The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith and Mike Harmon have all the details on Kristaps Porzingis gushing blood from his forehead. Jason Cole swings by to preview the NFL Draft. The guys debate if the hit on Jimmy Butler was dirty or not. And NBA Insider Ric Bucher joins the playoff party for all things Lakers, Knicks, Celtics and Warriors!
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Today.
Hey, April twenty third, it's a celebratory day. What do we always say, find your damn wins one hundred peron, no matter how small they may beat up, with another chance to fight the day you won. Let's go big night tonight, Happy NFL Draft Eve.
We are here, we are ready for tomorrow. I have big questions, we have big bold predictions. Yeah, the Jets will screw up, yes number one. Okay, stop that's not a bold prediction. That's something that kind of oh yeah, that's science. Whatever the Jets decide will be wrong.
I know that, right.
Whatever the Jets decide, do we take the offensive lineman?
Should have took the tight end? Do we take the tight end?
Oh?
Should have took the offensive lineman?
Oh, and we take ashon gent Nope, should have taken Whatever the Jets decide will be wrong.
I do love the fact that you go to a Jets team page of what did they need?
Yea everything? Yes, yeah, yeah, we did everything. But whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's my in for Joe Douglas tomorrow, who will be here of course, Hey, don't forget tomorrow night. Let's go Fox Sports Radio the NFL NFL Draft Live Show is going to be here starting at eight pm Eastern. Joe Douglas, former Jets, GM, Jay Glazer, Jenny taff LaVar Arrington will bring you every pick, analysis, predictions for the first round of the draft beginning at eight pm each going into our show, of course, and then we'll raft right screwed up, that's how it goes. Yeah, maybe we'll start with the Jets and then we'll go from there because that's that's pretty much.
That's kind of okay. Also on the YouTube channel too, watch it. We're live again.
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Boom boom boom, boom boomed and boom.
But I figured out my thing is what I need to tell him is Joe, I wish I but when you took the job, I wanted to tell you whatever you decided to do was going to be wrong. Doesn't matter if it was doesn't matter if it was right. But with the Jets, whatever you do, whatever the Jets decide to do, it's wrong. Well I started to special quarterback whitse especially whatever the Jets side quarterback wise quarterback is wrong.
You see their former draft pick Zach Wilson's gonna wear numbers zero this year.
So you got that for the number of snaps he's gonna play. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
No.
I was gonna make a nice bedazzled shirt for Joe that said when you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way. I didn't think it would go over well from your first draft pick till your last dying day.
Yeah, that's right, till till Brick decides. You know, I've had enough of you. Oh my sweet Brick, sweetened Drake. I'm the GM now, my sweet Brick, my turn. But uh, we'll have more NFL coming up. We got big guests to night coming up. We have tons of big NFL stuff. But let me just say this first again. NBA Playoffs Tonight, Houston Golden State just underway, Houston with the eighteen to ten lead early in the first quarter. Cleveland's about to go up to nothing on Miami. It's one nineteen one, twelve three seconds left here. Earlier we saw the Celtics go up to zip. No Jason Tatum, no problem, they beat the Magic We'll get to bloody porzingis you.
Know what that You had one of the bets of the year, though, and decided didn't jump in before Jason Tatum was officially ruled out for Tonight's game. Jalen Brown's over under was twenty two and a half points. I would have bet ninety eight percent of all money that was this morning, and then they ruled him out.
I would have so bet.
Come on, man, that's like that. You feel pretty good about that regularly? No, and then say, okay, if Tatum's out, he's been trending that way. That's easy money.
Man.
That was the easiest money you're gonna get.
You've had a couple of those situations where like, well that line doesn't.
Make any sense.
I'll tell you there you go that gets back.
That gets back to it to what we talked about about a month and a half ago. Look, we have a look. The NBA playoffs are fantastic. You're seeing a lot of teams have difficulty in the first rounds. The three six matchups, the four or five matchups are all toss ups right now, which is great, right, But look at the top of the docket, right Thunder a rolling up to Zip. I mean, if the Grizzlies score more than eighty five points, that's a victory for them. Right now, you have Cleveland up to Zip, very workmanlike victory for them. Tonight Boston no Jason Tatum and still no real difficulty with the Magic.
No.
Granted, now these teams are not good, right, These teams are not good, But again, seeing how good these are the best three teams in the NBA by far. Right, this tier one to Tier two thing in the NBA playoffs, the guff is even wider than it was. But for the playoffs began. It's up here are the are the the the Cavaliers, and the Celtics and the Thunder, And.
Then go all the way down and then you're at Lakers and Nicks. Like you go to that.
Everybody right second, but the Clippers here, you can put the Nuggets. There's a lot. It's like the difference between the Mets and the next best team in Major League Baseball was like, wow, so far, but like all this in gout happening games. Yeah, because we're off the Friday, let's go.
We swept the Phillies. You even you would beat on the fanatics birthday?
Yeah, yeahs old, Hey, happy birthday.
Take the l at to see.
Here's a broom for you.
We just sent, by the way.
That's a sweet cap they had though, with the fanatic on there, y fanatic, that's great, the big l take the l take the el fanet and Tommy kicked his ass. I think Tommy was really actually mad. I don't think that was a bit.
No, I don't think.
But look in the end, really we talked, like I said, we talked this a month and a half ago, just to be to be honest about the playoffs.
Is anything going to stop us.
From a thunder Celtics or Cavaliers NBA Finals? I don't think anything is and and the big drama is going to be okay, well cave Celtics. All right, let's see let's see if the Cavaliers are really ready, if the Celtics are healthy, Let's see, that's gonna be the knockdown, drag out battle. Right, But is anything gonna stop us from one of those teams and the thunder? Right, Like, this is all great, this is all great.
Window.
It's like when Kevin Bacon says in a few good men, Oh, Daniel, Caffy's gonna be entertained. It's gonna cut through some officers for you. It's gonna be entertaining. But in the end, Santiago is dead and Dawson and Downey did it. This is gonna be a great playoffs and Luca's gonna have big games, Lebron will play great, and the Nicks will be in trouble and they'll be singing Detroit Basketball in the halls of Fox Sports Radio just.
To piss me off. I'll be all the entertaining.
But at the end of the day, it's gonna be the thunder and either of the Celtics are the Cavaliers, and that's not gonna change.
Don't you take of talking Nicks with Brianna in the back as Kelvin was walking around, which meant the Detroit basketball.
Walking around going Detroit basketball, and I said, I'll plant drugs in your car.
I gotta step it up now.
Well, I mean it used to be key the car because people are stealing my key the car line. Now, yeah, I've heard about local radio people I'll key your car lines. Now is I'm gonna plant drugs in your car?
Why don't you bring I'll steal your mailbox back up to but this this? Yeah? Well but that goes to federal federal drugs does too? Well yeah, no, the drugs goes right to that drugs right, you got it like I got. I gotta amp it up a little bit now, I gotta have the federal crime. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. But if I do plant the mailbox well wait, wait what Well but if.
You get them on a mailbox theft charge, then they're facing federal.
Okay, I see what you see where you're going that It's cost you a whole other problems at rikers.
Dude, they got the Mets on every channel in New York right now? Are you kidding what they do?
They smuggled in a transistor radio y to listen to the Mets. Are they playing the Mets game on?
Yes?
We're playing.
Yeah, hey the Yankees. Hey, we're only going to show you Aaron Judges at bats. Then we're going to play the Mets and then we'll go back.
We'll do it.
We'll cut in for Judge. It's a really big deal. We'll cut in for Judge. But it's not a terrible strategy.
No, But yeah, to your point about the playoffs, they always have the specter of the injury and chaos. The Tatum injury, which it looks a little stranger in hindsight, remember, because you had the Missoula thing of not allowing the trainers or anything. He's fine, Yeah, he's good. It's enough to where he's got to miss a game.
Now now they win.
The game was not as an easy a win. The Magic have a good starting five. But you know with the Celtics, even with Pritchard as your sixth man, you know of the newly minted sixth man of the year. Yeah, I mean they made a training card that said it. Now it's got to be true.
But all that to say, they don't have a lot of depth on that venge.
Yeah, we're like Jalen Brown's knee starts having an issue, or I mean Porzingis is no, no, but iron Man right.
But now let's get to this because this hasn't been right.
If it's gonna be a boring player, at least we had Bloody Porzingis right to take us through, which kind of sounds like an A twenty four movie, Like one of those movies, like A twenty four we're buying this and was made like in Poland or Hungary or something made it overseas, like oh hey, Bloody Poorsing the Lofty and Dirk Bloody Poorsing, Bloody Poorsing Revenge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this great Jenna Ortego would be in it one hundred percent. Uh like you know, you get all the people. Oh yeah, Kian Paulkin. Maybe I'm just putting it together because you know, of a big pain. Uh, but but it would be one of it's one of the movies. Hey, we're buying it, we're releasing it domestically, and boy, you're gonna love bloody.
Jennifer Gray get a role in this one. Then I mean, if we're gonna go a real pain, let's break everybody in. Yeah, okay, I would go the guy that was trure guy. He he gets he gets oft in the first ten minutes.
Bloody poor Zingis. You thought it was over when he was traded to the Mavericks. Turns out that was just the beginning. Poor Zingis then went to purgatory. Oh, we trust his soul in New York, we have a trade to announce Christops Porzingis has been traded to the Washington Wizards. Then he got angry and got back to relevancy in a trade no one noticed when he went back to the Celtics, and then suddenly he was winning the NBA Finals all by himself years later.
It's really all Dante's inferno that's told the eyes of the plan.
Bloody poor Zingis narrated by Phil.
Jackson, random whistling.
Zis gets up, gets a big elbow, has to leave the game. Blood gush And I'm saying, blood gushy. You think have to know blood gushing from the of his forehead. And he walks off the court with his hands in the air and he's ratcheting up all the crowded.
I'm like, this is what it means to have a really good team in the NBA.
This is the And he comes back out with the big It looks like he has a like I get like they took a whole roll of gauze paper, like he took the big and put a right smack dam in the mill of his for it. You can still see some of the blood that haven't cleaned it all off yet, Like I expect him to come back out like yeah, he draws it under his eyes like like eye black, Yeah, look like Alice Cooper. No more, mister nut or paint, like he's a wrestler. He comes out and he still goes for twenty and ten for the Celtics tonight. Bloody Poorzingis.
You don't like him when he's angry.
He's he's the Latvian Dirk.
I dig that.
No, it really is a Hollywood script.
That was the guy you wanted, the toughness and the willingness to battle back when he was a nick took. He got calloussed through all of these moves, losing bits of his soul. Hell, it's like Voldemort, like horse cruxes across the NBA landscape. Now he's come to collect.
Directed by Ariy Asher, who brought us Hereditary in that horrible movie you only want to see once and never again called Midsommer.
Hey, Hey, Hey, it's a classic. It's a jerk.
It's a great movie, but you can't unsee it and you never want to watch it again. Cheaty, Bloody poor Zinga.
Yeah, you know, don't ruin it. Maybe Cheaty survives. In an alternate cut, he shows up as part of Bloody.
Ports No, just his footsticking like Forzingis, goes in for a dunk and he trips over Chety's foot and that's how he gets hurt.
Now that is a multiverse. I can get behind right there. Exit, I'm out of Fresco. Exit Swallen Dome.
Jason Smith Micrman Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
We'll have more NBA on the way.
Houston leads Golden State twenty two fifteen late in the first quarter minute. Is anything stopping us from an NBA finals? That seems like it was preordained a couple of months ago. But t'sraight ahead. It is a big NFL draft preview night. We got bold predictions, we have analysis. Keep it right here.
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We'll see where, finally, where everybody's gonna end up after all of these predictions the last few months. Really quick before you get in. We're keeping an eye on this right now. Jimmy Butler left the Warriors game against the Rockets a few moments ago. He walked off the court under his own power. Looked like he went to the locker room again very early. We'll see what's happening there there at the end of the first quarter. It is the Rockets in charge of this game so far. But joining us now on the hotline a man who's been waiting, a man who I thought of earlier this week. Yeah, me too, longtime NFL Insider, thirty third team Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter. It is Jason Cole, And I thought about your earl week, Jay Cole, because Monday night was our big iHeartRadio night at California Adventure. So we all go and the Toy Story Ride, which is a big shoot him up ride and they play this song. And when they play this song, I'm just thinking of you next to me trying to shoot things, going Oh, I'm like the Jets, look at this, I'm shooting things. I'm missing everything. I was thinking of you while they were playing this song while I was on the ride.
Well, I'm glad I created a memory for you. I'm a moment. I'm a moment in your life. Now.
I got to ask you because I did this, you got to help me out with something here because I'm trying to figure out what to do. So tomorrow night NFL Draft, NFL Draft Live Show is here, Joe Douglass is going to be here.
I'm going to see him, interact with him. Like what do I say to him?
Like?
Real, what do I say to Joe Douglas?
Tomorrow?
Is nice to meet you? Really, that's all you're gonna give me. That's all you got.
I'm I'm thinking, you know, like, don't because because here what's happened. This is what's going to happen. If you say something, Yeah, if.
You if you let the slightest little.
You know, snarky remark out, it will just flow. It will be a lifetime of Jeff's nightmares and maniac just spilling out. And some of that is Joe Douglas's fault, Okay, it does. It is some of that attempt. But you're going to give him everything. You're going to give him. You're going to give him the rich Code tight years. You're gonna blame him for stuff what You're blame him for stuff that he might not have even been you know, an adult for right, Like there are just things that are just going to come out of you, Like you might blame him for Blair Thomas, I don't know, you know, Like it just will get really ugly. And I'm not saying that it's not completely fair, but you're going to regret it afterwards. You're really going to feel bad. It's not going to be a Catharsis. It's not going to be what you think it will be. It will be a moment where you go, I just went too far. I just I just I really I'm sad because of what I did to myself, Like I lowered myself. And you're going to have to then apologize to Joe Douglas after the stream of consciousness is over and you have screamed about your karmasi and and again not his faults, you know, some of the others up his fault. I mean, you're gonna blame him for who's that guy from Ohio State that Tantabamb took that Like I looked at Tantabam and go like I didn't even like to play. Yeah, Vernon, you're gonna you're gonna be, You're gonna you're gonna go right like it's all it's all just going to just be unleashed. So that's why I say, just say, hey, how you going all right? And just and resist this is I'm doing. I'm trying to do this because otherwise you're gonna feel bad when.
It's over all right, So what if I'm getting what I'm getting for you is what I should do is is show him like a pie chart of blame for the Jets franchise and show him just where his sliver is here.
It's kind of like it's kind of like an eighth slipper.
The sliver is gonna bleed, it's gonna be it's gonna be like a slasher movie. It's not it's not really a sliver. It's a slice. It's a slice. It's not a very big slice, but it's a slice like you took a machete and you slide through the you know, the sugar cane with the machete, and then you just keep hacking and hacking away, and you know, and then all of a sudden, he's gonna be left with bloodied and you're going to have blood splattered on you. It's not going to be pretty. It's just kind of bad.
It's only appropriate that Smith's wearing a Machete Kills T shirt as he's sitting in the studio with a picture staring at me.
As you make the machete line.
All right, so go wear that tomorrow.
Don't don't wear that?
There you go, all right? Where are we finding chaos early in this draft? Tomorrow?
J Cole wherever Sor goes, because that's going to be the chaos.
So his own under went from eight and a half to twenty one down to the Steelers.
Oh yeah, I mean I'm looking at you're looking at like this is Aaron Rodgers all over again. I mean it might even be like I don't think he's gonna make the second round. He's too good to make the second round. I don't see that, but he.
If the Giants don't suddenly like you know, change their.
Mind and go ahead and do it, Yeah, I could see him just total free fall that mode, and Dion's gonna like go off the private retires jersey again. Yeah, how do you retire a jersey after two years? Like he win a national championship, like like what did you do?
It's easy because it's embarrassing for Dion if somebody else gets his jersey retired before his sun does.
So it's inmbastad all we got to do you too?
Oh okay, Well, Travis Hunter is like a college football stud for life, like he's part of the ingree with the fabric, with the Heisman Trophy, the two way play.
Yeah, my son's gain is retired to is? It kind of be embarrassing if he didn't.
Neither one of them.
I mean, I can make the argument for a child in front, but it's like you're not, like.
You're not up there.
You're not even Cordell Stewart pal like who gave you know who played his entire career there like and did some pretty impressive things like I'm I'm sorry, Like those guys were only there they're mercenaries. They're truly and I don't I don't have a problem with guys being mercenaries in today's college world. In fact, I love the chaos. I just absolutely adore the chaos that you know of. The quarterback from Tennessee is at UCLA and I can't pronounce the last saying whatever that happens to be. And I don't even really care to pronounce his last name because I don't think he's actually were going to be in the NFL. But you know what I'm like, I love all of that. I love that chaos. I love the anger that it causes angst, and I love that Charlie Baker from the NCAA gets smaller and smaller and smaller by the day. I just just it's delicious, It's just absolutely great. But those two dudes are just mercenaries. Neither one of them deserves to have his jersey attire Travis Urnt. Maybe, okay, maybe because of the Heisman Trophy, but I don't even buy that. It was like two years you're you were there, you were barely there for a couple of the parties, and let's not even talk about your girlfriend. But let's know, like here, you were barely there for a couple of megagagers.
El insider Jason Cole with us The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the tirec dot Com Studios.
All right, I'm gonna stay.
I just took a machete to the Colorado program.
You did? You did? You were?
You were? Jason Voorhe's going right through finding finding young teenagers having sex and smoking pot, and you just decided to end all of them.
I'm going to end all of you.
You know you're done? All right?
Okay, I think we're gonna get chaos earlier because it's gonna be around where Ashton Genty goes. And I said that My big bull prediction last night was the Cowboys trade up to get and they move up to four or five to get ash Genty because that's a typical Jerry Jones thing to do.
Oh absolutely, because he's probably looking at that going up Zeep too, probably with less problems. But yeah, I would say that that's that's a Cowboys move because you can sell that and you can probably get what is Ashton Genty worth about three years of Is that a three years worth of a move?
Ooh?
For Jerry, Oh, well, the world goes faster now, but maybe I'll know you can trade up here for a decade.
He can run now, that is true. Yeah, yeah, he cond run the clock out. He still is running out on dak Shore. Okay, okay, three years. I'll give you three years on that.
Three years three years of marketing. Gentys good as we think he is.
Maybe you get to five and then you get the killer part of you get to have the contract.
Extension talk with gent In like four years right where you know, you do the whole nail bier thing and you wait until the last minute before the deadline and sign them to the new contract and.
You parade that around.
So really, the move up for genty is perfect for them from a purely marketing standpoint. It has nothing to do with it whether they're be any good, but yeah, it's marketing. That's marketing one on one for Jerry right there. And they'll probably get you know, an eleven win season in the next two years maybe three with gent there if they get that kind of excitement again, the marketing, just the opportunity just go on and on and on. Did we talk about Super Bowls or no, we didn't get so much.
No, we can't quite get to that point.
Hey, what do you make of Kirk Cousins showing up for work and making everybody uncomfortable?
Well, I think that people are uncomfortable, you know, Yeah, you're You're get uncomfortable if he gets hurt, right, So you can't you don't want to put him on the field. So you've got problem there, And this is they're forcing the he's forcing their hand to get the done sooner than later, right because they don't want to pay all the money on this contract. But that's fine, but it's not uncomfortable from a who's going to play standpoint. So because the players know what's up. The players know that, you know, panics at the quarterback. Cousins think the quarterback. So I don't think it affects the coaching staff. I don't think it affects the locker room. I think that the only people that affects are the owner and the GM and the head coach to a certain extent, because you've got you've got to make a decision on how fast are you're going to deal with this. But it's not an on field thing, if that makes sense, Like it's just it's just the money thing. So the only people who get worried about it are the people who really worry about the money, and the players don't worry about the money. In fact that probably most of the players are probably looking at Kurt going, yeah, man, yeah, you know, stick it to the man, do it, do what you gotta do. You know they understand either side of it.
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. His new nickname is the Machete on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
Story takes a dark turn.
Could I could?
I got it?
I gotta work on that accent.
That's okay, Yeah I could.
Can I do that?
Yeah? I could probably do.
What's that actor who does Machete?
Danny trey Hill, Yeah, Danny Treyo.
He's got Danny Treo's tacos and yeah and that he does.
That he does and had a coffee place and he and he was El Tortugo in Breaking Bad.
Sure too.
Yeah, they put his head on a turtle.
Is a bad man. He's a great story. We got to do the show sometimes I will come to l A.
We should do it from his restaurant.
All right, I'm out.
You know, he wants Tacos now Sandwich you want tacos.
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Well, we got more.
NFL coming up in a few months, but right now, time to find out what's trending in the wide world sports. From someone who walked in tonight and said, Jason, do you know the Mets have the best record in baseball? I said, Manzi Belogos, I did know that. She said, I'm gonna lead with that in the update.
I said, you go, yes, the Mets have won seven in a row.
They're the best human baseball right now. But we're gonna actually start There's so much going on.
You started with that, started, I started off Mets talk.
Yes, well, let's let's head to the NFL for just a second. So Warren Sharp tweeted about twenty minutes ago that apparently Giants GM Joe Sheen's son posted a Jackson Dart highlight reel on his Instagram and then set his account to private.
Went, okay, do what you want with that.
That would be that would be like, hey, we didn't learn from moving up to take Daniel Jones at number four, Let's do that.
Let's take Jackson Darted three.
Hey, the kids simulated their season with Dart under center like the results.
And you had Abdual Carter today talk about he Yeah, I'm gonna be a giant. Yeah, I'm excited. Now I'm going to be excited. I'll leave Philly behind. I'll leave Philly behind. I'm a giant all the way now. It's like, so he's like, I'm I'm going, let's go.
I agree, So do what you want with that.
Other NFL news that the Lions and All Pro safety Kirby Joseph have agreed to a four year, eighty six million dollar extension, making him the highest paid safety in NFL history. Sad news in the NFL Hall of Fame, Chicago Bear defensive tackle Steve McMichael passed away today after years long battle with als. He was sixty seven. We'll move into the NBA Warriors Rockets Game two. Rockets are up forty to twenty five halfway through the second quarter. Jimmy Butler out for the rest of this game with the pelvic contusion. He took a hard fall, so it's official he is out. Won't be returning. Steph Curry is two of four for five points so far in this game. Again, it's game two and the Warrior's lead at one zero. The Celtics did top the Magic one hundred to one oh nine. Celtics in a good way. They're annoying no matter what the Magic did. They made a way to come and just stay on the stay on top of them. Boston leads the series to zero. No Jason Tatum so Jaln Brown thirty six points and ten rebounds.
And yes, Christops porzingis blood all over.
Didn't even clean them up when he came out with that band aid across his head, that big X, like xbox marks the spot.
Yes, but he had like blood in his air.
Oh yeah, it's like we.
Can't clean him up.
Yeah, I think there aren't rules say hey, you gotta get all the blood out if you can.
Absolutely, there was so much blood still on were taking the shower holiday.
I don't know what it looked like.
They didn't even try except putting an X on his forehead with that band aid. The Cavaliers defeated the Heat one twenty one to one to twelve. They actually hit eleven threes in the second quarter, forty three points.
They win it.
They now lead the series to zero. Donovan Mitchell thirty points, six rebounds, and six assists. In Major League Baseball, some games going on. Aside from the Mets winning seven in a row and sweeping the Phillies, who have lost four in a row, the Pirates are up on the Angels one zero, top of the fifth inning, the Rays and the Diamondbacks are tied it to a piece. Bottom of the fourth inning, Brewers and Giants scoreless. Bottom of the fourth and the A's are shutting out the Rangers for zero. Bottom of the second inning about to start. The Cubs defeated the Dodgers at home, seven to six. Whatever, yeah, whatever. The NHL playoffs are also underway. The Avalanche are up on the Stars one zero after the first period. Also, Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog returned to the lineup for the first time in one thousand and thirty two.
Days after multiple knee surgeries.
Oilers and Kings la up one zero late in the first period, and the Capitals did defeat the Canadians three to one, So Washington now leads that series to zero.
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Montie. Coming up next, we'll have the latest on this injury. Jimmy Butler ruled out for the game. Was it a dirty play?
Keep it right here.
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Porzingis gets bloody and blood is gushing from his forehead. He riles up the crowd and comes by, I see your wheelchair, Paul Pierce. I'm just gonna bleed all over every thing. He comes back and plays double double twenty and ten. The Celtics win with no problem without Jason Tatum. How good can Jason Tatum really be? He stakes he's overrated?
Eight seven seven they win again?
What are you?
What are you doing trying to just pule other shows? Oh, I'm just I mean, come on, Jason Tatum's overrated.
Man, that'll be that'll be a poll question or something to morow that you did. But unlike Paul Pierce, I mean, this was a legitimate issue for president.
But I'm gonna tell you Jason Tatum is overrated and that'll be part of my debate with JD VNTZ in three and a half years.
Oh. If you can get hot sports takes into the political debates, of course it will be eh.
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First question for you, mister Vice president, what do you think of the Knicks rotation as they get ready for the playoffs?
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What seconds?
No, they throw him the curveball and they give him a football question. We have sixty seconds and he's like, wait, they didn't give me a script for this one.
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Bloody porzingis new horror film from a twenty four director Ari Atcher. But we may have just seen a play that could flip a good portion of the NBA Playoffs. Jimmy Butler ruled out for the remainder of Game two for the Warriors. He had a hard fall after this play that is being debated on how dirty it really was. Take a listens in Game one, ol Man, come on, Manny.
Butler is undercut and that fall hurts. And you know what I mean, Thompson got tripped.
He obviously didn't do that on purpose, but that is I'm not scary and dangerous, and Jimmy.
Butler landed right on that tailbone.
So Butler, who was an iron man in Game one with forty two minutes played.
Warriors TV on the call right there, and look if you watch the replay, no it's I know the Warriors got saying you watch the replay.
They're going in for.
The rebound and Draymond Green tries to keep Aman Thompson from getting to the basketball.
Right it's it's under it's under the basket.
It's about it's about seven or eight feet from under the basket, and the ball's bouncing and Draymond can't get there. He puts his right arm out to stop Thompson from from getting through, but Thompson tries to fight through because he wants to get to the basket.
He's got another Houston teammate who's planted as well, so he's trying to split.
Yeah, he's trying to split to get to the basketball. And because of this, I'm not saying it's Draymond, but this is a play where it's bang bang. Draymond has his arm out, he tries to get through, he trips, puts his hands out. He runs into Jimmy Butler, who had flown in to leap up for the rebound. Butler lands on his tailbone. Tough for Jimmy. Look, I've had that happen to me before. It is absolutely no fun.
It looks like hit it was.
It looks bad. It's scary, but he was able to walk off under his own power. He's ruled out for this game. I'm assuming a bruised tailbone. Hopefully it's not a fractured tailbone. It was again that happened to me. Freshman year of high school, we all decided to go sledding, and for some reason at the at the golf course where there was all big you know, hills and stuff. So we go like late at night and get onto the golf course, you know where that we can get in where the fence is, and we go under and I decided to go down sitting down for some ridiculously stupid reason. And I go down and I hit a hill and I jump and.
I land and I go boom, and I go oh, and I just fall off the side of the of the sled and I go, that's it. I'm done. I'm going home. I'm done. I couldn't even see. I couldn't even sit down. In school, I was taking I was, I was.
I was on a knee taking notes throughout the first the first two days of the week because I.
Couldn't do it. It was I don't know how I did that?
How was that?
How was I on one knee for like eight hours? How did I do that? But I did, but it was absolutely terrible. I couldn't sit. Did you break in coxsacks? I may have, I may have.
I may still have a broken cocksack, So I don't know. I might, I might may wouldn't make sense. I mean, I went and I had an X ray and everything, and and but after a couple of days, finally I was able to sit. Not fun, man, not fun. And but at least, you know, Jimmy Butler walking off under his own power. Hopefully he's okay come back for game three.
Oh, we did get the word Coxis into the show as well, since I said that, I knew Justin would jump in with that.
You know, you know, mister mister vocabulary, you had no idea. Sure I did. Really Yeah, It's just like Jimmy Butler didn't expect to hit for me and then Thompson, and it's not expecting that survive this.
It might.
I think it might.
I think it might. Boy, there's another segue I can make, But then it would just be I would know.
There were a lot of one liners that we just had to leave off to the signe. I mean, I want to keep my job, Frostburg.
I could have had another one, but it would just be I would just be blatantly said, just to say the words, I'm not gonna yeah.
But even as you told your story, I'm like, oh, I could do this, not gonna do that. No, No, we're just gonna let go, not gonna do it. But now you've got Houston with a thirteen point lead. Spin Spencer, former Northwestern product, trying to step up and fill some of the offensive void, but two fifty three remaining in the half and a thirteen point lead for the Rockets at home.
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Are the Nicks in more trouble? Than the Lakers.
The Lakers in more trouble than the Knicks. Joining us now on the hotline. Nobody better then.
Fox Sports One Inside or Extraordinary Checkout is on the Ball podcast every week as well. It's Rick Buker, who has a very early call tomorrow because he's announcing the Bengals pick in the second round of the NFL Draft.
Rick, welcome to the show.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes, No, I'm not. I actually could apply for that, you know what, I have a feeling that I could do as well as my my Dartmouth Conrad comrade Mike Brown, So have it.
No, don't tell yourself you could do a help a lot better than Mike Brown.
Gone man, fair enough.
I know it's not like I know it's not like me, but you know, I was trying. I wanted to see what it felt like.
Rick.
If I put your career up against Mike Brown's career, that's like saying, Okay, I'm gonna put Michael Jordan's career up against Kelly the Animal Bannister, and you're Michael Jordan.
I would trade my career for his bank account in a heart feat.
Let me put it all right, all right, that's okay, all right, but you also like going on social media. I don't think Mike Brown likes going on social media.
I don't think Mike Brown. I think Mike Brown still uses a typewriter.
So all right, So look, let's get to what we saw tonight first, and the injury to Jimmy Butler. Hopefully he is okay, he's ruled out for the game.
Didn't look dirty.
And look, honestly, Draymond Green tried to keep Thompson from getting to the ball. He looks like he tripped, kind of go through. Everybody puts his hands out.
I know that.
Of course, we go crazy on social media for everything, but it was just it looked like it was obviously an unfortunate play.
But that's kind of what it was.
Yeah, I mean, I think we've had a number of those. You know, Look, we've become hyper sensitive, and one of the big problems is that we now see everything in slow motion fifty times, and we see it at six different angles, and when you slow it down that much, everything is going to look egregious or malicious, and more so than it does in real time. The reality is we're playing in the toughest part of the season, and guys are extending themselves to make plays, and as a result, you're gonna have collisions and you're going to have You're gonna have stuff like this happen. You can't have it both ways. You can't ask these guys to play hard and then micro analyze every contact point that they have and suggest that there's malicious intent. So I think we do far too much of that. I think the referees, quite honestly, do far too much of that. We had Julius Randall of the other night finishing a layup and his hand comes down and it's uh and that ends up being being a foul. And to me, it's a lot of this is just guys making plays and and you can't control your body one thousand percent of the time when you're going as fast and hard as they are.
Well, I do like then you get the slow motion of the wink and the nod. Hey I got that call right, so you have on that.
I always love that, and I think, you know, I keep thinking like, you guys are the free throw line and they got like I thought Jimmy the other day he had the smirk, or you get the wink in the nod And I'm thinking, you guys, do know that, you know, the commissioner and the league and everybody.
They're all watching this.
So you think you're going to get another call, you know, don't be surprised if you don't.
Well, they'll just add another award for Best Actor like they do for everything else. Rick.
So so let's go to Lakertown while we're at it here in Los Angeles and inspired early effort against the Wolves yesterday, but down the stretch, boy.
Really gripping and having to ride that one and ride the lightning down the stretch. What did you see two games?
Yeah, I mean I think if you if you take the two teams at two games in totality, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Timberwolves have been overall the better team, which I don't know that we were saying that going into the series. And to your point, like as badly as they played, and I think they played as badly as in Game two as the Lakers played in Game one, the Timberwolves had an opportunity to still kind of steal that game. It was a nine, and I think Aunt Edwards came down and took a three and missed it. And then there was another another transition where they should have gotten something out of it, and Aunt lost the ball in at mid court with a steal with by Lebron, And you know, I just I was. After the Minnesota Timberwolves showed us what they were capable of in game one, my thought was, Okay, are they going to be mature enough to play it to maintain this through game two? Or are they going to be a little fat and happy and get a little sloppy And and you see this even with veteran teams, like they suddenly they play fast and they have a certain tempo and rhythm and they win a game, and then especially on the road, and then the next game they go, okay, let's make like we're playing with house money. Now, let's be careful. Let's let's not put any big bets out there. Let's not let's And I'm like, you weren't careful in game one and that's why you want what are we doing here? But that's the way they played it, and and the Lakers took advantage.
But I.
You know, I had the Lakers winning the series and then watched Game one and I was like, wow, I don't I don't know that they have the depths in athleticism to be able to win this series. And and so my feeling is that the Timberwolves are going to take it. I don't know how long it's going to take, but it's a little bit of what we on Game two, which is the Lakers. If there was a twenty minute game, then you'd want them to win. But I don't know that they can sustain it over forty eight minutes because they just they have nothing coming from their bench, and you're asking Austin Reeves and Lebron James to play hard at both ends of the floor and the scorers for forty eight minutes. I just I don't know that they have enough or that those two in particular have enough left in the tank to meet that task.
Rick Bueger with US, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studio. All right, so what you're telling me is, then the Lakers need to get an inspiration. One of their players, either Luca or Lebron, needs to get a big cut in the middle of their forehead like porzingis, walk off, wave to the crowd, come back out, double double, and maybe that gets the Lakers.
Enough yeah, or you know, maybe the wheelchair act by Paul Pierce that worked well at one point in the finals to get everybody going. So, yeah, something extraordinary, that's it's going to turn the tide. But yeah, short of that, I just don't know if there's enough.
Now here's the thing, and this is something we've talked about. We taught at this beginning of the show, and you know, look, the NBA Playoffs are exciting, and they're a thrill a minute and it's an unbelievable reality show for a month and a half. But really, after watching what we saw so far, seeing Oklahoma City, just like with a surgeon's precision through Memphis, if you look like they should be on the floor with them. Boston wins going away tonight without Jason Tatum. The Cavaliers are having no difficulty. Is anything gonna stop us from the thunder versus either the Calves or the Celtics or the NBA Championship.
I think at the end that's what it's going to be. And I don't know what can stop that.
Well, the Calves are doing a pretty good job too, so I can't.
I mean, it's going to be the thunder against the Calves or Thunder and the Celtics like, that's that's gonna be the matchup, But I don't know anything else is gonna stop it.
Yeah, well, here's my one caveat. And I do think the Thunder are justifying or maybe reminding us. You know what, we did have the best record in the league. We did win sixty eight games. This is my one concern about them is that so many of that it's almost been an embarrassment of riches. They were so good that they only played five games during the regular season that were decided by three points or less, and they were one in four in those games. And I can't help but feel like they're going to They're going to have to win those type of games somewhere along the line, probably not in this series. Most likely not in this series, but they get Denver or the Clippers in the next round, and I'm thinking that some of those games are going to come down to last minute execution. And it's not that the' th Under aren't capable of that, but they just haven't had a whole lot of practice at it, whereas every other team. If you look at the top teams in the league, they've all played a dozen and are more games that were tooth and nail during the regular season and they had winning records in them. So that's my only concern. But I do think that they're legit, and so I have them going. I have them going. But if they don't, it's I would say it's going to be because they just haven't had enough experience in very close games and grinding those out.
If this Tatum injury becomes something bigger, Rick, are they deep enough to make a huge run?
Who's that these Celtics?
I mean, you got Bloody porzingis so maybe inspired into greatness. Yeah, but giving his history, Jalen Brown's knee, I mean, I know Pritchard wins this award, Noll, but there's not a lot of other scoring coming off the bench for depth purposes.
Yeah.
No, if there's any team that can suffer like, I don't think they can lose all three be sure.
Obviously, Yeah, that would be tough.
Although they won.
The funny thing is they won the other day. I think with those three shooting like one for twelve from three point right, So who knows? But I don't, like, I don't know the severity of Tatum's injury. I feel as if if this was the Finals that he would have played that this is precautionary. You know, the cut on the forehead with with perzingis, you know, I think that's certainly something that he can play with. Jalen's knee seemed to look okay tonight, So yeah, I look, I think that attrition is a part of this, and it's another reason why to believe in Boston, Cleveland and OKAC because not only did they have the best records during the regular season, but they have the most depth. And I like, you know, the Warriors example tonight, like Jimmy Butler goes out with the pelvis contusion and they're they're different team. There's most of the teams in the running can't sustain an injury to anybody that's in their starting lineup, and you see that with Denver. I don't know what Michael Porter's injury is. There's something wrong with him injury report, but I would say that, Okay, see, Cleveland and Boston can all afford to lose one, you know, one one player out of the rotation and they can still be close to what we've seen them be. But anybody else and I think that that puts them behind the eight ball.
I mean, look at the Warriors they have been forced to play Jonathan Kaminga today.
Yeah, look at that, and and and and it's so good to see Jonathan, uh demonstrating to them immediately why they haven't been playing yet.
You got to put somebody in. Can't put Rick Barry in?
I mean Pat Spencer comes in and is more effective than Jonathan comminga like, uh, tak, what do you want right? Other than other than forty million a year?
What do you want?
All right?
Lastly, Rick, don't sugarcoate it for me. First round series zooms tomorrow, Nix and the Pistons. How much trouble are the Nixon on a scale of one to ten. If one is no trouble, they got this series, don't worry, or ten meaning Jason getting ready for a first round exit and Tim's getting fired and Bridges getting traded.
One to tell how much trouble are the Nixon.
You're You're in, Jonathan coming to trouble.
You're in it.
You're the look on the look on your face should be equivalent to if somebody said, you, Steve Kerr, you've got to play Jonathan Keninga, forty minutes for the rest of the for the rest of the playoffs, whatever looks Steve Kerr would have on his face, that's the look that you should assume when it comes to the nixten.
It's gonna be that tough.
Okay.
Yeah, Smith's size just like he's on hot Hot ones, sir. And at the end of the challenge, as you said that, Rick, well, he's he's on Twitter, at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker. H Rick, what do you got on the Ball podcast this week besides the Knick's funeral?
Apparently, dude, I have no idea.
I've been doing two shows a day and I'm trying to finish a book like the podcast may be on hold for three or four days.
Oh okay, all right, you gotta wait to see when the next win. Then you'll get that's the last chapter the.
You know what, you know what? We meant to call Matt Bucher and see if he can get something out.
For Oh good, it's been a while since we checked in on Matt Buker. Yeah, okay, wait whatever insight. Hey, yeah, we'll get We'll get.
Matt peper on Yeah. On the Ball Squared Podcast.
Yeah, we're gonna get his thoughts on on Karl Anthony Pounds.
How about that.
I'm holding that to you for next week, buddy, You got it. Take it easy, Rick, Thanks Rag appreciate it.
