April 20, 2022 • 31 mins
Jason and Mike react to Devin Booker’s injury and Monty Williams’ postgame news conference. As Jason sweats another Kenley Jansen inning, the guys reminisce about seeing iconic franchise players in different teams’ uniforms. All of this and much more on The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I hate that song
Fox Sports Radio. That Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
where we just watched a very short episode of Sweating Jansen. Uh,
really weird seeing him in Dodger Stadium in the Braves Jersey,
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closing out a game against the Dodgers. But clearly he
came and amped up as fastball was working, struck at
Mookie Bets on a pitch. At Bets right away new
why did I swing at that pitch? It was a
dominant outing in the ninth thinning for Jansen and the
Braves win, And so Sweating Jansen now flips around. There's
a lot it's a lot different sweating Jansen when he's
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not pitching for the Dodgers. But he's pitching in Dodger Stadium.
It was weird. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I know.
Whenever we see a guy, I mean, what twelve years
as a Dodger, go back to his beginning of his
career when he was a catcher. He didn't he wasn't
he a catcher in the World Baseball Classic. I want
to say that. Yeah, I think it's a catcher in
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the WBC. And I'm the best. I'm the best closing
the last decade. Yeah, I mean, so you have these
massive moments, and obviously for Dodger fans there there's that
you're you're kind of on defense because there were a
lot of great moments, but when you really go game
to game, that's why we talk about sweating Jansen is
that you might have gotten the ended end result that
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you wanted, but you don't need those stressful minutes right
on your life. You're like, all right, come on close,
or just fin this off, and you get mad at uh.
And then he'd do the job and it's like, well,
you know what, as we get ready for next year,
he should still be the guy. Right, He's still converted,
you know, some high percentage of games and got out
of trouble as well as easily sometimes as he put
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himself into it. But Smith bets Freeman one to three down,
they go twelve pitches, nine strikes, and and the Braves
walk away with the three one victory. Yeah, but for him,
I imagine that the emotion of all of it, And
I know it got talked about a lot here locally
on Los Angeles on our affiliate AM five seventy l
A Sports. Certainly, I mean because relationships formed with players
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over that type that long a time period, particularly you know,
as the flagship and home of the Dodgers, and and
so people come in with that that mixed feelings. You
still have a lot of love for the guy, but
it's now he's out there to beat you. And so
I can imagine many A fans like, all right, it's
Kenley Jansen. All right, we're trying to come back from
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this three one death. So what do we do? What
do we do right now? Do I give him a quick,
you know, a little golf clap and then move on
and start yelling what I'm gonna yell about him blowing
it and that I'm sweating Jansen and whatever else. I
don't know It's a tough one, dude. Dodger fans would
have sued Kennley Jansen if they could. He took years
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off my life. You didn't have to watch the game, No,
I had to. This is a tough one. I'm gonna
retire to my chambers before I have a ruling here.
But boy, yeah, yeah, you have a case. All right. Uh,
I've seen the video evidence of Kennley Jansen pitching in
the ninth inning. Okay, yes, you have a case. You
have a case. Crazy, buddy, crazy. But I mean that's
the ebb and flow of the game anymore. We don't
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we don't get one one team guys unless they have
short careers. Otherwise you're you have to expect that you're
gonna see a second, third, fourth uniform, no matter how
much they've meant to your organization. And it's just that
that difference, the stuff that we grew up with. Right,
Hare's Michael jack Schmidt finishing as a Philly Okay, that's it.
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Other guys found their way in other uniforms, or they
retired multiple times, like Ryan Sandberg. It's like, are you
done now? I'm gonna come back again? All right? That's
still come but otherwise it's a wow, that guy's in
a different uniform and it looks weird, or he's now
been in nine different uniforms because he just keeps balancing around.
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So yeah, for Kenley Jansen, Uh, people got it out
of their system today and now he's one of the
hated opponents. That's it. The love affairs done Twitter, And
how about a fresca Mike had swollen? Do you know?
The thing is, though, I wouldn't surprise me if he
came back at the end right like he does a
couple like a year or two with the Braids, and
then he winds up finishing back with the Dodgers, And
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that would not surprise me that Okay left and then
I came back. If the depending on how the Dodgers go,
how the rest of his career goes, that I wouldn't
surprise me that he that he wouldn't be gone for good,
like he would come back and act Lee pitched the
last year or two with l A. I can see
that happening. Oh sure, obvious love of the place. He
actually uh and his family lived right down the street
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from me for a while. Looking at you, you know, Abrams,
now you live next door to relatives and relatives of
Kennley Jansen. I don't know that they still possessed the house,
but I know it was a popular place with people
were randomly showing up with baseballs on Halloween. Hey, can
I get some candy for the kid? Can you sign
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these six baseballs? Please? I have this. I opened up
a pack today and here's the card I got. I
was open Kenley could sign, well, you know, but but
it's a surely numbered rookie cards from years ago. Twitter
at about a fresca, Mike and Swallen down the Jason
Smith's Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
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Radio Studios. Uh. Now the backdrop to the rest of
the night in sports, the NBA playoffs may have just
changed completely. Uh. Devin Booker thirty one points in the
first half to night for the Sons against the Pelicans,
and then he exits the game with an apparent hamstring injury.
If he is out for any period of time, We've
talked about it. The Sons are gonna have a tough
enough time getting by the Pelicans, let alone winning the title,
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and the Warriors become the overwhelming favorite to get to
the finals. And to win. And now suddenly Steve Kerrs
got to back away from his there's no pressure on
us as yet. No, no, no, dude, Now you're the favorite,
but that cloud comes and jumps over the top of you.
Now let's listen to a little bit of money. Williams
Sunset coach, just met the media a couple of minutes ago.
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Let's see what he has to say about the game.
And as anything new on Devin Booker coach, we got
word obviously Booker with the right hamstring. Did you notice
it during that third quarter of him maybe even slowing
down and even come to you know what, I think
it happened on one play, um when he was trying
to track down someone in transition, and um, that's where
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I think it happened. Um. But other than that, we
don't have much else to say about it. But it
is a hamstring issue. What just I mean not just
in a quick short term of just thinking about the
fourth quarter without him, what changed you felt like the
transition defense that was probably, um for us, the worst
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we've ever looked in transition since I've been here. And
for that to happened in the playoff game was a
bit unsettling for everybody, But UM, our guys have to
understand that this team is gonna play hard every possession,
and we saw it in the third quarter. They just
we missed a shot, they were taken off and that
was a bit deflating, UM, But that was the change
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in my eyes. And then they got hot from three. UM.
But the transition defensive balance wasn't there at any level
tonight for us. And then we get talked about Landry
being ready. What you think about how he played? Thought
he was. I thought he was really good UM to
be able to come in and attack the basket that
way and then knock down the three out of the
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time out. UM. And he's a guy that's gonna stay ready.
I mean, we've we've been in this situation before, were
Book or Chris have been out. Now we've got to
make that adjustment, um, But it's gonna start with playing
with a great level of intensity in every area. I
thought we handled the offensive rebounding a lot better tonight,
but then we took a step back and transition and
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so we just got to put it together. Yeah, I'll
tell you I didn't like that answer. I mean, not
not that he said something wrong. I don't mean I
don't like that answer about Devin Booker. No, no, no,
very It was one play and and that's all I'm
gonna say. Like that's it, Like I can't, I can't
get into anything. Hey, he was moving around okay after
the game. It seemed like he's gonna be all right.
It was just that's it. And and no matter who's
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out there are, transition defense has to get better. I
I didn't. I didn't like that answer. If I'm if
I'm expecting and hoping to hear about Devin Booker coming back,
that was not what I wanted to hear. Yeah, that
that was quick back into the game and transition defense
and and all that. It's you know, that's coach speak,
and that's what you need to do, right, don't look
over here. It's Vegas misdirection at its finest. Here's the
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big problem that we have on this hand. But you
know what, let's talk about the game and where we
had breakdowns, and you guys can write a lot about that.
While while Booker goes and gets his treatment, so um
yeah kg by by money williams Uh. Look, his tone
temperament stayed the same, but the avoidance. They're uh, certainly evident. Uh.
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And so we'll see what the next press availability is
and and information as it as it trickles out, but
certainly something if you're a Son's fan, if you laid
down money on them based on Jason's recommendation, all of
those things. Right now, you're you're feeling a little nervous.
You're you're you're puckering a little bit off of this,
and you're you're sad because you've had a fantastic run today.
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You're hoping it's just a day to day uh, and
then he can get after it. But I'm not too
encouraged by the initial reaction of money. Williams there. Man,
that's not good. And you know, look, it takes away
from what was gonna be the fun little uh topic
of this series, and that's you know, look, Scott Foster
referee the game tonight and this is now I think
now this makes Chris Hutter in games in a row. Yeah,
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one in thirteen in Scott Foster games, Uh, including a
third team game. Looks straight. Yeah, Scott Foster refs that game.
Chris Paul is in it. Don't bet on Chris Paul,
just not gonna happen, not gonna happen. At this point,
it's like, how do you even still do this to
the guy? Obviously something's going to How do you keep
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sending Scott Foster to do games that Chris Paul plays in?
The NBA has got to realize that this is this
is a really bad optic man that you're you're sending
a referee. We want to cool this team down, we
wanna We're gonna send us like sending Bill Macy over
that in with a striped shirt on, and he's just
standing there, he's sitting next to him on the bench
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next to Chris fauls. Oh, man, you're getting cooled now?
Is he clean? Yeah? But is he cleaned up Bill
Macy from the cooler in the suit? Or do you
take some hybrid of his character from Boogie Nights and
Shameless and and that amalgam is what gets sent to
the Oh no, no, no, you're the cooler, you're the cooler.
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You can't you can't be So I'm growing my hair
long for this other no no, no, tie and tight
and he's getting after it with Maria Bellow. Okay, that's
that's what we got going on. That's just gonna just
gonna sit next to you on the pitch, that's wearing
the Scott Foster T shirt. Why is Bill Macy here?
But no, But but that becomes the thing I would
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love to be in the offices that are making these decisions,
because I have to imagine that they get enough chatter
that they would have investigated and would have ample analysis
to justify the fact that he keeps getting the assignment,
because again, it's not a game of one on one,
it's still a team game. But folks will continue as
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these losses pile up to say that he's got something out.
And I keep seeing the tim Doneghee notes from all
those years ago that's keep popping up of how they
would go at players or teams or whatever to where
you'd see the patterns. And you know, we played a
little police earlier. I guess you get back to Andy
Summer's yelling there's a pattern here to see and the
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point will soon be clear to me and the NBA
nation still trying it out. I don't know why, knowing
full well. Adams Saidever the players asked if Chris Paul
really makes a big deal of this, and ask Adam
Silver look into this, this is awful for us. Of
course Adam Silver would shake and shimmer and would go, yeah,
we we we, you know, we have a lot of
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good refs. We can start sending different referees and he
wouldn't have to worry about Scott Foster again. You know,
he would make a big enough feel about it, and
you know he would do it because because Adam Silver's
like I always say, he's not gonna do anything to
upset players. Well, it's interesting, well, and he's been a
leader of the union and one of one of their
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chief voices for a while. Now. Now as I'm wanting
to do is you you know, we we hit the bill,
paying time and the top of the hour update with
Brian Finley. Uh do a quick scroll on Instagram, someone
posted a Devin Booker is the most disrespected player in
the NBA and it's his collection of all these p s,
a tens of his prism rookie card. I mean we're
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talking each one of those is somewhere seven eight hundred bucks,
and it's like there's probably a hundred of them there
and then people are going, yeah, you should have sold
him about an hour ago. It's like people are getting
after the guy for posting that. It's like whoa, whoa,
whoa man, there's anger anger in those It's not just
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for reserve for Twitter. No, you could find hate and
anger wherever you look. Twitter at out about a fresca Mike,
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The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Carmen. Uh,
you know hearing that Reggie Miller promo talking about the
Sons and yours my sons that I picked, and I
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look as good as the Suns are. They can't withstand
losing Devin Booker. This is how good he is, right,
it's not anything to all the sun Suddenly they're a
one man team. But you take the best player off
a team and they're gonna suffer, especially when you take
a top five player off the team. And Devin Booker
at ad because he's even a better version of of
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a player this year than he was a year ago.
And if he's out for a while, you know, missing
most of the second half of the hamstring injury came out.
Monty Williams had no update after the game. The Sons
were just seemingly nothing they could do in the second
half could bring them back. They lose to the Pelicans.
What you see from Phoenix here and this is this
is the big thing I want people to take away
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from this. Why Devin Booker is such a big deal
is that most teams have a couple of guys that
can really go nuts, right Like look at the Pelicans
brandon Ingram he can go nuts. And score forty points, right.
C J. McCollum, he can go nuts. He can score
forty points, right. Valin Tunis once in a while he
can go nuts. Right. But for this, you know he's
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gonna give you ten and ten. But for the yeah,
But for the Sons, it's Devin Booker. Chris Paul is
not that dynamic anymore. He can't say, all right, get
on my back now for forty points. No, he's not.
He's a one A. And we saw in the playoffs
last year when it got to be too much, he
got too tired. Right. What you know, for for a
team like the Miami Heat, you know what, Tyler here
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can score thirty five off the bench any night. Jimmy
Butler went for forty five tonight. These teams have guys
that can score, whether it's Joel Embiad scoring thirty five,
Maxi scoring thirty eight, Harden scoring. You know, the teams
have that. They don't have that guy that if they
missed Devin Booker, who's gonna score, right, Like, you're gonna
get a few more shot, you know, Chris Paul will
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get a few more shots, obviously. You know Bridges will
get a few more shows but none of these guys
are gonna suddenly say, hey, get on my back, and
you have the you have the one guy. And that's
the thing about the Sons. You have the one guy.
And yeah, he's one of the best get on my
back guys in the in the league. Maybe he may
be the biggest get on my back guy because he
can get a shot in any situation at anytime. Sorry
Steph Curry, you can't get those shots. So he may
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be the biggest get on my back guy. And that
the drop off after that is where you're gonna go defensively.
It makes it so much easier for your opponent. We
don't have to worry about Devin Booker. We we we
we were. We feel pretty good about manning up now
and stopping Chris Paul from controlling things. And they did
a great job controlling Chris Paul anyway tonight. So that
that's why it's such a big deal, because when you
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take him away, it's not like the Sons have somebody
else and come in and score. If if Jayson Tatum
doesn't have a big night, doesn't matter. Marcus Smart can
have a big night, Jyleen Brown a big night. Teams
have those couple of scorers. Uh, the Sons don't have
that second guy where that's all right now if he
gets the shots, he can go from nineteen to game
to thirty five and eight. They don't have that guy. Yeah,
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it's the the also the curiosity. You need fifteen more
wins and we all keep a close eye on Chris
Paul minutes heavy minutes and his health at a moment's notice.
And it's not I don't think it's unfair at this
point in his career to do that because he has
games where things flow and it looks easy. And in
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Game one, even though it was only an eleven point win,
it was not in it was not a hard, right
fought win to where they had to grind out. But
he he made it look easy. You know eight AND's
a seventeen and ten guy. Can he give you thirty
on a given night. Yeah, but it's not normally not
his game. Uh, Bridges comes up with some big efforts
for you. You mentioned the heat before. You know, Duncan
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Robinson didn't score today. Yeah, in game one, score today
and then they still put up a hundred fifteen points, right,
So so you have that type of situation, developing there
and when you expanded and extrapolate even within the Western Conference.
I mean, look at all the games Memphis one without
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John Morant on the court. Right, there are guys that
can step up. You've had Desmond Baine have huge games.
You've got enough guys that you piece them together. It's
not one and it's death by a thousand paper cuts
because you've got guys that are giving you fifteen uh
to twenty each instead of that big thirty five point performance.
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So yeah, the loss of Devin Booker, who I would
imagine when we get final results and final votes for
m v P probably is either even what the four
or five hole because he didn't make the metal stand
because we got those those guys, uh, and we talked
to m VP. So this is our requisite m v
P talk for the sake of just talking about how
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important Devin Booker was, uh and the strides he made
this year because last year, as you noted, it was
still much much more seen as Chris Paul's squad and
for a while a lot of m B m v
P chatter around him. This year, Uh, it was Devin
Booker carrying things and becoming that next level star and
right now. A lot of anxious moments in the desert. Twitter,
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and now it's the Magic Johnson. Yeah. This has been
one of the more difficult nights of the Magic Johnson
Twitter game, yet the most obvious and vanilla tweeter in
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the world. Magic Johnson the game often imitated, never duplicated.
I give you the tweet. You tell me if it's
a Magic Johnson tweet or if it's made up entirely
by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Alex tysher Brian Fendley.
Are you guys ready to go? Oh, I'm ready to
give it a stab and throw some starts. Let's go now,
(21:41):
just to give you a you know, to give you
a little bit of a hint, because it has been
a rough night for you guys. You guys have not
had a great record. Six and three. You're not when no,
I I think you started four and one then he
lost like eight in a row. You're like the Padres. Oh, sorry, Fenley,
wish they could start like Hayne. Nine wins most wins
in Major League Baseball. Okay, you should be so lucky
(22:03):
to be the Mets do when it counts, though, I'm sorry,
I just done a flesh back the last night we
did the bit that Harmon was created by ty Shirt
and he's not a real person. Factor that last Like, Okay,
if you missed it, find the podcast I Heart Radio
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app where wherever you download your audio. Look for last night.
We had a lot of a lot of fun little
bits that found their way into the show. Now, remember
I told you Magic Johnson has been really big on
recapping the games so far, Like it's like he's writing
for the Associated Press. So just know that going in.
(22:47):
All right, all right, here we go. Not many people
expected Dallas to win without Luca don Sech, but Jalen
Brunson scored forty one points with eight rebounds to offset
Donovan Mitchell's thirty four points and of Mavericks one ten
one oh four win, this series is now tied at
one one. Is that a Magic Johnson? Wow, that's a
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lot of a lot of information in that one. I'm
gonna say no with with great reticence. I'm gonna say
no as well, because I don't think I've ever heard
him say the word offset. I don't think that that's
a word that he uses very often. Yeah, he does.
He talks about Cardi being offset all the time. Oh,
(23:29):
I get the kids they're having Really, you know he
talks about that all. Uh, that is not I'm sorry.
I thought he was looking up Cardi B songs. Cardi
B Is. I'm trying to make Mike and myself talk
at the same time. It's kind of hard. That is hard.
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I was gonna say no, So I'll take that as
a win. For the second game in a row. Tyrese
Maxie picked up the slack by almost scoring a triple
double with twenty three point it's nine rebounds and eight
assists to help m VP candidate Joel Embiad who finished
with thirty one points and eleven rebounds. The seventies sixers
now have a commending to oh lead is that would
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he have done a double down on the Joel embiids
stats because we had one earlier in the night. I'm
gonna say no. Magic loves to crown people with m
v P. This m VP that hyped them up and
used that in tweets, So I'm going yes, the greatest
quoting sports history. That is not. That is not eight
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and three. The Warriors showed us last night why they
are a championship team and the most entertaining team in
the NBA by putting on a show against the Nuggets.
Steph Curry came off the bench and scored third before
Clay Thompson had twenty one and Jordan Pool finished with
twenty nine points. Is that a magic Johnson tweet? That's
(25:09):
a magic recap? Is what you got there? I'm gonna
say yes, Okay, it's a magic recap, except there's a
lot of numbers involved. Usually he just throw stuff out
and it doesn't have a lot of stats to it.
So I'm going no, Okay, that is a magic Johnson tweet.
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That is a magic Let's go tweet. Let's go now
with the Warriors fully healthy high basketball like you and
Steve Cur's ability to make in game adjustments, and with
the championship pedigree of Steph, Clay Draymond and coach Kerr,
I picked them to come out of the West. Is
(25:51):
that a magic Johnson tweet picking Warriors to come out
of the Western Conference? I will say yes, yes, it is. Okay,
I'm gonna go yes because he's known throughout predictions and
be a prognosticator. So yeah, I'm sorry, Mineca, I can't
go with you. If Brian is that is not that
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is a magic baby. So what is that nine and
three or three? You mean three and nine type shirts?
The three wins, nine loss and you're like one in ten,
more like eight. All of the Warriors guards are talented
at Head coach Steve Kirr pushed all the right buttons
(26:34):
for them in game two, showing their championship medal. That Johnson,
that is not a Magic Johnson tweet. It is because
there's the inclusion of a cliche pushing all the right buttons.
So that is definitely a Magic Johnson sponsored tweet. Not
sponsored just well, you know what, He's got a lot
(26:56):
of business partners. It could be brought to your bab
alvoline that you can be Well, I'm scrolling and I
don't see it, so I'm gonna say no, what I
told you he's looking at Twitter. That is no, I'm
good Magic john And three. Brian Kyrie Irving played like
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a superstar, and so did Jayson Tatum. In Game one,
Kyrie had thirty nine points to almost lead Brooklyn to
the upset, but Tatum scored the game winner on an
exciting last second layup as part of his thirty one
point performance and a shout out to Marcus Smart for
a smart pass on that play. Is that Johnson tweets
(27:42):
that's insightful commentary. No, there's no way everything that you
just said would fit on one tweet. That just seems
like it's but it's true. Deal deal with the content.
Don't counting characters, and I want to make sure that
I again, I have counting characters that I believe the
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character not the character. What when ty Shirt is looking
at Twitter? This is my way of quote unquote cheating,
You know, like you're going up against stiff competition when
the guy is literally screwpying the so much tign Brian. Okay,
first of all, none of you should be cheating. It's
the bleeping Magic Johnson Twitter game. You guys think you're
(28:24):
gonna walk down the street tomorrow someone's going, hey, you're
Alex ty Shirt from the Jason Smith. Absolutely, dude, you
have had like nothing right in the Magic john Boo.
You suck. Oh we'll see Jason. You don't know this,
But in the studio there's not only a Colleague of
the Month, there's a Magic Johnson Twitter Game of the Month.
But I'm winning it. Okay, just again, still no colleague.
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It's up on the board. It's still there. No, not,
my face could be next to Mike's still hanging there. Baby. Well,
guess what, Jason, this is a magic Johnson tweet. Oh
that is not. I said you didn't let me finish.
A former Laker, Jordan Clarkson played an important role for
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Utah by scoring twenty one points in twenty three minutes,
but Maxi Cleiber was even better with twenty five points,
including eight three pointers for Dallas. He got hot and
Dallas never looked back. He got Maxi Cleber in there.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna say yes, is that a
magic Johnson tweet? Why do I need to read any
other recap on any other publication source when I can
(29:31):
get this? This is definitely a magic Johnson tweet. You
just cut down the amount of work you have to
do for an update. You just know you're right finitely
what happened tonight? You know what happened in the methodic
seven magic tweeted this is a magic Jason tweet. Okay, okay, yes, okay, okay,
(29:55):
that is not. That is that is not. Let's go
put my name on the board. How many did you get?
Tight shirt? I got eleven out of five? How many
(30:15):
that's no, that's not out of five? Doesn't work. Why
not you did fifteen? Okay? How many did you get
without cheating? I don't cheat. I look over his shoulder
from where he's sitting, I see these cheating. He's got
his laptop on his lap. My laptops closed. Well, now
it is because I pointed it out. Just because you lost,
does it mean that someone's cheating. I'm just stating the
(30:37):
facts here. Boy, harmon, you got you gotta keep an
eye in that your colleague of the month, man, You
gotta keep an eye on these people, right. No, nobody
said I was in charging it. Okay, I wasn't a
supervisor of the month. I was the colleague of the month.
You're in charge of them. That's what it is. You're
the guy in charge. You win that. Where were you
(30:58):
to take care of these people? I'm at home today,
doesn't matter. I'm not. I'm not there. Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. When you're at home, you're not still not
the colleague of the month. No, no, no, I am.
But it's harder to keep keep control of them. Well,
because Fenley' is there from his little glass box, he's
casting aspersions and calling tight shirt a cheater and dissparaging
(31:22):
is sports not of course, it's like other shows do
on the network. I don't like it. If it's really easy,
everyone would do it. That's why you're the colleague of
everybody else. That and I coughed up a buck
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friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
where we just watched a very short episode of Sweating Jansen. Uh,
really weird seeing him in Dodger Stadium in the Braves Jersey,
(00:48):
closing out a game against the Dodgers. But clearly he
came and amped up as fastball was working, struck at
Mookie Bets on a pitch. At Bets right away new
why did I swing at that pitch? It was a
dominant outing in the ninth thinning for Jansen and the
Braves win, And so Sweating Jansen now flips around. There's
a lot it's a lot different sweating Jansen when he's
(01:11):
not pitching for the Dodgers. But he's pitching in Dodger Stadium.
It was weird. I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, I know.
Whenever we see a guy, I mean, what twelve years
as a Dodger, go back to his beginning of his
career when he was a catcher. He didn't he wasn't
he a catcher in the World Baseball Classic. I want
to say that. Yeah, I think it's a catcher in
(01:32):
the WBC. And I'm the best. I'm the best closing
the last decade. Yeah, I mean, so you have these
massive moments, and obviously for Dodger fans there there's that
you're you're kind of on defense because there were a
lot of great moments, but when you really go game
to game, that's why we talk about sweating Jansen is
that you might have gotten the ended end result that
(01:53):
you wanted, but you don't need those stressful minutes right
on your life. You're like, all right, come on close,
or just fin this off, and you get mad at uh.
And then he'd do the job and it's like, well,
you know what, as we get ready for next year,
he should still be the guy. Right, He's still converted,
you know, some high percentage of games and got out
of trouble as well as easily sometimes as he put
(02:16):
himself into it. But Smith bets Freeman one to three down,
they go twelve pitches, nine strikes, and and the Braves
walk away with the three one victory. Yeah, but for him,
I imagine that the emotion of all of it, And
I know it got talked about a lot here locally
on Los Angeles on our affiliate AM five seventy l
A Sports. Certainly, I mean because relationships formed with players
(02:40):
over that type that long a time period, particularly you know,
as the flagship and home of the Dodgers, and and
so people come in with that that mixed feelings. You
still have a lot of love for the guy, but
it's now he's out there to beat you. And so
I can imagine many A fans like, all right, it's
Kenley Jansen. All right, we're trying to come back from
(03:02):
this three one death. So what do we do? What
do we do right now? Do I give him a quick,
you know, a little golf clap and then move on
and start yelling what I'm gonna yell about him blowing
it and that I'm sweating Jansen and whatever else. I
don't know It's a tough one, dude. Dodger fans would
have sued Kennley Jansen if they could. He took years
(03:24):
off my life. You didn't have to watch the game, No,
I had to. This is a tough one. I'm gonna
retire to my chambers before I have a ruling here.
But boy, yeah, yeah, you have a case. All right. Uh,
I've seen the video evidence of Kennley Jansen pitching in
the ninth inning. Okay, yes, you have a case. You
have a case. Crazy, buddy, crazy. But I mean that's
the ebb and flow of the game anymore. We don't
(03:45):
we don't get one one team guys unless they have
short careers. Otherwise you're you have to expect that you're
gonna see a second, third, fourth uniform, no matter how
much they've meant to your organization. And it's just that
that difference, the stuff that we grew up with. Right,
Hare's Michael jack Schmidt finishing as a Philly Okay, that's it.
(04:05):
Other guys found their way in other uniforms, or they
retired multiple times, like Ryan Sandberg. It's like, are you
done now? I'm gonna come back again? All right? That's
still come but otherwise it's a wow, that guy's in
a different uniform and it looks weird, or he's now
been in nine different uniforms because he just keeps balancing around.
(04:26):
So yeah, for Kenley Jansen, Uh, people got it out
of their system today and now he's one of the
hated opponents. That's it. The love affairs done Twitter, And
how about a fresca Mike had swollen? Do you know?
The thing is, though, I wouldn't surprise me if he
came back at the end right like he does a
couple like a year or two with the Braids, and
then he winds up finishing back with the Dodgers, And
(04:48):
that would not surprise me that Okay left and then
I came back. If the depending on how the Dodgers go,
how the rest of his career goes, that I wouldn't
surprise me that he that he wouldn't be gone for good,
like he would come back and act Lee pitched the
last year or two with l A. I can see
that happening. Oh sure, obvious love of the place. He
actually uh and his family lived right down the street
(05:08):
from me for a while. Looking at you, you know, Abrams,
now you live next door to relatives and relatives of
Kennley Jansen. I don't know that they still possessed the house,
but I know it was a popular place with people
were randomly showing up with baseballs on Halloween. Hey, can
I get some candy for the kid? Can you sign
(05:29):
these six baseballs? Please? I have this. I opened up
a pack today and here's the card I got. I
was open Kenley could sign, well, you know, but but
it's a surely numbered rookie cards from years ago. Twitter
at about a fresca, Mike and Swallen down the Jason
Smith's Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
(05:49):
Radio Studios. Uh. Now the backdrop to the rest of
the night in sports, the NBA playoffs may have just
changed completely. Uh. Devin Booker thirty one points in the
first half to night for the Sons against the Pelicans,
and then he exits the game with an apparent hamstring injury.
If he is out for any period of time, We've
talked about it. The Sons are gonna have a tough
enough time getting by the Pelicans, let alone winning the title,
(06:12):
and the Warriors become the overwhelming favorite to get to
the finals. And to win. And now suddenly Steve Kerrs
got to back away from his there's no pressure on
us as yet. No, no, no, dude, Now you're the favorite,
but that cloud comes and jumps over the top of you.
Now let's listen to a little bit of money. Williams
Sunset coach, just met the media a couple of minutes ago.
(06:33):
Let's see what he has to say about the game.
And as anything new on Devin Booker coach, we got
word obviously Booker with the right hamstring. Did you notice
it during that third quarter of him maybe even slowing
down and even come to you know what, I think
it happened on one play, um when he was trying
to track down someone in transition, and um, that's where
(06:55):
I think it happened. Um. But other than that, we
don't have much else to say about it. But it
is a hamstring issue. What just I mean not just
in a quick short term of just thinking about the
fourth quarter without him, what changed you felt like the
transition defense that was probably, um for us, the worst
(07:19):
we've ever looked in transition since I've been here. And
for that to happened in the playoff game was a
bit unsettling for everybody, But UM, our guys have to
understand that this team is gonna play hard every possession,
and we saw it in the third quarter. They just
we missed a shot, they were taken off and that
was a bit deflating, UM, But that was the change
(07:40):
in my eyes. And then they got hot from three. UM.
But the transition defensive balance wasn't there at any level
tonight for us. And then we get talked about Landry
being ready. What you think about how he played? Thought
he was. I thought he was really good UM to
be able to come in and attack the basket that
way and then knock down the three out of the
(08:00):
time out. UM. And he's a guy that's gonna stay ready.
I mean, we've we've been in this situation before, were
Book or Chris have been out. Now we've got to
make that adjustment, um, But it's gonna start with playing
with a great level of intensity in every area. I
thought we handled the offensive rebounding a lot better tonight,
but then we took a step back and transition and
(08:22):
so we just got to put it together. Yeah, I'll
tell you I didn't like that answer. I mean, not
not that he said something wrong. I don't mean I
don't like that answer about Devin Booker. No, no, no,
very It was one play and and that's all I'm
gonna say. Like that's it, Like I can't, I can't
get into anything. Hey, he was moving around okay after
the game. It seemed like he's gonna be all right.
It was just that's it. And and no matter who's
(08:44):
out there are, transition defense has to get better. I
I didn't. I didn't like that answer. If I'm if
I'm expecting and hoping to hear about Devin Booker coming back,
that was not what I wanted to hear. Yeah, that
that was quick back into the game and transition defense
and and all that. It's you know, that's coach speak,
and that's what you need to do, right, don't look
over here. It's Vegas misdirection at its finest. Here's the
(09:07):
big problem that we have on this hand. But you
know what, let's talk about the game and where we
had breakdowns, and you guys can write a lot about that.
While while Booker goes and gets his treatment, so um
yeah kg by by money williams Uh. Look, his tone
temperament stayed the same, but the avoidance. They're uh, certainly evident. Uh.
(09:29):
And so we'll see what the next press availability is
and and information as it as it trickles out, but
certainly something if you're a Son's fan, if you laid
down money on them based on Jason's recommendation, all of
those things. Right now, you're you're feeling a little nervous.
You're you're you're puckering a little bit off of this,
and you're you're sad because you've had a fantastic run today.
(09:53):
You're hoping it's just a day to day uh, and
then he can get after it. But I'm not too
encouraged by the initial reaction of money. Williams there. Man,
that's not good. And you know, look, it takes away
from what was gonna be the fun little uh topic
of this series, and that's you know, look, Scott Foster
referee the game tonight and this is now I think
now this makes Chris Hutter in games in a row. Yeah,
(10:15):
one in thirteen in Scott Foster games, Uh, including a
third team game. Looks straight. Yeah, Scott Foster refs that game.
Chris Paul is in it. Don't bet on Chris Paul,
just not gonna happen, not gonna happen. At this point,
it's like, how do you even still do this to
the guy? Obviously something's going to How do you keep
(10:38):
sending Scott Foster to do games that Chris Paul plays in?
The NBA has got to realize that this is this
is a really bad optic man that you're you're sending
a referee. We want to cool this team down, we
wanna We're gonna send us like sending Bill Macy over
that in with a striped shirt on, and he's just
standing there, he's sitting next to him on the bench
(11:00):
next to Chris fauls. Oh, man, you're getting cooled now?
Is he clean? Yeah? But is he cleaned up Bill
Macy from the cooler in the suit? Or do you
take some hybrid of his character from Boogie Nights and
Shameless and and that amalgam is what gets sent to
the Oh no, no, no, you're the cooler, you're the cooler.
(11:20):
You can't you can't be So I'm growing my hair
long for this other no no, no, tie and tight
and he's getting after it with Maria Bellow. Okay, that's
that's what we got going on. That's just gonna just
gonna sit next to you on the pitch, that's wearing
the Scott Foster T shirt. Why is Bill Macy here?
But no, But but that becomes the thing I would
(11:40):
love to be in the offices that are making these decisions,
because I have to imagine that they get enough chatter
that they would have investigated and would have ample analysis
to justify the fact that he keeps getting the assignment,
because again, it's not a game of one on one,
it's still a team game. But folks will continue as
(12:04):
these losses pile up to say that he's got something out.
And I keep seeing the tim Doneghee notes from all
those years ago that's keep popping up of how they
would go at players or teams or whatever to where
you'd see the patterns. And you know, we played a
little police earlier. I guess you get back to Andy
Summer's yelling there's a pattern here to see and the
(12:27):
point will soon be clear to me and the NBA
nation still trying it out. I don't know why, knowing
full well. Adams Saidever the players asked if Chris Paul
really makes a big deal of this, and ask Adam
Silver look into this, this is awful for us. Of
course Adam Silver would shake and shimmer and would go, yeah,
we we we, you know, we have a lot of
(12:48):
good refs. We can start sending different referees and he
wouldn't have to worry about Scott Foster again. You know,
he would make a big enough feel about it, and
you know he would do it because because Adam Silver's
like I always say, he's not gonna do anything to
upset players. Well, it's interesting, well, and he's been a
leader of the union and one of one of their
(13:09):
chief voices for a while. Now. Now as I'm wanting
to do is you you know, we we hit the bill,
paying time and the top of the hour update with
Brian Finley. Uh do a quick scroll on Instagram, someone
posted a Devin Booker is the most disrespected player in
the NBA and it's his collection of all these p s,
a tens of his prism rookie card. I mean we're
(13:31):
talking each one of those is somewhere seven eight hundred bucks,
and it's like there's probably a hundred of them there
and then people are going, yeah, you should have sold
him about an hour ago. It's like people are getting
after the guy for posting that. It's like whoa, whoa,
whoa man, there's anger anger in those It's not just
(13:51):
for reserve for Twitter. No, you could find hate and
anger wherever you look. Twitter at out about a fresca Mike,
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for us. We'll celebrate the NBA Playoffs the best way
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The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Carmen. Uh,
you know hearing that Reggie Miller promo talking about the
Sons and yours my sons that I picked, and I
(14:56):
look as good as the Suns are. They can't withstand
losing Devin Booker. This is how good he is, right,
it's not anything to all the sun Suddenly they're a
one man team. But you take the best player off
a team and they're gonna suffer, especially when you take
a top five player off the team. And Devin Booker
at ad because he's even a better version of of
(15:17):
a player this year than he was a year ago.
And if he's out for a while, you know, missing
most of the second half of the hamstring injury came out.
Monty Williams had no update after the game. The Sons
were just seemingly nothing they could do in the second
half could bring them back. They lose to the Pelicans.
What you see from Phoenix here and this is this
is the big thing I want people to take away
(15:37):
from this. Why Devin Booker is such a big deal
is that most teams have a couple of guys that
can really go nuts, right Like look at the Pelicans
brandon Ingram he can go nuts. And score forty points, right.
C J. McCollum, he can go nuts. He can score
forty points, right. Valin Tunis once in a while he
can go nuts. Right. But for this, you know he's
(15:57):
gonna give you ten and ten. But for the yeah,
But for the Sons, it's Devin Booker. Chris Paul is
not that dynamic anymore. He can't say, all right, get
on my back now for forty points. No, he's not.
He's a one A. And we saw in the playoffs
last year when it got to be too much, he
got too tired. Right. What you know, for for a
team like the Miami Heat, you know what, Tyler here
(16:19):
can score thirty five off the bench any night. Jimmy
Butler went for forty five tonight. These teams have guys
that can score, whether it's Joel Embiad scoring thirty five,
Maxi scoring thirty eight, Harden scoring. You know, the teams
have that. They don't have that guy that if they
missed Devin Booker, who's gonna score, right, Like, you're gonna
get a few more shot, you know, Chris Paul will
(16:39):
get a few more shots, obviously. You know Bridges will
get a few more shows but none of these guys
are gonna suddenly say, hey, get on my back, and
you have the you have the one guy. And that's
the thing about the Sons. You have the one guy.
And yeah, he's one of the best get on my
back guys in the in the league. Maybe he may
be the biggest get on my back guy because he
can get a shot in any situation at anytime. Sorry
Steph Curry, you can't get those shots. So he may
(17:00):
be the biggest get on my back guy. And that
the drop off after that is where you're gonna go defensively.
It makes it so much easier for your opponent. We
don't have to worry about Devin Booker. We we we
we were. We feel pretty good about manning up now
and stopping Chris Paul from controlling things. And they did
a great job controlling Chris Paul anyway tonight. So that
that's why it's such a big deal, because when you
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take him away, it's not like the Sons have somebody
else and come in and score. If if Jayson Tatum
doesn't have a big night, doesn't matter. Marcus Smart can
have a big night, Jyleen Brown a big night. Teams
have those couple of scorers. Uh, the Sons don't have
that second guy where that's all right now if he
gets the shots, he can go from nineteen to game
to thirty five and eight. They don't have that guy. Yeah,
(17:42):
it's the the also the curiosity. You need fifteen more
wins and we all keep a close eye on Chris
Paul minutes heavy minutes and his health at a moment's notice.
And it's not I don't think it's unfair at this
point in his career to do that because he has
games where things flow and it looks easy. And in
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Game one, even though it was only an eleven point win,
it was not in it was not a hard, right
fought win to where they had to grind out. But
he he made it look easy. You know eight AND's
a seventeen and ten guy. Can he give you thirty
on a given night. Yeah, but it's not normally not
his game. Uh, Bridges comes up with some big efforts
for you. You mentioned the heat before. You know, Duncan
(18:26):
Robinson didn't score today. Yeah, in game one, score today
and then they still put up a hundred fifteen points, right,
So so you have that type of situation, developing there
and when you expanded and extrapolate even within the Western Conference.
I mean, look at all the games Memphis one without
(18:47):
John Morant on the court. Right, there are guys that
can step up. You've had Desmond Baine have huge games.
You've got enough guys that you piece them together. It's
not one and it's death by a thousand paper cuts
because you've got guys that are giving you fifteen uh
to twenty each instead of that big thirty five point performance.
(19:09):
So yeah, the loss of Devin Booker, who I would
imagine when we get final results and final votes for
m v P probably is either even what the four
or five hole because he didn't make the metal stand
because we got those those guys, uh, and we talked
to m VP. So this is our requisite m v
P talk for the sake of just talking about how
(19:30):
important Devin Booker was, uh and the strides he made
this year because last year, as you noted, it was
still much much more seen as Chris Paul's squad and
for a while a lot of m B m v
P chatter around him. This year, Uh, it was Devin
Booker carrying things and becoming that next level star and
right now. A lot of anxious moments in the desert. Twitter,
(19:53):
and how about a fresca Mike gets swollen? Dont the
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on the show tonight, and I know what has brought
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and now it's the Magic Johnson. Yeah. This has been
one of the more difficult nights of the Magic Johnson
Twitter game, yet the most obvious and vanilla tweeter in
(21:19):
the world. Magic Johnson the game often imitated, never duplicated.
I give you the tweet. You tell me if it's
a Magic Johnson tweet or if it's made up entirely
by me playing as myself. Mike Harmon, Alex tysher Brian Fendley.
Are you guys ready to go? Oh, I'm ready to
give it a stab and throw some starts. Let's go now,
(21:41):
just to give you a you know, to give you
a little bit of a hint, because it has been
a rough night for you guys. You guys have not
had a great record. Six and three. You're not when no,
I I think you started four and one then he
lost like eight in a row. You're like the Padres. Oh, sorry, Fenley,
wish they could start like Hayne. Nine wins most wins
in Major League Baseball. Okay, you should be so lucky
(22:03):
to be the Mets do when it counts, though, I'm sorry,
I just done a flesh back the last night we
did the bit that Harmon was created by ty Shirt
and he's not a real person. Factor that last Like, Okay,
if you missed it, find the podcast I Heart Radio
(22:26):
app where wherever you download your audio. Look for last night.
We had a lot of a lot of fun little
bits that found their way into the show. Now, remember
I told you Magic Johnson has been really big on
recapping the games so far, Like it's like he's writing
for the Associated Press. So just know that going in.
(22:47):
All right, all right, here we go. Not many people
expected Dallas to win without Luca don Sech, but Jalen
Brunson scored forty one points with eight rebounds to offset
Donovan Mitchell's thirty four points and of Mavericks one ten
one oh four win, this series is now tied at
one one. Is that a Magic Johnson? Wow, that's a
(23:09):
lot of a lot of information in that one. I'm
gonna say no with with great reticence. I'm gonna say
no as well, because I don't think I've ever heard
him say the word offset. I don't think that that's
a word that he uses very often. Yeah, he does.
He talks about Cardi being offset all the time. Oh,
(23:29):
I get the kids they're having Really, you know he
talks about that all. Uh, that is not I'm sorry.
I thought he was looking up Cardi B songs. Cardi
B Is. I'm trying to make Mike and myself talk
at the same time. It's kind of hard. That is hard.
(23:51):
I was gonna say no, So I'll take that as
a win. For the second game in a row. Tyrese
Maxie picked up the slack by almost scoring a triple
double with twenty three point it's nine rebounds and eight
assists to help m VP candidate Joel Embiad who finished
with thirty one points and eleven rebounds. The seventies sixers
now have a commending to oh lead is that would
(24:11):
he have done a double down on the Joel embiids
stats because we had one earlier in the night. I'm
gonna say no. Magic loves to crown people with m
v P. This m VP that hyped them up and
used that in tweets, So I'm going yes, the greatest
quoting sports history. That is not. That is not eight
(24:45):
and three. The Warriors showed us last night why they
are a championship team and the most entertaining team in
the NBA by putting on a show against the Nuggets.
Steph Curry came off the bench and scored third before
Clay Thompson had twenty one and Jordan Pool finished with
twenty nine points. Is that a magic Johnson tweet? That's
(25:09):
a magic recap? Is what you got there? I'm gonna
say yes, Okay, it's a magic recap, except there's a
lot of numbers involved. Usually he just throw stuff out
and it doesn't have a lot of stats to it.
So I'm going no, Okay, that is a magic Johnson tweet.
(25:30):
That is a magic Let's go tweet. Let's go now
with the Warriors fully healthy high basketball like you and
Steve Cur's ability to make in game adjustments, and with
the championship pedigree of Steph, Clay Draymond and coach Kerr,
I picked them to come out of the West. Is
(25:51):
that a magic Johnson tweet picking Warriors to come out
of the Western Conference? I will say yes, yes, it is. Okay,
I'm gonna go yes because he's known throughout predictions and
be a prognosticator. So yeah, I'm sorry, Mineca, I can't
go with you. If Brian is that is not that
(26:12):
is a magic baby. So what is that nine and
three or three? You mean three and nine type shirts?
The three wins, nine loss and you're like one in ten,
more like eight. All of the Warriors guards are talented
at Head coach Steve Kirr pushed all the right buttons
(26:34):
for them in game two, showing their championship medal. That Johnson,
that is not a Magic Johnson tweet. It is because
there's the inclusion of a cliche pushing all the right buttons.
So that is definitely a Magic Johnson sponsored tweet. Not
sponsored just well, you know what, He's got a lot
(26:56):
of business partners. It could be brought to your bab
alvoline that you can be Well, I'm scrolling and I
don't see it, so I'm gonna say no, what I
told you he's looking at Twitter. That is no, I'm
good Magic john And three. Brian Kyrie Irving played like
(27:21):
a superstar, and so did Jayson Tatum. In Game one,
Kyrie had thirty nine points to almost lead Brooklyn to
the upset, but Tatum scored the game winner on an
exciting last second layup as part of his thirty one
point performance and a shout out to Marcus Smart for
a smart pass on that play. Is that Johnson tweets
(27:42):
that's insightful commentary. No, there's no way everything that you
just said would fit on one tweet. That just seems
like it's but it's true. Deal deal with the content.
Don't counting characters, and I want to make sure that
I again, I have counting characters that I believe the
(28:02):
character not the character. What when ty Shirt is looking
at Twitter? This is my way of quote unquote cheating,
You know, like you're going up against stiff competition when
the guy is literally screwpying the so much tign Brian. Okay,
first of all, none of you should be cheating. It's
the bleeping Magic Johnson Twitter game. You guys think you're
(28:24):
gonna walk down the street tomorrow someone's going, hey, you're
Alex ty Shirt from the Jason Smith. Absolutely, dude, you
have had like nothing right in the Magic john Boo.
You suck. Oh we'll see Jason. You don't know this,
But in the studio there's not only a Colleague of
the Month, there's a Magic Johnson Twitter Game of the Month.
But I'm winning it. Okay, just again, still no colleague.
(28:45):
It's up on the board. It's still there. No, not,
my face could be next to Mike's still hanging there. Baby. Well,
guess what, Jason, this is a magic Johnson tweet. Oh
that is not. I said you didn't let me finish.
A former Laker, Jordan Clarkson played an important role for
(29:08):
Utah by scoring twenty one points in twenty three minutes,
but Maxi Cleiber was even better with twenty five points,
including eight three pointers for Dallas. He got hot and
Dallas never looked back. He got Maxi Cleber in there.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna say yes, is that a
magic Johnson tweet? Why do I need to read any
other recap on any other publication source when I can
(29:31):
get this? This is definitely a magic Johnson tweet. You
just cut down the amount of work you have to
do for an update. You just know you're right finitely
what happened tonight? You know what happened in the methodic
seven magic tweeted this is a magic Jason tweet. Okay, okay, yes, okay, okay,
(29:55):
that is not. That is that is not. Let's go
put my name on the board. How many did you get?
Tight shirt? I got eleven out of five? How many
(30:15):
that's no, that's not out of five? Doesn't work. Why
not you did fifteen? Okay? How many did you get
without cheating? I don't cheat. I look over his shoulder
from where he's sitting, I see these cheating. He's got
his laptop on his lap. My laptops closed. Well, now
it is because I pointed it out. Just because you lost,
does it mean that someone's cheating. I'm just stating the
(30:37):
facts here. Boy, harmon, you got you gotta keep an
eye in that your colleague of the month, man, You
gotta keep an eye on these people, right. No, nobody
said I was in charging it. Okay, I wasn't a
supervisor of the month. I was the colleague of the month.
You're in charge of them. That's what it is. You're
the guy in charge. You win that. Where were you
(30:58):
to take care of these people? I'm at home today,
doesn't matter. I'm not. I'm not there. Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. When you're at home, you're not still not
the colleague of the month. No, no, no, I am.
But it's harder to keep keep control of them. Well,
because Fenley' is there from his little glass box, he's
casting aspersions and calling tight shirt a cheater and dissparaging
(31:22):
is sports not of course, it's like other shows do
on the network. I don't like it. If it's really easy,
everyone would do it. That's why you're the colleague of
everybody else. That and I coughed up a buck
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Jason Smith
Mike Harmon
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