April 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Knicks dropping Game 2 at home against the Pistons, criticism of Jalen Brunson for embellishing contact, Tom Thibodeau ranting about the officials, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here were all welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number too, our number two, and we talk
about the Eastern Conference playoff matchup, the Knickerbockers taking on
the team from Detroit and the Knicks lose that game
at the Garden. Which Knicks player gets the biggest chunk
of the dirty water dog of shame and blame as
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they lose on their home court. Also, what do you
make of the criticism of Jalen Brunson embellishing contact for
the Knicks as he was being called out for that?
Also what is Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau looking to accomplish
with his public condemnation of the officiating in game number two?
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Cover all of that and more right now, settle in.
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So our lead this hour is from Midtown Manhattan, Penn
Station adjacent. You've been to Manhattan, you know it's between
seventh and eighth Avenue there and it's a garden. From
the outside, it doesn't look like a garden, but it is.
You're gonna go into the bowels of the gymnasium there
and that was the scene for Game two, Game two
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of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs. There a
matchup between Detroit and New York and the Pistons coming
back a twenty one to nothing run in Game one,
as the Detroit basketball team had a reversal in fortune.
They puked at a time they could not puke, and
they lost that game. So I have a lot of
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friends from New York, family from New York. And of
course there's nothing more annoying than Nick fans who haven't
won in fifty plus years but are convinced every year
that they're going to win. It's a fascinating dichotomy that
the Knickerbocker fan. Anyway, So the next one, Game one,
they came back, didn't really play all that well for
three quarters, but in the fourth quarter went gangbusters and
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they won the game. So now of course they're gonna
win every game in this series. That was Detroit's chance.
Blah blah blah blah blah. So if you didn't see
this game, it was a it was a total domination situation.
But it was very similar to Game one, very similar
to Game one. Kid Cunningham thirty three points, twelve rebounds.
Dennis Schreuder is still alive. Did you know that Dennis
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Shrewder is still alive and he's in the NBA playoffs?
Remember last we talked about him he was being held hostage. No,
it was not hostage. He compared playing in the NBA
to slavery when he was traded at the deadline.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Remember that. Yes, Well he's alive and well. And Dennis
Shrewder Schrader or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He had a tie breaking three pointer with fifty five
seconds left on the clock, and the Pistons said bye
bye to the longest sucked bag streak of playoff basketball,
a fifteen game postseason ride into the manure as they
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end that losing streak, longest postseason losing streak in NBA history.
They beat the Knickerbockers one hundred and ninety four, and
so that series now goes back to Detroit and the
Pistons have home court advantage one one. It is a
best of five now and Detroit has home court advantage.
The Pistons terrible franchise. When I was a kid, they
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were good, and then they had a little bit of
success as an adult, and since then they've been terrible.
But the Detroit Pistons, who had not even been to
a playoff situation since way back before the pandemic in
twenty nineteen, they gave back pretty much all of the
lead they had built up, they had a fifteen point lead,
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they gave almost all that back, and then they end
up winning first time they've won a playoff game since eight.
I was like, I was like in junior high school
in eight or maybe you know, possibly no, I was
working here. I guess I was working here anyway, I
was eight Eastern Conference Finals against Boston the last time
they Detroit Piston's team had won, which means if you
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are fifteen years old, actually older than that was seventeen
Holy crap, twenty twenty five, So seventeen seventeen years that
means you're like in high school, you're almost out of
high school and your entire Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
How does that happen? It happened anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The better story is in the losing locker room, so
that is where we will go. Jalen brought thirty seven
points for Jalen Brunson and not enough as the number
three seeded Knickerbockers lose this game.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So let us discuss.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Let us discuss, So which Knicks players get to grab
the biggest chunk biggest chunk of the dirty water, the
dirty water dog.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Of shame and blame.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So which Knicks player gets that big portion of the sausage,
the dirty water dog of shame and blame. So I've
got thirty rock, Shakespearean and lobbying, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
go whale watching. It looked like a lot of the
Knicks were in a boat watching. They weren't doing a lot.
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They were not doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now numb burn?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Did I get a numb burn? So this was, if
you're a nick apologist, a painful night all the way around,
assigning the dirty water dog of shame and.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Blame, making that out there, putting that out there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Let's start at the obvious one, which is the kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hello Kitty. That would be the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Full, fully immersive Carl Anthony Town's experience.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now he's known as Cat.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And I know our friends listening in Minnesota snickering and smiling,
and there's a cheshire cat kind of vibe, the big
smile there, and they're thinking, Hey, I told you so,
this is the guy. That's the guy we remember from
the Wolves. That's the guy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, help you enjoy him New York. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And so it's not necessarily a case where Karl Anthony
Towns didn't do what was expected right.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
This was living up to the scouting report.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This performance was the full, fully immersive Carl Anthony Towns experience.
Playoff Cat here, Kenny, Kitty Kitty here, Kitty Cat. That's
playoff cat. That's Karl Anthony Towns is what it was.
Sporadic malfunction. Sporadic malfunction. He is a big man, and
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he plays a lot like James Harden, who will disappear
for a random game in a playoff series. Well, Karl
Anthony Towns does the same thing, and so he's got
this glitch in the software. There's a problem, and he
suffers from shrinkage. It's like he's in cold water. In
the playoffs there in big spots. Towns had a pedestrian
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stat line ten points, six rebounds, no assist. For Carl
Anthony Towns. He played thirty three mostly uselessness. We mentioned
whale watching, like he was just out there whale watching, right,
they might as well put Fat Joe out there. He
was in the crowd. Fat Joe could have done the
same thing. I put him out there. Carl Anthony Towns
was five of eleven from the floor, but that again
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does not do to do it justice right, does not
do it justice because the second half was a special
kind of manure, a special condra manere. You see, carl
Anthony Towns played the second half a game too like
thirty Rock. Remember that that show thirty Rock. Tracy Morgan,
remember when he was at the next game while back
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and he vomited all over the court. He rode the
vomit comet he up chucked all over the court. There
that was carl Anthony Towns in the second half. The
only difference between Tracy Morgan and carl Anthony Towns is
Tracy Morgan was taken to the hospital. Carl Anthony Towns
stayed on the court. And you, you, who might not
have even watched this game, scored as many points and
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as carl Antony Towns. I scored as many points as
carl Anthony Towns in the second half.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
He pitched a shutout.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
He pitched a shutout, did not score a single point
in the second half. Who saig, as the joker says,
carl Anthony Towns as zer z row.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
A zip and a zilch nada.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He got, as my grandfather would say, buppkis in the
second half and So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That is a two hundred and twenty million dollar ball player.
That is he two twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The Knicks gave him the two undred twenty million, He's
got the two hundred twenty million dollars forty nine million
a year. Guy doesn't even score in the second half
of a home playoff game, not a road game, not
a road game, home playoff game. And that that's Carl Anthony.
It's hard to take the Nick seriously. As much as
we enjoy Jalen Brunson, right, the way that Brunson plays,
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there's an edge to Brunson game and all that. The
antithesis of that would be Karl Anthony Towns and so
having them together and that there are others right og
was Oh no, Annonobi was no good and he was bad,
but he's a supporting character. Karl Anthony Towns is supposed
to be more than that. The expectations are higher for him,
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and he did not do it. Now page two. One
of the big talking points from this Knicks Pistons game
were people up in arms. There was a lot of
finger pointing and blaming and shaming when it comes to
a Nick player who actually had a great stat line
and played well, not great, but well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
For the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
What do you make of the criticism of Jalen Brunson
embellishing contact throughout.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The game as the Knicks go down, So what did
you make of it?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A lot of criticism as Jalen Brunson was flopping around
the old flop floppa flop of flopper.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So the criticism of Jalen Brunson, the word is the
E word expected. It was expected now Brunson. I like
watching him play. I didn't think he would be able
to do this. I remember when he was with the
Mavericks and he had this really good playoff run when
Luca Huka Luka got hurt and he played well. I
was like, well, you know, I not really sure whether
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or not this is sustainable. And to his credit, he
had consistently played at that level.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
As a Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And he is a nuisance if he's not on your team,
the kind of a guy that you like when he's
on your team, and when he's not on your squad,
you think he's a schmuck and you don't like him
and he's a pest and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So that's that's fair.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That's not exactly the most pleasing to the eye to
watch Jalen Brunson try to bait the officials into a
call every single time there is contact on pretty much
every possession where you're running an offensive set in the
NBA as far as the wide angle lands on this.
The way I look at it, it is a watching
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Jalen bruns to plays a Shakespearean situation, like a Shakespearean
play William Shakespeare, not the Merchant of Venice, the foul
merchant of the garden. Will call him, the foul merchant
of the garden, we will call him. He has the
ability the innata bildy. He might as well be over
on Madison Avenue trying to sell foul owls whatever it is.
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It's a foul Oh my god, I'm dying over here.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's like he's on Broadway every single time, foul baiting,
foul bit put rules in to try to stop that,
and he's able to work himself around the rules, selling
the fowls.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
As we say, and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So Brunson has become a Rhodes scholar at that all right, now,
final point, speaking of the foul situation. There was one
person in particular who was huffing and puffing following the game,
very upset, and that would be the head coach of
the Knickerbockers, Tom Thibodeaux. Tom Thibodeaux, that's right. He was
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very unhappy, very very unhappy. There after the game, the
head coach of the Nicks. He argued against Caid Cuttingham
getting so many foul shots in this game, and he
said there was marginal coach. Well, rather than me give
you the quote verbatim, here is Tom Thibodeau commenting on
the officiating.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Tigle is huge discrepancy and free throws huge. So I
got to take a look at that. I don't understand,
you know how on one side, you know, you talk
about the direct line drives the guy's getting fouled and
as not being called right. So and look, I really
don't give a crap how they call the game as
long as it's consistent on both sides. So if Cunningham's
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driving and there's marginal contact and he's getting to the line,
then Jalen deserves to be getting to the line. It's
really that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So it's that simple. Hey, we recorded that doesn't that
sound like old school audio from like the nineteens, fifties
or something like seventy seventy five years old audio or
something like that. Tom Thibodeau, we had a tin can
in a string. We recorded that, all right, So what
is you just heard the audio? What is the Knicks coach,
Tom Thibodeau looking to accomplish with that rant about the officials?
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What is Tom Tiberdau looking to accomplish. So my word
on this one is politicking. That is my word is politicking.
It is the time of the year here, we are
in late April, and this will go on through May
and June. If you watch all of this, Tom Thibodeau
is politicking for calls.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
He's lobbying. He's lobbying the referees in the league office,
and they monitor all the soundbites and all this nonsense.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
By publicly condemning, by pointing out the inaccuracy of the officials, obviously.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You know what that means.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
There is inconsistent work here and my entire life, the
reason the Knicks haven't won championship in my lifetime is
because of the officials. Everyone's out to get New York
teams Obviously no one ever leans towards the knickerbockers.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Anyway, So he's trying to influence. We know what this is,
trying to influence.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Decisions by the officials and have a cause, which that's
one of the issues with all of sports, but in
basketball in particular, it's what you choose to enforce. Much
like police work, right, there are laws for everything. What
do you choose to enforce? What do you choose not
to enforce? And in the NBA, what do you choose?
They've actually let the players play a lot more in
the playoffs the first couple of games, and they had.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the past.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So anyway, this is a common tactic what Tom Thibodeau
is doing among coaches, especially during the postseason here where
any call could turn the whole season and series around
and all that stuff. And I watched the Knicks and
it's pretty much if Jalen Brunson doesn't get to the line,
there's a lot of io with Jalen Brunson, and if
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that doesn't work, you're just shooting jump shots and you
don't usually get foul calls on jump shots.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But what do I know?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
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a lot, a lot to get to as we get
through the overnight hours. He says, well, it's me, Ben says,
says me, says I'm the guy. It's it's me, And
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that's the reality of the situation. And we had another
one of those odd moments where during the Knicks Pistons game,
they showed the celebrity row. Now the Knicks are very
rude to a lot of rich people who do not
kiss the ring of James Dolman. Remember Charles Oakley got
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taken out in handcuffs, so it was ridiculous. But anyway,
so they give celebrities free tickets if they can put
you on TV. As I understand it, they give you
free tickets at Nicks games, and they put you on
celebrity row, and they love the history of the Knicks.
They put all the legends of the nation, all those
great players that haven't done anything in big games over
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the years, they put them all out there, and they
showed Bernard King. Now I realize Bernard King hasn't been
a relevant name in basketball any long term. I had
not seen Bernard King in many, many years. And Bernard
at this point, he's a you know, he's sixty eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
He's you know, he's an older dude.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
And he looks nothing like he did when he was younger,
as most people do not look if they're lucky enough
to make the sixty eight or seventy or eighty or whatever,
you don't look the same.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But it was a dramatic turn of events.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Dramatic turn events like he looked like Lance the bus driver,
and I was like, well that's Bernard King. That guy
was like a scoring machine a million years ago. But
still it's like, whow you see somebody you hadn't seen
it in a while, and they look a lot different.
You're like, that's pretty crazy. It's pretty wild man. But
he showed him on TV. Right there, Bernard King, legendary Knickerbocker,
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right there. Late Night Drug tester says the reason the
Knicks press conference sounds terrible is because James Dowin put
all the sound system budget.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Into the spear in Vegas. Yeah. I was actually in
Vegas this weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I stopped by for a quick visit, and I did
see the did see the spear.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And looked at it, and then I kept driving and
I did not did not look back. There you go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Jill rights since says only you would rip Brunson, he
is a mensch. Jill, I did not. You might want
to go to Costco. They have a hearing aid thing there.
You might want to get hearing it. I did not
rip Brunson. How did I rip Brunson? I ripped Carl
Anthony Towns. Jill, I did not rip Jalen Brunson. I said,
I like Brunson. I just pointed out that if Brunson
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is not on your team, you're not a fan of Brunson.
But I said I like Brunson. I did not believe
in Brunson when he left the Mavericks. I thought that
was a fluke. He had a big playoff run and
I didn't think that was sustainable. And he's proven me
to be a donkey.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He's played well. But how did you.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
How did you hear that I took a shot at Brunson,
that I would rip Brunson.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't rip Brunson.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Chiping the ques right, since says a plus on the
malle monologue, It's funny how I clearly remember hearing hearing
Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio working the third shift
back in eight If back then you were indeed just
a mere boy, how come Fox Sports Radio was never
fined for child labor law violations?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Inquiring minds want to.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Know that's a good question, then well, listen, that's a
you gotta go to corporate. I don't know, Uh, Lorena,
I mean listen, uh, whatever happened there was a sweatshop.
I mean we were all like kids, you know, Jason
was a little older than me. Jason, I think was
in junior high school.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
But yeah, by the way, a source has just a
source up late who has insider information in the Knicks organization.
He's embedded on the East Coast. He says, yes, the
Knicks still give free tickets away to celebrities, so that
is that is confirmed. A source who is connected to
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the Knicks organization. Hey, uh and uh, he says, do
you think Bernard King could afford those seats? He's gone
the way of Justin Blackman. He said, all right, more
on Justin Blackman coming up in a little bit the
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Let's say hello to Jerome in Charleston bringing home Jerome.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Hello, Jerome, Hey, Hey.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Hey Van, Hey Bean. I'm not saying that Rick Brunton
is a dirty player, but he does play on the
edge when he channels his enter James Harden, if you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Saying, Well, Jay, Well, your daity you're dating yourself, you said,
Rick Brunston, which is his dad.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
This is the kick, Yeah, dad.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
On the sidelines. You know, I remember I was watching
the game the nither Man here just for that Gil
at Bruston boy, Hey, I'd have to suck a punch
him a couple of times because he gets he like
he elbowed Jaxon. He's in the game of about a
month or two ago, and Jack and Haes looks at
their fishs like I get hit the mouth with his
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hat and his shoulder and you call the follow on me.
Oh yeah, he gets star treatment, he gets start you
what he wants him to get more calls? Okay, not
less more.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's the way.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know, he's a star on the Knicks and he's
going to get calls, just like the stars on every
team get calls.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
New York Go, Do York go go?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Do you go to hey An?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, charmdy Hey was Chucky boy playing the night then?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, he played well.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We had I think, hold a second, I think Rip
Hamilton had a big game. Ben Wallace said about fifteen
Rashid Wallace came up big in that third quarter.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It was big.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah. Yeah, they played well, I'm surprised they got back
the ball. I'm thinking they lose this game. The night man,
this team was over because that was that twenty one
point melt down. They handed the game one. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well, it was ridiculous. But however, whole sector rope, take
a breath. It was ridiculous. However, the Pistons actually for
three of the four quarters were the better team, and
in this game, for all four quarters they were the
better team. So they played eight quarters and the Detroit
Pistons have been the better team seven of the eight quarters. Right,
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So that's yeah, that's not too shabby, right, that was
pretty good. Okay, asking me a question, go ahead, ask
me a question.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yes, Hey, when the Lakers fans taught Anthony Adlins tonight,
he's got two millions.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
My my, yeah, it's uh, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's fair to say, you're now For those that haven't
seen him, maybe you're not on the social media, but
Jerome clearly is a viral video here of Aunt Edwards
Anthony Edwards there of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and it was
recorded on grainy celf on footage at the Laker game
the other day and the fans are rasing Anthony Edwards,
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and he's pointing out how much money one of his
teammates makes and then points out that he has a
very large twigg and berries and I think just the twig.
I don't know about the berries, but he wanted everyone
to know that in the press. Yes, which is good.
I don't it's fair to say likely not going to
be the face of the NBA with that mouth.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But he's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun, right,
I mean, jerome but real.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know, who knows? No one, No one knows if
he's telling the truth. By the way, there's a lot
of women that know. I think many of them around
the country. But we don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Dan Well, I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
But but I'm saying he's a he's very he's the
forefather of the next generation of basketball players.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Hey, I gotta ask you a little bit. But what
this new thing about the about the Lakers? If they
lose tonight, Man, what they're gonna be like? Man?
Speaker 6 (27:25):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It'd be great. I'm gonna have a party. Uh, it'll
be so wonderful. I cannot wait.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
This phone call is still going on. He's been on
the air for like five minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
A great phone call this, Hey, this.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Is a treat for you, mister Gavin Bronco who doesn't
know anything about the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh that's a shot too, if he took a shot
at your coop.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I know more about the Broncos. I forgot more about
the Broncos.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure you have.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I don't know. I've lived in Hey. I know what
what that oxygen leg I used to have PT tests
I have to take.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
What's the name of the Broncos? GM tell me right now.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I have no.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No, his name is no idea. This guy's name is
first name, no, last day and the last super.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Super knowledgeable about the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, but you asked him about Beryl Man. I bet
you Jerome knows about Beryl man Man.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly thirty below he's with a barrel in
his underwear.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
He's a legend. You watch your mouth, man.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh there's more. And this call kid.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
By the way, you're tuning in. It's the Jerome and
Charleston Show, and I'm the caller. My name is Ben
I'm calling into the Jerome and Charleston show, Yestero, I
have a question, Yes, go ahead, what.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
What what is that moral in his sport checked or politics? Ben?
Because he got another sex story going on, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Well, I don't know if you know about this, Jerome,
but people have sex, so there's going to be sex
scandal in sports that that generally happens. Uh. And the athletes,
like everyone else, they have more access maybe than other people,
to a lot of sex. So yeah, yeah, well, well
another dated reference by Jerome Chell. You're referring to Shannon Sharp,
(29:16):
but we will discuss that later. I think it's fair
to say that I've seen a lot of lawsuits over
the years, and I would say that's one of the
great comebacks by Shannon Shark. Well, that's that's well, that's
her lawyer. But I believe Buzzby you don't win them all.
And Buzzby's you know, he's boxed into a corner now
(29:38):
Buzzby by Shannon Sharp's lawyers. So that's a that's a good,
good situation right now. Well not not on this one.
It does not look like a winning kids. I gotta go,
you buy my god, you bug out of your show?
How dare you go away? What's wrong with you? Let's
go to Chris, who's in the Great state of Michigan,
(29:58):
but he wants to talk about the chicken. I could say, think, hello, Chris, welcome,
Chris going once there he is there, he is there,
There is yes, there he is Chris the caller.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yes, a newbie caller.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Time, we got a newby, we got a newby, newby newbies.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Well, I called about an hour ago, and I see why.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh you're complaining. See you're complaining. You're already you're starting
to call with your complaint.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yes, I know you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's like you call up that you called up. It's
like you're in Guantanamo Bay. You're in prison, and I'm
keeping you from hanging.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Up the phone.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You're you're not allowed to hang up when you call in.
You are forced to stay on hold. That is as
absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I'm driving from Detroit to Chicago, so I had no
other thing to.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Do that you got you you could stay out hold
another two hours? Then who carry you?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Exactly all right.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
So the nuggets I wanted to say, you're opening, uh,
you're opening dialogue there was pretty good, but you had
one thing wrong missing from the equation there.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
And I saw on social media that Peyton Manning was
at the game choke artists of all time.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So I do you believe the Nuggets lost because Peyton
Manning was there too? Doesn't he go to most of
the Nuggets games? He lives in Denver?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
He does, he does, he does? Well, Look, I don't.
I don't watch the NBA. I haven't watched it in
about three years because my team, the Pistons, just decided
to get good recently.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And so are you going to go back now because
the Pistons are relevant? So are you going to try
to go back now and jump on the bandwagon.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Actually, I have a good Piston story.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I used to work in radio and I had a
media pass to the Pistons I want to say, four
or five years ago, and I got kicked out and
was told to never come back because I asked Dwayne
Casey why Blake Griffin was struggling playing defense.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I think it was the third game of the season
against the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, so they did not You didn't like steal anything,
you didn't violate, and you just asked a question that
seems like a fair question to me, and they told
you to never come back.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
I got the notes after the game.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yes, and did you ask why did you say why?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I was?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
I was working for like a local magazine and they're
the ones that told me so. I didn't have any
communication with anyone working for the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, all right, Well that's that is bizarre. I'm not
shocked by a lot of the team. Yeah, and if
you were at those games. I'm not at games as
much as I used to be these days, but when
I was there, a lot of the media we call
them the knee pad media because they wear.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Knee pads for the hometown team.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
They don't they think A lot of the media think
they're part of the teams, like they think they're on
the team, like I know the Lakers. A lot of
Laker media they think they are literally part of the
traveling party, for example with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But I'm I'm not shocking. I don't know that's allowed though.
I don't think that's allowed, just on that. I don't
think they can do that, but what do I know.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
So anyway, and that's what they did.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Well, I have listened to your guys' show for a
long time. I worked in overnight shift in radio about
ten years ago. Don't really get to listen to it
live much, but I appreciate what you guys do and
all the entertainment you provide.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You're very kind, Chris, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And as you know now in radio the radio business,
you have the podcasting as well, so there's always an
option but to enjoy Chicago. There as he's making the
drive from Detroit down to Chicago, wrapping his way around
Lake Michigan. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we
are hanging out, hanging out here all night long, and
(33:55):
you can be part of this. We have Mallardy third
degree though that's coming up in a couple of minutes.
We'll push back that story. When mother Nature calls, you
gotta answer the call. Time now for the Insta Trivia.
Then here it is the People's team. Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi
Leonard became the fifth player in NBA Playoff history to
score thirty nine or more points on seventy eight point
(34:19):
nine percent or greater shooting from the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Blank was the first NBA player to do it again.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Kawhi Leonard in that game against the Nuggets on Monday night,
became the fifth player in NBA playoff history to score
thirty nine or more points on a field goal shooting
of seventy eight point nine percent or greater. Blank was
the first NBA player to do it, obviously in the postseason.
That is the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
it next.
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any game, rather in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
First to do it was blank and does anyone know
the answer? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Quickly? Does anyone know the answer? Jd Vance guessed by
King Roy very funny, who else? Kanye West from Robbie
the Mariner fan machine Gun Kelly, Who's thirty five Today?
From Late Night Drug Tester Chris Humphreys from ekeon Rosewell
Minnesota Playoff JA Morant very nice, Big Greg in Iowa.
JJ Reddick the podcaster from Rob in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Do you have an answer? Loray?
Speaker 9 (36:41):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I got to tell it all right. The answer is
Terry Porter. You know what team Terry Porter played for?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
No?
Speaker 9 (36:53):
But Fran Dresher was gonna be wrong one.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, probably so Trailblazer Great Terry Porter nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Here we go, there we go, Here we go, Here
we go. How about here we go?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Go ahead, cool.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
So we already know that Kirk Cousins doesn't want to
be traded until after the draft. The latest report from
Adam Schefter says that the Falcons are asking any team
trading for Cousins pay twenty million of his remaining forty
five million in guarantees.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
So far, no team has been willing to do that.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Ben, do you think after the draft the team will
be willing to do that or will the Falcons have
to scale back their demands.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Well, the Falcons have to get rid of Kirk Cousins,
and they have to play ball with Kirk Cousins because
he's got a no trade cost. And if I'm not mistaken,
they just added Easton Stick, which I believe his code
for suck. But he's the former Charger. They added him,
so they've they've got their back up. They're clearing the deck.
They're they're adding a player to get rid of Cousins.
(37:49):
They will end up trading him they'll work something out,
and he's likely going to go to the Cleveland Browns.
If Aaron Rodgers were tires, then you can go to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
But he'll go somewhere. He's not going to stay in Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Next, Rogers GM Joe Horitz said that they don't feel
pressure to address any position in the draft, and therefore
they can just take whoever the best player is when
they're pick us up.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
But do you think they should be addressing a specific position.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It's full of crap. That's that's the way. That's a
non answer answer. But we're just gonna draft the best
player available. It's pulker.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
What if the best player is a quarterback, they're gonna
draft a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They're full of crap. I mean, it's shut up. They're liars.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Next, the Bucks got blown out by the Pacers in
Game one of their series against Indiana, but Milwaukee was
without Damian Lillard. Reports are that he'll be back for
Game two or three. Will that be enough time for
the Bucks to turn the series around?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Two words, Cooper Loop, Doc Rivers. They are cooked? Okay,
Doc Rivers done. The Pacers should win that series anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
I love Leylard.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I love them in Portland, not as much as Milwaukee.
And he's a fine player and all that, but that
is a flawed team the box. And even with Dame
Lillard he's been out for a while, they're not gonna when.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
How did we go?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Howesday? When I won the game? Who I won the game?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I won the game?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I won
Here were all welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number too, our number two, and we talk
about the Eastern Conference playoff matchup, the Knickerbockers taking on
the team from Detroit and the Knicks lose that game
at the Garden. Which Knicks player gets the biggest chunk
of the dirty water dog of shame and blame as
(00:25):
they lose on their home court. Also, what do you
make of the criticism of Jalen Brunson embellishing contact for
the Knicks as he was being called out for that?
Also what is Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau looking to accomplish
with his public condemnation of the officiating in game number two?
(00:48):
Cover all of that and more right now, settle in.
It's our number two. The boys from Motown in a
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So our lead this hour is from Midtown Manhattan, Penn
Station adjacent. You've been to Manhattan, you know it's between
seventh and eighth Avenue there and it's a garden. From
the outside, it doesn't look like a garden, but it is.
You're gonna go into the bowels of the gymnasium there
and that was the scene for Game two, Game two
(02:40):
of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs. There a
matchup between Detroit and New York and the Pistons coming
back a twenty one to nothing run in Game one,
as the Detroit basketball team had a reversal in fortune.
They puked at a time they could not puke, and
they lost that game. So I have a lot of
(03:03):
friends from New York, family from New York. And of
course there's nothing more annoying than Nick fans who haven't
won in fifty plus years but are convinced every year
that they're going to win. It's a fascinating dichotomy that
the Knickerbocker fan. Anyway, So the next one, Game one,
they came back, didn't really play all that well for
three quarters, but in the fourth quarter went gangbusters and
(03:24):
they won the game. So now of course they're gonna
win every game in this series. That was Detroit's chance.
Blah blah blah blah blah. So if you didn't see
this game, it was a it was a total domination situation.
But it was very similar to Game one, very similar
to Game one. Kid Cunningham thirty three points, twelve rebounds.
Dennis Schreuder is still alive. Did you know that Dennis
(03:45):
Shrewder is still alive and he's in the NBA playoffs?
Remember last we talked about him he was being held hostage. No,
it was not hostage. He compared playing in the NBA
to slavery when he was traded at the deadline.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Remember that. Yes, Well he's alive and well. And Dennis
Shrewder Schrader or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He had a tie breaking three pointer with fifty five
seconds left on the clock, and the Pistons said bye
bye to the longest sucked bag streak of playoff basketball,
a fifteen game postseason ride into the manure as they
(04:25):
end that losing streak, longest postseason losing streak in NBA history.
They beat the Knickerbockers one hundred and ninety four, and
so that series now goes back to Detroit and the
Pistons have home court advantage one one. It is a
best of five now and Detroit has home court advantage.
The Pistons terrible franchise. When I was a kid, they
(04:48):
were good, and then they had a little bit of
success as an adult, and since then they've been terrible.
But the Detroit Pistons, who had not even been to
a playoff situation since way back before the pandemic in
twenty nineteen, they gave back pretty much all of the
lead they had built up, they had a fifteen point lead,
(05:10):
they gave almost all that back, and then they end
up winning first time they've won a playoff game since eight.
I was like, I was like in junior high school
in eight or maybe you know, possibly no, I was
working here. I guess I was working here anyway, I
was eight Eastern Conference Finals against Boston the last time
they Detroit Piston's team had won, which means if you
(05:33):
are fifteen years old, actually older than that was seventeen
Holy crap, twenty twenty five, So seventeen seventeen years that
means you're like in high school, you're almost out of
high school and your entire Wow, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
How does that happen? It happened anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
The better story is in the losing locker room, so
that is where we will go. Jalen brought thirty seven
points for Jalen Brunson and not enough as the number
three seeded Knickerbockers lose this game.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So let us discuss.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Let us discuss, So which Knicks players get to grab
the biggest chunk biggest chunk of the dirty water, the
dirty water dog.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Of shame and blame.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So which Knicks player gets that big portion of the sausage,
the dirty water dog of shame and blame. So I've
got thirty rock, Shakespearean and lobbying, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
go whale watching. It looked like a lot of the
Knicks were in a boat watching. They weren't doing a lot.
(06:49):
They were not doing a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now numb burn?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Did I get a numb burn? So this was, if
you're a nick apologist, a painful night all the way around,
assigning the dirty water dog of shame and.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Blame, making that out there, putting that out there.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Let's start at the obvious one, which is the kitty Cat.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Hello Kitty. That would be the.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Full, fully immersive Carl Anthony Town's experience.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Now he's known as Cat.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And I know our friends listening in Minnesota snickering and smiling,
and there's a cheshire cat kind of vibe, the big
smile there, and they're thinking, Hey, I told you so,
this is the guy. That's the guy we remember from
the Wolves. That's the guy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, help you enjoy him New York. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And so it's not necessarily a case where Karl Anthony
Towns didn't do what was expected right.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
This was living up to the scouting report.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This performance was the full, fully immersive Carl Anthony Towns experience.
Playoff Cat here, Kenny, Kitty Kitty here, Kitty Cat. That's
playoff cat. That's Karl Anthony Towns is what it was.
Sporadic malfunction. Sporadic malfunction. He is a big man, and
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he plays a lot like James Harden, who will disappear
for a random game in a playoff series. Well, Karl
Anthony Towns does the same thing, and so he's got
this glitch in the software. There's a problem, and he
suffers from shrinkage. It's like he's in cold water. In
the playoffs there in big spots. Towns had a pedestrian
(08:36):
stat line ten points, six rebounds, no assist. For Carl
Anthony Towns. He played thirty three mostly uselessness. We mentioned
whale watching, like he was just out there whale watching, right,
they might as well put Fat Joe out there. He
was in the crowd. Fat Joe could have done the
same thing. I put him out there. Carl Anthony Towns
was five of eleven from the floor, but that again
(08:59):
does not do to do it justice right, does not
do it justice because the second half was a special
kind of manure, a special condra manere. You see, carl
Anthony Towns played the second half a game too like
thirty Rock. Remember that that show thirty Rock. Tracy Morgan,
remember when he was at the next game while back
(09:20):
and he vomited all over the court. He rode the
vomit comet he up chucked all over the court. There
that was carl Anthony Towns in the second half. The
only difference between Tracy Morgan and carl Anthony Towns is
Tracy Morgan was taken to the hospital. Carl Anthony Towns
stayed on the court. And you, you, who might not
have even watched this game, scored as many points and
(09:44):
as carl Antony Towns. I scored as many points as
carl Anthony Towns in the second half.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
He pitched a shutout.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
He pitched a shutout, did not score a single point
in the second half. Who saig, as the joker says,
carl Anthony Towns as zer z row.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
A zip and a zilch nada.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He got, as my grandfather would say, buppkis in the
second half and So there you go.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
That is a two hundred and twenty million dollar ball player.
That is he two twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The Knicks gave him the two undred twenty million, He's
got the two hundred twenty million dollars forty nine million
a year. Guy doesn't even score in the second half
of a home playoff game, not a road game, not
a road game, home playoff game. And that that's Carl Anthony.
It's hard to take the Nick seriously. As much as
we enjoy Jalen Brunson, right, the way that Brunson plays,
(10:34):
there's an edge to Brunson game and all that. The
antithesis of that would be Karl Anthony Towns and so
having them together and that there are others right og
was Oh no, Annonobi was no good and he was bad,
but he's a supporting character. Karl Anthony Towns is supposed
to be more than that. The expectations are higher for him,
(10:55):
and he did not do it. Now page two. One
of the big talking points from this Knicks Pistons game
were people up in arms. There was a lot of
finger pointing and blaming and shaming when it comes to
a Nick player who actually had a great stat line
and played well, not great, but well.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
For the Knicks.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
What do you make of the criticism of Jalen Brunson
embellishing contact throughout.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The game as the Knicks go down, So what did
you make of it?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
A lot of criticism as Jalen Brunson was flopping around
the old flop floppa flop of flopper.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That's what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So the criticism of Jalen Brunson, the word is the
E word expected. It was expected now Brunson. I like
watching him play. I didn't think he would be able
to do this. I remember when he was with the
Mavericks and he had this really good playoff run when
Luca Huka Luka got hurt and he played well. I
was like, well, you know, I not really sure whether
(11:57):
or not this is sustainable. And to his credit, he
had consistently played at that level.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
As a Nick.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
And he is a nuisance if he's not on your team,
the kind of a guy that you like when he's
on your team, and when he's not on your squad,
you think he's a schmuck and you don't like him
and he's a pest and all that.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So that's that's fair.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That's not exactly the most pleasing to the eye to
watch Jalen Brunson try to bait the officials into a
call every single time there is contact on pretty much
every possession where you're running an offensive set in the
NBA as far as the wide angle lands on this.
The way I look at it, it is a watching
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Jalen bruns to plays a Shakespearean situation, like a Shakespearean
play William Shakespeare, not the Merchant of Venice, the foul
merchant of the garden. Will call him, the foul merchant
of the garden, we will call him. He has the
ability the innata bildy. He might as well be over
on Madison Avenue trying to sell foul owls whatever it is.
(13:02):
It's a foul Oh my god, I'm dying over here.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'm dying.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
It's like he's on Broadway every single time, foul baiting,
foul bit put rules in to try to stop that,
and he's able to work himself around the rules, selling
the fowls.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
As we say, and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
So Brunson has become a Rhodes scholar at that all right, now,
final point, speaking of the foul situation. There was one
person in particular who was huffing and puffing following the game,
very upset, and that would be the head coach of
the Knickerbockers, Tom Thibodeaux. Tom Thibodeaux, that's right. He was
(13:46):
very unhappy, very very unhappy. There after the game, the
head coach of the Nicks. He argued against Caid Cuttingham
getting so many foul shots in this game, and he
said there was marginal coach. Well, rather than me give
you the quote verbatim, here is Tom Thibodeau commenting on
the officiating.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Tigle is huge discrepancy and free throws huge. So I
got to take a look at that. I don't understand,
you know how on one side, you know, you talk
about the direct line drives the guy's getting fouled and
as not being called right. So and look, I really
don't give a crap how they call the game as
long as it's consistent on both sides. So if Cunningham's
(14:28):
driving and there's marginal contact and he's getting to the line,
then Jalen deserves to be getting to the line. It's
really that simple.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So it's that simple. Hey, we recorded that doesn't that
sound like old school audio from like the nineteens, fifties
or something like seventy seventy five years old audio or
something like that. Tom Thibodeau, we had a tin can
in a string. We recorded that, all right, So what
is you just heard the audio? What is the Knicks coach,
Tom Thibodeau looking to accomplish with that rant about the officials?
(15:01):
What is Tom Tiberdau looking to accomplish. So my word
on this one is politicking. That is my word is politicking.
It is the time of the year here, we are
in late April, and this will go on through May
and June. If you watch all of this, Tom Thibodeau
is politicking for calls.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
He's lobbying. He's lobbying the referees in the league office,
and they monitor all the soundbites and all this nonsense.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
By publicly condemning, by pointing out the inaccuracy of the officials, obviously.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You know what that means.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
There is inconsistent work here and my entire life, the
reason the Knicks haven't won championship in my lifetime is
because of the officials. Everyone's out to get New York
teams Obviously no one ever leans towards the knickerbockers.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Anyway, So he's trying to influence. We know what this is,
trying to influence.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Decisions by the officials and have a cause, which that's
one of the issues with all of sports, but in
basketball in particular, it's what you choose to enforce. Much
like police work, right, there are laws for everything. What
do you choose to enforce? What do you choose not
to enforce? And in the NBA, what do you choose?
They've actually let the players play a lot more in
the playoffs the first couple of games, and they had.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the past.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
So anyway, this is a common tactic what Tom Thibodeau
is doing among coaches, especially during the postseason here where
any call could turn the whole season and series around
and all that stuff. And I watched the Knicks and
it's pretty much if Jalen Brunson doesn't get to the line,
there's a lot of io with Jalen Brunson, and if
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that doesn't work, you're just shooting jump shots and you
don't usually get foul calls on jump shots.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But what do I know?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
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Also next hour we have the Riddle of the Day,
Malther's Mount of Money later on site the bite, so
a lot, a lot to get to as we get
through the overnight hours. He says, well, it's me, Ben says,
says me, says I'm the guy. It's it's me, And
(19:13):
that's the reality of the situation. And we had another
one of those odd moments where during the Knicks Pistons game,
they showed the celebrity row. Now the Knicks are very
rude to a lot of rich people who do not
kiss the ring of James Dolman. Remember Charles Oakley got
(19:34):
taken out in handcuffs, so it was ridiculous. But anyway,
so they give celebrities free tickets if they can put
you on TV. As I understand it, they give you
free tickets at Nicks games, and they put you on
celebrity row, and they love the history of the Knicks.
They put all the legends of the nation, all those
great players that haven't done anything in big games over
(19:54):
the years, they put them all out there, and they
showed Bernard King. Now I realize Bernard King hasn't been
a relevant name in basketball any long term. I had
not seen Bernard King in many, many years. And Bernard
at this point, he's a you know, he's sixty eight
years old.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
He's you know, he's an older dude.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
And he looks nothing like he did when he was younger,
as most people do not look if they're lucky enough
to make the sixty eight or seventy or eighty or whatever,
you don't look the same.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
But it was a dramatic turn of events.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Dramatic turn events like he looked like Lance the bus driver,
and I was like, well that's Bernard King. That guy
was like a scoring machine a million years ago. But
still it's like, whow you see somebody you hadn't seen
it in a while, and they look a lot different.
You're like, that's pretty crazy. It's pretty wild man. But
he showed him on TV. Right there, Bernard King, legendary Knickerbocker,
(20:50):
right there. Late Night Drug tester says the reason the
Knicks press conference sounds terrible is because James Dowin put
all the sound system budget.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Into the spear in Vegas. Yeah. I was actually in
Vegas this weekend.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I stopped by for a quick visit, and I did
see the did see the spear.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
And looked at it, and then I kept driving and
I did not did not look back. There you go.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Jill rights since says only you would rip Brunson, he
is a mensch. Jill, I did not. You might want
to go to Costco. They have a hearing aid thing there.
You might want to get hearing it. I did not
rip Brunson. How did I rip Brunson? I ripped Carl
Anthony Towns. Jill, I did not rip Jalen Brunson. I said,
I like Brunson. I just pointed out that if Brunson
(21:38):
is not on your team, you're not a fan of Brunson.
But I said I like Brunson. I did not believe
in Brunson when he left the Mavericks. I thought that
was a fluke. He had a big playoff run and
I didn't think that was sustainable. And he's proven me
to be a donkey.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
He's played well. But how did you.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
How did you hear that I took a shot at Brunson,
that I would rip Brunson.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I didn't rip Brunson.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Chiping the ques right, since says a plus on the
malle monologue, It's funny how I clearly remember hearing hearing
Ben Maller on Fox Sports Radio working the third shift
back in eight If back then you were indeed just
a mere boy, how come Fox Sports Radio was never
fined for child labor law violations?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Inquiring minds want to.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Know that's a good question, then well, listen, that's a
you gotta go to corporate. I don't know, Uh, Lorena,
I mean listen, uh, whatever happened there was a sweatshop.
I mean we were all like kids, you know, Jason
was a little older than me. Jason, I think was
in junior high school.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
But yeah, by the way, a source has just a
source up late who has insider information in the Knicks organization.
He's embedded on the East Coast. He says, yes, the
Knicks still give free tickets away to celebrities, so that
is that is confirmed. A source who is connected to
(23:03):
the Knicks organization. Hey, uh and uh, he says, do
you think Bernard King could afford those seats? He's gone
the way of Justin Blackman. He said, all right, more
on Justin Blackman coming up in a little bit the
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Let's say hello to Jerome in Charleston bringing home Jerome.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Hello, Jerome, Hey, Hey.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Hey Van, Hey Bean. I'm not saying that Rick Brunton
is a dirty player, but he does play on the
edge when he channels his enter James Harden, if you
know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Saying, Well, Jay, Well, your daity you're dating yourself, you said,
Rick Brunston, which is his dad.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
This is the kick, Yeah, dad.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
On the sidelines. You know, I remember I was watching
the game the nither Man here just for that Gil
at Bruston boy, Hey, I'd have to suck a punch
him a couple of times because he gets he like
he elbowed Jaxon. He's in the game of about a
month or two ago, and Jack and Haes looks at
their fishs like I get hit the mouth with his
(24:22):
hat and his shoulder and you call the follow on me.
Oh yeah, he gets star treatment, he gets start you
what he wants him to get more calls? Okay, not
less more.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
That's the way.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know, he's a star on the Knicks and he's
going to get calls, just like the stars on every
team get calls.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
New York Go, Do York go go?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Do you go to hey An?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yes, charmdy Hey was Chucky boy playing the night then?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Good? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, he played well.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We had I think, hold a second, I think Rip
Hamilton had a big game. Ben Wallace said about fifteen
Rashid Wallace came up big in that third quarter.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
It was big.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah. Yeah, they played well, I'm surprised they got back
the ball. I'm thinking they lose this game. The night man,
this team was over because that was that twenty one
point melt down. They handed the game one. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well, it was ridiculous. But however, whole sector rope, take
a breath. It was ridiculous. However, the Pistons actually for
three of the four quarters were the better team, and
in this game, for all four quarters they were the
better team. So they played eight quarters and the Detroit
Pistons have been the better team seven of the eight quarters. Right,
(25:40):
So that's yeah, that's not too shabby, right, that was
pretty good. Okay, asking me a question, go ahead, ask
me a question.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Yes, Hey, when the Lakers fans taught Anthony Adlins tonight,
he's got two millions.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
My my, yeah, it's uh, it's it's yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's fair to say, you're now For those that haven't
seen him, maybe you're not on the social media, but
Jerome clearly is a viral video here of Aunt Edwards
Anthony Edwards there of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and it was
recorded on grainy celf on footage at the Laker game
the other day and the fans are rasing Anthony Edwards,
(26:38):
and he's pointing out how much money one of his
teammates makes and then points out that he has a
very large twigg and berries and I think just the twig.
I don't know about the berries, but he wanted everyone
to know that in the press. Yes, which is good.
I don't it's fair to say likely not going to
be the face of the NBA with that mouth.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
But he's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun, right,
I mean, jerome but real.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You know, who knows? No one, No one knows if
he's telling the truth. By the way, there's a lot
of women that know. I think many of them around
the country. But we don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Dan Well, I don't know either.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
But but I'm saying he's a he's very he's the
forefather of the next generation of basketball players.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Hey, I gotta ask you a little bit. But what
this new thing about the about the Lakers? If they
lose tonight, Man, what they're gonna be like? Man?
Speaker 6 (27:25):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It'd be great. I'm gonna have a party. Uh, it'll
be so wonderful. I cannot wait.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
This phone call is still going on. He's been on
the air for like five minutes.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
A great phone call this, Hey, this.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
Is a treat for you, mister Gavin Bronco who doesn't
know anything about the Broncos.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh that's a shot too, if he took a shot
at your coop.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I know more about the Broncos. I forgot more about
the Broncos.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure. I'm sure you have.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I don't know. I've lived in Hey. I know what
what that oxygen leg I used to have PT tests
I have to take.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
What's the name of the Broncos? GM tell me right now.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I have no.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
No, his name is no idea. This guy's name is
first name, no, last day and the last super.
Speaker 7 (28:16):
Super knowledgeable about the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, but you asked him about Beryl Man. I bet
you Jerome knows about Beryl man Man.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Yeah, yeah, exactly thirty below he's with a barrel in
his underwear.
Speaker 9 (28:33):
He's a legend. You watch your mouth, man.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh there's more. And this call kid.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
By the way, you're tuning in. It's the Jerome and
Charleston Show, and I'm the caller. My name is Ben
I'm calling into the Jerome and Charleston show, Yestero, I
have a question, Yes, go ahead, what.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
What what is that moral in his sport checked or politics? Ben?
Because he got another sex story going on, I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Well, I don't know if you know about this, Jerome,
but people have sex, so there's going to be sex
scandal in sports that that generally happens. Uh. And the athletes,
like everyone else, they have more access maybe than other people,
to a lot of sex. So yeah, yeah, well, well
another dated reference by Jerome Chell. You're referring to Shannon Sharp,
(29:16):
but we will discuss that later. I think it's fair
to say that I've seen a lot of lawsuits over
the years, and I would say that's one of the
great comebacks by Shannon Shark. Well, that's that's well, that's
her lawyer. But I believe Buzzby you don't win them all.
And Buzzby's you know, he's boxed into a corner now
(29:38):
Buzzby by Shannon Sharp's lawyers. So that's a that's a good,
good situation right now. Well not not on this one.
It does not look like a winning kids. I gotta go,
you buy my god, you bug out of your show?
How dare you go away? What's wrong with you? Let's
go to Chris, who's in the Great state of Michigan,
(29:58):
but he wants to talk about the chicken. I could say, think, hello, Chris, welcome,
Chris going once there he is there, he is there,
There is yes, there he is Chris the caller.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Yes, a newbie caller.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Time, we got a newby, we got a newby, newby newbies.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
Well, I called about an hour ago, and I see why.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh you're complaining. See you're complaining. You're already you're starting
to call with your complaint.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yes, I know you.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's like you call up that you called up. It's
like you're in Guantanamo Bay. You're in prison, and I'm
keeping you from hanging.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Up the phone.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
You're you're not allowed to hang up when you call in.
You are forced to stay on hold. That is as
absolutely true.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I'm driving from Detroit to Chicago, so I had no
other thing to.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Do that you got you you could stay out hold
another two hours? Then who carry you?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Exactly all right.
Speaker 10 (30:52):
So the nuggets I wanted to say, you're opening, uh,
you're opening dialogue there was pretty good, but you had
one thing wrong missing from the equation there.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
And I saw on social media that Peyton Manning was
at the game choke artists of all time.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So I do you believe the Nuggets lost because Peyton
Manning was there too? Doesn't he go to most of
the Nuggets games? He lives in Denver?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
He does, he does, he does? Well, Look, I don't.
I don't watch the NBA. I haven't watched it in
about three years because my team, the Pistons, just decided
to get good recently.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And so are you going to go back now because
the Pistons are relevant? So are you going to try
to go back now and jump on the bandwagon.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Actually, I have a good Piston story.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I used to work in radio and I had a
media pass to the Pistons I want to say, four
or five years ago, and I got kicked out and
was told to never come back because I asked Dwayne
Casey why Blake Griffin was struggling playing defense.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
I think it was the third game of the season
against the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, so they did not You didn't like steal anything,
you didn't violate, and you just asked a question that
seems like a fair question to me, and they told
you to never come back.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
I got the notes after the game.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yes, and did you ask why did you say why?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I was?
Speaker 10 (32:27):
I was working for like a local magazine and they're
the ones that told me so. I didn't have any
communication with anyone working for the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, all right, Well that's that is bizarre. I'm not
shocked by a lot of the team. Yeah, and if
you were at those games. I'm not at games as
much as I used to be these days, but when
I was there, a lot of the media we call
them the knee pad media because they wear.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Knee pads for the hometown team.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
They don't they think A lot of the media think
they're part of the teams, like they think they're on
the team, like I know the Lakers. A lot of
Laker media they think they are literally part of the
traveling party, for example with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And it's pretty embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
But I'm I'm not shocking. I don't know that's allowed though.
I don't think that's allowed, just on that. I don't
think they can do that, but what do I know.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
So anyway, and that's what they did.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
Well, I have listened to your guys' show for a
long time. I worked in overnight shift in radio about
ten years ago. Don't really get to listen to it
live much, but I appreciate what you guys do and
all the entertainment you provide.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
You're very kind, Chris, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And as you know now in radio the radio business,
you have the podcasting as well, so there's always an
option but to enjoy Chicago. There as he's making the
drive from Detroit down to Chicago, wrapping his way around
Lake Michigan. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we
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(33:55):
you can be part of this. We have Mallardy third
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We'll push back that story. When mother Nature calls, you
gotta answer the call. Time now for the Insta Trivia.
Then here it is the People's team. Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi
Leonard became the fifth player in NBA Playoff history to
score thirty nine or more points on seventy eight point
(34:19):
nine percent or greater shooting from the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Blank was the first NBA player to do it again.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Kawhi Leonard in that game against the Nuggets on Monday night,
became the fifth player in NBA playoff history to score
thirty nine or more points on a field goal shooting
of seventy eight point nine percent or greater. Blank was
the first NBA player to do it, obviously in the postseason.
That is the Insta trivia.
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Speaker 1 (36:12):
First to do it was blank and does anyone know
the answer? Quickly?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Quickly? Does anyone know the answer? Jd Vance guessed by
King Roy very funny, who else? Kanye West from Robbie
the Mariner fan machine Gun Kelly, Who's thirty five Today?
From Late Night Drug Tester Chris Humphreys from ekeon Rosewell
Minnesota Playoff JA Morant very nice, Big Greg in Iowa.
JJ Reddick the podcaster from Rob in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Do you have an answer? Loray?
Speaker 9 (36:41):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
I got to tell it all right. The answer is
Terry Porter. You know what team Terry Porter played for?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
No?
Speaker 9 (36:53):
But Fran Dresher was gonna be wrong one.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, probably so Trailblazer Great Terry Porter nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Here we go, there we go, Here we go, Here
we go. How about here we go?
Speaker 4 (37:05):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Go ahead, cool.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
So we already know that Kirk Cousins doesn't want to
be traded until after the draft. The latest report from
Adam Schefter says that the Falcons are asking any team
trading for Cousins pay twenty million of his remaining forty
five million in guarantees.
Speaker 9 (37:21):
So far, no team has been willing to do that.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Ben, do you think after the draft the team will
be willing to do that or will the Falcons have
to scale back their demands.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Well, the Falcons have to get rid of Kirk Cousins,
and they have to play ball with Kirk Cousins because
he's got a no trade cost. And if I'm not mistaken,
they just added Easton Stick, which I believe his code
for suck. But he's the former Charger. They added him,
so they've they've got their back up. They're clearing the deck.
They're they're adding a player to get rid of Cousins.
(37:49):
They will end up trading him they'll work something out,
and he's likely going to go to the Cleveland Browns.
If Aaron Rodgers were tires, then you can go to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
But he'll go somewhere. He's not going to stay in Atlanta.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Next, Rogers GM Joe Horitz said that they don't feel
pressure to address any position in the draft, and therefore
they can just take whoever the best player is when
they're pick us up.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
But do you think they should be addressing a specific position.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It's full of crap. That's that's the way. That's a
non answer answer. But we're just gonna draft the best
player available. It's pulker.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
What if the best player is a quarterback, they're gonna
draft a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
No, they're not.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
They're full of crap. I mean, it's shut up. They're liars.
Speaker 7 (38:25):
Next, the Bucks got blown out by the Pacers in
Game one of their series against Indiana, but Milwaukee was
without Damian Lillard. Reports are that he'll be back for
Game two or three. Will that be enough time for
the Bucks to turn the series around?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Two words, Cooper Loop, Doc Rivers. They are cooked? Okay,
Doc Rivers done. The Pacers should win that series anyway.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
I love Leylard.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I love them in Portland, not as much as Milwaukee.
And he's a fine player and all that, but that
is a flawed team the box. And even with Dame
Lillard he's been out for a while, they're not gonna when.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
How did we go?
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Howesday? When I won the game? Who I won the game?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I won the game?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I won
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