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Speaker 1: middle Finger Monday, which is now threatening to being takeover
Speaker 1: by four Loving Thunder Monday. As the trailer for Thor
Speaker 1: just came out about a half hour ago, and I
Speaker 1: gotta say, Mike, this track was a little nervous because, look,
Speaker 1: Ragnarok was pretty good. Now Loving Funder, they're obviously passing
Speaker 1: the baton to a new Thour and they're doing exactly what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ruin the trailer for anybody, but
Speaker 1: they're doing exactly what I think all the Marvel movies
Speaker 1: should do now, and you're going to see it. With
Speaker 1: Doctor Strange all the other ones. Is making every standalone
Speaker 1: movie involve other Avengers and other characters, because the standalone
Speaker 1: movies by themselves now they just don't have the Jews.
Speaker 1: It was an entire Doctor Strange movie be like, okay,
Speaker 1: but you got Scarlett which is involved. Other Avengers are
Speaker 1: involved this one. You have other people from the MCU
Speaker 1: that are all over the trailer for this, and it
Speaker 1: makes it much more interesting. And now people are gonna
Speaker 1: see this and go, oh, I like Thor, but oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see it for these guys who are
Speaker 1: in the movie. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: kind of the way to go. What once they did
Speaker 1: Captain America's Civil War, it was, wait a minute, this
Speaker 1: really works, Like, you know, we don't need it to
Speaker 1: be just a one standalone movie just with one superhero
Speaker 1: and and the bad guys. If we put other Avengers
Speaker 1: in it, other MCU heroes in it, it makes it
Speaker 1: better and more interesting. Because honestly, if you told me
Speaker 1: here's a standalone Thor movie versus here's a Thor movie
Speaker 1: with a bunch of other people from the MCU in it, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes it way more interesting. And I think every
Speaker 1: movie should be this way. The way the way it
Speaker 1: goes down. Well, yeah, it's the bottom line. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Ragnar Well, wa Titi's back at the Helm for this one,
Speaker 1: which means there's gonna be some comedy, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some one liners and some snark, which means I'm in
Speaker 1: And I know you had a terrible experience with the
Speaker 1: latest Fantastic Beasts movie, so you needed this On a
Speaker 1: middle finger Monday, you might have done that to the
Speaker 1: end credit to that one. I mean, I know, we've
Speaker 1: got day baseball here, I'm looking up odds as we
Speaker 1: get ready for Marathon Monday, and and the Boston Red
Speaker 1: Sox doing their thing where we get real the early
Speaker 1: baseball here on the West Coast, and The Batman which
Speaker 1: is now streaming. So I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: multi screen. But you're trying to recover from Fantastic Beast
Speaker 1: because you did not like the performance from Sting. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Jude Law, Jude Law. I just kept waiting
Speaker 1: for him to break out in the song if I
Speaker 1: ever Lose my Faith, and it never came. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing about fantastic pieces. Okay, you know my house is
Speaker 1: huge Harry Potter fans, right, all the biggest Harry Potter
Speaker 1: fans in the world. And fantastic piece. It wasn't awful.
Speaker 1: It was just really boring. The first ninety minutes was
Speaker 1: so incredibly boring. Thank goodness for the last, you know,
Speaker 1: half hour or forty minutes of it, But the first
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, I'm like, something's got to happen here, right,
Speaker 1: because when you have when you have a boring movie
Speaker 1: and the other thing is all the actors. They're boring. None,
Speaker 1: none of them are. None of them are exciting, none
Speaker 1: of them are. Oh my goodness, I know they're all.
Speaker 1: That's been the issue with Fantastic Beats from the beginning
Speaker 1: is you have a lot of boring people and you
Speaker 1: don't really have plots because I feel like you have
Speaker 1: half a movie everyone that's come out. So when you
Speaker 1: when you couple boring plots with boring characters, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the first ninety minutes of Secrets A Dumbledore, even
Speaker 1: Jude Law is boring, and I'm going there's got to
Speaker 1: be some kind of excitement here at some point. But
Speaker 1: it was. It's really difficult. In fact, I don't know
Speaker 1: that they'll do another one because it's already it's not
Speaker 1: getting great reviews. It's the worst reviewed one of all.
Speaker 1: I wonder if now they're going to hit pause on
Speaker 1: this and go, you know what, maybe the Harry Potter World,
Speaker 1: We wait and do the Curse Child movie and then
Speaker 1: we can get back to Fantastic Beasts, because wow, it's
Speaker 1: just I mean, every movie that comes out, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's not quite as good as the one before it. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't I think might be good. Be done with
Speaker 1: Fantastic Beast movies for a while. Comes down to does
Speaker 1: it make enough money across the globe? Because remember, we
Speaker 1: folks get fixated on domestic I always trying to remind
Speaker 1: you of the international And according to the Wonderful World
Speaker 1: of Box Office Mojo, internationally it did one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars. So if that's the case, they'll be
Speaker 1: just fine. They'll be just fine. And this was after
Speaker 1: three and a half years. And I mean some of
Speaker 1: it's going to be a bit of blowback towards JK
Speaker 1: Rowling and some of her comments and opinions that she's expressed.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a little bit of that, and from
Speaker 1: a critical standpoint, you're right, nothing happens. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of all right build up to what And add
Speaker 1: Ezra Miller, who I'd never understand the fascination. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: got his uh off the screen transgressioncy we can do
Speaker 1: that outside of sports too. That are making it difficult,
Speaker 1: you know, with him for not only this franchise, but
Speaker 1: also going back to the DC universe and the Flash movie.
Speaker 1: So a lot of handwringing consternation and confusion over what
Speaker 1: he's done off screen as to how they handle things
Speaker 1: going forward. But I know you didn't like The Fantastic Beast.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you had at least a trailer or two that
Speaker 1: made you entertained. Oh, it had Top Gun at that time, Mark,
Speaker 1: I had Top Gun back. I saw the movie. That's
Speaker 1: all I needed. That's all I needed, right even though
Speaker 1: even though there's no movie, there's no movie. The trust me,
Speaker 1: there's no movie. They're gonna find a way to not
Speaker 1: have it come out. They only shot a trailer. There's
Speaker 1: no movie there. They're not gonna have it. It's do
Speaker 1: you think if we had a watch party here in
Speaker 1: southern California, we invited our colleagues at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: our friends. You know, if the our buddies Dan and
Speaker 1: the Dan Nettes want to want to join us for it,
Speaker 1: we could all do it. Do you think if we're
Speaker 1: all standing there holding a beer and getting ready for
Speaker 1: the opening scene, it's just Miles Teller and Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: laughing at us that we showed up? Is that really
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be at that at this point, what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do is they're gonna show you, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get to the movie. You're gonna see the trailer again,
Speaker 1: and then you're like, oh, that's pretty cool. And then
Speaker 1: they're gonna show you the old Top Gun and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna care because you get and see the old
Speaker 1: Top Gull in the big screen and you're gonna leave
Speaker 1: and go, Man, that was great. Oh I didn't get
Speaker 1: to see the new movie, and people just forget about it.
Speaker 1: Trust me, there's no movie. There's no four years ago,
Speaker 1: they've been waiting for this movie, but there's no movie.
Speaker 1: There's no movie. It's not happened. By the way, I
Speaker 1: got to imagine at some point we do get the
Speaker 1: announcement that you will be able to go see the
Speaker 1: original on the big screen. I mean, that's just leaving
Speaker 1: money in our pockets, you know, the old gift of
Speaker 1: take my money please. I mean, that's exactly what would
Speaker 1: happen for a lot of us nerds of a certain age. Now,
Speaker 1: I always yell at the end, I say something into
Speaker 1: the Top Gun trailer when we go to the movie.
Speaker 1: So the trailer ended yesterday and I yelled out great
Speaker 1: balls of fire, and oh, I got so many collaps
Speaker 1: from from people in the audience. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the king, I'm always of fire. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing that was more fun than fantastic pieces.
Speaker 1: There was more fun. No, yeah, no, I to trust me.
Speaker 1: If somebody went to the movie said, what was the
Speaker 1: most fun part of that movie when that Yahoo yelled
Speaker 1: great balls of Fire after the top gun trailer. Because
Speaker 1: there's no fun elements in this Harry Potter movie. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I could do a whole two hours of
Speaker 1: Kowalski and be just just give him his own movie,
Speaker 1: right right, a movie for him, there's but there's no fun.
Speaker 1: It's so dark. And even when the Harry Potter movies
Speaker 1: got dark as you went on with once you got
Speaker 1: to gobblet of fire in order, there was still so
Speaker 1: many elements of fun. There's no fun in this movie.
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, man, it's it's it feels cold when
Speaker 1: you watch the movie now telling you, well, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you I saw it in the greatest theater ever. Though,
Speaker 1: you know, not to make it all about me, and
Speaker 1: you know, weekend stuff, but uh, you know, Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: is a beautiful place to go and visit. Right, A
Speaker 1: lot of great vacationing to be done there and and
Speaker 1: just wine country and all that. I went to a
Speaker 1: theater that was two thousand seats, Wow, music and theater
Speaker 1: or whatever like. There might only been fifty people that
Speaker 1: showed up because we went on a mid afternoon on Friday,
Speaker 1: after getting in getting ready for a business trip of
Speaker 1: a soccer game that my daughter had the following morning.
Speaker 1: But well, I was seeing it in that space because
Speaker 1: it had, you know, kind of just the I don't
Speaker 1: know the proper architectural terminology, but it was just a
Speaker 1: sweet setup, like not a stale, you know, multiplex kind
Speaker 1: of theater, right old timey, and they little lounge with
Speaker 1: all sorts of cool tiling and photos of people who'd performed,
Speaker 1: their pictures of guys like George Burns and things like
Speaker 1: that as cool as hell. So I mean that that
Speaker 1: was a fun way to see him a movie that
Speaker 1: otherwise wasn't terribly exciting twitter at how about a Fresca
Speaker 1: Mike as Swollen Dome Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for
Speaker 1: Dan and the Danet's Day, But for Love and Thunder
Speaker 1: That look that looks at more fun than anything I
Speaker 1: saw on fantastic piece Okay, so there's that a big
Speaker 1: weekend in the NBA. We got Rick Bucker coming up
Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes to stop buy and break it
Speaker 1: down with us. And still on middle finger. Monday, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Kyrie Irving. Irving who had a great game
Speaker 1: yesterday against the Celtics, Nets go down to defeat the
Speaker 1: last second lay up Jason Tatum, but with Kyrie Irving deciding,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not happy with how the fans are
Speaker 1: treating me, so I'm gonna give them middle finger as
Speaker 1: I go up and down the court. Okay, then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it to him again as I put my
Speaker 1: middle finger behind my head, going hey yeah, middle finger,
Speaker 1: middle finger. Then I'm gonna curse it a fan on
Speaker 1: the way to the locker room, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: curse the postgame press conference. This was the day for
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, not happy with what people were yelling at
Speaker 1: him in the crowd, and he said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give it back to them. Let's take a listen to
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving. This is him from yesterday about why he
Speaker 1: behaved the way he did during and after the game.
Speaker 1: Let's layar. You know, it's nothing new when I come
Speaker 1: into his building what it's going to be like. But
Speaker 1: it's the same energy to have for me, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have the same energy for them. And it's not
Speaker 1: every fan. I don't want to attack every fan, every
Speaker 1: Boston fan, but you know when people start yelling with
Speaker 1: all this stuff is but so much you can take
Speaker 1: as a competitor, and you know where the one is
Speaker 1: expected to be docile and be humble and take a
Speaker 1: humble approach. Not the best of playoffs is what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, I've I know what to expect him here
Speaker 1: and it's the same energy I'm giving back to do him.
Speaker 1: Now here's where I'm gonna zig instead of zagging on
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving my carment because you know, you know my
Speaker 1: thoughts on Kyrie. He's ridiculous. He's a wild card. You
Speaker 1: can't trust him. Basketball is not his priority. While this
Speaker 1: is on brand for him. Clearly, this is clearly on
Speaker 1: brand for Kyrie Irving. Something that if you're expecting of
Speaker 1: any player to flip off the fans, you would say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's got to be Kyrie Irving. Uh, this is kind
Speaker 1: of overblown, and is it something that you want a
Speaker 1: player to do No. Clearly you'd rather him not do it.
Speaker 1: The NBA would rather him not do it. And you
Speaker 1: wonder what kind of fine he's going to get because
Speaker 1: this wasn't just one instance of cursing. It was two
Speaker 1: separate middle finger events and then cursing in the post
Speaker 1: game and cursing at a fan. You'd rather him not
Speaker 1: do it. But it's kind of overblown because one, it's
Speaker 1: not affecting his game at all, right, I mean like
Speaker 1: if he was four for twenty three, if you had
Speaker 1: a Kevin Durant type game from the floor and he
Speaker 1: was cursing out the fans, you would say, you see, Kyrie,
Speaker 1: he's focused on the wrong things, and everybody's going crazy
Speaker 1: about it. Now, Kyrie someone who can do this and
Speaker 1: still play at a high level. It's what still gives
Speaker 1: him appeal to teams and across the league is that
Speaker 1: this is just part of who he is. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can be a man with the fans. I could still
Speaker 1: put up thirty eight and I can still basically win
Speaker 1: the game with a three at the end. But it
Speaker 1: comes down to it and the Celtics make a great play.
Speaker 1: It's not affecting him on the court at all. Plus
Speaker 1: I get that players are upset that they feel that
Speaker 1: it's open season on them, that fans have taken it
Speaker 1: to the next level as far as yelling at them,
Speaker 1: throwing things at them, and when he says we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doss Island take it no, Well, yeah, again,
Speaker 1: to go back to what I said, you'd rather him
Speaker 1: not do this, But I kind of get it because
Speaker 1: players get frustrated, right, they feel like the league doesn't
Speaker 1: have our back, fans are out of control. What we
Speaker 1: had the video of Devin Booker a couple weeks ago,
Speaker 1: you know, yelling at a fan, you know, as he's
Speaker 1: dribbling the ball up the court. Guys are just sick
Speaker 1: of it, and and you know they want something to
Speaker 1: feel like, hey, we have control of the situation. We're
Speaker 1: the ones playing on the court. So I get that
Speaker 1: part of it, and that's part of what drives Kyrie
Speaker 1: on this. There's many things I really disagree with him
Speaker 1: on and and and his motivation and playing, but this, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is a little overblown. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: in the end, he did take some of the heat
Speaker 1: off of it, and really it means that the protest
Speaker 1: isn't going very far. Yeah, people gluing themselves to the floor, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one. Yeah, and then you have someone else chaining
Speaker 1: themselves to the stanch. I want to know how they
Speaker 1: got the chain in. It's one of the Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: mistress disturbing as they go back to Taylor and the
Speaker 1: tea Wolves for all of that, But for Kyrie, I mean,
Speaker 1: the first double bird was pretty sly in terms of
Speaker 1: to the television camera, right because it was behind his head.
Speaker 1: It was like he was scratching the back of his head.
Speaker 1: Uh and into his hair. All right, I was setting
Speaker 1: up a big play. What do I got here? Huh?
Speaker 1: And it was And then he started egging them on. Well,
Speaker 1: game two will be interesting, and you've seen a number
Speaker 1: of the the NBA legends with their television jobs chiming
Speaker 1: in saying, well, you're embolding in them. Okay. Then then
Speaker 1: it comes down to crowd control and whether anybody cares.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how he responds in game two. Certainly,
Speaker 1: if it helps him to elevate his game, nets aren't
Speaker 1: going to complaint as long as Kevin Durant brings similar energy,
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't respond in the same fashion and
Speaker 1: shoots better than nine to twenty four. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden we got potential long term ramifications to all this.
Speaker 1: But for Kyrie Irving, now it's a question fifty thousand
Speaker 1: does he get multiple infractions? Does he get a full
Speaker 1: two hundred k out of his pocket? Are they separate
Speaker 1: enough incidences where Adam Silver? Does Adam Silver feel compelled
Speaker 1: to make a statement out of it? That's the question
Speaker 1: on him Monday morning. For you, Jason, does he feel
Speaker 1: like he needs Oh no, no, are you kidding? He
Speaker 1: wants to do nothing as love never comes off this
Speaker 1: hes the excitement and generated. No, he will never do
Speaker 1: anything that makes him appear appear that he is disagreeing
Speaker 1: with a player on anything. That's why the players love him.
Speaker 1: They know they can push him around. They know that
Speaker 1: whatever they want Adam Silver will do for them. So
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna do. Yeah, I'm gonna find what's
Speaker 1: the maximum? We find him, that's it. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: over and and that's He's not even Kyrie, who is
Speaker 1: a player where you can stand up and say hey,
Speaker 1: I think this is how you should be doing it,
Speaker 1: You'll get a lot of support. Doesn't want to do it,
Speaker 1: has no desire to. He will be very quietly. He'll
Speaker 1: get fined, and that'll be it. Because I just like
Speaker 1: to come into my office every day and see that
Speaker 1: my name plate is on the desk and everything looks great.
Speaker 1: It's nice and shiny. I don't want anybody to say
Speaker 1: anything on social media about me. I like when Lebron
Speaker 1: and and and all the players say how much they
Speaker 1: like me as commissioner. Yeah, because they push you around
Speaker 1: and you do whatever they want to. So yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not getting anything out of Adam Silver on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The curiosity then extends to you know, the social media,
Speaker 1: you know, boom right, because the NBA enjoys a lot
Speaker 1: of love and certainly you know, we've got the Twitter
Speaker 1: masters that have gone through and it memes for every
Speaker 1: situation seemingly instantaneous anymore. But the push on each social
Speaker 1: right from TikTok, Instagram, Live, et cetera, and the run
Speaker 1: that you get from NBA games. But the players association,
Speaker 1: as much as they love it, also go how about
Speaker 1: we treat this like a Dave Chappelle comedy show where
Speaker 1: your phone goes into a bag when you come in
Speaker 1: so you don't try to get clout by shouting stupid
Speaker 1: things at our players and trying to incite Twitter and
Speaker 1: out about a fresca Mike a swollen dome. Now you
Speaker 1: make a big point about the Nets to make this
Speaker 1: conversation go further than than Look, Kyrie flipped everybody off.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually okay. The Nets lose this game, right,
Speaker 1: and and Jason Tatum lay up at the end is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: All the Celtic please, Oh yeah, dude, Kyrie irving standing there,
Speaker 1: He's like Hollywood and wolf Man. Where'd he go? Hollywood said,
Speaker 1: where do you go? Kyrie's looking around, trying to touch,
Speaker 1: trying to get a hand on Jason Tatum. It was
Speaker 1: a phenomenal play. But I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: the Nets backdoor swept this series, all right, the Nets.
Speaker 1: The Nets didn't get anything out of Kevin Durant. He
Speaker 1: was awful. Is he gonna shoot like that again in
Speaker 1: this series? No way, No, Kevin Durant is still too good.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have another game like that. Kyrie can
Speaker 1: obviously have another game that way. But then and the
Speaker 1: Nets are imperfect. But it doesn't matter. It's the first
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs, and the East teams are closer
Speaker 1: to each other, then it's the West. This is not
Speaker 1: a we got the sun to the top and everybody else. No,
Speaker 1: teams are close to each other. So with the two
Speaker 1: of them playing scoring thirty thirty five a game, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because this is a game the Celtics won on a
Speaker 1: last second layup when they got everything out of all
Speaker 1: the players they need to there if they're starting five,
Speaker 1: everybody was in double figures. Al Horford looked like he
Speaker 1: was going to score sixty points the first ten minutes
Speaker 1: of this game. They got everything they needed. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna get that every single game? I don't see it?
Speaker 1: And with Boston being imperfect, Yeah, thirty from Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: is great? Is that going to be enough? As long
Speaker 1: as Kevin Durant is still Kevin Durant. I can see
Speaker 1: the Nets winning the next four games and the Celtics
Speaker 1: are going what happened to us? We had all the
Speaker 1: great feels after that first game and the incredible come
Speaker 1: from behind win. No man, I can I can see
Speaker 1: the Nets come winning the series and saying here we come.
Speaker 1: We're the big bad Nets. Now, Well we kind of
Speaker 1: anticipated that, and you know, all they needed to do
Speaker 1: was get in, right, That's what everybody was hoping on
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles side, If the Lakers could just get in,
Speaker 1: maybe there's enough getting Now they're done, and now all
Speaker 1: they're doing is eating popcorn, drinking some wine and commenting
Speaker 1: on organizations and how they grow players. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about side swipe your leaders in your organization. That's
Speaker 1: about as disrespectful as it gets. But yeah, you had
Speaker 1: a throwback game for Al Horford and everybody said, wait,
Speaker 1: Al Horford did what? Huh? Not Al Horford? Kid? No,
Speaker 1: this is Al Horford. This is still Al Horford. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he did this against Memphis back on the
Speaker 1: third of March. He had a twenty one fifteen game.
Speaker 1: Other than that, you know there's a double double mix
Speaker 1: they're in. But that kind of effort, Yeah, we were
Speaker 1: looking at it going same guy, same guys still there.
Speaker 1: Huh how about that? Good for him, Good on him.
Speaker 1: But no, I would expect the Nets to roll through.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope we get every blow by blow
Speaker 1: like it's a heavyweight fight. I don't want to backdoor sweep.
Speaker 1: I think the Nets move on, but I think it's
Speaker 1: hard fought and it's a mess to the end. Why
Speaker 1: because we deserve that. On a middle finger, Monday, watch
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Speaker 1: am Pacific time, and the Twins have two runs. Yeah
Speaker 1: maybe a baseball baby, Yeah maybe. Well this is more
Speaker 1: than day baseball. This is left side of noonday baseball.
Speaker 1: Maybe breakfast with the Twins should be a thing, and
Speaker 1: they should start all their games on the left side
Speaker 1: of noon, and maybe they'd be better. See I kind
Speaker 1: of like this thing we're doing here on a Monday,
Speaker 1: Honored of course, to sit in for the legendary Dan Patrick,
Speaker 1: the dan Etts and in this space meeting new friends
Speaker 1: across the the timelines here at how about a fresca
Speaker 1: at Swollen Dome. But day baseball certainly comes into into effect,
Speaker 1: and I think we should start titling every one of
Speaker 1: our shows like we did here on middle Finger Monday,
Speaker 1: so like it's a new episode of a television show.
Speaker 1: Any So when you and I reconvene at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: Pacific time this evening, we should have a new name
Speaker 1: for this episode of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Arming.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we keep that rolling. But lots of
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs fun to dissect, no question. Joining us now
Speaker 1: on the hotline. You can follm on Twitter at Rick Buker,
Speaker 1: That is at Rick Buker, Fox Sports one analyst. And
Speaker 1: as we're finding out the person Kyrie Irving was flipping
Speaker 1: off during the game yesterday, Rick, what's happening man? Good morning,
Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning. I love it when you guys
Speaker 1: pull back the curtain and you let people know exactly
Speaker 1: how you build this show and what you consider like
Speaker 1: the vital things to get down. What are we going
Speaker 1: to name the show? What's going to name the later show?
Speaker 1: Let's wow, but it's it starts up vibe. You know
Speaker 1: what's that? It starts the vibe though, Rick, you know,
Speaker 1: because now we have a jumping off point to give
Speaker 1: people the usual merriment that we bring to a nation
Speaker 1: and a world for four hours a night. Do you
Speaker 1: think I'm being facetious? I am being absolutely genuine and sincere.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Se Ri Rickson to Brandy. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Look he got look, he gots it. He Look he's
Speaker 1: the guy that's voting for Janni's for m VP again.
Speaker 1: No matter what he understands, he's getting it there. Hey,
Speaker 1: so let's before we get to the MVP. Let let's
Speaker 1: start with middle Finger Monday in Kyrie. Uh, look, he
Speaker 1: had a great game yesterday. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: overblown with Kyrie. Obviously you'd rather him not do it,
Speaker 1: But I get that players are upset with fans, and
Speaker 1: the more the more they get yelled at, they feel
Speaker 1: fans have carte blanche. So I get it. And it's
Speaker 1: not affecting him on the court at all. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd rather him not do it. But I don't know
Speaker 1: that this is that big a deal, is it? H
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a big deal? Well, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a big deal because it's Kyrie Irving and
Speaker 1: everything that Kyrie Irving does is a big deal, particularly
Speaker 1: when it comes to interacting with fans, because this isn't
Speaker 1: you know he this has been ongoing and he did
Speaker 1: it in Cleveland, had a back and forth. He stepped
Speaker 1: un lucky during the playoffs last year. I believe it
Speaker 1: was during the playoffs last year, game game four, and so.
Speaker 1: But it I think where it becomes a big deal
Speaker 1: is the fact of the Kyrie tries to present himself
Speaker 1: in a certain way, and I just don't see this
Speaker 1: as being very mature. Our fans more raucous than they've
Speaker 1: ever been. I'm not sure that they are. I think
Speaker 1: that we just have more video evidence and audio and
Speaker 1: it's shared around the world more than it ever has
Speaker 1: as a result of social media. But I am confused
Speaker 1: by Kyrie on one point. I'd look pretty simple. I
Speaker 1: I was always I was always told like, don't lower yourself.
Speaker 1: People are doing stupid stuff. Doesn't mean you have to
Speaker 1: lower yourself to do stupid stuff. And because Kyrie likes
Speaker 1: to think of himself as being enlightened and tells us
Speaker 1: he's enlightened and is all about uh, you know, joy,
Speaker 1: peace and happiness, I don't quite understand. Okay, so now
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna lower yourself to the level of
Speaker 1: the fans that are shouting things and saying things and etcetera.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I mean, he spent enough time
Speaker 1: in Boston to know what the Boston fans are like.
Speaker 1: And when you tell him I want to, I will
Speaker 1: resign here if you'll have me, and you basically lie
Speaker 1: to them or turn your back on them and go
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn, Like what are you? In fact? So that's
Speaker 1: the part I don't understand, Like if if Kyrie, if
Speaker 1: you understand humanity the way you say you do, then
Speaker 1: why are you surprised? And if you are as enlightened
Speaker 1: as you are, why are you getting into the gutter
Speaker 1: with the fans that are that are expressing the worst behavior.
Speaker 1: That's all of that is what I don't understand when
Speaker 1: it comes to Kyrie. So in that regard, is it
Speaker 1: a big deal? Now? I mean, honestly, I really don't care.
Speaker 1: But if you're asking me why as we try to
Speaker 1: puzzle out who Kyrie is, then yes, And let's face it,
Speaker 1: we we love the soap opera and the drama, whether
Speaker 1: it's between players or players and fans or players in
Speaker 1: the league, or whoever it is. We enjoy that as
Speaker 1: much or more than the actual play on the court.
Speaker 1: I did enjoy the timing because Winning Time this week
Speaker 1: Rick has a lot about Lakers, Celtics and Celtics fans,
Speaker 1: so that was kind of entertaining to watch that. Whoish,
Speaker 1: but are they winning? I'm gonna take I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: don't know that I'm gonna take Winning Time as a
Speaker 1: straight up documentary, but yeah, yeah, well, but you know,
Speaker 1: you got a little flavor of Hey, welcome to Boston.
Speaker 1: But to that end, we talk about middle Finger Monday
Speaker 1: and Kyrie and the game he had. But the game
Speaker 1: itself was fantastic, including one of the craziest finish, just
Speaker 1: guys flying all over and then Tatum with the lay in.
Speaker 1: But the Nets didn't get much from Kevin Durant. He's better.
Speaker 1: What are you expected out of the series. I expect
Speaker 1: him to certainly be better, But this is one of
Speaker 1: the what you saw in that last play and the
Speaker 1: issue between Kyrie and KD as far as both of
Speaker 1: them being effective at the same time. You see the
Speaker 1: challenge for the Net is far greater than say, Marcus
Speaker 1: Smart and Jail and Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown all
Speaker 1: being effective at the same time. And that with Kyrie
Speaker 1: and KD, you've got two guys that are both hunting
Speaker 1: for their shot first and foremost, and it's only when
Speaker 1: they can't get to where they want to go. The
Speaker 1: last possession for Boston. You know, as good as Kyrie was,
Speaker 1: like he dribbled out the clock, he couldn't get loose
Speaker 1: and then he you know, finally he's not going to
Speaker 1: get loose. He kicks it to KD. And now KD
Speaker 1: has to has a short clock, it has to take
Speaker 1: a desperation three. Finding a way to integrate both of
Speaker 1: them as a threat at the same time is key
Speaker 1: to this work. And otherwise it's you take a turn,
Speaker 1: I take a turn. It's going back to the same
Speaker 1: thing we saw in Oklahoma City with Russell Westbrook and
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. And that can be really good when you're
Speaker 1: that talented, when you have two guys that are not talented,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be really good. But can it win a championship?
Speaker 1: Not when you have other teams like the Bucks and
Speaker 1: in this case, but the Boston Celtics demonstrated last night,
Speaker 1: where everybody can be a threat at the same time,
Speaker 1: and you have at least one or two guys who
Speaker 1: are looking to find the best opportunity, the best shot
Speaker 1: as opposed to the best shot they can get. Rick
Speaker 1: Buker our guest the Dan Patrick Show, Jason Smith, Mike
Speaker 1: Harmon in for Dan and the Danettes. All Right, so
Speaker 1: from this game, I want to try to help Steve
Speaker 1: kerr Rick because he really has the most first world
Speaker 1: problems of any NBA head coach. What do we do now?
Speaker 1: Jordan Pool is terrific, He's a star. Does Steph still
Speaker 1: come off the bench? What happens? I think it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: I think Clay is the guy that's got to go
Speaker 1: to the bench. Quite honestly, when Steff is ready to play,
Speaker 1: Steff can play. Jordan Pool is much better when he starts.
Speaker 1: I know it's a difficult conversation, but if you're bent
Speaker 1: on saying this is going to be the lineup, I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty easy. Steph and Jordan Pool starting, Clay
Speaker 1: comes off the bench. Yeah, And I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's such a difficult of a conversation. It's Hey, Jordan's
Speaker 1: got it. Going where he's going to start. You're coming
Speaker 1: off the bench Clay, and Steve has the you know,
Speaker 1: he has the wherewithal to do that because of his
Speaker 1: track record, because of his accomplishments. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna challenge He's gonna channel Phil Jackson or Gregg Popovitch,
Speaker 1: both of whom we played for, to have that conversation,
Speaker 1: and it might be a little bit difficult, But I honestly,
Speaker 1: I feel as if Clay is all about the right things.
Speaker 1: I don't I really don't think that he's going to
Speaker 1: have that big of a problem with it. Now. All
Speaker 1: that said, I was at Game one and I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to anoint the Warriors as either the best or
Speaker 1: the second best or even the third best team in
Speaker 1: the league just yet, because a lot of things went
Speaker 1: their way in that game, and I was watching Steph
Speaker 1: and I'm watching Clay, and neither one of them physically
Speaker 1: is right. Clay still doesn't have the same lift and
Speaker 1: he didn't have any matchups, and with Jordan going off,
Speaker 1: there was never an issue. Steph clearly is not moving
Speaker 1: the same, not shooting the same. So it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of ken these guys evolved. As they go forward,
Speaker 1: because I would expect that this this series is still
Speaker 1: going to get a lot tougher, and certainly what they
Speaker 1: have in front of them is going to get a
Speaker 1: lot tougher. And I'll be interested to see how Steph
Speaker 1: and Clay evolved, because that was my big one of
Speaker 1: the bigger takeaways is like, man, this was easy for
Speaker 1: them to win. Didn't say much about Denver, but like
Speaker 1: just watching Stephan Clay individually, I'm I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: say that the band is back together and they were
Speaker 1: ready to go all right. Rick Jason alluded to it earlier.
Speaker 1: We gotta now that we know our finalists for MVP,
Speaker 1: are you ready to have that really well attired guy
Speaker 1: from the funeral show up? If you show hatred towards
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid, well, no, because because he was at the
Speaker 1: top of my ballot. So I'm I don't know that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get any of that. The three
Speaker 1: finalists were the three names at the top of my ballot,
Speaker 1: and ultimately, I just I felt the push for both
Speaker 1: Yokich and Janis was a matter of being a little
Speaker 1: bit prisoner of the moment that people were looking hard
Speaker 1: at the last month and not the way the season started,
Speaker 1: and not considering all that the Philadelphia seventy Sixers had
Speaker 1: to navigate, and quite honestly, how Joel Embad had to mature,
Speaker 1: not just as a player on the floor, but as
Speaker 1: a leader to get them through the whole Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: cloud and hangover. And so I just I couldn't ignore that.
Speaker 1: If Yoka twins, if you honest wins, I have no problem.
Speaker 1: But for me, I didn't want to ignore what Joel
Speaker 1: Mbat did in the face of what the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: faced as a result of the Ben Simmons saga saga
Speaker 1: and the fact that they were just as good with
Speaker 1: all of that turmoil and not having Ben Simmons for
Speaker 1: the better part of the year, that they were just
Speaker 1: as good, if not better. And Joel Embad had such
Speaker 1: a big hand in that. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: anybody would have expected it. He's my MVP. I just
Speaker 1: liked it. Now we've got another day of having to
Speaker 1: have an NBA MVP conversation, because we need a daily
Speaker 1: conversation on who the MVP. I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a feature next year. Who the MVP is today, every
Speaker 1: single day of account from opening night to the end
Speaker 1: of the season, who's the MVP? Every day we have
Speaker 1: MVP rankings, Yeah, especially especially during the playoffs when when
Speaker 1: the MVP has nothing to do with Now, like our
Speaker 1: friend Nick Wright was just you know, crowing because he's
Speaker 1: not a Nickela Yokis fan. Uh. They lose Game one
Speaker 1: against the Warriors because Aaron Gordon sees a ghost and decides, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't play today, um or whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: don't know. That's that was my impressions. But uh, lose
Speaker 1: his game one of the playoffs, and now that is
Speaker 1: testimony that he doesn't deserve to be MVP. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: these games don't count, this doesn't matter, this isn't this
Speaker 1: isn't what it's about. So um. But yeah, by all means,
Speaker 1: let's continue to revisit who was the regular season MVP
Speaker 1: based on how they play in the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: that's a great ide. Yeah. He's on Twitter at Rick Bucker.
Speaker 1: That is at Rick Buker. Rick has always Buddy appreciate
Speaker 1: it on the Ball podcast as well. Check it out
Speaker 1: all the info on his page there at Rick Buker.
Speaker 1: Thanks a bunch man, we'll talk to you later on
Speaker 1: this week. My pleasure, gentlemen, enjoy the game, see you. Thanks.
Speaker 1: There it goes Rick Buker. Now, I mean at Mike
Speaker 1: every day opening night, we have MVP, right, we have
Speaker 1: the top ten MVP rankings every single day, and we
Speaker 1: have to contractually talk about it. Have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I mean because you and I in our evening show.
Speaker 1: I mean we celebrate rat rankings whenever we can across
Speaker 1: the great cities of our United States. So I mean
Speaker 1: add that to the MVPs. I mean we've got gold
Speaker 1: Jerry Gold, Twitter at how about a Fresca Mike at
Speaker 1: Swollen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harman in for Dan and
Speaker 1: the dan Nets. Straight ahead, boy, do we have a
Speaker 1: big bold prediction coming your way for the NBA Playoffs?
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Speaker 1: stopping by breaking down all the big news in the
Speaker 1: NBA with us and one of the storylines Mike going
Speaker 1: into or coming off this weekend. Look, we've talked about
Speaker 1: Kyrie irving its middle finger Monday. The Nets potential to
Speaker 1: win this series against the Celtics of Steve Kerran is
Speaker 1: incredibly difficult decision. What do I do? I have so
Speaker 1: many good players, all of that may pale in comparison
Speaker 1: to how this season's going to end. And watching the
Speaker 1: game last night against New Orleans, exactly what I thought
Speaker 1: it would be for Phoenix, right. They get out to
Speaker 1: a big lead, get a little bored in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: New Orleans makes a little bit of a run, and
Speaker 1: then Phoenix goes on and they win the game by
Speaker 1: double digits. Phoenix is going to win the title, and
Speaker 1: I don't really see them being challenged on their way
Speaker 1: to it. They are. I feel like, if you're picking
Speaker 1: against the Suns, you're overthinking it. Kind of how when
Speaker 1: Kansas was rolling through the NCAA tournament, it was yeah,
Speaker 1: Kansas is playing well, but all these other teams are
Speaker 1: playing well. Now they're the only number one seed left
Speaker 1: they're beating everybody pretty bad, and they go on and
Speaker 1: they win the championship. I feel the same thing about
Speaker 1: the Suns that they've been the best team in the
Speaker 1: NBA all season. Usually the best team. If you're by
Speaker 1: far the best team, you win the championship. They are deep.
Speaker 1: They can withstand Chris Paul not being elite because look,
Speaker 1: he's playing great right now, but you know he's gonna
Speaker 1: wear down a little bit as the playoffs go on.
Speaker 1: Being an older player. Devin Booker, this is going to
Speaker 1: be his time. He'll be the best player in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: He is ready for the moment more than he was
Speaker 1: a year ago. They're locked in. This is not a
Speaker 1: team that's suffered any kind of hangover last year after
Speaker 1: losing to the Bucks in the finals, where normally that happens,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, we lost. It's so emotionally jarring and it
Speaker 1: takes you while to get going the next season. No,
Speaker 1: they've been great from the beginning. They're locked in, and
Speaker 1: I see a lot of five game series going their
Speaker 1: way and they'll win. They'll get to the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: and maybe we get a rematch. Ohays, The're gonna play
Speaker 1: out the same way no, Phoenix wins, and they'll win
Speaker 1: in kind of a dominant style. I just don't see
Speaker 1: teams being able to do this to Phoenix this year.
Speaker 1: You know, any kind of game they can win, you know,
Speaker 1: they they you know, they're they're big, down low and
Speaker 1: eight and is really good, and their bench gives you
Speaker 1: enough and and Booker is going to be the guy
Speaker 1: that just scores and scores and scores. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't really have any holes, and so to pick
Speaker 1: against them, it's almost as if, well, I'm just picking
Speaker 1: somebody just to pick somebody else now. And I get that,
Speaker 1: probably get that hot takeer, I get that part of it.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see Phoenix being challenged all that much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I see him running towards that collision course with Golden State.
Speaker 1: We talked with Rick Bucker about it, and he's wondering
Speaker 1: about the long term health. Right, if some of these
Speaker 1: series go along, what does that mean when you finally
Speaker 1: end up matchup against the Suns, which, let's face it,
Speaker 1: we're all intrigued to watch this squad run. There was
Speaker 1: no possibility of a letdown, right because they heard all
Speaker 1: of the chatter about how lucky they were a year ago. Right,
Speaker 1: you make your own luck, right, And if guys get
Speaker 1: hurt along the way on the opposition, as long as
Speaker 1: you're not bringing out the Galuley iron bar to go
Speaker 1: after them, what are you gonna do? Basketball and injuries happen,
Speaker 1: and we could go through champions all the way through
Speaker 1: strange circumstances and teams that get to championship rounds or
Speaker 1: Super Bowls or whatever. We're crazy. Things do occur. But
Speaker 1: these guys heard it all year. They heard it from
Speaker 1: teams they beat, right, Anthony Davis, Well, if I hadn't
Speaker 1: gotten hurt, well you got hurt. So they beat your
Speaker 1: squad and now you're sitting at home. That's it all right,
Speaker 1: ifs and butts and whatever, go play it in the multiverse.
Speaker 1: Go see if doctor Strange can go and alternate h
Speaker 1: you know, give you an alternate timeline to go crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, six guys averaging double figures for the Suns. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the big one you circle is Chris Paul right and
Speaker 1: getting him to the end. As much as we celebrate
Speaker 1: his game, there's always just that fear playoff times related
Speaker 1: to his health with the Warriors, that's the big concern
Speaker 1: they we talked about the Steve current problem with Jordan Pool,
Speaker 1: a guy who has played a fantastic season in his
Speaker 1: third year and giving them a huge lift, and they
Speaker 1: got healthy. But are they healthy enough to get through?
Speaker 1: I think there's your Western Conference Final. I'll take the
Speaker 1: chalk all the way through. Absolutely, there's no reason to overthinking. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: and Golden State's really the only team that can give
Speaker 1: them difficulty. And how healthy are they going to be? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: You wonder is Steph gonna be all the way healthy?
Speaker 1: You know what's Clay gonna be like after going through?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna hit the wall at some point? They
Speaker 1: got more questions. But they're the only team because obviously
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Memphis is going to be a dog fight.
Speaker 1: You already saw them them take game one. How funny
Speaker 1: series though? Oh man, I'm watching Morant and Edwards get
Speaker 1: after it. Yeah, suddenly it's like, wait a minute. The
Speaker 1: Timber Bowls are good. Oh look at this, But I
Speaker 1: don't see there being anybody in the East like like
Speaker 1: this is be if they get to the finals. I
Speaker 1: don't know that there's a team that can that can
Speaker 1: match up with them. You know you're gonna Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a great team because someone who's been through
Speaker 1: the battles and and withstood all the other teams in
Speaker 1: the East. But I don't I don't know that this
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be a sweep or or a five game
Speaker 1: series for the Suns where maybe the Bucks or another
Speaker 1: team will get a game and it's yeah, but we're
Speaker 1: just this good this year. I mean, this, this is
Speaker 1: the Sun's year. They have everything going for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and if it's a Hollywood story, then we
Speaker 1: get in middle Finger Monday all the way through the
Speaker 1: playoffs and suddenly the Brooklyn Nets are They're staring at
Speaker 1: you and waiting at you. Right, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: want to scrip things out, because the Bulls are not
Speaker 1: going to survive. The Bucks. They've lost all five contests,
Speaker 1: although they did beat the Spread in game one, so
Speaker 1: good step, baby steps. Yeah, well the long road begins
Speaker 1: with those first steps. The Sixers, do you do you
Speaker 1: buy them full on? Probably not Celtics good, good balance
Speaker 1: and if they can keep finding whatever the fountain of
Speaker 1: youth for Al Horford, look out, Twitter and out about
Speaker 1: a Fresca. Mike gets swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon
Speaker 1: in for Dan and the dan Nets today. Um, if
Speaker 1: we look at a team in the East right now,
Speaker 1: who's making it to the finals, we say the Suns
Speaker 1: can win it all, go chalk all the way. Who
Speaker 1: do you got going to the finals in the East. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got the Bucks that screw it. I'm taking the
Speaker 1: Bulls now. I had the Bucks back when they were
Speaker 1: a five seat. Look if the if the Bulls somehow
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks in this series, then it's all melting
Speaker 1: and suddenly Jannis isn't the MVP. See what I did?
Speaker 1: I just wrote how about that? Yeah? You shoehorned another
Speaker 1: MVP discussion. We don't need another MVP discussion. We need
Speaker 1: another hero though. Mike and I are back to Night
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