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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Dancie Wildegrave
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It'd be oh joined now on news Talk Z by
my old friend, broadcast out of the Good Old UI Survey.
You know what, being Mela, every time there's a major
UE sporting event, I know I'm gonna ring and it's
always going to be you missed, Mela. Let's talk some
NBA game. One of the finals has been completed, and
(00:31):
I think maybe it's gone to script, hasn't it. And
welcome well, Darcy.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I always look forward to these big events in American
sports because I know I'll get a chance to talk
to you. But yeah, the Boston Celtics are a pretty
big favorite in the NBA Finals, and they came out
and absolutely mollywopped the Mavericks in the first quarter. They
were up by seventeen points at the end of the
first quarter, and even though Dallas made a little bit
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of a run in the third quarter they got within
eight points of tying the game, the Celtics quickly went
on another run and they end up They were led
by Jalen Brown, who had twenty two points and Chris
tops Porzingis player nicknamed the unicorn, he came back. He
had twenty points for the Celtics, and so they win.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Here's a fun fact, though, Darcy.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Even though the experts had the Celtics winning rather easily,
the US gambling market over eighty percent, actually close to
ninety percent of the bets at one of the big
sports books here in the US was on the Dallas Mavericks.
So a lot of people lost money on this game,
one of the NBA Finals. But the Celtics got it
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done and their three wins away from winning their eighteenth
NBA championship.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And therese are disparate people. They've looked at the ELTs
and go, you know, I want and I bidter than
the bookies to I'm putting money on that. And that's
how the bookie survived because everybody thinks that I'm more
than these guys. So of course I paid to make
the numbers, right mean, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, you always want and I do a gambling show here, Darcy,
in the States, you always want to go again the
public because they're usually wrong. And if you can find
out where public sentiment is and figure that out, you're
gonna win more times than not. I should also point out,
Darcy the villain if you will in this NBA Finals
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is Kyrie Irving, as he's an ex Celtic going back
to play his old team with the Mavericks, and he
had an absolute terrible game Game one. He was a
sixth of nineteen shot just barely thirty percent in the game,
and while he was on the court, they were outscored
by nineteen points, so he didn't play well. Luca had
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a big point game that Luka Doncic the star of
the Mattericks, but he only had one assist.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
So it was all around.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
A surgical win for the Boston Celtics, and historically the
team that wins Game one of the NBA Finals stars
he ends up winning about seventy percent of the time,
So that's what has happened. Doesn't guarantee it's gonna happen here,
but things are certainly looking up for the team called Celtics.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Longtime Fox Sport ready at brocast to Bean Mela joins
us just go back to the unicorn if you will.
Is it because he is a rarity or he has
a strange growth on his fullhead.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yes, he's got a pointy thing on the top of it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, yeah, he's got a very unique game when he
originally came into the NBA with the New York Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And he's a very tall, lean string being kind of
a guy, and.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I hadn't seen a lot of players like that. He's
got a great outside shot. The problem dar seas he's
often hurt. He's missed.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
He missed all almost all of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
He just came back for the game that was played here,
game one of the finals. But he's bounced around the NBA.
He used to play for the Dallas Mavericks. He was
a teammate of Luka Doncik, the star for the Mavericks,
and so they know each other. There's supposedly some bad
blood there. And Porzingis is He's good at a.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
He actually comes off the bench in this game, he
came off the bench for the Celtics, and he took
thirteen shots and he ended up making eight of them,
which my computer like brain.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Tells me that's that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
In fact, eight out of thirteen Porzingis ended up shooting,
you know, sixty one percent, so more than more than
great for the Celtics here.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But I believe you. You see bounce around the NBA.
I mean, come on, being a bitter than that, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, he got a lot of stickers on his suitcase.
He just played for a bunch of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
He used the word bounce, being it's a basketball game.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Come on, nights, come on, I mean, please hoot. He
took a sky shot at different cities. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, let's talk about the rest of the series. From
what I know, and I haven't watched a great deal.
To be perfectly honest, Boston are just going to bore.
The away to the title is that the general conversation
around what they bring to the court, well.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
They are the top team based on what their record
was during the season, and they have the most depth.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Got the deepest roster.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It is interesting to note, though, Darcy, that their top
player is Jason Tatum, and he had a pretty bad
game Game one.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
He didn't shoot the ball very well.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He was six of sixteen from the floor and he
had okay numbers, but he was not very efficient. And
but just the overall depth of the Celtics, the question
that people had was they weren't really tested because the
teams they played in the playoffs pretty much self destructed.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Darcy, they had guys get heard, fall apart and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
So this is the first time they've played a team
that actually has all of their players on the other side.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
So there's this great unknown.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But Game one, so far, so good, and they held
serve at home.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
They had the game at home, they got another game.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They don't play for a couple of days until Game two,
so there's a little bit of time off between between
the games.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And certainly things looking up for the Celties.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
This would be number eighteen in their history if they win,
and that would be the most in NBA history. They
already have the most of a team that hasn't relocated.
It's it's them and the Lakers, but the Lakers moved
between different cities, so the Celtics have won all those
championships in Boston.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
What chance to Dellas say that the actually getting anything
done here? You go down first quarter thirty seven twenty
and you can't count back again when you're not cash
the chips in right data they but the rest of
the series are they do they actually have a chance here?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment.
I do think that Dallas will win A couple of games.
The Celtics are gonna win the series, that Dallas will
win a couple of games, and because listen, they go
back to Dallas for Game three, and usually the turning
point is game two. It's like everyone's gonna be saying
great things about the Celtics, and that's usually rat poison.
Everyone in the media here is going to praise them
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and you know, tick all their toes.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
And say how great they are, and then we'll see
what happens in game two.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
But Dallas is gonna come back and make this competitive
in game two and then we'll see what happens after that.
But and the other factor is the injury factor. I
had the unicorn Christoph Porzingis, as we just talked about him.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
He is made out of glass.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
He's not someone who's got a lot of toughness to
his game. He misses a lot of time with injury,
and if he gets hurt, that will change things a
little bit for the Celtics, and especially with Jason Tatum
not playing particularly well here, so there is an.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Avenue for the Dallas Mavericks to win.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
As you know, Darcey, you live in a multi dimensional world,
and there is a dimension that the Mavericks end up
beating the Celtics. But the dimension I'm in, the Celtics
are going to win.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's not an avenue mate, it's a cultal sec But
that's okay. And being why I've got while I've got
you here, the USA beat Pakistan and the T twenty
World Cup, it's a huge boil. Eve hasn't got any
traction at all in sport radio in the States.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
No, it actually has.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I'll tell you how crazy things are here, Darcy. In
US sports radio. Women's basketball, which never got talked about
for years, like thirty years. The NBA has a women's league.
No one ever talked about it. Everyone ignored it, and
now all of a sudden, people are talking about that.
But I have not heard any noise here about the
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US soccer team winning and beating Pakistans.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
But I will take note of that, Darcy, and I.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Will mention that on my show that people and my
guy Eddie, who.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I work with.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Eddie always gives the WNBA scores. I'll say, well, why
aren't you given this score? And I'll bust the chops,
is what I'll do.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And if you need a correspondent or maybe somebody to
talk White through the vigaries of cricket for you American audience.
You got my Namba band, give me a ring, and
I'll say, what if Kylan Kott wasn't around, he still
wouldn't be talking about the WNBA.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You're not kidding.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It's really just one person, and people get upset, I
say on my radio show, darcilf like, listen, it's not
that people all of a sudden in the United States
love women's basketball.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
They love stars.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
People love stars in this country and and pretty much
anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And Caitlin Clark is a star. It's like a religious revival.
People go out.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
It's like a rock band, but it's a singer. It's
it's like Taylor Swift. They want to see her. They
don't care about the backup singers. They only care about her.
And the proof is in the attendance, and the proof
is in the television ratings.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It's very bizarre.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The other thing I love about that story, Darcy, is
when I started years ago, I was assigned to cover
this dispersal draft when they started the WNBA, and the
people running the team, the La Sparks, at the time,
they were like, just cover us, like you cover the men,
that's all we want.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Give us a chance.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And now the media is covering the women's game like
the men's game, and a lot of the women that
are playing are very.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Upset with the media.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It's very odd, but it's a strange juxtaposition. It's strange
times that we're in right now now, but that's.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Where we are and really what we're.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Doing here a sports country is waiting for our national pastime,
the NFL, to come back, and we have to wait.
Training camp opens next month and then the games start
after that, so we have a little more time to
go before the NFL returns.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I think that's lovely irony. We're want to be treated
to just like the mean and now the women's game
hate the media just as much as the meme do.
So we've got it right.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yes, they've come full circle now they be careful what
you ask for, Be very careful what you ask me,
You might get it and you you know.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And of course, to be fair, these these women that
are playing in the WNBA now, they were like not
even alive when the league started, or barely alive when
the league started.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
So it's a different generation.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Being Mali out of the States, as a thanks so
much for your Tomini spatas. If people want more OFRV you,
where can they find? You got a podcast for us, Beannie?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, I've got a podcast, the Ben Maler Show podcast,
which is available globally on x which.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Used to be Twitter at my name Ben Mahller.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And I always love Darcy when I hear some of
your listeners that track me down and say, hey, I
found you because of my guy, Darcy, And it does happen, Darcy,
we have crossover listeners. You can found my show because
of you, and I thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You can run, but you can't hard. You look after yourself,
my man.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
All right, thanks Darcy.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
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