February 19, 2025 • 43 mins
Marc doubles back to The Mayor, Bruce Harrell as Bruce tried a joke that didn't land well, will an apology be coming soon? We hit the text line and read back messages from listeners, and we wrap the show w/ Ian Furness on Cross Talk.
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we hand it off to the Mayor of Maple Valley,
Ian Furness at the end of the hour. But speaking
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of the Four Nations face off, ESPN NHL analyst pksu Band,
former NHL player, was on with Eudonis Hasm, former NBA player,
and I believe he was on First Take or Sports Center,
one of those ESPN programs, and he dropped the absolute
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hammer and a truth bomb on the NBA.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Hockey is a different sport from the NBA. You can't
compare the cultures because of the way the game is played.
You can step on an NBA floor and go through
the emotions you can't do that in hockey. You can't
the culture of our sport. You have to play it
with passion. You have to be willing to fight, you
have to be willing to leave it on the ice.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's what fans.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Are investing in. So for us, when we charge fifteen
hundred dollars for a ticket to come to court, fans
know what they're getting. Cal mccarr, the best defenseman in
the world, wasn't in the line for this game. This
was the most viewed game that we've had in years,
and you see it. It's not just based on the
skill and talent, it's based on the pride, honor playing
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for the guy next to you. I got a question
for the NBA players, what the hell are you playing for?
What are you playing for? It's not about the money
you make all the money. What you're injured, Well, there's
a difference between being hurt and injured. Are you hurt
or are you injured? There's a difference. In hockey. We
play hurt, we play injured. That is the culture of
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the sport. It's always been that way. So you want
to talk about the business, the CBA fans get all
of that, but what do fans resonate with. They resonate
with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for your country.
You got to compete. You got to go out there
and leave it on the ice because those people are
paying the price of admission. So fans know whether our
stars are on the ice or not, they're getting their
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money's worth. The NBA has that issue that they got
to work. You got to create a better culture for
your players. It starts with the leaders. This issue. There
was no issue in Jordan was around. There was no
issue when Kobe was around. There's no issue in Sydney
Crosby is around. There's no issue in Wayne Gretzky was around.
Because those are true leaders. They lead by example, Sidney Crosby,
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Hockey Canada, those players both Canada and US. It was
the players that did that for the four nations.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's not the league.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The league set it up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But the players went out there and decided and said.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know what, boys, we're all in. When is the
NBA going to do that?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Because you know, I haven't sat down and watched the
NBA consistently since Kobe. I love basketball, love the players.
I think Lebron's great, I think Katie's great Steph Curry.
Love watching them, but you gotta be on the court.
You gotta be there, and when you're there, you gotta
go all in. The fans got to feel that they're
getting their money's worth. And right now there's a big
difference between what the NHL's doing with those events and
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what the NBA is doing. Four Nations works because the players.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Are all in, Wow, Amen, appreci it, preach it, and
I'll go you even one step further. Michael Jordan at
the end of his second three pete he left the
next generation, and at that time it was Ai Alan Iverson,
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not the Ai that everybody thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Is he will Ai. When I say, I always.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Mean Alan Iverson and then I'll go artificial intelligence, Kobe Bryant,
and the league was in good hands. Shaq and Kobe
three pedd with the Lakers two thousand through two thousand
and two. Then a year later you had that epic
draft class Lebron, Carmelo, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh. But the
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NBA in the Lebron era is nowhere near as good
as it was in the Michael era or the Kobe era. Now,
the Kobe and Lebron era kinda. I mean it certainly overlaps.
They played together on two Olympic teams, for crying out loud,
But I just think that when fans don't have the
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reverence for Lebron that they did for Michael, they don't.
I'll tell you right now, Air Jordan's out sell every
single current NBA player combined to this day. Michael hasn't
picked up a basketball and played in a regulation NBA
game in twenty two years, and the Wizards Michael Jordan
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wasn't really the Bulls Michael Jordan, so he hasn't played
in Basically, we're getting to a quarter of a century
out sells all current NBA players.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's just there is a disconnect. The ratings show it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I remember during the twenty twenty NBA Finals, which was
in an empty gym in Orlando, the COVID Bubble Finals,
which was I don't even count. I don't even count
that as a real title. That is the weakest title
in the history of pro sports. It really is. You
didn't have to go on the road and face any
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hostile environments.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nobody watched, nobody watched. They was. It was all about this,
this whole thing with I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The NBA did this thing at social media presence and
putting things on the back of the jerseys. It was
an awful postseason. James Harden tried to get out of there.
Most guys even want to play. I don't even count
that as a real chip. And I just think that
when you look at this that the NBA to me
will be even though they don't see it that way,
when the lebron era ends, maybe it'll be in June,
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maybe it'll be in a year or two, the NBA
to me will be in better hands. It just I
can't even explain. If you're not above the age of
thirty five and you didn't get to see Michael on
the Bulls, I can't even explain it to you. It
was a different world. And I'm old enough to remember
the eighties NBA Finals, which I know Ian and Softy
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can remember, between the Celtics and the Lakers, and I
can tell you the remix version of that. In two
thousand and eight and twenty ten, KG Paul Pierce ray
Allen versus Kobe and Pau Gasol didn't even come close
to Bird McHale, DJ Parish versus Magic, Kareem Worthy, Michael Cooper,
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Byron Scott. You had blue collar versus white collar. You
had East coast versus West coast, the entire world. I
don't care if you lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, yours Shirley, Seattle, Washington,
or a corn Field in Nebraska or Iowa, you cared
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about the Celtics and Lakers.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I don't think it's like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I know, oh, it's not like that anymore, because the
ratings have been regressing for the better part. I think
the last time we had a sort of rival like that,
he had the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Golden State Warriors
three times they met twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That was okay.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But I just think now the NBA's ready to graduate
from the Lebron era and move on into the ant
Man era. But even with that being said, the players
just don't care. And you saw this weekend in San Francisco.
They don't care. There was two players who came that
we who came to San Francisco to play and to
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show what they got.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
The guy who right.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now, in my opinions, the MVP of the league, Shay
Gilgess Alexander Sga and Victor Wembayama, who's going to win
many MVPs to come. Then you look at the four
nations face off, look at the ratings on Saturday night
between USA and Canada and whatever they were on Saturday night.
Now it's for the final tomorrow night, which you can
hear right here at five o'clock on KJR ninety three
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to three FM, your home for the Kraken, and the
ratings tomorrow night will be even bigger than they were
on Saturday night. There's a disconnect. You don't see players
in the NHL with quote load management aka, I don't
want to play today, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid. I mean
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the Philadelphia seventy six ers fans and they've had a
lot to enjoy with Joel Embiid, who's one of the
most skilled players in the history of the NBA. I
think Joel Embiid and Nicola jokicch the joker. Those two guys.
You look at their skill set compared to David Robinson
and a keem Olajuan and Patrick Ewing blows those guys away.
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Those guys couldn't hit three pointers on a consistent basis
now a teams post up game.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I ain't gonna lie. That was the that was the
goat of a post game.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Nobody was better than a team in the post and
he absolutely destroyed Shack in an NBA finals and swept
them one time. So Keem was great. But you're just
seeing the disconnect and I think that the NHL players
actually care. They want to represent their country, they want
to win this and the NBA. Kudos to Gary Bettman,
who used to work for the NBA, was an assistant
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under David Stern for a long time. He's like, let's
do something different, let's put this together. Do you know
what I got on Sunday when I turned over during
the SNL fiftieth anniversary show Team Chuck versus Team Candice
and Team Kenny versus Team Shack, Like, WTF is going on?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What the heck is going on here? No wonder why
nobody watched? It was stupid. The whole weekend sucked.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The best part of the entire weekend from what people
see me And I didn't watch this either because I
was watching usavers Canada. Was Mac McClung three peeting for
the slam Dunk competition that was the they that's what
people said was the best.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I missed it because I didn't care. I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I care about the Four Nations face off, and apparently
so does in America. They care about it. Major disconnect,
major disconnect. What do they gotta do to get that back? Well,
that's a question for Adam Silver, because the game has
become homogenized, the game has become stale, the game has
become predictable. It's it's watch the game. Eighty six three
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pointers combined between two teams. Chuck, Chuck, chuck. That's all
you do. There's no as Draymond Green quoted the late
great Kobe Bryant, the only thing you see. And if Kobe,
He's got to be rolling over in his grave right
now at what the NBA has devolved into. Accidental basketball.
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And it's horrible. And I wish and I wish the
players cared the way that you have seen over the
course of the last week. And I admit I was
a little skeptical about the Four Nations face off, like what.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The hell is this? What are we doing here? Ended
up being pretty good. They got something.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So maybe the suits on Park Avenue for the NBA
need to do something different to get the people.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I love I'll say one thing that I do love
what Adam Silver has done at the end after the
regular season's over. I am the biggest fan of the
play in tournament. That to me is almost like the
March madness for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I love it. And guess what they care because they're.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Trying to get into the playoffs so they can play
and have a chance to win a title.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They care. They don't care about an eighty two game
regular season. They don't care about All Star Weekend. They
just don't. You know, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid. Do you
think that they care whether or not a family of
four spend their hard earned money to come to a
game to see those guys. No, they don't care. They're
getting that money.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Joel and b got to one hundred twenty six million
dollars to sit out four hundred games throughout his career.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
There in lies a monumental void between the consumer and
the entertainer. We just want.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
To see people care. When you go to your streaming services,
whether it's Netflix or Hulu or Prime or Paramount Plus
or whatever peacock, you're going to more than likely they're
gonna put on programming where they're putting the best. You know, hey,
Netflix keeps going up on me. I don't care, you
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know why, because I know that I'm gonna be entertained
by at least five to six programs a month. It's
worth the nineteen dollars and eighty nine cents or whatever
they're charging me for without commercials. Now, it's worth it.
I'll pay for it. Go ahead, keep up charge. I mean,
I don't like it, but keep doing it because I'm
getting my money's.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Worth a you're getting here, money's worth watching the NBA.
You're just not.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, I don't see anybody in the NHL. I
don't see Connor McDavid coming out and saying our product
is boring like Draymond Green did. So there's a lot
going on there, and this needs to be studied because
Adam Silver has a major, major dilemma going on right now.
Something needs to change, and it needs to change not
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just today or tomorrow. It needed to change yesterday. So
you've got to do something. Someone said, oh, well take
the three point shot away.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Nah, you can't do that, can't do that that. No, No,
it's out it's done, you know what. And I'm just
spitballing here.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But if you only allowed a team to hit so
many three pointers a game, in other words, okay, once
you hit ten three three pointers a game, no more,
you can't shoot it anymore, or if you do, it's
a turnover. That is interesting. Then all of a sudden
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it becomes okay, they hit the max. You can only
get ten three pointers a game. So now I'm I'm spitballing.
I don't know what to do. I'm you know, I
don't get paid Adam's silver money. So I'm just throwing
something out there to make the game more aesthetically pleasing
to the naked eye. I'm trying to do something. I
love basketball. I like basketball better than hockey, truth be told,
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I do, but I still like hockey. But I love
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And it's sad to see the product in what it's become.
I want to see like the NFL. For a while,
there was some things, and mark my words, when they
go to their owners means this year and they eat
their Chateau Brion and in shrimp cocktail and whatever, all
the bougie stuff that they get at their five star
resort hotel wherever the NFL owners means, be in Palm
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Springs or Palm Beach, Florida, wherever they are. They're gonna
fix that landing zone kickoff that that it's a fail,
it's an l They're gonna fix it. They'll get rid
of it. They have to, because it was a complete
fail totally. They tried something, they threw it against the wall.
It didn't stick. It's bad college football stuck with the
old traditional kickoff, and they're doing it better. So I
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have faith that Roger Goodell will fix that. NFL players care.
They only get to play seventeen regular season games of
the year, and if they're lucky they get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They care.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So it's it's just it's a different, whole, different sport.
I want the NBA to be great again, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's just not.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And it's not not only great, it's not even good.
It's hardly watchable. And it's just like when the playoffs
come around, I care because then there's more incentive. Then
players are playing for something bigger than themselves. Now that
direct deposit goes through every week or every other week.
There for those guys when you're making making forty five
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to sixty million. Jimmy Butler just got a two year
extension by Golden State one hundred and twenty three million dollars.
He'll turn it on when he needs to, but not
going to care for the most part. And Jimmy Butler
when he plays, oh, he goes all in like he's
not a guy that you know. To Jimmy Butler's credit,
other than the divorce with the Miami Heat, he's not
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a guy that's sitting out that I've seen like Kawhi
or Mbid who literally will sit out.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Do you know why they sit out?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Why does anybody do anything in this world, Chris because
they can, and Adam Silver lets it happen. That's the
thing about David Stern. He never allowed this issue to occur.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Never.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There would be no such thing as load management under
David Stern.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Never. Now, I think one sport they should have load
management is Major League Baseball. Pay one hundred and sixty
two games. That's a lot, that's double what the end.
I mean, they are in it all the way, so.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's why they I don't know what the NBA has
to do, but I'm throwing something out there, maybe you
put a cap on how many three pointers a team
because you can't take the three point shot away, but
do something to make the game more enjoyable to the audience,
because at the end of the day, you know, and
I know, without the fans, k we got nothing. The
fans stop, stop showing up, stop paying their hard earned money,
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then we got a problem.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We got a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So maybe I'm too hard on the NBA, but I
know it can be better than the crap I've seen
for the last few years.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I know it can be better. That's it. So that's
what I'm coming down to. In PK sup Ban, kudos
to you. You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You absolutely nailed it, which was great and I appreciate
someone who doesn't pull punches on that. All Right, coming
up next, we've got what do you say text of
the day? We got a lot of them today, a
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lot of them on the Mayor, So we'll come up
with that. We'll pick our best one. Christopher Kidd will
pick his favorite one, and then some and then we
will hand it off to the Mayor of Maple Valley
Ian fern As. So what do you say text of
the day on the Tullamore do text line when it's
game time. It's Tully time at four nine four five one.
Don't forget to vote, Mark James, there are you mad
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at the mayor's horrible attempt at humor?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What do you say? Text of the day? Next?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
A message to our audience your game Safty have passed
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now look where he's at. This is Mark James.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Kind doing me sensitive MJ in the Midday on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, time for the one what do you say?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Text of the day on MJ in the Midday KJR
ninety three to three FM from the R and R
Broadcast studios. I can't wait coming up next segment to
talk to the mayor about that PK soup ban SoundBite,
because I not going on a limb here the mayor,
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the mayor I know, is going to agree with PK
on that one. I know he will. Hey, I'm gonna
give one. I'm gonna try to snap my losing streak here.
I gotta pick for everybody out there. I'm going to
the game the night, So if you see me at
the game, come say hello. I'm going with the Huskies tonight.
Minus two and a half at home at Alaska Airlines
Arena over Rutgers. Now, Rutgers has what is the consensus
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second and third projected overall pick in June's NBA draft,
Dylan Harper, son of Ron Harper and Ace Bailey. They
have a losing record, so that tells you how pathetic
their coaches. I like Danny Springle. I actually think he's
gonna do big things here. Him and Jed Fish big
things that you dub I like. And it's not an upset.
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Vegas is begging you to take Rutgers. They're begging you
to take the points. Don't be a sucker. Go with
the Huskies tonight. It's not a Homer pick. I only
pick with my head. That's a financial business decision.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Of course I won't be able to bet it because
I'm not driving to Tacoma to place the bet. But
if I were to bet, I'd be taking the Huskies
minus two and a half tonight over Rutgers. You lead
us off, c K give us a text on the
Toulomar do Tex line when his game time is Tolly
time four nine, four to five to one.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
This is set from Collins Pub Little harsh On the NBA.
You think, consider some positives Cleveland, n OKC playing amazing
team basketball under the radar players that are not the
bloat of these so called stars n season.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Tournament repositive text. But this is at the top, so
I'm gonna read it from the two o eight. Wasn't
sure about the new show to start with. However, your
pro wrestling quotes and punctuality on the hourly words are good.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Welcome to Seattle, Mark James.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Grassius Glossius, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
From the two o eight that warms my heart, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Imagine from the four two five, if the NFL move
the Hawks, OKC, the Chief the Sacramento imagine, No, the
teams of Baltimore Pittar, Sinci, Tampa Bay in Utah, Orlando, Adam,
Silver and Stern were both idiots thinking anyone cares about Utah.
Okayc all the crapy boring small markets.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Boo. All right, be goes to show you I have
fixed skin.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Very self deprecating MJ in the Midday, KGr needs to
repack MJ has to go currently dead air six eight
to one p MJ does make Chuck tolerable, Okay, all right,
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hey, not it. I get it. Choie taste not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I hope to change your mind in the future from
the two oh six, but I will read the negative ones.
I I love it because at least you're saying something.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That's all. That's it. If you like me, if you
hate me, it's it's all good. But at least you're
saying something, so I appreciate it, hate it.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
In love of the Underdogs on I'm Gonna Shine, hold
me into my hot stops.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
There you go, I'm wraps MVP and I ain't going
nowhere so you can get to know me.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Here you go, you go? Oh that song was classic, bro,
that was my days at the you Uh that song
was popular?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Man?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That was great. Oh I love that time. What do
you got next? Yo? Mark? What is your Twitter? Mark James?
M A R C. James. Yeah, you a listener wanted
to know. There you go. M A R C. James.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I thought it was Shadow band for a while, but
I kind of took a break from social media. But
now being in a you know where I want to
be interactive and with the fans, with the listeners, I'm
totally there. So there on the Tolimore do text line
at four nine, four or five one, you name it. Mark,
You definitely telling them the truth about the Celtics and Lakers.
I'm forty eight years old and in the nineties I
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purchased the Boston Celtics starter jacket. You'll have been in
Seattle my whole life. I don't know what that man. Oh,
I think he means he's been in Seattle his whole life.
They don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Thirty for thirty did a pretty good job on the
Celtics Lakers rivalry. It was like a five part documentary series.
They did a great job and it came out about
twenty seventeen, so about eight years ago. But yeah, the
NBA was just and listen, I love the play in tournament.
I kid you not to play in tournament. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh I'm I not to.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You can't bet on the college teams here in Washington,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yes, you can't text you know what.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I know that because it's like that in New England too,
with Boston College and all.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, my bad.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, I will just say this, if we were in Vegas,
I take the Huskies tonight the Dogs minus two and
a half I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh hey, c k uh, why do you read the
ball sniffer text? Great job, MJ No, I don't. I
read the negative ones. I like the negative ones, so
the negative ones is good. Like we Hey, I got
thick skin. Let me just tell you something to the
Tullamore do text line four nine four to five one.
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I was on the station in Boston the call letters
who I will never say because I hate the station,
but anyway, there were one of the original sports talk
stations in America. This text line here in Seattle is
Disney World compared to the things that they used to
say to me then, and talking about my mother and
hoping that I would die, and giving my address saying
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I know where you live in Watertown. Trust me, this
is all right, This is good, This is okay. Negative
is good. The worst what are the worst? And it
resupplies that you can get from anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Nothing. That's the worst thing that you can get from anybody.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Apathy. We don't want apathy. Negativity or positivity is great.
The worst thing that you can ever elicit is apathy.
And that I can assure you, I will never ever listen.
You will have an opinion on, Mark James. You may
love me, you may hate me, and I hope you listen,
but I will never elicit apathy because then I'm really
failing at my job.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
From Keith Miller two five to three. The real question
is when Mark was at the you was he a
part of the seventh floor.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh no, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I was there at the time when that all went down,
Greg Olsen, John Beeson, Oh yes, I was not part
of the seventh floor crew. I did not live on campus.
I was off campus. But I was there when that
whole thing went down.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
If your oh only no, when she was getting bleeped
on the seventh flow, if your crew only knew that
she was getting bleep by the seventh floor crew, what
would she do?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
My lord? No, man. That was when it all started
to come to an end at the U.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That that that we had an era from two thousand
through two thousand and three where we should have won
three national championships in a row. And Ohio State fans,
screw all of you, because you know exactly what I'm
talking about. In that two thousand and two National championship
game in January three at sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
(29:00):
You know, Miami got screwed. And I'll tell you you
know is because I had Florida and Florida State fans sympathizing, saying,
you know, we hate y'all, we really we hate you.
But you guys got screwed. That's how you know. So
when the seventh Floor crew hit, Greg Olsen, Fox NFL analyst,
who else?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Who else was on that?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
John Beeson, former Carolina Panther first round pick, and a
bunch of other guys that most people would never remember.
But you remember those guys, their first round picks. They
decent NFL careers. I was there then, I was there then. Yes,
that was a different time.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Thank you for taking me down memory road of the
seventh Floor crew. But I was not a part of
the seventh floor crew. Now do you admit it?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
If you were, yes, okay, I definitely would you make
any trips? I know I did not. That was Pierce Mahoney.
I was not a part of that. Yeah, I gotta
be a part of it. But you couldn't even just
go up there and say what's up? I could, but
you know I would see them, well, I would see
those guys at the heck Center and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I wasn't like I was in grad school. They were undergrad.
I didn't grad school. You don't have times. Yeah, I
just you know, I have bigger and better things in
life right now. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
By the way, I love spurring. You know it's awesome.
Let me just tell you something about the negative text.
And we just got a flurry of them, which I like.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think the negative text. Do you know when you're
texting me, you know what that's showing. You're listening. You
are listening. Again, if I'm watching Stars or I'm watching
HBO or Showtime and I don't like what movies they're showing,
I'm not emailing the president and CEO.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Of HBO or Showtime. You're listening. That's all I care about.
That's all I care about. From the two O six
D bag in the midday. Okay, there you go. I
take that. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Uh here's one. He's a nicer one doing a great job.
Mjscrew the haters. No, it's fine as long as they listen.
But I can tell you I'm not a scribe cost
playing as a sports talk cost. I am a sports
talk coast. I'm doing it check the credentials. Twenty years
in the business, almost as long as Softy. So I'm
(31:24):
not a fake sports talk host. I'm a real one.
So there's that. So I'll leave it at that. Oh
the what do you say text to the day? How
about there was one and it's already gone. But he said, okay,
hold on, let's see here. Limiting three, Oh, this is
a good one. Limiting threes is terrible in my opinion.
(31:47):
So but all right, I'll go with the negative one
MG in the midday. Really KGr needs to repact best
on you know, MG has to go currently dead air
six oh one. P make MJ makes Chuck sound tolerable. Okay,
there you go. That'll be the way you say text
of the day. That's okay, it's all good. You texted
in you're listening two oh six. I appreciate it. So
(32:10):
that is the what do you say texts of the day?
On the Tollamore du text line four nine, four or
five to one. When it's game time, it's totally time,
and it is almost Mayor of Maple Valley.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Time can't wait.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And I don't even want Ian to tell me what
he thinks of the PK su band in between Rake,
I can't wait to get his reaction to that. Next,
don't forget. I know you can't bet on it. Husky's
minus two and a half tonight over Rutgers. Final segment
with the mayor.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Next, no issue in Sydney Crosby is around. There's no
issue in Wayne Gretzky was around, because those are true leaders.
They lead by example, Sidney Crosby, Hockey Canada, those players,
both Canada and US. It was the players that did
that for the four nations. That's not the league. The
league set it up, but the players went out there
and decided and said.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You know what, boys, we're all in. When is the
NBA going to do that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Because you know, I haven't sat down and watched the
NBA consistently since Kolbe. I love basketball, love the players.
I think Lebron's great, I think Katie's great, Steph Curry
love watching them.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But you gotta be on the court.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You gotta be there, and when you're there, you gotta
go all in. The fans got to feel that they're
getting their money's worth, and right now there's a big
difference between what the NHL is doing with those events
and what the NBA is doing. Four Nations works because
the players.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Are all in hmmm, wow, Amen, appreciate preaci it, and
I'll go you even one step further. Michael Jordan at
the end of his second three pete he left the
next generation, and at that time it was Ai Alan Iverson,
(33:51):
not the Ai that everybody thinks.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is he will Ai. When I say, I always.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Mean Alan Iverson, and then I'll go artificial intelligence, Kobe Bryant,
and the league was in good hands. Shaq and Kobe
three pedd with the Lakers two thousand through two thousand
and two. Then a year later you had that epic
draft class Lebron Carmelo, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh. But the
(34:18):
NBA in the Lebron era is nowhere near as good
as it was in the Michael era or the Kobe era. Now,
the Kobe and Lebron era kinda I mean it certainly overlapped.
They played together on two Olympic teams, for crying out loud.
But I just think that that when fans don't have
(34:39):
the reverence for Lebron that they did for Michael, they
don't I'll tell you right now, Air Jordans out sell
every single current NBA player combined to this day. Michael
hasn't picked up a basketball and played in a regulation
NBA game in t twenty two years, and the Wizards
(35:02):
Michael Jordan wasn't really the Bulls Michael Jordan, so he
hasn't played in Basically, we're getting to a quarter of
a century out sells all current NBA players.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's just there is a disconnect. The ratings show it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I remember during the twenty twenty NBA Finals, which was
in an empty Hockey.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Is a different sport from the NBA. You can't compare
the cultures because of the way the game is played.
You can step on an NBA floor and go through
the emotions. You can't do that in hockey. You can't.
The culture of our sport. You have to play it
with passion. You have to be willing to fight, you
have to be willing to leave it on the ice.
(35:45):
That's what fans are investing in. So for us, when
we charge fifteen hundred dollars for a ticket to come
to court, it fans know what they're getting. Cal mccarr,
the best defenseman in the world, wasn't in the lineup
for this game. This was the most viewed game that
we've had in years, and you see it. It's not
just based on the skill and talent. It's based on
(36:06):
the pride, honor playing for the guy next to you.
I got a question for the NBA players, what the
hell are you playing for?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
What are you playing for?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It's not about the money you make all the money.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
What you're injured.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Well, there's a difference between being hurt and injured. Are
you hurt or are you injured? There's a difference in hockey.
We play hurt, we play injured. That is the culture
of the sport. It's always been that way. So you
want to talk about the business. The CBA fans get
all of that, But what do fans resonate with. They
resonate with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for
(36:42):
your country. You got to compete. You got to go
out there and leave it on the ice because those
people are paying the price of admission. So fans know
whether our stars are on the ice or not, they're
getting their money's worth. The NBA has that issue that
they got to work on. You got to create a
better culture for your players.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
It starts with the leaders, all right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
MJ in the midday saying hello to the mayor of
Maple Valley's coming up next between one to three, and
I wanted you to hear that sound. So you just
heard it from PK supe Ban your thoughts. I mean,
he's right, He's one hundred percent right everything he said. Now,
you know, if he's criticizing the All Star Game for
the NBA, that's a little bit of a stretch. But
(37:23):
I'd think, you know, if you look at the NBA
on a nightly basis, and Chris is an NBA fan,
you're an NBA fan.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
I get that like it is. Listen, the sport has changed.
The priorities of the players have changed. And I spent
six years working in Salt Lake during the heyday of
the Jazz. I grew up a Sonics fan. You were
there in the nineties, Yeah, I got there in ninety eight.
First I got the Yeah, I got there. I was
(37:48):
there for both finals. Well, when the first one is
ninety seven. Ninety seven is when I actually actually got there.
Ninety seven, I got there. I got there the summer
ninety seven. I was there for an interview during the finals.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
And then I was there for the second five finals.
In ninety eight, I was doing a postgame show at
like midnight, like midnight to three am. That was my
first sports radio gig. I was doing hockey. I was
done the minor league hockey team. That's why I went there.
But we were on the same station. But out aside,
I did a ton of jazz postgame shows because the
guy that did the jazz post game was also the
minor league baseball guy. So hockey season ended because Locke
(38:18):
was coming up here to Seattle, who was doing this
that stuff the guy the hockey season ended, baseball season started.
I kind of slid in there, got to do playoffs
and it was awesome. John Lunn, my buddy, was doing
the games with me. We were in the post hosting
post game shows.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
San Francisco.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, I love, I loved and I loved the NBA.
I mean, I grew up a Sonics fan. I hated
the Jazz. I hated being part of the Jazz Radio
network because I hated that team with every fiber of
my Sonics being. But I had such great respect for
and I hated John and Carl They're just both not
great guys, and but I had great respect for them
because they played every night. They did, and they so
(38:55):
did everybody else in that league, you know, and then
you look at the teams here. I mean, there was
a level of toughness that doesn't exist in this league anymore.
I got to be really good friends with Jerome Cursey
briefly played here in Seattle, but mostly people remember from
his days at EDDIT TV with him in Portland. That
was a bad man. May he rest in peace. That
guy was the epitome of toughness. Hey, I'll give you one.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Daviord McDaniel the epitome of toughness. Hey, I'm gonna give
you one.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
When to ask his former teammates with the Knicks, Anthony Mason,
rest in peace. That dude was like I mean, to
this day, Oakley can probably kick the crap out of
most players in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Charles Oakley, But those dudes were like you. But but
those guys, but those The thing is the locker room dictate.
You played, Yes, you played. You didn't sit.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
There and take a maintenance like a maintenance day. That's
what I mean. What are we doing? Did you hear
the stat that I gave you about Joel Embiid? Was
it one hundred games hundred million he's made, he's made.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
He's missed four hundred games, is Chris, some of it injury,
but some of it his own. I don't want to
play today. He's made one hundred and twenty six million
dollars by not playing in the NBA four hundred games.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I have a heart. I have such a hard time
with twenty six million dollars.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Well, we looked at you know, you know, wht people
saying Lebron ruined the All Star Game, All Star Games
ruined before, but then exactly, But the number is interesting.
I mean he had played straight Yeah, so I get that,
But if you're there, you can't tap out an hour beforehand,
take a team photo in your jeans and a hat.
Like there's just a level of professionalism that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:26):
Can you imagine if Mike was Michael Jordan was still
there and that was his teammate, he'd kill him like
Michael would. Michael would actually be right, he'd pull it.
He'd pull it X mammer when X grabbed Wes Matthews
by the neck and strangle a life out of him,
That's what he would do, and and that's that's what
would happen. I mean, these guys were cut from a
different cloth. You look at I mean gp Man the
glove I mean, and you know what one thing about him
(40:48):
that people forget. His work ethic was through the roof.
And what I mean by that when he came into
the league, he could not shoot a lick. He came
out of Oregon State and could not shoot a lick.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
This guy in.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Here, didn't you did you play horse with sud Jim?
Then yeah, this guy would beat Gary Payton in a
game of horse when Gary came out of Oregon State
two years later.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The guys were of the bes shooters in the league.
It's just worked ass. And you know, the thing about
admire the most about Michael Jordan. I'm paraphrasing here. One
of the things I admired the most about Michael Jordan
is the fact that you say, hey, why do you
give it? Like someone asked him to go, You're always
going one thousand percent? Why he goes? He said, because
somebody may only get a chance one time in their
(41:29):
life to see me play, and I want them to
be that time that they got to see Michael Jordan
play memorable that they said, wow, he came to play
and they got and they got their money's worth. That
was a different type player. The last guy like that.
May he rest in peace. Kobe. Yes, Kobe did that too. Yeah,
Kobe did that too. Oh man. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
My favorite Kobe memory real quick, it's covering the Blazers
and when I was in Portland, it's with Ruben Patterson
called himself the Kobe stops. Oh god, I remember that
Kobe dropped fifty on him. Yeah, fifty yeah, and it
might have been more than that, but he hit a
three to force overtime and then scored every point overtime.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
After the game. When in the locker room and ball
boy comes over.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
And he's got a pair of shoes and signed by
Kobe Bryant and they hand him to Ruben Patterson in
the Blazers' locker room. This how done, Rubin was Ruben
thought that was like a like, oh that's really cool. Man.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
He respected me.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
No, man, he he scored fifty on youby soccer, so
he gave you the shoes he scored fifty on you
with because he was he was an assassin.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
One quick thing about Kobe I will say I covered
him in the nine Finals versus the Orlando Magic. Yeah,
Orlando wins game three to make it somewhat of a series.
They're down two to one. But prior to Game four,
Dwight Howard's trying to tap them up because they play
I think they played together on the redeem team in
a way, and Kobe brushed him off, like, get the hellway.
They end up winning games four and five and clinching
(42:53):
on the Magic's home court. Yeah, Kobe's like, do not
get out of my way. I want to I will
do anything I can to win a title, whatever takes.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
And those nine twenty ten Laker teams were not good,
no at all, but he was. He was the great.
He was one of the goats. Yeah, gasts. He was
all right.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Thank you to Chris Daniels, thank you to Ian Ferness,
and thank you to Chuck Powell and of course the
executive producer, Christopher Kind said, kay Asta Magnana cyon RCI.
I will see tomorrow on MJ in the midday kJ
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we hand it off to the Mayor of Maple Valley,
Ian Furness at the end of the hour. But speaking
(02:02):
of the Four Nations face off, ESPN NHL analyst pksu Band,
former NHL player, was on with Eudonis Hasm, former NBA player,
and I believe he was on First Take or Sports Center,
one of those ESPN programs, and he dropped the absolute
(02:23):
hammer and a truth bomb on the NBA.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Hockey is a different sport from the NBA. You can't
compare the cultures because of the way the game is played.
You can step on an NBA floor and go through
the emotions you can't do that in hockey. You can't
the culture of our sport. You have to play it
with passion. You have to be willing to fight, you
have to be willing to leave it on the ice.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's what fans.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Are investing in. So for us, when we charge fifteen
hundred dollars for a ticket to come to court, fans
know what they're getting. Cal mccarr, the best defenseman in
the world, wasn't in the line for this game. This
was the most viewed game that we've had in years,
and you see it. It's not just based on the
skill and talent, it's based on the pride, honor playing
(03:12):
for the guy next to you. I got a question
for the NBA players, what the hell are you playing for?
What are you playing for? It's not about the money
you make all the money. What you're injured, Well, there's
a difference between being hurt and injured. Are you hurt
or are you injured? There's a difference. In hockey. We
play hurt, we play injured. That is the culture of
(03:34):
the sport. It's always been that way. So you want
to talk about the business, the CBA fans get all
of that, but what do fans resonate with. They resonate
with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for your country.
You got to compete. You got to go out there
and leave it on the ice because those people are
paying the price of admission. So fans know whether our
stars are on the ice or not, they're getting their
(03:56):
money's worth. The NBA has that issue that they got
to work. You got to create a better culture for
your players. It starts with the leaders. This issue. There
was no issue in Jordan was around. There was no
issue when Kobe was around. There's no issue in Sydney
Crosby is around. There's no issue in Wayne Gretzky was around.
Because those are true leaders. They lead by example, Sidney Crosby,
(04:17):
Hockey Canada, those players both Canada and US. It was
the players that did that for the four nations.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's not the league.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The league set it up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But the players went out there and decided and said.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You know what, boys, we're all in. When is the
NBA going to do that?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Because you know, I haven't sat down and watched the
NBA consistently since Kobe. I love basketball, love the players.
I think Lebron's great, I think Katie's great Steph Curry.
Love watching them, but you gotta be on the court.
You gotta be there, and when you're there, you gotta
go all in. The fans got to feel that they're
getting their money's worth. And right now there's a big
difference between what the NHL's doing with those events and
(04:54):
what the NBA is doing. Four Nations works because the players.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Are all in, Wow, Amen, appreci it, preach it, and
I'll go you even one step further. Michael Jordan at
the end of his second three pete he left the
next generation, and at that time it was Ai Alan Iverson,
(05:20):
not the Ai that everybody thinks.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Is he will Ai. When I say, I always.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Mean Alan Iverson and then I'll go artificial intelligence, Kobe Bryant,
and the league was in good hands. Shaq and Kobe
three pedd with the Lakers two thousand through two thousand
and two. Then a year later you had that epic
draft class Lebron, Carmelo, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh. But the
(05:47):
NBA in the Lebron era is nowhere near as good
as it was in the Michael era or the Kobe era. Now,
the Kobe and Lebron era kinda. I mean it certainly overlaps.
They played together on two Olympic teams, for crying out loud,
But I just think that when fans don't have the
(06:09):
reverence for Lebron that they did for Michael, they don't.
I'll tell you right now, Air Jordan's out sell every
single current NBA player combined to this day. Michael hasn't
picked up a basketball and played in a regulation NBA
game in twenty two years, and the Wizards Michael Jordan
(06:32):
wasn't really the Bulls Michael Jordan, so he hasn't played
in Basically, we're getting to a quarter of a century
out sells all current NBA players.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's just there is a disconnect. The ratings show it.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
I remember during the twenty twenty NBA Finals, which was
in an empty gym in Orlando, the COVID Bubble Finals,
which was I don't even count. I don't even count
that as a real title. That is the weakest title
in the history of pro sports. It really is. You
didn't have to go on the road and face any
(07:07):
hostile environments.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Nobody watched, nobody watched. They was. It was all about this,
this whole thing with I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The NBA did this thing at social media presence and
putting things on the back of the jerseys. It was
an awful postseason. James Harden tried to get out of there.
Most guys even want to play. I don't even count
that as a real chip. And I just think that
when you look at this that the NBA to me
will be even though they don't see it that way,
when the lebron era ends, maybe it'll be in June,
(07:41):
maybe it'll be in a year or two, the NBA
to me will be in better hands. It just I
can't even explain. If you're not above the age of
thirty five and you didn't get to see Michael on
the Bulls, I can't even explain it to you. It
was a different world. And I'm old enough to remember
the eighties NBA Finals, which I know Ian and Softy
(08:06):
can remember, between the Celtics and the Lakers, and I
can tell you the remix version of that. In two
thousand and eight and twenty ten, KG Paul Pierce ray
Allen versus Kobe and Pau Gasol didn't even come close
to Bird McHale, DJ Parish versus Magic, Kareem Worthy, Michael Cooper,
(08:33):
Byron Scott. You had blue collar versus white collar. You
had East coast versus West coast, the entire world. I
don't care if you lived in Springfield, Massachusetts, yours Shirley, Seattle, Washington,
or a corn Field in Nebraska or Iowa, you cared
(08:55):
about the Celtics and Lakers.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I don't think it's like that anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I know, oh, it's not like that anymore, because the
ratings have been regressing for the better part. I think
the last time we had a sort of rival like that,
he had the Cleveland Cavaliers versus the Golden State Warriors
three times they met twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That was okay.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
But I just think now the NBA's ready to graduate
from the Lebron era and move on into the ant
Man era. But even with that being said, the players
just don't care. And you saw this weekend in San Francisco.
They don't care. There was two players who came that
we who came to San Francisco to play and to
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show what they got.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
The guy who right.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Now, in my opinions, the MVP of the league, Shay
Gilgess Alexander Sga and Victor Wembayama, who's going to win
many MVPs to come. Then you look at the four
nations face off, look at the ratings on Saturday night
between USA and Canada and whatever they were on Saturday night.
Now it's for the final tomorrow night, which you can
hear right here at five o'clock on KJR ninety three
(10:05):
to three FM, your home for the Kraken, and the
ratings tomorrow night will be even bigger than they were
on Saturday night. There's a disconnect. You don't see players
in the NHL with quote load management aka, I don't
want to play today, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid. I mean
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the Philadelphia seventy six ers fans and they've had a
lot to enjoy with Joel Embiid, who's one of the
most skilled players in the history of the NBA. I
think Joel Embiid and Nicola jokicch the joker. Those two guys.
You look at their skill set compared to David Robinson
and a keem Olajuan and Patrick Ewing blows those guys away.
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Those guys couldn't hit three pointers on a consistent basis
now a teams post up game.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I ain't gonna lie. That was the that was the
goat of a post game.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Nobody was better than a team in the post and
he absolutely destroyed Shack in an NBA finals and swept
them one time. So Keem was great. But you're just
seeing the disconnect and I think that the NHL players
actually care. They want to represent their country, they want
to win this and the NBA. Kudos to Gary Bettman,
who used to work for the NBA, was an assistant
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under David Stern for a long time. He's like, let's
do something different, let's put this together. Do you know
what I got on Sunday when I turned over during
the SNL fiftieth anniversary show Team Chuck versus Team Candice
and Team Kenny versus Team Shack, Like, WTF is going on?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What the heck is going on here? No wonder why
nobody watched? It was stupid. The whole weekend sucked.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
The best part of the entire weekend from what people
see me And I didn't watch this either because I
was watching usavers Canada. Was Mac McClung three peeting for
the slam Dunk competition that was the they that's what
people said was the best.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I missed it because I didn't care. I just don't care.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I care about the Four Nations face off, and apparently
so does in America. They care about it. Major disconnect,
major disconnect. What do they gotta do to get that back? Well,
that's a question for Adam Silver, because the game has
become homogenized, the game has become stale, the game has
become predictable. It's it's watch the game. Eighty six three
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pointers combined between two teams. Chuck, Chuck, chuck. That's all
you do. There's no as Draymond Green quoted the late
great Kobe Bryant, the only thing you see. And if Kobe,
He's got to be rolling over in his grave right
now at what the NBA has devolved into. Accidental basketball.
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And it's horrible. And I wish and I wish the
players cared the way that you have seen over the
course of the last week. And I admit I was
a little skeptical about the Four Nations face off, like what.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The hell is this? What are we doing here? Ended
up being pretty good. They got something.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So maybe the suits on Park Avenue for the NBA
need to do something different to get the people.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I love I'll say one thing that I do love
what Adam Silver has done at the end after the
regular season's over. I am the biggest fan of the
play in tournament. That to me is almost like the
March madness for the NBA.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I love it. And guess what they care because they're.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Trying to get into the playoffs so they can play
and have a chance to win a title.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
They care. They don't care about an eighty two game
regular season. They don't care about All Star Weekend. They
just don't. You know, Kawhi Leonard, Joel Embiid. Do you
think that they care whether or not a family of
four spend their hard earned money to come to a
game to see those guys. No, they don't care. They're
getting that money.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Joel and b got to one hundred twenty six million
dollars to sit out four hundred games throughout his career.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
There in lies a monumental void between the consumer and
the entertainer. We just want.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
To see people care. When you go to your streaming services,
whether it's Netflix or Hulu or Prime or Paramount Plus
or whatever peacock, you're going to more than likely they're
gonna put on programming where they're putting the best. You know, hey,
Netflix keeps going up on me. I don't care, you
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know why, because I know that I'm gonna be entertained
by at least five to six programs a month. It's
worth the nineteen dollars and eighty nine cents or whatever
they're charging me for without commercials. Now, it's worth it.
I'll pay for it. Go ahead, keep up charge. I mean,
I don't like it, but keep doing it because I'm
getting my money's.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Worth a you're getting here, money's worth watching the NBA.
You're just not.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, I don't see anybody in the NHL. I
don't see Connor McDavid coming out and saying our product
is boring like Draymond Green did. So there's a lot
going on there, and this needs to be studied because
Adam Silver has a major, major dilemma going on right now.
Something needs to change, and it needs to change not
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just today or tomorrow. It needed to change yesterday. So
you've got to do something. Someone said, oh, well take
the three point shot away.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Nah, you can't do that, can't do that that. No, No,
it's out it's done, you know what. And I'm just
spitballing here.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But if you only allowed a team to hit so
many three pointers a game, in other words, okay, once
you hit ten three three pointers a game, no more,
you can't shoot it anymore, or if you do, it's
a turnover. That is interesting. Then all of a sudden
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it becomes okay, they hit the max. You can only
get ten three pointers a game. So now I'm I'm spitballing.
I don't know what to do. I'm you know, I
don't get paid Adam's silver money. So I'm just throwing
something out there to make the game more aesthetically pleasing
to the naked eye. I'm trying to do something. I
love basketball. I like basketball better than hockey, truth be told,
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I do, but I still like hockey. But I love
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I do.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And it's sad to see the product in what it's become.
I want to see like the NFL. For a while,
there was some things, and mark my words, when they
go to their owners means this year and they eat
their Chateau Brion and in shrimp cocktail and whatever, all
the bougie stuff that they get at their five star
resort hotel wherever the NFL owners means, be in Palm
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Springs or Palm Beach, Florida, wherever they are. They're gonna
fix that landing zone kickoff that that it's a fail,
it's an l They're gonna fix it. They'll get rid
of it. They have to, because it was a complete
fail totally. They tried something, they threw it against the wall.
It didn't stick. It's bad college football stuck with the
old traditional kickoff, and they're doing it better. So I
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have faith that Roger Goodell will fix that. NFL players care.
They only get to play seventeen regular season games of
the year, and if they're lucky they get to the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
They care.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So it's it's just it's a different, whole, different sport.
I want the NBA to be great again, but it's not.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
It's just not.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
And it's not not only great, it's not even good.
It's hardly watchable. And it's just like when the playoffs
come around, I care because then there's more incentive. Then
players are playing for something bigger than themselves. Now that
direct deposit goes through every week or every other week.
There for those guys when you're making making forty five
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to sixty million. Jimmy Butler just got a two year
extension by Golden State one hundred and twenty three million dollars.
He'll turn it on when he needs to, but not
going to care for the most part. And Jimmy Butler
when he plays, oh, he goes all in like he's
not a guy that you know. To Jimmy Butler's credit,
other than the divorce with the Miami Heat, he's not
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a guy that's sitting out that I've seen like Kawhi
or Mbid who literally will sit out.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Do you know why they sit out?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Why does anybody do anything in this world, Chris because
they can, and Adam Silver lets it happen. That's the
thing about David Stern. He never allowed this issue to occur.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Never.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
There would be no such thing as load management under
David Stern.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Never. Now, I think one sport they should have load
management is Major League Baseball. Pay one hundred and sixty
two games. That's a lot, that's double what the end.
I mean, they are in it all the way, so.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That's why they I don't know what the NBA has
to do, but I'm throwing something out there, maybe you
put a cap on how many three pointers a team
because you can't take the three point shot away, but
do something to make the game more enjoyable to the audience,
because at the end of the day, you know, and
I know, without the fans, k we got nothing. The
fans stop, stop showing up, stop paying their hard earned money,
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then we got a problem.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We got a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
So maybe I'm too hard on the NBA, but I
know it can be better than the crap I've seen
for the last few years.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I know it can be better. That's it. So that's
what I'm coming down to. In PK sup Ban, kudos
to you. You nailed it.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You absolutely nailed it, which was great and I appreciate
someone who doesn't pull punches on that. All Right, coming
up next, we've got what do you say text of
the day? We got a lot of them today, a
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lot of them on the Mayor, So we'll come up
with that. We'll pick our best one. Christopher Kidd will
pick his favorite one, and then some and then we
will hand it off to the Mayor of Maple Valley
Ian fern As. So what do you say text of
the day on the Tullamore do text line when it's
game time. It's Tully time at four nine four five one.
Don't forget to vote, Mark James, there are you mad
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at the mayor's horrible attempt at humor?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
What do you say? Text of the day? Next?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
A message to our audience your game Safty have passed
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Now look where he's at. This is Mark James.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Kind doing me sensitive MJ in the Midday on Sports
Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, time for the one what do you say?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Text of the day on MJ in the Midday KJR
ninety three to three FM from the R and R
Broadcast studios. I can't wait coming up next segment to
talk to the mayor about that PK soup ban SoundBite,
because I not going on a limb here the mayor,
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the mayor I know, is going to agree with PK
on that one. I know he will. Hey, I'm gonna
give one. I'm gonna try to snap my losing streak here.
I gotta pick for everybody out there. I'm going to
the game the night, So if you see me at
the game, come say hello. I'm going with the Huskies tonight.
Minus two and a half at home at Alaska Airlines
Arena over Rutgers. Now, Rutgers has what is the consensus
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second and third projected overall pick in June's NBA draft,
Dylan Harper, son of Ron Harper and Ace Bailey. They
have a losing record, so that tells you how pathetic
their coaches. I like Danny Springle. I actually think he's
gonna do big things here. Him and Jed Fish big
things that you dub I like. And it's not an upset.
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Vegas is begging you to take Rutgers. They're begging you
to take the points. Don't be a sucker. Go with
the Huskies tonight. It's not a Homer pick. I only
pick with my head. That's a financial business decision.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Of course I won't be able to bet it because
I'm not driving to Tacoma to place the bet. But
if I were to bet, I'd be taking the Huskies
minus two and a half tonight over Rutgers. You lead
us off, c K give us a text on the
Toulomar do Tex line when his game time is Tolly
time four nine, four to five to one.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
This is set from Collins Pub Little harsh On the NBA.
You think, consider some positives Cleveland, n OKC playing amazing
team basketball under the radar players that are not the
bloat of these so called stars n season.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Tournament repositive text. But this is at the top, so
I'm gonna read it from the two o eight. Wasn't
sure about the new show to start with. However, your
pro wrestling quotes and punctuality on the hourly words are good.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Welcome to Seattle, Mark James.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Grassius Glossius, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
From the two o eight that warms my heart, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Imagine from the four two five, if the NFL move
the Hawks, OKC, the Chief the Sacramento imagine, No, the
teams of Baltimore Pittar, Sinci, Tampa Bay in Utah, Orlando, Adam,
Silver and Stern were both idiots thinking anyone cares about Utah.
Okayc all the crapy boring small markets.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Boo. All right, be goes to show you I have
fixed skin.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Very self deprecating MJ in the Midday, KGr needs to
repack MJ has to go currently dead air six eight
to one p MJ does make Chuck tolerable, Okay, all right,
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hey, not it. I get it. Choie taste not for everyone.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I hope to change your mind in the future from
the two oh six, but I will read the negative ones.
I I love it because at least you're saying something.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
That's all. That's it. If you like me, if you
hate me, it's it's all good. But at least you're
saying something, so I appreciate it, hate it.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
In love of the Underdogs on I'm Gonna Shine, hold
me into my hot stops.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
There you go, I'm wraps MVP and I ain't going
nowhere so you can get to know me.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Here you go, you go? Oh that song was classic, bro,
that was my days at the you Uh that song
was popular?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Man?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
That was great. Oh I love that time. What do
you got next? Yo? Mark? What is your Twitter? Mark James?
M A R C. James. Yeah, you a listener wanted
to know. There you go. M A R C. James.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I thought it was Shadow band for a while, but
I kind of took a break from social media. But
now being in a you know where I want to
be interactive and with the fans, with the listeners, I'm
totally there. So there on the Tolimore do text line
at four nine, four or five one, you name it. Mark,
You definitely telling them the truth about the Celtics and Lakers.
I'm forty eight years old and in the nineties I
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purchased the Boston Celtics starter jacket. You'll have been in
Seattle my whole life. I don't know what that man. Oh,
I think he means he's been in Seattle his whole life.
They don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Thirty for thirty did a pretty good job on the
Celtics Lakers rivalry. It was like a five part documentary series.
They did a great job and it came out about
twenty seventeen, so about eight years ago. But yeah, the
NBA was just and listen, I love the play in tournament.
I kid you not to play in tournament. Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh I'm I not to.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You can't bet on the college teams here in Washington,
that's right.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yes, you can't text you know what.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I know that because it's like that in New England too,
with Boston College and all.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Okay, my bad.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Well, I will just say this, if we were in Vegas,
I take the Huskies tonight the Dogs minus two and
a half I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Oh hey, c k uh, why do you read the
ball sniffer text? Great job, MJ No, I don't. I
read the negative ones. I like the negative ones, so
the negative ones is good. Like we Hey, I got
thick skin. Let me just tell you something to the
Tullamore do text line four nine four to five one.
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I was on the station in Boston the call letters
who I will never say because I hate the station,
but anyway, there were one of the original sports talk
stations in America. This text line here in Seattle is
Disney World compared to the things that they used to
say to me then, and talking about my mother and
hoping that I would die, and giving my address saying
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I know where you live in Watertown. Trust me, this
is all right, This is good, This is okay. Negative
is good. The worst what are the worst? And it
resupplies that you can get from anybody.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Nothing. That's the worst thing that you can get from anybody.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Apathy. We don't want apathy. Negativity or positivity is great.
The worst thing that you can ever elicit is apathy.
And that I can assure you, I will never ever listen.
You will have an opinion on, Mark James. You may
love me, you may hate me, and I hope you listen,
but I will never elicit apathy because then I'm really
failing at my job.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
From Keith Miller two five to three. The real question
is when Mark was at the you was he a
part of the seventh floor.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh no, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I was there at the time when that all went down,
Greg Olsen, John Beeson, Oh yes, I was not part
of the seventh floor crew. I did not live on campus.
I was off campus. But I was there when that
whole thing went down.
Speaker 6 (28:13):
If your oh only no, when she was getting bleeped
on the seventh flow, if your crew only knew that
she was getting bleep by the seventh floor crew, what
would she do?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
What?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
My lord? No, man. That was when it all started
to come to an end at the U.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That that that we had an era from two thousand
through two thousand and three where we should have won
three national championships in a row. And Ohio State fans,
screw all of you, because you know exactly what I'm
talking about. In that two thousand and two National championship
game in January three at sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
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You know, Miami got screwed. And I'll tell you you
know is because I had Florida and Florida State fans sympathizing, saying,
you know, we hate y'all, we really we hate you.
But you guys got screwed. That's how you know. So
when the seventh Floor crew hit, Greg Olsen, Fox NFL analyst,
who else?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Who else was on that?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
John Beeson, former Carolina Panther first round pick, and a
bunch of other guys that most people would never remember.
But you remember those guys, their first round picks. They
decent NFL careers. I was there then, I was there then. Yes,
that was a different time.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Thank you for taking me down memory road of the
seventh Floor crew. But I was not a part of
the seventh floor crew. Now do you admit it?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
If you were, yes, okay, I definitely would you make
any trips? I know I did not. That was Pierce Mahoney.
I was not a part of that. Yeah, I gotta
be a part of it. But you couldn't even just
go up there and say what's up? I could, but
you know I would see them, well, I would see
those guys at the heck Center and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I wasn't like I was in grad school. They were undergrad.
I didn't grad school. You don't have times. Yeah, I
just you know, I have bigger and better things in
life right now. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
By the way, I love spurring. You know it's awesome.
Let me just tell you something about the negative text.
And we just got a flurry of them, which I like.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I think the negative text. Do you know when you're
texting me, you know what that's showing. You're listening. You
are listening. Again, if I'm watching Stars or I'm watching
HBO or Showtime and I don't like what movies they're showing,
I'm not emailing the president and CEO.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Of HBO or Showtime. You're listening. That's all I care about.
That's all I care about. From the two O six
D bag in the midday. Okay, there you go. I
take that. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Uh here's one. He's a nicer one doing a great job.
Mjscrew the haters. No, it's fine as long as they listen.
But I can tell you I'm not a scribe cost
playing as a sports talk cost. I am a sports
talk coast. I'm doing it check the credentials. Twenty years
in the business, almost as long as Softy. So I'm
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not a fake sports talk host. I'm a real one.
So there's that. So I'll leave it at that. Oh
the what do you say text to the day? How
about there was one and it's already gone. But he said, okay,
hold on, let's see here. Limiting three, Oh, this is
a good one. Limiting threes is terrible in my opinion.
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So but all right, I'll go with the negative one
MG in the midday. Really KGr needs to repact best
on you know, MG has to go currently dead air
six oh one. P make MJ makes Chuck sound tolerable. Okay,
there you go. That'll be the way you say text
of the day. That's okay, it's all good. You texted
in you're listening two oh six. I appreciate it. So
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that is the what do you say texts of the day?
On the Tollamore du text line four nine, four or
five to one. When it's game time, it's totally time,
and it is almost Mayor of Maple Valley.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Time can't wait.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And I don't even want Ian to tell me what
he thinks of the PK su band in between Rake,
I can't wait to get his reaction to that. Next,
don't forget. I know you can't bet on it. Husky's
minus two and a half tonight over Rutgers. Final segment
with the mayor.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Next, no issue in Sydney Crosby is around. There's no
issue in Wayne Gretzky was around, because those are true leaders.
They lead by example, Sidney Crosby, Hockey Canada, those players,
both Canada and US. It was the players that did
that for the four nations. That's not the league. The
league set it up, but the players went out there
and decided and said.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
You know what, boys, we're all in. When is the
NBA going to do that?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Because you know, I haven't sat down and watched the
NBA consistently since Kolbe. I love basketball, love the players.
I think Lebron's great, I think Katie's great, Steph Curry
love watching them.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
But you gotta be on the court.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
You gotta be there, and when you're there, you gotta
go all in. The fans got to feel that they're
getting their money's worth, and right now there's a big
difference between what the NHL is doing with those events
and what the NBA is doing. Four Nations works because
the players.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Are all in hmmm, wow, Amen, appreciate preaci it, and
I'll go you even one step further. Michael Jordan at
the end of his second three pete he left the
next generation, and at that time it was Ai Alan Iverson,
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not the Ai that everybody thinks.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Is he will Ai. When I say, I always.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Mean Alan Iverson, and then I'll go artificial intelligence, Kobe Bryant,
and the league was in good hands. Shaq and Kobe
three pedd with the Lakers two thousand through two thousand
and two. Then a year later you had that epic
draft class Lebron Carmelo, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh. But the
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NBA in the Lebron era is nowhere near as good
as it was in the Michael era or the Kobe era. Now,
the Kobe and Lebron era kinda I mean it certainly overlapped.
They played together on two Olympic teams, for crying out loud.
But I just think that that when fans don't have
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the reverence for Lebron that they did for Michael, they
don't I'll tell you right now, Air Jordans out sell
every single current NBA player combined to this day. Michael
hasn't picked up a basketball and played in a regulation
NBA game in t twenty two years, and the Wizards
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Michael Jordan wasn't really the Bulls Michael Jordan, so he
hasn't played in Basically, we're getting to a quarter of
a century out sells all current NBA players.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
It's just there is a disconnect. The ratings show it.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I remember during the twenty twenty NBA Finals, which was
in an empty Hockey.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Is a different sport from the NBA. You can't compare
the cultures because of the way the game is played.
You can step on an NBA floor and go through
the emotions. You can't do that in hockey. You can't.
The culture of our sport. You have to play it
with passion. You have to be willing to fight, you
have to be willing to leave it on the ice.
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That's what fans are investing in. So for us, when
we charge fifteen hundred dollars for a ticket to come
to court, it fans know what they're getting. Cal mccarr,
the best defenseman in the world, wasn't in the lineup
for this game. This was the most viewed game that
we've had in years, and you see it. It's not
just based on the skill and talent. It's based on
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the pride, honor playing for the guy next to you.
I got a question for the NBA players, what the
hell are you playing for?
Speaker 1 (36:14):
What are you playing for?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It's not about the money you make all the money.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
What you're injured.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Well, there's a difference between being hurt and injured. Are
you hurt or are you injured? There's a difference in hockey.
We play hurt, we play injured. That is the culture
of the sport. It's always been that way. So you
want to talk about the business. The CBA fans get
all of that, But what do fans resonate with. They
resonate with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for
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your country. You got to compete. You got to go
out there and leave it on the ice because those
people are paying the price of admission. So fans know
whether our stars are on the ice or not, they're
getting their money's worth. The NBA has that issue that
they got to work on. You got to create a
better culture for your players.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
It starts with the leaders, all right.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
MJ in the midday saying hello to the mayor of
Maple Valley's coming up next between one to three, and
I wanted you to hear that sound. So you just
heard it from PK supe Ban your thoughts. I mean,
he's right, He's one hundred percent right everything he said. Now,
you know, if he's criticizing the All Star Game for
the NBA, that's a little bit of a stretch. But
(37:23):
I'd think, you know, if you look at the NBA
on a nightly basis, and Chris is an NBA fan,
you're an NBA fan.
Speaker 7 (37:28):
I get that like it is. Listen, the sport has changed.
The priorities of the players have changed. And I spent
six years working in Salt Lake during the heyday of
the Jazz. I grew up a Sonics fan. You were
there in the nineties, Yeah, I got there in ninety eight.
First I got the Yeah, I got there. I was
(37:48):
there for both finals. Well, when the first one is
ninety seven. Ninety seven is when I actually actually got there.
Ninety seven, I got there. I got there the summer
ninety seven. I was there for an interview during the finals.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
And then I was there for the second five finals.
In ninety eight, I was doing a postgame show at
like midnight, like midnight to three am. That was my
first sports radio gig. I was doing hockey. I was
done the minor league hockey team. That's why I went there.
But we were on the same station. But out aside,
I did a ton of jazz postgame shows because the
guy that did the jazz post game was also the
minor league baseball guy. So hockey season ended because Locke
(38:18):
was coming up here to Seattle, who was doing this
that stuff the guy the hockey season ended, baseball season started.
I kind of slid in there, got to do playoffs
and it was awesome. John Lunn, my buddy, was doing
the games with me. We were in the post hosting
post game shows.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
San Francisco.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Yeah, I love, I loved and I loved the NBA.
I mean, I grew up a Sonics fan. I hated
the Jazz. I hated being part of the Jazz Radio
network because I hated that team with every fiber of
my Sonics being. But I had such great respect for
and I hated John and Carl They're just both not
great guys, and but I had great respect for them
because they played every night. They did, and they so
(38:55):
did everybody else in that league, you know, and then
you look at the teams here. I mean, there was
a level of toughness that doesn't exist in this league anymore.
I got to be really good friends with Jerome Cursey
briefly played here in Seattle, but mostly people remember from
his days at EDDIT TV with him in Portland. That
was a bad man. May he rest in peace. That
guy was the epitome of toughness. Hey, I'll give you one.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Daviord McDaniel the epitome of toughness. Hey, I'm gonna give
you one.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
When to ask his former teammates with the Knicks, Anthony Mason,
rest in peace. That dude was like I mean, to
this day, Oakley can probably kick the crap out of
most players in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (39:28):
Charles Oakley, But those dudes were like you. But but
those guys, but those The thing is the locker room dictate.
You played, Yes, you played. You didn't sit.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
There and take a maintenance like a maintenance day. That's
what I mean. What are we doing? Did you hear
the stat that I gave you about Joel Embiid? Was
it one hundred games hundred million he's made, he's made.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
He's missed four hundred games, is Chris, some of it injury,
but some of it his own. I don't want to
play today. He's made one hundred and twenty six million
dollars by not playing in the NBA four hundred games.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
I have a heart. I have such a hard time
with twenty six million dollars.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Well, we looked at you know, you know, wht people
saying Lebron ruined the All Star Game, All Star Games
ruined before, but then exactly, But the number is interesting.
I mean he had played straight Yeah, so I get that,
But if you're there, you can't tap out an hour beforehand,
take a team photo in your jeans and a hat.
Like there's just a level of professionalism that doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (40:26):
Can you imagine if Mike was Michael Jordan was still
there and that was his teammate, he'd kill him like
Michael would. Michael would actually be right, he'd pull it.
He'd pull it X mammer when X grabbed Wes Matthews
by the neck and strangle a life out of him,
That's what he would do, and and that's that's what
would happen. I mean, these guys were cut from a
different cloth. You look at I mean gp Man the
glove I mean, and you know what one thing about him
(40:48):
that people forget. His work ethic was through the roof.
And what I mean by that when he came into
the league, he could not shoot a lick. He came
out of Oregon State and could not shoot a lick.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
This guy in.
Speaker 7 (40:59):
Here, didn't you did you play horse with sud Jim?
Then yeah, this guy would beat Gary Payton in a
game of horse when Gary came out of Oregon State
two years later.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The guys were of the bes shooters in the league.
It's just worked ass. And you know, the thing about
admire the most about Michael Jordan. I'm paraphrasing here. One
of the things I admired the most about Michael Jordan
is the fact that you say, hey, why do you
give it? Like someone asked him to go, You're always
going one thousand percent? Why he goes? He said, because
somebody may only get a chance one time in their
(41:29):
life to see me play, and I want them to
be that time that they got to see Michael Jordan
play memorable that they said, wow, he came to play
and they got and they got their money's worth. That
was a different type player. The last guy like that.
May he rest in peace. Kobe. Yes, Kobe did that too. Yeah,
Kobe did that too. Oh man. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (41:50):
My favorite Kobe memory real quick, it's covering the Blazers
and when I was in Portland, it's with Ruben Patterson
called himself the Kobe stops. Oh god, I remember that
Kobe dropped fifty on him. Yeah, fifty yeah, and it
might have been more than that, but he hit a
three to force overtime and then scored every point overtime.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
After the game. When in the locker room and ball
boy comes over.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
And he's got a pair of shoes and signed by
Kobe Bryant and they hand him to Ruben Patterson in
the Blazers' locker room. This how done, Rubin was Ruben
thought that was like a like, oh that's really cool. Man.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
He respected me.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
No, man, he he scored fifty on youby soccer, so
he gave you the shoes he scored fifty on you
with because he was he was an assassin.
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
One quick thing about Kobe I will say I covered
him in the nine Finals versus the Orlando Magic. Yeah,
Orlando wins game three to make it somewhat of a series.
They're down two to one. But prior to Game four,
Dwight Howard's trying to tap them up because they play
I think they played together on the redeem team in
a way, and Kobe brushed him off, like, get the hellway.
They end up winning games four and five and clinching
(42:53):
on the Magic's home court. Yeah, Kobe's like, do not
get out of my way. I want to I will
do anything I can to win a title, whatever takes.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
And those nine twenty ten Laker teams were not good,
no at all, but he was. He was the great.
He was one of the goats. Yeah, gasts. He was
all right.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Thank you to Chris Daniels, thank you to Ian Ferness,
and thank you to Chuck Powell and of course the
executive producer, Christopher Kind said, kay Asta Magnana cyon RCI.
I will see tomorrow on MJ in the midday kJ
R ninety three to three f M
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