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If it is the worldwide sports radio network, radio network.
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Jalen Brunson, Karl Anthony, Towns, Ogian and Nobi and the
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rest of the New York Knicks kick off their Eastern Conference
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semi final playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers
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tonight after their historic 51 point game six drubbing of the
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Atlanta Hawks last Thursday. 140 to 89.
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A7 seeded 76ers found their way back into the second round of
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the NBA playoffs on the back of Senator Joel Embiid as the 76ers
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held off a fourth quarter rally from the Boston Celtics, who did
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not have Jayson Tatum due to injury in the pivotal Game 7.
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Did the Knicks unlock something magical against the Hawks so
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they can coast in a series where their favorite and betting
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marking markets at -250 or better?
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Or will Embiid find a way to breakthrough into the East in
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conference finals for the first time in his career in combined
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with All Star Guard Tyrese Maxi, exciting rookie VJ Edgecomb and
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Playoff P to stop the Knicks quest dead in its tracks?
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And before we recap Saturday's Kentucky Derby and take a ride
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on a concrete jungle carousel to find out all the latest news for
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the Yankees and Mets, Giants and Jets, and the rest of the teams
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in the tri-state area in the four major sports.
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We will take a seat at the NBA Roundtable and recap the rest of
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the news heading into the second round of the NBA playoffs on
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another jam packed, chop filled lightsaber and Jedi mind trick
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Monday night. May the fourth be with you
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edition of the hottest streaming sports show in the biz.
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This is New York's sports loudmouth.
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I've never seen a Ranger team quick before the Olympics.
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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can't win the big game. Michael Jordan.
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Said. I.
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Played 82 games. You don't see Levon doing that,
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but Jack Hughes did after getting his team knocked down to
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play every single shift he got back in the game.
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Hello sports loudmouth. We are back, ladies and
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gentlemen. We're trying to fix the speed of
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the Internet. It's been crazy all day.
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We're going to do the best that we possibly can.
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You're listening to New York's sports loudmouth.
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My name is Errol Marx. My Co host Quinton Cobbles.
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for all our shows is go to our website at
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. I just want to apologize to all
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the fans. We were trying our very best to
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get the speed up. We reset the Internet on every
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single sector of the house, but this is what happens.
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You have so many different monitors working at the same
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time. There's nothing we can do.
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So if anybody, our executive producer, comes out and says
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it's slow, it's like there's nothing we can do.
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We're doing the best that we can.
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There's nothing we can do on the back end.
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So I have done everything, but we're here.
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We're going to make sure you have a good show.
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We're going to make sure the speed goes as fast as it
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possibly can go. I've been crazy all freaking
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weekend. I've been traveling from New
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Hampshire to New York. I, I got a chance to see my
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niece get her bachelor's degree out there in New Hampshire, New
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New Hampshire University. So congratulations to my niece.
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And you know, it's, it's a long, long drive.
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You're talking about 6 hours there, six hours back hanging
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out with a bunch of kids, screaming little kids.
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My niece is 2 years old crying in the back and throwing up
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because she was sick. So it's not fun being around
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kids, but I love my nieces and nephews.
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I'm, I'm not a father yet, so I, I don't, I haven't experienced
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that yet. But it's been a crazy, crazy
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weekend. And again, a lot to get into
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with sports. The New York Knicks moving on
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and they're not playing the Celtics, they're playing the
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76ers. As the 76ers come back from A31
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deficit to knock off Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, who
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didn't play in game #7 we'll get into that a little bit later in
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the show, of course. But it's been a crazy, crazy
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weekend. I hope everybody enjoys the
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show. I hope everybody enjoyed their
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weekend. I didn't, I'm just kidding, I
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did. I don't want to, I want to piss
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off anybody, but it was a crazy, crazy travel.
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But again, we're here anyways. How was your weekend?
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Q. Man, it was good.
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It was chill. I didn't do too much.
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You know, I am coaching a middle school football team, which is
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pretty interesting right now. When did this happen?
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This happened maybe about two months ago.
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You never said anything about this.
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Yeah. I mean, we just started
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practicing, but I was in negotiations.
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Oh yeah, what are they paying? You.
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But yeah, so I was doing that and, you know, running a
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business, you know, I got a executive protection kids, my
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protection business. So I was doing that.
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And then, yeah, shout out to my sister.
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She graduates with her master's degree.
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Congratulations this. Weekend Aria Coppola out of
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Kingston, North Carolina. She will be graduating with her
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Master, so big shout out to my sister.
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And my wife is doing a worship night tonight, which is a big
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deal. Praise the Lord, Praise the
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Lord. When you have when you have your
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own worship night, it's, it's a big deal.
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So shout out to her for doing that right now.
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And yeah, man, we we up and up over here.
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We up and up. Up and up I've never.
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Heard that I'm gonna get a victory tonight and seal the
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deal. Oh yeah, you go vent and I want
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to say something again. We started a little bit later in
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the show. We started 15 minutes late
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again. Anybody that's listening to the
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show or here's the replay of the show on Spotify and Apple,
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there's there's no timing when it comes to that, but there is
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time. And when it comes to going live
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again, all the people that tune into our show live, I want to
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apologize to you and yours for we experienced that 15 minute
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break. But hey, we're here.
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We're here to entertain you. Speaking of entertaining, a
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little bit later show, we will be talking to former 12 year NBA
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point guard Mike James will be joining us.
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So a lot of NBA and thank you to NIF for hooking this one up with
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Mike. I mean, if I'm not mistaken,
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Mike James is from Long Island, am I right?
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You are correct, he's from Amityville.
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Amityville So Mike is going to be coming on a show.
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I know he has a park in Amityville that him and his
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father built. So we'll talk about the park.
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We'll talk about his career. I I think he won an NBA
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championship. Detroit, Right?
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Detroit in O4 with our friend Alex Acker was on the show a few
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years. Ago.
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That's right. So and I've always wanted to
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interview MM does a lot of things right now here on Long
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Island now that he's retired, a couple of good Long Islanders
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have are still actually is 1 playing for Detroit right now
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and a couple of good long challenges have come and gone in
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the NBA. So we're very excited to have
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Mike join the show. Speaking of excitement, the New
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York Knicks beat the Hawks and will face the 76ers tonight
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ladies and gentlemen as game #1 is about to start.
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The Knicks beat the Hawks in game 6140 to 89 to advance to
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the second round of the NBA Playoffs.
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The Knicks won fit by 51 points which is the largest margin of
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victory in Knicks playoff history and six all time in NBA
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playoff history. The Knicks 47 point lead at
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halftime of Game 6 was also the largest in NBA Playoff history
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and also had a + 1 104 point differential which is third in
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NBA history for any series and biggest ever for any series.
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That wasn't a sweep. The 76 also also came back from
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to beat the Celtics in game #7 one O 9 to 100 in a series where
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the Celtics LED three games to one.
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It was the first time the 76ers ever came back to win a playoff
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series down 3 to 1 and they were the first team in NBA history
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that was a six seed or lower to complete a 31 comeback.
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Joelle and Beat suffered a hip contusion in game #7 versus the
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Celtics but will be ready for game #1 tonight.
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And Tyrese Maxey is dealing with a finger contusion but is also
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good to play tonight. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we
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sit here today. Anybody knows me, I'm sweating.
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That's why I'm wearing a nice beautiful wife beater and I'm
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looking good for all you ladies. Or I had to throw that one out
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there 'cause I know it bothers. Q But here's the facts.
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The New York Knicks going into this series is pretty excited.
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But again, I'm not excited that I have to deal with Joel Embiid.
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I never want to deal with Joel Embiid.
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And there's a lot of reasons why.
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If you remember the last time they played the 76ers, Mitchell
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Robertson went down early in the series, which cost the Knicks.
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And you're bothered by where the New York Knicks is as a team and
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as an organization because of the factors of what we've seen
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in the past. But I don't think you have to
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worry about it going to this series because there's a lot of
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reasons why you would think that the Knicks are the better team.
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Think about the Knicks have the best starting 5 now as far as
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talent is concerned. Edgecomb is is a good player,
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good young player, rookies had a very good season.
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Maxi is a superstar. I've always liked Tyrese Maxi,
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watching him grow up from college and and really
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developing into the NBA. Joellen beat, if he's healthy
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and he's not crying, he's one of the best centers in the league.
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But here it is. The New York Knicks actually
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have a big man that is showing up because to me, Karl Anthony
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Towns is playing the best playoff basketball he's ever
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had. Think about it, what he did with
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the Timberwolves, how many first round exits did the Timberwolves
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have? This team could never get over
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the hump and and one of the main reasons why is Karl Anthony
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Towns disappears in the series. In the first round, the New York
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Knicks played a young Hawks team that believed in themselves the
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first few games. The first three games, the Hawks
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look like they had the edge against the New York Knicks.
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They did. But here is the reason why the
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New York Knicks are a dangerous team.
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If Karl Anthony Towns plays at a high level like this, there is
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nobody in the NBA that can beat them.
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Nobody. Now, can Karl Anthony Towns do
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this series by series? Only time will tell.
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He's going to have to do it against Joel Embiid.
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He's one of the best big men in the league.
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Karl Anthony Towns is one of the best offensive big men in the
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league, if not the best offensive big man in the league.
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You can argue when it comes to all around talent, the 76ers are
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at edge better than New York, than the New York Knicks.
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But here's the reason why I look at the New York Knicks and say
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that if they play on all cylinders, there's no way the
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76ers could beat them. They have OG and Anobi.
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They have Mikhail Bridges, they have Jose Alvarado, they have
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McBride. The all these guys play defense.
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Mitchell Robinson is going to cause problems for Joel Embiid.
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Why do you think Joel Embiid tried to hurt Mitchell Robertson
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a couple of years ago in the playoffs?
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Because he knew that Mitchell Robertson caused him problems in
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the hole. Every time Joel Embiid went to
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the hoop, Mitchell Robinson was out there smacking the ball,
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causing really been a flea to him week in and week out when
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they were playing in the playoffs.
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But this is the difference, why this team is different than any
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of those teams that we've seen the New York Knicks in the
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playoffs over the years. I think they believe in
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themselves this year. I, I really do, I, I really do
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believe that this team believes they could beat anybody in the
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Eastern Conference and they can compete against anybody in the
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Western Conference. And how it all depends on how
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they match up against OKC and, and the Spurs and the
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Timberwolves that are moving on there.
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There's a lot of good teams in the Western Conference, but in
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the Eastern Conference there's a lot of questions.
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The Cavaliers, you question, especially in the first round
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against the Toronto Raptors, they didn't play very good.
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As a matter of fact, it went to a game seven.
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We saw what happened in Detroit. They were down 3 to one.
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They came back and knocked off the Orlando Magic, who just
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fired their coach the next day. As we expected.
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The New York Knicks is the best team right now in Eastern
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Conference. There's no argument to that.
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Anybody that believes differently, you're blind.
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Detroit has not been consistent for the last two weeks of the
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season and throughout the playoffs.
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I don't trust Detroit. As a matter of fact, I have the
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Cavaliers winning in six games. I don't think they could beat
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the Cavs, and one of the main reasons why is the way Allen is
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playing in that series. I look at the depth that the New
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York Knicks have shown throughout the first round of
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the playoffs. Now I know it's the Atlanta
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Hawks. Everybody's going to sit here.
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It's just the Atlanta Hawks. But I think Mike Brown figured
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out his rotation slowly but surely this rotation has figured
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things out. They've played at a high level.
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The last two games of the series.
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They played at an ultra high level.
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And you see here today, you can't argue the New York Knicks
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are not playing at a high level. But I worry the 76ers came back
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against a very good Celtic team. This is a really, really good
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Celtic team. And they lost.
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And I know Jason Tatum didn't play in the final game, but
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Jaylen Brown still played, White still played.
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This is still an aggressive Celtic team.
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Jaylen Brown had a lot to say after the series and we'll get
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into that a little bit later in the show.
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But I'm going to say this right now.
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The 76ers are not a shoe in. They're not going to come into
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the series and and everybody thinks that the Knicks are just
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going to run all over them. They're not.
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The Knicks have to make sure that they stick it to them early
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and make sure that they play the chasing game.
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Joel Embiid is not healthy. Tyrese Maxey is not healthy, but
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they have enough depth. They're going to get some
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offense from Edgecomb. Paul George is not the same
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player, but if Paul George gives you 12 and gives you a guy that
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can defend multiple positions when Edgecomb is out or or they
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start to rotate him with Maxi or wherever they put him, Paul
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George is a shutdown defender. He could play at a high level
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defensively. I don't know if he could do it
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offensively anymore, but it's been to me pretty amazing to
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watch this 76er team. And I got to give a shout out to
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Nurse. I think he's one of the best
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underrated coaches in the NBA. This guy won a championship with
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Toronto. This is not a bad coach.
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This is a guy that knows how to win ball games.
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I worry about Joel Embiid if he's playing at a ultra high
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level and we've seen this, Joel Embiid could score 35 on you
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easy. He could do it.
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He shoots threes. He can get into the pain.
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He causes problems on the board. He flops around.
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He's he's probably one of the best floppers in the NBA.
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Thank you to LeBron James. But the fact here is this series
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is no shoe. And I, I think the Knicks are
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the better team. There's no question.
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I think the Knicks win in five. But if, if somehow the Sixers
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win the game #1 and they pull off winning game #1 in New York,
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this is going to be a problem for the Knicks because the
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Knicks are going to be playing the Jason game.
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And all you have to do is give the 76ers any bit of confidence.
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As we saw in the Celtic series, anything can happen.
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It doesn't matter who the better team is.
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It's the NBA play offs. It's not easy to win a playoff
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game. It never is.
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And I do believe and you could shake your shake your head all
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you want you because you could sit here and and argue your
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points till you're blue in the face.
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Your Celtics lost. You had the Celtics winning that
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series up 3 to one. They lost.
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Now you're going to take the 70. Sixers.
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What? Talking about the sisters
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Tonight, though, we're getting my sisters when we talk about
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the sisters in Yeah. But I'm just saying you, you had
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you had the Celtics winning the series 3 to. 10 to New York,
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what else I suppose. Well, you sit here and know that
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after Jason Tatum went down, there was not a chance in hell
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they win that series. I said that, yeah.
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When I look at the 76ers and 76ers are very good on paper,
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they're very, very good. Do they match up very well at
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Madison Square Garden? Because we've seen Joel Embiid,
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we've seen him have great games in Madison Square Garden, and
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we've seen him have bad games in Madison Square Garden.
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And the last time the Knicks played the 76ers and Madison,
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Madison Square Garden, the Knicks smacketh the ass out of
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them. So that's history.
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But it's true. We look at history if you look
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at it. Look at real time with.
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The NBA? Really.
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This is just broke history with the three one comeback.
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What do you mean? Oh, so, so we're going to come
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back. So history is made to be broken,
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so you can't just keep reflecting back on history.
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Oh, he had a horrible game in 2005.
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Like well. We're not talking about 2005.
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This happened two years ago. I'm.
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Just saying the generous history.
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And Joella Beat is not 100%. He's not.
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Wasn't he? Wasn't 2 days ago.
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Yeah, but yeah, here's the thing.
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The Celtics don't have a big man.
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The Celtic. Celtics have nobody to defend
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him. No, they didn't.
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They have nobody to defend him. The New York Knicks have
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Mitchell Robertson, that's going to be on him like white on rice.
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They're going to have him out there a lot.
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When Joel Embiid is out there, they're going to have OG and
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Anobi stick him at some points and the perimeter, if he stands
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in the perimeter, they're going to have guys that are going to
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be able to defend him. So he's not going to have such
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an easy time. And Jason Tatum was not 100%
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healthy in that series, so he to me was not ready and wasn't
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willing to play it 100%. And I don't know why the Celtics
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had him out there. I understand Jason Tatum loves
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the game. He loves the game, but he
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hadn't. To me, if he's my best player or
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he's a player that I built my team around or he's a guy that's
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making 400 and something, $1,000,000, I'm not putting him
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out there and risking him not be able to play next year.
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And what we've heard and what we've heard with Jason Tatum
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after the game, after they they got knocked out is when he it
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was interviewed by the media, he said that one leg is longer than
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the other. So if you know that, why is he
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out there? Why is he out there?
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It makes no sense. That's a growing adjustment.
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It could be that it don't have to necessarily be an injury
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prone cost. When you go get adjustment if
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you, if you're, if you're getting a true chiropractor
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experience, then they'll measure and see if your pelvic growing
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is out of place and then therefore your leg will be
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longer than the other one. But carry on.
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I went to your finish. No, my my argument here is you
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would expect the New York Knicks to win this series, and I expect
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it. I think they're the.
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Benefit, Yeah. I do.
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I think the Knicks are going to win.
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I think they're much better than the 76ers are in the second,
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second-half of every single throughout the playoffs, the
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Knicks have played at a high level.
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In the second-half, especially in the last three games, they've
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played very at a very high level and I expect the Knicks to do
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the same against the 76ers. I think the Hawks are more of a
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flea team that they're A-Team that's going to bite and Nipia
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and everything. The 76ers, they have a lot of
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old players. They got two guys that can't
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stay healthy. Paul George is not a healthy
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guy. He cannot stay healthy.
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Joella P cannot stay healthy. And now you're hearing Tyrese
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Maxi has a contusion on his finger, his shooting finger,
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which could cause problems in this series.
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The way he shoots the ball. I would worry if I'm if I'm a
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76er fan. There's nobody hurt with the New
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York Knicks, There's nothing. I haven't heard anything.
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OG and Anobi, Mikhail Bridges, Carl Anthony Tauch.
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Do what? Hold on, what Jaylen Fry did you
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have so much faith in Mikhail Bridges?
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I don't I'm I'm confused I tell you this.
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Put him out there in the elite status like he doing.
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Something go look at. Go look at Mikhail Bridges his
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numbers against the 76ers this year.
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I'm not going back into history. It's just the playoffs.
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Oh, look at what? At the top, oh look, this is the
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playoffs. Every game is a new game.
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This is the playoffs. We don't know what to expect
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until the game happened. Here's the thing.
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The 76ers couldn't defend McHale Bridges.
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They had problems defending him when they played the 76ers.
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And that's something to watch because who's going to defend
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him if he plays the pick and roll at the top of the key,
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which he has not really done very well against the Hawks
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series. He showed up in certain certain
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games, in certain half halves, but there are games that he
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disappears in. There's no question.
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But if you look at Mikhail Bridges, his numbers against the
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76ers this year, they're pretty good and he plays very well
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against certain teams. As a matter of fact, if you look
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at Mikhail Bridges, his numbers against the Atlanta Hawks, they
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were not good this year. So there is something to look at
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when you look at teams in the way you match up against them.
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It is all about match ups. The NBA is all about match.
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Ups he gets up for this heavenly sessions.
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I'm just saying it's match ups, it's the way they defend.
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From Philly. I don't even think that has
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anything to do with that. I don't think it has anything to
22:27
do with them being from Philadelphia.
22:30
I just think it's the matchups, how they match up against.
22:33
Guys like the bridge is the better match up with who?
22:36
With the 76ers, it doesn't matter if you look at, if you
22:40
look at how they defended him this year, they had problems
22:43
defending him and and the focus obviously 20.220 point games
22:50
that's. Who we focus on?
22:52
He's not even in the defensive game plan.
22:54
Oh my God, what are we talking about?
22:55
What I'm saying is is when you look at matchups, Mikhail
22:58
Bridges matches up better against the 76ers than the
23:01
Atlanta Hawks. Go look at the stats if you're
23:03
all about stats. And it is.
23:05
With the I'm not, you are. No, I'm not actually at speed.
23:08
He's the analytic. Guy oh, you've been talking
23:10
about, but that's. The whole I have to look at, I
23:12
look at matchups. But against the 76ers?
23:15
Absolutely, absolutely. It's all about matchups with the
23:18
NBA. It's all it's not like it is in
23:20
hockey. It's not like it is in baseball
23:23
or football. And even in football, if you
23:25
watch the regular season, the way teams defend other players
23:28
and and that it happens in the playoffs, it especially if
23:31
you're matched up against them in the playoffs.
23:33
Sometimes A-Team, if you have Sean McVay or one of these
23:36
offensive geniuses, they find ways that they couldn't do in
23:40
in, in the game of the regular season, how to fuck pick you
23:43
apart in certain parts of those games in the playoffs.
23:46
But again, it to me with the NBA, it's it's really all about
23:49
matchups. It's how you match up against
23:51
that team. How are they going to defend
23:53
against you? How did they defend against the
23:55
high pick and roll, which the Knicks love to run, which to me
23:58
is their bread and butter. And, and again, I'll say this
24:02
about the 76ers. If you look at any team they
24:05
played throughout the season, when they play a lot of the high
24:08
pick and roll, especially when you have guys like Jaylen
24:11
Brunson that likes to dominate and he likes to control the pace
24:15
of the game, they're going to have problems against the New
24:17
York Knicks. I I wouldn't be surprised if the
24:19
Knicks but. Who's guarded by who's going to
24:21
do what they going to do on the back here on the?
24:22
Other Who's going to guard Jaylen Brunson?
24:25
Who's gonna Seriously, who's guarding Jalen Brunson?
24:28
I don't know that the seven decision defensive.
24:30
I do, I'm sure they but they they don't have anybody that can
24:33
guard Jalen Brunson one on. One, but yeah.
24:35
Who? They don't have anybody that can
24:37
guard Jalen Brunson right now. One.
24:38
On one and neither do y'all don't have nobody that can guard
24:40
maxi. Maxi, yes, they do.
24:42
They have OJ. Nadopi, they have Mikkel
24:43
Bridges. They keep up with Maxi.
24:45
What are you too? Slow.
24:45
Wait. Well, hold on one second.
24:47
I'll say this about Tyrese Maxi, and he's right now when it comes
24:50
to FanDuel I, I checked it out. He's supposedly supposed to get
24:55
a + 25 in this game. That's what they're expecting,
24:58
25 points or more in this game. I do not believe he's going to
25:01
score 25 points in Madison Square Garden tonight.
25:04
I don't. He's not healthy.
25:06
That's one. And #2 they're going to stick OG
25:09
and Anobi on him practically the whole game.
25:11
They know Maxi is their number right now.
25:13
They know Maxi is their number one option.
25:15
He is going to be and Edgecomb's a good player.
25:18
But you put Mikhail Bridges on Edgecomb and he's he's a rookie.
25:23
He's a rookie. Has never been in this position
25:25
before. And the 76ers always choke.
25:29
They always choke. They always do.
25:32
What you want them to do but do you know just like these people
25:35
ain't talented over. Do you know that Joellen Beat
25:38
has never played in the Easter Conference final?
25:41
Did you know that? Do you know he's the only?
25:43
He's never overcame a three word deficit.
25:46
That's fine, that's fine, but he didn't even play in that whole.
25:48
Series it could happen. He only played it two games in
25:51
that series. Doesn't matter.
25:52
Yes it does. Yes it does.
25:54
It wasn't all because of him why they won.
25:57
They had a lot of players show up in those games and produce
26:00
so. You're going to sit here, not
26:01
going to show up. And don't give me that Aubrey
26:04
crap I don't want to hear. That no, I know you hate.
26:06
I don't know because it's true. Here you are bringing up
26:09
bridges, but hey. It's not true, whatever you're
26:12
saying, that you think Aubrey is the reason why they came back in
26:15
that series. Fat there.
26:16
I'm not saying he's a superstar. I just said he's a fat there.
26:18
And the Kell bridges. Shot, you get a big stop.
26:20
Those things matter to you. You got to look at the boxer.
26:24
You got to say, Oh yeah, he scored 20, so he's worthless.
26:27
That's how you, that's how you great players.
26:29
No, that's not how I great players.
26:30
I great players by watching them.
26:32
And seeing how they play. How they defend and how they
26:35
play at a high level. And if you're going to tell me
26:37
right now you trust Aubrey over Mikhail Bridges in a one-on-one
26:41
kind of game, you're out of your mind.
26:42
And it just shows you you're a little lost.
26:44
You're a little lost. I'm going to help you out here.
26:46
I'm going to help you out here. I'm going to help you out here.
26:49
I'm just going to help you out here.
26:51
You look in Mikhail Bridges, what he did against the Celtics
26:54
in the second series last year. We're not going back.
26:57
I am. I am when.
27:02
When it comes, when it comes to matchups, Mikhail Bridges
27:05
matched up very well against the Celtics and he matches up very
27:08
well against the 76ers. As a matter of fact, I'm going
27:11
to predict something, even something crazy tonight for
27:14
anybody that's going to watch the Knick game.
27:16
I predict Mikhail Bridges to score 18 or more points in
27:19
tonight's game. I predicted tonight.
27:21
You're laughing. I'm telling you right now,
27:24
Michael Bridges will score 18 or more points in tonight's game
27:28
and the reason why matchups, that is why guys.
27:33
Give them. 18 or more. Points.
27:37
You get 2 free throws. Right now, what does Vegas have
27:39
them? What is he?
27:40
What does? He care about figures.
27:42
I'm talking to Errol. I'm giving him 18 points and
27:44
Vegas has him at 14. That's a pretty high sum, am I
27:48
not? Am I not arguing this right?
27:50
And I'm going to say this for you.
27:52
Qi don't know what it is about you and the New York Knicks.
27:55
His prayer prop is 10 1/2. OK, I'm going to tell you he's
27:58
going to get 8 more points, 8 more points, buy into that baby,
28:02
all because of matchups. Are we betting?
28:05
What do we want to bet? I'm not betting anything.
28:11
I'm telling you right now. I I believe you don't want to.
28:14
I No. Condemn that why you can't take
28:17
it? Wait a second, wait a second,
28:18
dude, I've asked you to bet many, many times.
28:20
And you? You.
28:21
We beat it. I know I told you, you beat.
28:23
Around a Bush, you beat around a Bush, maybe you need to shave
28:27
your Bush because there's something you're beating around
28:29
that is just not hitting on a total sum.
28:32
To this I'm telling you right now I think you definitely he
28:35
scores more than 10 points absolutely absolutely absolutely
28:40
more than 10 points tonight. You can put, put put all the
28:42
money on it. If you're a betting man or woman
28:45
right now, put $100 on it. He is scoring more than 10
28:48
points tonight. No damn, no damn argument on
28:52
that. Anybody out there that is going
28:53
to argue with me, argue with me right now or listening to the
28:56
show right now. If you're a betting man or
28:57
woman, listen to this take before the game starts.
29:00
Put whatever you want on McHale. Bridge is scoring more than 10
29:04
points tonight because he's. It's an absolute slam dunk on.
29:07
It if you lose, he's going to fund.
29:09
If I lose, I'll pay you all back.
29:11
There you go, I'll pay you all back.
29:13
That's more like. If I lose, I'll pay you back.
29:15
Go speedy. Yeah, as I say, Q, this is who
29:17
you have guarding Michaela Verges.
29:19
You're going to trust either a 35 year old Paul George who's
29:21
still a good defender, but it's not like as quick as it used to
29:24
be and like Errol said last week, not as.
29:26
Good as 28 years old, yeah. Please.
29:28
And you have a 20 year old rookie in Edgecombe who I always
29:31
liked but is still kind of, kind of.
29:33
He's raw. Yeah, kind of raw.
29:36
And then you have your your boy, 31 year old journeyman or
29:39
something like that, Kelly Ubrey, who's OK but not.
29:42
Kelly Ubrey, that's what we're what we speak about.
29:45
Those. Are all your options.
29:46
Was it Kelly Ubrey drafted by OKC?
29:49
Was it him? Yeah, I'm pretty sure the
29:51
Wizards that he was with that Kelly Ubrey, a high draft pick,
29:54
a top five, top six draft pick, if I'm not this day, was a
29:56
pretty high draft. He was horrible, overrated, and
30:00
you're going to sit here and you're going to argue Kelly
30:02
Ubrey, who's a bench player, He's like the 7th man off the.
30:05
Bat it's going to be a contributor here.
30:07
I give it to you right now going to be a.
30:09
Contributor Defensively I have. Kelly Ubrey is not going to make
30:12
a difference in this. Series.
30:13
That's my 2 takes right there. That's what we better know that
30:16
McHale, Bridges don't score 18 points and that Ubrey have
30:20
impact plays in this game. Why?
30:23
Because he scores. Oh, he it's a couple of shots
30:25
and. That makes him that's.
30:27
What we're going to sell, he's got impact plays because he
30:30
scores a couple of shots. That's an impact player get.
30:33
Out of your time to. The fans out, you listen to this
30:37
show at the right. What's the right?
30:38
Time at the right time. What is the right time?
30:40
Give me the right time. Tell me.
30:41
Tell me what down what you? Somebody to score.
30:43
You're down 5, You're down 10. You need somebody to score to
30:46
get that momentum. You score all right, or you need
30:49
a defensive stop. You're down 10 and you need to.
30:51
Kelly, Uber is gonna get you that defense.
30:53
Still. And then he score.
30:54
That's what it is. It's called momentum shifting.
30:57
Kelly Obrey, Kelly Obrey, The same Kelly Obrey I remember that
31:00
was drafted by that man doesn't play defense.
31:04
He don't play defense. My.
31:07
Dad is clear after that, that's why.
31:09
Your dad, I didn't make no bets. Your dad isn't clear.
31:12
I didn't bet. I said what I'm telling you
31:15
right now, he scores more than 10 points tonight.
31:17
I think he gets 18. I think no, that that's not what
31:20
I that's what I'm telling you. He scores more than 10 points
31:23
and I'm going to say this, Kelly Ubrey is not going to be a
31:26
factor in tonight's game. He will not be a factor in this.
31:28
Game that's not bet that's. Not.
31:30
Bet all. Right, Errol, Here's why he's
31:32
going to spend score more than 10 points, Errol, because Embiid
31:35
and George are screwed against this Knicks offense.
31:39
Don't you realize they're just going to cut behind them all
31:41
day? And Embiid, they, they don't
31:43
want to play that kind of defense anymore.
31:44
They'll play one-on-one defense, but the Knicks aren't doing
31:47
that. The Knicks are going to be
31:48
running them all over the place. And that's not that.
31:51
This is a nightmare matchup defensively for the Sixers clip
31:56
now. Now it's going to be hard for
31:57
the Knicks to stop them as well. And that's why I think the
32:00
Sixers will make it a series because they're good at times.
32:04
But I look, I think it's a 5 game series and maybe two of
32:07
those other games the Knicks win or close.
32:09
I don't think it's much more than that.
32:11
And I think the Knicks are really have an advantage
32:14
everywhere. And don't forget, Jalen Bronson
32:16
won two national championships on that homecourt over there in
32:19
Philly, and he is not afraid. Oh my God, playing in that place
32:23
at all. He loves playing there.
32:25
That was his homecourt in college.
32:27
That's the championship middle. And guess who else was there
32:30
too? Josh Hart was there too.
32:32
And Mikhail Bridges. I don't, I don't look at that.
32:35
I don't great at. Philly, Philly, all our fans
32:37
will be on your court. You know that we this will
32:39
travel. I don't care if MB doesn't want
32:41
us buying tickets. We already got the tickets.
32:44
MBD. Sorry.
32:47
She's trying to do what? What's that smell when the Rams
32:50
are trying to block the 49ers? Playoff tickets or whatever or
32:53
one of the not playoff tickets, one of the other tickets like
32:55
late game season or? Something like that season,
32:57
yeah. I don't care about.
32:58
That. I don't care about the the that
33:01
Jaylen Bronson won a championship, a national
33:03
championship in Philadelphia. I don't mean I know where he
33:06
played. That has nothing to do with it.
33:08
I'm just, I'm just, we know. We know it's not because you.
33:12
Said in the regular season he did this.
33:14
He's going to the national championship.
33:16
Hold on, hold on. What I'm saying, what I'm what
33:18
I'm saying, and maybe you need to listen.
33:21
What I was saying is when these teams matched up against each
33:25
other this year, Mikhail Bridges had some of his best games.
33:30
Why? Because they couldn't defend
33:33
him. He's long and he plays at a when
33:36
he wants to play at a high level, he plays at a high level.
33:39
And I'm going to tell you this right now against the 76ers and
33:42
against the Celtics, I would have thought that this would be
33:45
a better match up for Mikael Bridges than it was with the
33:47
Hawks. The Hawks are young.
33:48
They play a light, a lot of very fast pass game pace game up and
33:52
down the court. You laugh, but it's true.
33:54
It's a little. Bit about $0.50.
33:56
All right, all right, let's go. Let's go look at the teams that
33:58
play a very fast game and why I believe Mikael Bridges has
34:02
problems against him. Remember against OKC Speedy, you
34:04
remember that? I remember that game.
34:06
I remember in Madison Square Garden, Mikael Bridges
34:08
completely disappeared in that game.
34:09
And why did he disappear in the game?
34:11
Because it's a fast past game. And Mikhail Bridges, when he
34:14
gets caught behind on the defensive side of the ball, he
34:17
doesn't play at a high level. He plays when Mikhail Bridges is
34:20
on. He defends the player very, very
34:23
well. He he takes the ball away and he
34:26
moves up and down the court at a very good clip.
34:29
And that's, that's when you know Mikhail Bridges is playing at a
34:31
high level. He's stealing the ball, he's
34:33
playing defense, he's sticking his man.
34:34
When he's playing defense, he's going to score.
34:37
That's what he does. His value is the defensive side
34:40
of the ball, not the offensive side of the ball.
34:42
But when he can do, when he does that at a high level, he always
34:45
plays very well on the other side of the ball against
34:49
Atlanta. Atlanta has been a problem for
34:51
Mikhail Bridges all season long. I'm going to tell you this.
34:54
Go look at Mikhail Bridges, his numbers against the Cleveland
34:56
Cavaliers. Go look at that.
34:59
Not a fast-paced team. Not a fast-paced team.
35:01
Go look at Mikhail Bridges, his numbers against them.
35:04
I'm just speaking the truth. It's all about match ups.
35:07
And I'm going to tell you this, the 76ers are not a fast-paced
35:11
team. They got slow.
35:12
Joel Embiid going up and down the court.
35:14
Paul George isn't 100% healthy anymore.
35:17
Edge comes fast. He's good.
35:18
You want to talk? You want to Spoamy Aubrey?
35:21
Go ahead, Kelly. Aubrey.
35:23
You want to throw that to me? No, the Knicks are not a
35:25
fast-paced. Team.
35:26
No, they're not. But I'll tell you this, I'll
35:30
tell you this. The Knicks played at a higher
35:32
pace game this year than they did last year.
35:34
And also they were, they're also a faster paced team than they
35:36
were when they played in 2020. Four.
35:38
Yes, they were and yes, they have been.
35:40
And that's because Mike Brown likes to play that high pissed.
35:43
Watch when Jose Alvarado comes into the game.
35:46
Watch when he comes into the game how fast they are.
35:49
I'm just saying they didn't play against Jose Alvarado two years
35:52
ago. They didn't and they they're
35:55
using Sochin and I'm going to tell you this right now, they're
35:57
going to use Sochin in this series because he's a good
36:00
rebounder and he's good perimeter defender.
36:03
That's what he. Is going out to shut down Kelly
36:05
Uber? Kelly.
36:06
Uber, that's what. We're going to say 10 Sochin 10,
36:09
plus rebound McHale, Bridges. I didn't say that.
36:11
I didn't say that he's. Not going to play it off the
36:13
guitar, I. Didn't say that.
36:14
He got Sochen. He's like the tenth guy in the
36:17
rotation and they have guys to throw at this this team, if they
36:22
get somewhat Paul George is having a good game, then you got
36:25
guys you could throw fouls at and defense at and then you can
36:27
still get your offense and that's that's a nightmare for
36:30
the Sixers. I I just think it's a really bad
36:32
matchup for Philadelphia. I think we've seen the Knicks
36:34
already dominate this matchup and I think you're going to see
36:37
it again. I'm real confident.
36:39
It's going to be a gentleman sweep.
36:41
That's what everybody's betting like.
36:42
Gentlemen's. Five games.
36:45
Well, look, they're -250 in Vegas, the.
36:48
So it's 5:00 to 2:00 odds. The Knicks are favorites.
36:51
So it's a pretty, it's not like overwhelming, but that's a
36:54
pretty big favorite. How the injury reports, It's the
36:57
drama, Yeah, I get. It there's a lot of drama,
37:00
always a lot of drama, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just speaking
37:03
the truth here. If you look at both teams and
37:06
you look at the match up, yeah, I I think they're going to be
37:08
pesty. I do believe the 76ers in some
37:11
games are going to make, they're going to have a 10 point lead
37:13
and they're going to have to play catch up and they're going
37:15
to try to stick it to them early in the game.
37:17
They're going to try to get Joel Embiid more involved early in
37:20
the game because he likes to flop and put people in foul
37:24
shooting trouble and all that other.
37:27
That's what he that, yes, he's a flopper.
37:29
And I'm going to tell you this right now, the referees, the
37:32
referees are going to be watching this game in this
37:34
series because a lot of people have been complaining about the
37:37
first round in the playoffs. The different flopping.
37:40
I don't know. Has anybody watched the
37:41
Cleveland Cavaliers series? Oh my God, there were more flops
37:45
in that series than any other series.
37:47
Even Donovan Mitchell's flopping.
37:50
And he's never been a flopper. He was never a flopper.
37:53
Ever. They're not getting the calls
37:56
that they usually get in the regular season.
37:58
That's So how about we get into all those series, then let's go.
38:01
Ready for you to talk about every one of those series.
38:04
But I guess we got to start. Q Yeah, this is this is time for
38:09
you to get it off your chest. I know how you must be feeling.
38:13
We we tried to stay away from talking about the Celtics losing
38:17
more about the Sixers winning. But now it's time to get into
38:22
the NBA roundtable. First one is going to be this
38:26
Celtic story. Tatum does not play in Game 7
38:30
and the Celtics lose. They were down big most of the
38:33
game. They make a big fourth quarter
38:34
comeback and they fault they're late.
38:36
They lose the game by 9 and beat had a monster game.
38:40
We've talked about it. What does it mean that Tatum
38:43
couldn't play in this game? Is this team going to be, you
38:47
know, anything like what it looks like right now next year?
38:51
No, it was an overachieving year.
38:53
Like at the end of the day, nobody expected us to even make
38:56
the playoffs or whatnot. So I would say when you look at
39:00
that game, basically whether Jason Tatum played or not, it
39:03
didn't really matter. They they was getting blown out.
39:05
They got it down to about 5 and got it under the power.
39:08
I think one time they got all the way down to one.
39:10
We decided to go shoot three, shoot three, shoot 3, miss,
39:14
miss, miss. Nobody can make a shot.
39:16
And so we live and die by the three.
39:18
And that's the problem with our offense at the end of the day.
39:21
We want to live and die by the three.
39:23
We had an opportunity to actually beat this having
39:25
sisters, but it said we chose to have a three-point in the time
39:28
that we couldn't hit, which was the biggest issue with me.
39:30
Like it wasn't an effect that we actually lost it the way we the
39:33
way we lost. So I think, you know, Joe, I got
39:36
to put this loss on Joe first and foremost, and there's two
39:39
Jaylen Brown. Everybody commends him about
39:41
being tremendous leader, whatnot, but when was he going
39:44
to step up and be like, hey, we need to get we you are he is a
39:48
mid range scorer. So I'm to my in my opinion, I'm
39:50
like, hey, if anybody you take the ball and score a couple mid
39:54
range, mid range baskets and then next thing you know, we up
39:57
by 1 or we up by 2:00. So at the end of the day, we
40:01
was, you know, data analytic driven and we went with the
40:05
three ball even when it wasn't going and we was trying to go.
40:08
For the daggers, instead of just getting easy tools, we wasn't
40:11
getting to the line, which is another issue.
40:13
We won't get no foul calls. If you look, if you go back and
40:16
look we did, we wanted to let one of the last teams in the
40:19
lead to get free throw attempts. So even in the postseason, we
40:23
like #14 in the postseason, referee all giving us no calls.
40:26
And I get it like a people think it's flopping it and whatnot.
40:29
But at the end of the day, when you are usually getting those
40:33
calls in the regular season and then when you get to the
40:35
postseason and you don't get those calls, that's very
40:38
frustrating because yes, the defense supposed to get
40:41
tightened up and then aggression in the playoffs and whatnot.
40:44
But some of those calls got to be made.
40:45
I'm not saying that you give all those calls, but some of those
40:47
calls got to be made. So and I think that's one of the
40:50
points that Jenny Brown was trying to drive home at the end
40:52
of the day, he was like, yo, I'm not getting none of the calls
40:55
that I usually get versus just saying like I'm not getting some
40:58
of the calls. So it was, it was a data-driven
41:01
situation. We should have definitely got to
41:04
the hold a couple of more times and scored and we could have
41:06
beat them. But we chose to shoot, keep
41:08
shooting the three even on the off night, which has been our
41:10
biggest kryptonite in the end of the day.
41:13
So yeah, that's what it was. First of all, just for all the
41:16
fans out there, this was not a blowout game.
41:19
If you look at the game and you look at each quarter,
41:21
Philadelphia won the first quarter, the Boston Celtics won
41:25
the second quarter. Philadelphia won the third
41:27
quarter, the Celtics won the fourth quarter.
41:29
It wasn't a blowout. Here's the problem, Pritchard.
41:33
Pritchard did not do what he was supposed to do.
41:35
He scored 13 points in a game. Their bench, which you thought
41:38
they had such a great bench, garbage.
41:40
It was garbage in this series and that's why they came back.
41:44
The 76ers came back from A31 deficit.
41:46
Derek White finally had a good game, ladies and gentlemen.
41:49
He scored 26 points. Guess what?
41:51
It didn't help because they didn't have Jayson Tatum and
41:54
Brown was 12 for 27. That is not as good.
41:57
Shooting game, forcing shots. They shoot too many threes.
42:00
They need to fix this and they need to find a big man.
42:02
They don't have a big man. That's why they couldn't compete
42:06
with Joel Embiid. I said it that series would have
42:08
went a lot faster if Joel Embiid played the whole series.
42:11
It wasn't even close. Because of that.
42:13
Joel Embiid is not 100%, but they don't have a big man.
42:16
But I got a team that does, the New York Knicks, and that's why
42:18
Joel Embiid won't be as good against the Knicks as he was
42:23
against the Celtics. There's no argument.
42:25
If you go back and look at the game, Hayden and all them got
42:29
into the they got in foul trouble early.
42:31
So what you're saying that we don't have a big man.
42:33
You don't understand that you if you watching the game, Kate and
42:36
they'll get in foul trouble early, goose out.
42:38
All those are getting fouls early.
42:39
That was getting two or three fouls from the guy that you're
42:41
saying is a flopper. So that's what so you can't say
42:44
we don't have a big man when we got to go sit our big man and
42:47
play a small ball because you got the referees is called a
42:51
foul. All our big men, the box score
42:57
so that. Part No.
42:58
Here's the box score here. Let's look at the box here
43:01
talking about Baylor had zero points in 22 minutes.
43:04
Garza had zero points in 9 minutes.
43:06
Ron Harper had zero points in 4 minutes.
43:08
Let's go. Let's look at all the other
43:10
Jordan Walsh play. 5 minutes, 0 points.
43:12
Gonzalez had played 13 minutes, 0 points.
43:15
Pritchard played 39 minutes, scored 13 points.
43:18
Their bench stinks. They stink.
43:21
That's why they have nothing. They have no big men and they
43:25
have no bench. They stink.
43:27
That's it. That's it.
43:28
They got to rebuild. That's what they got to do.
43:30
Trade one or the other. Trade one or the other.
43:32
One leg's bigger than the other. Get rid of Tatum.
43:35
If you don't want Jaylen Brown, trade them.
43:36
Maybe you'll get whatever. I I, yeah.
43:40
They're just talking crazy though.
43:43
Just. Speaking the truth.
43:46
Just. Speaking the truth, they're not
43:47
winning anything right now the way their team is set.
43:49
Up. Well, we won already.
43:51
Their door is open. 50 years since you won.
43:53
Their window is now shut. Shut.
43:56
Ladies and gentlemen, it's over. It's over for here.
44:00
Here. Brad Stevens.
44:02
You should have went to North Carolina.
44:04
You should have went to North Carolina because this team is
44:07
done. Dollywood, you take that over
44:09
Mike Malone. Right.
44:10
Put a fork in them. They're done.
44:13
Bye, bye, bye. Bye.
44:14
Bye, bye. Bye.
44:16
Say hello, say goodbye. Bye bye.
44:18
Speedy, Speedy, you got anything to add on this before we move
44:21
on? I was.
44:21
Going to mention so Derek White, even though he had a strong
44:24
overall volume game, I thought some of his shot selections were
44:26
very bad, which is surprising for him.
44:28
He's usually a smarter shooter. I think he's for a while, but
44:32
when? Jalen was shooter.
44:33
Did you see him in the series? Not no this.
44:34
Was the first series. This was the first series I was
44:37
surprised he. Took as many.
44:38
Fast shots as he did because he normally was smarter.
44:41
He was one of the he was the second best playoff player for
44:43
the Celtics for a while when Jaylen Brown was having been up
44:45
and down post seasons and it's already disappeared in this game
44:48
and queue. Like you were saying, I think
44:49
the big men getting in a foul trouble really.
44:51
Disagree. Disagree.
44:53
Derek White. Derek White in the playoffs,
44:55
even against the Knicks last year, did not show up in the
44:58
important parts of the game. Go watch what he did.
45:00
Go watch what he did in game. Hold.
45:02
On. Errol was right.
45:03
Errol was absolutely right about.
45:05
I'm always right. Look, versus the Knicks, we're
45:09
talking about the Celtics versus 76ers to the question that you
45:13
asked Fish. Q He's trying to make a point
45:15
that when the Knicks humbled Derek White and made him not a
45:18
good player anymore last close season, that is what happens.
45:21
He's just not that same guy that he was when he was a stronger
45:25
player for the previous four years until last season where he
45:28
is no longer the same guy after his.
45:30
He was humbled never. Nick Anderson on the Orlando
45:32
Magic, remember what happened to him?
45:34
Yep, he. Was he'd been playing well at
45:36
home. Never the same.
45:38
Yeah, couldn't hit a free throw. Couldn't hit a free throw.
45:40
I remember that. I.
45:42
Just play again, I do. If you're going to, if we're
45:44
going to go into ball and you want to talk about basketball,
45:47
I, I love. To talk you, don't talk, ball
45:49
you. Wait a second, you think I don't
45:52
talk ball? I know more about the Celtics
45:54
than you do. I know about the Celtics on
45:56
YouTube. Don't like dude, I watch a lot
45:59
of Celtic games. I watch a lot of Celtic games.
46:01
I watch a lot of Celtic games. So don't don't get me started
46:04
with this. I watched about 15 Celtic games
46:07
this year and I know all about the Celtics.
46:09
I know their strengths. I know their weaknesses.
46:11
You're going to tell me right now they have a big man.
46:13
They don't have big men. They don't they were paying a
46:16
big man to stick it pick it, pick his nose and eat it.
46:19
That's a. Fellow.
46:20
Judas remember him. Remember when they brought him
46:22
in low? Average standard is what his
46:25
point? He's not gonna.
46:26
They stick, they got nothing. But he's a growing yeah yeah,
46:30
young. Great, keep growing 'cause
46:32
you're gonna lose. Not gonna stop Joel and Bead,
46:34
and he certainly wouldn't stop. Maybe had a horrible defensive
46:37
scheme for Joe Joel, I thought, and he got in foul trouble.
46:41
So it was 2. Two things versus 1.
46:44
Maybe right? Maybe it's just a talent thing
46:46
and Embiid wanted it more. He does seem to.
46:49
Want No, they just did stop her from getting to the mid range.
46:52
They should have forced him to shoot more threes.
46:54
They didn't. So all you had to do, he's 7
46:57
foot. All you had to do is just throw
46:58
the ball in there. Just throw the ball in the hoop.
47:01
That was the issue. They never made him go out there
47:03
when he was shooting threes. Guess what happened?
47:05
Dying, dying. They let him go.
47:08
That's all they do, he was doing.
47:10
That's all they do They. Baseline.
47:13
That's all they do. I think you're like proving the
47:17
point that I'm saying, though, is like, because they didn't
47:19
have an inside presence, they didn't have to.
47:22
And they just feel like, oh, this is an easy game plan.
47:24
We'll just give it down to indeed, I know, but.
47:26
He wasn't like he was backing them down and posting them up
47:29
and dunking on them. He was just shooting mid range.
47:31
But you can't play and beat that way because he's got a great mid
47:34
range game. Everybody knows he does.
47:36
Exactly, that's why I just said the scheme was horrible versus
47:40
him. The reason why the reason why is
47:42
they don't have a big man to. That's my point.
47:45
It's not the scheme. They ain't got big bad, but.
47:48
Here's Here's why I think because Cater is athletic enough
47:53
to react to Joel and be OK driving on one leg, all right?
47:57
That's what y'all felt in the real.
47:59
Life. Maybe you should actually do
48:00
that. You probably would have played
48:01
better. He played back.
48:03
And allowed Joel and B to shoot from the mid range.
48:07
He didn't contest the mid range. Move on, he played off.
48:09
Move on. We got to move on.
48:11
That's the difference this. Is.
48:12
Ridiculous. We got we got to get to the next
48:14
stage. That's a ridiculous take.
48:16
Ridiculous take. Absolutely ridiculous.
48:19
I'd probably rather eat some chocolate.
48:20
Moving on. I'd rather eat a chocolate for
48:22
than listen to that take. We're moving on.
48:25
Magic make it into the playing game.
48:27
If they didn't, we were saying they were going to fire their
48:29
head coach and then they take a three one series lead on the
48:33
number one seed Pistons only to blow the series in seven games
48:38
to the Pistons. And then they do fire Jamal
48:42
Mosley after all, following that series, following that collapse.
48:47
It was a very close series. Paolo Bonshiro was really good
48:51
in that series. Wagner did not play.
48:53
They didn't have all their full full accompaniment of players.
48:56
So did everything they could. Mosley was probably on his way
49:00
out anyway. He might have a lot of people
49:02
thought he might have saved his job with this performance, but I
49:06
guess blowing the 31 was just the last straw.
49:09
Here's the facts. Ponchero might be traded in the
49:12
offseason. I I don't see Orlando.
49:14
You can laugh all you want. Bro you can't leave with that's
49:17
the. Fact I'm going to tell you right
49:18
now, this is a team that needs to rebuild right now.
49:22
Jalen Suggs, who was a high draft pick, is probably going to
49:25
be gone. I don't think they're going to
49:26
be able to keep him. And I I think they're going to
49:28
have a lot of problems going into the offseason because
49:30
Ponchero doesn't want to be there.
49:32
Why does he want to play for a losing organization?
49:34
They can't figure things out. How many coaches have they had
49:36
in the last five years? They've had like what, 2-3
49:39
coaches? You're not a successful team.
49:41
You're not a successful organization.
49:43
They haven't been successful since Tamir Nelson and Dwight
49:46
Howard. It's been a long, long freaking
49:48
time. This team is not built to win
49:51
and I think they need to rebuild.
49:53
They need to restock and and their best option is to trade
49:56
Ponchero. And he, he had a great series.
49:58
I love him. He's a Duke Blue Devil and he's
49:59
a top draft pick, first number one overall pick.
50:02
So I know what Ponchero it can produce.
50:04
You can get a lot of draft stock back from hold on, Look at what
50:08
the Knicks got from Mikhail Bridges.
50:09
Look what the Knicks got from look what the Knicks had to
50:12
trade for Mikhail Bridges. They're going to get at least
50:14
four to five first round draft picks for a guy like Ponchero.
50:18
Look to OK C, OK C is look, if they lose, they get knocked out
50:21
in the playoffs. They're going to lose some
50:23
players in the offseason. They want to bring a short thing
50:26
in to play with Williams and SGAI could see that happening.
50:30
It makes a lot of sense. He can play small forward.
50:32
He can spread out the offense. They have the picks.
50:36
To me, they played a very good series against the Detroit
50:40
Piston team that just didn't play hard.
50:42
They have an if Duran figures out how to play the center
50:46
position again in the Cavs series, it'll be an interesting
50:48
series. But if he doesn't, that series
50:51
goes in six, no longer than six games because I think the Cavs
50:54
are just a better team. They have better size and I
50:56
think they're just a better overall talented team with
50:59
Mitchell and Hardin and Allen in the way.
51:02
They play at such a high level and I think they have the best
51:04
coach in that series. So I I'll say this, Orlando
51:07
firing the coach. Not surprised they were going to
51:09
do that. Even if he moved on into the
51:11
second round. I think they fired the coach.
51:13
Mosley gets gets fired no matter what.
51:16
I just think that this team is there's this team is not going
51:19
to win and nobody wants to play there.
51:21
The only thing you can do right now is maybe make a pitch to
51:24
Giannis and try to get Giannis to play with Ponchero.
51:26
I don't think he's going to want to.
51:27
He wants to go to a big city where he can sell a load of
51:30
sneakers and that would be either he wants to stay in the
51:33
East Coast. It's either the Knicks or Miami.
51:35
No other team. I don't see any other team
51:37
getting him. There's not Brooklyn for for all
51:39
you in Brooklyn fit. That's not happening.
51:41
He wants to go. To a winning.
51:42
Organization, it's not going to be them.
51:44
So my opinion, trade Bonchero, get what you can for him and
51:49
rebuild on this organization. I always thought they had a good
51:51
structure with the way they try. To develop this team, but it's
51:53
hard when you have too many guys that are just too injury prone.
51:56
Wagner, you mentioned if Fish is really getting a lot of years in
51:59
a row where he's gotten hurt and Bonchero has had his share of
52:01
injury issues as well. So it's very difficult.
52:04
I think I agree with you. They were going to fire Mosley
52:06
anyway if they didn't make it out of the series.
52:08
I think even them going to seven games, I don't think it really
52:10
mattered at this point. If they played the Cavs tough in
52:13
the second round. If they did win, maybe they
52:14
would have kept this job, but even might have been a stretch
52:16
too. He just a scapegoat for a team
52:17
that's just stuck in injury peril.
52:21
Yeah, I. Agree with both.
52:23
Yeah, most of you was out the door.
52:24
They had already put the memo out that he was going to be
52:27
fired regardless. But Orlando, you know, they,
52:30
they was the overachieving team as well.
52:32
Like I think at the end of the day, they they had a they they
52:36
displayed like good basketball all the way up until, you know,
52:39
that last game or so. And they're they're they're
52:42
they're building program. Nobody is expecting them to do
52:45
anything in the near future. But I think that, you know,
52:48
Pablo gonna have to get a second shooter.
52:51
There's a couple of guys, you know, we mentioned it on another
52:53
episode about like, you know, Cam Johnson, somebody that, you
52:57
know, can actually score the ball that don't need to have the
53:00
ball that much. I think they need another score
53:03
and I think they're going to be all right in the midst there are
53:05
on the East. So they're always a chance to be
53:08
able to sneak into the playoffs and make some noise.
53:10
But for the most part, you know, I thought most of it was going
53:12
to hardly be gone. But I don't see the franchise
53:15
player being moved anywhere for nobody else.
53:19
So there's a few names. Dusty May.
53:21
Coming off of the national championship with Michigan, this
53:24
I see Tibbs name there. No, not rivers.
53:27
Not rivers. The real obvious name.
53:29
No, it's not. Doc Rivers I don't think that's
53:31
potion everything reuniting with his former team.
53:35
That would be good down there. Remember, Remember, it was just
53:38
a week or so. Ago that Billy Donovan stepped
53:40
down from the Bulls. Not happy.
53:41
It wasn't that he was very good. He won his double, his 2
53:44
championships in Florida. He can be the one that takes
53:47
them if he's going to do anything still in the NBA this
53:50
next season. He's not.
53:51
I could see that have been like the reason why he stopped
53:54
letting them fire him in the offseason and collecting a
53:57
check. He stepped down like he
53:58
something already in the works. They're going to get and I'm
54:01
going to say. This they're going to get
54:02
somebody nobody expects because nobody wants that job.
54:05
It's not going to be Billy Donovan.
54:06
So good luck on that. That, that I can if if there's a
54:09
betting, we got to look at Vegas odds.
54:10
I'm I'm betting that Billy Donovan doesn't take that job.
54:14
He doesn't take that job. There's no question he doesn't
54:16
want that job. It's like, you know these people
54:18
personally, I, I. I know first of all.
54:20
I know this and I, I actually met Billy Donovan years and
54:23
years ago. So I, he's a Long Island native.
54:25
I root for Billy Donovan. I rooted for him when he, when
54:28
he's the favorite. So I know.
54:30
Billy Donovan is the betting. So what?
54:33
So what at plus 150. OK, plus 150 that.
54:37
Means not a chance in hell. Plus 1/3 to 2/3 to 2 is good.
54:41
Is is all right? Not according to early it's.
54:44
Not he's not taking this. He's not taking the job.
54:48
The one, Chris? Quinn 5 to 1.
54:50
Dusty May 6 to 1 Thibodeau I'm just telling you, Sean's
54:52
Queenie. Everybody's.
54:53
Listening here, I'm telling you, Billy Donovan Thibodeau made a
54:56
good one too, no? Let's go Billy Diamond well
54:59
with. That team.
55:00
Thibodeau, you. Can book what I'm saying?
55:02
Right now, Billy Donovan. Is not taking that job.
55:04
All right, let's go through all the series real quick.
55:05
In the second round. So Pistons, Cavs.
55:08
Obviously, Pistons outlasted the Magic, Kate Cunningham said.
55:11
They made him look in the mirror.
55:13
Michael Jackson, Man in the mirror.
55:15
Good reference, Errol. But the Cavs outlasted that
55:18
Raptors team. Feisty Raptors team quickly and
55:20
RJ Barrett. RJ had a pretty decent series.
55:23
Wasn't enough Cavs outlast them in seven.
55:27
Now we have this matchup, which we kind of expected to be the
55:29
matchup all along, right? We kind of always assumed we
55:32
were going to get this Pistons Cavs, but not the way we got
55:35
there with both teams needing 7 to escape the first round.
55:38
Errol, here's the facts. The matchup is.
55:40
Not good for the Pistons. It's just not.
55:43
I look at the Cavs, I look at the size that the Cavs have up
55:46
the middle. Allen is playing at such a high
55:48
level ever since James Harden was traded over there, he's
55:52
played at an ultra high level and and I'll tell you this right
55:54
now, if I'm the Brooklyn Nets and I'm Marks, Sean Marks is
55:59
just a complete moron. He traded away this kid.
56:03
He goes to the Cavs and he's become one of the better centers
56:05
in the league and playing just a high paced game.
56:08
I love what Kenny Atkinson has done with his team.
56:10
Donovan Mitchell's played at a completely different style of
56:13
game. Donovan Mitchell actually played
56:15
tight defense all season long. As a matter of fact, if you look
56:18
at Donovan Mitchell's numbers in the last two, he's one of the
56:21
best point guards, best guards in the league at defending any
56:25
two or one. It's unbelievable when you look
56:28
at his shooting ability and everything that he does.
56:30
James Harden has given him a little bit more an edge.
56:33
And I think they're a completely different team.
56:35
So I think that this series is not even going to be close after
56:39
what I've seen with the Pistons in that series against Orlando.
56:41
And Orlando is a big team, but the Cavs have size.
56:44
They can rebound their good offensive rebound team.
56:46
Good luck on defending that team.
56:49
Yeah, this is also I talked to you on the.
56:51
Phone without this fish. This is a team that finally has
56:53
wing shooting that I don't think they've had in other years as
56:55
well with Merrill they brought in they brought in Struce.
56:57
They got Jordan Tyson's brother Jalen, who is on that team as
57:01
well. That's played very well off the
57:02
bench and I think that's going to make a big difference because
57:05
the Detroit wing group that's pretty old for the most part
57:07
outside of the kid Jenkins that emerged for them in the
57:09
second-half of the season. I agree with you Errol.
57:10
I like that. I like this match for the Cavs
57:12
and I love as. Long as I love them.
57:14
As long as. Donovan Mitchell doesn't play
57:16
hero ball later in the series. It's been a problem for him.
57:18
That's why he's never gotten and out of the second round.
57:20
If they can avoid that and obviously Harden in his playoff
57:23
woes, I think I think it's a six.
57:24
That's why they that's why they brought in Dennis.
57:26
Schroeder I think this is this is a team that has a lot of
57:30
secondary offensive players coming off the bench, not like
57:33
the 76ers and Kelly Ubrey that you're trying to pinch to us.
57:37
I mean, Dennis Schroeder. Whoa, what a he's.
57:39
Dead off the beat, I'll tell you this Go.
57:41
Look at Dennis Schroeder. Don't you send me that.
57:43
I'm tired of hearing. Yeah, well.
57:45
These are facts. I'm helping you out.
57:47
These are facts. So.
57:48
Yeah. Has been inconsistent all year
57:51
and so I'm a little questionable about how this series may go.
57:55
I definitely think it's a probably 42437 game series up in
58:00
the air. I think I know by based off the
58:02
first game in regards to who probably going to win this
58:04
series. One thing that people
58:06
underestimate is Detroit's physicality and I think that
58:10
Cavs struggle when it comes to that.
58:12
And yeah, what I would mean by that is that they're
58:15
inconsistent play and not being able to deal with the
58:19
physicality. I think that the Pistons at
58:21
least still game one and then they go on and make it a series
58:26
after that. I think the Cavs pull it out
58:28
overall. I think that the firepower that
58:30
the Cleveland Cavaliers have is just a lot and just going to be
58:33
too much for the Pistons to handle, especially come out of
58:36
seven game series last series. So I think the Cavs will win
58:40
this game. They'll win this series overall,
58:42
but I think the first, first game going to go to Detroit and
58:45
then it's going to be a hard fought battle for them to get to
58:47
the Eastern Conference finals. All right, let's get.
58:50
Into the West. And let's start with this Spurs
58:53
wolves match of that starts tonight at 9:30.
58:57
Anthony Edwards is going to try to play tonight and he's got
58:59
that bone bruise in the knee. I, I, I did something similar,
59:05
you know, doing like a, you know, kind of doing like a box
59:09
jumps. You ever do box jumps, like you
59:11
miss and you smash your knee on the corner?
59:14
I ended up with like a bruise. My whole knee turned black and
59:16
blue for like 4 to 6 like 4 weeks plus and they told me it
59:20
was a bone bruise. That hurt for a long time.
59:22
I can't imagine in like what, 8 or 9 days whenever it was that
59:27
he heard it. Coming back out and playing
59:29
playoff basketball on a bone bruise against one of the better
59:34
defensive teams, a team that won over 60 games in the San Antonio
59:38
Spurs era. Do the Wolves have any chance in
59:42
this series? Again, no.
59:43
D Vincenzo out with the torn Achilles and and who knows what
59:48
percent of Ant we got right now? Absolutely.
59:51
Why couldn't the Timberwolves? Win this series after what we
59:54
saw against the Nuggets coming back and and playing at such a
59:57
high level and, and, and doing without Anthony Edwards and
59:59
doing it without Dante Divicenzo, I absolutely I
1:00:04
absolutely believe that the Timberwolves could win the
1:00:06
series. The problem here is could they
1:00:08
defend against the Spurs team? They've got a tremendous amount
1:00:11
of talent, Victor Wembiyama, Steve Stefan Castle, Dylan
1:00:15
Harper, they've got Devin Vessel vessel.
1:00:18
They have good players and I, I know you know this guy, Luke
1:00:22
Connect, connect. So.
1:00:23
This is a good team. They have a good team with with
1:00:26
a lot of depth. Jaden McDaniels is going to have
1:00:29
to show up in the series. He's going to have to play at a
1:00:30
high level because you're not going to get a high game, you
1:00:34
know, in game number one against with Anthony Edwards.
1:00:36
He's not 100% healthy. I think that's going to play a
1:00:39
big dividends in this series. If Anthony Edwards is not at a
1:00:42
high clip and he's not playing at a high clip, they're going to
1:00:44
have problems scoring against a team that has a tremendous
1:00:47
overall offensive talent on the on the on the court, yeah,
1:00:51
they're going to need somebody in their backcourt to be able to
1:00:53
break. Out for the combined production
1:00:54
because even if Edwards does play early in the series, he's
1:00:56
probably going to be mostly used as a deep core.
1:00:58
I'd be surprised if he played tonight, but he's going to try.
1:01:00
But I do agree with you late later in the series, if they can
1:01:02
get some confidence at home, if they can win both games at home,
1:01:04
because remember, their defense actually played very well on the
1:01:06
perimeter against Denver. They kind of let Yokich did it,
1:01:10
do his thing and then they stopped everyone else for the
1:01:12
most part. And the Timber Rose way will
1:01:13
steal Game 6. When again you were thinking the
1:01:15
Nuggets were going to come back in the series.
1:01:16
I know there were a lot of people that thought that as well
1:01:18
because of the way the Nuggets were played played in Game 5.
1:01:21
But this is a pesky defense. It's always really been a good
1:01:23
defensive system. The longer this goes, I could
1:01:25
definitely see Minnesota stealing.
1:01:26
I'm going to say Spurs in six, but I I if I'm 7, Minnesota
1:01:30
could. They could steal it.
1:01:31
I think it's 66. To the I'm go ahead.
1:01:35
Yeah, I'm, I'm completely on the other side.
1:01:37
I think this is going to be a sweep.
1:01:38
I don't think that the Wolves got enough to keep up with San
1:01:42
Antonio. I think the problem with I think
1:01:45
Anthony Evans should not play tonight.
1:01:46
First and foremost. I think he should sit.
1:01:48
Yeah, I think he should sit this night.
1:01:50
Take this loss, be back, you know, 80 percent, 90% on for
1:01:54
Game 2. But I don't think these guys
1:01:56
have a chance in regards to competing with San Antonio.
1:02:00
I think they gave everything they had last season, last
1:02:02
series with Denver. It was one of those moments
1:02:05
where they was already up 31 and so they only needed to win one
1:02:10
game. So, you know, they they they did
1:02:13
it, they gave it all on that last game.
1:02:15
And so I would say that, yeah, they probably going to be the
1:02:18
the team that gets swept. Also, I think the Lakers going
1:02:22
to get swept as well. We'll talk about them later.
1:02:24
But I don't think nobody in the West is even ready for OKC
1:02:28
besides San Antonio. And so that's the series that
1:02:31
even they didn't look great at certain instances though
1:02:33
against. Portland, though, by the way, by
1:02:35
the way, just so. Everybody else playing down, you
1:02:37
know what I mean? Like when you have.
1:02:38
Those teams that come in and you got to play down and they don't
1:02:42
even really supposed to be there.
1:02:43
Those those type of games, you know you'll you'll lose 1 here
1:02:46
and there just because you don't believe they belong on the same
1:02:49
platform as you. By the way, just so everybody
1:02:52
knows, I just want to. Throw this up.
1:02:53
Mikkel Bridges scored the first points for the New York Knicks.
1:02:56
Just so you know, just so, just so you know, I'm just, I'm just
1:02:58
letting you know. That I'm just, I'm just letting.
1:03:01
You know, I'm just letting 15 more points to joke.
1:03:03
No, I didn't say. 18 I said more than 10.
1:03:05
So more than 10. That's it.
1:03:07
She. Said no.
1:03:09
I I think they're going to, he's going to score 18, but.
1:03:10
I think he's definitely scoring more, 10.
1:03:12
If you're a betting man, I said score, bet that he's going to
1:03:15
score more than 10. That's what I said.
1:03:17
Listen to what I said. Listen to what I said.
1:03:20
Listen. To what I said, OK, I just told
1:03:22
you what you said. I said he could score.
1:03:24
You confirmed. That you said that I didn't.
1:03:26
You just confirmed. What did I say?
1:03:27
I said that he was going to score 18I Yes and I told
1:03:30
everybody else to. Betty.
1:03:31
Whatever 10 speedy what did I just?
1:03:33
Say, what did I say after the argument?
1:03:35
What did I say? I said he's definitely going to
1:03:36
score over 10 and he he would pick.
1:03:38
Up to score 18. That's exactly what he said.
1:03:41
Yes, I said he's going to score more than 10.
1:03:43
So if you're betting that, that's what you're not betting
1:03:45
that he's going to score 18. If you're betting on Vegas,
1:03:48
you're betting over 10 and over 10 1/2.
1:03:50
And that's what I said, he'll say.
1:03:53
Whatever cute you're arguing this is so.
1:03:55
Stupid. It's not even an argument.
1:03:56
I'm going to be right. You're going to be wrong again.
1:03:58
No, I go like to hear what? I said.
1:04:01
I said literally just. Said it, I said it.
1:04:03
Vegas said. Oh my God.
1:04:04
All right, move on. Move.
1:04:06
On fish this. Is ridiculous.
1:04:07
This is a ridiculous argument. I said what I said he's taking
1:04:10
back. We're not.
1:04:11
I don't know how you even. Keep talking about it.
1:04:14
Look, the Thunder swept their the Suns off the floor, off the
1:04:19
mat. You know, there was some
1:04:20
complaints about SGA getting calls, like he's get calls all
1:04:23
year long, probably his whole career for the last few years.
1:04:27
Obviously he's probably going to be the MVP.
1:04:29
They'll announce it soon. The Lakers got Reeves back at
1:04:32
the end of their series. They beat the Rockets that
1:04:35
didn't have Durant from six games to do so.
1:04:38
No Luca in game one. They do expect them to come back
1:04:41
in this series. Not sure when.
1:04:44
I'm not really worried about that.
1:04:45
I think this. Is going to be a long, long
1:04:46
series. I when Luca does come back,
1:04:49
they're going to be able to play a fast-paced game.
1:04:51
You laugh, that's fine, but you're again going to be wrong
1:04:53
because I know bowling you don't.
1:04:55
So I'm going to tell you this right now.
1:04:57
Luca comes back. I think they're going to steal a
1:04:59
game, maybe even game number one.
1:05:01
I think the Lakers could steal, steal game #1 shock everybody.
1:05:05
We still would OK C They don't they have problems against teams
1:05:08
that are very, you know, pesty and they've been a pesty team.
1:05:12
Look at the first round, the way they played out at such a high
1:05:14
level against a Rockets team that had a guy that just didn't
1:05:18
want to show up to the game because he was not healthy.
1:05:20
Wasn't wasn't producing the way he was about a combination of
1:05:23
pesky and. Testy because it's a fantastic
1:05:26
new word you created. I love it.
1:05:28
You know, pesto, but really? We'll see, because.
1:05:33
I think the Lakers are going to be fighting A-Team.
1:05:34
That's like, you know. Like a pesky team that also
1:05:38
plays angry. That's basically what you're
1:05:40
describing. And that is exactly what this
1:05:43
team is. That's a that's a speedy look
1:05:46
who's who's more, you know, pesky as a perimeter defensive
1:05:50
team than this Thunder? And who plays more aggressive
1:05:55
trying to get through the perimeter than the Lakers?
1:05:58
And it's going to be like that kind of fight.
1:06:00
Thunder have like 11 deep to throw at them now.
1:06:03
I didn't say that the Lakers are going to win the series.
1:06:05
I said it's going to be a pesky series and don't be, don't,
1:06:08
don't. Don't argue or laugh.
1:06:10
You giggle all you want, but guess what, dude, You've been
1:06:13
wrong on every single one of your basketball takes and I've
1:06:15
been right on every single one of my basketball takes.
1:06:18
Here's what I'm going to say. This series is going to go six
1:06:20
or seven games. And I'll tell you this right
1:06:22
now, at one point in this series, the Lakers will have the
1:06:25
lead. In this series, one, one point
1:06:28
they'll have the lead. And when that happens, guess
1:06:31
who's going to be laughing? I am.
1:06:32
And you're going to be sitting there saying, oh, you were right
1:06:35
again. You.
1:06:36
Were right again. Maybe I should just bet again.
1:06:39
You only be right about the bet. Dude, every time.
1:06:42
Every. Any basketball takes that we've
1:06:44
argued about, I've been right about it.
1:06:45
Was it dude? Do you know what they're?
1:06:48
Do you know? What?
1:06:48
Dude? Dude, let me say something.
1:06:50
Let me say something. Rockets get rockets.
1:06:53
Got knocked out. Go ask half the players right
1:06:56
now talking to the media after that series what they said about
1:06:59
Kevin Durant. Go look at that, because you
1:07:01
said he was sticking up for Kevin Durant.
1:07:03
Every one of them thought he could have played in that
1:07:05
series. Everybody what everybody
1:07:06
thought. You're 38 years old, you don't
1:07:08
have much life left in the NBA. Go out there, play.
1:07:12
Go out there, play. Stop being a bitch, which he is.
1:07:14
He's a bitch. He's a bitch.
1:07:16
He's a bitch. He's a bitch.
1:07:19
That's what they paid. Him for he's a bitch.
1:07:24
Well, yeah, the one thing I. Fish, you kind of hinted at is
1:07:27
can they get the presence inside that they got against a Houston
1:07:30
team that also has good size inside?
1:07:31
And they're going to need that against Chet Holengren and Jalen
1:07:34
Williams. Once he does come back, the
1:07:35
perimeter defense is going to be very tough for the Thunder.
1:07:37
I can't expect Reeves to be as impactful of a player as he was
1:07:40
coming back. Luka Doncic, if he comes back
1:07:42
earlier, yeah, maybe they can get it going early.
1:07:44
I just don't know if it's going. He'll be back in Game 2 if he.
1:07:47
Comes back in game two. It's going to.
1:07:48
Be it's going to be like though with some of the like with Tatum
1:07:51
Q, it's going to be there's going to be a rust factor to it
1:07:53
too with Luka Donczy as well. So I I just don't know, hold on
1:07:56
one second. Do we remember?
1:07:58
What was that? Do we remember what?
1:07:59
Happened when he was playing. For the Dallas Mavericks.
1:08:02
And he came back from an injury. He was out for a few games and
1:08:04
everybody said, oh, it's going to be cold.
1:08:07
He's going to be cold up. He scored 35 up, he scored 32.
1:08:10
I don't think Luka Doncic's going to have a problem getting
1:08:13
his warmed up and ready to play the basketball game.
1:08:15
And I'm going to tell you this right now, OK?
1:08:17
C has a problem with pesky teams.
1:08:21
I was somebody that. Qi know, I know you don't like
1:08:24
what I referenced history, but I pesty, pesty.
1:08:26
I did pick Dallas over OKC two years ago when Luca was there.
1:08:29
But I again, I think this is a little more of a developed OKC
1:08:32
team. Like you said, fish a lot of
1:08:33
depth off the bench, a lot of good defense and now they're not
1:08:35
as good defensively as they were last year, but it's still going
1:08:37
to be a very tough out. I again, if if Luca and LeBron
1:08:41
both collectively play very well early in this series, maybe they
1:08:43
do steal one in OKCI. Just don't see it happening.
1:08:45
I'm going to go 5. Yeah, I'm completely opposite of
1:08:48
both of. This I think this is a clean
1:08:49
suite for OKC at best, for one, because sometimes they their
1:08:54
teams like to win and on their homecourt.
1:08:56
So outside of that, Lakers have no chance.
1:08:59
Luca won't come back because the game, the series will be over by
1:09:02
the time he is available to come back.
1:09:05
But yeah, this team is is is is, yeah.
1:09:08
They don't have enough talent. They don't have enough fire to
1:09:12
keep up with OKC. OKC is just going to beat them,
1:09:15
swap them, mop the flow with them, 40, I don't know what
1:09:18
else. Well, you're going to be wrong
1:09:19
about that one. You're going.
1:09:20
To be wrong about that one, let's give up.
1:09:22
Like I said, going to. Be sweet this part.
1:09:24
It's not going to be. They won't to win on a
1:09:26
homecourt. They will let Lakers win 1 and
1:09:29
go back and win it at 41. They are not getting swept.
1:09:33
You can. Book that one, gentleman sweat
1:09:35
or sweat one of the two. They're not getting swept I.
1:09:38
I I see a sweep. You're all going to be wrong.
1:09:42
Just so just hey and and make sure we.
1:09:44
Know all going to be wrong and the Lakers do Remember I said
1:09:47
that remember I. I just think the.
1:09:49
Efficiency of shooting that OKC is able to do.
1:09:54
No one's really been able to match up with them all season
1:09:57
and the Lakers aren't a highly efficient team.
1:09:59
So I I just don't see this as a good matchup for the Lakers.
1:10:02
I think if if you have if Reeves is only at 75%, which is
1:10:06
probably true and we don't even know we're going to see Luca.
1:10:10
Look what what are we going to get out of LeBron in this
1:10:12
series? Is how much can he really give
1:10:14
us, You know, going both ways full speed being the number one
1:10:17
guy at this point. Maybe he give they steal a game.
1:10:20
Like you said, I don't even think they can do that.
1:10:22
What's the What's the other kid name?
1:10:23
Speedy the. The the white boy with his eyes
1:10:26
like this the whole time? No.
1:10:27
The other one, no. The one that was playing out of
1:10:29
his mind. Shoot like 50.
1:10:31
Gennard. Gennard Yes.
1:10:33
Yes, and see. That shows you how much.
1:10:36
You know about ball. So much, you know about ball.
1:10:38
Yeah, sorry. I'm so much, you know.
1:10:40
Know about ball? I don't even know.
1:10:41
His name, I know. Everybody knows his name.
1:10:43
Ask Speedy Canard. You don't have to ask.
1:10:45
I gave you the name. Before he did, No, you said
1:10:47
Arkansas. No, I said Canard.
1:10:49
You idiot, you didn't. Listen, you didn't listen shows
1:10:52
you all right, shut the music or it's ridiculous.
1:10:55
It's just ridiculous. Everything I say this guy's
1:10:57
lost. I'm going to tell you this right
1:10:58
now they're not getting swept. I you could book that, you could
1:11:02
take that anybody for one they're.
1:11:05
Not getting swept they're. Not the Lakers are not getting
1:11:07
swept in this series. As a matter of fact, I think
1:11:10
they they can win at least two games in this series.
1:11:13
So I think I think OKC wins the series, but I wouldn't be
1:11:16
surprised if it gets dragged into six or seven games.
1:11:18
I wouldn't be because I this might be Lebron's last hurrah
1:11:22
over there with the Lakers before he decides either he's
1:11:25
retiring or going to the Cavs or wherever he's going, where he's
1:11:27
deciding to go. This is probably his last
1:11:30
hurrah. And I will say this, if anybody
1:11:32
believes Bronny James is scoring more than two points in the
1:11:34
series, you're on drugs. But we got one right over here
1:11:37
who thinks he's having he will because he'll be playing.
1:11:38
I'll put money on that. He'll.
1:11:39
Be playing I'll put money on that put money on that he's.
1:11:42
Scored two people. Play.
1:11:44
I don't know. So you.
1:11:45
Would have bet he goes score. Two points, they're going to be
1:11:48
not score more. Than two shots.
1:11:51
In these games. Bronnies he's.
1:11:53
Not going to score much. Anytime than LeBron, let's bet
1:11:55
the 2. Points for Bron.
1:11:57
That he scored this series, he's not going to score more than two
1:11:59
points. You're not listening.
1:12:00
You're not listening, dude, you're taking words out of my
1:12:02
mouth every time it's out of bed, he start.
1:12:05
Throwing out what is it? We got our guest.
1:12:07
Yeah. Hold on, hold on.
1:12:08
I'm going to before we. Do that I want to say something
1:12:10
because I look at what Vegas is going to give me and I'm going
1:12:14
to take you through the over or under.
1:12:15
That's how it works, buddy. That's how you have to
1:12:18
understand. Yes it does, yes it does.
1:12:21
No, nobody's going to bet when it comes to a veg watching the
1:12:23
game. Hold on, hold on.
1:12:24
You said 18 and McGann Bridges go time.
1:12:27
Can I finish? Can I finish?
1:12:29
When you look at Vegas, you look at FanDuel and you're making a
1:12:32
bet, you're picking whatever it's giving you if they're over
1:12:36
or under. And I'm telling you right now,
1:12:38
he is going to have the over tonight.
1:12:40
And to me, when I said I think he's going to have 18 points, I,
1:12:44
I do believe he's going to score at least 18 points in a game.
1:12:47
Nevertheless, I win anyways because if he scores more than
1:12:50
10 points, I'm. Right.
1:12:52
You're wrong. Period.
1:12:54
That's it all. Right.
1:12:55
Now thank you for finally. Admitting that you actually said
1:12:58
I'm right, you're wrong. Yeah, I'm going to.
1:13:00
Admit that. All right, my golf clap of the
1:13:02
day this deserves. A golf clap.
1:13:06
No doubt. Golf.
1:13:06
Clap Golf. Clap.
1:13:10
All right, my golf. Clap of the day.
1:13:11
Ladies and gentlemen, is Malik Willis.
1:13:14
Yes, if you're a Malik Willis fan, you'd have to be
1:13:18
embarrassed because today or over the last 24 hours, he's
1:13:23
been a laughing stock, a laughing stock all over social
1:13:27
media because he got a pitched a first pitch of a game and ladies
1:13:32
and gentlemen, he was at the Marlins game.
1:13:34
He was smiling. He's going to be the starting
1:13:36
quarterback got a lot of money from you know what the Dolphins
1:13:40
new coaching, new GM, Why not? We're going to go where he
1:13:43
played over there with Green Bay.
1:13:45
They brought the Green Bay package over there.
1:13:47
So they'll bring Malik, Malik Willis.
1:13:49
Here's here's the facts, guys. He went out there and he got one
1:13:53
throw, one throw. This guy's a quarterback and all
1:13:56
you got to do is lob it over, lob it over.
1:13:59
A baby could have lobbed the ball over and got it to the
1:14:02
catcher. This guy throws it 10 feet in
1:14:04
the air over the catcher. What an embarrassment.
1:14:08
That was just as bad as $0.50 when he did it in City Field
1:14:13
during the Mets game. What a joke.
1:14:15
And this is what you're going to bet on this year, throwing the
1:14:18
ball to your your receivers? We don't even know.
1:14:21
Well, hold on one second. Who's their number one wide
1:14:23
receiver this year? Malik Washington.
1:14:25
That's right. So you think you're going to get
1:14:27
the ball? This guy's going to get the ball
1:14:29
to Malik Washington. Good luck.
1:14:31
Dolphins fans expect the worst because they're going to be
1:14:34
looking for what are they going to call this Manning thing?
1:14:37
What do they call this Suck for Manning, Dodge for Manning, lose
1:14:42
for Manning? I mean, that's what they're
1:14:43
going to do this. Is an absolute pathetic signing
1:14:46
by the Dolphins and it's going to blow up right in front of
1:14:50
their faces as it always does, don't you think?
1:14:52
You just try to practice his tanking though.
1:14:54
Oh my God, this is. They gave him a lot of money
1:14:56
too, and they're still paying Tua and they're still paying to
1:14:59
a Tiger Volola Viola, who's but by the way, is going to be a
1:15:03
backup court who sees Atlanta, Atlanta.
1:15:05
That's great. They got two guys that can't
1:15:08
stay healthy. Lefty fractal quarterbacks.
1:15:10
Can't stay healthy. Michael Pennix and Tua
1:15:12
Wonderful. This is great.
1:15:14
So my Golf Club goes to the Dolphins for signing this
1:15:18
complete debacle. So thank you.
1:15:20
Thank you very much. Absolutely horrible.
1:15:23
When we come back, like ladies and gentlemen, well, this guys
1:15:26
never been on a show. He's a Long Island native, so we
1:15:28
love him because we love Long Islanders.
1:15:30
I mean, we're New Yorkers, right?
1:15:32
Amityville guy and we love him. He's won a championship in
1:15:37
Detroit and it's the first time on New York sports loudmouth, so
1:15:41
we're going to give him a hidey ho.
1:15:42
But first, when we come back, we're going to be talking to 12
1:15:45
year NBA point guard Mike James, who played from 2001 to 2014 and
1:15:51
won a championship in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons.
1:15:56
You know that is the 2 Wallaces, Billups, Hamilton, Prince, the
1:16:01
whole kit and kaboodle. But first, our sports minute
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with Fish. The new.
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here with your. Sportsman, a couple of stories
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and then the scores this evening.
1:16:19
Sad news earlier Monday morning spread across the Yankee fan
1:16:23
base and to all baseball fans in general, as legendary Yankees
1:16:27
radio broadcaster John Sterling passed away at the age of 87.
1:16:32
Sterling broadcasted 5420 regular season games and 221
1:16:37
postseason games from 1989 to 2024 and had a consecutive
1:16:43
streak of 5060 games over a stretch of almost 30 seasons.
1:16:48
We were devastated to hear about the passing of John Sterling at
1:16:51
WFAN and Yankees radio icon whose voice was synonymous with
1:16:54
an entire generation of Yankee fandom.
1:16:57
WFAN gave in a statement on Monday.
1:16:59
Major League Baseball followed Through his unique style and
1:17:02
passionate play by play calls, Sterling endeared himself to
1:17:04
generations of players and fans as radio voice of the Yankees
1:17:08
from 89 to 24. Major League Baseball said his
1:17:11
signature punctuation of Yankees victories included calling the
1:17:16
final out of five World Series championships.
1:17:20
Listen, Yankees fans either loved or loathed Sterling's
1:17:24
outsized home run calls and his shtick at the end of the games.
1:17:28
But he was the voice of Yankees baseball for most of my life and
1:17:31
for many others, and his numerous faux pas as he aged
1:17:35
became more endearing than upsetting and annoying to me as
1:17:38
it became apparent his time voicing the team was winding
1:17:41
down just a few years ago. Personally, I was lucky enough
1:17:43
to coach one of his kids over a decade ago in football and met
1:17:46
him at the end of the year dinner on a buffet line and had
1:17:49
a chance to small talk with him like he is probably done with a
1:17:52
number of people throughout his lifetime.
1:17:55
He was wearing one of his five World Series laying rings and
1:17:58
gave me an experience I still talk about this day.
1:18:01
They just don't make him like John Sterling all that often
1:18:04
anymore. One last the Yankees win.
1:18:07
The Yankees win for the great John Sterling.
1:18:10
Rest in peace. The Indianapolis Colts announced
1:18:13
on Friday that they were declining quarterback Anthony
1:18:15
Richardson's fifth year option on his rookie contract.
1:18:18
The move was not unexpected as the Colts have moved on from
1:18:20
Richardson after a number of failed seasons and injuries
1:18:23
after being drafted 4th overall in 2023 when they went with
1:18:26
Daniel Jones last year and despite injury, gave him a
1:18:30
contract extension this offseason.
1:18:33
Despite being on the last year of his rookie contract, it's
1:18:35
unlikely Richardson will break camp with the team and is likely
1:18:39
a trade candidate or cut candidate.
1:18:41
He just went to offseason workouts today for the first
1:18:46
time after sitting out close GM Chris Ballard outline the
1:18:49
possibility, though, that Richardson could stay with the
1:18:51
team. There's definitely a scenario
1:18:52
there. He's a good dude and he's
1:18:54
talented. I still want good for Anthony.
1:18:56
I still think he's got a lot in him.
1:18:58
He may be a good dude and a talented athlete of the big arm,
1:19:01
but he also has an injury history and a completion
1:19:03
percentage in his career of just 50% with only eleven career
1:19:07
touchdowns to 13 interceptions. Some team thinks that they could
1:19:10
turn anyone into a quarterback Will probably take a chance on
1:19:12
the former top five pick. But I don't think anyone expects
1:19:15
at this point for Richardson to turn around, especially after
1:19:18
getting so few reps in college coming into the league of the
1:19:20
young age. Perhaps he's one of the better
1:19:23
examples of someone who would have been better off staying in
1:19:26
college for his career if not for his draft slot.
1:19:28
Maybe with more experience at a lower level, Richardson would
1:19:31
have learned the nuances of the quarterback position, but with
1:19:34
NIL only just starting up at the time for Richardson as far as
1:19:38
the big money, he reached for the dollars before he was ready.
1:19:42
Hopefully he saved up and invested.
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We're now talking to 12 year NBA point guard Mr. Mike James.
1:22:44
Mike, what's up buddy? How are you doing?
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You were ranked in the. Top 30.
1:22:49
Today, and we've been in the top 100 for over 2 months.
1:22:52
We're kicking ass and taking names and we're kicking the hell
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at a Rick Dipietro's ESPN show right now tonight.
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I'm just saying I have to throw that at you anyways, Mike, I am.
1:23:03
I'm a New Yorker, man. I'm a New Yorker.
1:23:05
I'm a New Yorker, as we all, and you are too.
1:23:08
You're an Amityville Amityville alum and we're happy to have you
1:23:11
on. You've never been on the show
1:23:13
and I'm just excited to have you on because we had Metta World
1:23:15
Peace on last week. Now we have another New Yorker
1:23:17
from Long Island, another representative.
1:23:20
I I know a little bit about your park.
1:23:21
I checked out your park that you built over the years.
1:23:25
Tell us a little bit about the the thought of bringing and
1:23:28
putting a park together for all the fans and all the all the
1:23:31
kids out there in Amityville. I mean that was.
1:23:34
That was my safe haven when I was a kid.
1:23:38
And I was always, regardless of what was going on in the
1:23:43
community, I always had access to be in the park.
1:23:47
And, you know, when I was a kid, my park was considered
1:23:51
dangerous. And most of the kids, they had,
1:23:55
you know, courts in the front yard.
1:23:56
And so I wanted to create it to make it a place to be a safe
1:24:01
place for kids, you know, where they can go and, you know, put a
1:24:06
little, little flavor with it. And just the remembrance and
1:24:10
remind me of like what I used to have to do just to continue to
1:24:14
keep my peace and my sanity and myself.
1:24:18
I always had the gym in the park to always go to.
1:24:22
So you're addressed by the Miami?
1:24:23
Heat, kind of. At the beginning of that Pat
1:24:25
Riley era, I think a year before Dwyane Wade, it really went over
1:24:29
there as well. What was it like when you first
1:24:32
got the call that you were when you going to Miami?
1:24:35
You know the funny. Story about the Miami Heat The
1:24:40
Miami Heat story is 1. I had.
1:24:46
A it was, it was a three day workout for the heat, like a
1:24:52
weekend workout. They had about maybe 20 free
1:24:56
agents there and I, they didn't know nothing about me.
1:25:00
They just probably was just throwing me in there just to
1:25:03
look out for someone. And I I.
1:25:08
Killed everyone. And they said, wait, Mike, we
1:25:10
couldn't evaluate you in three days.
1:25:13
Myself and Malik Allen, they was like, can you guys stay another
1:25:17
three days so we can evaluate you?
1:25:19
So they brought in another 20 free agents.
1:25:23
We killed everybody. And they said, Mike, we couldn't
1:25:26
evaluate you in three days. I mean in the week.
1:25:30
So can you stay? So can you stay a little longer
1:25:33
for another week? So I did the same thing they
1:25:36
did, brought free agents in again, and it was the same
1:25:39
result. And they put me on a partial
1:25:41
contract and then I got, I made it all the way to the end and I
1:25:48
was the final cut behind one of the greatest New York point
1:25:52
guards to ever play the game. And I found out personally why
1:25:57
he was one of the greatest New York point guards to ever play
1:26:00
the game, Rod Strickland. And then?
1:26:03
I went. To the CBA and you know, killed
1:26:08
in the CBA and from the CBA, Miami signed me back.
1:26:14
I think one of my biggest, one of my worst decisions, I, I
1:26:19
can't say that, but one of the decisions that I could probably
1:26:23
say was one of my worst decisions is when, when I was in
1:26:26
the CBA, San Antonio gave me, this is right before Tony Parker
1:26:32
came to the, I played against Tony Parker the year before in
1:26:36
France and I killed them. You know, our team used to kill
1:26:39
them. So he already knew who I was.
1:26:42
I knew who he was and really wasn't impressed with him.
1:26:45
But this is the year before they signed him.
1:26:48
I was, I got a 10 day contract with the San Antonio Spurs.
1:26:53
And when the Miami Heat found out that I got a 10 day, they
1:26:57
signed me for the remainder of the year and guaranteed me for
1:27:00
the year. And I was like, shit, 10 days,
1:27:03
you know, guaranteed whole year. I wasn't thinking Pat Riley,
1:27:07
Gregg Popovich, you know what I mean?
1:27:09
And so if I would have had, you know, people helping me
1:27:13
understand like how Gregg Popovich really values people
1:27:17
that he sees something in it was just a little different.
1:27:19
And just, you know, so even like the whole era, just get into the
1:27:24
Miami Heat. I think that Pat Riley had kind
1:27:28
of like a a mixed relationship with me because he had to learn
1:27:33
me and he had to learn me through the fact of him finding
1:27:35
me. So he think that I owed him
1:27:38
something. So you had the opportunity to
1:27:40
play. For one of the most historical
1:27:42
winning organizations in the Boston, I really can't hear
1:27:44
that. I'm sorry.
1:27:47
Yeah. We ask.
1:27:47
Your question I'll really. No, I was just gonna ask.
1:27:51
Him, you know, how was it playing in Boston and you know,
1:27:53
teaming up with those guys that being able to, you know, compete
1:27:57
for the bunch of suchas and being a part of a historical
1:28:00
winning franchise. That was one of the main
1:28:03
reasons. This is when I was my second
1:28:09
year. I was playing in Miami and I'm,
1:28:27
I think I'm, I, I don't think I'm just good and arrogantly
1:28:31
thinking I'm good, but I think I'm better than what people are
1:28:33
giving me value for. And so he played in the summer
1:28:37
league and I was playing against Travis Best and all of these
1:28:40
guys and they was brought, Boston was about to sign Travis
1:28:43
Best and they Jim O'Brien came to the Jim O'Brien came to the
1:28:51
the workout and he saw me kicking like all the pros, butts
1:28:55
and Raja Bell, all of them was kicking chairs.
1:28:58
And he looked at me and he said, Mike, I can't give you no money,
1:29:03
but I can give you a chance. And I said he said, I'm only
1:29:07
going to give you minimal. And here it is.
1:29:09
Miami is about to give me a multi year deal.
1:29:12
And and they was just like I can only give you a partial a just a
1:29:16
minimal gown and just a chance. And I was my first year starting
1:29:20
in the NBA and I was averaging 10/5 and five, you know, as a
1:29:26
starter with Paul Pierce and when Antoine Walker was there
1:29:30
and all these guys. So it was an amazing opportunity
1:29:34
that Jim O'Brien gave me. But here's the here's the funny
1:29:39
story. You know, John Carroll was the
1:29:43
head assistant coach for the Boston Celtics.
1:29:47
John Carroll, when I signed to go to Duquesne University.
1:29:51
That's a funny story in itself. I got my scholarship out the
1:29:55
park, you know, they came to see me play and saw me do 2 moves
1:29:59
and said we're going to bring you on a visit.
1:30:01
That Sunday we worked out playing with all the Long Island
1:30:06
Panthers. Shout out to Gary Charles and we
1:30:13
was we was working out. He and I did 2 moves, went to a
1:30:17
workout on Monday. They flew me in, sign my sign my
1:30:22
scholarship on that Wednesday. They said, Mike, it's too late
1:30:25
in the year. You can't you can't sign no
1:30:28
contract. Just trust me.
1:30:30
They wrote on like a a little yellow pad and just basically
1:30:34
just said, just come to this is the secretary's add, this is her
1:30:37
number. Just come on the first day my
1:30:40
boys brought me to college and John Carroll was the head coach.
1:30:45
He told me I was the worst basketball player he's ever seen
1:30:48
play basketball. He told me he said that he would
1:30:52
rather have a walk on start before he let me start in the
1:30:55
game. So here it is, you know, all of
1:30:58
this happened. I'm distraught, My trauma is
1:31:01
high. I got records in Amityville for
1:31:04
shooting threes. I think I'm a really good
1:31:06
shooter. Here it is, this man is telling
1:31:08
me I am trash. And so now Fast forward, he's
1:31:14
the head assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and I'm the
1:31:18
starting point guard for the Boston Celtics.
1:31:21
I never brought it up. I never said anything to him.
1:31:23
But I used to look at him, I'll be like, yo coach, come rebound
1:31:26
for me. And I would make the ball.
1:31:29
I would make the ball shoot short so it it could go long.
1:31:32
So he had to go run and chase balls.
1:31:35
And in my head and in my head, I used to always think, man, you
1:31:40
don't tell no kid like that, You know, you don't try to break no
1:31:44
kid because you never know who that kid going to be.
1:31:47
But I never brought it up to him.
1:31:48
I never said anything. And then when when Jim O'Brien
1:31:54
quit, when the trade happened with Antoine Walker and all them
1:31:58
and all of that stuff happened, he, John Carroll became the
1:32:03
interim head coach. And one day we was in the game
1:32:07
and I was just standing on. We was, he was given like a
1:32:11
play. And the play was for me.
1:32:14
And I was standing there and I'm sitting there like, wow, look at
1:32:19
this. This is the same man that told
1:32:21
me I could never be nothing as in college, and he's my head
1:32:25
coach in the NBA. That's crazy.
1:32:29
I was. Like, this is crazy.
1:32:31
One of my best Boston moments was we was playing against, we
1:32:36
was playing against Memphis. When, when, what's his name,
1:32:43
White Chocolate? Jason Williams was there and it
1:32:47
was like the beginning of the season and Jim O'Brien drew a
1:32:51
Paul Pierce just filed out the game.
1:32:53
Vin Baker's on the team, Eric Williams, all these guys is on
1:32:56
the team. Anton Walker, Jim O'Brien drew
1:33:00
up a play. It was like maybe 5-6 seconds
1:33:03
left in the game. He drove a player and said, OK,
1:33:06
we're going to get the ball of Mike, we're going to step out
1:33:08
the way. Mike, you go one-on-one, we win
1:33:10
the game. Paul said what man you blown?
1:33:14
I wish you would. That's stupid.
1:33:17
We got then we got this, yadda, yadda, yadda.
1:33:20
And all I'm thinking to myself is, oh, it's a wrap.
1:33:23
This game is over. So as soon as you know the play
1:33:28
start. Paul did all his cussing,
1:33:29
whatever I he drew up the play I make the I, I, I, I, I do my
1:33:35
whatever move one-on-one on, Jason Williams hit the shot
1:33:38
buzzer beater, we win the game. I'm screaming, have faith in me.
1:33:41
Have faith in me. And guess who's picking me up at
1:33:44
half court? The first person picking me up
1:33:46
is Paul. I'm like man, get out of here
1:33:49
but. You know these?
1:33:51
Are the things that I've always had to when you when you when
1:33:55
you talk about the stories of the NBA.
1:33:58
I didn't really get to enjoy the NBA because I used to always
1:34:02
fight adversity. I remember when I played in
1:34:05
Milwaukee, you know, I had eight threes with like, with like.
1:34:13
I looked up at the clock and it was the third quarter and it was
1:34:17
still like 8 minutes and like 30 seconds in the game.
1:34:20
I said, oh, I said I don't know how many threes I'm about to
1:34:24
make, but it's a rap. Something is coming down
1:34:27
tonight. That's all I thought to myself.
1:34:29
I was like, I don't know what's about to take place, but some
1:34:32
record is coming down tonight. Terry Porter was the head coach.
1:34:38
He was telling he subbed the players in.
1:34:40
We blowing Boston out. This is after we, you know, I
1:34:43
got traded to Detroit. We can go backwards and talk
1:34:46
about Detroit. Yeah, we're going to get it
1:34:47
back. Yeah, but I got traded.
1:34:53
I got. I forgot what I was talking
1:34:56
about. Oh.
1:34:58
You were. Talking.
1:34:59
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
1:35:00
OK, OK, I got I. I was shooting the threes and
1:35:02
then the end of the game, I finished the game like 8 for 15
1:35:06
from a three-point line. We blew Boston out.
1:35:09
I had like 28 points. You know, I'm playing the game,
1:35:12
whatever, whatever. Everyone's happy.
1:35:14
Ha ha. I go in the locker room, Terry
1:35:17
Porter says who the F you think you are?
1:35:19
You think you just going to be shooting shots like that?
1:35:21
We play against them next week. Don't you think you ain't?
1:35:24
And I'm sitting there like, man, I'll I'm sitting there like, are
1:35:28
you serious right now? Like, wait a minute, who gets
1:35:32
young there for Kelly? I said hold on, dog.
1:35:36
I said hold on, dog. This is crazy.
1:35:39
So most of the times when everyone else was celebrating
1:35:42
me, I was still going home confused and heartbroken a
1:35:45
little bit. You know, most I have more
1:35:48
memories and stories of being player of the game and the coach
1:35:51
cussing me out and telling me I ain't nothing, I should be happy
1:35:54
I'm even in the league. And so it was always, it was
1:35:58
never my game, it was always the person.
1:36:02
And then when it became the person, they would challenge the
1:36:06
person and then they would realize now I'm from Amityville,
1:36:09
what y'all talking about? So even when they start talking
1:36:12
like yo, you ain't even from New York, you from Long Island.
1:36:15
Now hold on, I hate when people do my special when people like.
1:36:21
Mike, I hate when people say that you go out.
1:36:23
I go out to these summits and I'm dealing with all these radio
1:36:26
guys and they're like, oh, well, you're not really from New York
1:36:29
if you're not from Manhattan or Brooklyn or Queens.
1:36:31
I'm like, wait a second, I am from New York, I'm from Long
1:36:34
Island, and I should be respected just like any one of
1:36:37
those boroughs. There's 8 million people living
1:36:40
here, and why can't I be compared to any one of those
1:36:42
guys? I'm better than all of them and
1:36:44
I can tell them to shove it up their ass.
1:36:47
But you know what? I I.
1:36:48
Look at it, I look at it the same way like this when when
1:36:52
you're from Long Island, you go a little bit harder, of course,
1:36:56
then you when, when a cat is from the boroughs because you
1:36:59
got something to prove. So what they don't understand is
1:37:03
when you even talk jail language, it's the catch from
1:37:07
the island that's running the jails and not the catch from the
1:37:10
boroughs because they've been going hard and they don't
1:37:13
understand that when you start looking at Long Island cats,
1:37:17
they got to live up to like even like I remember when I was in
1:37:20
prep school, one of my boys, he was my boy.
1:37:23
He was playing around, but he was a little serious when he
1:37:25
said it. And I was like, man, you really
1:37:27
playing. But he said, Mike, I could whoop
1:37:29
you. And I said, man, what makes you
1:37:31
think you could whip me? He said, Mike, I'm already one
1:37:33
up on you. I'm from the Bronx, you from
1:37:35
Long Island. Like you know what I'm saying?
1:37:39
Like I've been fighting this my whole life, like, you know,
1:37:43
having to prove yourself all because you from so even when I
1:37:47
play basketball, like you don't understand, I've been playing
1:37:50
against City players my whole life and I've been a new, I've
1:37:53
been a Long Island basketball player.
1:37:55
So I had to be extra rough. I had to be extra tough.
1:37:58
I had to be extra. So you know what I'm saying?
1:38:02
So anytime I saw anybody from New York City, it was just I
1:38:07
could be playing. Against Steph.
1:38:08
And I'm not thinking about a pro athlete right now.
1:38:11
I'm thinking about Brooklyn right now.
1:38:13
I'm thinking about man you. You're not better than me.
1:38:16
I see, Skip. I'm thinking Queens right now.
1:38:19
Are you not better than me? I'm a Long Island boy.
1:38:22
And I'm going to show you right now.
1:38:23
I'm nicer than you. And so it was always just that
1:38:26
New York thing, you know what I mean?
1:38:29
That was way, way more important then.
1:38:32
And then it felt even, it was so much sweeter than for me because
1:38:36
I was like, man, and I'm from Long Island now what?
1:38:38
And so that was even more that made even more of a how I was
1:38:44
playing and how I was doing it because when I always came to
1:38:47
the city, my swag never changed. And the swag was still yeah,
1:38:51
Amityville in the building, right.
1:38:53
We I'm not, I'm not playing against low barrel.
1:38:56
I want I want to add this and I want everybody.
1:38:58
To know who we're speaking to, we're talking to former 12 year
1:39:01
NBA point guard Mike James. He played from 2001, 2014, won a
1:39:07
championship in 2004 with the Pistons.
1:39:10
It's one of the better teams that you can remember in the
1:39:12
Eastern Conference when you talk about Rasheed Wallace, Ben
1:39:14
Wallace. I was a huge Rick Hamilton fan.
1:39:19
I love Prince and I, I love Chauncey Billups.
1:39:22
He was a game breaker, always kicked everybody's ass,
1:39:25
especially the New York Knicks. But I want to say something and
1:39:28
there are a lot of Long Islanders that have come out and
1:39:30
played in the NBA. And if you look at the list, you
1:39:33
have Julius Irving, who played it for Roosevelt, Tobias Harris,
1:39:36
who's still in the NBA right now, Danny Green from North
1:39:39
Babylon, Wally Zerbiak, Tom Gugliotta, Mitch Kupchak.
1:39:43
I mean, you have all these guys, Jeff Roland.
1:39:46
So there's there's a lot of them.
1:39:48
And your name is on this list, but it's a short list.
1:39:52
It's a real short list. AJ Price, Amityville, You know,
1:39:55
AJ So Speedy Claxton, we saw what he did with Hoster this
1:39:59
year. Toby Knight When you look at
1:40:02
Long Island, a lot of people would say this is a basketball
1:40:05
place, this isn't a sports place, but it's it's growing
1:40:07
now. James Mike, If you look at what
1:40:10
we've seen right now in Long Island, look at the hockey
1:40:12
players that have been drafted over the last couple of years,
1:40:15
first round draft picks, second round talents.
1:40:17
If you look at baseball, look at the talent that's been drafted
1:40:20
over the years and now you look at football.
1:40:23
Now some of the Long Island talent that's coming out of
1:40:26
football, we have one right now pressing carry who's going to be
1:40:28
playing for Georgia this year. Could be a first round talent in
1:40:31
the future. I think Long Island is building
1:40:33
and everybody looks at Long Island.
1:40:34
They say this is a lacrosse place, but they don't realize
1:40:37
that there's a lot of talent out here and that's why we're going
1:40:40
out there. We're trying to build it.
1:40:41
We have a Long Island mouth that we're building here for high
1:40:43
school sports. We want to put them on the map
1:40:46
and I think somebody like you can help us.
1:40:49
I think that we could be working together.
1:40:51
I have some Long Island NFL players.
1:40:53
Chris Collier right now plays for the Raiders, and Dylan
1:40:58
Lauby, he's another Raider right now, playing as a running back
1:41:00
over there with the Raiders. We need these Long Islanders to
1:41:03
stand behind the game right now. And all the sports put Long
1:41:06
Island in the map, give Long Island an opportunity for a
1:41:09
voice. And that's what we're here for.
1:41:12
We're one of the best radio shows in the country that people
1:41:14
are starting to recognize. And.
1:41:16
And here's the thing, We don't beat around a Bush.
1:41:18
Yeah, we're from Long Island. Most of us Q's from Georgia,
1:41:21
actually, he's from North Carolina and he lives in
1:41:24
Georgia. Speedy's from Connecticut.
1:41:25
But we're, we're based out of Long Island.
1:41:27
We want everybody to know that we're not afraid of anybody.
1:41:29
We're going to go at you and I, I love your personality.
1:41:32
I want to get into the Pistons, man, because the Pistons to me
1:41:36
were as dominant of an Eastern Conference team in the early
1:41:40
2000s than we've ever seen. What they did to what you guys
1:41:43
did to the Lakers, the Shaquille O'Neal Lakers, the Kobe Bryant
1:41:47
Lakers. I mean, that was a story by
1:41:49
itself, you know? That team, it was just a bunch
1:41:56
of just real dogs. You know, everyone on the team
1:42:03
probably was overlooked at some point in their career or
1:42:06
misjudged or miscalculated. But together form like Voltron.
1:42:11
You know, when you you look at you look at RIP's career when he
1:42:17
played in Washington, RIP was having a damn good career.
1:42:19
He was having some damn good career at what he was doing, but
1:42:23
it was overlooked and overcast by so much other.
1:42:26
You look at Chauncey, he's bouncing around, but everywhere
1:42:30
he went he was continuing to keep getting better and better
1:42:33
and better. It's just so happy you couldn't
1:42:35
find nowhere to stick. You look at Rasheed, he's
1:42:38
leading the league in technical fouls and don't nobody want to
1:42:41
deal with them. And he's such a hard person and
1:42:44
just controlling. He just needs to be controlled.
1:42:47
And so now you look at you know, Ben, he's a undersized big man,
1:42:52
but now you got a 7 foot power forward.
1:42:55
And but it's just like when you put everyone and you look at the
1:42:59
bitch, you look at the Eldon Campbell's God bless your soul.
1:43:02
You know, the Darvin hams just a monster.
1:43:05
You talk about myself, Lindsay Hunter, the pit bulls like you
1:43:08
pick a star team, but we're coming off the bench.
1:43:11
Darko Miller, but he'll be one of the best players in the
1:43:15
league right now. And you have a memo memo occur
1:43:19
who killed in Utah, But he was a 6th man, 7th man with Detroit
1:43:24
put us all together. It was all nothing but tough
1:43:28
nails. Everybody was tough.
1:43:30
But at the end of the day, the workouts was like key Lago.
1:43:33
Larry Brown was so cool. You know Larry Brown would say
1:43:37
hey, the working bees like hey, the he was like, hey, the the
1:43:41
white collar guys. Y'all can leave the working
1:43:43
bees. Come on, let's work like you
1:43:45
know y'all lazy they'll come in with sweatpants on or shoes on
1:43:49
Todd and he wasn't tripping You know Arnie used to do all little
1:43:53
stretches and it was really like little dance moves that we used
1:43:56
to have to do so that was cool like Chauncey and I will be will
1:44:01
be in practice and Larry be like Chauncey, but Mike put some
1:44:04
pressure on him and I'll be like Chauncey, you know I know you're
1:44:07
going to play 30 some minutes tomorrow like don't trip, I got
1:44:10
you. So I'll be screaming and acting
1:44:11
like I'm playing them hard, but in reality, and so RIP would you
1:44:15
know, we get off the bus, RIP would say, yo, we meeting
1:44:19
downstairs in 30 minutes. Whoever eating come on, this is
1:44:22
every game. So whoever come in.
1:44:25
So all 15 used to go out like a game.
1:44:27
So not only were we hanging out, like with not only were we
1:44:32
friends on the court, we was friends off the court.
1:44:34
Someone have a a birthday party for a 5 year old, the whole team
1:44:39
showing up, you know what I'm saying, to a 5 year old's
1:44:42
birthday party Like this is something and something that was
1:44:45
the most beautiful thing that I've never seen my whole entire
1:44:48
career that I've only seen once. And this is the reason why
1:44:52
Golden State normally has a great team is when the starters
1:44:57
are in the game, the bench is up.
1:44:59
But when the bench is in the game, the starters are going
1:45:01
crazy. Everyone believes and everyone
1:45:04
wants to see the best for the other person.
1:45:07
Everyone wants to see the other person win.
1:45:10
And so when you have an energy like that and but then when you
1:45:13
have everyone that's just tough, but everyone just real.
1:45:18
Oh my goodness, it's like whoever eat, let's just eat.
1:45:21
We out here. I'm hungry.
1:45:23
I I need myself an. Omaha steak.
1:45:25
That's what I need. But I, I will, I will say this,
1:45:28
my friend, I watch basketball religiously.
1:45:31
I've been a big, huge basketball fan growing up.
1:45:33
I was a hockey player, but everybody said, what is your
1:45:35
sport? What do you love more than
1:45:37
anything in the world? And that's the 90s Knicks.
1:45:39
I followed the Knicks 94. To me, I just, I wanted to throw
1:45:43
up. That was our best chance to win.
1:45:45
And, and obviously we all know what happened.
1:45:47
John Stark, bricklayer, It's just horrible to watch.
1:45:50
It just made me sick to my stomach growing up.
1:45:52
I know you grew up a Knick fan. I know you grew up a Knick fan,
1:45:55
but you also probably watch Michael Jordan and emulated
1:45:58
everything Michael Jordan did. When you look at the game now
1:46:01
and you look at the past and when you were watching the game
1:46:03
and when you were playing in high school, what do you think
1:46:06
has been a different look to the transition to what it is today?
1:46:10
You've heard the stories of great.
1:46:11
Players, you know, they was just as wild as the guys are today.
1:46:15
The only thing that makes them be able to be visible is social
1:46:18
media. But you would hear the stories
1:46:21
of the Julius Irving getting off the plane and got the limo
1:46:25
waiting for him while everybody else going to the bus and got to
1:46:29
get on the bus and he got four or five girls in the car.
1:46:32
But Julius Irving having 35 tomorrow night with 15 rebounds.
1:46:37
You know what I mean? It was play hard but play
1:46:39
harder. You know these guys, you you
1:46:42
hear the stories about how wild they were.
1:46:44
Michael Jordan be gambling and all hanging out all night
1:46:47
drinking and part whatever they was doing but at the end of the
1:46:50
day when it was game time they didn't play with game time.
1:46:54
You heard about Lawrence Taylor and the sniffing cocaine and
1:46:58
sniffing off females and all the wild party but on but on Sunday
1:47:04
he was the most animal barbaric person out there.
1:47:09
And so he didn't allow what he did to get in interfere with the
1:47:14
game. These kids allow what's on the
1:47:18
outside interfere with the game. And so it's more of the
1:47:23
entertainment of the game instead of taking the game
1:47:25
serious. And back in when we played, we
1:47:27
didn't play with the game like you can get your whole, you can
1:47:31
get embarrassed tonight playing with the game tonight.
1:47:33
You can take this game today you can take off.
1:47:37
All right, I have a question because.
1:47:38
One of our. Previous hosts that was with our
1:47:39
network years ago mentioned that Darko Milichick has the greatest
1:47:42
nickname ever, the human victory cigar.
1:47:45
What is the origin story behind that?
1:47:48
I mean. Larry Brown just didn't he?
1:47:50
Didn't like them. He didn't like, you know,
1:47:52
stubborn, you know, sometimes these guys be stuck in their
1:47:55
ways and, you know, they. They be stuck in their ways and.
1:48:03
They be and they don't know how to evolve with the game.
1:48:08
And yes, Darko could have helped, but, you know, there was
1:48:12
no real position for him there because there was, you know, two
1:48:15
players in front of him and he had to spend that time learning.
1:48:18
But it was hard with Larry Brown because Larry Brown wasn't
1:48:21
really trying to. You know, it's one thing to
1:48:24
build a person physically and it's a whole entire another
1:48:26
story when you break them down mentally, you know what I mean?
1:48:29
I could tell her that now was one of my biggest issues with
1:48:32
Pat Riley was he'll build you and turn you into this super
1:48:36
monster like your body fat. I didn't have the lowest body
1:48:40
fat. My body fat was 4.5.
1:48:42
He fined me. He fined me because my damn body
1:48:45
fat went from 4.5 to 4.8 on a vacation and I still got fined.
1:48:50
But anyway, you know, but he was able to change me physically,
1:48:55
but mentally he used to break me and mentally I didn't believe
1:48:59
like what he used to say about who I was as a player because he
1:49:03
never told me because all he wanted to do was break me and
1:49:06
create me into a person that he wanted me to be.
1:49:08
But you never created. You never built my mind.
1:49:11
And so because you never built my mind, I was still having
1:49:14
troubles mental like that mental comfortable comfortableness.
1:49:18
And so that becomes the problem with a lot of times is that they
1:49:21
want to break you down physically, but they don't want
1:49:23
to build you mentally. And that's when you have the
1:49:26
total control of the player. That's the reason why the
1:49:28
Popovich is have so much success.
1:49:30
That's the reason why you know, the Phil Jackson's have so much
1:49:34
success because they're not coming from just a physical
1:49:37
perspective. They come because they cut you
1:49:39
just like any child, like any person you know, you get their
1:49:43
mind. You got them.
1:49:44
So like a coach you if I before I before I can get you
1:49:48
physically, you're going to buck me mentally If I can't get you
1:49:52
physically, but as long as as as soon as I take your bucking from
1:49:56
you, man, I got you your minds. Now look.
1:50:00
At. Me.
1:50:01
I'm your captain now. I.
1:50:04
I will say this, you are an interesting cat man.
1:50:07
You definitely are. We want to get you on the scope
1:50:09
the next time you come on the show because you have an
1:50:12
interesting personality. And I I think that the fans want
1:50:15
to see you and we should talk off air because I think you can
1:50:18
really help us if right now the growth of Long Island sports is
1:50:21
there. We need, we need the some of
1:50:23
these X NBA or NBA players right now to come out and help out,
1:50:27
just like the NHL we're working with.
1:50:29
Let's do it. But I want to say something.
1:50:30
There's a story coming out right now, the LeBron James Michael
1:50:33
Jordan comparison. Could you please seal this, that
1:50:37
Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.
1:50:39
There is no comparison. Could we please let's, let's,
1:50:42
let's do this. First, let's do the Michael Kobe
1:50:45
comparison. All right, let's do it.
1:50:46
You know, one thing, one thing I used to always tell people about
1:50:50
the Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. Michael was the Michael was the
1:50:53
robot version, Kobe was the human version, you know, and and
1:50:58
and now the LeBron version. See what I value, what I respect
1:51:04
about what a person's game yes, you can value his longevity.
1:51:08
You know what I'm saying? That's commendable.
1:51:11
He takes care of his body. You know recovery.
1:51:14
If you're able to recover and do the same things over and over,
1:51:18
your mental is always going to take you to a whole nother
1:51:20
level. You've been able to handle your
1:51:23
body in a way to keep it rejuvenated.
1:51:25
That's what's up. But other than that, the value
1:51:29
of a player comes in the last five minutes of the fourth
1:51:32
quarter. And if you put LeBron James
1:51:36
percentage, just the out, just the average alone of his average
1:51:41
of his career, the last five minutes in the fourth quarter,
1:51:44
he probably shooting about 37%. He probably averaging over 3
1:51:47
turnovers. He probably shooting from the
1:51:49
free throw line less than 60%. And this is when it's winning
1:51:53
time and this is how you compare winners and champions, not just
1:51:57
statistics. It's easy to blow up statistics
1:52:00
when you played a long period of time and you can get 30
1:52:03
something points in the 1st, 3/4 and 8 minutes.
1:52:07
That's my game. Now all of a sudden, the last
1:52:09
five minutes you go ghost, like hold up dawg, what?
1:52:13
We need 10 points from you. We need 4 assists from you,
1:52:16
dawg. We need you to shoot 90% from
1:52:18
the free throw line. But you peeing on yourself just
1:52:21
because you had 35, just because you had 35 and 14 and 10
1:52:26
rebounds for the game has nothing to do with the last five
1:52:29
minutes of the game. This is winning time and you
1:52:32
looking for other people to do it.
1:52:34
That's not fair. It's not fair to how you patting
1:52:37
them stats. That's patch that.
1:52:41
That's why I like you, the Long Islanders.
1:52:43
They're straightforward. They don't beat around the Bush,
1:52:45
and we smack people around as we always do.
1:52:49
Yes, you are. You you haven't won.
1:52:52
See, the problem is Scottie Pippen.
1:52:54
Yeah, Scottie Pippen. You got to understand Michael
1:52:56
Jordan made you great. Like you didn't get tough until
1:52:59
Michael Jordan had your back. Like Michael Jordan defended you
1:53:02
more than anybody else. Remember, every time the Xavier
1:53:06
McDaniels them fights was your fight, they was punking you.
1:53:10
And. Michael Jordan was like, hold up
1:53:12
dawg, you ain't going to be doing all that.
1:53:14
Now they do all of it. Michael face.
1:53:17
So you got your confidence through Michael.
1:53:21
You didn't even get your game. You didn't even get your game
1:53:24
through yourself. So who you became and when you
1:53:28
got your chance to, when you got your chance to be your great
1:53:31
person, you show you need some help.
1:53:35
You can't do this by yourself. Michael, of course, needed you.
1:53:38
You was his Robin. You ain't never seen Batman beat
1:53:41
up anybody or win anything by himself.
1:53:44
I love it. They always got either or out of
1:53:47
something, but they always had each other's back.
1:53:50
Yes, you the greatest, but that's who I compare Magic John.
1:53:54
I mean I, I compare LeBron to a Magic Johnson.
1:53:58
People disrespect and devalue Mike Magic Johnson and who Magic
1:54:02
Johnson was to the game of basketball and how what and Mike
1:54:06
Magic Johnson had a third eye. Like I look at I laugh at who
1:54:09
The Who who like leading the league and assists.
1:54:12
You got centers leading the league and assists the point
1:54:15
guards back in the days were. How dare that be the problem.
1:54:18
If the centers are average and 10 assists, I promise you Magic
1:54:21
Johnson would have been averaging 1718.
1:54:23
I promise you those guys like, you know, they look at a Rod
1:54:26
Strickland and he averaged 20 and 10 for his career.
1:54:30
But like 2010 assists, it was like, are you serious?
1:54:33
That is so hard to get in the NBA and especially during that
1:54:37
time and these guys was able to get it like it was nothing like
1:54:41
you look at these point guards now, they even look at Steph
1:54:44
Curry. I look at Steph Curry and you
1:54:46
call him, you call him the greatest point guard to ever
1:54:49
play today. Tell him I'm.
1:54:51
Loving it. The problem I have the problem I
1:54:54
have with Steph. Curry being the greatest point
1:54:56
guard to ever play the game is the fact that you don't watch
1:54:59
Steph Curry make point guard plays.
1:55:01
You watch Steph Curry make plays for himself.
1:55:04
You watch Steph Curry make shots.
1:55:06
You watch Steph Curry shoot great, unbelievable, incredible
1:55:09
shots. He's the greatest shooter to
1:55:11
ever step on the court and play the game of basketball.
1:55:15
But you don't watch Steph Curry make plays for other people.
1:55:18
A point guard is a leader, a general, a playmaker.
1:55:22
He has plays for other people. Steph Curry is just a stone cold
1:55:26
killer. He probably one of the greatest
1:55:29
killers, but if you put him on your greatest team all time,
1:55:32
he's too small. I agree.
1:55:34
I agree. Manny too Manny too small.
1:55:36
He. Going to be a he going to be a
1:55:38
he's always on the liability. He's always on the worst
1:55:41
defender on the other team. Steph Curry has the easiest job
1:55:44
in the NBA in basketball. He runs off screens and they
1:55:48
always fought and they always looking for him.
1:55:51
Everybody looks for the first option at all times and he's
1:55:54
just going to. You got to chase him at all
1:55:57
times, Mike. You run him.
1:56:00
He runs you so. Crazy that you don't even want
1:56:02
to play against them no more. Now he got you one-on-one, Mike,
1:56:07
you're absolutely. Right.
1:56:08
This is why us Long Island Islanders know what we're
1:56:11
talking about. So I've been arguing this on
1:56:14
this show for years. I do not believe Steph Curry is
1:56:17
a point guard. The fact that they put him in
1:56:19
the top ten of all time is ridiculous.
1:56:20
If you want to put him at 10, fine.
1:56:22
Put him at 10. He's the greatest shooter of all
1:56:24
time. Point guard?
1:56:25
Get out of here. He's not better than Isaiah
1:56:28
Thomas. He's not better than John
1:56:29
Stockton. He's not better than Magic
1:56:31
Johnson. He's not better than anyone of
1:56:33
those guys. And chasing Kidd, he's not
1:56:35
better than any other. He's not even better than
1:56:37
Chauncey Billups was. OK, He's not a point guard,
1:56:44
that's what. I.
1:56:47
Think he's a two he. Had He's just a great shooter I
1:56:51
love. Kyrie more I do too.
1:56:52
I like him. I love Kyrie has the best ball
1:56:57
he see I'm from and you got to have that pity pat with you.
1:57:00
You got that pity pat with him, dog.
1:57:02
I don't like basic point guards. You got to have that swag on the
1:57:06
court while you got that ball in your head like that basic stuff
1:57:09
is for the birds dog Mike you're.
1:57:12
Fantastic. You have to come on this show.
1:57:15
We we got to get you on a scope. We definitely we got to talk off
1:57:18
air. I want to.
1:57:19
We're doing some stuff with high school and and Long Island
1:57:22
sports. You can really help out and I
1:57:24
think it's great what you the background and the stories
1:57:27
behind you and all the hard work that you had to to go and and
1:57:31
and really deliver and become the player that you became in
1:57:34
the NBA is pretty great story and and that's what we do.
1:57:36
That's what we go out we go out there every single show, no
1:57:39
matter how we go out, we want everybody to know that we're
1:57:41
going to go out there. We're going to give 110% and
1:57:43
we're going to make sure everybody hears what we have to
1:57:45
say. We're not like everybody else.
1:57:47
We're not copying Stephen A Smith or Chris Russo, Mike
1:57:50
Francesa, we don't do that. We go out there, we give you our
1:57:54
takes, we have a little fun, we argue we want to kill each other
1:57:58
and then. You.
1:58:05
Gotta have that, New York. State of mind, What you mean?
1:58:10
I love you, Mike. Thank you.
1:58:11
For joining us, your sensation. Mike James, ladies and
1:58:16
gentlemen, Fantastic. His background, everything about
1:58:20
him. I love that he came out, he came
1:58:22
out hard. That's what I love about guys
1:58:24
like that. He will tell you the truth.
1:58:26
He went out there, I asked him about the Michael Jordan.
1:58:28
Everybody was like, oh, last question.
1:58:30
No, I got to ask you about Michael Jordan.
1:58:32
He brought up Kobe Bryant. He very interesting.
1:58:34
He said Michael Jordan is the robot version and comedy.
1:58:37
Kobe Bryant was the human version.
1:58:39
That was very interesting when you think about that, the
1:58:41
comparison and then when he brought up LeBron James, he says
1:58:43
it's always about the last five minutes of the game.
1:58:46
Go look at LeBron James the last five minutes of a game and then
1:58:49
look at what Michael Jordan has done.
1:58:51
He's absolutely right. There is no comparison to
1:58:54
anybody when it comes to Michael Jordan.
1:58:56
Michael Jordan was a different beast.
1:58:58
He was different and anybody that's never seen him and
1:59:01
they're trying to compare him. And for all those guys, for all
1:59:03
the guys out there and girls that never got a chance to,
1:59:06
Michael might watch Michael Jordan.
1:59:07
You're watching clips on YouTube and all these different things.
1:59:11
I'm telling you right now, it's not the same thing.
1:59:14
When I watched basketball in the 90s, I had to watch this guy go
1:59:19
into Madison Square Garden and put up 50, 6056 every single
1:59:24
time and it made me sick to my stomach.
1:59:27
We had Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley, we had all these guys,
1:59:30
Anthony Mason, Xavier McDaniel. You heard what he said about
1:59:33
Xavier McDaniel. It's just John Starks.
1:59:36
It made me sick to my stomach. And and when you heard what Mike
1:59:39
James had to say it it it says a lot about what people look at
1:59:42
Long Islanders as. They don't look at us as
1:59:45
Brooklyn and Queens and Manhattan.
1:59:47
We got to compete with all of them.
1:59:49
We got to be compared to all of them.
1:59:50
And I'm going to tell you this and I'm going to say this once
1:59:53
and we're going to move on to the show.
1:59:54
And I got to throw this out there for anybody, anybody that
1:59:57
thinks that Long Island can't compete with any, any
2:00:00
broadcasting or broadcasters out there because we're from a
2:00:04
little island and we're not really considered New York.
2:00:07
Any day, anytime you want to come on this show and you want
2:00:10
to argue a point about anything in sports, I promise you, you're
2:00:13
going to wish you never came on this show.
2:00:15
I could promise you. Anybody listen to this show
2:00:17
right now. I promise you.
2:00:19
You come on this show and you want to argue any sports with
2:00:22
us, you better have your A game. Because if you don't, we're
2:00:24
going to eat you up alive. I promise you I will not sit
2:00:27
here and let you guys just pulverize those.
2:00:28
Oh, you're from Long Island? Yeah, I'm from Long Island.
2:00:31
I'll eat you up alive. I'll eat you for breakfast,
2:00:33
lunch and dinner. And I'll have a little sweet at
2:00:36
the end of the night because I love Wow.
2:00:38
We're going to have our first dual sound.
2:00:39
Drop. Nathan has that drop now you're
2:00:41
going to have it. Yes.
2:00:42
There you go. All right.
2:00:43
Let's go into save your tears, Mom, what's one thing?
2:00:48
That you can't talk to me about my sexual fantasies?
2:00:53
Say yourself It is not ideal. But if it's what means it is.
2:00:56
Not ideal, but if it's just not ideal.
2:00:58
But if it is, what means? Double stamp.
2:01:02
You can't dribble. Stamp with double stamp Lord,
2:01:03
you can't dribble stamp with double stamp but but you guys
2:01:08
and now it's. Time for Save your tear.
2:01:14
All right, guys, welcome back. To save your tears, they call me
2:01:18
the ladies man and Mr. Still your.
2:01:20
Girl, everyone's favorite lightning.
2:01:23
Round type of a fantasy type of thing and we have our five
2:01:28
competitors once again the way this works we have guys from the
2:01:32
second round of the NBA playoffs $15 salary cap you pick one
2:01:37
player from each column the winner gets the compliment
2:01:39
chorus next show I'm going to show you the board so if you're
2:01:43
just listening at home this is when I tell you we also are can
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be found on video we also have a brand new YouTube page that is
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growing really fast go and check it out it's where we're housing
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And we're also. Putting all.
2:02:01
Of the important stuff like Errol's drops that annoy
2:02:05
everybody but Nathan's drops are.
2:02:08
Just so sacred you have. To enjoy them.
2:02:13
Only. So many people enjoy.
2:02:15
Weird kinks. You have to learn that now.
2:02:19
Here's the list though. If you're not the two games
2:02:21
we're going to pick, obviously going to stay with the Knicks
2:02:24
and Sixers game and we're going to go with that Wolves, Spurs
2:02:27
game. So here's the list $5 player.
2:02:29
Point guard is Jalen Brunson, followed by Tyrese Maxi, $3 for
2:02:33
DE Aaron Fox, 2 for Conley, one for Dylan Harper off the bench
2:02:38
at 2. Guard Anthony Edwards is playing
2:02:41
tonight. He goes in as a $5 player,
2:02:44
followed by Josh Hart, VJ Edgecomb, Stephane Castle and IO
2:02:49
Dosanmu at a couple of big games in the first round. $5 at small
2:02:52
forward. Kind of slim pickets at small
2:02:53
forward. Jaden McDaniels at that Big 30
2:02:57
point game. Let's.
2:02:58
Give him the five dollar slot. Mikhail Bridges, Don't look now.
2:03:03
Q He's got 10. He's got 9 points heading into
2:03:05
the half, but she was going to take Kelly Ubrey at.
2:03:08
Two, Devin Vassell. At 3.
2:03:11
Kelly Ubrey. Junior at 2 and for a dollar.
2:03:15
Jordan Clarkson at power forward.
2:03:17
Julius Randall's the $5 player, followed by OG and a Nobi who's
2:03:21
been playing that small bowl for this postseason.
2:03:23
Paul George doing the same for $3.
2:03:25
Justin Champagne for two and 6th man Kelvin Johnson for a buck.
2:03:32
And then at center we all go by Wembe here.
2:03:35
Just seems so long doesn't fit in the box.
2:03:37
So we're just going to call him Wembe for 5 bucks 5 bucks.
2:03:40
Karl Anthony Towns for four. Joel Embiid could be a nice fine
2:03:44
by the by the way, I just want to throw.
2:03:46
Something the Knicks are up 23 by half at the half, right at
2:03:51
the half. Killing them?
2:03:53
Not surprising. The Knicks are going to win this
2:03:56
series in three games. They don't even need 4.
2:03:58
It's going to be that that easy for them.
2:04:00
I'm just joking. No, I don't think that.
2:04:02
I think it goes 5. That's that's I think it's 52
2:04:05
probably. But I'm really confident with
2:04:07
the Knicks. We'll see with our picks in a
2:04:09
little bit. Go Bears $2.00 Nas Reed is the
2:04:12
doll. By the way, OG Ananobi is
2:04:14
shutting. Down, Mr. Maxi, just so
2:04:16
everybody knows. Got to throw that out there.
2:04:19
So let's take a look at the board.
2:04:20
I I won this one, so I'll announce the order this week.
2:04:24
So the first person up will be Mr. Nathan.
2:04:32
I'm. Going to go Dylan.
2:04:35
Harvard. Actually, scratch that, I'm
2:04:39
going to go to Jalen Brunson, Michael, Molly and I'm going to
2:04:43
go Stephon. Castle.
2:04:45
Molly Watson. And then I'm going to go.
2:04:52
Devin Vessel. Ram Jam all these prostitutes.
2:04:58
Oh, George, and. Then I'm going to go.
2:05:02
I'm going to go, Rudy. Gobert.
2:05:04
Again, I'm anal. He's. 15 He's all right.
2:05:07
All right. The numbers are good.
2:05:08
Brunson Castle. Vessel George and go bear suck
2:05:12
my Indo. Let's go.
2:05:15
To. Queue.
2:05:18
Let me. Go.
2:05:20
Brunts and Whitby pass liquor. Let's.
2:05:25
Go castle cream pie. Squeeze the.
2:05:32
Cheese. So you got 3.
2:05:35
Left for the two forward positions.
2:05:40
Athletes, let me do. How much you say I got what, 3
2:05:46
left for the three left for those two positions.
2:05:48
Doo Doo. Doo.
2:05:55
I mean, you got to take I love Lisa Ann.
2:05:58
After all the crap you've been talking.
2:05:59
About Kelly Uber. No, that's what I'm trying to.
2:06:02
Tell y'all y'all y'all making it think y'all act like I'm talking
2:06:05
about him as an All Star. I'm just saying like he can
2:06:08
contribute, so his contribution of 5 or 710 points ain't going
2:06:13
to help me in this situation. Well, you get points for.
2:06:16
Rebounds, assists. It's all the daily fantasy stats
2:06:20
on Yahoo. The problem with Kelly Ubrey is
2:06:22
it. Doesn't play.
2:06:23
Defense, I think I'm going to do.
2:06:24
It's not very good. I got. $3.
2:06:27
So the problem. Is he's a below average
2:06:29
basketball. Yeah, he's a good offensive
2:06:31
player, just doesn't. Play defense doesn't defend.
2:06:35
I can only do A1. Let's do.
2:06:41
Champagne and. And.
2:06:46
Clarkson, yeah. Clarkson all.
2:06:52
Right, I got Brunson. Castle.
2:06:54
Clarkson, Champagne and Wemby. All right, let's move on to
2:07:00
Speedy. All right, give me.
2:07:03
I like the $1.00 value with Harper.
2:07:05
I'll take that. Give me Wemby as well, let's
2:07:10
say. Give me vassal.
2:07:17
Give me Randall. And that leaves me with.
2:07:22
I believe that leaves me with dassomnew.
2:07:24
Let me see if I'm doing it right. 5101314 Yeah, that leaves
2:07:28
me to somnew. All right.
2:07:33
So. Here's what I got for you,
2:07:34
Speedy Harper. Dassonnew, Vassell, Randall, and
2:07:38
Wembe, Errol. All right, I'm going to go.
2:07:43
Bronson, Desan MU. Devon vessel.
2:07:50
How much? Do I have left here?
2:07:51
That's nine. So you got. 6 left web.
2:07:57
And Yama Web and Yama. And I got one right.
2:08:00
Yep. So you got left with Johnson,
2:08:02
I'll take Kelvin. Johnson.
2:08:05
All. Right.
2:08:06
You got Brunson. The Sun move a cell Johnson
2:08:08
wembe I got to make my team as the defending reigning defending
2:08:13
champion of this. Tournament.
2:08:16
Here I'm going to go with Brunson as well and.
2:08:24
I'm going to go a little bit. Out of character I'm going to go
2:08:27
down to $3.00 to Mr. Embiid at centre even though I hate that
2:08:34
guy. Suck my indo.
2:08:38
Exactly. I'm going to go with Johnson at
2:08:42
forward. I farted as.
2:08:44
Well, for a dollar. So that gives me 9.
2:08:46
I got 6 bucks left for the other for the 2 wings butt plug.
2:08:52
And. Oh, interesting.
2:08:56
I'm going to go into, all right, somebody's got to do it.
2:09:00
I'm going to take Kelly Ubrey junior.
2:09:06
It's a good choice. I heard he's.
2:09:07
Really good and like. Plays great defense and what
2:09:12
else was he good at you so say they.
2:09:15
Call me the ladies man and. He was going to be the.
2:09:17
Hack place. He makes the impact.
2:09:21
And that give me Josh Hart. No one took Josh Hart.
2:09:23
He had a great series last round.
2:09:25
Maybe that'll get me the win this one.
2:09:28
So I got Brunson and Hart, the Nova boys with Kelly Ubrey,
2:09:31
Keldon Johnson and Joelle, and the guys will go through these
2:09:35
the winner next Monday after the We're not counting tonight
2:09:38
games, right? We're not tonight game at the
2:09:41
1st 4. Games of the series OK, so it's
2:09:45
like. All of it.
2:09:46
All right. So I didn't know that.
2:09:48
But OK, all right, that's cool. All right, I thought it was the
2:09:51
next game, but it doesn't matter.
2:09:53
Great job with Mike James by. The way, yeah, Mike was great.
2:09:56
He really? Was I had a lot of respect for
2:09:59
him and some of his stories were just absolutely great.
2:10:01
And for anybody that missed that interview, check it out.
2:10:04
We will post it up. It'll be on Spotify, it'll be on
2:10:07
Apple, so you'll get a chance to watch the video and he wasn't
2:10:10
unfortunately he was driving. You could tell that he was in
2:10:13
his car, but we'll we'll get him on again and he'll be in studio
2:10:16
and but fantastic stories, great background in basketball and his
2:10:20
knowledge and understanding the game and how it transitioned.
2:10:23
By the way, he pretty much said this, the game now is a bitch
2:10:26
game. That's pretty much what he said
2:10:28
is that what they did in the 90s is completely different.
2:10:30
What they do tonight, tonight or today and and what the game, the
2:10:34
basket, what basketball has transitioned into.
2:10:36
He says they're not tough they're they're not tough guys
2:10:39
anymore. And, and I agree with him and
2:10:42
it's funny how he kind of transitioned into the, the
2:10:44
LeBron and, and Michael Jordan to Steph Curry and, and point
2:10:48
guards and not comparing Steph Curry to a point guard position,
2:10:51
which I've been saying for a very, very long time.
2:10:53
He's not a point guard. He's a shooting guard.
2:10:55
If you want to say that he's one of the greatest shooter guards,
2:10:58
I would say yes, but Michael Jordan was a shooting guard.
2:11:01
Is he better than Michael? Is he better than Kobe?
2:11:04
Is he better than Dwyane Wade? I, I can argue that.
2:11:06
That's just my point. Those guys play defense, too, at
2:11:10
a high level. That's all I'm going to say.
2:11:12
All right, Concrete jungle carousel.
2:11:15
Welcome to the jungle. We got fun and games.
2:11:18
You know where you are. In the.
2:11:21
Jungle Baby. Welcome, I'm trying to put.
2:11:24
Tiger bomb on this jungle. 'S nuts to the concrete jungle
2:11:27
carousel. All right.
2:11:38
Welcome back. To the concrete jungle carousel.
2:11:41
This is the segment we do when we want to hit all the other
2:11:45
major sports in the tri-state area.
2:11:47
We're going to start off with baseball.
2:11:50
Go through some news and notes with the Yankees first.
2:11:53
So Anthony Volpe's rehab window after left shoulder surgery is
2:11:58
over. But they did not promote him.
2:12:01
He was sent to AAA, presumably because Jose Caballeros played
2:12:06
well in his absence. And he hasn't looked great in
2:12:09
his rehab and he hasn't looked great in a couple of years.
2:12:13
This, however, was very surprising to most fans.
2:12:16
And to, you know, general consensus out there was when he
2:12:20
came back, he was going to be the shortstop.
2:12:21
This was going to be his last chance.
2:12:23
They don't seem to be even giving him a chance.
2:12:26
Errol. Yeah, he's got to relax the kid.
2:12:29
Just came back. He needs to get a little bit
2:12:31
more healthier. He needs to get more
2:12:32
comfortable. You send him back to AAA, figure
2:12:35
things out. He'll be called up eventually.
2:12:38
Eventually Cabriero will Cabrio. How do you pronounce his name?
2:12:41
Caballero. Caballero is.
2:12:43
Going to figure. You know, he's, he's going to
2:12:44
get it to a slump and Volpe's going to figure it out.
2:12:47
I, I think Volpe just needs to get healthy at 100%.
2:12:50
We got to see him play at 100% AAA.
2:12:52
He's going to get more backs over there in AAA and, and the
2:12:55
Yankees are right now playing at a high level.
2:12:57
Look at what Cam Schlittler's doing.
2:12:59
Look at what will Warren's doing.
2:13:01
They have the pitching right now.
2:13:02
You have guys like Garrett Cole coming back, Schmidt's coming
2:13:05
back, bro, Don's coming back. This is a great pitching team
2:13:08
and and they're getting timely hitting.
2:13:11
So and you have Rice at an MVP caliber.
2:13:14
You have Judge figuring things out.
2:13:16
He's hitting 260 now. I mean, when this lineup starts
2:13:19
to fall apart and, and, and Volpe proves himself right now
2:13:22
in AAA, you're going to see him get called up.
2:13:25
Don't worry, fans, he's going to play at least 80 or 90 games up
2:13:30
sometime this year. I think in the next two or three
2:13:32
weeks you're going to see Anthony Volpe up.
2:13:34
Yeah, just because it's the end of the rehab window.
2:13:36
Doesn't mean he's fully healthy. I agree.
2:13:38
Well, let him heal until he's 100% healthy because he's
2:13:40
somebody that relies on his power a lot.
2:13:42
If he still has to work on that base percentage and obviously he
2:13:44
still has to work on the defense.
2:13:45
But if he has to heal that shoulder a little more, that's
2:13:47
going to affect the biggest thing in his defense because the
2:13:49
throwing ability. So I think let him heal a little
2:13:51
more in AAA. Let him not have force it as
2:13:54
much on the defensive side where obviously the Yankee fans are
2:13:56
going to give him a lot of pressure.
2:13:58
I think this is a good decision. Qi wanted to connect this.
2:14:00
To something that maybe you know, you experience as a player
2:14:03
when you get drafted high or you have these expectations, it
2:14:07
doesn't work out right off the bat.
2:14:08
A couple of years in now into that contract, you know, some
2:14:11
people have given up on you, some people haven't.
2:14:14
What do you think this guy's going through at this time from
2:14:17
the mindset of an athlete? I mean, I think it's.
2:14:20
Probably stressful, you know what I'm saying, not to have
2:14:23
that support there. I think going, you know, being
2:14:26
have being injured and then having to deal with people not
2:14:29
supporting you, it's, it's pretty difficult because at the
2:14:32
end of the day, you know what you're capable of doing.
2:14:35
So you have to kind of sit with that and not be able to display
2:14:38
how good and gifted you are as a talent.
2:14:40
So he's probably, you know, I don't know him personally, but
2:14:43
sometimes players battle it through and it don't really
2:14:46
bother him. Sometimes people use it as chip
2:14:48
on their shoulder and whatnot, but for the most part, you know,
2:14:51
I, I think it is human to be able to feel, you know, that
2:14:55
people are not supporting you without you.
2:14:58
But I think that, you know, is, is, is he progressed in his
2:15:03
rehab and, and he get better. I think you know that all that
2:15:06
goes away because he's having an opportunity to go out and
2:15:09
actually play the game. So one of the biggest
2:15:11
distraction and one of the greatest gifts that you could
2:15:13
have is the opportunity to go out and play the game.
2:15:16
And that kind of keeps your mindset stable while you going
2:15:19
through the rehab process and trying to get back to who you
2:15:21
really are. You know, that's interesting to
2:15:23
say. I always kind.
2:15:24
Of agreed with that, like most people are like, oh, how could
2:15:26
you play something bad just happens like that's the best.
2:15:29
That's the thing I want to do right now.
2:15:30
I don't want to think about any bad stuff that's happening.
2:15:33
Let me just get out there do and have some fun, you know, and
2:15:35
just like get in some of the zone, you know, get into a
2:15:38
workout or do whatever it is like you don't want to think
2:15:41
about those things and sometimes that's a way to do it.
2:15:43
You want a game away. You know what I'm saying?
2:15:45
You had that? One good game and then you get
2:15:47
that momentum and you know before you know it you back the
2:15:50
peak yourself. So, you know, it's just a
2:15:52
process, but you know, sometimes it is difficult knowing that you
2:15:55
don't got that support system that you traditionally would
2:15:58
have when you're on the up, you know, before we move.
2:16:01
Past the Yankees guy, I said it in The Sportsman.
2:16:04
I wanted to give you guys a chance to comment on the passing
2:16:07
of John Sterling. I actually have some kind of
2:16:11
inside sources. Even though he was 87, it was
2:16:14
kind of a sudden thing. He was just going in for a
2:16:17
routine type of exam for his heart and next morning that was
2:16:23
it. So you know, you never know, God
2:16:25
bless his, you know him, his family, every all his loved
2:16:28
ones. Obviously it's time.
2:16:31
But you know, huge impact on Yankees baseball in New York
2:16:34
sports, huge impact on me. I've been listening to John
2:16:39
Sterling since I was a little boy.
2:16:40
I've been a big fan of his. I got a chance to meet John
2:16:43
Sterling at a bar and bat mitzvah I was DJ ING at.
2:16:47
It was pretty, pretty cool to get a chance to meet him and
2:16:50
have a conversation with him and talk a little Yankee baseball
2:16:53
during my break when I was eating dinner.
2:16:55
It's it's really cool to see a guy that really not only
2:16:59
developed his voice, he became the voice of the New York
2:17:02
Yankees. And what changed my, my thought
2:17:05
of sports radio and listening to Yankees and listening to sports
2:17:09
was guys like John Sterling. He really developed the thought
2:17:13
of what sports should be sounding like.
2:17:15
And always all the different home run, you know, takes that
2:17:18
he had. And even when they weren't going
2:17:20
outside of the ballpark, it's going, it's going, it's caught.
2:17:25
I mean, he was, he was one of those guys that you just love to
2:17:29
listen to. And, and I'm my, my heart goes
2:17:31
out to the Sterling family. I know I think one of his nieces
2:17:34
just graduated from college and he's just a great great person
2:17:39
and I I wish nothing but the best for his family.
2:17:41
Absolutely cherished broadcast career for sure.
2:17:43
In New York to do it as long as he did for yeah, you can mock
2:17:45
all the things. Oh, he missed the home run.
2:17:48
It was a it was a fly ball out. But a lot of broadcasters do
2:17:50
that when they get older, even the great ones.
2:17:52
I saw that happen, Sam Rosen's final year.
2:17:54
It happens like I just get old. But they another nice guy by the
2:17:57
way for to. Do it as long as he as he has
2:17:59
is. Incredible.
2:18:00
For a team like the New York Yankees that's so storied and
2:18:02
such a big impact on a lot of a lot of fans both outside of New
2:18:06
York and in New York, he's going to be an absolute, absolute
2:18:09
broadcast legend. He will definitely be missed.
2:18:12
You know, Errol, we talk about this all.
2:18:14
The time, you know, it's like he's not just an announcer, he's
2:18:18
a personality, you know what I mean?
2:18:19
Like this is a guy that people felt like they knew because he
2:18:23
was such an interesting person. And every will, everything that
2:18:26
people said today, Michael Kay, his long time partner from the
2:18:29
90s, before Michael Kay was on TV by himself, you know, or
2:18:33
rather with a booth of guys, but being the lead guy.
2:18:35
He was with John Sterling as his color guy and they were real.
2:18:39
That's the the two guys that I grew up with that I thought were
2:18:42
the best at the time. They complemented each other
2:18:44
pretty well for some strange reason, but that's when the
2:18:47
Yankees started winning in 1990s with the two of them behind the
2:18:49
mics. I will say this when you you.
2:18:52
Think of John Sterling. You don't think of him at at the
2:18:55
1980 Yankees, but he knew a lot about Don Mattingly and Thurman
2:18:59
Munson and and Reggie Jackson and, and I, like I said, when I
2:19:04
got a chance to talk to him, it wasn't about the 90s Yankees.
2:19:07
It was really about the 80s Yankees.
2:19:09
If you think about the 80s Yankees, they had more wins than
2:19:11
any team in professional baseball and never won a
2:19:14
championship in the 80s, Never won a championship in the 80s.
2:19:17
Think about that. Then more wins.
2:19:19
There was no wild card. There was no nothing.
2:19:21
They had more wins than any team in baseball and never won a
2:19:24
World Series in the 1980s. So it's an interesting story.
2:19:28
Let's talk about the Mets real quick.
2:19:30
We mentioned a little bit about the shortstop situation.
2:19:34
Yeah, well, it's at the bottom, I mean.
2:19:36
Ronnie, Ronnie. Mauricio was supposed to
2:19:38
replace, you know, Lindor, while Lindor is coming back from this,
2:19:44
you know, injury that's probably going to take a little while.
2:19:46
Well, he just broke his thumb and he's going to be out two
2:19:50
months. So that's not going to work as a
2:19:52
solution. So what are they doing?
2:19:54
They're put in Beau Bichette. Smart move.
2:19:56
Everyone thought. Everyone thought couldn't play
2:19:59
the position anymore. I disagree.
2:20:01
I'm just. Saying the statistics.
2:20:03
Say he's well below average at this point in his career as a
2:20:06
shortstop, but that's the solution right now.
2:20:09
And that's where they're at. He was a -, 12 in defensive run
2:20:13
save last year playing shortstop.
2:20:17
You know, it just seems like they're piercing it together and
2:20:20
we just hit May pretty wild. I'm going to say I wanted to cut
2:20:23
you. Off because I don't care what
2:20:25
statistics will tell you when it comes to this, if you look at
2:20:27
his numbers as a hitter, as a shortstop, they're much better
2:20:31
than him playing third base. If you can go back to his
2:20:33
natural position and he doesn't have to worry about making
2:20:35
mistakes, he can go out there and start worrying about hitting
2:20:38
the ball, which he has done a lack of this year.
2:20:42
That's what the Mets are trying to do.
2:20:43
Fish, if you're not understanding this, I'll explain
2:20:45
it to you. You don't move a guy out of
2:20:47
position because you decided to pay him $42 million and say,
2:20:50
hey, you're going to play third base.
2:20:52
It's not Alex Rodriguez. He's not that type of talent to
2:20:55
move him back to shortstop. For him to get comfortable again
2:20:58
playing that position, he doesn't have to worry about
2:21:00
making a mistake, throwing the ball, offset or wherever the
2:21:03
hell he's throwing the ball. You're putting a guy into his
2:21:06
natural position. To me, it's going to help him at
2:21:09
the plate and he's going to start hitting.
2:21:11
And that's what the Mets need to do.
2:21:12
They need to get him back to where he's comfortable at.
2:21:15
So I think this is a great move. I disagree with anybody that's
2:21:18
trying to look at analytics and statistics.
2:21:20
You got to look at the the real thought here.
2:21:23
This makes sense. Yeah, Mauricio was going to be
2:21:24
the one that got the first shot. Because he really has been
2:21:27
positionless in his time with the Mets.
2:21:28
And I kind of feel bad for him because he's one of those like
2:21:30
freak athlete prototypes but didn't have the traits to make
2:21:33
it work at the big league level. And he just never really had a
2:21:35
position once the Mets started pursuing other veteran guys.
2:21:38
And now he gets a chance and he ends up getting hurt trying to
2:21:40
dive into first base, which is not ideal.
2:21:42
You know, you always talk to run through the base.
2:21:43
And now he's out six to eight weeks.
2:21:45
He was going to get his chance. And now, unfortunately, it
2:21:47
happened. But, yeah, but that is the
2:21:48
obvious option here to just try to make it work.
2:21:50
You're not going to play him at center field.
2:21:52
He was adequate enough at third base.
2:21:53
But like you said, Errol, it impacted his offense enough
2:21:55
where it just make him comfortable.
2:21:57
And then that's the deadly all the.
2:21:59
Yeah. I mean, obviously.
2:22:00
He's not the only problem with the offense, but they need all
2:22:02
the hitting in the world if they want to have any shot at just
2:22:04
trying to look like a competent baseball team for once, you
2:22:08
know? Hugh, if I told you.
2:22:10
That, you know, someone got this year, you're going to play off
2:22:14
ball, all right, you're going to play off the ball.
2:22:17
And then you know, 4 weeks into the season, guy gets hurt.
2:22:22
Hey, you're going to put your. Hand down again, we're going to
2:22:24
go back to you're putting your hand down, go ahead and work
2:22:26
your Indies, work your technique.
2:22:28
I'm sure you'll be just fine in one week.
2:22:29
We need you on the field and then five weeks later, late
2:22:34
season, you know the the starter comes back, Lindor comes back
2:22:38
and you're back playing off ball again.
2:22:42
How is? This going to work?
2:22:44
It's. Not going to work.
2:22:45
It's pretty. Insane.
2:22:46
You talk to somebody who went from AD lineman to a linebacker
2:22:49
and played corner in the NFL. So I can definitely relate in
2:22:52
regards to making these timely decisions to reposition natural
2:22:57
talents into other positions. But yeah, I mean, first I would
2:23:01
like to shout out that the Mets won though.
2:23:04
I know, I know. We are dealing with a lot of
2:23:07
injuries and a lot of confusion over there.
2:23:09
They won 203 games and that's another.
2:23:11
Crappy team in the Angels by the way Michael.
2:23:13
By the way, we are stacking Wiz. By however they come, we are
2:23:17
stacking. Here we go.
2:23:19
That's all that. Matters.
2:23:20
Here we go. By the way, Mitchell.
2:23:22
By the way, McHale bridges 11 points.
2:23:24
Just so you know, I was right about that.
2:23:26
There he is, wrote The Barrier. I was right for everybody out
2:23:29
there. I was.
2:23:30
Right don't want me 18 keep. Talking.
2:23:32
About, you're not. Getting it?
2:23:33
You don't understand, Betty. You really don't.
2:23:36
You really don't. I understand, but sorry you
2:23:38
don't. Like Darryl kept saying, 10 1/2
2:23:40
ten. And a half and you and you said.
2:23:43
It but you should be pretty. Sure, don't worry dude, you were
2:23:45
wrong again. You were wrong again.
2:23:48
You were wrong. Look up or had you look?
2:23:51
Up dude, I said. Whatever, I, I.
2:23:53
Said I predict 18 to 10 1/2. Oh, I bet he.
2:23:56
Could score 10 1/2. All right, dude, dude, you're
2:23:58
not paying. Attention.
2:24:00
You're not, I said. I.
2:24:01
Can't bet it I. Said if you feel that good.
2:24:03
Let him go to 20 and he said no, he's going to score 18.
2:24:06
And then when you told him what Vegas said, he now his number is
2:24:09
10. And dude, dude, you cannot bet
2:24:12
that he's going to. Score 18 when it comes to sports
2:24:14
betting, You're not getting it here.
2:24:16
I said me and you, we're not Vegas, dude, you're wrong.
2:24:21
Me and you talking, not Vegas. You said 18.
2:24:24
You're wrong. I didn't say what Vegas said.
2:24:27
I said you're wrong. I say you're wrong.
2:24:28
That's all I'm going to say. I said you're wrong.
2:24:31
I think Q's. More used to just like betting
2:24:34
people straight up just, I don't care.
2:24:36
We just did it last week. Yeah, you did it last week.
2:24:40
He'll. Do it a bit and you're doing it
2:24:41
tonight and you lost again. He was going to score 12 and he
2:24:44
lost again. And he just scored. 20 that's.
2:24:47
What I'm trying to tell you, Oh God, that's what.
2:24:49
I'm saying I asked you a bit. Of something 1st I'm going to.
2:24:52
Take back. I'm going to tell.
2:24:53
You what? I said.
2:24:54
Because you're not listening. I said in the beginning I think
2:24:57
he's going to score 18 plus, but, but, but no, no, no, no,
2:25:03
hold on, hold on. No, no, no.
2:25:05
Now you're not listening to what I said.
2:25:06
I asked Speedy, Speedy, do you remember?
2:25:08
Hold on. Could you shut up for a second?
2:25:10
For one second? Speedy, what did I say after
2:25:12
that? What did I say?
2:25:13
I said, what is Vegas? You said what did I say?
2:25:15
Vegas, no matter what. What did I say after that?
2:25:17
Could your people go over 10 1/2?
2:25:19
10 1/2 So I said bet, bet. Over 10 1/2, that's what I said,
2:25:23
and you'll win money. That's what I told.
2:25:24
Bet at 10 1/2 and you're gonna win for the audience.
2:25:26
You're not talking to me. You.
2:25:28
Bet me 18. All right, move on.
2:25:29
Move on. You're wrong.
2:25:30
Move on wrong. Move on wrong.
2:25:33
Let's talk about wrong. Let's.
2:25:35
Do our one annual talk about the Brooklyn Nets draft lotteries
2:25:40
this weekend. And the Nets are going to be
2:25:43
positioned with a 14% chance of getting the number one overall
2:25:48
pick. They're tied with the Pacers and
2:25:50
Wizards with the best odds. Despite having one more win than
2:25:53
the Pacers and three more than the Wizards, the Jazz and the
2:25:57
Kings are at 11.5%. Obviously we've seen teams with
2:26:02
very low percents get up there, but the Nets could be in line
2:26:07
for one of these top three elite players.
2:26:10
And we know that there are a couple of guys outside the top
2:26:14
three that everyone really likes.
2:26:16
So pretty good draft situation for the Nets.
2:26:18
They're not getting a top three. Pick I expect Indiana to be
2:26:22
there. I I would expect them expect
2:26:25
Utah to be there because for some reason Danny Ainge gets
2:26:28
lucky or the NBA just likes to fall in right onto his
2:26:31
fingertips. That's where it seems like it's
2:26:33
going to happen. But if Indiana gets the number
2:26:36
one pick, I'm just saying Cambusa's going to them.
2:26:39
But the Nets are going to get a good player.
2:26:42
They're going to get a top five, top six player.
2:26:44
There are a lot of good positions.
2:26:45
Wilson could be there at 5. The North Carolina offensive
2:26:49
talent. I think that that could that
2:26:51
could be very much a good spot for the Nets.
2:26:53
They're going to get themselves a franchise player they can
2:26:55
build around. I don't think they're getting a
2:26:57
top three pick. Unfortunately for all the Net
2:26:59
fans, they just, I just don't see, yeah, there's a lot of
2:27:02
teams that we've seen the. Patterns that end up being
2:27:04
overdue. Now Utah, like you said, I've
2:27:06
gotten lucky some other years, got unlucky kind of last year
2:27:08
and end up getting Bailey at 5, which I guess helped out a
2:27:11
little compared to what the value was.
2:27:13
But you've seen that would seem that with Sacramento and other
2:27:16
teams fall like that, the Wizards haven't gotten in a
2:27:18
while. So maybe there's an option for
2:27:20
them to get that high. But it's weird to think fish
2:27:23
that the 14 percent is the same for all three of them.
2:27:25
So usually the fluctuation doesn't end up going that way.
2:27:28
So just the way the weird lottery system works where it
2:27:31
should be based on some games back, not the top 3% expect a
2:27:34
team that shouldn't be there. To jump from like 8 or 9 to the
2:27:38
top three. Congratulations to the Atlanta
2:27:40
Hawks are getting the number. One pick they they could.
2:27:42
They very much could. I wouldn't be surprised.
2:27:45
Yeah, I, I don't think. That much of it.
2:27:47
I think they'll definitely get a a franchise player to build
2:27:50
around, but outside of that, they are in a rebuilding phase.
2:27:54
There will be no winning in Brooklyn no time soon.
2:27:57
So you know, I don't think they'll get that top three pick.
2:28:00
Like they said, I think it they're probably around 5:00 or
2:28:02
6:00 or 7:00. I could see them probably
2:28:05
throwing it, throwing them in there between those numbers.
2:28:07
But the top 3 is pretty much set and I don't think they're going
2:28:12
to give it to Brooklyn. All right, let's let's move on
2:28:15
to. The next, which is football and
2:28:17
again, not a lot of news. We just finished the draft, so
2:28:20
there's obviously the undrafted free agents who are signed.
2:28:23
We'll see how they do every once in a while.
2:28:25
Those one of those guys does make it.
2:28:28
Let's start with the Giants. The Giants added a couple of
2:28:31
veterans. They had already kind of made
2:28:33
the deal, but it's official. Patrick Ricard is the fullback,
2:28:37
big fullback that was on the Ravens.
2:28:38
He joins the Giants officially and Shelby Harris was defensive
2:28:44
tackle, played on that Browns line.
2:28:47
He's been around the league. He's not a nose tackle.
2:28:50
He's more of a three technique. So he's going to be in that
2:28:52
rotation. They still need to find the nose
2:28:55
tackle. They have not gotten 1 yet.
2:28:57
Errol, a lot of people are talking about DJ readers, a
2:29:01
couple other guys out there, but the Giants have waited and
2:29:04
didn't get one in the draft and now they still don't have a big
2:29:09
guy in the middle. I think the Giants are going to
2:29:11
have. To look to next year because
2:29:13
there's nobody about no obviously they can get guys off
2:29:17
of waivers if a team waves them after after pre season and there
2:29:21
might be a player out there an older player that gym player,
2:29:23
but Ricard, we knew he was going to take a full back position and
2:29:26
and they were going to bring in another Baltimore Raven.
2:29:28
They might bring in more Baltimore Ravens if they get
2:29:30
waved their the full back position is nonexistent anymore.
2:29:34
Really. I I I don't know if that's a big
2:29:36
deal. It's just leadership.
2:29:37
That's what the Giants want to bring.
2:29:38
And Harris, it's a hit or miss with him.
2:29:41
So I, I think the Giants are in a lot of trouble.
2:29:44
You need that defensive tackle. You need a a stud defensive
2:29:47
tackle. Look at what The Jets had to do
2:29:49
in this year's draft. And, and I don't think The Jets
2:29:51
are done at the defensive line. I think The Jets are going to
2:29:53
add some guys off waivers because even though they drafted
2:29:56
a guy in the fourth round that he's still raw.
2:29:59
They need to bring in a guy that actually has been there and has
2:30:02
done it at a high level. And I, I think they'll be
2:30:04
somebody out there that The Jets like, but maybe a lion if they,
2:30:08
if somebody gets waves. But I, I honestly think if
2:30:11
you're a giant fan, you'd have to worry about this position
2:30:15
because they have nobody to fill in.
2:30:16
I and they added a guy in the draft that plays the same as
2:30:19
Abdul Carter. I'm just saying maybe they can
2:30:22
move him inside as a linebacker because he could do everything
2:30:25
to help out the running game. But they're going to have to do
2:30:27
something at that line linebacker position if they're
2:30:29
going to smother teams and stop them from running the ball.
2:30:32
Yeah, it's interesting because they're going to rotate a bunch
2:30:34
of. Different types of prototypes.
2:30:36
So you said Fish deep. Shelby Harris played a little
2:30:38
more 3-4 defensive end with other team.
2:30:41
I think when he started with Miami and a bunch of other
2:30:42
teams, he was it was mainly the Broncos he started with was a
2:30:45
defensive tackle. Then you got trade to Seattle in
2:30:47
the Russell Wilson deal. So it's just to see how they use
2:30:49
it. The other thing, the other thing
2:30:50
that can be an interesting dynamic Fish because they played
2:30:53
him a defensive tackle sometimes when they had guys hurt, where
2:30:56
the Giants consider using him like Nikita Whitlock years ago,
2:30:59
where they put him with a defensive tackle and as a goal
2:31:02
line running back type thing. Would they consider doing that
2:31:05
with Ricard and put it on defense too?
2:31:07
I want to say something before we go back.
2:31:08
And I'm sorry to cut you off. Cue this Nick team we didn't see
2:31:12
all season long. They're kicking the crap out of
2:31:16
the Philadelphia 76ers right now, torching them.
2:31:19
It it's pretty incredible what the Knicks are doing right now.
2:31:22
Really since game five and game six, it's it's been incredible.
2:31:26
You know, it's it's Mike Brown. Dude unlocked them.
2:31:31
Shout out to the Knicks, man. They are killing the boys, man.
2:31:35
But yeah, I think that by the way, by the way, Michael Bridges
2:31:39
did it. Just hit a three.
2:31:41
So that makes it 14, all right, Just you didn't.
2:31:46
Make the bet. You didn't make the bet.
2:31:47
I don't have to make the bet everybody on this.
2:31:49
I was right. I was.
2:31:51
Right, but you didn't make the bet.
2:31:52
You didn't make the bet. I was.
2:31:54
I'm not making. A bear to make, dude.
2:31:55
I'm not taking. I don't.
2:31:56
Have to take your. Money.
2:31:57
I already know I'm going to win. I already know I'm going to win.
2:32:00
Make the bet. I know I'm going to win the bet.
2:32:02
Now you know you. Talk from.
2:32:03
Higher side, don't worry, don't worry, it's.
2:32:06
OK, I'll help you with ball. I'll teach you a little bit
2:32:08
after the show, I'll be Oh, you're not happy.
2:32:10
I'll teach you a little bit. I'll teach you a.
2:32:11
Little bit about I. Never played basketball.
2:32:14
Yes, I did actually. Yes, I did.
2:32:15
Very. I was a very good basketball
2:32:17
player, by the way. Yes, I was.
2:32:19
I was a very. Good basketball.
2:32:21
Player, just so you know, please stop it.
2:32:23
You could stop all you want I. Played varsity basketball.
2:32:25
In 9th grade. What are you talking about?
2:32:27
Yeah, what are you laughing? At I did it.
2:32:29
Where at that's? That's the problem.
2:32:31
What do you mean? What do you mean TABI went for?
2:32:34
AI played for a private school in Brooklyn, right next to
2:32:36
Lincoln. I played basketball with Next to
2:32:39
what? What are you talking about I.
2:32:41
Played against Lincoln okay So what are you talking about okay
2:32:45
did you go to Lincoln all right I just.
2:32:47
Gave you I didn't go to Lincoln. I went to a school, went TAB.
2:32:51
I went to a school called TAB. All right, just so you know, all
2:32:54
right, throw you out there. Go ahead, spit down.
2:32:57
Yeah, I mean. The Giants is the Giants.
2:32:59
Man, they're still trying to rebuild and trying to get it
2:33:02
right. But you know, it'll be
2:33:03
interesting to see, you know, with them adding all these
2:33:07
different players and and the new coach that Harbard is trying
2:33:11
to set over there. But for the most part, I don't I
2:33:14
don't it's too early to be able to tell what's really going on
2:33:17
and whether or not these signs signees are going to be
2:33:20
impactful or not. And they had a crazy draft,
2:33:23
which they drafted, like Earl say, drafted somebody in the
2:33:26
same position. So that's going to be.
2:33:29
Interesting seeing how he's able.
2:33:30
To maneuver that and make a a great defensive scheme.
2:33:34
But those two guys are playing the same role.
2:33:37
But we'll see. All right, let's talk about.
2:33:40
The Jets real quick. Yeah, not a lot of jets.
2:33:43
News. Just some of these.
2:33:44
Undrafted free agents, You know. By the way, Mikhail Bridges has
2:33:48
17. Points now just so you know,
2:33:50
Just so you know they made Poland though, because.
2:33:53
They might as well bench everybody because it's.
2:33:55
I'm just saying I he's doing everything I.
2:33:57
Said he was going to do just so you know.
2:34:00
Speedy, you're. We got a couple of guys, I don't
2:34:04
know if they're related to anyone in the league, but Colin
2:34:07
Lacy was a return man from Louisville.
2:34:11
He's going to be fighting for a spot on the on The Jets.
2:34:13
That's the guy that may make that roster.
2:34:15
Those return guys, special teams guys.
2:34:17
I got a kicker from BYU. I like that, by the way.
2:34:20
I like it. Which is another guy that I've
2:34:22
heard of. And then there's some small
2:34:25
school linebacker, Kendrick Blackshear from Texas, San
2:34:29
Antonio. So that's really all that's
2:34:32
happened with The Jets. Nothing really to write home
2:34:34
about it. We'll get into more football
2:34:37
news as it comes out. Let's talk hockey.
2:34:40
The hockey lottery is tomorrow, so the hockey lottery is Tuesday
2:34:46
night. Let's talk about the draft odds.
2:34:48
The Rangers come in with the third highest odds to get the
2:34:52
number one pick at 11.5%, which means 115 combinations out of
2:34:57
1000. That's how they do it.
2:34:59
Only behind the Blackhawks at 13 1/2 in Canucks who were God
2:35:03
awful this year at 18 1/2 percent.
2:35:07
Devils and Islanders are both outside the top ten with 2 1/2
2:35:10
and 2% chance to get the top pick.
2:35:13
But obviously if you don't get the top pick, the Rangers are
2:35:16
sitting at that third spot. They just move back one spot.
2:35:19
They'll still end up with the top 4-5 or six pick in the
2:35:22
strike. Well, just so everybody knows,
2:35:24
when the. Islanders drafted Schaefer.
2:35:27
They drafted him. They were quoted at 10 and they
2:35:31
moved all the way to #1 So to say that the Islanders can't
2:35:35
move up or the Devils can't move up, it can happen in the NHL
2:35:38
draft. We've seen it.
2:35:39
And they do the lottery right in front of everybody.
2:35:41
It's not like the NBA where you don't know what's going on.
2:35:44
You're going to see it right in front of your face.
2:35:46
I love that about what we've seen with the NHL.
2:35:49
And Gary Bettman has been a genius.
2:35:50
I think he's the best commissioner in professional
2:35:52
sports right now. As far as the Rangers concerned,
2:35:55
no matter where they pick, it's defense.
2:35:57
Stop with these offensive players.
2:35:59
You're going to go with Kenny. You're going to go after the kid
2:36:01
from Sweden or Switzerland or wherever the hell he's from.
2:36:03
You're making a mistake. You got to go after defensive
2:36:06
talent, the kid read. And the kid from North Dakota
2:36:09
that I like, You go, you go after one of those guys.
2:36:12
You no matter where you draft one or two, wherever they draft
2:36:16
you go defense. The Rangers got to be smart
2:36:19
here. I don't trust Chris Drury.
2:36:20
That's why you should fire him. But the Rangers are going to get
2:36:22
a top four pick no matter what. Get that, defenseman.
2:36:27
It's just all about a developmental process which.
2:36:29
The Rangers have failed that with these other top prospects.
2:36:31
The Rangers send it to better with the second tier prospects a
2:36:33
lot more when you look at guys like Will Cooley that actually
2:36:36
have had a pretty good career with the Rangers, who wasn't a
2:36:37
big name prospect. But then you have the Capocockos
2:36:40
and Alexei Lafreniere is one of them.
2:36:42
Looks good looks good looks. Good.
2:36:43
Hopefully that turns into something that was.
2:36:45
A lot of people thought that was a good late round pick.
2:36:46
Hopefully that'll turn into and Matthew Robertson is a
2:36:48
defenseman's look pretty good and early right.
2:36:50
They've done well at developing these younger defensemen early
2:36:53
in their careers and then it fizzles outlook at the guy that
2:36:56
is playing. For the in our line of
2:36:58
hurricanes right now, I know you think what think about that.
2:37:01
This was a first round talent. They let him go for practically
2:37:05
nothing and he's been one of their best defensemen.
2:37:08
I know and that's what I was saying.
2:37:09
They developed him. Earlier in their career and then
2:37:11
they either get them, let them get either too loose or they
2:37:14
don't develop them properly. Obviously the coaching changes
2:37:16
may have something to do with it, but they let him get into
2:37:18
these spirals where it ends up happening and outside.
2:37:21
Of Adam Fox. That's really.
2:37:22
Been their process with these younger guys that have just been
2:37:24
not steady enough. So that's when you have to reach
2:37:26
for free agency. Now again, with the draft
2:37:28
lottery odds, yeah, they definitely could rig it for the
2:37:30
Rangers. Who knows?
2:37:31
Do you want me to make a crazy prediction?
2:37:33
You want me to make a crazy prediction?
2:37:34
What? The New Jersey Devils are going
2:37:36
to get into the top ten this year?
2:37:38
I my prediction is the Devils are going to find their way in
2:37:41
the top five this year. I have, I have this feeling,
2:37:44
yeah. I was feeling, you know, who
2:37:45
has, who has the number of five? Odds that they'll probably rig
2:37:48
the lottery for is the Leafs. Oh please.
2:37:51
Please not that it'll do anything for.
2:37:53
Him, I have another bet. I have another thing to throw.
2:37:55
Out you guys don't be surprised if Austin Matthew gets traded to
2:37:59
the New York Rangers in the offseason.
2:38:01
Wow, remember I said that was good to me?
2:38:03
Remember I? Said.
2:38:03
That let's let's. Finish this up.
2:38:06
Let's talk. About the Sabres.
2:38:07
Sabres the only Yaka team actually really worth talking
2:38:10
about. They're in the playoffs.
2:38:12
They won their first round series, kind of humiliated the
2:38:15
the Bruins in the last couple of games of that series.
2:38:18
Bruins kind of no showed it. A lot of older players were very
2:38:22
critical of the team afterwards. This looks like a team that may
2:38:26
be entering a rebuild after all this.
2:38:29
The Sabres on the other hand, you know this is their first
2:38:31
series win, playoff series win since 2007.
2:38:36
I was at that series win. It was against the Rangers and
2:38:40
the Yarramir Yagir. That's the one where Chris Jury
2:38:43
actually scored a game tying goal with like 7 seconds left to
2:38:48
go send it to overtime on Lunkfest in game five.
2:38:51
I was at that one. It was one of the best hockey
2:38:53
games I've ever seen. Except the Rangers loss so it
2:38:55
sucked at the end. The Sabres had four
2:38:57
defenseman's. Byram, Dolan and Bowen in power.
2:39:03
All had four points in the series.
2:39:05
Their defense is awesome. Tuck and Thompson were awesome
2:39:10
in the series and and now they get to take on Montreal who
2:39:14
upset the Lightning in seven games.
2:39:16
Errol, here's my prediction for all your fans out there.
2:39:18
You want to put some bets on this.
2:39:20
Whoever wins this series is going to the Stanley Cup Finals,
2:39:25
whoever wins this series. I love.
2:39:27
Martin St. Louis, I hope, I hope he plays
2:39:29
and this team plays at a high level, but I think this is the
2:39:32
Buffalo Sabres year. They're young, they're
2:39:34
energetic, they're fun. Darlene, they got great
2:39:36
goaltending. I mean, Tom Tage Thompson is one
2:39:39
of the best American born hockey players.
2:39:42
I mean, I love it. I want to see Buffalo win it.
2:39:44
I want to see Buffalo take home the Stanley Cup.
2:39:49
I think this is the. This is the probably.
2:39:51
The best series out of all the series that are out there, I
2:39:53
think Disco go seven. Yeah, there's definitely a lot
2:39:55
to like when you look at the. Defensive depth of plate as well
2:39:57
as Buffaloes did in that game and obviously the goaltending is
2:40:00
still rising when it comes to switching off between Lekinen
2:40:03
and Alex Lyon. Whereas Montreal had a kid in
2:40:05
Dobis who started for the Czech in the Olympics that played very
2:40:08
well in the series. Gets Tampa.
2:40:09
I was always saying that the Tampa Lightning and Montreal
2:40:12
winner was going to the Cup anyway, I picked Tampa.
2:40:14
I was wrong. But that was a really good
2:40:15
series or probably the best quality series overall in the
2:40:18
first round. But.
2:40:19
This is a team, these are two of the youngest teams in the NHL
2:40:21
that are already really ahead of schedule.
2:40:22
Buffalo probably has a little more stronger suit with the
2:40:24
offensive side. Montreal overall with the depth
2:40:26
that they have and the experience, but still it's going
2:40:29
to be a really good series. Very fast-paced as well.
2:40:31
I don't trust Carolina. I don't trust.
2:40:33
That goaltending. Frederick has played very well,
2:40:35
but I don't trust him. We've seen him do it in the
2:40:38
playoffs. He'll show up in a series and
2:40:39
completely disappear against. They're not a good For some
2:40:43
reason, Carolina is also not. A good transition team either,
2:40:45
but they haven't really been tested in that and if they play
2:40:47
flyer to play. One of these.
2:40:49
Two teams that they're going to be very tough in transition.
2:40:52
The only thing that concerns you of Buffalo is the size of the
2:40:54
wings a little more compared to Montreal who has some bigger
2:40:56
wingers. So if they they have to try to
2:40:58
play physical with some undersized guys.
2:41:00
Did you see the first series? Did you see what they did to
2:41:03
Boston? I know.
2:41:04
Did you see the fighting? Did you see how tough they
2:41:06
played them? I don't think that's going to be
2:41:08
a problem. I I really don't.
2:41:09
But Montreal had a lot of fighting too, though.
2:41:11
I'm just saying I don't think they're worried about that.
2:41:15
All right, guys. That is.
2:41:17
The concrete jungle carousel. It'll spin again probably in a
2:41:21
couple weeks, All right, And I want to give a shout out to.
2:41:23
The Buffalo Bills, because anybody, if you watch or you
2:41:27
listen to any of these draft, you know, shows and these
2:41:30
podcasts, which I've tuned into a couple of them, I wanted to
2:41:33
see what they rated the Buffalo Bill Bills, which didn't have a
2:41:36
first round draft pick. They traded out three times.
2:41:38
And everybody on our panel thought I was nuts saying that I
2:41:42
thought Buffalo was, I thought they won the first round.
2:41:45
Every single one of these podcasts that I've listened to
2:41:48
gave them an A+ or an A. They thought they hit home runs.
2:41:52
So and I still think Buffalo needed to add a lot of depth.
2:41:55
They didn't have a lot of picks. I think Buffalo did very, very
2:41:58
well. So shout out to the Buffalo
2:41:59
Bills Bean and all the the garbage that we were saying to
2:42:03
about them and their executives. I think they're, they're a smart
2:42:06
organization. So I I think there were a lot of
2:42:08
great moves that they made. We'll see how everything falls
2:42:10
together. All right, Speedy 6 pack of the
2:42:12
week. Let's have a.
2:42:16
Hey, who wants to play Print the Beer?
2:42:18
It's time for the Speedy 6. Pack of the way all.
2:42:23
Right, we'll start with that aforementioned.
2:42:25
Series that Fish was referring to, the Montreal Canadiens
2:42:28
winning Game 7, two to one over the Tampa Lightning to advance
2:42:32
to take on those Buffalo Sabres. They won with nine shots on goal
2:42:36
in Game 7, the lowest in NHL history for a Game 7 winner.
2:42:39
But enough defense, enough goaltending, goal taskiness.
2:42:43
Here's the Here's the thing, Martin St.
2:42:45
Louis. He's been there, He's done that.
2:42:47
He's won Stanley Cups before. He understands how to coach
2:42:50
A-Team. You've seen what he's done over
2:42:51
the years. The background between, you
2:42:53
know, what he did with the Rangers playing during the
2:42:56
playoffs when his, I think his mother died.
2:42:58
I mean, the stories about Martin, Martin St.
2:43:01
Louis is legendary and he's the coach of the Montreal Canadiens
2:43:04
and he's built this team. He's been there for the last
2:43:07
three years helping this team build and figure out what their
2:43:10
identity is. And they made a couple of moves
2:43:12
in the offseason. They had a no adoption.
2:43:14
They traded away 2 first round draft picks.
2:43:15
It's helped them extremely well and and they've had such an edgy
2:43:19
team. I think they have so many good
2:43:21
young players. I I love what I I seen with
2:43:24
them. But I'm going to tell you this,
2:43:25
their goaltending right now is one of the best in the playoffs.
2:43:29
You can see it. Their defense is playing at a
2:43:30
high level. Buffalo is going to be bumping
2:43:33
into a trap. We'll see how it works out, but
2:43:34
I think both teams have played at such a high level.
2:43:37
It's been fun to watch. Yeah, they have the skill with
2:43:39
certain wingers. When it comes to Slakovsky was a
2:43:41
number one overall pick. Ivan Demandov has been a nice
2:43:44
player, the kid captain that was in the Rookie of the Year race
2:43:46
along with Schaefer as a finalist.
2:43:48
And they have a good combination with the veteran leadership,
2:43:50
too. This is a team that just went,
2:43:51
granted, a very fluky Cup, but what's the Cup?
2:43:54
Four years ago in the shortened season, should have been the
2:43:56
Islanders. Yeah, kind of a.
2:43:57
Kind of weird one, yeah, the. Islanders lost to Tampa that
2:43:59
year and then Montreal because of the way the Canadian division
2:44:02
aligned. He got to end up playing all the
2:44:04
Canadian teams and then they beat Vegas out of nowhere, who
2:44:06
was one of the best teams in the league.
2:44:07
So kind of a weird year, but a lot of those guys, not everyone
2:44:10
on that team. We've got some experience from
2:44:11
that. Let's move on to the other
2:44:13
series. The Flyers taking down the
2:44:15
Penguins in an overtime game-winning goal by Cam York.
2:44:18
I believe you covered his draft as a defenseman.
2:44:20
It was the first round pick I believe in 2019, edging up the
2:44:23
Penguins 1, nothing in overtime. Now they get to take on the
2:44:25
Carolina Hurricanes. They lost the first Game 2 to
2:44:27
nothing and right now it's two to two game number.
2:44:30
Two, and it's in overtime, so we'll see if Flyers, the Flyers
2:44:33
can win this game. They lose this game, the series
2:44:35
is over because Carolina is not going to give you any bites and
2:44:39
you're in Carolina, You're going back to Philadelphia.
2:44:42
Yeah. I just.
2:44:43
I don't trust it. They have to win this game.
2:44:45
They want to make this a series. They have to win the game.
2:44:48
If they lose this game, it's over.
2:44:49
Series is over. I think Philadelphia has done a
2:44:52
lot of great things this year. They beat out the Islanders and
2:44:56
and did what they did in the first round of the playoffs
2:44:58
against the Pittsburgh Penguins. And.
2:45:00
And looks like Sidney Crosby's could be his last year with the
2:45:02
Pittsburgh Penguins. We'll see.
2:45:04
We'll see how it all falls again.
2:45:05
I've heard also floating rumors of.
2:45:07
If getting mulku becomes available in Montreal, could be
2:45:09
interested in. I heard that too.
2:45:11
And I heard Sidney Crosby to. Edmonton, Crosby, McDavid.
2:45:14
Together that'd. Be that'd be something.
2:45:16
That's what I heard. Yeah.
2:45:17
And with the Flyers offense, it was something that was a
2:45:19
question mark going into this postseason with did they have
2:45:22
enough depth? Did they have enough?
2:45:23
The power play was one of the worst in the league.
2:45:24
And Carolina, you saw what they did.
2:45:26
The Otto won the first round. It's going to be a stifling
2:45:28
task. They're going to have to win
2:45:29
this game if they have any shot in the series.
2:45:31
I agree. All right, The Golden Knights
2:45:33
taking down the Utah Mammoth, they were down 2 to one.
2:45:35
They won three games in a row and then five to one in the
2:45:39
final games. The Vegas Golden Knights have
2:45:40
won at least one round in all all the years that they've made
2:45:43
the playoffs in their franchise history so far.
2:45:45
Listen, the Golden Knights are a good.
2:45:47
Organization, they know how to build they get Marner in the
2:45:50
offseason it seems they have a bag of riches every single
2:45:53
offseason and the real weakness with them they're they're just
2:45:57
like the Edmonton Oilers. You don't know who your goalie
2:45:58
is. They find a goaltender, they
2:46:00
sneak one in, they got a third string goaltender that shows up
2:46:03
and has a great playoff run. I, I just worry about their
2:46:08
goaltending in, in the series when they move on into the next
2:46:11
one. I, I just, I don't trust them.
2:46:13
And I, I think that the Western Conference is loaded, loaded.
2:46:17
So it's good that they got it. They got out of that mammoth.
2:46:21
And by the way, shout out to Keller.
2:46:22
I think he's one of the best young studs right now in the
2:46:25
NHL. We're going to see this kid
2:46:26
develop into a super superstar. He's already a star, but I think
2:46:29
he's going to be one of the best players in the world in the next
2:46:32
year or two. So but they they still little
2:46:36
behind. The little behind, Yeah.
2:46:37
I mean, they made good progress this year, remember?
2:46:39
This was not an expansion team. This was a relocation from
2:46:41
Arizona. They took a lot of those
2:46:42
players. They got made some trades after
2:46:43
that state aggressive, the deadline, got some depth, had a
2:46:46
good goal. Young, good young toll too with
2:46:48
Mr. Jelka. Just not enough with this Vegas
2:46:49
offense and defense that I've always said is one of the best
2:46:52
in the league. So Vegas moves on.
2:46:54
They will take on the Anaheim Ducks, who they won five to two
2:46:57
in in their final game against the Oilers, should advance in
2:46:59
the second round along with the Minnesota Wild also winning
2:47:01
their game five to two. Both of them advanced to the
2:47:04
second around and that means Caroline is the only team left
2:47:06
in the conference finals from last year.
2:47:08
Dallas and Edmonton now knocked out.
2:47:10
Florida obviously didn't make the playoffs.
2:47:12
So who do you want me to get into?
2:47:13
You want me to get? Into the wild.
2:47:14
I think the wild could really shock the world.
2:47:17
I think they're so very good. So I I can't say anything.
2:47:20
I love queen news. I think he's eventually going to
2:47:24
be a devil. He's going to go and play with
2:47:25
his brothers. Everybody predicts that.
2:47:27
But if the Wild wants to keep them, they got to keep making
2:47:29
this run all the way to the finals because they have
2:47:32
everything. They're loaded.
2:47:34
They got great goaltending, they got great defense and they got
2:47:37
great offense. They're loaded.
2:47:40
Bill Guerin's built this team into an absolute star, stunning
2:47:44
team, so they should make a run now.
2:47:47
Who's who? What else you want?
2:47:49
You know what I think? About the Anaheim Ducks.
2:47:51
I think the Anaheim Ducks is going to shock the world.
2:47:54
I I think they're going to play at a high level and, and I
2:47:57
expect them to play at a high level.
2:47:58
I don't know if they're going to get out of this round.
2:48:00
I, I still think when I look at there's nobody beating the ABS.
2:48:04
I just, I can't see it, but the Wild Anaheim, you would like to
2:48:09
see one of those teams beat the AVS, but I don't think it's
2:48:11
going to happen. But my my prediction is the AVS
2:48:15
win the whole thing. But if any one of those teams
2:48:18
come out of nowhere and beat the AVS, I wouldn't complain about
2:48:20
it. The Anaheim's defense,
2:48:22
definitely. Showed a lot.
2:48:24
Their depth was kind of a question mark too, kind of like
2:48:25
I was saying with with the Sabres, but they held Conor
2:48:28
McDavid to just one goal in that series.
2:48:30
And that has to say a lot about their game planning, their
2:48:32
coaching, that obviously we we're both the same thing to say
2:48:35
that quemble shouldn't be in the league right now.
2:48:37
But he's still obviously a very good coach, X's and O's wise,
2:48:39
and he's a disgusting, disgusting human.
2:48:42
Being I know I'm not saying I'm advocating for that.
2:48:44
I choked on the words because. I, you know, as Q would know,
2:48:48
and my teeth are getting in my way, but, you know, But yeah, as
2:48:50
a hockey coach perspective, we definitely had.
2:48:51
Them prepared to take on Conor McDavid, take on those Edmonton
2:48:54
stars in that game. Minnesota's definitely got a
2:48:56
level of physicality I don't think you saw in previous years
2:48:59
and I think with the trade deadline acquisitions, with the
2:49:01
defensive depth that they have, it definitely could bode well.
2:49:05
I'm not crazy about John Hines as a coach, but I definitely
2:49:07
think he coached a lot better than you've seen in previous
2:49:08
years. I guess the Dallas team that is
2:49:10
still very good. All right, kind of more of a
2:49:11
general one. A lot of overtime games in round
2:49:13
one for my second to last one in the NHL, 13 overtimes, fifth
2:49:17
most for a single round and every first round matchup had an
2:49:20
overtime game. I'm not surprised.
2:49:22
I I think all these. Teams are very close together
2:49:24
except the ABS. I said it.
2:49:26
The ABS just ran right through everybody.
2:49:29
I, I, I think that this might be the most interesting playoff
2:49:33
run. And if anybody can knock off the
2:49:35
ABS, it's anybody's hockey game, anybody's hockey series or
2:49:39
anybody's Stanley Cup. ABS get knocked out.
2:49:41
It's open for any one of these teams.
2:49:43
I just, I just don't think there's anybody bad enough good
2:49:46
enough to beat them in A7 game series.
2:49:48
I think they're just so good, so well put together.
2:49:51
Joe Sackett Sakic is a genius, an absolute genius.
2:49:55
Yeah, it's a combination of a lot of top seeds that were
2:49:56
younger. Teams and outside of that
2:49:58
Central Division, which their top three was that much better
2:50:01
than I probably pretty much the rest of the league besides
2:50:03
Carolina and Buffalo. Like you're seeing a combination
2:50:05
of a lot of good parody. Well, I think overall kind of a
2:50:08
lower scoring Stanley Cup final Stanley Cup playoffs too than
2:50:11
what we've seen in years past as well.
2:50:12
Probably besides that Vegas and Utah series race as well.
2:50:15
All right last one we'll finish with the Colorado Avalanche who
2:50:17
won their first game against Minnesota 9 to 6.
2:50:20
Love it. It was a so they were up 3
2:50:22
nothing. Then Minnesota took the lead 5
2:50:24
to 4. Colorado tied at late 55 in the
2:50:26
second period. Then Colorado ran away with it
2:50:28
in the third, the first fourth highest scoring playoff game
2:50:31
error. First time since the 1985
2:50:34
Edmonton Oilers were defenseman collectively combined for 10
2:50:37
points for the Colorado Avalanche 12 in that game.
2:50:39
Kale Mccarr was the only one that scored twice as well of
2:50:41
those fifteen goals. What makes me sick is.
2:50:44
Devin Thames is it had one goal in three assists.
2:50:48
He's an ex Islander. The Islander.
2:50:49
This guy is an old world defenseman.
2:50:52
He was great with the Islanders. The Islanders let him go.
2:50:54
They traded him and he they got I think they got a second round
2:50:57
draft pick for this guy. This guy's been one of the best
2:50:59
defenseman in the NHL. Yes, they have Shaffer yes,
2:51:02
they've Got Talent coming up in their in their farm system, but
2:51:05
this just makes you sick. Plus Brock Nelson and Brock
2:51:08
Nelson who's. Playing great hockey.
2:51:09
Which we knew was going to happen.
2:51:11
He he's, he's a great player, great leader.
2:51:13
I mean, I Nekus, whatever his name is, Nachus, one of these
2:51:17
days. Look at it.
2:51:17
Right? Yeah.
2:51:18
And Nathan McKinnon, who I. Love very very much I know Josh
2:51:21
was there when he was drafted and interviewed him.
2:51:23
So this team is loaded out absolutely completely and they
2:51:28
oh, I'm sorry, they had a cod tree too at the trade deadline,
2:51:31
which makes you sick to your stomach too.
2:51:32
He had a goal too. Yes, he did the.
2:51:35
Car was the only repeat goal. Eight shots, eight shots on
2:51:38
goal. How many plays?
2:51:39
He led the team with eight shots on a goal.
2:51:41
Yeah, pretty effective. He had.
2:51:42
Eight he had. Only well left shots on goal of
2:51:44
the Canadians in game 7-8 shots. Think about this.
2:51:47
Guys, we just talked about the the Canadians only having nine
2:51:51
shots and they won that game. This guy had eight shots by
2:51:54
himself. Colorado the same out of.
2:51:56
Goals makes you sick to your story.
2:51:59
Thing I was mentioned this with. Minnesota with they're having
2:52:02
the definitely have the offensive potency there.
2:52:04
I mentioned the center depth has been the better thing for them
2:52:06
and they're going to need that in this kind of series.
2:52:07
Colorado, the one thing that's been questioned with them in
2:52:09
years past has been the center depth.
2:52:10
Now having Brock Nelson and Qadri playing as well as they
2:52:13
did, that definitely is going to make a difference in the series.
2:52:15
You wonder with the goaltending who had played so well with
2:52:18
Ballstead, if it ends up being broken, that'll be the
2:52:20
difference in the series. Because I think Minnesota
2:52:21
skaters could definitely compete with them depth wise with
2:52:24
Colorado and they have experience with them in the in
2:52:26
the Central Division as well. But if their goaltending is not
2:52:29
broken, they could definitely compete in this.
2:52:30
If it ain't broke, don't. Fix it, as my mother always told
2:52:34
me, and my father too. So it's broke.
2:52:37
It's broke. Watching the Colorado Avalanche
2:52:40
makes you sick to your stomach. They're that good.
2:52:43
And I have to say that Joe Sakic is probably he's been there for
2:52:47
what he's got to be over 10 years as the G Yeah, I think.
2:52:50
I think he was a couple. Years after they brought a was
2:52:53
the head coach which was 2013 I think it was a few years after.
2:52:55
Guys an absolute genius man. Absolute genius.
2:52:59
It's unbelievable. It's it's crazy to think about
2:53:02
what this guy has done all these years.
2:53:04
His development, the trades that he makes, he steals players
2:53:09
away. I mean, the guy's a genius.
2:53:10
And then players that he lets go, they all become crap.
2:53:14
And then you bring Cadre back and look what he's doing.
2:53:17
I mean, it's just, it's, it makes you sick anyways.
2:53:20
Well, when we come back, we got in like Flynn.
2:53:22
We got the Kentucky Derby, which I got a chance to watch the
2:53:25
replay of it. I'm sure Chaz wasn't too happy
2:53:28
about it. No, He won $784.
2:53:30
Yeah. But he didn't do what he said he
2:53:32
was going. To do he didn't do what he did
2:53:33
last year, but last year was insane.
2:53:34
I I know, but he still want. Money, I mean anybody that took
2:53:38
his bets, you want some money, but shout out to Chaz and our
2:53:41
handicappers 86% on money aligned mania on our one O 3.9
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show. So they're doing great things.
2:53:48
So thank you to Chaz. Thank you to all the guys West
2:53:50
and you know Johnny and all those guys.
2:53:53
So thank you when we come back in like Flynn, we're going to
2:53:55
get into the top 10 basketball movies of all time.
2:53:59
Get ready for this guys Kentucky Derby and what's that smell?
2:54:03
But first, another sports minute.
2:54:05
This. Is a new.
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2:54:14
All right, guys, Aaron Fishman back.
2:54:16
With you for another sportsman. A couple more stories than the
2:54:19
scores The athletics. Vincent Z, Mirko Gliano and
2:54:22
Peter Bau reported on Saturday that the New York Rangers have
2:54:25
fired their director of player development, Jed Ortmeyer.
2:54:29
Fort Meyer had held the position for the last nine seasons
2:54:32
following his eight-year NHL career, three of which were with
2:54:36
blue shirts. He'll be replaced by another
2:54:38
former Ranger, Tanner Glass, who has been assistant director of
2:54:41
player development since 2019. The Rangers have have now missed
2:54:45
the playoffs the last two seasons and have the third best
2:54:47
odds in the draft lottery tomorrow.
2:54:49
While Ortmeyer isn't solely to blame, the Rangers development
2:54:53
of their prospects has left a lot to be desired, with only
2:54:56
Alexis Lafreniere and Braden Schneider being the only players
2:54:59
remaining on the team from the 2017 through 2021 drafts, the
2:55:04
first half of Wort Meyer's tenure, with both of those
2:55:07
players underachieving for most of their careers.
2:55:09
While the development has been better of late, someone had to
2:55:13
have had their head role after he had another debacle under the
2:55:16
guidance of Chris Drury, who traded in his skates for
2:55:19
apparently a Teflon suit and a corner office in the Garden.
2:55:23
That or he says somehow convince James Dolan that he should be
2:55:26
allowed to retool the last place Rangers despite no confidence in
2:55:30
him from the fan base and what appears to be the locker room,
2:55:33
especially after the team's performance since the letter 2
2:55:36
point O as they went 1520 and five.
2:55:40
Maybe Drury will get rewarded for this patience with friendly,
2:55:44
bouncing lottery balls and get the number one pick.
2:55:46
And with it, no more excuses. Because really at this point
2:55:50
there shouldn't be four time NBA champion coach Steve Kerr, who
2:55:56
also has five more rings as a player, is in deliberation on a
2:56:00
new contract with the Golden State Warriors to continue his
2:56:02
coaching career that will surely end with him in the Naismith
2:56:06
Basketball Hall of Fame. A wrench is being thrown into
2:56:09
negotiations is that Kerr doesn't really want to coach
2:56:12
another team after the Warriors flamed out in the playing game
2:56:16
this year. It's that Kerr is in demand for
2:56:18
a broadcasting job, something he excelled at before joining the
2:56:21
league, first as an executive, then as coach.
2:56:24
While both the ESPN and The Athletic reported that current
2:56:27
Warriors owner Joe Lacob and GM Mike Dunleavy junior met for two
2:56:30
hours and the meeting was good and no decision had been made at
2:56:34
it, Monty Pool of NBC Sports reported that from what I
2:56:38
understand, current those meetings didn't sound like
2:56:41
someone who didn't plan on coaching next season.
2:56:44
So we'll see. Kerr would certainly be the
2:56:46
hottest NBA broadcaster to be available in a long time if he
2:56:48
does make the move and retire from coaching.
2:56:51
But one thing likely can keep Kerr in the Bay Area as a coach,
2:56:54
and that's the prospect of Steph Curry still having juice left in
2:56:57
the tank. Kerr said as much himself
2:56:59
earlier this offseason. It's not that easy because I
2:57:02
think Steph's going to play another couple of years and I
2:57:04
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2:57:21
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portion of in like Flynn has to do with movies.
3:01:16
Welcome. To show my lady I've often.
3:01:19
Heard that you'd give me a warm. Welcome if ever we met again.
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And like Flan. Flan, flan.
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All right, ladies. And gentlemen, well, I'm a movie
3:01:33
guru. OK, so fish reached out to me
3:01:36
today and he said let's get into some basketball movies.
3:01:40
You're a basketball guy, you love your basketball movies.
3:01:43
So I looked, he told me go look at the I MB IMDb on how they
3:01:49
ranked basketball movies. And boy oh boy, I completely
3:01:54
disagree with practically most of their picks.
3:01:58
So I want to go from 10 all the way to one at #10 They have
3:02:03
Space Jam. I like Space Jam, it's a cartoon
3:02:07
movie. Love Michael Jordan, love
3:02:10
everything about it. I'm not putting it in my top
3:02:12
ten. I can't put it on my top ten.
3:02:15
I'm just. Telling you the truth, I'm.
3:02:17
I'm not. And by the way, LeBron James, I
3:02:19
would never put LeBron James Space Jam.
3:02:21
I would never put it in top ten. That was absolutely.
3:02:23
Appalling. But Space Jam 1 was definitely
3:02:26
better than Space Jam too, because Michael Jordan to me is
3:02:29
to go. But I'm taking Space Jam out of
3:02:32
my top ten at #10. I'm sorry guys, I got to put
3:02:36
this. Has anybody seen Sunset Park?
3:02:39
Sunset Park is one of the best, more underrated movies of all
3:02:43
time when it comes to basketball.
3:02:45
Sunset Park with Tony inside. You know I love that movie.
3:02:52
Everything about it you had, you had everything and it shootings
3:02:57
and all that other crazy stuff. It it definitely, it definitely
3:03:01
gave me that, that basketball New York kind of style.
3:03:05
And I got to put that in my top 10.
3:03:07
So I put Sunset Park at number 10.
3:03:10
So there you go. That's number ten.
3:03:12
At #9 they have blow Blue chips. I think Blue Chips is higher
3:03:16
than this. I I think Blue Chips is one of
3:03:18
the more underrated movies. So at #9 I'm going to put
3:03:23
Hustle. Has anybody seen Hustle?
3:03:26
Well, Adam Sandler did a movie called Hustle is a great movie.
3:03:31
It really is on Netflix. Check it out.
3:03:34
It's about a kid that's from another country.
3:03:36
Adam Sandler hurt his hand. He became a, you know, a
3:03:41
recruiter. You know, what do they call
3:03:43
that? A runner?
3:03:44
No, not a not a runner like a scout.
3:03:47
That's what he was. He was a scout and he went all
3:03:49
over the world for the Philadelphia 76ers and he went
3:03:53
to a country and they found this kid and he brought him back to
3:03:55
America and there was so many back end stuff that happened to
3:03:58
him and he helped develop him and transition him into an NBA
3:04:01
style of player. So I would put that, that movie
3:04:06
at #9 I, I, I think it was a great movie at #8 Glory Rd.
3:04:12
I wouldn't argue that. I think Glory Rd. was definitely
3:04:14
one of those movies that really stood out to me.
3:04:16
Don Haskins, what he did the NCAA victory that he had the
3:04:20
championship victory over Pat Riley's Kentucky.
3:04:23
I, I mean, that was a great movie, a Disney movie,
3:04:25
definitely something, if you haven't seen it, it's a great,
3:04:27
great movie. So I, I keep that there at #7 I
3:04:31
put blue chips, I think blue chips.
3:04:33
Shaquille O'Neal, Anthony Hardaway, Nick Nolte.
3:04:37
It was a great movie. It was about a college.
3:04:40
It was about pretty much doing dirty things and which has been
3:04:44
going on for a very, very long time when it comes to buying
3:04:47
players and, and doing those dirty things.
3:04:50
And that movie really stuck out to me And what basketball is
3:04:54
really NCAA college basketball has been going through all these
3:04:58
years. So I would put that at #7 at
3:05:00
number six they have above the rim.
3:05:03
Think of above the rim is a little bit higher than that.
3:05:05
At number six. I would put and I they put this
3:05:09
movie up a little too high. Love in basketball.
3:05:12
It's a great, great movie, but I'm taking a love in basketball
3:05:16
out of the top ten. It's not in my top ten.
3:05:20
I'm not Hoop Dreams, the documentary, that movie, that
3:05:25
documentary really stuck out to me. chicago-based basketball
3:05:29
players to me. I when I was a kid, I watched
3:05:32
Hoop Dreams. It was great.
3:05:33
It was really, really good. Got a chance to see the back end
3:05:36
of where these guys lived, lived and what type of style of
3:05:39
basketball they played and why they didn't make the NBA.
3:05:42
And, and to me, documentaries really started NBA documentaries
3:05:46
in college didn't really start at that time.
3:05:48
It really started with Hoop Dreams.
3:05:49
So I'm sorry, I'm putting hoop dreams right there at number six
3:05:56
at #5. Now they got he got game.
3:06:01
I I think this is higher. I I think he got game is much,
3:06:04
much higher than where they have them.
3:06:07
I put above the rim. I love Tupac Shakur Leon.
3:06:11
That's one of my favorite basketball movies.
3:06:14
It's missing some things that I think would made the movie a
3:06:17
little bit better, but it was great.
3:06:20
It really was. You had Marlon Wayne's in it.
3:06:22
I loved it. I I really did.
3:06:24
So I got them. I got that above the rim at #5
3:06:28
at #4 and they have them at #3. I love Hoosiers, I love
3:06:35
Hoosiers, but I, I bring Hoosiers a little bit down at #3
3:06:39
to #4 I, I love the movie. I, I love the back end.
3:06:42
Indiana basketball and what they did in the 1950s and it became a
3:06:47
top contender, small school, a coach coming back, being fired
3:06:51
as a head coach in a different state and, and come over here as
3:06:55
a teacher. Nobody liked him that the town
3:06:57
didn't like him and he really developed these kids into
3:07:00
superstars. I, I, I, I love that movie, but
3:07:03
I put it at #4 #3 is he got game absolutely.
3:07:09
Denzel Washington, we all know what they, that movie was all
3:07:13
about. Son and father killed his wife
3:07:16
accidentally. And then we got a chance to see
3:07:20
the development of Jesus, Jesus Shuttersworth and really great
3:07:26
Spike Lee, great movie #3 is where I would put that at #2 I
3:07:32
cannot argue this that I, I love the Earl Manigault story.
3:07:37
I, I just, I love this movie. Anybody that doesn't know who
3:07:39
Earl Manigault is, Don Cheadle played him and it was such a
3:07:43
good movie. Earl Manigault had, he was like
3:07:46
the Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson and
3:07:49
Michael Jordan of New York. He did everything.
3:07:52
And he was a great street ball player.
3:07:54
Rucker Park. He was known for Rucker
3:07:56
basketball and all these guys. He he really change Rucker Park
3:08:01
into what Rucker Park is today and what a chance transition
3:08:04
into in the 90s. Such a great story.
3:08:08
Sad story to what happened to him and and really never really
3:08:11
getting to that high level the NBA because of drugs.
3:08:14
You should check it out if you've never seen Rebound, The
3:08:17
legend of Earl Manigault and then the final #1 the greatest
3:08:22
basketball movie of all time. Absolutely agree with it.
3:08:27
White men can't jump. Everybody knows that, Woody
3:08:31
Allen. It's to me everything that we
3:08:37
want when it comes to basketball.
3:08:38
Sidney Dean, Billy, Billy Hoyle and.
3:08:41
And in the transition, you had everybody in it.
3:08:44
It was just a great, great movie.
3:08:46
Funny white man can't jump. Billy, you know, so great movie.
3:08:52
SO1234510. Yeah.
3:08:56
There you go so as far as their top three I the top 2 is
3:09:01
absolutely right. I I would not argue that I those
3:09:04
are the two best basketball movies of all time.
3:09:07
Hoosiers. A lot of people would put
3:09:09
Hoosiers 3, but I, I think the transition of what I've seen
3:09:14
over the years and basketball movies and I love and
3:09:16
basketball. I love the movie, I really do,
3:09:18
but it's a love story. It was not something that I
3:09:21
could sit there and say 01 of the greatest basketball is all
3:09:23
basketball movies of all time. It's a love story.
3:09:26
So I I disagree with that, but I'm not saying love and
3:09:29
basketball wasn't a great basketball.
3:09:30
There was a lot of good ones. Semi Pro was a funny basketball
3:09:34
that was good. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot.
3:09:36
Coach Carter was a good movie. Was Carter the way back?
3:09:39
Is a good movie I, I. Mean there were a lot of good
3:09:42
movies like Mike. I would not put like.
3:09:46
That's like a just a RIP off of angels in.
3:09:47
The outfield Uncle Drew it's man.
3:09:50
Uncle Drew. Just right I.
3:09:52
Mean my giants I the movie that really stuck out to me how they
3:09:56
rated this movie hoop dreams who they rated 18.
3:09:59
This is this is one of the greatest documentaries of all
3:10:02
time. Isaiah Thomas was in it.
3:10:04
I mean, the transition of point guard positions and, and really
3:10:09
what point guard basketball was in Chicago basketball was I, I
3:10:13
can't believe they didn't put that in.
3:10:15
Maybe the writer of this list is a Steph Curry fan.
3:10:17
I heard your argument about why I Steph Curry is not better
3:10:20
than. It is a great movie if you've
3:10:22
never. Seen that documentary?
3:10:23
Go check it out. And Basketball Diaries, man, I,
3:10:26
I, I didn't put Basketball Diaries in my top ten, but
3:10:31
Basketball Diaries to me is one of my favorite movies of all
3:10:34
time. Leonardo DiCaprio was up for an
3:10:37
Academy Award for it. I mean, everybody was in that
3:10:41
movie. Marky Mark was in that movie.
3:10:43
It was a great, great movie. So you're a high school fan and
3:10:48
these high school players get into, you know, packed into
3:10:51
drugs and ruin their lives, absolutely ruin their lives.
3:10:54
But it is a great, great basketball movie.
3:10:56
So lot to get lot if you're a basketball thing, you had to see
3:11:00
all these movies. If you've never seen any of
3:11:01
these movies, Hoop Dreams, which is an old, old movie from 1994.
3:11:05
It's a two hour and 50 minute movie.
3:11:07
It's a long movie, but it's definitely something to go check
3:11:10
it out if you're a basketball fan and Basketball Diaries, The
3:11:14
Basketball Diaries is a great, great movie and it's sad.
3:11:16
It really is Uncle Drew. Uncle Drew forgot about.
3:11:19
That no, I did. I said Uncle Drew.
3:11:20
I put uncle. Drew there underrated.
3:11:22
You do underrated. I think it's a funny movie.
3:11:25
I obviously I like some of the basketball players were in it.
3:11:28
I watch it. I like them dancing in the
3:11:30
movie. I mean, the storyline was
3:11:32
stupid. The surprise that you didn't
3:11:34
name. Is ever get out of here?
3:11:37
I'm not putting. You would put everybody.
3:11:39
Are you kidding? Me, and I'm going to put it was.
3:11:41
One of my first thoughts though I was.
3:11:42
Like get out of here. That would never.
3:11:44
That would never happen. I would never put an airplane in
3:11:46
my top ten. Yeah, you took Space Jam by the
3:11:48
top tier. So I I I'm sorry I'm not putting
3:11:51
space. Jam a cartoon movie.
3:11:53
You take space. Jam out of time dude.
3:11:55
It's I would say it's top, top. 11 top 12.
3:11:58
It's not no top tier, it's probably 1.
3:12:00
Of the most selling films and basketball because Michael
3:12:04
Jordan was in it was stupid. It was child.
3:12:06
Everybody was in it. Charles Barkley.
3:12:08
Oh. Please, Mugsy, everybody.
3:12:11
Patrick Ewing. Yeah, yeah.
3:12:12
Yeah, good. The whole crew was in there.
3:12:14
Yeah, good. For 5 minutes.
3:12:16
Anyways, Kentucky Derby time. Golden Temple was the winner of
3:12:21
the 2026 Kentucky Derby, barely edging out Renegade, which was
3:12:25
the favorite as it ended the race.
3:12:28
Cherie Duvau became the first female trainer ever to win a
3:12:32
Kentucky Derby, a race that's been around for 152 years.
3:12:36
Jockey Jose Ortiz also won his first Kentucky Derby in his 14th
3:12:42
year as a jockey. That was the only one of the
3:12:45
three Triple Crown races he hadn't won yet.
3:12:50
Golden Temple was A at 23 to one odds going into the race and was
3:12:56
in last place going into the final turn.
3:12:59
The announcers mentioned how Golden Temple had to make up 7
3:13:03
or 8 more lengths from all the other horses to come back and
3:13:07
win. I watched the replay, so for all
3:13:11
the people that know, I was traveling so I didn't get a
3:13:13
chance to see it until later and it was an incredible, incredible
3:13:18
race. Think about this on the last
3:13:20
turn, Golden Temple was practically in last place.
3:13:24
And all of a sudden, as you see this, if you're actually
3:13:27
watching this right now because fish has it on, he slowly but
3:13:31
surely moved slowly up in that last turn and then just took the
3:13:36
hell off on the outside and and beat Renegade, which was
3:13:41
everybody's favorite. And I it was surprising to me,
3:13:44
and I'm not saying that Golden Temple wasn't everybody's
3:13:47
favorite. It wasn't mine.
3:13:48
I like the Chief. He didn't didn't do so well.
3:13:52
Yeah, he didn't do so well. If you're not in top three, it
3:13:54
doesn't really help me, but it it's sensational.
3:13:58
It's fun to watch. I want to get Zach in here
3:14:00
because I I no, I'm sorry, Zoot. Zoot's the guy.
3:14:03
He's our Kentucky Derby guy. I think Zoot watched the race
3:14:06
and he understands a little bit more about horse racing than I
3:14:09
do. So is is Zoot in or can we?
3:14:12
I put I put him in officials to rearrange the cameras.
3:14:14
How he would have All right, so I want to get Zoot in because.
3:14:16
He's that, he's the guy that was watching the race.
3:14:19
He gave us his take and, and to me, I, I watch horse racing.
3:14:24
I've been to a Triple Crown, I've watched a Triple Crown and
3:14:27
I experienced it and it was very interesting, very fun and got a
3:14:31
chance to talk to the jockey and the trainers and it's fun.
3:14:36
It really is. But we got Zoot looking at his
3:14:38
phone. I like to get suit.
3:14:41
Zoot, are you there? I'll just mention this while
3:14:44
Zoot's finishing up just. A cool moment for the talking to
3:14:46
somebody for. Cherie Devoe to the first female
3:14:49
trainer. A lot of times you don't see a
3:14:50
lot of women trainers. It's an old school sport.
3:14:52
Get involved. You can always see this get.
3:14:55
Involved in that and. I think it's definitely cool to
3:14:58
see Ortiz. We talked about a couple of
3:15:00
weeks ago with Rory McIlroy took a while to win a Masters.
3:15:02
Now he's won two in a row. This is a guy that's been a
3:15:03
jockey for a while too. So definitely a cool moment, but
3:15:06
for definitely for Dero inspiring a lot of these all
3:15:09
these women that are again, these smaller towns, Kentucky,
3:15:11
Tennessee, like that all the horse breeders there.
3:15:14
It's it's fun to watch because when you go to.
3:15:15
The Kentucky Derby and I, I've got a chance to go to all the
3:15:18
races, the crazy hats and all the crazy people that go.
3:15:24
The dress is in the way they dress and that's what is so
3:15:28
remarkable. When you go to those things, you
3:15:30
walk right in. Everybody's dressed to impress.
3:15:33
Women are wearing these weird, ridiculous hats that look like
3:15:37
they came out of a monstrous movie.
3:15:39
You know, a monster movie. It's just ridiculous.
3:15:43
I mean, I've seen some of the craziest hats I've ever seen in
3:15:46
my life, but, and then the dresses and, and, and dress to
3:15:50
impress. And here's another thing.
3:15:52
All the movie stars that go to these things in these events.
3:15:54
Oh yeah. And actors, they make it like a
3:15:56
gala and, and musicians and everybody athletes.
3:16:00
I, I, I met so many athletes at these events before and it's
3:16:04
crazy because they go there and they're like big horse fans.
3:16:07
And I'm like sitting there. I'm like, you're a horse fan.
3:16:09
You actually watch these races. I mean, like gotta be faking it,
3:16:13
right? So it's funny.
3:16:15
So funny I went. To I went to a race and I, I
3:16:17
bumped into Rob Krankowski. I'll never forget it.
3:16:21
And he's walking in. Everybody knows who he is
3:16:22
because the guy's a giant. He walks right in.
3:16:24
He's like 6-7 white guy walks right through the thing.
3:16:28
He's wearing this weird white suit in this ugly tie.
3:16:32
It's really bad. It's like a Patriots, like
3:16:34
greenish, weird reddish. We need Tom Brady to send the
3:16:37
suit. That he gave to our friend
3:16:38
Brandon Lloyd. Yeah, it was really bad.
3:16:41
And I, I bumped into him and I said, what are you doing here?
3:16:44
He's like I got a lot of money on this this horse right here
3:16:47
because I because I don't tell anybody I got a secret and I
3:16:50
know what I'm doing and at the end of the race he didn't win
3:16:53
anything. So but it's funny because you
3:16:59
get a chance to see so many people that you probably
3:17:01
wouldn't believe you would see at these races.
3:17:03
So incredible and it's incredible race.
3:17:06
I again, I watched the replay of the race, but I've never seen a
3:17:09
race like this when a guy when when a horse is all the way in
3:17:11
the back and then just explodes on the outside the way it did
3:17:16
and completely kicks the crap out of the opposing horses.
3:17:20
And is he is he the favorite to winning the Triple Crown?
3:17:23
I mean, we haven't seen the triple crowns.
3:17:24
Yeah, Spotify is the other. I'm sorry, is it justified?
3:17:27
Justified, justified. I was not justified.
3:17:29
Who? Who Spotify implicated
3:17:31
implicated. Don't be Spotify.
3:17:34
I was there for justifies Triple Crown.
3:17:36
Spotify is a good horse name. I'm not going.
3:17:38
To lie, it's not a terrible horse name.
3:17:40
It might be Spotify might have a horse.
3:17:43
Errol, you're right. Usually you don't.
3:17:44
See like the guy you know, sometimes they come from behind,
3:17:47
but they don't come from behind, weave inside and then take the
3:17:51
most outside path and still catch everyone.
3:17:55
That was wild. You don't usually see I mean
3:17:58
it's only two minutes. You know, it's very easy to make
3:18:00
a movie whole length. It's like 1 of.
3:18:02
Those movies, you know, like when you watch, I'm sorry, I'm
3:18:04
not sitting there for four hours.
3:18:05
Watching the the pre show, you know, for four hours for the
3:18:09
two-minute race. But yeah, I love those movies
3:18:11
too. The Secretariat movie, the
3:18:13
Seabiscuit movie. They had a few really good horse
3:18:15
movies out there if you ever get a chance to watch them.
3:18:17
But yeah, you know, but this one, but this one, this was a,
3:18:20
this was a weird race, you know, and it was very surprising.
3:18:23
Some people made a lot of money. I know our guy Chaz somehow
3:18:27
always seems to hit on the Kentucky Derby.
3:18:29
And I always tell myself I'm going to bet whatever Chaz said.
3:18:32
And then I asked, man, I forgot to bet.
3:18:34
And I go, Speedy, how much did Chaz win?
3:18:36
He goes, he he won a little bit, 700-8459.
3:18:39
So that guy. That guy for when it.
3:18:41
Comes to horse racing, the guy is honestly a genius, probably
3:18:46
one of the best handicappers in the world when it comes to horse
3:18:49
racing. The guy studies it, He really
3:18:52
studies it and he understands horse racing.
3:18:54
So does Wes. Wes is really good at it too.
3:18:56
These guys when we get these guys on the shelf for all the
3:18:59
fans out there that are listening to us when we put them
3:19:01
out there, these guys are not just no name guys that don't
3:19:05
know how to win money. These guys win a lot of money.
3:19:08
They live there. That's one of their their
3:19:11
investments and and they make a lot of money.
3:19:14
So when we give you guys an opportunity, like I said, a
3:19:17
money line mania on a one O 3.1, one O 3.9 show that show they're
3:19:23
at 8086% right now. I mean, Vegas isn't at 6766%.
3:19:29
They're crushing it. Every pick that we give you,
3:19:33
they're almost exactly on the money for it.
3:19:36
Fish to put into perspective, I think it was.
3:19:38
Two weeks ago, Wes even had picked a wrestling that Yeah, he
3:19:40
beat the guy he bet the guy that beat Brock Lesnar at
3:19:43
WrestleMania. He got that one right.
3:19:44
He got that right. It's just it's.
3:19:46
Ridiculous. It makes you sick to your
3:19:47
stomach. It really does.
3:19:49
Where is he going to bet? Rigged wrestling.
3:19:51
Matches, they're all, I'm sorry, I love wrestling.
3:19:56
They're all fandom. But it's but it's like Kaosi.
3:20:00
I mean. It's pretty wild that you.
3:20:01
Can do that type of stuff these days.
3:20:03
He's good. They are the type of gambling
3:20:05
hey. You can check out.
3:20:05
Wes's books on finding out how to.
3:20:07
Do it discipline sports betting Yeah, it's on our website.
3:20:09
Go and. Get yourself a copy.
3:20:11
I mean, we'd love to promote them and like I said, I didn't
3:20:15
get a chance to watch this live, but I watched the replay on it
3:20:18
and it's an incredible race. It is incredible to watch.
3:20:22
To watch a course just come out of nowhere and shoot on the
3:20:25
outside the way it did and beat the horse that everybody was the
3:20:30
favorite and everybody had possibly winning the Triple
3:20:32
Crown this year. Well, that's not going to
3:20:34
happen. I maybe, maybe the tempo, the
3:20:37
golden tempo wins the Triple Crown.
3:20:39
We haven't seen it since Justify.
3:20:41
I was there. I was there when he did.
3:20:43
Yeah, a lot of them. It depends on if they're like a.
3:20:45
Younger horse too. Like those are the probably they
3:20:46
wouldn't do. Then we see a Triple Crown.
3:20:48
It was like. It was like within five years
3:20:50
there was two of them. Yeah, American Pharaoh was
3:20:52
American. Pharaoh and then justify same.
3:20:54
Trainer too, Yeah, same trainer. Yeah.
3:20:57
And then and then all. That all that?
3:20:59
Yeah. That he got caught with the
3:21:00
doping. Scandal the doping scandal
3:21:01
because of all the conspiracy of.
3:21:03
Doping horses and stuff like that.
3:21:05
Just women. Yeah.
3:21:07
They were giving. Them the carrots with the.
3:21:09
GMOs and they were all jacked up on steroids because of that.
3:21:13
Yeah, it's in. Bring zoot in is.
3:21:15
Zoot. Coming in I I don't think I I.
3:21:17
Think Zoot might be working on something else he's working on?
3:21:20
You know he's hanging out with the.
3:21:21
Fam or hanging out with his friend?
3:21:23
No, he's right there backstage. I know.
3:21:25
I don't think he was talking. Listen, I.
3:21:26
Know I could see him what? I'm trying to help you.
3:21:31
Copa Copa. Anyways, but it's been a great
3:21:35
show and we have one more segment as we always do, as we
3:21:39
call this. What's that smell?
3:21:40
Hold on, what is that? Smell.
3:21:43
What's that? Smell.
3:21:49
Wow. You don't see that every day.
3:21:52
By the way, the Knicks are breaking records as, as it just
3:21:56
popped up that this is the first time of the New York Knicks in
3:22:00
the first home game of a playoff series in the playoffs that are
3:22:04
going to beat the team are, are leading the team by 38 normal
3:22:07
points. I mean, it's ridiculous the, the
3:22:10
Knicks right now are playing at such a high level.
3:22:12
If they continue playing like this, I, I think they should
3:22:15
breeze right through the Eastern Conference and then we'll see
3:22:18
who they match up against in the West.
3:22:20
I, I mean, this is, this is, this is what we wanted to see
3:22:24
with the Knicks. This is what we wanted to see.
3:22:26
And finally, I think they're figuring, I think Mike Brown has
3:22:28
figured out his rotation and it's starting to work and
3:22:32
everybody's playing. I, I said, like I said, and I
3:22:34
wasn't just taking, I just when you look at matchups and you
3:22:37
look at Mikhail Bridges, what he's done over the years against
3:22:40
76, even when he was with the Nets, he always played well
3:22:43
against 76ers and OJ Anobi, who always plays well against the
3:22:47
76ers. Jalen Bronson always plays well.
3:22:50
Karl Anthony Towns, when he was with the Timberwolves, every
3:22:52
time he played, he played well against the 76ers.
3:22:55
I don't think Joel Embiid is really healthy, is just out
3:22:57
there. And the only reason why they
3:23:00
beat the Celtics and why Joel Embiid played at such a high
3:23:02
level is because the Celtics don't have a big man to stop him
3:23:07
and the Knicks do. And that's the reason and I'm
3:23:10
going to tell you it's not going to be an easy series for the I'm
3:23:12
not saying this is sweep. I think this is a 5 game series,
3:23:15
but I don't see it going further than that.
3:23:17
I I really don't. I just think the Knicks are just
3:23:19
so much better than the 76ers are right now.
3:23:22
Anyways, all right, we're going to go tonight.
3:23:25
We're going to go fish, we're going to go Q, We're going to go
3:23:27
speedy, we're going to go me. Here we go.
3:23:31
All right, let's queue it up. I hear the music.
3:23:34
There's a crazy story. You know, some of you may have
3:23:38
picked this up when it happened about six years ago now, when
3:23:43
you may remember former Orioles pitcher Scott Erickson.
3:23:47
He's a good pitcher in the 90s for a while.
3:23:49
Well, he had an incident, him and a woman named Rebecca
3:23:54
Grossman, who he was racing, apparently flying down the
3:23:59
street, apparently in golf carts.
3:24:03
There were some. Kids in the street.
3:24:05
Erickson missed the kids. Grossman did not.
3:24:07
She's serving 15 years in jail. Obviously, this has led to a
3:24:12
lawsuit years later from the family of the Iskanders of the
3:24:19
kids that died. Now, an interesting development
3:24:23
was who they brought on the trial in the civil case, and it
3:24:26
was a former All Star. I don't know if he's All Star
3:24:29
Speedy Royce Clayton. That was a long time Major
3:24:33
League Baseball player for the White.
3:24:34
I don't think he was an old *. Short and I think he played
3:24:37
Texas. Also good player.
3:24:38
He was a good player, not a great player, maybe had a couple
3:24:41
of really good years in there, but he he gave testimony that
3:24:46
you know, after, after that he was a great friend of his for 30
3:24:49
years. Told them that they were
3:24:51
Erickson, told them that they were flying down the street,
3:24:53
confided in him, and then the next day, instead of being
3:24:57
contrite and anything, they were just hanging out at the
3:25:00
clubhouse eating burgers, drinking beers as if it was a
3:25:04
normal day. I don't think that kind of
3:25:07
testimony is going to go well for Mr. Erickson in this trial.
3:25:11
What does that smell like? It smells like the smell of
3:25:15
money being lit on fire #1 like, if you're going to be this piece
3:25:21
of garbage, maybe don't tell people about it.
3:25:24
You know, you put a guy like Clayton in this situation and
3:25:27
you, what are you supposed to do?
3:25:28
If you're Clayton, what are you supposed to do?
3:25:30
Really. That's a terrible spot to be in.
3:25:32
I, I just just horrible. I hope that woman gets every
3:25:36
single, that family gets every single penny they can get from
3:25:39
them. That's pretty sad.
3:25:42
Yeah, brutal. I thought that was going to.
3:25:44
Be Do you want to jerk me? Off Ah, let's see here I'm I'm.
3:25:49
I'm this is my last time mentioning these people, so I'm
3:25:54
going to go with Jaden Brown decides to go a live stream
3:26:00
after the loss. To yeah, the Philadelphia 70.
3:26:04
Sisters complaining about his back and how we had to play
3:26:07
small ball and how the referees didn't give no calls and how we
3:26:12
are almost last in shooting free throws and attempts and he went
3:26:17
on this read about how bad it was and why we blew A31 lead and
3:26:26
to him, Joe Missoula and the substance organization this year
3:26:33
they have. Really.
3:26:35
Put a smell in my nostril 1. Nostril to the other.
3:26:43
Nostril that is indescribable, but if I had to describe it, it
3:26:49
would be equivalent to dumpster juice doodoo mixed.
3:26:54
With. Man.
3:26:58
Boob. Sweat man.
3:27:00
Boobs. He's a pack.
3:27:02
With. His musty under armpits on a
3:27:07
Saturday night after a hard DJ set in the middle.
3:27:14
I like anal. That's what I'm going to go
3:27:20
with. All right, so I'm going to move
3:27:21
on to. One of Errol teams is our
3:27:23
college. Basketball team and the Duke
3:27:25
Blue Devils. Apparently getting an Amazon
3:27:27
game against Michigan, which has led to a feud between Amazon and
3:27:33
Fox Sports slash the Big 10 who technically own the the rights
3:27:37
to the game. So the the way that these out of
3:27:40
conference games, especially early in the season workout is
3:27:43
they're supposed to have a pattern.
3:27:44
And the ACC has is owned by ESPN along with the SEC Network and
3:27:49
the Big 10 is owned by Fox Sports.
3:27:51
So the ACC did the game last year.
3:27:53
The Michigan Duke game was on ESPN.
3:27:55
And so by pattern, the Fox Fox Sports supposed to have it this
3:27:58
year, but now Amazon's taking over and it's not even it's it's
3:28:01
just Duke. It's not, not even just the ACC.
3:28:03
So they don't even have an ACC right yet.
3:28:05
They're trying to claim that, oh, we have rights to this game
3:28:07
because we want to expand college basketball as they've
3:28:10
tried to do with all these other sports onto Amazon Prime.
3:28:13
Obviously, Michigan's file back, Fox Sports has filed back that
3:28:16
they should have the rights to this game and they're rightfully
3:28:18
so. They should because Amazon has
3:28:20
no right to the ACC. And as we mentioned, many.
3:28:23
Times College. Conferences have a lot of strong
3:28:25
strangleholds on these networks, so yeah, you're not going to win
3:28:28
that battle. Nice try, Amazon Prime.
3:28:30
What does that smell like? It smells like Jeff Bezos and
3:28:34
John Shire making out in an Amazon rainforest swamp with a
3:28:39
bunch of venomous spiders. Amazon Rainforest.
3:28:46
Swamp. Well, he's got an Amazon
3:28:47
rainforest. In his pants.
3:28:49
So John Shire is an Amazon rainforest in his pants.
3:28:51
Or Jeff Bezos coot. Anyways, my.
3:28:55
Final What's? That smell goes to the Detroit
3:28:57
Tigers ace. Two time defending American
3:29:00
League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal will now undergo
3:29:06
arthroscopic surgery for a loose, loose part in his elbow
3:29:11
OK left elbow manager AJ Hinch said on Monday.
3:29:14
Hinch told reporters that school ball will have a procedure at a
3:29:19
date still to be determined after the left-hander felt pain
3:29:24
in his elbow Sunday and underwent test which revealed an
3:29:28
injury. Now, for anybody that knows that
3:29:31
this year could be a strike at the end of the year.
3:29:34
So what does that tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that Tarik
3:29:38
Schuble was expecting a $500 million contract.
3:29:41
Now you're hearing that he has elbow problems again and he
3:29:44
needs surgery. He could be back this year.
3:29:47
If you're a buyer and you want to buy into Tarik Schuble, who's
3:29:51
going to be 30 years old, and you're going to buy into this
3:29:54
guy and give him $500 million, you must be on drugs.
3:29:57
This guy has already had Tommy John surgery and now he's having
3:30:00
another arthroscopic surgery on his elbow.
3:30:03
This is not good news, guys. It's not.
3:30:05
I don't care when anybody says I don't care if it's left elbow, I
3:30:08
don't care if it's right elbow. It's not good news.
3:30:11
And nobody, including the New York Mets, New York Yankees,
3:30:14
well, you know, the Yankees aren't going to do that with
3:30:15
their pitching right now. They don't need it.
3:30:17
And the Mets are not going to do that because they stink.
3:30:19
That's. Might do that because Steve
3:30:20
Cohen. Will invest into money just to
3:30:23
just for the sake of throwing a billion dollars into a player.
3:30:26
I I think that this would keep you away.
3:30:28
This is good for Detroit because Detroit now might be sitting on
3:30:32
maybe giving him a 250 three $100 million contract and giving
3:30:35
him a $500 million contract and losing him the free agents.
3:30:38
I I still think he'll probably go to the Dodgers unless they
3:30:41
figure out this the deferred money.
3:30:42
But nevertheless, what it smells like.
3:30:45
Well, it smells pretty good as far as I'm concerned because you
3:30:50
don't have any of these New York teams throwing away money to a
3:30:53
player that might never be at 100% again.
3:30:56
So that's what it smells like. I, I think that's all I got to
3:31:00
submit. I, I don't really throw things
3:31:01
out like an Amazon rainforest or whatever you want to call
3:31:05
cherries and berries. And I think Josh, tires smell
3:31:08
gross you. Should like that.
3:31:09
Well, that's true. By the way, has anybody had?
3:31:11
Cotton candy grapes. Has anybody had that before?
3:31:14
Yeah, I like them those. Things are those things.
3:31:18
Are so I went out to New Hampshire and.
3:31:20
We went shopping and I saw these cotton candy grapes and I was
3:31:23
like, what is cotton candy grapes?
3:31:25
I bought them and I started eating them.
3:31:27
Like it tastes like cotton candy.
3:31:29
It's so good. Yeah, there's a couple of grapes
3:31:32
out. There that are like kind of like
3:31:34
weird like crosses with things. You'd be surprised there's a red
3:31:36
grape that's good like that too. I don't forget what it's crossed
3:31:39
with, but you'll like it. Oh, it's so good guys.
3:31:41
If you ever see. That in your stores cotton candy
3:31:44
grapes. Go buy a couple of packs of
3:31:45
those. Those are delicious.
3:31:47
I have them actually. So we bought a bunch of them and
3:31:51
Brittany took them because my sister was taking them home and
3:31:53
she grabbed them before we left and she says those grapes are
3:31:56
ours. She didn't want anybody to take
3:31:59
them So but they were they were delicious.
3:32:02
It is funny, but it's it's delicious.
3:32:04
So shout out to Brittany. She saved me a lot of time
3:32:07
because I I want to experience eating those things again.
3:32:09
But thank you to Mike James for joining us.
3:32:13
He was fantastic. We really appreciate him.
3:32:15
I know he had problems with his video, but we got him on the
3:32:18
phone. Great stories really isn't thank
3:32:21
you to Nathan for getting him on Eva sensational.
3:32:24
He really isn't. We just need to get him on the
3:32:25
video, but it's been great. I want to give a shout out to
3:32:29
our interns too. Like I said earlier in the show,
3:32:31
I'll say it again for Zach, Zoot, Dom, all the guys,
3:32:35
everybody that's worked with us this year, even the guys that
3:32:37
kind of dropped out because they're doing a lot of things.
3:32:40
I want to thank everybody, all the work that you guys have been
3:32:42
putting into it. And like I said, if you guys
3:32:45
ever need us, you ever need a reference And like I, like I
3:32:49
said, some of you guys, if you want to stay on or you want to
3:32:52
come back after your internships and in the end of summer, you're
3:32:55
more than welcome to. We, we love of you guys,
3:32:57
everybody that's worked with over the years and, and has
3:33:00
helped us on the back end and all the great things that we're
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doing right now. It wouldn't be where it is today
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if it wasn't for you guys. So I want to thank all you guys.
3:33:08
You don't get a chance to speak to me as much like you do with
3:33:11
fish and speedy. But you know, I on the back end
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in these guys and they do a lot of work and they speak for me.
3:33:19
So, but you guys, if you ever need me, you guys got my number
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Q, you know, you guys can reach out to us.
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I will absolutely put out a good reference for you guys and put
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We really appreciate you guys as well.
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such a great job. Our YouTube channel is growing.
3:34:14
It's a new YouTube channel and it's growing and we want we want
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the viewership to grow and all that other stuff.
3:34:20
It's been great. It really has been it's growing
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so fast and, and we really appreciate Zach and, and, and
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all the guys again doing the work in the back end and really
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helping us out. So you guys are great.
3:34:31
You really are and I appreciate everything that you guys have
3:34:33
done for us and thank you to all the guys, all the guys that work
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on the show, all the back end. And I want to give a shout out
3:34:40
to Tommy scoops, who's no longer with us.
3:34:42
I, I, I appreciate you, Tom. You, you might not you, you
3:34:46
might not think that, but I, I'm going to throw this out to you.
3:34:49
If you ever listen to the show, you were listening to the show.
3:34:52
I want you to know we, you know you're not with us right now or
3:34:56
you're not with us anymore, but we we respect you.
3:34:59
We love you man and we wish nothing but the best for you.
3:35:02
So stay in touch and hopefully you're listening and and hearing
3:35:06
us out on that. But anyways, again, Speedy, who
3:35:09
we have on Monday and Thursday, all right, returning to
3:35:12
Thursday, returning to the show on.
3:35:13
Thursday she was on with us a couple of years ago.
3:35:15
She's an agent. She also was a semi pro
3:35:18
snowboarder and now at the Super Bowl, yes she was at.
3:35:20
The NFL draft as well. She's an agent from several
3:35:22
different players. The owner or the CEO of BG
3:35:25
Sports Enterprises. It is Brittany Gilman.
3:35:27
She has a new book out as well. It is No stilettos on the field,
3:35:31
just released the day of the draft.
3:35:33
Yeah, she does have nice. Legs, I can't lie.
3:35:36
I can't lie, ladies and gentlemen.
3:35:37
Oh my God. I mean, look.
3:35:39
Those are her legs. Those are real people going
3:35:42
though, dude. Justin, she, she, by the way,
3:35:46
she was Olympic, Olympic snowboarder and she's doing such
3:35:50
great things. Brittany's been a friend of the
3:35:52
show and she does a lot of travelling and I have a lot of
3:35:54
fun with. Her when she comes on the.
3:35:56
Show I always shoot the crap with her and she loves she loves
3:35:59
coming on the show. We have a lot of fun on the back
3:36:01
end of it. So I'm excited to get her on a
3:36:03
show. I'd like to speak about her
3:36:05
business and and all the things that she's doing on the back end
3:36:08
of it. So thank you, Brittany, and I'm
3:36:10
sure you guys will enjoy her. She's got a lot of stories and a
3:36:13
lot of craziness with us. But yeah.
3:36:16
Anyways, anything set up for next week too?
3:36:19
Yes, Nathan did get Vince. Papale, the former Eagles
3:36:23
receiver, first undrafted free agent ever, Invincible, the
3:36:25
movie. He's on Monday at 8:20.
3:36:29
And then Greg Odin and the director, I don't know the
3:36:31
director's name of that. Nathan on that one.
3:36:33
The first pick of the Kevin Durant, yes.
3:36:36
May 14th at 8:00. 20 Greg Odin will be on and like I said,
3:36:41
Brittany Gilman will be on 8:00 on this Thursday.
3:36:43
And don't worry everybody, I know you.
3:36:45
Know guys like Hugh wants to make fun of man boobs, but these
3:36:48
are packs. He doesn't have any so I can
3:36:50
help him out. If you need some workouts and
3:36:52
training, I can help him out on that.
3:36:54
He doesn't do any push ups anymore, but I'll help him
3:36:56
there. I can do it.
3:36:57
And if he needs help with his basketball knowledge too, I can
3:37:00
help him there. It's pointy.
3:37:01
It's over. It's OK, dude.
3:37:03
There is nothing pointy about my my packs, man.
3:37:06
I've actually got packs. You don't.
3:37:08
That's OK. It's OK.
3:37:10
I like to show up. My muscles out.
3:37:13
Closes out. Yeah.
3:37:14
I'm sorry but. It's OK.
3:37:16
It's OK, dude. You like to hide.
3:37:18
They're pointy. He doesn't know what pointy is,
3:37:21
but. He's, he's got, he's got like he
3:37:24
likes to hide his chest because he's probably, you know, he's
3:37:27
probably growing a round table over there.
3:37:30
A round table. Don't worry, I'll help.
3:37:32
Quinn out. Quinn needs some help.
3:37:33
I'll help him out with some workouts.
3:37:35
You know, I gave some tips to Jabba so I might give QA little
3:37:38
bit of workout try anyways. Anyways.
3:37:41
That's it for the show. Mr. Pointy Man and Mr. Know It
3:37:45
All man is there. I'm going to say goodnight.
3:37:47
Farewell, We'll talk to you Thursday.
3:37:49
Shoot a lick or shoot a shot or just win a basketball game,
3:37:53
which the Knicks did. Michael Bridges did too.
3:37:56
That's over. Goodnight.
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