February 20, 2025 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike in for Doug have all the latest details out of San Antonio as the Spurs are shutting down their Star Center Victor Wembanyama for the season. The guys get you all set for the BIGGEST sporting event on the planet. And the Knuckleheads dish out some of their 2nd half NBA predictions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, Welcome inside the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Yeah, in for Doug today.
As as as you know, considering the big baseball fans
that we are, we're kicking off the twenty twenty five season,
the first exhibition game moments away between the Cubs and
the Dodgers. Exciting times, right now, What did you bet
on this, Mike? How much did you bet? What'd you bet? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I bet you under on every picture in terms of
their out totals. Okay, because it's going to be a
cavalcade of stars sure as we go through. And how
many times we'll have day drinking references to the crowd
assembled therein.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, I think you know, day baseball and day drinking
kind of you know, that's kind of built in there.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, I was telling you right, you know, for the Cubs.
I grew up on the South Side. I'm a White
Sox fan, and it's a painful forty nine and a
half being the over under for wins this year. A
couple of guys you know, in the top one hundred
prospects though, Jason, So, I mean feeling really good about that.
But all of that to say, Wrigley Field is the
best outdoor bar in America, period. So go hang out
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in Wrigleyville, go to the eateries, go to the refurbished
areas surrounding the stadium. Plenty of opportunities. You don't have
the old Taco bell and dingy seven to eleven to
go to anymore. But once you get inside, it's the best,
the best bar you can possibly find.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So here we are moments away first baseball game of
the season, and if the Dodgers don't get five in
the first inning, we realize that this team they've put
together is overrated and a lot of money for nothing.
Spend too much money, no return for this.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I Rob Manford's gonna start cackling. See I told you so,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Look, this is and I'm you know, not for hyperbole.
Here is that this is the best lineup. This is
the best roster that I've seen in Major League Baseball,
maybe in the last fifty years. I mean, this is
on paper. Now obviously have to play things out, but
this is the This is better than any peak lineup
the Yankees had in the nineties, any of the teams
(02:22):
of the eighties. This is this is so star studded
from top to bottom. And it's not just well the lineup, Yeah,
everybody hits, right, yeah, the lineup bits, Yeah, that's great.
We see that the Red Sox are gonna hit this year. Okay,
but the rest of it. You look at the you know,
you got six or seven, you're deep and starting pitching
where any of these guys would be top three guys
anywhere else. The bullpen is one of the best bullpens
(02:44):
you've seen in baseball. It's probably a top three bullpen.
Like this is the this is the best roster that
I've ever seen in baseball. And it's gonna again once again.
The Dodgers will take all of the conversation throughout the year,
but I mean, really, I go back and I try
to look and say, okay, this, no, this is the
best roster that I have seen from top to bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, and that's the beauty of it, right, we still
have to go play the one hundred and sixty two.
You know, we can crown him now. And we've seen
all the hand ringing across Major League Baseball for the
way contracts have been structured spending. You were not particularly
happy because of the cointax, and then Rob Man forgot that,
what are you gonna do? The rules? The system is
what they are, so we still got to play it
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out right. Last year they had a really great looking roster.
They win the World Series, but it didn't come without
how many starting pitchers seventeen eighteen before we were done
with things. Who's the next guy up? I don't know.
I think the guy in the third.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Next guy up is Kershaw. Well, he's like their eighth
starter right now.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But that's it. The vendor up in the three hundred level.
We saw him whip a couple of bags of peanuts.
We think he's got some good velocity and we can
train him really fast. So it's that kind of thing, right,
Kershaw comes back, it's a nice luxury to have. You'll
need him when you need him. You don't have to
rush Otani back onto the mound, and so if things
play a form, but as we saw, I mean when
(04:00):
we did the Dustin May story the other day, right,
guy who has an esophogal tear based on eating a salad, So,
I mean you have weird things that happen over the
course of a tony salad season.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Don't eat salad. Well, that's the lesson xalid.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It really lines up with the whole al Michael's philosophy.
He's now got another convert in Dustin.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
May sandwiches, pasta, chocolate, don't eat.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Salad well, but on the sandwich? Does this mean you
now order your burgers without lettuce, without the tomato the.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Last time I've ordered my burgers with lettuce where I've
just said yet.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But if it's just part of it, I'm not saying
that you enumerate it as you're calling it out at
the drive through window. I'm just saying, take the let
on the set. Yeah, you're not adding it, you're not subtracting.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Listen, I want more cheese and less lettuce. Okay, that's
that's what I want you to put on. It's gonna
cost you extra three dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, slam another slice of cheese on there, and just
take off all that lettuce and it'll taste even better
of cheese. We'll keep you updated on this game again.
Baseball season just a couple of moments away, getting ready
for first pitch as the Dodgers look to go one
hundred and sixty two and zero and undefeated in the exhibition.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
See how many games in the exhibition season? How many
were you tracking here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think they have to win the all. Well, maybe
I'll give it. Maybe you could lose one. Well, no,
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Saying I don't want does anybody really know? Does anybody
really care? I mean just kind of place?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No could. We will play squid split squad games every day.
So the reason all over the place play twenty some
odd games, you know, totally. Some teams play a little
bit more, Some teams play a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Would be funny though, if you added it to the
over under total for their wins on the season. We
have to predict the playoffs and and spring training.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, already I can see that the Dodger fans are
not as excited because there is no Mary Hart behind
home plate.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That is a loss.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, count on the rich. Yeah, there's a you travel
to spring training, right, if you're a real fan, right,
Dodgers fans, Hey wait, there's your tweet. Dodger fans already
jumping off the bandwagon. Where is Mary Hart? There we
go and send right.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, there's a bunch of empty there's a bunch
of fans. Disguis does empty seats behind home plate right
now as Yamamoto gets the strikeout to get things going.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now, obviously, look the big story of the day. We've
heard it's come down. Now it's a couple of hours old.
No more wemby this season, Victor Webbin Yama has been
shut down by the Spurs for the rest of the season.
It was reported that he has deep vein thrombosis in
his shoulder and it's a blood clot basically, and it's
treated with blood thinner medications, which means when you treated
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with blood thinners. Obviously anybody's ever been treated with blood thinners,
it's like, hey, listen, you know you're gonna bleed really easily.
You got to stay away from physical activity. So with
this going on, such you know, pesky things like contact
basketball is not recommended, and it's really it's really stunning
because The first quotes from the Spurs on this are, yeah,
(06:53):
we're hopeful he's back to start the season, Like, whoa, whoa,
this is February. That season's no end of October, and
that that underlies how big a deal this is? Not.
I want to sit here and and and and say,
oh my goodness, the sky is falling. But for Wemby,
this is this is not an injury. This is not Hey,
Wenby's got a you know, uh, a scapular fracture and
(07:15):
he's gonna be out or he's got an adductor strain
and and likely he's not gonna be able to get
up and down the floor. Like if injuries are one thing,
that this is. This is a condition and and and
blood clots is as anybody knows, right because now I'm
old enough to, you know, for my wife to say,
when we fly, you gotta wear those socks so you
don't get blood clots in your legs. Right, So I
wear the sow I wear like the the compression ones.
(07:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, I wear the the ken landro socks,
like all the way up to my knee. I'm like,
you're not calling a strike on me below the knees
and you know, so I'm wearing that now because okay,
obviously do I want to wear them? No, But my
wife says something like that. I'm like, okay, you make
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So did you buy did you buy him in Syracuse colors?
So they look like stirrups or something?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just gonna well, I can if I could get
him in stirrups, I would wear them, like without pants.
Look at that guy walking through the airport. He's got
Syracuse or Mets stirrups on or your nicks or those
are great compression sock. Hey dude, where'd you get those? Yeah?
I know, I like pretty good.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So they don't have that deal in place. We should
work on that man.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So they're going to have to wear pants too, Sir,
on the plane, you can't just wear but the socks
look so good. Now you have to wear pants, so
you can't just wear boxers. I'm sorry, we need to
talk to you over here. So look, so that's a thing,
and and it's a condition that gets exacerbated and you
think I'm making it up, but it you know, deep
vein thrombosis like this is exacerbated depending how tall you
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are and if you fly a lot, right, Like this
is the this is the injury that basically ended Chris
Bosh's career, you know, and Brandon Ingram had it too.
He's been able to bounce back. So it's not like
this is something that is, oh, this is doom and gloom.
He's not going to play again.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I mean he just got a three for one
twenty so you know he rallied nicely from his twenty
nineteen bout.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, this is this is a I mean, this is
a thing that you have to look and say, how
do you manage this for his career When you're in
your early twenties and you're worried about deep vein thrombosas
and blood clots. It's travel is part of the gig, right,
like that that when you're an NBA, when you're you're
an athlete, travels part of the gig. And especially if
you're someone who jets back and forth, you know, cross
(09:17):
country for the long flights or any flight longer than
four hours, they recommend that you know, you do you
do enough to avoid that that's the danger part for uh,
for blood clots like this is now something he's got
to manage for his career, and you wonder are they
gonna cut down with travel on it? Will he cut
back on you know, traveling for road trips depending how
far things are if the Spurs play international games, like
(09:40):
this has become a thing. And like I said, I
don't want to be you know, doom and gloomy. But
but this is not just an injury. This is something
where hey, this is something medically he's got to deal
with the rest of his career. And and as you're
gonna hear more about Chris Bosh's situation in Brandon Ingram situation,
you're gonna get the lady and the tiger. You're gonna
get Hey, you can come back from it. Look at
the career that Brandon, everything is great, and then you
(10:01):
get Chris Posh who was I was never the same
after so that this is this is really shocking and
more eye opening than your into your news of Hey,
so and so is injured and he's not going to
play the rest of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean you go back to the battles that
Kawhi Leonard had with the Spurs training staff back in
the day, right, not about obviously the same issue, but
you're gonna need a lot of medical opinions. You're gonna
have to go outside of your normal bit of trainers.
And I bring them up obviously because you know there
there was a lot of back and forth about treatment
(10:33):
and plans and everything there. So for when min Yama
he's there, he's got to get to figure out what's
the best course of care. Talk about travel, you know
how many look, they litigated out a lot of the
back to back, so some of that will will be
assisted there. But you know, I only half jokingly bring
up you know, like a Madden Kruzer kind of situation
(10:55):
where you have things within range here you're just gonna
sleep on a bus instead of getting on a plane.
You know, we've seen athletes that have had different medical
issues that have kept them from playing in Denver, and
you know, high altitude and everything else, so you start
getting into those kind of situations. You talked about it
being exacerbated by by height. Obviously we're all hitting the
(11:16):
web MD and trying to get a little deeper diagnosis
because this is this is seismic, right. We talked about
the Anthony Edwards quote the other day of hey, you
could be one of the fas. No, that's why you
guys brought wenby over right that he's he's the guy.
So immediately you know this is one of your stars
that you were pinning the future on. And because you know,
I'm a big nerd. Over the course of the weekend
(11:38):
doing the Sunday show I did with Mark Medina, we're
talking about different things, he had done a big piece
on Jaron Jackson, So I immediately, you know, again disease
guy that I am at times, went and looked up
the defensive player of the ear odds because Jackson was
a guy that you would have had a long shot.
He's not the co leader with Evan Mobley for the award,
followed by by guy Lou Dort, by the way, eineighteen
(12:00):
to one.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But are you gonna stop mentioning you? You know you
trying to find certain peepy. Try got a while man
all the time. Here's Lou Dort. Okay, how dare you?
Are you happy you got Lou Dordon?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I want to get chat home grinned while you're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, see, let's go. No, you don't even need to
do that. You just say chet for random, just at
random references on the show at night. You just say, Chet, dude,
we're talking about the NFL. Yeah, Chet, what what do you?
What are you doing? Let you do it all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Maybe maybe I'm planting messages. Have you not seen everything
going around where folks are trying to plant subliminal messages.
I behold the power of Chet. But you know, to
this back to the seriousness of this, So like, look,
I hope your your legs are good and you're getting it.
But it's a reminder of the folks right as they
read about this, to make sure one you're getting your
(12:47):
exercise in, making sure you're getting your checkups, and recognizing
that even in highly skilled and athletic beings that stuff
like this does transpire and wish the best. Like I
saw the headline and just went on man right when
we were getting excited to see what was gonna happen
not only for him but Spurs after adding Deer and
(13:09):
Fox that and keeping their base right. Stefan Castle showing
out as well as he did, should have won the
dunk contest, but didn't that you have all those guys like,
all right, I'm waiting for the second half, so I
have to change some of my second half predictions that
will make later.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Man, I'll tell you, and Wemby was on his way.
We've talked about this. By the end of the season,
it was it would have been widely accepted going into
next year. He's the best player in the NBA. He's
the best all around player in the NBA. He does
things that nobody else. As great as Jokic is, as
great as Giannis is, it would be accepted nobody can
do what Wemby can because nobody can't. No one's made
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for this era of the NBA better than Wemby is, right,
I mean, as great as great as Jokich is, he
doesn't do what Wemby does right, And that's that's a
big thing. And now you just got to hope, you know,
prayers up for him, that everything turns out okay. He's
bad to playing okay in the fall. But like I said,
the deep vein thrombosa is not just Hey, here's a
you know, a broken pinky is gonna be out for
(14:06):
six weeks. That's a really, really big thing. Jason Smith
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(14:30):
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off the air. Well, the Dodgers don't score in the
bottom of the first inning. They're overrated. This lineup should
never been put together. The season's over, They're already a disappointment.
Feine on Fox, Dave Roberts should be fired.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He couldn't manufacture a run in the first he tellent nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Just wait till he goes to the bullpen next inning,
right and they're playing the Cubs. So again, happy beginning
of these Paul season. We got John Paul Morosi coming
up next hour on the show to talk about big
stuff with us. But tonight is the biggest sporting event
of the week and gonna be one of the biggest
sporting events of the year, the Four Nations Championship between
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Canada and the United States. And you know it's this
is the biggest hockey game that we've had in this
country since the Miracle on Ice of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I was gonna go to the Big King Series. Yeah, sure, sure,
I'm trying. I want to make it about me, but you're.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Looking at the you're looking at the at the the
backdrop of this, of anytime hockey is US against the world.
It cuts through the clutter and people who aren't even
hockey fans stop what they're doing. I want to see.
We have to win. Because nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice
is still the defining strictly sports topic of my lifetime.
This is forty five years later, still miracle on ice,
Miracle on ice, and with the game being against Canada,
(16:59):
with it being in our window, it's not a it's
not an Olympic game that hey, you have to get
up and watch it four in the morning because it's
being held you know, halfway across the globe. It's United
States Canada. Look, the World Cup games have been big,
They've been big Olympic games. You know, still why the
referee doesn't jump up and let the puck go by
and again was able to get it. But anyway, look,
because of that and then the backdrop politically that has
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played into this, with President Trump talking about getting Canada
be our fifty first state, Canada responding by saying, well, maybe, well,
annex California like this is what played into the emotions
from Saturday, and three fights in the first nine seconds
and bone jarring hits in the United States dictating play
like There's been no game that has been looked forward
(17:44):
to in hockey more than this. This is a It
is a huge, huge event, and honestly, I have a
way to make it even bigger.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Well, we already had the mayor like proposal, right, I
mean that's what we want to have. Trades and justin
trying to give take away as a throw in.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, that's that's the thing, and that that's the idea,
is that the winner, okay gets the other team gets
the other team's property. If we win, we get Canada.
If Canada wins, they get California, and and the loser
gets Drake to get Drake. Yes, Serena Williams comes out
and drops the drops the buck off beginning and Shouedgy
walks off. That's how it goes. You tell me you
(18:22):
wouldn't watch us. We'd be bet we're betting property, we're
betting land, we're betting states and countries. This would be
the most watched sporting event in the history of the globe.
I don't know what hockey is. But boy, I really
hope we win because I want Canada. I'm okay being
a pawn in this. You and I live in California.
I'm okay with this. To make this bet even better,
why not man winner gets If the United States wins,
(18:42):
we get Canada. They win, they get California.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, you got a lot of folks that have the
daily debate of whether they should leave California anyway for
me reason. So so you got that going on. I
need both leaders miked up, right, both Trump and Trudeau.
We need a cavalcade of stars, you know, kind of
showcasing the where goods and services and everything else that
would be part of the trade. I mean, that's all
your interstitials. I don't need baby races or folks shooting
(19:09):
the puck trying to win a car or anything not.
And no, we got all sorts of stuff. We need
to educate and inform you of everything that's at stake
with every bone jarring hit, with every shot on, with
every dump and chase scenario as we go. Yeah, I
was thinking from a you know, global impact. It's still
trying to think of all those little kids that watch
the Dream Team come in and beat up their squads.
(19:31):
And then now the globe has taken over basketball, which
is why we're talking about us versus the world for
the NBA. But staying here, No, I like the stakes
of this. Really, it's must see viewing. And and every
It's like whenever we do one of these giant concerts
or a presidential address, every network has to carry it
except one or two that have old Judge Judy, you know,
(19:53):
reruns or something.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Boy, I get this game everywhere except some crazy college
basketball game on True TV.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Practic shokers.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Just keep going. Now. I saw that Trump said he's
not coming tonight because give a speech, a speech to
the governors. But he did fan the flames by saying, yeah,
hopefully soon Canada's gonna be our fifty first state. So
it's on, man, it's and I was hoping he would
go tonight so you could have Trump and Trudeau like
in in in separate suites, and like when the United
(20:20):
States scores, like Trump has a big map out and
he's like coloring in Canada, like to be part of
the United States, and then you know, Canada scores, and
and Trudeau is like cutting California off of the United
States map and pasting it to the top like right
below Alaska, Like I could I could have gone for
something like that to move.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He gets up and does the dance and then on
on the screen it's like, hey, look we're a minute
closer to adding Tom Green.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I gonna go oh yeah, oh yeah, because then that's
that moose.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, that moose is ours.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Then we would just start adding stuff like crazy if
we're betting that, Like yeah, we would bet hey, if
we win, we get Tom Green. Uh you know that.
That's that's kind of how I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He comes with Canada.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, we already have Ryan Reynolds, so because he's Canada,
but he's really United States. So I mean, I mean,
if you start betting celebrities, like you'd have to really
get Yeah. But then he had a lot of miles. Yeah,
but then he.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Owns a soccer club by internationally.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is he's well, he's kind of everywhere. It's like, I mean,
maybe maybe maybe loser gets Drake, winner gets Ryan Reynolds.
Oh maybe that should be how it should go.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, he does generate a lot of money, sure, so
that that's that's good for business, all right. A little
bit of controversy follows him. But as you have it.
Quote from Bill Garon when asked about what President Trump
said to Team USA spoke to them for quite a while.
All Garan would say is, quote, just wanted to wish
us luck. Yeah, man, if you were he talked to
(21:49):
you for a while, what did he say, Come on,
what are you gonna give? You give me the juicy stuff? Yeah, yeah,
he said good luck. Just he just basically said good luck.
It's gonna be great, though. I mean, we talked about
up to hitting the fights right. The over under for
this game five and a half goals three to one
last Saturday for Canada. Can they get can they free
folks up right? The international stage? We always talk about
(22:12):
skaters and trying to just get guys out in space.
Can they find that that edge? And will the goaltending
be up to the task. I mean he's he is,
in fact, the MVP favored Smith, so you know all
of that rests on his big shoulders.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now we'll get to the game itself to every because
people are gonna watch and they're gonna say, I really
don't get what should I watch for? Who do I
need to know? We'll tell you what to know. The
big stuff, because it's going to be the event that
you're gonna want to know what's going on. We'll get
to that coming up in ninety seconds, but first, Dan
Byer's got what's trending in the wide world of sports dB.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Big news from the NBA is Victor wembin Yama on
the seven Victor webbin Yama of the San Antonio Spurs
will miss the rest of the season. Spurs said wembin
Yama has deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder and
the condition was discovered when we turn from All Star weekend.
Wimbyama reportedly felt some symptoms hope it would be okay
after the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That is not the case.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Victor Wembinyama done for the year for the San Antonio Spurs.
Mavericks forward Anthony Davis is going to miss another two
weeks of action because of his adductor strain. Team says
Davis is progressing well from the injury. The agent for
Hornet center Mark Williams released to stavement, saying multiple doctors
have told them that they believe Williams should have passed
his physical with the LA Lakers. Jeff Schwartz from Excel
(23:28):
Sports Management said Williams was ready to play for the
Lakers and should have been given the opportunity, but instead
the trade was canceled on the failed physical Bucks forward
Bobby Portis has spended twenty five games for testing positive
for a band at substance. He'll be able to return
with four games remaining of the regular season. Golf Channel
says a deal could be in place quote by the
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end of the day end quote between the PGA Tour
and Public Investment Fund, which runs live Golf. The report
says that there's a possibility live players could be back
in PGA Tour events, possibly a suit is the Players
Championship in March. If this agreement is made. President Trump
in on the meetings today, as was Tiger Woods. Yankees
gave manager Aaron Boon an extension through twenty twenty seven
(24:10):
in Texas, and USC have announced they will not be
holding spring games in college football this year. Guys, back
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Thanks bunch TV. All right, So for tonight's game, there's
three big things to know, right. Three bit thing. Number one,
You're gonna love the hitting because Team USA is physical
and it's how they're able to control the game. They
don't they play kind of a counter attack style because
Canada has the best players in the world and still
roster is better than the United States. But you are
going to see the United States hit and hit often.
(24:38):
I'm sure there's going to be a fight in the
first ten minutes of the game, because ten minutes the
tension and the excitement level is going to be is
going to be ratchet up, Like I think. I think
both sides have probably been talked to about dropping the
gloves the beginning of the game. Oh no, I'm glad
they've both been talked to about it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
As soon as bream finishes, that's it. Drop the gloves.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It'll be like in slap Shot when they're all fighting
while they're all bleeding while the national anthem's going on.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Meanwhile, someone's gotta stop watching there because they bet the
over under on the anthem in such an important space.
I mean, look, you want to talk about auditioning, here's
an opportunity for you singing the anthem tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It is gonna be a physical game and the hitting
is gonna rile up the crowd. It's gonna rile up Canada. Uh,
and it's gonna be an entire game thing. I mean,
good luck to Crosby and McKennon and McDavid because these
are the guys that Canada needs to carry them in.
Good bleeping luck because these guys, it's gonna be elbows
and hips and your face matched into the boards every
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moment possible. It's going to be a thing. And they're
gonna set the tempo right away and and that's gonna
be something. The energy level that takes you through the game,
it's gonna be hitting and hitting and hitting the entire game.
That's the big, biggest first thing you're gonna see. And
the excitement level. There's gonna be a big hit in
the first twenty five seconds of the game. As soon
as as soon as the puck goes to somebody forget
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whoever touches the put first. That's it. You're getting drilled.
That's how it's gonna go. And it's gonna kick off.
It's not gonna be we're gonna we're gonna wean our
way into the game and kind of see how things
are going. No, No, it's gonna be big hitting right away.
They're gonna take advantage of this and you're gonna see
you're gonna see that physicality right from the jump.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Head on a swivel on every shift. Uh, trying to
seize tempo momentum, get the crowd fired up, UH and
keep that engagement right. You need to need to bust
that initial energy because there's gonna be a lot of
a lot of nervous and energy and excitement as this
bubbles up. As we we've waited on this since Saturday,
(26:35):
where it's started to get some run. Like I did
a radio spot on the drive into the studio today
with my buddies in Baltimore, and one of the guys
actually asked me, goes, what is there any buzz for
it in LA. I'm like, I don't know, but Smith
and I are fired up as hell, and the other
guys just started laughing.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It's like it's the past.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
It's like, I don't know that we're fired up.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's the perfect time. Look, we're coming off
a really bad NBA All Star game there. You know,
baseball is just getting started now. College basketball is college basketball.
I mean, it's a great spot in the calendar to
be able to to figure something like this out, and
looks it shows you that if you keep trying for
All Star Games. You'll eventually find something. Right. The NBA,
(27:17):
we don't know what do we keep trying some every year.
NHL's try to do that. And look where they have now.
Now they have a big event that should be on
the calendar every year. They figured out the mid season
tournament thing, which, oh my goodness, this must make Adam
Silver just be really just go crazy going they figured
out the mid season tournament. Don't get get made fun
of for this. Yeah, okay, then he likes tournaments.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
He just wants to be madding tournaments.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's the perfect moment in time for a game like
this to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Well, but also, I mean like they framed it as
the asking me in La. I'm like, well, we got
the Dodgers Cubs to start spring training and everybody's burning
it down after Luca and Lebron lost to Charlotte. So
here in La might not be the best barometer of
how excited they are about US Canada. Although I think
as the time ticks down and maybe they're in their
social yeah, maybe they start getting a bit more of
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the fever.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Uh. The second thing is this right, is that Connor
Hellibook is the best goalie the United States has had ever.
He is the best goalie that has ever had, the
best American born goalie that we have ever seen. And
nobody really knows about him because he plays in Winnipeg,
right playing Nipeg Jet. I mean, hey, look at me.
(28:25):
I love to find any excuse to talk about how
good the Jets are, even if it's not the football Jets,
just by saying Jets, Hey the Jet Look how good
the Jets are. The Jets have the best player Jets Jets, Jets, Jets.
But Connor Hellibook is that good and he had an
incredible game Saturday. And what I mean this is he's
the best American born goalie we have ever had. The
guy's got two ve Trophies. He's gonna have a third
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this year. You talked about how he's the odds on
favorite for MVP. Not many guys have three Veseno Trophies.
You're talking about the best guys in the history of
the sport, like Wah and Hasseck and Brodeur and these
guys that have been absolute legends. And hella Bok's gonna
be thirty one years old and already have three. Like
it's a fada complete This is happening, and really, you know,
(29:07):
to think about this and why, Okay, if if Canada's
got the better roster, we're able to win Saturday, We're
not gonna surprise them again a hot goalie. There is
no position in sports that can negate an attire team
like a goalie and hockey ken And I remember, and
it was funny because I was watching Jay n Right,
formerly a Fox Sports one. You know, they're talking about
this game the other night in studio and the best
(29:28):
way to describe it as this, this is how good
Hella book is is that he's Jim Craig, Right, He's
Jim Craig nineteen eighty. You're looking for the cop there,
it is Jim Craig nineteen eighty. Is that the only
way for Canada to win is if Hellabook has a
bad night and he doesn't have many bad nights Like
that was the perfect way to succinctly describe this. This
is what to expect. Yes, Canada's got the forwards, they
(29:51):
have this, they have the depth, they have everything. But
unless Hellibook has a bad night, Canada's not gonna win.
And the guy doesn't have bad nights. Now, I just
said this he's gonna have a horrible night, give up
three goals in the first three minutes and take him
out of the game. But that would fit with you
here where you're at, right, that's where you're at with
this game.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Thirty four seven and two two point oh seven goals against,
ninety three percent save effort with six shutouts on the air.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
This is this is hype unlike any game since eighty
and this is a big chance for hockey to get
a springboard and get back to coming off the fringes
of being a big national sport. Right Like we saw
the big jump in nineteen eighty after the miracle nights,
we haven't really seen that jump, right. Gary Bettman has
driven the driven the NHL straight to the middle and
(30:37):
down right like where now that you know they're on
the periphery, the MLS is more popular, the MLS has
more growth, and you know the WNBA has more growth. Right,
We're seeing you need to see something, and this is
that night that could do it, right, This is the
night that could do it. I mean, I really it's
I mean, it's it's stunning and it's fun that we're
going to have a big hockey event being the sporting
(30:57):
event of the week, maybe the sporting event of the
rest of this month, and because everybody's going to be
wrapped up in it tonight, just like we do for
the Olympics, except more so, just like we do for
the World Cup of Hockey, except more so. The average
fan is going to flock to this tonight and it's
going to be some kind of event.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Going to get some great ratings, no question about it.
Whether you get long term viability out of it, we'll see,
you'll get some converts that'll come in for a bit.
A part of it is just got to keep promoting
this sport as you get back into regular play, right
because it's going to be dwarfed in a lot of
promotional stuff because well a lot of your games are
(31:32):
residing on ABC, ESPN, which also has the NBA, so
you're going to have those at least for another year
then we get to NBC. But the other thing is
this helps build up more drama and anticipation of the
Olympics next year in Italy. So if nothing else, we
do get the long look ahead of what that team
could be after tonight. But yeah, with all those heavy
(31:55):
stakes and if you peep in the back of your
mind that the winner gets to claim a lot of
land proper and ghat and services. Then, yeah, it really
takes on a gravity unknown demand.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Look and and and to button this a bit with
is that, you know, we always whenever something happens in
the NFL, whenever there's a big story, like, we always
make a joke going. The second question is always what's
the fantasy fallout of this? Right, we always say that,
But whenever a story like this comes up, we always say, yeah,
what's the gambling fall out of this? Yeah, and so
far it's a huge deal there. You know, the casinos
(32:25):
are taking like seven times more money on these games
than anything else in hockey this year. It's a huge
success for them too. Like this has been a win win,
win win across the board. And Baby, we win tonight,
we get Canada. Maybe that happens, buddy, follow that money
exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios
(32:47):
coming up next. Yes, tonight is also the big kickoff
of the second half of the NBA season. Yeah, we
had the Lakers lose a horrendously embarrassing game last night.
But why are we looking forward to the rest of
this NBA even more so than we were a few
days ago. I'll tell you next right here, Jason Smith,
Mike Cartman, and for Doug Gottlieb. This is Fox Sports Radio,
and thank you Missioner Gary Batman.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
I am so excited, more excited than I was the
last few days because now we don't have to hear
about how bad the bleep and All Star Games, don't
have to hear experts and insiders and players complaining about
how the NBA All Star Game was the decline and
fall of Western civilization. I don't get all of a
sudden the hate that's piled up. Was it just a
(33:53):
slow news week and it was the week after the
Super Bowl, and hey, we don't like this all start GA.
The All Star Game is stunk for years, right, the
All Star Games in many sports have stunk for years.
The heyday of the All Star Game is over right,
It's not going back to where it was. We're just
going to continue to keep trying things every year to
see if this works. Now. Was this something that everybody loved? No,
(34:14):
players didn't like it, But I mean, I mean we don't.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We talked to Rick Buker on our show last night
and we brought up, how does how is the All
Star Game any reflection of the health or how good
a sport is? Right, you're telling me you're judging the
overall NBA the downratings blah blah blah blah because of
the All Star Game. I mean, come on, the All
Star Game is irrelevant. It's something that happens on Sunday
and we forget about it Sunday night, one minute after
(34:38):
the game is over because it is irrelevant. It's a
fun weekend. You can watch it or not watch it.
But people want the All Star Game to be something
it's not, and no one has solutions. They I don't
like this. Well, it's like a little kid, what do
you want not this? What do you want to eat?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Well?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't want this. I don't want this what do
you tell me what you want? I don't know, but
I don't want this, like I really I fail to
see how this was a huge, huge problem and how
the NBA is now going to wind up going bankrupt
because I had a bad All Star Game and suddenly
Adam Silver is a bad commissioner. It's I think people
are just going over the top. They wanted to hate
stuff so much, and yeah, okay, the All Star Game
has been bad for a while, but all of a sudden,
(35:14):
this is the worst thing in that the NBA.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Come on, I want a hot dog, I want a milkshake,
I want like it.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It really does come down to that. Look to the
point of the All Star Game. It's the Kevin Durant.
You don't like it, don't watch right, find something else
to do. There were plenty of other things to do.
I know, a lot of the country dealing with weather
issues so and bitter cold and frigid tempts. So maybe
you were stuck indoors, but certainly so opportunity uh to
(35:48):
you know, find something else, but you know, find a
Harry Potter marathon or whatever floats about. Go watch what's that?
What is a paradise that you've now got me hooked
into I told season two just announced, which received a
foregone conclusion, but not either way, the point being that
it's a blip on the radar and you get back
like people didn't like the product. We got away from
(36:08):
hating the NBA for a week, and you know what,
it had nothing to do with games that were actually
being played. It was all theoretical conclusions about guys getting traded.
That's the only positivity there's been outside of beat riders
in each individual market and maybe talking about how great
Wenby was or Shay Gildess Alexander, here's Jokic with this
(36:30):
twenty five triple doubles and look, Lebron is forty, but
he's still playing really young, all those things like he
had a couple of positive things sprinkled in. As for
the rest of the league, it was like, ah, this
all sucks. And then we had a week about the trades, like, wow,
this is great. What's gonna happen for Golden State. People
started doing their simulators. Jimmy Butler got over on pat Riley, Hey,
(36:50):
this is wonderful. There's Luca, there's this, there's the failed
trade with Mark Williams, so yeah, you know, we can
talk about that. So, yeah, the trade deadline give us
all and it was during Super Bowl week. So look
the NBA, it's great. And then as soon as they
get back on a court in any way, shape or form,
I don't like it now because I want to have
(37:10):
solutions to give you. I'm not just gonna be the
I'm not gonna be Draymond Green, who doesn't even try.
Those players don't even try, and then complain about the
All Star Game. No, you want something like this is
what you do? You borrow from the NHL. Right, who's
doing the US ver? You know, the United States, Canada,
the Four Nations tournament? It works, right, it works.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
It probably works a little bit more for hockey because
that's when we really get up for hockey. As we
talked about it a few minutes ago, when it's US
against the world, US against Russia, US against Canada. The
players seem to want USA versus the World, right, they
talked about it following the game. A USA versus the
World would be a lot of fun. There's not enough
for a big four nation because it's not enough players,
but you could have a USA versus the World?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Great?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Why not let's try it. If I'm Adam Silver, I'm
doing cartwheels because I'm saying to myself, well, at least
they come when IDA for last year, because at least
people aren't gonna complain, right, because that's the one thing
the players want this, the fans would seem to be
excited about it. So yeah, let's try this next year.
At least we're gonna We're not gonna get people saying
this is a horrible idea. It's actually that's your idea.
(38:14):
It's what you want. So if the players are excited,
do it. Because one of the big rules of sports
is a happy player is a good player, and so
if they're happy playing this game, there'll be more positivity
around the event itself, and at least for a year,
the NBA and Adam Silver can avoid the oh my goodness,
the All Star Game sucks. We're gonna have to cancel
the NBA season. We can't play anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
We still have that in the moment, right, You got
guys that at least for now are excited and maybe
coming back to the three point contest or the dunk contest,
and then you've got this one on one thing that's
been floated, which everybody's all excited about until they actually
have to sign up or wait, if I lose, what happens.
Everybody was all, Lebron, this all is terrible and I'm
(38:54):
not gonna watch it. And then Lebron didn't play, and
it was the worst thing in the world that Lebron
didn't play, So yeah, versus the world. Although a lot
of players like the format that they played on Sunday,
they just stopped liking the fact that in a bunch
of all these improv sets that were taking up, can
I play basketball plays? Can I put this back in play?
Kevin Hart, sit out and shut up. I want to
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put the ball in play.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Kevin Hart's going to be part of the All Star
Game whether you like it or not. Man, you just
got to accept that and go forward. I don't like fun.
I don't like that there was fun during the All
Star Game. I'm a fun hater. Well, I think it
was more than it was.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Three and a half hours of content in thirty minutes
of basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Exit out about of Fresco Swollen Dome coming up next,
Big feelish predictions for the second half of the season.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, Welcome inside the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Yeah, in for Doug today.
As as as you know, considering the big baseball fans
that we are, we're kicking off the twenty twenty five season,
the first exhibition game moments away between the Cubs and
the Dodgers. Exciting times, right now, What did you bet
on this, Mike? How much did you bet? What'd you bet? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I bet you under on every picture in terms of
their out totals. Okay, because it's going to be a
cavalcade of stars sure as we go through. And how
many times we'll have day drinking references to the crowd
assembled therein.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Well, I think you know, day baseball and day drinking
kind of you know, that's kind of built in there.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, I was telling you right, you know, for the Cubs.
I grew up on the South Side. I'm a White
Sox fan, and it's a painful forty nine and a
half being the over under for wins this year. A
couple of guys you know, in the top one hundred
prospects though, Jason, So, I mean feeling really good about that.
But all of that to say, Wrigley Field is the
best outdoor bar in America, period. So go hang out
(01:25):
in Wrigleyville, go to the eateries, go to the refurbished
areas surrounding the stadium. Plenty of opportunities. You don't have
the old Taco bell and dingy seven to eleven to
go to anymore. But once you get inside, it's the best,
the best bar you can possibly find.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
So here we are moments away first baseball game of
the season, and if the Dodgers don't get five in
the first inning, we realize that this team they've put
together is overrated and a lot of money for nothing.
Spend too much money, no return for this.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I Rob Manford's gonna start cackling. See I told you so,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Look, this is and I'm you know, not for hyperbole.
Here is that this is the best lineup. This is
the best roster that I've seen in Major League Baseball,
maybe in the last fifty years. I mean, this is
on paper. Now obviously have to play things out, but
this is the This is better than any peak lineup
the Yankees had in the nineties, any of the teams
(02:22):
of the eighties. This is this is so star studded
from top to bottom. And it's not just well the lineup, Yeah,
everybody hits, right, yeah, the lineup bits, Yeah, that's great.
We see that the Red Sox are gonna hit this year. Okay,
but the rest of it. You look at the you know,
you got six or seven, you're deep and starting pitching
where any of these guys would be top three guys
anywhere else. The bullpen is one of the best bullpens
(02:44):
you've seen in baseball. It's probably a top three bullpen.
Like this is the this is the best roster that
I've ever seen in baseball. And it's gonna again once again.
The Dodgers will take all of the conversation throughout the year,
but I mean, really, I go back and I try
to look and say, okay, this, no, this is the
best roster that I have seen from top to bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Well, and that's the beauty of it, right, we still
have to go play the one hundred and sixty two.
You know, we can crown him now. And we've seen
all the hand ringing across Major League Baseball for the
way contracts have been structured spending. You were not particularly
happy because of the cointax, and then Rob Man forgot that,
what are you gonna do? The rules? The system is
what they are, so we still got to play it
(03:25):
out right. Last year they had a really great looking roster.
They win the World Series, but it didn't come without
how many starting pitchers seventeen eighteen before we were done
with things. Who's the next guy up? I don't know.
I think the guy in the third.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Next guy up is Kershaw. Well, he's like their eighth
starter right now.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
But that's it. The vendor up in the three hundred level.
We saw him whip a couple of bags of peanuts.
We think he's got some good velocity and we can
train him really fast. So it's that kind of thing, right,
Kershaw comes back, it's a nice luxury to have. You'll
need him when you need him. You don't have to
rush Otani back onto the mound, and so if things
play a form, but as we saw, I mean when
(04:00):
we did the Dustin May story the other day, right,
guy who has an esophogal tear based on eating a salad, So,
I mean you have weird things that happen over the
course of a tony salad season.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Don't eat salad. Well, that's the lesson xalid.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
It really lines up with the whole al Michael's philosophy.
He's now got another convert in Dustin.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
May sandwiches, pasta, chocolate, don't eat.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Salad well, but on the sandwich? Does this mean you
now order your burgers without lettuce, without the tomato the.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Last time I've ordered my burgers with lettuce where I've
just said yet.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
But if it's just part of it, I'm not saying
that you enumerate it as you're calling it out at
the drive through window. I'm just saying, take the let
on the set. Yeah, you're not adding it, you're not subtracting.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Listen, I want more cheese and less lettuce. Okay, that's
that's what I want you to put on. It's gonna
cost you extra three dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, slam another slice of cheese on there, and just
take off all that lettuce and it'll taste even better
of cheese. We'll keep you updated on this game again.
Baseball season just a couple of moments away, getting ready
for first pitch as the Dodgers look to go one
hundred and sixty two and zero and undefeated in the exhibition.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
See how many games in the exhibition season? How many
were you tracking here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I think they have to win the all. Well, maybe
I'll give it. Maybe you could lose one. Well, no,
I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Saying I don't want does anybody really know? Does anybody
really care? I mean just kind of place?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
No could. We will play squid split squad games every day.
So the reason all over the place play twenty some
odd games, you know, totally. Some teams play a little
bit more, Some teams play a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Would be funny though, if you added it to the
over under total for their wins on the season. We
have to predict the playoffs and and spring training.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Well, already I can see that the Dodger fans are
not as excited because there is no Mary Hart behind
home plate.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That is a loss.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, count on the rich. Yeah, there's a you travel
to spring training, right, if you're a real fan, right,
Dodgers fans, Hey wait, there's your tweet. Dodger fans already
jumping off the bandwagon. Where is Mary Hart? There we
go and send right.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I mean, there's a bunch of empty there's a bunch
of fans. Disguis does empty seats behind home plate right
now as Yamamoto gets the strikeout to get things going.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now, obviously, look the big story of the day. We've
heard it's come down. Now it's a couple of hours old.
No more wemby this season, Victor Webbin Yama has been
shut down by the Spurs for the rest of the season.
It was reported that he has deep vein thrombosis in
his shoulder and it's a blood clot basically, and it's
treated with blood thinner medications, which means when you treated
(06:31):
with blood thinners. Obviously anybody's ever been treated with blood thinners,
it's like, hey, listen, you know you're gonna bleed really easily.
You got to stay away from physical activity. So with
this going on, such you know, pesky things like contact
basketball is not recommended, and it's really it's really stunning
because The first quotes from the Spurs on this are, yeah,
(06:53):
we're hopeful he's back to start the season, Like, whoa, whoa,
this is February. That season's no end of October, and
that that underlies how big a deal this is? Not.
I want to sit here and and and and say,
oh my goodness, the sky is falling. But for Wemby,
this is this is not an injury. This is not Hey,
Wenby's got a you know, uh, a scapular fracture and
(07:15):
he's gonna be out or he's got an adductor strain
and and likely he's not gonna be able to get
up and down the floor. Like if injuries are one thing,
that this is. This is a condition and and and
blood clots is as anybody knows, right because now I'm
old enough to, you know, for my wife to say,
when we fly, you gotta wear those socks so you
don't get blood clots in your legs. Right, So I
wear the sow I wear like the the compression ones.
(07:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, I wear the the ken landro socks,
like all the way up to my knee. I'm like,
you're not calling a strike on me below the knees
and you know, so I'm wearing that now because okay,
obviously do I want to wear them? No, But my
wife says something like that. I'm like, okay, you make
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So did you buy did you buy him in Syracuse colors?
So they look like stirrups or something?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I just gonna well, I can if I could get
him in stirrups, I would wear them, like without pants.
Look at that guy walking through the airport. He's got
Syracuse or Mets stirrups on or your nicks or those
are great compression sock. Hey dude, where'd you get those? Yeah?
I know, I like pretty good.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
So they don't have that deal in place. We should
work on that man.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
So they're going to have to wear pants too, Sir,
on the plane, you can't just wear but the socks
look so good. Now you have to wear pants, so
you can't just wear boxers. I'm sorry, we need to
talk to you over here. So look, so that's a thing,
and and it's a condition that gets exacerbated and you
think I'm making it up, but it you know, deep
vein thrombosis like this is exacerbated depending how tall you
(08:34):
are and if you fly a lot, right, Like this
is the this is the injury that basically ended Chris
Bosh's career, you know, and Brandon Ingram had it too.
He's been able to bounce back. So it's not like
this is something that is, oh, this is doom and gloom.
He's not going to play again.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, I mean he just got a three for one
twenty so you know he rallied nicely from his twenty
nineteen bout.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, this is this is a I mean, this is
a thing that you have to look and say, how
do you manage this for his career When you're in
your early twenties and you're worried about deep vein thrombosas
and blood clots. It's travel is part of the gig, right,
like that that when you're an NBA, when you're you're
an athlete, travels part of the gig. And especially if
you're someone who jets back and forth, you know, cross
(09:17):
country for the long flights or any flight longer than
four hours, they recommend that you know, you do you
do enough to avoid that that's the danger part for uh,
for blood clots like this is now something he's got
to manage for his career, and you wonder are they
gonna cut down with travel on it? Will he cut
back on you know, traveling for road trips depending how
far things are if the Spurs play international games, like
(09:40):
this has become a thing. And like I said, I
don't want to be you know, doom and gloomy. But
but this is not just an injury. This is something
where hey, this is something medically he's got to deal
with the rest of his career. And and as you're
gonna hear more about Chris Bosh's situation in Brandon Ingram situation,
you're gonna get the lady and the tiger. You're gonna
get Hey, you can come back from it. Look at
the career that Brandon, everything is great, and then you
(10:01):
get Chris Posh who was I was never the same
after so that this is this is really shocking and
more eye opening than your into your news of Hey,
so and so is injured and he's not going to
play the rest of the year.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I mean you go back to the battles that
Kawhi Leonard had with the Spurs training staff back in
the day, right, not about obviously the same issue, but
you're gonna need a lot of medical opinions. You're gonna
have to go outside of your normal bit of trainers.
And I bring them up obviously because you know there
there was a lot of back and forth about treatment
(10:33):
and plans and everything there. So for when min Yama
he's there, he's got to get to figure out what's
the best course of care. Talk about travel, you know
how many look, they litigated out a lot of the
back to back, so some of that will will be
assisted there. But you know, I only half jokingly bring
up you know, like a Madden Kruzer kind of situation
(10:55):
where you have things within range here you're just gonna
sleep on a bus instead of getting on a plane.
You know, we've seen athletes that have had different medical
issues that have kept them from playing in Denver, and
you know, high altitude and everything else, so you start
getting into those kind of situations. You talked about it
being exacerbated by by height. Obviously we're all hitting the
(11:16):
web MD and trying to get a little deeper diagnosis
because this is this is seismic, right. We talked about
the Anthony Edwards quote the other day of hey, you
could be one of the fas. No, that's why you
guys brought wenby over right that he's he's the guy.
So immediately you know this is one of your stars
that you were pinning the future on. And because you know,
I'm a big nerd. Over the course of the weekend
(11:38):
doing the Sunday show I did with Mark Medina, we're
talking about different things, he had done a big piece
on Jaron Jackson, So I immediately, you know, again disease
guy that I am at times, went and looked up
the defensive player of the ear odds because Jackson was
a guy that you would have had a long shot.
He's not the co leader with Evan Mobley for the award,
followed by by guy Lou Dort, by the way, eineighteen
(12:00):
to one.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
But are you gonna stop mentioning you? You know you
trying to find certain peepy. Try got a while man
all the time. Here's Lou Dort. Okay, how dare you?
Are you happy you got Lou Dordon?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I want to get chat home grinned while you're talking.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, see, let's go. No, you don't even need to
do that. You just say chet for random, just at
random references on the show at night. You just say, Chet, dude,
we're talking about the NFL. Yeah, Chet, what what do you?
What are you doing? Let you do it all the time.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Maybe maybe I'm planting messages. Have you not seen everything
going around where folks are trying to plant subliminal messages.
I behold the power of Chet. But you know, to
this back to the seriousness of this, So like, look,
I hope your your legs are good and you're getting it.
But it's a reminder of the folks right as they
read about this, to make sure one you're getting your
(12:47):
exercise in, making sure you're getting your checkups, and recognizing
that even in highly skilled and athletic beings that stuff
like this does transpire and wish the best. Like I
saw the headline and just went on man right when
we were getting excited to see what was gonna happen
not only for him but Spurs after adding Deer and
(13:09):
Fox that and keeping their base right. Stefan Castle showing
out as well as he did, should have won the
dunk contest, but didn't that you have all those guys like,
all right, I'm waiting for the second half, so I
have to change some of my second half predictions that
will make later.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Man, I'll tell you, and Wemby was on his way.
We've talked about this. By the end of the season,
it was it would have been widely accepted going into
next year. He's the best player in the NBA. He's
the best all around player in the NBA. He does
things that nobody else. As great as Jokic is, as
great as Giannis is, it would be accepted nobody can
do what Wemby can because nobody can't. No one's made
(13:46):
for this era of the NBA better than Wemby is, right,
I mean, as great as great as Jokich is, he
doesn't do what Wemby does right, And that's that's a
big thing. And now you just got to hope, you know,
prayers up for him, that everything turns out okay. He's
bad to playing okay in the fall. But like I said,
the deep vein thrombosa is not just Hey, here's a
you know, a broken pinky is gonna be out for
(14:06):
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off the air. Well, the Dodgers don't score in the
bottom of the first inning. They're overrated. This lineup should
never been put together. The season's over, They're already a disappointment.
Feine on Fox, Dave Roberts should be fired.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
He couldn't manufacture a run in the first he tellent nothing.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Just wait till he goes to the bullpen next inning,
right and they're playing the Cubs. So again, happy beginning
of these Paul season. We got John Paul Morosi coming
up next hour on the show to talk about big
stuff with us. But tonight is the biggest sporting event
of the week and gonna be one of the biggest
sporting events of the year, the Four Nations Championship between
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Canada and the United States. And you know it's this
is the biggest hockey game that we've had in this
country since the Miracle on Ice of nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I was gonna go to the Big King Series. Yeah, sure, sure,
I'm trying. I want to make it about me, but you're.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Looking at the you're looking at the at the the
backdrop of this, of anytime hockey is US against the world.
It cuts through the clutter and people who aren't even
hockey fans stop what they're doing. I want to see.
We have to win. Because nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice
is still the defining strictly sports topic of my lifetime.
This is forty five years later, still miracle on ice,
Miracle on ice, and with the game being against Canada,
(16:59):
with it being in our window, it's not a it's
not an Olympic game that hey, you have to get
up and watch it four in the morning because it's
being held you know, halfway across the globe. It's United
States Canada. Look, the World Cup games have been big,
They've been big Olympic games. You know, still why the
referee doesn't jump up and let the puck go by
and again was able to get it. But anyway, look,
because of that and then the backdrop politically that has
(17:22):
played into this, with President Trump talking about getting Canada
be our fifty first state, Canada responding by saying, well, maybe, well,
annex California like this is what played into the emotions
from Saturday, and three fights in the first nine seconds
and bone jarring hits in the United States dictating play
like There's been no game that has been looked forward
(17:44):
to in hockey more than this. This is a It
is a huge, huge event, and honestly, I have a
way to make it even bigger.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Well, we already had the mayor like proposal, right, I
mean that's what we want to have. Trades and justin
trying to give take away as a throw in.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Well, that's that's the thing, and that that's the idea,
is that the winner, okay gets the other team gets
the other team's property. If we win, we get Canada.
If Canada wins, they get California, and and the loser
gets Drake to get Drake. Yes, Serena Williams comes out
and drops the drops the buck off beginning and Shouedgy
walks off. That's how it goes. You tell me you
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wouldn't watch us. We'd be bet we're betting property, we're
betting land, we're betting states and countries. This would be
the most watched sporting event in the history of the globe.
I don't know what hockey is. But boy, I really
hope we win because I want Canada. I'm okay being
a pawn in this. You and I live in California.
I'm okay with this. To make this bet even better,
why not man winner gets If the United States wins,
(18:42):
we get Canada. They win, they get California.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, you got a lot of folks that have the
daily debate of whether they should leave California anyway for
me reason. So so you got that going on. I
need both leaders miked up, right, both Trump and Trudeau.
We need a cavalcade of stars, you know, kind of
showcasing the where goods and services and everything else that
would be part of the trade. I mean, that's all
your interstitials. I don't need baby races or folks shooting
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the puck trying to win a car or anything not.
And no, we got all sorts of stuff. We need
to educate and inform you of everything that's at stake
with every bone jarring hit, with every shot on, with
every dump and chase scenario as we go. Yeah, I
was thinking from a you know, global impact. It's still
trying to think of all those little kids that watch
the Dream Team come in and beat up their squads.
(19:31):
And then now the globe has taken over basketball, which
is why we're talking about us versus the world for
the NBA. But staying here, No, I like the stakes
of this. Really, it's must see viewing. And and every
It's like whenever we do one of these giant concerts
or a presidential address, every network has to carry it
except one or two that have old Judge Judy, you know,
(19:53):
reruns or something.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Boy, I get this game everywhere except some crazy college
basketball game on True TV.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Practic shokers.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Just keep going. Now. I saw that Trump said he's
not coming tonight because give a speech, a speech to
the governors. But he did fan the flames by saying, yeah,
hopefully soon Canada's gonna be our fifty first state. So
it's on, man, it's and I was hoping he would
go tonight so you could have Trump and Trudeau like
in in in separate suites, and like when the United
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States scores, like Trump has a big map out and
he's like coloring in Canada, like to be part of
the United States, and then you know, Canada scores, and
and Trudeau is like cutting California off of the United
States map and pasting it to the top like right
below Alaska, Like I could I could have gone for
something like that to move.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
He gets up and does the dance and then on
on the screen it's like, hey, look we're a minute
closer to adding Tom Green.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I gonna go oh yeah, oh yeah, because then that's
that moose.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, that moose is ours.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Then we would just start adding stuff like crazy if
we're betting that, Like yeah, we would bet hey, if
we win, we get Tom Green. Uh you know that.
That's that's kind of how I mean.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He comes with Canada.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Yeah, yeah, we already have Ryan Reynolds, so because he's Canada,
but he's really United States. So I mean, I mean,
if you start betting celebrities, like you'd have to really
get Yeah. But then he had a lot of miles. Yeah,
but then he.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Owns a soccer club by internationally.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is he's well, he's kind of everywhere. It's like, I mean,
maybe maybe maybe loser gets Drake, winner gets Ryan Reynolds.
Oh maybe that should be how it should go.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, he does generate a lot of money, sure, so
that that's that's good for business, all right. A little
bit of controversy follows him. But as you have it.
Quote from Bill Garon when asked about what President Trump
said to Team USA spoke to them for quite a while.
All Garan would say is, quote, just wanted to wish
us luck. Yeah, man, if you were he talked to
(21:49):
you for a while, what did he say, Come on,
what are you gonna give? You give me the juicy stuff? Yeah, yeah,
he said good luck. Just he just basically said good luck.
It's gonna be great, though. I mean, we talked about
up to hitting the fights right. The over under for
this game five and a half goals three to one
last Saturday for Canada. Can they get can they free
folks up right? The international stage? We always talk about
(22:12):
skaters and trying to just get guys out in space.
Can they find that that edge? And will the goaltending
be up to the task. I mean he's he is,
in fact, the MVP favored Smith, so you know all
of that rests on his big shoulders.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now we'll get to the game itself to every because
people are gonna watch and they're gonna say, I really
don't get what should I watch for? Who do I
need to know? We'll tell you what to know. The
big stuff, because it's going to be the event that
you're gonna want to know what's going on. We'll get
to that coming up in ninety seconds, but first, Dan
Byer's got what's trending in the wide world of sports dB.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Big news from the NBA is Victor wembin Yama on
the seven Victor webbin Yama of the San Antonio Spurs
will miss the rest of the season. Spurs said wembin
Yama has deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder and
the condition was discovered when we turn from All Star weekend.
Wimbyama reportedly felt some symptoms hope it would be okay
after the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That is not the case.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Victor Wembinyama done for the year for the San Antonio Spurs.
Mavericks forward Anthony Davis is going to miss another two
weeks of action because of his adductor strain. Team says
Davis is progressing well from the injury. The agent for
Hornet center Mark Williams released to stavement, saying multiple doctors
have told them that they believe Williams should have passed
his physical with the LA Lakers. Jeff Schwartz from Excel
(23:28):
Sports Management said Williams was ready to play for the
Lakers and should have been given the opportunity, but instead
the trade was canceled on the failed physical Bucks forward
Bobby Portis has spended twenty five games for testing positive
for a band at substance. He'll be able to return
with four games remaining of the regular season. Golf Channel
says a deal could be in place quote by the
(23:48):
end of the day end quote between the PGA Tour
and Public Investment Fund, which runs live Golf. The report
says that there's a possibility live players could be back
in PGA Tour events, possibly a suit is the Players
Championship in March. If this agreement is made. President Trump
in on the meetings today, as was Tiger Woods. Yankees
gave manager Aaron Boon an extension through twenty twenty seven
(24:10):
in Texas, and USC have announced they will not be
holding spring games in college football this year. Guys, back
to you.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Thanks bunch TV. All right, So for tonight's game, there's
three big things to know, right. Three bit thing. Number one,
You're gonna love the hitting because Team USA is physical
and it's how they're able to control the game. They
don't they play kind of a counter attack style because
Canada has the best players in the world and still
roster is better than the United States. But you are
going to see the United States hit and hit often.
(24:38):
I'm sure there's going to be a fight in the
first ten minutes of the game, because ten minutes the
tension and the excitement level is going to be is
going to be ratchet up, Like I think. I think
both sides have probably been talked to about dropping the
gloves the beginning of the game. Oh no, I'm glad
they've both been talked to about it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
As soon as bream finishes, that's it. Drop the gloves.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It'll be like in slap Shot when they're all fighting
while they're all bleeding while the national anthem's going on.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Meanwhile, someone's gotta stop watching there because they bet the
over under on the anthem in such an important space.
I mean, look, you want to talk about auditioning, here's
an opportunity for you singing the anthem tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It is gonna be a physical game and the hitting
is gonna rile up the crowd. It's gonna rile up Canada. Uh,
and it's gonna be an entire game thing. I mean,
good luck to Crosby and McKennon and McDavid because these
are the guys that Canada needs to carry them in.
Good bleeping luck because these guys, it's gonna be elbows
and hips and your face matched into the boards every
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moment possible. It's going to be a thing. And they're
gonna set the tempo right away and and that's gonna
be something. The energy level that takes you through the game,
it's gonna be hitting and hitting and hitting the entire game.
That's the big, biggest first thing you're gonna see. And
the excitement level. There's gonna be a big hit in
the first twenty five seconds of the game. As soon
as as soon as the puck goes to somebody forget
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whoever touches the put first. That's it. You're getting drilled.
That's how it's gonna go. And it's gonna kick off.
It's not gonna be we're gonna we're gonna wean our
way into the game and kind of see how things
are going. No, No, it's gonna be big hitting right away.
They're gonna take advantage of this and you're gonna see
you're gonna see that physicality right from the jump.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Head on a swivel on every shift. Uh, trying to
seize tempo momentum, get the crowd fired up, UH and
keep that engagement right. You need to need to bust
that initial energy because there's gonna be a lot of
a lot of nervous and energy and excitement as this
bubbles up. As we we've waited on this since Saturday,
(26:35):
where it's started to get some run. Like I did
a radio spot on the drive into the studio today
with my buddies in Baltimore, and one of the guys
actually asked me, goes, what is there any buzz for
it in LA. I'm like, I don't know, but Smith
and I are fired up as hell, and the other
guys just started laughing.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
It's like it's the past.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
It's like, I don't know that we're fired up.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, yeah, it's the perfect time. Look, we're coming off
a really bad NBA All Star game there. You know,
baseball is just getting started now. College basketball is college basketball.
I mean, it's a great spot in the calendar to
be able to to figure something like this out, and
looks it shows you that if you keep trying for
All Star Games. You'll eventually find something. Right. The NBA,
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we don't know what do we keep trying some every year.
NHL's try to do that. And look where they have now.
Now they have a big event that should be on
the calendar every year. They figured out the mid season
tournament thing, which, oh my goodness, this must make Adam
Silver just be really just go crazy going they figured
out the mid season tournament. Don't get get made fun
of for this. Yeah, okay, then he likes tournaments.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
He just wants to be madding tournaments.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's the perfect moment in time for a game like
this to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Well, but also, I mean like they framed it as
the asking me in La. I'm like, well, we got
the Dodgers Cubs to start spring training and everybody's burning
it down after Luca and Lebron lost to Charlotte. So
here in La might not be the best barometer of
how excited they are about US Canada. Although I think
as the time ticks down and maybe they're in their
social yeah, maybe they start getting a bit more of
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the fever.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Uh. The second thing is this right, is that Connor
Hellibook is the best goalie the United States has had ever.
He is the best goalie that has ever had, the
best American born goalie that we have ever seen. And
nobody really knows about him because he plays in Winnipeg,
right playing Nipeg Jet. I mean, hey, look at me.
(28:25):
I love to find any excuse to talk about how
good the Jets are, even if it's not the football Jets,
just by saying Jets, Hey the Jet Look how good
the Jets are. The Jets have the best player Jets Jets, Jets, Jets.
But Connor Hellibook is that good and he had an
incredible game Saturday. And what I mean this is he's
the best American born goalie we have ever had. The
guy's got two ve Trophies. He's gonna have a third
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this year. You talked about how he's the odds on
favorite for MVP. Not many guys have three Veseno Trophies.
You're talking about the best guys in the history of
the sport, like Wah and Hasseck and Brodeur and these
guys that have been absolute legends. And hella Bok's gonna
be thirty one years old and already have three. Like
it's a fada complete This is happening, and really, you know,
(29:07):
to think about this and why, Okay, if if Canada's
got the better roster, we're able to win Saturday, We're
not gonna surprise them again a hot goalie. There is
no position in sports that can negate an attire team
like a goalie and hockey ken And I remember, and
it was funny because I was watching Jay n Right,
formerly a Fox Sports one. You know, they're talking about
this game the other night in studio and the best
(29:28):
way to describe it as this, this is how good
Hella book is is that he's Jim Craig, Right, He's
Jim Craig nineteen eighty. You're looking for the cop there,
it is Jim Craig nineteen eighty. Is that the only
way for Canada to win is if Hellabook has a
bad night and he doesn't have many bad nights Like
that was the perfect way to succinctly describe this. This
is what to expect. Yes, Canada's got the forwards, they
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have this, they have the depth, they have everything. But
unless Hellibook has a bad night, Canada's not gonna win.
And the guy doesn't have bad nights. Now, I just
said this he's gonna have a horrible night, give up
three goals in the first three minutes and take him
out of the game. But that would fit with you
here where you're at, right, that's where you're at with
this game.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Thirty four seven and two two point oh seven goals against,
ninety three percent save effort with six shutouts on the air.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
This is this is hype unlike any game since eighty
and this is a big chance for hockey to get
a springboard and get back to coming off the fringes
of being a big national sport. Right Like we saw
the big jump in nineteen eighty after the miracle nights,
we haven't really seen that jump, right. Gary Bettman has
driven the driven the NHL straight to the middle and
(30:37):
down right like where now that you know they're on
the periphery, the MLS is more popular, the MLS has
more growth, and you know the WNBA has more growth. Right,
We're seeing you need to see something, and this is
that night that could do it, right, This is the
night that could do it. I mean, I really it's
I mean, it's it's stunning and it's fun that we're
going to have a big hockey event being the sporting
(30:57):
event of the week, maybe the sporting event of the
rest of this month, and because everybody's going to be
wrapped up in it tonight, just like we do for
the Olympics, except more so, just like we do for
the World Cup of Hockey, except more so. The average
fan is going to flock to this tonight and it's
going to be some kind of event.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Going to get some great ratings, no question about it.
Whether you get long term viability out of it, we'll see,
you'll get some converts that'll come in for a bit.
A part of it is just got to keep promoting
this sport as you get back into regular play, right
because it's going to be dwarfed in a lot of
promotional stuff because well a lot of your games are
(31:32):
residing on ABC, ESPN, which also has the NBA, so
you're going to have those at least for another year
then we get to NBC. But the other thing is
this helps build up more drama and anticipation of the
Olympics next year in Italy. So if nothing else, we
do get the long look ahead of what that team
could be after tonight. But yeah, with all those heavy
(31:55):
stakes and if you peep in the back of your
mind that the winner gets to claim a lot of
land proper and ghat and services. Then, yeah, it really
takes on a gravity unknown demand.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Look and and and to button this a bit with
is that, you know, we always whenever something happens in
the NFL, whenever there's a big story, like, we always
make a joke going. The second question is always what's
the fantasy fallout of this? Right, we always say that,
But whenever a story like this comes up, we always say, yeah,
what's the gambling fall out of this? Yeah, and so
far it's a huge deal there. You know, the casinos
(32:25):
are taking like seven times more money on these games
than anything else in hockey this year. It's a huge
success for them too. Like this has been a win win,
win win across the board. And Baby, we win tonight,
we get Canada. Maybe that happens, buddy, follow that money
exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios
(32:47):
coming up next. Yes, tonight is also the big kickoff
of the second half of the NBA season. Yeah, we
had the Lakers lose a horrendously embarrassing game last night.
But why are we looking forward to the rest of
this NBA even more so than we were a few
days ago. I'll tell you next right here, Jason Smith,
Mike Cartman, and for Doug Gottlieb. This is Fox Sports Radio,
and thank you Missioner Gary Batman.
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
I am so excited, more excited than I was the
last few days because now we don't have to hear
about how bad the bleep and All Star Games, don't
have to hear experts and insiders and players complaining about
how the NBA All Star Game was the decline and
fall of Western civilization. I don't get all of a
sudden the hate that's piled up. Was it just a
(33:53):
slow news week and it was the week after the
Super Bowl, and hey, we don't like this all start GA.
The All Star Game is stunk for years, right, the
All Star Games in many sports have stunk for years.
The heyday of the All Star Game is over right,
It's not going back to where it was. We're just
going to continue to keep trying things every year to
see if this works. Now. Was this something that everybody loved? No,
(34:14):
players didn't like it, But I mean, I mean we don't.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
We talked to Rick Buker on our show last night
and we brought up, how does how is the All
Star Game any reflection of the health or how good
a sport is? Right, you're telling me you're judging the
overall NBA the downratings blah blah blah blah because of
the All Star Game. I mean, come on, the All
Star Game is irrelevant. It's something that happens on Sunday
and we forget about it Sunday night, one minute after
(34:38):
the game is over because it is irrelevant. It's a
fun weekend. You can watch it or not watch it.
But people want the All Star Game to be something
it's not, and no one has solutions. They I don't
like this. Well, it's like a little kid, what do
you want not this? What do you want to eat?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Well?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't want this. I don't want this what do
you tell me what you want? I don't know, but
I don't want this, like I really I fail to
see how this was a huge, huge problem and how
the NBA is now going to wind up going bankrupt
because I had a bad All Star Game and suddenly
Adam Silver is a bad commissioner. It's I think people
are just going over the top. They wanted to hate
stuff so much, and yeah, okay, the All Star Game
has been bad for a while, but all of a sudden,
(35:14):
this is the worst thing in that the NBA.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Come on, I want a hot dog, I want a milkshake,
I want like it.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It really does come down to that. Look to the
point of the All Star Game. It's the Kevin Durant.
You don't like it, don't watch right, find something else
to do. There were plenty of other things to do.
I know, a lot of the country dealing with weather
issues so and bitter cold and frigid tempts. So maybe
you were stuck indoors, but certainly so opportunity uh to
(35:48):
you know, find something else, but you know, find a
Harry Potter marathon or whatever floats about. Go watch what's that?
What is a paradise that you've now got me hooked
into I told season two just announced, which received a
foregone conclusion, but not either way, the point being that
it's a blip on the radar and you get back
like people didn't like the product. We got away from
(36:08):
hating the NBA for a week, and you know what,
it had nothing to do with games that were actually
being played. It was all theoretical conclusions about guys getting traded.
That's the only positivity there's been outside of beat riders
in each individual market and maybe talking about how great
Wenby was or Shay Gildess Alexander, here's Jokic with this
(36:30):
twenty five triple doubles and look, Lebron is forty, but
he's still playing really young, all those things like he
had a couple of positive things sprinkled in. As for
the rest of the league, it was like, ah, this
all sucks. And then we had a week about the trades, like, wow,
this is great. What's gonna happen for Golden State. People
started doing their simulators. Jimmy Butler got over on pat Riley, Hey,
(36:50):
this is wonderful. There's Luca, there's this, there's the failed
trade with Mark Williams, so yeah, you know, we can
talk about that. So, yeah, the trade deadline give us
all and it was during Super Bowl week. So look
the NBA, it's great. And then as soon as they
get back on a court in any way, shape or form,
I don't like it now because I want to have
(37:10):
solutions to give you. I'm not just gonna be the
I'm not gonna be Draymond Green, who doesn't even try.
Those players don't even try, and then complain about the
All Star Game. No, you want something like this is
what you do? You borrow from the NHL. Right, who's
doing the US ver? You know, the United States, Canada,
the Four Nations tournament? It works, right, it works.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
It probably works a little bit more for hockey because
that's when we really get up for hockey. As we
talked about it a few minutes ago, when it's US
against the world, US against Russia, US against Canada. The
players seem to want USA versus the World, right, they
talked about it following the game. A USA versus the
World would be a lot of fun. There's not enough
for a big four nation because it's not enough players,
but you could have a USA versus the World?
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Great?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Why not let's try it. If I'm Adam Silver, I'm
doing cartwheels because I'm saying to myself, well, at least
they come when IDA for last year, because at least
people aren't gonna complain, right, because that's the one thing
the players want this, the fans would seem to be
excited about it. So yeah, let's try this next year.
At least we're gonna We're not gonna get people saying
this is a horrible idea. It's actually that's your idea.
(38:14):
It's what you want. So if the players are excited,
do it. Because one of the big rules of sports
is a happy player is a good player, and so
if they're happy playing this game, there'll be more positivity
around the event itself, and at least for a year,
the NBA and Adam Silver can avoid the oh my goodness,
the All Star Game sucks. We're gonna have to cancel
the NBA season. We can't play anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
We still have that in the moment, right, You got
guys that at least for now are excited and maybe
coming back to the three point contest or the dunk contest,
and then you've got this one on one thing that's
been floated, which everybody's all excited about until they actually
have to sign up or wait, if I lose, what happens.
Everybody was all, Lebron, this all is terrible and I'm
(38:54):
not gonna watch it. And then Lebron didn't play, and
it was the worst thing in the world that Lebron
didn't play, So yeah, versus the world. Although a lot
of players like the format that they played on Sunday,
they just stopped liking the fact that in a bunch
of all these improv sets that were taking up, can
I play basketball plays? Can I put this back in play?
Kevin Hart, sit out and shut up. I want to
(39:16):
put the ball in play.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Kevin Hart's going to be part of the All Star
Game whether you like it or not. Man, you just
got to accept that and go forward. I don't like fun.
I don't like that there was fun during the All
Star Game. I'm a fun hater. Well, I think it
was more than it was.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Three and a half hours of content in thirty minutes
of basketball.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Exit out about of Fresco Swollen Dome coming up next,
Big feelish predictions for the second half of the season.
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