April 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Denver Nuggets firing head coach Michael Malone and why they decided to do it now, what this says about Malone's value, how it impacts Nikola Jokic's long-term future, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's all about pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Why did the Nuggets make this decision to whack Michael
Malone the postseason looming on the horizon? Also, what does
this move by the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value
to the Denver basketball team? And with Michael Malone gone,
how does this impact Nikola Jokicic's future long term with
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the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Also, a bonus Mini Mallard monologue in the B block.
Bonus Mini Mallard monologue on Luca's ejection with the Lakers
in Oklahoma City. How do you process Luca getting the
boot for his big fat mouth in Oklahoma?
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We'll talk about all that.
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Show'd be so our lead this, we'll do pro bouncy
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the regular season again because a Laker player can't control
himself because he's a loser and deserve to get kids out. Vocain,
We're not only with that who cares Lakers as as
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in the Western Conference standings, and I cannot wait. I've
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will do the funeral for the Lakers. That'll be fun
the downfall when they are eliminated and all you losers
will say, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Only year one. Everything's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Okay, yeah, okay, takes time, yeah okay, But our lead
is from a team that that did win a legitimate
championship a couple of years ago in pro bouncy ball
and have decided to clean house.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
See you later.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Another one bites the dust, Another one bites the dust,
and that would be a head coach and a general manager,
a two for one special in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
If you have not heard, I assume you've heard by now,
but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We learned that the Nuggets, the Chicken Nuggets, have sacked
head coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Here going and I'll put you a nine out of ten.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Casual observers didn't even know the name of the general
manager of the Denver basketball team, Calvin Booth. He was
also paull axed from Denver just days before the regular
season ends, like this weekend, it's over, and here we are.
Here we are the coaching change. Someone named David Adelman.
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I used to interview his old man, who never did much,
coached a lot of teams, didn't really win anything, Rick Adelman.
But that's the spawn of Rick Adelman. So another another
coach who is is a neo baby. Another neo baby
in sports, as David Adalman takes over, and so don't
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bury the lead mam Man. Who cares about the gm
who cares about the interim coach?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's not the story.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The story here is Michael Malone, who has been with
the Denver basketball team for a decade and was there
when they won the championship. He was on the sideline
calling up the plays and all that. And now he
is persona non grata.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He has been given the.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Pink slip see you later. So let us discuss the
question why why did the Nuggets make the decision to
whack Michael Malone? Now the postseason is looming, like this
is this is even more bizarre than Memphis. Like Memphis
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is that well, they're not really going anywhere, and there's
issues with John Morant that was eleven days prior and
the Grizzlies they decided to maul their head coach.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But this is supposedly a Denver team.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That, even though they were not playing great in the moment,
was a contender because of the joker in the middle.
So I've got disco, paper plates and vultures, and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
provide a nice sparkly new hat, which you know, Lorraina
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gets a lot of food and stuff over there, she
gets a lot of good See, this is a new hat.
This is a Buffalo Bison hat. It's a solid looking hat. Right,
It's a good hat fits could solid hat. So that's
what we're gonna make that all right. So my first
thought answering the question why why did the Denver basketball
team eliminate the coach and the GM with the postseason
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looming in the horizon. So this is a Red Bull special?
Is a Red Bull special trying to give a little
bit of a jolt to the roster and looking to
wake up a team that has been napping since the
All Star break. However, if you dig a little deeper,
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there's this weasel, your little weasel. As a certain MMA
guy used to say, Josh Kroncky, who you talk about
winning the genetic lottery. Josh Kronkie is in the Cronky family,
and they have all the money in the world. I mean,
they are just loaded. So Josh Cronky won the genetic
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lottery and so as a result he gets to run
a sports team. And so Josh Crocky, the son I
believe of the owner said in the future, the immediate expectations,
immediate expectations for the Nuggets following the coaching change. He
said all of five words. He said, play hard and
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have fun. Hard and have fun. That's the money quote.
You know what that also is? Say it with me now,
dead give way. That is a dead giveaway. Yeah, captain obvious.
What does that tell you? Okay, Now you are the investigator,
you are analyzing that quote. What does that quote tell you?
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You play talk radio host? What does that quote tell you?
I know what to tell I know on this side.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What about you? So to me, it don't change your
answer to me. It tells you that the Denver.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Nuggets were A not playing hard and B we're not
having fun. They were not having fun. Okay, So that's
what that tells you. Otherwise you wouldn't need to encourage
the team to play hard and try to have fun.
If they're already having fun and playing hard, it doesn't matter.
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You don't need to say it. You're just it's obvious.
Now after the fact. I love the after the fact
breathless reporting. So, Michael Malone is a popular figure with
the Denver basketball team and someone that is beloved by
many in the basketball media. So when you get rid
of someone who is deemed popular, you then need to
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turn to character assassination, which is what the Denver Nuggets
are doing, trying to bury Michael Malone on his way
out of Colorado. And it's exactly what's happening here, this
breathless reporting that there was a civil war going on
between Michael Malone and the GM Calvin Booth.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They weren't even talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They hated each other's guts, and Malone was upset because
he didn't like the way the roster was built. They
got a bunch of suck bag young players on the bench.
It's not a championship bench, and Malone was annoyed by that.
And there was also some debates about certain guys were
playing that the GM wanted other people to play, and
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so they painted the picture that Malone was just a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
King of all a holes and that's why he was like,
oh U coseu.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
The Nuggets, the ownership group of the executives there, what
happens is they leak stories. There's a story leaked that
Malone was giving preferential treatment. And this is going to
blow you in the NBA They never do this in
the NBA, giving special star treatment to Nikola Jokic and
Jamal Murray. O MG, can you imagine that star players
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in basketball would be treated special?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's a yet, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I mean I know here that like myself and my colleague,
Colin Cowherd are treated exactly s other than the extra
zeros on his contract and the people that follow him
around in case there's any crumbs that drop down from
his mouth and.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
They're there to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Other than that, very similar, very very similar, very similar
lives me and you know, my teammate, because there's no
star system.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We don't have a star.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Everyone has a star system. Yamara, what's wrong with you?
It's a nice spin, but my breakdown on this is
pretty simple. So night out on the town. It is
a visit to the disco. It is panic at the
disco is what it is now. This is turning into
a total boondoggle, and I'm there for it. I'm there
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a big bucket of buttered popcorn. Denver is eleven and
thirteen since the All Star break. It is a desperation
play by the Nuggets, a total desperation play. It's a
little caffeine, little red bull. They're trying to jump start
things and trying to squeeze one more, one more playoff
run with some no name assistant coach and hoping beyond hope,
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which I don't think hope is a great strategy. I
don't think that they tell you that that's the way
to turn to hope doesn't usually go so well. Now
page two here, So what does this particular move by
the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value, Because there's the
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public perception and then there's the private perception.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Right, So, publicly, as we talked about.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Here, Malone is considered one of the upper echelon head
coaches in the NBA. This guy is prepared, He is
methodical with his work. He is someone that lives breeze, eats,
sleeps basketball and puts the work in and all that.
But then he realized privately in the bowels of the
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facility there where the Nuggets hold down the fort, that
they are really just whistling Dixie is what they're doing there.
It's a reminder that Michael Malone and all NBA coaches
are like those Dixie paper plates, disposable, right, Everyone's disposable.
You know the average tenure, the average tenure of an
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NBA coach is about two and a half seasons. That's it,
two and a half seasons. It is a merry go round,
round and round and round and round on the merry
go round, and it spins fast and you better be
careful and you're to be thrown off it. It's a
whirlwind situation. So the Nuggets ownership, though, I will point
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out years ago when I used to go to those
NBA games and then back in the good old days,
and I believe it, I even went to like Laker
games and Phil Jackson was the coach of the Lakers
and he ranted, which was amusing because Phil lasted in
Chicago and LA for a long time. But Phil used
to preach and I guess the Nuggets are really following
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the Zen philosophy. But Phil Jackson preached that a coach's
message grows stale the longer they stay in one outpost.
And he was an advocate that you had to change
and go to different locations because the players tune out
that the more the team becomes a customed And he
also said you had to change the ross a lot
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because guys do get comfortable, and once they get comfortable,
they put on the ear muffs.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And they're like, hey, we're good. We're out on that.
And so Malone was there ten years and he ends
up getting decommissioned.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Our last word here, Now we go to the Komodo
Dragon in the room. Now what is the Komodo Dragon room?
With Michael Malone dispatched from Denver? How does this impact
Nicola Jokic and his long term future with the Nuggets.
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So Yogic, by all accounts, is a top twenty all
time NBA player already, even if he retired today, be
a top twenty all time NBA player, probably top ten
based on his accomplishments. He doesn't get the credit because
he isn't playing a big market and so people dismiss him.
But he's been amazing. He's been absolutely amazing for the
Nuggets and all that stuff. However, my default position is
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no different on this than it was on John Morant
in Memphis. My position is that Nikola Jokicic was fully
aware that this was an option, and he did not
put his foot down and use his star influence to
keep Michael Malone as coach of the Nuggets. If Nikola
jokicch truly had an issue that he I'm sure he
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likes Michael Malone personally, but if he wanted him professionally
to be the coach of the Nuggets, still Malone would
still be the coach of the Nuggets. They would have
gotten rid of the GM, they would have kept Michael Malone.
You in that business. It has been this way as
my entire life in the NBA. Right, I find it
impossiblieve that this was not greenlit by Nicola jokicch that
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you know, chatter was Now there's stories being thrown out
that he was frustrated with the Nuggets defense, and of
course I'm sure a lot of people were frustrated. The
team blows right now, they're not playing very well. And
so you also have the vultures now who are circling
overhead and in e with that ominous music playing and
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so trying to poach talent, trying to get some some talent.
And I said, well, there's no way the Nuggets would
ever trade NICOLEA. Jokic. This guy's a nugget for life. Well,
he said the same thing about Luca and and how
that work out. So if you follow the gambling market.
I don't think I need to tell you who the
favorite is to acquire to acquire these services of the Joker. Yeah,
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that's a team that the NBA rigs for everyone to
go to over the course of their career. They're halfway decent,
that ugly purple and gold team now followed by Jokis.
The other option would be Jokic leaving the NBA altogether,
leaving not just the Nuggets but the NBA and going
and playing for one of the teams in his homeland
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there in Serbia and just saying I'm out. That's it,
see you later. I'm done. I'm gonna get out of
here and I go back to my old life. I'm
gonna drink three leaders of Coca Cola day and I'll
live my greatest life.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Some of the other teams mentioned, you've got the.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Usual suspects, the Warriors, the Clippers, and the wild card,
the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
They were tossed out there as well.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And for the Lakers here, they got to hope that
Nico Harrison gets fired and then he gets hired by Denver,
and then his first move would be like you know,
I remember, Jokich was a fattie coming into the NBA,
so I'm worried he might become a fatty against so
we'll we'll give him.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
To the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And we need like a like a box of sand,
and that's I think we need like one other little
shar of class and we're good and that would be
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We'll get back to the calls here in a moment,
but dateline, dust ball, dateline dust ball.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I was told. I was told that the Lakers were on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The come, as they say in poker, and after blowing
out Oklahoma City the other night, the Lakers were in
position to take over the West. They were going to
make a statement and beat the Thunder yet again in
the game that was played on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So they were. They had a one point lead going
to the fourth quarter, and.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Then a total meltdown, a total meltdown by the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Lakers a leading going into.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The fourth quarter, one aw eight to one oh seven
in the fourth quarter, and then the meltdown happened as.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hookah, Luca got some bad hookah.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And you go, yeah uh if you didn't see it,
Luka Doncik received a second technical foul in the fourth quarter.
At the time Lakers were up by one, and that
means an automatic injection.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Not the smartest Yeah, Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We're here, Not the smartest move in the world for
Luca there. Now, there's a couple of theories on what happened.
You had the crew chief Tony Brothers, longtime NBA referee,
who explained the first technical fiul by Luca was directing
profanity at an official and the second was for using
vulgar language which he was looking at the referee. Now
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that's where the debate is, because according to the NBA
rule Book, by the letter of the law, not the
spirit of law. By the letter of the law, Luca
has no leg to stand on, no leg to stand on,
because it says right there in the NBA Rulebook that
a player earns a technical file for using profanity, use
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of profanity, or disrespectfully, disrespectfully addressing an official.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And so check, check, and then you are ejected.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now Luca's claiming his defense is he said postgame that
he was talking to a fan and not the referee.
He says, I never got a fan ejected.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Never.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But if you're gonna talk, I'm gonna talk back like always,
like always, Lucas said. So the question on this one,
as we discuss here, how do you process Luca Donzik
getting the boot in Oka se and just the general
mindset that Luca has so somewhere far far away, Nico
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Harrison is smiling and all those stories the Mavericks planted
in the media about Luca being uncoachable and uncontrollable.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
This is an example. This is the argument they were making.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Whether you agree with it or not, this is the
example of Luca not being coachable.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That it's it's the whole.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Situation where you're there. You got to know you already
have a technical foul and what are you doing? It
is a lack of discipline, Luca having a conniption fit
like a spoiled child, like a baby, which is what
one of the arguments was about Luca, that he's just
uncoachable and he's a baby. He does whatever he wants,
and there's no discipline, there's no self control.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You don't win like that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And this is a really bad omen for the Lakers
that he can't even control himself in a regular season
game on a random Tuesday night. What is going to
happen in a playoff environment. Oh my god, it is
going to be a disaster. And by the way, Luca
has The second part is Luca has just announced to
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every degenerate heckler from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it's
on right if you are in the heckling business.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That was the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That was the Mona Lisa that you start heckling Luca
and he's such a non professional he can't control his
emotion that he gets back at you and he gets ejected.
That is the one of the great moments in the
history of heckling. And so I'm sure there are better hecklers. No,
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you know, I don't know if that was Kyrie in
Okay see r P one there number one Thunderfan Kyrie.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I don't know if that was him or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But whoever it was, I'm guessing down the line there
are other hecklers that are more advanced than that particular heckler.
So you've got that, and then you've also got location,
location Location. Now I enjoy a good swear word like
the next red blooded American man or one. However, this
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game was played where that's right. The belt, the Bible belt.
You can't use that kind of language in the Bible belt.
Luca's gonna get struck by lightning. He's gonna get struck
by the What are you doing, seriously, Luca, Bible belt,
read the Bible, Luke, you can't curse like that was
wrong with you. And then the final part of this.
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The Lakers are in some serious trouble and I.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Tried to tell you, you.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Haven't listened to me. They're a mentally weak team. Luca's
mentally weak? Uh, and they completely crumble. What happened to
rising up? Luca got ejected? You still have you told?
Told me Lebron James is as good as ever and
you've got the greatest undrafted player of all time in
Austin Reeves, God's gift to basketball. And you completely fell
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apart because you're a soft team. You're mister softy. So
the Lakers have a lot of problems right now, and
I will enjoy the demise of the Lakers. And boy,
that what a What a bad night for Luca. What
an embarrassment. You can't even contain yourself. Some guy wearing
cowboy boots in the front row and a and a
bulow tie is shouting at you and you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Can't have any self control. Bad job by you? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Is the the Ben Mahler Show. Will take some calls,
and where do we want to go here? It's thee
eeny meenie miney mo.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let's saylo to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Ben thanks for taking the call. Of course, good good
to be with you. Listen, what's going on in the NBA?
These owners, these teams have they no shame the way
that Mike Malone is being treated. What are we doing here?
What is this the new fat of the month? Okay?
Owner in Denver looks at the folks in Memphis, completely
different city, completely different you know, geography every day. Okay,
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they're gonna fire a good coach. Okay, a little bit
of time left in the season, built them up, took
a mercurial star and put them in a position to
be successful. So now we the Denver Nuggets, who just
won an NBA championship less than two years ago. Now
we're gonna jump on that bandwagon. Okay, what's going on here?
Do these fan bases do they? Are they going to
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tolerate these tanking owners?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, well, you know, you know what's going on Andre.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
They clearly think that this is going to jump start
these teams. And they also are are cow towing to
the star player, whether it's John Moran in Memphis or
Nicole Jokic in Denver. I I do not believe, I
refuse to believe that either one of those coaching changes
happened without the wink and the nod from the star player.
Because I've I've watched the NBA, I've been This is
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not my first trip to the circus, and it's not
yours either. Andre you've seen it. You know how this
stuff works. I mean, how many times has Lebron James
gotten a coach fired? For example, right, he gives a
wink there and the coach is gone. Happens all the time,
not just Lebron, most of these guys does.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Happen all the time. Okay, But when he tried that
move in Miami and he had real leadership in the
front office, i e. Pat Riley, it didn't go down, Okay, Yeah,
but he left.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And then said it was because he couldn't have his
chocolate chip cookies. He said, that's why he's in Miami.
The heat said no to the chocolate chip cookies. And
I gotta tell you when I was, when I was
morbally obese, I would have also left a job if
they didn't give me chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So I understand why you would do that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And you need feel Ben. Yeah, the snack a room
in there, chocolate chip cookies a little bit of milk. Okay,
you get to get the juices flowing again.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And you're right, how more portant house. We've not heard
from Willis and all Is Willis Okay? Is everything okay
with Willis?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Willis is okay. He's resting right now. He's out, you know,
and he's a state. But event we're going into, you know,
a couple more weeks, will be in April, vacation, so
we'll be back, you know, living living a good life. Okay,
going out. We should be walking around these times, you know,
getting the fresh air. He's out there keeping the neighborhood safe,
you know, from from crime and you know everything else,
you know, keeping the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Safe, a real neighborhood hero Willis. People underestimate the power
of the great Willis right there.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Unbelievable indeed, and they should Okay, back to Denver, okay,
Uh please, you got to get some some love in
your heart here. Three days left in the season. And
bottom line is bottom line is this. I don't see
the joke signing off on this. I have it coming
from ownership and just saying they've had enough of the dysfunction.
And even if there was dysfunction, First of all, specific
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to Yogic, she seems to have this every day you
know common you know man type of perspective. You know,
takes pride in the little things and he's grateful. So
I don't see him being, frankly, a backstabber. I see
just an ownership group that just is making.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I mean, I don't think he started with Jokic. But
they say, hey, Nicole, we're thinking about getting rid of
the coach. Would you have a big problem with this.
He didn't say yeah, I got a problem with this.
Otherwise Malone would have still been there. But remember the
phrase in sports, dance with the one who brung you right,
that old line, well, in the NBA Dance with the
interim coach. Dance with the interim coach.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Okay, they're gonna be They're gonna be dancing right in
the play in and out of the playoffs, and they're
gonna blow it up and then they're gonna be worse
off than they were before.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You know, there is another line.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
You know, you should have loved the one you're with. Okay,
you should love the one you're with it and get
through the tough times. They didn't do it. Shame on
you Denver. Okay, you're gonna get what's coming to you,
and Mike Lung is gonna get another job and you're
gonna be successful. He's not gonnaet a job in New York,
but he's crazy. People talking about Tips being out of this,
So we can x that out. Ben, Thanks taking the call.
Show some respect to these great coaches. We'll be with
you next time.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I've never been a big coaching matters guy in
the NBA. There are a few that are on the
short list. I thought Malone was on there, but clearly
the Nuggets do not agree. And by the way, the
People's team, you talk about a team on the run here,
Holy crap, everyone's afraid of this team, the Clippers. Nobody
wants to play the Clippers in the playoffs. And right
now the Clips they beat San Antonio on Tuesday night,
so the People's team has moved all the way up
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to number four.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Lakers will lose to the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's right, Lakers are gonna lose to the Mavericks on
Wednesday night and then they'll be tied. Now I think
the Lakers have the tiebreaker because the Clippers felt.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Bad and they gave some games away, quieted and playing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But if the Lakers stumble again after that and the
Clippers went out, then all of a sudden, clips end up.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What number three?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Number three like, I don't think they're not gonnackets. Rockets
are locked in there with number two in the West.
So things shaken and shaken and stirred here in the
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Ferg dog rights and says, hey, tell Bill Miller that
we don't give a crap whether he fasts or not.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Nobody's here for the Bill Miller show.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
H Yeah, uh, Tony writes in, says Laker Nation outraged
about the referee there and the Luca addition. See, you'd
rather than blame the referee, Tony. I know you're a
low information fan because you like the lak You should
blame Luka. How about some self control? How about be
a professional? How about you know you've already got one
technical foul and you can't talk to the to the
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hokey pokey guy in the front row.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
How about that? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Late night drug tester says, hearing that there is a
funeral coming for the Lakers, is there a sign up
sheet for the luncheon afterwards. Who's making the funeral potatoes
and the jelly salad. Yeah, we'll take some potatoes. How
about some cold cuts. I'll take some cold cuts.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That'll be good. Why not they didn't.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Even fall in the standings. And that that reference.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's justin Cooper, Bob that this was just being a little.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Bitch, because Luca does that literally every game.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
He talks crap to the people sitting on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Lorena, shut up, good morning here, Coop. This is the
end of the Lakers are done. It's over, Loraina.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Coope's gonna be a Paul.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Bar No, this is This is the funniest part about
Lorena's kiss assing.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
She's not kissing.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what it is like.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
She's a lovely lady. In my apologies, she.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Does it just for the Lakers in the NBA is
as if she knows anything about the.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
NBA is an expert. Okay, she proves that every night
on this show.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
No that we watched more games than you this season.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Loraena, what city? What city?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Let me ask lorda question, Loraina, what city do the
Lakers move to la from?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
What city?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
The one over there that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That she's right. It was over there.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
That is correct, A shot by you. Great Now, now, Coop,
you're just a suck off because Luca's wearing a Laker
uniform deep down off the air. I know you told
me before the show in the hallway there you said,
you know what, You're right, Ben, he's a hot head.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
The Lakers are in trouble. You told me that.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Now you hit on the air, you're playing the character.
You're you're doing theatrics here on the air claiming yeah,
you're you're playing a character. I know what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
You can literally watch every game of Luka Doncik's career
and he does exactly that.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
He jaws at the fans.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You can't you can't do it? So existence when can
you not do that? Tuesday night in the fourth quarter?
That's what?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, exactly. Let's say a lot of Big Daddy who's
in Memphis. He would like to speak to the electorate. Hello,
big Daddy, what's.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Going on to all my fans and all mys? You know,
Lucas sounds like my my ball time. It just don't
make no sense, man, I mean growing me and why
lead a crown alone? They won't mess with you get
kicked out of the game.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, he tries.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
He tries a lot, and he's very animated and all
that stuff. And he's been ejected. Now he's only been
ejected three times, but this year he's got fourteen technical files,
so he's two away from a suspension.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So he pushes, he pushes the boundaries.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
He you know what, it's just a game. You getting
paid to a game. You win a regular season game.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
No, see, okay, look we're talking about two different things here.
If you want to talk about him whining about calls,
yes he does that way too much. But like, but
jawing at the fans, that's a totally different thing. And
he brought it up when he talked about it after
the game. It's not like he's Russell Westbrook. If it
was Ru's Russell Westbrook out there in the same situation,
he would have like thrown up his arms, started like cursing.
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Back of the fans called the refover, pointed the guy out,
had him kicked out of the arena.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Now you remember, big Dad, you're you're I think you're
big Dad.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I think you're around my age.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
You remember there was a player named Vernon Maxwell and
Vernon Maxwell. There was a guy they called him back.
There was a guy that heckled him. He went in
the crowd and punched the guy like he literally went
in the crowd. I think he was with a rock.
I think it was like against Portland, but he went
in the crowd. I swear to god, I remember that
years ago.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
He showed it. Yeah, Max, Man ain't nothing like. You know,
every time UH agreed to get rid of somebody, they
ain't win a championship. I wouldn't be wrong if Tyler
lives and be assistant coach and win a championship. It
just don't make no sense.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Well, I know they've had a lot of a lot
of championships there in Memphis over the years, a lot
of wins.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So it was we get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
They get them. Yeah, where they go, they get them. Man,
Hey man, I'm celebrating the birthday Thursday. I figured, I just.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You'll be how old.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Twenty one again? My you know I'm actually turning. I'm
turning twenty one again later this month myself, so it's
another twenty one birthdall.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Want them coops.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Maybe I'm gonna put it in the half.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I don't do no hoopers.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Coop, I just do the straight you know in your
original way.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You're old school, you're a purist. I got all right,
all right, we'll go happy.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
We don't do for shoutouts, but otherwise we wish you
happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
We can't do but thank you. All right, all right,
go away. There's a big Daddy.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Turning twenty one. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. By the way, the
Great stay awake with Jake legend, the Great Jake Warner
informs me I was wrong. He was not against Portland,
but it was against Utah that Mad Max punched a fan,
so I knew he punched it. I thought it was Portland,
but I guess according to the Great Jake Warner. By
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the way, I did contact Jake because I wanted to
go to a Clipper game. They didn't even rate back
the Clippers. It's so embarrassing, unbelievable, as much as I
kissed their ass. Anyway, all right, it is the Ben
Great pr staff they got over there the Clippers. Way
to go boys, good job. Anyway, It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. As we are working our way through the
overnight hours, time now for the who am I game?
(35:43):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else Le's
We call it the who am I? Game?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
And here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Here it is so, I'm an NBA player whose production value,
according to the analytics, production value is worth eighteen point
eight million to my team. Yet I am being paid
over thirty million dollars more than that, making me the
most overpaid player based on production in the association this season.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Back to the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Time to pay off the who am I? Game?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And here is the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Game? This is where we pretend to be some of
the elsees we call the well it is the who
am I?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's the game, and here it is So I am
an NBA player whose production value, according to the analytics
is worth eighteen point eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's a lot of money, Yet.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I am being paid thirty point four million more than that,
making me the most overpaid player in the association this season.
By the way, the who am I? Game made possible
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know the answer?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Who?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Mark and Queens says?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Podcast P Trucker Joe says, some random white guy who
played in the NBA but was also a plumber. The
fan who got Luca ejected? Guests by the KC Carl haller,
who else do we have? Page down Victor Roebliss from
Shane in Des Moines, whose heart is in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Charlie in Wisconsin says is it blind Scott who sat
on a plunger with no shame?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
How does Charlie know that that's before you were alive? Charlie?
Who else do we have? Alf says?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Is it the Clippers communications stuff? Well, that's a dated
list here, that's the those people actually liked me, Alf,
the people that you sent out there. Cedric Cornbread mac
Swell one of the great nicknames of all time from
Robin Minnesota, Big Country Bryant Reeves guessed by Bill that's
his answer, milkman Mike in Colorado, says the flopping queen
Lebum Bobby the brain heenan from our guy Rob in Vegas.
(38:14):
Who's coming down from.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
The top rope? Who else do we have a page?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Dan Ike Austin from our friend Manuel Ian Guardina. That's
his answer. Miguel on fire with Bronnie James. Boy, Brownie's
looking good. I gotta tell you know, I've been taking
shots at Bronnie James. We had a great photo that
Miguel on Fire founded Brownie James, a very very good
looking masculine photo.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Solid like that.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Stuck in Sacramento, says the Sacramento smoker, the ex faker
Vlade Divots is the answer. Who else do we have
a little nas who is twenty six today? From late
night drug tester? Willis? Who's resting from ferg Dog? All right, Lorena,
what's the answer?
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Willis?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Is only competition ben.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Air Bud No, it is actual Jalen Brown of the
Boston Celtics. Yeah, according to the nerds, he's overpaid.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Nerds Nerds, Nerds, Nerds, Nerds,
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, It's our number one and a happy April ninth.
It's Wednesday, hump Day, and we are together here on
the Original Recipe podcast. As I Ben and you, we
thank you for riding shotgun with us here in our
number one.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's all about pro bouncy ball.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Why did the Nuggets make this decision to whack Michael
Malone the postseason looming on the horizon? Also, what does
this move by the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value
to the Denver basketball team? And with Michael Malone gone,
how does this impact Nikola Jokicic's future long term with
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the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll talk about that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Also, a bonus Mini Mallard monologue in the B block.
Bonus Mini Mallard monologue on Luca's ejection with the Lakers
in Oklahoma City. How do you process Luca getting the
boot for his big fat mouth in Oklahoma?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
We'll talk about all that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And more here it is our number one.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
A mile high.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Goodbye, Yeah, Welcome, in the beginning of another night of
the Ben Malors Show. We are in the air everywhere
as we cluster and take the stabilizers off right now,
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the room, from the locker room to the living room,
to the boardroom to the crazy room.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
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Speaker 1 (02:04):
The way tire buying.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Show'd be so our lead this, we'll do pro bouncy
ball and some of you idiots, you're gonna lead with
the regular season again because a Laker player can't control
himself because he's a loser and deserve to get kids out. Vocain,
We're not only with that who cares Lakers as as
we thought. Frauds lost to Oklahoma City and free falling
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in the Western Conference standings, and I cannot wait. I've
actually marked the date on my iPhone the day we
will do the funeral for the Lakers. That'll be fun
the downfall when they are eliminated and all you losers
will say, well, it's.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Only year one. Everything's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Okay, yeah, okay, takes time, yeah okay, But our lead
is from a team that that did win a legitimate
championship a couple of years ago in pro bouncy ball
and have decided to clean house.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
See you later.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Another one bites the dust, Another one bites the dust,
and that would be a head coach and a general manager,
a two for one special in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
If you have not heard, I assume you've heard by now,
but maybe not.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
We learned that the Nuggets, the Chicken Nuggets, have sacked
head coach Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Here going and I'll put you a nine out of ten.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Casual observers didn't even know the name of the general
manager of the Denver basketball team, Calvin Booth. He was
also paull axed from Denver just days before the regular
season ends, like this weekend, it's over, and here we are.
Here we are the coaching change. Someone named David Adelman.
(03:48):
I used to interview his old man, who never did much,
coached a lot of teams, didn't really win anything, Rick Adelman.
But that's the spawn of Rick Adelman. So another another
coach who is is a neo baby. Another neo baby
in sports, as David Adalman takes over, and so don't
(04:08):
bury the lead mam Man. Who cares about the gm
who cares about the interim coach?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's not the story.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
The story here is Michael Malone, who has been with
the Denver basketball team for a decade and was there
when they won the championship. He was on the sideline
calling up the plays and all that. And now he
is persona non grata.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
He has been given the.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Pink slip see you later. So let us discuss the
question why why did the Nuggets make the decision to
whack Michael Malone? Now the postseason is looming, like this
is this is even more bizarre than Memphis. Like Memphis
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is that well, they're not really going anywhere, and there's
issues with John Morant that was eleven days prior and
the Grizzlies they decided to maul their head coach.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But this is supposedly a Denver team.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That, even though they were not playing great in the moment,
was a contender because of the joker in the middle.
So I've got disco, paper plates and vultures, and we
will combine all of these things together and we will
provide a nice sparkly new hat, which you know, Lorraina
(05:32):
gets a lot of food and stuff over there, she
gets a lot of good See, this is a new hat.
This is a Buffalo Bison hat. It's a solid looking hat. Right,
It's a good hat fits could solid hat. So that's
what we're gonna make that all right. So my first
thought answering the question why why did the Denver basketball
team eliminate the coach and the GM with the postseason
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looming in the horizon. So this is a Red Bull special?
Is a Red Bull special trying to give a little
bit of a jolt to the roster and looking to
wake up a team that has been napping since the
All Star break. However, if you dig a little deeper,
(06:14):
there's this weasel, your little weasel. As a certain MMA
guy used to say, Josh Kroncky, who you talk about
winning the genetic lottery. Josh Kronkie is in the Cronky family,
and they have all the money in the world. I mean,
they are just loaded. So Josh Cronky won the genetic
(06:36):
lottery and so as a result he gets to run
a sports team. And so Josh Crocky, the son I
believe of the owner said in the future, the immediate expectations,
immediate expectations for the Nuggets following the coaching change. He
said all of five words. He said, play hard and
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have fun. Hard and have fun. That's the money quote.
You know what that also is? Say it with me now,
dead give way. That is a dead giveaway. Yeah, captain obvious.
What does that tell you? Okay, Now you are the investigator,
you are analyzing that quote. What does that quote tell you?
(07:19):
You play talk radio host? What does that quote tell you?
I know what to tell I know on this side.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
What about you? So to me, it don't change your
answer to me. It tells you that the Denver.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Nuggets were A not playing hard and B we're not
having fun. They were not having fun. Okay, So that's
what that tells you. Otherwise you wouldn't need to encourage
the team to play hard and try to have fun.
If they're already having fun and playing hard, it doesn't matter.
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You don't need to say it. You're just it's obvious.
Now after the fact. I love the after the fact
breathless reporting. So, Michael Malone is a popular figure with
the Denver basketball team and someone that is beloved by
many in the basketball media. So when you get rid
of someone who is deemed popular, you then need to
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turn to character assassination, which is what the Denver Nuggets
are doing, trying to bury Michael Malone on his way
out of Colorado. And it's exactly what's happening here, this
breathless reporting that there was a civil war going on
between Michael Malone and the GM Calvin Booth.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
They weren't even talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
They hated each other's guts, and Malone was upset because
he didn't like the way the roster was built. They
got a bunch of suck bag young players on the bench.
It's not a championship bench, and Malone was annoyed by that.
And there was also some debates about certain guys were
playing that the GM wanted other people to play, and
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so they painted the picture that Malone was just a.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
King of all a holes and that's why he was like,
oh U coseu.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
The Nuggets, the ownership group of the executives there, what
happens is they leak stories. There's a story leaked that
Malone was giving preferential treatment. And this is going to
blow you in the NBA They never do this in
the NBA, giving special star treatment to Nikola Jokic and
Jamal Murray. O MG, can you imagine that star players
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in basketball would be treated special?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's a yet, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I mean I know here that like myself and my colleague,
Colin Cowherd are treated exactly s other than the extra
zeros on his contract and the people that follow him
around in case there's any crumbs that drop down from
his mouth and.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
They're there to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Other than that, very similar, very very similar, very similar
lives me and you know, my teammate, because there's no
star system.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
We don't have a star.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Everyone has a star system. Yamara, what's wrong with you?
It's a nice spin, but my breakdown on this is
pretty simple. So night out on the town. It is
a visit to the disco. It is panic at the
disco is what it is now. This is turning into
a total boondoggle, and I'm there for it. I'm there
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a big bucket of buttered popcorn. Denver is eleven and
thirteen since the All Star break. It is a desperation
play by the Nuggets, a total desperation play. It's a
little caffeine, little red bull. They're trying to jump start
things and trying to squeeze one more, one more playoff
run with some no name assistant coach and hoping beyond hope,
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which I don't think hope is a great strategy. I
don't think that they tell you that that's the way
to turn to hope doesn't usually go so well. Now
page two here, So what does this particular move by
the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value, Because there's the
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public perception and then there's the private perception.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Right, So, publicly, as we talked about.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Here, Malone is considered one of the upper echelon head
coaches in the NBA. This guy is prepared, He is
methodical with his work. He is someone that lives breeze, eats,
sleeps basketball and puts the work in and all that.
But then he realized privately in the bowels of the
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facility there where the Nuggets hold down the fort, that
they are really just whistling Dixie is what they're doing there.
It's a reminder that Michael Malone and all NBA coaches
are like those Dixie paper plates, disposable, right, Everyone's disposable.
You know the average tenure, the average tenure of an
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NBA coach is about two and a half seasons. That's it,
two and a half seasons. It is a merry go round,
round and round and round and round on the merry
go round, and it spins fast and you better be
careful and you're to be thrown off it. It's a
whirlwind situation. So the Nuggets ownership, though, I will point
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out years ago when I used to go to those
NBA games and then back in the good old days,
and I believe it, I even went to like Laker
games and Phil Jackson was the coach of the Lakers
and he ranted, which was amusing because Phil lasted in
Chicago and LA for a long time. But Phil used
to preach and I guess the Nuggets are really following
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the Zen philosophy. But Phil Jackson preached that a coach's
message grows stale the longer they stay in one outpost.
And he was an advocate that you had to change
and go to different locations because the players tune out
that the more the team becomes a customed And he
also said you had to change the ross a lot
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because guys do get comfortable, and once they get comfortable,
they put on the ear muffs.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And they're like, hey, we're good. We're out on that.
And so Malone was there ten years and he ends
up getting decommissioned.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Our last word here, Now we go to the Komodo
Dragon in the room. Now what is the Komodo Dragon room?
With Michael Malone dispatched from Denver? How does this impact
Nicola Jokic and his long term future with the Nuggets.
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So Yogic, by all accounts, is a top twenty all
time NBA player already, even if he retired today, be
a top twenty all time NBA player, probably top ten
based on his accomplishments. He doesn't get the credit because
he isn't playing a big market and so people dismiss him.
But he's been amazing. He's been absolutely amazing for the
Nuggets and all that stuff. However, my default position is
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no different on this than it was on John Morant
in Memphis. My position is that Nikola Jokicic was fully
aware that this was an option, and he did not
put his foot down and use his star influence to
keep Michael Malone as coach of the Nuggets. If Nikola
jokicch truly had an issue that he I'm sure he
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likes Michael Malone personally, but if he wanted him professionally
to be the coach of the Nuggets, still Malone would
still be the coach of the Nuggets. They would have
gotten rid of the GM, they would have kept Michael Malone.
You in that business. It has been this way as
my entire life in the NBA. Right, I find it
impossiblieve that this was not greenlit by Nicola jokicch that
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you know, chatter was Now there's stories being thrown out
that he was frustrated with the Nuggets defense, and of
course I'm sure a lot of people were frustrated. The
team blows right now, they're not playing very well. And
so you also have the vultures now who are circling
overhead and in e with that ominous music playing and
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so trying to poach talent, trying to get some some talent.
And I said, well, there's no way the Nuggets would
ever trade NICOLEA. Jokic. This guy's a nugget for life. Well,
he said the same thing about Luca and and how
that work out. So if you follow the gambling market.
I don't think I need to tell you who the
favorite is to acquire to acquire these services of the Joker. Yeah,
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that's a team that the NBA rigs for everyone to
go to over the course of their career. They're halfway decent,
that ugly purple and gold team now followed by Jokis.
The other option would be Jokic leaving the NBA altogether,
leaving not just the Nuggets but the NBA and going
and playing for one of the teams in his homeland
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there in Serbia and just saying I'm out. That's it,
see you later. I'm done. I'm gonna get out of
here and I go back to my old life. I'm
gonna drink three leaders of Coca Cola day and I'll
live my greatest life.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Some of the other teams mentioned, you've got the.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Usual suspects, the Warriors, the Clippers, and the wild card,
the Toronto Raptors.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
They were tossed out there as well.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And for the Lakers here, they got to hope that
Nico Harrison gets fired and then he gets hired by Denver,
and then his first move would be like you know,
I remember, Jokich was a fattie coming into the NBA,
so I'm worried he might become a fatty against so
we'll we'll give him.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
To the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And we need like a like a box of sand,
and that's I think we need like one other little
shar of class and we're good and that would be
an even trade. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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Part of the program.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And a hot head unhinged, hot head unhinged in the NBA,
we'll get to that story a mini Malar monologue, a
mini Mallar monologue on the hot head unhinged.
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We'll get back to the calls here in a moment,
but dateline, dust ball, dateline dust ball.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I was told. I was told that the Lakers were on.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The come, as they say in poker, and after blowing
out Oklahoma City the other night, the Lakers were in
position to take over the West. They were going to
make a statement and beat the Thunder yet again in
the game that was played on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
So they were. They had a one point lead going
to the fourth quarter, and.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Then a total meltdown, a total meltdown by the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Lakers a leading going into.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The fourth quarter, one aw eight to one oh seven
in the fourth quarter, and then the meltdown happened as.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Hookah, Luca got some bad hookah.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And you go, yeah uh if you didn't see it,
Luka Doncik received a second technical foul in the fourth quarter.
At the time Lakers were up by one, and that
means an automatic injection.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
What a dumb thing to do.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Not the smartest Yeah, Dan.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We're here, Not the smartest move in the world for
Luca there. Now, there's a couple of theories on what happened.
You had the crew chief Tony Brothers, longtime NBA referee,
who explained the first technical fiul by Luca was directing
profanity at an official and the second was for using
vulgar language which he was looking at the referee. Now
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that's where the debate is, because according to the NBA
rule Book, by the letter of the law, not the
spirit of law. By the letter of the law, Luca
has no leg to stand on, no leg to stand on,
because it says right there in the NBA Rulebook that
a player earns a technical file for using profanity, use
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of profanity, or disrespectfully, disrespectfully addressing an official.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And so check, check, and then you are ejected.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now Luca's claiming his defense is he said postgame that
he was talking to a fan and not the referee.
He says, I never got a fan ejected.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Never.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But if you're gonna talk, I'm gonna talk back like always,
like always, Lucas said. So the question on this one,
as we discuss here, how do you process Luca Donzik
getting the boot in Oka se and just the general
mindset that Luca has so somewhere far far away, Nico
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Harrison is smiling and all those stories the Mavericks planted
in the media about Luca being uncoachable and uncontrollable.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
This is an example. This is the argument they were making.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Whether you agree with it or not, this is the
example of Luca not being coachable.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That it's it's the whole.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Situation where you're there. You got to know you already
have a technical foul and what are you doing? It
is a lack of discipline, Luca having a conniption fit
like a spoiled child, like a baby, which is what
one of the arguments was about Luca, that he's just
uncoachable and he's a baby. He does whatever he wants,
and there's no discipline, there's no self control.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You don't win like that.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And this is a really bad omen for the Lakers
that he can't even control himself in a regular season
game on a random Tuesday night. What is going to
happen in a playoff environment. Oh my god, it is
going to be a disaster. And by the way, Luca
has The second part is Luca has just announced to
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every degenerate heckler from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it's
on right if you are in the heckling business.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
That was the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
That was the Mona Lisa that you start heckling Luca
and he's such a non professional he can't control his
emotion that he gets back at you and he gets ejected.
That is the one of the great moments in the
history of heckling. And so I'm sure there are better hecklers. No,
(23:05):
you know, I don't know if that was Kyrie in
Okay see r P one there number one Thunderfan Kyrie.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
I don't know if that was him or not.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
But whoever it was, I'm guessing down the line there
are other hecklers that are more advanced than that particular heckler.
So you've got that, and then you've also got location,
location Location. Now I enjoy a good swear word like
the next red blooded American man or one. However, this
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game was played where that's right. The belt, the Bible belt.
You can't use that kind of language in the Bible belt.
Luca's gonna get struck by lightning. He's gonna get struck
by the What are you doing, seriously, Luca, Bible belt,
read the Bible, Luke, you can't curse like that was
wrong with you. And then the final part of this.
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The Lakers are in some serious trouble and I.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Tried to tell you, you.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Haven't listened to me. They're a mentally weak team. Luca's
mentally weak? Uh, and they completely crumble. What happened to
rising up? Luca got ejected? You still have you told?
Told me Lebron James is as good as ever and
you've got the greatest undrafted player of all time in
Austin Reeves, God's gift to basketball. And you completely fell
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apart because you're a soft team. You're mister softy. So
the Lakers have a lot of problems right now, and
I will enjoy the demise of the Lakers. And boy,
that what a What a bad night for Luca. What
an embarrassment. You can't even contain yourself. Some guy wearing
cowboy boots in the front row and a and a
bulow tie is shouting at you and you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Can't have any self control. Bad job by you? All right?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Is the the Ben Mahler Show. Will take some calls,
and where do we want to go here? It's thee
eeny meenie miney mo.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Let's saylo to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Ben thanks for taking the call. Of course, good good
to be with you. Listen, what's going on in the NBA?
These owners, these teams have they no shame the way
that Mike Malone is being treated. What are we doing here?
What is this the new fat of the month? Okay?
Owner in Denver looks at the folks in Memphis, completely
different city, completely different you know, geography every day. Okay,
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they're gonna fire a good coach. Okay, a little bit
of time left in the season, built them up, took
a mercurial star and put them in a position to
be successful. So now we the Denver Nuggets, who just
won an NBA championship less than two years ago. Now
we're gonna jump on that bandwagon. Okay, what's going on here?
Do these fan bases do they? Are they going to
(25:45):
tolerate these tanking owners?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, well, you know, you know what's going on Andre.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
They clearly think that this is going to jump start
these teams. And they also are are cow towing to
the star player, whether it's John Moran in Memphis or
Nicole Jokic in Denver. I I do not believe, I
refuse to believe that either one of those coaching changes
happened without the wink and the nod from the star player.
Because I've I've watched the NBA, I've been This is
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not my first trip to the circus, and it's not
yours either. Andre you've seen it. You know how this
stuff works. I mean, how many times has Lebron James
gotten a coach fired? For example, right, he gives a
wink there and the coach is gone. Happens all the time,
not just Lebron, most of these guys does.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Happen all the time. Okay, But when he tried that
move in Miami and he had real leadership in the
front office, i e. Pat Riley, it didn't go down, Okay, Yeah,
but he left.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And then said it was because he couldn't have his
chocolate chip cookies. He said, that's why he's in Miami.
The heat said no to the chocolate chip cookies. And
I gotta tell you when I was, when I was
morbally obese, I would have also left a job if
they didn't give me chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So I understand why you would do that.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
And you need feel Ben. Yeah, the snack a room
in there, chocolate chip cookies a little bit of milk. Okay,
you get to get the juices flowing again.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And you're right, how more portant house. We've not heard
from Willis and all Is Willis Okay? Is everything okay
with Willis?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Willis is okay. He's resting right now. He's out, you know,
and he's a state. But event we're going into, you know,
a couple more weeks, will be in April, vacation, so
we'll be back, you know, living living a good life. Okay,
going out. We should be walking around these times, you know,
getting the fresh air. He's out there keeping the neighborhood safe,
you know, from from crime and you know everything else,
you know, keeping the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Safe, a real neighborhood hero Willis. People underestimate the power
of the great Willis right there.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Unbelievable indeed, and they should Okay, back to Denver, okay,
Uh please, you got to get some some love in
your heart here. Three days left in the season. And
bottom line is bottom line is this. I don't see
the joke signing off on this. I have it coming
from ownership and just saying they've had enough of the dysfunction.
And even if there was dysfunction, First of all, specific
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to Yogic, she seems to have this every day you
know common you know man type of perspective. You know,
takes pride in the little things and he's grateful. So
I don't see him being, frankly, a backstabber. I see
just an ownership group that just is making.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I mean, I don't think he started with Jokic. But
they say, hey, Nicole, we're thinking about getting rid of
the coach. Would you have a big problem with this.
He didn't say yeah, I got a problem with this.
Otherwise Malone would have still been there. But remember the
phrase in sports, dance with the one who brung you right,
that old line, well, in the NBA Dance with the
interim coach. Dance with the interim coach.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Okay, they're gonna be They're gonna be dancing right in
the play in and out of the playoffs, and they're
gonna blow it up and then they're gonna be worse
off than they were before.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
You know, there is another line.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
You know, you should have loved the one you're with. Okay,
you should love the one you're with it and get
through the tough times. They didn't do it. Shame on
you Denver. Okay, you're gonna get what's coming to you,
and Mike Lung is gonna get another job and you're
gonna be successful. He's not gonnaet a job in New York,
but he's crazy. People talking about Tips being out of this,
So we can x that out. Ben, Thanks taking the call.
Show some respect to these great coaches. We'll be with
you next time.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I've never been a big coaching matters guy in
the NBA. There are a few that are on the
short list. I thought Malone was on there, but clearly
the Nuggets do not agree. And by the way, the
People's team, you talk about a team on the run here,
Holy crap, everyone's afraid of this team, the Clippers. Nobody
wants to play the Clippers in the playoffs. And right
now the Clips they beat San Antonio on Tuesday night,
so the People's team has moved all the way up
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to number four.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Lakers will lose to the Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
That's right, Lakers are gonna lose to the Mavericks on
Wednesday night and then they'll be tied. Now I think
the Lakers have the tiebreaker because the Clippers felt.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Bad and they gave some games away, quieted and playing.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But if the Lakers stumble again after that and the
Clippers went out, then all of a sudden, clips end up.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
What number three?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Number three like, I don't think they're not gonnackets. Rockets
are locked in there with number two in the West.
So things shaken and shaken and stirred here in the
in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Ferg dog rights and says, hey, tell Bill Miller that
we don't give a crap whether he fasts or not.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Nobody's here for the Bill Miller show.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
H Yeah, uh, Tony writes in, says Laker Nation outraged
about the referee there and the Luca addition. See, you'd
rather than blame the referee, Tony. I know you're a
low information fan because you like the lak You should
blame Luka. How about some self control? How about be
a professional? How about you know you've already got one
technical foul and you can't talk to the to the
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hokey pokey guy in the front row.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
How about that? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Late night drug tester says, hearing that there is a
funeral coming for the Lakers, is there a sign up
sheet for the luncheon afterwards. Who's making the funeral potatoes
and the jelly salad. Yeah, we'll take some potatoes. How
about some cold cuts. I'll take some cold cuts.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
That'll be good. Why not they didn't.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Even fall in the standings. And that that reference.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's justin Cooper, Bob that this was just being a little.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Bitch, because Luca does that literally every game.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
He talks crap to the people sitting on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Lorena, shut up, good morning here, Coop. This is the
end of the Lakers are done. It's over, Loraina.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Coope's gonna be a Paul.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Bar No, this is This is the funniest part about
Lorena's kiss assing.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
She's not kissing.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what it is like.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
She's a lovely lady. In my apologies, she.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Does it just for the Lakers in the NBA is
as if she knows anything about the.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
NBA is an expert. Okay, she proves that every night
on this show.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
No that we watched more games than you this season.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Loraena, what city? What city?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Let me ask lorda question, Loraina, what city do the
Lakers move to la from?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
What city?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
The one over there that's right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
That she's right. It was over there.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
That is correct, A shot by you. Great Now, now, Coop,
you're just a suck off because Luca's wearing a Laker
uniform deep down off the air. I know you told
me before the show in the hallway there you said,
you know what, You're right, Ben, he's a hot head.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
The Lakers are in trouble. You told me that.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Now you hit on the air, you're playing the character.
You're you're doing theatrics here on the air claiming yeah,
you're you're playing a character. I know what you're doing.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
You can literally watch every game of Luka Doncik's career
and he does exactly that.
Speaker 5 (32:11):
He jaws at the fans.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You can't you can't do it? So existence when can
you not do that? Tuesday night in the fourth quarter?
That's what?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, exactly. Let's say a lot of Big Daddy who's
in Memphis. He would like to speak to the electorate. Hello,
big Daddy, what's.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
Going on to all my fans and all mys? You know,
Lucas sounds like my my ball time. It just don't
make no sense, man, I mean growing me and why
lead a crown alone? They won't mess with you get
kicked out of the game.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, he tries.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
He tries a lot, and he's very animated and all
that stuff. And he's been ejected. Now he's only been
ejected three times, but this year he's got fourteen technical files,
so he's two away from a suspension.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So he pushes, he pushes the boundaries.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
He you know what, it's just a game. You getting
paid to a game. You win a regular season game.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
No, see, okay, look we're talking about two different things here.
If you want to talk about him whining about calls,
yes he does that way too much. But like, but
jawing at the fans, that's a totally different thing. And
he brought it up when he talked about it after
the game. It's not like he's Russell Westbrook. If it
was Ru's Russell Westbrook out there in the same situation,
he would have like thrown up his arms, started like cursing.
(33:29):
Back of the fans called the refover, pointed the guy out,
had him kicked out of the arena.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Now you remember, big Dad, you're you're I think you're
big Dad.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I think you're around my age.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
You remember there was a player named Vernon Maxwell and
Vernon Maxwell. There was a guy they called him back.
There was a guy that heckled him. He went in
the crowd and punched the guy like he literally went
in the crowd. I think he was with a rock.
I think it was like against Portland, but he went
in the crowd. I swear to god, I remember that
years ago.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
He showed it. Yeah, Max, Man ain't nothing like. You know,
every time UH agreed to get rid of somebody, they
ain't win a championship. I wouldn't be wrong if Tyler
lives and be assistant coach and win a championship. It
just don't make no sense.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Well, I know they've had a lot of a lot
of championships there in Memphis over the years, a lot
of wins.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
So it was we get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
They get them. Yeah, where they go, they get them. Man,
Hey man, I'm celebrating the birthday Thursday. I figured, I just.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
You'll be how old.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Twenty one again? My you know I'm actually turning. I'm
turning twenty one again later this month myself, so it's
another twenty one birthdall.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Want them coops.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Maybe I'm gonna put it in the half.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I don't do no hoopers.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Coop, I just do the straight you know in your
original way.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
You're old school, you're a purist. I got all right,
all right, we'll go happy.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
We don't do for shoutouts, but otherwise we wish you
happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
We can't do but thank you. All right, all right,
go away. There's a big Daddy.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Turning twenty one. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. By the way, the
Great stay awake with Jake legend, the Great Jake Warner
informs me I was wrong. He was not against Portland,
but it was against Utah that Mad Max punched a fan,
so I knew he punched it. I thought it was Portland,
but I guess according to the Great Jake Warner. By
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the way, I did contact Jake because I wanted to
go to a Clipper game. They didn't even rate back
the Clippers. It's so embarrassing, unbelievable, as much as I
kissed their ass. Anyway, all right, it is the Ben
Great pr staff they got over there the Clippers. Way
to go boys, good job. Anyway, It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. As we are working our way through the
overnight hours, time now for the who am I game?
(35:43):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else Le's
We call it the who am I? Game?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
And here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Here it is so, I'm an NBA player whose production value,
according to the analytics, production value is worth eighteen point
eight million to my team. Yet I am being paid
over thirty million dollars more than that, making me the
most overpaid player based on production in the association this season.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Back to the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Time to pay off the who am I? Game?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And here is the who am I?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Game? This is where we pretend to be some of
the elsees we call the well it is the who
am I?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's the game, and here it is So I am
an NBA player whose production value, according to the analytics
is worth eighteen point eight million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
It's a lot of money, Yet.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I am being paid thirty point four million more than that,
making me the most overpaid player in the association this season.
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(37:07):
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know the answer?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Who?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Mark and Queens says?
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Podcast P Trucker Joe says, some random white guy who
played in the NBA but was also a plumber. The
fan who got Luca ejected? Guests by the KC Carl haller,
who else do we have? Page down Victor Roebliss from
Shane in Des Moines, whose heart is in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Charlie in Wisconsin says is it blind Scott who sat
on a plunger with no shame?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
How does Charlie know that that's before you were alive? Charlie?
Who else do we have? Alf says?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Is it the Clippers communications stuff? Well, that's a dated
list here, that's the those people actually liked me, Alf,
the people that you sent out there. Cedric Cornbread mac
Swell one of the great nicknames of all time from
Robin Minnesota, Big Country Bryant Reeves guessed by Bill that's
his answer, milkman Mike in Colorado, says the flopping queen
Lebum Bobby the brain heenan from our guy Rob in Vegas.
(38:14):
Who's coming down from.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
The top rope? Who else do we have a page?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Dan Ike Austin from our friend Manuel Ian Guardina. That's
his answer. Miguel on fire with Bronnie James. Boy, Brownie's
looking good. I gotta tell you know, I've been taking
shots at Bronnie James. We had a great photo that
Miguel on Fire founded Brownie James, a very very good
looking masculine photo.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Solid like that.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Stuck in Sacramento, says the Sacramento smoker, the ex faker
Vlade Divots is the answer. Who else do we have
a little nas who is twenty six today? From late
night drug tester? Willis? Who's resting from ferg Dog? All right, Lorena,
what's the answer?
Speaker 6 (38:55):
Willis?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Is only competition ben.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Air Bud No, it is actual Jalen Brown of the
Boston Celtics. Yeah, according to the nerds, he's overpaid.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Nerds Nerds, Nerds, Nerds, Nerds,
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