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March 27, 2025 37 mins

On this version of "Don't Call It A Throwback, Thursday", Doug and the crew focus on the sports year of 2003. Doug welcomes FSR NBA Insider Mark Medina onto the show to talk about Lebron's eventful Wednesday, the Lakers and the other major headlines around the NBA. Plus, Isaac Lowenkron takes Doug through The Press.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:49):
I love this part of the show. I tease Jay
Stew about it, but I tease him because I actually
really liked this part of the show cause you know,
we all have that thing that we'd like to do,
maybe even in our jobs, but we don't get to
do right like I think that Jason Stewart would love,
like there's just a part of him that would love

(01:10):
to be am a like morning rock station guy because
that's and he kind of makes fun of it when
he goes, thanks Doug, I'll take it from here. No,
that's not it. Thanks Doug, gonna take it. He does
that that deal, that's that's great. I've done most everything

(01:31):
I I actually do. Secretly wish I had the skills
of Sam where I could play the drops all the time.
There's something is it called a short stop? What is
that little box that I used to have one or whatever,
but like a.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hot hot button box, hot keybox.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Replay yeah, replay machine, right, And I used to have
one at one of my previous stops. And I think
I think the reason it hasn't been offered up to
me is because, you know, yeah, I'm like a little kid,
you know, quote.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Quote our our boss Don Martin, my man, as soon
as you give some hosts that replay, it just becomes
silly madness. Now, Matt money Smith might be the greatest,
the greatest manipulator of the replay machine in the history
of radio.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Agreed, him and Petros are pretty wacky with that stuff.
My wife to my wife tonight night to night. A
lot of people don't know what we're talking about, but
they are hoo to those two.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
They know they are who Action Match Action much hold on,
We're like not even pressing drops for just yelling things.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is what I'm talking about, my man.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
And then there's one of Petros who's like, ah, over.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
And O, We're good dude. We're not even on in LA.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
We're quoting the best sports show in LA that no
one can hear outside of LA.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
So digitally available, please access it.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
People might recognize Petros because he does some games with
FS one for college football and he's on t Jumps
on the two.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Again, it doesn't matter because he plays relatively straight. Who
doesn't love Petros?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
He's he's and he's honestly super super talented as a
as a college football analyst. Anyway, if we want to
get to the like original great drop and this is
I think pre dating or maybe early on Jay stew
in your tenure with Rome, because when Rome used to
do a local radio in San Diego, they used to

(03:27):
have people call in and order a drug test for people,
and there was like a ping in the cup sound.
Did you guys do that when you were there. That
was a great That was a great drop. And you
have people come in and like Rome first time, long time.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
I want to order a drug test for Steven A.
Smith for saying that had Lebron James put his hands
on him when they were arguing about Brownie, he would
have gone, he would he would have you know, he
would have what is it thrown hands? Is that the
expression thrown hands at him? Yeah? Drug test?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do you want a drug test? Drug? Drug?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Drug?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Anyway? Now, let's not the job.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Let's uh, that was stephen A.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Let's get the don't call it a throwback.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Don't call it a throwback Thursday.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
All right, Doug, I want our listeners to go back
to two thousand and three. Rewind the clock to two
thousand and three. Now, what were you doing in two
thousand and three. I want each of you listeners to
think of what you were doing with your headspace, was
where you were in your wife, in your career. And
then I want to introduce something that happened around this

(04:45):
time twenty two years ago. Freshman out of Syracuse, Carmelo
Anthony put the at the time named Orangeman on his
back and carry them to Jim Him's first and only
national championship. Carmelo Anthony had an amazing tournament that, of course,

(05:11):
he clipsed in the final four when he beat Texas
with thirty three points on twelve of nineteen shooting. He
would go on to beat Roy Williams and Kansas in
the next game.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Again, you talk about Kansas and Roy Williams, Oh, what's
Syracuse and Jim.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Beaha, are you doing the hands too? Doesn't He kind
of wave his hands around a little bit, kind of
like a little like kind of a pageant wave, but
he's like, Oh, it's all the enthusiasm.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Doug w what do you remember most about that two
thousand and three NCAA tournament other than Carmelo.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Well, there's two parts to it. One, Oklahoma State led
that Circus team by I think seventeen points at the
half of Boston Guarden had lost. Secondly, was I never
watched the game. That's the only tournament I ever watched
the game in. I was in France playing for KMON.
It was after my first season of covering college basketball.
I had a midday show in two thousand and two

(06:10):
in Oklahoma City and into early two thousand and three,
I called the Whack Championship Game, which I believe was
feeding of Tulsa and Nevada, and I was driving down
I forty four head back to Oklahoma City, where we
had purchased our first home in Edgemere Park, Oklahoma City
shout out to Edgemere Park, and I got a call

(06:30):
from my then basketball agent, Michael Siegel, who said, if
you leave tomorrow you can play in Portugal First Division.
You'll go to the playoffs, and if you wait till
the end of the week, then you go to France.
There's a pro B team trying to move up to
Pro A. Their point guard got hurt and it'd just
be a month, but it would be able to get

(06:52):
you kind of back in. You'd be Pro A next
year if you want. I had started working for a
guy named Larry Bestita and Oklahoma City, who is the
head of.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
I think it was a Cumulus station back then. I
don't remember. Anyway, WWL is a sports animal, and I
felt like I couldn't leave, like without saying goodbye or
telling him I was going. So I was like, I'll
take the one.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
At the end of the week, I went to France
and this little pub that I got all my meals
at for free playing for my club. They had Eurosport,
and I watched highlights of that tournament. I didn't actually
watch that tournament. I did know the Oklahoma State one
only because when I got back, it was one of
the first things I watched was the entirety of the
Oklahoma State game where they had a big lead against

(07:35):
Syracuse in the NCAA tournament and only to lose in
the second half.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, what you did miss was a guy, a little
named guy named Dwayne Wade leading Marquette I think into
the Leite eight, and he would be in the same
draft class with Carmel Well Anthony, who shared the draft
class with Lebron James, arguably the greatest draft in the

(08:00):
history of the NBA two thousand and three. That would
happen three months later in June, Isaac. When you think
back to two thousand and three, what comes to mind.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
The Steve Bartman Cubs deal. Oh yeah, but one other thing,
because this is where my salacious mind goes the phrase
it's Rollin', it's rollin' brief. Alabama head coach Mike Price

(08:33):
was hired and then fired shortly thereafter because of what
I just said. But in all seriousness, when you think
about it, that incident back in two thousand and three
was a huge sliding doors incident for college football history
because it set Alabama football on the path to Nick Saban.

(08:54):
Lady's name was Destiny. Literally, her name was Destiny, or
perhaps that was her stage name.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm happy as hell.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Please welcome Destiny.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
I love it here.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
By the way, Dwayne Wade took him all the way
to the Final Four that year with Marquette.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Look that up.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wow Wow, I can just say this USC football was
in two thousand and three. They were right in the
middle of their sweet, sweet sweet run with Pete Carroll
and Carson Palmer handing off to Matt Lionert and Reggie Bush.
There and look at where they all are now. We
got Pete Carroll coaching the Raiders. I mean, this guy

(09:37):
is going to coach to Lee Croakes a lot of energy.
But they had it home in there coliseum. I mean, listen,
I'm not even from this area. Isaac helped me out here.
The coliseum was back to the gills. They took off
the tarps.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
It was one a to the Lakers as the hottest
thing in.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Town NFL right in the NFL teams.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Right, celebrity is all over the sideline at practice. It
was like neighborhood festival. You had a list celebrities at
their practices back in the day.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Back in the day.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
This is something I don't recall. It was.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sorry, it was a split National Championship. I guess between
and LSU LSU winning the BCS and Southern California taking
the AP. I believe has that happened?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Still bitter about that? Okay? Sorry, Jason Key you. Steve
McNair shared the MVP award. I didn't know this happened.
Steve McNair of the Tennessee Titans shared the MVP award
with Peyton Manning. That was the year that the Patriots
went back to the Super Bowl to win their second
of three in four years. Two thousand and.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Three, okay, two thousand and three then became my first
year doing national sports radio. I did the NBA Draft
on ESPN Radio and that draft was pretty good, right,
some guy named Lebron James Dwayne Wade, previously mentioned, Chris Bosch, Carmelo, Anthony, Darko, Millici,

(11:08):
who I played against when I was in Israel, from Hemo,
from Vrozik and then anyway, I mean two thousand and
three was.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Aaron effing Boone, right, and Aaron.

Speaker 6 (11:21):
Boone and Grady Little leaving Pedro in that game too.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Well. He took him out.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Pedro put the jacket on, shook the hands, and then
put him back out for the seventh inning where he
went over one hundred pitches and that's where all h
double chopped.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Sticks broke loose. Was the Aaron Boone home run in
the fourteenth inning?

Speaker 6 (11:41):
I want to say it was the thirteenth inning. I'll
look it up for you real quick, but it was
against Tim Wakefield, and it was I think on the
first pitch, if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Ye.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's the thing.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's the thing about knuckleballs is occasionally they don't move,
and when they don't move, they do move over the fence.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yankees would go on to lose to the Marlins, led
by Josh Beckett. Dontreu willis a very young Miguel Cabrera
who would start a Hall of Fame career.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Also u Moises Alu Right of the Cubs. No, he
was of the Marlins back then.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
No, mois A. Loo was I think a part of
the ninety seven World Championship team. He was a part
of the Cubs for the Steve Bartman cutch.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I think he was. Oh he was on ninety seven. Okay, No,
can you check that. I think Alu was.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
On the Marlins. I could be wrong. Again. My baseball
knowledge is not nearly yours.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm saying Alu was on the ninety seven team. He
went to the Cubs and he was the one here
to go to the Cubsve Bartman.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
He was with the Cubs from two thousand and two
through two thousand and four. He was with the Marlins
only in ninety See, that's.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
What I said. I just said he was with the
ninety seven Cubs.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
No, no, no, he was with the ninety seven Marlins.
He was with the cub That's.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
What I said.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
He was at the ninety seven Marlins. God, you guys
keep screwing it up.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
That's a joke.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I remember they did an interview with moyses Alu. It
was like a sixty minutes focus piece and he he
had headphones on and Mike Wallace was like, what song
are you listening to? Right now and moys A Salousa
this one.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh go shoot. Okay, so let me tell you about
this song.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I'm still a banger, so.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
It is still a banger. So let me tell you
about this song. Okay.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
So when I played in France, we played against PSG
Racing that's Tony Parker's old team and uh Tony Parker's
old team, and it was in Paris, and they had
a DJ during the game and literally every time I
dribbled the ball of the court, that song was playing.

(13:55):
And it's really hard to play basketball when you're not
getting down to the song. You're like dribbling to the
like that's doesn't really go on that a.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Little too slow. Maybe you got a double time it right?

Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah? Yeah, great song.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
You recently went to a concert with him?

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Right about recently? It was in when did I go
to Israel last?

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Was that?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh, okay, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, right, I think,
or twenty twenty two when I last went to Israel? Yeah,
I took Harper, my daughter to go see uh.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Fifty cent.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
And that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
She was like, I know a couple of these songs
becausehen I first said, Hey, we're going to see Fiddy.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
She was like, I don't know who that is? What? Well,
at the time, she was like sixteen years old.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
But he's I like Fiddy a lot, and uh, I
don't know. He was way out. He was way in
front of that.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Did he He was way in front of the Diddy thing.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
He seems like a good dude, Like he's like, I
don't mess with that stuff. So I'm a Fitty fan.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
He was shot like ninety I know, but he left
that he clearly upsets somebody in.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
His like yeah, yeah, yeah, well I don't really Uh,
we're not going to address the number two song that year.
I'll just tell people it was Ignition by R Kelly.
I'm not going to play it because I'm not a
fan of his anymore. I think it's a great song,
though it is a great.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
So no, that's not his best song by far.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
In my mind.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
No, no, no, you must erase his catalog from your brain.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
I believe I Can Fly is his greatest.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
So it's an awful song. What all right?

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I wanted to show.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait cut the music
on this what what Wayne?

Speaker 4 (15:34):
What world is like? Again? It's a great. Now that's
not it.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
I know I'm not playing. We need some music.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
By the way, Ignition the remix Ignition is a great song.
Regular Ignition is fine, but neither compared to I Believe
I Can Fly.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I Believe I Can Touch the Sky.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
So cheesy, good song, overplayed cliche. Now he's in jail.
Let me share the number three song?

Speaker 3 (15:59):
What again?

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Like?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Whoa wait wait, I need a ruling here, so you wait, Sam,
do you agree with that that Ignition is a better
song than I Believe I Could Fly?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Man? I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
I think that the most the most popular song you
ever had was I Believe I Can Fly. He was
in movie. I think got overplayed. It got overplayed.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Again, it's not overplayed because it's his best song.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
It is his best song. I agree with that. I
agree is more of like a club song. But again,
uh r, Kelly is paying.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
For it's also a baby making song. Let's be honest.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
I don't know. Yeah, but here's a here's the number
three song in nation, which I've been actually kind of
jonesing to play for a while. Now here we go,
Oh yeah, Sean, Paul, come on, shake Natche, get busy.
That's the song. Yeah, there you go. It's a good song, too,
good club song. There we go. No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
All right, gentlemen, let's get our popcorn and take a
trip to the movielib has the greatest movies of two
thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Typically, Well, remember I was out of country for a
little bit, and then I moved cross country, uh, to Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
But I did then.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Once I moved to Connecticut, then I had no time
to ever watch TV because I was or good the
movies because I was working at night. But there was
a couple interesting ones, right, Uh. The number one movie
was Finding Nemo.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Still haven't seen it. What when people talk about Brandon Nemo,
I just want to say Finding Nemo, but I have
not seen Finding Nemo. I was a let's see, I
was like a sophomore in high school. That was for babies,
for children children.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Okay, what about Pirates of the Caribbean.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Have seen Pirates of the Caribbean. I love sailor movies.
I'm a fan of Johnny Depp in general.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
But I don't think Taylor movies.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, like, well, you know, Master in Command or like
you know, like old boats and ships and stuff. But
I'm not a you know, Pirates of the Caribbean was good.
It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
It didn't.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
It's not one of my all time faves, but it's
a good one. It was a big obviously huge money maker.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Who who is the female lead?

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh, man, I want to say, it's Kira Knightley, who's
got like, yes, ten times more teeth than you should
have in your mouth. She's she's a shark. She's made.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
But she was incredibly hot in that movie.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
She's there Portman with a lot of tooth.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yes, I kind of confuse her with Natalie Portman, but.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I don't know. I mean, yeah, I mean whatever. I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
She does have a lot of teeth that she could
take one out and no one would missed. I always
thought her teeth are like a sorority photo, you know,
where everybody's trying to cram in there.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know, she was made to eat corn on the cobs.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Other movies Lord of the Rings, which I've never seen
start to finish because it's so long, I always fall asip.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
But those like the third installment, right, the last one.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
I've never watched the one is like nine hours long.
I saw it in theaters and there's like an extended
cut that I think is like five hours long.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Pause.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, ELFs two thousand, which my son Hayes believes is
the greatest Christmas movie ever.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I just saw Hell for the first time this past
holiday season.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Well, uh, Hayes asked, We watched will Will Ferrell's son
play basketball.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
This is a couple of years ago, and.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Will told us that that was his most embarrassing movie
to make because he didn't think it was funny because
he was running around New York City and yellow tights
and nobody laughed.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
But it's just a movie.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
So x Men United, Bruce Almighty. That was back when
Jim Carrey was funny. Doesn't feel like he's funny anymore.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Steve Carrell was in that too, and then he had
did the sequel.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
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Speaker 4 (20:01):
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Speaker 1 (20:03):
Let's uh, let's talk some NBA hoopes as we get funky,
how funky.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah. His name is Mark Medina.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
He's our longtime NBA writer and Fox Sports Radio NBA insider,
fresh off one of the most inconsequentially inconsequential yet eventful
days since Lebron James became a Laker. Uh, what do
you what do you take from Lebron James? First his

(20:40):
desire to go on with Pat McAfee.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Yes, I don't get it. You know, I remember this
analogy here. I was watching during the early Laker years,
Chloe Kardashian's reality show because I thought it would give
me two bits about lamar odom and then I thought,
you know what, I just want to stick to sports.
It reminded me of a Chloe Kardashian show. And that's

(21:04):
not a compliment. I don't get the War Awards. I
thought it would just end the way it did with
you on Twitter, and that's that. But this is escalating
to something else, Okay.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
I actually think the part that looks the worst for
Lebron is when he said that Giannis would score two
and fifty points.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Just it.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's the the utter and blatant like Look, JJ Reddick
can call people plumbers and it can irritate people. But
JJ does. Look he's always come across as smug, right,
but he's not Lebron. When one of the best players
in the history of the sport says that a current
MVP caliber player would scored two hundred and fifty points,
it's laughing at a previous generation. How do you think

(21:56):
that goes over with some of the former ends.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Well, I think it's kind of a similar vein as
they took JJ Reddix, but it's different because Lebron James
is the face of the NBA. He's one of the
premier stars. And I was frankly surprised by that because
in that same interview, you know, they're talking about the
previous era and he's praising Bob Coosey and other former grades.
I just don't get why you can't praise both the

(22:22):
past generation and the current generation without taking shots at
the other. I mean, for him to say that Giannis
would score twentter and fifty points, Okay, I guess his
point is he's complimenting giannis athleticism, But the implication is
that the league was terrible. Then no one played defense,
and that was one of the most physical errors of

(22:42):
the sport. Here, So it's it's disappointing for him to
say that, especially for someone who actually does follow the
history of the game.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Okay, last night they win on a tip in, but
they had had gone a little bit losing streak where
they weren't playing particularly good defense. Since Lebron James berture
from injury. What's the actual state of the Lakers.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
I think it's what the record shows. As far as
the results, They're very up and down. This is going
to be fluid the rest of the way, and I
think that in the short term, you know, it looks
like Lebron James has gained off his rust, even though
he didn't predict the future on whether the groin injury
is behind him. I think that he's going to be
okay from that standpoint. But I think that what we

(23:25):
saw at the beginning of this Lukadochia trade of them
suddenly becoming this elite defensive team even without Anthony Davis,
has seemed to run its course here. I mean, they
can only do so much with adrenaline rush all hands
on deck and Jackson Hayes being your dominant center, and
so I do trust that, yes, we can say that

(23:47):
the honeymoon phase with Lebron and Luka Doncich has faded,
but they're not heading it toward any divorce. They fit
really well, but I think the defensive issues are exposing them,
and I think that because of that, they're going to
be very up and down towards this last stretch of
the season. They're going to be very up and down
in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Okay, let's get into a couple other NBA stories and
NBA thoughts. Jimmy Butler came out the necessarily critical of
heat culture, but he's like, yeah, basically he can't do
without players. Let's talk some Golden State Warriors. Everything had
been so happy and they got a chance. Now now
we're a couple of weeks into this new team.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
How they look, Well, they look really good, but you know,
they obviously struggled against Miami because they didn't have Steph Curry.
Now he's with the team. It's not clear if he's
going to be able to play tomorrow, but the internal
feeling with the Warriors is that they don't consider the
injury serious. But I think that this really shows the
value of Steph Curry number one, but number two that

(24:49):
Jimmy Butler's effectiveness with the Warriors only goes so far
if Steph Curry's in the line a perfect complimentary player
to Steph because he's producing offensive points that Steph Curry
doesn't do with mid range shots, free throws game to
the rim. But without Steph Curry there, all of a sudden,
it's just isolation ball and Jonathan Kaminga is not the

(25:10):
best version of himself, and so it doesn't help that.
Now Gary Payton the Second is dealing with an injury.
It's not clear the severity of it, but it goes
without saying if the Warriors are going to catch this
lightning in the Bottle Championship run, it's not necessarily because
of Jimmy Butler. It's because Jimmy Butler is paired with
Steph Curry. So he's got to be back in the

(25:30):
lineup soon and the Warriors do expect that to happen.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Stet Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Mark Bendina
is joining us.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
What about Jalen Brunson as the Knicks continue to struggle
as he's recovering from injury. What are the thoughts on
this NIXT team in Jalen Brunson's recovery getting.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Ready for the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
Yeah, I think that there's still an expectation he'll be
back for the playoffs, but they haven't given exact clarity
and if that's actually going to happen here, and you know,
they're they're really true water right now. You know, you're
looking at Cleveland, they've you know, ended a little bit
of their rough patch. The Celtics are on a seven
game winning streak. Yeah, the Knicks are third, but they
don't have much cushion three games over Indiana. I think

(26:13):
that they've started to be on the up and up
as well as Detroit here. So I think what's going
to happen, Doug, is they're going to compete, because that's
what Tom Thibodeaux teams do. Karl Anthony Towns has shed
his rust, but they're steiling is second round at best,
but likely just tough playoff out in the first round
most likely. So it's it's going to be almost kind

(26:35):
of a repeated formula of last year where Joe Brunson,
he competed, it wasn't forty one hundred percent and all
of a sudden their potential went out the window.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Doug Gotlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, what
most people who do most people think is the team
to beat in the East still the Celtics or is
it the cast?

Speaker 7 (26:54):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a coin flip. I do
think that there is some wait and see about Cleveland
because not only did they have that rough patch recently,
I mean it was only four games, but you know,
they're they're the latest example of a regular season that's dominant.
But does that mean postseason success? We saw the Dallas
Mavericks and O seven flameout in the first round. We

(27:15):
saw some most recent examples twenty eighteen Houston Rockets, you know,
lose to Golden State in the West Finals. You know,
a year after the Phoenix Suns got to the NBA
Finals in twenty twenty one, they underachieved against Dallas, even
though they all all these teams had a regular season success.
So talking to people within the Cavaliers organization, they're very
mindful of that, but they feel like one their health

(27:39):
mostly behind them. Evan Mobile's back from injury, same thing
with Donovan Mitchell, and their chemistry is really good. But
does that mean it's enough for Boston? It's hard to
bet against the defending champs. You know, chrisos Porzingis is
back and healthy. I know Jason Tatum has an ankle injury,
but not considered the most serious. So they're starting to

(28:00):
play their best basketball right now, where the Cavaliers haven't.
But these things are very hard to predict. So it's
coin flip game seven for both series and or for
both teams. It's just a matter of which team I
think will be healthiest by the time they meet in
these finals.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
You know, it's interesting.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
I feel like Dallas is almost getting guilted into trying
to make the playoffs. Yeah right, It's like the smart
thing to do would be to shut everything down and
try and get a lottery pick, but they just seem
to be guilted.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Guilted into it.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Yeah, no, very much. So, I mean this is almost
like the only positive story that they could possibly have
because the Luka Dodga trade, Kyrie Irving having his ACL injury.
I do give Anthony Davis credit for coming back. He
could have had an out of not doing that, but
I think he does want to do good, you know,
to give himself, you know, some grace from the Dallas

(28:49):
fan base because he knows he was part of this trade.
I think the other thing that no doubt Anthony Davis
has dealt with injuries his whole career. We've seen in
New Orleans seen what Lakers, But in the last few
years he's has shown a willingness to gut through injuries.
You know, even though it didn't work out in twenty
twenty one when the Lakers lost to Phoenix in the

(29:10):
first round, He's still try to give it a go
until you know, the training staff told him he couldn't.
And so I think that's the thought process. He wants
to get out of this reputation that he has and
do right by him. But I'm if I'm the organization,
I guess they mathematically have a chance, especially because Phoenix
has been so up and down. But I would think,

(29:30):
you know what, let's just get healthy next season and
hope that gets better.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Uh well, Mark, listen, We'll play your outro music, which
is saying intro music because it's the coolest music for
the coolest NBA insider. One By the way that Lebron
James did not pick on during his ronversation, he knows
better than a step to Mark Medina.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
Hey, how about this. He didn't call you out on TV.
I mean, it's one thing to do with social media,
but he didn't want to ask to go to awards
with you.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I just tell you, I listen if he put his
hands on me when you got an argument, I would
I would sue. I would I would sue.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
There you go, no boxing matches.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, he's uh six eight two sixty.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
I'm no idiot. Thanks Mark, Thanks Mark.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
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Speaker 4 (30:59):
To tractor Supply.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Let's get to the press, the press. Hey there is
think Lo and Cron What is in the press?

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Hey there, Doug. This actually ties into what you open
the show talking about. But there is a Yeah, there's
a service out there called MLB dot tv yearly subscription
one hundred and fifty dollars and you can stream every
out of market regular season game live on your TV,

(31:33):
on your device, whatever. So it's a huge day for
the MLB dot tv app with it being opening day.
MLB dot tv, how has been down.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
For the last two hours?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Oh my gosh, the.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Last two hours. I'll read you a couple of comments
on social media that summarize what's going on. Brooks posting
it's Opening day and I can't watch my team play
because of the trash MLB TV app. Love paying for
a service and not being able to use it on
one of the most anticipated days of the year. Joseph
posting you've ruined opening day one hundred and fifty dollars

(32:08):
to subscribe to an app that doesn't work. Thanks for
not caring about your customers. In fairness, the fans support
MLB dot com twitter feed posted Hi there, we are
aware of this issue and expect a resolution shortly. Sorry
for the delay that was nearly an hour ago.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Yay.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
My personal testimonial is from my son Jacob Stewart, who
is visiting his girlfriend's family in the Philippines today. Hello Jacob.
He sends me a screenshot that the playback error on
the MLBtv app with the comment WTF exclamation point, question.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Mark, whiskey tango foxtrot.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I have exclusive audio of a very disgruntled MLB dot
tv subscriber him mad as hell, and I'm not gonna
take this, Isaac back to you.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Thank you, Howard.

Speaker 6 (33:03):
I think, no, that's not Howard Chris Hell uh network Network.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Oh here's the thing, they MLB.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
They have had this exact same app and service for years.
But now obviously when it's owned and and it's the
only way to get these games, you know, they can
stand and make a ton of money. But I I,
what's the what's the actor's name that played Newman in Seinfeld?

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Howard b Yeah, fortwork.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
So he reminds me that this reminds me of if
that same actor, remember a gosh, dang it Jurassic Park
right where he leaves to go and sell off the
DNA and everything goes Haywire feels like he's running the MLB.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
App Wayne Knight, Wayne Knight.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Sure sure, wait, Isaac and I were talking off off
air about yeah, I can hear you.

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Actually, by the way, we.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Were talking about Howard Beale, the character from Network, and
you were like, no, it's not Howard Cosell anyway, never mind.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
Seventies were a big decade for people named Howard.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
I suppose.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, Wayne Knight, who looks great these days, he's really
living his best life.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Doug.

Speaker 6 (34:21):
Uh, I hope this doesn't happen. But do you think
one day we'll be talking about something like this happening,
but happening with an NFL playoff game that is streaming only?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yes? Yeah, yes, absolutely soon soon?

Speaker 6 (34:40):
When when?

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Not?

Speaker 4 (34:42):
If?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
By the way, just so we know, just you know,
I worked at ESPN for ten years. Okay, this is
what's called a la carte programming. Okay, And when I
were a ESPN they would tell you you could say
a lot of things, do not ever say the words
a la carte programming. Because the feeling was a la
carte programming. Would the death of ESPN be interesting to see?

(35:03):
If this is the death of.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
ESPN, fascinating anything?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Everything in life is better all a cart Honestly, you
just get exactly what you want.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
I just want to say more expensive that way.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I know, I'd rather I'd rather just pick like the
fifty channels I like the most, well listen, I would
just buy somehow.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
What's your favorite past food?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh, man, I'm sadly, I say Taco Bell?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Okay, so well does Taco Bell like Taco Bell has
what I sent a coke?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I can order. I ordered things all a card off
their menu, and it is so I do all.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
La carte as well. Like when I go through a
drive through, I always get like I don't want to
I'm a double cheeseburger guy. By the way, I just
want to shout out to Freddy's Freddy's Frozen Wow.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
But I only dog you're in You're in Green Bay.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
No, that's a tough call.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's tough.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
But that's a tough gu's like which one of my
kids I love the most? Harper, that's the answer anyway,
M yeah, but yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Wait, what was before Freddy's we got it was something
else we were trying to dress.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Taco Bell. I would talk about, you know, the combo
meal deal. Combo meal deal is you know combo otherwise
a la carte you order just to.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I skick the drink. I don't need those little curly whatever,
the little sweet chewy things they do. I just want
like the chiloupa or cheesey Gordida crunch, the case of dea.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I don't want all that other stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Anyway, you go to Taco bell during the day.

Speaker 8 (36:31):
Yes, I didn't know the fully sober yep wow, because
if you try to go to the Taco bells around
here after like ten o'clock, it's like of eighteen cars line.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes, kind of like in and out but for drunk people.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Yes, and final a lot of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
announcing today the NBA going to partner with FOEBA to
explore forming a new European professional league that could start
as early as twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
So but they are we have EuroLeague.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
That's what that was my That was my reaction to
It's not an NBA European division, it's another pro league.
I think they're going to try and steal some teams
from the other from those other leagues.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Yeah, I don't know, Okay, sure.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
My reaction too. And that's the press.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
They get out there and pressed.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
That was the press, all right.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
We got Sweet sixteen Sweet sixteen games tonight in college basketball, Alabama,
Florida Tech and Duke like the favorites. Somebody will lose
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