head
coaching experience. I think the other thing is that, you know,
he's not that defensive guru watches on a film Tom
Thibodeau does that, and that then always suit what they wanted.
He's you know, been more innovative with his offense. So yeah,
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I think I think he'll wind up getting it, But
it's gonna take the Nick some time for them to
fully realize that's their guy.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
See and see, Mike, what did I say? I could
have saved the Nick so much? What did I say
the first night when they fired tips? Who was the
first guy? I said, Mike Brown?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Mike Brown, I had Taylor Browns And here we are,
all these weeks later now talking to anybody who will
take a phone call.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I could have saved it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I could have said, hey, James Dolan did send me
fifty grand I'll tell you who to go higher, and
and it would have saved all the embarrass smint of
the people saying know all of this, I said, Mike,
that was the first name.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I said.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Go get Mike Brown, coaching big situations, coach big players,
great defensive system, different from Tims. Yes, go get Mike Brown.
I could have saved that. I should be running the
Necks Mark, I should call Leon Rose. I should be
running the next But here's the.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Thing, I think with the Knicks dragging us out, it
also saves them money because they already owe money to
Tom Tibo, though they can wait a few more weeks
before owing money to another head coach at the same time.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
All right, so dollars indeed way away from the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, obviously, we're still talking about Cooper Flag going number
one overall, and we talked about this last night.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I think he's so good.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I think in a couple of years, the conversation is
going to be is he or Wenby the best all
around player in the game when it comes to scoring
and and ball handling and dishing the ball defensively? Do
you see that kind of future for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
In the NBA, Oh, without a doubt. I think when
you're looking at what's going to be the impact Number one,
you mentioned about what that one executive told me. Multi
year All NBA player, multi year All Star. But it's
not just the accolades. It's how he's going to get
the Alcolate accolades. He doesn't have this defined skill set.
I think Carmelo Anthony was saying, Oh, he doesn't have
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this go to move. You know what, I don't think
that really matters because he checks every box, he defends
multiple positions, he knows how to score, he's athletic as hell.
He has the highlight reels with those dunks. He's a
great passer, and he's very amenable toward roles. And so
I think the really cool thing for Cooper flag with
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Dallas is that you know, there's a reason why they
only had like just over one percent chance to get
the number one pick. They didn't have the worst record
in the NBA, they were a playoff team, they were
in the plan, and then obviously everything fell park Is
Kyrie Irving had a season ending injury a month before
the season ended, so he's jumping into it Andronment where
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he's not expected to carry the team single hatedly. But
at the same time, there are some questions next season,
when does Kyrie Irving come back from his acl how
limited is he going to be with Anthony Davis. He's
healthy now, but how long will that last. So with that,
he's going to have an opportunity as well as a
necessity to put on the number one, number two hat,
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but when they're back having to be number three. But
the key thing that his trainer, Matt McKenzie told me
and stressed about Cooper Flag is he's very adaptable with
not just his skill set but his attitude. And so
I think with this it makes for a very perfect fit.
And with Dallas, because of everything going on this last
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year with trading Luka Doncic, they can point to him
as their jail out a free card as well as
tangibly make the case that he can be our base
of the franchise moving forward. And you know what, he'll
do that so well that seven years from now they're
not going to trade him because he is in good
condition and so they're not going to worry about that.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
So Austin Reeves declined the four year, eighty nine million
dollar contract extension looking for larger, greener pastures. Lakers could
off from what two forty six a year from now,
no chance in hell or the max and the rest
of the market plays one eighty nine. Where's the difference
between that ninety seven million dollars for Austin Reeves in
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the next year.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Yeah. I think that he's not going to go anywhere.
And even though technically he declined to, you know, have
the extension, I don't think that's all the sudden the
signal that he wants to leave the Lakers. And I
think in a weird way, that might actually depress the
market because teams might think, Okay, well what am I
investing in him for when he's going to, you know,
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be be a free agent next summer, right where his
number will be a lot higher. So I think it
was a move that frankly benefited both sides. I think
the Lakers still gave that extension offer to Austin Reefs
just as a do good gesture and just you know,
so they're not sending any signals that they don't think
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highly of him. But there is a gray area because
on one hand, Rob Polinka is talking about Austin Reeves
in the same breath as Luka Doncic and Lebron James.
As you know, this big three and this pillar that's
good to build a team around. But at the same time,
it's not like Austin Reeves is untouchable. It's just that
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they're parameters. For trading Austin Reeves is it has to
be a move that significantly puts them over the top.
It's not a trade rotation player for a trade rotation player,
kind of marginal move that they'll be willing to do.
So when you add all those things up, I don't
think he goes anywhere. And if the Lakers are going
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to make moves to address their center spot, it's either
going to be through free agency or if it's through trade,
it's going to be involving gave Vincent, Dorian Finnish Smith
and maybe really had Chamora.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
See I look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I look at a little bit differently as that I
think the late with the ownership change and things going on,
they're going to take this season as it comes. Lebron
will opt in for fifty one million, and obviously yes
they did the nice thing with Austin Reeves, but at
the end of the year, they're going to say, Okay,
we're fully building around Luca. Lebron will likely be gone
and if Austin Reeves is looking for the Max.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Austin Reeves is a nice player.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's a good player, right, He's a good number three
guy on a team. Lakers aren't going to give him
five years two hundred and fifty million dollars Like, that's
not how so I don't know that this might not
be the last year on the Lakers for both Lebron
and Austin Reeves before they say, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We're not going to give him that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We need somebody else to be with Luca that we
pay two hundred and fifty million dollars too, because so,
by the way, we got to give Luke a lot
of money. So I think this might be the last
year for both of them. It's like, Okay, we're going
to make a last run with the team we've kind
of put together.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We're going to add a rim runner for Luca.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And then really next offseason we build for the next
generation of the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yeah, I mean what you said very well could happen.
I think the fascinating thing is there's also this scenario
that Lebron James he opts out of his player option
and he decides to do the one plus one again,
because I don't know if Lebron actually knows yet do
I want to retire. He's been hinting a lot that
when he's going to return, he could play five seven years,
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he thinks. But his standard is all Star caliber level.
And I think the complicated part is, even though he's
not the same player as he was in his prime,
he's still all Star caliber. And so I think because
of that, he's not going to be announcing this is
the final season. As much as everyone including myself might
think he likes that farewell tour, I think what's more
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important for him is leaving that window open to potentially
get another championship or two. And so with that, I
don't think Lebron's last year is technically this season. It
could be, but I.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Don't think I think it's going to be another. I
think he goes back to Cleveland after this. How how
else is he going to finish? Right, he goes back
to Cleveland, they're winning championship, finally come back to the
Oh no, no, no, he's no.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I'd love for him to do that, but it's like, Okay,
how else is he going to really end? He was?
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I don't think he's going back Cleveland, as enticing as
that is, with you know, the core that they have.
I think he's he likes being in la he likes
to play with Bronny. I don't think Bronny is going anywhere,
So we'll see. I mean, all these combinations, that's what
makes it intriguing, like everything could happen. That makes it
good for us because we have a lot to talk about.
But this is what's challenging for the Lakers. There's all
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these different odds that that's going to happen, and are
different scenarios that could happen. So they're trying to be
flexible with everything. And at the same time, Lebron James
is the same vein and there's gonna be a lot
of changes with this new ownership with Mark Walter. But
one of the changes I don't think is going to
be affected is Lebron James's future. I think it's more
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it's what the philosophy hasn't changes, for better for worse.
The Lakers want a star player to retire with them,
so they're going to leave it almost up to him
to decide that there's a lot of moving parts. How
much they devote to their resources with support, staff, analytics,
the front office, scouting, you know, how much they're willing
to absorb luxury taxes with you know, paying role players
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like Austin Reeves. I don't think lebron James's future necessarily
is affected because Junior Bus and the Bus family sold
their majority shares to Mark Walter.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I like chaos theory, so that's what it's all about
for past.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So let's let's go back to the draft and then
Mark to finish this up. Did the NBA keep it
at two day event so they didn't have to admit
they only did the second day for Bronny James.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Your thoughts, you know what?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
There could be some truth today. I think also it's
you know, dog days, a summer programming needs with the
cable networks. That's another thing. But I would argue this,
give me any baseball game regardless over the second night
of the NBA Draft. And I say that as someone
who the NBA covers it obviously for a living, and
I'm paying attention to everything, but from from a if
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I'm you know, an NBA fan, there's no reason to
watch this. It's just so prolonged. I get last year
for the very rare occurrence that there was some intrigue
of hate watch and some people fascinating with Brownie. But
there's no compelling storylines with the second round of the
draft beyond front offices. So yeah, it should go back
(29:29):
to the way it was.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He's on X at Mark g Underscore, Medina. That's at
Mark g Underscore Madina. Check out his latest.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All on Cooper Flag and the Mavericks and his ceiling
in the NBA. Mark is always buddy. Appreciated, my friend.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Appreciate you next week, you know, maybe finally the next
time a head coach, we'll see maybe all Mike Brown,
Hey man.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Mike Brown, dude, I could have tell again the Nicks.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I could have saved the Nicks so much heartache, I
said Mike Brown from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh boy, thank you very u much, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I guess there at some point, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well the Lakers do, so maybe that's what I get
from the Knicks. They all like Brown still the leader.
In the fact, I feel like, here's the thing, though,
I feel like if he really was the runaway guy,
they would have hired him. By not right because they
talked to Brown, They talked to Jenkins, you know, they
they talked to Mike and Nor. They're gonna talk to
Brego this weekend, Like, okay, is he if he? Once
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you find the guy, you say, okay, you're our guy.
Now I get maybe a lot of it as optics.
The Knicks don't want to make it seem okay. We
we biff the first part of it by not by
by asking for permission from teams who are never going
to do it for us, So we want to make
sure we're doing it looks like we're doing our due diligence.
But if Mike Browns your guy, Mike Brown your guy,
it's all good.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
See, I still go back to I didn't think that
was his clown. I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
It was a nice fodder for us to kind of
laugh at your Knicks. But by the serious side of it,
I was always of the big belief that go take
your shot.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
You don't know if you're gonna get a yes.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So I get it, you know, they when you're in
a teenager and you're thinking about the big dance. You
don't know who's being asked and who hates. If someone
isn't coupled up, take your shot, might be surprised. Same
thing here. You might have a team that behind the
scenes they don't really love their coach, and their coach
doesn't love them. They're they're at odds over what to
do with that second year temperamental point guard.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And you move on.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
So as of the seventeenth of this from DraftKings, you
had Brown, then Jenkins, Johnny Bryant still in the mix,
Michael Malone, Brego Budenholzer, Steve Nash, and Rick Brunson still
sitting out there.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Rick Brunton is still there just because he's still there.
Gonna talk to him. No, we're not gonna, but I'm
still there. Just like still what Stephen A. Smith's still
on that list? Like seven and nine?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
This is one Trunk gets it after like eight guys, So,
I mean, I know we dig big enough.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But God has been called the Stephen A. Smith of
Fox Sports Radio because he likes to play solitaire while
he works as well it's Isaac ohen Craws.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Hang on that lost again.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Darn it.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, dude, black Queen on the Red King.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
You can do it.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I actually used to have a solitaire phase. Of course
it wasn't while I was doing my job. Maybe that's
what I've been doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, we started with people when they first got when
they first got their computers, Like in the late nineties,
your computer was like it was a two thousand dollars
solitaire machine, because that's all anybody could do is just play.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Solitaire on it Internet. I don't want to do that.
I'm just gonna play solitaire.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Those are the days, huh, with our good old Gateway
two k. On Thursday, the NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens
placekicker Justin Tucker for ten weeks for violations of the
NFL's personal conduct policy. Tucker, who's presently a free agent,
was accused of sexual misconduct by sixteen massage therapists in
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the Baltimore area. In Major League Baseball Thursday night, the
New York Mets defeat of the Atlanta braves Ford and
Nothing to take over first place in the National League
East by half a game over the Phillies. Five Mets
pitchers combined for a three hit shutout with eleven strikeouts. However,
started Griffin Canning had to leave the game due to
a non contact left achilles injury in the third inning.
(33:18):
And the NBA Draft concluded Thursday with the second round
the final pick Tennessee guard Jemi Meyshak, who went fifty
ninth overall to the Memphis Grizzlies. And finally, guys, in
light of what you guys were discussing at the start
of this hour, we have a Bezos Sanchez Wedding of
the Century update for you.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The oh okay very good.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
The London Daily Mail newspaper reports that their Thursday night
pre wedding party was marred by a freak Venice thunderstorm,
forcing their A list guests to run for cover. The
paper says that guests dived for cover under vaulted cloisters
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as lightning bolts flashed across the sky. The strong gusts
of winds whipped tablecloths away and sent waiters scurrying for
umbrellas to protect the VIPs. Torrential downpours left the guests
soaked as they dashed for water. Taxis, which had been
scrambled a good forty five minutes ahead of the midnight
(34:26):
finished time. One onlooker told the paper it just goes
to show you could have all the money of the world,
but you can't control the weather. And finally, The London
Daily Mail also offered the following description of noted wedding
guest Tom Brady's attire in Italy. He was spotted wearing
a fitted beige blazer styled with black slacks, loafers and
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a white button up shirt that highlighted his glowing tan unquote.
So that's the latest on Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Back to you guys, no Isaac Low and croneby appearing
on the E Network to give you all the latest off.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, their Habitas.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome coming up next.
There was a very big event tonight in sports. Not
sure it's still a really good idea to have it.
That's next Jason and Mike This is Fox.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
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Speaker 1 (35:35):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
Now whether you realize it or not, Night two of
the NBA Draft was tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well, and if you if you think there was enough.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Problems with hearing what you did you we talked about
it last night. I'm sure you heard about it all
day today. Just how underwhelming the NBA Draft is night one,
you can imagine what it must have been like on
Night two, where the tagline could be, Hey, tune in,
you never know what you're gonna hear.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
A player you may have heard of, right like, that's
that's the end. That's NBA Draft night too.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You may have enjoyed this guy in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm Troy McClue. You might remember me from such nights
as last night NBA Draft. H Are we sure the
two nights the NBA drafts still a good thing?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I mean, this is a league that the night they
should make its own standalone night in the the NBA
Draft Lottery night, which should be its own thing, they
decide to jam that between two games.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
In the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
No, no, but we'll give a whole separate night to
the second night of the draft. And and and it
ran unopposed tonight with regular season Baseball regular season WNBA
and wow, did you watch this.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And go what the hell is this? Man?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It was It's just like one step up from the
MLB Draft, which I don't even think is televised. I
think it's guys in a room, like when you used
to do a fantasy draft in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We just suck around.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And at the end you just told everybody, here's my
let me say, you send me your roster so I
have it so I can put it in. Okay, great,
I'll send you by roster Like that's really why are
we really sure we need two nights of the NBA Draft?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, you know, as we were talking about with Mark Madina,
is something we'd theorized earlier in the program.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
The idea that you do. I have a dearth of programming.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
And when it's all said and done, you want to
advertise Day one, you gotta take a little bit of
Day two. You got movies opening, plenty of them between
f one, the movie Megan two point zero. Next week
is Jurassic Park, and so many others that are coming out.
You want your movies to be showcased dial up, but
you gotta buy some Day two along the way, and otherwise,
(37:50):
I mean, what else is on? Everything else is in
reruns except Love Island. Maybe you're binge watching the Bear.
But you have a bunch of opportunity for folks that
are still curious coming off of the Okay, see win
of you know, maybe where some of their college grades
went to put it in perspective, you had eight uh
(38:12):
international players selected in round you only one back in
round one, and that was number twelve to the Bulls.
But today two way players, this is where you need
more live coverage. Caleb Love goes to the Trail Blazers,
and Ryan Nemhard you know that family that you love
so much from Kazaga, He's going to the Dallas Mavericks
on a two way deal. So now we start seeing
(38:33):
the news bulletin of guys that we really know on
the next level on our J Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
As we do a pr flee, no one cares al Hey,
no one can. If I'm a Gonzaga fan, I'm not
watching the draft to see where nempart ends up.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
You don't think so, No, that's your guy. You're not
sitting in your sweaty jersey.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
No you're not. None of that is enticing. I get it.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Last year when Bronnie was the Okay Bronnie, you know,
was a big story going into Rounte. We talked about
Bronnie in the draft forever.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
It was a deal.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
If you said, hey, we're gonna go back to the
one night and go back to two nights when Bryce
James comes in, because maybe Lebron's gonna want to play
with him.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay with that, I'm okay, But boy.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There's two nights that I mean, come on, you got
enough time making it compelling with one night compared to two.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Forget it. And you don't even know where.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Everybody is drafted because of the thirty picks of round two,
twenty five of them were traded or were results of
trades where people moved into.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
That spot to get them.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
There were only five picks where it was this team
was in this spot and took this player.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Like you can't even keep.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Track of it, Jason. Yeah, somebody floated a great idea
hold the NBA Draft lottery thirty minutes before the first
round of the draft.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
See that's what That's what we were saying. Right, you're
on the clock, let's go.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
That would be kind of scramble time to go.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I guess we're taking Cooper flat Boy, and then a
Spanley would really be able to say where he wanted go, Yeah,
you're number.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
One, let's go. Don't take me, man, don't where do
you want to go? Watch it? You'll tay? Okay, great,
you guys take a span Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You don't even have enough time for that to be
a chain called throughout the gms of the league from insiders.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, it would just be like on social media, it
would be agent for Ace Bailey, the following teams, Please
do not take my client seventy six years Comma Philadelphia, Jazz,
Comma Utah like that would that's the only way to
get it out there.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
But the draft lottery has its own night is one idea.
The other is to go in front of a microphone
and go, yeah, we all got you for that one
year with Brownnie James.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I mean, look, I get that putting the draft out there,
it's on TV, people get to see, okay, But at
some point you have to say, all right, is that
a good optic for the league that you're showing something
that that they're not ready for, that doesn't show growth
or show something that puts the league in a real
positive light like. I think the NBA you gotta understand that, Okay,
you can't keep putting something out that they're just going
(40:55):
to be kind of a kind of a punchline for
the league.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Well, the comedy writers would just say, you just had
the NBA Finals. Hello everybody, I'll see myself out, Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
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Now, coming up in twenty minutes, we'll talk with NBA
insider Mark Medina look back at what we saw the
first two nights of the draft, including I'm sure it'll
be a conversation about Ace Bailey, the guy that doesn't
want to play for anybody in the NBA, apparently except
the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That's his song.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
They should have played that when he came on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now we talked about his story a little bit last night.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Didn't work out for anybody.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Didn't want to go to the seventy six ers, wanted
to potentially get to the Wizards, maybe one other team
tried to take his draft situation and push himself where
I want to control the team I go to, and
he wound up getting drafted by the Jazz, who he
said he had no idea the Jazz were gonna take him.
He doesn't know why, never talk to them anything else,
(02:05):
but the Jazz took him comfortable with everything they saw
in him on tape and everything else that goes along
with it. Well, now today we get the story, according
to ESPN sources that leading up to the draft. Ace
Balley's reps informed a team drafting in the top five
they didn't want that team to select him, and they
wouldn't he wouldn't report to the team if it did. Now,
(02:28):
without knowing, I assume it's the Sixers because he wouldn't
work out for the Sixers, and we know the Mavericks
are taking Cooper Flag, and we know that Dylan Harper's
going number two. So jem, I'm gonna think that's the
Sixers at number three. But I kind of narrows it
down a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, I'm just crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Look, you know it went this way last night, and
it was such a big start. I don't think people
understand what a big story this was. Because if he
was able to get his destination, pick his destination where,
hey I will I don't care about going in the
top five, I get to Washington or wherever else I
want to get to. So many other players would try
to pull that power play too, and it would ruin
(03:05):
the draft, and in five years the draft would be
something unrecognizable. The fact this story gets out tonight, Yeah
he didn't get to his preferred destination, and yeah, you
tell one team or whatever not to take you, that's
not gonna work.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
To kids coming into the draft, right now, whatever advice
you want to get or you think you can do,
you think the cards you hold. Only very few players
could do that. Only Cooper Flag would be able to
pull the power play of don't draft me, I'm not
gonna go there. And if he told the Mavericks that,
not that he would, but if he told the Mavericks that,
the Mavericks would say, oh, all right, well, we don't
know what to do. If we trade the pick, or
(03:40):
we draft Cooper Flag and trade him to somebody else,
that's the guy that has the cachet. The average NBA
prospect doesn't have that. And it was a big deal
last night, and the fact that he didn't get to
his preferred team tell me this is going to be
a strategy. You're not going to see players duplicate because
they get it's scared. Now, boy, I don't know what's
(04:01):
going to I might really wind up on a team
I don't want to go to if I tell players,
if I tell teams I want to go there. So
it becomes now it went from something players could do
to now something they're going to be scared of.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And this story.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Today about hey, it gets out that he told a
team not to draft him and he still wound up
going to a team in the top five they didn't
know anything about. Tells me this strategy is not going
to fly in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, what's curious.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I mean, you've got the different ways of going about it.
The guys that get the advice that's bad and now
they're in no man's land, like we talked about with
Lewis and some of these other two way players that
are coming out with another year of eligibility and now
going man. I could have made money at school XYZ
if I'd stayed. We talk about guys at the back
(04:45):
end of the draft saying hey, please don't draft me
because they may have their eye on a certain squad
that comes out. We've talked about Austin Reeves right a
little bit about him and his future contracts, but let's
hit the rewind button with him couple of years ago
in that regard. And then you've got guys at the
top of the draft with trying to show a little
(05:06):
bit of clout, but it fails in that if a
team sees you as an asset to what they're building
as a squad, or as an asset to Hey, you're
really good, and even if you don't want to be here,
and we ultimately decide to part ways, we can go
and put you back into the marketplace. Get players, get
draft picks, get whatever compensation over and above what we
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had to give out to draft you. So sure we're
still going to take you, and you can have a
hissy fit, You can cry to the media, you can
leak whatever you want through your agencies, your business managers,
your family members.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's all going to come out in the wash.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
In this case, for Bailey, I gotta think once you
actually start talking to Dwayne Wade, who applauded the decision
to draft him, he's one of the co owners, or
Danny Ainge, you know who's there, that you've got folks
with the acumen and with the know how to bring
a guy in and say, all right, so here's the
vision with you in it. Because at this point they
(06:05):
haven't pulled the trigger on all the other would be trades,
doesn't mean they won't still, but Kessler and others they've
rebuffed all offers, at least what's been leaked out there,
and you know, you decide how much is just noise
and stuff to print out for kindling as opposed to
something that's truly has legs. But at this point, he's
(06:26):
a guy that'll be a focal point. And I gotta
think once they show you the video, it's kind of
like when they were recruiting the guys in Blue Chips.
As soon as they start playing your name over the
speakers and showing you the the how they're going to
showcase you, and oh, by the way, in the fifth slot,
here's what your salary is, things get a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studio. So, yeah, so I think the NBA dodged
a bullet there with the Yace Bailey situation. Again, we'll
have more on this coming up in a few minutes
with Mark enjoy It.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I mean, I like Chao situation, so I kind of wish,
you know, that it would have been more substantivet He
may not have wanted to go to utub, but there
he goes. I went saw the Book of Mormon a
couple of weeks ago. I mean, that's you know, he
could run with that, and I did you know that
Jesus lived here in the good or USA? All Right,
So I have a book written coming up in the
(07:21):
next couple of days.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Right, the biggest story in the world has been pop
culture wise, the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez,
which is happening in Venice, Italy. Right.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
We talked to John Paul Morosi last hour and that
you just got prized.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
He didn't stay.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
He was on vacation.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Well he was invited, but he you know, he's you know,
he doesn't have time for that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, it's tough you had vacated.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, you invite John Paul Morossi, you'd be asking
a lot of inside baseball questions. I don't know if
that's what you want, it'll be a tough thing. But
there's been a lot of controversy about it. Many people
in Venice don't want them there because it's over tourism
and all kinds of crazy ass stuff, and you know,
they're you're having private jets and yachts descending on Venice
and it's become a whole thing. But this does get
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into the sports world because some big time sports personalities
and others have been invited to this wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
So wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Here's a game we're gonna play called invited not invited.
Oh good, I'm gonna give you the star, and you're
gonna tell me if they are going to this wedding
or if they were not.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Invited to this wedding.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
And Lawrence Sanchez in.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Your wedding in Italy and this according to Business Insider,
so you can't say. But wait a minute, this person
could be going. Who's going and who's not? So I'm
playing Harmon Isaac Lohen Kron Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And it's got Kshaw k Kershaw today.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm sorry, and Kim Kershaw is going to play. So
here we go. Are you name?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You tell me if they are attending this wedding Tom Brady.
Is Tom Brady attending the Bezos Lawrence Sanchez wedding?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, king Kershaw? Absolutely, Okay, Tom Brady.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
What else is he doing?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
All right?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Well, you just finished fanatics Fest. He bought that Lebron
James card. Yeah, making a public stunt and now he
moves on. Okay, ty shirt, Tom Brady. Is he attending
the wedding of the decade?
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Oh god, no, I would never want Bredy at my wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, Isla, what you got is Tom Brady attending this wedding.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Absolutely, he's single and he's ready to mingle.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All right, boy, the bridesmaids at this wedding. Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Tom Brady is attending the wedding. He is confirmed to
be in Venice for the wedding, and he's got well
but I mean he's got time before.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
He's got to be at the seminar up in Rancho
Palace Veritas at Taranaa, so he's got time.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Is Timothy shallow May at the Bezo Sanchez wedding?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Timothy shallow May at the wedding?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Nah, he wants winners at his wedding.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
He's going to be the Knicks coach. What are you
talking about?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh? I would go for that. I'd be okay, Shalamay
for next.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Coach, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I would accept Doc Rivers's Nick's head coach. If he
brought Shalame along with him. Yeah, I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So King Kershaw is Shalame going.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Unless he's dating Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Now I'm gonna say no, okay, prospered, I mean ty
Shirt no.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
See I think she's gonna Jenner is going to force
him to go, so they could be seeing they need
more fodder for whatever the iteration of the Kardashians.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Is, and that is she a big enough deal the
younger one to be invited.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Michael, she's a billionaire, isn't she? Or is it the
other one there?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think they're all billionaires at that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I think at this point they're all light out. I
think she's the youngest billionaire. I think that's what it is.
I think she's the youngest billionaire in the world. Yes,
all right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is Timothy shallow may nick super fan potential head coach.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Unfortunately he could not RSVP because he was planning on
attending the Knicks Championship parade at the same time.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Too soon, Nick show, Timothy Shallowy is not attending the
Bezo Sanchez wedding. See, I'd like it if he showed
up as Wonka Peyton and Eli Manning. Are Peyton and
Eli Manning attending the wedding? Maybe he'll do the Manning
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cast from the wedding from a boat where you got
to say yes, this is where Lauren Sanchez.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's say yes. You can't pause.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's getting all Eli, what's going I can't tell what's
happening right now. That indecision is gonna cost you. Really
to wait, what's happening right I don't understand why don't
know what's Are Peyton and Eli Manning at the wedding?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
King Kershaw?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Absolutely not?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay, ty shirt.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
God, No, I don't want any of these people at
my wedding.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, now your wedding. Oh it's not it's not your wedding.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I mean unless you you got an announcement you want
to make you marrying Lauren Sanchez?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
All right, Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, I'm getting married, but not
telling you who I'm wedding. Okay, So you say no
our Peyton and Eli at.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
The we I would lose all respect for them if
they did so.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
No, what if they were there to do the Manning cast? No?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Still no, what if they were there.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
To do with Manning passing camp? Well, now Peyton and
Eli are.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Not goodness, Jason, I got one? Can I step in?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah? Sure you got?
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Is Tony Gonzalez.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Speak No?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yes, I swear that was my next one. I swear
to God that was my next one.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Wow, that's a swinging neck breaker right there, and.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'll go I'll go last because I know the answer.
Go ahead, I'll go last.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Good, no harmon, no, okay, okay, I love old strategy cotton.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Uh I'm not sure what the status of how that
was all left? I'm gonna say, uh, what the heck?
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, tight shirt?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Oh yeah, I used to hit him.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Quit it?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What all right?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
What do you to be there?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
All right, Frostburg, you want to tell everybody.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
He will not be there.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That was a nice long shot though, now see, but
here's the thing. Tony Gonzalez will be there. I got
him on the list on business inside. Seriously, Tony Gonzalez
is at the I thought Frostburg looked it up about you.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Look up Tony Gonzalez system. He's going. He's gone. Well,
you know, maybe they have.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
A great relationship and maybe this wedding won't take place
if he's going. Just like he would break up past
defenses in the middle of the field, he's.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Breaking up this way.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
He's going to open the church doors. Like Owen Wilson
in wedding crashers.
Speaker 7 (14:23):
At least he'd be the most skilled at trying to
catch the bouquet.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, oh sure, you know he would catch it. I
mean he's not going to drop that, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Uh yeah, okay, We'll continue to play this game. Boy,
I thought for sure that uh Frost person. No, Tony
Gonzalez and his daughter October.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
It does make sense. I mean he was a chief
and he is a loser.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Wow, boys, Well if that's maybe that's why you weren't invited.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
All right, Really, if they would have paid for you
to fly in first class on a private plane, you
wouldn't go to the wedding.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Really, I got better thing to do. What are you
doing this weekend?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
I'm figuring it out still to.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Keep my options the figure it out.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You go, but you mentally make fun of everybody there
and write everything down and then like do a tell
all on your way back about how lame it was there.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
You go and you write a book. I allo patent pending,
pat petticksy. That's the right idea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I will continue to play this game. We'll play this
game again. This is fun, This is this is just
as hard as a Magic Johnson Twitter game. But coming
up next, NBA insider Mark Medina stops by. What is
next to the Lakers after Austin Reeves turns down the
maximum extension? What is next in the NBA for the
Mavericks and Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Keep it right here.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
We have two days of NBA Draft to breakdown. Next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Well,
the NBA Draft is in the books. Oh yeah, yeah,
Round two with tonight. You just kate, you forgot we
had the second round tonight. I meant to watch that.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I forgot. That was all I forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There was a new episode of Wrexham tonight. I'll go
back and get it. I'll go back get it after.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Uh, but look, the Cooper Flag era is about to
begin in the NBA, taking number one.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Overall by the Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
The last day has been good tidings and good feelings
in Dallas. I'm sure Nico Harrison's able to walk around
now going. Hey, everything's Okay, don't worry about It's gonna
be fine. We're all good. We got Cooper Flagg. I
know you're upset, you're mad, but we got Cooper Flag.
It's all good. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh. Yes, the Flag era is beginning.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
U TJ now Flag Day underway in Dallas and joining
us now on the hot line to talk about it.
Longtime NBA insider follow on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.
It is Mark Medina who's got his latest on sports
Keta about an NBA executive that told him Cooper Flag
is easily going to be a multi time All NBA
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guy and an All Star for multiple years. Mark Medina, Uh,
what did you? When did James Dolan tell you this?
Speaker 8 (17:31):
And I can't reveal sources, but when you were when
you were sharing that quote, I was thinking, you know what,
I bet Jason is already imaginating trade machine scenarios for
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, of course, I mean, look, Nico Harrison traded Luca?
Why not?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Right?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Could dare everybody got?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
I thought you were already busy getting us hunted the Koompo?
I mean, isn't that enough?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Just what one in?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
One guy at a time, one guy at a time.
We got to get a coach for and then we'll
get Joannis.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Right, yeah, yeah, you do, We'll get a coach. How's
that search coming along? I mean they've finally gone away
from reaching out to every coach that's still in the
playoffs and now shifting toward every assistant coach on a
playoff team. So maybe by the end of the summer
they'll find their head coach.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Well, Frostburg said he has Doc rivers phone number, and
against my wishes, he's going to reach out to Doc
Rivers and see if Doc wants because I don't want
Doc anywhere near it. But if he brings Giannis, I
might have to say that.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I was gonna, you know what, you sold the rewards
right out of my mouth. I was gonna say, what
if it is a package deal that if you want
Gianness you got to bring Doc Rivers along? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I you know what I'd think about it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'd think about it, all right, you gotta be something
to think about it.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
Hey, you'd get to a game that in all seriousness,
the Knicks are still, you know, on going with this
coaching search. But the early rumblings is that even though
this won't be finalized probably until after free agency starts.
Mike Brown seems to be in the running. That's the
that's them o that I'm I've ben't getting so far.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh so you think Mike Brown is the is the
front runner right now? For that?
Speaker 8 (19:08):
He is the front runner. That's that's what I've learned,
you know, interviewed well. He has obviously the most head
coaching experience. I think the other thing is that, you know,
he's not that defensive guru watches on a film Tom
Thibodeau does that, and that then always suit what they wanted.
He's you know, been more innovative with his offense. So yeah,
(19:28):
I think I think he'll wind up getting it, But
it's gonna take the Nick some time for them to
fully realize that's their guy.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
See and see, Mike, what did I say? I could
have saved the Nick so much? What did I say
the first night when they fired tips? Who was the
first guy? I said, Mike Brown?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Mike Brown, I had Taylor Browns And here we are,
all these weeks later now talking to anybody who will
take a phone call.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I could have saved it.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I could have said, hey, James Dolan did send me
fifty grand I'll tell you who to go higher, and
and it would have saved all the embarrass smint of
the people saying know all of this, I said, Mike,
that was the first name.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I said.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Go get Mike Brown, coaching big situations, coach big players,
great defensive system, different from Tims. Yes, go get Mike Brown.
I could have saved that. I should be running the
Necks Mark, I should call Leon Rose. I should be
running the next But here's the.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
Thing, I think with the Knicks dragging us out, it
also saves them money because they already owe money to
Tom Tibo, though they can wait a few more weeks
before owing money to another head coach at the same time.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
All right, so dollars indeed way away from the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now, obviously, we're still talking about Cooper Flag going number
one overall, and we talked about this last night.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I think he's so good.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I think in a couple of years, the conversation is
going to be is he or Wenby the best all
around player in the game when it comes to scoring
and and ball handling and dishing the ball defensively? Do
you see that kind of future for Cooper Flag.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
In the NBA, Oh, without a doubt. I think when
you're looking at what's going to be the impact Number one,
you mentioned about what that one executive told me. Multi
year All NBA player, multi year All Star. But it's
not just the accolades. It's how he's going to get
the Alcolate accolades. He doesn't have this defined skill set.
I think Carmelo Anthony was saying, Oh, he doesn't have
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this go to move. You know what, I don't think
that really matters because he checks every box, he defends
multiple positions, he knows how to score, he's athletic as hell.
He has the highlight reels with those dunks. He's a
great passer, and he's very amenable toward roles. And so
I think the really cool thing for Cooper flag with
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Dallas is that you know, there's a reason why they
only had like just over one percent chance to get
the number one pick. They didn't have the worst record
in the NBA, they were a playoff team, they were
in the plan, and then obviously everything fell park Is
Kyrie Irving had a season ending injury a month before
the season ended, so he's jumping into it Andronment where
(22:00):
he's not expected to carry the team single hatedly. But
at the same time, there are some questions next season,
when does Kyrie Irving come back from his acl how
limited is he going to be with Anthony Davis. He's
healthy now, but how long will that last. So with that,
he's going to have an opportunity as well as a
necessity to put on the number one, number two hat,
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but when they're back having to be number three. But
the key thing that his trainer, Matt McKenzie told me
and stressed about Cooper Flag is he's very adaptable with
not just his skill set but his attitude. And so
I think with this it makes for a very perfect fit.
And with Dallas, because of everything going on this last
(22:43):
year with trading Luka Doncic, they can point to him
as their jail out a free card as well as
tangibly make the case that he can be our base
of the franchise moving forward. And you know what, he'll
do that so well that seven years from now they're
not going to trade him because he is in good
condition and so they're not going to worry about that.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
So Austin Reeves declined the four year, eighty nine million
dollar contract extension looking for larger, greener pastures. Lakers could
off from what two forty six a year from now,
no chance in hell or the max and the rest
of the market plays one eighty nine. Where's the difference
between that ninety seven million dollars for Austin Reeves in
(23:27):
the next year.
Speaker 8 (23:29):
Yeah. I think that he's not going to go anywhere.
And even though technically he declined to, you know, have
the extension, I don't think that's all the sudden the
signal that he wants to leave the Lakers. And I
think in a weird way, that might actually depress the
market because teams might think, Okay, well what am I
investing in him for when he's going to, you know,
(23:50):
be be a free agent next summer, right where his
number will be a lot higher. So I think it
was a move that frankly benefited both sides. I think
the Lakers still gave that extension offer to Austin Reefs
just as a do good gesture and just you know,
so they're not sending any signals that they don't think
(24:11):
highly of him. But there is a gray area because
on one hand, Rob Polinka is talking about Austin Reeves
in the same breath as Luka Doncic and Lebron James.
As you know, this big three and this pillar that's
good to build a team around. But at the same time,
it's not like Austin Reeves is untouchable. It's just that
(24:31):
they're parameters. For trading Austin Reeves is it has to
be a move that significantly puts them over the top.
It's not a trade rotation player for a trade rotation player,
kind of marginal move that they'll be willing to do.
So when you add all those things up, I don't
think he goes anywhere. And if the Lakers are going
(24:51):
to make moves to address their center spot, it's either
going to be through free agency or if it's through trade,
it's going to be involving gave Vincent, Dorian Finnish Smith
and maybe really had Chamora.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
See I look at it this way.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I look at a little bit differently as that I
think the late with the ownership change and things going on,
they're going to take this season as it comes. Lebron
will opt in for fifty one million, and obviously yes
they did the nice thing with Austin Reeves, but at
the end of the year, they're going to say, Okay,
we're fully building around Luca. Lebron will likely be gone
and if Austin Reeves is looking for the Max.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Austin Reeves is a nice player.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's a good player, right, He's a good number three
guy on a team. Lakers aren't going to give him
five years two hundred and fifty million dollars Like, that's
not how so I don't know that this might not
be the last year on the Lakers for both Lebron
and Austin Reeves before they say, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We're not going to give him that kind of money.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We need somebody else to be with Luca that we
pay two hundred and fifty million dollars too, because so,
by the way, we got to give Luke a lot
of money. So I think this might be the last
year for both of them. It's like, Okay, we're going
to make a last run with the team we've kind
of put together.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We're going to add a rim runner for Luca.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And then really next offseason we build for the next
generation of the Lakers.
Speaker 8 (26:00):
Yeah, I mean what you said very well could happen.
I think the fascinating thing is there's also this scenario
that Lebron James he opts out of his player option
and he decides to do the one plus one again,
because I don't know if Lebron actually knows yet do
I want to retire. He's been hinting a lot that
when he's going to return, he could play five seven years,
(26:21):
he thinks. But his standard is all Star caliber level.
And I think the complicated part is, even though he's
not the same player as he was in his prime,
he's still all Star caliber. And so I think because
of that, he's not going to be announcing this is
the final season. As much as everyone including myself might
think he likes that farewell tour, I think what's more
(26:44):
important for him is leaving that window open to potentially
get another championship or two. And so with that, I
don't think Lebron's last year is technically this season. It
could be, but I.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Don't think I think it's going to be another. I
think he goes back to Cleveland after this. How how
else is he going to finish? Right, he goes back
to Cleveland, they're winning championship, finally come back to the
Oh no, no, no, he's no.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I'd love for him to do that, but it's like, Okay,
how else is he going to really end? He was?
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I don't think he's going back Cleveland, as enticing as
that is, with you know, the core that they have.
I think he's he likes being in la he likes
to play with Bronny. I don't think Bronny is going anywhere,
So we'll see. I mean, all these combinations, that's what
makes it intriguing, like everything could happen. That makes it
good for us because we have a lot to talk about.
But this is what's challenging for the Lakers. There's all
(27:35):
these different odds that that's going to happen, and are
different scenarios that could happen. So they're trying to be
flexible with everything. And at the same time, Lebron James
is the same vein and there's gonna be a lot
of changes with this new ownership with Mark Walter. But
one of the changes I don't think is going to
be affected is Lebron James's future. I think it's more
(27:56):
it's what the philosophy hasn't changes, for better for worse.
The Lakers want a star player to retire with them,
so they're going to leave it almost up to him
to decide that there's a lot of moving parts. How
much they devote to their resources with support, staff, analytics,
the front office, scouting, you know, how much they're willing
to absorb luxury taxes with you know, paying role players
(28:19):
like Austin Reeves. I don't think lebron James's future necessarily
is affected because Junior Bus and the Bus family sold
their majority shares to Mark Walter.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I like chaos theory, so that's what it's all about
for past.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
So let's let's go back to the draft and then
Mark to finish this up. Did the NBA keep it
at two day event so they didn't have to admit
they only did the second day for Bronny James.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Your thoughts, you know what?
Speaker 8 (28:43):
There could be some truth today. I think also it's
you know, dog days, a summer programming needs with the
cable networks. That's another thing. But I would argue this,
give me any baseball game regardless over the second night
of the NBA Draft. And I say that as someone
who the NBA covers it obviously for a living, and
I'm paying attention to everything, but from from a if
(29:07):
I'm you know, an NBA fan, there's no reason to
watch this. It's just so prolonged. I get last year
for the very rare occurrence that there was some intrigue
of hate watch and some people fascinating with Brownie. But
there's no compelling storylines with the second round of the
draft beyond front offices. So yeah, it should go back
(29:29):
to the way it was.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
He's on X at Mark g Underscore, Medina. That's at
Mark g Underscore Madina. Check out his latest.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All on Cooper Flag and the Mavericks and his ceiling
in the NBA. Mark is always buddy. Appreciated, my friend.
We'll talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Appreciate you next week, you know, maybe finally the next
time a head coach, we'll see maybe all Mike Brown,
Hey man.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Mike Brown, dude, I could have tell again the Nicks.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I could have saved the Nicks so much heartache, I
said Mike Brown from the beginning.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Oh boy, thank you very u much, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
I guess there at some point, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well the Lakers do, so maybe that's what I get
from the Knicks. They all like Brown still the leader.
In the fact, I feel like, here's the thing, though,
I feel like if he really was the runaway guy,
they would have hired him. By not right because they
talked to Brown, They talked to Jenkins, you know, they
they talked to Mike and Nor. They're gonna talk to
Brego this weekend, Like, okay, is he if he? Once
(30:25):
you find the guy, you say, okay, you're our guy.
Now I get maybe a lot of it as optics.
The Knicks don't want to make it seem okay. We
we biff the first part of it by not by
by asking for permission from teams who are never going
to do it for us, So we want to make
sure we're doing it looks like we're doing our due diligence.
But if Mike Browns your guy, Mike Brown your guy,
it's all good.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
See, I still go back to I didn't think that
was his clown. I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
It was a nice fodder for us to kind of
laugh at your Knicks. But by the serious side of it,
I was always of the big belief that go take
your shot.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
You don't know if you're gonna get a yes.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
So I get it, you know, they when you're in
a teenager and you're thinking about the big dance. You
don't know who's being asked and who hates. If someone
isn't coupled up, take your shot, might be surprised. Same
thing here. You might have a team that behind the
scenes they don't really love their coach, and their coach
doesn't love them. They're they're at odds over what to
do with that second year temperamental point guard.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And you move on.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
So as of the seventeenth of this from DraftKings, you
had Brown, then Jenkins, Johnny Bryant still in the mix,
Michael Malone, Brego Budenholzer, Steve Nash, and Rick Brunson still
sitting out there.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Rick Brunton is still there just because he's still there.
Gonna talk to him. No, we're not gonna, but I'm
still there. Just like still what Stephen A. Smith's still
on that list? Like seven and nine?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
This is one Trunk gets it after like eight guys, So,
I mean, I know we dig big enough.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's there.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But God has been called the Stephen A. Smith of
Fox Sports Radio because he likes to play solitaire while
he works as well it's Isaac ohen Craws.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Hang on that lost again.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Darn it.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, dude, black Queen on the Red King.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
You can do it.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
I actually used to have a solitaire phase. Of course
it wasn't while I was doing my job. Maybe that's
what I've been doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Well, we started with people when they first got when
they first got their computers, Like in the late nineties,
your computer was like it was a two thousand dollars
solitaire machine, because that's all anybody could do is just play.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Solitaire on it Internet. I don't want to do that.
I'm just gonna play solitaire.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Those are the days, huh, with our good old Gateway
two k. On Thursday, the NFL suspended former Baltimore Ravens
placekicker Justin Tucker for ten weeks for violations of the
NFL's personal conduct policy. Tucker, who's presently a free agent,
was accused of sexual misconduct by sixteen massage therapists in
(32:57):
the Baltimore area. In Major League Baseball Thursday night, the
New York Mets defeat of the Atlanta braves Ford and
Nothing to take over first place in the National League
East by half a game over the Phillies. Five Mets
pitchers combined for a three hit shutout with eleven strikeouts. However,
started Griffin Canning had to leave the game due to
a non contact left achilles injury in the third inning.
(33:18):
And the NBA Draft concluded Thursday with the second round
the final pick Tennessee guard Jemi Meyshak, who went fifty
ninth overall to the Memphis Grizzlies. And finally, guys, in
light of what you guys were discussing at the start
of this hour, we have a Bezos Sanchez Wedding of
the Century update for you.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
The oh okay very good.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
The London Daily Mail newspaper reports that their Thursday night
pre wedding party was marred by a freak Venice thunderstorm,
forcing their A list guests to run for cover. The
paper says that guests dived for cover under vaulted cloisters
(34:02):
as lightning bolts flashed across the sky. The strong gusts
of winds whipped tablecloths away and sent waiters scurrying for
umbrellas to protect the VIPs. Torrential downpours left the guests
soaked as they dashed for water. Taxis, which had been
scrambled a good forty five minutes ahead of the midnight
(34:26):
finished time. One onlooker told the paper it just goes
to show you could have all the money of the world,
but you can't control the weather. And finally, The London
Daily Mail also offered the following description of noted wedding
guest Tom Brady's attire in Italy. He was spotted wearing
a fitted beige blazer styled with black slacks, loafers and
(34:52):
a white button up shirt that highlighted his glowing tan unquote.
So that's the latest on Tom Brady.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Back to you guys, no Isaac Low and croneby appearing
on the E Network to give you all the latest off.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, their Habitas.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome coming up next.
There was a very big event tonight in sports. Not
sure it's still a really good idea to have it.
That's next Jason and Mike This is Fox.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
Now whether you realize it or not, Night two of
the NBA Draft was tonight.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well, and if you if you think there was enough.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Problems with hearing what you did you we talked about
it last night. I'm sure you heard about it all
day today. Just how underwhelming the NBA Draft is night one,
you can imagine what it must have been like on
Night two, where the tagline could be, Hey, tune in,
you never know what you're gonna hear.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
A player you may have heard of, right like, that's
that's the end. That's NBA Draft night too.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You may have enjoyed this guy in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm Troy McClue. You might remember me from such nights
as last night NBA Draft. H Are we sure the
two nights the NBA drafts still a good thing?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I mean, this is a league that the night they
should make its own standalone night in the the NBA
Draft Lottery night, which should be its own thing, they
decide to jam that between two games.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
In the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
No, no, but we'll give a whole separate night to
the second night of the draft. And and and it
ran unopposed tonight with regular season Baseball regular season WNBA
and wow, did you watch this.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
And go what the hell is this? Man?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It was It's just like one step up from the
MLB Draft, which I don't even think is televised. I
think it's guys in a room, like when you used
to do a fantasy draft in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We just suck around.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
And at the end you just told everybody, here's my
let me say, you send me your roster so I
have it so I can put it in. Okay, great,
I'll send you by roster Like that's really why are
we really sure we need two nights of the NBA Draft?
Speaker 5 (37:15):
Well, you know, as we were talking about with Mark Madina,
is something we'd theorized earlier in the program.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
The idea that you do. I have a dearth of programming.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
And when it's all said and done, you want to
advertise Day one, you gotta take a little bit of
Day two. You got movies opening, plenty of them between
f one, the movie Megan two point zero. Next week
is Jurassic Park, and so many others that are coming out.
You want your movies to be showcased dial up, but
you gotta buy some Day two along the way, and otherwise,
(37:50):
I mean, what else is on? Everything else is in
reruns except Love Island. Maybe you're binge watching the Bear.
But you have a bunch of opportunity for folks that
are still curious coming off of the Okay, see win
of you know, maybe where some of their college grades
went to put it in perspective, you had eight uh
(38:12):
international players selected in round you only one back in
round one, and that was number twelve to the Bulls.
But today two way players, this is where you need
more live coverage. Caleb Love goes to the Trail Blazers,
and Ryan Nemhard you know that family that you love
so much from Kazaga, He's going to the Dallas Mavericks
on a two way deal. So now we start seeing
(38:33):
the news bulletin of guys that we really know on
the next level on our J Davis.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
As we do a pr flee, no one cares al Hey,
no one can. If I'm a Gonzaga fan, I'm not
watching the draft to see where nempart ends up.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
You don't think so, No, that's your guy. You're not
sitting in your sweaty jersey.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
No you're not. None of that is enticing. I get it.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Last year when Bronnie was the Okay Bronnie, you know,
was a big story going into Rounte. We talked about
Bronnie in the draft forever.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
It was a deal.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
If you said, hey, we're gonna go back to the
one night and go back to two nights when Bryce
James comes in, because maybe Lebron's gonna want to play
with him.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay with that, I'm okay, But boy.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
There's two nights that I mean, come on, you got
enough time making it compelling with one night compared to two.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Forget it. And you don't even know where.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Everybody is drafted because of the thirty picks of round two,
twenty five of them were traded or were results of
trades where people moved into.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
That spot to get them.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
There were only five picks where it was this team
was in this spot and took this player.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Like you can't even keep.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Track of it, Jason. Yeah, somebody floated a great idea
hold the NBA Draft lottery thirty minutes before the first
round of the draft.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
See that's what That's what we were saying. Right, you're
on the clock, let's go.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
That would be kind of scramble time to go.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I guess we're taking Cooper flat Boy, and then a
Spanley would really be able to say where he wanted go, Yeah,
you're number.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
One, let's go. Don't take me, man, don't where do
you want to go? Watch it? You'll tay? Okay, great,
you guys take a span Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
You don't even have enough time for that to be
a chain called throughout the gms of the league from insiders.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, it would just be like on social media, it
would be agent for Ace Bailey, the following teams, Please
do not take my client seventy six years Comma Philadelphia, Jazz,
Comma Utah like that would that's the only way to
get it out there.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
But the draft lottery has its own night is one idea.
The other is to go in front of a microphone
and go, yeah, we all got you for that one
year with Brownnie James.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
I mean, look, I get that putting the draft out there,
it's on TV, people get to see, okay, But at
some point you have to say, all right, is that
a good optic for the league that you're showing something
that that they're not ready for, that doesn't show growth
or show something that puts the league in a real
positive light like. I think the NBA you gotta understand that, Okay,
you can't keep putting something out that they're just going
(40:55):
to be kind of a kind of a punchline for
the league.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
Well, the comedy writers would just say, you just had
the NBA Finals. Hello everybody, I'll see myself out, Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Radio, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon. Coming up next, we get
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