The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith and Mike Harmon react to one of the biggest choke jobs in the NBA playoff history. To NO surprise the Knicks lost Game 5 to the Pistons. Jon Paul Morosi checks in LIVE from Madison Square Garden. And Giannis addresses his postgame confrontation with Tyrese Haliburton's dad.
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Not everybody can be the Cleveland Cavaliers and a model of efficiency.
Time out on the floor. Pistons lead the Knicks ninety one to ninety. Again, this is not one of those games you're gonna say, wow, man, I'll tell you doctor Nasman that it right. But but it's a close game and we're down in the last five minutes. That's it what you want.
So it meets the definition of a good game in today's NBA.
Now, you know, I really want to talk about this when I say, that's enough about the Knicks for now. Okay, that's enough about the Knicks for now, because coming into tonight right with the with the Bucks down three to one to the Indiana Pacers and all the talk of Giannice is leaving, Giannice is gone, Certainly it doesn't look great for the Bucks future because Damian Lillard now might be out for all of next year as well, with the Achilles stare coming back from. He feel so bad for the guy because coming back from where he was and not getting to a you know quote, real contending team into late in his career. So yeah, okay, yeah, things are gonna be a little difficult, right, Things are gonna be a little tough. Uh, Jannie's future. Okay, but I always thought, you know what, he's not gonna leave now. He's not going to force a trade. He's got a contract for another three or four, you know, three more years, And Okay, it's gonna be an offseason where the Bucks have to say, okay, once again, we have to go get somebody because we don't know if Damian Lillard's out. But after this collapse, after this collapse of a seven point lead in the final forty seconds to lose to the Pacers to get eliminated by turning the ball over ridiculously badly twice in the final thirty five seconds, this is where I say, yeah, if it's like the Bucks want Giannis to say I'm out, I don't want to stay. I can't stay here. If anything is gonna push you on us out to say I need out, I want to be dealt. I want to be traded. What we saw tonight, that's what when it.
Fails spectacularly, you're going up against the heated rival, and there's good debt.
We actually have that.
We can say with great confidence in the NBA, because normally the criticism is everybody gets along, everybody likes he No, these.
Teams hate each other.
So we knew we were gonna get some fireworks as it goes out. And with Lillard's injury opening the door to all right, they're gonna go out easy.
No they didn't, because.
They get out to that thirty to thirteen lead that first quarter, a blistering pays and like, all right, we got some fight left in these bucks for Doc Rivers.
Down three one, Hey, he's got a chance. Down three one, yeah, up three one, no chance, but down three one, yeah, look.
At the maybe maybe maybe he can push the right buttons here, And instead we see this epic collapse in over time, you know, building the big lead and then a comedy of errors, followed by postgame fireworks in the celebration line and chaos. But yeah, coming into this game, a lot of the it seem fata complete. Uh, and you start running the math and doing the numbers as to how you work everything going forward. That they're just in a no win situation to try to augment this roster around Giannis to where the best thing would seem to be to cut ties and hit a massive reset button. And obviously Frostburg's already trying to order his Yiannis Lakers jersey car.
No, no, no, you know you've are you've already you already made the jiff with Jannis as a Laker. You sent it to me today. A couple of shocked to let him use his jersey number.
Ah.
Yeah, I hope he goes full Lawrence Taylor and says he can't can't wear it, can't wear Uh. Look, I mean you blow a seven point lead with forty seconds left to go really special, stucky. I mean you have you had misfree throws, you had two turnovers. This is bad. And look, I want I've always want to say, hey, keep your superstar stay, you're the number one. You want a title there, But you know what, you've maxed out man, Jannis has maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee has turned into a mess. They're a mess because they made changes they thought was gonna result in a championship team. Now you're without Damian Lillard, who's gonna be gone for you know, most of next year. Who knows when he comes back. Who knows what the team is gonna be. Yeah, you wonder everything you can. But if you're Giannis, you're like, am I really gonna win? If I stay? He's got to get to that point in his career. You mentioned Shack. Where Shack got to where he said, you know what, I've been having fun. I've been a dominant player, but I know I want my legacy to be cemented. I don't want to be one of those Oh yeah, you want a champmpionship. No, no, I know. So I'm going to the Lakers and look, won four championships right, one, three at the Lakers, one with the Miami Heat. And of all the players in the history of the game, Shack's legacy maybe is the most secure. And Yannis has to get to that point too, right. Kevin Durant did the same thing. Hey, I was in Oklahoma City. We made it close, we made it to the finals. Once got boat raced, I have to go. I know, I want my legacy to be something that is that is better than what it is right now. So he goes to the Golden State Warriors. They win a couple of titles, probably would have won a third if he didn't blow out his achilles, And so, yeah, I went and secured my legacy, no matter what I did it. Jannis has to get to that point too. And look, I'm not saying, oh, hey, Milwaukee is off with but you had a great run with him, and you got to the top of the mountain and you won a title a couple of years ago, and it was a tremendous accomplishment. But Jannis has to look at this and say, I'm thirty years old. I've seen the best part of my career. I don't know how many more peak years I have left, maybe four or five. He's a bigger player, obviously, being six eleven and two fifty, So how many more years does he have until his skill because you know, skills road on big men much earlier. How many more years do I have? Can I wait two more years in Milwaukee to try to figure this out too on my last peak four years? Or do I need to go someplace else? And the answer is especially after this, you know, and I'm saying no. You can you can be emotional. You can say I want out, I'm done. It's not working here. We're going in the wrong direction. And this should be the exclamation point that if your Jannis, it tells you this is when I knew I had to leave, if anything was at the end where if I was questioning myself, do I do it? Do I not? I don't know. Losing this game like this, with the with the mistakes at the end of the game, this is what tells you, Okay, you know what. This is the last straw. This pushes me over the top. Giannis needs to ask out there needs to be a big, big looking into this this offseason. How do we move on? Where do we move on here to could be the Lakers, right, could be the Knicks. You know, I mean we don't think he wants to team up with Luca. Yeah, oh of course, of course, but maybe straight up for mckael Bridges. You know that coulrorct be. I also have to convince Luca that he wants to stay to Yeah, well, well Luca just gave five grand you know, I get to pay for to Redo Kobe's muau in downtown LA. I think he's staying I really just.
Want to do I think he's wrench into all of this say that you know that's not a guarantee, but this.
You have to I mean, this is where if you're Yiannis and you say, Okay, this is my legacy, my career. We've got to the top. We had great times, it was an awesome run, and we won a title, but it's just not happening. In the next four years are going to be the best four years I have, and I gotta be someplace where I can win. I keep going out in the first round. That keeps being different iterations of the team, Oh, we're gonna do this instead, we're gonna make a trade, We're gonna trade this guy here, We're gonna go get Damila. And none of it is worked. None of it is getting you out of the first round. None of it's getting you any closer to a title. If you're Yannis in the offseason, you have to say, hey, let's be let's do this really well, let's do this very I'm not gonna throw you guys under the bus. Let's not do do this in the in the press, but hey, let's make this amicable as we can move me. I need you to move me. Don't make it bad because I'm make it bad. And if the because if you say no, I'll make it back. Because we know the NBA is a star driven league. Stars get what they want right, you can. Hey, I'm just gonna hold my breath and pout. We watched James Harden happen to him, It happens to a whole bunch of guys. But if I'm honest, I say, look, let's keep this amicable. I really need a new start. I need to go somewhere else. If you make it bad, I can make it bad. But let's go. Let's do this amicably. And the Bucks you had your chance, you had your time. It's not getting any better. You need to move on. And Yannis Yannis should be on another team for the beginning of next year.
Had their championship win, then you lose in the Eastern Conference semi final, and now you got three straight first round losses. So you probably excise the coach and Doc Rivers moves into whatever the next phase.
Of his career is. But from a roster perspective, you're you're cash strapped. You made the move to get Lillard.
Uh and you brought in Kuzmo, who had a big deal. All all of that to say moving forward for Jannis, even with these gaudy numbers, I mean, statistically just really one of the more ridiculous series. You see thirty three fifteen point four, six point six assists per game, shot sixty one percent from the field, go on the line, and you're not nowhere near enough against the Pacers, a good but not great team. And that should be the thing that gets underscored here. It's not that you went and lost to what looks like a juggernaut and a deep squad in Cleveland or you know, a squad that's assembled that he's just said, wow, we probably didn't have a punch a chance. No, here, you got eliminated pretty quickly, and obviously between Lillard's illness and now this injury, you didn't have.
The full.
Workload and anticipation of what this series could be. But you don't have that going forward while you're still committed to that money on the books, so you're hamstrung in terms of the moves you can make and make this any better. So for Jiannis, Yeah, Shack is known for two things, right, He's he was still the big shactice and all of those things, and it was a vagabond the final years of his career, the time he's in Cleveland, that he's in Boston, all of and you know, Phoenix, all of those things. You don't want to become that guy because that does take away from some of those titles. But but your point is still well taken, is that you're still in the prime of your career if you're Yannis, so sputtering to first round exits year after year is certainly not how you anticipate the rest of your career going.
Loyalty is great to a point, Yeah, I mean, and you can't fault him for the look. I stayed, and then after we won a couple of years later, I kept staying. I said, Okay, you went out and got played. Okay, great, but it just hasn't work. This is nobody's fault, right. I thought, when they got Damian Lillard, the Bucks are going to run the East for the next three or four years.
Well, we talked about it, either Leland's been waiting for the playoffs, that they were potentially a dangerous team if things broke right, and quite clearly everything that could go wrong did.
Yeah, I mean, I can't fault them. They went out and got the best player they could to beat Janie's one A and it just hasn't worked. And you can't tell you, honest, what if we get your new coach. You tried that a couple of times already didn't work? Well, okay, didn't work.
Can't tell me Janniss Jannis didn't have an invisible hand in some of that movement as.
Well, of course, But but there's nothing you can say if you're Milwaukee that's going to convince him to say, yes, I'm going to buy him to stay. Who are we gonna get I don't know, what's the deal with Damian Lillard? I don't know. Are we gonna get out of the first round? That's our goal? Okay? Not enough? Not good enough?
Right?
That can't I can't be the goal? No, he needs and that's the Knicks goal. Yeah, this could, This should be Yannis. Where Yannis gets traded should be the number one topic of conversation once the NBA Finals And where is he going to end up? How are they going to facilitate this deal? How does it happen? Different sources, reports from Shams or anybody else over the course of you know, the month. This is what it should be because really, and then you're throwing in guys like Embiid who probably should be on the trading block too. Other big players are gonna be out there, but this should be the Yannis offseason because you know he's signed for the next few years, so okay, And that helps a team because they know what they're paying for him, so it's not like, well, we don't know, we got to put no, no, you know, we can make a great trade because you know you got them for the next three years. You can give us these assets. This is how we can make it work in Milwaukee, because it's it's just it's done. It's hit. Its it's hit. Its natural conclusion is the best is the best way to look at it is that sometimes endings are abrupt, Sometimes endings are pushed by one side. Maybe it ends too early, maybe it ends too late, but sometimes things just end. And this is a natural conclusion. This is a natural end of this relationship.
Well, and it's got the much longer tail than perhaps it even should have. Right when we talk about coaching changes and the number of times we've seen teams turned the page on a coach the year after they've won a Coach of the Year award, they don't get that long run here. Jannis gave them a four year launching pad. After a title it's reached its natural endpoint because now you're chasing other teams that have risen in conference that aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
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Shaboozy Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Ship fast and free back by free road hats protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. All right, Well, we'll get to Bill Belichick in a second. We have a couple of big stories here to get to. To no one's surprise, including my own, the Knicks fall to the Pistons at Madison Square Garden a chance to close the series out. This is completely on brand for the Knicks. They play absolutely horrendous for most of the game. They lose to the Pistons one oh six to one to oh three. They get a chance to potentially tie the game at the end, they miss a free throw. They can't get the rebound, and instead it is the Pistons who are going back home singing Detroit basketball. Detroit Basketball. One O six, one oh three is the final big night for Cade. Cunningham just six out of seventeen from the floor, but eleven out of twelve from the free throw line. Uh, this is a game where, look, I'll tell you this, it's completely on brand for the Knicks. It wasn't. It was a horrible game from Brunston and Towns. They were both really really bad. The other supporting players played pretty well, and Mitchell Robinson, but this is like a quintessential Knicks game. And I don't know what it is with my teams, but it's like, I don't feel like at any time there's a home court or a home field advantage, like I watched the Knicks, I and I go teams come into MSG. They should be coming into MSG going how are we gonna win?
Here?
The most famous arena in the and they come in it's like they're in their own living room. No, but that's it. They're jacked up to play there. We've talked about it for years.
There's been nothing of significance for your team in that facility since nineteen seventy three outside of Billy Joel and Taylor.
Now, there's lots of teams, there's lots of good concerts there. Stop with that silliness.
There's what I mean, you've got the concert streaks and and all that sellout.
Might it seemed like it was just Billy Joel and Taylor Swift.
Well, no, but those are the two most prominent in terms of selling out large blocks. Okay, all right, sure, Billy Joel's residency Obviously he's from Long Island, so his residency is kind of yeah, well but he did he drove from his house, but that's where he decided every night. And I'm gonna keep doing this, but easy money. But the k had that song this eighties Joel, this should be the easiest clinching game.
You could possibly want, right, And I don't know if this was just they came out flat. They thought Detroit was going to roll over, but it was. They played poorly. They struggled from the beginning, and then you know, typical Knicks. Oh we're gonna really start playing the last few minutes of the game. I mean, it was a nip tuck game all the way through. And I give Detroit credit because they could have just said, hey, it's done. We thought it was gonna happen for us. But instead they find a way to win, and the Knicks find a way to lose. And it's and it should be a much bigger home court, Advan, it should be a much bigger let's show up and let's put the hammer down on here. But now I'm realized that, then I'm reminded this is not a great Knicks team. This is a team that looks really good on paper, but they don't always and they don't all mesh with each other, and the games don't mesh. And here's a games when when Townsend, Bruns and were bad, Hey, the other three guys all played really well. Well that's because, hey, the other guys weren't shooting. So these guys are able to take up the slack. There's no cohesion with this roster. It's like the Knicks have five guys out there to out talent you. And that doesn't work in the playoffs. It can work in the regular season when you're one of eighty two out talenting other teams. That works, but here in the playoffs, this is a series that if a foul goes the other way, you're looking at the Knicks being down three to two or maybe you know, worse in this series. I'm telling you it's you know, I was feeling good up three to one. I said, Okay, maybe they're figuring out their problems. Like No, it's the same old stuff. And this is a typical Knicks loss. And I have seen too many typical Knix losses in my life, too many of them. At least now they're in the playoffs, but I mean still, I'm seeing way too many typical Knix loss and this was one that I could see coming from twenty miles right. What did I tell you last night? Yeah, not feeling great about game? Why I think it was not feeling great about this game because I knew they would come out with an effort like this, which is absolutely unforgivable. But yet here we.
Are, Townsend Brunson combined to shoot nine for thirty from the field. We talk about the aesthetics of this this game as we were starting it, you know, as we started the show, it was what ninety one ninety or whatever the score was with five minutes and change left, finishes one O six, one O three. But we look inside, you know, what we were wandering through the box score, and just from an esthetics standpoint, it failed that test. Twenty one miss free throws between the two teams. Twenty one miss free throws? What are we doing professional basketball? Twenty one miss free throws. The Pistons in victory shot eight of twenty nine from three point range. A lot of the other stats line up when you talk about turnovers and trying to find the obvious offensive rebounding advantages weren't there. Just your two stars came up small and frantic efforts at the end were few and far between to get them over the top. And you are dealing with the one place where home court advantage really doesn't exist, even as the mecca of basketball or whatever you want to do on it is that we get this kind of thing where other teams come in and it's where they've always wanted to play, so you get the extra juice that you've got to put up with.
Now, speaking of extra juice, now, we've never did We've been on how many years have been on the here this is the year, Eliven, the eleventh year we've been on the air. We have never done what we're going to do. Quite right now, Okay, now we have John Paul Morosi, our Major League Baseball about that insider is set to join us next hour on the show, right and talk baseball big stuff. Oh, Tony's already got a home run, tow. I think the Dodgers have about twelve runs already. H He's gonna talk dog join us next hour. So he still is coming on with us next hour. But he's also joining us right now because John Paul Morosi is in the belly of the beast, the proud Michigan native that he is calling us from Madison Square Garden where he just witnessed the Pistons win over the next John Paul, I'd say welcome to the show, but it said I'm just gonna say, hey, what's up.
Greetings from the garden, my friends. It is a it is a very mournful addition of a New York state of mind that is playing through the garden right now as we speak. I'm in the two hundred levels and I'm live on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks. So I had to speak with our security guard here to let them know that I'm doing a live national radio hit as we're sitting here.
I thought that was James willin maybe telling you to leave.
Okay, no, no, no, no, we're I had to let our security guard know what I was doing here. So what a game, right, And certainly plenty of the Knicks fans around me we're second guessing the lack of a timeout called late to get Brunson back on the floor. But this was a gritty game. And when you consider the way this series has gone back and forth, the controversial end of Game four, I would say that the series is about where it should be. There should be a game six in Detroit. And whether it was fall don't Lie or poetic justice that there's a sixth game. I think this series has been so competitive that it deserves one.
That's very diplomatic, gou John Paul, I'll tell you're full of it.
Well, let me tell you this. Let me tell you this about the Pistons play tonight, I thought from the outset this you could call this any other, any name of the game that you want. This to me was the usar Thompson game because the way that Bickerstaff had him as the defensive player at the outset of the game to try to deny Jalen Brunson right away. I think said a lot about the way the Pistons wanted to have a certain tempo to this game and a physicality. I thought Duran was excellent down low, and I certainly Kate Cunningham had some big moments late. That's a file line from the field as well. So a deserved win for the Pistons, and this series gets the sixth game that I think rightfully should.
Have pull it back out big scale. Jason was lamenting the fact that the Knicks really don't seem to have the home court advantage because of the juice other teams bring. What's what's the atmosphere like as you walk in and you're witnessing this live, Well, it was.
Loud, it was raucous. I think that when you consider it's still Madison Square Guard it's still the world's most famous arena. And if you go back to game one of this series. Yes, I'm live on the radio right now on Fox Sports Radio nationwide. Thank you, sir, thank you.
So tell them in New York channel XM eighty three, just to make sure they.
Know, yes, we're on.
New York.
Yes I have I have my immediate credential if needed, it's right here, So long, long, story short, long story short. You go back to game one of this series, the twenty one point run by the Knicks. I think that the Garden had its moment still in the series at that point in time to help the Knicks gap it, get back into the into that series and win that game. But it's certain of the Pistons one Game two, and then they found a way here to win Game five. I don't think I'll say this the Pistons and their competitiveness, that they've got enough veteran players. Harris certainly Hardaway knows this building very well. They don't seem to be overcome by the moment and by the scene here. I think they actually seem to handle themselves pretty well. And the officiating that was pretty even overall. I know there's a lot of talk about that in game four, but I think in game five there certainly some some issues on either side of the game, but I think by and large it was a fairly well officiated, fairly played game, all.
Right, John Paul, I think I know why the the conjurer Yuard's giving you issues is because he hears you talking a lot about the Pistons and the Pistons. So here's what I want you to do, since you're on here and you're trolling me for the last few minutes, I want you to turn to the security guard and go Detroit basketball.
That would probably not be in my best in particularly Junctor. Again again, you have to you have to you have to know when you're playing on the road. Okay, I am still.
Of me.
I am still someone who grew up in a town that's one square mile and right now I'm sitting in the in the world's most famous arena discussing an NBA playoff game that wasn't an excellent sporting event well worth the price of admission that I paid to get in here. So it was it was all great and uh and and now we get us. She has to talk Game six at some point, and we'll talk baseball in an hour or so. And I believe your hometown New York Met Jason Smith have done a pretty good job of getting on the scoreboard this evening as well.
All right, so so well we'll end with this. And and yes, because I do have a big question about the Mets, and when I ask you in a second, but will you seeing all the Knicks fans leaving, are they leaving upset? Are they leaving sad? Are they leaving anxious?
Like?
What what did it seem like the crowd was like when they were walking out?
Good question. Uh, I think a little disappointed. And again there was maybe some second guessing about the lack of and this is this is my Midwestern translation of what I was witnessing and hearing here. This is this is my my Midwestern translation of of what I'm experiencing here at the Garden. I think disappointed about maybe the lack of a timeout called I would say that, But there was one thing that I did see on the on the board as I was as I was exiting, which was next home game if necessary, Game seven.
Ah, very nice.
I think I think they'll be I think they'll be coming back. And again, maybe that's the time when the Garden atmosphere is the one that brings the Knicks their winning Game seven. But Detroit has their game six as they should have there back at LCA this weekend.
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi MLB Network inside of John Paul Morosi, who is joining us from Madison Square Gardeners. He just watched the Pistons beat the Knicks in Game five of the first round of the playoffs, and he's stopping by with us in an hour from now to talk all the big baseball news. And I want to ask you one question, a very difficult question. I hope I'm not putting you on the spot with us, but I have a quick question for you. Sure, can you tell me, because my internet's down, what team has the best record in baseball?
Can you tell me with the with a quick calculation, I believe that will be then.
Oh, JP had to go hang up, run you had to go Frotzburg hangs up on John Paul Morosi like, I don't need that. After after watching Nickson, I need that too. Thanks a lot. You have to tune in next hour. The Mets is your answer, right long tease, The Mets is your answer. Just so you know, the Mets is your answer.
But the Mets.
You can't play that. You can't we have the best record of base You can't play that. You just seem you won. No, you can't put we have the best rec We don't suck. We don't suck. You celebrate like nothing. No, we said we were in the NLCS last year. We have the best writ in nineteen eighty six. Okay, just so you know. I mean other years you could have said yeah, but right now we don't. It was even born. No, it doesn't matter. Lots of things happened. It's where you were born. Lots of tea. Yeah, the eighties. Uh, the fashions people wore, powle tize. Now it all happened. They're telling you. I just found out the other day. I thought tyshert was thirty. He's thirty four.
Yeah.
I really didn't know that.
I mean, you've aged ourselves, but you forgot to age tyser.
I thought he was thirty. Like when Elijah, who does social media Force is a great job, he was talking about Tysher and said, yeah, hey, six more years till you're forty. I said, wait what he goes? Yeah? I said, wait, Alex, I thought you were thirties, not thirty four. I'm like, you know what else is thirty four? Okay? What else the number Yannis is gonna wear with the Lakers?
You think so?
Huh? You think so thirty two thirty four? Okay, that might work now. But I didn't know that that Tysher got four more years. I didn't know that I don't know if I think more more of you because you're four years older than I thought, or if I think you really still struggle with stuff. Don't know, I'm trying to think I'm both. Okay, all right, very good time now to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. From a guy who's been called the Tom Thibodeau of Fox Sports Radio, take that back, because when times get tough, he stands around with his arms folded and stares at his computer. It's Steve di Seger.
Yeah, the Nicks did not clingch tonight It's three games to two lead after losing it home to Detroit one oh six to one oh three. The Knicks bench on free throws three for nine and lost a close game. Meanwhile, in Boston chance to clinch that first round series as the Celtics lead Orlando three games to one. Boston until a moment Ago had only made three three pointers the entire game, and yet late third quarter Boston's now up seventy six sixty two. The magic from three point range four of twenty seven late first quarter at Denver, the Nuggets up on the Clippers twenty six seventeen that first round series tied it to Indiana in Game five put away Milwaukee. The Bucks season is over in overtime one nineteen one eighteen the final. The Bucks had led by twenty early in the second quarter, in fact still led by seven with thirty five seconds left in the OT but Milwaukee with two late turnovers. Tyres Halliburton of the Pacers with five late points score. The NBA Rookie of the Year is the Spurs Stefan Castle. He got ninety two of the one hundred first place votes. The Hawk Zachary Reshachev finished second. The Kings are finalizing a deal to keep Doug Christie as head coach to.
The NHL playoffs.
If you know anything about hockey, you may have heard that the Toronto Maple Leafs are.
Not good at closing out a series.
They had a chance to do so in a Game five and lost at home in shutout fashion to Ottawa tonight for nothing. It was one nothing in the third.
Wait better record the the Leafs and close out games. Or the Colorado Rockies. Oh I thought you werena say?
Or Doc Rivers, Oh, that would be.
He was good to close outgates se he got closed out. He finished the job. The other way, and it's not Blake's fault.
The Maple Leafs and potential series clinchers since twenty eighteen have a record of one and twelve and their power play in those potential series clinchers one for thirty one. So yet again, try again next time. We're middle of the first overtime for New Jersey, tied at Carolina four to four. Vegas at home leads to to one over min Minnesota after one and middle of the first period of the late game Kings hosting the Oilers. That game is scoreless to Major League Baseball. Here it is ten forty Eastern time. They've just ended the fifth inning at Cleveland. Guardians tied one to one with the Twins after a long rain delay at the start. Cincinnati's home game against Saint Louis reigned out at Pittsburgh after a rain delay at the start, paid attendance nine thousand, and the Cubs won nine to nothing over the Pirates. The Rangers got a great start from Jacob de Grom and beat the A's, well they will, it's bottom of the eighth. Twelve to two is the lead, and yes, the Mets did okay as well, led eight nothing in the fourth Mets beat Arizona eight to three. Mets record twenty one and nine.
Which is pretty good, which is where does it rank in baseball?
It's probably the best in all of New York.
Oh and more than that, I think too.
The Yankees are eighteen and twelve after their dominant win at Baltimore fifteen to three, Dodgers nineteen and ten right now, and they're leading the Marlins three to one going to the bottom of the second show. Heyo Tani with a leadoff homer.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o and now you know me. Carolina Hurricanes fan Devil's in the Hurricanes four to four and overtime. The Hurricanes are throwing everything at Jacob Markston right now, and he is playing like he's nine feet tall. They have forty five shots on there. It looks like it was like, yeah, it looks like this is like a three on three overtime with the number of times the Hurricanes have the puck in close and he is just making every save. I mean, he's playing like he is nine feet tall. Amazing. So we got playoff hockey. We got big time NBA drama coming up next. Yes, we'll get to Bill Belichick. I feel bad, but boy, we got stuff that continues to come up.
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We have something to tell you about one of the NBA's biggest superstars who got trolled by another star's dad on the court following a game tonight. And if you can put two and two together, you know exactly who we're talking about. Yes, that's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. If you're ready to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD weight loss No injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results. They work for me, they'll work for you. Call and schedule a console today. Visit my phdweightloss dot com. That's my phdweightloss dot Com.
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And DJ Clearly. Tonight, the Knicks got locked out of the second round of the playoffs. TJ Jason Smith Mike Harmon live fromthtirec dot Com Studios. Uh oh, boy, do we have just entertaining basketball story after basketball story come in your way over the next few minutes. Here you're gonna hear Yiannis after the Bucks elimination coming up in about ten minutes. You you he is You're cool. Not happy, Lakers, I love you, but not happy from getting eliminated. Also not happy with the final play in what happened after the final buzzer and this brings us to the play of the day. 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, backed by free road hazard protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tirerac dot Com is the way tire buying should be. So here's the final play of the game. In overtime, it looked like it was gonna be a Bucks runaway victory that had a seven point lead with forty seconds left to go. However, missed free throws and turnover after turnover resulted in this turning Tyre's Halliburton into the hero.
Haliburton five seconds, four sentence.
Lead, one point three to go, Pacers pot one. No Jonnis is gonna.
Take it down.
Wos carry twent two years prime in the Pacer Start moving on there. NBA TV on the call. Yes, this game began at noon today, so hopefully you got to see that. Uh now you think, okay, boy Yan is dealing with all this drama following the game. Yeah, but he's got to deal with something else because you'll see video. It's on the internet right now, it's on social media that Following the game, Halliburton makes the big makes the big bucket. Uh, Yannis, they chuck it up from seventy five feet. It doesn't go celebration on the court. Halliburton stands on the scorer's table yelling to the crowd you've seen this. And then Halliburton's dad runs up to Jannis who is just standing on the court, and he starts yelling at him and trolling him and shaking a jersey in his face. Yanni's is just standing there like almost like this is like, with one swipe of his hand, he could knock this guy to the ground. So Halliburton's dad decides to run on the court and get into it with Yannis. Now nothing happened. He was taken away and let way and Tyrese Halliburton talked about it following the game, and he actually took the side of Jannie.
You know, as far as the incident between Honest and my pops. I had no idea what happened till I got to the back and we showed the video.
Uh.
Me and my pops have talked about that, and I don't agree with you know what what transpired there from him. You know, you know, I think basketball is basketball and let's keep it on the court. And I think that he just you know, got excited, saw the Sun make the game winner and came on the court. But I think we had we had a conversation, and you know, I think he just needs to just allow me to just play basketball. Stay over there. I'll come to him to celebrate. But I think it's the emotions of the game. Just got excited there.
Uh yeah, I don't know about that. I get look, you're gonna, of course, you're gonna make excuses for your dad, but this is not I ran on the court to celebrate with you, like that's what you do. Go chase, no, no, no. I ran on the court strictly to go troll Yannis because honest man, stopped about the foul line.
Yeah, and it was kind of taking it in right, crowd losing their minds. Haliburton's up on the score table. He just got scored on, yeah, right, because Haliburton took it to him for the game winner. Like all of those things are being processed, and Giannis has just stopped on the court. Yeah, and like we've we've seen a video that must have been taken from the three hundred level that shows him coming off of the baseline and he literally runs and this is now Halliburton's dad runs in front of Yannis and starts waving the jersey and jawing.
At him, and you can just see Janis is like, what are we doing here? That's such a that's such a punk move man, because you know, Yannis isn't gonna do anything to him, can't do anything to him. I'm gonna get up and troll you right like that, That's what I'm like, come on, I mean, if you getta yeah, it is almost like a sucker punch kind of like, ah, look, I'm gonna stand right in front of you and do you can't do anything to me? He can't do it.
Well, it's like all those jackass influencers that you know come up and give you the the shoulders, you know, little walk by thing and when they've got a bodyguard with him, like what are you gonna do to.
Me, or it's the kid at the zoo who wants to I'm gonna tease the tiger because I know he can't break through the glass in front of me.
And then the tiger runs up to the fence and scares the Jesus.
That's just such a weak move, man, I mean, come on, running on the court, Okay, you want to run on the court and celebrate with your kid, That's what I would do.
Go find his teammates, Go find you know, someone on the staff that you're close to.
Whatever the case is, sure, I hate Yannis so much I'm gonna go troll it. Come on, man, what the hell is that?
Now we've talked about the teams having you know, Animus and you know, being bad blood and all of those things, that there is a legit rivalry that's developed, but no man getting in Yiannis's face. May look Mathern got little hands to the neck from you, honest in the line there. So you know there's an extension to this. But yeah, certainly Halliburton having to address it as well.
It's just bad business. Oh man, I'll tell you we'll have more on this story because we're gonna hear from Giannis coming up next right here, Maybe he'll mention wanting to go to the Lakers. Oh, I mean maybe more the next the nixt might need a little bit more. Uh he wants The story continues right here. This is fox them less. I said, that's it we got because I saw again my hockey gift is all for my life, my career. I could see the place coming. I said, this is it. And he somehow gets his gets his glove on it and is able to snag it out of mid air. Oh what I just said? Wow, Okay, he he's got a cool off. It's good. They're going double overtime. Give him some time to sit in the dressing room and cool off right now. No, it's one of those things.
You know, you watch hockey games, and certainly with my daughter's soccer run, every once in a while the parents on our side will look at me like a nuts because if the opposing goalie makes a big play, I'll give him an ad of boy, you know, and clap and and like wow, that was incredible, Like why why are you cheering for the opposite?
That's mad?
He's dead he does that. Just ignore him, Just let him stand there he likes. He's got problem. Why does he wear purple shorts? Don't, don't, don't engage him. Just don't again, good, you know what, I need a new parent. Purple shorts, engauge, don't engage with the PhD weight loss. They're another falling off my ass. Just you know, he'll start he look like a dope with a Belton. He'll start saying crazy stuff. Just let him sit there and say his own thing. Okay.
I mean it's if you're new to the team, new to the show, that is gonna happen. Excited utterances and a celebration of the chaos within the white line.
I'm glad you brought up youth sports because this is where we start this hour of the show, with the controversy coming off of the Pacers eliminating the Bucks. Earlier tonight, look last hour, we talked about how this should be the final straw. Giannis should be on a new team. He should ask for a trade, the Bucks should facilitate it. This should be his last game in a Bucks uniform. You blow a seven point lead in the final forty seconds with turnovers and misfree throws, and then you end with the embarrassment of getting trolled by Tyres Halliburton's dad. Yeah. He The time in Milwaukee for Giannis has reached its natural conclusion, and he needs to be very upfront with the Bucks and say, I'm thirty years old. I got probably four good years left. Bigger guys member, they don't stay great forever. The bigger guys do. And Giannis is you know, big guy two fifty seven footer. Yeah, probably about four more years of really good prime left for him. He can't waste it in Milwaukee going yeah, we're gonna fix it. No, he's tried. He's tried for four years after they won the title, and they haven't fixed it, and they can't get out of the first round. It's time for him to go three.
Straight first round exits. The thing that to remember in and all, and look, if you're deep into basketball, you understand this.
He's been in the league twelve years.
And I think that would surprise a lot of folks that when he had they had their title run, it was like, all right, the new kid on the scene. He's like, No, he was already deep into his career because because of Lebron James on the NBA side, guys like James Harden and Kawhi Leonard and others that are thirty five plus. We've started to just expect these long, long AHSS careers that that's going to be the norm. So in the NFL, we do we're doing the same thing with a lot of guys like because of Brady and Farv and now Aaron Rodgers that you're expecting this long career to keep going.
Twelve years a hell of a long career. That's a long time, yeah, right.
Especially as you as you point out his size and the way he plays. It's a bruising style that, like Lebron, defies everything still contend. He's part of the whole Terminator series and this is all being filmed for a film release as a cyborg later on.
But for Giannis, you have to look at.
Your basketball mortality and that you've been able to direct traffic and to his credit, at no point has he ever been vilified because you can't tell me that those were all done in a vacu. Yeah right, as a power player, that he's been able to dictate, dictate some moves and they haven't worked.
No, And like I said, it's the next dangle. Everybody tried, and you can't say, boy Jannis has been has fallen short Tonight thirty twenty and thirteen. In the game thirty twenty and thirteen and wait for the Start, he's the first guy in a close out game guy in thirdeam since George Mikeen in nineteen forty seven. He was the first player with thirty twenty ten to two and two in playoff NBA history. See there you go. You gotta get the two and two and then they shure you get the two and two. The first guy with thirty points said no assists in the game. I mean, look, yan, this is it's just like I said, it's it's nobody's fault. It's just it's not getting better. You've had four years since you won the title. This is where you're at now, and he needs to go. It's kind of Doc's fault, and well that Doc is. Doc is the first one to go. Doc is a guy's Hey, he's already. I can help you pack, because you know, I got all kinds of free tis fault. It's not We'll have time for Doc in a minute, because now we have to get to the post game drama, which if this is Janni's last game. Okay, like we said, this is this is the final straw. Okay, we blow a seven point lead in the final forty seconds and then he gets trolled by Tyre's Halliburton's dad. We brought to this story a few minutes ago. Halliburton. It's the game winning shot. The final seventy five footer is chucked up by the Bucks. It doesn't go. There's mayhem on the court. Everybody's celebrating, and Tyre's Halliburton's dad, Ben comes on the court with a big jersey towel and goes up, doesn't go to celebrate with his kid, goes to stand in front of Jannis and shaking the towel at him and trolling it. Which is such a punk move, man, that's such a punk move. And Haliburton said, a few minutes ago, Hey, I told my dad. I think my dad just got excited. No, getting excited would be I ran on the court to come hug you while you were standing on the scorer's table. This was I'm coming right out to stand in front of Jannis, Which, come on, man, what a punk move that is? So Halliburn toddt least he said, I disagree with my dad, and he takes the honest aside, which is a really good thing. So I give Tyre's Halliburton credit for that, but.
Almost started like you were getting into a cadence where you're gonna go full chrispa and.
Stop pointing that gun in my dad. But that's a little bit of of of well, let's say, not quite enough for Giannis, who was not happy with what went on as he met the media moments ago following the game, where he talked about the loss and and and Tyre's Halliburton's head get in his face after the game.
I believe like being humbled in victory. That's how way I am.
Now.
There can be a lot of people out there that are.
Like, no, when you when you win the game, it's a green light for you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I've won the championship. They have it okay, and that doesn't say anything.
Minimize that effort.
But losing the game emotions run high. Having a fan, which at the moment I thought it was fun, but then I realized he was Tidy Song, which I love. Titus I think is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry, coming in the floor and showing me his son not towel with his face.
This is what we do. This is what we do. This, I f we do this. I feel like that's very very this is pepful.
That's a great statement. That's a great statement. Like I thought, I thought it was a fan. I find it out. Yeah, I won a title, they have, and so he gets a little bit of as well. So look, you know, Yannis for the most part, outside of the Tide one, Look, he gets into with the Pacers a lot, right, because the Pacers was the team with the ball right when they took his ball? Yeah there, right, So we know there's a there's a bit of a history with them. But outside of that, we went looking for the basketballities, you know, where's the basketball he scored my points with? Outside of that, when stuff like this comes up, Yannis handles himself with a lot of class, and I you know, especially in a situation like this where're talking about a player's dad running on the court controlling, Yannis finds a way to kind of calm everybody down and be calm himself and say very distinctive things and get his point across. It's not ranting, it's not my mind is going one thousand miles an hour. This is hey, you know, there's about you know, being able to win and win with class. And this is not guys saying stuff in the handshake line. This is not guys waving goodbye. This is someone's dad who comes on the court and he says, hey, yeah, win with class, win with class. I know what it's all about. And he finds a way to just cut through in a very calm way and say, look, this was very disrespectful. And who listens to what he just said and disagrees with him? Nobody. He's got that, He's got that way of speaking that makes you just want to agree with what he says, which is a real skill.
You know.
I'm still working on that. But he's got that way to say, hey, is anybody, is anybody disagree with what I'm saying? And really I can't find a way I disagree with him.
I mean the follow up is why was his hand up around Mathern's neck and jake line to where that dusts up a bit, but certainly here, yeah, the win with class, you know, honor the fight, the battle that you just had. I mean, we always see and celebrate it in hockey at the end of playoff series, the handshake line, no matter how bad the blood was and how content contentious everything was, that you know, the sportsmanship prevails here. Family members get involved. We talked about it last last night with the Belichick story and his girlfriend, and we've gone all through shador Sanders. How much of the invisible hand of Dion Sanders was part of the decision process. I still come back to, no team got desperate enough for a quarterback, So good job on the war rooms there for finally not falling into I think that's the other reason the chador was so high, right, was the desperation. But here it's family getting involved and escalating things that I don't know. I think everybody would have just gone on to their celebration and shake your hands and move on. But then you've got him running off the baseline. I've watched this probably fifty times and I'm still shaking my head, going.
How does it get to that? You know what? My favorite part of it, what's that, buddy? If it was? Yeah, when he put a Laker's hat on, when he walked, he was wearing a Lakers sweater. They take him out, like when they take Kareem out an airplane and he's wearing his Lakers jersey under his pope.
I mean, he always got to be ready, right, it's like your superhero costume.
But Yannis's point the reveal, like he was like, was like he's a kid announcing where he's going to go to college. I just want to say, and he puts Lakers hat on. I love la to see it. Peace out. That would be an interesting cap to the night, no question about it. Really. Uh yeah, but it would have taken Tyrese Haliburton's dad off the hook.
If wait, I'm announcing I'm leaving and forcing my hand. But it's just that that curiosity of where the line goes. In competition at any level, and certainly from the professional side, not often do you have the It's not quite a finger wagging moment, but it's close of the the superstar going all right, all right, we're done.
So what I still have a scoreboard. I still have one book titled.
It's a nice little like straight line, Straight Line. Oh, by the way, I have a title. Blah blah.
He's just got that weight, no matter what he says, even if it's a little bit of yeah, I know you're right, janith Yan, you are right. No, you're right, man, you're right, you're right, You're right, you're.
But that's the thing, right, I don't know what was said, you know, from the Pacers themselves, but you know, guy's dad can't control that guy's dad, right, and then he's gonna act the fool.
He's gonna act the full yeah no look, and he even said that he lets, I have great respect for Tyree, so he didn't say it was Tyree. It's just because you're you're you're part of team. You're part of Pacers Nation, right, You're part of the team. You ran on the court after the game, you're you're a player's dad, so you're pretty much you're you're part of that team, and you run on the court to get in my face like that, as embarrassed. Bad job by security. Everybody was on the court. What do you expect them to do? That's it. Everybody was on the court.
Gotta at least pretend that you're, you know, trying to protect this house. There's several hundred million dollars worth of athletes U mulling about, and this guy's able to run out with his giant towel with it without being checked at all.
