The Cavaliers Fall Again

With Doug off, Dan Beyer and Jonas Knox fill in after the Cavaliers fall to the Warriors again and trail 0-2 in the NBA Finals. They discuss what the Cavalier have to do in order to steal a game from the Warriors. Plus Yahoo Sports Insider Jordan Schultz joins the show to tell them if LeBron James will leave Cleveland if they lose another NBA Finals.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're Spio and John Ramos as well. Boom. It is
a b k our Monday. As we look back at
the NBA Finals, It's kind of funny because I thought
the NBA Finals are actually supposed to be the Western
Conference Finals. Turning out that is the case. Warriors up
to oh on the Cleveland Cavaliers last night. Jonas was

(00:23):
a game that I expected, I think many people expected
after the Calves lost that heartbreaker on Thursday. I wasn't
sure that they were going to have anything left in
the tank. And now there's actual video out, no not
of anything that happened in game two. All you need
to see is Steph Curry raining threes and Kevin Durant

(00:44):
dominating on both ends, and you get a sense of
what game two is. We get a sense of why
game two played out because a video that we saw
in game one, a video that was released showing Lebron
James during the entire team time out of Game one.
J R. Smith thought that they were up by one
and seeing Lebron's reaction his reaction to when the Cavalier

(01:06):
when he found out the Cavaliers still had a time
out and it wasn't used at the regular at the
end of regulation. That is why the Cavaliers then went
out and lost by nineteen points. Last Nights of the
Golden State Warriors. Lebrons in this situation where he needs
two things in order for them to win games. He
has to be the best player on the planet, maybe
in history, and he needs Golden State, who's got a

(01:30):
minimum of three Hall of Famers, to collectively suck at
the same time. That's a lot of things that you've
got to have happened in order for you to compete
in this series. Guess what he got that in Game one.
The reason he was so upset in Game one that
they lost that game is because he knew that was
the game to steal in this series. He's gonna have

(01:52):
to steal a couple of games in this series. And
when that game was lost by several plays that were
made that we can get into throughout the or so
of the show. You just saw his demeanor. You saw
him after the game when he grabbed his purse and
and left the post press conference because he was upset
about a question. You saw the on court reaction to

(02:12):
j R. Smith when he made the play. And now
this video comes out after they lose Game two, a
game everybody expected that the spread was twelve and a half,
not the gamble or anything, Dan. And now that we
talked about you gambling on it right before we went
on the air, again, that's not what we want to
get into. But the spread was twelve and a half
points in a game that went into overtime. Everybody knew
that was the one they had to get. Lebron played

(02:34):
it out and then when you see the video afterwards,
it's like, yeah, it's over. When you look at these
final series, it should it should be of note that
when Lebron ended up playing without Kevin Love because of
the shoulder injury, and then they lost Kyrie in game one.
Remember the Calves came back in one game two in

(02:56):
in a split where both of those games were in overtime.
But the last two final series in for the games
one in two in Oakland, we're Warrior blowouts. And so
Lebron understand. Sure, they won games five and seven in
Oakland in but Lebron should knows the history of winning

(03:17):
and winning games. I also think he knows his team
isn't good enough to win all of their games in Cleveland. Sure,
they've had success in Cleveland, but against this Warriors team,
I don't think that he was under any any you know,
notions that they'd be able to sweep Golden stayed at home.
So that made even stealing a game in Oakland in
the first two games that much more imperative. And last night,

(03:41):
I guys are starting to fill rolls and we know
what the Cavaliers have. They didn't have anything left in
the tank. I don't know why anybody would have thought Jr.
Smith would rebound from the mistake and come out and
have a lights out game in game two. When you
see the video of game one and you talk about
just the air being punched out of their gut. That

(04:04):
wasn't a we lost game one. That is we aren't
going to get a game here in Oakland. That is
a that is a two game video that we see
in that that two minutes and thirty seconds, knowing, as
you mentioned, that they lost their opportunity in game one,
but knowing in game two that the circumstances that you
mentioned that Golden State was gonna be off, that Lebron
was gonna have fifty one points, that Kevin Love even
though Kevin Loves has been pretty good that that the

(04:26):
the pieces that they needed to step up, we're gonna
be there. There was no way that was going to
repeat in game two. And that's why I thought this
Warriors blowout by nineteen points in game two was something
that was just inevitable after how it ended in Game one. Yeah, no,
I totally agree. I wasn't surprised at all by it.
Um the fact that and there was this point during
the game where if you watched Game two, it was
like Cleveland could get to about an eight point reach.

(04:49):
They were within eight points, it could get to within
about eight points, and they could just never get over that.
And that's and that's all like that second third gear
that you've got to have. And if the one thing
you knows about Lebron James, and he's been brilliant in
the postseason, He's been fantastic. But the one thing about
Lebron James that you can't deny he has picked his spots.
He's identified which games are winnable early on, and he

(05:11):
has picked the spots in games where he will conserve
energy and he will use what he's got left in
the tank to win games. In Boston, Games one and
I think game one in game five. I think we're
prime examples of a guy who realized early on, I
can either gun it and try and will us back
into this game with not a whole lot of help,
or I can save my legs, save my energy, and

(05:34):
if it goes seven games, I've got a little left
in the tank. And guess what happened. And to Game
seven against Boston, he was the strongest player on the floor,
He was the freshest player on the floor. He made
all the plays and won that game for him. Late
he identified game one as one of those games that
he could get. And then it went back to game
two after he lost it, and he identified game too

(05:55):
at some point, and just I think he realized, damn,
we could to have a split right now, and I'd
be okay losing this game. We're screwed. Now. You go
back to Cleveland, you try and figure it out in
a must win situation in Cleveland. I know Golden State
ended up running away in the fourth quarters about the
four minute mark when Tyler ended up putting the subs in.
I was surprised that it didn't happen earlier like I thought,

(06:17):
like midway through the fourth quarter, and and that's the point.
The the Warriors kept the Calves at arms length throughout
that entire game. It was what eight points, ten points,
get up the thirteen, then the Cows would maybe go
on a little run. But when you have Steph Curry,
when you have Clay Thompson, when you have Kevin Durant,

(06:38):
those six point leads and two trips can become twelve
point leads. And that's why I just don't think it
never seemed that Cleveland was ready to make a run
in the second half. Maybe it got within six, maybe
it was like seventy seventy one at one point, but
it never seemed like, Okay, momentum is changing now. It

(06:59):
just seemed like maybe the Cavaliers had some the Warriors
had some turnovers, some bad trips, and the Cavaliers were
able to counter, but it never seems like they got momentum.
And again it goes back to Game one, and it
goes back to this video that has been circuling we've
got to tweet it out. Maybe j S. Ramo zero
six can end up tweeting it out for people to see.
Jonas can as well. The fact is is that's just

(07:22):
where it all ended. And now you're in a two
old deficit where many people believe this Finals is over.
It's it's demoralizing. If you're an opponent, it's got to
be just demoralizing to know that you're you're no matter
what you do, it's not good enough. And even when
it is good enough, it's still not good enough because

(07:42):
somebody makes a mistake late in the game. Like that
is demoralizing this I I have a feeling that it's
demoralizing even more because I think Lebron James and the
Calves know that the Warriors aren't as good as we
want to make them to be. They are amazing, but
they aren't an unstoppable force. And you've also seen him

(08:06):
so many times now, like we see this in the
in Major League Baseball in the postseason. When did Kenley
Jansen start getting tagged later in the postseason after teams
had seen him, after players have had several at bats
against him. You started to see it. You now know
how he pitches. You start to see bullpens and guys
just throw throwing fewer innings later in the postseason because

(08:28):
you can't really trust him in big spots anymore. And
it's familiarity, like You're now seeing him over and over again.
This is the fourth time for a lot of these
guys seeing each other, and I think Cleveland looks at
him and goes, we we kind of know what they are.
Lebron just doesn't have enough around him to get it done,
and that's frustrating. Is this the worst Calves team in

(08:50):
the Finals? More that more so than the team against
the Warriors that didn't have Kevin Love because of the
injury and then you got injured. Yeah, I would say
I would say that. Um also because in that series
they had a two one lead. If you remember, Cleveland
took a two one lead in that series and everyone said, wow,
it's a must win situation in Game four and then

(09:13):
they didn't lose the game afterwards for Golden States. Yeah,
I would say this is probably the worst one because
I mean, they're having to go to guys who, let's
not free that that have never been in this situation before.
They've never been in this moment. And you've still got
several players there who have seen these guys over and
over again. But it's those other pieces, like that missed
free throw that we talked about in j R. Smith
making a mistake George Hills an eight free throw shooter.

(09:36):
Why is he missing that free throw? It's the moment,
it's the scene, it's fatigue, it's it's the environment. Like
there's a lot of newness to the Calves. The core,
majority of the core is still there outside of Kyreer everything,
there's so much newness there. Yeah, and I think that
the elements that you talk about of of needing the
Cavaliers to get a win, and that's why that's why

(09:57):
I brought the point up, is there is a gap
between the Warriors and Cavaliers, and for the Cavaliers to
close that gap and win a game, a lot has
to go right for the Cavaliers, and you touched on
it right off the top is they have to play
extremely well. Lebron's gotta be in his game, the Warriors
have to be off, and you still need contributions if

(10:17):
you're the Cavaliers from the guys that you wouldn't necessarily consider.
So that's whereas I see, like Lebron looking at there's
one thing. If the Warriors are just unstoppable, there's nothing
you can do. You could you could play your best.
And it's probably the same thing with the calves that
if this was the best Warriors team that they were facing,
then I think maybe he would be like, Okay, maybe

(10:40):
more recept not that he wants to lose, but maybe
you would understand it better. But I think he sees
with Igo Dolla out with the lack of depth that
they seem to have, that maybe that if everything does
go right for the Cavaliers, they could do something and
it isn't as insurmountable, but man, they need they You
obviously can't have Steph Curry shooting making nine threes and

(11:01):
Kevin Durant doing what what he did to win a game.
But I do think some of it is he understands
that maybe the Warriors aren't as they're more vulnerable, people
want to give them an opportunity to but he unfortunately
is bringing a knife to a gun fight right now. Yeah,
and they're and they're so it's so overwhelming. If I mean,
if you're a new player on that team and you
see them get hot like they did in the third quarter,

(11:23):
the fourth quarter, you saw it in Houston in Game seven,
like there's this like there's a guy who he's a
he's a trainer, he trains m M A fighters. His
name is Frost Shabby and he came up with a
quote one time. He said, certain guys that you see fight,
they have this thing called the touch of death. And
he says, to where if a guy hits you a

(11:43):
normal a normal fighter still can hit very hard. At
professional high ranking fighter, he hits you and it's like, okay,
I felt that before. But then there's those select few
that have what he calls the touch of death, to
where when they hit you, it's just different things change inside.
You're not used to that. You go you freeze because

(12:04):
it's so devastating that you're almost in shock of what
you're dealing with. There's points where you see the warriors
get hot, and when players aren't used to it, like
so many of these calves who aren't used to it
outside of those core players that have seen it so
many times, they just kind of freeze. Because Steph Curry
is throwing up carnival shots. Stuff we would do in

(12:24):
the backyard when mom would say, hey, dinner is ready,
and it's all right, well it's getting dark out, so
throwing more shot up and see if it goes in
that he's doing it in the finals and he's making
these shots like it's nuts man. So you see that
as players and they're like, what the hell is going on?
There's Steph Curry hit that. You can watch the Calves
bench in this in the game where Steph Curry hits
that shot where he leans to his right and just

(12:45):
throws it up and at the shot and the shot
clock is expiring. I think it's the third Churd. I
think it was put it to like one O two
eighty nine or something. One of the players on the
Calves bench just puts his head down and start scratching
his head like, oh my god, I can't that's what
I mean. I can't even get spot minutes in this game,
this guy is thrown one leg and shots up in
the air like he's at a carnival. It's crazy. It's

(13:09):
it is so demoralizing you just want to leave it.
It's embarrassing. Man. End up getting up and leaving a
Twitter accounts quickly. I made Dan Buyer on Fox. They
can get you at at the Jonas and John Ramos
your Twitter. It's a Monday special, guys. J S Ramos
zero six all right, and you're gonna retweet that Lebron video? Yeah,

(13:30):
I'm looking for. I had not seen it. I just
saw right now. Okay, I'll put a tweet. I'll say,
here's the video that at JS Ramo zero six is
looking for, and then people can see the video that
we are talking. Alright, good, all right, Dan Buyer, Jonas
snox in Fordugott Leeb Here on Fox Sports Radio. Coming
up next, we're going to find out there could be

(13:51):
a major move happening in sports with one of the
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we're referring to. Next here on FSR A b k
Our edition, He's Jonas Knocks, that's Gen Ramos. I'm Dan
buyerre glad to have you with us Warriors up game
up two games to none in the NBA Finals on
the Cleveland Cavaliers to talk about the NBA and really

(14:13):
of what happened last night in Oakland? What happened Thursday
night in Oakland. He covers the NBA for Yahoo. He's
also the co host of the new podcast to Pull Up.
C J McCollum. Jordan Schultz joins us on Fox Sports
Radio and Jordan's thanks so much for coming on the
show today. Hey, my pleasure, guys, thanks for having me.

(14:34):
We were trying to figure out this formula, and it
seems pretty simple. Everything's gotta go right for the Calves
and everything's got to go wrong for the Warriors to
uh have Cleveland give a chance? Is it? Is it
that simple? Does Lebron James have to have a fifty
point outcome for the Cavaliers to want to win a
game in this series? Oh? Absolutely. I mean that's why
it's so frustrating if you're a Cavs fan, because you

(14:57):
understand that regards us of how well everybody else plays, ultimately,
Lebron is gonna have to get fifty for you to
even have a chance. And that's why Game one was
so deflating with we may have we may have lost,
we may have lost Jordan there for a second, little

(15:19):
technical difficulties, man, Yeah, that's it happens. I mean, he's Lebron.
Our phone lines are j R. Smith's. Uh did you
hang up on him a little glitch? J R. Smith? No,
good Man, we had a little bit of a mistake
here on my end. Jordan. We apologize. We've yeah, we

(15:43):
may have accidentally up on you, not meaning to at all. Jordan.
We we apologize. Smith. Yeah, dorry. I want to run
away right now too. So it's fine. I could tell you,
oh saying just the clothes is that you know it's
just a season because you know, unless Lebron is really
aggressive and efficient offensive looking for his own shot, and

(16:04):
they don't have an opportunity to beat And the biggest issue,
and this is my goals on pull up said, for
the worst defensive team okay there this year in the
and they just get killed in transition and have court
they can't stop them one. So um, he's a Jordan

(16:26):
Schultzer this year from Yahoo Sports on Fox Sports Radio.
So we saw his frustrated in that video. Afterwards, we
saw he was very bothered by it. And I've almost
looked at Lebron and there's for as great as he's been,
and he's played every single game, and he's played an
insane amount of minutes this year at this stage of
his career, but there are times where you can see

(16:47):
where he's conserving his energy during games, he's picking his
spots and even in games to where there were a
couple of games in the Boston series where I felt
like he determined pretty early on in that game that
that maybe wasn't a win of old games, So why
empty the gas tank? Utilized the seven game series, You've
got some wiggle room and save up for a potential
Game seven. So when he misses those opportunities like he

(17:09):
did in game one, what do we have next? Seeing
how he came out in game two, what would you
anticipate his mannerisms, his his attitude, his energy to be
like coming into game three, I think he'll be completely
reinvigorated by being at home, of being at a roorical
which is just a house of horse for them, and

(17:29):
knowing that if they lose Game three, they're done. And
so I would imagine you'll see more of Game one Lebron,
which is the aggressive offense. Look for my own shot.
He he almost has to be selfish, which is not
his that's not his natural point of view with how
he plays because he's such a good passer and he's
such an inclusive player, and that's why people criticize him sometimes.

(17:51):
I don't think it's fair. But in this specific situation,
he has to score, and and I understand why he
takes plays off. Nobody plays more minutes, I mean he played.
He basically averages forty six forty seven minutes in the playoffs,
so he's he's got to be tired. And the opportunity
for him in Game three is that if he doesn't

(18:12):
come out guns plays and and shooting looking for his
own shot, they're gonna be down ten fifteen and a
half and they're not gonna have an opportunity. So he
to be more aggressive an attack. Jordan Schultz joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio, covering the NBA for Yahoo Sports,
and again, as he mentioned, his podcast with c J
McCollum called the pull up. Is it enough for Steph
Curry to have an off game for the Calves to

(18:33):
win a game three year game four? Or do they
need even more than just one of the Warriors best
of not being on point? Well, I think a step
doesn't play great in game three if he plays okay,
but the Warriors still wins if he has a bad game.
With a different story, the issue is that Cleveland they
just don't have the defensive flexibility to to switch and

(18:54):
allow Lebron to have plays off like if you saw
last night with k D. This is why the Warriors
are still good. They're so dynamic. Not only can they
switch one through five and go small with Draymond at
the five or Kat at the five. But they allowed
Durant last night to play uh to rest more defensively,
so that's why he wasn't really guarding Lebron and you
see him go tend a fourteen. The Calvs need Lebron

(19:16):
to guard KB a lot of the time. So I
don't even know if if if Death has a has
a bad game, they have a shot. But if he
goes for twenty on you shooting, Clay or Kad is
probably gonna have thirty and Draymond is gonna have eight
and ten and you're gonna get Livingston or somebody else.
I mean, these are the antillary parts that the Warriors

(19:37):
had that Cleveland just doesn't have. The luxury of Jordan
Schultza Yahoo Sports NBA Insider with Us here on Fox
Sports Radio, Dan Buyer Jonas stocks him for Doug Gottlieb Jordan,
what has to happen in this series outside of winning
it for Lebron James to say I want to stick
around here in Cleveland. I don't think there's anything that
can happen outside of that. And even then Fellas, I

(19:58):
don't know if he would stay. I don't think he
would stay. For me, the only the best way for
him to stay is if they had an opportunity Cleveland
to go out and really help him and get another
marquee guy. They I don't think they can unless they
pull a rabbit out of the hat and go ahead
and get like a Paul George, which is not gonna
happen because all they don't have a lot of assets.

(20:20):
They have the eighth pick. There's just they don't have
a lot of flexibility. So for me, why go back
to Cleveland? Then put yourself in that position because you're Lebron.
I think the Lakers make a lot of sense for
two reasons. One is that you have the blueprint of
Magic to really show you how to become a media
mogul and and and grow your career outside of basketball,
because he is thirty three years old. And too, if

(20:41):
you have Kuzman there, who's a wonderful young player. You
have Ingram who had a really quietly had a very
good year, ball is there, and they can go out
and get a guy like Paul George who's close with
from Team USA and could play and differ away from him.
So the Lakers make a lot of sense. There's been
talking to Houston, Philadelphia. To me, those are more dark
horses at this point, your co host Jordan's Schultz with

(21:02):
us here on Fox Sports Rader, your co host c
J McCollum, you do a podcast with a pull up podcast.
He was all over Twitter watching this game and he
was thrown out Houston, and I gotta give him credit.
A lot of people make give lazy takes and and
just say, oh, he's gonna go here, like it's fantasy
football or basketball. But he actually broke down salary caps
who they would need to move around in order to

(21:23):
make it work. So are you telling us that maybe
your co host has got some inside information and Lebron
James is gonna be a rocket. No, I don't think
that inside information. I will tell you say, is the
guy's gonna take my job at some point? I mean
there is not I have not come across a smaller athlete,
not just basketball player athletes, and he understands salary caps.

(21:45):
The guy is a basketball tavant. We have We've got
a conversations just in general just watching games, except where
I can't some of the stuff he pulls out of
nowhere is remarkable. So for him to say that there's
problems based on inside info but him really seeing a
basketball fit and they can at work and Houston can
get creative, whether it's with you know, Tucker or Rees
or some of these contracts. Um. But for me, I

(22:07):
I would say that's more of a long shot. However,
the Rockets are right there, and if you put Lebron
with Paul and Harden, you can imagine they would be
an absolute, um absolute favorite to win the championship. I'd
imagine Jordan Schultz of YAH who sports joining us, gonna
wrap up with this because we're going to dive into this.
Is there any validity to j R. Smith and even

(22:28):
Rodney Hood saying it's difficult to play with someone like Lebron?
Is that a valid statement to make? So when I
see that, I'm like, how can that be right? And
the guy because as I just said, he's so inclusive
and anybody that watches Lebron knows that. But for me,
what Hood said and what some guys have echoed to
me players is that you know the pressure is enormous.

(22:50):
But also I think if you're if you're a spot
up shooter like Kyle Korver, who can get Lebron can
get you whelp, and look, that's one thing. But if
you are somebody that needs to be on the ball
more and you're a creative player, I can imagine it
can be challenging at times just because you're gonna end
up referring to Lebron in his shockblock situations or even
in regular offense because he's going to be the guy

(23:12):
with the ball creating the most. So in that sense,
I can I think it is hard. It's surprised me
though when I when I've talked the players that have
said it's it's not as easy as you think. It's
not a knock against Lebron. It's just that when you're
that good of a player, even a great passer, you're
gonna have to play off the ball more. And that's
just that's really the reality with with Lebron, regardless of
how inclusive is. Find him on Twitter at Schultz, Underscore Report,

(23:36):
readers stuff on Yeah, who would listen to him? On
the pull Up Podcast with c J McCollum, Jordan's Schultz, George,
we appreciate the time. Enjoy Game three coming up on Wednesday.
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I enjoyed the phone interview, and I'm doubly glad that

(24:40):
you can't hang up on the anchor. How did I
do that? That's weird. You know, it reminds me of
in this time slot on Fox Sports Radio a few
years ago. In fact, many years ago now, the co
host had Katie Perry as a guest on the phone
live on the show and accidentally hung up on her.
Oh that was Afternoons with John Romo song. Oh yeah,

(25:00):
I remember that. Yeah, I remember that. That was more
of an entertainment sports daytime show. Now he's transferred to
the nighttime a little edgy or condensed it just a
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Ralmos and Pollock as in a poll, the great Frank Pollock.

(25:24):
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Have you guys heard I just got a text. Frank
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greatest of all time? I just saw video today of
a photo shoot with Lionel Messi. Of course, Fox has
the World Cup coming up in less than two weeks.
Messi regarded as already one of the greatest of all time.
He said, I don't consider myself the best of all time.
I think I'm just another player. Of course, he said
that while standing next to a goat for the cover

(26:49):
of the magazine shoot. I think something's lost in the translation.
He doesn't understand the significance of why they brought an
animal onto the speak English. I think it's you know,
and and Steve brings it up. Of the debates, who's
better Lebron or Jordan's I mean, I think it's obvious
Lebron has got to be better than Jordan Clarkson. I mean,

(27:12):
isn't that like we've we've seen this postseason. Yeah, we've
we've seen it throughout, Like Lebron is obviously better than
Jordan clarks a little bit more of experience maybe, I
mean Lebrond points Clarkson had to last night. So this
Lebron Jordan debate is kind of silly. By the way,
I actually caught up with Lionel Messi earlier and I said,
Lionon Messi, Uh, how what do you think of Steve

(27:34):
de Seger as a national upbing anchor? Like I thought
that was Ramos. That'd mean, yes, Steve, good Mexico fan,
looking forward to your team playing this summer, Thanks very much.
The He's Jonnas knocks, I'm Dan Buyer. That is John Romos.
We are in for Doug on the Doug Gottlieb Show.

(27:55):
Game to last night, there's nothing changed. Everything that we
thought was going to happen in this series leading up
to a Jonas actually played out in Game two. There's
not a lot to take from it except Steph Curry
with his amazing night of nine threes, Kevin Durant got
back on track, and Lebron wasn't super human Lebron, he
was just great Lebron last night and having twenty nine points,

(28:17):
Kevin Love had a double double. Nobody cares. It's the
Warriors ended up running away with the game. So what
we end up doing is we we fall back to
what happened in Game one, how things have led to
a to nothing lead for the Golden State Warriors, and
a lot of it, Jonas is now what happened in
between the end of Game one and leading up to
Game two. And it was over the weekend that j R.

(28:39):
Smith was talking about what it was like to play
with Lebron. This is what j R. Smith explained, life
is like playing with one of the greatest of all time.
That's a lot of questions, not for myself as business enough,
plan as a plan on his team as a blessing
and as a gift and the curse and play on
his team and they play on the best player on

(29:00):
and you get to witness some great historic things be
a part of it. And then the other side, if
you don't help that person win, they're looking at your zu.
So it's it's a lot of pressures depending on how
you look at it. I tell him all the time,
he has an opportunity to play with me as well. Um, okay,
it's a funny line at the end that we all
laugh at with the point where he says, if you

(29:21):
don't play well, they are looking at you. No, dub,
that's like like like do you want a free pass? Like, sure,
the spotlight is bigger, but if you end up performing
like you should at any level, Jonas, whether it be
in the in college G league or in the n
b A, if you play well, yeah, things are going
to go well. And if you don't play well, I

(29:43):
don't think you should be immune of criticism just because
you're playing on Lebron James team. Yeah, and listen, when
you're the weak link and the other guys always playing
well and you sometimes play okay and then other times
you make critical mistakes latent games, you're gonna be the
one that people point out and blame. So I for that,
I I agree with you that. I mean, come on, man,
that's that's part of the deal. The other aspect of this, though,

(30:05):
is I do think that it wears certain players out,
and I think that it wore Kyrie Irving out because
as much as people say, well, you know, Kyrie Irving
kind of wanted to go do his own thing, I
think part of the reason he wanted to do his
own thing was there's always drama around Lebron James. There's
always something happening, something going on. A lot of that

(30:26):
is not his fault, but there are parts of it
that is his fault. He does welcome the passive aggressiveness
of his of his comments he makes uh passive aggressive statements,
vague comments and reactions on social media, and some guys
who maybe are straight shooters or direct don't want to
be around that enough to deal with it. Think about this.
Kevin Love missed parts of the season and admitted to

(30:50):
having a panic attack during a game Tylu in the
same season, miss parts of the game because he was
dealing with anxiety, Like like, those are two key members
of that team. I think all the drama and the
pressure that comes in and I'm not blaming Lebron so
much for that, but there's so much of a spotlight

(31:12):
on them that I think it just wears guys out sometimes,
And I think there is something too, just the residuals
that come with Lebron James, as he said, there's a
lot of great things, but sometimes it's a pain in
the ass as well. Well. Jr. Smith needs to call
Kevin Love and needs to call Chris bosh to to
understand what it's really liking. Ving actually has the ability
of being a superstar and wanting to leave not much

(31:35):
as asked of j R. Smith, and Jr. Smith could
look back to his time as at the New York
or with the New York Knicks, and if Jr. Smith
goes one for twelve from the floor what she was
known to do with the New York Knicks, that was
gonna hurt them just as much. Because Carmelo may have
gone three of seventeen at least if Jr. Smith goes
one for twelve, Lebron is able to do something to

(31:57):
maybe counter that. So I think that JR. Smith should
look get it is. I just I find it ridiculous
for j R. Smith to say something with the the
fact of if we don't play well, we get criticized.
That's what That's what the superstars deal with every every night.
And Kevin Love and Chris Bosh would play well, it
just they wouldn't play well enough and people would criticize them.
So I don't think that JR. Smith has an argument. Yeah,

(32:18):
there's stress that comes with it, but JR. Smith isn't
the one dealing with the the stress. Rodney Hood, who
kind of admitted the same thing to The Undefeated saying
that it's something different. I'll use the quote here. The
basketball stuff has been the easiest part, the stuff that
comes out of it. You lose a game and everyone
talks about it on TV the next day. They may

(32:39):
say some things that you may not agree with. You
lose a game and you feel like the world is
coming down. You win, it's like you're supposed to win.
It's still a struggle for me to adapt to that.
Maybe Rodney Hood isn't cut out for that position. Rodney
Hood was put into that position by being traded to
the to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Jarr Smith has been with
Lebron James for years and so like, I just I

(33:00):
give Rodney Hood a little bit more leeway. Maybe we're
finding out, you know, maybe Rodney Hood is gonna be
a seventeen point scorer for a team that's gonna be
ninth in whatever conference he's in, and things are gonna
be fine, and there are there are difficulties some guys
can't adjust. But to think that these guys are the
ones that are like really dealing with the worst part
of playing with Lebron. They're not even in the NBA
finals if it wasn't for lb g well and and

(33:22):
j R. Smith doesn't get his last contract if not
for Lebron. So to to that as well too. I
just look, it's part of it's part of the deal. Man.
If you've ever spent and well, here's and here's the
other assement. I know we have to get the break.
But if you're it's why I don't necessarily buy into
this whole mix and match. Where's Lebron gonna go thing?

(33:42):
Who everyone's talking about? Oh what about he goes to
Philadelphia of all we know about Ben Simmons and Joe
l Embiid. Here's here's what it is. Those guys love
them some Ben Simmons and Joel m meand Okay, whether
it's Rookie of the Year votes or Joel Embiid on
social media, you think all of a sudden, those guys
are going to are going to be willing as their

(34:03):
careers are just starting to blossom, to take a step
back and welcome in all of that that comes with
Lebron James so that they can be the second fiddle.
I just I don't buy that. Like it's so when
people talk about Lebron and you see the effect that
he has on players, the good and the bed and
the bad that they're talking about. That's why I always
look at him as a guy who who wants to

(34:23):
go somewhere where there's veterans players he knows and guys
that can welcome him in as opposed to these young players.
Because you're hearing guys like Rodding Hood say I'm just
not used to this. Are we starting to see this
in the NFL with the Patriots, you know, with the
Cassius Marsh comments and other people have said it's well,
that's the point. But that's like the point like if
if for his role, Like why is he saying that? Man,

(34:45):
it's it's difficult to deal with the Patriot way, and
it's like you have no idea what it's actually like
to be somebody who's counted on. I mean that's and
that's where I look at like like a J. R. Smith,
Like he has no idea what Kevin Lover or at
Chris Bosh went through. So to say what he says
just doesn't hold any weight to me. Cassius Marsh, by
the way, this is a fact. Has Tom Brady has

(35:07):
one less Super Bowl ring than Cassius Marsh has career sacks.
I get everybody's going see he knows what he's talking about.
The guys that nobody when it comes out of the woodwork,
I mean, all of a sudden, things start creeping out
and LUs Dan Buyer, Jonas Knox and for Doug gott
leap here Fox Sports Radio, Get Dan on Twitter at
Dan Byron Fox. He has sent out the video that

(35:30):
John Ramos was looking for of Lebron James sort of
throwing a hissy fit what he found out that the
Cats at a time out so at Dan Byron Foxes
where you can find that. Coming up next, though, there
is a there are three things out there that are
that are One of them is a big deal, um,
one of them is a little deal. And Dan, you're
not gonna You're not gonna believe this. Guess what the
other one is. I'm not sure what is it? Find

(35:52):
out next. I'm Dan Buyer. That's shown us Knox, he
is John Ramos is we are in for Doug today.
That hard to believe. Next week US Open Week, World
Cup starts and guys. In two weeks the potato chips
I just bought expire. So so it's a big month
of June here on Fox Sports Radio. Now where did

(36:13):
those come from? Do we want to call out anybody
building vending machine, building vending machine? Yes? Interest. So in
two weeks the countdown is on June, these chips will
no longer be edible. There it is if you ate
in June, though, what do you think would happen? I
don't even want I don't even want to try. That
would mean June, bring a diaper today. Work. That is

(36:36):
a game I don't want to play, but a game
I do want to play. This is game time side
on the Doug Gottlieb Show, you're at the mercy of
whatever's next in the vending machine. Steve de Seger is here, Steve,
what game do we have today? So you're saying the
chips are down? The CHIPS's not the focus of this.

(36:58):
It's rather the news stories today, John, the game deal,
little deal, no deal? Ah. So we'll bring up a
news item and you tell me, sirs, whether it is
a big deal, little deal, or no deal. I think
we can follow this story. Number one Warriors forward Andre
Iguadala has not experienced pain in his left knee for
days now. In fact, in ESPN sources, on Saturday, he

(37:20):
progressed enough to go through a full personal workout and
sprinted for the first time since sustaining the bone bruise
during the conference finals. So he plans to return before
the NBA Finals, and his coach said yesterday, I'm optimistic
Andre will play at some point in this series. Is
this a big deal, a little deal or no deal? Um?
I think this is a little deal because this series
could be over Friday, and obviously the Warriors have shown

(37:44):
they don't need him to beat the Cavaliers. I think
it is a little deal, and I wouldn't be surprised
if Andrea Goodala doesn't play in this series. I'm gonna
go Dan. I think this is a little deal. I
think that just depthwise, they could probably use him, especially
on the road, but they're spacing these games out enough
to where I wouldn't call it he's a must return
for them to continue to play well. I think they're

(38:06):
playing well enough right now, but it would help them
because you know, Lebron's gonna get every foul call in Cleveland,
and you just wonder which starter for Golden State's gonna
get in foul trouble and it's gonna dip into their
bench a little earlier and have him on defense. Story
number two, thunder center Steven Adams quote accidentally liked a
negative comment on Instagram about teammate Carmelo Anthony. I saw

(38:28):
this headline, and do you feel that this is a
big deal, little deal or no deal? I think it's
a little deal only because people will People will look
at it and go, well, how can you accidentally like
something on Instagram? Let me tell you something. I've been
burned by accidentally liking something legitimately did not mean to
like something and and did end up liking it on Instagram.

(38:52):
So I know what Steven Adams is going through and
what Dan is going through with the chips. Yes, yeah,
Dan accidentally like those chips on Instagram and and and
thus he gets ones that are going to expire in
the next ten minutes. Um, so I think it's a
little deal, but it shouldn't be. I have accidentally like
something on Facebook that has you're scrolling through and I

(39:12):
immediately freak out, Oh my god, oh my god, oh
my god. That's oh my god. You feel like it's
junior high. And this is gonna be on your permanent records. Permanent,
They're gonna get an alert that I like their family
pictures cost you a job down the line. You know
what I don't understand on social media when someone announces
bad news and there's no other choice to acknowledge it

(39:33):
other than write a comment. So people that are too
lazy to write a comment they like it. And I
was like, what are you liking in a bad news?
You sound like Arnie Spaniard during his show Every Weekend
Bo has passed away. He's reading stuff on the air
like when he like people are too lazy to write
condolences when it scruffles the dog like this, what's what's

(39:55):
one more item? Both Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski showed
up at the Patriots facility a day before mandatory minicamp begins.
There was a fan event today, so they were present
hanging out with the fans. Is this a big deal?
Little deal or no deal? I hate this continue the theme,
but I'm gonna say little deal. I you know what.
They're older, they're up an age, They're gonna be there

(40:16):
when week one starts. It's no deal. Even though everybody
tried to make it the end of the Patriots, it's
all over. Everybody hates it. Here be a break, no deal?
Oh no back end, no no, no, that one got lost.
Is Lebron James gonna leave Cleveland? Is Kevin Direct gonna
leave Oakland? That's next? And John Ramos is here as

(40:41):
well Warriors, Yes, I know there's another one. John is
working as well. Uh, John's working on as how many
Ramos drops are there in the system? Like if I
thought you were asking John, No, I'm not sure. I

(41:03):
was just counting. Yeah. Is it enough to have? Is
it enough to have Francesca or Mike Francesca. I just
combined Mike Francessa and a soda in the same breathrcesca um.
How about francesca Um? Is there enough to where we
could have Mike Francessa counted down like Ramos drops one day?

(41:25):
Or should we do that during the summer and we
don't want to talk baseball? We'll put that off a
couple of weeks. How about the day my chips Baseball Net? Yeah,
when my chips expire, we were watching the Pirates, will
do how many Ramos drops there are coming up? Fifteen
minutes from now, We're gonna get John Ramos drops and
Mike frances is going to count I'm coming to fifteen
minutes from now. Best bullpen of the nineties. Oh hey,

(41:50):
it may be here quicker than you think. The NBA
Finals could be done Friday night. Same three is Wednesday,
Game four Friday in Cleveland as the Cavaliers try to
get back into the series. Every time Lebron James and
the Cavaliers were on the brink in the Eastern Conference Playoffs,
whether it be in Game seven or against the Pacers,
or with their backs against the wall against the Boston Celtics.

(42:12):
With the Celtics up three two, and then the Game
seven in Boston, you always had to wonder on is
this the last game that Lebron James will ever play
in Cleveland? And I don't think that those topics. I
understand just that when the season ends, there's time for
those topics. But when the game is going on and
you're trying to survive in the playoffs, you're thinking about

(42:35):
playoff wise what is at hand. But as a Cleveland fan,
you've known that this could be the possibility. You've had
it in the back of your mind that in those
elimination games they could have been the last game that
Lebron James ever plays in the Cavaliers uniform. And I
think it's a it's a it's a big deal. And
now as you see these NBA Finals playing out the

(42:56):
way that they have them, losing the heartbreaker in Game
one and then being blown out last night, you wonder
they're just two games left in Lebron James's career as
a Cavalier. We we know there's a maximum of maybe
five if you think he's gonna leave town, but the
end could be coming near, and that could be Friday night,
if the Cavaliers end up getting swept by the Warriors. Yeah, no,
it's a real possibility. The one thing I don't want

(43:17):
to have happened is I don't want this to all
of a sudden turn around where you get there. There's
a couple of different feuding factions here going on, Dan,
I don't know if you're aware of this. You've got
the l b ws uh, the LDL and the l
f B s. Okay, so we've got the Lebron ball washers,
the Lebron Defense League, and the Lebron fanboys, and they're

(43:38):
all kind of the same thing, but they're giving different arguments.
The one thing they have in common is I know
the avenue they're gonna go. If he does decide he
wants to leave, it's gonna be way to go, Cleveland.
You had two chances to keep him happy, and you
blew it because they didn't do enough to try and
make him happy. Brand new coach signed whoever you wanted

(44:01):
to sign, made a big trade a young player to
bring in Kevin Love like they did enough to make
him happy. But the idea that all of a sudden,
this is gonna be on Cleveland as to why he
wants to leave, and he's just so flabbergasted and just disgusted,
and he's he's refusing to put his hand that video
you tweeted out at Dan Buyron Fox, the two minute

(44:21):
video after j R. Smith's playing game. One one of
the aspects that I'm not hearing a lot of people
talk about is how Lebron James, when everybody puts their
hand in the huddle to break, I didn't want to
put his hand in the moddle like it was pouting,
like throwing a fit. And and if that were anybody else,
if that were Jordan who did that, or anybody else,
they be crushed for their behavior. If that was Draymond

(44:44):
Green who did it, he'd be crushed for his behavior.
But because it's Lebron James, now it's all about Cleveland
and didn't do enough for him, and that's why he's
got to get out of town. I think it's crap. Well,
the fact of the matter is as well, is that
that two and a half minutes Lebron could have used
to try to get his team focused, Yes Hanson overtime
kind of turning and ignoring j R. Smith. I look

(45:04):
at Lebron is not that there isn't enough in Cleveland.
It's the fact of that he's accomplished what he wanted
to do in Cleveland, and that was to bring them
a championship, and that his relationship with Dan Gilbert has
just never been there. So maybe he wants to go
somewhere where there's a better relationship or there is something
that he wants to do after or just like when

(45:25):
he needed to go to Miami, like because those were
his college years. Maybe that's just a point in your
life where you like, all right, I've had enough of
this job. I want to go and do this, And
that would be the factor. It wouldn't be that the
team is ready for another championship. I think there's a
lot of different things, especially where he is in his career.
I don't think that whatever happens in these finals is

(45:46):
going to change Lebron James's mind on whether he stays
or goes. I don't think that is going to be
a factor. Jordan Schultz of Yahoo's Sports and NBA Insider,
who is just thudding the mic? Who do we got? Oh?
I'm sorry, somebody Mike on there? Do we have an
inside source? Jhon Ramas were Okay, we're okay. I thought
a thunderstorm hit us. There was that. It was that

(46:07):
music great forts, Okay, that's what it was. It's all good.
He's right. Music, Our executive producers like doing nine different things,
so it's all good. The fact is Jordan Schultze, yeah,
who's sports and he does the Pull Up podcast with
c J. McCollum talked about Lebron's future with the Cavaliers.
If they would win an NBA title, that can happen
outside of that, and even then fellas, I don't know

(46:29):
if he would stay. I don't think he would stay.
For me, the best way for him to stay is
if they had an opportunity Cleveland to go out and
really help him and get another marquee guy. They I
don't think they can. Unlet's they pull a rabbit out
of the hat and go ahead and get like a
Paul George, which is not gonna happen. And and yeah,

(46:50):
if there was anything to keep him there, it would
be maybe a ready set team that would contend next year.
But I don't think that that is there. And is
you look at Lebron and you look at him trying
to move on. I don't think the results of these
finals do anything. I think he's actually accomplished everything that
he's already wanted to in Cleveland. And I think that

(47:10):
people are going to want to turn this into a
who's fault to this scenario, And I don't know that
you can necessarily say it's anybody's fault because Lebron brought
them a championship, So he's exonerated. Regardless of what happens.
He's exonerated. He brought him a championship. He is good.
At the same time, Cleveland got a title at Lebron
James and they had a lot of memorable moments and
great years there in Cleveland. It brought a lot of

(47:32):
business in and around the arena. It was great for
the city and great for the fans. It's just time
to go your separate ways. It's it's why I think
part of the moves that they made at the trade
deadline was to bring in what could potentially be the future,
try and bring in young assets, trying They made too
two huge moves over the past several months. The move

(47:55):
when they traded away Kyrie Irving was all about bringing
in veteran players that they wanted to go to battle
with who. A lot of those guys would probably come
in handy right now against the Golden State team. Jay
Crowd or Isaiah Thomas if he was healthy, all that, yeah,
Dwyane Wade, all those guys would have come in handy.
And then the next move they made was to trade
away all those guys and bring in young players and

(48:16):
lottery picks. I think they sort of had an understanding
that this is probably it, and if it is it,
let's try and bring something young, something that we can
maybe land somebody else that we can build towards in
the future, as opposed to just trading away for guys
on one year deals who are at the back end
of their careers who are chasing titles. They tried that

(48:39):
they got their title. They've lost several, but they still
got that one banner up in the rafters. I think
everybody's good here, it's gonna turn into this who's faulted
his thing? Forget all that. Everybody's good. He want a title.
The fans got to see a championship in Cleveland. We're good.
When you look at the video from Game one, don't
don't mistake this is That's the reason why the on

(49:00):
would leave there completely separate. Lebron is looking at that
game one opportunity as another opportunity for him to add
an NBA title to his resume. That's why he is
so mad, and that's why you can't look at j R.
Smith and has nothing that has nothing to do with
I'm going to stay in Cleveland if we get this win,
and because of that, you messed it up and now
I'm going to leave. There are two separate issues. What

(49:22):
I do think is interesting on the other bench is
Kevin durant situation. With everything that we have heard from
the Bay Area, Kevin Durant likely going to opt out
to get more money with Golden State and stay with
the Warriors. But when you look at Lebron's decision that
he made to leave Cleveland and go to Miami, I

(49:43):
think looking back now, we say it's probably the best
thing to happen to the NBA. I mean that drama,
to see how we were so wrapped up into it.
Now we look forward to NBA free agency because it's
been so crazy. Kevin Durant, I think has more of
a decision then may even one that Lebron James has,
just because Jonas I bring up this fact of when

(50:04):
two years ago, when Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City to
gold to Golden State, we talked about how he would
be perceived with the Warriors, that if they won, he
wouldn't be getting enough credit because you're, well, you're on
a stack team, you're playing with Steph Curry, you're playing
with Clay Thompson. But if they lost, because they were
so good, it was on his shoulders without Jerry Smith's

(50:27):
blunder in Game one, if the Warriors lose, were like,
what the heck is wrong with Kevin Durant? And last
night Kevin Durant goes out, has a great game. I
thought that the nearing a triple double, ends up with
twenty six points on ten of fourteen shooting, ends up
making a couple of threes, eight rebounds, seven assists or
nine rebounds seven assists. We weren't even mentioning it because

(50:48):
we're talking about Steph Curry, and then we're talking about
Lebron James and his teammates and their their fault for
Kevin Durant. If you really want to carve out your
niche and maybe get the credit that that you deserve,
if being the second best player in the NBA, maybe
there's more of a decision, and I think that there
is for him because if he left Golden State, imagine

(51:08):
how good that would be for the NBA. Then I'll
have wherever Lebron went, to have the Warriors still in it,
to have Durant's team, to have the Rockets still in it.
It would be an amazing boom for the basketball, the NBA,
in the association. And I also think that sometimes what
you think you want and what you actually want, you

(51:28):
don't know until you you get a hold of what
it is that you thought you really wanted and you
realize it isn't that great. Like Aaron Rodgers talked about
this that there was a moment after he won a
super Bowl, after he won that super Bowl that he
was on the plane and it was kind of this
feeling of that's it, Like I thought it would be more.
And Kevin Durants the same guy who even said, and

(51:48):
he was in interviews where he thought that he would
get this fulfillment from winning that championship, that that's what
he really wanted, and then once it happened, it was
kind of like that's yeah, that's that's all. It was like,
it wasn't. It wasn't as big a deal as I
actually thought. It wasn't. And we we encounter that stuff
to where we think something's gonna be so cool and
so awesome, and then you go through with it and

(52:10):
you're kind of like, uh, whatever. I mean, it's not
until you actually experienced it that you realize, oh, I'm
looking for more. I want something else. Maybe that's not
what drives me. Maybe that's not what motivates me. And
I think Kevin Durant kind of felt that last year
because if you watch after he wanted, this is a
guy who's been to the finals before and lost, who's
been close to the finals several times and lost. He

(52:32):
finally got there, finally one He was the best player
in the series. He was the m v P, he
beat the best player in the world on the biggest
stage in the m b A, And if you looked
at his reactions afterwards, it was like, that's pretty cool.
It wasn't. It wasn't really anything there. So I think
he's in this moment of his career where he's trying
to search what it is he really wants to make

(52:54):
him happy and whether that's in Golden State or not.
We'll find out this story before, but if you have
and heard it, I remember David Duval talking about when
he was trying to chase Tiger Woods and trying to
be the top player in the world in golf, and
he got to be number one in the world, and
he went into this transformation of like I am going
to be super fit. And I remember him explaining they

(53:15):
would go out to dinner and he wouldn't even have
an after dinner mint because it would mess with his diet.
He felt like he was so committed to that. So
then he goes and he finally breaks through and wins
the Open Championship in two thousand one, and they have
the long plane right back to the States, and he
said exactly when Aaron Rogers said, oh, so this is it.
This is this is what's different. It's so built up

(53:35):
in your mind you think it's so much more than
it actually is that once you have it, it's like, yeah,
I don't I don't really know. You commit yourself and
you go through the whole process, and then when it's done,
you're like, all right, was this worth it? Like what's next? Yeah?
I I will tell you this when I'm watching games.
I watched to see when Kevin Durant gives Steph Curia
high five because and there there, and I'm I'm I'm

(53:57):
probably reading stuff into it, but I'm just wondering, like
how much does he really love this? And I know,
like after Steff was hot last night, he came off
the bench to give him, you know, a chess bob
and a big grin. But man, like, this is supposed
to be Kevin Durant's second best player in the NBA,
and we just love Steph Curry and and what Steph
Curry does, it's got to get under your skin at
some point, now quickly before we get a break. We

(54:18):
gotta get to break. We don't wann be too late here,
I mean, because John's not telling us to break, and
it's like we're working alone here. We I feel like
Lebron Dan and I are combined, Lebron James on the
lower half, he's the top half, or vice versa. But um,
the reason Dan Buyer hates Kevin Durant is because Dan
Buyer was in Oklahoma City and bought one of the
original Oklahoma City T shirts or pieces of apparel and merchandise.

(54:42):
Dan is big on on apparel and logos and designs,
and I think Dan feels like, because they lost their
best player that now it's not worth as much and
you're not as cool for wearing that, and it probably
doesn't fit me anything. Okay, So yeah, okay, the team.
I went to the team store. It wasn't open, like
not not like hours were like the team had just
moved there when I was in Oklahoma City, and I'm like, oh,

(55:03):
I'll go get some T shirts. Luckily for the okay
see airport. About gosh, ten years ago, remember when the
NHL went on strike or lockout or whatever and they
came back and everyone was all excited about the NHL.
They changed their rules a few years back and then
all right, it's gonna be a new game. I bought it.
I was so excited to have the NHL back. I
bought a Pittsburgh Penguins T shirt medium. Of course my

(55:25):
large on me give me a break, and so I
buy a Pittsburgh Penguin T shirt. I get it in
the mail. There was no h at the end of Pittsburgh.
That's a true story. Like that is how much the
apparel company's thought of the NHL at that time. All right, um,
Dan Buyer, Jonas Saxon for Doug Gottliep here Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up next year on fs ARE, one professional Sports league,

(55:49):
maybe changing the way you view sports for the rest
of your life. Find out who next year on fs ARE.
He's Jonas Knocks, that's Gien Ramos. I'm Dan Buyer. Coming
up in a little over an hour. It is the
John Ramo Show, the return summer edition. This is our

(56:10):
first John Ramos. I don't know if there's a summer
concert series, kind of like to do with the Today's Show. Jonas,
you think, well it's is it technically summer? I think
it's June. Is technically summer? Well yeah, but unofficial start,
you know, Memorial Data, Labor Day, the you know, the
unofficial start the summer this spring into summer with the
John Ramos you could have that as well. I will

(56:32):
find out what he's got in store and more. Coming
up in a little over an hour. Speaking of summer,
after the NBA season wraps up and there's a draft,
there will be the NBA Summer League, which has gotten
more and more hype over the years, and this year
in Las Vegas it'll be the first time that all
thirty teams are gonna be participating in the summer League,

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and there also could be something else new. According to reports,
the league is considering using a challenge system for the
summer League, much like you would see in Major League
Baseball or most commonly known in the NFL. So a
a challenge flag of some sorts would be available for
the NBA where you would be able to challenge a

(57:14):
call in the NBA Summer League. Review everything. Everything should
be reviewed, get it right, don't worry about how long
it takes well. And this is this is a hot
topic now because of what we saw in Game one
when the league ended up reviewing or the officials reviewed
the Kevin Durant Lebron James charge foul charge blocking call.

(57:36):
And now you would have an opportunity for a team
to challenge a play in a game, which, first of all,
I it's got to be the summer League because they've
got to figure out how the flow is because there
is no way that you would invest the amount of
cameras that you would need for a review too for
for a summer league. It just doesn't seem like it's

(57:56):
gonna would make any sense. This has got to be
just a flow of the game thing, and that's my
biggest concern. Jonases, I don't I don't know on how
it's bad enough when we have to see who the
ball went out on with NBA officials reviewing, now to
do something like this for a coaches challenge, I think
that the referees the rules are a different story. But

(58:17):
at least of what we've seen, I almost think that
the reviews that we've got is is too much. In
the areas that we need covered are already covered. I
don't know why we would need a challenge justem in
the NBA. Well, I here's the part that bothered me
about the game one call is so the officials they're
not allowed to challenge whether or not it was a
block or a charge. They could only challenge whether or

(58:39):
not he was outside the circle. And once they did that,
they realized, oh it was a block. They got the
call right, but it was the path they took to
do it. And so it's almost like, well, they broke
one rule to fix another or to correct something, and
people who are upset about that, and it's like, Dan,
if you're if you're how if the end if your
couch was on fire in your house? Would you get

(59:00):
mad at me if I broke into to put out
the fire? No, like, like you forget all about the
initial offense because it was for a greater cause. All
they did was break down the front door to put
out a fire. That's it. They got the call right,
that's the most important thing. But that's that's things they are.
They are able to in the final two minutes to
review the charge like you can, you can overturn that.

(59:22):
The question is, why if you shoot a three jonas
and John Ramo shits you on the arm, why wouldn't
we be able to review that. That's what's ridiculous to
me of of with this rule as block charge is
such a subjective call, and it always has been. I mean,
it's it's been like, how can you tell if he
hacks you on the elbow and it's not called you

(59:44):
can see the ball of the rotation change in the arm.
This just doesn't it doesn't add up to me this.
I think everything should be reviewable. Bill Belichick said it
a couple of years ago in the NFL at one
of the owners meetings or the spring whatever it was.
But Bill Belichick said, why can't re review everything? Why
are there are only certain things that are reviewable and
certain things that aren't. And I think I'm in a

(01:00:05):
percent agreement. People have gotten too caught up in the process.
They worry too much about the timeliness, the efficiency. Just
get the call right, that's the bigger issue here are
you getting the call right? There are legacies on the line, careers, championships, jobs,
you name it. Dennis Ericson in Seattle, perfect example, they

(01:00:26):
were they were trying to make it to the playoffs.
Vinny testaverdie on a quarterback sneak, it gets called a touchdown,
Seattle loses that game. Upon further review, it wasn't a touchdown,
and Dennis Ericson got fired for that. Like, there are
jobs on the line, people that are impacted, and I
don't understand why people look at it and go, well,
it's gonna take too long, and you know it's Let

(01:00:47):
me tell you something, if if my boss told me, hey,
you can either work in extra fifteen minutes and keep
your job or you can go home. Now, go home early,
and you're probably gonna lose your job. I'm staying in
the extra fifteen minutes. This screams to me East Coast
fans who are complaining because they're gonna stay at past
their bedtime to watch games out here on the West Coast.
Tough balls, fireaway baby, five hour games. I'm all that,

(01:01:09):
what would you want to see reviewed in the NBA?
And I think coaches should have a certain amount of challenge.
I think in the NFL everything's reviewable. Give coaches five challenges,
either a game or a half. But like like with
the like with the NFL, or if Major League Baseball,
let's say the Major League Baseball there's a slide at
home and the ref is blocked by the catcher's leg

(01:01:31):
and can't see, then you need a review, or you
need something to see or something that's not to the
naked eye. In basketball, I don't know what there is.
I mean the camera angles. We can't even tell on
a camera angle if a guy's foot is on the
line or not because of the of the shoe would
where the angle is, so we can't even review that.
I don't know that there's much more needed to be

(01:01:52):
reviewed in the NBA. And no Cavs fans feel that
they are getting they are getting the short end of
the stick on these calls. In the NBA Finals tonight,
Lebron in the long past that there was no follow
calls and then Tyler got teed up. I just don't
know if how you would throw a challenge flag. I
called it yesterday the foul towel called wet wipe stand

(01:02:14):
you can throw a foul towel on the full or
to see if Lebron James was fouled as he was
attempting to catch the basketball. I don't know how you
overturn that because as you slow it down, how can
you judge contact. I just don't think there's a lot
in the NBA for you to review outside of was
the ball out of bounds? And was the shot? Often time,
stuff that we already do review. Well there there because

(01:02:36):
a lot of this stuff you can only review in
the final two minutes. There are times during games, if
you watch any of these playoff games, where there's a
questionable call and a ball goes out of bounds and
it's tipped off somebody, and they rule it the other way,
and teams will turn their back and just get up
the floor because they realize, well, we can't review in
any way, so let's just move on. If I'm a coach,
I want the ability to review that. If I'm a

(01:02:58):
coach who's got really it out of balanced place from
under the basket, and I'm Brad Stevens and it's gonna
get me an extra three points in a game as
opposed to the three points I might lose because the
call stands. I would like the ability to challenge that
at any point in the game. So, yeah, there's not
as much to challenge in the NBA. But I just
think we've gotten two caught up in the whole efficiency

(01:03:19):
and how long it's gonna take. And it's people on
the East Coast where games start later. I've lived on
the East Coast, you lived in the Midwest End. It's
almost as bad. Games start later, and you don't want
to be up until two in the morning watching a game.
You'd rather they just get done sooner. And to me,
I just wanted to get it right. And and we're
out here on the West Coast so we don't have

(01:03:39):
really have an issue with that, but I just wanted
to get the call right. I think that's the biggest conser.
You know. The Bucks said there that when the Celtics,
when Al Horford hit a three, that was after the
shot clock in their playoff series that wasn't reviewed. That
is a situation where I could see you could have
a challenge the n b A, I guess can't say
when you talk about the time periods of saying okay,
we're gonna do this in the final two minutes, if

(01:04:00):
you did it throughout the game, then it would maybe
every three minutes of the game, you're trying to see
if there was a charge call, if there was within
the circle, did this shot get there's a lot of traveling?
Maybe maybe that maybe I can bend on that of
oh gosh, traveling, that would be just as worse as
block charge, don't you think considering how much they get

(01:04:21):
away with already? And now you're saying, okay, Lebron did
take five steps, but are we gonna really call that
a travel I guess I could see it if if
the challenge was used in a way that was you
needed a call outside of the window of time. Maybe
it is like the NFL, where everything under two minutes
is reviewed, scores our reviewed in that way, maybe I

(01:04:44):
could be more along with that. I just don't think
you need three challenges to be like, hey, this guy,
uh you know, the Marcus Smart foul on Lebron with
the you know, but that would be the only time
then that you could use it. Maybe maybe you're starting
to weigh me a little bit with the time frame
of stuff. But I don't want to see that. I
don't want If you blow your challenge in the first

(01:05:06):
four minutes of the game, then you're a loser. Okay, Wow,
jeez god, that isn't just unbelieve why you treat people? Here? Uh?
One more thing that I think is going to sway
over and permanently over to the other side. Dan, you
know what, longer games because the more reviews would mean
what's that? More live betting? Yeah, you bet Jesus that

(01:05:28):
he is no friend of anyone. It's a friend of
somebody betting is it's a sucker Like if I mean
it is that thing, man, let's give let's give Vegas
more information. I mean, gosh, it's bad enough. Dan Buyer,
Jonas Knox and for Doug Gottlieb here on Fox Sports Radio.
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(01:06:16):
is going on around you, traffic, a car, horn, a
child screaming, whatever, Just pause, wait and pay your respects
to Steve Sager. Thank you, thank you very much. I
bet jonas the man who wants the man who will
wager who's coming down the hall dext. It's just if
we didn't get a bet in this hour, it's like
something's wrong. If you've ever heard his weekend show. By

(01:06:38):
the way, I think I can say this independently, that
is a recurring character. By the way, a live bet
during some game that's going on in the show taking
place every weekend. Steve, what's your favorite character on Fox
Sports Sunday? It's the Dan Buyer Guy and Pacific. By

(01:07:01):
the way, you mentioned the challenges, I suggest we retain
all our challenges in case there's a John Ramos show
an hour from now, we may have to use them.
The NBA Finals continue on Wednesday night. Game three will
be in Cleveland. Golden State leads two games, and then
last night's games to reportedly at three percent more TV
viewers than the opener eighteen point five million. The NHL

(01:07:21):
has its game for the Stanley Cup Final tonight eight
pm Eastern Time, Washington up two games to one, hosting Vegas.
Serena Williams withdrew from the French Open sighting a pectoral
muscle injury. She was due to face Maria Sharapova in
the fourth round. Sharapova advances to the quarterfinals. The Major
League Baseball Draft starts tonight. Only a few major league

(01:07:42):
games on the Monday schedule, five total. The Yankees have
won the first of their day night doubleheader at Detroit,
seven to four, five straight wins for the Yanks, winning
pitcher Luis Severino, now nine and one this season. And guys,
you know, we have that fast food contest sponsor like
they do in the World Series, they do it in
the NBA Finals. If a team steals a win on

(01:08:03):
the road, you know, you get a free taco. USA
Today points out that Lebron James is now over six
in chances to win America free Tacos. The last three
years they lost to on the road to start this
series free Tacos from Oregon. I don't know somebody that's
not paying me. Okay, if it's if the initials are J, I,

(01:08:24):
T B, don't eat them either way. I love National
Taco Chain. Like, we have no idea who Steve is
talking about. Okay, uh, And Steve won't mention the actual sponsor,
but he'll name the company that doesn't get ready for minicamp.

(01:08:47):
That was the fake hand. Hey, by the way, did
you guys, did you guys see that slob Joey Chestnut
on Friday or whatever it was? Had? Um, it's not
a contest just to this house. Yeah, he's a slob.
Any any any flaked on an interview one time. He sucks,
he's a loser. But Joey Chestnut, Joey Chestnut, that closet
fat slob had two hundred fifty seven donuts in six minutes.

(01:09:11):
Two hundred fifty seven donuts in six minutes. I don't know.
I have no idea. I know that this this show
spans the country, and Vincent Price knows that as well.
He knows that as well. Have you guys, have you
you notice how tasty cakes have now come out to

(01:09:33):
the West coast? Have you the Philadelphia? Have you known this,
John Steve? If you guys see, I'm trying to figure
out what donuts aren't little mini hostess donut the package
of six you get a seven eleven. I'm thinking the
full donuts. Okay, well, okay, that's doable. Then to Steve,
you can do two fifty seven and six minutes? Uh no, yeah,

(01:09:55):
come on, man, it's not possible. You look like Lawrence Taylor,
as knows did after a night at a hotel. That's
sorry too. That back that is really offensive. By the way,
Steve doing two fifty seven and six minutes, there's a
better chance of Aaron Hernandez reporting to Minicamp. Who gosh,

(01:10:18):
not too soon. Apparently, you know, Belichick will only comment
on players that are here, and by that he means
you know here. I don't know if John Stubisi laughing
at his John Ramo show jokes or I have no idea,
but thank you very much, Steve. The and Steve's gone.

(01:10:39):
The middle of the breath, he is gone. It is
the Doug Gottlieb Show. He's Jonas Knox said that that's John.
I'm Dan Buyer, glad to have you with us. Reach
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Ramo zero six. I know you're not a Warriors fan,
but you were loving last night for oh Man, just

(01:11:04):
seeing Steph Curry be Steph Curry. Okay. There are certain
moments where it's I don't know, I'm trying to what's
the best way to describe it. Scenes maybe like scenes
in sports that are unlike anything else I can remember,
Like when Mike Tyson was fighting, just the scene, the
aura around him when he would fight was crazy. Josh

(01:11:24):
Hamilton's in the home run derby a few years back
at Yankee Stadium that just the whole scene was crazy.
Um uh. Devin Hester returning kicks when Manny Pakia was
in his prime. There's certain Tiger Woods on a Sunday
with the lead on the back nine. There's certain scenes
that there's nothing like it in sports. I don't know
that there's a better one anywhere in sports right now

(01:11:47):
than Steph Curry at Oracle when he's hot. When he's hot,
that place is jumping. Kevin Durant can do whatever he wants.
He could put up forty five and Steph Curry could
could put up one seven, but he's nine for nine
from three. It's not even close. There's nothing like it
in sports. This scene, the environment, just his energy, everything

(01:12:10):
he brings jumps off the screen. Even when you're not
in the arena, you can feel it. It's it's the
best thing in sports. The way the ball goes through
the hoop when Steph shoots is different than anything else,
Like it's there is there is a different field to it.
You mentioned Tiger Woods even lately when Jordan's speech and
golf gets his putter going like he did on Sunday

(01:12:31):
at Augusta this this past spring, that is like that's
magic because you you're expecting it to go in, but
there's this part of you that says, no, it can't
happen again, and then it does, and then you're like,
oh my goodness, and there's there's nothing that they can do.
There's nothing that you can do. There's nothing that anybody

(01:12:51):
can do to stop it and there there and Jonas
I would say, there are very few places that you
can do. It's like in a football game. I don't
know if there's there's really even like if you're doing like,
you know, consecutive you know, completed passes, I'm not sure.
The only you know, the time I thought of was
Marshawn Lynch in the playoff game against the Saints. That

(01:13:13):
run that because people talk that were there in Seattle
that it registered is like a small earthquake because of
the the volume and how that run appeared and how
it played out on that's something similar to where you
can watch it on television and you can feel it
through the screen and when Steph Curry gets hot, there's
nothing like it. Man, It's unbelievable. As a Seahawk fan,

(01:13:36):
and being the the negative where I think the sky
is falling than as opposed, I was like, all right,
it's nice, we want, but now we've fallen further in
the draft that because we're not going to go in
it is like they end up getting into the playoffs
something all right, and now we've dropped twelve spots for
something that we're not going to win, and it was
a great upset, but as soon as it ended, they

(01:13:57):
ended up playing the Bears in the next week. I'm like,
we're not gonna win Ago, so I guess it ends here.
But now the Saints get to pick ahead of us
in the in the draft. Well, what's so, what would
be a moment that you remember watching to where it
just somebody was so hot? Like I know Clay Thompson
had that thirty seven in a quarter and I know
that because I bet the under Um. So, what was

(01:14:18):
something that you watched where they were so hot? Is
it Jordan's? It really is when you when he gets
in the zone and this is what what for? You
can take a bunch of different examples for it. You
could take the Masters this past spring. You can talk
about the seventy foot put that he manded the Open
Championship when he when he told Michael Greller's caddy go
get that. I'm like, like, you don't expect that to

(01:14:40):
go in, but it ends up going in. You can
talk about his put on sixteen at the US Open
when at Chambers Bay and that ended up giving him
the lead. There. There's so many and he is the
one that has now taken that Mantle anybody in golf,
and this in present day golf that includes Rory. Rory
is great with the driver. Like when Rory is on point,

(01:15:00):
and if he gets it going, he is full throttle,
a hundred and eighty miles prower down the fairway and
nobody can catch him. But no one has the hot
hudder like Jordan's speed. And when that thing gets going,
then the rest of the field knows they're in trouble.
What about Uh? The only thing more dominant and more
consistent in golf is Bubba Watson crime and that's a

(01:15:21):
site for its own self. Yes, and yelling at his caddy. Yes,
that's fraud alert. Bubba Watson crying again? All right? Uh?
Dan Buyer Jonas knocks in for Doug gottleiep here Fox
Sports Radio coming up next year on FSR. Um So
there is the potential of a major move in sports
involving one of the top athletes on the planet. We'll

(01:15:41):
tell you where and when it could happen. That's next
year on FSR. I'm Dan Buyer, that showed the knocks.
John Ramos is here as well, and John Ramos Show
comes up in forty minutes or so. But just because
Doug is out today doesn't mean we won't do what
Doug likes to do at this time. And now this

(01:16:04):
is where we take something from Fox Sports Radio, Fox
Sports One and on some of the great programming on
both platforms and pull something up, unique stature, maybe a
strong opinion, and play it back for you. In fact,
Doug today was on the Herd with Colin Coward on
Fox Sports Radio and had this to say about Lebron
James is staying in Cleveland. I believe and I think

(01:16:27):
I think you believe some of this as well, that
coming into the finals, he didn't really know what he
wanted to do next year, right, because there aren't perfect options.
But I do think that was the probably the moment
to which his spirit felt broken in trying to make
it work in Cleveland. Right, you have that video. You've
poured your heart into the in the context of this
one game. You've poured your heart into this game you're playing.

(01:16:49):
This was probably his best game as a pro, definitely
his best game in the NBA Finals, and he's played
some great NBA Finals games, But I would challenge you
to say he had played better. Right, Maybe you even
unbelievable level, and uh, forget the call. We'll get to
that in a second. George Hill misses a free throw.
He's a very good free throw shootery chokes it. J R.

(01:17:10):
Smith gets a rebound and then doesn't put it back
in forgets time, score situation, and the head coach, who,
let's be honest, Lebron James wanted to be a head coach,
fails to call a time out, also didn't alert the
team to the time and the score, and I think
he's just looking around, going I'm working within at people.
I think that Doug's point of that play having an

(01:17:32):
effect may have an effect on Lebron. I don't think
it's gonna have an effect on his decision. I think
I think maybe it's if if there was anything that
it's the guy that he stuck with. You talked about
it earlier. He's the one that that got j R.
Smith the new contract. It's Kevin Love was brought in. Yeah,
but it seems like Kristin Thompson and j R. Smith
were really Lebron's boys and have one of his boys

(01:17:53):
maybe turn his back and burned him. But I just
think if you're ready to leave, you're not gonna let
these individual moments a you to stay there and go.
I think he's already made up his mind on what
he wants to do in Cleveland. I don't think that
the Game one situation had any effect on what the
Lebron stays. He clearly has no issue leaving Cleveland because

(01:18:14):
he's done it before. The issue he had with how
he handled it was, and I think he's even talked
about this, was he kind of clowned the city and
he felt bad. I think part of the reason that
brought him back was he felt guilty. And the one
way you can counter anybody with a massive egos, when
you get them to feel guilty about something, it's amplified
it even more because all this time they feel like,

(01:18:35):
because of their ego, they're always right. And when he
realizes that he didn't handle it the right way, it's
why everything was a mate good. He doesn't want to
feel that guilt again. So he's been trying to find
a way to have a guilt free exit, and the
best way to have a guilt free exit is to
play every game, play max minutes, do everything you can
possibly do for the team, Do everything you can possibly

(01:18:56):
do for the city, which is win a title, and
then afterwards he and walk away and not feel that
guilt and he can say, I mean, I gave you
my all. I I did everything. I played every minute,
I played every game. I didn't sit out. You know,
I did my part so that he doesn't have to
feel guilty about leaving the city again and and and
potentially leaving them in ruins after he walks away. And

(01:19:19):
I think he knew this before the playoffs. I think
he had an idea, I'm probably out of here. There's
a slight chance I could be around. I mean, how
much of an impact that one situation had on him?
I think it more just in the micro level. He
realized that that was an opportunity to steal a game
and it didn't happen to another screwge. It's almost like

(01:19:41):
this season Jonas and because I do think Lebron leaves
and I don't think that this series against the Warriors
is any changed with that. But it's like you're in
a marriage with someone for twenty plus years, things just
aren't working out. Let's go to counseling, let's let's let's
we'll go. We'll give it a shot. When one party

(01:20:02):
knows I'm gone, like I am, like, I'll do this
because you know, and I'll show that I'm taking all
the steps, but they've already checked out. That's what I
think Lebron James is doing to your point of trying
to do everything right but knowing in the end that
if I do everything right now, maybe may not be
as bad or there's going to be an inevitable And
that's what I think this is with It's almost like

(01:20:24):
this sense of relief when someone breaks up with you.
If you ever feel this sense of relief, because it's like, man,
the only thing was holding me back was actually making
the move myself, and the fact that you did it,
and then you you do the whole I mean, I
did everything, and I guess I'm just not good enough
for you. You You know what. That's fine. You go do
and then you hang up your phone, you call your buddy,
You're like, she did it? Where are we going? You know,
everybody's done. I've done multiple times. I think he looks

(01:20:46):
at this as an opportunity to get away, and as
much as he as much as he says, well, you know,
I just want to part ways amicably and all that stuff,
the fact that this was the breakdown and and at
least on the outside, it looks like he is working
to Dougs point with anept people. That's enough for him
to go. I did everything I could, it just wasn't working.
He's Jonas Knocks. I'm Dan Buyer. If you're disappointed in

(01:21:08):
the NBA Finals, it's your fault. You get a couple
of more days to simmer on the start of the
NBA Finals before they resume Wednesday night in Cleveland. There
used to be a schedule Jonas where it was just Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday Sunday Tuesday. But now the NBA mixing it up,
you're giving the teams a little bit more rest. There

(01:21:30):
was always a quick turnaround when you would start the
Finals on a Thursday, because you would have to change
sights from a Sunday to a Tuesday. The league now
giving the Cavaliers and Warriors an extra day. The games
in Cleveland taking place Wednesday, Friday and Monday. And I
do mention Monday without the full certainty that we are
going to get to that point, as Golden State is

(01:21:50):
already up to well in the best of seven series.
Kona sweep Dan is that what you're doing. You're telling
the people of Cleveland, after they've seen a football team
win one game and thirty at of thirty two, that
you're calling a sweep. This basketball this Jonas, this is
what I'm doing. And John Romos is here as well.
By the way, General coming up at the bottom of
the of the secod that was the new one that

(01:22:11):
I that I knew was somewhere somewhere in the vicinity
coming from my by the way, it comes from my
Road to the US Open podcast Cost of Science. Yes,
the new episode launching this week. By the way, I
suggest you go to Fox Sports Radio dot com and listen, right, John, Yeah,
I don't expect anything less from you. Dan one of
the great Thank you very much. I appreciate that. The

(01:22:32):
point is, I don't want to be that radio host
that says, hey, I picked Warriors in five. What told
you this? The fact is is from what we've seen
in these first two games, the Cavaliers getting their heart
ripped out in Game one, not being able to respond
with in great fashion, and Game two to see the least,
you just wonder on how long this series has to last.

(01:22:55):
So if it goes five games, I can hang my
hat and say, well, I thought it went five games.
I just think from what we've seen in these first
two games and how Cleveland lost, especially in Game one,
I just don't know if they have what it takes.
I think they can maybe win a game in Cleveland
with the momentum, but in the end, I think that
Golden State ends up obviously winning this series. Here's the

(01:23:17):
problem with these NBA Finals. This is what it did
does for people that are upset or people that are surprised.
Here's what the NBA Finals did to us. They lost
their no hitter in the nine. Okay, if they would
have given up one hit in the first inning and
then giving up no hits for the other eight, it

(01:23:38):
would be a whole different conversation. But because Game one
was so competitive and it was so close to going
the other way on calls, mistakes, late and all of that,
people were teased into, oh man, this really is gonna
be a good NBA Finals, and then you find out not,

(01:23:58):
as a matter of fact, it's not had that been
the final game in like game five whatever, I mean
out in five games, but because that was the first game,
it's set you up and got your hopes up to
believe we've got ourselves a series here, and and unfortunately
it didn't work that way. Like you know, like Dan,
I bowled one time, I hit eleven straight strikes. I
bowled a two nine. I was okay with it because

(01:24:22):
where I picked up an eight in the spare was
in the first frame I finished with eleven straight. Had
that been the reverse, I would have drank gasoline afterwards.
I would have never shown up another day at work,
and I would have disappeared off the face there. I
could not live with the idea of that not happening,
like when the lotto comes out. If the ball comes
out of the machine and the lotto, I'd rather know

(01:24:43):
early on that the first one I didn't get, So
that way I can live with whatever happens in the
other five balls that come out. I don't want it
to be the last one that doesn't match up. And
because the first one came out and it matched up,
and we look like, oh man, we've got some hope here.
This is gonna be a good series. As it turns out,
it's not going to be a good series. I feel
if you are disappointed with what we've got in the

(01:25:03):
NBA finals of this maybe series not moving on. I
really think it's your fault. I argued a couple of
weeks ago Jonas, that I would rather have a five
game series with five competitive games like we had with
sixer Celtics, then have a seven game series where six
of the games are blowout. We don't know what's gonna
happen in Yeah, you want some competitiveness throughout throughout, quality

(01:25:26):
not quantity. Yes, yeah, exactly, perfect, perfect analogy there. The
fact is, heading into the playoffs, what did we say
the NBA Finals are gonna be the Western Conference Finals.
Warriors and Rockets are the two best teams, that is
the de facto NBA Finals, And what don't you know?
They gave us one heck of a series that went

(01:25:48):
seven games, with drama, that was back and forth, that
had superstars playing up to their capabilities, superstars being injured.
It was a great, great series, and leaning into the playoffs, Jonas,
that's what we were expecting. We were expecting Warriors and
Rockets of the Western Finals is they were the two
best teams in the NBA and whatever happened to the

(01:26:09):
East happened in the East. But now that we've got
this NBA Finals, and we knew that this was gonna
We knew the West Finals were going to be better
than what we had in the NBA Finals. Now all
of a sudden, we're disappointed or we feel that maybe
the calves aren't getting a fair shot from the referees.
Just go back to April fifteenth, when the playoffs started,
whatever day it was, and when you looked at the bracket,

(01:26:30):
you said, well, the Western Finals are gonna be what
we want to see, and then whatever with the NBA Finals,
and that's what we've got now. So if you've got
a problem with these NBA finals, just rewind to a
month and a half ago when the playoffs started, and
blame yourself for thinking this. Listen, if you if you
start dating a prostitute, don't get mad two months later
when some guys text shows up in the middle of
the night. Okay, you're dating a prostitute. This series was

(01:26:53):
what it was beforehand. Don't get upset now if you
knew it back then that these are the results, this
is what this is what it was now. I do
have a question for you, Dan. Have you heard there's
a select the guys who those nerds? Um, what are
the geeks who run the Icy Hot Takes whatever that
website is, Freezer Takes or whatever fish Stick Takes, whatever

(01:27:15):
that lame side is. Have they contacted you or called
you out? Because I know that you before during this
series and we would do shows together, you said, law
of averages. It's not going to be Calves and Warriors again.
Never thought, never thought we'd see it for a four
straight years. Have they contacted you? No? No, I did
not think that we would get Calves. I thought something
along the way would derail the Calves or something along

(01:27:37):
the way would rail the Warriors. Not because I thought
that there was gonna be something specific, but heck, last year,
we had never seen three teams or the matchup three
straight years in the NBA Finals, let alone having it,
you know, having it four times now. If Kyrie Irving
doesn't get hurt, new things changed a little little that
I know that the things that I thought would pop up,

(01:27:58):
or Chris Paul getting hurt would actually happened to the
other teams to allow this to happen. I think that
was maybe more of a chance than anything. I just
thought something was bound to happen to the Cavaliers are
bound to happen to the Warriors. And now that we've
we've got it, it's yeah. Game one was awesome, but
I just don't know how you can get excited. And
and the other point with this, Jonas, and if we

(01:28:20):
take it back to the Western Conference finals, if you
were to ask people prior to the playoffs what they
would want to see as opposed to what they think
would be the best series, I actually think they probably
would have picked calvs. Warriors because they'd rather have the
superstar in Lebron be in the finals then maybe have

(01:28:42):
the best team of the Rockets. Is that fair? I mean,
I'm not that way. I would rather I would rather
see a great finals that a great NBA finals as
opposed to with conference finals. But I'm wondering if people
were just like like lured in or or you know,
convinced that Lebron being in the finals again, it's just
another great thing and it's the only way that it

(01:29:03):
can be if you looked at Here's where the NBA
season took a turn when Kyrie Irving went down with
the injury. Because the NBA is all about storylines, like
we can go knee jerk reaction and be prisoners prisoners
of the moment during the playoffs, and so many people
do it, Oh, what does this game mean? And then
if you come to find out now they lose the
next three, it really doesn't mean anything. But you need storylines,

(01:29:25):
you need drama, you need the pettiness that comes along
with the NBA and the postseason because it's amplified so
much more. Where the season took a turn towards the
not as interesting was when Kyrie Irving got hurt. Because
think about what the conference finals in both sides would be.
Imagine a Game seven where Kyrie Irving is healthy at

(01:29:49):
TD Bank against Lebron and in Game seven where Chris
Paul is healthy on the other side. Those are the
two injuries that turn the table for the season. You
got high Ree Irving going against the team he left
in a Game seven like that. You can't ask for
anything more like those. Those would have been so great
that once you get there, it's like the miracle on ice.

(01:30:11):
Everyone talks all the greatest upset in the history of sports,
like that's considered awesome and what a run by the US.
They still had to win another game in order to
win it, but that was so big that we were
willing to forget it and forget all about what had happened.
I just think that when Kyrie Irving went down, it
took a lot of the steam out of things. It
took a lot of the spice out of the potential

(01:30:33):
storylines and the pettiness going into this season. And so
when that happened, it was just a matter of time
before Cleveland figured out a way. It took seven games,
took a little bit longer. And oh, by the way,
and we mentioned this earlier that in order for the
Calves to win this series, they need this to happen
four games, Lebron to be great and in Golden State distink,

(01:30:56):
that's really tough to ask. If you think about Game
seven against Boston. Lebron was great and he won that
game for him late, but the Celtics were like seven
of thirty nine from three. If they hit a couple
of more threes, they win that games. Or so like,
what do we tell, like, you need so much to happen, So, yeah,
you can't be surprised that we're sitting here and in
O two. I also think if Kyrie's healthy and the

(01:31:18):
cash still make it to the finals, we give maybe
Cleveland more streak in and we're not looking at them
as the team that we actually thought that they were
coming into the season, because last year, I remember there
was there twenty one over the the second half of
the season or the second part of the season where
they were just playing five hundred basketball, and then they
turned it onto the playoffs and we thought, Okay, maybe

(01:31:38):
it's a different Cavaliers team. The Cavaliers team. Yeah, we
see them playing better defense in these playoffs, but it's
not like they were a great team in the regular season,
and we viewed them as the four seed all the
way out, the four seed that had the warts against
the Pacers or the four seed that had the warts
against the Celtics. They were just able to navigate through.
If Kyrie Irving's on that Celtics team maybe were lifting

(01:32:00):
the Cavaliers and are are I'm not saying interested. Maybe
it's different because we're in the media, we're in sports
and this is our job day in and day out.
But I rather would rather see Warriors Rockets than to
see Lebron again. And I just wondering if the common
fan or maybe someone that isn't in the business is like, hey,

(01:32:21):
Lebron James is in that's good for business or man,
that's how the NBA looks like that they'd rather have
their superstar, best player in the league getting the finals
every single year over the best matchup. That's probably what
it is. Well, there is some fatigue to it, I
think too. People have seen it so many times that
it's like, that's why I am curious to see, when
it's all said and done, what the ratings are for
this because remember, like the ratings weren't all that hot

(01:32:43):
the second time Clemson played Alabama, and and I remember
in certain parts of the country definitely not And I
know it's a regional thing, but there was an element
to It's Alabama, you know, I mean, they're not really
all that exciting. They got a big name, but well,
we've seen this so many times before, so I am
just wondering what the ratings are gonna look like. Plus,
if Golden State wins Game three, like what what's there

(01:33:05):
to look forward to? And in college football is a
perfect example because Georgia Alabama, where rethought only only the
SEC is gonna care about that, the reignings are actually
amazing because Alabama was also on the you know Clemson
ended up being Alabama, but it was a great football game.
So yeah, if things would have been different and not
have that fatigue, I think then we would look at

(01:33:26):
these NBA Finals differently than we have in the past.
Dan Buyer Jonas Knox him for Doug Gottlieb here on
Fox Sports Radier. You can get Dan on Twitter at
Dan Buyer on Fox. If you'd like to get in
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Show coming up later on in the hour, you can
tweet him at j S. Ramos zero six and provide
him show content ideas. John, how are we looking? You're

(01:33:48):
feeling confident about today's show? I've put about a hundred
tweets already inside the my box on Twitter, and I'm
gonna go through him right now just to see what
I should focus on. Mainly coming up at two Pacific
five Eastern time, I think we should probably focus on
you rephrasing what you do with your tweets. That would

(01:34:09):
be I would come across very graphic on the area
kids coming home from school, all right. Coming up next
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(01:34:35):
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NBA Finals through two games and the Warriors up on
the Cavaliers two games to none with Game three coming
up in Cleveland on Wednesday night. That's the good news

(01:34:57):
for the Cavaliers. They at least get the head back
home after last night's nineteen point defeat to defeat that
I'm sorry, just wasn't that shocking after what Now when
we see the video from Game one of the bench
and how much it affected Lebron and we know that
the and the story didn't die over the weekend because
of all of the j R. Smith stories. How in
the world you would bet that the Warriors wouldn't be

(01:35:19):
able to get it together, yet the Calves would in
seventy two hours to play a good game too. I
have no idea. Yeah, what you saw in game two
wasn't fast and furious, okay, Or it wasn't the end
of the crying game. It was fast and furious, all right.
You knew what was happening, right, There is no surprises here.
This is this is what you expected. That's why Lebron
was so pissed. Man, Like when you when you realize

(01:35:41):
that you need a lot to happen in order for
it to go your way, and it actually does in
game one and you still lose Jesus. Of course he
was frustrated. He walked out on a question that was
by by Mark Schwartz of the ESPN, grabbed his purse,
told him to be better tomorrow, Like all right, so okay,

(01:36:01):
I'll be better tomorrow. Come on. I don't know why
anybody would be surprised by what we saw, John Ramos.
Would that be like when you asked you want to
ask a girl out on a date, and you're just
ready to do it, You're gonna go out, and just
before you do it, like a friend yours, a guy
you know asked her and then like they've become boyfriend
and girlfriend for like the next two years. And if
that would have been you if you just would have
got there after that could have been your girlfriend. Yeah,

(01:36:23):
I would have rather just been rejected flat out, as
opposed to having to deal with the anguish of wow,
that could be me. I would yeah, I can. Really,
I would rather have not known that I would get
rejected by the girl and then ever date my buddy
for two years, knowing all along that you want me
than to be you know, I'd rather have the maybe
in the back of my mind, like, yeah, probably, you know,

(01:36:46):
she probably would have wanted me, instead of the actual knowledge.
Sometimes it's better not Yeah, I'd rather not know. UM.
Perfect example this true story. Last week, I came across
these lotto scratchers that I had gotten for Christmas, um birthdays,
and I had never scratched, and so I know that
at a certain point they expire. There's like you have
to see when the game ends on the back. So

(01:37:07):
I had a feeling they were expired, and so I'm
talking to my buddies, I will just scratch them off
and and and see and then take them in. I
was like, no, but why, I'm like, I don't want
to scratch it off and find out I won five
hundred thousand dollars and then go in there to scan
and it goes. So I literally scanned them just to

(01:37:27):
make sure they were expired, and then I tore them
up into itty bitty pieces out inside of seven eleven,
and I threw them in the trash. I don't want
to know, and I know I don't want to know
what happened. The ability for you to not scratch off
a scratch off within five minutes of buying one is
quite a feat. I don't. I don't just I lost
track and then I found him and I said, you know,
these are probably expired, and I had a coin getting

(01:37:48):
ready to and I said no, So I just scratched
the bar code to go scan them. So I didn't
even see what the results were. I was going to
live with that guilt. I'll tell you. I had an
interesting scratch off story that a family member of mine.
I thought that they were playing a like matching game,
like where you gotta get two cards of the same,

(01:38:10):
but it was a black jack game. So so two
kings to queens, another winner air of tens. No, you
needed to get black jack to win, and so and
so it was. I think I just won sev dollars

(01:38:30):
and I'm like, I got the phone call, and I'm like,
I don't think that's probably accurate. I'll go home and
see if it's accurate or not. And sure enough it
was a different game. Yeah, I got two kings, he
only got a jack in a ten were we'll see
if the Calves can be a winner in game three.
Joining us now, he's a beat writer for Calves dot

(01:38:52):
com and you can find him on Twitter at Calves
Joe g Joe Gabriel Joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Hey Joe, how's it going? Uh, well, I've been utter. Yeah,
I'm sure I know down oh two of the playoffs.
About last night, you lose ninth by nineteen points to
the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Golden State Warriors. Was there
any point in that game, realistically that you thought maybe

(01:39:13):
the Calves were gonna make a run or did it
just seem like the Warriors were keeping the Calves at
arm's length? Well, I mean both, actually they were at
arms length. And I felt like, man, one little push,
one little contribution from some of the other guys, any
other guy probably be said Kevin Love, I thought we
could we could make a run. But man, again, Jordan's

(01:39:38):
struggling Jr. Struggling. Uh, you didn't get much out of
an ant, so not much of a push. Uh. You
were around this team when they were trailing two oh
to Boston and they won that series. What's the difference
in demeanor between that two oh deficit compared to this one. Well,
to be honest, I think they're about some of their

(01:39:59):
pretty similar don't think that the Calves are panicking. I
think they think they've been in both games. Uh, they
think they can win. I think Golden State knows the
Calves can can are gonna be dangerous at home. You
know Boston was they really kind of shell act Cleveland
in Boston. Cleveland was never in either of those games. Uh,

(01:40:20):
So they probably feel about the same. But again, they're
gonna need contributions from somebody besides Lebron in Love. Joe
Gabriel joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. He's Jonas Knox.
I'm Dan Buyer and for Doug Gottlieb here on the
Doug Gottlieb Show. What is the sense of play about
Kevin Love? And I'm just gonna preface the question or
just at least add this on Joe was I wasn't

(01:40:40):
giving Love enough credit for the numbers that that he's
put up in the first two games when you look
at the double doubles that he has had, but it
seems like his contributions have gone under the radar. Is
it like that with the Calves? How do they view
Kevin Love's performance in these first two games. Well, again,
he's given you with the only other production the side
of Lebron And I really can see your argument because

(01:41:04):
some of the numbers, you know, they seem a little empty.
They don't seem like he hasn't been big in the
fourth quarter, but he was good in the third quarter
last night, thirteen the third Uh. You know, he's had
double doubles for sure, but you know, one for eight
I think one for seven or one for eight from
three point range in Game one. It was a big one.

(01:41:25):
It was a big three. But still, you know, his
numbers are really good. I hate to it's like a
broken record. You've got to get something besides those two
they seem empty a little bit. Kevin loves numbers. They're
they're they're great numbers, and he's put up great numbers
his whole career. And I don't wanted to mean Kevin's production,
the numbers or anything like that. But again there they're

(01:41:49):
not big fourth quarter numbers. They're not you know, they're
not They're not fourth quarter numbers anyway, Um, what is
j R. Smith? He said after the game that he
was a little confused afterwards, and then he had some
time to think about and he wasn't sure what he
was thinking after he made the mistake. And I know
teammates have been supportive. You've been around j R. Smith

(01:42:10):
a lot. How affected was he really by that mistake
at the end of that game? Well, I mean j R.
Is more I think he's more human and just more
of a normal guy than people give him credit for it.
And he was kind of shell shocked after that one.
And you know, his whole family was down there in
San Francisco with him. So it was a rough few days.

(01:42:32):
And again in the NBA, if you screw up most nights,
the next night, you can make it up, but nobody cares.
Now you've got two nights of people of him constantly
any ESPN scroll constantly all over Twitter getting memes done
about him, So you know, he can't help it affect
the person we were hoping I think he'd be more
aggressive last night, going to be more of a dun slinger,

(01:42:55):
you know, with that bronze cheer. But he was kind
of quiet last night as well. So maybe at home.
I got a feeling maybe you'll have a breakout performance
at home. Joe Gabriel joining us here on Fox Sports Radio,
Calves Beat reporter for Calves dot Com and find him
on Twitter at Calves Joe g. What would help the
Calves more the Warriors being off their game? Are they

(01:43:15):
improving their own? That's a great question, man, That's a
really great question. The thing that's a great question because
I think what the Calves are kind of hoping for
in some way, and that in the overly dramatic way,
is for them to unravel in a certain way. U
Caves need you know that they don't have the talents

(01:43:36):
they have lebron you know, I call them, you know,
the nuke. But it's like they have, you know, a
talent disadvantage. So if Golden Steak can somehow get unraveled,
and it's happened, we've seen it before, even in in
this matchup, I think that that they have a chance,
you know, but they have to find the chink in

(01:43:56):
their armor right now. I like the the al Bala
James Harden, Clenton Capella. I think they found something there.
Uh you know with Tristan and Larry Nance, Lebron driving kicking,
so uh right now you're hoping Golden States flips up.
So to answer your question, be uh Joe Gabriel, Calvs

(01:44:17):
dot com beat writer, A last one for me. Joe
here on Fox Sports Radio. Locally, they're in Cleveland, in
and around the area. Are they feeling like this is
the end of Lebron in Cleveland? Oh boy, that's that's
a tough one. No, they're worried. People in Cleveland are

(01:44:39):
perpetually worried. You know, they're always on the edge. So
uh yeah, there's concern. But right now, I think the
focus is on Game three because this has been his
This playoffs have been his masterpiece and he's not done yet,
and I think that's what people are thinking more so

(01:45:00):
and worry. They have plenty of time to worry after
Father's Day, but right now I think they're focused on
Game three. He's the Calves beat reporter for Calves dot Com.
Find him on Twitter, The Calves Joji Joe Gabriel Joe
enjoy Game three, Welcome back Home and uh yeah, thanks again.
We'll do it again soon. Sounds great. Thanks a lot,

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rounder today, so Sharapova advances to the quarterfinals. Serena had
just lost in doubles yesterday with her sister Venus sixth
love in the third set. Serena is thirty six. She
had recently returned to tennis after missing more than a
year after giving birth with medical complications. Tom Brady and
Rob Gronkowski were at the stadium of the Patriots in
New England today ready for the start of minicamp tomorrow,

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attending a fan fantasy camp there. Today, the Brown signed
second round running back Nick Chubb from Georgia. The Bears
resigned tight end Zach Miller in New Jersey, and Assembly
panel gave its blessing to the proposed sports betting law
for that state. The Major League Baseball Draft starts tonight.
It's a light Monday schedule on the field five games total.
The Yankees have won five straight after taking the first

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of a day night doubleheader at Detroit seven for New York.
Luis Severino the winning pitcher, nine and one. Now it's
the NHL on the ice tonight, with Washington games to
one in the Stanley Cup Final, hosting Vegas at eight
pm Eastern time. The NBA Finals continue Wednesday night, and
Auburn gave basketball coach Bruce Pearl a five year extension
back to you, Thank you very much, Steve. By the way,

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that Patriots news of the Patriots and and Tom Brady
and Rob Gronkowski going to a fan event, it's not
the people who love football, it's ceiling fans. They're trying
to figure out. That's the fan events that they went
to find out what fans are going to use in
the Patriot offices. You know, claim Matthews went to a
charity team slash fan event this weekend and uh took

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a softball to the beats. Yeah, yeah, that was Completon
charity softball game. By the way, did you see the
coach commented on that today that he's not going to
overreact on the thing summer, saying, why is it athlete
participating this in the off season. It's the Green and
Gold charity softball game. He thinks it's still good for
the players to get back to the community, get involved.

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But still there is a surgery on his face. This way,
they've they've had it for years. The the lesson here
is not it's not to get rid of a softball game,
it's don't have your best players pitch or that's really
like we've seen in the n c A softball last
week some pictures wear catcher's face masks on the hill
while they're pitching. In case of exactly that that'll happen

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at a charity softball game, well it should now because
the batter was an offensive lineman for the Packers. Boom
straight to the Steven Brady Quinn last night was saying
that this might be a workman's comp claim from Math
because serious, because it was a company functions. That's amazing, Steve.
Did you hear on Fox Sports Sunday when I was

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talking about just kidding Steve only listens he's here on Yeah,
absolutely than we do sometimes listen to Jonas show that
I'm yes, yeah, there you go. He's not scamming me
World Cup picks. He's Jonas Knocks. I'm Dan Buyer. That
is Steve de Seger and we are in for Doug
Gottlieb today and that is John Robbins. Does it get

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I think it's the John Ramo Shows, the John Ramo Show,
Ramo Show, this is the John Romino Sports on Box Radio.
Here's John Ramos. He says exactly what Suzanne tells him.
To say, shut up, all right, come on, get off, Hello, John,

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Let's do this. Hey, good eating everybody. We have a
great show for you tonight. It's Miserable Monday. And make
sure to always use the hashtag the John Ramos Show
on tonight show. I want you to tell me what
makes you miserable. We know Cavaliers fans are pretty miserable
right now. Also, today is National Cheesday. Guys, I know
I love Swiss cheese. Dan, you're from Wisconsin. What's your

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favorite cheese? John as always had my psychick Ryan here
with me. Ryan, let's get it going, all right, John,
here we go. Well, the Cavaliers lost again last night, Ryan,
But I can't believe everyone is still talking about the
way they lost Game one. That was just mind blowing.
I can't believe JR. Smith actually forgot what the score

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was at the end of the game. Yeah, that was embarrassing,
But I can relate to what JR Is going through
right now. Really was that well? I forgot to pick
up Sarah, my daughter from school once and Suzanne is
still taking it out on me three years later. Should
the NBA let the Cavaliers play with nine players on

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the court against the Warriors. We discussed that next on
the John Rommels Show, Wild Curious and fun, exciting family game.
Out Out of the Gage, Out the Metallica. They're at

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the Forum tonight at tomorrow night. I'll be there. It's
rude Finn go. Everybody giving up from roon five? Hey, Adam,
how's the voice going? Don't worry, we'll cover that in
our in depth interview coming up on the show later on.
Don't forget about tonight's poll question, should the Warriors trade
Steph Curry? Plus, I have my Triple A Baseball Power rankings.

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You don't want to miss that exactly. Here's a hint though.
The Fresnel Grizzlies are not in the top ten. But
right now, I want to bring in Dan and Jonas
to talk about some NBA guys. Welcome. Look, after falling
down O two to the Warriors, the Cavaliers are done.
This series is over. But again, there's a chance they
could come back and still win a title. So let's

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give him a chance. You know there, I know what
you gotta say. And Lebron his time in Cleveland is
coming to an end. He's going to leave in free
agency once again. And I think he's got to go
to the Lakers. He also probably wants to stay in
the East Coast, so maybe he won't leave it all.
The fence guy, Man, he's got it covered here. I

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love fence Guy. Steph Curry proved last night. Guys he's
the best player in the NBA, no doubt about it.
But then again, Lebron James is really good, so maybe
they're like tied for being bad. Way to go out
of the limb there, way to take chances, spence guy.
Should baseball only be two innings long? Yes? I don't.

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That's John Robins and he wrote that. Spit it out,
little kiddy. Oh, let's hear it from a Route three,

(01:52:47):
don't play it. I'm really looking forward to their in
depth interview with me later on. Don't forget there's still
plenty of time for you to vote on tonight's poll question,
and of course make sure to use the hashtag the
John Almost Show like I tries to sund more reggae
every every album he comes out with. An idiots also
covered up later on, we have a John Romo Show exclusive.

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Is the Cavaliers versus Warriors the best rivalry in sports?
The answer will shock you. But right now I want
to bring in some experts and dive into the NBA
Finals because everybody's talking about the NBA founds. Let's get
into this. Look. He's a tremendous, tremendous basketball analyst, and
he's regarded as one of the best in the business.

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Everything from his playing days in Merrall, Wisconsin, to watching
Jack Sikma on the Bucks to covering several NBA finals
for Fox Sports Radio. There are a few who know
as much as this guy in the NBA, and that's
my friend Dan Byers the best. Look. If you follow
the NBA news cycle like I do, then you know

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who this guy is. Nobody has better sources around the
league than him. Lebron James leaving for Miami, he had
the scoop. We're lucky to have him. Uh, and he's
inside on Fox Sports Radio. He's also a friend of mine,
one of my closest Jonas Knocks. Yeah. Look, people call
him a sports encyclopedia. I called him that like about

(01:54:14):
ten years ago, but now other people are doing it
because his knowledge of sports history is unparalleled. Who was
the six Men of the Year n He knows who
finished fourth in the East night. He knows. You bet
this guy knows. It's Steve. Yeah, I have no idea
what I'm doing here. Let's start this with you, Steve.

(01:54:38):
Oh wait a minute before I get to you. We
gotta embrace all perspectives on the John Robins. So how
can I forget this? It's just we need all the
panel to get out here. That's exactly why I invited
this final panel is he brings a millennial's perspective on
the NBA and we need a mellindo's perspective right now.
Ryan Music, All right, John, glad I made the cut.
You almost didn't allow me back on stage. Thank you.

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We need all of you here for this in depth
panel discussion. Let's start with you, Steve. What is the
current record in NBA Finals between the Warriors and the Cavaliers. Well,
currently Warriors have two games and none Wednesday, we're gonna
have another game and the series will continue May and
on Friday. That's all the time we have for tonight.
A big, big thanks to everyone who tweeted and using

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the hashtag the John Ramo Show. Also thanks to Maroon five.
I'll be seen them Tuesday night for being tonight. Some
special musical casts. Sorry, guys, we'll have to get your
interview next time, and Ryan I'll catch you on my
back side. I'll beat you there, Iran, that was good.
That was smart man. Okay, relaxed, relax man, unbelievable good stuff.

(01:55:55):
Dan Buyer, Jonas Knox in for Doug Gottlieb here on
Fox Sports Radio. If you would like to weigh in
on your thoughts of the John Ramo Show, all you've
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multiple hashtags, and a ton of confusion here. We will
why down to John Ramo Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up next though, we do uh there. There is
some commentary from one of the best players in his
sport at his position at one time. Not nice things
he had to say about his current teammates. That's next
year on fs ARE. This is the Doug. He's Jonas

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Knocks that's John Ramos. I'm Dan Buyer. We are in
for Doug today. Thanks to our executive producer Ryan Music
for everything that he has done, and thanks to Euro
Jacks for this picture a picture of US US four.
But he took our photos and uh photoshop them onto
some family of four where John Ramos looks like an

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actual kid like the other three. You could tell our
photo shopped, but euro Jack's has John Ramos I thought
was an actual child in this picture. It is, it is.
It is on point, just as on point to Steve
de Seger with the Latest News Press. You've seen this picture, Steve,
you've seen him. I did. It's a little freaky. Actually, hey,

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I would let me tell you something like I said,
I would not say no. I'm not sure. My cheekbones
seem to be accentuated. But John, I'm looking at the
cheatbones down looks like actual baby, like a young child
in this picture. It's amazing technology. Just because you can
doesn't mean you should. Jake Area in the news yesterday,

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he's now a so the Phillies pitching staff and after
a six one lost to the Giants, they got swept
in San Francisco over the weekend. He was ticked off
because he was pitched well until the sixth allowed five
straight hits, three of those just on ground balls, and
his frustration boiled over about the defensive shifting of his
new team, quote, we're the worst in the league with shifts.

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We need to change that. Use your eyes, make an adjustment,
be better. We need some accountability all the way around
here with the Phillies everybody top to bottom. You chidding,
I think welcome, welcome to not being on the Cubs
where you've got Addison Russell, Hobby Bias, Chris Bryant and
Anthony Rizzo on the infield. Yeah, they're they're great, great

(01:58:36):
defensive team. GiB Keapler said, I don't give a shift. Ah. Yeah,
what he did there, Steve, that was that was too
close for Hey, Steve, you you say it, but hold
your tongue and let's see what it sounds like on
the phone. I'll hold my tongue on this story and
move on to number two. We have the NHL tonight's
Stanley Cup Final continuing in d C and Jimmy Seafood

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for One tweeted out this morning, anyone who's rose a
crab onto the ice tonight, we'll get eight free crab
cakes in honor of a vegan number eight. Turns out
there was a high school sophomore over the weekend in
the area who bought a crab from a local crab house,
brought it into the arena on Saturday night through security
in his underwear. Before you asked, he had it stored

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in a zip lock bag. His grandmother apparently surprised the
kid with tickets last week. The kid's a teen hockey player.
Immediately started brainstorming, ways, how can I localize the tradition
of throwing the object onto the ice. He says, Detroit
has the octopus, in Nashville the catfish. Now, I thought
the crab was perfect to represent our area. So he
actually snuck down to the hundred section final minutes of

(01:59:40):
the game Saturday night, tossed the crab over the glass.
Players were two bills because he's celebrating to notice, so
he had he had a crab in his underwear. That's
how he snucked in. Welcome to College. Well, the Detroit
g Prix over the weekend and the start was delayed
because is one of General Motors top executives was he was,

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you know those celebrity pace car drivers. He was the
one for the weekend. They were showing off one of
the Chevy products, the Corvette. In the home city. Of course,
Detroit ground Prix. He crashed, hit a bump in the
street course, the Corvette spun hit the wall hard. The
regular pace car driver stepped up said, oh, that's a

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troublesome spot in the track. Oh yeah, that's a tough
spot in the track. But the guy was checked out
at the medical center left on a golf car without commenting.
Apparently he is distraught about his crash and it's a
pace car, so I can I can tell you because
my father in law was ill. He's all right, everything's good,
but I had to take him to the e R

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on Saturday, and the TV had Indie Car on it
with no remote. So while Tiger Woods is lighting things
up at the memorial, I am watching them cruise around
the streets of Detroit or on some island, so I
could how you Jonas pretty fast? If you are the company,
what do you do? They of course had a quickly

(02:01:07):
tightly worded statement to come out saying, well, many factors
contributed to this, including weather, sunny day, and track conditions.
And they were quick to say, but the car safety
systems performed. I was gonna say, as opposed to it's
so easy to drive in the rainy weather, you know, like,
oh gosh, it's sunny. How am I gonna drive backing

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out there? And pressed that the press. Wow, what a
show today was flew by Dan. A lot of NFL
on the show today. Game three of the NBA Finals
again coming up on Wednesday. Hopefully the Calves can maybe
get things in order over these next forty eight hours
and and put forth a good efforts so we have
at least have a decent series Vegas or Washington tonight. Um,

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I'm gonna put this one in all caps