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Hour 1 - Ayton the Laker · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Original Recipe podcast, the Andre Ayton has made his decision.
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Speaker 1: He was let go, fired by the Trailblazers. He's going
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Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Lakers. What are the odds that
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton reinvents himself as a Laker? Also, how do
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Speaker 1: you process the Milwaukee Bucks leaking that they were upset
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Speaker 1: with Dame Lillard rehabbing his achilles injury in Portland. Apparently
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Speaker 1: he didn't get he didn't get permission for that, saying
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Speaker 1: it wasn't approved. So how do you process that? We'll
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Speaker 1: we have a follow up follow up to a previous
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Speaker 1: Mala monologue. We talked about this a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 1: and the Portland Trailblazers decided that they did not want
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Speaker 1: the services of DeAndre Eighton anymore, so they worked a
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Speaker 1: buyout to get rid of him. So he came a
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Speaker 1: free agent to roam around wherever he wants, wherever his
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Speaker 1: heart desires. The NBA so free agent center DeAndre Ayton.
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Speaker 1: The decision is in. He is no longer unemployed. I
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Speaker 1: know you're very concerned about this. If you did not
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Speaker 1: hear by now, perhaps perhaps you tuned out, you were
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Speaker 1: not listening. We have learned, though, it's been a double
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Speaker 1: and triple confirmed that DeAndre Ayton is taking his talent,
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Speaker 1: if you want to call it that, to the Lakers
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Speaker 1: a two year deal to have heartache in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: with the Lakers. The deal includes the player options, so
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Speaker 1: it's really like a one year deal. But the deal
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Speaker 1: between Portland and eight they had a falling out. So
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Speaker 1: he goes to LA eight And in between the buyout
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Speaker 1: from the Trailblazers and the money, the new money the
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Speaker 1: Lakers are going to pay him, he will earn thirty
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Speaker 1: four million dollars to play pro bouncy ball and will
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Speaker 1: likely miss half the games. And then when he plays,
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Speaker 1: he'll be engaged about half the time of those games.
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Speaker 1: So eight and will turn twenty seven on July twenty third,
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Speaker 1: So he's got three weeks to go here until he
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Speaker 1: turns twenty seven. And he averaged a pedestrian fourteen points
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Speaker 1: a game, did have ten rebounds a game, shot fifty
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Speaker 1: six percent for the Portland Trail Blazers down the Oregon
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Speaker 1: Trail last year. So let us discuss the question DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Ayton he goes to the Lakers, what are the odds
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Speaker 1: that he reinvents himself and turns out to be the
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Speaker 1: player he's supposed to be and not the player that
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Speaker 1: he has been. So I've got house plans, middle school
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Speaker 1: group chat, and T shirt cannon, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna make the Babaganoosh.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna make the babagan so a the word reinvent
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Speaker 1: to use that word that he's not going to reinvent himself.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go police on that idea. And I know
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Speaker 1: because I live in Los Angeles, LA is a town
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Speaker 1: that when you think about the history of transforming underachieving
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Speaker 1: seven foot players into gladiators, they have a rich history
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Speaker 1: of that, unless they don't right now. It is a land.
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Speaker 1: If you want to kill Smoothie, you can get that.
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Speaker 1: If you want to hang out with social media influencers,
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Speaker 1: they're all over the place and a sun tannocean here,
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Speaker 1: there and everywhere. You've got that. Listen eighton. He's played
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Speaker 1: now with two different teams. He has not shown any
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Speaker 1: of that so called Mamba mentality. In fact, he's the
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Speaker 1: antithesis of that. He is more likely, by the time
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Speaker 1: he's done with the Lakers, more likely to have opened
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Speaker 1: a juice bar in Van Eyes than he is to
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Speaker 1: have made an All Star team as a Laker. And
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Speaker 1: with the Suns, he is not a team that was
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Speaker 1: in the finals. Maybe they gagged against the Milwaukee Bucks
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Speaker 1: and the finals a couple years back. You remember that.
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Speaker 1: So he was with the Suns. It was a finals team. Grant,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of a flukey finals run. But they
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Speaker 1: were in the finals and in the finals. I remember
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Speaker 1: we did monologues about it. But DeAndre Ayton approached NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals games like he was playing rec ball at the YMCA.
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Speaker 1: It's like la la la la la, I said, the
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Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club the YMCA. So DeAndre. He plays
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Speaker 1: in cruise control. At least that's how he has played.
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Speaker 1: He has been dining on room service and sleeping through
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Speaker 1: a wake up call since he entered the NBA in
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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen draft. And trust me watching him play,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not just being a shock dog, I don't
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Speaker 1: know least a shocking take. Like I've literally seen house
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Speaker 1: plants that play with more perseverance and more and have
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Speaker 1: more energy than DeAndre Ayton plays professional basketball. Yeah, there'll
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Speaker 1: be at random night where he'll show up and he'll
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Speaker 1: be engaged and all that. I don't doubt that's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he'll even stat a couple of good games
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Speaker 1: together and play well for a week, But just don't
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Speaker 1: count on it, right, And what about the numbers? He
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Speaker 1: averaged a double double? What about the numbers? All right? Well,
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Speaker 1: his nickname should be stove Top because it's stat stuffing
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Speaker 1: statistics that look nice to the uneducated fan, but they
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Speaker 1: have little to no impact on winning games. That's DeAndre
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Speaker 1: Ayton in a nutshell period. Stop now one of the
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Speaker 1: teams that supposedly contacted him. And there's Indiana. Now Indiana
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Speaker 1: needs a center because they lost their center to the
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks. And the reason the Bucks got their center,
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Speaker 1: mister Turner, is because the Milwaukee Bucks are going to
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Speaker 1: eat one hundred thirteen million dollars, no barbecue sauce, no
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Speaker 1: honey mustard, no dipping sauce, one hundred and thirteen million
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Speaker 1: to pay damn literally go away. So now there's some
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Speaker 1: new report out on that if you saw this or not,
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Speaker 1: and maybe not, but how do you process a story
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Speaker 1: that has been leaked by the Bucks that one of
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Speaker 1: the factors in buying out Damian Lillard is that they
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Speaker 1: were upset that Dame Time was going to rehab or
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Speaker 1: had been rehabbing his achilles injury in Portland. They said
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Speaker 1: it was not improved, not approved, not approved by the
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Speaker 1: big shots there in Milwaukee. So how do you process that?
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Speaker 1: So I love this because it happens ninety nine point
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Speaker 1: nine percent of the time, the classic sports breakup where
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Speaker 1: both sides pretend that they get along with each other.
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Speaker 1: They sing Kumbai Yah, right, they wish each other the
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Speaker 1: best and all that stuff the best means as good
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Speaker 1: as all the rest, And at the same time they
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Speaker 1: are rushing to their phones to send text messages in
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Speaker 1: to their friends, their useful idiots in the media, and
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Speaker 1: they're leaking all the petty grievances that each side has
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Speaker 1: here to the media and it ends up being like
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Speaker 1: a middle school group chat where they're just throwing all
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Speaker 1: kinds of crap out there, right, all kinds of crap
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Speaker 1: out there. Some of it's true, some of it's not.
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Speaker 1: Like the Bucks didn't just wave Damian Lillard like on
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Speaker 1: his way out, they leaked that they were upset with
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Speaker 1: him because he wanted to rehab in Portland where his
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Speaker 1: kids are. The horror of horse a thirty four year
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Speaker 1: old father wants to be near his family while learning
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Speaker 1: to walk again because his achilles was shredded like shredded
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Speaker 1: chicken and how dare him? And it's it's part of
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Speaker 1: the story where, if you follow the story, we've seen
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Speaker 1: these kind of hostile sports breakups that have happened, these
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Speaker 1: sports divorces. It's the part of the story where the
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Speaker 1: Bucks want you to believe that they were the aggrieved party,
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Speaker 1: that they that they they were the ones that were
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Speaker 1: the victims. This is it didn't work out that da
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Speaker 1: going back to Portland was some kind of betrayal, is
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Speaker 1: what it's being tossed out as I mean, that's that's
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Speaker 1: the NBA. It's not a hostage negotiation. And for the
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks, Damian Lillward was the big flex. You swung,
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Speaker 1: you try to hit a grand slam and you popped
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Speaker 1: up meekly to the catcher. That's what you did. It happens,
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Speaker 1: and so now you lick your wounds and you move on,
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Speaker 1: kind of like the team in New York, we pivot.
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Speaker 1: Last word here we go now to Gotham, Midtown, Manhattan, where,
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Speaker 1: unless there's a last minute snaffoo, we have a new
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Speaker 1: coach for the fledgling NBA team in the Big Apple,
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Speaker 1: Mike Brown. What can Brown do for you? Mike Brown
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Speaker 1: named coach of the Knicks, although things still have to
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Speaker 1: be worked out the crossing of the t's the dot
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Speaker 1: in the eyes, but being reported it's a done deal,
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Speaker 1: barring some kind of last minute snaffoo. Mike Brown gonna
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Speaker 1: be the coach of the Knickerbockers. Is this an upgrade
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Speaker 1: or a downgrade? Upgrade or downgrade? Mike Brown coaching the Knicks?
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Speaker 1: So this does not take a high basketball IQ. It
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Speaker 1: does not. You do not have to be some kind
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Speaker 1: of insider to know. Congratulations to the New York Knicks.
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Speaker 1: They have just downgraded, right, They've downgraded from a nice
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Speaker 1: bunker to a beach house and a hurricane is coming
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Speaker 1: to town. All right, now it looks nice, no beach house,
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Speaker 1: but wait till that storm arrives. Not so much. So
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Speaker 1: you let me get it straight. You gave Tom Thibodeau
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Speaker 1: a pink slip, and this is your solution. This is
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Speaker 1: your solution, really like you had no plan. The guy
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Speaker 1: that helped drag the rotting carcass of the Knickerbockers out
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Speaker 1: of the Dolan Dungeon as they call it in Midtown
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Speaker 1: Manhattan and Madison Square into the Eastern Conference Finals first
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Speaker 1: time since AOL dial up internet was still a thing,
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Speaker 1: And you let that go for Mike bleeping Brown. Are
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Speaker 1: you kidding me? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Yeah, Brown has
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Speaker 1: been fired more than the T shirt cannon at your
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Speaker 1: local minor league ballpark. My god, uh, Cleveland got rid
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Speaker 1: of him twice. The Lakers had him for a cup
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Speaker 1: of coffee. They dumped him after one year, after five games.
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Speaker 1: I think it was five games if I remember. They
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Speaker 1: got rid of him. Sacramento just had him they made
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Speaker 1: the playoffs and they still dumped Mike Brown. This was
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Speaker 1: mid season, after thirty one games. So that's not a trend, okay,
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Speaker 1: that is what's called a pattern. And Tom Thibodeau, who
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Speaker 1: was I guess an acquired taste. Some we like the
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Speaker 1: way he coached from afar. We don't have any skin
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Speaker 1: in the game, but his teams had grit. There was
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Speaker 1: an edge to a Tom Thibodeau coach team. And when
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Speaker 1: you juxtapose that style to Mike Brown, when people talk
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Speaker 1: about Mike Brown, everyone says the same thing. Nice guy, right,
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Speaker 1: Nice guy boy, Mike Brown. Nice guy. Everyone's talking about
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Speaker 1: how players love Mike Brown. Man, you can't get enough
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Speaker 1: of Mike Brown. He's great. So how did that work
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Speaker 1: out for the Cavs? How did that work out for
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Speaker 1: the Lakers? How did that work out for the Kings?
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Speaker 1: So get to the point, please, So nobody is yapping
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Speaker 1: about the x's and o's the mad tactician that Mike
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Speaker 1: Brown is. So Mike Brown is essentially the NBA's version
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Speaker 1: of a substitute teacher in terms of coaching. He's the
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Speaker 1: guy that will show everyone loves the sub because you
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Speaker 1: know it's an easy day when the subs there, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the sub brings some snacks, maybe some crack or something
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Speaker 1: you need to execute and you haven't put the work
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Speaker 1: in and it all it's like a grenade. It just
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Speaker 1: blows up in your hands and it's a it's a disaster.
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Speaker 1: So that's where I am. But hey, listen, these are
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Speaker 1: the knicks, this is the real knicks. They had a
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Speaker 1: little taste of success with Tom Thibodeau, and now they
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Speaker 1: kicked his ass to the curb. And now they brought
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Speaker 1: in Mike Brown, who will be peaks and valleys, but
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Speaker 1: many more, many more valleys than peaks. These stumbling, bumbling
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Speaker 1: knickerbockers are back at it yet again. All right, it
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Speaker 1: monologue to begin the night, as the clown Show continues
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Speaker 1: in Lakerland as they've signed the Booby Prize of the
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Speaker 1: NBA free agency period, DeAndre Ayton and berg Dog says.
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Speaker 1: I heard what happened earlier with Rogan. The feud with
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Speaker 1: our lead in most nights after the Dodger game, and
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Speaker 1: vassay he's been hanging out with all these millionaire baseball players.
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Speaker 1: He's he's lost his way. He has lost his way.
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Speaker 1: That's the reality. Josh Wrightson says he's in Nebraska, but
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Speaker 1: he's a Bears fan. I guess he's a Bulls fan.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe he's a Laker fan. He says.
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Speaker 1: Ben I so wanted to disagree with you on what
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Speaker 1: you were going to say, but indeed, down deep down,
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Speaker 1: I was screaming, no, DeAndre Ayton. I'd rather have stuck
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Speaker 1: with Jackson Hayes. There you go. What else do we
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Speaker 1: have about page down? Brian says the Lakers are about
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Speaker 1: to get a reality check once DeAndre Ayton puts on
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Speaker 1: that uniform. Yeah, you're not kidding, Brian. That's a great
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Speaker 1: take by you, and I'm surprised you had that take.
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Speaker 1: I thought you'd have a different take, but that appears
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Speaker 1: to be what you're saying there, Brian. Now, yeah, DeAndre Ayden.
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Speaker 1: Every generation has players like this. They just kind of
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Speaker 1: go through the motions and there you know, they're half hearted.
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Speaker 1: They don't they have ability. If they don't fully monetize
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Speaker 1: their ability, although financially he's monetized his ability. What else
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Speaker 1: we have, Tacoma Drew writes and says, A plus plus plus. Finally,
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Speaker 1: we agree spot on watching DeAndre Ayton play back basketball
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Speaker 1: in slow motion and give zero effort, yet he still
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Speaker 1: has a golden ticket aka contract for millions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: It's insanity. Well, I wish we could all have that
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Speaker 1: where you just show up half ass and you get
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Speaker 1: that money and you don't have to put the full
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Speaker 1: effort in there. It'd be great. Most people, though, actually
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Speaker 1: have to show up and put a good effort in
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Speaker 1: and can't just cut corners. But DeAndre, God bless him,
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Speaker 1: because he's tall and gifted athletically, he's been able to
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Speaker 1: figure that out how to circumvent the things that normal
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Speaker 1: people have to do in terms of like effort and
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Speaker 1: energy and things like that. Nature Boy writes in says
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Speaker 1: your your cohort. Fred Rogan could not help but sigh
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Speaker 1: and disgust when he heard eight Andy. I did a
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Speaker 1: daytime show on AM five point seventy in LA, the
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Speaker 1: flagship of Fox Sports Radio locally, and I was on
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Speaker 1: with Fred, who's the dean of La Sports and Fred
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Speaker 1: is from originally like a million years ago. He's from
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Speaker 1: Arizona and he's a Suns fan deep down, and so
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Speaker 1: he saw his heart just ripped out of his body
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Speaker 1: watching DeAndre Ayton not give a crap in the NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks. Now, Ryan writes in from
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Speaker 1: San Diego, I think he's on the Laker payroll. He says,
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Speaker 1: what other options do the Lakers have? Taj Gibson, DeAndre Jordan,
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Speaker 1: Keith Glass, Jack Sikma. The Lakers signing Ayton gives them
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Speaker 1: at least an asset. Okay, listen, if that helps you
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Speaker 1: get through the day. I don't want to be the
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Speaker 1: bearer of bad news here. If that helps you get
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Speaker 1: through the day, good luck to you, Ryan, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: And you think a team like the Portland Trailblazers who
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Speaker 1: decided this guy is such, he's such as bestis that
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Speaker 1: we have to bring in a hazmat crew to get
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Speaker 1: rid of this stiff DeAndre Ayton, when they also they
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Speaker 1: had an asset, right, Ryan, they had an asset. The Trailblazers.
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Speaker 1: They don't have many good players. They could have traded.
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Speaker 1: They could have tradedre Aiden if he's such an asset,
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Speaker 1: why not he's a double double guy. But the Blazers
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Speaker 1: are like, this guy is such a loser. We can't
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Speaker 1: win with a guy like this. We have to kick
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Speaker 1: him out of Oregon and we'll have to pay him
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Speaker 1: to play the Lakers because the Trailblazers know when the
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Speaker 1: Lakers and Blazers play, they have an advantage. They are
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Speaker 1: on the power play when DeAndre Aiden's on the court
21:24
Speaker 1: because most of the time he's not going through the
21:26
Speaker 1: mot He's just going through the motions. He's not focused
21:28
Speaker 1: now chipping the cues, writes In and says a plus
21:33
Speaker 1: on the amount of monologue. Under normal circumstances. People might
21:37
Speaker 1: want to make fun of the career of DeAndre Ayton,
21:40
Speaker 1: but one needs to remind themselves that this dude can
21:44
Speaker 1: afford to light Cuban cigars using one hundred dollars bills
21:48
Speaker 1: without losing any sleep or even batting an eye. Well,
21:52
Speaker 1: no pushback on that. That does not mean, though, that
21:57
Speaker 1: that money that he's made is because he's he's earned
22:00
Speaker 1: that money for actual performance consistently super market Steve writes
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Speaker 1: and says, damn, I did not know the Knicks could
22:08
Speaker 1: choose a head coach who made their their interest in
22:11
Speaker 1: Don Staley look like a mensa move. Yeah, that's a
22:15
Speaker 1: fair point, spots Weed writes in He's down the Oregon Trail.
22:20
Speaker 1: He says, excellent malar monologue. We meaning Portland traded Yusuf
22:25
Speaker 1: Nurkic for DeAndre Ayden and they both underperformed. I don't
22:31
Speaker 1: see DA making any impact for the Lakers, which I'm
22:34
Speaker 1: happy about. I'm experiencing great shot in freude right now. Well,
22:39
Speaker 1: you should take extra shot in freuda because dope's like
22:42
Speaker 1: that guy Ryan in San Diego. They drink that purple
22:45
Speaker 1: and gold kool aid. They just they don't get it.
22:48
Speaker 1: They do not get it, do not get it. All right,
22:50
Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. It is a call in show.
22:53
Speaker 1: And where do we begin here? Eenie Meanie miny Moe
22:56
Speaker 1: picked a caller by the day. Let's start out with Jeff,
22:59
Speaker 1: who's in and sack Ramento. What's going on? Jeff? Welcome,
23:04
Speaker 1: hey man?
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Speaker 4: How you doing tonight?
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Speaker 1: Jeff? If I was any better, I'd be a king,
23:08
Speaker 1: but not a Sacramento king because they're going the wrong direction.
23:12
Speaker 1: They're going the wrong direction.
23:14
Speaker 4: Oh I know, but you know Mike Brown. You know,
23:17
Speaker 4: teachers get Teacher of the Year every once in a while.
23:20
Speaker 4: You know, he's keep happened.
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Speaker 1: Are you praising Mike Brown? What that are you? Are
23:26
Speaker 1: you praising Mike Brown? Is that why you're making this
23:28
Speaker 1: colle Jeff.
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Speaker 4: You know, broken Quakers right to us quest today?
23:31
Speaker 3: You know?
23:32
Speaker 4: So, Yeah, but I'm just gone with the whole curse
23:36
Speaker 4: and all that kind of crap from the king. You know,
23:39
Speaker 4: you should have just turned left heading down to LA
23:41
Speaker 4: when he got fired. Yeah, New York.
23:46
Speaker 1: Wow. It is impressive though, that these Sacramento Kings had
23:49
Speaker 1: two point guards and now they have none. Right, they
23:53
Speaker 1: had Dearon Fox and Halliburton, and they traded both of them,
23:57
Speaker 1: and now they've just got this hodgepodge of a roster.
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Speaker 4: Very impressed, you, yeah, it's it's impressed. That's why you know,
24:05
Speaker 4: I'm ready for football season. Let's go Nighters.
24:08
Speaker 1: There you go, go Niners, take the and take the
24:11
Speaker 1: Giants with you. I thank you. I go. There's Jeff
24:14
Speaker 1: in Sacramento. Uh, let's see here. I can't read that
24:20
Speaker 1: on their nature boys. Very active, he was. He's doing
24:22
Speaker 1: the day night doubleheader. The nature boy. I do see
24:25
Speaker 1: Viva los VICKI checking in as well. Let's go back
24:28
Speaker 1: to the phone, So say loo to Big Daddy, who
24:30
Speaker 1: wants to say, oh, he's in Memphis, but he wants
24:32
Speaker 1: to talk to all of his constituents. Hello, big Daddy,
24:36
Speaker 1: what's going on?
24:37
Speaker 5: Definitely all my fans and all my ass I never
24:40
Speaker 5: heard to breaking news in one day?
24:43
Speaker 1: Well did break news during the day? Oh yeah, because
24:46
Speaker 1: I was on during the day. Yeah, I get to
24:47
Speaker 1: break some news and.
24:49
Speaker 4: Playing cursh off Man. That's that's that's upsetting breaking news.
24:54
Speaker 1: And yeah, look at you you were you were listening
24:56
Speaker 1: to Big Daddy during the day. How about that. I'm impressed,
24:59
Speaker 1: but U yeah, yeah. Now the Deaddy thing though, I
25:02
Speaker 1: was reading about it after I got done with that.
25:04
Speaker 1: So he's still facing some jail time, but not not as.
25:08
Speaker 4: You look.
25:09
Speaker 1: Well, that's the that's the that's the max, though, Big Daddy.
25:12
Speaker 1: I don't think he's you think he's gonna get the max.
25:14
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna.
25:15
Speaker 5: Well, you know, he might get out of there off
25:18
Speaker 5: time behavior.
25:19
Speaker 1: You know, he's already he's already been in He's already
25:22
Speaker 1: been in jail for at least a year, right, if
25:25
Speaker 1: not longer. So he's already been in there, ye going
25:28
Speaker 1: on a year and a half.
25:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotta, I gotta,
25:33
Speaker 5: I got something for big books come from big Where
25:37
Speaker 5: do work you come from?
25:44
Speaker 1: See, that's that's a that's a better joke than the
25:46
Speaker 1: leper car and told yesterday when he was in studio.
25:48
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a funnier joke and solid that's
25:52
Speaker 1: like a next level bad joke.
25:54
Speaker 5: That's uh yeah, yeah yeah, the one that don't understand.
25:57
Speaker 3: They got to think about it.
25:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now hollering James is trying to figure out
26:01
Speaker 1: what you mean. He's like what he Man, I don't
26:04
Speaker 1: have no idea, it makes no sense.
26:08
Speaker 4: Before all right, well.
26:11
Speaker 1: Enjoy the fourth I'll be we'll be here tomorrow. We'll
26:14
Speaker 1: have a live show leading into the fourth, a normal,
26:16
Speaker 1: normal schedule the rest of the week and another day
26:19
Speaker 1: night doubleheader. So another day night doubleheader.
26:22
Speaker 4: That that's the way you do.
26:24
Speaker 1: That's right there, clearly, yes, all right, thank you. There's
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Speaker 1: a big daddy checking in man Is on the campaign trail.
26:31
Speaker 1: That was a little stump speech. Now we used to
26:34
Speaker 1: have this guy, uh miss, I guess he's called mister Blunt. Now,
26:39
Speaker 1: and he he used to be a caller of the show,
26:41
Speaker 1: but he couldn't handle calling overnight talk radio, so he
26:44
Speaker 1: retired as a caller. And he has a addiction to
26:49
Speaker 1: buying lottery tickets. And mister mister blunt, he's calling himself now.
26:55
Speaker 1: He says, it sounds like the Lakers are the only
26:57
Speaker 1: team in the NBA. Well, you might want to go
26:59
Speaker 1: to Costco if there's one year where you live there
27:02
Speaker 1: in Arkansas, sir, scratch off. And they have a great
27:05
Speaker 1: hearing department. My dad when he lost his hearing when
27:08
Speaker 1: he got older, I took him to Costco. We got
27:10
Speaker 1: a hearing aid right there, kirkland Brand, kirklan Brand hearing
27:13
Speaker 1: gave my dad got a little older, we went in
27:15
Speaker 1: there and hooked him up and all that was great
27:17
Speaker 1: because that monologue was not just about the Lakers, you
27:22
Speaker 1: dumb dumb. It was also the Milwaukee Bucks, which seemed
27:27
Speaker 1: to be another team in the NBA, and the New
27:30
Speaker 1: York Knickerbockers, another team in the NBA. So you choose
27:34
Speaker 1: to listen to only what you want to hear, which
27:38
Speaker 1: is a you problem, not a me problem. That's a
27:42
Speaker 1: you problem. Sean and Portland right, sinceys the Blazers trading
27:45
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton was the first I heard of him being
27:48
Speaker 1: on the team. Well, there has been no reason to
27:51
Speaker 1: watch the Trail Blazers since the moment that Damian Lillar
27:55
Speaker 1: left town. So those two things coincide with each other. Now,
28:00
Speaker 1: speaking of pro bouncy ball and the wacky Tobacci of
28:05
Speaker 1: the NBA, Kevin Durant is going to be traded. We
28:09
Speaker 1: know that he's going to the Rockets. It's all done,
28:12
Speaker 1: but it's not done. The trade has not been finalized yet.
28:15
Speaker 1: Now is there's some kind of glitch in the thing
28:19
Speaker 1: of a jig? No, no, no, no, However, they're looking
28:23
Speaker 1: at NBA history when Kevin Durant is ultimately traded, as
28:28
Speaker 1: all these general managers have hired the salary cap experts,
28:33
Speaker 1: the nerds to come in here, the accountants to manage
28:37
Speaker 1: the salary cap and try to finagle the salary cap.
28:41
Speaker 1: And so now the Rockets. It's supposed to be just
28:44
Speaker 1: a trade between the Suns and the Rockets, and now
28:47
Speaker 1: we're being told they're going to add not one, not two,
28:50
Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, how about seven total teams.
28:55
Speaker 1: It's very complicated behind a paywall on the athletic They
28:59
Speaker 1: say that the trade of Durant from the Suns to
29:02
Speaker 1: the Rockets the deal. By the time it's done, they're
29:06
Speaker 1: anticipating a league record seven teams we'll get involved in this,
29:11
Speaker 1: including the Atlanta Hawks, the Brooklyn Nets, the Warriors, the Lakers,
29:16
Speaker 1: and the tim Barrew Wolves. They're still trying to figure
29:21
Speaker 1: it out. They're figuring out exactly who's going where and
29:24
Speaker 1: all this. Now, the previous record was set last summer
29:30
Speaker 1: when technically Clay Thompson was a sign and trade to
29:35
Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks and that was a six team trade. Now,
29:39
Speaker 1: why why are are the NBA teams all partnering up
29:43
Speaker 1: to make these massive trades Because about twenty five percent
29:50
Speaker 1: we are told of the NBA teams are having issues
29:55
Speaker 1: circumventing the salarycap. So it's it's moving money around, relocating
30:01
Speaker 1: money to try to get around it. And so they
30:05
Speaker 1: toss some things into this trade. And there's there's different layers.
30:08
Speaker 1: It's all the red tape, you know, all the fine
30:10
Speaker 1: print and all that. The trade cannot be finalized until
30:13
Speaker 1: after the holiday weekend. So today's the July third, it's
30:18
Speaker 1: still July second on the West coast, but it's July
30:21
Speaker 1: third or July third show. The fourth is tomorrow, and
30:25
Speaker 1: then on July sixth, that's when the free agency period
30:28
Speaker 1: begins and the negotiating period it started back on Monday,
30:33
Speaker 1: and so anyway, there's a lot of there. But the
30:35
Speaker 1: seven seven teams supposedly will be part of this. Like
30:39
Speaker 1: what are they just gonna throw in like second round picks?
30:41
Speaker 1: Are they gonna what are they gonna do? They're gonna
30:43
Speaker 1: toss in like a bag of popcorn or something like
30:46
Speaker 1: that to make the salary cap numbers work?
30:48
Speaker 4: Is that?
30:49
Speaker 1: Is that how that goes? I don't know. All right,
30:52
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones and we'll say hello
30:55
Speaker 1: to Andre who is in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome.
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Speaker 5: What's going on?
31:04
Speaker 4: Ben? Good to be with you?
31:06
Speaker 5: Yes on this Wednesday evening morning, depending on where you are.
31:11
Speaker 5: I think the DeAndre Ayton move in your analysis is
31:15
Speaker 5: spot on. They're going to be a much better team
31:17
Speaker 5: on paper, much better team on two K. But now
31:20
Speaker 5: you have, instead of two massive egos, universes of machismo
31:26
Speaker 5: with Luca and Lebron. Obviously they're determined to do things
31:29
Speaker 5: their own way. Now you throw eight and in there
31:31
Speaker 5: that's the third guy that's going to want to walk
31:33
Speaker 5: to the beat of his own drum. And you know
31:36
Speaker 5: how it all works together, it's going to be interesting.
31:38
Speaker 5: I think this is, you know, comparable. You know Luca
31:41
Speaker 5: how he plays, he needs that you know, lob threat,
31:43
Speaker 5: that person to make those rim runs. So they wanted
31:45
Speaker 5: to appease Luca. And they were in the same draft
31:48
Speaker 5: class together, right, Lucas should have been the number one
31:50
Speaker 5: overall pick, you know, and it ended up being eight.
31:53
Speaker 5: And who's had a kind of middling NBA career. Marvin
31:56
Speaker 5: Bagley's been forgotten. Jared Jackson Junior has panned out, so
32:00
Speaker 5: he's a step above, you know, one player who's a
32:03
Speaker 5: clear butt. But he's really the weak link in that
32:06
Speaker 5: draft class. If you kind of get rid of Marvin
32:07
Speaker 5: Bagley a third, so you partner him and Luca, hopefully
32:10
Speaker 5: you can find some symmetry. But you know, he's always
32:14
Speaker 5: been he's never had a motor except for when you
32:16
Speaker 5: need the contract and then he kind of regresses back.
32:18
Speaker 1: Well even then when he needs a contract, he's just
32:21
Speaker 1: like he just does the bare minimum. We all know
32:24
Speaker 1: people like that at work. They just do the bare
32:26
Speaker 1: minimum and they get away with it, and he's been
32:28
Speaker 1: rewarded with the riches of Solomon or in this case,
32:31
Speaker 1: the riches of the NBA and all that. I don't
32:34
Speaker 1: want to redo the twenty eighteen draft, but that is
32:37
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. If you look at the top picks there.
32:39
Speaker 1: The only one that really effed up was the Sacramento
32:42
Speaker 1: kingspick Marvin Bagley in like the top five. All everyone
32:46
Speaker 1: else in the top five turned out to be at
32:47
Speaker 1: least a pretty good NBA player. You know, Aydon's you know,
32:51
Speaker 1: he's been to the finals. He's not great, but he's
32:53
Speaker 1: better than Marvin Bagley and Trey Young's in that draft
32:57
Speaker 1: class in twenty eighteen. And then you drop off to
33:01
Speaker 1: Mo Bamba at number six. The great Mo Bamba, great name,
33:05
Speaker 1: all name team Andre, not all game team Mo Bamba.
33:11
Speaker 1: Wonderful name, not a wonderful game though.
33:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, the pride of New York City. You know, he
33:16
Speaker 5: he's a New York guy, and uh, you know he'll
33:19
Speaker 5: have work. You know, he's a rim protector and he'll
33:21
Speaker 5: if he continues to defend and get some rebounds and
33:24
Speaker 5: be a good teammate. But that's the other thing about eight.
33:25
Speaker 5: And before we kick it over, you have some good
33:27
Speaker 5: stuff on Mike Brown. And I'm obviously the leader of
33:30
Speaker 5: the Tom Thibodeaux brigade, so just quickly on that. But
33:33
Speaker 5: DeAndre and you know, he's he's a surly guy. You know,
33:35
Speaker 5: he's just it's not just that he doesn't produce effort,
33:38
Speaker 5: you know, he just he has his mood swings.
33:40
Speaker 4: So j J.
33:41
Speaker 5: Reddick, he's got his He's got his hands full. We'll see,
33:43
Speaker 5: but they're better on paper. But Mike Brown, you know again,
33:46
Speaker 5: he's essentially a Tips clone with hugs like he'll give
33:49
Speaker 5: you a hug, he'll pats on the back, he'll smile
33:51
Speaker 5: at you. But Mike Brown is an old tool coach,
33:54
Speaker 5: coming from the Greg Papa this tradition. So we're of
33:56
Speaker 5: the same mind on this. The knicks, you know, and
33:58
Speaker 5: really what it came down too, I've thought about the
34:00
Speaker 5: obvious Tips guy. It was a Jerry Jones Jimmy Johnson
34:05
Speaker 5: situation between Leon.
34:06
Speaker 4: Rose and Tibbs.
34:07
Speaker 5: And not that Tibbs is I'm not making that comparison.
34:11
Speaker 5: But he did bring prosperity to New York and they
34:13
Speaker 5: would be better off with him on the sideline. Rather
34:16
Speaker 5: than this. You know, wild goose traits in bringing in
34:19
Speaker 5: Mike Brown, but.
34:20
Speaker 1: I disagree on I think this is all James Dolan
34:23
Speaker 1: and Tom Thibodau wasn't playing ball, and Dolan was embarrassed
34:29
Speaker 1: because the way the Knicks played, they lost to a team.
34:31
Speaker 1: They should have beaten the Pacers. They were more talented then,
34:33
Speaker 1: but they lost to the to the less talented team.
34:36
Speaker 1: And Mike Brown is going to be a good middle manager.
34:39
Speaker 1: He's going to do what James Dolan wants. And but
34:42
Speaker 1: Leon Rose was Tom Thibodau's agent. I find it hard
34:45
Speaker 1: believe that Leon Rose was the guy that did this.
34:47
Speaker 1: I think it's the owner that whacked the coach. And
34:49
Speaker 1: then this guy, Mike Brown is going to come in
34:52
Speaker 1: there and he'll he'll massage the egos and all that.
34:55
Speaker 1: And he's a nice guy. Everyone loves him, and you know,
34:57
Speaker 1: the team will underachieve and then they'll get rid of
34:59
Speaker 1: him in a a couple of years and bring somebody else.
35:01
Speaker 1: And I well leave it there. Andre, thank you, the
35:02
Speaker 1: Great Andre and his dog willis in the Commonwealth. It
35:05
Speaker 1: is the Ben Mahler Show. Time now for the who
35:07
Speaker 1: Am I Game? This is where we pretend to be
35:09
Speaker 1: somebody else else. We call it the who am I? Game?
35:12
Speaker 1: So Paul Skeins, that's a pitcher, pretty good one. He
35:15
Speaker 1: is on pace for an eight plus war. That means
35:20
Speaker 1: not actual war, no bombs, no bombs, This means wins
35:24
Speaker 1: above replacement. So Paul Skeins is on pace for an
35:28
Speaker 1: eight plus wins above replacement year, and that has not
35:33
Speaker 1: happened for a Pittsburgh Pirates player since me. Again, Paul
35:39
Speaker 1: Skeins starting pitcher been a phenom. Pirates they suck, but
35:44
Speaker 1: they've played well this week. Paul Skin's on pace for
35:47
Speaker 1: eight plus wins above replacement this year. That has not
35:50
Speaker 1: been accomplished by a Pirates player since me. Who am I?
35:55
Speaker 1: That is the question?
35:56
Speaker 3: The answer Next, be sure to catch live editions of
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Speaker 1: at the very top of your screen. Now back to it.
37:02
Speaker 1: Back to it we go, and we'll pay off the
37:05
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? This is where we pretend to
37:06
Speaker 1: be somebody else, as we call it the who am I? Game?
37:08
Speaker 1: So Paul Skens is on pace for an eight plus war.
37:13
Speaker 1: That's wins above replacement. It's nerdstat That is a accomplishment
37:18
Speaker 1: that has not happened by a Pirates player since me.
37:22
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
37:26
Speaker 1: Bagel Boy going with the candy Man John Candelaria, The
37:29
Speaker 1: candy Man can Shane in de Mones says the brainiac
37:34
Speaker 1: Arthur Fonzarelli from Bobby in Florida. Apollo Creed tossed out
37:39
Speaker 1: by Donkey Sausage Ferdduck says Max Munsey. Yeah, what a
37:43
Speaker 1: tough night there for the Doyers. Max Munsey down for
37:47
Speaker 1: the count. Who else got messed up on a play
37:51
Speaker 1: at third base? White Sox Guy slid into him head first.
37:54
Speaker 1: Mister nice Guy's going with Jerry Don Gleaton. That is
37:57
Speaker 1: a great name by mister nice guy. Classic old school
38:01
Speaker 1: late eighties early nineties baseball. Who else we have r
38:04
Speaker 1: Kelly from King Rory, Roberto Clemente or Greg Guttfeld from
38:10
Speaker 1: sposwed B two Bomber aka the Death Dorito from Big
38:16
Speaker 1: Reg and Iowa, who knows a thing or two about
38:18
Speaker 1: the Ritos. Captain Jack Sparrow from Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
38:22
Speaker 1: Eke and Rosevild Minnesota going with Bert be Home Blilevin
38:27
Speaker 1: as his answer. Kent to Colby, one of the ugliest
38:31
Speaker 1: people ever to play professional sports for the Pirates back
38:33
Speaker 1: in the day Sewn in the Valley of the Sun,
38:36
Speaker 1: going with the iconic human Regin Delay Omar Dahl as
38:41
Speaker 1: his answer. Sheriff Blake from Chip and the Ques, Doug
38:45
Speaker 1: Dreyback from sewn in Portland. Rob also went with John Candelari,
38:49
Speaker 1: Robin Minnesota, Yasiel Puig from Mickey Who's up with us?
38:53
Speaker 1: In State forty eight? Listening? Who else? Terry in England
38:58
Speaker 1: went with Joe and Phil the knuckleball pitchers. I see
39:01
Speaker 1: what you did there. Uh, let's see as anyone else?
39:04
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough. Let's see. Does Mary have an answer? Mary?
39:07
Speaker 1: Do you have an answer? Mary? You know your you
39:09
Speaker 1: know your baseball, you're a big baseball person. Yes, all right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the answer, is the answer.
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Speaker 4: How do we go?
39:19
Speaker 1: W TOV Hall of Famer Rob Van dam Oh, Rod
39:22
Speaker 1: van Damn legend? Ro is it Rod van dam No,
39:26
Speaker 1: it's not, unfortunately not Rod van dam It is none
39:29
Speaker 1: other than the Great Babe Adams. Babe Adams. You probably
39:39
Speaker 1: don't know who that is. I didn't know who that is.
39:40
Speaker 1: He played nineteen thirteen for the Pirates, the Great Babe Adams.
39:44
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's not his real name. That it's a nickname.
39:47
Speaker 1: Most people aren't named Babe. It's a nickname. Anyways, go
39:50
Speaker 1: back to the phones. We'll take a quick call. Who
39:52
Speaker 1: do we have here? See any meaning? Might oh let's
39:54
Speaker 1: go to our friend Kelly in Des Moines and she's
39:57
Speaker 1: She's back, formerly known as Donut Kelly. Hello, Kelly in
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Speaker 1: the moin h I've been Hello Kelly. Hello, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 5: It's been a while. I've been out of a phone
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Speaker 5: for a while.
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Speaker 1: Really, that's a problem.
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Speaker 5: Listening to the show, unfortunately.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're not supposed to admit that, Kelly. You're not Kelly.
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Speaker 1: You're not supposed to admit you're not listening to the show.
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Speaker 1: It's a bad job by you. You're supposed to say. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean we look to the podcast the next day.
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Speaker 3: I just can't listen live anymore because the radio broke
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Speaker 3: in my car and I don't have a phone.
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Speaker 1: Okay, these seem like problems that are going to affect you.
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Speaker 1: You need a phone in the modern world. It's very
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Speaker 1: tough to live in the modern world without a phone,
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Speaker 1: very difficulty.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: They are expensive.
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Speaker 3: I mean I can keep the wireless on at home
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Speaker 3: and I can use my apps, but no, I can't
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Speaker 3: call anyone or do anything. But I'm using right now.
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Speaker 1: That's on your to do list, Kelly. Your to do
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Speaker 1: list is to get a phone this week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, Thank you then get a phone.
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Speaker 1: With Laura's cell reception, and then you can listen on
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Speaker 1: the iHeart app whatever you want.
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Speaker 5: Yes, that's exactly how I used to listen. We were
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Speaker 5: in the car and we would use my phone to
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Speaker 5: listen on the iHeart app. And that's exactly what we did.
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Speaker 1: There you go, all right, Well, I'm glad you're checked in.
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Speaker 1: We wondered what happened to you. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I felt like I was abandoning you.
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Speaker 1: I know, well, I mean we are. We're in this together.
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Speaker 1: It's a partner. Thank you. There's the Great Kelly formerly
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Speaker 1: known as Donut Kelly and des Moines giving us the
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Speaker 1: low down skinny on all that is right in the world.
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Speaker 1: That a phone broke. I hate when that happened. Got it,
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Speaker 1: I hate it. Gotta fix your phone, come on,