February 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to Luka Doncic’s Laker press conference. They debate if anyone had a worse day than Anthony Davis? And Kirk Cousins reveals that he dealt with elbow and shoulder issues following the Falcons loss to the Saints.
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is the way tied buying should be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
One of these days, that pesky Super Bowl is gonna
get some headlines.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Guy.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Maybe tomorrow, maybe Thursday, maybe Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Up, everybody's gonna watch a game Sunday unless he can't
make a big trade on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
We're past the deadline.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But I'll tell you the NBA is saying you want
to take Christmas from us, We're gonna take the Super
Bowl from you. How about that you take something from me,
I'm gonna take something from you.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Well, I mean Travis Kelcey did say, you know blank
the media, Why why you so mad about referees?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So, I mean we got that from last night. That
was good. Well, sure they had to. I mean that
that was your highlight.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
There's your there's your encapsulation of media night in nine seconds.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
There you go. That's it again. Media.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The worst decision at the end of one of the
worst has ever made is moving media day to Monday night,
where it is absolutely irrelevant and it's becoming we don't
talk about it. Used to own the news cycle all
day Tuesday media day to no, no, no, We're gonna
throw it on at night because well a few more
people will watch. But in the end, you've lost relevancy.
You've comempletely lost relevancy with it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, man, I'm looking at it.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Today was how many times can someone retweet some chicory
coffee or ben Ye Mix? So I did add to
my shopping list Benye Mix okay for later the week.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So I got that going for me.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I might just go down to downtown Disney and I'll
just pick it up in person there.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I got that going for me.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
A lot of references to the media party today and
then yeah, really all about the gluttony and how many
po boys people are gonna eat. So, I mean, other
than that, I really don't have a whole lot of
feel that there's a game going on. Just seems like
it's a culinary institute kind of display.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm thinking more like, here's Adam Silver and Roger Goodell,
like in Vegas at a poker table, and Adam Silver says,
I see your taking Christmas Day from us, and I
raise you taking super Bowl week away from you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
There you go, good, You're going all in, Roger going
all in. I mean, this is not so quick.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Jason's up pass Lakers Friday nights bigger than the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
F Luca plays. Yeah, but that's Friday. I mean the
whole week.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It would take, the whole week.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It would take. It would take the whole week.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And a d Joel Embiid played today for Joel.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I mean, hey, I got I was gonna play the
lottery day.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Something told me in my mind's eye that you know,
this was an eventful day that the stars were aligning
for greatness. I had no idea it would mean that
Joel Empede actually showed up on a basketball Holy good man.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I really want to get traded too, Man, I gotta
start playing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Look, I'm healthy, healthy. No, it's gonna make that deal
for me the next couple of days. Man, I can't
show that I could play a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey, hey, hey, triple double and and the game clinching
free throw.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Look at me, Look at me. I learned to shoot
a free throw while I was off for the monk too.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, I'm fine, and look, I'm not tired shooting free
throw was like I was earlier in the year. I
can shoot a freak throw and not grabbed my shorts
in between. You I'm so tired shooting.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
How much do you think when he was at the
free throw line was in his head? I can't grip my.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Shorts, you know, you know he needs he needs that.
What what's that reality show where they put everybody through
seal training, like the Cam Newton is on, Like and
b needs to do it off season version of that.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
No, I like that and Luca and Luca probably does too.
The guy's got to get in shape. Okay, let let's
do it. Let's do not wash the press today. And
we're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Look, he looked, we're gonna play the biggest.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I missed something.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
He was at all.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He wasn't. He wasn't talking and breathing heavy, so that
was good. He wasn't happy to be here. It's just
give me, give me a second. I just walked ten
feet hang on. Yeah, No, this is uh exciting being
a die.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Like this is a replace.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You can only do like three or four words at
a time before I got of just you know what.
Somebody else talk somebody else, Rob, you talk, Rob, you talk,
you talk, Rob. No listen because today's a big day,
right you know. Luca is, you know, wearing his Laker uniform.
Here we are right now, the Lakers are getting set
to play the Clippers. The lakers first game post ad
(05:22):
Luca likely to make his debut later on this week,
but he is on the bench in his Laker gear.
Got a standing ovation from everybody in the crowd as
we get ready to tip off. But there was something
absolutely huge from Luca's press conference today, and it was
three seconds long, and so many people missed it, and
it tells you and it just opens your eyes a
(05:44):
little bit to understand that no matter what you see online.
No matter what you see experts and pundit say about
the Luka Doncicch trade, The Mavericks didn't trade Luca for
no reason. They didn't trade him because Nico Harrison woke
up one day like you do in and you go,
I'm just sick of looking at these guys every day
to make a trade. I'm gonna trade. He didn't wake
(06:04):
up one day and just decide to trade Luca. Right,
there was stuff that went on because Luca had been
there for seven years, just got him to the finals.
He's their big superstar. He's a top three player in
the league. There's a reason why they traded. This is
not something that just came out of nowhere. And I
heard a lot of Luca today saying, no, I never
talked about the Max. I don't know why I thought
it would spend my whole career there.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Now Lucas you know, Luca's playing a little bit of Hey,
I did nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know, this is just completely on them. Oh so
they just woke up one day, He's saying, they just
woke up one day and decided to trade you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Their GM's a dummy. Understand.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They traded him for a reason, whether it was hey,
he doesn't stay in shape, is drinking, which I you
know was part of the deal. You know, we told
we saw the Michael Finley thing in the playoffs, take
and the beer away from Luca. Whatever is, they had
a reason to trade him. And this is the sound
bite from today that I think everybody missed that tells you, Okay,
there was stuff going on behind the scenes, because Luca
(06:57):
kind of walked away, kind of stepped away from this
after he said it, like, uh, probably shouldn't have said it.
I want to take it into another direction. He was
asking the press conference about, you know, how he thought
being in La now he thought he was gonna play
in Dallas forever. What do you think about what's going
on in the last couple of days. And this is
what Lucas said.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
At some point I knew this was gonna happen, But
I would say I always take the high road, you know.
I had amazing moments in Dallas with all my teammates,
coaches and the most important defense, you know, and it
was it was an amazing journey.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Wait wait wa waa play the beginning of that part again.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Some point I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
At some point the second Michael Finley took his bear,
that's when that happened.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, Michael Finley took his bare, and you didn't see
Lucas say I'm out he did the Levarn But.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
In that moment, I mean the look on his face.
I mean, we dissected it supruders style frame happened.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But look when he said, you heard lucasay, I always
knew it was gonna end like this. Then he went
on the rest of the press conference and said, I
thought i'd be either the rest of my career. I
don't know what happened. And then he really went on,
you know, laid it on thick about that. But understand
all you that three seconds right there where he said
I always knew it would end this way tells you
there was stuff going on, and there was a reason
(08:12):
why the Mavericks credit him exactly. When I still see
today people go, oh, the Mavericks don't know what they're doing.
They didn't get enough, they didn't do this, and what
do they trade you while you're trading Luca. Obviously they
had a reason, right, and you may not like it,
and you may not like what they got because for
some reason, you ridiculously want three or four draft picks.
That's gonna make a bigger difference. You know, it's not
bad enough getting one of the top ten players in
(08:32):
the NBA and a D that's as good a player
as you're gonna get. All right, we talked about it
last night. What was gonna make everybody happier? Four first
round picks? Three ok players that are not superstars, because
then the criticism would have.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Been, well, if you trade a superstar, you gotta get
a superstar.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got ad.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Ad is still a pretty good player. Does he have
the same faults as Luca. Yeah, he can't stay on
the floor as much as you want him to, right,
Motivation might be a little bit of a thing, but
that goes both ways.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's Luca, that's a D. So just get that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
There's a reason why that the Mavericks trade.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And that's what I'm reading all.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Day Frostburg and I get the I get the Laker
part of it, because the Lakers are celebrating, Hey we
just got Luca now that we open up our championship window.
But for for other NBA fans and for experts in
here and.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Go oh, I don't know what they're doing. They don't
know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, go, there's a reason why you're not you're not. No,
I'm not in there. I'm not in there every day.
I'm not gonna be the first person to tell you
I was. But they didn't. They didn't just wake up
one day and say today we're trading Lukadancich and we're
gonna start calling people just to see because I'm sick
of looking at him, sick of looking at him on
the injured list, you know, missing all these games as
he is. There's a reason why they traded him, and
and because neither of them have played yet, we haven't
(09:43):
seen anything go on. All we have to go to
go through is what we've seen so far, what we've
heard from Dallas, right, Because the biggest knee jerk reaction
is you find a way to make it work with
a top three guys. What if you can't find a
way to make it work. Lebron James wanted to leave
the Cavaliers. No one said hey twice, no one said hey, Cavaliers,
you find a way to make it happen with Lebron.
You find out No the guy wanted to go to
(10:04):
free agency, and look what happened. He signed twice, he
left right twice, he left, He signed with other teams.
No one said, you find a way to keep Lebron. No, no,
that was no critics. It was I'm great and I
want to go to free agency, right, No one is.
No one is gonna sit back and go, oh, yeah,
you find a way to keep him if there's no
way to keep him, right, I'm sure. I'm sure they
(10:24):
decided we don't want to give him the money. We're
not sold on him for whatever reason, that we're gonna
get great stuff out of him if we give him
three hundred and fifty million dollars. So, yeah, there was
stuff going on. It Just get that there's a reason
why they did it.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah, I think, you know, we talk about the business
of the league. There's a lot of conspiratorial stuff out
there about the Lakers and needing to prop them up
the next run. A lot of people running around like
it's the old Wizard of.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oz singing dang dong.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The witch is debt cause Lebron's reign of you know,
owning everything in LA with the Lakers is coming to
an end and passing Hey torch, just like in The Wizard,
but see it all comes together. But it's also the
idea when Luca says that about I knew it would
end that way, you know, part of me it's an
(11:14):
honest moment, but it's also I think a little bit
of a recognition of not very many guys get to
go the full twenty in the same squad, And maybe
I'm giving him too much credit in this moment that
it's a little more of a contextualized, bigger picture that
you know, you got a Steph Curry over there, who's
(11:35):
probably gonna stay with one team. You had Dirk in Dallas.
He's the torch bearer there for one team. But there's
not a lot of guys that get to do that.
And so maybe he'd already reconciled in his mind whatever
happened in the Postmark Cuban era that the likelihood of
him being there for as long as he wants to be.
(11:57):
The other thing is everybody keeps trying to extrapolate him
to a tw your career. Who the hell knows the
whether he actually wants to play twenty years, So stop
projecting that crap onto him that he's got to suddenly
be in a hyperbaric chamber and hanging out and spending
billions of dollars on his body. Like Lebron just shut
the hell up with that. But in the in the interim,
you know, the guy had had his moment, and I'm
(12:18):
sure there were some battles behind the scene, that Michael
Finley thing. You know, we can chuckle about it, but
we talked about it very seriously that night, right, we
had our laughs. But then it's like, all right, what
the hell's going on here?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right? You don't even get to have a beer with
your old man.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They emasculated you in a hallway, you know, after you
played forty some odd minutes a night carrying these guys
on your back up and down the court, and they're
still treating you with kid gloves.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
The three point fifty a daunting number. No question he'll
be able to make that back up. Plenty of endorsements
will come. Run the hell Daron Fox already has extra
shoe deals and stuff with boot companies. A day after
going to San Antonio. I think Luco will be just
fine finance. But in the moment, you know, I I
I really wish she could give him a little more truth, serum, Look,
(13:06):
but give a little more juice. You don't give you
something else behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You don't even need any more than the guy's been
out since Christmas. Right, the guy's been out since Christmas.
There was no timetable for him return of the lineup,
there was no and all of a sudden today, Oh
I could play Friday. Whoa really, all of a sudden,
you can play Friday?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
What do I say about guys that quit on their
teams When they get traded, they magically get healthy and
I can play suddenly, I can play again now. Luca's
been out for over a monthlos, no timetable for his return. No, no, Hey,
he's coming back this game, this game, this game. But
all of a sudden, Oh, he can make his debut
on Friday, really can.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
He's healed.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He he's making that debut for Oh interesting, I'm telling
you they traded him for a reason. You can see
what the relationship is like. And and look, we'll get
stories on it. We'll find stuff out slowly, stuff will leak,
you know, both sides trying their best to be the
to be the big your persons.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Wait the breakup? Yeah, but the bigger, bigger.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We're gonna we're gonna find out, they're gonna find out.
Those are two big things we saw today. He could
play Friday and that I always do that in this way. Yeah,
those are those are little. Those are more than just
hints that Luca drop that you can tell you. Okay,
there was stuff going on, and the Mavericks had to trade.
They had a reason and a good reason to trade him,
because you don't just trade superstars because you're dumb. I mean,
go ahead, Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, they did do that because they are dumb.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
There you go, all right now, it was just the
guy that got the pitch to Steph Curry wrong and
called him the wrong name back at Nike.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know what, guy, And now what do you got, Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Not only are they gonna give Luca a statue at
Crypto dot com Marena, but Michael Finley's gonna get a
statue there as well.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Michael beer in his hand. He's gonna have the beer
in his.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Hand walking away. Hey, thanks, Finley, I'll tell you man,
Wait till they put statue. Wait wait till they put
the A D one up in Dallas where he's in streets.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Trans nothing to do with syds on the bench. He's
sitting on the bench and street clothes. That's the ad stas.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You know what he might have been able to neutralize
Joel embead that triple double if he'd been able to play.
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Luca not playing tonight for the Lakers. He is scheduled
to potentially play Friday against the Pacers. A lot of
(17:40):
points so far, midway through the first quarter, Lakers up
over the Clippers twenty eight, twenty three.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And you want to hear how the Luca era began
in Los Angeles, because you know, hey, just because he's
not playing doesn't mean there wasn't a big ovation.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
He comes out in his Laker gear, he's got his
got his black. Luca was wearing a black Lakers pullover
with a tiny Lakers life will go on the left breast,
black workout pants as well to sit on the bench
and watch the game, and we're all gonna watch to
see if he's actually gets to eat anything.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't wait, I don't know. Oh sorry, was that
when you.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Were a going full Kevin Harlan. That guy's a trunk.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He's on the bench, he's wearing a black polo and
it's a pull over. By the way, it's Clipper game,
so they're not announcing his ass.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They did, they did. Do you think TNT didn't announce it?
You think no, no, no? I mean the ip tucking
in the arena. Okay, well they talked about it on TNT,
which is where most of the world is watching this game.
There's people, there's people in all kinds of different countries
watching this game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You cats are up forty eight six second half.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So from a game everybody is watching to a game
nobody is watching. That's you want to do?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I bring the world together?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh okay, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And everybody's watching this so they could see him pick
his nose on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I mean, what do you expecting it.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I want to something from the wall that they're gonna
do some cool stuff, like when they would shave a
d's eyebrow.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
What do they do with that?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I want to see him just get a whole bunch
of food, like nachos he's got and he's got like
big drinks, like a big slurpy in one hand, and
he's got nott Joe's and burgers. And every time they
showed him, he's just eating, Like every time they showed
Steph and he's chomping on his mouth. He's just eating everything.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Oh, they got every scene he's eating.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, he's got Dodger dogs and the Dodgers delivered to
them already from the have before the season started. I
just eating everything every time it sounds that's awesome sitting
there with what.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You're just going off your your final supper. I could
I could sit there, I could sit down, Luke, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Think would be a pretty good uh eating checking things
off your final dinner. No, my final dinner wouldn't be
a well, would I have? Boy, Dodger dogs are really good?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Would have a Dodger dog in there? Nacho?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I don't know if not.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Dodger dogs are really good, though, I mean maybe we're
a pinks. Dodger dogs are pinks out at But if
Dodger Dogs is so good, tourist, Oh, Pinks is really
Pinks is really good though, but I'd probably go Dodger Dog. No,
I go Dodger Dog there, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I don't. No, Pinks is pretty good. I gotta say
Pinks is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean it's good people watching.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Oh yeah, I mean I wouldn't wait in line beyond that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I got hey.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Come on, that line is tremendous. I gotta wait in
line for this guy. It's his last meal. Just do it,
Just do it for the guy. Uh So, while Luca
gets introduced, he gets a big ovation. Everybody is very
happy waiting for the Luca error to began. Luca had
a great day today, introduced to the media for the
first time, there's a Laker and answered all the questions
and can't wait for his debut. The absolute opposite of
(20:35):
that is the guy and superstar that had the worst
day in sports, and that's Anthony Davis. There are three
just absolute gut punches to a d today that show
you just, boy, did he have a bad day? And
while people are mad and don't expect anything from him. Okay,
first of all, the three things that happened to Ad today.
Number one. Uh, you saw Luca get introduced by the Lakers,
(21:00):
get a hero's welcome, holding up his jersey. Fantastic, right,
a whole big procession. The media is there. Every media
is there. It is covered everywhere you go. On the
flip side. Ad walked off the court and answered questions
just standing on the court during Mavericks practice day.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
There was no there was no Hey, look at a D.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Here's his jersey. He's fantastic. Oh, this guy's gonna lead
us in the championship.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
A D is just hey, you guys want to talk. Look,
I'm over it. You know, it was this big thing
to I'm over and I'm ready to play. I'm excited
to be here and play. But you have one guy, Luca,
who gets the big welcome with I'm sure there was
sandwiches out for people in the back, Luke, I'm sure
the sandwiches, sandwiches out there, and Ad is just yeah,
you got five minutes practice going on.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, what do you guys got. I'll answer your question.
What do you guys have?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'll walk over to you talk to you a little bit.
Quite the different perspective from what Luca got with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I was looking for more clips of former Laker greats
that showed up to welcome Luca. I know Magic and
Kareem are watching UCLA battle Michigan State, so they got
that going on on opposite sidelines there.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But yeah, I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Anthony Davis, maybe that shows what a clowns show the
and goes more to Justin's point that these guys don't
know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
And they're not even giving Ad a chance. They've already
turned their back on the whole franchise and him, you
know what I mean, Like, that's.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Such a half ass effort, right, you already lost the
breakup by all estimations, even though your team, when he's
available and gets past this ab strain, wasn't available tonight
against the Sixers. By all accounts, you feel pretty good
that while you're maybe not as as good as you
were a year ago when you ran to the NBA Finals,
(22:45):
that you still have a shot to be really competitive
in the West. Maybe one more move in the offing.
And and this is the guy you get back, and
this is the half ass welcome and reception you get,
Like unless you find out that Ad just wanted to
be left alone and to do it quietly, unless it
really came from him in clutch sports, which I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Believe for a second.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Clutch sports wouldn't be like, hey, our guy's not damage
good blank you blank you get the balloons, get the festivities.
I want emmittts Smith. I want anybody that's ever been
anybody in Dallas to show up and kiss his ass.
But so I think they botched this. I think it
lends to what Frostburg's saying that I might give a
larger percentage of the pie to being a clown show.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Now is this can can Can the Davis kid play
tight end a little bit? We have, we got some
weapons we need to we need to fix some stuff
up here a little bit on for the cow. I mean,
he's six eleven. We just can't we just run a
play where he walks to the beginning of the end zone,
puts his hands up and Dak just throws it up
really high to him and he just grabs it without
even jumping, Like like can't that happen? Like can't we
(23:53):
just run him out there for hail Mary's put him
in the end zone, throw it up really high and
let him catch a ball and he doesn't even have
to wear pads. He could just wear his Matris jersey
and a helmet and we'll just throw it up there.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
He'll catch it. We'll win every We'll win every game.
Just have them stand up there in the end zone.
It's all we gotta do. So Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Number one worst day for Ad watches Luca's heroes welcome.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
He just talks to guys on the side.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Number two for Luka Doncic worst day, the Mavericks announced
they're gonna refund season ticket money because of the Luka
Doncicz trade. But I thought Ad was here to win
you a championship. Listen, hey, a D glad you're here.
But there may be some less people at the games
because everybody's really mad we traded Luca. So I don't
know how excited everybody is for your arrival and to
(24:36):
help out. Because we want to make sure the fans
will come to the games. We're gonna offer refunds to
people who want to cash in, and it could be
as much as two thousand dollars per person, right depending
on how many games you want to sell back to
them like this the Mavericks, Yes, we were so happy
to have a d We're gonna give money back to
everybody because they're upset that we traded Luca.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Again points on the side of what a clown show.
I mean, I get it, everybody bought themselves a Luca jersey,
figure out away with him and his people and do
a farewell t shirt giveaway or some crap. But giving
any money back, what are we doing. I'm canceling all
my season tickets. I hate the Mavericks because you got
(25:22):
rid of Luca, except for those clowns that were carrying
the casket and chanting crap outside the stadium, who probably
you know, had their one game or maybe they just
watched it on TV and decided to go down and
share their feelings. I mean, that's an awful lot of
money to be given back. Here, what do we got
at this point? You have played twenty four home games,
(25:45):
So we got seventeen games. Man, that's a if you're
looking around towards the courtman when we're talking too grand
a ticket time, seventeen Nah, here's an extra beer.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So that's two. All right, that's two that that would
be bad enough.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, So I really get a press conference welcome and
now they're given, they're given out refunds. But here's the
worst one, because this is the shot out the door, right,
This is the shot out the door. They get money back, right,
but this this is like, okay, everybody's done, Rob Polinka, Lakers,
GM who listen the Lakers we know according to different
reports we talked about this last night, were upset when
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Ad gave his last Hey, we need a center now,
we need a center who won a championship, which is
kind of a ridiculous thing to say. Dude, you're talking
about you're saying that JaVale McGhee and Dwight Howard in
twenty twenty were the reasons why you won like that,
That's why you want a championship like weed, You needed
a couple of Jags to win a championship like that.
Supposedly was the last straw that they were upset with
(26:46):
Ad saying that, So okay, and then you know, Ad
winds up getting traded. So now here's the third bit
for Ad for the bad, no good, very horrible Judy
Moody bummer summer, bad day that Ad had. Rob Polinka
told the media today he's still ill going after the
center that Ad wanted him to get. He is hopeful
to get somebody, but he and he just didn't say
(27:07):
yes or no. He went into big and huge detail
on this, saying, Hey, if there's a difference maker center
out there, we'll go get somebody. We know it's something
we're going after. I don't know if I'll be able
to do it for Thursday, but clearly that's a position
of need and if there's someone we can get out there,
and he ticks off all the things that he wants
to if someone that can run the floor away and
be a rim protector like Rob Polinka is oh wait,
(27:30):
he ask me the question, ask me the question. Why
do I just ask me so I can give you
a ten minute answer that just basically says blank, you Ad,
you said you want a center, We traded you. We're
still going after that center. Like this is ad Ad
got it from the media, he got it from the
team and the fans, and now he got it from his.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Former team like that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you're Anthony Davis, you're like, you know what, guys,
I think I need a minute before I'm gonna suit up.
I think I'm a I wouldn't blame if you needed
a couple of days before he's got to come play
in this because wow, this is a bad day.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Might might make your stomach ache a little bit more.
There's no question about it. Jackson Hayes is a guy
that you look at that could be pretty interesting getting
out ahead of some of the lobs from from Lebron
and Lucas.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
This thing gets cooking.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Uh So, yeah, Unfortunately, sometimes you gotta wear it. Uh.
I did like the look of Rob Polinka as well.
He was channeling every bit the roblow Brat packet era.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
So that was good jacket he was.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I think the fonds he was fonds must be like
five to two.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
He was wearing a because the sleeves were so short.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And the thing is he was wearing a jacket that
you could tell it was zippered in the middle, but
it wasn't on the top and it wasn't on the bottom. Now,
I don't know if that's a look. Well, I don't
know if that's a look. But if I had a
jacket like that, it meant the bottom of the zipper
broke and when I zipped it up halfway on, now
it's broken.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I gotta get rid of this jackway. But that's what
he's but that's what he's wearing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think it was painted on, like.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
What GM dresses like that?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I mean, really he's he has he's going full Rob Low,
you know, like what GM dresses that way?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Laugh and say yes.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Sure, we'll make that trade.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Who did Frostburg?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Who do you think did Who do you think did
more uh Rob Polinka to make this trade happen? Or
pat Riley when Lebron and Bosh and Wade showed up
and said, we all want to play in Miami. Oh
for sure, we had to do three contracts instead of one.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Literally Polenka picks up the phone, laughs his butt off
and says, yes, that was that's it.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Made sure the facts machine was connected or the e
facts account that everybody knew the proper pass where it's like,
get that thing over as fast as you can.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I need to get by.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It would have been impossible to even fathom the idea
that somebody would hold Jerry Jones' beers in.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
The state of Texas. Oh yeah, yeah, Noverick's well done.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Look are you're not laughing about Shott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Now? I will?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will say, look, we've talked about Yes, it's it's
it's all one sided right now. We mentioned this in
the beginning of the show. There's a reason why they
traded him. There's a reason why it happened. And when
you need to make a move like that. I respect
the fact that Mavericks know we're gonna take so many
arrows and we're okay with it. We're okay with it.
We're not worried about the reception we're gonna get. We're
(30:23):
not worried about what the media says.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You know, we want to be nice to our fans,
clearly because you know they're the ones to buy the tickets.
But you know, we know this is going to be
really unpopular, and they still made the trade anyway. That's
a lot of guts too. It's a lot of guts
to get that. And again, they got a d It's
not like they it's not like they just got often
reason ruey hotcha mora?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I mean, come on, and even if.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They did is a legend.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
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Many people say he's the Rob Polinka of Fox Sports Radio.
He answers his phone, laughs and does good things. It's
Steve Desager sometimes answer the phone. The Lakers are dominating
the Clippers in the early going at the Clippers Place tonight,
(31:28):
forty five points in the first quarter, early second it's
now forty seven to twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Lakers in the lead.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
For the Clippers, James Harden zero for five shooting from
the floor, Kawhi Leonard one for six. The Lakers shot
seventy five percent from the floor in the first quarter
eighteen of twenty four. The other late game, well, not
such good shooting from Indiana. They're at twenty nine percent.
They're trailing after the first period at Portland twenty seven
to eighteen. The other five games are final New York
(31:57):
a winner at Toronto one twenty one, one seventeen Karl
Anthony Towns twenty seven points, twenty rebounds. Houston did not win,
lost by two at Brooklyn. They did get back All
Star center Alpa and Schengon after the Bruce Cafe'd missed
three games, did have twenty four points twenty rebounds in defeat.
Philadelphia got Joel Embiid on the court for the first
(32:18):
time in about a month and beat Dallas won.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Eighteen one sixteen.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Embiid after the bad knee, returned and had a triple
double tonight, including twenty nine points. Boston ended Cleveland's four
game winning streak. Won twelve one oh five Chicago over
Miami in a comeback one thirty three to one twenty four.
Kevin Durant to the Suns, is doubtful for Wednesday with
a springed ankle. Among the college basketball games, about thirteen.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Minutes to go.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Number one Auburn leads Oklahoma fifty nine forty six already
wins in the top ten for Houston, Florida and Purdue
Number nine. Michigan State is down at UCLA late first
half twenty nine, twenty three Bruins Old Miss beat Kentucky
ninety eight to eighty four. Among the fourteen NHL games.
Winnipeg Jets ahead late in the game, three nothing over
(33:03):
the Hurricanes, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And this is the only time I'm okay with the
Hurricanes losing if they lose to the Jets.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Oh, because it's the only time. Because it's that you
can't lose Jets against your hockey team. I can't lose.
It's okay with the time. You have to take this.
This doubles as an actual Jets victory. Well, it's more
points than they usually scoring a game. They have three,
So it's all right.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
New Jersey with a shootout win at Pittsburgh three to two,
Washington six ' three over Florida, and we do have
baseball news is Max Schurzer officially gets the one year
deal from the Toronto Blue Jays fifteen and a half
million dollars. The Orioles agreed to a one year contract
with outfielder Ramon Loreano, and the Cubs acquired righty reliever
Ryan Brazier and cash from the Dodgers. The Chicago Cubs
(33:45):
full squad workouts at spring training start February fourteenth, why
so early. They opened in Tokyo against the Dodgers in March.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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the reason I stunked the end of.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Last year was because I was hurt.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
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Speaker 4 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (34:40):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon OBO Livethetireck dot Com Studios. It is
already a blowout in La. The Lakers shoot seventy five
percent in the first quarter, they score forty five points.
They are absolutely waxing the Clippers right now in a
game where they may score three hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Tonight it is sixty two.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
To thirty nine midway through the second quarter, fourteen assists,
zero turnovers. You think the Lakers are ready for the
Luca era. Yeah, I think they're I think they're excited.
I think they're ready for the Luca donta jerror to begin.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We didn't need him at all.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Look at me, I'm Lebron James. And if they get
towards three hundred today, short yelling spot.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So we'll have more NBA coming up in a few minutes. Again,
Lakers are just crushing the Clippers. No Luca tonight sitting
on the bench, not playing. Could make his debut against
the Pacers later on this week. But big football news
Super Bowl week here. Kirk Cousins goes on Good Morning
Football NFL Network earlier today and a month after the
regular season, and looking, I lost his job to Michael
(35:48):
Pennix Junior. He's probably gonna be traded. There's gonna be
teams looking for him. House thought after his Kirk Cousins
after a really bad year, but Cousins wanted to explain
that his falloff was directly related to an injury he
suffered midway through the season.
Speaker 10 (36:03):
And you know, we were six and three, was playing well,
doing a lot of good things, even if the right
ankle wasn't perfect. You know, nobody's perfect in this league.
We're never feeling one hundred percent. So it didn't really
affect me too much. But then against the Saints, got
hit pretty good in my right shoulder and elbow, and
from there kind of dealing with that, you know, it
(36:24):
was something I was working through and just never really
could get it to where I wanted it. And so
now kind of now the season's over the other time
and the energy to say, okay, let's get the right
ankle back, let's get this.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
So there he was saying, you know, against the Saints,
and oh, by the way, the downtick he had had
to do with his army just couldn't get it right now.
In the subsequent time following that injury, he appeared on
the injured list for one day and then said I'm
one hundred percent and was never on the injured list again. Yes,
is there part of it that, hey, you quarterback might
(36:56):
not want to admit that he's injured. It gives a
target to the other team. Okay, but the end is
pretty good with making sure that when players are injured,
they're on the list going into the week, even if
they're questionable and they wind up playing. How much do
I believe this affected Kirk Cousins and why he stunk
the end of the year. I believe it more if
we heard about it then or if we heard about
it right after the season. I don't believe it so
(37:18):
much that here a month has gone by, we're getting
set for the Super Bowl, which is going to go
into free agency, and now here's Kirk Cousin saying, hey,
I was injured. I'm okay now, but I was injured
because it is a convenient way to explain away. Oh yeah,
I couldn't get it right and I struggled. Now that
was a next four game. It's a New Orleans game.
Was the beginning of the four games. I struggled. Then
he was bench form Michael Pennix junior. Everybody gets dinged up,
(37:41):
everybody gets hurt. But wow, especially for a guy like Cousins,
who is very deliberate about his career, that is very smart.
About with his business decisions in the NFL and how
he presents his image going forward. I feel like, really
a month after, like right before we're getting to free agency,
this is this is when we're hearing about it. We
didn't hear about it then when hey, if I'm hurt
(38:02):
and something's going on, I would have said that. Or
when he gets benched, he doesn't say that he couldn't
get his arm right, then that's not something the time
of you say hey, I've been hurt and I couldn't
get my arm right. Now a month after, when teams
are turning the page on this year looking towards next year,
now is when you say it. Yeah, I'm gonna call
a little bit of shenanigans on that.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Mike Harmon, Well, you know, you play gamesmanship with the
injury report, which is why I've always kind of chuckled
at it, right, you know, with the law lean and
nod and wink towards gamblers all those years ago when
they started requiring it, And every once in a while
some one of the teams will get slapped on the
wrist for an erroneous report or rope a doping. Towards
(38:47):
the end of the week. But for the most part,
everybody kind of shrugs. I assume my other the other
fifty three were getting ready to come at me, and
that's that right until they and then they line them
up as they were. For Kirk Cousins, I mean, he
was adamant that there was a clerical error, that there
were problems that you know, he was perfectly fine after
(39:07):
that Saints game, uh, coaching staff, perfectly fine. Look, you're
trying to hit a guy and knock him on his
ass and run through his shoulder anyway, so disclosing if
you're having an issue, I don't know what you're hiding there, right,
I mean, it's not like you're gonna suddenly get what
was it George Cumby.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Where suddenly you go up and body. That's not the
way we do things.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
You gotta explain to Alni. You guys explained Generation X
who George Cumby was. Come on, man, that's a that's
a that's a deep pull right there, okay.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Or it's not like that guy Speed who was in
the Royal rumble the other day and then bron Breaker
did his shoulder shoulder smash and then they had to
put him in a neck brace. And on crutches, all
of those things. No, no, no, I thought they booked a
man in half.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I saw the replay.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
I did see the spirit leave his body. Although now
he's getting like a hundred bucks of signature from tops now, but.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
That's a whole other thingth no, not no, yeah yeah
that was Yeah, that's a move I wanted to see
is the Can you find a way to put that
on a card?
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Can you put that in a trading card? I want
to see that movie.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Well, I mean that would be an old Sports Flix
kind of thing where we tilted and we get to
see him exactly.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I want to bring it out way like.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
The lenticular eyes on the cars, you know, the whole
Cars movie. Yeah, I just have that happen.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean they've we'll get to some of those. Well, well,
I'm sure we'll find it.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
It'll be like Harry Potter. It'll be like Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You'll get moving pictures on a car, just like they
do for with Dumbledore. You can't expect me to hang
around all.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Day like well, but if he leaves, I mean, I
got no value to it now, and I just got
a frame.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I bade the trade when Dumbledore was in the frame.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
He left, and suddenly I have.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
The million dollar card like Keith Olberman for a guy
that ended up not panning out.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
But anyway, Uh yeah, D's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Uh, he's a lot, a lot of lion in the
silly season because he wants a job.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, Lifethtirack dot com Studios. Coming up next, we'll
tell you exactly what the vibe of this Luka Doncicch
trade reminds us of.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
And boy, this is really good news for the Lakers.
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is the way tied buying should be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
One of these days, that pesky Super Bowl is gonna
get some headlines.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Guy.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Maybe tomorrow, maybe Thursday, maybe Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Up, everybody's gonna watch a game Sunday unless he can't
make a big trade on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
We're past the deadline.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
But I'll tell you the NBA is saying you want
to take Christmas from us, We're gonna take the Super
Bowl from you. How about that you take something from me,
I'm gonna take something from you.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Well, I mean Travis Kelcey did say, you know blank
the media, Why why you so mad about referees?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So, I mean we got that from last night. That
was good. Well, sure they had to. I mean that
that was your highlight.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
There's your there's your encapsulation of media night in nine seconds.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
There you go. That's it again. Media.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The worst decision at the end of one of the
worst has ever made is moving media day to Monday night,
where it is absolutely irrelevant and it's becoming we don't
talk about it. Used to own the news cycle all
day Tuesday media day to no, no, no, We're gonna
throw it on at night because well a few more
people will watch. But in the end, you've lost relevancy.
You've comempletely lost relevancy with it.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, man, I'm looking at it.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Today was how many times can someone retweet some chicory
coffee or ben Ye Mix? So I did add to
my shopping list Benye Mix okay for later the week.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
So I got that going for me.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I might just go down to downtown Disney and I'll
just pick it up in person there.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But I got that going for me.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
A lot of references to the media party today and
then yeah, really all about the gluttony and how many
po boys people are gonna eat. So, I mean, other
than that, I really don't have a whole lot of
feel that there's a game going on. Just seems like
it's a culinary institute kind of display.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I'm thinking more like, here's Adam Silver and Roger Goodell,
like in Vegas at a poker table, and Adam Silver says,
I see your taking Christmas Day from us, and I
raise you taking super Bowl week away from you.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
There you go, good, You're going all in, Roger going
all in. I mean, this is not so quick.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
Jason's up pass Lakers Friday nights bigger than the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
F Luca plays. Yeah, but that's Friday. I mean the
whole week.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It would take, the whole week.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
It would take. It would take the whole week.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
And a d Joel Embiid played today for Joel.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I mean, hey, I got I was gonna play the
lottery day.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Something told me in my mind's eye that you know,
this was an eventful day that the stars were aligning
for greatness. I had no idea it would mean that
Joel Empede actually showed up on a basketball Holy good man.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I really want to get traded too, Man, I gotta
start playing.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Look, I'm healthy, healthy. No, it's gonna make that deal
for me the next couple of days. Man, I can't
show that I could play a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hey, hey, hey, triple double and and the game clinching
free throw.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Look at me, Look at me. I learned to shoot
a free throw while I was off for the monk too.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, I'm fine, and look, I'm not tired shooting free
throw was like I was earlier in the year. I
can shoot a freak throw and not grabbed my shorts
in between. You I'm so tired shooting.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
How much do you think when he was at the
free throw line was in his head? I can't grip my.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Shorts, you know, you know he needs he needs that.
What what's that reality show where they put everybody through
seal training, like the Cam Newton is on, Like and
b needs to do it off season version of that.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
No, I like that and Luca and Luca probably does too.
The guy's got to get in shape. Okay, let let's
do it. Let's do not wash the press today. And
we're gonna play.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Look, he looked, we're gonna play the biggest.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I missed something.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
He was at all.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
He wasn't. He wasn't talking and breathing heavy, so that
was good. He wasn't happy to be here. It's just
give me, give me a second. I just walked ten
feet hang on. Yeah, No, this is uh exciting being
a die.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Like this is a replace.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You can only do like three or four words at
a time before I got of just you know what.
Somebody else talk somebody else, Rob, you talk, Rob, you talk,
you talk, Rob. No listen because today's a big day,
right you know. Luca is, you know, wearing his Laker uniform.
Here we are right now, the Lakers are getting set
to play the Clippers. The lakers first game post ad
(05:22):
Luca likely to make his debut later on this week,
but he is on the bench in his Laker gear.
Got a standing ovation from everybody in the crowd as
we get ready to tip off. But there was something
absolutely huge from Luca's press conference today, and it was
three seconds long, and so many people missed it, and
it tells you and it just opens your eyes a
(05:44):
little bit to understand that no matter what you see online.
No matter what you see experts and pundit say about
the Luka Doncicch trade, The Mavericks didn't trade Luca for
no reason. They didn't trade him because Nico Harrison woke
up one day like you do in and you go,
I'm just sick of looking at these guys every day
to make a trade. I'm gonna trade. He didn't wake
(06:04):
up one day and just decide to trade Luca. Right,
there was stuff that went on because Luca had been
there for seven years, just got him to the finals.
He's their big superstar. He's a top three player in
the league. There's a reason why they traded. This is
not something that just came out of nowhere. And I
heard a lot of Luca today saying, no, I never
talked about the Max. I don't know why I thought
it would spend my whole career there.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Now Lucas you know, Luca's playing a little bit of Hey,
I did nothing.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You know, this is just completely on them. Oh so
they just woke up one day, He's saying, they just
woke up one day and decided to trade you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Their GM's a dummy. Understand.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
They traded him for a reason, whether it was hey,
he doesn't stay in shape, is drinking, which I you
know was part of the deal. You know, we told
we saw the Michael Finley thing in the playoffs, take
and the beer away from Luca. Whatever is, they had
a reason to trade him. And this is the sound
bite from today that I think everybody missed that tells you, Okay,
there was stuff going on behind the scenes, because Luca
(06:57):
kind of walked away, kind of stepped away from this
after he said it, like, uh, probably shouldn't have said it.
I want to take it into another direction. He was
asking the press conference about, you know, how he thought
being in La now he thought he was gonna play
in Dallas forever. What do you think about what's going
on in the last couple of days. And this is
what Lucas said.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
At some point I knew this was gonna happen, But
I would say I always take the high road, you know.
I had amazing moments in Dallas with all my teammates,
coaches and the most important defense, you know, and it
was it was an amazing journey.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Wait wait wa waa play the beginning of that part again.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Some point I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
At some point the second Michael Finley took his bear,
that's when that happened.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, Michael Finley took his bare, and you didn't see
Lucas say I'm out he did the Levarn But.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
In that moment, I mean the look on his face.
I mean, we dissected it supruders style frame happened.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
But look when he said, you heard lucasay, I always
knew it was gonna end like this. Then he went
on the rest of the press conference and said, I
thought i'd be either the rest of my career. I
don't know what happened. And then he really went on,
you know, laid it on thick about that. But understand
all you that three seconds right there where he said
I always knew it would end this way tells you
there was stuff going on, and there was a reason
(08:12):
why the Mavericks credit him exactly. When I still see
today people go, oh, the Mavericks don't know what they're doing.
They didn't get enough, they didn't do this, and what
do they trade you while you're trading Luca. Obviously they
had a reason, right, and you may not like it,
and you may not like what they got because for
some reason, you ridiculously want three or four draft picks.
That's gonna make a bigger difference. You know, it's not
bad enough getting one of the top ten players in
(08:32):
the NBA and a D that's as good a player
as you're gonna get. All right, we talked about it
last night. What was gonna make everybody happier? Four first
round picks? Three ok players that are not superstars, because
then the criticism would have.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Been, well, if you trade a superstar, you gotta get
a superstar.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got ad.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Ad is still a pretty good player. Does he have
the same faults as Luca. Yeah, he can't stay on
the floor as much as you want him to, right,
Motivation might be a little bit of a thing, but
that goes both ways.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That's Luca, that's a D. So just get that.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
There's a reason why that the Mavericks trade.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And that's what I'm reading all.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Day Frostburg and I get the I get the Laker
part of it, because the Lakers are celebrating, Hey we
just got Luca now that we open up our championship window.
But for for other NBA fans and for experts in
here and.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Go oh, I don't know what they're doing. They don't
know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, go, there's a reason why you're not you're not. No,
I'm not in there. I'm not in there every day.
I'm not gonna be the first person to tell you
I was. But they didn't. They didn't just wake up
one day and say today we're trading Lukadancich and we're
gonna start calling people just to see because I'm sick
of looking at him, sick of looking at him on
the injured list, you know, missing all these games as
he is. There's a reason why they traded him, and
and because neither of them have played yet, we haven't
(09:43):
seen anything go on. All we have to go to
go through is what we've seen so far, what we've
heard from Dallas, right, Because the biggest knee jerk reaction
is you find a way to make it work with
a top three guys. What if you can't find a
way to make it work. Lebron James wanted to leave
the Cavaliers. No one said hey twice, no one said hey, Cavaliers,
you find a way to make it happen with Lebron.
You find out No the guy wanted to go to
(10:04):
free agency, and look what happened. He signed twice, he
left right twice, he left, He signed with other teams.
No one said, you find a way to keep Lebron. No, no,
that was no critics. It was I'm great and I
want to go to free agency, right, No one is.
No one is gonna sit back and go, oh, yeah,
you find a way to keep him if there's no
way to keep him, right, I'm sure. I'm sure they
(10:24):
decided we don't want to give him the money. We're
not sold on him for whatever reason, that we're gonna
get great stuff out of him if we give him
three hundred and fifty million dollars. So, yeah, there was
stuff going on. It Just get that there's a reason
why they did it.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah, I think, you know, we talk about the business
of the league. There's a lot of conspiratorial stuff out
there about the Lakers and needing to prop them up
the next run. A lot of people running around like
it's the old Wizard of.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oz singing dang dong.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
The witch is debt cause Lebron's reign of you know,
owning everything in LA with the Lakers is coming to
an end and passing Hey torch, just like in The Wizard,
but see it all comes together. But it's also the
idea when Luca says that about I knew it would
end that way, you know, part of me it's an
(11:14):
honest moment, but it's also I think a little bit
of a recognition of not very many guys get to
go the full twenty in the same squad, And maybe
I'm giving him too much credit in this moment that
it's a little more of a contextualized, bigger picture that
you know, you got a Steph Curry over there, who's
(11:35):
probably gonna stay with one team. You had Dirk in Dallas.
He's the torch bearer there for one team. But there's
not a lot of guys that get to do that.
And so maybe he'd already reconciled in his mind whatever
happened in the Postmark Cuban era that the likelihood of
him being there for as long as he wants to be.
(11:57):
The other thing is everybody keeps trying to extrapolate him
to a tw your career. Who the hell knows the
whether he actually wants to play twenty years, So stop
projecting that crap onto him that he's got to suddenly
be in a hyperbaric chamber and hanging out and spending
billions of dollars on his body. Like Lebron just shut
the hell up with that. But in the in the interim,
you know, the guy had had his moment, and I'm
(12:18):
sure there were some battles behind the scene, that Michael
Finley thing. You know, we can chuckle about it, but
we talked about it very seriously that night, right, we
had our laughs. But then it's like, all right, what
the hell's going on here?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Right? You don't even get to have a beer with
your old man.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
They emasculated you in a hallway, you know, after you
played forty some odd minutes a night carrying these guys
on your back up and down the court, and they're
still treating you with kid gloves.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
The three point fifty a daunting number. No question he'll
be able to make that back up. Plenty of endorsements
will come. Run the hell Daron Fox already has extra
shoe deals and stuff with boot companies. A day after
going to San Antonio. I think Luco will be just
fine finance. But in the moment, you know, I I
I really wish she could give him a little more truth, serum, Look,
(13:06):
but give a little more juice. You don't give you
something else behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You don't even need any more than the guy's been
out since Christmas. Right, the guy's been out since Christmas.
There was no timetable for him return of the lineup,
there was no and all of a sudden today, Oh
I could play Friday. Whoa really, all of a sudden,
you can play Friday?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
What do I say about guys that quit on their
teams When they get traded, they magically get healthy and
I can play suddenly, I can play again now. Luca's
been out for over a monthlos, no timetable for his return. No, no, Hey,
he's coming back this game, this game, this game. But
all of a sudden, Oh, he can make his debut
on Friday, really can.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
He's healed.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
He he's making that debut for Oh interesting, I'm telling
you they traded him for a reason. You can see
what the relationship is like. And and look, we'll get
stories on it. We'll find stuff out slowly, stuff will leak,
you know, both sides trying their best to be the
to be the big your persons.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Wait the breakup? Yeah, but the bigger, bigger.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We're gonna we're gonna find out, they're gonna find out.
Those are two big things we saw today. He could
play Friday and that I always do that in this way. Yeah,
those are those are little. Those are more than just
hints that Luca drop that you can tell you. Okay,
there was stuff going on, and the Mavericks had to trade.
They had a reason and a good reason to trade him,
because you don't just trade superstars because you're dumb. I mean,
go ahead, Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, they did do that because they are dumb.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
There you go, all right now, it was just the
guy that got the pitch to Steph Curry wrong and
called him the wrong name back at Nike.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
You know what, guy, And now what do you got, Frostburg.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Not only are they gonna give Luca a statue at
Crypto dot com Marena, but Michael Finley's gonna get a
statue there as well.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Michael beer in his hand. He's gonna have the beer
in his.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Hand walking away. Hey, thanks, Finley, I'll tell you man,
Wait till they put statue. Wait wait till they put
the A D one up in Dallas where he's in streets.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Trans nothing to do with syds on the bench. He's
sitting on the bench and street clothes. That's the ad stas.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You know what he might have been able to neutralize
Joel embead that triple double if he'd been able to play.
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Luca not playing tonight for the Lakers. He is scheduled
to potentially play Friday against the Pacers. A lot of
(17:40):
points so far, midway through the first quarter, Lakers up
over the Clippers twenty eight, twenty three.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
And you want to hear how the Luca era began
in Los Angeles, because you know, hey, just because he's
not playing doesn't mean there wasn't a big ovation.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
He comes out in his Laker gear, he's got his
got his black. Luca was wearing a black Lakers pullover
with a tiny Lakers life will go on the left breast,
black workout pants as well to sit on the bench
and watch the game, and we're all gonna watch to
see if he's actually gets to eat anything.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I don't wait, I don't know. Oh sorry, was that
when you.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Were a going full Kevin Harlan. That guy's a trunk.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He's on the bench, he's wearing a black polo and
it's a pull over. By the way, it's Clipper game,
so they're not announcing his ass.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They did, they did. Do you think TNT didn't announce it?
You think no, no, no? I mean the ip tucking
in the arena. Okay, well they talked about it on TNT,
which is where most of the world is watching this game.
There's people, there's people in all kinds of different countries
watching this game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You cats are up forty eight six second half.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So from a game everybody is watching to a game
nobody is watching. That's you want to do?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I bring the world together?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Oh okay, okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
And everybody's watching this so they could see him pick
his nose on the sideline.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I mean, what do you expecting it.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I want to something from the wall that they're gonna
do some cool stuff, like when they would shave a
d's eyebrow.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
What do they do with that?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I want to see him just get a whole bunch
of food, like nachos he's got and he's got like
big drinks, like a big slurpy in one hand, and
he's got nott Joe's and burgers. And every time they
showed him, he's just eating, Like every time they showed
Steph and he's chomping on his mouth. He's just eating everything.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Oh, they got every scene he's eating.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, he's got Dodger dogs and the Dodgers delivered to
them already from the have before the season started. I
just eating everything every time it sounds that's awesome sitting
there with what.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
You're just going off your your final supper. I could
I could sit there, I could sit down, Luke, and I.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Think would be a pretty good uh eating checking things
off your final dinner. No, my final dinner wouldn't be
a well, would I have? Boy, Dodger dogs are really good?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Would have a Dodger dog in there? Nacho?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Did you really?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
I don't know if not.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Dodger dogs are really good, though, I mean maybe we're
a pinks. Dodger dogs are pinks out at But if
Dodger Dogs is so good, tourist, Oh, Pinks is really
Pinks is really good though, but I'd probably go Dodger Dog. No,
I go Dodger Dog there, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I don't. No, Pinks is pretty good. I gotta say
Pinks is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I mean it's good people watching.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Oh yeah, I mean I wouldn't wait in line beyond that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I got hey.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Come on, that line is tremendous. I gotta wait in
line for this guy. It's his last meal. Just do it,
Just do it for the guy. Uh So, while Luca
gets introduced, he gets a big ovation. Everybody is very
happy waiting for the Luca error to began. Luca had
a great day today, introduced to the media for the
first time, there's a Laker and answered all the questions
and can't wait for his debut. The absolute opposite of
(20:35):
that is the guy and superstar that had the worst
day in sports, and that's Anthony Davis. There are three
just absolute gut punches to a d today that show
you just, boy, did he have a bad day? And
while people are mad and don't expect anything from him. Okay,
first of all, the three things that happened to Ad today.
Number one. Uh, you saw Luca get introduced by the Lakers,
(21:00):
get a hero's welcome, holding up his jersey. Fantastic, right,
a whole big procession. The media is there. Every media
is there. It is covered everywhere you go. On the
flip side. Ad walked off the court and answered questions
just standing on the court during Mavericks practice day.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
There was no there was no Hey, look at a D.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Here's his jersey. He's fantastic. Oh, this guy's gonna lead
us in the championship.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
A D is just hey, you guys want to talk. Look,
I'm over it. You know, it was this big thing
to I'm over and I'm ready to play. I'm excited
to be here and play. But you have one guy, Luca,
who gets the big welcome with I'm sure there was
sandwiches out for people in the back, Luke, I'm sure
the sandwiches, sandwiches out there, and Ad is just yeah,
you got five minutes practice going on.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yeah, what do you guys got. I'll answer your question.
What do you guys have?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'll walk over to you talk to you a little bit.
Quite the different perspective from what Luca got with the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
I was looking for more clips of former Laker greats
that showed up to welcome Luca. I know Magic and
Kareem are watching UCLA battle Michigan State, so they got
that going on on opposite sidelines there.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
But yeah, I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Anthony Davis, maybe that shows what a clowns show the
and goes more to Justin's point that these guys don't
know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
And they're not even giving Ad a chance. They've already
turned their back on the whole franchise and him, you
know what I mean, Like, that's.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Such a half ass effort, right, you already lost the
breakup by all estimations, even though your team, when he's
available and gets past this ab strain, wasn't available tonight
against the Sixers. By all accounts, you feel pretty good
that while you're maybe not as as good as you
were a year ago when you ran to the NBA Finals,
(22:45):
that you still have a shot to be really competitive
in the West. Maybe one more move in the offing.
And and this is the guy you get back, and
this is the half ass welcome and reception you get,
Like unless you find out that Ad just wanted to
be left alone and to do it quietly, unless it
really came from him in clutch sports, which I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Believe for a second.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Clutch sports wouldn't be like, hey, our guy's not damage
good blank you blank you get the balloons, get the festivities.
I want emmittts Smith. I want anybody that's ever been
anybody in Dallas to show up and kiss his ass.
But so I think they botched this. I think it
lends to what Frostburg's saying that I might give a
larger percentage of the pie to being a clown show.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Now is this can can Can the Davis kid play
tight end a little bit? We have, we got some
weapons we need to we need to fix some stuff
up here a little bit on for the cow. I mean,
he's six eleven. We just can't we just run a
play where he walks to the beginning of the end zone,
puts his hands up and Dak just throws it up
really high to him and he just grabs it without
even jumping, Like like can't that happen? Like can't we
(23:53):
just run him out there for hail Mary's put him
in the end zone, throw it up really high and
let him catch a ball and he doesn't even have
to wear pads. He could just wear his Matris jersey
and a helmet and we'll just throw it up there.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
He'll catch it. We'll win every We'll win every game.
Just have them stand up there in the end zone.
It's all we gotta do. So Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Number one worst day for Ad watches Luca's heroes welcome.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
He just talks to guys on the side.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Number two for Luka Doncic worst day, the Mavericks announced
they're gonna refund season ticket money because of the Luka
Doncicz trade. But I thought Ad was here to win
you a championship. Listen, hey, a D glad you're here.
But there may be some less people at the games
because everybody's really mad we traded Luca. So I don't
know how excited everybody is for your arrival and to
(24:36):
help out. Because we want to make sure the fans
will come to the games. We're gonna offer refunds to
people who want to cash in, and it could be
as much as two thousand dollars per person, right depending
on how many games you want to sell back to
them like this the Mavericks, Yes, we were so happy
to have a d We're gonna give money back to
everybody because they're upset that we traded Luca.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
Again points on the side of what a clown show.
I mean, I get it, everybody bought themselves a Luca jersey,
figure out away with him and his people and do
a farewell t shirt giveaway or some crap. But giving
any money back, what are we doing. I'm canceling all
my season tickets. I hate the Mavericks because you got
(25:22):
rid of Luca, except for those clowns that were carrying
the casket and chanting crap outside the stadium, who probably
you know, had their one game or maybe they just
watched it on TV and decided to go down and
share their feelings. I mean, that's an awful lot of
money to be given back. Here, what do we got
at this point? You have played twenty four home games,
(25:45):
So we got seventeen games. Man, that's a if you're
looking around towards the courtman when we're talking too grand
a ticket time, seventeen Nah, here's an extra beer.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So that's two. All right, that's two that that would
be bad enough.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Okay, So I really get a press conference welcome and
now they're given, they're given out refunds. But here's the
worst one, because this is the shot out the door, right,
This is the shot out the door. They get money back, right,
but this this is like, okay, everybody's done, Rob Polinka, Lakers,
GM who listen the Lakers we know according to different
reports we talked about this last night, were upset when
(26:25):
Ad gave his last Hey, we need a center now,
we need a center who won a championship, which is
kind of a ridiculous thing to say. Dude, you're talking
about you're saying that JaVale McGhee and Dwight Howard in
twenty twenty were the reasons why you won like that,
That's why you want a championship like weed, You needed
a couple of Jags to win a championship like that.
Supposedly was the last straw that they were upset with
(26:46):
Ad saying that, So okay, and then you know, Ad
winds up getting traded. So now here's the third bit
for Ad for the bad, no good, very horrible Judy
Moody bummer summer, bad day that Ad had. Rob Polinka
told the media today he's still ill going after the
center that Ad wanted him to get. He is hopeful
to get somebody, but he and he just didn't say
(27:07):
yes or no. He went into big and huge detail
on this, saying, Hey, if there's a difference maker center
out there, we'll go get somebody. We know it's something
we're going after. I don't know if I'll be able
to do it for Thursday, but clearly that's a position
of need and if there's someone we can get out there,
and he ticks off all the things that he wants
to if someone that can run the floor away and
be a rim protector like Rob Polinka is oh wait,
(27:30):
he ask me the question, ask me the question. Why
do I just ask me so I can give you
a ten minute answer that just basically says blank, you Ad,
you said you want a center, We traded you. We're
still going after that center. Like this is ad Ad
got it from the media, he got it from the
team and the fans, and now he got it from his.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Former team like that.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
If you're Anthony Davis, you're like, you know what, guys,
I think I need a minute before I'm gonna suit up.
I think I'm a I wouldn't blame if you needed
a couple of days before he's got to come play
in this because wow, this is a bad day.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Might might make your stomach ache a little bit more.
There's no question about it. Jackson Hayes is a guy
that you look at that could be pretty interesting getting
out ahead of some of the lobs from from Lebron
and Lucas.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
This thing gets cooking.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Uh So, yeah, Unfortunately, sometimes you gotta wear it. Uh.
I did like the look of Rob Polinka as well.
He was channeling every bit the roblow Brat packet era.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
So that was good jacket he was.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I think the fonds he was fonds must be like
five to two.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
He was wearing a because the sleeves were so short.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
And the thing is he was wearing a jacket that
you could tell it was zippered in the middle, but
it wasn't on the top and it wasn't on the bottom. Now,
I don't know if that's a look. Well, I don't
know if that's a look. But if I had a
jacket like that, it meant the bottom of the zipper
broke and when I zipped it up halfway on, now
it's broken.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I gotta get rid of this jackway. But that's what
he's but that's what he's wearing.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think it was painted on, like.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
What GM dresses like that?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I mean, really he's he has he's going full Rob Low,
you know, like what GM dresses that way?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Laugh and say yes.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Sure, we'll make that trade.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Who did Frostburg?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Who do you think did Who do you think did
more uh Rob Polinka to make this trade happen? Or
pat Riley when Lebron and Bosh and Wade showed up
and said, we all want to play in Miami. Oh
for sure, we had to do three contracts instead of one.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Literally Polenka picks up the phone, laughs his butt off
and says, yes, that was that's it.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Made sure the facts machine was connected or the e
facts account that everybody knew the proper pass where it's like,
get that thing over as fast as you can.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I need to get by.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It would have been impossible to even fathom the idea
that somebody would hold Jerry Jones' beers in.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
The state of Texas. Oh yeah, yeah, Noverick's well done.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Look are you're not laughing about Shott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Now? I will?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I will say, look, we've talked about Yes, it's it's
it's all one sided right now. We mentioned this in
the beginning of the show. There's a reason why they
traded him. There's a reason why it happened. And when
you need to make a move like that. I respect
the fact that Mavericks know we're gonna take so many
arrows and we're okay with it. We're okay with it.
We're not worried about the reception we're gonna get. We're
(30:23):
not worried about what the media says.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
We're not.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You know, we want to be nice to our fans,
clearly because you know they're the ones to buy the tickets.
But you know, we know this is going to be
really unpopular, and they still made the trade anyway. That's
a lot of guts too. It's a lot of guts
to get that. And again, they got a d It's
not like they it's not like they just got often
reason ruey hotcha mora?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I mean, come on, and even if.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
They did is a legend.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
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find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Macguy.
Many people say he's the Rob Polinka of Fox Sports Radio.
He answers his phone, laughs and does good things. It's
Steve Desager sometimes answer the phone. The Lakers are dominating
the Clippers in the early going at the Clippers Place tonight,
(31:28):
forty five points in the first quarter, early second it's
now forty seven to twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Lakers in the lead.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
For the Clippers, James Harden zero for five shooting from
the floor, Kawhi Leonard one for six. The Lakers shot
seventy five percent from the floor in the first quarter
eighteen of twenty four. The other late game, well, not
such good shooting from Indiana. They're at twenty nine percent.
They're trailing after the first period at Portland twenty seven
to eighteen. The other five games are final New York
(31:57):
a winner at Toronto one twenty one, one seventeen Karl
Anthony Towns twenty seven points, twenty rebounds. Houston did not win,
lost by two at Brooklyn. They did get back All
Star center Alpa and Schengon after the Bruce Cafe'd missed
three games, did have twenty four points twenty rebounds in defeat.
Philadelphia got Joel Embiid on the court for the first
(32:18):
time in about a month and beat Dallas won.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Eighteen one sixteen.
Speaker 9 (32:21):
Embiid after the bad knee, returned and had a triple
double tonight, including twenty nine points. Boston ended Cleveland's four
game winning streak. Won twelve one oh five Chicago over
Miami in a comeback one thirty three to one twenty four.
Kevin Durant to the Suns, is doubtful for Wednesday with
a springed ankle. Among the college basketball games, about thirteen.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Minutes to go.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Number one Auburn leads Oklahoma fifty nine forty six already
wins in the top ten for Houston, Florida and Purdue
Number nine. Michigan State is down at UCLA late first
half twenty nine, twenty three Bruins Old Miss beat Kentucky
ninety eight to eighty four. Among the fourteen NHL games.
Winnipeg Jets ahead late in the game, three nothing over
(33:03):
the Hurricanes, New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
And this is the only time I'm okay with the
Hurricanes losing if they lose to the Jets.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Oh, because it's the only time. Because it's that you
can't lose Jets against your hockey team. I can't lose.
It's okay with the time. You have to take this.
This doubles as an actual Jets victory. Well, it's more
points than they usually scoring a game. They have three,
So it's all right.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
New Jersey with a shootout win at Pittsburgh three to two,
Washington six ' three over Florida, and we do have
baseball news is Max Schurzer officially gets the one year
deal from the Toronto Blue Jays fifteen and a half
million dollars. The Orioles agreed to a one year contract
with outfielder Ramon Loreano, and the Cubs acquired righty reliever
Ryan Brazier and cash from the Dodgers. The Chicago Cubs
(33:45):
full squad workouts at spring training start February fourteenth, why
so early. They opened in Tokyo against the Dodgers in March.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
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up next, the star NFL quarterback says, wait a minute,
the reason I stunked the end of.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Last year was because I was hurt.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Do we believe it?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
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Speaker 2 (34:31):
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Speaker 1 (34:40):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon OBO Livethetireck dot Com Studios. It is
already a blowout in La. The Lakers shoot seventy five
percent in the first quarter, they score forty five points.
They are absolutely waxing the Clippers right now in a
game where they may score three hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Tonight it is sixty two.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
To thirty nine midway through the second quarter, fourteen assists,
zero turnovers. You think the Lakers are ready for the
Luca era. Yeah, I think they're I think they're excited.
I think they're ready for the Luca donta jerror to begin.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
We didn't need him at all.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Look at me, I'm Lebron James. And if they get
towards three hundred today, short yelling spot.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So we'll have more NBA coming up in a few minutes. Again,
Lakers are just crushing the Clippers. No Luca tonight sitting
on the bench, not playing. Could make his debut against
the Pacers later on this week. But big football news
Super Bowl week here. Kirk Cousins goes on Good Morning
Football NFL Network earlier today and a month after the
regular season, and looking, I lost his job to Michael
(35:48):
Pennix Junior. He's probably gonna be traded. There's gonna be
teams looking for him. House thought after his Kirk Cousins
after a really bad year, but Cousins wanted to explain
that his falloff was directly related to an injury he
suffered midway through the season.
Speaker 10 (36:03):
And you know, we were six and three, was playing well,
doing a lot of good things, even if the right
ankle wasn't perfect. You know, nobody's perfect in this league.
We're never feeling one hundred percent. So it didn't really
affect me too much. But then against the Saints, got
hit pretty good in my right shoulder and elbow, and
from there kind of dealing with that, you know, it
(36:24):
was something I was working through and just never really
could get it to where I wanted it. And so
now kind of now the season's over the other time
and the energy to say, okay, let's get the right
ankle back, let's get this.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
So there he was saying, you know, against the Saints,
and oh, by the way, the downtick he had had
to do with his army just couldn't get it right now.
In the subsequent time following that injury, he appeared on
the injured list for one day and then said I'm
one hundred percent and was never on the injured list again. Yes,
is there part of it that, hey, you quarterback might
(36:56):
not want to admit that he's injured. It gives a
target to the other team. Okay, but the end is
pretty good with making sure that when players are injured,
they're on the list going into the week, even if
they're questionable and they wind up playing. How much do
I believe this affected Kirk Cousins and why he stunk
the end of the year. I believe it more if
we heard about it then or if we heard about
it right after the season. I don't believe it so
(37:18):
much that here a month has gone by, we're getting
set for the Super Bowl, which is going to go
into free agency, and now here's Kirk Cousin saying, hey,
I was injured. I'm okay now, but I was injured
because it is a convenient way to explain away. Oh yeah,
I couldn't get it right and I struggled. Now that
was a next four game. It's a New Orleans game.
Was the beginning of the four games. I struggled. Then
he was bench form Michael Pennix junior. Everybody gets dinged up,
(37:41):
everybody gets hurt. But wow, especially for a guy like Cousins,
who is very deliberate about his career, that is very smart.
About with his business decisions in the NFL and how
he presents his image going forward. I feel like, really
a month after, like right before we're getting to free agency,
this is this is when we're hearing about it. We
didn't hear about it then when hey, if I'm hurt
(38:02):
and something's going on, I would have said that. Or
when he gets benched, he doesn't say that he couldn't
get his arm right, then that's not something the time
of you say hey, I've been hurt and I couldn't
get my arm right. Now a month after, when teams
are turning the page on this year looking towards next year,
now is when you say it. Yeah, I'm gonna call
a little bit of shenanigans on that.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Mike Harmon, Well, you know, you play gamesmanship with the
injury report, which is why I've always kind of chuckled
at it, right, you know, with the law lean and
nod and wink towards gamblers all those years ago when
they started requiring it, And every once in a while
some one of the teams will get slapped on the
wrist for an erroneous report or rope a doping. Towards
(38:47):
the end of the week. But for the most part,
everybody kind of shrugs. I assume my other the other
fifty three were getting ready to come at me, and
that's that right until they and then they line them
up as they were. For Kirk Cousins, I mean, he
was adamant that there was a clerical error, that there
were problems that you know, he was perfectly fine after
(39:07):
that Saints game, uh, coaching staff, perfectly fine. Look, you're
trying to hit a guy and knock him on his
ass and run through his shoulder anyway, so disclosing if
you're having an issue, I don't know what you're hiding there, right,
I mean, it's not like you're gonna suddenly get what
was it George Cumby.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Where suddenly you go up and body. That's not the
way we do things.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
You gotta explain to Alni. You guys explained Generation X
who George Cumby was. Come on, man, that's a that's
a that's a deep pull right there, okay.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Or it's not like that guy Speed who was in
the Royal rumble the other day and then bron Breaker
did his shoulder shoulder smash and then they had to
put him in a neck brace. And on crutches, all
of those things. No, no, no, I thought they booked a
man in half.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I saw the replay.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
I did see the spirit leave his body. Although now
he's getting like a hundred bucks of signature from tops now, but.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
That's a whole other thingth no, not no, yeah yeah
that was Yeah, that's a move I wanted to see
is the Can you find a way to put that
on a card?
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Can you put that in a trading card? I want
to see that movie.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Well, I mean that would be an old Sports Flix
kind of thing where we tilted and we get to
see him exactly.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I want to bring it out way like.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
The lenticular eyes on the cars, you know, the whole
Cars movie. Yeah, I just have that happen.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Yeah, I mean they've we'll get to some of those. Well, well,
I'm sure we'll find it.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
It'll be like Harry Potter. It'll be like Harry Potter.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
You'll get moving pictures on a car, just like they
do for with Dumbledore. You can't expect me to hang
around all.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Day like well, but if he leaves, I mean, I
got no value to it now, and I just got
a frame.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I bade the trade when Dumbledore was in the frame.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
He left, and suddenly I have.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
The million dollar card like Keith Olberman for a guy
that ended up not panning out.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
But anyway, Uh yeah, D's that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Uh, he's a lot, a lot of lion in the
silly season because he wants a job.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, Lifethtirack dot com Studios. Coming up next, we'll
tell you exactly what the vibe of this Luka Doncicch
trade reminds us of.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
And boy, this is really good news for the Lakers.
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