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Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Tyres Halliburton Hall of Fame Game. Daddy, would you like some sausage? Daddy? Look at me, Daddy, Live from the Fox Sports or Radio studios. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free back by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. Well, here we are. We jump in right away. Final twenty seconds of the third quarter. The Pacers lead the Knicks in a pivotal game four one ninety one, also known as the tyres Halliburton game. Well, I mean he's going to the Hall of Fame off of this game. Twenty eight points, fourteen assists, and eight rebounds, not even through three quarters of the game. This is where Tyrese Halliburton is at the night he is having. Now you know why the Pacers said, Hey, we got to bring your dad back.

Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the Tyres Halliburton Hall of Fame Game. Daddy, would you like some sausage? Daddy? Look at me, Daddy, Live from the Fox Sports or Radio studios. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free back by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. Well, here we are. We jump in right away. Final twenty seconds of the third quarter. The Pacers lead the Knicks in a pivotal game four one ninety one, also known as the tyres Halliburton game. Well, I mean he's going to the Hall of Fame off of this game. Twenty eight points, fourteen assists, and eight rebounds, not even through three quarters of the game. This is where Tyrese Halliburton is at the night he is having. Now you know why the Pacers said, Hey, we got to bring your dad back.

Man.

Man.

Look they're patting themselves on the back, going, yeah, we brought your dad back at the right time. Look at this game, you ever, one of the greatest games in NBA playoff history. We did the right pat yourselves on the back.

Look they're patting themselves on the back, going, yeah, we brought your dad back at the right time. Look at this game, you ever, one of the greatest games in NBA playoff history. We did the right pat yourselves on the back.

You did the right thing.

You did the right thing.

It's the complete opposite of Jamie Tart when his dad showed up. He just could not play here all world Jacob himself Hall of Famer Jamy tu Ai is catchy. I'll tell you what, absolutely true. Look, I'm stunned, honestly, the game is this close right because here we are twenty seconds ago on the third quarter, and the Pacers has simply done everything they've wanted to do offensively in this game, everything they've wanted to do. The knickser lost on almost every defensive possession. There's a Pacer wide open for three at the end of the shot clock, there's an easy path to the hoop. I don't know if Brunson is missing some defensive assignments up top, but offensively, the Pacers have done everything. Halli Burton has done anything he wanted to. They're playing at the pace they wanted to, which is they want to go up and down the court fast. They want to be able to hold Jalen Brunson down and make him dribble the ball up court and the pressure him as often as he's on the floor. I mean, the Pacers have done everything they've wanted to, They've played at the pace they've wanted to, and yet it's a ten point game like this should be. The Knick should be down twenty five at this point. I can't believe it's honestly, it's this close. Well, they've doubled up on turnover too, Nicks with fourteen to the Pacers seven, but they've made it count at the foul line. Twenty six of twenty nine last couple of minutes have been a wrestling match, and curiously officiated in the process Benedict Mathern. I would put him, I would just call him the menace because at some point Kat or somebody is just going to haul off on him. He has tackled Jalen Brunson at least twice in the last two minutes, and they're they're really just beating the hell out of bruns and seeing if they'll react at this point getting into the end of the third quarter. But that first half from Halliburton was a clinic. I mean, to rebound short of a triple double in the first half. What he did, Joe jaed, you know, looking at lines and having some fun with it as we do here. His over under for points, rebounds, and assists was thirty five and a half for the game. Yeah, he got you. You're feeling pretty good when you can celebrate down and a half the bills before Halft, I was all right, you're looking bill with at the before the last time out official time out of the second quarter, I mean, imediately going to live wagering opportunities. What has the market given me? I'll tell you man, It is an eleven point lead for the Pacers going to the fourth quarter.

It's the complete opposite of Jamie Tart when his dad showed up. He just could not play here all world Jacob himself Hall of Famer Jamy tu Ai is catchy. I'll tell you what, absolutely true. Look, I'm stunned, honestly, the game is this close right because here we are twenty seconds ago on the third quarter, and the Pacers has simply done everything they've wanted to do offensively in this game, everything they've wanted to do. The knickser lost on almost every defensive possession. There's a Pacer wide open for three at the end of the shot clock, there's an easy path to the hoop. I don't know if Brunson is missing some defensive assignments up top, but offensively, the Pacers have done everything. Halli Burton has done anything he wanted to. They're playing at the pace they wanted to, which is they want to go up and down the court fast. They want to be able to hold Jalen Brunson down and make him dribble the ball up court and the pressure him as often as he's on the floor. I mean, the Pacers have done everything they've wanted to, They've played at the pace they've wanted to, and yet it's a ten point game like this should be. The Knick should be down twenty five at this point. I can't believe it's honestly, it's this close. Well, they've doubled up on turnover too, Nicks with fourteen to the Pacers seven, but they've made it count at the foul line. Twenty six of twenty nine last couple of minutes have been a wrestling match, and curiously officiated in the process Benedict Mathern. I would put him, I would just call him the menace because at some point Kat or somebody is just going to haul off on him. He has tackled Jalen Brunson at least twice in the last two minutes, and they're they're really just beating the hell out of bruns and seeing if they'll react at this point getting into the end of the third quarter. But that first half from Halliburton was a clinic. I mean, to rebound short of a triple double in the first half. What he did, Joe jaed, you know, looking at lines and having some fun with it as we do here. His over under for points, rebounds, and assists was thirty five and a half for the game. Yeah, he got you. You're feeling pretty good when you can celebrate down and a half the bills before Halft, I was all right, you're looking bill with at the before the last time out official time out of the second quarter, I mean, imediately going to live wagering opportunities. What has the market given me? I'll tell you man, It is an eleven point lead for the Pacers going to the fourth quarter.

Now.

Now.

The only thing I can say is, well, Nick's got to where they want him right. Hey, down eleven going to the fourth quarter. Hey, we're good. Man, this is what we wanted. We love being down ten eleven points. We go to the fourth quarter, it's our quarter, let's go. But I'm telling you nothing's gonna matter unless somehow defensively they can flip the script in the fourth quarter. Because real, I mean, you watch the Pacers offensively, and Haliburton gets moving, He's got a lot of space and and I don't know if it's just panic. I don't know if the Knicks are losing their assignments, but they're just allowing the Pacers to do anything they've wanted. I can't believe Pacers miss as many shots aid they're shooting fifty five percent from the floor. I can't believe it's it's that low. Like I really I missed that, man. I feel like they haven't missed one, like since the early part of the second quarter. Well you're, oh, now Martin with the three, that's the last miss. That was eighteen minutes ago in game time. Like real, The fact that it's the eleven point game is stunning to me. So I want to think that, Okay, maybe it's there. But at the same time, I mean, the Pacers hoops, they're easy hoops. There's no because like every time down the floor for the Knicks, specially especially with Brunson. Yes, they want to slow it down, so he's gonna try to, you know, try to back the defender down and try to turn the lane and try to find somebody. The Knicks baskets are all work right, and you need some kind of easy stuff right obviously, but the Knicks offense is not bad so far, but defensively you also need to make them the other team work a little bit. And I don't see any plays where I feel like, hey, the pay boy. That was something that was Halliburton with two guys on him and the step back three or here he was in the lane and he leans into the contact like the hoops are just too easy. There's you got. You gotta make him work at some point down the floor. Well, the other part is we were watching final a couple of minutes of the first half and as the third quarter began, all the fifty to fifty balls fell to Indiana right the thud to the side of the rim, So you're in perfect rebounding position if it was a true rebound. Instead it comes short, so it's an easy flow. There. There was another play that ball goes up, you've got two rebounders. Somehow it scorts out to a guy who's literally sitting on his ass to trigger a shot. Now, Halliburnon missed the three, but it was indicative of the way the prior two to three minutes a game time had gone, where the ball is just finding the feet of the Indiana Pacers for another wide open look or a trigger back inside for the knick side of it. Again, they're taking care of business at the file line twenty six of twenty nine. Thus far brunts at eleven of twelve taking a beating. But you've seen it. There's no easy layups, there's no transition. You don't expect to win that time and again against the squad, right, you don't want to run against the Pacers given their depth, and they were pretty judicious with the minutes for Jalen Brunson again in the second quarter, he got a nice long rest, figuring he's gonna wear some heavy minutes here down the stretch. But defensively, he's sitting at a minus sixty lost getting bumped off the block and again if you're not gonna call the the fall as he's trying to get through a screen and those kind of things consistently, because it's like any other sport, right you watch with your kids, soccer game, any of you out there, or youth basketball whatever, you're not calling all the falls because you can't, right, And that's certainly what's happened in this playoff series where you start pushing the boundaries of how much can I get away with a body or a hand hand check or do you have to really leave an imprint of all four fingers across the guy's wrist and go, hey, Rev, I'd like a challenge on this one, because that's what we're seeing, a lot of a lot of holding down on rebounding attempts. So big challenge. Fourth quarter coming up. So here we are again, an eleven point lead for the Pacers over the next fourth quarter, just underweight. Now we make a big deal obviously. John Halliburton, Tyre's Halliburton's dad dad at the game tonight for the first time since getting banned because he couldn't control himself and had to troll Giannis after the Pacers eliminated the Bucks a couple of weeks ago. So he gets to come back to the game tonight and now look, I don't think there's any I don't think there's any any question as to Hey, like I said, they did the right thing. We brought him back at the right time because look at the night Halliburton's having. Now, Frostburg says, we have the pregame speech right of Halliburton and speech.

The only thing I can say is, well, Nick's got to where they want him right. Hey, down eleven going to the fourth quarter. Hey, we're good. Man, this is what we wanted. We love being down ten eleven points. We go to the fourth quarter, it's our quarter, let's go. But I'm telling you nothing's gonna matter unless somehow defensively they can flip the script in the fourth quarter. Because real, I mean, you watch the Pacers offensively, and Haliburton gets moving, He's got a lot of space and and I don't know if it's just panic. I don't know if the Knicks are losing their assignments, but they're just allowing the Pacers to do anything they've wanted. I can't believe Pacers miss as many shots aid they're shooting fifty five percent from the floor. I can't believe it's it's that low. Like I really I missed that, man. I feel like they haven't missed one, like since the early part of the second quarter. Well you're, oh, now Martin with the three, that's the last miss. That was eighteen minutes ago in game time. Like real, The fact that it's the eleven point game is stunning to me. So I want to think that, Okay, maybe it's there. But at the same time, I mean, the Pacers hoops, they're easy hoops. There's no because like every time down the floor for the Knicks, specially especially with Brunson. Yes, they want to slow it down, so he's gonna try to, you know, try to back the defender down and try to turn the lane and try to find somebody. The Knicks baskets are all work right, and you need some kind of easy stuff right obviously, but the Knicks offense is not bad so far, but defensively you also need to make them the other team work a little bit. And I don't see any plays where I feel like, hey, the pay boy. That was something that was Halliburton with two guys on him and the step back three or here he was in the lane and he leans into the contact like the hoops are just too easy. There's you got. You gotta make him work at some point down the floor. Well, the other part is we were watching final a couple of minutes of the first half and as the third quarter began, all the fifty to fifty balls fell to Indiana right the thud to the side of the rim, So you're in perfect rebounding position if it was a true rebound. Instead it comes short, so it's an easy flow. There. There was another play that ball goes up, you've got two rebounders. Somehow it scorts out to a guy who's literally sitting on his ass to trigger a shot. Now, Halliburnon missed the three, but it was indicative of the way the prior two to three minutes a game time had gone, where the ball is just finding the feet of the Indiana Pacers for another wide open look or a trigger back inside for the knick side of it. Again, they're taking care of business at the file line twenty six of twenty nine. Thus far brunts at eleven of twelve taking a beating. But you've seen it. There's no easy layups, there's no transition. You don't expect to win that time and again against the squad, right, you don't want to run against the Pacers given their depth, and they were pretty judicious with the minutes for Jalen Brunson again in the second quarter, he got a nice long rest, figuring he's gonna wear some heavy minutes here down the stretch. But defensively, he's sitting at a minus sixty lost getting bumped off the block and again if you're not gonna call the the fall as he's trying to get through a screen and those kind of things consistently, because it's like any other sport, right you watch with your kids, soccer game, any of you out there, or youth basketball whatever, you're not calling all the falls because you can't, right, And that's certainly what's happened in this playoff series where you start pushing the boundaries of how much can I get away with a body or a hand hand check or do you have to really leave an imprint of all four fingers across the guy's wrist and go, hey, Rev, I'd like a challenge on this one, because that's what we're seeing, a lot of a lot of holding down on rebounding attempts. So big challenge. Fourth quarter coming up. So here we are again, an eleven point lead for the Pacers over the next fourth quarter, just underweight. Now we make a big deal obviously. John Halliburton, Tyre's Halliburton's dad dad at the game tonight for the first time since getting banned because he couldn't control himself and had to troll Giannis after the Pacers eliminated the Bucks a couple of weeks ago. So he gets to come back to the game tonight and now look, I don't think there's any I don't think there's any any question as to Hey, like I said, they did the right thing. We brought him back at the right time because look at the night Halliburton's having. Now, Frostburg says, we have the pregame speech right of Halliburton and speech.

It's more of a chat between him and.

It's more of a chat between him and.

Pops, a chat between Tyres and his dad. We have that.

Pops, a chat between Tyres and his dad. We have that.

Okay, Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Exclusive.

Okay, Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Exclusive.

Okay, let's say so this is Tyres and John Halliburton pregame. All right, let's go.

Okay, let's say so this is Tyres and John Halliburton pregame. All right, let's go.

Do you want to hear it? Yeah?

Do you want to hear it? Yeah?

I got it. I can hear. I got to hear what spurred Tyrese Halliburton onto this incredible night Wait for it?

I got it. I can hear. I got to hear what spurred Tyrese Halliburton onto this incredible night Wait for it?

Ready?

Ready?

Yeah, I'm dude. Everybody's ready, man waiting with baby breath. You hear me. It's gonna make you proud, Daddy. I'm gonna make you so proud.

Yeah, I'm dude. Everybody's ready, man waiting with baby breath. You hear me. It's gonna make you proud, Daddy. I'm gonna make you so proud.

You made you that proud.

You made you that proud.

You're gonna be so proud, proud, proud. That is really emotional, that had really gotten that is I'm now affected as this uh fourth quarter?

You're gonna be so proud, proud, proud. That is really emotional, that had really gotten that is I'm now affected as this uh fourth quarter?

You know what promise?

You know what promise?

Yeah?

Yeah?

No again, daddy proud he did?

No again, daddy proud he did?

I mean there was a lot of back and forth on Matt, make me proud. I will. I think I will. I got it. I think we'll do it. I think we got Okay, I'll make you proud. Well, I may not just asked and answered, you know, the knowing nod or anything. It's a deep resonance to that exchange, which makes me say, if you, if you have the opportunity, you know, call call your dad, call your grandpa, call that person in your life and say that if he's been banned from a game, and make sure he's okay. But no, I mean, do I make you proud if he's not? I mean, where where can I now? Speaking of Dad's being banned from games? Okay, speaking of dad, forget dad tonight. I bought my dad a ticket for the the Yanche game tonight. He is down there and Anaheim Berry sent me a picture from his seats already he parked in Ron Washington spot. He said to me, tell him how he's in is to play first base. Watch He calls me right, because I told you last. I went to the game this past week, and when when I saw the Angels in the Marlins A lot easier to get tickets for that right, well, just a little bit, and uh, you know, and I tell I always tell you how great it is. And you get you get service at your seat, they bring you food. It's fantastic at Angels games. I mean, the thing is you have to watch the Angels. But uh, my dad gets down there and my dad said, so I decided to splurge for preferred parking. And I said, okay. He goes and he calls me when he gets there. He goes, you know where I'm calling you from right now? I go, all right, what happened? Like he's called me on the way into work. And when he calls me, I'm like, okay, what's going on with something?

I mean there was a lot of back and forth on Matt, make me proud. I will. I think I will. I got it. I think we'll do it. I think we got Okay, I'll make you proud. Well, I may not just asked and answered, you know, the knowing nod or anything. It's a deep resonance to that exchange, which makes me say, if you, if you have the opportunity, you know, call call your dad, call your grandpa, call that person in your life and say that if he's been banned from a game, and make sure he's okay. But no, I mean, do I make you proud if he's not? I mean, where where can I now? Speaking of Dad's being banned from games? Okay, speaking of dad, forget dad tonight. I bought my dad a ticket for the the Yanche game tonight. He is down there and Anaheim Berry sent me a picture from his seats already he parked in Ron Washington spot. He said to me, tell him how he's in is to play first base. Watch He calls me right, because I told you last. I went to the game this past week, and when when I saw the Angels in the Marlins A lot easier to get tickets for that right, well, just a little bit, and uh, you know, and I tell I always tell you how great it is. And you get you get service at your seat, they bring you food. It's fantastic at Angels games. I mean, the thing is you have to watch the Angels. But uh, my dad gets down there and my dad said, so I decided to splurge for preferred parking. And I said, okay. He goes and he calls me when he gets there. He goes, you know where I'm calling you from right now? I go, all right, what happened? Like he's called me on the way into work. And when he calls me, I'm like, okay, what's going on with something?

Dad?

Dad?

What's going He goes, you know, I'm calling you from my dad never says that I'm calling you from right now. I'm like, okay, prison, hello dad, you and I'm in jail? Are you in Are you in Angels jail? Are you in like a jail under the stadium? Did you get arrested? What happened? See in bootleg merch? He goes, I'm in my parking spot and I'm about twenty yards from walking right into the stadium. Now, how much is preferred Parking Angel Dadium for my dad, who's a vet. Uh oh, there's a discount for a vet. I think it's like, oh yeah, we had well, we had to actually had the vet discount at the playoff game with the Mets and the Dodgers last year. We had they let They saw him and they said, hey, come on right through because he's got the Vietnam Vet everything. As soon as we pulled up, they go, no, sir, come right through here. We're like, oh wow. My dad gives the wave and they waved him. Yeah they did. And then my dad came out and he had a big hat on, he had the sunglasses on. He took him off. Does he wear all that every time he can?

What's going He goes, you know, I'm calling you from my dad never says that I'm calling you from right now. I'm like, okay, prison, hello dad, you and I'm in jail? Are you in Are you in Angels jail? Are you in like a jail under the stadium? Did you get arrested? What happened? See in bootleg merch? He goes, I'm in my parking spot and I'm about twenty yards from walking right into the stadium. Now, how much is preferred Parking Angel Dadium for my dad, who's a vet. Uh oh, there's a discount for a vet. I think it's like, oh yeah, we had well, we had to actually had the vet discount at the playoff game with the Mets and the Dodgers last year. We had they let They saw him and they said, hey, come on right through because he's got the Vietnam Vet everything. As soon as we pulled up, they go, no, sir, come right through here. We're like, oh wow. My dad gives the wave and they waved him. Yeah they did. And then my dad came out and he had a big hat on, he had the sunglasses on. He took him off. Does he wear all that every time he can?

Did?

Did?

Just see what kind of discounts he can get. Yes, he wears it. When he goes to Pavilions to go to the supermart. I'm just walking in. He's got wristbands on. In the whole nine yards. This uh twelve pack of Guinness is uh sixteen dollars? Not yes, sir? Oh oh sir, no, so he got nine dollars. That's what I thought, thank you. So he calls the guy. He goes, I'm twenty yards from walking into the stadium and he says, I'm just gonna kind of saunter my way in and get there for batting practice. He was so excited to get Did he really use the term saunter though, Yeah, oh yeah, no, my dad and I, Oh that's great, my dad get some next level stuff. You'd be surprised because you see, you know, when my dad comes on the show, some of the things he says, right, you'd be surprised. My dad is one of the smartest people I've ever met. Like some of the things that he that he says and comes up with, and the way he can do that. The New York Times crossword puzzle on Friday and penn in about a minute and a half where he just goes along, go, wow, there were you know, thirty seven across clues. You've only got thirty five of them. Yeah, go, I'll see what the you know, the sweetish word for bed bug is on the way back down. I'll get that end.

Just see what kind of discounts he can get. Yes, he wears it. When he goes to Pavilions to go to the supermart. I'm just walking in. He's got wristbands on. In the whole nine yards. This uh twelve pack of Guinness is uh sixteen dollars? Not yes, sir? Oh oh sir, no, so he got nine dollars. That's what I thought, thank you. So he calls the guy. He goes, I'm twenty yards from walking into the stadium and he says, I'm just gonna kind of saunter my way in and get there for batting practice. He was so excited to get Did he really use the term saunter though, Yeah, oh yeah, no, my dad and I, Oh that's great, my dad get some next level stuff. You'd be surprised because you see, you know, when my dad comes on the show, some of the things he says, right, you'd be surprised. My dad is one of the smartest people I've ever met. Like some of the things that he that he says and comes up with, and the way he can do that. The New York Times crossword puzzle on Friday and penn in about a minute and a half where he just goes along, go, wow, there were you know, thirty seven across clues. You've only got thirty five of them. Yeah, go, I'll see what the you know, the sweetish word for bed bug is on the way back down. I'll get that end.

And then.

And then.

No, he does wait, No, he generally takes him at least he says he has a bad day if he gets to four for wordle I was like, wow, okay, I'm like sometimes I'm like you know, sweating that out at six. But I'm like, you know, I get it done. But my dad's like, yeah, four is like a bad time. I'm like, geez, okay, he's like that. If there was a cross if there was a speed crossword puzzle Olympics, my dad, I know, my dad would be at the top of that. Now there's probably a professional circuit, so they'd complain saying that the okay, if if there was like him, we're coming in and ruining it for if there was an over sixty five, you know, even like like the like the Senior crossword Puzzle Tour. But that's what I say, with all this injury, how do we put him to work for good? How do we profit off him? You'd be a bet on him. He goes, he goes to a he goes to some hikeron right, and we get him drunk and he's walking around like yeah, yeah, yo, dude, no one's gonna bet on this guy. And then boom, just like color of money and then boom, the odds go all the way down the tubes. You make all kinds of cash on him. Yeah, we can only run that circuit so long. It's a small thing. Regionally. He's gonna have to be willing to travel. I am a genius. I think this works. Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights from our shows. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well we got more from this game. Still a big Pacer lead thirteen. Now, still a long way to go in the fourth quarter, but you know, if the Pacers don't start missing shots, it's gonna be a three one for Indiana. But straight ahead, Another big story out of basketball today, Something that's taking up our attention for the last week turns out to not have happened at all. Wait, well it's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox with a whoop and a Halliburton three, then a siakam, then another three, and then another bucket. From searching online to asking your friends and family, there's lots of ways to look for jobs, but what if you had one team that can help you find the right role. That's where Express Employment Professionals comes in. Your local Express Employment Professional's office is your one connection to endless job opportunities. With just one application, they can help you find a job at a company that fits your needs. So visit Expresspros dot com and has always Express never charges job seekers a fee. Express knows when companies are hiring, offers benefits and competitive pay, and in just one interview, they're prepared to present you to multiple companies that fit your needs. Go to Expresspros dot com to get started, find your nearest location, and discover for yourself what it's like to have support in your job search. You can also start your job search through the Express Jobs at Download it today to search jobs, apply and contact your local Express team. That's Expresspros dot com to start your job search today. Gonna make you proud, Daddy.

No, he does wait, No, he generally takes him at least he says he has a bad day if he gets to four for wordle I was like, wow, okay, I'm like sometimes I'm like you know, sweating that out at six. But I'm like, you know, I get it done. But my dad's like, yeah, four is like a bad time. I'm like, geez, okay, he's like that. If there was a cross if there was a speed crossword puzzle Olympics, my dad, I know, my dad would be at the top of that. Now there's probably a professional circuit, so they'd complain saying that the okay, if if there was like him, we're coming in and ruining it for if there was an over sixty five, you know, even like like the like the Senior crossword Puzzle Tour. But that's what I say, with all this injury, how do we put him to work for good? How do we profit off him? You'd be a bet on him. He goes, he goes to a he goes to some hikeron right, and we get him drunk and he's walking around like yeah, yeah, yo, dude, no one's gonna bet on this guy. And then boom, just like color of money and then boom, the odds go all the way down the tubes. You make all kinds of cash on him. Yeah, we can only run that circuit so long. It's a small thing. Regionally. He's gonna have to be willing to travel. I am a genius. I think this works. Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights from our shows. Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well we got more from this game. Still a big Pacer lead thirteen. Now, still a long way to go in the fourth quarter, but you know, if the Pacers don't start missing shots, it's gonna be a three one for Indiana. But straight ahead, Another big story out of basketball today, Something that's taking up our attention for the last week turns out to not have happened at all. Wait, well it's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox with a whoop and a Halliburton three, then a siakam, then another three, and then another bucket. From searching online to asking your friends and family, there's lots of ways to look for jobs, but what if you had one team that can help you find the right role. That's where Express Employment Professionals comes in. Your local Express Employment Professional's office is your one connection to endless job opportunities. With just one application, they can help you find a job at a company that fits your needs. So visit Expresspros dot com and has always Express never charges job seekers a fee. Express knows when companies are hiring, offers benefits and competitive pay, and in just one interview, they're prepared to present you to multiple companies that fit your needs. Go to Expresspros dot com to get started, find your nearest location, and discover for yourself what it's like to have support in your job search. You can also start your job search through the Express Jobs at Download it today to search jobs, apply and contact your local Express team. That's Expresspros dot com to start your job search today. Gonna make you proud, Daddy.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best friend, Mike Harmon, I tell you it all sucks. I'll tell you this whole place sucks. That's right, it sucks. Ready for a new job. Let Express Employment professionals help. While Express helps people in all industries, fine work, Our sweet Spottles Logistics Roles and Express never charge job seekers a fee Goo to expresspros dot Com. Just under seven minutes left to go, the Pacers lead the Knicks one thirteen, one hundred. And you know, it's not like the Knicks need any help looking bad in this game, but wow, the officiating the last few minutes. I'm not gonnsider it and say it's costing the game. But there are three plays the Pacers flopping on offense get to the free throw line, Miles Turner twice grabs hold of Karl Anthony Towns's hand and won't let go, and Karl Anthony Towns is called for the foul like you see it on the replay. This is a bad look for the NBA. They're gonna look at some of these fouls tomorrow and go, oh my goodness, we just lost our minds for that stretch early in the fourth quarter. Because this is what's this is what's helping keep the Pacers lead. Like I'm watching Myles Turner go. They let him do whatever he wants to I he locks up coxs up Karl Anthony Towns with his arm under Karl Anthony Towns's arm, and the referees call it, but really but grabbing his hand and not let it like they were holding hands. Yeah, I was thinking, and Towns is trying to move his hand out of the way. They call the foul on Myles Turner. Wow, well because Turner flailed away like how dare you touch me? Look, you're also getting heat checked and superstar calls for Benedict Mathern. Yeah. Yeah, that's where we're at this game. Like that is as good as Haliburt was, And it's great that Daddy is there and he's trying to impress him at all. The fact that Batherin has done more in this game than he had the entire series combined and tripled. You're looking at at a guy who's taking he checked threes from the corner. They're all taking he checked threes guys like he's tackled bruntson multiple times. No calls. I mean he's going full and Reid a couple of times.

Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is my best friend, Mike Harmon, I tell you it all sucks. I'll tell you this whole place sucks. That's right, it sucks. Ready for a new job. Let Express Employment professionals help. While Express helps people in all industries, fine work, Our sweet Spottles Logistics Roles and Express never charge job seekers a fee Goo to expresspros dot Com. Just under seven minutes left to go, the Pacers lead the Knicks one thirteen, one hundred. And you know, it's not like the Knicks need any help looking bad in this game, but wow, the officiating the last few minutes. I'm not gonnsider it and say it's costing the game. But there are three plays the Pacers flopping on offense get to the free throw line, Miles Turner twice grabs hold of Karl Anthony Towns's hand and won't let go, and Karl Anthony Towns is called for the foul like you see it on the replay. This is a bad look for the NBA. They're gonna look at some of these fouls tomorrow and go, oh my goodness, we just lost our minds for that stretch early in the fourth quarter. Because this is what's this is what's helping keep the Pacers lead. Like I'm watching Myles Turner go. They let him do whatever he wants to I he locks up coxs up Karl Anthony Towns with his arm under Karl Anthony Towns's arm, and the referees call it, but really but grabbing his hand and not let it like they were holding hands. Yeah, I was thinking, and Towns is trying to move his hand out of the way. They call the foul on Myles Turner. Wow, well because Turner flailed away like how dare you touch me? Look, you're also getting heat checked and superstar calls for Benedict Mathern. Yeah. Yeah, that's where we're at this game. Like that is as good as Haliburt was, And it's great that Daddy is there and he's trying to impress him at all. The fact that Batherin has done more in this game than he had the entire series combined and tripled. You're looking at at a guy who's taking he checked threes from the corner. They're all taking he checked threes guys like he's tackled bruntson multiple times. No calls. I mean he's going full and Reid a couple of times.

Come on you me.

Come on you me.

Frosburg, Desaga and Mary could could score on the Knicks defense right now. We just have to We just have to dribble around, get work the shot clocked down. Watch the Knicks panic and one of us is open. For a show towns or brunts and is given up by the eight seconds left hand. I know, I'm really we're getting past one of them. I mean, look, it's the Knicks clearly have no answer defensively, and it's yet another feather in the cap of Rick Carlisle, who was completely out coach TIBs in this series. So far, the Knicks seem like they don't have an answer for whatever the Pacers want. Right Game one, they didn't have an answer during the comeback Game two. They started the game wanting to established Pascal Siakam, who had a Kevin Durant in his prime type game. How do you know? They weren't ready for that, and clearly tonight they weren't ready for Halliburton. Weren't ready for anything offensively, because whether it's Halliburton making shots or the Pacers getting open, looks like there's not again, there's no shots where I go, wow, man, what are you gonna do for that turn around three from the corner with a second left in the shot clock. No, everything is easy. Everything is easy for the Pacers. Yeah, everybody taking care of business except for your guy, damn hard. So I guess you get that feather in your cap that he's not gutted you. But Siakam once again twenty four points, ten of seventeen, couple of three point shots for him. Nie Smith, who was questionable yesterday, he's got sixteen plus twenty two on the night to leave the squad Turners got twelve only two boards for him, which is kind of curious. But Haliburton with the twenty eight fourteen assists, eight rebound night. He's also got four steals and still with zero turnovers. You want to talk talk about operational efficiency Nicks for the game sixteen turnovers, Pacers slowly catching up at ten, but that's your tail of the tape. So we'll love more in this game again. Time out on the floor, Knicks down by twelve, the Pacers looking to go up three to one and really take a stranglehold on this series. And maybe we'll start our Pacers Thunder preview coming up in a bit. Yeah, Paul Pierce having fun now in toligent pace is gonna beat that? Yeah? Yeah, that's great. Is he sitting around a campfire where he may or may not have, you know, dipped into whatever was in the canister. Maybe you'll want to work again, you never know. May may walk to work. You never know.

Frosburg, Desaga and Mary could could score on the Knicks defense right now. We just have to We just have to dribble around, get work the shot clocked down. Watch the Knicks panic and one of us is open. For a show towns or brunts and is given up by the eight seconds left hand. I know, I'm really we're getting past one of them. I mean, look, it's the Knicks clearly have no answer defensively, and it's yet another feather in the cap of Rick Carlisle, who was completely out coach TIBs in this series. So far, the Knicks seem like they don't have an answer for whatever the Pacers want. Right Game one, they didn't have an answer during the comeback Game two. They started the game wanting to established Pascal Siakam, who had a Kevin Durant in his prime type game. How do you know? They weren't ready for that, and clearly tonight they weren't ready for Halliburton. Weren't ready for anything offensively, because whether it's Halliburton making shots or the Pacers getting open, looks like there's not again, there's no shots where I go, wow, man, what are you gonna do for that turn around three from the corner with a second left in the shot clock. No, everything is easy. Everything is easy for the Pacers. Yeah, everybody taking care of business except for your guy, damn hard. So I guess you get that feather in your cap that he's not gutted you. But Siakam once again twenty four points, ten of seventeen, couple of three point shots for him. Nie Smith, who was questionable yesterday, he's got sixteen plus twenty two on the night to leave the squad Turners got twelve only two boards for him, which is kind of curious. But Haliburton with the twenty eight fourteen assists, eight rebound night. He's also got four steals and still with zero turnovers. You want to talk talk about operational efficiency Nicks for the game sixteen turnovers, Pacers slowly catching up at ten, but that's your tail of the tape. So we'll love more in this game again. Time out on the floor, Knicks down by twelve, the Pacers looking to go up three to one and really take a stranglehold on this series. And maybe we'll start our Pacers Thunder preview coming up in a bit. Yeah, Paul Pierce having fun now in toligent pace is gonna beat that? Yeah? Yeah, that's great. Is he sitting around a campfire where he may or may not have, you know, dipped into whatever was in the canister. Maybe you'll want to work again, you never know. May may walk to work. You never know.

He doesn't get another take. He got his first take wrong.

He doesn't get another take. He got his first take wrong.

Yeah, oh that's true.

Yeah, oh that's true.

Hink's winning.

Hink's winning.

Yeah that's true. Yeah, yeah, you get another take, you're down. No no, no, Well if you're only you're getting stuff changed, you get first take on first take, you don't get you don't get sacked. That's why the show is not called second take exactly. Yeah, first take, first take. So we'll have more on this game, But another big story out of basketball. Earlier today, the WNBA announced they could not substantiate a report of racist fan behavior. You're at the season opener between the Fever and the Sky a few days ago. The quote coming from the league in a statement, we have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court based on information gathered to date, including from relevant fans, team and arena staff, as well as audio and video review of the game. We have not substantiated it. And you know this is where when I when I talk about situations at the WNBA can't afford to get into you can't afford to get into rivalries broke breaking down on a racial angle, right, and now, what does this story look like. The story looks like, hey, here's a story that gets manufactured because of the hard foul between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese, which was a result of angel Reese pushing a player to play before and a foul that Caitlin Clark committed that they both said a basketball play and people get upset because Angel Reese gets gets loses that game by however many points. And now oh here's report. I heard this. I heard this said, so now the Sky have to put out a statement about it. We don't condone this behavior. The Fever have to put out a statement. You know, Angel Reese talks about it, Caitlin Clark talks about it. Now here we find out it's nothing. Well, but we talked about it tonight that it happened, right, and well, our first chance to talk about it on the Monday, you know, you had the Sky coach. He said, well, we found out what everybody else did. It's like it wasn't something that was heard in the game or reacted to which we watched the game. We watched it come down to the end, and there was nothing until social media, which is you might as well have NBA whatever else. Right, that by the way, bad day for the W NBA with NBA SENTI, but it's one of those things where it just started to gestate, now what was it quote when everyone else did. I think it's something that we heard about, and so we're forthcoming and anything that the league is able to do investigation wise. Angel Res more or less said the same and corroborated that, you know, and immediately, hey, we're glad that the league's looking into it. Said okay, fine, But nobody on the squad came forth saying I heard this, because you would be pointing them out this night in real time. Like we see at NBA games all the time, someone says something untoward, the bench reacts. And this is where everything with the W, with everything that's gone on and all their controversy since Caitlyn Clark and Angel Rees came into the league, with all the controversy, what if I said is the biggest thing, show me you can handle success. This is an unprecedented level of success for the W. Show me you can handle it, and they can't because what did they do here? They let social media launch an investigation where okay, wait a minute, where look at was something said? Was of course we you know, we don't condone this. We're looking into it. Boom, just take care of it. Right when when you have the sky make a statement and the fever make a statement and now we're launching an investigator. Okay, so now you've given this credibility when all you did is has seen some stuff on social media. Most likely this is all I heard this at the game. But you hear did you hear this? I'm talk to people at the game wn basis, don't worry about it. We got it, right, do worry about it? We got it. Okay, We're gonna take care of this. Like this is where they need to show we can handle this success. Can we know when something comes up that's a little bit rocky, we're gonna be able to handle it.

Yeah that's true. Yeah, yeah, you get another take, you're down. No no, no, Well if you're only you're getting stuff changed, you get first take on first take, you don't get you don't get sacked. That's why the show is not called second take exactly. Yeah, first take, first take. So we'll have more on this game, But another big story out of basketball. Earlier today, the WNBA announced they could not substantiate a report of racist fan behavior. You're at the season opener between the Fever and the Sky a few days ago. The quote coming from the league in a statement, we have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court based on information gathered to date, including from relevant fans, team and arena staff, as well as audio and video review of the game. We have not substantiated it. And you know this is where when I when I talk about situations at the WNBA can't afford to get into you can't afford to get into rivalries broke breaking down on a racial angle, right, and now, what does this story look like. The story looks like, hey, here's a story that gets manufactured because of the hard foul between Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese, which was a result of angel Reese pushing a player to play before and a foul that Caitlin Clark committed that they both said a basketball play and people get upset because Angel Reese gets gets loses that game by however many points. And now oh here's report. I heard this. I heard this said, so now the Sky have to put out a statement about it. We don't condone this behavior. The Fever have to put out a statement. You know, Angel Reese talks about it, Caitlin Clark talks about it. Now here we find out it's nothing. Well, but we talked about it tonight that it happened, right, and well, our first chance to talk about it on the Monday, you know, you had the Sky coach. He said, well, we found out what everybody else did. It's like it wasn't something that was heard in the game or reacted to which we watched the game. We watched it come down to the end, and there was nothing until social media, which is you might as well have NBA whatever else. Right, that by the way, bad day for the W NBA with NBA SENTI, but it's one of those things where it just started to gestate, now what was it quote when everyone else did. I think it's something that we heard about, and so we're forthcoming and anything that the league is able to do investigation wise. Angel Res more or less said the same and corroborated that, you know, and immediately, hey, we're glad that the league's looking into it. Said okay, fine, But nobody on the squad came forth saying I heard this, because you would be pointing them out this night in real time. Like we see at NBA games all the time, someone says something untoward, the bench reacts. And this is where everything with the W, with everything that's gone on and all their controversy since Caitlyn Clark and Angel Rees came into the league, with all the controversy, what if I said is the biggest thing, show me you can handle success. This is an unprecedented level of success for the W. Show me you can handle it, and they can't because what did they do here? They let social media launch an investigation where okay, wait a minute, where look at was something said? Was of course we you know, we don't condone this. We're looking into it. Boom, just take care of it. Right when when you have the sky make a statement and the fever make a statement and now we're launching an investigator. Okay, so now you've given this credibility when all you did is has seen some stuff on social media. Most likely this is all I heard this at the game. But you hear did you hear this? I'm talk to people at the game wn basis, don't worry about it. We got it, right, do worry about it? We got it. Okay, We're gonna take care of this. Like this is where they need to show we can handle this success. Can we know when something comes up that's a little bit rocky, we're gonna be able to handle it.

Right.

Right.

So that's the number one thing is that they got to show they can do it because it looks like social media made them make an investigation over something that didn't happen.

So that's the number one thing is that they got to show they can do it because it looks like social media made them make an investigation over something that didn't happen.

Right now.

Right now.

My other part is this is that this is I always say my pr advice to the stars. If I wasn't doing this, i'd be a public relations advisor. What I would do is I would I would talk to specific people if I was pr advice, and if I had I had these people as clients. If I had Caitlin Clark as my client, if I had Angel Reese is my client. If I had Cheryl Reeve is my client. If I had Cheryl Swoops as my client. If I had Cheryl Burke as my client. If I had Cheryl Tigues is my client, Cheryl Hines, if I had Cheryl Hines as my client, if I had Cheryl lad as my client, if I had Jackie Cheryl as my client. He didn't want to talk about Texas A and M Cheryl Hines, You're gonna get into a lot of other discussions right now, so you stay away. I would say this, right, I would say, look, quit being petulant about stuff, Quit being petty, Quit pushing whatever angle is here. I would tell Angel Reese, Hey, we're worried about race. Don't repost the post about white girl Caitlin Clark walking away from you after this play, after you just put out a statement saying there's nothing out there. You know there's no room for this kind of behavior in the game. Right, I would say the same thing the chery will Reef. I would say, don't sit here and say what about the rest of us, because you're upset your game is not on national television when the season starts, like last year, I would say these things. I would say because here's the thing is what you don't get. I'm telling you not to look petulant because eventually you're just gonna look bad. You're gonna you're gonna be stopped from whatever you want to achieve because you're gonna start looking awful. Right, It's like the like you think about players when they start flopping too much and you get to play with boy, they're great player, but when they flop, you're like, oh, I can't even watch I can't even watch Luca because he flops all the time. I can't even watch So and So because they're flopping. I can't watch Rashid Wallace, he flops all the time. And and you wind, a really great player gets that tag of all they do is flop, and it's really hard to watch. The same thing's gonna happen to these players because if you can you to push out this pettiness and this petulance, you're going to look bad. Right, You're gonna look bad. So let's just make let's just you know the WNBAH, we will take care of stuff. Number one. But the second thing is, I would say, the players don't do anything to add on to this, right and the coaches don't do anything to add on to this, because you're just gonna look bad when this stuff goes on, because it's gonna look bad on you. And I'm telling you to protect you as my client that if you keep pushing this stuff out there, eventually people are gonna get sick of it. You know, right now this debate is raging and the w is hot, but eventually people are gonna say, I'm done. I'm done. I don't need another Caitlin Clark Angel restory that's not on the basketball court, right I don't need another one of these things that's not on the court. They're gonna have to keep. That's eventually where people are gonna go. So I would tell them, you got you gotta watch it right now, and I would just cut you, cut out whatever you can. Don't worry about crap, play basketball, enjoy everything that's coming your way, push the game, push the league, push your rivalries. B if you want to tell you, if you want to make it about make it about basketball, basketball, basketball, that's what people like. That's what people are gonna respond to. Make it about that and everything will be okay. But this this is going nowhere. No. That's the thing, right is you know we talk about the boy who cried wolf, and in this case, you know, you bring race and and and certainly there are enough people in every walk of and I use the term journalism loosely, uh that will chase that for clicks and and get their their talk in. And we certainly had plenty of that across the media for the week following Uh that that came out of it, people getting their families involved or whatever else. And then they can come back to oh, sorry, my bad, but they got their engagement, they got their clicks. Whatever measurements that you go through, it might have been a bad look. But when they can present their next quarters numbers to whoever they're looking to do deals with, tada, they won. But you can only trained on on the margins with that, I think your people that you were trying to bring in the eyeballs and attention to the WNBA that you're not gonna win with that, right, You'll keep your diehards because they were there from the start. That's great, And if that's all you're interested, then fine, then stop the pretense of trying to grow the game and just be done with it. But to recognize that to sell to folks consistently it does have to be about the actual product and not side show circuses. And in this case, something absolutely fabricated by a couple of social media accounts. Now it doesn't mean one hundred percent that nothing happened, right they but whatever investigation was, we couldn't find anything. They couldn't corroborate it, right, And I told you that we were on Monday night, and I said, well, it's already been forty eight hours. If you would have found something, you would have got something, and nobody would have heard something. Right that there was no reaction to where there was anything, you know, heated in that moment, because if it was truly happening in the game, someone would responded, We've got enough of that in the country and the globe as a whole. Like, you don't need to fabricate it. You can find it for real if you really want to. So you're only going to kill your product and your growth, and you're going to take some of these players that might have been growing an audience, and to your point, between flopping and other types of scenarios where it's not about their on core performance, folks are gonna tune out. Yeah, I mean it's going to run hot and heavy for a while, like people will, but eventually it's gonna fans are gonna say, you know, I'm done, I'm done with this, Like, okay, here it is. This is new, and it's a whole new thing with the WB and popular and and and and all the controversy and people picking sides and who they like and who they don't. But eventually it's going you know what, I don't have time for that. I'm done with this. I'm kinda I'm I'm mentally I'm mentally just drained from another one of these conversations that really we've had too many times now, right, So let's let's just let's let's just move on from this. But the other part, it goes back to discussion we've had with Kate and Clark going back to when she was playing at Iowa and we were covering that team running deep into the NCAA tournament. Was she's chippy, she's chirpy, she does not shy away from contact, and a hard fall is sometimes just a hard fall. In fact, ninety eight percent of the time it's just a hard fall in the construct of a physical game. Does it mean that sometimes it doesn't get untoored where you need to pause and blow a whistle and get everybody calm down. No, I mean we're gonna see those, but not every time that Caitlin Clark is fouled or commits a fall is it's some egregious act. And in this case it was absolutely absurd because of where the contact occurred. Should you give a little extra shove?

My other part is this is that this is I always say my pr advice to the stars. If I wasn't doing this, i'd be a public relations advisor. What I would do is I would I would talk to specific people if I was pr advice, and if I had I had these people as clients. If I had Caitlin Clark as my client, if I had Angel Reese is my client. If I had Cheryl Reeve is my client. If I had Cheryl Swoops as my client. If I had Cheryl Burke as my client. If I had Cheryl Tigues is my client, Cheryl Hines, if I had Cheryl Hines as my client, if I had Cheryl lad as my client, if I had Jackie Cheryl as my client. He didn't want to talk about Texas A and M Cheryl Hines, You're gonna get into a lot of other discussions right now, so you stay away. I would say this, right, I would say, look, quit being petulant about stuff, Quit being petty, Quit pushing whatever angle is here. I would tell Angel Reese, Hey, we're worried about race. Don't repost the post about white girl Caitlin Clark walking away from you after this play, after you just put out a statement saying there's nothing out there. You know there's no room for this kind of behavior in the game. Right, I would say the same thing the chery will Reef. I would say, don't sit here and say what about the rest of us, because you're upset your game is not on national television when the season starts, like last year, I would say these things. I would say because here's the thing is what you don't get. I'm telling you not to look petulant because eventually you're just gonna look bad. You're gonna you're gonna be stopped from whatever you want to achieve because you're gonna start looking awful. Right, It's like the like you think about players when they start flopping too much and you get to play with boy, they're great player, but when they flop, you're like, oh, I can't even watch I can't even watch Luca because he flops all the time. I can't even watch So and So because they're flopping. I can't watch Rashid Wallace, he flops all the time. And and you wind, a really great player gets that tag of all they do is flop, and it's really hard to watch. The same thing's gonna happen to these players because if you can you to push out this pettiness and this petulance, you're going to look bad. Right, You're gonna look bad. So let's just make let's just you know the WNBAH, we will take care of stuff. Number one. But the second thing is, I would say, the players don't do anything to add on to this, right and the coaches don't do anything to add on to this, because you're just gonna look bad when this stuff goes on, because it's gonna look bad on you. And I'm telling you to protect you as my client that if you keep pushing this stuff out there, eventually people are gonna get sick of it. You know, right now this debate is raging and the w is hot, but eventually people are gonna say, I'm done. I'm done. I don't need another Caitlin Clark Angel restory that's not on the basketball court, right I don't need another one of these things that's not on the court. They're gonna have to keep. That's eventually where people are gonna go. So I would tell them, you got you gotta watch it right now, and I would just cut you, cut out whatever you can. Don't worry about crap, play basketball, enjoy everything that's coming your way, push the game, push the league, push your rivalries. B if you want to tell you, if you want to make it about make it about basketball, basketball, basketball, that's what people like. That's what people are gonna respond to. Make it about that and everything will be okay. But this this is going nowhere. No. That's the thing, right is you know we talk about the boy who cried wolf, and in this case, you know, you bring race and and and certainly there are enough people in every walk of and I use the term journalism loosely, uh that will chase that for clicks and and get their their talk in. And we certainly had plenty of that across the media for the week following Uh that that came out of it, people getting their families involved or whatever else. And then they can come back to oh, sorry, my bad, but they got their engagement, they got their clicks. Whatever measurements that you go through, it might have been a bad look. But when they can present their next quarters numbers to whoever they're looking to do deals with, tada, they won. But you can only trained on on the margins with that, I think your people that you were trying to bring in the eyeballs and attention to the WNBA that you're not gonna win with that, right, You'll keep your diehards because they were there from the start. That's great, And if that's all you're interested, then fine, then stop the pretense of trying to grow the game and just be done with it. But to recognize that to sell to folks consistently it does have to be about the actual product and not side show circuses. And in this case, something absolutely fabricated by a couple of social media accounts. Now it doesn't mean one hundred percent that nothing happened, right they but whatever investigation was, we couldn't find anything. They couldn't corroborate it, right, And I told you that we were on Monday night, and I said, well, it's already been forty eight hours. If you would have found something, you would have got something, and nobody would have heard something. Right that there was no reaction to where there was anything, you know, heated in that moment, because if it was truly happening in the game, someone would responded, We've got enough of that in the country and the globe as a whole. Like, you don't need to fabricate it. You can find it for real if you really want to. So you're only going to kill your product and your growth, and you're going to take some of these players that might have been growing an audience, and to your point, between flopping and other types of scenarios where it's not about their on core performance, folks are gonna tune out. Yeah, I mean it's going to run hot and heavy for a while, like people will, but eventually it's gonna fans are gonna say, you know, I'm done, I'm done with this, Like, okay, here it is. This is new, and it's a whole new thing with the WB and popular and and and and all the controversy and people picking sides and who they like and who they don't. But eventually it's going you know what, I don't have time for that. I'm done with this. I'm kinda I'm I'm mentally I'm mentally just drained from another one of these conversations that really we've had too many times now, right, So let's let's just let's let's just move on from this. But the other part, it goes back to discussion we've had with Kate and Clark going back to when she was playing at Iowa and we were covering that team running deep into the NCAA tournament. Was she's chippy, she's chirpy, she does not shy away from contact, and a hard fall is sometimes just a hard fall. In fact, ninety eight percent of the time it's just a hard fall in the construct of a physical game. Does it mean that sometimes it doesn't get untoored where you need to pause and blow a whistle and get everybody calm down. No, I mean we're gonna see those, but not every time that Caitlin Clark is fouled or commits a fall is it's some egregious act. And in this case it was absolutely absurd because of where the contact occurred. Should you give a little extra shove?

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Maybe, But in the end, it's it's a basketball play all right? Play on exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Just my advice. Eventually this is gonna turn on you, and you gotta just understand. Let's just get let let go of the petulance and the pettiness right this whey instead of it. The league can do their thing right, be in charge, show me you can do it a p R and managers, hey, listen, just just do because trust me, it's gonna come back. There's there's the end game. Trust Trust me. You got to be able to do your job, yeah, or find someone who can time not to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called the Tyres Halliburton the Fox Sports Radio. His debt once got kicked out of here for getting in front of Frostburg after a show. It's Steve Desago.

Maybe, But in the end, it's it's a basketball play all right? Play on exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman. Just my advice. Eventually this is gonna turn on you, and you gotta just understand. Let's just get let let go of the petulance and the pettiness right this whey instead of it. The league can do their thing right, be in charge, show me you can do it a p R and managers, hey, listen, just just do because trust me, it's gonna come back. There's there's the end game. Trust Trust me. You got to be able to do your job, yeah, or find someone who can time not to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called the Tyres Halliburton the Fox Sports Radio. His debt once got kicked out of here for getting in front of Frostburg after a show. It's Steve Desago.

No I was waiting for it. But he's never had a night this good something like that. By the way, while we're talking about w NBA tonight, Minnesota went to five and OH, edging Seattle. New York now four and oh after whipping expansion Golden State, and Dallas won at Connecticut in a battle of oh and four teams one oh nine eighty seven Page Beckers with twenty one points. Now to the update of the NBA playoffs. It's Game four the Eastern Conference Finals at Indiana, Pacers still leading one twenty one, one fourteen over the next just over two minutes to go, PACER's trying to go up three games to one. It's been a high scoring game from the start. Just in the first quarter there were nearly eighty points combined. That's the most ever in any conference final game for a first quarter, it was seventy eight, to be specific, and through three the Pacers were up to one oh two, most points allowed by the Knicks through three of a playoff game since nineteen ninety. Tyrese Haliburton has thirty two points, nine rebounds, fourteen assists and no turnovers for the Pacers. Twenty seven points for Pascal Siakam, Indiana, shooting fifty three percent from the floor. The Knicks led by the twenty nine points from Jalen Brunson, twenty four for Karl Anthony Towns. He has eleven rebounds twenty points for og Aanobi. The home team Pacers lead by seven to ten to play in the NHL Playoffs. Currently it's Edmonton still to one over Dallas with four minutes to go, Oilers trying to go up three games to one in the West Final. Pass rusher Joey Bosa, now with the Bills, is likely out until training camp with a calf injury.

No I was waiting for it. But he's never had a night this good something like that. By the way, while we're talking about w NBA tonight, Minnesota went to five and OH, edging Seattle. New York now four and oh after whipping expansion Golden State, and Dallas won at Connecticut in a battle of oh and four teams one oh nine eighty seven Page Beckers with twenty one points. Now to the update of the NBA playoffs. It's Game four the Eastern Conference Finals at Indiana, Pacers still leading one twenty one, one fourteen over the next just over two minutes to go, PACER's trying to go up three games to one. It's been a high scoring game from the start. Just in the first quarter there were nearly eighty points combined. That's the most ever in any conference final game for a first quarter, it was seventy eight, to be specific, and through three the Pacers were up to one oh two, most points allowed by the Knicks through three of a playoff game since nineteen ninety. Tyrese Haliburton has thirty two points, nine rebounds, fourteen assists and no turnovers for the Pacers. Twenty seven points for Pascal Siakam, Indiana, shooting fifty three percent from the floor. The Knicks led by the twenty nine points from Jalen Brunson, twenty four for Karl Anthony Towns. He has eleven rebounds twenty points for og Aanobi. The home team Pacers lead by seven to ten to play in the NHL Playoffs. Currently it's Edmonton still to one over Dallas with four minutes to go, Oilers trying to go up three games to one in the West Final. Pass rusher Joey Bosa, now with the Bills, is likely out until training camp with a calf injury.

Wait wait, wait, Joey Bosa is hurt. It's come on, Steve, don't lie to me. Man don't want he's getting that iron Man awarded a training camp this year.

Wait wait, wait, Joey Bosa is hurt. It's come on, Steve, don't lie to me. Man don't want he's getting that iron Man awarded a training camp this year.

This is kind of like that one driver at the Indy five hundred over the Weekion just in the warm up laps. The flag isn't even gone yet and he crashed out.

This is kind of like that one driver at the Indy five hundred over the Weekion just in the warm up laps. The flag isn't even gone yet and he crashed out.

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Great job by Box. Within five minutes they had him for an interview. Yes, well, what else was he doing? Come on over and let's talk about this. By the way, you see Fox got over seven million viewers.

Great job by Box. Within five minutes they had him for an interview. Yes, well, what else was he doing? Come on over and let's talk about this. By the way, you see Fox got over seven million viewers.

That's that's a larger TV audience than for the Daytona five hundred to start the NASCAR season. It's only three times in three decades that Indies had a larger TV audience than Daytona.

That's that's a larger TV audience than for the Daytona five hundred to start the NASCAR season. It's only three times in three decades that Indies had a larger TV audience than Daytona.

And didn't they move that to a bigger stadium because Caitlyn Clark drove in it, so he wanted to make sure that all the fans could get there to watch. Yeah, it was originally at what like DePaul University.

And didn't they move that to a bigger stadium because Caitlyn Clark drove in it, so he wanted to make sure that all the fans could get there to watch. Yeah, it was originally at what like DePaul University.

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It was actually Indiana University, Purdue University of Indiana. That's where they had of that i U, p U Y something like that. The actually had an Indiana Universe. Pennsylvania is where it was. Oh there is one.

Yes, absolutely, Let's update the baseball as the Red Sox are tied in the bottom of the tenth at Milwaukee one to one, as are all as Chapman blew the save, giving up the tying run.

Yes, absolutely, Let's update the baseball as the Red Sox are tied in the bottom of the tenth at Milwaukee one to one, as are all as Chapman blew the save, giving up the tying run.

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In the bottom of the ninth, the.

Rockies are tied at the Cubs two to two. In the bottom of the tenth inning, the Cubs say a Suzuki with his fiftieth RBI of the season, Pete crow Armstrong with his forty ninth The Dodger Shoeo Tani with his twentieth homer of the year, leads the Majors LA one at Cleveland nine to five. Philadelphia won again two nothing over Atlanta. The Mets won there fourth straight, beating the White Sox six to four. Road winds for the Reds, Twins and Cardinals. Detroit beat San Francisco three to one, and currently the Astros lead the A's eleven to one. In the bottom of the eighth, again, Pacers lead with under two minutes to go by seven.

Rockies are tied at the Cubs two to two. In the bottom of the tenth inning, the Cubs say a Suzuki with his fiftieth RBI of the season, Pete crow Armstrong with his forty ninth The Dodger Shoeo Tani with his twentieth homer of the year, leads the Majors LA one at Cleveland nine to five. Philadelphia won again two nothing over Atlanta. The Mets won there fourth straight, beating the White Sox six to four. Road winds for the Reds, Twins and Cardinals. Detroit beat San Francisco three to one, and currently the Astros lead the A's eleven to one. In the bottom of the eighth, again, Pacers lead with under two minutes to go by seven.

Back to you, Thank you, Steve ol Nicks. Just miss a bucket. Pacers going the other way, looks like they're gonna go well, they got shot, gets blocked out of bounds. Looked like Siakham going in for a Tomahawk dunk. So minute forty five left to go, looks like Karl Anthony Towns is okay, he Bangednes on the previous possession? He is all right, what bang? Thees banges? It happens, uh so again? Seven point lead for the Pacers as we continue. Is this gonna be an incredible Knicks comeback? Or is this the Pacers up three games to one? We got that and all play of the day with an exclamation point coming your way next right here Jason and Mike Fox.

Back to you, Thank you, Steve ol Nicks. Just miss a bucket. Pacers going the other way, looks like they're gonna go well, they got shot, gets blocked out of bounds. Looked like Siakham going in for a Tomahawk dunk. So minute forty five left to go, looks like Karl Anthony Towns is okay, he Bangednes on the previous possession? He is all right, what bang? Thees banges? It happens, uh so again? Seven point lead for the Pacers as we continue. Is this gonna be an incredible Knicks comeback? Or is this the Pacers up three games to one? We got that and all play of the day with an exclamation point coming your way next right here Jason and Mike Fox.

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Lift's the first.

Pitch the other way, Kwan steps back onto the track.

Pitch the other way, Kwan steps back onto the track.

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It is gone.

Sky scraping drive the other way. You know, Tani's got his twentieth What the Otani? He says, two consecutive gave him of the long aton.

Sky scraping drive the other way. You know, Tani's got his twentieth What the Otani? He says, two consecutive gave him of the long aton.

What the what do ton? Yeah, twenty twenty home runs for show? Hey, Otani so far this season, and we still have a little bit ways to go in May, especially since he's now he's hitting, you know, a home run every game. But here's a great stat right for all you Dave Kingman fans. He's got twenty home runs and thirty five RBI. This tells you the bottom of the lineup of the Dodgers is really not getting on base. He's got twenty home runs and thirty five RBI. Like that's I mean, I didn't know that that was actually mathematically possible to have twenty home run because you got to think, how many RBIs does he have not on home runs? Right?