1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching fsrles give this. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight. Get the fours up. 10 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,160 Speaker 1: That is right, Jason Smith Show with my best friend 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: Have it bellowed one of those in a while? 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: No? 14 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 2: That is right, That is right. I hurt my hand. 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: Day one of NBA Free Agency. A lot of money 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,559 Speaker 1: getting thrown around, Yes, a lot of people changing teams, 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: millions upon millions of dollars live, changing moneies. 18 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 2: But for the next. 19 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: Half hour here on the show, we're going to talk 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: about guys who are staying with their teams after what's 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: going on in the course the last twenty four to 22 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: thirty six hours. Okay, I mean we could talk about 23 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:11,639 Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson going to the Knicks and all of a sudden, 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: this is a Larry O'Brien move. But yeah, I mean 25 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: they are now the prohibited favorites in the Eastern Conference. 26 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I like that. 27 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 3: Huh yeah, Well but it just shows how everybody just 28 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 3: took a step back, so suddenly you're you're in front. 29 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 30 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: It's like one of those things where if you want 31 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: to volunteer for this, take one step forward, and when 32 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: nobody want to do it, so everybody takes a step back, right, 33 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: and the one person didn't move. Oh great, yeah you 34 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: have this. 35 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,639 Speaker 2: That's gotta where you're at. The Nick stayed. 36 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: Everybody else took a step back, so ahead the next 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: of the Cavaliers lost a little depth today. 38 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 3: You can tide your home, take a three year deal. Yeah, 39 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 3: but look, I mean here's a pretty good shooter off 40 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 3: the bench for them. 41 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: You're looking at the top four teams in the East 42 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: from this past here. Okay, Well, the Celtics they're moving 43 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: on right. They've already traded two of their lynchpins from 44 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: the from the champion team. Jason Tatum's out most about 45 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: all the next year. The Pacers gonna be without Haliburton 46 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: for probably all of next year. He'll still beat the. 47 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: TJ. 48 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: McConnell is not going to play forty one minutes like 49 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: lebron Jay not happening. 50 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 3: Here's the type of energy that he summons. It's like 51 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 3: he's got the damn Infinity Star. Has any answer for 52 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 3: the Pacers. 53 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: It's like dude's getting Gamma raided and he becomes the Hulk. 54 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 2: So, you know, scratch the Pacers. 55 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 5: Uh. 56 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: The Cavaliers losing the second round to Indiana and even 57 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: though they had the great regulations, Okay, the Knicks who 58 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: lost the conference fund, Okay, they're like the Okay, they're 59 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: the last one. 60 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: Okay, the last one standing. All right, let's go. You 61 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 2: may still have a million questions, don't. 62 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: Doesn't two starters that can't play deep right and refused? 63 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but yeah we're the favorite. You have a 64 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 2: rotation of seven guys, but here you are. 65 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: You know, I kind of feel like it's that's the 66 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: way that tell the vision's gone in the last few years, 67 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: where the last couple of years we ended the era 68 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: of peak TV, and you go back just you know, 69 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: two years, go back to like twenty twenty two, you know, 70 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: coming off of the pandemic and into twenty twenty one 71 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty two. The era of peak TV was 72 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 1: was going on for so long. There were so many 73 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: great shows, so many different streaming sites and services had 74 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: these shows. You had to have a lot of I 75 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: gotta get this show and this show and this show. 76 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: And now you're like, okay, well not as much and 77 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: the shows that are at the top but people love. Yeah, 78 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: not quite the same quality of the shows from twenty 79 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: twenty two and before, but somebody's got to be the best. 80 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: So okay, the Knicks are the Knicks are you know 81 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: the last of us of Now, hey, is that show 82 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: as good as when Ted Lasso? And I was, no, 83 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: probably not, but hey, some show's got to be great. 84 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: Lasso had plenty of flaws, but you know what it 85 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: began and the guy that. 86 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: Stepped forward when everybody stepped back. 87 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 3: A lot of people still owe me an apology for 88 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 3: some of the nonsense they pulled during that whole COVID 89 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 3: than We will lay. 90 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 2: That for another time. 91 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: But to your point, yeah, you had shows that you 92 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: were engaged in in rapture. Now again, you got a 93 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: lot of NBA guys. What's your favorite show? 94 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: Love Island? 95 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: You know, like, come on, I really I it trends 96 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: every day there's what a new episode every day, but 97 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: I all but one day of the week. 98 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you anything that this is about to 99 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: get into. It's too smart for you. 100 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: It can't be love. Something called Love Island. Yeah, very 101 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: very very personal content. Okay, So it's it's people on 102 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: an island, right that that that are trying to find love, right, 103 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: I'm getting there. 104 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 2: From the title get You and You with a blood handle. 105 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: But there's also people. There's also some sort of survivor 106 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: element to it, where people form alliances because they want 107 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: to stay on the show. It's it's kind of like 108 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: Survivor meets The Bachelor. Love Island reality TV show. 109 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 3: We're attractive single contestants known as Island live together in 110 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 3: the vita uh seeking love and aiming to avoid elimination. 111 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 3: They couple up, participate in challenges, and face public votes. 112 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 3: It's not a couple. 113 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: They live where they're they're filming, and they could get eliminated, 114 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: like I live here. 115 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, so Mary, you watch it. 116 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 6: I don't watch it, but it's all over my Twitter timeline. 117 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 2: It's everybody. Everybody seems to love it. 118 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 6: Basically, they're in Fiji for I think like eight weeks, 119 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 6: I think, and then there's just like a bunch of couple. 120 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 2: It's the dumbest thing ever, though, how do you get eliminated? 121 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 2: Like do do people? 122 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 6: It's basically like people who are watching it, they can vote. 123 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: If like okay, I got the pacers or sorry eliminated. 124 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: There's no vote that happens there, but it's the. 125 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 6: Person you're coupled with, like you don't see chemistry. Like, 126 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 6: then what they'll do is they have this thing called 127 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 6: cosa war, and you can, like if you get voted off, 128 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 6: like you go to another house and you can come 129 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 6: back and get coupled with somebody else. And then there's 130 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 6: the thing that's called bombshells where it's like new people, 131 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 6: like a new guy or a new a. 132 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: Lot about this or someone who doesn't watch the show. 133 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 2: Yeah I don't watch timeline. 134 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: No no, no, that's a lot of layers, you know, with 135 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: the get well which is which is the love? 136 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 6: No, but do you know what this season sucks? But 137 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 6: last season was pretty well I'm not gonna lie, Oh 138 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 6: it's this is a second season. No, this is like 139 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 6: season eighteen. Wait, Wi's not new again. It's like the Bachelor. 140 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 6: So it's like every single season has new characters. 141 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 2: But everyone eighteen. 142 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: But it cuts through it because I think they've upped 143 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: the number of episodes and how they've distributed, and certainly 144 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: the social media engagement has been. 145 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 2: For the definition of attraction. You know, Okay, the game 146 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 2: all right, so they have like ogs things like that. 147 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 6: I think it's like ten people and then like as 148 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 6: people leave, new people come on like momshells. 149 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:53,359 Speaker 2: But you get then you get to go to the 150 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 2: love shack. Basically it's a little old pace where I'm 151 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: auditioning to be the guy that sings when you can made. 152 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 6: But you know what I know it's a kicker is 153 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 6: the person who left. Let's say, like they put them 154 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 6: in cost some war like and they're gonna come back. 155 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 6: So when the bombshell comes, the person who they were 156 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 6: coupled with, like they say that go with the bombshell. 157 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 6: Then the original person comes back, and then the person 158 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 6: who like gets to choose between the bombshell or the 159 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 6: person that they just had. 160 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 2: It's super messy, though it did sounds messy for not 161 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 2: watching it. You seem to know any of them. 162 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: Ever combined to where you've got the bombshell plus the person. 163 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 1: They just don't and and the throw the bombshell was 164 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: a person. Yeah, it's not something that happened, you know. 165 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: But I thought every woman that comes, I thought. 166 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: Everybody was attractive on the show. Well, but now added 167 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 2: new attractive. When's the last time somebody called you a bombshell? 168 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: No, just yesterday, I said, what a bombshell you are? 169 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: I said, thank you. Happens all the time. Paying somebody 170 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: doesn't care, Oh it doesn't. Okay, Well, then there's been 171 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: a while. Tell me, I'm pretty it's been a while. 172 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: Tell me okay, So so this is somebody new coming 173 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: into bombshell. 174 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,400 Speaker 2: Okay, now I got okay, And I don't know. 175 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 6: Think about it like NBA times, like when somebody gets 176 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 6: traded to a new team, Like, if you think about 177 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 6: it that way, it makes it easier. 178 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: He may only be a percentage point better as a shooter, 179 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: but if he's not the old guy that you hated 180 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 3: missing shots. 181 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: But if it's a new guy to take them. 182 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: But if the nick say, okay, hey we're trading Karl 183 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: Anthony Towns and he's coupled with Jalen Brunson, that means 184 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: I would lose Karl Anthony Towns and Jal that's right, No, 185 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: you can't have that. 186 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 2: No, that's not how it goes. That's you just said. 187 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: It happens lose to. 188 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: The Pacers a person, would you stop with the Pacers 189 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 1: and the losing, with the losing and the Pads. 190 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 6: And so let's say Carl, Carl, Anthony town and Jaylen 191 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 6: Brnston were together, right, Okay, then let's say like, all right, 192 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 6: the hot topic. But they have they trade and they 193 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 6: get like Lebron, right okay, and now they trade Lebron 194 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 6: for Carl Anthony. But Carl Anthony has his deal has 195 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 6: n't been finalized yet, so he's still kind of on 196 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 6: the team. 197 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 2: So while you think he's away, he actually comes back. 198 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 6: And I was like, wait, actually, you can either choose 199 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 6: between do you want to get back with Carl Anthony 200 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 6: Towns or do you want to stay with. 201 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: With See I wish NBA trades worked that way. Hey, 202 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: you know what, this trade is not working how I. 203 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 6: Thought, because remember they traded the guy with the Lakers 204 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 6: and then they got rescinded. 205 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, well no, but that that's that's the Laker's front 206 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,439 Speaker 3: office that started reading their mentions and how much people 207 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 3: didn't like it. 208 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 5: Okay, So for office though team in the Love Island, Yes, 209 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 5: at some point I would have gone back and said, hey, 210 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 5: let's go back and do that Karl Anthony Towns Devincenzo. 211 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 2: Julie's Randall trade again. 212 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: Let's go back somebody, why we don't to make some 213 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: shots like he did a year ago. 214 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 6: A right, and then let's say, like Carl Anthony Towns, 215 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 6: like people actually really like, I'm like, no, colect him 216 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 6: stay on the team. Then he can choose somebody else 217 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 6: to get coupled with, and then. 218 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: He can say, oh blank you and Blanke you Brunson, 219 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: I get that they. 220 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 6: Don't like on that team can leave and then they 221 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 6: basically make room for other people to say, yeah, this 222 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 6: is better than free agents. So then you get Carl 223 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 6: Anthony Towns, and then you Jaylen Brenson and you get Lebron. 224 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: Oh okay, without having to trade anything. 225 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 6: Basically, I mean the person who's getting traded would be 226 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 6: the least person that they don't like. 227 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that guys get Let's say the. 228 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 6: Chemistry is off, and like they're gonna be like, yeah. 229 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: Taking kick them both off. He's a bad shooter. I'm 230 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: saying Okay to call bridges. You can go like the Fall. 231 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 6: You know how they have the little like games and 232 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 6: stuff like that. That's the challenge is So if they 233 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 6: fail at it, then yeah, kick them off. 234 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, I like it now now I understand 235 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: it now he said I could make all kinds of 236 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: crazy trades. 237 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 2: This is great, mom, shout out behind James. 238 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 6: Isn't actually that Karl Anthony town So now Lebron James 239 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 6: is going to Jaylen Brnson and talking crap about Karl 240 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 6: Anthony towns and they not trust each other. 241 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: Oh well, it's New York, so I think that would 242 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: happen anyway. But guys, I don't know if we can 243 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: trust Mary with this. She doesn't watch it, just not 244 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: not at all. He's just making this understand But like 245 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: the last five minutes might have been absolute nonsense. 246 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: Anybody that watch that swollen nome that how. 247 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: About a fresca if you have a primer like one 248 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: pager with a float chartay to how this game? Bottom 249 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: line is this to borrow from Love Island. If you 250 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: got to do trades over again, if you didn't like 251 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: how they turned out in the NBA, I'm for that. 252 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 3: Well, people might say that all the time. I'm almost 253 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 3: like eighty apps exist. 254 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm also for being able to trade a guy I 255 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: don't want for a guy I really want, Like I'm 256 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: okay that i'd like to do that man at high 257 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: school reunion, Thanksgiving, going home to your hometown and i'd loved. 258 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 2: Eating up at that. 259 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: Local bar that you used to go to that's in 260 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: the love shack, right, because that's in the love Shack. 261 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 2: Some more, baby lay roof rusted. Okay, I'm good, I'm good, 262 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. 263 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, you know I want to watch it now 264 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: where I'm next to you're you're, you're the jis. 265 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 6: Don't watch this, don't watch this season, watch the season before. 266 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 2: Is that what Twitter told you? No? 267 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 6: Because I actually was kind of tuned in watching season one. 268 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go back and just do a total reasons. 269 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: Season one has to be what a year and a 270 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: half ago, because all those well, no, but if you 271 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: go back. 272 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 2: Min it's eighteen, so maybe what maybe nine ten years ago? Remember, 273 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 2: because there's Love Island US, and there's the. 274 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 5: Original Love Island UK because the UK office because the 275 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 5: UK is an island. 276 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: It's okay, it's probably better. 277 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: Because it probably language and everything. I don't know. Please 278 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 2: forgive me fruity language. Would you like to go to 279 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 2: some more with me. 280 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,319 Speaker 1: I'll put you in there so someone else could go 281 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: go love love you, and I'll love someone else who 282 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: wants to. 283 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 2: What about Taed Mayer was shot at the back, lauded 284 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 2: the universes. 285 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: They just they just they just take they just take 286 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: away the arch in Saint Louis, and they move in 287 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: big bad and there's there's the clock tower from Back 288 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: to the Future. Have a nice thing a exit l 289 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: jawser cant you on the workout? 290 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 2: Hey, there's an eligible batcheler. Who's that guy that looks 291 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: like Anthony Purkis? All right? 292 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad now I understand love. If it's gonna 293 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: trend every day, and glad I get it all right now, 294 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: I understand it. If you see a painted signed on 295 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: the side of the road, it's sas it's trending for 296 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: a whole other reason. Trust me, all right? So I 297 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: wait hip deep into this. Coming up next day one 298 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: of NBA free agency. Two players we're gonna focus on 299 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: who are staying with their teams, And I don't know 300 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: why That's next Jason and Mike Fox Love Island Edition 301 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: treaded Carl Anthony Towns. We moved on from Randall and Devincenzo, 302 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: and we did win anymore in the playoffs. 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The Jason Smith Show with My best 321 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, so day one of NBA free agency, 322 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: we're waiting for Giannis to sign with the Knicks. Well, 323 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: that's not happening because he posted earlier in his movie 324 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm moving. 325 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 2: He just posted it. You already had him walking. 326 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: Okay, Yanni's posted a picture, Lisa, and I've moved before. 327 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: I've done the same thing. You posted pictures of stuff 328 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 2: you've kept, put everything in one pile and took a picture. 329 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: Yannis put all the a picture of all the hardware 330 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: he's won in the NBA Lakers and put the picture 331 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: on social media. Because you know, Oh, I haven't done anything. 332 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: I'm not great, I'm overrated. Here's all the stuff I've won. 333 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: Frostburg's taking that to it. Hey, he's moving and he's 334 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: selling all his stuff. 335 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 2: I'm supposed to get down. I like the I like 336 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 2: the twenty seventeen Rookie of the Year award. That'd be great. 337 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 3: He decided he doesn't need that. He needs a new chapter, 338 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 3: new trophy case. I'm needing behind anything. I'm selling my 339 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 3: replica of the Larry O'Brien trophy. I'm selling that. 340 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: I'm selling my MVP of the Finals trophy. 341 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 2: Is he not selling basketball the Pacers? 342 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 3: But it's like he's hanging out on the lawn like 343 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 3: Will Ferrow and everything must go. 344 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: How much you want to bet the Pacers Still they 345 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: have team parties and they have that ball. 346 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 2: They just passing around to each other. They're playing Hoppit 347 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: Tato with it, guarantee. Is that the honest ball? Yeah? Man, 348 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: that's the real one. He doesn't have the real one. 349 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 2: We still have it. Yeah, that's the honest ball. There's 350 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: just passing around. 351 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: They're all sitting around a living room and just throwing 352 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: it around to each other. Yeah, spinning it on their finger. 353 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: We got the ball from an NBA champion. Look at 354 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: us vocals probably spinning it on his tooth. 355 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 2: Thush. 356 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: So, with day one of the NBA free agency in 357 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 1: the books, to look forward to another big day tomorrow, 358 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: let's focus on a couple of guys who are staying 359 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: with their teams. Okay, because I first got I'm gonna 360 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:53,680 Speaker 1: give a lot of credit before I say I don't 361 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: know why the hell the team is keeping them. James 362 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: Harden is staying with the Clippers, opting out out of 363 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: the last year of his contract for thirty six million 364 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 1: and he's going to agree to a new deal two 365 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: years and eighty two million dollars to stay with the Clippers. 366 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know how he's able to keep doing 367 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 2: this again. 368 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: You want to talk about Hall of Fame of business 369 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: and James Harden somehow finds a way to get to 370 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 1: the final year of a contract where the team is saying, 371 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 1: there's no way, it's the last time he's ever. 372 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 2: Gonna earn money. 373 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: You're never gonna get a contract like this again. And 374 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:28,919 Speaker 1: some have a good enough year to say, hey, I 375 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: want to get out of this one. Let's get into 376 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: a new two year deal where I make double the money. 377 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: And he's done that now, like three times in a row. 378 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: He's found a way to do that. We're going he's 379 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: not getting paid anymore. No, no, no, ohma, have just 380 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: as good enough a year here to make you think, oh, 381 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: you can continue to build around me and things are 382 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: gonna get better. So here instead of one year, thirty 383 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: six million, now we don't know, we're gonna keep you up, 384 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: now two years eighty two million dollars. Good congratulations one 385 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: and the bonus. Now he's been in the league since 386 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, twenty ten, coming off a year 387 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: where he averaged twenty two point eight, highest scoring average 388 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:09,160 Speaker 1: he's had since the twenty twenty season. So you got 389 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 1: that going for you, averaging nearly nine assists per game. 390 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: Now he had a couple of no shows in the playoffs. 391 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: Those are really gonna stand out. Yeah, what stands out 392 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: about those? Oh we've seen that before. 393 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 394 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: That's the thing about Harden is I don't understand how 395 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: teams keep paying him and thinking, yes, we are a 396 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: James Harden away from what he have. No team has 397 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: been a James Harden away from anything since he was 398 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: with the Rockets. Okay, so going back before twenty twenty, 399 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: Harden had a better year last year, and I thought 400 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: he would have. I got give him that, right, He 401 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: had a good year last year, but in the end 402 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: twenty two a game, lots of guys scored twenty to 403 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: a game. He's not the dynamic scorer he was, but 404 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: still a guy at the top of the league and assists. 405 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: James Harden had a good regular season, but every year 406 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 1: for James Harden ends the same way. He plays too 407 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: many minutes and in the playoffs he gets tired at 408 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: the end of game and his team falls short. Right, 409 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,120 Speaker 1: this is how it goes with James Harden. And it's 410 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: not that James Harden stinks. It's not that James Harden suddenly, oh, 411 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: we can't play anymore. But James Harden now at forty 412 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: one million dollars a year, that's thirty percent of the 413 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: Clippers salary cap. And he's not good enough to be 414 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: taking up thirty percent. One guy taking up thirty percent 415 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: of your salary cap. I'm sorry, he's not that play. 416 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: Lebron's not that player anymore. He's taking up a bigger percentage. 417 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: But James Harden can't take up thirty percent of your 418 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: salary cap, which is what this deal is, right, salary 419 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: caps about one hundred and fifty five million. Harden's going 420 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 1: to be for. You can't have that. He's not that 421 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: guy anymore. Because every year with Harden ends the same. Hey, 422 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: he has some moments in the regular season, he plays 423 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,479 Speaker 1: pretty well, we get to the playoffs and what happens. 424 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: What happened in the first round of the playoffs. He 425 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: had three horrible games, including seven points in Game seven. 426 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: He had a couple of really good games and two 427 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 1: games that were just kind of okay, right, for forty 428 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: one million dollars a year to be that guy, you 429 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,119 Speaker 1: can't have that kind of performance in the playoffs, man, 430 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,360 Speaker 1: That's what I mean. This is money that SGA gets that. Hey, 431 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: I got it. I have six out of seven games 432 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: are great and by one game that's not great is 433 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: at least an average kind of game where I score 434 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: twenty four and it seems like I had a bad game. 435 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: Harden's not worth it. 436 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: He's not. 437 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: Every season ends the same. It's ended the same with 438 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: him for years. But yet still he shows just enough 439 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: to think that, oh, guess what, give me money and 440 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,239 Speaker 1: we can still be on the way up. And here 441 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: are the Clippers who are so desperate to stay relevant. 442 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: They're continuing on. We're gonna continue to build around Kawhi 443 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: even though we haven't done anything since he's been here. 444 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: And it didn't work with Paul George, now it's gonna 445 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: work with James Harden. You can't build around guys in 446 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: their mid thirties. You can't. 447 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 2: You're not going farm. Sorry, you're not. 448 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: Nobody in their mid thirties is leading you to an 449 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: NBA championship. They're not even to get you out of 450 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 1: the first round because it doesn't. It doesn't happen you 451 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: get on in the playoffs when your teams are younger, 452 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: more athletic. Why did the Pacers make it all the 453 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: way to the finals. They were younger, more athletic, right, 454 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: the Thunder younger, more athletic. These are not to you. 455 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: See the teams that were older Akers went out in 456 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: the first round. Man, this is how it goes, This 457 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: is how it works in sports. And the Clippers, yeah, 458 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: let's continue to be built behind Kawhi Leonard and James 459 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Harden because this year is gonna be different. I'm sorry, 460 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: it's not. And when you're thirty five, I'll tell you 461 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,719 Speaker 1: exactly what's gonna happen. You win forty five is games 462 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: and then you're losing the first round of the playoffs. 463 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: That's what the Clippers have signed up for. And apparently 464 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: that's okay with them, which I really I don't understand 465 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: how James Harden continues to convince teams that, yes, give. 466 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 2: Me money and then give me a big role and 467 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 2: we can go. 468 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: But no, I'm sorry, but his team hasn't gone anywhere 469 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: in years years it's been for him. 470 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 3: Well, but you still need to pay someone to get 471 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 3: you to the dance. Still need to pay that car service. 472 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 3: And in this equation, as you lay it out, that's 473 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 3: what James Harden provides. He is gonna give you the 474 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 3: on ramp through your eighty two game regular season averaging 475 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 3: twenty two plus nearly nine assists some flexibility, right, it's 476 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 3: a one and the bonus contract. He can opt out 477 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 3: to try to do it again after this year player option. 478 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 3: Some of it guaranteed in the second year. 479 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: But when we look at it, you're going off a 480 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: roster competitive losing seven games. To your point, he was 481 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 1: a no show there. You wish and hope, and this 482 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: is where Steve Balmer like he's been good for the 483 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: squad while he's there. He's been a pretty good leader. 484 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: The age and track history certainly lays up as you're 485 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: trying to figure out how much depth you can add. 486 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: Because they were a pretty good squad, right, Clippers were 487 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: a pretty fun watch this year. Some injury issues beset them. 488 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: As always, you still have one last year on Norman 489 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: Powell's deal before he's got to get paid, So still 490 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 1: some flexibility in terms of your roster and guys that 491 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: can step up and take a shot, and now it 492 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: becomes about the management of minutes, right, But in the 493 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 1: Western Conference there's no gimme because you still have to 494 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: play pretty damn hard to make sure you finished between 495 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: seven and ten. The way that it's set up this year, 496 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: because think about all the moves made by the teams 497 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: that were also rans. Outside of the Jazz, they're the Jazz. 498 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 1: Everybody else has made moves enough to where they're at 499 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 1: least gonna be competitive. Competitive is one thing, and to 500 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: try to be competitive, I get it. But to try 501 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: to go through and to go through the same exact 502 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: strategy when you've seen it not work. 503 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 2: How does that make sense? 504 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: I guess for me with Harden, it becomes the if 505 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: I go into the marketplace, whom I replacing him with 506 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: at a cost savings, that's gonna give me the same 507 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: output that he does. That's well that but that maybe 508 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: two players that are younger and and maybe a little 509 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: bit more dynamic that. 510 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 2: Can do it. 511 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: Look hard to Harden is still a good player, but 512 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: he's just not worth this, and he's can you know 513 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,160 Speaker 1: how it's gonna and you know it's gonna break down 514 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: all of a sudden. 515 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 2: Next year is gonna be the year. Next year, next 516 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: year is the year for No. 517 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,160 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I've watched I've watched the James Harden movie 518 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: over it. I'm just saying, in terms of alternatives in 519 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: the markets. 520 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 2: Fast the furious movies. 521 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: Okay, No, What'scarre's gonna be a lot of great car chases, 522 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: death defying stunts, and they're all gonna make it at 523 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: the end, and to go back to the next one 524 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: and go to that. 525 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 3: I just really enjoyed that that old Vin Diesel came 526 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 3: walking out to announce the next one, looking like he 527 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 3: was ready to go play some nose tack. 528 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 2: Jason, You're not him? Do you think the Clippers paid 529 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 2: him a lot? Wait till the next signament? Two years? Hey, 530 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 2: the next toll? Hey? 531 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: According to reports, next told Kevin Durant to beat it 532 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 1: when he started, Hey, what about it? Beat it? 533 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: Okay, this is without a. 534 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: Coach, Yeah, saying in the cost no more, in the 535 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: cost of the mind in the love shock baby. Now, 536 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: speaking of you guys taking up too much salary cap all, 537 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: Lebron James op it into his fifty two million dollar 538 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: option with the Lakers this weekend. And this was going 539 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: to happen. Nobody else is going to pay Lebron that money. 540 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: And yet Rich Paul and Clutch put out a statement 541 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: about Lebron that, hey, happy to be there, but Lebron 542 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: is quote watching the Lakers moves to make sure they 543 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: stay competitive. 544 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 2: Jason careful, He's monitoring the show right now. Yeah, my Lebron. Okay, Rich, 545 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 2: what do you mean, Rich? What did you do mate 546 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 2: with that phone call with the the nets? Talk to me? 547 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: Will you remember when Phil had the guy that I 548 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: was drowning and Phil saw it all. So the statement 549 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: comes out that while we understand the Lakers are moving 550 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: up to build behind Luca, Don said, hey, Lebron values 551 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: competing for a championship and this is what he wants. 552 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: And I saw this and I said, oh, this is 553 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: one of those lok statements, which means load of crap statements, 554 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: because all this is is Lebron trying to trying to 555 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: pull the wool over your eyes in which you still 556 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: feel that he has poll and has power over the Lakers, 557 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: which he does not. Right, he did for a long 558 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: time and he and Rich Paul they ran the Lakers. Hey, hey, 559 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: oh we want Russell Usbrook and said it well, let's 560 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: said now we want Russell Westbrook. Okay, and the Lakers 561 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: took a lot. They're just getting out from under that 562 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook decision a year ago. So yes, he did 563 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: have that kind of pull, but he doesn't anymore. He doesn't. 564 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: The Lakers would love to let him go. They would 565 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: love to have seen Okay, yeah, as good a player 566 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: as Lebron is. Again, Lebron's not worth forty percent of 567 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,479 Speaker 1: your salary cap, which of course is what he's gonna take. 568 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: Not gonna take twenty million, you know for this year. No, 569 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: got to take fifty million. I want to win a championship. 570 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: I don't you take twenty million dollars. Jalen Brunson, in 571 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: his mid twenties, decided to take way less money because 572 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: he wants to win a championship. No, no, I'm not gonna 573 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: do that. Oh sorry, at the end of a career 574 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: which has seen you become one of the richest people 575 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: on the planet. No, no, I'm gonna keep fifty two 576 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: million because I'm worried about my optics, which he's always 577 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: been way too worried about his optics, right, So this 578 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: is why I want to take fifty million. You're not 579 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 1: worth it. No one's trading for you for this, No 580 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: one's gonna pay this salary for you. This is your 581 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: final year with the Lakers. I don't care what you 582 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: try to say about the Lakers. You're monitoring what they 583 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: want to do in free agency. You're stuck. You're there, right. 584 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: The Lakers are gonna do whatever they can with the 585 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 1: money they have because this is your last year, right, 586 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 1: you're monitoring them. 587 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 2: If I'm Rob Plink, I stand up and go or 588 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:11,880 Speaker 2: what Lebron? 589 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? What are you gonna You 590 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: could demand a trade? Who's gonna trade for you? Fifty 591 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: two million dollars? No one's gonna trade if you know 592 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 1: what's gonna give us assets for you? 593 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 2: No one? What do you think is gonna happen? 594 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: You're not gonna play, You're gonna opt out? 595 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? 596 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: I'd stand to yell out of like he's like he's 597 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: on my walls, Get off, my lord? 598 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? Lebron? Like? Really? What is 599 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 2: this is? 600 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 1: Just I'm trying to control the optic that I still 601 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: have sway over the Lakers, and I really don't and Honestly, 602 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: if the Lakers could they said you could get out 603 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: from under Lebron without paying them any money and take 604 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: whatever money you have in free agency, they would say, 605 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,399 Speaker 1: we will do that because this year is going to 606 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: be about what let's see what we have for this 607 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: year and are is what we have on the roster, 608 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: what we should be building around Luka Doncich with should 609 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: we building around Luca, do with Austin Reeves or not? 610 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: Should we building around with it with with with player 611 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: X y Z or not. This is how they're going 612 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: to take this season. And Lebron's gonna play his last 613 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: year at the Lakers, and if he wants to keep 614 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: playing after this year, it's gonna be thank. 615 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 2: You very much. 616 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 1: And he's gonna call the Cavaliers say hey, I want 617 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: to come home to finish. 618 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 2: That's the only place he can go finish. 619 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 1: I want to go home. I want to go home. 620 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: I was Akron, I was there. That was Akron then 621 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 1: I was going, I want to finish. That's how it's 622 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 1: gonna end for Lebro. 623 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,679 Speaker 3: What's funny is then where we had what was it 624 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 3: about two weeks ago, the whole Gripe session about ring 625 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 3: culture and blah blah blah blah blah. You know when 626 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 3: people can immediately bring up pictures of him sitting there 627 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 3: with Jim Gray and then the not two, not three, 628 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 3: not four and all that, and then you started chasing 629 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 3: around rings and rebuilding things as you wanted them and 630 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 3: all of that that suddenly you're trying to push that up. 631 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 3: If you were to take less money, he would have 632 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 3: to admit that that's what he's doing. 633 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, right. 634 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 3: The other is, I mean, I can't wait till after 635 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 3: this year. If he drives to go back to Cleveland, 636 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 3: they have. 637 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: To play for a mid level exemption with the roster 638 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: that they've got constructed, because he ain't getting dropped dollar 639 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: from that. And that was the most fun watching the 640 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: trade and Don Simmons money, Well. 641 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: You never have to take a shot. 642 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: But the idea that you have all these these teams 643 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: like yeah, he'd go to there as a contender. 644 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 2: It's like, look, what has to happen. 645 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: Half the team has to come back to match that 646 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: fifty three million dollars salary. None of it's happening. So 647 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: opting in, you made your point and to my my thing, 648 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,959 Speaker 1: I go back to what Kobe Bryant said all those 649 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: years ago. It's their job to figure it out. It's 650 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: not my job. The union wouldn't be happy with me 651 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: taking less. 652 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 2: I get it. 653 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: We talked about it. You don't take ten million dollars less. 654 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: What's ten million dollars? You made a ton of money. 655 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: There's larger implication for one year at the end. Now 656 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: he could do. 657 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 2: But the larger. 658 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,479 Speaker 1: Implications I get. But you also want to show your 659 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: clout by being one of the top guys. At fifty 660 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: million dollars. You can't have it both ways, and with 661 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: this squad, certainly you're in between a rock and a 662 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: hard place. We already had the Austin Reeves deal we 663 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: were talking about last week. Your next best guy is 664 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: Ruey Hachimora. 665 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 2: I like him. 666 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: I think he's a good player. What's he bringing in trade? 667 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: You just lost brook low Pez because you guys had. 668 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 2: No money to spend. Now he's a he's a clipper. 669 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: At two years, eighteen million dollars, that's pretty damn good 670 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: value for a guy, even if he's long in the 671 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: tooth to go play fifteen to twenty minutes a night. 672 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: But now you're gonna end up playing him multiple times 673 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: a year as he beats the hell out of you in. 674 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 2: The low post. 675 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: So you're stuck and Lebron tried to act all tough 676 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: and that's what this statement was. 677 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 3: I mean, it's empty. It's a lot of empty threats 678 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 3: and a lot a lot of nonsense. Go ahead, opt out, 679 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,760 Speaker 3: opt out, go ahead and see what the marketing place was. 680 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, you go see, you go see. You get yourself 681 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 2: a deal. 682 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: You let me know, you let me know what trade 683 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,960 Speaker 1: between let me rain and if he'd opted out. 684 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 2: Who's rushing anywhere near that kind of around is no? 685 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: And if he wanted a multi year deal, this tells 686 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: you flat out. The Laker said, we're not interested. 687 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 2: Thank you. 688 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,960 Speaker 1: Exit a about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason 689 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. I'm gonna 690 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: find out what's trending in the wide world of sports 691 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: from special Delivery Steven seger Asney What do. 692 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 2: You got for? 693 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: US? 694 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 7: NBA free agent negotiations started tonight. Also, the new salary 695 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 7: cap is set at about one hundred and fifty five 696 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 7: million dollars per team. Oklahoma City's Jalen Williams, who just 697 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 7: averaged twenty one points per game will have risk surgery. 698 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 7: Denver is trading Michael Porter and a first rounder to 699 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 7: the Nets for Cam Johnson. Utah is finalizing a buy 700 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 7: out of Jordan Clarkson. Reportedly he's to sign with the 701 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 7: Knicks this week. The Clippers are signing Brook Lopez, D'Angelo 702 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 7: Russell agreed to a deal with Dallas. Kevon Looney left 703 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 7: Golden State for New Orleans. Houston is signing center Clint Capella. 704 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 7: Sacramento gets Dennis Shrewder, Dorian Finney Smith leads the Lakers 705 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 7: for Houston, and the Memphis Grizzlies are giving Jaron Jackson 706 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 7: a MAX extension. The WNBA was off tonight Tuesdays the 707 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 7: Commissioner's Cup Final Indiana at Minnesota. Rookie Page Beckers will 708 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 7: start the All Star Game along with Asia Wilson and others. 709 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 7: Indianapolis will be hosting the WNBA All Star Game on 710 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 7: July nineteenth. The WNBA will add three more expansion teams 711 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 7: in the future, in Cleveland in twenty twenty eight, in 712 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 7: Detroit twenty twenty nine, and in Philadelphia twenty thirty. Next year, 713 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 7: the new Toronto and Portland Hoops team starts Currently, there 714 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 7: are thirteen teams in the WNBA. The Steelers acquired All 715 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 7: Pro defensive back Jalen Ramsey from the Dolphins. NHL free 716 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 7: agency starts Tuesday. The Florida Panthers re signed Brad Marshan. 717 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 7: In the FIFA Club World Cup, couple of upsets in 718 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 7: the round of sixteen late tonight in Orlando, Manchester City 719 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,440 Speaker 7: was beaten in overtime. Inter Milan lost today in Charlotte. Tuesday, 720 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 7: in Miami, it's Real Madrid against Juventus. Carlos Alcarez won 721 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 7: his first rounder at Wimbledon in five sets. Number one 722 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 7: Arena Sablenka was a winner. To baseball a little bit 723 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 7: of a limited schedule tonight, but Miami, which was off, 724 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 7: has won seven in a row. The Marlins tomorrow host 725 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 7: the Twins. The White Sox were off. They've won two straight. 726 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 7: They're up to twenty eight and fifty six. They'll play 727 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 7: at the Dodger starting Tuesday, and then. 728 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 2: You never know what. Noahs Sindergard's gonna show up to. 729 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 7: Betch maybe Wednesday against Clayton KERSHAWRUSHA. 730 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 2: No, okay, let's lose again. 731 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 7: The Mets did not lose, although they've lost thirteen of sixteen. 732 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 7: They did lose ground in the standings, though they are 733 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 7: two games back in the first place. Phills Philadelphia shut 734 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 7: out San Diego four nothing. Zach Wheeler eight and three 735 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 7: got the win eight innings, ten strikeouts, no walks. Bryce 736 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 7: Harper back with the Phillies off the injured list after 737 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 7: wrist inflammation. 738 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 2: He went oh for two with a walk. 739 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 7: Pittsburgh won its fourth straight games, seven nothing over the Cardinals. 740 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 7: The idle Cubs are first in the NL Central, two 741 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 7: games over Milwaukee, now three up on Saint Louis. The 742 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 7: winning pitcher for Pittsburgh was Andrew heineywo had and no 743 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 7: hitter until two outs in the six. Boston scored seven 744 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 7: times in the first inning and beat the Reds thirteen 745 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 7: to six. The lost to rookie Chase Burns, who was 746 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 7: out in the first Will You're a Bray of the 747 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 7: Red Sox had an inside the park homer and a 748 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 7: grand slam at Toronto. 749 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 2: Three RBIs for Vladimir. 750 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: Guerrero Carilines doesn't have the last time that happened in 751 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: the game, someone had an inside. 752 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 2: The park and a grand slam. 753 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 7: Roger Maris nineteen sixty two, Wow five four over the Yankees. 754 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 7: Aaron Judge two strikeouts two walks in the loss. The 755 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 7: A's got two runs in the top of the ninth, 756 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 7: winning six to four. At Tampa Bay. Baltimore was at Texas. 757 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 7: Each team in the tenth scored three times. In the eleventh, 758 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 7: the Orioles won the game ten to six. Arizona beat 759 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,240 Speaker 7: San Francisco four to two. A Ennio Suarez twenty sixth 760 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 7: home run of the season. He has sixty nine RBIs. 761 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 7: At Seattle cal Rawley with a sackfly for his seventieth 762 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 7: RBI of the year, and then he hit his thirty 763 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 7: third homer. Mariners beat Kansas City six to two. MLB 764 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 7: All Star Game voting resumed today. It goes till Wednesday. 765 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: Back to you last time Grand Slam inside the park, 766 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: same game. 767 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 2: Did you make that up with Roger Marris? No, you 768 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: sure about that? I thought a pirate did it this 769 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 2: weeken against the mess. 770 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 3: I pictured in my head as Steve said that like 771 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,280 Speaker 3: it was a finishing move. My birthday boy, Cody Roads, 772 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 3: he just gave you the Crossroads right the boom okay, 773 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,719 Speaker 3: Happy birthday to him and my daughter. 774 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. 775 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:09,800 Speaker 7: To be done separately, the park was yeah, no, no, no, no, sorry, 776 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 7: Roger Merris, it was August third, fifty eight. 777 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 2: Oh, you were wrong, it was Roger. You were wrong. Okay, 778 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,959 Speaker 2: but it was close enough for you. Roger. That's pretty 779 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: good for right off the top. That's not bad, it's 780 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 2: very good. 781 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: Uh. Speaking of very good, what team made the best 782 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 1: trade today? The answer is gonna surprise you next. They 783 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: did not make a trade, probably wouldn't have been a 784 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: good one if they did. That's coming up next, Jason 785 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: and Mike Fox. 786 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 787 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 788 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 2: pm Pacific