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- 0:31Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Minneapolis. That was
- 0:36Speaker 1: the scene Game two of the Western Conference Semifinals. Just
- 0:42Speaker 1: one game, an island game, the island life. That's what
- 0:46Speaker 1: we say, you know, in the NFL, when there's only
- 0:48Speaker 1: a game on like Monday or Sunday night or Thursday's
- 0:50Speaker 1: one game, it's an island game. Well, usually in the
- 0:53Speaker 1: NBA there's double barrel action the first couple of rounds
- 0:55Speaker 1: of the playoffs, but not tonight, the only game in
- 0:58Speaker 1: action on the Thursday night card there. In basketball, there
- 1:01Speaker 1: were some hockey games that were classic, but we talked basketball.
- 1:04Speaker 1: So the Warriors without shorthanded, without Steph Curry as the
- 1:10Speaker 1: hammy went whammy for the Warrior guards. So they were
- 1:14Speaker 1: looking to try to sneak out of the Twin Cities
- 1:16Speaker 1: with another surprise when Curry played thirteen minutes in Game
- 1:19Speaker 1: one before he grabbed his leg in agony and hopped
- 1:23Speaker 1: off the court. So that was the set of Anthony Edwards,
- 1:27Speaker 1: who sucked at a time you cannot suck in game one,
- 1:30Speaker 1: looking to have the bounce back for the Wolves. If
- 1:33Speaker 1: you're watching this or not, what was Joyous Randall who
- 1:37Speaker 1: had an up and down day himself, but he finished
- 1:39Speaker 1: with twenty four points eleven rebounds, and the Timber wo
- 1:47Speaker 1: jumped out to a thirteen nothing lead on their way
- 1:51Speaker 1: to a Harvard boat race. They never trailed, ended up
- 1:55Speaker 1: barbecuing the Warriors, covering the rather large point spread one
- 2:00Speaker 1: from seventeen to ninety three blowout City and so the
- 2:04Speaker 1: playoff series even up. Anthony Edwards was not all that good.
- 2:06Speaker 1: He also had a traumatic ankle scare which turned out
- 2:11Speaker 1: to be a whole lot of nothing. But Anthony Edwards
- 2:14Speaker 1: and Nikil Alexander Walker each had twenty Minnesota gets the win,
- 2:18Speaker 1: so Game three one to one. Now Game three will
- 2:21Speaker 1: be this weekend in San Francisco. The better story is
- 2:26Speaker 1: in the loser's locker room, so that is where we
- 2:28Speaker 1: are going to direct our attention because we like losers.
- 2:33Speaker 1: The Ben Malor Show loves losers, and the Warriors are losers.
- 2:38Speaker 1: So let's discuss the question, and I want to focus
- 2:41Speaker 1: in on the coaching here. Does Warriors coach Steve Kerr
- 2:45Speaker 1: deserve to be criticized for failing to adapt without Steph Curry?
- 2:52Speaker 1: And they knew Curry wasn't gonna play. They knew during
- 2:54Speaker 1: the Game one win that Curry wasn't gonna come back
- 2:57Speaker 1: and play in game two. So does Steve curR deserve
- 3:00Speaker 1: to be criticized for that? I've got flying Dutchmen, iron Man,
- 3:07Speaker 1: and spirit Animal, and we will combine all of these
- 3:11Speaker 1: things together and we are going to test our intestinal fortitude,
- 3:16Speaker 1: and Golden State failing that particular test, by the way,
- 3:20Speaker 1: So to answer the question number one, does Steve Kerr
- 3:25Speaker 1: deserve to be criticized for the Warriors failing to adapt
- 3:28Speaker 1: without Steph Curry? And I am nodding my head, yes,
- 3:32Speaker 1: I am nodding my head. Yes. Now, Golden State looked
- 3:35Speaker 1: like they were lost. They didn't know where they were.
- 3:37Speaker 1: It's like they were zoomed from some other planet out
- 3:41Speaker 1: far out in the cosmos. And they're like, what am
- 3:43Speaker 1: I doing here? Where am I? I don't know where
- 3:45Speaker 1: I am. And so from the other night when they
- 3:48Speaker 1: were moving and grooving, and all of a sudden, without
- 3:51Speaker 1: Curry for the whole game they come out there, they
- 3:53Speaker 1: were stumbling and bumbling. It was a stagnation situation, error
- 3:58Speaker 1: prone clumb He looked like the Wolves certainly for much
- 4:03Speaker 1: of the game. We're playing at a different speed. Here
- 4:08Speaker 1: is Steve Kerr, the coach of the Warriors, commenting on
- 4:12Speaker 1: the situation with rotation and moving players around. The whole
- 4:17Speaker 1: deal thing was he was great.
- 4:19Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he sat in a couple of
- 4:20Speaker 3: seats down. We talked a couple of times during the
- 4:22Speaker 3: game and he was talking to all the players and yeah,
- 4:26Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what he
- 4:28Speaker 3: was saying to the guys, but it's very very comforting
- 4:32Speaker 3: having him on that bench for our guys.
- 4:35Speaker 1: Well, it was him talking about Curry on the It
- 4:37Speaker 1: was comforting. Why exactly was it comforting to have Steph
- 4:40Speaker 1: Curry the Did he massage the player's shoulders, Like, how
- 4:44Speaker 1: is that comforting? Did they think maybe he was just
- 4:47Speaker 1: faking the injury and he was going to suit up
- 4:49Speaker 1: at halftime and go out and play. How's that comforting?
- 4:52Speaker 1: I don't get that anyway. So back to the point
- 4:55Speaker 1: it had, so Steve Kerr on this night was coaching
- 5:00Speaker 1: the Flying Dutchman a ghost ship that was a ghost ship,
- 5:04Speaker 1: that was an empty vessel that was found abandoned, floating
- 5:08Speaker 1: adrift on the open sea. And the real test is
- 5:14Speaker 1: how you do without your top player. Do you succeed,
- 5:19Speaker 1: do you have some level of success, or do you fail? Now,
- 5:21Speaker 1: Steve Kerr is going to go in the Hall of Fame,
- 5:25Speaker 1: He's got all kinds of records and all that, But
- 5:28Speaker 1: is this like a Belichick two point zero situation where
- 5:31Speaker 1: once Belichick lost Tom Brady all of a sudden, Belichick
- 5:35Speaker 1: is now stooping some twenty something and everyone's laughing at
- 5:39Speaker 1: him and he can't win. Well, Steve Kerr, his record
- 5:44Speaker 1: with the Warriors in games without Stephan Curry is seventy
- 5:47Speaker 1: three and one oh nine. He's got a four to
- 5:49Speaker 1: h one winning percentage in games that Curry does not
- 5:52Speaker 1: play in. And Steph Curry is not walking back through
- 5:54Speaker 1: that door anytime soon, not in the next few games anyway,
- 5:58Speaker 1: in this series. So if he doesn't go back, and
- 6:00Speaker 1: who knows if he'll ever come back in this series
- 6:03Speaker 1: it's gonna be And I go and say, should still
- 6:05Speaker 1: bounce back you would assume at home in Game three?
- 6:07Speaker 1: But man, what a mess? All right? Also, it would
- 6:09Speaker 1: also help if Jimmy Butler did not play like the
- 6:13Speaker 1: end of his run in Miami. Didn't it look like
- 6:15Speaker 1: the Jimmy Butler that was with the Miami Heat when
- 6:18Speaker 1: he was sulking with pat Riley and having issues with
- 6:21Speaker 1: Riley there. It just didn't seem fully invested in the game.
- 6:26Speaker 1: Is it because he has issues with the fans in
- 6:29Speaker 1: Minnesota and there's a back and forth there between them.
- 6:31Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. He just seemed like, Hey,
- 6:34Speaker 1: this is your opportunity to step on up. You're now
- 6:37Speaker 1: the alpha dog and you're it's your team now Curry's
- 6:40Speaker 1: not there, and here's your opportunity. And l l L
- 6:45Speaker 1: L la la la. He was acting like that a lot.
- 6:49Speaker 1: But what do I know? Now? The big talking point
- 6:52Speaker 1: which everyone's going to be happening about, is not about
- 6:55Speaker 1: the outcome of the game. It's not about Steph Curry's injury,
- 6:57Speaker 1: It's not about Steve Kerry. It is about Draymond Green.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead, my man? All right, well, I
- 7:03Speaker 1: guess we did so Draymond Green made headlines again. Green
- 7:06Speaker 1: picked up a fifth postseason tectic, Oh my god, fifth
- 7:10Speaker 1: technical the postseason in Golden State's loss. And he did
- 7:13Speaker 1: it with player. He did it with ras Mataz. Draymond
- 7:17Speaker 1: Green was in the second quarter of the game. He
- 7:21Speaker 1: was assessed a technical foul after he elbowed Naz Reid
- 7:25Speaker 1: of the Timberwolves right in the face, right in the kisser, bam,
- 7:30Speaker 1: right like that. Now Green was irate. He was completely
- 7:38Speaker 1: flabberg acid with the call. And it got to the
- 7:41Speaker 1: point there it looked like a Vaudvillian comedy because you
- 7:45Speaker 1: had the Warriors guard Steph Curry, who again was there
- 7:49Speaker 1: to give good vibrations to the tam. He had Steph
- 7:51Speaker 1: Curry coming off the bench to try to calm him down.
- 7:53Speaker 1: You had Steve Kerr. It's like professional wrestling taking Raymond
- 7:58Speaker 1: out of the game to try to d s him
- 8:01Speaker 1: from snapping and getting another fowl called and all it. So, now,
- 8:06Speaker 1: what does that mean? So with five technical fouls the
- 8:09Speaker 1: way I'm told, with five technicals and just nine postseason games,
- 8:14Speaker 1: Draymond Green is two away from earning a suspension, so
- 8:20Speaker 1: he gets at least what a game. So you do
- 8:23Speaker 1: the math on that. It ain't looking good. And so
- 8:26Speaker 1: then that was just the setup. That was the appetizer
- 8:30Speaker 1: to the main event. In the visiting locker room at
- 8:33Speaker 1: the Target Center and the bowels of the arena there
- 8:35Speaker 1: in the Twin Cities, Draymond Green addressing reporters, and he
- 8:40Speaker 1: played the race card from the bottom of the deck.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Take a listen. It looked like the angry black man.
- 8:45Speaker 1: I'm not an angry black man. I'm a very successful,
- 8:47Speaker 1: educated black man with a great family, and I'm great
- 8:51Speaker 1: at basketball. I'm great at what I do to the
- 8:53Speaker 1: a gender. To try to keep making me look like
- 8:55Speaker 1: an angry black man is crazy. I'm sick of it.
- 8:57Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Okay, dropped the mic and walked off. All right,
- 9:02Speaker 1: So I think he said angry black man three times
- 9:05Speaker 1: in twenty seconds. I think, all right, So what do
- 9:08Speaker 1: you take away? You just heard it. That's what everyone's
- 9:10Speaker 1: gonna be talking about. What did you take away from
- 9:12Speaker 1: Draymond Green his postgame rant about Hey, I'm not an
- 9:17Speaker 1: angry black man. So my takeaway on this is that
- 9:22Speaker 1: it was iron man like it was Tony Stark who
- 9:25Speaker 1: once said deflect and absorb. This is also out of
- 9:29Speaker 1: the Lebron James playbook, where everyone's gonna be picking on
- 9:33Speaker 1: Draymond Green because you're what are you doing? You know,
- 9:36Speaker 1: you can't be elbowing people like this. You're in a
- 9:38Speaker 1: situation where you have to be on your best baby,
- 9:40Speaker 1: and so you did the thing you can't really do.
- 9:42Speaker 1: And so he knows that he knows how this works.
- 9:44Speaker 1: He's dabbled in the media. So what does he do.
- 9:46Speaker 1: He takes the deck of cards out and plays the
- 9:49Speaker 1: victim card from the bottom of the deck, right, victim card.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Make it all about me being the victim, which I
- 9:56Speaker 1: think is the playbook from the you know, the last
- 9:58Speaker 1: few years ago when everyone was playing the victim. I
- 10:01Speaker 1: guess it's still in vogue for some people. But Draymond
- 10:03Speaker 1: Green is I get maybe I'm wrong with this. It
- 10:07Speaker 1: sounds like he's trying to twist this into some kind
- 10:09Speaker 1: of racial issue when it's not about that. It's about him.
- 10:13Speaker 1: The way he plays. He's the enforcer and he is
- 10:17Speaker 1: a in compared to how basketball used to be back
- 10:19Speaker 1: in the olden days with Charles Oakley and Bill Layane
- 10:24Speaker 1: Beer and people like that. Those were real basketball goons.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Rick Mahorn like Draymond Green's a mister softy compared to
- 10:29Speaker 1: those guys, but compared to the modern basketball player, he
- 10:32Speaker 1: is seen as this tough, brooding player that is the enforcer.
- 10:37Speaker 1: The other problem for Draymond, aside from the fact no
- 10:40Speaker 1: one was saying he wasn't educated, no one was saying
- 10:42Speaker 1: he's not a great family man. That's not what the
- 10:44Speaker 1: conversation was about. He turned into that is the film
- 10:48Speaker 1: does not lie. As Andy Reid likes to say, a
- 10:50Speaker 1: Draymond Green has a sizzle reel and somebody sent me
- 10:54Speaker 1: this clip, and I will give I don't know who.
- 10:56Speaker 1: I forgot who it was off the top of my head.
- 10:58Speaker 1: I was telling somebody in the pre show meeting this.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Somebody sent me a clip on social media of Draymond
- 11:06Speaker 1: and his rant and behind the van they put video
- 11:10Speaker 1: up of Draymond his sizzle reel of if you will
- 11:14Speaker 1: were you know, I'm not angry, I'm not angry black man.
- 11:17Speaker 1: And then there's there's clips of him putting a choke
- 11:20Speaker 1: hold on Rudy Gobert, stopping on Demontes Sibonis, kicking Steven
- 11:25Speaker 1: Adams in the basket balls, poking Lebron's anaconda, and all
- 11:31Speaker 1: these other It was hilarious. It's one of the funniest
- 11:33Speaker 1: things I've seen. And listen, Draymond has a Lifetime Achievement
- 11:38Speaker 1: Award for a history of unsportsmanlike acts in the eyes
- 11:43Speaker 1: of the NBA. Okay, So that's where we are. And
- 11:46Speaker 1: now it's gonna be twenty four hours of Draymond Green.
- 11:50Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna have a hotache on Draymond. You'll get the
- 11:55Speaker 1: the think pieces, you know, You'll get the deep thinkers
- 11:57Speaker 1: out there that will be all offended that people are
- 11:59Speaker 1: attacking Draymond Green, and they'll they'll pick up the calls
- 12:02Speaker 1: for Draymond. And then you have other people think this
- 12:04Speaker 1: is the dumbest thing in the world, and so nothing
- 12:07Speaker 1: will change. And that'll be that and we'll move on
- 12:09Speaker 1: to the next games. All right, now, final point, So,
- 12:12Speaker 1: have Anthony Edwards to get back to the series. Have
- 12:15Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves solved the Warriors riddle?
- 12:20Speaker 1: Did Game two show you that Minnesota has now solved things?
- 12:25Speaker 1: They've solved it? So here's my position, things are pointing up, right,
- 12:30Speaker 1: things are pointing up. But it's not about Minnesota having
- 12:34Speaker 1: a solution. To to me, it's not about that.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Right.
- 12:37Speaker 1: To me, it's not about that, because this is more
- 12:40Speaker 1: about Golden State looking like a nineties comedy. They were
- 12:44Speaker 1: dazed and confused in the first quarter, falling behind thirteen
- 12:48Speaker 1: to nothing and trailing the entire game. They were for
- 12:51Speaker 1: the most part on autopilot. Now I will give them
- 12:54Speaker 1: an ounce of Okay, you didn't get run off the
- 12:57Speaker 1: court and quit like Denver did. Denver completely quit against
- 13:02Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. That was ridiculous. But Golden State was going
- 13:05Speaker 1: through the motion. It's making no mistake and it is
- 13:08Speaker 1: an embarrassing, e masculating situation that no one stepped up
- 13:13Speaker 1: without Steph Curry in the lineup. And that's really the
- 13:17Speaker 1: story here, right, that's the story. This game was more
- 13:20Speaker 1: about the Warriors sucking than it was about the Wolves
- 13:23Speaker 1: solving the Rubik's cube. If you will here, and we
- 13:26Speaker 1: imagine Golden State will be getting some smelling salts delivered
- 13:30Speaker 1: from Amazon or somewhere and then they'll have those before
- 13:33Speaker 1: Game three. But the Timberwolves, they have the ingredients to
- 13:37Speaker 1: win this series Anthony Edwards when he plays, he didn't play.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I didn't think he played that great in this game either.
- 13:43Speaker 1: You got little ankle thing, which he as all the
- 13:46Speaker 1: NBA players do, turned out to be an Academy Award performance.
- 13:50Speaker 1: They've got the defensive prowess, they have the rebounding, they
- 13:53Speaker 1: have all that stuff. My issue, my main issue with
- 13:58Speaker 1: the Wolves is that their spirit animal is a yo yo.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Now you're probably saying a yo yo is not an animal,
- 14:06Speaker 1: but I would argue that a yo yo identifies as
- 14:10Speaker 1: an animal, therefore it is an animal. So a yo
- 14:13Speaker 1: yo is the spirit animal of the Timberwolves. And what
- 14:17Speaker 1: I'm trying to say is they're up and down. They're
- 14:20Speaker 1: up and they're down and they're all around right. Rather
- 14:24Speaker 1: than smooth peanut putter, they are the extra chunky, crunchy
- 14:28Speaker 1: peanut Butter's what they are. There's no real consistency from
- 14:31Speaker 1: game to game. And now the good news from Minnesota
- 14:34Speaker 1: is that Steph Curry will not be walking through that
- 14:37Speaker 1: door anytime soon. He'll be sidelined by the hammy that
- 14:41Speaker 1: went whammy until at least sometime next week and likely
- 14:45Speaker 1: longer than that, and even when he comes back, he's
- 14:48Speaker 1: a ticking time bomb, as the hamstring often leads to
- 14:53Speaker 1: a bigger injury down the line. We've seen that many
- 14:56Speaker 1: times over the years watching these sports games. So we'll
- 14:59Speaker 1: see what happens. But it's a hot mess. It is
- 15:01Speaker 1: a hot mess.
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- 15:12Speaker 1: App Our lead. This hour is a hybrid. We're gonna
- 15:16Speaker 1: go to basketball, but I wanted to start with something
- 15:18Speaker 1: else because this story, there's a story that caught my attention,
- 15:22Speaker 1: and it involves college football, it involves the NFL, and
- 15:29Speaker 1: so we're gonna go there prime time if you will
- 15:33Speaker 1: yet again another Mallard monologue about the life and times
- 15:36Speaker 1: of everyone's favorite fifth round draft pick, Sudur Sanders. So
- 15:40Speaker 1: you might have seen it, maybe not. There were some
- 15:41Speaker 1: clips going around. Should Ur Sanders showed up with very
- 15:44Speaker 1: expensive I guess that was a backpack. I guess it
- 15:47Speaker 1: wasn't a back it was a bag. It was like
- 15:49Speaker 1: a high end designer bag. As he showed up to
- 15:52Speaker 1: Brown's practice, and the chatter continues about how he got there,
- 15:56Speaker 1: regarding how someone who got so much attention ended up
- 16:00Speaker 1: a fifth round draft pick. Now, if you've not heard
- 16:02Speaker 1: the latest on this, and maybe not, we are told
- 16:06Speaker 1: that multiple NFL executives have come out and put Don
- 16:12Speaker 1: Sanders on the astro blaster coach pram time Dion Sanders,
- 16:19Speaker 1: claiming that his involvement in Shadur Sanders' pre draft process
- 16:23Speaker 1: played a large part in the massive free fall down
- 16:29Speaker 1: the draft board of Shoulder Sanders. The money quote money
- 16:34Speaker 1: quote from a story in the USA today, the paper
- 16:37Speaker 1: that has the weather map on the back that people
- 16:40Speaker 1: used to read at hotels back in the day. I
- 16:42Speaker 1: don't know anyone reads it now, but anyway, I guess
- 16:44Speaker 1: they're still in business. The quote was, I think his
- 16:47Speaker 1: dad's involvement hurt him. A high level NFL executive said,
- 16:52Speaker 1: some of the things, some of the things that his
- 16:56Speaker 1: dad said, I think that weighed on people's minds. Another
- 17:00Speaker 1: executive said, I think he he had some bad advice
- 17:03Speaker 1: from his father. He needed a traditional agent like other players.
- 17:07Speaker 1: All right, so let us discuss the question what intrigues
- 17:12Speaker 1: you the most? What intrigues you the most about the
- 17:14Speaker 1: latest revelations, if you will, of Dion Sanders herting Shadar
- 17:20Speaker 1: Sanders NFL outlook, and he continues to be a narrative
- 17:25Speaker 1: that is being pressed forward when you see these quotes
- 17:28Speaker 1: from unnamed NFL sources. So my observations on this, I've
- 17:33Speaker 1: got the King of pop, Supreme Court, and trivial pursuit,
- 17:38Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
- 17:42Speaker 1: try not to have that sinking feeling. We're gonna try
- 17:44Speaker 1: not to have that sinking feeling because we're gonna make
- 17:47Speaker 1: the Gabba Ghul. And when you make the Gabba Gul,
- 17:49Speaker 1: you're not gonna have that sinking feeling. Numb burn? Can
- 17:54Speaker 1: I get a numb burn? All right? So the passing
- 17:59Speaker 1: the buck part of the story, that is the thing
- 18:01Speaker 1: that stands out. The passing of the buck here, Dion
- 18:05Speaker 1: Sanders being the villain is the word I we use
- 18:10Speaker 1: is comical. I think it's comical. It's overly simplistic to
- 18:14Speaker 1: blame Dion for this situation. To me, it does not
- 18:18Speaker 1: pass the sniff test. It does not. And I believe
- 18:22Speaker 1: in personal accountability, and so in this one, if you say,
- 18:28Speaker 1: who's really to blame, is it Dion? Is it your
- 18:30Speaker 1: dure like to me, it's always gonna fall. On the
- 18:32Speaker 1: classic song from the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Man
- 18:36Speaker 1: in the Mirror, it's the man in the mirror, and
- 18:38Speaker 1: that is Shadur Sanders, the kid. And you say, well,
- 18:41Speaker 1: it's Dion's fault because he's the father and you know
- 18:44Speaker 1: he raised him, and you know, okay, Well, Dian was
- 18:46Speaker 1: also in the NFL media world living his life. I
- 18:50Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know the dynamic there, the family dynamic.
- 18:54Speaker 1: But even if you have great parenting, sometimes the kid
- 18:58Speaker 1: just turns out to be a know for years, you know,
- 19:01Speaker 1: schmuck and all that, and it takes time to figure
- 19:04Speaker 1: things out in life. And sometimes it doesn't matter if
- 19:06Speaker 1: you have got perfect parents or not. Kid's gonna be
- 19:09Speaker 1: kind of an a hole. And that's what happened. But
- 19:11Speaker 1: to me, it's it's the arrogance of Shooter Sanders. It
- 19:14Speaker 1: backfired spectacle. The stories were that he skipped workouts, he
- 19:20Speaker 1: was selective in interviews. I thought, with all that, well,
- 19:22Speaker 1: he's not gonna fall. I thought he'd be drafted at
- 19:25Speaker 1: the end of the first round or early in the
- 19:27Speaker 1: second round. I don't think he was drafting the fifth round.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Nobody did, but there were reports that he was a
- 19:32Speaker 1: grade AID grade A you know, Dingo Berry Schmendrick, and
- 19:38Speaker 1: he treated the NFL like they needed him more than
- 19:40Speaker 1: he needed them. He thought that he was God's gift
- 19:43Speaker 1: to the NFL. And he could not have been more wrong,
- 19:46Speaker 1: at least in the draft process. And that's that's the rub.
- 19:49Speaker 1: Like if he had been the same way yet had
- 19:54Speaker 1: the guaranteed level of success in the eyes of the
- 19:58Speaker 1: NFL world, it wouldn't have mat right. If he was
- 20:01Speaker 1: the perfect prospect, then he would have been drafted in
- 20:05Speaker 1: the first round. He would have been the first quarterback pick.
- 20:08Speaker 1: But spoiler alert, he obviously has many warts and imperfections.
- 20:13Speaker 1: And it did not help that he channeled Cam Newton
- 20:19Speaker 1: with the the the chest puffs, the pelvic thrust, the
- 20:23Speaker 1: arrogance truts that amplified the scrutiny. And so here we are.
- 20:30Speaker 1: They're still blaming Dion and I'm also annoyed. I know
- 20:34Speaker 1: it's a pet peeve of mine with the people that
- 20:36Speaker 1: are convinced you have to have an agent, and it's
- 20:41Speaker 1: I've used the analogy before. It's like asking a lawyer
- 20:46Speaker 1: if you need legal counsel. They're going to tell you,
- 20:49Speaker 1: of course you need legal counselor or if it's like,
- 20:52Speaker 1: do I have a case? If you ask a lawyer,
- 20:54Speaker 1: well yeah, most lawyers are going to say, yes, you
- 20:57Speaker 1: have a case. How much money do you have? That's
- 20:59Speaker 1: how how big a case you have? Now turning the page,
- 21:04Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to pro bouncy ball. The Pacers
- 21:07Speaker 1: are up two to oher over the Calves. There was
- 21:10Speaker 1: no game in this series last night, just the Timberwolves
- 21:13Speaker 1: beating the Warriors last night. But the Pacers are up too. Oh.
- 21:15Speaker 1: They win both games in Cleveland, big road wins, like
- 21:18Speaker 1: big time, big time wins. So even on a day off,
- 21:23Speaker 1: even on a day off in this series, they picked
- 21:26Speaker 1: up a victory. We have learned that ty Reese Halliburton
- 21:30Speaker 1: over reded. Tyrese Haliburton is not going to be fine.
- 21:37Speaker 1: Was not fine for his big Balls dance celebration after
- 21:42Speaker 1: hitting that game winning dagga the three pointer against the
- 21:46Speaker 1: Cleveland basketball team back in Game two of the Eastern
- 21:50Speaker 1: Conference semi finals. Remember he did the big Balls dance
- 21:53Speaker 1: and we said, well, that's a tax deductible donation. Well,
- 21:55Speaker 1: the NBA chows to issue a warning instant of a fine.
- 22:01Speaker 1: So question for the esteem panel, how surprised are you
- 22:05Speaker 1: that the NBA over lord's allowed Tyrese Halliburton a free
- 22:11Speaker 1: big balls dance partay allowed him to get away with it.
- 22:17Speaker 1: So my first thought is it's abnormal. That's not my opinion,
- 22:21Speaker 1: it is in fact, the Supreme Court of Basketball has
- 22:26Speaker 1: overturned the standard. They've overturned the precedent of previous rules. Now,
- 22:34Speaker 1: what is my evidence If you go back to twenty ten,
- 22:37Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, I remember doing monologues right here in
- 22:41Speaker 1: twenty ten that the NBA had said no to big balls.
- 22:45Speaker 1: The NBA had said, we have no room for big balls.
- 22:49Speaker 1: You can't tell anyone you've got big balls, and they've
- 22:53Speaker 1: been It became taboo. And one of the last ones
- 22:56Speaker 1: to get away with it was Kobe Bryant who did
- 22:59Speaker 1: a big ball's celebration, but it wasn't illegal. It was
- 23:03Speaker 1: after that a year later, in twenty ten, they banned
- 23:05Speaker 1: the balls. So Halliburton himself, there's a quote going around
- 23:09Speaker 1: he expected to get fined. He said, I've been waiting
- 23:13Speaker 1: for that. I'll take the fine gladly close quote. Halliburton
- 23:17Speaker 1: said he was aware of the president. He was aware
- 23:19Speaker 1: of the president. Now, the NBA has a history of
- 23:23Speaker 1: fighting players going back again, we're talking about fifteen years
- 23:26Speaker 1: here for the Serrano from Major League Baseball. The movie
- 23:30Speaker 1: celebration deemed obscene, right, and the NBA generally finds you
- 23:36Speaker 1: between fifteen and twenty five thousand dollars. So if you
- 23:39Speaker 1: do the math on that, that's like, if it's twenty
- 23:42Speaker 1: five thousand dollars, it's twelve thousand, five hundred dollars. I believe,
- 23:47Speaker 1: I think the math is right on there. Per big ball,
- 23:51Speaker 1: So that's an expensive ball, and it depends on the incident.
- 23:55Speaker 1: And if you've done it before. Now, Sam Cassell, half man,
- 23:58Speaker 1: half alien, if you remember him, was the og of
- 24:02Speaker 1: this this kind of move. Now more recently, Lebron was
- 24:05Speaker 1: fine for this a couple of years ago. Fred van
- 24:07Speaker 1: Vliet was fine when he was in Toronto. Isaiah Thomas,
- 24:10Speaker 1: the Celtics guy, he got dingg for this. But now
- 24:14Speaker 1: it appears the NBA has decided that they are going
- 24:17Speaker 1: to embrace their big balls and that the celebration will
- 24:21Speaker 1: be adjudicated on a case by case basis. So okay,
- 24:25Speaker 1: you're good to go. You think that was a side
- 24:28Speaker 1: deal with Haliburton's like, hey, listen, we banned your dad
- 24:30Speaker 1: from going to the games. That you're allowed to do
- 24:32Speaker 1: the big balls thing. It's that's the deal, all right.
- 24:35Speaker 1: Final point. We now head to TV Land where pro
- 24:40Speaker 1: bouncy Ball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, a Boston Celtics legend,
- 24:46Speaker 1: went viral, went viral. On Thursday. He walked approximately twenty
- 24:52Speaker 1: miles from his home, which is not far away from
- 24:55Speaker 1: the Fox Sports radio studios, but he walked from there
- 25:00Speaker 1: to the Fox Sports one studios, which are in West LA,
- 25:05Speaker 1: to fulfill at bet he made during some show that
- 25:08Speaker 1: he does that, Like, you know, I guess people like that.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I don't know the name of it. I don't I've
- 25:12Speaker 1: remember seen the show anyway, Pierce geron t he guaranteed
- 25:18Speaker 1: that the Celtics were gonna win Game two of their
- 25:22Speaker 1: series with the next season, well, that's it. We're gonna win.
- 25:24Speaker 1: That's it. We're gonna win raw raw and all that.
- 25:27Speaker 1: He stated that he would walk to work, which is
- 25:30Speaker 1: like fifteen twenty miles something like that, in his robe
- 25:34Speaker 1: and barefoot. That was the bet. I will walk to work,
- 25:37Speaker 1: Paul Pierce said, fifteen twenty miles in my robe barefoot
- 25:42Speaker 1: if if the Celtics lost, well, of course we know
- 25:46Speaker 1: they lost. And so there's video of this, Paul Pierce
- 25:49Speaker 1: walking to work, and several of you knuckleheads, you mouth
- 25:54Speaker 1: breathing morons, have complained to me, well, you see, look,
- 25:59Speaker 1: Paul Pierce did it. You didn't look to Tucson. You
- 26:02Speaker 1: said you're gonna walked You ain't you? You didn't do
- 26:06Speaker 1: it all. Okay, let me address this. Okay, I would
- 26:10Speaker 1: like to address this. If you've listened for a while,
- 26:14Speaker 1: you might not know this. This wager was made many, many,
- 26:19Speaker 1: many many years ago. We're going way back. In fact,
- 26:24Speaker 1: I'd have to go back and look to see exactly
- 26:25Speaker 1: what year this wager was made. It's a long time
- 26:29Speaker 1: and some of these morons still remember this. So I
- 26:33Speaker 1: was on the air during the NCAA NCAA Men's basketball
- 26:36Speaker 1: tournament Arizona. This is how long ago Lude Olsen was
- 26:39Speaker 1: the coach. He's been dead for years. But Lude Olsen
- 26:41Speaker 1: was coaching against Illinois, and Arizona had a commanding lead
- 26:46Speaker 1: in the final minutes. And I was practicing the ancient
- 26:50Speaker 1: art of gat baggery, and I rant it and I
- 26:52Speaker 1: raved and I said there's no way that Illinois is
- 26:55Speaker 1: gonna win this game. It's in the bag for Arizona,
- 26:58Speaker 1: and if Arizona loses, I will walk to Tucson from
- 27:02Speaker 1: the Fox Sports Radio studios to Tucson. Well, we know
- 27:05Speaker 1: what happened. We've been through the story a bunch of times.
- 27:07Speaker 1: I went to management. I said I'd like to walk
- 27:09Speaker 1: to Tucson. My boss, the late great Andrew Ashwood at
- 27:12Speaker 1: the time, said Ben, you're morbidly obese. You'll die before
- 27:15Speaker 1: you get to Riverside. And I said, I want to
- 27:18Speaker 1: do it. And then we did the math. We determined
- 27:20Speaker 1: how many miles I could walk per day, how many
- 27:22Speaker 1: days it would take. We then looked at the weather
- 27:25Speaker 1: at that time. It was the tournament was in March,
- 27:28Speaker 1: so the weather wasn't too bad, but it was kind
- 27:30Speaker 1: of a hot week the time we were talking about
- 27:33Speaker 1: doing it. So anyway, it didn't happen. So let's get
- 27:36Speaker 1: into this here. Let's get into it question. Are you
- 27:40Speaker 1: jealous that Paul Pierce paid off his TV bet to
- 27:43Speaker 1: walk twenty miles to work? And people are accusing yours
- 27:47Speaker 1: truly of not paying off the beat. So I'm gonna
- 27:49Speaker 1: shake my head. No, on this and by the way,
- 27:54Speaker 1: by the way, as the oracle of truth, right, I
- 28:00Speaker 1: buy into the tinfoil hat conspiracy. Is it true that
- 28:06Speaker 1: while the illusion was that Paul Pierce actually walked all
- 28:09Speaker 1: the way twenty miles to work, is it true that
- 28:13Speaker 1: he actually did not pay off the wager? Say what,
- 28:18Speaker 1: let me explain. We're gonna call this the trivial pursuit.
- 28:23Speaker 1: If you listen to the words and you read the
- 28:27Speaker 1: fine print, Paul Pierce failed on a technicality. He had
- 28:33Speaker 1: said very specifically, very specifically, Paul Pierce had said he
- 28:37Speaker 1: was gonna walk to work the fifteen to twenty miles
- 28:40Speaker 1: whatever it was, in his robe, bear foot, bear foot, barefoot,
- 28:48Speaker 1: barefoot if they lost. So Pierce got up early on Thursday, Yeah,
- 28:55Speaker 1: got up early, start walking. He documented everything on Instagram live,
- 28:59Speaker 1: and he was wearing his bathrobe like you said. However, however,
- 29:05Speaker 1: he had shoes, he had shoes, He had clodhoppers, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Paul Pierce wore shoes. He did not pay off the bet.
- 29:19Speaker 1: That is fraudulent and it's bull crap. It's absolute bull
- 29:23Speaker 1: crap that people said, well, you put it off the bet.
- 29:25Speaker 1: He didn't pay off the bet. He didn't pay off
- 29:28Speaker 1: the bet. I paid off my bet, my last bet
- 29:31Speaker 1: that I made. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
- 29:33Speaker 1: Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oysters. So the move
- 29:38Speaker 1: is yours, mister Pierce. You didn't pay off your bet.
- 29:41Speaker 1: You wore shoes. I said I was gonna eat Rocky
- 29:44Speaker 1: Mountain oisters. I ate Rocky Mountain oisters. Done. You, on
- 29:48Speaker 1: the other hand, did not meet the conditions of the bet.
- 29:52Speaker 1: You didn't do it. It's a bad job by you,
- 29:55Speaker 1: and it's you can't trust the media. Another example of
- 29:59Speaker 1: the meat giving you fake news that Paul Pierce paid
- 30:03Speaker 1: off the bat he said no shows. Paul Pierce war
- 30:07Speaker 1: shows jos ridiculous. Don't fall for it fake news.
- 30:14Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
- 30:16Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 30:20Speaker 1: Here we gowout degree. This is one big event. Gets grilled,
- 30:29Speaker 1: all right and leave a.
- 30:30Speaker 4: Lat Ben Manny Pakiao, Manny Pacio will end his nearly
- 30:35Speaker 4: for your retirement to face Mario Barrios for the WC
- 30:39Speaker 4: Welterweight Championship on July nineteenth in Las Vegas.
- 30:41Speaker 1: Ben, is this a must watch event? And does he
- 30:43Speaker 1: even have a chance? No, this is a money grab.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I guess he's maybe lost some money in the stock market.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Pacquiao is forty six years old. This is all about nostalgia,
- 30:55Speaker 1: Like the people that were fans of Paccio back in
- 30:57Speaker 1: the day. They're gonna watch the curiosity from p that.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Maybe we're too young and didn't watch Packy on his prime.
- 31:03Speaker 1: He's definitely not his prime. But no, this is not
- 31:05Speaker 1: must watch now. I might check it out for content purposes,
- 31:08Speaker 1: but am I excited about it? No?
- 31:10Speaker 4: Next, more bang for your Becker, Ben, You could get
- 31:13Speaker 4: into Madison Square Garden for four hundred and seventy nine
- 31:16Speaker 4: dollars to watch Game three between the Knicks and Celtics.
- 31:18Speaker 4: Or you could watch the first ever WNBA showdown between
- 31:22Speaker 4: Caitlin Clark and Paige Becker for three hundred and seventeen dollars.
- 31:26Speaker 1: What is the most bang for your buck? Well, as
- 31:29Speaker 1: you know, I am a discerning customer and I but
- 31:32Speaker 1: I'm not a customer of the WNBA. That's not something
- 31:35Speaker 1: I pay attention to. So I mean I am interested
- 31:38Speaker 1: in the NBA, so I would rite I'm not gonna
- 31:39Speaker 1: spend money on either one of them. But if I,
- 31:41Speaker 1: if you got into my head, I would take the
- 31:43Speaker 1: NBA game. I would I'd rather see that next Hail Mary.
- 31:46Speaker 1: We talked about it.
- 31:47Speaker 4: After only two days, the conclave elected the first Pope
- 31:49Speaker 4: ever from the United States, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost All
- 31:53Speaker 4: out of South Side of Chicago, now known as Pope
- 31:56Speaker 4: Leo the Fourteenth. Ben, will the new Holy Father bring
- 31:59Speaker 4: divine intervention into the Windy City or Villanova?
- 32:02Speaker 1: I just want to know if he's gonna bring the
- 32:04Speaker 1: Pope mobile. Isn't that cool? The Pope bring that to America?
- 32:07Speaker 1: This cruise stuff? And uh, how much does the Pope
- 32:10Speaker 1: get paid? Do we know that lead does that?
- 32:12Speaker 4: It?
- 32:12Speaker 1: Does the Pope get a salary or just everything's taken
- 32:15Speaker 1: care of. I will look into that. How big is
- 32:17Speaker 1: the Pope's bedroom at the Vaticate? These are things I
- 32:19Speaker 1: want to know. He gets good jewelry? Yeah, that's a win.
- 32:22Speaker 1: I won. You didn't answer the last one, Ben, I
- 32:26Speaker 1: did answer. I answered it with more questions. Hey, knock, knock,
- 32:34Speaker 1: who's there? Blame week?
- 32:35Speaker 2: Blame week too.
- 32:36Speaker 1: It's big Ben's lame joke of the week. All right,
- 32:39Speaker 1: let's do it then, jokes in the league. Are you
- 32:41Speaker 1: there weed man hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami. Well, yeah,
- 32:46Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm here, all right. You don't see him
- 32:49Speaker 1: that excited today? Are you not excited?
- 32:52Speaker 2: I'm tired?
- 32:54Speaker 1: Okay, all right? These are actually something great. I know
- 32:59Speaker 1: your roommates got her actual jokes by actual listeners. Send
- 33:03Speaker 1: into the show. I love you, all right, Benmallers show
- 33:08Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Did you hear the tooth fairy
- 33:11Speaker 1: move to Miami? He became a vagrant and was arrested
- 33:14Speaker 1: for trespassing. That's not the punchline. Policeas trying to identify
- 33:24Speaker 1: the owner of some dirty dentures found in her apartment
- 33:27Speaker 1: cart or shopping cart. Rather, that's Jordon in Takba. I
- 33:31Speaker 1: screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh was
- 33:33Speaker 1: funny anyway? How much of a bomb is weed man hippie?
- 33:37Speaker 2: How much?
- 33:38Speaker 1: Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
- 33:43Speaker 1: in two different ways. So that's Alex the Cinecal. What
- 33:48Speaker 1: do you call weed man in a plane? What?
- 33:52Speaker 2: Hi?
- 33:53Speaker 1: What do you call weed man on land? What? Also? High?
- 34:00Speaker 1: That's Alex Lisinecal who sent that one? In. Well, interesting
- 34:05Speaker 1: news out. I don't know if you saw this this week.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Did you know that Weedman Hippie once defeated a silver
- 34:10Speaker 1: backed gorilla in combat? You kidding me? Yeah? Yeah, it
- 34:17Speaker 1: turns out the gorilla could not handle the smell. That's
- 34:21Speaker 1: Tom from Fullerton, who sent that one in. Well, here's
- 34:26Speaker 1: one from the lame joke writer of the Year last year.
- 34:30Speaker 1: I believe he's won a couple of times. Here. What
- 34:32Speaker 1: was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was his nickname?
- 34:38Speaker 1: That's surfer Tom the comedian. These are actual jokes by
- 34:44Speaker 1: actual listeners. How did weed Man get off the streets?
- 34:47Speaker 4: Wow?
- 34:49Speaker 1: But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
- 34:51Speaker 1: That's how you did. That's how Drew in Minnesota, Thank
- 34:55Speaker 1: you Drew. What is the difference between Mike the Leprechaun
- 34:58Speaker 1: and weed Man Hippie? What Mike is searching for a
- 35:02Speaker 1: pot of gold and weed Man is just looking for
- 35:06Speaker 1: pot that's a Yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before.
- 35:10Speaker 1: That's Chip in Maine. It's Big Man's Lame Jokes of
- 35:14Speaker 1: the Week. Well, weed Man, why is it surprising that
- 35:18Speaker 1: you're short and only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds.
- 35:21Speaker 1: That's not true. But why because you're a big dummy.
- 35:25Speaker 1: That's Tony in the Bay Area. That's not nice, Tony,
- 35:28Speaker 1: that's not nice. What is the difference between weed man
- 35:31Speaker 1: and a catfish? What one is a bottom feeder? The
- 35:36Speaker 1: other is a fish? That's a Noah in Austin. All right?
- 35:43Speaker 1: If Justin Cooper. If the Justin Cooper doll is a
- 35:46Speaker 1: bobblehead and the Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what
- 35:49Speaker 1: is the lorraina doll? What a bubblehead? That's from Eke
- 35:55Speaker 1: in Roseville, Minnesota. Well do you see that pirate Did
- 36:01Speaker 1: you see that pirate fan that got injured after falling
- 36:03Speaker 1: onto the field. Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have
- 36:08Speaker 1: diagnosed him with Anthony Rendon disease because he got injured
- 36:12Speaker 1: the second he touched the field. That's Alex the Seneca.
- 36:18Speaker 1: Well this offseason, where is John Morant going to work
- 36:21Speaker 1: on his shot?
- 36:23Speaker 2: Hawaii?
- 36:24Speaker 1: Where no the shooting range? He's going to surfer? Todd
- 36:27Speaker 1: the comedian there? Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
- 36:32Speaker 1: holding a crack pipe and a pullover by the cops.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Did you see this weed man. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Jed whu Fled said he's glad his pet raccoon was
- 36:44Speaker 1: found alive. He would like his pipe back, though, he
- 36:46Speaker 1: would like the pipe back, So make that say that happened.
- 36:51Speaker 1: How can you tell that Mike the Leprechaun is jealous
- 36:53Speaker 1: of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow, he's green with envy.
- 37:00Speaker 1: He's green with NBR. There is lame jokes. We thank
- 37:03Speaker 1: you eat man. There you go, all right, enjoy your
- 37:07Speaker 1: freedom without your roommate. There