April 10, 2025 • 41 mins
In Hour 4 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike are joined by NBA Insider Marc Stein to recap the Luka’s return to Dallas!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Luka Doncic and the Lakers. They beat the Mavericks Tonight
Luca's emotional return to Dallas. Forty five points for Luca
and incrediled light. Thought he was gonna get to sixty.
What a night for him, fifteen in the first quarter,
and look, we knew it was gonna be a difficult night.
It was gonna be full of emotion. It was gonna
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be very highly charged, and it was. But let's not
lose sight of the fact that the NBA decided about
ninety minutes or so before tip time to put out
a statement saying we've rescinded the technical foul that Luka
Doncics got last night with seven minutes to go in
the fourth quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Is that how it gets read like the guy saying, hey,
j in the back, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And oh, Jim in the back, Josh in front, Joe
on the side, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
NBA realizing, oh, we made a huge mistake throwing Luka
Doncic out of the game last night against the Thunder
seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter was the
biggest story last night. It's a great game in the West,
Lakers have a one point lead, Luca makes a shot,
yells out of fan court side. The official decides that, oh,
you're yelling at me, so I'm going to throw you
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out of the game, which was insane. Jt Or making
the decision right away the Lakers, I wasn't talking to you,
I was talking to the fan. Doesn't matter. The Thunder
go on a huge run win the game. Now, maybe
the thunder win the game. But we had one of
the best games of the year with two title contending
teams and the second half of a nightcap of two
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big time playoff caliber games first and with the Knicks
and the Celtics, and then we had this game. And
we said it at the time it was ridiculous and
it was unconsciable. I feel like Stephen A.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Smith. It was ridiculous, it was unconscionable. It was terrible,
it was awful. It was bottom of the barrel, it
was the worst. It was the pits.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And there was no reason to throw him out. And
if you do want to throw him out, okay, you
got to give me a really good reason. You can't
just have a knee jerk reactions. I think you were
talking to.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So he used vulgarity. I get that they had to
move on, and but here the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He could have done this in the morning, right, No, no, no,
We're gonna wait as long as possible because then eventually
the news cycle is gonna tick over to Luca's return
to Dallas, right before they should have done to write
a tip off. Hey, and no, no t for Luca
last I we're calling it off. So I want to
say this because this is a big deal. Okay, nice,
Now what are you doing to the official? Not that
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he needs to be suspended, he can't ever officiate again.
But the guy came into the game, he had something
against Luca. It was personal. He got the first of
foul called against him, he got the first technical foul
called against him.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You knew.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He even said I'll talk to anybody on the team
but him, and then he tees him up again and
throws him out of the game. No, there needs to
be some sort of proportional response from the NBA that
makes him understand, Hey, we know that's not good, because
you can't give everybody back the last eight minutes of
that game. Can't give it back to the Lakers, can't
give it back to the thunder, can't give it back
to the fans, can't give back to the national audience.
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Can't give it back to the TV partners. It wanted
this game. The better you're getting back to the betters.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, it's a.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Stupid decision to make because officials think, oh, I really
want to walk on here and show you who's the
lord of all of these games, and at every level,
I have seen that from you sports to high school
to college to pros. They always feel that way, right,
I am a guardian of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's how they call themselves on the referees website.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Come on now, and there's no reason why you can't
hold the referees and the officials to a higher standard
as well. I get Adam Silver and he wants to
do nothing. I understand this, But you're not taking away
any of their power. You're not lessening their impact. You're
not lessening their influence in the game. When you say, hey,
just so you know, Aredy knows when you guys make mistakes,
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we tell you right when we make mistakes, we'll call
it out to you. I think the players would respect that.
I think the teams would respect that. The fans certainly
would respect that to not just be because we're sick
of We're sick of leaders and all sorts of the
in all sorts of the world, whether it's politics or
or in sports. Yeah, we screwed this up, made a
bad decision, but we're not gonna own up to it.
We're not gonna talk about we're not gonna address it,
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and we're not gonna take any responsibility that's so maddening.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Man in the NBA is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Taking zero responsibility for this, zero responsibility. Yeah, oh yeah,
we were sitting in the technico.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Foul.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You should never done it in the first place. A
pretty big deal blowing that whistle. You affected a lot
of different things. And I said it last night and
I'll say it again. If you want to go crazy
with making sure a player's playing back to backs, some
games are on national TV. When you're gonna throw a
guy out, you got to make damn sure he's the
guy that you want to throw him out that there's
a good reason. It can't just be Oh, I think
he yelled at me and now I can't take it
back because I already threw him out. No, I think
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it's a pretty big deal. You can go take a
look at it. You talk to the other officials, you
can look an instant replay. That's a pretty big decision, right,
just like anything else, Just like was his foot on
the line for a three with under two minutes left
to go? Was the ball out off of so and
So's leg in the last thirty five seconds? You should
do that And the NBA needs to take it to
just say, hey, we get it. We screwed up, and
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that's what would be a little bit of some sort
of dis plinary reaction for JT. Or whether it's a hey,
you're out of the mix for some games here, or
it's a fine, however you want to do it, just
so everybody knows, Hey, when we screw something up, and
we understand we screwed this up, we get it. We're
going to fix it and make it right. Didn't get
that from the NBA and said it was just a
news dump of oh hey, uh, while you get ready
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to look at Luca boy, he looks sharp. He's crying
during the introduction for this game. We were sent to
the technical foul. So I enjoy the game tonight. That's great,
We'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, as we look at it, right,
we have the story out of the NFL is that
they actually fired three officials h and returned them to
college duty as part of the off season cleaning of
you go back.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
To college, so you go screw that game up.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Wait a minute, but I understand, but part of that
is the way way I don't want college screwed up either.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Wait a minute, what but you degree and speed and
learning process. I mean be sent back.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You're not sent back from fifth grade to second You're
you're going You're just going back down to fourth.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Teach you a lesson good luck with Ohio State Michigan
the final league of the six.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well, yeah, you kind of got that going.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And clearly everybody's still trying to go through all Supruder
film and everything they can to figure out exactly what
the beef is. If there was anything to the personal
comments that Jared Vanderbilt gave us and everybody popped off
on it last night, still goes back to the you're
yelling in that general direction. You've already had it in
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with this official that evening evenings prior you let it
go to the judges, and the judges gave it the
old HEAVO. I agree with you that when we're talking
about games, and it's always that concerntive, we're gonna make
them too long because we're reviewing anything. No, no, no,
We review scoring plays in the NFL, we review three
point shots, end line college basketball. I didn't care that
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Cinderella didn't show up for the dance. I didn't care
about any of those other bs narratives that went throughout
the tournament. What I did hate was the fact that
we had ninety seven views that lasted five minutes each
year that got old after a while. That would be
my one criticism and complaint about my viewing experience from
the NCULE, Like, but if you're getting them right, yeah,
but no one's going to say, oh, you're taking too
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much time with the Luca ejections.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Take your time.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And that's the point, right when we get to an ejection,
just like all these other big moments, it should be
reviewable all right before we set, especially when we start
talking about star power, nationally televised game, all the betting handle,
all of these things that are in all the eyeballs,
and you're we're.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Actually talking about your your league and positive terms.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's been the main complaint from Adam Silver. Anytime he's
had to show up on a TV show or sit
on a panel or or give a speech has been
I really don't like the negative attention.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
He was a great game, everybody was watching it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was a one point game, and then it turned
into a thing about the officiating being a joke. I
showed jt Or's bio. There you want to read off
the part of highlight Yeah, yeah, yeah, hang on, hang on,
J t ors By. You first of all, I can't
believe he's younger than me. Yeah, a couple of days
younger than younger than me. Wow, I feel like I
look pretty good here.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm it's highlighted in blue.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The California native previously spent more than ten years as
a counselor for young men in the foster care and
probation systems of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
He's had to deal with beef.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, So whatever Lucas said, I gotta imagine man's heard worse.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I think that's part of the reason he may have
been elevated to this job.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, look, now, there is there is a big teachable
moment here, right, to be serious about this, not to
be serious, but I'm saying to take in a different direction.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Is that we're always serious. I told you, Luca, you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Can't get thrown out when you're drawn out a fan, right,
But there is a teachable moment here, And if i'm
JJ Reddick, this is a time really to sit down
and tell look, okay, dude, let let's just talk about
this now. I know it's been a real whirlwind last
thirty six hours for you. Right, we had the game,
you got thrown out. I can't believe you got thrown out.
I am really pissed you had the game tonight. You're
really emotional and you were terrific. But let me just
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say that there's a time and a place for you
to jaw back at fans and to get really emotional
in the game.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I love that you're emotional. It makes you who you are.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But sometimes is not the right moment for jawing out
a fan because you don't want to open it up
to interpretation that something bad could happen, because that's exactly
what happened here. Luca decides to yell at a fan.
The guy that gave him a te earlier in the
game decides, you're yelling at me. I throw you out
of the game, right, And Luca's gonna say, boy, but
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just think about it, is that this is a niptuck game.
It's a one point game. It's a big game for us, right.
Not every time is a time for you to lose
it a little bit emotionally. You have to understand that
certain moments are moments to stay within yourself and Fred
to have this not happen into the playoffs. You don't
want to throw out there because you're you're getting into
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it with an official where you yell at a fan,
where a guy can interpret it as you're yelling at him,
and he throws you out of the game. We don't
get you back in game three of the Western Conference
Semifinals that we wind up losing. We don't get you
back for the for game six of the Western Conference
Finals if you get thrown out. So just don't put
yourself in that position. If we're down by twenty in
the fourth, were up by twenty five, is that Yeah,
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you want to get Okay, get into that. That's great,
but understand that every single every time might not be
conducive to success for it. You can't always ride with
that sort of emotion, and especially in a game. And
now you think about the game last night. You had
gotten into it with jt Or earlier in the game
he gave you a t You knew he was looking
out for you, right, because what did Jared Vanderbilt say
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after the game last night? He said, I'll talk to
anybody on the team but Luca. So you know the
referee is looking for something with you. It's not right,
it's not right at all, right, not right, But he's
looking for something with you. So now I ask you
join with the fan yelling at him when the other
official is standing right there. Was that really the smartest
thing to do? And Luca would say, I see your point, right,
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I'm saying I'm not saying stop, I'm not saying be
a robot. I don't want you to be anybody but
who you are. But understand they're not. Every time you're
going to get something where it's going to be a
result that is successful to you, and sometimes it could
be something that's really detrimental to us, like it was
last night. Well, the other part of it is, you
know these do accumulate, and last night I think was
number fifteen, so it gets put back to fourteen, but
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the suspension's at sixteen.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
So you've just got to be careful about these pres
you know you say that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I always think like, if I get that close, I
want to get him. So it starts over, I don't
want to worry about getting one in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I want to just get him.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So it starts over, Hey, what do I gotta do
to get my next two blank back did I get
two more?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Great?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Okay, now it goes back to zero. All right, good, now,
I'm good saying it's it becomes acomes a thing as
you're jockeying for playoff position and looking at.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Shaking jockey exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Like a Pavlovian. Anytime we say that we're chicken or jockey,
we're allowed to say no. But I mean, it's a
good thing that the Triple Crown's coming up pretty soon too.
We'll be talking about the Kentucky Derby, the breakedness of
the belmonts I and a lot about jockeys, chicken jockey. Yeah, okay, no, good, sorry,
Buddy Thays. We'll have our Betty guides and everything else.
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But the point is, like you coached three years, right,
you coach your daughter's softball and soccer squads. The beef
you have with the referee doesn't necessarily, you know, dissipate
after the final whistle of that game. You see that
guy that woman again two weeks later, even if it's
halfway across town. Oh yeah, that's the guy that Yeah,
you know, he got after me about this that the
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other and don't tell me it doesn't happen. Right, we
know it happens, so for JT or for and go
back to the famous Chris Paul battles and everything else,
like no, the history is not on you know, suddenly
unwritten like that gets carried forward, So you gotta be
cognizant of that as you go through Exit out about
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NBA insider Mark Stein stops by, fresh off covering Luca's
return to Dallas. What did he make of all the
drama tonight? What to make of it going forward? Mark
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Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Live from the ti rag dot Com Studios,
where tonight was about one story in the NBA, Luka
Doncic's triumphant returned to the Mavericks to Dallas. He goes
for forty five points. I thought he was gonna score ninety.
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The Lakers roll over the MAVs one twelve ninety seven.
Emotional night for Luca, emotional night talking about it following
the game. Nobody better to break it down with the
longtime front of the show NBA Insider. Check them out
on substack Twitter at the steinline, who is justin? You've
just done like a nine hour postgame show breaking this down, Mark,
and you still made time for us, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Don't worry. I saved all the good stuff for you,
all right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So if I say to you, you take tonight in
its totality, what you saw? What was your big takeaway
from tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I thought it was going to be unlike any game
I've ever seen, any revenge game I've ever seen, And
it definitely was. It just was very strange, weird and
hard to describe because like the one thing we knew,
the one lock was, we knew Luca was going to
be showered with love, but I think the love was
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even stronger than anticipated. And then just the way the
crowd was rooting for him. I mean, and you just
it just you don't see it happen that way. But again,
this situation is so different than it probably that it
probably should be a different scene and something different than Like,
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I think we've talked about this, but this was not
going to be like Lebron going back to Cleveland, or
Shaquille O'Neal going back to Orlando, or Kevin Durant going
back to Oklahoma City, like the player chose the change
in all those circumstances. And this was a team making
a decision. Fans have been unhappy with it for two
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months and should happened, and you know, this was finally
their chance to show Luca how much they love him
and miss him and our heartbroken. And it was it
was a I mean, it was emotional from the jump.
I mean, you guys all saw the way Luca reacted
to that video, and it was it was powerful. It
was powerful being there.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You know, you brought up a.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Really interesting thing on social media tonight when you quote
tweeted Trey Young, who puts the video, who put up
a video a copy of the video of him before
the game and Luca crying saying he was never gonna leave. Now,
obviously this trade was made because you know, there was
the back and forth between the Mavericks and Luca was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He going to change?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Were they going to be able to sign him? Did
he really want to stay? Luca even said after the trade,
all I always knew it was gonna end this way.
But then I watch a night like tonight and I
see the outpouring from the fans and I see Luca,
and I go, could they really have gotten this done?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Could they have gotten past everything and gotten it when
it really came down to it where Luca in the
off season, here's an extension and it's going to work
out from both sides, Like could they really have figured
out their differences? Because I see what happened tonight and
I go, I think they might have been able.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To Well, you know, Luca thought he was going to
be a math for life. And the reason that I
retweeted at was because I found it now. Look, Trey
Young obviously has his own connection to Luca because they
were traded for each other on Draft night. But I
thought it was fascinating that Trey, as a fellow player,
was watching this, and you know his reaction was the
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same as mine, is that when you watched how hard,
how emotional that was for Luca to watch that tribute
video and literally crying on the bench, like he didn't
want to leave. He didn't want to trade. He said
it in his farewell letter to Dallas when the trade happened,
that he thought he was going to be in Dallas
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for his whole career. But like, you know, you could
see it through the emotions tonight, like he never wanted
to be traded. There was never any doubt from the
Dontet side he was going to sign that super Max
contract this summer. It was the Mavericks who decided they
didn't want to offer it. It was the Mavericks who, oh,
you know, really, since the finals and the way this
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season played out, they decided that they didn't want him
to be their franchise player anymore. So, Yes, for their
differences and tensions over the years, did the Mavericks operate
with this fear in their heads that he might someday
try to force his way out, Yes, those things are true.
But I think from the Doncics perspective, he wanted to
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sign that contract here. He never wanted to be traded.
And you know, it's still early enough in the process
that this is in a lot of ways, you know,
still home for him. But then I think you saw
during the game like once he get and he's just
going to keep getting more and more past it, more
and more comfortable with this change, and he's only going
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to play better.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
And I think we saw tonight like once he got
past the emotion, he just progressively became more of a
monster out there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, nothing else, Mark, we saw where the jump shot was.
It was hanging out in Dallas just waiting for him
to come back and claim it. But crazy forty eight
hours for the Lakers because we have that highly emotional
crazy against Oklahoma City where he gets subjected and then
you're able to go straight twenty four hours in. I
think that was a big help. He's just like, all right,
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let's just go and get this done too.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
While we're at it.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Well, there's a couple of things that work here. If
Luca's got the three ball working, like he is just
a nightmare for any defense, Like when the three ball
is going, he literally becomes unguardable. And obviously first half
six of eight from three and thirty one point five.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Ohm.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
But I just you know, he didn't do it tonight
with a lot of fury, like I think a lot
of people expected him to be like screaming at the
MAVs bench like we saw for that glimpse the first
time when the team's played in LA and just really
playing with an edge.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But he was very controlled.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Like on our post game show on on dal DLS MAVs,
you know, we did like more than an We went
way long on our post game show, and you know,
Kevin Gray, host of our show, called it surgical and
that was a perfect word. And he was surgical tonight.
And when Lebron, you know, Lebron really had it going
in the fourth quarter and Luca just you know, let
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Lebron roll and then Luca made that circus reverse layup
and that gave him the chance to kind of finish
the game with a flourish. And then at the end,
I mean, the script was just you know, it was
just perfect for you know, this is what you were
looking for. You know, JJ Redick leaves him in after
a maths time out, commits a foul, gets to go,
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you know, walk off the court to a standing ovation
and then those fans just turned their ire at Nico
Harrison again to close out tonight, and then Luca got
to put a beautiful bow on what was I think
a really satisfying night for him.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You know, we talked about this mark is that you know,
it's almost like we watched the Mavericks and their fans.
You know, you're in the morning process of still losing Luca,
and a night like tonight is is really cathartic. And
I feel like this is where the Mavericks can now say, Okay,
we knew we had to get past this game, and fans,
we're going to be mad, but here they are yelling
at their TVs, yelling at the game, cheering for Luca,
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yelling fire Nico. I feel like this is like the
silver lining for the Mavericks. Where's okay. Now we can
move forward and still the name on the front of
the jersey's bigger than name on the back, and we
can get busy this summer with signing bigger players, and
we can kind of bring this controversy, you know, you know,
tear it down from the studs and we can kind
of start over again. So I feel like now at
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least the Mavericks can can like move forward past this.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They needed this game.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I mean, look that all that all would sound nice
and a brochure, but no, that's wow. No, huh, it's no,
because the thing is, like, you know, I've been calling
this the seventy seven Stages of grief, and obviously that's
obviously that's the that's the play on Luca's number, but
it's also to convey the Mavericks have such a long
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road to anything resembling what you're describing, because look, Hyrie
Irving was playing fantastic this season. They don't know how
long he's going to need to recover from an ACL surgery.
And the Mavericks, Okay, they're in the play in tournament.
Maybe they win a playing game, maybe they even win two.
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Let's let's say they win two playing games. They're not
beating Oklahoma City in the first round without Kyrie Irving,
no matter how good their big men are. The Mavericks
and the Mavericks fans are about to watch Luka Doncic
go on a playoff runt and the Lakers look the West. Okase,
he's the favorite, but the Lakers are going to be
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a dangerous team, a team nobody wants to play, and
a team really hard to guard with three very dynamic
playmakers in Luca Lebron and Austin Reeves and so mav
fans have to just just going through the playoffs and
watching Luca in the playoffs with the Lakers is going
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to be excruciating, you know, Like I said, I just
to me it is so it is. It's really hard
to imagine when the Mavericks are going to have happiness again,
because look, now, had Anthony Davis not missed eighteen games
with an adductor strain, and had Kyrie Irving not sustain
(24:18):
the knee injury, and were the Mavericks full strength, maybe
maybe your vision could be realized and this team would
still be dangerous and good in the playoffs. But they
are so far away from having their full team again.
I mean, it's gonna be a while.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's Mark stying with us Jason Smith Show with Me
Mike Harmon here Fromthetirac dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios
at the Steinlines, where you find him in the Twitter verse.
Check him out on substack, check out everything he's got
going NBA Hall of Famer, all of the reporting that
he does with us each and every week. We appreciate
him stopping by here after what was a busy and
(24:57):
emotional evening. Mark, appreciate you and obviously that Lakers part
of the story. The other another head coach fired on
a winning squad forty seven wins. I had of tonight
for Denver, yet Michael Malone don't call him Mike, I
was ousted by Denver and then Galvin Booth gets fired too,
so there were no winners. Nobody was left standing what
(25:20):
do they do now?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Well, look that this is this is you know, this
is a desperate basically, and Josh Coroncky, chairman of the Nuggets,
whose father Stan is obviously the big money behind the franchise.
I mean, Josh Conkey came out and said, we had
made the decision that we were dismissing both gentlemen at
the end of the season. So they've tried to do
it now to see if this desperate change can lead
(25:44):
the players into us save the season mentality. And you know,
the Nuggets just have so many issues. Me Jokich has
played the best basketball of his life, and they're they're,
you know, spluttering to the end of the season and
might not even win fifty games despite Jokic being as
brilliant as he because this team has so many shooting issues,
(26:06):
so many depth issues, and you know, Obviously, I've been wrapped.
I mean, I've been really wrapped up in you know,
previewing Luca's return and covering the you know, I've been
writing and covering about this game tonight for days. But
I'm fascinated just by the historical aspect of this, because,
you know, when Taylor Jenkins got fired with nine games
(26:26):
to go, it was the first time ever that a
team with a winning record fired a coach with less
than ten games to go in a season. And now
it's happened again. And the only other time it's happened
was back in eighty three when Larry Brown was Larry
Brown was ousted with six games to go because he
(26:47):
was taking the job at Kansas. He was he had
secretly negotiated to leave the Nets back to the college
game with Kansas, but they actually termed that a resignation officially,
So when I did some research on this, that didn't
even come up. But the point is, you never see
teams with a winning record make coaching changes this late,
(27:08):
and now we've seen it happen twice in the space
of two weeks, and it just kind of tells you
just like how volatile today's NBA is and how much
pressure these teams are facing to try to get stuff done,
and so it just it's it's I think it's really
an interesting the climate and coaching is, you know it
(27:30):
really it's changing again, like we just you never see
teams make a change this late when they have a
winning record. It's very very very rare, rare.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
All right, Mark, let me bring this full circle from tonight.
You know, a couple hours before the game started tonight,
Luca's big return to Dallas, the NBA decides to drop
the Oh we've rescinded Luca's t from the night before. Sorry, everybody. Uh,
you know, it's great that the NBA admits they're sorry,
but wow, nobody gets that moment back.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, and that's why tonight's win was so huge for them,
as you said before, because I mean, when you know,
they could have won that game the way that game
was going, and you know, the Lakers just completely you know,
their chance of winning disappeared when Luca got tsked from
that game and you can't go back and replay the game.
And so you know, the good news for the I mean, yeah,
they're rescinded. Technical I mean, it doesn't help too much
(28:23):
in the grand scheme. I guess the only real good
news for the Lakers is so they only needed a
two and two finish to clinch the number three seed,
and so they lost the game that Luca got thrown
out of they won tonight, so they only need one
more win and Houston's basically wrapped up the number two seeds,
so they're playing Houston next to Houston even need to
(28:44):
for there guys at this point. So I have to
think the Lakers find a way to win one more
game and that third seed. But yeah, I mean that
if the Lakers missed out on the numbers three seed
because they can't win one more game, that rescinded tech
ink and to do them much good.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's on Twitter at the Steinline, That is, at the
Steinline after.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
A big night of work. Mark has always appreciate your time.
We'll talk to you next.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Week, man.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Enjoy the night.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Sound good?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thanks? Mark? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Follow Mark on Substack markstein dot substack dot com again
Twitter at the Steinline all the latest on covering the
game tonight. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called
the Nico Harrison of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, Well, now wait a minute, where's mons Monsy just
walked down?
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Lakers have beat the Mavericks and Luca's dumb Chicks Dallas
return game.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh, Tyson, you're gonna have to do the update now.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Now let me say what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Now, let me say what I was gonna say. She's
been called the Nico Harrison of Fox Sports Radio because
she's incredibly beloved here in Los Angeles. It's mon.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I mean, I guess. I mean, I love that. You
just got up, going down, done, walking out.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
How about she gets blamed for a lot of things
that aren't really her fault. I like how Tyser decided
to jump in and start doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
That's a good coworker right there. We're trying to keep
it flowing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
But he stepped over your dead body.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
He did.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
There weren't even real teams or games he brought up.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I did, ye, No, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
He yelled chicken jockey.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
I did emotional. Yes, he was one of the most
emotional return home games.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He was talking about the Suzanne Vega Tom's diner song
about Luca that's in baseball talking about another player.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That doesn't matter. Bryce Harper okay, but he did it.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
At home run today any anyway, and pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Pretty good, see good, tysher. Who's Bryce Harper play for?
Are you asking me when I said ty Shirt?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, Brianna, you can't tell Brianna you're fired your You
just told him.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I did you say phil No, it is yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I've watched you say Philly.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
You did not.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Where did the Phillies play Philadelphia? Very authoritative? You are correct.
Thank you right now, Moon, you can tell us what's frenzy?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
An emotional Luka Doncic and his return to Dallas for
the first time since being traded, put on a show
forty five points, eight rebound, six assists. The Lakers If
you did the Mavericks one twelve to ninety seven. Anthony
Davis struggled from the field five to thirteen, ended with
thirteen points and eleven rebounds. Dallas clinches a play in
spot in the playoffs. Nicola Jokic ended with the triple
(31:39):
double and the Nuggets outscored the Kings won twenty four
to win sixteen. Sacramento clinches a play in spot in
the Western Conference. Okay, see eliminated the Suns from the
playoffs with the one twenty five to one twelve win.
Led by Jalen Williams, who had thirty three points. The
Bulls outscored the Heat one nineteen to one eleven behind
Josh Ginty's triple double. The loss means that Miami willlely
(32:00):
finished the regular season as a ten seed in the
Eastern Conference. James Harden dropped thirty five points to go
along with ten assists as the Glippers Crews passed the
Rockets one thirty four to one seventeen. Avitza Zubats also
recorded his first career triple double. Harrison Barnes hit the
three point buzzer beater and the Spurs walked it off
one fourteen to one eleven. Against the Warriors, Steph Curry
(32:20):
reached three hundred three one hundred threes on the season
for the sixth time in his career. He handed with
thirty points and eight rebounds in the loss. In baseball,
the Dodgers avoided the sweep. They edged the National six
to five. That was got a Nandez a two run
shot in the win. Randietto sat in I hit a
grand slam scored the game winning run on a walk,
and the Mariners literally walk it off with the walk
(32:41):
to top the Astros seven to six. Trey Turner hit
the go ahead homer and the Phillies held on four
to three against the Braves. Bryce Harper also hit a
home run. The Rays defeated the Angels five to four.
The Blue Jays topped the Red Sox two to one
and eleven innings, and the Brewers crushed the Rockies seventeen
to two. And lastly, in the NHL, the Maple Leaves
edged the like Mean four to three in overtime.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Thank you very much, Moncey. Beloved here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Love it here in Los Angeles. That's all I said.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
And he's trying to make up for it.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Was worse.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's very localized for a global entity.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I don't know which one was worse, this one or
Aaron Rodgers. What did I say for?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Remember?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
But you said something?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
You said something there?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Okay, all right, those are I think this one was worse.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Stages of healing.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Beloved all over the globe, especially here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
It's mony. Thank you, there we go, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yes, I guess we're better writing line between fear and respect.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Thank you, Well, you're out next week, mon canna do
the show with me the next.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
It's gonna be a lot of fun on TVD. We'll
see what do you need TV?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Really?
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Okay, all right, Nico Harrison got to think about things,
all right, ty.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Shirt, you gonna do the show next week? One day,
you and me and another news. The Masters begins next Thursday. No, no, tomorrow, tomorrow.
It's actually yeah tomorrow, all right, let me check my papers.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
At least is around this time. Yes, that's true, a
time unlike any other. The Masters is what kind of tournament?
What sport? Find your wins?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Damn right?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 5 (34:30):
All right? Coming up next?
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back and engrow those green jackets and what groin and
groin I just made a word.
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Speaker 5 (34:43):
That okay, Hey, it's tiger.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I don't need a twenty second I need the full
time out. Get next a story I didn't think we're
ever going to talk about. But yeah, that's next. Jason
and Mike Fox And.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
If you guys missed it, Lakers defeated Mavericks one twelve
to ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Beloved across the globe, alex Tyshert and Monte Blagos.
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I no, no, no, no to fine great Like Alexander,
that was bars he was seven.
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morning nationwide. We've had last year tonight a lot about
Luca doncis, a lot about being in a glass case
of emotion, both on the court and in radio.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Student. So we've been dealing with a lot of stuff.
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what we are because it's just so cool. I got
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you guys are looking lean, and they didn't even point
out that, you know you you'd lost those two sizes
in your hat.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, I gott I gotta wear I gotta wear hats
and don't fit anymore. Look at my hats all the
way down here.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Well, or you're just gonna have to get a two.
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Speaker 3 (37:58):
Where'd you get that?
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Mad at here? How all of a sudden, like stan
sitwell from rest of development, it's like minecraft brick, Oh
my sweet brick. So one thing I didn't think we
talk about, but it's an insane story. I can't get
over how much I like the Lebron James Ken doll
that has been put out. It came out today. It's
(38:21):
a big deal. Lebron's got a Ken doll and it
looks fantastic. It's Lebron and a in a blue and
white royal blue and white letterman's jacket and pants. And
I mean the advancements in in in doll making the
last thirty years, pretty bleep and good Man ice cream
and doll making the last thirty years. Boy, I'll tell
you there's so many event Like I really, I was.
(38:42):
I was stunned how good this thing looked like really
and I thought, hey, not only does this look good,
but I figured a way to make more money for
Mattel or all to make is that like you could
get like give me fifteen different Lebrons, like with Barbie
this Malibu Barbie. And there's there's Workout Barbie, and there's
you know, lawyer Barbie and doctor Barnbis. I mean, there's
(39:04):
lots of stuff going on, like give me, give me,
give me Lebron yelling at j R. Smith, Lebron, give
me Lebron wearing the short suit where he had the
suits and he had and he had the bag over
his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Give me that, Lebron.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Give me Lebron with the Saint Vincent, Saint Mary's a
remote control when he's when he's running the hummer. Like
give me a give me Lebron with one hair line,
give me Lebron with the other hair line. Like you
get and you collect. You'd have to have all the
Lebron dolls. I gotta have all the Lebron and then
you gotta get all the accessories. Yeah oh yeahred percent.
So you start talking about any product that he uses endorses,
(39:39):
donut shops and chicken places and give places he was
supposed to show and holding up the Blaze Pizza Lebron
Yeah yeah, I mean all you got was the cardboard
cutout of in that time you tried to go. You
can be sitting on a pool a little floaty when
he was supposed to be at the Blaze Pizza down
by your house. Uh, there's a Lebron and Bronny one, right, sure, Yeah,
(40:01):
family build out, the family build out, the friends. Here's
the Kevin Durant, the Slim Reaper. Here's an Anthony Davis.
I mean, go on down the line. They're doing something
here in La. This ought to be interesting. An exclusive
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If you're buying pre orders online, they're selling for one
hundred and seventy five dollars and they haven't even been released.
They'll be available nationwide on the fourteenth. Chase down block. Lebron, Ohne,
I mean you get so many man, j R.
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Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
What the hell are you doing?
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Lebron?
Speaker 7 (40:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah is what are you shooting the basketball?
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I mean there's you can make? I mean really, I
was stunned how much I like that?
Speaker 6 (40:45):
It was.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Chalk throwing Lebron.
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Luka Doncic and the Lakers. They beat the Mavericks Tonight
Luca's emotional return to Dallas. Forty five points for Luca
and incrediled light. Thought he was gonna get to sixty.
What a night for him, fifteen in the first quarter,
and look, we knew it was gonna be a difficult night.
It was gonna be full of emotion. It was gonna
(01:15):
be very highly charged, and it was. But let's not
lose sight of the fact that the NBA decided about
ninety minutes or so before tip time to put out
a statement saying we've rescinded the technical foul that Luka
Doncics got last night with seven minutes to go in
the fourth quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Is that how it gets read like the guy saying, hey,
j in the back, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And oh, Jim in the back, Josh in front, Joe
on the side, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
NBA realizing, oh, we made a huge mistake throwing Luka
Doncic out of the game last night against the Thunder
seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter was the
biggest story last night. It's a great game in the West,
Lakers have a one point lead, Luca makes a shot,
yells out of fan court side. The official decides that, oh,
you're yelling at me, so I'm going to throw you
(02:10):
out of the game, which was insane. Jt Or making
the decision right away the Lakers, I wasn't talking to you,
I was talking to the fan. Doesn't matter. The Thunder
go on a huge run win the game. Now, maybe
the thunder win the game. But we had one of
the best games of the year with two title contending
teams and the second half of a nightcap of two
(02:30):
big time playoff caliber games first and with the Knicks
and the Celtics, and then we had this game. And
we said it at the time it was ridiculous and
it was unconsciable. I feel like Stephen A.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Smith. It was ridiculous, it was unconscionable. It was terrible,
it was awful. It was bottom of the barrel, it
was the worst. It was the pits.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And there was no reason to throw him out. And
if you do want to throw him out, okay, you
got to give me a really good reason. You can't
just have a knee jerk reactions. I think you were
talking to.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
So he used vulgarity. I get that they had to
move on, and but here the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He could have done this in the morning, right, No, no, no,
We're gonna wait as long as possible because then eventually
the news cycle is gonna tick over to Luca's return
to Dallas, right before they should have done to write
a tip off. Hey, and no, no t for Luca
last I we're calling it off. So I want to
say this because this is a big deal. Okay, nice,
Now what are you doing to the official? Not that
(03:24):
he needs to be suspended, he can't ever officiate again.
But the guy came into the game, he had something
against Luca. It was personal. He got the first of
foul called against him, he got the first technical foul
called against him.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
You knew.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He even said I'll talk to anybody on the team
but him, and then he tees him up again and
throws him out of the game. No, there needs to
be some sort of proportional response from the NBA that
makes him understand, Hey, we know that's not good, because
you can't give everybody back the last eight minutes of
that game. Can't give it back to the Lakers, can't
give it back to the thunder, can't give it back
to the fans, can't give back to the national audience.
(03:57):
Can't give it back to the TV partners. It wanted
this game. The better you're getting back to the betters.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, it's a.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Stupid decision to make because officials think, oh, I really
want to walk on here and show you who's the
lord of all of these games, and at every level,
I have seen that from you sports to high school
to college to pros. They always feel that way, right,
I am a guardian of the game.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's how they call themselves on the referees website.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Come on now, and there's no reason why you can't
hold the referees and the officials to a higher standard
as well. I get Adam Silver and he wants to
do nothing. I understand this, But you're not taking away
any of their power. You're not lessening their impact. You're
not lessening their influence in the game. When you say, hey,
just so you know, Aredy knows when you guys make mistakes,
(04:44):
we tell you right when we make mistakes, we'll call
it out to you. I think the players would respect that.
I think the teams would respect that. The fans certainly
would respect that to not just be because we're sick
of We're sick of leaders and all sorts of the
in all sorts of the world, whether it's politics or
or in sports. Yeah, we screwed this up, made a
bad decision, but we're not gonna own up to it.
We're not gonna talk about we're not gonna address it,
(05:04):
and we're not gonna take any responsibility that's so maddening.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Man in the NBA is.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Taking zero responsibility for this, zero responsibility. Yeah, oh yeah,
we were sitting in the technico.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Foul.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
You should never done it in the first place. A
pretty big deal blowing that whistle. You affected a lot
of different things. And I said it last night and
I'll say it again. If you want to go crazy
with making sure a player's playing back to backs, some
games are on national TV. When you're gonna throw a
guy out, you got to make damn sure he's the
guy that you want to throw him out that there's
a good reason. It can't just be Oh, I think
he yelled at me and now I can't take it
back because I already threw him out. No, I think
(05:36):
it's a pretty big deal. You can go take a
look at it. You talk to the other officials, you
can look an instant replay. That's a pretty big decision, right,
just like anything else, Just like was his foot on
the line for a three with under two minutes left
to go? Was the ball out off of so and
So's leg in the last thirty five seconds? You should
do that And the NBA needs to take it to
just say, hey, we get it. We screwed up, and
(05:57):
that's what would be a little bit of some sort
of dis plinary reaction for JT. Or whether it's a hey,
you're out of the mix for some games here, or
it's a fine, however you want to do it, just
so everybody knows, Hey, when we screw something up, and
we understand we screwed this up, we get it. We're
going to fix it and make it right. Didn't get
that from the NBA and said it was just a
news dump of oh hey, uh, while you get ready
(06:17):
to look at Luca boy, he looks sharp. He's crying
during the introduction for this game. We were sent to
the technical foul. So I enjoy the game tonight. That's great,
We'll see you tomorrow. Yeah, as we look at it, right,
we have the story out of the NFL is that
they actually fired three officials h and returned them to
college duty as part of the off season cleaning of
you go back.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
To college, so you go screw that game up.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Wait a minute, but I understand, but part of that
is the way way I don't want college screwed up either.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Wait a minute, what but you degree and speed and
learning process. I mean be sent back.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
You're not sent back from fifth grade to second You're
you're going You're just going back down to fourth.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Teach you a lesson good luck with Ohio State Michigan
the final league of the six.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Well, yeah, you kind of got that going.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And clearly everybody's still trying to go through all Supruder
film and everything they can to figure out exactly what
the beef is. If there was anything to the personal
comments that Jared Vanderbilt gave us and everybody popped off
on it last night, still goes back to the you're
yelling in that general direction. You've already had it in
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with this official that evening evenings prior you let it
go to the judges, and the judges gave it the
old HEAVO. I agree with you that when we're talking
about games, and it's always that concerntive, we're gonna make
them too long because we're reviewing anything. No, no, no,
We review scoring plays in the NFL, we review three
point shots, end line college basketball. I didn't care that
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Cinderella didn't show up for the dance. I didn't care
about any of those other bs narratives that went throughout
the tournament. What I did hate was the fact that
we had ninety seven views that lasted five minutes each
year that got old after a while. That would be
my one criticism and complaint about my viewing experience from
the NCULE, Like, but if you're getting them right, yeah,
but no one's going to say, oh, you're taking too
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much time with the Luca ejections.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Take your time.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And that's the point, right when we get to an ejection,
just like all these other big moments, it should be
reviewable all right before we set, especially when we start
talking about star power, nationally televised game, all the betting handle,
all of these things that are in all the eyeballs,
and you're we're.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Actually talking about your your league and positive terms.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's been the main complaint from Adam Silver. Anytime he's
had to show up on a TV show or sit
on a panel or or give a speech has been
I really don't like the negative attention.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
He was a great game, everybody was watching it.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It was a one point game, and then it turned
into a thing about the officiating being a joke. I
showed jt Or's bio. There you want to read off
the part of highlight Yeah, yeah, yeah, hang on, hang on,
J t ors By. You first of all, I can't
believe he's younger than me. Yeah, a couple of days
younger than younger than me. Wow, I feel like I
look pretty good here.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm it's highlighted in blue.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The California native previously spent more than ten years as
a counselor for young men in the foster care and
probation systems of Los Angeles County.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
He's had to deal with beef.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, So whatever Lucas said, I gotta imagine man's heard worse.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I think that's part of the reason he may have
been elevated to this job.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Now, look, now, there is there is a big teachable
moment here, right, to be serious about this, not to
be serious, but I'm saying to take in a different direction.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Is that we're always serious. I told you, Luca, you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Can't get thrown out when you're drawn out a fan, right,
But there is a teachable moment here, And if i'm
JJ Reddick, this is a time really to sit down
and tell look, okay, dude, let let's just talk about
this now. I know it's been a real whirlwind last
thirty six hours for you. Right, we had the game,
you got thrown out. I can't believe you got thrown out.
I am really pissed you had the game tonight. You're
really emotional and you were terrific. But let me just
(10:09):
say that there's a time and a place for you
to jaw back at fans and to get really emotional
in the game.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I love that you're emotional. It makes you who you are.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But sometimes is not the right moment for jawing out
a fan because you don't want to open it up
to interpretation that something bad could happen, because that's exactly
what happened here. Luca decides to yell at a fan.
The guy that gave him a te earlier in the
game decides, you're yelling at me. I throw you out
of the game, right, And Luca's gonna say, boy, but
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just think about it, is that this is a niptuck game.
It's a one point game. It's a big game for us, right.
Not every time is a time for you to lose
it a little bit emotionally. You have to understand that
certain moments are moments to stay within yourself and Fred
to have this not happen into the playoffs. You don't
want to throw out there because you're you're getting into
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it with an official where you yell at a fan,
where a guy can interpret it as you're yelling at him,
and he throws you out of the game. We don't
get you back in game three of the Western Conference
Semifinals that we wind up losing. We don't get you
back for the for game six of the Western Conference
Finals if you get thrown out. So just don't put
yourself in that position. If we're down by twenty in
the fourth, were up by twenty five, is that Yeah,
(11:26):
you want to get Okay, get into that. That's great,
but understand that every single every time might not be
conducive to success for it. You can't always ride with
that sort of emotion, and especially in a game. And
now you think about the game last night. You had
gotten into it with jt Or earlier in the game
he gave you a t You knew he was looking
out for you, right, because what did Jared Vanderbilt say
(11:48):
after the game last night? He said, I'll talk to
anybody on the team but Luca. So you know the
referee is looking for something with you. It's not right,
it's not right at all, right, not right, But he's
looking for something with you. So now I ask you
join with the fan yelling at him when the other
official is standing right there. Was that really the smartest
thing to do? And Luca would say, I see your point, right,
(12:09):
I'm saying I'm not saying stop, I'm not saying be
a robot. I don't want you to be anybody but
who you are. But understand they're not. Every time you're
going to get something where it's going to be a
result that is successful to you, and sometimes it could
be something that's really detrimental to us, like it was
last night. Well, the other part of it is, you
know these do accumulate, and last night I think was
number fifteen, so it gets put back to fourteen, but
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the suspension's at sixteen.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
So you've just got to be careful about these pres
you know you say that.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I always think like, if I get that close, I
want to get him. So it starts over, I don't
want to worry about getting one in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I want to just get him.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
So it starts over, Hey, what do I gotta do
to get my next two blank back did I get
two more?
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Great?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Okay, now it goes back to zero. All right, good, now,
I'm good saying it's it becomes acomes a thing as
you're jockeying for playoff position and looking at.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Shaking jockey exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Like a Pavlovian. Anytime we say that we're chicken or jockey,
we're allowed to say no. But I mean, it's a
good thing that the Triple Crown's coming up pretty soon too.
We'll be talking about the Kentucky Derby, the breakedness of
the belmonts I and a lot about jockeys, chicken jockey. Yeah, okay, no, good, sorry,
Buddy Thays. We'll have our Betty guides and everything else.
(13:22):
But the point is, like you coached three years, right,
you coach your daughter's softball and soccer squads. The beef
you have with the referee doesn't necessarily, you know, dissipate
after the final whistle of that game. You see that
guy that woman again two weeks later, even if it's
halfway across town. Oh yeah, that's the guy that Yeah,
you know, he got after me about this that the
(13:44):
other and don't tell me it doesn't happen. Right, we
know it happens, so for JT or for and go
back to the famous Chris Paul battles and everything else,
like no, the history is not on you know, suddenly
unwritten like that gets carried forward, So you gotta be
cognizant of that as you go through Exit out about
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(14:06):
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NBA insider Mark Stein stops by, fresh off covering Luca's
return to Dallas. What did he make of all the
drama tonight? What to make of it going forward? Mark
Stein a must listen with us. Next, Jason to Mike
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Speaker 2 (14:26):
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Speaker 1 (14:39):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
Friend Mike Harmon Live from the ti rag dot Com Studios,
where tonight was about one story in the NBA, Luka
Doncic's triumphant returned to the Mavericks to Dallas. He goes
for forty five points. I thought he was gonna score ninety.
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The Lakers roll over the MAVs one twelve ninety seven.
Emotional night for Luca, emotional night talking about it following
the game. Nobody better to break it down with the
longtime front of the show NBA Insider. Check them out
on substack Twitter at the steinline, who is justin? You've
just done like a nine hour postgame show breaking this down, Mark,
and you still made time for us, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Don't worry. I saved all the good stuff for you,
all right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So if I say to you, you take tonight in
its totality, what you saw? What was your big takeaway
from tonight?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I thought it was going to be unlike any game
I've ever seen, any revenge game I've ever seen, And
it definitely was. It just was very strange, weird and
hard to describe because like the one thing we knew,
the one lock was, we knew Luca was going to
be showered with love, but I think the love was
(15:54):
even stronger than anticipated. And then just the way the
crowd was rooting for him. I mean, and you just
it just you don't see it happen that way. But again,
this situation is so different than it probably that it
probably should be a different scene and something different than Like,
(16:20):
I think we've talked about this, but this was not
going to be like Lebron going back to Cleveland, or
Shaquille O'Neal going back to Orlando, or Kevin Durant going
back to Oklahoma City, like the player chose the change
in all those circumstances. And this was a team making
a decision. Fans have been unhappy with it for two
(16:40):
months and should happened, and you know, this was finally
their chance to show Luca how much they love him
and miss him and our heartbroken. And it was it
was a I mean, it was emotional from the jump.
I mean, you guys all saw the way Luca reacted
to that video, and it was it was powerful. It
was powerful being there.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
You know, you brought up a.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Really interesting thing on social media tonight when you quote
tweeted Trey Young, who puts the video, who put up
a video a copy of the video of him before
the game and Luca crying saying he was never gonna leave. Now,
obviously this trade was made because you know, there was
the back and forth between the Mavericks and Luca was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He going to change?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Were they going to be able to sign him? Did
he really want to stay? Luca even said after the trade,
all I always knew it was gonna end this way.
But then I watch a night like tonight and I
see the outpouring from the fans and I see Luca,
and I go, could they really have gotten this done?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Like?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Could they have gotten past everything and gotten it when
it really came down to it where Luca in the
off season, here's an extension and it's going to work
out from both sides, Like could they really have figured
out their differences? Because I see what happened tonight and
I go, I think they might have been able.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To Well, you know, Luca thought he was going to
be a math for life. And the reason that I
retweeted at was because I found it now. Look, Trey
Young obviously has his own connection to Luca because they
were traded for each other on Draft night. But I
thought it was fascinating that Trey, as a fellow player,
was watching this, and you know his reaction was the
(18:11):
same as mine, is that when you watched how hard,
how emotional that was for Luca to watch that tribute
video and literally crying on the bench, like he didn't
want to leave. He didn't want to trade. He said
it in his farewell letter to Dallas when the trade happened,
that he thought he was going to be in Dallas
(18:32):
for his whole career. But like, you know, you could
see it through the emotions tonight, like he never wanted
to be traded. There was never any doubt from the
Dontet side he was going to sign that super Max
contract this summer. It was the Mavericks who decided they
didn't want to offer it. It was the Mavericks who, oh,
you know, really, since the finals and the way this
(18:53):
season played out, they decided that they didn't want him
to be their franchise player anymore. So, Yes, for their
differences and tensions over the years, did the Mavericks operate
with this fear in their heads that he might someday
try to force his way out, Yes, those things are true.
But I think from the Doncics perspective, he wanted to
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sign that contract here. He never wanted to be traded.
And you know, it's still early enough in the process
that this is in a lot of ways, you know,
still home for him. But then I think you saw
during the game like once he get and he's just
going to keep getting more and more past it, more
and more comfortable with this change, and he's only going
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to play better.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I think so.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
And I think we saw tonight like once he got
past the emotion, he just progressively became more of a
monster out there.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, nothing else, Mark, we saw where the jump shot was.
It was hanging out in Dallas just waiting for him
to come back and claim it. But crazy forty eight
hours for the Lakers because we have that highly emotional
crazy against Oklahoma City where he gets subjected and then
you're able to go straight twenty four hours in. I
think that was a big help. He's just like, all right,
(20:08):
let's just go and get this done too.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
While we're at it.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Well, there's a couple of things that work here. If
Luca's got the three ball working, like he is just
a nightmare for any defense, Like when the three ball
is going, he literally becomes unguardable. And obviously first half
six of eight from three and thirty one point five.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Ohm.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
But I just you know, he didn't do it tonight
with a lot of fury, like I think a lot
of people expected him to be like screaming at the
MAVs bench like we saw for that glimpse the first
time when the team's played in LA and just really
playing with an edge.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But he was very controlled.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Like on our post game show on on dal DLS MAVs,
you know, we did like more than an We went
way long on our post game show, and you know,
Kevin Gray, host of our show, called it surgical and
that was a perfect word. And he was surgical tonight.
And when Lebron, you know, Lebron really had it going
in the fourth quarter and Luca just you know, let
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Lebron roll and then Luca made that circus reverse layup
and that gave him the chance to kind of finish
the game with a flourish. And then at the end,
I mean, the script was just you know, it was
just perfect for you know, this is what you were
looking for. You know, JJ Redick leaves him in after
a maths time out, commits a foul, gets to go,
(21:27):
you know, walk off the court to a standing ovation
and then those fans just turned their ire at Nico
Harrison again to close out tonight, and then Luca got
to put a beautiful bow on what was I think
a really satisfying night for him.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
You know, we talked about this mark is that you know,
it's almost like we watched the Mavericks and their fans.
You know, you're in the morning process of still losing Luca,
and a night like tonight is is really cathartic. And
I feel like this is where the Mavericks can now say, Okay,
we knew we had to get past this game, and fans,
we're going to be mad, but here they are yelling
at their TVs, yelling at the game, cheering for Luca,
(22:05):
yelling fire Nico. I feel like this is like the
silver lining for the Mavericks. Where's okay. Now we can
move forward and still the name on the front of
the jersey's bigger than name on the back, and we
can get busy this summer with signing bigger players, and
we can kind of bring this controversy, you know, you know,
tear it down from the studs and we can kind
of start over again. So I feel like now at
(22:25):
least the Mavericks can can like move forward past this.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They needed this game.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I mean, look that all that all would sound nice
and a brochure, but no, that's wow. No, huh, it's no,
because the thing is, like, you know, I've been calling
this the seventy seven Stages of grief, and obviously that's
obviously that's the that's the play on Luca's number, but
it's also to convey the Mavericks have such a long
(22:54):
road to anything resembling what you're describing, because look, Hyrie
Irving was playing fantastic this season. They don't know how
long he's going to need to recover from an ACL surgery.
And the Mavericks, Okay, they're in the play in tournament.
Maybe they win a playing game, maybe they even win two.
(23:14):
Let's let's say they win two playing games. They're not
beating Oklahoma City in the first round without Kyrie Irving,
no matter how good their big men are. The Mavericks
and the Mavericks fans are about to watch Luka Doncic
go on a playoff runt and the Lakers look the West. Okase,
he's the favorite, but the Lakers are going to be
(23:36):
a dangerous team, a team nobody wants to play, and
a team really hard to guard with three very dynamic
playmakers in Luca Lebron and Austin Reeves and so mav
fans have to just just going through the playoffs and
watching Luca in the playoffs with the Lakers is going
(23:57):
to be excruciating, you know, Like I said, I just
to me it is so it is. It's really hard
to imagine when the Mavericks are going to have happiness again,
because look, now, had Anthony Davis not missed eighteen games
with an adductor strain, and had Kyrie Irving not sustain
(24:18):
the knee injury, and were the Mavericks full strength, maybe
maybe your vision could be realized and this team would
still be dangerous and good in the playoffs. But they
are so far away from having their full team again.
I mean, it's gonna be a while.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
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Check him out on substack, check out everything he's got
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he does with us each and every week. We appreciate
him stopping by here after what was a busy and
(24:57):
emotional evening. Mark, appreciate you and obviously that Lakers part
of the story. The other another head coach fired on
a winning squad forty seven wins. I had of tonight
for Denver, yet Michael Malone don't call him Mike, I
was ousted by Denver and then Galvin Booth gets fired too,
so there were no winners. Nobody was left standing what
(25:20):
do they do now?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Well, look that this is this is you know, this
is a desperate basically, and Josh Coroncky, chairman of the Nuggets,
whose father Stan is obviously the big money behind the franchise.
I mean, Josh Conkey came out and said, we had
made the decision that we were dismissing both gentlemen at
the end of the season. So they've tried to do
it now to see if this desperate change can lead
(25:44):
the players into us save the season mentality. And you know,
the Nuggets just have so many issues. Me Jokich has
played the best basketball of his life, and they're they're,
you know, spluttering to the end of the season and
might not even win fifty games despite Jokic being as
brilliant as he because this team has so many shooting issues,
(26:06):
so many depth issues, and you know, Obviously, I've been wrapped.
I mean, I've been really wrapped up in you know,
previewing Luca's return and covering the you know, I've been
writing and covering about this game tonight for days. But
I'm fascinated just by the historical aspect of this, because,
you know, when Taylor Jenkins got fired with nine games
(26:26):
to go, it was the first time ever that a
team with a winning record fired a coach with less
than ten games to go in a season. And now
it's happened again. And the only other time it's happened
was back in eighty three when Larry Brown was Larry
Brown was ousted with six games to go because he
(26:47):
was taking the job at Kansas. He was he had
secretly negotiated to leave the Nets back to the college
game with Kansas, but they actually termed that a resignation officially,
So when I did some research on this, that didn't
even come up. But the point is, you never see
teams with a winning record make coaching changes this late,
(27:08):
and now we've seen it happen twice in the space
of two weeks, and it just kind of tells you
just like how volatile today's NBA is and how much
pressure these teams are facing to try to get stuff done,
and so it just it's it's I think it's really
an interesting the climate and coaching is, you know it
(27:30):
really it's changing again, like we just you never see
teams make a change this late when they have a
winning record. It's very very very rare, rare.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
All right, Mark, let me bring this full circle from tonight.
You know, a couple hours before the game started tonight,
Luca's big return to Dallas, the NBA decides to drop
the Oh we've rescinded Luca's t from the night before. Sorry, everybody. Uh,
you know, it's great that the NBA admits they're sorry,
but wow, nobody gets that moment back.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, and that's why tonight's win was so huge for them,
as you said before, because I mean, when you know,
they could have won that game the way that game
was going, and you know, the Lakers just completely you know,
their chance of winning disappeared when Luca got tsked from
that game and you can't go back and replay the game.
And so you know, the good news for the I mean, yeah,
they're rescinded. Technical I mean, it doesn't help too much
(28:23):
in the grand scheme. I guess the only real good
news for the Lakers is so they only needed a
two and two finish to clinch the number three seed,
and so they lost the game that Luca got thrown
out of they won tonight, so they only need one
more win and Houston's basically wrapped up the number two seeds,
so they're playing Houston next to Houston even need to
(28:44):
for there guys at this point. So I have to
think the Lakers find a way to win one more
game and that third seed. But yeah, I mean that
if the Lakers missed out on the numbers three seed
because they can't win one more game, that rescinded tech
ink and to do them much good.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
He's on Twitter at the Steinline, That is, at the
Steinline after.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
A big night of work. Mark has always appreciate your time.
We'll talk to you next.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Week, man.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Enjoy the night.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Sound good?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thanks? Mark? All right?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Follow Mark on Substack markstein dot substack dot com again
Twitter at the Steinline all the latest on covering the
game tonight. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called
the Nico Harrison of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, Well, now wait a minute, where's mons Monsy just
walked down?
Speaker 7 (29:41):
Lakers have beat the Mavericks and Luca's dumb Chicks Dallas
return game.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh, Tyson, you're gonna have to do the update now.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Now let me say what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Now, let me say what I was gonna say. She's
been called the Nico Harrison of Fox Sports Radio because
she's incredibly beloved here in Los Angeles. It's mon.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I mean, I guess. I mean, I love that. You
just got up, going down, done, walking out.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
How about she gets blamed for a lot of things
that aren't really her fault. I like how Tyser decided
to jump in and start doing that.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
That's a good coworker right there. We're trying to keep
it flowing.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
But he stepped over your dead body.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
He did.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
There weren't even real teams or games he brought up.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
I did, ye, No, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
He yelled chicken jockey.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
I did emotional. Yes, he was one of the most
emotional return home games.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He was talking about the Suzanne Vega Tom's diner song
about Luca that's in baseball talking about another player.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That doesn't matter. Bryce Harper okay, but he did it.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
At home run today any anyway, and pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Pretty good, see good, tysher. Who's Bryce Harper play for?
Are you asking me when I said ty Shirt?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, Brianna, you can't tell Brianna you're fired your You
just told him.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
I did you say phil No, it is yes, I did.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I've watched you say Philly.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
You did not.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Where did the Phillies play Philadelphia? Very authoritative? You are correct.
Thank you right now, Moon, you can tell us what's frenzy?
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
An emotional Luka Doncic and his return to Dallas for
the first time since being traded, put on a show
forty five points, eight rebound, six assists. The Lakers If
you did the Mavericks one twelve to ninety seven. Anthony
Davis struggled from the field five to thirteen, ended with
thirteen points and eleven rebounds. Dallas clinches a play in
spot in the playoffs. Nicola Jokic ended with the triple
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double and the Nuggets outscored the Kings won twenty four
to win sixteen. Sacramento clinches a play in spot in
the Western Conference. Okay, see eliminated the Suns from the
playoffs with the one twenty five to one twelve win.
Led by Jalen Williams, who had thirty three points. The
Bulls outscored the Heat one nineteen to one eleven behind
Josh Ginty's triple double. The loss means that Miami willlely
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finished the regular season as a ten seed in the
Eastern Conference. James Harden dropped thirty five points to go
along with ten assists as the Glippers Crews passed the
Rockets one thirty four to one seventeen. Avitza Zubats also
recorded his first career triple double. Harrison Barnes hit the
three point buzzer beater and the Spurs walked it off
one fourteen to one eleven. Against the Warriors, Steph Curry
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reached three hundred three one hundred threes on the season
for the sixth time in his career. He handed with
thirty points and eight rebounds in the loss. In baseball,
the Dodgers avoided the sweep. They edged the National six
to five. That was got a Nandez a two run
shot in the win. Randietto sat in I hit a
grand slam scored the game winning run on a walk,
and the Mariners literally walk it off with the walk
(32:41):
to top the Astros seven to six. Trey Turner hit
the go ahead homer and the Phillies held on four
to three against the Braves. Bryce Harper also hit a
home run. The Rays defeated the Angels five to four.
The Blue Jays topped the Red Sox two to one
and eleven innings, and the Brewers crushed the Rockies seventeen
to two. And lastly, in the NHL, the Maple Leaves
edged the like Mean four to three in overtime.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Thank you very much, Moncey. Beloved here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
No, no.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Love it here in Los Angeles. That's all I said.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
And he's trying to make up for it.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Was worse.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
That's very localized for a global entity.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I don't know which one was worse, this one or
Aaron Rodgers. What did I say for?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Remember?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
But you said something?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
You said something there?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Okay, all right, those are I think this one was worse.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Stages of healing.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Beloved all over the globe, especially here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
It's mony. Thank you, there we go, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yes, I guess we're better writing line between fear and respect.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Thank you, Well, you're out next week, mon canna do
the show with me the next.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
It's gonna be a lot of fun on TVD. We'll
see what do you need TV?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Really?
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Okay, all right, Nico Harrison got to think about things,
all right, ty.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Shirt, you gonna do the show next week? One day,
you and me and another news. The Masters begins next Thursday. No, no, tomorrow, tomorrow.
It's actually yeah tomorrow, all right, let me check my papers.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
At least is around this time. Yes, that's true, a
time unlike any other. The Masters is what kind of tournament?
What sport? Find your wins?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Right?
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Damn right?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Doesn't make any sense?
Speaker 5 (34:30):
All right? Coming up next?
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Remember Augusta, Georgia, one of the beautiful places to sit
back and engrow those green jackets and what groin and
groin I just made a word.
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Of I'm going to ingroin green jackets. Okay, all right?
Speaker 5 (34:43):
That okay, Hey, it's tiger.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I don't need a twenty second I need the full
time out. Get next a story I didn't think we're
ever going to talk about. But yeah, that's next. Jason
and Mike Fox And.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
If you guys missed it, Lakers defeated Mavericks one twelve
to ninety seven.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Beloved across the globe, alex Tyshert and Monte Blagos.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
It'd be a great update if we did it together.
I no, no, no, no to fine great Like Alexander,
that was bars he was seven.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Turn your MinC soft. We're going to break conquered most
of Europe.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Welcome back in Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon here
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Coming up about ten minutes from now.
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Ben Mallard takes you into the wee hours of the
morning nationwide. We've had last year tonight a lot about
Luca doncis, a lot about being in a glass case
of emotion, both on the court and in radio.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Student. So we've been dealing with a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Now before you get to do it, before you do
a story that I didn't think we talk about, but
what we are because it's just so cool. I got
to ask in my Carven, that's a question. How many
pounds have you lost at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Thirty seven?
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Thirty seven in a row?
Speaker 1 (36:16):
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the videos too, thanks to Ali and others being pointing out, hey,
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you guys are looking lean, and they didn't even point
out that, you know you you'd lost those two sizes
in your hat.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Well, I gott I gotta wear I gotta wear hats
and don't fit anymore. Look at my hats all the
way down here.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Well, or you're just gonna have to get a two.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
So nah, I can't do that, man, I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Where'd you get that?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Mad at here? How all of a sudden, like stan
sitwell from rest of development, it's like minecraft brick, Oh
my sweet brick. So one thing I didn't think we
talk about, but it's an insane story. I can't get
over how much I like the Lebron James Ken doll
that has been put out. It came out today. It's
(38:21):
a big deal. Lebron's got a Ken doll and it
looks fantastic. It's Lebron and a in a blue and
white royal blue and white letterman's jacket and pants. And
I mean the advancements in in in doll making the
last thirty years, pretty bleep and good Man ice cream
and doll making the last thirty years. Boy, I'll tell
you there's so many event Like I really, I was.
(38:42):
I was stunned how good this thing looked like really
and I thought, hey, not only does this look good,
but I figured a way to make more money for
Mattel or all to make is that like you could
get like give me fifteen different Lebrons, like with Barbie
this Malibu Barbie. And there's there's Workout Barbie, and there's
you know, lawyer Barbie and doctor Barnbis. I mean, there's
(39:04):
lots of stuff going on, like give me, give me,
give me Lebron yelling at j R. Smith, Lebron, give
me Lebron wearing the short suit where he had the
suits and he had and he had the bag over
his shoulder.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Give me that, Lebron.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Give me Lebron with the Saint Vincent, Saint Mary's a
remote control when he's when he's running the hummer. Like
give me a give me Lebron with one hair line,
give me Lebron with the other hair line. Like you
get and you collect. You'd have to have all the
Lebron dolls. I gotta have all the Lebron and then
you gotta get all the accessories. Yeah oh yeahred percent.
So you start talking about any product that he uses endorses,
(39:39):
donut shops and chicken places and give places he was
supposed to show and holding up the Blaze Pizza Lebron
Yeah yeah, I mean all you got was the cardboard
cutout of in that time you tried to go. You
can be sitting on a pool a little floaty when
he was supposed to be at the Blaze Pizza down
by your house. Uh, there's a Lebron and Bronny one, right, sure, Yeah,
(40:01):
family build out, the family build out, the friends. Here's
the Kevin Durant, the Slim Reaper. Here's an Anthony Davis.
I mean, go on down the line. They're doing something
here in La. This ought to be interesting. An exclusive
drop that will include randomly inserted signed. Interesting right now.
(40:22):
If you're buying pre orders online, they're selling for one
hundred and seventy five dollars and they haven't even been released.
They'll be available nationwide on the fourteenth. Chase down block. Lebron, Ohne,
I mean you get so many man, j R.
Speaker 5 (40:34):
Smith.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Lebron?
Speaker 7 (40:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah is what are you shooting the basketball?
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I mean there's you can make? I mean really, I
was stunned how much I like that?
Speaker 6 (40:45):
It was.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Chalk throwing Lebron.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, and you press a button the chocolate comes out
of Yeah, that's cool. There you go, Exit, out out
of Fresca Exit swollen dome. Coming up next, my buddy
Ben mallor This is Fox Sports Video.
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