The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how Injuries plague the NBA playoffs more than any other sport. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show to talk about Derek Carr’s legacy. The Dallas Mavericks somehow win the NBA Draft Lottery. And Jason thinks Jalen Brunson is a top 5 NBA player!
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Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Monday.
Is it really yes? It is.
I got a lot of crap going on right now, Harmon. I got a lot of stuff happening right now. I got the Hurricanes, I shepherded them do a three to one lead. I got the Mets in the ninth inning, tied with the Pirates, the I got the course the Knicks up by nine with three minutes left to go. I'm dealing with a lot of stuff right now. I'm like in Bulldorm. We got to get what a live rooster to take the curse off of Hector's glove We're dealing with. I'm dealing with a lot of I've got a lot of stuff going on right now.
Yeah, I can see you're completely amped up.
We watched the end of that Stanley Cup playoff game fantastic. You called for the public flogging uh and release of Francisco Lindor, get ridd of Indoor and and Acuna Get rememberoth Erizon the ninth.
Then they gave you went on.
A five minute rant, not ten minutes prior telling me he's the greatest thing of all time.
He was bored.
Bad and doesn't matter that yet too. Peter Alonzo is gonna win this game with a walk off sack fly Mets get the w Okay, I'm two thirds of.
The way there.
I'm not just halfway there with bon Jovi, I got the Hurricanes, I got the Mets. Now I got shot him? Hey shot a man, I got you got a steal and don't I'm a nine point lead, and Jason Datum laying in a heap shot him May with a lot of shots of Al Horford as they went to a commercial break. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping customer 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. Tire ac dot Com is the way tire buying should be. Well, yes, that's where we sit right now, the Knicks with a one thirteen, one oh four lead over the Celtics with three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Look, I don't want to go too crazy because I know somehow this game is gonna be tied with a minute left.
Okay, I'm not gonna go to it.
I know that's what's gonna Somehow the Knick Celtics is gonna be tied with a minute left to go. Okay, I'm okay with that. But let me just say this, for the the it's been kind of a thing the last few days. You have seen the oh the NBA is unwatchable crowd come out again with a lot of different things.
Right, all the NBA is unwatchable.
The NBA's on watchmap, Uh, this game tonight, and there's gonna be a big update we're gonna bring you with Jason Tatum coming up in a second.
All you have to do is watch this beach. All you have to do is just watch.
This is the Tatum Brunson game, right and now, Jason Tatum just got her for the second time in the second half, twisted his ankle. He was helped off the floor. I assume that is going to be it. We're not gonna see him again the rest of the night. But this game, up until this point, this has been Tatum, bruntson Tatum Brett.
Anything you can do, I can do better.
Every time Brunton hits a shot, you go, my goodness, I can't believe it. Tatum comes down the other way and it's a three.
Look.
The guy can get his shot more than anybody else in the NBA can get his own shot at any situation. It has been amazing to watch these two guys duel this entire game. The Celtics hit all a bunch of threes, it was looked like it was going to be a runaway. Then Jalen Brunson brings the Knicks back in the third quarter, when it looks like they're gonna run away, Tatum starts hitting shots, getting into the lane. Really, it has been some kind of Brunts and Tatum show. But now the rest of this game is gonna be played without Jason Tatum. Huge first quarter where you see the barrage towards the end and it became in all right, here we go game three. Look once again, but bit by bit, as you lay out with Jalen Bronson.
But he didn't come alone, right.
He brought friends to the show this time around, as opposed to making it a one on one conversation. This was like the fight between the news teams in Anchorman.
Where more guys come to the party.
Right, Because Bridges has twenty three, you got twenty one from Cat eighteen from Ananobi, including a number of huge defensive plays, and that's the thing that's got to be under you know, underscored here in the fourth quarter, filling passing lanes, aggressive with each possession, no easy buckets except for the one that literally, as I say, no easy buckets. But all that, just the attempts to pass it across the court, up around the arc, just the length of Ananobi and the other defenders, just wreaking havoc, causing so many turnovers and just failed possessions where it's now the scramble with the shot clock winding down to get something up towards the buckets. So overall, just a fantastic effort the second half by the Knicks, really controlling things.
As we get down the stretch, Go New York, Go New York.
Frostburg Drive driving that bandwagon it is a ten point lead for the Knicks with just under two minutes left to go in the fourth quarter. Right, well, we plenty of time for Brunson. However, we got it till we have a little bit more on Jason Tatum right now, he has helped off the court, as we said, an ankle injury on a turnover. H Ogano Noobi has had a terrific game. He has stepped in the passing lane many times UH for the Knicks UH turnovers in the second half. He had one turn one turnover early in the fourth quarter where Jalen Brown had to tackle him from behind because he jumped in the passing lane and got and got the ball for a layup. But what just happened a couple minutes ago, and this is where things are a little scary. Jason Tatum has the ball. The Knicks have a have a nine point lead, and Tatum looks like he's going to you know, he's got the ball on the wing. Right he comes, he has the ball on the wing and he passes out and it looks like he's waiting to get the ball back. And here's the play by play of what happened after it.
He fouls.
Daylan Brown back, he lost the ball a oh by himself. Crowch it down and Titum is hurt. Turnam is down. He wants a time out. Tittum is so much pain.
And sucks.
Call timeout there. It is Mike Breen with the call right there. Uh, this is how it looks. He's chump coming to get the ball back. Jalen Brown looks like he's going to give it back to Jason Tatum and hw Nobe steps in the passing lane and he picks off the ball and goes down the other way. Tatum just simply steps forward to try to get and grab the ball first and his right leg he just collapses. It's a non contact injury. He takes a step back with his right foot to try to get down, to try to come back and get the ball, and then he just collapsed. He was helped off the floor. He is in pain. He was just shown coming off in a wheelchair with his hands covering his face. We don't know what kind of injury this is. Certainly you see this and look just because of injuries we've seen. It could be an achilles injury, it could be an ankle injury. But he doesn't turn his ankles. It's a straight step back, which tells me you've seen this for achilles or a calf injury. So it does look like it wasn't like I don't know that it's so much an ankle injury as much as it could be a calf or an achilles non contact injury. He simply tries to plant and step forward and he can't, couldn't put any weight on it. As he was helped off the floor and again in a wheelchair, taken off with his hand on. He got a big round of applause from the from the Knicks players and the Celtics players as they came off again. A non contact injury for Jason Tatum, and suddenly this throws the rest of the play off, the rest of the playoffs for the Celtics in flux. They're gonna lose this game. They're gonna go down three to one to the Knicks. And now it's is Jason Tatum going to play again? When is he gonna be able to get back? Because you have the non contact grabbing at his achilles that none of this looks good for Tatum and the Celtics. Number of your internet doctors all folks that I have not verified their cvs, but we'll take them at face value for the moment, with their histories and check marks and everything else, going straight to the Achilles right several with the tag of hope the video lies because you and I as we watch it go down as he comes to challenge anonomy for the ball just goes down in a heap, and immediately he's screaming, and he's in a heap, down on the floor, and the play goes on, and immediately would you have five staffers get out there? No pressure on his leg as he comes off obvious anguish. So just a horrid end to I mean, he'd been fantastic all night long. Every time Brounson or Anobi or Cat made a shot at one end, he was at the other to keep the pressure on. Get got some what forty two points I think was the last as we saw him hitting three after three, and then a play that had been so problematic for him just from an execution standpoint, becomes their worst nightmare. One of the game stars and a guy who's much debated in terms of his rank in the hierarchy of the current NBA goes down hopefully hopefully the video does lie in this regard. I mean, look, there's three things you look for, right in plays where where you say, okay, how bad is this injury? Non contact is always the worst, right, that's always the worst. But a non contact could always be something where you turn an ankle, it's a tweak and you come back, but non contact the worst, no pressure on it coming off when you know we can't do that, and there's there's no there is no twist where it could just be an ankle tweak of some kind where oh oh, maybe he'll be okay. Maybe it's just something where it's the end of the game and we're not gonna do it. We're gonna let him just sit back and and uh and and come off the floor. There was none of that. I mean, it was just it was a straight back, I'm putting my like I'm putting my back foot down the plant and then just falls right down. There was no step like almost as if like you stub your toe kind of thing where he just goes into the ground as like, okay, not a lot of twisting, but maybe maybe just enough pressure there for the momentary, but no quite Obviously, something far worse. Look and and this is this is what happens in the NBA as as we look at this season, right we talk about injuries, and injuries affect the NBA playoffs more than any other playoff, more than more more than the NFL, more than Major League Baseball because superstars are not as ironclad as they used to be. And when the first round happened in the playoffs, what did I say. I'm probably stupid because I put this out in there. I said, Hey, usually we see an all star team of guys injured missing games. By now at that point, it was right and all of a sudden, it's okay, it's it's it's it's not And Lillard was more of a you know, a medical condition than it was an injury. It's like, hey, is he okay with his you know he And right after that but you're to okay, can he come back?
Can he play?
But now you're and this is why when the NBA playoffs, when the NBA playoffs hit, it doesn't matter how great you were during the regular season. It makes no difference if you're dominant, because if someone comes down on an ankle wrong, if someone comes down on the floor wrong, all of a sudden everything changes.
Right.
Who are the three best teams in the NBA this season? Cavaliers, Celtics and the Thunder and all of them are in trouble. All of them are in trouble. The Celtics are in a three to one hole. The Knicks win at one twenty one, one thirteen. The Cavaliers are in a three to one hole. Now you don't know is Jason Tatum gonna play again? Is are you gonna have Donovan Mitchell right for Game five here when you need them? And clearly the Thunder have all they could handle with the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the playoffs. These are the three best teams in the regular season, and now it's the door is wide open to win a championship. This is no matter how it looks, no matter how great a team looks, these things happen. You can't and you can't bank on injuries. But obviously that's been a part of the NBA the last few years, the last five seven years. It's you see all kinds of big injuries and they happen. It's not just support play as well. We're missing our six man. We're missing No, you're missing superstars. We're missing games, game after game after game. Well, what's about the time. It was a joke that it was the second season, not because of uh, the attrition this way, but just when we're looking at three months of television covers, ha ha, it's almost as long as the actual season itself. But now it's the how do you manage to get to the end of March, first week of April in as best a rotation came, Because that's the thing that comes up out of this game too, Jason, is the fact that both starting lineups just traded blows the entire time. Like my Anchorman analogies, isn't too far off. Now Pritchard ends up with twelve points, so it becomes a nineteen point bench effort. But for the longest time you're looking at fourteen to ten. Was the margin and the usage of these benches. Shorten the rotations and get every minute you can out of your starters, and with that you're gonna welcome in court trouble at times. And unfortunately it showed up in the worst of ways in this one. So we'll keep you updated on that. Let you know when to hear something about Jason Tatum. I assume we're not going to get anything official tonight. While we'll hear postgame from the teams. But the Knicks Jalen Brunson throwing towels all over the court. The Knicks are up three to one. Go New York, Go New York, Go go New York, go New Yeah it's a super mile New What are you doing? Hey, games still happened, the guys, The game still happened, the games.
Let it breathe minute for crying out.
Man.
We just spent the entire last twelve minutes on Jason Tatum hoping he's okay, hoping he's all right, you know, going through everything.
Now you're dancing over the top. So I'm just saying, not just saying. I can say, go New York, go New York. I could do its. Celtics lost again.
How it's got Yes, the Celtics lost again. Wow, Knicks are up three to one. Look at this Nicks man right again? What did I go back when I said a week ago Nick Pacers Eastern Conference Finals? Yeah no, no wat Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, Jason might really be right about that.
It could really happen, could really happen.
Uh So we got more NBA on the way again, only in the first game of the night. We got the big second game coming up in a little bit, uh, but straight ahead big stuff out of the NFL. Or were already seen Shdur Sanders win the quarterback job in Cleveland. All that and more coming up next, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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You know what what what getting swept by the Pacers.
Uh, I'll worry about that later. I got the Nixon win, I got the metsa win, get the Hurricanes of win. Like this is this is the dear of my life right now. In Sports Mike Garmin Show, Fox Sports Training, I we're setting Jason home, elated to go do something else great with his night since he's three and oh in the Sporty universe, We'll update you on the Jason Tatum injury as soon as we hear more. Tatum leaving the end of the Celtics loss of the next to night Knicks now up three to one in their series with the defending champs. Tatum goes down with a non contact injury. Looks to the achilles area. He tried to plant to go after a loose ball. It doesn't happen, ties to a different part of the body.
No, I'm saying goodbye to Derek Carr. Oh well, yeah, well we will get to that. He's definitely broke.
Yeah, he had a good run. Tatum goes down again, non contact. Injury was not an ankle twist. He put no pressure on his foot as he as he was helped off the court. Very emotional hand over his face as he was taken out in a wheelchair. Again, does not look good for Tatum. Keep our best thoughts out there for one of the best players in the NBA In a soon as we get an update on.
It, we will bring it to you.
Uh time out to talk little NFL big stuff happening today. We screw the Cowboys day joining us now on the hot line. Longtime NFL insider check them out on Odyssey Washington Post one A five seven the fan in Baltimore, Jason locking for it, Jay, what's happening man?
How are you?
I'm doing okay? How are you guys?
Good? Thanks?
Hey?
I got the next one, the Mets one, the Hurricanes. What I'm feeling feeling pretty good right now.
I'm feeling good the Hurricanes thing. Is that just hitting the capitals or is that? Are you?
Are you like an old Hartford oh yaminod Whalers fan?
Yes, yea, yeah, yeah, so that's.
Me feel right now? Like what I got?
I got the Midas touch right now, I got to hopefully he keeps going as long as it can. I don't know how long it's gonna go.
We'll see.
So is that Jerry Jones singing brass bonanza? So excited to watch the UH Eagles get their rings and raise the championship banner opening.
Night as that game was announced today.
Well, look, that's the closest they're going to get to anything like that, probably as long as he owns the team. So they should. They should get to play the Super Bowl winner in Week one every year, you know, like we've got the Hall of Fame game and Ken Yeah, we've got certain we've got certain sports traditions and things, you know, forever, right the mL first MLB Game of the year would be in Cincinnati. Uh, we've obviously got the traditions with Dallas and Detroit ball and Thanksgiving. Yeah, I mean, I you know, that's that's as good it's going to get for Jerry. So did you jump in? They're going to get their asses kicked. I will be betting that game probably in the next twenty four hours.
I was going to say, whatever the market that.
Yeah, it's kind of it's kind to only expand over time. Yeah, good good luck Cowboys.
So this also would get us into the futures market.
I think a little bit, mister locking Ford, because you got a bunch of backloaded games for the Bears, So that would mean they expect the Bears to be good. Uh likewise, get the Cowboys here means short them.
Yeah. Well, in general, I just you know, they have to tell you, guys forever right they made the Cowboys. Uh yeah, I mean we'll get the full picture of this, my god, in dribs and drubs over the next forty eight hours, and it's going to make me want to pat myself in the eyes with a fork every time somebody is reporting on an NFL foot that we already knew were going to be played. We just didn't know when or where. Well we knew where, we used to know when. Yeah, I will certainly digest the schedule and it will and impact some of some of my way during although I don't think it's going to change my power rankings exponentially. But yeah, I will wade back into the futures market when we have a full catalog, because make no mistake, there will be teams who get trued. I mean there will be teams who have four and five game stretches that just look kind of very kongruous to the norm, and depending on the caliber of the roster and the caliber of the head coach, sort of their institutional strength or lack thereofs. I mean, those are things that can beckon, you know, crack teams in half.
Jay, You know what one gift I think we're getting right now that none of us expected, but we're getting it is apparently the quarterback competition in Cleveland has begun like the last three Hey, Gabriel and Shador Sanders.
Who looks better?
Like this is the earliest I could ever remember getting like real legitimate updates of who looks good, who's ahead of who? Like this is a gift for us right now. It's May and we're already in a quarterback derby.
Well, I mean it is going to be interesting once they you know these OTAs how they divide up the reps and Placo's been number four and he's going to start week one, and I guess he needs the least. But you know, the team has changed the fair amount since he left there and they fired you know, his offensive coordinator and play college is he was too damn good with him, you know, so we had to get him out of there because de Shaun's coming back, and that's going to make the Shawn uncomfortable. You know, if this guy's called, you know, better call him plasure for Flacco than him or whatever. The nonsensical thought process of the owner was to get Flaco out of the building in the first place. Yeah, it's going to be the breakless reporting that we usually only get in training camp and every day which guy gets his reps first and seemingly going to be a thing and who gets the most and by what margin? I just again, there's only so many to go around, and they've got sort of a weird pecking order there. And at some point, dude, you know, does somebody get hurt somewhere else? And then you know they send a kid from Pittsburgh there just to sort of clear out a little more space. I don't know, but Kevin's defancy is going to be dealing with, Yeah, your point of level of sort of intrigue and reporting to what is pretty sort of usually drama free and just an interesting sort of practices. Yeah, it's gonna be different.
Now talking about one quarterback competition to a guy who ran on a posed like a congressman in a small district somewhere for eleven years. Derek Carr, how will you remember his career?
I'm not a big Derek Carr guy. I just have to kind of I mean, I kind of feel like he one really good year with the Raiders and it kind of propelled him to great fortunes for like another decade. And he may have done that with dellv Like did he do it with Dell Rey? I feel like he did it with a staff where it was like I felt like I added him a lot of credit that season, but I think he got, you know, as much mileage out of that one season as anyone could have ever expected. And the contract that the Saints gave him, I don't know what you know, Mickey Loomis, what else he had going on in his life at the time where he decided that was what they should do, you know, post Drew Brees, with all the other bad contracts they already had on their books, like that one will always sort of boggle my mind. But yeah, I don't, I'm just not I don't know. The way he played the game always felt like he had opportunities to make way more plays than he did, and I kind of always felt like when he got in the red zone and there was any sort of expectations on his teams, bad things tended to happen.
Throw it out the back of the end zone.
And it was at Jack del Real led sore back in twenty fifteen and muskrat.
When he had his year where he was like yeah, yeah, right, Muskray. I mean, I just remember I knew a lot of guys in that staff, and I was like, Wow, this guy looks like this guy with that cast and that coaching staff doing this like he must be pretty damn good. And then that was the.
Pinnacle, Jason locking for an NFL inside where it's Jason Smith Mike Harmon live of the Fox Sports radio studios.
All right, So now that this happened.
Right obviously here the Saints havn't if they could go in with Schuck maybe wanting to win the job or trying to push him up there. But we're still waiting to find out Aaron Rodgers decision with the Steelers. Has the quarterback market changed in the last forty eight hours as far as destinations or potential trades With Derek Carr's.
Retirement, I don't think so because I mean, Derek Carr's situation was really murky to begin with, and it did not look like he really wanted to play for them or that they really wanted him to play, and it was clear he was going to need you know, this other procedure or whatever. So no, I don't, I don't think so. I think New Orleans, I mean New England. New Orleans is going to go I think with what they have, and I think that's going to prove to be pretty ugly. And this is going to be the sort of not that he had. The last couple of seasons have been bad, but I think this is going to be the really kicky in the teeth here, and can they shed some of these contracts by the deadline? Like I could see New Orleans being a full blown tank mode trying to get themselves a quarterback at the very top of the draft next year.
He's on Twitter at Jason Locke and four That is at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one oh five seven the Fan in Baltimore Washington Post, where he's working on a thousand words on the big Syracuse lacrosse comeback in the first round against Harvard Yesterday, Jay good luck with that peace.
We'll talk to you next week.
Now, I'm actually I'm running five thousand words on Kevin Deneen.
Oh see you, buddy, Jason.
You know the thing about Derek Carr, right, because you know, thinking about this today, every quarterback leaves a legacy when you play as long as he did. Look a guy through for forty thousand yards and a starting quarterback in the NFL for a decade, right, And when you think about it, and sometimes the legacy is a way you played. Sometimes the legacy is one moment in time, and for Derek Carr, it's that one moment in time because he was never the same after his injury in twenty eighteen or twenty sixteen, if you remember, he comes out as a rookie, has a really good year in twenty fourteen, and then has an MVP type season in twenty fifteen. Twenty sixteen, the Raiders look like they are on a collision course with the Patriots for the AFC Championship. Right, The Raiders were fantastic. And this is you know, they were still in Oakland for another four years, but this was when the Raiders looked like, hey, we're back out again. You know, we've had our time as a laughing stock. We have our quarterback. You know, Carr was a second round pick and he really jumped in right away and played really People forget how good he was his first three years in the league. But he gets hurt late the last game of the regular season, and the whole big It's broke line, which is what you know, the line Tyshirt's been running since he said that ten years ago, we've been running that on the show. And he never made it back. He was never quite the same after that. He was always after that. He came back and he was okay, he was maybe a little bit over league average, but he was never at the elite level that the that he was at his first three years in the league. And when you think about that, Okay, so the Raiders next level of competition, of of of success never got there. But had that not happened, you start to wonder, do they ever leave Oakland? Maybe they get to the super Bowl that year, maybe they beat the Patriots that year.
They were really good that year.
The Raiders were really good in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, and twenty sixteen they were I mean I remember that year going this is gonna be Raiders are gonna wind up playing them. The only team that can beat the Patriots is the Raiders. So you wonder after that, if they have that kind of success, if Derek Carr doesn't get hurt and he's still that level of quarterback, do they stay in Oaklands? He finished some kind of career. Is he still you know, there is their success keeping them in Oakland somehow, like that injury when you can look at it and say that might have sealed the deal on their eventual move because they never really competitive after that. And car came back and like I said, he was okay, but he's really like a twenty ten quarterback from there on out right, he was a little bit over league average, and I don't mean like not like you're talking about like maybe thirteen fourteen fifty that's kind of where he was, Whereas he was a top seven, top eight quarterback his first three years in the league. That injury, maybe they're still in Oakland, maybe the NFL changes, but that really was such a thing that affected so many layers of the NFL. Yeah, I'd have to go back and look at the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen rosters attrition and moves that were made there, and because they were already going into operation shutdown with the anticipation of Las Vegas at that point. Because he came back, it had a big year. Their first year in Vegas. He was twenty seven to nine on the year. That's a nice three to one ratio. To do the quick fuzzy math, that's five years. That's five years later. Hey okay, hey, good year, fuddy. But that's the point is this was a guy that was based on that early promise. He got that door opened for a long time, as mister lockinfora alluded to right where you just kept waiting for him to be that guy. But situational football was not his friend, right forty two thousand yards. But we'll always remember him for throwing the ball out of the back of the end zone or even with few mistakes nine interceptions, you know, miss misplayed balls and you know quarterback rating saving moves and things of that nature that that go on down to which made him and his family fight everybody in the Twitter verse and online for the last half decade, right and then he had a couple of years where the football gods came back on him and and he pressed and didn't have the arm strength to get it there.
But you go back to the year that you're alluding to, the the MVP year.
I mean, that was a year that was just so uncanny because we're talking about attrition in these NBA playoffs and we watch it through the you know, just scores of guys that go down over the course of an NFL season. That Raiders team was extraordinarily. It was like every guy had a rabbit's foot in his cleat until that play, right, They didn't miss any time, like they were healthy on both sides of the ball, and then all of a sudden, in one faithful play, you know, maybe the fortunes changed. I still say they would have ended up in Vegas because the pot of gold was too big at the end of the rainbow, exit, out bout a Fresca exit, swollen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
More NFL on the way.
But right now, Martin White's gonna tell you what's trending in the wide world of sports. Nothing bigger than the next three to one lead. Mit yell over the Boston Celtics.
Yeah, go New York go New York, GOA and he's swearing get Piston.
Sure, yeah, I told him, though I did tell Jason earlier today. I was rooting for the next today and in this postseason, I'm I'm ready for Boston to to go off into the sunset.
They haven't even been there that long.
That's fine. I don't want the Nerds to win everything the Knicks do. Everybody complains about We're all things twenty years ago that people clapped in championed. I like the fact that they play a lot of minutes. Jalen Brunton on that note, forty minutes tonight, McHale Bridges had forty four but thirty nine points for brunching in that forty minutes, twelve assists, five rebounds, Mikal Bridges with twenty three points, seven rebounds, Ojen and Obi and Conflety the Towns both had over twenty as well. Jason Tatum led Boston and scoring with forty two points, but did suffer a non contact lower body injury. I mean, I'm not a doctor, nor do I play with on the radio, but we've all seen achilles injuries before waiting for the MRI to officially confirm it but he did not return to the game, and I'll go ahead and spoil it for you, very very questionable for the remainder of this series, and he's gonna have a long rehab ahead of them more than likely. But a three one series lead for the New York Knicks as they look to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals in the NHL. The end of the first in im Sry. Earlier today, we saw the Hurricanes beat the Capitals five to two, Carolina taking a three to one series lead in that matchup. Games that are going on right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves lead the Golden State Warriors fourteen to twelve. Anthony Edwards with four points, Julius Randall with five. The Warriors only playing six players so far, but we all are only you know, five minutes and thirty seconds into the first quarter, so you know, they've been playing everybody since Steff got hurt. Right now, Draymond Green leading them a scoring with five points, and Vegas and Golden I'm sorry, the Edmonton Oilers rather leading Vegas two to nothing at the end of the first period there and at the top of the ninth ending. The Astros have come back a little bit but the Royals still lead seven to five top of the fourth ending of the Padres that lead the Angels three to two, Mariners two Yankees one top of the fourth inning, and on FS one the Diamondbacks lead the Giants one to nothing in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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The second pick will be made by the San Antonio Spurs, and that means that the number one pick in the twenty twenty five NBA Draft goes to the Dallas Mavericks.
Rolando Blackman all smiles, four time All Stars celebrating, But Dallas Mavericks had a one point eight percent chance to win the number one pick overall in next month's draft.
They had never won the lottery.
TNT on the call, won it your play of the day, Hey day, this is Jim. I think the new Pope sucks. He was supposed to bring us Cooper flag and he didn't. I think he's overrated. We got to get rid of him. At least we don't have a pope from Green Bay, so there's that going on. But this guy was supposed he was supposed to beat the chosen One. I'm going all the way back there. Really disappointing attack of the Clones movie. But he was supposed to be the chosen one, and he couldn't even bring us left. Three days after the guy becomes pope, we couldn't even get the number one pick in the draft.
He's overrated. I'll hang up and listen.
Didn't even advance a single slot, I mean, just twelfth overall. I'm the guy from Chicago. Yet you lean into your exaggerated lunacy what you want to say about the pope. But I'm telling the Pope when the lightning takes you, takes you out.
Look.
I had an issue walking around the ballpark Friday, man the number of people selling bootleg boat merch. Appreciate the I appreciate the hustle, but at the same point, I'm like feeling a bit uneasy.
Stuff again.
You know what I mean.
Game, you sent me pictures you took with like five people dressed as the only one guy is the Pope God. It on by the people, guys, cardinals, bishops, what were they?
Some bishops? He brought us back. No gear, some archbishops. I asked, Pope gear no, no gear, No, but come on, I wanted the Vatican City connect Jersey.
Come on, those were not for sale. Uh, did not quite get to that level. Again, the Pope let you down. The Pope let you that. At least we didn't get the Spurs winning again, which I think the NBA everybody would have quit if somehow the Spurs will tell you what though, that was the one I was Uh, I was half expecting in all of this.
Uh.
You know Wemby Uh with the illness and missing the end of the year. You see Castle wins Rookie of the Year. They bring in dearon Fox, it was all right, it's set up, and then it's like, oh, they've got the second pick. But once again, we've got the draft lottery and this what yesterday was the fortieth anniversary of the Frozen envelope?
Huh?
And you go all the way down, Lebron leaves Cleveland. What happens the next year? Tada, here, here's your number one pick.
Anthony Davis gets dealt to Los Angeles.
What happens ah, the Pelicans? You get the number one.
Luca gets traded into the Los Angeles. So Lebron, you shut the hell up with your laughing, crying emojis unless you're just giving us the nod in the wink as to what the reality is with the third eye. So what we actually have Nico Harrison's reaction to the number one pick in the draft going to the Mavericks, now that we know Cooper Flag is the player to be named later in the Luca Danta trad.
Yeah, that's good.
So we have we have Nico Harrison's reaction. Go ahead, Frostburg, let's hear it.
I have the smartest man alive. So is it? Does everybody revisit the trade?
Now?
I really just say Hey, Nico.
Win, I expected him to walk across the stage middle fingers up.
Yes, yeah, he just starts dancing along.
Yeah.
That thing that shows up on your Twitter timeline where you got like the six guys in a row and that one guy comes to the front and they start dancing across the basketball court, That's kind of.
What Nico Harrison in the moment. Now I had to do, and.
Now it's fine, But look, I want to say this because while while you were enjoying beers and the polpe at your game on Friday, yeah, a couple of times, we did this a lot on the show. So I'm going back to it. It's on Twitter. I said, Look, I don't know anything. I know nothing of nothing, but knowing how the NBA needs to take advantage of big time superstars when they come in the league. You just watch Zion come into the league, and it's been a disaster, sticking with New Orleans saying you can't stay healthy, can't stay on the court.
It's been a disaster.
He was the last generational player to come on the court where we said, okay, he's up. He failed Wemby We're hoping right. He had a bit you know, missing. Hopefully he can get back soon and play. And everyone's got prayers up for Wemby. But I said on Friday, I said, listen, I don't care what the odds are. The Mavericks, the Sixers, or the Bulls are coming out of this lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag.
I don't care.
I'm not saying I'm just saying, tell me the odds. Like Bill Maher says, I don't know it for a fact, I just know it to be true. There's no way one of those teams isn't coming out of the draft lottery with the number one picking Cooper Flag and a generational talent, the third generational talent in the least eight years, is gonna start his career with a heritage team and a big market that's really good, not gonna have however you want to say it. I told it didn't matter the odds. I told you one of those three teams is gonna get him. Tanah Cooper Flag is gonna be a Maverick three Hall of Famers with the aforementioned Anthony Davis already installed there. Whatever Kyrie's health is, as you get going, but you know, the generational guy and I did that story about the estimated loss in revenues for the Mavericks.
Gee, wonder what just fixed all that? What was it?
Seven A one hundred and eight hundred million dollars welcome Cooper flag exit out bout a Fresca exit, swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Carman. I'm not saying I'm just saying, look where it went. We get back into the biggest breaking NBA story of the night. Next fock because now he's getting as much screen time as old New York Knicks.
Stand by, Spike Lee, how.
Do you feel if you're like Spike or Ben Slow, You've been spending all this money buying these tickets, coming to the game for the better part of thirty years, and here comes Shallow May, who is you know, the next great hit out there? And and all of a sudden, Yeah, no, we're showing him in the and the and the and the Jenners. Yeah, you're you're the ones we show it every game. Yeah, Ben, that's great. Spike, you're great, But yeah, Shallow May, Shot May. I mean, they still get their NOD and Tracy Morgan, all those guys. But if you're going for Q rating and you're trying to draw in the kids where you go? Ye Spike Lee again? Oh no, no, no, no, right, So I mean all of that to say, you know, shallow May has also been going to the game for years, something you and I talk about lot just got the legend of. But now you know, the know it all kid that was always around asking for sneakers and autographs and talking about the games is now the actor.
It's just a mad world.
You guys do realize it has nothing to do with him though, right, showing him because of his sidekick.
Yeah, but they would they would show they wouldn't be showing him. No, they wouldn't show him in the forefront of the screen.
If they were showing he would not be showing him without his dates.
And I think they would.
I think you're wrong. Chalame is a big deal because what Mike just said, He's been going for years. Nobody showed him, right, But now.
Since the Oscars, he he has become the A list actor on the globe, since the Audie.
Still him now, she's still a big deal. He's aig deal.
And both of them were there tonight, right, They were both there tonight, both both the Jenners.
He was he was sitting between the two of them. They were still showing him in.
The fourth What do you think is going Stefan Diggs by the way.
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Nobody got hey Chalame is there?
Hey, that's great. Fun day.
They showed Marbury for like a half a second. Lee I really thought was gonna get a technical foul because there was one play where Jason Tatum clearly traveled in the late third quarter and they bailed out by calling a foul and you can see that. You could see the official is talking to Tom Thibodeau and and Spike Lee.
I'm not lying.
Spike Lee is three feet from TIBs on the court and he's yelling he traveled. He that was that was getting Peyton pitcherand play right where Mitchell Robinson comes over and it's like, all right, was there enough contact over in his back to where he had to move or to where he gets bumped or did he just shovele his feet because he was afraid of being landed upon, you know, the cheaters proof whatever. But yeah, Spike Lee was highly animated. And look, Rick Patina wore the white suit because that's the other part. He wore the white suit next to Walt Frazer, and he hugged Patrick Ewing and said, Patrick, I love what weird? Yes, shout of a uh everything coming up Smith tonight telling you man, Nick's Mets Hurricanes. Now, let me just say this right, We'll have more on Jason Tatum coming up and he fans waiting to find out about his injury situation. But you know, I realize I'm biased. I realize this, but I can't ignore this anymore. You see tonight, until Tatum's injury, this was Brunson and Tatum, back and forth, back and forth. And Brunson scores eighteen points in the third quarter, and I tweeted out, well, if Brunson can score every single time he gets the ball from now till the end of the game, I think the Nicks will win. And it's almost what he did. But mcal Bridges hit some shots. He was on a heater in the fourth quarter. But I'll tell you what, man, Jalen Brunson has has not just become an All Star, He's become a top five NBA player. Like I'm I'm serious now, Like outside of outside of Jokic and Yannis, I don't know, there's another player I want instead of Jalen Brunson, And I get that I'm biased on it right now. After this game, obviously I want Brunston, but I don't know that there's another guy besides Jokich and Jannis I would want over Jalen Brunson. He and you want to argue with Shay Gildas Alexander Okay, but top five. Jalen Brunson's become a top five NBA player with the clutch shots he hits. Nobody hit shots like him as great. Hey, Steph Curry is great. Guess what. Guess Who's got more big shots, more go ahead shots in the fourth quarter this year than Steph Curry's gotten his entire career.
Jalen Brunson.
He finds a way despite the fact he is undersized and not fast.
I get it.
He's not the typical person you would think of when you think of best players in the NBA. He's not a physical freak. He's not someone that can that. You look at what he does and he's blocked. He's throwing up a big block in one end of the court and running it and ramming home a dunk at the end. But outside, I'm telling you Jalen Brunson's become a top five player in the NBA. You're talking about the best player on the Knicks. Clearly it was hey Brunson. Kat No, he's proved. I'm the guy ahead of Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns is a great number two for the Knicks. But out I mean, I mean outside of Giannis who's now thirty and Jokich, who's you know, still in his late twenties, still the best player in the NBA. Outside of those two, I don't know there's another guy I want my team ahead of Jalen Brunson. Again, I get, I get I'm biased, But what you can't ignore what he's able to do and how how he's able to control games the way he does.
Right, you can't ignore you No, And that's the thing, right, you go through it and you parse it out.
You're like, all right, I want Luca or I want to ask Ga, or I want Edwards, and then you watch what Jalen Brunson is able to do. It's unconventional, right, He's a stout man. A couple of times he almost dared the Celtics to take the ball from him. With a wild dribble as he spins into the lane, somehow able to still control it as they swipe over the top.
I think they think he's taller than he is.
But either way, he looks so tall when he's coming at you, but he's not when But like, the shot is not a classic looking shot like all of these things, because a couple of times he took a shot, he's like, wow, that was terrible, tak that looked no different.
Than the last one. Like, what are you yelling about? You thought that was off?
Because the one he shot before went straight through the underside of the net.
Is the same weird motion we can to the last.
He can find a way, right, Just to think about Brunson for a second. He's great at leaning in and causing contact getting to the free throw line. Everybody's upset, but he finds a way to do it. He hits those leaners, right, He hits straight up jump shots, and he hits fadeaways. And that's the thing about the guy is is that when you can hit shots from all those different directs.
Right.
We talk about Jason Tatum a lot, right, how Tatum can come down and just straight up get his shot better. Than anybody in the NBA because he's taller than anybody. The handles he has, I can get a three over anyone, and then if you send somebody out to me, I'm gonna blow by you to the hoop. Yes, guys like Wenby Kenneth three's and Yoki Kenneth three's, but they're not blowing by guys. They're finding their way to the hoop eventually because they're not as fast. But Tatum can blow by you. I can hit that shot. Brunson can hit them in so many different ways. He can lean, he's straight up, his fade away, his fadeaways what makes him such an incredibly effective offensive player because there's no way you can stop that. If the guy I can fade away, you're gonna foul them if you go after it. So if you're accurate on those fadeaways, whether it's a three pointer on a fade away, or I get into the lane and it looks like I'm stuck, but I'm gonna come back into the fade away, you're fouling him because you're landing on him. If you're going to stop that fade away. He has so many shots that are that are almost unstoppable, and you would think at some point, okay, for an undersized, slower point guard, teams are gonna find a way to do it.
They can't.
They can't find a way where teams have found a way to stop Steph Curry late in the fourth quarter of games, getting his own shot off or even making a big pass. They've not found that way with Jalen Brunts. And it's not like they haven't tried. It's like, Okay, here's the best player on the Knicks, and I hate hearing go New York, go New York.
I hate hear it.
I hate hearing it, Bud Okay, but we're gonna find a way and they have not found a way to stop him yet. I mean, really, you talk about the ascension of him, he's gone in the last two years from boy really good under the radar signing he can be a really big part of what New York having something going on, be the point guard. Then it was, hey, he's potentially their best player too. He's an Allstar. He really he's a top five player in the league. Yeah, it's a good thing that it looks like you don't work out for the Mavericks.
Yeah, yeah, No, but look, it's.
Hard to argue him too far down the list, right, because you're still trying to look at what's ahead, and with a three to one lead and Tatum likely done, we'll see, but certainly that does not look promising for the rest of this series, let alone this calendar year. As we look at that injury, as he went down in a heap in the final minutes of that game, it's the what guys have actually gone and finished the job? Right, Kevin Durant, You're still putting him up as any anybody, But does he have the surrounding cast to where he's winning anything substantive? Right, Because that's the other thing here, right. As good as Brunson is and if you want the ball in his hands, you saw once again what happens when the Knicks actually commit to playing defense, and that was impressive.
Right. So maybe down the stretch he's They're just well conditioned guys. I don't know.
There's still another couple of rounds the playoffs to go, but not exactly.
Relying on the bench for much of anything. Once again, for Timms, the Live and.
Die not quite reddick light, but bordering on that in terms of how much effort, you're going to get off your bench. But yeah, so Durant is still one of those top five guys. But it's a list of guys, most of which who have won anything. Right, Edwards hasn't won anything. Yes, she is not want anything. He's gonna win an MVP. But while we're talking about closing the final deal, Yeah, I mean, we put all those guys into the scramble and then you just decide which city name for the outlet.
You like is.
Yeah, I mean when you think about the clutch gene, he hits everything, right, he hits everything. The reason why he's the most clutch player in the league, but because he got an award for Yeah, I mean what about that?
This was the award?
Was it?
Did they steal it out of a car? Yeah, there's a clutch.
This is like like in this this year, this year of hacks. Jean Smart you know, sorry spoiler, she gets the late night gig, so she's hosting late night and they want to boost her ratings, so she gets the uh female like the Female Comedic Achievement Award whatever. It was a made up award just to you know, to push your profile up. So it seems like it's hey, she gets the you know, the female comedian you know award like this real they do to tip players in the NBA. Hey, let's make awards for everybody. Make a here's a clutch player award. But okay, I'm glad it's out there because is it a made up award? Yes, but it makes everybody realize this is the guy that hits those shots at the end of games. You can talk about guys like Edwards and Sga and oh, guys with the ball in the hands at the end of the game. I'll ask you this, if I said to you final possession of a game, Okay, final possession of a game, Kobe, you could have currently you could have anybody in the NBA right now, you have any better. I don't mean just in the playoffs. I mean anybody that's an active player in the league right now. You could have any player with a fine the final minute of the game to have the ball to take your game winning shot. Who are you taking over, Jalen runs it. It's like ten people, No, there's nobody. Really the answer is here, Oh, frost your head. I would I would have to give Paolo ban Carrol the ball. Once you stop
