December 4, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon dish out the best fits for Giannis if in fact the Milwaukee Bucks decide to trade him. The guys discuss Chris Paul's legacy. And Ole Miss AD Keith Carter disputes Lane Kiffin’s College Football Playoff narrative!
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it has begun. Today is the officially we can now
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start counting down to the end of the Yannis era
in Milwaukee. Right we have big NBA story today. We
got Chris Paul coming up in a few minutes. But
Jannis before a little bit of drama Intonight's game. The
story reported earlier today Nick that Yannis and his agent
are talking with the Bucks about Jannis's future.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is he going to stop?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Don't put that out there, Ricky, Bobby, it's Adam Schefter
said the only team talking to in the off season
was the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Football the football shifter he is.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He was quote tweeting Shams, Okay, it's the only team
on the day where hey, you know the the Yana's
drama continues to go. And it's not no surprise. This
is going along the path we thought it was. Jannis
threw it out there in the offseason. Hey, maybe I
should be looking someplace else, but okay, buy in for
the beginning of this year. Okay, fine, Bucks aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Today Janniss it breaks that he and his agent talking
to the Bucks about what the best future is. Is
it in Milwaukee? Is it someplace else? And then Adam
Schefter comes in over the top with the report, quoting
Shams Trania that the Knicks were the only team that
Janni's wanted to reach out to in the off season.
So again we are where we were in August. July June,
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right after the season ended, that it looked like Jannis
wants out, Jannis wants to go to the Knicks, and
I am sure unrelated Mike Carmen on the day this
rumor breaks, I'm sure unrelated to it. Karl Anthony Towns
goes for thirty five and eighteen, completely unrelated to Well, wait,
Yiannis could be coming here to take my job and
I can get traded in Milwaukee. I better put up
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some numbers here thirty five and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We all find our motivations in life and our jobs,
our relationships, familial and friendships.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
There's times where you got to step it up.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And for Cat they also liked the Knicks ran back
into MSG yelling sanctuary SEXTU. Why did I teach him
that word sanctuary? Because they play really well at home.
So I mean it really was just an accelerated version
of what the Knicks normally are. But yes, the idea
that this has been restarted. Look and the honest fan
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the flames. What was it about two weeks ago when
he was openly lamenting the state of affairs and the
losing streak they were on and all of those things
where he was starting to show a little salty side
of himself. Right, it wasn't normal Smiley happy, honest. Even
in the past when they've had little downturns, it's always
been the you know, I'm blessed to be here, this
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life is great.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Whatever. He started showing some cracks of Hey, losing was
starting to wear on him.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, hey, look, they won the championship and they haven't
gotten close since, and they're not getting there. They're clearly not.
They made moves, they tried to do everything they can
around Yiann. It's it's not working. And so Jannis wants
out now, Right.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You make a big move and a guy gets hurt,
a guy who didn't necessarily want to be there anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But that's a whole other question. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right again, I don't think it's any coincidence Karl Anthony
Towns goes for thirty five and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
On that night. I don't want to get traded to Milukie.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But think about this for a second, right, and again,
I don't know if there's any coincidence with this part
of it as well. The Knicks lose last night to
the Celtics, right, and you know they thump the Hornets tonight,
Larry Johnson with a bad game, they shut down Muggsy Bogues.
Kendall Gill's shot was just all yeah, you know, well
he's coming up back to backs.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah it happens.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Kendall Gill was pretty good. But on on on the
night they lose last night, and what happens to the Knicks.
Jalen Brunson has a bad game. He was terrible and
the Knicks lose. The one thing you can say about
for you know, with styles with Tibbs and Mike Brown,
and who's playing better under Mike Brown, who's regressing under
Mike Brown. You know, there's a lot of good, there's
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also bad with the ni So are the Knicks too old?
But are the Knicks deeper than they have been? And
maybe they can withstand things. They're unbeatable at home. There's
good and bad. But the one thing you can't you
can't deny is that the mark of a great team
is when your star player is out or plays bad,
you can win a game. If Jalen Brunson's out or
he has a bad game, the Knicks can't win all right.
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Karl Anthony Town's is not putting the team on his
shoulders by himself, and you're gonna get Look, guys like
Jordan Clarkson will come in and get a little bit
more minutes and got and you know, you will get
a little bit more production obviously, because someone's got to
come up make up for Brunson's you know, missing twenty
seven or thirty points in a game. But I don't
think there's also any coincidence that last night here's the
Knicks and they lose and Brunson plays poorly. And the
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one thing you can't get pack when Brunson plays poorly,
the Knicks can't win. So you get to the playoffs,
you will. You're talking of this being a finals type
season for you, because hey, if the only team you're
really worried about right now are the Pistons, Okay, man,
let's go. This is our year. Hey, you gotta get
somebody else in there that you know, when it's not
Brunson's night, this guy can carry you, or he can
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carry you on knights, and brusn nut Bunson enough to
worry about carrying him. So you had the coincidence of
Karl Anthony Towns. They also think this story could have
broken any day but after the Knicks lose yesterday and
Brunson's bed and they see their warts out there against
a bad Celtics team playing without anybody Jalen Brown in
a big night. But still this is not your this
is not your last year Celtics before the Jason Tatum injury,
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the Celtics are a bad team. And despite that, you saw, oh,
we really still can't win if Brunson doesn't have a
good game. And now today, hey, guess what. Guess what, guys,
we're talking to the Bucks, his agent and Yan we're
talking Bucks about our future. And here's Adam Schefter and
Sham's going, hey, the Knicks are the only team that
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he wanted to talk to in the offseason. I don't
think any of these things are unrelated that today, because
what are the odds that happens today, After the Knicks
get that sober reminder yesterday of if Brunson doesn't play well,
they can't win the way this team is, and they'll
try to take them away in the playoffs. The teams
are younger, more athletic, they will try to say, listen,
we'll take Brunson away and we'll yeah, good luck. Carl
Anthony Towns trick. He's not gonna beat us, and Nobody's
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not gonna beat us. Josh Heart's not gonna beat us.
Bridges isn't gonna beat us. This is what we need
to do. None of this is unrelated.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, Bridges, I mean still had what thirty five Kat
went for twenty nine last night, I mean not exactly
bomb efforts, and Brunson had eleven assists against his three turnovers.
That also, you know, take some umbrage. If I'm a
Boston fan right now, I'd tell them to call in,
but we'll just send him to your twitter at how
about a Frescanstead.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They're only two games back of you. Okay, so so
they're not that bad. Come on, stay, come on. You
still have White, you still have Jalen Brown. You still
got two guys that can fill it up and some
some bench depth, Simons off the bench, et cetera. You
had a couple of your guys had really great game,
like Eminem says in eight Mile they were living up here.
Now they gotta start living down here. That's where that's
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where it goes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But sometimes you gotta slug it out, and maybe you're
not as good as you thought.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You were exactly, which is why I always said from
the beginning of the year, either we're gonna be good
and it's great, or we're gonna underachieve and we're getting
Giannis at the.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No you've been trying to No, there's no question about it.
That's why I'm happy, man about all the way. Whatever
however it goes, Man, I will.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I know that that, Hey, Karl, Anthony, Towns and O
gianno noob, make them make the money work are probably
gonna be the guys to go.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So okay, all right to get Joannis. All right, that's
how it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Two huge piece yo, honest. Yeah, between you, he's yelling Lakers.
He's sending me that g the Lakers. All the pieces
you would trade for Yannis you can't trade. And you
got to keep Scotty pipping Austin Reeves.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You can't. You can't trade Austin. Dude. Look at look
how good you are to give it out.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How about this Lebron for Yannis right now, straight up,
Lebron right now, Lebron, Lebron and Brony for you.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, they can't have Bronnie. But that's that's sweet.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The bridge, that's the sweetener Lebron and Browny and you
get your honest and Bryce will give you the rights
to Bryce as well. Whenever that Happen'll give your brother immediately.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Anybody associated with basketball operations in Milwaukee is fired. Look,
and never get to work anywhere near a basketball court.
They can't paint the lines on an outdoor court after
making a deal like that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Look, nothing is changed with Giannis right that. This is
where we knew in the off season. He was getting antsy.
Right when you're thirty, you want a championship in Milwaukee?
All right, what's my th? I want to win again?
A right, I want to win again. It's been great,
it's been a great run here, but starting to get
a little bit of happy feet because the team's not
getting better. You we changed, we changed personnel, didn't work.
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Brought in Damian Lillard didn't work, right, brought in Doc
Rivers didn't work.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, but it's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So yeah, it's just natural that Giannis is gonna say, Okay,
I need to get somewhere else. I need to get
somewhere else because I want to win the back half
of my career. It'll be a shorter back half his career,
being a bigger guy like that, He's not going to
be playing this level when he's thirty eight years old.
So you're looking at Gianni's the next three to four years,
hopefully is when you still have him as one of
the top five players in the game. So yeah, it's
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only natural that this is how it goes. And by
the All Star break he'll be dealt right and and
and the Knicks I'm sure will be the first team. Say,
do you really feel how good we are about this team?
I mean, there's no there's no there's no reason that
the Knicks couldn't make this happen. Considering it seems like
they're Yannis's preferred destination and they have the money, and
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they have the talent, they have the players to make
it work. So what the players are going to be
what it winds up being that that's going to be
the bit. I think it's going to be towns in Anonobe,
some kind of situation like that. But by the All
Star break, Yannis will be on another team. Now things
got changed a little bit tonight with Giannis and when
he might wind up playing again, because this is what
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happened in the middle of the Bucks game tonight, and
who knows when we see Yannis next the ranch.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And that's the key. Janis. Janis is down.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Lisa doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It does not look good. He ye must Jim surely
just moments ago, walking on his own power back to
the locker room with the medical staff following him. You
know what this means. What does this mean, Frosber?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It means we don't have to give up Reefs anymore.
He's a diminished asset. That was just ruey Hachimura.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh they can have Lebron straight up.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yannis leaves the game. A Bucks radio network on the call.
Yannis leaves the game with a strained right calf. Now
it looked awful because it was a non contact injury.
Makes a great jump pass for a hoop, and trying
to get back on defense, he just goes to the
ground and you're thinking, oh, my goodness, Achilles, and look
we've seen right calfs turn into full blown Achilles. But
right now, the good news is that it is a
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calf's right calf strain. Gianna's pounding the floor a little bit,
you know, gets off the court. So you start to
wonder and you think about you think about this, You
really want to talk about how close this trade is.
Have we maybe seen Giannis Playley's last game for the Bucks,
like at this point, now does he does he go
crazy to come back or does he sit and say,
you know what, we're pursuing a trade. This is not
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working out. I'm not gonna go back out there get
hurt and then all of a sudden, I'm untradeable and
I'm looking at next season. I'm gonna sit now until
we figure this out. Right, And because this is who knows, right,
calf strain a week, two weeks, whatever, it's gonna wind
up being. You wonder if, okay, well you're getting to
the holidays and the All Star Breaks in a couple
of months. You wonder if the injury has hastened that
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timeline a little bit. Well, okay, he's healthy, but he's
sitting out for a little while. It's gonna take a
little bit for the Bucks to figure out this deal.
It's not gonna be suddenly overnight where they're gonna say, Okay,
here's the trade they're gonna take. They're gonna talk to
a lot of different teams. They're going to try to
bleed everything they can. They're under no rush to make
this move, especially now that Giannis is hurt.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
So I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Surprised if we had an extended time off for Giannis.
And really, you think about this could be the last
game he plays for the Bucks. If this trade is
gonna happen, if they're going forward, why would you want
him back out The teams are going to tell the Bucks,
don't put him back out there.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We're trading.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You're telling us he's good, like we're not gonna see medicals,
but you're telling us he's okay. Okay, don't put him
back out there, because if we're going to make a
trade for him, yeah, we want to make sure we
get him in our building, figure things out. We get
to look at him, don't put don't play him. I mean, really,
this could have been his last game.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh it might be ready for a December twenty fifth
battle against the Cavaliers at the Garden.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
How about that. Oh yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah,
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
But I mean we go through Milwaukee's history, right, the championships,
the outlier, a lot of first round or Semi five,
you know, semi's exits, three straight first round exits. But
this injury, uh just one that as you said, we've
seen a lot of these development into bigger injuries. We've
also seen a proliferation of calf strains uh this year
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and off that that's very frequently diagnosed. It's the torn
labor of Major League Baseball from several years back. It's
like we're learning all about the human body. Now we
know what a calf is.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So we've got that, but how it portends to other injuries, Yeah,
it's it's tough to put them back out there. And
as we know in the NBA, if you declare where
you want to go, you're getting there. It's just a
matter of when and how and what's the asking price.
Right with the dopey rule in the NBA, you got
to make all the salaries match up and keep everybody happy.
But there's no bidding war like this. This is like
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when Ad got traded to the Lakers, like there was
there was no reason to give them anything because.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They can screw it up.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Look, Donovan Mitchell wanted to be a nick and Danny
Ain said nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, no.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So Donovan Mitchell comes up the lot because remember that
story as it can still.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Screw it up.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Man, it's the nixt that nothing is for certain. They
could still screw it up. You can still see that.
Don't worry, but think about that. Tonight could have been
the last game Yann has played for the button right
with everything going forward in the drama and the injury
and the trade. Uh, maybe he does. Maybe this is
it for him.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Who did he give his shoes to?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I want those shoes to the guy on Detroit that
took the basketball from him when he wanted it for
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Fox Sports Radio and Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike harmon him. And how about the Milwaukee Bucks
with a one point lead over the Pistons right now?
Yannis may get traded? Then who's that guy? Then he
got hurt tonight And here they are with a minute
left to go, and they lead the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Buy one. Look at the brooing. No, no, we can't
lose it. We have to we have to do something.
Let's go win this game for Yannis. Maybe you'll stay.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I need these minutes. Look how good I am I
can replace this guy. He's already out of here. Yeah,
he's already moved. He's ice skating next to Rockefella Center.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Let's go give me the ball, give me the ball. Hey,
there's gonna be a lot of shots out there. I'm
ready for him, just like I could do it, coach.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I can do it. Just let me go, let me go.
Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Uh so again again, this is the worst thing for
the next because now maybe Jannis is thinking, oh, look
at them go up with a win against the best
team in the Eastern team with the best record in
the Eastern Conference, and oh, maybe we are going to
have a great year. No, I want to stay. Well,
that's gonna happen. It's gonna ruin him going to the.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Next Sometimes you play up to the competition, challenge accepted.
And maybe Jannis is a little inspired coming out of this, saying,
look at my guys, Look at my guys.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Come on, Pistons, Come on. All I needed was to
be moderately broken for a day. Look at me.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Come on, Kate Cunningham, let's see a three ball here.
Come on, guys. It's never rooted for the Pistons.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So are you love the Piston Let's get three years
ago you predicted greatness for them. That didn't transpire. They
got the Lions almost there. But now they hate you
there too. Uh you jump back on the Pistons and
now you're looking for Kate Cunningham to give you greatness
one more time.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Oh man, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So again a little bit less than a half minute
left to go. Bucks lead it by one, and he's
everybody saw the fans standing up there, all wearing Gianni's jerseys.
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Speaker 3 (18:45):
Of the day. Jason.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
The Lakers didn't play tonight, so we but we sent
the team that's getting honest, there's no highlight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Dude, You're just I mean, that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Man. If you're not gonna put Browny in the trade
with Lebron. They're not gonna.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
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Speaker 1 (19:05):
The runner ups. Here's a team that isn't getting you
honest yet. And here's the play of the day, Towns.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Looking reverse highlight.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Cham from Karl Anthony Towns puts the icing on the cake.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's a sixteen point Nick Glue.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There was Nick's radio network on the call again, a
big thirty five and eighteen night for Karl Anthony Towns
on the day that hey, Giannis might get deled.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Hey all right, there's a couple of great games for
him back to back though oh yeah, yeah, I mean
personally one hundred percent, because you know, this has been
swirling for months like this is not a new revelation now,
it's it's back in the news and back in the
churn of the twenty four hour news cycle.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But you know, for Cat, I gotta.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Imagine his entire offseason, he's been thinking about where his
next next digs would be.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is he done how shopping? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Do you think that he finished the game and he
saw that Giannis had a cash and he goes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I didn't need to do that Tonightey, I'm exhausted my
ass off against Charlotte's. That's the only guy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're trading for to replace me. Guys should have taken
some time off tonight. Why did I Why did I
really extend myself here? I didn't need to do that tonight. Man. Fine, whatever,
man ain't gonna trade me anyway. I'm The're gonna find
a way out. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So again, yes, all the drama with Yannis potentially uh
pursuing a trade. He and his agent talking to the
Bucks about his future. Now the Yannis injury is out there,
you know, with a non contact calf strain. Tonight he
goes down right now it is a calf strain, uh,
not anything worse. So hopefully things are okay for y
honest and again it was it wasn't a full blown
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Achilles you would.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Have had that by now. It was a cat.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now calf strains turned into other things. Not to say
this will, but it has become an issue.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So I will say.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This before we get to Chris Paul. This story really
hot and heavy today. Yannis, the trades we have to
understand that this is now what's going to happen with
the honest being injured. It's not gonna be something that
happens quickly. It will happen over the course of the
next month or so. Think this is gonna be a
slow burn because you want to make sure he's healthy
when you trade him again. We talked about teams not
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wanting him to get hurt. I wonder if he's played
his last game for the Bucks while they figure this out.
This is not a trade that's gonna go down tomorrow
or this weekend, probably not even by maybe Christmas Day.
But I would say this is gonna be at least
a month until we figure out a trade. Giannis gets
a clean bill of health, he's back playing, he is okay,
then you'll see teams okay, now trade. So this is
(21:31):
gonna be a great drama. But I don't know that
we're gonna see a lot of movement on this for
at least until probably the beginning of the Well we'll.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Be curious to watch is particularly with your Dix. How
much well, for lack of a better term, load management
comes into play here over these next couple of weeks.
For Ogianinobi and Karl Anthony Towns. Right, if this is
gonna drag out, as you say, like, let's put the
other line to run with it is Well, if those
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guys are gonna be part of the deal, you can't
exactly expose them to thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And I know, Dan, you g just got cleared for contact.
So when he comes, hopefully soon he is, he is back.
But uh no, I think if you're a Karl, you
got to make the bucks feel good about the guy
that's going to be the centerpiece of the trade. Sell
sell Jalen, will we know you're the guy? Okay, just
between you, you're the guy. But really set up set
up cat right, because we got to be able to
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Is there a cat tracker now going on with the
radio stations in the Greater mill Atwalk area. Yeah, they're
they're going, they're getting away from holiday programming, music programming,
going right to the car all Karl Anthony Snott nora
At It's how did he operate in the low post?
Uh So again, that's how it's gonna go next. That's
how it's gonna go for you. Honest, it's gonna be
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you know a few weeks before. I think that the
injury throwing a big, big question mark into all of
these plans because now there is gonna be okay, how
healthy is he? How long will he be out? So
there is going to be that part of it now.
The other big drama today, Chris Paul is no longer
Remember the Los Angeles Clippers. Pretty much when you and
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I got off the air last night, Chris Paul was
told his services were no longer About that yea from
the team right GM Lawrence Frank saying earlier today that
they have decided to part ways with Chris Paul. And
in the ensuing hours we found out the relations with
Chris Paul and the coaching staff were in great Apparently
he and ty Lou were not speaking. Chris Paul very
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outspoken with the Clippers being terrible, probably doing his old
Chris Paul, I know more than anything else than everybody
else about this team and going forward, because that's what
Chris Paul's kind of been, and his holding the coaches,
holding the players accountable. I can understand from the Clippers
saying yeah, we can't have that here, not from a
guy who is not our starting point guard who's playing
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just a few minutes a game that we're hoping that
we're here because you want to have a great final
season in the NBA. Right, We're thoughting that this is
gonna be great pr for both of us, and you
can come back to the place where you had the
best success of your career and it's gonna be great
for all of us. Instead, you're barely playing and you're
a little bit too much of a voice for someone
who is going anti where we are as far as
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the front office goes. So because of this, Chris Paul
is out with the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The big takeaway from this because you've heard a lot
of different things to that, and we always want to
give you something a little bit different the.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Way you've heard all day. Chris Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It is not surprising to me that this is how
his career is ending because Paul, for his whole career
has been someone who's done it his way for good
and bad. Right, He's done great things players association, He's
done wonderful things teammates. You know, they all love playing
with him, standing up for teammates. He's someone that wants
to win again, trying to hold the players accountable during
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a season. He's in a lot of good things. He's
also in a lot of things that greats on your teammates,
the greats on teams. His ability with the Clippers to
think that I'm gonna be able to do whatever I
want to. I'm going to try to shoot from the
other side of half court and get a foul called
on me. I'm gonna get shooting foul in the playoffs,
which helps send them home a big year where they
could have got to the Western Conference finals. Like Chris
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Paul has always been that guy that, yes, I do
it my way, and sometimes that's great and you can
look in the mirror and say, you know what, at
the end of the day, Yeah, I did it my
way and it was awesome and I had this career.
But the flip side of it is it doesn't always
help you. It doesn't always help you, and you wind
up running the risk of upsetting the teams you play
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for upsetting some of your teammates, and this is how
it ends for you being waved in the middle of
the night by by the Clippers and people wake up
going it happened at three o'clock. In them, they decided
at three o'clock was there a big of you know,
late night meeting in a hotel that Chris Paul is saying,
we can't do this, and Lawrence, Frank and Tyler were saying,
yes we can.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, we can't.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, your cut, that's it. We're letting you go like
that's the That's the downside of doing it your way
is that it doesn't always go the way you think
it's gonna go. And you have to live with that too.
That's a look in the mirror moment too. And I
see that because I always that's how I want. I
want things in my life, in my career my way,
and I get that, and I'm very comfortable when I
think of things that have gone on in my career
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and things that are hopefully coming or whatever it's gonna be, that, Yeah,
I'm doing it my way and I'm doing what I
want to do. I'm doing it this way. Now, is
that always the best thing for me? No, it's not,
because I have to understand that that when I want
things my way, there's certain things that are going to
fall by the wayside, or certain opportunities that I'm not
gonna get because I want to do things my way.
So I understand Chris Paul's thing of it. I understand
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this part of it, but that's the risk you run,
and especially at the end where you know this is
your last year and it's awesome that you want to
hold your team to a higher standard, but dude, your
team is terrible. Man, the team has beat We knew
the team was gonna be bad. We're gonna keep giving
money to guys you're thirty five and forty years old.
That's I told you in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
It's not gonna works when the Clipper We're gonna keep
giving money to Kawhi Leonard and James Harden.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Keep doing this and keep doing this and keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Right, I get that, But you know it's awesome that
you're like that, but also understand and this is the end,
and is this how you want to go out?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You wanted to go out.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm back with the Clippers for my final year and
it's going to be a celebration of me for basketball.
And instead now it's an embarrassment getting waived in the
middle of the night. And now who knows. I gotta
think I'd like to think a team is gonna pick
them up to play, but they maybe they don't. And
this is how it ends for Chris Paul, who alread
announced this was his last year. So so that's the
good and bad about doing things your way is that
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you have to understand that, Okay, sometimes it's gonna be
great and sometimes it could be bad. And this was
really bad the way it ended.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, I mean, do you look at the opportunity to
go back to you know where it reclaim some glory
joining there by the way, the Clippers are only paying
so much of Kawhi's salary through basketball means just so
you know, like the rest of it is off the
books for tree planting or whatever the case may be.
But when you make the decisions personal professional, right, you
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assume some level of risk, some level of trust, all
of those things. And yeah, there's plenty that you have
no control of. Nor do you can you control how
your message is received if you just read it in
cold ard facts like trying to hold people accountable, well
they stink. So yeah, if it's buttoning up the details
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and playing a little tighter defense or running your sets
a little bit better, I mean, what's the problem with that.
I mean, obviously we're not in the building. They decided
it was a bridge too far, and it wasn't going
to change anything for a guy at fourteen minutes a game,
and who's not a difference maker, right, He's just filling
out stat sheets at this point. And that goes back
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to the age old sports or general business. Wherever you
work out there, you know this. The star gets a
little more latitude, right, the one who's got the eye
of the bosses gets a little more latitude with how
they approach things, maybe a little more creature comforts.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You're at the end of your run. You've already announced
it's your last year. So all they did was keep
you from getting any giveaways from their opponents who want
to boudy a little bit to say, hey, congratulations on
a job done.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Could have been handled better? Yeah, I mean it's a
bit unseemly. Could they have waited until they came back
to Los Angeles and then had a little Hey, let's
just go do this in front of some microphones and
be done. Sure, but in the end it's the Clippers.
Would you expect it to be neat and clean?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
No exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike harmon time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone who's been called the Chris Paul
of Fox Sports Radio. Apparently she had big news at
three am last night. It's Moncey Bolagos, and we're gonna
have to just to let everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Know we're gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Help Moncy out tonight, the great Clipper fan that she is.
They won having to wave goodbye to the point God,
Chris Paul.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Moncey, you know, I don't really agree with you, guys.
I'm not saying you're crazy and what you're saying, I
just don't necessary say with what you are saying, Because
if everyone knows Chris Paul's attitude, then why did you
bring him on for the final year? If we're very,
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very familiar familiar with Chris Paul's way of being, why
would the Clippers bring him on?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
What are you surprised about?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh, the Clippers aren't blameless in this, No, no, this was
what's Chris Paul's legacy going on?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
It just seems like everyone's going after Chris Paul here,
and I just like, even if he was harsh with
his words, that you guys are asked, because you are asked,
why can't you put on your big boy pants and
just suck it up?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You got to fire a guy at.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Three am who's been who was one of the biggest
faces of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Oh wait, I can explain that to you. Hang on,
I got I have the research. Now, hang on, Clippers.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yes, yeah, and you're right, and you're and you are
you're not You're not wrong about that, You're not wrong
about that. But this is like the Clippers just are
just really rough to defend. Right now. What's that guy's name?
Lawrence Frank? Fire that guy, firelight that guy, Fire that guy,
Fire that guy, give her that guy, because none of
them says exactly as I told you off air. You
(31:11):
saw how I felt really fire that guy because.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Why why, why why did you sign Bradley Beal. Let's
start with that one.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
First of all, how dare you guy? I can't even
defend himself literally he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yeah, no, even if he was alive and well and whatever,
he can't defend himself.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So just fire that guy.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
All right, Well, we'll have Clippers Talk Part two in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
One game is still going on in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
It's an early night in the NBA, though, because this
is the final one, the rest have wrapped up the
heat or have.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Cut their deficit.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
They were losing by double dijuice, but they've cut their
deficit to six to six against the Mavericks and Dallas.
Mavericks are up one ten to one oh four with
about three and a half minutes to go in this one.
The Trailblazers defeated the Cavaliers in Cleveland one twenty two
to one ten, and yes, everybody was playing for.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Cleveland for the most part.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Nuggets took one thirty five to one twenty win over
the Pacers, where Jamal Murray dropped fifty two points. It
came down to some free throws, but the Spurs beat
the Magic one fourteen to one twelve. Those free throws
were made by Deerren Fox, who had thirty one points
in the win.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, the Clippers beat the Hawks.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
One fifteen to ninety two, LA, snapping their five game
losing streak. The Knicks over the Ornets won nineteen to
one oh four Carl Anthony Towns with a double double
thirty five points and eighteen rebounds. The Bulls have now
lost five in a row. They lost to the Nets
at home, one thirteen to one oh three. What's going
on in Chicago? The Rockets cruz pass the Kings one
twenty one ten ninety five, Alperinchion goon twenty eight points
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and ten rebounds, and the Bucks without Janni Santetokounmpo for
most of the game. They were down eighteen points at
one point, and they came back to beat the Pistons
one thirteen to one oh nine.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You don't need them anymore trading, you don't need them.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, Yannis went down on an on contact injury. They
say it's a right calf strain. When it comes to
men's college hoops, two undefeated teams.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Have now lost.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Number twenty five Arkansas handed number six Louisville their first
loss of the season, coming out on top eighty nine
to eighty, and Minnesota defeated number twenty two Indiana seventy
three sixty four for their first loss of the season.
In the NHL, the Mammoth are up on the Ducks
right now, two zero halfway through the first period, Capitals
over the Sharks three zero late in the first period,
and just in the NFL, the Buccaneers opened a twenty
(33:21):
one day practice window for wide receiver Mike Evans.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
He also practiced today. Ravens tight end.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Mark Andrews signed a three year, thirty nine million dollar extension.
Lions wide receiver im and Ross Saint Brown is questionable
for Thursday Night Football as the Lions will be hosting
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch raving Chris Paul,
as Dan Patrick used to say on Sports Center, among
the things you won't be seeing Chris Paul back with
the Clippers. Yes, exit out, out of Fresco, Exit swollen Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
We got more basketball on the way, but coming up
next yet another new, fresh, crazy angle to the biggest
(34:00):
football story of the last two and a half days.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Count Dooku singing songs before he got killed by Anna
Ken who had red eyes at the Emperor's thrusting. Hey
spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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Speaker 3 (34:32):
Was he a better Jedi or wizard?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Whoa much better Dracula?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No? No, no, he oh, well, I mean come on, okay,
in order Dracula, then Jedi, than wizard. Okay, he got
all the way to the top of the Jedi wh
he did? I mean, but there's only one Dracula. Well,
I mean with those Belle Lagosi and Jordan's sucked on
the Wizards there was Yeah, that is true. Okay, So okay,
So so it's it's it's Dracula, Douku Wizard and then Jordan.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
All right, so we were right there. Christopher Lee as.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Is always first my friend Jordan, no matter what rankings
you want, Chris, no matter which world or universe.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Christopher Wizard, Christopher Lee is a wizard greater than Jordan.
He was still at twenty point a game score. Oh,
if you put Chris Christopher Leon on the Wizards and
he made him a basketball play, he's at thirty point
a game guy. Easy see how tall he is. He's
a tall dude.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Man, he'd be fine, just dump into the low post.
Going to work.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So another day, another great dollop of drama involving everybody's
favorite head coach Lane Kiffin. Yeah, it was last night
we brought you the story that a couple of players
on Ole miss said that, yeah Kiffin's account that he
wanted to stay and they told him no, uh what
(35:46):
he the big the big message that he put out
when he left, saying, I prayed on it, I wanted
to stay, but the ad wouldn't let me. You know,
all the kids wanted me to stay and coach the team.
A couple of players said, yeah, that's not how that
meeting went down. That's not what anybody said. And today
you had the athletic director also dispute Lane Kiffin's version
(36:07):
of events, as Keith Carter won on a podcast today,
super Talk Mississippi, and said that Super Talk he says
a lot of things publicly, I'm not sure totally accurate.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
He's just missing remembered.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It's just not totally accurate that that the players said
they wanted Lane to stay. The only thing he was
able to confirm was that Sunday was the day they
figured you are not going to coach the team anymore,
right like that. That's that's the only part that Lane
Kiffin said that was able to be confirmed by the ad.
Everything else has shades of gray. It was Sunday. Yeah,
(36:39):
it was Sunday. It was after midnight, yeah, Sunday, right,
I got Sunday. Right.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
So now here's another.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Now this is the ad saying, hey, the lane Kiffin
process of events not quote totally accurate. So now in
the last twenty four hours, you had the A D
and you've had two players say not how the meeting went,
nobody basically saying nobody asked him to stay, nobody wanted
to stay. Uh and lane Kiffin put this out on
a statement anyway. I always it's always weird that that
(37:06):
that you can have somebody say something. I don't know
why you would put out a statement when you know
it can be so easily disproven, Like, I don't know
why you would say, yeah, the players wanted me to stay.
When you say that, and you know what's gonna happen.
Everyone's got a Twitter account, someone's gonna say something that's
an awful lot of people, right.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
It's like conspiracy theories, like as soon as there's more
than one other person, it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's an easy thing to be disproven. It's you in
a room of one hundred and twenty guys. If you
have a different version of events than the other one
hundred and twenty guys, that's gonna get out right.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It's not like people are gonna believe Lane. I believe
Lane Kiffin over all the other players. No, no, no, no, no,
that's not gonna happen. He's bounced around a bunch. There's
already some incredibility lapses in his professional career that folks
are gonna be like, yeah, no, outside with the kids,
especially as they all take to Twitter one after the next. Look,
my pr advice to him would be, dude, don't say
(37:59):
something that can be disproven so easy. That's gonna wind
up being embarrassing for you, because that's what this is.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Now. It's embarrassing for Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But this reinforces what we talked about late in the
show last night that there's not been a more hated
football coach NFL college football the last twenty five years
than Lane Kiffin. Now, you can talk about some some
people who are hat like you want Brian Kelly at LSU. Okay,
all right, we went down there. There's a bunchy Brian
(38:28):
Kelly LSU. Okay, But nobody has the sheer number of
teams that Lane Kiffen has hate him. This is where
like if two people break up, right, and you get
a story from one X that, oh, yeah, yeah, I
knew that was gonna happen because so and so he
likes to do this, and he'd you know, blah blah
blah blah. You could go, Okay, well who knows, because
(38:50):
that's what he said. She said kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
But this is where, hey, you.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Got seven x'es saying, yeah, man can't stand this guy
because he always does stuff like this, Right, they hate
it with the Raiders, they hate him. They hate him
at Tennessee, they hate him at USC, they hate him
at Alabama, they him at Florida Atlantic. Now they hate
him at all miss and they all hate hate him.
They just not like, hey, we brought the guy in
as a coach. It didn't work out. It's too bad.
He's stunk, but we're moving on. No, this is absolute
(39:15):
hatred that these teams have for him because of how
his tenure went and how he left. That's why there's
nobody more hated him, because no teams hate any coach
more than Lane Kiffin is hated by all of these teams.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Well, then the Seinfeld universe, you would just be called
a bad breaker rupper. And it's just the the end game,
even if it's inevitable, and it was right Lank, if
it was there a while, he was moving to another
school eventually, right, or back to the NFL. Right, He's
not staying at Old Miss for the rest of his career.
He's a young man, right, That's the thing to remember
in all this, Like whatever we get into his coach,
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he's like, this is a guy, this is even a
guy that's like sixty eight and he, you know, deciding
his football mortality. He's just deciding what's the next best
jump up?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is it a mini step or is he taking a leap?
And so as soon as this started to swirl and
become a thing, as in season, we had what became
a very odd set of circumstances with some heavyweight jobs
that are suddenly danging in front of him. The old uh,
you know, you're only as loyal as your options kind
of thing that it was brought to bear pretty fast.
(40:23):
I Mean, there's coaches that are hit. Nobody is hated
by more teams than Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, especially if you're going to take a bunch of
quarter truths or half truths into the media about all
the other thing, we could be pretty sure of because
he did prey on it and thought and sought some
people out for some advice. Exit up about a Fresca exit,
Swollen Dome, Chas and Smith Mike Harmon coming up next.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
More football on the Way. Two NFL team's former superstars.
Apparently you're trying to get that team's current coach fired.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
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it has begun. Today is the officially we can now
(01:09):
start counting down to the end of the Yannis era
in Milwaukee. Right we have big NBA story today. We
got Chris Paul coming up in a few minutes. But
Jannis before a little bit of drama Intonight's game. The
story reported earlier today Nick that Yannis and his agent
are talking with the Bucks about Jannis's future.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Is he going to stop?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Don't put that out there, Ricky, Bobby, it's Adam Schefter
said the only team talking to in the off season
was the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Football the football shifter he is.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
He was quote tweeting Shams, Okay, it's the only team
on the day where hey, you know the the Yana's
drama continues to go. And it's not no surprise. This
is going along the path we thought it was. Jannis
threw it out there in the offseason. Hey, maybe I
should be looking someplace else, but okay, buy in for
the beginning of this year. Okay, fine, Bucks aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Today Janniss it breaks that he and his agent talking
to the Bucks about what the best future is. Is
it in Milwaukee? Is it someplace else? And then Adam
Schefter comes in over the top with the report, quoting
Shams Trania that the Knicks were the only team that
Janni's wanted to reach out to in the off season.
So again we are where we were in August. July June,
(02:29):
right after the season ended, that it looked like Jannis
wants out, Jannis wants to go to the Knicks, and
I am sure unrelated Mike Carmen on the day this
rumor breaks, I'm sure unrelated to it. Karl Anthony Towns
goes for thirty five and eighteen, completely unrelated to Well, wait,
Yiannis could be coming here to take my job and
I can get traded in Milwaukee. I better put up
(02:51):
some numbers here thirty five and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
We all find our motivations in life and our jobs,
our relationships, familial and friendships.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
There's times where you got to step it up.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And for Cat they also liked the Knicks ran back
into MSG yelling sanctuary SEXTU. Why did I teach him
that word sanctuary? Because they play really well at home.
So I mean it really was just an accelerated version
of what the Knicks normally are. But yes, the idea
that this has been restarted. Look and the honest fan
(03:23):
the flames. What was it about two weeks ago when
he was openly lamenting the state of affairs and the
losing streak they were on and all of those things
where he was starting to show a little salty side
of himself. Right, it wasn't normal Smiley happy, honest. Even
in the past when they've had little downturns, it's always
been the you know, I'm blessed to be here, this
(03:45):
life is great.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Whatever. He started showing some cracks of Hey, losing was
starting to wear on him.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, hey, look, they won the championship and they haven't
gotten close since, and they're not getting there. They're clearly not.
They made moves, they tried to do everything they can
around Yiann. It's it's not working. And so Jannis wants
out now, Right.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You make a big move and a guy gets hurt,
a guy who didn't necessarily want to be there anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But that's a whole other question. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Right again, I don't think it's any coincidence Karl Anthony
Towns goes for thirty five and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
On that night. I don't want to get traded to Milukie.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But think about this for a second, right, and again,
I don't know if there's any coincidence with this part
of it as well. The Knicks lose last night to
the Celtics, right, and you know they thump the Hornets tonight,
Larry Johnson with a bad game, they shut down Muggsy Bogues.
Kendall Gill's shot was just all yeah, you know, well
he's coming up back to backs.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah it happens.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Kendall Gill was pretty good. But on on on the
night they lose last night, and what happens to the Knicks.
Jalen Brunson has a bad game. He was terrible and
the Knicks lose. The one thing you can say about
for you know, with styles with Tibbs and Mike Brown,
and who's playing better under Mike Brown, who's regressing under
Mike Brown. You know, there's a lot of good, there's
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also bad with the ni So are the Knicks too old?
But are the Knicks deeper than they have been? And
maybe they can withstand things. They're unbeatable at home. There's
good and bad. But the one thing you can't you
can't deny is that the mark of a great team
is when your star player is out or plays bad,
you can win a game. If Jalen Brunson's out or
he has a bad game, the Knicks can't win all right.
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Karl Anthony Town's is not putting the team on his
shoulders by himself, and you're gonna get Look, guys like
Jordan Clarkson will come in and get a little bit
more minutes and got and you know, you will get
a little bit more production obviously, because someone's got to
come up make up for Brunson's you know, missing twenty
seven or thirty points in a game. But I don't
think there's also any coincidence that last night here's the
Knicks and they lose and Brunson plays poorly. And the
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one thing you can't get pack when Brunson plays poorly,
the Knicks can't win. So you get to the playoffs,
you will. You're talking of this being a finals type
season for you, because hey, if the only team you're
really worried about right now are the Pistons, Okay, man,
let's go. This is our year. Hey, you gotta get
somebody else in there that you know, when it's not
Brunson's night, this guy can carry you, or he can
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carry you on knights, and brusn nut Bunson enough to
worry about carrying him. So you had the coincidence of
Karl Anthony Towns. They also think this story could have
broken any day but after the Knicks lose yesterday and
Brunson's bed and they see their warts out there against
a bad Celtics team playing without anybody Jalen Brown in
a big night. But still this is not your this
is not your last year Celtics before the Jason Tatum injury,
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the Celtics are a bad team. And despite that, you saw, oh,
we really still can't win if Brunson doesn't have a
good game. And now today, hey, guess what. Guess what, guys,
we're talking to the Bucks, his agent and Yan we're
talking Bucks about our future. And here's Adam Schefter and
Sham's going, hey, the Knicks are the only team that
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he wanted to talk to in the offseason. I don't
think any of these things are unrelated that today, because
what are the odds that happens today, After the Knicks
get that sober reminder yesterday of if Brunson doesn't play well,
they can't win the way this team is, and they'll
try to take them away in the playoffs. The teams
are younger, more athletic, they will try to say, listen,
we'll take Brunson away and we'll yeah, good luck. Carl
Anthony Towns trick. He's not gonna beat us, and Nobody's
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not gonna beat us. Josh Heart's not gonna beat us.
Bridges isn't gonna beat us. This is what we need
to do. None of this is unrelated.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Well, Bridges, I mean still had what thirty five Kat
went for twenty nine last night, I mean not exactly
bomb efforts, and Brunson had eleven assists against his three turnovers.
That also, you know, take some umbrage. If I'm a
Boston fan right now, I'd tell them to call in,
but we'll just send him to your twitter at how
about a Frescanstead.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
They're only two games back of you. Okay, so so
they're not that bad. Come on, stay, come on. You
still have White, you still have Jalen Brown. You still
got two guys that can fill it up and some
some bench depth, Simons off the bench, et cetera. You
had a couple of your guys had really great game,
like Eminem says in eight Mile they were living up here.
Now they gotta start living down here. That's where that's
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where it goes.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But sometimes you gotta slug it out, and maybe you're
not as good as you thought.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You were exactly, which is why I always said from
the beginning of the year, either we're gonna be good
and it's great, or we're gonna underachieve and we're getting
Giannis at the.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
No you've been trying to No, there's no question about it.
That's why I'm happy, man about all the way. Whatever
however it goes, Man, I will.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I know that that, Hey, Karl, Anthony, Towns and O
gianno noob, make them make the money work are probably
gonna be the guys to go.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
So okay, all right to get Joannis. All right, that's
how it's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Two huge piece yo, honest. Yeah, between you, he's yelling Lakers.
He's sending me that g the Lakers. All the pieces
you would trade for Yannis you can't trade. And you
got to keep Scotty pipping Austin Reeves.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You can't. You can't trade Austin. Dude. Look at look
how good you are to give it out.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How about this Lebron for Yannis right now, straight up,
Lebron right now, Lebron, Lebron and Brony for you.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
No, they can't have Bronnie. But that's that's sweet.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
The bridge, that's the sweetener Lebron and Browny and you
get your honest and Bryce will give you the rights
to Bryce as well. Whenever that Happen'll give your brother immediately.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Anybody associated with basketball operations in Milwaukee is fired. Look,
and never get to work anywhere near a basketball court.
They can't paint the lines on an outdoor court after
making a deal like that.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Look, nothing is changed with Giannis right that. This is
where we knew in the off season. He was getting antsy.
Right when you're thirty, you want a championship in Milwaukee?
All right, what's my th? I want to win again?
A right, I want to win again. It's been great,
it's been a great run here, but starting to get
a little bit of happy feet because the team's not
getting better. You we changed, we changed personnel, didn't work.
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Brought in Damian Lillard didn't work, right, brought in Doc
Rivers didn't work.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
No, but it's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So yeah, it's just natural that Giannis is gonna say, Okay,
I need to get somewhere else. I need to get
somewhere else because I want to win the back half
of my career. It'll be a shorter back half his career,
being a bigger guy like that, He's not going to
be playing this level when he's thirty eight years old.
So you're looking at Gianni's the next three to four years,
hopefully is when you still have him as one of
the top five players in the game. So yeah, it's
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only natural that this is how it goes. And by
the All Star break he'll be dealt right and and
and the Knicks I'm sure will be the first team. Say,
do you really feel how good we are about this team?
I mean, there's no there's no there's no reason that
the Knicks couldn't make this happen. Considering it seems like
they're Yannis's preferred destination and they have the money, and
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they have the talent, they have the players to make
it work. So what the players are going to be
what it winds up being that that's going to be
the bit. I think it's going to be towns in Anonobe,
some kind of situation like that. But by the All
Star break, Yannis will be on another team. Now things
got changed a little bit tonight with Giannis and when
he might wind up playing again, because this is what
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happened in the middle of the Bucks game tonight, and
who knows when we see Yannis next the ranch.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
And that's the key. Janis. Janis is down.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Lisa doesn't look good.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It does not look good. He ye must Jim surely
just moments ago, walking on his own power back to
the locker room with the medical staff following him. You
know what this means. What does this mean, Frosber?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It means we don't have to give up Reefs anymore.
He's a diminished asset. That was just ruey Hachimura.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Oh they can have Lebron straight up.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yannis leaves the game. A Bucks radio network on the call.
Yannis leaves the game with a strained right calf. Now
it looked awful because it was a non contact injury.
Makes a great jump pass for a hoop, and trying
to get back on defense, he just goes to the
ground and you're thinking, oh, my goodness, Achilles, and look
we've seen right calfs turn into full blown Achilles. But
right now, the good news is that it is a
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calf's right calf strain. Gianna's pounding the floor a little bit,
you know, gets off the court. So you start to
wonder and you think about you think about this, You
really want to talk about how close this trade is.
Have we maybe seen Giannis Playley's last game for the Bucks,
like at this point, now does he does he go
crazy to come back or does he sit and say,
you know what, we're pursuing a trade. This is not
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working out. I'm not gonna go back out there get
hurt and then all of a sudden, I'm untradeable and
I'm looking at next season. I'm gonna sit now until
we figure this out. Right, And because this is who knows, right,
calf strain a week, two weeks, whatever, it's gonna wind
up being. You wonder if, okay, well you're getting to
the holidays and the All Star Breaks in a couple
of months. You wonder if the injury has hastened that
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timeline a little bit. Well, okay, he's healthy, but he's
sitting out for a little while. It's gonna take a
little bit for the Bucks to figure out this deal.
It's not gonna be suddenly overnight where they're gonna say, Okay,
here's the trade they're gonna take. They're gonna talk to
a lot of different teams. They're going to try to
bleed everything they can. They're under no rush to make
this move, especially now that Giannis is hurt.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
So I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Surprised if we had an extended time off for Giannis.
And really, you think about this could be the last
game he plays for the Bucks. If this trade is
gonna happen, if they're going forward, why would you want
him back out The teams are going to tell the Bucks,
don't put him back out there.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
We're trading.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You're telling us he's good, like we're not gonna see medicals,
but you're telling us he's okay. Okay, don't put him
back out there, because if we're going to make a
trade for him, yeah, we want to make sure we
get him in our building, figure things out. We get
to look at him, don't put don't play him. I mean, really,
this could have been his last game.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Oh it might be ready for a December twenty fifth
battle against the Cavaliers at the Garden.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
How about that. Oh yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah,
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
But I mean we go through Milwaukee's history, right, the championships,
the outlier, a lot of first round or Semi five,
you know, semi's exits, three straight first round exits. But
this injury, uh just one that as you said, we've
seen a lot of these development into bigger injuries. We've
also seen a proliferation of calf strains uh this year
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and off that that's very frequently diagnosed. It's the torn
labor of Major League Baseball from several years back. It's
like we're learning all about the human body. Now we
know what a calf is.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So we've got that, but how it portends to other injuries, Yeah,
it's it's tough to put them back out there. And
as we know in the NBA, if you declare where
you want to go, you're getting there. It's just a
matter of when and how and what's the asking price.
Right with the dopey rule in the NBA, you got
to make all the salaries match up and keep everybody happy.
But there's no bidding war like this. This is like
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when Ad got traded to the Lakers, like there was
there was no reason to give them anything because.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
They can screw it up.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Look, Donovan Mitchell wanted to be a nick and Danny
Ain said nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, no.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Not doing it.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So Donovan Mitchell comes up the lot because remember that
story as it can still.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Screw it up.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Man, it's the nixt that nothing is for certain. They
could still screw it up. You can still see that.
Don't worry, but think about that. Tonight could have been
the last game Yann has played for the button right
with everything going forward in the drama and the injury
and the trade. Uh, maybe he does. Maybe this is
it for him.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Who did he give his shoes to?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I want those shoes to the guy on Detroit that
took the basketball from him when he wanted it for
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Fox Sports Radio and Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike harmon him. And how about the Milwaukee Bucks
with a one point lead over the Pistons right now?
Yannis may get traded? Then who's that guy? Then he
got hurt tonight And here they are with a minute
left to go, and they lead the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Buy one. Look at the brooing. No, no, we can't
lose it. We have to we have to do something.
Let's go win this game for Yannis. Maybe you'll stay.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
I need these minutes. Look how good I am I
can replace this guy. He's already out of here. Yeah,
he's already moved. He's ice skating next to Rockefella Center.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Let's go give me the ball, give me the ball. Hey,
there's gonna be a lot of shots out there. I'm
ready for him, just like I could do it, coach.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I can do it. Just let me go, let me go.
Give it to me.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Uh so again again, this is the worst thing for
the next because now maybe Jannis is thinking, oh, look
at them go up with a win against the best
team in the Eastern team with the best record in
the Eastern Conference, and oh, maybe we are going to
have a great year. No, I want to stay. Well,
that's gonna happen. It's gonna ruin him going to the.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Next Sometimes you play up to the competition, challenge accepted.
And maybe Jannis is a little inspired coming out of this, saying,
look at my guys, Look at my guys.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Come on, Pistons, Come on. All I needed was to
be moderately broken for a day. Look at me.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Come on, Kate Cunningham, let's see a three ball here.
Come on, guys. It's never rooted for the Pistons.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
So are you love the Piston Let's get three years
ago you predicted greatness for them. That didn't transpire. They
got the Lions almost there. But now they hate you
there too. Uh you jump back on the Pistons and
now you're looking for Kate Cunningham to give you greatness
one more time.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Oh man, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
So again a little bit less than a half minute
left to go. Bucks lead it by one, and he's
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when you know that if Jannis gets traded to your team,
you're likely the guy going the other way, you want
to make sure I have a big game on that day,
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and Karl Anthony Towns did, so he gets to be
the play.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Of the day. Jason.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
The Lakers didn't play tonight, so we but we sent
the team that's getting honest, there's no highlight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Dude, You're just I mean, that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Man. If you're not gonna put Browny in the trade
with Lebron. They're not gonna.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
Take You want to toss to the Carl highlight as
in the team that's not getting honest, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
The runner ups. Here's a team that isn't getting you
honest yet. And here's the play of the day, Towns.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Looking reverse highlight.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Cham from Karl Anthony Towns puts the icing on the cake.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's a sixteen point Nick Glue.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
There was Nick's radio network on the call again, a
big thirty five and eighteen night for Karl Anthony Towns
on the day that hey, Giannis might get deled.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Hey all right, there's a couple of great games for
him back to back though oh yeah, yeah, I mean
personally one hundred percent, because you know, this has been
swirling for months like this is not a new revelation now,
it's it's back in the news and back in the
churn of the twenty four hour news cycle.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
But you know, for Cat, I gotta.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Imagine his entire offseason, he's been thinking about where his
next next digs would be.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is he done how shopping? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Do you think that he finished the game and he
saw that Giannis had a cash and he goes.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I didn't need to do that Tonightey, I'm exhausted my
ass off against Charlotte's. That's the only guy.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
You're trading for to replace me. Guys should have taken
some time off tonight. Why did I Why did I
really extend myself here? I didn't need to do that tonight. Man. Fine, whatever,
man ain't gonna trade me anyway. I'm The're gonna find
a way out. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So again, yes, all the drama with Yannis potentially uh
pursuing a trade. He and his agent talking to the
Bucks about his future. Now the Yannis injury is out there,
you know, with a non contact calf strain. Tonight he
goes down right now it is a calf strain, uh,
not anything worse. So hopefully things are okay for y
honest and again it was it wasn't a full blown
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Achilles you would.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Have had that by now. It was a cat.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now calf strains turned into other things. Not to say
this will, but it has become an issue.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
So I will say.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
This before we get to Chris Paul. This story really
hot and heavy today. Yannis, the trades we have to
understand that this is now what's going to happen with
the honest being injured. It's not gonna be something that
happens quickly. It will happen over the course of the
next month or so. Think this is gonna be a
slow burn because you want to make sure he's healthy
when you trade him again. We talked about teams not
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wanting him to get hurt. I wonder if he's played
his last game for the Bucks while they figure this out.
This is not a trade that's gonna go down tomorrow
or this weekend, probably not even by maybe Christmas Day.
But I would say this is gonna be at least
a month until we figure out a trade. Giannis gets
a clean bill of health, he's back playing, he is okay,
then you'll see teams okay, now trade. So this is
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gonna be a great drama. But I don't know that
we're gonna see a lot of movement on this for
at least until probably the beginning of the Well we'll.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Be curious to watch is particularly with your Dix. How
much well, for lack of a better term, load management
comes into play here over these next couple of weeks.
For Ogianinobi and Karl Anthony Towns. Right, if this is
gonna drag out, as you say, like, let's put the
other line to run with it is Well, if those
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guys are gonna be part of the deal, you can't
exactly expose them to thirty eight minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And I know, Dan, you g just got cleared for contact.
So when he comes, hopefully soon he is, he is back.
But uh no, I think if you're a Karl, you
got to make the bucks feel good about the guy
that's going to be the centerpiece of the trade. Sell
sell Jalen, will we know you're the guy? Okay, just
between you, you're the guy. But really set up set
up cat right, because we got to be able to
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Is there a cat tracker now going on with the
radio stations in the Greater mill Atwalk area. Yeah, they're
they're going, they're getting away from holiday programming, music programming,
going right to the car all Karl Anthony Snott nora
At It's how did he operate in the low post?
Uh So again, that's how it's gonna go next. That's
how it's gonna go for you. Honest, it's gonna be
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you know a few weeks before. I think that the
injury throwing a big, big question mark into all of
these plans because now there is gonna be okay, how
healthy is he? How long will he be out? So
there is going to be that part of it now.
The other big drama today, Chris Paul is no longer
Remember the Los Angeles Clippers. Pretty much when you and
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I got off the air last night, Chris Paul was
told his services were no longer About that yea from
the team right GM Lawrence Frank saying earlier today that
they have decided to part ways with Chris Paul. And
in the ensuing hours we found out the relations with
Chris Paul and the coaching staff were in great Apparently
he and ty Lou were not speaking. Chris Paul very
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outspoken with the Clippers being terrible, probably doing his old
Chris Paul, I know more than anything else than everybody
else about this team and going forward, because that's what
Chris Paul's kind of been, and his holding the coaches,
holding the players accountable. I can understand from the Clippers
saying yeah, we can't have that here, not from a
guy who is not our starting point guard who's playing
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just a few minutes a game that we're hoping that
we're here because you want to have a great final
season in the NBA. Right, We're thoughting that this is
gonna be great pr for both of us, and you
can come back to the place where you had the
best success of your career and it's gonna be great
for all of us. Instead, you're barely playing and you're
a little bit too much of a voice for someone
who is going anti where we are as far as
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the front office goes. So because of this, Chris Paul
is out with the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
The big takeaway from this because you've heard a lot
of different things to that, and we always want to
give you something a little bit different the.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Way you've heard all day. Chris Paul.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It is not surprising to me that this is how
his career is ending because Paul, for his whole career
has been someone who's done it his way for good
and bad. Right, He's done great things players association, He's
done wonderful things teammates. You know, they all love playing
with him, standing up for teammates. He's someone that wants
to win again, trying to hold the players accountable during
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a season. He's in a lot of good things. He's
also in a lot of things that greats on your teammates,
the greats on teams. His ability with the Clippers to
think that I'm gonna be able to do whatever I
want to. I'm going to try to shoot from the
other side of half court and get a foul called
on me. I'm gonna get shooting foul in the playoffs,
which helps send them home a big year where they
could have got to the Western Conference finals. Like Chris
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Paul has always been that guy that, yes, I do
it my way, and sometimes that's great and you can
look in the mirror and say, you know what, at
the end of the day, Yeah, I did it my
way and it was awesome and I had this career.
But the flip side of it is it doesn't always
help you. It doesn't always help you, and you wind
up running the risk of upsetting the teams you play
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for upsetting some of your teammates, and this is how
it ends for you being waved in the middle of
the night by by the Clippers and people wake up
going it happened at three o'clock. In them, they decided
at three o'clock was there a big of you know,
late night meeting in a hotel that Chris Paul is saying,
we can't do this, and Lawrence, Frank and Tyler were saying,
yes we can.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
No, we can't.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, your cut, that's it. We're letting you go like
that's the That's the downside of doing it your way
is that it doesn't always go the way you think
it's gonna go. And you have to live with that too.
That's a look in the mirror moment too. And I
see that because I always that's how I want. I
want things in my life, in my career my way,
and I get that, and I'm very comfortable when I
think of things that have gone on in my career
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and things that are hopefully coming or whatever it's gonna be, that, Yeah,
I'm doing it my way and I'm doing what I
want to do. I'm doing it this way. Now, is
that always the best thing for me? No, it's not,
because I have to understand that that when I want
things my way, there's certain things that are going to
fall by the wayside, or certain opportunities that I'm not
gonna get because I want to do things my way.
So I understand Chris Paul's thing of it. I understand
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this part of it, but that's the risk you run,
and especially at the end where you know this is
your last year and it's awesome that you want to
hold your team to a higher standard, but dude, your
team is terrible. Man, the team has beat We knew
the team was gonna be bad. We're gonna keep giving
money to guys you're thirty five and forty years old.
That's I told you in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
It's not gonna works when the Clipper We're gonna keep
giving money to Kawhi Leonard and James Harden.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Keep doing this and keep doing this and keep doing this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Right, I get that, But you know it's awesome that
you're like that, but also understand and this is the end,
and is this how you want to go out?
Speaker 3 (27:04):
You wanted to go out.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I'm back with the Clippers for my final year and
it's going to be a celebration of me for basketball.
And instead now it's an embarrassment getting waived in the
middle of the night. And now who knows. I gotta
think I'd like to think a team is gonna pick
them up to play, but they maybe they don't. And
this is how it ends for Chris Paul, who alread
announced this was his last year. So so that's the
good and bad about doing things your way is that
(27:25):
you have to understand that, Okay, sometimes it's gonna be
great and sometimes it could be bad. And this was
really bad the way it ended.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, I mean, do you look at the opportunity to
go back to you know where it reclaim some glory
joining there by the way, the Clippers are only paying
so much of Kawhi's salary through basketball means just so
you know, like the rest of it is off the
books for tree planting or whatever the case may be.
But when you make the decisions personal professional, right, you
(27:54):
assume some level of risk, some level of trust, all
of those things. And yeah, there's plenty that you have
no control of. Nor do you can you control how
your message is received if you just read it in
cold ard facts like trying to hold people accountable, well
they stink. So yeah, if it's buttoning up the details
(28:15):
and playing a little tighter defense or running your sets
a little bit better, I mean, what's the problem with that.
I mean, obviously we're not in the building. They decided
it was a bridge too far, and it wasn't going
to change anything for a guy at fourteen minutes a game,
and who's not a difference maker, right, He's just filling
out stat sheets at this point. And that goes back
(28:36):
to the age old sports or general business. Wherever you
work out there, you know this. The star gets a
little more latitude, right, the one who's got the eye
of the bosses gets a little more latitude with how
they approach things, maybe a little more creature comforts.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You're at the end of your run. You've already announced
it's your last year. So all they did was keep
you from getting any giveaways from their opponents who want
to boudy a little bit to say, hey, congratulations on
a job done.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Could have been handled better? Yeah, I mean it's a
bit unseemly. Could they have waited until they came back
to Los Angeles and then had a little Hey, let's
just go do this in front of some microphones and
be done. Sure, but in the end it's the Clippers.
Would you expect it to be neat and clean?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
No exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike harmon time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone who's been called the Chris Paul
of Fox Sports Radio. Apparently she had big news at
three am last night. It's Moncey Bolagos, and we're gonna
have to just to let everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Know we're gonna have to.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Help Moncy out tonight, the great Clipper fan that she is.
They won having to wave goodbye to the point God,
Chris Paul.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Moncey, you know, I don't really agree with you, guys.
I'm not saying you're crazy and what you're saying, I
just don't necessary say with what you are saying, Because
if everyone knows Chris Paul's attitude, then why did you
bring him on for the final year? If we're very,
(30:12):
very familiar familiar with Chris Paul's way of being, why
would the Clippers bring him on?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
What are you surprised about?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Oh, the Clippers aren't blameless in this, No, no, this was
what's Chris Paul's legacy going on?
Speaker 5 (30:24):
It just seems like everyone's going after Chris Paul here,
and I just like, even if he was harsh with
his words, that you guys are asked, because you are asked,
why can't you put on your big boy pants and
just suck it up?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You got to fire a guy at.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Three am who's been who was one of the biggest
faces of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Oh wait, I can explain that to you. Hang on,
I got I have the research. Now, hang on, Clippers.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yes, yeah, and you're right, and you're and you are
you're not You're not wrong about that, You're not wrong
about that. But this is like the Clippers just are
just really rough to defend. Right now. What's that guy's name?
Lawrence Frank? Fire that guy, firelight that guy, Fire that guy,
Fire that guy, give her that guy, because none of
them says exactly as I told you off air. You
(31:11):
saw how I felt really fire that guy because.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Why why, why why did you sign Bradley Beal. Let's
start with that one.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
First of all, how dare you guy? I can't even
defend himself literally he's hurt.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yeah, no, even if he was alive and well and whatever,
he can't defend himself.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
So just fire that guy.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
All right?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
All right, Well, we'll have Clippers Talk Part two in
the next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
One game is still going on in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
It's an early night in the NBA, though, because this
is the final one, the rest have wrapped up the
heat or have.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Cut their deficit.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
They were losing by double dijuice, but they've cut their
deficit to six to six against the Mavericks and Dallas.
Mavericks are up one ten to one oh four with
about three and a half minutes to go in this one.
The Trailblazers defeated the Cavaliers in Cleveland one twenty two
to one ten, and yes, everybody was playing for.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Cleveland for the most part.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Nuggets took one thirty five to one twenty win over
the Pacers, where Jamal Murray dropped fifty two points. It
came down to some free throws, but the Spurs beat
the Magic one fourteen to one twelve. Those free throws
were made by Deerren Fox, who had thirty one points
in the win.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, the Clippers beat the Hawks.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
One fifteen to ninety two, LA, snapping their five game
losing streak. The Knicks over the Ornets won nineteen to
one oh four Carl Anthony Towns with a double double
thirty five points and eighteen rebounds. The Bulls have now
lost five in a row. They lost to the Nets
at home, one thirteen to one oh three. What's going
on in Chicago? The Rockets cruz pass the Kings one
twenty one ten ninety five, Alperinchion goon twenty eight points
(32:35):
and ten rebounds, and the Bucks without Janni Santetokounmpo for
most of the game. They were down eighteen points at
one point, and they came back to beat the Pistons
one thirteen to one oh nine.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
You don't need them anymore trading, you don't need them.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yeah, Yannis went down on an on contact injury. They
say it's a right calf strain. When it comes to
men's college hoops, two undefeated teams.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Have now lost.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Number twenty five Arkansas handed number six Louisville their first
loss of the season, coming out on top eighty nine
to eighty, and Minnesota defeated number twenty two Indiana seventy
three sixty four for their first loss of the season.
In the NHL, the Mammoth are up on the Ducks
right now, two zero halfway through the first period, Capitals
over the Sharks three zero late in the first period,
and just in the NFL, the Buccaneers opened a twenty
(33:21):
one day practice window for wide receiver Mike Evans.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
He also practiced today. Ravens tight end.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Mark Andrews signed a three year, thirty nine million dollar extension.
Lions wide receiver im and Ross Saint Brown is questionable
for Thursday Night Football as the Lions will be hosting
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch raving Chris Paul,
as Dan Patrick used to say on Sports Center, among
the things you won't be seeing Chris Paul back with
the Clippers. Yes, exit out, out of Fresco, Exit swollen Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
We got more basketball on the way, but coming up
next yet another new, fresh, crazy angle to the biggest
(34:00):
football story of the last two and a half days.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Count Dooku singing songs before he got killed by Anna
Ken who had red eyes at the Emperor's thrusting. Hey
spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Was he a better Jedi or wizard?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Whoa much better Dracula?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
No? No, no, he oh, well, I mean come on, okay,
in order Dracula, then Jedi, than wizard. Okay, he got
all the way to the top of the Jedi wh
he did? I mean, but there's only one Dracula. Well,
I mean with those Belle Lagosi and Jordan's sucked on
the Wizards there was Yeah, that is true. Okay, So okay,
So so it's it's it's Dracula, Douku Wizard and then Jordan.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
All right, so we were right there. Christopher Lee as.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Is always first my friend Jordan, no matter what rankings
you want, Chris, no matter which world or universe.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Christopher Wizard, Christopher Lee is a wizard greater than Jordan.
He was still at twenty point a game score. Oh,
if you put Chris Christopher Leon on the Wizards and
he made him a basketball play, he's at thirty point
a game guy. Easy see how tall he is. He's
a tall dude.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Man, he'd be fine, just dump into the low post.
Going to work.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So another day, another great dollop of drama involving everybody's
favorite head coach Lane Kiffin. Yeah, it was last night
we brought you the story that a couple of players
on Ole miss said that, yeah Kiffin's account that he
wanted to stay and they told him no, uh what
(35:46):
he the big the big message that he put out
when he left, saying, I prayed on it, I wanted
to stay, but the ad wouldn't let me. You know,
all the kids wanted me to stay and coach the team.
A couple of players said, yeah, that's not how that
meeting went down. That's not what anybody said. And today
you had the athletic director also dispute Lane Kiffin's version
(36:07):
of events, as Keith Carter won on a podcast today,
super Talk Mississippi, and said that Super Talk he says
a lot of things publicly, I'm not sure totally accurate.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
He's just missing remembered.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It's just not totally accurate that that the players said
they wanted Lane to stay. The only thing he was
able to confirm was that Sunday was the day they
figured you are not going to coach the team anymore,
right like that. That's that's the only part that Lane
Kiffin said that was able to be confirmed by the ad.
Everything else has shades of gray. It was Sunday. Yeah,
(36:39):
it was Sunday. It was after midnight, yeah, Sunday, right,
I got Sunday. Right.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
So now here's another.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Now this is the ad saying, hey, the lane Kiffin
process of events not quote totally accurate. So now in
the last twenty four hours, you had the A D
and you've had two players say not how the meeting went,
nobody basically saying nobody asked him to stay, nobody wanted
to stay. Uh and lane Kiffin put this out on
a statement anyway. I always it's always weird that that
(37:06):
that you can have somebody say something. I don't know
why you would put out a statement when you know
it can be so easily disproven, Like, I don't know
why you would say, yeah, the players wanted me to stay.
When you say that, and you know what's gonna happen.
Everyone's got a Twitter account, someone's gonna say something that's
an awful lot of people, right.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
It's like conspiracy theories, like as soon as there's more
than one other person, it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's an easy thing to be disproven. It's you in
a room of one hundred and twenty guys. If you
have a different version of events than the other one
hundred and twenty guys, that's gonna get out right.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It's not like people are gonna believe Lane. I believe
Lane Kiffin over all the other players. No, no, no, no, no,
that's not gonna happen. He's bounced around a bunch. There's
already some incredibility lapses in his professional career that folks
are gonna be like, yeah, no, outside with the kids,
especially as they all take to Twitter one after the next. Look,
my pr advice to him would be, dude, don't say
(37:59):
something that can be disproven so easy. That's gonna wind
up being embarrassing for you, because that's what this is.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Now. It's embarrassing for Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
But this reinforces what we talked about late in the
show last night that there's not been a more hated
football coach NFL college football the last twenty five years
than Lane Kiffin. Now, you can talk about some some
people who are hat like you want Brian Kelly at LSU. Okay,
all right, we went down there. There's a bunchy Brian
(38:28):
Kelly LSU. Okay, But nobody has the sheer number of
teams that Lane Kiffen has hate him. This is where
like if two people break up, right, and you get
a story from one X that, oh, yeah, yeah, I
knew that was gonna happen because so and so he
likes to do this, and he'd you know, blah blah
blah blah. You could go, Okay, well who knows, because
(38:50):
that's what he said. She said kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
But this is where, hey, you.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Got seven x'es saying, yeah, man can't stand this guy
because he always does stuff like this, Right, they hate
it with the Raiders, they hate him. They hate him
at Tennessee, they hate him at USC, they hate him
at Alabama, they him at Florida Atlantic. Now they hate
him at all miss and they all hate hate him.
They just not like, hey, we brought the guy in
as a coach. It didn't work out. It's too bad.
He's stunk, but we're moving on. No, this is absolute
(39:15):
hatred that these teams have for him because of how
his tenure went and how he left. That's why there's
nobody more hated him, because no teams hate any coach
more than Lane Kiffin is hated by all of these teams.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Well, then the Seinfeld universe, you would just be called
a bad breaker rupper. And it's just the the end game,
even if it's inevitable, and it was right Lank, if
it was there a while, he was moving to another
school eventually, right, or back to the NFL. Right, He's
not staying at Old Miss for the rest of his career.
He's a young man, right, That's the thing to remember
in all this, Like whatever we get into his coach,
(39:49):
he's like, this is a guy, this is even a
guy that's like sixty eight and he, you know, deciding
his football mortality. He's just deciding what's the next best
jump up?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is it a mini step or is he taking a leap?
And so as soon as this started to swirl and
become a thing, as in season, we had what became
a very odd set of circumstances with some heavyweight jobs
that are suddenly danging in front of him. The old uh,
you know, you're only as loyal as your options kind
of thing that it was brought to bear pretty fast.
(40:23):
I Mean, there's coaches that are hit. Nobody is hated
by more teams than Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Well, especially if you're going to take a bunch of
quarter truths or half truths into the media about all
the other thing, we could be pretty sure of because
he did prey on it and thought and sought some
people out for some advice. Exit up about a Fresca exit,
Swollen Dome, Chas and Smith Mike Harmon coming up next.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
More football on the Way. Two NFL team's former superstars.
Apparently you're trying to get that team's current coach fired.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
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