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Speaker 1: to the weekend which you saw that you liked you
Speaker 1: didn't like. We'll check in with the Brooklyn Nets and
Speaker 1: the injury to James Harden. I've been harping on this
Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks. These injuries, a sprained ankle,
Speaker 1: a groin injury, hamstring injury, they do not go away.
Speaker 1: You sort of manage it. And Harden has been bothered
Speaker 1: by the hamstring. Anthony Davis with the groin, lebron with
Speaker 1: the ankle, they were not going to go away. And
Speaker 1: with James Harden, we saw that yesterday early in the festivities.
Speaker 1: He checks out. He knows right away. He went in,
Speaker 1: took a shot, and then all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: felt the twinge and then he was going right to
Speaker 1: the locker room. He knew right away what that feeling
Speaker 1: is like. And it's not going to go away when
Speaker 1: he comes back, He's still going to have that in
Speaker 1: the back of his mine. But this is a team
Speaker 1: that has the luxury, unlike the Lakers. There's a luxury
Speaker 1: there The Nets do have two other great players, and
Speaker 1: they have a pretty good supporting cast as well. Sometimes
Speaker 1: a player is so spectacular that you have to recognize
Speaker 1: that player even in a loss. Nineteen sixty nine, Jerry
Speaker 1: West won the NBA Finals MVP even though the Lakers
Speaker 1: lost to the Celtics. That's the kind of performance that
Speaker 1: Luca john Took had in the first round. Even though
Speaker 1: his mAbs lost to the Clippers. Dallas lost Game seven yesterday.
Speaker 1: Lucas scores forty six that's one short of the all
Speaker 1: time NBA record for a game seven set by Dominique Wilkins.
Speaker 1: Luca also had fourteen assists, so he created seventy seven points.
Speaker 1: That's a game seven record. MAVs still couldn't stop the Clippers,
Speaker 1: losing one twenty six to one eleven. Now Dallas has
Speaker 1: to figure out where do we go. We have one
Speaker 1: of the bright stars in the game, but we didn't
Speaker 1: get out of the first round. Again. They supposedly have
Speaker 1: another star in Kristaps Porzingis, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's as good as he thinks he is. I know
Speaker 1: that there have been reports that he feels like an
Speaker 1: afterthought to Luca. Don chick. He does view himself as
Speaker 1: a superstar. They have time to figure it out. Luca's
Speaker 1: only twenty two, but this is reminiscent of what Lebron
Speaker 1: had in Cleveland. Lebron was able to take that team
Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals and I still maintain that's one
Speaker 1: of the worst teams to ever play for a championship
Speaker 1: in NBA history. I don't think Luca can do what
Speaker 1: Lebron did, but there are similarities with their age, with
Speaker 1: the performance that they put up, and I can't fault
Speaker 1: Luca with what he did through this entire series. But
Speaker 1: no matter what he does, it's not enough to win
Speaker 1: a championship. It's not enough to get out of the
Speaker 1: first round. And are you going to sign up poor
Speaker 1: zingis to a long term contract? Who can you bring in?
Speaker 1: Also to try to figure out who can you bring
Speaker 1: in to play with a guy like Luca, because you
Speaker 1: have to get acclimated to that he has the ball
Speaker 1: all the time. Now does he pass, Yes, but it's
Speaker 1: similar to James Harden that they have the ball ball dominant.
Speaker 1: But you got to have those guys that are role players,
Speaker 1: who understand their role, embrace their role, and are consistent
Speaker 1: in their role. I don't know what I get out
Speaker 1: of poor zingis. I can watch and somehow a guy
Speaker 1: who's seven three disappears on the floor. He doesn't play
Speaker 1: seven three. I don't want a seven three shooting guard.
Speaker 1: There are times when I wait for him to take
Speaker 1: over the seven three, takeover, dominate. He can shoot as mobility,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know if he wants
Speaker 1: to be great. You can think you're great. I just
Speaker 1: don't know if he are you putting in the effort
Speaker 1: to be great? And yes, you probably are an afterthought
Speaker 1: to Luca don Chick. I was also wondering this as
Speaker 1: I was watching the Clippers beat the MAVs and Luca
Speaker 1: putting up these unbelievable numbers. I think Atlanta's okay with
Speaker 1: Trey Young. You remember they traded the rights to Luca
Speaker 1: to the MAVs, and then with that draft pick they
Speaker 1: took Trey Young. Now, it didn't look great for a while,
Speaker 1: and you know, we can say that lucas still a
Speaker 1: far better player. The Atlanta Hawks got out of the
Speaker 1: first round, and they took Game one yesterday against the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers. Trey Young joins Luel Sindoor, who became
Speaker 1: Kareem is the only players in NBA history to score
Speaker 1: at least thirty points in each of the first four
Speaker 1: road playoff games in their career. He had thirty. I've
Speaker 1: in ten as they pick up game one in that
Speaker 1: second round series with the seventy six ers. I don't
Speaker 1: overreact to game one, and you shouldn't either. Jazz lost
Speaker 1: Game one to the Grizzlies won that series four one,
Speaker 1: Nuggets lost game one of the Blazers won that series
Speaker 1: four two. Clippers lost Game one to the MAVs and
Speaker 1: won that series four three. I wouldn't overreact to this,
Speaker 1: but it should be acknowledged that Atlanta beat Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: was blowing out Philadelphia. Philadelphia made an interesting late but
Speaker 1: I got to give credit to a very young Atlanta
Speaker 1: team and Nate McMillan, their coach. They did a great
Speaker 1: job to be able to do that. Now, what do
Speaker 1: you do in game two? You got Milwaukee Bucks huge?
Speaker 1: Game two you lost. They didn't have James Harden. You're
Speaker 1: not going to shoot as poorly as you did. I
Speaker 1: got to get Chris Middleton involved here, you know, the
Speaker 1: Greek freak admitted now they were nervous. Never RBS in
Speaker 1: that game. I picked the Bucks to win this series.
Speaker 1: I'll still stay with that. The Nuggets in the Sun's
Speaker 1: Game one is coming up. Ye. So what you're saying
Speaker 1: is do you think the Sixers are gonna need six
Speaker 1: games and not five? Maybe? Maybe? But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: Tredy Young so small that if you get with an
Speaker 1: eight feet of him, it's a foul. He's tiny. Will
Speaker 1: you stop whining? Well, first of all, I billed A
Speaker 1: Blasio the mayor of New York and whine about it.
Speaker 1: I can wind about it. He's impossible to officiate. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe the seventy sixers need to need to get some
Speaker 1: small guys so then they get every call. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're saying? Well, first of all, stopped running six
Speaker 1: eight guys at him. He just runs around them like
Speaker 1: they're not there's there, Frankenstein, m Danny Green shouldn't be
Speaker 1: guarding him. Yep. How about the defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year mclovin. I have no one to tell you. I
Speaker 1: how about Ben Simmons. I tried to trade Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: for Damian Lillard on Friday. You wouldn't let me do it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. If I'm Portland, You're right, I
Speaker 1: know I'd be crazy to give up Damian Lillard for Portland.
Speaker 1: Should not think of trading him. Some people love Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: He went three of ten from the line yesterday. Is
Speaker 1: a liability. Okay. So the Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: is not guarding Trey Young. He hasn't won it yet,
Speaker 1: by the way, to be fair, he's one of the
Speaker 1: three finals, okay, so he's going to maybe if he
Speaker 1: doesn't win, he'll finish second. But I did. But he's
Speaker 1: six to eleven. How's he going to cover a little
Speaker 1: Tray Young? Well? Wait, is he the defense? Is he
Speaker 1: a guard? Is he the defense? No, he's not a guard.
Speaker 1: That's he's He's a center. He should cover Capella. The
Speaker 1: defensive player of the Year can't guard Trey Young. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: it's better than Kawhi and Paul George as those but
Speaker 1: they admitted, they admitted that they couldn't stop Luca. I can't.
Speaker 1: Here is Kawhi Leonard after the game on just how
Speaker 1: great Luca don Chick was. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: forty point games you have to leave three, three or four?
Speaker 1: You know, shooting it very efficiently from three for sure,
Speaker 1: off the drible shots, you know, just doing it all
Speaker 1: for his team. Uh. You know, he's a great player.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sae him many years to come. You know,
Speaker 1: he's playing at his own pace. He makes it look
Speaker 1: easy up today. And then here's Paul George, the Clippers forward.
Speaker 1: I mean, you knew he could get better, you knew
Speaker 1: there was room for improvement, of course, but I mean
Speaker 1: it was even more awesome. You know, he just plays
Speaker 1: with so much confidence and his game is just so
Speaker 1: beyond his age. You know, he pretty much can pick
Speaker 1: up and read almost any defense. We threw a lot
Speaker 1: at him and he was still able to keep his
Speaker 1: team afloat. Yeah, now, what do they add for this team?
Speaker 1: Because as it is, this team is a first round
Speaker 1: basically first round team. Maybe second round. But you know
Speaker 1: you gotta start looking at you don't want to waste
Speaker 1: these years and you say, well, he's only twenty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just don't want to look up and go, man,
Speaker 1: he's twenty eight and he hadn't done anything yet. And
Speaker 1: that's what happens sometimes with superstars, or they say, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I need to play elsewhere so we got a
Speaker 1: pull question. Mclevenen, A were gonna stay with it. We
Speaker 1: have the boxing poll. Question doesn't water down. We have
Speaker 1: some NBA ones too, What do you have? Well, it
Speaker 1: seems like Paul he's eager for one. I got a
Speaker 1: quick NBA one. I just think about this. Chris stops
Speaker 1: Porzinca seems to be frustrated. According to the the reports, Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons is maybe not the best player on that team.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have on your team? Chris Stops
Speaker 1: is twenty five years old, twenty points per game, nine rebounds,
Speaker 1: pretty good three point shooter, and he shoots eighty one
Speaker 1: percent from line. As are all good STAPs. Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: is twenty four year older. You're younger, much better defender
Speaker 1: much fourteen points per game, seven rebounds seven. It says
Speaker 1: he does not shoot threes or make them, and he's
Speaker 1: a liability sixty one percent from the line. Talk about
Speaker 1: that could be a rade. Man. If I'm Philadelphia, I
Speaker 1: don't want them. I don't want them. You wouldn't. You
Speaker 1: don't think that's an upgrade? Christops porzingis if healthy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's tricky. I don't want either player. That's
Speaker 1: a bad side. That's a bad side. I just you
Speaker 1: know what, we've overrated Ben Simmons. That's really what it
Speaker 1: has come down to. Like he's not Magic Johnson. It's
Speaker 1: just not tragic Johnson. Yes, mclub. You know I heard
Speaker 1: speak a defensive player of the years. I heard this
Speaker 1: the other day that Rudy Gobert is a defensive liability
Speaker 1: for the Jazz because if you pull him out the
Speaker 1: thirty feet the guards are gonna to pick a roll.
Speaker 1: Has made seven footers a huge liability. So even mister
Speaker 1: defense from France is a problem for the Jazz. So
Speaker 1: the NBA, you don't need a seven four Porzingis anymore.
Speaker 1: He hurts you. Yeah, but Ben Simmons is a guy
Speaker 1: who can guard everybody. We're told Rudy Gobert is not
Speaker 1: you know, somebody who can guard, you know, a guard
Speaker 1: or forward. But he's supposed to be the best defensive
Speaker 1: player of our generation. He's a rim protector, right. I
Speaker 1: don't know who said he's the best defensive player of
Speaker 1: our generation. I mean, how many has it he won?
Speaker 1: And a couple of defensive player. Yeah, back in the day,
Speaker 1: did Kemmi Mutumbo could get plays defense nowadays, I got
Speaker 1: Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, who's supposed to be really
Speaker 1: good defenders. How did they do they got They barely
Speaker 1: got by the Mavericks. They let Luca have an all
Speaker 1: time playoff series. Those are guys who play really good defense. Well,
Speaker 1: the reason is because they're calling everything like you touch
Speaker 1: Trey Young or James Harden or Luca Donchez and well
Speaker 1: not Luca, but you. They're calling it to let these
Speaker 1: periheric guys do whatever they want. Okay, well, then do
Speaker 1: they let Kawai do whatever he wants or yeah, George,
Speaker 1: those guys are on the perimeter. They didn't put up
Speaker 1: forty six. They had decent games for them. Kawai did.
Speaker 1: But it feels like then everybody gets to have free reign.
Speaker 1: That it's not just Luca, they're Trey Young, it's everybody
Speaker 1: gets this. Every getting everybody gets preferential treatment. Right, if
Speaker 1: you play on the perimeter, you get preferential treatment, according
Speaker 1: to you all the olds. Yeah, I mean that's why
Speaker 1: you're seeing one thirty to one twenty all the time,
Speaker 1: because they're they're letting the they're giving the guards a
Speaker 1: lot of breaks. Well, they're shooting two. They're shooting the three, right,
Speaker 1: But it like we'll have read you on. He'll say, Oh,
Speaker 1: back in the day, we would have beat up Trey Young.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what all the old school guys are saying. Right.
Speaker 1: The game has changed to let the perimeter players do
Speaker 1: whatever they want. Yeah, it's for entertainment. Like that's the
Speaker 1: NBA came out of the dark ages and said, oh,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna let you beat up everybody. We want
Speaker 1: some fluidity to the game. Now. Is it too much? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just like baseball. Hey, we want this, and then
Speaker 1: you get this and you go, oh, no, we don't
Speaker 1: want that. There's too much of that. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: pushed back eventually with the three and that we're gonna
Speaker 1: go should they move it back? I go back to
Speaker 1: the seventies early seventies, Sports Illustrated how to cover a
Speaker 1: cover story on raising the basket to eleven feet because
Speaker 1: they were worried about all the big guys being able
Speaker 1: to dominate. This isn't this is nothing new. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna shrink the gold post, you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: the width of the gold posts, because oh, these field
Speaker 1: goal kickers are just too good. You know, they they
Speaker 1: toy they tweak these things. Yeah, mcglob the back row
Speaker 1: does have a serious issue with the NBA. Really serious. Okay,
Speaker 1: the last two minutes of an NBA game are so
Speaker 1: long because of the reviews and the timeouts. Can you
Speaker 1: fix us? This is where you get your commercial inventory
Speaker 1: that that's not going away. This is where you want
Speaker 1: to make money. They need to make money. They need
Speaker 1: to make money because they lost money last year. You
Speaker 1: get a timeout. They shouldn't give you all of the timeouts.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of the problem here. But all
Speaker 1: it is is you don't need those timeouts. It's just
Speaker 1: commercial inventory. They got a cramin all in there. Yes,
Speaker 1: time can it backfire? From a TV marketing standpoint, what,
Speaker 1: I'm so annoyed with all these commercials. I'm going to
Speaker 1: take it out on these products that I'm either going
Speaker 1: to walk away or not watch the commercial, or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna just have a negative attitude towardsless commercials that are
Speaker 1: making the less seventeen seconds of a game take twenty
Speaker 1: three minutes to play. If Mountain Dew sponsored the last
Speaker 1: two minutes of that game yesterday with Brooklyn, are you
Speaker 1: going to stop drinking Mountain dew. I probably have a
Speaker 1: little less Yes, I don't know if you totally just
Speaker 1: know you would not. Cameron in Indiana, Hey Cam, what's
Speaker 1: on your mind today? Welcome to the program. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: So I got a couple of things for you. Will
Speaker 1: defends the Alabama Softball perfect Game, Worst of the weekend
Speaker 1: sixers leasing and I want to post the question to
Speaker 1: you guys. The NBA has got a real problem when
Speaker 1: Lebron James leaded YEA. Who is the face of the
Speaker 1: NBA when Lebron leaves? Well? I asked that question to
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller last week and I don't know if we
Speaker 1: came up with an answer, Cam, but thanks for the
Speaker 1: phone call. I'm gonna guess Luca. I think Reggie said
Speaker 1: Lucas probably the face of the league at age twenty two.
Speaker 1: Is there's like, how many players will you tune in
Speaker 1: to watch? It's still Lebron? Is it? Luca Zion? Zion
Speaker 1: might be the face, but that's because we got to
Speaker 1: know him that one year a duke. But is he
Speaker 1: the future? I don't know, but it feels like it's
Speaker 1: Luca Zion that I don't know if it's anybody else
Speaker 1: where you go. Why tune in? Fact, like, am I
Speaker 1: tuning in to watch Joe l embiid oh? Am I
Speaker 1: tuning in to watch Kauai? No Paul George, no Damian Lillard.
Speaker 1: I will watch a game with Damian Lillard. It fits on.
Speaker 1: I'll watch Steph Curry is you know he's in the
Speaker 1: second half of his career, but I will tune in
Speaker 1: for Steph Curry game. I just don't know if they're
Speaker 1: enough tune in factor players. Lebron, you tune in because
Speaker 1: you either want to see him win, you want to
Speaker 1: see him lose. There's no other player like that where
Speaker 1: you go I love him or I hate him, And
Speaker 1: it really feels like there's no in between with Lebron. Hey,
Speaker 1: he has no business approaching Michael Jordan's throne. Or you know,
Speaker 1: if he wins another title, he's right there with Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Let me get to frank and Los Angeles. Then we'll
Speaker 1: take a brank here. Hey, frank Ay Branking. I've been
Speaker 1: meaning to do this for a while. Six two two
Speaker 1: forty iank you I think, well, firstly, let me let
Speaker 1: me get about Luca real quick. Someone I read somewhere
Speaker 1: that Luca had averaged more points at a playoff series
Speaker 1: than Michael Jordan, but they like just their seven game series.
Speaker 1: But it was at work cost. You know, he's seen
Speaker 1: the guy on the court, and mind you, he might
Speaker 1: be the face of the NBA twenty two years old.
Speaker 1: He keeps this up, but he doesn't have any help
Speaker 1: and who cares. The other part, the other point that
Speaker 1: I wanted to make us about the fight last night,
Speaker 1: I think this is maybe the lowest point in boxing's
Speaker 1: history when you really look at it, because here's a
Speaker 1: forty four year old apparently broke Floyd money Mayweather fighting
Speaker 1: a man who apparently became famous off his line, and
Speaker 1: the YouTube had no business being in there with somebody
Speaker 1: who had the ten thousand hours of Floyd Mayweather. And
Speaker 1: I think the most interesting part of it all is, yes,
Speaker 1: obviously Floyd could not knock him out, but Cannella had
Speaker 1: tweeted about the fight with the face palmed little emoji
Speaker 1: sons like. The interesting reality also is that Canello hasn't
Speaker 1: knocked anybody out either, And I think that's really what
Speaker 1: we're all looking for is, or at least what the
Speaker 1: American public is looking for is a knockout and it's
Speaker 1: pretty shameful. Yeah, that's not and thank you, Frank. I
Speaker 1: mean that that's not boxing last night. All that is
Speaker 1: is reality reality show. That's all it is. It just
Speaker 1: a reality show. It was all of these all of
Speaker 1: these reality shows. That that's just celebrity boxing at all.
Speaker 1: All that is. I mean I I viewed it as entertainment,
Speaker 1: that's all. I mean, it's in the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 1: Was I entertained by it when I saw the highlights? No,
Speaker 1: I was not. Was I entertained when Ocho Sinko got
Speaker 1: clipped on the chin and went down? Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: that was interesting at least. But Logan Paul can't fight.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta be careful, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want him to call me out. I want to fight
Speaker 1: me here. But Logan and Jake at the same time
Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to beat Floyd Mayweather. But I credit
Speaker 1: them as being business man. That's what Floyd is. Floyd's
Speaker 1: not fun to watch. He's not He's not interesting at
Speaker 1: all as a fighter. Now, maybe fifteen years ago, the
Speaker 1: fact that he was undefeated, we were always tuning in
Speaker 1: for that. But you know, he's an unbelievable defensive strategist. Wow,
Speaker 1: what other sport do you go? Man? I'm tuning in
Speaker 1: for the defense. None can't wait to watch that defense.
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather is a is a boxing no hitter, like
Speaker 1: you're going it's that's that's impressive, but it's boring. Oh
Speaker 1: there's something interesting right at the very end. Then that's it.
Speaker 1: So he avoided getting hit for the most part for
Speaker 1: eight rounds. He had an eight inning Note he's Madison Bumgardner.
Speaker 1: He had an eight inning noe hitter here mich O
Speaker 1: King and then he'll fight the other brother and Floyd's
Speaker 1: not broke. But don't watch it. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's just don't. If you don't like it,
Speaker 1: don't watch it. But a lot of people, enough people did,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's going to continue twenty one after
Speaker 1: the hour. Frank Isola, who covers the nets, will join us.
Speaker 1: Coming up. We'll get his thoughts on what Floyd should fight.
Speaker 1: Rand Paul their father, the politician. Is that a lot
Speaker 1: of people know, right, that's not that's not it's not no,
Speaker 1: he's not. No, he's a big name politician. If you
Speaker 1: put Rand Paul, Jake, Paul Logan, Paul, Chris Paul. Then
Speaker 1: you're pay him. Maybe okay, I want credit for that one.
Speaker 1: Maybe Rand Hey, he's a big name politician. He too
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Speaker 1: the Horn. Pardon the interruption. Frank was on site at
Speaker 1: the Nets game on Saturday night as we watched James
Speaker 1: Harden make a cameo appearance and then head to the
Speaker 1: locker room. Frank, thanks for joining us. What can we
Speaker 1: expect with James Harden? Or what did you find out
Speaker 1: about that injury? Yeah, he lasted forty three seconds. You
Speaker 1: didn't see him again. I thought it was interesting after
Speaker 1: the game. I once had a guy tell me when
Speaker 1: I first started covering sports, guy from the New York Times,
Speaker 1: he said, never underplay an injury. And after games, if
Speaker 1: a guy's not hurt, the team will always say it's
Speaker 1: not that bad. If it's a bad injury, they'll always say, now,
Speaker 1: we don't really know. And after the game, that's what
Speaker 1: you were kind of getting from the Brooklyn Nets. And
Speaker 1: then Steve Nett said, I'm heartbroken for James. Why would
Speaker 1: you be heartbroken for him if he's going to come
Speaker 1: back anytime soon? And than Kevin Durant made it, See, Mike,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a long term thing. Just remember this, Dan,
Speaker 1: when Harden got same hamstring right, a hamstring injury, he
Speaker 1: was out from April seventh until May twelfth, So that,
Speaker 1: you know, that should kind of give you some indication
Speaker 1: of where this could be. Yeah, I was wondering about that,
Speaker 1: the severity. He knew right away. But I've said this
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Whether it was Lebron's ankle,
Speaker 1: it was AD's groin, it was Harden's hamstring, these injuries
Speaker 1: don't go away. They linger you manage them. Maybe they
Speaker 1: cooled down a little bit, but if Lebron kept playing,
Speaker 1: that ankle would be a problem at some point in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I think with Anthony Davis the groin
Speaker 1: injury was not going to go away, and the same
Speaker 1: thing with James Harden, and I just don't know. It
Speaker 1: sounded like it's far more severe than at least it looked,
Speaker 1: because he just sort of went up felt it. I'm gone.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's going to be out as
Speaker 1: long as he was before, because a lot of that
Speaker 1: could have been just precautionary. Yes, but this is now.
Speaker 1: You know, you got the Milwaukee Bucks, and if the
Speaker 1: Bucks win tonight, you know, at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: can you say to James Harden, we need you. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, probably the most famous hamstring injury in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: I guess would be Magic when they played Detroit, when
Speaker 1: Detroit won its first title and he was unable to play.
Speaker 1: And I also think you're right about the idea that
Speaker 1: they did hold them out for that long stretch because
Speaker 1: they knew that they were sitting in a good position
Speaker 1: they were either going to finish second or third, and
Speaker 1: that James Harden would eventually return. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're going to see him again in this series, and
Speaker 1: that could be an issue now. Mike James, who began
Speaker 1: the season in Russia, took those minutes. He played thirty
Speaker 1: minutes in Game one, he had twelve points. Chris Middleton
Speaker 1: had team So Mike James coming off the bencheck that
Speaker 1: nobody's even heard of, you know, did a really good job.
Speaker 1: But I wonder how to me they could still win
Speaker 1: if it's Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. That's how good
Speaker 1: those two players are. But the road to winning a
Speaker 1: championship just became that much hard up for the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about Luka Don Chick and that whatever
Speaker 1: that relationship or lack thereof is with Kris stops Sportzingez.
Speaker 1: You covered him when he was with the Knicks, and
Speaker 1: he was a big deal literally and figuratively with the Knicks.
Speaker 1: We thought Tim Hardaway Junior was the throw in on
Speaker 1: that trade. It feels like he's the better player out
Speaker 1: of this. What does Dallas do with Luka and as
Speaker 1: Kris stops Sportzinga is going to be in that equation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have to think there's a possibility that they
Speaker 1: could look to move Kris STAPs. He needs to get stronger,
Speaker 1: not really his upper body strength, it really needs to
Speaker 1: be his core because he gets pushed out of the
Speaker 1: block too easily. Defensively, he's not strong enough. Yes, he
Speaker 1: can knock down shots, and if you look at what
Speaker 1: he did yesterday his two points, I think he ended
Speaker 1: up going six for seven on two as a problem
Speaker 1: was he could knock down to three. He needs to
Speaker 1: get better. I definitely think there's a bit of a
Speaker 1: rivalry there, and I think Chris Steps needs to come
Speaker 1: to the realization that Luca is the start of the team.
Speaker 1: I think we automatically assume, well, there are two guys
Speaker 1: from Europe, so obviously they must get along. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's been the case. You could see the dynamic
Speaker 1: there is not great. Now, you don't have to be
Speaker 1: the best of friends, you know, to be successful, but
Speaker 1: on the court, that chemistry isn't good between the two
Speaker 1: of them. The Hawks take Game one. If I said
Speaker 1: to the Hawks, you could do a do over and
Speaker 1: you get Luca don Chick and Trey Young's in Dallas,
Speaker 1: Atlanta does that in a second. Atlanta would never admit
Speaker 1: it publicly, but they would take Luca don Check. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I think Trey Young has been great
Speaker 1: to me. He's been the breakout star of this playoffs.
Speaker 1: But Luca is just at a different level. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like the other night at Barkley Center, You're watching
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and you look at Jana Santetakompo and the
Speaker 1: honest is everything that you'd wanted a player, just his dedication,
Speaker 1: how much he wants to improve. But he's a two
Speaker 1: time MVP in the league. But Kevin Durant is just
Speaker 1: at a different level. Just look at the shots that
Speaker 1: he makes, the plays that he can make for other players.
Speaker 1: You love Jannis, but Kevin Durant is better. You love
Speaker 1: Trey Young, Luca Done and plus the size of Luca
Speaker 1: Done is a factor as well, is Ben Simmons. Did
Speaker 1: we overrate Ben Simmons? Are we waiting for him to
Speaker 1: be the next Magic Johnson? And he's never going to
Speaker 1: be the next Magic Johnsen. I think that part is fair.
Speaker 1: I think we do tend to focus on the things
Speaker 1: that he can do, which is shoot three pointers. I
Speaker 1: think he needs to get better clearly shooting the free throws.
Speaker 1: He was three for ten. It's the same thing with
Speaker 1: Anteta Coopo. Everyone focuses on threes. They get bowled, they
Speaker 1: go to the line, knock down the free throw. So
Speaker 1: you get to these points in a game where it
Speaker 1: looks like Ben Simmons doesn't want the ball and he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to attack the basket because he's worried about
Speaker 1: getting bouled. So I don't care about the three pointers.
Speaker 1: But he needs to get better shooting from the free
Speaker 1: throw line. But he can dominate on both ends of
Speaker 1: the court. He's big. I still think he's going to
Speaker 1: get better. You could tell the it's weighing on his
Speaker 1: mind though, getting fouled, the fans, getting into people talking
Speaker 1: about his three point shooting. You could tell that it's
Speaker 1: wearing on him a bet. Well, you saw that with
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball, that he would be on the perimeter and
Speaker 1: he could take a three pointer or he could take
Speaker 1: like a twenty footer and he would just get They
Speaker 1: would just let him alone, and you played with him,
Speaker 1: and now he became a little bit better. But he
Speaker 1: couldn't have been that much worse. I just Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: can't be a liability late in the game, I know,
Speaker 1: and you could play off of him. So when they're
Speaker 1: looking to get back in the game and you watch
Speaker 1: the last night he's dribbling down the court. You could
Speaker 1: lay off of him. You know that he's looking to
Speaker 1: pass the ball to somebody else, so he's end up
Speaker 1: passing the ball to a guy that isn't on his
Speaker 1: level as a player. But Ben's not even thinking about
Speaker 1: shooting three points. It's a hurdle that he needs to
Speaker 1: get over. Again. I don't mind that he doesn't attempt
Speaker 1: ten a game, but you might want to take two
Speaker 1: or three a game because you're open and you always
Speaker 1: have the ball in your hands. What do you think
Speaker 1: the Lakers do in the offseason. I mean health is
Speaker 1: going to have a lot to do with it, you know,
Speaker 1: with Lebron and Anthony Davis. But it was seeing here
Speaker 1: in Magic Johnson come out and destroying Dennis Shrewder. This happened.
Speaker 1: That to me is an American sports phenomenon. We always
Speaker 1: start blaming like the fourth, fifth, and sixth best player
Speaker 1: like it's their fault, And it wasn't Anthony Davis being
Speaker 1: hurt and Lebron James because when you look on paper
Speaker 1: when they made those moves, you thought Shrewder was an
Speaker 1: upgrade over Rondo just from a youth standpoint, obviously has
Speaker 1: a lot more left in the tank. Manches Harold was
Speaker 1: a big time disappointment. So even Drummond. Remember when they
Speaker 1: picked up Drummond Dan, everyone thought, well, this is unfair.
Speaker 1: How come the Lakers are allowed to get a guy
Speaker 1: like this. So in the biggest game of their season,
Speaker 1: when Anthony Davis was on one leg, Andre Drummond doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't even end up playing. So they need to do
Speaker 1: a better job of filling those roster spots. Shrewder will
Speaker 1: be the big one because maybe what they can do
Speaker 1: with him is use him and a sign and trade
Speaker 1: to bring back a player if they don't want him anymore.
Speaker 1: We had Jalen Roson last week and he was so
Speaker 1: accurate in saying this that in the offseason, a player
Speaker 1: when he's might leave be traded signed with somebody. He's
Speaker 1: either going to Lakers or the Knicks. And then you know,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard's name came up, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like, could the Knicks get Damian Lillard here? What's
Speaker 1: the likelihood that Damian Lillard is on another team next year?
Speaker 1: I still think with three years left on his contract,
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to build around him, and a lot
Speaker 1: of times they obviously have already announced that Terry Stots
Speaker 1: is out, so bringing a new coach could change things around.
Speaker 1: I'm not trading him unless I get blown away. Think
Speaker 1: about how many first round picks New Orleans got for
Speaker 1: djuwe holiday think about all the first round picks the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets got for James Harden. So if you're making
Speaker 1: a deal, yes, first round picks are going to be
Speaker 1: a part of it, which is something that the Knicks have,
Speaker 1: But you want to get a player back as well.
Speaker 1: I think eventually it could happen. I don't think this summer.
Speaker 1: I'm keeping Damian Lillard on my team. Did the Knicks
Speaker 1: have a successful season, definitely they did. Look at look
Speaker 1: at the teams they finished ahead of Atlanta on a
Speaker 1: tiebreaker Miami. Their talents not better than those teams. Their
Speaker 1: talents not better than the Boston Celtics. So the Knicks
Speaker 1: overachieved during the regular season, Dan, because Tom Thibodeau in
Speaker 1: the league were not all the teams and all the
Speaker 1: stars played hard every night. The Knicks played hard every
Speaker 1: single night. I think Randall played seventy or seventy one game,
Speaker 1: so he was out there all the time. But then
Speaker 1: you saw Julius Randall in the playoffs. Look at all
Speaker 1: the best teams, whether it's Donovan Mitchell with Utah, Devin
Speaker 1: Booker with the Phoenix Suns, all the star players on
Speaker 1: those individual teams all had good performances in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall scored ninety points in five games. Trey Young
Speaker 1: scored ninety eight points at Madison Square Carden alone. So
Speaker 1: Julius Randall, the guy that carried them, wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: the moment. But you know the dangerous part is now
Speaker 1: the Knicks have expectations. That's right, Like you know, it's
Speaker 1: been decades since they've had expectations. And in that city,
Speaker 1: as you well know, it can be pretty tough sledding
Speaker 1: when they expect you now to be a good team,
Speaker 1: a top four, top five seeded team. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: the little engine that could. The owner stays out of it.
Speaker 1: Now next season, everyone's going to look at Tom. Tibota
Speaker 1: would say, all right, now what Tom, we got the
Speaker 1: fourth seed. You didn't win a playoffs series, so now
Speaker 1: all the pressure is on you. For me, the pressure
Speaker 1: is on the front office during the off season because
Speaker 1: the roster was essentially the same except for adding a
Speaker 1: couple of rookies, and then they went out and got
Speaker 1: Derek Rose, who was a backup in Detroit and became
Speaker 1: really their best player during the playoffs. So the front office,
Speaker 1: which kind of stood pat, really didn't spend a lot
Speaker 1: of money. The Knicks were well under the salary cap.
Speaker 1: It's up to them somehow to find a start, which
Speaker 1: is not easy to do. That's why that's why a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the organization wanted Gordon Hayward because
Speaker 1: those players don't become available that often. Because remember Dan,
Speaker 1: before the season began, it was the stream, Well, maybe
Speaker 1: Jannas and Tetakumpo will sign with the Knicks as a
Speaker 1: free agent. Then he ends up resigning with the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: A lot of these players end up resigning. So when
Speaker 1: a guy like that is available, you try to go
Speaker 1: for it. He ends up going to Charlotte. I get
Speaker 1: that he's hurt, but he's still a talented player. Somehow,
Speaker 1: the Knicks have to improve their talent because Atlanta's talent
Speaker 1: was better than the New York knicks talent. Would you
Speaker 1: trade Chris thomps Porzingis for Ben Simmons? Who would you?
Speaker 1: If I were Dallas, I would do it. I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure. If I were Philly, I would do it
Speaker 1: because he's still six ft nine, can handle the ball
Speaker 1: and could defend. And here's the other thing. It's durability.
Speaker 1: And I like Chris STAPs, but if you can't stand
Speaker 1: in the court, you're not doing me any good. And
Speaker 1: they already have a guy in Embiid. I had an
Speaker 1: MVP vote. I did not put him beat in my
Speaker 1: top five because he only played in fifty one games.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on now, I think the guy's terrific.
Speaker 1: But you know, availability is important as well as production.
Speaker 1: That's why Yokich who played in twenty one more games
Speaker 1: than Embiat. I don't even think it's an argument. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't have a vote anymore. But I said I
Speaker 1: could not vote for James Harden because of what he
Speaker 1: did in Houston. I just can't. I love watching him,
Speaker 1: but what he did do that franchise, he showed up
Speaker 1: out of shape. He built a roster, then dismantled a roster,
Speaker 1: and then wanted out. And I can't reward you because
Speaker 1: you forced your way out to go to the nets
Speaker 1: and you played well. I expect him to play well,
Speaker 1: but he you know, he really damaged a franchise in
Speaker 1: the process. He did, and I didn't like the way
Speaker 1: that he handled his departure from there, and I think
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent right. You know, as a professional,
Speaker 1: you need to show up a on time, which he didn't,
Speaker 1: in shape, which he did. Then there were stories that
Speaker 1: the owner was trying to contact him during the off season,
Speaker 1: was going to turn in the calls. If I go
Speaker 1: one day without returning my boss's call, there's a good
Speaker 1: chance I won't be working there anymore. Meanwhile, you're getting
Speaker 1: paid like twenty thirty million dollars. You should return when
Speaker 1: the call of your owner. I did have him neck
Speaker 1: and neck with Yokich, and then I was kind of
Speaker 1: taken off the hook by the fact that he got hurt.
Speaker 1: So I didn't vote for anybody in my top five
Speaker 1: who did not play at least sixty games. To me,
Speaker 1: that was the cutoff. I can't vote for guys playing
Speaker 1: like in B fifty one. I think Lebron was about
Speaker 1: between what was it, forty eight or fifty three games,
Speaker 1: So that to me, you have to play in the games.
Speaker 1: Come on, we have to have some standard when we're
Speaker 1: voting for these awards. Thank you, Frank, great to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Good talking to day. Good luck with the
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards called PTI sorry, wait wait those are my guys,
Speaker 1: but they've wanted before or oh, Frank, look at look
Speaker 1: at what you just did to these costs? Mean they
Speaker 1: pay me? What do you want me to do? I
Speaker 1: feel it on that show. If you have me feel
Speaker 1: it for you, then it'll be. They don't need they
Speaker 1: don't need another win though, Frank, that's probably true. I
Speaker 1: mean these like this is the most important moment in
Speaker 1: these guys lives, not when they had children, not when
Speaker 1: they got married. It's winning. They want to get their
Speaker 1: hands on that that woman that trophy. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll go for you guys the Heckquatonian Mike.
Speaker 1: What have they ever done for me? They don't even
Speaker 1: care what. I don't think they do. I don't think
Speaker 1: they do. Thank you, Frank, Thank Frank. Eisol. He's probably
Speaker 1: not going to be co hosting on Partnering Interruption. Wow, no, Wall,
Speaker 1: you can always come in here. He's sit in the
Speaker 1: chair if he wants to. Uh He's part of the
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Speaker 1: none of the eight teams still live in the NBA
Speaker 1: Playoffs have won a title since the playoffs expanded to
Speaker 1: sixteen teams. That was nineteen eighty four, six Ers one
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three, Bucks last one in seventy one.
Speaker 1: The Hawks won in nineteen fifty eight Clippers, Jazz Nets,
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Speaker 1: eighty four combined seasons without an NBA title. Alright, Steed, okay, alrighty.
Speaker 1: Best and worst of the weekend. I'll start with Todd
Speaker 1: Best of the weekend. Alabama softball pitcher Montana Fouts celebrated
Speaker 1: her birthday Friday, pitching a perfect game six nothing win
Speaker 1: vers UCLA, fifth time this was ever accomplished during the
Speaker 1: College World Series. My worst of the weekend, I went
Speaker 1: with James Harden reaggravating the hamstring forty three seconds in
Speaker 1: expected to miss at least game two. I have watched
Speaker 1: a lot of women's softball College World Series. I've watched
Speaker 1: a lot, and I did not watch the perfect game,
Speaker 1: but I watched a lot UCLA, Oklahoma, and it's been enjoyable. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of action. They put the ball in play. No,
Speaker 1: there's no launch angle here. It's not home runners strikeout.
Speaker 1: They actually put the ball in play. Go figure. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have a neighbor who went to James Madison University.
Speaker 1: Who's this crazy dark horse who's making a run in softball.
Speaker 1: ESPN does a nice job of really presenting that sport. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my best too, is softball? All right? My worst,
Speaker 1: by the way, is this, Uh there's a new trend.
Speaker 1: That guy's a suffering serious a dreas in baseball minor
Speaker 1: league named Tyler Zombro got hit in the face by
Speaker 1: a line drive. It was hospitalized in North Carolina. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw this, but it was
Speaker 1: very severe. He's okay now, but it was really, really severe.
Speaker 1: And we've heard guys are getting hit in the face
Speaker 1: by pitches. I don't know. I just see a lot
Speaker 1: of it lately. Well, you're throwing hard and you're swinging hard,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's happening more or we're
Speaker 1: seeing it more because a minor league incident. You're probably
Speaker 1: not it's not videotaped, but it just feels like everything
Speaker 1: is on social media now Setan Oconnor bestI worse best
Speaker 1: by far Ethan the Machine Horrorvath now his nickname. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it's the machine and most people have no
Speaker 1: idea who he is, but he's an absolute hero today.
Speaker 1: He's the backup keeper that basically won the Oh my gosh, dude,
Speaker 1: it was such an epic moment. It really was to
Speaker 1: come in and that's a big spot for a kid
Speaker 1: that most people never have no idea who he is.
Speaker 1: So the United States beat Mexico, Mexico and the conquer calf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Christian Polisic gets a penalty kick, makes that. A couple
Speaker 1: of minutes later, Mexico's awarded a PK and here's this
Speaker 1: backup keeper in there and makes the save. It was huge,
Speaker 1: huge moment. What does it mean though? It's you know
Speaker 1: what it is. It doesn't actually really mean a whole
Speaker 1: hell of a lot in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: But you have to win trophies, right. It's like this team,
Speaker 1: it's the first time that they've actually won something together
Speaker 1: as a group, and you have to beat your rival,
Speaker 1: especially coming from behind to beat your rival, to just
Speaker 1: sort of prove that maybe you can get to that
Speaker 1: next level. That's really all that it means, maybe a
Speaker 1: good shot of confidence going into World Cup qualifying Paul
Speaker 1: Best and Worst. I'm also gonna go best USA vers
Speaker 1: Mexico more so the atmosphere. I understand that USA vers
Speaker 1: in Mexico is not the it's not Spain versus Germany
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but the atmosphere is intense. It
Speaker 1: always feel like like a fight is about to happen
Speaker 1: in either the crowd or on the pitch. Also, I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is best or worst of America
Speaker 1: of the weekend, but what a country we live in
Speaker 1: where a guy who's got like less career accomplishments than
Speaker 1: Screech can make twenty five million fighting on against Floyd Mayweather.
Speaker 1: That you could get a market for that. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it's a good or bad thing, but
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna make a twenty five million dollars for
Speaker 1: getting punched in the face for half. Actually, I don't
Speaker 1: think he made that much money up front. I think
Speaker 1: he only got like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And then whatever the downloads or the pay per views are,
Speaker 1: then you will get a piece of that. But I'm
Speaker 1: guessing Floyd is getting a majority of that as much
Speaker 1: of a businessman as he is. Olbie in California, Hey, Obie,
Speaker 1: Best and worst of the weekend or what's on your mind.
Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Patrick nd say thank you for your show.
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful show. It's one of the best there is.
Speaker 1: I'm wishing to a lot of luck in learning that
Speaker 1: any thank you. The issue with the this has been
Speaker 1: a long time. I mean everybody forgets that Muhammad Ali,
Speaker 1: flo Zetos and I believe Joe Lewis felt like a bear.
Speaker 1: So I think everybody's kind of going crazy because it's money. Mayweather.
Speaker 1: That's that's all I want to again, wonderful show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for everything. Have a great day. Thank you. Obe
Speaker 1: Ali fought a wrestler late in his career. Yeah, they're exhibitions. Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a club. I don't think Joe Lewis fought a bear,
Speaker 1: by the way, I've just googled it. He fought a
Speaker 1: boxer whose last name was Bear Buddy Bear ba b
Speaker 1: a er, But I don't know, I have to google.
Speaker 1: That sounds a little unsafe, Yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: like Max Bear used to be a heavyweight chimps. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: was that his son? What that guy implied he fought
Speaker 1: a bear? Right? Yeah? Yeah? He We'll google that because
Speaker 1: maybe it did happen. It's not a funny exhibition. I
Speaker 1: believed him. I was like, oh, he fought a bear, yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I think Muhammad Ali fought a sumo rescue. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not right. Yeah, I'd heard that before and the
Speaker 1: guy talked about it. But like, I'm sure Ali was
Speaker 1: still an active fighter when he did it. No, he was.
Speaker 1: He was way over the hill. Was he retired. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess he was. Ali was not. I mean, that
Speaker 1: was right at the very end of his boxing career.
Speaker 1: It was not. It was That was not a pretty sight.
Speaker 1: It's kind of leaned on each other, all hold you up,
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